President Reagan welcomes the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Helmut Kohl. President Reagan and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany called today for a new effort by the Atlantic alliance to strengthen conventional forces in Western Europe to reduce the risk or need of nuclear weapons. At the same time, both leaders, in a joint statement, said they would give priority to the search for nuclear arms- control agreements with Moscow. In the first high-level meeting with an allied leader since Mr. Reagan’s re- election this month, the United States also pledged to engage in close consultations with Bonn and other allies before and after Secretary of State George P. Shultz’s meeting with Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko of the Soviet Union next January in Geneva. These talks, the statement said, would “open a new phase of their arms control dialogue.”
The United States and the Soviet Union, expressing concern about the possible increase in the number of nations that may develop nuclear weapons, announced today that they will hold regular talks on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons twice a year. The agreement came as the two sides ended routine consultations on ways to control the spread of nuclear technology that could have military applications.
Some Western delegates to Unesco say the possibility of replacing the agency’s Director General, Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, is being discreetly discussed by several member governments. The delegates say they believe that finding a new agency head could offer the best way of resolving the crisis at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and of convincing the United States to return if, as expected, it withdraws from Unesco next month. The members of the European Economic Community are to make a final appeal soon to the Reagan Administration to remain in Unesco for another year and work for changes in the policy and administration of the agency. The United States has charged that the agency has an anti-Western bias and is inefficiently administered.
Two senior police officers investigating the killing of the Rev. Jerzy Popiełuszko, the pro-Solidarity priest, were killed along with their driver today in a head-on collision with a truck, the Government reported. At a news conference at the Interior Ministry, Polish reporters were told that Colonel Stanisław Trafalski, head of a division of the ministry’s investigating office, and Major Wiesław Piątak, a senior investigator, had been killed instantly in the crash. It occurred 80 miles south of Warsaw in sunny weather as the men were returning from what the Polish press agency described as an assignment connected with the investigation of the Popiełuszko killing, for which three Interior Ministry agents have been charged. In a 20-second piece of film shown on television, the policemen’s car, a Fiat 125, was shown with its front smashed by the heavy truck, which appeared to be carrying chemical drums.
The meeting of the Palestine National Council in Amman earned mixed reviews today from the Arabs of Israel and the occupied territories, who were able to watch most of the proceedings live on television from the Jordanian capital. The meeting of the council, which the Palestinians call their parliament in exile, ended late Thursday night with the reaffirmation of the leadership of Yasir Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The council gave Mr. Arafat the power to develop a joint strategy with Jordan for a negotiated Middle East settlement and to continue his exchanges with Egypt, but did not produce any new peace initiatives because of the fear that this might irrevocably split the organization. The fact that most of the proceedings of the P.L.O.’s legislative council were carried live and in color by Jordanian television — which can be seen all over Israel — seemed to instill a palpable sense of pride among the local Arabs and gave them a view of the P.L.O. leadership that many of them had never had.
The Associated Press Managing Editors Association adopted a resolution today calling on the Government of India to “cease all proceedings, under way and contemplated” against an Associated Press correspondent. The reporter, Brahma Chellaney, a 27-year-old Indian citizen, has been charged with sedition and maliciously inciting sectarian discord through a dispatch he wrote in June. The dispatch, which followed an assault by the Indian Army on the Golden Temple in Amritsar, quoted sources as saying some Sikhs had been killed in the temple raid with their hands tied behind their backs. The editors said that “responsible Indian officials have corroborated Mr. Chellaney’s news dispatches from Amritsar.”
The Government of Sri Lanka said today that at least 42 people were killed when heavily armed Tamil guerrillas attacked two prison farms in the northern region. Officials said the attacks occurred before dawn today at the Dollar Farm and the Kent Farm, both rehabilitation settlements where convicts live with their families before being released. The officials said about 200 guerrillas had scrambled from two buses, spraying submachine-gun and rifle fire and throwing grenades as they herded prisoners into buildings and then blew up the buildings. About 450 people, including guards, prisoners and their families, lived at the two settlements.
The United States presented a Bronze Star today to the family of a South Korean soldier who was killed in a shootout with North Koreans in the demilitarized zone a week ago. General William J. Livsey of the Army said the medal was given “on behalf of a very grateful United States of America” posthumously to Pfc. Chang Myong Gi. A United States soldier was wounded and three North Koreans were killed in the gunfight that the United Nations Command said began when a Soviet tourist on the North Korean side defected to the south The defector, Vasily Y. Matuzok, 22 years old, left Seoul today for Rome, “according to his wishes,” the South Korean Foreign Ministry said. The ministry said he would eventually resettle in the United States.
Australia is holding parliamentary elections today, and all signs point to a victory by the Labor Government of Prime Minister Bob Hawke. The latest public-opinion polls all show Mr. Hawke’s party holding a commanding lead, largely based on a resurgent economic picture and the popularity of the Prime Minister, a 54- year-old former trade union leader who has pursued pragmatic – some even say conservative – policies. According to the most recent Morgan-Gallup poll, the most reliable survey in recent elections, 67 percent of the Australian voters approve of Mr. Hawke’s performance, compared with 37 percent for the opposition leader, Andrew Peacock.
A European settler was killed today and six people were wounded when fighting broke out between whites and Melanesian militants demanding independence for New Caledonia, French officials reported. The death was the first reported in the political violence that began with elections two weeks ago on the French South Pacific island. Official reports in Noumea, capital of this island chain 750 miles east of Australia, said the shooting occurred in the northern town of Ouegoa when European residents asked a group of the indigenous Melanesians, known as Kanakas, to let an ambulance go through a roadblock.
A U.S. ship drifted into Cuban waters, prompting officials to order the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz to the area so quickly that 1,000 crewmen were left behind, Pentagon officials said. The ship, chartered by the U.S. Navy, had broken down before it started to drift. It was rescued by a Coast Guard cutter. President Reagan writes in his White House diary:
“Things got sparked up a bit when Cap W. was called out several times for phone calls. It seems that a civilian oceanographic vessel under lease to the Navy had become disabled & drifted into Cuban waters—about 9 miles off shore. We had a Coast Guard cutter not too far away & called the Cuban govt. for permission to have it go into Cuban waters & tow our ship out. The Cubans refused & said they were sending a fast Naval vessel to take our ship in tow. We very much feared a hostage situation. Actually the law of the sea permits any vessel to go into national waters on a rescue mission. I ordered our Coast Guard vessel to go in. Just in case—we ordered the Carrier Nimitz in the Virgin Islands to move on Cuba & put planes in the air. Evidently the Cuban ship with a crew obviously manning it’s stern gun, put a line on the disabled ship. Somehow that line got cut and entangled the Cuban’s prop. Our cutter towed the ship safely into American waters. End of incident. Not knowing all the details the press has treated it as ‘much ado about nothing.’ Frankly I think our Navy & Coast Guard deserve a ‘Well Done.’”
Tanks and armored vehicles that were deployed around Managua earlier this month have been removed, a survey of the city indicates. The armored vehicles were posted at crossroads and in front of Government buildings as Nicaragua mobilized for what its leaders said was a possible invasion by United States forces. Defensive preparations were accelerated after the publication of reports suggesting that the Sandinista Government was about to get Soviet-made MIG jets. Those reports were later said to be untrue. The United States has warned Nicaragua against obtaining such aircraft, which it says would upset the military balance in Central America. More than 50 tanks and armored vehicles were deployed in Managua for nearly three weeks.
Salvadoran rebel representatives offered Government officials a three-stage peace plan today that calls for the eventual formation of a new government, a new constitution and reorganization of the armed forces. In the past, the Government has rejected all the major components of the plan. But senior rebel officials, reached by telephone in Mexico and Costa Rica, said that their proposal was intended as a starting point for further talks and that it had been approved by the leaders of both the rebels’ political wing, the Democratic Revolutionary Front, and their military organization, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. The proposal was made as both sides met in El Salvador for the second time in a full day of talks aimed at finding ways to end the five-year-old civil war.
A Uruguayan opposition leader, Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, was released from prison today, five days after elections in which the military banned him from running for president, defense lawyers said. They said he drove to a central Montevideo square to address hundreds of supporters who had gathered there after a military judge ordered him freed on bail. Mr. Ferreira, head of the center-left Blanco party, was jailed when he returned from exile last June to run in elections to end 11 years of military rule. His party narrowly lost to the center-right Colorado party.
Zambia, a landlocked country in south-central Africa that is now in its third year of drought, could be a substantial food exporter. Instead, this nation of 6.5 million people has been spending its critically short foreign-exchange earnings for food imports even in good years. Now, afflicted by the same catastrophic drought that has hit Ethiopia, Chad and Mozambique and threatens millions of people in more than 20 other African nations, Zambia is staving off famine only through the tens of thousands of tons of food brought in by international relief shipments. The problem here is not simply drought and desert expansion, brought about by weather and by human misuse of the land. The problem is insufficient food production.
The governing National Party in South Africa retained three parliamentary seats in special elections, fending off challenges by far-right candidates who said the white-minority government favored sharing power with blacks. At stake in the elections, held Thursday, were seats in George, President P. W. Botha’s constituency east of Cape Town; Primrose, the seat of a former Minister of Cooperation and Development, Pieter G. Koornhof, and Parow, seat of a former Minister of Community Development, Pen Kotze. In all three races, far-right candidates campaigned on platforms of backing white supremacy and opposing the National Party’s nominal changes.
Federal cuts in Medicaid and housing assistance, in addition to a freeze on Federal salaries and on cost-of-living adjustments for all pension programs except Social Security, have tentatively been decided on by President Reagan in preparations for a new budget, officials said. The officials described the President as going through a slow and difficult process of making his initial, tentative decisions on a new budget while attempting to hold overall spending next year at this year’s level. The White House staff has used the term freeze, but officials said the term was more useful politically than technically.
The merger of nine Protestant sects in the future was prepared for by the leaders of the denominations with a vote of approval for a set of accords that would provide the theological basis for the merger.
Federal taxes of New York residents would be much higher under the Treasury Department’s tax proposals than they are now, according to an accountant’s preliminary analysis. It says that a family living in New York City on an annual income of $25,000 and taking advantage of typical deductions would owe 23 percent more in taxes under the Treasury plan announced Tuesday.
A Reagan Administration report on the status of Indian reservations sharply criticized the Bureau of Indian Affairs today and recommended that it be replaced by a new Federal agency. The report of the President’s Commission on Indian Reservation Economies, delivered to President Reagan, calls for a substantial change in the relationship between the Federal Government and Indian tribes to increase “self-determination” among native Americans. “The Bureau of Indian Affairs would essentially be replaced by a new agency, the Indian Trust Services Administration,” said the commission’s staff director, Frank A. Ryan. The present system, the report said, “is designed for paternalistic control and it thrives on the failure of Indian tribes.”
William J. Schroeder’s heart was temporarily switched to a much lighter power source than the 323-pound machine that was being used. The smaller source, called the Heimes portable driver, powered Mr. Schroeder’s artificial heart for 22 minutes before the doctors switched back to the larger unit. The experiment could pave the way for a reasonably comfortable life for recipients of artificial hearts.
Surrender of a Lutheran church in Pennsylvania to the local synod was resisted by supporters of an activist pastor. His supporters said today that they would not obey their synod’s order to give up the keys and records of Trinity Church in Clairton. Bishop Kenneth R. May, head of the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, said he was prepared to go to court to gain control of the church. Its minister, the Rev. D. Douglas Roth, was dismissed after about half the congregation complained of his militant advocacy of the unemployed. “This church belongs to the congregation, not the synod,” said Bill Fosbrink, a member of the church council. “They’ll have to take us to court to take the church away from us.”
The synod decided Wednesday night to dissolve the congregation and sent a letter to church council members ordering them to surrender the keys and records on Monday. The Rev. Philip Long of East Liberty, who like Mr. Roth is a member of the Denominational Ministry Strategy, argued that the synod lacked authority to seize the church. “In the Lutheran Church in America,” he said. “the congregation is the owner of the property.” He said the synod could seize property only if it was in disrepair or if no one was attending services.
A Weather Underground fugitive who is a suspect in the $1.6 million Brink’s robbery was arrested in New Jersey. The fugitive was identified as Susan Lisa Rosenberg, 29 years old. The police said she and a companion had stopped their car to unload 740 pounds of dynamite and weapons into a rented roadside storage locker. The Weather Underground fugitive who had been sought for two years in the $1.6 million Brink’s robbery and murder case has been arrested in New Jersey by a police officer who became suspicious of her ill-fitting wig. New Jersey police officials identified the suspect as Rosenberg, who also was sought on Federal charges that she aided the 1979 prison escape of Joanne Chesimard, a Black Liberation Army leader. Miss Rosenberg, 29 years old, and a companion, Timothy A. Blunk, 27, were arrested Thursday night in Cherry Hill, near Philadelphia.
Claus von Bülow’s second trial on charges he tried to murder his wife has been tentatively set to begin February 18. However, Rhode Island’s Attorney General-elect, Arlene Violet, has not decided whether she will retry Mr. von Bülow, accused of twice trying to murder his wife with insulin injections. Lawyers for both sides said today that the trial date was set anyway because the court calendar must be established well in advance. Superior Court Judge Albert R. DeRobbio scheduled jury selection for a second trial to begin February 18. He told prosecution and defense attorneys to be prepared to make their opening arguments by March 5.
A second trial would be held in Newport County Superior Court, the setting of Mr. von Bülow’s six-week trial in 1982. He was convicted in March, 1982, on two counts of attempting to murder his wife Martha, who has been in a coma at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York since January, 1981. But the conviction was overturned April 27 by the state Supreme Court, which said a state police detective erred when he failed to obtain a search warrant before sending certain evidence to the state crime lab for identification and analysis. On October 1 the U.S. Supreme Court denied a state request that it reinstate the convictions. Last month, Miss Violet said she would review the case before deciding whether to retry Mr. von Bülow, whose defense team has produced 27 new affidavits and other evidence since his conviction.
Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, on Thursday termed his re-election a victory over “shoddy, biased and intellectually dishonest journalism” because he succeeded in breaking a “journalism curtain.” The Senator gave some of the credit for his victory to members of his audience, the members and guests of the Conservative Caucus, which was celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Surgeons today removed the left leg of Senator John C. Stennis to eliminate a malignant tumor in his upper thigh. The operation on the Mississippi Democrat was performed by a team of surgeons at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards said today that he was a target of a Federal grand jury investigation of his relationship with health-care organizations that paid him $1 million and then were exempted from his ban on new construction. Mr. Edwards testified for four-and-a-half hours today before the panel investigating possible mail fraud, racketeering and extortion stemming from the moratorium exemptions. “They told me I was a witness, a subject and a target,” said Mr. Edwards, adding that he was convinced that he would not be indicted “unless they can find some very technical reason for doing so.”
Two men sprayed a Miami, Florida apartment with automatic weapons fire today, apparently in a drug-related attack, killing three women and two men, the police said. Another woman was wounded. “There are five dead and one still in very critical condition and her situation doesn’t look good,” Officer Reginald Roundtree said. A police spokesman, Mike Stewart, said there was no sign of forced entry. One female victim was described as a teenager and the two other women and the men were in their 20’s. The wounded woman also was in her 20’s, the police said. Angelo Bitsis, another police spokesman, said: “We’ve established that maybe the motive is narcotics. There was a small amount of cocaine found inside the apartment.”
Two alleged street gang leaders wanted for the murder of a Chinese author in California are being held in Taiwan, but today the authorities in California were reluctant to seek immediate extradition. The Taiwan Garrison Command in Taipei announced today that it arrested the two men, Chen Chi-Li and Wu Tun, in a nationwide sweep of some 300 gangsters that began November 13. A third suspected gang member, also believed to be in Taiwan, was still being sought. Local officials, stung by being forced to release one suspect, David Yu, this week because of a lack of evidence, said they were waiting to seek local warrants for the two others in custody in Taiwan until they can build a stronger case. The international case involved the slaying of Henry Liu at his San Francisco suburb home last October 15. Friends and relatives have speculated that he had been slain because of writings critical of President Chiang Ching-Kuo of Taiwan.
Health officials said Thursday that initial tests gave no cause to suspect that 32,000 Boy Scouts were exposed to dangerous levels of dioxin at a National Jamboree in 1981. Initial tests of the area by the Army and Environmental Protection Agency showed dioxin concentrations exceeding the 1 part per billion considered hazardous by national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. But Charles Walters, a C.D.C. spokesman, said the Scouts were not exposed enough to cause harm. The centers sent a letter to parents saying the Scouts would have to be exposed to 1 part per billion for 70 years to be in any danger. The E.P.A. and a consultant hired by the Scouts took more soil samples Thursday from beneath a metal shed where dioxin-laced herbicide Silvex was stored. The Army and E.P.A. plan to clean up the site in January.
A Federal jury today convicted the ringleader of a gang of fire buffs accused of setting more than 200 fires around Boston in what the Government called the largest arson case in American history. The defendant, Donald F. Stackpole of Scituate, was found guilty on all five arson counts against him and 12 of 14 related charges stemming from the 14-month spree. Sentencing was set for January 3. Mr. Stackpole, the 28-year-old owner of a Boston security company, was among seven men indicted in the case by a grand jury this summer. Four defendants have pleaded guilty and two still face trial.
Donald J. Trump said yesterday that he had an agreement to buy the site of the proposed $1 billion Lincoln West housing and office complex on the West Side in Manhattan and that he planned to redesign the project. Mr. Trump, the 38-year-old developer of Trump Tower and the Grand Hyatt Hotel, among other projects, and the owners of the site said the sale price would be $95 million. Mr. Trump said he hoped to renegotiate a $100 million package of public amenities that the original developers had agreed to provide to the city and to change the name of the project.
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