European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes april 1985 Gorbachev says position led to standoff Geneva a the first round of the arms talks ended tuesday after six and the chief negotiator said a great Deal remains to be done when the talks in soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev blasted the position at the Washington does not seek agreement with the soviet Union in the soviet news Agency Tass speaking to the communist party Central Gorbachev said the negative response to his arms control initiatives two weeks earlier clearly show the United states reluctance to Lead matters to reasonable Tass the delegation spokesman in Geneva had no com ment on Gorbachev chief negotiator Max Kampelman the american delegation expected these negotiations to be and they have speaking to reporters after the final two hour negotiating he we look Forward to the resumption of our sessions when the second round opens May a great Deal remains to be Kampelman read a prepared statement and did not answer we believe that the first round served a useful purpose in helping to bring about increased understanding of one another he the negotiators in Geneva have been silent about the substance of their with any such disclosures coming from Moscow or Kampelman in his statement said the delegation will have nothing More to say publicly about the Neotia that our role As negotiators is Best served if we limit what we say in the Public Gorbachev said the United states refuses in general to discuss an arms race in space in connection with nuclear weapons Tass the soviet Leader accused the americans of violating the january agreement setting up the talks that called for the three subgroup topics to be discussed in their Gorbachev remarks indicated that president reagans strategic defense popularly known As Star is a main sticking the soviets want to negotiate a treaty Banning weapons from space and have urged the americans to scrap search into a space based defense the americans say Star wars research will and Reagan has offered to share results of the research with the soviets in a move he says would enhance another item on the Geneva Agenda was believed to be Gorbachev announcement april 7 that he would freeze medium Range missile deployments in Europe until no vember and his Call for moratoriums on space and defense research and Long Range missile the publicly dismissed the saying they were not new and would freeze the soviets in a position of nuclear during the first Geneva negotiators met for 54 hours in 21 most of those were meetings of the three the space and defense group was headed by Kampelman and Yuli the Long Range group by John Tower and and the medium Range by Maynard Glitman and Alexei r soviets from Page 1 by military the actions of the soviet sentry were completely the statement they were not taken against a member of the military As but against an unknown intruder who was carrying out an intelligence Mission and did not comply with the warnings of the sen a state department Charles said monday night we have seen the press reports on the Nicholson Case coming from the soviet we have informed the soviets that their interpretation of the Issue is we stand by our version of the last while visiting Moscow As part of a congressional Dan quoted the new soviet Mikhail As saying a change in the ground rules governing and soviet Liaison officers in Germany could Well be the outcome of Nicholson death and it should not happen mondays strongly implied the rules would not be it said the entire responsibility for what happened rests wholly on the appropriate As is the Side itself does not deny that Arthur Nicholson and his staff sergeant were carrying out an intelligence since the end of world War the United Britain and France have maintained Liaison offices in East Germany to observe soviet forces the soviets have similar observer teams in West Ger except for restricted the officers Are allowed Freedom of if they engage in questionable they Are detained according to Are not to be credit cards from Page 1 credit card Nichols wanted to hear the service chiefs opinion of the in february this cafes presented the credit card plan again to the mar panel with support from the army and air Force chiefs of the defense depart ment has asked the chief of naval operations and the Marine corps commandant to Murray said cafes blew it last year when it approached Congress with Only two Star the service chiefs support for the credit card plan has raised its priority with the the staffer he said panel Mem Bers now appeared More open minded on the the service chiefs and major civilian retailers Are expected to testify before the panel this the staffer its a Quality life our people  be treated As second class Citi said cafes comptroller Martin Handel said a 1983 Navy study showed that 80 percent of that services career Force had credit to use they had to go downtown and pay higher he military exchanges Are the eight largest retailer in the United according to government cafes retail sales in the United states last year were about cafes officials estimate that credit cards would increase Exchange net sales by about 6 Handel scoffed at the idea that such a Small increase would faze retail ers like which reported billion in sales in Kmart billion or Penney but that could mean a lot to cafes and the Quality of military Handel it would mean we could show real sales growth and real increases in mar he Handel noted that Congress has permitted neither the number of cafes customers nor their income to grow substantially in recent were a major source of construction funds for gyms and childcare he were the Only source of funds for building the new exchanges that it takes to keep military people buying on cafes has had a credit system in effect overseas the deferred payment plan since in total sales went up about 3 percent while credit sales Rose about 9 per the difference can be attributed to cred Handel he said 12 percent to 14 per cent of sales overseas Are credit the canadians started using credit in their exchanges in Lahr and bad Ensoe in and about 10 percent of their sales Are by he cafes officials disagree with critics who claim that the credit card plan might drive up indebtedness among younger air Force chief master Robert cafes senior enlisted sees it this Way How can we put people in uniform and Tell them the ultimate sacrifice that May be asked of them and then Tell them they cant handle credit Friedman there going to use their credit cards with us or somebody he Handel added our customers have the the banking system issues and its the banking system not cafes that sets the credit we just want to let them use their cards in our general chosen to Lead Blackhawk inspectors Washington a a general has been tapped to head a special team that will oversee an emergency inspection program for the Blackhawk the Pentagon Donald the Dep Uty chief of staff for readiness in the mate Riel has been named chairman of the joint working the army announced the army disclosed last Friday it had grounded its entire Fleet of some 630 Black Hawks following a second fatal crash in 40 the army described the move at the time As a precautionary measure to help assure troop terrorists claim responsibility for Brussels blasts Brussels a a shadowy left Wing terrorist group tuesday claimed Spons Bilty in a written statement for two explosions that damaged buildings of the North Atlantic Assembly and a German electronics firm in Brussels Over the week police two persons were slightly injured in saturdays Dawn blast of the Assembly build located in a Park in downtown less than 24 hours another bomb wrecked part of the Fegtel Funken offices in the outskirts of there were no both the letters standing for revolutionary front for proletarian a a group previously unknown in Bel were Spray painted in red on Walls of the a woman told a Brussels newspaper and the belgian state radio in Anonymous phone Calls that the Frap had left copies of a statement in two Street garbage the five Page typewritten statement de scribed Frap As a revolutionary Antrim aerialist organization acting against everything which directly or indirectly works at preparing the imperialist the statement added that by striking at the North Atlantic Frap wanted to hit natos political As to the statement claimed it is natos preferred the very Type of Industrial support for the political and military project of maintaining Western Europe As a nato the shooting of Nicholson touched off a bitter Secretary of state George Shultz denounced the soviet sentry action As tensions appeared to ease when Glenn Usa eur com met at East on april 12 with Mikhail the commander of soviet forces in East Ger there was no immediate explanation for the assertion in the soviet embassy statement that the state department had said the soviets would consider some kind of compensation in connection with the officials were quoted last week As saying there had been no agreement on a formal apology or but these officials said then that the soviets had agreed to refer the Issue to higher author the House of representatives gave approval on a 3941 vote to a Resolution condemning the soviet Union for the killing of speakers criticized the soviets for cold blooded murder during the debate on the nonbinding temperatures april 22 l h 53 86 74 Little Rock 38 60 69 los Angeles 25 40 87 Louisville 58 83 83 Memphis 55 75 Atlantic 77 Miami Beach 58 93 71 Paul 27 55 85 Nashville 58 84 82 new Orlenas 33 49 85 new York 47 62 94 Norfolk 59 77 69 Oklahoma City 48 67 73 Omaha 60 84 83 Orlando 58 92 90 Philadelphia 67 83 85 Pittsburgh 61 86 51 55 84 54 59 73 65 Providence 38 51 92 Raleigh 65 73 Des 66 Reno 54 83 80 Louis 15 36 88 Petersburg 41 55 54 Salt Lake City 49 83 65 san Delgo 68 84 65 san Francisco 70 77 50 Seattle 59 84 83 Syracuse 55 82 74 Tucson 64 70 Kansas 93 Washington 51 77 Las 72 Wichita european weather forecast for wednesday partly to mostly Cloudy skies with Gusty winds and there is a Chance of isolated rain along the Benelux coast and isolated thunderstorms in Southwest High tempera Tures 50s to Low 60s lows 40s to Low Sunset wednesday Sunrise thursday Outlook for thursday partly Cloudy skies with Gusty temperatures 3 to 4 degrees temperatures recorded tuesday 4am 4pm p m m m p Fig p p p p r m 55 66 43 48 64 66 861 46 39 48 43 38 4am 4pm 52 54 41 50 43 52 46 54 50 54 55 59 48 66 p mostly Cloudy partly Cloudy Iraln of fog t provided by Del 7lh weather tra Bentzar