Soviet negotiators continue to insist on a ban on scientific research into space-based defense weapons, even though Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, seemed to hint publicly two months ago that such research might be allowed, according to a senior Reagan Administration official. In discussing the difficulties of finding common ground only a few days before the Soviet-American summit meeting, the official said “it boggles the mind” that the Russians were still “playing from two sheets of music,” being conciliatory in public and less so in private. Mr. Gorbachev, in an interview with Time magazine in September and in a meeting with a group of senators, said the Soviet Union was not trying to ban research, but only the design of weapons in the program popularly known as “Star Wars.” But in the Geneva arms talks, the American official said, the Russians continue to call for a ban on “scientific research, testing and deployment.”
Moscow’s press nearly ignored the war in Afghanistan in its first years, but Soviet newspapers now regularly carry reports about young Soviet heroes killed in battle, and Soviet television is now showing combat scenes. After almost six years of combat involving hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers and thousands of Soviet casualties, the Kremlin cannot pretend that only a few Russian soldiers are in Afghanistan temporarily to help out.
Foreign Minister Stefan Olszowski, a hard-liner who opposed the relatively moderate policies of Polish leader Wojciech Jaruzelski, resigned from the Communist Party Politburo and is expected to give up his Cabinet post today. Olszowski, 54, challenged Jaruzelski’s leadership and demanded tougher measures against dissidents and the Roman Catholic Church.
Italian prosecutors investigating the Achille Lauro hijacking announced today that they had issued 16 arrest warrants in the case. One of these, they indicated, was for the arrest of Mohammed Abbas, who is the head of the Palestinian Liberation Front and is accused by the United States of masterminding the hijacking. Luigi Carli, one of the Genoa prosecutors leading the investigation, said all the suspects were members of the P.L.F., a faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The United Nations was asked to repeal a 10-year-old resolution that brands Zionism as a form of racism. The petition was signed by 800 world leaders, Nobel laureates and scientists, and President Reagan called the measure a “blot” on the U.N. record. The petition was presented by Israeli Ambassador Benjamin Netanyahu and the secretary general of the World Zionist Organization, Uzi Narkiss. M.T. Mehdi, president of the American Arab Relations Committee, predicted that the 1975 vote would be reaffirmed.
As a Unesco meeting ended in Sofia, Bulgaria, the organization’s Director General, who has been criticized by Western countries for his handling of the agency, refused today to say whether he would seek re-election. “The choice of Director General is not made in newspaper columns,” said the Director General, Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow of Senegal, at a news conference after the 23d general conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. “I have views on this question and will make them known at the appropriate time and in a suitable place.” Eastern bloc as well as Western members of Unesco now appear united in wanting him to step down in 1987, when his present mandate expires, asserting that only his departure will prompt the United States to rejoin the group.
An attempt by the rightist political party Vigilance to gain a seat in the Geneva cantonal government has failed in an election marked by a higher-than-usual turnout. The high turnout and failure of the Vigilance party leader, Arnold Schlapfer, to win a seat in the governing council was seen here as caused in part by voter backlash after his party’s impressive showing in October 13 vote for the cantonal parliament. Vigilance campaigned on a platform that included opposition to immigration, political asylum and foreigners. The 44 percent turnout, the highest since 1969, returned most of the seven-member council.
An AIDS patient undergoing experimental treatment in Paris with the drug cyclosporine has died, one of the developers of the widely publicized treatment announced. Dr. Philippe Even of Laennec Hospital in Paris said the 38-year-old male patient died Saturday after about three weeks of treatment for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. But he said other patients are responding well to cyclosporine and that research and clinical tests “will be expanded to several other French hospitals later this week.”
A theater in Frankfurt will not perform a controversial play by the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder that has been denounced by Jewish and other groups as anti-Semitic. Theater manager Guenther Ruehle said all performances of “Garbage, the City and Death” have been canceled “to preserve the inner peace of the city and to maintain the possibility of the work of the theater.” Jewish groups forced the cancellation of the play’s premiere on October 31 and had vowed to disrupt future performances because of objections to the portrayal of a Jewish land developer.
Despite a flurry of contacts and promising rumors, Israeli officials said today that they still saw no sign that the Soviet Union was preparing to restore diplomatic relations with Israel. Senior Israeli officials said they believed that the recent news reports suggesting that the Russians were considering normalizing relations with Israel, which were severed after the 1967 war, were probably a combination of wishful thinking and deliberate Soviet “leaks” designed to “sweeten” the atmosphere in advance of the Geneva summit meeting and to project a softer, more flexible Soviet image without having to make any serious policy changes. “It is all part of the Soviet presummit strategy,” a senior official close to the diplomatic contacts said. “We wish that they were serious, and we would welcome the restoration of relations. Privately, some Soviet diplomats have told us they feel it was a mistake to have ever broken relations. But if you ask me, ‘Do we have any reason to believe that they are about to restore relations now?’, the answer is absolutely no. Ask me again after the Geneva summit.”
A Palestinian died when a bomb he was preparing blew up in his face and another was shot and wounded in a clash with an Israeli settler in two incidents on the West Bank, an Israeli military source said today. The casualties occurred after Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, speaking yesterday on Abu Dhabi television, called for “escalating armed struggle inside the occupied territories.”
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Jordan’s King Hussein have reportedly reached an informal agreement to work toward negotiations in which Israel would agree to attend international peace talks in return for Jordan’s agreeing to bring only Palestinian representatives acceptable to Israel. A report in the New York Times, quoting Israeli sources, said the understanding was apparently arranged by U.S. mediation and other contacts over the last month. The paper also reported that Hussein and Peres met secretly in Paris.
The Prime Minister of Jordan is due to travel to Damascus Tuesday as part of the reconciliation effort by Jordan and Syria, the Amman radio announced today. It will be the first visit of its kind in six years. King Hussein is known to be eager to win Syria’s backing for his current moves for a settlement of the Middle East conflict. He has called for an international conference under United Nations auspices in which all parties to the Arab-Israeli conflict, including Syria, would take part.
Egyptian authorities announced today that four Libyans were arrested in Cairo last week on charges of trying to assassinate a group of Libyan exiles, including a former Libyan Prime Minister who was the intended target of a foiled Libyan plot in Egypt a year ago. Interior Minister Ahmed Rushdi said the four Libyans were arrested after a gun battle with the police outside a farmhouse about 12 miles south of the port of Alexandria. Mr. Rushdi said the four men were about to attack former Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Bakkush and other Libyan exiles who were inside the farmhouse, about to sit down to lunch. He said the four Libyans constituted a “hit squad” trained by the government of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi to carry out assassinations.
About 120 leading South Korean dissidents held a rally today and began a three-day protest of purported torture of political prisoners by the police. The protesters included Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam, South Korea’s best-known opposition figures and joint chairmen of the Council for the Promotion of Democracy. The protesters, sitting in at the council offices, issued a statement calling for the resignation of Home Minister Chung Suk Mo and for the halting of the tortures. The human rights committee of the National Council of Churches in Seoul said that the police kept about 10 people from the rally. There was no attempt by authorities to end the protest, but the police checked people as they entered the council headquarters, and large numbers of police were stationed nearby.
Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger met today with Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader, to review international issues. Mr. Kissinger is in China as a guest of the Government.
It will take Manila at least a decade to contain the anti-government insurgency, according to the Philippines’ Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile. President Ferdinand E. Marcos has predicted the insurgency will be defeated in one year. Enrile said he believed that the prediction by Mr. Marcos that the insurgency would be defeated in one year had been made “to buoy up the confidence of the nation.” He continued: “The struggle will go on for a long time. It could be a matter of a few years. It could be decades. It will be at least a decade before the situation is contained.”
Nicaragua said today that it would not sign any Central American peace agreement until the United States stopped supporting anti-Government rebels. President Daniel Ortega Saavedra told the Managua diplomatic corps this afternoon that his Government could not agree to limit the size of its military until “basic minimum security conditions” are guaranteed. “Any regional agreement presupposes the normalization of relations between Nicaragua and the United States, which means the end of the aggressive policy of the United States against Nicaragua,” Mr. Ortega said.
About 15,000 workers in El Salvador went on strike today, joining 10,000 other workers who previously walked off their jobs to demand higher wages and to protest arrests of union leaders on subversion charges. Workers of the Ministry of Public Works and the Ministry of Agriculture joined postal and waterworks employees belonging to the National Association of Telecommunications to protest Government policies.
An Argentine military prosecutor urged prison terms as long as 12 years for former President Leopoldo F. Galtieri and two other armed forces commanders who took Argentina to war in 1982 in the mistaken belief that Britain would not fight for the Falkland Islands. The prosecutor’s statement came during the summing-up phase of the two-year court-martial, in which 16 officers are accused of military negligence. Galtieri, as president and army commander, ordered the ill-fated invasion.
Ugandan rebels said today that they had custody of the 49 passengers and crew members aboard a hijacked Ugandan Airlines plane and that within two days would free all except 10 military personnel held as “prisoners of war.” The National Resistance Army said it would also keep the plane, which was forced to land at a rebel-controlled airstrip in the western town of Kasese after the hijacking Sunday. A rebel spokesman told foreign reporters that the Resistance Army carried out the hijacking, but then told Ugandan journalists that a crazed army officer with no connection to the rebels was responsible. The ruling military council said the second version was a lie. The council condemned the hijacking as terrorism. Police and security forces raided several houses near Entebbe International Airport, where the flight originated, and arrested about 200 people in connection with the hijacking, residents said.
South Africa warned that it is considering contingency plans to expel about 1.5 million foreign black workers in reprisal for international economic sanctions. In turn, the nation’s black miners’ union threatened a retaliatory strike. Declaring that “charity begins at home,” Manpower Minister P.T.C. du Plessis said the migrant workers from such neighboring black nations as Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana may have to be sent home if sanctions force more South Africans out of work by crimping the overall economy.
The Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service said today that he expected disciplinary action to be taken against two Border Patrol agents who forcibly returned a Soviet seaman to his ship last month. “There obviously were mistakes made,” the Commissioner, Alan C. Nelson, said in an interview. , He said the agents erred in “not following the guidelines” after the sailor, Miroslav Medved, who is a Ukrainian, jumped from a freighter into the Mississippi River near New Orleans. Mr. Nelson said the agency had submitted a report to the Justice Department detailing the mistakes made by the two agents, who have not been publicly identified. The report, which runs to more than 100 pages, says that the agents acted hastily and violated agency regulations by returning Mr. Medved to the Soviet freighter without consulting their supervisors, according to Reagan Administration officials.
President Reagan lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Veteran’s Day. The President addresses guests attending the Veteran’s Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. President Reagan paid homage to the nation’s war dead at Arlington National Cemetery and declared that the “surest way to keep a peace going is to stay strong.” His remarks were delivered to about 6,000 people attending brief ceremonies marking Veterans Day at the vast cemetery across the Potomac from Washington. Later, the Prince and Princess of Wales also laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Others celebrated Veterans Day in ways that ranged from savoring a federal holiday to visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Washington remained obsessed with the visiting Prince and Princess of Wales. Observers concluded that Prince Charles is happy to stay in the background at public events but is the dynamic member of the team when speaking with strangers, more adept and more interested in the art of small talk.
Defeated Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale has sent out a fund-raising letter asking his supporters to help pay off former rival Senator Gary Hart’s $2.8-million campaign debt. Mondale and Hart were fierce rivals in the Democratic primaries, but Mondale pointed out in the three-page letter that, once he won the nomination, Hart was the first to join him on the podium at the Democratic National Convention.
Space shuttle orbiter Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
Yonkers, New York is found guilty of segregating schools and housing.
Senators from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Maine asked the Environmental Protection Agency to issue guidelines clarifying the health risks posed by colorless radon gas. The federal government has yet to clearly tell people at what levels the radioactive gas becomes threatening, the senators said. As uranium decays naturally, it gives off colorless, odorless radon, which can seep through the ground into basements. The gas breaks down into radioactive solids, which can cling to dust and can harm tissues if inhaled.
Lewis Lehrman said that he will not run for governor of New York next year. Lehrman, a 47-year-old millionaire Republican who lost to Democratic Governor Mario M. Cuomo in 1982, was considered to be one of Cuomo’s strongest challengers. Lehrman said he will continue to direct the Citizens for America. organization, which he formed to promote President Reagan’s policies. Lehrman will also help Rep. Jack Kemp (R-New York) try to win the GOP’s 1988 presidential nomination.
Melvin Belli, citing addiction by cigarette smokers, is pressing one of 35 liability suits pending around the country against the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Mr. Belli, who has brought dozens of such suits to trial without winning any of them, contends the issues are now different and the scientific data on the hazards of smoking have increased.
Black voters in Miami are expected to hold the balance today in the city’s first mayoral runoff election between two Cuban-Americans, Raul Masvidal and Xavier Suarez.
A school bus carrying 30 students spun out of control on a busy St. Louis highway today and slammed into a concrete pillar, killing an 18-year-old girl and injuring 17 other people, the police said. Students aboard the bus said their driver was racing a car on Interstate 70, and the police said they were considering filing charges of vehicular manslaughter against him. A spokesman for the bus company said the driver, Mark Trice, 26, reported that he was cut off by a second vehicle. The students were St. Louis residents attending school in St. Louis County under the city’s desegregation program.
Asserting that prosecutors withheld critical evidence, a group of lawyers asked for a new trial today for Wayne B. Williams, whose two murder convictions in 1982 led the police to close 23 other cases involving the deaths of young blacks here. The attorneys for Mr. Williams, who include William M. Kunstler, the civil rights lawyer, and Alan M. Dershowitz, a Harvard University law professor, said in a 31-page petition that raw investigative reports implicating Ku Klux Klansmen in the slayings had not been turned over to the defense before trial. As a result, the petition said, Mr. Williams was denied the opportunity to present an adequate defense.
America is facing its biggest teaching crisis ever, and a “fundamental restructuring” of the public school system is needed, according to C. Emily Feistritzer, director of the National Center for Education Information and author of a new report on teachers. The report said the current baby boom will create the demand for 1.65 million new teachers in the next eight years. It said part of the problem in attracting more teachers is low teacher pay. Feistritzer called for a system that would pay more money to better teachers regardless of length of service or college credits obtained, which currently determine teacher pay.
A school bus carrying about 30 students spun out of control on a busy highway and slammed into a concrete pillar, killing a teen-age girl and injuring 17 other persons, police in St. Louis said. Students aboard the bus said their driver, Mark Trice, 26, was drag-racing a car on Interstate 70, and police were considering filing charges of vehicular manslaughter against him. Several students said Trice asked them if he should run another car off the road, police said.
The State Board of Education in Austin has reversed itself and decided that people quoted in history textbooks do not have to be identified by their political affiliations. The board, which oversees the Texas public schools, voted Saturday to reverse a stand taken Friday, when 4 of the 15 members were absent. Much of Saturday’s discussion concerned a motion by Jack Strong, a board member and former State Senator, to require that all people quoted in textbooks on United States history be identified by political affiliation. Mr. Strong’s motion passed by a vote of 10 to 0 Friday but was defeated by a vote of 11 to 2 Saturday. The board approved about 200 textbooks that had been recommended by the State Textbook Committee. The Textbook Committee, made up of professional educators, was created in an effort to do away with a long controversy between conservatives and liberals over the selection of textbooks.
Vermont ski areas’ growth is stifled and the expansion sought by developers is virtually halted by a ruling of the State Water Resources Board. The decision revived a long dispute over whether the resorts’ rapid growth benefits Vermont’s economy or threatens its main attraction, the Green Mountains.
A proposed pastoral letter by the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops on the U.S. economy cannot unequivocally endorse capitalism and be true to Catholic social teaching, the letter’s chief architect said. Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, speaking to 300 fellow bishops at their annual weeklong conference in Washington, said papal doctrine “has always been skeptical about the unfettered free market or ‘liberal capitalism’ solving all problems of equity and distribution.” Weakland added that “it is in the best American tradition to alter that free market system so that the benefits can extend to all.”
Voters of Cambridge, Massachusetts, decisively rejected a proposed antipornography ordinance. Election officials gave final returns as 13,031 ballots against the measure and 9,419 for it, but they said 1,931 of the 24,381 people who voted in the election skipped the pornography question on the ballot. The ordinance would have allowed women who considered themselves victims. of pornography to sue and collect damages from makers and distributors of sexually explicit materials.
The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is a gigantic eddy of swirling gas, driven by the planet’s turbulent winds and apparently capable of keeping its shape as long as Jupiter keeps spinning, according to the latest findings by physicists and meteorologists. The Red Spot has baffled scientists for generations.
A person who drinks 5 or more cups of coffee a day is almost three times as likely to develop heart problems as a person who drinks no coffee at all, according to scientists at the John Hopkins Medical School. They said the finding was based on a study of more than 1,000 medical school graduates for up to 38 years.
First AIDS-themed TV movie “An Early Frost” screens in the US on NBC.
NFL Monday Night Football:
John Elway fired a pair of first-half touchdown passes, and Rich Karlis drilled a 24-yard field goal with 1 minute 27 seconds remaining, lifting the Denver Broncos into sole possession of first place in the American Football Conference West with a 17–16 victory over the San Francisco 49ers tonight. The 49ers, trailing by 14–3 at the half, rallied behind the passing of Joe Montana, the rushing of Roger Craig and the kicking of Ray Wersching to take a 16–14 lead with 3:46 remaining. Wersching kicked a 45-yarder to put San Francisco ahead. But Denver countered with a 63-yard drive, highlighted by a pass-interference penalty on the 49er safety Dwight Hicks that covered 42 yards and a 22-yard pass from a scrambling Elway to Steve Watson — both on third down. Denver reached the 49er 7-yard line, and Karlis connected. The victory raised Denver’s record to 7–3, one game ahead of both the Los Angeles Raiders and the Seattle Seahawks in the A.F.C. West. San Francisco fell to 5–5. In a first half characterized by kicking-game errors on both sides, Denver moved to a 14–3 lead behind Elway touchdown passes of 3 yards to the running back Gene Lang and 6 yards to Watson. The 49ers, who had driven inside the Denver 10-yard line on three occasions in the first half but scored only a field goal, battled back in the second half. Montana got them in the end zone early in the third quarter with a 13-yard pass to Mike Wilson. Following a Ronnie Lott interception, Wersching kicked a 22-yarder to draw the 49ers within 14–13 midway through the quarter.
San Francisco 49ers 16, Denver Broncos 17
The stock market yesterday recorded its best one-day gain in 10 months as investors bought up shares, drawing confidence from lower interest rates. Most major indicators advanced sharply into record territory. Detractors of Wall Street’s recent rally apparently conceded defeat, and the result was the best advance in blue-chip issues since Jan. 21 and a startling jump by broader market indexes. The Dow Jones industrial average soared 27.52 points, to a record 1,431.88, despite the absence of many large investors because of the Veterans Day holiday. The average, which crossed the 1,400 mark for the first time last Wednesday, has set a record in six of the last nine sessions. More than half of its gain yesterday came in the final hour as investors engaged in what traders described as frenzied activity.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1431.88 (+27.52)
Born:
Austin Collie, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts, New England Patriots), in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Died:
Pelle Lindbergh, 26, Swedish NHL goaltender, 1981-86, Vezina Award winner (Philadelphia Flyers), dies after drunk driving collision between his Porsche and wall.
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