'WAKE UP' TO TERROR, SHULTZ SAYS ON WAY TO INDIA

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• Publication Date: November 2, 1984
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2 November 19B4
'Wake Up' to Terror,
Shultz Says on Way to India
By BERNARD GWERTZMAN
Secretary of State George P. Shultz,
speaking shortly before he flew to India
to attend the funeral of Indira Gandhi,
said Yesterday that her assassination
was further evidence that "we in the
United States have to wake up" to the
threat of international terrorism.
"We have to recognize it and be pre-
pared to defend ourselves and our
values against it," the Secretary said,
speaking in New York.
Mr. Shultz, who will head the United
States delegation to the funeral on Sat-
urday, said that "terrorism is a major
international problem."
Mr. Shultz's comments were his first
public remarks since a speech on ter-
rorism last week that revived differ-
ences within the Reagan Administra-
tion on how to respond to such acts.
Nuclear Arms a Topic
Mr. Shultz also spoke on how to pre-
vent the spread of nuclear weapons to
nations not possessing them. After his
address to the United Nations Associa-
tion of the U.S.A. at the New York Hil-
ton, the Secretary was asked if there
was a likelihood of terrorist groups'
getting possession of nuclear weapons.
? He replied that he did not think it was
much of a problem now, but added that
"unfortunately, it doesn't take nuclear
technology to make terrorism a prob-
lem; there is plenty of technology
available to murder, and that is the
reason I am going to India."
Later, he joined therest of the Amer-
ican delegation and flew to New Delhi.
In his speech last week on terrorism,
Mr. Shultz advocated a full-scale war
on terrorists. He said the United States
had to be ready to strike "at a mo-
ment's notice" and be prepared to suf-
fer loss of life among its own service-
men and among civilians. That
produced an open dissent from Vice
President Bush and from Pentagon of-
ficials and seeming ambivalence from
President Reagan. Later, White House
and State Department officials insisted
that Mr. Reagan and Mr. Shultz were
in general agreement on the need for a
firm American response to terrorism.
'Have to Wake Up'
"I feel very strongly about it," Mr.
Shultz said yesterday. "We in the
United States have to wake up that it is
an international form of warfare, and it
is directed largely against us and our
way of life and our way of thinking, and
we have to recognize it and be prepared
to defend ourselves and our values
against it."
Mr. Shultz shouted the words "wake
up!" His delivery of the speech seemed
to underscore his personal feelings
about an issue that so far has failed to
produce any American retaliation de-
spite three terrorist attacks on United
States installations in Beirut in the last
18 months.
In New Delhi, Mr. Shultz intends to
meet with Mrs. Gandhi's son Rajiv,
who has replaced her as Prime Minis-
ter, as well as with several of the repre-
sentatives from other nations at the fu-
neral. In Washington, State Depart-
ment officials said they anticipated
that Mr. Shultz would meet with the
' Soviet Union's representative who
they believe, will be Prime Minister
Nikolai A. Tikhonov.
If a meeting is arranged with Mr. Ti-
khonov, State Department officials
said, Mr. Shultz will stress the Admin-
istration's hopes for a more construc-
tive and active dialogue with Moscow
after Tuesday's elections, if Mr. Rea-
gan is re-elected.
But the officials said Mr. Shultz
would also raise Washington's concern
over the allegations in the Soviet press
suggesting that the United States had
inspired, or at the minimum, conspired
in the assassination of Mrs. Gandhi.
U.S. Protests to Soviet
In Washington yesterday, Alan Rom-
berg, a State Department spokesman,
said the United States had protested to
the Soviet Union over the allegations.
"We strongly reser t the Soviet alle-
gations that the Un'ted States, and
, spec'fically the C.I.A.. were involved
in, or inspired, this act of political ter-
rorism," Mr. Romberg said. "We re-
ject in the strongest possible terms the
outrageous Soviet allegations. They
are absurd and irresponsible."
He said the United States was con-
cerned that Soviet allegations might
provoke violence in India against the
United States and endanger Amer-
icans?
Mr. Reagan, as he left Washington on
a campaign trip, was asked if the Rus-
sians might exploit the Pssassination of
Mrs. Gandhi, and replied, "I think
that's always a danger with regard to
the Soviets."
In his speech yesterday, Mr. Shultz
said efforts so far to prevent the spread
of nuclear weapons have "been a suc-
cess."
But he said that "a small but signifi-
cant number of the world's states pose
a real proliferation risk." The only na-
tion he named as a possible risk was
Libya.
"In seeking to block these states ?
Libya, for example ?,from obtstining
nuclear explosives," he said, "we have
employed a range of political, eco-
nomic and security measures."
State Department officials said that
in recent weeks, the United States had
pressed Belgian authorities not to per-
mit the sale of nuclear technology to
Libya even though it is meant for
peaceful uses. The Administration has
argued that Libya cannot be trusted
with any nuclear technology.
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