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News Digest— By The Associated Press Reagan assures Europe of security WASHINGTON — President Reagan vowed Wednesday that a nuclear arms treaty with the Soviet ^ Union will not undercut the U.S. commitment to the security of Eu rope, saying the stationing of 300,000 American troops abroad and “our steadfast nuclear guarantee under score this pledge.” Reagan also said it was “totally unacceptable” for the Soviet Union to try to link reductions in globe-girdling strategic nuclear weapons to restric tions on his “Star Wars” missile de fense pi an, a 1 so k now n as the S tralcg i c Defense Initiative, SDI. “We won’t bargain away SDI,” Reagan said in a speech a month be fore Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Washington for a super power summit. The two leaders arc expected to sign a treaty banning inicrmcdiatc-range nuclear forces in Europe and to discuss other arms dif ferences. Last Friday, Reagan said Gor bachev was not making SDI conces sions a condition for cutbacks in stra tegic arms. In his speech Wednesday, however, Reagan complained about “the Soviet tactic of holding these offensive reductions hostage to meas ures that would cripple” SDI. Reagan’s remarks, taped at the While Houscon Tuesday, werebroad cast to Europe on Wednesday by sat ellite channels of the United States Information Agency’s “Worldnct” and the Voice of America. In part, the speech attempted to calm fears that the removal of U.S. medium- and shortcr-rangc missiles in Europe would weaken the Western alliance and leave Europe vulnerable to the Warsaw Pact’s conventional forces, which greatly outnumber those in the West. The address also challenged the authenticity of Gorbachev’s cam paign of openness, or “glasnost, and underscored to the Soviet Communist Party general secretary that Reagan is adamant about moving ahead with his Star Wars program. Urging the Kremlin to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan, Reagan said, “The Soviet occupation ol Af ghanistan is most certainly a dreadful quagmire.” He called it “a no-win situation” for Moscow. Democrats hail elections - as good omen for 1988 Democrats on Wednesday hailed their victories in oil-year gover nors’ elections in Kentucky and Mississippi as a “good preview for 1988,” while GOP challenger Frank Rizzo defiantly refused to concede defeat to incumbent W. Wilson Goode in Philadelphia’s bitter mayoral race. Republicans seized on a smallcr-than-normal defeat in Mississippi and scattered victories in legislative races around the country to claim a “bittersweet success.” But the high profile winners were all Democrats, and Govs.-elect Wallace Wilkinson in Kentucky and Ray Mabus in Mississippi began planning their new administrations. Peace deadline arrives WASHINGTON — The deadline for implementing the Central Ameri can peace plan is today, but with warfare continuing in Nicaragua and elsewhere, U.S. officials see the 90 days allowed for compliance more as a beginning than an end of a process. The signing of the agreement last August by five Central American presidents produced near-panic in the Reagan administration because offi cials saw the accord asa virtually cost free way for Nicaragua’s leftist gov ernment to win an end to American aid to the Contra rebels. Now', however, those fears appear somewhat exaggerated, the officials say, adding that the Sandinista gov ernment is finding itself increasingly on the defensive and faces some ex traordinarily difficult choices in the weeks ahead. 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Defector returns after 7 months FRANKFURT, West Ger many — A U.S. Army private who defected to the Soviet Union seven months ago re turned to the West on Wednes day and said he would surrender to American authorities. Wade Roberts, 22, said he did not want to return to the Soviet Union but d id not know 11 he would be going to the United States. North invokes 5th before grand jurv WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Oliver L. North appeared briefly Wednesday before a special federal grand jury inves tigating his role in the Iran Contra affair but refused to answer questions. The former National Secu rity Council aide emerged from the grand jury room several titTrs toconsultwithhisdcfen.se lawyers about material in a black loose-leaf notebook he was holding. 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