Lech Walesa, the Solidarity founder, dared the authorities today to arrest him, and he urged workers to take part in a 15- minute work stoppage this month. The strike on February 28 would be to protest plans to raise food prices. Mr. Walesa emerged from a meeting with a Gdansk prosecutor, during which he says he was warned he could be sent to prison for five years for continuing to lead the banned movement. Mr. Walesa then issued a statement saying the latest police crackdown would not make him give up. “Repressions did not break and won’t break the Polish nation,” he said, reading his statement. “On the contrary they create bigger determination in our struggle. I remind again all Solidarity members that the call for protest action on February 28, 1985, is still valid.” Mr. Walesa was summoned to the prosecutor’s office after the police raided a union meeting last week, called to organize the strike.
About 20,000 West Germans rallied in freezing weather to protest government plans to build a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant near Schwandorf, 69 miles east of Nuremberg, police reported. After gathering in Schwandorf, the demonstrators marched to the planned site for the plant in nearby Wackersdorf. Police said the rally, organized by the anti-nuclear Greens party, ended peacefully. The Wackersdorf plant will be used as the central facility to reprocess most of West Germany’s nuclear fuel waste.
Gerry Adams, leader of Northern Ireland’s Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, has been denied a visa to visit the United States, according to State Department spokesman. The spokesman said Mr. Adams was barred because he was committed to the “armed struggle” of the I.R.A. “In light of Provisional Sinn Fein’s public support for the Irish Republican Army’s terrorist campaign, and because of Mr. Adams’ own advocacy of violence in Ireland, he was found ineligible for a visa,” the spokesman said.
A bill that would ban experiments on human embryos has cleared a parliamentary hurdle, but the British Government is expected to prevent it from becoming law. The bill, introduced by Enoch Powell, an Ulster Unionist and former Health Minister, passed a second reading, or debate, in the House of Commons on Friday.
Italy’s Chamber of Deputies gave final approval to a bill aimed at curbing tax evasion, ending wrangling that at times threatened the coalition government of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi. The lower house voted 255-89, with 140 abstentions, to approve the measure, which took nearly four months to move through the Italian Parliament. The most controversial aspect of the bill is that it gives tax officials special powers to assess companies for taxes if investigations indicate that the firms are not voluntarily paying their full tax liability.
Two Americans who were ordered expelled from Spain last week were caught photographing communications antennae near the office of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, the Madrid newspaper El Pais reported. The paper said the two men were seized by security police on Jan. 28. Gonzalez announced the ouster of Dennis E. McMahan, second secretary of the U.S. Embassy’s political section, and Johnny F. Massey, a civilian attached to the embassy, for what he called “activities that did not correspond to their diplomatic status.” U.S. Embassy and palace officials would not comment on the El Pais report.
UNESCO’s 50-nation executive board reached a limited measure of agreement early this morning on ways to deal with the crisis facing the world educational, cultural and scientific body as a result of the United States withdrawal at the end of last year. The partial agreement came after four days of debate and a day and a night of difficult negotiations frequently marked by sharp ideological clashes between UNESCO’s remaining Western members and third world and Soviet bloc countries. Many Western delegates acknowledged that they had been relatively unsuccessful in pursuit of their major aim, which is to use UNESCO’s financial crisis to force the agency to cut back on politically controversial activities.
Russians were left in the dark about the sudden stopping of the world championship chess match in Moscow between Anatoly Karpov and Gary Kasparov Friday. Newspapers carried only a brief report by the Government press agency Tass.
Israel withdrew from the Sidon area in the first stage of its three-phase troop pullback from Lebanon. The withdrawal of about 300 men — the last units holding the Awali River line north of Sidon — was done without incident and was observed by the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Moshe Levy, and by Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Sidon’s residents were overjoyed as Israeli forces ended 32 months of occupation and the Lebanese Army took over their positions. Cheering civilians swarmed aboard the incoming army vehicles, transforming the military lineup into a chaotic, euphoric parade.
The Lebanese political and military organization Hezbollah issued a manifesto. Hezbollah’s 1985 manifesto outlined its key objectives, which include expelling Western influence from the region, destroying Israel, pledging allegiance to Iran’s supreme leader, and establishing an Islamic government influenced by Iran’s political ideology. It also emphasized Lebanese self-determination.
A six-day-old agreement between Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization appeared on the verge of collapse after the PLO Executive Committee, meeting in Tunisia, failed to endorse the accord, the West German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported from Tunis. Chief PLO spokesman Ahmed Abdul-Rahman was quoted as advocating a reasonable “rethinking” of the accord, which Jordan said was agreed upon last Monday by King Hussein and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. Details of the agreement have not been released, but the accord reportedly is based on the principle of Israel’s gaining peace by giving up captured land, a principle also supported by the United Nations.
A group of leading Indian editors today criticized some Government actions as threatening freedom of expression and said journalism had become a “risky profession.” The editors, members of the Editors’ Guild of India, also criticized what they called the “continuing imbalance and distortion in the newscasts” of the Government-controlled All-India Radio and Television. “The Guild is compelled to protest in the strongest terms possible against certain actions by officialdom which are a threat to freedom of expression,” the group said in a resolution passed at its annual meeting Friday and issued today.
Less than 24 hours after Vietnamese troops overran their major bases in western Cambodia along the Thai border, Khmer Rouge guerrillas were clashing with Hanoi’s forces deeper inside Cambodia today, according to Thai military reports. Although casualty figures are not known, most of the Khmer Rouge forces in the Phnom Malai area were thought to have escaped the Vietnamese artillery bombardment of the last few weeks by slipping into the surrounding countryside. Fighting was also reported today in the Cardamom Mountains of southwest Cambodia, where some Thai officers say they believe the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot is operating a command post.
The Papua New Guinea Government canceled a visit today by the Australian Foreign Minister, William G. Hayden, to a refugee camp near the border with the Indonesian province of West Irian. The Government said it had called off the trip after receiving reports that up to 70 members of a West Irian separatist movement were seen near the camp Friday.
A second set of military exercises with New Zealand has been canceled by the United States in a further show of displeasure with the New Zealand Government. The State Department said all further security relations with New Zealand were under review. Relations between the two countries became strained recently when New Zealand refused permission for a port call by an American destroyer in keeping with its antinuclear policy, which prohibits visits by ships carrying nuclear weapons. New Zealand was informed by Washington on Thursday night, the New Zealand Defense Minister, Frank O’Flynn, said this morning in Wellington. The action was confirmed today by State Department officials, who said a fuller statement would be made next week.
President Reagan makes a Radio Address to the Nation on Central America. Nicaragua’s rebels were compared by President Reagan to such “freedom fighters” as Lafayette, Bolivar, von Steuben and Kosciusko. Mr. Reagan, seeking to raise Congressional support for aid to the rebels, said in his weekly radio speech that they were “our brothers.” His speech contained some of his strongest language about Nicaragua’s Sandinista Government.
President Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador is a liberal leader of a political system that is increasingly controlled by his conservative opponents, according to senior Salvadoran officials, members of conservative political parties and Western diplomats here. Mr. Duarte’s hold on his office is not considered threatened, but the power he wields will be limited, Government and Western officials say. He will be forced to compromise continually with conservative political parties, they add, a difficult process given the deep differences between Mr. Duarte’s Christian Democratic Party and its political adversaries. Mr. Duarte’s party is seen by political commentators as unlikely to win a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly in elections March 31. If it does not, conservative parties will control the legislature, the Supreme Court and the Attorney General’s office for most of Mr. Duarte’s remaining four years in office.
Guatemalan treasury agents raided a vast opium poppy plantation, arrested five men and destroyed more than $3 million worth of opium plants, the chief of the treasury police announced. Colonel Marco Antonio Castellanos said the plantation was discovered near Sumpango about 15 miles west of Guatemala City. Castellanos said his agents “found over 260,000 plants which were to be harvested within the next couple of months to produce opium and heroin.” The suspects, three Guatemalans and two Mexicans, are being held for trial.
Pope John Paul II urged a group of visiting bishops from southern Brazil to stand by the truth and protect it from distortion and manipulation. “The bishop is a servant of truth. He does not manipulate the truth to his own liking but conveys it with strict fidelity,” the pontiff said. During his recent tour of Latin America, the Pope repeatedly rejected the so-called theology of liberation and urged priests and nuns to confront the region’s grinding poverty by proclaiming the truth of the church’s teachings and not of “passing ideologies.”
A South African court banned a meeting today in the black township of Tembisa, where Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, was due to speak. The court said the meeting could endanger public peace. The meeting in Tembisa, east of Johannesburg, had been called to commemorate victims of unrest in black townships, where about 170 people have died in rioting in the past year.
Leading Senate Republicans have rejected President Reagan’s proposals to abolish the Small Business Administration and the Job Corps and to restrict eligibility for federally guaranteed student loans. But they have agreed in principle to many other spending cuts. In the two weeks since Mr. Reagan proposed a budget for the fiscal year 1986, which begins Oct. 1, the focus of attention has shifted to Capitol Hill, where Senate Republicans are sifting through the President’s plans. Most of the 16 committee chairmen have sent letters to Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, the majority leader, and Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico, the chairman of the Budget Committee, assessing various cuts. Mr. Dole and Mr. Domenici had asked for the letters in an effort to get the budget process off to an early start. Senate Republican leaders have agreed on a goal of reducing Federal spending by $54 billion in the fiscal year 1986 and by a total of $266 billion in 1986 through 1988.
Farms will be fewer and larger because of spreading hardship that will force many of the country’s more efficient farmers out of business, and the economic and social costs for rural communities are likely to be heavy and painful. These are the conclusions of some knowledgeable agricultural economists who are examining the implications of the mounting farm debt, rising costs and falling crop prices. There is doubt that the current economic shakeout will eliminate primarily the least efficient farmers, leaving the land to more efficient farmers. There is no rush at the moment to snap up lost land; farmers cannot afford it and outside investors would prefer to wait for lower prices.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People asked President Reagan yesterday to meet with its leaders to discuss “very grave civil rights and social issues that are blocking the path of black Americans toward full equality.” “The national Administration over the past four years has been leading the attack on recent civil rights gains,” Benjamin L. Hooks, the executive director, said yesterday at the civil rights group’s 76th annual convention in New York City, where he issued the call for a meeting with Mr. Reagan. Mr. Hooks said he met with Mr. Reagan three times in his first term but was turned down recently. Mr. Hooks and other leaders of groups that have spoken for blacks said Mr. Reagan sought to circumvent them when he met Jan. 16 with 20 black business executives, educators and others.
Thirty-six prominent religious leaders, citing the draft pastoral letter on economics issued recently by Roman Catholic bishops, have urged a commitment to end poverty in the United States. “Poverty in this country can and must end,” the church leaders said Wednesday in a 12-paragraph statement addressed to members of Congress. The statement, signed by leaders of major Protestant and Jewish denominations, religious agencies and ecumenical organizations, brings the moderate and liberal religious community into the Congressional budget battle.
An artificial heart implantation was scheduled at 7 AM tomorrow at Humana Hospital-Audubon in Louisville, Kentucky. The patient, Murray P. Haydon, a 58-year-old retired factory worker, was to become the third recipient of the artificial heart. The patient asked to move up the timing of the operation a week or two “because he understands he is failing steadily and because he also understands that the farther down the line you are, the harder it is to recover,” Dr. Alan M. Lansing, chief medical spokesman for the implant team, said at a news conference. He said Mr. Haydon “understands he is unlikely to be out of bed at all either at home or in the hospital without help, and he is not anxious to continue that.”
A rise in postage rates is effective today. Rates on domestic and international mail were increased by the United States postal service. First- class letters within the United States and to Canada and Mexico will cost 22 cents.
Reports of child sexual abuse soared nationwide in 1984, according to a new study. “Sexual abuse reports increased an average of 35% across the country during the past 12 months,” said Anne H. Cohn, executive director of the Chicago-based National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse, which issued the study. Child abuse reports in general, including sexual and non-sexual abuse, rose 19%, the committee. said. The greatest increase in reported sexual abuse cases was in Mississippi, with 126%. Other states with increases of more than 50% were Nebraska, 121%; Missouri, 100%; Oregon, 83% and Wisconsin, 82%.
Three persons charged with murdering two hostages during a Colby, Kansas, shooting spree Wednesday that left four dead were moved from the local jail after threats were issued against them, Sheriff Thomas Jones said. Authorities are investigating the possibility that the suspects may have been involved in a series of crimes in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. Being held are Lisa J. Dunn, 19; Daniel Eugene Remeta, 26, both of Traverse City, Michigan, and James C. Hunter, 33, of Amoret, Missouri.
A federal judge has ruled that Oregon’s state colleges and universities did not engage in a pattern of widespread sex discrimination against women faculty members. U.S. District Judge Helen Frye rejected all but three of the 58 discrimination claims by 22 named plaintiffs in a class-action suit brought against the Oregon Board of Higher Education. The suit sought $33.1 million in back pay, plus legal costs, for 2,200 faculty women at the eight state schools.
Only 50 Southern Democratic leaders — half of those invited — showed up in Atlanta for a meeting with the party’s new national chairman, Paul G. Kirk Jr. Those who attended told Kirk that the party is perceived as being the captive of special interests, some of which were instrumental in his election. Kirk, 47, an aide to Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) for eight years, was elected chairman two weeks ago. Southern committee members supported former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford in the voting by a margin of 2 to 1.
A third of unmarried American women in their 20s have been pregnant and 19% have given birth, a survey said. A study reported in Family Planning Perspectives, published by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, found that 82% of women in the population group had experienced sex. Results were based on a 1983 survey of 1,314 women across the continental United States. About 40% of the women who had ever had sex had gotten pregnant. Nearly all the women who had experienced sex used contraception at some time.
A woman convicted of conspiring to murder U.S. District Judge John Wood was granted a new trial by a federal appeals panel that also upheld the conviction of the gunman hired to kill the judge. The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ordered a new trial for Elizabeth Chagra, found guilty of conspiracy in the 1979 shooting death of Wood in San Antonio. The three-judge panel upheld the murder conviction of Charles V. Harrelson, who was found guilty of assassinating Wood for $250,000.
A judge in San Diego gave a stern rebuke and a $3,000 civil contempt fine Friday to Betty Lou Batey, who said she was following her fundamentalist Christian beliefs in taking her son from his homosexual father, who had legal custody at the time. “It was a willful, flagrant violation of a court order,” Judge Judith McConnell of Superior Court told Mrs. Batey in a sentencing hearing. “I cannot condone that.” The judge said she decided against ordering a jail term because Mrs. Batey served 13 days in custody in Denver before being returned to San Diego last year. Mrs. Batey, 40 years old, admitted taking her son, Brian, 13, from his father in September 1982. She and the boy hid for 19 months before surrendering last April in Denver. Mrs. Batey and her husband, Frank, were divorced in 1975. Mrs. Batey was awarded custody of the boy, but a judge switched custody to the father in 1982 after Mr. Batey complained that his former wife had denied him court-ordered visitation rights. In a hearing last year, Mrs. Batey said she had taken the boy because she feared he would be morally corrupted if he stayed with his father, who lives in Palm Springs with a homosexual lover. Brian has been in a foster home since last April and recently told Judge McConnell that he wanted to stay there.
The heart surgery unit in Miami’s Veterans Administration Hospital, closed in December over concern that its death rate was too high, was reopened after being cleared by an independent review, said Dr. John W. Ditzler, the VA’s chief medical director. The unit “clearly meets agency criteria,” Ditzler said, adding that an examination of cardiac care at VA facilities nationwide will still be conducted and that the Miami hospital will be reviewed again in a year.
A consumer group called on the Food and Drug Administration today to begin regulating salt content in foods, saying that efforts to get manufacturers to reduce salt in their products voluntarily were not working. The group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said a check of 100 common foods showed that a dozen had less salt in 1984 than the year before, 10 showed an increase in salt content and the rest were virtually unchanged.
Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Philadelphia at Detroit.
Livingston Bramble defeats Ray Mancini to win WBA lightweight championship, in Buffalo, New York.
Born:
Stacy Lewis, American golfer (ANA Inspiration, 2011, Women’s British Open, 2013), in Toledo, Ohio.
Mike Pollak, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts, Carolina Panthers, Cincinnati Bengals), in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Larry Grant, NFL linebacker (St. Louis Rams, San Francisco 49ers, Chicago Bears), in Santa Rosa, California.
Curtis Johnson, NFL defensive end (Indianapolis Colts, Dallas Cowboys), in Lauderhill, Florida.
Clint Robinson, MLB pinch hitter, first baseman, and outfielder (Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Washington Nationals), in Jefferson City, Missouri.
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