Peace

This is an era of new Soviet initiatives for ending the arms race, but the West has yet to respond in kind, a leading European dis-

armament figure told a Vancouver audience

Sept. 18.

_ Physicist Michael Pentz said current times afford new: opportunities for the Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to begin reforming their hard- line nuclear and conventional warfare poli- fles which will lead to the abolition of Reto and the Warsaw Treaty Organiza- ion.

“Unfortunately, up to now Western leaders seem unable to move out of the traditional policies of the status quo,” Pentz, former dean of science at Britain’s

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‘NATO hinders arms cuts’

MICHAEL PENTZ... Gorbachev has limited time.

Open University and now a peace activist in France, said.

The former leader of the British Cam- paign for Nuclear Disarmament warned it would be misguided to wait until the West finally moves on the Soviet peace proposals, suggesting that Mikhail Gorbachev has a limited time in which to sell his reforms in the USSR, “particularly in the face of West- ern intransigence.”

Pentz has visited Vancouver several times in the Eighties — most recently at the 1986 Vancouver Peace Symposium — enthral- ling audiences with witty dialogue anc impeccable statistics on the latest arm: developments.

He was in top form at the talk, “NATO: Life After 40?”, sponsored by Veterans fo1 Nuclear Arms, producing charts showing the balance of arms as perceived by both NATO and the Warsaw Pact; and the proposals both sides have presented.in the current, snails-pace arms talks.

In tracing the history of arms strategy over the last three decades, Pentz said former U.S. president Ronald Reagan’s “Zero Option” proposal to ban all missiles in Europe was put forward in anticipation that the Soviet Union would reject it. He pointed to a 1981 Congressional document which indicated the real purpose was “to place responsibility for NATO moderniza- tion (of mid-range nuclear arsenals) on the Soviets.”

The Zero Option was rejected at the time, since it left the Warsaw Pact vulnerable to attack by the independent arsenals of Bri- tain and France, as well as U.S. missiles outside Europe. But Gorbachev’s election

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as Soviet leader in 1985 led to acceptance of the option and the signing of the historic INF treaty at Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1987.

The treaty involves “asymmetrical” cuts favouring NATO, which meanwhile con- tinues to plan the modernization its weap- onry to replace the loss of cruise and Pershing 2 missiles with projects such as FOTL — Follow-on to Lance (missiles). Those plans have caused deep divisions within NATO, Pentz said.

Britain and France favour continued modernization, while countries like Bel- gium and the Federal Republic of Germany oppose it, the latter for electoral reasons. At any rate, it is unlikely that modernization will go ahead until after 1990 and possibly not for a few years after that, Pentz related.

“So there’s time, just a small window of opportunity, in which to try to reform NATO policy,” he advised.

Pentz noted that the Soviets and Warsaw Pact forces have made several groundbreak- ing proposals at current arms talks, includ- ing massive cuts in conventional arms, the creation of military free zones along borders in Europe, and the elimination of offensive nuclear weapons. But most of these initia- tives have been rejected by NATO, which among other things denies it has offensive weaponry, he said.

“If we want to end the cold war, if we want to move towards a Europe at peace, we need to embrace certain new concepts,” Pentz said.

He cited The Comprehensive Concept of Defence and Disarmament for NATO, by the British-American Security Information Council and other groups, which argues for moving away from offensive. capabilities, and even nuclear parity, to a concept of “mutually defensive superiority.”

The document, presented to counter a recent NATO document promoting modern- ization, calls for “transparency, not secrecy” about military deployments which it says will prevent the unilateral introduction of new nuclear weapons.

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