Tuesday, November 11, 1935
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Daily Nebraskan
News Digest
By The Associated Press
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Soviets say arms accord must include all weapons
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MOSCOW Foreign Minister Edward A. Shevardnadze
accused the United States on Monday of trying to "erode the
ground reached in Reykjavik." He demanded anew that a
superpower arms accord include a ban on space weapons.
Shevardnadze said that Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Presi
dent Reagan agreed during their Oct. 1 1-23 Iceland summit
to steps that would eliminate medium-range missiles from
Europe within five years and all strategic nuclear weapons
within a decade.
But he said Shultz outlined a revised and watered down
version of the agreement in principle reached by the two
leaders.
"We had set on the table before us an amazing assort
ment of papers which actually canceled everything achieved
by the sides in Reykjavik.
"The United States wanted to record positions that
would erode the ground reached in Reykjavik."
Shevardnadze said he presented Shultz with a framework
agreement that the two of them could have signed and
passed on to arms negotiators in Geneva for working into
the text of an arms control treaty.
The package restated the Soviet side's understanding of
the Reykjavik agreements on strategic and medium-range
missiles and called for a commitment by both sides to
observe for 10 years the provisions of the 1972 anti-ballistic
missile treaty.
U.S. administration officials have refused to enter into an
accord that would restrict research and development into
Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative for a space-based
defense system, dubbed "Star Wars."
In Washington, meanwhile, White House spokesman
Larry Speakes, said published reports that the United
States will exceed limits of the SALT II arms agreement this
week by making a new cruise missile-carrying bomber oper
ational are "premature." Speakes said plans are to make
the bomber operational "before the end of the year."
U.S. supports Common Market actions
Europeans impose sanctions on Syria
LONDON European Common
Market nations declared sanctions
against Syria on Monday for alleged
support of terrorism and demanded
that it end all backing for terror
groups.
Greece dissented, but the 11 other
memebers agreed to ban all arms sales,
suspend high-level official visits and
increase surveillance of Syrian missions
and operations of Syrian airlines.
President Hafez Assad's government
is the Soviet Union's main Middle East
ally. The effect of the arms embargo is
expected to be more symbolic than
practical, since Syria gets most of its
weapons from the Soviets.
The Socialist goverment of Greece
said it was not convinced Syria was
involved in the attempt to smuggle a
bomb onto an Israeli airliner at Heath
row Airport in London last April. That
case caused Britain to break relations
with Syria last month and ask the
Common Market to join in other
sanctions.
In Washington, White House spokes
man Larry Speakes said in announcing
the Reagan administration's approval
of the decisions: "We believe that steps
by the members of the EEC, whether
collective or individual, are important
in making clear that Syrian support for
international terrorism is unaccept
able." The United States and Canada
recalled their ambassadors from Syria
shortly after Britain broke relations;
with Damascus on Oct. 24. Belgium I
later followed suit, the only Common
Market member to do so.
Libya urged Arab nations to join in
an economic boycott of any European
country that participates in sanctions
against Syria. Its official news agency
JANA called the London meeting part
of "a mad campaign" against its ally.
In Brief
Caller says French hostages released
BEIRUT, Lebanon An anonymous telephone caller claiming to speak
for the Revolutionary Justice organization said the Moslem extremist
group has released two French hostages in west Beirut.
The report could not be confirmed.
The caller told the Beirut newspaper An-Nahar shortly before midnight
that the two captives, whom he did not identify, were set free in Moslem
west Beirut's Ramlet al-Baida residential district at 7:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m.
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An-Nanar said it received the call at 11:45 p.m. (5:45 p.m. CST) but
scores of reporters at the Beaurivage Hotel in Ramlet al-Baida, where it
had been reported earlier that the hostages would be freed, said no
captives had appeared there.
Official: U.S. didn't lose Vietnam War
LINCOLN The adjutant general of the Nebraska National Guard told
State Penitentiary inmates who are veterans of the armed services that
they should be proud of their military duty in Vietnam.
James Carmona told the inmates that those who served in Vietnam
should be as proud as those veterans who served in any of the wars in the
history of the United States.
Camona spoke at a prison symposium on Sunday, two days before
Veterans Day. He took issue with some group members' T-shirts, which
proclaimed that they took second place in the "Southeast Asia War
Games."
Carmona served two tours in Vietnam and said he doesn't remember
losing in a military action.
Nebraskan says bottle crosses ocean
NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. A teen-age boy says a bottle he dropped into
the Missouri River more than a year ago was found half the world away in
Northern Ireland.
Guy Durr, a junior at Nebraska City Lourdes High School, said he forgot
about the bottle until last week, when he received a four-page letter from
a 16-year-old girl named Rachel from near Downpatrick, Northern Ireland.
Durr said he wrote his name and address on a piece of paper that he
stuffed into a small glass Coca-Cola bottle in August 1985, he screwed on
the top and tossed the bottle into the Missouri south of Nebraska City.
Durr said it's possible the bottle floated down the Missouri River to the
Mississippi River, into the Gulf of Mexico and across the Atlantic Ocean.
Estimates from maps put that journey at about 7,000 miles.
Jeffrey Peake, assiciate professor of geography-geology at the University
of Nebraska-Omaha, said currents could have taken the bottle across the
ocean, although the chances of that happening were slim.
"I'd hate to put odds on it," he said. "He's got a one-in-a-million shot, or
one in 10,000."
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Iceland will seek to prosecute
sledge hammer-wielding saboteurs
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Sledgehammer-wielding
saboteurs wrecked Iceland's only plant for
processing whale oil and other byproducts during
the weekend, and on Monday an international
environmental group claimed responsibility for
the attack.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which
earlier took responsibility for the sinking of two
of Iceland's four whaling ships before dawn
Sunday, said it had infiltrated Iceland's whaling
industry in an effort to save the whales.
Iceland said it would seek to extradite any
foreign saboteurs involved. The Sea Shepherds
operate primarily out of the United States and
Canada but have followers in other countries.
No one was injured in the forays early Sunday,
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but heavy damage was done.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has
accused Iceland of conducting illegal commercial
whaling in the guise of scientific research.
Although Iceland abides by the International
whaling Commission's decision to halt commer
cial whaling until 1990, the North Atlantic island
permits the killing of 200 whales a year for
research.
Joanna Forwell, a spokeswoman for Sea
Shepherd, said in Vancouver that the same
saboteurs carried out both attacks and then left
Iceland. She said they opened bottom valves on
the two 430-ton boats, Hvalur 6 and Hvalur 7, in
Reykjavik harbor.
Soviet scientist
urges comprehensive
nuclear test ban
LA JOLLA, Calif. A private agreement for U.S. and
Soviet scientists to monitor both nations' nuclear test
sites is a sincere attempt to eliminate all nuclear wea
pons testing and is no propaganda ploy, a Soviet scient
ist said Monday;,
."I would like to tell the American people that without
nuclear testing we can live more peacefully and more
successfully than with nuclear testing," said Igor Leono
vich Neresesov, a seismologist from the Sovet Academy
of Sciences' Institute of Physics of the Earth.
Last May, the academy and the Washington-based
Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental
group, agreed to install seismometers to monitor earth
tremors from underground nuclear bomb tests at the
main testing sites in the Soviet Union and the United
States. ' .
The agreement is meant to show it is possible to verify
compliance with any future comprehensive test ban
treay and with the unratified treaties that limit under
ground bomb tests to 150 kilotons, said Thomas Coch
ran, senior staff scientist for the U.S. group.
In July, American scientists serving as consultants to
the U.S. group installed seismometers at three locations
around the principal Soviet test site near Semipalatinsk,
about 1,800 miles southeast of Moscow. .They plan to
return next January to install more sophisticated
seismometers.
