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President does not expect
far-reaching weapons treaty
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Reagan
said Tuesday he hopes his summit next week
with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will
produce “a signal” from the superpowers to
guide nuclear arms control negotiators.
Reagan ruled out any chance of reaching a
far-reaching arms treaty at the summit and
suggested the meeting will not even produce a
joint communique. ‘Tm not a great fan of
communiques — the sort of settling on a state
ment in advance.” the president said.
While arms control will be a subject of the
two-day session beginning next Tuesday in
Geneva, Reagan said, “I don’t envision this
meeting as being one where we will get down
to specific numbers and so forth.”
Reagan, in an interview with West Euro
pean television reporters, said. “1 would think
that what we should be dealing with at the
summit is.. .the elimination of suspicion and
mistrust to the point that we could turn the
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specific numbers (of nuclear weapons) over to
those other negotiators, but that they could
have a signal from both sides, from their
government and ours from us. have a
knowledge that we want them to continue and
to arrive at an agreement."
Tiie interview came against the latckdrop
of Secretary of State George Shultz* assessment
that his trip to Moscow last week failed to nar
row differences between the United States and
Soviet Union on arms control and other issues.
"Well, I'm not as pessimistic as that."
Reagan said. "I understand, of course, that it's
not going to be easy. There’s a long history of
meetings between our two countries and.
many times, without much result."
Reagan pledged, "I'm going to make
every effort to try and reduce the mistrust and
suspicion that seems to exist between our.
well, not only our two nations but sort of the
East and the West."
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Suicide bomber crashes
into Beirut monastery
BEIRUT. Lebanon (AP) - A
suicide bomber crashed a
pickup truck loaded with ex
plosives into a monastery where
six senior Christian politicians
were meeting Tuesday. The
bomber, two army guards and a
woman were killed and 26 other
people wore Injured, police
said.
They said a 2V»-foot-thick
stone wall shielded the politi
cians from the main force of the
blast, which gouged out a
20-foot-wide crater
Three bombs exploded over
night in various parts of
Moslem west Beirut, killing
four civilians and wounding
eight, police reported earlier in
the day.
The meeting in the Christian
suburb of Aukar in east Beirut
was to discuss opposition to a
draft Syrian-sponsored ar
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mistice agreement reached hint
month by Lebanon's three
strongest militias in an effort to
end the 10-year-old civil war.
The six politicians gathered
at the monastery belonging to
the Lebanese Front, a Christian
political coalition that was ex
cluded from the negotiations
An anonymous caller claim
ing to apeak for the previously
unknown "Vanguard of Arab
Christians" told a Western
news agency in Beirut: "We
have staged this bombing and
we shall carry out more
sacrifices,"
Speaking in Lebanese
accented Arabic, the caller ac
cused Christian leaders of seek
ing to align Lebanon's Christian
community with Israel and said
"This (the bombing) is the end
of everyone who is in Israel's
lap."
All six senior members of the
latbanese Front were injured,
but only one, former Defense
Minister George Skaff, 55. was
hurl seriously, police said.
They said those slightly hurt
included former President
Camille Chamoun. 85, and his
son. Dany. 51. leader of the Na
tional Liberal Party.
Others wounded included
body guards, passersby and four
soldiers, police said.
In the attack on the Christian
leaders, the driver of the red
and blue Dodge pickup was
blown to pieces in the explo
sion. Police said all they could
fin t was a toe. Officers said the
pickup truck carried 860
pounds of explosives.
The bombing occurred at
10:10 a.m. moments after the
Chamouns entered the sand
stone. brick-roofed St. Georges
Monastery. Camille Chamoun,
who survived two bomb
assassination attempts in 1080,
suffered minor facial cuts and
his son was wounded in the
hand, police said. Neither man
was hospitalized.
A corporal and a sergeant
jumped into a jeep and raced
behind the truck, shooting at
the driver in an effort to stop the
vehicle. But the driver crashed
the truck into the southeast wall
of the one-story monastery. The
monks left the monastery nine
years ago, and the Lebanese
Front took it over os its
headquarters.
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