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A RESOLUTION
• Recommending that the President of the
United States and the Congress of the
United States Enter into a Bilateral Nuclear
Weapons Freeze with the Soviet Union and
That the Illinois Legislature
Adopt a Similar Resolution
WHEREAS, the United States and the Soviet Union are engaged
in a nuclear weapons race and are testing, producing and deploying nuclear
warheads, nuclear missiles and their delivery systems; and
WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States is appropriating huge
sums of money for such testing, production and deployment of nuclear
warheads and weapons; and
WHEREAS, the potential for devastating destruction by nuclear
warfare is so great that any use of nuclear weapons is unthinkable;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Evanston City Council
urge the President and Congress of the United States to immediately
initiate and enter into a mutual nuclear weapons freeze with the Soviet
Union;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Evanston City Council urge the
Governor of Illinois and the Legislature of the State of Illinois to adopt
a similar resolution; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Evanston City Council urge Senator
Charles A. Percy, Senator Alan Dixon, and Congressman John E. Porter to
sponsor or cosponsor resolutions in the Congress of the United States
calling on President Ronald Reagan to immediately propose to the Soviet
Union an immediate mutual halt to the testing, producing and deployment of
nuclear weapons and their delivery systems; and
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Evanston City Council urge that
• all funds presently appropriated for the testing, producing and deployment
of nuclear weapons and their deployment systems be transferred to the use
of establishing a better life for mankind or for reducing the Federal
Budget deficit; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be
transmitted forthwith to the President of the United States, the presiding
officer of each branch of Congress, the Governor of the State of Illinois,
the presiding officer of each branch of the Illinois State Legislature,
Senator Charles A. Percy, Senator Alan Dixon, Congressman John E. Porter,
and each of Evanston's state legislators.
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Adopted: '� e- , 1981
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