International The Prince George Citizen — Wednesday, October 22, 1986 — 7 i Conserve valuable energy this winter by sealing door & window edges with products from ‘3M’. Window Insulator Kit Trousse pour isolation de fenetres V-SeaJ Weather Strip A I V* Coupc-froid en V Jjj HHI ,W.vX-.V> C*N« REAGAN'S REYKJAVIK STANCE NATO ministers line up with U.S. by RICK GIBBONS GLENEAGLES, Scotland (CP) — NATO defence ministers strongly endorsed the United States’ position today in its nuclear arms reduction talks with the Soviet Union. The communique ending the two days of meetings by 14 members of the alliance effectively refuted earlier signs of a rift over the strategic and political implications of measures endorsed by President Ronald Reagan at the Reykjavik summit. The ministers expressed appreciation to Reagan for his conduct at the Oct. 11-12 summit and said they “fully endorsed his bold attempt to seek far-reaching arms control agreements with the Soviet Union.” The communique also said the NATO alliance strongly supports research and development of Reagan’s Star Wars space-based missile defence program. It stopped short, however, of supporting actual deployment of the system which would violate terms of the anti-ballistic missile treaty. “We strongly support the United States’ exploration of space and defence systems, as is permitted by the ABM treaty,” it said. Despite earlier rumblings from European ministers and NATO commanders over the implications of deep cuts in European nuclear arsenals put forward in Reykjavik, U.S. Defence Secretary Casper Weinberger called the meetihgs here one of the least contentious he has ever attended. ‘‘I regard it as an extremely successful NATO meeting with a very high degree of unity,” he said. “We were delighted with the strong endorsement of the President’s program.” British Defence Secretary George Younger said the outcome of the talks “reaffirmed the absolutely clear solidarity of the Alliance after Reykjavik.” The Europeans expressed particular concerns over proposals made at the Iceland summit to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles from Europe without first addressing the imbalance in short-range nuclear and conventional forces between East and West. However, Weinberger assured his European counterparts that the U.S. remains as committed as ever to nuclear deterrence at least until conventional imbalances are addressed. In a clear measure of support for Reagan’s stance at the summit, the ministers urged the Soviet Union to press ahead with a deal on intermediate nuclear forces despite Washington’s refusal to place restrictions on development of Star Wars. “Ministers called on the Soviet leadership to affirm its commitments not to hold an INF agreement hostage to any other agreement,” the communique said. During the summit, Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev proposed withdrawal of U.S. cruise and Pershing 2 missile from Europe in return for the removal of Soviet SS-20s from the Eastern bloc. They also proposed a 50-per-cent cut in long-range strategic weapons but the package collapsed over Reagan’s refusal to restrict Star Wars development. Canadian Defence Minister Perrin Beatty said the ministers recognized the need to ensure the overwhelming advantage in conventional forces enjoyed by the Warsaw Pact countries is addressed as part of any attempt to slash nuclear weapons stockpiles by both sides. “We want to ensure that we don’t do away with the nuclear balance and replace that with a conventional imbalance which could cause conflict in the future,” Beatty said. Assurances by U.S. officials of the need to deal with the conventional, imbalance went a long way to easing European concerns over the future of nuclear arms reduction talks, Beatty said. Envoy visits Soviet airman JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A Soviet diplomat has visited a Soviet crew member injured in a plane crash that killed Mozambique’s President Samora Machel, the South African Foreign Ministry said today.. The South African government, which has no relations with the Soviet Union, allowed the diplomat and Nadejna Novoselova, the wife of flight engineer Vladimir Novoselov, to make the trip from Maputo capital of neighboring Mozambique. Novoselov, who suffered a badly broken leg and head injuries, was transferred from a hospital near the crash site just inside the South African border to a hospital in Pretoria. Publisher, daughter fight back ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A shouting gunman set off a smoke grenade in the lobby of The Anchorage Times newspaper early Tuesday and fired several shots before being subdued by the newspaper’s 79-year-old publisher and his daughter. Police arrested Donald Ramsey, 41. They said they believed the incident was triggered by a disagreement over a newspaper ad. “He said he put an ad in the Times and his house burned down,” said publisher Bob Atwood. “He blamed us.” A man, armed with an assault rifle, a handgun and several knives, burst into the building. He chained and locked the building’s front doors behind him before setting off the smoke bomb and firecrackers, Atwood said. “Then he came upstairs and shot up the outer office,” he said. “He was just firing away. I think they must have been blanks because he didn't hit me.” Officers said there were no blanks. There were several empty cartridge cases scattered on the floor and bullet holes in the ceiling and light fixtures. Atwood and his daughter, Elaine, jumped the gunman and managed to wrestle the rifle away. “Then he came up with a handgun. I figured it was empty so I grabbed for it and kept pounding on him.” Atwood suffered a cut on his hand and a burned finger in the fracas. There were no other injuries. WERE JEWELS, GOLDEN IDOL STOLEN? HONOLULU (AP) - The saga of a golden Buddha filled with gems has entered into the court fight over ownership of millions in currency and jewelry brought to Hawaii by deposed Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos. A claim filed with the U.S. government alleges that the $1.7 million US worth of Philippine pesos and $6.5 million US in jewelry seized by U.S. customs when Marcos arrived in February resulted from a golden idol found 15 years ago by a Philippine treasure hunter. A spokesman for Marcos said Tuesday that Marcos has discounted the claim as “foolish.” Rogelio Roxas claimed in 1971 to have found a 900-kilogram, 71-centimetre tall golden Buddha with a removable head, stuffed with gems, after tunnelling into a mountain in search of a treasure said to have been accumulated by Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita. The general led Japanese forces that occupied the Philippines during the Second World War. Three months later, Roxas said, government agents raided his home and took the Buddha. When he went to court to recover the idol, he charged that it had been switched for one made of brass. His charges resulted in an investigation led by some of Marcos’ political opponents, including Senator Jovito Salonga. Salogna heads the Philippines Committee on Good Government, which is seeking to recover for the Philippines government what it claims is $5 billion to $10 billion m “hidden assets” Marcos and his family illegally accumulated during his years in power. Roxas later turned over his claimed rights to the statue and jewels to Golden Buddha Corp., a company owned by Felix Dacanay, a native of the Philippines who lives in Powder Springs, Ga. Dacanay, a U.S. citizen, has asked the U.S. Justice Department to give the disputed Marcos’s wealth to his company, rather than to Marcos or to the Philippine government. During a hearing Monday before U.S. District Judge Harold Fong, a U.S. Justice Department lawyer, John Seibert, asked Fong to take possession of the goods and let U.S. Customs out of the fight over ownership. The United States has no interest in that fight and the mystery of the golden Buddha threatens to make the case even more complicated, Seibert said. Marcos’s lawyers said the Golden Buddha claim has nothing to do with the dispute over valuables held by the customs. Marcos’s spokesman Arturo Ar-uiza said Tuesday the claim is unfounded. “Fifteen years ago, three presidential aspirants came up with this committee,” Aruiza said. “All they gained was (political) mileage, but didn’t come up with anything connecting the president (Marcos) in that case.” CORRECTION In our Law of Toyland flyer dated Oct. 22nd - Dec. 24th - the Pamela talking doll on page 12 will not be available. Also on page 4, the Pound Puppies & Pound Puppies Yuppies sale 'price should read $22.88 and not $29.99 as printed. Zellers apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused its customers. Zellers 1303-3rd Ave. 563-1671 OPEC marathon ends with deal GENEVA (AP) - OPEC ended the longest meeting in the oil cartel’s history early today with an agreement to limit production until Dec. 31 — a move that its members predict will raise oil prices about $3 US a barrel. The agreement capped 17 days of debate within the fractious 13-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the once-mighty cartel that set prices in the 1970s but later became embroiled in a production war that glutted world markets and drove prices down. Rilwanu Lukman, OPEC’s president and the oil minister of Nigeria, told a news conference today he expected the accord to raise oil prices by about $3 from the current range of $14-$17 a barrel. Private analysts, however, said they did not expect the short-term OPEC agreement to have a significant effect on oil prices during the next two months. Conrad Gerber, an analyst with the Geneva-based consulting firm of Gencor Services, said he expected prices to hold at about $15 a barrel through the end of the year. Lukman said OPEC would work toward assembling a permanent set of oil production quotas instead of seeking another extension of its temporary arrangement. Saudi Arabia had entered the Geneva talks, which began Oct. 6, World with a demand that the oil ministers work out a new and “scientific” basis for dividing OPEC production among the member countries. Spy executed MOSCOW (AP) - A Soviet accused of spying for the CIA in Moscow has been executed for high treason, the official Tass news agency said today. Western news reports have said the man was turned in by CIA defector Edward Lee Howard. Adolf Tolkachev was sentenced to death by the military collegium of the Soviet Supreme Court, which “found him guilty of high treason in the form of spying,” Tass said. The report gave no details of Tol-kachev’s alleged espionage activities and did not say when either the trial or the execution occurred. It said an investigation showed Tolkachev “in pursuit of selfish ends and on account of his hostile attitude to the Soviet state, had maintained espionage contacts with U.S. intelligence agents who had been in Moscow under the guise of U.S. Embassy personnel.” The Los Angeles Times, quoting unidentified sources, reported from Washington earlier this year that Tolkachev had been executed because of information disclosed by Howard. Chinese hero dies PEKING (AP) — Marshal Ye Jianying, a chief strategist of Chinese Communists’ long march to power and one of the government’s most enduring leaders, died today at age 90, the official Xinhua news agency said. Ye resigned from the standing committee of the Communist party Politburo in 1985. He stepped down as chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, then the equivalent of the presidency, in February 1983. He was among the diminishing group of aging leaders who worked with old guards such as Mao Tse- tung and Chou En-lai and are enshrined in Communist history for leading the revolutionary forces to power in 1949. Ye’s death reduced to two the number of surviving marshals, China’s supreme military ranking bestowed on 10 heroes of the revolution in the 1950s. Marshal Liu Bo-cheng died Oct. 7 at the age of 94, leaving only Nie Rongzhen and Xu Xiangqian. Ye served with the Red Army and the People’s Liberation Army for half a century. He was defence minister 1975-78 and also served as chairman of the military control commission, commander of the Guangdong, in southern China, military region and vice-chairman of the party’s Central Military Commission. He was mayor of both Peking and Canton. woolco CORRECTION NOTICE. 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