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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Reagan'scon's contempt for law - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 19:07:00 EST
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uiucdcs!renner    Apr 16 18:07:00 1984

   /**** uiucdcs:net.politics / iuvax!scsg /  5:11 am  Apr 13, 1984 ****/
>  Reagan has been accusing the Soviets of violating past arms treaties
>  without revealing the supposed violations nor bringing the case before
>  the Standing Consultative Committee which is supposed to judge such
>  claims. Nor does he point out that many of the supposed violations are
>  of treaties (SALT II, the Threshold Test Ban Treaty, the Comprehensive
>  Test Ban Treaty,etc.) that the US has never formally ratified in large
>  part due to Reagan's opposition.  The latest issue of US News and World
>  Report nonchalantly reported that the Reagan administration plans to
>  openly violate SALT II with the lanuching of a seventh Trident nuclear
>  equipped submarine in 1985...		-- tim sevener

Just a few comments here:

1.  Many of the alleged Soviet "treaty violations" have been described in the
press.  These include:  testing of more new ICBMs than allowed by treaty,
encryption of missile test telemetry data, and construction of systems with
ABM potential, including a large phased-array radar system in Siberial 
("for the tracking of space vehicles") and a mobile surface-to-air
missile system which may have ABM capabilities.

2.  The SALT II treaty was negotiated during the Carter administration and
rejected by the Senate well before the 1980 elections.  I don't understand
this insistance that everything which is bad is Reagan's fault.  Reagan had
very little to do with SALT II or its rejection.

3.  The quoted paragraph above seems to exonerate Soviet violations of
agreements which have not been ratified, yet condemns Reagan for the same
thing when complaining about the seventh Trident submarine.  This seems a
little confused.

Scott Renner
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