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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Soviets to Blame as well
Message-ID: <654@loral.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 22:10:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 15 22:10:40 1984
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Reply-To: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
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In article <341@whuxl.UUCP> orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
>The Nuclear Freeze calls on BOTH sides to stop the arms race and so do I.
>I have no intention of supporting one side or the other stopping the arms
>race while the other side, or other countries continue.
>GreenPeace released balloons in Moscow calling on the Soviet Union to stop
>all nuclear testing.  Peace groups in Czechoslovakia sent a spate of letters
>to Rude Pravo asking the Czech gov't 
>NOT to support the deployment of any more
>SS-20's or other nuclear weapons in their country.
>tim sevener whuxl!orb

	The Soviets love the idea of a freeze.  What they don't like is
the "mutually verifiable" part.  They are extraordinarily cagey on just
what sort of inspections they will permit, and so far, they are quite
unwilling to allow inspections nearly adequate to prove compliance.

	Reagan has said, repeatedly, that he looks forward to the total
elimination of all nuclear weapons.  Period.  What could be dearer to
any peace-loving person's heart than that?  Sure beats a mere freeze.

	I have yet to hear anything similar from Moscow.  I am quite
sure that, were the Soviets to embrace such a plan sincerely enough to
permit the sort of inspections that really mean something, Reagan would
embrace it wholeheartedly.

	And so would I.
-- 

[     I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet     ]

Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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