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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 1,1983

Keep door ajar, Andropov says

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Several Western European leaders say there is “nothing new” in Soviet President Yuri V. Andropov’s personally written appeals to drop plans for deploying US. nuclear missiles. But Danish Prime Minister Poul Schlueter said the Soviet leader at least is “keeping the door a little bit ajar” for resuming talks on mediumrange missile in Europe. Last Friday, two days after Soviet negotiators walked out of medium-range nuclear arms talks with the United States, messengers from Soviet embassies delivered private letters from Andropov to the leaders of at least six NATO countries. Andropov reminded them that he halted the talks in Geneva because the West went ahead with plans to deploy 572 Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in Western Europe and repeated his decision to beef up nuclear weapons in Eastern Europe. He suggested the talks

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would resume if the NATO deployment was canceled. Known to have received letters were the prime ministers of Britain, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Greece and Denmark. President Reagan was not on Andropov’s mailing list. Andropov’s letter contained “nothing new,” said Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens. He said the message was no different than previous Soviet statements and has not changed Belgium’s plans to deploy 48 cruise missiles as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s planned fiveyear buildup. An aide to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain said she found nothing new or unexpected in the letter and viewed it as an attempt to split Western Europe from the United States. Schlueter, in a response released to reporters, told Andropov, “I have to tell you that your letter has given me cause for disappointment and worry. ”

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French soldier is killed by sniper fire

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) A French soldier was killed by sniper fire today, and Beirut’s airport remained closed after anti-government Druse militiamen threatened to resume an artillery barrage unless a series of demands was met. The threat came as Lebanese President Amin Gemayel arrived in Washington for meetings today with President Reagan and other U.S. officials to discuss ways of removing foreign troops from his country. The Progressive Socialist Party of leftist Druse leader Walid Jumblatt listed as its first

Lebanese leader meeting with Reagan on policy

WASHINGTON (AP) - Lebanese President Amin Gemayel says he is confident his country’s problems will be solved, but increasingly frustrated because U.S. policymakers say the solution is in Syria’s hands, not Lebanon’s. Gemayel, on his third visit to Washington in 14 months, was meeting with President Reagan at the White House today. He also scheduled meetings with Vice President George Bush and Secretary of State George

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U.S. will pursue 'Star Wars’ technology space weapons

c. 1983 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON President Reagan and his senior national security advisers agreed in principle Wednesday to proceed with the development of weapons capable of repelling nuclear attacks from space, according to an administration official. The official said, however, that Reagan had not yet made key decisions on the kind of technology, the level of financing for next year and other aspects of the proposal that he first advanced last March, creating an immediate furor. Reagan was said to be leaning against the recommendation of some members of Congress that the United States should embark on a program to deploy defensive weapons quickly. Instead, according to the administration official, Reagan was leaning toward a more “prudent” approach that would emphasize research and development of technologies that might be available in the long-term future. Early this month, it was reported that a Pentagonappointed panel of experts had urged the president to increase spending substantially for long-range research on defensive technology. It was understood that such a long-term program might be seen as less provocative to the Soviet Union, as well as to critics of the weapon systems, who regard them as opening up a new area in the arms race. “I think we’re looking more toward a long-term program, unless the threat changes,” the official said. The nature of the threat was reportedly one of the subjects discussed extensively at a meeting Wednesday morning of Reagan and his National Security Council. Among officials at the meeting were George A. Keyworth 2d, director of the president’s Office of Science and Technology, and Kenneth L.

demand “a final and permanent cease-fire” in the fighting between warring Lebanese factions. A cease-fire was declared Sept. 26, but it has been violated almost daily since, and an outbreak of heavy shelling Wednesday forced the airport and many schools to close. Lt. Col. Phillipede Longeaux, a spokesman for the French peacekeeping force, said the patrol came under small arms fire as it drove through the Tayyouneh neighborhood on the southern edge of Beirut. The patrol returned fire, but de Longeaux did not say whether the assailant was hit.

P. Shultz, who greeted him upon his arrival Wednesday evening. Gemayel arrived a short time after Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir left Washington for New York City following a three-day visit that produced a strengthening of U.S.-Israeli military ties and a joint resolve to prevent Syria from extending its control over all of Lebanon. In a brief arrival statement, Gemayel said he came with “a sense of confidence” that the Geneva talks on Lebanese

Foreign Affairs head Zablocki unconscious after heart attack

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hours after being stricken by a heart attack in his office, Rep. Clement Zablocki remained in critical condition, unconscious and unable to breath without mechanical aid. A doctor said the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman “could remain that way for a prolonged period of time.” “I am net prepared to tell you how many days,” Dr. James N. Trone, medical director of Capitol Hill Hospital, told reporters Wednesday. “I am not certain.” Zablocki, 71, a veteran of nearly 35 years in Congress, collapsed Wednesday morning in his office in the Rayburn House Office Building, shortly before he was to meet with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. More than four hours after the Wisconsin Democrat entered the hospital, Trone said, “He is still critically ill. There is still hope that he will regain consciousness and resume functioning and breathing and recover.”

national reconciliation will be successful in helping “build a new Lebanon responsive to the aspirations and the needs of all its communities.” “Despite the present difficult situation in my country, I am here with a strong sense of hope rather than of uncertainty, of resolve, rather than hesitation, of accomplishment, rather than inertia,” Gemayel said. He called for an early agreement for a withdrawal of all foreign forces from his coun-

Space Shuttle scientists create heavenly fireworks display

SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Spacelab’s astronauts created an artificial aurora today, generating a brilliant display of lights by firing bursts of gases and electron beams into the darkness of space to learn more about the atmospheric veil that envelops the Earth. “Beautiful,” exclaimed astronaut Robert Parker as he watched a series of blue flashes bounce thousands of miles along Earth’s magnetic lines. “Fantastic,” exclaimed scientists on the ground watching a live television picture of one of the tests transmitted from the orbiting shuttle Columbia. Parker and Ulf Merbold, working in the Spacelab science station in Columbia’s cargo bay, triggered beams of electrons and ionized argon gas from accelerators outside the lab, zipping them into a highlycharged field of plasma at an

Adelman, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. “The Soviets have a rather phenomenal effort under way,” said the official. “That was one of the surprises in the meeting.” Reagan was expected to make his next specific decisions about the weapon systems while reviewing his budget for the fiscal year 1985, which is to be submitted in January In addition, the administration official said Reagan wanted to consult with American allies and with members of Congress before making some of his decisions final. Much of Wednesday’s meeting was said to cover the highly complicated and extensive area of military research in weapon systems that, when Reagan discussed them in his speech last March, came to be called “star wars” systems. Reagan has argued that a defensive system could render “horrible weapons obsolete,” referring to offensive intercontinental missiles. Some prominent scientists outside administration policy-making circles, however, have expressed strong doubts not only about the technical feasibility of such a system but also about the strategic and political wisdom of seeking to build it. Some administration officials expect the president eventually to follow the advice of the panel of Pentagon-appointed technologists and give priority to research on long-range technology rather than attempting to deploy actual defensive weapons quickly, as some members of Congress would like. The Pentagon panel, known as the Defensive Technologies Study Team, is more optimistic than the outside critics that existing technologies can provide a workable defense against nuclear missiles. The panel’s view of the long-term possibilities were on the agenda of the National Security Council meeting, according to an official.

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CLEMENT ZABLOCKI In critical condition

Zablocki’s illness means that two of the principal architects of the War Powers Act, which has become an issue between President Reagan and Congress, are ailing. Zablocki was the House sponsor of the measure, passed in 1973 over President Nixon’s veto. The principal Senate sponsor was former Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., now confined to

try and “the implementation of the May 17 accords,” referring to the Lebanese-Israeli troop withdrawal agreement. Acting at the direction of the Geneva negotiators, Gemayel is on a mission to explore new possibilities for getting Syrian, Israeli and Palestinian troops to leave Lebanon. The Geneva talks are in recess during Gemayel’s mission. But U.S. officials say the reality of the situation in Lebanon belies Gemayel’s ex-

altitude of 155 miles. Other shuttle instruments measured the affect of the experiment on the atmosphere, especially on the formation of the man-made aurora borealis the northern lights generated when enormous amounts of energy from the sun saturate Earth’s protective curtain of magnetic fields and pour through magnetic openings above the North Pole. Mission scientist Rick Chappell, observing at a control center at the Johnson Space Center here, explained: “The experiment is probing how particle beams interact with atmospheric gases, which is important in understanding the auroral phenomena. “The crew fires the beams up the magnetic field lines, and those beams bounce off the opposite hemisphere and come back to the shuttle along the

a wheelchair and breathing with the aid of a respirator because of Lou Gehrig’s disease. After President Reagan sent Marines to Lebanon last year as part of a peacekeeping force, Zablocki and others in Congress argued that he should invoke the war powers timetable limiting the Marines’ stay to 60 to 90 days without congressional approval. The administration resisted. After casualty figures began coming in from Beirut, Zablocki played an important part in negotiations that led to a compromise. Reagah was allowed to keep the troops in Lebanon for an additional 18 months, but required to seek congressional authorization for any substantial expansion of their role or number. Zablocki was elected to Congress in 1948 after six years in the Wisconsin state senate. He was elected chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in 1977.

pressions of optimism. Fighting around Beirut on Wednesday was the worst it has been in months, despite a ceasefire, and there are no indications Syria is any more willing to withdraw its forces than it has been previously. The Syrians control up to 60 percent of the country. In their past meetings here, both Shamir and Reagan reaffirmed their commitment to the May 17 agreement, which provides for troop withdrawal.

field lines,” he said. “That will give us an idea of the shape and length of the magnetic field.” The firings might be seen by people on Earth as a brief, bright flash in a clear night sky, but because the firings are not on a set schedule, sightings would be improbable. Chappell said the results could lead to a better understanding of how atmospheric energy disturbs shortwave radio communications and influences the weather on Earth. The astronauts planned several tests of the device over many parts of the globe during the remainder of the flight. In an earlier calibration test of the device on Wednesday, astronaut Owen Garriott described the lights as “single, bright flashes. They form a semi-hemispherical glow in a bluish color.”