The Reagan Administration’s new chief arms control negotiator said today that the United States and the Soviet Union “must try to find a formula under which we can live together in dignity” even though the negotiations were likely to be difficult. In his first public comments since being named to head the Geneva bargaining team, the negotiator, Max M. Kampelman, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that although the Soviet Union was a “repressive” and “aggressive” society, the United States “dares not and cannot blow the Soviet Union away.” The negotiations resume in Geneva on March 12. “We cannot wish it away,” he said, arguing for the necessity of pursuing negotiations. “It is here and it is militarily powerful. We share the same globe. We must try to find a formula under which we can live together in dignity. We must engage in that pursuit of peace without illusion but with persistence regardless of provocation.”
Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko of the Soviet Union, who is visiting Rome, called on Italy today to oppose the space-defense system proposed by the United States. Italy has so far expressed an ambivalent position on President Reagan’s space-defense plans, which the Soviet Union is determined to stop.
Foreign Minister Roland Dumas of France described the space-based defense plan of the United States today as having “seductive elements” for public opinion because, he said, it replaces an offensive nuclear strategy with a defensive one. After previous French criticism, the remarks — while falling short of an endorsement — represented a more favorable public statement on the research aspects of the program, which is known officially as the Strategic Defense Initiative and has been popularly dubbed “Star Wars.” Britain has given its backing to the plan, and West Germany has offered qualified endorsement. There has been no support for eventual testing or deployment of the proposed space-based defense system.
Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, 71, received emergency medical treatment in prison in Lyon, France, after taking medication apparently given him by mistake. He charged that it was an attempt to poison him. Barbie, awaiting trial for crimes against humanity, was being given his daily dose of medicine when the incident occurred. A prison doctor was called in to treat Barbie, who was slightly upset by the unidentified potion but who has fully recovered, prison sources said. The chief prosecutor’s office ordered an inquiry into what it termed “a mistake in handling” the prisoner’s medicine. Barbie is charged in the deaths of nearly 800 French citizens.
The trial of Klaus Barbie for crimes against humanity is expected to start late this year. Lawyers say the trial of Mr. Barbie, the former Gestapo chief in Lyons, France, will focus on three charges instead of the eight originally announced and on 800 of the Jews he ordered killed. The three charges exclude Mr. Barbie’s role in the arrest and death in 1943 of Jean Moulin, the underground chief, and the Nazi police official’s campaign of repression against French Resistance fighters.
The Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktaş, has accused Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou of Greece of bringing about the failure of the United Nations- sponsored negotiations for a settlement of the Cyprus problem last month in order to sustain his claim for continued American arms aid. Mr. Denktaş met last month with President Spyros Kyprianou, leader of the Greek Cypriots, in New York under the auspices of the United Nations Secretary General, Javier Perez de Cuellar. The two Cypriot leaders failed to agree on a draft accord for a federal republic that was thought to have been agreed upon. Mr. Denktaş said Monday that Mr. Kyprianou, following “strategy and tactics prepared in Athens,” refused to sign the draft.
Underground Solidarity leaders and the outlawed union’s founder, Lech Walesa, called off a 15-minute national strike today after the Polish Government’s decision not to increase food prices. The decision to drop a strike call was announced after the government warned that it would impose “rigorous sanctions” on anyone taking part in the work stoppage. Mr. Walesa had called for the 15-minute work stoppage after the government began planning to raise food prices by 12 percent to 13 percent. On Monday, the government announced that it had postponed the price increases.
A former Norwegian diplomat accused of spying for the Soviet Union and Iraq asserted today that the confessions disclosed Monday by the State Prosecutor at the opening of his trial in Oslo were false. Speaking for the first time in an outline of his view of the charges against him, the former diplomat, Arne Treholt, described the first days after his arrest 13 months ago as a “Kafkaesque” nightmare of endless questioning and isolation that led him to make up numerous responses. “I felt that the world had collapsed under me,” Mr. Treholt told the seven judges. “Sadness, desperation, pain and depression affected my condition during the first weeks of questioning at the Oslo police station.”
Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar today announced the appointment of Mercedes Pulido de Briceño as Co-ordinator for the Improvement of the Status of Women at the United Nations. The position will carry the title of Assistant Secretary General.
The president of the International Chess Federation said he has turned down a formal request from world champion Anatoly Karpov to reconsider the unprecedented halting of the marathon title match in Moscow between Karpov and challenger Gary Kasparov. Florencio Campomanes said in Manila that the match was stopped after a record 48 games because “there was a definite deterioration in the quality of the games.” A new match between the two players is scheduled for September. Karpov, 33, was one game short of victory when the match was halted.
The Israeli Army today banned Western journalists based in Beirut from entering territory it controls in southern Lebanon. The order came as the Israelis imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on southern Lebanon in the sixth day of what Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel called an “iron fist” crackdown on Shiite Muslim-led resistance to the occupation.
A special envoy representing President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt met with senior Israeli officials in Jerusalem early today, the Israeli radio reported. The envoy, Osama el-Baz, reportedly arrived late Tuesday night and was conferring with Primer Minister Shimon Peres and two members of his Cabinet, Ezer Weizman and Moshe Arens, at the Prime Minister’s residence.
President Reagan attends a National Security Council meeting to discuss the hostage situation in Lebanon.
Jesse Jackson said Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s call for blacks to form their own army and rise against white America goes against “our concept of progress.” In denouncing Qaddafi’s call for sedition, Jackson said in Chicago: “The idea of a separate state and armed struggle is undesirable and untenable.” Jackson added: “Not one black American in history has ever been convicted of treason against the United States.” Qaddafi spoke Sunday by satellite to the 1985 Nation of Islam International Savior’s Day Convention in Chicago and urged the 400,000 black soldiers in the U.S. Army to leave the military and create a separate force.
Polisario guerrillas fighting for independence in the Western Sahara said they killed 71 Moroccan troops and wounded 95 in a battle in the disputed territory. The guerrillas also said six Moroccan tanks and 29 other vehicles were destroyed. The guerrillas’ report came on the ninth anniversary of their proclamation of the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic.
Voters dealt an unexpected rebuff to President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq on Monday by turning seven of his Cabinet aides out of office in elections to a new National Assembly, according to returns announced today. Among those defeated was Defense Minister Ali Ahmad Talpur, who was running in Sind Province. His rejection was viewed as stemming from ill feelings brought on by eight years of martial law under General Zia. In addition, about 30 members of the existing national legislature, whose members were picked by General Zia, lost in their attempts to win seats in the new assembly. About 40 members won, but the defeat of so many was also interpreted as a loss for the President.
Thailand said that Vietnamese naval vessels have captured 11 Thai trawlers with about 300 fishermen aboard in an area where Thailand and Vietnam have not yet agreed on a demarcation line under the 1982 U.N. Law of the Sea Convention. A Thai official said that Vietnamese ships reportedly fired on the trawlers Sunday, but there were no known casualties and some Thai trawlers managed to escape.
Taiwan acknowledged today that a local gang leader charged with murdering a Chinese-American writer in California was employed by its military intelligence agency. Justice Minister Shih Chi-yang said an official investigation into the killing of Henry Liu in Daly City, California, on Oct. 15 had revealed that the agency had recruited Chen Chi-li, a Taiwan gang leader. Mr. Shih said Mr. Chen was recruited sometime last year to collect information about mainland China. The agency said he had been hired because he claimed to have access to information in China. r. Shih said a court had completed a preliminary hearing on Mr. Chen and Wu Tun, another gang leader also charged with the murder. He said the two were expected to be tried soon but gave no date. According to an affidavit filed in San Francisco last month, Mr. Wu said that Mr. Liu, who had been critical of the Chinese Nationalist President, Chiang Ching-kuo, was shot in his garage when an attempt to “teach him a lesson” went awry.
Washington has cut New Zealand’s sharing in intelligence information in the latest retaliation for Wellington’s refusal to allow nuclear-capable American Navy ships in its ports, according to Prime Minister David Lange. Speaking in Los Angeles, the New Zealand leader charged that the Reagan Administration was seeking to promote new elections in New Zealand that might result in a reversal of his antinuclear policy.
The United States Embassy said today that the Mexican authorities are expected to release three suspects they arrested in the kidnapping of a United States narcotics agent. The Mexican Government said tonight, however, that there were no immediate plans to release the men.
Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. accused President Reagan of going back on his word that the United States does not impose its will on other countries by force. The House Speaker, ending weeks of deferring to Mr. Reagan in view of his landslide re-election victory, assailed his latest statements on Nicaragua and efforts to persuade Congress to resume aid to the Nicaraguan insurgents.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega held two meetings with a delegation of visiting U.S. Roman Catholic bishops to discuss the tense relations between his leftist government and the Nicaraguan church hierarchy. Archbishop John J. O’Connor of New York, leader of the delegation, said before the second meeting that Orgega was very responsive “and it is our hope that he wants to help in the reconciliation between church and state.” Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago said Ortega asked the churchmen to assist in improving relations between Nicaragua and the United States.
Five officials of Bishop Abel Muzorewa’s opposition United African National Congress were dragged off a train and shot to death by unidentified gunmen in the western Zimbabwe town of Hwange, a government spokesman said. Muzorewa, a longtime black nationalist leader who was prime minister in the interim government of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, charged that the killings were the work of supporters of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe.
The South African government proposed legislation to give blacks living near cities the right to move to other urban centers without being denied jobs or the privilege of working in white areas. Under present law, blacks who leave their particular work area are required to move to impoverished tribal homelands. The new legislation, subject to parliamentary approval, would affect about 4 million of the nation’s 22 million blacks.
The Reagan Administration, rejecting proposals for delay or compromise, began an high-level lobbying effort today to win a showdown on the MX missile next month. White House and Pentagon officials said the campaign was directed at a series of test votes in Congress the week of March 18, about a week after arms control negotiations begin in Geneva, on whether to lift restrictions on production of 21 of the multiple-warhead nuclear missiles. The officials said they believed the votes would be close, especially in the Senate, but that their timing with the start of the arms control talks on March 12 would make Congress reluctant to kill the new missile.
As part of the lobbying effort, Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger made a rare joint appearance before the Senate Armed Services committee and pleaded with Congress to support the MX so as to enhance the bargaining strength of this country’s negotiators in Geneva. Max Kampelman, the Administration’s chief arms negotiator, made a similar plea in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
President Reagan calls 14 year old Collin Boatwright from Detroit, Michigan who defended a young girl being attacked by a mugger until police arrived.
A criminal defendant is entitled to free psychiatric aid in preparing an insanity defense if the defendant’s sanity at the time of a crime is seriously in question, the Supreme Court ruled. The 8-to-1 decision, written in expansive terms by Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, was the first Supreme Court ruling in years to extend an important new constitutional right to criminal defendants. Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist dissented. The Court overturned the death sentence of an Oklahoma man, convicted of murdering a minister and his wife. The defendant’s request for psychiatric assistance in presenting an insanity defense was denied by the Oklahoma courts. The man, Glen Burton Ake, was given a court-appointed lawyer but could not afford to hire a psychiatrist. As a result, he presented no expert testimony to support his contention that he was insane at the time of the crime.
High-ranking officials of the Immigration and Naturalization Service interfered with investigations into alleged corruption by agents, an internal Justice Department report said. Although “substantial strides” have been made in investigating such allegations since 1980, it said, “serious institutional obstacles to… vigorous pursuit of these and other allegations have been raised. Some of this interference has come from INS upper management.” Allegations of corruption against the immigration service “usually involved claims” that agents accepted bribes for helping illegal aliens cross borders, the report said. INS spokesman Vern Jervis said the agency would have no comment.
John M. Fedders resigned as chief of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission amid widespread publicity that he beat his wife. There were indications the White House had requested Mr. Fedders’s resignation. In a letter of resignation to the S.E.C. chairman, John S. R. Shad, Mr. Fedders said that although he was satisfied that his private difficulties had not affected the execution of his duties, “the glare of publicity on my private life threatens to undermine the effectiveness of the division of enforcement and of the commission.” Mr. Fedders said newspaper reports about his marriage and pending divorce trial had “exaggerated allegations in the divorce trial” and had “unfairly described occasional highly regrettable episodes in our marriage.” He did acknowledge that “on seven occasions during more than 18 years of marriage, marital disputes between us resulted in violence, for which I feel, and have expressed, great remorse.”
Governors urged a slowing of spending by the Federal Government, including funds for the military and Social Security benefits, by a vote of 29 to 7. Earlier, the Democratic majority in the National Governors Association narrowly failed to make the attack on President Reagan’s budget policy even stronger.
Farm belt lobbyists flocked to Capitol Hill as the Senate continued debate on two proposals aimed at making emergency loans more available to farmers this spring. Senate leaders acknowledged the lobbyists had been successful in persuading some farm state Republicans who seek re-election next year to back the two measures, which are sponsored mainly by Democrats.
A Federal racketeering indictment charged nine men yesterday with participating in a “commission” that governs the five organized-crime “families” in New York City. Five of the defendants were identified in the indictment as the bosses or acting bosses of “the five La Cosa Nostra families.” The 15-count indictment said the commission regulated a wide range of illegal activities that included narcotics trafficking, loansharking, gambling, labor racketeering and extortion against construction companies. According to the indictment, which was filed in Manhattan, the commission resolved a 1979 dispute in the Bonanno crime group by “authorizing the murder” of the group’s boss, Carmine Galante, and four associates.
The City Council approved a resolution today urging a halt to construction on the Presidential Parkway, the controversial road planned to serve Jimmy Carter’s Presidential library. Construction on the 2.4-mile highway, which the Council had previously approved, was halted Thursday when Judge Osgood Williams of State Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order, pending a hearing this Thursday on a suit filed by opponents of the parkway, who say the project will destroy several neighborhoods. The Council, which passed the resolution in a 10-to-4 vote, remains in favor of Mr. Carter’s library and his Emory University policy center, which are under construction at a site along the road tract. The suit before Judge Williams alleges a number of irregularities in the approval of the road and in bids from construction companies.
The Justice Department’s prosecution of defendants arrested in last fall’s extensive undercover operation against poaching of trophy animals in the Yellowstone Park area entered its first full day today with the defense contending that the Government had exploited economic difficulties to entrap defendants in illegal hunts. Today’s trial, the first of a series, involves two men who are accused of killing golden eagles, a protected species, and of taking elk, bear, mountain lions and other animals without a license. The trial culminates almost four years of undercover work by agents of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service aimed at stopping a rise in poaching in the Yellowstone Park area.
New Medicare spending curbs are not hurting hospital care, government officials told Congress, but doctors, relatives and a House committee chairman said some elderly patients are being sent home too sick and too soon. The critics told the House Select Committee on Aging that patients will suffer and that some hospitals may close if Medicare hospital payments are frozen, as requested by President Reagan in his 1986 budget. “While I have no doubt that the health care system had grown somewhat ‘fat,’ I am concerned that these recent efforts to trim that fat have not been done with surgical precision,” Committee Chairman Edward R. Roybal (D-California) said in opening remarks.
The Internal Revenue Service claimed a tentative victory in its battle against tax protesters who question the value of the dollar, declare themselves a church or plead the Fifth Amendment in efforts to avoid paying federal taxes. “I think in the number of total protester returns… we have contained the growth,” Philip E. Coates, IRS associate commissioner for operations, said at a news conference. “It has peaked,” he added, while cautioning that the protest movement “will never go away.”
The FBI arrested a former New Jersey recording studio employee and recovered a stolen master copy of unpublished music and conversations of the Beatles that officials said is worth millions of dollars. Michael Keith Reibel, 30, was arrested at Boca Raton, Florida, and was being held on a federal charge of interstate transportation of stolen property, FBI spokesman Joseph Delcampo said. Reibel, a former employee of Studio Systems Inc. of Jersey City, New Jersey, is alleged to have taken a master copy of unpublished taped private recordings of music and conversations of the Beatles from a company vault between February 12 and 15, Delcampo said.
The first girl to testify in the preliminary hearing on charges of sexual abuse at the McMartin Preschool said today that she had been molested by three teachers and that one of them had stabbed a turtle to show her what would happen to her if she talked about it. The dark-haired 8-year-old, identified only as Jane Doe No. 10, said one defendant, Raymond Buckey, had stabbed a live turtle in front of her and had told her, “If you tell your mom and dad, this would happen to you.” Two boys have preceded the girl on the witness stand in the preliminary hearing to determine if there is enough evidence for a trial. Both told similar stories of nude games and threats. Seven officials of the now-closed Manhattan Beach preschool center are accused of 208 counts of molestation and conspiracy involving 41 students. Under questioning, the girl, who attended the school four years ago, said that in one “naked game” she was forced to undress and was tied up and molested by three defendants.
More Mississippi teachers joined wildcat strikes today, forcing an unscheduled holiday for approximately 14,000 children, and decisions tonight by teachers in four more counties to walk out could affect 18,000 more children by Thursday. The strikes are aimed at lifting the state’s teachers from the bottom of the nation’s pay ladder. Mississippi’s 26,000 public school teachers, 800 of whom struck today, are demanding a $7,000 pay increase over two years. They say it is needed because teacher pay in the state averages $15,971, the lowest in the nation. State legislators are considering smaller pay packages, and Governor Bill Allain wants the increase held to $1,500. Officials in several of the struck districts said students and parents generally supported the teachers.
Although tests are incomplete, some health officials believe two students at Principia College may have died of complications from measles in an epidemic at the Christian Science school. Nora Kramer, administrator of the Jersey County Health Department, said one student died Friday and another died February 5. “To my knowledge the deaths are presumed to be from complications,” Miss Kramer said. The county coroner, Paul Schroeder, said it had not been confirmed that the measles had led to the deaths. “We don’t have the lab work back,” he said. Seventy-five of the 712 students at the school have the infectious disease, and are isolated in a campus building. Most of the students have refused to be vaccinated because of their Christian Science belief that disease is caused by mental error and has no real existence.
Hunger has become epidemic around the country, leaving up to 20 million Americans vulnerable to fear and illness because of economics and conscious Government policy, according to a private panel of doctors and public health experts. They said that researchers in a yearlong investigation had found growing lines at soup kitchens, rises in infant mortality and wide malnutrition among the elderly, infants and the unemployed.
Accidents in three-wheel vehicles are soaring, according to Federal consumer safety officials. They said that in 1982 there were 14 deaths and 8,585 accidents involving the popular recreational vehicles and that in 1984 there were 48 deaths and 66,956 accidents involving them.
Minneapolis can require shops that sell sexually explicit magazines, books or recordings considered “harmful to minors” to keep the material in sealed wrappers or opaque covers, a judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Harry MacLaughlin rejected a challenge by the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, which had argued that the ordinance was unenforceable, too broad and a threat to the First Amendment.
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