European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. August 24. 1987 the stars and stripes Page Gorbachev Reagan Summit denied . Says there s no basis for report Santa Barbara Calif. Api the stale department issued a statement on sunday denying a published report that a Summit meeting be tween soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and president Reagan is planned for next month in Washington. The denial came in tic Wake of a re port in sunday s editions of the los an gels times that said soviet officials had told the United slates that Gorbachev plumed to Visil new York in late sep tember to attend the . General As Sembly meeting and then would go to Washington to meet with Reagan. There is no basis for the Story in today s los Angeles times said state depart ment spokeswoman Nancy Beck there Are no discussions or current plan for a Summit Between president Reagan and general Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in september in connection with the . Gun Cal Assembly meeting. When he was in Geneva in late 1985the president invited the general Secretary to the United states and that invitation still stands Beck added. Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze is scheduled to Eccl with secretory of stale George Shultz next month and Beck said we look Forward to the planned  an administration Piti Cial in Santa Barbara while the president vacations at his ranch North of Here said he knew nothing about any such visit. A . Official in Washington called the times Story  the official said no arrangements had been made for such a Visil and there had been no definite word that Gorbachev would attend the . Session. The official also said the arms control Agenda is incomplete and negotiators Are working on procedures to verify dismantling . And soviet nuclear missiles. The president s National Security advis or Frank c. Carlucci was Awny from Santa Barbara and could not immediately be reached. Before leaving however he told Cable news network that he had spent saturday with Shutlz and Shutlz had said nothing about a Gorbachev visit. You might think they would have told the president can quoted Carlucci As saying. A Reagan Gorbachev Summit in Washington would be the first .-Sovj Al Summit in the United states since Laic soviet Leader Leonid i. Brezhnev met with president Nixon in 1973. The times quoted officials As saying no Date had been set for the visit and it could be As late As Early october it said Gorbachev s tentative itinerary included a trip to California where he would stay at the president s ranch. It said that in the event that no final arms agreement is reached. Soviet officials have indicated that Gorbachev would shorten his slay in the United slates and confine it to new York and Washington the times said Gorbachev has said publicly several limes that he has no intention of coming to the United Stales As a  but would Rome Only 10 conclude a substantive arms agreement. However . Officials have Long considered in plausible thai the soviet Leader would use the annual september opening of the general Assembly As an opportune ily for a Visil Hal would carry Little risk to his prestige should the two sides fail in reach an arms agreement. Gorbachev s acceptance in july of a . Proposal to eliminate two categories of mis Siles around the world which has come to be known As the global double Zero of lion marked a major step toward conclusion of an arms agreement that has been the subject of negotiations since 19si. Reagan travels to los Angeles on tuesday and plans