The body of a missing Polish priest was found by police frogmen in a Vistula River reservoir 11 days after he was kidnapped by three officers of the state security police, the Polish Government announced. Lech Walesa, the founder of Solidarity, appealed for calm, and there were no reports of disturbances after the announcement that the pro-Solidarity priest, the Rev. Jerzy Popiełuszko, had been murdered and his body recovered. A Government spokesman, Jerzy Urban, said earlier that the killing was part of a plot against the Government and that the three suspects, a captain and two lieutenants, were under special protection.
A Government press agency statement read on television said: “The Ministry of the Interior announces that the body of the Rev. Jerzy Popiełuszko was found and taken out of the water of the Wloclawek Reservoir in the late afternoon hours today in the course of an intensive search operation by police frogmen.” After Solidarity was suspended, and then outlawed with the imposition of martial law in December 1981, Father Popiełuszko began offering a Mass for the Fatherland at his Warsaw church one Sunday each month. The masses drew thousands of supporters of Solidarity, an independent labor union that was chartered by the Polish Government after nationwide strikes in August 1980.
Today, on hearing the news of their priest’s death, many people in the congregation of several thousand worshipers at an evening mass wept. “There are moments in our lives when we simply stand stunned and the only thing we can say is, ‘Oh, God,’ ” said the priest who had made the announcement to the parishioners. Mr. Urban, the Government spokesman, identified the three suspects as belonging to the security police, which like the regular uniformed police comes under the jurisdiction of the Interior Ministry. The Ministry had previously said that the suspects admitted abducting Father Popiełuszko, and the captain, Grzegorz Piotrowski, said he had killed the priest.
But Mr. Urban, the Government spokesman, said today that Captain Piotrowski had recanted his confession and said he had “left the priest in a state when he still had a chance to survive” on a highway near Torun, which is northwest of Wloclawek. The priest was reported to have been kidnapped October 19 by armed men who used their car to block Father Popiełuszko’s auto near Torun and then drove away with him. The priest’s driver was also seized, but managed to escape and reported the abduction. Mr. Urban said the “inspirers of the act” were being sought not only in the investigation into the priest’s murder but also in connection with other cases. He said some evidence was being withheld because it was uncertain whether the three suspects had “any direct or indirect collaboration.”
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the striking National Union of Mineworkers today that her government was unwilling to engage in any further substantive negotiations. Mrs. Thatcher, speaking in the House of Commons this afternoon on the eve of another round of talks between the union and the state-owned National Coal Board, said the settlement last week with the mine deputies’ union, “reached after long negotiation, must be the basis of an agreement with the N.U.M., and that agreement must be substantially unchanged” from the terms of the earlier accord. Her tough new stance appeared to reduce the already slight chance that the bargaining session Wednesday, which will take place under the supervision of the independent Abritration, Conciliation and Advisory Service, will bring an end to the eight-month-old walkout by almost three-quarters of the miners in Britain’s deep-pit coal mines.
Mrs. Thatcher made her statement in reply to a question from a Conservative backbencher, Peter Hordern, who urged her to declare publicly that the offer to the union on Wednesday “should be the last.” The settlement with the mine deputies’ union last week involved some government concessions on the terms under which uneconomic mines would be closed, but the terms have not been made public. According to Cabinet sources, the Prime Minister was emboldened by the public-relations debacle suffered by the union when it was disclosed by The Sunday Times two days ago that Roger Windsor, the miners’ chief executive, had flown to Tripoli to confer with Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, with the permission of Arthur Scargill, the union president, but not that of other key officials.
Britain broke diplomatic relations with Libya earlier this year after a policewoman was killed by gunfire from that country’s embassy here. Mrs. Thatcher said all of Britain was shocked that Mr. Scargill had consorted with a man “who allowed his embassy to be used for murder on London streets.” Two Libyan students have been expelled in the last week by order of the Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, on charges of organizing terrorist activities, Scotland Yard said after the Prime Minister’s statement. Neil Kinnock, leader of the opposition Labor Party, and the leaders of other political parties have condemned Mr. Windsor’s Libyan trip since it was disclosed. In a politically more signifcant development, the venture was also denounced by Norman Willis, the new general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, the umbrella organization of the British labor movement, which has been backing the walkout. Mr. Willis rebuked Mr. Scargill for permitting his union to “consort” with what he called “the odious tyrrany” in Tripoli and said he had demanded and been given assurances by Mr. Scargill that he would not accept Libyan strike- support funds.
Pope John Paul II named Msgr. Ioan Robu today as apostolic administrator for the Roman Catholic diocese of Bucharest, vacant for the last 30 years. The move was seen as a step forward in relations with Rumania and a success for the Vatican’s negotiator in Eastern Europe, Archbishop Luigi Poggi. The powers of an apostolic administrator are less than those of a full bishop. Monsignor Robu, 39 years old, was given bishop’s rank by being awarded a nominal seat in a defunct diocese in Tunisia. The last bishop of Bucharest, Alexandru Cisar, died in 1954 after having been imprisoned since 1948. Only one of Rumania’s six Catholic dioceses, Alba Julia, has a full bishop. Apart from Bucharest, three dioceses are run by priests and one is vacant. About five million of Rumania’s 22 million people are Catholic.
Reagan Administration officials said today that if Bulgarians were found guilty in Italy of conspiring to assassinate Pope John Paul II, the United States would face the issue of whether to go ahead in seeking improved relations with the Soviet Union. The officials said they did not expect the trial of three Bulgarians, only one of whom is in Italian custody, and of four Turks, two of whom are in custody, to begin before next summer. They said that this would be about the time the United States expects arms talks to resume with the Soviet Union, no matter who is elected President next Tuesday. Even though no Russians have been implicated in the attempt by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turk, to kill the Pope on May 13, 1981, American officials said that, if any Bulgarians were found guilty, it would be difficult to dissociate them from Soviet direction.
World chess champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Gary Kasparov agreed to a draw in the 19th game of their title match in Moscow. The draw was the 10th in a row and the 15th since the series began September 10. It came without play resuming in the game, which began Monday and adjourned later that evening when Kasparov, playing black, sealed his 44th move. Karpov leads 4 to 0 in the series. Six victories are needed to claim the title; draws do not count.
OPEC agreed on a general formula to distribute cuts in oil production among its 13 member countries in the organization’s effort to bolster sagging prices. But industry analysts said the action was unlikely to change oil prices or output in the immediate future.
The Jewish terrorist group that killed an Arab and wounded 10 others in a rocket attack on a Jerusalem bus has threatened the life of Israeli President Chaim Herzog. Israel radio reported. The broadcast said a man claiming to represent the group, known as the Avengers, called the presidential residence and said Herzog is “next in line.” Herzog, formerly ambassador to the United Nations, has spoken out vigorously against anti-Arab terrorism. Meanwhile, Palestinian youths protesting the bus attack threw stones at Israeli cars in the second day of West Bank unrest, and Israel’s usually divided Parliament united in a resolution strongly condemning terrorism, Jewish or Arab.
The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Samuel W. Lewis, told a Tel Aviv University audience that President Reagan’s 1982 Mideast peace initiative was sincere in its intent but that “the timing was abysmal, the presentation even worse and the results none.” Lewis, appointed by former President Jimmy Carter, said that Reagan did not take office with a “fervent commitment” to peace in the region but that he genuinely attempted “to recreate the momentum of Camp David.” The Reagan plan, envisioning a West Bank-Jordan federation, failed to win much acceptance from either Israel or the Arab nations.
Britain has deported a Libyan identified in press reports as a senior intelligence officer in the secret police, and another Libyan has been ordered to leave, the British government said. The Home Office said Omran Ashur Zwed, 28, a student at Aston University in Birmingham, was deported last week and that Ali Kathri Othmen, 28, was ordered to leave. Both were questioned about bombings last March believed to be aimed at opponents of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi.
The General Assembly called on Vietnam today to withdraw its troops from Cambodia and let the Cambodian people “determine their own destiny.” The vote in the Assembly was 110 to 22, with 18 abstentions. The United States supported the resolution. It was the sixth such vote since Vietnamese forces crossed into Cambodia in 1978. The vote against Vietnam has generally increased each year. Vietnam, unlike previous years, did not take part in the debate. The three- page resolution, which was opposed by the Soviet bloc and its allies, did not mention Vietnam by name, referring only to the Cambodian “problem” and calling for the withdrawal of “foreign forces.” The Vietnamese presence in Cambodia is opposed by a Peking- backed coalition that includes both Prince Norodom Sihanouk and the Khmer Rouge.
Philippine police dispersed hundreds of marchers demanding that the nation’s armed forces chief be tried by a “people’s court” in the slaying of opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. last year. They also demanded President Ferdinand E. Marcos’ resignation. At least 14 people were arrested in the protest in the Makati financial district of suburban Manila. The armed forces chief, Gen. Fabian C. Ver, is on a leave of absence after an inquiry panel found him “indictable” in Aquino’s slaying.
Nicaraguan opposition parties have been secretly offered additional campaign funds by the governing Sandinistas in exchange for promises that they will take certain political positions, according to party leaders. The opposition activists also said that American diplomats had been pressing them to quit the race.
Algeria’s commitment to socialism still appears strong 30 years after the start of its battle for independence from France. Most consumer goods are scarce, economic development continues at a frenzied but seemingly inefficient pace and security seems oppressive. But beneath the surface, a process of change and relaxation has been under way.
Sudan’s Islamic government has reached a provisional peace pact with southern separatist rebels, the official Sudan News Agency said. The agency, quoting a negotiators’ spokesman, said the “agreement… can be a nucleus for an overall peaceful settlement to the south Sudan question.” The accord was said to have been approved by President Jaafar Numeiri.
South African police fired rubber bullets and shotgun pellets at rock-throwing youths, killing a black teen-ager in the latest incident of racial violence that has taken more than 80 lives in two months. At least two other blacks were injured in the violence, in the township of Kwazakele, near Port Elizabeth. The trouble broke out as education officials urged black students to end a school boycott and take final examinations.
A youth jobs bill was pocket-vetoed by President Reagan. The measure would have employed thousands of young people to perform conservation work on public lands. Environmental organizations said Mr. Reagan had destroyed a good opportunity to put people to work and to clean up the environment. Mr. Reagan said in a statement that the bill, providing $225 million over three years for an American Conservation Corps, would have created “temporary make-work” jobs, which he denounced as a “discredited approach to youth unemployment.” Environmental groups immediately criticized his action, saying he had destroyed a good opportunity to put people to work and to clean up the environment. Supporters of the bill estimated it would have provided work for 18,500 youths in the first year.
Mr. Reagan today signed more than 60 bills, including a wide-ranging trade measure that he hailed as “a triumph for freer and fairer trade” and a bill that establishes a policy for economic regulation of cable television. He also signed a bill allowing states to petition for a ban on large truck and tandem trailers on interstate highways within their boundaries. New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and other states had objected that a 1982 law granting the giant trucks access to the highways did not give states any way to gain exemptions.
President Reagan participates in a signing ceremony in the Rose Garden, for the Omnibus Trade Bill. In signing the Trade and Tariff Act of 1984 at a ceremony in the Rose Garden, Mr. Reagan said it was “the most important trade law approved by the Congress in a decade.” The bill includes an eight-year extension of the generalized system of preferences, a program that allows certain exports from some developing countries to enter the United States duty-free. The bill would also authorize a two-way duty-free zone with Israel.
President Reagan participates in an interview with William R. Hearst and about 20 of his editors from all over the country.
Walter F. Mondale is striving to overtake President Reagan in three key Middle Western states that Democratic strategists view as vital to the Democratic candidate’s hope of an upset victory in next Tuesday’s election. But Mondale backers in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio say his efforts may have come too late to overcome what appears to be a commanding Reagan lead in the economically distressed states.
“A historic electoral realignment” may emerge from the voting next Tuesday, President Reagan indicated. Speaking at a Republican rally at the White House, Mr. Reagan excoriated Democratic politicians by contending it was “no mere coincidence” that they have long represented areas of the worst urban blight.
Walter F. Mondale marched through downtown Chicago in a rousing torchlight parade and then told thousands of buoyant Democrats that “the tide is turning” in the Presidential campaign. Mr. Mondale brought the crowd to its feet when he held aloft the Chicago Tribune front-page on the 1948 Election Night reading, “Dewey Defeats Truman.”
Geraldine A. Ferraro responded to highly personal questions from Phil Donahue on the hour-long television talk show “Donahue,” being broadcast in New York at 9 AM today. Mrs. Ferraro’s appearance on the nationwide show was designed by the Democratic national campaign to make a last-minute appeal for women’s votes.
West European indifference to the Presidential campaign in the United States was indicated in a New York Times/CBS News Poll. One-half of the West German and French respondents and one-third of the Britons said they did not care who won next Tuesday.
A thriving Baby Fae became the longest surviving human recipient of a transplanted animal heart. The infant was off all medical support systems and even her doctors in Loma Linda, California, expressed surprise at her progress since she received a baboon heart last Friday. But the doctors, noting the boldness and novelty of the experimental procedure, expressed guarded optimism about Baby Fae’s future. Her parents have requested anonymity for themselves and the child. The mother was asked in a hospital elevator what she thought of the criticisms that have been made of the operation by opponents of animal experimentation, for example, or by people who are against the placing of a lower primate’s heart in a human. She dismissed the critics, saying: “They do not know what they are talking about.”
The North Carolina Supreme Court refused to halt the execution of convicted killer Velma Barfield, I who is scheduled to become the first woman to be executed in the United States in 22 years. The court upheld a ruling earlier in the day by Superior Court Judge B. Craig Ellis, who had denied a hearing on a new appeal that claimed she was suffering from drug withdrawal and was incompetent to stand trial in 1978. Ellis ruled the issue had already been considered or had been waived because Barfield did not raise it sooner. Barfield, 52, is scheduled to die by lethal injection early Friday for poisoning her boyfriend, farmer Stuart Taylor.
The laundering of illicit money was assailed by a Presidential commission. The panel, the Commission on Organized Crime, called for new Federal laws to curb what it termed the widespread use of financial institutions to disguise illegally gained money and make it easier to use, often through transferring it out of the country and back again.
The Justice Department filed a civil suit to require Arkansas to comply with federal law and allow voters who need assistance to choose their own helpers at the polling booth. Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds, head of the department’s civil rights division, said the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Little Rock, Arkansas, was the first suit filed to enforce a new section of the Voting Rights Act that went into effect last January 1. The only restriction in the federal law is that the voter is not permitted to receive assistance from the voter’s employer or union or any of their agents. The state statute limits voter assistance to the voter’s spouse or two election judges.
A few hours after opening a new convent in Norristown, Pennsylvania Sunday, Mother Teresa of India met with borough officials to discuss a local zoning law that prohibits shelters for the poor. Mayor John Marberger met with the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner Sunday night along with six of Norristown’s 12 Borough Council members. The Council passed the zoning law last year, but its president, Russell W. Montalbano, said after the meeting that a variance could be granted. Mr. Marberger declined to comment on the zoning matter. He acknowledged that Norristown had a problem with street people, many released from the nearby state hospital with little support.
The actress Vanessa Redgrave, who says the Boston Symphony Orchestra dismissed her as an opera narrator because of her support for the Palestine Liberation Organization, testified today that she favored a peaceful end to the Middle Eastern conflict. “I am absolutely opposed to violence, and I am absolutely opposed to terrorism,” she told the jury in Federal District Court that is hearing testimony in her suit against the orchestra. Miss Redgrave’s comments near the end of her four days of testimony came after she was asked about photographs depicting scenes from a film she made about the P.L.O. They showed P.L.O. members raising guns in gestures of defiance. She said none of her performances had ever been marred by disruptions or booing. The orchestra said it canceled the production of “Oedipus Rex” in 1982 because it feared disruption and possible violence at performances planned for Boston and New York.
Workers in Durant, Oklahoma, set up portable dams today to stem flows from two broken pipelines that poured some 1,500 barrels of oil into a wildlife refuge and a lake. One of the spills came from a line owned by the Mobil Pipeline Company and the other was from a pipeline belonging to Total Petroleum Corporation. A Mobil spokesman said the company believed the spills were under control. Other booms were placed to prevent the oil from spreading farther into Lake Texoma and the Tishomingo Wildlife Refuge near the Oklahoma-Texas border. State officials said no dead fish or oil- coated birds had been reported.
The South Carolina Supreme Court refused Monday to allow a rapist to undergo castration and scheduled a hearing in January on an appeal of a sentence given Roscoe Brown and two other rapists. Mr. Brown, 27 years old, Mark Vaughn, 22, and Michael Braxton, 20, pleaded guilty last year to raping and torturing a woman from Anderson, South Carolina, in a motel room. Circuit Judge C. Victor Pyle sentenced them to 30 years in prison, but offered to suspend the sentence if the men agreed to undergo castration. All three men appealed the sentence, saying that it violated the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. In July Mr. Brown dropped his appeal and officially requested castration. Judge Pyle refused to grant the request until the State Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of the sentence.
The Interior Department is offering an incentive to Americans who might want to adopt a wild animal, reducing prices for horses to $125 and for burros to $75. Homes are being sought for the animals because they trample Western rangelands in search of food and face starvation because of overpopulation. The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management has 2,500 captured animals available under the Adopt a Horse program. The care of the animals is costing taxpayers about $5,000 a day. The adoption costs once ranged up to $215 for horses and $140 for burros. Some of the animals have been moved to centers in Texas, Pennsylvania and Tennessee, and there are temporary sites elsewhere so buyers will not have to transport the animals so far. More than 50,000 animals have been placed since the program began.
A draft report by the federal Environmental Protection Agency indicates there is “circumstantial evidence” that dangerous chemicals are leaking from a state-of-the-art waste dump in Niagara Falls, New York, but an earlier study by the EPA disagrees. The latest EPA report says evidence suggests toxic wastes buried in the 360-acre site “have and are migrating offsite and could endanger the health of the public living downstream.”
An apartment building was set ablaze, and flames from fires in abandoned buildings leaped to occupied houses as Detroit suffered the traditional arson spree on “Devil’s Night” — the night before Halloween. Two firefighters were reported slightly injured. The fire department did not have a tally of the fires, but a spokesman for Mayor Coleman A. Young estimated there were at least 150. Last year, more than 400 buildings were torched. This year, Young put searchlight-equipped helicopters in the air, tripled the number of police on the streets and increased the firefighting staff by a third.
A Swiss-Italian financier, indicted on charges he laundered millions in drug profits through two U.S. brokerage houses, is the latest person named in the “Pizza Connection” heroin smuggling case. The indictment of Vito Roberto Palazzolo, 37, of Lugano, Switzerland, brought to 39 the number of persons charged with importing $1.6 billion worth of heroin into the United States over the last five years. Officials said it is the largest heroin ring ever uncovered in the United States. Defendants allegedly used Midwest pizza parlors to distribute the drug.
A Forest Service development policy that is accelerating road construction in undeveloped tracts of the northern Rockies is being opposed in a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Missoula, Montana. The roads are being built to enable lumber companies to cut timber on Federal lands in the future and are being resisted by environmentalists who say the roads could make the land ineligible for designation as wilderness areas and for Congressional protection.
Detroit Tigers’ reliever Willie Hernandez wins the American League Cy Young Award, edging fellow reliever Dan Quisenberry of the Royals. Hernandez was 9–3 with 32 saves and a 1.92 ERA.
The San Francisco Giants name Jim Davenport manager for the 1985 season.
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Born:
Shane Robinson, MLB outfielder and pinch hitter (St. Louis Cardinals, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Angels, New York Yankees), in Tampa, Florida.
Tyson Strachan, Canadian NHL defenseman and right wing (St. Louis Blues, Florida Panthers, Washington Capitals, Buffalo Sabres, Minnesota Wild), in Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Eva Marcille [Eva Marcille Pigford], American actress and fashion model (“America’s Next Top Model”, “The Young and the Restless”), in Los Angeles, California.
Died:
June Duprez, 66, English actress (“The Thief of Bagdad”, “The Lion Has Wings”, “Tiger Fangs”, “Calcutta”).
Mario Gallo, 61, American actor (“Delvecchio”, “Raging Bull”), of liver cancer.
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