Santa Ana : Nuclear Test-Ban Plea to Be Sent to Geneva

The Orange County chapter of the Alliance for Survival reported Thursday that it has collected 3,025 signatures on petitions that will be carried to Geneva, urging President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to stop testing nuclear weapons.

Seven hundred of the signatures came from residents of Laguna Hills Leisure World, according to the alliance’s Marion Pack, who presented the petitions at a press conference in Santa Ana.

Pack said the petitions would be added to others collected nationwide and then taken to Geneva for next week’s summit meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev. The petitions specifically call for a moratorium on weapons testing and a comprehensive test-ban treaty.

Assemblywoman Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) and executives of two national anti-nuclear groups will deliver the petitions in Geneva, Pack said. However, she did not specify who would actually receive them.

“As the numbers and deadly force of these (nuclear) weapons increase, so do world tensions, and our fears as well,” Pack said. “The summit meeting provides an opportunity for us to communicate this fear to those with the power to make the changes necessary.”