News Digest_ By The Associated Press
Superpowers fail to clear
arms treaty obstacles
GENEVA — American and Soviet
arms experts failed Monday to clear
all obstacles blocking a superpower
treaty on elimination of intermediate
range nuclear missiles, which is sup
posed to be signed in two weeks.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz
and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard
A. Shevardnadze authorized a U.S.
spokesman, Charles E. Redman, to
describe the day’s talks as “construc
tive.” More talks arc scheduled for
today.
A U.S. official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said at least
one key issue was unresolved: the
»* designation of a U.S. ballistic missile
plant for the Soviets to monitor.
Redman said U.S. and Soviet arms
experts, in three separate meetings,
“made progress, but there are still
things to be done.”
The Soviets have acceded to a U.S.
demand to observe the assembly of
Soviet SS-25 missiles to ensure that
the intercontinental weapons are not
modified illegally to replace outlawed
SS-20s.
The goal is to resolve the outstand
ing obstacles by Tuesday, giving
lower-level negotiators two weeks to
i
draft a final text for President Reagan
and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gor
bachev to sign Dec. 9.
The group, appointed Monday by
Shultz and Shevardnadze, was headed
on the U.S. side by Paul H. Nitze,
senior arms control adviser, and by
Marshal Sergei Akhromcyev, chief of
the Soviet general staff.
Another U.S.-Soviet team, led by
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
Rozannc L. Ridgway and Anatoly
Adamyshin, a Soviet deputy foreign
minister, worked separately on human
rights, regional and bilateral issues.
Shultz and Shevardnadze posed for
photographers, who asked them to
shake hands. They dodged the few
questions reporters were able to ask.
“The talks are always businesslike,
straightforward and constructive,”
Shultz said. “That’s always been true
of my talks with the foreign minister.
It’s true this time.”
“That’s a tradition,” Shevardnadze
agreed.
They declined to say exactly how
the talks were going.
“As far as the results, we’ll speak
about that tomorrow,” Shevardnadze
said in Russian.
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Inmates seize hostages
U.S. offers moratorium on Cuban's return to restore order
The United States, reacting to
rioting at prisons in Louisiana and
Georgia, has offered to impose a
moratorium on the return of Cuban
ralionals denied U.S. residency
because of mental instability or
past crimes, Attorney General
Edwin Meese said Monday.
Meese said the moratorium
would be in effect until each case
could be reviewed in a “full, fair
and equitable” manner and af
fected “all such Cubans detained
in the United States.”
In Atlanta, inmates seized sev
eral hostages and torched build
ings Monday as they tried to take
over the federal prison during a
lunch break, authorities said. As
least six people were injured, in
cluding two inmates who were
shot.
The action in Atlanta followed
a similar revolt by Cuban inmates
who still controlled a burned-out
federal detention center near
Oakdale, La. The inmates threat
ened to kill 25 hostages if authori- i
ties stormed the center.
Thick black smoke poured
from the stone prison in Atlanta,
which was surrounded by city
police and firefighters, Georgia
State Patrol troopers and emer
gency medical personnel.
Armed prison officials held
control of some parts of the main
building and 23-acre compound,
but authorities refused to discuss
what areas were under inmate
control.
The Atlanta inmates had no
guns but were holding a number of
hostages, including federal prison
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Christina Geiger/Daily Nebraskan
officials, said Mike Caliabiano,
executive assistant to the U.S.
penitentiary warden.
Caliabiano said guards fired
several “warning shots,” but he
declined to explain how two in
mates happened to be shot.
The inmates, among 1,500
Cubans held at the center, started a
fire in the broom factory of the
prison industries complex,abuild
ing immediately behind the
prison, he said.
Fire trucks remained outside
the gates of the inner-city com
pound. Caltabiano had no details
on the extent of the fire damage.
The rioting was sparked by a
State Department announcement
Friday that Cuba had agreed to
accept the return of2,500 refugees
from the 1980 Mariel boadift,
moslofthem criminals or mentally
ill, officials said.
The 85-ycar-old Atlanta prison,
[he oldest in the federal system, {
houses more Cubans than any
other institution in the nation.
Iranian fire sets 2 freighters ablaze
MANAMA, Bahrain — An Iranian
rigalc shelled iwo freighters bound
or Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in at
acks Monday that set both ablaze,
vourded three crewmen and nearly
slew the superstructure off one ship,
salvage agents said.
The ships were attacked in the
strait of Hormuz,, the Persian Gulf’s
larrow entrance, after the Iranians
asked by radio about their identity,
cargoes and destinations, the shipping
executives said. Iranian vessels often
slop or question vessels passing
through Hormuz.
Iran has attacked four commercial
ships in three days, apparently in re
taliation for Iraqi air raids on ships in
Iranian waters. Iraq has claimed 20
raids in two weeks, of which inde
In Brief
Fitzwater declines comment on pardon report
WASHINGTON — White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater on
Monday refused to discuss the possibility of presidential pardons for
Oliver North, John Poindexter and Robert McFarlane but criticized the
press for “idle speculation and ill-founded rumors,”
His comment was triggered by a story in The New York Times that
said there was “a hot, widely discussed, wholly unconfirmed rumor”
that Reagan will issue pardons Thanksgiving Day for the three former
aides who were key participants in the Iran-Contra affair.
Newspaper: 10,000 participate in inarch
VIENNA, Austria —Two policemen and several civilians died in a
violent demonstration against harsh living conditions last week in
Brasov, Romania s second-largest city, a West German newspaper
report id Monday.
Tourists arriving from Romania said 10,000 demonstrators marched
through the streets of Brasov shouting anti-regime slogans and clamor
ing for “more food and heating.”
u.in. opens war crime archives
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations on Monday opened its
archives on Nazi and Japanese war crimes, exposing facts and allega
tions about more than 36,000 people, including Kurt Waldheim, the
body’s former secretary-general.
Six researchers from the Nazi-hunting unit of the U.S. Justice
Department were first to enter the office building. They viewed
microfilm of the yellowed and brittle files of the U.N. War Crimes
Commission, which functioned from 1943 to 1949.
Attorney General Spire vows to speed decisions
The state Department of Justice has been snail-like on occasion and
will take steps to issue opinions more quickly without sacrificing
quality, Attorney General Robert M. Spire said Monday.
In a report to state senators, agency directors and constitutional
officers, Spire made good on his June promise that he would listen to
their critic isms of his office. He said those he received of slow responses,
unclear answers, failure to answer the right questions, failure to clarify
the office’s role and unresponsive staff were justified. And he offered
ways that he will make improvements.
pendent shipping sources have con
firmed 10.
About 400 vessels have been at
tacked in the Persian Gulf since the
Iran-Iraq war began in September
1980.
Thanksgiving
like first one
Thanksgiving 360 years ago at
Plymouth Colony was similar in only
some ways to the Thanksgiving Day
Americans celebrate today, says
Nebraska folklorist and University ot
Ncbraska-Lincoln professor of Eng
lish and anthropology Roger Wclsch.
The settlers “paraded in the morn
ing, had a large feastand then spent the
altemoon watching a game like base
ball in which the ball was kicked w ith
the feet,” he said at a recent lecture.
But, noted Wclsch, “that’s about
all that’s similar to the pictures we
icna to paint oi what has been called
the first Thanksgiving.”
While apologizing for sounding
“like some revisionist out to debunk
all they stood for,” Wclsch noted that
the feast probably was just a normal
Harvest Home celebration, the main
course might not have been turkey,
and the celebrants probably weren’t
all Pilgrims. About a third of the set
tlers were strict Pilgrims in grim black
and white garbs, he said.
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