Wednesday, September 24, 1986
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evardnadze call
s sup
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summit 'realistic'
UNITED NATIONS - Soviet Foreign
Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze ac
cused President Reagan Tuesday of
harboring "evil designs" for a first
strike with the Star Wars system, but
he said a "realistic possibility" still
existed for a superpower summit.
In an address to the 41st General
Assembly, Shevardnadze called Presi
dent Reagan's U.N. address of Monday
"regrettable" and "propagandistic."
He mixed conciliation with an attack
on U.S. strategic arms policies.
"Whatever is done to conceal it, the
so-called defensive space shield is
being developed for a first strike," She
vardnadze charged.
"Evil designs are being passed for
good intentions, and a sword for a
shield," he said.
Before his speech, the Soviet Foreign
Minister had an unscheduled 45-minute
meeting with Secretary of State George
P. Shultz, apparently to discuss the
confinement of American reporter
Nicholas S. Daniloff in Moscow on spy
charges.
Neither side issued a statement
afterward.
Shevardnadze did not mention Dani
loff in his speech, but the Soviets have
been saying without elaboration that
Daniloff, Moscow correspondent for
U.S. News & World Report magazine,
could be freed "very rapidly" if the U.S.
administration took the right course.
Shavardnadze addressed the Gen
eral Assembly on the second day of its
so-called "general debate," an annual
event which gives heads of state and
government, foreign ministers and other
officials of the 159-member world body
a chance to deliver policy statements
for their governments. Tuesday's speak
ers included British Foreign Secretary
Sir Geoffrey Howe and Japanese For
eign Minister Tadashi Kuranari. Both
expressed the hope for another super-
Israeli jets bomb Lebanon targets;
Syrian president warns of retaliation
BEIRUT, Lebanon Israeli jets
divebomhed Palestinian guerrilla bases
in the hills east of Beirut Tuesday, set
ting at least four targets ablaze, police
said.
The raid came one day after Israel
massed troops along the border with
Lebanon in an apparent warning to
Shiite Moslem guerrillas to cease their
attack in south Lebanon, near Israel.
Syrian President Hafez Assad was
quoted as threatening a "stunning
retaliation" if Israel invades Lebanon.
Police said huge clouds of smoke
billowed from the bluffs of Bayssour,
Keyfoun, Eitat and Shimlan, 12 miles
east of Beirut, after st rikes that began
at r:30 p.m.
Israel's military command in Tel
Aviv said all planes returned safely and
reported hitting bases used for attacks
on Israel by the Abu Moussa guerrilla
faction and the Democratic Front for
the Liberation of Palestine.
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The Abu Moussa Fatan-Upnsing,
which broke away from PLO Chairman
Yasser Arafat's Fatan, said in a com
munique in Beirut that its bases east
and southeast of Beirut sustained con
siderable damage in the air raid.
The Israeli planes made at least four
bombing runs in 40 minutes, with eight
jets taking part in each sortie, police
said. The pilots released red balloons
that distracted the guerrillas' shoulder
fired, heat-seeking SA-7 missiles.
Beirut International Airport was
closed for 30 minutes during the
attacks, with one commercial flight
diverted to Cyprus and four other
flights delayed, aviation officials said.
But tension lessened Tuesday at the
Israel-Lebanon border. Israeli troop
and tank reinforcements rushed there
Monday, poised for a thrust into south
Lebanon to put down a surge of guer
rilla attacks by Iranian-backed Shiite
extremists.
The threat raised fears of a new mil
itary collision between U.S.-supplied
Israel and Soviet-equipped Syria on
Lebanese soil for the second time in
four years.
"If it (Israel) attempts a new inva
sion, the retaliation will be stunning. It
will be a surprise to all." Assad was
quoted as saying by the leftist Beirut
newspaper Al-Hakika.
Federal judge appeals for acquittal
WASHINGTON - Abandoning calm
testimony in his own defense, federal
Judge Harry E. Claiborne beseeched
the Senate impeachment Committee
Tuesday to acquit him if it believes he
was the victim of the "brutal errors" of
income-tax preparers.
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Asked by Sen. Mitch McConnell why
a convicted tax evader should be exon
erated in his impeachment trial, Clai
borne leaned into a microphone and
pleaded for acquittal, "if you honestly
feel in your heart I got a raw deal."
Claiborne, serving time in a federal
prison while still carrying the title, and
salary, of chief U.S. district judge for
Nevada, testified for the second straight
day in his 6-d ay-old trial.
The trial followed a unanimous House
impeachment vote earlier this year.
4If you honestly feel
in your heart that I
got a raw deal and
honestly disclosed
all my income to my
preparers, and they
made brutal errors
in my return for
which I was not
responsible. . . if
that is what you
think, you must vote
with me.'
Claiborne
The committee of 12 senators hearing
evidence will lat er hand the case to the
full Senate for a verdict on whether
Claiborne can keep his lifetime job on
the federal bench.
In addition to urging a favorable
decision so he could restore his own
battered life, the 69-year-old Claiborne
maintained that the independence of
the federal judiciary would suffer if
judges could be "literally chased from
the bench for any reason."
Launching into his theme that he
was framed by vengeful federal prosec
utors, the judge said, "The biggest
danger I can see to the federal courts is
if, ever there be created a buddy rela
tionship between the federal judiciary
and the executive branch of govern
ment." Claiborne was convicted by a federal
jury of failing to pay taxes on $106,651
in legal fee income earned in 1979 and
1980. Described in news stories as a
colorful judge, Claiborne depicted
himself Tuesday as an extrememly
hard-working man who loves the out
doors and is as "colorful and flamboy
ant as a cold mashed potato sandwich."
McConnell, a freshman Republican
senator from Kentucky who has lis
tened intently but asked few questions
before Tuesday, quickly ruptured the
relative sereneness of the judge's tes
timony by asking how he could explain
to voters back home a vote for Clai
borne's acquittal.
The judge launched into an emo
tional appeal of several minutes,
concluding:
"If you honestly feel in your heart
that I got a raw deal and honestly dis
closed all my income to my preparers,
and they made brutal errors in my
return for which I was not responsible .
. . if that is what you think, you must
vote with me."
Continuing a theme he developed
during his testimony Monday, Claiborne
said, "I never pled guilty to being
dumb," but said he did trust his hired
tax preparers because he was so busy
as a judge that "I didn't have time to
breathe."
"I didn't have time for personal
affairs, and I neglected mv personal
affairs terribly," said Claiborne, who
added that he also gave up some of his
beloved outdoors life because he was
exhausted from his work.
power summit this year.
Striking a conciliatory note, She
vardnadze said in his address:
"Lately, encouraging outlines of
meaningful agreements have been
emerging. A summit meeting is also a
realistic possibility. We could move
forward rather smoothly, if that is what
the U.S. side wants."
Shevardnadze urged Washington to
follow up its words about reducing the
threat of nuclear war "with practical
deeds."
"I am authorized to state that the
Soviet Union is prepared to sign at any
time and in any place a treaty on a total
prohibition of nuclear weapons tests "
he said.
Shultz sat grim-faced through She
vardnadze's sppech. He later told
reporters he welcomed the Soviet
proposal for eliminating nuclear wea
pons, "something President Reagan
has long advocated."
Shevardnadze countered Reagan
criticism of Soviet foreign policies by
attacking U.S. policies in North Africa,
Central American and elsewhere.
He said the U.S. administration was
"raising the stick of neoglobalism over
the Mediterrean" and had used it "with
barbaric cruelty in Libya."
Armed fugitive Mils two;
three-state dragnet ensues
WRIGHT CITY, Mo. A fugitive who allegedly killed two people and
abducted several others during a three-state rampage eluded a dragnet
Tuesday, and authorities said a third slaying might be the work of the
same gunman.
Some residents of this small town kept their doors locked and guns
loaded, as more than 100 heavily armed officers using dogs and helicop
ters conducted the hunt for Michael W. Jackson, 41, of Indianapolis.
Jackson had vowed not to be taken alive, the Indianapolis Star said. He
was believed to be armed with a sawed-off shotgun and a pistol.
Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. John Ford said there had been few leads.
But he said authorities suspected Jackson was still in the area because
there had been no reports of stolen vehicles and Jackson apparently fled
on foot after a gun battle with a local police officer.
"We've got nothing, but everyone is still out and that will continue until
he's caught or it's determined that he's out of the area," Ford said.
Officers carrying automatic weapons stopped cars and searched pass
ing freight trains. A man with an appearance similar to Jackson's was
picked up hitchhiking in the area, but later was cleared and released.
Police announced that a man initially thought to have died of head
injuries when his car crashed into a light pole along Interstate 70 late
Monday in St. Peters, about 20 miles east of Wright City, had actually been
shot to death.
Investigators said further examination found that Earl D. Finn, 47, of
O'Fallon, had suffered fatal gunshot wounds to the head, said Lt. Mark
Grimmer of the St. Peters Police Department.
Authorities said Jackson, who has a history of mental problems and a
lengthy criminal record, shot and killed a federal probation officer and a
store clerk in Indianapolis early Monday. He later made his way across
Indiana and Illinois and into eastern Missouri by commandeering cars
and trucks.
Police said he abducted six people along the way, robbed a woman in
suburban St. Louis and wounded a Wright City police officer during a gun
battle before escaping on foot in the wooded, rolling hills about 45 miles
west of St. Louis.
WASHINGTON Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has rejected Presi
dent Eeaia's prcpcsils for an agreement cn space based missile
defenses, insisting that bcth sides shlU by the 1972 Ar.ti ballistic Missile
Treaty for a 15-yeor period, 'ta informed U.S. official tzli Tuesday.
At the United Nations, rces.T.viife, Soviet Fcr?i Mir.bter Eduard
SUererdRsiss charged that the aiT.'.r.Istraiicn's Stress Defense Initia
tive, popularly kr.ov.-a as Star Wars, is an ctter.pt to tdn a military
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Poll: Growing up is Iiard to do
WASHINGTON Three out of four American adults think the prob
lems facing today's children are more severe than when they were growing
up, and even more are willing to pay higher taxes for better schools, drug
treatment, and other services for kids, according to a Louis Harris survey.
The first national survey of public attitudes toward the problems of
children found that drug abuse is perceived as the most serious, with 52
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. vast majority believes a wide range of other problems facing kids, includ-
Hiwgei, snapping, sexual asauit, parental abuse, suicide ana prosti
tution, have increased in recent years.
-The survey, commissioned by the Westinghouser Broadcasting Co.'s
Group W, found that less than half of the public believes that most
American children are basically happy (48 percent), or get a good educa
tion (40 percent), or live in a safe neighborhood (36 percent).
Other findings In the July 29-August 7 survey:
Teen-agers are perceived as particularly at risk, with half of the public
be hevingvthat most teen-agers have sex at least occasionally, 43 percent
believing that most teen-agers use alcohol,' and 31 percent believing that
most use drugs regularly. And only 41 percent of those surveyed said
American teen-agers read and write adequately.
Majorities of adults said they would be willing to increase taxes for
programs to trace missing children (86 percent), for drug prevention
programs (83 percent), for public schools (76 percent), for day care
PrnanlS i7 3 percent) ad for parks and recreation programs (70 per
cent J. And 70 pecent said they at least "somewhat approve" of the
government providing birth control services for teenagers.
