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News Digest Saws* Little expected from Gorbachev-Reagan meeting WASHINGTON — Ronald Re agan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who have made arms control history to gether, are bound to revisit their idea of a dramatic reduction in strategic weapons when they meet over lunch this week, but a nudge forward, rather than a breakthrough, is the most that’s likely to result. The strategic arms reduction treaty that they have been talking about - the hoped-for centerpiece in Reagan’s arms control program - has too many holes in it for Gorbachev and Reagan to reach command decisions during their three-hour luncheon Wednesday on Governors Island in New York Harbor. Moreover, Gorbachev is well aware that he is dealing with a lame duck president who will have six weeks left in office and will be in no position to commit his successor, George Bush, to any cour se of action. For all that, Max M. Kampclman, the chief U.S. arms control negotiator, finds it difficult to believe arms will not be discussed during lunch. ‘I believe it w ill come up,” Kam pclman said in an interview last week. “But I don't believe it wiil come up in a negotiating context. My own judg ment is it will come up as a discussion and maybe a quick review of where things stand now.” The unfinished strategic arms treaty will be turned over to President elect Bush’s administration with, the U.S. side hopes, a renewed commit ment from Gorbachev to maintain its current high priority. In a report to Congress on Friday, Reagan accused the Soviet Union of violating existing arms control agree ments with the United States. ‘‘We cannot conclude new strategic arms control agreements while this viola uon remains uncorrected,” the report said. The repon cited Krasnoyarsk, a Siberian radar installation that the administration contends violates the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. However, Reagan did not accuse the Soviets of a “material breach ” of the agreement, which could have led to its unraveling. And national secu rity adviser Colin D. Powell said Reagan was not expected to make “a major issue” of the U.S. allegations in the meeting with Gorbachev. Reagan intends to raise arms con trol issues with the Soviet leader, just as he will bring up the suspended Red Army withdrawal from Afghanistan and the human rights situation, offi cials say. But the. vital ground work simply has not been undertaken this lime. For example, See rotary of State George P. Shultz did not have a planning session with Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze to set an agenda and to define the issues for their leaders. Arms negotiations were adjourned in Geneva on Nov. 15 and the two sides have not met since. rour-day military insurgency ends m Argentina BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The four-day revolt by hundreds of heavily armed soldiers ended Sunday after the army chief agreed to resign, giving in to a rebel demand, Argen tine news agencies said. At least one person was killed in the rebellion. The army said in a communique that insurgents who were holed up at a military base just outside the capital agreed to give up their weapons and explosives. On Sunday, medical officials and news agencies reported at least one demonstrator was shot andlcilled by rebels, and as many as 20 wounded by rubber bullets or injured by tear gas. Rebel commander Col. Mohamed Aii Seineldin met with army chief Ll. Gen. Jose Dante Caridi and worked out an agreement by which Scincidin —- not his men — accepted responsi bility for the insurrection and Caridi would step down as the army’s top official, news reports said. The agreement was reported by the private Noticias Argentinass and Diarios y Noticias news agencies. Both cited political and military sources. The rebels had demanded an over haul in the military hierarchy, a big ger military budget, and an end to prosecutions for human rights abuses committed during the 1976-83 mili tary dictatorships. It was not immediately known if any of the rebels’ other demands were met. The uprising was the worst threat to President Raul Alfonsin since his civilian government replaced a dis graced military dictatorship in 1983. The government had refused to negotiate with the estimated 500 reb els, who had seized an infantry school at a military base outside the capital on Friday, then moved to another military installation — a heavily equipped arsenal — on Saturday. Commander warns force may be used in Azeraiiani MUbCUW — the military com mander of Baku warned Sunday that force may be used to contain unrest in the Azerbaijani capital, where au thorities have banned protests and meetings in efforts to impose order. In another development, a news paper said guards armed with subma chine guns were protecting Armenian and Azerbaijani refugees as they stream across the border dividing the two republics. Official news reports have placed r~— the total number of refugees from both sides at about 150,000, and said they arc living in tents at summer resorts, vacant apartments and with relatives and friends. The refugee problem is “standing like a black cloud over everybody’s head,” said Col Gen. Tyagunov said in a broadcast on Baku radio. “Now is not the time for staging any meet ings.” The officer’s first name was not given in the broadcast, which was monitored in London by the British Broadcasting Corp. “I request leaders of the meetings and demonstrations on Lenin Square and other people to abide by Soviet laws unconditionally,” he said. “Force will be used in case of any failure to abide by regulations estab lished by law.” The military law imposed on Baku late last week prohibits meetings and protests, but they have continued in the Azerbaijani capital. Tyagunov’s statement appeared to be a toughen ing of authorities’ efforts to impose order. An Armenian activist in Yerevan, Rafael Popoyan, said officials in the Armenian capital had permitted ac tivists to hold a meeting Sunday in Echmiadzin, 19 miles west of the Armenian capital. Popoyan said activists negotiated with military authorities for two days to receive permission for the meeting. He said the strict controls imposed under military rule prevented Arme nians from getting information about their relatives still in Azerbaijan. The official Tass news agency reported Saturday that 24-hour guardshad been ordered on key facili ties in Armenia and Azerbaijan, where ethnic strife has resulted in at least 28 deaths since mid-November. II Orr’s role reversal makes People LINCOLN—Gov. KayOrrand her husband Bill join the likes of Cybill Shepherd and Kevin Cost ner in the Dec. 12 issue of People Weekly magazine that was to ap pear on newsstands Monday. While Shepherd and Costner are included for their feminine and masculine attire, the focus on Nebraska’s first couple is on their reversal of formerly traditional roles. “It sounds like the premise for a sitcom:” the article begins. “When his wife becomes governor of a Midwestern state, a hotshot insur ance executive has to find ways of coping on the homefront.” The writers go on to recount how the Orrs adjusted from the days when Bill would venture into the kitchen once a year through Mrs. Orr’s becoming treasurer, when housekeeping became “an either Orr proposition.” In the article, Mrs. Orr recalls having been “one of those fully devoted wives and mothers” when their children were growing up and Bill Orr was traveling as an insur ance salesman. However, after becoming treas urer, she says, “I taught Bill that being patient and understanding about my job was not simply wait ing forme to come home and fix his meal.” Now, Bill Orr is a senior vice president at Woodmen Accident and Lile Co.. Not only has he be come a cook but he also is the author of a forthcoming “First Gentleman’s Cookbook,” in tended to raise funds for renovat ing the Governor’s Mansion. The article quotes him as saying “I’m much neater than Kay in the kitchen - she can mess it up just cutting a piece of cheese.” Bill Orr says he and Mrs. Orr once had important calls to make Irom a car phone, saying: “Mine had to wail until I got to the office. There was no question her call was more important.” Bill Orr predicts the changes in the couple’s relationship will out last any electoral term. “We’ll never return to square one,” he said. “I think the roles will be something between what they arc now and what they were prior to the time Kay became slate treas urer.” Doug Parrott, a spokesperson for the governor, said after Mrs. Orr was featured in the Washing ton Post women’s section and an article on Bill Orr’s cookbook appeared in the New York Times, people’s interest was solidified. “I think it’s going to show a side of them that not everyone knows,” Parrott said of the article, w hich is accompanied by photographs of the Orrs at work and play together. "It’s not political - it’s a human story,” Parrott said. “It’s not U.S. News & World Report.” In one of the article’s only allu sions to politics, Mrs. Orr is de scribed as a ‘‘moderate conserva tive grappling with tough tax is sues.” The governor’s attitude, Parrott said, was “any lime you can gel national exposure, irs good for Nebraska.” The magazine will be using the article for nationwide publicity, according to Parrott, who said radio broadcasts arc already being worked on. Bhutto names cabinet, orders prisoners freed ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Prime Minister Bena/ir Bhutto installed her Cabinet on Sunday, holding the de fense and finance portfolios for her self and naming a foreign minister who served under the late President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. The moves followed her orders Saturday to free political prisoners convicted under martial law and commute all death sentences. Those orders are expected to be acted on by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan. In a news conference, Ms. Bhutto said the appointment of Sahab/ada Yaqub Khan to head the Foreign Ministry is a signal of continuity in Pakistan’s stand on the war in neigh boring Afghanistan. Pakistan, with help from the United Slates, supports Moslem anti communist guerrillas fighting the Soviet-backed Kabul government and shelters more than 3 million Afghan war refugees. Despite her bitter opposition to Zia, Ms. Bhutto said during her elec tion campaign that she would main tain his Afghan policy until the fight ing slops and the refugees feel safe to go home. Zia died in an Aug. 17 plane crash, weeks after approving elections for Pakistan. Authorities suspect sabo lagc in the crash, which also killed U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel and 28 others. A probe is continuing. Ms. Bhutto, who look the oath of office Friday, stocked her govern ment with stalwarts of her Pakistan People’s Party except for Yaqub Khan. All lOC'abinet ministers and seven ministers of state, the second echcion in rank, took the oath of office Sunday administered by Ishaq Khan. Although she assigned no minis ters for defense or finance, Ms. Bhutto appointed special advisers with the rank of minister. - ---I . Nebraskan conor tun Wagner .. c 472-176? 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