Preparations for the arms talks with the Soviet Union have produced a consensus among White House officials, they said, that the United States will not agree to limit research for a long-range defense against missiles. This apparent agreement, contained in papers being flown to California for President Reagan’s perusal, was made known by officials who sought to end confusion over the Administration’s position. They said the Administration is prepared to be more flexible on procedural issues, which are the ostensible reason for the meeting between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko in Geneva on January 7 and 8. It is also ready, they said, to live up to President Reagan’s commitment last September to discuss restraints on testing a new antisatellite weapon if negotiations on both offensive and defensive weapons resume. The two sides are supposed to discuss ways to hold negotiations on the whole range of nuclear and outer-space weapons. The Soviet Union has stressed in its statements that it believes priority should be given to halting work on antisatellite weapons and the longer-term antimissile program that the Administration calls the Strategic Defense Initiative and that is often called the “Star Wars” plan.
A senior official said that given the uncertainties of how the Soviet Union will react to the Administration’s unwillingness to negotiate on the missile-defense research and lacking advance knowledge of the Soviet position on how to resume the stalled negotiations on offensive weapons, it was possible that the Geneva talks might not produce more than an agreement to meet again. That is why, he continued, Mr. Reagan said Friday, “A two-day meeting cannot solve the complicated issues before us.” President Reagan has viewed the missile-defense program, still in its early research phase, as a way to end dependence on offensive weapons to deter a war. The Americans believe that stability can be enhanced by a mix of defensive weapons and a reduction in the number of highly accurate land-based offensive missiles, White House officials said. Testing and deployment of new antimissile weapons are banned by the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty, and senior officials have pledged that the United States does not plan to violate that accord. Since research will not reach that stage for several years, the Soviet concerns are premature, they said.
Soviet authorities have told the family of Anatoly B. Shcharansky, the jailed Jewish dissident, that he has been hospitalized but have declined to give details of his illness, his wife, Avital, said Friday. Mrs. Shcharansky, who lives in Jerusalem, said she was very worried about her husband’s fate. “The fear is growing that perhaps something terrible has happened to him and the authorities are trying to cover it up,” she said. Mrs. Shcharansky said she spoke by telephone to her husband’s mother in Moscow on Thursday night. “She told me she had recently met with a high Communist Party official who said Anatoly had been hospitalized,” she said.
Anatoly Karpov, the world chess champion, and his challenger, Gary Kasparov, agreed to draw their adjourned 36th game of the title match, officials said in Moscow. The draw, offered by Kasparov, was agreed upon without any play Saturday. Karpov, world champion. since 1975, leads the series 5–1 and needs just one more victory to keep the world title for another three years. Draws do not count.
A jailed Nazi war criminal who led a World War II massacre in this northern Italian village has issued a letter stating his “profound repentance” for the slayings, local officials say. The letter from former Major Walter Reder was made public two days before relatives of the victims of the Marzabotto massacre are to vote on whether to support calls for Mr. Reder to be released from prison. “I acknowledge my personal role in responsibility” for the 1944 slayings in Marzabotto, Mr. Reder, 69 years old, said in a letter to residents of this mountain village near Bologna. Mr. Reder was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1954 by an Italian court for commanding a retaliatory action by his troops in Marzabotto in which 1,834 residents were killed.
Algeria and Nigeria refused to back a crucial OPEC pricing agreement designed to halt a gradual deterioration in oil prices. Their refusal to support the agreement at a meeting of the cartel in Geneva was the most serious setback to OPEC’s solidarity since Nigeria decided in October to unilaterally slash its official selling rates by $1 to $2 a barrel. The organization announced that its ministers had “agreed, with the exception of Nigeria and Algeria” to a temporary adjustment of its system of price differentials and to review the adjustment “not later than the end of January 1985.”
Three reporters — two Americans and a Canadian — were kidnapped at gunpoint in West Beirut. The kidnapers took them to their apartments and robbed the homes before releasing the three unharmed. Stephen M. Hagey, 31, of Bristol, Tennessee, Beirut bureau chief for United Press International; Margaret Fox, 26, of Denver, a radio correspondent for ABC, and William McLean of Montreal, a Reuters news agency correspondent, said they were abducted by four gunmen at a restaurant.
A senior P.L.O. official was slain in Amman, Jordan. No individual or group took responsibility for the slaying of Fahad Kawasmeh, but it was suspected that that it was linked to the conflict among rival factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He was a member of the organization’s executive committee and a former mayor of Hebron on the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The spiritual leader of Egypt’s Copts, who has been in exile at a remote desert monastery since 1981, will be freed in time to conduct a Christmas service on January 7, a church official said today. Anba Domadius, bishop in charge of Coptic Church affairs in the absence of Pope Shenouda III, said the Minister of the Interior, Ahmed Rushdi, had conveyed the decision to the 62-year-old Pope at the monastery this week. Pope Shenouda, 62 years old, was banished to the Wadi el Natrun monastery northwest of Cairo and stripped of his temporal powers by President Anwar el-Sadat, who accused him in September 1981 of fomenting sectarian strife and meddling in politics. About 1,600 religious and political critics of President Sadat were arrested at the same time. Mr. Sadat was assassinated by Muslim fundamentalists a month later. President Hosni Mubarak has released all those arrested except Pope Shenouda, who leads Egypt’s approximately six million Christians.
Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress Party appeared to be winning 8 of every 10 seats in India’s lower house of Parliament in incomplete results from the election last week. Neither Prime Minister Gandhi’s mother, Indira, nor his grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, ever rolled up a margin so large. Mr. Gandhi, addressing a crowd outside his home in New Delhi, said his overwhelming triumph would enable his government “to swiftly take India forward.”
Cambodian non-Communist guerrillas suffered further setbacks in a fifth day of fighting at their Rithisen camp today. But two allied groups helped to ease pressure against them with small-unit strikes against Vietnamese lines, guerrilla and Thai military officers said. Chau Eng, a guerrilla commander, told reporters in this Thai village near the battlefield that the Vietnamese had been reinforced with fresh troops and two Soviet-made T-54 tanks. He said the guerrillas had given up ground they had won back in the camp, which was overrun by Hanoi’s forces on Tuesday. Rithisen was known as the biggest and maybe the best camp along the Thai-Cambodian border. Its residents wore neat clothes, went to school and ate well. Most important of all, Rithisen had a vast black market.
The Japanese government approved an austere fiscal 1985 budget but boosted defense spending by 6.9% while struggling to cope with a ballooning deficit. The budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1 was approved by the Cabinet at $218 billion and includes a $53-billion deficit, officials said. The increase in the defense budget to $12.5 billion is expected to improve the atmosphere for Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone’s meeting with President Reagan in Los Angeles on January 2. The United States has long been pressing Japan to take on a bigger defense role.
Soviet and Chinese officials asserted that an important watershed had been passed in their long struggle to re-establish a good-neighborly relationship. The remarks were made as China’s most important Soviet visitor in 15 years, Ivan V. Arkhipov, the First Deputy Prime Minister, departed for home. But the easing of relations is not as far-reaching as that achieved by China and the United States and will not be for many years, officials on both sides say.
China announced the retirement of 40 senior military officers in a move by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping to purge the People’s Liberation Army of aging leftists opposed to his pragmatic reforms, which include a return to military ranks. The officers retired December 22 in the wake of Deng’s campaign to promote younger officers to key military posts, the official Liberation Army Daily said. “I hope to see more open-minded people in the army,” the paper quoted Deng as saying. The paper did not give the names of the retiring officials.
Antonius Van Ess, the manager of a Canadian shoe company kidnaped December 21 in Bolivia, has been freed, Interior Minister Federico Alvarez Plata announced. “I don’t have details on the conditions… but I understand that the family or the company had to pay at least part of the ransom that the kidnapers demanded,” Alvarez said. Sources outside the government said the kidnapers had demanded $1 million and rejected a counteroffer of $250,000. Van Ess, 48, is general manager of the Calzados Manaco shoe firm, a subsidiary of the Toronto-based Bata shoe chain.
Members of the new Parliament took their seats Friday as Grenada returned to democratic rule for the first time since a 1979 coup. Fourteen legislators took their oaths of office from the clerk of courts and listened to the “throne speech” of Governor General Sir Paul Scoon, Queen Elizabeth II’s official representative to the former British colony. In the audience were the Prime Ministers of four Caribbean nations — Edward P. G. Seaga of Jamaica, Eugenia Charles of Dominica, John Compton of St. Lucia and James Mitchell of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Sir Paul, who was recognized by the United States and its Caribbean allies as Grenada’s constitutional leader after the killing of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop on October 19, 1983, stressed the continued need for security on Grenada.
El Salvador’s rightist-controlled National Assembly cut the nation’s 1985 budget by $12 million, a setback for moderate President Jose Napoleon Duarte. Funds for three presidential commissions were cut, and the agricultural budget was reduced by $5.2 million. Duarte’s allies say the latter cut is meant to keep poor farm workers from gaining political power.
Bolivian President Hernan Siles Zuazo fired the commander of the army, but both the general and his replacement refused to accept the decision in a military rebellion that could threaten the civilian government. General Jose Olvis Arias, who was appointed only two months ago, apparently was fired over suspicions that he was involved in a coup plot. He denied the charge but took over and blockaded the Miraflores army garrison southeast of La Paz. The army chief of staff, General Hugo Gironda, refused to replace Olvis Arias, and the president then swore in his second choice for the job, General Raul Lopez.
Argentine President Raul Alfonsin, a man at odds with the Perónists and military leaders who had ruled Argentina for 40 years, was swept into office a year ago on a remarkable wave of popularity. The first year of his term was filled with drama as he ordered military officials tried for crimes committed during the antiterrorist campaign of the 1970’s, bargained for an agreement with the International Monetary Fund and settled a century-old territorial dispute with Chile over the Beagle Channel. Mr. Alfonsin now faces the more difficult, long-term problem of managing Argentina’s economy and its $45 billion debt, as well as the trials of the military officers charged with war crimes, according to diplomats and political commentators here. “More than celebrating, the first anniversary of the constitutional Government serves to remind us again that the difficulties yet to be overcome are those of an economic and military character,” said a recent editorial in La Nacion, one of the country’s two leading newspapers.
Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) said he will seek swift congressional passage of a ban on new investments and bank loans to South Africa as a “strong signal” that the United States wants an end to apartheid. Proxmire said his plan would not “require the withdrawal of current investment nor prohibit the reinvestment of profits earned” by U.S. firms there. It will be a warning to South Africa that “unless changes are made its economic isolation will worsen,” he said.
Doctors have told William J. Schroeder, the artificial heart recipient, that he could use his exercise bicycle on a regular basis and make showers a daily routine. Mr. Schroeder took a shower Friday for the second straight day and had two five-minute sessions on an exercise bicycle in the continueing effort to restore his strength, according to Linda Broadus of the Humana Hospital Audubon. She said he also took a few steps with a walker Friday, unassisted by hospital personnel. Mr. Schroeder, 52 years old, a retired munitions inspector from Jasper, Indiana, received his plastic and metal heart November 25, but suffered a stroke December 13. The setback left him with some memory loss and impaired his speech and hand-eye coordination. Miss Broadus said Mr. Schroeder remained in serious but stable condition and continued to show signs of a slow recovery from the stroke.
A 15-ton shipment of methyl isocyanate, the chemical that killed more than 2,000 people in India, arrived in Norfolk, Virginia, after being refused by Brazil and was hauled safely to a Union Carbide Corp. plant in Georgia. The two tractor-trailers transported the chemical to the Union Carbide chemical processing plant in Woodbine, Georgia, where it will be processed into pesticide. State police patrols accompanied the trucks through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
The father of a man trying to regain custody of his three children in the case of an alleged child sex abuse ring in Jordan, Minnesota, said a prosecutor programmed a girl, 12, to accuse his son of sexual abuse. Norman Myers said his son, Greg, did not know of the girl until after she charged that he sexually abused her. The child custody cases stem from child abuse charges filed against two dozen Scott County adults. A jury acquitted two defendants, one pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing and charges against the remaining 21 defendants, including Greg Myers and his wife, Jane, were dropped.
In a coffee shop on Main Street, a resident of the overwhelmingly Catholic city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island hesitated before offering an opinion on the American Roman Catholic bishops’ pastoral letter on the economy. “Some of what they’re trying to say makes sense to me,” said William Kennedy, a local businessman, “but I don’t think priests should be involved at all in politics. They can hold political beliefs like the rest of us, but they should only preach religion, not politics, to us.” “I don’t think you can say someone has too much if he’s worked for it,” he added. “If he’s earned it, well, it’s his to do with as he pleases.”
A Federal appeals court has upheld the use of a cross on the seal of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, ruling that the emblem did not violate the constitutional separation of church and state. The seal is circular with the cross centered over a valley formed by four hills. In a decision handed down Friday, the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit affirmed a ruling by a Federal district judge in New Mexico. The court rejected arguments by attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union, who represented a Jewish resident of Albuquerque, Al Friedman. He had sued the county, contending that the presence of the cross on the seal interfered with his practice of “religion or nonreligion.” In its decision, the court relied heavily on a recent United States Supreme Court ruling that rejected a claim that a city’s use of a Nativity scene in a seasonal display violated the Constitution.
A novel written by a former physics instructor at Oregon State University has been used as a guide for a group of neo-Nazis accused of violent crimes throughout the West, a Portland newspaper says in today’s editions. The Oregonian says Assistant Professor William Luther Pierce quit his teaching post in 1965 and became a right-hand man to George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party. Pierce’s 1978 novel, “The Turner Diaries,” is described by the FBI as a manual of hatred that details an armed takeover of the United States, including mass executions of blacks and Jews as well as women who have “defiled their race” by taking black lovers.
Two men accused of the bloodiest bank robbery in Oklahoma history pleaded innocent to state charges of murder and shooting with intent to kill. A preliminary hearing for Jay Wesley Neill, 19, and Robert Grady Johnson, 22, was scheduled for January 28, and they were ordered held without bond by a judge in Lawton. They have also been indicted on a federal bank robbery charge stemming from the December 14 holdup in Geronimo, in which four persons were killed and three wounded.
The FBI has entered the investigation into the theft of a painting from the Philadelphia Art Museum either during or shortly after a dinner-dance attended by Mayor W. Wilson Goode, members of his cabinet and business leaders. The FBI stepped into the case because of the likelihood that the piece, because of its value, had been taken out of state. The 1877 painting, “Five Dollar Bill,” by American artist William Harnett, was valued at between $75,000 and $100,000. The agency subpoenaed the list of those who attended the event, sponsored by Sigma Pi Phi, a fraternity of black professionals.
Crews finished sealing off the last of 15 portals feeding a raging fire in an underground Utah coal mine that is now the tomb for 27 persons killed by the blaze more than a week ago. Although crews finished the task Saturday evening, officials are monitoring the mine for another 72 hours to see if further sealing is necessary to keep oxygen out of the Wilberg Mine, a spokesman said.
Debbie Schaefer, a Florida nurse who was brought up in the area, put her expertise to the test in a two-day ordeal in which she and four young children were lost in the snake- and alligator-infested Everglades. Miss Schaefer, who works at Naples Community Hospital, said today that she took a wrong path Wednesday after her vehicle broke down and wound up wandering through swamps. Federal and local agencies searched for the five. They were found Friday morning by two hunters. Miss Schaefer said she had not beenfrightened but had been concerned about the safety of the children, 4 to 12 years old. Two of the children were hers and two were those of her brother and his wife. “I just took the wrong path,” Miss Schaefer said. “I knew we had to keep going. I’ve been taught. I was raised here.”
A man already accused in a $500,000 Seattle armored car robbery was charged Friday with a $3.6 million holdup of an armored car in northern California that Federal agents say was carried out by 12 members of a group advocating white supremacy. United States Attorney Joseph Russoniello said Federal bank robbery charges had been filed against Denver Daw Parmenter 2d, 32 years old, of Cheney, Washington. Mr. Russoniello said other people had also been charged but that the charges would remain sealed until they had been arrested. A Brink’s armored car carrying the $3.6 million was forced off a highway July 19 near the Mendocino County town of Ukiah, about 100 miles north of San Francisco. Mr. Parmenter, who was arrested December 18 in Seaside, Oregon, is being held in Portland, Oregon. He was arrested in connection with the robbery April 23 of an armored truck by seven masked men at a Seattle shopping mall. Mr. Parmenter and others charged in the robberies are members of the Church of Jesus Christ Christian, also known as the Aryan Nations, according to the Federal authorities. The Federal Bureau of Investigation says the organization calls for white supremacy and is anti-Semitic.
In an attempt Friday to avoid an out-of-control hay truck that was careening into a big traffic pileup, a man jumped off an icy freeway bridge in Woodinville, Washington and was killed. He apparently believed he could jump to safety, but instead fell 41 feet, officials said. A second man either jumped or was pushed from the bridge but suffered only minor injuries, Trooper R.E. Flood said. At least a dozen other people involved in the accident reported minor injuries. The icy freeway exit was already jammed by a seven-vehicle pileup when a truck towing two trailers of hay went out of control and began speeding toward the tangle, the authorities said.
A proposal to change Social Security to treat women more fairly than the present law is strongly objected to by a government study that was ordered by Congress. The proposal would divide equally the earnings of a husband and wife for the purpose of computing benefits, but the Social Security Administration said there would be many problems with such an approach. It said married women would get higher benefits, but men and many widows and divorced women would generally get lower benefits.
Sweeping changes in farm policy are hoped for by agricultural experts when Congress rewrites the farm laws in 1985 as it does every four years. They say that the Government’s farm policies have failed both the farmer and taxpayer. The farm debate is likely to occupy Congress and the Reagan Administration throughout the year. “The existing programs and the way they have been administered have been unsatisfactory from nearly all viewpoints,” said Edwin A. Jaenke, a consultant in Washington, who was a senior agricultural aide to President Kennedy and President Johnson.
Wayne Gretzky scores his NHL career 32nd hat trick & adds 3 assists in Edmonton’s 6-3 win over Detroit Red Wings for his 100th point in just 35 games; 2nd fastest in history – recorded 100 points in 34 games in 1983.
The St. Louis Blues launch 27 shots in 1 period during 5-1 loss to visiting New York Islanders; NY goaltender Kelly Hrudey finishes game with 47 saves.
AFC Divisional Playoff Game:
Seattle Seahawks 10, Miami Dolphins 31
The Miami Dolphins crushed the Seattle Seahawks, 31–10, to advance to the AFC Championship Game. The Dolphins ran off 70 plays, gained 405 yards of total offense (including an uncharacteristic 143 yards rushing), and scored 17 unanswered points in the second half as they avenged last season’s divisional round upset loss to Seattle. Meanwhile, Miami’s defense, which had given up 134 points in the last five games of the season, held the Seahawks to just 267 yards. The Dolphins defense was particularly dominating on the ground, where they held Seattle to a mere 51 yards on 18 rushing attempts, an average of less than 3 yards per carry.
Miami started off the scoring with a 68-yard drive, featuring Dan Marino’s 25-yard completion to Mark Clayton, that ended on Tony Nathan’s 14-yard touchdown run. Near the end of the first quarter, Keith Simpson deflected a Marino pass into the arms of teammate John Harris, who returned the interception 32 yards to the Dolphins 39-yard line. Miami managed to keep the Seahawks out of the end zone, but Norm Johnson kicked a 27-yard field goal to put his team on the board at 7-3. On the Dolphins next drive, they were aided by a crucial penalty, an offsides call against the Seahawks that negated Marino’s intercepted pass by Kenny Easley. Two plays later, Marino threw a 34-yard touchdown pass to Jimmy Cefalo, increasing the Dolphins lead to 14-3. However, Seattle quarterback Dave Krieg led his team back, firing a pass to receiver Steve Largent who caught the ball between two defenders and took off past cornerback Glen Blackwood for a 56-yard touchdown reception, cutting the score to 14-10 at the end of the half.
However, any thoughts of a Seattle comeback were quickly crushed in the second half. Following a missed field goal attempt by Johnson, Marino led the Dolphins 76 yards down the field to a 3-yard scoring reception by tight end Bruce Hardy, making the score 21-10. Seattle was quickly forced to punt on their next drive, and Jeff West shanked the kick, causing the ball to travel just 7 yards. Two plays later, Miami increased their lead to 28-10 on Marino’s 33-yard touchdown pass to receiver Mark Clayton. In the fourth quarter, Dolphins kicker Uwe von Schamann made a 37-yard field goal that put the final score at 31-10.[5]
Marino finished the game 21/34 for 262 yards and three touchdowns, with two interceptions (both by John Harris). The Dolphins 405 yards would be spread out quite evenly among the team, as their top rusher (Nathan) had only 76 yards, while their top receiver (Clayton) had 75. Krieg completed 20/35 passes for 234 yards and a touchdown, while also rushing for 2 yards and gaining one yard off a deflected pass that he caught himself. Largent was the top receiver of the game with 6 receptions for 128 yards and a touchdown.
NFC Divisional Playoff Game:
New York Giants 10, San Francisco 49ers 21
The San Francisco 49ers, on an uneven day for Joe Montana, were lifted by their defense to a 21–10 playoff win over the New York Giants. Quarterback Joe Montana threw for 309 yards and 3 touchdown passes as he led the 49ers to a victory, while receiver Dwight Clark caught 9 passes for 112 yards and a touchdown. The 49ers defense also played exceptionally well, holding the Giants offense to a single field goal even though Montana was intercepted 3 times. On San Francisco’s first drive of the game, Montana completed a 21-yard touchdown pass to Clark. Ronnie Lott intercepted a pass and returned it 38 yards to set up Montana’s 9-yard pass to Russ Francis that gave the 49ers a 14-0 lead just 6:48 into the game. In the second quarter, Giants linebacker Gary Reasons recorded his first of two interceptions on the day setting up Ali Haji-Sheikh’s 46-yard field goal. Then linebacker Harry Carson recorded the first interception in his 9-year career and returned it 14 yards for a touchdown that cut the score to 14–10. But Montana responded with a 29-yard touchdown pass to Freddie Solomon, making the score 21-10 by the end of the second quarter.
Both defenses then controlled the rest of the game, allowing no points in the second half. In the third quarter, New York drove to the 49ers 18-yard line, only to have Phil Simms throw an interception to linebacker Riki Ellison. In the fourth quarter, New York moved the ball to the San Francisco 11, but Simms was sacked on third down. Now faced with 4th and 16, they decided to play conservative and take the field goal, but Haji-Sheikh’s 33-yard kick went wide right. Following a punt, New York got the ball with 3:04 left and drove to the 49ers 22, this time turning the ball over on downs when Joe Morris was stuffed for no gain on 4th and inches. Finally, with 53 seconds left, San Francisco’s defense closed out the game when Fred Dean forced a fumble from Simms that was recovered by 49ers lineman Dwaine Board. This was the second postseason meeting between the Giants and 49ers. San Francisco won the only prior meeting.
Born:
Alan Branch, NFL defensive tackle (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 49 and 51-Patriots, 2014, 2016; Arizona Cardinals, Seattle Seahawks, Buffalo Bills, New England Patriots), in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Darius Reynaud, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings, Tennessee Titans), in Luling, Louisiana.
Chris Horton, NFL safety (Washington Redskins), in Los Angeles, California.
Died:
Leo Robin, 84, American songwriter (“Thanks For the Memory”; “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”), of heart failure.
Sidney Garfield, 78, American physician and pioneer of health maintenance organizations (Kaiser Permanente).
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