Waterloo Courier (Newspaper) - May 31, 1982, Waterloo, Iowa Reagan says U.S briefly Soviets will begin arms talks June 29 Silent sentinel AP A statue of a Civil soldier stands guard over the graves of American servicemen at the Los Angeles Veterans Cemetery The graves were marked with flags for Memorial Day In Iowa Gov Robert Ray urged the state's residents to observe Memorial Day and pay tribute to the sacrifices of those who died in the armed forces It is because of their sacrifice that we enjoy peace Ray said in his annual Memorial Day message WASHINGTON AP President Reagan announced Monday that the United States and the Soviet Union wili begin strategic arms reduction talks in Geneva on June 29 In a speech for a Memorial Day ceremony in Arlington National etery the president also said the United States would not undercut terms of existing strategic arms limitation treaties so long as the Soviet Union played by the same rules This is a fitting occasion to an- that START negotiations be- tween our country and the Soviet Union will begin on June the president said AS FOR existing strategic arms agreements we will refrain from tions which undercut them so long as the Soviet Union shows equal he added With good will and dedication on both sides I pray that we will achieve a safer world The governments of the United States and the Soviet Union issued a joint statement shortly before Reagan's ad- dress formally announcing the new round of negotiations Both sides attach great importance to these according to the joint announcement by the governments of the two countries Ambassador Edward Rowny will head the U.S delegation His Soviet counterpart will be Ambassador Karpov Earlier this month in a speech at Eureka College in Illinois Reagan proposed sharply reducing U.S and iet missile arsenals beginning with a cutback of one-third in missile heads to equal levels of apiece Both countries now have more than warheads SALT II was signed by former dent Carter and Soviet President Leonid I Brezhnev in 1979 after seven years of negotiations by three U.S presidents It never came to a ratification vote in the Senate where resistance mounted after the Soviet military move into Afghanistan in late 1979 SALT n called for the Soviets to cut back 250 land-based or missiles or long-range bombers Secretary of State Alexander M Haig told the Senate Foreign Relations Com- on May 11 that the chances of ratifying SALT II were dead and he urged the nation to rally around Re- agan's proposals for arms reduction In his speech without mentioning the Soviets by name Reagan referred to potential adversaries and We must strive to speak of them not belligerently but firmly and frankly That is why we must never fail to note as frequently as necessary the wide gulf between our codes of morality That is why we must never hesitate to acknowledge the irrefutable difference between our view of man as master of the state and their view of man as servant of the state Reagan said the United States must never underestimate the seriousness of their aspirations to global expansion The risk is the very freedom that has been so dearly won The president who departs day for a European journey said that honesty of mind can lead to fruitful negotiations and build a dation upon which treaties between our nations can stand and last treaties that can someday bring about a tion in the terrible arms of destruction arms that threaten us with war even more terrible than those that have taken the lives of the Americans we honor today SEN JOHN WARNER hailed Reagan's announcement saying The president has kept his pledge to com- mence arms reduction talks promptly The greater the unity of the American people behind our president the er will be the hand of his negotiators on opening day In an interview Sunday the Defense Department's top policy planner Dr Fred C Ikle said a major goal of the Reagan administration's defense strategy is convincing the Soviets they cannot win a nuclear war with the United States U.S leaders are trying to disabuse their Soviet counterparts of any such ideas by building a missile and bomber force that would be assured of surviving an attempted Soviet out blow and then retaliate even at Soviet targets he said Ikle said the ability to successfully counterattack has been a major part of the administration's nuclear weapons policy since Reagan took office more than a year ago British troops head toward battle By Associated Press British troops continued to advance on the Falklands tal of Stanley from the west and south as British planes and ships pounded Stanley airfield and other Argentine positions in preparation for the decisive battle of the undeclared war said its warplanes at- tacked and disabled a British aircraft carrier in raids Sunday on Britain's Britain acknowledged an attack was attempted but denied any ships were hit and said one Argentine Skyhawk was probably shot down by a destroyer British military sources said day's bombardment by naval guns and Harrier jets was the most punishing of the campaign so far and was aimed at softening up the Argentine garrison estimated at troops de- fending the Falklands capital Argentina said two Harriers were downed by anti-aircraft fire and a third was damaged The British had no com- ment on the claim AN ARGENTINE military com- said Super Etendard fighter bombers carrying Exocet missiles and Skyhawk jets with high-powered bombs hit an aircraft ship and it was put out of action because of the grave damage it re- The communique did not name the carrier but Argentine news agencies said it was the Invincible one of two in he battle group Prince Andrew ond in line to the British throne is a helicopter pilot aboard the Invincible The British Defense Ministry said in a A number of Argentine naval aircraft attempted to attack the carrier battle group this afternoon None of the ships was hit One Skyhawk was believed to be shot down by an escorting destroyer Meanwhile Royal Marines and para- troopers advanced by helicopter to within 22 miles of Stanley in the ern arm of a pincer drive on the capital The troops reported the capture day of the Douglas and Teal Inlet ments of Stanley They said Argentine forces abandoned the out- posts apparently falling back to the defensive lines around the capital ADVANCING from the southwest along the coast are the 600 paratroopers who overran Argentine garrisons at Darwin and Goose Green in a battle Friday Lead elements of the British assault force are expected to run up against the first line of Argentine defenses around the capital within 24 hours said British military sources who declined to be identified Stanley is going to be a hard nut to one of the military experts said The toughest fighting has yet to come if the Argentines choose to slug it out Iron Duke No defense As the trial of John W Hinckley Jr drags on ad nauseum in a Washington courtroom it raises valid questions as to the wisdom of allowing insanity as a defense in a criminal case There is no question that Hinckley shot and seriously wounded President Reagan on March 30 1981 along with several others The shooting was witnessed by more than a score of people on the scene and by millions more on television The only question at issue in the Washington trial is whether Hinckley was insane at f he time of the shooting and thus legally unaccountable for his deed I HAPPEN to believe that insanity as a defense in a criminal case is a spurious issue impedes true justice and should be banned as a defense in criminal cases In my view psychiatry is an art not a science Psychiatrists typically disagree with one another on the witness stand so that neither jury nor judge Severin is provided with solid evidence on which to base a decision As a one-time police and court reporter I covered a number of trials in which the defense based its case on insanity of the defendant In- variably eminent psychiatrists employed by the prosecution and defense disagreed as to the mental condition of the accused As a layman I often concluded that there was no way the perpetrators of some of the more dous crimes of violence could fae construed to be mentally normal by any reasonable standards It seems to me the logical solution is to ban insanity as a defense in criminal cases and let the punishment fit the crime THAT WOULD end I would hope the endless delays in bringing a defendant to trial while countless psychiatrists probe the mind of the accused as has happened in the Hinckley case New funnel clouds slow rescue efforts in battered town MARION HI Severe flinging hail and rain sent new funnel clouds dancing over this community as workers plowed through tons of debris from a tornado that killed at least 10 and left Marion looking as if it had been bombed None of the funnel clouds sighted Sunday touched down but the hail and rain forced rescue workers to seek shelter temporarily delaying the search for more victims The tornado Saturday afternoon left more than 100 injured in this southern Illinois community At least 44 people remained hospitalized Sunday HOSPITAL officials said at least 65 additional people sought treatment for injuries mostly puncture wounds re- combing the wreckage Sunday Officials said the death toll may rise as workers lift piles of twisted steel glass and concrete Scores of homes and more than 100 apartments were destroyed Officials estimated 75 businesses in the tornado's path also were destroyed Gov James R Thompson gave an initial damage assessment of million Thompson said at a news con- ference Sunday that he had talked to President Reagan and would ask the federal government to declare Williamson County a major disaster area The state already has declared it a disaster area State Sen Gene Johns who toured the destruction with son said the damage will further erode Marion's faltering economy A LOT OF people are going to be out of work or out of business It's going to be a real economic Johns pre- Spain is NATO member WASHINGTON AP Spain's en- try into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization makes it the ber and the first country to join in about 27 years Spain formally became a member of the alliance on Sunday when of- from the country presented the State Department with documents in- all procedures necessary for entry had been met Sunday's action cleared the way for Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo to attend the NATO summit next week in Bonn 270 missing after mudslides MANAGUA Nicaragua AP At least 270 villagers are missing after mudslides unleashed by tropical storm Aleta buried three mountain villages in northern Nicaragua authorities said Twenty-nine survivors were reported Tons of rock and mud slide down the mountain Friday and buried the lages of EJ Tular La and San Antonio New mayor daughter slain SAN SALVADOR El Salvador AP A town mayor and her daughter shot to death in their home in southeastern El Salvador were buried at the La Bermeja Cemetary by a group of Christian Democratic Party officials who deplored the killings The slain woman Evangelina cia de Lopez a widow of 47 had served as a Christian Democratic member of the town council and had been named Friday by the council to succeed Mayor Teodoro Eleazar Cruz who was assassinated earlier this month Hours the council's action 11 men entered the Garcia de Lopez home and killed the new nate and her daughter Elsa Three members of the town's Civil Guard a security force under the command of the Defense Ministry were arrested Normal life for WASHINGTON AP Solidarity leader Lech Walesa soon will return to a normal life in Gdansk where he will continue to play a role in the trade union movement a Polish official said Sunday Speaking via satellite from saw Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jerzy said Walesa is living in exceptionally good conditions at the moment in southern Poland He said Walesa probably would go first to Warsaw the Polish capital and then return to Gdansk the Baltic seaport where the Solidarity labor was formed Appearing on a Cable News Network program Warsaw Live the Polish official said The moment will come soon when he will return to normal life among his friends and colleagues in Gdansk Brezhnev wants more from farms MOSCOW AP Leonid I Brezhnev Monday urged Soviet ers to concentrate on boosting agricultural production following the guidelines of his new food program Tass the official news agency said Brezhnev addressed the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet the leadership of the national parliament about the national food which was adopted last week by the Central Com- of the ruling Communist Party The food program is designed to end the Soviet Union's dependency on food imports from the West and to provide the Soviet people with more ample and food supplies and state Northeast Iowa Gordon Johncock Paul Bisgard Weather details on page A2
