Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 18, 1983 Soviets may withdraw from missile talks From the Assocaited Press The Soviet Union rejected President Reagan's latest arms reduction proposal, and a top Kremlin spokesman said yesterday his country will pull out of the Geneva arms talks if NATO goes ahead with deployment of Pershing II missiles. But in West Germany, where all 108 Pershing missiles are to be sited, Chan- cellor Helmut Kohl said the Soviets had signaled possible new concessions at the Soviet-U.S. talks on medium-range weapons - specifically a willingness to drop their demand that British and French nuclear arsenals be included. SOVIET officials were noncommital when asked at a news conference in Moscow whether the threat to leave the Geneva talks meant a temporary walkout of a longer one. Vadim Zagladin, a Communist Party Central Committee official, also said deployment of U.S. medium-range missiles would have a negative impact on the strategic missiles talks. But he did not say whether. the Soviets were threatening a walkout from the strategic arms reduction talks as well. In Moscow, an editorial in the party. newspaper Pravda said Reagan's latest missile reduction offer is aimed at "drowning hopes" for an agreement. ACCORDING to the editorial, the U.S. offer is unacceptable because it does not include British and French missiles and would allow deployment of U.S. medium-range missiles. Pravda said Reagan's offer would give NATO double the medium-range nuclear strength of the Soviets, and 2 INDIVIDUAL THEATRES 1F5th A~e ot lbert 7610700 DEBRA WINGER, SHIRLEY MACLAINE JACK NICHOLSON SEE BOTH "TERMS OF EN SAY NEVER AGAIN" AT 7:( said the offer was intended to "cover up" the arrival of U.S. missiles in Western Europe. Reagan proposed an interim agreement allowing the United States and the Soviet Union a total of 420 medium-range warheads each. IN THE LAST public statement by the Soviets, President Yuri- Andropov late last month told Pravda the Soviets are willing to cut back to 140 medium- range missiles, each carrying three warheads. NATO should forgo its Pershing and cruise missiles in return, Andropov said. He said the West already has 162 medium-range missiles in Western Europe - those belonging to Britain and France. The United States rejects that argument, saying those- missiles are independent arsenals not under NATO control. IN BRITAIN, where the first ship- ment of cruise missiles arrived Mon- day, a group of women continued their efforts to blockade the Greenham Common U.S. Air Force base. Police arrested five protesters, bringing to 616 the number arrested in demonstrations in Britain this week. Britishm Defense Ministry officials have refused to say how many cruise missiles have arrived, but the first 16 of 96 due to be sited there are expected by the end of the year if there is no agreement in the arms talks. The weapons are among 572 cruise and Pershing 2 missiles NATO plans to deploy in Europe over the next five years. AP Photo SNEAK PREVIEW TONIGHT at 7:00 p.m. i You' laugh, cry, c and you'll come to' N: IDEARMENT" AND "NEVER 00 P.M. ON 11 /18/83 ONLY care, Ter ms. Off the track Smoke drifts from the tangled wreckage of 56 Santa Fe Railway freight cars that derailed in a New Mexico canyon early yesterday. French jets attack Shiite Moslems in Bekaa Valley (Continued from Page 1) through a first strike," the ministry said, noting president Francois Mit- terrand vowedinsa television address Wednesday the attack on the French barracks "would not go unpunished." IN WASHINGTON, U.S. officials said they knew in advance of the French strike, and a senior administration of- ficial said that if the terrorists weren't wiped out there "might well be" a need for the United States to carry out an at- tack of its own. _m SALE OF' M, ref . HANES TOO i f I Come to our exciting pantyhose sale and _ : stock up on sheer and shaped leg fashions All in Barely There, South Pacific and Town Taupe % %? }"_. Sizes AB,CD 4 Sheer with reinforced toe also in Gently Brown, $2. Sheer with sandalfoot, also in Little Color, i . %:y} :^ii}i':;:a .v:i%:::'~ii: 1 ,ps"ii:":i~~iii:~ .1 : ? , rr . "i2 :il%::1?>i': ';:::i~i' i+ .r .":.:. The French attack came as Yasser Arafat, beleaguered chief of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, vowed in Tripoli "to fight to the end" despite the fall of his last Lebanese stronghold to Palestinian rebels who loosed new rocket and mortar barrages. The beleaguered PLO chief admitted he lost most of the nearby refugee camp of Beddawi Wednesday, but said 600 Arafat loyalists launched a counter-at- tack within the fallen camp in a desparate bid to rejoin their comrades who retreated to Tripoli earlier this week. "THIS IS NOT my last stand in the area," Arafat said. "We are five million Palestinians in this area and you can't liquidate five million people," he said. "We are not the Red Indians." The rebels issued a new call for Arafat's surrender, and they indicated they would halt their drive before en- tering Tripoli's streets, which would likely lead to heavy casualties in the -city of 150,000. "The battle with Arafat is finished and so is Arafat," said Ahmed Jebril, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Com- mand, one of the leaders of a six-month guerrilla rebellion against Arafat. "HIS ONLY alternative is to surren-. der and face punishment." There were no confirmed casualty figures for the latest round of fighting but Lebanese security sources said more. than 345 Palestinians and civilians were killed and 805 wounded in the two-day assault that led to.the fall of Beddawi. Yesterday's French air raids were the second since French peacekeepers moved into Lebanon 15 months ago. On Sept. 22, French warplanes hit gun positions in the mountains overlooking. Beirut. The French raids were mounted* a day after Israeli jets pounded the same area, leaving 43 dead, and moments after a massive funeral procession in the city of Baalbek. - t Q 2 1 A IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports House probe finds no drug ring, but 2 former Reps. admit usage WASHINGTON - The House ethics committee ending a 16-month in- vestigation, said yesterday there is insufficient evidence to show that any current House member used illegal drugs or that a drug ring ever operated on Capitol Hill. Committee Chairman Louis Stokes (D-Ohio), and Special Counsel Joseph Califano Jr. said the final report ends their probe into "allegations of the illicit use or distribution of drugs by members, officers or employees of the House." But Califano named three former congressmen who had used illicit drugs during their tenure in Congress. Califano told a news conference that former Reps. Frederick Richmond (D-N. and John Burton (D-Calif.) admitted to the panel under oath that they used drugs. Project Elf starts in Michigan GREEN BAY, Wis. - Construction will begin Monday on the Michigan segment of the Project Elf submarine communications system, a Navy spokeswoman confirmed yesterday. Spokeswoman Lt. Jan Davis said in a telephone interview from Chicago that contractors and subcontractors would start initial work in the Upper Peninsula on Monday. The confirmation came one day after Marquette County, Mich., officials failed to obtain a temporary court order blocking the construction. "They're going to begin at ground terminal three," said Ms. Davis. "All they're going to do is start working on this ground terminal." The terminal is one of six to be constructed in the F-shaped system. She said the terminal, up to four miles of wire, a dozen wells and an overhead distribution system, will be only about five percent of all construction to take place in the U.P. forest. The remaining work will begin next spring. General Motors lemon cases head for arbitration program WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission, abandoning a court battle against General Motors, ordered a nationwide arbitration program yesterday to settle thousands of complaints about GM engines and tran- smissions. Those four counts allege that 1.1 million 1980 X-cars contained a serious brake defect involving the loss of vehicle control and that GM conducted inadequate recall campaigns in 1981 and 1983. Marking the first time it has.come to court to seek dismissal of the case, a lawyer for GM said the Justice Department should have sought action first by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The FTC estimated that 200,000 or more of the 21 million cars produced by GM since 1974 will be subjects of settlements averaging between $400 and $500 under the arbitrations, to be handled by the Better Business Bureau. GM's total repair bill is expected to be about $95 million. Sudanese army frees hostages KHARTOUM, Sudan - Sudanese army commandos raided a rebel base in Southern Sudan yesterday, and freed two British oil workers abducted earlier in the week. Nine other workers were still missing yesterday. The rebels had threatened to kill their hostages within 48 hours if the pro- U.S. government of Gaafar Nimeiri did not meet their demands. Nimeiri, who announced the kidnappings Wednesday in Paris, blamed the abductions on Libya and Ethiopia. In another incident, officials in Khartoum, Sudan's capital, blamed Ethiopia and Libya for a rebel attack on a southern Sudanese town near the Ethiopian border early yesterday. The "Liberation Army of the Sudanese People," as the rebels call them- selves, demanded a halt to the two projects in southern Sudan where the kid- napped workers were employed: A Chevron oil pipeline and a canal to divert the White Nile from flowing through a swamp so its water could be used for farming. Congress to extend federal credit WASHINGTON - Congress abandoned all hope yesterday of major action this year to reverse the tide of budgetary red ink, as House and Senate negotiators worked on a plan that would extend the government's borrowing authority into next April. Final action on the debt limit bill is the last big obstacle to congressional adjournement for the year today. The end of the 1984 battle to reduce federal budget deficits was signaled Wednesday night when the Senate refused, 65-33, to consider an $88 billion deficit-reducing package of tax increases and spending cuts proposed by Pete Demenici (R-N.M.), and Lawton Chiles (D-Fla.). Then, after midnight, senators approved, 58-40, restoring federal borrowing authority by raising the national debt limit to $1.45 trillion, allowing the government to extend its credit bill until February. The House already had agreed to President Reagan's request to boost the ceiling to $1.615 trillion, -which administration officials said would meet the government's borrowing needs through the end of the fiscal year next Sept. 30. The current ceiling is $1.389 billion. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.), predicted a new debt; limit extending into next April. "I think it'll go quickly," he said, and Speaker Thomas O'Neill agreed. According to Treasury Department officials, any delay in raising the credit limit would cause some government checks to start bouncing by about Dec. 1. Friday, November 18, 1483 vol. XC! V-No. 63 (ISSN 0745-967X) The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. 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