Veritas, Vol. 17, No. 04, September 13, 1976

              New	CAIS Researcher Warns of Soviet Gains
by Susan L. Hartt News Bureau
“The United States stands today as a first-rate power that has, through a combination of wishful thinking and inattention, allowed a second-rate power to surpass it in many aspects of military strength. We must halt this erosion of the military balance.”
So says Lt. General Daniel O. Graham (Ret.), former director of the
Defense Intelligence Agency and since January of this year a research professor in UM’s Center for Advanced International Studies, in the September issue of Reader’s Digest.
It is General Graham’s contention that the Soviet Union, despite detente and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), has surpassed or is surpassing U.S. military strength in several critical areas including intercontinental ballistic missiles, surface ships, both traditional and
nuclear submarines, submarine launched missiles, tanks, and tactical aircraft.
All this has been accomplished, General Graham says, without jeopardizing the Soviet economy because their economy “stays on a virtual war footing even in peacetime, with the military getting first choice of both human talent and material resources.”
General Graham does not foresee a deliberate Soviet resort to general
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UM Library Joins ARL
Dr. Archie McNeal	Richter Library
On July 28, the UM Library was welcomed officially as the 105th member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
“The entire University of Miami,” said Dr. Archie McNeal, director of libraries, “gains in national stature through its libraries’ affiliation with this prestigious organization.”
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the ARL lists as its primary function the identification and solution of problems fundamental to large research libraries.
Toward that end it functions as a study center, planning agency and lobbying organization on matters concerning the acquisition and maintenance of research library materials and the management of research libraries.
Criteria for membership include the volume of holdings, quality of staff, levels of expenditures and scope of a university’s Ph.D. programs. To
qualify for automatic invitation to membership, a university library must have met the ARL’s criteria for a three year period.
Members include the three national libraries of the United States and a number of public and special libraries with substantial research collections, such as the New York Public Library, the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
Among the 94 university members are Chicago, Duke, Florida and Florida State, Georgia, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, North Carolina and Yale.
The association currently is directing its attention to support of the proposed “Major Research Library Assistance Act,” which would allocate $100 million for grants to assist major research libraries.
Gables Proclamation Boosts Hurricanes This Week
Noting that the Hurricanes will be competing this year “against some of the toughest opponents in the nation,” Coral Gables Mayor Robert B. Knight has proclaimed the week of Sept. 13 “Support the Hurricanes Week.”
“I ... urge the citizens of Coral
Gables to join with me in giving Coach Selmer and the University of Miami Hurricanes our support by filling each seat in the Miami Orange Bowl on the evening of their opening game, as well as each home game thereafter,” Mayor Knight said.
The proclamation was presented to President Henry King Stanford at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon Aug. 26. Dr. Stanford noted the “tremendous enthusiasm’’ among Chamber members for the Hurricanes and thanked the city for its support.
Lt. Generai Graham
war. He warns, however, that Soviet power “would be an awesome factor” in crisis situations, as for example, a Soviet move against Yugoslavia, or the introduction of Soviet troops into the Middle East or the Persian Gulf.
He does not believe, however, that nuclear war is “unthinkable” to the Soviets. “They build their forces to fight a nuclear war,” not to deter, as is the policy of the U.S. He cites the Russian emphasis on civil-defense to hold casualties to what they consider a tolerable 10 million deaths.
“I am convinced,” he says, “that the detente policies that we have pursued lead toward nuclear war not away from it. The Soviets have consistently shown restraint when faced with superior military power; they have shown less constraint' as they perceive us allowing them a military advantage.” Therefore, he continues, we should replace our B-52 bombers with the B-l, push development of the cruise missile, and “keep our military research and development healthy and productive.”
Previous to his position with the Defense Intelligence Agency, General Graham’s assignments included service as an estimator for Soviet matters in the office of the assistant chief of staff for intelligence, U.S. Army, and with the office of national estimates at CIA headquarters.
He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1946 and has done graduate work at Georgetown University. His decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal and the Legion of Merit with two oakleaf clusters.
Since joining the CAIS faculty, General Graham has written a number of articles for leading journals in the United States and abroad. He is currently engaged, with other members of the Center faculty, in a comprehensive appraisal of the overall U.S. strategic foreign policy situation. Publication is scheduled before the end of the year.
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