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Monday, March 2, 1987
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Soviets offer
MOSCOW State-run Soviet news
media Sunday hailed Mikhail S. Gor
bachev's offer to rid Euro.no of super
power medium range nuclear missiles
as a "historic chance" w hich the United
States could not legitimately pass up.
"There is the possibility In a short
time to free our common European
home from a significant share of the
nuclear burden," Soviet journalist
To in as Kolesnichenko said on the tele
vision program "International Pan
orama." . , '
Broadcast media and the Tass news
agency also highlighted statements
from foreign leaders backing the new
Soviet proposal.
The media reaction, similar to pre
vious campaigns to marshal support for
Kremlin positions, was clearly designed
to put pressure on the United States to
respond quickly to the Soviet offer.
Gorbachev announced Saturday that
the Soviets were willing to negotiate a
separate accord with the United States
on medium-range missiles in Europe.
The Kremlin had previously linked
such an agreement to a demand that
the United States limit testing on its
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Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star
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Speculation arose that the new Soviet
position is linked to Gorbachev's
campaign for economic and social re
forms in the Soviet Union and the need
to trim defense spending so allocat ions
can be increased for other uses.
The new Soviet position seemed sure
Western Europe welcomes Gorbachev's offer;
NATO official calls plan a 'step forward'
LONDON Western Europeans on
Sunday welcomed the surprise Soviet
offer of a separate deal to eliminate
medium-range nuclear missiles in Eurojx',
saying it was the long awaited break
through to an agreement.
Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Gen
scher of West Germany said it removed
"the main obstacle" to an accord.
NATO Secretary-General Lord Carring
ton called the offer "a substantial step
forward."
The Danish Foreign Ministry said it
was "a good and positive signal" and
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to win support in Western Europe,
where opposition to nuclear weapons is
widespread.
Gorbachev has met with officials
from several NATO countries in recent
months to discuss European security,
the latest being Italian Foreign Minister
Giulio Andreotti on Friday.
The governments of West Germany,
Belgian Foreign Minister Leo Tinde
mans said his reaction was to "rejoice."
The governments of Britain, France,
the Netherlands and Italy were among
those which refrained from any quick
assessment, saying they wanted time to
study the Soviet offer.
Soviet and U.S. arms control nego
tiators in Geneva scheduled a special
session Monday to discuss Gorbachev's
appeal that an accord on medijm-range
missiles be reached "without delay."
Genscher said the Soviet leadership
recognized that the issue of medium-
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Ford: Reagan will survive Iran-Contra scandal
LINCOLN Former President Gerald Ford says he's confident the
Reagan administration will survive the Iran-Contra scandal, but it's
reduced the presidential prospects of Vice President George Bush.
"It's not the major crisis in this century," Ford told reporters Saturday.
However, he said, "there's no doubt that (Bush's candidacy) has suffered
to some extent so far."
Ford commended President Reagan for appointing Howard Baker to
succeed Donald Regan as chief of staff, calling the appointment an
important move toward restoring good relations between the White House
and Congress.
Reagan will take a second positive step this week when he is scheduled
to deliver a speech responding to the Tower commission report, Ford said.
Ford, a Nebraska native, was in Lincoln to accept an award from a
foundation that promotes tourism in the state.
Ski lift accident kills five, injures dozens
TARBES, France A damaged chairlift pitched dozens of skiers onto
rocks and snow far below Sunday, killing five of them and badly injuring 25
of the Pyrenees resort of Luz-Ardiden, officials said.
Some victims reportedly fell from heights of up to 130 feet.
Local news media gave conflicting reports, saying the lift cable
snapped, that it jumped off a pulley, or that a support pylon may have
collapsed. The cause of the accident has not been determined.
The chairlift, on the resort's upper slopes at an altitude of nearly 10,000
feet, was new and opened just two weeks ago.
The resort is high in the Pyrenees mountains running along the border
between France and Spain. Luz-Ardiden is about 20 miles south of the
pilgrimage town of Lourdes.
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Denmark and Belgium on Sunday wel
comed the Soviet offer. Britain, t ranee,
the Netherlands and Italy said they
needed more time to study it.
In Geneva, U.S. officials said they
believed the Soviets made the new
offer in hopes it would increase Western
European opposition to the so-called
"broad interpretation" of the 1972 anti-
range missiles could not be linked to
East-West disputes over President Rea
gan's Star Wars program.
"By separating medium-range mis
siles from other disarmament issues,
Gorbachev has removed the main obsta
cle to an agreement on reducing and
destroying all Soviet and American
medium-range missiles," he said.
"It is reasonable to hope that a
breakthrough on the question of medium-range
missiles will have a positive
effect on negotiations over other (dis
armament) issues," Genscher said.
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ballistic missile treaty.
This interpretation would allow ex
panded testing of Star Wars, a space
based missile defense system. The
dispute over testing of space weapons
caused the breakdown of the Iceland
superpower summit in October.
Kolesnichenko told Soviet TV' viewers
Russia's decision to seek a separate
accord on European missiles would
nullify the U.S. claim that no agreement
was possible because Moscow insisted
on linking medium-range missiles and
space weapons.
"Now (that) this basis does not
exist, it is extremely important that
this historic chance not be missed," he
said.
White House spokesman Albert R.
Brashear said Sunday "we look at it as a
generally positive" position, but "we
still want to see" details.
"We are in consultation with our
allies, and essentially we have complet
ed the process of drafting (a U.S.
proposal)" to be presented at the
Soviet-U.S. arms talks in the future, he
said.
Elderly man
shoots, kills three;
commits suicide
LOS ANGELES A man who had
accused his wife of setting up a $7,000
burglary grabbed a revolver after an
argument and fatally shot two neigh
bors and his stepdaughter before kil
ling himself, police and neighbors said.
Ed Smith, 83, had been arguing with
his 80-year-old wife, Ann, in their home
for hours Saturday before he armed
himself and began shooting, said Detec
tive Steve Morgan.
"During the course of the dispute,
she decided to move out and called
relatives to help," said Lt. Charles
Massey. The shooting began after Mrs.
Smith left the couple's small, white
clapboard house, and walked to the
rear of a neighbor's home.
Smith fired 10 to 12 times, police
said. He fired at and missed his wife,
shot his stepdaughter, 45-year-old Lin
da Downard, and then seemed to fire at
random targets, fatally wounding a 91-year-old
neighbor and another wqman.
When he realized police were com
ing, Smith shot himself in the chest. He
was pronounced dead at the scene,
Morgan said.
Downard died Saturday afternoon in
surgery in California Medical Center,
said a nursing supervisor.
Neighbor Cleotis Pouncy, 68, died
Saturday evening in surgery in County
USC Medical Center of a wound to the
torso, authorities said.
Rachel Taylor, 91, was found on her
porch with keys in her hand. She
apparently was opening the door to her
home when she was killed, said neigh
bor Margaret Alexander.
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