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(gj KENTUCKY EDITION, 32 PACES, COPYRIGHT 1987, THE COURIER JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, A GANNETT NEWSPAPER WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 9. 1987 35 CENTS wvMtuitm -k I I i i. At J. vfj A. wi tf-imr-- w'iti tV tfrnumiiii i tmhhi "mi i ASSOUA1LD HHtSS President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the treaty to eliminate intermediate-range missiles during a ceremony in the White House East Room yesterday.

Keagaa and Gorbachev 'make history' with treaty 4 6 4 ilf'-TMH-fri" 'V 1 Inside on the summit: a Demonstrators of all stripes vie for a place in ihe spotlight. Page A 4. West European riovemments hail the treaty signing. Page A 5. 2 Tne missiles may go, but their warheads will live on.

Pace A 5. By TERENCE HUNT Associated Press WASHINGTON President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in a landmark moment in postwar history, yesterday signed a treaty banning intermediate-range nuclear missiles and began talks to reduce their foreboding arsenals of intercontinental ballistic missiles. "We have made history," Reagan declared after he and Gorbachev spent more than three minutes signing the leather-bound volumes containing the treaty and accompanying documents. "We can be proud of planting this sapling which may one day grow into a great oak of peace," Gorbachev proclaimed. "May December 8th, 1987, become a date that will be inscribed in the history books a date that will mark the watershed separating the era of a mounting risk of nuclear war from the era cf a demilitarization of human life," he said.

"We can only hope that this history-making agreement will not be an end in itself, but a beginning," Reagan said. The two men sat side by side to sign the treaty under the Bohemian cut-glass chandeliers of the East Room of the White House. The walnut conference table they used has also STAFF PHOTO BY TODD BUCHANAN Gov. Wallace Wilkinson took the oath of office again yesterday after being sworn in at midnight Monday. Kentucky Chief Justice Robert F.

Stephens administered yesterday's oath in front of the Capitol. been used for the signing of the peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War in 1898. the Ki79 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and previous arms agreements with the Soviet Union. The 24-minuie ceremony was broadcast live in the United States and the Soviet Union, as were separate remarks made by the two leaders lat-T in Dinirg Rj.r.i. Sitting in the audience were their wives, Nancy Reagan and Kaisa Gorbachev, American and Soviet diplomats and arms-control negotiators, and scores of members of Congress, including senators who must decide whether to ratify the treaty.

While conservatives have criticized the agree- See REAGAN Back page, col. 1, this section opportiiEity9 liopi ANALYSIS QiTJlial glOWS Willi ODtllillSli Gov. Wallace Wilkinson boasts cf the heritage and character of Kentuckians and extends an olive branch to the legislature. Page A 6 The inaugural parade has something for everyone, from 9-year-old media hogs to a woman who brought her own step ladder as a reviewing stand. Page A 7.

Wilkinson praises his Democratic predecessors, especially Martha Layne Collins, calling her "one of the truly, truly great governors of this state." Page A 7. steps. A 19-gun salute echoed across Frankfort after Wilkinson took the ceremonial oath of office on an unusually mild December afternoon. Wilkinson, the 53rd Kentuckian to be governor, also called on the political community "to bank the fires" of partisan politics and asked the General Assembly to join him in an era of mutual cooperation and respect. Although the legislature will not meet until January, the new governor and some legislators are off to a cautious start.

"I pledge to all of Kentucky that this administration will never sacrifice the public good because of an inability or unwillingness to cooper-See WILKINSON PAGE 6, col. 1, this section By BOB JOHNSON Political Writer FRANKFORT, Ky. Gov. Wallace Wilkinson promised in his inaugural address yesterday that Kentucky will provide opportunity and hope for its citizens even as he guides the state toward change and a new order. Wilkinson, a hard-driving businessman whose anti-establishment campaign upset the political order in the Democratic primary, also said that Kentuckians will compete and will win the fight for the future.

"From every street corner, every sidewalk, to every basketball goal with a rusty rim and a tattered net, let them understand Kentucky is ready to compete," he said in the address delivered from the Capitol By R. W. APPLE Jr. New York Times News Service WASHINGTON Even for this city, which long ago mislaid its sense of wonder, it was a thrilling day, bathed in a glow of satisfaction at what has been achieved and optimism about what may lie ahead. Often Washington looks on the dark side, especially where the Soviet Union is concerned, but there were few in the capital who failed to feel a shiver of excitement as Mikhail Gorbachev stepped from his limousine and grasped Ronald Reagan's hand, few in the country who were immune to the televised drama of the two leaders in profile with the red Soviet flag whipping in the wind behind them.

If, as Henry Kissinger once said, Americans oscillate between despair and euphoria in their atti tude toward the Soviet Union, yesterday's emotions may be relatively short-lived. Certainly the hopes raised in June 1973, when Leonid Brezhnev was welcomed to the White House by Richard Nixon under skies as steely gray as yesterday's, proved ephemeral. Both Reagan, with his call for "a heavy dose of realism," and Gorbachev, with his reminder of the "profound historical, ideological, socio-economic and cultural differences" that divide the superpowers, seemed to be warning of the limits of accommodation. But it is nonetheless remarkable that the process has begun at all, and that, these two men are those sponsoring it. For each, the moment at See EVEN JADED PAGE 5, col.

5, this section A 4- trustees vote not to se '9 Coldstream Binn criminal act on board that caused the craft to come down." "We have no basis to believe that the accident was caused by a mechanical reason or a crew error," Pacific Southwest President Russ Ray said in a memo to airline employees. The crew aboard the flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco reported gunfire aboard the plane, with smoke filling the cockpit, and signaled controllers there was an on-board emergency. Moments later, witnesses on the ground saw the four-engine British Aerospace BAe-Mt) diving in flames into the hills of a Santa Rita cattle ranch, 175 miles north- west of Los Angeles and 15 miles from the Pacific Coast. The disgruntled USAir employee reportedly learned that his former station manager was going to be on the plane, bought a one-way ticket, and smuggled the gun and six rounds of ammunition aboard by using his airline badge to avoid security checks. Authorities at first refused to confirm the ABC report, but a spokeswoman for USAir, which recently bought out Pacific Southwest, acknowledged that a 35-year-old former USAir employee was aboard See PLANE Back page, col.

1, this section Associated Press CAYUCOS, Calif. A fired airline worker who wanted to kill his boss smuggled a Magnum handgun onto a jetliner whose crew reported gunshots just before a fiery crash killed all 43 people on board, ABC News reported yesterday. The airline confirmed that a fired employee and his former boss were on Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, which crashed Monday afternoon. "At this point it does not appear that it was an accident," said Richard Bretzing, special agent in charge of the FBI in Los Angeles. "It appears at this point and has yet to be substantiated that it was a By RICHARD WILSON Staff Writer LEXINGTON, Ky.

The University of Kentucky board of trustees voted unanimously yesterday not to sell some of Fayette County's most valuable undeveloped land the Coldstream Farm north of Lexington. Although the experimental farm is not on the immediate market, the trustees will continue studying its future use, a process begun in 1 985 when officials said its value for research had diminished. Yesterday's action was sparked by a recommendation from a three-trustee panel that concluded UK should retain title to the farm even if it is developed in the future. Lexington Trustee Larry Forgv the panel's chairman, said that UK has both a cultural and a social responsibility in carefully deciding any alternative use of the tract along Interstate 75 and 64. The farm has been included in Fayette County's Comprehensive Land Use Plan for See UK Back page, col.

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