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Soviet official to visit, plan next summit WASHINGTON (AP) — Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevard nadze will visit Washington in mid- May to discuss arrangements for a second summit meeting between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary of State George Shultz said Tuesday. Shultz made the announcement shortly before the Energy Depart ment postponed a planned under ground nuclear explosion in the Ne vada desert, but the State Department said the delay was not linked to summit politics. Deputy spokesman Charles Red man said, “Our testing program is established and conducted accord ing to technical considerations. Tests may be delayed due to weather con ditions or to a variety of technical problems.” White House spokesman Larry Speakes also said the postponement was unrelated to U.S.-Soviet rela tions or to planning for a summit. But neither Redman nor Speakes explained why the test was post poned . Moscow declared a unilateral moratorium on such testing last fall but has said it would end the ban \Union Carbide head says OSHA citations unfair Storf, ies) ege | SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Federal safety inspectors “sandbagged” Union Carbide when they issued 221 citations against the corporation’s plant in Institute, W. Va., the com- ipany’s board chairman said Tues day. “If the OSHA (Occupational iafety and Health Administration) report on Institute is an opening Ivo for a basic attack on our indus try, the message is — when the at- ck comes, forget about fairness,” id Warren Anderson. Anderson, speaking at the Inter- ational Petrochemical Conference, laid Union Carbide officials tried to |“hold hands” with OSHA inspectors ■and “go through this thing to- Bether.” _ “These people spent five months in our plant, then they sandbagged us,” he said. B OSHA last week cited Union Car- “God knows Union Car bide is not perfect, but we are more than concerned about safety. We know people are frightened. ” — Warren Anderson, the board chairman of Union Carbide. bide for 221 safety violations, includ ing 130 allegedly “willful” violations. Fines from the citations total an agency record $1.37 million. OSHA inspectors converged on the Institute plant last September, a month after a poison gas leak sent six workers and 129 residents to Ka nawha Valley hospitals. Last week, Labor Secretary Wil liam Brock and OSHA officials held joint news conferences in Washing ton, D.C., and Charleston, W.Va., to announce the fines. Never in history has a labor secre tary announced such violations on television, Anderson said. “Why he chose to do that, I don’t know,” Anderson said. “God knows Union Carbide is not perfect, but we are more than con cerned about safety,” Anderson said.“We know people are fright ened and we are responding. “If government agencies take up the role of chief antagonist it could hurt what we are trying to achieve.” Anderson said that if government agencies “take up the role of chief antagonists, it could hurt what we are trying to achieve. “We know people are frightened and we are re sponding. If government agencies take up the role of chief antagonist it could hurt what we are trying to achieve. ” — Warren Anderson. Anderson described as a “terrible catastrophe” the Dec. 3, 1984, methyl isocyanate gas leak at its Bho pal, India, plant. The leak killed more than 2,000 people and injured more than 200,000. Since that accident, the Institute forkwl eta i rellel at ru s. Tl il willte indwi jhicles .friday ( 3i30fw sc Jtlki Freeze-dried Fido? NISSWA, Minn. (AP) — Fido or Fluffy can lie by the hearth forever thanks to the wonders of Freeze-drying, says a man whose company offers pet owners a way to preserve the remains of their Four-legged loved ones in lifelike Fashion. “The natural thing for a hu man being to do is to hang on to that animal, to want to keep it,” said Roger Saatzer, president of Preset v-A-Pet. “The next best thing to bringing it back to life is to have it freeze-dried.” Saatzer said that though some people find the idea unattractive, others “are very open-minded, and it has been taken very, very gy til! positively.” “We’ve; done everything from rabbits to turtles, dogs, cats, rpQIII! snakes and gerbils,” said Saatzer. He has even freeze-dried a lion. Freeze-drying gives the animal a far more realistic appearance than traditional taxidermy, he said. Pet owners ship their deceased pets to the company frozen. They also send photographs so the company can get an idea of how the owner wants the pet to look, Saatzer said. The animal is then thawed and shaped into position. Once the animal’s body is shaped it is freeze dried — placed in a vacuum chamber at a tem perature of 5 degrees below zero. The process extracts all water from the body without altering its size or shape, so that decomposi tion is halted. The animal’s re mains thus will not shrink and will have no odor. With animals under 50 pounds, the entire body stays in tact, Saatzer said, while with larger animals other techniques are used such as stretching rhe animal’s skin over a plastic foam mannequin. “You have to be precise,” Saatzer said. “It’s not like mount ing a deer head. You’re freeze drying a pet that someone has lived with, and it has to be absolu tely perfect.” Pat Supples of Netcong, N.J., said she always wanted to pre serve her German shepherd, Princess, and was thrilled by the results of freeze-drying. “Everything about Princess was the same,” Supples said. “Our other dog started crying when we brought (Princess) back because she remembered her.” The cost varies depending on the size and posture desired, Saatzer said. A small house cat in a sitting position would run about $450, he said, while a large Ger man shepherd in an attack posi tion would cost around $2,000. Libyan diplomat suspected in Berlin nightclub bombing BERLIN (AP) — A Libyan diplo mat based in this divided city’s com munist zone is suspected of direct ing the weekend bomb attack that wrecked a crowded nightclub pop ular with American soldiers, a West Berlin official said Tuesday. He confirmed a report in the Hamburg newspaper Bild that Ela- min Abdullah Elamin, 47, was “ur gently suspected” of directing the attack on the La Belle discotheque early Saturday. Two people were killed, including an American serv iceman, and 230 were wounded. “This report is correct,” said the official of the West Berlin Interior Ministry, who is close to the investi gation. He spoke on condition of anonymity. The official would not elaborate and referred further queries to the 100-member police commission in vestigating the bombing. A man who answered the tele phone at the Libyan Embassy in East Berlin, capital of communist East Germany, hung up when asked for comment on the newspa per report. Bild said a meeting of Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Cabinet on Wednes day would consider expelling two Libyan Embassy staff members it said were suspected of involvement in the disco bombing. It gave no further details, and a government spokesman said he could not confirm the report. Dieter Piete, deputy chairman of the investigating commission, said police did not believe Elamin plan ted the bomb himself, “but as to whether he is suspected as an orga nizer or had any other link, I will not say no.” He refused further comment on the Bild report, saying: “Hypotheti cally, if we confirmed something like this, the trail could go cold.” “There are hints not just regard ing Libyans, but to Arabs of other nationalities, Palestinians and so forth, and also to German attack ers,” he said. “We cannot ignore any aspect.” Sgt. Donald Banks, a U.S. Army spokesman in West Berlin, said 30 of the 63 Americans injured were still hospitalized Tuesday. He said two American soldiers were in critical condition and two U.S. civilians in serious condition, all with burns. Those killed were Kenneth Ter rance Ford, a 21-year-old Army sergeant from Detroit, Mich., and Nermine Hanay, 2&, a Turkish woman living in West Berlin. West Berlin newspapers specu lated earlier this week that the bombing was committed by a for eigner who crossed from East Ber lin and then returned. Although East Germany built a wall around the communist sector in 1961 to keep its citizens from crossing into West Berlin, it does little or nothing to stop foreigners from doing so. Checks of such people on the western side are rare. Officials in Bonn, capital of West Germany, said they had increased surveillance of the Libyan Embassy and tightened border controls. Officials of the West German Foreign Ministry refused to say whether the United States was pressing for more dramatic action against Khadafy’s government, such as expelling Libyans or impos ing economic or political sanctions. A senior official in Bonn said the government was not inclined to re consider its opposition to sanctions on the North African country. once the United States carries out another test. The Reagan administration has said the Kremlin announced the moratorium only after completing an ambitious testing program. Rea gan invited the Soviets to send mon itors to verify that the test would be within agreed limits, but the admin istration said Moscow did not re spond to the offer. Agreement on Shevardnadze’s visit came during a morning meeting between Reagan and departing So viet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin at the White House. Shultz de scribed the session as “very substan tive and constructive.” Reagan has said he wants the sum mit held before August, but Shultz did not say whether he believed there would be enough time after the Shervardnadze visit to permit the president’s timetable to be met. “I wouldn’t rule anything in or out,” Shultz said. Reagan and Gorbachev met in Ge neva last November and the next meeting is to be in the United States. Shultz said Dobrynin set no pre conditions for going ahead with the See Schultz, page 14 plant has come under intense scru tiny because it, too, makes MIC. Union Carbide officials shut down the MIC unit at Institute after the Bhopal leak and installed $5 million in safety equipment. It did not reopen until May 1985, after federal inspectors labeled it safe. Three months after the MIC unit reopened, a poisonous mixture of al- dicarb oxime and methylene chlo ride escaped from a storage tank. Union Carbide was fined $30,000, but the fines were cut to $4,400 after the company agreed to install addi tional safety equipment. Relief to the victims in India has not come as quickly as Anderson would have liked. “The real relief for the victims is getting closer and closer,” he said. Sausalifo fire began in kitchen By Craig Renfro Staff Writer The fire which gutted 15 apartment units at Sausalito Apartments Sunday night started in an apartment kitchen and caused damages estimated at $300,000, a fire official said Tuesday. Douglas W. Landau, College Station fire chief, said investiga tors are still searching for the ex act cause and hope to have more information in a few days. Landau said the blaze began in a corner unit on the bottom floor of the south end of the building. He said the fire, aided by the wind, quickly spread throughout the entire section of the building. “Luckily, it wasn’t a really strong wind, or it would have been worse than it was,” Landau said. The use of aerial ladders, equipped with spotlights, helped the fire fighters extinguish the fire quicker, he said. “The firemen did one hell of a job on it,” Landau said. “It could have easily spread to the whole complex.” Van Anders, Sausalito’s man ager, said that, in addition to the 15 apartments damaged by fire, another five apartments have suf fered either electrical, water or smoke damage. She said the com plex owners have other prop erties in College Station and will provide housing for the homeless students. “Everybody’s working great and getting taken care of,” And ers said. “The only thing you can do is start over.” Anders said the apartment will not reimburse uninsured stu dents, but she said a few residents may be covered by their parents’ homeowner policies. Anders rec ommended that other students get homeowner’s insurance. “I would bet half of the resi dents are out getting insurance today,” she said. Anders said Sausalito plans to rebuild as soon as contract esti mates for construction are re viewed.