The Reagan Administration, in advance of high-level Soviet-American talks on arms control, has introduced an extraordinarily stringent policy to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the press or to other Government officials, State Department officials said today. According to the officials, the new policy requires that any official authorized to handle materials related to Secretary of State George P. Shultz’s coming meetings with Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko sign a document acknowledging his responsibility not to share his information with unauthorized individuals. A list will be drawn up, officials said, of those entitled to have access to information about the Shultz-Gromyko meetings, scheduled for Jan. 7 and 8 in Geneva. Before any person not on that list can be drawn into a discussion of the material, they said, permission must be obtained from Robert C. McFarlane, the national security adviser, or from another appropriate official.
Docked safely in from the choppy Baltic Sea, the sleek white Rogalin, a 7,500-ton ferry, looks like it was designed for the rich and the privileged. But this year, 770 Poles, most of them with good proletarian credentials, have used the Polish luxury vessel to flee to freedom. For them a voyage on the Rogalin from the Polish port of Szczecin – or a similar trip on the even more elegant liner Stefan Batory – have been the only exits from a hopeless situation at home. Some of them call it a flight from economic misery, corruption, political oppression, fear and despair.
East Germany has dismantled the last of its scatter guns in the northern sector of the border with West Germany, the Bonn Interior Ministry said. Removal of the scatter guns was one of Bonn’s conditions for authorizing a major financial credit to East Germany last year. The SM-70 guns were intended to deter escapes to the West, spraying shrapnel on anyone who touched the trip wires. The southern and middle sections of the border have already been cleared, and only a few of the guns remain in the coastal section, the ministry said.
Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turk convicted of shooting Pope John Paul II, has written to a Turkish newspaper saying he was threatened by Soviet and Bulgarian secret services, the newspaper said today. Turkey’s largest-circulation daily, Hurriyet, published the text of what it said was as a letter dated November 16 and mailed by Mr. Ağca from a prison in Rome where he is serving a life term for shooting the Pope. The police had no comment on the letter. Hurriyet’s editor, Hasan Yilmaer, said Istanbul police experts had checked the letter and said it was in Mr. Ağca’s handwriting. In the letter, Mr. Ağca is quoted as saying, “Aside from the campaign of lies against me by Soviet and Bulgarian news media, I was recently threatened again by Soviet and Bulgarian secret services.” The letter does not detail the reported threats or say how they supposedly reached him.
Albanian leader Enver Hoxha confirmed that his country will continue on its strict Stalinist and independent course. His defiant message, marking the 40th anniversary of the country’s liberation from Nazi rule in World War II, was carried in full in the Communist Party newspaper Zeri I Popullit. It contended that the Albanian partisans alone were responsible for driving out the Germans.
Israel and Lebanon, meeting for the sixth round of troop-withdrawal talks here, blamed each other today for the slow pace of the negotiations. Lebanon said Israel would have to alter its position or the talks would end. “The Israelis keep making more and more conditions for a withdrawal,” Brigadier General Mohammed al-Haj of Lebanon later said at a news conference. The Israeli negotiator, Brigadier General Amos Gilboa, hinted that Israel might eventually be forced to break off the talks and simply withdraw on its own. The talks bogged down again over the role of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, known as Unifil, after an Israeli withdrawal.
A car-bombing in the Lebanese Druze town of Aleih and a shelling incident in the Ashrafiyah area of East Beirut killed six people and wounded 19 today. The violence coincided with the enforcement by the Lebanese Army of new security measures and with plans for the deployment of government troops along the entire coastal road between northern Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied south. Meanwhile, the guard at the Italian Embassy was tightened after reported threats from Islamic Holy War, an underground group, over the arrest of eight Lebanese in Italy on suspicion of plotting to blow up the United States Embassy in Rome.
Malta and Libya have signed a five-year security and cooperation treaty that calls for Libya to defend the strategic Mediterranean island nation if asked to do so, the Maltese government announced. The treaty also calls for Libya to train Maltese military personnel and “to study” sending arms to Malta. Both countries also agreed to “not participate in any military alliance which may affect the security interests of the other side,” the announcement said.
A Western analyst in Paris asserted today that Libya still had 3,500 to 4,500 troops in Chad despite Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s assertion this week that all of his forces had left the country. This means, the analyst said, that Libya has withdrawn virtually none of its men since the meeting in Crete between Colonel Qaddafi and President Francois Mitterrand two weeks ago. At that time the Libyan leader reassured Mr. Mitterrand that the Libyans were leaving.
Morocco will sever diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia because Belgrade has decided to recognize the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic as the government of the former Spanish Sahara, the official Moroccan radio announced. The government in exile formed by the Polisario Front guerrillas is recognized by about 50 nations in Africa and Latin America. The guerrillas, with the backing of Algeria, have been fighting Morocco for nine. years for control of the area, now known as Western Sahara.
A Persian Gulf deployment force is planned by the leaders of Saudi Arabia and five neighbor governments to help defend themselves against external military threats. The statement was made by Sheik Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, the Deputy Prime Minister of Kuwait, who was host of the three-day conference. It was the fifth such meeting of the six-member group of oil-producing nations, known collectively as the Gulf Cooperation Council. Sheik Sabah, who spoke at a news conference, provided few details about the group’s new military cooperation effort. But he said the force would include all six member nations — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman — and would have a unified command. He also suggested that it would not be a permanent standing force.
South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan lifted a political ban on 84 people today, three months before scheduled National Assembly elections, but left 15 better-known dissidents on a four-year- old blacklist. Among those still barred from politics are Kim Dae Jung, who recently announced plans to return to South Korea from voluntary exile in the United States, and Kim Young Sam, former head of the now-banned New Democratic Party, who is regarded as the leader of Korean dissidents at home. Others left on the blacklist included Kim Jong Pil, former Prime Minister; Lee Hu Rak, former Korean Central Intelligence Agency director; Kim Sang Hyun, a political protege of Kim Dae Jung, and Kim Duk Yong, chief secretary of Kim Young Sam.
The Philippine armed forces chief, General Fabian C. Ver, and 25 other people were asked today to show cause why they should not be charged with the murder of the opposition leader, Benigno S. Aquino Jr. The head of a three-member tribunal investigating the case gave them 10 days to produce evidence, saying the majority report of an inquiry commission had said they were the principal suspects. The report, issued last month, said they were indictable for the slayings of Mr. Aquino and Rolando Galman, the man the military says killed him, at the Manila airport on August 21, 1983.
The discharge of a Salvadoran officer accused of organizing the 1981 murders of two United States labor advisers and the head of the country’s land redistribution program has been ordered, according to a close aide of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. Mr. Duarte ordered the discharge to be immediate and without pension. It is believed to be the first time a Salvadoran army officer accused of human rights violations has been dismissed. President Duarte ordered the discharge Wednesday after consulting the army high command, the aide said. The officer, Lieutenant Isidro Lopez Sibrian, is officially being discharged for unspecified “military reasons,” the aide said.
A Nicaraguan Indian leader says an effort to unite two factions of the Miskito Indians has stalled because of pressure from rival insurgent groups. The Indian leader, Brooklyn Rivera, accused his fellow Miskito, Steadman Fagoth, and other guerrilla leaders of having him deported from Honduras last Saturday. Mr. Rivera, who is based in Costa Rica, said in an interview here Tuesday that he traveled to Honduras last Thursday to meet with Mr. Fagoth to discuss the possibility of uniting the two Indian groups.
The United States agreed to consider a massive aid request from Honduras, its main military ally in Central America, despite the State Department’s initial skepticism over whether the request is warranted, officials said. Honduran and U.S. officials said that representatives of the two nations, during two days of meetings in Washington, agreed to set up a joint commission on military and economic aid at Honduras’ request to study the needs and come up with a mutually acceptable amount. Senior Honduran officials offered today to allow the United States to build a permanent military base in their country. “A permanent United States military base in Honduras is possible, if this is mutually convenient to the security of both nations,” said Col. Efrain Gonzalez, Chief of Staff for the Honduran armed forces.
Peruvian police enforcing a 30-day state of emergency fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of workers and students who blocked roads and burned. buses during a general strike to protest economic conditions. At least 380 people were arrested in Lima, the capital, and 200 more in other cities when they tried to stage marches and rallies, labor leaders said. Conflicting reports from government and labor officials made the success of the strike difficult to determine. A government official said that 92% of the nation’s workers reported for work while labor leaders said that 93% of the nation’s workers stayed off the job. Riot policemen fired buckshot and wounded an unspecified number of students from San Marcos State University when the students tried to block a major street linking Lima and the port of Callao, the government press agency, Adina, said. The union also said 100 people were arrested in Lima and 200 others in clashes with police in Cuzco, Arequipa, Huancayo and Puno.
The Chilean government expelled a United Press International correspondent, charging that he had erroneously reported the deaths of three persons during anti-government protests this week. Reporters said plainclothes police detained Anthony Boadle, 31, in Santiago, then put him aboard a flight to Lima, Peru. UPI denied that the alleged erroneous report had moved on its news wire.
President Reagan tentatively decided today to freeze overall spending in the 1986 budget at the current level, according to Administration officials. The officials said that under the overall freeze many programs, especially nonmilitary domestic programs, would have to be cut or even eliminated so other programs whose budgets Mr. Reagan does not want to freeze could expand. The President has said he will not reduce benefits in Social Security, whose costs will grow as more people become eligible. And even if he accepts a slowdown in the rise in the military budget, such spending would still rise somewhat in 1986. A decision to maintain current total spending levels thus would mean cuts of about $45 billion in areas outside such programs as Social Security and the military, said the officials, who spoke on condition they not be identified.
The new Administrator of the E.P.A. will be Lee M. Thomas, now assistant administrator of the agency in charge of toxic waste programs. Both Mr. Thomas and William D. Ruckelshaus said the appointment signaled President Reagan’s intention to continue the same policies begun by Mr. Ruckelshaus when he took over a demoralized Environmental Protection Agency in May 1983.
President Reagan participates in a meeting to discuss an overall spending reduction with the Budget Core Group.
President Reagan participates in a ceremony to present a special Congressional Gold Medal, posthumously, to honor the late Representative Leo J. Ryan (R-California).
A special Senate committee recommended sweeping changes today in the way Senators organize themselves and consider legislation. If the new rules are adopted by the Senate, each lawmaker would have fewer committee assignments and more time to focus on “the major issues of the day,” according to Senator Dan Quayle, the Indiana Republican who heads the committee. In addition, the proposed changes would make it more difficult for Senators to prolong debate indefinitely through various parliamentary tactics. But Mr. Quayle told the committee today that rules changes alone would not be enough to restore the Senate’s “historic mission” as the nation’s premier forum for public policy debate. That goal, he said, would be reached only if Senators developed greater “self-restraint” in their actions, “a characteristic we have not exhibited in the past.”
William J. Schroeder arose from bed and walked a few steps to a chair for the first time since he became the second recipient of a permanent heart last Sunday. He also drank three-quarters of the can of beer that he craved. “I feel great today,” he told William Strode, the official photographer who is following the events at Humana Hospital-Audubon. Mr. Schroeder appeared to be making a far speedier recovery than Dr. Barney B. Clark, the first recipient of an artificial heart, who was unable to take steps until 20 days after the operation in December 1982 and then only with the help of a walker. Mr. Schroeder was even able to support his own weight today, the fourth day after the implant operation.
A Russian emigre accused of spying for Moscow contended she was an FBI informant who had had sexual affairs with two FBI agents, including the man charged as her co-conspirator, Richard W. Miller. The assertions by the emigre, Svetlana Ogorodnikov, were made in a memorandum filed by her lawyer in seeking access to Government files.
Protests at South Africa’s Embassy every day this week have resulted in arrests of members of Congress, black leaders and union officials. Organizers of the sit-ins plan to hold similar demonstrations against South Africa’s apartheid policies in other American cities.
A lawyer for Karl F. Koecher, accused of penetrating the CIA as a Czechoslovakian spy, said his client actually was a double agent who worked “for a protracted period of time” for the United States. During a hearing in federal court in Manhattan, the lawyer also alleged that the CIA and his client were “double-crossed by the FBI” and that Koecher never committed any crimes. A federal criminal complaint alleged that Koecher provided classified CIA documents to the Czechoslovakian Intelligence Service from 1973 to 1975, while he was employed as a translator for the CIA.
A TIME magazine correspondent testified that a key part of a disputed article about Ariel Sharon was based on “my evaluation — my analysis.” The reporter, David Halevy, acknowledged that his sources for the article had not given him the specific contents of the secret appendix of an Israeli report. A TIME magazine reporter said he and his editors read “between the lines” to conclude that a secret portion of an Israeli commission’s report said General Ariel Sharon was responsible for the slaughter of 700 Palestinian refugees. David Halevy, TIME’s Jerusalem correspondent, admitted in court that his secret sources never explicitly confirmed the information. In his $50-million libel suit being heard in federal court in Manhattan, Sharon accuses TIME of publishing a false, damaging and malicious article.
General William C. Westmoreland, showing signs of physical pain from a back ailment, testified that he was emotionally pained in 1971 by a report quoting an anti-war critic as saying that under certain standards the general could be found guilty of “Vietnam war crimes.” The brief Time magazine article reported the comments of Telford Taylor, chief U.S. prosecutor of Nazi war crimes after World War II and later a critic of the Vietnam War. Westmoreland is suing CBS for $120 million because of its documentary, “The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception.”
The Defense Department and two leading press organizations have agreed tentatively that newspaper reporters should be allowed to cover future military actions “to the maximum extent possible,” a Pentagon spokesman announced. The agreement was spelled out in letters written by the presidents of the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the American Society of Newspaper Editors to the Pentagon.
The U.S. Army wants to expand its germ warfare testing capacity in Utah to better prepare for possible attacks on U.S. troops, rather than for developing a U.S. biological weapon, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger told Congress. The proposed facility at the Dugway Proving Ground does not violate a 1972 treaty banning biological weapons, he added. “We do not engage in any biological or toxin weapons development activities,” Weinberger said in a letter to Senator Jim Sasser (D-Tennessee).
The inaugural festivities in Washington on January 18 to 21 will emphasize events for the young Americans who voted for President Reagan and will lack the lavish trappings and proliferation of black-tie fetes that accompanied Mr. Reagan’s first inauguration in 1981.
Seven New Orleans police officers were indicted today by a Orleans Parish grand jury on charges of negligent homicide in the death of a man who died struggling against arrest. The victim, Dennis Crawford, 23 years old, was dead on arrival at a hospital October 8. The police said he had tried to throw his girlfriend off a second-story balcony and put up a vicious fight when officers tried to arrest him. Two officers were treated at a hospital for bites and cuts after the melee. The cause of death has never been fully explained.
A Superior Court judge today declared unconstitutional a statewide ballot question approved by voters in June that cut the Legislature’s budget 30 percent and changed its internal rules in favor of the Republicans. “The will of the people must bow to the Constitution,” Judge James Ford said, ruling that the referendum violated the power given by the State Constitution to the Legislature to write “their rules for internal operation.” Ernest Gann, a sponsor of the proposal, said he would appeal. The measure, entitled the Legislative Reform Act, gives more power to minority party, now the Republicans, and diminishes the power of the majority party. Judge Ford said that the measure was statutory, not a constitutional amendment, and therefore could not affect the constitutional delegation of rule-making powers.
Acting on Boston harbor pollution, Superior Court Judge Paul Garrity barred new commercial connections to the aged sewer system that serves Boston and 42 other municipalities. The order permits new housing connections but effectively calls a halt to a regional commercial building boom that is proceeding at a rate of $500 million a year.
The Humane Society of the United States, in a bid to halt a “repugnant” practice, filed suit today to stop sport hunting in Federal wildlife refuges. John Grandy, vice president of the group, the country’s largest animal welfare organization, said the suit had been brought in Federal District Court against Interior Secretary William P. Clark and Robert A. Jantzen, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. An Interior Department spokesman declined comment until Government lawyers had a chance to study the suit.
Miss Baker, the tiny squirrel monkey that 25 years ago became one of the first two animals to go into space for the United States, died today of kidney failure, officials said. Miss Baker and another female squirrel monkey, Able, were the first animals to ride an American spacecraft, on May 28, 1959. Their 15-minute suborbital journey was a prelude to the first American manned flight two years later by Alan B. Shepard Jr. Able died after the flight from complications in removal of the sensors attached to her body. Miss Baker, 27 years old, showed signs of improvement Wednesday at the small-animal clinic at Auburn University’s School of Veterinary Medicine. But the 14-ounce monkey died this morning.
The profoundly deaf could hear sounds such as auto horns and door bells with an electronic device for implantation in the ear that was approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The Federal agency said the device could help 60,000 to 200,000 people.
A worldwide network of child pornographers and molesters promotes such activities as packaged child sex tours and auctions, with few diplomatic efforts by U.S. and foreign governments to stop it, a Senate panel was told. Witnesses told a Senate subcommittee that Denmark and the Netherlands are responsible for as much as 90% of the child pornography entering the United States. Senator William V. Roth Jr. (R-Delaware), panel chairman, said much of the commercial child pornography from the two nations features American children molested by Americans in America.
Another snowstorm headed for a mountainous area near Pendleton, Oregon, where up to 30 elk hunters refused rescue, stubbornly staying with their vehicles despite the possibility of being trapped for weeks. About 100 hunters were stranded when a storm hit the Umatilla National Forest in northeastern Oregon Tuesday and piled snowdrifts as high as nine feet deep on the roads. Search crews rescued about 60 hunters Wednesday and Thursday.
NFL Thursday Night Football:
Washington Redskins 31, Minnesota Vikings 17
Joe Theismann passed for two touchdowns and the Washington Redskins scored twice on fumble recoveries to take sole possession of first place in the National Conference East with 31–17 victory over the Minnesota Vikings tonight. The Redskins (9–5) are now one-half game ahead of the Dallas Cowboys and the Giants, pending Sunday’s games, in their quest for a third consecutive divisional title. The Vikings (3–11) have lost nine of 10 games for their worst record since 1962. On the game’s first play, Theismann sent a 68-yard touchdown pass to Calvin Muhammad, and the score was 7–0 after 18 seconds. Theismann passed 4 yards for a score to Clint Didier late in the first quarter to help make it 17–0. At halftime the Redskins led, 31–0. The Redskins’ defense, which leads the N.F.C. in sacks, sacked Wilson three times in the first half. Middle linebacker Neal Olkewicz jarred the ball out of Wilson’s hands on a second-quarter blitz and the tackle Darryl Grant scooped the ball and ran 22 yards for a touchdown. Earlier, when Keith Griffin of the Redskins fumbled 7 yards into the end zone, the tackle Joe Jacoby fell on it for another fumble-recovery touchdown. Ken Coffey and Rich Milot intercepted two passes by Wilson in the first half, and Milot’s 27-yard return set up Mark Moseley’s 30-yard field goal. Jan Stenerud made a 31-yard field goal for Minnesota in the second half. The Vikings recovered when 35- year-old Archie Manning replaced Wade Wilson and passed 14 and 9 yards to Leo Lewis for touchdowns. The Vikings threatened to cut the deficit to a touchdown, but rookie Allen Rice fumbled at the 2-yard line with 2 minutes 30 seconds to play and the ball bounced out of the end zone for a touchback.
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Samson Satele, NFL center (Miami Dolphins, Oakland Raiders, Indianapolis Colts), in Kailua, Hawaii.
Sitti [Navarro], Philippine bossa nova and pop singer, in Manila, Philippines.
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