European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. Novembers 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 .. Studying options in radar dispute Washington a soviet Refu Sal to dismantle a disputed siberian radar facility is prompting the Reagan administration to consider expanding. Strategic weapons programs a. Official said Friday. Among the Steps being weighed arc the deployment of a limited ballistic missile defense and speeding up the testing of space weapons said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. He said a decision was expected with in two weeks. Acting on a request from the Whitehouse last summer the options were prepared by the Pentagon and Are being circulated through the state department the Amis control Agency and other. Offices for their recommendations on wednesday. And soviet negotiators failed in Geneva to Settle their dispute Over he Krasnoyarsk installation and the administration said in May take appropriate and proportionate responses or even take Steps to unravel the 1972 anti ballistic missile treaty. After soviet experts outlined their views in Geneva the state department demanded that the radar facility be Dis mantled and its equipment destroyed. In two reports to Congress the administration charged that the soviets had Vio lated the 1972 treaty by constructing radar facility that could be used to organize a National defense against missile attack. The theory behind the treaty is that if both sides were unable to mount a defense soviet Early warning radar Early warning radar permitted by treaty i Krasnoyarsk radar under construction the 1972 abm anti ballistic missile treaty Between the. And the soviet Union allows Early warning radar on he Periphery of National territory and aimed outward. The , says Krasnoyarsk would violate the treaty. The soviets say it is permitted because it is for space tracking. Petit Moscow user 800 Miles. Krasnoyarsk Chicago try Una graphic source. Department of Doten they would hesitate to launch an attack. Otherwise their territory and population would be open to devastating retaliation. The Geneva session was held at die so Viets request it indicated a settlement might be possible. Viktor p. Of Lupov the foreign ministry s senior arms control specialist had said in july that the soviets would  if the to sides resolved their differences Over the treaty. We had hoped they were prepared Domeet. Concerns about the radar said state department spokesman Charles e Redman. ".,. We listened to what the had to say. Unfortunately the soviet experts did not have any new  As a result Redman said the United slates reserved lit right under  Law to Lake appropriate and proportionate responses to the soviet violation. Behave not foreclosed the option of declaring that violation a material breach he said such a declaration could Lead to.nullification of the treaty which is consid ered by Many Amis control experts to be a landmark in . Administration officials were sharply divided last Spring on whether to threaten the soviet with toe declaration. Eventually president Reagan decided on a postpone ment while encouraging Moscow to Dis Mantle Krasnoyarsk. Even some of the administration sharpest critics consider the facility in Vio lation of the treaty Bui they say Oie United states is engaged in questionable radar operations itself in Britain and Greenland. 1988 May be the year of the abstained papers won f endorse either candidate i eligible voters not registering new York not the editorial Paes of american newspapers Are exhibiting the same distaste for both major presidential candidates that voters have expressed in polls this fall. Hundreds of papers including some of the largest and most influential dailies have declined to recommend a Choice to readers. The Washington Post declared that while members of the paper s editorial Board would Vole for their own choices tuesday collectively As an institution this year the Post  the Post had. Supported the democratic nominee in each election since 1976, although before that the paper had not endorsed a candidate since 1952, we Are not obliged to make an endorsement when we Don t believe that there is a candidate in whom we have a sufficient degree of Confidence and commit ment said Meg Greenfield the editorial Page editor. A majority of the newspapers surveyed by an Indus try Magazine came id the same conclusion As the Post this year choosing to support neither vice president George Bush nor gov. Michawls. Dukakis. While the number of abstentions soared compared with i9s4 s Iota the number supporting a candidate reached the lowest Point since editor & publisher began conducting a quadrennial pre election Survey of daily Paperin 1932. This year s Survey conducted by mail and Telephone through tuesday of this week showed that 43 daily newspapers or 56.s percent of the 772 responding said they would not endorse i Glicr candidate. Thai was almost twice us Many As look that position one week before the 1984 election the Magazine re ports in its nov. 4 Issue. .,.Bush received the endorsements of 241 dailies the fewest Ever to Back a Republican in editor & publisher s pre election Survey Dukakis received the support offo. --., -. Y Only in 1964. When Lyndon b. Johnson was sup ported by 440 dailies against 359 for Barry Goldwater has the pm Coralic nominee received More endorse ments than his Republican opponent in All bin two dozen american chips a single news paper controls the local Market. The disappearance of competing papers Means thai those that endorse arc no longer one voice among Many said Anthony Day editorial Page editor of the los Angeles times. Los Angeles used to have six or seven papers that All had a Point of View the los Angeles times stopped endorsing presiden tial and senatorial candidates in 1973. The endorse ments color the perception of the newspaper s approach in other areas and our most important Goat now is disinterested reporting he said. At the new York times endorsements Are the prerogative of the publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. If a publisher is going to allow his editorial Page to comment on what goes on in the world when it comes to every other Issue he can t pretend thai he can l make up his mind on who should run the country Sulzberger said. It s the responsibility of a paper not to cop out on the biggest Issue of  at the new York times the publisher tests his ideas against the editors and the writers on the editorial Board but he makes up his own mind said Jack Rosc Plhal the editorial Page editor. It is a Collegia process Rosin Hal said but the authority to make the decision is Sulzberger  this year the new York times  qualified endorsement of Dukakis after strongly criticizing both candidates for the conduct of the Campaign. The endorsement appeared last sunday after fre quell conversations Between Sulzberger and Rosen thai that began in july following a visit to the paper by. Bush. Of. ,. Sulzberger who is also chairman of the new York times co., said he had insisted that the publishers of most of the company s 35 subsidiary newspapers express their Awn preference before the election. They Are an Independent lot he said. In 1984, Only one of Iceni joined me in endorsing  Leslie Dach Dukakis communications director. Said editorial endorsements were of Only marginal importance in the general election Alijio fib they could be very important in primaries. In the primaries Here s an intense site by slate focus and the candidates Are much less Well known Dach said so the Seal of approval of a local paper is   / ".-.", v -.-. Mark Goodin a spokesman for he Bush Campaign said endorsements were important in target slates and. The republicans have made a great Deal of those Bush has won from nine newspapers in Massachusetts Dukakis s Home state " a. In Boston Dukakis s Hometown the two daily news papers split with the Herald supporting Bush and the Globe recommending Dukakis. Washington not in 27 or the 30 states with final figures available then haib a pronounced decline in to percentage of eligible americans who an registered to Vole a research group reported thursday. A Italy by the group the committee for he Stady of the american electorate condoned Hal in Many states us decline slue 1984 was among Democrat rather than Republican although registered Draco Crau still outrun Bernd registered republicans in the is states and the Durkt of Colombia reporting registration by party 14.4 percent of the n Iii a population was Reg uttered As Republican of 2.1 percentage Points Over 1984. Flirt the democrats showed a decline of 13 potato to 355 per cell of the voting age Popala lao among those who did not identify them starts with either party registration stayed abort pm will 1wm i hut could result in a fewer democratic to not that could make it difficult for pm. Mided s. Do Luke of Massachusetts the democratic pcs Dat Hal nominee to Hose to on vice president gauge Bush who has t Lead in the opinion polls said cur tis b. Cam director of the Oon Parton eth Nolfe which is based in Washington Mary Matalin who i coordinating the bran by. Can party s efforts to set out the vote uld the Fibbi Yishow we re approaching Putty parity  Char lie Baker the Dukakis National held director said the democrats would always Idie in Han More org Bat Baker said republicans registration Sac Tess was irrelevant because Orr All Many More people Are Rigi tiered As demo nos than As re Puskan. The study projected local National registrar Toa of 129.483,000, or 70.9 percent of eligible Nurten As Aga 12700,000, or 73.1 pen cat of Eligoh Fot is in 1984, and 1 15,000.040, or 69.9 percent of eligible Totty in 1980 by by of Ibe registration decline the committee projected that lit turnout at the Polta tuesday would be the lowest Ilna 1948, when 51 percent of. The Voung a population went to the polls and could All below that