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WASHINGTON - President Reagan
redefined his goals for the proposed
"Star Wars" missile defense system
Wednesday, saying he would deploy the
space shield unilaterally if other nuclear
powers can not agree on a worldwide
nuclear defense and disarmament
program.
"If we had a defensive system and we
could not get agreement on their part
to eliminate the nuclear weapons, we
would have done our best and we would
go ahead with deployment, even though,
as I say, that would then open us up to
the charge of achieving the capacity for
a first strike," Reagan said in an inter
view less than two weeks before he
meets Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
in Geneva.
The president's comments appeared
to negate the terms he laid out in an
interview with Soviet journalists last
week in which he said he would not
deploy a defensive system until offen
sive misiles had been dismantled. But
Reagan denied there was any inconsis
tency in his separate descriptions of
his policy.
"The terms for our own deployment
would be the elimination of the offen
sive weapons," Reagan said to the
Soviets. "We won't put this weapon -this
system in place, this defensive
system, until we do away with our
nuclear missiles, our offensive missiles
. . . And if the Soviet Union and the
United States both say we will elimi
nate our offensive weapons, we will put
in this defensive thing in case some
place in the world a madman someday
tries to create these weapons again."
But on Wednesday, he told the White
House correspondents of Western news
agencies that if the U.S. research pro
gram he calls the Strategic Defense
Initiative were to come up with an
effective system to defend against
nuclear attack, the United States would
call a meeting of all nuclear powers to
"see if we cannot use that weapon to
bring about. . . the elimination of
nuclear weapons."
If that conference failed to gain an
agreement for mutual use of the defen
sive system, Reagan said, "we would go
ahead with deployment."
Earlier Wednesday, when asked if he
meant to give the Soviets veto power, in
effect, over deployment of the proposed
defensive weapons system, Reagan
replied, "Would you forgive me if I say,
hell no."
Up $60 million from 1984
World arms spending at $800 billion
WASHINGTON - World military
spending will reach $800 billion this
year $60 billion more than last year
continuing a post-World War II wea
pons buildup at the cost of social pro
grams, a report by arms control advo
cates said Wednesday.
The United States and the Soviet
Union, with 11 percent of the world's
population, account for more than half
the military spending the report said.
Among the United States and its
European allies, annual per capita mil
itary spending amounts to about $45,
compared with $11 for health research,
the report said. The world spends
about $450 to educate each child and
$25,600 to support each soldier.
The findings, based on official U.S.
and international statistics, were pub
lished by World Priorities, an economic
research group whose sponsors include
the Rockefeller Foundation, the Arms
Control Association and the World Pol
icy Institute.
The aim of the report is to demon
strate, with official statistics, the dis
parity between spending on weaponry
and that on health, welfare and educa
tion. For example, it said:
' The Soviet Union spends more on
its military than the governments of all
the developing countries spend for
education and health care for their 3.6
billion people.
O The budget of the U.S. Air Force
is larger than the total education sup
port for 1.2 billion children in Africa,
Latin Americaand Asia, includingJapan.
Developed countries on average
spend 5.4 percent of their GNP for mil
itary purposes, 0.3 percent for devel
opment assistance to poor countries.
O Since 1 960, Third World military
spending has increased five-fold and
the number of countries ruled by mil
itary governments has grown from 22 to
57.
The Soviet Union maintains more
than 778,000 troops in 22 foreign coun
tries; the United States has 479,000
troops at bases in 40 foreign countries.
Another reason for the high cost of
military forces is the astounding com
plexity of new weapons, the report
said. In 1985 dollars, it cost $10 million
to build 10 medium bombers in 1945;
today it costs $650 million. ;
The United States could buy a sub
marine for $28 million in 1945; now it
costs $692 million, the study said.
Colombian guerrillas seize court;
oyrmy troops launch counterattack
BOGOTA, Colombia About 25 lef
tist guerrillas shot their way into the
Palace of Justice on Wednesday, but
three hours later troops stormed the
court building, seizing the lower three
floors and freeing more than 100
hostages.
Guerrillas of the April 1 9 Movement
still held a "large number" of judges on
the top two floors of the five-story
structure, according to one of the host
ages, Supreme Court President Alfsonso
Reyes. He was contacted by telephone
and said, "If the government doesn't
cut off its attack there could be a
tragedy here."
Bogota radio stations said prelimi
nary reports indicated at least 17 guer
rillas and one police lieutenant were
killed and four policemen were wounded.
Reyes told radio station Todelar,
"We are here with a large number of
judges as hostages and it is a question
of life or death that the gunfire stop.
Please pass that on so the president
will give the order to stop the attack."
As the judge spoke, bursts of subma
chine gun fire could be heard from
Reyes' office on the fourth floor of the
building. Exchanges of gunfire con
tinued as night fell.
Radio Caracol telephoned federal
Judge Fernando Gonzalez before the
army assault, and he said, "I think all
24 members of the Supreme Court are
being held hostage."
It was not known if Gonzalez was
among more than 100 people who were
freed and fled from the building during
and after the army assault.
Radio stations said President Beli
sario Betancur's brother, federal Judge
Jaime Betancur, was among those who
escaped unharmed.
At least 15 guerrillas were killed
when the soldiers launched their assault,
Radio Caracol reported.
Photos from Landsat satellites
Atlas gives new picture of world
WASHINGTON (AP) - Its publish
ers call it "the most riveting look at our
continent ever put between covers of a
book." Before even one copy was readv,
200,000 had been sold for $29.95 or
$39.95 for the deluxe issue, which
tomes with a magnifier.
The National Geographic Society's
"Atlas of North America," unveiled
Wednesday, looks at the continent
from space and presents a stunning
portrait.
In vivid blues, greens and reds
photographic images printed in colors
other than their own to bring out
details invisible to the human eye
the atlas is, according to the society, "a
new way of seeing the earth that is
neither mapping nor photography, but
does the work of both and better than
either."
In addition to containing the famil
iar maps and illustrations found in
conventional atlases, the new one makes
heavy use of pictures from space to
show not only what the earth below
looks like but also what it's made of
and how it is being shaped by natural
and man-made forces.
The society got its pictures from
Landsat satellites, which have been in
use since 1972, as well as from weather
satellites, crews of the Apollo, Skylab
and shuttle spacecraft and from air
planes. One photograph shows the United
States at night, the clusters of lights
from the cities appearing as white
paint splashes across the unmistakable
shape of the country.
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A roundup of the day's happenings
A young Mexican man who sneaked across the
border and won the California lottery's $2 million jackpot
was arrested Wednesday by immigration authorities who
said they acted quickly because he "bragged" about his
illegal status.
Spencer VV. Kimball, the 90-year-old Mormon Church
president, died at his downtown Salt Lake City apartment.
Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, 86,
senior member of the council of the Twelve Apostles,
assumed nominal leadership pending his expected elec
tion to succeed Kimball.
Nancy Reagan has received United Cerebral Palsy
of New York's humanitarian award for longtime dedication
to the emotionally and physically impaired. Reagan was
honored with the First Lady Humanitarian Award at a
dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel that raised $932,315.
Judge calls mistrial in Miller case
L03 ANCSLES Ajudreon WcdnesdeydrdrrJ an! trhl in the case
cf r.:rr::J V. Miller, the or.ly 17.1 z rt c rr C: J t : icr-e, after
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Millar, 43, a 20-year veteran cf the 1 3, faces a pc.uia rcaxknumof life
in prison if convicted on all seven counts of his indictment. Two of the
counts carry life sentences while others carry penalties to the range of 10
years.
He la charged with passing classified documents to the Soviet Union in
exchange for promises of IS5.CC0 in cash and gold.
At least 35 dead in U.S. flooding
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Chilean police arrest student rioters
SANTIAGO, CiriLE Hot pclics sttrmc i a ur.lvciLlty rr -.us Wed
nesday, and arrested t kzsX 140 studer.ts in the second d.'.y (.protests
aainst 12 years of military rule.
Authorities reported that six pscple were hcrritaMzi-i v. I:h bullet
wounds elsewhere in Santiago, nine bombs exploded c". 1 p :!; arrested
five labor leaders. . .
The students sought sanctuary in the engineer;;. ?cLe:l on the
national university campus after running street battles with police on the
final day of fhe protect organized by opponents cf Pre; ) L r.t Augusto
Pinochet, an array gereral who came to power after a corp in September
1973. .
Police called in reinforcements, surrounded the building and stormed
it after lobbing tear gas grenades through the windows. An official
helicopter hovered overhead . .
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saw one being taken vay on a stretcher, and an aaL .;! - c. to the
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state president and rer:;.:.:d fez j cf lis C r . 1
powerful position in Pchr.d.
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The election of Jaruzelski to the state presidency r h: j retaining the
title of Communist Party first secretary underscored thai he would remain
the dominant political figure in Poland. He replaced Henrvk Jablonski as
president.
Jaruzelski, a four-star army general, declared martial law in 1981 and
oversaw the suppression of the Solidarity labor movement that year. His
resignation as premier apparently signaled the end of that political crisis.
The Communist Party, the real power in this Soviet-bloc country, lost
nearly 1 million members after labor turmoil in 1980 gave birth to
Solidarity, diplomatic sources have said.
Diplomats said that by relinquishing control over day-to-day govern
ment operations, Jaruzelski, 62, would be able to prepare for next year's
Communist Party congress.
Yurchenko returns to Soviet Union
WASHINGTON Smiling broadly, former KGB official Vitaly Yur
chenko boarded a Soviet airliner and flew home late Wednesday, capping
a bizarre twist in an East-West spy drama in which the defector became an
accuser against the nation that offered him a new life.
After a half-hour motorcade from the Soviet embassy to Dulles Interna
tional Airport outside Washington, Yurchenko walked briskly past three
Mate Department officials, leading an entourage of about 20 Soviets into
the Ilyusnm 62jet that earlier had returned Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin
from pre-summit talks in Moscow.
Before being allowed to leave, Yurchenko apparently satisfied U.S.
authorities that he was returning to the Soviet Union on his own accord,
without coercion. No one knew what kind of reception awaited him in
Moscow but experts here predicted a bleak future for him.
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ncksburg, Va. On Tucsdev, he v -t to V - '
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