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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday november 28, 1985 . Seeks military superiority Gorbachev says Moscow a soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorba Chev wednesday charged the United states is trying to gain military superiority with one sided arms plans and said president Reagan s refusal to halt space weapons research prevented any arms control agreement at the Geneva Summit. But he said the total balance of his meeting Wilh Reagan last week was positive especially because it established a personal dialogue Between the leaders of the two superpowers. Gorbachev addressing the supreme soviet the nation s parliament in his first Public assessment Here of the sum Mit said the Reagan administration had poisoned International relations in the Early 1980s and for Yean showed no interest in easing .-soviet tensions. He blamed the United states for the arms race and said the . Approach to resolving regional conflicts around the world is not just different it is opposite to the soviet approach. The speech broadcast live on National television Ard simultaneously translated into English by radio Moscow. Was More negative toward the United states than Gorba Chev s remarks at n Geneva news conference immediately after last week s Summit. But he said the Summit was undoubtedly a significant event and added. We do not by any Means belittle the significance of what was accomplished in  Gorbachev briefed the 12-Mcmber politburo on the Summit monday. A politburo statement issued later noted Points of Contact Between . And soviet arms control proposals that make it possible to work toward disarmament. Gorbachev told the supreme soviet the Kremlin appreciates the personal contacts established with the presi Dent of the United  a dialogue of leaders is always a moment of truth in relations Between countries he said. In our troubled times it is a stabilizing Factor in  Gorbachev credited he soviet Union with making the Summit possible. He said the United states agreed to the meeting Only because its Militarist policies had so heightened world tension that it had no Choice. It would t be fair to omit mention of the attitude of the american Side which contained certain elements of realism he said. But we Are realists and we have to Lay that a solution of the main problems of the arms race did not take place Mikhail Gorbachev right confers with president Andrei Gro Tyko Center and Premier Nikolai Ryz hot in Moscow. Gorbachev said. The unwillingness of the United Stales leadership to give up its Star wars program made it impossible to reach Concrete agreement in Geneva on real disarmament and above All on the Central Issue of nuclear and space  Star wars is he popular name for the strategic de sense initiative the Reagan administration s program of researching a space based missile defense system. Gorbachev said he told Reagan the soviet Union would match any space weaponry developed by the United states and expressed scepticism Over Reagan s offer to share space weapons technology. The soviet Leader reiterated soviet proposals for a 50 percent Cut in weapons capable of striking each nation s territory As Well As reductions in intermediate Range nuclear arms. He Laid is. Counterproposal made before the Summit were one sided and Are dictated by the desire to achieve military superiority for the United Stata and nato As a  Gorbachev said .-soviet bilateral relations have been somewhat brisker lately and mentioned Summit agreements on cultural educational and scientific exchanges. But needless to say developing the full potential of these relations is much easier if problems of Security Are being resolved As Well he said. Gorbachev stressed the importance of the joint . Soviet statement issued after the Summit emphasizing a phrase saying the two nations recognized that a nuclear War must never be fought. I would like to Hope that the United states will in practical policies too follow this important understand ing he said. We Hope that what was said about ski was not the last  Gorbachev also charged the United states is preventing a political settlement to the civil War in Afghanistan by financing  an estimated 115.000 soviet troops arc in that country helping the marxist government Battle islamic insurgents. Fps a car if s a plane no if s Shaf fast new train Essen Germany a the intercity experimental a sleek prototype of West Germany s planned passenger trains in the 1990s, zoomed almost soundlessly to 196 Mph on a test run tuesday. Research minister Heinz Riesenhuber pronounced the 77-million-Mark $30 Mil lion experimental train unveiled by the Bun Desbah German National railway the Best there is in the world  Riesenhuber transport minister Werner Dollinger and Johannes Rau the opposition social democrats candidate for Chancellor in the 1987 elections were among those aboard for the test run. The intercity experimental ice attained its 196 Mph for a five second Span during its 95-mile trip from the Northwestern City of Bielefeld Southwest to Essen in the Industrial Ruhr Valley. Engineers did not hold the ice s top Speed any longer because Only a 5-mile Seg ment of the track was suited for speeds above 186 Mph Bun Desbah officials said. At an average Speed of about 9 Mph the journey from Bielefeld to Etsen took about an hour. The ice s engine could scarcely be heard even at the top Speed and passengers re ported feeling virtually no vibration. The ice is lighter and More aerodynamic than current Bun Desbah trains. It is propelled by an 11,600-Honepower engine and is equipped with such High technology As Wear proof magnetic brakes Glass fiber Gas and Brake cables and a computerized diagnostic system monitoring All mechanical and electrical processes. The Bun Desbah said that by 1991, it expects to introduce about 45 trains based on the ice and Able to reach an average top Speed of 155 Mph. The railway will also install track capable of handling such speeds Over extended stretches. 5 sentenced for injuring 3 after German soccer game Duisburg Germany a a Ger Man court wednesday convicted five soccer hooligans of causing bodily injury and endangering traffic and sentenced them from 18 months to two years probation. The men aged Between 18 and 20, were found innocent of attempted murder charges. Chief judge Gorrit Poensgen said k had not been proven the five intended to kill anyone. The five Duisburg men All supporters of the local soccer team were arrested three Days after they hurled hit size stones and shot signal flares at a bus carrying fans from the rival second division Homburg team on aug. 3. One Homburg fan was seriously injured and two others were slightly Hurt in the attack. The prosecution charged the five at tacked the bus without regard for human life and without considering that they could cause the death of bus  bicycle icicles is Polo l v Poitr j first there was rooftop Snow. Then it melted awl froze a ii dripped. Then Ben was Cool work of pop Art outside Musig in Griesheim Germany  
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