The U.S. will offer the Soviet Union “some very interesting and reasonable positions,” Secretary of State George P. Shultz said, when the Soviet-American arms control talks resume in Geneva today. He was not any more specific in a news conference on his plane taking him to Geneva, but some American officials said President Reagan had given him additional flexibility in his discussion with Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko of possible restraints on the development of an antisatellite weapons system — something that Moscow attaches importance to halting. Mr. Shultz said he had been sent here on “a mission for peace,” but he was deliberately cautious about predicting the outcome of the first important Soviet-American arms control exchange in 13 months.
Mr. Shultz has sprung back from policy disappointments, notably the withdrawal of the American marines from Lebanon nearly a year ago and the failure of his mediation between Israel and the Lebanese Government on an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. He has found new purpose and prominence as the point man for a major Administration foreign policy initiative: the effort to revive arms negotiations with Moscow.
The Geneva meeting on arms control is taking shape as a three-arena event: A public propaganda battle as a backdrop to businesslike private exchanges intertwined with throngs of journalists ready to record and judge success and failure. In the arena of public diplomacy, Moscow is trying to fan concerns about a new arms race in space, and Washington is trying to play down the issue and expectations about the results of the meeting generally. In the arena of private diplomacy, the talks that begin Monday between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko are expected by both sides to be polite, ritualized and largely predetermined by deliberations in Washington and Moscow. Mr. Shultz is said to hope that Mr. Gromyko will invite him to visit Moscow in a few months. The third arena emerges from the interplay between the diplomats and the journalists from around the world who are gathered here. From grimaces, nods, and cryptic remarks by diplomats, the journalists pass on what they think is happening behind the closed doors. Sometimes an American official or Soviet reporter is assigned the task of disclosing a particular piece of information.
Poland’s Communist Government has said it will raise food prices in March, but has offered the prospect of ending some rationing. The official press this weekend published details of three proposals, containing different levels of increases, which will be discussed with the public through trade unions and other groups. Rationing of meat is not envisioned. The increases, in line with the Government’s target of a 13 percent rise in retail prices in 1985, will be the first in 13 months. The increases have been carefully presented to avoid upsetting public opinion. Attempts to impose large increases caused turmoil that brought about the fall of two Communist Party leaders, Wladyslaw Gomulka in 1970 and Edward Gierek in 1980.
Animal rights activists hurled a firebomb that damaged the garage at the suburban London home of Sir John Vane, co-winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Medicine and director of a medical research laboratory that performs experiments on animals. They also stoned or painted slogans on the homes of five other current or retired staff members of the laboratory, operated by the Wellcome Foundation in Beckenham, nine miles southeast of London, the foundation said. The Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Israel has halted its airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel because of the publicity given to the operation, a spokesman for the Jewish Agency announced. The spokesman for the Israeli-Jewish relief organization, which is a semiofficial Government body, said: “The last planeload arrived Saturday night. We hope this will only be temporary. We are now looking for other airlines.” On Saturday the Belgian charter carrier Trans European Airways — which had reportedly been paid to ferry some 7,000 Ethiopian Jews to Brussels by way of the Sudan since late November — announced it was ending its part in the secret airlift.
Jordan will receive advanced ground- and air-defense weapons from the Soviet Union early this year, the army commander, General Zeid bin Shaker, has announced. General bin Shaker said Saturday night that Jordan also expected to conclude arms agreements with Britain and France “to back our forces and strengthen its military structure.” His comments were made to officers from Jordan and other Arab countries who were completing a training course. The general’s statement was the first official announcement of a Jordanian-Soviet arms deal after the United States refused last year to sell Jordan Stinger antiaircraft missiles. The Jordanian Army has traditionally been equipped with United States weapons.
Iranian security men foiled an attempted hijacking by three Iranian dissidents who attempted to commandeer a domestic Aseman Airlines flight from the city of Khorramabad to Tehran, according to the official Iranian news agency. In a report monitored in Beirut, the agency said one of the would-be hijackers had a revolver concealed in a plaster cast on his leg.
Sri Lankan army troops, battling Tamil separatist guerrillas, shot and killed a Roman Catholic priest and eight other people near the northern town of Mannar, two bishops charged. The bishops said Father Mary Bastion and two teenage boys were shot inside a church at Vankalai on Saturday by troops who broke open the church door. Government officials denied that a priest was killed but confirmed the killing of eight Tamils, whom they described as terrorists.
Cambodian rebels opened fire with mortars and rockets today in an attack on Vietnamese troops who were poised to assault the guerrilla military headquarters at Ampil. Meanwhile, an insurgent leader charged that the Vietnamese had used choking green-colored gas against guerrillas trying to recapture the Rithisen rebel camp, seized by Vietnamese troops on December 25. There was no independent confirmation of the charge. The early-morning attack by the Khmer People’s National Liberation Front prompted an artillery barrage on Ampil by Vietnamese troops stationed a mile away. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the fighting. Vietnamese troops and guerrillas also engaged in small-arms clashes late Saturday night and early Sunday at Rithisen, situated just inside the Cambodian border. Thai military sources said four People’s Liberation Front guerrillas had been wounded in those clashes, but they gave no estimate of Vietnamese casualties. The Liberation Front is one of three allied Cambodian rebel groups fighting the Vietnamese-installed Heng Samrin Government in Phnom Penh.
An anti-Communist movement in Vietnam has been rapidly gaining adherents among Vietnamese refugees in the United States, provoking complaints from the Hanoi Government. The movement is made up of several groups, the largest of which, the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam. Vietnamese refugees said the front has established 100 chapters in the United States, where there are about 450,000 Vietnamese. But many of the refugees question the movement’s effectiveness.
A passenger train derailed near Calpulalpan, Mexico, killing at least 7 people and injuring 182, the police and the Red Cross said today. Three of the six passenger cars on the 10-car Mexican National Railways train, southbound from Mexico City to Oaxaca, went off the tracks on a curve late Saturday night and crashed on their side, a police commander said. The cause of the derailment south of here, about 50 miles northeast of Mexico City, was not immediately known. The Red Cross said the injured, some in serious condition, had been taken to hospitals in the Mexico City area. Two United States citizens were among the injured but were not seriously hurt, the United States Embassy said.
A gunman in El Salvador killed a leading corruption investigator and then was slain by the official’s bodyguards, the police and witnesses said. Three bystanders were also killed and at least two other people were wounded in the shooting in the town of Concepcion de Oriente, 108 miles east of San Salvador. The investigator was Pedro Rene Yanez, who had accused leaders of the far-right National Republican Alliance of illegal business practices. His assassin was identified as Francisco Alfaro, a follower of the Alliance. Government officials said Mr. Yanes had found many cases of wrongdoing.
The villages of Santa Clara and La Palma in el Salvadorare separated by a range of imposing volcanic mountains and dozens of miles of broken brushland. But their people have something in common: they do not want to form civil defense units to guard their towns. Their choice has put them into conflict with local Salvadoran army commanders. In what senior military officials say will be a growing campaign this year, the commanders are trying to organize local units to keep leftist rebels from entering villages. The villagers fear that will only make them targets of the guerrillas.
Honduras said it will deport Steadman Fagoth Muller, a leader of Nicaraguan Indian rebels, and send him to Miami sometime this week, a government spokesman said. The spokesman, demanding anonymity, also threatened to “deport all leaders of armed clandestine organizations that are harassing Nicaragua or any other Central American nation from our territory…” He included those from the Misura Indian coalition and the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the major U.S.-backed contra group, “because they have compromised the neutrality of Honduras with their political activities.” Honduran police accuse Fagoth of violating immigration laws by making political statements.
Rescuers may abandon efforts to recover the bodies of all 29 people, including eight Americans, aboard an Eastern Airlines plane that crashed on 21,000-foot Illimani Mountain, 25 miles southwest of La Paz, Bolivia, last Tuesday, U.S. Embassy spokesman William Walker said in La Paz. Walker said that it was snowing “like mad” on the mountain and that a two-foot snowfall at the site may prevent the bodies from ever being found. Three Bolivian mountaineers who reached the site Saturday said they found no evidence of life.
More than 2,000 mourners in Santiago, Chile, turned the funeral of Matilde Urrutia, widow of 1971 Nobel Literature Prize-winner Pablo Neruda, into a demonstration against President Augusto Pinochet’s military government. The mourners repeatedly chanted anti-government slogans to protest the state of siege imposed by Pinochet two months ago to curb unrest. They also chanted in support of the outlawed Communist Party. Neruda, who died in 1973, was a leading member of the party.
Guerrillas shot or bayoneted to death at least 27 people in separate attacks on two buses north of Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, an army spokesman said. In the first attack, at least four people died when rebels of the Mozambique National Resistance opened fire on a fully loaded bus 45 miles from the capital. In the second attack 23 bus passengers were killed by gunfire or bayonets and 20 were wounded, some seriously.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy toured South Africa’s biggest black township today and pronounced some living conditions here “appalling.” But the Massachusetts Democrat’s tour of this huge township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, elicited no major show of support for his visit to South Africa from the township’s many inhabitants. Moreover, a black woman whose home the Senator visited, Anna Tau, said she feared her brief association with him could lead to harassment, “because some people do not like Kennedy and did not like me to welcome him.” She was apparently referring to activists from the small Azanian People’s Organization, a “black consciousness” movement that excludes whites from its activities and that sent protesters to meet Senator Kennedy at Jan Smuts Airport when he arrived in Johannesburg Saturday night. About 40 black demonstrators shouted “Kennedy go home!” and nine of them, a police spokesman said today, were arrested after scuffles with the police. There was no repetition of the protest today.
Congress meets in a joint session today to count the votes of the Electoral College and formally declare President Reagan and Vice President George Bush reelected in the final act of the 1984 election. Bush, in his constitutionally mandated role as president of the Senate, will preside over the session and announce his and Reagan’s election to a second term.
President Reagan returns to the White House from the weekend at Camp David.
A dress-rehearsal countdown is under way at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the space shuttle Discovery, scheduled to blast off January 23 on a secret mission to carry a spy satellite into orbit. The mock countdown is scheduled to end today with a computer-simulated ignition of the shuttle’s three main engines, a space agency spokesman said. The procedure is designed to make sure that the complex electrical and mechanical connections between the shuttle and ground systems are properly operating. Discovery’s military crew was scheduled to be aboard for part of the test. The launch time of the secret mission will not be disclosed to prevent Soviet tracking stations from locking on to the shuttle and its payload.
A Boston pastor said civil rights activist Jesse Jackson has asked him to become president of Operation PUSH, a Chicago-based civil rights organization that Jackson founded in 1971. The Rev. Charles R. Stith, 35, senior pastor of Union United Methodist Church in Boston, said he was still weighing the decision. Jackson took a leave of absence as president of Operation PUSH-People United to Serve Humanity-in late 1983.
A woman who told Bloomington, Indiana, police that her boyfriend beat her faced murder charges for killing him by dropping a bowling ball on his head as he slept. Police said Glendon Wininger, 40, of Bloomington, admitted she dropped the ball several times from about waist high onto Steven Detmer, 37, owner of a Bloomington bowling supply company, while he slept in the apartment the couple shared.
Four years after James J. Walker resigned as mayor of New York amid charges of corruption, the flamboyant mayor made headlines again in 1936 when he adopted a boy and a girl. Newspapers gave the story so much publicity that Walker almost canceled the adoption, for fear the natural mother might try to reclaim her child. Now, nearly half a century later, Walker’s children are trying to get their adoption papers to learn the identity of their real parents. On Tuesday, Walker’s son and daughter will ask the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, to release their adoption decrees.
Philadelphia likes its Mayor, W. Wilson Goode, so much so that a critic complained that he was being “deified” by the press. For both the Mayor and Philadelphia his first year was one of highly visible successes, including his role in ending a transit crisis and a successful fight to keep Philadelphia’s football team, but there were some setbacks. Such criticism as the Mayor has encountered has been muted, generally involving suggestions that his assertions were overstated and he had been too quick to compromise.
An argument over a Kansas City business apparently caused shootings that left three people dead and one wounded, the authorities reported today. The owner of a new midtown restaurant shot a partner to death Saturday night and injured another person before being killed by a cook, who then shot himself, the police said. Sgt. Jerry Fortney of the homicide detective force said that John Lee Swanay, a retired music professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, primary owner of the Painted Lady restaurant, had shot Belinda Murry in the restaurant parking lot. The police said the two had argued earlier. The police say Mr. Swanay was angry because Mrs. Murry, 27 years old, had ordered a couch put in the restaurant’s waiting room. Mr. Swanay, 60, then ran up the street, where he shot a second woman. Sergeant Fortney said. A cook who was in the car with Mr. Swanay at the first shooting then caught up with him. Sergeant Fortney said a witness had said the cook shot Mr. Swanay and then himself.
A Santa Barbara, California couple, their daughter and grandchild were shot to death while a family friend listened over the telephone. The couple’s son was arrested, the police said today. “A friend of the residents was talking on the phone, when there were screams and gunshots and the line went dead,” Deputy Don Glasgow said. Barry W. McNamara, 36 years old, was arrested and booked for investigation of murder, Deputy Jim Drinkwater said. The victims were identified by the police as Mr. McNamara’s father, Elger McNamara, 57; his mother, Florence, 57; his sister, Diane Trenner, 31, and her daughter, Kellin, 4.
About 100 supporters of a jailed Pennsylvania pastor worshiped outside his church today as sheriff’s deputies who seized the church last week watched from inside. The worshipers protested unemployment and “corporate evil” and backed the Rev. D. Douglas Roth and eight supporters, who had occupied Trinity Lutheran Church for weeks but were arrested Friday after refusing to obey a court order to give the church and its financial records to West Virginia-Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church in America. “Evil may win battles,” said David Soul, an actor, reading a sermon Mr. Roth wrote in jail, “but we are assured that in God’s right time, the final victory is his.” Mr. Soul, a star of “Starsky and Hutch” on television, who is a brother of a Lutheran minister who supports Mr. Roth, described the arrest on Friday of seven people inside the church as “most appalling.” Three of those arrested were sentenced to 60 days for civil contempt of court. The four others are to be sentenced Monday. Mr. Roth was also sentenced to 30 days more in jail, to be served concurrently with the 38 days remaining on his 90-day sentence, for encouraging others to defy the law. The 33-year-old pastor was jailed November 13 for contempt after refusing to relinquish his pulpit.
Eight people, including six children, were killed in fires in two New Jersey homes Saturday night and early yesterday, fire officials said. They said both blazes had started accidentally. The officials said a malfunctioning space heater had started one fire early yesterday, in a two-story red brick duplex in Newark. A 45-year-old woman, her adult son and two grandchildren were killed.
Two confessed bombers of abortion facilities said Saturday that they would be “thrilled” if their attacks here led to changes in the law and saved “unborn children.” The two, Matthew J. Goldsby, 21 years old, and James Simmons, 21, are charged in three Christmas Day bombings and a bombing in June.
Design specifications and sketches on computer cards for the F-4 Phantom fighter were stolen from a Camarillo, California company under investigation on charges of illegal shipment of F-4 parts, the authorities said Saturday. Thieves apparently entered the Elgie Corporation’s offices last week, said Sgt. Paul Oeschsle of the Ventura County sheriff’s office. The plane was last produced in the United States in 1979. The theft was unrelated to the Federal Government’s seizure last year of two shipments of F-4 parts manufactured by Elgie, Sergeant Oeschsle said. A message seeking comment was left with the company’s answering service Sunday, but there was no response.
Because of a misprint, a drug known as “angel dust,” which can produce violent behavior and hallucinations, can now be legally made and sold in California, embarrassed officials acknowledged today. The error appeared in a revision of the state’s drug laws effective January 1. The drug PCP, sold as “angel dust,” was wrongly classified. Officials said it could take six weeks to correct the mistake. But they said that laws barring the possession of PCP and possession of the needed chemicals were still on the books.
The California irrigation water that transformed the Central Valley from a desert into one of the nation’s most bountiful agricultural areas is posing a serious pollution threat. The water has picked up concentrated salt and other minerals in some areas, making the soil infertile, and there is no outlet for tainted water from the valley. Solving the problem may take 20 years, officials say.
A newly recognized flu-like illness marked by fatigue, fever and swollen glands that can persist for years has been linked to unusual flare-ups of a virus in the herpes family, according to two reports to be published in the January issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. The ailment is not caused by the viruses that produce genital herpes or fever blisters, but is apparently caused by another member of the herpes virus family called Epstein-Barr virus. That virus is known primarily as the cause of infectious mononucleosis.
At the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, spins a mysterious and elusive astronomical object with exotic powers around which the entire galaxy revolves. It can’t be seen with an ordinary telescope, but it has long been known as a source of unusually strong radio signals, said astronomer Terry Jones, a member of an international team whose findings will be presented at the annual meeting this week in Tucson of the American Astronomical Society. Astronomers believe that the object may explain how matter organized itself into vast, wheeling galactic star systems.
AFC Championship Game:
Pittsburgh Steelers 28, Miami Dolphins 45
The Miami Dolphins beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, 45–28 to advance to Super Bowl XIX. Pittsburgh racked up 455 yards of offense and converted 54% of their third downs, but it still wasn’t enough to keep pace with Miami, who gained 569 yards in 71 plays en route to their fifth Super Bowl in franchise history. Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino led the Dolphins to a victory by throwing for 421 yards and 4 touchdowns (both AFC championship records) with 1 interception. Marino’s record setting day was particularly noteworthy considering he threw his last pass with 11:05 left in the game. Steelers quarterback Mark Malone recorded 312 yards and 3 touchdowns, but was intercepted 3 times.
Miami scored first on Marino’s 40-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Mark Clayton, but Pittsburgh countered with running back Rich Erenberg’s 7-yard rushing touchdown. Then after Dolphins kicker Uwe von Schamann made a 26-yard field goal, the Steelers took the lead, 14–10, with wide receiver John Stallworth’s 65-yard touchdown reception. Marino struck back with a 41-yard touchdown to wide receiver Mark Duper. Then Dolphins safety Lyle Blackwood picked off a pass from Malone and returned it 4 yards to the Steelers 35. After an 11-yard run by Tony Nathan, the Dolphins suffered a setback when a touchdown pass was wiped out by a penalty. But Marino easily shook this off, completing a 28-yard pass to tight end Joe Rose at the 1-yard line on the next play. Nathan finished off the drive with a 2-yard touchdown run to give Miami a 24-14 halftime lead.
On the opening drive of the second half, Marino completed a 36-yard touchdown pass to Duper. Then after Stallworth caught a 19-yard touchdown, the Dolphins scored two more touchdowns, including Marino’s fourth score, to clinch the victory. Malone threw a 29-yard touchdown pass to Wayne Capers in the final period to close out the scoring. “We threw every defense we had at the guy — zones, man-to-man, double-coverage, you name it, but the ball always seemed to get there before we did,” Steelers safety Donnie Shell said. “The guy is incredible. He deserves what he’s going to get, and to me that looks like a Super Bowl ring.” Duper finished the game with 5 receptions for 148 yards and 2 touchdowns. Clayton caught 4 passes for 95 yards and a score. Nathan rushed for 61 yards and a touchdown, while also catching 8 passes for 114 yards. Stallworth caught 4 passes for 111 yards and 2 touchdowns in the final postseason game of his Hall of Fame career. This was the third postseason meeting between the Steelers and Dolphins. Both teams split the previous two meetings.
NFC Championship Game:
Chicago Bears 0, San Francisco 49ers 23
The San Francisco 49ers crushed the Chicago Bears, 23–0 to earn a berth in Super Bowl XIX against the Miami Dolphins. The 49ers gained 387 yards while limiting the Bears to 186, with just 37 yards through the air. Chicago quarterback Steve Fuller completed just 13 of 22 passes for 87 yards and was sacked 9 times (twice each by Gary Johnson and Michael Carter). The 49ers held the Bears to 48 yards in 23 first-down plays, including 10 plays of zero or minus yards. That allowed the 49ers to play pass defense on second and third downs and forget about Payton. The Bears were beaten on both sides of the ball. They were outcoached and, to their chagrin, outmuscled, pushed around by a more physical team. “There was nothing ‘finesse’ about the 49ers,” said defensive tackle Dan Hampton. “They’re as big and hit as hard as anyone. They just controlled the game.”
Neither team played particularly well in the first half. Chicago took the opening kickoff and moved the ball 54 yards, 29 on carries by Walter Payton. But the drive stalled at the 49ers 23 and ended with no points when Bob Thomas missed a 41-yard field goal attempt. San Francisco then drove to the Chicago 2-yard line in 8 plays, but quarterback Joe Montana fumbled the snap on third down and had to dive on the ball. After that, Ray Wersching kicked a 21-yard field goal to make the score 3-0. 49ers safety Dwight Hicks gave the team a great chance to increase their lead more by intercepting a pass from Fuller in Chicago territory. San Francisco made it all the way to the 2-yard line again, but this time they did not even get a field goal as Montana was intercepted in the end zone by safety Gary Fencik. A 66-yard drive to the Bears 4-yard set up Wersching’s second field goal in the second quarter, giving the 49ers a 6-0 lead. Meanwhile, the Bears offense would go the entire period without gaining a first down. Fencik intercepted another pass from Montana, but Chicago could not do anything with the turnover opportunity.
Midway through the third quarter, the 49ers got into the end zone on a 5-play drive in which they never passed the ball. Running back Wendell Tyler rushed three times on it for 25 yards, the last carry a 9-yard score. Montana later threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Freddie Solomon and Wersching finished off the scoring with a 34-yard field goal. This was the first postseason meeting between the Bears and 49ers.
Born:
Tarell Brown, NFL cornerback (San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders, New England Patriots), in New York, New York.
Nathan McIver, Canadian NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks, Anaheim Ducks), in Kinkora, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
David Brine, Canadian NHL centre (Florida Panthers), in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Robert W. Welch Jr., 85, American businessman who founded the conservative John Birch Society.
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