President Reagan meets with Minister Andrei Gromyko of the USSR. The President and Andrei Gromyko held what was described as a “forceful and direct” discussion of the sharp differences between the United States and the Soviet Union. After the three-and-a-half-hour White House meeting and lunch, it was announced that Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Mr. Gromyko would hold further talks Saturday at the State Department. Mr. Shultz and Mr. Gromyko met for three hours in New York on Wednesday. Mr. Shultz, who spoke to reporters after the White House meeting, said Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gromyko had repeated their known positions at some length and with some force. He did not hold out the likelihood of an early narrowing of the gap between the two nations.
“At the end of an intense discussion like this, it’s not the sort of thing where you agree, ‘All right, we’ll do x, y and z,’ ” he said, defending the value of a meeting in which there were apparently no tangible accords. Mr. Gromyko issued a statement later through the Soviet press agency Tass in which he said the Soviet Union was still unconvinced “about practical positive changes in the foreign policy course of the U.S. Administration.” He noted that the President had called for more frequent meetings of senior officials from the two countries as a way of improving relations. He indicated that this would be a positive step, if it were combined with changes in the American stances at important negotiations. “But this is not the case,” he said.
In Moscow, the Soviet public was told for the first time of the meeting during the national evening news broadcast, which included a two- minute videotape of Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gromyko chatting before a White House fireplace. The broadcast did not include any commentary on Mr. Reagan’s first formal meeting with a top Soviet leader, The Associated Press reported.
Poland’s Foreign Minister called today for an improvement in Soviet-American relations, warning that “the policy of confrontation can only lead to a catastrophe.” The official, Stefan Olszowski, addressing the General Assembly, expressed hope in the meeting today between President Reagan and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko of the Soviet Union and said the two leading nuclear powers “bear an exceptional responsibility for the fate of the world.” Mr. Olszowski acknowledged that there was a “Polish crisis” but stressed that “Polish problems are the business of Poles alone.” He said recent local elections and a broad amnesty were evidence of normalization of life in Poland. He accused some North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries, led by the United States, of “attempts to use blackmail, diktat and restrictions as instruments of political pressure on Poland.”
Likewise, Foreign Minister Stefan Andrei of Rumania emphasized the importance of resuming negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union. He called for an end to the deployment of American medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe and for a timetable for the withdrawal of those already in place. At the same time, he said, the Soviet Union should stop its nuclear countermeasures and establish a timetable for the cancellation of steps already taken.
Poland’s Roman Catholic bishops today urged the Communist authorities to follow up the amnesty for political prisoners by carrying out the 1980 agreements that allowed for creation of Solidarity. The bishops issued a communiqué the day before Jozef Cardinal Glemp and the Polish leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, were scheduled to meet. “There is an expectation for further actions by the state authorities leading to a realization of the social agreements of 1980,” said the bishops’ communiqué. The agreements between the Government and striking workers included the right to form independent labor unions and the right to strike.
Britain’s coal strike is illegal, a High Court judge ruled, because the miners’ union did not hold a national ballot of its members. The decision was one of three major developments that could change the course of the six-month strike. As the court held its hearing, leaders of the union of power plant workers, meeting here, failed to agree on coordinated backing for the miners. In the Yorkshire mining town of Doncaster, the mine foremen’s union authorized a strike that would halt production at the mines that are still operating. Miners went on strike March 12 to protest the state-owned National Coal Board’s plans to close 20 of the country’s 174 coal mines and lay off 20,000 of the 180,000 miners. The strike has shut about two-thirds of the mines.
Two Irish navy cutters intercepted a huge shipment of weapons in a pre- dawn operation off Ireland’s west coast early Saturday, a senior government official reported. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the abortive gun- running operation was being made to the Irish Republican Army and had “strong links” with American I.R.A. sympathizers. He did not elaborate. The official said the shipment of automatic weapons, explosives and ammunition were aboard an Irish trawler seized off the rocky County Kerry coast. Five men aboard the trawler from nearby Fenit were arrested, the official said.
Three civil guards were killed in a bomb attack today in the Basque town of Alegria de Alava, Spain as a protest against France’s extradition of Basque separatists to Spain continued. The police said five other guards were wounded by the explosion early this morning after a patrol was lured into the area by a telephone call. No one took responsibility for the attack but the police said the bomb — made of 11 to 17 pounds of plastic explosive — appeared to be the work of the separatist guerrilla group E.T.A.
Libyan troops have not begun withdrawing from Chad, as called for in an agreement with France, Chad’s Information Minister says. France, which started to pull back on Tuesday, has withdrawn troops and military equipment from its outposts at Salal and Arada south to Biltine and Moussoro, about 150 miles northeast of the capital, Ndjamena. But French forces were stationary Thursday, apparently waiting for the Libyans to pull back to the north in accordance with the withdrawal agreement. Information Minister Mahamat Soumalia said at a news conference Thursday in Ndjamena that there was “no indication that the Libyan Army has retreated from any of the 10 points it occupies” in northern Chad.
Pakistan said today that an Afghan warplane raided a Pakistani border town used by anti-Communist Afghan rebels and killed 32 people. It said 48 were wounded. A Government statement said the plane bombed the town, Teri Mangal, at dusk Thursday. The plane dropped two bombs, stayed in the area for four or five minutes, and flew back into Afghan territory, a Pakistani official said. He estimated that 200 shops were destroyed or badly damaged.
Opposition leaders in Manila said today that it appeared that as many as 11 participants in an anti-Marcos Government demonstration Thursday had been killed after the rally was broken up by the police. Jose Castro, a lawyer and one of the rally organizers, said indications were “quite strong” that 11 bodies found at various locations near downtown Manila since Thursday night were those of protesters. An officer of the Manila Police Department homicide division, Sgt. Villamor Valdez, refused to comment on the statements made by Mr. Castro and other opposition figures. He said that the police had just begun their investigation and that the dead had not been identified.
Brian Mulroney, Canada’s new Prime Minister, said today that he made no progress this week in persuading President Reagan to move swiftly to curb acid rain. Mr. Mulroney, who visited the White House on Tuesday, told reporters here that “I can’t tell you in fairness that I detected any major departure in his attitude.” The Reagan Administration has opposed moves in Congress to take such steps as limiting smokestack pollutants, arguing that more study is needed on the causes and effects of acid rain. Many legislators and public officials in the United States, pointing to dying forests and toxic levels of acidity in lakes and streams, have called for swift action by Mr. Reagan to reduce the pollutants that they believe to be the cause. Mr. Mulroney said he mentioned acid rain only briefly during the meeting, which came at Mr. Reagan’s invitation. Canadians consider the issue one of the biggest irritants between the two nations. Ottawa is committed to reducing sulfur emissions by 50 percent by 1990 and is trying to convince Washington to follow suit.
Human rights gains in Haiti have not lived up to the dramatic improvements promised a year ago by President Jean-Claude Duvalier. Despite widely publicized orders to end arbitrary arrest, torture and other abuses, the editor and publisher of a newspaper was arrested and beaten, two other critics of the Government were placed under house arrest and another went into hiding.
Peace measures for Central America and a broader European role in the region were discussed as the first formal meeting between Western European and Central American nations began in San Jose, Cost Rica. Foreign ministers of 12 European countries and 9 Latin American states are attending the two-day meeting.
Honduras has suspended the training of Salvadoran troops by United States military instructors at a key base in Honduran territory, a high-level Honduran official said today. The official, Foreign Minister Edgardo Paz Barnica, said in a telephone interview from San Jose, Costa Rica, that the training had been stopped while Honduras negotiated new economic and security agreements with the United States. A spokesman for the American Embassy in Tegucigalpa confirmed that the United States had been in discussions with Honduras “for the establishment of a permanent Regional Military Training Center.” “No additional foreign military personnel will be trained at the R.M.T.C. pending final agreement,” he said.
Honduran officials said an additional factor in the decision to halt the training of Salvadorans was El Salvador’s reluctance to negotiate a border treaty with Honduras. Honduras has expected the United States to press El Salvador to enter into negotiations on the border dispute.
Gunmen dressed like policemen sprayed the United States Embassy in downtown Lima, Peru with automatic weapons fire today, shattering windows but causing no injuries, the authorities said. A United States Embassy official described the damage as limited. The attack began one minute after midnight, and the attackers fled after Peruvian guards opened fire on them. The spokesman gave no reason for the attack, but police spokesmen said it might have been connected with a visit by President Fernando Belaunde Terry to the United States. He met President Reagan on Thursday. ( A leftist guerrilla group called Tupac Amaru took responsibility for the attack in a statement sent to the United States Embassy, Reuters reported from Limba.
A trade-off with Senate Republicans was offered by President Reagan, who said he would forgo enactment of a crime-fighting package, which he wanted, in order to obtain a catchall spending bill without any riders involving civil rights, water projects, or other issues. The catchall bill to continue spending is needed to keep most Government agencies operating in the new fiscal year that begins Monday.
President Reagan told Jimmy Carter that he had not intended to suggest that former President Carter’s Administration was responsible for the bombing last week of the United States Embassy in Lebanon. The White House announced that Mr. Reagan had telephoned Mr. Carter. Mr. Carter and other prominent Democrats criticized Mr. Reagan Thursday for remarks the President had made the day before that were interpreted as an effort to shift the blame for the bombing in part to the previous Administration.
President Reagan meets with senior staff to discuss the Simpson-Mazzoli Immigration Bill.
President Reagan prepares for his upcoming debate with Mondale.
The Pentagon was poorly informed when it decided in May 1982 to produce the Army’s Sergeant York antiaircraft gun, the Pentagon’s Inspector General said at a hearing of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Inspector General Joseph H. Sherick said Defense Department officials used oversimplified and misleading test results “that afforded minimal test information to the Goverment.”
Democratic incumbents in Congress, in their re-election efforts, are putting distance between themselves and the Mondale-Ferraro ticket in anticipation of a Republican landslide. The Congressional election is becoming almost as important as the Presidential campaign because of how its outcome will affect the balance of power in government next year.
Lee A. Iacocca, chairman of the Chrysler Corporation, has criticized the two major Presidential candidates as failing to address important economic issues in the campaign. “I have heard a lot about Christianity and prayer in schools,” he said at a news conference Wednesday, “but these guys aren’t running for Pope.” Mr. Iacocca, in New Orleans to unveil the 1985 Chrysler automobiles at the Louisiana World Exposition, said President Reagan and Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic nominee, had failed to say anything meaningful about the nation’s energy policies, the national debt or what they would do to protect the nation from imports.
Theodore V. Anzalone was acquitted in Boston on two counts of extorting money from a contractor. A contractor had testified that he had given Mr. Anzalone, who was former Mayor Kevin White’s chief fund-raiser, $8,000 in cash during meetings in the former Mayor’s office in Boston’s City Hall and Mr. White’s official residence in 1979. The case grew out of a three-year Federal investigation of corruption in Boston.
A 13-year-old girl was held without bond today on a charge of murdering an infant for whom she was baby-sitting, and the authorities said she could face the death penalty if convicted. The girl, Suzanne Scavone, a seventh-grader, was booked Thursday in the death of 6-month-old Ashleah Karas, who suffered four skull fratctures and died September 1. Miss Scavone could face death in the electric chair if convicted under a new state law that makes any death resulting from child abuse a capital crime.
Homeless people brought to this city-commune since Sunday by followers of an Indian guru will not get free trips home if they decide to leave, town leaders say. The new policy has officials in the nearby city of Madras worried that the people leaving Rajneeshpuram will end up in their town. “This is a new problem and we’re scared,” said Mayor Ray Murray of Madras. Meanwhile, the Federal Justice Department has recommended the establishment of a “rumor control” center to deal with residents’ concerns about the Rajneeshees, the state’s Attorney General said Thursday. Governor Victor G. Atiyeh urged residents to “keep cool.” The change of policy is meant to discourage any more new arrivals who are not sincere about wanting to drop their “street habits” and “fit in harmoniously” at Rajneeshpuram, said Ma Ananda Sarita, a spokesman.
San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock, the financier J. David Dominelli and two other people pleaded not guilty today to charges that they conspired to funnel funds illegally into Mr. Hedgecock’s 1983 election campaign. Mr. Hedgecock said before entering his plea, “I’m more convinced I’m going to win the trial than the election.” He is in the midst of a re-election campaign against Dick Carlson, a La Jolla businessman. Mr. Hedgecock’s lawyer told Judge Donald Smith of Superior Court that he was ready to go to trial as scheduled on November 2. But lawyers for Mr. Dominelli; Nancy Hoover, an executive of Mr. Dominelli’s bankrupt company, J. David & Co., and Tom Shepard, the Mayor’s former political consultant, said they could not be ready that soon.
Gerber is recalling about 168,000 3.5-ounce jars of its strained chicken and chicken broth baby food after glass fragments turned up in four samples of the product, the Agriculture Department announced today. The jars affected by the recall can be identified by the brand name, the size and the freshness date, “05 OCT 86,” which appears on the jar lid, said Ronald Prucha, a department official. The baby food subject to recall is marketed in New York, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.
The parents of a 20-year-old black man who was fatally shot by a city policeman, leading to a riot, have reached a tentative settlement in a $6 million civil suit against the city, lawyers said today. A jury trial was to have begun Monday. The suit sought compensatory and punitive damages on five counts in the death of Nevell Johnson Jr., including violation of civil rights, negligence and assault and battery. But at court conference, lawyers for both sides said a final agreement was imminent. “Everyone will be better served,” said the lawyer for the parents, Marlyn Johnson and Nevell Johnson Sr.
The Chicago Board of Education, after more than two months of legal maneuvering, voted unanimously today to appoint Manford Byrd Jr. to replace Ruth B. Love as superintendent of the nation’s third-largest school system. Dr. Byrd, a deputy schools superintendent, will take over as superintendent on March 25, or earlier if Miss Love steps down. The board voted in July not to renew Miss Love’s contract, but her supporters went to court to prevent the board from appointing Mr. Byrd, a 30-year veteran of the school system. The move to name Dr. Byrd began Thursday when Judge Joseph M. Wosik of Cook County Circuit lifted a temporary restraining order that had prevented board members from acting.
Scientists worldwide will study the interaction of Earth’s physical, chemical and biological processes under a resolution endorsed by representatives meeting in Canada.
Krzysztof Penderecki’s initial version of “A Polish Requiem” premieres with Mstislav Rostropovich leading the Stuttgart Radio Symphony.
Kansas City clinches the American League West title with a 6–5 win over the Oakland A’s. The Royals are the first Major League team to finish in the top spot and score fewer runs than their opponents. The only other American League team to finish above .500 with fewer runs than the opposition was the 1948 Philadelphia A’s. Dan Quisenberry survived two home runs in the last three innings to get his 44th save. Charlie Leibrandt (11–7) got the win. Frank White drove in the last three Royals runs with a solo homer and a two-run triple.
The Cleveland Indians, down 10-0 to the Minnesota Twins, win 11-10. The Indians’ Brett Butler singled in the winning run with the bases loaded and one out in the ninth.
The Detroit Tigers defeated the New York Yankees, 4–2, in 12 innings on Lou Whitaker’s two-run home run off Joe Cowley. But the American League East champions could have won, 2–1, in regulation had Hernandez been even more amazing than he has been all season. The Yankees tied the game, 2–2, against the Detroit relief ace, who had not failed to record a save in 32 previous opportunities this season, in the eighth inning. But it was really just a technicality. Hernandez, in fact, retired the only two batters he faced. Trouble was he took over with runners on first and third with only one out and the first Yankee hitter against him, Bobby Meacham, hit a fly ball to right field that scored the runner from third.
The Boston Red Sox downed the Baltimore Orioles, 5–4. Tony Armas hit his 43rd homer, tops in the majors.
The Milwaukee Brewers edged the Toronto Blue Jays, 4–3, in 11 innings. A throwing error by third baseman Kelly Gruber in the 11th allowed Ed Romero to score the winning run.
The Texas Rangers beat the California Angels, 4–1. Dave Stewart (7–14) won for the Rangers.
The Seattle Mariners thump the Chicago White Sox, 7–1. Matt Moore wins his seventh against 17 losses.
Bruce Sutter ties the Major League record with his 45th save of the season in the St. Louis Cardinals 4–1, 10-inning win over the Chicago Cubs. Starter Joaquin Andujar (20–14) allows 2 hits over 9 innings to win his 20th game.
Joe Hesketh hurls a complete-game four-hitter and the Montreal Expos trounce the New York Mets, 7–0. Dan Driessen hit his 15th homer.
The Houston Astros defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 6–3 in ten. Alan Ashby’s two-run homer caps a three-run tenth inning rally for the Astros.
The San Diego Padres downed the Atlanta Braves, 4–2. Dale Mrphy hit his league-leading 36th homer, but the Braves only manage six other hits off Mark Thurmond (14–8) and three relievers.
The Los Angeles Dodgers sent the woeful San Francisco Giants to their 94th loss of the season, 4–3. Bob Welch wins to even his record at 13–13.
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