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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes May arms control talks resume in Geneva after 5 weeks world today Switzerland a and soviet negotiators thursday began a second round of arms control talks that the soviets say Are threatened by research into a space based defense the delegation headed by Max Kampelman arrived at the soviet where they were greeted by the soviet delegation headed by Viktor before the delegation told report ers he was a practical Optimist about possible Progress at the the common goal of the superpowers is not allowing an arms race in Karpov now our countries should practically agree How to do Kampelman faced Karpov across a negotiating table and lets Hope this session will be a constructive the meeting was a joint plenary session of All six key negotiators and their comprising 42 the resumption of talks follows a five week lapse during which both sides returned to their capitals for consultations after a first round that showed Little in Moscow on communist party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev called for a renewal of superpower he said research into a space based missile defense system could Lead to the scrapping of every Prospect for an end to the arms the research known As the strategic defense has been dubbed Star Karpov said wednesday As he arrived in Geneva that the Star wars program sharply reduced chances of an he urged the United states to scrap the program in order to open the Way to Radical reductions in nuclear arms to Complete elimination of nuclear arms the soviets have charged that the United states is using the arms talks As camouflage for its military Prepa the United states has said it will not give up research on the project while arms negotiations and the Issue is thought to be the main stumbling Block in the officials have said the soviets have prevented Prog Ress in the arms control talks by backtracking on positions they took in previous Kampelman avoided making accusations in his arrival but he said he was disappointed with the slow Pace of the first Gorbachev has been quoted As saying that the first round was completely Kampelman said the americans returned with Broad for the second round of and that he hoped the soviets have similar flexibility and that they will work with us to achieve equitable and verifiable he avoided mentioning the space defense Ted in Geneva As part of a group of congressional said president Reagan has Given the negotiators More flexibility for the second round of space and defense weapons Are discussed in Geneva in sessions headed by Kampelman and soviet negotiator Yuli the two sides also Are discussing Interne Diat Range weapons in talks headed by american May Nard Glitman and soviet Alexei and strategic nuclear forces in talks led by John Tower from the United states and during the first round of which began in each subgroup met once a extra sessions were held near the end of the round in an apparent attempt to make Progress before the the meetings were held alternately in the soviet com Pound and arms control located less than a mile apart on Geneva Avenue de la or peace ave Bangladesh official says death toll from storm is no More than Bangladesh Apas thousands of the worlds poorest peasants rebuilt dwellings on Bangladesh storm ravaged islands the government Dis counted reports of higher death tolls and said no More than people whole Island populations were living on meager Relief goods after saturdays the worst since the nation gained its Independence from Pakistan in in the worst hit Southern Island of Uris hundreds lined up for Little More than a meager a piece of cloth and a handful of the red Cross had through its International offices in that 6 million bangladeshis were affected by the and lost on the Silt formed islands and along the nations South Ern journalists flying in military helicopters counted a dozen human bodies washed along with hundreds of dead farm people Many sitting amid the rubble of smashed waved to the helicopters to apparently thinking they were carrying Relief men were reassembling some of the thatched huts As others huddled under Leanto structures and still others huddled together with no apparent no More than to perished in this Carastro said Abu Nayeem Amin top aide to martial Law president Hussain Mohammad Ahmed said in a briefing that the government has been checking with local officials and investigating news reports in Dhaka that up to were killed in the saturday storm and tidal the figures Given so far Are just said the official count of bodies stood thursday at and authorities said 90 percent of the dead were from Uris 220 Miles South of officials said Many of the Uris Char dead were found on the Mainland or washed up on other reports have differed widely on the number of people actually living on Uris which was formed in the last decade from Silt flowing Down the Ganges River and its reports on the number of people living on the Island ranged from to and authorities in nearby Chittagong and in Dhaka gave differing accounts of the number an official in who asked not to be Ridenti said Many names of Uris Char residents had never been and it May never be known How Many on Ershad visited areas North of where floods Cut off some communities and left Only one death was soviet envoy missing in Greece Athens up police Are searching for the first Secretary of the soviet Sergei who Dis appeared five Days government spokesman Mihalis Stathopoulos said the soviet embassy informed the foreign ministry on saturday about the disappearance of the soviet the foreign ministry asked the Public order ministry to search for Stathopoulos he said had not yet been Stathopoulos said Boshans wife and 7yearold child returned to Moscow on a spokesman for the soviet embassy said he knew nothing about the the embassy said it was not aware of Boshans the communist party quoted a Cable of the greek Central intelligence service As saying that Bokshan was last seen leaving his Home saturday in a Bow Sedan with diplomatic the pro government newspaper Vima described Bok who has been serving in Greece since As Blond and tall and said be was carrying a camera and a Brief Case when he Stathopoulos also said foreign minister Yannis Hara Lam Bopulos had protested to soviet ambassador Alexi Andropov against the violation of greek airspace on May 28 by two soviet air Force he said the two which crossed into greek air space from were intercepted and driven Back by greek air Force earlier this a soviet Aeroflot Airliner flying from Moscow to Athens left its flight path and flew Over militarily restricted including the greek air base at China reinstates military training for High College students peking a compulsory military training for More than 50 million High school and College students in China will begin at selected schools in the government has a revised version of the 1955 military service passed by the National Peoples Congress last or dered the restoration of student military which was phased put in the the official Xinhua news quoting the restrict a circulation liberation army said students in 52 colleges and 102 High schools will Pioneer the new peking and Yinghua universities in the capital Are among those the report All College and High school male and will undergo training at a later compound of Indira Gandhi opened As Public memorial new India a the compound where the late prime minister Indira Gandhi lived and ruled India for two decades has been opened As a Public and her son and Rajiv Laid Flowers on the spot where she was gunned people from throughout India filed through the com plex surrounded by a Low red Brick barbed wire and thick accompanied by his and their two Chil Gandhi placed petals on a Stone platform erected where his Mother was shot october 31 by two sikh above the platform were written in Glass Gan this prophetic words that she might die a violent As some fear and a few Are the opening of the memorial coincided with the 21st anniversary of the death of Jawaharlal India first prime minister and Gandhi Price hikes up to 30 percent initiated by israeli government Tel Israel up the government has set in motion a series of Price raising the Cost of milk and other subsidized foodstuffs and services by up to 30 the Price increases were part of a third package Deal among the Industry and unions to stabilize the israeli Economy by freezing wages and Israel has been beset by runaway inflation and an Ever increasing foreign inflation is now running at an annual 400 and the foreign debt exceeds Venezuela expresses Surprise at treatment of Venezuela a the venezuelan government has expressed its Surprise that customs officials searched former president Carlos Andres per eds Luggage and ignored his diplomatic passport when he entered the United we have sent a note to the diplomatic Mission of the United states in fundamentally expressing our Surprise at the treatment Given Perez at a new Jersey foreign minister Simon Alberto Consalvi Consalvi said Venezuela does not claim any special treatment for those who carry diplomatic passports from our because diplomatic passports dont mean any special privilege in the countries where the travellers Are not accredited As but in the Case of i do believe that in the United states a More respectful treatment should be Given former president who maintained Friendly relations with that a member of the governing democratic action is a vice president of the socialist a coalition of european and latin american socialist and social democratic boat going to festival in India drowning 58 people new India a fifty eight people drowned when a boat taking passengers to a Community festival capsized in Central the United news of India quoting District said the bodies including those of 25 children were recovered from the Waters of the chambal in the Morena District of Adhya Pravesh the Agency at first reported that at least 60 people had but it later lowered the death toll without explant  
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