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A6 Garet-Tim Corvafl 0f Wednesday. Juie 17. 1992 Nation world mh 11 EDyd VBSs on WASHINGTON (AP) The United States and Rassia agreed "These are remarkable steps for our two countries, a departure from the tensions and the suspicions of the past, and a tangible, important expression of our new Bush said The recently concluded strategic arms reduction treaty would have limited the United States to 8.556 strategic warheads and Russia to 6.449. Yeltsin said the sweeping scope of the new accord, conclud ed in just five months, was "un-paralled and probably an unexpected thing" to emerge from their negotiations. Even so, both sides had been pressing for cuts to at least 4.700 warheads, but were divided over which weapon systems should be cut.

The new-agreement allows each side to determine its own mix of land-based missiles, bombers and submarine' launched weapons under specific ceilings signed by Bush and Yeltsin today and then codified in a formal treaty within three months. "The time when our two nations viewed each other ith suspicion and even animosity is behind us," Yeltsin said, speaking through a translator. Seeking recognition as a world leader despite his nation's immense problems, Yeltsin said the forces of communism have collapsed in Russia after more than seven decades. "We believe that it is our goal today to bring Russia back to normalcy, restore it to the values and the fundamentals which have evolved in the course of human history," said Yeltsin. Bush and Yeltsin announced the agreements in the Rose Garden after trading pledges that their nations would never again be adversaries remain in captivity.

At a White House state dinner in his honor, Yeltsin said he had given Bush "my word of honor that on this subject no stone ill remain unturned." Concerning the arms pact, the first with Russia since the break up of the Soviet Union, Bush said, "The nuclear nightmare recedes more and more." He said he and Yeltsin had agreed to cut their stockpiles of long range nuclear weapons to no more than 3.500 warheads each by the year 20U3. The accord will eliminate some of the world's deadliest nuclear weapons. Bush said all land-based heavy missiles with multiple warheads, the core of Russia's nuclear arsenal, are to be scrapped. The agreement could be a political boost for Bush, sagging in the polls as he fights for reelection. The accord is to be agrees 9 I 1 JL i 1 i -J -Y Tuesday to slash their arsenals of long-range nuclear weapons by two-thirds and to vigorously pursue the startling possibility that American war prisoners may be alive in the former Soviet Union.

The dramatic announcements Capped the first day of summit talks by President Hush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Hash said it was the first time Yeltsin had told him Russia might have information about the (ate of Vietnam War servicemen. "We have no evidence of anyone being alive," Hush said, but he announced that he and Yeltsin were asking a joint commission to comb through Communist Party and KGB archives for information about possible American prisoners. Yeltsin said "it's very possible" that a few Americaas may end U.S. MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexico on Tuesday temporarily agreed to continue cooperating with the United States in the war against drugs while both countries negotiate new ground rules President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's administration had suspended cooperation Monday night to protest a U.S.

Supreme Court decision allowing suspects abducted abroad to be brought to the United States for trial. Mexico immediately revoked permission for Drug Enforcement Administration agents to operate in this country, and announced that Mexican agents in the United States would stop their work. But Mexico changed its posture after the Hush administration assured it that Washington did riot plan to implement the Su preme court decision, wasmng-ton also agreed to open talks on the issue ith Mexican officials. A Foreign Affairs Department statement said Mexico "temporarily" agreed to continue cooper-ntini? "in order not to allow this period of negotiations to interrupt the intensive programs of cooperation in the fight agaiast narcotics." Oops! Demolition TROY. 111.

(AP) You may not be able to fight City Hall, but you can gel their attention if you nave a 65 ton crane. "We were just sitting there when we heard this rumbling inoise, then the building started Shaking so we jumped up and ran out," office manager Joan Ebcr-hart said. "Next thing we knew, part of the wall was King on Bud floor." A crane driver accidentally backed into the building Monday UUlJ jtie i V- A Russian President Boms Yeltsin during a state dinner in Yeltsin's Wilson, apparently by the same tornado, said Don Linssen, Wor-thington's police chief. All the towns are in rural Murray County. Four people were injured when their farmhouse near Leota was destroyed, said Laurie DeBates of the Pipestone County sheriff's department.

It wasn't immediately possible to determine how badly any of the victims was injured Hospital telephone lines rang busy. Two farmhouses were damaged by a tornado two miles west of Clarkfield, about 60 miles north of Chandler, said Chuck Hardy, sheriff's dispatcher for Yellow Medicine County. .4. protest The Supreme Court's 3 decision in Washington and Mexico's response Monday cast a pall on relations between the two countries, which had reached an exceptionally warm level In Washington. Secretary of State James A.

Baker III said Tuesday that he was confident cooperation with Mexico on fighting drugs would continue. "'Before this announcement by the Supreme Court, the relations between Mexico and the S. in the war on drugs had never been better." said Rep Charles chairman of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, In a statement from Washington, he criticized the Supreme Court decision but urgent Mexico to reconsider. Ambassador John pontc met Tuesday afternoon ith Mexico's deputy foreign minister, Andres Rosenthal, and later said they had discussed the countries' 1978 extradition treaty Negroponte said he did not think the incident would affect the proposed Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada or the war on drugs. Friends and family of LoMoyne and Kathie Schulz o( rural Garland.

clean up Tuesday after a tornado destroyed their house Monday rs iiJ idlest i and President Bush share a toast honor Tuesday at the White House of hostages delayed BEIRUT. Lebanon (AP) -The final steps to freedom for the last two Western hostages in Lebanon hit a snag Tuesday, but. negotiator professed optimism the two German relief workers would soon be? heading home. The release of Heinnch Strue-big and Thomas Kemptner, the last of 92 foreigners abducted in Lebanon since 1984. started Monday night when their Shnte Muslim captors announced they had been turned over to security authorities.

The transfer was confirmed by several sources in Beirut. The men were in the hands of a joint Lebanese Syrian committee by midday Tuesday, the official Syrian news agency said. But when German government envoy Bernd Schmidbauer went to the residence of Lebanese President Elias Hrawi to receive his countrymen, he was disappointed. After a 45-minute meeting with Hrawi, Schmidbauer told reporters, "I hope to be leaving with both hostages in the next 12 hours." In Germany, a Luftwaffe spokesman said relatives of the Struebig and Kemptner left Bonn on an air force plane Tuesday afternoon. The Foreign Ministry reported the plane was bound for Crete.

There was no explanation of what was holding up tiie release. But delavs have not been unusual in the eight years since kidnappers started abducting foreigners in Lebanon to use them as bargaining chips with foreign governments. Kidnap groups previously have levied last-minute additions to their demands. Optimistically, the reported release of the two Germans could be the end of the kidnap drama. Between 1984 and 1991, 79 other hostages were freed or claimed to have escaped Eight more were killed or died in captivity, and three others are believed to have died.

dividends. crew hits City Hall t', :i.tf3 Prm TornadcH'S rakei piirts of the Midwest for a second straight day Tuesday, damaging buildings in several Nlinnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska communities and Causing at least 29 injuries, authorities said. The worst damage appeared to be in Chandler, a tow of about 3oo in southwestern Minnesota A twister there w-iped out a new housing development and tiadly damaged a high school, a local television station reported It also hit two buildings where potentially dangerous farm chemicals were stored, possibly contaminating the water supply, an official said. while trying to demolish another building The crane's boom knocked a gaping hole in the front wall of city administrator Bud Klaustermeier's office. "This is not a good ay to start off the week," Klaustermei-er said.

"We certainly do have an open door policy now," City Clerk Mary Chasteen joked Tuesday. No one was hurt in the accident in the town 20 miles east of St. Ixmis. I "The chemicals have been strewn about with the rain," said Kevin Burns, spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, "Our concern is about the extent of the contamination. We don't want to alarm anyone, but we are concerned He said the chemicals weren't immediately identified.

Gov Arne Carlson's office sent the National Guard into the town to make sure nobody was trapped in rubble, Carlson spokeswoman Cyndy Brucato said. Red Cross teams also were going into the area Burns said at least 25 people ere injured in Chandler. Farms and buildings also were damaged and power lines were ripped down near Ieota and in the small town of Lake 'hat 's Make an A torment Vour most account. ljke your cat, evercisinj; increase our At SelectOre. cure.

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