European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 3, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page .3soviets Hope to match . Cutback Moscow apr the soviet Union will try to match . Plahs for cuts in Short Range nuclear weapons because a it would be a sin to miss a historic Opportunity president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a spokesman said tuesday. Meanwhile the 12 remaining soviet republics said they had agreed to joint control of the nations nuclear weapons a move that would prevent either Gorbachev or russian president Boris n. Yeltsin from having Complete control of the vast Arsenal. The vague Brief announcement by the Republic leaders was part of a Broad tentative Accord that would form the basis for future economic Union. It said the republics agreed that All signatories to a final declaration of cooperation a will jointly control nuclear weapons out of a common control Center in the interests of collective  the a common control Center Likely would be Gorbachev a weakened Kremlin. The agreement would seem to preclude Yeltsin shaving control Over the nuclear arsenals use although it is located in his Republic. Also tuesday a soviet military official was quoted As saying that the Kremlin will slash its army by roughly half in the next three years and May oppose efforts by the republics to create their own armies. The nuclear situation seemed to be summed up in a commentary on the russian television program Vosti which warned that some republics May see nuclear weapons on their territory As a guarantor of Independence. The Kremlin must quickly reduce the numbers while it still has some control Over the splintering nations nuclear might it said. A a Bush a unexpected move among other things gives Moscow an Opportunity to keep control of nuclear weapons before it is too late a the newscast commented. Gorbachev spokesman Andrei Grachev said Bush a announcement Friday of unilateral . Cuts in Short Range nuclear weapons offered a a historic Chance for a new breakthrough in nuclear  he said Gorbachev had instructed government officials to clarify certain Points of the american proposals and has set up a special group to maintain Contact with the . Government. A we believe that those cuts in the nuclear potential of the United states Are very important. As a follow up we May say something about a putdown of the soviet nuclear  at the United nations foreign minister Boris Pankin said the soviets would certainly give a a dramatic response to Bush a initiative although he did not elaborate. Interviewed tuesday on russian television soviet defense minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov said he was preparing a response to be read later this week. Grachev also said the soviet Union has begun removing from Alert status the intercontinental ballistic missiles covered by a sovict-. Treaty signed in july during a Summit meeting in Moscow Tass reported. Although he did not say on what status they would be placed the move was the first step toward eliminating some of them under the treaty. Sgt. Dave Jung finds a tractor is Good for undercover roadwork in Illinois. Officer on tractor reaps big crop Collinsville 111. A state troopers Are taking to deep cover As Farmers on tractors and hitchhikers with suitcases to Nab speeders. Sgt. Dave Jung said he caught 43 speeders monday in two hours of sitting on a tractor with a radar gun and a two Way radio. He staked out a stretch of interstate 55-70 near Collinsville using a tractor and Mower provided by the Illinois department of transportation. Jung said speeders should beware this Winter because Illinois state police plan to go undercover in Snow lows and a a abandoned vehicles. A a we be already done this posing As a Hitchhiker along the Highway with the radar in the suitcase a he said. In the latest ruse Jung sat on his tractor clocking cars and trucks using the radio to Alert troopers waiting Down the Road. He said police also made two arrests on outstanding warrants and one arrest for failure to Wear a seat  say drug aids chronic fatigue victims Chicago apr an experimental anti virus drug can dramatically relieve the extreme tiredness memory loss and other debilitating miseries of people severely afflicted with chronic fatigue syndrome researchers said tuesday. Doctors tested the Medicine on people so gravely ill that they often were virtually bedridden unable to get up to use the bathroom balance Check books or watch. Television. The study showed that injections of the Medicine am Ligen restored patients enough so they had the strength to take care of themselves and think More clearly although Many still showed some effects of the disease. The Medicine is the first to have any proven Impact on the mysterious illness which afflicts an estimated 2 million to 5 million americans. Or. William a. Carter of Hahnemann University in Philadelphia co inventor of am Ligen presented the findings to the american society for microbiology. Besides opening the possibility of a treatment for the disorder the research also provides clues to its cause. It suggests that viruses Are ultimately responsible for the illness but the body a own response to the infection May make the symptoms much worse. Although the disease May have been around for hundreds of years current concern about the illness emerged after doctors in incline Village a resort on Lake Tahoe in Nevada witnessed an unusual Cluster of people with unexplained fatigue in 1984. When similar cases turned up elsewhere Many doctors dismissed it As part of a psychological disorder perhaps depression. For a time it was disparagingly called a Yuppie  besides debilitating fatigue Many patients complain of memory loss and trouble concentrating As Well As frequent headaches joint pain and other flu like symptoms. Safety concerns shut Down nation s oldest nuclear Plant by the Washington Post Washington the operators of the nations oldest nuclear Power Plant shut it Down indefinitely tuesday hours after Federal regulators urged that it be taken out of service immediately because of doubts about its safety. There was no Accident at the Yankee atomic electric co. Plant in Rowe mass., and no immediate danger to residents of the sparsely populated Berkshire Hills of Northwestern Massachusetts. But nuclear regulatory commission experts said they were concerned that in the unlikely event of an Accident the huge steel drum that surrounds the reactor Core a weakened by 31 years of radiation bombardment a might rupture leading to a release of radiation and a possible meltdown. The nuclear Plant known As Yankee Rowe is the oldest and smallest . Commercial reactor. Man gets life for kidnapping girl Biloxi miss. Apr Donald Leroy Evans who claims to have killed More than 70 people received a life sentence tuesday for kidnapping a 10-year-old homeless girl. Evans 34, had pleaded guilty aug. 19 to the Federal charge. A sentencing hearing had been scheduled for oct. 24 in . District court in Biloxi but Evans asked that it be held sooner. Judge Walter Gex Iii agreed and sentenced Evans to life tuesday said Evans attorney Fred Lusk. Evans still faces a capital murder charge in the death of the homeless girl Beatrice Louise Routh whom he kidnapped aug. 1 from a Gulfport Beach. Evans was arrested aug. 5 in Louisiana and led authorities to the girls naked body in Southern Mississippi on aug. 11. After his arrest Evans told authorities he killed More than 70 people across the country and in Canada following his discharge from the marines for health reasons in 1977. Evans has been charged with first degree murder in fort Lauderdale fla., in the 1985 murder of a prostitute. And Daytona Beach fla., police want to interview Evans a drifter from Galveston Texas about the 1985 slaying of a pregnant transient. But Evans other claims have not been substantiated. He brought officials to the Arizona desert North of Phoenix in late August to search for the bodies of three women he said he killed and buried there but the search was fruitless. Evans could be sentenced to death if he is convicted of capital murder in Beatrices death. The girls Mother meanwhile has been charged with being an accessory to sexual  now control Board on Selma voter registration Selma Ala. Apr Blacks for the first time hold a majority on the Board that oversees voter registration in Selma where the beating of civil rights marchers by police spurred passage of the voting rights act of 1965. Edgar Vancil Joseph peasant and Marie poster were sworn in tuesday to the Dallas county Board of registrars. Peasant and Foster arc Black and peasant was named chairman. In 1965, when Martin Luther King or. Arrived in Selma to protest the All White Hoard Only 300 Blacks were registered to vote in a county that had about 25,000 Blacks. As of sept. 27, there were 33,382 voters on the Rolls in Dallas nutty 17,388 Blacks and 15,094 Whites