The Day the World began to change.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev arrived in Geneva and said the “first and foremost” issue facing his meetings with President Reagan is how to halt the nuclear arms race “and its extension to new spheres.” The allusion was evidently to the United States’ space-based missile defense program, which has been a target of Soviet diplomacy. Swiss sharpshooters scanned surrounding buildings and a Soviet emigre shouted protests as Mr. Gorbachev stepped out of his Aeroflot airliner at Cointrin Airport, holding the arm of his wife, Raisa. A stiff, cold wind blew across the runway and swirled the skirts of Mrs. Gorbachev’s ankle-length, fox-trimmed gray coat. In a statement, Mr. Gorbachev said the Soviet and American people expected “positive results” from the summit meeting.
High-ranking American and Soviet officials were reported tonight to have agreed in principle that President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev should hold a second summit meeting after their two days of talks that start Tuesday. According to a ranking White House official, President Reagan will conclude the Geneva conference with an invitation to the Soviet leader to visit the United States “to see the American people and learn what makes us tick.” Mr. Reagan was said to be leaning toward an invitation for a meeting in 1987 in Washington, though State Department officials were known to be urging him to ask for a meeting next year. An agreement to hold a follow-up summit meeting, which officials stressed was contingent on final approval of the two leaders, would be a commitment to continuing high-level diplomacy. It would also reassure the United States’ major Western European allies, who have privately and publicly been pressing for regular Soviet-American summit meetings. An American official said the President was prepared to appear with Mr. Gorbachev on Thursday morning “on the same stage,” where the two men could issue separate statements about their meetings. Some officials held out the remote possibility of a joint statement, but the prevailing assessment was that this remained unlikely.
Soviet officials, apparently in a policy shift, are now talking about the summit meeting more as an occasion to begin a dialogue with the United States than as an event to score a breakthrough in arms control. For months, Soviet leaders have been saying that the meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev must be judged by whether they can agree on principles for breaking the negotiating deadlock in the Geneva arms talks, specifically whether Mr. Reagan is prepared to abandon his space-based missile defense program. Now, presumably after assessing that this approach would fail, the Russians are saying that the conference must be seen more “in overall terms” and as part of a process. The hopes for a breakthrough on arms still flavor Soviet comments, but the pressure seems to be off.
The General Assembly today called on American and Soviet leaders to conduct negotiations that will “produce early and effective agreements on the halting of the nuclear arms race.” The United States and several allied nations abstained on the resolution.
Judges convicted five Palestinians in Genoa, Italy, of illegal possession of arms and ammunition and sentenced them to jail terms ranging from four to nine years. The Palestinians face another trial for hijacking the cruise liner Achille Lauro and the slaying of Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly American tourist. Four of the defendants are accused of the seizure of the liner; the fifth, accused as a confederate, was arrested for possession of false passports. The public prosecutor, Luigi Carli, said that although the defendants had adopted “terrorist methods,” he had not sought the maximum penalty of 12 years because the Palestinians had pursued a cause “that cannot be considered devoid of valid motivation.”
Hundreds of angry protesters rampaged through central Athens in the wake of street violence in which police shot a 15-year-old to death. The protesters entered the grounds of the Athens Polytechnic Institute and threw gasoline bombs and stones into the street. They also smashed bank and shop windows and set fire to a department store. Earlier in the day, Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou condemned as “abominable” the slaying of the youth, Michael Kaltezas, who died as police clashed with youths Sunday night. Two Cabinet officials submitted their resignations tonight, and the country’s three top police chiefs were suspended over clashes after an anti-American rally. Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou refused to accept the resignations. The crisis, the worst faced by the Socialist Government since it came to power four and a half years ago, came amid daylong clashes and the takeover of part of Athens University by leftists. A 15-year-old demonstrator was shot dead by the police. The initial demonstration of about 100,000 people was to urge the removal of United States bases from Greece and the withdrawal of Greece from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Mr. Papandreou, apparently embarrassed over having to use the security forces to quell left-wing activists, quickly condemned the killing and blamed the police force and other security officials.
More than nine months after a trial in which three dissidents were sentenced to jail terms, a belief is growing here that the Serbian authorities would prefer to end the case, which has embarrassed Yugoslavia abroad, by not carrying out the sentences. One of the defendants has been acquitted on appeal, and the charges and sentences of two others have been reduced and the defendants are free. A senior official indicated the Serbian organization of Yugoslavia’s fragmented Communist Party regarded the trial as a mistake and wanted to put the issue to rest.
A British Airways Concorde flight was delayed for 2 ½ hours at London’s Heathrow Airport because of an unspecified “technical problem.” It was the fourth incident in five days involving the supersonic jetliners. Last Thursday, a Concorde burst a tire on landing and 74 passengers were evacuated. The following day, a tire on another Concorde blew out during takeoff. Sunday, a Concorde chartered by the Cunard Line was delayed for more than seven hours because of an undisclosed technical problem, then turned back when a warning light in the cockpit indicated a landing-gear fault.
Britain and France announced today that they would sign a treaty next February committing both countries to build a tunnel under the English Channel. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President Francois Mitterrand said their Governments would select in January which of the four proposed projects will be approved. The formal treaty will be signed in February. The idea of a tunnel or bridge linking Britain and France, first proposed by Napoleon, has frequently been considered in recent years. The plan now is for construction to start by mid-1987 and the project is to enter service, probably handling both rail and passenger car traffic, by 1993.
Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, flew back to Beirut tonight for the second round of his campaign begun last week to arrange the safe release of American hostages in Lebanon. Negotiating with radical Moslem militiamen seems an odd role for a lifetime lay worker in the Anglican Church. Yet these sensitive, dangerous missions are becoming almost routine for Mr. Waite, a towering, bearded 46-year-old known in church circles as “the gentle giant.” In 1981 Mr. Waite persuaded the Iranians to release three Anglican missionaries who were held prisoner in the aftermath of the revolution in Iran. He volunteered for that assignment, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, encouraged him to go.
A daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a former American hostage in Lebanon, was killed Sunday night when the bus she was riding in was hit by a train near Alexandria, the United States Consulate said today. A spokesman at the consulate said the woman, Ann Weir, and another American woman killed in the crash were aboard a Cairo-to-Alexandria express bus, the Golden Jet, when the accident occurred.
Polisario Front guerrillas fighting for the independence of Western Sahara said in a communique today that 69 Moroccan troops were killed and 107 were wounded last month in more than 200 attacks by the rebels, the Algerian press agency reported.
Sultan Kaboos ibn Said staged a lavish military parade to open a weeklong celebration of his 45th birthday and his 15 years of ruling Oman. Former President Gerald R. Ford, King Hussein of Jordan, Pakistani President Zia ul-Haq, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi were among representatives of 60 countries at the parade. Sources who asked not to be named estimated that the week’s events, which include camel races, laser shows, fireworks and the stringing of millions of lights over the capital, may cost over $400 million.
A team of American experts and a plane filled with heavy equipment arrived in Hanoi today to begin the first joint excavation of an American warplane crash site in Vietnam. With hundreds of people watching, the American team drove a 21,000-pound excavator along a narrow dirt road to the crash site at Yen Thuong village, 9 miles north of Hanoi, where they hope to uncover the remains of at least four American men still listed as missing in action. The excavation is scheduled to begin Tuesday and to take at least 10 days.
Protesting students set fire to an office of South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan’s ruling party before being overpowered by hundreds of riot police in Seoul, witnesses said. The 182 students occupied the party’s two-story training center for six hours, keeping police at bay by splashing oil in the building and setting it on fire. Riot police finally fired tear gas before rushing in to arrest the students, who were demanding Chun’s resignation and an end to U.S. support for his government. Seven injuries were reported.
Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos said that Gen. Fabian C. Ver, the armed forces chief of staff accused of conspiracy in connection with the political assassination in 1983 of opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr., may serve as a consultant in reorganizing the military. Marcos’ statement indicated that Ver might not be reinstated even if he is acquitted at his trial. A verdict on 26 accused in the case is expected Wednesday, but petitions for a mistrial are still pending.
About 150 leftist guerrillas in Colombia seized the northern town of Urrao for seven hours, then were ousted in fighting for the police station that left two policemen and one rebel dead. Mayor Guillermo Canola said the guerrillas withdrew into the mountains 300 miles north of Bogota. He said they left pamphlets signed by the People’s Liberation Army and M-19, the group that occupied the nation’s Justice Palace earlier this month until an army assault killed 95 people.
Searchers found five people alive, including an 18-month-old boy, in the vast sea of mud in the town of Armero, Colombia, which was destroyed by mudslides and flooding after the eruption Wednesday of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano. The development came after reports Sunday that the Government had suspended efforts to find survivors from the mudslides and flooding that struck Armero and 13 other villages and towns after the eruption Wednesday of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano. Today, army officers in Mariquita, not far from Armero, said they had been ordered to continue searching for 50 more hours. The army officers, who have been pessimistic from the start, said they had thought there was little chance of finding anyone else alive in the mud five days after it gushed over the town, propelled by flood waters that cascaded down the sides of the volcano. Had the Government carried out its plans to end the search and declare the whole town a cemetery, as the Minister of Health, Rafael de Zubiria, announced Sunday afternoon, these people would have been left to die.
Gunmen attacked a Chilean army helicopter base with bombs, rockets and submachine-gun fire, damaging a U.S.-built helicopter, a hangar and other buildings, police and army officials said. Soldiers guarding the Tobalaba installation, just east of the capital of Santiago, fought off the unidentified attackers in a fierce battle, an army spokesman said. No one was injured in the raid.
Liberia recalled its Ambassador to Sierra Leone yesterday because of what it said was that country’s complicity in an unsuccessful coup attempt last week, a Liberian Embassy spokesman in Washington said. The spokesman, J. Emmanuel Bowier, denied reports that opposition politicians and members of ethnic groups who opposed the presidential candidacy last month of Gen. Samuel K. Doe, the Liberian leader, had been killed. “We are not denying that many people got killed immediately following the failed coup attempt,” Mr. Bowier said, but added “there has been no killing of political party officials.” He said that about a dozen opposition political leaders were in “protective custody” and that some would be tried for their purported involvement in the coup attempt last Tuesday.
South African police fatally shot 13 people over the weekend. Violence around the country over 14 months has taken more than 850 lives, most of them black.
As the Senate resumed work today on a comprehensive four-year farm bill, Senator Jesse Helms warned lawmakers that President Reagan would veto the legislation if its cost to the Federal Treasury was not significantly reduced. In a speech on the Senate floor Mr. Helms, a North Carolina Republican, said that senators had to decide whether they “want a bill reflecting their political desires, or want a bill that can be enacted into law, not vetoed.” The remark pointed up the political nature of the farm bill, which has been stalled in the Senate since last month. Half a dozen Republicans from farm states face re-election next year and Democrats say the slumping farm economy and the way Congress deals with it could determine control of the Senate in the next Congress.
The Reagan Administration’s decision to roll back Federal fuel efficiency standards for new cars is being challenged in court even as the two largest car companies prepare strategies so they can comply with the relaxed requirements. The court actions are the latest move in a 15-year controversy over whether the Federal Government should require Detroit to make cars that use less gasoline. They come less than 90 days after the Administration eased the average fuel standard for the fleets of 1986 models to 26 miles a gallon from 27.5 miles a gallon. In three suits last week, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston, the state of California and a coalition of consumer groups sought reinstatement of the tougher standards. The cases were filed in the United States Court of Appeals in Washington.
The E.P.A. gave 10,000 officials from states, municipalities, chemical companies and unions specific plans to avoid a major chemical accident like the one in Bhopal, India last December. The plans were presented in teleconferences in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and 200 other cities.
An immigration official urged the demotion and temporary suspension without pay of two border agents who forcibly returned a Soviet seaman to his ship in the Mississippi last month. Thomas Ferguson, the Deputy Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, recommended pay cuts of about $4,000 a year for the two agents, who have not been identified.
Judge Robert H. Bork of the Federal appeals court here added his long-held views to a growing public debate over constitutional law today, arguing that judges have no authority to add new rights to those specified by the framers of the Constitution. Judge Bork, a leading conservative legal scholar whom President Reagan named to his current seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, is often mentioned by Reagan Administration officials as a possible Supreme Court nominee. Faithfulness to the “original intent” of the framers of the Constitution, he said, “is the only legitimate basis for constitutional decision,” and “is essential to prevent courts from invading the proper domain of democratic government.” The views he expressed in a speech prepared for delivery in San Diego resembled those recently espoused by Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d, whose views have drawn response from Justices William J. Brennan Jr. and John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court. But Judge Bork took pains to avoid any appearance that he was seeking to identify his views with those of Mr. Meese, whom he did not mention, or to criticize the Supreme Court directly, something that is rarely done by lower court judges.
Donald J. Trump seeks to erect the world’s tallest building — a tapering 150-story tower — as the centerpiece of a massive complex of apartments, shopping centers and television studios on a 13-block-long site along the Upper West Side waterfront that was once the Penn Central rail yards. The developer must go through a long city approval process, and the West Side activists who blocked Lincoln West, an earlier proposal for the site, vowed to oppose the Trump proposal as being too large and monumental for the neighborhood.
An elderly couple filed a $58million lawsuit in Austin, Texas, against three tobacco companies, claiming their disabling illnesses were caused by years of cigarette smoking, court records showed. The suit claims cigarette manufacturers should be responsible for a percentage of damages even though the Bastrop, Texas, couple — Weldon Carlisle and his wife, Hazel — chose to smoke. Carlisle, 71, said he developed throat cancer from smoking. Hazel Carlisle, 61, is dying of emphysema, has suffered a stroke and is confined to a wheelchair.
Artificial heart patient William J. Schroeder suffered post-stroke seizures, which were controlled with medication, and has shaken a persistent fever, his surgeon said in Louisville, Kentucky. Schroeder last week suffered his third stroke since receiving the Jarvik-7 heart last November 25. Murray P. Haydon, Dr. William C. DeVries’ second artificial heart patient at Humana Hospital Audubon, who underwent his implant February 17, remains in the coronary care unit and is on a respirator.
Drug smugglers could have monitored a wide range of sensitive Government radio communications, according to documents made public by two members of Congress. The communications include transmissions to military planes, law enforcement agencies and Air Force One.
Negotiators for John Morrell & Co. and the union representing 2,700 employees signed a tentative agreement in Chicago that could end a 12-week-old strike against the meatpacker in South Dakota. The contract still must be ratified by United Food and Commercial Workers union members at Morrell’s Sioux Falls plant. Morrell is South Dakota’s largest employer. Details of the agreement were not made public.
New York Mayor Edward I. Koch rejected a call by state health officials to extend the crackdown on “high risk” sexual activity to include hotel raids by investigators as part of efforts to halt the spread of AIDS. “We will not send in sex police to hotels to ascertain the nature of sex practices between consenting adults,” Koch said by telephone from Tokyo, where he is vacationing. Koch contradicted state Health Commissioner David Axelrod, who said officials were prepared to crack down on “high risk” sexual practices in hotels as well as bathhouses and gay clubs. Gov. Mario M. Cuomo supported Axelrod’s statement, saying if a hotel promoted “high risk” sexual activity, it would be vulnerable to the regulations.
A New York City child who was believed to have AIDS and was the object of a legal fight and classroom boycott to bar the student from school does not have the disease, a panel of physicians concluded. Health Commissioner David Sencer said the child does have the AIDS virus but does not meet medical standards to be classified as having the disease.
Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport atop its 747 transport aircraft.
Two black colleges would gain a reported $100 million under a proposal by the Justice Department. It urged the State of Alabama to pay the money to the two colleges to settle a Federal desegregation suit. Governor George C. Wallace was studying the recommendation.
A California law limits the fees that winners of medical malpractice suits may pay to their lawyers. A challenge to the constitutionality of the law was rejected yesterday by the Supreme Court.
The largest legal battle over the nation’s most widely used intrauterine contraceptive device, the Copper 7, began today in Baltimore, with an attorney telling jurors that G. D. Searle & Company rushed it to market on the basis of a “fatally flawed” study. The plaintiffs, 17 women from around the nation, are seeking unspecified damages for problems they say were caused by the device, including pelvic inflammations and sterility.
Judges may not add new rights to those specified by the framers of the Constitution, according to Robert H. Bork, a Federal appellate judge. Judge Bork, a leading conservative legal scholar, is mentioned by Administration officials as a possible Supreme Court nominee.
An Indianapolis fast-food restaurant manager was killed Sunday after he talked two intruders into taking him as a hostage in place of one of his colleagues. The police said today that the death of the manager, Dewayne M. Bible, might have resulted from his insistence on turning off a freezer where five women were held at a McDonald’s restaurant.
The human nose is besieged by germs every winter. This year, the nose is being spurred to retaliate with the aid of new medical research. The counterattacks include experimental vaccines, drugs and strategies to bolster the respiratory tract’s natural defenses against infection.
People flocked out of the vulnerable Florida Keys and Gov. Bob Graham declared a state of emergency in South Florida as Hurricane Kate churned across tiny Bahamian islands. Boaters gathering in Florida to escape winter in the North were told to head for safe inland harbors, and residents were urged to find secure shelter. Neil Frank, director of the National Hurricane Center, said: “This isn’t the big awesome kind of storm we see in September, but it’s a very respectable hurricane.” At latest report, the hurricane’s highest sustained winds of 110 mph were about 300 miles southeast of Miami and the eye was being carried west at 20 mph.
Roads were slippery from the Rockies to the Mississippi Valley as a new storm blew snow across the mountains and the northern Plains, and freezing rain hit parts of South Dakota and Minnesota. A winter storm warning was issued for parts of Utah, where up to 15 inches of snow and wind whipping at 30 to 35 mph produced near-blizzard conditions in the northern part of the state, the National Weather Service said. Salt Lake City got three inches of snow.
The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to pay a $4,000 fine and take other steps to settle charges that it violated the Animal Welfare Act in its treatment of primates used in studies of head injuries, the United States Agriculture Department said today. The university also agreed to improve use of pain-relieving drugs in animal experiments, care of injured animals and training for research workers who handle laboratory animals, said Bert W. Hawkins, Administrator of the Federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
The Howard Stern Radio Show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM) with an afternoon drive slot.
Paul McCartney releases film theme single “Spies Like Us.”
Willie McGee wins the National League MVP Award, capping a season in which he led the league in batting average (.353) and hits (216) and also stole 56 bases for St. Louis.
Dwight Gooden (National League) and Bret Saberhagen (American League) win the Cy Young Award in their respective leagues.
NFL Monday Night Football:
The Redskins could have folded when Joe Theismann, their 36-year-old quarterback, suffered a compound fracture of the lower right leg tonight. Instead, behind Jay Schroeder, a rarely used backup, they struck back and beat the high-flying Giants, 23–21. The Giants had won four straight games, and they were trying to gain sole possession of the National Conference’s Eastern Division lead. Instead, their record fell to 7-4 and they fell back into a first-place tie with the Dallas Cowboys. The Redskins improved their record to 6-5 and kept their playoff hopes alive. Now they are tied with the Philadelphia Eagles, only one game out of first place in perhaps the strongest of the National Football League’s six divisions. Joe Morris scored all the Giants’ touchdowns on runs of 56 yards in the first quarter and 41 and 8 yards in the third quarter. The first two touchdown plays were similar traps, with Chris Godfrey making the key blocks. Maurice Carthon made the big block on the final touchdown. Morris now has 11 rushing touchdowns this season, breaking the Giants’ record of 10 by Bill Paschal in 1943. The injury to Theismann could have done in the Redskins. The fiery quarterback is the soul of the team, and last week he stubbornly denied that he had become slower and less effective in this troubled season.
Theismann was injured on the second play of the second quarter when Lawrence Taylor leaped and tackled him cleanly from the rear. Theismann’s right leg turned under him, and he suffered an open break of the lower thirds of the two main leg bones — the tibia and the fibula. A second or two after Theismann went down on a flea-flicker play, Taylor and Jim Burt of the Giants waved frantically to the Redskins’ bench for the physicians and trainers to rush out. They did, and Theismann eventually was wheeled off on a gurney and taken to Arlington Hospital, where he underwent surgery. With Theismann out of the game, the Redskins turned to Schroeder, their only other quarterback. The 24-year-old Schroeder is a second-year pro from U.C.L.A. who played baseball in the Toronto Blue Jays’ farm system. He had thrown only eight passes all year. Tonight, he looked like a veteran. His first pass was complete to Art Monk for 44 yards. On most of his passes, he sprinted out to the right to get more time. In all, he completed 13 of 20 for 221 yards, with one touchdown and one sack. He showed a willingness to scramble and ran 7 times for 15 yards. “I got in there,” said Schroeder, “and they just rallied around.”
[Ed: Joe Theismann would never play another NFL down.]
New York Giants 21, Washington Redskins 23
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