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Tl IE EDMONTON JOURNAL. Wedncwlay. December 7. 1983 A4 World EDITOR: DEBORAH RICHMOND U.S. urges NATO to beef up defences BRUSSELS (CP-AP) U.S.

Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger asked the West European allies Tuesday to strengthen their defences. And he denied that his drive for more sophisticated NATO weapons is a sales pitch for U.S.-madc arms. Weinberger made the call at the opening of a two-day, 14-country NATO defence ministers conference a session that is stressing conventional defences after years of NATO preoccupation with nuclear missiles. A senior U.S. defence official who The European allies said earlier Tuesday they will resist such weapons unless they are assured a fair number of the arms will be bought from West European firms.

The U.S. defence official said Weinberger told the ministers: "This is in no sense aimed at marketing U.S. weapons systems. The principle point is to enable the countries of the alliance to perform better." New NATO weapons unvciledFli START talks continuc9 requested anonymity said Weinberger also warned the allies that a shortage of artillery ammunition in Western Europe is reaching dangerous levels. "The Soviets are capable of fighting a longer war and we would simply run out of ammunition" with current supplies, the official told reporters.

He said stockpiles of ISS-mm ammunition, NATO's basic artillery round, arc below the 30-day supply NATO believes it would need if fighting broke out. Earlier in the day, the NATO defence ministers issued a communique calling for maintenance of a U.S.-Sovict dialogue, despite the Nov, 23 Soviet walkout from the Geneva talks. On Thursday and Friday, the foreign ministers will tackle the political priorities for the alliance, including Prime Minister Trudcau's new disarmament initiative. The U.S. defence official said Weinberger wants the allies to speed up plans to include such "supcrweapons" in NATO weapons programs for the 1990s.

Among weapons under discussion arc lascr-guided anti-tank weapons, electronic communications devices and other sophisticated arms. NO WEE FURORE ON SCOTS' FARES EDINBURGH (AP) Furore erupted in Scotland Tuesday over a Swedish state railway ad depicting a new cut-rate fare so cheap even Scots won't try to avoid paying it. Winnie Ewing, member of the European Parliament for the Scottish Highlands and Islands, was quoted by the London Guardian as saying: "This may seem comic to outsiders, but it doesn't to Scots." The advertisement, for a two-for-the-pricc-of-onc fare, depicts a kilted Scotsman hiding on the luggage rack of a Swedish train while another Scotsman slyly offers the collector his ticket. Ewing, who is a member of the Scottish Nationalist party, was quoted as saying she's written to the Swedish ambassador in London, Leif Leifland, and the Swedish State Rail authority demanding an apology. Making fun of Scots is a national pastime in Sweden, she said.

It is not only the railways. The Swedes have cut-price stores called Scots shops and Scot is used to describe everything cheap. A spokesman at the Swedish Embassy acknowledged a fuss had been created but said no offence was intended. Common Market 'setback' V'T what to do about support prices for agricultural products, in growing surplus. The subsidies absorb two-thirds of the market's annual spending of $21 billion.

The 1984 budget awaits final approval and the European Parliament which can challenge the authority of the Common Market, may delay ratification. The market ran out of money in October but staved off bankruptcy with an emergency budget. The summit's failure was a severe blow for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who has pressed for tighter financial control in the trading group. ATHENS (AP) Leaders of Western Europe's Common Market failed Tuesday to resolve a financial crisis threatening the 10-country trading bloc. A three-day summit meeting ended without a communique for the first time in 23 years and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany called the failure "a bitter setback." Common Market leaders and analysts predicted grave financial problems for the organization.

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