European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday december 21. 1985 senators ask Reagan to Start test ban talks Washington up Senate re publicans and democrats arc asking presi Dent Reagan to open tasks with the soviet Union about a ban on All nuclear explosions following a soviet offer for on site inspections to police such a ban. A soviet embassy official in Washington said Friday the Kremlin s offer for on site verification instead of continuing tests is not a Public relations  would be one Way to find out if the soviets arc serious in wanting comprehensive test ban agreement said the dec. 16 letter to Reagan signed by 44 senators and released  letter noted the soviet moratorium on nuclear testing announced last August ends Jan. I and the suspension of nuclear tests by the soviets indicates they May be willing of reach a comprehensive test ban  urge you to consider resuming negotiations towards the conclusion of a verifiable nuclear test ban the senators idler to Reagan  White House said thursday the United slates would not join the soviet moratorium. The soviet Union. Wants to establish joint moratorium on nuclear explosions with the United Stales now and simultaneously agree on some measures of on the spot control to reverse possible doubts about the Observance of such a moratorium the soviet broadcast  Churkin. Second Secretary of the soviet embassy in Washington acknowledged the offer on Abc television Friday and said this is not a specific or narrow proposal. It is a proposal to Stop nuclear weapon less and to Stan immediately negotiations on a treaty to that  step we made is certainly not o Public relations gesture Churkin  arc talking about on nit verification instead of continuing  Malcolm Toon former . Ambassador to the soviet Union told Abc i think it b a Public relations gesture by or. Gorba Chev but i Don t think we should reject it out of hand As we have in the  if in fact it is a serious offer it should be Dicus cd by our experts in Geneva. To reject it out of hand gives the world the impression that we re the ones that Are in flexible Toon said. He denied that is the Case. I think we have to get our act together in Washington. Gel our House in order said Toon a remark he said referred to scrapping Between the Pentagon and the White House Over . Defense policies. Woman who received Jaruk heart shows improvement Minneapolis a the first woman to receive an artificial heart is Able to respond to doctors and is continuing to improve in her second Day since the implant of the new smaller Jarvik-7 pump officials said Friday. But or. Fredarick Gobel a cardiologist who is the spokesman for the implant team said the surgery on Mary Luna May have been too late. I would like to have seen her recover n bit More rapidly than she has Gobel Saidat a news conference. The next step is to however Gobel stood by his statement thursday that Lund a nursing Home Secre tary has a better than 50-50 Chance of  four surgeons implanted a new smaller version of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in a six hour operation that ended Early thurs Day at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Lund 40, was listed in critical but stable condition Friday in an intensive care unit at the privately owned Hospital. Mrs. Lund s condition has not changed a great Deal since thursday night Gobel said. At this time she is still asleep slowly Awakening from the  Gobel said Lund s lungs show a slight improvement but she remains on a Respirator. Her blood clotting ability a returned to Normal he said As have her pulse rate blood pressure and the pressure within her lungs. A breathing lube prevents her from talk ing he said. He said thursday that she could respond to commands to squeeze a doctor s hand or move her legs. Minneapolis heart Institute surgeons and Abbott Northwestern Hospital officiate arc prepared to transplant a human heart into Lund when the time comes he said. That could be weeks away officials said. Gobel said she had been near death be cause her own heart was ravaged by a viral heart ailment. The condition known at viral myocarditis must Clear before a human heart can be transplanted Doctora said. Congress from Page 1 the Bill and lawmakers decided after meet ing for 15 hours to take nine hours for some sleep before trying to end the stalemate later in the Day. One casualty of the wrangling was the Federal cigarette tax which automatically dropped from 16 cents to 8 cents a pack a Midnight thursday. The deficit reduction airman German Man die in head on collision Prem As Germany is a female airman and a German Man were killed Friday morning in a head on collision near Pommersheim . Marci k. Beighley 22, of Harris Burg pa., was dead at the scene. Also killed was Karl Heinz lut/., a merchant from nearby Pitburg. Luu was leaving autobahn 60 on the ramp at the b4io intersection when the Accident occurred according to German police in Prumm. The cars collided the Day after the direction of the autobahn Access Road had Bee changed an air station official said. Ger mar police said Beighley was going the wrong Way on Chr Access Road. Beighley was an electronic switching and computer systems technician assigned to the 601st Lac control so since nov. 18. She is survived by her husband. Airman William t. Beighley who a stationed at Frumm As. Names of other survivors were not available. Package contained a provision making the 16-Ccnt lax permanent. When it appeared that the first session of the 99th Congress might adjourn on thurs Day. Senate democratic Leader Robert c. Byrd of West Virginia graded the  we be been Here too Long Senate majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas said of the session which had been scheduled to end in october. But Dole s comment also applied to the final Day that stretched into thursday night and then into Friday morning. On thursday House and Senate negotiators working on the deficit reduction Mea sure reached agreement on a plan to Cut $60 billion from spending and raise tuxes by s14 billion during the next three years. Medicare would take the biggest Cut More than is 1 billion through 1988 but the most controversial provision would establish a new tax on most Large manufacturing companies to finance the superfund program for cleaning up toxic waste dumps. The Senate approved the Compromise with the superfund provision. The House removed it. The Senate reattached it. Then the House refused to accept the Senate version. In the background administration officials were telling legislators that Reagan opposed the superfund tax because it was 85 Economy grew weakest rate Siru 2 Washington a the us. Econ omy grew a sluggish 2.4 percent in 1985, the weakest Rale since the recession year of 1982, the government reported Friday. The Commerce department said lion s Gross National product  of economic health i Edwn substantially from the  in crease posted in 1984. For the last three Ruhs of this year the Economy u Gro Jivat an estimated annual rate of 3.2 Naff fit according to an initial Flash Ca Kation released Friday. 1 report showed that inflation Roll under control last year. A Gnu inflation Index which measures a con St St Market Basket of goods showed prices Rose  in 1985. The lowest increase sib0npcrccnt gain in 1967. Separate retail Price calculation re leased Friday by the labor department said that consumer prices climbed 0.6 per cent in november the steepest monthly gain since january 1984. That report said however that Price in creases for the first 11 months of the year were running at an annual rate of 3.6 per estimate of 2.4 percent Gnu growth for the entire year the slowest Pace since a 2.1 percent drop in growth during the 1982recession, was below the government pre diction of 2.7 percent growth for the entire hostage taking ends peacefully in prance Nantes France up three heavily armed gunmen who took a courtroom full of people hostage released their last two captives unharmed on an Airport runway Friday and surrendered to authorities police said. Police said the three gunmen freed the last of 35 hostages taken thursday criminal court judge Dominique bait ache 45, and one of his assistants Bernard Bureau. They then turned themselves their .357 magnum pistols and hand grenades Over to police. The end to the 34-hour hostage drama came on the runway of the chateau Bougon Airport near Nantes where the gunmen had hoped to Fly away possibly to Switzerland or Morocco in a government Jet. They included two Frenchman who had been on trial thursday on armed robbery charge and a moroccan who burst into a courtroom at the Nantes courthouse gave the frenchmen guns and helped them Lake the hostages in a bold bid to free his friends. Georges Courtois the Leader of the Trio smiled to reporters As he was led away to be jailed and said we chose the Best Solu  he called reporters at whom he had contrary to his opposition to tax increases of any kind. In addition the administration officials said that even without that tax the president opposed other provisions of the measure and would veto it in any Case. Also on thursday the House and Senate approved an omnibus $368 billion spending Bill to keep Money flowing to much of the government for the next nine months. 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