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Natural Resources Defense Council,
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be placed permit the Soviet scientists to visit
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to choose sites
weapons tests
said at a news conference that both
parties also have agreed to establish
a computer link between the Ameri
can and Soviet monitoring stations.
The agreement is intended to
promote the signing of arms-control
agreements by making it possible for
Americans to verify that the Soviet
Union is observing any such
agreements, Cochran said.
The three American monitoring
stations now operating near the So
viet Union’s principal nuclear test
site near the city of Semipalatinsk,
about 1,800 miles southeast of Mos
cow, are adequate to detect any viola
tions of the current Soviet mora
torium on nuclear weapons tests,
Cochran said.
“Our stations in effect cover their
test site,” he said. “We can monitor
explosions down to a few tons.”
The stations also serve as proto
types for the estimated 25 stations
that would be needed inside the So
viet Union to monitor compliance
with a comprehensive test-ban
treaty, if one were negotiated, he
said.
And they give American scientists
and government officials the ability
for the first time to “map” the geol
ogy of the Soviet test site, thus allow
ing more accurate determination of
the magnitude of any Soviet nuclear
tests, Cochran said.
The Soviet seismologists, led by
Igor Nersesov of the Institute of
Physics of the Earth in Moscow, are
scheduled to arrive in the United
States on Nov. 9.
Because of conditions placed on
their visit by the Reagan administra
tion, they will not be able to visit the
proposed monitoring sites in Ne
vada and California, each about 70
miles from the Nevada test site
where U.S. nuclear weapons tests
are conducted, Cochran said.
The conditions were that the Sovi
ets witness a nuclear test and a dem
onstration of a system called COR-
RTEX, designed to allow the
monitoring of nuclear explosions.
The reason, Cochran said, is that
the Reagan administration favors a
limited test-ban treaty overseen by
CORRTEX, while the Soviets favor a
comprehensive test-ban treaty.
The Soviets declined to agree, and
so they will not visit the proposed
monitoring sites in Railroad Valley
and Nelson, Nev., and Deep
Springs, Calif.
“The Soviet position with respect
to this is that this is the wrong cast of
characters,” Cochran said. “They are
seismologists. They are not familiar
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Crossing guard killed
after 33 years of duly
CHICAGO (AP) — Evelyn De-
Ispenza spent most of her 73 years
looking out for children, shep-
S herding them safely across busy
[streets to school, watching them
[play from her living-room win-
Idow, pushing their swings on the
layground.
After 33 years as a crossing
Iguard, she was killed in the line of
[duty Monday when she stepped
[off a curb to help a child. She
[walked into the path of a car that
[struck her and sped away.
“The kids have accepted it,”
)ian A. Cooper, principal at
[Warren School, said Tuesday.
“The kids felt strongly about
[this, and we’re going to try and
iget some kind of memorial,
[maybe a plaque, put out on her
[corner.”
Cooper was one of the first to
[reach Despenza, a widow who
lived alone.
“There was this guy bending
|over her and he was crying,” Coo
per said. “When he left, some-
aody said ‘That was him, the
Iriver.’ One of my aides followed
dm in her car and got his license
date number.”
Two hours later, Charles Da
vis, 35, surrendered to police and
vas charged with drunken driv
ing, misdemeanor leaving the
scene of an accident and failing to
yield to a pedestrian, police Sgt.
James Knightly said.
Davis posted bond and was
scheduled to appear in court
Nov. 24. Knightly said that if Da
vis waited beyond three hours to
surrender he could have been
charged with a felony.
Despenza was only the second
crossing guard killed on the job
since the police department ini
tiated the program in August
1951, said Ramona Shiffer, cross
ing guard coordinator for the de
partment.
“The fact that we’ve only lost
two speaks well about our guards
and . . . that the majority of mo
torists are careful when they ap
proach schools,” said Shiffer.
“But there’s still plenty of driv
ers out there who’ll stop for a dog
or cat, but just sit on their horn
and keep going when they see a
child or a crossing guard in the
street,” she added.
Patrolman Michael Fratto, who
works in the South Side district
that included Despenza’s corner,
said, “It’s sad. I only saw her
when she came in to pick up her
check, but she was a real sweet
heart. You could just see that.”
President requests
support for GOP’s
’80 ‘cleanup crew’
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) —Pres
ident Reagan, saying the nation’s
economy is headed for its second
boom since his election, urged voters
Tuesday to re-elect the “cleanup
crew” of Republican senators swept
into office with him in 1980.
Reagan said the alternative on
Nov. 4 was Democrats “who in 1980
weakened our nation and nearly
brought our economy to its knees.”
Reagan toured three Southern
states in a whirlwind one-day effort
to help Republican Sens. Mack Mat
tingly of Georgia, Jeremiah Denton
of Alabama and James Broyhill of
North Carolina, all three of them in
tough races.
Reagan ended the campaign day
with a sunset appearance in a hangar
at the Charlotte-Douglas Interna
tional Airport at Charlotte.
The walls of the hangar were
hung with campaign posters and
hand-lettered signs with such mes
sages as “This Is Reagan Country”
and “Don’t Turn Back. Stay On The
Right Track.”
Reagan’s speeches in the three
states were virtually identical, chang
ing only the candidates’ names.
Asked whether his efforts would
keep the Senate in Republican
hands, Reagan said, “I’m too super
stitious to talk about that.”
Reagan ended his Georgia speech
by telling the audience that by voting
for Mattingly, “You’ll be winning
one for yourselves, for Georgia and
for America.”
When someone in the audience
' called out “and for the Gipper,” Rea
gan replied, “Yup.”
The president depicted Mattingly
as “part of the 1980 cleanup crew for
the worst economic mess since the
Great Depression.”
Government figures show that six
months after Reagan took office in
1981, the national economy plunged
into a 17-month-long recession, with
the number of people out of work
rising to the highest level since the
end of the Great Depression of the
1930s. Recovery from that recession
began taking hold at the end of
1982, and the economy grew in ro
bust fashion during the second half
of 1983 and during 1984 before
slackening to a lesser growth rate in
1985 and so far this year.
86 pay hikes small, but ahead of inflation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Average annual pay
imases have fallen from 5 percent a year ago to
3.5 perc ent over the past 12 months, the govern
ment reported Tuesday, but workers still are
keeping well ahead of inflation.
Annual pay raises for white-collar workers av-
eriged 4.1 percent over the 12 months ending
Oct, 1, while blue-collar workers received aver
age increases of 2.5 percent, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics said.
White-collar workers had received annual
wage increases averaging 5.4 percent and blue-
collar workers average raises of 4.3 percent over
thBaine period a year earlier.
Hrcording to a survey of 4,200 businesses re
leased earlier this month by the National Associa
tion; of Manufacturers, employers anticipate
wage increases averaging 5 percent over the next
year.
Despite the smaller 1986 wage increases, work
ers are faring pretty well in keeping ahead of in
flation, according to employment cost figures re
leased Tuesday by the government.
Since June 1981, five months after President
Reagan took office, workers in private industry
have seen their pay checks rise 28.8 percent, BLS
economists said. During that same time, con
sumer prices have risen only 21.7 percent.
Including increases in non-wage benefits, total
employer costs for labor have risen 33 percent
since June 1981, including a 1.1 percent increase
over the summer and a total 3.6 percent jump
during the past 12 months, the BLS said.
State and local government employees — led
by teachers with annual pay hikes averaging 6.1
percent over the past 12 months — are getting
increases nearly 60 percent larger than workers
in private industry. Government pay raises aver
aged 5.2 percent over the past year, down from
6.0 percent the previous 12 months.
Meanwhile, the average wage increase for
workers in private industry in the two periods fell
from 4.8 percent to 3.1 percent, the lowest since
the BLS began calculating those figures in 1976.
Manufacturing wage increases fell from 4.4
percent to 312 percent while workers in the pri
vate service-producing sectors of the economy
saw their pay increases drop from 5.3 to 3.1 per
cent.
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