Reagan Says Star Wars' Is Resolved
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Manrlirstfr Manchester — A City ol Village Charm lim ih 30 Cents Saturday, DSCi 12,1987 REAGAN SAYS STAR WARS’ IS RESOLVED WASHINGTON (AP) — President Reagan said Friday that Soviet ieader Mikhail S. ■ NATO allies urge quick Gorbachev agreed to drop demands for ratification of arms treaty restrictions on the Star Wars program, but Secretary of State George P. Shultz said he did ■ Human rights activists dis not sense any Kremlin departure from its appointed In summit outcome insistence on Unking long-range weapons cuts ■ Gorbachev wins praise to a curb in the American missile-defense from Warsaw Pact leaders initiative. Reagan denied that the issue of his Strategic — sforfes on page 3 Defense Initiative, which interrupted pro gress on arms agreements at the Reagan- Gorbachev meeting in Iceland last year, had Soviet “ capitulation.” been sidestepped at this week’s Washington Reagan commented in a question-and- summit. answer session with reporters and editors Asked whether his understanding with from Boston, Chicago and other ciUes. Gorbachev resolves or postpones the question, Soviet spokesmen have suggested that, Reagan repiied, “ It resolves it.” although the Star Wars program is not an “ As a matter of fact by agreement we wiligo obstacle in its present state of development, it forward with our research and deveiopment of could become one and would have to be SDI ... with whatever is needed in that discussed later. deveiopment and then, after a certain point, if Reagan, however, said, “ I don’t think there and when we have succeeded in putting is any impediment there at all.” When asked together this initiative, then we will deploy,” whether the Soviets would no longer require he said. restrictions, he said, "No, that was Shultz, in Brussels, Belgium, to meet with eliminated.” European allies on the Intermediate-range In Washington, House Speaker Jim Wright, Nuclear Forces- treaty that was signed D-Texas, said after a meeting between the %■ Tuesday, seemed to take a far less optimistic president and congressional leaders that the view than that espoused by Reagan. issue “ quite possibly” will resurface to , Despite progress at the summit, Shultz said, confront the two leaders later. However, i the Soviets had not assured they would sign a Wright said, “ let’s rejoice for the Ume being. ’ ’ strategic arms reduction treaty without Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., securing Umitations on Star Wars. described the meeting as "sort of a love The Soviets have linked the two issues in the feast,” but he also said that “ Gorbachev fever past, “ and I don’t sense any particular will pass.” , #?«:. delinkage,” Shultz said. Colin Powell, Reagan’s naUonal security In Washington, another senior administra adviser, said of Star Wars, “ The Soviets AP ph oto tion official disagreed with Reagan’s interpre recognize that we are going ahead with the tation that the Soviets have dropped their program as we have described it.” HAND-ME-DOWNS — Mark Bowie models Charlie demands for curbs on Star Wars. “ There is no secret that the. Soviets are “ In my opinion, we have not resolved the against SDI,” he said in an interview on CNN. Chaplin’s bowler hat and cane amd holds the clown's issue,” he said. “ In my opinion, they’ll come “ They wish we were not pursuing this original boots while Christie’s auctioneer Anthony back to us. But they have moved in our inltiaUve and they say they are not pursuing a Coleridge takes bids for them Friday in London. The boots direction.” similar initiative. ... But whether they have went for $63,000 and the hat and cane for $135,000. Story The official, who spoke to a reporter only on given up in the pursuit of causing us to change condition of anonymity, said there was no our m l^ , I can’t explain that.” on page 2. Lakers nip the Celtics Magic’s long shot follows disputed call... page 56 -MAGAZINE PULLOUT 8ECTION •NAFU by tnie* Baalli* Last maharaja ties the knot NATO urges quick ratification of treaty t twt>rMbA**/ Shultz’s meeting with the allies came including U.S. cruise and Pershing 2 the West and the Soviets. BRUSSELS, Belgium (A P) — The on the first day of a five-nation NATO allies Friday urged the Senate to nuclear missiles at allied bases. British Foreign Secretary Sir Geof . GWAUOR, India (AP) — They frey Howe and West German Foreign European tour following the sununit' exchanged garlands and walked ratify the intermediate-range nuclear Without agreement on inspections, Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher led a and preceding what Is likely to be a seven times around a fire that made force ban Quickly and underscored their the treaty would not have been possible, I 't r ' jf '" / ; I , , -y, chorus of public statements lauding the lively debate in the Senate over the their gems and gold sparkle. Thus a support for the'pact by pledging to let Shultz told a news conference after at treaty and urging Senate ratification. merits of the treaty. son and granddaughter of the last the Soviets inspect missile bases ia five the end of a day-long strategy meeting of "The earliest possible ratification ... Senate critics have said they fear tha maharajahs were wed Friday in a European countries. foreign ministers of the 16-nation NATO is overwhelmingly in Western inter elimination of all land-based fairytale recess from reality. An agreement signed by Secretary of alliance. ests” Howe said at the signing cerem intermediate-range nuclear missiles Hundreds of former maharajahs State George P. Shultz and the foreign Agreement to let the Soviets inspect ony. "T o argue against that proposition will leave Western Europe vulnerable to and maharanis, evoking the gran ministers of West Germany, Britain, the bases, "illustrates the very deep /Atei is to cast doubt on everything that our 16 the Soviet Union’s massive tank armies. Netherlands, Italy and Belgium will for commitment, that this is an alliance deur of times forever gone, cele In his briefing for the ministers on the the first time allow Soviet inspectors to matter,” Shultz said. democratic governments have stood for brated the royal wedding of Vikra- results of the three-day O.S.-Sovlet maditya Singh, son of the lasf . semtinize military bases in Western It also reminded Shultz of the throughout these negotiations." shopkeeper’s sign, “ In God we trast — A communique adopted by all 16 summit, Shultz gave an upbeat assess maharajah of Kashmir, and Chl- Europe. ment of the prospects for a superpower all others pay cash." NATO ministers said “ we fully support trangada Scindia, granddaughter The agreement is the finai ingredient agreement to halve strategic nuclear in the treaty signed at the Washington "This Is the cash,” he said of the the IN F treaty and urge its early entry of the last maharajah ol Gwalior. arsenals. The people also were invited. summit to eliminate 2,611 missiles. inspection provisions binding on both into force." More than 40,000 guests, including villagers who arrived in bullock carts, filled the grounds of Jaivilas Rights activists Psldco “We forgot tofp^jjr the boiling oil on Nepal’s King Birendra and Queen the attackers...we>y\/ere busy making Aishwarya, who are related to both 4' r 'M i french fries." families, watched from a balcony. disappointed in Other guests included India's regal scions, who have lost their titles but often continue the lifestyle summit outcome Connecticat Weather of the past in a nation with 64 percent illiteracy and a per capita ii income ol $270 a year. Central, Eastern Interior, Southwest Interior: It began to drizzle, a good omen WASHINGTON (AP) — The superpower summit Saturday, becoming cloudy with a 60 percent chance of for Hindu weddings, as the 23-year- 1 # # I yielded little to encourage human rights activists who A sHowers or flurries. High in the low 40s. wind south old groom’s procession reached the had h op^ that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev Summit under 10 mph. Saturday night, mostly cloudy with a iow bride’s palace, led by caparisoned ^ight use the occasion to signal a new policy toward 25 to 30. Sunday, mostly sunny with a high in the mid elephants. A golden umbrella Jews trylpg to leave his country. babies ^ s. shielded Vikramaditya, who rode in "H e was ready to listen, to change, become softer on . West Coastal, East Coastal: Saturday, becoming a silver chariot drawn by four A P photo certain issues. But when it came to the Soviet Jewish Balina SaKharova cloudy with a 60 percent chance of showers. High in the horses. question, he was stubborn, refusing any gesture," lo^ 40s. Wind becoming south around 10 mph. Saturday Chitrangada, 20, wore a sari of Vikramaditya Singh, center, in feather-topped turban, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel said In an interview Friday. holds her twin sons, night,'mostly cloudy with a low again near freezing. golden brocade with a long red veil. The joint statement issued by Gorbachev and Mikhail, left, and begins the journey to his marriage uniting two former President Reagan at the conclusion of the summit had Sunday, mostly sunny with a high in the mid 40s. She walked to the "mandap," the Indian princely families. It’s the social event of the year in Ronald, at a Moscow * Northwest Hills: Saturday, becoming cloudy with a canopy where the main marriage only one line ateut human rights — a sentence that said \ 60 percent chance of flurries. High about 40. Wind south ceremonies were conducted. New Delhi. the matter had been discussed thoroughly and clinic Friday. The \ i t . less than 10 mph.