CARLUCCI SAYS MILITARY THREAT, FROM SOVIET UNION IS GROWING

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2012
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• Publication Date: June 7, 1988
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11'lr. Carlucci, on his way home
from last week's Moscow summit,
told a press luncheon in Tokyo, "i3et-
ter relations must be built on a
strong foundation? o
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rn Wlre Reports
TOKYO -Defense Secretary
Frank C. Carlucci said yesterday
that the Soviet military threat was
growing despite the signing of an
arms-reduction treaty at the Soviet-
American summit.
"The dlal~ue Is a healthy one,
but we as yet see no tangible change
in Soviet ford structure. in the of-
fensive configuration ~ their forces,"
he said, Nor do?nve see any change
in the massive amounts of invest.
ment going into the Soviet military
machine."
"Until we see some tangible
change, we should not change our
defense policy. We are still facing a
very substantial military threat." he
said
Carlucci says military threat
from Soviet Union is growing
.
ability to de-
fend ou w
rselves and our Interests, et Union that is less expansionist in
tY "
Summitry is no substitute for securl- its foreign policy, that stops its hu-
"The Soviet threat to this part of man-rights violations and comes to
the world [East Asia) is st ificant respect fundamental human-rights
-and it is ~ values and that is more open to a
Mr. Carlu~l~ d"Mikh~ . ~r_ dialogue with the West. then we will
bachev had made it clear his re- ~ ~ better off.
forms were aimed not at cha "~ son-etime in the 1990x, It ends
the basic stnrcture of the Soviet std up as a society that can produce
tem, but at trying to make that s s. enormous quantities of weapons
tem more efficient. y even more effectively than it does
"If the end result of that is a Sovi- eo rmous mtsca! ullation, MraCar-
lucci said.
He said it was too early to tell
which way the Soviet Union was go_
ing.
"Let me emphasize that as of to-
day we have not seen any tangible
impact of perestroika on the Soviet
military establishment," he said.
Mr. Carlucci also praised Japan
for its rnntribution to the U.S.-Japes
security arrangement, adding that
Japan often failed to get credit for
what it did.
Nevertheless, he said Japan
could do more.
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