Shultz-Weinberger discord on virtually all foreign policy issues were reported by senior officials in every major foreign policy agency. They said that Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, President Reagan’s two top foreign policy advisers, were at odds, often to the frustration and concern of the White House. A proponent of Cabinet Government, Mr. Reagan has often said that he welcomes listening to top Cabinet officials and other advisers argue out policy differences to help him set the direction of policy. But senior officials in every major foreign policy agency say that the disputes between Mr. Shultz and Mr. Weinberger have gone well beyond this positive notion, causing stalemates in the Government and feeding bureaucratic rivalries at lower levels. In the last few weeks, the two secretaries have clashed openly with contradictory speeches on the proper use of American military force abroad. Other officials say that this issue is simply the most visible dispute between them and that their disagreements touch virtually all major aspects of policy, including arms control, terrorism, Central America, the Middle East, and how hard to press the Atlantic alliance to improve its conventional forces.
Soviet nuclear submarines hidden beneath the Arctic ice pack have the ability to break through the ice, then launch missiles, Aviation Week & Space Technology reported. The magazine, respected by military and space experts, said Landsat, the U.S. weather satellite, took a photograph in March believed to show a Soviet submarine punching a hole through the ice as a number of Soviet aircraft watched the test. The sighting was made near Wrangel Island, off northeastern Siberia.
President Reagan accused Moscow of “brutal affronts to the human conscience” in suppressing freedom at home and waging a “barbaric war” in Afghanistan. The President used the occasion of International Human Rights Day to say that the Soviet Union was among those nations that refuse to admit injustices and that justify “assaults on individual liberty in the name of a chimeric Utopian vision.” Speaking in the Old Executive Office Building, Mr. Reagan also spoke forcefully against apartheid in calling on South Africa to “reach out to its black majority by ending the forced removal of blacks from their communities and the detention without trial and lengthy imprisonment of black leaders.” “We feel a moral responsibility to speak out on this matter,” he said in what officials said was a deliberate departure from “quiet diplomacy,” responding to criticism of his policy.
At least 10 people were detained in Moscow’s Pushkin Square in connection with an annual silent protest marking U.N. Human Rights Day. Dozens of police and plainclothesmen surrounded the small square and seized most of the demonstrators. Earlier, seven Soviet Jews marked the occasion by carrying a petition to the Supreme Soviet, the nominal national parliament, appealing for an end to “persecution of people who apply for exit to Israel.”
The Roman Catholic Church in Poland vowed to “struggle on its knees” until the Communist government allows schools to return crucifixes to classroom walls. It sent two priests to join 400 students conducting a sit-in over the issue at a vocational school in the southern town of Włoszczowa. Most residents of the town back the students, and hundreds of supporters brought food, sleeping bags and blankets to the school. It is the second time in nine months that the government has clashed with the church in a so-called “crucifix war.” In March, agricultural students in Miętne, near Warsaw, staged a three-week strike.
The Greek Socialist Government tonight rejected an American protest over a Greek Communist Party charge that the United States was involved in recent bomb attacks in Athens. The government said the American protest was “unjustified and unacceptable.” A United States Embassy statement earlier said the Ambassador, Monteagle Stearns, had described the charges and their “sensational presentation” by the press as “a particularly disgraceful example of disinformation designed to serve political ends.” The accusations by Harilaos Florakis, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Greece, which is pro-Soviet, appeared in an interview in the leftist daily Ta Nea. Mr. Florakis said, “The bomb attacks are not isolated incidents, but part of the more general plans of the local reactionaries and the Americans, with specific goals in mind.” Apart from attacks targeted against Iraqi diplomats, the bombs over the last month appear to have been planted indiscriminately. Only one person has been killed but there has been extensive material damage. An American Embassy spokesman said that the protest had been made to the Greek Government for two reasons, “firstly because the government is responsible for investigations into the bomb attacks, and secondly because Mr. Florakis’s unprecedented statements could cause security problems for the American community in Greece.”
Iraqi warplanes struck a “very large naval target” — apparently a supertanker — near Iran’s Kharg Island oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf, an Iraqi military spokesman said. There was no immediate confirmation of the attack, which came a day after an air-launched Iraqi missile damaged a Bahamian-registered supertanker south of Kharg Island. Iraq, at war with Iran for four years, has declared the area around the terminal a war zone, and both combatants have attacked merchant ships of nations doing business with the enemy. Salvage and shipping offices said they received no distress signal today.
The release of two Americans who were freed from a hijacked Kuwaiti airliner at Tehran airport is expected today, according to Reagan Administration officials. They also said they expected the Iranian Government to prosecute the captured hijackers promptly. State Department officials said the two American survivors, identified as an official of the Agency for International Development and a private businessman, were resting in the Tehran Hilton.
Hostages freed from the Kuwaiti airliner hijacked to Tehran said they had gone through six days of “sheer hell,” in which their four Arab captors fatally shot two Americans, beat the captives and tortured them with lighted cigarettes. “The leader was absolutely psycho, a crazy man,” said Harry Clark, a Briton who was the pilot of the plane. “They were all crazy men. They changed from real animal behavior to being suddenly very kind.”
Many Ethiopian Jews have been flown to Israel in recent months as a result of the famine in Ethiopia, according to diplomatic, Government and Jewish organizations. Before it is ended, they said, the operation may involve about half of the 25,000 to 30,000 black Jews who have lived for many centuries in northwest Ethiopia in the region of Gondar. The stepped-up movement of the Ethiopian Jews to Israel, which has not been publicized in Israel out of concern that Ethiopia might block it, involves an airlift through third countries. According to sources in American Jewish organizations, most of the planes and pilots involved are Israeli, but some are from other countries.
Officials in the central Indian city of Bhopal expressed mounting concern today over how to deal with 30 metric tons of poisonous chemical stored at the American- owned insecticide plant, the site of the disastrous gas leak last week. The remaining methyl isocyanate must be disposed of somehow, officials said, but they added that all possible courses of action carried the possible risk of a further escape of the chemical. This “delicate task” is causing “anxiety to all of us,” said Arjun Singh, the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, of which Bhopal is the capital. One official reported that the process of neutralizing the remaining chemical had already begun, but Mr. Singh denied this and said that a method of disposal had not yet been decided on.
A 1982 inspection of the Indian plant of the Union Carbide Corporation revealed serious safety and equipment problems, but its Indian subsidiary rectified most of the problems by last June, according to the company. Among the problems remaining in June, the company said, was a question of the adequacy of a relief valve on a methyl isocyanate storage tank to relieve “a runaway reaction.” The highly toxic gas was released from the Bhopal plant last week, killing more than 2,000 people.
Sri Lankan Army troops killed 15 people and rounded up 750 during a weekend drive against separatist Tamil guerrillas in northern Sri Lanka, the authorities said today. The authorities said 375 suspects were detained from among those captured in the sweep. Meanwhile, a United States special envoy, General Vernon C. Walters, was reported to have delivered a message from President Reagan stressing the need for a political solution to the violence that has claimed more than 400 lives in three weeks.
Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in several Philippine cities to mark Human Rights Day. Hundreds of riot police turned back about 10,000 Filipinos trying to march on Camp Aguinaldo, the general military headquarters in Quezon City outside Manila. The march was held to protest alleged violations of human rights under the administration of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Marches were also reported in Bacolod, Iloilo City, Legaspi and Davao.
A New Caledonian farmer of mixed race wanted in connection with the killing of 10 Melanesians gave himself up today after four days in the bush. The farmer, Maurice Mitride, was jailed on charges of premeditated murder, the police said. The prosecutor general, Jack Gauthier, told reporters that the police were searching for seven others in connection with the attack, six of them of mixed race and the other Melanesian. Militant Kanakas demanding independence after 131 years of French rule set up roadblocks last month and took over the town of Thio. But their leaders have agreed to discuss their claims with the new French High Commissioner, Edgard Pisani, and the roadblocks have now been removed.
A U.S.-Cuban accord has been reached in principle on the terms for repatriation to Cuba of about 2,500 criminals and mental patients, Reagan Administration officials said. In return, they said, Washington will resume the processing of regular emigration from Cuba to the United States.
The Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church announced today that it had dismissed Nicaragua’s Education Minister, the Rev. Fernando Cardenal, from the order for his refusal to leave the Sandinista Government. The action followed months of conflict between the Vatican and four priests who serve in the Nicaraguan Government. Pope John Paul II has told the priests they must leave their posts, in line with his policy that priests and nuns should not hold public office. It was not immediately clear what effect Father Cardenal’s dismissal would have on the position of the three other priests in the Government, but a Western diplomat assigned to the Vatican said he believed disciplinary action would soon be taken against them as well.
The Rev. Fernando Cardenal, the Nicaraguan priest expelled by the Jesuit order, said today that as “an objection of conscience,” he could not comply with demands from Rome that he resign as Minister of Education. In a 19-page prepared response, the priest said that “I would be creating a grave sin if I abandoned my priesthood for the poor” and “my work for the popular Sandinista revolution.”
Private U.S. donors have provided at least $500,000 a month to rebels fighting to overthrow Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime, retired Major General John K. Singlaub said in an interview with United Press International. Singlaub, president of the World Anti-Communist League, said that medical and direct monetary help to the rebels was accelerated after Congress cut off CIA assistance earlier this year. The Justice Department said that humanitarian aid to the rebels — known as contras — by U.S. citizens does not violate the law.
Military authorities said today that Salvadoran guerrillas had ambushed Government forces north of the capital, killing 9 soldiers and wounding 6, and that in a separate battle the army had killed 13 rebels. Military sources said Salvadoran rebels, hidden in jungle along the edge of the road, poured gunfire into a truck carrying members of the Civil Defense militia near El Paisnal, 19 miles north of San Salvador.
Under pressure at home and abroad, South Africa lifted detention orders against 12 activist opponents of apartheid today but immediately charged 6 of them with treason and violating security laws. Among those whose detention orders were nullified were three men who had stayed in the British Consulate in Durban for 89 days, eluding the police. They were said to fear arrest on new charges if they left.
The city council of South Africa’s black township of Soweto elected a political unknown as mayor after the assassination last week of the leading candidate for the post. Councilman Edward Kunene, 52, an office worker, was elected by supporters of the late Edward Manyosi, who was gunned down a few hours before the mayoral selection was to be announced.
Caspar W. Weinberger defended his 1986 military budget request firmly against the proposal by White House budget advisers that it be trimmed by $8 billion. The President made no decision on whether to slow the rise of military spending as part of the Administration’s efforts to cut Federal deficits. Congressional Republican leaders have been urging slower military growth as necessary to win Congress’s approval of his larger package of cuts in nonmilitary spending. “The President did have some words, but I won’t go into those,” Larry Speakes, Mr. Reagan’s spokesman, said after the hour-long meeting at the White House. A second meeting is to be held later in the week so that the military budget can be discussed and possibly decided upon, Mr. Speakes said. Another official said the session today was notably calmer than those of past years when Mr. Weinberger was quite forceful in defending his domain against trims proposed by the Administration’s budget director, David A. Stockman.
President Reagan participates in a photo opportunity with John Riggins, running back for the Washington Redskins professional football team.
President Reagan participates in a signing ceremony for Proclamation 5287, International Human Rights Day.
President Reagan accepts a briefing from a Red Cross delegation.
The Social Security Administration said it will send out 40 million forms to help Americans to determine if they are among the 10% of beneficiaries who, for the first time, must pay income tax on half their benefits. Social Security beneficiaries — including the elderly and disabled — must pay income tax on up to half their benefits if their adjusted gross income, plus tax-exempt interest from municipal bonds, plus half their Social Security benefits, exceed $25,000 for a single individual, or $32,000 for a married couple filing jointly.
Supporters of Senator Lawton Chiles, who is challenging Senator Robert C. Byrd for the job of Senate minority leader, said today they believed Mr. Chiles could win in the vote scheduled for Wednesday. But other senators, who acknowledge their own dissatisfaction with Mr. Byrd, said that his Florida challenger had jumped into the race too late and would lose because Mr. Byrd had already received commitments from a majority of the Senate’s 47 Democrats. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey, said today that he would support Mr. Byrd. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York is also expected to support the West Virginian, according to senators who are counting votes. Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey could not be reached for comment and Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut was out of the country.
U.A.W. leaders agreed to split into separate United States and Canadian organizations as a result of disputes over bargaining differences in the two countries. The Canadian Auto Workers, as the new union will be called, will be the largest labor group to split from the United Automobile Workers.
Six unions asked a federal appeals court to force the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to set new maximum levels of benzene allowable in the air in workplaces. Benzene, a widely used chemical found in gasoline, causes leukemia. The unions said OSHA already had estimated that 152 of every thousand workers exposed to current on-the-job limits for a working lifetime could die of the disease, and that 2 million workers are exposed to some extent. Lower benzene limits set by OSHA in 1978 were struck down in the courts.
Five commuter airlines have found minor mechanical problems in some of their airplanes, including small cracks in the fuselages of the same type of plane that crashed last week in Florida and killed 13 persons, the Federal Aviation Administration said. An FAA spokesman said the planes, the Brazilian-built twin-engine turboprop Embraer 110, have been fixed. The aircraft, known as the Bandeirante or Bandit, were ordered inspected by the FAA following the Thursday crash.
A strike by 28,000 Chicago teachers entered its second week as the nation’s third-largest school district faced the loss of $3 million a day in state aid unless the school year is extended. Negotiators for the school board and the Chicago Teachers Union resumed talks after 30 hours of weekend bargaining over wages and the length of the school year failed to end the strike, which has closed schools for 430,000 students.
Lawyers for Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan asked a federal judge in New York to move his trial on state charges of larceny and falsifying records into federal court. U.S. District Judge Lloyd McMahon took the motion under consideration. Donovan’s lawyer argued that he was entitled as a federal official to trial in federal court, under a law intended to prevent state interference in federal affairs. A Bronx grand jury indicted Donovan and nine other men Sept. 24 on charges they overstated payments to a minority subcontractor on a subway construction project.
Convicted murderer Alpha Otis Stephens lost twice in Atlanta courts with efforts to stop his execution. Georgia officials set his electrocution for Wednesday morning. Both a three-judge panel of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and Fulton County Superior Court Judge Philip Etheridge refused to grant a stay of execution. But William Sumner, a defense lawyer, said he was seeking a rehearing of the Federal petition before all 12 members of the Federal court and he filed a new petition for clemency before the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles. Mr. Stephens was an escapee from a life sentence for a previous murder when he was charged with killing a man who interrupted a robbery.
A 43- year-old Milwaukee police officer died today of leukemia, 14 days too soon for his wife and two children to receive his pension. Under the police contract, Sgt. John Pederson had to live 60 days after he applied for his pension for his family to receive it. Sergeant Pederson applied October 25. The City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday to consider giving a pension to Sergeant Pederson’s wife anyway.
Saying he must “obey God rather than man,” jailed Lutheran minister D. Douglas Roth vowed to continue fighting for unemployed steelworkers and to defend his mill town church, with violence if necessary. “We will continue to be faithful to our calling as a pastor and a congregation until the help that is needed for this valley is obtained,” Roth said on the 28th day of his 90-day jail sentence in Pittsburgh for civil contempt of court. Roth, 33, was jailed for defying orders from his bishop and a judge by refusing to step down from the pulpit of Trinity Lutheran Church in Clairton, near Pittsburgh.
A rule banning “happy hours” took effect in Massachusetts amid hopes that the elimination of special low-priced drinks and similar barroom promotions will reduce drunken driving. Though some bars are expected to lose business, tavern owners have offered little protest since the ban relieved a competitive need to offer cheaper and therefore less profitable drinks.
In Boston, Superior Court Judge Paul G. Garrity said today he has prepared an order banning metropolitan area sewer hookups for proposed buildings. He said he would not impose it, however, while the legislature is considering whether to create an agency to deal with pollution in Boston Harbor. An earlier moratorium imposed by Judge Garrity was overturned a week ago by Supreme Court Justice Joseph Nolan after developers complained it would jeopardize millions of dollars’ worth of construction projects already under way.
Precursors of schizophrenia in children are the focus of new studies by behavioral scientists in the United States and abroad. The studies have yielded new data on the social and psychological forerunners of the most severe form of mental illness, which is characterized by a loss of contact with reality.
The U.S. Navy has discovered that the engines and main gears for its first two modern minesweepers do not match. “We made a mistake, and it’s our fault,” said a Navy official who demanded anonymity. According to a Navy spokesman, who also agreed to discuss the matter today only if not identified, one of two shipbuilders constructing the new Avenger-class minesweeper discovered the problem about a month ago.
The U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps have grounded about 60 A-6 and A-4 bombers and AE-6 electronic-jamming planes because of cracked rivets found in an engine of one A-6, Navy officers said today.
The first planet outside the solar system has been detected, American astronomers believe. In observations with an infrared telescope, they have found a huge, gaseous object orbiting a dim and distant star in the constellation Ophiuchus. The astronomers estimate the object to be nine-tenths the size of Jupiter and 30 to 80 times as massive. The object’s surface temperature was estimated at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is presented with his Nobel Peace Prize. Bishop Desmond Tutu, a leading opponent of apartheid in South Africa, accepted the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize today after a bomb scare interrupted the ceremony for an hour and 20 minutes. A bomb threat telephoned by an anonymous caller to an Oslo newspaper caused the police to evacuate the ceremonial hall and ask King Olav V, Bishop Tutu and hundreds of guests to stand outside while bomb-sniffing dogs and specialists checked the hall. No explosives were found. Standing outside Oslo University’s Aula Hall with the others in crisp, sunny weather, Bishop Tutu, clad in a purple cassock and clerical collar, said the bomb threat “shows the desperation of those who are opposed to peace and justice.”
Montreal Expos catcher Gary Carter becomes the 3rd All-Star caliber player in 5 days to be traded, going to the Mets in exchange for infielder-outfielder Hubie Brooks, catcher Mike Fitzgerald, outfielder Herm Winningham, and minor league pitcher Floyd Youmans.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Los Angeles Raiders 24, Detroit Lions 3
The Los Angeles Raiders, behind a ferocious defense and the passing of Marc Wilson and Jim Plunkett, rolled over the host Detroit Lions, 24–3, tonight. It was the fourth straight victory for the Raiders (11–4), who had already secured a wild-card playoff berth.Wilson completed 11 of 19 passes for 194 yards and a touchdown and was intercepted twice before giving way to Plunkett, who returned to action for the first time since pulling an abdominal muscle October 7. The Raider defense, led by Bill Pickel’s three sacks, dumped Detroit quarterbacks 8 times for 58 yards in losses as the Lions’ fell to 4–10–1. Detroit, held to a 48-yard field goal by Eddie Murray in the second quarter, lost the starting quarterback Gary Danielson with a sprained toe with about 5 minutes remaining in the first half. John Witkowski, a rookie out of Columbia, played the rest of the second quarter and all of the third, completing 7 of 19 passes for 91 yards, before giving way to Mike Machurek. Wilson found tight end Todd Christensen in the right corner of the end zone for a 12-yard score at 7 minutes 42 seconds of the second quarter. Cle Montgomery returned a Lion punt 69 yards for a touchdown with 10:44 left in the fourth quarter and Plunkett hooked up with Marcus Allen on a 73-yard touchdown pass play with 5:28 remaining in the game. Chris Bahr’s 37-yard field goal in the third quarter accounted for the other Raider score. Danielson was 6 of 10 for 119 yards and one interception.
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Gregorio Petit, Venezuelan MLB second baseman, shortstop, and third baseman (Oakland A’s, Houston Astros, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels, Minnesota Twins), in Ocumare del Tuy, Venezuela.
JTG [Jayson Paul], American professional wrestler, in Brooklyn, New York, New York.
[Ed: Should have stuck to soccer, Twunt.]
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