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News Digest_ By The Associated Press Soviets call on U.S. to withdraw warheads WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union on Tues day called on the United States to clear away the “last obstacles” to an agreement banning medium range nuclear missiles by withdrawing 72 Persh __ ing 1-A warheads from West Germany. But U.S. officials said the warheads were not subject to negotiations with the Soviets because the missiles that carry them belong to the West Germans. “We have said consistently that third-country systems are not part of the negotiations,” White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said in Santa Barbara, Calif., near President Reagan’s ranch. “We stand by that position.” A State Department official, who demanded anonymity, said the warheads would be with drawn from West Germany only after the missiles were dismantled. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl offered last Wednesday to scrap the Pershing 1-A mis siles, which have a range of 465 miles, after a U.S.-Soviet treaty is ratified and put into effect. Both the United States and the Soviet Union welcomed the offer as a step forward. But is is not clear whether Kohl’s schedule was accepta ble to Moscow or posed a problem in completing the treaty. At a news conference here Tuesday, a Soviet deputy foreign minister, Vladimir F. Petrovsky, insisted on removal of the warheads, which are under U.S. control. "If the United States would agree to remove the 72 nuclear warheads, the last obstacles to the double-zero option would be removed,” Petrovsky said. The Soviet official referred to the dismantling of two categories of intermediate-range missiles in what would be Reagan s first nuclear arms control agreement with Moscow. In all, 332 U.S. missiles would be withdrawn from West Germany, Britain, Italy and Belgium while the Soviets scrooped 442 rockets aimed at Western Europe ana an aaamonai i<si missiles targeted on China and Japan. "It is very necessary for the United States now to give a clear answer,” Petrovsky said. “Seventy two nuclear warheads are part of double-zero.” On another arms control issue, Soviet Col. Gen. Nikolai Chervov offered to permit the Uni ted States to conduct a nuclear weapons test on Soviet territory in order to check the accuracy of American verification methods. Chervov, an adviser to the Soviet general staff, said "we are prepared now to enter large-scale negotiations on the matter.” Nebraskan Editor Mika Raitlay 472-1766 * Managing Editor Jin Denims „ Assoc. News Editors Jinn Nyfleler Mika Hooper Editorial Page Editor Jeanne Bourne Wire Editor Linda Hartmann Copy Desk Chief Joan Rezac Sports Editor Jeff Apei Arts & Entertain ment Editor Bill Allen Asst. Arts & Entertainment Editor Charles Lieurance Graphics Editor Mark Davis Asst. Graphics Editor Tom Lauder Photo Chief Paul Vonderlage Night News Editors Curt Wagner Scott Harrah Art Director Brian Barber General Manager Oaniel Shattii Production Manager Katherine Policky Advertising Manager Marcia Miller The Daily Nebraskan (USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board Monday through Friday in the fall and spring semesters ana Tuesdays and Fridays in the summer sessions, except during vacations. Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Dailv Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a m. and 5 Km Monday through Friday The public also as access to the Publications Board For information, contact Don Johnson. 472-3611 Subscription price is $35 for one year Postmaster Send address changes to the , Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R I St Lincoln Neb 68588-0448 Second-class postage paid at Lincoln. NE AU MATE RIAL COPYRIGHT 1987 DAILY MtBBASKAM Iraq, Iran trade fire in continuing gulf war MANAMA, Bahrain — Rockets fired by an Iranian speedboat started a fire on a Spanish supertanker Tuesday, and Iraq said its planes hit four ships and Iran ian industrial targets. Iran claimed it shot down three raiding aircraft. A convoy of U.S. Navy warships and two reflagged Kuwaiti tankers arrived safely in the emirate’s waters. Kuwait and Iraq, which has been at war with Iran since September 1980, are neigh bors at the head of the Persian Gulf. The ships started up the gulf Satur day, the day after raids were renewed in the waterway after a six-week lull. The only incident reported during the 550 mile trip was the rescue of a downed Iraqi pilot. Correction The picture that ran on the front page of the Daily Nebraskan Tuesday about the disposal of chemical waste should not be confused with the story, which was about nuclear waste. Dispo sal of chemical and nuclear waste are two different procedures. Iraq reported air raids Tuesday on four ships in the gulf and five industrial and oil targets in its air war on Iran’s economy. Iran reported retalitory raids on mil itary and industrial targets in Iraq. In Washington, the State Depart ment said the U.N. Security Council should draft sanctions unless Iran agrees to a cease-fire by the end of the week. Soviet officials urged that diplomacy be given more time. Dispatches from Iran’s news agency quoted Prime Minister Hussein Musavi as saying Iran would make its position clear soon on the Security Council truce resolution of July 20. Iraq has agreed to observe the ^solution if Iran does. Radio monitors said the 300,078-ton Spanish supertanker Munguia sent a distress signal when attacked by one or two Iranian speedboats 55 miles nor theast of Bahrain, an island emirate in the central gulf. In Brief__ Korean students clash with riot police SEOUL, South Korea — Universities reopened for the fall term Tuesday and immediately became battlegiounds for police and anti government students. One campus fight with rocks, firebombs and tear gas lasted three hours. Students, demanding the ouster of President Chun Doo-hwan, hurled stones and threw firebombs that exploded in orange showers of blazing gasoline. They shouted, "Let’s finish the military dictatorship” and “Down with the murder regime." FDA approves cholesterol-lowering drug WASHINGTON — the Food and Drug Administration announced approval Tuesday of a prescription drug called lovastatin designed to lower cholesterol levels in the body. In clinical studies, the FDA said lovastatin reduced total cholesterol by 18 percent to 34 percent, depending on dosage, and reduced the particularly dangerous low-density lipoprotein by 19 percent to 39 percent. Jewish leaders, pope discuss several issues CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Jewish leaders held unprecedented talks with Pope John Paul II Tuesday and said the Vatican has decided to issue a nuyor document on anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. The 75-minute talks were sought by Jewish leaders angered by the pope’s June 26 meeting with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. Con troversy over the meeting has threatened to disrupt the papal visit to the United States next week. ' /////// FreewheelinBikeShop _427 South 13th 475-0204_ Featuring: Peugeot, Panasonic, and Bianchi Bikes Expert Repairs on all makes Plus a full line of Clothing, Packs, Cyclometers & Other Accessories ,-COUPON___% J REGISTRATION DISCOUNT i Bring Your Pink Registration In, Your * I Discount Equals the Number of Hours • You’ve Registered for. • Freewheelin Bike Shop 427 So. 13th Expire* Dec 31,1987 Lov. 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