TURNER URGES ARMS RACE END

Claiming that the Soviet Union would give up nuclear weapons if given the chance, Ted Turner called Thursday for the Soviet Union and the United States to end the arms race, “bury the hatchet” and work together for world peace.

The flamboyant cable-TV entrepreneur and nuclear-disarmament advocate also asserted that President Reagan doesn’t realize that it is passe for a major nation to threaten other nations with its “greater military might.”

But then, Turner said, “we really have a 19th-Century Administration. Reagan would have made a great President before Teddy Roosevelt, back when we had single-shot rifles to go up San Juan Hill.”

The chairman of Turner Broadcasting System and founder of Cable News Network was the keynote speaker here at the eighth annual Edward R. Murrow Awards lunch sponsored by the B’nai B’brith, a major Jewish service organization.