European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 stars and stripes monday March 10, 1986 Weinberger supports . Staff limits new York a . Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger on sunday defended the . Decision to limit the number of staffers at the soviet Mission to the United nations in new York saying Many of them Are spies. He also said it will be the soviets fault if a Summit is not held this year. Speaking about the . Decision announced Friday that the number of people in the soviets . Mission should be Cut from 275 to about 170 by april 1988, Weinberger said it s not an unfriendly act to get rid of some spies. I think it s a perfectly reasonable the soviets have twice As Many people in their . Mission As virtually anybody else. There is no question that the Only reason those people Are there is because they Are accomplished espionage agents trained to speaking during an interview televised by the Abc network Weinberger discounted the opinion of some Legal experts that under International Law the United states does not have the right to impose such a limit. "1 can t conceive of any lawyer saying that in a Way that could possibly affect the sovereignty of the United states to have or have not the people within its Borders whom they wish. It is perfectly absurd to keep on allow ing organized espionage on this scale to be conducted against asked if he expected soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and president Reagan to meet for a june Summit Wein Berger responded the soviets have made a lot of noises to the effect that they Don t want to have one then. We want Mohave one it should be in the june or july period. If there in t a Summit it will simply be because the soviets Are afraid to have one or Don t want to have when Gorbachev and Reagan met last year in Geneva they agreed two More summits should be held one in the United states this year and one in Moscow in 1987. The soviets have said they would prefer to meet in september rather than june. But the United states says that is too close to its november elections. The soviets have also said they Don t think a Summit should be held unless it is certain to produce Progress on arms control. Meanwhile High ranking . Officials Are investigating whether it was Legal for the United states to order the soviet Mission to Cut its staff by a third the new York times reported sunday. But Legal experts told the times that even if the United nations determines that the american directive is illegal there is nothing it can do to Stop it. The United states move would reduce permanently assigned staffs at the soviet ukrainian and byelorussian missions from a total of 275 to 170 by april 1, 1988, for what american officials say Are National Secu Rity reasons the newspaper said. Under arrangements that led to the creation of the United nations the soviet Union is represented by a delegation from its Central government As Well As delegations from Ukraine and byelorussian two of its constitutional republics because those areas suffered heavily in the German invasion during world War ii. The soviet delegation is therefore twice As Large As the next largest Mission the times said. . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar was informed of the . Order for a Cut in the staffs of the soviet missions by an american Delegate Friday the times said. This is quite a sensitive matter and our Legal counsel is studying the matter Virenda Dayal an aide to Perez de Cuellar told the newspaper. The legality of the decision rests on three documents drafted soon after the United nations was founded in 1945, experts in International Law told the newspaper. The times said the documents include the general convention on privileges of 1946, a 1947 report of the Senate foreign relations committee and most important the Headquarters agreement of 1947 a contract signed by the . Secretary general and the . Secretary of state detailing the privileges and immunities of missions. None of the agreements put a specific limitation on the size of . Missions although they do discuss delegates believed to have abused their privileges and immunities the newspaper noted. One of the options for dealing with them is expulsion the times said. More farms closed As testing Tor bad milk continues Little Rock Ark. A state health investigators worked through the weekend testing milk for a pesticide suspected of causing cancer and the number of quarantined Dairy farms in Northwestern Arkansas Rose to 36, officials said sunday. Or. Ben Saltzman director of the state health department said he was surprised by the number of quarantined operations. We were talking about 27 by the end of saturday or today he said sunday. Officials have said that up to 300 Dairy farms could be quarantined because of contamination by the pesticide Hep Bachlor. The More testing we can get done Over the weekend the better. This is a slow procedure and we Don t know the danger at this Point Saltzman said. Saltzman said there had been no reports of sickness from Hep Bachlor which was banned from production in 1983 after tests on rats indicated it was a possible Carcinogen. Well look for signs and symptoms he said. We Haven t had the Opportunity to Check with the medical profession in North West Arkansas but i m sure they would be contacting us if they knew of Saltzman said Hep Bachlor affects the Ner Vous system causing tremors and vomiting and upon death convulsions. We Don t expect anything like that he said. Hep Bachlor settles in body fat officials have said and it is not known whether it leaves the body. Officials of the Federal food and drug administration discovered Hep Bachlor in cattle feed produced by Valley feeds of Van Buren during routine checks of feed operations in february. The company Sells dropping to for novels watch it Wilmington Ohio a intellectuals should t feel guilty about watch ing the tube because the average Quality of newly published novels is no better than television shows says Wilmington College professor Clifford Hardie. In one recent week i watched a Fine series on Peter the great a film on the career of Edward r. Murrow and an intelligent series of interviews on the Macneil Lehrer news report said Hardie a professor of literature and writing. In t it time we admitted that at least on a Given Day television is no longer a vast wasteland but an instrument for education As Well As entertainment even so he said recently he urges his freshman students in composition classes to read More books and watch less television. Of course there is a lot of garbage on the tube Hardie said. But have you Ever read a sampling of modern novels published in any Given year most of us read Only two new books in thousands published in 1984 by Type sociology economics religion technology Chicago Tribune graphic source . Census Bureau or three of the Best ones after checking the reviews in the new York times. So Why expect television to be any bet Ter it s just a form of snobbery to expect that in a democratic society All products will be geared for the crowd that says it watches Only masterpiece theatre and the evening news he said. Hardie said he supports the theory of author Marshall Mcluhan a professor who wrote the Book understanding Media which said the Advent of the film and television age has converted americans into a visually oriented society. It s pretty hard to dispute that theory Hardie said. My own Way of dealing with visually oriented students is to include films filmstrips and More blackboard exercises than i did 20 years ago. I still won t give up on getting them to read Shakespeare but i might alternate Between Reading the text and looking at sir Laurence Olivier s Superb film version of Hamlet " feed to cattle raisers in Arkansas Missouri and Oklahoma. Health officials recommended Friday that pregnant women and nursing mothers in Northwest Arkansas Eastern Oklahoma and Southern Missouri substitute powdered milk for fresh because babies Are particularly susceptible to toxins. Jerry Hill director of the state health department s Bureau of environmental services said officials did not determine the extent of the problem until March. He said officials were sampling milk at operations that have bought feed from Valley feeds in the past six months. Hill said Friday that the contaminated feed contained Grain Mash left Over after production of alcohol for gasohol at . Inc. Of Van Buren owner of Valley feeds. Mash is commonly sold As cattle feed. The Grain was contaminated by the chemical before it arrived at the gasohol Plant and fermented for alcohol Hill said. Saltzman said Dairy Farmers were cooperating with state officials. They re worried of course he said. This is their officials also took milk samples from stores and production plants. Samples from stores were to be shipped to Fra offices in Kansas City Dallas and new Orleans. Saltzman said the results would be available tuesday at the earliest and any contaminated milk would be re moved from stores. Based on a similar Case in Hawaii Saltz Man has said he does not believe the tainted milk has created an emergency. He said officials in Hawaii told him Fri Day that milk there had been contaminated with Hep Bachlor possibly As Long As from 1956 to 1982, but that there had been no indication of immediate or Long term health problems. Bestsellers compiled by the new York times fiction 1the Bourne supremacy by Robert Ludlum 2lie Down with Lions by Ken Follett 3lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor 4the Mammoth Hunters by Jean m. Auel 5cyclops by Clive Cussler 6texas by James a. Mtchener 7the handmaid s tale by Margaret Atwood 8angels of september by Andrew m. 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