A group of intellectuals and former Solidarity activists, protesting the killing of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, formed a group to monitor human rights in Poland. A statement signed by 22 people in Krakow also called for reforms in the nation’s legal system. The rights advocates added, “Let everyone do everything within his power so that Poland is no longer a place of political murders, beatings, abductions and persecutions…” Interior Ministry aides are under arrest in the pro-Solidarity Catholic priest’s death.
Supporters of Solidarity, Poland’s banned labor union, said today that they had disagreed with Roman Catholic Church officials who asked them to end opposition activities at the church of a slain pro-Solidarity priest. Church officials close to Jozef Cardinal Glemp asked at a meeting Friday night that the activists stop using the church, St. Stanislaw Kostka in Warsaw, for gathering and distributing information and for commenting on government policy, they said. The officials also wanted dozens of Solidarity banners removed from the church’s railings, they said. The banners have hung there since the Rev. Jerzy Popiełuszko was kidnapped on October 19 and later slain.
Scotland Yard said it is seeking á 28-year-old Irish woman in connection with the bombing last month of a hotel in Brighton where British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was almost killed. A spokesman said the woman, whom he identified as Evelyn Glenholme, “is wanted by anti-terrorist branch officers” for questioning and that an arrest warrant has been issued and given to Irish authorities. The Sunday Times of London, quoting police officials, said Glenholme — “one of the IRA’s most skillful planners” — may have been behind other bombings in Britain.
Hundreds of police officers mingled with crowds today during the Lord Mayor’s Procession, one of London’s biggest annual spectacles, and security forces throughout Britain were on high alert for a possible attack by the Irish Republican Army. Uniformed officers were stationed at 10-foot intervals all along the two-mile parade route from the Guildhall, the ancient seat of the City of London government, to Mansion House, the Lord Mayor’s official residence.
The British coal miners union will receive aid from Libya for its striking members, a union fund-raiser says. The fund-raiser, Jack Dunn, when asked during a television interview whether money was coming from Libya, replied, “Yes, but we don’t know how or how much.” But he said the money would be coming from Libyan unionists rather than from the Government. Libyan unions are controlled by the Government.
An apparent plot to kidnap the wife of rock star Paul McCartney and hold her for a multimillion-dollar ransom was foiled and several people were arrested, according to police and newspaper reports. London’s Sunday Mirror newspaper reported that the plot involved plans to hold Linda McCartney, 42, for a ransom of $13 million. A police spokesman in the southern England town of Lewes, near the couple’s isolated farm, said: “Police have learned of a possible kidnap attempt. A number of people have been arrested.” The newspaper said the former Beatle refused to discuss the episode.
About 40 of the East Germans who had taken refuge in the West German Embassy in Prague have given up their protest and returned home, officials familiar with the situation said today. On Friday officials said about 180 East Germans seeking asylum and permission to leave for the West were encamped in West German embassies in four Eastern European capitals: Prague, Budapest, Warsaw and Bucharest, Rumania.
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank held commercial strikes and threw stones in scattered protests against the stationing of Israeli border police on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, one of Islam’s holiest sites. Store owners in East Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Ramallah closed their businesses and children stayed home from school, Israel radio reported. Youths threw stones at a police station in Bethlehem and at other targets in two refugee camps near Jerusalem, the broadcast said. Muslim authorities have denounced what they term unseemly behavior on the part of the police, whom they accuse of eating and playing radios on Temple Mount.
Lebanon suspended talks with Israel over the withdrawal of troops in southern Lebanon, and took the action under fierce pressure from Islamic fundamentalists. The Lebanese said the reason for the suspension was the Israeli arrest of 13 Shiite Muslim officials in the Amal militia, which has been in the forefront of the armed resistance to the Israeli occupation.
The Lebanese army reopened most major road crossings between Beirut’s Muslim and Christian sectors, ending a two-day shutdown caused by fighting between rival militias in which at least two people were killed and 50 wounded. Police called it Beirut’s worst battle in four months. All but one of the six gateways between the city’s two sectors was open to car traffic and pedestrians, the police said. In southern Lebanon, meanwhile, a Lebanese civilian was shot to death when he tried to speed past a roadblock of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia in the port of Sidon, Israel radio reported.
Seven Tamils were killed and 50 were wounded Friday when Sri Lanka troops fired on passers-by in the northern city of Jaffna, the United News of India reported today. In a dispatch from Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, the news agency quoted witnesses as saying a truckload of uniformed troops fired indiscriminately at an intersection in the heart of Jaffna. The report said the National Security Ministry in Colombo denied knowledge of the incident. Jaffna, 215 miles northwest of Colombo, is the headquarters of the Tamil guerrilla movement. The rebels are demanding an independent homeland in the north for Tamils, where they constitute a majority. Nationwide, Tamils make up 16 percent of Sri Lanka’s population of 17 million population.
Reagan Administration officials said today that differences within Vietnam’s leadership may have delayed a response to an offer by the United States to accept thousands of political prisoners. Secretary of State George P. Shultz said September 11 that the United States was ready to take up a Vietnamese offer to release the prisoners from “re-education camps” to the Americans. In testimony before Congress, he said that over the next two years the United States was ready to take 10,000 prisoners who had ties to the United States or had served in the old South Vietnamese Government, which fell in April 1975. Figures vary, but 10,000 has been cited by Vietnamese authorities.
A United States Government spokesman says an agreement has been reached on means by which Japan can prevent reductions of its fishing rights in American waters. The discussions between the two countries stem from Japan’s interest in continuing to hunt sperm whales. The International Whaling Commission has voted in favor of banning any further killing of these whales, but Japan has filed an objection, which under an agreement exempts it from the ban. United States law provides that when a country “diminishes the effectiveness” of an international whaling measure, the offending country must be “certified” and its right to fish within the United States’ 200-mile economic zone must be cut by at least half. “They have come to an understanding that if the Japanese take certain actions they can avoid certification,” Jack Lacovey, information officer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said Friday. Mr. Lacovey declined to say what measures the Japanese would have to take to avoid American sanctions. He said the talks ended here Friday.
Stronger U.S. pressure on Nicaragua is being considered by the Reagan Administration in its concern over what it says is an increased flow of Soviet bloc weapons to the country, senior Administration officials said. They said moves being discussed included the interdiction at sea by the United States Navy of arms shipments to Nicaragua. The intention, they said, is to intimidate the Nicaraguan Government without the direct use of United States military force inside Nicaragua. The proposals, they said, could range from shadowing ships and harassing them to a full naval quarantine of Nicaragua. Although the Administration has not recently made public aerial reconnaissance photographs or other raw intelligence information about the military buildup in Nicaragua, Pentagon and State Department officials said recent shipments from the Soviet bloc included surface-to-air missiles, attack helicopters, sophisticated antiaircraft guns and radar equipment and high- speed patrol boats. Some United States military officers have described the arms as primarily defensive.
Sharp criticism of U.S. policy toward Nicaragua was made by President-elect Daniel Ortega Saavedra in his first meeting with reporters since he was elected. He said American pressure had produced “one of the most critical moments or the most critical moment the Nicaraguan revolution has experienced.”
Preparation of the CIA manual for Nicaraguan guerrillas has not violated the law, according to two investigations, the White House announced. The announcement also added that President Reagan concurred with the conclusions.
Chilean troops arrested at least 1,000 people as they swept through a squatters’ shantytown in the southern outskirts of Santiago, the nation’s capital, witnesses and church officials said. All males over the age of 15 in the Cardenal Silva Henriquez squatter camp were rounded up in the early-morning sweep. Witnesses said the police carried lists of wanted men, mainly officials of residents’ organizations, which are dominated by the outlawed Communist Party, and went house to house asking for them by name. The action came just four days after President Augusto Pinochet declared a state of siege.
A key Angolan rebel leader insists on being included in the newest phase of American-sponsored peace talks. Jonas Savimbi, leader of a pro-Western guerrilla movement, said if he continues to be excluded he will seek to intensify his country’s nine-year-old civil war next month by sending 7,000 newly trained soldiers to attack Luanda, the capital, 800 miles north of his base in Jamba. “If we do not participate” in the negotiations, he said, “it becomes complicated.” “I do not want to rock the boat,” he continued, “I want to be part of it.” Sense of AlarmMr. Savimbi, leader of the pro- Western National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, or Unita, has given similar warnings in the past. But his comments Friday seemed to reflect growing alarm among him and his followers that they could be abandoned by allies, such as South Africa, that are seeking both peace in neighboring South-West Africa and the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola.
Ugandan President Milton Obote has suspended foreign exchange transactions for two weeks to reassess the country’s hard-currency auctions, the state radio reported today. Mr. Obote said the action was taken to review the “strengths and weaknesses” of the weekly auctions introduced in August 1982 to provide United States dollars for businessmen who might otherwise use the black market. The system, backed by the World Bank and subsidized by foreign aid, initially narrowed the gap between the official and illegal exchange rates. But the value of the shilling has dropped sharply. From 210 shillings to the dollar in 1982, it has declined to 530 at the auction. Some businessmen say the real value is probably closer to 750 shillings to the dollar.
Rioting, looting and arson erupted again today in black townships across South Africa, and the police said they repeatedly fired rubber bullets, birdshot and tear gas to disperse crowds of blacks. Police headquarters in Pretoria had reported 10 clashes in various black townships by early this afternoon.
President Reagan’s landslide provided little precise policy mandate or clear ideological underpinning, but it offers the Republican Party several reasons for long-range hope, according to The New York Times/CBS News national poll of voters. For Republicans, every Presidential victory raises the tantalizing hope of a political realignment that would make theirs the nation’s dominant party again after half a century in which it has been unable to take lasting control of offices besides the White House. More Encouragement The survey of 8,671 voters leaving polling places suggested that Election Day this year provided more encouragement for Republicans than the mixed record of Congressional and gubernatorial elections might suggest.
In 1980, Mr. Reagan brought 33 new Representatives and 12 new Senators in with him. On its face, this year’s two-seat loss in the Senate and the gain of only about 14 seats in the House of Representatives resembles 1980 less than President Nixon’s landslide in 1972, when he defeated George McGovern while his party lost two Senate seats and gained but a dozen in the House. That landslide, probably because of the Watergate scandals, provided little long-range progress for the party.
Nancy Reagan’s influence will grow in her husband’s second Administration, the President’s aides say. Her role is the thread that runs through almost every conversation among the President’s advisers when the subject turns to who might stay, who might go, and who might replace those who leave his inner circle.
President Reagan purchases a wine closet for the ranch in California and moves the wine from the barn into the new closet.
President Reagan signed a bill tightening the federal law regulating disposal of toxic wastes — something environmentalists had feared he would not do. The new law closes a loophole in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, which exempted businesses generating less than 2,200 pounds of toxic wastes per month. The measure Reagan signed exempts businesses generating less than 200 pounds a month. Estimates of the number of firms covered by the new provision ranged from 130,000 to 600,000.
The Discovery astronauts released another communications satellite into orbit today, clearing the way for their attempt to retrieve two other satellites in the first space salvage operation. The space shuttle was still far away from the two satellites, about 5,000 miles, but closing in fast. Each time the shuttle circled the earth, every 90 minutes, it was drawing 195 miles closer to Palapa B-2, the first satellite the astronauts hope to haul aboard for return to earth. Both Palapa and Westar 6, the other satellite to be retrieved, were traveling in the same orbit at an average altitude of 224 miles, with Palapa trailing Westar by 690 miles. The Discovery, after another minor orbital adjustment this afternoon, was still following a lower, faster course at orbital altitudes ranging from 194 miles to 197 miles.
Thousands of Americans wounded, in one way or another, by the war in Vietnam came to Washington today to share in what sponsors planned as a collective healing. At the outset of this sunny Veterans’ Day weekend, a decade after the most divisive national military commitment of the century, a phenomenon that planners of the “Salute II” Vietnam veterans’ program hoped would come with the throng of 40,000 visitors seemed to be crystallizing. Amid reunions of fighting men whose heightened sense of comradeship in combat had turned at home to feelings of isolation and rejection, the day seemed for some the beginning of a recovery from a nightmare, a reconciliation.
A “blue ribbon” panel of expert jurors might be more useful in some complicated cases than a regular jury of laymen, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger told a group of students at New Orleans’ Loyola University Law School. “It borders on cruelty to trap people for months in a complex case,” Burger said. He said one alternative might be to use a “blue ribbon” jury — such as doctors, economists or accountants — to judge a case needing their expertise.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has withdrawn a $90,000 training manual on how to deal with radiation accidents because at least five other federal agencies complained that it is inaccurate and could endanger accident victims. FEMA employees warned that the booklet enumerates several steps to be taken before rendering help to a victim. “By then the guy is dead,” one official said.
Internal CIA cables introduced as evidence in General William C. Westmoreland’s $120-million libel suit against CBS showed that a top CIA official in Vietnam complained that enemy troop counts were purposely underestimated, but then apparently struck an agreement with Westmoreland. The official, George A. Carver Jr., initially accused Westmoreland’s staff of “juggling” figures so that Việt Cộng strength would not exceed an imposed “ceiling” of 300,000. Later, after meeting with Westmoreland, Carver cabled that “we have agreed to a set of figures that Westmoreland endorses.”
Four Ku Klux Klansmen have been convicted in Atlanta of conspiracy and perjury charges arising from attacks on a white woman who befriended blacks and a black man who is married to a white woman. Klansmen Kenneth E. Davis, 39; Winford Wood, 56, and Mailon Paul Wood, 54, were convicted of multiple counts of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Warren Cokley of Tallapoosa and Peggy Jo French of Carroll County. Klansman William Lawrence Deering, 47, was convicted by another jury of perjury.
Jesse Jackson said he will resign as executive director of Operation PUSH, the civil rights organization he founded in Chicago in 1971, to devote more time to building his “rainbow coalition.” Jackson said he will serve as PUSH’s president on leave and consultant while working with the rainbow coalition, a Washington-based group that will represent the interests of minorities, the poor, workers and women. The Rev. Willie Barrow, who was the national deputy campaign manager for Jackson’s 1984 Democratic presidential campaign, was named his successor at PUSH.
Oak Park, a middle-class suburb of Chicago, has approved a plan to pay landlords to integrate their apartment buildings. By a vote of 5 to 1 last Monday, the village Board of Trustees approved a plan to give about $400,000 in subsidies and grants to building owners who enter into a five-year agreement with the village that allows the Oak Park Housing Center to act as their rental agent. The center, a nonprofit agency affiliated with the village, provides housing counseling in the interest of maintaining racial integration. Under the plan, the center will find black tenants for buildings that are now predominantly white and whites for buildings that are predominantly black.
A 2-year-old girl who became the second person to undergo a simultaneous heart-liver transplant remained in critical condition today, hospital officials in Pittsburgh said. The girl, Kellie Cochran of Birmingham, Alabama, underwent surgery from 7 AM until 8:15 PM Friday, according to a Children’s Hospital spokesman.
Stevie Lamar Fields, who was convicted in 1979 of robbery, rape, kidnaping and murder, is scheduled to be executed in San Quentin prison Dec. 14 under an order entered by a Superior Court judge. The order this week for what could be the first use of the state’s lethal gas chamber in 17 years comes as the California Supreme Court is again under fire from critics of its repeated reversals in capital punishment cases. Mr. Fields, who is 27 years old, is the only one of the 168 men under death sentence in San Quentin for whom a death date is set.
The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights on Provincetown-Boston Airlines, the nation’s largest regional carrier, for non-compliance with FAA regulations. The shutdown stranded travelers in New England and the South. The airline, which had two fatal crashes this year, has been the target of a two-month FAA investigation into maintenance, flight and training procedures, according to reports. The FAA cited “fraudulent” actions in qualifying pilots to fly its planes. The airline was also charged with numerous rules violations. In addition, the agency revoked the pilot’s license of the airline’s chairman, John C. Van Arsdale Jr., for alleged reckless flying. An FAA spokesman said that in the face of several charges, Van Arsdale had resigned.
The Environmental Protection Agency was within its rights when it conducted aerial surveillance and photography of a Dow Chemical Company plant six years ago, a Federal appeals court ruled Friday. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati rejected Dow’s claim that the February 7, 1978, surveillance of its 2,000-acre plant in Midland, Michigan, was an unconstitutional search.
A 15-year-old Miami boy charged with setting an apartment house fire that killed three people last month told the police he did it because he had been chased from the site for break dancing, the authorities say. The fire October 26 killed three people, injured 14 and left 29 families homeless.
Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Hollywood Park; winners: Chief’s Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again.
In college football, the Miami Hurricanes blow a 31–0 lead in the 3rd quarter and lose to Maryland 42–40.
Born:
Kendrick Perkins, NBA center (NBA Champions-Celtics, 2008; Boston Celtics, Oklahoma City Thunder, Cleveland Cavaliers, New Orleans Pelicans), in Nederland, Texas.
Isaac Redman, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers), in Paulsboro, New Jersey.
Kazuhisa Makita, Japanese MLB pitcher (San Diego Padres), in Yaizu, Japan.
Died:
Sudie Bond, 61, American stage and screen actress (“Love Story”; “Johnny Dangerously”), dies of a respiratory ailment.
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