European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday october 11,1985 Weinberger outlines defense strategy for 90s Washington not defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger said wednesday that the Reagan administration had abandoned past american military strategies As obsolete and devised a new defense strategy for the1990s." Weinberger in a speech to the National press club said the administration s new conceptual Arsenal rest son three pillars the Effort to invent defences against nuclear missiles a formidable buildup of conventional forces and an arms control policy that depends on giving the soviet Union incentives to bargain. Sounding what has been a recurring theme in the administration Weinberger said these changes in military policy were forced upon the United states by a huge soviet arms buildup that previous administrations had ignored. He also warned Congress where Many lawmakers Are questioning whether Weinberger s budgets bought much additional military strength that Pentagon spending cuts cannot be made without increasing the risks of soviet aggression and in response to questions Weinberger called the latest soviet arms control offer quite unsatisfactory and minimized the prospects for an arms agreement at the Summit meeting Between president Reagan and Mikhail s. Gorba Chev the soviet Leader scheduled for nov. 19-20 in Geneva Switzerland. The main value of the Summit meeting he said would be the Chance for the soviet Union to Sec at first hand the kind of Man the president is the resolve that he has the determination he has that America will retain its military Pentagon officials including Weinberger had said the speech wednesday would be a resounding defense of the administration s strategic Agenda and also a rebuttal to critics who say the Pentagon is spending without a rationale. Weinberger s 45-minute address was primarily a Reite ration of past Weinberger policy declarations that even some of his own aides said was dry and familiar. Weinberger said previous administrations had devised their military policies resting on the nuclear doctrine known As Mutual assured destruction and on arms control in an Era when the United states had a Clear military advantage. The purpose of the Reagan administration buildup he said is not to regain military superiority but to reduce the risks of War by convincing the soviet Union that it could not successfully exploit opportunities for aggression. Our defense program expansive As it has to be makes no pretence of regaining our earlier position of superiority he said. We now struggle simply to win from con Gress the resources that will assure that we can deter the soviet Union from aggression against our vital Weinberger describing what he called the new strategy said the first pillar of the plan was scrapping the notion of Mutual assured destruction which holds that both the United states and the soviet Union will refrain from a nuclear attack because of the certainty of mass retaliation. The growth of the soviet nuclear Arsenal he said has weakened the strength of this deterrent. If the soviet Union sees that in response to a limited nuclear attack by them we have no response other than to trigger a sequence of events that might mean Mutual Sui cide he said. Soviet leaders May come to the conclusion that maybe we won t retaliate at Weinberger repeated his recent assertions that the soviet Union has Given up the notion of Mutual destruction by starting a research program to seek a defense against missiles. The second pillar described by Weinberger is a continued buildup in conventional weapons. He repeated ear Lier statements that american Force should be used Only in limited instances where the sending of troops has Public support and islands a Good Chance of Success. The third pillar dealt with with arms control policies. Pirates from Page 1 aboard air Force one said he could not confirm the location of the hijackers. Klinghoffer s widow Marilyn 58, was the first former hostage to step off the ship which was moored in port said Harbor. The luxury liner had been anchored off the Harbor when the pirates surrendered. Mrs. Klinghoffer was seen being escorted off the boat this morning by two friends Neil and june Kantor and several egyptians. It could not be determined where mrs. Klinghoffer was taken or Why she left the ship but she returned after about 30 min utes ashore. The other a song cars remained on the ship. In Tunis Tunisia Arafat told reporters wednesday night the organization had asked Egypt to surrender the hijackers to it for judgment and punishment. The egyptian foreign ministry said that at 5 10 . Wednesday 11 10 . Not the terrorists surrendered to representatives of the Plo and were taken to port said. . Ambassador Nicholas Veliotes who boarded the ship wednesday to investigate the incident had insisted that Egypt prosecute the hijackers and the White House demanded that the pirates be turned Over for appropriate visibly angry Veliotes said our Posi aids from Page 1 hysteria about further issues to be reckoned with in clude those involving civilian workers and their families. There s a whole Range of related is sues Clark said. Asked if he thought the aids testing Al Gram would be expanded to include a soldiers Clark said that would be my recommendation but that is not a decision that s been a report by an advisory Board of medical experts has recommended the services not begin testing of All personnel. The report prepared by the armed forces epidemiological Board did recommend testing of Mili tary personnel headed overseas. Clark said that from an army stand Point soldiers with aids if retained on duty probably would not be sent overseas. There Are potential hazards in providing live vaccine inoculations to persons infected with aids and therein lies part of the prob Lem in sending them overseas Clark said. Clark said about 65 soldiers had been identified who have the disease but we estimate that there ii quite a larger expert generally agree that the number among the services is less than is to be found among the civilian population he said. 95 cars trucks pile up in fog on austrian Road Vienna. Austria a at least 91can and four trucks piled up in an Accident caused by fog on a North austrian Auto Bahn Ponce said. Twelve people were re ported injured and the Road North of Linz was closed for four hours by the Acci
