Nase Novine, October 02, 1986

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£а73а will be 'nuclear no-man- 's land'
Canada is about to take a giant leap
into the Star Wars era with the selection
by the Canadian military of three north-ern
sites at Yellowknife, Frbbisher Bay
and Fort Chimo to host modern inter-ceptor
bases. From these locations will
fly Canadian F-1-8's and U.S. Airforce
F-1- 06 and F-1- 5 fighter aircraft under
NORAD command — their purpose to
intercept Soviet bombers and Cruise
missiles trying to underfly the Star
Wars network.
Why should this be objectionable?
There is, after all, nothing wrong with
defending Canadian airspace. The
problem is that without any national
debate, indeed, without any say in the
matter whatsoever, we are being drag-ged
into a made-in-Washingt- on plan for
continental defence that will, within a
few years, transform Canada into a
major theatre of nuclear war-fighti- ng
operations.
One of the big flaws in SDI — the Star
Wars concept which the U.S. seems
thoroughly sold on — is that space
weapons designed to destroy Soviet
ICBM's can be circumvented by low-flyin- g
missiles and bombers.
This means that a massive air de-fence
system will have to be con-structed
in tandem with the Star Wars
network.
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The U.S. has already decided to go
ahead with this major program to build
the ground-base- d companion to Star
Wars — the Air Defence Initiative
(ADI). According to the authoritative"
magazine, Defence Week, ADI will be
"the most complete air defence system
ever deployed," comprising "untold
numbers of planes armed with new air-to-a- ir
missiles, sophisticated radars and
sensors and ground-base- d anti-aircra- ft
batteries '
And, notes Defence Week,
"geography requires that many of the
projected ADI installations would have
to be in Canada."
In the new era of U.S. strategy,
Canada is seen as "the open doors and
windows" of SDI. Thus, by uncriti-cally
agreeing to close these 'gaps' we
are, whether we know it or not, buying
heavily into Ronald Reagan's Star
Wars future.
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HIROSHIMA REMEMBERED
Mirovne grupe u Toronto obelezile su 41. godisnjicu bombardovanja Hi-rosim- e.
Demonstranti su nosili fotografije unistenja i ljudske patnje prouz-rokova- ne
eksplozijom, opominjujuci svetske vodje da se to ne sme vise ni--
kad dogoditl
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Successive Canadian governments
have collaborated with the U.S. in
creating this situation. In doing so, they
have ignored the arms control alterna-tive,
which might have effectively pro-vided
for Canadian security without a
massive arms build-u- p.
During the late 1970s, for instance,
there was a window of opportunity to
ban Cruise missiles in the SALT II
negotiations. The U.S., which was
ahead in Cruise technology, refused
this option. Canada failed to speak up,
failed to pressure our ally to accept
what can now be seen to have been
valuable Soviet proposals in this area.
Instead, we became junior partners in
the development of the air-launch- ed
version of the Cruise.
Today we are paying the price of our
short-sighte- d and slavish deference to
U.S. military policies. Having collabo-rated
in the production of this weapon,
SOVJETI PREDLAZU
SURADNJU
MOSKVA — Rukovodioci svemir-ski-h
letova Sovjetskog Saveza pred-laz- u
da se ponovo uspostavi suradnja
s kolegama iz SAD s kojima su prije
desetak godina zajedntfki eksperi-mentiral- i.
Bili bismo zadovoljni ako se pobolj-saj- u
medjusobni odnosi nasih zemalja
i medjunarodna situacija, inace sto bi
omogucilo da se nastavi zapoceti po-sa- o,
гебепо je na konferenciji za strane
novinare akreditirane u Moskvi, orga-niziran- oj
povodom povratka Leonida
Kuzima i Vladimira Solovljova iz sve-mir- a
gde su proveli cak 125 dana.
Kao sto je poznato njih dvojica bili
su prvi stanari u svemirskoj stanici
"Mir" koja ce u daljnjem radu biti te-me- lj
.svemirskog naselja. Novinari su
pitali kada ce taj "svemirski hotel" do-bi- ti
nove stanare. Odgovoreno je da se
na torn projektu radi, a tocan datum
saopcit ce se kroz nekoliko mjeseci.
Na pitanje koliko maksimalno co-vje- k
moze ostati u svemiru, sovjetski
lijecnici koji se bave pripremom ko-zmonau- ta, tvrde da ukoliko je dobrog
zdravlja covjek moze neograniceno
boravitiu svemirskim prostranstvima.
STATISTIKA PRVOG
POLUGODISTA
OPAO I IZVOZ I UVOZ
BEOGRAD, august (Tanjug) — Vri-jedno- st jugoslovenskog izvoza dosti-gl- a je do 28. jula pet milijardi i 443 mi-liju- na dolara, sto je za 2,6 posto manje
nego lani u isto vrijeme. I nabave jugo-slavensk- ih
organizacija u svijetu u
toku ovog razdoblja, vrijedne sest mi-lijardi
i 477 milijuna dolara, smanjene
su u odnosu na proslogodisnje za 1,8
posto, biljezi Savezni zavod za statisti-ku- .
Jugoslavenske su isporuke svijetu
za konvertibilnu valutu opale isto-dobn- o
za 1,4 posto, a kupovine su po-veca- ne za 5,7 posto. Isporuke klirin-sko- m podru6ju za to vrijeme biljeze
pad od 4,6 ali su i klirinske nabave
smanjene za 4,8 posto prema lanjskim
u isto vrijeme.
with the promise that it would enhance
our security, a senior American air-for-ce
officer now tells us: "the Cruise
missile is the threat of the future."
Because of it, we are now expected
to build a vast and exorbitantly expen-sive
line of radars and electronic sen-sors
across our territory — the North
Warning Line. And we will soon be
asked to become wholehearted par-ticipants
in the Air Defence Initiative:
fighter bases, missile batteries and
command bunkers will be standard fea-tures
of our northern scenery.
It is not too late to get off this nuclear
roller-coaste- r. Cruise missiles can still
be banned — there is a standing Soviet
proposal to this effect. A nuclear freeze
and a comprehensive test ban treaty
would prevent the emergence of Star
Wars and other new weapons-system- s
that make up the Pentagon's menu for a
future atomic war.
The three new airfields to be
constructed in our north by NORAD
are a down payment on Canada's full
participation in Star Wars. Now is the
time to reject this path, to halt our drift
into the Pentagon's deadly embrace,
and begin working as a nation for arms
control and political detente — the only
measures that can provide security in a
nuclear-arme- d world.
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mVOVSKA RUPA
JJZROK POTRESA
LIMA, august (Tanjug) — Ogrom-n- a
jama na dnu Tihog oceana, ispred
obale Perua i 6ilea, koja svake godine
bukvalno "proguta" komad od 8,5 cen-timeta- ra
juznoameriCkog kopna,
glavni je uzrok cestih potresa u ovom
dijelu svijeta — tvrde francuski stru6-nja- ci
Piere Chotin i Jasquems Bor-geo- is
u listu peruanske vlade "La Cro-nica- ".
Oni su stiglu uluku Callao znan-stveno-istrazivack- im
brodom "Jeen
Charcot".
Francuski znanstvenici su nekoliko
tjedana ispitivali dno Pacifika ispred
peruanske obale.
Juznoamericke zemlje, koje izlaze
na Pacific, cesto su zrtve pomeranja
tla koja ponekad dostizu katastrofalne
razmjere kao u Peruu 1978. i Cileu u
martu prosle godine. Chorin i Bor-geo- is
su dosli do zakljucka da je direk-ta- n
uzrocnik tih potresa divovska rupa
u oceanskom dnu, ispred cileansko-peruansk- e
obale.
Sada vazeca teorija o uzrocima po-tresa
u Juznoj Americi tvrdi da su oni
posljedica "sudara" kontinentalne
ploce s plocom pacifiCkog dna ili na-skiono- m
plocom — prea imenu pe-ruansk- og
grada Nazca.
Francuski znanstvenici namjera-vaj- u
da se kroz dvije godine podmorni-co- m
spuste na dubinu od 6000 metara
da bi podrobnije ispitali tlo oceana —
izjavio je Piere Chotin.
PREPIRKA ZBOG :
ATOMSKOG NAORUZANJA
WASHINGTON - Oba doma ame-ricko- g
Kongresa pocela su raspravu o
americkom vojnom budzetu za iducu
1987. godinu koji jeplaniranna 292 mi-lijar- de dolara.
Kako javlja UPI, rasprava se brzo
pretvorila u prepirku o atomskom ra-zoruza- nju i to u povodu projekta od-bra- ne
iz svemira, nazvanog "rat zvije-zda- ". Jedan od senatora je ostro kriti-zira- o
predsjednika Reagana, kao glav-no- g
pokrovitelja tog projekta. Ujedno
se zahtijeva da se za taj i druge pro-gram- e
odobri znatno manja svota od
one koju trazi Bijela kuca.