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Reagan to propose nuclear 'build-down'
By BARRY SCHWEID
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON President Rea
gan is preparing to propose to the
Soviet Union that each side remove
two strategic nuclear warheads
from their arsenals for every new
one deployed, a senior U.S. official
said yesterday.
The move to integrate the "build
down" concept into the U.S. nego
tiating position at the Geneva arms
control talks is certain to improve
prospects for congressional appro
val of the MX missile program.
A number of key senators, includ
ing Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia
and Republican William Cohen of
Maine, have urged Reagan's shift to
the build-down approach. He indi
cated last spring he might be recep
tive, but did not officially embrace
the idea in a subsequent round of
changes in the U.S. position in the
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks.
Since the administration already
has proposed a cut of some 2,200
warheads = the Soviets would have
to destroy about 2,900 to reach Rea
gan's proposed ceiling of 5,000 on
each side the "build-down" idea
could be easily incorporated into the
U.S. stand, said the official, who
spoke only on condition he not be
named.
How the Soviets will react is not
clear. They have resisted other U.S.
efforts to set the terms for reducing
strategic nuclear weapons, and "in
general, they say that's your prob
lem," said the official.
Lebanese shelling:
By TERRY A. ANDERSON
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon The U.S. ambassador's resi
dence in a Beirut suburb came under shellfire last night
and American warships responded with a 10-minute
barrage against the gunneis in the hills overlooking the
capital.
Embassy spokesman John Stewart said the naval
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Soviets to return debris from jet; U.S. ship detects 'black box'
By EUGENE MOOSA
Associated Press Writer
WAKKANAI, Japan The Kremlin said
yesterday it will give the Japanese "items
and documents" from the downed South
Korean jetliner Sept. 26. U.S. officials said
no remains would be turned over, and that
the Soviets have been harassing , the U.S.
Navy which located then lost pings from the
"black box."
The Soviets informed the U.S. and Japa
nese Embassies in Moscow of the turnover
date. State Department spokesman John
Hughes told reporters in Washington there
was no elaboration on the nature of the
items except that they would not include
remains of any of the victims.
Hughes also denied a Soviet charge that
the plane delayed its departure from
Anchorage, Alaska, to synchronize its ap
proach to the Kamchatka Peninsula with
The negotiations are due to re
sume Oct. 5 in Geneva, Switzerland,
despite the chill in U.S.-Soviet rela
tions over the shooting down of a
South Korean commercial jetliner,
killing all 269 people, including 61
Americans, aboard.
Edward Rowny, the chief U.S.
negotiator to the talks, told a small
group of reporters yesterday "we
certainly are aware of the Korean
airline incident. You can't brush it
away."
But, Rowny said, "we feel it is in
our interest to continue arms con
trol, and we are going to go back to
negotiate and do it."
Separate talks with the Soyiets on
intermediate-range nuclear missiles
in Europe resumed Sept. 5. While
progress on both fronts has been
slow, Reagan- has assured allied
leaders that he intends to pursue
arms control and is prepared to take
a flexible approach.
Richard Burt, the assistant secre
tary of state for European affairs,
met secretly in Brussels on Monday
with the disarmament chiefs of the
NATO governments, it was learned.
West German sources in Bonn said
the allies had given Burt the go
ahead for a new U.S. initiative at the
intermediate-range talks.
A U.S. official, who spoke on con
dition he not be identified, said it
would involve three points:
• The United States was pre
pared to discuss with the Soviets
imposing limitations on American
bombers, based in Europe, that can
U.S. ambassador's home comes under fire; U.S. naval bombardment follows
Bombardment "was in response to the shelling at or very
near to the U.S. residence. To the best of my knowledge,
the residence was not hit. I know, however, that no one
has been hurt. As far as I know, the ambassador was
home tonight."
In Columbia, S.C., White House spokesman Larry
Speakes said President Reagan was told that the ambas
sador's residence came under "heavy shelling."
"We don't have any reports of injuries," Speakes said.
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A Japanese Foreign Ministry official, who
declined to be identified, told reporters in
Wakkanai that the "items and documents"
will be turned over at Nevelisk, on the west
coast of Sakhalin near the area where the
Korean Air Lines jet was shot down by a
Soviet interceptor Sept. 1.
The Soviets also specified that the Japa
nese are not to use a warship, and that the
type of vessel to be used was under dis
cussion.
The airliner carried 269 people, including
61 Americans, to their deaths. A feverish
hunt is under way by the -Soviet, U.S.,
Japanese and South Korean ships for the
"black box," the in-flight recording system
comprised of at least two devices that could
shed light on the flight's final moments.
There were unconfirmed reports that the
Soviets had found the "black box," but
carry either conventional or nuclear
bombs.
• The United States would con
sider reducing both the Pershing 2
and cruise missiles to be deployed in
Europe if an agreement is reached
with the Soviets setting equal limits
on the missiles they have targeted
on the NATO countries.
• Without yielding on its right to
match the 108 Soviet missiles tar-
Soviets call for resistance to U.S. missiles
By ALISON SMALE
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW Warning that nuclear war "would
be a hell for the whole of mankind," President
Yuri V. Andropov yesterday urged West• German
legislators not to deploy new U.S. missiles this
winter.
Andropov, whose name the Soviets have care
fully kept out of the uproar over the South Korean
airliner, apparently was trying to direct world
attention back to nuclear disarmament.
He urged the West Germans to take "the most
vigorous and decisive action" to forestall deploy
ment on their soil of 108 Pershing 2 and 96 cruise
missiles due to begin in December.
Other NATO countries are slated to get 368 of
the missiles.
Andropov's statement was his first since a
Soviet interceptor shot down a South Korean
jumbo jet over the Soviet island of Sakhalin Sept.
1. All 269 aboard, including 61 Americans, died.
The statement, carried by the official Tass
news agency in reaction to what was called an
appeal by "a group of West German Bundestag
(Parliament) deputies," made no mention of the
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Pentagon sources in Washington were skep
tical. .
"We've heard they may have found some
thing, but it could be a plant, said one
source, voicing fears that the Soviets may
publicly announce finding a "black box"
that may actually have been doctored to
provide support for Soviet charges the KAL
flight was part of an American intelligence
gathering mission.
Pentagon spokesman Benjamin Welles
said the U.S. Navy twice found and then lost
signals from the "black box" in internation
al waters 2,500 feet deep off Sakhalin Island.
"We're quite certain what we got was what
we're looking for, then we lost it," Welles
said.
He said the U.S. ships searching for the
flight recorder are being harassed by the
Soviet flotilla that is also looking for the
recorder and wreckage.
Welles said there "are continuing in-
geted on Asia, the United States
might not insist on counting them
against the American total.
The revisions may be announced
by thd White House or they could be
included in the speech Reagan will
make to the U.N. General Assembly
next Monday.
Reagan's instructions to RoWny
late next week are expected to re
flect a willingness to make further
plane issue.
It also contained no new offer on limiting
nuclear arms in Europe and was seen by Western
analysts in Moscow as part of a campaign to keep
Andropov's image that of a peacemaker who was
not involved in " the military decision to shoot
down the South Korean plane.
Western diplomats said Andropov returned to
Moscow from vacation when the plane was shot
down and that he had now gone back on vacation.
The fact that the letter sent by 57 West German
opposition Social Democrats was mailed July 11
but a reply appeared only now also suggested
Andropov's move was timed to limit any damage
to Soviet standing from the plane disaster.
In Bonn, government spokesman Peter Boa
nisch reacted to Andropov's statement by saying,
"Propagandistic comments don't help any more
now. Rather, what,really would help would be
proposal's on the negotiating table at Geneva."
In Washington, State Department spokesman
John Hughes *Characterized the Andropov
statement as "nothing new," and said it "doesn't
break any new ground."
Hughes said a freeze on arms levels in Europe
would "preserve current Soviet strategic advan-
Reagan is in Columbia for a political fund-raising
dinner.
Speakes said Ambassador Robert S. Dillon and a
deputy special envoy, Richard Fairbanks, were in the
residence compound at the time of the shelling. He said
some artillery rounds landed inside the compound but he
had no report of the extent of damage.
Beirut Radio reported a fire was burning inside the
compound.
The shelling began shortly before midnight, and Beirut
was shaken by blasts from the warships just offshore as
they opened fire.
U.S. Marine spokesman Maj. Robert Jordan said the
destroyer John Rodgers and the guided missile cruiser
Virginia "responded" to firing near Dillon's residence in
a suburb east of Beirut. He said the residence was not hit
and the 1,200 Marines in the peacekeeping force went on
"Condition One" alert at their positions near the Beirut
airport.
People along Beirut's beachfront said they saw flashes
lighting up the sky from the warships and they believed
at least 20 shells were fired. The ships continued shooting
for about 10 minutes, they said.
The shells striking the ambassador's compount appar
ently came from Druse militia positions in the nearby
hills.
' Several hours before the late-night shelling began,
Druse militiamen and Palestinian guerrillas returned to
the attack on Souk el-Gharb after being repulsed twice
earlier in the day.
One attack during the afternoon caught U.S. military
observers in the strategic Christian , town overlooking
Beirut, but an American spokesman•said he didn't think
they Were still there when the night attack began.
It was the first time American military personnel had
been in the front lines since the Lebanese civil war
resumed 16 days ago.
There was no resumption of the heavy U.S. Navy
shelling that on Monday hit Druse positions around the
hilltop town where President Amin Gemayel's govern-.
ment and its army are facing their biggest test so far.
Monday's Navy action marked the first time that U.S.
forces had directly supported the Lebanese army in its
battle for Beirut against Syrian-backed Druse and Pales
tinian militiamen.
The Reagan administration has emphasized that it is
determined to protect Souk el-Gharb and one key admin
istration official said army control of the town was
"vital."
Souk el-Gharb sits astride a ridgeline that controls
access to the capital from the southeast and is often
referred to as "the backdoor of Beirut." It also provides
a clear line of fire on the Marine base beside the Beirut
changes in the U.S. bargaining posi
tion.
One already broached with the
Soviets is to offer to limit the num
ber of American long-range bomb
ers equipped, to carry air-launched
cruise missiles. There are 400 in the
U.S. force, each capable of carrying
20 of these missiles. •
As a "negotiating tactic," the offi-
stances where U.S. ships have maneuvered
to avoid potentially hazardous navigational
situations."
He also said the Soviets have created
"electronic disturbances," apparently to
jam the U.S. hunt for the flight recorder.
The "pings" from the flight recorder were
picked up Monday by the Narragansett, a
Navy tug that is trailing an underwater
microphone tuned to receive the signals.
The signalswere lost after an hour, picked
up again, for 30 minutes, and then lost a
second time, Welles said.
The search for wreckage is being compli
cated by the large number of vessels in the
area, Welles said. In addition
.to Soviet and
U.S. vessels, Japanese and South Korean
ships ate also combing the area.
In addition, there is a large amount of
debris such as sunken ships, said a Navy
source who declined to be identified. "We've
gotten quite a few false alarms on the
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cial said, the United States has
hinted it would accept a ceiling on
such bombers. Those without cruise
missiles would carry identification
markers so the Soviets could tell if
the agreement was being observed.
Still, the talks are unlikely to
"come down to the bottom line"
before the end of the year, said the
U.S. official who discussed the situa
tion on condition he not be named.
tages and reduce their incentives to agree to
substantial reductions."
Meanwhile, ideology and propaganda chiefs
from the Warsaw Pact, Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos
and Cuba met in Moscow, to coordinate the
"struggle against the deploydent of new medi
um-range nuclear missiles in Europe, fOr the
reduction of the existing medium-range systems,
foxl ridding Europe of all nuclear weapons, both
medium-range and tactical, for an end to the
arms race," Tass said.
West German peace • activists, supported by
many left-wing Social Democrats, are among the
most vigorous European opponents of the
planned NATO deployment of 572 cruise and
Pershing 2 missiles, and the Kremlin has courted
their support in its effort to block installation of
the new weapons.
The Soviet Union now has an estimated 350 SS
20s in place.
Andropov also had said that his offer in August
to destroy , missiles was contingent upon NATO
reduction of U.S. bombers capable of carrying
nuclear missiles.
airport nine miles to the northwest.
U.S. planes flew frequent reconnaissance flights over
the area yesterday. Pentagon sources in Washington
said • Syrian troops may have fired an anti-aircraft
missile at a Navy F-14, but the plane was not hit.
The Pentagon sources also said the battleship New
Jersey has entered the Mediterkanean and should join
the U.S. Navy armada off Lebanon Friday. The New
Jersey's weapons include nine 16-inch guns that can fire
a one-ton shell up to 25 miles.
`To the best of my knowledge, the
residence was not hit. I know,
however, that no one has been
hurt.'
—John Stewart, U.S. Embassy
spokesman
A Lebanese army communique said "insurgents"
tried to infiltrate Souk el-Gharb before dawn but were
driven back.
"Six infiltrators were killed and several others
wounded," the communique said. "The rest of the force
fled."
A second infiltration attempt came in the afternoon,
about an hour after a party of six or seven P.S. Army and
Marine observers headed by an Army colonel arrived in
the town.
The Americans apparently were conferring with the
local Lebanese command at their headquarters in the
local hotel when the fighting broke out about a mile
away. An hour-long battle followed in which hundreds of
shells and rockets were ,exchanged, but there was no
report that any Americans were wounded.
Marine spokesman Maj. Robert Jordan of Shenando
ah, Ga., said the team had been sent to collect informa
tion on the situation at Souk el-Gharb. Another Marine
spokesman, Warrant Officer Charles Rowe of San Fran
cisco, Calif., denied the observers were sent to direct the
fire of the Navy ships offshore.
The commander of the Lebanese army's forwardmost
position, Ist It. John Salloum, told reporters hundreds of
rockets and artillery shells fell Monday on his position,
which was the target of repeated heavy ground assaults
by both Druse and Palestinian militiamen.
"We lost three people, one a lieutenant," he said.
"There were many wounded. I am tired. My men are
tired. We have been here 12 days."
sonar," which is used to search the seabed
Stormy weather curtailed search opera
tions yesterday.
"The Soviet fleet is likely to conduct
overnight search operations for the black
box" said Rear Adm. Masayoshi Kato of the
Japan Maritime Safety Agency. The agen
cy's patrol boats are monitoring Soviet and
U.S. search activities north of tiny Moneron
Island, off the west coast of Sakhalin. •
Kato said 22 Soviet vessels were observed
either visually or on radar screens yester
day. Seven U.S. Navy and Coast Guard
vessels have also been seen operating adja
cent to the soviet fleet.
Japanese officials also spotted a Soviet
intelligence gathering ship..
Four South Korean trawlers were near
Moneron, while 21 Japanese vessels contin
ued to search for wreckage and bodies
washed southward toward the northern
coast of Japan's Hokkaido coast:
State may require child restraint
HARRISBURG ( AP) A bill requiring children under age 4 to
be restrained by a car seat or seat belt while traveling in a vehicle
was approved by a House committee yesterday.
Pennsylvania is one of only nine states that do not require the use
of restraint systems for young children in cars and trucks.
The House Consumer Affairs Committee voted 15-5 to approve
the bill, which is an amended and more liberal version of a bill
approved last April by the Senate.
For example, the House version would have violators fined $25,
while the Senate version would have imposed a $5O fine. In both
versions, a district justice could waive the fine under certain
circumstances.
Contracts may become easy reading
HARRISBURG (AP) The House Consumer Affairs Committee
yesterday approved a bill requiring plain language in all consumer
contracts except insurance policies.
The bill would affect any written agreements in which a consum
er borrows money, obtains credit or buys, leases or rents an item,
real estate or services. The state attorney general would have
power to reject contracts that fail to meet state standards.
The bill includes 10 "readibility" tests such as:
• , Short words, sentences and paragraphs must be used as much
as possible.
• No Latin, French or archaic English words or words with
obsolete meanings can be used.
• No sentences can include double negatives or exceptions to
exceptions.
Experiments using interferon begin
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) Doctors have begun human experi
ments with a kind of interferon made by genetically rearranged
bacteria that scientists believe is far more powerful against cancer
than other forms of the germ killer yet tested.
Biogen Inc. said yesterday that doctors at a hospital in the
Netherlands gave injections of the substance, called gamma
interferon, to a lung cancer patient last week.
"The evidence going into the trials is as encouraging as evidence
could be," said Dr. Walter Gilbert, a Nobel Prize winner who is
Biogen's chairman.
Gamma interferon is made in extremely small amounts by the
body's immune system. Another form called alpha interferon is
produced by white blood cells, while beta interferon is made by
connective tissue.
During the 19705, interferon was widely touted as a potential
cancer cure, but it was too hard to extract the substance from
human blood to test it widely. However, with genetic engineering,
researchers have . been able to insert human interferon genes into
bacteria, which then make the protein in limitless quantities.
USDA recalls school lunch meat
WASHINGTON (AP) Agriculture Secretary John R. Block
yesterday ordered an immediate halt to all school distribution of
ground beef produced by two plants in Colorado and Nebraska.
The meat was processed by Cattle King of Denver and Nebraska
Beef Packers Inc., Gering, Neb. A spokesman for both firms,
independent corporations with joint ownership, said the govern
ment's action was based on "false and slanderous" information.
Block said the action was prompted by reports indicating "the
ground beef may have come from substandard cattle and may have
been processed under less than sanitary" plant conditions. The
impounded meat is being checked for "foreign matter, chemical
residues and spoilage," he said.
The Agriculture Department estimated that about 6.4 million
pounds of the meat is still in distribution channels. John McClung,
of USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, said Cattle King
provided about 14 percent of the ground beef used in the school
lunch program last year, and Nebraska Beef about 7 percent.
"Commodities approved for the school lunch program have
always been of the highest quality and it is imperative to take these
steps as another indication of the government's commitment to
maintain such standards."
Block said that USDA's inspectors are already analyzing sam
ples of the meat from 14 locations across the country and that the
results would be ready in a few days.
Priest, rebel chief killed in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) A Roman Catholic priest
from Chicago and a leftist guerrilla leader were killed during an
operation by government forces against rebels in the eastern
highlands, an army spokesman said yesterday.
Col. Cesar Elvir Sierra identified the American as James
Francis Carney Handley, 58, but gave no details about his death
other than saying it occurred in the jungles of eastern Olancho
province. He said the guerrilla chieftain, Jose Maria Reyes Mata,
was killed Sunday in a gunfight with soldiers and police.
U.S. Embassy officials declined comment on Handley's death.
Sierra, in his report, said both Handley and Reyes Mata had
received guerrilla training in Cuban and Nicaragua.
There were reports here that Handley had left the priesthood.
Acquaintances described him as a a former Jesuit and said he
was expelled from Honduras in November 1979 after being accused
of trying to organize a peasant revolt.
Pro-Marcos rally turns into melee
MANILA, Philippines (AP) A suburban rally for President
Ferdinand E. Marcos disintegrated yesterday when thousands of
counter-demonstrators burned the stage and pelted Marcos sup
porters with mops, garbage and urine-filled cans.
At the same time, about 7,000 students screaming "Marcos
resign!" and "Marcos Hitler!" staged the biggest protest march
by students in the capital in years, demanding that the right-wing
president quit.
The melee in sububan Makati, metropolitan Manila's financial
center, and the march in the capital were the latest anti-govern
ment demonstrations to protest the assassination of Benigno
Aquino, Marcos' main rival.
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stock 'report
Record high set; Volume Shares
3rd straight gain 120,422,240
Issues Traded
NEW YORK YORK ( AP) Falling
1,985
interest rates helped propel
the Dow Jones industrial aver- Up
age to a record high yesterday 1,016 --
as the stock market recorded
its third straight gain. Unchanged
The oldest and best known of 378
the market indicators climbed
15.25 to 1,249.19, surpassing its Down
previous closing peak of 591
1,248.30 on June 16.
Other, broader measures of • NYSE Index
stock price trends turned in 97.88 + 0.79
less dramatic performances, • Dow Jones Industrials
however, and remained below cp 1,249.19 + 15.25
the highs they established in
late June and early July.
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