The Kremlin is celebrating the nuclear freeze movement in its own inimitable fashion. While its left tongue was announcing a freeze on its medium-range missiles, its right tongue was ordering deployment of 45 to fifty of its nasty SS-20s. It then applauded the anti-nuke demonstration in New York with both tongues as a blow against the U.S. war machine, and jailed the entire anti-nuke crowd that dared to turn out in Moscow—11 people.
The nomination of George P. Shultz to be Secretary of State raises to 18 the number of members of the Committee on the Present Danger now placed on leave to accept full-time jobs on the federal payroll —first among them being the President himself. The others include the head of CIA, the two top members of the U.S. delegation to the UN, Under Secretaries at State and Defense, the head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and a U.S. Circuit judge. Additionally, 33 CPD members are serving the government in part-time posts not entailing removal from the roster. These include nine of the 17 members of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, two of the three members of the Intelligence Oversight Board, eight of the 14 nominees to the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control, four members of the Economic Policy Advisory Board, and the head U.S. delegate to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The combined total of 51 constitutes over a third of the CPD membership at the outset of the Reagan Administration.
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