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U.S.-Soviet arms treaty stalls
WASHINGTON — Snags have surfaced in a landmark arms control treaty and Secretary of State James A. Baker III will take the problems up next week with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shewardnadze.
The Associated Press
The treaty is the projected centerpiece of a 34-nation summit meeting President Bush would attend in Paris Nov. 19,21.
Baker also will discuss developments in the Persian Gulf with Shevardnadze. The session, tentatively set for yesterday, coincides with rising U.S. warnings that force may be used to get Iraq out of Kuwait. The location of the session has not been chosen.
The Conventional Forces in Europe treaty, the most sweeping arms control accord in history, would set limits on the tanks, anti-aircraft artillery and various other categories of non-nuclear weapons from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains of the Soviet Union.
The White House announced yesterday that Bush would attend the Paris summit. However, he has also made it clear over the last several months that he will not publicize them if the treaty was not芬ished he would not go to the summit.
The problems focus on the way the Soviet Union and its allies will divide the weapons permitted by the Warsaw Pact under the treaty as well as
Gorbachev's new exchange rate for ruble creates chaos in Moscow currency shops
MOSCOW - President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's decree creating a new commercial exchange rate for the ruble created confusion and chaos yesterday in Moscow's hard-currency shops.
Gorbachev introduced the new rate, which took effect yesterday, in an Oct. 26 degree setting the value of the currency at 1.8 ruble commercial transactions, nearly 70 percent lower than the official rate.
program to switch from central planning to a market-based economy in the next two years.
The primary goal of the new rate is to make Soviet exports more competitive while discourage russian imports, he said. It is part of Gorbachev's
As of yesterday, there were three government rates, as well as the black market price of the dollar. These were the official rate of 56 rubles to the dollar, the highest rate of any special or tourist, rate of 62 rubles. The black market rate is 20 to 25 rubles to the dollar.
In Moscow, Soviets have been swarming into the handful of hard-currency shops over the past week and buying foreign goods ranging from basic foodstuffs to fur coats and car parts.
how the arms the Soviets retain will be distributed within the country's zones, U.S. officials said.
The officials, who discussed the snags under terms that barred identifying them, did not say the summit might be set back.
As these countries grow more independent,veering further away from Moscow,the likelihood of them using their weapons in a joint military action with the Soviet Union becomes remote.
The Soviets have lost East German as an ally. Hungary is teetering, but remains in the Warsaw Pact and remains in the Czechoslovakia, Poland and Romania.
And yet, the United States has a tactical stake in how the Warsaw Pact resolves the issue as well as how the Soviets distribute their permissible weapons within the zones in their own country.
British deputy prime minister quits because of argument with Thatcher
The Associated Press
LONDON — Deputy Prime Minister SIR Geoffrey Howe resigned from the government yesterday after a rift with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher about Britain's commitment to Europe
His resignation came five days after Howe suggested in a television interview that Thatatcher would eventually correspond to a single European currency
In his letter of resignation, Howe said, "I am deeply anxious that the mood you have struck . . . will make it more difficult for Britain to hold on to its position in influence in this vital debate over Britain's role in Europe).
Thatatcher responded that she did not believe their differences were nearly as great as Howe suggested.
She said she accepted his resignation "more in sorrow than in anger," according to Press Association, Britain's domestic news agency.
"I do not believe that I can any
"Mrs. Thatcher has been bitten by the man she treated as a doormat and she deserves it," said Neil Kirk, leader of the opposition Labor Party.
The resignation was announced two days after Thatatcher sidestepped a challenge from Kinnock to declare her confidence in Howe. "The deputy prime minister is too big a man to need a little man like you to stand up for her."
"This is a mortal blow to Mrs. Thatchner's government," said Paddy Ashdow, leader of the small, pro-European Liberal Democratic party
Thatcher came to power in 1793, but he had appeared to be out of favor since he was replaced as foreign secretary last summer.
Tall, rotund and soft spoken. Howe seemed an unlikely participant in a controversy.
Howe was the last Cabinet minister to have served continuously since
Because of his position on Europe, Howe had been removed as foreign minister last year and shunted into a post of deputy prime minister.
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