The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution today calling on Britain and Argentina to resume negotiations over the Falkland Islands. The vote was 89 to 9, with 54 abstentions. The United States supported the resolution. Britain opposed the text, according to its delegate, Sir John Thomson, because the resolution did not refer to the 1982 war over the islands. He said the text, which was sponsored by Latin American delegates, also ignored the welfare of the Falkland Islanders. Talks between the two nations in Bern last July ended indecisively.
Britain’s National Coal Board said it sees no hope of ever reaching a settlement with Arthur Scargill, the leader of the miners union, which has been on strike for nearly eight months. Scargill, president of the 183,000-member National Union of Mineworkers, emerged from a meeting of his 29-member executive board and declared that the union “is absolutely determined to win this fight.” After the breakdown late Wednesday night of what had been described as “last chance” talks between the National Coal Board and the National Union of Mineworkers, headed by Arthur Scargill, it appeared highly likely that the strike would drag on into next year. Nigel Lawson, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, says it will have cost the country almost $2 billion by late December. The strike was called to protest plans to close 20 money-losing mines.
A group of Solidarity leaders in the northern port of Gdansk called today for a one-hour work stoppage next week in memory of the Rev. Jerzy Popiełuszko, the outspoken pro-Solidarity priest who was abducted and slain, apparently by Government security men. The Government, which has strongly denounced the slaying, announced earlier this week that three Interior Ministry officers had confessed to abducting the priest October 19. His body was found Tuesday. The results of an autopsy conducted Wednesday have not been announced.
Environment ministers from eight European countries have agreed on a series of measures for reducing pollution of the North Sea, but they failed to produce a legally binding accord. The ministers from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and West Germany issued a declaration after a meeting in Bremen, West Germany. They backed joint action to curb pollution from land-based sources to reduce sea contamination “if possible as early as 1985.”
Princess Stephanie of Monaco, the youngest child of Prince Rainier III and the late Princess Grace, escaped from an apparent kidnapping attempt at her family’s apartment in Paris. Stephanie, 19, said that an armed man and a masked woman ordered her out of her car and into theirs as she arrived home. She screamed, and her attackers fled. The princess works for the fashion house of Christian Dior.
Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin’s daughter, who defected 17 years ago, has returned to Moscow, the headmaster of her daughter’s British school said today. The report could not be confirmed. The headmaster, John Woods of the Friends School in Saffron Waldon, Essex, said Miss Alliluyeva told him October 22 that she was going to Moscow and that her 13-year-old daughter, Olga, would not be returning to school, according to a report by the news agency Press Association. Miss Alliluyeva defected in 1967 during a trip to India. She went to live in the United States and married William Wesley Peters, an American architect, who is Olga’s father. They were divorced in 1973. Last year, Miss Alliluyeva moved from Princeton, New Jersey, to Cambridge, England. She left in the Soviet Union a son and daughter by her first marriage to a Soviet citizen, Grigory Morozov.
Israeli extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane may be stripped of his parliamentary immunity and face prosecution for praising a rocket attack on an Arab bus in Jerusalem last Sunday that killed one Arab and wounded 10. Justice Ministry officials instructed police to investigate whether his comments violated a law barring praise of terrorist acts, a ministry spokesman said. A parliamentary committee has voted to hold an open debate on revoking Kahane’s immunity.
Jordan’s King Hussein accepted the resignations of two ministers in a Cabinet shake-up that abolished one post and created two new portfolios. Considered the most significant aspect of the shake-up was creation of a new energy and mineral resources portfolio, assigned to Hisham Khatib, a first-time appointee. The other new portfolio, for planning, went to Abdullah Nsour, also assuming his first Cabinet position. A Cabinet post on youth and culture and antiquities was abolished.
The White House approved $45.1 million for emergency food aid to Kenya, Mozambique and Mali and said it was encouraged by talks with Ethiopians on speeding relief to as many as 6 million people facing starvation there. The Reagan Administration criticized Ethiopia last month for reportedly spending $100 million celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Marxist takeover of Ethiopia while U.S. food rotted for lack of air and ground transportation to drought areas. In Washington talks, U.S. and Ethiopian officials agreed on the use of two U.S. aircraft to deliver food to stricken areas.
Torture in Iran’s jails is so ferocious that many prisoners have to be carried before the firing squad on stretchers because they are unable to stand, an Iranian who escaped execution in his homeland said. Jalil Khalilzadeh Shirazi, 26, said among tortures he had witnessed were the severing of hands, imprisonment in tiny cells, prolonged sleep deprivation and flogging. He added that in Tabriz, pregnant women were tortured, raped and killed.
Indian Army troops entered 9 Indian cities including New Delhi to quell a nationwide wave of lynchings and arson that began soon after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Soldiers were ordered to shoot rioters on sight in the capital and five other cities: Indore, Patna, Rae Bareli, Kanpur and Dehra Dun. Curfews were also imposed in 30 cities, including New Delhi. Unofficial tallies indicated more than 150 people have been killed and 1,000 injured since Wednesday. Most of the deaths and injuries were believed to have resulted from attacks by the majority Hindus on Sikhs in revenge for the slaying of Mrs. Gandhi. On Wednesday the police identified her assassins as two Sikh members of her personal bodyguard.
Sikhs number 13 million out of India’s 750 million people, the majority of whom are Hindu. Many Sikh men are distinguishable by their traditional long hair, beards and turbans. Before Mrs. Gandhi’s death, some Sikhs vowed revenge after she ordered the army in early June to storm the Golden Temple, the Sikhs’ holiest shrine, which had been occupied by a group of Sikh extremists. At least 600 people died in the battle at the Golden Temple, which is in Amritsar, in the northern state of Punjab. The state, which is where the majority of India’s Sikhs live, has been under army control since then.
India’s new Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, and 15 national opposition party leaders issued a joint appeal tonight for a restoration of “sanity and harmony.” “This madness must stop,” the statement said, adding that it was a mockery of tolerance “to subject Sikhs as a whole to violence and indignity for what a few misguided persons have done, however heinous their crimes.”
Thousands of mourners filed by the body of Indira Gandhi at what was once her father’s house in New Delhi. Her body, atop a gun carriage, was covered with white flowers. The mourners, mostly young men, filed under the portico where Jawaharlal Nehru had once greeted guests, peered quickly at the corpse, and moved on. Some of the mourners handed bunches of marigolds to an attendant, who put them in a plastic tub.
Seven American-Nicaraguan talks in Mexico have failed to narrow major differences between them, according to officials of both countries. Representatives of the two countries met at the Mexican Pacific resort of Manzanillo on Tuesday and Wednesday in their seventh negotiating session since Secretary of State George P. Shultz made an unexpected visit to Nicaragua in June.
A CIA training manual for Nicaraguan rebels that advocates kidnapping and assassinating Nicaraguan Government officials has been defended by William J. Casey, the Director of Central Intelligence, in a letter to members of Congress. Mr. Casey’s two-page letter, dated October 25, is the first statement to be made public that expresses the agency’s view of the document, which has been sharply criticized in Congress and elsewhere. The White House has said any Central Intelligence Agency official “involved in the development” of the manual “or approval of it” will be dismissed. But in his letter, Mr. Casey said the “thrust and purpose” of the manual are, “on the whole, quite different from the impression that has been created in the media.”
President Reagan approved $45.1 million in emergency food assistance to the drought-ravaged African nations of Kenya, Mozambique and Mali today, the White House announced. The White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, said Kenya would receive 120,000 metric tons of food valued at $25.5 million, Mozambique 73,000 metric tons worth $12.7 million and Mali 15,000 metric tons worth $6.9 million. Meanwhile, the head of Ethiopia’s Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, Dawit Walde Giorgis, met with United States aid experts to discuss additional American assistance.
A British Airways jumbo jet arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia today with 30 tons of food and relief supplies for Ethiopian famine victims, the start of what relief officials say they hope will become a large- scale airlift.
Soldiers and policemen who moved into black townships south of Johannesburg today broke up three separate crowds of youths who were boycotting their segregated schools, the police said. A police spokesman, Lieutenant Henry Beck, said in Pretoria that the police and the soldiers set up road blocks and began patrols in Sebokeng, Sharpeville, Boipatong and Bophalong in an operation that began Wednesday. He declined to say how many soldiers and policemen were involved. Lieutenant Derrick van der Walt said two of the incidents today occurred at schools outside Port Elizabeth.
South Africa’s largest black-led organization, the United Democratic Front, said today that student and community leaders were calling a two-day work boycott next week in Transvaal over a range of grievances, and it endorsed the appeal.
An American Bar Association committee, in a move that angered many black members, urged that body to support South Africa’s policy of independent homelands for its black majority as a way of cooperating with a country that fights communism. Committee chairman David E. Short wrote that one of his panel’s “priority issues” is backing full U.S. diplomatic relations with four ostensibly independent homelands. No country other than South Africa now recognizes them.
An assassination plot was thwarted, the FBI said as it charged two Hondurans and a former Cuban refugee with plotting to kill Roberto Suazo Cordova, President of Honduras. Five other men were charged in Miami with helping to smuggle 765 pounds of cocaine from Colombia to finance the murder. The arrests in Miami followed what Stanley Marcus, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, called “an extremely dangerous” undercover operation that started two months ago and involved dozens of bureau agents. The bureau also named Major General Jose Abnegado Bueso Rosa, the Honduran military attaché in Chile who had been chief of staff of the army, as a conspirator in the plot to kill Dr. Suazo Cordova.
President Reagan sets off for his last campaign swing before the election. President Reagan delivers speeches in Boston, Massachusetts, Rochester, New York, and Wayne County, Michigan.
President Reagan, Walter F. Mondale and their running mates campaigned in New York State as they battled for the biggest electoral prize in a region where Mr. Reagan now appears to have a solid lead.
Walter F. Mondale angrily assailed President Reagan at an exuberant Manhattan garment center rally and in Brooklyn for suggesting that the Democrats had failed to condemn anti-Semitism. Appearing with Geraldine A. Ferraro before a huge rally that filled Seventh Avenue, Mr. Mondale predicted an upset victory on Tuesday.
Ohio is viewed as a “must-win” state by both Democrats and Republicans. Voters interviewed over several days in Dayton indicated they were more prosperous now than they were four years ago and they gave part of the credit to the President.
Vice President Bush suggested today that United States intelligence gathering capabilities had suffered in the 1970’s because of the exposure of American agents. Mr. Bush made the comments as he defended the Administration’s handling of terrorist attacks abroad in response to questions from the public outside the headquarters of PepsiCo Inc. The campaign stop was his last of several over the past two days in New York State. In response to a question about the legislative priorities in a new Reagan term, he said the “legislative objective” would be to keep the recovery going, which would mean a continued effort to control the growth of Federal spending. Mr. Bush said the effort would start the “minute the election is over” and a budget for the next fiscal year was put together.
Baby Fae continued to thrive at the Loma Linda University Medical Center in California six days after she received a baboon heart. Doctors representing the Loma Linda University Medical Center said that if her body rejected the heart and she needed a second heart transplant they would first seek a human heart before choosing another baboon. If extrapolations from human-to-human transplants are valid for animal-to-human transplants, Baby Fae could face a rejection crisis this weekend. Dr. David B. Hinshaw, a surgeon on the Loma Linda faculty, said that in human transplants “one of the peaks is the 7-to-10 day period.” But, he added that “we are dealing with the unknowns” of animal-to-human transplants. However, Dr. Hinshaw said there were no indications of the rejection phenomenom or any “ominous” sign and hopes were that everything would go smoothly in the next four days.
Detroit’s changing nature of labor has contributed to an unemployment rate of 14.8 percent — among the highest in the country. About 20,000 auto workers may never be called back to work because the industry has turned to robots for much of its welding operations.
Prison guards fired tear gas into cellblocks of the federal penitentiary in Atlanta to control Cuban inmates who dangled burning bedsheets from windows and shouted, whistled and banged on bars to protest their confinement. Banners were draped from windows, including one reading: “We are tired here in jail.” About 500 of the prison’s 1,507 Cubans took part in the disturbance. Three or four guards had been injured, a prison spokesman said. It was not known whether any inmates had been hurt. The detainees were among 125,000 Cubans who came to the United States in the 1980 “Freedom Flotilla” but who were imprisoned because they had histories of crime or mental disorders. The prison has 400 other inmates.
The reputed under boss of the Gambino family, the most powerful organized crime family in the United States, was arrested in New York City and charged with income tax evasion. Aniello (O’Neill) DellaCroce, 70, is a member of the family once headed by Carlo Gambino, the “boss of all bosses” used as a model by Mario Puzo in his 1969 novel “The Godfather.”
After banning all agricultural uses of EDB earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency wants to impose tighter restraints on the disposal of EDB wastes from the production of gasoline additives and other chemicals. EPA officials said the agency intends to propose new regulations next week on EDB-ethylene dibromide. Almost 90% of all EDB in the country is still being produced as a gasoline additive. EDB, a known carcinogen, is a primary ingredient in leaded gasoline to prevent engines from knocking.
A dusk-to-dawn curfew was in effect tonight in Franklin, Tennessee after racial violence on Halloween left nine people injured, one of whom was critically beaten, officials said. “People were just wild,” said Police Officer Barbara Derricks. “Then, boom, boom. Someone starts shooting and people start falling.” The authorities said two whites fired a shotgun and struck four blacks after the window of the car the white people were in was smashed by a stone. The shooting set off a series of other violent incidents in the city, 30 miles south of Nashville, that left three whites beaten and two with minor shotgun wounds.
Ku Klux Klan membership has dropped by about one-third in the last two years, but the decline in the organization’s strength might lead frustrated klansmen to consider waging their own “campaign of terror,” the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith said at its national executive committee meeting in Denver. KKK membership has declined by about 35% since 1982, to about 6,000 members, the league said. But the ADL warned that “some klan desperadoes, frustrated at the organization’s failures, are considering the launching of a campaign of terror and assassination against their purported enemies.”
Auto maker John Z. DeLorean has countersued his wife for divorce, charging that his marriage was “poisoned” by the federal government’s efforts to prosecute him on cocaine distribution charges. DeLorean, 59, filed the suit against model and actress Cristina Ferrare in Somerville, New Jersey, accusing her of “extreme cruelty” over the last 18 months. Ferrare sued DeLorean for divorce in Los Angeles in September, a month after he was found innocent of conspiring to sell $24 million worth of cocaine.
Investigators recovered nearly $2.2 million in stolen property and charged 46 people, including three sailors, as a result of a covert operation designed to catch thieves at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, United States Attorney Edward Dennis Jr. said today. Federal grand juries indicted 13 people, the state of Pennsylvania charged 23, seven were accused of breaking Federal and state laws, and the Navy said it would prosecute three under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Dartmouth College has decided not to pursue disciplinary action against a student reporter who secretly tape-recorded a meeting of a homosexual students’ group and published excerpts of it last spring. The reporter, Teresa Polenz, tape-recorded a meeting of the Gay Students Association and published excerpts in The Dartmouth Review, an independent weekly run by students. The dean of the college, Edward J. Shanahan said in a letter to “the Dartmouth Community” that “the college does not now have a clear and precise enough regulation under which to judge conduct of this kind.”
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board ruled that repairs to steam generator tubes in Three Mile Island’s undamaged reactor will not create unsafe conditions if the reactor is allowed to restart. The board dismissed charges by Three Mile Island Alert, an anti-nuclear group, that operation of the undamaged Unit 1 reactor with the repaired tubes would endanger people living near the central Pennsylvania plant. Both reactors have been closed since the nation’s worst commercial nuclear accident at Unit 2 in March, 1979.
The Houston school district’s 28-year-old desegregation suit was apparently settled when U.S. District Judge John Singleton tentatively approved an agreement. The settlement would create a panel to monitor student achievement in the district for the next five years. The panel would include the governor, the mayor and the presidents of Rice University, Texas Southern University, the University of Houston, Houston Baptist University and the University of St. Thomas — but no one from the plaintiffs, who include the NAACP.
A Pacific storm brought snow, high winds and cold temperatures to the Northwest. A winter storm warning was posted for the Cascade range and northeastern Washington state and for parts of Idaho. Meanwhile, tornadoes touched down near Wheaton, Missouri; Mt. Zion, Illinois, and McAlester, Oklahoma. Thunderstorms battered the St. Louis area, downing trees and spawning winds up to 64 m.p.h.
Larry Shue’s “Foreigner” premieres in NYC.
Willem de Kooning’s “Two Women” sells for $1,980,000, a then record for a contemporary work of art and for a living artist.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1217.09 (+9.71)
Born:
Stephen Vogt, MLB catcher, first baseman, and outfielder (All-Star, 2015, 2016; Tampa Bay Rays, Oakland A’s, Milwaukee Brewers, San Francisco Giants, Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta Braves), in Visalia, California.
Natalia Tena, English actress (Nymphadora Tonks – “Harry Potter” franchise), in London, England, United Kingdom.
Died:
Norman Krasna, 74, author (“Dear Ruth”), of a heart attack.
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