tBtn limlh Manchesler — A City of Village Charm Saturday. Sept. 19,1987 >30 Cents Left, Secretary of State Shultz and President Reagan talk to reporters Friday about the agreement In principal with the Soviet Union to ban certain nuclear weapons. Shultz led the negotiating team for the U.S. Above, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze smiles broadly at a Friday news conference at his embassy. APpMIM Agreement sets stage for superpower summit... page 3 L The NFL strike is coming MAGAZINE PULLOUT SECTION Players reject idea of deadline extension ...page 54 Need money? Herald columnist gives It away on Thursdayl MISSILES IN EUROPE Gorbachev muni tfi Breakthrough Festival not bad, can claim REA’ 3B'*A N considering rain sets stage for SOVIET UNK)N progress By Andrew Yurfcovskv By Michael Putisl Herald Reporter super summit The Associated Press The eighth annual St. James Church Fall Festival got off to an auqddous start Thursday night. MOSCOW — The U.S.-Soviet The sides cleared at about 0 p.m., and the largest WASHINGTON (AP) — President Reagan, trumpet­ agreement to scrap one class of first<day crowd in the fM ival’s history showed up for ing a long-awaited breakthrough in arms talks, nuclear weapons gives Soviet the fo ^ , the rides and the game booths. announced an “agreement in principle” Friday to ban leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev a But auspicious beginnings aren’t always enough. all U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear foreign policy achievement at a Friday, the rain began falling In the morning—and It missiles, setting the stage for the first superpower Soviet Union time he is seeking tangible progress continue through the evening. The rides remained summit in America in 14 years. United States toward his ambitious goals. idle, some of them covered with canvas to protect It would be the first nuclear arms pact in Reagan s Pershingl SS4 • ’The new thinking is the bridging them. rain even seemed to penetrate the canvas_^ presidency and the first ever to ban an entire class of of the gap between the word and the awnings banging from the game booths. deed, and we have embarked on nuclear weapons. j , practical deeds,” Gorbachev said Everything was wet. ' The tentative pact was thrashed out in three days oi Deployed: 108 Deployed: 112 1.250 mUes in an article published this week in Nevertheless, festival workers were upbeat about intensive talks between Secretary of State George Range: 1,125 mUes Range: business during the day and were looking forward to a Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Pravda. Ciuise Mfesee SS20 ■•They expect this to be a wildlife p r ^ e better turnout Saturday. Shevardnadze. But In almost three years as with all these Hons running around?! Jo DelMastro, who was working one of the game Shevardnadze called it “a common success for all Soviet Communist Party leader, booths Friday night, didn’t seem bothered by the fact mankind, for all civilization.” Shultz said it was “an Deployed 441 Gorbachev has started many bold Deployed: 224 projects that have yet, to show that no players were lined up at the time. ^ important beginning” in arms control. 1.565 mMes Range 3.125 miles "It’s not too bad, considering the rain,” she said. Reagan, in a nationally broadcast announcement, Range: results. , j . Coimccdcnt Weather -“It’s good, very good, considering,” said l«rralne said Shultz will meet with Shevardnadze in Moscow SS12andSS23 Glasnost. the new attitude of Gfest Britain: 96 Cniise greater openness to new ideas, is Hahn, who m an n ^ the crafts table In one of the t e ^ . next month to set an agenda and date (fr Belgium; 16 Cniise Total Deployed; 130 She said the fact that meals were being served nearby Range (SS 12); 565 miles still being defined. Perestroika, “later this fall” with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. West Gemiany; 48 Cntise Gorbachev’s multifaceted pro­ ■ Ceatral. Easteni fiiterlor, Soalhweat Ulterior: helped out business. Reagan and Shultz said the meeting will be held in 64 Cniise Range (SS 23) 315 mMes Saturday, gray skies and chilly ^th * Terry Faria, the festival’s booth chairman, said the United States, in line with the 1985 understanding gram to rebuild the Soviet economy Friday’s turnout was a big contrast to Thursday’s. between the president and Gorbachev to hold summits AP grxphlc and society, has barely begun. chance of rain. High arouirf M. Kremlin arms proposals floated and occasional rain. Low In “Yesterday was a very good day, the best we’ve ever in the United States one year and in the Soviet Union the had for a Thursday night. But now that the weather s by the 56-year-old Soviet leader also nlln 80 percent, fonday, periods of rain likely. High Herald photo by Pinto again near 60.,Chance of rain 00 p ^ n t . bad, we don’t know what to expect.” _ The last summit in the United States was in 1973, had met with hostile or lukewarm . NorthiMt HlUo: Saturday , gray Small groups of teen-agers braved the rains Friday when Leonid Brezhnev met with President Itixon. reception in Washington and other •with a 00 percent chance of rain. High a r o ^ 00. night, gathering around a few of the game booths. Most Michael Thompson of 71 Garden St. Asked about prospects lor a summit, Howard Baker, Arms deal involves Western capitals. Saturday nlAt, drlikle and occasional r ^ . If'*'*® J® older people remained under cover in one of the tents. walks with his little brother, Chirstopher, the White House chief of staff, said the date has not yet In January 1986, Gorbachev ’The festival continues Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 proposed the phased elimination of M.*Chfmco M rain 80 percent during a wet and chilly St. James been set, but “1 would estimate that late November is all nuclear arms by the year 2000. likely nigh again near 00. Chance of rain 00 percMt. p.m. A garage sale and an ap^arance by Johnny not a bad guess.” just of arsenals >W«it Coastal, East Coastal: S atu r^, Prytko’s polka band are part of the highlights. Church Fall Festival Friday night. The As Reagan announced the agreement. Defense For 18 months, the Soviet Union and c]illly with,a 50 percent ihance of Faria saldthecharacterof the festivalbas stayedthe rain kept the crowds away Friday. Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger approved the also observed a unilateral morato- 05. Satuiday nl&t, driiile and occasional rain, M same throughout Its history, butthefalr hiw gro ^ . She I rlum on nuclear testing that it Unfortunately, the Saturday forecast acceleration of research on six "Star Wars programs By Barry Schweld abandoned in February after fail­ taOO. Chanw of rain 80percent. Sunday. periods ofraln said about 250 volunteers worked on th)S years that would be key to any defensive system against The Associated Press likely. High In the 00s. Chance of rain 00 percent. wasn’t much better. long-range Soviet nuclear weapons. ing to persuade the United States to festival. News Analysis halt its underground teste. EfforU to negotiate an agreement i^ucing the WASHINGTON — The emerging ' With the signing of an agreement number of Intercontinental ballistic missiles in the two U.S.-Soviet arms control treaty, the later this year to eliminate arsenals have faltered because of Soviet insistence the first between the superpowers deep reductions in nuclear war­ medium- and shorter-range nu­ Lottery Wimicrs Pit bull experts debate dangers United States abandon its research program on star since the unratifled SALT II pact in heads. But, he said, they were still clear missiles, Gorbachev will have Wars, known formally as the Strategic Defense 1979, will make barely a dent in the not ready to make the kind of achieved his first arms control breeds. nuclear arms race. slashes in heavy missiles that the Connecticut dally Friday: 507. FUy Four: 8488. BOSTON (AF) — Fit buU terriers terrier, the American Staffordshire agreement and something he can terrier, the American pit bull Swift and another reporter on the Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims said Weinberger Only about 6 percent of their United States has demanded. point to as a landmark. Connecticut “Lotto” Friday: 4, If, 85, fli, tt. 85. have been unfairly singled out as was not attempting to dampen enthuriasm for the new Nor is there any indication that killer dogs as a result of media terrier, and sometimes, the bull panel agreed with some pit bull nuclear arsenals will be scrapped Gorbachev, who has been seeking terrier. They weigh from 40 to 60 advocates that the media has a m s accord, although he added, ’'There njay have with the elimination of Gorbachev is relenting in his to extend trade ties with Western exaggeration and confusion over been people in Washington who would have preferred determination to slow down the the breed, pit bull experts meeting pounds and have powerful chest, played a large role in what one intermediate-range ballistic mis­ Europe, also will have eliminated a panelist called “pit bull hype.” that it not be announced while the Soviets were in Star Wars program, the U.S. search Index Friday said. neck and Jaw muscles. siles as well as cruise missiles in highly charged Issue that for years Conferees debated whether the Several conferees trac^ the pit meetings here.” ^ „ - V.oih "T-m Europe and the Soviet Union. for a spaep-bazed defense against chilled relations between Moscow But they conceded a problem missiles that is known formally as exists and proposed generic “vi­ the pubUc has been misinformed on bull scare to a report on ABC’s Announcing the tentative accord.