The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, September 11, 1979-Page 5 Vance, Dobrynin begin talks on troops in Cuba ;::WASHINGTON (AP)-The United States and the Soviet Liion yesterday began what State Department officials say mnight be a protracted series of negotiations over Soviet com- bat troops in Cuba. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobryriin opened talks on the Cuban situation after Vance and CIA Director Stansfield Turner had spent the morning in a closed door session with members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. SEN. ROGER JEPSEN (R-Iowa) emerged from the 3 - hour Senate committee meeting and said that Vance in- dicated he was "going to be quite firm and insistent on get- ting-some direct answers" from Dobrynin. Jepsen also said the committee received no assurances that there are no long-range nuclear weapons in Cuba. Asked if the committee was given any explanation for the preoence of the Soviet troops, Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), replied that "Vance said that would be question number one" for Dobrynin, who returned Sunday: from a vacation in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Ambassador has not been in Washington since the announcement last month that the Saviet troops had been discovered in Cuba. THERE WAS NO official word about the bargaining positions Vance and Dobrynin would bring to the talks, but. State Department officials said they did not expect anything to be settled in the first session. Last week, Vance and President Carter both said the "status quo" in Cuba is not acceptable but they have refused to say what changes would satisfy them. Vance has said the administration realizes that the Soviets have had military advisers in Cuba for many years. It is the recent discovery that 2,000 to 3,000 of them were organized as a cohbat unit that is a matter of serious con- cern, he said. KEY MEMBERS of the Senate have been less restrained. Many have said the Soviet troops must be removed if the new strategic arms limitation treaty is to be ratified. The kind of pressure will make it more difficult to reach a satisfactory solution to the Cuban problem, administration sources have said. The Soviets have largely kept quiet about the furor. Unof- ficially, Soviet diplomats have insisted that the troops are not a combat force but are advisers who have been in Cuba for many years. THEY SAY THE Cubans have a right to invite the Soviets to their island, and that there is nothing in U.S.-Soviet under- standings of 1962 and 1970 that bars them. The State Department conceded the latter point last week, saying the agreements that settled the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and the 1970 Cienfuegos submarine'base crisis covered only offensive weapons systems and not combat troops. A hint about the possible Soviet position emerged over the weekend when an official Soviet radio commentator made mention of the American naval base at Guatanamo, Cuba. THE COMMENTATOR noted that the United States has persistently refused to discuss abandoning the base, which it has held since 1903 on an indefinite lease. The commentator did not say whether the Soviets would offer to withdraw their troops in return for American with drawal from Guantanamo: But in slightly similar circumstances during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev raised the issue of American missiles in Turkey and asked for their removal. State Department spokesman Hodding Carter said the U.S. base at Guantanamo is "not negotiable." MEETING TO A VOID FUR THER BLOODSHED: Guerrillas LONDON (AP)-Nationalist guerrilla leaders met face-to-face yesterday with the, enemy-the Zimbabwe Rhodesian government-at the opening of British- sponsored constitutional talks widely billed as a last chance to avert widespread war in southern Africa. Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington urged both sides to reach a com- promise, saying "the price of failure would be further prolonged bloodshed." RE ASKED them to focus on a new constitution for Zimbabwe Rhodesia that will decrease the power given to the white minority, which accounts for 230,000 persons out of a population of 7.2 million. "I believe the people assembled in this room have it in their power to end the war," said Carrington, serving as conference chairman. "I do not believe the people of Rhodesia will readily forgive any party which deprives them of this opportunity to- settle their future by peaceful means." THE CONFERENCE, called by Britain, brought together Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo of the guerrilla Patriotic Front with members of .Zimbabwe Rhodesia's government, led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the breakaway.British colony's first black prime minister-and including Ian Smith, his predecessor. Nkomo and Mugabe have waged a seven year guerrilla war against the Salisbury regime from bases in Zambia and.Mozambique. More than 18,000 per- sons have died in the fighting. It .was the first time that opposing. parties i. the. war ;in ZimbAbwe Rhodesia gat down together,, since a peace conference fizzled in Geneva in 1976. THE TALKS opened on schedule, but face-to-face with Rhodesians there was an immediate squabble over seating arrangements and a refusal by guerrilla leaders to attend a British welcoming reception for the two sides. "We felt we could not at this time distinguish the color of the tea we might have tonight from the blood of women and children which the puppet regime of Muzorewa and Smith are shedding at this very moment," said Edison Zvobgo, a spokesman for the Patriotic Front. "It would be the same thing as having the leadership of whoever killed Lord Mountbatten to come to a social dinner with Lord Carrington here in London," Zvobgo said. Mountbatten, British World War II hero, was slain by Irish terrorists last month. SOME FRONT delegates also objec- ted to being seated opposite Muzorewa and members of the former white government. 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