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East-West security pact adopted
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A 35-nation
conference on Monday formally adopted
the first East-West security agreement
since SALT II, and diplomats said it
could be a step toward improved super
power relations.
The conference did not deal with
actual disarmament or nuclear wea
pons. Its goal was to reduce the risk of
a military surprise attack or conven
tional war breaking out by misunder
standing in Europe.
Delegates toasted the agreement
with champagne, ending 32 months of
prolonged deliberations among the
United States, Canada, the Soviet Union
and all European countries except
Albania.
The accord is politically binding and
when ratified will come into force Jan. 1,
1987.
Agreement was reached late Sunday
when Soviet and U.S. negotiators com
promised on arrangements for notifica
tion, observation and on-site inspec
tion of military' maneuvers.
It was the first East-West security
agreement this decade, the first during
Ronald Reagan's presidency, and the
first since the still unratified U.S.
Soviet strategic arms limitations accord
in 1979.
The 35 countries are scheduled to
review the results of the Stockholm
conference and other offshoots of the
1975 Helsinki Accords at a follow-up
meeting in Vienna, starting Nov. 4.
"We have taken an important step
toward reducing the risk of military
confrontation," Robert L. Barry, chief
U.S. negotiator at the talks, said in a
statement.
Oleg Grinevsky, Barry's Soviet coun
terpart, also praised the agreement,
but said much work still had to be done
in reducing war risks.
"We have left hell behind us and are
now in purgatory. But we are still far
from heaven," Grinevsky said.
The measures agreed upon allow
NATO, the Warsaw Pact and neutral
countries to closely monitor each oth
er's troop movements, thus increasing
mutual confidence and lessening sus
picion between the blocs, delegates
said.
Secretary of Defense Caspar Wein
berger expressed reservations Monday
in Washington as to whether Moscow
would live up to the pact.
"They've violated many agreements
in the past It is very possible that
they will violate this too." . . . That's
why verification is so enormously im
portant to the other agreements which
would cover actual arms reduction as
opposed to merely notifying on maneuvers."
The ice of negotiating stalemate could break'
Reagan criticizes Soviets at U.N.
9-year-old kidnap victim
identifies abductors, FBI says
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Two brothers arrested in a $1.5 million kidnap
ping were identified in a photo lineup by the 9-year-old victim, who spent
more than a day in a cardboard box, an FBI agent testified Monday.
U.S. Magistrate Harvey Schlesinger ordered Peter Farrell, 37, of Naples,
and his brother Paul, 22, a second class seaman who was AWOL from the
USS Saratoga near Jacksonville, held until a detention hearing Wednesday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Alan Ceballos said he would urge at that
hearing that the men be held without bond.
The brothers and two other men are accused of orchestrating the Sept.
16 abduction of Amanda Mueller, the great-great-granddaughter of C.
Frederick Mueller, who founded the C.F. Mueller Co. pasta business in
1868. She was found Saturday.
FBI agent Howard E. Glavin said Amanda positively identified the
brothers from a series of photographs. He said she identified Peter Farrell
as the man who picked her up at her school and who took Polaroid
pictures of her to send to her father, and said Paul Farrell stayed with her
in a condominium for three days and later placed her in the box.
Glavin also said Amanda identified the condominum and said she had
written her name on the walls in several places. He said Paul Farrell, who
was arrested Saturday night at his wedding reception, got the key to the
condominium from his father for use on his honeymoon.
The agent testified that Edward O'Brien, 38, of Naples, another defend
ant in the case, had given statements implicating the brother in the
planning and execution of the kidnapping.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. Presi
dent Reagan told the U.N. General
Assembly on Monday "the ice of the
negotiating stalemate could break"
during the current round of Geneva
arms talks with the Soviet Union.
Although Reagan said "a pall has
been cast" over U.S.-Soviet relations by
the Nicholas Daniloff affair, he did not
suggest the case would stand in the
way of progress toward reducing both
medium and long-range nuclear wea
pons. Referring to the FBI's arrest in August
of a Soviet employee of the United
Nations accused of spying for the
Kremlin, Reagan said:
"Misusing the United Nations for
purposes of espionage does a grave dis
service to this organization. The world
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Reagan's speech used stern words to
criticize the Soviets, not only for their
treatment of Daniloff, an American
journalist arrested in Moscow, but also
for their treatment of civilians in Soviet
occupied Afghanistan and their insist
ence on supporting Marxist-Leninist
insurrectons around the world.
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A.
Shevardnadze listened to Reagan's
address, making notes without signal
ing any emotion, and sat quietly as
representatives of other nations ap
plauded as Reagan finished speaking.
But Reagan cited Daniloffs arrest
and his subsequent confinment to
Moscow on spy charges as "a particu
larly disturbing example of Soviet
transgressions against human rights.
The Soviet Union bears the responsibil
ity for the consequences of its action."
On arms control, however, Reaagan's
tone was unusually conciliatory. He
said the Soviets, while unwilling to
accept U.S. proposals for a 50 percent
cut in intercontinental missiles, bom
bers and submarines, have "now em
braced our idea of radical reductions in
offensive systems."
The Soviets had rejected the initial
U.S. demand because it would have
forced abandonment of many of the
heavy land-based missiles that are the
core of their nuclear arsenal.
"The ice of the negotiating stalem
ate could break if both sides inten
sify their efforts in the new round of
Geneva talks" that opened last week,
Reagan told the world leaders gathered
for the opening of the annual General
Assembly session.
In Brief
Official: Combat reserves not ready
WASHINGTON The Army Reserve and National Guard units that
would be needed to bring active-duty divisions up to combat strength are
not ready to fight, and the Army is deceiving itself by arguing otherwise, a
top general says.
Indeed, unless training is improved throughout the service, "our Army
will never have a satisfactory war-fighting capability because no standard
is enforced to bring combat formations up to a uniform level of readiness,"
Maj. Gen. Robert E. Wagner wrote in a recent memo.
"Our reserve components are not combat-ready, particularly National
Guard combat units."
Lt. Col. Craig MacNab, an Army spokesman, said Monday that the memo
"reflected Gen. Wagner's personal, sincere thoughts" on a subject that
has long concerned top brass.
Wagner's views "do not reflect the thinking of the U.S. Army or
TRADOC," but the general was certainly entitled and expected to voice
his concerns, the spokesman added.
Poll: Nebraskans approve of Reagan
OMAHA Sixty-two percent of Nebraskans surveyed said they
approved of President Reagan's job performance, according to a copyright
poll.
Published in Monday's editions of the Omaha World-Herald, the poll of
903 Nebraskans showed that 26 percent disapproved of the president's
performance. The other 12 percent had no opinion.
Reagan's approval rating among Nebraskans has remained above 60
percent in World-Herald polls since the spring of 1983.
Republicans surveyed gave Reagan 79 percent approval. Among
Nebraska Democrats, 45 percent said they disapproved and 41 percent
said they approved.
Of the men questioned, 66 percent approved of Reagan's performance,
while 59 percent of women surveyed approved.
Reagan's lowest ratings in the poll came from farmers and ranchers,
disabled and unemployed people.
Of the 63 farmers and ranchers questioned, 46 percent said they
approved of the president's performance and 40 percent said they
disapproved.
AIDS victims calling hotline for new drug
WASHINGTON Since disclosure officials said Monday,
of the first therapeutic drug to help Federal authorities announced Fri-
AIDS sufferers, thousands have called day that an experimental drug found to
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made more widely available. They
stressed, however, that the drug was
not a cure, and that it could have
serious side effects.
The National Institute of Health said
a special telephone hotline established
to answer questions about the drug had
received more than 3,500 calls between
Friday and Monday.
The hotline, which operates between
8 a.m. EDT and midnight seven days a
week, has been receiving an average of
50 calls per hour on 10 incoming lines
from doctors and patients interested in
being included in further studies of the-
drug.
Unlike other purported developments
involving treatment of acquired immune
deficiency syndrome, inquiries about
azidothymidine, or ATZ, have not been
as frantic as in the past, say operators
of the hotline.
A spokesman for the Whitman Walker
Clinic here, a clearinghouse for AIDS
information, said it has been receiving
calls about ATZ, but said these inquir
ies have not been as urgent as in the
past.
"Overall, people have been calm and
not flooding us with inquiries, partly
because of the hotline established at
NIH before the announcement," said
Jason Whiddon, coordinator of medical
services at the clinic.
AIDS, an incurable condition caused
by a virus that results in destruction of
the body's infection-fighting immune
system, has been reported in 24,859
Americans to date, 13,689 of whom
have died. Until now, there has been no
effective treatment for the disease and
no one is known to have survived it.
ATZ proved so promising in a con
trolled human trial that its maker, Bur
roughs Wellcome Co. of Research Tri
angle Park, N.C., asked the government
to end the trial early for ethical rea
sons. This would allow people who took
part in the study, but who had been
taking a dummy drug, or placebo, to
begin taking AZT.
The AZT patients suffered fewer
deaths and, beginning six weeks after
starting the drug, also had noticeably
fewer bouts with other infections and
cancers associated with AIDS, research
ers say.
Federal authorities asked the Food
and Drug Administration to speed
approval of a new, wider trial that
could allow thousands of AIDS patients,
with conditions similar to those in the
study, to receive the drug in coming
weeks and months.
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