Thursday, March 5, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 15
World and Nation
U.S. negotiators offer missiles treaty
\oposa! suggests elimination of certain nuclear weapons
JENEVA (AP) — U.S. arms ne-
tiators offered a draft treaty
Wednesday for removing medium-
nge nuclear weapons from Europe
' challenged the Soviets to agree
ol eliminating them worldwide.
“The American presentation, or-
red by President Reagan, came on
hat was to have been tne last day in
: seventh round of the U.S.-Soviet
ns talks that began two years ago.
|U.S. spokesman Terry Shroeder
teams dealing with medium-
nge missiles would continue meet-
indefinitely. He said the other
negotiating groups, on long-
nge (strategic) weapons and the
mbined fields of defense and
ace, would continue through Fri-
jy-
BMaynard Glitman, who leads the
U.S. team on medium-range arms,
Bd the American proposal embo
dies tenutive agreements reached at
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Wednesday, reviving its
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Reagan’s summit with Soviet leader
Miknail S. Gorbachev in Iceland last
October.
He said those included a limit of
100 warheads deployed on the terri
tory of each superpower, with the
Soviet missiles assigned to Asia.
Glitman added that the United
States also would like to eliminate
the remaining 100 weapons on each
side if the Soviets would agree. That
point was not included in the draft,
he said, but “if the other side wanted
to go further, I’m more than positive
that we’d be more than happy to do
so.’’
Before the Soviet delegation ar
rived at the U.S. Mission for
Wednesday’s hour-long meeting,
Glitman held an unusual meeting
with a pool of reporters to answer
questions.
He said the United States was pre
senting a “full treaty text” that con
tained “a lot of detail.”
The only incomplete area dealt
with verification, he said, adding
that one point he did not specify re
mained to be worked out with
NATO allies.
British and West German govern
ment sources said the allies were dis
cussing how to regulate on-site in
spection of missile dismantling on
both sides.
Any agreement would apply to an
estimated 441 SS-20 missiles on the
Soviet side and 316 U.S.-built Per
shing 2 and cruise missiles NATO
has deployed in Western Europe.
Asked whether he thought the
U.S. draft had full NATO support,
Glitman replied, “Yes, I think it
does.” He said officials of the alli
ance had been briefed on an outline
several weeks ago and had an oppor
tunity later to look at the text.
Questions of verification and lim
iting shorter-range systems could be
difficult, he said, but there are broad
agreements in principle in both
areas.
Glitman confirmed that the U.S.
proposal also deals with shorter-
range missiles and declared: “We be
lieve they have to be an integral part
of the treaty and they have to be con
strained.”
Western European governments
have expressed concern about Soviet
superiority in such weapons and
both sides have said negotiations
would begin immediately after a me
dium-range agreement.
Soviet SS-21s, SS-22s and SS-23s
have ranges of up to 330 miles. The
United States says it does not have
weapons of that range in Western
Europe.
Washington wants parity, Glitman
said, but he would not give figures.
Man sentenced to life in prison
for selling U.S. secrets to Israelis
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former
civilian Navy intelligence analyst
Jonathan Jay Pollard was sentenced
Wednesday to life in prison for sell
ing Israel hundreds of secret U.S.
military documents in what prosecu
tors termed one of the nation’s worst
spy cases.
“No, no,” screamed his wife, Anne
Henderson-Pollard, and she col
lapsed to the floor after U.S. District
Judge Aubrey Robinson announced
the fife term for her husband.
His wife, 26, received a five-year
prison term for conspiring to receive
embezzled government property
and being an accessory after the fact
to possession of defense secrets.
Federal prosecutors said Pollard
gave Israel thousands of pages of
classified documents, which could
fill a room the size of a large closet.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles
Leeper told the judge,“This de
fendant has admitted that he sold to
Israel a volume of classified docu
ments 10 feet by 6 feet by 6 feet.”
Leeper urged the judge to “con
sider what further unauthorized dis
closure of classified information we
can expect” from Pollard in setting
the sentence for Pollard’s conviction
of conspiracy to commit espionage.
“It’s clear that his perspective has
been so skewed, his view so warped
(that) at the first opportunity he is
going to go about the business of
telling everything he knows to Is
rael,” Leeper added.
Pollard, 32, in pleading for the
court to grant his wife leniency, said:
“Unfortunately I sacrificed her, in
advertently, but the end result is
here on the altar of political ideol
ogy-”
U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova
said, “Mr. Pollard, in connection
with his Israeli handlers, compro
mised the most significant amount
of classified information that has
ever been compromised in an espio
nage case.”
Pollard’s defense attorney, Rich
ard Hibey, said, “There is no evi
dence that any information that Mr.
Pollard gave to Israel was given to
the enemies of the United States.”
Outside the U.S. courthouse, di-
Genova said that the judge had ob
viously ignored defense “pooh-
poohing” of government arguments
that Pollard’s spying seriously had
damaged national security.
Pollard pleaded guilty last June 4
to espionage charges for selling top-
secret military intelligence that in
cluded satellite photos, data on So
viet weaponry and ship movements.
Pollard’s wife was sentenced for
her guilty plea to conspiring to em
bezzle government property and be
ing an accessory after the fact to pos
session of defense secrets.
Witness names man as infamous Nazi
JERUSALEM (AP) — An in
mate who shaved women’s heads
before they were gassed at Treb-
linka testified Wednesday that
John Demjanjuk was the guard
“Ivan the Terrible,” but the el
derly man’s memories of the
death camp were confused.
Gustav Boraks, an 85-year-old
native of Poland, said he recog
nized photographs of the former
Ohio auto worker as Ivan because
the guard “had a full face, a high
forehead and small eyes.”
On Tuesday, survivor Josef
Czarny, 60, also identified Dem
janjuk as the Ukrainian guard,
but he said Ivan had large eyes.
Demjanjuk is accused of being
the sadistic guard who gouged
out eyes, beat and stabbed prison
ers and shoved them into the
death chambers.
Boraks was helped on and off
the stand by prosecutors.
He often could not understand
when questions were translated
from Hebrew into Yiddish and
was uncertain about details.
Prosecutor Michael Shaked,
appearing exasperated, asked at
one point: “If you said something
to (Israeli) investigators in 1976
and something else today, which
should we rely on?”
Boraks replied: “1976, sir.”
Judge bans 31 textbooks in Alabama
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A fed
eral judge Wednesday banned 31
textbooks from almost all Ala
bama public school classes, saying
they illegally promoted “the reli
gion of secular humanism.”
U.S. District Judge W. Brevard
Hand said in a 172-page ruling
that the use of the textbooks by
the state violates the Constitu
tion’s prohibition against govern
ment establishment of a religion.
The decision came in a class-ac
tion lawsuit filed by 600 parents
and teachers, sponsored in part
by conservative fundamentalists,
who challenged the use of the
textbooks in Alabama public
schools.
The textbook critics objected in
particular to the teaching of value
judgments.
In “Teen Guide,” a home eco
nomics book, for example, one of
the objectionable passages said,
“Nothing was ‘meant to be.’ You
are the designer of your life. If
you want something, you can
plan and work for it.
“When you recognize that you
are the one in charge of your life,
you will be way ahead of where
you would be if you think of your
life as something that just hap
pens to you.”
According to fundamentalists,
secular humanism is the elevation
of transient human values over
eternal sqiritual values.
Rival factions threaten 1988 Olympics
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —
Just 18 months before the Olym
pic torch is lit in Seoul, South Ko
rea’s rival political factions are en
tering the final, critical rounds in
a game of brinksmanship.
The outcome of the match-up
between the military-dominated
government and the main oppo
sition party will set the mood for
the 1988 Seoul Summer Games.
Some in the opposition talk
ominously of Olympic disaster
next year if the generals this year
deny them the kind of permanent
democracy they want.
“The Olympic Games would
not be possible,” a well-placed
member of the opposition New
Korea Democratic Party said in
an interview. “The people of Ko
rea would disavow the Olympics.”
Knowledgeable observers are
skeptical. Korean pride would
overwhelm any boycott attempt
by the political opposition, they
say.
But the U.S. Embassy is none
theless pressing both President
Chun Doo-hwan and his rivals to
reach a compromise soon.
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