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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. ? After t
with the Soviet Union on its offer
denlovments in F.urone. the Reasan admit
its rhetoric and emphasizing that the tw
working together on mutual problems.
" The escalation stops here," said White
secretary Larry Speakes on Monday. "Y
horse anymore."
The low-key approach was in stark contt
_ day earlier by Robert Melarlane, the p
security adviser. In unusually blunt lang
Soviet offer disappointing and said it was
delusion" and added, "We had hoped fo
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reaction to Sovi
MCFARLANK'S TOUGH >
railing hoi charges three hours with President Rea
to freeze missile I he charges and countercha
listration is cooling when Soviet chief Mikhail Cio:
o superpowers are deployment of medi
Luropc until November. He i.
match the offer.
House deputy press I lie Reagan administration
on can t whip this posal, saying it merely would
Soviet edge in warheads.
ast to a statement a Television camera crews and c
(resident's national to his hotel room and given an
uage, he called the separate interviews.
"a guise, a snare, a ?> response, the Kremlin is
r better." news agency Tass, accusing W
From Staff Reports
On April 3, the only polar
bear cubs to be born and survive
in South Carolina made
their first appearance at
yi gjl Rivcrbanks Zoo.
11 The birth of the two cubs is
the culmination of ten years
of study and work to successfully
breed and raise
polar bear cubs at the zoo.
' Wl The polar bear is one of the
most difficult of all bears to
L breed in captivity.
[ The keeper and curatorial
staff at Riverbanks recocniz
ed that to be successful in
e raising cubs the conditions
and behavior patterns of the
polar bears in the wild had to
be simulated. Studies showed
that in the wild, breeding occurs
in the spring. Polar
Liquor laws
Drinkina aae
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By Jeri Rowe
Having passed a crucial second reading
yesterday, the drinking age bill now may lace
the final third reading today in the Senate,
II it does pass the Senate's final approValf^tho
bill will inch closer lo moving the legal
drinking age 21. The bill's final step would
then remains to be <io\. Dick Riley's \
signature. If he approves the bill, the legal /
drinking age will begin to be enforced in
September I9K(S, cementing it into a stale
law. \:C\; >?$
The bill still lias the Sunset Amendment^VlWwIi
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C ourt overrules a federal mandate tWraiic*--the
drinking age or lose hi^hway'lurids.'
KVF.N I M()l (,H ii does stand ft
chance to pass, several senators have
tioned the federal government's move in
withholding S5 million in needed highway
construction funds if a state does not pass the
legislation.
Sundav sales
bY Associated Press posa, |c a|lo
MYHTLF. BEACH ? establishments
One Sunday of successful li- liquor license
quor sales at some North lee each week
Myrtle Beach restaurants and them to serve
bars has businessmen midnight Sat it i
scrambling in nearby cities Sunday and fr
for their own referenda to midnight Sund
llio tir-wl A limit ^ S
North Myrtle Beach voters restaurant owi
on April 2 approved a pro- Beach and Sur
iet missile off*
VORI)S came after he met for responsible an
igan at his mountaintop ranch, of Soviet miss
rges were touched off Sunday The preside
rbachev said he had ordered a as actions at tl
um-rangc nuclear missiles in 'he United S
.ailed on the United States to Gorbachev.
"I think the
immediately rejected the pro- or at lcas'
lock into place a substantial ; ,wo sitlcs in v
. Speakes said.
orrespondents were summoned The Washir
onnortnnitv In nuestinn him in tificd sources <
the SS-X-28, i
sued a statement through the moratorium v
ashington of following "an ir- switching fror
bears have delayed implantation
? the embryo does not
develop for the first few
months. By late summer, the
embryo begins to develop
and the female bear begins to
eat voraciously, increasing t>
her weight by as much as 50 A
percent. In November she
begins a long fast, digs a den
in a snowbank and remains ,JbS
there for the next five mon- jg|?
ths. She makes the den away > JHBggi
from the hunting grounds of
the male so she will not be
disturbed.
Polar bear cubs arc born in 101
December or January 1 "r '
weighing only two to three
r\sxiir?sic Thou o ro KlinH Tkoeo f* uta
a iiv; ui v uiiuu, liuou uuiu
hairless and completely banks Zoo, ar
dependent on the mother for Carolina. The
Sea "Bear?, page 4 0n Polar Bea
gets last call
Son. Verne Smith, D-Cireer. said the
federal government should merely leave this
issue within I lie state's jurisdiction, other
lluiii ..imposing "unnecessary intervention"
nto push thc bill into actual enforcement.
However, he admitted that the hill has the in
tetuicjfl df serving the public's hest interest by
maintaining a safer highway system.
is just not an easy judgement
call.' 'Smith said. He added that it may he the
fright \iep," hut it may offer the state a loss
of S3 million in alcohol sales.
Other s t? n A't-A r s. lhiMii>h :iuri'i>it
Wholeheartedly with the legislation.
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SKN. ILIZABITil Patterson. DSpartanhufgy'fcud
these highway funds are
hpcniKn r*f th<? n^nr vhr>rw?
jjgjjpj?ntn^ state highways have been round
in.
"I read somewhere that this state has 26
potholes tor every mile. No matter it this is
See "Age," page 4
a hit at hparh
M nil M 1 MV/UUII
w owners of Mondav discussed rounding
with a Class A up support for a similai
to pay a SI50 referendum.
tend to allow Myrtle lieach and Surfside
alcohol from Beach officials previoush
rda> (d 2 a.m. had decided to wait until
om 1 p.m. to November to push lor the
ay. ieferendum. But crowded
hotel and lounges and added revenues
nets in Myrtle this past weekend in North
fside Beach on See "Sunday," page 3
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j a UUUIU
d dangerous policy" and saying the U.S. claim
ile superiority was "a gross lie."
ntial spokesman said Soviet statements, as well
le Geneva arms control talks, will be weighed as
tates looks toward a possible summit with
re nas neen an increase in me diplomatic acuviin
the diplomatic conversations" between the
/ashington over the past 10 days to two weeks,
igton Post, in today's editions, quoted unidenis
saying that the Soviet Union has begun testing
\ modified version of the SS-20, suggesting the
/as coming at a time when the Soviets may be
n an older missile to a more modern one.
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polar basr cubs, born in December at River.
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0 ine nrsi 10 oB oorn ana survive in aoum
cubs will be officially welcomed at the zoo
r Day, Saturday, April 20.