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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.
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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-
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round this year, will save custom-
ters $1.2 billion a year if the rates
jare approved by the Federal
^Communications Commission.
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Fowler, who was in Phoenix,
Ariz., attending a convention of
state regulators, said he was
■eased with the news.
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Doctors use balloons
to open heart valves
with new procedure
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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.
A balloon then is threaded along
the wire until it is inside the nar
rowed valve.
The balloon then is inflated with
fluid to a pressure about twice that
of the air in automobile tires, forcing
the valve open.
Narrowing, or stenosis, of the
heart valves occurs when fibrous
material and calcium deposits build
up on the valves, decreasing their
flexibility and interfering with their
ability to allow blood to pass in and
out of the heart’s chambers.
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