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I Reagan: Door still o?3en to Soviets . The Wiire From the Reutcr Ncwa Report WASHINGTON President Reagan said Thurs day night he was "ready, willing and able" to meet Soviet leaders in an effort to improve superpower relations. In a departure from previous White House state ments he said detailed preparations for a summit were not necessary. He said he would be willing to meet Soviet Leader Konstantine Chernenko even if Moscow did not return to the stalled arm3 reduc tions talks. "You can have an agenda in the general area of things which would lead to better understanding NASA offical to speak at UNI Clarke Covington, manager of the Space Sta tion Project Office at NASA, will visit UNL Tuesday to lecture on the space station project Covington will speak at ove Library Audit orium at 10:30 a.m. The lecture, sponsored by the Frank E. Sorenson Lecture Fund, is free and open to the public. Bob Patterson, director of UNL summer ses sions, said he arranged one main lecture every summer with the Sorenson lecture fund. Pat terson said the lectures usually are given by a dignitary from NASA in memory of Frank Sor enson's contributions to the aviation and aero space education. Patterson said Professor Erich Goldhagen of Harvard University will give a lecture titled The Holocaust: 40 years After." Goldhagen will speak at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Audit orium June 25 at 10:30 am. This lecture is also free and open to the public. and that is good enough for me," he said at his 25th news conference since becoming president in 1981, his first since May 23. "We are ready, willing and able," Reagan said. In the past the White House has said a summit should only be arranged if carefully prepared in advance and concrete results were expected. Reagan said the White House wa3 pursuing quiet diplomacy with the Kremlin, trying to establish a basis for talks. "I have been in communication myself" he said. Reagan said there was a danger in summitry in that rather than accomplishing anything the meet ing could lead to new tensions. "It is a two-edged sword," he said. Reagan said the United States had encountered problems because the Soviet leadership had changed three times since he assumed office. Asked for a date for a summit, he replied, "I couldn't give you that one." Democratic presidential candidates Walter Mon dale and Gary Hart and two influential members of Reagan's own Republican Party have called for annual superpower summits. Reagan said he was not playing political games by suggesting a change in attitude about meeting the Soviet leadership. "This is legitimate. The door is open," he declared. Don't Hido Shoro A Rlcio, Cal! 471-POOL ..f . - : - J Dsvld TroubADsSiv iithri.&ka Construction began Mondsy on an addition to the University's Health Center. The addition, which will help the center meet the university's growing health needs, is pot of a 3 million renovation prcjsct. The addition should be completed next May, but the entire project will not be finished for another two ye&&. XJNLft Jtmltyget a shot at the keyboard By Jsna Botnaa A new program will help UNL faculty members keep up with an explosion of computer technology and use UNL computers as a resource in the classroom. . -' The program, still under development by the UNL Computing Kesource Uenter, is called the Faculty Support Center (FASTER). It will be available at the beginning of fall semester. Doug Gale, Quor of the resource center, said FASTER will provide sophisticated workstations where faculty members can get hands-on training in the use of state-of-the-art computers. Each work station, he said, will be able to function either as a stand-alone microcomputer or as a terminal con nected to UNL's mainframe computers. FASTER will be a long-term program to provide training for faculty and staff members on newly acquired computer equipment, Gale said. The pro gram will be especially useful this fall, he said, because UNL will get two Control Data Corporation computers and will install new computer terminals throughout the campus. The program will provide five msjor services to faculty members and teaching assistants, Gale said. The first will be short courses and workshops on the use of interactive terminals connected to UNL main frame computers. The center's microcomputers, Gale said, will provide that training by stimulating any computer terminal on campus. The second service provided by the program will be short courses and workshops on the use of stand alone microcomputers and special microcomputer software, such as data processing packages. A third service will be regularly scheduled labora tory sessions, when faculty members can work with various software packages with the help of an instructor. As a fourth service, the center will .schedule open times when users may practice and experiment on their own. Eventu filly, the center will provide a fifth service by developing a software library, Gale said. Then, users can evaluate software packages before pur chasing them. Besides serving UNL faculty and staff, the center eventually may provide short courses and work shops on microcomputers to Nebraska residents. Such services, Gale said, would be offered in the evenings and on weekends when faculty use would balow. Students ultimately will benefit from the pro gram, Gale said, because it will improve the quality of instruction. This will happen because the univer sity will respond quickly to the rapid changes of computer technology. National and international news from the Rcutcr News Report Chinese to get micoileG fmm U.G. WASHINGTON Marking a nearly com plete turnaround in U.S.-Chinese relations, the United States has agreed in principle to sell China anti-aircraft and anti-armor missiles, as well as advanced artillery munitions and tech nology, defense officials said Thursday. They said groundwork for the deal was worked out during the visit this week of China's defense minister, Zhang Aiping. Details of the proposed sale will be worked out later by technical teams from both nations, officials said. Lebanon aslcsfor U.S. help WASHINGTON Lebanese Christian militia leader Fady Frcm Thursday called for an active U.S. role in reconciling the warring fac tions in hi3 country. Frem, commander in chief of the Lebanese forces, said at a news confer-, ence he had met Reagan administration offi cials and members of Congress to "ring an alarm bell" on Lebanon's future and warn that Syria was seeking to control the war-torn Middle Eastern country: Frem said since his arrival in the United States last Saturday he also had been contact ing the 1.5 million Lebanese-American com munity to establish a "U.S.-Lebanese commit tee" to facilitate dialogue. "We in Lebanon would very much wish, as a matter of inter societal and inter-governmental relationship, that the United States get involved in a positive reconciliatory process between all the com munities in Lebanon," he said. The Reagan Administration pulled its peace keeping forces out of Lebanon in February soon after a bomb blast destroyed the U.S. Marines headquarters near Beirut airport. GM wages at all-time high DETROIT General Motors, the nation's largest manufacturing company, said Thurs day labor costs for its 375,000 US. hourly workers rose to an all-time high averaging $22.40 an hour in the first three months of 1084. The company's announcement came about a month before the start of negotiations on a new labor contract with the United Auto Workers union in which strong pressures for wage increases are expected in view of GM's record profits. GM said Thursday its hourly labor costs were continuing to rise as inflation triggered cost-of-living raises amounting to 17 cents an hour would be included in workers' pay this week. Walesa may step done WARSAW Lech Walesa said Thursday he might step down as Solidarity leader if Polish voters ignore an appeal by the banned union's underground to boycott national elections Sunday. The elections will be for new regional and local councils across the country, and the government has campaigned intensively for a massive electoral endorsement of Communist policies. In a statement carefully worded to avoid making any overt call for a boycott, which would leave him open to prosecution, Walesa said: "It is possible that after June 17, 1 shall suspend my activities." Snow in South Afrio JOHANNESBURG, South Africa A rare snowstorm has buried areas of South Africa under as much as three feet cf snow, killing four children, causing power failures and cut ting off small towns. Police said the children, aged between 10 and 14, died Last night as they walked back to their homestead from school near the Natal town of Estcourt Three were lound alive by families who began a search alter they failed to come home, but all of them ' died cf exposure before an ambulance arrived. Natal, which in recent months has been hit by hurricanes and fioods after & m period of drought, had the heaviest snowfdb. On town saw its first snaw in more thsn 60 vesrs. Daily Nobraskcn Friday, Juno 15, 1984