https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/5c058a6e953cf8daec603c2e83997dba.pdf a980167c8338ae8904927c76830d74b8 PDF Text Text XT' o Document disclosed u oi Inf orlotionAiAit Document divulgue en vi rtu de \&±oi sur Tacce/ct Tinforn infornption i •• DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIR Subject Date n..R.ti<?. £*?_...?.?/$? Publication New York Time£ oratoriumpn Strategic Arms Suggested by Senate ABM Foes -f l-.By JOHN tW. FINNEY * spedai to 'rue New York Times , WASHINGTON, April ,24 — has not accepted the proposal, Some Republican Senators op- which is being advanced hy Reposed to the Safeguard sys- publican Senators close to the tem, but reluctant to break with White House, such as Charles the White House, are advanc- H. Percy of Illinois and Eding a strategic arms morato-: ward W. Brooke of Massachu' •0 rium as a way out of the politi- setts. -t _ cal impasse confronting the Ad- Republican sources on Capiministration on the missile de- tol Hill, however, report anew interest in the White House fense issue.' Under their compromise pro- in avoiding a political confronposal, the Administration would announce that it was prepared to enter into a .mutual moratorium with ' the Soviet Union on the testing and deployment of, strategic defensive and of-1 fensive weapons. As part of thisi offer, the United' States would announce that it was suspending deployment of the Safeguard antiballistic missile (ABM) system. Thus far, the Administration that President Nixon has com- dependently targeted re-entry sides agreed to enter into a mitted his political prestige on vehicles (MIRV's) for its stra- treaty prohibiting all but un•tatibn with the Senate on the the issue, the White House tegiv offensive missiles, and the derground atomic tests. does not want to be driven Soviet Union would stop test- Senate Republicans who have rtABJil issue. ing its less-sophisticated mul*EJ At least until recently,. the into the position of seeming tiple warheads, known as been in touch with Soviet dipto' abandon its Safeguard proJfrhite House seemed to be proMRV's. The Soviet Union would lomats have come to the con"ceding on the assumption that posal. stop further construction on its clusion that the Soviet Union is here that some Republi- Galosh arm system around Mos- would now be interested in -With the modification it had canIt Senators believe they have cow, and the United States such a moratorium approach in riSde in the ABM System, such found a, face-saving way out for ris .moving it away from the the Administration with their would defer deployment of its the strategic arms negotiations. The Domestic Critics •cities and, toward protection idea of a strategic arms mora- Safeguard ABM system. of, Minuteman missile mases, torium. r The scenario for their Lhe moratorium would conSponsors of the moratorium 'Suffjent support could be mus- proposal would go something tinue as long; as f the strategic arms negotiations'seemed to be proposals acknowledge that it i'ttred in the Senate for the like this: Safeguard proposal. The White The White House.wpuld an- continuing in good faith and probably will run nto some itouse is reportedly now com- nounce that a date.had been as long as neither side made domestic criticism, particularly ing to realize that it did not set, hopefully in .May or June a move to;;tes| or,*deploy, stra- from conservatives, that the build up the momentum that before the ABM issue reaches tegic weapons:'' \. 'J -»- . ifc^xpected. With its- revised the Senate floor for a vote. For A somewhat-similar apprach Soviet Union could not be ABlJl proposaliand that it faces a start of the long-discussed was followed in the negotia- trusted and might take clan a. close, perhaps losing fight strategic arms limitation talks tions that led up to the limited. destine advantage os such a in the Senate, i with the Soviet Union. .'Test Ban Treaty. By informal, moratorium. >, As a result, Senate; Republi- As part of this step, the Ad- mutual consent, the United can sources report a- new in- ministration would propose that States and the Soviet Union I "terest'in the White House in the United States arid the So- both suspended nuclear testing finding a solution on the ABM viet Union mutually agree, to from 1958 to 1962 while the issffe that would avoid a-vote stop the deployment and test- negotiations proceeded in Ge-fiv the Senate that potentially ing of defensive and, offensive neva. The Soviet Union ended the moratorium by resuming ssuld split'the Republican par- strategic weapons. r o t as well _ as alienate the Under the moratorium, for testing in 1962, and American Denwcratic "majority in the example, the United States testing followed. After an ins|nste. At the same] time, now would stop testing multiple in- tensive test series, the two 000239 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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