European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday. November 16, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 Summit preview soviet Union foresees great Summit Gorbachev spokesman attacks Star wars on arrival in Geneva Geneva Switzerland up the soviet Union predicted a great Summit Friday through general Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev s chief spokesman who arrived two Days ahead of the White House learn. He delivered another blast at president Reagan s Star wars plan. We Are on the eve of a great Summit Leonid Zamyatin the spokesman for the soviet communist party and leadership told a news conference. But he added Gorbachev has not softened his opposition to Reagan s strategic defense initiative otherwise known As Star we arc talking about shutting the door on weapons in space Zamyatin said. Ski is a foot firmly wedged in the Zamyatin said even a partial shield in space would be regarded by the soviet onion As an aggressive action that would require appropriate countermeasures. He said the soviet Union u not alone in protesting against ski. It was opposed by Many people in the United states including six former secretaries of de sense he said. He described the Star wars plan As aggressive rather than defensive and said it was meant to bring about the creation of a new kind of weapon an Offen Sive space strike weapon that will be spread globally Over the entire world. It is quite inadmissible that above our Heads we should have the most modern weapons More ghastly than nuclear weapons he said. We Are speaking out against a by slim that would destroy inc defences of the soviet Union and allow a first strike to be carried out against but Zamyatin said the soviet Union and the United states see nearly Eye to Eye on a cultural Exchange agreement indicating that this might be one of the minor achievements of the Summit. The United states Cut off cultural and other links with the soviet Union following the imposition of martial Law in Poland in december 1981. Another soviet spokesman told the news conference Gorbachev is working and Reading extensively so As not to arrive at the Summit with empty hands. Georgi Arba Tov director of the . Institute in Moscow also suggested Gorbachev has a longer attention Span than reporter said Reagan has been studying video clips of the soviet leaders and asked if Gorbachev had been doing the same. I can assure you he does t need 10-minute video clips Arbatova said. He has a concentration Span. He can read and work a lot. He has been very industrious and he had made All the preparations and work necessary so As not to arrive Here with empty asked if Gorbachev had been watching any old Rea Gan movies. Abalov replied i Don t know. I Hope you will have a Chance to ask him. They Are a Ralpd any Arbatova also Fri acted the View of . Secretary of slate George Shultz expressed in a satellite news con Ference thursday that the soviet Union s unilateral moratorium on nuclear weapons testing is unworkable because it is unverifiable. I was disappointed Arbatova said. He said radioactive dust sampling techniques and modern seismological methods give the United slates a precise Means of verifying soviet compliance. The United slates wants to develop new nuclear weapons he alleged. It is an attempt to deceive peo ple. Zamyatin indignantly rejected charges of soviet anti semitism made at the news conference by a jewish activist Yuri Stern who held up an allegedly anti semitic cartoon from a ukrainian newspaper. Zamyatin called it an artificial divided spouses urge Reagan to make an Issue of their plight at Geneva Washington a americans whose soviet spouses or loved ones cannot join them in the Wisl Are urging presi Dent Reagan to discuss their situation at the Geneva Summit a Cal week. We would just ask Ihal the pics Ideal not forget us when he s in Geneva. Thal s our main Hope said Frances l. Per Crichl of Chicago. A proximally 30 soviet american Cou Ples arc now separated by Moscow s refusal to permit inc soviet spouse or Fiance to Emi Grale. Seven americans in that predicament and one relative of another met with Law makers and slate department officials thursday to plead their Case on the eve of inc Summit Balw can Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Sen. Paul Simon d-lll., who has worked As an advocate for the so called divided spouses said he has been assured through Senate majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas and the slate department that Reagan will raise inc sub decl As pan of the human rights Agenda at Geneva a Cal week. Reinforce Imp request he said he and the divided spouses warned 10 underscore and reinforce their req Ucol before Reagan departs for Europe on saturday. We re not asking that this dominate things Simon said. Obviously arms control is the main thing on the Agenda Simon and nearly 200 other members of Congress last week sent letters to Rea Gan and Gorbachev asking that the superpowers strive at ii mks to reunite the couples. If the .s.r. Is serious in its desire to improve relations with the United Stales there is no More simple obvious and easy Way to Damu Strale this than by re uniting us with our husbands and said Sandra Gubin of Kal Ama of mich., a spokeswoman for the spouses. Gubin s husband Aleksai , has been refused an Ceil visa by the soviet government eight times since 1981. Gubin and Lodisca married Hal year. They met while she was an Exchange Slud enl. Most fundamental institution the most Funda Mcneal institution in All Sci clips which unites people is marriage Gubin said. It is tragic and unnecessary that what should be a source of Unity has been turned Inlo a source of division Dis Rusl and ill anole or spouse visiting Capitol Hill was Simon Levin of Ducr Field Iii. Levin was allowed to emigrate from Moscow to Israel in 1978, but his wife and infant son have been forced to remain there. Simon said he Mcl Levin s wife and son now 7 years old on a acc Cal trip to the soviet Union. I be had a Chance to Visil Wilh his the senator said. Simon has never seen his own on Way to guard reagans armed with automatic weapon Swiss Tol Dan in Camou Fogt uniforms rid lowing the Mabon a Saul in it Verso in near Greta. To Brit Job b to guard the building when president and mrs. Reagan ill stay during Summit proceeding. Reagan proposes Swap Beac boys for Bolshoi Washington a president Reagan said thursday that he wants the soviet people to hear the Beach boys but the popular 8roup Alwa s Hadl hat Many fans within his own adminis Lauon. In an Oval office speech 36 hours before leaving for his Geneva Summit with Mikhail Gorbachev Reagan proposed renewed cultural exchanges Between the United states and soviet Union. Imagine if people in our nation could see the Bolshoi Ballet again while soviet citizens could see american plays and hear groups like the Beach Boyt Reagan years ago. James Wall then Interior Secretary banned t in Beach boys and their California sound from a scheduled concert on the mall near the Washington Monument because he said the group attracted the wrong Wall retreated in the face of outrage from Beach boys fans including the president and Nancy Reagan but the group had already made other plans and Las vegas crooner Wayne Newton headlined inc 1983 show on Independence Day. In following years. Wall was gone replaced by William Clark but the Beach boys were Back on the mall on the fourth of july. Now icy re gone again. The National Park service said after last summer s show thai in 1986, a More patriotic and family oriented show will be presented
