European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes Friday. May 12.1989 it soviets to resume nuclear Ara talks lie los Angeles times Moscow toc bailed states and the soviet i Nion have agreed to got nations to reduce Long Range nuclear weapons endings i Rno nth freeze imposed by the new Bush . And soviet officials said wednesday. The decision to resume the strategic arms Raduc Tion talks or Start in mid june was the main Tan Gible result of a Day of talks Between Secretary of state James a. Baker 111 and soviet officials that also produced a Glimmer of Hope for cooperation in ending third world conflicts. We arc very pleased with the Way things Baker told reporters Midway through the first Day of his first visit to the soviet Union. A spokesman for the soviet foreign minis Nady i. Gerasimov said the Kremlin having for the talks and welcomed the amx fans emphasis on third world trouble spots dealing with rcgiojiproblcm5 will enable us to get the last of the cold War behind us he said. At the same time however Gerasimov expressed the soviet government s impatience with the Bush administration s slow approach to arms control Ujj emf jumped the gun on Baker by publicly agreement to resume the Start talks Roay before . Officials expected. Be think our negotiators Jrie had enough ?8u5imov Chave lost a lot of time. While diploma Tvardik i vacation. Arms Are piling up. We in i of Iii . Political sys tem Butov grit the Mitt try we have lost six Mont Jujj Fie Reagan administration of strategic arms agreement with the Sovic i agreeing on a reduction of roughly 50 percent in inter-111 Continental ballistic missiles and nuclear armed manned bombers. But the Bush administration called off the scheduled resumption of the talks on feb. 15. Saying it needed More time to decide what new Mobile missiles to build and to Ajaj Cwa negotiating strategy. To cent weeks the administration has decided to titty limited numbers of both the my and the midget Man Mobile missiles and has decided on a Basic approach in negotiations to cling to the essential positions the Reagan administration held. We arc ready to proceed in general on the basis of the work that has been done in last year s Start talk Sand we expect the soviets to see considerable continuity in our positions an administration official travelling with Baker said. Gerasimov told reporters that the two sides had agreed to resume the talks in Geneva on either june 12 or june 19 and that the first round would probably last six weeks. Said the soviet Union had proposed that the talks by Inthis month but the United states objected saying that so s nominee As chief negotiator Rich Ard r. Burl to win Senate confirmation that soon. Research mice destroyed in Maine fire bar Harbor. Maine a fire killed about 500,000 Laboratory mice and injured five people wednesday in a Blae at a genetic research Center that one lab official said would set Back scientific research worldwide. Four construction workers and a fire fighter were injured in the midday fire at Jackson Laboratory the world s leading non profit supplier of genetically identical mice used in research on cancer aids diabetes and other human Dis eases. The lab s director Decsi Picc. , said the fire would not retard the Jackson Laboratory s research because mice used in its own experiments already to the research building. Had been transferred what it will set Back is the research efforts of scientists All Over the world who depend on the lab for specially bred mice he said. The fire broke out about 1 15 . In the one Story Brick faced Morrell Park building where the mice Are bred and housed in a room that was undergoing renovation fire officials said. Dodos from Page 1 group s president Linda Rysch whose term of office expires in june. A second Rcw Lulon that urges school system officials to k Tain Basic and Hon ors courses in Sudj Andary schools also passed unanimous a third Resolution urging Dodds to refrain from transferring administrators during the school pc for prompted 40 min utes of debate but was tabled. Proponents agreed to table the Resolution until they hear Stromple. Hews scheduled to answer delegates questions thursday morning it # Rva. I sailors carry he flab draped coffin of one of their com Raduf Kilwin a fire tuesday aboard the while Plains. T &6 sailors i died irk fire mourned Clark a Philippines a the commander of . Naval forces in the Philippines and other Navy personnel wednesday mourned the six sailors killed in tuesday s ship fire. Five other sailors were injured we ctr fire broke out in the engine Roony of the White Plains a combat store a Jpn. Three weeks earlier an expo Jlon in a gun Turret on the battleship Iowa killed 47 sailors. F about 100 people Cje on Han wednesday when the coffins were taken off a plane. Of we mourn six Bravo americans Inthis tragic Accident car adm. Roger Rich commande of . Naval forces in the Philippines said during the cer Emony. Thayis an irreplaceable loss for Otto f Washington Pentagon Stokes Dan Howard said the in the main engine spaces. Navy source said it apparently vol cd a fuel leak in and around us ship s no. 3 boiler. The fatalities were identified As boiler technician 3rd class muoi Cao 22, of Ventura Calif. Fireman apprentice Todd Allan Follis 22, of Lake no Bayamon wis. Machinist mate fireman apprentice Paul Dennis Novotny 22, of Howells neb. Fireman apprentice Darryl d Edwards 20, of Flossmoor 111. Boiler technician Baxter Lesarlley 26, of Santa be . And boiler technician 2nd class Jon David Ruhmel 20, Elmira . The Navy earlier said Follis was from Zuni . The Navy identified the injured As damage control Man 2nd class James Henry Britt 24, of Nashville mate 3rd class Keith Ger Ald Landry 22, of Grcen will Springs " .4, Boatswain s male 2nd class Dar to Jerome Williams 24, of Birmingha Ala. Chief boiler technician Wahr Rufus Griggsjr. 41, of to bile Sla. And boiler technician 1st class William Carl Glascoe 25, of randolph\n.j. Howard and Navy spokesmen said the five injured suffered primarily Sec Ond and third degree Burns and were airlifted to the military1 Hospital at Clark. All were listed in stable Condi Tion. Panama from Page 1 highest of five military alerts for . Forces in Panama. It is imposed when major civil disturbances Are occurring or will probably occur a Pentagon advisory said. The . Southern come in Panama a Force of More than 10,000 Mili tary personnel had been on Alert status Bravo since saturday in Prepa ration for turmoil surrounding Sun Day s election. Endara s two vice presidential candidates Guillermo Ford and Ricardo Arias Calderon also were beaten and injured but not seriously and Ford was arrested. The three candidates were leading a motorcade through the capital when they were attacked by civilians Wear ing dignity battalion to shirts wit Nesses and victims said. Often armed civilian Noriega supporters. E members of paramilitary dignity have frequently taken part in breaking up opposition demonstrations. They beat me in the head with an Iron said Endara in a Brief Hospital interview. I saw Arias on the ground with me he said referring to his first vice presidential candidate. Arias Calderon told the associated press that Ford had been arrested and taken to an undetermined location. . Ambassador Arthur Davis said one of Endara s bodyguards was killed. He condemned the attack and said . Embassy dependents will be moving on to military bases thursday. It was the first time soldiers suffered gunshot wounds since Noriega took Overas head of defense forces and became the nation s de Facto Leader in 1983. The motorcade was part of an opposition Campaign to gain International sup port and prevent an official Victory proclamation in favor of Noriega s hand picked candidate Carlos Duluc. Duluc was ahead by a 2-1 ratio in the secretive and slow official count of the estimated 800,000 votes cast in sunday selection
