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page 2 daily nebraskan monday, march 2, 1981 Disarmament authority rallies arms race freeze By Beth Head rick The director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies asked Nebras kans to organize now to freeze the nuclear arms race and to stop the United States and the Soviet Union from intervening in the conventional wars of developing coun tries. Randall Forsberg Saturday told the Ne braskans for Peace at Sacred Heart Church in Lincoln there is a broad movement among peace activists, civic leaders, the scientific community, women's organiza tions and the religious faction to bring the dangers of nuclear war. to the atten tion of the public. The peace movement always has been on the fringe of society, she said, but with the number and the variety of groups involved, it can reach the heart of America in the same way the anti-war movement did in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She said a bilateral freeze on producing nuclear weapons is possible because the United States and the Soviet Union have practically achieved military parity. A freeze wouldn't mean disarmament, but stopping further nuclear arms escalation. Such a freeze would be advantageous for the Soviets now because at the present growth rate, by 1990, they will be more vulnerable to nuclear attack than the United States, she said. The United States still is ahead in the race because of the advanced submarine detection systems set up both on towers and on the ocean floor. The MX missile system also will make the Soviet's ICBMs vulnerable, she said. Easier to verify A freeze is easier to verify than either the SALT 1 or SALT II treaties, she said. Instead of keeping track of how many nuclear weapons are being built, the sate llites only have to monitor back that noth ing is being built. GET SOME RESPECT! 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Now the Soviets have more missiles and larger ones than the United States, she said, but they do not have a superior weapons system overall. U.S. missiles are more accurate. The United States has advanced anti-submarine warfare and the USSR's land-based missile system will be threaten ed by the MX missile system, the cruise and the Trident missile systems. However, that kind of comparative arms-race talk is absurd, she said. The two superpowers only use their nuclear arms as a power lever to fight conventional wars on foreign soil. Superiority without challenge "What Alexander Haig would miss (if there was a nuclear arms production freeze) is not deterring a war in Europe, not deterring an out-of-the-blue Russian attack on U.S. cities, but his attempts to intervene in developing countries to Correction The Daily Nebraskan incorrectly report ed in Friday's newspaper that the Crib restaurant in the Nebraska Union would be moved to the basement of the union by next January. Maynard Krantz, president of the union student-faculty board, said there are no plans to move the Crib to the basement. maintain U.S. superiority without a challenge," she said. No one expects a conventional war in Furopc, she said, only in countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Africa and Latin Amer ica. In the meantime, Forsberg said, building more nuclear weapons is dangerous and unnecessary. Forsberg said if a bilateral halt were called, clandestine weapon-building would not be a problem. It's not only difficult to build, set up and test weapons is secret, she said, but the nuclear arms race has been used mostly during peace time to show military supremacy, and being clandestine doesn't achieve that end. In a workshop Forsberg directed after her speech, pamphlets were handed out that said a nuclear anns freeze would save each government $50 to $75 billion. 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