President Reagan makes a Radio Address to the Nation on arms control and reduction negotiations. A 50 percent cut in nuclear arms proposed by the Soviet Union has been “accepted” by the United States, President Reagan said. But White House officials made it clear that Mr. Reagan “had an entirely different perception” from the Russians on the nature of the reduction. They said the United States would apply the 50 percent figure in a far more limited way than was outlined by the Russians. Mr. Reagan’s acceptance applied only to ballistic missiles, while the Soviet proposal encompasses the entire nuclear arsenal.
President Reagan calls former President Richard Nixon to discuss the arms negotiations.
The planners of a defense against nuclear missiles are leaning toward a complex, seven-layer system that would consist of thousands of space satellites with weapons intended to furnish a nearly perfect nationwide shield. The Defense Department’s Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, in answer to a reporter’s questions, disclosed the results of a year’s study on the design of a missile defense. The preferred design is more intricate and immense than previously suggested. The Pentagon’s disclosure is the most detailed explanation to date of how the United States hopes to build the missile defense envisioned by President Reagan in a speech in March 1983. To protect 3,500 major targets in the United States, including missile fields and urban centers, the plan would employ groups of lasers and other directed-energy beam weapons, launchers that fire high-speed projectiles and ground-based rocket interceptors.
The weapons and other devices to detect targets would be based in space and on earth. Some would be antisatellite weapons to defend the defensive shield against attack. Other weapons would be capable of both defending the system and attacking Soviet offensive weapons in flight. In an apparently innovative idea seldom publicly discussed before, one layer of defense might be provided by clouds of small pellets or of aerosols in space put in the path of re-entry vehicles and decoys. The clouds would be designed to destroy the decoys, making it easier to pick out the warheads. Although the first year of the program, the first phase of the design study, is complete, five companies, including three major weapons builders for the Pentagon, will continue to work with “a considerable increase in effort,” according to John L. Gardner, systems director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization.
Leaders of the Dutch peace movement pledged to mount protests and to file a lawsuit to try to block deployment of 48 NATO nuclear cruise missiles in the Netherlands. “We have been betrayed,” Mient Jan Faber, head of the Interchurch Peace Council and the anti-missile movement’s most prominent figure, said in response to the government’s approval of deployment under a North Atlantic Treaty Organization plan.
The Reagan Administration’s decision to ask at the Geneva arms talks that a ban on mobile missiles be sought has provoked an outcry from Congressional critics. They say the decision reverses Administration policy and development of mobile missiles by the United States and the Soviet Union should be encouraged. The Administration had earlier expressed its support of developing a new, small, single-warhead missile, known as the Midgetman, in exchange for Congressional support of deploying a limited number of MX missiles. That compromise was outlined in 1983 by a Presidential Commission on Strategic Forces, headed by Brent Scowcroft.
A Polish Government spokesman says public attitudes resulting from Communist upbringing are thwarting efforts to change the economy. The spokesman, Jerzy Urban, said at his weekly news conference this week that although public-opinion polls showed general approval for the concept of economic change, they also showed that most workers opposed linking wages to productivity, freeing prices from controls or having the government reduce paternalistic social programs. The government has been trying to introduce some features of a market economy to improve efficiency. The measures include use of bankruptcy procedure to eliminate government-run enterprises that chronically operate at a loss, decentralization of economic decision making, and the linking of pay scales to productivity levels.
Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou has warned his Cabinet that the conjunction of labor unrest and a bomb explosion on an Athens bus on Thursday raised the threat of “insecurity and chaos” comparable to the situation that led to a coup and military dictatorship in 1967. Mr. Papandreou said Friday, in a talk whose full text was made public today, that the armed forces, although loyal to democracy and the Constitution, still contained seeds from the seven years of military dictatorship and would continue to for many years. He also warned of unspecified foreign forces that might create tension for their own advantage, saying: “We must not forget but must always bear in mind that the forces of reaction, which were deeply disappointed by the results of the June 2 elections — such forces exist inside and outside Greece — might be in a position to create step by step, and at the same time take advantage of, an extended atmosphere of insecurity and chaos like that of 1965-66.” Labor unions have held a continuing wave of strikes to protest austerity measures put into effect last month. They include a curtailment of automatic wage increases tied to rises in the cost of living. The unrest has presented Mr. Papandreou with the most serious internal challenge since his election in 1981 and re-election last June. It has led to defections of labor leaders from the Socialist Party’s position and their expulsion from the party.
The publication of an article asserting that French identity and culture are threatened by the growing immigrant population has touched off a political furor in France. The debate has been getting louder in the last week since Le Figaro Magazine, a weekend supplement to the conservative daily newspaper, published a cover article asking: “Will France still be French in 2015?” The cover featured a picture of Marianne, symbol of France, wearing an Arab woman’s veil with a rosette in red, white and blue, the colors of the French flag. The article, by Jean Raspail, a prominent French writer, and Gerard Francois Dumont, a demographer who is head of the Institute of Political Demography, asserts that the proportion of France’s non-European immigrant population will grow to endanger the “survival” of traditional French culture, values and identity. Three senior French officials condemned the article as false, provocative and racist. Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, in a speech to Parliament, said the article drew a dangerous link between social insecurity and immigrants.
Leading Catholics and Jews meeting under Vatican auspices have announced agreement on a joint program “to overcome the residues of indifference, resistance and suspicion.” Jewish and Catholic leaders involved in the dialogue between the two faiths said the agreement was important because it marked an improvement in their ties after a period of strained relations. The strains had developed over a Vatican document on relations with Jews that stirred opposition among many leading Jews. “In this process, you don’t get quick fixes,” said Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum of the American Jewish Committee. “We’ve really made headway and cleared the air.”
In an interview with the government newspaper Izvestia, three Soviets who were held hostage in Beirut said that they didn’t know until their release that a fourth kidnap victim had been killed. Soviet Embassy physician Nikolai Sversky said that he and consular secretary Arkady Katkov tried unsuccessfully to escape from the group of men who kidnaped them Sept. 30. Katkov, who was isolated from the others and slain by the kidnapers two days later, was wounded in the leg during the escape attempt, Sversky said.
Italian investigators believe that Masar Kadia, a senior aide to Palestinian faction leader Abul Abbas, was aboard the Achille Lauro during the liner’s hijacking and that he directed the operation, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. Citing leaks from judicial sources, the agency said Kadia boarded the ship under a stolen Greek passport in the name of Petros Floros. It added that Kadia made two other trips on the Achille Lauro, apparently for reconnaissance purposes, before the cruise when the hijacking took place.
King Hussein, disappointed at delays in a $1.9 million arms deal with the United States, declared today that Jordan would seek weapons from any available source. In his annual throne speech to Parliament, the King made it clear that insistence by the United States Congress that Jordan agree to start direct negotiations with Israel as a condition for approving the arms sale would not prevent his government from securing elsewhere what its armed forces need.
Iraq said its warplanes made a “successful raid” today on Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal and bombed Iranian positions in the southern part of the 730-mile warfront. A war communique released by the general command of the armed forces said Iraqi warplanes carried out a total of 81 bombing missions against “enemy positions and equipment.”
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, has been ringed by troops and power has been cut since a 19-year-old Soviet soldier fled into the building Thursday. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, en route to talks with Soviet officials, said the United States has protested to Afghan and Soviet authorities over “intimidation” tactics in the case. American officials are reportedly talking to the soldier about what options he has. U.S. policy is not to grant asylum at embassies but there are exceptions, and no decision has been made in the case. The embassy’s electricity was cut off and searchlights were turned on it. Mr. Shultz said the United States had protested about the harassment at the embassy. In a news conference held as he flew here from Washington on his way to Helsinki, the first leg of his Moscow mission, Mr. Shultz and other officials provided many more details about the incident than the State Department made known on Friday. An aide to Mr. Shultz said the secretary had personally protested to Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador, about the threatening moves around the embassy in Afghanistan on Thursday. The United States regards the Afghan troops as taking orders from the Soviet military command, which has more than 100,000 soldiers in Afghanistan.
The leaders of the six member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — are expected to discuss the Iran-Iraq war, joint anti-terrorism measures, a regional security agreement with military muscle and a range of economic issues when they gather in Muscat, Oman, today for what is expected to be a three-day meeting.
The widows of about 500 Sikhs killed in rioting after the assassination last year of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi marched to the house of her son and successor, Rajiv Gandhi, to demand housing and compensation. An aide to Gandhi met a delegation representing the widows and accepted a list of their demands, assuring them that Gandhi would give it “sympathy and early consideration,” a protest spokesman said.
Drug dealers in the village of Cahuapan in southern Mexico ambushed a police patrol and 21 people were killed in a gun battle, all of them reportedly federal and state policemen, the attorney general’s office in Mexico City and Veracruz state authorities said. The officers were searching for marijuana plantations as part of a government anti-drug campaign when they were ambushed. Some were killed immediately and others were captured, tortured and shot with their hands behind their backs, a statement by the Veracruz administration added. Soldiers were sent to take charge of the site, along the mountainous border of Veracruz and Oaxaca states.
South Africa cut back news coverage of unrest in areas under a state-of-emergency decree. The government placed sweeping restrictions on local and foreign journalists and barred television crews, photographers and radio reporters from areas affected by the emergency decree. Violators of the new press rules face a prison sentence of up to 10 years or a $8,000 fine, or both. Government officials said reporters working for newspapers would be allowed into areas where unrest was occurring but would first have to report to the local police and obey their instructions. Newspaper reporters could be banned from covering unrest unless they agreed to a police escort. The Foreign Correspondents’ Association immediately condemned the regulations “as the beginning of the slippery slide toward a totally controlled press” in South Africa and called on its members’ governments to lodge strong protests.
A hint of the nation’s political future as President Reagan’s political dominance begins to wane will be one of the outcomes of Tuesday’s elections. Voters in Virginia and New Jersey will elect governors, and in dozens of cities voters will elect mayors and other officials. Politicians in Washington are paying special attention on the two gubernatorial races, which some campaign strategists say have already provided valuable lessons for both parties in their struggle to understand and manage the changes in voter attitudes and party allegiance that are part of Mr. Reagan’s political legacy.
Former Interior Secretary James G. Watt said the Republican Party “ought to die” if it does not develop into a nationwide conservative movement. In an interview with U.S. News & World Report, Watt, who served in the first two years of the Reagan Administration, complained that liberals dominate big business and labor, the media, education, entertainment, churches and government. “We conservatives are the outsiders, and it’s therefore our responsibility to confront, convince and convert American thought if we are to bring needed changes,” he said.
The House and Senate are deadlocked over rival budget balancing bills. An aide to the Speaker of the House, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., suggested that the Speaker and Senator Bob Dole, the Senate majority leader, would probably have to meet to try to reach a compromise before November 15. Christopher J. Matthews, spokesman for the Speaker of the House, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., suggested today that the Speaker and the Senate majority leader, Bob Dole, might have to meet to try to work out a compromise. “If Reagan can talk to Gorbachev, the Senate can talk to the House,” Mr. Matthews said. Each house of Congress is considering a budget-balancing plan in tandem with a bill to raise the government’s debt ceiling enough to cover the Treasury’s borrowing needs for a year. Republicans in the Senate have held the bill to raise the debt ceiling hostage to keep pressure on the Democrats to act on the Senate’s budget-balancing plan, which was sponsored by Senators Phil Gramm of Texas and Warren B. Rudman of New Hampshire, both Republicans, and Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, a Democrat.
The U.S. Government has long said that its prosecution of people involved in the movement to help Central Americans enter the United States is nothing more than a simple case of alien smuggling. But court documents indicate that some investigators originally suspected the movement had Marxist leanings and was possibly transporting terrorists. The documents are part of the record in a Federal District Court case against 11 people charged with helping aliens enter the country illegally. Jury selection is expected to be completed by the middle of next week.
The international crew of the space shuttle Challenger, reaching the halfway point of their weeklong mission, today reported encouraging success with nearly all the 76 scientific experiments in metallurgy, crystal growth and biology. “All the experiments are on schedule, basically,” the West German mission manager, Hans-Ulrich Steimle, announced. But a slow air leak in the science laboratory, troublesome but apparently not serious, developed in the morning. Flight controllers at Mission Control here suspected the leak was occurring in one of the vacuum chambers in the Spacelab, where most of the experiments are being conducted.
Regulatory documents say the national Farm Credit System, which asked the government last week for a bailout of up to $6 billion, has given its top executives salary boosts of 50% or more since 1980. The system’s regulators contend the salary increases for the chief operating officers of its regional banks are needed to attract and keep talented managers. But Senator J. James Exon (D-Nebraska) called the pay scales arrogant in a system that is asking the taxpayers to provide a financial life preserver. Pay scales for the top executives now range from $84,000 to $233,500.
The Statue of Liberty’s restoration is being paid for primarily by corporations, which are pledging $3 million to $10 million each. The project has grown in scope and expense. The original $20 million estimate has increased to a quarter of a billion dollars. More than $170 million of that amount has been raised with more speed than any other campaign of its kind has been able to muster.
The remains of five of 27 coal miners who died in a shaft fire last year were recovered from the sealed-off Wilberg Mine near Orangeville, Utah, after four months of digging. Work crews using a tunneling machine broke through a wall of coal to reach the bodies, said Bob Henrie of Emery Mining Corp., which runs the mine for Utah Power & Light Co. A woman and 26 men were trapped while working in the mine last December 19. Federal inspectors directing the recovery effort said the dead would be removed promptly, although it might take weeks to reach all the bodies.
Ford Motor Co. will become the first domestic automaker to offer air bags to the general public as a safety option on some models, a former federal safety official said. Joan Claybrook, who headed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration during Jimmy Carter’s presidency, said in an address to the Florida Academy of Trial Lawyers in Orlando that Ford will announce the option Monday. A Ford spokesman would not comment on her report.
A riot-control team arrived in Miami at an overcrowded federal detention center where two dozen inmates escaped, and authorities said a search was continuing for three prisoners who remain at large. The search was centered in the Everglades for the three, who were among the 24 inmates involved in the mass escape from the center Thursday night. Most of the escapees had been captured by Friday morning, but two inmates who came to South Florida from Cuba during the 1980 Mariel boatlift and one illegal immigrant from Haiti still eluded authorities.
A 39-year-old man incriminated by photographs that a burglar found after breaking into his home has been sentenced to 60 years for sexually abusing a 5-year-old girl. James Allen Mitchell of San Antonio, pleaded no contest Friday to a charge of aggravated sexual abuse charge and was given the maximum sentence by District Judge Roy Barrera Jr. Mike Edwards, an Assistant District Attorney, said a burglar broke into Mr. Mitchell’s home and stole a container in which he later found the photographs. The burglar gave the photographs to a police informer and asked him to turn them over to the police.
A 20-year-old student at Bates College was being held today in the Androscoggin County jail on charges of shooting the college dean on October 21. The student, Cain M. Rollins, a junior from Peekskill, New York, was arrested in his dormitory room Friday night and charged with the attempted murder of Dean James W. Carignan, 46, who was shot in the back at his home. The dean, who also serves as the college disciplinarian, is in satisfactory condition at the Central Maine Medical Center.
Heart transplant patient Anthony Mandia remained in critical but stable condition in Hershey, Pennsylvania, with kidney and pancreas problems, while heart transplant patient Thomas Gaidosh continued an uneventful recovery in Pittsburgh. A hospital spokesman said Mandia underwent three hours of dialysis, a process that will continue until his kidneys return to normal. Mandia showed no signs of rejecting his new heart.
Voices that once were lowered in the cathedral-like Grand Canyon are now pitched in debate over whether aircraft should be banned below its rim. The clash, pitting environmentalists and hikers against air tour operators and the tourist industry, has prompted the National Park Service to study whether a policy should be developed to regulate or ban flights below the canyon rim. At a Park Service hearing here Wednesday, Gov. Bruce Babbitt of Arizona called for an end to flights below the rim. He said aircraft noise in the canyon was equivalent to rush hour in downtown Phoenix, destroying what he described as the canyon’s “cosmic kind of silence.”
The Expos finally sign their top draft pick, Pete Incaviglia, and then trade him to the Rangers for infielder Jim Anderson and a minor league pitcher. Incaviglia, who refused every chance to sign with Montreal, who wanted him to play in the minors, will blast a team-record 7 homers in spring training.
Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Aqueduct Racetrack; winners: Cozzene, Life’s Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge.
The Los Angeles Kings score 5 goals in a span of 5:37, the fastest in NHL team history; rout Hartford Whalers, 8-1 at Hartford Civic Center.
Tulsa’s Gordon Brown (214) and Steve Gage (206) set NCAA football record for combined rushing yards in one game for 2 teammates who gained more than 200 yards each in 42-26 win at Wichita State.
Born:
Danny Amendola, NFL wide receiver (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 49 and 51-Patriots, 2014, 2016; St. Loouis Rams, New England Patriots, Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans), in The Woodlands, Texas.
Dan Connor, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants), in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.
Anthony Collins, NFL tackle (Cincinnati Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Beaumont, Texas.
Daryl Thompson, MLB pitcher (Cincinnati Reds), in La Plata, Maryland.
DeMarcus Nelson, NBA point guard (Golden State Warriors), in Oakland, California.
Died:
Fred Enke, 88, American College basketball coach (University of Arizona 1925–1961, record 522–344).
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