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U.S. presents counterproposal for arms elimination
WASHINGTON - President Reagan,
responding to Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev's arms control proposal last
weekend, announced Tuesday he has
directed U.S. negotiators in Geneva to
present the text of a U.S. counterprop
osal for eliminating both sides' medium
range missiles from Europe.
In a brief appearance in the White
House briefing room, the president also
said he is summoning U.S. negotiators
to Washington at the end of tis week.
"Following these discussions in
Washington I will send a team back to
Geneva to take up once again the
detailed negotiations for an INF reduc
tion agreement," he said.
Gorbachev announced on Saturday
that he was dropping his demand that
the two sides settle their differences
on "Star Wars," Reagan's space-based
missile defense system, before reach
ing agreement on medium range mis
siles in Europe.
The concession appeared to pave the
Beatrice slayer's sentence
not excessive, court rules
LINCOLN The Nebraska
supreme Court has dismissed with
out comment a claim that David
Harold Jacob's sentences in the
slaying of three Beatrice residents
were excessive.
Jacob, 20, of Lincoln was con
victed in the fatal January 1986
shooting of Bennett L. "Benny" Bar
tram, 2 1; Jerry Kechley, 22; and Lisa
Barrett, 18.
He was sentenced by Gage County
District Judge William B. Rist to
three consecutive life terms for
second-degree murder and consec
utive sentences oi'six to 20 years for
each of two charges of using a shot
gun to commit felony murder. Jacob
will not be eligible for parole until
January 2015, according to Depart
ment of Correctional Services re
cords.
The charges against Jacob were
reduced from first-degree murder to
second-degree murder in a plea
bargain after Jacob agreed to testify
against his accomplice, Kenneth L.
Johnson of Lincoln.
Johnson, who pleaded innocent
to three counts of first-degree murder,
hanged himelf on June 22, 1986, in
the Gage County Jail, before the
case was brought to trial.
Jacob's attorney, John Stevens
Berry of Lincoln, argued in his brief
to the court that Jacob should have
been sentenced to concurrent rather
than consecutive life sentences and
that he should not have received
five consecutive maximum penal
ties for all five felony charges.
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way for a separate agreement to elimi
nate from Europe the 572 U.S. Pershing
2 and cruise missiles now being deployed
on the U.S. side and the estimated 243
Soviet SS-20s. All these weapons can
hit targets at least 1,110 miles away.
"I welcome the statement by Soviet
Secretary General Gorbachev on Saturday
that the Soviet Union will no longer
insist on linking agreement on reduc
tion in INF to agreements in other
negotiations," Reagan said.
Saying he had instructed U.S. nego
tiators to begin presentation of a draft
treaty on INF (Intermediate Nuclear
Force), Reagan added, "I hope that the
Soviet Union will then proceed with us
to serious discussion of details which
are essential to translate areas of
agreement in principle to a concrete
agreement."
Reagan said that among the issues
remaining to be resolved, "none is
more important than verification. We
will continue to insist that any agree
ment will be effectively verifiable."
Reagan said the draft treaty would
"follow the specific formula on which
Mr. Gorbachev and I agreed at our
meeting in Iceland last October."
"This calls for reductions to an inte
rim global ceiling of 100 warheads on
U.S. and Soviet longer-range INF mis
siles with none in Europe, along with
constraints on shorter-range INF mis
siles and provisions for effective verifi
cation. I remain firmly committed to
these objectives."
Korean demonstrators
clash with 50,000 police
SEOUL, South Korea Demonstra
tors fought for hours against nearly
50,000 riot police in hit-and-run clashes
Tuesday on the streets of Seoul during
a day of remembrance for a student
who died during police torture.
Violent confrontations also were
reported in six other cities. Police said
20 people were hurt in all, two seriously,
and 395 were detained.
At least four opposition lawmakers
were injured, one seriously, in leading
protesters against police, who fired
tear gas and used shields and trun
cheons to fend off demonstrators.
Tuesday's "Grand Peace Marches for
Anti-Torture and Democratization" were
called by the main opposition New
Korea Democratic Party and 47 dissi
dent and church groups to mark the
49th day after the deat h of Park Chong
chul, 21.
Park, a dissident student from Seoul
National University, died Jan. 14 while
being questioned by police using water
torture.
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Agency said at least 72 people, includ
ing top dissident leaders Kim Young
sam and Kim Dae-jung, were confined
to their homes.
Lee said 123 students were a month
those detained. He said 171 people
were held in Seoul and 25 in Pusan, the
nation's second largest city, 205 miles
southeast of the capital. Other arrests
were made in Taegu, Kwangju and
Taejon.
Demonstrators were also reported in
Conju, 120 miles south of Seoul, and
Chongju, 70 miles south-southeast of
the capital.
Despite the violence, police were
largely in control of Tuesday's street
actions, through which critics of the
government sought to point up their
demands involving greater democracy
and human rights in South Korea.
The number of marchers obviously
fell short of organizers' expectations.
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In Brief
Reagan's popularity lowest since 1983
NEW YORK President Reagan's popularity has dropped to its lowest
level in more than four years, according to a poll taken after the Tower
commission released its report on the Iran-Contra arms scandal.
The New York Times-CBS poll found that 42 percent of those surveyed
approved of the way Reagan was handling his job, and 46 percent
disapproved.
It was Reagan's lowest rating in the poll since January 1983, when 41
percent approved of his performance.
Approval of Reagan's handling of foreign policy was at the lowest point
of his presidency, with 29 percent approved and 58 percent disapproving.
Fifty-two percent of those surveyed said the Tower commission had
been fair to the Reagan administration, and 22 percent thought it had
been too easy, while 8 percent said it had been too hard on the White
House.
For the poll, 1,174 people were surveyed by telephone Saturday and
Sunday. It had a margin of error of 3 percent.
Smoking won't be banned on airlines
WASHINGTON Rejecting a recommendation by a panel of scientists,
the Transportation Department has formally notified Congress it has no
plans to ban smoking on commercial airliners, officials said Monday.
The department's position on the smoking issue was outlined in a letter
to congressional leaders by Donald Engen, head of the Federal Aviation
Administration, according to department spokesman Bob Marks.
The decision by Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole against
additional restrictions on smoking aboard commercial jetliners was
reported by The Associated Press last week.
In August, a panel of scientists from the National Academy of Sciences
concluded an 18-month study of air quality aboard jetliners and
recommended that the government ban smoking aboard aircraft. The
study warned of a health hazard, especially to frequent travelers or flight
crew members, from drifting tobacco smoke.
Reagan will respond to Tower report
WASHINGTON President Reagan will deliver a nationally broadcast
speech tonight to respond to the Tower commission report on the Iran
Contra arms affair, the White House announced Monday.
The president will make the speech from the Oval Office at 8 p.m. It will
be his first response to the commission report, released Thursday. The
report was critical of the White House staffs handling of the U.S. sale of
arms to Iran and the alleged diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan Contra
rebels.
Willis shattered collarbone while skiing
LOS ANGELES Actor Bruce Willis shattered a collarbone while
skiing during the weekend in Idaho and will miss about a week of filming
for the popular ABC-TV series "Moonlighting," a spokesman said Monday.
Willis, 32, was on his first run down a slope at Sun Valley, Idaho, Sunday
when the accident occurred, said Paul Bloch of the Rogers & Cowan
agency.