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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1985
Soviet minister offers 'Star Peace' proposal
United Press International
UNITED NATIONS — Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze urged the United Nations yesterday to reject Washington's "sinister plans of Star Wars" and endorse a Soviet "Star Peace" proposal for space exploration.
On the eve of high-level meetings with U.S. officials, the new Soviet foreign minister in his first address to the U.N. General Assembly accused Washington of seeking military superiority by spreading the arms race to space.
Shevardnadze is to meet Secretary of State George Shultz today at the Soviet U.N. mission in New York and then fly to Washington to meet with President Reagan and Shultz as part of the preparations for the November U.S.-Soviet summit in Geneva, Switzerland.
In his first important address, Shevardnadze focused on arms control issues — particularly the United States' testing of anti-satellite weapons and on the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as "Star War." The president was also a weapon that could destroy attacking incoming nuclear missiles.
"We perceive the greatest peril in
the fact that the nuclear arms race has taken, so to say, a fresh start and is forging ahead. Added to this is the threat of the arms race spreading to outer space. The possibility of the arms race acquiring an uncontrolled end would create chaos is becoming real," the Soviet foreign minister said.
"To counter the sinister plans of Star Wars, the U.S.S.R. is putting before the international community a concept of 'Star Peace,' " he said.
The proposal calls for the peaceful exploration of space under U.N. authority.
Shevardnadze charged that the
responsibility for the current state of tensions rests with the United States and its NATO allies. He accused them of fueling the arms race in offensive arms and military satellites, as well as "fomenting local conflicts."
Shultz, who listened attentively and jotted notes during the one-hour speech, did not comment to reporters after the session.
Later, Charles Redman, Shultz' spokesman, said, "We welcome Mr. Shevardnadze's indication that the Soviet Union will bring new proposals to the Geneva talks."
Contrary to the impression that the
Soviet foreign minister gave in his address, in which he talked of past Soviet arms control proposals, U.S. officials said the Soviets had so far brought no new ideas to the arms talks which opened in Geneva last week.
"We will, of course, study any new Soviet ideas carefully and hope that they will make possible the serious negotiations we seek." Redman said.
Redman said the United States sees no link between the Soviet proposal of peaceful cooperation and the U.S. program of research into strategic defenses.
Reagan, 2 others among Nobel nominees
United Press International
OSLO, Norway — President Reagan, New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange and Holocaust author Elie Wiesel have been nominated for the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, the awards committee said yesterday.
Jakob Sverdrup, secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, acknowledged that the three were among 60 individuals and 39 organizations nominated for the prestigious award. The winner will be announced in Oslo on Oct. 11.
The committee never publishes the list of candidates for the peace prize, worth $220,000, and merely acknowledges nominees whose identities have been made available to reporters.
Sverdrup said he received Reagan's nomination among three letters delivered to him hours before the deadline, which was Feb. 1.
Reagan or for what reason," Sverdrup said. "That is kept secret under our rules."
"We cannot say who nominated
Sverdrup also acknowledged the nominations of Lange, an opponent of French nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean, and Wiesel, who in April pleaded with Reagan to call off Reagan's visit to a German World War II military cemetery where 47 Nazi SS officers were buried.
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