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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Monday, Sept. 16, 1985
Saudis to buv British craft
United Press International
LONDON — Saudi Arabia, unable to get a commitment to buy advanced F-15 fighters from the United States, has reached agreement with Britain on a huge aircraft order reportedly worth $4 billion.
Israel immediately condemned the deal.
A British Defense Ministry spokesman said yesterday, "I can confirm an agreement in principle on aircraft sales to Saudi Arabia and
that the Saudi defense minister is coming to London in the near future."
The spokesman would not give details, but news reports in London and Washington said the deal involved the sale of 48 Tornado fighters and 30 Hawk trainers and was expected to be a costly investment. Saudi officials and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher earlier this month in Austria.
British Broadcasting Corp. tele-
vision put the value of the deal at $4
United Press International
World chiefs to meet support sinking U.N.
UNITED NATIONS — More than 80 kings, presidents and prime ministers are slated to attend the U.N. General Assembly this fall in a show of support for the ailing world organization, created 40 years ago to keep peace in the world.
U. N. officials hope participation by such a large number of world leaders will give a badly needed boost to the 159-nation body, paralyzed by its own failures and conflict between the superpowers.
The assembly, scheduled to open tomorrow, will hear more than 150 delegates from all corners of the world.
The first business scheduled is the election as assembly president of veteran Spanish Ambassador Jaime de Pinies — the candidate of west European nations to whom the presidency falls this year under geographical rotation.
Kings Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Hussein of Jordan and Hassan of Morocco are expected to attend and present their governments' views on world problems with emphasis on the
Iran-Iraq war and the Middle East.
Latin American presidents, including newly elected Alan García of Peru, and leaders of Third World nations are expected to speak on their huge foreign debts as well as their economic tensions besetting Central America.
Soviet Foreign Minister Edward A. Shevardnadze will make his first appearance since his appointment two months ago. He fills a place taken by former Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, now president of the Soviet Union, almost every year since 1945.
Polish leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski will probably be the highest ranking official from the East bloc to address the assembly.
A special commemorative session will be held Oct. 21-24 to mark the 40th anniversary of the signing of the U.N. Charter, drawing President Reagan.
Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadiaf is supposed to attend and unconfirmed reports said Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat and Cuban President Fidel Castro also would come.
New British law confines victim of AIDS in hospital
MANCHESTER, England — A 29-year-old man with AIDS was the first person in Britain ordered confined in a hospital under a new anti-AIDS law because he posed a risk to the community, officials said yesterday.
United Press International
billion. The deal was partly a result of Saudi problems in getting advanced F-15 fighters from the United States, the BBC said.
In a five-minute hearing over the weekend, a magistrates court ordered the man's continued stay at the hospital for three weeks under a law that took effect in March. The law is designed to halt the spread of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and had not been used before.
Health officials said the man, detained in an isolation unit at Monsall Hospital in Manchester, suffered from "copious bleeding" but had wanted to leave the hospital.
In Jerusalem, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said Israel intended to lodge a formal protest with Britain within a few days.
Health officials acknowledged
most AIDS patients posed no risk to the community.
But Donald Acheson, the government's chief medical officer, said that in this case the patient posed a risk to the community and himself if he was not detained in a hospital.
"This patient is unfortunately bleeding copiously from a large number of places and he is very ill," he said. "It was felt in these circumstances it would be risky for him to leave the hospital."
Acheson said the man had since agreed it was in his best interest to stay in the hospital.
Anna Jones, Manchester city medical officer, told the court the man's release from the hospital "would be most dangerous."
"Though we do not assume that Britain is supplying these two countries with arms with the intent they should be used directly against Israel, in the past Western arms were activated against Israel and even became accessible to terrorist organizations," the Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
About 200 people in Britain have contracted AIDS.
"By taking this step, Britain is escalating the arms race in the Middle East to a level that undermines the stability of the region," the spokesman said.
The Sunday Times said the Saudis, traditionally weapons clients of Washington, "have recently become increasingly disenchanted with America's apparent inability to match verbal support with arms supplies."
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger confirmed yesterday that an American soldier was detained at gumpet for nine hours by Soviet troops in East Germany and said the United States had protested the incident to the Soviet Union.
United Press International
"Unfortunately, it is true," Weinberger said when asked about the incident on CBS "Face the Nation." He said a few days ago a U.S. soldier in East Germany who was at his post, was detained at gumpet for nine hours in a continuing series of episodes of conflict between U.S. and Soviet troops in East Germany.
Maj. Arthur Nicholson Jr., 37, was shot and killed by a Soviet soldier in East Germany on March 24. Moscow charged he had been in a restricted area spying on a counterterrorism department. Department denied the charge.
Under an agreement, each of the two superpowers is allowed to station a small number of military
personnel in East and West Germany for specified observation purposes but in recent months, U.S. officials have reported an increasing number of incidents of harassment of U.S. personnel in East Germany.
Soldier detained by Soviets
Weinberger said that the United States had filed a protest with the Soviets and that the United States was trying its best to protect Americans in the area.
Weinberger did not elaborate on the incident and the Pentagon said it had no further details
Weinberger also said he did not think the new incident would affect the November summit meeting between Russia and China, a Soviet leader Mkailh Gorchech
He also insisted that Reagan had no intention of making his Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as "Star Wars," a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Russians.
SDI is the opportunity to eliminate nuclear missiles and it is critical that we continue that work, Weinberger said. He called
the program, which seeks in part to create space-based defensive weapons, the best hope for mankind to end the arms race and the threat of nuclear war.
Weinberger said it was possible a surprise offer of deep reductions in missile stockpiles would be made by the Soviets.
"The facts are that the president wants deep reductions and Mr. Gorbachev and his associates ... have always wanted expansion," he said.
The secretary also repeated his defense of the Pentagon's weapons procurement practices, saying scandals in overcharging were all infractions found by the administration and promptly rectified.
Politicians who use such scandals to cut defense appropriations, he said, were playing a very risky game. "They have the military's retained strength."
"We're stronger now than we've ever been since World War II," he said.
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