[Operation Sudden Hairspray. Still looks less dorky than Dukakis.]
President Reagan makes a Radio Address to the Nation on the 40th Anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly. President Reagan said today that the success of his meeting next month with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, hinges on Soviet willingness “to address the real sources of tension in the world.” Mr. Reagan, in his weekly radio speech, emphasized that the United States wanted to deal with subjects beyond arms control at the meeting in Geneva on November 19–20. The President said he would speak “openly and frankly” to Mr. Gorbachev at the meeting.
The Reagan Administration made clear this week that it intends to continue with a program to investigate the feasibility of a space-based antimissile defense as the program is “currently structured,” but to keep open the option of speeding development and testing of antimissile devices in the future. In essence, the White House reaffirmed on Thursday a statement by Secretary of State George P. Shultz that the program, popularly known as “Star Wars,” would be conducted within what the Administration describes as a restrictive interpretation of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union. That accord was intended to limit the size and quality of nuclear defense. A series of recent statements seem to mean that there is no intention in the near future to exploit a broader interpretation of the treaty by trying to conduct nearly unlimited field testing and development of exotic beam weapons and other devices.
Supporters of a $5 million State Department program for academic research on Soviet-bloc affairs are hoping to save the money, which they say was a casualty of the war on spending. Although the program had the blessings of the National Security Council and of the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the funds were deleted from the $12 billion appropriation bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee on October 3. The full Senate is expected to vote on the bill in the coming week. The problem was an example of the fate of programs that have fallen prey to the budget ax as Congress struggles to curb the federal deficit.
U.S. relations with Italy improved markedly when Prime Minister Bettino Craxi received a conciliatory letter from President Reagan. Mr. Craxi, the caretaker Prime Minister whose government collapsed last week over disagreements on the handling of the Achille Lauro hijacking, said he expected to attend this week’s meeting of Western leaders in New York.
Greece’s Socialist government announced a two-year wage freeze on all private sector workers as part of a tough austerity program. Companies or employers violating the freeze will face fines of up to 5% of their yearly profits, a government decree said. Employees in the public sector will continue to receive automatic quarterly wage increases tied to the inflation rate, now 18.5%, but the increases will be smaller than before.
About 20,000 Poles attended a Solidarity-organized church service that marked the first anniversary of the slaying of an activist priest by secret police agents-a murder that shocked Poland and damaged church-state relations. “Our memory about the Rev. (Jerzy) Popiełuszko is a confirmation that Solidarity is alive,” said the text of a speech read for Lech Walesa, founder of the trade union movement. Popiełuszko, who was 37, had challenged the government’s right to outlaw Solidarity in 1982 and had called for its revival. The mass tonight at the church where the priest preached and where he lies buried was the culmination of a weeklong vigil memorializing the life and death of the priest who many believe is destined for sainthood. All day long individuals and groups passed before the priest’s grave with wreaths and placards. As night fell and the crowd assembled for the mass, a layer of smoke hung over the church from the thousands of memorial candles that had been lit and set on the pavement before St. Stanislas Kostka Church.
More than 250,000 trade unionists demonstrated peacefully throughout West Germany to protest record unemployment of 8.6% and cuts in welfare programs and to call for a huge job creation program. Speakers at rallies in 17 major cities marking the end of the unions’ “Week of Action” demanded that the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl restore welfare and government-funded employment programs. They also called for a shorter working day.
The Soviet Union’s long-serving minister for foreign trade, Nikolai S. Patolichev, was replaced in the latest of a series of top personnel changes since Mikhail S. Gorbachev took over the leadership last March. The Tass news agency said Patolichev, 77, had retired for health reasons and been replaced by Boris I. Aristov, one of his deputies. Aristov, 60, was a former Leningrad city Communist Party boss and had served as ambassador to Poland in the early 1980s. Patolichev was the 13th minister to leave in Gorbachev’s drive to replace elderly officials.
Most coal miners in Nottinghamshire, a battleground of the yearlong national strike that ended in March, still argue that it all might have turned out differently, as a triumph rather than a debacle for their union, if only there had been a proper vote on whether to shut the mines. This week they were finally getting their ballots in what some Conservative Party politicians and editorial writers in distant London characterized as a triumph for democracy. But the issue before them amounted to the final step in a divorce — between their local section of the National Union of Mineworkers and the hard-line national leadership from which it is estranged — and few of Nottinghamshire’s 27,000 miners were celebrating.
The gathering of world figures at the celebration of the United Nations 40th birthday this week will be the largest in modern times. More than 60 presidents and prime ministers, foreign ministers and special envoys, a chancellor, a sultan, royalty and military figures will have a turn at the podium in the General Assembly Hall for four days.
Vaccination of the world’s children against six deadly diseases has made sharp gains. For the first time many health officials say they believe the goal of vaccination of all children by 1990 will virtually be accomplished, although most children in Africa, Asia and Latin American have not yet been protected.
Riot policemen used tear gas and clubs here today to disperse hundreds of students protesting the American interception of the Egyptian plane carrying four Palestinian hijackers. The students, at Ain Shams University, were protesting in defiance of a strict new warning from the Egyptian Government against staging political demonstrations. The protest was the third anti-American outburst here in the nine days since the interception, and it illustrated the growing pressure on President Hosni Mubarak on the eve of a visit here by a special White House envoy. The American’s trip is an effort to ease strains caused by the unorthodox capture of the hijackers, who seized the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro on October 7.
American hostages being held in Lebanon were visited by an Iranian envoy, security sources in Beirut reported. The sources, in the Lebanese city of Baalbek, 50 miles east of Beirut, said the Ayatollah Ahmed Jannati visited some of the hostages Thursday and met with Sheik Subhi Tufayli, reported to be a leader of the radical Hezbollah (Party of God). A senior official at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut confirmed that Jannati’s delegation visited the Bekaa Valley, where Baalbek is located, but would not say whether he saw any of the six American captives.
Three gunmen shot and killed a local leader of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress Party in the Sikh-dominated northern state of Punjab. The slaying of Rajpal Kang was the second of a ranking Congress Party official in Punjab in four days. The Press Trust of India described the gunmen only as “terrorists.” It was not immediately known if they are Sikh secessionists. Extremist Sikhs are believed responsible for the killing last Wednesday of Ram Lubbaya near the city of Amritsar.
A London-based human rights organization and members of a South Korean opposition group accused South Korean Government officials last week of torturing political prisoners to obtain false confessions of espionage and antistate activities, crimes that carry the death penalty. Relatives of some of the prisoners made similar assertions in a tape recording that was brought out of South Korea last week by a member of the opposition group, the National Youth Alliance for Democracy. The State Department spokesman, Bernard Kalb, said Friday that the Reagan Administration was aware of “credible reports” that three Korean journalists and a youth activist had been subjected to torture by Korean security officials. Calling the incidents “deplorable,” Mr. Kalb said, “We have made known to the Korean Government our concern.”
President Ferdinand E. Marcos denied today that he had rejected an American plea for changes in his policies. He said on American television that reports of a deteriorating situation were exaggerated, and added, “We are not another South Vietnam.” Speaking after a visit here by Senator Paul Laxalt, Republican of Nevada, a personal envoy of President Reagan, Mr. Marcos said: “There were no definite proposals. Senator Laxalt wanted to know if I had any information I could convey to them on these matters, and I did.”
The official Sandinista newspaper Barricada reported today that security agents had broken “a vast network” of rebel sympathizers in the northern part of the country. The Government issued a decree this week restricting many civil liberties, saying “internal allies” of the United States were working to undermine Sandinista rule.
The Peruvian government protested the departure of five U.S. Marines accused of raping four women because the case was still under investigation, a foreign ministry statement said. Press reports said the Marines had met the women at a discotheque and later allegedly raped them in a rented house. The reports said that two of the women had retracted their accusations. The marines, who served as guards at the U.S. Embassy, left Lima Friday.
About 10,000 South African Muslims, some of them holding banners calling for a holy war against apartheid, gathered here today to bury a fellow Muslim shot dead by the police on Thursday. The funeral was one of three in Cape Town’s nonwhite areas at which a total of nine victims of unrest were buried. The Muslim burial seemed to introduce a new dimension into South Africa’s political turmoil, since it added Islamic religious fervor to the demands for an end to apartheid that have typified 14 months of unrest. In that period, more than 750 people have been killed, and the authorities have declared a state of emergency in 36 districts, not including Cape Town.
A new class of poor young Americans is emerging, and some experts call it a virtual social revolution with unpredictable financial and political ramifications. “The United States today may be the first society in history where children are much worse off than adults,” Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York said.
The President and the First Lady attend the National Italian American Foundation’s Dinner in honor of Frank Sinatra.
Vice President George Bush suggested that the United States begin exporting Alaskan oil as a means of reducing the foreign trade deficit. Speaking at a Republican Party fund-raising dinner in Anchorage, Bush called the current ban on selling domestic oil “dead wrong,” and voiced support for a proposal to sell Japan 200,000 barrels of Alaskan oil daily. He said this alone would cut $2 billion a year from the current imbalance in trade.
Retail food prices are rising at the slowest rate in 18 years as surpluses in major commodities and livestock continue to depress the financially strapped farm marketplace, according to a report from the Department of Agriculture. The report, issued Friday by the department’s Economic Research Service, said that, overall, food prices were expected to rise an average of less than 2 percent in 1985.
The Office of Management and Budget has formally notified most Federal agencies that their budget requests for the fiscal year 1987 exceed ceilings set by President Reagan. Agencies submitted their spending requests to the budget office in September. Administration officials said that Joseph R. Wright Jr., the deputy director of the office, had sent letters to most agencies saying they must reduce their requests. “We will be working with you over the next several weeks in an effort to develop a budget request that falls within those ceilings” established by Mr. Reagan, the letters said.
A plane carrying musician Ray Charles, 55, and 27 other people skidded off the rain-slick runway when landing at Bloomington, Indiana. Charles was treated at a local hospital for minor injuries, then released, but he canceled a concert appearance at Indiana University — partly because band instruments were trapped in the wreckage of the four-engine Vickers Viscount turboprop owned by Ray Charles Enterprises. No one else aboard was hurt seriously.
An Iranian businessman whose first trial ended in a hung jury has pleaded guilty to conspiring to ship millions of dollars worth of U.S. military equipment to Iran. As part of a plea bargain, Kazem Zamani, 41, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, agreed to tell authorities anything he may know about the covert shipment of military equipment to other countries and to testify before grand juries if necessary. No sentencing date was set.
A woman who forced Xerox Corp. to hire her after an 11-year-long legal battle in which she claimed she was discriminated against because of her weight has resigned after two months on the job, company officials said. John Rasor of Xerox said that Catherine McDermott, 68, of New York City, gave notice Friday. McDermott is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighed 249 pounds in 1974, when she was refused a position as a business systems consultant because Xerox considered her an “insurance risk.” She sued Xerox and, last May, the state appellate court ordered the corporation to hire her, compensate her for lost income and pay her an additional $1,000 in damages.
A former secretary to Oregon guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh lost an outrageous-conduct suit filed against her after she made uncomplimentary remarks about a local woman at a school board meeting. Ma Anand Sheela is liable for $625,000 in damages over the incident in the town of Antelope, since renamed Rajneesh. Sheela, who is believed to be in West Germany, had accused Marcia Wichelman of being an unfaithful wife. The suit, heard in Hood River, Oregon, also named the guru and his corporations.
Bail for four alleged ranking members of the Luchese organized-crime family was revoked by a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey. If U.S. District Judge Harold A. Ackerman’s decision is upheld, the four will remain in jail until their April, 1986, trial on racketeering charges. Anthony Accetturo, Hollywood, Florida, and Michael Perna, Thomas Ricciardi and Michael Taccetta, of New Jersey, were ordered back to jail. “These individuals have been engaged in a pattern of criminality which constitutes a danger to the public,” Ackerman said.
Leaders of the United Automobile Workers confirmed today that they have increased their monetary goals in contract talks at the Chrysler Corporation where they have been on strike since Wednesday. The union, which struck seeking parity in wages and benefits with workers at the General Motors Corporation and the Ford Motor Company, is now seeking “extra money,” said Owen F. Bieber, its president. He did not say what form the extra money would take, but other union officials have said it could be one or more bonus payments. Mr. Bieber made his comments today after the 170-member Chrysler Council endorsed the union’s bargaining stance in a meeting here. The council, made up of representatives from the plant level, must approve any agreement.
Anthony Mandia, the first recipient of the Pennsylvania State artificial heart, continued his recovery at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center here today, talking with family members and doctors. Mr. Mandia, a 44-year-old retired recreation worker from Philadelphia, received the temporary device in a four-and-a-half-hour operation Friday morning. He was reported in critical but stable condition this afternoon, according to a Medical Center spokesman, Roger L. Williams. Mr. Mandia was sitting up and talking with family members, Mr. Williams said.
New Orleans’ first black mayor, Ernest Morial, was precluded from seeking a third term in 1986 as the voters rejected a city charter change that would have allowed it. With all 465 precincts reporting, unofficial returns showed the proposed charter change died by a vote of 88,331 to 56,999. Morial, who campaigned vigorously for the right to run again, conceded the contest and congratulated the three announced candidates for mayor.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Friday it had joined an investigation of police departments in the Miami area after charges that officers engaged in drug-related armed robberies, stole department money and sold police equipment to criminals. The bureau made the disclosure in a statement issued from its Miami office. In the region’s three largest police departments, eight officers have been arrested, fired, or relieved of duty in the last two months.
Maine has ended its 19-month-old court fight with Sears, Roebuck & Company, with the state Attorney General saying he will not appeal an August 29 ruling dismissing virtually all allegations that the company had violated consumer-protection laws. Also on Thursday, Justice Donald G. Alexander of Superior Court approved a plan negotiated by the state and Sears to have 44 telephone salespeople at three Sears facilities in Maine retrained. The employees will be barred from claiming that products will break down sooner than actually expected in attempts to sell service contracts.
The executive director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Benjamin L. Hooks, said yesterday that a national boycott would be held in early 1986 against one to four American companies doing business in South Africa.
1985 World Series, Game One:
When Lonnie Smith led off for the Royals, he became the first player in MLB history to be traded from a team (the Cardinals) during a season and play against that team in the World Series the same season.
John Tudor scattered seven hits in 6 ⅔ innings for the Cards and won with relief help from Todd Worrell. The Royals struck first in the second on Steve Balboni’s RBI single with runners on first and second, but the Cardinals tied it off of Danny Jackson in the third on Willie McGee’s RBI groundout with runners on second and third. Next inning, Tito Landrum doubled with one out, then scored on late-season acquisition César Cedeño’s RBI double to give Jackson the loss despite Jackson throwing seven innings of two-run ball. The Cardinals padded their lead in the ninth off of Dan Quisenberry when Tom Herr singled to lead off and scored on Jack Clark’s double.
This was the first Saturday night game in World Series history. The Series began on a Saturday from 1969 through 1976, and again from 1985 through 2006 (with the exception of 1990, which began on a Tuesday night).
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Kansas City Royals 1
Died:
Alfred Rouleau, 70, French Canadian businessman (Desjardins Group).
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