CHINA ASSAILS U.S. ON PLAN FOR ABMS

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2006
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: September 22, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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.China Assails U.S.
On Plan for ABMs
HONG KONG, Sept. 21
(UPI)-Communist China
charged today that U.S. plans
for a limited anti-ballistic-mis-
sile system against a possible
fled Chinese nuclear attack
are part of a "military black-
mail" plot.
Peking Radio said the
7nited States and the Soviet
Union acted in collusion.
"This is an important step
aken by U.S. imperialism in
!onducting military blackmail
end threatens against China
after China has developed her
)wn defensive nuclear weap-
)ns and broken the nuclear
nonopoly by U.S. imperialism
and Soviet revisionism," the
)roadcast said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Rob-
-rt S. McNamara announced
A A- a would
e c
t
collusion with the Soviet revi-
sionist clique in jointly oppos-
ing China."
[In a dispatch from Moscow,
Anatole Shub of The Washing-
ton Post reported that the So-
viet Communist Party newspa-
per Pravda made what some
observers believe to have been'!
an oblique response to the
U.S. decision to build an ABM
system. In a front-page edito-
rial, Pravda said Soviet forces
now have "the most contempo-
rary weapons, including rocket
and nuclear weapons. Soviet,
forces are in a condition of
such preparedness to defend)
the motherland that the slight-
lest possibility is excluded for ,
the imperialistic aggressors to
catch us unawares."]
m
Monday tha
build a $5 billion ABM system,
"against a possible Chinese at-1.
tack."
McNamara added, "it would
provide an additional indica-
tion to Asians that we intend
to deter China from nuclear
blackmail."
The Peking commentary
said the step was "another
criminal measure taken b3
U.S. imperialism for increaser
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