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Loak PoU-DiupMct MONDAY, MAY 10, 1982 DuIh5Fl coif POST DS on number of nuclear warheads for each nation, Reagan added that "to enhance stability, I would ask that no more than half of those warheads be land-based." According to the administration figures, this provision would be more costly in strategic strength for the Soviet Union than for the United States, because of the Russians' greater dependence on land-based missiles. Reagan said he hoped to achieve a "new understanding" between the two countries. He said he still wanted to meet Brezhnev at the U.N. arms control conference in June, but Reagan See MISSILES, Page 5 missile-carrying submarines, bombers and the cruise missiles that can be based near the Soviet border. In his speech, the president talked in grave terms of the nuclear war threat.

"My duty as president is to ensure that the ultimate nightmare never occurs, that the prairies and the cities and the people who inhabit them remain free and untouched by nuclear conflict," Reagan said. And he made clear that verification of weapons reductions must be part of any plan the United States eventually approved. In calling for an initial limit on the The administration says that the Soviet Union holds the advantage in numbers and size of ballistic missiles. Reagan's proposal did not mention bombers and intermediate-range cruise missiles, in which the United States holds the lead. In essence, Reagan's proposal asks the Soviet Union to give up what the administration sees as a 3-to-l Soviet lead in total weapons payloads.

In return, he is offering, without spelling it out, an implied bargain that the United States would scale back its research and production in the areas in which it holds a technological advantage: President Brezhnev that the United States is ready to build a new understanding and I will ask President Brezhnev why our two nations cannot practice mutual restraint," Reagan said. "Why can't our peoples enjoy the benefits that would flow from real cooperation? Why can't we reduce the number of horrendous weapons?" the president asked. Reagan explained that he had singled out ballistic missiles for the first step, because those weapons were "the most destabilizing systems" in the arsenals of the two nations. By Bill Lambrecht Post-Dispatch Illinois Bureau EUREKA, III. President Ronald Reagan has proposed that the United States and the Soviet Union cut by one-third their arsenals of 7,500 nuclear warheads.

He told about 2,000 persons attending graduation exercises Sunday at Eureka College here, his alma mater, that his proposal would be a first step toward "dismantling the nuclear menace." Administration officials estimated that each side has 7,500 missile warheads. A one-third reduction would cut to about 5,000 the number of warheads for each nation. This would be the first step; the second would be that both nations accept an "equal ceiling" on the "throw weight," or total payload, of all nuclear missiles. The president characterized his plan as "a guide to the future of East-West relations." He said it had been offered to Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev last week as part of the strategic arms reduction talks (START), which he suggested to Brezhnev could begin next month.

"And when we sit down, I will tell British Attacks Resume; Progress Reported In U.N. wf, i ttr, 7 I V- 1 3 1 Compiled From News Services LONDON Britain put new pressure on Argentina with a resumption of attacks in the South Atlantic war zone. At the same time, though, a U.N. spokesman reported "substantial progress" in negotiations to start peace talks. The British said their ships and aircraft Sunday had bombarded Argentine military targets around the airfield at Stanley, capital of the disputed Falkland Islands.

Reporters with the British fleet said it had shot down an Argentine helicopter and had captured an Argentine fishing factory ship that Britain said appeared to have been spying in the British blockade zone around the islands. After four days without a military attack, ships from the British battle fleet moved close to shore to bombard the Stanley 'airfield area, a British correspondent reported from the task force flagship, the carrier Hermes. Official British spokesmen said Sea Income In State Rises 11.4 Percent Over '80 Scott DinePost-Dispatch Eddie Stone (left), a Southern Christian Leadership Conference Ga. Stone was gathering signatures on petitions to Washington volunteer, buttonholes a street produce vendor in Milledgeville, calling for preservation of the Voting Rights Act. New Ploys In South To Curb Black Voting WASHINGTON (UPI) Per capita personal income in America ranged last year from a high of $14,000 in Alaska to a low of $7,256 in Mississippi, Commerce Department figures indicate.

In Missouri, the per capita personal income was reported at $9,876, which gives the state 31st place in ranking among the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The new income average represents an 11.4 percent increase over that determined for 1980. The per capita income reported for Illinois was $11,479, eighth highest in the department's ranking. That figure represents a 9.5 percent increase from 1980 levels. Th report said most of the 11 states with high per capita personal incomes incomes that were at least 7 percent, or $736, above the U.S.

average were in the urbanized Northeastern and Western parts of the country. Most of the 19 states with low per capita personal incomes 7 percent or By Thomas W. Ottenad Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau Chief Copyright, 1982, St. Louis Post-Dispatch MONTGOMERY, Ala. -Racially tinged registration obstacles are a major factor in preventing hundreds of thousands of Southern blacks from voting, despite federal laws prohibiting discrimination in the electoral process, the Post-Dispatch has determined.

In the 1980 presidential election, nearly 2.5 million blacks of voting age were unable to vote in seven Deep South states, in part because of procedural and administrative stumbling blocks that made it difficult for them to register. Civil rights experts say that unless they are forced to act, white Harrier jets had strafed the Argentine positions. British correspondents with the fleet also reported a missile fired by a British warship had shot down an Argentine helicopter engaged in "air combat" over the Stanley airfield. Argentina reported a 50-minute British attack on Stanley and the nearby town of Darwin. The Argentine account gave no report on casualties.

Britain said its jets returned safely. It was the first fighting reported in the South Atlantic since a missile fired from an Argentine warplane hit the British destroyer Sheffield last Tuesday, killing 20 crewmen, and a British jet was downed attacking the Stanley airfield. The latest British attacks followed reports that tfie Argentines had repaired the runway at Stanley, reportedly knocked out in two previous British raids, and were airlifting supplies to the island garrison in See FALKLANDS, Page 11 more below the U.S. average were in the Southeast and Rocky Mountain regions. The nationwide average was $10,517 in 1981, compared with $9,511 in 1980, the department said in a report made public over the weekend.

The report also measured non-farm personal income during the fourth quarter of last year. This category increased at the smallest percentage rate in five quarters and about equaled the increase in consumer prices, it said. The report said non-farm personal income in the United States increased only 1.8 percent in the fourth quarter, after an increase of 3 percent In the third quarter. The department defined noi-farm income as "total personal income less both farm wage and salary disbursements and farm proprietors' income." Per capita personal income was defined as "the total personal income See INCOME, PageS Atlanta Braves took the battle of Cloudy And Warm Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight with a slight chance of scattered thunderstorms toward morning; the low in the lower 80s.

Partly cloudy and warm tomorrow with the high In the low to mld-80s. Rain ending Wednesday; the high in the 70s. Ottxr WMHMf Informotton Pott tA J.A.. 'Pa mi eureka! POTOISPATCH WEATHER BIRO ro orw barriers of the past, such as the poll tax and literacy test. But these structural, procedural and psychological barriers have the same effect: making registration difficult, and at times almost impossible, for blacks.

The Post-Dispatch study of voting problems in the South since enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 found that impediments to registration by blacks include: "Re-identification" laws that, in effect, wipe voters off election rolls unless they reregister. Often these laws are targeted at districts with heavy black populations. Statutes necessitating double registration by some voters once for city elections and again See RIGHTS, Page 6 formed a committee to decide who should have payroll deductions." Berra said one requirement might be that a minimum number of city employees perhaps 15 percent would have to be interested in a particular service before automatic payroll deductions would be allowed. If the committee determines that firms must bid for the right to do business with groups of city employees, part of a company's bid might include a fee to the city for deducting the payments from payroll checks, Berra suggested. The fee would help finance a new program on the city's computer system that would be needed to handle See GUIDELINES, Page 7 VOTING RIGHTS-AND WRONGS part two who traveled through the Deep South, talked to black leaders and voters, white officials and others, and studied registration, voting and research data.

organization based in Atlanta. White officials deny any discriminatory intent. They say registration rules and changes are made to prevent cheating and to keep voter rolls up to date. The new obstacles to black voting are different from the legal city employees and a fee for handling payroll deductions to pay for such services. The arrangement between the Police Board and Northwestern National Life Insurance Co.

involved no competitive bidding. Most firms that want to provide services to city employees prefer to use the city's payroll deduction system to collect payments from workers, Berra said. "But we don't have the computer capacity to allow a few employees to deduct for this service and a few to deduct for that service," Berra said. "I thought it was a personnel matter and monday Panel Studies Sales Pitches To City Personnel By Tommy Robertson Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A committee named by Comptroller Paul M. Berra is studying guidelines for private firms seeking to sell services to the city's 7,000 civil service employees.

As reported Sunday in the Post-Dispatch, Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. was given permission by the Board of Police Commissioners to enter police stations to sell insurance policies to officers while they were on duty. Police supervisors were ordered to cooperate with the insurance sales agents. Berra, whose office handles the city's payroll, said Sunday that The federal Voting Rights Act, now before Congress for renewal, was enacted in 1965. With the need for extension of the act in dispute, the Post-Dispatch undertook to determine whether the goal of eliminating racial discrimination from the voting process had been achieved.

This series was compiled over a three-month period by a reporter officials refuse to open the political process more widely for blacks. "No Southern state has ever seriously acted to encourage black registration," said Steve Suitts, executive director of the Southern Regional Council, a long-established civil rights companies come to him regularly seeking permission to sell services to city employees. But the city has no guidelines for such arrangements, Berra said, so he named a committee to study the matter. The group includes officials from the comptroller's office and from the city's personnel and data processing offices, Berra said. Recommendations for policy guidelines are expected to be completed within a month.

Berra said the proposed guidelines would be distributed to city departments for their reaction. Two areas of special attention, Berra said, are competitive bidding by companies seeking to sell services to Klappa, who once managed a game room in Madison, said a Pac-Man machine had blown up last week after he hit 1.7 million points. "I told them I'd be back Saturday, going for the world's record," he said. "And here I am! I got it! I was so happy the machine lasted this time." In the game, the player maneuvers Pac-Man through a maze, eating up dots and avoiding ghosts that can gobble him up. Klappa said he had developed a new pattern about a month ago that helped him.

But the strain of playing so long finally got to him. "Aw man, I feel tired," he said. features JENNINGS: The city on St. Louis' northern border (right) is proud of its progress and its stability. Page ID of Everyday GUITAR MAN: John McClellan, 18, is the classical struggling artist: He's considered "an exceptional talent," but is finding it nearly impossible to make ends meet.

Page 3D of Everyday sports RRAVF.S FOR REAL: The division leaders with the Cardinals, two games to one, by win-' ning Sunday, 3-0, at Busch Stadium. Page 1C of Sports Israel Weighs Reprisal For Palestinian Shelling Sets Record For Pac-Man Before Exhaustion Sets In inside 42 Pages MILWAUKEE (UPI) A man who says he has developed a new technique for playing Pac-Man maneuvered the video game to a possible world record before exhaustion overcame him. Mitch Klappa, 20, began playing Pac-Man at 4:15 p.m. Saturday at Bally's Tomfoolery and had scored 3,183,440 points before the game ended five hours later. Recently a computer science student at Buffalo State College in New York scored nearly 3 million points on a machine, which overloaded and blew up before he was through.

The company that produced Pac-Man said it does not keep scoring records, so Klappa's score was lauded as the world record. TEL AVIV. Israel (AP) The Cabinet of Prime Minister Menachem Begin held a four-hour special session today to plan Israel's response to an attack by Palestinian forces on northern Israel. That attack, the first in 10 months, was itself in retaliation for Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon. The Cabinet meeting ended without any announcement on probable Israeli action.

Lebanese officials said at least 16 people were killed and 56 wounded in Israel's air raids Sunday. Israel reported no losses in the reprisal. The tit-for-tat attacks raised fears of a new round of cross-border violence between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. A cease-fire last July halted a similar campaign. The target of the Palestinian rockets and artillery was Israel's Galilee Panhandle, which lies in the northeastern part of the country, between Lebanon and Syria.

Settlers there were split on what the Israeli response to the attacks should be, Israel radio reported. Some called for a massive military action to wipe out the PLO presence across the frontier and others, such as Mayor David Koren of Sulam Zur village, were urging the government "to keep a low profile," the radio said. "We are not built to withstand a war of attrition," Avraham Broshi, head of the local settlement council, told Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. Sharon was touring the panhandle and western Galilee, near the Mediterranean. "Everybody is interested in keeping the north quiet, but not at the price of agreeing to Israel's other borders being open to terrorists," Sharon was quoted See LEBANON, Page! Business Today 1-7B Classified Advertising H2C Editorials 12A Everyday 1-8D News Analysis ISA Obituaries 6C People 8A PoliceCourts 6C St.

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