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Wednesday, November 12, 1986 Pago 2 Daily Nebraskan T T est By The Associated Press iiiperocDWOT siims talks U.S.: Geneva negotiations most productive ever GENEVA The chief American negotiator said the round of nuclear arms talks that ends Wednesday has been the most productive so far, partly because of "phenomenal agreements" reached at the U.S.-Soviet summit in Iceland. Max Kampelman said the basis for the Reykjavik agreements between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev was laid in pre vious sessions of the Geneva talks, which began March 12, 1985. Kampelman said American and Soviet negotiators made progress at the sixth round in all three fields covered in Geneva: medium-range mis siles; long-range, or strategic, nuclear weapons, and space and defense sys tems. In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, the U.S. delegation Chief said: "The agreements in Reyk javik as translated here have narrowed the gap between us. We still have a gap to narrow further, and we will have serious significant differences of opin ion, and differences of interest. "But when I look at the round and see all that has been accomplished here I have to say this is the most productive round we've had." The United States feels an arms con trol agreement could be reached in the next year if each side makes a serious effort, he said. Both Washington and Moscow have brought new proposals to Geneva since the summit Oct. 11-12. Agreement is nearest on medium range missiles, Kampelman said, not ing that Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to eliminate them in Europe and retain 100 warheads each on U.S. and Soviet territory. "This means in effect a 100 percent reduction in Soviet SS-20s in Europe and an 80 percent reduction of Soviet SS-20s in Asia," he said, calling that a "very significant agreement." Soviet negotiators have made an important move in the defense and space area by proposing at Geneva that the 1 972 anti-ballistic missile treaty be observed for only 10 years, Kampelman said. The Kremlin previously had in sisted on 15-20 years. Washington has offered to abide by the treaty for five years, he said. Negotiators have agreed to cut arse nals of strategic weapons in half, the American negotiator said, because of a Soviet decision at Reykjavik not to Insist that U.S. bombers based In Europe be included In the count. Agreement has been reached on overall limits for strategic offensive missiles of 6,000 warheads and 1,000 launchers, but no decision has been made on whether to impose "sub limits" on different types of weapons, he said. Officials say MX missile operational OMAHA Without fanfare and with its future still in doubt, the MX nuclear missile has been moved from the drawing board and testing pad to operational status in a remote Wyoming Mis sile field. Strategic Air Command offi cials say the first four MX mis siles have now been activated and stand poised for launch at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, sur rounded by the older Minuteman missiles that currently form the heart of America's land-based intercontinental ballistic missile force. As a result, the land-based leg of America's nuclear triad for the first time ever includes a missile that by itself can boost 10 warheads at once toward the Soviet Union. By comparison, the Minuteman carries no more than three warheads. The Soviet Union, with more than 300 SS-18 missiles deployed, has long had a land-based mis sile capable of carrying 10 war heads. ... The four MX missiles on. alert are among the filQ(g 10 scheduled for actiktisr by late next month to meet what the Air Force calls "Initial Oper ational Capability" for the new weapon. Two French hostages freed; return safely to France PARIS Two Frenchmen freed by Shiite Moslem kidnappers after months of captivity in Lebanon came home Tuesday and were greeted by Premier Jacques Chirac, who thanked Syria for helping arrange the release. Camille Sontag, 85, and Marcel Cou dari, 54, were released in west Beirut Monday night and turned over to French envoys in Damascus, Syria, less than 12 hours later. Coudari, when asked if he had news of other French hostages, replied: "No. But 1 can tell you that things will happen soon." Asked if he was certain, Coudari said: "Well, yes, more or less." He told reporters, citing "a pretty official source," that French hostage Michel Seurat apparently had died of natural causes. The pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem group Islamic Jihad announced March 5 that he had been killed. Coudari said Sontag was held in an underground prison in south Beirut with five other Western captives. According to Coudari, Sontag did not know whether Americans were among the other prisoners. Six Ameri cans are among the missing. The group that held Coudari and Sontag, the Revolutionary Justice Organization, also claimed it kidnapped Americans Frank Reed and Edward Tracy. Conservatives publish book on prison alternatives WASHINGTON Confronted with spiraling costs and crowding in U.S. prisons, a group of conservative scho lars and politicians is advocating alternatives to prison like restitution, community service, and even beatings. There was wide agreement on reserv ing expensive prison space for violent criminals and putting those who com mit non violent property crimes to work, often outside prision, to repay their victims. "The traditional conservative view is: Lock 'em up and throw away the key'," Patrick B. McGuigan, co-editor of the. book, "Crime and Punishment in Modern America," said in an interview. "Leftists have talked for years about opening up the jails. Here are some conservatives who say: "Don't just let them go, but here are some possible paths out of increasing crowding and an increasing burden on the taxpay ers'," McGuigan added. "Penal imprisonment is not always an appropriate punishment for certain types of criminal offenses," they wrote, adding that their proposal "reflects dissatisfaction with American prisons, which are critically overcrowded, waste . millions of tax dollars, and do little to rehabilitate the hundreds of thousands of prisoners currently incarcerated." In Brief Poll: People want to work, not retire LINCOLN A recent poll indicated that Nebraskans apparently want the right to work as long as they possibly can. The Lincoln Star poll of 449 registered voters showed that only 20 percent favor mandatory retirement, while 74 percent are opposed to a mandatory retirement age and six percent have no opinion. Statistics show that Nebraskans tend to live longer than the average American. Results of the poll, conducted Oct. 26 through 29, indicate that a majority of Nebraskans apparently concur with action taken by Congress Oct. 17, which outlawed most mandatory retirement effective Jan. 1. The new legislation amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, which initially prohibited people from being required to retire before the age of 65, but later was amended to raise the mandatory age to 70. The poll showed that younger people more strongly oppose mandatory retirement than older people. Skull protest LITTLE ROCK, Ark. An Indian skull that was scheduled to be auctioned Tuesday as part of a large artifact collection was removed from the sale list after an Indian group complained. "It is definitely pulled and will not be sold," said Shirley Martin of Dalton Dailey and Associates, an auctioneering firm. The company was hired to sell the Indian artifact collection of Sam Spikes, 51, a Little Rock insurance agent who pleaded guilty last month to cocaine distribution. "Particularly, what caught us was the idea that somebody was going to sell a skull," Paul Austin, director of the American Indian Center of Arkansas, said Monday. "It looks like most of the stuff this guy's got is from a grave." Dan Littlefield, director of the American Native Press Archives at the University of Arkansas, said Arkansas has no laws against disturbing Indian burial sites. Dial-a-porn prank MADISON, Wis. People calling the Madison Telefun Line over the weekend to find out what was happening in the city found themselves listening to a dial-a-porn recording instead. Police said Monday they are trying to find the practical joker who changed the Greater Madison Convention and Visitor's Bureau message from an entertainment agenda to an erotic message from a woman. Bureau employees set a tape-recorded message to play after 5 p.m. Friday, but found the erotic message Monday morning. Police said someone may have discovered a code that allows bureau employees to call and update the message and substituted a recording from a dial-a-porn service. Explosions hit Paris office buildings PARIS Bombs exploded at three Paris office buildings almost simultaneously early Tuesday, wounding one person and damaging the structure, fire officials said. Direct Action, an extreme left-wing group, reportedly said it set off the blasts at the headquarters of the automaker Peugeot and at the multistory Manhattan Tower and the Total Tower because of their commerical links with the white-controlled government of South Africa. Police said the first bomb blast occurred at about 1 a.m. (8 p.m. CST) at the Peugeot building, just west of the Arc de Triomphe. Firemen reported one person was slightly wounded and the building was severely damaged. The explosions at the two towers, both at the suburban office complex La Defense west of downtown Paris, followed moments later. Fire officials said damage at the Total Tower was heavy but slight at the Manhattan Tower, and that there were no injuries. The two structures, which are each about 40 stories tall, are some distance apart in the huge La Defense complex. ' Further details on the explosions were not immediately available. Both Total, a petroleum company, and Peugeot have business dealings in South Africa Editor Managing Editor Assoc. News Editors Graphics Editor Editorial Page Editor Editorial Page Asst. Wire Editor Copy Desk Chief Sports Editor Arts & Entertain ment Editor Photo Chief Night News Editors Art Director Diversions Editor Jeff Korbslik 472-1766 Gene Gentrup Tammy Kaup Linda Hartmann Kurt Eberftardt James Rogers Todd vrtn Kampen Scott Thien Joan Rezac Chuck Green Scott Harnh Andrea Hoy Geoff Goodwin Jeanni Bourne Tern Lauder Charles Ucuranct Catholic bishop-elect moderates to group WASHINGTON America's Roman Catholic bishops, beating back a challenge by conservative prelates,, elected twa Midwestern moderates Tues day to lead their national organization for the next three years. . The group's new president, Archbishop John L. May of St. Louis, spoke almost immediately of "a great need for healing" among Catholics who are chafing under church rules that some see as too rigid in the 20th century. However, May's comments made it clear that he and others in the National Conference of Catholic Bishops weren't about to push for any revolt against Vatican authority. "We are members of the universal C.aihnKo - ' w wv -WWAftVAAU Church," he said at a brief news conference. "We are pledged as bishops to work in unity with the visible symbol of unity who is the Holy Father, the pope. "And we will do it, our healing, in that . way. There's no other way we can," he said. Still, election of May and of Cincinnati Archbi shop Daniel Pilarczyk as vice president suggested a continuaton of the activist bent of the bishops' conference a stance that has been unpopular with some high Vatican officials who see all church authority as emanating from Rome. Conservative bishops made a strong push for Boston Cardinal Bernard Law. However, a majority of the bishops, many of whom are upset over this year's Vatican disciplining of liberal Seattle Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen, defeated Law, who has been outspoken in defense of the Vatican's action in that and other cases. Many of the nearly 300 bishops attending the conference met behind closed doors all Tuesday afternoon, thrashing out the Hunthausen case and trying to decide what, if any, public response to make. A spokesman for Hunthausen said the archbi shop would have no comment until the session is finished. General Manager Daniel S!s;i;l Production Manager KjSerists Fe'Ecky Aoverusing Manager Lesley Larssn Student Advertisina Manager Bryan ttrrl Creative Director Ksily Wirss?: ruDiicaiions ooaro - rrx, Chairman Karrisert S:hu!U. 474-7C.3 - Professional Adviser Con Wa&jL 4J3-7SS1 The Dailv Nebraskan (USP&tSSsS 'is:: published by the UNL Publicafm Boards Monaay inrougn rrioay in me ran anasprmg. semesters and Tuesdays and Fridays trrttie summer sessions, except during vacations. Subscription price is $35 for one year. Postmaster: send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan. Nebraska Union 34, 1400 R St.. Lincoln. Neb. 6S588-0448. Second-class' postage paid at Lincoln, NE. : All KATE RIAL CSFYSIGMT 133 DAILY KS3A.SXAI . Manufacturer: Lava LavaLites oozing back into style z-JTZOAGO The Lava Lite, that undulating tsrL.:' Jty stalty associate with the psychedelic bus, S a -iitback into popularity, the manufacturer Actually. Lava Lites never went" out of style among the middle Americans who buy most of them, acrGlngtojiYimplex Inteimtionaie, maker of -Tes:ilncreaed'sharDly In recent years? a boom that Lava-Simplex President John Mundy attributes to the same generation that has made The Monkees and paisley-print clothes vogue again. - "I have heard that 4he college kids are very interested in the product now,' Mundy said "at the company's Chicago headquarters.""! think thefeare a lot of kids who've never seen them. They're 18 and 1 A J 1 . . iw ana nave never seen a Lava Lite. For those who missed them the first time around, Lava Lites are electric lamps that somewhat resem ble clear, 17-inch-tall beer bottles. A 40-watt bulb in the metal base illuminates the iiviyidlycplored liquid inside and heats a shiny, it"eunceblob of waxy material at the bottom. As "-tte colored blob warms and melts, it rises and falls in slow motion through the liquid. "Everybody puts it on top. of the television," Mundy said. "That's the classic place." - "I remember it well," said the 40-year-old Mundy - - t'L in colUge when the Lavalite came out in 1965. A store down th'e street had two Lava Lites in the window going 24 hours a day. You couldn't walk down that street without stooDins? and staring at them." He said he couldn't afford to spend $25 on what then struck him as a "frivolous" oddity, and never dreamed that one day he'd be making Lava Lites, which now sell for $45 to $55. Mundy said he joined the company in 1978, two years after his father-in-law, Lawrence Haggerty, bought it from founders Alolph Wertheimer and Hyram Spector, who have since died.' Wertheimer and Spector began making Lava Lites in 1885 after acquiring the manufacturing rights from inventor Craven Walker of Bath, Eng land, who called them Astro Lites, Mundy said.