European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes Friday May 8, 1992gorbachev urges stronger . Visi i former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev stands before panels of the Berlin Wall set up in Fulton  to remove some arms by Cox news service Washington a president Leonid Kravchuk said wednesday that Ukraine will remove All Short Range nuclear weapons from its soil by july and that his new nation is prepared to join the strategic arms reduction treaty to reduce Long Range nuclear weapons. After being warmly welcomed to the White House by president Bush Kravchuk said that an unspecified number of Short Range nuclear weapons remain in Ukraine. Kravchuk a comments were at Odds with those of russian officials in Moscow earlier wednesday. They said All of Ukraine a Short Range or a tactical a nuclear weapons had already been sent to Russia. The conflicting statements Only added to a pattern of confusion in recent months As the two most powerful former soviet states frequently have been at Odds. Intent on showing no favouritism Bush gave Kravchuk the same red carpet treatment he had afforded Boris a Yeltsin when the russian Leader visited months ago. During their Brief time together Bush a pledged to extend most favored nation Trade status to Ukraine. That status Given to most of americans trading partners assures them that the tariffs on their imports into the United states wont be higher than those charged any other country. A also lifted the Jackson Vanik amendment which restricted Trade to communist countries. The removal of Jackson Vanik applies not Only to Ukraine but also to five other former soviet republics a Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Moldova Georgia and Uzbekistan. It had already been removed for Russia. On nuclear weapons Kravchuk said the United states and Ukraine had agreed on procedures through which Ukraine which inherited some of the Long Range missiles of the former soviet Union would endorse the Start treaty. Originally the treaty was to reduce . And soviet Long Range nuclear arsenals by up to 50 percent. By the los Angeles times Fulton to. A former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev came to the site of Winston Churchill so Iron curtain speech wednesday to Call for creation of a new a global  he said a restructured and greatly strengthened United nations could shape world events in the new epoch ensuring a lasting peace. A humanity is at a major turning Point a he said a we live in a watershed Era. One epoch has ended and a second is commencing. No one yet knows How Concrete it will  addressing an outdoor gathering at Westminster College where Churchill spoke 46 years ago Gorbachev sought to present a new vision the Way the British prime minister had defined the essence of the cold . In a speech that both acknowledged Churchill a greatness while gently criticizing what Gorbachev called the limitations of his vision the deposed soviet Leader called for a a major International Effort to make irreversible the shift toward global democratization. And he took a swipe at communism calling it a destructive Quot scheme for the development of  the end of the cold  was not a Victory for the West but a altogether a Victory for common sense reason democracy and common human  a crowd of about 15,000 people had jammed onto the postage stamp sized Campus waiting for hours to hear Gorbachev a speech. They hooted and chanted a Igor by when he appeared. Some of them held up signs. One read a cold  a yet. Gorby a  during a 45-minute speech that was interrupted frequently by applause Gorbachev warned of world ecological dangers the need to avoid new polarization and the possibility that intensified International Competition might Lead to Trade wars and the rebirth of protectionism. Specifically Gorbachev called for greatly expanding the role of the United nations beyond that originally envisioned when it was created. He called for enlarging permanent membership in the Security Council so it would include Germany Japan Indonesia Italy Canada Poland Mexico and Egypt. A under certain circumstances a he said a it will be desirable to put certain National armed forces at the disposal of the Security Council making them subordinate to the United nations military  Charles Timberlake a professor of history at the University of Missouri said Gorbachev presented a Concrete vision of a a new world order that  surpasses anything that has been offered by president Bush in the two years since he coined the phrase. But he and Max j. Okenfuss a russian scholar and historian at Washington University in St. Louis questioned whether Gorbachev now out of Power has the influence to carry out his  relayed advice to Iraq report says by the los Angeles times Washington a As vice president president Bush acted As an intermediary in sending strategic military advice to iraqi president Saddam Hussein at a critical Point in the Iran Iraq  according to sources and classified documents. The specific advice a that Iraq unleash its air Force against Iran a was passed on during a trip to the Mideast by Bush in August 1986. Bush used egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to relay the message to Hussein according to two Bush administration officials. At the time the Reagan administration was maintaining a Public posture of neutrality in the  while secretly assisting Iraq in an attempt to Stop Iran and its spreading islamic fundamentalism. The Reagan and Bush administrations have admitted sending Iraq intelligence data about iranian troop movements during the eight year conflict. However it has not been disclosed previously that the intelligence was augmented by military advice and that Bush player a personal role in conveying the advice. A White House spokesman said he could find no information that Bush relayed the military advice to Iraq through Mubarak. In response to earlier stories Bush has said he is proud of his actions and defended them As part of a strategy to contain Iran. Ecologists assail new pollution pact United nations a the White House has apparently succeeded in gutting a . Treaty on global warming drawing a barrage of criticism from diplomats environmentalists and democratic senators. A it looks like virtually All of the industrialized countries have caved in to the substance of the . Position a said . Glauthier of the world wildlife fund. The draft text now Calls on nations to assess their emissions of so called greenhouse gases without any requirement to stabilize or reduce those emissions. . Negotiators had hoped the treaty would follow a european Community proposal that emissions be reduced to 1990 Levels by 2000. The United states has rejected the idea. Scientists have warned that the emissions which include Carbon dioxide created in the burning of Fossil fuels by Industry and automobiles retain the suns heat and could have disastrous global consequences. Sen. Albert Gore jr., d-tenn., criticized president Bush for a conning the rest of the world to accept a treaty with no real commitments in  Gore is chairman of the Senate delegation to the . Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in june where negotiators Hope to sign a global warming agreement. He said he would introduce legislation in the Senate that would require the United states to adopt the european proposal. Scientists cannot be certain of the effects of global warming but Many Are now convinced that if emissions Are not Cut average global temperatures could Rise by 3 degrees to 8 degrees in the next 100 years. That could alter climate in unpredictable ways. Perot pledge was con Job Nixon aide says Washington api a ,_.,.ar Washington apr Twenty year old White House papers say that Ross Perot pledged $60 million to help polish the political image of then president Nixon. But Perot never actually put up any Public image Money and Nixon aide Charles Colson later described one Perot pledge As a a icon jobs designed to parlay Access to the president. Perot suddenly in the spotlight As he ponders an Independent bid for president says he never made the $60 million in offers. Quite to the contrary he said Nixon aides would sometimes solicit him with a Beautiful and strange ideas. And i always made it very Clear to them i Wasny to  Nixon aides remember it differently. Thi mos Are often Rich in detail conveying occasion srfi0"ln working with Perot. Nixon declined to a ser questions about his meetings with Perot. In private meetings with Nixon according to who House memos Perot offered $50 million for a pub relations Effort in 1969 that included plans to buy Fino Naper and the Evision tw0rv and $10 m lion in 1970 to create a pro Nixon think tank Nixon accepted both offers but Perot never de ered according to the documents. Wit Perth wednesday that 99 percent of his conts z i f a no a ministral it on involved his efforts win Freedom for american pos in Vietnam