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Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5 WASHINGTON POST 10 June 1984 Pg. 26 7 Summit Nations Express Resolve On Terrorism, Dealings With Soviets By Lou Cannon Washington Post Staff Writer LONDON, June 9—The western democracies patched up their polit- ical differences today and issued declarations opposing international terrorism and expressing “solidarity and resolve” in dealing with the So- viet Union. But both statements were blandly worded, and some diplomatic sources said they represented a mild setback for host Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on terrorism and for President Reagan, who had pushed for a firmer statement on East-West relations. On terrorism, the six industrial- ized western nations and Japan meeting here at their annual eco- nomic summit accepted U.S. and British contentions that state-sup- ported terrorism is an increasing problem. The declaration said the assembled nations “viewed with se- rious concern the increasing involve- ments of states and governments in acts of terrorism, including the abuse of diplomatic immunity.” This abuse has been a special British concer since April 27, when a British policewoman was killed by shots fired from the Libyan Embas- sy. Britain and Libya subsequently broke off diplomatic relations. But objections from the French, and to some degree from the Ital- jans, apparently blocked British pro- posals to exchange intelligence and technical information about terror- ists, pass new legislation dealing with international terrorism and agree to expel or exclude known terrorists, “including persons of diplomatic sta- tus involved in terrorism.” All of these ideas were included in the seven-point declaration on ter- rorism issued today but the state- ment referred to these points not as agreements, but as “proposals which found support in the discussion.” The international leaders also dis- cussed preemptive acts to prevent acts of terrorism, sources said, but is- sued no declaration because the is- sue is considered too sensitive for public discussion. The French, who receive signifi- cant amounts of oil from Libya, re- portedly expressed the view that any public statement could serve as_an invitation to acts of tetrorism. But they agreed to the compromise state- ment announced today by Thatcher, in which the seven nations “ex- pressed their resolve to combat this threat by every possible means, strengthening existing measures and developing effective new ones.” On East-West relations, the Unit- ed States salvaged portions of a pro- posal that it had unsuccessfully gought to append to a British-spon- sored Declaration of Democratic Val- ues approved yesterday. The single-page statement today said that the aim of the allied na- tions was “security and the lowest possible level of forces.” “We wish to see early and positive results in the various arms-control negotiations and the speedy resump- tion of those now suspended,” the statement said. “The United States has offered to restart nuclear arma control talks, anywhere, at any time, without preconditions. We hope that the Soviet Union will act in a con- structive and positive way.” A senior U.S. official said today that West German Chancellor Hel- mut Kohl and Thatcher had been supportive of Reagan in private dis- cussions when the U.S. president said that continued deployment of the missiles was necessary unless the Soviets were willing to negotiate their removal or reduction. At a news conference following re- lease of the statement, Thatcher said, “It is the anticipation that we will complete the two-track decision on NATO [for negotiation and de- ployment] and deploy the missiles we agreed to deploy.” The East-West statement also contained a phrase proposed by Ca- nadian Prime Minister Pierre Tru- deau saying, “We believe that East and West have important common interests in preserving peace . . .” It CONTINUED NEXT PAGE SPECIAL EDITION -- TERRORISM -- 26 JUNE 1984 WASHINGTON POST 10 June 84 (11) Pg.1 U.S. Builds ard World Arms Aid Defense Planners Emphasize Role Of ‘Special Forces’ By Fred Hiatt Washington Post Bta!f Writer The Reagan administration is sys- tematically laying the foundation within the Pentagon for increasing military involvement in Third Woeld conflicts, according to budget doc- uments and interviews with current and former officials. e new emphasis in many recalls the early 1960s, when Pre. ident John F. Kennedy commis- sioned the Green Berets to stop what he called “the Communist tide” in poor countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Once again, the De- fense Department is: beefing up ‘its Green ' Berets and: other - “special forces,” troops trained to kill guer- rillas and to teach other armies to'do the same. - The increased U.S. role in what the Pentagon calls “counterinsurgen- cy,” which has been advocated since 1982 in classified defense docu- ments, also is reflected in the types of ships and weapons being pur- chased, the network of overseas bases and military facilities being formed, the increase in U.S. military training overseas, the administra- tion’s legislative proposals to lift re- strictions on such training and the record U.S. share in the Third World arms market. Fueling the new emphasis is the Reagan administration’s conviction that President Jimmy Carter con- centrated too. heavily on European and South Korean defense while ne- glecting what one former top official called “the nibbling and erosion at the edges.” Fred C. Ikle, undersec- retary of defense for policy, said in a CONTINUED NEXT PAGE Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5