University Daily Kansan, September 22, 1983
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Weapons increase danger,prof says
By CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The development of more accurate long-range weapons has weakened U.S. and Soviet deterrence policies and has increased the dangers of nuclear war, a KU professor said at yesterday's University Forum.
Allan Hanson, professor of anthropology, spoke to more than 50 people at the forum, sponsored by the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
In his speech, "The Arms Race and the Peace Movement," Hanson said that new technological developments in long-range nuclear weapons were eroding the foundation of Soviet and American deference policies, which discouraged their side from striking with nuclear weapons first for fear of a counterattack.
He said that because long-range weapons are becoming more accurate, they are better at shooting.
missile sites before a counterattack could be launched.
IN THE EVENT that a counterattack could be launched he said, a global threat of cyber attack was identified.
"The counterforce stands as a threat to the deterrence capacity of either side. And since deterrence is the foundation upon which nuclear policy has been built, both in this country and in the Soviet Union, any capacity to wipe out the deterrence threat . . . is viewed with tremendous alarm because it leaves the nation naked against nuclear attack," he said.
"The danger with this is that there is a threshold that is crossed, and once it's crossed it's very difficult to know where it will end.
Hanson also said that he feared the use of limited range nuclear weapons. With limited-range weapons, he said, his troops could be used on a battlefield
Hanson said that long-range weapons also created the fear that a nuclear war would be possible.
"At least with deterrence, we could wait until New York was obliterated, until Chicago was gone and San Francisco lies in ruins before we launch
The possibility of error is especially significant, he said, in light of the recent Soviet attack on Korean Air Line flight 007 in which 269 people died.
"WHERE THEN HAPPENED, everybody said, 'There you have it. You can't trust the Russians,' " he said. "And I agree. But just because we can't trust the Russians is not reason that we need to arm controls agreement with them."
"If we can't trust them, the shooting down of that airliner makes it abundantly clear that they trust us even less," he said. "It seems to me their paranoia, their mistrust, leads them to make colossal errors in judgment, and make them outrageous and stupid things."
"Until we dismantle the machinery of war we are all like passengers of Flight 007." he said.
Services scheduled for Osborne and family
By Staff and Wire Reports
Memorial services for the editorial page editor of the Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel, his wife and 11-year-old son, found murdered in Monday, will be conducted tomorrow in the Kansas City suburb of Roeland Park.
Services for Dan Osborne, a 1970 KU journalism graduate; his wife, Jane, and their son, Benjamin, will be at 1 a.m. in the Southside Presbyterian University of Boca Raton Vista Dr. The Rev E. Lloyd Haney will serve the services.
The Osbornes were beaten to death Friday in their Harrison Hill home, Fort Wavne police said.
THEIR 2-YEAR-OLD daughter, Caroline, survived and was released from prison.
treatment for injuries sustained in the brutal assault.
Pat Smallwood, a police social worker who has worked at "becoming a pal" with Caroline since the killings were discovered Monday, began steering conversations toward the crime scene, a police spokesman said.
"It's been a lengthy, time-consuming tedious process, done in such a way that the little girl don't even realize she's questioned," said Officer Tom Enle
"We would not even attempt to go through what we're going through if she was not in good physical and mental condition." Engle said.
Engle said that Smallwood had been Caroline, by playing and taking with her.
A team of 18 detectives and other police personnel are working to solve the case.
THE PARENTS AND son were found in their home Monday, killed by blows to the head. Caroline, who required surgery to repair injuries from a sexual assault, wandered the house alone in a carriage more than 48 hours after the slayings.
Police said that at least 17 recordable tips on the case were received since officers opened a 24-hour telephone hotline Tuesday. Most of the callers reported seeing suspicious cars or vehicles in the area around the Osborne home.
Daniel Osborne graduated from Lawrence High School in 1965.
He had worked at newspapers in Pittsburg, Little Rock, Ark., and Tula, Okla., before becoming assistant business editor of the Kansas City Star.
He and his family moved from Kansas City to Fort Wayne in May.
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Noah's Ark trip to Falklands postponed by rainy weather
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POOLE, England — Noah's Ark — the modern-day version with 223 animals bound for the Falkland Islands and set sail yesterday. It got rained out.
Noah, of course, didn't let 40 days and 40 nights of rain stop his journeys, but a morning's worth of rain on the docks at Poole was enough to stop the departure of a 20th century ark carrying animals from British islands in the south Atlantic.
The 521-ton Danish cattle carrier, Dina Khalaf, was re-scheduled to sail for the Falklands this morning with 223 goats, pigs, sheep, horses and cattle to replace livestock killed during last year's Argentine invasion.
The Falklands Appeal Fund raised $350,000 for the project.
RAIN STOPPED YESTERDAY'S
rail because hay-loading couldn't
continue in the wet weather. Wet hay
poses a fire hazard.
Although Maj. Gen. Alan Mills, head of the appeal fund, was frustrated by the delay, he was game enough to see that he rain stopping his modern Noah's Ark.
"Trouble is, I haven't got my dove," he joked, referring to Nosh's dove
who returned with an olive leaf to give
the all-clear after the Biblical flood.
Thirty-one Falkhanders have put in orders for the ark's passengers mostly sheep with several dwarves and 18 pigs and 12 Exmoor or Welsh ponies
Mills said the delay posed no problem for the animals, who were in isolation for health reasons but "very comforting." For example, Poulce, 100 miles southwest of London.
THE EXOTIC PASSENGER list also includes two Arabian horses and one pedigree Shettland bull, a rare breed restricted in Britain only a few years ago.
Twenty-two mothers-to-be are making the voyage
There are no household pets scheduled for this trip. Five tabby cats and 20 budgies as the British call their favorite pet is the last month to cheer up the islanders.
Some Scottish and Welsh puppies as well as 18 pedigree horses, including an American quarterhorse, are waiting to go on another ship in October.
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