Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 5, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free november 1981 an by William Tuohy los Angeles times London heated Campaign against positioning Ameri can nuclear missiles in Europe is fast gathering in is being taken seriously by european political though the White House has sought to minimize the opposition to Basing new theatre nuclear weapons in Western diplomats in european countries Are much More wed be foolish not to take the opposition said one senior american Diplomat in eur and we do take it the movement has not yet one of the antinuclear weapons historian Edward Thompson of european nuclear disarmament confidently declared in an interview the groundswell of opposition to american nuclear missiles makes it quite Clear that we Are going to be successful in stopping the deployment of Pershing 2 and cruise missiles theres no Way there going to be positioned in deployment decision at Issue is the nato decision in 1979 to deploy 572 Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in West Belgium and Holland to counter about 320 soviet ss20 missiles positioned in Western Russia and targeted on european so great is the concern among european political leaders about the antinuclear movement that nato governments have launched a coordinated response to the antinuclear in British foreign Secretary lord Carrington gave a lecture last week in which he the Campaign for a nuclear free zone a delusion and said disarmament would make War More in German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt who agreed to install 204 missiles on his moment and the world disarmament they were joined by similar organizations on the Many of which were Only loosely but All dedicated to slow ing Down the nuclear arms another major stimulus was the election of president Ronald Rea who took a Hartline Antis Viet that disturbed Many in the new administration was perceived to have a notable Lack of enthusiasm about negotiating the strategic arms limitation talks with the further worrying the president reagans re cent muddled remarks about a scenario for a nuclear War in which Only Europe would be the Battleground reinforced the views held by some in the last the United states would try to save its and confine a nuclear Exchange to Europe and the soviet the presidents remarks further added to the officials took pains to explain that Rea Gans however ineptly represented no new departures from the 1960s nuclear doctrine of flexible this document represented a shift from the previous strategic View of massive retaliation to a concept wherein a Low level nuclear Battlefield Exchange would not automatically trigger intercontinental rockets fired Between the United states and the soviet to Many it appeared that the United states was trying to fight a nuclear War exclusively on european on the some of the antinuclear marches in the past two weeks took on a distinctly ant american in for a govern ment official commented on the big demonstration there we have not seen this kind of anti americanism since the protests of the Vietnam Claudia Secretary of the International affairs department Lear trend growing in eur itt j just minted Eurc few lets called the big antinuclear weapons rally in Bonn a Decla ration of War against the gov and he was said to be particularly angered because some of his social democratic party parliamentarians were sup porters of the and West German defence min ister Hans Apel said the military must listen to the arguments of the West German peace move but that the country Security depended on nuclear in a government official said of Rome demonstrations pro testing against the deployment of the theatre nuclear missiles in Sicily it can Only serve to weaken and Divide the West at a moment when we Are preparing for important East West Neotia the opposition among various antinuclear groups extends beyond the theatre nuclear Force most groups want the removal of All nuclear arms from the in what Thompson Calls a nuclear free zone from Portugal to an old Story the existence of antinuclear groups in Europe is nothing the Campaign for nuclear disarmament was formed in 1958 and flourished in the but faded As the Vietnam War ended and detente with the soviet Union sprang other groups were formed More and their combined efforts in the past few weeks were timed to coincide with the United nations disarmament week last week and produced some of the biggest mass demonstrations Ever seen in major european observers attribute the surge in the european nuclear disarmament movement to several the first was the nato decision in late 1979 to position new me Diu Range cruise and Pershing 2 missiles in Western l7urope by in in april two organizations were formed in England european nuclear Dinar of Italy Large communist party interpreted the ant american cast of the March As a response to recent statements by president rather than an outright against the United in Young Middle class marchers carried banners read ing reagans peace is our to be or nato diplomats and Western european leaders emphasized so their governments have not been dissuaded by antinuclear demonstrations in the nato plans to modernize the nuclear Wea nobody is panicking because of the but it Indi Cates we have a big Job to do with Public said one senior in the major antinuclear organization is the Campaign for nuclear whose Many longtime supporters in clude Michael Leader of the labor party and a vigorous advocate of unilateral nuclear Dinar the group has about dues paying members another Quarter of a million Brit ish people Are Allied to local groups that support the ends which include unilateral ends income derives from membership subscriptions rang ing from about to the Secretary general is monsignor Bruce a Catholic priest who once served As a Young tank officer and who believes in unilateral disarmament for Britain be cause the British nuclear Force is neither Independent nor Credi we Are trying to convey our general alarm to the american government about whats going Kent said in an the decision on cruise missiles was made without proper Consu we should abandon the idea of positioning them this should not involve any loss of and the United states should also end its efforts for a first strike nuclear capability through the my missile West Germany Helmut Schmidt worries about mass antinuclear protests in the european nuclear disarmament Leader who was an armoured officer in the elite British lancers in the italian fighting during the second world says that end works closely with the weve got to keep nuclear weapons out of he but the question is once we get them out of what happens next the military will want to put the nuclear weapons out at sea or someplace that the big problem with these nuclear Wear end operates out of tiny cramped quarters in Central Lon Don under the Day today direction of organizer Meg were worried about the up Ward spiral of the nuclear arms race for 36 says Beres we think its time to take unilateral inevitably theres a but its less a risk than continuing As we the third major organization is the world disarmament Cam whose Secretary is retired brigadier Michael who served with the Royal Green jackets As an infantry officer in the second world then in Aden and later in Cyprus both As a British officer and in a United nations wac is supported by a wide group of organizations including the British Council of churches and Christian about 450 groups in the United kingdom representing to peo ple Are now affiliated with the As Harbottle put it were part of the same Jigsaw Puzzle of sur but we take a global View we like to see the abolition not Only of nuclear weapons but All weapons of mass leading to general and Complete some nato diplomats believe that the Campaign against positioning the nuclear weapons has been orchestrated by the in France and the communist party has been Active in organizing such Joseph the nato Secretary recently estimated that the soviets spent about million on antinuclear propaganda in Europe last soviet propaganda theres no doubt that the so Viets Are feeding All kinds of stuff into the peace said one american but British antinuclear leaders resent the implication that they Are in any Way funded or influenced by the the idea that we Are in the pockets of the soviets is not Only said the cmdr Mon Signor but we Are deeply sensitive to such charges that we Are soviets for this would destroy our we oppose the soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the positioning of is 20s in Western we keep our distance from such soviet funded peace movements like the world peace and ends professor Thompson says people ask me if we Are orchestrated and i Tell them frankly we the orchestral conductor is president Rea this is a nonaligned move the Aims it seeks would not increase the strength of either some analysts have welcomed the renewed activity of the anti nuclear weapons groups because it has focused attention on the Broad strategic question of deploying nuclear this is a subject that has never properly been debated in Britain or the rest of said one you dont have to be a nuclear disarmed or a soviet tool to realize that there is a Good Case to be made for increasing conventional forces in Europe and reducing Reliance on nuclear in his speech at British foreign minister carring ton defended the use of nuclear weapons As a deterrent declaring a nuclear War which Doest happen is better than a conventional one which he asked rhetorically How the essential concept of defence was to be restated with an immediacy that the Young Man or woman in the Street will and comprehend that seems to be the task of political leaders in nato in the months and perhaps the of the officials who will meet in Geneva at the end of this month for the next round of disarmament Tomb Smartl Diarmid lumber Kwik the ready to assemble european style these easy to assemble Kitchen cabinets allow you to use your own imagination to create the Kitchen that fits 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