NATION AND WORLD
Officials are concerned by lapse of defense law
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials are seriously concerned that the expiration of a little-known law could stall strategic nuclear weapons production and severely hamper military movements in times of crisis.
The Defense Production Act of 1850, which routinely has been renewed by Congress every year or two for the past 33 years, expired Sept. 30 because of a hupid in congressional committees that have been debating amendments to it.
The act affects the production of everything from atomic weapons to the planes and submarines needed to carry them, deals with foreign military sales to allies that depend on the good will of the United States to fulfill its pledges and authorizes the deployment of military forces in peace and war.
While the priority rating in the marketplace in peacetime is not designed to take "the candy away from the consumer," as the official said, it ensures that contractors obligate themselves to meet production schedules.
THE IMMEDIATE EFFECT of the law's expiration has been the inability of the Pentagon since Oct. 1 to insert a routine clause in each of its defense contracts that gives defense production priority over consumer goods made by the same company, said a Pentagon official familiar with the issue.
More significantly, the "underlying skeleton" for the priority rates is that it serves to guarantee that the nation's defense industry will be able to boost production of weapons and other material in the event of war, the official said.
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THERE ARE TWO priorities for defense production under the law: DX for "highest national urgency priority rated weapons programs" and DO, for contracts dealing with all other military goods and equipment. The DX rating affects about 25 percent of all defense purchases.
Among the DX-rated items are the
mangled bomber, Trident
missile submarine and the
tank.
"We no longer have priorities," the official said. "I expect things to continue as we do, but I can't have it (the priority) to assist us in breaking any
logjam that may develop. We are unable to put that authority in new contracts.
He was asked how much longer the Pentagon can continue without using
the law's musculi
"WE'VE GONE ON too long al-
ready," he replied. "It's a serious
situation. We're a little bit wrapped
around the axe up there (in Congress),
but we hope the dust will settle."
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, responsible for civil defense and dealing with natural disasters such as the recent floods in Oklahoma, recently distributed a memorandum warning of the effect the expiration of the law has on U.S. strategy.
The unclassified memorandum, not widely distributed, was made available to United Press International by sources familiar with defense issues.
so, that the negative impact of the loss of "priorities support for these (DX-rated) weapon systems can severely affect our strategic posture," it said.
Moreover, the agency warned that the U.S. dispatch of military forces "in a major emergency would be severely hindered because the necessary transportation assets are made available for defense use under Defense Production Act, Title I authorities.
these programs:
"FOR EXAMPLE, the resulting slowdown in the delivery on foreign military assistance could negatively impact on our relations with friends and allies."
*Priorities support is extended for all military and atomic energy production and construction, foreign military assistance and space project agenies. *Expiration of the act must include delivery dates on all these programs.*
"... Rapid deployment plans and programs would be unable to operate without these authorities and, consequently, the military forces frequently hampered."
In addition, the act is the only instrument that gives the president authority to use the military in the event of a strike that could strangle the national transportation system. Such an effect of movement of the armed forces.
armed forces. The authority was used three times during the early 1970s, and President Reagan had planned to invoke the act during the air traffic controller strike two years ago, the memorandum said.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Until Otis Elwood Tole confessed to the grisly murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh, residents of the dilapidated neighborhood where he had lived thought Toole was just another "comic strip" character who wandered their streets.
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More flooding expected by Oklahoma residents
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