Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 27, 1989
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Bush challenge U.S.S.R. accepts
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze yesterday accepted President Bush's call for deep U.S.-Soviet chemical arms cuts and challenged the United States to cut further and faster.
Shevardnadze said the Soviet Union would radically reduce or completely destroy its chemical weapons stockpile, halt nuclear tests and stop making weapons-grade pluages. — all if Washington recropped
Shevardnadze, speaking to the
U. N. General Assembly, said the two governments have narrowed their differences.
"In our view, by the time the summit is held next year in late spring or early summer, we may have passed the last turn on the road toward a treaty reducing strategic offensive arms," he said.
He also said that if NATO countries agreed to start talks on tactical nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union would respond with further unilateral reduction of its tactical nuclear missile arsenals in Europe.
He repeated his government's call for a nuclear test ban and said
Moscow was considering extending a 1983 treaty to cover underground nuclear explosions.
The Soviet Union offered to:
Bush told the General Assembly on Monday that the United States would destroy more than 80 percent of its chemical weapons, before an international treaty banning use of the weapons is signed, if the Soviet Union would reduce its arms to a similar level.
The Soviet Union offered to:
> Cease production of chemical weapons.
> Supply the US, if already has done, including more sophisticated binary weapons.
▶ Renounce the use of those weapons under any circumstances.
Institute rigorous verification of the cessation of production.
Shevardnadze praised the U.S.-Soviet dialogue and said progress had been made in recent talks.
"These talks have demonstrated the increasing awareness by both sides of he need to cooperate for the benefit of mankind and the growing confidence that such cooperation is possible."
Bush said that in the first eight years of a chemical weapons treaty, the United States would destroy 98 percent of its arsenal if the Soviet Union would join the ban.
Cancer linked to flaw in gene
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Researchers have identified precise abnormalities in an anti-cancer gene linked to lung cancer, raising the possibility of early diagnosis and better treatment for the 150,000 people who get lung cancer each year.
During the last several years, researchers have found indirect evidence that defects in at least six mammals contribute to the formation of lung cancer.
A new study has pinpointed precise chemical changes that should be useful for identifying people at high risk of getting lung cancer, or for predicting how deadly a particular case of lung cancer will be, said John Minna, the author of the study's findings.
"One thing you could do would be to take people's tumors, see how many (genetic) lesions they have, what kind of how violent they are," Mina said.
Minna also said screening for genetic abnormalities in people who don't have lung cancer could reveal those who are about to get cancer — people who have some, but not all, of the genetic changes needed to produce a tumor.
Most of the evidence for the six abnormalities already found consists of studies with genetic "signposts" called restriction fragment length polymorphisms, or RFLPs. These studies show the approximate location of the abnormalities on chromosomes, but do not reveal precisely what the abnormalities are.
Minna's latest findings are a catalogue of abnormalities found in a gene called p33 on chromosome 17, based on the examination of a large number of cancer tumors.
The protein made by the p53 gene normally protects the body against cancer. If the protein is defective, the protective effect is lost, and one step has been taken toward the formation of a tumor, Minna said.
Briefs
MEREDITH HIRED: James Meredith, the Black man who cracked the color barrier at the University of Mississippi 27 years ago, has been hired to what some see as an unlikely post: adviser to arch-conservative Sen. Jesse Helms.
Meredith, 58, has changed his views markedly since becoming the first Black enrolled at Ole Mire in 1962. Since then, he has called integration the "biggest con job ever pulled on anybody."
A senior aide to Helms said yesterday that Meredith had been hired to advise the senator on domestic policy several weeks ago.
Meredith told the Greensboro, N.C., News & Record that his new job was "the most significant development in my long campaign to make the Black race full first-class citizens."
Some civil rights leaders were astonished at Meredith's decision to join Helms' staff.
"It is somewhat of a shock to me," said Benjamin Hooks of the NAACP. "I didn't know he had changed to the point he would fit in with Senator Helms' staff."
MEDIA BARRED: Television coverage, radio equipment and newspaper cameras were barred from former HUD Secretary Samuel R. Pierce's confrontation on his day, a ban forced by his lawyer before he charged was the panel "circus-like atmosphere."
Pierce's lawyer invoked a House rule that dates to the McCarthy hearings of the 1850s. It allows witnesses subpoenaed to appear before Congress to bar broadcast coverage and still photographs of their appearance.
Charleston regains some city services
With the cameras gone, Pierce invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination and submitted the subcommittee's questions.
80 percent of area is still without power
The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Tap water became safe, some stores reopened yesterday and a ton of catfish was on its way to ease the plight of the city's hurricane survivors.
But 80 percent remained without
dricken outlying areas
prewet shrubs.
Generators and other necessities poured into the historic port from around the nation. The Mississippi Agriculture Department arranged to send the catfish.
While Charleston regained some
sureness, the picture was bleak in
isolation.
"We have no ice, no lights and we're low on batteries," said St. Stephen Mayor Bobby Hoffman. "Everything is funneled to Charles and had a hurricane, too. People are desperate. They're going to panic."
He said roads were still blocked by downed trees, making it impossible to reach some people in the town of about 2,000 northeast of Charleston.
"We can't get to their houses to see
they're still alive or not." Hoffman said.
Some other towns and the barrier islands had similar problems, officials said.
Hugo and its remnants killed at least 33 people in the Caribbean and 28 on the U.S. mainland, including 17 in South Carolina.
Charleston schools will remain closed at least another week; some colleges in the area plan to open Monday.
Residents climbed onto roofs to repair shingles under a sunny sky,
and others shopped in grocery stores opened for the first time since the hurricane hit. Predicted rains held off.
Power was restored to about 80,000 people in the Carolinas, but at least 480,000 remained without service. It took one month before full service is restored.
Disaster assistance centers should be operating by Saturday in four counties around Charlotte, said Joe Dean, North Carolina's public safety secretary.
In Charleston, lines for water and ice were shorter as more stores opened and the city's water supply became potable.
South Carolina Gov. Carroll Campbell Jr. announced that the state hire some of the estimated 224,000 staff to help the storm to help with cleanup efforts.
President Bush yesterday expanded his earlier disaster declaration to include five more South Carolina counties, bringing to 12 the number eligible for federal money in the state. Banks began offering low-interest loans to those ineligible for federal aid.
Black community leaders met in Columbia to discuss how to coordinate and spread relief efforts to rural areas.
"My people in McCellanville do not have water, they do not have food, no clothes. There are those who are sick and who do not have money to survive," said the Rev. George Thomas, who lives in the town of 500
In Sumter, the scene was chaotic, the Rev. Frank Maddox said.
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