University Daily Kansan, April 13, 1984
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NATION AND WORLD
U.S. arms negotiator criticizes Soviet proposal to ban testing
By United Press International
GENEVA, Switzerland — The chief U.S. negotiator to the Geneva Disarmament Conference said yesterday that the Soviet Union was trying to preserve an unchallenged military advantage in space. He denounced a Soviet proposal for a moratorium on the testing of anti-satellite weapons.
FIELDS ALSO CRITICIZED the Soviet proposal to eliminate ASAT systems — so-called "Star Wars" technology — on the grounds that it only deals in generalities on the central issue of verification to ensure compliance.
Louis G. Fields Jr., the negotiator to the 40-nation conference, said that the Soviets have had the world's only nuclear weapons system and the weapon system for more than a decade.
"Now, having established this military advantage in space, for the Soviet Union to propose a moratorium on the testing of such systems strikes my delegation as monumental cynicism;" Fields told the conference.
"The Soviet objective here is clear and not without precedent." Fields said. " Their objective is to preserve their military potential." The Soviet strategic capability in space.
Soviet delegate Viktor L. Issraelian repeated previous charges that Washington was thwarting negotiations on assuming an arms race in outer space.
"It is common knowledge that the Soviet Union has tested this weapon system over a dozen times," he said. "It is, and has been for over a decade, the world's only operational ASAT weapon system."
He submitted as an official document to the conference, an interview in Pravda last week with Soviet leader Konstantin Cherenkenko.
Fields further noted that the announcement of the Soviet moratorium "was made practically on the eve of my country's first test of a system designed eventually to counterbalance this long-held Soviet advantage."
Vice President George Bush was to give the Geneva Conference a draft treaty next week on the banning chemical weapons.
The Soviet announcement of a unilateral moratorium on launching systems to destroy such satellites has already been issued, and has such a system, Fields said.
IN THE INTERVIEW, Cherenko said that the United States was using the verification issue to block an outer space agreement.
Foreign unions donate funds to casino strikers
By United Press International
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — International unions started pumping thousands of dollars into local labor coffers yesterday to assist 17,000 strikers in their battle to gain higher pay and benefits from 29 posh Las Vegas hotel-casinos.
"International labor leaders view the Las Vegas strike as significant because of the perception that management intends to weaken the unions in Nevada significantly," he said.
"I received word frpm the international today that money in the high thousands is on the way," said Claude "Blackie" Evans, executive director of the Nevada AFL-CIO
"I don't know if they are out to break the unions but both sides are becoming very hard-nosed. There is not the communication and negotiations there should be at this point," said Evans on the 11th day of a strike by culinary workers, bartenders, musicians and stagehands against the hotel-casinos.
By United Press International
ARLINGTON, Texas — President Reagan took his message of economic good times to the booming housing industry yesterday but received a warning that big deficits and rising taxes could send the economy into a tailspin.
Wrapping up a trip spotlighting the economic recovery, Reagan visited a housing development under construction in Grand Prairie, Texas, and participated in a panel discussion on the housing industry.
Reagan boasts of recovery in Texas
found himself defending his economic policies. He quickly blamed Congress for the deficits and predicted that interest rates would decline by fall.
REAGAN, WHOSE trip was billed as nonpolitical, said that his administration was responsible for robust growth in the industry.
Reagan had expected to bask in a nationwide housing boom but instead
"This is a picture of what's happening all over America," he said at Grand Prairie, a suburb of Dallas. "It's a proud that you've out in front on it here."
to an end.
But builders, realists and lenders also warned Reagan that failure to control the deficit — estimated at $180 billion for the budget he proposed for next year — could bring the good times
"Builders view the deficit as the single greatest threat to the nation's economic recovery," said David Smith, vice president of the National Association of Home Builders."
Before Reagan's arrival, 11 of the 12 panel participants said they were concerned about the relationship between large deficits and high interest rates.
PAUL PRIOR, chairman of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions, said the rise in interest rates — the latest being an announced increase Wednesday on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages — "has something of a real threat in it that makes my knees tremble."
Prosecution talks of gaps in De Lorean taping
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors, forced onto the defensive after disclosing that tape recordings from the John De Lorean cocaine investigation were erased or missing, attached yesterday to explain the problem.
Perry said that James Hoffman, a paid government informant who introduced the former automaker to a drug dealer, would testify that "at no time did he have a conversation with Mr. Dorean that he tapered, altered or
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry, addressing potential jurors, said government witnesses would testify
that no taped conversations had been destroyed.
PERRY'S DECLARATION, however, seemed to conflict with his comments to other prospective jurors earlier in the week — statements that
prompted defense attorneys to demand that U.S. Judge Robert M. Takasuigi dismiss the charges against Dore Lecan.
Judge Takasugi refused yesterday to dismiss the charges, but the prosecution's conflicting statements forced Perry to explain the taxes.
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Perry, who disclosed the possibility of missing tapes during jury selection Tuesday and Wednesday, said 16 conversations were not recorded. Seven of those were conversations with De Lorean.
The University of Kansas School of Fine Art Chamber Music Series Presented
The Tokyo String Quartet
Peter Oundjian, Violin Kikuel Ikeda, Violin
Kazuhide Isomura, Viola Sadao Harada, Cello
"Four Playing as One."
-Seattle Post-Intelligencer
8:00 p.m. Thursday, April 26, 1984
Plymouth Congregational Church 925 Vernon
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office and at the door on the night of performance All seating is general admission. Public: $38 KU Students with ID $4 other Students and Senior Citizens $1 This program is part funded by the KU Student Activity Fee. Swearwash
THE GUYS OF GAMMONS.
The University of Kansas Commission on the Status of Women