Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 28, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Reagans proposed plan for defensive weapons system leads into unknown territory by Jeff Nesmith Cox news service Washington president Rea Gans Call last week for a United states National Effort to develop Means to defend the country against an attack by ballistic missiles was either a visionary View of the future or dangerous talk that could Lead to new dimensions in the arms race depending on whom you talk would it not be better to save lives than to avenge them Reagan i believe there is a better Way that we embark on a pro Gram to counter the awesome soviet missile threat with measures that Are i think he has been sold a Bill of goods by the people who Are pushing an anti ballistic missile said Robert president of the Institute for space and Security studies of until his retirement in 1978 As a lieutenant Bowman was director of air Force advanced space programs his organization is dedicated to opposing what Bowman views As dangerous plans to deploy a new generation of weapons in after listening to the presidents Bowman said he Felt Reagan had been influenced by such groups As High a Campaign affiliated with the conservative heritage foundation that pushes for develop ment of laser armed antimissile a destroy missiles the notion that the could deploy defensive weapons to disarm or destroy missiles from an attack ing nation and thereby relieve americans of the spectre of a nuclear holocaust has been voiced repeatedly in recent months by Edward the physicist who created the Hydrogen in speeches around the says that if the United states invested enough in ant Ballis tic defensive the arms race could be redirected away from offensive weaponry to defensive others who have looked at the same idea say it would undermine previous Progress toward bilateral arms control and create perilous instability in the so nuclear during the first world Teller defensive strategy prevailed Over offensive weapons in military the machine gun and the Trench had made mass attacks pre dominant offensive tactics of a Previ Ous age he said m a recent speech in Fol lowing the first world defensive tactics dominated military reaching their ultimate expression in the Maginot a sys tem of fortifications across the East Ern Frontier of in the line proved useless As the German army of Adolf Hitler flanked says offensive weaponry began to culminating with nuclear during the postwar arms race be tween the soviets and the United both sides concentrated on developing offensive nuclear Wear the theory of Mutual deter Mutual assured destruction As it has become popularly known evolved As a for Mula that might prevent the soviets from attacking the United and vice defence can win if you have a Complete knowledge of what can happen and the More you look into the details of the More you see there is a Chance that by by foresight can win Over Teller and if we get into a state where defence this i believe is a most desirable if we have a de Fence which cannot be Defeated except by a much greater Effort on the Side of the then War will really not be winnable for the Side that started the the Only course Teller would be for the soviets also to turn to a defensive a leading critic of this theory is Eric von a Princeton univer sity physicist and president of the federation of american in a recent article in scientific von Hippel pointed out that the development of offensive weaponry is much cheaper than defensive for every defensive there is a much cheaper Way for offensive weapons to circumvent if that is then defensive weapons May pose a much greater threat than the Security they appear on the surface to the possibility that political leaders on one Side of a nuclear weapons standoff might de cide they could launch an attack on the other then defeat any at tempted retaliation with defensive weapons would pull the so called nuclear tripwire in the face of such a both sides have to seriously consider launching the first Teller does not say in his speeches what technology he thinks will make possible the swing away from Mutual assured destruction to How he specifically told the Washington audience he did not approve of the High Frontier concept because the space based lasers would be too several defence systems Are under development at the army ballistic missile defence program at Hunts recent advances in Long wave infrared sensing and computer technologies have encouraged army researchers to suggest that a number of very accurate anti ballistic mis Siles could be one classified project is known As the homing overlay it proposes to demonstrate that a defensive missile could intercept an incoming nuclear missile with such accuracy As to be Able to destroy it without using a nuclear defend silos another concept is called Load or Low Altitude this weapon would be used to defend missile army scientists believe it possible to develop a weapon that could locate incoming distinguish them from decoys and Home in on them and destroy them All within 10 seconds after the defensive missile is other weapons would attempt to destroy incoming missiles in outer during the interval Between launch and under terms of the anti ballistic missile the United states cannot deploy such de Fence budgets since president Rea Gan took office have devoted increasing amounts to research and development in this causing arms control advocates to express the fear the administration May try to withdraw from the trea in suggesting that the country spend years or even decades search ing for defensive the president was careful to say this would be done in a manner consistent with obligations under the treaty the treaty contains provisions under which either Side can with if it Are by Ralph Joseph special to the free press Athens suave turkish Busi Nessman who once jetted in style from one european Metropolis to living in luxury hotels arid mixing easily in High has suddenly become one of the most wanted Man in Bekir aged about had an image of something of a his wife was a former turkish Singer and movie Star and Celenk himself counted ambassadors and other High officials among his in London he was known in business circles As the owner of a Small shipping but in Nove Artber last the ital Ian authorities issued a warrant for the arrest of and a More Sleazy Side of his life began to he was wanted in Rome for his part in the plot to assassinate Pope John Paul ii on May then the turkish authorities remembered they also wanted him on charges of gun running and narcotics Celenk disappeared from London and was sighted briefly in West he was next heard from in the capital of when the turks demanded his extradition in Early the bulgarian authorities announced that they had put him under arrest for an investigation of their Independent Howe said Celenk continued to live in style in the Plush Vitosh hotel in the turks believed his arrest by the was a thinly disguised ploy to give themselves an excuse for not handing him just who is Bekir and Why has he become an important Central figure to the the bulgarians and the turks investigators in Turkey have identified him As a key figure in what is known As the turkish his ships Are said to have been used before the 1980 coup in Turkey for carrying narcotics out of Turkey to the and bringing arms illegally into the country in the guns invariably passed through the turkish authorities be was a link Between the bulgarian secret service and the turkish which the bulgarians had penetrated in the Early he was in the Armsto drugs Racket for the Money but his connections with turkish militant groups made him a useful lever in the clockwork that set off the bloody violence in Turkey prior to the 1980 coup in after the coup Celenk is reported to have fled he took up residence in and the whole web of connections Between the turkish the bulgarian secret service and the violent turkish hit men in the militant groups remained until Early about Celenk and Mehmet Ali Aga in a righting turkish were brought together in the Vitosh hotel in Aga was in room 911 and Celenk under an assumed name occupied room As Aga told the italian authorities Celenk offered him three million German Marks million to shoot Pope John Paul turkish officials believe the meeting Between Celenk and Aga in the Vitosh hotel could not have come about without the knowl Edge and Connivance of the bulgarian secret nor could Celenk have offered Aga the Money on his own he had to be acting on behalf of the said Ergin a High level turkish Security official the bulgar Ian secret service has a dirty works Section just like the Kab Victory engaged in sabotage and Ter but Why should Celenk have chosen Aga to do the Job apparently be cause Aga had already proved his skill in an earlier he had shot and killed a left Wing turkish Abdi the editor of the Istanbul daily in Aga was arrested five months later by the turkish police after they received a tip from an Anonymous caller that he was sitting in an Istanbul Coffee in 1979 Aga escaped from a High Security prison with the assistance of the Istanbul me fled first to Iran and then to turkish investigative reporters Are now rapidly digging up the past of Aga and their seemingly iad connections with the Istanbul in the most prominent of the Ugur says that when Aga shot and filed Abdi Ipek i As his car stood at a traffic he Mill yet editor was writing a series of articles about the and heroin smuggling rocket in the Turk ish mafia wanted him and Aga met Celenk and Abuzer the godfather of the Istanbul before the he is believed to have received his orders from and these mafia figures also engineered his escape from apparently with the help of wardens in their Ugurlu is now prison in and is being tried on charges of gun running and narcotic but As the probe in both Turkey and Italy other interesting details have begun coming to italian police in for announced in late november last year that they had arrested members of an International gang of drug smugglers and gun runners headed by a syrian armenian named Henri both Celenk and Ugurlu Are now known to have had connections with this and the Trento police have issued an other warrant for the arrest of be it came As no Surprise when investigators said they believed 214 members of the gang Are now living in out of reach of the police in Turkey and other european countries where they Are also interesting is that ideology did not prevent the bulgarians from co operating with the or with righting whom they assisted by supplying arms Aga is reported to have belonged to a right Wing group known As the whose leaders also participated in get Ting him out of jail and providing him the passport he needed to travel about outside the As if this ideological mix up is not confusing Ugur the turkish investigative says he has identified at least one Central intelligence Agency figure a russian Turk with who has hovered on the but it is still unknown whether this Cia Man was involved or merely Alberta cancer epidemic sets alarm Bells ringing Edmonton As a albertan Are not As concerned about Environ mental problems As people in other there is not much heavy and the land seems to Roll on so Why worry that complacency May quickly be shattered by ominous events at Pincher a town set in the picturesque Foothills near the Alber Tamon Tana at a Public meeting March one resident after another stood up to de scribe a virtual epidemic of and blame it on nearby plants that process natural one Man said there Are four farms in his and three of the owners have died of in the the wan looking Farmer said adding that he now has the disease him a woman counted off on the tips of her fingers seven neighbors who have died at relatively Young All of a resident of popu lation said cancer has killed 31 people in his these worried people All live near Gas one owned by Shell and another by that for years have spewed noxious Sulphur dioxide into the the dispute clearly alarms Albertas tory which is torn be tween the health of the people and the demands of the Gas a big supplier of jobs in the the health problem is at least around Pincher for residents have described fainting and unexplained screaming fits among Dianne who lives near the Shell says she once found 50 calves lying unconscious in a flattened by the same Gas that knocked out her the after much prod ran a series of five studies Over several All found that average Don braid in Alberta Levels of Gas were too Low to cause any Lon term health but Many scientists who worked in the area agree that the problems even though they have not found the precise in some residents sued Gulf and and 15 families were awarded in an the lawyer who handled the William is still convinced the area is Western Canadas love the settlement did not end the prob the complaints some times sometimes until March when the Edmonton journal broke a remarkable Story about the Gulf while preparing to close Gulf had studied the soil and found High Levels of and other heavy ail very dangerous to Nickel and cadmium have been linked to cancer Mercury causes a brain and other equally unpleasant these the product of processes in the have been stored in containment pools and a Landfill site for As Long As 25 without the governments when the Story Gulf said there was no evidence that the metals had migrated from the Plant site into the surrounding water but Pri company and government officials expressed one bureaucrat broke the official saying it could be one of the most wide ranging environmental problems the province has Ever some of gulfs measurements might be he but i think theres valid reason for Albertas environment Fred immediately announced an Independent study into the heavy metals the affair embarrassed partly because he had known about the Gulf study for two weeks and said but mostly because he is the la for Pincher the news created such alarm in the town that the Energy resources ser vation a quasi government body respected across the risked its reputation in an Effort to ease the the Board ordered two scientists to produce their own analysis of the huge Gulf study in one frantic weekend of they concluded that it would be virtually impossible for the metals to leak out of the Plant but their analysis was be cause it dealt Only with metals in containment it said nothing about gulfs discovery of these Materi als in unexpected places drainage a flare stack and a Landfill Vern the Erps respected later conceded that the Board took a risk but we did it for the Public that did not impress the people near Pincher Many of them Farmers who get their drinking water from nearby and water their cattle in a Creek that runs past the they know How Runoff awl suspect that after 25 years some deadly metals must have spread into the water As one Farmer said of the soothing official we May be common but were not they Are worried people r and their plight is alerting Many albertan to environmental dangers Long ignored Dun braid is the Edmonton journals political ;