European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes . Monday january 25,1993 vow by the new York times Washington president Clinton and russian president Boris n. Yeltsin spoke by Telephone saturday and agreed to arrange a Summit White House press Secretary Dee Dee Myers said Clinton and Yeltsin had agreed that Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher and russian foreign min ister Andrei v. Kozarev would meet to work out the details. Yeltsin s office said the two leaders had agreed to hold their Summit in a third country but Myers said no decisions had been made on the timing or location of the proposed Summit. She said that the two had also discussed a a Range of economic and foreign policy issues and that Clinton had reaffirmed his support for Yeltsin s economic reforms. The two men spoke by Telephone during Clinton s transition and had decided then to get together in person sometime after Clinton s inauguration. Yeltsin initially called Clinton in january and Clinton took the Call but put the request on the Back Burner. He told Yeltsin then that he would like very much to plan a meeting but that Domestic concerns were among his first priorities. He told Yeltsin that he had to present his Domestic Agenda and persuade Congress to begin work on business considered urgent at Home. Clinton also declined invitations for Early meetings with prime minister John major of Britain and other foreign leaders who. Had sought to begin a dialogue with his fledgling administration. Clinton also spoke for 10 minutes with prime minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel in response to a congratulatory letter from the israeli Leader upon Clinton a inauguration. Rabin is planning to visit the United states sometime in March and is hoping to have a Summit then with Clinton. Gad Ben air Rabin s Media adviser was quoted As saying Clinton had told the israeli Leader a that he would work with Israel to promote peace in the Middle  House drug tests until feb. 15 Washington up drug tests for senior White House staff members have been put off until feb. 15 for a administrative reasons Quot president Clinton s spokeswoman said. Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers confirmed the Washington times report that drug testing rules for top ranking White House personnel have been waived for a month to permit the aides to get settled in their jobs. The waiver iras issued by Bruce Lindsey the White House personnel director for new employees during the transition. The urine tests ordered first in the Reagan administration and continued in the Bush White House were to deter mine whether there was any involvement in cocaine marijuana or other drugs. Meantime rep. Joe Barton a Texas on Friday called on Clinton to direct his senior staff to immediately submit to drug tests a to Clear up the  Barton said it takes a month to dear the blood of drug use. A if they have nothing to hide it won t matter and if they do they  serve a Barton said. A the american people must have the Confidence that those running our country have drug free minds especially when critical judgment is be Cassaty for important matters of National Security a Barton said. Seat of government president Clinton sits at the a a Resolute desk in the Oval office on saturday during a meeting with Robert a Rubin chairman of the National economic Council the desk was canned from the timbers of the Resolute a British vessel that ran aground in . We ters in the 1850s, the vessel was re floated and returned to England. In gratitude be a a from pank of the ship and gave it to the United states. Presidents Kennedy and Reagan also used the desk. President Bush during hit four years in the Oval office used the same desk that he had used As vice president police beat King in anger paper reports los Angeles up a a previously Una Alcased transcript of comments made by a los Angeles police dispatcher suggests that Rodney g. King was beaten because he angered officers who pursued him on a High Speed Chase the los Angeles times reported sunday. The comments seem to contradict the four defendants accused of bludgeoning King after the Chase. They contend he was combative and threatened them. The transcript could be used in an upcoming Federal trial of the three officers and one former Policman in which prosecutors Hope to prove that the four worked together to violate lungs civil rights when they beat and kicked him March 3,1991, the transcript of the recorded conversation Between fool inc and fire dispatchers shows that they joked and laughed about the incident before sending an ambulance to the scene the paper reported. The transcript quoted in the times also indicates that the officers were angry at King because he a should know better than to  a the pissed us off so i guess he needs an ambulance a the police dispatcher tells the fire dispatcher. A Little attitude adjustment Quot the fire dispatcher answers. R. The police dispatcher then says that King a kind of irritated us a Little a and that when someone does that they Are going to pay a  the los Angeles police department has never released the transcript. It also was not used As evidence by state prosecutors last year in their unsuccessful attempt to convict the four defendants during a three month trial. Amp Pentagon to reconsider Star wars test launch Washington a the Pentagon has agreed to take another look at a planned nuclear reactor test in space to ensure it docs not interfere with astronomical satellites scientists said saturday. A i Feci they Are trying to respond to our concerns and i am encouraged by it a said Don q. Lamb an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago who attended a meeting with Pentagon officials on the Issue last week. Lamb said the strategic defense initiative organization the Agency responsible for the a Star wars missile defense system agreed to delay for six months any Fina decisions on its launch of a russian made Topaz 2 nuclear reactor. The organization plans to put the reactor in orbit in december 1995 for a $150 million test of new technologies for generating electricity for missile de sense monitors in space. A key Issue with the astronomers is the reactors Altitude when the tests Are conducted. The original plan Calls for an Altitude 1,000 Miles above the Earth a surface. At that height said Steven Aftergood a senior research analyst at the federation of american scientists radiation from the reactor could seriously disrupt the operations of the american Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and other scientific satellites. He said the Topaz produces artificial Gamma Ray signals and other charged particles that would affect the ability of the scientific satellites to Register Gamma Ray signals from celestial bodies such As Black holes. The astronomers have urged the organization to put the reactor into an orbit 3,700 Miles above the Earth to avoid interfering with the scientific observations