A deployment of seaborne missiles against the United States was announced by Yuri V. Andropov. The Soviet leader said the action would counter the threat to his country that he said was posed by new American nuclear missiles being based in Western Europe. Yuri V. Andropov said today that the Soviet Union would deploy seaborne nuclear missiles against the United States to counter the threat to his country that he said was posed by new American missiles to be based in Western Europe. In addition, the Soviet leader announced the abrogation of a voluntary Soviet moratorium on the deployment of SS-20 medium-range missiles in European areas of the Soviet Union. The moratorium was declared by Leonid I. Brezhnev in March 1982. The Reagan Administration has said the moratorium was never actually observed. Mr. Andropov’s statement appeared to mean that there will be an increase in the number of Soviet triple-warhead SS-20’s targeted on Western Europe, currently estimated to number 243.
The Soviet leader did not say what kind of missiles would be involved in the new Soviet sea deployments. Western military experts said the choices appeared to include the stationing of submarines armed with ballistic missiles closer to the United States, or the introduction on such patrols of submarines armed with sea-to- land cruise missiles. The addition of the slow, low-flying, winged cruise missiles aboard surface ships could also be an option, although military experts generally consider these too vulnerable. Soviet leaders have said that the Pershing 2 missiles in West Germany could reach Soviet targets in as little as six minutes, and they have pledged that the United States would be exposed to a similar threat.
The President was “dismayed” with Moscow’s plan to counter NATO missile deployment with new Soviet weapons and said it was at “sharp variance” with previous Soviet calls for arms agreement. In a four-sentence statement, Mr. Reagan said, “We are determined to renew our efforts to entirely do away with the land-based intermediate-range nuclear missile systems.”
Britain’s Lord Carrington will be named secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, succeeding Joseph Luns of the Netherlands, when the NATO foreign ministers hold their annual meeting in Brussels next month, NATO officials confirmed. Carrington, 64, resigned as Britain’s foreign secretary last year after taking responsibility for his government’s failure to foresee Argentina’s invasion of the Falkland Islands. Luns, 72, who has been in office for 12 years, has drawn criticism from foreign ministers and senior NATO officials over what they consider his increasing arrogance in recent years.
Four armed men posing as police kidnaped a top supermarket executive in Dublin, Ireland, after pulling him over with a flashing light while he was driving his daughter to school. The girl was released unharmed. The abduction of Don Tidey, English-born vice president of the Weston Group of supermarkets, came three months after an Irish Republican Army gang was foiled in its attempt to abduct Tidey’s boss, Canadian grocery chain owner Galen Weston. Five men were convicted November 3 of firearms charges after a shootout with police at the Weston estate.
A Vatican charter of family rights proposed payments for parents who want to stay home to raise their children and criticized efforts to force parents to have small families. The 3,500-word document also urged wealthy countries not to make birth control programs a condition for aid to poor countries.
A Soviet crackdown on corruption was dramatized by an announcement by the Soviet press agency Tass. It said that Yuri K. Sokolov, a former director of Moscow’s best food store who purveyed delicacies to the Soviet elite, had been sentenced to death for corruption and that four of his associates had been sentenced to long prison terms.
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ulusu submitted his resignation hours before the opening of the newly elected Parliament, bringing an end to three years of military rule. Ulusu, 60, a retired admiral, has held the post since the military takeover of September, 1980. His resignation, which was expected, opens the way for Turgut Ozal to be named prime minister, probably in early December. Ozal’s Motherland Party won a parliamentary majority in the November 6 general elections.
Democracy in Turkey advanced as a new Parliament convened for the first time since the armed forces took over the country in a coup more than three years ago.
A hero’s welcome to relatives freed from the Israeli Ansar prison camp in Sidon, Lebanon, was joyously extended by hundreds of Palestinians and Lebanese. All the prisoners interviewed said the Israelis had given each a memo saying they should return home, go back to work and stay out of politics.
Six Israeli soldiers returned home to a tumultuous, passionate welcome at Tel Aviv. The six had been held prisoner for more than 14 months by Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon. In exchange, Israel completed the release of 4,500 Arab prisoners, including some who were serving life sentences for terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians. The sudden release of thousands of guerrillas could bolster the forces of Yasser Arafat against Syrian-backed P.L.O. rebels.
Conciliatory Nicaragua gestures were reported by domestic critics of the Sandinista government in a government effort to ease tensions and to respond to criticism by some Western European and Latin American countries. However, key opposition figures said they were skeptical of the Sandinistas’ intentions.
Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge, who was denied a U.S. visa earlier this year, will visit the United States next week, the official Nicaraguan news agency reported in Managua. The agency said that Borge will travel to Washington, Chicago, Boston and other cities beginning Wednesday to present the Nicaraguan point of view of the conflict in Central America, particularly the issue of U.S.-backed rebels fighting his leftist government. His visit will include meetings with congressmen, religious groups and the press, the news agency said.
A right-wing Salvadoran “death squad” offered to exchange three captured leftist rebel leaders for army prisoners held by the guerrillas, including a former senior defense official. The Secret Anti-Communist Army, in a communique to the media, set a deadline of December 2 for the swap. The rightists said they captured three top leaders of the Communist Party’s Armed Forces of Liberation last Sunday. They seek the release of Colonel Adolfo Castillo, El Salvador’s former deputy defense minister, and a number of other prisoners.
A Foreign Ministry official testified today that North Korean Embassy employees had sheltered three army officers accused of a setting a bomb aimed at South Korea’s President, Chun Doo- Hwan, and his top leaders. U Pe Thein Tin, deputy director of protocol, testified in the trial of two North Korean army officers accused of murdering 19 people, including four South Korean Cabinet ministers, in the October 9 bombing of the Martyr’s Mausoleum. Two others died later of wounds suffered in the attack. The Foreign Ministry official said the three officers stayed at an embassy residence from September 22 to the day of the attack. The house was the residence of Chon Chang Hui, North Korean Embassy counselor, and two commercial attaches of the embassy and their families, he said.
About 25,000 Filipinos, led by some of the country’s top businessmen, marched through Manila’s financial district to demand the resignation of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. The protest, one of the largest held in the Makati banking district, signified a further erosion of Marcos’ traditional support within the powerful business community. Businessmen said that the rally was a response to a November 10 meeting with Marcos in which they pressed for political reforms and he retorted that their ranks are full of liars, cheaters and tax dodgers.
Schooling for South African blacks is to be improved, the Pretoria government promised. But critics said the plan would not dismantle racial segregation in the schools or ease a simmering crisis over the disparities between black and white educational standards.
A judge sentenced a young white man to 15 years in prison today for treason in aiding a black guerrilla movement seeking to overthrow the white Government. The man’s fiancée was sentenced to four years. The defendants, Carl Niehaus and Johanna Lourens, both 23 years old, were convicted Monday. Both are Afrikaners, the ethnic group that forms the backbone of support for the National Party government. The maximum penalty for treason is death. Mr. Niehaus had admitted before sentencing that he had belonged to the African National Congress, the outlawed black rebel group. Judge A. P. Myburgh found that Miss Lourens had not belonged to the group but had actively supported it and was guilty of treason because she failed to report her fiancé’s deeds.
Zoltan Ribli, 32, of Hungary evened his score with Vasily Smyslov, 62, in the World Chess semifinals in London, forcing the former Soviet world champion to resign on the 42nd move with a Ribli pawn three squares from queening. Smyslov had won their marathon first game, which took 65 moves over Tuesday and Wednesday.
Thanksgiving Day in the United States. President Reagan spends Thanksgiving Day at the Ranch.
A bomb threat prompted government officials to use cars and trucks to block the driveways and garage doors at the State Department building in Washington. In addition, the Secret Service stationed seven dump trucks loaded with sand at most of the gates of the White House.
Spurred by fear of adverse public reaction, the Administration has dropped plans for legislation to make census information available to other government agencies, a government spokesman said. The decision was made by White House counselor Edwin Meese III to abandon a two-year effort to draft the legislation, Ed Dale, spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget, said. The proposal would have allowed data collected during the census — which now must be kept confidential — to be used by other offices that collect statistical data.
The Justice Department released a report that found a wide disparity in how states deal with people charged with felonies, with one state prosecuting 97% of them and another only 8%. The average was 48%. The report said the figures came from a sampling of data in four regional, unidentified states. The Western state prosecuted only 8% of the felonies, the Eastern state, 97%, the Mid-Atlantic state, 77% and the North-Central state, 70%. The report warned that more facts are needed before even broad conclusions could be drawn.
Dozens of workers spent Thanksgiving Day in the rain, cleaning up an oily mess left by a wrecked freighter that has spilled at least 50,000 gallons of oil since ramming a coastal jetty at Newport, Oregon, six days ago. Coast Guard officials were considering using explosives to blast oil storage tanks aboard the freighter Blue Magpie that contain 20,000 gallons more, but only under weather conditions that would allow cleanup crews to quickly trap oil that would be released. A coating of goo that covered the beaches so far has killed more than 50 birds.
Seven anti-nuclear protesters made a pre-dawn raid on Griffiss Air Force Base at Rome, New York, by scaling a small barbed-wire fence and using hammers to damage part of a B-52 bomber parked in a hangar, officials said. The seven, four men and three women, were turned over to the FBI in Syracuse, said Lieutenant Colonel Myron Donald, a base spokesman. Donald said the group damaged the B-52’s hydraulic system and also pounded on several spare engines in the hangar and sprayed the plane with graffiti.
A striking Greyhound driver was arrested in Texas, charged with shooting at a bus, while a judge in Rhode Island refused the company’s request to limit the number of pickets. At the same time, Trailways, Greyhound’s competitor, reported a booming holiday business. The 12,700-member union struck the company November 3 rather than accept a 9.5% pay cut. Members are voting this week on a revised offer that reportedly contains a 7.8% wage cut and has been denounced by union officials. Results are to be announced Monday.
A Florida-bound jetliner leaving Chicago’s Midway Airport was forced to turn around and land today after a sea gull was sucked into one of its engines, shutting it down shortly after takeoff, officials said. None of the 124 passengers aboard Air Florida Flight 3 were hurt. “Apparently, the jet sucked in a bird as it was taking off,” said an air traffic controller who asked not be identified. “We’ve had bird activity out here for the last five days.” He explained that gulls at a nearby horse track sometimes leave their infield pond during races and flock to Midway “to sit on the warm pavement.”
Doctors operated for four hours to repair the heart of a 4-year-old South Korean boy, the second of two children brought to the United States by President and Mrs. Reagan for the delicate surgery. Lee Kil Woo’s companion, a 7-year-old girl named Ahn Ji Sook, was reported “doing well” after a similar operation Wednesday at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, New York, and the news was telephoned to the Reagans, hospital spokesman Frank Regnante said.
The largest package of tax increases in Oklahoma history has been proposed by Governor George Nigh, who said the money is needed to “preserve the progress.” The package includes a 2-cents-per-dollar boost in the sales tax, a hike in the gasoline tax and an increase in the excise tax on liquor, wine and strong beer. If approved by the Legislature, which meets Monday, it will provide the state with $654 million through June, 1985, Nigh said at a news conference in Oklahoma City.
The deregulation of airlines in 1978 has stranded some towns, especially in remote farm areas. It has been five years since Congress decided to allow airlines to begin choosing their routes and fares. The decision has vastly changed the nation’s air transportation network. Service has improved for some large cities and more passengers, but scores of small and medium-sized towns now have substantially less service.
The authorities say they are baffled by the disappearance of a National Guard general who has not been seen since he left his Boston headquarters for his home last week. Brigadier General Howard S. Tripp, 49 years old, of New Bedford, was listed as a missing person with the New Bedford police Monday. Police reports said General Tripp was last seen November 16 in a 1980 Pontiac. The state and Boston police are working on the case. Lieutenant Guy Oliveira of the New Bedford police said his officers were having difficulty tracking the missing man because so much time has elapsed.
People arrested in Illinois for drunken driving in connection with serious accidents would face immediate revocation of drivers’ licenses under a new policy urged by Jim Edgar, the Illinois Secretary of State. The move Wednesday was prompted by the deaths of two women last weekend in Harvey, a Chicago suburb. Their automobile was struck by a car operated by Larry Jackson, 27 years old, who was awaiting trial on homicide charges involving an accident in which three people died. “Those persons arrested for serious driving offenses, like drunk driving, which result in death or injury, should be taken off the road as soon as possible,” Mr. Edgar said.
An employee dismissed from a Dayton, Ohio, motel will be questioned about a fire there that killed one guest and injured 22 people, the authorities said today. The fire early Wednesday spread through the Travel Master Motel, causing an estimated $700,000 in damages. The dead man was identified as James Clark, 50 years old, of Cincinnati. Fire Chief Glenn Alexander said many of the injured were caught sleeping because the hallway’s fire alarm system had been disconnected. “Smoke made the system go off,” the chief said. “They decided to shut off the alarm system rather than wake the occupants up.” Officials said the motel passed inspection by both the state fire marshal and the city Fire Department less than a month ago.
Fisk University’s president resigned as supporters of the leading black institution in Nashville made frantic efforts to avert its financial collapse. The president, Walter J. Leonard, was relieved last month of daily administrative duties by the university’s board to enable him to devote full time to fund raising.
“The Colour of Magic” by Terry Pratchett is published by Colin Smythe in the UK. It is the first book in the Discworld series.
NFL Football:
Eric Hipple threw two touchdown passes to Ulysses Norris, and Billy Sims ran for 106 yards and 2 touchdowns as the Detroit Lions rolled to a surprisingly easy 45—3 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers today. It was the Steelers’ worst loss since 1947, when they were defeated by the Chicago Bears, 49—7. The Lions scored the first four times they had the ball and led by 24—3 at halftime. In the fourth period, Robbie Martin returned a Steeler punt 81 yards for a touchdown. “As I was walking back in here,” said the Steelers’ coach, Chuck Noll, in the silence of the Pittsburgh locker room after the game, “I mulled over what was the turning point of this game was. I decided it was the opening kickoff.” Cliff Stoudt, who is replacing the injured Terry Bradshaw, was intercepted four times and sacked twice, and completed only 9 of 25 passes for 83 yards before being replaced with more than 10 minutes to play. Hipple hit 10 of 18 passes for 153 yards before Gary Danielson took over midway through the final period and passed 5 yards to the rookie Jeff Chadwick for the game’s final touchdown with 5:38 to play.
Tony Dorsett ran for two touchdowns and became the National Football League’s eighth-leading career rusher today, leading the playoff- bound Dallas Cowboys to a 35—17 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cowboys, who have already clinched at least a wild-card berth, improved their record to 11-2, a half- game ahead of the Washington Redskins in the National Conference Eastern Division. St. Louis dropped to 5-7-1. Dorsett gained 102 yards on 17 carries as he passed Larry Csonka on the career list with 8,153 yards. It was Dorsett’s 38th game of 100 or more yards rushing. Dallas has won 36 of the 38.
Dallas, which has the league’s worst pass defense, dominated after the quarterback Neil Lomax connected with Roy Green on a 71-yard pass play in the first five minutes of the game to give the Cardinals a 7—0 lead. The Cowboys, with a strong pass rush led by Michael Downs, the strong safety, and the tackle Randy White, sacked Lomax 7 times although he hit 18 of 29 passes for 222 yards. “St. Louis wasn’t sharp, and we threw Lomax off with the blitz,” said Coach Tom Landry of the Cowboys. “Our objective was to put pressure on Lomax, and he had to dodge and move. We had to play well in the secondary and that’s what we did. It was a confidence builder.” Ron Springs scored from 1 yard out in the first quarter, and Dorsett ran 5 yards for a touchdown in the second to put Dallas ahead, 14—7. Danny White’s 15-yard touchdown pass to Butch Johnson made the score 21—7 at halftime. Early in the fourth period, Dorsett ran for a 55-yard touchdown.
Pittsburgh Steelers 3, Detroit Lions 45
St. Louis Cardinals 17, Dallas Cowboys 35
Born:
José López, Venezuelan MLB second baseman, third baseman, and shortstop (All-Star, 2006; Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies, Florida Marlins, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox), in Barcelona, Venezuela.
Matt Spaeth, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Bears), in St. Michael, Minnesota.
Shavlik Randolph, NBA power forward (Philadelphia 76ers, Portland Trailblazers, Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns), in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Karine Vanasse, French-Canadian actress (“Cardinal”), in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada.
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