News Digest— By The Associated Press U.S., Soviet Union suggest arms plans Leader suggests development plan from arms layoff UNITED NATIONS — Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev Tuesday proposed that leaders of the 15 nations on the U.N. Security Council meet to discuss how money saved from disarmament could be spent on economic develop ment. The Kremlin chief made the sugges tion in a message read by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir F. Petrovsky to the 140-nation International Confer ence on the Relationship between Dis armament and Development. “It would be useful to discuss in ' principle the problems of disarmament and development at a special meeting of top leaders of member states of the U.N. Security Council,” Gorbachev said in the message. The Soviet leader also proposed that the United Nations create an interna tional fund into which member states would place money saved through dis armament. The money would be given to developing countries. The United States has expressed opposition to a linkage between the issues of disarmament and develop ment, and refused to send any repre sentatives to the current conference, which began Monday and runs through Sept. 11. Gorbachev referred to the U.S. action, saying: “Obstacles erected by the oppo nents of disarmament on the road towards the conference have confirmed once again the interdependence of dis armament and development and the urgency of the task.” Negotiators for the United States Brian Barber/Daily Nebraskan and Soviet Union have worked through the summer trying to resolve the prob lems before the scheduled meeting Sept. 15-17 in Washington of Secretary of State George P. Shultz and the Soviet foreign minister, Eduard A. Shev ardnadze. Arms verification simplified under new U.S. proposal GENEVA — The United States pres ented new proposals on Tuesday that it said would simplify verification proce dures under a U.S.-Soviet agreement to do away with all intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Members of the American delega tion submitted the proposals in a meet ing of the negotiating teams dealing with Intermediate Nuclear Forces medium- and shorter range weapons with ranges from 300 to 3,000 miles. U.S. spokesman Terry Shroeder said that Soviet acceptance in July of elimi nating all intermediate weapons, called the double-zero option, had enabled the United States to change its verifi cation requirements. Before the Soviet announcement, the plan had been for each superpower to keep 100 medium-range weapons on its own territory. ‘‘Today we are laying out how this simplification could be achieved,’’ Schroeder said, adding that the U.S. proposals, “although simplified, will still be the most stringent ever pro posed in any U.S.-Soviet negotiations and will include on site inspection.” In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley was asked whether the new U.S. position drops some intrusive measures, including inspection of factories and intelligence monitoring sites. She replied: “There are two msyor changes in this. One is we have changed our ‘suspect site’ inspection proposal because the opportunity for illegal missile activities are significantly re duced when an entire class of missiles and its infrastructure has been elim inated. "Also, we have dropped our require ment for perimeter-portal monitoring. This was done because the perimeter portal monitoring system was designed to monitor the flow of missiles from product ion and final assembly facilities. “With the production ban and the elimination of all INF (Intermediate Nuclear Forces) missiles within three years this would be unnecessary.’’ Shroeder would not give details of the proposals, cit;ng the confidential ity rule the two sides have adopted in the talks. He said the U.S. delegation "sharply rejected suggestions in U.S. media reports that we are backing off or sof tening our proposals.” On Monday in Washington, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that the new American proposals would scale back demands for on-site inspection of nuclear missile facilities. 1 nreat empties AIDS brothers’ grade school ARCADIA, Fla. — A bomb threat forced temporary evacuation of an ele- ' mentary school Tuesday when three brothers exposed to the AIDS virus arrived for their second day of class under court orders. Later, a caller to the school adminis trative offices simply said "boom" and hung up, said DeSoto County Sheriff Joe Varnadore. After the first call, the school was searched, nothing was found and routines were resumed, said Larry Browning, school superintendent. "We’ll get to the bottom of this, par ticularly if they call again, and I’ll press charges,” Browning said, calling the incideuts “hurtful to the school dis trict, the children and the taxpayers." He said tracers were being put on school telephone lines. Elsewhere, a school board 50 miles away has voted to bar another child who tested positive for the AIDS virus, and parents in a Tennessee community are threatening a boycott of a school if a young AIDS carrier is admitted. Arcadia’s Memorial Elementary School has been the subject of protest rallies and parents’ calls for a student boycott since a federal judge ruled that the Ray brothers — Ricky, 10, Robert, 9, and Randy, 8 — have the right to attend classes with other children. 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