Reagan praises strides in talks The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 16, 1986-- Page 5 WASHINGTON (AP)- President Reagan, declaring "let's not look back and place blame," said yesterday the two superpowers were closer than ever to ridding the world of nuclear weapons. In a Baltimore speech, Reagan welcomed a promise by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev not to abandon negotiations despite the stalemate in Iceland over "Star Wars" and repeated his proposal for the elimination of all ballistic missiles over a 10-year period. "LET'S LOOK forward and seek agreements," the president said. "Let's not look back and place blame. I repeat my offer to Mr. Gorbachev: Our proposals are ser- ious, they remain on the table and we continue to be prepared for a summit." But Igor Bulay, press counselor at the Soviet Embassy, said his government wanted to be certain of "concrete results" before setting a date for Gorbachev to come here for a third summit with Reagan. A SOVIET editor, appearing with Bulay at a news conference, said "last-minute intransigence" by Reagan over the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) deprived the world of an agreement to reduce strategic nuclear weapons by 50 percent. "The results of Reykjavik undermined the hopes and aspir- ations of people around the world," said Giorgi Fediyashin, editor of Soviet Life, an English-language magazine circulated in the United States. Similarly, Spurgeon Keeny, executive director of the Arms Control Association, said "we have lost an immediate opportunity for a major breakthrough in arms control." HE SAID he hoped Reagan would reconsider the "surprising compromises" Gorbachev had of- fered to reduce both strategic and medium-range nuclear weapons. "Reykjavik has brought home to everyone that the major obstacle to arms control is the president's vision of a strategic defense," Keeny said. Former U.S. negotiator Gerard Smith, appearing with Keeny at a news conference, said "we can either have arms control or we can really have a crash program to deploy defenses. We cannot have both." Reagan's positive remarks in Baltimore were part of a U.S. campaign to portray the Iceland summit as a success. "We are closer than ever before to agree- ments that could lead to a safer world without nuclear weapons." Theater group protests in Piag By JILL OSEROWSKY About 35 students gathered on the Diag yesterday to watch a local theatre group perform on behalf of four hunger-strikers protesting United States involvement in Nicaragua. The four strikers are veterans, one from World War II and three from the Vietnam war, and have been fasting in Washington, D.C. since September. One of the men, George Mizo, is experiencing respriatory problems and is in critical condition. Mizo has been fasting for 46 days. IN THE performance the Pinkertons, a local political and social theatre group, included statements by the four men about the U.S. role in Central America. The performers also held signs, played drums, and read the messages from the strikers. "We want more people in Ann Arbor to start participating to stop the war," said Roberta Bernhard, School of Education staff member and a Pinkerton performer. The Pinkertons are worried that the hunger-strikers and their cause will be forgotten, she said. "They're not fasting because they want to die," Bernhard said. Daily Photo by SCOTT LITUCHY Yesterday, the Pinkertons, a political theatre group, staged a protest in the Diag in honor of four Vietnam veterans participating in a hunger strike in Washington, D.C. The veterans, who have been fasting for more than a month, are protesting U.S. involvement in Central America. "They're doing it to save lives." "Invoking the Nuremberg principles, we veterans of two wars choose not to be a party to crimes against humanity committed in the name of the American people," said one Pinkerton, quoting one of the veterans. "As veterans, we will not remain silent-we will not sit passively by-while timid politicians lead us into another Vietnam." Performers passed out leaflets and blue lapel ribbons to the small crowd during the ten minute performance. Student observers said they liked the performance. "It wasn't the most professional thing, but it got the message across," said Tony Feldstein, an LSA junior. He said the Diag performance, like the anti-apatheid shanty, was a worthwhile protest. LSA senior Richard Kern said, "These protests used to motivate people to action, and nowadays people have to starve themselves to get things done." Talk honors World Food Day (Continued from Page 1) He advocates widespread social change which would redistribute control over land among those who work on it. Collins blasted Reagan administration policies and approaches in dealing with world hunger, specifically the belief that the free market system will be able to solve world hunger. He claimed that United States tax dollars are being used to arm governments against their own people, and are blocking the changes necessary to end hunger. THE MOST important step Americans can take is to halt U.S. economic and military support of fl, governments that are hostile to their own people, he said. To dispel fears of Communist plots, he charged, "Any society trying to do away with the market altogether has faced monumental headaches." Collins has a Ph.D in public policy. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, a non-profit research organization which identifies social causes of hunger and keeps watch over U.S. government and corporation's policies that may contribute to hunger in underdeveloped countries. Collins has lived and travelled in the Third World, enabling him to study the causes of hunger first hand. C OL L INS co-authored the pamphlet "World Hunger: Ten Myths" with Frances Moore Lappe in 1977. The book "World Hunger: 12 Myths," an updated analysis, will be published this month. Other joint efforts with Lappe include the books "What Difference Could A Revolution Make?" and "Now We Can Speak." The latter two books assert that the Nicaraguan people have more hope to gain food self-sufficiency since the Sandinista government overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in July 1979. The speech was sponsored by several campus and Ann Arbor organizations including the World Hunger Education-Action Committee (WHE-AC). 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