4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, October 14, 1984 PROGRAM PR OMO TES PEA CE, PHYSICIST SA YS U.S.-Soviet exchange proposed By DAVID KLAPMAN If a Massachusettes physicist has his way, college sophomores will become important figures in stop- ping the nuclear arms race and establishing a lasting peace between the United States and the Soviet Union.: Jerome Pressman of Lexington, Mass. has come up with a plan proposing that all college sophomores in the United States exchange places with their Soviet counterparts. THE EXCHANGE program would promote a new, fresher discussion between the two superpowers, Pressman said. Both the United States and the Soviet Union would become more aware of each other because of the student travel, Pressman said. In addition, the program would also serve as a strong deterrent to nuclear war because the United States would have citizens in the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union would have citizens in the United States, he said; Both countries would be hesitant to initiate a confron- tation which could put the lives of ,their citizens in jeopardy. Pressman said both countries would be able to over- look their "fundamental differences" in order to im- plement the plan. HOWEVER, OFFICIALS AT THE U.S. state department and the Soviet embassy appeared less optimistic about the plan. The United States has not taken a position on student exchange programs since 1983 when the Soviet Union shot down a Korean jetliner, said Kathleen Lang, a spokeswoman for the state depar- tment. She added that both countries have par- ticipated in individual student exchanges. According to Lang, the heavy restrictions the Soviet Union imposes on travel would interfere with the proposed program. "IT WOULD be a good thing if the Soviets would let a typical person of (college) age travel more freely," Lang said, adding that generally, only those most loyal to the Community Party are allowed to visit the United States. American visitors to the Soviet Union are allowed only limited access with that country's citizens. Although Michael Lysenko, a spokesman for the Soviet embassy, called the plan a "grand design," he. said that the costs of such can exchange program could more than likely limit the Soviet Union's par- ticipation in the proposed exchange program. However, Lysenko did say that the Soviet Union is interested in student exchange programs on a smaller scale. He said the United States has refused to negotiate any student exchange agreement for the past four years. Students who have traveled to the Soviet Union agree that experiencing the Soviet lifestyle'first hand is a good experience. TRAVELING to the Soviet Union is the best way to study that country, said Pat Willerton, a University graduate student who studied in the Soviet Union. Americans don't make enough of an effort to learn about the Soviets, he said, adding that he found Soviets also curious about Americans. Willerton said that by traveling to the Soviet Union he learned how Soviets view Americans. Many said they thought Americans were insensitive to others, arrogant and self-centered, he said. Bill Risinger, a graduate student in political scien- ce said he learned about Soviet students by stuying at Moscow State University last year. The best and brightest Soviet students have un- dergone rigorous training screening in order to at- tend colleges. Soviets announce cruise raiissile deployment MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet Defense Ministry announced yesterday that it is putting new long-range cruise missiles in strategic bombers and submarines, and said the ' program would "corresp6nd" in scope to U.S. deployment of. air- and sea-launched cruise missiles. The Soviets deployed an early version of the cruise missile in submarines in the 1960s, but these missiles were believed to have been removed later, according to West European diplomatic sources in Moscow. U.S. DEFENSE Department reports have predicted the Soviets would deploy long-range cruise missiles laun- ched from air and sea sometime this yearor next.. The Tass announcement, which was read over the main television news program yesterday night, accused the United States of trying to carve out an edge in nuclear firepower by deploying its own cruise missiles on bombers, submarines and surface ships. It defended the Soviet move as a defen- sive.measure. "Trying to achieve military superiority over the Soviet Union, the United States continues a crash fulfillment of large-scale programs for developing and deploying new nuclear arms," the announcement said. "IT ATTACHES special significance to carrying out a massive deployment of long-range cruise missiles of all basing modes. Along with sitting ground-launched cruise missiles in Western Europe, the United States is mounting long-range cruise missiles on strategic bombers. "From the middle of this year, it has been irjstalling such misiles also on sur- face ships and submarines of the U.S. Navy," said the announcement. The sea- and air-launched missiles are part of a program under which the Soviets are developing five new long- range cruise systems, according to the U.S. publication "Soviet Military Power 1984." Three of the missiles are subsonic; low-altitude cruise systems similar to the U.S. Tomahawk and have a range of 2,400 miles, the publication said. IN MAY, Defense Minister Dimitri Ustinov said the Soviet Union has in- creased the number of nuclear-armed submarines off the U.S. coasts in terms of "yield, accuracy, the ability to reach targets on the territory of the United States and the flight time to target.'' It was not clear if the cruise deployment announced Saturday was related to the program mentioned by Ustinov, but a U.S. military publication indicated that it could be. The language of yesterday's announ- cement mirrored a statement issued by Tass on Aug. 25 that reported the con- tinuing tests of the new long-range, ground-based Soviet cruise. At the time, a Western diplomat, who spoke on condition that he not be named said the ground-based version "would be a better version than what they have now but I wouldn't say this is a new threat." IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Shonttle_ lands flawlessly CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Heralded by twin sonic booms snapping across beaches and orange groves, shuttle Challenger swooped out of a cloudless sky yesterday and came home to its launch site after a 3.5-million- mile survey of Earth. Commander Robert Crippen guided the 101-ton spacecraft through a 13,000-mile glide across Alaska, the heart of Canada and th U.S. Midwest and Southeast to a precise centerline landing on the Kennedy Space Center runway. Only a few hundred people were on hand when Challenger touched down, in vivid contrast to the huge crowds that have greeted shuttle arrivals at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The crowd applauded and cheered. "The largest crew in the history of space flight in home," said Mission Control. The flight, ending at 12:27 p.m. EDT, had lasted eight days, five hours and 24 minutes. Only once before had a shuttle landed on the three-mile runway flanked by a canal that is home to alligators and wild pigs. Florida Wildlife Commission officials made a last-minute sweep with a helicopter to be sure it was clear. Warplanes hit Greek gas tanker MANAMA, Bahrain - A fully loaded Greek-owned gas tanker, abandoned and ablaze, was reported in danger of exploding in the Persian Gulf yester- day after a rocket attack by warplanes that were believed to be Iranian. The attack occurred in the central part of the gulf, south of the war zone declared by Iraq and Iran in their four-year war. Executives of marine salvage companies operating in Bahrain, Saudi- Arbaand Dubai dismissed an Iranian state radio claim blaming Iraq for the attack on the Gas Fountain. Instead they termed it Iran's second ap- parently retaliatory attack on tankers following Iraq's bombing of a ship earlier in the week. "The Iraqis never attack outside the war zone," said one of the executives, all of whom spoke on condition they were not identified. The Gas Fountain crew, 29 Spaniards and four Greeks, spent seven hours in life rafts and "inadvertently entered Iranian waters" near the island of Lavan, according to sources speaking on condition of anonymity. An official for Gray McKenzie, a British salvage firm, said that a company tugboat was bound for Lavan to pick up the crew of the Gas Fountain in line with an agreement worked out between Iranian authorities and the company that owns the ship. Party shooting leaves five dead LOS ANGELES - An argument outside a house party erupted into a gang- related shooting that left five youths dead and five others wounded on a bloodied front lawn, authorities said. Party-goers in the front yard of the house in a low-income area of south- central Los Angeles were confronted Friday night by several people who drove up, got into an argument and then opened fire with a shotgun and a pistol, said Officer Alejandro Valadez. Police said the shooting was gang- related. A neighbor, who did not give her name, said she saw "kids scattering and screaming and crying...." After the shooting, the bodies of four dead youths lay under white sheets on the sidewalk amid scattered shotgun shells; the fifth victim died later in a hospital. Residents of. south-central Los Angeles have complained since the end of the Summer Olympics that they do not have enough police protection. Violent crimes dropped during the Games because extra patrols were assigned to the area, site of the USC Olympic Village, Memorial Coliseum and other competition sites, but resumed after the Games ended. Death row escapee put to death RICHMOND, Va. - Convicted killer Linwood Briley was executed as scripture was read by two ministers who walked him to the Virginia electric chair. Four months ago he tried to escape by leading the nation's biggest death row breakout. "They had prayer and scripture until they went in," George Ricketts, Virginia Chaplain Service director said Saturday. "It was what Linwood wanted." Briley, condemned for the 1979 murder of Richmond disc jockey John "Johnny G" Gallaher, was executed late Friday evening while 500 people - about evenly divided - gathered outside the prison to speak for and against capital punishment. Officials said the 30-year-old condemned killer went calmly to the execution chamber still insisting he was innocent. After a routine autopsy, Briley's body was released early yesterday to his family. Pope ready to visit Cuba ROME - Pope John Paul II indicated yesterday he is ready to visit Cuba as soon as the Communist government there sends him an invitation, and said that Roman Catholic bishops will keep on working for solutions to guerrilla conflicts in Central America.. During a chat with reporters on his plane as he ended a 70-hour trip to Spain, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, the pope repeatedly was queried about several unscheduled events involving Cuba during his Carib- bean stay. The pope met five Cuban bishops who were allowed to leave their country to attend a Latin American bishops meeting in the Dominican Republic. He later spoke warmly about his "brothers" during lengthy impromptu remarks on Friday night during an open-air Mass in Puerto Rico. "I am ready to go everywhere," the pope told reporters. "In the case of Cuba the invitation is missing. We shall see. All we can say is there is a lack of a possibility, a lack of an invitation." The Vatican has diplomatic relations with Cuba but Catholicism has been on the wane for the past two decades in the Soviet-allied island country. I I I Kennedy overdose blamed on depression WEST PALM BEACH, Fla-Documents gathered in the in- vestigation of David Kennedy's drug overdose death show he was "full of pain" from the assassination of his father and depressed about Rose Ken- nedy's failing health. The 500 pages of documents included depositions and statements made during the criminal investigation by the Palm Beach Police Department and the state attorney's office into the 28-year- old Kennedy's death. THEY WERE made public Friday af- ter a protracted battle between the stat'e attorney's office in Palm Beach County and several news organizations. The documents detail the final five days of Kennedy's life, days marked by heavy drinking, drugs and depression. "Yes, I am crying for help," David complained after a night of drinking two days before his death, according to a statement by Marion Neimann, a 42- year-old German immigrant he had known only a day. AT ONE POINT, she said, they cried together. A short time later, Kennedy rolled up a $20 bill and snorted some cocaine, she told police. Correction University Prof. Carl Cohen and state Rep. Perry Bullard Friday night debated a proposal on the city's Nov. 6 ballot which would ban nuclear weapons research, development, testing, and production in Ann Arbor. A headline in yesterday's Daily incorrec- tly stated that the two men debated the nuclear freeze. Another story in yesterday's Daily incorrectly said the winning float of the Homecoming Parade was Bullwinkle. In fact, the float was the Sta-Puff Mar- shmallow Man, built by Triangle Fraternity and Collegiate Sorosis. Daily Photo by DAN HABIB Tug Resident Director Dawn Sagorski leads the men of South Quad's Gomberg House in yesterday's traditional tug-of-war over the Huron River between Taylor House and Gomberg. The men of Taylor won, but Bush House, Gomberg's sister house, easily defeated Hunt House in the annual event. New poii shos Mondale gaining I WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan maintains a landslide-sized lead over Walter Mondale three weeks before Election Day, according to a nationwide Associated Press survey, but the Democratic challenger has "come alive" in many states after his strong showing in campaign debate. Mondale's aides insist the debate will be seen as a turning point in his uphill challenge for the, White House, and the AP survey indicated it created some additional interest in the Democrat's campaign in many states. REPUBLICANS in many states con- ceded that Mondale breathed new life into his campaign- in last Sunday's debate but insist it means only a modest boost. They said Reagan can easily recover his losses in a follow-up debatea on foreign policy on Oct. 21. Reagan and Vice President George Bush are ahead in 43 states with 450 electoral votes, far more than the 270 needed to win a second term, the latest survey indicated. Mondale and running mate Geraldine Ferraro are clearly ahead only in the District of Columbia, with three elec- toral votes. Seven states with 85 electoral votes were rated as toss-ups - Hawaii; Maryland; Massachusetts; New York; Oregon; Rhode Island; Wisconsin. But elsewhere - in Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Jersey and Iowa, for example - political leaders and some polls indicate Mondale has made inroads into Reagan's lead. The result of Mondale's strong debate performance has been not only to create the perception that the presiden- tial race is tightening, but also to boost Democratic congressional candidates whose fortunes sagged earlier inthe fall when Mondale was further behind. 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