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Wednesday, December 9, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9
World and Nation
Officials: Treaty helps
to plan other proposals
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
new treaty banning U.S. and So
viet intermediate-range nuclear
forces has been dismissed by
some as strategically insignificant,
but officials say its detailed verifi
cation procedures already are be
ing put in proposals for a whole
sale cut in long-range missiles.
The accord’s final language
wasn’t agreed upon until hours
before it was signed by President
Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail
S. Gorbachev on Tuesday. It is
Diplomat plans inspections
after signing of agreement
Analysis
described by those who worked
on it as the most meticulous docu
ment of its kind ever negotiated.
Copies of the treaty weren’t
publicly available until after the
signing. But detractors com
plained that it contained too little
protection against cheating and
that, while billed as an agreement
to scrap a whole class of nuclear
weapons, it left the vast majority
of weapons, including the most
dangerous missiles and bombers,
in place.
However, the INF Treaty, as it
is commonly called, requires both
sides to scrap all missiles that can
strike targets 300 to 3,400 miles
from their launch sites. Because
most such missiles are mobile and
some resemble others outside the
affected class, compliance with
the treaty is difficult to ensure.
Gorbachev called the signing
of the document a first step down
the road leading to a nuclear-free
world. The general secretary of
the Soviet Communist Party de
scribed the agreement as the most
stringendy verified accord of its
time.
Reagan said, “We can only
hope that this history-making -
agreement will not be an end in
itself, but a beginning.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
U.S. diplomat who negotiated the
arms control agreement signed at
the summit Tuesday said American
experts will make hundreds of in
spections of Soviet sites in the next
13 years to assure that all interme
diate-range missiles have been de
stroyed.
Maynard Glitman, who spent six
years negotiating the agreement
signed by President Reagan and So
viet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev,
said teams of inspectors from both
countries would begin arriving on
each others’ territory soon after the
treaty takes effect.
In the Soviet Union, about 100
sites are involved, the Soviets said.
“We’ll visit every base and every
one of their sites,” Glitman said in a
briefing on what Reagan called “a
historic treaty that will rid the world
of an entire class of U.S. and Soviet
The treaty calls for the elimina
tion of all ground launched missiles
with ranges between 300 and 3,400
miles and the withdrawal of the ap
proximately 3,800 warheads cur
rently usable for such weapons. The
most important of the weapons are
the Soviet SS-20s and the U.S. Per
shing 2 and ground-launched cruise
missiles.
It’s only 7 percent of the super
powers’ warheads, but both leaders
hailed the pact as a good first step to
further arms control.
As soon as the treaty goes into ef
fect, both sides would begin taking
their missiles to destruction sites —
the process finishing in 18 months
— and all the launchers and tubes
would be destroyed within three
years.
Each side is allowed to get rid of
100 launchers within the first six
months by firing them.
Reagan, who opposed the
never-ratified SALT II treaty on
grounds that it was unverifiable,
insisted that any arms control
treaty negotiated during his ad
ministration would have to con
tain provisions permitting on-site
inspection to check for cheating.
The INF treaty does that.
“This gets into details no other
treaty contemplated,” one Ameri
can official familiar with the ne
gotiations in Geneva that brought
the document into final form
said. “It not only permits chal
lenge inspections, but it sets out
just how you conduct one.”
The official, speaking on con
dition he not be identified, said
many of the provisions drafted
for the INF treaty already are be
ing used at the Geneva talks
where negotiators are trying to
work out a much more far-reach
ing accord.
“They’re talking treaty lan
guage at START (the Strategic
Arms Reductions Talks), and
whole blocks of that language can
be lifted from INF and applied to
START,” the official said.
Completion of such a treaty on
long-range weapons must await
some fundamental political deci
sions by the leaders of both sides,
and prospects for that may be
clearer at the end of this week’s
summit talks.
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Report says airport security
not helping to find weapons
WASHINGTON (AP) — Airport
security checkpoints have confis
cated thousands of weapons over the
years, but critics say the screening is
uneven among airlines and airports
and FAA spot checks have shown
weapons often may get through.
Airport security is expected to
come under renewed scrutiny if ini
tial reports of gunfire aboard a Pa
cific Southwest Airlines jet are con
firmed. The jet crashed near
Cayucos, Calif., killing all 43 people
aboard, after the pilot reportedly
told controllers of gunfire in the
plane.
The accuracy of passenger screen
ing programs at airports came under
fire earlier this year after a series of
tests by the Federal Aviation Admin
istration revealed that one out of five
mock weapons escaped detection at
screening checkpoints.
During the series of FAA tests,
which were conducted at airports
from September 1986 to June, the
agency found a wide range of accu
racy in the screening programs. At
one airport just over half the mock
weapons passed through. Overall
the detection rate ranged from 48
percent to 99 percent, officials said.
The FAA did not make public the
test results at specific airports. How
ever, according to one source, who
asked not to be identified, the Los
Angeles International Airport
ranked in the bottom quarter of the
28 largest airports examined.
The findings prompted the
Transportation Department last
summer to direct the FAA to take
more aggressive enforcement ac
tions against the airlines so screening
procedures are improved. Some air
carriers have an interest in minimiz
ing the costs of providing security,
the task force concluded.
The airlines are responsible for
the screening.
The actual use or even threat of
use of a firearm aboard U.S. jetliners
has been rare, however.
According to the FAA, there had
been no discharge of a firearm
aboard a LJ.S. jetliner since the
screening process went into effect in
1973. Of the 92 attempted or actual
hijackings since 1973 only 14 in
volved a firearm, Jo Anne Sloan, a
spokesman for the FAA, said.
She said in four of those cases, the
weapons escaped detection at pas
senger screening points. Eight of the
cases involved people getting aboard
planes by other means than through
official checkpoints, and one in
volved a commuter plane where
there was no screening required.
One also involved a gun that was
previously hidden in an aircraft la
vatory.
In 1964 a Pacific Southwest Air
lines turboprop crashed near Com
cord, Calif., after the pilot reported
to air-traffic controllers that he had
been shot. A revolver, which had
been purchased by one of the pas
sengers the day before, later was
found in the wreckage with six car
tridges fired.
Since 1973, there have been
38,000 firearms confiscated at pas
senger checkpoints at airports re
sulting in 16,000 arrests, according
to the FAA. The agency said more
than 8 billion passengers have been
screened.
U.S. transport plane carrying 11
crashes on airstrip, 3 feared dead
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand
(AP) — A U.S. Hercules C-130
transport plane carrying 11 people
crashed on an icy airstrip in Ant
arctica, the U.S. Embassy said
Wednesday. Three people were
feared dead.
Embassy spokesman Mike Gould
said there were 11 people aboard the
ski-equipped plane but that he had
no details about casualties.
Ham radio operators quoted by
the New Zealand Press Association
said they heard reports that eight
people had been accounted for and
three people were feared dead in the
wreckage. The operators were mon
itoring radio communications from
an American base at McMurdo Sta
tion.
The cause of the crash was not
known but radio operators said it ap
peared to be wind shear, or sudden
shifts in the wind.
Gould said the crash occurred 150
miles south of the French Antarctic
station of Dumont D’Urville or 3‘A
hours flying time from the Ameri
can National Science Foundation
Base at McMurdo.
He said the crash site was isolate.ci
and that communications were diffi
cult.
The plane was part of an effort to
recover another Hercules which
crashed more than a decade ago.
The plane, buried under ice for sev
eral years, was uncovered only last
summer by U.S. scientists.
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