Another bombing attack in Britain that the police said was directed at Libyan exiles opposed to the government of Muammar el-Qaddafi took place in Manchester near an apartment occupied by Libyans. No one was hurt in the blast. On Saturday, a bomb exploded in a basement nightclub in the Mayfair section of London, injuring 23 people, shortly before a bomb exploded at a shop in the city’s Bayswater district that sells Arab newspapers.
The British Foreign Office called in Libyan diplomats and warned them against any repetition of the 1980 assassinations in Britain of exiled opponents of Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi. Over the weekend, three people were injured when a bomb exploded in a building housing several Libyans in the northern city of Manchester and 23 were hurt in London at a nightclub popular with Arabs. Earlier, a Foreign Office official said that while there is no conclusive proof that Libyans planted the bombs, police have warned Libyan exiles in Britain to be on guard.
Chad charged that Libya was behind the bombing of a French airliner, injuring 25 people and destroying the passenger jet on the ground at N’Djamena airport on Saturday. Libya denied the charge and said the blast proved that Chadian President Hissen Habre could no longer ensure security in his own capital. The nation’s information minister, Mahamat Soumaila, said that two timebombs were planted in the baggage compartment of the DC-8 during an earlier stopover — either in Brazzaville, Congo, or Bangui, Central African Republic.
Iraq accused the International Committee of the Red Cross of bias in reporting on the use of chemical weapons in the Persian Gulf war. Diplomats in Baghdad said the Foreign Ministry statement referred to recent Red Cross reports of Iraqi use of mustard gas against Iran. “Iraq is fully ready to cooperate with any neutral side in investigating these allegations,” the statement added. It suggested that any poison gas victims “possibly were Iranian opposition members or Iraqi prisoners of war.”
Ethiopia, accusing the United States of a huge arms airlift to Sudan, said it will not attend talks aimed at easing tension with Sudan that had been scheduled to start today in Nairobi, Kenya. Ethiopian Foreign Minister Goshu Wolde charged that Sudan and the United States are in “collusion and conspiracy” against Ethiopia, and he accused the Sudanese of lacking the desire for constructive talks. There was no U.S. comment on the charges, but U.S. officials earlier this month denied that Washington had decided to send arms to Sudan.
Syria’s Cabinet was shuffled by President Hafez al-Assad, who appointed three new vice presidents that included his younger brother, Rifaat al-Assad. Arab political figures and Western analysts said they viewed the changes as an effort by President Assad to carefully balance power among his potential political successors.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz has urged Republican members of Congress to oppose House and Senate legislation that would require the U.S. Embassy in Israel to move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Shultz warned in a letter that such a move would not only infringe on the constitutional separation of powers but also might provoke Arab extremists into anti-American violence. Since Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war, the United States and most other countries have refused to accept Israel’s designation of a united Jerusalem as its capital and have maintained their embassies in Tel Aviv.
Seven Roman Catholics resumed a hunger strike today to protest Cardinal Jozef Cardinal Glemp’s transfer of a parish priest to a rural area. The hunger strike started after Cardinal Glemp, the Roman Catholic Primate in Poland, transferred the Rev. Mieczyslaw Nowak from Warsaw’s industrial suburb of Ursus to Leki Koscielne, 66 miles west of Ursus, in February. It is generally believed that Father Nowak was transferred because of his support of the outlawed Solidarity labor union. The hunger strikers, four men and three women, are demanding that Cardinal Glemp recall the priest. They apparently resumed the fast to coincide with Cardinal Glemp’s return Monday from a 27-day trip to Rome, Brazil and Argentina.
In another religious protest, several thousand people held a rally in Garwolin, a farming town near Warsaw, in support of about 400 teenagers who are staging a sit-in at their school to press demands that crucifixes that were removed from classrooms by the Communist authorities be returned, United Press International reported.
Maurice Victor Macmillan died in London of complications that followed heart surgery. He was a Conservative politician, chairman of Macmillan & Co., the publishing company, and the only son of former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. He became a viscount last month when Queen Elizabeth II awarded his father a hereditary earldom. He was 63 years old.
Greenland has approved the terms set for its withdrawal from the European Common Market, ending a two-year battle for control over its lucurative fishing waters. Greenland’s Parliament voted 26 to 2 Saturday night to accept the terms for withdrawal set by Common Market Foreign Ministers in Brussels last month. Under the plan, which still must be ratified by national parliaments, Greenland will get about $22 million in financial aid annually in exchange for guaranteeing access to its Arctic waters for fishermen from Common Market countries. Greenland voted to pull out of the Common Market in February 1982. The withdrawal was held up by disputes over the amount of fish trawlers from Common Market countries should be allowed to catch.
Thai Army officers said today that the Vietnamese had been forced to airlift supplies to their army outposts in western Cambodia because guerrillas had cut their main supply routes on the ground. The Thai Army officers said the Vietnamese flew supply missions near the Thai border Friday and Saturday in Soviet-built T-28 planes and MI-4 and MI-8 helicopters.
Japan will allow Americans to take part in the influential advisory councils that shape Japan’s industrial policy, a senior United States trade official said. The decision, reached after months of debate, would give Americans in Japan much of the same type of access to legislation that Japanese lobbyists have in the United States.
China’s vice foreign minister arrived in Moscow for a new round of Sino-Soviet talks aimed at normalizing relations, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported. Qian Qichen was met at the Moscow airport by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Leonid F. Ilyichev. The talks are the first resumption of the Sino-Soviet dialogue since Konstantin U. Chernenko became Soviet leader. The last round of talks between the two countries ended in October.
Five people were killed in violence related to Colombian elections, which appeared to return most incumbents from President Belisario Betancur’s Conservative Party to their city council and provincial assembly seats. The government said that “in general terms,” voting was peaceful but that scattered incidents had resulted in the five deaths.
Private participation in foreign aid is providing channels for government money in countries where distributing aid might face problems. The assistance given by many private and voluntary agencies is also filling in gaps where there is no official aid, as in Nicaragua and Ethiopia. An example of this sort of aid are the field clinics established for villagers in Yucatan, Mexico, by a group of volunteer physicians from Iowa.
South Africa proposed a regional peace conference on South-West Africa that would include the rebels fighting for control over the territory. The conference would effectively sidestep the United Nations involvement in the dispute over South-West Africa and promote the interest of political groups in the area regarded as South African surrogates.
Gary Hart was attacked repeatedly in a televised debate in Atlanta by Walter F. Mondale and other candidates in a concerted attempt to halt his surge to the forefront of the Democratic Presidential race. The debate took place two days before a potentially decisive set of primaries in the South. Mr. Mondale said voters must choose between him and Mr. Hart, whom he described as naive, untested and weak on issues important to Democratic voters. Senator John Glenn of Ohio differed sharply with the assessment that it was a two-man race. Calling himself the “only moderate” in the campaign, he urged Southerners to avoid “the politics of stampede” that would lead them to vote for Mr. Hart, the Senator from Colorado.
The battle in Alabama between Walter F. Mondale and the Rev. Jesse Jackson for blacks’ votes in the Tuesday primary has divided black political leaders, forcing some to try to strike a balance between support for Mr. Mondale and the attraction Mr. Jackson has for their constituents. When he is asked why he isn’t supporting Mr. Jackson. Mayor Richard Arrington of Birmingham responds, “I have not lost my racial pride, but I have to deal with the reality of Ronald Reagan bearing down on us.”
Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO, said Saturday that Gary Hart had not brought any truly new ideas to his Presidential campaign. Speaking at a rally for Walter F. Mondale, whom the labor federation has endorsed, Mr. Kirkland said the Colorado Senator was “riding the wave of a media blitz, with only a vague promise of a big pie in the sky.”
“You can apply the burger test to Hart,” he said. “It’s a big bun, but where’s the beef?” Mr. Kirkland criticized some of what he said were Mr. Hart’s ideas, including a sub-minimum wage for teenagers and a national sales tax. “We can get our ideas like that right now from Ronald Reagan,” he said.
President Reagan speaks with Massachusetts State Senator (D), William M. Bulger (brother of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger).
Mobil secretly bought up 22 percent of the Superior Oil Company from the founding family, Mobil announced, and said it would offer Superior’s remaining stockholders the same price, $45 a share, or a total of $5.7 billion. If the bid is successful, the combined sales of the two companies of more than $60 billion last year would give Mobil a slightly better hold on its ranking as the nation’s second largest oil company after Exxon.
A blaze that raged through the cruise liner Scandinavian Sea was extinguished after burning nearly two days, the Coast Guard said. Fire broke out around 8 pm Friday as the 506-foot liner, about five miles from shore, was returning to Port Canaveral, Florida, from an all-day gambling “cruise to nowhere.” All 744 passengers and 202 crew members safely disembarked, according to the Coast Guard. The cause of the fire remained under investigation.
Three hundred West Texas residents have been summoned as potential jurors in the trial of mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas, set to begin today in San Angelo, in the 1979 death of an unidentified woman hitchhiker. Lucas has confessed to more than 150 killings and authorities positively have linked him with at least 88 deaths across the nation. The 47-year-old drifter has been charged in 11 Texas slayings, including two for which he already has pleaded guilty or been convicted.
Negotiations between the Writers Guild and CBS broke off in New York and a union spokeswoman said there would be no more talks before a strike authorization vote tonight. Talks broke down after CBS refused to change its position on jurisdiction over news writers and graphic artists and use of temporary employees, guild official Mona Mangen said. “The company still insists on its unlimited use of temporary employees,” Mangen said. The guild’s executive council rejected the tentative CBS agreement reached earlier last week because of the network’s demands for “givebacks” on the jurisdictional and temporary employee issues. ABC settled separately last week.
The parents of a severely handicapped child known only as “Baby Jane Doe” said their decision to withhold life-extending surgery for the child was arrived at “out of love for her.” The child’s parents, identified only as Dan and Linda A. of Smithtown, New York, appeared on the CBS television program “60 Minutes” on the five-month anniversary of the girl’s birth. “We looked at all the options and everything that was presented to us from the doctors and got all the best advice and we decided not to have the surgery,” Linda A. said. The child was born October 11 with an open spine, water on the brain and an abnormally small head.
A convicted rapist, who is charged in another attack and described as a major suspect in the slayings of nine people, had been prematurely paroled from prison four months before the killings began, an Illinois county prosecutor says. Milton Johnson was charged Friday with rape, deviate sexual assault and aggravated battery in connection with a July 17 highway attack in which an 18-year-old man was shot to death and his fiancée was raped and stabbed. State’s Attorney Edward Petka of Will County, south of Chicago, said Mr. Johnson, 33 years old, would be charged with murder and attempted murder in that attack, and said he was a suspect in nine more of the 17 killings in the county last summer. Mr. Johnson was paroled in March 1983 from Stateville Correctional Center, where he had been imprisoned for his conviction in a 1970 attack on a Joliet woman who was raped and tortured with a lighted cigarette. He was serving a sentence of 25 to 35 years for the rape and a consecutive 5-to-10-year term for burglary. Even with time off for good behavior, Mr. Petka said, he should not have been paroled until at least April 1986.
In a case that could change the way the Government handles secret information, a California professor will ask a judge Monday to order the Federal Bureau of Investigation to explain why some files on John Lennon remain classified for “national security” reasons. Documents obtained last year by Jon Wiener, an associate professor of history at the University of California at Irvine, disclosed that agents followed Mr. Lennon for months before the 1972 Republican National Convention because it was feared he would lead a demonstration against Richard Nixon. Mr. Lennon was shot to death in New York in 1980.
After two years of political turmoil, a battle for control of the casino resort of Atlantic City reaches a climax Tuesday with an election on the recall of Mayor Michael Matthews. The city’s 23,281 voters will decide whether Matthews should be removed from office midway through a four-year term he won after a racially divisive campaign in 1982. A successor also will be chosen should Matthews, a 50-year-old accountant and former state assemblyman, be ousted. The mayor’s chief rival is James Usry, 62, a school official and black community leader.
Iowa has been systematically underpaying women in state jobs, and it will cost nearly $30 million to equalize salaries, according to a study commissioned by the Legislature. The study, which examined more than 700 job classifications among state workers, found that 80% of the worst-paying job classifications in state government are female-dominated. On the other hand, consultant Jim Nickel, who helped draft the study, said 95% of state workers who make more than $33,000 a year are men.
Measures to make schools safer have stopped deterioration and the schools are probably safer, urban education officials say. But safeguarding city schools from unruly students and intruders has had its price in the sacrifice of schoolhouse congeniality and the imposition of stringent disciplinary programs.
Bishop John J. O’Connor celebrated his last mass in Scranton, Pennsylvania, before his installation March 19 as Archbishop of New York, and then attended a special farewell mass in the gymnasium of the University of Scranton, which was attended by 3,500 people.
Four ticketholders have stepped forward to claim their shares in the $18.2 million Megabucks Massachusetts Lottery, including a 21-year-old carpenter and a 67-year-old woman who longs to see Holland when the tulips are in bloom. Seven people chose the winning number, 5-11-12-23-28-31, but only four had come forward by tonight. “All I can tell you is I’m just so happy,” said Evelyn Buma, who said she would give most of her prize money to All Saints Episcopal Church in Worcester, but would indulge herself in a trip to the Netherlands, the country of her ancestors. State officials said seven of the 13.5 million $1 tickets sold matched the winning combination and each winning ticket represents a $2.6 million share. Lottery officials expect the remaining winners to come forward Monday. From a computer check, they know that one unclaimed winning ticket was bought in Ipswich and two in Woburn. The jackpot reached $18,218,580 last week because there were no winners for several weeks.
Winter continued to grip the North with subzero cold stretching from North Dakota to Upper Michigan as snow squalls pushed into New England. Warnings for gale-force winds were posted throughout the northern Great Lakes. High winds pushed wind chills down to 50 below in parts of Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin. Temperatures remained below zero in northern Wisconsin, with a morning reading of 11 below zero at Superior. Warnings for gale-force winds were in effect for Lakes Superior, Huron, and Michigan.
31st ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Maryland beats Duke, 74-62.
Born:
Frank Mata, Venezuelan MLB pitcher (Baltimore Orioles), in Barcelona, Venezuela.
Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese model, pop-rock singer (“Rose”; “Kuroi Namida”), and actress (“Kamikaze Girls”), in Shibuya, Japan.
Died:
Gladys Baker [Mortenson], 81, mother of Norma Jeane Mortenson (later Marilyn Monroe).
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