No New Arms Proposals: Soviets

GENEVA — U.S.-Soviet arms talks resumed today after a nine-week break with the chief Soviet negotiator saying his side plans no new proposals and that it is up to the United States to move the talks forward.

“I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t hope that we can negotiate,” Viktor P. Karpov, who heads the Soviet negotiating team, told reporters at the Soviet mission. But he said the proposals already made by the Soviets at the 14-month-old talks opened the way for agreement in all three areas under discussion: medium-range nuclear missiles, long-range forces and new technologies in space.