European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine seeking to Stop the arms 1 by de Reavis staff writer t he Geneva Summit conference betwee president Reagan and soviet chief Mikhai Gorbachev tuesday and wednesday is Jeung dubbed by some As the great communicator meets or.  the Reagan Gorbachev meeting who be the ninth postwar Summit and the first since Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev met in Vienna s Homburg Palace to sign the strategic arms limitations treaty Salt ii on june 18, 1979. The soviets have one great Thorn in their Side they would like to remove in Geneva namely the . Strategic defense initiative commonly referred to As Star  Reagan s top priority is stopping the nuclear arms race. But his Agenda also includes human rights in the soviet Union the soviets 115,000 troops in Afghanistan and increasing people to people exchanges Between the United Stales and soviet Union. Although Reagan and Gorbachev have numerous important issues to discuss they Are scheduled to have just eight hours of actual working meetings two sessions of two hours on tuesday and the same on wednesday. With translation taking up half the total that works out to Lour hours of business or two hours per Leader. It is the capability of both Powers to destroy the world several times Over that ultimately brings both world leaders to seek a Way out of the arms race. Gorbachev in a time Magazine interview in August called ski a dangerous step in the escalation of the arms race. He denied the . Position that it will Lead to the abolishment of nuclear weapons. Gorbachev 54, has offered to Cut the soviet olten Sive nuclear Arsenal by 50 percent if Reagan 74, will forego the strategic defense initiative. The soviets believe ski would give the United Stales a potential first strike advantage. But Reagan who made Star wars a National policy goal in a televised speech March 23, 1983, repeatedly has expressed Hope the ski program with its anti missile space shield will Lead in the not too Distant future to the abolition of All nuclear weapons. The soviets have been forewarned that Reagan will not comply with any demands or enticements to abandon ski. In his address to a Republican rally in Boise. Idaho on oct. 16, Reagan said the United states will not bargain away the Multi billion Dollar research and testing program. The soviets Aii Eady have raised a clamor that ski plans Are an infraction of the 1972 anti ballistic missile abm agreement. Bui defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger in an article in the Christian science Monitor said. Ski is a research program. It is in Complete Accord with the abm treaty. The president s ski program is directed against the whole spectrum of offensive nuclear ballistic missiles not just Long Range missiles aimed at the United states. Indeed if the research succeeds in May free Europe from the Specter of soviet intermediate Range  to the soviet claim of treaty violation the United states can counter that the soviets violated the abm treaty with the construction of a Large radar Center at Krasnoyarsk in Central Siberia. The current negotiations on reduction of nato and Warsaw pact conventional forces also May be addressed at the Summit along with issues relating to chemical warfare. Reagan intends to press the Issue of human rights in the soviet Union especially the treatment of soviet jews and scientists Andrei Sakharov and Anatoly Suharansky. Since both countries have suffered the consequences of Middle East terrorism that Issue also May be brought up. Other topics on Reagan s Agenda Are the strife in Angola vietnamese aggression in Cambodia and the arming of guerrillas in Central America. In a televised speech thursday Reagan stressed the need for More athletic competitions and More student and cultural exchanges. The United states also Hopes to Complete technical agreements with the soviets on civil aviation a consulate Exchange and air safety in the North Pacific following the 1983 Downing of a korean Airliner by soviet fighters. . Official Hope the soviets will remove enough economic and Legal restrictions to make it worthwhile for pan american world airways to resume flights to Moscow. Another possible agreement concerns the United states establishing a consulate in Kiev and the soviets opening another office in new York for handling commercial matters. In preparation for the Summit Gorbachev has developed an unusual sense of Public relations Lor a soviet Leader. Reagan countered by speaking directly to the solve people Over voice of America radio and granting the soviet press the first interview with an american president in 24 years. In the 40-Mlnute interview Reagan asked rhetorically if it would t be better if a system were found that would make it impossible for nuclear missiles to reach their targets. And if we find such a thing my proposal is that we make it available to All the  he said. We Don t just keep it for our own  sunday november 17, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13