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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, Oct. 10, 1985
Specialist evaluates defense buildup
WASHINGTON — The administration's $1 trillion defense buildup has improved deterence but done little for America's ability to wage war, a congressional defense analyst told a House panel yesterday.
United Press International
John Collins, a senior specialist in international affairs for the Congressional Research Service, told the defense policy panel of the House Armed Services Committee the administration's four-year buildup had had some success.
"There is no question in my mind that our military power in 1965 is significantly improved over 1981." Collins told the group, which is holding hearings on overall U.S. defense policy and posture. Collins cited gains in research and development, manpower, firepower, mobility and command and control as evidence of improved military power.
"What the trillion dollars did was ensure that deterrence did not erode dangerously. But it did not increase combat capabilities that much if
deterrence fails," said Collins, who was accorded the rare congressional honor of applause from committee members at the end of his testimony.
Collins said the United States lagged behind the Soviet Union in many quantitative measures of military strength, such as manpower, armor, artillery, fighter planes and attack submarines.
Because of the assurance that "if we go off the map they go off the map too," the chances of a Soviet attack are "between zero and minus 8 million," he said. "They're not going
to execute some of the cookamanie schemes that are so prevalent here in Washington."
The Soviet "proclivity for risks is very, very low," Collins said, telling people who were worried that there might be an attack, "Take the weekend. Relax. It ain't gonna happen."
But, he cautioned, "If deterrence fails for any reason," then we're in deep" because U.S. strength is "probably not sufficient to execute the stated strategy with any degree of success."
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Militants hurled firebombs, battled police and attacked black commuters traveling to work yesterday despite a day of prayer for peace called by clergywomen in the strife-torn country.
Two blacks were found burned to death, five others suffered burns and a mixed-race man was seriously injured when he was doused with gasoline and set on fire.
2 South African blacks burned to death
United Press International
commuter traffic from the black township of Soweto to Johannesburg was down about 50 percent.
Nobel Peace laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu, who had endorsed the calls for a day of prayer, was forced to evacuate Johannesburg's St. Mary's Cathedral and move a prayer service to another building after two telephoned bomb threats. Police said the church with dogs but found no explosives.
All leave was canceled for police and soldiers, but the increased security failed to stop attacks on blacks who defied calls for the strike in white-ruled South Africa.
The state-run television service said a mixed-race man was doused with gasoline and on fire by radicals as he traveled to work in Nancefield outside Johannesburg.
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