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CZ H 1 Q" Gl cf Associated Press i ^ ^ V W d# A,^ A Im A* lU A Edited by Victoria Ayotte Soviets accept call for chemical arms cuts ^ _ . . « _ T ..IJ L- j UNITED NATIONS - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevard nadze on Tuesday accepted President George Bush’s call for deep U.S. Soviet chemical arms cuts and chal lenged the United Stales to go further and faster. Shevardnadze said the Soviet Union will “radically reduce or completely destroy’’ its chemical weapons, halt nuclear tests and slop making wcapons-gradc plutonium and uranium - all if Washington reciprocates. Shevardnadze, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, said the two governments have narrowed their differences and he predicted that by the U.S.-Soviet summit next spring or summer, “We may have passed the last turn on the road” toward a treaty reducing strategic arms by 50 percent. There was a quick response from the White House. Bush said, “lam very pleased with the way things are going. The reaction from the Soviets to our proposals yesterday has been positive so now the goal is to get moving and try to work out these agreements.” White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwatcr called Shevard nadze’s statements “a very construc tive response. Our ultimate objective is total elimination of chemical weapons. And it appears that both nations are now ready to act.” Shevardnadze also said that if NATO countries agree to start talks on tactical nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union will respond by further unilateral cuts in its tactical nuclear missiles in Europe. Secretary of State James A. Baker III later praised Shevardnadze’s nearly hour-long address as “a good speech, an interesting speech. He called it “very responsive to the President’s statement’’ on chemical weapons. But Viktor P. Karpov, the Soviet Union’s chief arms control expert, told reporters, “Our proposal is a wider one’’ and docs not wait to de stroy all weapons or halt production until all nations capable of producing them have signed a ban. “It will not be sufficient only to get rid of old weapons if the United Stales is going to produce new chemi cal weapons, Karpov said. Bush told the General Assembly on Monday that the United States will destroy more than 80 percent of its chemical weapons, before an interna tional treaty banning use of the weap ons is signed, if the Soviet Union will reduce its arms to a similar level. That would mean greater cuts by the Soviet Union, which has a larger stockpile. ‘It will not be suffi cient only to get rid of ola weapons If the United States is going to pro duce new chemi cal weapons.' -Karpov Bush said in the first eight years of a chemical weapons treaty, the united states would be ready to de stroy 98 percent of its arsenal if the Soviet union joins the ban. The United States would destroy all chemical weapons within 10 years once every nation capable of building the weapons signs the treaty, he said. Shevardnadze said: “The Soviei Union is ready, together with the United States, to go further and as sume mutual obligations prior to the conclusion of a multilateral conven tion.” The Soviet Union offered to: • Cease production of chemical weapons, as it says it already has done, including more sophisticated binary weapons. • Renounce the use of “those barbaric weapons” under any circumstances. • Institute rigorous verification of the cessation of production. Americans shot before Quayle arrives MANILA, Philippines - Gunmen be lieved to be Communist rebels ambushed and killed two American civilians working at a U.S. air base Tuesday, shortly before Vice President Dan Quayle arrived to dis cuss the future of U.S. military installations here. A Pentagon statement in Washington said the victims were civilian employees of Ford Aerospace Corp., a contractor at Camp O'Donnell. The camp is a U.S .-run facility about 50 miles north of Manila and 12 miles from the U.S. Dark Air Base. Also Tuesday, gunmen killed a member of President Corazon Aquino's presidential guard, about a mile from where the presi dent will meet with Quayle today. The attacks followed a series of bomb ings this month and came amid growing opposition to U.S. military installations in the Philippines. The Americans, whose names were not immediately released, slowed their car as they approached a dump truck and a jeep blocking a highway near Capas, 60 miles north of Manila, police said. Six men sprang from the jeep and riddled the Americans' car with gunfire, according to ponce Ll Fepito Pimentel. The assailants then opened the car door and pumped bullets into the victims, Pimen tel said. The attack occurred about S p.m. Col. Florentine Amorabon, a spokesman for the Philippine Constabulary in central Luzon island, said the assassins were be lieved to be members of the New Peoples Army, which operates in the area. hi April, rebels killed U.S. Army Col. Janies Rowe as he was driving to the head quarters of the V.S. Joint Military Assis tance Croup in Quezon City, near Manila. Chinese leader takes hard line BEIJING - Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin took a hard line Tuesday at his first news conference, insisting that those arrested in the spring democracy movement were criminals and refusing to rule out more executions. Asked by a reporter if the “Tiananmen tragedy” could have been avoided, Jiang said: “We believe it was not a tragedy. “Tiananmen was a counterrevolutionary rebellion opposing the Communist Party lead ers and seeking to overthrow the socialist sys tem,” he said. Premier Li Peng, who also took part in the news conference, reaffirmed the party’s deter mination to end rampant corruption and said new limits on official perks would be an nounced in a few days. The 62-year-old Jiang, whose highest previ ous post was head of the Shanghai party com mittee, was catapulted into the national leader ship in June after soldiers retook Beijing’s Tiananmen Square by force from student-led pro-democracy protesters, killing hundreds and possibly thousands of people en route to the square. His predecessor, Zhao Ziyang, was accused of supporting the protests and ousted. The unusual news conference, for both local and foreign reporters, appeared intended to demonstrate the solidity of the new party lead ership in lime for the 40th anniversary of the founding of Communist China on Oct. 1. Pierce refuses to answer questions about involvement in HUD scandals WASHINGTON — Former HUD Secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr. refused to answer ques tions Tuesday from a House panel investigat ing housing scandals, citing his constitutional right against self-incrimination. He contended he had been ‘‘prejudged by this body.” Pierce, compelled to appear by a subpoena, accused the subcommittee of trying to rush him into testifying without adequate preparation and said he hoped to tell his story later. His refusal to testify came at a dramatic meeting of a panel that has been investigating allegations of billions of dollars worth of fraud, mismanagement, influence peddling and po litical favoritism at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which Pierce headed throughout the Reagan administration. Disagreements between the subcommittee and Pierce even extended lo news coverage of the hearing. Pierce invoked House rules that forced subcommittee chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif., to bar television, radio and photo graphic coverage, despite the chairman’s complaint that the move was unwarranted. Pierce read a brief statement saying he had not had time to prepare, did not have the HUD documents he needed and would invoke his constitutional right not to testify. Lantos then posed eight questions to Pierce, some raising new suggestions of political influ ence involving HUD and the Reagan White House. Each time Pierce refused to answer. “The subcommittee’s desire to rush me through this process, together with various statements made by members ... leads me to the painful conclusion that I have been pre judged by this body,’’ Pierce said. Soviets take on the cooperative MOSCOW — The Soviet legislature on Tuesday tackled the problem of public anger over private businesses that earn fat profits by providing scarce goods and services. Cooperative businesses are one of the few successes of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s economic reform program. They have grown dramatically since they were legalized 2 1/2 years ago and now provide $20 billion worth of goods and services, Deputy Premier Leonid I. Abalkin said Tuesday. But decades of propaganda instilled into many Soviets a strong feeling that earning a profit is evil. 6 Deputy Veniamin Yarin of Nizhni Tagilsk pointed up the mood of much of the public when he said cooperatives engage in “open robbery of the working man.’’ The cooperatives’ exemption from state controlled prices and the high wages paid to dieir employees reinforce public resentment Some cooperatives arc victims of extortion by organized crime. Others are fronts for thieves Even Gorbachev asked the legislature how the cooperatives manage to find soap when no one else can. And he noted that the cooperative pnee might be 5 rubles (about $7.75) for a bar of soap, when a state store would charge 40 kopecks (62 cents) to 1 ruble ($1.55). “We have to take into account the mood of the people,’ ’ he said, as the legislators began debating proposed amendments that would give local governments more power to regulate cooperatives. Gorbachev stood by his creations, however. 4 ‘The main thing for us is to preserve coop eratives,” he said. “People see the evident difference between them. Those providing services, manufacturing, producing construc tion materials, repairing, helping, arc more than welcome by the people. All those interme diary cooperatives arc considered to be thieves. What is the way out of this situation? “If we do not set this matter in order, we will doom the cooperative movement.” Nebraskan Editor Amy Edwards, 472-1766 Menaging Editor j.nc Htit Assoc News Editors Brandon Loomis _ Ryan Stseves Genera! 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