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The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 10

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Page 10, The Citizen, Ottawa, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 1984 fMtillllStl ff EM Next war in Colorado and 15 metres underground in Omaha, Neb. are to take to the air when threatened, according to Armageddon's planners. To that end, the Reagan administration has committed $1 billion to rendering "survivable" the four modified Boeing 747s that provide airborne battle stations for the National Command Authority and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Also undergoing modernization to withstand nuclear blasts are the 27 707-sized emergency command aircraft of the Strategic Air Command.

A more subtle problem is this one: How, in the midst of the Third World War or after it, will anyone know who is the boss, military or civilian? A nuclear wargame conducted by the Federal Emergency Manpower Administration determined, according to FEMA director Louis Guiffrida, that "There was no authentication system. If (someone) got on the horn and said 'I'm the and someone said 'prove no one could." So now, Guiffrida told defence analyst Barry Schneider, "we are working on an authenticating mechanism to say 'Yeah, the guy is for real. The president is gone and we don't know where the v.p. is and this is the man. Existing satellites, ground-relay stations and processing facilities would be, it is presumed, priority targets lost early in the Third World War.

To replace them, planners propose that a few submarine missile tubes be used to launch new communications satellites, and perhaps some balloon-borne antennae principally for communication with submarines. Mobile communications centres essentially a small fleet of 18-wheel trailer trucks filled with electronics would take over once larger ground and airborne communications centres were lost. The 18-wheelers would move frequently to evade enemy tar-getting. Similarly, America's wartime leaders might operate from 18-whecl mobile-command centres, or offshore from small freighter-sized ships or submarines. "Fixed command centres are unlikely to survive the initial attack," explained Donald C.

Latham, deputy undersecretary of defence for communications, command, control and intelligence, in 1982 testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Commanders at those "fixed" facilities at the Pentagon, inside the Catoctin mountains in southern Pennsylvania, inside Cheyenne Mountain From page 1 story: U.S. plans for the war after next war tion and coercion." The strategy, said to have been devised in the Carter administration and funded in the Reagan administration, poses two very difficult technical problems. First, a U.S. civil and military leadership, called the National Command Authority, must survive the Third World War.

Second, the war-waging National Command Authority must be able to communicate with and command the nation's surviving military resources. In its $180 billion, six-year strategic modernization program, the Reagan administration addresses both problems. New communications systems, "hardened" to endure nuclear attacks, will receive $18 billion under the plan, and enjoy "top priority" in Pentagon funding. Much of the research is for "sur-vivable, reconstitutable and secure" communications links between commanders and the submarines, bombers and silos holding nuclear warheads. three million women and is the largest women's lobby group in the country, says she's never heard of her.

Although women make up 52 per cent of the Canadian population, they comprise only 5.6 per cent of the membership of the House of Commons, 15 per cent of appointments to federal boards and commissions, and less than 40 per cent of total income earned in the work force. Fewer than a quarter of the Conservative delegates who elected Mulroney to the party's leadership were women. He was sharply criticized recently by Lucie Pepin, president of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, for not taking a stand on women's issues criticism flatly rejected by key women in the Tory party who blame the council's "Liberal bias" for the remarks. They say Johnson's appointment as national party director and Gisele Morgan's as associate national director show clearly Mulroney's dedication to equal opportunities for women. The Conservatives have the support of 60 per cent of male voters, compared to just 46 per cent of female voters, according to a recent Gallup poll.

Still, that makes the party more popular among women than the Liberals, which have only 34 percent of female support and 25 per cent of males. Eighteen per cent of women voters back the New Democratic Party compared to 13 per cent of men. The Liberals appointed Maude Barlow last July as senior adviser to Prime Minister Trudeau on women's issues, a post which took' effect last September. PC adviser From page 1 story: Woman gets adviser role to Mulroney MacDonald. They were told to search for a person with a "solid background in economic and social issues" since the prestigious and influential post' in Mulroney's office involves policy research and speech writing, as well as advising the leader on all legislative matters relating to women.

Cote-O'Hara is now special adviser to former Canadian ambassador to the U.S., Peter Towe, chairman of Petro-Canada International Assistance Corporation. The corporation is a subsidiary of Calgary-based Petro-Canada Inc. Until it's official, Cote-O'Hara won't discuss her new appointment, or why a business background makes her a creditable candidate for chief adviser on women's issues. The new post also involves setting up and co-ordinating a five-person national advisory committee on women's issues, consisting of regional representatives who would communicate regularly with her. "They will act as a conduit for her.

She, in turn, will have direct access to Mulroney on a daily basis, keeping him informed of the mood of women across the country, the caucus spokesman said. But Cote-O'Hara is far from a well-known women's rights activist. In fact, Doris Anderson, president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, which represents Role for PM From page 1 story: UN secretary says Trudeau welcome as peace mediator HAN sf! IE! unrealistic that the world must think in terms of immediate action. "(Trudeau) is assuming (a role as) a kind of representative of the concern of the international community," he said. "That's why I think his mission is important.

We should keep trying and trying and trying to force the countries concerned, mainly the two superpowers, to start the negotiating process." Trudeau's plan a summit of the five nuclear powers on reduction of nuclear arsenals, a shoring up of the languishing nuclear non-proliferation treaty, reductions in conventional arms and a ban on the development of space weapons was launched in October. He has travelled to Europe, Washington, Japan, New Delhi and China to explain his ideas. But the mission has been stalled because of the unexplained illness of Soviet President Yuri Andropov. On the question of Trudeau's round-the-world travels to push his four-part peace initiative, Perez de Cuellar said Canada's influence is limited because it is not a superpower. But he said world tensions have reached the point where moral influence should have some weight.

Efforts by Trudeau, the Pope and Perez de Cuellar himself to urge the United States and Soviet Union to negotiate an arms reduction deal "are all parallel efforts." "They represent more than the concerns of one single person or one single country," he said. "They reflect the concerns of the whole international community. "Who has given these two superpowers the right to decide on our fate?" The secretary general said idealistic "long shots" on disarmament are The sale everyone waits for. Stock up on knee highs, stockings and pantyhose! 1 I mm Ifi Trudeau can't quit as long as aspects of his peace initiative remain unresolved. Perez de Cuellar clearly sees no obstacle to Trudeau carrying on his mission as a former, or even a lame-duck, prime minister.

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The third track group of 35 includes writers, academics, physicists, medical doctors and disarmament activists. It includes former ambassador George Ignatieff, now chancellor of the University of Toronto; Mel Hur-tig, Edmonton publisher; and Walter Pitman, director of the Ontario Arts Council and a former NDP member of parliament and Ontario MPP. Laxer told the press conference that polls showed a majority of Canadians support the prime minister's peace efforts: "They don't want a nuclear war." United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar. The meeting at the UN is the newest development in the prime minister's quest to get the superpowers talking again about nuclear disarmament. It follows talks with American President Ronald Reagan, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and European and Chinese leaders, and precedes the expected but as yet unscheduled trip to Moscow.

Toronto writer June Callwood told a press conference following the two-hour luncheon session that some members of the committee urged the prime minister to reconsider the cruise testing decision. But he told them it would be counterproductive because it would cost him credibility with other leaders and was not an issue with the leaders of the Soviet Union. "He seemed to feel the cruise testing was irrelevant to the major issues of the peace initiative," Callwood said. Callwood said she personally regarded the decision to test the cruise "a dreadful mistake" that could compromise the prime minister's Moscow mission. Retired academic Robert Laxer of Gromyko From page 1 story: MacEachen to meet gromyko vould include discussions "about when the prime minister might be able to go to Moscow." Trudeau said Tuesday he is still planning to go to the Soviet Union to press his peace initiative even if he can't see ailing Soviet chief Yuri Andropov.

The prime minister told reporters Canada was still asking for a date for the Moscow mission, adding "I'm planning to go if they receive me, Mr. Andropov receives me, or the leadership of the Soviet Union, whoever that is." Meanwhile, a group supporting his peace initiative told Trudeau the government should reverse its decision to test the airborne cruise missile in Canada. Trudeau had 14 members of the Committee for a Canadian Third Track for Peace to lunch at 24 Sussex Dr. on the eve of his departure today for New York and a meeting with Available in all the favourite fashion shades. Many more styles available at fabulous savings.

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He and his whole family got involved in last year's telethon and spent practically the whole time at the station." "He understood there was more to sports than CFL scores," said Made- ly. "You don't find that local involvement in other radio stations in the country." Starting his day at 5:30 a.m. weekdays, he produced sports reports every half hour, a morning commentary, was responsible for public affairs talk shows and a key member of the station's management team, Madley said. Calcutt was born in Ottawa Nov. 1, 1932.

He was an athlete and student at St. Patrick's College high school. He played football and hockey. He is survived by his wife Pauline, sons Michael, 28, John, 24, and Tony, 21, daughters Luane, 26, and Natalie, 17, his mother Doris and sisters Joan and Donna. The body is at the Kelly Funeral Home, Somerset Street West.

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"It wasn't in here, it was in one of the buildings down the street," insisted a white- 11 3 Year 12V4 ing authority to see how the man got into the building. He said the building is secured by a locked front door. To enter, someone must buzz an occupant or use a key. "We all know the limitations of that kind of security." In addition, a security officer travels between regional housing buildings regularly checking lobbies, floors and stairwells. One resident, who didn't want his name used, said on several mornings he has found vagrants sleeping in the ground floor lobby and the adjacent recreation room.

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