The resignation of Lebanon’s Cabinet was called for by the Druze leader Walid Jumblat, who said that his militiamen would not stop fighting unless the Cabinet resigned. He said President Gemayel’s policies would lead to the complete destruction of Lebanon.
Iraq threatened to bomb a chemical plant being built by about 80 Swedish workers in central Iran, charging that the factory could be used to produce munitions to help Iran in its 40-month-old war with Iraq. The warning was delivered to the Swedish government by Amer Nadji. Iraq’s charge d’affaires in Stockholm. In an interview on Swedish television, Nadji said the plant, at Esfahan, about 200 miles south of Tehran, will be attacked unless the Swedes withdraw and construction is halted.
A hitherto unknown group calling itself Al Borkan (the Volcano, in Arabic) claimed responsibility for the attempted assassination of the Libyan ambassador in Rome on Saturday. The official Libyan news agency accused Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat of masterminding the attack, but PLO officials denied any involvement. Meanwhile, the envoy, Ammar Tagazzi, remained in a coma in a Rome hospital.
The Israeli Cabinet has approved a 1984 budget of $20.1 billion that provides for a $169 million cut in military spending and slashes in funds for education. Finance Minister Yigal Cohen-Orgad said the defense spending cut will not affect the combat capability of the armed forces. The cuts were approved as part of an austerity program designed to reduce last year’s $5.3 billion balance-of-payment deficit and cut Israel’s soaring inflation, which hit 191% last year.
The United States has agreed to a Soviet proposal that talks on reducing troops and conventional arms in Central Europe resume March 16 in Vienna. The statement by Secretary of State George P. Shultz was the first formal disclosure that an agreement had been reached on any of the major East-West issues during his five-hour conversation last week with Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko.
Six East Germans were allowed by the East German Government to leave the United States Embassy in East Berlin and cross the border into West Berlin. They had entered the Embassy Friday, vowing to go on a hunger strike until they were allowed to go to the West. The six — four men and a married couple — entered the United States Embassy on Friday and vowed to go on a hunger strike until the East German Government allowed them to go to the West.
The United States would have found itself in a dilemma if East Germany refused to allow the six to leave. To expel them from the embassy would have exposed them to arrest. Allowing them to remain could have meant having them as tenants for months or years. In Moscow, two Russian families of Pentecostalists spent five years in the United States Embassy before the Soviet Government allowed them to emigrate to the United States. The six East Germans, aged 19 to 43, left the embassy near Unter den Linden in three automobiles and drove through a checkpoint in the Berlin wall to West Berlin, witnesses said. It was not clear if the six were insisting on emigration to the United States or would remain in West Germany.
Signs of a religious renewal in Eastern Europe are coming from the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox faiths in the six junior partners of the Warsaw Pact. The turn to religion is especially apparent in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Poland, where, according to Marxist theory, churches should be on the way to extinction.
Afghan Government officials say their army killed more than 100 anti-Marxist guerrillas over the weekend and recaptured a strategic eastern district bordering Pakistan. Western diplomats here said earlier that Urgun, 100 miles south of Kabul, the Afghan capital, was attacked by Soviet air and ground forces from January 2 to 5. Up to 100 villagers were killed in the attacks, they said. The reported government recapture of Urgun, which was seized by rebels late last year, would allow Kabul to send supplies to its army units in strategic Paktia Province by road rather by air only.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has conceded control of Hong Kong to China when Britain’s lease runs out in 1997 on condition that the Communists allow the colony’s commercial life to continue unchanged, the Sunday Times of London reported. The newspaper said that the British concession was offered to China last month after four-year-old talks stalled on Britain’s original demand to retain administration for an indefinite period after 1997.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India, while denying she is anti-American, has accused the United States of cultivating dictatorships around the world. She was quoted in an interview with the Associated Press as saying that while she admired much in the United States, “the Administration talks of democracy, but actually whom does it help? . . . The majority (of nations) are not democratic.”
King Hassan II said in an address to the nation tonight that rioting in at least six Moroccan cities had been fomented by elements he termed Communists, followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Zionist intelligence agents. It was the first official admission of the wave of disorders, which began in the southern city of Marrakesh and spread to the northern cities of Tetuan, Al Hoceima, Nador, Oujda and Ksar el- Kebir with particular violence. An undisclosed number of people have been reported killed in a wave of unrest in this North African nation that began two weeks ago. Witnesses reported today that about 20 people were killed in clashes with security forces in Tetuan Saturday.
At the same time, the King assured Moroccans that there would be no increases in the prices of three food staples – bread, sugar and cooking oil. Fears that food prices would rise at a time of severe economic hardship are one of the principal causes of the unrest. The King, who appeared grim while on television, made no mention of casualties in his speech, during which he held up tracts and pamphlets that he said were produced by people who have been stirring up the riots.
Wildlife officers, stalking by helicopter, have started killing wolves in British Columbia despite protests from a conservation group. The fish and wildlife section of the British Columbian Environment Department said the officers intended to kill as many as 330 wolves, about 80 percent of the wolf population, in a mountainous area southwest of Fort Nelson, in an effort to protect moose and other game. The number of moose in northern British Columbia has fallen to 50,000 from 150,000 in the last 10 years, and there have also been substantial declines in elk, caribou and mountain sheep populations, according to Wally Macgregor, a department specialist. A coalition of conservation activists headed by Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Society is seeking a court order against the hunt and plans demonstrations Friday at Canadian missions in the United States and Britain.
A U.S. military aide and 10 Guatemalans were killed in the crash of a Guatemalan air force cargo plane 15 miles north of Guatemala City, officials said. In Washington, the Pentagon identified the American as Army Chief Warrant Officer Robert W. Prescott, 34, of San Mateo, California. He was assigned to the defense attaché’s office at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City. Guatemalan officials attributed the crash to a mechanical failure in the Israeli-made Arava transport plane.
Brazil will be able to produce nuclear weapons by the 1990’s, Navy Minister Maximiano da Fonseca said in an interview published today. But Admiral da Fonseca told the Jornal do Brasil that any decision to make a bomb would depend on a political decision by a future government. “Through the natural development of research, the country will inevitably one day have the material necessary to build the bomb,” the minister said.
Angola is trying to reverse unprecedented military gains by South African-backed anti-Government rebels with a major counterattack. Diplomats and other authorities in Europe who follow the situation in Angola said, however, that the rebels, led by Jonas Savimbi, may have become too powerful for Angola to defeat militarily.
Lisbon radio reported that U.S., Angolan and South African officials are meeting secretly on the future of Namibia. The account, which was denied in Washington, said the talks are taking place in the Cape Verde Islands, off the western bulge of Africa, and are aimed at breaking the impasse over independence for Namibia, a South African-administered territory, through a formula that could mean U.S. recognition of Angola. Frank G. Wisner, deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs, is reportedly the US. representative.
Administration sources say William French Smith’s resignation as Attorney General has been accepted by President Reagan, who plans to replace him with Edwin Meese 3rd, the White House counselor. Administration officials said that Mr. Smith told the President last Wednesday that he wanted to return to private life after having accomplished much of what he set out do at the Justice Department three years ago. His wish to resign reportedly startled Mr. Reagan and his staff. The official announcement will be tomorrow.
President Reagan watches the Super Bowl while continuing to work on the drafts for upcoming speeches.
Abortion foes sang at the Statehouse steps in Denver, dedicated memorials in southern Florida and marched to a Louisiana county courthouse to commemorate Sunday’s 11th anniversary of legalized abortion. At the same time, New York feminists decried President Reagan’s anti-abortion stance and a coalition of anti-abortion groups in Tucson readied for candlelight services at five abortion clinics. Participants in a “March for Life” today began arriving in Washington, D.C., by the busload — the day proclaimed by Reagan as National Sanctity of Human Life Day.
The main issues before Congress when it returns from its holiday recess today will be whether to keep the 1,600 Marines in Lebanon and how to reduce a budget deficit that could approach $200 billion in the next year. Some members who have supported the Administration’s Middle East policy now say, after travels through their home districts, that a change is necessary.
George McGovern and Gary Hart appeared to have gained some support from Iowa farmers for their campaigns for the Democratic Presidential nomination. They spoke in Ames on agricultural policy.
Civil Rights Commission Chairman Clarence M. Pendleton Jr. said the panel will investigate the possibility that white men are being discriminated against in the workplace. But Pendleton said the commission will not consider the effects of federal budget cuts on minorities, saying: “This is not a commission to deal with the problems of the poor…. It’s not a commission dealing with minorities,” Pendleton told interviewers on Cable News Network’s “Newsmaker-Sunday.”
U.S. national security is endangered in part by Americans’ ignorance of foreign languages and cultures, according to a report endorsed by the heads of 15 universities. The report, titled “What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us,” will be distributed to members of the Senate by the American Council on Education when Congress reconvenes today. The council is an alliance of nearly 1,500 institutions of higher learning. To support its conclusions, the report cited polls in 1981 that found only one American in four able to locate El Salvador, and fewer than half who knew that the United States belongs to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
People in Whitefish, Montana, mountain resort town of 4,600 people, were grieving today for nine people who were killed when a school bus carrying a high school wrestling team collided with a fuel tanker in a snowstorm. “A little bit of all of us died yesterday,” said Mayor James Putnam. “The people of Whitefish are in shock. I’m sure that January 21 will remain in the minds of Whitefish people for many, many years as one of the most tragic things that ever happened to us.” The crash Saturday night also injured 19 people. Only one remained hospitalized Sunday, according to the Flathead County sheriff’s office. The bus, carrying about 30 wrestlers, coaches, cheerleaders and others from Whitefish High School, was returning in defeat from a match at Browning, 94 miles to the northeast. It collided with the empty fuel tanker truck on U.S. Highway 2 and burst into flames. The bus struck the double-tanker rig, which had jackknifed across the highway, at about 6:30 P.M. some 22 miles southeast of West Glacier. Al Goke, state highway traffic director, said it was the worst traffic accident recorded in Montana.
A stubborn fire that destroyed the piers under a Charles River railroad bridge smoldered today, defying Boston firefighters’ efforts to get to it, as commuters got word that it would take at least six months to rebuild the bridge. “About 200 feet will have to be totally reconstructed,” said James O’Leary of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
Nine days of protests at the $4.3 billion Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in southern California have led to 145 arrests, the authorities said today. No arrests were reported this morning, but Sgt. Joe Little of the sheriff’s department said 12 people were taken into custody on the plant grounds Saturday evening. The arrests were the latest in a civil disobedience campaign that began January 13 and peaked January 15 when 50 people were arrested. The activity, coordinated by the anti-nuclear Abalone Alliance, is to protest anticipated approval by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of a low-power test license for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company plant located on the coast about 175 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Nuclear opponents say the protests will continue indefinitely.
Public school students would have to perform 100 hours of community service in order to receive a high school diploma under a plan to toughen graduation requirements, said Maryland’s school superintendent, David Hornbeck. He said he would submit the proposal Wednesday to the state school board as part of an overall toughening of academic graduation requirements.
Confirmed cases of child abuse in Iowa were up 25% last year, apparently because of increased financial stress on families and greater public willingness to report suspected incidents, state officials say. In 1983, the state Department of Human Services received 14,999 complaints of families involved in child abuse. Officials estimate that 3,327 of those cases will be confirmed as child abuse. The previous year there were 12,889 complaints and 2,655 families were determined to be abusing their children. Eight deaths have been linked to child abuse and another two deaths are under investigation, officials said.
All basic structures for the controversial Shoreham, New York, nuclear power plant have been completed after 11 years of construction, the Long Island Lighting Co. announced. Obstacles to the plant’s going on line in early 1985 include Suffolk County’s fight to keep the plant closed, lack of an approved evacuation plan in case of a plant emergency, and a state audit looking into possible mismanagement of construction.
The Dallas Museum of Art will be opened to the public on Sunday. Its architect, Edward Larrabee Barnes, has designed an immense sprawling limestone building with a huge barrel-vaulted great hall at its center. The structure presents an image of self-assurance that is very different from the one most Easterners have of Dallas. It is also superior to most of the city’s new architecture.
A hard winter freeze and the collapse of an ambitious horse-raising deal has left more than 100 horses dead and several Texas ranchers facing ruin. The ranchers said a company called Horses Unlimited Inc. reneged on promises to buy back horses it had sold to ranchers last summer who then were unable to feed them after freezing weather wiped out pasturage. Horses Unlimited bought 8,000 to 10,000 horses at auctions and sales, then sold them to about two dozen ranchers at $300 to $350 a head, agreeing to buy them back after a specified period, the ranchers said. Horses Unlimited said it intended to slaughter the animals and ship the meat to Europe. But earlier this month, the company said it could not repurchase the horses. District Attorney Tom Sehon of Falls County estimated the ranchers’ losses at $2 million to $5 million. Last week, seven ranchers filed 12 felony theft complaints against Horses Unlimited, Mr. Sehon said. He said a grand jury is investigating.
Radioactive steel reinforcing rods manufactured at a Mexican foundry have shown up in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and California, state officials say. Investigators first found the radioactive steel Friday, when a truck carrying the rods passed through a radiation detector at Los Alamos National Laboratory and set off an alarm. Scrap metal emitting high levels of radiation has been found by Mexican officials in a Juarez, Mexico, scrap yard, according to an official of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s regional office in Arlington, Texas. The Mexican scrap yard has sent metal to a foundry in Chihuahua state that has shipped steel reinforcing rods, a few of which contain low-level radiation, to the United States. The contaminant is Cobalt 60, an isotope used for radiation therapy in hospitals. Tom Buhl of the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Division’s radiation protection bureau said the level of radioactivity is low and does not pose an immediate threat.
A surge of deadly cold slammed into the East, plunging temperatures to a new low and setting at least two dozen records in the East. The nation’s greatest low of 40 below zero was registered in Chester. Massachusetts. The mercury dropped to 33 degrees below zero at Concord, New Hampshire, and to 23 below in Elkins, West Virginia. The temperature at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, 20 miles outside Washington, D.C., plummeted to 18 degrees below zero, breaking the all-time record low of 14 below set on February 18, 1979. The cold wave, moving east from the southern Plains and Midwest, has left at least 46 persons dead since Tuesday.
Yoko Ono, the widow of the former Beatle John Lennon, has donated an 18th-century Virginia plantation to a home for emotionally disturbed youngsters, a real estate agent said Saturday. The agent, Ralph Finch Jr., said the 22-acre plantation in Matthews County known as “Poplar Grove” has been put on the market for $580,000 and should provide about $200,000 for the New Beginnings Boys’ Home after its $200,000 mortgage is paid. Miss Ono donated the plantation to New Beginnings as “an apology to the human race and in memory of all war criminals,” Mr. Finch said.
The television series “Airwolf” debuts on CBS, starring a cool futuristic attack helicopter, and oh, yeah, Jan-Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine.
The famous “1984” Ridley Scott television commercial during the Super Bowl announces the impending release of the Apple MacIntosh, the first personal computer with a graphical interface. The MacIntosh will go on sale Tuesday. The Macintosh featured a nine-inch black-and-white display, an 8 MHz Motorola 68000 cpu, a whopping 128 KB of RAM, a 3.5-inch floppy drive — there was no hard drive — and weighed in at 17 pounds. The Macintosh also included a word processing program, a graphics package, and something that was almost unheard of at the time — a mouse.
Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women’s basketball record with 70 points.
Senior PGA Championship, PGA National GC: Arnold Palmer wins third of 5 Champions Your major titles by 2 strokes from Don January.
NFL Championship Game, Super Bowl XVIII:
A victory in Super Bowl XVIII made the Los Angeles Raiders National Football League champions for the third time in eight seasons. The Raiders defeated the defending champions, the Washington Redskins, 38—9. An important part of their victory was a 74-yard touchdown run by Marcus Allen. It was the longest touchdown run in Super Bowl history.
First quarter
During the first half, the Raiders scored on offense, defense, and special teams, becoming the first team to score two non-offensive touchdowns in a Super Bowl. Less than five minutes into the game, Los Angeles’s Derrick Jensen blocked Jeff Hayes’ punt deep in Washington territory and recovered the ball in the end zone to give the Raiders a 7—0 lead. On their ensuing drive, Washington was forced to punt, but Los Angeles punt returner Ted Watts muffed the catch, and Washington safety Greg Williams recovered the ball at the Raiders 42-yard line. However, the Redskins advanced only to the Raiders 27-yard line and came away with no points after kicker Mark Moseley missed a 44-yard field goal attempt.
Second quarter
Early in the second quarter, Raiders’ punter Ray Guy prevented a disaster when he leaped to pull in a high snap one-handed, before punting through the endzone for a touchback. After Washington was forced to punt, Raiders quarterback Jim Plunkett completed a 50-yard pass to wide receiver Cliff Branch, advancing the ball to the Redskins’ 15-yard line. Branch said that the Raiders took advantage of the tailwind after the teams switched sides. Two plays later, Plunkett threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Branch, increasing the lead to 14—0. One of the key contributors on the touchdown play was center Dave Dalby. After snapping the ball, Dalby had no one in front of him to block, so he backpedaled into the backfield and spotted linebacker Rich Milot coming at Plunkett from the left side, managing to throw a block against him just in time to prevent a sack and enable Plunkett to throw the ball. Cliff Branch became just the fourth player to catch a touchdown in two different Super Bowls (after Lynn Swann, John Stallworth, and Butch Johnson).
On their next drive, the Redskins moved the ball 73 yards in 12 plays to the Raiders 7-yard line, with Joe Theismann completing a 17-yard pass to receiver Alvin Garrett and three passes to tight end Clint Didier for 50 yards. However, linebacker Rod Martin broke up Theismann’s third-down pass attempt, forcing Washington to settle for a 24-yard field goal by Moseley. Los Angeles took the ensuing kickoff and drove 41 yards to the Redskins 39-yard line. The drive stalled when Plunkett’s third-down pass fell incomplete, but Ray Guy’s 27-yard punt pinned Washington back at their own 12-yard line with 12 seconds left in the half. From there, head coach Joe Gibbs had Theismann run a screen play called “Rocket Screen”, but Raiders linebacker Jack Squirek intercepted the pass and returned it for a touchdown to give the Raiders a 21—3 halftime lead. The defense was prepared for the play, as Theismann had successfully completed an identical screen pass to Joe Washington for a 67-yard gain in their 37—35 victory over the Raiders on October 2. In fact, Los Angeles linebackers coach Charlie Sumner had sent Squirek onto the field as a last-second substitution specifically to cover Washington. “I was mad,” said linebacker Matt Millen, who had to run off the field to avoid a penalty. “I’d called a blitz, and I was cranked up for it, but he told Jack to play the screen and sent him in. I guess Charlie knows what he’s doing, huh?”
Third quarter
The Redskins regrouped in the second half and scored on their opening drive by marching 70 yards in nine plays. First, Garrett returned the opening kickoff 35 yards from 5 yards deep in the end zone to the Washington 30-yard line. Then, Theismann completed a 23-yard pass to receiver Charlie Brown to the Raiders 47-yard line. Eight plays later, fullback John Riggins finished the drive with a 1-yard touchdown run. (Riggins became the second player to run for touchdowns in back-to-back Super Bowls; he had one in Super Bowl XVII en route to winning that game’s Super Bowl MVP award.) Moseley’s extra point attempt was blocked by reserve tight end Don Hasselbeck, but the Redskins had cut the score to 21—9 and were just two touchdowns away from taking the lead.
However, the Raiders completely took over the rest of the game, preventing any chance of a Washington comeback. On the ensuing drive, Washington defensive back Darrell Green was called for a 38-yard pass interference penalty while trying to cover Raiders’ receiver Malcolm Barnwell, setting up running back Marcus Allen’s 5-yard touchdown run seven plays later to make the score 28—9. Late in the third quarter, the Redskins had an opportunity to score after defensive back Anthony Washington forced and recovered a fumble from Branch at the Raiders 35-yard line. They moved the ball nine yards in their next three plays, and then faced fourth down and one. Washington attempted to convert the fourth down with a run by Riggins, just like their successful fourth-down conversion against the Miami Dolphins in the previous Super Bowl. But this time, Riggins was tackled by Martin for no gain.
On the next play, the last play of the third quarter, Plunkett handed the ball off to Allen, who started to run left as the play was designed. But after taking an unusually wide turn in that direction (he later confessed, “I messed up.”), Allen saw a lot of defenders in front of him and cut back to the middle before taking off for a then-Super Bowl record 74-yard touchdown run, increasing L.A.’s lead to 35—9 (Allen’s run broke the previous record of 58 yards set by Tom Matte in Super Bowl III). This play would later be immortalized by one of the last great lines from narrator John Facenda, who said, “As Washington’s hopes faded into the dying daylight, on came Marcus Allen, running with the night.”
Fourth quarter
In the fourth quarter, the Raiders sacked Theismann three times, forcing him to fumble once, and intercepted a pass. Meanwhile, a 39-yard run from Allen set up a 21-yard field goal from kicker Chris Bahr to make the final score of the game 38—9.
Raiders’ halfback Marcus Allen, who became the third Heisman Trophy winner to be named the Super Bowl MVP, carried the ball 20 times for a then-record total of 191 yards and two touchdowns, including a then-record 74-yard run in the third quarter. He also caught 2 passes for 18 yards. Allen was the first running back who was a halfback to be named Most Valuable Player. All previous running backs who won the MVP were fullbacks. Plunkett finished the game with 16 out of 25 pass completions for 172 yards and a touchdown. Theismann threw for more yards than Plunkett (243), but was just 16 out of 35 and was intercepted twice. He was also sacked six times. Branch was the top receiver of the game with six receptions for 94 yards and a touchdown. Guy punted seven times for 299 yards (42.7 average), with 244 net yards (34.8 average) and planted five of his seven punts inside the 20. Martin recorded a sack, a pass deflection, and a fumble recovery. Riggins, who had rushed for over 100 yards in his last six postseason games, was held to 64 yards and a touchdown on 26 carries, with his longest gain being just 8 yards. Brown was their top receiver with three receptions for 93 yards. Tight end Clint Didier caught five passes for 65 yards. Garrett recorded 100 yards on kickoff returns, and one reception for 17 yards. Part of both of Allen’s touchdown runs were cutbacks, which, according to New York Daily News writer Larry Fox, burned an over-pursuing Redskins defense.
After the game, Redskins general manager Bobby Beathard said that Lester Hayes and Mike Haynes were the difference in the game. Haynes had played out his contract with the Patriots after the 1982 season, and sat out most of the first part of the 1983 season during contract negotiations. He eventually signed with the Raiders, who were forced to give the Patriots draft picks in compensation. He played the final five games of the regular season; his addition gave the Raiders two shutdown corners. According to Beathard, Hayes and Haynes “changed our whole game plan.” Hayes had only one tackle, but had the left side of the field covered so effectively that Theismann hardly bothered to throw there. Haynes had two tackles, one interception, and two pass breakups. Although Brown averaged 31 yards on his 3 receptions, Redskin wide receivers combined for only 5 catches, with none in the first half. Another factor was Guy; he punted seven times for an average of 42.7 yards and 34.8 net yards. Five of those punts pinned the Redskins inside their own 20.
Washington Redskins 9, Los Angeles Raiders 38
Born:
Ubaldo Jiménez, Dominican MLB pitcher (All-Star, 2010; Colorado Rockies, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles), in Nagua, Dominican Republic.
Leon Powe, NBA center, power forward, and small forward (NBA Champions-Boston, 2008; Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Memphis Grizzlies), in Berkeley, California.
Ben Eager, Canadian NHL left wing (NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Blackhawks, 2010; Philadelphia Flyers, Chicago Blackhawks, Atlanta Thrashers, San Jose Sharks, Edmonton Oilers), in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Died:
Mikiel Gonzi, 98, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Malta (1944-76).
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