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Tuesday, November 18, 1986/The Battalion/Page 7 Weinberger: U.S. won’t trade .Star Wars for Soviet accord ^jkjHwASHINGTON (AP) — Defense |G $ e< retary Caspar W. Weinberger " V said Monday the United States would never trade “Star Wars” or | ^Banced conventional strength in ■ a Europe for a new arms-control IHaccord with the Soviet Union. IV in an address prepared for deliv- ^ ery to a symposium here on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Weinberger said the United States inis, and its European allies desired deep sio n( functions ' n offensive ballistic nu- o n clear missiles. [jjl Bflkit regardless of whether such an an( | acqord is negotiated, he continued, f the Western alliance must continue improving its conventional strength. ^^■In any event, we can never leave tSv the equation of deterrence unbal- ts . anced by taking out some effective lea| delerrents without replacing them with other deterrents,” Weinberger [^^■’he defense secretary appeared before a symposium on NATO, s froiil which was sponsored by the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. A text of his speech was released in advance at the Pentagon. Weinberger spoke just a few hours after meeting West German Defense Minister Manfred Woerner, who is in Washington for consulta tions with American officials. Woerner told reporters after his meeting with Weinberger that the Western allies could not match So viet-bloc conventional strength if all nuclear weapons were eliminated. “The more we limit and restrain nuclear possibilities the more impor tant it becomes also to correct that conventional imbalance, preferably by arms control and disarmament,” Woerner said. Weinberger, following the lead of other administration officials, said Monday that President Reagan had focused his talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during the re cent Iceland summit on the goal of eliminating intercontinental ballistic missiles. “It is these weapons, with their lightning speed and unspeakable power, that should be at the core of arms-reducdons agreements,” Wein berger said. “Certainly all nuclear weapons threaten massive destruction, but only ballistic missiles threaten to overwhelm us in the blink of an eye.” The defense secretary lauded Reagan for refusing to bow to Soviet demands to curtail research on the “Star Wars” anti-missile defense sys tem, describing that Soviet position as “insistence that the free world give up the hope of defending it self.” America’s NATO allies have re minded the United States that nu clear weapons help compensate for smaller conventional armies. >lj3\AsD >1 JO M j6 3 OoUd^lljjH The other band on campus... that plays the other side of music. Thurs., Nov. 20 8.00 Rudder Auditorium $3 Adults $ 1 Students Tickets available at Box Office and at door IN CONCERT _ AT&T plans s 8.1% cut U e 1n '87 rates tint I' WASHINGTON (AP) — ■T&T announced on Monday Bug-distance rate cuts averaging 8.1 percent as of Jan. 1. ■ Long-distance customers of AT&T will save an estimated 11.6 ^trcent on daytime calls, 6.2 per- Hnt on evening calls and 2.7 per- Hnt on calls after 1 1 p.m. ■ Different percentage reduc- ti( ns will apply for business serv- ia s such as toll-free 800 service. ^fellers with a high volume of calls tl overseas locations will also get new discounts. ■ The rate cuts, the second round this year, will save custom- ters $1.2 billion a year if the rates jare approved by the Federal ^Communications Commission. ■ FCC Chairman Mark S. Fowler, who was in Phoenix, Ariz., attending a convention of state regulators, said he was ■eased with the news. ■A 9.5 percent rate cut, an nounced last April, went into ef- pk'pec t on June 1 and was calculated to save AT&T customers $2 bil lion, the largest long-distance rate said drop in history. etkBAT&T’s prime competitors, d( MCI and US Sprint, reduced saic their rates later in the summer. 100 sjMe spread between AT&T rates nte and those of its competitors has en been shrinking. B—— T— Doctors use balloons to open heart valves with new procedure e DALLAS (AP) — Tiny balloons have been used for the first time to open dangerously narrowed heart valves in a procedure that costs one- third as much as surgery and could help an estimated 50,000 Americans annually, doctors said Monday. The procedure, which first was tried only last year and already has spread to at least 15 medical centers in the United States, has proven ef fective in patients who were too old or too sick to undergo valve-replace ment surgery, and who thus had no other hope of surviving, said Dr. William Grossman of Harvard Uni versity, one of the developers of the technique. The new technique is an impor tant extension of the use of balloons to clear deposits of fats and choles terol from clogged arteries, a proce dure first done in 1980. About 50,000 of those procedures now are performed in the United States each year, in place of more expensive and riskier coronary bypass surgery. Grossman reported at the annual meeting of the American Heart As sociation that he has used the proce dure successfully on 76 patients with heart valve problems during the past 13 months. All 76 survived the procedure; three died within one week of the treatment, but they did not die as a result of the treatment, Grossman said. “We feel that we were too late with too little in these three pa tients,” he said. Charles McKay of the Los Angeles County Hospital and the University of Southern California said he has had no deaths in the first 22 patients he has treated, although some re quired blood transfusions and suf fered some damage to their arteries as the balloon was threaded through the arteries into their hearts. Grossman said that hospitals per forming the new procedure, called balloon valvuloplasty, have been “flooded with referrals for this.” He warned, however, that the procedure is still experimental. “There have been deaths and there will be more,” he said. In the procedure, a wire is in serted into a vein in the leg and is threaded into the heart, under the guidance of X-ray images of the blood vessels. 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