IN THE midst of a serious recession, potentially the worst since the 1930s, Presi1983 budget contains ever deeper cuts in more than 19 per cent creases in arms spending will result in a record budget deficit.
least $216bn authority to An additional weapons will Pentagon.
White House wants to militarv. That comes to over the Russians' Gene La Rocque, and Soviet forces:
vur submarine. weapons -ed and ready to Soviets keep ‹cauy lo nre at the us Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Cruise Missile Socialist Challenge 18 March 1982 dent Reagan's proposed federal social spending while boosting the Pentagon's arms budget by over 1982 levels. The in.
For fiscal 1983, which begins in Reagan wants to spend at on ine millary, fund new weapons that could bring the spending to $257.5bn $5.5bn for nuclear charged to Department of Energy rather than the In fact, over the next five years the spend $1.64 trillion ($1.64 million million) on the for every man, woman, and child now purchases Reagan plan will rise even faster thar during the peak of the Vietnam War The White House claims that the hugs increases are needed to 'catch up with But retired Admiral now with the Cen tre for Defence Information, points out the real relationship between US carry 5,000 nuclear - 3,000 of which are always aim fire at the USSR nuclear weapons at sea, Americal peculiarities.
March has didates vote in 'democracy' main candidates.
was up. bombers, Atlantic According to stitute the Soviet decade.
Wills the porations. $7,100 In ministration the The such Navy.
ALC 'USAF have their For example, in El Salvador the election on 28 two main - President Duarte leader of the military junta ano Major D'Aubisson, 38 year old leader of the death squads.
Most Salvadoreans will not the those who do can chose between the military junta and the death squads!
This is what Presidents Reagan and Duarte - and the Pope who has urged Salvadoreans to vote The elections which took place last Sunday in Guatemala had more democracy — there were three -As well military and the death squads there 'moderate' Only 450,000 people out of four and a half million entitled to vote turned The winner (surprise, surprise)
Ther cited Seat es the Soviets 145.
compared More than half of the Soviet bombers are still propeller-ariven We have always had more strategic nuclear weapons than the Soviets. we can explode 12,000 nuclear weapons on the Soviet Union, while they can explode The United States will build 17,000 nuclear weapons in the 1980s, if we conitor the x. Cruised Trident ren.
Cruise, here we House prorurtnermore States and its alies in the North allies in Treaty (NATO) consistently outspend Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies.
the International for Strategic and Union and the Warsaw Pact by more than $300bn in the past The aim of Reagan's war budget is not, as claimed, to catch up with an illusory Soviet threat. The real aim is to bolster the Pentagon's ability to intervene militarily around the world and especially in Central America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East - in defense of the interests of US correcent figures have repeatedly stated publicly that they are drawing up contingency plans to invade blockade Cuba, and that they will 'do whatever is necessary' to prevent the overthrow of the bloody junta ruling • Reagan has to defend the Saudi Arabian monarchy against revolution.
Reagan's 1983 Pentagon budget shows that these statements are deadly serious. By far the largest spending increases are earmarked for building non-nuclear as the 110,000-member Deployment Force (RDF) and the US own can- the but even as the fascist candidate Today Trident, Perthe North Organisation the InStudies, the NATO outspent months Reagan ad• also vower intervention forces Rapid Guevara. Guevara is an army genera ana former aerence minister candidate Will makes Guevara look like a moderate Sandoval Alacron violently (to coin phrase) denies Socialist' much to do with socialism'. But he i calcula historical sense' the term 'fascist' accept bizarrely named 'National Liberatio Movement militia of 3000. But rest assured. I only kills 'communists' candidates. according rehearsed script, claim that the resu was a fraud. real obiection is that. not being l power themselves, they were unabl to defraud Guevara.
fraud have made the election eve more farcical than it would have bee otherwise. The real representatives ( The RDF, set up by Carter, draws on troops and faciliti from the army, marines and is designed to be airlifte anywhere in the world, meeting." with equipment prepositioned at sit close to the likely scenes of interve tions invasions America, the Middle Éast. ruled island of Diego Garcia in the li dian Ocean, where freighters loade with tanks, artillery, fuel, water, and other equipment ar supplies are ready to sail for the Persian Gulf at moment's notice. sian Gulf are being built in Oma Kenya, Somalia, and Egypt. least $11bn on new equipment for t Rapid Deployment alone. This includes new air transpo planes, tanker planes to allow them reach any place in the world witho having to land prepositioned equipment, tional cargo ships to carry that equi ment.
Reagan describes the blocking Soviet aggression. That imply propaganda aimed at maki he force more palatable to Ameri public opinion. themselves, they about the real target of the RDF. F example Assistant Defence ine Kor's sufficient for its mission, 'as the Iranian seizure of the US el ssy too graphically illustrated t rld, Third World nations ar awed by American power and will quite prepared and able to fight t AIDA Pretty grim, you might think. Bu came One is a 'Nationa The term, he says, has to 'in a genera He also admits that his party, th (MLN) has a privat Alacron and the other oppositio to It probably was. Thei The claims and counter-claims ( Presider navy, air force, The RDF has already carried ol of Centr Caribbean, anne A permanent base ammunitio permanently anchore aner race car Cro The Pentagon plans to spend Force CLO fIll and ad administrati RDF's main role When military specialists write f make no bon Secretary Francis West, worrying th equipment might not notes th Blackbird spy plan