age 12/The Battalion/Friday, April 10, 1987
World and Nation
Official: U.S. arms proposal ‘dead issue’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan’s proposal at the Ice
land summit to scrap all U.S. and So
viet ballistic missiles over 10 years is
a dead issue, nuclear arms control
director Kenneth L. Adelman said
Thursday.
“The Soviets have rejected it out
of hand,” Adelman said.
He told reporters the U.S. propo
sal is still on the negotiating table in
Geneva. But, he said, “I don’t think
it’s going to come on the radar
screen on arms control again, if you
ask me.”
Reagan proposed a two-stage plan
to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorba
chev in Reykjavik, Iceland. In the
first five years, the two sides would
cut by about one-half their long-
range bombers, missiles and subma
rines. In the next five years, all bal
listic missiles would be phased out.
U.S. negotiators formally pre
sented the proposal to Soviet nego
tiators later at Geneva. But, Adel
man said, “they didn’t give us the
time of day.”
The director of the U.S. Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency
said the Soviets refused the offer be
cause “they figure that the backbone
of their military and their arsenal
has been land-based ballistic mis
siles.”
Some U.S. allies in Western Eu
rope also had reservations about
Reagan’s proposal. Secretary of
State George P. Shultz responded to
those concerns by saying a small
force of U.S. ballistic missiles might
be retained.
Shultz will discuss arms control is
sues next Monday through Wednes
day in Moscow with Soviet Foreign
Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze.
On another nuclear issue, Adelman
said the United States would offer
the Soviets a timetable on “Star
Wars” experiments in exchange for
information on their anti-missile re
search program.
He said he did not expect the of
fer to change the fundamental dif
ferences between the two sides on
space-based defenses. But, he said,
“there are some elements that would
interest them.”
The disagreement over Reagan’s
program to find a way to shoot down
missiles in space has slowed negotia
tions over curbing U.S. and Soviet
nuclear weapons.
Adelman said Shultz would put
the emphasis on limiting strategic
nuclear weapons.
The two sides are closer to an
agreement on curbing intermediate-
range rockets, but Adelman called
the strategic arms reduction talks
“the apple of our eye.”
The United States seeks to force a
reduction of about 50 percent in the
heavy land-based intercontinental
ballistic missiles that form the heart
of the Soviets’ nuclear arsenal.
While Gorbachev showed interest
in such an accord last October, the
Soviets are insisting that the Star
Wars program be curbed as well.
Reagan: America is adjusting to high tech future
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan predicted Thursday high tech
nology will provide millions of jobs and said
Americans should not be intimidated by it.
Speaking to students and faculty at Purdue
University, Reagan, pressing his campaign to
improve American competitiveness, said the
nation had adjusted well to the recent eco
nomic changes in which “older industries
sometimes gave way to newer.”
Noting that about 113 million Amercians
are working, Reagan said, “Technology is not
the enemy of job creation but its parent — the
very source of our economic dynamism and
creativity.”
Reagan was buoyed by an enthusiastic re
ception by hundreds of people at Purdue
University Airport, and said the crowd made
him feel “three inches taller.”
He made a short speech, then walked over
and shook hands and visited briefly with
young people, mostly college students, stand
ing behind the ropes.
After viewing a demonstration of com
puter-assisted manufacturing techniques,
Reagan was given a brass-plated elephant
with a cut-out reading “Gipper.”
Inside Mackey Arena, home of the Purdue
Boilermakers basketball team, majorettes
strutted and a brass band blared march music
as a warm-up for Reagan’s entry.
Reagan, scheduled to fly to Los Angeles
late Thursday for the start of a 12-day Cali
fornia stay, has asked Congress to enact a
$980 million job retraining program and
other steps, including an easing of antitrust
laws, to help shrink the nation’s $170 billion
trade deficit.
The trip is the president’s second outside
the Washington area this week. He traveled
to Canada on Sunday for two days of dis
cussions with Canadian Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney on trade, acid rain and other is
sues.
Reagan has been making more frequent
trips in recent weeks as he seeks to recover
from the Iran-Contra affair.
In his speech at Purdue, Reagan argued
that government regulation of the economy
f ireduces failure — not prosperity — while
ree-market policies achieve success.
Bond rates,
weakdolla
hurt market
NEW YORK (AP)—Thesi
market suffered a 1
1 hursday, stung by lofterb:
prices, a weak, dollar and fean,
higher interest rates, ana}]
said.
1 he Dow Jones average of!
industrial stocks closed.
2,339.20, down 32.96 points it,
Wednesday. Earlier in die*
sion, it had been down more
4t> points.
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down 2 to 62%; J.C. Pennes.
down 2 5 /b to 99V#; while ia
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York Stock Exchange-listed
sues, including trades in tin,
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totaled 208.13 million shares
fhe NYSE index was it
2.42 to 166.09.
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and S&rP’s 500-stock com|
index was down 4.40to2!*. 1
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