European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday october 19,1987 very Good Progress noted in nuke talks Washington a Progress on a  agreement 10 eliminate intermediate Range nuclear missiles has been very Good in the past month but both sides remain divided on How to pre vent cheating the head of the . Arms control and disarmament Agency says. The official Kenneth l. Adelman told reporters at the stale department Friday that since september when both sides agreed in principle 10 eliminate the so called inf missiles " he Progress has been better than 1  when you look at the Span of the past six months and find out How the russians have gone toward our position on this i think it s quite Clear they Madea decision six months ago logo to an inf agreement Adelman said. At the same Lime he cautioned that there will still be final touches after president Reagan and soviet Genera Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev set a Dale for a Summit. Arms control negotiators for inc two countries have been trying to come up with an agreement in time for a superpower Summit this year. Negotiators have been meeting in Geneva Tor the past three weeks in an extort to agree on a timetable for elimination of the inf missiles and on a lengthy verification pact. The process will heat up in Moscow this week when Secretary of state George Shultz and soviet foreign minister Edu Ard a. Shevardnadze try to Settle enough outstanding issues to set a Summit Date Ai which Reagan and Gorbachev could sign a pact. Adelman dismissed the possibility that a recent soviet demand regarding West German penning 1a rockets could kill the agreement. The German government has prom ised to get rid of inc 72 weapons if the superpower reach an inf agreement but the soviets have said they want that pledge codified in he treaty. The United state Uyi the soviets should accept the German Promise. Asked if the soviet demand could scuttle the agreement Adelman said i think the intention is More to disrupt the Alliance than anything they Are really worried about in terms of  still to be set is the extent of inspections of . And soviet missile production and storage facilities once a agreement is reached he said. Myerson does f blame Koch for ending their Long Friendship former miss America bos Menon of l photo new York a former miss America Bess Myerson says she docs not blame mayor Edward 1. Koch for turning his Back on their Long Friendship because of inc Federal charges she faces. That is a decision he has to make Myerson told new York new Day in an interview published sunday. Myerson along with her companion. Carl Capas so pleaded innocent thursday to Federal charges that they tried to influence a now retired state judge Horton so Gabel into granting favourable terms for Capasso s divorce. Gabeff also was charged in inc alleged scheme. Myerson 63, was instrumental in Koch s 1977 elec Tion walking hand in hand with the Bachelor Congress Man during the Campaign and appearing in commercials hoping to dispel rumours thai he was homosexual this is a difficult time for him she told the newspaper referring to a City corruption scandal. "1don t hold him to blame in any  however she said she was shocked by Koch s claim that he invited her to a passover seder last april be cause he feared she might try to harm herself. I assure you that my slate of mind was Fine then As it is now and As it has been All along Myerson said in a firm voice. He never expressed that to me she said of Koch s claim thai he feared she woulr1 i herself. He never said to me Are you All Rit we did t even discuss  new Day s interview was the first the former new York cultural affairs commissioner has Given in months. On the advice of her attorney Myerson declined to discuss the divorce ring Case other than to say i hive done nothing  she claimed the it not devastated by the loss other career and the destruction of her image. Juk documents reportedly debunk missile crisis myths Boston Kupij president Kennedy bucked the advice of All his top advis ers when he decided not to attack cub during the 1962 missile crisis the Boston Globe reported sunday. The Globe which obtained documents that will be made Public wednesday by the Juk Library in Boston said that Only the president favored the Compromise solution suggested by soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev in which the United states would re move Jupiter missiles from Turkey in Exchange for the soviet Union s withdrawal of its nuclear missiles from Cuba. Kennedy Library officials could not be reached for comment on the Globe report. The Globe said the documents Tran scripts of meetings held by the executive committee of the National Security coun cil on saturday oct. 27, 1962show that All of Kennedy s closest aides including his brother. Attorney general Robert f. Ken Nedy supported an airstrike or an invasion to remove the soviet missiles in Cuba de spite thu danger of sparking War. Previously a number of Juk s lop aides were believed to have sided with the presi Dent in opposing an attack. According to the official summary re cords of the meetings the president noted we arc now in the position of risking War in Cuba and in Berlin Over missiles in tur key which arc of Little military  the administration already had decided to eliminate the missiles in Turkey but they had not yet carried out the plan. Robert Kennedy disagreed with the Compromise solution and urged at a meet ing later that Day that we buy Lime now in order 10 launch an air attack monday or tuesday oct. 29 or 30. Khrushchev announced the withdrawal of the missiles from Cuba sunday morning after a night meeting Between Kuk and Sovil ambassador analogy Dobrynin Dur ing which the attorney general Rich cd the president s agreement to the soviet pre Mier s proposal. President Kennedy added to the proposal thai the United Stales would dismantle its weapons in  five months later so he would not appear to have backed Down. Mecham predicts hell be re elected for second term Phoenix Ariz. A surrounded by Well wish ers Ai a saturday afternoon rally a combative gov Evan Mecham dismissed efforts to recall him and predicted he would win a second four year Lerm. After eight years we re going to go fishing the Republican governor told a cite Cong crowd of 300 peo ple in the Plaza at the state , who appeared to chants of Evev eve told the crowd it should t be surprised at the recall movement against him because people who stand for things generally run into a Little flak Here and  we have some people Here who Are an embarrassment to us but it in t the governor Mcshara said. There in t any body who can Point to anything i be done that was an embarrassing  the governor told the crowd he had made Only one dumb statement in Mecham office when he asked whether Pope John Paul ii spoke  think i ought to be allowed one every Quarter he said to laughter. I m just have one dumb statement a Quarter. I won t say anything unkind about anybody. Even when it s , who won a three Way race with about 40 percent of the vote Lasi fall has seen his support erod ing since fellow conservative former sen. Barry Gold water called for his resignation on oct. 8.Mecham sparked a controversy when he rescinded a Martin Luther King Holiday for slate employees. He later said that working women cause divorce and de fended a reference to he term Pickan innies for Black children in a history textbook. Up it Patrao Juk Confer nil Cabinet members Dan Rusk kit and Robert s. Mcnamura. According to the clone. The paper said the documents debunk previously held Millis about the administration s handling of the crisis brought about when american spy planes discovered that soviet missile were being placed on the Caribbean ii lond. One myth is that the president forced he soviets to Back Down by imposing n naval blockade on Cuba