European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday. June 2,1968 ., soviets still divided Over Star wars Moscow a president Reagan and Kremlin Leader Mikhail s. Gorba Chev reported Progress wednesday Over two obstacles to a strategic arms Deal but ended their fourth Summit divided Over the main impediment the Star wars program. "1 would Hope that before the year is out that we could eliminate the differences thai still Mist Reagan said. But there seemed Little Prospect for any imminent breakthrough. After four Days of intense talks the two leaders ordered their negotiators to return to Geneva on july 12 to work on proposed treaty to Cut superpower nuclear arsenals by 30 percent to so percent. Gorbachev told reporters it is still possible to sign an agreement in this and Reagan said Conversa Tion s arc still going on and they Are Stilt being discussed and i say Progress is still being made or we would t be talking As we in a 24-Page joint statement the two leaders announced achievement of sub Stantial additional common ground on two of the five major disputed areas on the proposed strategic arms reduction treaty Star ways of monitoring Mobile missiles and counting nuclear tipped cruise missiles on warplanes. Bui Arms negotiator Edward Rowny said there was a lot of room logo in the two areas. And he said we did t get anywhere on the two biggest obstacles to a treaty keeping track of submarine fired cruise missiles and soviet objections 10 Rea Gan s Star wars missile defense program formally known As the strategic defense initiative. Besides modest Progress on Start the two leaders inched ahead on other arms control issues. They exchanged ratification protocol for the intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty to eliminate medium Range nuclear missiles which was signed at the Washington Summit last Decem Ber and ratified by the Senate last Friday and by the soviet Assembly of presidents 17 hours later. During the Summit Gorbachev and Reagan also signed two lesser arms control agreements one requiring Advance Noti fice of ballistic missile tests and an other to tighten verification procedures for a 1974 treaty limiting nuclear tests to Isolid loons. On the Start treaties Officials said they had restated opposition to deployment of soviet ss-24 and ss-25 mis Siles it is the position of the United states that such missile should be banned unless the United Stales and the soviet Union can reach agreement on provi Sions which provide for effective verification and strict numerical limits on the number of nuclear weapons carried by such missiles Officials said. The two sides remained far apart instar wars and How to negotiate reductions in conventional armies. We have missed a Chance to take an important step Forward Gorbachev told reporters. President from Page 1 american reporter whether he fell he was letting or. Gorbachev off a i talc easy on just saying it s bureaucracy that bars russians from leaving. The question grew out of Reagan s reply to a student at Moscow state University on tuesday about dissidents and refuseniks those who have been denied visas and often lose their jobs or arc otherwise punished merely for seeking permission to leave. I m not blaming you i m blaming bureaucracy Reagan told the student. We have the same Type of thing happen in our country. On other issues Reagan expressed optimism that the United slates and soviet Union could come to terms on a treaty to re Duce their arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons by 30 percent 10 50 percent. The conversation arc still going on and they Are still being discussed and 1 say Progress is still being made or we would t be talking As we Are be said. Refused to commit himself to a fifth Summit with Gorbachev but did not Rule out the possibility of one even without a Start agreement to sign. Maintained that his disavowal of his earlier characterization of the soviet Union As an evil Empire results from changes instituted by Gorbachev. I read perestroika and i found much in it that i agreed with Reagan said acres troika meaning re structuring is the title of a Book by Gorbachev but it was his remark about soviet bureaucracy that raised the most pointed question. In this room on monday the reporter said you heard moving stories of people who had been in Pris on dissidents religious people and then you went Lomo scow slave University and then you wrote it off to bureaucracy. Is that really your View that it is Only the bureaucracy it is not a wilful policy of the govern ment Here to keep these people from emigrating in response Reagan said the question had been presented to me on the basis that it possibly was a bureaucratic actually the student s question had beep Why had Reagan invited Only refuseniks and dissidents to meet Wilh him the previous the Summit the president has soft Ped aled his customary attacks of the communist system. He was reminded that at his first news conference in the White House in 19bi, he said that communist leaders Are willing to lie and cheat in Pursuit of world if thai was still his View he said thai in 1981 he had merely been quoting what communist Leader themselves had said. Using the russian words he said with a smile that his policy remains Trust but ver met with reporters shortly Afler Gorbachev at the first news conference he had Ever held in the soviet Union noted with pleasure thai Reagan had retracted his characterization of this country As an evil said Gorbachev and other soviet Leaden have had a feeling thai in some Way american concern with human rights conditions in the soviet Union constitute interfering in your internal govern ment Gorbachev from Page 1 Muni that ran about 50 minutes and then look questions for just Over an hour before a crowd of several Hundred journalists. At one Point Gorbachev orchestrated a shift in Seal assignments and translation devices to help foreign correspondents understand his remarks. The session look place in the foreign ministry press Center. The soviet Leader who has appeared before the press after previous summits but never before in mos cow and never before on National to said the Summit had culminated in a 24-Page joint statement that provided the bricks for the soviet Union s future relationship Wilh the United slates. He was particularly passionate in discussing a question concerning ousted Moscow communist party Leader Boris Yeltsin. He reiterated his criticism of his one time protege and dismissed Yeltsin s suggestion that the Kremlin s no. 2 Man Yegor Migachev should resign. Yeltsin pressed for a quicker Pace for perestroika Gorbachev s Campaign to modernize the soviet econ omy and society but Gorbachev said he was overruled by his fellow members of the communist party s policymaking Central committee. Gorbachev defended his reforms against ail Comers saying perestroika will win he also said he had heard no alternative to his reforms and concluded there can be some Maneu vers. But we have under taken irreversible he held out Little Hope for a fifth meeting with Rea Gan before the american president leaves office next january but said continuation of inc dialogue that has produced four summits in less than three years is not Only possible i think it is vitally he said the strategic defense initiative was one sure obstacle to the elusive breakthrough on an offensive arms Accord along with a dispute Over limits on sub Marine launched cruise missiles. Later he said he told Reagan thai the View thai the so called Star wars program is strictly a defensive one is just not Gorbachev sitting at a table with key members of his Summit negotiating team dominated the session energetically expressing himself smiling and gesturing with his hands. The party general Secretary indicated the United states and soviet Union had made recent Progress in conventional arms talks in Europe bul accused the United states of incomprehensible Maneu vers that scuttled any mention of that in the joint statement iss de at the close of the Summit talks. Asked about the Middle East Gorbachev said for the first time that As soon As an International Confer ence on the Region is convened we arc prepared to address ourselves to regularizing relations Wilh Israel which were severed in 1967. On human rights he said that when Reagan tried to persuade me to change my mind i said you explanations arc not convincing. I am not filled with admiration at this aspect of the Reagan met with dissidents and refuseniks As a Cornerstone of his five Day visit Here. After talking about what he called the contrary Atti tude of the United slates on some issues Gorbachev singled out economic relations. Authoritative parts of american business circles would like to do business. They arc faced with intimidation and All sorts of restrictions Gorbachev criticized the Jackson Vanik amendment that links Trade opportunities to emigration freedoms and said he told the president Why should the dead drag on the coattails of the living the amendment was passed in totally different circumstances a decade ago. We should base our poli cies on present Day realities he said. Feud from Page 1 roses and a Large Coffee table style Book of pictures from the gallery. She also presented reporters with a copy of the same Book proposing that they give it to whomever has covered the Summit mrs. Reagan raised her eyebrows in a look of mild consternation. She then stepped Forward and insisted that she be Given equal time with the journalists she thanked mrs Gorbachev and the gallery staff for making arrangements tallow her to see the now closed museum works and said she was aware that very few people were granted a Chance to View them. When reporters tried to question the two women mrs. Gorbachev responded we have decided there would not Beany interviews. Please allow us to show mrs. Reagan the remaining she retreated to the background How Ever when journalists continued pressing for Lime with mrs. Reagan. Told that mrs. Gorbachev had spoken at length about the icon collection bul had not mentioned its religious heritage sirs. Reagan responded i Don t know How you can neglect the religious implications t mean they Are there when you mine and trap blast kills at least 16 miners in Germany Borken West Germany a an explosion ripped through a Coal in Central West Germany on wednesday killing at feast 16 miners an Ping about 40 others 330 feel below ground. Borken mayor bed Hessler Lold a hastily called news conference wednes Day night thai the bodies of 16 miners had been found and that the search was continuing for the approximately 40 other miners. The cause of the explosion was still under investigation. See the first lady said she was pleased Wilh her visit and Hal she hoped to re turn so that she might be Able to View the artistic and architectural treasures of the Nalion once again. Asked if she d become a convert to communism during her trip the first lady laughed heartily saying of and she said soviets Aren t ready to con Vert to capitalism. Mrs. Reagan indicated that the five Day trip her first to the soviet Union has not changed her views. We have two different ways of living two differ ent philosophies she said. Asked about her relationship with mrs. Gorbachev the first lady laughed at the maneuvering1 thai had just occurred shrugged and declared a
