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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1985
Focus on space, defense systems
Negotiators examine new offers
United Press International
GENEVA, Switzerland — U.S. and Soviet arms negotiators began a detailed study yesterday of 11th-hour American proposals aimed at paving the way for more substantive arms control talks at the Nov. 19-20 Reagan-Gorbachev summit.
The negotiators, focusing on space and defense weapons systems, met for four hours yesterday at the Soviet delegation offices.
The group is handling the contentious issue of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a space-based missile defense proposal popularly known as "Star Wars." The Soviets are demanding abandonment of the program and a ban on all
arms in space as a condition for any cuts in existing nuclear arsenals.
Separate groups studying intercontinental strategic nuclear weapons were scheduled to meet today, with a session on intermediate nuclear forces set for tomorrow. The current round of talks has begun after a final joint plenary meeting Thursday, 12 days before the summit in Geneva.
U. S. delegation leader Max Kampelman formally presented Washington's new proposals last Friday, the last scheduled day of the current round of arms talks.
The Soviets agreed to a Kampelman request to extend the talks through Thursday so U.S. negotiators could clarify the proposals before delegates return to their capitals for pre-summit briefings.
Even before seeing the proposals, however, Soviet chief delegate Viktor Karpov said Moscow still would demand the scrapping of "Star Wars."
"SDI is the main obstacle" to any agreement, he said.
The arms talks began March 12, with Washington proposing one-third reductions in strategic nuclear arsenals and limits on medium-range weapons. In September, Soviet forces threw down 50 percent cuts in strategic arsenals on the condition that SDI is abandoned.
Washington said that DIAP, apart the proposal was one-sided because it
would permit Soviet, but not U.S. deployment of n missile systems
In announcing the new U.S. proposals, Reagan said they would result in equally deep reductions but on a balanced basis.
Reports from Washington said that besides calling for verifiable reductions in strategic weapons, the U.S. proposals would place a ceiling on medium-range nuclear arms.
The United States says the reductions must be applied to comparable weapons systems to prevent either side from retaining an advantage, and proposes a ceiling of 140 each on medium-range missiles in Europe, the reports said.
Poll favors family planning programs
United Press International
NEW YORK - Most adults surveyed said schools should be required to work with family planning clinics so teen-agers can get contraceptives and birth control information, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America said yesterday.
The poll also found that most adults favored birth control messages on television to stem teenage pregnancies, which Planned Parenthood called a massive problem that pervades our society.
Parents responding to the survey said they have improved at speaking to kids about sex but still have difficulty talking about birth control. They said help for parents should be provided by expanding Planned Parenthood programs, the survey found.
The poll, conducted for Planned Parenthood by Louis Harris & Associates, interviewed 2,500
residents at home by telephone during August and September and measured public opinion about:
solving the teen pregnancy problem
the way television treats sexual matters, including messages about birth control;
and support for international family planning programs.
"By an overwhelming 2-1 majority, 67 percent of Americans favor laws requiring public schools to establish links with family planning clinics so that teenagers can learn about contraceptives and obtain them," said Humphrey Taylor, president of Louis Harris & Associates.
People polled also believe that sexually active teenagers would become more aware of birth control if contraceptive messages were broadcast on television, the report said.
"Fully 78 percent of the American public would
like to see messages about birth control on TV, and 85 percent want sex education offered in the public schools," Taylor said.
On other matters, the report found:
A slight erosion in the level of support for legal abortion in the last year: 55 percent of adults oppose a constitutional ban on abortion, compared to 37 in favor, down slightly from 58 percent opposing a ban in June 1984 and 33 percent in favor. In July 1982, opposition to a ban on abortion was still higher, with 62 percent opposed and 31 percent in favor.
78 percent of the public favor the United States helping with birth control in developing nations. Sixty-eight percent said unchecked population growth is a major source of food shortages. The support was shown despite the controversy over whether the United States should continue to provide funding for family planning services in developing nations.
Court will examine privacy rights case
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to study whether a law could dictate what could occur in American bedrooms, announcing it would decide whether a Georgia law against sodomy violated the constitutional right to privacy.
The justices will hear arguments, probably early next year, in the case brought by Georgia challenging an 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision finding that the state law infringed upon "fundamental constitutional rights." The appeals court ordered a lower court to hold a trial on the question.
Homosexual rights groups praised the court's decision to review the case.
"We're pleased the court is hearing the case because the situation involves a gross interference in private behavior between consenting adults," said Ron Najman, a spokesman for the National Gay Task Force in New York. "We believe the Supreme Court will have no choice but to strike down the Georgia law."
This is not the first time the court has taken up questions bearing on sexual conduct. The Supreme Court, in decision dates back to the 1890s, has found that a right to privacy exists in the Concept of Humanism applied it to such delicate areas of preconception, marriage and abortion.
A decision in the Georgia case is
expected by early next summer. In other actions, the court
■ Rued, in an unsigned opinion, that California can require an Indian tribe to collect a state tax on cigarettes sold to non-Indians.
Agreed to decide whether a federal law that bans people who have been committed to mental hospitals from buying guns is constitutional.
The sodomy case began in August 1982 when Michael Hardwick, a 29-year-old homosexual, was arrested and charged by the Atlanta police with committing sodomy with another consenting adult in the bedroom of his home.
In Georgia, sodomy is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
After a court hearing, the district attorney decided not to present the case against Hardwick to a grand jury unless further evidence developed.
However, Hardwick brought suit in federal court seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional on grounds that it violated his rights of privacy, due process, freedom of association and freedom of expression.
The federal district court dismissed the case, citing a 1976 Supreme Court order concerning a similar sodomy law in Virginia.
The appeals court hearing Hardwick's case ordered a trial be held, during which Georgia would have to show a compelling state interest for making sodomy illegal.
France denies dealing in trial
United Press International
vironmental group died.
PARIS — The government yesterday denied that a deal was struck to return two French secret service agents from New Zealand in exchange for their guilty pleas in the sinking of the Greenepeace flagship, French television said.
The agents, Maj. Alain Mafart and Capt. Dominique Prieur, pleaded guilty earlier in the day in Auckland, New Zealand to manslaughter and sabotage in the July 10 sinking of the Rainbow Warrior.
In exchange for the pleas, New Zealand authorities dropped murder charges, which carried a sentence of life imprisonment. A photographer aboard the flagship of the en-
Auckland Judge Ronald Gilbert set sentencing for Nov. 22. Both agents face up to 14 years in prison, but the judge has the option of ordering them expelled from the country.
The scandal over French involvement in the episode rocked the Socialist government of President Francois Mitterrand. French Defense Minister Charles Hernu resigned, and Adm. Pierre Lacoste, chief of the French secret service, was fired.
French government spokesman Bernard Poulet said there was no official government reaction to the pleas by the agents. "We have no comment to make about whether there was any arrangement between
the two governments or if the two people will be sent back," he said.
But French television quoted an unnamed government spokesman as saying he had been shot in the head.
French news reports have said France and New Zealand were negotiating a diplomatic deal in which the agents would enter guilty pleas in exchange for their return to France. Top New Zealand and French officials met in New York last month during ceremonies for the United Nations' 40th anniversary.
Poulet said Defense Minister Paul Quiles telephoned the agents to wish them "good luck" moments before they entered their pleas. Poulet would not say whether Quiles told them how to plea.
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