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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday september 23. 1985 Reagan Hopes for genuine give and take Washington up president Reagan vowing to promote peace in the next 10 Days said saturday that relations Between Washington and Moscow will improve it the Kremlin shows the same seriousness and flexibility towards arms control As the United slates has. In his weekly radio address Reagan said he will Tell soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze in their first meeting this we that the United states has Good will toward the Kremlin and will look for signs the soviets arc ready to engage in genuine  but he said that in his meeting Friday with Shevardnadze and again at the sum Mit meeting with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in november in Geneva we will make Clear. We arc determined to protect Western interests but willing at the same time to do our part to improve Amer ican soviet relations. If there s comparable seriousness and flexibility on the soviet part cooperation Between our two great nations will been  in his radio address. Reagan seemed eager to counter the soviet Public relations Campaign leading up to the Geneva sum Mit. He also spoke at some length about the Middle East As he prepared for a meeting monday with egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and a meeting the following week with Jordan s King Hussein. In addition. Reagan promoted a speech he will give monday setting out administration Trade policy in which he will address our absolute commitment to Trade that is both free and  Reagan said he would raise with she Varnade the four items on the . Agenda for the november Summit human rights the soviet invasion of Afghanistan bilateral Trade and nuclear arms reduction. Or. Shevardnadze and i will both have in mind the approaching meeting Between myself and or. Gorbachev Reagan said cautioning however we must not raise false Hopes he said the differences Between communism and democracy Are profound. There will inevitably be Competition be tween us. But it s the Central responsibility of the leaders of the United states and the . To ensure that this Competition is  will express the Good will of the United states and search for signs of soviet willingness to engage in genuine give and  Reagan seemed to be making a plea to Gorbachev to shift his attention from for eign expansion to improving the soviet Economy. As you know the soviet Union frequently has been Bent upon expansion Reagan said. Indeed since the 1970s, the soviet Union has been engaged in a military build up that far exceeds any rational definition of its defensive needs. These policies have inflicted bitter costs on the soviet people. Every week russian soldiers Are diving in Afghanistan while thir Standard of Liv ing has suffered accordingly. Or. Gorbachev can change this. Heck set in train a policy of arms reduction and lasting  Britain allowing some spies identified by soviet defector to flee papers say London up the defecting Kab master spy who triggered the diplomatic War Between Britain and the soviet Union May have named up to 1 so britons working at soviet spies and Britain let some of them escape to Calm the soviet Union published reports said. The sunday Telegraph said detectives Are understood to have been supplied with the names of scores of britons from the russian embassy files by defecting Kab London station chief Oleg nordic ski. The newspaper said reports suggested that the figure could be up to  Early editions of the mail newspaper however put the number at about 70." the mail said the figure includes politicians Union officials and members of the anti military movement. The newspaper said prime minister mar Garet Thatcher had ordered that there be no espionage prosecutions of those named by Gordievsky to Calm the storm with the soviets. The newspaper also said foreign Secretary sir Geoffrey Howe has barred Security chiefs from exposing the britons. And in a further extraordinary move it was made known that an undisclosed number of britons who helped the spy rings have been allowed by the prime minister to leave Britain already the newspaper said. In some cases they have been told never to  Scotland Yard Thatcher s office and the foreign office All refused to comment. Scotland Yard has reported no arrests based on Gordievsky s disclosures and the Telegraph said members of parliament and government officials have questioned Why no arrests have been announced. The mail also reported that Howe last week rejected Cuba s Choice for its new ambassador in London because intelligence re ports indicated he planned to boost cuban spy operations to make up for losses in the soviet embassy because of the expulsions of 31 accused spies. And in a new revelation it reported that Gordievsky was responsible for unmasking a me Teholt a High ranking norwegian foreign office official As a soviet spy. Tre Holt this year was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on espionage charges. Government sources say Gordievsky de scribed As one of the most important soviet spies Ever netted by the West disappeared from the soviet embassy in july and has been undergoing Long debriefing sessions by British counterintelligence agents in a Safe House in heart recipient again in intensive care May have infection Hospital officials say Tucson Ariz. A Michael Drummond who was kept alive nine Days with an artificial heart before receiving a human Organ has been returned to an intensive care unit because he May have an infection Hospital officials said sat urday. Drummond 25. Who received the human heart sept. 7, was moved Back into the unit Friday after his elevated temperature led doctors to suspect an infection said Nina Trasoff a spokeswoman for University medical Center. Drummond was the sixth recipient of a Jarvik-7 heart and the first for whom the pump was meant Only As a temporary Mea the English Countryside. His defection was announced sept. 12. And Britain then expelled 25 soviets in London and said they were named As spies by nordic ski. The soviets retaliated with the expulsions of 25 britons and in a second wave of lit for Tal expulsions each Side expelled six More people before Thatcher said thursday there would be no More expulsions. Intelligence sources say the soviets had about 70 of their own spies in the soviet Community in London. An unconfirmed newspaper report last week said 15 British and soviet citizens acting As soviet Sleeper agents and moles had been picked up based on Gordievsky s disclosures. The report said that in some cases the agents were allowed to leave the country. In another development the sunday times reported that major London stores including harrods Are expecting the families of the 31 expelled soviets to go on a final shopping spree for Western goods prior to leaving the country. The newspaper said the soviet embassy also wants to sell 17 cars because of its staff cutbacks. Sure to maintain life until a human donor could be found. He had been in a cardiac monitoring unit since sept. 12. Doctors Friday checked for signs drum mond was rejecting his human heart but found none Trasoff said. Drummond had been feeling weak an Short of breath she said. News update Rome cafe attack Beirut up an Arab extremist group has claimed responsibility for a hand grenade attack on a Rome cafe saying it was a . British spying Center and warned tourists to stay away from Italy Spain and Britain. A caller claiming to represent the revolutionary organization of socialist moslem said its Freedom fighters tossed two soviet made hand grenades into the cafe do Paris on Rome s via Vineto wounding 38 tourists. The caller told a Western Newt Agency in Beirut that the joint us British spying Center. Where they practice their aggressive plans 1 was hidden in the cafe and supervised and directed by the zionist Monad  police arrested palestinian Ahmad Ali Hossen Abu Serena 27, a he ran away from the scene. Serena was from Beirut s Bour Bara Neh Refu gee Camp and had an airline ticket for a return trip from Damascus to Vienna in his Luggage. Mock invasion held fort Campbell by. A twelve members of the Washington news Media were flown in secrecy to witness the mock invasion of the mythical marxist nation of Sanaa where americans had been taken hostage after the government col lapsed. The routine military exercise at the sprawling military base was used for the second test of whether the Pentagon and the press can Cooper ate in coverage of american military actions. The press witnessed a portion of double Eagle 85. A training exercise for 4,000 members of the elite 101st airborne div. 64 named to China s key policymaking body peking a China s communist party rejuvenated its ranks sunday promoting 64 newcomers to the powerful Cen trial committee and naming 87 members to two other leading organs. The official news Agency Xinhua said the average age of the new Central committee members is so and three quarters of them Are College educated. Delegates to a special party conference in peking elected the new people by secret ballot six Days after 131 veterans resigned in a massive rejuvenation drive. The new Central committee is to meet tuesday to elect members to the politburo from which 10 elderly members resigned. Xinhua said 27 former alternate Mem Bers of the Central committee received full membership while the 64 newcomers in clude 29 full members and 35 alternates. The party s key policymaking body now has 210 full member and 133 alternate. The Agency said 56 people were elected to the party i Central advisory commis Sion headed by chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping. They include four politburo Reti Rees Wang Zhen song re Qiong i Ifa Desheng and Zhang Ting and bring the commission s total membership to 182. Xinhua said 31 people were elected to the 129-member Central commission for discipline inspection including regional party officials responsible for enforcing codes of Schav evening television showed the 933 party Del a Deng and fellow members of the pout buro standing committee parading up to a Large Box and shoving ballots inside. The promotion of Young party members into the Central committee Marks a per Sonal Triumph for the 81-year-old Deng who is relying on them to carry through the economic reforms he began when eme Gingas senior Leader in 1978. The transition to a new generation ends the life tenure system that left the party apparatus saddled with aging functionaries Many of them in their late 70s and 80s. Deng has described himself As Semi re tired leaving most of the work to his proteges general Secretary he Yanbang 69, and Premier Zhao Ziyang 66. Speculation now turns to who will be promoted to the politburo which runs the country. Six of the 10 retirees were people s liberation army leaders. Diplomats have suggested that the military will have a vastly diminished role. Likely candidates include secretariat Boss he Qili vice premiers i Peng and Tian Jiyun foreign minister we Xueqian former party organization chief Qiao Shi former textile minister Hao Nianxiu an party general office head Wang Zhao Guo. Also expected to get full seats Are the three former alternates. People s Bank president Chen Muhua vice Premier Yao Yilin and Qin Jiewei head of the peking military re Gion  
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