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“Many people in Europe are
worried about nuclear arms,”
Schmidt said during the press
conference. “Their concerns are
understandable. There are
5,000 nuclear warheads in West
Germany.”
Heath said: “Tens of
thousands of young people are
genuinely concerned about nuc-
Chinese
defector
can stay
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Jus
tice Department announced
Monday that Chinese tennis star
Hu Na, 19, who defected to the
United States in July, has been
granted asylum in the United
States.
The government’s decision
ends months of uncertainty for
the tennis player who defected
to the United States during a
tennis tournament in Santa
Clara, Calif., July 20 and applied
for political asylum July 26.
Arthur Brill, Justice Depart
ment spokesman, said in a brief
announcement that there would
be no further comment on the
action.
Hu Na was granted asylum
under the Refugee Act of 1980
which provides that asylum can
be granted in cases where an ap
plicant establishes a well-
founded fear of persecution,
due to their race, religion, na
tionality, political opinion, or
membership in a specific social
group.
In recent interviews, Hu Na
told reporters she believed
Chinese officials had been
trying to coerce her into joining
the Communist Party, and that
she feared she would be caught
up in factional political struggles
in China.
Officials in Peking had de
manded that she be returned to
China.
The State Department re
commended last year that the
athlete be granted asylum, but
the head of the Immigration
and Nationalization Service was
reported to have recommended
that she not be granted asylum.
The INS was reported to be
worried that giving her asylum
would create a precedent that
might be used by more than
1,000 other Chinese citizens
now in the United States who
have applied for asylum.
Gloria
Swanson,
84, dies
United Press International
NEW YORK — Actress Gloria
Swanson died in her sleep early
Monday, a spokesman for New
York Hospital said. She was 84.
The spokesman said Swan
son, who had been admitted to
the hospital on March 20, died at
4:45 a.m.
Earl Blackwell, president of
Celebrity Services, a friend of
Swanson’s, said last week that
she had suffered a slight heart
attack.
Swanson, who turned 84 on
March 27, began her career
playing bit parts in silent movies.
A great, great grandmother, she
made the classic “Sunset Boule
vard” in 1950, playing the part
of an aging actress living in the
past. She and William Holden
were named best actress and
actor of the year for their roles
in that movie.
Her career spanned 60 years
from her early days in silent
films to the mid-1970s when she
played herself in the second
“Airport” movie.
"When she was in her 20s,
Swanson, by her own account,
had a sizzling romance with
Joseph P. Kennedy, father of
John F. Kennedy and Robert F.
Kennedy.
She began her career at 15 in
Hollywood starring as a bathing
beauty in Mack Sennett com
edies. She made more than 50
silent films, as a torrid vamp in
such Cecil B. DeMille produc
tions as “Don’t Change Your
Husband,” “Male and Female”
and “Affairs of Anatole.”
She was married, in order, to
actor Wallace Beery, re
staurateur William Somborn,
the Marquis Henri de la Falaise
de la Coudraye, Irish sportsman
Michael Farmer, millionaire
yachtsman William Davey, and
William Duffy.
lear weapons.... We have had
great amounts of public discus
sion in our country about nuc
lear deterrence. I think that is
the way to deal with it.”
When asked whether Soviet
propaganda has influenced the
growing nuclear freeze move
ment, Schmidt, Ford and Heath
said they had not seen any direct
evidence of influence.
Ford told reporters he didn’t
think a nuclear freeze is enough.
“The key words that are
usually brought up (at arms
negotiations) are ‘mutually veri
fiable freeze,”’ Ford said. “That
is not adequate. I believe we
need a mutually verifiable re
duction.”
And the three men agreed
that they see hope for future
arms negotiations. Heath added
that the West should not be
overly concerned with tempor
ary setbacks in arms talks.
“We must consider the long
haul,” Heath said. “It is always
the long haul with the Soviet Un
ion. They say the same things
over and over. They get very
boring.
“They have signed treaties in
the past and we may get future
treaties.”
Schmidt added that the Soviet
Union usually has kept the
treaties it has signed with the
United States.
The three former leaders
agreed that Reagan’s anti-Soviet
rhetoric only harms negotiation
efforts.
Heath said: “I absolutely
loathe it. If you come out in pub
lic and say: ‘This is an evil man,’
then why are you sitting down at
the table with him? If we only
dealt with people we liked, it
would only be the three of us
here.”
One way to further arms
negotiations with the Soviet Un
ion, he said, is to consider such
Soviet problems as outdated in
dustries, a low standard of living
and trouble with its satellite
countries.
In addition. Heath said:
“They have to buy from you, the
U.S., 23 million tons of grain a
year to keep themselves alive.
They have enormous problems,
and we in negotiations should
take advantage of them.”
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