The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda today denounced as dangerous a new NATO military doctrine. Pravda said the new plan, which was formally adopted by NATO last Friday, “casts off the ‘defensive’ mask by which those in NATO tried to cover the NATO military machine during all the postwar years.” The paper said it took about two years for the Pentagon to “impose” the new strategy on its European allies. The new doctrine calls for strikes deep into Warsaw Pact territory with nonnuclear weapons in the event of a Soviet bloc attack on NATO. General Bernard W. Rogers, NATO supreme allied commander in Europe, has strongly advocated the plan, known by military experts as the “follow-on forces attack,” despite criticism that it will siphon off money needed to meet existing military requirements. Pravda’s comment, under the headline, “Dangerous Doctrine,” said the plan was an addition to and not a replacement for what it called NATO’s doctrine of first use of nuclear weapons. It said Western Europe would benefit from the plan because it meant new orders for British and West German weapons manufacturers.
A group of Warsaw dissidents announced today that they had formed a committee to investigate and publicize instances of lawless behavior by the police. The appearance of the group, the Warsaw Committee Against Oppression, follows the establishment of similar organizations in Wroclaw and Cracow after the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko, a pro-Solidarity priest, was killed last month. After the killing authorities announced that three members of the security police had been charged with murder, two other Interior Ministry security men had been detained and a general suspended in connection with the killing. The formation of the committee also comes after assertions by Jerzy Urban, the Government spokesman, that attempts to set up civil-rights groups were merely efforts to exploit the “tragedy of the murder” for political ends and would not be tolerated.
Thousands of striking coal miners armed with firebombs and homemade spears fought with the police in northern England and Wales today while hundreds more broke ranks and returned to work. The police said 54 people were injured in one of the worst nights of violence so far. Bands of miners – on strike for 36 weeks – rampaged through a dozen coalfield villages, tossing gasoline- bombs, ripping down concrete lampposts and setting cars afire, the authorities said.
Two small bombs exploded inside the British Consulate in Vienna and outside the Vienna offices of El Al Israel Airlines, causing little damage and no injuries, police reported. Police said the two explosions, which occurred about an hour apart, appear to be related. No one claimed responsibility for the blasts, police said.
Two leading Sicilian businessmen were arrested today in a continuing drive against organized crime in Sicily. The drive has been spurred in part by the confessions of Tommaso Buscetta, a former Mafia leader. The arrests came a little more than a week after the arrest of a former Mayor of Palermo, Vito Ciancimino, a leading political figure in Sicily who was linked to the Mafia by Mr. Buscetta. Mr. Buscetta, who was on the losing side of a gang war in Sicily, has given investigators a detailed picture of the Mafia and set off arrests and interrogations both in Italy and in the United States, Canada and Brazil.
One of the six dissidents on trial in Belgrade told the court today that a security officer “in charge of intellectuals” threatened to kill him earlier this year. The defendant, Miodrag Milic, said he was called to the office of the security service, where a security officer, Ranko Savic, warned him not to raise sensitive questions again, as he had in a lecture at the Belgrade student center. Mr. Milic said he was told that security forces had killed a historian, a party official who criticized the Government and a lawyer, Jovan Barovic, who once defended Milovan Djilas, another dissident. Mr. Barovic’s son Nikola, who is one of the defense lawyers, demanded that the reference to his father be entered into the court minutes.
Hundreds of Greek students, chanting “Reagan! Fascist! Murderer!” rallied outside the gates of the United States Embassy tonight in a protest against what they called American imperialism. The demonstrators also shouted “Americans, murderers of peoples!” and “Hands off Nicaragua!” Speakers demanded that Greece leave the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and close United States bases. The rally tonight, held by Greece’s Student Union, where pro-Moscow Communists are the biggest grouping, was the first in a series that will culminate on Saturday with a march to the United States Embassy to commemorate a student revolt in 1973. Hundreds of thousands of people usually take part in the November 17 march, which marks the day 11 years ago when the pro-American military junta used tanks to crush an uprising by students at the Athens Polytechnic.
Defending champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Gary Kasparov agreed to draw the 23rd game of the world chess title match in Moscow after 22 moves in just over three hours of play. It was the 14th draw in succession. Kasparov holds a 4-0 lead in the match. The first player to win six games wins the match; draws do not count.
President Hosni Mubarak’s senior foreign policy adviser said today that Egypt had ruled out a meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister or Middle East peace talks now. The adviser said that before Egypt would agree to such talks Israel would have to take far-reaching steps to end its occupation of Lebanon and to improve conditions for Palestinians in the occupied territories. In an interview dealing largely with Egyptian-Israeli relations, Osama el- Baz said Egypt told Israel through diplomatic channels two weeks ago that the political climate was not conducive to a successful meeting of their nations’ leaders now. On Sunday, Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel publicly called for a meeting with President Mubarak.
Israeli officials expressed optimism that a formula could be worked out with Lebanon to allow troop withdrawal talks to resume tomorrow. But there was no sign from Beirut that the Lebanese would accept anything short of their original demand — that Israel free a group of Shiite Muslim militia leaders arrested in south Lebanon.
An anti-Israeli strike paralyzed much of southern Lebanon as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard W. Murphy tried to persuade the Lebanese government to resume stalled talks on an Israeli withdrawal from the region. The strike was called by Amal, the Shia Muslim militia, in response to the arrest of four of Amal’s political officials by Israeli agents. Lebanon suspended the troop-withdrawal talks for the same reason, and Murphy reportedly proposed that, as a compromise, Israel immediately free three of the four men if Lebanon would resume the talks.
A key Palestinian leader rejected an appeal by Palestine Läberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat to call a meeting of the Palestine National Council in Amman, Jordan, on November 22. Khaled Fahoum, Speaker of the council, which is often referred to as the Palestinians’ parliament in exile, said in Damascus, Syria, that the meeting should be delayed pending talks between “all Palestinian groups,” Arafat and the PLO guerrillas loyal to him decided earlier to convene the council without the participation of PLO dissidents, most of them supported by Syria.
Renewal of American-Iraqi ties will be announced Monday, according to Reagan Administration officials. Baghdad severed relations with Washington in 1967.
Rajiv Gandhi pledged continuity with the domestic and foreign policies of his grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, and his mother, Indira Gandhi. In his first address to the nation, the 40-year-old Prime Minister reaffirmed a commitment to socialism at home and to India’s nonalignment in international affairs.
Japan, under a tentative agreement with the United States, has said it will stop killing whales by 1988 in return for a U.S. promise to forgo penalizing the Japanese for hunting sperm whales, the conservationist group, Greenpeace U.S.A., reported. A spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington refused to comment on the report, saying details of the-agreement are still being worked out. The conservationists filed suit last week to require U.S. enforcement of a law providing for sanctions against any country that “diminishes the effectiveness” of the International Whaling Commission in its efforts to reduce whale kills.
Soviet bombers flew over the Tsushima Strait between Japan and South Korea for the second straight day but, unlike Monday, they did not violate Japanese airspace and no fighters were scrambled to intercept them. The formation of five TU-16 Badger bombers and two TU-95 Bears was apparently a show of Soviet military strength in the Far East, Japanese defense officials said.
Negotiators for the United States and Japan have reportedly reached tentative agreement on a plan to allow the Japanese to catch sperm whales for three more years without facing penalties. An agreement was reportedly reached Saturday, but the terms were not made public. Greenpeace, the conservation group, said today that the United States had told a Japanese delegation here that it would not enforce the Packwood-Magnuson Amendment if Japan agreed to end all sperm whaling after 1987. The amendment requires that fishing quotas in United States territorial waters be reduced by at least 50 percent for any nation that violates agreements by the International Whaling Commission. The commission has barred all taking of sperm whales.
A new contract with Ford Motor Co. of Canada was approved in a ratification vote by members of the United Auto Workers. The pact was described as similar to the agreement reached with union workers last month after a 12-day strike at General Motors plants in Canada.
Leftist guerrillas brought traffic to a halt in eastern El Salvador by threatening to destroy any vehicles caught on the roads. “In the coming hours, our units will be fighting the forces of the government,” a rebel broadcast said. There was no report of any fighting, however. The rebel threats halted public transportation from San Salvador to four eastern provinces, officials said.
Three Peruvian marines and 10 Maoist guerrillas were killed in clashes in the jungle of southeastern Peru during the weekend, the military said. A military statement said guerrillas of the Shining Path group hurled grenades at a marine column near Santa Rosa, 120 miles from the capital, killing three marines and wounding four. In a separate clash, army troops killed 10 guerrillas in the same district. About 4,000 people have died in guerrillas’ four-year battle to topple the Government of President Fernando Belaunde Terry. The civil guard said today that all but 102 of the 10,000 people detained in anti-guerrilla raids in Lima and other cities last weekend had been released.
Morocco, a founding member of the Organization of African Unity, quit the organization today over the seating of guerrillas who are fighting the Moroccans in Western Sahara. The action, which came here as the O.A.U. opened its 20th summit meeting, marked the first time that a member of the organization had withdrawn. “While we wait for wiser days, we will bid you farewell,” the Moroccan representative, Ahmed Reda Guedira, said at the meeting.
In Inhaouza, Mozambique, a village on a dirt track even bumpier than the main track leading out of this provincial capital, Graca Alfandega said, “Hunger has already entered this house.” In the hut that she shares with four of her children, she showed the basket for the traditional staple food, millet. It contained only a dried, prune-like wild fruit that is a local staple for the bad season, when the last of the last harvest has been eaten and the new crop has not yet been reaped. This year it has not even been sown yet and there is nothing left in the village larders.
Prime Minister Robert Mugabe ousted the last two officials of the chief opposition party from his Cabinet today, virtually ending cooperation in the Government between the two parties. The Government made it clear that the dismissals were a reaction to the killing Friday of Senator Moven Ndou Ndhlovu, a member of the Central Committee of Mr. Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union, in the southern border town of Beitbridge. At the Senator’s funeral Sunday Mr. Mugabe blamed the opposition party led by Joshua Nkomo, the Zimbabwe African People’s Union. The police say the killers have not been identified.
Space shuttle astronauts Dale Gardner and Joe Allen snare a wandering satellite in history’s first space salvage. Two space-walking astronauts boldly snared a large satellite in orbit and, overcoming an unexpected and potentially serious obstacle, wrestled the stranded 1,200-pound satellite aboard the cargo bay of the space shuttle Discovery. It was the first salvage operation in space. The astronauts plan to retrieve a second communications satellite Wednesday to complete one of the most ambitious and difficult operations in the shuttle’s history. They are seeking to demonstrate the shuttle’s overall versatility as well as to recoup some of the money insurance companies lost when the two satellites were misfired into useless orbits last February.
Just about dawn over the eastern Pacific, or 8:32 A.M., Eastern standard time, Dr. Joseph P. Allen flew away from the shuttle 224 miles above the earth, circling at a rate of 17,000 miles a hour. He moved toward the stranded Palapa B-2, a 1,200-pound drum-shaped satellite that was rotating slowly about 35 feet away. Bundled in his white spacesuit and propelled by the nitrogen-gas thrusters on his backpack, Dr. Allen carried with him, pointed forward like a lance, a five-foot-long probe for locking onto the satellite and bringing it under control. He looked, somehow, the part of a modern-day Sir Galahad, a space-age knight in shining Nomex, Teflon and aluminized Mylar. With little effort, Dr. Allen inserted the probe, called a stinger, into the nozzle of Palapa’s spent rocket. Then Dr. Anna L. Fisher, at the controls in the cabin, seized the satellite with the shuttle’s 50-foot-long mechanical arm and brought it to the cargo bay.
There Dr. Allen and the other space walker, Comdr. Dale A. Gardner of the Navy, encountered an unexpected obstruction on the satellite, which prevented them from attaching a bracket that would have enabled them to handle Palapa with the mechanical arm. So now, appearing a bit more like Laurel and Hardy moving a piano, the two astronauts on their own struggled to push and turn and steady the nine-foot- long satellite. For 90 minutes, an entire turn around the world, Dr. Allen stretched himself to hold one end of the satellite steady, while Commander Gardner attached clamps to the other end so that Palapa could be locked into a cradle in the cargo bay. While Dr. Allen held on, keeping the satellite from drifting away, Commander Gardner fitted a “shower cap” over the rocket nozzle. This was a covering to keep charred carbon from falling out of the rocket. Next, Commander Gardner installed a metal fixture to the base of the satellite, using a power wrench to bolt down nine large clamps. His wrench broke just as he completed tightening the last clamp. The satellite was then lowered and latched into its cradle on the floor of the shuttle’s 65-foot-long cargo bay.
Hundreds of American war veterans, from World War I through the U.S. invasion of Grenada, marched down New York’s 5th Avenue as the nation concluded three days of tributes to its soldiers. A group of Vietnam veterans drew the loudest applause. In Birmingham, Alabama, General John W. Vessey Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, advocated a strong national defense. And Chicopee, Massachusetts, held a flag dedication for Steven LaRiviere, a Marine killed in the October, 1983, bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon.
Deep domestic spending cuts should be sought by President Reagan, according to his top economic and political advisers. Administration officials cited reports that projections of the Federal budget deficit have grown because of the slowdown of the economy in recent months. Officials said the latest projections showed the deficit would be at least $190 billion in the current fiscal year and in each of the next four years if there is no action by Congress. These estimates are nearly $20 billion higher than those made by the Administration in August.
President Reagan participates in a photo opportunity for the cover of Sports Illustrated’s annual college basketball issue.
President Reagan participates in a message taping session for a tribute to the Republican National Convention staff.
Catholic bishops should follow the lead of their national conference in shaping efforts to change public policy, according to the head of that group. Bishop James W. Malone, the president of the National Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops, made a strong plea for cohesion behind the panel’s positions on many major issues — nuclear arms, abortion, human rights and poverty.
Advanced medical machines and medicines have prompted a growing number of hospitals to appoint ethics committees. One doctor, acting against the parents’ wishes, saved a very premature baby, and the case, a typical example of the kind of dilemma facing patients and their families, went to the hospitals’ ethics panel. After five and a half months, the infant weighs 4 pounds 11 ounces, is still in intensive care, fed automatically and enclosed in a small plastic world. The family’s hospital bill is nearing $400,000.
Baby Fae, the infant who received a baboon’s heart 18 days ago, is recovering from a moderate rather than a mild rejection episode, doctors at Loma Linda Medical Center said today. Baby Fae remained in serious but stable condition and is “responding favorably” to drugs, cyclosporin-A and steroids, that should prevent her body from rejecting the transplanted heart, a spokesman for the doctors said.
A sniper opened fire in the University of Oregon’s football stadium, killing a former Olympic sprinter and wounding a college wrestler. Officials said the 19-year-old male sniper, dressed in combat gear, then apparently committed suicide. The body of the student, identified as Michael Evan Feher, 19 years old, who was described as unable to deal “with the slightest pressure,” was found inside Autzen Stadium by a police team about noon, some three and a half hours after the shooting began.
“It appears at this time he took his own life,” Police Sgt. Tim McCarthy said. The slain victim was identified as Christopher Brathwaite, 35, of Eugene, a former student at the university who was a Trinidad native and a member of Trinidad’s 1976 and 1980 Olympic track teams, school officials said. Mr. Brathwaite also competed for the University of Oregon track team.
Calling television in the courtroom the “most destructive thing in the world,” Chief Justice Warren E. Burger declared: “There will be no cameras in the Supreme Court of the United States while I sit there.” The comment was believed to be Burger’s first public acknowledgement of his strong feelings on the issue. The chief justice made his remarks at a news conference in Tampa, Florida, before addressing leaders of a prison industry program called PRIDE, which transferred management of 43 industries. at 17 prisons around Florida to the private sector.
A robot has taken “the first step to decontamination” of Three Mile Island’s crippled Unit 2 reactor at Middletown, Pa., said Dave Giefer, head robotics developer for GPU Nuclear Corp., TMI’s operator. The six-wheel, half-ton vehicle was lowered into the highly radioactive basement for four hours to record radiation levels and send back video pictures. The basement is the most contaminated area of the reactor, which was damaged in March, 1979, in the nation’s worst commercial nuclear power accident.
The Christic Institute and the Government Accountability Project will mark the 10th anniversary of Karen Silkwood’s death today with nuclear safety awards. Silkwood died in a 1974 auto crash after telling federal regulators of safety violations at a Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corp. plant in Oklahoma. The awards are going to Charles Atchison, Dobie Hatley, Sue Ann Neumeyer and Meddie Gregory of the Comanche Peak nuclear plant near Dallas and Johnny Bettis, a union official. Atchison, Hatley and Gregory say they were fired for insisting on safety measures, a charge disputed by Texas Utilities Co. Bettis is president of Local 3-974 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, which is in the third year of a strike over safety and health issues at the TNS Uranium Munitions Plant in Jonesboro, Tennessee.
Contract talks between Yale University and striking white-collar workers resumed for the first time since October 9, and about 500 students gathered on the Ivy League campus in New Haven, Connecticut, to call for both sides to settle the strike. About 1,600 of Yale’s 2,500 clerical and technical workers, members of the Federation of University Employees Local 34, walked off their jobs Sept. 26. Members of an affiliated union of food service and maintenance workers have honored picket lines.
Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards stepped in today to stop the execution of Robert Lee Willie less than 12 hours before he was to have been put to death in Louisiana’s electric chair. Mr. Edwards gave the convicted murderer of a rape victim 10 days to take his appeal to the state Pardon Board. The United States Supreme Court turned down Mr. Willie’s appeal earlier in the day. Mr. Edwards, who says he opposes the death penalty, has made it standard practice to allow inmates to appear before the Pardon Board in a last-ditch effort to avoid execution. If the board rejects Mr. Willie’s appeal, a new execution date will be set by the trial judge. The 25-year-old inmate was sentenced to death for the 1980 rape and stabbing death of Faith Hathaway, 18, of Mandeville, Louisiana.
The Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod of the Lutheran Church In America has set a hearing for November 26 for the Rev. D. Douglas Roth, who has ignored orders not to preach at his Clairton, Pennsylvania, church for the last three Sundays, said Mont Bowser, assistant to Bishop Kenneth R. May.
A sculpture memorial to the victims of the Nazi holocaust in San Francisco was sprayed with paint less than a week after it was unveiled, according to the police. “Some of the gold and black paint read, ‘Is this Necessary?’ ” said an officer at the police station near the Palace of the Legion of Honor, where the sculpture by George Segal stands. A bunch of red roses was found on the white-painted bronzed sculpture with a note in German reading: “Forgive and Forget,” said James Baldocchi, an official at the Legion of Honor art gallery. “The note also contained some German names,” said Mr. Baldocchi, who estimated that the work had been vandalized Sunday morning. “We had a ceremony at the legion Saturday night and no one leaving noticed the statues had been damaged,” he said. The $500,000 work, paid for public contributions, shows naked corpses piled behind a survivor who stares through strands of barbed wire. Mr. Segal’s bronzes were cast from plaster effigies taken directly from living models. They were painted white to generalize them.
The vaginal sponge is “a relatively safe product” for birth control, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said after finding only 12 cases of toxic shock syndrome among an estimated 600,000 women who regularly use the device. The federal Centers for Disease Control lists more than 2,500 reported cases and 110 deaths attributed to toxic shock in the last four years, mainly among women who use tampons, although the number of cases has dropped each year and researchers are seeking a vaccine. There were no fatalities among the 12 confirmed cases in women who used 18 million spermicidal sponges — sold under the brand name Today — between the time they were introduced in June, 1983, and the end of an FDA review, according to Dr. Gerald A. Faich, an FDA associate director.
A group of parents offered a $10,000 reward today for pornographic photos showing children with employees of a preschool where seven people have been accused of sexually abusing 42 children. “We’re convinced they’re out there, and we’re optimistic and hope we’ll get at least one,” Councilman John Cioffi of Hermosa Beach City said at a news conference. Two of Mr. Cioffi’s children attended the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, where seven people are accused of 207 counts of rape, sodomy and other sexual abuse of the children in their charge. Mr. Cioffi guaranteed anonymity to people who turn in pornographic photos seeking the reward.
[Ed: No pictures. No abuse. Only parental hysteria, fed by an amoral ambitious prosecutor and a pyschologist planting “recovered memories.” The entire case collapses. Lives are ruined for no good reason.]
Light can have health benefits far beyond those imagined by science as recently as four years ago, according to findings described this month to the first wide-ranging scientific conference on the biological and medical effects of light.
The science of ceramics has reached a turning point. In the last decade chemists have learned to blend, beat and bake different kinds of ceramic compounds into materials that are stronger than steel, as hard as diamonds and tough enough to withstand the heat of a blast furnace.
NBC premiere of “Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story”, fact based telepic of actress Saldana’s near fatal attack and its aftermath.
Paul McCartney releases single “We All Stand Together.”
NFL Monday Night Football:
Los Angeles Raiders 14, Seattle Seahawks 17
Dave Krieg fired touchdown passes to Byron Walker and Daryl Turner tonight, sparking the Seattle Seahawks to a 17–14 victory over the Los Angeles Raiders and extending their winning streak to five games. Krieg’s touchdown passes highlighted a 17-point scoring burst by Seattle in the third quarter after a dismal first-half performance, in which the Seahawks’ offense totaled only 46 yards. The victory allowed Seattle (9–2) to remain one game behind first-place Denver in the American Football Conference West. The Raiders (7–4), losers of three consecutive games for the first time since early in the 1981 season, have virtually lost any chance of repeating as A.F.C. West champions. But they are still alive in the race for one of the conference’s two wild-card berths. On both of Seattle’s scoring passes, an 8-yarder to Walker and a 20-yarder to Turner, the Seahawk wide receivers beat Lester Hayes, the all-pro cornerback. The Seahawks took advantage of six Raider turnovers, one a fumble by Marcus Allen on the third play of the second half at his 12-yard line. It set up Seattle’s first score, a 27-yard field goal by Norm Johnson. The Raiders scored on a pair of 1-yard runs by Allen, one in the second quarter and the other in the fourth. Trailing, 17–14, after Allen’s second touchdown, the Raiders had a chance to tie, but Chris Bahr’s 45-yard field- goal attempt with 4:18 to play was blocked by Joe Nash, a defensive lineman for the Seahawks.
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