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Treaty negotiations stall
Superpowers fail to finalize arms-reduction agreement $ ^{*} $
The Associated Press
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 31, 1991
WASHINGTON — The White House yesterday accused the Soviet Union of backtracking on all-but-final agreements on a strategic arms reduction treaty to slash arsenals of long-range nuclear missiles, bombers and submarines by 30 percent.
"There have been areas where we thought we were closer than we've turned out to be," presidential representative Marlin Fitzwater said. "The Russian government has been internally (in the Soviet Union), it's not entirely clear."
Privately, some U.S. officials have expressed fears that oral commitments made on arms control by former Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze would be discarded by hardliners on President
Mikhail Gorbachev's general staff. During past negotiations, these hardliners sometimes quarreled with Shevardnadze in front of U.S. official
Three days of talks between Secretary of State James Baker and Shevardnadze's successor, Alexander Kadyrov, who has remained differences this week.
As a result of the impasse and the war in the Persian Gulf, President Bush postponed his scheduled Feb. 11-13 summit with Gorbachev in Moscow. The Soviet crackdown in the Baltics was not cited as a factor in the delay, but it has been a major reason for the inclusion in U.S.-Soviet relations.
Fitzwater said Baker was confident that remaining arms problems could be worked out. Negotiations
are to resume in Geneva, probably next week.
Fitzwater said the problem facing the two sides involved having to renegotiate some points that U.S. officials thought the nations had already agreed upon. These points have been resubmitted for negotiation.
Fitzwater characterized the disputed areas as technical difficulties
Fitzwater said Bessmertynkh and other Soviet officials had made a commitment to conclude the negotiations.
puffed areas as technical difficulties. The Baker-Bassmertynkh talks about the need to lock over ways to prevent cheating. The verification issue has long been portrayed as the biggest obstacle to completing the treaty.
Some troops leave Baltics The Associated Press
The Associated Press
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. — Trucksload of Soviet troops left Lithuania's capital yesterday, but republic President Vytautas Landsbergs said many sites remained occupied and warned the West not to be taken in by Kremlin purposes.
Soviet Interior Minister Boris Puigo said all paratroopers already had left the Baltic region and two-thirds of the "black beret" Interior Ministry troops had been withdrawn.
His statement followed an announcement by President Bush on Tuesday that Soviet officials had assured him they were reducing the military presence in the region.
World briefs
Rashaya, Lebanon
More gunfire in Bekaa Valley
Two villages in the Syrian-policed Bekaa Valley were shelled yesterday by Israelis as Soviet-made rockets struck Israel's self-proclaimed south Lebanon for the second time in 24 hours.
No casualties were reported by the authorities although several houses were damaged in the attacks, which marked an intensification of conflict between guerrillas and Israel in south Lebanon.
Israel carved out the six- to 10-mile-wide zone in south Lebanon after removing the bulk of its forces from Lebanon in 1985 following a three-year crackdown by Israeli forces. The Israel army and the SLA's Christian militia,
Washington
Economists hopeful for 1991
The government's chief economic barometer rose 0.1 percent in December, the first increase in six months. One analyst said that it was "a small and insignificant" and that the recession could end by midyear.
Many economists agreed that the Commerce Department's Index of Leading Economic Indicators, released yesterday, suggested that the contraction would not deepen, though they cautioned it was no guarantee of sudden recovery.
"It indicates only that we're through the worst of the downturn," said economist Allen Sinai of the Boston Co. "It does not tell us the bottom is in sight." he said.
From The Associated Press
Curfew in the West Bank impoverishes Palestinians
The Associated Press
BETHELHEM, Occupied West Bank — A strictly enforced curfew backed by armored personnel carriers has paralyzed life in the occupied Palestinian cities and destroyed millions of Palestinians poor, afraid and short-tempered.
the Israeli Army imposed the curfew right after fighting in the Persian Gulf broke out Jan. 17. After two weeks, it is the longest curfew since the 1967 war and has not been used by those three-year-old uprising against occupation.
The curfew keeps people in the West Bank and Gaza strip cooped up in their homes, except for a couple. A court said last week that the courts are allowed out to shop, but sometimes find stores running short of necessities.
Yesterday, a Palestinian who violated the curfew was shot dead by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip Maghazah refugee camp. The military said that the man, Abihim Abu Jalal, 29, had resisted arrest, tried to grab a soldier's weapon and was shot and killed during an attempted escape.
About 100,000 Palestinians have been cut off from any labor jobs in Israel that were their only source of income. Many Palestinians used up their savings during the revolt.
Palestinians say that they are being punished for their praise of Saddam Hussein. The curb has taken a heavy toll on the economy, which has been severely damaged by general strikes and curfews of the unrising.
Maen Atta, a 29-year-old Bethlehem resident,
he said he had to borrow $150 from a cousin to buy
food and clothes for his newborn daughter, Duha,
because he could not get to his job at a Jerusalem
But borrowing is no longer an option because his relatives are just as broke, he said.
printing plant.
"I think that if the curture continues, the results will be severe. Instead of fighting for freedom, people should just continue."
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which assists Palestinian refugees, has launched an emergency distribution of flour, oil and rice in particularly hard-hit areas.
But many Palestinians report that during their shopping breaks they are finding shortages of milk, bread and vegetables because those producing them are stuck at home.
Vegetables that are available are more expensive because they are brought in from Israel. For example, a crate of tomatoes went from $11 to $17.50 in Bethlehem.
There are other, sometimes-worse troubles. Temper seems to be flaring in many households as people are trapped in their homes, often amid huge, extended families.
There are other, sometimes-worse troubles.
In Gaza City, 15-year-old Fatmah Abu Amra said that instead of getting away outdoors, she has spent most of the last two weeks in a 44-square-foot apartment, including her parents, siblings, aunts and uncles.
The army has given no hint on when it will lift the
mountains, but inmates are fearful it could last as long as the war
Roni Shaked, an Israeli reporter who covers the occupied territories for the daily newspaper Yediot Ahronot, said the curfew might eventually cause more problems than it solved.
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