An end to the fighting in Tripoli and a withdrawal from the area were agreed to by rival Palestinian factions, the Foreign Ministers of Syria and Saudi Arabia announced in Damascus. But subsequent statements by the Palestinians made it doubtful that the agreement would be carried out. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said the forces opposing him had sent in reinforcements overnight.
A reconciliation meeting among all factions in Chad’s civil war will take place soon in Ethiopia, the government of Chad announced Friday. A communique from President Hissen Habre’s government said Habre had agreed to the meeting without preconditions. The meeting, in Addis Ababa, will be the first time the warring sides have agreed to come to the bargaining table since the latest round of fighting in Chad’s long conflict broke out in June.
Iraq has issued a new warning to international shipping companies to keep their vessels away from what Iraq has declared to be a war zone at the northern end of the Persian Gulf. The commander of Iraq’s naval and coastal defenses was quoted by newspapers here today as saying, “The Iraqi Navy and sea mines will destroy any ship that enters the area.” Baghdad declared the war-exclusion zone as part of its 38-month-old conflict with Iran. About 50 ships, including about 20 tankers, pass through the Strait of Hormuz at the other end of the gulf each day.
The Iraqi commander, who was not identified in accordance with Iraqi security practices, was quoted as saying the destruction of seven “enemy naval targets,” which was reported by the Iraqi Navy and Air Force on Monday, proved “our complete control of the zone and high potential to destroy the enemy targets.” An Iraqi military spokesman said Iraqi Navy units had detected “enemy naval targets” sailing from the Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island toward Bandar Khomeini, the Iranian port at the head of the gulf, and destroyed seven of them. An Iranian fighter was reported to have been shot down by an Iraqi fighter in the same area that day.
Libyan-backed rebels loyal to Chad’s former president, Goukouni Oueddei, launched an offensive in northern Chad six months ago and now control the northern half of the impoverished, landlocked nation of 4.5 million people. The rebels’ advance toward the capital of N’Djamena was halted in August when France sent 3,000 troops into its former colony to support Habre. There has been no fighting since then, and the French forces have not seen action. Shortly after the rebel invasion, the United States briefly sent two AWACS electronic surveillance planes to the area and pledged $25 million in military aid to Habre’s government.
The threat of nuclear war has been greatly increased by the decision to proceed with the deployment of new American missiles in Western Europe, the Soviet Union’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations said. The envoy, Richard S. Ovinnikov, said that the deployment of the missiles meant that “irresponsibility and recklessness had prevailed over common sense.”
West Germany and France reacted in tones of studied calmness to the Soviet Union’s decision to break off the Geneva talks on medium-range missiles. Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President Francois Mitterrand expressed hope at a meeting in Bonn that the arms talks would eventually be resumed.
Hard-pressed Poland, in its eagerness to earn hard currency, is taking a loss of about $9 million by reselling Libyan oil on the spot market, according to industry sources.
Caution marked the response of the Reagan Administration to reports that Nicaragua has been making conciliatory gestures toward domestic opponents and reducing its support for the guerrillas in El Salvador. Both White House and State Department officials questioned whether the Nicaraguan leaders were seriously seeking a political settlement of the conflict in Central America or making token gestures intended to ease pressures on the Sandinista regime.
Guerrillas who say they are holding the kidnapped brother of Colombia’s President today demanded wage increases for workers, a freeze in consumer prices and reductions in the price of public services. The demands were the first issued by Army of National Liberation since five gunmen seized Jaime Betancur outside Catholic University on Tuesday night.
In a statement delivered to news organizations the guerrilla group said Mr. Betancur, the 53-year-old brother of President Belisario Betancur, was safe but would not be freed until their demands were met. The pro-Cuban guerrilla group, which has refused a government’s offer of amnesty for rebels willing to lay down their arms, had made no demands until today.
Brazil’s grave economic situation has been partly caused by the sharp rise in oil prices in the 1970’s when Brazil was planning its future on imported oil, according to leading Brazilians in and outside the government. They also blame Western banks for an insupportable burden of loans, the United States for incurring budget deficits that have forced up world interest rates, and the country’s own technocrats, who ran the economy, for believing “too much in themselves.”
Hu Yaobang, the head of China’s Communist Party, today became the first leader of a Communist country to address Japan’s Parliament. He said Peking would continue to welcome foreign investment in its drive to modernize its economy. “Let me take this opportunity to make clear that the open-door policy pursued by China is an important strategic policy – the result of careful consideration,” Mr. Hu declared. “This policy will not change.” He reiterated that China would continue to welcome foreign trade and tourism.
China has recently inaugurated a campaign against what are called undesirable foreign influences from its greater openness, particularly Western influences. The 43-member delegation of the Japanese Communist Party, which has long disagreed with the Chinese Communists, boycotted the session.
A Pan American Airways transcontinental flight made an unscheduled stop here today after one passenger, a diplomatic courier for China, asked for political asylum. The incident also reportedly involved a dispute on board the aircraft between the would-be defector and another Chinese courier over possession of diplomatic pouches they had brought aboard the plane in San Francisco.
After what airline officials described as a loud dispute, which occurred when the 747 jet was about an hour west of Chicago, Captain Gerald Dion, the pilot of Pan Am flight 72A, decided to land at O’Hare International. He radioed ahead for assistance, and State Department and Immigration and Naturalization Service officials, as well as the Federal and local law-enforcement authorities, rushed to O’Hare through heavy holiday traffic. The plane was parked in an isolated area of the 10-square-mile airport near runway 14R and surrounded by the police. After a three-hour stop at O’Hare, the Chinese defector, whose name was reported to be Gogiang Yang, left the aircraft and the plane continued on its way toward New York’s Kennedy International Airport. There were no reports of injuries among the 88 passengers, 11 flight attendants and three cockpit crewmen.
The Supreme Court in Zimbabwe today upheld the Government’s refusal to release Dumiso Dabengwa, the top military aide to Joshua Nkomo, the opposition leader. Mr. Dabengwa was acquitted of treason charges in April but has remained in detention under stringent emergency powers. Chief Justice Telford Georges ruled in favor of the government, which appealed a court decision that Mr. Dabengwa had to be freed because he had not received a constitutionally mandated review of his case within a reasonable time after being detained in April. The Supreme Court ruled that rather than suing for Mr. Dabengwa’s liberty, his lawyers should take legal action to force the government to hold the review. It is not thought that such a review will result in Mr. Dabengwa’s release because the government is not obliged to accept the review tribunal’s recommendation.
Britain has rejected claims by Mauritius to the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, which includes Diego Garcia, the site of an important United States military base. But in a letter to Jorge Illueca of Panama, President of the General Assembly, the British delegate, John Thomson, said his government had undertaken to cede the Chagos to Mauritius when they were no longer needed for military purposes. When Mauritius became independent in 1968, Mr. Thomson said, the islands did not form part of the colony that gained independence, although for convenience they were administered by the British colonial government of Mauritius.
A UNESCO conference approved a compromise on world communications that sidesteps third-world demands that the Western nations said could have led to an international code for journalists.
President Reagan spends the day at the Ranch in California.
A request for political asylum was made by a diplomatic courier from the People’s Republic of China aboard a plane on its way from San Francisco to New York. When the would-be defector and another Chinese courier quarreled over possession of diplomatic pouches, the pilot made an unscheduled landing at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, where the plane was met by federal officials and local law enforcement authorities.
The names of informants who lead journalists to news stories are being demanded increasingly by prosecutors and criminal defendants. Lawyers who represent the press say trial court judges have acceded to those demands despite state laws enacted specifically in the last decade to shield reporters and their confidential sources. From September 1982 to September 1983, there were 67 cases in which reporters were asked to identify their sources. Reporters won a majority of the cases, 37, but the ratio of victories to losses declined from earlier years.
The increased security measures at the White House and the State Department were taken by the Secret Service because of “increasing terrorist trends,” a White House official said, but no official would say how long the new measures would remain in force. In addition to sand-filled trucks at White House gates, federal cars and vans were used to block driveways and garages at the State Department.
In nearly 16 years as a civil rights leader, the Rev. Jesse Jackson has amassed a voluminous record of positions on traditional civil rights concerns, ranging from busing for school integration to affirmative action. He has also touched on issues such as economic development, education philosophy and financing of domestic programs, and even some foreign policy issues. But Mr. Jackson’s entry into the race for the Democratic nomination for President has required both a refining of his past positions and a broadening of the range of issues with which he must deal. Coordinating the Jackson campaign’s issues and research effort is Robert Bates, an oil company executive who is a former executive assistant to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts.
Mr. Bates said Mr. Jackson’s “gut reactions” to many issues are predictable, given his background in the civil rights movement and as a Baptist minister. As an example, he cited the candidate’s belief that while more Federal financing for public education was necessary to provide greater educational opportunity as well as instruction aimed at available jobs, money alone could not instill the sense of “responsibility and accountability” in students, teachers and parents that is also required to improve public education. In the past Mr. Jackson has coupled his views on education with condemnations of teachers’ unions and school administrators, whose drive for job security and higher wages appeared to him to conflict with their job of educating children.
Six inmates, described by the authorities as dangerous, cut the bars on a bathroom window, scaled two wire fences and escaped early today from the Maryland Correctional Institution. Two were recaptured. A three- state alert was issued for the others. The state police and prison guard teams with dogs scoured the acres of woods and fields surrounding the medium-security prison for the inmates, all of whom were convicted of violent crimes, according to a state corrections official. The authorities said they thought the four fugitives, who were not believed to be armed, were on foot and probably still in the area of the prison.
An appellate court, saying that singling out vocal draft resisters for prosecution “clearly violates the First Amendment,” today overturned the conviction of a man who refused to register for the draft. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled unanimously in favor of Mark A. Schmucker, 23 years old, of Alliance, Ohio.
Mr. Schmucker had contended that hundreds of thousands of young men had not registered for the draft but the Government had prosecuted only those who had publicly disagreed with the registration law. The three-judge panel ordered an evidentiary hearing to determine if Mr. Schmucker could prove he had been “selectively” prosecuted. Although noting he could be reindicted and “go through the whole thing again,” Mr. Schmucker called the decision a “victory.” A Pentagon spokesman would not comment.
The publisher of Key magazine and about 50 newspaper employees apparently represent the only local parties interested in buying The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a lawyer for the newspaper’s owner says. Two other organizations are also reported interested. The newspaper, owned by the Herald Company of New York, which is associated with the Newhouse publishing concern, is scheduled to cease publishing Dec. 31 because of what it said were continuing financial losses. The Justice Department, which had granted The Globe-Democrat and the rival St. Louis Post-Dispatch limited exemption from antitrust statutes, imposed a November 22 deadline for offers.
William E. Willis, a lawyer for the Herald Company, said 26 parties had originally expressed interest in purchasing in The Globe-Democrat. He would not identify the two other parties still interested other than to say they were outside the St. Louis area. Edward R. Grotpeter, who publishes Key magazine in St. Louis, Houston, and New York, has expressed interest in buying The Globe-Democrat to assure the city a “second voice.”
The sex-magazine publisher Larry Flynt was indicted by a Federal grand jury today on charges of desecrating an American flag and illegally wearing a military decoration. He is scheduled to be arraigned December 5. The indictment stems from Mr. Flynt’s appearance in Federal District Court November 17, when he wore an American flag as a diaper and had a Purple Heart pinned to a bulletproof vest. Mr. Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine, was in court to pay a fine in connection with his refusal to reveal the source of an audio tape in which he says the automobile manufacturer John Z. DeLorean is threatened by Federal agents when he tries to back out of a $24 million cocaine deal.
A jury deliberated five hours tonight without reaching a verdict in the trial of a black man over a confrontation here with two white police officers after a funeral. The jury was to resume its work Saturday morning. Earlier today, Circuit Judge Randall Thomas dismissed kidnapping and robbery charges against the defendant, Worrie Taylor, 49 years old, of Warren, Ohio. But the judge rejected a defense motion to dismiss the charge of attempted murder. Mr. Taylor is the first of five men from Ohio and Michigan charged in a confrontation February 27 with Officers Les Brown and Ed Spivey. Prosecutors contend that Mr. Taylor cut and beat Officer Spivey and twice shot Officer Brown in an attempt to kill him after the officers chased Mr. Taylor’s nephew into a house where about 30 members of the family had gathered after the funeral of a relative.
Prosecutors and criminal defendants are increasingly demanding the names of confidential informants who lead journalists to news stories. Lawyers who represent the press say trial court judges have acceded to those demands despite state laws enacted specifically over the last decade to shield reporters and their confidential sources. Newspapers and television stations have been fined and reporters have received jail sentences for defying the court orders. There is some evidence of public support for the principle of a journalist’s privilege not to testify. This year the Hearst Corporation reported that 57 percent of 983 adults it surveyed by telephone thought journalists were entitled to keep their sources confidential while 36 percent said the newsgatherers ought to comply with court orders to disclose.
Brigadier General Hugh B. Hester, an opponent of the Cold War and an advocate of East-West coexistence, died in Asheville, North Carolina The retired Army general, a veteran of both World Wars, was 88 years old.
Seventeen seconds after the start of the Army-Navy game today, Navy led, 7—0. After 2 minutes 30 seconds, Navy led, 14—0. After 3 minutes 57 seconds, Navy led, 21—0. After that, the game was competitive. But Army had too much ground to make up, and Navy won, 42—13, a tribute more to its opportunism and explosiveness than superior play. A crowd of 81,347 watched on an idyllic football day at the Rose Bowl. This was the first Army-Navy game west of Chicago since the series began in 1890. It was the 84th game in the celebrated rivalry between the service academies, and Navy leads, 40 victories to 37, with 7 ties. In the last 11 years, Navy is 9-1-1.
Navy was favored mainly because of Napoleon McCallum, its heralded tailback and national leader in all-purpose yardage. McCallum had his biggest rushing day of the season, carrying 30 times for 182 yards and 1 touchdown, and his presence was felt from the opening kickoff. McCallum took that kickoff on his 5-yard line. Just as he was hit at his 11, he handed the ball to Eric Wallace, a play Coach Gary Tranquill of Navy said he decided on just before the kickoff. Wallace ran up the left sideline, cut away from the last Army defender and scored on a 95-yard play.
Larry Holmes TKOs Marvis Frazier in the first round for the WBC heavyweight boxing title.
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