Waterloo Courier Cedar Falls (Newspaper) - March 30, 1986, Waterloo, Iowa SUNDAY MARCH GOOD MORNING What's Redfern to repay donations B1 Heart recipient returns home B6 about any form fashion this spring D1 108 PAGES 13 SECTIONS Reagan rejects Soviet request for quick summit Today's Warm and sunny A2 Title bout The NCAA title game is set as Duke fights off foul-plagued Kansas and Louisville turns on its defense ILLE to end gallant WATERLOO IOWA 1986 WATERLOO COURIER FALLS RECORD By ELEANOR CLIFT and WILLIAM J EATON Los Angeles Times SANTA BARBARA Calif The White House on Saturday swiftly re- Soviet leader Mikhail S latest proposal to dis- cuss a nuclear test ban with dent Reagan at a other than Washington A statement released to reporters accompanying the vacationing dent said tartly that Reagan t has taken note of General Secretary speech on iet television today It went on to reiterate the standing op- Gorbachev position to a nuclear testing moratorium in the absence of any overall agreement on nuclear arms limitation The statement also dismissed call for an early ing in London Rome or another European capital recalling that Gorbachev had accepted Reagan's invitation to visit the United States in 1986 when the two men met for the first time in Geneva last November White House officials were puzzled by offer I don't know anything more on March 29 than I did on January Chief of Staff Donald T Regan told reporters Regan said that he thought a mit in Washington was still possible even though the Soviets have not yet responded to the ad- offer of possible dates It's up to the Regan said The White House statement re- called promise to visit the United States and said that the president is confident that Gorbachev takes his agreement INSIDE Daily Record B3 Features seriously and that he will respond in due course The administration had wanted the session to occur in June well before the November congressional tions but the Soviets had informally proposed a September date or even a late time frame Administration officials had thought that the Soviets were stalling to get a date to their liking but speech appeared to throw into doubt any summit this year Officials have said that Reagan will not go out of the United States to meet Gorbachev even if it means postponing the next superpower mit until next year The nuclear test ban issue has been used by both sides in the public diplomacy battle that has gone on since last year's fireside summit in Geneva Just last month Reagan offered to allow Soviet experts to examine a new U.S verification tem at a nuclear test site in Nevada The Soviets also seem eager to re- strict the next summit to a single issue a nuclear test ban rather than discuss a wide range of subjects including their involvement in re- conflicts around the world The administration is determined to keep the agenda as broad as possible Meetings at the highest level should deal with the entire range of important issues between our two the White House statement said Nuclear testing is one of them but only one IN MOSCOW Gorbachev on the main evening tele- vision news program to underscore the importance of the message His presentation avoided any mention of a ranging second summit in the United States this year There has been no agreement on a date for that meeting He said that he saw no mountable obstacles to reaching agreement with the United States on banning nuclear tests Northeast B4 Scene Barked car A huge tree limb came crashing down on the parked car of a Cedar Falls man Saturday afternoon as a result of high winds Winds gusts that reached nearly 50 mph swept into the metro area during a brief storm causing power outages and some Courier photo by Tom Roberts property damage The car is owned by Kent Fry a University of Northern Iowa student and was parked in the parking lot of Chapel of Memories Funeral Home in Waterloo when the branch fell See story on page B1 reform consensus as elusive as low-cost insurance By ERIC WOOLSON Courier Staff Writer DBS MOINES A legislative con- on liability reform is about as hard to come by as the readily available low-priced in- surance coverage that many doctors hospitals businesses and local say they need to stay in business Some Iowa legislators believe the crisis is manufactured by the insurance industry to prompt passage of softer liability laws Others can't agree on the severity of the crunch or how many laws should be rewritten a fair solution Democratic leaders said in ary that they wouldn't change the laws this year That opinion changed as various groups pleaded for state action It's not just problem affecting -one group or profession It's an across-the-board Rep John said More than 60 bills were drafted by lawmakers ing five sweeping proposals Last in a series After weeks of intense lobbying and negotiations Senate Democrats agreed on one measure THEY TOOK a cautious approach approving a March 21 that dates a study sets guidelines for determining punitive damages and creates a risk management division in the Insurance Department Anytime there is a crisis and there is one now there are two impulses One is to make drastic revolutionary changes It would be easy to solve the problems of doctors if we simply legalized Sen Arthur Small City said The other approach is inevitably more difficult That is the ary process the quiet approach of carefully building laws That is what we are doing NO SPECIAL INTEREST group is particularly happy with the Senate product It's fair to say most people were said David Roederer Gov Terry legislative liaison The changes were not as tating as if they'd put caps on punitive damages and done some other things mentioned But we've See INSURANCE Continued on page A5 col 1 Attacks concern U.S By JAMES GERSTENZANG and DOYLE McMANUS Uos Angeles Times WASHINGTON ported agents in Europe and the Middle East and around the world according to one source have been told to prepare to attack American and Israeli targets in the wake of the clashes between Libyan and U.S forces in the Gulf of Sidra region last week Reagan administration of- said Intelligence reports reaching Washington warned that such orders had been dispatched although fic targets and the timing of attacks remained unclear the officials said With the U.S 6th Fleet ships that took part in the military action in the central Mediterranean Sea the Pentagon and other arms the government turned their tion over the weekend to the of terrorist attacks Concern about such attacks led to the cancellation of at least two over- seas congressional trips during the Easter holiday 1 However Vice President is holding to a plan to visit four Mideast nations Bahrain Yemen Oman and Saudi Arabia during Easter week and Defense Secretary Caspar W Weinberger plans to embark Monday on a journey to South Korea Japan Thailand the pines and Australia One administration official who spoke on condition that he not be named said that the identities of the Libyan agents are unclear but that there is this corps out linked in at least a loose fashion to the radical Red Brigades in Italy and the remnants of the Baader-Meinhof active in West Germany in the 1970s as well as to a left-wing organization tied to terrorist aimed at North Atlantic Treaty Organization sites in Belgium Another senior administration of- who asked for anonymity said that while he is unaware of such connections between Libya and the established terrorist groups in ern Europe we definitely have a terrorism threat worldwide A third official said that the had apparently developed contingency plans for operations and that there were intelligence reports that Libya had recruited to carry out operations The use of Palestinians rather See LIBYA Continued on page A2 col 6 Metro area road projects this summer City projects A Hackett Road bypass from Rainbow Drive to Road B Hoff Road from Road to West Fourth Street C Sen Drive widened between La Porte Road and Wett Fourth street D Wagner Road construction 20 and norm city limits E Street and Sixth Street reconstruction be- tween Mulberry and re- State projects F Relocated Highway 218 which ties Into Hackett bypass Q Highway 63 Logan An widened from Donald Street to Road Metro road projects to create jobs By DAVID RANSOM Courier Staff Writer More than jobs are expected to be created this year by several state and city road construction in the metro area Almost of those road con- struction workers will be employed in five primary road projects in Waterloo that are part of the inter- state highway substitution program The other jobs will be created by two state road projects Bob Stevenson Waterloo's trans- program manager said a formula from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates that full-time jobs are produced for every million in road construction He noted that Waterloo has million planned in road construction this year The major projects already under construction or to be completed in Waterloo this year are the Hackett Road bypass Wagner Road San Marnan Drive Hoff Road and Fifth and Sixth streets between Mulberry and Franklin streets In addition work on Kimball enue may begin this year but that is uncertain said Mark Boesen traffic specialist The state's two primary projects are construction of relocated way 218 between Highway 20 and Rainbow Drive and widening of Highway 63 between Donald Street and Dunkerton Road Gerald Lund resident engineer for the Iowa Department of tation said about million is budgeted for the work on Highway 63 with about million in funding for construction of relocated way 218 between Highway 20 and Rainbow Drive Eighty-five the tion plan is being funded by the federal government with the city and DOT splitting the other 15 cent The Hackett Road bypass project which is to hook up with relocated Highway 218 has already begun with grading near Black Hawk Road Grading and repaving of the Hackett Road bypass from Hunnington Road to Rainbow Drive is expected to be finished this year THE WORK being done has closed See ROAD WORK Continued on page A2 col 3
