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Congressional reaction split on summit failure
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Congressional reaction to the failure of the U.S.-Soviet summit to agree on nuclear arms cuts generally fell along partisan lines yesterday. Democrats said President Reagan missed a historic chance and Republicans applauded him for refusing to compromise on Star Wars research.
arsenal through arms control."
Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., said, "I am puzzled by the decision to pass up the real opportunity to destroy a large portion of the Soviet nuclear
"Instead," said Biden, "the administration insists on spending vasts sums of money on the development of untested, unproven defensive systems that are alleged to address the same objective — the destruction of offensive nuclear weapons."
But a different view was expressed by Rep. James Courter, R-N.J., one of the staunchest House supporters of Star Wars, known formally as the strategic defense initiative.
"From what I know, Ronald Reagan did precisely the right thing," Courter said. "... Obviously,
I'm saddened by the fact that no agreements will be reached in the near term. But Reagan did the right thing. He should not give up SDI, now or ever."
Sen, Edward M. Kennedy, D.Dass, said a "grand and historic opportunity was there in Iceland, but it has been sacrificed — at least for the moment — on the uncertain altar of SDI."
Kennedy asked, "Must we sacrifice the certainty of significant and sweeping reductions in nuclear arsenals yesterday for the uncertainty of an unproven and unprovable
Strong support for Reagan came from Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., and Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
defense in the distant future?"
Kemp pronounced himself pleased that the president "walked away from an agreement that violated one of his highest goals, the development of a strategic defense for ourselves and our allies." He predicted that the talks will be renewed.
Lugar said the Soviet offer "attempted to trap the president and put the United States into perpetual
jeopardy. Their proposal would have prohibited the United States from developing any defensive deterent while the Soviets would be able to maintain their offensive superior capability."
Rep. Thomas Downey, D.N.Y., who was campaigning in his district yesterday on Long Island, said constituents were disappointed with the results of the summit.
"My sense was from the people that I spoke to, there was a much greater desire to see something," he said.
Sen. Claiborne Pell of Rhode
Island, ranking Democrat on the foreign relations committee, said the collapse of the summit was "a sad day for mankind." He also said, "we have given up a bird in the hand — the reduction in strategic offensive weapons."
Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga, considered by his colleagues as a leading congressional expert on strategic arms and defense issues, said the SDI program "is going to be under more scrutiny and more fire now than ever before, and I say that as one who has supported it and still supports a robust research program."
Congressmen say SDI to get closer look
United Press International
WASHINGTON - Members of Congress, after laying out a $5 billion downpayment on Star Wars research, yesterday said they were likely to start paying far closer attention to the program because of President Reagan's summit decision.
Two Massachusetts Democrats — Sen. Edward Kennedy and Rep. Ed Markey — were openly critical of Reagan's refusal to take the proposal offered by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Reagan's refusal to limit strategic defense initiative research to the laboratory as a swap for eliminating strategic nuclear missiles over a decade means that from now on Capitol Hill will scrutinize SDI as a weapons system rather than view it as a bargaining chip, one member said.
Reagan had a chance "to cash in Star Wars for the best deal the Russians have offered an
American president since they sold us Alaska and Oregon, Reagan turned it down. "Markey saw,
"The president has sent the world a message that he does not want arms control — that he has put his faith in the starstud and moonbeams of his Star Wars fantasies."
Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said Reagan was correct to turn down Gorbachev's proposal, but has been too general in his assessment of Star Wars at home.
Since Reagan announced his program in the spring of 1983, Congress has put up about $5 billion in research funds to investigate ways of knocking out nuclear missiles and warheads.
A spending agreement for fiscal 1987 calls for adding another $3.5 billion to the funds, a figure that split the difference between the House's $3.1 billion spending freeze and the Senate's $3.9 billion figure.
Reagan had asked for $5.3 billion.
The weekend summit did nothing to quiet the congressional debate.
"Obviously, next year people will view it as a weapons system and not as a bargaining chip in the negotiations," said Rep. Norman Dicks, D-Wash.
negotiations," said Rep. Norman Dricks, D-Wash.
Rep. Tom Downey, D-N.Y., said Reagan will get tremendous opposition on Capitol Hill on arms control issues. "In as unvarnished a way as possible he said that arms control is less important than Star Wars."
Kennedy said, "An agreement that imposes some limits on the Star Wars program would have been a small price to pay for sweeping reductions in nuclear arsenals."
Nen, Nancy Kassebaum said "a closer scrutiny (of SDI) was coming anyway," but she said the summit might deepen divisions in Congress over the program and polarize the debate.
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U.S. allies hopeful for accord
United Press International
U. S. allies in Western Europe expressed disappointment yesterday because of the failure of President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to forge an arms agreement in Iceland but predicted the meeting would lead to an accord at the U.S.-Soviet negotiations in Geneva.
U. S. and Soviet officials said the two succeeded in developing tentative agreements on most arm-control issues, but the possibility of reaching an accord founded because of Gorbachev's insistence that the United States scrap plans to build a space-based missile defense.
In Great Britain, the mood was more of surprise and optimism that Reagan and Gorbachev got as far as they did on the road to agreement on mutual reduction of intermediate-range missiles in Europe and other strategic weapons.
In Brussels, Secretary of State George Shultz told the foreign ministers from NATO that the United States would try to build on progress from the Iceland talks at arms-control talks in Geneva.
West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, in Brussels for the briefing by Shultz, said the summit's results "should serve as the basis for urgent continuation" of the Geneva talks.
In Paris, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac said progress in U.S.-Soviet relations was made in Iceland and the fact that Reagan and Gorbachev met at all "was something positive that was not evident several weeks ago."
In Warsaw, Poland, the Communist Party newspaper Sztandar Mlodych said. "The fiasco at Reykjavik was a blow for the resident of White House. It happened before the elections to the Congress and the Republican administration will have no success to boast of."
At the United Nations, Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar said he hoped "the meeting would have led to clear and positive results."
Aftershock rattles San Salvador
The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A sharp aftershock of the earthquake that killed at least 890 people hit San Salvador yesterday as the homeless set up makeshift shelters in fields, doctors delivered babies in a parking lot, and survivors buried their dead.
President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who announced the death toll in a national broadcast, put the number of injured in last Friday's catastrophe at 10,000 and the homeless at 150,000.
Rescue workers intensified searches for victims trapped under tons of twisted rubble as the aftershocks continued.
A strong tremor rattled the capital for about three
accounts at 4:29 p.m. There were no immediate reports of additional casualties or damage, but the Camino Real Hotel was temporarily evacuated for a structural check.
The seismological station in neighboring Guatemala said the tremor measured 4.5 on the Richter scale and was centered 156 miles southeast of Guatemala City in the Pacific Ocean off El Salvador.
Meanwhile, survivors yesterday went about burying the nation's 890 known earthquake dead.
He asked for more international aid, requesting medicines and supplies for battered hospitals where teams worked outside to treat patients.
The devastation was confined mostly to this capital city of 800,000 people. Duarte said in a broadcast Sunday night, "We are practically going to have to reconstruct all of the city."
A radar detector, valued at $245, was taken between 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday from a garage in the 1300 block of New Hampshire Street, Lawrence police reported.
A bicycle, valued at $250, was taken between Oct. 5 and Sunday from a fraternity house in the 1900 block of Stewart Avenue, Lawrence police reported.
Cash totaling $700 was taken between 12:30 and 3 p.m. Sunday from an unlocked vehicle parked in the 360 block of Trail Road, Lawrence police reported.
A Radar detector, cassette tapes and tape case were taken between 12:10 a.m. and 1:55 p.m. Friday from a vehicle in the Lewis Hall parking lot. KU police reported.
A car cover, valued at $200, was taken between 5 p.m. Saturday and 4:25 p.m. Sunday from a residence in the 600 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police reported.
A one-piece camera and videocassette recorder, valued at $1,045, was taken between 5 and 9 p.m. Friday from a discount店 in the 2700 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police reported.
Two Chevrolet pickup trucks, a plant sprayer and assorted keys, valued together at $6,020, were taken between 5:30 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. Sunday from a garden-supply store in the 1500 block of New York Street. Lawrence police reported.
A sun roof valued at $200 was taken between 2 and 5 a.m. Sunday from a vehicle parked in the 1400 block of New Jersey Street, Lawrence police reported.
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