By The
Associated Press
Edited by jana Pedersen
Arms treaty summit scheduled
Bush grants aid to Soviets
WASHINGTON - President
Bush said Wednesday he and So
viet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
will meet Feb. 11-13 in Moscow
for a summit at which they hope to
sign a long-awaited treaty reduc
ing their nuclear arsenals.
In a more immediate gesture of
friendship with a former foe, Bush
also announced up to $1 billion in
agricultural credits and other eco
nomic assistance to help the Sovi
ets through a winter of “lough times ”
A Ithough both sides had talked
about a superpower summit in
Moscow in early 1991, Bush’s
announcement was the first offi
cial word.
Secretary of State James A. Baker
III, standing with Bush and Soviet
Foreign Minister Eduard Shevard
nadze at the White House, made it
clear that technical problems still
remain to be resolved on the Stra
tegic Arms Reduction Treaty to
reduce long-range nuclear weap
ons.
But Bush said, “I’m pleased with
the great progress we’ve made on
START and hopeful that we ll be
ready to sign a treaty” at the Moscow
summit.
In the meantime, the president
said he was waiving, through June
1991, longstanding trade restric
tions against the Soviet Union,
enabling the Soviets to buy U.S.
food on credit. Baker said the pro
gram would cover from $500 mil
lion to $1 billion in food ship
ments.
At the same time, the president
said he was sending technical and
medical assistance to help the Soviet
Union “cope with immediate short
ages.”
He also saiu ne was canmg uu
the World Bank and its sister agency,
the International Monetary Fund,
“to give the U.S.S.R. access to its
considerable financial expertise.”
“'The Soviet Union is facing tough
times, difficult times. But I believe
that this is good reason to act now
in order to help the Soviet Union
slay the course of democratization
and to undertake market reforms,”
Bush said.
In temporarily waiving the
Jackson-Vanik trade restrictions,
the president opened Soviet access
to U.S. credit to help it buy the food
it needs to offset severe shortages.
He stopped short of recommend
ing that the Soviet Union also be
granted most-favored-nation trade
status, but hinted that a complete
normalization of trade might come
later.
Albanians cheer non-Communist party
VIENNA, Austria • Thousands of
Albanians chanting “Democracy,
democracy” on Wednesday hailed the
foundation of the tiny Stalinist coun
try’s first non-Communist political
party.
Albanians reached by telephone
said thousands of people surged into
University Square in Tirana, Alba
nia’s capital, to suppoit students who
won unprecedented concessions from
the Communist leadership in several
days of protests.
The developments appeared to
herald the end of one-parly rule not
only in the Balkan nation, but in all of
Europe. Albania, a country of just
over 3 million, has been the last on
the continent to cling to one-party
Communist rule.
President Ramiz Alia addressed
the nation late Wednesday and asked
for calm.
He called on “the political and
patriotic conscience of you all to avoid
mistakes which could have conse
quences tor the entire country.*’ His
taped radio message was monitored
by the British Broadcasting Corp. in
London.
Alia and his Communist leader
ship declared Tuesday dial they would
allow formation of non-Communist
parties in Albania, which was iso
lated for decades by its hard-line rul
crs.
The crowds cheered wildly Wednes
day as students and others announced
formation of the Democratic Party of
Albania, according to a Tirana engi
neer reached by telephone from Vi
enna.
Zamira Kolezc, a reporter for
Albania’s official radio, said students
would try to register the party today at
the Ministry of Justice.
The huge peaceful crowd chanted
“Democracy, democracy ,”“Wc want
Albania to be like Europe’’ and “We
want democratic Albania,” the engi
neer said. He spoke on condition of
anonymity.
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Rush-hour trains crash
under streets of Boston
BOSTON - An Amtrak train de
railed and slammed into a rush-hour
commuter train Wednesday, injuring
264 passengers in an underground
crash so violent it jolted cars into the
tunnel ceiling and buckled the road
above.
“All the lights went out, people
started screaming, the place was filled
with smoke, a few people were trapped
under seats,” said Chris Good, a pas
senger on the suburban Stoughton
Line train.
About 1,500 gallons of diesel fuel
spilled and ignited after the impact,
sending a dense smoke into the cars
that passenger Joe Povoas said “you
could grind with your teeth, you could
spit it out.”
Many passengers, dazed and cov
ered with soot, wandered out of the
station, some crying, many assisted
by emergency personnel.
One elderly woman, her face black
with soot and wearing no shoes, asked
police: “Where’s my luggage? Where
are my shoes?”
Ten people were in critical condi
tion, including the engineer of Am
irak’s Night Owl train from Washing
ton, D.C., said Jon Fasana, director of
the city’s emergency services.
Overall, 264 people, including four
rescue workers, were hurt, said Tho
mas Glynn, general manager of the
Massachusetts Bay Transportation
Authority. The injured passengers were
among 190 aboard the Amirak train
and about 900 on the commuter train.
They suffered from cuts and bruises,
smoke inhalation, broken bones and
head injuries.
An Amirak trainee was in the lo
comotive with a regular engineer, said
Dawn Soper, an Amirak spokeswoman.
She said the unidentified trainee suf
fered a broken back, broken collar
bone and facial injuries. She did not
know if the apprentice was running
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the train, but said that would be highly
unusual.
Federal officials were investigat
ing the accident, which occurred in
the same Back Bay station in down
town Boston as an almost identical
crash three years ago caused by a
faulty signal system.
“We’11 be very interested in seeing
if there arc any connections,” said
Brent Bahlcr, a National Transporta
tion Safety Board spokesman.
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