News Digest By The Associated Press
Gorbachev ready for summit,Soviets say
MOSCOW — Mikhail S. Gor
bachev is ready to visit Washington
this year and sign an agreement scrap
ping medium-range nuclear missiles
without a link to restrictions in the
“Star Wars” system, Soviet officials
said Tuesday.
“We have no doubt that an agree
ment relating to intermediate-range
missiles and shorter-range missiles
will be signed,” Foreign Ministry
spokesman Bons Pyadyshcv said at a
regularly scheduled news briefing.
In Washington, a U.S. official said
Foreign Minister Eduard Shevard
nadze would visit the U.S. capital, by
Soviet request , at the end of the week
to discuss a third meeting between the
Soviet leader and President Reagan.
Gorbachev surprised Secretary of
State George P. Shultz in Moscow last
week by saying the was not ready for
another summit. Shultz said Gor
bachev had asked whether he could
expect an agreement on the Star Wars
space-based defenses.
At the United Nations in New
York, Soviet Ambassador Alexander
M. Belonogov said the Kremlin would
like the summit to reach an agreement
in principle on limiting Star Wars, but
indicated it was not mandatory.
When asked whether the United
States must make concessions on its
space-defense plan before the next
summit, he said, “It is not a matter of
concessions. It’s a matter of how to
make the next Soviet-American sum
mit the most productive, efficient and
useful for the whole of mankind.”
In Moscow, Pyady she v told report
ers, “Today we are unable to say pre
cisely when, but it is clear that in the
nearest future this agreement will be
prepared for signing at the highest
level, as this has been agreed between
the leaders of our states.”
He would not say a summit would
happen this year, only that it remains
possible. “In a very brief period of
time, we may witness a major step, a
major breakthrough in the area of
nuclear disarmament,” he said.
Shevardnadze met with U.S.
Ambassador Jack Matlock and an
other State Department official in
Moscow. A top officer at the Foreign
Ministry summoned Western Euro
pean ambassadors countries to discuss
the Shultz visit to Moscow last week.
Senate works
to approve
health bill
WASHINGTON — The Senate
worked toward passage Tuesday of a
catastrophic health insurance bill to
protect America’s elderly against the
devastating costs of serious illness.
Debate leading to votes on a hand
ful of amendments and the bill itself
came after weeks of behind-the
scenes negotiations that gained White
House support for a compromise ver
sion that closely tracks basic provi
sions of House-passed legislation, but
contains important cost-containment
provisions for a new prescription drug
benefiL
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Planet spans about 10 miles
Spatial speck named for professor
TOLEDO, Ohio — First it was
1 “1982 BT1 then it became “mi
1 nor planet 2954.”Now, the minor
\ planet, or asteroid, bears the name
\ of Dr. Arm and Delsemme, a Uni
versity of Toledo professor of
astrophysics.
“Delsemme” is one of thou
sands of objects in the solar system,
ranging in size from 10 to 1,000
miles in diameter. It is travelling in
a zone between Mars and Jupiter,
some 150 million to 500 million
r ~ ■■■" 1
miles from the sun.
“It is seen as a pinpoint of light.
One can guess its size by its bright
ness,” Deisemme said. “It is closer
to 10 miles (in diameter) but it is
difficult to say.”
The minor planet was discov
ered by Dr. Edward Bowell, an
astronomer who specializes in
minor planets, on Jan. 30, 1982,
during his observations at the
Lowell Observatory.
It was named after Deisemme
by the International Astronomical
Union, an organization of astrono
mers from Japan, the Soviet Union,
the United States, and 80 or more
other countries.
Under IAU rules, an astronomer
who discovers a minor planet has
the prerogative of naming it once it
has been re-observed in its pre
dicted orbit, after one complete trip
around the sun. “Delsemme” was
re-identified in its predicted orbit
in 1986.
That administration support —
coupled with the already wide biparti
san backing for the measure - assured
eventual passage. But Senate rules
allowing unlimited debate left uncer
tain when the floor vote would come
on the measure, which was approved
unanimously by the Senate Finance
Committee last summer.
Moreover, difference between the
House and Senate versions made in
evitable the need for a conference
committee to work out final details.
In Brief
U.S. will maintain ties
with new government
WASHINGTON — The
United States will maintain ties
with the government in B urkina
Faso, despite a bloody coup in
that African state 10 days ago,
the State Department said.
“We are encouraged that the
new regime is seeking contacts
with the westand with its neigh
bors in West Africa, and we
anticipate being able to main
tain continuity in our relations
with Burkina Faso,” said State
Department spokesman Char
les Redman. There are about
300 U.S. personnel in Burkina
Faso.
Third Brazilian dies
of radiation poisoning
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
— A junkyard worker who
helped break open a capsule
containing radioactive cesium
137 died Thursday, the third
victim of the glowing substance
he and friends found and sold to
a junk dealer.
So far, doctors have treated
and released 200 people, but 39
remained hospitalized as a re
sult of the radioactive contami
nation when the workers and
dealer showed the substance to
friends and neighbors. They
admired it, rubbed it on their
bodies and carried it in their
pockets.
Rail cars still short
because of big harvest
KEARNEY—A shortage of
rail cars at area grain elevators
brimming with a big harvest
will conunuo for several weeks.
Union Pacific Railroad spokes
man John Bromley said Tues
day.
Bromley said Union Pacific
will continue to repair out-of
service carl through the rest of
the year and has leased 3,000
cars to add to its fleet He said
cars are needed throughout
Nebraska and northern Kansas.
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