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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 05, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 William f. Buckley should one protect classified information or Tell Public of threat when is it Okay to publish information which it not officially classified is. Mart accurately officially suppressed or even better still unofficially  Young Man of High technical skills and experience who is More concerned about the survival of the United slates than the incumbent president writes in to pose the  i read in articles in publications that soviet production of backfire bombers is 35 to 50 per year suppose i know that the actual production rate is Over 100 per War. Suppose i feel that the administration has a vested interest line Salt talks Etc in not informing the pub Lic of the True numbers is my obligation still to protect the information or is it a to inform the pubic of a real threat j by what now must be t by my Calculi Over 240 bombers fresh off the liner to any bomber we now have i the same Day. One reads a dispatch Drew Eddleton in the new York 3 referring to disquiet among de specialists in Congress and Chiton  that disquiet is motivated by concerns one technical the second to Ummi stattion. And tend info to Doronn Sira e that our smut can missile system to in fact not vulnerable to the soviets and won t he for the foreseeable future. One of those reports was pot out by a panel of unilateralist. And is intended to abort an Nave mat to build and deploy the my mis  report takes into account the accuracy of thess-18 which is estimated at .1nautical Miles. That is 600 feet and the net meaning of this is that our 1.000 minute Man silos Are probably vulnerable to a so Viet first , however we were to proceed with my. We would have 150 to 300 new missiles their capability would make possible deploying them variably in 5.000 silos. The soviet Union would never know at any Given moment in which of the 5.000 caravans Aries our missiles were passing the night. They would need therefore in order to achieve first strike capability 6. 000 ibis. They could t procure that Many without giving up Vodka. Keep of the grass William Safire Al. At the technical level we Are. Quite ply falling behind the soviet Union not Ely in the sense that our capacity to after ourselves is diminishing in re Dancy we May Well be falling Back to Point of critical technological i Fenon Lectance of the president who singled edly destroyed the by program and i Neutron bomb to take compensatory Ion. Middleton cites an authoritative published last year in the Cong res i record concluding that by 1980 or i depending on soviet warhead yield. I to 60 percent of land based soviet War ids could destroy at least 75 percent roof the american missile silos leaving Sands of soviet warheads to be Deli d to other targets. It is also concluded that if 4 .285 Ameri \ warheads or 100 percent of the  and sea based ballistic missiles fired against the soviet silos som of 1,300 soviet silos would by de when Carter is right he hides san Francisco at the Bohemian Grove where 2.000 of the nation s business and opinion leaders gather each year to think deep thoughts and commune with nature. An incident occurred recently that reflects the distemper of the  Public address system blared out the highlights of that Day s activities. The guests assembled at Lakeside took note of the recreational and social opportunities. And then heard the announcer say. This afternoon the National Security adviser to the president. Zbigniew Braz ski. Will explain the Carter administration  a few people snickered. Others joined in. At the thought of anybody being Able to hat All of this Means is that the soviet procurement Blitzkrieg is quickly giving it a first Force capability. Translated that Means the soviet Union could Knock out our principal defense deterrent leaving us Wymar petulant retaliatory resource in several weeks ago. My informant re minds me aviation week called attention to two fraudulent reports traceable to the ment senile. Laughing at the notion that president Carter had a foreign policy an laughing at their own reacted Lott frito Ulous presumption. Of timers could not cuban invasions was a gibe directed at Kennedy. Johnson and Nixon offered great material to satirists. And comedian Chevy Chase stumbled to Fame with Gerry Ford. Until recently this was the sort of Cut Ting Down to size joking directed at car Ter in which this writer has participated with Savage glee. The most popular Platter in the political Delicatessen is cruel cuts for example since the episode involving drug adviser Peter Bourne it has become impossible to attribute any serious views to a High government  but Jimmy Carter is becoming smaller than life. The laughter once rooted in traditional Defiance of authority seems now to be based on pervasive con Empl. A tremor of nervousness can be selected in the Cus i Tomary scoffing As if the nation is laugh i my bitterly at itself for marrying a win some stranger who turns out to be a Neer health la or president is a to err is  cracked Martha Taff Nower were alive Thev said when iric � Hower was alive Caroline f but they a. Is on itself As at the a the derision distorted image of president takes on the reality of mos people s perception. We Are then led by cartoon the character becomes the Cari in previous presidencies such attacks sss&5�m?�.5 Areo Taii in a. Ause he has aimed Vantly to Provo Ion in of Tenet or Power. To " Rbt Cosklo Irod  a scripts or in United Suim  
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