University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 8, 1989
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Baker plans Soviet visit to talk arms
Will discuss prospects for countries' summit
The Associated Press
SHANNON, Ireland — Secretary of State James A. Baker III met with the Soviet foreign minister yesterday and agreed to visit Moscow in May, where they will discuss prospects for a Bush-Gerbachev summit.
His two-hour meeting with Eduard A. Shevardnadze in Vienna took place the day after they outlined their governments' positions at a 35-nation conference on reducing conventional military forces in Europe.
Baker resisted a Soviet overture to reopen negotiations in April or May on reducing long-range - or strategic - nuclear missiles. He said the Bush administration wanted to complete parallel reviews of its arms control policy and nuclear force structure before resuming the talks.
Reopening the talks on long-range bombers, nuclear submarines and missiles will be discussed during the visit to Moscow in the first half of May, after the parallel studies are completed in April. Baker said.
In Vienna after the meeting, Baker told reporters the United States was not ready to set a date yet for a summit between President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
The secretary criticized the Soviets about Iran and military aid to the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua.
Countries disagree on ozone solution
LONDON - Industrialized nations committed themselves yesterday to banning chemicals destroying the ozone layer, but they reacted coolly to Third World demands for money to find substitutes.
The Associated Press
China, India and other populous developing nations embarking on mass production of consumer goods containing chlorofluorocarbon reason that the West invented and produces most of the ozone-destroying chemicals, the West should pay to replace them.
Despite the split, the 123 countries at an international conference on the ozone layer agreed pressure is on scientists and industry to find safe alternatives before more damage is done to the fragile atmospheric shield.
William Reilly, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said the three-day conference that ended yesterday sparked as much public discussion as any international environmental issue since the 1985 Chernobyl nuclear accident in the Soviet Union.
collaborate in cleaning this mess up," he said. "it affects us all."
"We're all going to have to find ways to
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain, the conference host, said all countries, including financially strapped Third World nations, must do their part to save the ozone layer.
Chlorofluorocarbons are widely used in aerosol propellants, refrigerants, air conditioners, fast-food cartons and computer solvents.
They are stable and nontoxic when released into the atmosphere, but 10 to 100 years later,
when they rise 15-20 miles to the stratosphere, their chemical bonds are broken. Scientists say their chlorine atoms destroy ozone, allowing more of the sun's ultraviolet rays to reach us using more skin cancer and eye cataracts, and suppressing human immune systems.
Several companies are working on substitutes, including the American chemical firm Du Pont, which is the world's largest manufacturer of chlorofluorocarbons, and Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries.
Coast Guard stops search for a lost sludge barge
The Associated Press
"We searched visually and with
BOSTON — It's as big as a football field and brighter than Broadway, and still no one can find it.
radar, at day and at night," Capt. Peter Colum said yesterday. "It's a big great object and we should have seen it. But we didn't."
Searchers spent a week scouring 65,000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean for the empty Standard Tank Cleaning Co. boat in the Bering Sea, 28 by a buoycaptain when stormy 25-foot seas about 100 miles from New York threatened to
sink the barge and drag the smaller craft down with it.
The barge was not presumed sunk because the owners sighted it after it the storm subsided.
Even at night, high-tech jets with video monitors buzzed up and down ocean stretches but could not detect the huge flood-lit vessel that was set loose after its load of 12,000 tons of sludge had been dumped in the
"There was a generator on the barge that had enough fuel to keep operating — and those were some very powerful floodlights," said the co-coordinated the search from the Coast Guard's Bostock headquarters.
ocean.
iong barge, based in Bayonne, N.J., was riding 20 feet above water on mostly calm seas. It also was equipped with a transceiver that automatically transmitted electrical signals.
Not only did the 5.100-ton Princess B. have brighter lights than some sections of Broadway, the 300-foot
"We covered the area a number of times until we had a probability of detection of 99 percent," Column said. "That means the barge might have sunk or drifted out of the area."
News Briefs
SWEDISH HIGH-TECH: Sweden's public telephone company next year will offer computer terminals to households instead of telephone directories, opening the way for services such as electronic mail, a spokesman said yesterday.
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Telephone company official Tor Krusell said the trial use of the Videotex system, involving 100 households, was successful.
AUSTRIAN ART AUCTION: A living room that graced the salon of Ludwig Von Beethoven fetched about $8,333 yesterday as a leading Viennese auction house joined a French auctioner in selling 19th and 20th century Austrian treasures.
Subscribers will be able to conduct bank transactions and order taxis, airplane tickets and mail order goods through the sys-
The furniture was owned by Beethoven until his death in 1827 and was part of his estate. French Auctioneer Jacques Tajan said the five-piece ensemble was purchased by an American he declined to identify.
In an attempt to find new markets for Austrian art, Vienna's centuries-old Oderotheum auction house collaborated with a leading art gallery in Paris for auction of Austrian art objects in Paris.
Tajan said more than 300 items sold for a total of $333,000.
CAT'S GRAND TOUR A stowaway cat from Baltimore survived a two-week journey by land and sea from the United States without food or water — only to be killed when it
arrived in Britain because of strict quarantine laws, an official said yesterday.
The cat apparently was locked in a container full of tires in Baltimore, said John Mackie. Staffordshire County's emergency planning officer.
The long-haired, gray-and-white cat survived by drinking the condensation on the inside of the sealed container, Mackie said.
When it was discovered, however, a veterinarian decided it had to be killed because of its lethal toxicity.
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