79-08-B3
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Miscellaneous I[edit]
Transcript[edit]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 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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