European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday november 1,1986 Iceland oks shipping pact with . Reykjavik. Iceland apr parliament has ratified an agreement with the United slates giving icelandic and . Shippers equal rights to compete for nato shipping contracts Worth about to million a year. Wednesday s ratification formally ends a dispute that strained relations be tween the two countries. It arose when Iceland complained bit Terry that a . Company. Rainbow navigation inc. Of new Jersey was developing a monopoly in shipping Mili tary Good to the .-run nato base at Kei Lavik Southwest of Reykjavik. Two years ago Rainbow navigation inc. Started taking Over increasing vol Umes of shipping to Kcf Lavik from ice land Eim skip and now defunct Haf skip shipping lines. Rainbow was acting under a 1904 . Law that says . Shippers should transport . Military shipments wherever possible under the new agreement companies in both countries trill make bids Ana the lowest bidder whether icelandic or american will manage 65 percent of the shipping. The other 35 percent will go to the lowest bidder in the other country. Parliament voted 32-7 to ratify the agreement. The dissenters were members of the socialist people s Alliance and the women s Alliance. The Accord was drawn up by Secretary of state George p. Shutlz and Iceland i foreign affairs minister Matthias a. Mathiesen after the United slates tend and failed to gain recognition for Iceland a claim through . Courts. This North Atlantic Island nation of 240.000 inhabitant depends almost entirely on fishing and shipping for its livelihood. World today 1 students arrested with Seoul police Jyh Korea not after a two hour Battle  students hurled gasoline bombs it riot bowmen and set fire to univer sity buildings Thev Urc stormed five buildings and arrested More Iha look students the clash was the Mario tent Between Stu dents and the police since to Tychon protests in May. The students from 26  occupied five buildings at Kongkuk in Ryty since tuesday in prompt against the a overhout of president Chun Doo Hwan and its close 1 the United slates. Economic indicator Index Rose 0.4% in september Washington a the government s main gauge of future economic activity Rose 0.4 percent in september As various business barometers continued to signal steady if unspectacular economic growth. The Rise in the Commerce department s Index of leading indicators followed a 0. Per cent August decline and a 1 percent july in crease. Friday s report on the leading Index is the last major economic statistic to be released before the nov. 4 congressional election a Campaign in which both republicans and democrats have tried to make the Economy an Issue. The increase in the Index was in line with what Many economists had been expecting a gain but not so Strong a one As to signal that the Economy is about to enter a period of rapid growth. . Again cuts staff at embassy in Lebanon Washington a the slate depart ment has further reduced the staff at the . Embassy in Lebanon for Security reasons the department said Friday. The decision was made last saturday but was not announced. For Security reasons we be decided to re Duce further the already Small number of official americans at our embassy in Beirut said Art Berger a slate department spokesman. State department officials speaking on condition they not be identified said that As in the previous staff reductions the latest Batch of workers was taken out of the country by Helicon Rio Cyprus. American tour Plann by Gorbachev Washington a Mikhail Gorbachev plaits to visit Mexis Tad several other latin american countries in Wlk appears to be the most ambitious  Ever by a soviet Leader in the Western  administration officials say. In addition to Mexico  Plant next Spring to visit Cuba Mosmon ally in latin America As Well As Brazil. Rna and possibly other South american count the official told the associated press. Italian Promise sought that . Won t use bases to attack Libya Rome api Italy must guarantee that . Military bases on its soil will not be used to launch attacks against Libya the libyan Deputy foreign minister said thursday. The official Ahmed Sahati. Said the threat from . Military bases in Italy is one of two main Obsta cles to better relations Between Libya and Italy. The other hurdle he said is Italy s refusal to pay Repa rations to Libya for its colonial Rule from 1912 to 1943. Shah i citing the presence of 6th Fleet and other . Bases in Italy said the libyan people demand guarantees that Libya will not be the target of hostile attacks started from italian  some of the . Jets that bombed Libya last april 15 took off from Britain. The Day after the raid Libya fired missiles at the italian Island of Lampedusa apparently aimed at a . Coast guard radar station there. The missiles fell into the sea. Sahati spoke to reporters at the libyan embassy. He attended the interfaith Day of prayer organized in Assisi last monday by Pope John Paul ii. Hah Ali also attacked Britain s decision to break re lations with Syria which followed the conviction in London of a jordanian on charges of trying to blow up an israeli  called on european nations to disassociate them selves from the unjust action by Britain and Reite rated Libya s Solidarity with Syria. Shultz describes soviet Union As backward outcast1 in society Washington a Secretary of state George p. Shults accused the soviet Union Friday of brutal and profoundly repressive treatment of its people and said that country will remain a backward outcast of world society until its record improves. Shultz charged that the recent release of several celebrated dissidents and the opening of Public relations windows to the West Are merely part of a Campaign by the soviets to divert the Public from their continuing and systematic denial of Basic human  his comments made to the los Angeles world of Fain Council marked the most detailed attack in months by the administration of president Reagan on soviet human Rig iils performance. They came at a Lime when the United stale is urging the soviets to sign arms control agreements based on understandings reached at the Iceland Summit Shultz said of the 19-month-old regime of soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev that its capacity for serious negotiation was evident in our arms control discussions at  but he also said arms control agreements with a regime that violates human rights cannot be truly successful in guaranteeing International Security. If soviet authorities Hope to gain acceptance by the International Community they must begin to respect the rights of their people he said. Their Only alternative is to perpetuate the terrible legacy of their past and remain a backward outcast on the margins of the mod Ern  Shultz said he would make similar Points directly to soviet officials next week when he leads a . Delegation to Vienna for the 35-Nalion conference on Security and cooperation in Europe. He no cd that in recent months alter continuous . Pleading the soviet Union has allowed note dissidents such As Anatoly Shch Aransky Yuri Orton and David Goldfarb to emigrate to the West. Shutlz called the moves limited actions calculated to satisfy world opinion at Little or no internal Cost pie soviets Hope no doubt to use these relatively few High profile cases to divert Public attention film their continuing and systematic denial of Basic human  dreadful1 soviet cartoon on aids draws Wrath of . Ambassador Moscow a . Ambassador Arthur a. Hartman on Friday condemned a perfectly dreadful soviet cartoon reviving Moscow s allegations that the ads virus was manufactured under orders of the Pentagon. He dismissed the charges As absolute non  the cartoon printed on Page 5 of the communist party Day pravda on Friday showed a scientist hand ing Over a giant test tube marked aids virus to a military figure who is paying for it in dollars. Bare feel surrounding the two men suggest that corpses lie on either Side of them and objects inside the test lube Are drawn in the shape of nazi swastikas. Above the caption. Pravda ran a quote it said came from unidentified newspapers. The virus of aids a serious disease for which no cure has yet been found was created in the laboratories of the Pentagon according to some Western scientists it said. Hartman who wrote to two soviet newspaper last june to protest their publication of similar allegations told  reporters 1 particularly disliked this morn ing to see the fifth Page of pravda which Baa a perfectly dreadful cartoon. The soviet allegations about the Pentagon s manufacturing the aids virus Are absolute nonsense he said at a news briefing. Hartman s letters o the literary weekly literature Naya gaze a and the daily newspaper Sovie Skaya Ros Siya were Noi printed prompting him to release their texts last july. He said Friday he had written the letters in part because he could see that the articles in the soviet newspapers were the beginning of a Kremlin disinformation Campaign he wanted to halt. The soviet allegation that acquired immune deficiency syndrome resulted from chemical warfare experiments by the Pentagon undermines the credibility of this comm Unis party with ill own Scie tial Hartman added. We know that soviet tie tiits themselves take the risk of aids very seriously  in published article soviet scientists have admit Ltd to having a very few cases of aids in the soviet Union the scientists have been quoted As saying the origin of toe disease is unknown