Piaff Volume 89, No. 61 Serving the San Jose State University Community Since 1934 Wednesday. December 2, 1987 Arms-reduction figures may be inaccurate WASHINGTON API Proposals sok ed betore Reagan leaYes office. mined Linde; the terms ot the current propo bombers of similar vintages, while continu- 3300 on land -based missiles the system made in U.S.-Soviet strategic arms reduction While a START treaty would have the sal.. though perhaps not in as large numbers ing a very ambitious program to field new which the Reagan and the talks would cut nuclear arsenals by about 30 positive et feet ot reducing nucleal arsenals. as in iginally planned.- the study. said. -The weapons. the study said. study agree are the most destabili/ing percent instead of the 50 percent advertised said the repoi ss mild not stop the modern- nth:1cm moderniration process may be acce- ’Hoth sides are modemi/ing their Despite U.S and So% ict damp. that by leaders in Moscow and Washington, ization ol capons sN stems. would probably lei ale(' III SOIIIC cases... lot ces. It's business as usual.' in spite of the START would reduce .tiaiecit. nuclear de according to a private study released Tues- not sigiiitt, aunty iedme military spending. "Under a START treaty the nature ot aims control talk from the White House and livery vehicles hy- halt. the study said, it day. and might actually destahili/e the niklear the arins race would markedly shift from K emlin . co-author Thomas B. Cochran told would actualls cut Ainei ican delivery vehi- The study by the liberal Natural Re- balance by lea% ing 'matt too many land quantitative to qualitative competition." as a nev, s conference. cles by only 20 percent. trom the current 2.- sources Iktense Council said the catch is in based ballistic missiles. the superpowers replace old systems with Current START proposals would limit (XXI to 1,600. It would cut Sos let strategic how the superpowers tally warheads, such as "The negotiating proposals made by more at:curate and deadly ones to meet each side to 6,00() nuclear warheads. to be delivery vehicles by 35 per, ent. from 2,475 counting a bomber or submarine as one war- the isso sides have not been fully thought START limits. it said carried by 1,600 stategic nuclear delivery ve- to the common level of 1 ,61 Kt head rather than counting all bombs or mis- out,- said William M. Arkin, an author of Thus the 'lilted States would phase out hicles. START would reduce l',S overall war- siles aboard. Thus a bomber with 24 bombs the study "A grand strategy doesn't seem to forces ahead!, lieaded toi retirement. such as Two years ago Reagan proposed limit- heads by 30 percent. from 13,000 to 9.000, would be counted as one weapon rather than exist Minuteman missiles, Poseidon and Trident I ing the number of ballistic missile warheads and Sos let warheads by 35 percent. from 24. the Intermediate Nuclear Force nuclear submai ines and year-old 13-52 to 4.5(X). of which only 3.000 could be car- 11,000 to 7.000. The council's study concluded that no pact, which Reagan and Ciorbachev plan to bombers. but would ,ontinue deploying ried by land-based missiles. "The only area in which there is a (pro- matter how much progress President Reagan sign at the summit. proposals for a START more modem MX and Trident II missiles, as But a treaty drafted last May raised lim- posed) 50 percent reduction is in Soviet bal- and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev make treaty for the most part would eliminate old well as the BAR and Stealth bombers. It its to 4.8(X) ballistic missile warheads of listic missile warheads.- twin about 4.400 during their summit next week, the compli- rather than modern systems, the study said. would reduce its stocks of one new sy stem. which 3.300 could be land-based. to 4,800 warheads I' s cated issues involved in strategic arms talks "Every current and t inure U.S. and So- the Air-I .aunched Cruise I 1..1 le. The Soviets want to raise the ballistic warheads would fall 40 wftent. horn 7,950 known as START probably cannot be re- viet nuclear weapons sy stem be per The Soviets wouhl tem': 1111,11ICS missile warhead limit to 5.100, with 3,000 to to 4.764, the study said Christmas crafts fail to captivate students Sketch of rapist Seasonal sales released by UPD 'sluggish,' in The University Police Depart- ment is continuing its search for a man who raped and mbbed a 32 - Student Union year-old woman Nov. 17 in the 10th Street Parking Garage. By Julie Rogers Incorrect information relayed to Daily stet writer the Daily from a spokesman at Hoping to sell their arts and SJSU's Public Information Office crafts, merchants packed the Student :and printed in an earlier article. iden- Union this week for the 18th Annual tified the location as the Seventh Christmas Fair -- but sales appear Street Garage. to be stagnant. UPI) released a composite "Things are definitely slug- sketch of the man on Monday. He gish." said Michael Diamond, a was initially described only as being vendor from Lake Tahoe. dark -sk inned. Diamond, who is selling crys- The victim of the assault, who Composite tals on the lower floor of the Student is not associated with SJSU. was sketch of rapist. Union, said he is not worried be- taken to San Jose Hospital. UPI) said they. do not think the cause another vendor who attended According to the UPI) report of attacker had knocked her last year's Christmas festival told the incident, two students were unconscious. him sales are slow for the first few walking to their car in the garage The woman. who had been in- days anti then pick up toward the end when they saw something "going toxicated, had not parked her car in of the week. on’ at about I I:15 p.m. the Seventh Street Garage. They pair immediately went to She later told police that she Each year vendors throughout the garage office and notified a park- only remembers meeting the man at the state travel to SJSU to sell their ing attendent, who then called the a downtown bar and then walking handmade crafts at the Christmas UPI). back toward the garage. Fair. Fifty vendors brought their Upon arrival, the UPI) officers The woman also told police that treasures to this year's fair. said Stu- walked upstairs with the students $20 had been taken from her purse. dent Union Publicist Judy Hermann. where they found the woman Anyone with information on the Craig Firuce, who traveled from unconscious on the landing between incident is asked to call the Univer- Berkeley to sell his rubber stamps, the second and third floors on the sity Police Department at 924-2222. said sales have been slow this week. northwest side of the garage. - Compiled by Dityc Ltritvon Flruce said he doesn't know why sales are lagging. He hopes they will pick up in the next few days. A.S. board to vote "It's sure to pick up." said Dennis Edward Bell, a vendor from Oakland."There seems to be more footwork this year." on housing resolution Bell, who sells jewelry. noticed that a lot of students seem to be pre- By Edwin Garcia No useable' bathing or res- occupied with school and don't have Daily staff writer troom facilities in Joe West Hall. much time to browse. The Asstx:iated Students Board No communication system "Last year's fair was better." of Directors will decide today for hearing impaired students in any said Holly Sweet, a graduate student whether to recommend a resolution of the residence halls. stu- in Social Work. urging better access for disabled "Currently' there is no commit- facilities. Sweet said the merchants would dents to university housing tee looking int() these issues." Phil- will do better if they accepted credit If passed. the resolution lips said. cards. She added that there were too recommend to University Housing many earring booths. Director Willie Brown that a task John Moore. president or the "'There needs to be a larger va - force be established to study prob- Disabled Students Ass, x ianon. said riety of booths... she said. lems which disabled students find the residence halls are not equipped But Miriam Biegun, a senior difficult to confront. with emergency lights in the build- child development student. said she ing that would light up when an "The facilities really don't alarm sounds. thought this year's festival is supe- meet niinimum standards." said Pat- rior to last year's. ricia Phillips. A.S. director of non- Phillips said there are about 12 "The things that are being sold traditional student affairs. disabled students living in SJSU'sre- this year are different. They're simi- The problems include: sidence halls and over 40(1 attending lar to things sold in Berkeley." Brad Shirakawa - Daily stall photographer "Almost impossible access the university . Gary Baker, a junior majoring to the Dining Commons for students Moore said one student who Marilyn kupcliii, left. office manager in the indus- lett sparkling trinkets at one of the many tendor in history. also thought the crafts in wheelchairs. lived in a dormitory had to transfer trial technology department displays at the being sold at the festival were and Jackie Manned, Student Union Christmas Fake.