News Digest— By The Associated Press
Human rights to lead talks
WASHINGTON — The United States
and the Soviet Union are discussing an
overhaul of soviet emigration rules to
make them “less arbitrary,” Secretary
of State George Shultz said Tuesday.
“We're looking to see if there aren’t
some procedures that could be human
and understandable,” Shultz said in an
interview.
He and other State Department offi
cials welcomed reports from Moscow
that mathematician Josif I. Begun and
a handful of other Jewish dissidents
would be granted exit visas.
Referring to a possible U.S.-Soviet
summit, Shultz said, “people all ascribe
it to the imminence of a meeting of
some kind.” But, he said, "that’s not a
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good way to handle these things."
He said human rights were at the top
of the agenda for talks he will hold here
next week with Soviet Foreign Minister
Eduard A. Shevardnadze.
• The United States is insisting
the Soviets reduce their intermediate
range nuclear missiles at a faster clip
as part of a treaty banning the weapon.
“We certainly don’t want to get down to
zero before they do," Shultz said. The
Soviets have more than twice as many
deployed, 683 to 332.
• Still, Shultz said, the treaty “is
undoubtedly the strongest of any arms
control agreement we’ve ever had"
because of the verification procedures
being drafted to insure the missiles are
dismantled.
The United States is prepared to
respond to a request from Vietnam for
artificial limbs and other assistance for
war victims. But there will be no other
humanitarian aid or trade concessions
in exchange for increased information
on more than 2,400 missing American
servicemen.
• American inspection of Soviet
military maneuvers last month under a
Stockholm agreement to reduce ten
sion in Europe "went off very smoothly.”
If the Soviets made a reciprocal request
to observe western maneuvers "I'm
sure it will go smoothly.”
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Many Libyans reported dead
N’DJAMENA, Chad — Chad’s
military command said Tuesday its
forces killed more than 1,700 Libyan
soldiers and destroyed more than
two dozen aircraft and scores of
tanks when it overran a mqjor Libyan
base over the weekend.
The command said hundreds of
other Libyan soldiers who fled into
the desert from the base would
likely die of thirst.
In Washington, the State De
partment defended the Chadian
strike, saying there were still as
many as 5,000 Libyan soldiers in
northern Chad.
On Saturday, Chadian troops
intercepted a Libyan column en
route to attack the northeastern
Chad outpost of Ounianga-Kepir,
routed it and chased the invaders 60
miles back into Libya, capturing the
Matan as-Sarra base.
It was the first time in the Chad
Libya conflict that Chadian troops
attacked inside Libyan territory.
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Computers drive enthusiast to mental ward
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A teen-ager’s obsession with computers
gave him a mechanical mentality that finally drove him to a mental
hospital with “computer syndrome ” a Danish medical journal said.
The unidentified 18-year-old become interested in computers at the
age of eight and spent most of his free time from the age of 10 with his
father’s computer equipment, the weekly Journal for Doctors reported.
He began to think and dream in computer language, the journal said.
Record $39 million raised in MD telethon
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The 22nd annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon
raised a record $39,021,723 on Monday and workers tossed confetti as
the entertainer declared the effort “a good day for mankind.”
The show surpassed last year’s record of $34,096,773 by nearly $5
million. A long list of corporate sponsors presented Lewis with an
additional $34,306,197 in pledges above the $39 million raised across the
United States and Canada.
Iraqi attack breaks lull in Persian Gulf war
MANAMA, Bahrain — Iraq said its warplanes attacked two ships
Tuesday night near Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal, ending a brief lull in
the Persian Gulf tanker war before a U.N. peace mission to the region.
The official Iraqi News Agency said two “large maritime targets,”
which usually mean tankers, were hit at 9 p.m. east of Kharg. It did not
identify the vessels and there was no independent confirmation of
attacks near the terminal in the northern gulf.
Iraq's announcement raised to 26 the number of ships reported hit
since Aug. 29 by either Iran or Iraq, which have been at war since
September 1980.
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V.P. aides withheld hint*
WASHINGTON — Aides to Vice
President George Bush received a
steam of clues indicating Lt. Col. Oliver
North was “chairman of the board” of a
secret effort to resupply contra rebels
in Nicaragua, but they never told Bush,
according to depositions and docu
ments made public Tuesday.
Army Col. SamuelJ. Watson said the
vice president was not told of allega
tions that a grou p of corrupt profiteers
was overcharging the contras for wea
pons and supplies because the infor
mation was unproven and "not rnau.ie.
The words “resupply of the contras"
appear in a memo prepared for Bush by
his staff to describe the purpose of a
meeting he and his aides were to have
with former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez
seven months before the Iran-contra
affair became public last year.
But Watson and Donald Gregg, Bush's
national security adviser, told the con
gressional Iran-contra investigation (
committees that they do not know how
the words got into the document.
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