Page 4-Tuesday, August 3, 1982-The Michigan Daily Soviets lead arms sales race State Dept. says WASHINGTON (AP)- The State Department, seeking to dispel any notion that the United States is the worldl's largest arms peddler, said yesterday the Soviet Union sold nearly twice as much weaponry to developing nations during the last decade. The report concludes that from 1972 to now the Soviets delivered some 74,000 major weapons systems to nations in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, compared to 44,000 by the United States. JAMES BUCKLEY, undersecretary of state for security assistance, said the "neutral" figures are "precise for the United States and represent the best, conservative, intelligence estimates the U.S. government can make" on shipments by the Soviet Union. He made it clear that the State Department was releasing the figures, based on previously classified U.S. in- telligence estimates, in hopes of coun- tering what he said is the myth that the United States is the largest supplier of weapons to the Third World. He said, for example, that the Soviet Union provided 41 percent of tanks and self-propelled guns, 56 percent of supersonic combat weapons and 64 per- cent of missile patrol boats supplied Third World countries over the decade. The rest in those categories came from the United States and other countries and private arms dealers. "THERE IS no dizzying upward spiral in U.S. arms transfers by any real levels of measurement," Buckley said. He asserted that figures published previously by private sources are "flanboyantly off course" when they indicate otherwise. Those reports have been badly skewed because they were based largely on published figures which are accurate for the United States and largely non-existent for the Soviet Union, he said. AND HE contended that arms tran- sfer reports based solely on dollar figures have misled rather than infor- med because they do not reflect sales made at bargain basement prices by the Soviets and do not include the fact that "over 60 percent" of U.S. arms deals include spending for construction and training rather than actual weapons delivered. Soviet grain sales set, Reagan tells farmers In Brief Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Kenya capital under curfew NAIROBI, Kenya - President Daniel Arap Moi, who survived a bloody weekend coup attempt, putthe capital under curfew yesterday and gave the remaining air force rebels an extra 24 hours to surrender. Junior air force offices launched the coup against Moi's civilian gover- nment at 3 a.m. Sunday for Embakasi. More than 90 civilians and military personnel were reported killed and hundreds were injured. Police, soldiers and paramilitary troopers searched for rebels yesterday. Identification paperswere checked at roadblocks, and car trunks were sear- ched. Some people, including foreigners, were made to kneel at gunpoint as papers were inspected. Government radio stations, which resumed broadcasts yesterday, said Moi's Cabinet met to "express satisfaction" with the way the coup was sup- pressed and to reaffirm its loyalty to the 58-year-old leader. Moi became president in 1978 on the death of Kenya's first president Jemo Kenyatta, who led the country to independence from Britain 19 years ago. The government has extended its noon (5 a.m. EDT) Monday deadline by 24 hours for rebels to surrender with their guns or face "ruthless" treatment Nairobi radio said. Prime lending rate falls to 15% Banks nationwide adopted a 15 percent prime rate yesterday, the third cut of one-half percentage point in two weeks. But economists said the drop in the key business-borrowing rate will not sharply reduce consumers' financing costs for big-ticket items such as homes, cars and appliances. Analysts predicted additional declines in the prime rate. but they cautioned against expecting substained relief from the ravages of high financing costs. The move to the lowest prime rate since November 1980 was spurred by dramatic declines in the cost of banks' funds. Banks have to pay less for money because the Federal Reserve Board has relaxed its tight-money posture in the face of a weak economy and slower growth in the nation's money supply, analysts said. Mellon Bank of Pittsubrgh, the nation's 15th-largest bank, led the pack with its announcement Friday that it was cutting its prime rate from the 15.5 percent rate established a week ago. The prime - the base upon which banks compute interest charges on short-term loans to their best business customers - began falling July 19, when it stood at 16.5 percent, a level it had held since February. Virtually all major banks yesterday followed Mellon's move. Donovan under investigation NEW YORK- Special prosecutor Leon Silverman is investigating new allegations against Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, one of Silverman's law partners said yesterday. "I can say only that we have received further allegations and that he is looking into them," Michael Rauch, a partner in Silverman's Manhattan law firm, said of the special prosecutor. Silverman was out of town and could not immediately be reached for comment on the latest probe against Donovan, who got an unqualified vote of confidence from President Reagan on June 30. Two days before Reagan made his statement, Silverman-concluded a six- month investigation of Donovan, saying there was "insufficient credible evidence" on which to prosecute him on allegations of past ties to mobsters. In Washington, FBI spokesman Lane Bonner said the bureau was "looking into additional allegations." He also noted that Silverman's job as special prosecutor did not end with the submission of a 1,000-page report on June 28. Bonner said Silverman's job as special prosecutor "was never formally abolished." The White House had no immediate comment on the new inquiry by Silverman. Soviets expel U.S. reporter MOSCOW- The Soviet Union yesterday ordered Newsweek magazine's Moscow correspondent to leave the country because of "impermissible con- duct," the first such expulsion since 1977. Andrew Nagorski, 35, was summoned toa meeting at the Foreign Ministry where Soviet officials read a prepared statement detailing his alleged tran- sgressions. Nagorski labeled them "all bogus." "Whatever their real reasons were, they were not spelled out," he said. "We all know that this is the sort of thing that can happen to any journalist here if he does his job." The action may have stemmed from a Newsweek cover story in April titled "Brezhnev's Final Days," but Nagorski said he was given no hint of such a connection. Nagorski, who speaks fluent Russian and Polish was accused of imper- sonating a Soviet newspaper editor while on a trip outside Moscow last year, passing himself off as a tourist from Poland on another occasion and trying to visit off-limits areas of Soviet territory near the Afghanistan border. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -' President Reagan, trying to mend political fences in the Midwest, assured farmers yesterday that they should be able to sell large amounts of grain to the Soviet Union next year even though he has ruled outa long-term agreement for now. The president set the tone for his speech to the 25th annual convention of the National Corn Growers Association, by declaring at the outset that "the farmers of America are very much on my mind." THE FORUM he chose and the tenor of his remarks were a departure from a visit to Des Moines in February, when he spoke exclusively about his federalism proposals and never men- tioned farms. That omission - in a speech to the Iowa Legislature - raised the ire of many local Republican leders, who also were concerned that he met only with people who paid $1,000 for breakfast with him. - This time he was meeting with Iowa Farm Bureau officials and flew by helicopter to the State Center Farm where Donald Dee and his sons, Eric and Allan, raise hogs and corn. AFTER TOURING the 500-acre farm in temperatures of about 100 degrees, Reagan held an informal chat with about 30 area farmers. One farmer asked Reagan to be alert to efforts to pass federal laws requiring better treatment of farm animals. The farmer contended such legislation is unnecessary. "We will be on guard," the president promised. In his speech, Reagan said that under Reagan ...granary door 'open' a one-year grain sale extension "we are now exploring, we will be able to sell large quantities during the next year. In other words, the granary door Js open and the exchange will be cash on the barrelhead." DEPARTING from his prepared text, the president told the corn growers he believes "farmers are in a business that makes a Las Vegas crap table look like a guaranteed annual income." His speech was interrupted by ap- plause 16 times, but it was delayed briefly at the start by a small group of hecklers protesting draft registration. Three people were ejected from the auditorium after shouting: "Reagan lies. Stop registration. Stop the draft."