The White House released a report from an advisory panel that said the Soviet Union had consistently followed “a pattern of pursuing military advantage” by selectively disregarding its arms control commitments. The report, which was released at the insistence of conservative members of Congress, had been submitted to President Reagan in January but its release was delayed to avoid spoiling the atmosphere during the visit of Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko of the Soviet Union.
The Defense Department disclosed the makeup of a press pool to cover the initial stages of any surprise military operations, like the invasion of Grenada. It would include news agency, radio, television and magazine reporters but not newspaper reporters. Representatives of many newspapers protested the exclusion of their reporters and the fact that the Pentagon was determining the composition of the pool.
The striking National Union of Mineworkers was fined $250,000 today for contempt of court, and its leader was fined $1,250, but he escaped a jail sentence. Arthur Scargill, the union leader, failed to appear as ordered in the London courtroom of Justice Sir Donald Nicholls, but he later read a statement pledging further defiance from the steps of the union’s headquarters building at Sheffield in Yorkshire. If he continues to disregard the court’s rulings, he could still be sent to prison, something he has repeatedly said he would prefer to “betraying” the working class. The judge said he could not permit the union to ignore his ruling on September 28 that the strike was not “official” under the union’s constitution and that therefore the union must not threaten nonstrikers with disciplinary action. He made that ruling in response to a suit by two working miners who complained of union intimidation. “A great and powerful trade union with large membership has decided to regard itself above the law,” Sir Donald said. “The willful disobedience has been committed with maximum publicity by a large and powerful body bent on saying to its members and the whole nation that it is untouchable.
Britain announced that it will send a diplomat to Poland next month, ending a three-year political freeze on high-level contacts with Warsaw. The Foreign Office said that Minister of State Malcolm Rifkind, who oversees East-West relations, will make an official three-day visit to Poland in early November. Official sources said the visit is part of concerted action by Western Europe to lift the “political quarantine” imposed on Poland after it declared martial law in 1981. A Foreign Office spokesman said the decision on the visit was made after Poland declared an amnesty for several hundred political prisoners in July.
The French government announced a new crackdown on illegal immigrants but stressed the need to fight racism and to help foreign workers already legally settled in France. Social Affairs Minister Georgina Dufoix said that under the new measures, frontier controls will be tightened, foreign workers’ families will face stricter entry procedures and tougher penalties will be applied to illegal immigrants and to companies employing them. At the same time, training and housing for legal foreign workers will be improved and civil rights organizations will be able to take legal action on behalf of victims of racist crimes. There are an estimated four million foreigners in France. About 1.5 million are from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
Sweden has intercepted stolen computer tapes containing vital West German military information, Swedish security sources said, confirming a Stockholm newspaper report. The newspaper said the tapes were copied at an unidentified West German computer center on behalf of an unidentified East Bloc country. The newspaper said the secret information was of civilian origin and included satellite intelligence.
The West German government declined an Austrian offer to help 140 would-be East German defectors who have refused to leave Bonn’s embassy in Prague, Czechoslovakia, until they are allowed to emigrate to the West, a spokesman said in Bonn. Austrian Chancellor Fred Sinowatz said Austria would be willing to mediate on condition that “all sides request it to do so.” He also noted that no such request has been made by Czechoslovakia, West Germany or East Germany.
The Reagan Administration, concerned about the possible spread of nuclear weapons technology to Libya, is urging Belgium to reject a Libyan proposal for construction of atomic energy installations in the North African state valued at $1 billion, the Washington Post reported. The newspaper quoted Belgian officials as saying they think they could deliver nuclear technology without danger of it being used for military purposes. However, Administration officials are skeptical of Libya’s motives in seeking the facilities, the newspaper said.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres will press next year to secure a dramatic increase in American grants to Israel, from the current level of $2.6 billion to more than $4 billion annually, according to Israeli officials. Administration officials said Israel is already the largest beneficiary of American aid, not only this year but throughout the history of the foreign aid program. Mr. Peres, who left Washington today for New York after a final working breakfast with Secretary of State George P. Shultz, outlined his Government’s approximate needs in private meetings with members of Congress and with Administration officials during his two-day visit here, the Israeli officials said. Publicly, as in a news conference today, he has declined to be specific about the exact size of the requests.
King Hussein of Jordan and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt met aboard a yacht off this Red Sea resort this afternoon, the second day of their discussions. President Mubarak came to Jordan on Tuesday, two weeks after the King announced his resumption of diplomatic ties with Egypt, which had been shunned by most of the Arab world since signing a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. After watering an olive tree on the Martyr’s Monument in Amman from a silver urn this morning, Mr. Mubarak told journalists the talks were concentrating on the “Palestinian problem.” While he did not elaborate, the problem has several immediate practical and tactical aspects.
At least 25 supporters of the Mujahideen guerrilla organization were executed in Iranian cities last month, the group disclosed at its Paris headquarters. It said the executions came as the Mujahideen underground resistance ended a week of protests against the regime of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Extortionists have sent letters to some stores in Osaka threatening to poison more candy if the stores do not stop selling Morinaga & Company sweets, officials said today. The group declared in the letters that it had already poisoned 50 boxes of candy and planned to lace another 100 with sodium cyanide, because “we are out to destroy Morinaga,” said Takahiro Shinkai, a spokesman for Izumiya, a supermarket chain based in the western Japan city. On Tuesday hundreds of stores nationwide began clearing their shelves of Morinaga sweets after the discovery of cyanide-laced candy in several stores. As of today, the police had found 12 poisoned packages. Izumiya and three major department stores based in Osaka — Takashimaya, Daimaru and Hankyu — received identical letters Monday signed “The Man With 21 Faces,” spokesmen for the stores said.
The long-overdue report by the Philippine panel investigating the assassination of the opposition leader, Benigno S. Aquino Jr., has been delayed by disputes among the panel members over the findings, according to board officials. “You have five intelligent, independent-minded people on the board, so there are bound to be differences of opinion,” Andres Narvasa, the panel’s general counsel, said. According to published reports quoting board officials, members have agreed that the military conspired to kill Mr. Aquino, but that has not been confirmed by the board members themselves. The main reason for the delay, board officials say, is disagreement among the members about how high to go in identifying officers responsible for Mr. Aquino’s death.
Bahamas Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling said an investigation of drug-related corruption in his administration has caused the nation heavy political and economic damage. He also announced a reorganization of his Cabinet in the wake of three resignations and two dismissals. There have been reports of pressure on Pindling to resign or call new elections. His Progressive Liberal Party government, which has been in power for 17 years, has been rocked by repeated accusations of bribe taking, money laundering and other corruption involving the international drug trade.
Washington praised El Salvador’s offer to meet with guerrilla leaders next Monday, Secretary of State George P. Shultz said after meeting for two hours with President Jose Napoleon Duarte in San Salvador. Mr. Duarte said the meeting with rebel leaders would “not involve power-sharing.”
Seven Chilean opposition leaders were freed today after 24 hours in prison when President Augusto Pinochet decided to drop charges arising from a protest last month against the military Government. The seven said in a statement as they left jail that the decision showed the absurdity of the law under which they had been held – a special clause added to internal security legislation by the military junta last year to throttle anti- Government protests. Among those released were the presidents of the Christian Democratic, Social Democratic and Radical parties, Gabriel Valdes, Mario Sharpe and Enrique Silva Cimma, and the president of the leftist Popular Democratic Movement, Manuel Almeyda. They said they would continue the struggle for a quick return to democracy after 11 years of military rule, the main demand behind the protests over the last 18 months.
A former Nigerian Finance Minister was jailed today for 23 years for corruption that, according to a tribunal, earned him more than $3.9 million. The former official, Victor Masi, 45 years old, is the first official from the civilian Government toppled in December to be convicted of corruption. Several former politicians, including about a dozen former state governors, have been jailed for similar offenses.
Breaking a week-long deadlock, House, Senate and White House negotiators reached agreement on a $470 billion catchall spending bill that was sent to the House for approval. The bill, which Congress must approve before it can adjourn, is expected to gain Senate approval today.
President Reagan assailed suggestions from some Democrats and news commentators that he had shown signs of age in his debate Sunday with Walter F. Mondale. The White House also issued a statement that largely repeated the findings of a physical examination conducted on Mr. Reagan May 18.
President Reagan participates in a Q & A session with students of St. Agatha’s Catholic High School, Wayne County, Michigan.
President Reagan meets with the Heritage Council at Macomb Community College.
The Vice-Presidential debate between Geraldine A. Ferraro and Vice President Bush in Philadelphia tonight has taken on new importance after Sunday’s Presidential debate. Political analysts say Walter F. Mondale’s performance in the Presidential debate rejuvenated his campaign and, as a result, Republicans are now looking to Mr. Bush to “win one for the Gipper,” as one Republican strategist said.
Walter F. Mondale gained slightly on the issue of taxes, strengthened his image as a leader and was the overwhelming choice as the winner of Sunday’s debate with President Reagan, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll.
The National Coalition of American Nuns urged resistance to the Roman Catholic hierarchy’s campaign to make abortion illegal, rejecting “the claim that to be pro-choice is to be pro-abortion.” The statement by the 1,800-member group, based in Chicago, comes in the midst of a major debate within the Catholic community over abortion and the role the hierarchy’s opposition to it should play in the presidential campaign. “We reject any solution which would reimpose the criminalization of abortion, in as much as such a situation in no way does away with abortion, but results in making safe abortions available only to the rich, leaving poor women at the mercy of amateurs,” the group of activist nuns said in a statement.
A federal judge has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to speed up the timetable for making a final decision on whether several Midwestern states have to cut sulfur dioxide emissions believed to cause acid rain. A ruling by U.S. District Judge Norma Halloway Johnson, dated October 5, said the EPA had 60 days to issue a final ruling in the matter. On August 29, the agency issued a preliminary decision that refused to order the sulfur dioxide cuts in seven Midwestern states. At the time, the EPA gave no firm timetable for a final decision, except to say it would come in several months.
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed limits on diesel soot pollution from heavy trucks for the first time, and said it planned to tighten truck standards for a major smog-producing pollutant, oxides of nitrogen. The agency also said it was thinking about permitting manufacturers of low-pollution trucks to sell “credits” to makers of high-pollution trucks. David Doniger, an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, noted that diesel soot “contains dozens of substances EPA acknowledges cause cancer, delivered to your lungs in the most efficient way, on small particles.”
A consumer group founded by Ralph Nader said that President Reagan was responsible for “a consistent and severe retrenchment” on regulatory enforcement activities by the Food and Drug Administration and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Average annual enforcement actions by the FDA were slashed nearly in half under Reagan, compared with those undertaken during the Carter Administration, according to statistics compiled by Public Citizen’s Health Research Group. Similarly, OSHA’s average annual actions aimed at enforcing job safety regulations were reduced 58% from those under President Jimmy Carter, it said.
Six executives of the financially plagued World’s Fair in New Orleans resigned, and the annual $165,000 salary for President Petr Spurney was cut by $50,000 to keep the exposition open for the remaining weeks of its run to November 11. The resignations were expected after the fair’s independent finance committee insisted last week on major management cuts to save money. The exposition has fallen $140 million in debt since it opened May 12, mainly because attendance has been about half the 12 million expected. A grand jury is investigating possible bribery, kickbacks and skimming that might have added to the financial troubles.
Brown University students waited in lines 30 deep in Providence, Rhode Island, to vote on whether the school should stock cyanide tablets so students facing imminent death in a nuclear war could commit suicide. The non-binding, two-day referendum, which students said has become as controversial with their parents, relatives and friends as it is on campus, was the source of heated debate as students packed a basement hallway waiting to vote.
About 500 angry Disneyland strikers scorned an ultimatum today and marched around the ticket booths to dump their replacement notifications into a trash bin. The march onto private Disneyland property was described as a reflection of the workers’ contempt for the contract offer and order to go back to work this week. “It’s a symbolic gesture,” said Dick Davis, vice president of one of five striking unions. Park officials said workers not returning by Thursday would be replaced.
Owners of at least six bathhouses and sex clubs frequented by homosexuals here have refused to obey Tuesday’s order to close, health officials said today. The closing of 14 such establishments was announced by Mervyn Silverman, the City Health Director, as part of efforts to halt the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, which primarily afflicts male homosexuals. Mr. Silverman charged that the establishments “promote and profit from the spread” of the disease. The businesses say the city’s action is illegal, and lawyers said they were preparing for a court battle. San Francisco has the highest per capita rate of AIDS in the country. The disorder has afflicted more than 6,000 Americans, 736 of them here.
Mary Evans, a former lawyer who fell in love with an armed robber, helped him escape from prison and spent 139 days with him on the run, won parole today after admitting she had made “a serious mistake.” Miss Evans, 27 years old, is to be released February 4, 1985, after serving nearly 11 months of a three-year sentence, the parole board ruled in a 3-to-2 decision. The law requires her to serve this as a minimum. At a hearing at the Women’s Prison here, Miss Evans sat quietly with her parents, answering questions about her part in the escape of William Timothy Kirk in 1983. “There’s no doubt in my mind at all that it was a serious mistake,” Miss Evans said at one point. It was the first indication Miss Evans has given that she regretted her actions. She pleaded guilty in March to aiding and abetting the escape. She has been disbarred.
A Navy intelligence analyst has been indicted by a Federal grand jury here on charges of providing a British military magazine with secret photographs of Soviet ships under construction. The analyst, Samuel L. Morison of Crofton, Maryland, was indicted Tuesday on two counts of passing secret information and theft of Government property. Mr. Morison was accused of giving the United States satellite photographs to Jane’s Defense Weekly. He could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $20,000 fine if convicted. United States security officials have been concerned about what the photographs might tell the Soviet Union about the abilities of the satellite. Mr. Morison since 1974 has been a civilian intelligence analyst for the Navy center in Suitland, Maryland, with the highest level of security clearance, according to a Navy spokesman. He is the grandson of the late historian Samuel Eliot Morison.
Reliever Andy Hawkins allows just one hit in 5⅓ innings to give San Diego a 5–3 win in Game 2 of the 1984 World Series. In Game 2, Lou Whitaker, Alan Trammell and Kirk Gibson hit consecutive singles to lead off the top of the first and put the Tigers up 1–0. After Gibson stole second, Trammell scored on Lance Parrish’s sacrifice fly, then Darrell Evans’s RBI single made it 3–0 Tigers. Padre starter Ed Whitson was pulled after just ⅔ innings. In the bottom of the inning, the Padres cut the lead to 3–1 on Graig Nettles’s sacrifice fly, then in the fourth, Bobby Brown’s RBI groundout made it 3–2 Tigers. Kurt Bevacqua then evened the series at 1–1 with a three-run home run in the fifth-inning off Dan Petry. To date, this remains the only World Series victory in Padres history. Hawkins earned the win with 5⅓ shutout innings while Craig Lefferts pitched a three-inning save.
Game 2 at Jack Murphy Stadium marked the last MLB playoff game until the introduction of the universal DH in 2022 where the DH was used in a National League ballpark. Before this, any World Series game in an American League park used the DH (previously, the DH was used in alternating World Series), while pitchers batted in the NL parks. The next time the DH rule was used in a National League park was during a regular season series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies during the 2010 season.
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