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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 11, 1964
U.S., Soviets Still Discuss Bomb Treaty
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
When the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain initialled the partial nuclear test ban treaty in Moscow last July 25, they still were a long way from the general and complete disarmament which all three declared to be their goal.
As a matter of fact, it left intact the huge nuclear arsenals built up both by the United States and the Soviet Union, and, if it had significance it primarily was one of hope.
"For 18 years," Secretary of State Dean Rusk told the Senate, "We have held the communist drive in check largely by the deterrent force of our military strength.
"... BUT IF the promise of this treaty can be realized, if we can now take even this one step along a new course, then frail and fearful mankind may find another step and another until confidence replaces terror and hope takes over from despair."
The hope generated by the Moscow agreement in a world tired of cold war persisted last Jan. 21 when the 17-nation disarmament conference resumed deliberations in Geneva.
United Nations Secretary General U Thant has declared that both U.S. and Soviet policy is shaped by "an obsession with the past"-the United States by Pearl Harbor, and the Soviet Union by 1919 when the Western Allies attacked the new Bolshevik state.
AND IN GENEVA existing differences between the two nations quickly reasserted themselves.
They were the same differences which through 18 years and millions of words of talk had prevented real agreement. On the one hand was U.S. insistence on inspection and control of step-by-step disarmament and on the other Soviet charges that the West simply sought to spy on Soviet secrets.
Even so, U.S. disarmament chief William C. Foster returned to Washington in optimistic mood. He believed substantial progress would be made this year on slowing the arms race.
He believed the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could agree to a halt in the manufacture of fissionable materials for nuclear weapons and to a freeze on nuclear weapons. Rusk has suggested the possibility of agreement on measures to prevent surprise attack.
DESPITE THE SEEMINGLY unchanged attitudes of negotiators on both sides at Geneva, other changes had occurred which were important.
U. S. leaders seemed certain that U.S. nuclear forces were "manifestly superior" to anything the Soviets had and with "tens of thousands" of nuclear warheads could negotiate from a position of strength.
There was also the fact that since President Kennedy's nuclear ultimatum to the Soviets over Cuba in October, 1962, the Russians had done little to rock the international boat.
Russia's huge wheat purchases were proof of Soviet difficulties at home and there no longer was any hiding the depth of Khrushchev's quarrel with Red China and a subsequent waning of Soviet authority in the Communist world.
Within the Western world there was still a difference of opinion as to how these developments inside Russia should be met.
Fallout Discussion By Oceanographer
A lecture on tracing the concentration of fallout, radio isotopes, in the Atlantic Ocean will be given at 7:30 p.m. Friday in room 122 Malott hall.
Thomas Sugihara, chairman of the chemistry department at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., will speak on "Tracers in Oceanography" as part of the KU section of the American Chemical Society.
The author of four successful books which attack the camouflaged evils in our social and economic systems will speak on "What's Happening to the American Character."
Vance Packard, Socio-Economic Critic, Speaks Tonight
Vance Packard will speak at 8 tonight in Hoch Auditorium.
Packard is a native of Pennsylvania and has been a writer and teacher since he received his master's degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism more than twenty years ago.
Author of "The Hidden Persuad-
ers," "The Status Seekers," "The Waste Makers," and the "Pyramid Climbers." Packard's first three books all reached number one on best-seller lists.
For "The Pyramid Climbers"
Packard filled 167 notebooks while
gathering material over a period of four years. He traveled in 15 states and eight foreign countries to bring together the findings of more than 150 sociologists for the "Status Seekers."
VANCE PACKARD
(Author of "The Hidden Persuaders" & others)
WILL SPEAK ON
"What's Happening To The American Character"
HOCH AUDITORIUM 8 P.M.
Reception for Mr. Packard in the Jayhawk Room of the Union following the speech.
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