Tuesday, October 28, 1986
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Daily Nebraskan
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Gorbachev says U.S. misrepresented summit
MOSCOW Soviet leader Mikhail
S. Gorbachev on Monday accused the
White House of "gross misrepresenta
tion" in its accounts of the Reykjavik
summit, but he said the superpowers
could still work out their problems.
A member of the Soviet summit
delegat ion, meanwhile, reiterated Soviet
claims that President Reagan had
agreed in principle to a proposal to
eliminate all Soviet and U.S. nuclear
weapons in 10 years.
The Reagan administration has dis
puted the claim. White House spokes
man Larry Speakes said Monday in
Washington that Reagan discussed
abolition of all nuclear arms during the
summit but never proposed more than
the elimination of all ballistic missiles
in 10 years.
Gorbachev's statement was the latest
Former top
White House aide
dead at 87
HANOVER, N.H. - Sherman
Adams, the flinty Yankee who
served as Dwight Eisenhower's
counselor and wielded so much
power in the White House that he
was known as "assistant presi
dent," died Monday at age 87.
Adams took charge of the coun
try's affairs during Eisenhower's
hospitalization for a heart attack
in 1955. A few years later, how
ever, Adams fell from power when
he resigned after it was learned
he had accepted expensive gifts,
including a vicuna coat, from an
industrialist.
Adams died at S a.m. at Mary
Hitchcock Memorial Hospital of
respiratory arrest and renal fail
ure, spokesman Annie Proulx
said. He had been hospitalized
since Sept. 29.
A former Republican speaker
of the New Hampshire House and
member of Congress, Adams was
governor when he engineered
Eisenhower's victories in the 1952
New Hampshire presidential pri
mary and in the general election.
He later was the man who said
"no" for the president, and his
influence was such that Eisen
hower reportedly did not approve
any policy papers that were not
initialed "S.A., O.K."
During Eisenhower's hospital
ization, a committee of top-ranking
officials ran the country with
Adams in charge, president in
everything but name. Eisenhower
called Adams "the Boss." Others
called him "the Rock" or the
'Abominable No-Man."
Born Jan. 8, 1899, in the par
sonage of his minister grand
father in East Dorset, Vt., Llewel
lyn Sherman Adams traced his
ancestors to the Revolutionary
Adamses.
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in a series of efforts to counter U.S. were carried by the official Soviet news
accounts of what the superpowers ten- agency Tass.
tat ivelv agreed to before they reached a Gorbachev said the proposals in-
stalemate at the summit over the U.S. eluded an initial 50 percent cut in stra-
Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star tegic nuclear weapons, elimination of
Wars." all medium-range missiles in Europe, a
"At the recent meeting with the U.S. ban on the testing of space weapons
president in Reykjavik, the Soviet side and a nuclear test ban.
put on the table a package of inter- "If the American side had accepted
linked proposals" on arms control, the package, a real process of the elim-
Gorbachev said in a message to a wri- ination of nuclear weapons would have
ters conference in Bulgaria. His remarks got under way," Gorbachev said.
U.S. criticizes Syrian
role in Mideast terrorism
WASHINGTON - Ever since Syria
went on the U.S. terrorist list as a char
ter member in 1979, the United States,
in deciding whether to crack down on
President Hafez Assad's government,
has had to weigh the leverage Damas
cus may have with anti-Western ele
ments in the Middle East.
The dilemma was evident again Mon
day as the State Department registered
its "great displeasure" with Syria's pol
icies while also trying publicly to hold
Assad to his pledge to assist the seven
U.S. citizens listed as hostages in
southern Lebanon.
Also, terrorist experts within and
outside the U.S. government are con
vinced that Syria plays a double role
providing a safe haven for Abu Nidal,
head of the Fatah Revolutionary Coun
cil, and others accused of terrorism,
but also assisting American hostages,
at least after they are released.
Privately, State Department officials
have no doubt that both Syria and Iran
use terrorism to advance their political
aims. Secretary of Defense Caspar W.
Weinberger blamed both governments
t hree years ago for the bombing of the
U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut that
killed 241 U.S. servicemen.
The United States also accused Syria
of responsibility for the bombing of the
American embassy in Beirut the pre
vious April. The Nidal group, which
operates out of the Syrian-controlled
Bekka valley of Lebanon, took respon
sibility for the bombings at the ticket
counters of El Al, the Israeli airline, in
the Rome and Vienna airports last
December, in which five of the 18 killed
were U.S. citizens.
On the other hand, the United States
actively seeks Syria's support in hos
tage and hijacking incidents involving
terrorist groups. For this reason, and
also because Syria, as a key Arab coun
try is considered a leading player in any
Middle East settlement, the Reagan
administration resisted moves this year
in Congress to break ties with Damascus.
Shots fired at Wahoo lawman
WAIIOO The Saunders County Sheriffs Department has been
unsuccessful in trying to track down an unidentified man who shot at a
deputy before fleeing in a pickup truck.
The deputy reported that he fired three shots at the man, who fired at
least two shots at the deputy, Sgt. Thomas Shires said.
Shires declined to identify the deputy, who was not injured. The other
man may have been hit once, Shires said.
The deputy was patrolling the county when he spotted the truck parked
in the University of Nebraska Field Laboratory near Mead. When the
deputy turned his car around after driving past the lab, the truck drove off.
After the deputy pursued the truck for 2 12 miles, the pickup stopped
and a man got out of the passenger side. The deputy had just gotten out of
his car when the man fired at him.
The deputy returned fire. The man got back in the truck and his
companion drove it away at a high speed. The deputy didn't chase the
truck. , .
Authorities aren't sure why the two men were parked in the lab, Shires
said.
Reagan signs anti-drug law
WASHINGTON President Reagan signed a $1.7 billion ant i-drug law
Monday to bolster local and federal law enforcement efforts, stiffen
criminal penalties for traffickers and launch an educational and medical
campaign aimed at reducing user demand.
The comprehensive measure contains S220 million for information
programs and $241 million for treatment.
Though the death penalty was dropped, the bill still provides tougher
sentences for drug-related crimes and creates new penalities for selling
the particularly insidious new form of cocaine called "crack."
The bill also:
O Doubles the federal drug interdictions budget to $6:)4.9 million.
Provides $230 million in grants to local law enforcement agencies.
Expands the power of U.S. drug agents to operate overseas.
Provides mandatory minimum sentences for major drug traffickers
and outlaws distribution and manufacture of so-called designer drugs.
Requires that at least 500 Coast Guard officers be assigned to U.S.
Navy drug-interdiction ships in American waters.
Authorizes $63 million in foreign aid to help other nations combat the
drug trade.
Spy arrest
SAN FRANCISCO A disgruntled former Air Force man was arrested
Monday and charged with trying to deliver secrets about an Air Force
reconnaissance program to the Soviet Union, authorities said.
Allen John Davies of San Jose, a naturalized American citizen who
works for Ford Aerospace & Communications Corp., was arrested by FBI
agents in Palo Alto, south of San Francisco, said U.S. Attorney Joseph
Russoniello.
Davies provided "detailed verbal information" about the program as
well as a "hand drawing depicting various aspects" of the program,
according to the statement by Agent Roger Edstrom.
Negative campaigning: "The dark side of politics"
WASHINGTON - Negative cam
paigning, the volatile "dark side of
politics" that some call mudslinging, is
making its presence felt heavily this
year in campaigns across the nation.
Personal attacks as well as accusa
tions of conflict of interest, absentee
ism in high office and political extrem
ism have left their stamp on many
Senate, House and gubernatorial cam
paigns. "In these last weeks before an elec
tion, we see again the dark side of
politics," Sen. John C. Danforth, R-Mo.,
told the Senate earlier this month.
"Each campaign plumbs new depths of
name-calling in thirty-second TV com
mercials that transform personal attack
into an art form.
"Politics becomes an even dirtier
job, hardening to its practitioners,
revolting to the public," he said.
"This year's campaign has deterio
rated into an unproductive name-calling
contest," Pennsylvania Republican Lt.
Gov. William Scranton III said last
week. "It has become like a back alley
brawl.-Mudslinging is not leadership.
... We dirty our own nest and it is time
to clean that up."
Among the many negative examples
around the country:
In Wisconsin last weekend, consu
mer advocate Ralph Nader, question
ing why Republican Sen. Robert Kasten's
drunk-driving arrest has not become a
bigger campaign issue, said Kasten
"needs rehabilitation rather than re
election." In Illinois, a spokesman for Demo
cratic challenger Adlai Stevenson ac
cused GOP Gov. James Thompson of
The story "Lincoln clubs, bars cater
to students who choose booze," (Daily
Nebraskan, Oct. 24) misspelled the
name of KZUM music director Ken Hav
lat. His name was spelled Ken Havlet.
Also in the story the band Flaming Lips
was misspelled Flaming Libs. The Daily
Nebraskan regrets the errors.
FAA regulators tighten air traffic control;
revamp airspace regulations, penalties
WASHINGTON - The Federal
Aviation Administration, concerned
about the potential for disaster in
the sky, moved Monday to lessen the
risk of small planes improperly fly
ing into airspace used by commer
cial traffic near 23 major airports.
The action came less than two
months after a single-engine private
plane collided with a Aeromexico
Airlines jetliner over Cerritos, Calif.,
and killed 82 people, including at
least 15 in a residential neighbor
hood where the DC-9 fell to earth
and burst into flames.
Among the 40 recommendations
sent to FAA Administrator Donald
Eagen by the task force and endorsed
by the administrator Monday were
plans to:
Simplify the so-called terminal
control areas, or TCAs, at the 23
major airports, to make restricted
airspace boundaries easier to follow
on navigational maps, and therefore
easier to avoid.
Require all aircraft that enter a
TCA or fly above or below it to have a
radar signal transponder that shows
the planes' altitude, as well as posi
tion, on the air traffic controllers'
radar scope.
The FAA and industry estimate
about half of the general aviation
aircraft that have transponder equip
ment have models that do not pro
vide altitude information.
Increase enforcement to catch
pilots who enter restricted airspace
without authorization or without
proper equipment, and increase the
penalties for all violators. A pilot
caught improperly in a TCA would
be subject to minimum 60-day sus
pension and would have to undergo
testing before retrieving his or her
license.
being "close with unsavory elements in
labor" because he had accepted a
$10,000 contribution from the Hotel
and Restaurant Employees Union which
the President's Commission on Organ
ized Crimes has linked to racketeering.
In Colorado's Senate race, a televi
sion commercial for Democratic Rep.
Tim Wirth shows a white-haired woman
waving a copy of the Congressional
Record and complaining to unseen
Republican candidate Ken Kramer, "The
record proves you voted twice to cut my
Social Security."
British lawmaker
resigns after
sex scandal
LONDON Margaret Thatcher ap
peared in no hurry Monday to replace
Jeffrey Archer, who resigned as a Con
servative Party deputy chairman in a
sex scandal one Tory lawmaker called
"some tittle tattle over some tart."
Archer was appointed to the job a
year ago by Prime Minister Thatcher,
who held top-level talks Monday in an
attempt to minimize the political dam
age. The best-selling novelist resigned
Sunday after admitting he had offered
2,000 pounds ($2,800) to a prostitute
who told him newspapers were after
her story because one of her clients
said she had a relationship with Archer,
46. He insisted he never met her but
offered the money so she could leave
the country.
Archer quit after the weekly News of
the World reported that he tried to pay
the prostitute," Monica Coghlan, through
a middleman last Friday.