Photograph: President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan during trip to Republic of Korea, arrival ceremony with President Chun Doo Hwan, Mrs. Chun Doo Hwan at Kimpo Airport, International Terminal, 12 November 1983 (November 11 in the U.S.).
South Korea was urged by President Reagan to pursue democratic change as the “foundation of true security” on his arrival in Seoul on a two-day visit. In a speech to Parliament, he also denounced North Korea. The South Korean government called out many more troops in taking more precautions to protect Mr. Reagan after some combative-toned denunciations from North Korea.
The tour President Reagan plans to take of the demilitarized zone in Korea will come at a time of renewed tension between the northern and southern portions of that divided nation. Like many American leaders before him, President Reagan will be providing a symbolic expression of continued American military and political support for South Korea. The zone, 2½ miles wide and 151 miles long, runs roughly along the 38th Parallel. The center line marks the boundary set in the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953.
In 1954, under the Mutual Security Treaty with South Korea, the United States agreed to support South Korea in defending the area. For many years American troops patrolled the zone along with South Korean troops, although the South Korean armed forces, which number roughly 600,000, have taken over the duty completely in recent years. Over the years more than 50 American soldiers have been killed in skirmishes along zone.
Donald H. Rumsfeld, President Reagan’s new special envoy to the Middle East, is flying to the region to confer with key leaders on how to foster a political settlement in Lebanon, Administration officials said today. For security reasons, the officials declined to provide Mr. Rumsfeld’s itinerary. But he was supposed to leave Washington either tonight or Saturday and make some stops in Europe before going on to Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, they said. They said Mr. Rumsfeld wanted to use this first trip to get acquainted with the leaders and to learn the problems first hand. One official said he thought Mr. Rumsfeld’s session with President Hafez al-Assad of Syria might turn out to be the most important because relations between Washington and Damascus are severely strained. In the last two days, the Syrian radio has said that Syrian gunners fired at Navy F-14 planes flying near Beirut.
Whether Yasser Arafat should leave Tripoli to eliminate the threat of heavy fighting in that northern Lebanese city between Syrian-backed Palestinian rebels and Arafat loyalists was debated by the city’s leaders. Mayor Ashir Daye and other local officials want him to go, but Mr. Arafat has the support of Sheik Saed Shaaban, a Moslem clergyman who controls most of Tripoli with a militia of 600 men.
Moscow told Syria’s foreign minister that it wants a halt to the internal struggle in the Palestine Liberation Organization. Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam left the Soviet Union with those instructions after two days of talks with Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko.
U.S. troops will leave Grenada “within a short time,” possibly within the 60-day period set by Congress under the War Powers Act, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger said. But he again refused to set a specific date. On Thursday, he said he could not offer “a target date” or even set clear criteria for the withdrawal of the troops.
U.S. officials in Grenada said that more than one-third of a newly approved aid program would be devoted to medical services and education to replace as quickly as possible the Cuban medical personnel and teachers who had been expelled from the island.
Soviet diplomats appeared to soften today what Bonn officials had taken to be a thinly veiled threat to West German legislators over the scheduled deployment of new American missiles here. The change took the form of a clarification by the Soviet Embassy of remarks made to West German officials earlier this week. Those remarks seemed to link the future of the Geneva arms talks with the parliamentary vote on deployment scheduled November 22. In the past the Soviet Union has warned that it will break off the Geneva talks on limiting nuclear weapons if the deployment begins next month as scheduled. Some officials said they interpreted the clarification as a signal of Soviet interest in continued discussions even after the deployment begins.
Dutch newspapers said today that the kidnappers of Alfred H. Heineken had demanded a ransom of at least $8 million for him and his chauffeur. The 60-year-old chairman of Heineken Breweries and his 57-year-old chauffeur, Ab Doderer, were kidnapped as they left the company’s headquarters here Wednesday evening. The country’s largest daily, De Telegraaf, said the abductors were demanding the equivalent of $8.1 million in ransom. Het Parool, Amsterdam’s biggest evening newspaper, said the ransom was the equivalent of $10 million. Neither newspaper identified the source of its information, and Dutch officials would not confirm any figure. The police and the management of Heineken imposed a news blackout on the abduction at the demand of the kidnappers, who made their first contact in a written note Thursday.
A representative of Pope John Paul II hailed Martin Luther today as “a religious genius” and suggested that the excommunication of the 16th-century monk by the Roman Catholic Church should be reconsidered. At a service marking the 500th anniversary of Luther’s birth, Johannes Cardinal Willebrands lauded his theological contributions and urged reconciliation between Protestants and Catholics. “Martin Luther not only makes his impact felt in the life of Protestant Christianity,” Cardinal Willebrands said from the pulpit of the 13th-century St. Thomas Church, where Luther preached in 1539. “He is also alive in the ecumenical movement.”
The military Government has extended martial law for four months, Turkish newspapers reported today. Martial law was imposed nationwide when the military took over in a coup in September 1980. An elected Parliament, the first since then, is scheduled to convene Nov. 19 and is empowered to lift martial law if it chooses. The newspapers said the military-led National Security Council decided on the extension on Thursday.
Most cars in Brazil run on alcohol. Brazil’s military authorities have bludgeoned the consumer into supporting its drive begun eight years ago to purge the country of imported oil. The government penalizes drivers of gasoline-driven cars by depriving them of gasoline on weekends and charging them on weekdays a $1 more a gallon for gasoline than alcohol costs. In October, 92 percent of the cars sold in Brazil were equipped with alcohol engines.
An end to “acts of aggression” against Nicaragua was called for by the General Assembly of the United Nations in approving a compromise resolution on Central America after three days of debate and intense backstage maneuvering. It also called for encouragement of “democratic, representative and pluralistic systems” in the region.
The United States Embassy in San Salvador said today that a student arrested for the murder of an American military adviser is innocent and his confession was obtained by the Salvadoran authorities “under duress.” A spokesman, Donald R. Hamilton, said at a news conference that the embassy was convinced that the suspect, Pedro Daniel Alvarado Rivera, is a member of the rebel Popular Liberation Forces but did not kill the adviser, Lieutenant Commander Albert A. Schaufelberger 3rd of the Navy, who was shot to death here last May. Mr. Hamilton said the conclusion was based on a lie-detector test and other evidence. He would give no details about what duress had been applied against the student or by whom.
Death squads in Indonesia have killed more than 2,000 people suspected of being criminals this year, and the campaign has intensified since August, when the government banned news coverage of the killings, people at the country’s leading human rights organization said today. “The killings have been particularly intensive in East Java, where 1,000 have been killed,” one person at the organization, the Indonesian Legal Aid Institute, said in an interview. “Almost every day corpses are found floating in rivers or dumped by main roads.” Several Indonesian newspapers have resumed reporting about the killings, and The Jakarta Post said today that five bodies were found in the capital in the last few days.
Thousands of anti-Government demonstrators took to the streets today as the body of the man accused by the police of killing the opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. was carried to a cemetery for burial. A funeral procession lasting six hours became at times a protest against the Government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos, mourning for Mr. Aquino and a demonstration of support for the mother of Rolando Galman, the man accused of being Mr. Aquino’s assassin.
Interment took place in the same cemetery where Mr. Aquino, who was popularly known as Ninoy, was buried soon after he was slain on Aug. 21 as he returned to Manila from three years’ self-exile in the United States. Mr. Galman’s funeral took place today because his body was only recently turned over to the family by the authorities. According to the police, Mr. Galman shot Mr. Aquino with a single bullet and was then himself killed by security officials.
A catch-all appropriation bill needed to keep parts of the government operating through the end of the current fiscal year, September 30, was agreed on by House and Senate negotiators. The compromise bill included an additional $100 million for education programs promoted by House Democrats, but it was far below their request for almost $1 billion.
Financial aid programs for students are being expanded by private universities to benefit students in all income groups. In the shift from focusing on scholarships for the poor, the universities are providing sophisticated advice on financial planning and “prepayment” plans in which students pay four years of tuition in their freshman year to protect them against tuition increases.
Voting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, went strongly against a proposal to make the city, home of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a “nuclear-free zone.” With more than 90 percent of the precincts counted, the measure that would have outlawed work and research on nuclear weapons within the city was losing by 59 to 41 percent.
Civil rights groups praised the Senate for taking action to insure the survival and independence of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Voting 79 to 5, the Senate early Friday endorsed a compromise worked out in long negotiations with the White House and major civil rights organizations that would establish a new eight-member commission. Members of the House said they expected quick approval when the House votes on the proposal next week.
An Eastern Airlines jetliner carrying 156 people skidded off the runway during an emergency landing at Miami International Airport tonight after a tire blew out on takeoff, disabling the landing gear, aviation officials said. Only a few minor injuries were reported, said Jack Barker, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta. Mr. Barker said the jetliner, a Boeing 727 that carried 149 passengers and a crew of seven, landed shortly before 9 P.M. “It did not have all of its landing gear down properly,” he said. “It did sort of a U-turn and went off the end of the runway.”
The Secret Service began providing protection to the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Thursday, more than two and a half months before the seven other candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination are scheduled to receive protection. The action came after a written formal request for protection was made Thursday to Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan by Preston Love, the Jackson for President campaign manager. Neither spokesmen for the Secret Service, which is part of the Treasury Department, nor for the Jackson campaign would say precisely why the protection was sought and provided. But in a speech Thursday, the candidate said that threats directed at him had increased since he officially announced his candidacy November 3. Frank Watkins, Mr. Jackson’s press secretary, said: “It was requested, so one can conclude that we saw a need. It was provided, so the Treasury Department apparently also had information that said there was a need. This is not something that either we or the country ought to be particularly proud of.”
Two Federal appellate judges today granted a stay of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s decision this week to allow the Pacific Gas and Electric Company to load fuel at its Diablo Canyon nuclear reactor in California. The stay by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, pending a review of the commission’s ruling, prevents the first loading of uranium oxide into one of the two reactors at the plant, which has been plagued by design and quality control problems since construction began in 1968. The judges who granted the stay were Shelly Wright and Harry Edwards. George Sarkisian, a spokesman for the utility, said it had planned to start loading fuel on Sunday.
Two Florida reporters facing six months in jail for refusing to divulge confidential sources say they have no regrets, and no thoughts of changing their minds. Jim Tunstall, a reporter for The Tampa Tribune, said he was “a little firmer, if I wasn’t firm before, in going through with what I started.” William Aubrey of The Daily Sun- Journal in Brooksville added, “I’d do it again in a second if that’s what it comes down to.” Judge L. R. Huffstetler Jr. of Hernando County Circuit Court said Thursday that he did not have any leeway in the matter when he sentenced the reporters to six months in jail for contempt after they refused to divulge sources used in stories about a Florida Ethics Commission investigation of two county commissioners.
A “witcher” using divining rods helped to find the bodies of two people who were slain four years ago, and two computer programmers were arrested in the slayings. Donald Earl, 53 years old, and his wife, Norma, 43, of Clearwater, Kan., were believed to have been killed as the result of their involvement in an interstate check-passing ring, Sedgwick County officials said Thursday. Robert W. Armstrong, 51, a computer programmer for New York City’s Human Resources Administration, and LeRoy L. Willcox, 45, a computer programming supervisor with The Wichita Eagle-Beacon, were arrested, according to officials of the newspaper and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. District Attorney Clark Owens of Sedgwick County said neither man had been charged.
In 64 years in the National Football League, the Chicago Bears had one big boss: George Halas, also one of the founders of the league. For 15 years, his son, George Jr. served as president, but the son died in 1979, and Halas remained the Papa Bear until his own death on October 31. Now the Bears have another boss, and a highly educated one: Michael McCaskey, Halas’s grandson. The selection was made by Halas’s only surviving child, Virginia McCaskey, the new owner, who yesterday named her son president and chief executive officer of the team. The new Papa Bear, who is 39, played split end at Yale, where he majored in philosophy and psychology.
Thomas Monaghan won unanimous approval yesterday as the new owner of the Detroit Tigers. The approval was voted by the owners of the 13 other clubs in the American League at their meeting in New York.
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