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Wednesday, May 11,1988Arhe Battalion/Page 7 I !oor Its and d sctions pj Dn ►-CLUB or Checks c World and Nation Official: Shultz will settle differences with Soviets itudy says egligence :aused crash are 693-075: Oak Square Center! arkway/CS L WASHINGTON (AP) — The failure of two Northwest Airlines pilots to follow required check-list procedures before takeoff led to the crash last August at Detroit’s airport that killed 156 people, a federal report concluded Tues- |ay. A 4-year-old passenger, Cece lia Cichan, was the only survivor. Northwest Flight 255 crashed after it failed to gain proper lift ecause the plane’s flaps had not een properly set, the National Transportation Safety Board found. I It blamed poor cockpit disci pline that included skipping crit ical parts of pre-flight cneck lists (or the accident. The “overwhelming evidence” as that the two pilots — Capt. John R. Maus, 57, of Las Vegas, ev.; and first officer David J. odds, 35, of Galena, Ill. — for- ot to set the flaps and slats while xiing before takeoff, the NTSB aid. The Air Line Pilots Associa tion, which represents 40,000 Commercial pilots including those at Northwest, immediately at tacked the report and accused the TSB of not going far enough to efinitely rule out a possible me- hanical problem with the flap |ystem. The union also said the board ave too little consideration to the ailure of the McDonnell Douglas D-80s aural warning system hat should have told the flight rew that flaps and slats were not properly extended to give the lane sufficient lift for takeoff. WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Reagan administration official voiced confidence Tuesday that Sec retary of State George P. Shultz would be able to clear up differences over a missile-ban treaty with the So viet Union in a new round of talks with Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze. The differences over policing the accord against cheating prompted Senate leaders on Monday to indefi nitely postpone ratification. “These are very, very technical is sues, and we’ve had the problem of pursuing them at long distance through diplomatic exchange, infor mal translations, things of that sort,” the official told reporters before Shultz boarded an Air Force jet for two days of talks with Shevardnadze in Geneva. The official spoke on condition of anonymity. However, Shevardnadze said on his arrival in Geneva Tuesday that he was “not quite clear what the E roblems” were. He said the Soviets ad answered questions raised by the United States about monitoring the agreement to scrap all U.S. and So viet missiles with a range of 315 to 3,125 miles. “Basically the verification prob lems regarding the INF treaty have been resolved, I think,” Shevard nadze said. The Soviet answers were deliv ered to the State Department Sun day night by Ambassador Yuri V. Dubinin and presented Monday to the Senate Intelligence Committee, where they received a chilly recep tion. Subsequently, Senate Democratic and Republican leaders decided to postpone debate over ratification, which had been scheduled to begin Wednesday. Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Vir ginia, the Democratic leader, said the treaty would remain “on the back burner” until the differences were resolved. “We don’t want to give the Soviets loopholes to cheat,” he said. “This obviously needs fixing and the time to fix it is before the Senate takes up the treaty.” Byrd appealed to the Kremlin to take steps to end the dispute holding up the treaty. “The Soviets hold the key,” he told the Senate. There are nine technical issues in dispute. The two most significant in volve Soviet attempts to restrict U.S. inspection of missile containers and the range of access for U.S. monitor ing personnel within designated areas. Even if Shultz and Shevardnadze resolve the differences in Geneva, where they reached final agreement on the treaty last November, it was not clear whether the Senate would be able — or willing — to ratify the accord before President Reagan’s visit to Moscow starting May 29. Another dispute erupted, mean while, as the Soviets asserted a right to inspect West German Pershing 1- A missiles that are stored in the United States. The rockets have a range of 465 miles, within the span of the treaty, and the nuclear war heads are owned by the United States. State Department spokesman Charles E. Redman called the Soviet demand “sopmething we find aston ishing, that they should choose to raise that issue.” Meanwhile, White House spokes man Marlin Fitzwater said the Sen ate decision to postpone debate on the treaty “is a prudent and reasona ble course of action.” Reagan had hoped in his fourth and probably final meeting with General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorba chev to sign a far more significant treaty to reduce U.S. and Soviet long-range nuclear weapons by 30 to 50 percent. The senior U.S. official who briefed reporters at the State De partment acknowledged that hope for such a pact had about run out. The official said Reagan and Gorba chev would issue a joint statement “identifying in some way where we are” on arms control and other is- The idea would be for the presi dent who succeeds Reagan in Jan uary to pick up from there. After an all-night flight, Shultz planned to hold two meetings with Shevardnadze on Wednesday and two more on Thursday before Hying to Brussels on Friday to brief the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. U.S. and Soviet arms control ex perts will meet separately in Geneva, under the supervision of Shultz and Shevardnadze. Of the non-nuclear issues on Shultz’s agenda, the two likely to get the most attention were human rights and southern Africa. 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