Page 6 University Daily Kansan, March 11, 1982
Kansas House anti-bomb gesture jolts Congress
By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
Nearly 140 members of the U.S. Congress yesterday called for nuclear arms reduction resolutions similar to one approved in the Kansas House this week.
In Washington, 138 senators and representatives from both parties signed resolutions asking for an end to the stockpiling of nuclear weapons.
The action came two days after the Kansas House approved a resolution sponsored by State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, that would alert Washington lawmakers to Kansas' concern over nuclear weapons.
The Kansas resolution, initiated by peace groups across the state, including the Lawrence Coalfire for Peace and Justice, would advise President Reagan and Congress to establish a mutual U.S.-Soviet freeze on the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons.
Anne Moore, a member of the Lawrence group, said yesterday that
the approval of Charlton's resolution should make Kansans more conscious of the ominous thriving of the nuclear age.
"IF'S ONE of the more exciting things that's happened recently to have that resolution passed," Moore said. "Nuclear proliferation is like death—we go out of our way not to think about it."
"But having resolutions like this happening all over the country will relay a message to President Reagan that we will be more nuclear weapons than we have."
However, as lawmakers in Washington yesterday endorsed a nuclear arm freeze, Secretary of State Harry Hammond suggested such a move "could be devastating."
Testifying before a Senate appropriations committee, Haig said a freeze on U.S. nuclear arms would leave the Soviets with a nuclear edge.
Haig also said the proposed resolutions would adversely affect U.S.-Soviet arms control talks.
"This is not only bad defense policy,
but it is bad arms control policy as well."Haig said.
The Washington call for nuclear arms limitations came at the 20th anniversary of a speech given by President John F. Kennedy that ultimately led to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Speaking at American University—the site of his brother's speech-Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said, "It fails that defeats efforts at arm control.
"It is time to take the first decisive step back from the brink, to put a freeze on the production, deployment and further testing of nuclear weapons, and to negotiate major reductions in the massive arsenals on both sides."
SEN. MARK HATFELD, R-Ore, who as a young soldier stood in the rubble of Hiroshima with occupation troops in 1945, said the Reagan administration could not afford to lose the opportunity at arms limitations.
"We are the stewards of creation," Batfield said. "And it is the height of the man and arrogance to think we have the right to divest the creator of his creation."
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FOR THE PRICE of one nuclear warhead, all the student loan programs now being slashed could be saved, McKenna said.
Peter Rombold, Wichita graduate student, a member of the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice, said that students' attitudes toward the nuclear buildup apparently were apathetic.
Only two or three students belong to the nearly 50-member Lawrence Coalition, he said.
Besides the destructive potential of nuclear bombs, their great expense should make Kansans and all Americans concerned about nuclear weapons. Sister Jeanine McKenna, a supporter of the Kansas resolution, said.
"That figure is indicative of the attitude toward nuclear arms in the campus community." Rombold said.
Reagan's 1983 budget proposal calls for substantial funds for adding MX missiles and B-1 bombers to the U.S. nuclear arsenal, plus other money for upgrading the nation's nuclear warheads.
"I think that's because we learned in a school that the atom could not be split."
Having learned otherwise, Charlton said, "The splitting of the atom is man's most significant achievement since he began using fire."
However, Charlton said she thought young people were more concerned about nuclear arms than older people.
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