The President hailed a space shield against nuclear weapons as a moral obligation that would improve the prospects for a weapons control agreement with the Soviet Union. “This program is an historic turning point,” Mr. Reagan told an enthusiastic Republican audience in Boise, Idaho, today, referring to his space-based defense program. “We will not bargain this research and testing program away.” He added: “For the first time, energy and resources are being put to use in an attempt to find new technology that is aimed at saving lives. If we are successful, it will improve the opportunity for arms reduction because missiles, no longer the ultimate weapon they are today, will be more negotiable.”
Washington assured NATO members in Brussels that President Reagan planned to adhere to a relatively narrow interpretation of the 1972 treaty with Moscow limiting antiballistic missile defense systems. Secretary of State George P. Shultz sought to quiet growing alarm in Western Europe that the Administration had adopted a legal position that might undermine the ABM treaty. He said at a news conference that the NATO ministers had been gratified to learn that the United States did not envisage a conflict between its research into a space-based antimissile shield and the 1972 treaty. According to Mr. Shultz, the President has said that the research program has been designed to fall within the narrower definition of the treaty.
A body washed up on Syria’s coast is almost certainly that of Leon Klinghoffer of New York, the 69-year-old tourist reported slain by the hijackers of an Italian cruise liner, according to Reagan Administration officials. They said that there was a bullet hole in the skull of the partly decomposed body and that the shot seemed to have been fired from above the head.
Italy’s Defense Minister threatened to leave the Government over its handling of the hijacking of the Achille Lauro and its “close relations” with the Palestine Liberation Organization. If the minister, Giovanni Spadolini, the leader of the Republican Party, carries out his threat, Prime Minister Bettino Craxi would have to try to form a new Cabinet. The importance of Mr. Spadolini’s threat lay not simply in its effect on Italian politics, but also in its potential effect on Mr. Craxi’s ambition to make Italy the prime mover in Western European peace efforts in the Middle East.
To protect U.S. military personnel from terrorism, the American armed forces have instructed members to conceal their identities as much as possible when traveling abroad in areas of high risk. The Marine Corps has advised members to obtain civilian passports, hide military identification cards, cover tattoos, clear out wallets and wear “nondescript” clothes.
Britain denied charges that pressure from the Reagan Administration caused London to cancel talks with two officials of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Opposition foreign policy spokesman Denis Healey said the cause was “doormat diplomacy” in which “President Reagan says, ‘Jump,’ Thatcher says, ‘How high?’” Foreign Office junior minister Malcolm Rifkind rejected the charge, saying: “At no time did the Americans make any representations to us, at any level, to cancel the visit.” Meanwhile, Jordan’s King Hussein said he backed Britain’s decision to cancel the PLO talks.
Britain came under increasing pressure from many of its former colonies to agree to some form of joint action to punish South Africa for its policy of apartheid. As delegates arrived in Nassau, Bahamas, for a Commonwealth meeting, the issue of South Africa dominated private meetings and conversations. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who will attend the meeting, has rejected economic sanctions, arguing that they do not work. But many delegates believe some action must be taken to increase pressure for change.
Ireland’s public service workers went on strike for the first time, closing the nation’s airports, schools and courts and bringing government business to a stand still. Unions said there was widespread support for the 24-hour strike and estimated that 150,000 people stayed away from work. They predicted further stoppages if the government refuses to meet their demands, including an end to a freeze on public-sector pay.
The first Helsinki treaty review to be held in a Soviet-bloc country opened with a dispute today. Hungary tried to keep an international group of writers from holding a parallel meeting by canceling the group’s reservation for a hotel hall. Gerald Nagler, the executive director of the Vienna-based International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, said the writers’ meeting had been planned to coincide with the six-week session of the 35 countries that signed the Final Act of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, known as the Helsinki Treaty.
A right-wing group that wants to reduce the number of foreigners in Switzerland has emerged as one of the two strongest parties in Geneva’s cantonal Parliament, according to election results published today. The group, the Vigilance Party, which says an influx of migrants and “false refugees” was aggravating a housing shortage and threatening jobs, won 19 seats, a gain of 12. The party thus matched number of seats held by the Liberals in the 100-seat Parliament. The elections were held last weekend. In Geneva, one of 23 cantons, foreigners make up almost a third of the 353,500 inhabitants, and about 2,600 people are awaiting decisions on asylum applications, according to official figures.
About 10 people died in Sunday’s earthquake in the Soviet Central Asian republic of Tadzhikistan, a journalist from the republic’s official daily, Kommunista Tadzhikstana, said. Contacted by telephone from Moscow, she said that damage in the three cities hit by the quake was slight. No official casualty figures have been disclosed after what was believed to be the country’s strongest quake in almost a decade.
Emil Gilels, the great pianist, died in a Moscow hospital, apparently of kidney failure, at the age of 68. In 1955, Mr. Gilels became the first Soviet musician to perform in the United States since Sergei Prokofiev in 1921. Mr. Gilels had been scheduled to embark on a concert tour of Switzerland next week.
Yasser Arafat’s international standing has been greatly damaged by the Achille Lauro affair, according to both Arab and Israeli Middle East political analysts. These analysts say the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship, combined with the British Government’s refusal Monday to meet with two Palestine Liberation Organization representatives, not only has damaged Mr. Arafat’s stature in the West but also has complicated his relations with key Arab governments. In the last two days, both Syria and Jordan have taken their own quiet revenge on Mr. Arafat. The net result is that the Jordanian-Palestinian peace initiative of last February 11 appears to be in jeopardy, along with whatever else remains of the current Middle East peace process. The Syrian and Jordanian blows against Mr. Arafat came in the form of seemingly innocuous communiques issued in Damascus and Amman. But each spoke volumes about the state of Syrian and Jordanian relations with the P.L.O. chairman in the aftermath of the Achille Lauro episode.
Representatives of three of Lebanon’s strongest private militias reportedly agreed on a proposal to stop fighting. Lebanon’s official news agency quoted a Syrian official as saying that the talks, held in Damascus, went smoothly. The talks involved the main Shia Muslim militia, Amal; the Progressive Socialist Party of the Druze, an offshoot Muslim sect, and the Lebanese Forces militia of the Chris tian Maronites. Syria, the main power broker in Lebanon, has said it is determined to pacify its unruly neighbor. Even sources among the Christians — traditionally the group most hostile to Syrian intervention — said conditions now appear favorable for an end to Lebanon’s fighting. But the Christian sources said differences remain over the pace of political changes demanded by Muslims.
Western diplomats said Soviet forces last week accidentally killed about 30 Afghan soldiers and an unspecified number of civilians with unknown fumes. They said Soviet jet fighters sprayed the fumes near an Afghan military post 16 miles southwest of Kabul and that wind blew the fumes away from the apparent targets, Muslim guerrillas. Diplomats also said that two Protestant missionaries, American John Michael Fredrick son and Briton Isabel Wood, who were working at a Kabul hospital, were expelled last week after being accused of spying.
The roof of a university dormitory in Bangladesh collapsed on hundreds of students during heavy rain tonight. Officials said 31 people had been killed, and other reports said more than 100 were dead. Hundreds of tons of girders and cement crashed down on about 500 Dhaka University students who were watching a popular television program at about 9 P.M. The building was undergoing repairs.
Vice President Bush today completed three days of talks with Chinese leaders. He said relations between the two countries were “strong, both economically and strategically,” and not at risk over the renewed Chinese pressures on the Taiwan issue. At a news conference, Mr. Bush spoke optimistically of the outlook for continued development of economic, cultural and other ties with Peking despite differences over Taiwan. “Sino-American relations have moved beyond the point where any one issue can dominate the relationship,” he said.
The Salvadoran government said it has been talking to leftist rebels through an unidentified West German mediator about the kidnapped daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The West German newspaper Die Welt said the mediator is Parliament member Hans Juergen Wishnewski. In another development, it was disclosed that Salvadoran Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas saw rebel leaders over the weekend and received assurances that Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran and a companion kidnapped with her are well.
Nicaragua suspended civil rights tonight, asserting that “the brutal aggression by North America and its internal allies has created an extraordinary situation.” The action was announced in a decree read by President Daniel Ortega Saavedra over radio and television. Among the rights suspended were free expression, public assembly, the privacy of mail and of the home and the right to strike.
The police used tear gas and jets of water to disperse hundreds of demonstrators today and anti-government guerrillas set off 14 bombs along railway lines linking Chile’s main cities. Youths shouting “murderers!” hurled stones at police water cannon trucks along Santiago’s main thoroughfare and pedestrian avenues at noon. The protesters who were demanding freedom for 12 jailed opposition labor leaders. The police also fired tear gas. Security forces stepped up patrols in the capital. Students also staged rallies and demonstrations at three Santiago universities and in Concepcion. Organizers called on government opponents to boycott schools and go home early. Teachers unions reported class attendance was down by up to 70 percent in Santiago schools. Earlier, 14 dawn bomb blasts damaged railway lines linking Chile’s main cities. A caller who said he represented the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, a guerrilla group set up by the outlawed Communist Party, took responsibility for the bombings.
General Samuel K. Doe ran for President against three other candidates today in the first multiparty election since this West African nation was founded by freed American slaves in 1847. General Doe, a sergeant when he seized power in a military coup in 1980, marked his paper ballot in a booth on the steps of city hall when the polls opened at 8 AM. The Special Elections Commission, which is controlled by General Doe, has 15 days to announce the results. The general has predicted that he will win. The new government is to be installed in January.
President P. W. Botha of South Africa has rejected a request for a retrial of a black poet convicted of murdering a policeman, the poet’s lawyer said today. Unless Mr. Botha commutes the death sentence on Benjamin Moloise, his lawyer, Priscilla Jana, said, he will be hanged Friday in Pretoria’s central prison, despite international appeals for clemency, including one from the United Nations Security Council. His mother, Pauline, has said that he would go to the gallows singing a song praising the African National Congress, and its exiled leader, Oliver Tambo. The development came amid continued violence in nonwhite areas. In one of the worst single incidents reported in recent weeks, the police said tonight that three men of mixed race were shot dead in a Cape Town suburb late this afternoon when policemen opened fire on them after they stoned a truck. Three other mixed-race people — two men and a woman — were wounded and 10 were arrested on charges of public violence.
President Reagan travels to Boise, Idaho for a fundraiser.
President Reagan travels to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for a fundraiser.
St. Lawrence traffic was snagged by the collapse of a concrete wall in the Welland Canal. Seaway officials said they believed they could complete temporary repairs before the shipping season ends in about two months, but they have not been able to stabilize the damaged wall enough to drain water from the lock and survey the damage.
A helicopter carrying 19 Marines plunged into the Atlantic Ocean while taking off from a ship for maneuvers before dawn, and officials said 15 were killed. The CH-46D Sea Knight helicopter crashed in 50 feet of water about four miles offshore from Jacksonville, North Carolina, authorities said. The Marines were based at Camp Lejeune and its New River Air Station. The four survivors were rescued by military divers and were listed in good condition aboard the ship Guadalcanal, Marine officials said. One body was also recovered. Navy and Marine divers conducted a search and rescue operation in Onslow Bay much of the day, but officials said the effort was called off in late afternoon.
A government prosecutor today portrayed Richard W. Miller, a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as the man who “turned over the playbook of American intelligence operations worldwide” to the Soviet Union. The prosecutor, Russell Hayman, an assistant United States attorney, made the statement in his closing argument in the trial of Mr. Miller, the first F.B.I. agent ever accused of espionage. Mr. Miller, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges, has said his dealings with Soviet agents were an effort to infiltrate the K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence agency, which he felt would rescue his flagging career.
Philadelphia’s Mayor acknowledged he had mishandled a May 13 confrontation with a radical group that destroyed a neighborhood because he was misled, misinformed and disobeyed by subordinates. The Mayor, W. Wilson Goode, testifying before a panel he appointed, said he should not have permitted subordinates to make the key decisions during the destructive confrontation.
A retired official of the Central Intelligence Agency testified today that three classified photographs that were given to a British publication last year “would cause no damage or injury to the United States.” The assessment by Roland S. Inlow, a witness for the defense in the espionage trial of Samuel Loring Morison, directly contradicted testimony by witnesses for the prosecution. Those witnesses had said that the satellite photographs, showing a Soviet ship under construction at a Black Sea shipyard, could have updated the Russians’ knowledge of American technology and procedures.
The Chrysler Corporation was struck today by the automobile workers unions in both the United States and Canada, idling 70,000 production workers. Talks between the union and the nation’s third-largest automaker had continued until midnight, when the contracts covering workers in both countries expired. After the talks broke off, Owen F. Bieber, the president of the United Automobile Workers union in the United States, said that the “gulf on key issues was too great for us to bridge at this point.” He said the key disputes involved job security, limits on transferring work to outside sources and wages.
A new type of school prayer case came before the Supreme Court with support from both Congress and the Reagan Administration. Unlike previous cases in which the Court has barred state-sponsored prayer in public schools, the case involves religious meetings at a high school in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, that were initiated by students and were not actively promoted by school officials.
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel and the steelworkers’ union reached a tentative contract agreement that could end an 87-day strike. Nineteen local union leaders, bargaining for 8,200 picketing employees, were said to have voted 13 to 6 to recommend a money package worth up to $19 an hour. Meanwhile, the longtime major steelmaker faces the possibility of being forced into liquidation by its creditors.
Comparing the defendant to Bernhard Goetz, who shot four young men on a New York City subway when they asked him for money, a judge in Santa Ana, California dropped felony charges against a man who shot two youths he believed had thrown a brick through his car window. The defendant, Bruce Ward Atwell, 22 years old, of Huntington Beach, was freed Monday by Judge Luis Cardenas of Orange County Superior Court. After two bricks hit a car in which he was riding the night of Sept. 21, Mr. Atwell, armed with a .25-caliber pistol, accosted Brian Gonzales, 18, and Edward Johnson, 17, and ordered them to lie on the ground. He shot Mr. Gonzales as he tried to flee, and shot Mr. Johnson in the leg to prevent him from fleeing. Mr. Atwell pleaded guilty to two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. The judge reduced the charges to misdemeanors and put him on probation. Mr. Goetz faces trial next year on charges of attempted murder.
A national task force recommended drastic revisions in the way physicians are trained and new funding mechanisms that will enable teaching hospitals to compete in the rapidly changing health care market. The two-year study in Boston by the Task Force on Academic Health Centers made several sweeping recommendations that, if implemented, could revolutionize the way teaching hospitals educate doctors and dramatically alter medical care for the poor and under-insured, said Dr. Robert Heyssell, president of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and task force chairman.
California brushfires raged out of control for a second day as air tankers dropped fire-snuffing chemicals on two blazes near Malibu. The fires have burned at least 29,000 acres and 19 houses.
Girls X-rayed during diagnosis and treatment of scoliosis-sideways curvature of the spine that affects at least 120,000 young people-may be at increased risk for breast cancer later in life, two government researchers said. The scientists said simple shielding methods could be used to protect the girls’ breast tissue during scoliosis X-rays, which expose patients cumulatively to far more radiation than X-rays taken for other conditions. The technique was developed at the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Radiological Health.
A senior engineer with the Tennessee Valley Authority charged that he was demoted, harassed and received death threats because he spoke out about potential safety problems in TVA’s nuclear program. Jerry Smith, who filed a complaint with the Labor Department, also said that, contrary to comments made recently by top TVA officials, he sees no progress being made to turn around the agency’s embattled nuclear program.
Older Americans eat the wrong food, take the wrong vitamins and get advice from doctors uninformed about diets, the chief of nutrition at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center said. Dr. Richard Rivlin, also a professor of medicine and chief of nutrition at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, said a lack of knowledge about diet has left half the elderly population at risk to disease and malnutrition. He spoke to a division of the American Dairy Council.
William Vandiver was executed early today in Indiana’s electric chair in Michigan City after calmly refusing to fight his death sentence. Vandiver, 37, bade goodbye to his wife about 5:45 PM after meeting with her and his sister. Vandiver was convicted in the 1983 slaying of Paul Komyatti Sr., 65, of Hammond, a retired construction worker. Komyatti’s wife and son were convicted of taking part in a conspiracy to murder him.
Voters in Denver sharply rejected a proposal to build a new convention center near the city’s railroad terminal, a move that proponents touted as a way to turn the city into a major convention site. With all of the city’s 291 precincts reporting, 62,769 voters had opposed the convention center and 33,661 voted in favor. The vote was a sharp rebuff for Mayor Federico Pena, who spearheaded a “Build It!” contingent that spent $500,000 in the campaign.
An M.I.T. economist won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for his pioneering work in analyzing the behavior of household savers and the functioning of financial markets. The laureate is Franco Modigliani, a 67-year-old professor.
Shelley Taylor of Australia makes the fastest swim around Manhattan Island, completing it in 6 hours, 12 minutes, and 29 seconds.
American League Championship Series, Game Six:
A win for the Royals in the first ever LCS Game 6 would force the first ever Game 7 while a win for the Blue Jays would earn the franchise its first appearance in the World Series. Game 6 was the first series appearance for pitcher Mark Gubicza, who started for the Royals against Blue Jays pitcher Doyle Alexander, the Game 3 starter for Toronto.
In the top of the first inning, walks to Wilson and Brett allowed the Royals’ Willie Wilson to score a run when Hal McRae singled. The Blue Jays tied the score in the bottom of the first inning when Garcia doubled, Moseby singled, and Garcia scored when Mulliniks grounded into a double play. In the top of the third inning, George Brett reached on a fielder’s choice and scored on a double by Hal McRae. The Blue Jays responded when Fernandez doubled to left field and moved up to third base on a wild pitch by Gubicza. Fernandez then scored on Moseby’s ground out to tie the score at 2–2.
In the fifth inning, Brett hit his third home run of the series—all of them against Blue Jays’ pitcher Doyle Alexander—and the Royals led the game 3–2. In the sixth inning, Sundberg reached on a base on balls and advanced to second base on a sacrifice bunt. Sundberg subsequently scored on a double by Buddy Biancalana. Biancalana advanced to third on a throwing error and scored on Lonnie Smith’s double. The Blue Jays scored one run when Moseby singled, advanced to second base with a base on balls to Upshaw. Moseby scored on Cliff Johnson’s single to make the score 5–3, but the Royals held on and tied the series at three wins apiece.
Kansas City Royals 5, Toronto Blue Jays 3
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1350.81 (-3.92)
Born:
Marcos Martinez Ucha, Spanish racing driver, in Madrid, Spain.
History Diaries 