Future Israeli-U.S. cooperation in the Middle East and more aid to Israel are expected to be the prime topics discussed in Washington this week by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Defense Minister Moshe Arens. Mr. Shamir is to meet Monday and Tuesday at the White House with President Reagan. Mr. Arens will hold separate meetings with Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger.
Syria’s President appeared on TV for the time since November 14 when officials said he had entered a hospital for appendicitis. President Hafez al-Assad was smiling in a film that the state television said had been made at a meeting of the governing Baath Party.
Two Islamic rebels who were convicted of killing a senior Afghan official a year ago have been executed in Kabul, the Afghan capital, the Kabul radio said today. The state radio, monitored in Islamabad, did not give the dates of the executions, but named the two insurgents as Ziaud Din and Abdul Ghafoor. The broadcast said they had killed Noor Mohammad Dalili, the Afghan Deputy Minister of Transport, in November 1982. As they sought to escape, they also killed a Kabul University law student, it said.
Several members of Iran’s banned Communist Party, the Tudeh, will go on trial in Tehran on December 6 on charges of spying for Moscow, Iranian authorities announced. The Office of the Revolutionary Prosecutor of the Armed Forces made the announcement, without identifying those involved, in a statement published by the newspaper Ettelaat. The Tudeh Party was the last non-religious political group of any size operating openly in Iran when security forces moved against it last February.
Benigno S. Aquino Jr.’s birthday was observed in the streets of Manila by tens of thousands of Filipinos, carrying signs demanding the resignation of President Ferdinand E. Marcos, whose government is suspected of having had a role in Mr. Aquino’s murder last August 21.
Scotland Yard said it was baffled by the theft Saturday of three tons of gold bars and some diamonds from a warehouse near Heathrow Airport. The gold was believed to be worth about $40 million. Insurance companies have offered $3 million for information leading to the recovery of the loot and the thieves’ arrest. Three tons of gold bars worth $37.5 million stolen from a warehouse near London in one of the biggest robberies in history may have been smuggled abroad or melted down, police said. Officers throughout Britain were ordered to check ship, rail and air terminals for signs of the missing gold and for the six gunmen who stole it, along with $150,000 worth of diamonds. Police reported no new clues but were hoping that a $3 million reward offered by an insurance firm would provide information.
The Commonwealth nations urged the United States and the Soviet Union to resume a “genuine political dialogue” in the first formal communication to come out of the weeklong summit meeting that began in New Delhi last Tuesday. They expressed alarm at what they said was a rising level of violence and confrontation in the world.
A Boeing 747, Avianca Flight 011, operated by Columbia’s Avianca airlines crashes on its approach to Madrid’s Barajas airport; at least 183 people are killed. The plane, Avianca’s Paris to Bogota flight, crashed and exploded in a hilly area five miles east of Madrid’s Barajas airport soon after 1 A.M. Airport officials said the jumbo jet carried 170 passengers, 20 crew members and four airline workers who were not on duty. Only 11 of the 194 people aboard survived the impact and fire, and four of them were in very serious condition, the officials said.
During the instrument landing system (ILS) approach to runway 33, the 747 crashed on a hill approximately 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) southeast of the airport, killing 181 people, including 19 on-duty and four off-duty crew members. The 11 surviving passengers were seriously injured. The cause of the accident was judged to be pilot error, the captain having incorrectly determined the position of the plane. Avianca Flight 011 remains the second-deadliest aviation accident in Spanish territory (the deadliest being the Tenerife airport disaster), the deadliest accident in mainland Spain, and the deadliest accident in the history of Avianca.
Relatives of some of those aboard the plane gathered outside the makeshift morgue today, waiting their turn to be led by officials past the bodies to identify them. Modesto Augusto Gomez Rico, a special judge named to investigate the crash, said identification of the bodies would take at least 10 days. “It is a difficult job,” he said, “because most of the bodies are charred.” Searchers said they had found the flight data recorder, or “black box,” which records information about the airplane’s course and conversations in the cockpit. Officials said it could help determine what caused the crash.
A fugitive terrorist regarded as one of Ireland’s most wanted men said in an interview published in a Dublin newspaper that he has killed about 30 people and taken part in more than 200 terrorist attacks. But Dominic McGlinchey, 29, a member of the radical Irish National Liberation Army, denied taking part in last week’s murders of three worshipers at a Protestant church across the border in Northern Ireland. Authorities have said that McGlinchey is a prime suspect in the attack. McGlinchey reportedly was interviewed at an undisclosed location in the Irish Republic.
Turkey will build a new military air base in Thrace, to the south of the Bulgarian border, for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, according to official Turkish sources. The Turkish Defense Ministry called for bids last week for the construction of the new base at Corlu, 65 miles west of Istanbul and about 75 miles from Bulgaria. The NATO project has been delayed for three years because of Greek objections, Turkish officials said, and the reaction from Athens was expected to be one of anger and concern. Corlu is 85 miles east of the Greek border. The Istanbul daily Hurriyet said the Thrace air base project was expected to cost about $16.3 million and take between 12 and 18 months to build. It is expected to be financed by NATO.
More than 300,000 Uruguayans staged an anti-government demonstration here today to press for a quick return to democracy. The opposition political leaders who organized the rally described it as the biggest protest against the military since it seized power in a coup here 10 years ago. The demonstration, which was authorized by the military Government, was organized by three political parties that are officially recognized and are also supported by trade unions and leftist parties, groups that are banned. Talks between the three legalized parties and the military are deadlocked. The Government has promised a return to democracy in 1985.
Thousands of Nicaraguans streamed from their homes to trenches and shelters in a practice evacuation in case of a U.S.-backed rebel attack. Domingo Paladino, a civil defense leader in a neighborhood on the western edge of Managua, said the evacuation near the capital’s oil refinery was carried off uneventfully. During the practice, the second civil defense drill in Managua in a week, thousands abandoned their homes at the sound of a siren and headed to recently dug trenches or air-raid shelters.
The Nicaraguan government said it will provide the opposition newspaper La Prensa with enough money to buy the newsprint it needs to continue publishing. The announcement followed a statement by the moderate paper that it would suspend publication December 7 because it lacked sufficient dollar reserves to purchase newsprint. La Prensa has been closed eight times in the past by the leftist Sandinista government.
Jamaica is to hold a general election December 15, two years ahead of schedule, Prime Minister Edward P. G. Seaga announced Saturday night. He set the date at a party rally after advising the Governor General on Friday to dissolve Parliament to prepare for the election. Jamaicans last voted in October 1980, when Mr. Seaga’s Jamaica Labor Party ousted the People’s National Party, which had governed for eight years.
Hundreds of women detained at a rural Zimbabwe rehabilitation camp during a month-long anti-prostitution campaign were brought to Harare and released from custody, a government spokesman said. Sources, who declined to be identified, said at least 500 of the thousands of women being held at the Mushumbi Pools rehabilitation camp in northwestern Zimbabwe were freed. The women were detained in a nationwide campaign against alleged prostitutes that has come under criticism by those who say many innocent women were included in the roundup.
President Reagan returns to the White House from his Thanksgiving vacation at the Ranch in California.
Environmental Protection Agency chief William E. Ruckelshaus said the nation cannot wait until after the elections to find a solution to acid rain, but conceded he has yet to make a recommendation to Congress or the President on how to deal with the problem. In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Ruckelshaus said he would wait until the Cabinet had developed a list of options before presenting them to President Reagan. Once Reagan and other key Administration officials have chosen what they believe is the best alternative, he said the EPA would quickly pursue those solutions with Congress.
Rita Lavelle, the only former Environmental Protection Agency official to face criminal charges as a result of the controversy that swept the agency earlier this year, is expected to testify today as her lawyers finish their defense against charges that she lied to Congress and obstructed a congressional investigation into the EPA’s “superfund”, waste cleanup program and her alleged use of it for political purposes.
Walter F. Mondale’s campaign funds now exceed his Democratic rivals for the Presidential nomination. He expects to take in $9 million this year. Senator John Glenn is rapidly gaining in funds, according to aides to both candidates. Mr. Glenn hopes to raise $6 million to $7 million by the end of the year. In addition, he and Mr. Mondale will seek $1.5 million a month between January and the Democratic convention in July.
Despite its intervention in the case of a severely deformed infant in New York, the federal government doesn’t believe “heroic” steps should be taken to save every diseased newborn, Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop said on ABC-TV’s “This Week With David Brinkley.” Koop said he entered the case of the deformed infant known in court papers as “Baby Jane Doe” because “a complaint was made about the possible violation of the child’s civil rights.” The child was born October 11 with spina bifida and other malformations that left her spine open, excess fluid on her brain and an abnormally small head. Her parents have decided against surgery that could prolong the infant’s life. Doctors have testified that without surgery the infant would most likely die in several years. With it, they said she could live into her 20s but would remain paralyzed and severely retarded.
The Justice Department collected $477.8 million in debts and civil and criminal fines in fiscal 1983, more than double the previous year. Attorney General William French Smith said that the figure for the 12 months ending September 30 was 139% above the $200.1 million collected in fiscal 1982. Of the 1983 total, $71.9 million came from criminal fines. The other $405.9 million came from civil, tax, antitrust, civil rights or environmental judgments, collected debts and civil fines. By contrast, in 1982, criminal fines accounted for $39.8 million and civil collections amounted to $160.3 million.
The American-European partnership that produced the Spacelab is likely to be extended to other cooperative space ventures, American and European space officials said on the eve of its scheduled flight aboard a space shuttle. NASA officials were concerned about the weather as they prepared to launch the European-built Spacelab, a large pressurized laboratory equipped to conduct many experiments in astronomy, solar and atmospheric physics, life sciences, materials processing and earth observations.
An unusual gathering in St. Louis of all 10 judges of the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments today in a legal showdown over the landmark St. Louis school desegregation case. Under the plan, which went into effect this fall, inner-city blacks are allowed voluntarily to transfer to predominantly white schools in suburban St. Louis County. But the appeals court has banned further transfers until the state’s objections are heard.
A mistrial was declared in Montgomery, Alabama, in the attempted murder trial of a black man accused of trying to kill one of two white police officers during a bloody confrontation at a house filled with funeral mourners. Judge Randall Thomas declared a mistrial in the case of Worrie Taylor, 49, of Warren, Ohio, after a jury of eight whites and four blacks announced they were hopelessly deadlocked. Taylor was the first of five Ohio and Michigan men charged in the February 27 confrontation between two white plainclothes officers and black mourners at a rural home after a funeral. The confrontation occurred after officers Les Brown and Ed Spivey chased a man into a house crowded with men, women, and children who had just come from the funeral of a relative. In the ensuing melee, Spivey was cut and beaten, and Brown was beaten and shot twice.
Greyhound union leaders were predicting yesterday that bus drivers and other employees who have been on strike for 26 days will reject the company’s latest contract offer when votes are counted today. “Even though we provided for a secret ballot, a lot of them just didn’t do it,” said J. W. Norman, president of Local 1315 of the Amalgamated Transit Union in Louisville, Kentucky. Of the workers who “raised up the ballot and said, ‘Here’s how I voted,’ not a one was in favor of the contract,” he added.
The police have tripled, to $6.5 million, their estimate of the money two armed men took in a Thanksgiving morning holdup of an armored car company. “They got $5.2 million in cash, about $750,000 in negotiable securities and checks, and about $500,000 in bonds,” said Captain Clyde Keenan of the Memphis Police Department’s violent crimes squad. Earlier, the authorities had estimated the loot from Wells Fargo Armored Service Corporation offices at $2 million.
Recreation officials want to set up a rifle range in a school basement to teach youths the proper way to use guns, but school officials say such a program would create a public relations disaster. A proposal to improve an elementary school basement for use as an indoor range was defeated by a vote of 8 to 1 last week by the Baltimore County School Board. A firearms safety program for children as young as 6 had been conducted at Norwood Elementary School until 1978, when a fire inspection revealed violations of the safety code.
Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr.’s recall is being sought by some residents of Providence, Rhode Island. His indictment last spring on charges of beating a man he said was having an affair with his estranged wife produced no major public outcry, nor did rumors of corruption in his administration. But when the mayor dismissed the city’s popular Parks Superintendent, his opponents started a petition drive for a recall election.
3 million chickens were destroyed in Pennsylvania under federal and state orders to prevent the spread of a deadly avian influenza virus that has caused millions of dollars in losses to the state’s poultry industry. A quarantine on chicken farms has also been ordered in South Jersey.
A heavy snowstorm moved northeastward across the central Plains after it left drifts up to 8 feet high, ice half an inch thick and zero visibility, stranding travelers and isolating towns. Denver declared a snow emergency and closed its airport.
CFL Grey Cup, BC Place, Vancouver: The Toronto Argonauts defeat the BC Lions, 18-17; It is the Argos’ first Grey Cup victory in 31 years.
NFL Football:
The Cleveland Browns continued their late-season drive for a playoff position yesterday when they defeated the Baltimore Colts, 41—23, in Cleveland. This was the Browns’ third straight victory and their fourth in five games. And they did it with their highest offensive point total of the season. In two previous games, they outscored Tampa Bay and New England by a combined 50-0. The Browns’ record is 8-5, and in the Central Division of the American Conference they are one game behind the Pittsburgh Steelers, who lost their last two. The Browns play the Steelers in Pittsburgh in their last regular- season game. The Colts are 6-7 after losing their third straight. Against the Colts, the significant offensive players for Cleveland were Brian Sipe, the quarterback, and Ozzie Newsome, the tight end. Sipe passed for 313 yards and three touchdowns, one on a 66-yard pass to Newsome. The receiver caught 8 passes for 108 yards and set team records for most career receptions (332) and most catches in a season (70).
Vince Ferragamo, playing despite a painful hand injury, threw for 206 yards and 3 touchdowns as Los Angeles (8-5) moved into first in the N.F.C. West, routing the Bills, 41—17. Ferragamo completed 18 of 31 passes, including a 45-yard scoring pass to George Farmer in the second quarter and touchdown tosses of 11 and 15 yards to Preston Dennard. Eric Dickerson, the Rams’ rookie, had 125 yards on 32 carries. He scored his 20th touchdown of the season on a 2-yard run in the third period.
Dan Fouts, showing few effects from a five-week layoff, threw a pair of first-half touchdown passes to Kellen Winslow, and San Diego’s defense stifled Denver in a 31—7 Charger win. San Diego (5-8) won for only the second time since Fouts injured his right shoulder on October 16. Denver (7-6) lost for the third time in four games, hurting its playoff hopes.
Kenny Johnson returned an interception 31 yards for his second touchdown of the game to give the Falcons an overtime 47—41 victory. Johnson’s return came 2 minutes 13 second into the extra period. He had scored on a 26-yard interception return with 1:57 left in regulation to give the Falcons (6-7) a 41—34 lead before Green Bay marched 85 yards to score on Gerry Ellis’s 4-yard run with three seconds left. Atlanta overcame an early 21—0 deficit as William Andrews scored three touchdowns and rushed for 129 yards. Jan Stenerud kicked two field goals for the Packers (6-7).
The Houston Oilers finally lost a game that meant something. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat them today, 33—24, which left the Oilers alone with the worst record in the National Football League, 1-12. Before the game, they had been tied with the Buccaneers at 1-11. While the loss did little for the Oilers’ pride or morale, it moved the club a step closer toward securing the first selection in the 1984 college draft. The No. 1 pick is won by the team that finishes the previous season with the worst record in the league, unless the team had traded its first-round pick, as Tampa had done last June. That’s why this loss was so much more important to Houston than to Tampa Bay. The Oilers still have their first-round pick. The Buccaneers sent theirs to the Cincinnati Bengals for the quarterback Jack Thompson, whose inconsistent play over the first 12 weeks was hardly noticeable today. He completed 17 of 29 passes – four of them for touchdowns to tie a club record – for 224 yards and threw no interceptions.
Norm Johnson’s 42-yard field goal with 1 minutes 36 seconds gone in overtime gave Seattle a 51—48 victory after he sent the game into the extra period with a 42-yarder with two seconds left. The victory by Seattle (7-6) was spearheaded by its rookie running back, Curt Warner, who rushed for a club record 207 yards on 32 carries. He scored three touchdowns. Zachary Dixon’s 47-yard kickoff return to start off the overtime gave the Seahawks the ball on the Kansas City 48. Runs of 17, 5 and 2 yards by Warner positioned Johnson for his third 42-yard field goal of the game. In regulation time, Bill Kenney passed for four touchdowns and rushed for two.
Wayne Wilson’s touchdown dives of 2 and 1 yards, each set up by Ken Stabler passes, carried New Orleans to a narrow, 17—16 victory. Minnesota (7-6) fell into a first-place tie in the N.F.C.’s Central Division. The Saints (7-6) remain in contention in the N.F.C. West.
The season that might have been flashed in front of the Jets yesterday: long spirals by Richard Todd finding their mark to Wesley Walker and Lam Jones, the slanting runs of Freeman McNeil, sacks by the defensive line and intimidating tackles. Perhaps too late for the playoffs, the Jets crushed the New England Patriots by 26—3 to join a group of 6-7 teams still clinging to a chance for a wild-card berth. It took the Jets until the second half to begin producing, even though they were facing a team whose rookie quarterback, Tony Eason, had never started before. But when the Jets began rolling, they provided their Shea Stadium fans with pretty pictures, big plays, tricky plays and big chunks of yardage. Todd passed for 305 yards, including two touchdowns to Walker.
The Los Angeles Raiders outplayed the New York Giants’ offensive and defensive lines today. They stopped the Giants’ running game and harried and disrupted the Giants’ passing game. They kept moving the ball when they had to. Jim Plunkett threw two touchdown passes. And the Giants kept making mistakes that cost them dearly. All of this added up to a 27—12 victory for the Raiders and raised their record to 10-3, the best in the American Football Conference. Even if the Raiders lose their three remaining games, they now are assured of a playoff berth. Last Sunday, the Giants snapped a seven-game non-winning streak by beating the Philadelphia Eagles. By losing here, they fell to 3-9-1 and were mathematically eliminated from any chance to make the playoffs. Despite a spring-like afternoon, only 41,473 spectators watched in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which seats 92,516 for football. The Raiders took the lead early in the second quarter and were never in danger of losing it.
The Washington Redskins qualified for the playoffs by defeating Philadelphia, 28—24, yesterday in Washington. The Dallas Cowboys are the only other qualifier and the Cowboys and Redskins remain tied for first in the Eastern Division of the National Conference with the league’s best records, 11-3. Washington plays at Dallas on December 11. Against the Eagles, the Washington fullback John Riggins scored twice and gained 99 yards in 26 carries. He set a league record for touchdowns by rushing in a single season, raising his total to 21. Washington won for the sixth straight time. The Eagles (4-9) lost their seventh straight. Joe Theismann completed 16 of 26 passes for 248 yards and two touchdowns, the second to Charlie Brown on a 75-yard play. In the first half, the Redskins sacked Ron Jaworski three times, recovered three Eagle fumbles and intercepted one pass. But their lead at halftime was just 28—21. The only score of the second half came from a 52-yard field goal by the Eagles’ Tony Franklin.
Jim McMahon lofted a 49-yard touchdown pass to Dennis McKinnon and Bob Thomas kicked a pair of field goals as the Bears (6-7) won their third straight game, beating San Francisco, 13—3. The 49ers (7-6) suffered their fourth loss in the last five games. The 49ers were held without a touchdown for the first time since 1981.
Baltimore Colts 23, Cleveland Browns 41
Buffalo Bills 17, Los Angeles Rams 41
Denver Broncos 7, San Diego Chargers 31
Green Bay Packers 41, Atlanta Falcons 47
Houston Oilers 24, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 33
Kansas City Chiefs 48, Seattle Seahawks 51
Minnesota Vikings 16, New Orleans Saints 17
New England Patriots 3, New York Jets 26
New York Giants 12, Los Angeles Raiders 27
Philadelphia Eagles 24, Washington Redskins 28
San Francisco 49ers 3, Chicago Bears 13
Born:
Corey Mays, NFL linebacker (New England Patriots, Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas City Chiefs), in Chicago, Illinois.
Jason Berken, MLB pitcher (Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs), in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Donta Smith, NBA shooting guard (Atlanta Hawks), in Louisville, Kentucky.
Henrik Karlsson, Swedish NHL goalie (Calgary Flames), in Tumba, Sweden.
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