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Nation/World
Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1985
Reagan grants a historic Soviet interview
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, trying to assuage Kremlin anxieties, assured the Soviet people in a historic pre-summit interview yesterday that his “Star Wars” missile-defense system is not intended to threaten them with nuclear war.
"I can assure you now we are not going to try to monopolize this, if such a weapon is developed, for a first-strike capability," Reagan said in an interview Thursday with four Soviet journalists that was published yesterday in Moscow.
Despite full-page play of the interview in Moscow, Soviet censors denied Reagan the opportunity to state his unabridged case to the Soviet people on such matters as arms control, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and a postwar U.S. proposal for international control of atomic weapons
In the interview, Reagan spoke in blunt terms about Soviet expansionism and sparred over arms control and foreign policy during the 42-minute interview.
But Reagan also added confusion to one of the central issues at the summit — his dedication to the development of a futuristic defense against nuclear missiles — that sent aides scrambling to clarify his words.
Larry Speakes, White House spokesman, insisted Reagan was setting terms only for sharing SDI technology, not for its deployment. In the absence of reductions in nuclear missiles, he said, deployment could proceed.
Soviets distort Reagan interview
United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet media gave President Reagan unprecedented exposure in an interview with four Soviet journalists published yesterday, but deleted part of his answers and accused him of distorting Soviet policy.
The interview was published on the fourth page of the government newspaper, Izvestia and was countered by a full page of criticism on the opposite page. There were no photographs.
"Alongside general pronouncements in favor of peace and normalized relations with the
Soviet Union, attempts were made in the interview to distort Soviet foreign policy," the official Tass news agency said in a summary of the Izvesta coverage.
The interview, given to four senior Soviet journalists last Thursday in Washington, showed basic differences on most issues, including arms control, human rights and conflicts in other parts of the world.
'Evading answers to questions concerning Washington's course with regard to Nicaragua, southern Africa and the Middle East, the president tried to create the impression that tension in the
Another White House spokesman, Edward Dijerjane, said Reagan was not implying that we do away with all missiles before SDI deployment and was merely emphasizing the ultimate goal was the elimination of offensive nuclear weapons.
world is a consequence of the Soviet policy in different regions," Tass said.
In the interview, Reagan condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and repeated a vow made at the United Nations last month to support groups fighting Communist governments in the Third World.
With that accomplished, Reagan said, the defensive shield would be needed in case some madman gets his
"When we see other nations threatened from the outside by forces which would destroy their liberties and impose the rule of a minority by force of arms, we will help them resist that whenever we can," Reagan said.
hands on some (nuclear weapons) and tries to blackmail other countries.
in separate prepared answers to written questions. Reagan, who last week countered the latest Soviet arms offer, said the United States seeks a balanced, fair, verifiable agreement on reductions in nuclear arsenals.
Formal agreement on reductions in nuclear emissions.
"The United States has no tricks in its sleeve and we
have no desire to threaten the Soviet Union in any way," he said. "Frankly, if the Soviet Union would take a comparable attitude, we would be able to make very rapid progress toward an agreement."
Just 15 days away from the first superpower summit in six years, Reagan surveyed the landscape of U.S.-Soviet relations and expressed hope he and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbacher could find ways that they could prove by deed that there is no need for distrust between the nations.
But the Reagan answers, like the Soviet questions, also underlined sharp differences in the four areas on the U.S. agenda for the summit; arms control, regional conflicts, bilateral relations and human rights.
For example, Reagan asserted that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and support for insurgency in Cambodia, Africa and elsewhere had created enormous tension in U.S.-Soviet relations over the years.
When one interviewer likened Afghanistan to the U.S. invasion of Grenada, Reagan retorted: "The Soviet troops have been in Afghanistan for six years now, fighting all the time. We did what we were asked to do — the request of the government of Grenada — and came home."
Release of the interview, the first in 24 years that an American president has granted to Soviet journalists, coincided with its publication in the Soviet government. He soon became even led to believe the interview would be carried Sunday.
The interview had been planned since September.
Shultz's Soviet trip paves road to talks
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MOSCOW — Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze met yesterday for almost eight hours — their longest session yet — to pave the way for the super-power summit in Switzerland.
Shultz, accompanied by National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane and arms control adviser Paul Nitze, is the first secretary of state to visit Moscow since Cyrus Vance in October 1978. He is to meet Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev today.
There were smiles and pleasant chatter as Shultz and Sheardnade, each flanked by 10 aides, including several arms control specialists, sat down for the talks at the orate mansion used as a guest house by the Soviet Foreign Ministry.
As the talks began, Shultz吟味ly remarked to Shewardadze, "You must have a lot of clout to have a place like this." When the
Soviet's interpreter appeared to be puzzled by the word "clout," Shultz's interpreter explained the American expression.
But the talks quickly turned serious and continued for almost eight hours — longer than any of the previous sessions between the two foreign ministers.
U. S. and Soviet officials would not discuss the details of the negotiations, but Assistant Secretary of State Rozanne Ridgway told reporters that the sides covered all the items on the agenda.
Besides arms control, the agenda that Shultz took to Moscow included human rights, regional conflicts and bilateral issues.
Shultz and his party arrived from Helsinki, Finland, and were met at the airport by Shevardnadze and his wife.
Shultz said that he and Sheard-nadze had conducted "candid and productive" talks on four previous occasions and added that this week's talks would be similar.
United Press International
Boston railroad strike strands 25,000
BOSTON — Trainmen, conductors and yardworkers of the Boston & Maine railroad staged a wildcat strike over safety concerns yesterday, stranding 25,000 commuters and prompting the railroad to seek a back-to-work court order.
The Boston & Maine Corp., which runs the commuter rail lines for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to point west, north and south of Boston, called the wildcat strike illegal.
While the railworkers are not considered public employees, who are barred from striking under state law, MBTA spokesman Bernard Cohen said they have a responsibility to the public.
"They're not considered public employees, but we don't think they have a justification for the action they have taken," Cohen said. "There are other remedies besides leaving 25,000 commuters stranded, like negotiations."
Cohen said the railroad and the MBTA have asked the federal court in Boston to issue a back-to-work order.
About 700 workers walked off the job without notice at 4:30 a.m., idling all eight commuter lines feeding Boston's North and South stations.
The central issue is safety procedures on a number of construction projects on lines in the Boston area, union spokesman Roger Lenfest said.
"What they have been doing is indiscriminately getting contractors out on the track without the proper flag work," Lenfest said, referring to the system of signaling trains.
"They have, been cutting corners in the extreme." Llenfest charged. "We have tried for several weeks now, even months, to negotiate these items in good faith and the company has taken a very belligerent attitude."
MBTA officials were forced to cancel all evening rail service when the court failed to produce a back-to-work order by 3 p.m. Cohen said.
The strike forced commuters to seek alternate transportation, including the use of private cars and makeshift bus services arranged by the MBTA.
Members of the United Transportation Union Local 1331 set up picket lines at stations used to bring rail employees to work. Cohen said.
"Those lines are not being crossed, and as a result we have no service." Cohen said.
New evidence may overturn conviction
United Press International
in Jackson, Ga., to overturn the conviction.
ATLANTA — Lawyers for Wayne Williams said yesterday that they will ask a court to overturn his conviction in the so-called Atlanta child murders based on evidence they claim was withheld by prosecutors.
Lynn Whatley, an Atlanta lawyer who has represented Williams since April 1982, said he would file a petition next Monday asking a state court
Whatley said he had obtained a 12-inch stack of documents that included statements two confidential informants gave that linked a Ku Klux Klan member to one of the murdered children.
"The evidence is crucial. The evidence is exonerating." Whatley said. "It could have produced a different verdict if it had been disclosed."
Whatley said the informants told police a Klan member threatened to kill 14-year-old Lubie Geter after the boy bumped his go-cart into the man's parked car.
The incident allegedly occurred in late 1980, and Geter disappeared Jan. 3, 1981. His body was found one month later.
and music promoter, was arrested in June 1980 as a suspect in 29 murders of young black males over 22 months in Atlanta.
Williams, a would-be talent scout
At the end of a nine-week trial in February 1982, Williams, then 22, was convicted of murdering Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, and Nathaniel Cater, 28. He was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.
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