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Brezhnev says
U.S. 'lying'
about Soviets
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From AP and UPI
MOSCOW - Soviet President Leonid
Brezhnev accused the Reagan ad-
ministration yesterday of lying about a
Soviet military threat and warned that
Moscow will respond "rapidly and ef-
fectively" toany U.S. Military buildup.
In his harshest attack since President
Reagan took office, Brezhnev deplored
what he said was Washington's shift in
policy away from disarmament and
towards an increase of strategic arms
in Europe.
THE STATE Department, reacting
sharply to the charges, accused the
Soviet leader of trying to divert atten-
tion from Moscow's own "massive
military buildup."
Brezhnev, whose call this year for a
summit meeting has been ignored by
Reagan, said the United States and
other western leaders who talk about a
Soviet threat, "are lying and do not
even bother to produce at least a sem-
blance of proof."
THE SOVIET news agency Tass said
Brezhnev made the charges during a
meeting with former Swedish Prime
Minister Olof Palme, president of the
Independent Commission on Disar-
mament and Security Issues.
"The United States suspended the
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation
Talks) process and now is concen-
trating its efforts on the realization of
new programs of strategic armaments.
Movement in practically all basic
directions in this sphere of SALT has
halted or even reveresed," Brezhnev
said.
STATE DEPARTMENT spokesman
David Passage said Breznev evidently
Brezhnev
. will'respond' to
U.S. arms buildup
sought to "capitalize for propaganda
purposes on the presence in Moscow of
the Palms Commission."
"The United States has made clear
both directly to the Soviet leadership
and in public statements our commit-
ment to a serious and constructive
dialogue on arms control matters, as
well as on other vital international
problems," Passage said.
In Brief
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
Boy slips deeper into well
FRASCATI, Italy-Alfredo Rampi, a 6-year-old with a heart ailment, slip-
ped about 80 feet deeper into the narrow artesian well where he has been
trapped more than two days, said rescue workers who broke through above
him yesterday from an adjoining shaft.
As darkness fell, the child's mournful cries through a walkie-talkie
lowered to him could be heard by hundreds gathered to watch the rescue ef-
forts.
Rescuers speculated that vibrations from drilling the parallel tunnel
might have widened the well, which narrowed to 10 inches where he was
trapped, allowing the boy to slip. There was no official confirmation.
St. Helens may erupt again
SEATTLE-Mount St. Helens apparently is heading towards another
eruption in the next week or two, experts said yesterday as they issued an
extended outlook advisory on the volcano.
The U.S. Geological Survey and University of Washington geophysics
spokesmen said they expect any eruption to be a non-explosive "dome-
building" type, rather than the booming eruption of the type common last
summer.
Asked if an explosive eruption is possible, geophysicist Bob Norris
replied: "It could be. There's nothing to rule that out, although most people
are expecting another dome growth."
Last Gacy victims buried
CHICAGO-For 2 years, the bodies of nine young men were known only
by a number. Yesterday, these nameless victims of mass murderer John
Gacy Jr. were buried that way-with a prayer that someday their identities
will be known.
The bodies of the nine-who were among Gacy's 33 young male vic-
tims-were laid to rest in nine separate cemeteries to avoid creating a
monument to the man convicted of more murders than anyone in the
nation's history.
Gacy, now on Death Row in Menard State Penitentiary, was sentenced to
die in the electric chair after being convicted March 12, 1980, in the sex-
related slayings.
Each of the nine gravestones will be engraved with the date of the burial
and the words, "We Remembered," on behalf of the people of the city, said
Tom Moriarty, spokesman for the Funeral Directors Service Associations.
Shoplifter killed by accident
HOMESTEAD, Fla.-A 22-year-old shoplifting suspect who collapsed and
died after being chased and put into a-headlock was a victim of "excusable
homicide," a police detective says.
Christopher Everett died Wednesday of lack of oxygen to the brain when
one of his four civilian captors tried to subdue him with the headlock, said
Dr. Roger Mittleman of the Dade Medical Examiner's Office.
The incident began when a security guard at a department store saw two
men stash jeans under their pant legs, then walk past the checkout line and
out of the store.
Store employees took after them and two bystanders joined the chase.
When one of the store employees caught up with Everett, another pursuer
applied the headlock.
"They did not mean to injure him or kill him or anything like that," said
Dade County homicide detective Linda Beline, who investigated the incident
because Homestead's police department does not have a homicide squad.
Laser aids in pregnancies
WASHINGTON-A new microsurgical procedure using a laser "knife",
vaporizes tissue and greatly increases the chance of pregnancy for women
with seriously diseased Fallopian tubes, a New Orleans doctor reported
yesterday.
Dr. Joseph Bellina of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine
estimated 400,000 American women between the age of 18 and 30 have
disease each year in the twin tubes running from the ovaries to the uterus.
One of five such cases is caused by gonorrhea.
Unlike standard techniques, the laser is used to drill a hole through the
wall of the uterus.
"We have been able to salvage half of a population that had been given a 5
percent chance of pregnancy," Bellina said.
Plane malfunctioned in crash
WASHINGTON-An Air Force tracking aircraft with the commander's
wife in the pilot's seat disintegrated with 21 people aboard because an
unknown malfunction in a control system slammed the plane into a fatal
dive, the Air Force said yesterday.
The plane, a military version of the Boeing 707 jetliner, crashed in pieces
ina barley field near Walkersville, Md., May 6.
It was the sharp depression of the trim tabs on the horizontal
stabilizers-the rear wings controlling pitch-that put the plane in "a sudden
and unexpected" 30 degree dive, an Air Force spokesman said. The main
power system blew out.
The malunction could have been a short circuit in the trim tab motor, the
spokesman said.
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