Photograph: Fighting by Lebanese forces takes place near the recently bombed U.S. Marine Battalion Landing Team headquarters at Beirut International Airport, November 6, 1983.
The U.S. State Department says U.S. troops on Grenada reportedly uncovered over 100 bodies at a training camp with one believed to be that of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. More than 100 bodies have been found on the southern tip of Grenada, according to a United States official in the capital. He said that one of the bodies was presumed to be that of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, who was slain on October 19. The official said that virtually all of the victims were also believed to have been fatally shot at a rally on October 19.
[This almost immediately turns out to be based on nothing more than rumor; the State Department is forced to retract the statement the very next day.]
President Reagan meets with Prime Minster Edward Philip George Seaga of Jamaica to discuss Grenada and Jamaica’s economic issues. Mr. Seaga was the third Caribbean leader invited to the White House in the last two weeks. Today’s meeting was his fourth with Mr. Reagan. Mary Eugenia Charles, the Prime Minister of Dominica and chairman of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, was at Mr. Reagan’s side when he announced the invasion on October 25. John Compton, the Prime Minister of St. Lucia, was at the White House voicing his support for the operation just hours before Mr. Reagan’s televised address to the nation two days later.
Prime Minister Edward Seaga of Jamaica said today after a meeting with President Reagan that General Hudson Austin, the leader of Grenada before the United States-led invasion of the island, had been told of the invasion plan nearly 36 hours before it was carried out. The disclosure was made by one of the Caribbean nations that participated in the decision, but it did not include the precise timetable, Mr. Seaga said. “Therefore,” he said, “the harm done turned out to be minimal.” The invasion was carried out in the predawn hours of October 25. Mr. Seaga said the Grenadians were notified late on October 23, but would not say by whom. The Jamaican Prime Minister, a leading force behind the invasion decision, said he had been “deeply worried” by the disclosure and said it had added to concern about the safety of more than 1,000 Americans on Grenada.
George P. Shultz has emerged as the paramount voice in the Reagan Administration’s foreign policy in the last two months of international crises. Key officials say that Secretary of State Shultz and his top aides have become the strongest advocates in the Administration for using military force as an instrument of diplomacy in the Middle East and the Central American and Caribbean region, often in the face of what officials say have been Defense Department doubts or opposition.
Grenada’s interim government will be headed by Alistair McIntyre, a Grenadian who is an official at the United Nations. He said he had accepted a request by Sir Paul Scoon, Grenada’s Governor General, to lead an interim government until elections are held.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General John W. Vessey Jr., said he hoped that all United States forces would be withdrawn from Grenada by Thanksgiving. In a televised interview, General Vessey also said he wanted United States forces withdrawn from Lebanon as soon as possible.
Yasser Arafat’s troops lost one of his two remaining strongholds in Lebanon to Syrian-backed Palestinian insurgents after three days of intense shelling and rocket fire. Mr. Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said he was regrouping his forces to continue the fight. “We will continue,” Mr. Arafat told reporters at the Beddawi refugee camp just north of here, to which his forces have fallen back. “We have no choice but to continue.” As he spoke, artillery shells fired by his guerrillas exploded on a mountainside below the contested village of Turbol. Mr. Arafat has said he is being attacked by rebels from his own organization, who feel he has been too moderate toward Israel, and by Syrian and Libyan troops with artillery and tanks. Mr. Arafat contends the Syrians and Libyans wish to wrest control of the P.L.O. from him.
The government of Qatar, preparing for today’s summit meeting of Persian Gulf leaders, virtually sealed off the tiny sheikdom and announced that police thwarted an attempt to blow up the hotel where the kings and sheiks will be staying. Information Minister Isa Ghanim Kawari indicated that only one person was involved, but other government sources said 30 people involved in a similar plot have been arrested. The six heads of state of the Gulf Cooperation Council will stay at the Sheraton Hotel in Doha, the Qatari capital, during the three-day summit.
Six Persian Gulf leaders open talks in Doha on Monday to fashion joint policies on issues ranging from Iran’s threat to block the Strait of Hormuz and the Iran-Iraq war to the Lebanese crisis and disputes between Arab countries. The leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council nations — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates — are likely to endorse joint military and economic cooperation plans during the three-day meeting. The conference is the fourth since the council was formed in 1981.
Iran said that more than 400 Iraqi soldiers were killed when Iranian forces repelled a counterattack aimed at recovering territory taken. last week in Iran’s offensive on the northern front. There was no comment from Iraq, and independent confirmation was impossible. Iran also said that an Iraqi air strike killed 15 people and wounded about 350 in the city of Nahavand, and that 60 people were killed and 265 were wounded in missile attacks on three other Iranian cities.
Turkey’s independent conservatives took a commanding lead over the military-backed party in the first general election since the armed forces seized power in 1980. The party in the lead is headed by Turgut Ozal, the chief architect of Turkey’s economic recovery program.
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau flies to Europe today for talks with the leaders of six North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies and Pope John Paul II in a peace initiative aimed at improving relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Trudeau will discuss his ideas for encouraging dialogue between the superpowers with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, French President Francois Mitterrand, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the leaders of Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
Fears among Poles of stricter rationing has caused panic buying of soap and cigarettes in provincial towns, the official Polish news agency PAP reported. Consumers’ suspicions were touched off by the restoration of butter rationing last week. The panic buying prompted a government announcement that there are no plans to ration soap or cigarettes. In addition to butter, other restricted staples include meat, flour, sugar and margarine.
Salvadoran rebels seized and briefly held San Francisco de Javier, 40 miles southeast of San Salvador, the third town they have captured in an eight-day-old offensive. Earlier, they temporarily held Ciudad Barrios, in the eastern province of San Miguel, and Tejutepeque, 37 miles north of San Salvador. A rebel broadcast said the campaign was begun to protest “those actions the United States has planned for Central America,” and to “prepare for a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua.”
A strike by Mexicana Airlines flight attendants was resolved less than 24 hours after it started, and the airline resumed normal service. All but eight of the airline’s 130 flights were canceled during the one-day shutdown that began at midnight Friday. A spokesman for the 1,500 flight attendants said the strike was settled when the union accepted an offer of a 26% wage increase. The union had asked for 35%.
North Korean diplomats flew home from Rangoon today aboard a special jetliner. They had been expelled by Burma for what Burmese officials charged was their country’s involvement in the October 9 bomb blast that killed 21 people. Burmese guards escorted the 12 diplomats and their families to the Rangoon airport, where they boarded a North Korean TU-154 jetliner. The 20 North Koreans arrived at the heavily guarded airport in two minibuses provided by the Soviet Embassy. The plane took off on schedule a few hours before a 48-hour deadline for them to leave Burma expired. The authorities said the jetliner was scheduled to make brief stopovers in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, and Peking before reaching Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. On Friday the Burmese Government blamed North Korea for the terrorist bombing and identified two Koreans captured and one killed after the October 9 blast as North Koreans.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos will let party leaders determine his successor if he cannot complete his term that ends in 1987, Philippine officials said. Marcos will convene a caucus of his New Society Movement Party on Tuesday to discuss the succession question. Last week Marcos ruled that Prime Minister Cesar E.A. Virata would assume the presidency if he were unable to continue. Virata appeared surprised by that announcement and indicated he was “not too sure” he could legally assume the post.
A new split in the farm bloc is threatening passage in the House this week of a milk price support bill that would pay dairy farmers to reduce production for the first time. An unlikely coalition of livestock raisers, consumer protection groups and the largest farm organization is urging House members to defeat the bill, which is also opposed by the Reagan Administration.
Trailways struggled to keep up with an overload of passengers as Greyhound left the driving to the competition in the fourth day of a nationwide strike by 12,700 employees. “It’s really hectic,” said Bob Cornelius, a Trailways baggage clerk in Phoenix. “The buses are running late…. Most of us down here are putting in long days.” Strikers gave no indication of going back to work for Greyhound, which has proposed a 9.5% cut in pay as well as benefit reductions. The chief negotiator for the strikers accused Greyhound of refusing to bargain in good faith. Company officials could not be reached for comment.
Many nuclear power plants now being built will produce electricity at rates equivalent to double or triple the price of OPEC oil, an energy consulting firm said in a report released in Washington. The skyrocketing costs of building new reactors are creating “severe economic problems” for about a dozen electric utilities, according to the study by Cambridge Energy Research Associates of Massachusetts. Steadily increasing costs, the report. found, are caused by “further safety-related design changes, additional inflation and exceptionally high interest rates in recent years.”
A controlled underground coal fire could point the way to a new source of gas, scientists say. The coal gas resulting from the experimental burn near Centralia, Washington, reportedly could be piped out and burned in power plants, converted to chemicals such as fertilizer or upgraded to an equivalent of natural gas. Roger Paul, chief geologist for Washington Irrigation & Development Co., said, “The heating value of the gas has been as high as 292 BTUS (British thermal units) per cubic foot, which is unheard of” for this process. However, natural gas runs about 1,000 BTUs, he said.
Hundreds of thousands of grasshoppers swarmed into downtown Houston over the weekend, covering several skyscrapers and frightening shoppers. “It was like there was a shade over the windows,” merchant Tannie Trapolin said. Entomologists said grasshoppers usually swarm in sparsely populated areas to lay their eggs. The insects may have been attracted to the area because of the heat and light emitted by the buildings.
A 47-year-old drifter who says he killed 165 persons in several states will plead innocent when he goes on trial Monday in Denton, Texas, in the August, 1982, slaying of his traveling companion, 15-year-old Frieda Powell, his attorney said. The defendant, Henry Lee Lucas, has described several dozen slayings in detail for investigators and has even drawn pictures of some of his victims. But Lucas’ court-appointed attorney, Tom Whitlock of Denton, said his client is “worn to a frazzle” from talking to detectives and now will remain silent.
A Republic Airlines pilot was injured yesterday when a goose smashed through the windshield of his plane. In unrelated incidents, two Eastern Airlines jets developed problems on takeoff yesterday, but no one was hurt. The Republic flight with about 30 people aboard was in its final approach to the airport in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The co-pilot landed the Convair 580 turboprop without further incident. The pilot, who was not identified, was taken to a hospital with unspecified injuries.
An Eastern A-300 Airbus blew two tires at Miami International Airport, but all 237 passengers were evacuated safely. It braked with about 100 yards of runway remaining.
An Eastern 727 jet with 156 people aboard developed engine trouble and circled over Las Vegas, Nevada, for 20 minutes, dumping its fuel and landing without incident. It was not known what caused the engine trouble.
On Saturday, a Trans World Airlines 767 jetliner carrying 47 people returned to the Philadelphia Airport because one its engines failed shortly after takeoff.
Organized crime has lost many significant battles in the last several years, according to Justice Department officials. In all major cities where traditional organized crime exists, the officials say, most of the top leaders are either in prison or are facing charges.
Dallas is sprucing up in preparation for hosting the Republican National Convention next summer. The extremely image-conscious city is going through some anxious public relations exertions as it makes ready for the most intensive national attention it has received since the assassination of President Kennedy there on November 22, 1963.
Miami’s new Metrorail is the centerpiece of Dade County’s mass transit program. The finishing touches are being put on an 11-mile stretch of the 21-mile elevated railway system. Transportation officials call the new $1 billion system the best alternative to auto congestion.
Lloyd McBride died at his home in a Pittsburgh suburb at the age of 67, after multiple heart bypass surgery. Mr. McBride had been president of the United Steelworkers of America since 1977, leading the union during the most troubled times in the American steel industry since the 1930’s Depression.
“Baby Jane Doe’s” parents, who had decided against life-prolonging operations for their deformed daughter, consented to minor surgery to fight a persistent infection, their attorney said. The parents, known in court papers as “Mr. and Mrs. A,” allowed doctors at University Hospital at Stony Brook, New York, to insert an antibiotic into the infant’s skull. There were no complications, the lawyer said. The 26-day-old baby, who suffers from spina bifida, is at the center of a legal battle between parents and right-to-life advocates.
Thunderstorms and 50 m.p.h. winds pounded the Texas and Louisiana coasts and two inches of snow blanketed the Northeast. The showers spread north across the southern Plains to the middle Mississippi Valley. Rain in the Northwest caused at least one fatal accident. Stephen R. Bonifacio Jr., 22, of Portland, Oregon, died when the pickup truck in which he was riding plunged into a canyon as rain and snow reduced the driver’s visibility. A travelers’ snow advisory was posted in the Cascade Mountains of Washington and northern Oregon.
The first episode of the popular retro-inspired sci-fi series “Stranger Things” takes place on November 6, 1983 in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana.
NFL Football:
Hokie Gajan ran for two second-half touchdowns and New Orleans held Atlanta’s potent passing attack to 145 yards as the Saints won, 27—10. Gajan scored from 9 yards out midway through the third period to give the Saints their first lead. He finished the scoring on an 11-yard run late in the final period. George Rogers gained 137 yards on 20 carries for the Saints and Dave Wilson, replacing the injured Kenny Stabler, completed 9 of 14 passes for 146 yards. The Falcons’ top rusher, William Andrews, gained just 45 yards on 17 carries. He scored on a 1-yard run. The Saints also scored on a 5-yard run by Wayne Wilson and a 19-yard pass from Wilson to Tyrone Young.
The Baltimore Colts, continuing to rank as the NFL’s surprise team of 1983, used their Texas Connection to defeat the New York Jets, 17—14. Sunday and raise their record to 6-4. The Colts were 0-8-1 in the strike-shortened 1982 season. The Colts’ Curtis Dickey, the former sprint star at Texas A&M, scored on a one-yard run and on a deflected 25-yard pass. And Raul Allegre, the rookie from the University of Texas, had a 42-yard field goal to provide the margin of victory, as he has done in all six Baltimore victories. Dickey and Allegre were enough to offset pass-play touchdowns of 50 and 10 yards from Richard Todd to Lam Jones, another former University of Texas star, who had one of his best days as a pro with four catches for 77 yards. Dickey’s one-yard run around right end late in the third period put Baltimore ahead, 10—7, and his catch in the end zone of a ball deflected by New York’s Bobby Jackson pushed the Colts to a 17—7 lead early in the fourth quarter.
Steve Grogan completed two long scoring passes to Clarence Weathers and set up another touchdown with a 35-yard completion to Stanley Morgan as the Patriots downed the Bills, 21—7. Grogan completed 15 of 28 passes for 251 yards. After a scoreless first quarter, Tony Collins ran for a 4-yard touchdown and Grogan capped a 5-play, 80-yard drive with a 40-yard scoring pass play to Weathers to give the Patriots a 14—0 lead at halftime. Early in the third quarter, Grogan threw a 58-yard touchdown pass to Weathers.
The Rams defeated the Bears, 21—14. Rookie running back Eric Dickerson scored two touchdowns for the Rams to raise his league-leading total to 17 Sunday. He gained 127 yards on 34 carries to go over the 100-yard mark for the sixth straight week. Walter Payton of the Bears gained 62 yards on 14 carries to go over 11,000 career rushing yards. He moved past O.J. Simpson on the league’s all-time career rushing list, taking over third place behind Jim Brown and Franco Harris. He also moved ahead of Simpson into second place on the league’s combined yardage list. Los Angeles took a 21—7 lead 57 seconds into the final quarter, capping a 98-yard drive that took 6:24 and 14 plays. Chicago closed to 21—14 with an 84-yard march, capped by Jim McMahon’s 4-yard scoring run. The Bears had closed to 14—7 at 9:33 into the third quarter on Payton’s third career touchdown pass. McMahon handed the ball to the nine-year veteran, who rolled right and threw to McMahon in the left corner of the end zone.
Pete Johnson scored three touchdowns and Ken Anderson, coming off the injury list, directed Cincinnati to 34 first-half points as the Bengals blew out Houston, 55—14. Johnson scored from the 5-yard line and twice from the 1. Anderson threw to Chris Collinsworth for a 14-yard touchdown pass and Jim Breech had field goals of 44 and 29 yards to give the Bengals a 34—0 halftime lead. The Bengals forced seven turnovers, six in the first half. Reggie Williams returned a fumble recovery 59 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter. He recovered another fumble and had two sacks. Anderson completed 7 of 12 passes for 107 yards and was replaced in the third quarter by Turk Schonert.
Lynn Dickey threw for four touchdowns, each following a Cleveland turnover, and John Jefferson caught 7 passes for 102 yards to pace Green Bay to a 35—21 victory over Cleveland. Dickey completed 20 of 33 passes for 228 yards but was intercepted three times. The Packers took a 28—7 lead in the third period after Tim Lewis intercepted his second pass of the game. Green Bay drove 92 yards and scored on Dickey’s 2-yard pass to Gerry Ellis. On the drive, James Lofton had a 44-yard reception. Lewis’s interception came off Brian Sipe, who entered the game in the third period when Paul McDonald failed to move the Browns’ offense. McDonald completed 11 of 23 passes for 134 yards and was intercepted once.
Dave Krieg threw two touchdown passes and ran for one score and the rookie Curt Warner set a Seattle single-season rushing record as the Seahawks beat Denver, 27—19. Krieg threw scoring passes of 14 yards to Steve Largent and 30 yards to Paul Johns in the third quarter to give the Seahawks a 20—3 lead. The Broncos’ quarterback Steve DeBerg suffered a shoulder injury late in the third quarter and was replaced by the rookie John Elway. Elway passed 25 yards to Steve Watson for a touchdown with 6:01 remaining.
Jim Plunkett came off the bench for the injured Marc Wilson to lead Los Angeles to two fourth-quarter touchdowns, including a 19-yard scoring pass to Dokie Williams with 3:49 remaining, to lift the Raiders to a 28—20 win over the Chiefs. Playing in a steady drizzle, Plunkett completed 5 of 9 passes for 114 yards over the final 18 minutes. Wilson suffered a broken left shoulder and will be sidelined for at least six weeks. The Chiefs’ Bill Kenney threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to Ken Thomas to cap a 74-yard drive midway through the fourth quarter, giving Kansas City a 20—14 lead.
The rookie Dan Marino threw two touchdown passes, and Doug Betters recovered two San Francisco fumbles in the closing minutes to give Miami its fourth straight victory, 20—17 over the 49ers. Marino connected with Nat Moore on scoring passes of 24 and 19 yards in the first half. Uwe von Schamann broke a 17—17 tie early in the final period by kicking a 23-yard field goal. A pass interference call against the 49ers’ cornerback Ronnie Lott, who tried to break up a long pass by Marino, set up the winning kick. San Francisco drove to the Miami 21-yard line with just under two minutes remaining. But fullback Roger Craig fumbled on a first-down play and Betters, a defensive end, recovered at the 20 with 1:20 left. The 49ers got the ball once more, but Bob Baumhower forced quarterback Joe Montana to fumble and Betters recovered at the 49ers’ 32.
It would be difficult to play any better than the Philadelphia Eagles did at the beginning of their game today with the Dallas Cowboys. After 19 minutes they had outgained the Cowboys by 129 yards to minus 12 and they held a 10-point lead against the team with the best record in the National Football League. Tony Dorsett, Dallas’s excellent halfback, had not managed to take the ball beyond the scrimmage line. However, these accomplishments were soon dwarfed and then erased as the Cowboys caught and passed the Eagles for a 27—20 victory. It was the Cowboys’ ninth victory in 10 games this season, and every time they have had to overcome a deficit to win.
John Riggins scored two touchdowns, and linebacker Mel Kaufman returned an interception 70 yards for another score to lead Washington to a 45—7 rout of the Cardinals. The Redskins, led by Joe Washington’s 99 yards on 15 carries, rushed for 209 yards in beating St. Louis for the second time in four weeks. Riggins’s touchdowns, both on 2-yard runs, raised his season total to 14, a team record, and extended his consecutive scoring streak to nine games. The Cardinals’ quarterback Neil Lomax, who was sacked five times, completed 17 of 35 passes for 212 yards and a touchdown. Joe Theismann completed 13 of 24 for 167 yards. The Redskins scored first when Vernon Dean recovered a fumble by Wayne Morris in the Cardinal end zone at the end of the first quarter.
Gary Anderson kicked four field goals today and cornerback Mel Blount returned a fumble for a touchdown to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to their sixth straight triumph, a 26—3 decision over the struggling San Diego Chargers. Walter Abercrombie also scored on a 6-yard run as the Chargers lost their fourth straight game. Anderson kicked field goals of 45, 30, 49 and 42 yards, making him 21 for 24 on field-goal attempts this season. Pittsburgh’s defense forced four turnovers. Blount’s 6-yard score came on a recovery of a fumble by quarterback Ed Luther. The Steelers intercepted two passes, one against Luther, and recovered a second fumble by Luther.
James Wilder rushed for 219 yards and scored on a 75-yard run today to lift the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 17—12 upset over the Minnesota Vikings. It was the Buccaneers first victory this season after nine defeats. The Vikings threatened late in the final quarter but stalled at the Tampa Bay 18 when Steve Dils missed on three straight pass attempts just before the two-minute warning. Wilder’s scoring run, the longest in the team’s history, put the Buccaneers ahead by 14—9 midway through the third period. The Vikings had led, 9—0, in the second period, but the nose tackle David Logan picked up a fumble by Dils, caused by Lee Roy Selmon, and ran 54 yards for a touchdown to make it 9—7. Wilder, who set a league record last week for most carries in a game with 42, ran 6 times for 36 yards on a fourth-quarter drive to set up Bill Capece’s 29-yard field goal with 12:57 left.
Atlanta Falcons 10, New Orleans Saints 27
Baltimore Colts 17, New York Jets 14
Buffalo Bills 7, New England Patriots 21
Chicago Bears 14, Los Angeles Rams 21
Cincinnati Bengals 55, Houston Oilers 14
Cleveland Browns 21, Green Bay Packers 35
Denver Broncos 19, Seattle Seahawks 27
Los Angeles Raiders 28, Kansas City Chiefs 20
Miami Dolphins 20, San Francisco 49ers 17
Dallas Cowboys 27, Philadelphia Eagles 20
St. Louis Cardinals 7, Washington Redskins 45
San Diego Chargers 3, Pittsburgh Steelers 26
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17, Minnesota Vikings 12
Born:
Fred Evans, NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings), in Chicago, Illinois.
Justin Maxwell, MLB outfielder (Washington Nationals, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants), in Olney, Maryland.
Jon Hume, Australian singer (Evermore), in Lismore, Australia.
Died:
Robert Gross, 69, American composer and violinist.
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