Shultz to Raise Radar Issues With Gromyko

Secretary of State George P. Shultz intends to raise questions about Soviet radar installations and other defensive moves at next week’s arms talks in an effort to bolster existing treaty provisions, a Reagan Administration official said today.

While this is not the “central theme” of Shultz’ talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, the secretary will register “general overall concern” about practices that seem to conflict with the 1972 SALT I treaty, said the official, who insisted on anonymity.

One of the items Shultz will take up with Gromyko is a radar installation being built at Krasnoyarsk, in central Siberia, which the Administration and several members of Congress contend is probably in violation of the treaty.

“Other practices equally ominous” will also be mentioned by Shultz, the official said. These include other radar installations that are positioned in accordance with the treaty but that may be part of an impermissible missile defense system.