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TRAFFIC TICKET DISMISSAL Ramada Inn Mon.-Tues. 6-10 p.m. Saturday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. NO LECTURING 774-4069 Page 14/The Battalion/Thursday, March 3, 198b World and Nation NATO leadership demands reduction of Soviet weapons BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — NATO leaders on Wednesday de manded huge cutbacks in Warsaw Pact tanks and artillery, and en dorsed President Reagan’s efforts to negotiate strategic arms reductions with the Soviet Union. Defining strategy for a new set of East-West negotiations, NATO lead ers said Soviet conventional forces pose the threat of a surprise attack and must be slashed to rectify an im balance in military strength. forts to set up Arab-Israeli peace talks. First, Shultz will stop in London to see Jordan’s King Hussein, and on Friday will visit Israel, Egypt and Syria, returning to Washington early Saturday morning. erformance "Is our Business" Transmission • Clutch Driveshaft • 4x4 Front wheel Drive Full Service — Imports — Domestic Bryan Drive Train Call us 268-AUTO The Soviet cutbacks would entail, for example, “the elimination from Europe of tens of thousands of War saw Pact weapons relevant to sur prise attack, among them tanks and artillery pieces,” a NATO commu nique said. Meeting behind closed doors at the alliance’s heavily guarded head quarters, the leaders of the 16 alli ance countries attempted to accen tuate agreement. They did not want to highlight differences about the pace of modernizing short-range nuclear missiles left in Europe after the elimination of longer-range weapons covered by a new U.S.-So viet arms treaty. According to his spokesman, Rea gan quoted Benjamin Franklin, tell ing the NATO leaders, “If we do not all hang together, we will assuredly hang separately.” Security was so strict that a NATO guard attempted to eject a reporter who asked Reagan a question as the leaders posed for a “family photo.” The NATO meeting is the alli ance’s first summit since 1982. Accompanied by their foreign ministers, the leaders gathered at a long, walnut-brown oval table in a conference room shortly after noon to hear an opening statement by Lord Carrington, NATO’s secretary general. He said Reagan’s effort to secure a 50 percent cut in U.S. and Soviet long-range missiles “has the alli ance’s full support.” He spoke of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as a man “who is ready to reduce some tensions” but expressed concern about the Kremlin’s military might and “the denial of basic hu man rights and freedom to the peo ples of Eastern Europe and the So viet Union.” Emphasizing alliance unity, Rea gan said, “There are no great funda mental differences there. I have never seen such harmony and toge therness as we have.” Reagan mixed NATO summitry with Middle East peace efforts. He ordered Secretary of State George P. Shultz to make a whirlwind return to the Middle East after the summit windup tonight to continue his ef- White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said most of the leaders, in their private remarks, touched on the issue of modernizing the short- range weapons. “Everybody has some feelings about that issue, some more supportive than others,” he said. A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl spoke most directly on the is sue, but that even his remarks were muted. On the question of conventional forces, there is no dispute in NATO that the Warsaw Pact has an advan tage: about 3-to-l in tanks and artil lery and nearly 2-to-l in combat air craft and troops, including reserves in the Soviet Union. Moscow con tends that East-West conventional forces are roughly equivalent. World Briefs U.S.: Cuba owns no nuclear warheads WASHINGTON (AP) — The Cuban military has some surface- to-surface missiles in its inven tory, but none has a nuclear war head and none could reach the United States even if they did, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The defense and administra tion officials commented under questioning prompted by Repub lican presidential candidate Pat Robertson’s continued insistence, in the face of denials, that Cuba may have Soviet-made nuclear missiles aimed at the United States. The officials said Cuba has about five dozen Frog-4 and Frog-7 battlefield missiles, dating to the 1960s. The Frog-7, when originally introduced by the Soviets, could carry either a conventional ornu clear warhead, “but we’re confi dent no nuclear warheads ever went to Cuba for that missile and it doesn’t have any range any way,” said one source who re quested anonymity. According to the reference book “Jane’s Weapon Systems' the Frog-7 has a range of only about 43 miles — or half the dis lance between Cuba and Florida Moreover, the rocket has no guidance system to direct it to a specific target. Troops continue commotion in Israel RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank (AP) — Israeli troops fired tear gas inside an Arab hospital Wednesday, forcing doctors to don gas masks and sending doz ens of choking patients fleeing with their faces covered by Arab headdresses. Soldiers clubbed a Palestinian teen-ager suspected of throwing rocks at troops from a barricade erected about 10 yards from the hospital’s emergency room. An Associated Press photogra pher saw soldiers throw the youth head first down a flight of stairs, then sit on his stomach while beating him with a wooden trun cheon. Troops detained 20 Arabs sus pee led of participating in demon strations in Ramailah, Israel radio said. President Reagan, meanwhile, ordered Secretary of State George P. Shultz to return to the Middle East on Thursday for fur ther talks with Arab and Israeli leaders. In Jerusalem, police detained 27 Israeli students from the Beta- lei art school after their parade for the Jewish holiday of Purim turned into a protest against the Israeli handling of unrest in the territories. The army does not release ex act figures on troop deployment. Mecham defended as ‘mutiny’ victim PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) — Gov. Evan Mecham, denounced as a lawbreaker and defended as the victim of a “mutiny” in opening statements, tried to contact the first prosecution witness at his im peachment trial Tuesday, the wit ness said. Frank Martinez, a state Depart ment of Public Safety officer who testified Tuesday, told the Senate he hung up the phone before the governor could talk to him. Mecham, absent from the im peachment trial for a second day, issued a statement denying the story. Also Tuesday, the Arizona Su preme Court on Tuesday again refused to order that the im peachment trial be halted until Mecham’s criminal trial is held. And a judge dismissed a law suit filed by Mecham supporters seeking to halt a recall election. The governor’s lawyers had contended that his constitutional right to a fair trial in criminal court would be jeopardized by al lowing the impeachment to pro ceed now. 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