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Wednesday, November 23, 1983/The Battalion/Page 13 After walkout Wednesday Soviets resume arms talks United Press International GENEVA, Switzerland — The United States and Soviet Union resumed talks Tuesday on long-range nuclear weapons despite the Soviet walkout last week from talks on medium- range missiles in Europe. U.S. and Soviet delegations at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, START, met for three hours and 15 minutes and agreed to meet again Thursday. Last Wednesday Moscow had broken off talks on Intermedi ate Nuclear Forces, or Euromis siles, after the West German parliament approved the NATO deployment of U.S. cruise and Pershing-2 missiles in Western Europe. There had been speculation that the Soviets would also break off the long-range talks but the delegation turned up for the scheduled session. “There is no progress up to now,” Karpov told reporters in English. “As I have explained many times, the position of the American side is not for an agreement.” Despite the Soviet Union’s threats to break off “Geneva arms talks,” it never made fully clear whether it meant only the INF negotiations or START as well. The latest session had been watched as an indicator of Mos cow’s willingness to continue nuclear arms control talks with the United States. Western observers said they “do not anticipate any break down” in the START talks, although the Soviet news agency Novosti said the arrival of U.S. missiles in Europe jeopardized START. Novosti said the missiles made the INF talks pointless and are changing the situation at START, presumably because the missiles can reach Soviet ter ritory. Western observers said they expected the Soviets to recess the talks and schedule a resump tion. A recess would most likely come next week, according to the regular pattern of each round Tasting two months with two months in between for con sultations at home. The basic U.S. position cen ters on one-third reduction in strategic warheads to 5,000 for each side and scrapping two old delivery systems for each new one deployed. Moscow has stuck to its origin al proposal to limit each side to 1,800 delivery systems — heavy bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles. In London, U.S. arms nego tiator Paul Nitze said he ex pected the Soviets to return to the intermediate-range missile talks, although he said the two sides were still far apart. Nitze, on a tour of NATO governments, said the stumb ling block was over the central issue — whether Moscow should have a monopoly on modern nuclear missiles in Europe. “We hope and expect they will continue the negotiations,” Nitze said. Action delayed on waste site Study pooch Mike Davis, Battalion staff lingvASweetpea the dog stands guard onoffcp w hile Debbie Vanderweide, a senior special education studies on a campus bench. major, kidd: 'Learr. ork. 4 |ir Force launches investigation suspected fraud by contractor United Press International ASHINGTON —- The Air e has launched the first cri- il investigation against a ma- efense contractor involving sale of spare parts to the ary, Air Force and congres- il sources said Tuesday, he investigation focuses on ible fraud in pricing tools died by the General Dyna- Corp. of Fort Worth for use aintaining the F-16 fighter, h is built by the contractor, leneral Dynamics, which ufactures weapons ranging the M-l tank to the Toma- k ground-launched cruise ile, received $5.9 billion h of defense contracts dur- fiscal year 1982 to make it nation’s No. 1 ranked de supplier. Figures for fiscal , which ended Sept. 30, not available, entagon auditors charged Force for $9,600 after having re ceived a price of $5,600 for the same tool from a subcontractor, the Westinghouse Co. of Balti more, Md., committee sources said. The wrench was to be part of a package of 22 tools ordered by the Air Force for $1.2 million for maintenance on its F-16s, the sources said. The Air Force did not buy the package after the committee exposed the prop osed deal. “We don’t know if there was fraud, but we thought the prices were outrageous,” said a com mittee source, who requested anonymity. ‘‘The Air Force asked General Dynamics to withdraw the proposal. But our feeling is it would have gone through if someone hadn’t looked at it.” In another instance, the no additional comment until these investigations are com pleted.” United Press International AUSTIN — The target date for final selection of a site in Texas for a low-level nuclear waste disposal facility has been pushed back to at least mid- Febnuary, officials said Tuesday. Tom Blackburn, spokesman for the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Au thority, said the agency has been ordered by its board of directors to consider public comment on proposed sites in Hudspeth and Dimmit counties. The agency must wait for another 90 days. The authority had originally hoped to make a decision by the end of the year. But Blackburn said the authority is still evaluat ing all or parts of 16 counties for prospective sites for the 300- acre, $12 million facility. Counties still under consider ation are Garza, Mitchell, Scur ry, Howard, Borden, Baylor, Throckmorton, Knox, Haskell, Hudspeth, Maverick, Zavalla, Dimmit, Frio, LaSalle and Webb. None of the potential sites are within 20 miles of a major city, he said. The authority has already obtained an option to buy a 456- acre tract of privately-held land in Dimmit County in South Texas. It is also studying two tracts of state-owned property in the far West Texas county of Hudspeth. Texas has no operating Com mercial nuclear power plants, but four are expected to be run ning by 1990. About 30,000 cubic feet of low-level waste was generated in Texas in 1982 and that amount is expected to more than triple in seven years. <Ha n so wise how keep getting University Lutheran Chapel Hubert Beck, Pastor 315 N. College Main 846-6687 IT’S A GOOD QUESTION. IF WE ARE SO WISE, WHY DO WE KEEP GETTING LOST? WHY IS THE WORLD IN THE SHAPE IT IS IN? Could it be that we still need the wisdom of God? 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