Soviet violation of a 1972 treaty with the United States was charged by the Reagan Administration in a report to Congress that also expressed concern that Moscow was preparing a countrywide defense against missiles. Under the 1972 treaty on antiballistic missiles, each side may deploy up to a hundred defensive missiles, but all must be in defense of one location. Both sides are barred from trying to defend their entire country from attack. The Soviet Union has asserted that that the Administration, through its planned research on a space-based shield against missiles, was planning to break the treaty. The report submitted today, which examined 13 areas of possible violations by the Soviet Union of arms control accords, concluded that “the U.S.S.R. may be preparing an ABM defense of its national territory.”
Research is permitted by the treaty, and Washington has stated that its actions are in compliance with it. The report today, in suggesting a specific Soviet violation of the 1972 treaty, was meant to show that the Russians, while complaining about what the United States might do in the future, had already committed violations, a State Department official said. President Reagan, in a letter accompanying the unclassified version of the report, said, “There is cause for serious concern regarding the Soviet Union’s conduct with respect to observance of arms control agreements.” An earlier Administration report, sent to Congress at its request in January 1984, discussed seven areas of possible violation. Both reports were mandated by Congress as a result of efforts by conservative senators who wanted fuller publicity for allegations of Soviet violations of agreements. The report today covered those seven areas and six more. In some of the areas, such as whether the Soviet Union was living up to the agreement to limit to a certain level the number of its submarines that can launch ballistic missiles, the report found the Russians had not violated the understandings worked out with the United States.
The most serious specific violation, officials said in a briefing for reporters, continues to be the Soviet construction of a large phased-array radar near Krasnoyarsk in central Siberia. The ABM treaty limits such radars to locations along the periphery of the country and stipulates that they be directed outward unless they are used for such activities as tracking objects in outer space. In 1984, the first report said Soviet activty at that radar station was “almost certainly” a violation of the 1972 treaty. Today, the report said unambiguously that this radar station “constitutes a violation of legal obligations under the Antiballitsic Missile Treaty of 1972 in that in its associated siting, orientation and capability, it is prohibited by this treaty.”
A strong U.S. bargaining base in arms control talks with Moscow is the aim of a new surge of spending on nuclear weapons and space research in President Reagan’s military budget, according to Pentagon budget documents. The $313.7 billion budget, which includes $3.7 billion for the antimissile space weapons research program dubbed “Star Wars” and $4 billion for more multiwarhead MX missiles is “vital to the success of genuine arms reductions,” according to the Pentagon. The documents, including details of the military proposals, were prepared as briefing papers for members of Congress and were intended for public release Monday. They were obtained from Congressional sources. The Pentagon expects even steeper budget increases in the following years, according to budget documents obtained elsewhere.
The military budget, according to these forecasts, would climb by 13 percent a year, to $354 billion in the 1987 fiscal year, and to $401.6 billion the following year. Thereafter it would grow by 9 percent a year for two more years. The Pentagon estimates that annual inflation in this period would average 4.5 percent. The overall budget figure was disclosed in December, after a bitter internal Administration battle over its size. Many of the particulars have also been disclosed, with the result that the detailed documents sent to Congress today contained no major surprises. The increase over the current year’s military budget is 10 percent, or 5.9 percent in real terms after allowing for inflation. It is the smallest increase requested by Mr. Reagan in the military budget since he came into office. The briefing documents noted that the increase was smaller than in previous years because Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger was ordered to cut $35.9 billion from his original request, compiled in January 1984, as the Administration attempted to reduce projected Federal budget deficits.
Eleven Soviet Jews were arrested and four were sentenced to labor camps in the last six months as part of a major crackdown on Hebrew teachers and other Jewish cultural activists, the State Department said today. The arrests “were accompanied by a series of searches, beatings and threats which have sent shock waves through the Soviet Jewish community,” according to a report titled “The Soviet Crackdown on Jewish Cultural Activists.” The crackdown, which the State Department said began in late July, was “a deliberate and ongoing campaign of arrests and intimidation targeted at the activist Jewish community in the Soviet Union by Soviet authorities,” said a State Department spokesman, Edward P. Djerejian.
A West German industrialist was fatally wounded by two assailants at his home near Munich. The terrorist group known as the Red Army Faction took responsibility. The killing of the businessman, Ernst Zimmermann, the 55-year-old chief executive of the giant Motoren und Turbinen Union M”unchen G.m.b.H., appeared to mark an increase in a terrorist offensive that the group began in December. At the same time, according to officials here, the slaying seemed to fit an emerging pattern of coordination among a scattering of small, underground terrorist groups in several Western European countries.
Guerrillas shot and killed a part-time soldier in Belfast today as he sat in a school bus waiting to take children swimming. The Irish Republican Army took responsibility. The soldier, James Graham, 39 years old, was a member of the locally recruited Ulster Defense Regiment. He was the third member of his family to be killed by guerrillas. His two brothers, both part-timers in the same regiment, were shot to death in separate attacks in 1981. Mr. Graham, who had survived two previous attacks, was killed outside a school in Derrylin, near the border with the Irish Republic.
Defense Minister Friedhelm Frischenschlager, who greeted a war criminal released by Italy with a handshake last week, survived a no-confidence vote in a special session of Parliament today. The vote put an end to Government action, but it may not diminish the public unease over the case involving the Nazi war criminal Walter Reder, a former major in the SS. After Mr. Frischenschlager greeted Mr. Reder, who had served 40 years in Italian prisons for a massacre of about 600 civilians in the town of Marzabotto, the conservative People’s Party demanded his resignation or dismissal. Mr. Frischenschlager represents the small, right-wing Freedom Party, whose 12 parliamentary votes keep the Socialist Party of Chancellor Fred Sinowatz in power. At the special parliamentary session today, a vote in favor of the motion would have made the Government’s resignation inevitable. The motion was defeated, 98 to 80.
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said yesterday that Israel intended to proceed with its withdrawal from Lebanon but that Israeli troops might return to pursue terrorists. Mr. Rabin, speaking in Manhattan to a group of American Jewish leaders, said such a return would be Israel’s choice, whether “by air, by land forces, in the size, deployment and timing we will decide.”
A car bomb exploded outside a crowded mosque in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli during Friday prayers today, killing at least 10 people, the police said, and wounding 60, many seriously. No group took responsibility for the blast, which some here said they thought was intended to heighten religious tension in the city.
India announced today that France was recalling its Ambassador, 12 days after a French deputy military attache was asked to leave the country for his purported involvement in a spy ring. An Indian spokesman refused to say why the Ambassador, Serge Boidevaix, was asked to return to Paris. But Indian sources said Mr. Boidevaix was held responsible here for the conduct of the ousted diplomat, Lieutenant Colonel Alain Bolley. A replacement for Mr. Boidevaix was not announced, and the Indian spokesman, Salman Haidar, said the French decision was conveyed to the Indian Ambassador in Paris on Wednesday. The Ambassador was given a month to leave the country. He could not be reached for comment tonight.
The Thai Government today dismissed as “nothing new” Vietnam’s proposals to Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar on ways to negotiate an end to the war in Cambodia. At a news conference today, the United Nations Secretary General appeared irritated when a reporter echoed the negative Thai response, made this morning at a Foreign Ministry briefing. The Thai rejection appeared to have been publicly stated before being conveyed to Mr. Perez de Cuellar, who has been trying to keep his negotiations confidential until the end of his Southeast Asian tour. The Secretary General said he had passed Vietnamese “clarifications” on to Thai officials “only yesterday.”
The White House announced today that President Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea would visit President Reagan sometime in April. The announcement was not officially linked to the planned return to Seoul next week of the exiled opposition leader Kim Dae Jung, but Administration officials said they had reason to believe that Mr. Kim would not be arrested when he returned. State Department officials had been negotiating with both Mr. Kim and South Korean officials to insure that his return is handled in a trouble-free manner. Mr. Kim has been urged to avoid provoking the authorities, and the Seoul officials have been reminded that if Mr. Kim is arrested or mistreated, this could cause problems for President Chun when he arrives here.
Encouragement of Nicaraguan rebels to form an umbrella organization that could openly receive aid from the United States is being considered by the Reagan Administration, according to a well-placed official on Capitol Hill.
Pope John Paul II arrived in Lima this evening to begin his mission to the divided Peruvian Roman Catholic Church and delivered a pointed warning against unorthodoxy and “passing ideologies.” “Faithfulness is proof of love,” the Pope told a group of priests and nuns here tonight. “Therefore, you must avoid everything that would convey the thought that there exists in the church a double hierarchy or a double magisterium.”
President Reagan meets with President Elect of Brazil Tancredo Neves.
Additional aid for Africa amounting to more than a billion dollars was pledged by 13 industrialized nations and the World Bank. Officials at a meeting in Paris said the purpose of the fund, called the Special Facility for Sub-Saharan Africa, is to make famines in Africa less likely. The fund is distinct from the emergency food supplies Western nations are sending to famine-stricken parts of the continent.
Ethiopia plans to use armed convoys to transport famine-relief supplies into its northern provinces, where guerrillas have been active, a high-ranking United Nations official said here today. The official, Kurt Jansson, an Assistant Secretary General in charge of emergency operations in Ethiopia, said he “raised the issue of food distribution in areas of Tigre and Eritrea where security is a problem” in a meeting this week with the Ethiopian head of state, Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam. The conflict between the rebels and Government troops has continued for years in the provinces of Eritrea and Tigre, and there has been international concern that little food has been reaching the starving people of these regions.
The South African authorities announced today that they were temporarily halting the relocation of black people living in areas deemed to be for whites only. They said policies affecting the practice were under review. But, at a news conference, Gerrit Viljoen, the Cabinet minister responsible for the destiny of many black people living within South Africa’s traditional frontiers, seemed to qualify the moratorium by saying that if black communities agreed to be relocated, “further removals can take place while the review is under way.” He said the review did not affect communities of what are deemed to be unlawful squatters, which will still be liable to removal.
A decline in the deficit to $144.4 billion in the fiscal year 1988 is projected in the budget President Reagan will send to Congress next week. This is far short of the Administration’s target of $100 billion, according to budget documents obtained last night. The documents show $47.5 billion worth of reductions in projected spending for the fiscal year 1986, starting Oct. 1. Of these, $38.8 billion, or nearly 82 percent, is in domestic programs and $8.7 billion is in the President’s military budget, according to the documents. The proposed savings in nonmilitary programs in 1986 are reductions from what spending would be if such programs were increased only by the rate of inflation and by the expected caseload growth for benefit programs. Even with the savings in the military budget in 1986, Pentagon spending next year would still increase $30 billion above 1985. But nonmilitary spending, excluding interest on the national debt, will decline by just over $30 billion. The savings in 1986 would fall short of the $50 billion that Republicans in the Senate are seeking.
The President and the First Lady travel to Camp David for the weekend.
The Reagan Administration, bowing to demands of farm state congressmen, agreed today to make it easier for farmers to obtain Federal help in reducing their debts and avoiding default. The Government said it would guarantee a bank the payment of most tof a farmer’s loan if the bank was willing to reduce interest rates on the loan to help the farmer avoid default. The budget director, David A. Stockman, and Agriculture Secretary John R. Block promised to put the change into effect early next week, making debt-relief terms more liberal than they have been since last fall. The commitment was made this morning at a meeting attended by Bob Dole, the Senate majority leader; several Middle Western senators, and the presidents of state Farm Bureau organizations in the Midwest.
Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist of the Supreme Court late today refused to block the Federal Government’s imminent deportation of a group of illegal immigrants from Cuba being held in the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta. The Cubans, who arrived with refugees from the Cuban port of Mariel in 1980, are scheduled to be deported starting February 8 under an agreement between the United States and Cuba that was announced late last year. But the agreement was threatened by a decision by Judge Marvin Shoob of Federal District Court in Atlanta, who ruled in October that the Cubans had the right to new hearings in their efforts to obtain political asylum.
Paul G. Kirk Jr. was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee today at a meeting marked by agreement among party leaders that the Democrats must reshape their message so as to remain the majority party. Mr. Kirk, who played down his ties to Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts in an effort to project an image of independence, said his victory marked the end of a period of “hand-wringing and soul-searching” that set in after the Democratic ticket’s landslide defeat in the 1984 Presidential election. “Today, the soul-searching has ended,” Mr. Kirk said. “It is the end of the identity crisis of the Democratic Party. And let today mark the day that the Democratic Party goes back to work to reclaim its rightful and legitimate heritage as the party that speaks to the aspirations of the future for all Americans.” Mr. Kirk, formerly the party treasurer, defeated Terry Sanford, a former Governor of North Carolina, by 203 to 151.
Donald P. Hodel, President Reagan’s nominee to be Interior Secretary, said today that the Administration’s program to reduce the national debt by selling Federal land had not worked and would not be pursued. Asked at his confirmation hearing about the policy of “privatizing” public lands, he said the Government might still sell specific parcels of land when it would be useful. But he added that there would be no wholesale land disposal because most of the available Federal land was not “marketable.”
The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee today unanimously recommended that William J. Bennett be confirmed as Secretary of Education.
The jobless rate rose slightly in January, to 7.3 percent, despite a solid increase in the number of people working, the Labor Department reported. An unusually large number of women were looking for jobs last month, the department said.
There are many who say St. Louis has been in search of past glory ever since the end of the World’s Fair of 1904, when “Meet Me in St. Louis” was being sung throughout the nation. Now there are those who think that after all these years St. Louis is on its way back. A building boom that promises to bring new vitality to the downtown area when some major developments open this summer has rekindled the old spirit. “We’re close,” said Mayor Vincent C. Schoemehl Jr. “We’ve got to recognize this is just a water stop in a marathon and it is not the end of the race.”
Inmates in the maximum security section of the Indiana Reformatory, armed with homemade weapons and angered over what they said was abuse of prisoners, took two employees hostage today. Seven guards and two prisoners were wounded. Four of the injured guards were reported in critical but stable condition. A prison spokesman said the violence erupted in a search prompted by an assault on a corrections officer, but inmates said abuse of prisoners by guards was the cause. Officials said the inmates had compiled a list of 22 demands and asked that they not be punished for today’s action. The demands included establishing a grievance committee, setting minimum wages for inmates, allowing prisoners to be politically active without intimidation or reprisals and ending censorship of all letters, magazines and newspapers.
Nearly 500 firefighters, some using bulldozers, struggled today to contain a 4,000-acre brush fire in southwest Florida that destroyed 12 homes and forced evacuation of 200 people. They widened a fire line of plowed earth to 100 feet by midday, giving forest rangers a better chance to contain the blaze, said Mike Long, chief of the Division of Forestry’s Fire Control Bureau. Across the state, another major fire raged in the Everglades, where about 50,000 acres of uninhabited grasslands, doted only by slightly elevated “islands” of hardwood trees, continued to burn. That blaze, bordered by two major canals and two highways, was expected to burn itself out.
In Williamstown, Kentucky, Brandon Bowen, a 4-year- old who loves tinkering with the jack in the family garage, used the device to save his father, who had been pinned under a two-ton truck. The father, Charles Bowen, 33 years old, was working under the truck Monday when it fell off the jack, breaking his hip and pressing against his abdomen.
Trans World Airlines yesterday opened the United States’ first trans- Atlantic passenger service using planes powered by only two engines. In the past, United States airlines have always used three- and four-engine craft on flights to Europe.
A Philippine virus was the source of the many cases of flu and pneumonia around the country in January, Federal health officials said. The outbreaks in 38 states took more than 1,500 lives. “We really started seeing increasing influenza activity starting in January,” Dr. Karl Kappus of the national Centers for Disease Control said Thursday.
Ice and snow downed power lines, closed schools and coated highways with ice deep into the South today, while temperatures crashed to record lows across the North. Ice up to an inch thick was reported in central Mississippi, with 2 to 5 inches of ice and snow covering northern Mississippi and Alabama. The ice snapped tree limbs, downed power lines and made travel hazardous. The National Weather Service posted travelers’ advisories and winter storm warnings across the South and warned that on Saturday the snow would extend to the northern Atlantic Coast. In Colorado, where temperatures reached record lows, a transformer fire today blacked out the southeastern quarter of Denver while the temperature was 11 below zero. In at least 10 other states, low-temperature records were broken today.
-61°F (-52°C), Maybell, Colorado (state record).
-69°F (-56°C), Peter’s Sink, Utah (state record).
Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards today announced that a tentative agreement had been reached to sell the Saints to the A. N. Pritzker family of Chicago and keep the professional football team in New Orleans for the next 30 years. Mr. Edwards said that the agreement depended on a commitment from the state that would require legislative approval in a special session.
In an effort to add some much-needed power to their lineup, St. Louis trades outfielder-first baseman David Green, shortstop Jose Gonzales, pitcher Dave LaPoint, and outfielder-first baseman Gary Rajsich to the San Francisco Giants for slugging first baseman Jack Clark. Gonzales will change his name to his mother’s maiden name of Uribe, and win the starting shortstop job with the Giants. Giants coach and resident wit Rocky Bridges will note that Uribe really is, “the player to be named later.”
Brian Boitano performed seven triple jumps tonight and won the men’s title at the United States Figure Skating Championships. Boitano was the runner-up the last two years to Scott Hamilton, who turned professional after sweeping gold medals last year at the Olympics and the world championships. Mark Cockrell, 22, of Burbank, California, was second and Scott Williams, 18, of Redondo Beach, California, third. Boitano and Cockrell will represent the United States at the World Championships next month in Tokyo.
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