Cumberland Sunday Times (Newspaper) - November 3, 1985, Cumberland, Maryland likely Temperature in 50s day and 40s at Rain No. 25 Associated Press Service - UPI - Nov. 3,1985 Friday Md. paid 19 Shultz Flies To Trip A Forerunner To Reagan's Summit Ireland Secretary of State George P. Shultz headed for Moscow on Saturday to see if new U.S. proposals to cut nuclear weapons and end five regional wars have improved prospects for President Reagan's summit meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail S. than three weeks remain to try to settle some of the that Shultz says stand in the way of an improved superpower Nov. 19-20 summit in Geneva also could be clouded by U.S. determination to shift the focus from arms control to other including the status of human rights in the Soviet according to American are eager to make it arms control and have stiffly resisted U.S. probing into the conditions of dissidents and other Soviet a rest and refueling stop in the secretary of state was due in Moscow on Monday for talks with seemed unfazed by the initial Soviet proposals have been put on the table in Geneva and we will be expecting responses it is what happened in Geneva that we will judge described the two sides as still and can't predict how this will come said he would deliver a letter from Reagan to Gorbachev when he sees the Soviet leader The contents were not divulged as Shultz spoke to reporters aboard his Air Force Shultz that a agreement to reduce nuclear weapons could not be put together in time for the he the Soviets apparently were willing to work out a separate accord on the missiles the two sides have deployed in an he would on its own not affected by the differences over missiles and defense Eduard A. the Soviet foreign two-day visit is but U.S. officials have not ruled out extending the discussions to Wednesday as Shultz tries to lay the groundwork for the summit C. the president's national security adviser who is traveling with said in a New York speech Friday night that while it is unlikely the summit will produce a final agreement on arms are that an understanding can be new U.S. weapons which Reagan said could produce balanced in U.S. and Soviet nuclear was put on the negotiating table Friday in while the Soviets agreed to extend the current round of bargaining in the Swiss city for nearly a two military analysts for the Tass news agency said it appeared to be little more than an commodity in a new Soviets have deployed 243 mobile missiles west of the Ural mountains targeted on NATO By year's 2,000 U.S. cruise and Pershing 2 missiles are due to be based on and West aimed at Soviet did not say how close the two sides were on a European missiles said he hoped his visit to Moscow and Reagan's summit meeting with Gorbachev would give to the quest for arms control proposal was in response to call five weeks ago for a 50 percent slash in nuclear With total nuclear charges approaching 10,000 on each Reagan is known to have recommended a 6,000 limit on strategic warheads those that can girdle the globe and are considered most No more than 3,000 of these warheads could be on land-based the most potent element in Soviet military Soviets have promised to give attentive consideration to the U.S. Problems Plague Houston An air leak traced to a furnace and a loss of communications caused by a fire on the ground plagued the international crew of the space shuttle Challenger on but officials said there was no threat to the astronauts or to their science agency officials said the leak caused the flow of oxygen and nitrogen gas from supply tanks to more than triple for a short and forced the astronauts to search for the source of the atmosphere director Larry Bourgois said the problem was believed to be in a vent in one of five furnaces used to melt metals and glasses in the laboratory carried in Challenger's cargo Mission Control was checking the a communications ground station at White suddenly lost contact with the said later that a small fire at the White Sands center knocked out power to two computers that keep Mission Control in contact with a satellite that normally relays communications between the ground and was restored to one of the computers and communications resumed after about two air leak was discovered when the flow of oxygen and nitrogen into the cabin suddenly increased from the normal rate of about half a pound an hour to more than two pounds per suspecting a regulator switched to a back-up regulator system but the high flow rate Control suspected a faulty valve in one of the furnaces and asked the astronauts to close the furnace Bourgois said the flow immediately dropped to a leak rate he classified as could go to the end of the mission and support this he there will be no mission said Challenger carries about 200 pounds of surplus Of The Eyes The Buckeyes beat the A 22-13 Saturday in front of 90,500 k Urge Keep Russian Rescue crews search for victims of a mudslide that ripped through home park near One man was found Survives Mud Slide Along Northwest Wash. - Rescuers working frantically below a shaky debris dam dug with their bare hands early Saturday to save a man trapped in the wreckage of a mobile home buried by a mudslide near a Cascade Mountain The bodies of two women and a man were found later in the bodies of the women were found Saturday while the third that of a was found at about 3:30 said Skagit County sheriff's Deputy Dave Claire 63, of was taken to United General Hospital in Sedro about 40 miles said hospital spokeswoman Geneva who was treated for hypothermia and a crushed was in critical condition after Ms. Sasnett said in the trailer were believed to be Wilson's and the owners of the mobile and Alice using hand tools and a backhoe worked in a steady rain to the silt and logs that engulfed the tangled sheet mudslide had overrun a compound of mobile homes and summer cabins near the normally swift and shallow Cascade River near this remote community on the North Cascade about 80 miles northeast of which followed heavy rains in western Washington on also destroyed one cabin and damaged two said Tom county director of emergency The rain was expected to taper off later a private contractor who brought a backhoe to the said a boulder in the slide the trailer in It just cut it all to Rescuers believed Wilson survived because he apparently heard the mudslide and went what it said Don a Seattle City Light worker and volunteer was supposed to have gone to the door last night and when it hit it threw him Hundahl wound up under a He had an air pocket but his legs were his arms were his whole body was trapped under times using their bare crews began digging for survivors about 8 p.m. after Wilson cried out in response to The trailer wreckage was covered in places by eight feet of said Steve chief photographer for the Skagit Valley who was at the rescuers clawed at the rock and fallen removing logs with chainsaws and digging with They were hastily evacuated at one point when the formed by the slide and holding back more mud and threatened to Schroeder made the rescue attempt difficult because water kept seeping in and the mud kept caving in all Schroeder He estimated the mudslide was about 200 feet wide and up to 15 feet trailer was the year-round home of an who had two visitors when the slide said sheriff's Sgt. John Those inside the trailer were a grandfatherly maybe 60s," he than 40 county Public Works Department volunteer firefighters and Seattle City Light workers from nearby hydroelectric dams formed the rescue Hunter freed Wilson's arm about 1:15 and soon began giving him oxygen and covering the exposed parts of his body with thermal Schroeder Republican senators Saturday joined a growing chorus in Congress that is asking President Reagan to stop a 22-year-old Soviet sailor who jumped ship in Louisiana from being returned to his letter to Reagan came as attorneys for groups moved to petition the U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse a federal order that will allow the Russian ship carrying the sailor to leave American territorial U.S. District Judge Louis F. refused to order the Immigration and Naturalization Service to block the freighter from leaving U.S. waters so the Soviet Miroslav could be lawyers for the Ukrainian groups filed an appeal of ruling late Saturday afternoon in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of ship with Medvid on board is anchored in the Mississippi River north of New Orleans awaiting a shipment of grain at who speaks no first plunged into the river Oct. 24 and swam ashore in Belle where he was met by a the sailor was taken to a U.S. Border Patrol office in New Orleans where he was interviewed by telephone by a Ukrainian Medvid was not seeking asylum so they forcibly returned in to the Marshal he jumped off a skiff into the river again but was later placed on the Soviet U.S. officials took Medvid off the ship again and interviewed him He went back to the freighter after signing a statement expressing his desire to return their letter to Republican Gordon William and Rudy said the initial interpreter Irene contends Medvid wanted a signed affadavit by the middle of the U.S. officials attempted to return Medvid to the the senators of the about the the senators suggested the president take They also made mention of Reagan's upcoming summit meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev in there are anxieties about disturbing the atmosphere before the then surely an acceptable alternative would be to transfer Mr. Medvid to a neutral third nation where he would be provided with an opportunity to overcome any effects of drugs and his they Gone Now But Ruin La. Juan's waves and five days of floodwater that was pushed into the tidal lowlands of southern Louisiana have left sodden rotted ruptured levees and wrecked oilfield Louisiana suffered additional crop damage from three weeks of rain before the storm and where fields weren't flooded many are too wet Embassy Ireland The government in Afghanistan has surrounded the U.S. Embassy there with soldiers and and electricity to the compound has been cut Secretary of State George P. Shultz said the embassy in a 19-year-old Soviet soldier who slipped in through an open gate on Friday is talking to American diplomats about his Shultz who had been on guard duty at Radio Kabul near the U.S. seemed saying at first that to go posture is to do our best to look after his Shultz discussed the incident before his plane stopped here to refuel on the way from Washington to Shultz planned to spend the weekend before flying to Moscow on Monday for talks with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard incident involving the Soviet a private who was not otherwise the strange case of a 22-year-old Ukrainian seaman who jumped off a Soviet freighter in New He said at first that he wanted political asylum in the United States but later he told U.S. authorities he wanted to return members of Congress and other Soviet critics have questioned the U.S. decision to return the Miroslav 22, to the But Shultz said the seaman had been questioned in noncoercive and is no to stop from leaving U.S. incidents are potential trouble spots for the Reagan administration as the Nov. 19-20 summit meeting the Soviet soldier in Shultz said even though his intentions were not clear doesn't want to be interviewed by anybody from the Soviet Shultz said it seemed the soldier had jumped over the compound wall but later it was determined the soldier entered through the gate when it was opened to let someone economic situation with farmers is very and practically a said state Sen. who represents seven central Louisiana this hurricane has done more damage than any in We don't have any idea how much said Jim secretary of the state Department of Natural which oversees the oil talking about weeks of lost production on some damaged Edwin who has estimated damage at stood here during his survey of hurricane damage Friday and looked at the Gulf of Mexico something he couldn't have done before Hurricane on President Reagan declared Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes disaster areas Edwards said he expects Reagan to approve requests for disaster declarations for three other parishes St. St. Bernard and St. John the
