President Reagan is informed that the Israeli Military has made air raids on the Beirut-Damascus Road.
Israel lost a plane in its bombing of pro-Syrian Palestinian guerrilla bases in the mountains east of Beirut. Western and Lebanese military sources said two American-manufactured Israeli F-16’s and five Israeli-made Kfirs bombed offices of the Syrian-backed As Saiqa Palestinian guerrilla group and the Syrian Baath Party in Falugha and Sofar. They were also said to have attacked a position of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, General Command in nearby Baal Shemaa. The targets were in predominantly Druze villages.
The residents of Tripoli expressed bitterness at becoming victims of a Palestinian feud as heavy barrages of artillery shells sprayed the city. The shelling in the city and the nearby Beddawi refugee camp has lately been the most intense of the 18-day battle between loyalists of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and rebels who accuse him of being too moderate toward Israel.
Israeli officials unveiled a plan to move thousands of Palestinians out of refugee camps on the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River, which they regard as a center of unrest, into new housing. The plan has the approval of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir but has yet to be approved by the full Cabinet. It was described by Mordechai ben Porat, a minister without portfolio, as humanitarian, providing basic services such as running water to Palestinians now lacking them. Ben Porat said that most financing for the $1.5-billion relocation effort is to come from foreign nations.
Israeli security forces have uncovered a West Bank guerrilla cell responsible for the murder of a Jewish seminary student four months ago, the military command announced in Tel Aviv. A spokesman said several members of the Palestinian group were arrested and confessed to the fatal stabbing of Aharon Gross, an American immigrant, in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Iran and Iraq said their forces were locked in fierce combat in the Kurdish mountains of northern Iraq after Iranian troops launched a new offensive in the area. An Iranian military communique reported that hundreds of Iraqi troops have been killed. In Baghdad, a military spokesman said that Iraq has crushed the attack, killing more than 10,000 Iranian troops. There was no independent confirmation of the reports.
The Government announced today that the Soviet leader, Yuri V. Andropov, had sent a letter to Chancellor Helmut Kohl on the eve of the start of Monday’s parliamentary debate on whether to proceed with the deployment of new medium-range missiles. A Government spokesman, Alexander Allardt, declined to disclose what Mr. Andropov’s letter said. But the conservative Hamburg newspaper Bild am Sonntag said the Soviet leader warned that the West German Government must be prepared to “take the consequences” if West Germany goes through with the missile deployment. The first of the Pershing 2 missiles could begin arriving in West Germany as early as Wednesday.
Meanwhile, police patrols fanned out through Bonn’s government district today to discourage violence by antimissile protesters. The police said they would ring the Parliament building on Monday during the debate. Protesters have threatened to blockade the building so deputies cannot attend the two- day debate. Mr. Kohl will be the first speaker in the Parliament debate. He is a staunch supporter of the deployment, and his governing coalition has a 58-seat majority in Parliament, so the missile plan is expected to win parliamentary approval. The Chancellor says that the Parliament’s approval in 1981 was sufficient and that this new vote, expected Tuesday, is not necessary.
A Protestant church in Ulster was attacked by two gunmen who killed three people and wounded seven among a congregation of 60 attending an evening service. Police said the attackers shot and killed three men standing in a doorway handing out Bibles and then fired into the congregation of men, women and children seated on folding chairs in Darkley’s Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church. Bloodstained Bibles were strewn across the floor of the single-story building as the gunmen fled, firing more shots at the horrified worshipers through the church’s wooden walls. The attack was believed to have been in retaliation for the August 8 killing of a Roman Catholic man in Armagh.
One of two men on a motorcycle hurled a bomb early today into a packed restaurant on the edge of Paris, slightly wounding 30 diners, including several children, the police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. “It was a gratuitous terrorist act, perhaps connected with events in Lebanon,” said Robert Taieb, the owner of the restaurant and a Tunisian-born Jew. None of the 30 wounded people were hurt seriously, but the blast, shortly after midnight, blew out windows and brought down part of the roof at the L’Oree du Bois restaurant on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne Park. Mr. Taieb said he had no particular connection to Jewish groups or to Israel.
Lech Walesa called on Poles to ‘struggle’ against the government’s proposed increase in food prices. His statement came after he met secretly with underground Solidarity union activists and after the Roman Catholic Church criticized the proposed increases. “Working people cannot agree to price increases,” Mr. Walesa said in a statement reaching Western journalists. “The union’s obligation is to organize a struggle in defense of their interests.” Mr. Walesa’s open opposition to the expected price rises was his most dramatic gesture in months and was believed likely to deepen the Government’s worries about its plans to raise food prices at the beginning of the year.
About 15,000 Filipinos, some carrying signs saying “Thank you, President Reagan” and led by the mother of Benigno S. Aquino Jr., marched today in a show of support for the United States. The marchers were peaceful, many wearing yellow T-shirts, ribbons and headbands. Residents of the area tossed confetti as the parade wound through Angeles, a town near the United States installation at Clark Air Base. The demonstration was led by Aurora Aquino, 73 years old, mother of the opposition leader who was slain on August 21 as he returned home from three years of self-exile in the United States.
Controversy erupted over a new book alleging that former Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt was a spy for China. British and Australian officials and newspapers called the charges a hoax. The book, “The Prime Minister Was a Spy,” is by Anthony Grey, a former Peking correspondent of the Reuters news agency, who spent two years there under house arrest during China’s Cultural Revolution. He claims that Holt passed on intelligence data on U.S. and Australian policies to both the Chinese Nationalists and the Chinese Communists for almost 40 years. Holt, who served as prime minister in 1966-67, disappeared while swimming and is assumed to have drowned.
Salvadoran leftist guerrillas attacked the town of Tejutepeque in the northern province of Cabanas, and government forces responded with bombing and strafing runs on the rebels. The action followed rebel assaults the day before in two other provincial towns, in which at least 11 government troops were reported killed. In the capital, El Salvador’s Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, renewed his appeal for an end to bloodshed by rightist “death squads,” saying, “In the name of God… no more death, no more threats, no more kidnappings.”
Nicaragua’s newspaper censorship has been substantially eased in the last few weeks, and the opposition daily La Prensa has taken full advantage of the unexpected thaw. Almost every day, comments by opponents of the Sandinista regime are published on La Prensa’s front page. Foreign news is also being reported more fully.
U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick said in a British television interview that the United States sees no grounds for maintaining its embargo on arms sales to Argentina. The ban, imposed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, was declared because of human rights violations and the absence of democracy in Argentina, Kirkpatrick said. A civilian government is scheduled to take over there next month, and President-elect Raul Alfonsin has pledged to look into charges of rights violations.
Violence flared in Mexico’s impoverished Oaxaca state as voters cast ballots in special elections after a bitter campaign between Communists and the nation’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. In the village of Magdalena Tequisistlan, the mayor said two men and a woman were shot to death and 20 people were wounded in a clash between factions of the ruling PRI. An estimated 1 million voters across the southern state went to the polls to elect 570 mayors. No official results were expected until late today.
The likelihood of a nuclear holocaust is “minuscule” if the public backs Reagan Administration policies on military spending and arms control, Administration spokesmen said in attempting to offset the impact of “The Day After.”
The effects of nuclear war would be worse than the devastation depicted in “The Day After,” according to recent scientific studies. Even limited nuclear strikes against cities would trigger global changes far more hostile to life than previously anticipated, scientists said.
[Ed: This later became controversial, and was clearly sensationalized. Scientists mostly now believe the effects would be substantial but not catastrophic.]
The mystery of what triggered the sudden emergence of a severe immune system defect known as AIDS remains unsolved two years after the first cases were reported in Los Angeles and New York. Since then, more than 2,600 victims in 42 states have been reported, a figure that many scientists believe represents as few as 10% of the actual cases. More than 1,100 deaths have been reported.
But the intensive research under way at dozens of centers so far has failed to come up with the cause, a satisfactory treatment or even an exact understanding of the damaged immune response that leaves patients defenseless against infections and cancer, which often cause their deaths. Papers by researchers from the United States and Europe attending a four-day meeting on AIDS in New York City last week, sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, revealed that researchers still are divided on the key issue of what caused the epidemic, which now is occurring also in Europe, Africa, Canada, Haiti and elsewhere.
In 1984, said Dr. James B. Wyngaarden, director of the National Institutes of Health, his agency will double its present research budget for AIDS to reach a total of $29 million. “AIDS is still the No. 1 (health) priority,” he said. Some idea of the scope of ongoing research can be seen by the topics discussed at last week’s meeting. They ranged from viruses as a possible cause to the immunological defects in AIDS; from the epidemiology of the disease to the dilemma it causes for blood banks.
Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-Illinois), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, helped pass legislation enabling his financial manager to get low-interest loans of $158.9 million to construct luxury apartments, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The congressman asked that Presidential Towers in Chicago be exempted from a provision requiring developers using tax-exempt bonds to set aside 20% of the units for low-to-moderate-income tenants, the newspaper said. Rostenkowski said he has done nothing wrong.
CIA Director William J. Casey says he has stock in 13 companies with CIA contracts ranging in value from $12 to $3,995,774. Casey said in a letter published in the Washington Post that he “was not in any way involved in nor did I have any knowledge of any of the business these companies did with the CIA or the decisions of my investment adviser to acquire shares in these companies.” Earlier documents disclosed that since Casey took over as head of the CIA, he has maintained control over stock in companies with both classified and unclassified contracts with the agency.
The absence of a father at home has virtually become a norm among black families since the 1950’s, when most black children were born into families with two parents. Last year, 47 percent of all black households with children were made up of a woman and her children, a rise from 21 percent in 1960 and 8 percent in 1950. A major reason, found in interviews with dozens of black women who are heads of households, was the inability of the fathers of their children to hold steady jobs.
The end to Oklahoma’s oil boom was emphasized by Governor George Nigh’s call for a special session of the Legislature to raise at least $500 million in new taxes to maintain state services over the next 18 months. Critics say that Mr. Nigh was slow to recognize the implications of the petroleum collapse and had allowed the state to fall into lax ways with money.
A new environmental “priority list” for the fiscal year beginning next October has been drafted by the Environmental Protection Agency. This will give the agency’s chief attention to toxic substances in the air, land and water. Its traditional concerns for nontoxic air and water pollution will be given less emphasis under a new national strategy, Alvin L. Alm, the agency’s deputy administrator, said.
A 350-foot Japanese freighter ran aground on a rock jetty off Newport, Oregon, and split apart, spilling 3,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Its 19 Korean crewmen were rescued by helicopters, the Coast Guard said. Tar-like globs of oil were blown ashore by a stiff wind, fouling beaches and birds as heavy seas pounded the wreckage and officials worried about the 75,000 gallons of fuel that had not spilled from the ship’s tanks. The vessel Blue Magpie was blown onto the jetty at the entrance to Yaquina Bay, about a mile offshore, after disobeying Coast Guard instructions to avoid the harbor because of extreme danger.
Kraft Inc. announced a voluntary nationwide recall of some eight-ounce packages of Cracker Barrel sharp cheddar cheese, citing evidence of salmonella bacteria. No other dates or flavors of the product are involved, the company said. The food items marked with the “best-when-purchased-by date of MAR8-84 C-1” are being recalled, Kraft’s Consumer Service Dept. in Glenview, Illinois, said. The company said 4,367 cases of the product were distributed in 24 states (including California).
Two teen-agers last seen hunting near the site of an enormous dynamite explosion remained missing. Authorities in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, think they may have fired shots that set off the blast, felt up to 45 miles away. Tattered bits of clothing were found at the explosion site and authorities said it was unlikely the boys were alive. The 12½ tons of dynamite that blew up Saturday was five times the amount used to level the U.S. Marines installation in Beirut last month, officials said. The dynamite, owned by a company that sells explosives to farmers and construction firms, was stored in a bunker.
Father Ambrose DePaoli, 49, was ordained as an archbishop at St. Mary’s Catholic Cathedral in Miami in preparation for his assignment as papal nuncio to Sri Lanka. DePaoli will be the only American in the Vatican’s corps of ambassadors.
Major geological findings were made by the ocean-drilling ship Glomar Challenger on the latest of its 96 voyages in 15 years. The expedition provided information for many fields, including the search for oil, the study of earthquakes and the theory of the development of the seas.
John F. Kennedy ranks 13th among American Presidents in a poll of historians. This places President Kennedy between James K. Polk and James Madison, but his standing among historians remains unsettled and controversial.
Thunderstorms that spawned at least nine tornados from Alabama to Florida swarmed through the Southeast, bringing heavy rain and lashing out with lightning that killed one person. Strong, gusty winds swept across the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, with gusts up to 80 m.p.h. causing damage in Michigan and damage in Indiana. The Rocky Mountain states, meanwhile, prepared for new snow and high winds. Storm watches were in effect for parts of Utah, Arizona and Wyoming, and travelers’ advisories were in effect elsewhere along the Rockies and in the Northwest.
Musical “Marilyn: An American Fable”, loosely based on life of Marilyn Monroe, starring Alyson Reed and Scott Bakula, opens at Minskoff Theater, NYC; runs for 17 performances.
“Terms of Endearment” from the book by Larry McMurtry, directed by James L. Brooks and starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger premieres in New York (Best Picture 1984).
100 million Americans watch the ABC TV movie “The Day After” about nuclear war.
33rd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Bobby Allison wins.
NFL Football:
It was a wild 1983 NFL Sunday, with four shutouts, and three games that came down to the final play.
Dan Marino and Mark Duper combined on an 85-yard touchdown pass to highlight a 24-point Miami second quarter that propelled the Dolphins to a 37—0 shutout trouncing of the Colts. The victory improved Miami’s record to 8-4, while Baltimore dropped to 6-6 and is virtually out of playoff contention. The fullback Andra Franklin started the second-period scoring with a touchdown from 8 yards out. Uwe von Schamann kicked a 42-yard field goal before the 85-yard pass play. Seconds later, the rookie receiver Mark Clayton scored on a 60-yard punt return to make it 24—0.
The Chicago Bears shut out the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 27—0. Walter Payton ran for 106 yards and two touchdowns in the rain and moved into third place on the career rushing list. With 11,257 yards in nine seasons, Payton trails only Jim Brown, who rushed for 12,312 in nine years, and Franco Harris, who is in his 11th season and gained only 33 yards today against the Vikings to raise his career figure to 11,758. Simpson gained 11,236 yards in 11 seasons.
Cleveland scored 17 points in less than four minutes, starting with the linebacker Chip Banks’s 65-yard interception return for a touchdown as the Browns crushed New England, 30—0. The Browns intercepted five passes in posting consecutive shutouts for the first time in 32 years. They defeated Tampa Bay, 20—0, last week for their first shutout in 127 regular-season games. For the Patriots, it was the first time in 125 regular-season games that they have been shut out.
Eddie Murray kicked a 37-yard field goal with 6:30 left in overtime as Detroit knocked Green Bay out of first place in the National Conference’s Central Division with a 23—20 victory. The victory, combined with Minnesota’s 17—14 triumph over Pittsburgh, moved the Lions into a second-place tie with the Packers. Minnesota leads with a 7-5 record. Lynn Dickey, who did not play in the second half after suffering a mild concussion, completed touchdown passes of 6 yards to John Jefferson and 1 to Paul Coffman. He set a Packers’ season record for touchdown passes with 26. The previous mark of 24 was set by Cecil Isbell in 1942.
Ken Anderson threw three touchdown passes in the first half, and Pete Johnson enjoyed the second-best rushing day of his career with 137 yards and two touchdowns to pace Cincinnati to a 38—10 rout of the hapless Houston Oilers. Cincinnati (5-7) has won four of its last five games, and Houston (1-11) has lost 18 of its last 19.
Tony Dorsett scored two touchdowns for Dallas and became the ninth player in National Football League history to gain more than 8,000 yards, as the Cowboys rolled over the Kansas City Chiefs, 41—21. Dorsett dashed 28 and 32 yards for touchdowns as he went over the 1,000- yard mark for the sixth time in seven seasons. The victory kept Dallas (10-2) in a tie with Washington atop the National Conference East.
Buster Barnett, a special-teams player for the Buffalo Bills, gave Kenny Hill of the Los Angeles Raiders an extraneous jab on a punt in the fourth period today at Rich Stadium. Pointing, Hill shouted back at Barnett: “Hey, you don’t have to do that. Just look at the scoreboard.” The score was 24—3 in favor of the Raiders with the final quarter five minutes old. Then the already spirited contest got more so. The Bills managed to tie the score at 24—24 with three touchdowns, two after atrocious Raider errors, the first a failure to get a punt away and the second a fumbled kickoff return. The Raiders held their poise and won, 27—24, by driving 65 yards to the 18-yard line in the last four and one-half minutes. Chris Bahr kicked the winning field goal of 36 yards on the last play.
Steve Dils threw two touchdown passes and Benny Ricardo kicked a 39-yard field goal today as the Minnesota Vikings built a 17—7 lead and held on for a 17—14 upset of Pittsburgh to end the Steelers’ seven-game winning streak. Pittsburgh (9-3) struck quickly on its opening series with a 3-yard pass from Cliff Stoudt to Bennie Cunningham, but the Steelers were held without a point by the Vikings’ defense on their next 10 possessions. The Vikings (7-5) ended a three-game losing streak. Minnesota scored first when Dils teamed with Sam McCallum on a 30-yard pass play with 5:08 left in the first period. The Vikings wasted two scoring chances late in the first half, but they went ahead, 14—7, early in the third period when Tony Galbreath caught a 6-yard touchdown pass. Ricardo, who had earlier missed a 23-yard field-goal attempt, hit from 39 yards out with 1:52 left in the third period. The Steelers closed to within 17—14 when Stoudt scored from 4 yards out with just over six minutes left.
The New York Giants Butch Woolfolk ties the NFL record of 43 attempts rushing in a 23—0 shutout of the Philadelphia Eagles. The Giants had not won in seven games, the longest nonwinning streak in the league, and the victory raised their record to 3-8-1. The Eagles dropped to 4-8 with their sixth straight loss. It was also their sixth defeat in six home games this season. The Eagles, 5½-point favorites, were smothered by the Giants at every turn. They were booed lustily by most of the 57,977 spectators at Veterans Stadium and probably not missed by the 12,697 who had tickets but did not use them. The Giants had the ball for 46 minutes 43 seconds to the Eagles’ 13:07. It was just one of the final statistics that reflected the Giants’ domination of the game. The Giants, who led 13—0 at halftime, were far superior in first downs (22 to 4), total yardage (332 to 79) and offensive plays (87 to 40). The net result of the Eagles’ rushing game was 9 plays, 10 yards and no first downs.
Neil Lomax threw two touchdown passes and ran for two more as St. Louis spoiled the homecoming of the former Cardinal coach Don Coryell, routing the Chargers, 44—14. St. Louis capitalized on three San Diego fumbles and three interceptions. The Chargers would especially like to forget the second quarter, during which St. Louis scored on five consecutive possessions, aided by four San Diego turnovers and a successful surprise Cardinal onside kick, and raised its lead from 7-0 to 37-0. At halftime, the score was 37-7.
The Falcons’ Steve Bartkowski threw a pass 47 yards to Billy Johnson on the final play of the game to give Atlanta a shocking 28—24 last-second victory over San Francisco. Bartkowski threw the ball into a crowd of players inside the 5-yard line, and it was tipped out to Johnson on the 7. He squirmed into the end zone for the touchdown. The play capped a 77-yard drive in the final 1:04 after the 49ers had gone ahead on quarterback Joe Montana’s 11-yard touchdown run. The 49ers jumped into a 14—0 lead as Roger Craig scored on a six-yard run with 1:30 left in the first quarter and Montana threw an eight-yard touchdown pass to Wendell Tyler on the opening play of the second quarter. But it was 14—14 at halftime as Bartkowski threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to Bailey with 8:30 left in the second quarter and Blane Gaison scored on a 64-yard fumble return with nine seconds left in the half. The fumble was produced on a brutal hit on wide receiver Renaldo Nehemian that left him unconscious for several minutes.
San Francisco reclaimed the lead with 2:07 left in the third quarter when Ray Wersching kicked a 25-yard field goal after a 78-yard San Francisco drive bogged down at the Atlanta seven-yard line. The Falcons took the lead for the first time with 13:22 left when Gerald Riggs broke up the middle on a 40-yard run as the 49ers bunched their defense in an attempt to stop a fourth-and-one play. Neither team crossed midfield again until San Francisco, starting at its own 49 with 2:46 to play, marched to its final score on the passing and running of Montana. Montana, who completed 21 of 27 passes for 182 yards, had completions of 19 and six yards in the drive and a six-yard run in addition to his 11-yard scoring scamper. Then came Bartkowski’s Hail Mary to end the game.
The rookie Gary Kubiak, who had never before taken a snap in a National Football League game, passed for one touchdown and ran for another, and Rich Karlis kicked five field goals for Denver, as the Broncos beat the Seahawks, 38—27. Kubiak, who started after John Elway came down with the flu, was helped by eight Seattle turnovers.
The last time the Washington Redskins played in the Los Angeles area, they won the National Football League championship in Super Bowl XVII last January in Pasadena. Upon their return to southern California today, they defeated the Los Angeles Rams today, 42—20, a victory that could have a large bearing on how the Redskins begin their march through the playoffs to a possible second straight Super Bowl appearance. The victory, in which John Riggins ran for three 1-yard touchdowns and Mark Moseley kicked four field goals, kept the Redskins even with the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football Conference East with the best records in the league, 10-2. The Redskins dominated every phase of the game through the early stages of the fourth quarter when they led, 42—6, after scoring 39 consecutive points. The Rams later scored two additional touchdowns.
Baltimore Colts 0, Miami Dolphins 37
Chicago Bears 27, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0
Cleveland Browns 30, New England Patriots 0
Detroit Lions 23, Green Bay Packers 20
Houston Oilers 10, Cincinnati Bengals 38
Kansas City Chiefs 21, Dallas Cowboys 41
Los Angeles Raiders 27, Buffalo Bills 24
Minnesota Vikings 17, Pittsburgh Steelers 14
New York Giants 23, Philadelphia Eagles 0
San Diego Chargers 14, St. Louis Cardinals 44
San Francisco 49ers 24, Atlanta Falcons 28
Seattle Seahawks 27, Denver Broncos 38
Washington Redskins 42, Los Angeles Rams 20
Born:
Andy Alleman, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs), in Akron, Ohio.
Brock Peterson, MLB pinch hitter, outfielder, and first baseman (St. Louis Cardinals), in Centralia, Washington.
Died:
Marcel Dalio [Israel Moshe Blauschild], 83, French actor (“Sabrina, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, “Casablanca”).
Richard Loo, 80, American actor, (China Sky), dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest.
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