CITY LIFE BY GARY FARRUGIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400260039-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: September 21, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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I confess to being an incurable'. - and the U.S., the Soviets could kill the Soviets in quantity and only a
Fairfax and, a- neighbor, invited': Security : Council, claimed the droppers will be writing tearful
my wife to help herself to his am- United .States is woefully behind anecdotes. ; -.
ple garden flowers.. a:' - .?_ : ;:.3 _.
I topped off the week by.spilling.,
a half can of Fresca on my new tie..
during a.. Pentagon briefing with;-
the Chairmarl of the Joint Chiefs:
of Staff, General David C. Jones.
The source. of this.. high level hi
jinks was a three ' day seminar-Y.
sponsored by Panax Newspapers..,
(the; parent'. company - of - Thee
Globe)_ The seminar-focused'on>,,
national security - and national'
defense. The line-up of speakers..
provided a comprehensive over
view 6f where this country stands;:
in. the battle of nerves being wag---
ed with.the Soviets over nuclear.,
missies:and strategic:defenses..-;.
THE OPINIONS expressed
from the dozen experts who spoke
on -the. status of America's.
defenses ranged from utter;
despair to proudful boasts. Some.,
claimed that should a nuclear war
breakout ? between- the -U.S.S.R.
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quest. The Senator, a resident of cochaLrman o( the- mex can wont need, watering. And name
name dropper in the retelling of:% 140 million Americans and fraction ahead in quality: -
anecdotes. Last week provided a :. destroy 60 percent of our industryDESPITE THE' if i v e z= s e
wealth of high level names to drop.'.'If we retaliated immediately, opinions on the arms race, one
for this week's column, some experts, claim, -the- United theme struck. home throughout
On Thursday, I was delivering a-: States- could destroy at best 15 the three day.'. seminar. The
limp punch line for a presidential million'Russians and 35 percent of prospect of a nuclear holocaust is
joker when I met up- with' Chip their- industry..:
a very.real possibility. ':Although
Carter-and his young child- on the - In other .words, the Soviets.' hundreds.. of millions of peopl;-.
steps of the White House. I watch ' could bomb the United States- would be killed,'. and' although
ed in amusement later that after-' back to the year 1935. We can civilization as. we know it would
noon as one of my fellow editors ?;a bomb- the Soviets- only back- to be set back decades; the idea thatl
from Panax tried unsuccessfully-, their 1965 standard. of living. c~ nuclear war could be waged and
to steal ani official CIA coffee cup:;: won by one side is occupying the.
and saucer during an informal Opinions on America's strengths minds of both'the U.S. and Soviet
cession with CIA-directo r-' varied;: General Jones of the-Joint war strategists.
Stansfield Turner at the Langley Chiefs _claimed America's--. - Should that day ever come, you
headquarters. defenses are equal to in quantity can pack away the good CIA
ON FRIDAY, my - wife ex and superior in quality to . the, 'china. You can_ forget about
cavated half of Virginia Senator= Russians. Retired U.S. Army Lt. claiming the necktie from the
William Scott's garden at his re- General. Daniel Graham, who-is cleaners. The senator's garden