A possible Shultz-Gromyko meeting may be held at an East-West disarmament conference in Stockholm on January 17, the Secretary of State indicated. But Mr. Shultz declined to say specifically that he would meet with Andrei A. Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister. Several Western European nations, especially West Germany, have been urging that the 35-nation conference on developing safeguards against surprise attacks be begin with foreign ministers present. Mr. Shultz, at a breakfast meeting with reporters, indicated he would not oppose that effort, although he declined to say specifically that he would meet with his Soviet counterpart. ”It seems to be shaping up as a meeting to which foreign ministers will go,” he said. ”If that’s the way it emerges, then the United States will be represented.”
In Bonn, Chancellor Helmut Kohl said he favored adhering to the deployment schedule for the American missiles as a way to to persuade the Soviet Union to return to the Geneva talks.
In Geneva, Soviet and American negotiators met for 3 hours and 35 minutes in the current round of talks on limiting strategic, or long-range, weapons. They agreed to meet again next Tuesday.
President Reagan meets with President of the Republic of Lebanon Amin Gemayel. Washington pressed Lebanon to act with more determination. In talks at the White House, American officials pressed President Amin Gemayel to widen his political base and to extend his army’s control. The Lebanese leader was advised that such steps could help persuade Syria to join Israel in agreeing to withdraw troops from Lebanon.
Security at the Marine compound in Beirut has been radically improved with protective devices ranging from dirt barricades to 100,000 new sandbags since the October 23 suicide truck-bombing of the United States headquarters. The marines came to Beirut as a symbolic “presence,” but they are now almost totally isolated from the Lebanese people — hunkered down and concerned primarily with self-protection.
A Druze leader, Halim Takieddine, was slain in his home in Beirut by an unidentified gunman. The murder of Lebanon’s second-highest Muslim Druze religious leader occurred several hours after a rocket attack by unidentified gunmen on a French patrol killed one soldier and wounded two.
Supplies of American-made cluster bombs to Israel will depend on working out a satisfactory agreement on their use, an indication that the Reagan Administration is looking for tighter restrictions to insure that such weapons are not used in areas with heavy civilian populations.
Beer magnate Alfred Heineken today described his 21-day kidnaping as an “emotional but unvaried” ordeal during which his sole human contact was the hooded guard who brought food to his soundproof cell. Heineken, reputedly the richest man in the Netherlands, said in a written statement that he was kept chained to the wall by his left hand in a small “very damp, cold space.” He said most of his time was spent reading, musing, sleeping and just “trying to stay alive.” It was Heineken’s first public comment since police freed him and his driver Ab Doderer on Wednesday from a lumberyard warehouse where the two were kept in concealed, soundproof cells by a gang of kidnapers.
Police are still searching for three suspects and $8.5 million of an $11-million ransom paid two days before the raid. Heineken, 60, and Doderer, 57, stepped outdoors today for the first time and posed for photographers at the gate of Heineken’s beachfront home. They made no comment about their experience. In his statement Heineken said he was visited morning and evening by a hooded man who communicated only by note or gesture and brought four sandwiches for breakfast and a warm meal at night. “Very occasionally, there was a half bucket of warm, fresh water in which I could wash as best I could,” he said. “I combed my hair with a broken plastic fork.”
In London, The Daily Telegraph reported that Richard Mueller, a South African citizen, had been held for two weeks in a prison in West Germany while police and intelligence agencies investigated his role in the purported transfer of sensitive Western technology to the Soviet Union. The Telegraph said company registers in Switzerland, West Germany and South Africa directly linked Mr. Mueller to ownership of an American computer seized in Sweden en route to the Soviet Union.
A guide for sexual education was issued by the Vatican. The 36-page declaration was viewed in church circles as largely a stern restatement of the Roman Catholic Church’s traditional attitudes. The document termed extramarital sexual relations “a grave disorder,” masturbation “a grave moral disorder” and homosexuality a “disorder” and “social maladaptation.”
The killing of a Salvador bill by President Reagan was assailed by the Speaker of the House, Representative Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., and other Democrats. On Wednesday, Mr. Reagan pocket-vetoed a measure that would have required continued monitoring of the human rights practices of the Salvadoran Government as a condition for continued United States military aid.
The Dutch and French Governments today denied Surinamese charges that they backed a coup plot against the South American country. A Surinamese Embassy spokesman, Roy Miranda, said protest notes detailing the charges were delivered Wednesday, a day after Suriname announced it had foiled an attempted coup and a planned ”invasion by mercenaries.” Suriname, a former Dutch colony on the northeast coast of South America, is bordered by French Guiana. A Dutch Foreign Ministry spokesman said today that ”the Dutch Government in no way, directly or indirectly, is supporting any action such as that alleged by Suriname.” The French Government also denied the charges.
The police in Santiago, Chile, clashed with protesters after more than 1,500 people marched in a legal demonstration against military rule, police said today. A demonstrator was shot and seriously wounded and a policeman was beaten, they said. The police arrested 12 people when the violence broke out after a Wednesday night rally in this city 520 miles of Santiago. It was not clear who fired the shot, they said. The rally was organized by an anti-government political coalition, and policemen intervened when demonstrators tried to start unauthorized protest marches after the rally, the police said.
Leftist guerrillas holding the kidnapped brother of the Colombian President today withdrew their threat to kill him if the Government did not meet their demands and said they would free him next week. In a message received by the newspaper El Bogotano early today, the Army for National Libertion said it would free Jaime Betancur unharmed Dec. 7 immediately after a national peace demonstration. The guerrilla group issued two photographs to show that the younger brother of President Belisario Betancur was safe. One photograph showed Mr. Betancur, 53 years old, reading a newspaper and another showed him playing chess. On Wednesday the guerrillas said they would kill Mr. Betancur if the President did not ”present solutions” by December 10 to their demands, including wage increases, a price freeze on basic consumer items and reductions in the price of public services.
Philippine Foreign Minister Carlos Romulo resigned today because of poor health and made a plea for national understanding so the Philippines can overcome its political and economic crises. At a news conference before undergoing tests for heart and kidney ailments, Mr. Romulo, a World War II aide to General Douglas MacArthur, said he submitted his resignation to President Ferdinand E. Marcos today, effective on his 85th birthday January 14. He said he would recommend Assemblyman Arturo Tolentino, 73 years old, as his successor. “I believe with the maturity of our people, having passed through several crises, we can bounce back,” he said.
President Reagan meets with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea Lee Won Kyung.
President Reagan attends a Cabinet Council meeting to discuss the potential for a permanent manned space station.
With the Columbia running smoothly, but its crew clearly overworked, mission officials considered the possibility of extending the flight an extra day to provide more time to conduct experiments aboard the Skylab riding in the space shuttle’s cargo bay. The planned nine-day flight is now set to end next Wednesday.
Using an ordinary screwdriver, Spacelab’s astronauts today fixed a high-speed tape recorder whose malfunctioning had threatened to curtail some experiments and sharply reduce TV transmissions from the orbiting ship. “We have some good news for you,” mission control’s Mary Cleave told the crew on the space shuttle Columbia after the recorder had been out for more than 11 hours. “Everything looks good and we’re back in operation with it.” She said that mission specialist Bob Parker, who noticed that a tape transport roller was binding, deserves “an attaboy for that.” He used a Phillips head screwdriver to loosen the roller, one of three in a cluster. Mission control then looked at 10 minutes worth of tape transmission and the good news message went up to Spacelab.
Rita M. Lavelle was found guilty of four counts of perjury and obstructing Congressional investigations by a federal jury in Washington. Miss Lavelle, a former administrator of the hazardous waste cleanup program in the Environmental Protection Agency, faces a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $19,000. Miss Lavelle, the former administrator of such programs for the Environmental Protection Agency, was convicted on four charges. The jury found her not guilty of a fifth charge, that she lied to a Congressional committee when she said under oath that she had not injected political considerations into her decisions on hazardous waste issues. All four counts on which Miss Lavelle was found guilty involved charges of lying about her knowledge of the fact that her employer before she entered government, the Aerojet-General Corporation, was one of the dumpers of hazardous materials at the Stringfellow Acid Pits site near Riverside, California.
Martin S. Feldstein said in an interview that he would not resign as chairman of President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers unless asked by Mr. Reagan. Mr. Feldstein is under heavy pressure from the White House to end his public campaign for higher taxes to reduce big projected budget deficits.
A senior White House official said today that President Reagan had been angered by the tone taken by Larry Speakes, his spokesman, in commenting on Wednesday about Martin S. Feldstein, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. The official said Mr. Reagan objected to the manner, but not the substance, of Mr. Speakes’s repeated criticism of Mr. Feldstein for his public insistence on the need to reduce the Federal deficit through tax increases. On Wednesday, in response to a question, Mr. Speakes said all of Mr. Reagan’s aides were familiar with his position on these matters, “with the possible exception of the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.”
A public affairs center that would be part of a Ronald Reagan Presidential library complex proposed for Stanford University must be governed by the university, not the Hoover Institution of War, Revolution and Peace, the faculty senate voted today. The group unanimously adopted a resolution supporting the stand of the Stanford president, Donald Kennedy, who has said that if there was such a center, it should be ”part of the university as a whole, rather than an extension of the Hoover Institution.” Reagan Administration officials want the public affairs center to be operated by the Hoover Institution, a politically conservative organization that already has much of Mr. Reagan’s campaign and gubernatorial papers.
Oklahoma’s special legislative session ended abruptly Wednesday amid predictions that its failure to approve the state’s first tax increase in 12 years would force $500 million in budget cuts over the next 19 months. Gov. George Nigh, a Democrat, had called the session, which began Monday, to provide the state with $654 million in new tax money through June 1985. A slump in oil and gas revenues contributed to the state’s financial ills. The State Equalization Board has certified a $1.45 billion budget for the next fiscal year, against this year’s $1.69 billion. The decreased revenue already is forcing cuts in this fiscal year’s budget, which ends June 30. ”I think this is a day that Oklahoma will regret,” Mr. Nigh said. ”The problem won’t go away.”
In a key wage discrimination case, a federal district judge in Tacoma has ordered the State of Washington to pay $838 million in immediate raises and back pay to women.
Some 40,000 Detroit commuters were forced to alter their travel plans in below-freezing weather today as 150 bus mechanics and maintenance workers went on strike against the Southeast Michigan Transportation Authority. New talks between the regional transit agency and United Automobile Workers Local 417 resumed in midafternoon. Bargainers planned to talk as long as necessary “to get the buses rolling by Monday,” said Dean Spooner, the president of Local 417. Union members voted by a 2-to-1 margin early today to reject the authority’s last contract offer, then voted overwhelmingly to strike, Mr. Spooner said. The employees had been working under daily extensions of a three-year contract that expired October 9. “We have a lot of issues on the table,” Mr. Spooner said. The 40,000 commuters affected by the strike represent only about 2.5 percent of the estimated 1.6 million commuters in a three-county area served by the transportation authority.
United States marshals today arrested Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine, after Mr. Flynt violated a condition of a court bond by leaving California. He flew from Los Angeles to Anchorage, and a Federal prosecutor said Mr. Flynt had stated intentions of going to the Soviet Union. The arrest came after a United States Magistrate issued a bench warrant in Los Angeles, despite a heated argument by the publisher’s lawyers that Mr. Flynt planned to appear voluntarily in court Monday for an arraignment on a charge of desecrating the American flag. A condition of the bond had been that he remain in California. The marshals said they would return Mr. Flynt, a paraplegic, to Los Angeles after a hearing before Magistrate John Roberts. Mr. Flynt was dressed in a Santa Claus suit when he was arrested.
A Federal jury has ordered Morris Shenker, the owner of the Dunes Hotel, to pay $33.8 million to a union pension fund because his companies defaulted on loans in the mid-1970’s. The jury, which earlier found Mr. Shenker liable for the loans, decided Wednesday that he owed the money to the Southern Nevada Culinary and Bartenders pension fund trust for defaulting on $24.9 million in loans to two land development companies he owned. Mr. Shenker, 76 years old, asserted the trial came about because of a government vendetta against him. He said he would appeal the decision. Labor Department Secretary Raymond J. Donovan, whose agency filed the civil suit against Mr. Shenker, hailed the award as a landmark decision for borrowers of pension fund money.
Ted Patrick, who has been retained by parents to help get their children away from religious societies, was convicted by a federal jury Wednesday of violating a man’s civil rights. Mr. Patrick was ordered to pay $50,000 in punitive and compensatory damages. The jury took less than three hours to find Mr. Patrick guilty of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Richard Cooper of Brookline, Massachusetts, 31 years old, a member of the Divine Light Mission. The jury in the three-day trial also convicted Mr. Patrick of asssault and battery and imprisonment.
The personal computer, for thousands of Americans, is becoming the ham radio of the 1980’s, a forum for dialogues on politics, religion, matchmaking and courtship. Many people chat several hours a day on computers with new friends around the country they have never seen.
The remains of an apelike creature formerly thought to have lived only in Asia have been found by scientists exploring a desolate region of Africa in northern Kenya. Examinations of fragments of the 17-million-year-old jaws, teeth and lower head bones of the primate indicate it had a face like that of an orangutan.
NFL Football:
The Los Angeles Raiders clinched their ninth American Conference West title tonight by routing the San Diego Chargers, 42—10. The Raiders (11-3) fumbled and stumbled for 28 minutes before shocking the Chargers (5-9) with five touchdowns in an eight-minute stretch of the second and third periods. Todd Christensen, the Raiders tight end, began the surge with 1:50 left in the half when he scored on a 43- yard option pass from the running back Marcus Allen. Christensen scored again with 26 seconds left in the half when he made a one-handed grab of a 25-yard pass from the quarterback Jim Plunkett, capping a 65-yard, five-play drive.
Frank Hawkins scored on a 21-yard run at the 10:55 mark of the third period to make it 21—10. Then Dan Fouts, the Chargers’ quarterback, who returned after being sidelined six games with a shoulder injury, fumbled when sacked by the Raiders’ Howie Long. The Raiders recovered at the San Diego 1 and Hawkins scored two plays later. On the next play from scrimmage, Rod Martin, a Raiders linebacker, intercepted a Fouts pass and scored from the San Diego 29. Christensen made it 42—10 with 3:21 left in the third quarter. The reception, his eighth of the game, was his 77th of the season and broke the club mark set in 1964 by Art Powell.
Los Angeles Raiders 42, San Diego Chargers 10
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Born:
Kristen Kish, Korean-born American chef (2012 winner “Top Chef”), in Seoul, South Korea.
Chris Davis, NFL wide receiver (New York Jets), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Died:
Leon Mirsky, 64, Russian-British mathematician (Mirsky’s theorem).
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