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...seenes to build support among the public and members of Congress, the Boston-based Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign has won a breakthrough in its tight to bring nuclear proliferation under control Last week. after intense lobbying by the Campaign Sens. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) and Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore) and Reps Edward Markey (D-Mass) and Silvio Conte (R-Mass) introduced resolution in their respective chambers calling for a freeze on the arms race...
...spending and ensure a national defense that is able to preserve the peace." He said that he would be happy to consider any bipartisan plan that meets those standards, adding: "When we have honest differences, you can count on me to be willing to listen." Declared Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield after the meeting: "He brought a reconciliation in place of estrangement." Added Nevada's Paul Laxalt: "It was upbeat. An obvious show of unity...
...keenly aware of the high stakes, for both the economy and his party. He has been meeting almost daily in his back office as a member of a group known as the Big Five to work on alternatives to the President's budget. The five include himself; Mark Hatfield of Oregon, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee; Paul Laxalt of Nevada, a Reagan intimate; Robert Dole of Kansas, head of the Finance Committee; and New Mexico's Pete Domenici, chairman of the Budget Committee. "My objective is to find a budget we can pass," says Baker...
...resolution was the brainchild of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, who returned to Washington after the holiday recess last January deeply impressed with the burgeoning grass-roots movement against nuclear arms. Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon agreed to join him as sponsor, and the two lawmakers spent several weeks lining up other supporters. The single-page resolution calls upon both Washington and Moscow to "pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race," asks for a bilateral ban on the "testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads," and urges "major reductions" in stockpiled weapons...
Haig contended that the proposed freeze would be "devastating" since it would preserve as much as a "six-to-one" Soviet advantage in nuclear weapons in Europe. Kennedy and Hatfield shot back that the Secretary chose "to use misleading figures to attack his caricature of that resolution." In Europe, they argued, the Soviets have 2,000 nuclear warheads, vs. 1,200 for NATO. The Senators stressed that the proposed freeze would be worldwide, not just in Europe, and that overall the U.S. has 9,000 warheads, vs. only 7,000 for the Soviet Union. (The London-based International Institute...