U.S. Marines began pulling back from Beirut to United States Sixth Fleet ships offshore. Marine officials said that 150 marines had been withdrawn from the capital.
Israeli planes bombed targets in the mountains east of Beirut, and Israeli officials said that a patrol of armored vehicles had advanced nearly half the distance from the Israeli line to the capital before withdrawing.
Iran said today that its forces had crushed a renewed Iraqi attempt to stop its five-day-old offensive, killing 200 Iraqi troops. The Tehran radio, monitored in London, said Iranian troops repulsed the new Iraqi counterattack and killed 200 Iraqis, forcing others to leave behind tanks, vehicles and weapons. In Baghdad, Government officials charged that Iran was massing troops near the two nations’ 733-mile border for yet a new attack in the 41-month-old war.
The White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, reaffirmed President Reagan’s pledge to keep the Strait of Hormuz open by “doing what’s necessary.” Pentagon officials, responding to reports that an American naval task force was steaming for the war zone, said a battle group led by the aircraft carrier USS Midway had been patrolling the northern Arabian Sea for six months.
Vietnam and the United States have reached an agreement to continue searching for U.S. servicemen missing since the war, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyễn Cơ Thạch said. Thach, who met in Hanoi with a five-member American delegation said only that Vietnam has “provided some supplementary information” on the almost 2,500 Americans still classified by the Defense Department as missing in action 11 years after U.S. military involvement in Vietnam ended. Thach declined to say whether the delegation, led by a deputy assistant secretary of defense, Richard L. Armitage, will leave today with any new evidence of remains.
Initial testing in Canada of the U.S. cruise missile will begin next month along a 1,500-mile corridor across remote parts of Alberta, Canadian Defense Minister Jean-Jacques Blais said. The tests will be conducted along a sparsely populated corridor stretching from the Beaufort Sea to a military range near Cold Lake, Alberta. A coalition of peace groups that is legally challenging the missile tests is awaiting a Canadian high court decision on whether they will be allowed.
A pro-Solidarity Polish priest appeared tonight to have lost his battle to remain in his parish here despite a transfer order from the Roman Catholic Primate, Jozef Cardinal Glemp. “It is my duty to obey, so no one is hurt, not the church, the parish or the fatherland,” the priest, the Rev. Mieczyslaw Nowak, told reporters tonight. “My place is in the new parish.”
Since last weekend, more than 2,000 people have packed the Church of St. Joseph the Worker for masses protesting the Cardinal’s order. Twelve people went on hunger strike demanding that the order be reversed. “My task in the first place is to show my adherence to the bishop,” Father Nowak told the congregation when he made an unexpected appearance at a protest mass tonight.
Polish authorities have released a U.N. employee held since 1979 as a CIA spy. Alicia Wesolowska, 39, a Polish citizen who had worked as a secretary at the United Nations for eight years before her arrest, was released in an apparent response to appeals from Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar. Wesolowska, in a telephone interview from her parents’ home in Torun, said today her jailers told her that she had been granted clemency.
A French truck drivers’ protest spread to the Paris region today with drivers cutting the most heavily used road link between the capital and Charles de Gaulle Airport. The new disruptions were described by the truckers as an attempt to press for results in the negotiations between their representatives and the government that began this morning. The blockades intensified during the day, and 111 of them were reported across the country at nightfall, the police said. After subsiding on Monday, the disruptions have now returned to the level of the weekend.
Mikhail A. Sholokhov died in a Cossack village in southern Russia at the age of 78. The author’s “And Quiet Flows the Don” and other works won him a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965.
President Reagan receives the “Rose of Assisi” for his peace efforts from the Mayor of Assisi, Italy and two monks from St. Francis of Assisi’s monastery.
The defense in the case of the 1980 killings of four American churchwomen in El Salvador asked that six Americans be called to give testimony, a request that, if granted. could delay the trial for three months. The trial has been delayed by appeals twice, and an appellate judge last week once again ordered five former Salvadoran national guardsmen to stand trial. Secretary of State George P. Shultz said in Washington that jury selection is not likely to occur before May. The Americans sought for testimony include former U.S. Ambassador Robert E. White, a former U.S. consul, a free-lance journalist and a brother of one of the victims.
The Executive Council of the AFL-CIO accused the Reagan Administration of undermining chances for congressional approval of massive U.S. help to Central America by “seeking to evade” the Kissinger commission’s recommendation that aid to El Salvador be tied to human rights progress there. The council, holding its winter meeting in Bal Harbour, Florida, said that human rights abuses in El Salvador are continuing and that U.S. military aid should therefore stop.
Emergency arms aid for El Salvador in advance of Congressional approval is being seriously considered by the Reagan Administration, according to Secretary of State George P. Shultz.
Nicaraguan elections on November 4 were scheduled by the government. The date, which is earlier than Managua previously announced, is two days before the United States Presidential election.
An Argentine leader was arrested by the country’s highest court in an investigation into his conduct of the 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands, a court spokesman said. The arrested man is former President Leopoldo Galtieri, the head of the junta that ordered Argentina’s invasion of the islands.
Haiti announced the official results of February 12 elections, saying that all 59 seats in the legislature were won by candidates loyal to President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier. He fired two governors for voting irregularities but accepted the outcome of the election, Haitian Interior Minister Roger Lafontant said. The United States, a major aid contributor to Haiti, severely criticized the election, particularly the house arrest of the Christian Democratic opposition leader and the sacking of the office of the only independent candidate.
A security agreement negotiated between Mozambique and South Africa will have very little effect on an offensive currently staged by Mozambican rebels against the Government, a spokesman for the rebels said Monday night. Mozambique has in the past accused South Africa of helping the rebels of the Mozambican National Resistance. The agreement, according to South African Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha, means that from now on each government will prohibit any form of subversive activity against the other on its territory. But speaking in Lisbon, a rebel spokesman said the talks between South Africa and Mozambique “will have little impact, if any,” on his group’s offensive.
U.S. foreign aid programs are inadequate, and Africa and the Caribbean region in particular need more assistance, President Reagan was told by an aid review panel set up by Secretary of State George P. Shultz. The committee’s chairman. Frank C. Carlucci, a former deputy defense secretary, said the $15.2 billion the United States will spend abroad this year on economic and military assistance is not adequate to achieve foreign policy goals.
Doctors today found fluid in the lungs of David, the 12-year-old boy who until recently had lived all his life in a germ-free plastic bubble, a hospital spokesman said. The boy, whose last name has never been disclosed, was put in intensive care and his condition was listed as critical. The boy developed the fluid problem Monday with an accumulation around his heart in an area known as the pericardial sac, according to Susannah Moore Griffin, a spokesman at Baylor College of Medicine. Today, she said, doctors detected the fluid in his lungs. David was born without immunity to disease, a condition known as severe combined immune deficiency. He was taken from the latest in a series of plastic bubble-like enclosures on February 7 and was placed in a sterile two-room suite.
President Reagan meets with Republican Members of Congress to discuss reducing the 1985 Budget.
President Reagan receives the report from the Commission on Security and Economic Assistance.
Walter F. Mondale pressed for a speedy victory in the Democratic Presidential race by campaigning in New Hampshire one day after dominating the first balloting of the campaign year by getting 49 percent of the vote in Iowa’s precinct caucuses. Meanwhile, unexpectedly strong showings in Iowa lifted Gary Hart and George McGovern to new positions of prominence.
John Glenn, set back by his fifth-place finish among the candidates in the Iowa caucuses, sought to assure his backers that their cause was still alive. Senator Glenn’s top campaign officials acknowledged that his campaign was facing its greatest challenge in New Hampshire.
The tone at one Iowa caucus was one of spontaneity, friendliness and democratic voting.
Five major veterans’ organizations warned that the proposed new equal rights amendment would eliminate preferential hiring of veterans for federal civilian jobs. Representatives of the five urged members of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s constitution subcommittee to exempt the veterans’ preference system from the ERA. The original amendment failed to gain the two-thirds vote required for ratification by state legislatures before its 1982 deadline.
A Holocaust survivor is struggling to regain $119 in monthly federal assistance payments. The Social Security Administration has halted the payments on the ground that $170 a month that the disabled victim, 45-year-old Felicia Grunfeder, receives in reparations from the West German Government represents ordinary income and that she is, therefore, too wealthy to qualify for federal aid. A federal appeals court upheld the government, but Miss Grunfeder’s lawyers have asked the court to reconsider its ruling.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to force Commonwealth Edison Co. to clean up perhaps hundreds of sites in northern Illinois where electrical equipment mounted on utility poles has ruptured and discharged PCBs. The government said the utility has more than 40,000 capacitors and perhaps 27.000 transformers mounted on poles and many are situated in areas where human exposure to the hazardous chemicals are likely. PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, cause liver damage, adverse skin effects and other biological changes in humans and are suspected of causing cancer.
Dr. Michael DeBakey performed his first heart transplant since 1970 and announced a new transplant program because of a new anti-rejection drug. The announcement of the program came within hours of the successful transplant by DeBakey, who helped pioneer heart transplants in the late 1960s but later abandoned them because of poor results. DeBakey said in Houston that his plans are not limited to heart transplants but that the new Baylor College of Medicine-Methodist Hospital center will transplant lungs, kidneys, livers and ultimately pancreases using the new drug. Cyclosporine.
Three Cuban exiles pleaded guilty in New York to conspiracy for their part in Omega 7 terrorist bombings and attempted bombings over the last three years, federal prosecutors announced. Omega 7, an exile group dedicated to the overthrow of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, has claimed responsibility for more than 30 bombings and two murders since 1978. The three men are the first implicated in the extremist right-wing Omega group to agree to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
An immigration official today called for an investigation of agents who deported a 14-year-old Mexican youth who was in the United States legally. The youth, Mario Moreno Lopez of Santa Ana, said Immigration and Naturalization Service agents intimidated him into waiving his rights and that he sneaked back into the United States after being taken to Tijuana. The boy was found wandering in San Diego late Monday and was reunited with his older brother today, five days after he was dropped off at the border.
Because of discrepancies between the boy’s statements and immigration agency accounts of his experience after he was rounded up on a Santa Ana street corner February 15 with 33 other suspected illegal aliens, Ernest Gustafson, district director of the immigration service, said he was asking the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate.
Voters in Taylor, Michigan, approved a property tax increase and bond issue after school officials threatened to close 12 of 23 buildings and lay off 100 workers if the issues did not pass. With all 49 of the suburban Detroit district’s precincts reporting, the unofficial vote favored a 5.4-million increase to the 39.1-million property tax. The vote on the bond issue will erase a $5.7-million budget deficit.
Leaders of four Hawaiian public employee unions rejected a proposed settlement of their contract differences early today and began planning a statewide strike involving 40,000 state and county workers. The unions involved are the Hawaii Government Employees Association, representing supervisors, nurses and clerical, technical and scientific workers; the Hawaii State Teachers Association; the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly and the United Public Workers, representing blue-collar, hospital and prison employees. The walkout could begin at 6 A.M. Wednesday, when a 10-day mandatory strike notice expires.
Jake Butcher, whose financial empire fell apart in a series of bank failures, appeared before a grand jury in Knoxville and turned over subpoenaed business records that he fears may implicate him in fraud at eight banks. Butcher ended his eight-month fight to withhold the records when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor refused to intervene. The grand jury is investigating allegations that Butcher, 48, chairman of Knoxville’s 1982 World’s Fair, funneled money to himself by obtaining loans in the names of his companies and draining his banks of assets.
The president of a silver-retrieval company returned from Montana and surrendered to Chicago authorities on charges of murdering an employee who was exposed to cyanide on the job. Steven O’Neil, 29, pleaded not guilty. O’Neil is one of five executives of the now-defunct Film Recovery Systems Inc., headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village, who were indicted last October in the February 10, 1983, death of Polish immigrant Stefan Golab, 55. The charges are believed to mark the first time corporate officers have been criminally charged in the death of an employee in the workplace.
An Army sergeant imprisoned for refusing to take a urine test for drugs said in a lawsuit filed today that the Army detection program was flawed because laboratories had made erroneous tests. Attorneys for Sgt. David McCowan of Durham, North Carolina, said in the suit filed in Federal District Court here that Army policies and directives carrying out the drug abuse program relied on tests “whose scientific reliability is highly suspect.” Sergeant McCowan is serving a six- month sentence in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, after being court-martialed last November for having been tested positive, indicating drug abuse, and for refusing to take a second test.
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Born:
James Wisniewski, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks, Anaheim Ducks, New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens, Columbus Blue Jackets, Carolina Hurricanes), in Canton, Michigan.
Kirsty Balfour, Scottish Olympic swimmer for Great Britain, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Karina [Nose Karina], Japanese model and actress, in Shōwa-ku, Japan.
Died:
Mikhail Sholokhov, 78, Soviet writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965).
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