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pummit closes, 2 more meetings planned
Associated Press
I GENEVA (AP) — President Rea-
; tan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gor-
fcchev concluded their extraordi-
ftiry personal summit Wednesday,
claiming “broad areas of
wreement.” U.S. officials said the
Hvo leaders reached an understand-
Uig that they will hold two more
! aimmits, one in the United States
gpnd the other in the Soviet Union.
I “The news is so good that we’re
Hoing to hold it for tomorrow,” Rea-
flan teased reporters after the for-
Hial talks had ended. A joint farewell
ceremony was hastily scheduled for
Thursday morning.
But U.S. officials, talking on con
dition they not be identified, said the
two leaders would announce at a
joint ceremony before leaving Ge
neva on Thursday that Gorbachev
will visit the United States next year
afid Reagan will go to the Soviet
Union in 1987.
Specific locations and plans for
the back-to-back follow-up summit
conferences are still to be worked
out, the sources said.
The Associated Press learned that
Secretary of State George P. Shultz
and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard
A. Shevardnadze would participate
in a document-signing ceremony
during Thursday’s joint appearance.
A U.S. source indicated that there
would be a joint statement to pro
vide impetus on arms control but
that the leaders would issue no spe
cific guidelines to help negotiators
break the current impasse.
Gorbachev said only, “I hope
there will be,” when asked if any
joint agreements would be signed.
A State Department negotiator,
Raymond Benson, said the two sides
had approved cultural exchange
provisions that call for exchange of
students, performing arts groups,
exhibitions and sports teams. Tne
official who spoke on condition of
anonymity said the agreement
would be signed Thursday.
Reagan’s chief adviser on arms
control, Paul Nitze, was among ex
perts who continued discussions fol
lowing the end of Wednesday’s for
mal negotiations. It was an
indication that the summit’s most
contentious issue remained unre
solved as the leaders adjourned for
dinner.
The U.S. source, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, predicted at
least one surprise at Thursday’s
farewell and said plans for a follow
up summit might await a post-sum
mit decision.
White House spokesman Larry
Speakes declined to comment on
whether any significant agreements
were fdrged, adhering to the news
blackout established during Tues
day’s first summit session.
Speakes promised a briefing fol
lowing the ceremony set for 10 a.m.
Geneva time (4 a.m. EST) and said it
would be clear to observers then
whether the summit could be consid
ered as success.
The Soviets had sought a final
ceremony for weeks, but there was
no word on Reagan’s acceptance un
til almost midnight Wednesday, Ge
neva time.
Speakes refused to say whether a
joint statement or communique
would be issued or whether the lead-
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j|xperts agree SDI
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whip in arms talks
I
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Staff Writer
18 value of the Strategic De-
i fense Initiative as a bargaining chip
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drawing board.
| Each did, however, see some hope
in using SDI to convince the Soviets
to reduce nuclear arms,
p Lawrence, a professor at Colo-
[ ratio State University and former
Air Force pilot, suggested that the
United States use SDI as a bargain-
Itig tool to stop Soviet stockpiling of
nuclear warheads and to force them
to allow the U.S. on-site inspections
to insure that the Soviets are not vio
lating arms treaties.
I “We’ve got the Russians’ attention
I. . we need to say ‘we’ll cut a deal
with you folks. We’ll trade one bad
idea of ours (SDI) for two bad ideas
of yours (stockpiling and closed de
tense facilities)."
I Lawrence said he was in favor of
bargaining with SDI after it has been
more fully researched. Bowman dis
agreed.
I “We’ve got to cash the SDI chip in
today or tomorrow at the Geneva
$ummit,” he said. Bowman, presi
dent of the Institute for Space and
ecurities Studies, said that he did
From left to right, Dr. Rober Bowman, Lt. Gen.
Daniel Graham, Jules Bergman, Dr. Robert Law-
Photo by A NTHONY S. CASPER
rence and Brig. Gen. Malcolm O’Neill discuss the
Strategic Defense Initiative.
not want to see SDI developed any
further whether or not it is effective
as a bargaining tool.
“I’m for tossing it,” Bowman
added. “SDI has hardly any de
fensive value at all.”
Graham, who received the most
applause from an audience of ap
proximately 250, disagreed with
Bowman by saying that the “Star
Wars” plan would result in a reduc
tion of nuclear weapons between the
two superpowers.
“The defense race (for non-nu
clear weapons such as SDI) is already
on,” Graham said. I say that’s a lot
better race than a race of the biggest
and best weapons to knock chunks
off the planet.
The panelists debated the stength
of the Soviet defense. Graham said
that Soviet engineers were incapable
of competing with American engi
neers because of the Russian eco
nomic system.
“Gommunism wrecks the techni
cal base,” he said, adding that scien
tists and engineers had no fiscal in
centive to excel, unlike American
scientists and engineers.
O'Neill, the only panelist still in
active military service, cautioned
against assuming that the Soviets
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their own SDI system. :
“I take great exception from those
in the panel who don’t give the
enemy the benefit of having the
same kind of mental acumen we ha
ve,” O’Neill said. “They’re brilliant.”
Moderator Jules Bergman of
ABC News concluded the two-hour
program by noting that while the
panelists were discussing SDI on the
Texas A&M campus, President Rea
gan and Premier Gorbachev were
negotiating an arms reduction plan
which may include special provisions
for SDI in Geneva.
Eaton named
to presidency
at Iowa State
By JENS B. KOEPKE
Senior Staff Writer
Dr. Gordon P. Eaton, Texas
A&M provost and vice president
for academic affairs, was named
president of Iowa State Univer
sity Wednesday afternoon.
The Iowa State Board of Re
gents announced that Eaton will
begin his duties on July 1, 1986,
but because the A&M fiscal year
runs until Sept. 1, Eaton said he
may start at that time.
“I’m looking forward to this
opportunity — and to the chal
lenge,” Eaton said. “It was an
awesome decision to decide to
leave Texas A&M. I have been
enormously impressed with
(A&M). If anything, my apprecia
tion of its qualities has grown
since the time I came here.”
Eaton is the second top A&M
administrator to be named presi
dent of a major university in the
last year. Dr. William Muse, for
merly a Texas A&M System vice
chancellor, became president of
the University of Akron last year.
'Eaton succeeds W. Robert Parks,
who has been Iowa State presi
dent for 21 years.
A&M President Frank Van
diver said Eaton’s departure is a
great loss to Texas A&M and con
gratulated Iowa State on a fine
choice.
Eaton came to Texas A&M in
October, 1981, serving as dean of
geosciences. In February, 1983,
Eaton assumed his present posi
tion. He cited the acquisition of
the Ocean Drilling Program and_
Dr. Gordon Eaton
the naming of four new deans as
the most significant achievements
during his term.
“I’d like to think that the Uni
versity has progressed toward a
better academic reputation and I
think it will continue to do so,” he
said.
Eaton said that as president he
hopes to bolster financial stability
at Iowa State, which has recently
suffered through economic woes.
Before coming to A&M, Eaton
was an associate chief geologist
with the U.S. Geological Survey’s
geologic division. He received na
tional recognition for his research
on the origin of volcanic rocks in
Yellowstone National Park and
for tectonic studies in the West.
Vandiver said that a search
committee would be set up to find
a replacement. Candidates from
Texas A&M as well as from other
universities will be considered, he
said.
Kate
Hurricane heads for Upper Gulf Coast evacuafions ordered
Associated Press
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Gov. Bob
Graham ordered the immediate
evacuation of about 87,000 residents
of low-lying and coastal areas
Wednesday night as storm-weary
residents of the Upper Gulf Coast
braced for Hurricane Kate.
The storm, blamed for up to 10
deaths in Cuba after battering the is
land for 16 hours with its 115 mph
wind, charged northward into the
Gulf of Mexico. It also blacked out
much of the Florida Keys as it passed
near the area Tuesday.
Graham declared a state of emer
gency in 12 counties along Florida’s
northern Gulf Coast, allowing him
to call out the National Guard to as
sist in evacuations. The governor
later issued an immediate manda
tory evacuation order for an esti
mated 87,000 people who live in
low-lying and coastal areas in eight
of the counties.
The counties affected by the ev-
cuation order are Bay, Escambia,
Franklin, Gulf, Santa Rosa,’ Oka
loosa, Walton and Wakulla.
Low-lying areas of the Peninsula
were evacuated twice when Elena
approached in September and resi
dents were prepared to evacuate
again last month before Juan veered
into Louisiana.
A hurricane warning was posted
from Bay St. Louis, Miss., just east of
New Orleans, to St. Marks, Fla., on
the coast south of Tallahassee. Gale
See Kate, page 16
Health officials in Armero order
soldiers to bury, burn the dead
all
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Gary Ashmore (left) and David Segers (right), both
member of Alpha Kappai Psi present Jackie Sher
rill with a Bowl Bound t-shirt. Alpha Kappa Psi, a
Photo by ANTHONY S. CASPER
business fraternity will use the proceeds from the
sale of the shirts to fund a plaque honoring top
graduates in the College of Business.
Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia — Rescuers
still searched the remains of Armero
on Thursday but burial squads also
moved in, gouging long trenches in
the volcanic mud with back hoes and
dumping truckloads of bodies into
them.
Soldiers acting on orders from
health officials slogged through the
muck with small cans of gasoline,
dousing decaying bodies and setting
them afire, shooting animals that
had been feeding off the corpses.
The men wore masks against the
stench.
The burial and burning of bodies
was ordered to combat typhoid fever
and other diseases.
Health Ministry officials said
Wednesday that another problem is
the possible spread of gaseous gan
grene, which is highly contagious
and often fatal.
A few cases have been detected in
people taken to hospitals after lying
in the slime for days with open
wounds.
Rescue workers continued
looking for survivors, but hope of
finding more had nearly vanished a
week after the disaster. Thirty-five
were found Monday and Tuesday.
The searchers use special sound-
detection and infrared equipment to
find signs of life in the thousands of
buildings beneath the mud.
A government report issued
Wednesday said 12,000 people had
been rescued, 7,000 of them unin
jured.
Residents who had fled began re-
See Rescuers, page 16