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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Friday, February 7, 1986 kl Kennedy Praises Sakharov Before Peers By Carol J. Williams Associated Press Writer MOSCOW Sen. Edward M. Kennedy praised Andrei Sakharov to the dissident's former scientific colleagues Thursday, then met with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev reduction. about nuclear-arm- s The official news agency, Tass, indicated in its report of the meeting that Gorbachev dwelt on a plan he proposed last month to rid the world of nuclear weapons by the year 2000. Tass said Gorbachev confirmed that the Soviet Union would agree to withdrawal of U.S. and Soviet weapons in Europe without insisting that British and French missile arsenals be dismantled. In response to Kennedys questions, the agency said, Gorbachev "explained that this proposal, just as the proposal to end nuclear explosions, is unaccompanied by any terms, except for Britains and Frances pledge not to build up their respective nuclear arms and not to transfer such weap - LONDON Even in the wake of the worlds worst space disaster, the British government is determined to press forward with two years of research on the futuristic passenger spacecraft HOTOL the acronym for horizontal takeoff and landing. Plans call for an engine devele to power the plane. oped by Rolls-Royc- "stand on the verge of a decisive breakthrough." "It is now possible to visualize the broad outline of a worthwhile, even historic, agreement on nuclear-arm- s et nuclear test ban were announced control between the United States Jan. 15, however, wording suggested and the Soviet Union, Kennedy told that some or all aspects of it depended on prior U.S. renunciation of the about 40 members of the academy assembled in an ornate conference Strategic Defense Initiative. room. "Let both sides have the wis- President Reagan has refused to dom and the perseverance not to let give up the research program for a this moment slip away. defense system based in space, comsci ntists' work for peace, Praising He Wars. is called Star to said monly Kennedy said "we felt a genuine be preparing a response while seeklast fall, when the 1985 Noof clarification the ing proposals. bel Prize for Peace was awarded to visit as a the international Kennedy is on a three-da- y physicians for the guest of the Soviet parliament. His prevention of nuclear war. An speech to the academy, of which SaAmerican and a Soviet are kharov still is a member although he of the group. now is in internal exile, outlined posI also pay tribute here to another sible cooperation to overeminent Nobel laureate, the first Socome the nuclear threat. viet citizen to receive the Nobel He offered the November summit Peace Prize, a member of your acadin Geneva between Gorbachev and emy, Dr. Andrei Sakharov," Kennedy President Reagan as evidence of said. "The indispensable value of scinew rays of hope in superpower reence is its ability to speak truth to lations, and said the two nations power." ons to other countries." Tass made no mention of other conditions. When Gorbachevs package and extension of a Soviarms-con-tr- U.S.-Sovi- Foreign Briefs DflODOoCSn Salvador Rebel Vows to Stand By Sandinistas HAVANA (UPI) Salvadoran A guerrilla commander Thursday vowed his group would unite with its weapons and its blood to help the Nicaraguan government repel any U.S. military invasion. Shafik Handal, a commander of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a leftist coalition fighting d the army of El Salvador, announced his organizations support for Nicaraguas leftist Sandinista government in a meeting of Communist Party officials in Havana. d rebels are fighting to oust the Sandinistas. If the United States decides to invade Nicaragua, the Salvadoran people will unite with its blood and its weapons to defend the heroic people of Sandino, Handal said in a speech to the Third Communist Party Congress. Augusto Cesar Sandino was a Nicaraguan rebel who fought the U.S. Marines in the 1930s and gave his name to the front that ousted dictator Anas-tasi- o Somoza in 1979. U.S.-backe- - India (AP) Pope John Paul II, abandoning his bulletproof van for an open jeep, drove through a cheering crowd of 400,000 people Thursday in the most exuberant welcome of his Indian tour. Later he prayed for the more than 2,000 people who died in the 1984 gas leak at Bhopals Union Carbide pesticide plant, calling them victims of mans efforts to make progress. The weary, sunburned pontiff also prayed for rain in southern drought-stricke- n Karnataka state, where eight months ago a Hindu swami prayed in vain for a downpour. Almost the entire population of Mangalore, a largely Christian city on the Arabian Sea, turned out to greet John Paul along with Christians from throughout south India. 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