Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 23, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Clark firm on Star wars opposition May hinder arms minister says att a a Winnipeg free january 1985 is Ottawa external affairs minister Joe under commons opposition fire for Refus ing to oppose Star wars re search on space based missile de insisted yesterday he will do nothing to hinder forthcoming soviet arms we have made an Independent judgment that it would not be helpful for or indeed for other to try to put items on the Agenda that might have the effect of turning the successful arms talks off the he told my Lloyd both Axworthy and Liberal Leader John Turner pressed Clark to re verse his approval for Star wars research outlined in a statement to the commons a Day earlier As a parliament prudent measure pending the re sumption of nuclear arms control Turner said Clark is abandoning the popular personal peace initiative of former Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau by refusing to ask that the Star wars program officially titled the strategic defence initiative by president Reagan be on the Agenda for arms a Date and place for the agreed upon by the United states and soviet Union in Geneva is still being member for Winni said Clark was gives guarantee on minister Ottawa up external affairs minister Joe Clark said yester Day Canada sought and received a firm guarantee that the states wont put nuclear weapons in Canada without permission in the event of an International responding to questions in the commons from Pauline nip foreign affairs Clark claimed this Doest represent any shift in longstanding government policy against Basing nuclear weapons in the policy of the government of Canada As it has that there will not be nuclear weapons on Canadian Clark the guarantee of that is that we have sought and we have received from the United states assurances that before any plans that they might have or that they might develop which would affect Canadian territory Are implemented there would not Only be consultation but there would be the right to refuse in Cana this if we consid ered it in the interests of would exercise that right to its very Clark As opposition maps the Issue of Basing nuclear weapons in Canada arose when a Washington defence researcher made Public two weeks ago a document signed by president Rea Gan that outlined contingency plans for putting 32 nuclear depth charges in Canada in the event of defence minister Robert who avoided reporters a second consecutive Day first said he knew nothing about the Clark received Assurance then said it was an expired pro Gram approved by the former Liber Al government led by minister Lester Pearson in he subsequently amended that to say there has been no such emergency plan since Jewett pointed out that the memo Randum made Public by director of nuclear weapons research at the Institute for policy studies in was dated March Arkin said it is re viewed the last nuclear weapons in Canada were removed last july when Genie Airt air missiles under control were taken Back to the United prime minister Mulroney said then that no further nuclear would be based in Cana defying the interests and senti ments of canadians by refusing to clearly oppose an expansion of the nuclear arms race into but replying heatedly to the Liberal said he had no intention of yielding to natural partisan temptation to try to make political Points on the i suggest that this matter is too important to the country and to the world to play politics with Clark said As conservative maps sitting around him the liberals dont want to interfere with future arms control talks yet Are suggest ing specific ways to do he we do not propose to act in such an inconsistent but criticism of the conservative governments position of supporting Star wars research but not deploy ment is also coming from private research including the Otta abased Canadian Centre for arms control and John executive director of the arms control called a news conference yesterday to denounce a policy of complacency toward the Star wars he said it is Clear that Star wars would severely upset the balance of East West deterrence and increase the likelihood of nuclear Lamb said Clark is wrong in claiming that Star wars is still a highly hypothetical some parts already have been he described the which use satellite directed lasers against incoming soviet ballistic As a crash program consciously designed to achieve a Deci Sive Edge Over the soviet Union in this in Geneva two weeks state Secretary George Shultz and soviet foreign Secretary Andrei Gromyko agreed to set up three negotiating groups one on Long Range another on medium Range missiles and a third in defensive systems that would include the Star wars in president Reagan pledged there will be no preconditions when talks Start and that the Star wars research pro Gram would be on the table along with everything else at arms outside the commons Turner insisted that continuing Star wars research will contribute to escalating the nuclear arms even if space based weapons Are on the existing Agenda for future research apparently is not because Reagan insists it will continue and where do you draw the line Between research and Turner Peter Carrington and prime minister Mulroney share a Carrington backs research by Larry Hill Winnipeg free press Ottawa the Secretary Gener Al of nato says the United states would be foolish not to keep up with soviet military advances by halting research on a space based antimissile lord Carrington sided yesterday with the Canadian governments position when he defended american plans to study the strategic defence known As Star at the moment were Only talking about research and since it is known that the soviet Union Over the doing research on this it seems to me that it would be the height of imprudence if the United states did not do the research the former British de Fence minister said at a news Confer at a meeting with re porters a disarmament spokesman accused external affairs minister Joe Clark and Back ers of the Federal stance of misguided even at this it is Clear that Star wars would severely upset the balance of East West deterrence and increase the likelihood of nuclear said John executive director of the Canadian Centre for arms control and experience shows that military hardware programs build bureaucratic momentum during the research and development making later control efforts almost Lamb described Star wars system by which defence weapons based in outer space would de stroy soviet missiles in the air As a crash program designed to achieve military superiority Over the Carrington support the research program Threa tens to derail future arms control talks in Geneva Between the two superpowers and Canada should oppose Star wars before it is Lamb Halfway through a five Day visit to Carrington said he sees Eyet Eye with government minis ters and senior officials when it comes to modernizing intermediate Range nuclear forces and improving conventional Carrington met Mulroney yester Day and had discussions with Clark and defence minister Robert Coates that same Clark Drew fire from opposition critics by reversing a peace proposal by former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and telling the commons that Canada supported the Star wars Carrington told report ers it was too soon to say what Chance there was that americans would build such a system or How efficient it could the system would be vastly com he but Ive no doubt when they really set their mind to it that theres very Little that they cant Carrington said it would be futile for the two superpowers to agree not to study the Hig Altitude weapons system because it would be impossible to verify it is the deployment of a weapons not research into that Carrington Secretary of state George Shultz and soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko agreed earlier this month to hold talks on stopping the nuclear arms race in As for whether Canada could Hurt arms talks by expressing discomfort Over american research into a Star wars Carrington said if i were th6 soviet Union and that there were concessions that the nato allies were prepared to make before the talks even i would begin to think that perhaps there were no need for me to negotiate All that seriously because the whole thing would fall into my Axworthy makes bid to Salvage project All offers will be considered 2331 1384 escorts 1084 Mustangs 4 84 Crown Victorias 1984 tempos 2 84 thunderbird 2 84 Bronco ii 12 84 rangers Cash Down will deliver on approved credit have you driven a Ford lately 3 it 1445 Matthews 7863851 Ottawa staff Garry my Lloyd Axworthy tabled a petition in the House of commons yesterday urging the conservative govern ment to retain the National research coun cil Centre in the High technology research Centre was already under construction when the Mulroney administration announced last no vember that it was to be scrapped at a Sav Ings of million to Ottawa next carrying More 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not prepared to sit Back and watch the new government sell out Manitoba interests and Are pre pared to work in a co operative fashion to help revive the Axworthy said in the my seeks cheating probe Ottawa up a House of commons committee should investigate cheating by pilots on their med ical conservative my Jack Ellis said Ellis suggested stricter medical examinations might have prevented the crash of a Light plane last octo Ber at Toronto Lester Pearson International three including the died in the Ellis said it appears the Pilot had been cheating on his medi Cal during an medical evidence indicated one of the Jack had not reported on his medi Cal forms that he suffered from heart and liver ;