President Reagan meets with Mikhail Gorbachev for the second day of the U.S. -Soviet Summit in Geneva, Switzerland. President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev discuss human rights and the Strategic Defense Initiative. The American and Soviet leaders held more private meetings in Geneva and agreed to end their conference with a joint appearance today, President Reagan’s spokesman said. But American and Soviet officials said deep differences continued to separate Mr. Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev on arms control and other issues.
The private talks between the President and Mr. Gorbachev lasting nearly five hours loomed unusually large in Geneva. In the past, staff members have been fearful that some spur-of-the-moment comment might be misinterpreted or that zeal might overcome judgment and lead to an imprudent pledge. As Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, noted today, the nearly five hours that President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev have spent together was a good deal more time than they devoted to full-dress meetings surrounded by aides, which were supposed to have taken up almost the entire schedule here. President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev held three more private meetings today and agreed to conclude their conference here with a joint appearance on Thursday morning, Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, announced tonight. White House officials also said that Mr. Gorbachev plans to visit the United States in 1986 and that Mr. Reagan plans to visit Moscow in 1987. Earlier this week, negotiators were reported to be agreed in principle on a follow-up summit meeting. The two leaders are to appear at Geneva’s International Conference Center Thursday morning before a worldwide television audience. Soviet and American officials said tonight that after two days of talks, profound differences continued to separate Washington and Moscow on arms control and other issues.
President Reagan, normally vilified by the Soviet press, has been on television screens the last two nights, smiling, laughing and apparently enjoying the company of Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Geneva. The main daily newspapers today published a large front-page picture of Mr. Gorbachev and Mr. Reagan chatting amicably in the glow of a fire in the pool house of the Fleur d’Eau chateau, where the two leaders held their first sessions Tuesday. It was the first front-page picture of an American President the Russians have seen in years. “It’s got to be jarring to Russians, accustomed to all the anti-American propaganda, to suddenly see Ronald Reagan in their living rooms smiling pleasantly and talking easily with Gorbachev,” a diplomat said.
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The director of the Strategic Defense Initiative program said today that he expected to receive instructions after the Geneva summit to move ahead “much more quickly and effectively” with the design of a space-based defense against nuclear missiles. The director, Lieutenant General James A. Abrahamson, apparently seeking to counter speculation that the Reagan Administration would agree to limits on the research program, popularly called “Star Wars,” told military officials and defense industry executives at a space technology conference here that “when the team comes back from Geneva, it will not be to say what we must give up, but rather that we must go ahead even faster.” General Abrahamson also disclosed for the first time that the Pentagon had recently destroyed a mock-up of a Soviet SS-18 missile booster with a hardened plastic pellet fired at tremendous velocity. Showing a photograph of the splintered booster, he said that the test demonstrated the potential of electromagnetic rail guns, a highly experimental kinetic-energy weapon that could be based in space to cripple incoming nuclear missiles. In the experiment, the pellet was fired from a special air gun.
In a last-minute effort to provide more agreements to announce at the Geneva summit meeting, American negotiators flew secretly to Moscow on Sunday to reopen talks on restoring direct air service between the United States and the Soviet Union, Reagan Administration officials said today. The negotiators, working without publicity at the Soviet Ministry of Aviation since Monday, have been trying to reach enough agreement so that something positive could be announced when the summit meeting ends, the officials said. Accord on a new civil aviation agreement would open the way to a companion agreement, on exchanging new consulates in Kiev and New York, to add to the list of concrete achievements that could be made public in Geneva. The Soviet side has maintained that the consulate accord, first agreed to in principle in 1979, could not go ahead until there was a civil aviation agreement.
Yelena G. Bonner will depart from the Soviet Union on December 2, pledged to avoid journalists while she is traveling abroad for medical treatment in Italy and Massachusetts. “If she breaks the promise, she risks not being allowed to return,” said Yefrem Yankelevich, a son-in-law. Miss Bonner said she would fly to Rome on December 2 for an eye examination and to Boston a few days later for a coronary bypass. The 40-minute call today, placed by Miss Bonner’s children to Gorky in the Soviet Union after two days of unsuccessful attempts, was the second time the Sakharovs were able to talk with their relatives in this Boston suburb in the last two weeks.
Three days of strikes and violent street disturbances in Athens, Greece this week have aggravated a growing confrontation between the governing Socialists and the Communists. The demonstrations are widely viewed here as part of a reaction by the far left to Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou’s recent policy of improving relations with the West and with Greece’s business sector. The incidents this week have included clashes between the police and left-wing extremists, the death of a demonstrator, the suspension of the country’s three police chiefs, and the submitted resignations by three Cabinet members. The Prime Minister refused to accept the resignations.
Britain’s House of Commons decided by a 12-vote margin not to allow telecasts of its freewheeling debates. Arguments for and against crossed party lines, and party whips relaxed the usually strong party discipline, giving members permission to vote their conscience. Some critics said members would “play up” to the cameras. Proponents argued that newspaper coverage is distorted and television would give constituents a more accurate idea of what their representatives do. The non-elected House of Lords opened itself to television coverage in January.
Protestants angered by an Irish-British treaty on Northern Ireland attacked Britain’s top official in the province Wednesday and trapped him in City Hall for two hours before he was rescued by the police. The official, Tom King, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, was accosted by about 50 people as he tried to enter the building, and was punched, kicked and grabbed in a hammerlock as they screamed abuse and chanted “traitor, traitor.” Then bodyguards and policemen whisked him to safety. Before removing Mr. King from City Hall two hours later, the police swarmed into the city center and closed off roads, creating massive traffic jams. They reported one arrest, and there were no reports of serious injury.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres told the Parliament in Jerusalem today that his Government was not discussing the return of territory captured from Israel’s Arab neighbors in 1967. “To the best of my knowledge, no territorial issues have been raised between Jordan and Israel,” he declared. He said the recent contacts with King Hussein had focused on how to start negotiations with Jordan or a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation without conditions. Mr. Peres’s statement was in answer to Geula Cohen of the opposition Tehiya Party and David Magen of the Likud bloc. The two had charged that Mr. Peres’s failure to refute publicly King Hussein’s forecast that the Jordanian flag would soon fly over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem increased concerns about the Government’s intentions on the future of the West Bank, the Golan Heights and Jerusalem. Mr. Peres replied, “I have said that the Knesset resolved that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, under Israeli sovereignty, a united city, and so will remain.”
Iran provided U.S.-built F-14 Tomcat and F-4 Phantom fighter planes to the Soviet Union to evaluate and allowed the Soviets to examine former CIA listening posts in northern Iran, Jane’s Defense Weekly said. Yossef Bodansky, a Soviet affairs specialist who contributes to the respected publication, said Moscow supplied both Iran and Iraq with weapons for their war. The report said the F-14s and F-4s were flown to the Soviet Union for tests. The United States sold F-14s to the Shah of Iran in 1976-78, shortly before he was toppled.
A U.S.-Vietnamese team pulled four more pieces of a shattered U.S. aircraft from the ground in a village near Hanoi on the second day of a search for the remains of four American airmen believed killed in the crash. The remnants were stored for later analysis in the United States, along with human bone fragments found the day before. The Vietnamese say two airmen parachuted from the B-52 and were later released.
The leader of an outlawed Muslim fundamentalist party and 17 other people were killed when Malaysian police tried to arrest him at his home in the northwestern part of the country. The dead included four policemen. Twenty policemen and nine civilians were wounded in the battle between police and about 400 people at Kampong Siong, 210 miles from Kuala Lumpur and 18 miles from the Thai border. Police wanted to arrest Ibrahim Libya, head of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, because of extremist activities in the area, officials said.
Several hundred students in Peking staged their second protest against Japan in as many months today, raising new concerns that Deng Xiaoping and fellow Communist Party leaders may be facing a broader groundswell against their “open door” policies. The latest protest took the form of a vigil before the Monument to the People’s Heroes in Tienanmen Square in the heart of the capital. After the initial march to the square on Sept. 18, party leaders appealed to the students to channel their “patriotism” into support of the “open door” policies. Today, policemen on duty in the square moved in with jeeps and bullhorns after two hours and ordered the students to disperse. The students, many of them from Peking University, were responding to a circular distributed on the campus that demanded support for a new stage in the “Democracy 1985” movement, the name given to the upsurge of anti-Japanese feeling first manifested in September. The circular renewed assertions that China is being subjected to “economic aggression” by Japan in a replay of the Japanese ambitions of the 1930’s and 1940’s, when Japan invaded and conquered much of China.
After more than two weeks of debate and political maneuvering, the nature and even the likelihood of early elections called for by President Ferdinand E. Marcos have become fragmented into an array of political and procedural questions. One of the foremost of these is whether this atmosphere of uncertainty and disarray proves the political mastery of Mr. Marcos or reflects the desperate maneuvers of a leader under pressure from several directions. Some political commentators here suggest that both explanations may be partly true. Despite the pressures he faces both within the Philippines and from his American allies, Mr. Marcos appears for the moment to be firmly in control of a political situation whose multiplying complexities seem only to add to his options.
Vice President Bush said today that Caribbean governments had not been doing enough to make a success out of the Caribbean Basin Initiative, the Reagan Administration’s economic development plan for the region. “Let me be completely blunt about this — for C.B.I. to succeed as fully as it can, the C.B.I. countries have got to do more than they are doing,” he said in a speech to the Miami Conference on the Caribbean. Mr. Bush, whose audience included five Caribbean Prime Ministers, said the area’s governments should reduce taxes, streamline government regulations, improve services related to international trade, lower trade barriers within the Caribbean, denationalize industries and adjust exchange rates. There was no immediate comment from the Caribbean leaders.
The human rights situation in El Salvador has improved since the election of President Jose Napoleon Duarte last year, but political murders and torture continue, a report by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights said. It praised the Duarte administration’s attempts to curb political violence but criticized the armed forces for “unjustified deaths and injuries” to civilians, and leftist rebels for an increase in murders and kidnappings.
The Nicaraguan Government reported today that its soldiers had killed 41 rebels in a clash in the central province of Chontales. Authorities displayed 10 bodies of men whom they described as rebel soldiers in the central plaza of the village of Santo Domingo. A Government spokesman, Roberto Calderon, said the rebels had tried to overrun the village on Tuesday. Mr. Calderon gave no government casualty report, but the official Sandinista daily Barricada named two men who “fell heroically in combat.”
Gunmen killed the leader of Colombia’s Popular Liberation Army hours after he justified a recent attack by his guerrillas on a northwestern town. Oscar Calvo was shot down by two men with submachine guns riding a motorcycle on a central Bogota street. Calvo said earlier in the day that his group, the military arm of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party, respects a truce with the government and has decided not to resume general armed struggle in spite of its recent joint raid with the more prominent M-19 guerrilla force on the town of Urrao.
Officially, the search for survivors of the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano at Armero, Colombia is still under way. But except for intensified efforts by two small teams of French and British rescue workers, the operation, which from the beginning had been fragmented, small and poorly equipped, had all the signs of being over. A few helicopters made low passes over the mud plain covering this ruined town, but most of the aircraft in the area were hauling food and other supplies to refugees camped on the surrounding hills. Journalists and construction workers who have been going into Armero daily said that the number of helicopters and volunteer rescue workers had dwindled to the lowest point since the search started.
A Ghanaian who worked at the U.S. Embassy in Accra was sentenced to life in prison for spying for the CIA and recruiting another man for espionage. Felix Koktoko Peasah, 58, who was also a Ghanaian security officer, had pleaded guilty to passing Ghanaian government secrets to the CIA, and to recruiting Theodore Attiedu to help him. Attiedu was previously sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Up to 100,000 refugees have died in Ethiopian resettlement programs after having been forced to move at gunpoint, the chairman of a leading French medical aid agency said today. The head of Doctors Without Borders agency, Rene Brauman, said the group’s field workers in Ethiopia had reported that refugees were being forced at gunpoint to move to new camps in the south. He said from 50,000 to 100,000 refugees had already died as a result of resettlement programs that officials say are to move people out of areas worst hit by famine. Mr. Brauman disputed a statement he attributed to Michael Priestley, the United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Emergency Operations in Ethiopia, that the relocation was being carried out correctly and that there was no reason to believe people were being moved against their will.
Khartoum abounds with terrorists, according to the State Department, which urged Americans not to travel to the Sudanese capital. The United States urged Americans today not to travel to Khartoum, charging that the Sudanese capital had become a base for Libyan and other terrorists. The State Department, in issuing the warning, said the Sudanese authorities had not been responsive to repeated American requests that the purported terrorists be expelled. It was the United States’ strongest public criticism of the Sudanese military government since it toppled the Government of Gaafar al-Nimeiry in a coup last April.
Tantalizing but sketchy clues pointing to Africa as the origin of AIDS have unleashed one of the bitterest disputes in the recent annals of medicine. Thus far the search has led American research to two African children who in 1963 lived in Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso. On the basis of blood samples that had been frozen and stored since that time, they are believed to have been infected with the AIDS virus or with one similar to it. This clue and several others have led to what has now emerged as the prevailing thesis in American and European medical circles that the worldwide spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome began in Central Africa, the home of several other recently recognized diseases. The Africans vigorously disagree, and there is some criticism of the validity of the studies on which the theories are predicated. Indeed, controversial new results that point both to and against Africa as the origin of AIDS are fueling the international furor.
Liberia will hold trials starting today for 11 civilians and an undisclosed number of military personnel who were implicated in an unsuccessful coup last week, a spokesman for the Liberian Embassy in Washington said yesterday. The embassy spokesman, J. Emmanuel Bowier, also said the Liberian head of state, General Samuel K. Doe, had named the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Brigadier General Rudolph Kolaco, to be commanding general of the armed forces. General Kolaco will have responsibility for assuring that anyone detained after the botched coup will not be “harassed, molested, abused, intimidated or adversely affected in anyway,” the spokesman said General Doe had announced.
A South African Government committee today recommended the abolition of laws that bar blacks from competing on an equal basis in business. The Economic Committee of the President’s Council, an advisory body, condemned the Group Areas Act, which provides for residential segregation, and another law that creates segregated black townships, so-called homelands and business areas. “They deny Asian, black and mixed-race businessmen and potential businessmen access to the economically dominant areas of the country,” the committee said in a report titled “A Strategy For Small Business Development and For Deregulation.”
Legislators from most Southern states have endorsed a regional election plan that could lead to a 15-state presidential primary or caucus on the same day — the second Tuesday in March — in 1988, an aide to Oklahoma Governor George Nigh says. The proposal was approved last month at a meeting of a task force of the Southern Legislative Conference of the Council of State Governments in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Lawmakers from 13 of 15 Southern states voted for the plan. Oklahoma and Florida did not have a legislative representative at the meeting, but Scott Ingham, an aide to Nigh, attended and relayed Nigh’s support for the proposal. The plan will be submitted for consideration at a meeting of the conference’s executive committee December 4-7 at Lake Tahoe, Nev. The goal is a full-fledged regional presidential primary designed to give the South a greater impact on the selection of Democratic and Republican presidential candidates.
The nation’s economy grew at an annual rate of 4.3 percent in the third quarter, considerably faster than previously estimated, the Commerce Department reported today. Economists were generally heartened by today’s report. Most of them had expected a downward revision in the 3.3 percent rate of expansion tentatively announced last month. And today the Reagan Administration reaffirmed its prediction that growth of the gross national product would be even stronger in the fourth quarter. “We’ve had a pattern of acceleration,” said a buoyant Beryl W. Sprinkel, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
A Pentagon commission studying ways to deter espionage has recommended a broad array of security measures, a member of the commission said today. It includes a significantly expanded program of random polygraph, or lie-detector, tests for military personnel and civilian contractors, he said. The commission’s report, which will be issued Thursday, also calls for a program of financial rewards for informers who turn in spies. It recommends substantial reductions in the storage of unneeded classified material, more limited use of secret classifications and reductions in the number of people who have access to classified material.
The House voted to strengthen the authority of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by giving him greater access to the President and supervision of field commanders. The House approved the changes by a vote of 383 to 27 despite the objections of the Reagan Administration.
A House subcommittee, saying voluntary requests have been refused, voted to subpoena scientific reviews submitted to the Food and Drug Administration on the potential cancer-causing effect of six food and drug dyes now in common use. The subpoena was addressed to outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret M. Heckler. Rep. Ted Weiss (D-New York) subcommittee chairman, said the FDA has refused requests for the scientific reviews since early September.
Loretta Cornelius is ignoring a two-week-old White House request that she resign as deputy director of the Office of Personnel Management, Reagan Administration officials said. Cornelius, whose Senate testimony helped prevent her former boss, Donald J. Devine, from continuing as OPM director, has given no indication she will comply with the November 8 request, said OPM spokesman James Lafferty. Her attorney, Joseph Petrillo, has said repeatedly that his client does not consider that she has received a formal request to resign from President Reagan.
“I simply assumed the responsibility,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson said today in reply to a question from the floor after a speech at a church center in Geneva. He was not talking about his remarkable stand-up encounter Tuesday, in the midst of the first day of a summit conference, with Mikhail S. Gorbachev. He was talking about a visit he paid on the Rev. Jerry Falwell, in some respects his opposite number on the political scene, to make the case that Mr. Falwell’s stance on South Africa was un-Christian. But the phrase stuck as the start of an explanation as to how and why this evangelizing candidate and political preacher — the categories inevitably blur and overlap — manages to propel himself, with noticeably increasing frequency, into the foreign policy arena as well as the debate. To those who say he presumes as well as assumes, Jesse Jackson responds with a reminder that the question about where he gets his authority, his marching orders, is the same that was flung at biblical prophets.
Robert Kerrey was talking about “the joy of being Governor of Nebraska.” “It takes a tremendous amount of spirit and energy,” he said in an interview. “It feels good because you discover that as Governor you can make a difference.” The 42-year-old Democratic Governor spoke with evident sincerity. Yet several days before the interview he spread shock and dismay in his party by renouncing the chance to continue beyond the end of his current term in January 1987. He will not seek a second term, he said.
Pennsylvania officials simulated a disaster at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, near Harrisburg, sparking a brief evacuation by thousands of schoolchildren and a drill by more than 1,300 TMI workers and emergency crews. The exercise was the first at the facility since TMI’s Unit No. 1 nuclear reactor was restarted on October 3. TMI’s Unit No. 2 reactor was crippled on March 28, 1979, in a near meltdown, the nation’s worst commercial nuclear power accident. By the time the drill ended, the make-believe disaster would involve the evacuation — on paper only — of 167,000 people.
450,000 inactive reservists to report for a day of active duty every year. A decision approved November 8 by Deputy Defense Secretary William H. Taft 4th said the musters must start in the fiscal year 1987, which begins next October 1. The directive affects those who have been trained and have served in in the military but who, upon leaving active duty, did not go into the active Reserve or the National Guard. James H. Webb, the Assistant Defense Secretary for Reserve Affairs, said the musters would make it possible for the services to locate inactive reservists and gauge their physical condition and military skills. Mr. Webb disclosed Mr. Taft’s decision Tuesday. He said the program would cost the Pentagon about $61 million a year. The funds would be requested in the 1987 budget.
The U.S. Navy will proceed with its plans to base battleships, aircraft carriers and other warships in 15 new or expanded port facilities, including Staten Island, unless Congress kills the concept by February 9, a Navy spokesman said today. Legislation authorizing military construction was approved by Senate-House conferees Tuesday and was sent to President Reagan. It bans any expenditures for putting the base plan into effect until 90 days after the Navy provides a report justifying the more than $1 billion cost of the multiyear project.
Gus Mijalis, a co-defendant in Louisiana Governor Edwin W. Edward’s federal racketeering trial in New Orleans, denied that he demanded $100,000 for helping a north Louisiana businessman get state certification for two nursing homes. Mijalis’ testimony sharply conflicted with that given last month by the businessman, Kevin Gamble, who — along with his brothers — runs several nursing homes in north Louisiana. Gamble had testified that Mijalis demanded $50,000 apiece for helping obtain state certificates for the nursing homes.
A judge in Portland, Oregon, blocked a plan by Mayor Bud Clark to read aloud at a City Council meeting the names of nine men and six women arrested this month for offenses related to prostitution. Judge Charles S. Crookham issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday, barring the city from making such lists public. “The object is to clear the neighborhood streets of prostitutes,” Clark said. Attorney Janet L. Hoffman had argued that reading the names would violate sections of the Oregon and U.S. constitutions.
Frightened shoppers jammed a Los Angeles Health Department hot line with calls today as striking unions posted a $25,000 reward for information on whoever threatened to poison meat and produce. No tainted food had been found as of this afternoon, but tension in the 15-day strike ran high after syringes containing traces of herbicides were found at five Alpha Beta stores in Los Angeles County. Alpha Beta assured customers that security had been increased as violence continued elsewhere. Stink bombs were set off Tuesday night at seven Vons markets in the county, and two men were jailed today after shots were fired at a Safeway truck driver in San Bernardino. There were no reports of major injuries. The Health Department hot line was set up in response to the discovery of the syringes Tuesday. An anonymous letter described where the syringes could be found and said meat and produce at 42 Alpha Beta stores had been injected with non-lethal doses of poison.
A group of 200 people with disabilities has not been invited to march in the Thanksgiving Day parade in Detroit because sponsors want to make sure the procession moved along fast enough to keep its spot on national television. The group of mentally and physically impaired children and adults, many of them Boy Scouts who marched in last year’s parade, were also rejected when they tried to volunteer for work on the parade’s preparations. Kevin Feldman, leader of the disabled group, said he received a letter Tuesday from Carlene C. Bonner, the parade president, explaining the decision not to invite the group this year.
Many defense lawyers have changed radically the way they handle white collar, racketeering and drug cases as a result of recent Federal laws, a new national study shows. Many lawyers said they no longer accepted clients accused of violating Federal drug smuggling and organized crime laws.
The American Cancer Society’s annual “Great American Smokeout,” beginning at midnight today and continuing until midnight Thursday, is spreading its antismoking message into the heart of tobacco country. “We have nearly 80 of our 100 county units participating this year,” said Wendy Scott, spokesman for the cancer society’s North Carolina office.
Hurricane Kate turned northward toward a 300-mile stretch of the central Gulf Coast that has suffered more than $3 billion in hurricane damage since August. Hurricane warnings were posted from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, to St. Marks, Florida, but forecasters said Florida’s panhandle was the most likely to get a direct hit from the hurricane. “The center could cross the coast as early as noon Thursday,” Miles Lawrence, a hurricane forecaster, said, “but we’re thinking it is more likely it will be around 2 PM.” He said hurricane-force winds would be felt two to three hours before the eye of the storm crossed onto land.
Don Mattingly defeated George Brett in a runaway victory in the voting for the American League’s most valuable player award. Mattingly easily wins the American League MVP Award with a .324 average, becoming the first player from a non championship team to do so since 1978.
Jim Leyland is named manager of the Pirates for the 1986 season.
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