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THE GUARDIAN Tuesday January 8 1985 But. secret satellite. carries tough message Sweden calls for a ban on cruise US trade mission to NEWS IN BRIEF Freedom date for islands thaw iii ptttiip': Mr Palme that it was largely up to the great powers, to act, and Mr Koivisto said he would welcome any means of stopping missiles violating the 'air space of neutral countries. For the time being, Sweden and Finland are results from Air -admitted that when he gave' his new year's speech, in 'which, he called for, a ban on cruise missiles, bid not been, informed of the Soviet missile. Intrusion, -although it oc- curred four days earlier.

Under the Finnish constltu- is also commandeln-chief of the The' Hagfors Observatory, a wing pf Sweden's National Research Institute, Greeks within the Administration. The Commerce Department and the Pentagon -haVe been, engaged in an? entrenched: battle over the wisdom- of doing trade especially in high technology times with the Russians. The two-day mission' to Moscow, which begins today; demonstrates that there are clear forces within the Administration working, for a better accommodation with the Russians. The' Commerce Department has, for instance, advocated the sale of oil pipeline, equipment to the Russians, a policy which in Mr Reagan's first term was blocked by-the National Security Council. The security council also sought to subject Europe its sanctions against high-tech exports to the Russians.

Yesterday's official announcement referred to removing "obstacles to the expansion of trade. Most of the current restrictions on the trading of technical equipment to the Soviet Union date from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and reached their peak at the time of the Russian-sponsored clampdown in Poland. The trade talks will be held under the auspices of the US-Soviet- long-term economic, industrial and technical agreements, a product of the detente era. The revival of the trade talks at the same time as the Geneva negotiations appears' significant. Until now, the only important commerce between the US and the Soviet Union conducted under the.

Reagan-. Administration has been in grain and food; Russian' purchases bolstering, the economy of America's' troubled farm -industry. At the same time, the space shuttle trial yesterday was not without its political crole! By labelling the next mission secret, the Pentagon has focused greater attention than otherwise might have been warranted. It is the first time the' shuttle has been de voted to: a purely military payload; Pravda has already noted the space shuttle's military mission with some alarm. The.

new satellite being launched by the Pentagon is said to cost about 5300 million and. emphasises the importance, US places on; space, surveillance of the Russians, President Reagan, who has: few'. official this week, has more or less cleared his calendar to keep an eye on what' 'is'' going on in. Geneva: He will bp kept in" close contact by his National Security Adviser, Mr Robert McFarlane, who in a break with precedent has gone with Mr Shultz and adds extra muscle to the bargaining team. From Alex Brummer in Washington Tlie Heagan Administration signalled yesterday it js looking for-, an all-round improvement in relations with the Soviet Union, with the announcement' of its first high-level trade mission to Moscow since 197S.

But at the same time, it sent a message to Geneva from Cape Canaveral which appeared to underline the importance the Pentagon attaches to the use of space for military purposes. As Shultz sat down with Mr Gromyko, astronauts aboard the space shuttle. Discovery, went through a practice countdown for a top-secret mission on January 23, when the Pentagon will be in charge of the payload. The mission will reportedly be used to launch a military Sigint (signal, intelligence) satellite, capable of picking up electronic communications and other signals from the Soviet Union. The.

anti-satellite weapons which the US and the Soviet Union have tested are designed, among other things, to destroy such satellites' during a superpower confrontation. The decision by the President to dispatch the Commerce Under Secretary, "Mr Lionel Olmer, to Moscow for trade talks is certain to be seen as a victory, for the moderates Minister named in trial Toiun A Polish deputy interior minister mentioned in with the conspiracy to kill Father Jerzy Popleluszko was named 'n court yesterday, but a defendant said he. wanted to withdraw the allegations. General Wladyslaw Ciaston waSjiiamed by-Ueutenant Wal-demar Chmielewskl, one of three security police officers on trial for kidnapping and killing Father Popieluszko, a leading supporter of Solidarity. Western correspondents in court said Chmielewski told judge Artur Kujawa he wanted to withdraw allegations that the-action against- the' priest had been authorised by General Ciaston.

Lieutenant, Pekala, another of the accused, told the-court earlier that he also believed the operation had the approval of one of the six deputy, interior ministers, but said he did hot know his name'. Lieutenants Pekala' and Chmielewski, and Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski: are' accused of out the murder. Their Interior Ministry superior, Colonel Adam Pletruszka, is of instigating it. They face the death Captain Piotrowski said yesterday the charges against hini were "Illogical," but admitted that he beat the priest unconscious and threw his body into a reservoir. The captain testified for the first time in the trial late in the day.

Asked how he he said I don't admit to any of the charges. Lieutenant Chmielewski agreed that he told police investigating Father Popieluszko's death that Piotrowski' must have agreed the entire affair with Ciaston." In court, he said only that Captain Piotrowski must have agreed the matter with the top and told Judge in response, to questions': "It was simply my speculation, that it referred! to Ciaston." Leader, comment page 10. revealed yesterday, that the nuclear powers had carried underground tests be-, tween them last year The -Soviet Union re-, '-sponsible for 27, the; US for; for seven and China for two. The' one crlbed' to Britain v.was not confirmed. All except 10: Soviet' explosions for: peace-r -ful1 purposes were military.

Dr jDahlmah; the servatory's director, said that the figure had shown no dramatic changes In the 15 'years since the observatory founded to supply data for -the test-han negotiations in. "Geneva. The relative -shares of the superpowers hayev been stable over the past five years, and the most atmospheric test by China was in 1980. MXc.J Greek security than the Warsaw, Pact. Mr 'Burt also said that the creation of nuclear-free zones inJSurope would weaken Western' and increase the threat of war.

Mr Papendreou, who opposed deployment of US cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe, hopes to transform the. Balkans into. a nuclear-free zone. interview with the -CBS programme Sixty Minutes; Papandreou denies that, he' was anti-American but wanted the Mediterranean cleared of superpower fbrce's. y.t-'jriuft a Mediterranean without the Soviet fleet, without the; American fleet," he said.

"I don't want American bases. sis at national government level in the Council of Ministers that they are talking of firing their remaining big gun, and sacking me new commission almost oe fore it starts its four-year task. Nicaragua's announced approval caught the United States by surprise! and US of-' ficials called it propaganda ploy by the leftwing Sandi-nista Government They said the plan required further re finement to eliminate flaws. Oh October 19, the principal allies of the United States in the' region, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Honduras, produced a revised peace plan Ithat not. only, contained their earlier objections to the original draft peace proposal but also added new objections.

"jWe had expected refinements to the said a Latin American diplomat familiar with the talks, but hot an entirely new plan." FronvDonald: Fields in Helsinki SWEDEN, yesterday joined Finland" in urging the United and to! discuss ban on cruise: at their Geneva talks, 10 days a' "stray Soviet missile crashed in Finland, The 'Prime'- Mr Oldf said would welcome a total- ban oh. the missiles, adding 'that, he hoped the, issue- would play a central role at the taUpi betweejn' She'SbtfetiFiOr-, elgri Minister, Mr- Grbroyko i Secretary, of Sweden and Finland out- their, vieW -'during an unoffldal: visit to Stockholm by President Mauno 'Kolvlsto of The US 'Assistant Secretary of State -'for European- affairs, Mr -Richard Burt, warned 'in ah interview, published yesterday in five LAtheris daily, i that Amertcanireiatib'ns can't'-'be a one-tf ay, 'said', ifiV'the with "Vrathyni 'that the United States valued its -ties with but ''did- not ti country. gelations have- bVn' retrained since came to power three; yearns" ago ah anti-Ameriean Althougli, jfr Jpapandreou has taken rio. practical steps to loosen Greeks, ties with Nato and the rhetorical outbursts' 'aglhst the United problems. If they worked together, "they would; have a better chance of overcoming those jiven.ir.

me countries or the community, were fully start talking again--about the objections 'that they originally raised to a draft peace treaty circulated y. by the Contadora. Group last September. This, according to the diplomats, would restore flexibility to the talks, and provide, a wider latitude for agreement. The iCdntadora' initiative began two years ago at a meeting of the four, foreign ministers on Panama's Contadora resort island, which gave the group its name.

The Contadora foreign ministers will- hold two days of private talks today and tomorrow to start another round of their efforts to 'mediate among 'Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica. Last September, the he -believed; that Misurasata would continue with the next round of talks -with the Sandinista Government in two weeks' tinie, despite the incident. But three other Misurasata leaders" were wounded' and this might affect the decision Misurasata. leaders are not sure' if Sandinista commanders who, ordered, the attack villages, on-the Atlantic coast a week ago knew that Mr Rivera was in area. Mr had bad liick month-, when "he went, to, -Honduras to talk to othpr Miskitos' about 'his.

initiatives for negotiations. He was 'detained Honduran -Meanwhile, In a statement issued In -Brussels to' coincide with Geneva talks, the Dutch and West German groups also called for an end- to nuclear tests. Finland's' frontier guards have abandoned their search for' the remains of the missile that probably lie in the snowbound' wastes of North-East Lapland. Although the -lowest temperature of the century was recorded in Finland yesterday (minus 50c, minus 58f), the operation was wound up because of the "general situation." Lapp reindeer herders are constantly instructed, to Inform patrols about any strange objects they might spot. I don't want Soviet bases.

I want to be left alone." Asked directly if he was anti-American. Mr Papandreou said No. quite to the contrary. I am in disagreement with the foreign policy of the Reagan Administration, that's clear. This I am prepared to accept.

But that I am rntl-American. no." Mr Papandreou also denied he was pro-Soviet, but defended his refusal to condemn the shooting down of the Korean airliner by a Soviet fighter after the airliner had strayed over Soviet territory. "If such a plane came into Greece, we would have downed it. And I am sure the United States would have downed it. This is the rule, this is the game, he said.

APReuter. Charter activists named Vienna Czechoslovakia's Charter 77 human rights group, marking its eighth anniversary, named three new spokesmen to serve for 1985, emigre sources said. Two of the three, Petruska Sustrova and Jiri Dienstbier, were detained by police last week before being released in advance of Sunday's anniversary. The group also named Eva Kanturkova as one of its three annual spokesmen. Charter 77 members have explained that three people are designated to speak for the group each year in hopes that at least one of them will not be in gaol when the group wants to issue a statement.

Mrs Kanturkova. aeed 54. is a writer published mainly underground. Mrs Sustrova, aged 38, a postal worker, and mother of five, is active in the Roman Catholic rights movements. Mr Dienstbier, aged 47, is a former journalist.

All the new spokesmen have served terms in gaol for political activity. In Belgrade, defence counsel at the trial of six Yugoslav dissidents charged with conspiring to overthrow the state yesterday accused the prosecution of deliberately twisting the evidence of a key witness. In an angry clash over, the accusation, the defence counsel, Vladimir Selts, called for deputy public prosecutor, Danilo Nanovic, to be taken off the case, which opened two months ago and which diplomats see as highly significant for the future of human rights in Yugoslavia, The witness, Goranko Djapic, told the court the prosecution had misconstrued his testimony to show the accused's guilt. Mr Djapic had been called by the prosecution to testify, that meetings he had attended with some of the defendants had amounted to illegal gatherings. Instead, Mr Djapic said On the contrary, was nothing illegal discussed.

They meetings of intellectuals' exchanging views." APReuter. initiative The revised proposal, drawn up in the, Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, would permit military exercises in America by outside powers and make the removal of foreign military personnel a more ambiguous provision. It also would provide international observers to investigate reported violations of the peace, treaty, and it would eliminate wording In the draft that would allow Nicaragua to build up its armed forces to meet a perceived threat of invasion from the US. The Contadora diplomats said these and other proposed alterations were revisions beyond the scope 'of foreseen refinements." Los Angeles Times. Ferraro and -her husband have been in constant view since her selection as the first women to be on the ticket of a major American political party, Mr Zaccaro said he entered the guilty plea to avoid further publicity The charges arose from Mr Zaccaro's efforts to obtain financing for a business associate, Mr John Delorenzo, to buy Zaccaro-owned blocks of flats in the Queens district of New York, which Mrs Ferraro represented in Congress until November.

In order to obtain the loans, Mr Zaccaro inflated the size of the deal by altering Jhe. figures, in a THE special French' envov Mr Edgard Pisani, yesterday unveiled a plan to give the Pacific territory of New Caledonia independence on January 1, 1986 under a treaty giving it special links with Paris. Mr Pisani, appointed to draw up a fresh formula for the territory's future, outlined a 12-month calendar that would lead it to full independence as an "associated state of France. Mr Pisani said that once the plan was approved by the French Parliament, the inhabitants of the territory would be asked to vote on it in July, 1985. Reuter.

Dock protest RIOT police fired tear gas yesterday to fight off dozens of protesting shipyard workers who attempted to board a British cruise ship calling at Vigo, northern Spain. Police said the workers were trying to stage a sit-in aboard the Sea Princess to protest against job cuts in the shipbuilding industry. Reuter. Iran's suit fails THE US Supreme Court yesterday let stand without comment the dismissal of an Iranian government lawsuit seeking $56 billion for alleged illegal acts by the late Shah of Iran and his wife. The lawsuit alleged that the former royal family broke Iranian law by accepting bribes, misappropriating funds, and embezzling billions of dollars belonging to the government.

Reuter. Envoy's doubts THE Soviet ambassador to Pakistan, Mr Vitaly Smirnov. said yesterday that he doubted a former French cabinet minister made a secret trip to Afghanistan last week to defy a Soviet warning to Westerners to stay away or be killed. Mr Jean-Francois Deniau said that he made a nine-day journey with a Muslim guerrilla commander to Afghanistan's north-eastern Kunar province. Reuter.

Singing praises THE rock singer, Bob Geldof, who made the record that raised more than 6 million for famine relief in Ethiopia, met Mother Teresa of Calcutta in Addis Ababa yesterday. He said She is a living embodiment of moral good. I am very flattered to have met her." Reuter. Cyprus reshuffle PRESIDENT KYPRIANOU of Cyprus made sweeping changes to his cabinet yesterday, just two weeks after he ended an alliance with the Akel Communist Party. Six ministers were dropped including three backed by Akel and Mr Christodoulos Venia-min, the longest-serving minister who had held the interior and defence portfolios since 1975.

Reuter. Inquiry ordered PRESIDENT Jayewardene of Sri Lanka yesterday ordered a police inquiry into the alleged killing of a Roman Catholic priest by troops at a in the country's northern province at tho weekend. A Catholic bishops' conference yesterday called for an independent investigation. AP. Kinnock's advice THE Labour leader, Mr Neil Kinnock, says the US must cooperate more with the regional effort to bring peace to Central America, it was reported in Mexico yesterday.

Mr Kinnock arrived on Sunday for a visit to Mexico and Nicaragua. AP, Diplomat freed A SWISS diplomat Mr Eric Wehrli, who was abducted last week in Beirut, was released yesterday by his captors, sources in the Shi'ite Amal movement said Mr Wehrli was kidnapped by four gunmen as he drove home from work. Reuter. $9.2 award A FEDERAL judge in New York yesterday awarded $9.2 million in fees and expenses to lawyers for the thousands of Vietnam veterans and their families who sued the makers of the wartime herbicide, Agent Orange, AP, Pipeline blast A HOME MADE bomb apparently planted by left wing terrorists exploded yesterday along the Nato fuel pipeline near Giessen, West Germany, causing minor damage but no injuries. AP.

Marcos denial PRESIDENT Marcos of the Philippines said yesterday that local elections next year and presidential polls in 1987 would go ahead as planned, denying opposition claims he would bring them forward due to his failing health. Reuter. States have angered. State DeV officials. "To cultivate good relations, there must: be a spirit of reci procity and an estimation mutual benefits as long term', allies and Mr Burt told Vrathyni." Hesfre'ssed.

Greece's strategic importance to Nato, saying A Pact attack against. have very bad consequences for Alliance He pointed out' that, on Alliance's flank, Greece'- Turkey -out-' almost three-to-one by Pact tanks- and artillery. Mr Papandreou is developing a new strategic doctrine which will reflect Greek Socialist conviction that Turkey is a greater threat to convince Parliament, next week that the new Commission will vigorously- promote European cooperation, to deflect MEPsv growing irusirauon. most lm- mediately; he must persuade, Contadora mediators believed that they had finally come up with a plan that could overcome two fundamental obstacles to a practical solution Nicaragua's' suspicions that it was being bullied into yielding to US concern and the belief of US allies in the region that Nicaragua seeks to become Central America's main military power ih order to support revolutionaries Among the central features of the plan were, an end to US military excercises in the region, in effect, the removal of the American military presence from' Honduras, and the eventual removal from the area of all. foreign military personnel, including the Cuban, advisers in'Nicaragua.

authorities and deported. At the first round of negotiations in Bogota, Misurasata proposed the establishment of a commission of government representatives, Indian exile leaders, and international observers, to work out a charter of Indian autonomy, and a ceasefire. But the Sandinistas have set up their own commission, with no exiles, Nevertheless, Mr Wiggins said, yesterday, remains optimistic. have urged', the Sandinistas, to, be revolutionary and not repeat the mistakes of US and -Mexican; policy, towards. -Indians," he Lament of jobless Thorn From Derek Brown in Brussels Europe's newest president.

Mr Jacques Delors, yesterday displayed masterly reticence after his first session at the helm of the EEC Commission. But his 'predecessor, Mr Gaston Thorn; lamented loudly his failure to get a new job. Mr Delors," after, presiding over the first meeting of the new 14-man Commission, maintained a discreet silence about their policy priorities, which he will present to the European Parliament on Monday next week. Meanwhile, Mr. Thorn angrily-claimed: that, Luxembourg, where he was prime minister for, five years; to 1979, had vetoed his-, chances of a plum administrative job in the Grand Duchy.

Thorn, who stepped down from the 85iO00-a-year commission, job at the is known' to be keen on resuming his domestic political career, possibly as Prime Minister again. But his Liberal Party has been in opposition since last summer's general election. To supplement his pension of half, over the next, three years, he wanted a ton joh with the. radio and TV company, -RTL, and was also in-terested in a senior job with the' country's major steel producer, Arbed. -He -claimed in an: interview with a 'French newspaper that the Government of Luxembourg had blocked his chances of both jobs.

"I have let It be known to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prlhie: Minister that I would' like to hear them come straight' out and state their attitude towards and their reasons- for iit; I sorry to say. that so far, they have not clearly, -replied," he told the Thbjrri, much criticised during -his four, years as commission "president, was hand- They were from Arena. It was a of It was obviously political causes." Vice-President Rodolfo Castillo. Claramount yesterday also, singled out Arena for was political anatacism," he" said. Mr Yanes was appointed to head a' special commission investigating corruption i government and political parties shortly after President Duarte took office.

A sugar cane farmer from the central province "of San Vicente, he had put. himself forward as a canaioate for Mayor of san Salvador in the municipal elec-tipns which coincide with the vote for new legislative assembly. Arena has declined to comment on the nolitical implica tions of the murder. "We know nothing about it," a party spokesman said yesterday. The election campaign is officially scheduled to begin on January.

17, and President Duarte has indicated that he will strive to caDture a mainr- ity in the Legislative Assem- niy, wmcn is currently aomi nated i by, his rightwing opponents. The growing tension was commented upon Dy Arch bishop Arturo Rivera Damas of San Salvador in his sermon last Sunday. An atmosphere of threats and political killings has returned," he said, The new EEC president, Mt Delors (right), shakes hands with the outgoing president, Mr Thorn somely praised yesterday by challenge that affects all indi- aware of all. the threats facing them 'to raise their embargo on Mr Delors as he took over. vidua! countries, and the com- them, and had all the trump the 1985 budget, to prevent the The new EEC Commission's muhity as a whole," said.

cards in their favour, they Community from slithering into plans for revitalising the Com- Had there been" no Treaty of would hot be able to overcome- another phase of 'its financial munity will be outlined to the Home, and no EEC, the 10 these problem's on their own," crisis. European Parliament next states would still be he said. Some MEPs, however, are so Monday. The draft strategy facing the same' economic Mr Delors urgently needs to anerv with the nolitical naralv- was confirmed by the 14 com- missioners at their meeting. Mr, Delors said, after the.

one-hour meeting, that Europe mueu a oeiween progress, and decline. "It is a Last chance for Central American peace Killing increases poll tension in Salvador From. Juan Vasouez in Mexico City Facing the prospect that two years of painstaking efforts may be doomed to fail, foreign ministers of the Contadora Group meet in Panama this week to try, to revive a regional consensus about how to achieve peace in Central America. The strategy, according to Latin, American diplomats, will be to lay aside a surprise negotiating document produced by three of the Central American countries last October that nearly ended the talks. Instead, the four Contadora countries, Mexico, Colombia, and Panama, hope to persuade the.

Central Ameri- can countries to go back and- Zaccaro admits fraud Indian rejbiel chief 'escapes' From Paul EUman, in San Salvador President 'Jose Napoleon Duaite has accused his extreme rightwing opponents of responsibility for the murder of the head of his anti-corruption task force, Pedro Bene Yaaes. Mr Yanes was shot dead at the weekend during a festival at the village of Concepcion del Oriente, .120 miles north-east'of San Salvador. His killer was named as Mr Francisco Alfaro, who had been put forward as candidate for mayor of the village by the ultra-rightwing Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), which is led by Majo Roberto d'Aubisson. Witnesses reported that Alfaro opened fire on Mr Yanes in the main street of the village, killing' him arid three bystanders before being shot dead himself by Mr Yanes' bodyguards. Mr Yanes was first Christian Democratic Party official to be killed since President Duarte took office last June.

His murder prompted fears that the campaign for elections, scheduled for March 17, could be marked by violence. President Duarte was visibly shaken by the incident and commented after seeing Mr Yaaes' body in a funeral parlous; "li was. yery. violent. By Jonathan Steele Mr Brooklyn Rivera, the leader of Nicaragua's Indian guerrillas who opened talks with the Government la6t autumn, has escaped from the country virtually unhurt, according to the latest reports from his organisation, Misurasata.

Earlier reports said he had been wounded in a Sandinista attack after entering the country to consult Indian fighters about his negotiations. Last night, Mr Armstrong Wiggins, a colleague of Mr Rivera's, said he was on his way back to his base in' San Jose, Costa Rica. Mr. Wiggins said From Alex Brummer in Washington Mr John Zaccaro, the husband of the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Mrs Geraldine Ferraro, yesterday pleaded guilty to a fraud charge in a New York court. But Mr Zaccaro, a millionaire estate agent and property developer, will avoid prison as a result of a "plea bargaining struck with the Manhattan district attorney.

In a statement last night, Mr Zaccaro said he hoped that his guilty, plea would end the in- Suirles and microscopic atten-on to his business The financial affairs of. Mrs.