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Questions linger following superpower summit
MOSCOW (AP) Presidents Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev said farewell today, ending a two-day summit that produced a landmark arms deal and pledges of future cooperation but left lingering questions about economics, the Baltic states and Cuba. “Compared to the bad old days of the Cold War, we have less in the way of differences than ever and more reason for hope,” Bush said in departure ceremonies in glittering St. George’s Hall in the Kremlin. GORBACHEV SAID the strategic arms treaty signed Wednesday “has strengthened the world’s confidence that common security can be attained and that the Cold War between East and West will never start again.” Before the formal goodbye, Bush met with diplomats at the U.S. Embassy complex, which has been dogged by years of spy scandals and a political impasse over what to do with a nine-story office tower so riddled with Soviet bugging devices that it has stood vacant for years. He then flew to Kiev, capital of the restive Ukrainian republic and is to return home tonight aboard Air Force One. AT AN ARRIVAL ceremony, Bush commented on
Arab states seeking more than a solution to Palestinian problem
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Here are the positions of what would be the main Arab parties in a peace conference with Israel: EGYPT: The most populous Arab state has committed itself to the peace conference and worked hard to persuade other Arabs to attend. Egypt regained the Sinai Peninsula, lost in the 1967 Middle East war, from Israel in a 1979 treaty that calls for Palestinian autonomy and elections in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. JORDAN: Jordan, over half of whose 3 million people are Palestinian, has great interest in seeing them achieve self-deter-mination. In times of economic hardship, other Jordanians view the Palestinians with resentment. Jordan also has border and water concerns to work out with Israel. SYRIA: Its main goal is return of the Golan Heights, lost in the 1967 war, but it also has a sizable Palestinian refugee population. President Hafez Assad pitched his country’s entire development toward confronting Israel but that was before it
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the beauty of the hilltop churches he saw from his plane and offered “help and hope” to “expand the - scope of our relations.” The president was greeted by Leonid Kravchuk, the republic’s communist president, who told Bush that the Ukraine has “chosen the road to democracy, market economy and sovereignty.” A few hundred demonstrators in Kiev’s October Revolution Square protested Bush’s refusal to meet with pro-indepence Ukrainian leaders. “Mr. Bush: billions for the U.S.S.R. is slavery for the Ukraine,” said one of their banners. DURING TWO DAYS of talks in Moscow, Bush restated U.S. concerns about Soviet aid to communist Cuba and reiterated his support for aspirations of the three Baltic republics seeking freedom from Kremlin control. At the summit, the two presidents signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty to reduce their longrange nuclear weapons by a third, and Bush promised he would seek a lowering of tariffs on Soviet exports to the United States. The superpowers also agreed to increased cooperation in civilian space projects, including exchange flights on the Soviet space station Mir and the U.S. space shuttle.
lost Soviet support. LEBANON: Its acceptance of the conference is basically dictated by neighboring Syria, which has 40,000 troops in the country. Lebanon wants Israel to withdraw from the southern border zone it has occupied since the 1982 invasion. PALESTINIANS: The PLO is accepted as the representative of the world’s 5 million Palestinians. But Israel refuses to talk to the organization, citing its past support for terrorism, which the PLO has renounced. The PLO has agreed to let independent Palestinians serve as delegates, but Palestinians are balking at Israel’s refusal to allow east Jerusalem Palestinians. SAUDI ARABIA: The oilrich kingdom, which would attend any peace conference as an observer, says negotiations are the responsibility of lhe frontline states. But as the main Arab bankroller, its support is crucial. As guardian of Islam’s holiest shrines at Mecca and Medina, it would also like to see Islam’s third holiest place, in east Jerusalem, under Arab control.
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Israel does not expect to say ‘yes’ to Middle East peace talks this time
JERUSALEM (AP) Despite reports that Israel has given a qualified “yes” to a Middle East peace conference, officials say the government does not expect to provide a final answer during Secretary of State James A. Baker Ill’s visit Palestinians also are hesitating. They say they want peace but are not willing to pay too high a price. The daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported today that Shamir relayed through Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Zalman Shoval, his agreement to take part in a U.S.Soviet sponsored conference but without changing his position on who can represent the Palestinians. THE AGREEMENT was reportedly Baker’s condition for returning to Jerusalem. He was expected to meet with Shamir and other Israeli officials today and with Palestinian leaders on Friday. The peace conference is planned as an opening meeting leading to direct talks between Israel, each Arab state and the Palestinians. Yedioth Ahronoth said Israel has also agreed to the participation of Europe and a U.N. observer. Shoval did not deny the report, saying on army radio that Israel has constantly said “yes in principle.” “BUT WE ALWAYS said that everything depends on agreement
Crime spree!
Squirt guns! Overdue video tapes! Is society crumbling?
For four hot hours recently, Healdsburg, Calif., was a safer, drier place. Carin Lieberman, squirt gun assailant, was behind bars. The citizenry could also breathe easier in Thonotosassa, Fla., when Tammy Toloff, 9-year-old pebble thrower, was hauled away in handcuffs. CRIME? YOU want to hear about crime? In Cobb County, Ga., Rebecca Anding was thrown right into the clink on Easter Sunday after she was caught in the act of picking tulips for her grandmother’s grave. But folks have come to expect the worst in Cobb County, which is also home to Linda Judson, who allegedly FAILED TO RETURN TWO VIDEOTAPES! You can bet thev out her behind bars.
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GORBACHEV CALLED the treaty signing “an event of global significance” that would help dismantle “the infrastructure of fear that has ruled the world” since the dawn of lhe atomic age. “Our next goal is to make full use of this breakthrough to make disarmament an irreversible process,” he said. The two leaders proclaimed a new era of cooperation on global and regional issues, endorsing efforts by the European Community to find a peaceful solution to civil strife in Yugoslavia. AND THEY ANNOUNCED that they intend to convene a Middle East peace conference in October to launch negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors. “This historic opportunity must not be lost,” the presidents said in a joint statement It was issued even though Israel has not yet said whether it will agree to Bush’s terms for the conference. To iron out remaining wrinkles, Bush sent Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 to Jerusalem today to try to clear the last hurdle a dispute over which Palestinian Arabs would attend. SOVIET FOREIGN Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh said he would go to Israel soon with documents required to re-establish formal Soviet relations with Israel conditioned on Israel agreeing
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YITZHAK SHAMIR Still has reservations
on a few questions, some of them procedural and some even essential,” Shoval added. Avi Pazner, a top aide to Shamir, said President Bush’s announcement with Mikhail S. Gorbachev on plans to sponsor a conference was not based on a certain affirmative answer from Israel. “They can’t know this yet,” Pazner said on army radio. “There are still issues that have not yet been agreed on. And these are important issues that touch on the
Then there’s Reba Martineau, the 88-year-old resident of Rochester, N.H., who took a kickball from children when it landed in her yard on April 12. She refuses to give it back. Her court hearing is Friday, and she could be jailed if she refuses to pay a fine. What’s going on here? ISN’T THIS A nation awash in drugs and violence, serial killers and Leona Helmsley? In short, don’t police have anything better to do? Well, maybe, some law enforcement officials say. On the other hand, a crime is a crime, isn’t it? “You get criticized if you do something and you get criticized if you don’t,” complained Police Chief David G. Walchak of Concord, N.H., speaking as a vice president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. “The tendency,” he added, “is to err on the side of caution.” THAT, ESSENTIALLY, is the way police in Florida have explained the treatment of Tammy Toloff, who was charged with aggravated assault after she threw rocks at a playmate last week. The friend, 13-year-old Joey Mendez,
Book thief bound to six-year prison term
DES MOINES, lowa (AP) A man who stole up to S2O million worth of rare books from libraries
to attend the peace conference. Bush said he was “a little more optimistic” that Israel would attend. The two presidents stressed future economic cooperation. And although Bush promised the Soviets most-favored-nation trade status lifting tariffs, he lectured his hosts on global market realities. THE PATH TO international economic aid would be easier, he said, if Moscow returned ownership to Japan of the Kurile Islands that it occupied at the close of World War 11. Bush and Gorbachev heaped praise on each other. In a dinner toast on Wednesday night, Bush saluted the courage of those who were leading batde against decades of repression, including “my host ... a man whose deeds during the past six years have given hope to those who believe, as I do, that one individual can change the world for the better.” Gorbachev responded by saying that “at this crucial moment in our history, when we are faced by important challenges, our countries are headed by people who can meet those challenges.” Bush closed his remarks with a Russian proverb: “You can’t tie a knot with one hand. ... tonight, the United States offers our hand, as we tie the knot of friendship and peace together.”
problem of the Palestinian representation.” “In any case there is still a lot of work ahead of us,” Pazner said. ASKED IF Israel would give its answer during Baker’s visit, Pazner said “It depends greatly on what Mr. Baker brings with him this evening.” Pazner said Shamir would need Cabinet approval before giving a final answer. He said but he didn’t know if Shamir would be ready to take a plan to his ministers after Baker’s visit. The issue of Palestinian negotiators is considered the major obstacle to peace talks. Israel refuses to accept a Palestinian delegate from east Jerusalem, fearing the presence would cast doubt on Israeli sovereignty over a united Jerusalem. ISRAEL SEIZED east Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed it Palestinians, who see east Jerusalem as the capital of their would-be state, also refuse any compromise on the issue. Shoval told army radio he expected to get “satisfying answers” from Baker, adding he was optimistic that Baker “knows what our positions are and what the govem-
crashed his go-cart into a parked truck and badly hurt his knee. “The deputy just didn’t use good judgment,” sheriff’s spokesman Jack Espinosa conceded Wednesday, referring to the decision to handcuff Tammy and haul her away in the back of a sheriff’s cruiser. However, he also said the deputy had used the cuffs “for the safety of the child.” Still, in Cobb County, Solicitor Patrick Head defends the arrests of women for picking tulips on private property and harboring overdue videotapes. “THE WAY THE law is stated in every state, if you take something that does not belong to you and you fail to return it, that’s theft,” Head said. And, he added, “If there’s evidence a crime was committed, then I will prosecute it. ... The law says I have to do this.” In California, prosecutor Peter Bumerts defends the decision to run in Carin Lieberman, who was jailed for four hours on July 6 for squirting two people. She pleaded innocent Monday to two counts of battery. “They were minding their own business,” Bumerts said of the
around the country and in Canada drew nearly six years in prison and a $200,000 fine. “I was thinking of myself and that was wrong, and I realize that,” Stephen C. Blumberg told U.S. District Judge Harold Vietor on Wednesday. Vietor sentenced him to five years and 11 months. BLUMBERG, 43, of St. Paul, Minn., was convicted in January of stealing more than 21,000 rare books as well as musical instruments and stained glass windows. He had pleaded innocent by
ment of Israel will accept.” Israeli media reported a range of possible compromises. Israel radio said the government would propose that a Jordanian bom in east Jerusalem participate in a Pales-tinian-Jordanian delegation. Army radio said the issue would be put off until a later stage. PAZNER DECLINED to discuss any compromises before Baker’s visit. Palestinians doubted agreement would be reached on the question of an east Jerusalem delegate during their meeting with Baker. Palestinian leader Zakaria alAgha was quoted by the national news agency Itim as saying: “The United States and Israel will not decide who will be our official representatives to negotiations. Palestinians want peace, but not at the price of concessions made beforehand on positions and principles.” IN TUNISIA, the Palestine Liberation Organization demanded the right to name Palestinian delegates. Israel refuses to negotiate with the PLO, which it regards as a terrorist organization, and has rejected the idea of talks with Palestinians selected by the organization.
complainants. To which defense attorney Chris Andrean responds: “Come on, it was a joke and not a crime.” What are we to think? SOCIOLOGIST Jack Levin, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston, sees something big happening here. “I see this as a very large trend,” said Levin. “I think definitely we are attempting to re-institute control that we see as missing in our lives. ... It’s why people are wearing ties again ... why the death penalty has been re-established ... why patriotism is again popular.” Why Carin Lieberman was busted for assault with a loaded squirt gun. “I think the pendulum of change had swung too far in the direction of permissiveness,” Levin said. This new un-permissiveness “sends a message that you’re not going to get away with much, so you better conform.” And while you’re at it, point that squirt gun at somebody else. You hear?
reason of insanity. His attorney said he took the books, including a 1480 Bible and a 1493 history book, because of delusions about a conspiracy to keep people uninformed. BLUMBERG comes from a wealthy family but shunned a $72,000-a-year trust to live “almost as a street person,” said attorney Ray Rosenberg. Blumberg simply carried off books from libraries where security was limited. He also cut away identifying marks on some books so he could carry them out as his own and stole keys so he could get into libraries.