President Reagan meets with the Prime Minister of the State of Israel Yitzhak Shamir. U.S. military cooperation with Israel is being increased, according to Reagan Administration officials. They said the President had agreed to lift a suspension of delivery of American cluster-bomb artillery shells and had agreed to ease Israel’s financial problems by not requiring it to repay any American military aid in the next fiscal year.
Tension arising from the deployment of new American missiles in Western Europe is not “irreversible,” according to a letter signed by Yuri V. Andropov that Chancellor Helmut Kohl received. The West German leader interpreted the letter as meaning that the Soviet leadership was ready to reconsider its decision last week to suspend the Geneva talks with the United States over limiting medium-range nuclear weapons.
The problems at a big Soviet plant for manufacturing nuclear reactors that prompted Politburo censure last summer and evidently set back the Soviet nuclear power program apparently arose from siting the plant too close to a reservoir on the Don River, according to Soviet informants. They said the foundations at the plant had been undermined by erosion from the manmade lake.
West Berlin Mayor Richard von Weizsaecker, 63, has been nominated as the conservative Christian Democratic candidate to succeed Karl Carstens as president of West Germany next May. His nomination virtually assures him the post because his party will have a large majority in the special convention that will select the chief of state. Von Weizsaecker’s father, Ernst, who had warned the British about Adolf Hitler’s intentions before World War II, was sentenced to seven years by the Nuremberg tribunal for complicity in war crimes. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill later called his trial “a deadly mistake.”
Eight of Britain’s 10 national newspapers have resumed publication after a three-day printer’s strike, held in support of six workers who were fired by a paper in northwestern England 20 weeks ago. The other two national newspapers, the Times of London and the Sun, said they will not resume publication until they receive pledges that union printers will not walk off the job again.
Detectives concentrated on London’s underworld today, trying to track down three tons of gold bullion stolen from a warehouse near Heathrow Airport. A Scotland Yard spokesman said detectives were pursuing “new information” on the case, but he declined to elaborate. The gold was worth almost $40 million, by police estimates, when it was stolen on Saturday. Its value jumped by about $1.5 million today as the gold price went up on the London bullion market, in a rally that dealers said was sparked by speculation that whoever had been responsible for the gold when it was stolen would have to buy more to replace it. The police have refused to name the owners of the gold.
A court in Milan, Italy, convicted six leftist terrorists in the 1980 slaying of prominent journalist Walter Tobagi. Two of those convicted, Marco Barbone and Paolo Morandini, were granted immediate parole for cooperating with prosecutors. The four others received prison terms of 20½ to 30 years. Barbone admitted shooting Tobagi, a correspondent for the daily Corriere della Sera. The court also sentenced more than 100 other left-wing terrorists to terms of up to 30 years for crimes committed in a guerrilla campaign of the 1970s.
Washington-Peking ties were stressed by the White House, which took pains to declare that recent Congressional support given to the Chinese Nationalist government in Taiwan was contrary to Administration policy of recognizing the Communist regime in Peking as the sole legitimate government of China.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes reaffirmed that the United States recognizes the People’s Republic of China as the sole legitimate government of China. His statement came after Peking, which claims sovereignty over Taiwan, objected to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee resolution calling for Taiwan’s future to be “settled peacefully, free of coercion” and to President Reagan’s recent reference to Taiwan as the “Republic of China.” Over the weekend, Chinese Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang said Premier Zhao Ziyang might cancel his January visit to Washington unless such “unpleasant incidents” are rectified.
Bus and streetcar drivers went on strike in the Philippine port city of Davao, but most other Filipinos ignored opposition calls for a “day of rest” in memory of slain opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. and returned to work. The strike in Davao, 600 miles south of Manila, halted public transportation in the city of 500,000. Meanwhile, Manila police prepared criminal charges against 27 people arrested for mob violence that left two teen-agers dead and scores injured during demonstrations Sunday marking Aquino’s 51st birthday.
North Korean arms sales and military training in other countries are accelerating, according to diplomats and other experts. They said that North Korea needed cash.
At least four people were killed in Bangladesh in clashes between security forces and demonstrators protesting martial law. The rioting prompted the military government of Lieutenant General Hussain Mohammed Ershad to impose a curfew and an indefinite ban on political activity. Ershad closed two universities, including the largest in the capital of Dhaka, for an indefinite period.
Chile cannot extradite suspected Nazi war criminal Walter Rauff to West Germany because Chile’s statute of limitations has expired, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. Rauff, a former officer in the elite Nazi SS, is alleged to be responsible for the extermination of hundreds of thousands of Jews in the Soviet Union, Poland and Yugoslavia in the mobile gas chambers he invented. Rauff has lived in Chile since the end of World War II. Haaretz said that Chile’s foreign minister, Miguel Schweitzer Walters, offered the opinion on Rauff’s extradition in an Israeli television interview.
At least 53 people were killed today when a Nigeria Airways airliner with 74 people on board crashed 300 miles east of here as it made a landing approach, news reports said. At least 18 people survived, the Nigerian News Agency said. Rescuers were looking for the three people still missing. There was no report on how many foreigners were on the plane. The Fokker F-28 was on a morning flight from Lagos, Nigeria’s capital, to Enugu, 300 miles east. It crashed on a farm about two miles from the Enugu airport, news reports said.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will survive by taking out loans if the United States carries out its threat to cut off funds, the organization’s Director General said today. “This threat has long existed, it should not be given too much significance,” said Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow, the Senegalese who is the agency’s chief. “My feeling is all countries will pay and if they do not UNESCO will take out loans,” he said at a news conference, at which he discussed the United States complaint about UNESCO’s budget. “I will not be in the red.” Mr. M’Bow warned that the American threat to withdraw funds unless UNESCO reduced its budget growth and withdrew programs the United States felt undermined the free press was “a threat that should not be exaggerated.”
AIDS has become a global problem. Cases of the disease have been reported in 33 countries in all inhabited continents. In Europe, the number of cases has doubled in the last year. There are indications in Africa that the disease may be striking heterosexual men and women in equal numbers. Although AIDS has been diagnosed worldwide, the reports have been somewhat spotty, according to Dr. Walter Dowdle of the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, who was chairman of an international gathering of scientists here last weekend, the first meeting to discuss the global impact of AIDS. Preliminary results of a new study in central Africa have led some AIDS experts to suspect that the disease may generally be transmitted heterosexually in some of the less developed areas of the world.
Despite the small number of cases reported in some countries, many participants said they suspected the true incidence of AIDS was more widespread than believed. They said the incidence of AIDS might be many times greater than the official worldwide total of about 3,000 cases. Only two AIDS cases have actually been reported from Eastern Europe, both in Czechoslovakia. West Germany has reported 42 cases, East Germany none. The Soviet Union had a representative at the meeting, but has reported no AIDS cases. Have AIDS cases been diagnosed in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and the reports been suppressed? Participants interviewed said they did not know the answer.
Doctors now have no laboratory test to diagnose AIDS, and the potential for creating one largely depends on discovering the cause of AIDS. Most scientists say they believe it is caused by an infectious agent. The most likely prospect is a virus, and there are about as many candidate viruses as there are virologists studying the disease. One possible reason why scientists are having difficulty in detecting the putative virus is that AIDS is characterized by a depletion of certain types of blood cells, called T-lymphocyte cells. The hypothesis is that whatever causes AIDS has attacked these cells; but because there are so few, it may be difficult to find evidence of the virus in them. Without a laboratory test and identification of the causative agent, doctors can neither determine the natural history of the disease nor try to solve the mystery of where AIDS came from.
NASA launches the STS-9 mission with the space shuttle Columbia, carrying the ESA Spacelab. The Columbia lofted into orbit to begin nine days of scientific tests and observations by the crew of six men, including a West German physicist. The space shuttle, carrying the European-built research laboratory, was launched on its journey on schedule at 11 A.M. after what officials at the Kennedy Space Center described as an almost perfect countdown, free of any serious problems.
Within hours the Columbia had settled into a 155-mile-high orbit and the astronauts and scientists were going about their tasks in the 17-ton, 23-foot- long Spacelab that occupies the shuttle’s cargo bay. The laboratory, built in West Germany for the European Space Agency at a cost of $1 billion, is outfitted with instruments to conduct more than 70 experiments in astronomy, atmospheric physics, materials processing, earth observations and physiology.
Initial reports indicated that the Spacelab and its complex apparatus had survived the jolt of liftoff and appeared to be in good condition. Communications between the laboratory and ground stations, by a satellite link, were checked out and found to be loud and clear. Television images of the crew’s early work in the Spacelab were transmitted by the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite. The astronauts opened the hatch leading from the shuttle crew compartment to the Spacelab at 2:30 P.M. The first man through the 18-foot-long tunnel to the Spacelab was Dr. Owen K. Garriott, followed almost immediately by Dr. Byron K. Lichtenberg and Dr. Ulf Merbold, the West German physicist.
These three scientists, along with Dr. Robert A. R. Parker, are to operate the Spacelab’s experiments round the clock for the rest of the flight. Dr. Garriott and Dr. Parker are astronauts who concentrate on science as mission specialists. Dr. Lichtenberg, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr. Merbold, of the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, West Germany, are payload specialists who were selected for the flight by the scientists who developed the main experiments.
President Reagan, despite his proposal that the Legal Services Corp. be abolished, signed legislation extending the corporation’s life but imposing tighter restrictions on its operations. Also included in the appropriations bill for the State, Justice and Commerce departments was an amendment preventing the President from selling the nation’s weather satellites to private industry. Reagan had little choice but to let the proposed sale die or else veto the $10.5-billion measure.
President Reagan signs Proclamation 5131, proclaiming the years 1983 through 1992 as the National Decade of Disabled Persons.
A member of the new Presidential Commission on Organized Crime has decided not to serve even though the Justice Department found no basis for charges that he has had relationships with underworld figures, the department said today. John F. Duffy, the sheriff of San Diego County, California, was concerned “that the commission should be completely free of any controversy arising from allegations made against him. The department said that “no information was developed to question Duffy’s qualifications to serve on the commission with distinction and integrity.”
Pope John Paul II, seeking mercy, joined the Roman Catholic bishops in Florida in asking Governor Bob Graham to halt the scheduled execution today of a convicted murderer, Robert Sullivan, who has been on Florida’s death row for 10 years. A spokesman for the Governor said he “is not going to halt the execution.”
Robert Sullivan, whose scheduled execution in Florida drew a rare appeal for mercy from Pope John Paul II, won a last-minute appeal from Chief Judge John C. Godbold of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Godbold issued the stay eight hours before this morning’s execution to give the full 11th Circuit a chance to decide whether it will reconsider the appeal. Sullivan, 36, convicted of murdering a restaurant employee, has been on Death Row for 10 years, longer than any other inmate in the nation. Earlier the Pope, responding to a request for intervention from a group of bishops, asked Florida Gov. Robert Graham to stay the execution. Graham refused.
The number of homeless Americans shows no signs of abating after nearly a year of economic recovery and declining rates of unemployment. For reasons that range from historic changes in the job market to personal incapacity, the homeless continue to crowd shelters around the country in numbers that are, if anything, greater than they were a year ago in the trough of the recession.
Greyhound employees have rejected overwhelmingly the company’s latest proposal for a 7.8 percent cut in wages and reduced benefits, the Amalgamated Transit Union announced in Phoenix. The union said the vote of the striking employees was 9,181 to 325 against the contract offer.
Seattle Mayor Charles Royer, in a speech opening the National League of Cities convention in New Orleans, said state and federal efforts to cure the economy are only making it harder for cities. Royer, the league president, said some of the claims of economic recovery are misleading. “The newspapers are full of statistics that herald modest economic recovery,” he said. “But the national trends that we read about are the products of statisticians and quite often may be used by the politicians as tools.” William Freund, a leading Wall Street economist, later warned that continued $200-billion deficit spending at the federal level could send the economy back into a recession.
In a move to cut down on fraud, Massachusetts food stamp recipients this week became the first in the nation required to present state-issued photo identification cards to get their coupons. The move to photo-ID all 150,000 heads of households on food stamps, costing $1.7 million, drew criticism from civil libertarians and welfare rights advocates who said it would stigmatize the poor. But a public welfare spokesman said there had been no major resistance by food stamp recipients.
New York Mayor Edward I. Koch, testifying at a congressional hearing, accused the subcommittee’s chairman of “slandering” the city’s Police Department with unfounded allegations of brutality and racism. Koch admitted that some police officers “abuse their trust” but vigorously denied that abuses are either widespread or condoned. The mayor appeared in Brooklyn before a House Judiciary subcommittee headed by Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Michigan) that is investigating charges of police brutality in New York and elsewhere.
Justice John Todd of the Minnesota Supreme Court has been accused by a state judicial board of consulting books and using a telephone while taking a bar exam this year. He also was accused by the Board on Judicial Standards of saying he would seek special treatment in obtaining a license to practice law in Florida through a friend on that state’s high court. Justice Todd has admitted using books during the exam but said he thought it was permitted. He denied using a phone during the test and challenged a test administrator’s recollection of his statements about Florida. The Judicial Standards Board urged that Justice Todd be censured by his Supreme Court colleagues. The high court has not acted.
The state of Missouri was left footing most of the costs for a voluntary metropolitan desegregation plan although no one has determined that the state created the problem, a lawyer said today. His criticism of the rulings of Federal District Judge William L. Hungate on how to pay the bill for a major desegregation order was made in an appearance before an appeals court here. “Quite frankly, there aren’t enough white students in the city to go around,” H. Bartow Farr 3rd, an assistant attorney general, told the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Lung cancer will surpass breast cancer as the top cancer killer of women next year, the director of the National Cancer Institute said. Dr. Vincent DeVita Jr. said death rates for many other major cancers declined between 1969 and 1980, but lung cancer deaths among women doubled. For men, still the prime victims of lung cancer, the death rate increased by nearly one-fourth over the same period, DeVita reported.
Traffic accidents claimed 400 lives over the long holiday weekend, the lowest number for the four-day Thanksgiving holiday on record. The counting period extended from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday local time. The previous low for the Thanksgiving weekend was 413 deaths in 1981. The National Safety Council had estimated that between 400 and 500 people could be killed, about the same as for a non-holiday, four-day weekend at this time of year.
A blizzard trapped thousands of travelers and brought Middle Western cities to a standstill with head-high drifts while the death toll rose to 56 from back-to-back snowstorms. The record November blizzard closed major highways and key airports in seven states.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Dan Marino threw for three touchdowns, two to Mark Duper, and the Miami defense forced four turnovers tonight as the Dolphins scored a 38—14 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. Marino’s scoring passes of 7 and 15 yards to Duper and 3 yards to Bruce Hardy enabled the Dolphins to improve their record to 9-4 and open a two-game lead over Buffalo in the American Conference East. The victory came on the day the Dolphins announced that Coach Don Shula had signed a new contract. Cincinnati, its playoff hopes all but gone, committed two fumbles and Ken Anderson threw two interceptions as the Bengals fell to 5-8. Tony Nathan, on a 1-yard dive, and Andra Franklin on a 5-yard run, also scored touchdowns and Uwe von Schamann kicked a 47-yard field goal for Miami.
Anderson and Isaac Curtis hooked up on an 80-yard pass play for Cincinnati’s first touchdown. Curtis, on a down-and-out, caught the ball at the Cincinnati 37, stepped out of a tackle by the cornerback William Judson and was gone down the left sideline. The pass play was the longest against the Dolphins this year. The Bengals also scored on a 1-yard plunge by Pete Johnson. Those second-quarter scores cut Miami’s halftime lead to 17—14. But Duper’s 15-yard catch 4:08 into the third quarter, following a shanked, 20-yard punt by Cincinnati’s Pat McInally, enabled the Dolphins to begin pulling away. The score came after Marino and Duper teamed for a 10-yard pass, and Nathan ran for 12 yards.
Cincinnati Bengals 14, Miami Dolphins 38
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1269.81 (-7.62).
Born:
Carlos Villanueva, Dominican MLB pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Padres), in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
Died:
Christopher George, 52, American actor (“The Rat Patrol”; “Chisum”; “The Immortal”), and U.S. Marine Corp veteran, of a heart attack.
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