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Gorbachev raps Star Wars upon Geneva arrival
GENEVA (AP) Soviet leader Mikhail S Gorbachev arrived in Geneva today to engage President Reagan in talks “to halt the unprecedented arms race” on earth and “its extension to a new sphere” in space. Just minutes after his Aeroflot jet touched down, the Soviet leader took aim at Reagan’s Star Wars missile defense plan, which has become a major point of contention between the superpowers. Gorbachev, wearing a hat and a topcoat as a strong wind whipped across the airport runway and drove temperatures below freezing, was accompanied by his wife, Raisa. They were welcomed by Swiss President Kurt Furgler. Reagan arrived in Geneva on Saturday night. Formal arrival ceremonies for both leaders were planned later in the day. Standing on the airport tarmac, Gorbachev, speaking through an interpreter, said, “The further course of international affairs as a whole will depend” on the outcome of his meeting with Reagan. “First and foremost,” he said, is “the question as to what can be done to halt the unprecedented arms race which is now taking place in the world and its extension to a new sphere and to ward off the threat of nuclear war for mankind.” Gorbachev said that Soviets and Americans, as well as the rest of the world, “expect from the Geneva meeting positive results. I can assure you that for our part we shall endeavor to bring about such an outcome in this important meeting.” Reagan assembled his key advisers, including Secretarv of State George P.
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'Cap' letter leaker sought
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon says neither Caspar Weinberger nor anyone else in the Defense Department is the leaker of the letter signed “Cap” that caused a furor as President Reagan flew to Geneva for the summit conference. And, says Robert Sims, the defense secretary’s chief spokesman, the Pentagon is conducting an investigation into who did pass the letter on to the New York Times and the Washington Post. The letter offered Reagan hard-line
Shultz and national security adviser Robert C. McFarlane, to make further preparations this morning for what his spokesman, Larry Speakes, said could be “a watershed meeting” with the Soviet leader. Without even waiting for Gorbachev’s arrival, the Soviets accused the U.S. administration of trying to “torpedo the whole arms limitation process” with a leaked letter from Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger counseling Reagan not to yield to the Soviet leader if he seeks to informally extend the controversial 1979 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. The Americans apparently were caught off guard by the leak of Weinberger’s letter and promised to investigate to find out who did it. The Soviets were quick to
advice. Weinberger urged Reagan to resist Soviet pressure for agreement on extending mutual observance of the unratified SALT II treaty, to resist an interpretation of the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty thai could hamper testing of a “Star Wars” missile defense shield, and to shun any final communique with the Soviets “that obscures their record of arms control violations.” The letter’s publication on Saturday laid open to the world the disarray within the administration.
capitalize on the episode in a city full of reporters hungry for news. Georgy Arbatov, the chief Soviet expert on American affairs, told a crowded Soviet news briefing the letter underscores the Kremlin’s view that some U.S. officials don’t want arms control and that “American policies are very strongly influenced by very conservative circles and by the military-industrial complex.” There was no way to assess the impact on Reagan of Weinberger’s appeal, and Reagan said little about what he thought of the leak. Asked by reporters if he would fire the defense secretary, Reagan said, “Do you want a one-word answer or two?” “Two,” came the hopeful reply. “Hell no,” said the president, as he vanished behind another shrub.
Archbishop's envoy confers with officials
LONDON (AP) The archbishop of Canterbury’s special envoy, Terry Waite, said he made progress in his meeting with the kidnappers holding American hostages in Lebanon, and urged the hostages’ families to keep their hope. But Waite, speaking to reporters at London’s Heathrow Airport on Sunday night, warned that lives still were at risk. “We have breathing room ... I don’t know (how much), but we have some space,” Waite told reporters. He said he would meet with U.S. officials today to discuss his five-day mission to Beirut. He did not identify the officials. He reported immediately to Archbishop Robert Runcie at Lambeth Palace, London residence of the spiritual head of the Church of England. Waite refused to say whether he had seen the hostages and also would not talk about their condition. “But don’t read anything into it,” he told reporters. “I know what it is for families of those
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The summit talks begin Tuesday morning, with a 15-minute private session between Reagan and Gorbachev. They will be alone, in a small room in a 19th century mansion alongside Lake Geneva, and then join full U.S. and Soviet delegations for the first of four two-hour rounds of formal talks at a table airlifted here from the U.S. mission to the United Nations in New York. On a chilly and drab Sunday, Reagan and his wife, Nancy, inspected the mansion and Reagan sat in the chair he will occupy during the talks. Mrs. Reagan sat where Gorbachev will sit. “Well, you’re much prettier than I expected,” Reagan said to his wife. Then they walked outside to the surrounding gardens. When the talks get down to business, Gorbachev is expected to press Reagan to give ground on his Strategic Defense Initiative, his ambitious plan to determine whether the technology of the future can shield the United States from Soviet missiles and make a missile attack futile. Apart from nuclear issues, the two leaders are expected to clash over regional conflicts and the status of human rights in the Soviet Union. A senior U.S. official told The Associated Press, meanwhile, he thought the chances that Reagan and Gorbachev would agreed to hold periodic summit meetings were “more than 50 percent.” And he said, it was “highly likely” that the summit would produce an agreement for the two superpowers to guard against proliferation of nuclear weapons to other countries.
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who have been taken hostage,” he said. “It is very, very hard ... I would like to say to them, ‘Keep hope, maintain hope. I’ve got hope ... and there are quite a lot of people who are doing all they can.’” In Geneva, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the administration hoped Waite’s initiative will resolve the crisis. Speakes stressed that Washington will “not negotiate concessions” with the kidnappers.
Tremors at volcano may indicate eruptions to come in Colombia
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) The government called off, then resumed the search for survivors of the volcanic eruption that killed more than 22,000 people, and geologists warned that increased earth tremors around smoking Nevado del Ruiz may signal more eruptions. Despite the renewed search, one government minister said Sunday there was “no one left to rescue.” “The last three survivors were rescued this morning in Armero and I believe they later died,” the Cabinet member, Health Minister Rafael Zubiria, said Sunday. But British rescue experts worked in the darkness early today with sensitive listening devices, trying to detect some sign of life. The British team worked at night because sound carries farther. “Everything indicates that there are survivors to be found,” said Patrick Stanton, head of the British team, “Everything points to that conclusion. There just have to be people still alive out there.” He said people were found alive Sunday in houses buried in mud, and that many houses with only rooftops protruding had not yet been checked. Colombian officials say more than 22,000 people, including 8,000 children, were killed when the volcano erupted Wednesday, melting its snowcap and sending a gigantic wall of mud roaring down the Ar-
Farm legislation on agenda in Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) The nation’s future farm policy' dominates Congress’ agenda this week as the Senate, divided mostly along partisan lines, tries to freeze or cut the record costs of agriculture subsidies. Facing the chamber is a sll7 billion, four-year policy package containing everything from price supports to food stamps and overseas food aid. But the most worrisome item for senators has been the levels of income subsidies the bill offers to wheat, corn, cotton and rice farmers. The Agriculture Committee’s Democratic minority teamed up with a few renegade Republicans to send to the full chamber a bill that would essentially freeze those income guarantees at current levels through the end of the decade.
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Wearing heavy coats against the cold, two Swiss soldiers stand ready outside the Maion de Saussure at Versoix near Geneva. President and Mrs. Reagan are occupying the mansion during their visit to Geneva for the summit meeting with Soviet
Waite, 46, told reporters he’d made “some progress” during his secret meetings with the kidnappers. But, he said, “The situation is still very difficult and dangerous. I still regard that lives are at risk.” The extremist Shiite Moslem group Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, claims it is holding the Americans and has demanded the release of 17 comrades convicted in Kuwait of bombing the U.S. and
mero Valley. Parts of 13 villages and almost all of Armero and its surrounding rural area, with a population of 50,000. were wiped out by the 150-foot-high avalanche of muck, water and rubble that swept across the area about 100 miles northwest of Bogota. Tremors were detected in the volcano’s vicinity Sunday, and a U.S. scientist said they indicated “a continuing possibility of eruptions.” “There were 10 earthquakes in an hour around 5 p.m.” said Darrell Herd, the head of a U.S. Geological Survey team. “This is higher than what we have seen.” He said the jolts, technically called earthquakes, measured less than 2 on the Richter scale and were too faint to be felt by people. Herd, who spoke to The Associated Press by telephone from his hotel in Manizales, about 25 miles west of the volcano, said scientists will have to study the frequency and strength of the tremors to tell if another eruption is imminent. He said U.S. scientists would set up the laser equipment today on the volcano to detect any movement. He said the devices can detect a one-inch movement of the target area from several miles away. The U.S. Geological survey team reached the volcano Sunday and set up seismographical monitors, said U.S. Agen-
But Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., is hoping to win backing for a $7.5 billion package of cuts that would freeze the subsidies for just one year, with cuts of up to 5 percent in each of the following three years. Dole’s idea also includes a complex wheat price support program that would let farmers choose their own per-bushel subsidy level, depending on how much acreage they are willing to take out of production. The more acres idled, the higher the subsidy rate would be on the remaining wheat. Two weeks ago, when the Senate last debated the farm bill, Dole staged a test vote on his package and won by a mostly party-line margin that was far from conclusive. Since then, he has been scram-
leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The talks will begin Tuesday morning with a 15-minute private session between the two leaders in a small room in the 19th century mansion alongside Lake Geneva. (AP Wirephoto).
French embassies. Kuwait has refused to release the men. Waite went to Beirut after Runcie received a letter appealing for help 10 days ago from four of six Americans missing in Beirut. The letter was signed by Terry Anderson, 38, the chief Middle East correspondent of The Associated Press; the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, 50, a Roman Catholic relief official; David Jacobsen, 54, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut; and Thomas Sutherland, 53, Dean of Agriculture at the American University of Beirut. The four wrote th t they had been told by their captors that a fifth hostage, U.S. diplomat William Buckley, 57, is dead. They made no mention of Peter Kilburn, 60, a university librarian. Islamic Jihad claimed to have killed Buckley in retaliation for Israel’s Oct. 1 air raid on Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia.
cy for International Development representative Jim Smith. “The crater seems to be getting deeper and the smoke indicates some continuing activity,” he said. Herd told the AP he and other scientists flew over the 3-mile-high volcano in a helicopter for a look down into the crater, and saw steam and light ash rising 3,000 to 5,000 feet in the air. The snow-shrouded mountain rumbled again Saturday, and the government announced over national radio that a new eruption had set off another avalanche. The communique urged residents of towns along the river to move quickly to high land. However, the government corrected its warning 30 minutes later and said no avalanche had occurred. But it warned residents to remain on alert. Many people took to the hills anyway, and spent the night huddled in the cold before returning home. Colombia’s largest group of radio stations, Caracol, appealed to the government to continue rescue operations, saying information from reporters roaming the valley indicated there were as many as 2,500 survivors lying in the mud or trapped in inundated houses and under debris.
bling to sweeten the deal and attract votes from Democrats, particularly southerners. White House officials have said a veto is likely if the bill’s subsidy costs now estimated at as much as double the $34.8 billion called for in Congress’ budget outline are not trimmed. But Democrats insist that the record subsidies are only a reflection of bad times in rural America. They say that at a time of the worst farm depression in decades, farm programs are the last place Congress should look to save money. Such arguments are receiving sympathy from farm-state Republicans as well, particularly the dozen or so up for re-election next year in states heavily dependent on agricuUure.