*EPF403 10/21/2004
Defense Department Report, October 21: Paul Nitze's Service Honored
(Army sergeant sentenced to jail for role in Iraqi prison abuse) (470)

RUMSFELD CITES PAUL NITZE AS ARCHITECT OF COLD-WAR STRATEGY

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld noted that former arms control official and Navy Secretary Paul Nitze, who died October 20 at the age of 97, was "an architect of the strategy that defended America and the free world through the decades-long struggle against the Soviet Empire."

Rumsfeld said Nitze's "keen intellect and driving energy helped to give the hope of freedom to millions who were trapped behind the Iron Curtain."

Ambassador Nitze had a distinguished career serving various administrations, including serving as the second director of the State Department's Policy and Planning Staff from 1950 to 1953 and as Navy Secretary from 1963 to 1967.

From 1969 to 1973, during the Nixon presidency, Nitze was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). He went on to serve at the Pentagon as assistant secretary of defense for international affairs from 1973 to 1976.

He will also be remembered as President Reagan's chief arms control negotiator from 1981 to 1984 for the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty. He was subsequently named a special advisor to the president and secretary of state on arms control.

Before he died, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer was named the USS Nitze in his honor.

Nitze also was a co-founder of The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.

Secretary of State Colin Powell said Nitze "was instrumental in shaping the thinking of successive generations of leaders in international affairs, both here and abroad, me included." Nitze's contributions "are so far-reaching across so many national security fields that his influence will continue to be felt long after his passing," the secretary said.

With Nitze's death, Powell said, the United States "has lost a statesman and a scholar, the world has lost a tireless champion of peace, and I have lost a mentor and a friend."

STAFF SERGEANT CONVICTED, SENTENCED FOR ABU GHRAIB ABUSE

Army Staff Sergeant Ivan Fredrick will have his military rank reduced to that of a private, forfeit his pay and allowances, receive a dishonorable discharge and be confined for many years for his role in abusing Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.

The court martial of Frederick ended October 21, when a military judge in Baghdad announced the terms of his sentence.

As a result of a pre-trial agreement, Frederick will serve only eight of his 10-year sentence in confinement.

Frederick pleaded guilty to conspiracy, dereliction of duty, mistreatment of detainees, assaulting a detainee and committing an indecent act, according to information released by the U.S. Central Command.

(Distributed by the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)

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