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Soviet delegation cuts tour short in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A
high-ranking Soviet delegation
unexpectedly cut short its visit
to the United States, and was
leaving for Moscow Sunday
night, a State Department of
ficial in Washington said.
“They have requested that
they be able to leave early,”
said Vivienne Ascher, a State
Department spokeswoman.
Ascher declined to comment
on speculation that the delega
tion’s sudden departure, two
days before it had planned to
leave for the Soviet Union, may
have been be prompted by death
or critical illness of Soviet
leader Konstantin Chernenko.
Chernenko, 73, head of the
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government, is known to have
respiratory problems and has
dropped from public view for
lengthy periods in recent
months.
“We confirm that they are
leaving, but we have no com
ment on the reason why they are
leaving,” Ascher said.
The group of 30 Soviet
leaders, led by Politburo
member and Ukrainian Com
munist Party head Vladimir
Shcherbitsky, had been
scheduled to take a yacht cruise
on San Francisco Bay Sunday
afternoon.
But Darcy Fallon, a reporter
for the San Francisco Examiner,
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SALEM (AP) — Several Oregon legislators say they’ll try
to block any attempt by the federal government to bury highly
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Because the Hanford site is in a geographically unstable
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Bradbury was joined by Democratic Reps. Shirley Gold
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said the group eluded the press
during a tour of the city and
never arrived for the scheduled
yacht cruise.
The delegation arrived in San
Francisco by air, amid tight
security, earlier Sunday. It was
the highest-ranking Soviet
group to come to the United
States in more than a decade.
Through an interpreter who
could barely be heard above
plane traffic. Shcherbitsky said.
“I am hoping to learn more
about the American people, and
1 hope they can learn about us.”
He added that he was "very
happy” to be in San Francisco.
The Soviets had been
scheduled to talk with business
and political leaders, and take a
brief look at Silicon Valley and
Stanford University Monday
before leaving for New York and
the end of their tour.
Israeli soldiers
killed by bomb
(AP) — A suicide bomber in a
truck detonated his load of ex
plosives as an Israeli army con
voy passed by Sunday, killing
himself and 12 soldiers and
wounding 14 soldiers, the
Israeli military command in Tel
Aviv reported.
The bombing occurred in
southern Lebanon at a military
checkpoint just north of the
Israeli border town of Metulla at
about 2 p.m.. the command
reported.
It said the official announce
ment was withheld until
relatives of the victims had been
notified.
Witnesses said the destroyed
army truck was in a convoy
transporting soldiers to the
north.
Israel television quoted Prime
Minister Shimon Peres as ex
pressing “profound horror” at
the; bombing and saying Israel
would not relent in its "war
against terror.”
In Beirut, the capital of
Lebanon, an anonymous caller
told the leftist radio station
Voice of Arab I^ebanon that the
pickup truck was driven by a
member of the Lebanese Na
tional Resistance. It said the at
tack was in revenge for a car
bomb that killed 75 people and
injured 250 on Friday near a
mosque in predominantly
Moslem West Beirut.
Israel has repeatedly denied
accusations in Lebanon that it
was reponsible for Friday's
bombing in west Beirut.
Clark to appear
at flasher forum
PORTLAND (AP) — Portland
Mayor Bud Clark, whose elec
tion boosted sales of his "Ex
pose Yourself to Art” poster,
will appear next week at a
Portland State University forum
put on by a women’s group pro
testing campus incidents of in
decent exposure.
The forum on exhibitionism,
sponsored by the Women’s
Studies Certificate Program, is
intended to focus attention on a
problem the women's group
believes is not being taken
seriously ontcampus.
Monday, March 11, 1985