European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 visitors from some 45 nations abort left impede the array of chemical weapons in the soviet Arsenal while a soviet Soldier explains some of the weapons on Dup Ltd. Soviets Host tour of chemical arms Complex Moscow up diplomats and weapons experts from 4s countries ended an unprecedented tour of a soviet chemical weapons Complex sunday where they witnessed a display of the country s chemical weapons Arsenal and a demonstration on How the arms would be destroyed when a treaty ban Ning them is reached. The trip to the military facility at Shikany 90 Miles North of Saratov in the Volga Region was triggered by the Kremlin s desire to reach a pact outlawing such weapons the official Tass news Agency said for the past 3d years talks in Geneva involving 40 countries including the superpowers have failed to come up with an agreement. However in inc pail five years diplomats have noted More urgency in the talks. The United states represented at the demonstration by inc head of its Geneva delegation Man Fried Ratoff and the soviet Union Are holding their own bilateral talks to draft a treaty As Well. Western diplomats have said the main obstacle to reaching an agreement was the soviet refusal to accept on Sile Challenge inspections. However the so Viet position has softened. Three representatives from each of the 40 coun tries participating in the Geneva talks along with five other specially invited countries went on the tour. The two Day trip to Shikany was designed o show the soviet Union s willingness to accept such Challenge inspections. Last june the Kremlin admitted for the first erne that it had a stockpile of . Among nations to View Arsenal chemical weapons and was still producing them. On sunday the visitors witnessed the destruction of a 506-Pound chemical weapons bomb loaded with a toxic substance called Sarin. Wearing Gas masks and protective White suit the group watched from a Glass Blockhouse n soviet military experts first disarmed the exp Iusie mechanism and then Drew some of inc toxin out of the bomb injecting a Rabbit thai fell dead a few seconds later. The Poison Hen was drawn off in a vacuum Cham Ber. Under High heat and pressure in Lumc into a harmless chemical compound. The compound then was vaporized in a High temperature oven. The Only thing left from the bomb was a hunk of scrap Metal. The materials needed to Curry out the destruction process Are Mobile. On saturday the group was shown what soviet officials described As inc full Range of the Kremlin s chemical weapons Arsenal. Of the 19 chemical weapons on display 10 acre for Cannon Type and rocket artillery two were chem ical warheads for tactical missiles six were samples of air bombs and sprinkling devices and one was a chemical hand grenade. A poster placed near each of the samples gave its combat designation Caliper the name of the toxic agent in the munition and the Type of Lute and Type of explosive Tass reported. The United states has accused Moscow of using chemical weapons in Afghanistan and of supplying chemical arms to Iraq. The demonstration at Shikany of the Arsenal of Standard chemical charges and of the military object itself which is directly connected with the chemical weapons problems puts beyond any doubt the desire of the .s.r. To create favourable conditions at the final stage of the working out of a convention on a chemical weapons ban u. Gen. Anatoly Kulse Vich from the defense ministry told the group. This is another proof of the emergence of the entirely new standards  last month a group of . Congressmen were allowed to tour the Krasnoyarsk radar installation in Siberia a Complex that the Reagan administration has claimed violates the anti ballistic missile treaty of 1972. . Military observers list month also watched soviet War games near Minsk. We Hope the positive Steps taken by the soviet leadership in this Field will compel the United states administration to reconsider its stance Kunsevich said in reference to the . Decision to go ahead with the production of binary chemical charges and deploy them in Europe. Friedersdorf said the demonstration would help to improve the atmosphere at the Geneva talks. The latest soviet american understanding on intermediate Range weapons considerably improved a Chance of reaching an agreement on chemical weapons he said. Robertson draws crowds in demo stronghold Union . A pal Robertson said saturday that if he s elected presi Dent he won t negotiate with the soviet Union until in leaves Afghanistan and lean Down the Berlin Wall. The former television evangelist also promised to Send arms and supplies to anti soviet guerrillas around the Globe and establish a strike Force to Deal with International terrorism. Robertson rep. Jack Kemp and the family members of three other Republican presidential candidates Drew Strong applause saturday in the traditionally democratic Himer Linds of South Carolina with their advocacy of limited government and Strong defense. Vice president George Bush was rep resented by his on George former Del aware gov. Pete do Pom by his son. Ben and sen. Bob Dole by his wife Elizabeth. They spoke in some or All of the stump rallies saturday in the Small towns of Union Ladson and Conway. In Union county Robertson also was the overwhelming Choice in an unscientific Straw pal conducted during the rally and supervised by county gop officials. Bui it appeared Many at the rally did not participate because the voting Center was located Al the end of the lunch line. South Carolina s gop primary on March i is crucial because in comes three Days before super tuesday when Prima Ries and caucuses in is slates mostly in the South will decide More than one fourth of the delegates to the National convention. "1 think South Carolina is very important especially in momentum said Oran Smith Kemp s slate co chairman. In Union county where in this Cen Tury the people have never elected a re publican for local office and have never held a presidential rally Robertson arrived at the Fairgrounds in a caravan of 121 cars carrying about 400 people. As he stood on an actual slump that was sawed off and placed on the stage. Robertson said his wife Dede does t like communism and she s not interested in me winning the Nobel  in an Effort to de colonize he soviet Union Robertson said i would Send arms and supplies to the Brave indigenous Freedom fighters that Are found in Angola Mozambique Afghanistan and  lit did he would t talk with the so Viets unless they Crft Afghanistan and Tore Down the Berlin Wall. In Nicaragua Robertson did he would try to set up a separate rebel government. Robertson s followers were fervent in their loyalty and they chanted Pat for "88" As he was leaving the Union county Fairgrounds. We watched you on can we love you several people said As Robertson of look their hands. Some were crying. The crowd was polite but not enthusiastic for the other candidates. The Potts show Bush with n Strong Lead in South Carolina. But when George Bush or. Spoke in Union most of the crowd was in the Barbecue line. The 41-year-old owner of an Oil exploration business told reporters his father would have drawn a Large crowd