Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 14, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free press Friday february 14, 1975 Mailbox looks really for have to look Nav in the 0ack this 15 60in6td be a worst Valentines a Feck . Broom i Ida device Way of moving it Mountain a6cwt50feet tothe Dooley s world could it would Happy Valentime s Archie i guess you could t i saw me. You in this Down the Bright Hill. Belly Orange you remind me of some to Jacques Cousteau program Blondie my husband asked me to get what s he going to use them i guess he just wants i to Bolt up his rip Kirby rip the Mountain s tons Oflock 7hunderdowm on cra6g and Risbano. I and Lois that s the last time i m Ever Points to share my seat on the bus with Janice what did she do when i told her i 60t 2.7 Valentines she patted my hand and dont let bother you Beetle Bailey Wuy Pont we to to it place the half hitch u sir up Vou be Roumo Vivian Lee 7, crosses her fingers As she copies chinese characters in a penmanship con test. More than 100 children in downtown Toronto schools participated in the Competition As part of the chinese new year s festivities. Restraint in arms race up to Moscow . Says by Michael Getler Washington special tons defence Serelar James r. Schlesinger says it is now up. To the russians to de cide if there is to be any Rea restraint in the nuclear arms race even though both super Powers have tentatively agr Cec on a new arms pact placing Over All limits on Long Rangi missile and bomber forces. Although both sides Are Al Lowed up to such weapons under the proposed pact in eluding multiple warhead missiles or. Schlesinger called for the soviet Union to show restraint by actually Fielding fewer new missiles. In return he suggested in his annual defence posture re port to that the United states was prepared to show restraint in development of still another round of even More advanced missiles. How we proceed on these accounts will depend essentially on the actions of the soviet or. Schlesinger reported. Alluding to the four new types of soviet missiles now starting or hearing deploy ment or. Schlesinger claimed currently have the initiative and it is up to them to decide How much additional Effort the two sides should put into these in what amounts to a renewed pledge to race the soviet Union even within the con fines of a new arms agree intent or. Schlesinger said the russians in making their decision should remember that the Tortoise won because the Hare did t try very hard very often. This he said May be whether an Economy minded Congress however will continue to go along with the Many a Multi nillion Dollar pro Grams or. Schlesinger has pro posed As Hedges against pos sible soviet actions is a major question. Or. Schlesinger s 300-Page re port to Congress on the global balance of Power and the . Military needs is the longest Ever submitted. It anticipates the Tough Battle the Pentagon expects in Congress on Many of its proposed billion spending plan for fiscal 1976, up billion Over this year. Or. Schlesinger lays out the arguments on both sides of All the major issues and basically comes Down in support of every major new Pentagon proposal of recent years. In some cases even traditional areas of future reductions have Given Way. For the first time in years the defence report makes no suggestion that the . Will reduce its troop Levels in South Korea As the korean forces Are modernized with newer . Equip ment. Arguing that the United states can no longer depend on having time in a crisis to mobilize its forces and defence Industry or. Schlesinger throughout h i s report lays heavy stress on the need to keep production lines Goin and to erase the backlog 01 overdue maintenance work on 74 ships and hundreds of air Craft. In an important disclosure h e says new investigations have shown that the wings on the huge and controversial c 5a Jet transports Are even weaker than had been suspected and that they will have possibly Only one third of to licit useful lifetime unless work begins soon on an eventual million project to strengthen them. Or. Schlesinger argues that it is not prudent to shut Down the Only . Icbms production line for the minuteman missile though the originally planned missiles Are paid for until there Are More definite indications How Many icbms the russians will de ploy under the proposed Vladivostok arms pact. Thus million is in the budget for 50 More missiles for test and reliability purposes. Another million is pro posed to keep the my 48 Tor Pedo production line going the Only one still operating. Similarly the production rate will be slowed on the . Navy s new f-14 Jet fighter and More planes will be or dered Over the Long run. In part this is to keep the production line open for a longer period and in part to accommodate the Shah of Iran who is also buying 80 of these planes. The slowdown in production of planes for the Navy will cause some delay in the Navy receiving some of the 390 planes now contemplated. But or. Schlesinger says this is acceptable because of the econ Omic and foreign policy Bene fits to be gained by accommodating the drawing on the lessons of the 1973 Arab israeli War the booming overseas sales Market and the proposed expansion of he army from 13 to 16 Divi Sions or. Schlesinger is also a Lemplin to double . Tank to 103 a month. This mild have some immediate beneficial Impact for the Chrysler corp., the Only builder of the main . M-60 tank and could eventually expand the Industrial base for producing big castings and forgings for tanks now limited to one or two firms. The army s goal for its Lank inventory has been jumped from to including for War Reserve stockpiles and a special contingency re serve of 500 More a gos. Since the 1973 War the United states has Given or sold 853 tanks of All types to other countries and has agreed to Send 795 More abroad. Because of the rising estimated Price of the xm-1 tank meant to eventually re place the m-60, or. Schlesinger has also suggested that the West germans producers of the highly regarded Leopard tank May compete for fun t u r e . Tank production needs. In keeping with his View that combat readiness of conventional forces is the most believable form of military Power in the nuclear age or. Schle Singer also is renewing his once rejected efforts for an expansion of . Airlift capacity including modification of hundreds of commercial 747 and dc-10 jetliners so they could carry troops and cargo in an emergency. D r Schlesinger acknowledges that at the moment there Are no bomber or missile gaps threatening the United states. The . Fleet is still Able to do its Job he says rejecting the More pessimistic assessments of former Navy chief adm. Elmo r. Zumwalt. The nato Alliance forces can still present a formidable de Fence against the soviet Union and the Warsaw pact or. Sch i Singer says. But he argues that for the past several years the soviet Union has been out spending the . In real terms by Large amounts and that this trend could soon tilt the balance of Seni Heads Thailand Bangkok renter Seni Pramov 69-year-old Veteran Leader of the Democrat party Ivas chosen As Thailand s prime minister thursday. In a voice vote in parliament in Defeated Chatrchai Choon Haven of the Chart thai thai National parly by 81 votes. Or. Seni who served briefly As Premier at the end of the second world War will head a coalition govern Cal of Al j least iwo parties. I world Power against inc uni cd slates and its allies. Thus he argues despite de Lente the world remains a vol Atile place in which in his View there is no alternative to a . Military posture which is not Only Strong and combat ready but which is perceived that Way by other nations. I n his View the uni cd slates can afford both Ade quate defence and social pro Grams. Defending his plan expected to Cost some billion during five years to expand the army by three divisions within the current troop ceiling or. Schlesinger asserts that estimates two years ago that 13 divisions would be Ade quate had simply gone too far in cutting Back conventional forces. He argues that even 16 divisions is still too thin in comparison to soviet forces. He argues that . Troop deployments in Europe remain vital to . Interests and that i because of offset deals there is virtually no financial advantage to withdrawing them or the troops in Korea unless the units were demobilized which he says would not happen. As for Korea or. Schle Singer says our critics should realize that if we withdrew these forces we might reduce the risk of involvement in some unwarranted conflict but at the risk of losing leverage in the in dealing with the Complex Issue of nuclear arms balance with the russians or. Schle Singer acknowledges that . Missiles in fixed underground silos will remain quite Safe from soviet attack for some Lime. In fact he says that a new and better understanding of the so called fratricide prob Lem in which the blast from one incoming atomic warhead can damage another one nearby will probably keep . Missiles Safe from attack even longer. Still he claims if the rus sians deploy a Large Force of new missiles with accurate multiple warheads As Al Lowed by the proposed treaty they could pose a threat to Knock out the minuteman Force in the Early 1980s. D r. Schlesinger says the Pentagon supports negotiations As soon As possible to lower the proposed Ceil ing still further and reduce that threat. In the meantime he says the uni cd Stales can t allow the soviet Union to have a better capability to strike at an opposing missile Force than the . Has. A French War ship is tied up in St. Pierre Island Harbor France but fishermen go about their regular chores. The War ship brought 65 Mobile guards to the Island that lies off the South coast of Newfoundland and citizens Are de manding they leave the Island ;