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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, November 7, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. November. 1983 the stars and stripes Page 3  arms talks end on bitter note Vienna Austria a High level superpower arms control talks ended bitterly thursday with the soviet Union accusing he United Stales of a com plete Retreat from positions agreed to at the Iceland Summit. Secretary of state George p. Shutlz said Star wan was still the clicking Point. After live hours of meeting. With soviet foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze Over two Days Shultz clearly disappointed told reporters i can1 say the meetings have moved us along in any significant Way and i regret  Shevardnadze in an acerbic summary before Board ing a plane for Moscow said he departed with a "bittertaste.6 lie accused the . Side of a Complete Retreat from the oct. 11-12 Summit meeting in Iceland be tween president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev. Arms control positions conveyed by Shutlz rep resent a mixed bag of old mothballed views and approaches he said. One cannot avoid the impression that Pur partners the americans wished to forget Reykjavik As soon As  the Reykjavik Iceland Summit ended in deadlock Over the Star wars anti missile program after Rea Gan rejected restrictions on testing of it As part of an arms reduction Deal. The arms talks in Vienna on the Periphery of a 35 nation Helsinki Finland review conference focused on the tentative agreements Between Reagan and Gorbachev to reduce nuclear weapons and the dispute Over Star  Sulu met for three hours wednesday night with Shevardnadze at the . Embassy and again for nearly two Houra thursday morning at the soviet embassy. In addition . And soviet arms control experts discussed the details of All three arms control areas Long Range missiles intermediate Range missiles in Europe and space based defences at a three hour work ing session that ran into the Early hours of thursday. In the Only apparent Glimmer of Progress Shevardnadze agreed to consider a proposal by Shutlz that . And soviet experts meet when regular .-sovielarms control negotiations in Geneva Switzerland Are in recess. The current round winds up next week. The talks Are not scheduled to resume until january. Well keep at it Shultz said. There s a Chance in the end Well get  but he said the soviets were intent on crippling the strategic defense initiative As the project for employing futuristic technology As a shield against nuclear attack is formally known. If that is their purpose it is not going to work Shultz said. Earlier Shutlz had emphasized his determination to press for greater respect for human rights in the soviet Union. He named assistant Secretary of state Rozanne l. Ridgway As co Leader of the american team Here. She plays a Central role in formulating . Human rights policy. Off Tao soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze left and . Secretary of stale George Shultz thursday leave the soviet embassy in Vienna Austria after an unsuccessful second round of arms control talks. Presiding with her was Paul h. Nitze the principal weapons adviser to Shutlz and the chairman of the . Delegation that met for More thin 10 hours with soviet experts in Iceland Shultz arrived Al 8 00 . At the front of the soviet embassy and was greeted at the door by Shevardnadze. The two men Shook hands spoke briefly about the weather the skies were Gray and threatened rain then moved inside to resume their talks. Shutlz s meeting with Shevardnadze at the . Embassy on wednesday was scheduled for an hour and a half. It lasted twice that Long. Charles e. Redman the state department spokes Man described the first Day s meeting As a serious discussion on How to build on the full Agenda that was discussed at  Shutlz stressed earlier in a speech to a 35-Nationconference in Vienna that arms control cannot exist As a process in isolation from other sources of tension in East West  he accused the soviets and their allies of perpetuating a tragic human rights situation by imprisoning dissidents and severely restricting emigration of jews and other minorities. The conference is reviewing the 1975 Helsinki agreement which pledged signers to accelerate exchanges of people and ideas Between East and West. At Reykjavik tentative agreement was reached on the elimination of . And soviet intermediate Range nuclear warheads in Europe. Another proposal would have reduced Globe circling bombers missiles and sub marines with nuclear payloads by 50 percent within five years. Shevardnadze in his speech wednesday to the 35-nation conference indicated the soviets still insist on constraints on the Star wars program. The intent of that Enterprise is transparently Clear to release the space Genie from the test lube As soon As possible in order to gain military superiority he said. Even so Shevardnadze acceded to Shultz s request and assigned a delegation to meet with the . Work ing group. It included Viktor p. Karpov the chief so Viet negotiator a the Geneva arms control talks and Alexander  a Deputy foreign minister. But marshal Sergei f. Akrom Eyck who headed the soviet delegation in Reykjavik and made several Deci Sive moves was not present. 5 americans stuck in .s.r. Say . Has let them Down Moscow a five . Citizens who have spent All or Roost of their lives in the soviet Union and been denied permission to emigrate contended thurs Day that they had been left to the mercy of the Sovi  a news conference the four men and one woman charged he Reagan administration has not done enough to help them. If officials working at the . Embassy Are unable to secure our Freedom then it is certainly the responsibility of High officials of the government the president to pick up the Case and handle it personally said Kim Lewis a new York born biologist brought to Moscow by his Mother As a baby in 19s5. The Kremlin claims the five Are soviet citizens. Lewis and the four others said . Embassy of i Ciais in Moscow say they Are doing everything they can to persuade the soviets to Issue exit visas. But the said in a statement that they had received no replies to letters written to Secretary of state George p. Shultz i april and to president Reagan in september. In effect a Are being left to the mercy of the soviets their statement said. The , embassy said later that it is sympathetic tothe plight of the five and will continue to make representations on their behalf. It said ambassador a thur a. Hartman meets regularly with the five. The five people signing the Appeal arc Lewis son of Tim Lewis of new York. Lewis bom in 1953, says he was brought to Moscow in 19ss by his Mother and communist grandmother. Andrei Yefremov the son of a soviet Man and a american woman who came to the soviet Union in the 1930s. His Mother sister and Nephew went to the United states in 1979. Janet Kotlyar the daughter of two americans who came to the soviet Union in the 1930s. Her father died in the soviet Union but her Mother and brother Leo nid were repatriated in 1971. She was permitted to visit her dying Mother in the United slates in 1983,but says that she her husband and their daughter have been denied permission to emigrate. Abe and Michael Stolar. Abe Stolar was brought to the soviet Union at age 19 in 1931 and says he was made a soviet citizen then without his knowledge. He his soviet born wife Julia and their son Michael received permission in 1975 to emigrate to is Rael but were stopped Al the last minute from boarding plane. Soviet Rockef lights up sky in Western . New York a a soviet rocket Booster fell into the atmosphere late wednesday As a multicoloured fireball that blazed hundreds of Miles across the Iky of the Western United slates As a startling string of lights officials and wit Nesses said. It looked like 100 stars All falling together it was moving very fast and appeared to be like a Comet with Bright debris falling off it said Adrienne Berry a controller at the Mccarran International Airport in Lai vegas  United states space command at Cheyenne Mountain reports that a soviet rocket body used to launch a satellite re entered the Earth s atmosphere at 9 11 . Tonight thurs Day Over the Western United slates said air Force i. Col. Chuck Wood at the North Ameri can defense come in Colorado Springs. The Craft which Norad had monitored units route Back to Earth burned up on re entry. The lights were reported from Elpaso Texas Canon City and Lai vegas Nev new Mexico the Southern California desert and san Diego  
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