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U.S., Soviets agree to 10-year missile inspections
SHANNON, Ireland — Secretary
of State George P. Shultz said Sunday
the United States and the Soviet Union
^ had agreed to station inspectors at
each other’s missile sites for 10 years
after banned weapons are scrapped.
Heading for Geneva to try to wrap
up a missile treaty, Shultz said only
“some operational details” remained
to be worked out.
“The treaty is virtually complete,”
Shultz said.
The treaty to ban U.S. and Soviet
intermediate-range nuclear missiles is
the designated centerpiece for Presi
dentReagan’ssummit beginning Dec.
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7 with General Secretary Mikhail S.
Gorbachev.
Faced with that deadline, Shultz
scheduled meetings Monday and
Tuesday in Geneva with Soviet For
eign Minister Eduard A. Shevard
nadze.
Talking to reporters aboard his
U S. Air Force jet before a refueling
stop in Shannon, Shultz said he
planned to seek Soviet support for an
arms embargo against Iran and a time
table for withdrawal of Soviet troops
from Afghanistan.
The United States has delayed
trying to push a weapons cutoff
through the United Nations Security
Council because of concern that the
Soviets might block the move with a
veto.
The council approved a cease-fire
in the Iran-Iraq war July 20 with
Soviet support.
An arms embargo would be de
signed to deprive Iran of many of its
weapons and force it to negotiate an
end to theconflict w ith Iraq, now iniLs
eight year.
On Afghanistan, after years of
slow-moving negotiations through
the United Nations, the Soviets arc
hinting they have taken a decision to
withdrawal their troops.
Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokes
man Gennady Gerasimov said last
week a withdrawal could be carried
out in seven months to a year once
Moscow decided to act.
The arms treaty would eliminate
nearly 1,(XX) nuclear missiles with
ranges of 300 to 3,000 miles.
Except for 130 Soviet shorter
range rockets, they all would be dis
mantled over three years. The shorter
rangc missiles, about 50 of which arc
in East Germany and Czechoslovak ia
would be scrapped within 18 months.
Verifying the destruction, and that
new missiles are not secretly installed,
is the key unresolved problem.
The U.S. side wants access to a
Soviet plant where SS-25 interconti
nental ballistic missies are assemble.
The reason is the missies in its first
stage looks like the SS-20, which the
treaty will ban.
Inspection would be a safeguard
against Soviet conversion of the
ICBMs into illegal medium-range
rockets.
Cuban prisoners riot, hold hostages
OAKDALE, La. — Cuban prison
ers who rioted after they (ound out
they might be sent back to Cuba held
more than 20 hostages in a smoldering
federal detention center Sunday and
demanded that they not be deported,
authorities said.
The center was surrounded by
hundreds of law officers after the riot
left 23 people injured Saturday night.
“We haven’t gone in. They are
holding hostages. We are trying to
negotiate for their release.,” said
Lucnette Johnson, a spokeswoman for
thecenter run by the Bureau of Prisons
and the Immigration and Naturaliza
tion Service.
Meanwhile, 17 Cuban inmafes in
Laredo, Texas, escaped from a me
dium-security detention facility early
Sunday by climbing through a steel
roof grating. Authorities recaptured
all but three of the escapees within
hours.
An armored car and busloads of
officers in riot gear helped ring the 48
acre site outside Oakdale, a town of
7,000 in rural south-central Louisi
ana.
The Cubans seized 28 guards and
staff members but released a few- w ho
complained of medical problems, said
J.R. Johnson, warden of the complex
built in 1985 as a minimum-security
bolding center for illegal aliens.
Johnson did not say how many people
were released.
Heart attack drug
dissolves clots,
cuts deaths in half
OM AH A — A new drug that helps
dissolve blood clots in people having
a heart attack could cut the death rate
from heart attacks in half, according to
the director of St. Joseph Hospital’s
coronary care unit.
“The greatest reduction in mortal
ity comes if it can be given within the
first hour,” said Dr. Aryan Moss, who
ilso is an associate professor at
freighton University.
The new drug, called tissue plas
ninogen activator, or TPA, will be
available in Nebraska hospitals early
his week, according to a spokesman
for Gcncntcch Inc. of South San Fran
cisco, Calif., which developed the
drug.
Recently licensed by the federal
Food and Drug Administration, the
drug occurs naturally in the body in
small amounts. It attaches itself to a
clot and activates an enzyme, causing
the clot to dissolve.
To be effective the drug generally
must be given within about the first
tour to six hours after symptoms of a
heart attack begin. The sooner it is
given, the better the results.
Doctors interviewed cautioned
that the drug is not a cure-all and is not
for everyone who has a heart attack. It
also doesn’t treat the underlying prob
lem.
_ In Brief
Bride chooses NU-OIJ game day for wedding
OMAHA — The best man’s father solved the problem by bringing
a television set with him but other guests appeared to choose the Okla
homa-Nebraska football game over Beth Spangler’s wedding. “I told
her to pick a day (for the wedding),” said the bridegroom, Kevin Gri
encewic. “Boy did she pick a day!” Mrs. Griencewic said she chose the
day because it was the only church date that would work. Besides, she (
said, “I’m not a fan myself. I think the whole thing is blown out of
proportion.” “At least I won’t forget ouranniversary,”Griencewic said.
“This is a day I’ll remember. But I think Christmas Day would have been
better.”
G.O.P. chairman: Senate race may set record
OMAHA —Candidates for the 1988 U.S. Senate race could spend
$6 million, twice as much as Nebraska’s most expensive political
contest, state Republican Party Chairman Nomian Riff said. “Before
it s all over, the Republican and Democratic nominees could spend $3
n cac^’ Saturday. “That’s a very good possibility.”
The record is the $2.75 million Kay Orrand Helen Boosalis spent in
last year s race for governor.
Van Pelt says Kennedy a good friend, competent
LINCOLN — Judge Anthony Kennedy, President Reagan’s third
nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, is an excellent choice, Senior U.S.
istrict Judge Robert Van Pelt says. Van Pelt said he has known
Kennedy for 11 years and he respects him for his honesty, integrity and
competence. Van Pelt met Kennedy in October 1976 when Van Pelt
temporarily sat with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Kennedy has
been a 9th Circuit jud^e for the last 12 years. “I’m not claiming to be
a bosom friend of his. Van Pelt said. “But I'm a good friend of his.”
He s a fellow of high moral standards,” Van Pell said. “I think he’s
thoroughly competent.”
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