SOVIETS EXCEEDED SALT II LIMITS, U.S. ANALYSTS SAY

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• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: April 7, 1983
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THE BALTIMORE SUN
7 April 1983
Soviets ~iceded$a1tII
bits. U.S. analysts sa
agreement allows only one new type
By Charles W. Cord of ICBM to each side, and a different
y dry missile tested October 26 was report-
Washington Bureau of The Sun ed officially to Washington as Mos-
- Rea an adminis' cow's new one
unacceptable prospect no matter the
level of weaponry at which it started.
At his press conference, Mr. Jack-
son contended the Reagan adminis-
tration may be about to "torpedo"
strategic arms agreements with a
"public beating over the head" of the.!
Soviets. He was referring to the presi-
dent's indication that he might speak
out on the compliance issue.
tration analysts have concluded that. ? Moscow has told Washington the previous administrations' method of
the Soviet Union tested an improved missile tested February 8 was a mod- taking up such questions with the
di
intercontinental missile in February ified SS-13. But analysts here have
that exceeds the limits imposed by "conclusive evidence" that it goes far
the 1979 strategic arms limitation beyond treaty definitions of allowable
treaty known as SALT II. administra- i modifications. The tested missile for
-
Moscow says the- weapon tested' weight - or warhead payload of does not want to accord it the signifi-
February 8 was a permissible modifi-. the SS-13, gather than the 5percent cance that talks in Geneva might sug
gest, in Mr. Jackson's view. The Car-
cation of the SS-13, a single-warhead, 'difference allowed, Mr. Jackson said.
solid-fueled rocket, the sources said. . Administration sources confirmed the
Relatively few SS-13s have been de- Mr. Jackson's account. ter administration withdrew ., >-. '.t: treaty from consideration for ratifir
President Reagan said in a speech
-
~-? fghane
ployed.
Analysts reached their conclusion in Los Angeles March 31 that there cation in the Senate after the A
- based oa U.S. intelligence data i were grounds. for questioning Soviet istan invasion, but both parties hav
gathered from observation of the compliance with arms control agree- said they are complying with itg ,
rocket flight - in . the.. course of a .: ? ments.- "I may have more to say on ~.provisioas.
ress regarding Soviet compliancy
In the seemingly escalating war of
words between the superpowers on
arms intentions, the Soviet defense
minister, Marshal Dmitri Ustinov,
said yesterday that any attack on the
with all existing arms control agree-
meats, the sources said.
They said the evidence has not ye
been put before -President Reag
cision has been
d
,
e
and therefore no-
reached on whether to charge the, sites would bring retaliation on the
Soviets with a violation and. wbetheri United States as well as on Europe.
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'such a charge would be made publicly -' His remarks, to soldiers in East
or in the privacy' of diplomatic con-I Germany, were taken here as part of
b -1 -+i- Soviet campaign to I
er
t
ed States knows about the February 8.
Carter administration official,..WB:.
liam E.. Jackson, Jr.,-- who: called a
press conference to voice, his, worry':
? that both - superpowers are about to;
t
e?ry- ,vi
let arms control ? come un
Mr. Jackson, now a scholar at the J would be countered. by similar, but - I
Brookings Institution here, was exec- 1 undefined, actions - but it was not
utive director of the General Adviso- - taken as showing any change in Sovi-
ry Committee on Arms Control of the et strategic thinking;
Th litical and military ration-
o
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency when SALT II was negotiat-
ed.
Based on his talks with officials in
several government agencies, Mr..,
Jackson said, the missile tested Feb-
ruary 8 exceeded SALT 'II limits. on'
two counts:
? It was a new type of intercorti-
nental ballistic - missile- within the
definitions, in the agreement: -Toe'
g
ea
stall off the planned deployment of
U.S. Pershing 2 rockets and cruise
missiles in Europe starting in Decem-
Marshal Ustinov's threat was i
more explicit than those of Soviet ci-
ployment of U.S..missiles in Europe
e P
ale for -the European missile deploy-
ments is to link _ - or, "couple," as
statesmen -put it - the Western a4-
liance's conventional and tactical nu-
clear arms to the U.S.-based strategic
nuclear forces.. The aim is to ensure
deterrence . of. war, by making it an
ng
Soviets in Geneva, where a Stan
Consultative Commission meets.
The Reagan administration, which
has always called SALT U "fatally
This would be a reversal of three
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