European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 ii i ii soviets seek to space arms research Geneva up and soviet experts on de sense and space tuesday held their second session at the new arms with Moscow reportedly planning for Mal proposals aimed at halting Star wars re highly placed sources close to the talks said the proposals would Center on measures to ban All arms from space and an end of research into defensive antimissile related Page president Reagan repeatedly has said strategic defense initiative ski research will continue and is not a bargaining Chip at he instructed american negotiators to Only discuss possible nonnuclear space defense and sharing of technology to permit Mutual Security based on defensive rather than offensive the soviet demands an end to the ski program As the Price for Progress in reducing existing nuclear attack tuesdays second session among negotiating groups on defense and space lasted two a Brief adhering to the agreed Prin Ciple of merely said other groups on strategic nuclear arms would hold their second work ing meeting on wednesday As the third set of negotiating groups on intermediate Range nuclear forces meet on the talks began March 12 and the first round is scheduled to end april 23 with delegates returning to capitals to report to governments and receive any new a second round is expected to open around the end of May or Early june with the talks then adopting the Twomoon Tshoff pattern of past Nego soviets developing own space defense by Richard Gross Washington up the soviet Union is developing its own Brand of a Star wars missile defense system and could deploy a surface laser weapon by the Early to the Pentagon said tues they already have ground based lasers that could be used to interfere with the Pentagon said in its fourth annual analysis of soviet so Viet military defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was to unveil the publication at a news conference that was to be transmitted live via satellite to Europe and the 143page handbook on soviet military capabilities reiterates previous particularly about the buildup of the submarine Force and test firings of intercontinental ballistic recent activity at the soviet icbms test ranges indicates that two additional new icbms Are under the Book one of a replace ment for the the worlds biggest is nearing the flight test stage of it using information gathered by the pentagons de sense intelligence the Book is the biggest yet published and is crammed with color photo graphs and drawings of soviet there is a relentless drive to come up with an offensive a senior Pentagon official said of the soviet the official despite the continuing buildup of soviet forces on the in the air and on and under the when you take in the Overall composition of the i think we come out new disclosures about soviet advances with Star wars technology marked the major difference Between the books latest edition and its possibly As part of the administrations Campaign for its own Strate Gic defense for which it wants billion next the High Energy laser which dates from the is much larger than the the Book they have built Over a major research and development facilities and test ranges and they have Over scientists and engineers associated with laser the Book said soviet experimentation in such technology could Lead to prototypes for ground based anti missile lasers by the late testing for components of a Large scale deployment system in the Early 1990s and a prototype of a space based particle beam system ready for testing in the late although Large scale deployment is not Likely this Century because of the Many difficulties in Fielding an operational the Book with High priority and some significant risk of the soviets could skip some testing Steps and be ready to deploy a ground based antimissile laser by the Early to mid Rowny says discussions stalled by soviet position Washington a the Geneva arms control talks Arent going anywhere As Long As Moscow continues to focus on the Star wars Edward special adviser to the president on arms control said Rowny said Moscow is avoiding Dis cussing curbs on offensive nuclear which he said is the main object of the talks which opened March his remarks were the most explicit statement by a senior administration offi Cial yet that the talks had so far been if there is to be Progress toward reducing nuclear Moscow attitudes must Rowny said in a speech prepared for the Louis committee on foreign relations in aides said the speech had been cleared by the White Rowny said the soviets would have to Bear the onus of world Public opinion if the talks he suggested that the Star wars proposal is so and so far off in that it  be a significant fac Tor in the talks reducing the threat of nuclear War now by an agreement on reducing today offensive arms is far More important than discussing what might happen a decade or two hence if strategic defences prove Fea Rowny he said Moscow also is engaging in research programs into defensive what the soviets seem Bent on doing is continuing their own research while trying to Stop who was the chief negotiator at the last round of strategic arms reduction talks that Moscow broke off in late said the United states has made several attractive proposals for curbs on offensive he also said negotiators Are pre pared to negotiate More flexibly on their proposals than they have in the Rowny said both sides could reduce their total number of ballistic missile War Heads to about for that would be Down from the current level of about for the United states and for he he said Moscow clearly has More destructive Power in its ballistic but the United states would be prepared to offer an added inducement for reductions by cutting its advantage in aircraft bomber we would limit to a much lower number the air launched cruise mis Siles we could potentially employ on our heavy bombers if they would reduce their More powerful ballistic missile Cap Abili he Rowny said reaching agreements on deep reductions in nuclear offensive arms is the Best Way to assure deterrence and strengthen our the Star wars known officially As the strategic defense is a five year research program aimed at determining the feasibility of a system to destroy attacking soviet missiles before they can strike the United Rowny said it wont be known for eight to 10 years whether such a program is and even then it would need to meet three demanding tests before we de cide to deploy any Rowny said those tests Are the defensive system must be Able to survive enemy attempts to destroy it it would need to be cos effective or cheaper than the offensive systems it would be defending against and it would have to contribute to making the world not less administration officials have indicated previously that they might at some Point consider curbs on the Star wars pro Gram if the soviets agreed to substantial reductions in nuclear offensive but Rowny was making Clear the administration wont agree to curbs in Carter says arms treaty probably doomed by ski new York a former president Carter said monday that the space based strategic defense Initia Tive backed by president Reagan probably will make it impossible for the United states and the soviet Union to agree on a new arms treaty in the current negotiations in in a televised interview on the Cable news Carter said the Salt ii arms treaty negotiated during his term was extremely although it Only dealt with Long Range it adds a great Deal of complexity and difficulty to add the intermediate Range missiles that exist in Western and Eastern Carter and to put on top of that the so called Star wars which opens up a vast new Arena of space for both offensive and defensive military creates so much complexity that it makes this situation almost so i think its too Early yet to see whether or not both sides Are genuinely determined to reach an or if they Are just putting Forth proposals for the in an interview monday with the new York Carter had characterized the Star wars proposal As an obstacle to reaching an arms agreement and added that he believed the system was not both on technical and financial Carter is currently promoting his new the blood of which sets Forth his views on the Middle he faulted Israel for not keeping its made in the Camp David to Grant some autonomy to palestinians living in the occupied West