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Show Page 2 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 7 Friday, April 17, 1987 1 Bringing the latest news from around the world that has impact on our lives from the Associated Press. B. NATO now faces difficult People - missile reduction decision BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- NATO has begun an urgent debate that could determine whether the superpowers conclude a deal to withdraw hundreds of nuclear missiles from Europe before President Reagan leaves office in 1989. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said Thursday it was launching a study of the implications for Western security of Moscow's new offer to widen the scope of nuclear missile cuts in Europe. Secretary of State George Shultz, after three days of talks with Soviet leaders in Moscow, briefed alliance officials on the Kremlin's offer and said NATO now faced ."hard decisions" on nuclear disarmament. He then flew back to the United - . . States and met with Reagan, who later Thursday was asked whether Washington would be able to sell the Soviet proposals to the West Europeans. Reagan replied, "That's what we're working on." Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev told Shultz he was willing to dismantle his country's arsenal of shorter-rang- e nuclear missiles as part of an accord eliminating both sides' medium-rang- e missiles in Europe. Gorbachev previously had re- fused to include the shorter-rang- e missiles, with a reach of miles, in negotiations on 'medium-rang- e missiles, which can strike targets within 620 to 3,100 miles. The U.S. position, siinnortprt bv 310-62- 0 PITTSBURGH (AP) Jimmy Stewart says one of his earliest experiences before an audience also was one of his most embarrassing: he told his grade-schoo- l classmates he heard a song called "Columbia, The Germ of the Ocean." "I've never lived it down," said the actor. The title of the patriotic ballad is "Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean." Stewart said Thursday that as a boy he built a radio and that he and his friends were thrilled when they picked up a broadcast of President Warren G. Harding's inauguration in 1921. "The next day in class I was asked to get up and tell what it was like to hear this. Now, I had never done this. ... I had not progressed anywhere as an actor," Stewart said. "And I said I heard speeches and I heard a band and they played 'Columbia, The Germ of the Ocean,'" he said. Stewart, who was born in Indiana, a city about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh, was honored Thurday by the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters. has been that instead of Soviet scrapping the shorter-rang- e missiles, they should be frozen at current levels and America should be allowed to match the Soviet total. The United States currently rockets in has no shorter-rang- s Europe. Both sides have hundreds of very short-rang- e nuclear weapons, those below the range. Shultz said these weapons were not involved in the current negotiations. The key question now appears to be whether the Western alliance is willing to forgo a buildup of shorter-range missiles for the sake of achieving its goal of miseliminating the medium-rang- e siles. NATO, 310-mi- oft-stat- Japan- holding back concessions TOKYO (AP) Japan will not make major trade concessions to persuade the United States to lift sanctions against Japanese industry, a special envoy for Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said today. But former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, who will go to Washington Sunday as Nakasone's representative, said he would offer ; "concrete measures" aimed at -- leasing growing trade tensions between Japan and the United States. - The Reagan administration is to announce today $300 million worth of punitive tarifs on an array of Japanese electronic products. The sanctions are in retaliation for what Washington contends is Japanese "dumping" of semiconductors, or computer chips, in overseas markets. ; Dumping is the selling of a product at a price below its production cost in an effort to open or expand markets. Japan denies the charge. The United States has announced a list of items possibly subject to tariffs of up to 100 percent. They include computers, disk drives, television sets, pocket calculators, radio-tap- e players, communications satellites, surveying equipment and photographic film. Abe told a news conference Japan will not try to have the sanctions removed by striking deals with the United States on several n trade relakey issues in tions supercomputers, telecommunications, construction and agriculture. "We are not at all thinking of making a concession here and there in exchange for lifting the sanctions," he said. He said he was confident the measures he plans to propose to U.S. officials for expanding domestic demand and boosting imports in U.S.-Japa- Japan would help ease tensions. The United States wants to sec a decrease in its trade deficit with Japan, which last year hit $58.6 billion, according to U.S. figures. He said the measures would have "considerable punch," but declined to reveal specifics. Abe said the primary purpose of his trip is to pave the way for Nakasone's planned visit later this month and to "make sure U.S.Japan relations are not undermined by the very severe situa- - EL PASO, Texas (AP) Pope John Paul II will be presented with a pair of custom cowboy boots with the papal seal on them COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -Tamil militants attacked at least ihree buses with machine guns and tnHav Willing trrpnnHp: "s- - s. than " " b mnrp the government an50 people,tvuj nounced. Tilak Ratnaker, chairman of the government Media Center, said it was believed most of the victims were Sinhalese. He said many Tamil guerrillas stopped the buses near Aluth-Oy- a Village, 115 miles northeast of Colombo, the capital. Women and children were among those dragged off the buses and killed by the guerrillas, he said. Most of the victims had been headed home to Colombo from villages in the Trincomalee district after New Year's celebrations with their relatives, Ratnaker said. The New Year holiday is celebrated both by Tamils and Sinhalese. The government had announced a cease-fir- e for the New Year T 10-d- and said its forces would not attack Tamil militants on land or by air. Tamil groups agreed to go along if soldiers did not attack, but bot'i sides allege violations. Ratnaker said some of the dead may have been Tamils and Moslems. He said three or four buses were attacked, but that details were sketchy because of poor communications with the area where the attacks took place. The army was called out in the area, he said. Tamils, who are mostly Hindu, allege discrimination in jobs, education and use of their Tamil language by the majority Buddhist Sinhalese in this island nation formerly known as Ceylon. Tamils comprise 18 percent of the island's 16 million people. Moderate Tamils want more autonomy for their communites in the north and east of Sri Lanka, Guaranteed to start on the first or second pull. spokesman Armando Romero said Thursday. The pope wears European size 44 shoes, but Romero said he did not know the American equivalent. Tony Lama has made boots for presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan. Romero said of Tony Lama had made a pair did he but another boots for pope, not know which. - A hermit (AP) a lean-t- o from eviction fighting on public land where he's lived for nearly 20 years says he hatn't heard from Mickey Rooney since the actor announced plans to make a TV special about him almost a month ago. "I'm fed up. I'm disgusted. I'm hurt. And I'm through with Mickey Rooney forever," said Bill Britt, who lives at a reservoir in Brookline. "I guess I believe that if you are a living legend like him you should live up to that legend." A Rooney press agent, Dan Kellachan of New York, said, "My understanding is that Bill and Mickey reached some sort of BOSTON agreement on undisclosed terms and that the lawyers were just working out a few things." But Britt said Wednesday a contract offered by Rooney "was all for him and very little for me," so he didn't sign, and a later contract offer provided for only a few thousand dollars up front. "This is a very marketable is no way to reach a solution, nor is protectionism. We kill should search for solutions through calm, dispassionate discussion," he said. Abe, currently chairman of the Executive Council of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, is regarded as one of three possible successors to Nakasone, who is to step down in October. CATANIA, 1 wealthy man," said Britt, who lives on money he gets from redeeming returnable soda bottles and cans. China's senBEIJING (AP) ior leader Deng Xiaoping told Britain's former Prime Minister Edward Heath today he had "disappointed" his doctors with his continued good health. Deng, 82, also jokingly attributed his health to his heavy smoking. Mr. Churchill always said," replied Heath, referring to Winston Churchill's love of cigars. Deng has said repeatedly he "That's what wants to retire and hand over power to younger leaders. However, the ouster in a political' backlash last January of Commu- -' nist Party chief Hu Yaobang, long touted as Deng's successor, apparently has made it difficult for Deng to step down. Sicily Gas - from (AP) and rocks spewed today Etna, Europe's tallest Mount and most active volcano, killing a Italian boy when it showered a group of Italian and French tourists, officials reported. police official in Catania, who declined to give his name, said the boy was killed by falling rocks and his mother also may have been killed. The official said three other people were injured. A where they predominate, while militants are tignting lor a sepa- rate nation. The last major bus massacres by Tamil separatists were in Trincomalee last June, when two passenger buses were blown up on the same day. Another bus in the north central part of the island was bombed in July. More than 40 people were killed in those attacks. Published Sunday through Friday by Scripps Leagut Newipaptrt, Inc. P.O. Sox 717, 84603 1555 North 200W.it Provo, Utah KIRK PARKINSON, Publisher boy 0-year- -old The Civil Defense Ministry in Rome said two people were believed killed. The explosion occurred 9,900 feet above the ground nearly at the summit' of Mount Etna, the cials said. ought to become a I story. Rocks from volcano tion." "Retaliation Jamil militants kill 50 in attack : when he visits San Antonio in September, says the booHiaker Tony Lama Co. "We haven't decided what kind of leather we'll use," company N. laVERL CHRISTENSEN, Editor Emeritus Entered as second class matter at the post office in Provo, Utah P.O. ID 143060 offi- In recent weeks, experts have noted an increase in volcanic activity on the southeastern slope of the volcano, where the explosion occurred. MEMBER Audit Bureau of Circulation NEA Service SUBSCRIPTION MAIL RATES IN UNITED STATES Month 6 Months One Year rocks spewed out and showered the group. Police closed the trails for a while, but they were later reopened. 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