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With the SALT II treaty coming closer it's interesting to see what
the Soviet attitude is. Supposedly we are in the final stages of negotiating
the treaty terms and supposedly the Soviets are eager to have the argument ratified
by our Senate.

One can't help but suspect that their eagerness might be because they'll
get more out of the treaty than we will. Our President is telling us that
SALT II holds out the promise of peace and an end to the costly arms race.
But what does that do to us if we are the only ones not racing?

Some weeks ago the Soviet Union took off into the wild blue yonder
testing a new, intercontinental bomber of super-sonic speed. They already have
a bomber called the Backfire which will not be covered by the SALT treaty
because the Russians say it's only of medium range. Our Air Force says it can
reach American targets which is the measure of a strategic aircraft. Still it
isn't included in the treaty.

This new plane strangely enough looks remarkably like the American B-1
bomber the President cancelled.

The next Soviet surprise was the testing of the SS18 intercontinental
ballistic missile earring 14 separate warheads. Apparently SALT II was ready
to permit the deployment of a giant missile with 10 warheads. With this agreed
to -- why are they testing one with fourteen? Unless they have no more intention
of keeping the terms of SALT II than they did of SALT I and those they violated
from the first day. Incidentally, our CIA and therefore the administration knew
about the fourteen warheads for two months before the Pentagon learned of it.

Here is another item by way of the NATIONAL REVIEW BULLETIN from behind
the Iron Curtain on an entirely different subject. One thing we know about
Communism is that everyone is equal. There is no aristocracy, no ruling class
in the workers paradise. Every citizen starts equal to every other citizen
and they stay equal.

Well maybe some are a wee bit more equal than others. Take Rumania,
where the Communist party Boss [[wikipedia:Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu|Nicolae Ceaușescu]] is President and Commander in
Chief. His wife is a member of the Party's permanent bureau and also of the
political executive committee. Their son is secretary of the Union of Communist
Youth. They have another son who is a top physicist at the Maghuiele Nuclear
Center. Ceaucescu has a brother who is a Major General and a lecturer at the
Rumanian military academy. Another brother is minister of agriculture and a
third brother is a senior correspondent for the party's daily newspaper.
Would you believe there is a fourth and he runs the Rumanian economic agency
in Vienna? Don't go away -- the fifth brother is consul-general in Kiev.

Just to round things out there is a sister who is married to the former
Prime Minister. He resigned in March because of ill health. But that's alright
because another sister is married to the new Prime Minister.

A nephew is minister of foreign trade and another nephew is deputy prime
minister. Ceaucescus brother-in-law is state secretary in the ministry of
machinery. 

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>05/29/[[Radio1979|1979]]</TD></TR>
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