Photograph: President Ronald Reagan toasts with President Chun Doo Hwan during a reception at the Blue House in Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 13, 1983.
”Steadfast support” for South Korea was pledged by President Reagan as he ended a two-day visit to the country. He also said that he would strengthen United States forces stationed there and that the United States would meet its ”responsibilities as a Pacific power.”
President Reagan visits the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea.
President Reagan attends a martial arts demonstration by South Korean soldiers at their base along the Demilitarized Zone.
Syria was warned by a senior Reagan Administration official that the United States will respond if Syrian gunners continue shooting at American aircraft over Lebanon. The official, Robert C. McFarlane, President Reagan’s national security adviser, cited in a television interview the invasion of Grenada as an example of United States resolve to protect American lives. He said that while he considers a war with Syria unlikely, Damascus should take a ”sober view” of the United States commitment in Lebanon.
American troops in Grenada have detained more than 1,100 Grenadians and Cubans for questioning at a special camp equipped with wooden interview booths and boxlike isolation chambers. American military officials said the prisoners included members of the People’s Revolutionary Amry, Grenadian militiamen and civilians.
The taking of Grenada by American troops was not the pushover that some had expected. Nearly three weeks after the American invasion, what combat commanders call ”the fog of battle” still envelops the operation, which was code-named URGENT FURY. Arguments still continue over the makeup and size of the opposition force, over how many soldiers and civilians were killed and over whether the invasion should have been undertaken.
Israeli police wounded three West Bank Arabs in the second day of clashes with Palestinians who have been conducting demonstrations to show support for Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization leader besieged by Syrian forces in Lebanon. In the latest incident, Israeli police said that a patrol opened fire after it was attacked by a mob outside the Dahaisha refugee camp, near Bethlehem. One policeman was also reported injured.
Iran has repeated its threat to close the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Persian Gulf if Iraq disrupts Iranian oil exports. The new threat was made by the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in an interview with the Tehran radio Saturday night that was monitored by the BBC. He said that if an Iraqi attack ”leads to our being deprived of our oil resources or cuts down our oil, we shall close the Strait of Hormuz.” He went on: ”As long as we can use the Persian Gulf, we shall maintain its security. If ever the Gulf is unusable by us, it will be unusable by others.”
Soviet President Yuri V. Andropov will probably reappear in public “in a few days,” Leo Tolkunov, editor of the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia, said in an apparent effort to defuse speculation that Andropov is seriously ill. Tolkunov, on a visit to Tokyo, said that Andropov, who has not been seen in public since Aug. 18, has been working while recovering from a cold. However, Newsweek magazine quoted Soviet sources as saying that the 69-year-old Communist Party head is recuperating from a serious illness in a sanitarium and has lost much of his political power.
A Chinese air force pilot flew his MIG-19 jet fighter to Taiwan and asked the Nationalist Chinese government for political asylum, the second to do so this year, a Taiwan Defense Ministry spokesman announced. The pilot was identified as Wang Xuechen, 26, but his military rank was not given. The spokesman said that Wang flew to Taipei from an air base in China’s coastal province of Zhejiang. There was no immediate comment from the Peking regime. The Nationalist Chinese have a standing reward of gold worth millions of American dollars for any Chinese pilot who defects with his aircraft, the amount depending on the type of plane.
Several editors of China’s most influential newspaper, the People’s Daily, have been forced out of their jobs in an intensification of an anti-liberal campaign, diplomatic sources said in Peking. The sources said that Hu Jiwei, the paper’s director for about a year, has “retired” and that a leading ideologist, Wang Ruoshui, has been fired after a longstanding dispute with Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang. A shake-up of the party newspaper’s editorial board also was reported in what was seen as an attack by the regime on Western ideas and influence.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos said today that he had a dossier on businessmen involved in tax evasion, black-marketing of dollars and smuggling, and vowed to take them to court for economic sabotage. ”I wish to warn all the economic saboteurs because I have reached the end of my patience,” Mr. Marcos said in a statement issued by the presidential palace. The warning came three days after Mr. Marcos met about 500 Filipino and foreign businessmen who called for free elections and major steps by the government to solve the political and economic crisis set off by the August 21 killing of Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Mr. Marcos rejected the demands. In the palace statement, Mr. Marcos warned that the government would immediately file criminal charges against law-breaking businessmen and prosecute them ”to the fullest extent of the law.”
Policemen fired on a rally and protesters set off a bomb as opponents of Pakistan’s military Government tried to revive a 13-week drive for free elections, opposition sources said today. Lawyers opposed to martial law held rallies in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi and Peshawar, legal sources said. Other demonstrations were held Saturday in at least 14 cities and towns. They were staged in memory of those who died during the now-waning protest campaign against President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. But a government spokesman said there was a poor response to the call. Five people were wounded when policemen fired on a crowd in Sukkur in the southern province of Sind Saturday as they marched from a mosque, opposition sources said. Protesters then exploded a homemade bomb on a busy street in Sukkur, but nobody was hurt, the police said.
The police arrested more than 100 militant women today when they forced their way into a top-secret, joint United States-Australian military base. Scuffles broke out when policemen removed 111 women trying to set up tents and banners inside the security fence of Pine Gap base, 12 miles south of Alice Springs in Australia’s central region. No injuries were reported as the protesters were arrested on trespassing charges. More than 700 women are camped outside the Pine Gap base for a two- week vigil to demonstrate against the American installation. The protest, organized by Women for Survival, supports the efforts of British women camped outside the Greenham Common base.
Canada’s Prime Minister said after a visit to Western European that leaders there had expressed broad support for his proposals to end the impasse between Moscow and Washington over arms control. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, back home from a four-day tour of Western Europe to promote disarmament, called for a conference of the world’s five nuclear powers and said he has started consultations with Peking and Moscow. The three other nuclear powers are the United States, Britain and France. Trudeau, who met with North Atlantic Treaty Organization leaders in six capitals, also proposed an international agreement to ban high-altitude, anti-satellite systems.
El Salvador’s army is conducting a 2,000-man operation designed to destroy rebel hideouts in an eastern province where leftist guerrilla activity threatens a Vietnam-style pacification program, military officials said. Three government soldiers were reported killed in the operation in San Vicente province, about 40 miles east of San Salvador. U.S. military trainers, who helped plan the four-month-old program to reactivate idle San Vicente farms, have complained that the operation has bogged down.
Bomb blasts in Peru accompanied the start of voting in municipal elections that leftist guerrillas promised to sabotage. Residents said at least nine bombs exploded in Ayacucho and Huancavelica, but no injuries were reported. The cities are near mountain strongholds of the Shining Path guerrillas who vowed to sabotage the voting.
Police in Zimbabwe have seized and detained hundreds of women-including several foreign teachers and schoolgirls-in a crackdown on prostitution that has outraged citizens and prompted accusations of random harassment of women. Police, who deny the harassment charges, would not explain what criteria they use to detain suspects in the roundup, which began in Harare on Oct. 28 and expanded into a nationwide campaign over the weekend.
Science and the Vatican are moving into their closest collaboration in at least a century. On issues ranging from nuclear war to test-tube babies to human evolution, the Vatican is soliciting technical advice from hundreds of the world’s leading scientists. The chief mechanism for the Vatican’s wide-ranging effort is its Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which is now holding its biennial plenary session and three related meetings at the Vatican.
The derailment of an Amtrak train near Marshall, Texas, Saturday apparently was caused when the tracks in a section repaired earlier in the day split apart, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board said. Four people were killed. A National Transportation Safety Board official said that a broken track caused an Amtrak train to derail, killing four persons and injuring up to 100 others, only two hours after a crew had been working on the rail. “The train derailed because of the break, but there’s probably more to it,” safety board spokesman Bob Buckhorn said, adding, “A train can pass over a break in the rail without derailing.” The two-engine, nine-car Amtrak Eagle was bound for San Antonio from Chicago when the last five cars derailed deep in the East Texas woods, near Marshall, while on a curve and going at about 70 m.p.h., which is within the speed limit, railroad authorities said. The accident was the second worst in Amtrak’s 12-year history.
William J. Casey has acquired stock in companies that do business with the CIA since he took over as head of the agency, according to CIA documents. In addition, the documents disclose that Casey had stock in firms with classified CIA contracts when he took office in January, 1981, and that since then, he has retained stock in firms with both classified and unclassified CIA contracts. The documents, obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, show that CIA attorneys and government ethics officials have found no conflicts. Casey recently put his stock holdings in a blind trust.
The nation’s Republican governors opened their winter conference in Chicago confident of President Reagan’s chances of reelection but less sure of how to increase their own thin ranks. Since the 1982 election, their number has dropped from 23 to 15. As they met to discuss problems such as unemployment, education and the environment, the GOP chiefs made it clear they are looking to Reagan for some coattail power in the 1984 elections.
Facing a deadline today, striking Greyhound employees said they will hold nationwide rallies against the company, which is standing firm with its plan to hire replacements if necessary to resume service Thursday to 501 locations in 27 states. The company has told the Amalgamated Council of Local Greyhound Unions that it must indicate by noon today whether its members will return to work. The company has said it has received more than 50,000 applications for striking workers’ jobs, but no one has been hired so far.
Celestial Seasonings Inc. has issued a nationwide voluntary recall of its comfrey herbal tea because lab tests found minute traces of the potentially toxic chemical atropine-commonly known as deadly nightshade. Celestial Chairman Mo Siegel said in Boulder, Colorado, there is no firm evidence that the tea could be harmful but testing began last month after reports that a woman had suffered bad effects after drinking 18 cups at a sitting. “I’m not convinced that drinking 18 cups of nutmeg wouldn’t give you a reaction too,” Siegel said. Atropine can cause hallucinations and convulsions, according to the Rocky Mountain Poison Center.
Hawaii has become a major transshipment point for heroin entering the United States, and police seizures are having only a small impact on the brisk drug trade here, according to Chief of Police Douglas Gibb. “Narcotics agents are shocked at the amount of heroin coming into Hawaii,” Gibb said. In 10 months, the department has helped seize 109.68 pounds of heroin, valued at $600 million.
More than 100,000 chickens were slaughtered as federal and state officials continued their effort to contain a new, deadly and highly contagious disease affecting southeastern Pennsylvania flocks. Diseased chickens on three Lancaster County farms were sealed into trucks and choked with carbon dioxide fumes in the weekend slaughter, said avian influenza task force spokesman Robert Bunty. The slaughter is designed to save the area’s $400-million-a-year industry.
About 500 members of the Communist Party USA rallied in downtown Cleveland today on the last day of their four-day national convention, with Gus Hall, party chief and perennial Presidential candidate, presiding. The party rally at the 23d national convention focused on the theme ”Dump Reagan.” Business meetings, which were closed to the press and public, ended Saturday night. Mr. Hall, 74 years old, the party’s general secretary, denied that the ban was in retaliation for the State Department’s barring Soviet journalists based in the United States from traveling to Cleveland for the convention.
Trial was scheduled to begin in Los Angeles Monday in the long-delayed case of Bobby Joe Maxwell, charged in the murders of 10 male transients in 1978-79. The case was held up for at least half of the four years it has been pending because his lawyers wanted publishing rights to Mr. Maxwell’s life story. Mr. Maxwell, 33 years old, was charged with stabbing to death 10 men on Skid Row in Los Angeles. While in jail, the charges say, he told a fellow inmate he committed the murders to procure souls for Satan. Jury selection began October 5.
Ruptures of a major artery still cause an ”unacceptably high” number of deaths that could be reduced through earlier diagnosis and increased use of elective surgery, according to a report to the American Heart Association by surgeons at the University of Rochester Medical School.
The role of women in Catholicism was considered at a conference in Washington of the Roman Catholic bishops and representatives of Catholic women’s groups. It was the first time in the history of the American hierarchy that a formal public conference addressed a variety of subjects concerning women, including their ordination and the traditional system of patriarchal leadership. This week, the bishops are scheduled to vote on whether to write a letter on women in the church that some conference participants hope will be the equivalent of their statement against nuclear weapons last spring.
John McEnroe scored a straight-set victory over Jimmy Connors, who seemed to lose spirit after having been fined for swearing, in the final of the $315,000 Wembley Grand Prix tennis tournament today. McEnroe won by 7-5, 6-1, 6-4, taking the event for the fifth time in six years. However, the match lost momentum in the 11th game, when the chair umpire, Ian Stirk, warned Connors for an obscenity before 9,000 fans packed into the Wembley Arena.
Reggie Jackson wins the American League MVP Award unanimously. The Oakland star led the league in runs (99), HRs (32), RBI (117), and slugging (.531). Jim Palmer is named the American League Cy Young winner, beating out Ryan and Hunter. Wilbur Wood garners just 3 votes despite winning 24 games for the 2nd year in a row, and starting 48 games, the 4th highest total this century. He started 49 last year.
NFL Football:
The Buffalo Bills played so foolishly yesterday that their coach apologized for his poor performance. And still, like most teams this season, they found a way to beat the Jets. The score was 24—17, and the winning play came with only 22 seconds remaining when Joe Cribbs caught a 33-yard pass from Joe Ferguson. But the Bills committed 15 penalties, more than any Jet opponent ever. The Bills used all their second-half timeouts before the end of the third quarter. And their coach, Kay Stephenson, said of the winning touchdown: ”I went against the percentages.” Stephenson also said of his team’s running out of timeouts: ”That was all my fault. It was a poor coaching job in the second half.” If so, then how bad was the Jets’ performance? Once again, they built a lead and then lost it. And once again they failed to win at home, suffering their fifth loss against only one victory at Shea Stadium. They also fell to 4-7, virtually wiping out what had promised to be their brightest season of the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Bill Kenney passed for one touchdown and ran for another to pace the Chiefs to a 20—15 win over the Bengals. Kansas City (5-6) got field goals of 36 and 43 yards from Nick Lowery as Cincinnati dropped to 4-7. Kenney scored on a bootleg play from 1 yard out to put the Chiefs on top by 10-3 in the second quarter and capped an 80-yard third-quarter drive with a 21-yard scoring toss to Willie Scott.
Derrie Nelson returned a blocked punt 21 yards for a touchdown and Ed Luther passed for 340 yards as the San Diego Chargers scored a 24—23 upset victory over the Dallas Cowboys today. Nelson’s first-quarter touchdown helped the Chargers build a 24—6 lead. Luther, filling in again for the injured Dan Fouts, completed 26 of 43 passes and had one touchdown pass. San Diego had scored only two touchdowns in the last three games. The Cowboys, who fell to 9-2, are now tied with Washington for the National Conference East lead. The Chargers (4-7) snapped a four-game losing streak. The return by Nelson came after Miles McPherson blocked an attempted punt by Danny White at Dallas’s 22-yard line. The Chargers scored later in the half on a 2-yard run by Chuck Muncie. Dallas got two fourth-quarter touchdown passes from White, the last with 8:13 remaining. White finished with 31 completions in 47 attempts for 300 yards.
Chris Bahr kicked a 39-yard field goal with four seconds remaining in the game to give the Los Angeles Raiders a 22—20 victory. Denver had taken a 20-19 advantage on a 4-yard touchdown run by the rookie quarterback John Elway with 58 seconds remaining. The victory lifted the Raiders’ record to 8-3 and gave them a two- game lead over the Broncos (6-5) in the American Conference West.
Oliver Luck, making his first pro start, completed two touchdown passes as the Houston Oilers snapped a 17-game losing streak with a 27—17 victory today over the Detroit Lions. It was the Oilers’ first victory since they beat Seattle, 23—21, on Sept. 19, 1982 and gave them a 1-10 record this season. The victory kept the Oilers from tying the team record of 18 straight losses, set during 1-13 seasons in 1972 and 1973. Luck, replacing Gifford Nielsen, hit Mike McCloskey on a 13-yard touchdown pass, and Florian Kempf kicked a 47-yard field goal as the Oilers played the Lions to a 10—10 tie at halftime. The Lions (5-6) took a 17—10 lead early in the third period on a touchdown pass from Gary Danielson to James Jones. But Luck took the Oilers on consecutive drives ending with a 13-yard touchdown pass to Chris Dressel, a 3-yard scoring run by Larry Moriarty and a 21-yard field goal by Kempf.
Lynn Dickey passed for two touchdowns and Jan Stenerud kicked two field goals as Green Bay beat the Vikings 29—21 and moved into a first-place tie with Minnesota in the National Conference’s Central Division. Both clubs now have 6-5 records. Dickey’s touchdown passes covered 5 yards to John Jefferson in the second quarter and 19 yards to James Lofton in the fourth. They were his 23d and 24th touchdown passes of the season, tying a Packer record set by Cecil Isbell in 1942. Stenerud’s field goals covered 46 and 40 yards, and Mike Meade ran 1 yard for Green Bay’s other touchdown. Greg Boyd sacked Steve Dils, the Viking quarterback, for a safety. The Packers rolled up a 19—0 halftime lead, then survived a rally sparked by Darrin Nelson, whose rushing and receiving set up Rickey Young’s scoring runs of 1 and 4 yards, and a 4-yard touchdown run by Tony Galbreath.
Steve Grogan ran for one touchdown and set up another with a 44-yard completion to pace New England’s upset victory, 17—6 over the Dolphins. The Patriots (6-5) moved to within one game of the American Football Conference East lead. Both the Dolphins and Buffalo Bills have 7-4 records. The loss snapped the Dolphins’ winning streak at four games. Grogan capped a 14-play, 64-yard drive on New England’s first series by sneaking in for a 1-yard touchdown. The Patriots’ Tony Collins scored on a 4-yard run with 1:57 left in the second quarter. On the second play of the 7-play, 74-yard drive, Stanley Morgan made a fingertip grab for a 44-yard gain to the Miami 29. Collins went off left tackle for his ninth touchdown of the year one play after Mosi Tatupu burst loose for a 12-yard gain.
The San Francisco 49ers shut out the Saints, 27—0. Joe Montana passed for three touchdowns and Ray Wersching kicked a pair of field goals. The 49ers sacked Dave Wilson, the New Orleans quarterback, nine times. The victory gave the 49ers a 7-4 record and first place in the National Football Conference West, one-half game ahead of the Rams, who play the Falcons Monday night. The Saints fell to 6-5. Montana’s touchdown passes covered 1 yard to Eason Ramson, 14 to Dwight Clark and 2 yards to Russ Francis, while Wersching’s field goals were from 33 and 25 yards.
Jim McMahon threw two touchdown passes and Bob Thomas kicked a tie-breaking 22-yard field goal in the fourth quarter to lead Chicago to a 17—14 victory over the Eagles. The Bears held a 14—7 halftime lead. But Philadelphia took the second-half kickoff and used up more than eight minutes in driving 79 yards for a tying touchdown on a 5-yard pass from Ron Jaworski to Tony Woodruff. The Bears took the ensuing kickoff and drove to the Eagle 5-yard line before Thomas kicked his field goal with 12:24 remaining in the game.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have played better games this season. Their defense has been stronger; their offense has scored more. But they made important plays today and defeated the Baltimore Colts, 24—13, to extend their winning streak to seven games, improve their record to 9-2, the best in the American Conference, and drop the Colts to 6-5. Unlike most teams in the National Football League, the Colts run far more effectively than they pass. Their two running backs, Randy McMillan and Curtis Dickey, had helped them become the No. 1 rushing team in the league through 10 games. ”So we knew what we had to do to stop them,” said Donnie Shell, the Steelers’ safety. ”With two great runners like that, we knew we couldn’t let them possess the ball. If they possess the ball long enough, they can keep a game close and win. We knew we had to shut down their running game.”
The Cardinals’ Neil Lomax threw four scoring passes to Roy Green, including three during a five-touchdown second quarter, as St. Louis beat Seattle, 33—28. Neil O’Donoghue booted a 33-yard field goal with 7:50 remaining in the game to break a 28—28 tie, and St. Louis added a safety.
The Cleveland Browns shit out the Buccaneers, 20—0. Mike Pruitt ran for two short touchdowns and Matt Bahr kicked two field goals for the Browns, who recorded their first shutout since 1974. Tampa Bay (1-10) failed on two short field-goal attempts in suffering its second shutout this year. The first three scores for Cleveland (6-5) were set up by long passes from Brian Sipe to the tight end Ozzie Newsome, the league’s leading receiver. Newsome caught passes of 27, 28 and 26 yards to put the Browns deep in Tampa Bay territory three times.
The New York Giants had played so badly in recent weeks that it seemed impossible they could do worse. Today, they did the impossible. The Washington Redskins, perhaps the best of the 28 teams in the National Football League, routed them, 33—17, at Giants Stadium. The game was hardly as close as the score. The crowd of 71,482 at Giants Stadium watched the Redskins stretch their lead to 33—3 early in the last quarter. Then the Redskins sat back as the Giants scored twice on passing drives of 88 and 99 yards. The touchdowns came on Scott Brunner’s passes of 6 and 22 yards to Earnest Gray. The Giants tried onside kickoffs after both touchdowns, and both times they did not come close to getting the ball. The defeat extended the Giants’ nonwinning streak to seven games (six losses and a tie). Their season record fell to 2-8-1. Only the Houston Oilers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, both 1-10, have worse records.
Buffalo Bills 24, New York Jets 17
Cincinnati Bengals 15, Kansas City Chiefs 20
Dallas Cowboys 23, San Diego Chargers 24
Denver Broncos 20, Los Angeles Raiders 22
Detroit Lions 17, Houston Oilers 27
Green Bay Packers 29, Minnesota Vikings 21
Miami Dolphins 6, New England Patriots 17
New Orleans Saints 0, San Francisco 49ers 27
Philadelphia Eagles 14, Chicago Bears 17
Pittsburgh Steelers 24, Baltimore Colts 13
Seattle Seahawks 28, St. Louis Cardinals 33
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0, Cleveland Browns 20
Washington Redskins 33, New York Giants 17
Born:
Marquice Cole, NFL defensive back (New York Jets, New England Patriots), in Hazel Crest, Illinois.
Steve Hamer, NBA center (Boston Celtics), in Memphis, Tennessee.
Died:
Alvin “Junior” Samples, 57, American comedian and country singer (“Hee Haw”), of a heart attack.
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