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1 don t see too much difference between Mr. Robinson and Mr. Dorrier," Toscano said in a recent interview, comparing Lindsay Dorrier’s statements in the media and in campaign releases with J. Kenneth Robinson's votes on issues. "They both see themselves as conservatives."
Former director of Boston College's program for the study of peace and war and a delegate to the first United Nations special session on disarmament. Toscano has made the nuclear question an issue in the 7th District congressional race.
He charges that his Republican opponent has "mindlessly" supported the Reagan administration’s “dangerous and unnecessary arms build-up” while the Democratic challenger has waffled on the question of a nuclear freeze.
Toscano strongly supports a bilateral, verifiable freeze on the production, testing and deployment of nuclear weapons as well as negotiation of a comprehensive test ban treaty and adoption of a U.S. pledge never to use nuclear weapons in a first strike. “The Soviets have already made such a pledge," he says. Toscano notes that in the 1960s, Robert McNamara, then Secretary of Defense, concluded that 400 nuclear bombs could destroy 25 percent of the Soviet population and 75 percent of its industry. "We now have 75 times that number and are increasing our arsenal by three to five warheads per day."
The Citizens Party candidate also calls for an end to government subsidies for nulcear power. "To put the matter simply, nuclear power cannot be made safe and nuclear wastes cannot be rendered harmless." he says, proposing that subsidies to coal, oil and nuclear power industries—already more than $225 billion—be terminated. In addition,Toscano favors repeal of the Price Anderson Act which limits (he financial liability of
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