European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 03, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday september 3, 1985 the stars and stripes q edit Page 9 . Will take hard line Gorbachev predicts soviet Leader discusses november Summit new York a Sovil Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev in an interview with time Magazine published sunday predicts the United states will take a hard line in the november Summit and said he expects any concessions will have to be made by the soviet Union. In what is described As his first interview with a Western news organization since As suming Power Gorbachev said of the Geneva Summit it looks As if the stage is being my by Washington for a bout Between some kind of political super gladiators with the Only thought in mind Sci in How Best to Deal a deft blow at the opponent and score an extra Point in this bout. It appears that Sven the slightest headway depends exclusively upon conces Sions by the soviet Gorbachev who time said made i com ments in response to written question submitted in Advance and also talked to time editors at his Kremlin office reiterated the soviet position that the . Star wars space based defense shield poses an insurmountable obstacle to arms control agreements. Unless the United states agrees to Stop wort on the project. Time quotes Gorbachev As saying it will not be possible to reach an agreement on the limitation of Gorbachev commented later in the 2 hour 12-Minutc interview aug. 26, however that surely god on High has nol re fused to give us enough Wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in. Relations Between the two great nations on Earth time said. The soviet Leader said he harbours disappointment and concern about recent actions by the administration of president Reagan. He cited the administration s rejection of the soviet proposal for a moratorium on nuclear weapons testing Washington s complaints about human rights violations in the soviet Union and . Insistence on continuing the Star wars anti missile pro Gram. He said the Reagan administration has been unjustifiably blaming the soviet Union for a Host of problems. That is n scenario of pressure of at tempts to drive us into a Corner to ascribe to us As so Many times in the past every mortal sin from unleashing an arms race to aggression in the Middle East from Solidarity Calls for Boycott of National election Warsaw Fuji underground members of Solidarity sunday called for a Boycott of Poland s october election in retaliation for the government s breach of a 1980 Accord that permitted the free Trade Union to function. We shall not go to cast ballots while being cheated and humiliated a Solidarity Appeal said. The text described As written by representatives of workers in the cities and Countryside said the government violated the Accord by outlawing Solidarity in 1982. The Appeal was issued a Day after thousands of poles held rallies at churches in major cities to Mark the fifth anniversary of the founding of Solidarity. Solidarity sources said the Boycott Appeal was submitted to Solidarity founder Lech Walesa who approved it but could not officially Issue such a Call himself because of threats of court action against him. Walesa has previously said that As a citizen he would not vote in the election. The text distributed sunday among Western reporters and Solidarity activists said an aug. 31, 1980, Accord Between shipyard workers and the government had been approved by parliament and became a binding document. Let us hold the authorities to account for the implementation of the Accord the text said. The two Page document said the government violated the Accord in which workers had been guaranteed the right to have their own Independent Union Freedom of press and speech growth of salaries following Price hikes and election of managers and directors without regard to ideology. Despite the Boycott Call officials of the government of Gen. Wojciuch Jaruzelski expressed optimism about the balloting. A majority of the 870 candidates Are communists and elec Tion rules Are such that the new parliament will again be dominated by communist deputies. Violations of human rights to some schem ing or other even in South Africa. This is not a state policy it is a feverish search for forces of evil " he said in a reference to Reagan s description of the so Viet Union As the evil Gorbachev 54. Became communist party general Secretary on March 10, 1985, after the death of his predecessor 72-year old Konstantin Chernenko. Time said that during the Kremlin interview the soviet Leader spoke with vigor and directness and occasionally joked with his guests. His interviewers said he appeared healthy and was tanned after a vacation on the crimean seashore. He is scheduled to meet Reagan in Geneva from nov. 12-20. Gorbachev said that he is prepared for a meaningful and Businesslike talk with Reagan during their Summit and said it is not too late for the United state to improve the atmosphere for the meeting. There is still time before the Summit meeting and quite a lot can be done for it to be constructive and useful. But this As you will understand depends on both Reagan has said United states in tends for the moment Only to research Star wars and is nol made any commitment to developing the system. But Gorbachev said he docs not consider Star wars to be simply a research program. It is the first stage of the project to develop a new abm system prohibited under the treaty of 1972," he told time mag Zinc. He said that if the Star wars system is deployed the other Side is not going to be dozing and will find an accurate re he said the soviet position on space based weapons is firm. If there is no ban on the militarization of space if an arms race in space is not prevented nothing else will work. We arc prepared to negotiate but not about space weapons or about what specific. Types of space weapons could be deployed into space. We arc prepared to negotiate on preventing an arms race in the soviet Leader said that his country has a Large Reserve of constructive ideas for improving relations with the United states and that if Washington responds positively that will open up tremendous leading the Way the is. Nulty minesweeper inflict leads the Canadian frigate Nipigon and the is. Frigate Stephen w. Groves through Boston Harbor on their nay to participate in a nato naval exercise which is designed to demonstrate the Alliance s ability to keep the Atlantic Supply lines to Europe open la the event of War. Poll finds South africans believe apartheid is doomed London a the Confidence of South Africa s Whites in the country s apartheid system is crumbling the Sun Day times of London said in reporting the results of a nationwide poll. Sixty three percent of those surveyed by Markino the Gallup polling organization s South african affiliate believed apartheid will cease to Ceisl within 10 years. Just 15 percent of Whites responding said they were very Happy with the system of racial separation it said. The poll said 21 percent were fairly Happy and 33 per cent were either fairly or very unhappy with the system. Twenty five percent said they were neither Happy nor unhappy with it. The rest expressed no opinion. Markino interviewed 500 White South africans by Telephone Between aug. 19 and Ann 71 after president . Bot " aug. 2 Botha s speech promising unspecified and limited reforms but before last week s closure of South Africa s financial markets. Had no opinion. However Botha was still the overwhelm ing Choice to Lead South Africa backed by 66 percent of the Whites. None of the Whites surveyed named Nelson Mandela the imprisoned african National Congress Leader who was tops at 49 percent in a similar Survey of Blacks. The newspaper said 30 percent of the South african Whites responding expect civil War and it quoted 12 percent As saying they Are either fair y Likely or very Likely to leave South afric a within the next .0 years. Fifty one percent of Whites and 80 per cent of Blacks agreed that it is possible for South Africa to be ruled jointly by the two races the paper reported. Of the whiles 22 percent said they thought apartheid would endure for at least 10 years and 63 percent said they thought it will have ceased to exist within a decade. The rest had no opinion. Among Blacks the figures were 29 percent for continuing apartheid and 59 percent expecting its abolition the sunday times said. On one thing the two communities do seem to agree apartheid is doomed the newspaper concluded
