orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) (11/22/85)
1)one million and two hundred thousand Americans signed a petition calling on both Reagan and Gorbachev to stop all nuclear testing and any further production of nuclear weapons: why did Reagan refuse meet a representative from the Nuclear Freeze to accept these petitions ? Why did the media, in all their hype about the Summit, scarcely mention this petition by over a million Americans? 2)why did Reagan refuse to renew the ABM treaty at the Summit despite Soviet requests to renew it? 3)why did Reagan refuse to renew the SALT II treaty at the Summit despite Soviet requests to renew it? 4)why did Reagan instruct our ambassador to the UN to *abstain* from voting in favor of the UN resolution calling on both the US and USSR to negotiate agreements to end the arms race? 5)why has Reagan refused to stop all our nuclear weapons testing despite the fact the Soviets have unilaterally stopped their own nuclear testing for 6 months? 6)why has Reagan refused to stop anti-satellite weapons testing despite the fact the Soviets have unilaterally stopped their own anti-satellite weapons testing for a year? Given that satellites are critical for both arms control verification *AND* for the Start Wars program, one would think their protection would be most important. 7)why has Ronald Reagan refused to support *ANY* arms control agreements negotiated by former Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter? 8)why has Reagan failed to get a single arms control agreement in five years in office? 9)why does Reagan plan on deploying 18,000 more offensive nuclear weapons if he is truly working on *defensive* (sic) weapons rather than *offensive* weapons? tim sevener whuxn!orb