LAME SATELLITE BLINDED U.S., SEN. GLENN SAYS

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• Publication Date: June 15, 1983
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A l A??E R
ON THE WASHINGTON POST
15 June 1983
Larne Satellite
Blinded U.S.,
-Sen. Glenn Says ??
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w: , ~x os w these governments Glenn now supporter Senate ,ratification, of the,
flunk the"etoric of this administration as it SALT :II treaty because problems with its satellite
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day. that s satellite malfunction and lown, ~Gelenn aid. This administration has fled Glenn .,had .contended publicly. ,.that the-loss
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to monitor Sbviet missile testing ad a mere ire`, a,00Q -to .7,000 ;guerre. oper_ at
said yesterday, the malfiariction of the-.U.S sate1
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controllieaty. .. ,? s said; con~utip=visions of, all of them marching At thtime, top level 'Carter satellite could * istratibe
We?saere~~blind for the better part Racross theRio'Grande and. scare our people of this officials maintained that -the satellite is
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o? two-years." Glenn said, Aefending try.b~ to'death". made to function in a. matter of months; which is
? what eventually happened. They also'. said that
his prominent role in blocking prat- Tenn said right-wing forces in El Salvador ground monitoring stations in Turkey and Alas-
iiication of the treaty. An aide to the have:caused far more deaths than-the-communist- ka-plus the establishi'rient ' of a diplomatically
Ohio Democrat later amended that, backed guerrillas and that be would require the sensitive monitoring station inside China-would
saving the satellite problem was cor- government there to do something about it in provide i
rected in six to nine months. --_- order to receive further American .aid. -Congressional adequate sources sosal
. =Conng that :.Glenn was
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A former senior Carter adminis- There --have=been 30,000 persons killed-.in Et. . -briefed on the satellite reconnaissance issue by the
tration. official labeled Glenn's .com- -Salvador mince .1979, . Glenn said, and two-thirds CIA "and -was told there was a problem. They re-
yperb6l nt- an. - ~gg hats conceded there e-? ~d--by'"`right-wing?death squads of Para- -ported that the primary -system had "gone out".
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military groups, operating maybe not under the and -they were trying to activate a. backup on
had-.been someJoss of?satelltte-cape--. scrutiny.. of.,-the government, but 'with ;impunity, . board. But that began to `?short out. " ?
bdity^durin tbat penad ," r; operating out of government circles." point, they turned :the .satellite off -and.
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=Glenn i cing at a lanrheon Glenn has-offered. an amendment requiring the then Atone
began to operate it'ta :little bit at a time,"
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