[Ed: The photo gives a good sense of just how big the B-1 really is.]
Poland’s Roman Catholic Church said today that it feared for the life of a kidnapped priest who supports Solidarity, and a Government spokesman asserted that the abduction was an attempt to undermine the authorities. The whereabouts and condition of the Rev. Jerzy Popiełuszko are not known and no one has taken responsibility for his abduction on Friday. The Catholic episcopate said of the priest’s disapparance, “On the one hand there is fear about his life and on the other there is fear that kidnapping may become a method of political strife in our country. The information we have about the circumstances of the kidnapping indicates that the culprits acted for political motives.” Jerzy Urban, the Government spokesman, said the police had received “signals from the population” that Father Popiełuszko was seen alive after the kidnapping. Mr. Urban, who said he was speaking in an unofficial capacity, dismissed allegations that the authorities were involved in the kidnapping.
[Ed: Bullshit. The secret police killed him.]
Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today that persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union appeared to be worsening and that Jewish emigration had come to a “virtual standstill.” Mr. Shultz, speaking at a meeting of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, declared that the United States “will not stop our practice” of calling the Russians to account “for their abuses of human rights.” “I wish I could use this occasion to bring you encouraging news about the condition of Soviet Jewry,” Mr. Shultz told the American Jewish leaders, gathered for their annual three-day meeting.
Eight oil-producing countries — six OPEC members and two nonmembers — began informal talks in Geneva in a joint attempt to curb oil production and prop up falling oil prices. But the meeting was dealt an immediate setback when it became known that the oil minister of Nigeria, which unilaterally lowered its oil price last week, would not take part.
Britain has established a new anti-terrorist intelligence unit to combat the Irish Republican Army after the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and members of her Cabinet on October 12, Home Secretary Leon Brittan announced. He said the new unit, which will consult terrorism specialists and work closely with police, will try to assess the intentions and capabilities of the guerrillas and suggest countermeasures.
Four Roman Catholic clergymen from the United States talked to imprisoned guerrillas today, then met with Britain’s highest-ranking official in Northern Ireland. The four American clerics declined to comment to reporters on their meetings. “The only talking I’m doing is at mass when I preach to the people,” said Archbishop John J. O’Connor of New York. “Perhaps we may make some comments at the end of our visit.”
The Carter Administration set up a covert CIA program in 1978 to induce the European press to write favorably about neutron weapons and expose Soviet efforts to block deployment, a new study by Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government said. The study, “The Press and the Neutron Bomb,” does not make clear, however, whether payments were actually made to journalists. The neutron weapons were never deployed.
A race for computer supremacy is under way and could, some experts say, determine which country will dominate the world in economic, military and scientific fields in the next century.
Defending champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Gary Kasparov agreed to a draw after Kasparov, playing white, made his 37th move in the 16th game of their world championship match. Karpov holds a 4-0 lead and needs two more wins to retain his title.
Five people were killed and eight wounded in clashes between Palestine Liberation Organization followers of Yasser Arafat and a rebel PLO faction at the Borj el Brajne refugee camp in southern Beirut, security sources said. Meanwhile, other sources reported that the U.S. diplomatic staff in the Lebanese capital has now been reduced to about 30. Meanwhile, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, after chairing an emergency Cabinet meeting, flew to Libya for surprise talks with Colonel Muammar Qaddafi.
Denials that the Pentagon or the Joint Chiefs of Staff had recommended that the marines in Beirut be withdrawn five days before a terrorist attack there killed 241 Americans were issued by the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department. The denials were issued in response to a charge made by Walter F. Mondale in the debate with President Reagan that Mr. Reagan disregarded a plea from the Joint Chiefs to remove the marines from the barracks at Beirut airport. Mr. Mondale, without citing a source, said twice during the debate that the Joint Chiefs had urged the President not to assign the marines to the barracks because they were indefensible and then on October 18, five days before the October 23 bombing, had asked Mr. Reagan to evacuate them. Campaign aides, when asked today for the source of Mr. Mondale’s statement, initially directed reporters to his Washington headquarters. Staff members there said his charge was based on an article in the current issue of The Nation and remarks by Secretary of State George P. Shultz on Sunday morning that the Mondale camp apparently interpreted to be a confirmation of the magazine article.
Secessionist Ethiopian guerrillas seized an Ethiopian tourist resort last week and captured 130 people, including 10 foreigners, Western diplomats and rebel spokesmen said today. The rebels said hundreds of Government soldiers were killed or wounded in the battle for the town. Western diplomats in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa said there did not appear to be any immediate danger to the foreigners, including two Americans, who were in Lalibela when it was seized by the Tigre People’s Liberation Front guerrillas on Friday. Rebels and diplomats said the 10 foreigners also included two Britons, an Australian and a Finn. Three West Germans and a Swiss national were also reported to have been seized.
In Sri Lanka, three people were killed and at least 15 wounded in a series of bomb explosions in Colombo and its outskirts today, Defense Ministry sources said. They said six blasts occurred in different places in the capital and a seventh bomb went off in a suburb. Three other bombs were discovered in the city and defused, they said. They said one person was killed when he tried to plant a bomb early this morning near a police station in Colombo. Two others were killed in a blast at Peliyagoda on the outskirts of the capital, they said. The police said no one had claimed responsibility for the blasts but they suspected guerrillas fighting for a separate minority Tamil state might have planted the bombs.
China indirectly criticized the Soviet Union today for its support of the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia. The move came as Soviet negotiators held talks here on ways to improve their troubled relations. An analysis of recent Vietnamese actions on the Cambodian issue published by the official New China News Agency today did not mention Moscow, but China has consistently said Moscow’s close ties with Hanoi encouraged Hanoi’s occupation of Cambodia and threatened to disrupt the Pacific region. The timing of the commentary to coincide with the current round of normalization talks between China and the Soviet Union made clear that Peking considered Moscow’s backing for Hanoi a major block to relations, political analysts said. The press agency report rejected Hanoi’s proposals for talks on Cambodia or discussions between Hanoi and the Peking-backed anti-Vietnamese guerrilla coalition, which includes both Prince Norodom Sihanouk and the Khmer Rouge.
Defying U.S. warnings, two Japanese whaling firms sent four ships to sea with orders to slaughter 400 sperm-whales this season. The Nippon and Nitto whaling companies said they decided to proceed despite U.S. threats to impose sanctions on Japanese fishermen. The Japanese maintain that they are not bound by an International Whaling Commission moratorium on sperm whale kills because they filed an objection when the measure was passed two years ago.
President Reagan’s comments on Philippine politics were assailed by opposition leaders in Manila who said they showed he had badly misread the situation. An opposition legislator, Ramon Mitra, said the main opposition to the Government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos was not Communist, as Mr. Reagan said, but democratic. But, Mr. Mitra added, “if there is one thing that may lead to Communism here, it is Marcos staying in power.”
Salvadoran rebels attacked the nation’s electrical power grid, bombing pylons that support high-tension lines and blacking out San Salvador, the capital, and most of the northern part of the country. Rebel radio denied an armed forces report that 30 guerrillas died in a raid a day earlier on a transformer station north of the capital.
President Reagan was disputed by CIA officials. They told two Senators that no copies of the agency’s manual on guerrilla warfare were edited to remove advice on kidnapping and killing Nicaraguan Government officials and other material that is in violation of policy.
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has dismissed Foreign Minister Paulo Jorge, a veteran pro-Soviet figure in the Luanda government, and temporarily assumed the post himself, Angola radio reported. The change followed a visit to Angola last week by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Frank G. Wisner in the latest U.S. attempt to negotiate independence for Namibia, and it was seen by some Western observers as a sign of new Angolan flexibility. The dismissal Sunday of Jorge, who had been considered a hard-liner in the Cuban-backed Government, came amid signs that Angola might be adopting a more flexible stance toward United States and South African demands that an estimated 30,000-man Cuban force leave Angola in conjunction with an independence settlement for Pretoria- administered South-West Africa, usually known as Namibia. “Jorge’s removal likely signals a major diplomatic shift,” one Western diplomat said.
The South African government sent a force of 7,000 police and soldiers into the troubled black township of Sebokeng, 45 miles south of Johannesburg, in an avowed effort to “restore normality” there after six weeks of serious unrest touched off by sharp rent increases. The combined task force arrested at least 146 people as it began a house-to-house search for weapons and contraband, police said. The force will also try to reopen schools that have been closed by a student boycott for several months.
The Presidential nominees resumed campaigning in key states after a debate that most public opinion surveys showed had been judged a draw by television viewers. Campaign officials for both sides said the 90-minute debate had set the stage for two weeks of hard fighting on the leadership issue.
President Reagan speaks with Frederick K. Biebel, Deputy Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC).
President Reagan spends most of the day campaigning in Southern California and Oregon. President Reagan, flush from what he considered a successful debate performance against Walter F. Mondale, stalked his rival from the shadow of the B-1 bomber today, saying the Democratic nominee had a “frightening” national defense record of “hostility to a strong, secure America.” Mr. Reagan visited the B-1 bomber factory in Palmdale, Calif., and underlined Mr. Mondale’s opposition to the warplane, contending, “Mr. Mondale made a career out of weakening America’s armed forces.” In their debate Sunday night, the Democratic challenger asked Mr. Reagan to give him credit for with supporting a strong national defense. Mr. Reagan made no such concession as he stepped up his campaign in the final two weeks before the election.
The first agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be charged with espionage and his two Soviet co-defendants pleaded not guilty today in Federal District Court. The agent, Richard Miller, who was dismissed from the FBI shortly before his arrest three weeks ago, and the Russian emigres, Nikolay and Svetlana Malutina Ogorodnikov, entered their pleas to a 13-count indictment before Federal District Judge David V. Kenyon. Mr. Miller, 47 years old, an FBI agent for 20 years, was charged with conspiring to pass secrets to the Ogorodnikovs in exchange for $50,000 in gold and $15,000 in cash.
An intelligence officer backed General William C. Westmoreland’s claim that Việt Cộng irregulars were not dropped from enemy troop counts to distort troop figures in the Vietnam War, but were dropped because they were ineffectual and not legitimate enemy. Troop counts are the central issue at the libel trial in New York in which Westmoreland is trying to collect $120 million from CBS.
Lack of concern over workers’ health was laid to the Reagan Administration by Ralph Nader, the consumer activist. He accused the Administration of a “cruel coverup” for failing to notify workers identified in Government studies that they faced increased health risks from exposure to toxic substances in the workplace. The Reagan Administration has failed to inform individually 200,000 to 250,000 American workers that they may face increased probability of contracting cancer or other illnesses because of exposure to dangerous chemicals in the workplace, Nader charged. The workers, in industries ranging from asbestos to steel and from petrochemicals to mining, were identified in 66 studies conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, according to a NIOSH document made public by Nader.
Education Secretary Terrel H. Bell said a critique by a team of scholars shows “American higher education has the sniffles” and needs to take precautions to avoid getting “a bad cold or even pneumonia.” But Bell said at a press conference at George Washington University in the nation’s capital that the verdict rendered by the scholars was less harsh than he had anticipated. He stressed that colleges are not in as much difficulty as the nation’s elementary and secondary schools.
A plan to clean up Colorado’s contaminated Rocky Mountain Arsenal, north of Denver, would cost $1 billion — or twice what the federal government has estimated — and a state study of the proposal may take weeks, Governor Richard D. Lamm said. Rep. Ken Kramer (R-Colorado) announced over the weekend that the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army had reached agreement on a plan to build a hazardous waste dump at the 27-square-mile arsenal, which the congressman called “the worst contaminated site in the free world.”
The Reagan Presidency has altered the tone and texture of Government by shifting the focus of political debate from solving social problems to cutting budgets and narrowing Federal activities. Local politicians no longer look to Washington for new initiatives and funding.
The state Superior Court ruled today that evidence gained through a federally approved wiretap is not barred from the Pennsylvania courts just because state standards for a legal tap are slightly different. “To reach any other conclusion would severely hamper the detection and apprehension of members of organized crime syndicates and would impose severe restrictions on law-enforcement personnel,” Judge Patrick Tamilia of Superior Court wrote. The ruling upheld the conviction of Anthony Trignani of Philadelphia, on charges of solicitation to commit first-degree murder and criminal attempt. The charges were filed on the basis of a wiretap used by Federal agents.
25 “exceptionally talented” people will receive MacArthur Foundation prizes ranging from $176,000 to $300,000 over five years. For the first time, the newest fellows include a currently performing artist — Bill Irwin, an actor and mime who is appearing in a farce, “The Accidental Death of an Anarchist.”
The police arrested a former student early today in connection with a fire that killed one student at an Indiana University fraternity house and injured 30 others. The authorities said the blaze was set following fights at the predominantly Jewish Zeta Beta Tau house, but said no anti-Semitism was involved. Israel D. Edelman, 19 years old, of Richmond, Indiana, died of smoke inhalation in the blaze. The authorities said Jerry Scott Zook, 23, of Indianapolis, a former university student who did not graduate, had been arrested and was awaiting charges. Mr. Zook apparently set the fire after getting into several fights at the fraternity house, said Ronald J. Waicukauski, the Monroe County prosecutor.
Illegal marijuana cultivation has generated increasing violence and made some of the nation’s most scenic and remote wilderness areas unsafe, according to law-enforcement officials. They said that at least four murders related to marijuana growing have occurred this fall in the lush, redwood-clad counties of northern California.
The U.S. Navy disclosed that it had spent $6,580 for each of 35 refrigerators it plans to place aboard surveillance airplanes that fly 12- to 14-hour missions searching for Soviet submarines. But, the Navy argued, the price was right — compared to the $16,571 it spent for each of the same three-cubic-foot items two years ago, and to the $10,000 to $25,000 cost of somewhat larger refrigerators placed on commercial airliners. The disclosure follows the Air Force’s acknowledgement last month that it had paid $7,622 for a coffee maker for a C-5A transport plane.
The Navy’s use of old ammunition was in part responsible for the poor results last year of shelling off Lebanon by the battleship USS New Jersey, according to an expert. Commander Richard Gano, chief weapons officer of the New Jersey’s sister ship, the Iowa, said no ammunition for their 16-inch guns had been made since the Korean War, with some rounds dating to World War II.
More thunderstorms battered the lower Mississippi Valley and Texas, continuing a barrage of storms that has spawned damaging tornadoes and dumped enough rain to flood roads and swell rivers. At least five tornadoes struck a Houston suburb, and hailstones as big as golf balls hammered an area around San Antonio. Flash flood warnings were in effect from eastern Texas to Mississippi after up to eight inches of rain fell on already saturated ground. Forecasters warned that rivers could flood or already were out of their banks in parts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Paul McCartney releases “Give My Regards to Broad Street” soundtrack.
Future Pro Football HOF quarterback Ken Stabler retires after 17 seasons in the NFL with Oakland Raiders, Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints.
The Cleveland Browns, who began the season with hopes of a division title but have lost seven of their first eight games, dismissed Coach Sam Rutigliano today and replaced him with Marty Schottenheimer, the defensive coordinator. “Our personnel deserve a better record,” Art Modell, the team’s owner, said in announcing the change at a midday news conference. Schottenheimer, who said he would make few immediate changes, was given a contract that extends through the 1986 season. Rutigliano’s contract has four and a half years remaining, and Modell said he hoped the deposed coach would remain with the Browns in some capacity.
Kellen Winslow, the National Football League’s leading receiver over the last six years, will not know for six months whether he can ever resume playing football, a San Diego Chargers physician said today. After operating on the tight end for two and a half hours Sunday night, Dr. Gary Losse said the ligaments in Winslow’s right knee looked like “spaghetti . . . like a couple of mop ends.” “The ligaments had almost an explosion-like appearance,” said Dr. Losse. “It’s a very, very severe injury.”
Another of the league’s top performers, the running back Billy Sims of the Detroit Lions, has been lost for the season with a knee injury. Sims, the club’s career rushing leader, underwent surgery on his right knee tonight in which torn cartilage was removed and two torn ligaments were repaired.
[Ed: It’s actually Sims who will never paly again. Winslow will never be quite the same but manages to get on the field for a few years.]
NFL Monday Night Football:
Los Angeles Rams 24, Atlanta Falcons 10
It was Henry Ellard’s night tonight. The leading punt returner in the National Football League ran back a punt 69 yards for a touchdown, set up a second score with a 29-yard punt return and caught a 9-yard pass for a touchdown as the Los Angeles Rams downed the Atlanta Falcons, 24–10. The Rams (5–3), who trail the San Francisco 49ers by two games in the National Conference Western Division, were also aided by Eric Dickerson, who ran for 142 yards in 25 carries, and a swarming group of linebackers who forced a fumble that set up a touchdown and throttled the Falcons throughout. But, it was Ellard’s show, even though a bruised thigh kept him on the bench in the second half. Late in the first period, the 5-foot-11-inch, 170-pound second-year player from Fresno State returned Ralph Giacomarro’s punt 29 yards to the Atlanta 43. Eight plays later, Dickerson burst off tackle from the 10 for the first score of the game. A minute and a half later, Ellard took a pass from Jeff Kemp and sidestepped the cornerback Bobby Butler for the touchdown, making it 14–0.
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Born:
Antti Pihlström, Finnish National Team and NHL left wing (Olympics, bronze medal, 2014; Nashville Predators), in Vantaa, Finalnd.
Cheikh Samb, Senegalese NBA center (Detroit Pistons, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers, New York Knicks), in Dakar, Senegal.
Andrew Crummey, NFL guard (Cincinnati Bengals), in Van Wert, Ohio.
Died:
Harold Laurence Walters, 66, American composer.
Napoleon Whiting, 75, actor (Silas-“Big Valley”).
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