Mikhail S. Gorbachev said in a speech today that his discussions with President Reagan had been a success and that preparations for the next summit meeting, in 1986, should start now. Mr. Gorbachev’s televised 80-minute speech to the Supreme Soviet, or parliament, marked his first effort since a news conference in Geneva to report on the summit meeting to the Soviet public. Reading from a prepared text, he explained why he had decided to meet with Mr. Reagan and why he regarded the results as encouraging despite the absence of progress in arms control. Mr. Gorbachev called on Mr. Reagan again to join in a halt of nuclear testing to strengthen trust. Moscow announced a freeze in July but said it would expire January 1 unless Washington joined in. The Americans have refused on the ground that they need further tests to catch up with the Russians. The Soviet leader said that he had raised the issue of a joint moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons with Mr. Reagan, and that the President had remained silent when urged to rethink his refusal to join. Although the Soviet leader dwelt on American hard-line policies and contended that the United States, by refusing to abandon its space-based defense program, was to blame for the deadlock in arms control, he also said President Reagan deserved credit for showing a new realism.
The United States does not intend to modify its current negotiating proposal significantly before the Geneva arms talks convene again in January, the director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency said today. At the same time, the director, Kenneth L. Adelman, indicated that the Reagan Administration expected the Soviet side to make some adjustments. Mr. Adelman told a group of reporters there was “no need” for the United States to modify its position because the American negotiators presented a new proposal at the end of the last round of the arms talks, which ended in November, and were awaiting a Soviet response.
The Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact allies have reacted to the Soviet-American summit meeting with subtly differing positions, according to authorities on Eastern Europe. East Germany and Hungary have put the most optimistic interpretations on the encounter between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The two countries have been quietly coordinating their policies aimed at widening economic relations with the West. The Hungarian attitude was voiced by Gyula Horn, who as the State Secretary is the second-ranking official in the Foreign Ministry. He said on television that the summit meeting had brought “more than anyone could have expected” and had heralded “a new chapter in Soviet-United States relations and, through them, in East-West relations.”
The East German view was expressed by Erich Honecker, the East German leader, in a Central Committee meeting over the weekend. He pronounced the outcome of the summit meeting as “heartening and, as such, positive” and he welcomed the decision to hold two further meetings. After Mr. Gorbachev briefed his allies in Prague on November 21, the official press in other Warsaw Pact nations began to echo the Soviet Union’s cautiously upbeat tone. But the Czechoslovak press carried undertones warning that apparent shifts in the American attitudes could prove “illusory.” The day after the briefing, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish leader, conferred with Nicolae Ceausescu, the Rumanian leader. They issued a communique that Western diplomats said reflected Rumania’s concern that improved Soviet-American ties could diminish its prized room for maneuver.
Despite international efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, the problem is worsening, according to a new report. The study, made public here Monday by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, described developments in Pakistan and India as of particular concern. The report also asserts that Western nations have been lax in punishing those who have been caught smuggling technology that can be used for making nuclear arms. The report on “The New Nuclear Nations” is the second in a series of annual reviews written by Leonard S. Spector, a senior associate at Carnegie. Mr. Spector previously served as chief counsel of the Senate Energy and Nuclear Proliferation Subcommittee and helped draft 1978 legislation against the spread of nuclear weapons.
Most of the passengers who died in the commando storming of a hijacked Egyptian airliner Sunday perished from smoke inhalation, not bullet wounds, according to a high hospital official in Valetta, Malta. The statement, by the medical chief at St. Luke’s Hospital, Dr. Angelo J. Psaila, would appear to support assertions by Egyptian officials that the passengers were not killed by gunfire by Egyptian commandos. However, an official close to the investigation said the fire aboard the Egyptair Boeing 737 was ignited not by grenades thrown by the terrorists aboard the plane, but by explosions set off by the commandos to gain access to the jetliner. The official said many of the 57 passengers killed in the assault had died from the explosions themselves or from smoke inhalation from the fire ignited by the explosions, not the grenades. He said the Egyptian commandos had detonated at least two and possibly three explosions to gain access to the plane. The first, he said, was placed in or near the cargo hold. Egypt has acknowledged detonating only a smoke bomb.
The first Egyptair passenger selected by hijackers to be killed survived through a combination of luck and shrewdness. The Israeli passenger, 20-year-old Tamar Artzi, suffered bullet wounds above her right ear and in her hip, but she is now listed in excellent condition. Artzi, from Kibbutz Revivim in the Negev Desert in Israel, had never been on a plane before when she boarded Egyptair Flight 648 on Saturday night. Miss Artzi was on her way from Athens to Bangkok, by way of Cairo. Egyptair had offered the cheapest flight, with a stopover in Cairo. She was the first passenger to be selected for death by the hijackers on the plane. But through a combination of luck and shrewdness, she survived.
Malta’s decision to allow Egyptian commandos to storm the hijacked airliner was made under heavy diplomatic and political pressure, some of which militated against the operation, according to Maltese officials, diplomats and others familiar with the ordeal. The decision to allow the assault, in which 57 lives were lost, was described as especially difficult for Malta because of its financial and political ties to its close neighbor, Libya. To the country’s dismay, Malta found itself caught in the sharp, longstanding dispute between Egypt and Libya. At the same time, Maltese officials appeared concerned with establishing a clear record of toughness against terrorism, partly to offset a belief among some Western nations that it had been lax in the past. The full details of the reasoning behind Malta’s decision and the pressures it came under are still not known. But statements by Maltese officials and interviews with the diplomats and others familiar with the decisions made during the ordeal demonstrate the difficulties that were faced by this tiny archipelago in the Mediterranean.
The U.S. ordered a security review at Middle East airports, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole announced.
The House of Commons gave its overwhelming approval tonight to Britain’s agreement with the Irish Republic that allows Dublin a consultative role and official presence in Northern Ireland. Despite pleas made by Government and opposition spokesmen alike, the 473-to-47 vote in favor of the British-Irish accord appeared certain to lead to a mass resignation from the House by the 15 representatives of the province’s Protestant majority. The Unionists, as they are known on account of their commitment to the idea that the province must remain forever British, condemned the accord as a fatal concession to the nationalist cause of ending Ireland’s partition. The goal of the mass resignation, said to be the first of its kind in Parliament’s history, would be to force a series of by-elections in Northern Ireland that could be interpreted as a referendum on the agreement that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher signed 12 days ago with her Irish counterpart, Garret FitzGerald.
The U.N. General Assembly adopted an Argentine-backed resolution calling for talks between London and Buenos Aires to resolve their dispute over the Falkland Islands. The draft, which omitted any direct reference to the issue of sovereignty, which Britain refuses to discuss, was approved on a vote of 107 to 4 with 41 abstentions. Earlier in the day, two British amendments designed to invoke the principle of self-determination on behalf of the Falkland residents were defeated by wide margins.
The leftist November 17 terrorist group said today that it carried out the bombing Tuesday that wrecked a police van, killing a police officer and wounding 14 others. The group has taken responsibility for several political assassinations over the past decade, including that of the C.I.A. station chief in Athens in 1975. One police officer died and another was pronounced clinically dead after the blast. Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, whose Government has been tormented by a series of recent Greek-related and international terrorist acts, issued a statement charging that “destabilizing forces” were “threatening peace and democracy in our country.” He said he would use all necessary resources to combat such activity. The van, carrying 22 anti-riot police officers on a night patrol, was destroyed by a bomb in a booby-trapped car. The incident occurred shortly after some 1,000 anarchists marched on Parliament to protest the arrest of 20 demonstrators and the fatal shooting by the police of a 15-year-old last week.
Yelena Bonner, the Soviet dissident who was granted permission to travel to the West for medical treatment, is scheduled to fly from Moscow to Rome on Monday, a spokesman for the Italian airline Alitalia said in Moscow. Bonner, 62, wife of dissident physicist Andrei D. Sakharov, will be allowed to see eye doctors in Italy and receive treatment in the United States for a heart ailment. Sakharov, the 1975 Nobel Peace laureate, has been restricted for years to the central Russian city of Gorky.
King Hassan II of Morocco arrived today for a three-day official visit that is expected to focus partly on the King’s role in the Middle East peace process. The King was greeted at Orly Airport by President Francois Mitterrand. In two meetings with Mr. Mitterrand, King Hassan is also expected to discuss the economic ramifications of the entry January 1 of Spain and Portugal into the European Economic Community, which is likely to hurt Moroccan agricultural exports to Europe.
The United States is disappointed that Moroccan King Hassan II withdrew his invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres for a meeting to discuss the Middle East peace process, U.S. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering said in Tel Aviv. “It would have been a real contribution to the process to have such a meeting,” Pickering said. Hassan, chairman of the 21-member Arab League, offered Monday to talk with Peres, but the next day he said negotiations should be conducted indirectly through the United Nations.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli U.N.delegate, today disputed Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s assertion that Jews in the Soviet Union had more political and cultural freedom than Jews elsewhere. Mr. Netanyahu, addressing the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee of the General Assembly, said that Mr. Gorbachev’s remarks, made in October during a visit to Paris, had been “greeted with raucous derision around the world.”
Israel has urged Egypt to resume talks on autonomy for the 1.4 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, the director of Israel’s Foreign Ministry said. The director, David Kimche, warned that Israeli-Egyptian relations have “deteriorated seriously” and suggested reopening discussions on autonomy provided in the 1979 peace treaty between the two nations. Talks broke down several years ago after Jordan and the Palestinians rejected the autonomy proposal.
A firing squad executed a man and three women in a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern Lebanese port of Sidon. Police sources said a “field court” found the four guilty of assassinating four guerrilla leaders in June and of collaborating with Israel, which pulled its forces out of Sidon in February. Meanwhile, a new Syrian unit moved into West Beirut to reinforce a 36-man Syrian army force trying to maintain a cease-fire between rival militias in the Lebanese capital.
Terry Waite, the Church of England envoy, left the U.S. for London, stating that his mission to seek the release of four American hostages in Lebanon had moved “a step forward.” He said he had received “personal thanks and support” from American officials and believed the problem had moved closer to a solution.
China announced today that it would release a United States businessman who had been serving an 18-month prison sentence for accidentally causing a hotel fire earlier this year in which five North Koreans, four Chinese and the businessman’s Hong Kong business partner were killed. Officials said the 34-year-old businessman, Richard S. Ondrik of Kokomo, Ind., was expected to be released later today in the northeastern city of Harbin, where he has been held since his arrest June 26 on charges of starting a fire April 18 in the Swan Hotel.
France exploded an underground nuclear device at its Mururoa test site in the South Pacific, its second blast this week, the New Zealand government said. Prime Minister David Lange said it had a yield equivalent to 50 kilotons of TNT, the biggest since a 150-kiloton blast in May. There was no immediate comment by France.
Mexican police arrested a suspected member of a drug ring as an accomplice in the kidnap-murder of two American tourists. The Americans, Alberto Radelat, 32, of Fort Worth, and John Walker, 35, of Minneapolis, disappeared Jan. 31 in Guadalajara. Police said the suspect, Luis Gonzalez Ontiveras, is an associate of drug-smuggling kingpins Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernest Fonseca, accused of the February killing of a U.S. drug agent. Police believe Radelat and Walker were slain after being mistaken for U.S. drug agents. Their bodies were found in June.
A former Argentine military President, Leopoldo Galtieri, has told a court-martial that “British aggression” justified launching the war over the Falkland Islands in 1982 and says history will absolve him. General Galtieri, who is being tried with two other former junta members and 13 other military officers, denied charges on Tuesday that the leaders of the armed forces bungled the 74-day conflict militarily and diplomatically. “What was done was done well,” he told the Armed Forces Supreme Council, the nation’s top military tribunal.
Two land mines exploded today on South Africa’s northern border with Zimbabwe, bringing to four the number of such explosions since Tuesday, and Pretoria warned that its security forces would pursue insurgents across the frontier if the attacks continued. Army officials said the land mines had wounded four soldiers and were “presumably” laid by members of the exiled and outlawed African National Congress. The officials characterized the land-mine attacks as the first of their kind in the country. The African National Congress, which has been fighting to overthrow the white Government of South Africa, has its headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia, and has placed numerous bombs in South Africa.
A Navy counterintelligence analyst has admitted that he provided Israel with hundreds of pages of classified military documents, including one stack more than 15 inches high of mostly top-secret papers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said today. At a bail hearing, one of three court hearings today involving American citizens accused of espionage in the Washington area, law-enforcement officials also seemed to raise the possibility that the 31-year-old analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, had assembled documents that could be of interest to the Chinese Government. An F.B.I. agent testified that several classified documents relating to the Chinese military were found in a suitcase belonging to Mr. Pollard. His wife, Anne L. Henderson-Pollard, who has also been arrested on espionage charges, told a friend that she planned to “make a presentation at the Chinese Embassy,” the agent said.
U.S. and Israel pledged to cooperate in bringing to light the facts surrounding the case of Mr. Pollard. Both countries were seeking to limit the damage to their ties caused by the case.
Two Israeli diplomats involved in the collection of scientific information have been recalled to Israel from the United States because of their connections with an American Navy employee accused of selling secrets to Israel, Government sources said today. One man was based in Israel’s Washington embassy, the other in the New York consulate, The two diplomats are already back in Israel, the sources said. One arrived late last night and the other earlier in the week. Both are being kept out of sight, the sources added. The sources said the two were recalled in order to avoid the possibility that the United States Government would expel them or question them about the case.
U.S.-Israeli intelligence ties are normally marked by the closest cooperation, but over the years there have been occasional reports that Israelis spied on Americans and engaged in clandestine operations in the United States.
President Reagan goes horseback riding and does chores around the Ranch.
The Pentagon said that its internal watchdog has been asked to investigate the case of a senior auditing official who pressed associates to help cover legal expenses of his former boss, who was fired for seeking to punish whistle-blower George B. Spanton. Robert D. Bickel, the Defense Contract Audit Agency’s deputy assistant director for operations, asked an unspecified number of his colleagues in a letter to engage in some “personal salesmanship” to raise money for Charles O. Starrett Jr., who directed the agency until June 17. The letter expressed concern that only $6,300 had been raised for legal appeals.
The Navy, in a bid to buttress its decision requiring contractors to bear a greater share of plant-investment expenses, released a study that concludes defense contractors are earning higher profits on their military work than on their commercial projects. The study, performed by a private consultant, also says profits on military work have increased since 1981, contrasted with commercial returns.
A fuzzy black-and-white photograph of Ukrainian seaman Miroslav Medvid, who twice jumped ship at New Orleans but wound up being returned home, was being studied to determine whether Soviet officials sent an impostor to Medvid’s interview with the State Department, a Senate aide said. Navy Lieutenant James Geltz, who took pictures of Medvid after he jumped ship last month, reportedly was reprimanded for refusing to turn over the photos to his superiors. Instead, Geltz gave the photos to Senator Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina), who subpoenaed Medvid in an unsuccessful effort to get him off the ship before it sailed November 9, said Geltz’s lawyer, James O’Connor.
Americans are giving thanks today for blessings close to home. Of 1,659 people interviewed in a New York Times/CBS News Poll, 21 percent expressed gratitude for having loved ones, 16 percent said they were happy to be alive and 13 percent, especially the elderly, voiced thanks for being in good health.
Boeing Co. said it issued an advisory suggesting airlines make modifications in the tail section of their 747 airliners but said the action is not directly related to the crash of a Japan Air Lines jet earlier this year. Defects in the pressure bulkhead of the plane’s tail section are suspected of causing the crash of the JAL 747, which killed 520 of the 524 people aboard when it slammed into a mountainside in Japan August 12.
The Philadelphia Board of Realtors today imposed a 90-day moratorium on business in a predominantly white neighborhood struck by recent racial demonstrations. The moratorium means real estate concerns cannot talk to homeowners about selling a property and may not advertise homes for 90 days, said Frederick Linett, the board’s executive vice president. Mayor W. Wilson Goode declared a state of emergency in the 70-block area last week after a hundreds of angry whites demonstrated outside the houses of a black family and an interracial couple that recently moved into the blue-collar neighborhood. The black family said earlier this week they would move out of the Southwest Philadelphia neighborhood and the $21,000 house purchased from the Veterans Administration.
American support for the death penalty for a variety of serious crimes has increased sharply over the last seven years, according to the latest Gallup Poll. The survey, which has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points, found that three Americans in four now favor the death penalty for murder. Seventeen percent opposed the penalty and 8 percent were undecided.
A robot has obtained the first samples of concrete from the highly contaminated basement of the crippled Unit 2 nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the operator of the power plant said. The samples “will be used in planning the decontamination of the basement,” a statement said. The Unit 2 reactor was wrecked on March 28, 1979, in a near-meltdown, the nation’s worst commercial nuclear power accident.
A party host is responsible for damages if an underage drinker later is involved in a traffic accident, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled. It upheld a state Court of Appeals ruling that the state liquor law governs private people as well as retailers. At issue was a lawsuit by the family of Jamie Longstreth, 19, of Midland County, who was killed in a traffic accident in 1979, after drinking an unspecified amount of liquor at a wedding.
A plan to store genetic strains of seed essential to food harvesting proposed by more than 100 countries has been tentatively approved at a conference in Rome. The sponsors have called on industrialized countries to provide up to $100 million a year to third world countries for storing the seeds. The Reagan Administration vigorously opposes the plan. The plan, offered by delegates from more than 100 countries at the 23d Conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, called on industrialized nations to provide up to $100 million a year to third-world countries interested in collecting and storing rare plant varieties that have valuable genetic characteristics. Most of the plant and animal genes useful to agriculture have been found in the less-developed nations of the southern hemisphere.
The Continental Divide stands as a barrier to man and weather, yet water, gathered through a maze of pipes west of the divide and channeled into major tunnels, drains easily eastward to serve the thirsty cities of the Front Range. The tunnels annually carry enough water for 500,000 people, and Denver and other Front Range cities, with little surface water of their own, would like to double that amount. The people of the West Slope have watched for years as the tunnels diverted water intended by nature for the Colorado River and the Pacific. Since water in the West belongs to whoever can put it to best use, there was little they could do about it. That may be changing. Worried that their own future development is threatened by the Front Range’s appetite for growth and water, West Slope interests are beginning to fight back.
Michael Drummond, who was kept alive with an artificial heart nine days before getting a donor human heart, has been allowed to go home. Dr. Jack G. Copeland, the surgeon who performed the operations at the University of Arizona Medical Center, said he decided to let Mr. Drummond go home to Phoenix Tuesday because he was making such good progress. The artificial heart was implanted on August 29 and the human heart September 7, Mr. Drummond, 26 years old, had been staying near University Medical Center for checkups.
Across the continent from her home in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, Cathleen Crowell Webb was here to persuade people that the Illinois man she once accused of raping her is really innocent. Some people applaud her courage. But as she had already found out in New York, Boston, Detroit and Washington in a promotional tour for her new book, “Forgive Me,” many others find it difficult to either believe her or forgive her. In one day here, Mrs. Webb, who is 24 years old, and her husband, David, appeared on a local morning television program, a national radio talk show that originates here, and a radio talk show aimed at some 300,000 Christian listeners in southern California.
A brother and sister convicted of conspiring to violate immigration laws by importing fellow Indonesians and selling them as servants have been fined, placed on probation and ordered to pay the aliens’ way back home by Federal District Judge Richard Gadbois. The brother, Nasim Mussry, 57 years old, was placed on five years’ probation Tuesday and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine plus $6,500 in back pay to nine Indonesians.
A discovery on cystic fibrosis has narrowed the search for the faulty gene that causes the hereditary disease, scientists said, adding they have genetic markers for the gene in a single region on one of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes.
New rules on use of formaldehyde will be proposed next week under orders from a Federal court, according to officials of unions and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. They said one option being considered would weaken existing rules for 1.4 million workers who are exposed to the chemical.
“Rocky IV” is released, starring Sylvester Stallone.
Vince Coleman, who stole 110 bases for the Cardinals, joins Frank Robinson, Orlando Cepeda, and Willie McCovey as the only unanimous winners of the National League Rookie of the Year Award.
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Born:
Alison Pill, Canadian actress (“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”, “Star Trek: Picard”), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Klara Elias [Klara Ósk Elíasdóttir], Icelandic pop singer (Nylon), in Sweden.
Joe Porter, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers, Oakland Raiders), in Summitt, New Jersey.
Died:
Allan Ramsey, 42, American rock bassist (Gary Lewis & the Playboys,1964-65 — “This Diamond Ring”) in a plane crash.
Harry Harvey Sr, 84, American actor (It’s a Man’s World).
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