Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free doers both study 7eveals americans flexing their military Muscles equally ii i iu1 Tori Hitri Washington a is the soviet Union the bully of the Modem world so it would seem from a Pentagon financed study just released by the prestigious Brooki flags which shows the soviets using military Force or the threat of Force some 190 times since the second world War As an instrument of foreign you that the russians Are the bad Guys j f but before you carry that conclusion operated that Way and the United Juii j t too consider another statistic from the same report by scholar Stephen Kaplan the United states used Force or the threat of Forte More than 200 times in approximately the same pen perhaps a different conclusion should be drawn t is the nature of ers to flex their Muscles to carry out their foreign policy the 19th Century imperialist Powers states and the soviet Union evidently have no intention of breaking the the conservative old men who run the Kremlin Are not inclined to Radical they can be counted on to keep probing for soft particularly in the third where Force can influence smaller countries to Bend to Moscow nor Are president Reagan and the Pentagon expected to seek billion for military Marine John Mckeeve tosses a Doubloon marked with the Marine corps Emblem to a Parade Spectator detective suspended after two youths shot new Orleans a a Plain clothes police officer was suspended without pay yesterday in the shooting of two youths at the Bacchus Mardi gras Parade honouring the americans who had been held captive in John Walters was suspended pending further investigation into the incident which occurred sunday night at the Edge of the French said Don chief spokesman for the police no charges were filed against the Veteran of More than 10 years on the new Orleans police but Joly said Walters stands accused of deviating from department policy re Garding the use of the incident did not occur near the floats carrying John Mckeel and eight other members of the Marine Hope of saving sailors fades Alaska a with most of its Crew Given up for the burned out and badly listing South Kore an cargo ship Daeris was under Tow yesterday in the North leaving be Hind empty life rings and an overturned the coast guard Only two of the Daerius original 26 Crew members survived the ordeal aboard the which caught fire although the Blaze was extinguished by midday the ship listed to 60 degrees and was battered by heavy seas and High cause of the fire was not the ship was about 90 Nau tical Miles West of the westernmost Island in the Long Aleutian islands when the fire broke corps who returned to the on 20 after 444 Days As hostages in Walters had been working a los child detail on the Parade route when he became involved in a scuffle with a Man who was Clearing spectators out of the bands Joly the cause of the scuffle was not the injured were Ray a High school drum who suffered a Bullet wound through his Cheek and and John of plaque a student from Nicholls state University who was watching the he was struck in the upper thigh of his right both were reported in stable condition the Bacchus Parade is one of the popular big parades leading up to today Mardi gras Street the Baltimore Sun Washington the defence department is expected to ask Congress tomorrow for a fiscal 1982 military appropriation of billion a billion increase Over the Carter administration request to finance a huge shipbuilding an Indian Ocean bomber base and a vast array of other besides steeply raising the sum sought for the year starting the proposal Calls for a supplemental appropriation of billion to add to the billion already provided for this fiscal in the judgment of some who did not care to be quoted by the increased expenditures involved Many items that May Well Lack sufficient justification to win congressional a they also questioned the pentagons ability to spend at the requested How much of the additional Money will be spent in the two fiscal years was still being estimated within the executive most of the funds apparently will go into Lon term pro Grams on which payments Are made As work is done Over the in preparation for what May be a Tough Selling even in the current defence minded the administration has prepared a list of 466 items for which it wants additional Money in the next two fiscal the entire list was published today by a Trade defence and confirmed by government Many of the major such As More a new bomber and More were already but this was the first time Complete details had been revealed concerning the military Money buildup with which the Reagan administration Aims to impress its hard International line on the soviet defence Secretary Caspar Wein Berger was expected to underline the assertive stance and determination to have flexible forces ready for any thing when he presents the proposals to correction Winnipeg Chevrolet dealers and of 27 2 should have read Model not exactly As illustrated Canadian tire correction we wish to draw your attention to the following error in our current March of values Page silicone Seal item ff670823x reads 12 tube should have read tube we regret any inconvenience this May have caused our ii lift i n to ill it Iii tint Bowring c Fark Baton place the operation that defence and Finan Cial planners have just been through involved the daunting task of trying to decide in barely a what to do with a combined total of billion More for the Carter estimate for actual spending in fiscal 1982 was billion and this will under the new probably by billion to among the major new proposals Are these a billion addition to the pro posed billion shipbuilding budget for a two frigates and a reactivation of the Battle ships new Jersey and reactivation of the aircraft Carrier Purchase of nuclear Power plants for a new Carrier with the rest of the Money to come Advance Purchase of materials for an amphibious ship and conversion of six Container ships for Indian Ocean million to extend the runways on the mid Indian Ocean Island of Diego Garcia to accommodate b52 bomber on 24hour nights out of were used Over the Indian Ocean to show the Flag after the Afghanistan with a base at Diego operations would be easier and the soviet Union would face a base at another Point on the com d billion for a new though the defence department has not yet decided whether it wants a modified a derivative of the by or an entirely new Type d a per cent military pay Rise to take effect july 1 and Cost billion Over 15 d million for a new Plant to make binary chemical weapons for the binaries carry individually harmless chemicals when become lethal nerve agents million for a new Type nuclear round for use in 155millimeter Howit Zers in tactical nuclear this is described As a More accurate and More reliable weapon than those in recent while the list was Replete with pro Grams like those there also were dozens of items such As million for cold weather clothing for million for equipment for the rapid deployment Force Headquarters its Headquarters location is now a matter of controversy and million for Marine corps facilities the lists showed that the Pentagon wants the three services to have a total of million for productivity enhancement investment and the de Fence department wants million for various legislative under the heading of combat readiness is an item of million to convert a Navy patrol plane into an aircraft for delivering people and things to and from aircraft at a time when the Domestic Side of the budget is being reduced longtime defence observers con Gressional appropriations panels can be expected to work Over the 466item list with a Fine tooth in defence daily concluded that the list covered the spectrum of Wear pay fuel effects of spare support for the rapid deployment a communications systems to reach submerged and even funds for mov ing wet Eye nerve Gas for desert camouflage uniforms and fuel tanks for the the Money would be divided almost evenly among the three How Ever different their missions and Inch around him shrinking they Are committed Amajor tary buildup and Are convinced they have a mandate from the voters to act arms control is fading fast As an immediate foreign policy the two superpowers Are poised to confront each other where they feel their vital interests Are at stake and to make end runs around each other to secure increasingly scarce strategic for a Brief four from the fall of Saigon in 1975 until the red army rolled into Afghanistan in there was an intentional Effort to Point foreign policy in a different direct especially with the sensitive new countries emerging from the Shadow of the United states held Back on shows of Power in where Congress refused to vote the funds to Aid pro Western and in which was Drifting toward the for Congress hemmed in the Central intelligence Agency by requiring prior notice of Covert operations and former president Jimmy Carter took office in 1977 determined not to be driven by an inordinate fear of comm the Washington As writer William Greider called came unglued with the soviet occupation of Carter confessed to hav ing too benign a View of the his administration promised to protect the persian Gulf oilfields against soviet encroachment and the superpowers were again Matching might with Carter linked the change in direction to events in but As he shifted the unpopular Vietnam War was becoming a Distant and receding with it was the Public distaste for an american show of Force even As the two superpowers grow More capable of extending their reach through More powerful navies and bigger air they Are disinclined to use the ultimate Force nuclear several times soviet leaders have raised the Prospect of using nuclear weapons against the United Western Europe and but Only during the cuban missile crisis of did the Brookings study find Evi Dence that the russians actually alerted 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