TURNER looks at what lies behind this development and the reactior AT the end of the USSoviet talks last November, statement from both sides promised speed up the Geneva talks with use *preventing an arms race in soace are lo terminate it on earth'. The new proGorbachev, made on the eve of the reopening of the Geneva talks last week, is a constep towards just that.
Gorbachev's statement outlined a three-stage plan eliminate all nuclear weapons ov lie year zuvu It also contains proposals to extend the 1963 test ban treaty to include underground tests which are not coverca by ine VIUSCOW treaty Meanwhile, the Soviet Union has announced a three-month extention of its unilateral on nuclear testing, which has been in operation for six months and was due to end at the beginning of this year. Invited participate, with a bilateral further extension of the president Reagan declined. He had option however but to welcome proposals as 'a helpful further step' But the Financial Times' ' US editor reported last Saturday. that the Reagan administration admitted 'confusion' over LAST WEEK Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev proposed, on behalf of the USSR, a concrete plan for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. CAROL fessed having been pected move Cano said indicated chev. US past.
The which missiles would Stage :Within the 5-8 USSR lexi will reduce by the nuclear the warheads.
tion intermediate Stage I nIs would begin no 5-7 years.
Stage would conbegin disarAl Geneva: 'a difference in stance agreement "to freeze all their nuclear arms and not to have them in the territories of other countries' All nuclear powers would eliminate mer tatical nuclear arms, namely upto 1000 kilometers'. Additionally, there would be a ban on the development of non-nuclear weapons with comparative destructive capability.
Stage Three: This would begin by 1995, completing the elimination of all remaining nuclear weapons.
would be dismantled and destroyed 'By the end of 1999 there will be no nuclear on earth. universal accord will be drawn up that such weapons should never come into being On-site, inspections would puting the total arsenal But, in the ¡cally.
Strategic Inprogress to nuclear The new 'Such mutually the testing, and weapons. under space weapons to become datory of The Financial Gorbachev's Salemen.
compromise' Star Wars. ban testing and suggests, makes no , there is: 'some Washington that Mr Gorbachev might have eased the way to an agreement intermediate-range missiles.
This position is a con. It has more to do with the SOUTH YEMEN ›Aden GULF OF ADEN Africa privileges of the state apparatus. Differences came over the Five Year Plan, due lo start this month Ali Nasser has been introducing agricultural reforms ammed at increas: ing the autonomy of the private The Cella! "imaginative' reaction that the rinancial limes calls on the US to make in response to Gorbachev than it does with real steps towards ridding the world of nuclear death weapons.
But such steps, after all, are not the purpose of United States negotiaKeagan's deter mination to press ahead with Star Wars shows tha the real object of the US CACILISC decisive nuclear advantage over the Soviet Union. The only deal that Washington is prepared to make is one tive.
The United States has been responsible for every initiative on the build-up of nuclear weapons since World War II. The Gorbacher proposals, and the US's reaction 1o them, show once again the dil ference between their two Stances Whatever the USSR's leadership's record on other issues, there can be little doubt that they contheir economy, and even of the Soviet bureaucracy, are served by the deceleration and eventual elimination of the nuclear arms race. The Gorbacher proposals are to be welcomed as a genuine step towards freeing the world of the threat of nuclear annihilation. brakes have been nut of forced collectivisation, being given individual titles 1o their land and more control over ine sale of neir produce.
The reforms have crod. ed the privileges of those in charge of the co-operatives oversee the agricultural programme -supporters of Isman. After live lears o evile for health the country and to the Bureau of the Yemeni Socialist The obviously buil up a among disaffected layers of the The chaos in South Yemen is a severe blow for the USSR as the South Yemeni government is the Soviet Union's closest ally in the region.