News Digest_ By The Associated Press
B Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF treaty
WASHINGTON — President Reagan and
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a
treaty Tuesday banning intermediate-range
nuclear missiles and began talks to curb more
threatening long-range strategic weapons.
“We have made history,” Reagan declared
after he and Gorbachev spent more than three
minutes putting their signatures — time and
again — into leather-bound volumes contain
ing the treaty and accompanying documents.
“We can be proud of planting this sapling
which may one day grow into a great oak of
peace,” Gorbachev proclaimed.
“May December 8th, 1987 become a date
that will be inscribed in the history books — a
date that will mark the watershed separating the
era of a mounting risk of nuclear war from the
era of a demilitarization of human like,” the
Soviet leaders said.
Reagan said, “We can only hope that this
history-making agreement will not be an end in
itself, but a beginning.”
Reagan and Gorbachev sat side by side to
sign the agreement under the chandeliers of the
East Room. The 24-minute ceremony was
broadcast live in America and the Soviet Un
ion, as were separate remarks made by the two
leaders moments later in the Slate Dining
Room.
Senate Democratic leaders say they ex
pected the agreement will be approved, barring
unforeseen difficulties, even though conserva
tives have been critical of the treaty.
As he has before, Reagan characterized the
treaty with a few words of Russian, “Trust but
verify.” The audience broke into laughter when
Gorbachev interrupted that, “Vou repeat that at
every meeting.”
As the laughter died down, Reagan said, “I
like it.”
Yet Gorbachev, in his remarks in the State
Dining Room, underscored Soviet differences
about Reagan’s Star Wars missile defense plan.
“People want to live in a world in which
American and Soviet spacecraft would come
together for dock ings and joint voyages, not for
Star Wars.”
“People want to live in a world in which they
would not have to spend millions of dollars a
day on weapons which they could only use
against themselves,” Gorbachev said.
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ABA gives Kennedy top rating
r- WASHINGTON —An American
it Bar Association panel decided unani
>r mously Tuesday to give Supreme
e Court nominee Anthony M. Kennedy
y its highest rating a week before the
e Senate opens hearings on him.
The ABA panel’s rating of “well
qualified” was a boost for Kennedy, a
federal appeals court judge who is
President Reagan’s third choice to fill
the vacancy on the Supreme Court.
The 15-membcr ABA Standing
Committee on the Federal Judiciary
rated Kennedy, 51, of Sacramento,
Calif., well-qualified to serve on the
Supreme Court, Justice Department
spokesman Terry Eastland said. The
other possible ratings were “not op
posed” and “not qualified.”
No senator has announced opposi
tion to Kennedy. All but one of the
women’s, civil rights and civil liber
ties organizations that campaigned
against defeated Supreme Court
nominee Robert H. Bork have re
mained neutral so far.
Dump contractor gets more say on site
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A five
slate compact balked Tuesday at
choosing a formula that would make
Nebraska the likely site for a regional
low-level radioactive waste dump.
Instead, the Central interstate
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Com
pact commission voted to give the
company that will build the site, U.S.
Fxology of Louisville, Ky., a set of
directions for recommending which
state will get the dump.
That recommendation will come
before the commission at a meeting in
New Orleans Dee. 15. _
Fatal, fiery plane crash
‘no accident, ’ FBI says
CAYUCOS, Calif. — A fired
airline worker who wanted to kill
his boss smuggled a .44-caliber
Magnum handgun onto a jetliner
whose crew reported gunshots just
before a fiery crash killed all 43 on
board, ABC News reported Tues
day.
The airline confirmed that a
fired USAir employee and his for
mer boss were on Pacific South
west Airlines Flight 177a, which
crashed Monday afternoon. USAir
recently bought PSA.
“At this point it does not appear
that it was an accident,” said Rich
ard Bretzing, special agent in
charge of the FBI in Los Angeles.
“It appears at this point — and has
yet to be substantiated — that it
was a criminal act on board that
caused the craft to come down.”
But a handgun fired aboard the
jetliner wouldn’t necessarily cause
it to crash, said George Dahlman, a
spokesman for the jet’s manufac
turer, British Aerospace, at its
American headquarters near
Washington, D.C.
“Any kind of penetration of the
fuselage might result in depressuri
zation, but there’s no reason to
think that it would cause this kind
of accident,” Dahlman said.
The crew of the flight from Los
Angeles to San Francisco re
ported gunfire aboard theplane and
smoke filling the cockpit and radi
oed the code for an on-board emer
gency.
Moments later, witnesses on the
ground saw the (laming four-en
gine BAe-146 jet streak in a verti
cal dive into the green, oak-stud
ded hills of a cattle ranch 175 miles
northwest of Los Angeles.
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