University Daily Kansan, September 2. 1983
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Nuclear arms panel seeks treaty ideas
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan's bipartisan panel on strategic nuclear weapons hopes to come up with some specific recommendations in resumption of arms talks in Geneva Oct. 6, its chairman said yesterday.
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Brent Scoovert, chairman of the President's Commission on Strategic Forces, said that he supported drafting a new treaty proposal.
"We're not attempting in any way to substitute for the administration." Scoywcroft told a news conference. "I think the best we can do is the conceptual work . . . which then can be turned by the technicians at the State Department and Defense Department into a treaty."
HE ALSO SAID national security adviser William Clark has relayed the support of the president for the commission's new task.
Snowcroft said that the administration had made moves to modify its proposal at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva and that the Soviets also had made some positive steps.
"We welcome what has happened, and we would like to be helpful in assisting in this process, especially in maintaining the kind of bipartisan spirit and consensus which accompany commission's earlier effort," he said.
On Monday, in an effort apparently orchestrated with the commission,
Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., called on the
panel to tackle the arms control issue, saying the administration's MX nuclear missile proposal could be de-ended if no progress is made in Geneva.
ASPIN WAS a key figure in congressional acceptance earlier this year of the SCOcroft panel's recommendations on the giant 10-warhead MX and on development of a mobile, single-warhead missile dubbed "Midgetman." But that acceptance came on the condition that the administration make a serious effort to reach an arms control agreement.
The commission recommended that about 100 MX missiles be deployed in existing Minuteman silos, that development begin on the smaller missile and that the administration fashion a new approach to arms control.
"That is an integrated package, and we have bipartisan support and movement on the first two, the small missile system," he said. "Now we have to do it on arms control."
Snowcroft said the commission would study a 17-page paper that Aspin drafted suggesting three issues to be achieved in new strategic arms reduction proposal
They are throw-weight, or the carrying power of a missile, in which the Soviets hold a substantial lead; how to take into account bombers, which the United States relies on heavily but the Soviet Union does not; and how to move away from large, multiple-warhead intercontinental ballistic weapons such as the MX and the Soviet blockbuster missiles, the SS-18 and SS-19.
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Mexican president likens economic crisis to war
The president's appraisal of his administration's efforts to control raging inflation and rising unemployment, to restore public faith in government and to resolve the foreign debt crisis was punctuated by warm-
By United Press International
MEXICO CITY — President Miguel de la Madrid, in first state of the union address, yesterday compared Mexico's economic crisis to a war and a bombing, he said, to the trenches, although he knew the worst of the crisis had passed
"Everyone must fight from his own trench," de la Madrid told the Mexican Congress. De la Madrid took office Dec. 1 in the midst of Mexico's worst economic crisis in half a century.
ings such as "we must not let down our guard."
Before going to the Legislative Palace, the president told a national television audience that his first nine months of office "the go better" than he had expected.
BUT HIS OPTIMISM was tempered during the three-hour address to Congress.
"The challenge is enormous: in
terms of the economy, it is like wartime," he said. "The fate of the nation is at stake.
"I am aware that the crisis is not overcome yet. The only thing that my government affirms is that the most serious aspects are under control."
De la Madrid invited the former bankers to attend Thursday's ceremony, where he said that "the enemy to vanquish is inflation" with no one internal or international factor to blame for Mexico's current problems.
INFLATION LAST YEAR reached 99 percent and has already increased more than 40 percent this year.
Former President Jose Lopez Portillo, who last year announced the nationalization of the country's private banks, blamed the bankers.
whom he called "treators," for the foreign exchange crisis in his last state of the union address.
De la Madrid said Mexico's foreign exchange reserves as of Aug. 31 stood at $5.5 million, up from $1.77 billion Nov. 30, offering "a wider margin of action for dealing with unforeseen situations."
He said foreign borrowing would reach $ 5.5 billion in 1983 to bring the country's foreign debt to $ 82 billion. It meant that $ 82 billion when he took office
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