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Page 12/The BattaliorVTuesday, December 1,1987
World and Nation
Reagan: U.S. needs star wars;
Soviets could break arms treaty
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan said Monday the Soviet
Union may be planning “a breakout”
from the anti-ballistic missile treaty
that the United States would be “to
tally and dangerously unprepared
for” without his “star wars” missile
defense plan.
Reagan made his statement in a
speech to conservatives a week be
fore his summit meeting with Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Wash
ington. His remarks underscored
Reagan’s determination to push
ahead with the star wars program
despite objections from Moscow and
congressional attempts to restrict it.
Administration officials have de
fended spending billions of dollars
on star wars to offset what they say
are comparable amounts the Soviets
have spent in secret on their own
missile defenses. U.S. officials fear
that the Soviets might suddenly
“break out” of the ABM treaty by de
ploying all over their nation large
numbers of the type of anti-ballistic
missiles the pact allows them to sta
tion near Moscow.
Gorbachev, in an interview broad-
bv NBC News, acknowledged
that the Soviets are engaged “in re
search, basic research” similar to the
star wars program, also known as the
Strategic Defense Initiative. He said
the Soviet Union “is doing all that
the United States is doing” to defend
against nuclear attack.
However, he said, “We will not
build an SDI. We will not deploy SDI
and we call upon the United States
to act likewise. If the Americans fail
to heed that call, we will find a re
sponse.
The White House had no com
ment on Gorbachev’s intervie#,
However, tentative plans are beiti
made for Reagan to be interviews
by network anchormen, perhaps
early as Thursday but possibly latn
Gorbachev is expected to endtk
summit with a news conferena
Reagan will not hold a news
ence, Fitzwater said, but is expects
to give a speech.
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it was unlikely the summit will pn>
duce any breakthrough in U.S.-$o
viet negotiations for a 50 percent re
duction in strategic nuclear arms.
Offshore earthquake shakes Alaska;
thousands flee low-lvina costal areas
PALMER, Alaska (AP) — A major
offshore earthquake rocked south-
central Alaska on Monday, prompt
ing thousands of people to flee low-
lying coastal areas for the second
time in two weeks.
There were no reports of major
damage or injuries in the quake,
which measured at least 7.4 on the
Richter scale. It shook the ground
for a full minute and was felt more
than 300 miles from the epicenter,
in Anchorage and the Yukon Terri
tory.
The Alaska Tsunami Warning
Center issued a warning of a tsu
nami, or giant sea wave, but canceled
it after 90 minutes when a 3.3-foot
wave was recorded at Yakutat, the
community closest to the epicenter.
preliminary magnitude at 7.4, Uni-
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versity of California seismographs
measured the quake at 7.7 on the
Richter scale.
“The wave was just insignificant,”
Tom Sokolowski, geophyscist in
charge of the warning center, said.
People began returning to their
homes after the tsunami warning
was canceled.
While center officials reported the
The center issued a tsunami warn
ing for Gulf of Alaska communities
and British Columbia and issued a
tsunami watch for Washington, Ore
gon, California and Hawaii.
nesses and started them toward higi
ground.
Residents of some Canadian »
munities were warned not to tali
out boats and airplanes because
strong winds and high waves.
Emergency sirens and police
loudspeakers roused coastal Alaska
residents from their homes and busi-
Rosemary Ryman, a secretary at
community high school, said in !a
kutat the lights went out and aboa
300 people jammed into the schod
The crowd at the school include
nervous parents who rushed to
with their children.
Minority of inmates block hostage release
ATLANTA (AP) — A “small but aggressive
minority” of Cuban inmates blocked the release
of 90 hostages from a federal penitentiary Mon
day, officials said, while hundreds of Cubans who
surrendered in Louisiana were sent to other fed
eral prisons.
rector of the public affairs for the U.S. Justice
Department said.
The same 100 Cubans, out of a total popula
tion of 1,118, earlier blocked the release of 50
hostages in Atlanta, Patrick Korten, deputy di-
“Unfortunately, a small but aggressive mi
nority appears to be able to intimidate this major
ity into dragging out the incident and avoiding a
settlement,” Korten said. “Had it been up to
those who have been negotiating on behalf of the
apparent majority, they (the hostages) would
probably be out.”
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no inmate reaction to the Louisiana settlement
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lowed a government announcement that 2,51 ] er sey 1
Cubans — mostly criminals or mentally il
would be returned to their homeland. The
mates have demanded that they be allowed ton
main in the United States. Cubans seized
Oakdale, La., prison Nov. 21 and the Atlanii
penitentiary two days later.
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ended their 4 1 /2-month embassy
standoff by trading a pair of diplo
mats on Monday, days after pro-Ira
nian captors in Lebanon freed two
Frenchmen.
Officials called the events a coor
dinated effort to mend a rift be
tween the two nations.
President Francois Mitterrand
said the process should lead to free
dom soon for the three remaining
French hostages in Lebanon, but ad
vised pursuing it carefully, “with re
spect for the dignity of our country.”
Paul Torri, first secretary of the
French Embassy in Tehran, and Wa
hid Gordji, listed as an interpreter at
the Iranian Embassy in Paris, were
flown to Karachi, Pakistan.
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at Karachi airport and turned over
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FAA plans tougher rules
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Federal Aviation Administration is
planning tighter rules on when air
lines may postpone maintenance
amid findings that work at Eastern
Airlines — and possibly other car
riers — often has been delayed to
keep planes to their schedules, FAA
officials said Monday.
They said the agency has been
looking at 10 airlines to determine
whether federal maintenance re
quirements are being abused. Except
for Eastern, none of the other air
lines were named, but sources said
the review included virtually all the
major carriers.
The broader investigation was
prompted by the findings last sum
mer at Eastern. An FAA report
made public this week concluded
that Eastern had interpreted FAA
maintenance requirements so
broadly that it amounted to a “mis
use” of the latitude given to air car
riers on repairing items that do not
themselves pose a danger to flight.
Such items are allowed to go unre
paired until a proper repair facility
is available because their failure nor
mally does not affect the airworthi
ness of the aircraft. But aviation
safety experts have said an accumu
lation of a large number of such un
repaired items on a plane could pose
a hazard.
FAA regulations require such re
pairs be made when an adequate re
pair station is available. In the case
of Eastern, the repairs routinely
were delayed because airline officials
said the airport did not have enough
“ground time” to make the repairs.
By postponing repairs on the basis
of not having enough ground time,
Eastern has “extremely liberalized”
the FAA maintenance requirements
amounting to a “misuse” of the regu
lation, the FAA report said.
Eastern officials said the airline, at
the request of the FAA, changed its
maintenance policy last August.
Stephen Kolski, Eastern’s counsel
for regulatory compliance, said the
airline no longer allows a mainte
nance delay on major “minimum
equipment list” items unless parts
are not available. Then, the item
must be fixed at the next stop, he
said in an interview.
Poles reject economic, political reform
WARSAW, Poland (AP) —Vot
ers on Sunday rejected economic
and political reforms, including
painful price increases, that Po
land’s communist leaders said
were needed to revitalize an ail
ing, debt-ridden economy, the
government said Monday.
The government has, however,
previously said that if it lost the
referendum, reforms would con
tinue, but at a slower rate. It has
already made moves to stream
line its economic planning.
Court denies couple custody of son
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Supreme Court on Monday re
jected an attempt by a mentally
retarded Illinois couple to regain
the 3-year-old son taken from
them.
The court, without comment,
let stand rulings that Paul and
Patti Ensign were unfit parents
even though they loved their son
and never intentionally neglected
him. Lawyers for the couple had
argued that state court rulings
against the Ensigns demonstrate
“inherent prejudice against per
sons with mental retardation.”
Chicago mayor honored at funeral
CHICAGO (AP) — The city
bade a tearful farewell Monday to
Mayor Harold Washington with
prayers and praise as dignitaries,
family and friends gathered at his
funeral and thousands mourned
outside under wet, gray skies.
Ministers, politicians and rela
tives eulogized the city’s first
black mayor before his flag-
draped casket as a scrappy politi
cal fighter with a warm sense of
humor. He died Wednesday of a
heart attack at age 65
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