The Marines could not be withdrawn suddenly from Lebanon without raising questions about the United States commitment to “moderation and negotiation in the Middle East,” according to President Reagan. In a policy statement, he said the Soviet Union, Syria and Iran were complicating efforts to bring about Lebanese national unity.
Bills to bring the Marines home from Lebanon ahead of the current schedule will be acted on swiftly, Democratic leaders pledged as Congress returned to work after a two-month recess. As the second session of the 98th Congress began, leaders of both parties predicted that the election-year session would be short, unproductive and partisan.
President Reagan decides to move Marines out of Lebanon and bring in an Army Force to train the Lebanese Army in anti-terrorist tactics.
The Israeli command said that an army patrol along the border with Jordan shot and wounded three Jordanian civilians by mistake. Military sources reported that the troops mistook the Jordanians for Palestinian guerrillas on a sabotage mission. The soldiers reportedly thought they saw the three carrying explosives, but their packages turned out to be harmless. The wounded Arabs are residents of the Jordanian village of Mukheiba, near the Golan Heights.
The United Arab Emirates’ ranking diplomat left Lebanon after telling the Foreign Ministry he had received a kidnapping threat, official sources in Beirut said. The departure of Ibrahim Hassan Saif, charge d’affaires and embassy counselor, left the emirates without diplomatic representation in Lebanon, since the gulf sheikdoms’ ambassador was previously reassigned. The top Saudi Arabian diplomat in Beirut was kidnapped last Tuesday, with a pro-Iranian Muslim group claiming responsibility, and is still missing.
Diplomats in Morocco estimated today that 60 people had died in two weeks of sporadic rioting in Moroccan cities, particularly in the north on the Mediterranean coast. They said the figure was based on reports they had received from around the country, mainly from their nationals who work on various development projects and from their consulates. The Government has made no announcement of casualties. Reports from Moroccan cities today described them as quiet but tense. Diplomats said they had been told there was a continuing heavy military presence in the northern cities of Tetuan and Nador, where shops were reported to be shut and many wrecked, burned and overturned cars were said to litter the streets. No reporters have been allowed to visit the north.
No changes in the West’s position in negotiations for reducing troops in Central Europe are planned by President Reagan, according to Administration officials. They said he would continue to insist on agreement on data about current troop levels before agreeing to reduce those levels despite recent Soviet concessions on the issue of on-site inspection.
Norwegian Prime Minister Kare Willoch said today that the arrest of a high-ranking civil servant who admitted spying for the K.G.B. had put a serious strain on relations with the Soviet Union. “The Soviet Union has to carry the full responsibility for this,” Mr. Willoch said at a news conference after a closed-door meeting with several Cabinet ministers. “Damage has been inflicted upon our country.” Foreign Minister Svenn Stray said, “After what has happened, it will be difficult to have trustful discussions with the Soviet Union.” Arne Treholt, 41 years old, the Foreign Ministry’s deputy chief press secretary, was arrested on Friday as he tried to fly out of the country from Oslo airport. The police said that he was carrying classified documents and that he had confessed to spying for the Soviet intelligence agency. The ministers said that security police had for several years suspected Mr. Treholt of being a security risk.
Honduras’ army commander, General Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, said that 5,000 Hondurans are being trained in Nicaragua and Cuba for guerrilla warfare against the Tegucigalpa regime. The U.S. military presence in Honduras, which includes trainers and troops holding joint maneuvers with Honduran forces, protects the nation, Alvarez added.
Salvadoran guerrillas said they accidentally blew up a civilian aircraft in a bungled attempt to attack a transport plane carrying U.S. military trainers. The rebels’ clandestine radio station said that a land mine was planted on an airstrip near the provincial city of San Miguel in an attempt to blow up a C-47 carrying the Americans. A domestic commuter plane struck and exploded the mine, killing one passenger and injuring the four others on board, the broadcast said.
Brazil is conducting research that will give it the capacity to produce nuclear weapons by the 1990s, but whether it does so is something for a future government to decide, Navy Minister Maximiano da Fonseca said in a newspaper interview. He added that the research is aimed at developing a nuclear-powered submarine and that it will yield, as a spin-off, the ability to make nuclear arms.
Argentina is preparing an offer to normalize relations with Britain in return for a demilitarization of the Falkland Islands and negotiations on the islands’ future, Foreign Ministry sources said in Buenos Aires. They said the new government of President Raul Alfonsin will probably transmit the proposal to Britain confidentially in February or March. Britain drove out an Argentine invasion force and recaptured the Falklands in a brief war in 1982.
Chile and Argentina signed an accord in which they pledged to resolve peacefully a longstanding territorial dispute over a strategic waterway that connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans at the tip of South America. The friendship agreement was mediated by Pope John Paul II. Argentina and Chile signed a declaration of peace and friendship in Vatican City and pledged to settle their dispute over maritime jurisdiction off the southern tip of South America in negotiations to begin this week. No timetable was fixed for conclusion of the talks. The dispute, involving control of the seas around three tiny, Chilean-occupied islands at the eastern mouth of the Beagle Channel that connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans off Tierra del Fuego, dates from the 19th Century. The Vatican began mediating the controversy five years ago.
A Canadian lottery prize of $11 million, the largest ever won in North America, was claimed by a Canadian truck driver and his wife after a nine-day wait. The couple, who have no children, said they planned to give more than half the tax-free winnings to relatives and to charity.
At least 54 people were feared to have drowned and 42 were missing after a ferry capsized Sunday off Tawitawi Island in the southern Philippines, the police said today. A spokesman said a navy patrol had rescued 145 people. Many of those lost were women and children. A constabulary spokesman said that the weather in the area had been bad in the last few days and that the vessel could have overturned in high seas. The ferry had left Bangao, the Tawitawi provincial capital, and was going to Sibutu Island, about 25 miles off the Malaysian state of Sabah.
China’s drive on foreign values and trends has been effectively canceled, according to Chinese and Western diplomats in Peking. The campaign against “spiritual pollution” created more problems than it sought to solve as die-hard Maoists seized the chance to strike out against changes wrought by recent economic policy.
At least 12 men were reported killed and 20 wounded in a clash between Indian and Bangladeshi security forces just inside the Bangladeshi border. The English-language newspaper New Nation, published in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, said the clash occurred last week in forest areas of southwestern Bangladesh and that the casualties were Indian. The newspaper said Indian commanders later admitted that their men had illegally intruded into Bangladesh territory but said it was a mistake.
Gunmen believed to be Ugandan anti-government guerrillas killed four Europeans Sunday in what appeared to be an attempt to discredit the government’s security record, diplomatic sources said today. They said three Swiss engineers and a Briton working at the Ugandan Development Bank were shot dead near a sailing club on Lake Victoria by a group of men with automatic weapons in two separate attacks. A fourth Swiss citizen was wounded. Diplomatic sources said there was speculation the killings were an attempt to tarnish the government’s assertion, before a meeting of Uganda’s Western creditors in Paris this week, that it had stamped out violence in and around the Ugandan capital. A spokesman for the biggest guerrilla group, the National Resistance Army, denied responsibility in a telephone call to Reuters.
The State Department acknowledged today that one of its top experts on Africa made a weekend trip to the Cape Verde Islands where, it said, he had talks with Angolan officials. John Hughes, the department spokesman, told reporters, however, that the official, Frank G. Wisner, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, had not taken part in three-nation talks involving both South African and Angolan representatives.
The selection of Edwin Meese 3rd, the White House counselor, to succeed William French Smith as Attorney General was announced by President Reagan. Senior White House officials said that Mr. Meese’s counselor responsibilities would be transferred to James A. Baker 3rd, the White House chief of staff.
A deficit of $180 billion, with spending of $925.5 billion, is projected in the budget for the fiscal year 1985 that President Reagan will send to Congress next week, according to Administration officials. They said the budget would show no substantial narrowing of the deficit before the fiscal year 1988.
President Reagan meets with all the leaders of the Annual March for Life.
The President and First Lady attend the re-opening of the newly renovated National Theatre to see a performance of “42nd Street.”
States may carry out death penalties without first conducting special reviews to ensure that the sentences are in line with the sentences imposed for similar crimes, under a 7-2 ruling by the Supreme Court.
A key new limit on the jurisdiction of the Federal courts to hear lawsuits against state officials and agencies was set by the Supreme Court in a bitterly disputed 5-to-4 decision. The Court overturned a decision by a federal appeals court that had ordered Pennsylvania state officials to correct conditions at the Pennhurst State School and Hospital.
Charles Z. Wick violated rules by secretly recording dozens of telephone conversations, according to an official report issued by the General Services Administration. Meanwhile, the Archivist of the United States said in a letter to the United States Information Agency, which Mr. Wick heads, that the agency might have violated other Federal regulations by routinely destroying transcripts of many of the telephone calls recorded since 1981. Wick, 66, this month gave Congress transcripts of 82 phone calls he secretly recorded and publicly apologized to those harmed by “my insensitivity.”
Federal aid to state and local governments has been cut by a cumulative $42 billion during the first three years of the Reagan presidency, putting them in the greatest financial straits since the Great Depression, according to a report released by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union. The group said the report, by Fiscal Planning Services Inc., showed deep cuts in education, health and human services, and public works. The immediate losers “are middle- and lower-income families,” said Gerald McEntee, president of the 1-million-member union. “But all citizens will ultimately be losers,” he said.
The Pentagon’s health chief has changed a ban against shooting all animals in a research and training program for treating soldiers’ wounds. A directive issued by Dr. William Mayer, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, now specifically rules out such use of dogs or cats. Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger gave goats and pigs, along with all other animals, a reprieve late last July after he had specifically ordered that no dogs were to be used in medical experiments related to the treatment of gunshot wounds. It appears that the new directive does not mention the exemption of goats and pigs.
The Agriculture Department and the Secret Service signed an agreement on handling criminal investigations of food stamp law violations. The department’s Office of Inspector General will concentrate its investigations on federal or state employees of the food stamp program, grocers and food stamp recipients. The Secret Service will investigate cases of theft, counterfeiting and selling.
A G.O.P. voter registration drive is being set into motion in an effort to increase President Reagan’s prospects for re-election. Republican strategists hope to add two million new voters to party rolls.
The T.V.A. laid off 400 employees at the nation’s largest nuclear power plant and said it would keep one of the three reactors shut down until officials are confident that employees can repair and maintain it properly. The layoffs were ordered at the authority’s Browns Ferry plant in northern Alabama.
Twenty-four scientists accused the American Cancer Society of doing too little to protect the public from cancer-causing substances other than tobacco. In a letter to the society’s executive vice president, Lane Adams, the scientists said that although the society had done an admirable job of discouraging smoking, the organization took little public action against other cancer-causing substances such as asbestos.
A 30-month, $39-million project to repair the weakened Statue of Liberty before its 100th anniversary began as crews delivered the first of four barge-loads of scaffolding. Officials of the preservation project said sightseers have a scant two weeks to see the landmark in New York Harbor before the scaffolding begins to surround it. Access to the statue will be closed intermittently as crews replace the 1,600 wrought-iron bands that hold the copper skin to the frame, replace the torch and install an elevator.
The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit early today granted a 35-hour stay of execution for convicted killer Anthony Antone, less than seven hours before he was to die in Florida’s electric chair. The stay was granted to give his lawyers a chance to appeal to the United States Supreme Court. On Monday, a federal district judge in Starke, Fla., had refused to block the execution, which was set for 7 A.M. today. Mr. Antone, who at 66 years old is the oldest man on Florida’s death row, was convicted of being the go-between in the murder in 1975 of Richard Cloud, a former sergeant on the Tampa vice squad.
A building supply company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, said it unknowingly sold 60 tons of possibly radioactive reinforcing steel made at a Mexican foundry, while Arizona physicists said the steel may contain 35 times the 10 millirem measure of radiation that was first reported. The steel was already in place at some construction projects in both states, officials said. Michael Smith, manager of Smith Pipe & Steel Co., said he had sold nearly all but about 10 tons before learning some of it contained low levels of Cobalt 60, a radioactive isotope used for radiation therapy in hospitals.
Renewed negotiations broke down today after only 90 minutes of talks between the Phelps Dodge Corporation and 13 striking copper unions representing 2,300 Arizona workers who have been off the job six months. The first negotiations since the talks were suspended last November 23 ended abruptly at 11:30 A.M. when a Federal mediator, Sam Franklin, emerged from a meeting room to announce that he would seek private conferences with officials on both sides.
An earthquake that jarred a 200-mile stretch from San Francisco to San Luis Obispo Sunday was followed today by eight aftershocks along the Monterey Peninsula. The quake at 9:40 P.M. Sunday registered 5.25 on the Richter scale and was followed by two aftershocks registering 4.0 and 4.7, officials said. The strongest of today’s aftershocks occurred at 5 P.M. and registered 4.0, said Patty Murtha of the University of California seismographic station in Berkeley. Only minor damage was reported in connection with the quake.
Hungry deer gathering at troughs set up to feed them during the severe winter weather are being shot by poachers out for a thrill, Utah State officials say. The state started the feeding program, paid for in part by public donations, including a check from President Reagan, to keep the deer alive in the unusually harsh weather. The cold has forced deer down the mountains and into urban areas in search of food, and they have been easy targets for poachers. Some animals have been wounded and left to die slowly. The authorities have arrested five people found with deer believed to have come from feed lots, officials said.
Further signs of Freud’s anguish over his first major theory and new evidence of efforts to cover up his doubts are reflected in newly revealed letters and long-secret documents. A scholar believes the documents establish “a failure of courage” on Freud’s part and show that personal considerations prompted him to abandon the early tenet, the so-called seduction theory. This view is vigorously disputed by other Freud experts.
Greatest unpaced 1-hour bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km.
Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to win his 1st World Wrestling Federation title at Madison Gardens, New York.
The Buffalo Sabres become the first team in NHL history to win 10 consecutive road games with a 5—3 victory at Boston.
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Anthony Spencer, NFL linebacker and defensive end (Pro Bowl, 2012; Dallas Cowboys), in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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