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Arms talks progress suspected GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) Under tight secrecy that suggested progress in their talks, Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Andrei A. G"omyko today continued efforts to reopen U.b.-Soviet nuclear arms negotiations. Shultz arrived at the Soviet diplomatic mission at 9:28 a.m. (3:28 a.m. EST) for his third session in two days with Gromyko. U.S. officials said they expected there would be a fourth and final session later today and that Shultz would likely hold a news conference, but there was no formal announcement of the day’s agenda. However, the chill that developed between the two countries during the Reagan administration’s first term appeared to be yielding to cordiality and conciliation after 6‘/ 2 hours of talks between the two men on Monday. Dropping their usual reserve, Shultz and Gromyko were almost playful in posing for pictures Monday, while a mutually agreed on news blackout hinted that they could be at a critical point in trying to set up future arms talks beyond the two-day session in Geneva. In previous sessions between the two, Shultz has promptly made public his differences with Gromyko. Both sides have been careful to portray the sessions as exploratory, stressing that they are not arms negotiations. Apart from the arms control issues both nuclear arsenals and space weapons the two governments may be approaching an agreement on a joint space venture. The idea, which already has the endorsement of President Reagan and Robert C. McFarlane, his national security adviser, has gained “new currency,” said a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Shultz, the host for Gromyko at a reception Monday night, joked to photographers who were trying to position the 75-year-old Soviet official, saying. “He goes to the left and I go to the right.” Earlier, at the start of their second round of talks, they bantered about the intricacies of note-taking. Even by diplomatic standards the jests were hardly side-splitters, but it was clear that Gromyko and Shultz were making a concerted effort to appear to be getting along. Even though some 700 newsmen were in Geneva, clamoring for information on the talks, Bernard Kalb, a television reporter who recently became a State Department spokesman, turned down all requests. “There are no briefings while the meetings are under way,” he said. The Soviets also made no statements on the progress of the talks. In Moscow on Monday, the Soviet press gave little print to the first round of the Shultz-Gromyko discussions. A commentary by Tass, the official news agency, suggested the chance for progress was hurt by Reagan stand on space weapons programs. U.S. officials, who insisted on anonymity, said Shultz aims to reopen arms negotiations or at least set up further talks with Gromyko.

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In a cart pulled by a pair of draft horses, newlyweds Gerry and Sandy Buse take their first ride together in style through the streets of Currie, Minn. The couple, who plan

Cambodia guerrillas make stand

AMPIL, Cambodia (AP) Resistance fighters clung to a small portion of their headquarters camp today after battling through the night against Vietnamese forces who captured most of the Cambodian guerrilla base Monday. Vietnamese artillery pounded fighters of the Khmer People’s National Liberation Front as they tried to regroup. Rebel fighters said Vietnamese units attempted a pincer from the north and south today and were met with strong resistance from the remaining defenders. Many of the estimated 5,000 non-communist guerrillas at Ampil fled across the Thai border Monday as tanks spearheaded the multi-pronged Vietnamese attack on positions already softened up by artillery bombardment. Gen. Arthit Kamlang-Ek, Thailand’s armed forces commander, told reporters in

Coleman-Brown arraignment slated

CINCINNATI (AP) Eight attorneys have been appointed to defend Alton Coleman and Debra Brown in two murder cases. The couple, sentenced Monday by a federal judge in Dayton to 20 years each for kidnapping, were returned to Cincinnati over objections of their lawyers. Coleman, 28, and Ms. Brown, 22, of Waukegan, 111., were wanted in connection with crimes in several states, according to their lawyers, Louis Hoffman and Dennis

more conventional means of transportation in the future, will be living in lona, Minn., once the honeymoon is over. (AP Wirephoto).

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Bangkok that an A-37 fighter-bomber was scrambled today to attack Vietnamese intruders near Obok in Buriram province, but was shot down. Arthit gave no other details of the incursion. Also in Bangkok, Khmer Liberation Front spokesman Abdul Gaffar told a news conference, “With the exception of two

Lieberman, who had sought to have the couple kept in federal custody. Coleman and Ms. Brown are scheduled for arraignment Wednesday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. They have been indicted on aggravated murder charges in the deaths of Marlene Walters, 44, of suburban Norwood, and Tonnie Storey, 15, Cincinnati. Coleman was placed in the Hamilton County Jail. Ms. Brown, who said she wants to use Coleman’s last name, was held in

Coming to grips with gripes Weather Service chief says complaints of forecast inaccuracy legitimate

By LEE SIEGEL AP Science Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) Complaints about inaccurate or incomplete National Weather Service forecasts are legitimate, says the agency’s chief, who predicts new technology will lead to life-saving improvements in the next decade. “Public griping is justifiable because we don’t do as well as they wish and need,” said Richard Hallgren, the meteorologist who has headed the weather service for the past six years. The agency can now provide advance warnings of only one out of three large tor-

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Reagan to back thrust of Treasury's tax plan

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON - Administration officials said Monday that President Reagan would endorse a modified version of the Treasury’s plan to overhaul the nation’s tax system. They said the proposal would serve as a cornerstone for Reagan’s State of the Union Message Feb. 6. Officials said he would adopt the basic philosophy of the Treasury’s plan: to cut tax rates for individuals and corporations and to abolish many tax preferences. Final decisions on modifications had not been made, the officials said, but consideration was being given to changing the plan in regard to the tax treatment of depreciation, dividends, interest, capital gains, personal exemptions and charitable contributions. “As more and more people look at the Treasury proposal, it continues to hold up very well,” a key White House official said Monday, after ranking presidential aides met with Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan on legislative strategy for the tax changes. The Treasury’s package was initially received coolly by Reagan, who has been non-commital about what tax legislation he might submit to Congress this year. Reagan, meanwhile, appeared to put distance between himself and the deficit projections of his budget director, David A. Stockman. Stockman, who heads the Office of Management and Budget, said last week that because of revised economic

corridors in Vietnamese hands, other areas of Ampil were contested. ” Associated Press photographer Pichai Nippittavit, who was in Ampil when the Soviet-supplied T-54 tanks broke through, said hundreds of the guerrillas fled across the nearby Thai border and took refuge in an anti-tank ditch.

the Community Correctional Institute. Coleman and Ms. Brown will be arraigned during back-to-back sessions in the same courtroom, 15 minutes apart, before two judges, assistant Hamilton County prosecutor Carl Vollman said. At 1:30 p.m.. Common Pleas Judge Simon Leis Jr. is to preside as Coleman and Ms. Brown are arraigned on charges they murdered Ms. Storey, whose body was found in an abandoned building in suburban Walnut Hills.

nadoes and one out of two flash floods, and “the areas covered by our warnings are much too large,” Hallgren said Monday. “In the middle 19905, we’ll be picking up ,close to 100 percent of the real large tornadoes in time to provide some number of minutes of warning to people,” Hallgren predicted in an interview with The Associated Press. “For a very high percentage of the flash floods, we’ll get warnings out tens of minutes in advance.” Hallgren was among 700 government and private meteorologists and weather researchers in Los Angeles this week for the annual meeting of the American

Zaccaro's plea 'to spare family'

NEW YORK (AP) - John Zaccaro, the husband of Democratic vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, pleaded guilty to participating in a fraudulent real estate scheme to spare his family the publicity and “anguish” of a trial, his lawyer said. Zaccaro was accused of inflating the value of five apartment buildings he was helping a client purchase, altering a property appraisal in attempting to secure financing for the deal and overstating his net worth by nearly $lB million. Ms. Ferraro was not involved in the transaction in question, but questions about her husband’s financial dealings haunted her vice presidential campaign. Campaign financial disclosure documents filed in August said Zaccaro was worth about $3 million, while Ms. Ferraro was said to be worth $760,000. If the deal had been consummated, Zaccaro would have received a $333,000 com-

forecasts the deficit in 1988 was likely to be about $l4O billion, more than S4O billion above the president’s target. But Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said Monday that those deficit estimates were subject to change once the final figures for economic growth in 1984 were compiled. The growth estimates, which will affect projections of tax revenue, are to be available within several weeks. “The latest deficit figures that you’ve seen from OMB have not been presented to the White House,” Speakes said, “and may very well not be borne out in the estimates once the final figures of the third and fourth quarter growth are in.” On Capitol Hill, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., who is set to serve as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, told his colleagues that he was ready to cut the military budget and asked for suggestions. “I am not opposed to military cuts,” Goldwater said in a brief speech on the Senate floor. He said that if there were any reductions he would move first to close military bases and that closing 10 of them around the country would, after the initial cost of closing, save around $1 billion a year. The comments by Goldwater came on a day of some confusion not only about the budget for the fiscal year 1986 that Reagan will send to Congress on Feb. 4, but also about the deficit projections evolving within the administration. “There are so many imponderables and

Rag-clothed vagrant dies a confused, but rich man

TOTOWA, N.J. (AP) - Milton Naruta was a loner who just “quit the world,” a quiet man whose ragclothed body was found frozen in a fetal position in a desolate field. Clutched in his lifeless arms was a bag containing $75,000 in uncashed checks and investments. Nobody can really explain why Naruta ended up the way he did. One friend says maybe the 65-year-old vagrant just saw too many people die young and “couldn’t cope.” For police in this suburban northern New Jersey town, the discovery of Naruta’s body on Nov. 18 was the beginning of a search for relatives. “It is intriguing to me why he would disassociate with other family members and why he wouldn’t maintain normal responsibilities like updating insurance policies and cashing paychecks and keeping up with his union dues,” said police Detective Daniel Ramm. Nfext to Naruta’s body, authorities found a small prayer book, a pocket notebook, an old Christmas card, uncashed paychecks, $lB3 in cash, U.S. savings bonds and a bank book for a money market account estimated to be worth $25,000.

Meteorological Society. “To me, protecting the lives of people of this country is the most fundamental mission of the government,” he said. Hallgren said accurate short-term forecasts predictions for the next 24 hours are “of great importance because this country has more severe weather and flooding than any other nation in the world.” Nearly 1,000 Americans are killed annually by floods, tornadoes and hurricanes. Floods cause about $5 billion in damage each year, while tornadoes and hurricanes each cause $1 billion to $2

mission plus more than 8 percent ownership in the buildings, authorities said. The buildings were to have been converted into condominiums, but the deal never went through. “I believe he had a defensible case,” Arthur Liman, Zaccaro’s lawyer, said Monday. “But he wanted to spare his family the publicity, anguish and legal proceedings that would have ensued, so he entered this plea today.” Judge George Roberts said that under an agreement between Zaccaro and the district attorney, he would not impose a jail sentence unless Zaccaro committed another crime before sentencing on Feb. 20. The charge against Zaccaro, a misdemeanor, is punishable by up to a year in jail and a SI,OOO fine. Liman said the most Zaccaro faces is the fine and probation. Zaccaro was released without bail.

variables on the deficit,” said one White House official. “This thing is changing so quickly. The emphasis is on fiscal ’B6, not on ’B7 and ’BB. Fiscal ’B6 is what Congress is interested in.” What dominated several key meetings at the White House Monday, though, were the Treasury’s proposals, issued in November, that would affect the income taxes paid by nearly every person and every company in America. In the afternoon, Treasury Secretary Regan met with key White House officials, including James A. Baker 111, the chief of staff; M B. Oglesby Jr., assistant to the president for legislative affairs; Stockman, and Richard G. Darman, a presidential assistant. “There are two main items on the agenda spending cuts and tax simplification,” an administration official said after the meeting. He said overhauling the tax system would serve as “a cornerstone,” and “a major element” of Reagan’s State of the Union Message, which is now being prepared. “What we’re trying to do is establish the agenda for the year, and this is a major item on the agenda for the coming year,” the official said. White House officials have said privately in recent weeks that the administration’s strategy in Congress was to press for relatively rapid enactment of the budget and then to focus on the tax overhaul.

There were also life insurance policies, papers with addresses written on them and soiled photographs. Police learned Naruta never applied for his Social Security benefits or his pension, which could be collected by heirs. “He admitted he couldn’t cope,” said Michael Beerson of San Leandro, Calif., an old friend of Naruta. “We had a lot of friends who died young, and I guess he never learned to handle it. I guess you could say he quit the world,” said Beerson, who said he last talked to Naruta in the mid-1970s at a funeral of a mutual friend. “It speaks for itself the way they found him.” Naruta lived at the Ryle Park Hotel in West Paterson until January 1978 when a fire destroyed the rooming house. He was trapped for 2M> hours inside the burning hotel before being rescued. From 1978 until May 1984, Naruta rented a small room at the YMCA in Paterson, said Joe Fuller, the YMCA residence director. On May 4, a year after he quit working, he took to the streets. “He left on his own,” said Fuller. “He wouldn’t take care of himself. ”

billion damage, Hallgren said. “We need to make improvements” to prevent the loss of life and property, said Rex J. Fleming, the director of an experimental program to improve severe weather forecasts at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. The weather service already has made “tremendous progress” in making medium-range forecasts, which predict weather one to 10 days in advance, Hallgren said. “The four-day forecast today is as accurate as the two-day forecast was 10 or 15 years ago.”

In a statement issued by Liman, Zaccaro said, “My plea hopefully puts an end to the inquiries and the microscopic attention given to my personal and business affairs.” Ms. Ferraro issued a statement saying that her husband “has freely admitted his mistake and for this I am proud of him. John is a decent, honorable man and today’s events do nothing to change him in the eyes of his family and friends. We love him very much.” District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said the charges would have been filed even if Ms. Ferraro had not been a candidate. But Liman said, “We may have a disagreement on that.... With women running for office, we hold their spouses to the highest standards.” The real estate investor who was Zaccaro’s client, John DeLorenzo, cooperated with authorities and was not charged, according to Morgenthau.