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President plying persuasive powers on skeptic Gromyko
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan, who has made friends of many world leaders, was trying his persuasive powers today on a skeptical Andrei A. Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister, to convince him the United States “means no harm” and wants improved relations with Moscow. Gromyko, who at age 75 has been foreign minister for 27 years and has met with nearly every American president since World War 11, is regarded here as a hardnosed diplomat who is the chief architect of the Soviet Union’s hard-line stance toward Washington. As for Reagan, who is 73, it is his first meeting as president with a senior Kremlin official and comes just 39 days before the presidential election. Aides say he read a number of books about the Soviet Union to prepare for the meeting and had briefings from Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon, among others. Reagan and Gromyko were scheduled to meet for two hours in the White House Oval Office, to be followed by a 90-minute lunch in the White House State Dining Room a total of three and one-half hours. , There was to be no arrival ceremony and «no departure statements, although that „ could change. Reagan was to be accompanied in the meetings by Secretary of State George P. Shultz and National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane. Shultz met for three hours with Gromyko in New York on Wednesday. w Officials cautioned against expecting any breakthroughs in relations, and said the meeting would be a success if it paved the way for improved communications ; with the Soviet leadership. I Larry Speakes, the White House ; spokesman, said the United States wasn’t ‘expecting “immediate results.” He said
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Reagan would propose some ideas and it would take Moscow a while to react. But officials hoped the meeting would help set the stage for a resumption of arms control talks next year, although it was too soon to expect a firm decision to be made. The Democratic presidential hopeful, Walter F. Mondale, had some encouraging words about the meeting following his own 90-minute meeting with Gromyko in New York on Thursday. Mondale said Gromyko spent most of his time talking about arms control, and that Mondale came away with the impression that there was an opportunity for “significant progress” in today’s meeting, especially on arms control. But Mondale acknowledged it was an impression only. “No assurances, no guarantees, nothing of that kind was given me.” He said he urged Gromyko to go into the meeting with Reagan with a “positive attitude.” Gromyko voiced skepticism in an address to the United Nations Thursday that Reagan really wants improved relations with Moscow. He blamed the United States, particularly the Reagan administration, for pushing the world closer to war. He said the administration is dominated by “the militaristically minded.” Reagan, in his U.N. address Monday, proposed steps for improving relations, including regular Cabinet-level meetings and a 20-year comprehensive approach to arms control talks. Shultz, who sat impassively during Gromyko’s speech, said afterward that the speech was “sad and disappointing” because Gromyko distorted the U.S. record as a force for peace and progress. A senior State Department official said the Soviets are privately more encouraging than they have been publicly.
Reagan's CIA remark stirs Democrats' wrath
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter, his spy chief, and a host of angry Democrats are accusing President Reagan of evading responsibility for the latest fatal U.S. Embassy bombing by suggesting America’s intelligence network was nearly destroyed before Reagan took office. Reagan’s remark about the Beirut embassy attack, which he now says was distorted by the news media, prompted an outpouring of public rebuke by people who generally have kept quiet amidst the swirl of campaign rhetoric. Meanwhile, the administration pressed its request in Congress for sllO million immediately and a total of $366 million in the coming year as part of a five-year, $1.5 billion plan to defend foreign posts against future attacks. Last week’s suicide bombing at the new embassy annex in Lebanon killed 14 people, including two Americans.
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Elementary school student Brady Dindia, 11, Shaker Heights, Ohio, and other classmates leave the grounds of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., this week after delivering petitions urging an end to
Carter, in a statement issued Thursday, said the series of terrorist attacks on Americans in Lebanon “has been brought about by the president’s own deeply flawed policy and inadequate security precautions in the face of proven danger.” Carter said until now he had not responded out of respect for the office of the president, but Reagan’s remark on Wednesday “that his predecessors are responsible for the repeated terrorist bombings of Americans is personally insulting and too gross in its implications to ignore.” Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale, who was Carter’s vice president, said Reagan’s remarks “encourages terrorists and our enemies around the world to believe that we don’t have an effective intelligence capacity when we do.” Reagan prompted the furor Wednesday when he replied to an Ohio college
Corn damage Illinois scientists study heat, water effects
CHAMPAIGN, 111. (AP) Scientists at the University of Illinois are pinpointing the cause of damage to corn during hot, dry weather information that could help breeders develop drought-resistant varieties. “Y/hat we are looking at is separating the effects of heat and water stress right at pollination time,” said John Schoper, an agronomist and research assistant. Two years of work have shown that a lack of water does not reduce the viability of pollen, but does reduce the ability of the silk to capture it and convert it to kernels. “There are fewer kernels on that ear” when it is mature and harvested, he said. Schoper found an average yield reduction of 33 percent when the pollen fell on silks of corn plants that were denied adequate water for just four days. “The water stress actually was pretty mild,” said Schoper. “It’s a drought situation but not one where you would get no yield at all.” Com plants were wrapped in garbage bags from one day before to two days after
Vietnam figure Ellsworth Bunker dies
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) - Ellsworth Bunker, a diplomat under seven presidents who was ambassador to South Vietnam during the height of the war in Southeast Asia and oversaw the “Vietnamization” of the conflict, has died at age 90. The veteran statesman had been hospitalized at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital since Sept. 13 and died Thursday evening of complications of a viral in section with his wife and daughter at his side, said family spokesman Alan Carter. The 6-foot-2-inch Bunker, who stood ramrod straight with a full head of white hair and wire-rimmed glasses, was the image of a diplomat. In 1962 he served as a special negotiator
the U.S.-Soviet arms race. The students were responding to a visit to the United States by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. (AP Wirephoto).
student’s question about beefing up security following Beirut embassy attack. In that response, he said the United States is “feeling the effects today of the near destruction of our intelligence capability in recent years, before we came here.” Later, Reagan said his remarks had been distorted, and his spokesman, Larry Speakes, said the president did not mean to single out the Carter administration. Instead, Speakes blamed a decade-long “climate in Congress that resulted in inadequate funding and support for in-telligence-gathering capabilities” during both the Ford and Carter administrations. But retired Navy Adm. Stansfield Turner, who directed the Central Intelligence Agency during Carter’s presidency, rejected that contention, saying the only personnel cutbacks were carried out during the Nixon administration to draw down after the Vietnam war and early in Carter’s
pollination to limit moisture. “The rest of the life cycle was well watered,” he said. Pollen from other plants was sprinkled on with a scoop. Yield reductions in three hybrids ranged from 17 percent to 45 percent said Schoper. He also pollinated female plants that got plenty of water with pollen from male plants that were under moisture stress. There was no reduction in yield. “The magnitude of the yield drop in the moisture-stressed female plants surprised me, and I was surprised not to find any effect with the water-stressed male,” said Schoper. Through careful study of the 400 potted corn plants over two summers, he also learned there are yield reductions before drought-stress symptoms become apparent. That means a farmer who sees no rolling leaves may incorrectly assume that no damage has been done by a lack of rain. It also may mean that corn is hurt by a
and helped avert was between the Netherlands and Indonesia over Dutch New Guinea. Bunker was a peacemaker again in Dominican Republic in 1965. And before his retirement in 1978, he was chief U.S. negotiator for a new Panama Canal Treaty. But it was in South Vietnam that he played his most prominent foreign policy and diplomatic role. Appointed ambassador by President Lyndon B. Johnson in April 1967, Bunker was a major symbol of American military involvement during the war’s bloodiest and most divisive years. Born in Yonkers, N.Y., on May 11,1894, Bunker graduated from Yale in 1916 with a
Senate embroiled in civil rights dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) - A bitter dispute over major civil rights legislation has spilled onto the Senate floor and bogged down an emergency money bill necessary to keep the government solvent after Monday. Democrats and moderate Republicans favoring the anti-discrimination measure say it is simply a reaffirmation of existing civil rights law and can only be passed in the waning days of this Congress if it is attached to the stopgap bill. But Senate Republican leaders say attaching the measure opposed by conservatives threatening a filibuster onto the spending bill will unleash a flood of other unrelated amendments that would draw a presidential veto and sink the whole package. Weeks of behind-the-scenes wrangling by senators over the so-called Civil Rights Act of 1984 broke into the open Thursday night as legislators began work on the bill that is needed to provide most government agencies with about $476 billion dollars for the fiscal year that begins Monday. By a 51-48 vote, the Senate rejected pleas from GOP leaders and agreed that it would be in order to consider the antidiscrimination measure as an amendment to the stopgap bill. Unable to decide how to proceed after that, the Senate recessed until today with Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., saying the break was needed
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term to “cut some of the bureaucratic fat in the headquarters in Washington.” “And that has improved our intelligence capabilities overseas,” Turner said. The former spy chief charged that Reagan “has done more to damage the CIA than any president in history” by politicizing the agency. “Mr. Reagan, as is so often the case, has got his facts all mixed up,” Turner said. And Speakes, Turner said, “ought to be quartered and hung for this because he’s the one who started it.” Casey, speaking Thursday night before the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles, refused to discuss Reagan’s statement. In response to a question from the audience on Reagan’s statement, Casey said: “As head of Central Intelligence, I’m very careful to do everything I can to keep myself out of political controversy. So I’m going to pass on that one.”
lack of moisture in Illinois in years that are not usually considered drought years. Schoper also said that although pollen viability was not affected by moisture stress, there was a yield reduction when the pollen-producing plant was subjected to high temperatures —IOO degrees during the day and 90 degrees at night. “From a scientific standpoint, it is important that we find out exactly why yield reductions occur if we ever hope to do anything about it,” said Schoper. Knowing which part of the plant is affected adversely by heat and which is hurt by drought, breeders may be able to design corn that will perform better under stress, he said. However, he said a lot more research should be done. Schoper also said the research may cause some farmers to take another look at irrigation. “It’s something to keep in mind when you consider you’re getting a yield reduction before you ever see the symptoms of moisture stress,” said Schoper.
bachelor’s degree in history and economics. He started out unloading sugar for the National Sugar Refining Company, which his father had helped to found. By 1940 he had risen to president of the company, and became its chairman of the board in 1948. Bunker entered public service in 1951 when President Truman appointed him to serve as ambassador to Argentina during a low point in relations with that country. He later served as ambassador to Italy, India and Nepal and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and 1968. He was a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly in 1956. *
to “let this thing cool off a while.” Before the vote, Baker had warned senators that if the civil rights legislation became tied to the money bill, then “school’s out” and the race would be on to “build a Christmas tree and hang our baubles.” Dozens of other pending amendments cover subjects ranging from abortion to beer distributorships. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., a cosponsor of the civil rights bill, said “the issue is discrimination,” not whether government agencies might be technically without money for a short time. Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., another cosponsor, said, “This vote is going to be the test vote on civil rights for this Congress... let everyone know how they are going to be judged.” Conservatives, led by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, argued that instead of reaffirming existing law, backers of the civil rights measure want to expand the law. The amendment is aimed at reaffirming federal anti-discrimination statutes and forcing recipients of federal money to obey laws protecting women, the aged, the handicapped and minorities even if the funds only reach one portion of an institution. It was prompted by a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling last Feb. 28 stating that law banning sex discrimination at colleges receiving federal aid only applied to the specific program receiving the money.
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JIMMY CARTER Insulted by remark
June brides bust out all over in 'B4 WASHINGTON (AP) Americans marched to the altar in June at the highest rate in years, new government statistics indicate. Some 306,000 American couples tied the knot in June, according to preliminary figures collected by the National Center for Health Statistics. That’s a rate of 15.8 marriages per 1,000 Americans the highest level for any one month since June 1978, when the rate was 16.0. But despite the surge in June traditionally the most popular month for weddings the national marriage rate remained relatively level on an annual basis. Barbara Wilson of the statistics center suggested two factors may have resulted in the jump in marriages this June, although she cautioned against reading too much into figures that may be revised before becoming final. There were five Saturdays this June, she pointed out, which increases the likelihood of weddings in the month because half of all weddings are held on Saturday. But, she added, the increase in the June marriage rate, without a corresponding hike in the annual rate, may also show that people are being more deliberate in their wedding plans. Couples who plan to marry may increasingly be choosing the time when vacations are easier to schedule and the weather may be better for outdoor parties, she suggested. June brought the total weddings to 1,160,000 for the first half of the year, 18,000 more than the first half of 1983.