The commander of NATO forces in Europe said here today that a revised military doctrine for fighting wars could eventually reduce the reliance on tactical nuclear weapons to deter an attack. The commander, Gen. Bernard W. Rogers, said that the doctrine, calling for counterattacking an invading Warsaw Pact force far behind the front lines, would improve the ability of the Atlantic alliance to deter an attack by using conventional weapons. The concept, known as Follow-On Force Attack, has been pressed by General Rogers for nearly two years. It envisages using nonnuclear weapons to strike at troop concentrations and at choke points, such as bridges or narrow defiles, through which Warsaw Pact reserve forces would have to pass to reinforce the front-line units.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau condemned the “macho posturing” of NATO members and urged Western countries to renounce the first use of nuclear weapons after sufficiently building up conventional forces. The former Canadian Prime Minister made some other new proposals to break the East-West deadlock, including a suggestion that Washington delay deployment of missiles in Europe to prod Moscow into making concessions. “I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat,” Mr. Trudeau, 65 years old, said. “Indeed, any attempt to start a discussion, or to question the meaning of the communique – also drafted by others long before the meetings began – was met with stony embarrassment or strong opposition,” he continued. “Is it any wonder that the value of NATO as a political alliance is being questoned?”
The Polish Government said today that it would soon “take steps” against people who had been forming civic committees to monitor police violence. It described the committees as a pretext for reviving the Solidarity movement as well as the Workers’ Defense Committee, a dissident group known by the Polish initials KOR. At the same time, a prominent dissident, Adam Michnik, said in an interview that he and a fellow dissident, Jacek Kuron, would join the Warsaw committee on police lawlessness if any of its less known members were seized. The mutual warnings came as the Government said it was actively pursuing its investigation into the motives behind the killing of the Rev. Jerzy Popiełuszko, a pro-Solidarity priest, in which three security officers have been charged with murder.
Soviet Jewish emigration is at its lowest point since the beginning of detente in the early 1970’s, and the Soviet authorities seem to be doing what they can to discourage any last hopes for leaving the country that may remain. Soviet Jews are reacting in various ways, from acquiescence to activism.
Jane’s Defense Weekly said the Soviet chief of ground forces, Marshal Vasily I. Petrov, is the top candidate to replace Dmitri F. Ustinov as Moscow’s next defense minister. Ustinov missed last week’s annual Red Square military parade and is believed to be ill. The authoritative London publication said Petrov “is described as a dynamo and a decisive and brilliant strategist.”
Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin’s daughter, who returned to the Soviet Union after 17 years in the West, was seen leaving a Moscow hotel today. She told Western reporters she had nothing to say to them. “I have no comment,” Miss Alliluyeva said when approached as she left the Sovetskaya Hotel, which the Soviet Government uses to house official guests. She hurried into a black Volga sedan that had license plates indicating it was a Government vehicle. Plainclothes policemen shielded Miss Alliluyeva from reporters. Her daughter, Olga Peters, 13 years old, whose father is an American architect, was also in the car. The official Soviet press agency Tass reported November 2 that Miss Alliluyeva, who defected in 1967, had returned to the Soviet Union and that her citizenship had been restored. It also said citizenship was granted to her daughter.
The Greek Parliament, many of whose members suffered brutality under the country’s former military dictatorship, unanimously passed a law outlawing torture by any arm of the state and setting jail terms for offenders. Government officials said the law — under which torturers can be imprisoned for life if the victim dies and for 20 years if he survives — makes Greece the first country to include a specific) ban on torture in its penal code.
Four Irish journalists taking part in a race to bring back the first Beaujolais nouveau wine from France were killed when their light plane crashed and burned during a rainstorm tonight. All eight passengers and the pilot died when the twin-engined plane hit a hill near Eastbourne, on the English south coast, during a flight between Dublin and Paris. The Dublin company that chartered the plane said those aboard included Niall Hanley, editor of Ireland’s best- selling afternoon newspaper, The Evening Herald. Also on board, a spokesman said, were John Feeney, a Herald columnist, Kevin Marron, former editor of The Sunday World and lately its columnist, and Tony Heneghan, a columnist for the Irish Independent newspaper.
Israel and Lebanon failed to break a deadlock over a reconvening of their troop withdrawal negotiations. It is unclear when, or even if, the negotiations over an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon will resume. Judging from statements by Lebanese and Israeli officials, neither side was willing to back down on its conditions for reconvening the negotiations.
Libyan troops have not withdrawn from northern Chad, despite a statement from both the Libyan and French governments that they have, and the Libyans and their Chadian rebel allies are preparing a new offensive against government-held positions, the official Chadian news agency reported in N’Djamena, the capital. Last week, France, which has supported the government against the Libyan-supported rebels, said both French and Libyan troops had finished withdrawing from the central African country. But the Chadian news agency said Libya duped France into pulling out in order to give itself a free hand in northern Chad.
A general election in India will be held on December 24 and 27. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s decision to call for a vote on schedule was regarded as a further effort to insure stability and continuity after the assassination of his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, on October 31. Mrs. Gandhi was killed by two gunmen identified by the police as Sikh members of her bodyguard. The assassination touched off a major political crisis, and questions were immediately raised about whether and when the election would be held.
About 870 Afghan children aged 7 to 9 left Kabul airport last week to attend a 10-year education program in the Soviet Union, Western diplomats in New Delhi said. Soviet and Afghan authorities have said similar groups will go to the Soviet Union soon. Weeping parents and the wife of Babrak Karmal, the Afghan leader, reportedly saw them off at Kabul airport. The reports could not be independently verified. The sources also said they received reports that 450 Afghan guerrillas were executed by Soviet troops after they surrendered in the mountains northwest of Kabul in October. Neither report could be independently confirmed.
The Japan Defense Agency said today that it scrambled 32 jet fighters when 7 Soviet bombers flew south in international airspace between South Korea and Japan. Forty Japanese fighters were scrambled on Monday when a TU-16, one of nine Soviet bombers flying south past the strait, violated Japanese airspace above the island of Okinoshima for two minutes despite repeated warnings. A military spokesman, Masafuji Sato, said no violation of Japanese airspace took place today when five TU- 16’s and two TU-95’s flew south over the Tsushima Strait. He said two of the bombers kept flying southward, apparently to Vietnam, and the five others turned back. In the last five years, Soviet military aircraft have flown close to Japanese airspace an average of 315 times a year, the spokesman said.
A U.S.-Japan agreement will allow Japan to continue whaling through 1987, the Commerce Department announced. Japan had objected to — thus exempting itself from — a vote by the International Whaling Commission to stop all commercial whaling at the end of! 1985. Under the two-stage agreement with Washington, Japan is to withdraw its objection to the ban starting in 1988 and in return will be allowed to take 400 sperm whales this year, 400 next year, and 200 in 1986 and 1987. The alternative would have been to face a 50% cut in fish that the Japanese could take from U.S. waters.
Mexican troops and police rescued about 7,000 slave laborers who were being forced to grow and process marijuana at isolated plantations in northern Chihuahua state, a government spokesman said. More than 8,000 tons of marijuana were burned in what was called the most important drug bust in Mexico’s history. The operation employed peasants trucked in from other states, then forced to work in “concentration camp” conditions, the spokesman said. The peasants, who had expected to harvest legal crops, were being returned to their homes.
By comparing Nicaragua to Cuba and talking about the possible Soviet delivery of advanced fighter planes to the Sandinistas, the Reagan Administration has tried in the last week to portray Nicaragua as a direct threat to United States security. Officials said the Administration was seeking to persuade Congress and the public to resume American support for Nicaraguan rebels. That effort, they said, began spontaneously last Tuesday with the unplanned disclosure that Soviet MIG jet fighters might be aboard a Soviet freighter headed toward Nicaragua. Since then, despite the announcement Friday that no high-performance planes appeared to be aboard the ship, the effort has gathered force. In the process, the officials said, information and news have been used as forms of leverage in an interagency struggle over the direction and tone of United States policy toward Nicaragua during President Reagan’s second term.
In defiance of the government’s state of siege, 500 Chilean university students held a campus rally and! cheered calls for a two-day national protest of military rule. Police clashed in the streets with students leaving the rally and a second session at another school in Santiago, but did not break up the meetings. The Democratic Alliance and a Marxist coalition are planning demonstrations November 27-28 against the state of siege.
A convoy of South African police and army trucks today rolled into the black township of Tembisa, northeast of Johannesburg, in what the authorities described as an anticrime operation. The move was the latest action against unrest that has taken 160 lives since early September and has drawn in black groups ranging from high school students to labor unions.
Bishop Desmond Tutu was elected the first black Anglican Bishop of the city of Johannesburg. Bishop Tutu, the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, is an outspoken critic of South Africa’s racial policies. The appointment was decided by a synod of 23 bishops meeting at a wooded retreat at Ladybrand in Orange Free State. The position gives Bishop Tutu, who is in New York on sabbatical, the spiritual leadership of hundreds of thousands of Anglicans.
Baby Fae took a serious turn for the worse today, her doctors said, as they battled to save her from rejecting the baboon heart she received 18 days ago. The infant was put back on a respirator at Loma Linda Medical Center as her new heart and her own kidneys began to fail, apparently a consequence of the rejection episode that began last Friday. Baby Fae remained “active and alert when not sleeping,” her vital signs were unchanged and her heart rhythm was normal, according to a bulletin issued at the medical center, in Loma Linda, near Los Angeles. Full-Scale Measures Taken A team headed by Dr. Leonard L. Bailey undertook full-scale measures to keep the baby alive. They added a new drug called lymphocyte immune globulin to her regimen. They also increased the dosage of the steroids that she has received since the transplant operation October 26.
The Discovery astronauts, rested and confident of success, steered their spaceship today toward a second errant communication satellite, which they are to retrieve in history’s first space salvage mission. In a change of plans, one astronaut, Dr. Joseph P. Allen, is to stand at the end of the shuttle’s mechanical arm and hold the wayward Westar 6 while the arm pulls both him and the satellite back to the shuttle’s cargo bay. The Westar is almost identical to the Palapa B-2 that was salvaged Monday by Dr. Allen and Comdr. Dale A. Gardner in a six-hour spacewalk.
A fourth and final satellite designed to provide communications between military forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization soared into space today from the Kennedy Space Center. The Delta rocket carrying the NATO III-D satellite blasted off at 7:34 P.M., rising like a fireball over the clear Florida night sky toward its initial elliptical orbit. “Everything’s looking good so far,” Rocky Raab, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said after the launching.
President Reagan welcomes the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg to the White House.
President Reagan participates in a full cabinet meeting.
The President and First Lady host a State Dinner for the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg.
Presidential assailant John W. Hinckley Jr. said he will seek asylum in an unidentified foreign land because the reelection of President Reagan represents another four years of “politically motivated actions” against him, KUSA-TV of Denver reported. Hinckley, who shot Reagan on March 30, 1981, is being treated for mental illness at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington.
Eight new charges involving bribery and stealing government property have been filed against Richard Miller, a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and two of seven original spying charges have been dropped, attorneys disclosed today. The new charges were contained in an indictment handed up by a Federal grand jury last week and released today. Robert Bonner, the United States Attorney here, who is personally prosecuting Mr. Miller and a couple suspected of being Soviet intelligence agents, said the new indictment accuses Mr. Miller of accepting a bribe of $1,185 from a private investigator trying to obtain government documents. He would not elaborate. In addition, Mr. Bonner said, the new charges accuse the 47-year-old suspect of stealing nearly $2,000 in cash and property designated for payoffs to FBI informers. Mr. Miller was arrested October 2 and accused of selling classified FBI documents to Nikolay and Svetlana Malutina Ogorodnikov, who were arrested in Hollywood. Prosecutors have accused Mr. Miller of agreeing to pass secret papers to the Russians in exchange for $65,000 in cash and gold.
A change in Medicare payments to doctors for treating elderly and disabled hospital patients is being seriously considered by the Reagan Administration in an effort to restrain the costs of the Federal health insurance program. Under the proposal, the Government would establish in advance a flat, all-inclusive payment for doctors’ services associated with each illness.
A key toxic waste dump was closed by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency after it received reports that the dump operators had knowingly pumped chemically contaminated water into the drinking water supply of a nearby town. A spokesman for the state agency said it had asked for an investigation of possible criminal violations by the operators of the waste site, which is near Williamsburg, Ohio, and is owned by Cecos International.
A new synthetic fuels plant 75 miles from Bismarck, North Dakota, daily puts large quantities of gas into a pipeline system serving millions of consumers. Just as a new round of sagging oil prices threatens to further undermine the nation’s costly and fledgling synthetic fuels industry, a commercial-scale plant that turns coal into pipeline-quality gas has finally been brought into operation.
At least two tons of radioactive fuel are lying in rubble at the bottom of the damaged Three Mile Island reactor vessel, according to the results of reactor core tests. Westinghouse Hanford Co. scientists said they used neutron detection devices to determine how much fuel had been damaged during the March, 1979, accident near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in which the Unit 2 reactor core overheated. The company said 34 small detection devices were suspended at different locations inside the reactor cavity area for a three-week period in August and September of 1983. The cavity region is outside the reactor pressure vessel but inside the reactor’s biological shield.
A 19-year-old sniper who killed a former Olympian and wounded a wrestler before taking his own life underwent about six weeks of psychological counseling after slashing his wrists in August, his fraternity brothers said. Michael E. Feher of Everett, Washington, made the earlier suicide attempt at the University of Oregon’s Autzen Stadium in Eugene — the site of the fatal shootings — then walked to a hospital for treatment, a student said. On Monday, Feher blackened his face and donned combat fatigues before entering the stadium with two high-powered rifles and about 300 rounds of ammunition. He wounded wrestler Rick O’Shea and killed Chris S. Brathwaite, a former Olympic sprinter, before shooting himself in the head, police said.
President Lyndon B. Johnson was not misled about the strength of enemy forces in Vietnam, as suggested in a CBS documentary, a former CIA official testified in federal court in New York. Appearing angry at times, George Carver, the CIA’s deputy director for Vietnamese affairs from 1966 to 1973, said he was contacted by CBS less than two weeks before it broadcast a 1982 report that accused U.S. military officials of suppressing key intelligence during the war. Carver was on the witness stand for a third day in a $120-million libel suit filed against CBS by retired Gen. William C. Westmoreland, who commanded the U.S. forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968. Westmoreland claims that the broadcast, “The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception,” libeled him by saying an effort was made by Westmoreland’s command to downplay communist troop strength to make the war seem winnable.
A fire burning two days in tar and insulation in the mile-long ceiling of the Air Force’s largest jet engine maintenance facility in Oklahoma today jumped a fire-break trench and neared a second one. “It has got pretty much out of control,” said Gene Pickett, a spokesman for Tinker Air Force Base. Mr. Pickett said the first trench, 18 inches wide, was dug on top of the building out of the tar and “foam-type” insulation to try to halt the blaze, but the attempt failed. He said firefighters then dug the second trench. The fire began about noon Monday from sparks from a welder working on the roof of the 52-acre Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, the largest of the Air Force’s five such centers.
A precedent-setting $37-million suit has been filed in federal court in Oklahoma City against the U.S. Tobacco Co., maker of Copenhagen snuff, by the mother of Marvin Sean Marsee, 19, a former high school athlete who died of oral cancer, officials said. They said it was believed to be the first time that a tobacco company has been sued for a death involving smokeless tobacco.
Voting rights enforcement was backed by the Supreme Court as the Justices upheld the boundaries for Mississippi’s five Congressional districts as redrawn by a federal court to comply with the recently amended Voting Rights Act.
With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, a student newspaper editor filed suit today against Louisiana State University for banning advertisements for abortion clinic and pregnancy counseling services. The suit, filed on behalf of Dane Strother, editor of The Daily Reveille, accuses the university of infringing on the First Amendment guarantees of a free press by censoring advertisement.
Florida Governor Bob Graham said today that too harsh a punishment was ordered for Rosemary Furman, a stenographer who was sentenced to 30 days in jail for offering advice while selling do-it-yourself legal forms. But the Governor refused to intercede in the case, saying he had not been formally asked to pardon her. Florida’s Supreme Court ordered that she be jailed for ignoring its 1979 order to stop dispensing legal advice without a license. The court today refused to lighten the sentence, and the stenographer prepared to file an appeal to the Governor. She has long been a critic of the legal profession, accusing lawyers of charging exorbitant prices for simple legal work.
A most-wanted drug trafficker will be extradited by Spain and sent to New York within several days, Spanish and American authorities said in Madrid. The man wanted by American law-enforcement officials is Gaetano Badalamenti, a 61-year-old reputed Sicilian Mafia leader who was arrested in Madrid in April.
Chicago’s Ryne Sandberg wins the National League MVP Award, becoming the first Cub to do so since Ernie Banks in 1959. Sandberg hit .314 with 19 home runs and 32 stolen bases and led the National League in runs (114) and triples (19). He’s a triple and homer short of being the first with 200 hits, 20 home runs, 20 triples, 20 doubles, and 20 steals.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1206.6 (-12.59)
Born:
Jason Garrison, Canadian NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers, Vancouver Canucks, Tampa Bay Lightning, Vegas Golden Knights, Edmonton Oilers), in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada.
Ilkka Heikkinen, Finnish NHL defenseman (New York Rangers), in Rauma, Finland.
Tony Abreu, Dominican MLB second baseman, pinch hitter, and third baseman (Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants), in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
Melvin Bullitt, NFL safety (Indianapolis Colts), in Bryan, Texas.
Lara Amersey, Canadian actress (“Monster Warriors”, “Land of the Dead”), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Died:
(Mauritus) “Mauk” de Braauw, 59, Dutch politician (Chairman of DS’70, 1973-75; Minister of Higher Education and Science Policy, 1971-72).
Dorothy Arnold, 66, American actress (“House of Fear”, “Phantom Creeps”), first wife of Joe DiMaggio (1939-1944).
[Ed: As the strike weakens, the violence of the hardliners, led by the Marxist Scargill, ramps up.]
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