Wednesday, October 29, 1986
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Daily Nebraskan
Me&g&m approves sums package
U.S. proposes weapons cutbacks, withdrawal
WASHINGTON President Reagan
has approved a package of proposals
for sharp reduction in U.S. and Soviet
strategic nuclear weapons and the
withdrawal of intermediate-range nu
clear missiles from Europe, adminis
tration officials said Tuesday.
The package puts on the negotiating
table in Geneva the key proposals Rea
gan made to Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Gorbachev at their summit in Iceland
earlier this month. It includes a
ban on all U.S. and Soviet ballistic mis
siles by 1996, said the officials, who
were willing to discuss the subject only
on the condition they not be named
publicly.
So far, Soviet negotiators have res
isted taking up seriously the proposals
Reagan discussed with the Soviet
Communist Party General Secretary on
Oct. 11-12, said Kenneth L. Adelman,
Institute says
cancer deaths
can be reduced
WASHINGTON The National
Cancer Institute said Tuesday
that the aggressive use of exist
ing knowledge could cut the
annual cancer death rate in half
by the year 2000.
The institute released a plan,
combining cancer prevention,
screening, early detection and
treatment, that it said could
produce dramatic results by the
turn of the century if it were
adopted as a national goal.
Detailed in a new report
entitled "Cancer Control Objec
tives for the Nation: 1985-2000,"
the plan calls for stepped-up
efforts against cigarette smoking
and poor diet and earlier use of
the latest diagnostic techniques.
Among other things, it calls
for industry to increase health
promotion in the workplace, the
news media to better spread
information about cancer prev
ention and control, voluntary
organizations to offer more health
education and screening programs
at the local level and health pro
fessional groups to reemphasize
cancer control in training pro
grams. The national mortality rate
from cancer in 1980, based on
the latest available data, was 183
deaths per 100,000 persons an
nually. This figure could be cut
by as much as 50 percent in 15
years by using the prevention
and treatment knowledge already
available, ND1 officials said.
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director of the U.S Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency.
Adelman said separate talks would
be held with the Soviets next week in
Geneva on improving the verification of
underground nuclear tests. Reagan told
Gorbachev that better monitoring
procedures could lead to a treaty out
lawing all blasts.
U.S. military chiefs wanted to con
sider first the impact that a missile ban
would have on defending Western
Europe from Soviet attack. NATO ground
forces are outmanned by Warsaw Pact
troops.
Reagan's proposal on strategic wea
pons calls for a 50 percent reduction in
U.S. and Soviet long-range bombers,
intercontinental ballistic missiles and
submarines within five years.
A ceiling of 1,600 would be imposed
on all U.S. and Soviet strategic nuclear
Superpowers negotiate agreement
Soviet scientists to visit,
monitor U.S. nuclear test sites
NEW YORK Soviet seismologists
will visit the United States in November
to select locations in California and
Nevada for equipment to monitor the
Earth tremors from U.S. nuclear wea
pons tests, a scientist said Tuesday.
The visit is the latest step in an
agreement negotiated privately between
U.S. and Soviet scientists that has
allowed Americans for the first time to
begin such monitoring inside the
Soviet Union, said Thomas Cochran,
senior staff scientist of the Natural
Resources Defense Council.
However, the government won't
permit the Soviet scientists to visit the
Animal exhibitor denies
cruelty to animal charges
BOSTON An animal exhibitor
charged with cruelty after officials
seized two of his tigers on a New Hamp
shire farm and an elephant in a Massa
chusetts parking lot said Tuesday he is
the victim of fanatics.
Brian Watson, 42, who has owned
and operated the East Coast Camel Co.
in Essex for 22 years, is charged with
animal cruelty and stealing back six
monkeys and a camel taken from him
by the Animal Rescue League of Boston.
Grossing guard, 73, lulled
in hit-and-run accident
CHICAGO Evelyn Despenza spent
most of her 73 years looking out for
children, shepherding them safely
across busy streets to school, watching
them play from her living-room window,
pushing their swings on the playground.
After 33 years as a crossing guard,
she was killed in the line of duty Mon
day when she stepped off a curb to help
a child. She walked into the path of a
car that struck her and sped away.
"The kids have accepted it," Dian A.
Cooper, principal at Warren School,
said Tuesday. "They're rather subdued,
but they're going on."
"We talked with the kids about how
we want to remember her, and we
decided we'll participate in whatever
the family plans," Cooper said. "But
the kids felt strongly about this, and
we're going to try and get some kind of
memorial, maybe a plaque, put out on
her corner."
Cooper was one of the first to reach
Despenza, a widow who lived alone.
"There was this guy bending over her
and he was crying," Cooper said. "When
he left, somebody said, 'That was him,
the driver.' One of my aides followed
him in her car and got his license plate
number."
Two hours later, Charles Davis, 35,
surrendered to police and was charged
delivery vehicles. Intercontinental bal
listic missiles and submarine-launched
missiles would be held to a total of 600.
The Soviets also have proposed a 50
percent cutback, but their formula and
the kind of nuclear weapons to be
covered by the reductions differ from
the U.S. aproach.
The U.S. proposal on Euromissiles
would require the dismantling of 108
Pershing 2 missiles in West Germany
and 32 cruise launchers, with 128 war
heads, in Britain, Italy and Belgium. All
are aimed at the Soviet Union.
The Soviets, meanwhile, would be
compelled to dismantle 270 SS-20 mis
siles, with 810 warheads, aimed at
Western Europe. Another 100 warheads
could remain in Asian territories, while
the United States would retain 100
warheads at home to match them
numerically.
actual sites for the equipment because
they don't represent the Soviet govern
ment, he said.
The agreement is intended to pro
mote the signing of arms-control a
greements by making it possible for
Americans to verify that the Soviet
Union is observing any such agree
ments, Cochran said.
The three American monitoring sta
tions now operating near the Soviet
Union's principal nuclear test site near
the city of Semipalatinsk, about 1,800
miles southeast of Moscow, are ade
quate to detect any violations of the
current Soviet moratorium on nuclear
weapons tests, Cochran said.
Leauge officials say inspections of
the Essex farm found unsanitary condi
tions, cramped quarters and sick and
dying animals.
"This is the worst case of cruelty I've
seen in my 15 years with the league,"
said Richard W. Bryant, prosecuting
state officer for the organization. "Some
of the animals were in pretty rough
shape and their quarters were filthy..
We have witnesses who have seen him
beating the animals."
with drunken driving, misdemeanor
leaving the scene of an accident and
failing to yield to a pedestrian, said
police Sgt. James Knightly.
Davis posted bond and was sche
duled to appear in court Nov. 24.
knightly said that if Davis waited
beyond three hours to surrender he
could have been charged with a felony.
Despenza was only the second cross
ing guard killed on the job since the
police department initiated the pro
gram in August 1951, said Ramona
Shiffer, crossing guard coordinator for
the department.
"The fact that we've only lost two
speaks well about our guards and . . .
that the majority of motorists are care
ful when they approach schools," said
Shiffer.
"It's sad," said Patrolman Michael
Fratto, who works in the South Side
district that included Mrs. Despenza's
corner. "I only saw her when she came
in to pick up her check, but she was a
real sweetheart. You could just see
that."
"I've know her all 33 years she's
been with us, and in her later years, she
pretty much lived for the job," recalled
Shiffer.
"After she lost her husband and her
children moved away, this became her
entire life."
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In Brief
Officials choose execution witnesses
LINCOLN For the first time since the 1959 execution of Charles
Starkweather, state officials have named witnesses for a pending execu
tion, officials said.
Nebraska State Penitentiary officials have named five media represen
tatives to serve as witnesses at the execution of Wesley Peery, scheduled
for Nov. 14. .
Even though officials say Peery likely will receive a stay of execution,
penitentiary Warden Gary Grammer decided that full preparations are
warranted to train staff and to resolve potential problems in advance of an
actual execution, said Hohenstein.
Preliminary arrangements were made with an executioner some five
weeks ago, shortly after the Nebraska Supreme Court set Peery's execu
tion date, Hohenstein said. Part of the agreement with the executioner,
who is from out of state, is Xhat he is never identified, he said.
The executioner has overseen several executions in other states, such
as Virginia and Florida, Hohenstein said.
Some experts say Nebraska probably will have an execution within the
next two years. Peery was sentenced to death in 1975 for the shooting
death of Lincoln coin shop operator Marianne Mitzner.
The five media representatives, chosen by Grammer, are Michael
McKnight, WOWT, representing television; Rod Colvin, WOW, represent
ing radio; Jim Ivey, Omaha World Herald, representing print; Ed Howard,
representing Associated Press; and Tobin Beck, representing United
Press International.
Custer's last shirt sells for $32,000
WETHERSFIELD, Conn. Custer's last shirt, a raggedy wool garment
billed as once belonging to the Army general most remembered for
Custer's Last Stand, has been sold to the owner of a New York gallery for
$32,000. He bid on behalf of Alexander Acevedo, owner of Alexander
Gallery in New York.
The company that auctioned the shirt Saturday listed it as Gen. George
Armstrong Custer's last shirt because no other garmetns are left from the
wardrobe of the Civil War veteran. He died in the Battle of Little Big Horn
in Montana in 1976 when his command was wiped out by the Sioux.
The navy blue shirt, trimmed in faded yellow, allegedly was given by
Custer's wife to one of the general's orderlies. William O. Taylor, who
fought under Custer, then obtained the shirt from the orderly and in 1885
donated it to the Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield, Mass. The museum
recently decided to sell the shirt and some other Custer memorabilia.
The shirt had been appraised by Riba-Mobley Auctions Inc. at $40,000
to $60,000.
Statue of Liberty turns 100
NEW YORK The Statue of Liberty celebrated its real birthday
Tuesday at a ceremony that featured its designation as a world landmark.
The statue, which was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland on Oct.
28, 1886, joined such landmarks as the Great Pyramids on the list of World
Heritage Sites.
Under the terms of an international treaty ratified by the Senate in
1973, such sites are deemed "of outstanding universal value to mankind."
At the end of the ceremony, a time capsule was dedicated to be opened
a century from Tuesday. Its contents included 25 Associated Press news
stories on the subject of liberty written during 1986.
Survey: Seat belt law supported
OMAHA Nearly three of every five Nebraskans questioned say they
wanted to keep the state's mandatory seat belt law, according to a
copyright poll in Tuesday's editions of the Omaha World Herald.
The question of retaining or repealing the law will be on the general
election ballot in Nebraska on Nov. 4. The measure requires those riding
in the front seat to wear seat belts.
In a survey of 898 registered voters conducted by telephone last week,
59 percent said they favored keeping the seat belt law, 37 percent said
they wanted to repeal the law and 4 percent said they were undecided.
U.S. to mint silver bullion coin
Today Treasury Secretary James Baker will preside over the minting of
the first American Eagle silver bullion coins at the U.S. Assay Office in San
Francisco.
The coins, with a $1 face value, will contain one ounce of fine silver. As
with the gold coins, the sales price will be based on the market price of
the silver with an additional fee added by the Mint and by the coin
dealers.
Since silver is selling for less that $6 an ounce currently, the silver
coins will be substantially cheaper than the gold coins, but dealers said
the demand may not be feverish. The silver coins will go on sale Nov. 24 to
27 primary dealers who will resell them to the public.
The country has not had a gold coin in general circulation since 1933,
when the United States went off the gold standard," revoking the long
standing practice of promising to redeem paper money in gold.
Both the gold and silver coins mark the first time the U.S. Mint has ever
manufactured a bullion coin, one whose value is based on the metal
content.
Reagan Administration Reports Record
Deficit for 1986
WASHINGTON The federal government amassed a record $220.7
billion deficit in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 despite enactment of
major deficit-reduction legislation, the Reagan administration reported
Tuesday.
The government took in $769.1 billion in receipts and paid out $989.8
billion in expenditures, the Treasury Department and the White House
Office of Management and Budget said in a joint report.
That produced an $8.8 billion increase in federal red ink over the
previous record deficit of $211.9 billion in fiscal year 1985.
There have now been deficits in 25 of the past 26 years, running up a
total accumulated national debt of $2.2 trillion.
Although the fiscal 1986 deficit represented a 4.2 percent increase over
the year before, it was still $9.5 billion below the $230.2 billion that the
OMB had estimated for the year as recently as August.