Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 2, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free october 1981 my focus trouble on Borders facing Rea political developments in Canada and Mexico Are making it difficult for president Ronald Reagan achieve the North american Accord that he talked about in last years Joseph Kraft looks at the problem from the americans Point of by Joseph Kraft the los Angeles times Washington a North american Accord was one of the few original ideas advanced by Ronald Reagan in the 1980 and in keeping with that emphasis the president has applied his abundant Charm to build personal rapport with the leaders of Mexico and but Bonhomie should not Blind the United states to fundamental differences of political in both Mexico and Canada there have recently occurred major events that spell Trou ble on the in Jose Lopez Portillo has named his Choice to be the candidate of the official government party for president of mexi the Man who will Likely take Over in 1982 is Miguel de la Madrid presently minister of program Ming and gushing accounts accounts from Mexico City pour out the usual gush about Senor de la Madrid being Young moderate whatever that and because he was educated at Harvard the distinguishing is that in his pres ent and As a former employee of the mexican Oil de la Madrid has been a partisan of rapid Industrial development led by growth in the Oil what that Means has been spelled out by bitter experience All Over the from Venezuela through Nigeria the fostering of nationalist sentiments in Mexico under Lopez Portillo left and in Canada under Trudeau poses a threat to Ronald reagans hoped for North american and saudi Arabia to undone lopsided geographical and social development is a first certain areas Oil Fields and Industrial and especially the capital others notably the Rural sectors lacking in Oil left in the in that Means further intensification of the Rural impoverishment that drives Mil Lions of peons into Mexico City and across the Border to the in search of excess of funds fostered by an excess of funds competing for a Scarcity of is a second mexican products have Al ready been priced out of world and they sell at Home Only thanks to High protectionist the unable to earn for eign Exchange by Selling has been forced to borrow More and More on International now the Outlook is for still fur ther dependence on foreign Loans and increasing reluctance to admit foreign mainly american invidious nationalism is a and especially Perni the easy Way to relieve the pressure of social and Infra and High dependence on foreign countries for is to blame All the trouble on outsiders especially Grin thus the persistent Drift of the Lopez Portillo govern ment to the left of the in dealings with Cuba and the marxist movements of the third world seems sure to continue under the next court decision As to the major new development is the divided decision of the supreme court on the constitutional changes proposed by prime minister the court found that it was Legal for the Federal govern ment to forge Canadian Constitution out of the British North America act passed nuclear deterrence has its own threat by Tom Wicker the new York times Brussels it is axiom among most military that nuclear weapons Are never to be War fighting by such to most of would result in the virtual destruction of the human race hence the doctrine of which holds that nuclear weapons must pre vent nuclear War by making it too destructive for anyone to does it that Overall deterrence must include the ability to deter at every level of War one sides tac tical Battlefield nuclear explosives must balance the and so must its me Diomand Long Range nuclear missiles and its other strategic such As bombers and submarines this question is posed in acute form by the problems of theatre nuclear about which East West discussions Are scheduled to begin late this do the United states and its North Atlantic treaty organization allies really need to balance the soviet unions deploy ment of about 250 medium Range ss20 each with three nuclear warheads capable of reaching targets in Western Europe soviet targets these missiles do not have the Range to hit the United but the 572 Pershing ii and ground launched cruise which in response nato now plans to deploy in could hit targets in the soviet would their deployment therefore threaten the rus sians More than the ss20s threaten the West does the existence of the primary deterrent Force air and sea based intercontinental missiles based out Side Europe but aimed at the soviet make it unnecessary to deploy the Pershing ii and cruise mis Siles in Europe participants in a recent International conference conducted Here by the Wash into based arms control association recognized that these questions were not sex or even primary for a failure by nato to at least the ss20 deployment in Europe might be taken in Moscow and by some Western europeans As an american unwillingness to defend european perceived threat on the other nato deployment of Pershing ii and cruise missiles might be seen in Moscow As an Ameri can exploitation of theatre forces to augment Western strategic ability to hit tar gets in the soviet Union it that could Lead to fur ther soviet deployments to neutralize the perceived threat of the nato mis Western Many of whom used to worry that the United states would not use its missiles to defend Europe lest it provoke a so Viet nuclear attack on the North american now seem to be More Wor ried that Europe might be come an unwilling victim of a soviet american nuclear whether that would be More or less Likely As a result of the planned nato missile deployment is a matter of divisive political particularly in the Belgium and West the Mobile More presents a heightened but not a new since the russians for years have had single warhead ss4 and ss5 missiles aimed at West Ern a soviet nuclear attack on Western Europe has nevertheless been considered a relatively Remote since the planned nato deploy ment provokes Western european dissent and Neutral exacerbates european american differences and could invite a fur ther soviet some analysts question whether by the parliament in London in and now supplemented by an elaborate Bill of the court also found that custom provided there should be agreement be tween the Federal govern ment and the provinces on the new at there is deep division Between Trudeau and the provincial the British parliament will surely not approve translation of the 1867 act to Canada without full acceptance of the supreme courts stipulation for provincial Accord so Trudeau is now obliged to reopen constitutional negotiations with the provincial who have come because of his aloof disdain to detest a general Rule of thumb is that whenever the prov inces and Ottawa Are in ten the Federal authorities bid for popular support by asserting Canadian sovereignty Over unloved american among other Trudeau has already enacted a National Energy program that makes life harder for the Large american Oil As Long As he is bargaining hard with the provincial measures that discriminate against american interests in Canada will be applied with foreign trouble these Border difficulties Are plainly not going to overwhelm the but the fact that there is foreign trouble so close to Home underlines the need for improving pres ent arrangements for Man aging International North american business cannot be done at the per Sonal level so dear to the neither can it be left to the uncoordinated interplay of the dozens of state and Federal jurisdictions that meet each other across the it has to be Man aged by serious officials Able to Deal with Broad authority on subjects that Are detailed and any military gains from the nato deployment would be Worth the political others maintain that nato modernization of its nuclear forces is Essen not just As a political response to the ss20 but to ensure natos military Doc Trine of flexible response that its ability to respond to an attack on Western Europe at any level of Only that these analysts can ensure nato commanders con that they do not have sufficient conventional or the Prospect of getting to be sure of repelling a heavy conventional attack by Warsaw in the event such an attack were to be successfully nato doctrine Calls for a signal to be sent to the russians that nuclear weapons will be used to halt the conventional War the russians undoubtedly know this and presumably Are deterred by even from conventional does nato need More nuclear weapons systems to keep this form of deterrence cred Ible would the United states attack the soviet Union with Persh Ings and cruise to halt a conventional attack on Western Europe or might the russians think their is if unmatched in Western give them the ability to neutralize any nato nuclear threat against a conventional attack nato planners obviously think but the european Alliance already is dangerously reliant on such nuclear rather than on conventional 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