The Soviet press accused the U.S. of violating the unratified strategic arms treaty and asserted that Washington was more concerned with lying about treaty breaches than with curbing the arms race. In addition, the Communist Party daily Pravda said the American press had lost interest in the Geneva summit meeting conducted last week between President Reagan and the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The Soviet press continued to report on the meeting today, but coverage was diminishing. Tass, the official press agency, said Kenneth L. Adelman, director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, was more concerned with lying to Congress about purported Soviet violations of the 1979 strategic arms treaty than with limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons. United States officials have repeatedly accused the Soviet Union of violations of the treaty, which the Senate has not ratified because of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. According to Tass, the Soviet Union strictly abides by the accords but “the United States has embarked on the path of gradual crawling out of the treaty, on the path of violating the treaty provisions.” It did not list those purported violations.
President Reagan’s recent pledge to share a space-based antimissile system with the Soviet Union has baffled many defense industry executives and even some Pentagon officials. They argue that the technology underlying the program involves the same advanced computers, software and lasers that the Defense Department is fighting to keep out of Soviet hands. Administration officials contend that sharing the fruits of the research into what is popularly known as “Star Wars” might be necessary to prevent the Russians from trying to overwhelm the missile-defense system with a huge buildup in nuclear arms. But even many of the program’s staunchest supporters, including defense industry executives and engineers designing the system, said any plan to put the nation’s most critical technology into Soviet hands was doomed to failure.
The Netherlands brushed aside objections from its allies today and decided to reduce its involvement in training and equipping for wartime nuclear tasks within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers announced the decision after a Cabinet meeting. He said the dropping of two nuclear tasks hitherto assigned to the Dutch forces and his country’s deployment of cruise missiles in 1988 were inseparably linked. “Because we see the two as a single entity, it was the line of the Cabinet that we should stick to our position on both questions,” he said. The cut in nuclear tasks has been widely seen as an effort to soften the political effect of deploying the cruise missiles in a country where polls show that a majority opposes such deployment. In Washington, the State Department said it had no comment on the decision by the Dutch Government. “We consider this an alliance matter,” said Peter Martinez, a department spokesman. “We will be consulting with the alliance members.” Under the decision made today, Dutch F-16 fighters and Orion sea patrol planes will lose the ability to deliver nuclear explosives. The Netherlands will retain its nuclear-capable artillery and Lance short-range missiles.
The Polish authorities have begun a nationwide purge of political opponents in universities and colleges by removing more than 20 senior scholars from influential administrative posts, opposition sources said today. The sources said those removed by the Ministry of Higher Education included Karol Taylor, the rector of Gdansk University, and Wladyslaw Findeisen, the head of the Warsaw Polytechnic University.
American antiterrorism experts were on their way here to help Egypt try to free the hostages aboard a hijacked Egyptian airliner last weekend but did not arrive before Egyptian commandos stormed the plane, Maltese and other sources close to the investigation of the episode said today. The sources said Egypt had requested American technical assistance and advice at least 15 hours before the attempted rescue operation, during which 57 of the 59 deaths in the hijacking episode occurred, most of them apparently as a result of smoke inhalation from fire aboard the plane. The United States promptly agreed to provide help, the sources said. But the sources said the help did not arrive because Malta was unwilling to permit American military aircraft to land here. Protracted negotiations with the Maltese Government over conditions of entry, combined with confusion on the ground and serious gaps in communications among the parties concerned, kept the American technical team from arriving, according to these accounts.
An Egyptian attack on Libya was near, Libya asserted. Libya said Egypt had completed a military buildup along its border. Egypt said the Libyan report was “purely propaganda.” The official Libyan press agency JANA, monitored in Cairo, said that the Egyptians planned to assert that Libya was plotting an air raid on Egypt and that Egypt would then launch an attack on Libya. In another dispatch, the press agency said United States forces in the Mediterranean had increased surveillance of the border in the last 48 hours to help the Egyptians plan the attack. The Libyan agency said the United States was eager for an excuse to intervene militarily in Libya “to put an end to the role” that Libya played in confronting “American policy” against the Arabs.
President Reagan orders U.S. Air Force fighter coverage for Egyptian planes.
The Shiite Muslim militia Amal said today that it had attacked positions manned by Israeli troops and their South Lebanon Army allies with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns. Amal said the site of the attack was a village southeast of Merj ‘Uyun, about eight miles north of the Israeli border. The National Resistance, a coalition of a half-dozen Syrian-backed factions operating against Israel in southern Lebanon, said it raided Israeli troops and the South Lebanon Army Thursday night near Suweida, six miles north of Merj ‘Uyun. Israeli military sources in Tel Aviv said there was no Israeli activity in either area.
China may have had access to top secret Central Intelligence Agency reports on the Far East over the last 20 years through a former C.I.A. analyst, a Reagan Administration official said. The official said the Government believes that the analyst, Larry Wu-Tai Chin, had access to nearly all these documents. The official, who is knowledgeable about the case, said Mr. Chin was one of the agency’s most experienced Chinese-language translators and was involved in distributing C.I.A. reports to the White House and Federal agencies. Another Administration official said Mr. Chin might have provided China with detailed information about American policymaking in the Vietnam War. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr. Chin has confessed spying for the Chinese since at least 1952.
Japan’s rail lines were crippled by saboteurs who set fires and cut signal systems, shutting down 23 commuter lines in Tokyo and Osaka during the morning rush hour. Saboteurs today knocked out key rail communications and signal systems, forcing the shutdown of 23 commuter lines during the morning rush hour and causing a nightmarish journey to work for millions of riders. The saboteurs, described by the authorities as left-wing extremists, caused the disruption by slashing vital cables and setting fires at key sections of the Japan National Railways in Tokyo and Osaka. The actions appeared to be well coordinated. The damage was repaired by midafternoon, and service was at least partially restored on all lines in time for the evening rush hour. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced that it had arrested 48 people, including leaders of a radical group known as the Chukakuha, or Middle Core Faction. Some were seized after reportedly having stormed the Asakusabashi train station in eastern Tokyo, seriously damaging it in a fire-bomb attack.
Imelda Marcos described the Marcos era as the Philippines’ Camelot and her husband and herself as the incarnation of a Filipino legend of Adam and Eve in an interview in which she attacked political opponents at home and critics in Washington.
A freighter slammed into a drawbridge on the St. Lawrence Seaway today, injuring two people and blocking the waterway for the third time in a year. A seaway spokesman, Richard Juteau, said the Beauharnois Canal would be closed for at least 24 hours while engineers checked damage to the St. Louis bridge, about 25 miles west of Montreal. He said that if the drawbridge was not weakened, ships could sail around the area where a 60-foot section of the bridge fell into the water. Three trucks and a car plunged into the St. Lawrence River after the accident, according to Corporal Gerald Dubuc of Quebec’s provincial police. He said two people in one of the vehicles were pulled from the water and taken to a hospital, where they were listed in good condition. Corporal Dubuc said he thought the other drivers had scrambled to safety.
Gerard Hoareau, exiled opposition leader from the African island nation of the Seychelles, was shot and killed today by an unidentified gunman on the doorstep of his London home, the police said. Mr. Hoareau’s supporters said the Seychelles Government was responsible for the shooting. They said he had received several death threats and had recently survived an attempt on his life. But the Seychelles Embassy in London denied that its Government was behind the slaying, and the British Foreign Office said it was too early to say whether the killing was “state-supported terrorism.” The police said a bearded man about 30 years old fired several shots with a pistol from across the street, killing Mr. Hoareau as he arrived at his home. Mr. Hoareau left the Seychelles after President Albert Rene took power in a coup in 1977.
Almost 26,000 Ugandans who fled to Rwanda in October 1982 have returned voluntarily to their country in the last three months and have been accepted by the Ugandan Government as citizens, the Rwandan Government said. A spokesman for the Ugandan Mission said he could not confirm the statement by Rwanda, which was made in a letter from the chief Rwandan delegate to the United Nations, Celestin Kabanda, to Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar. More than 110,000 Uganda residents thought to be of Rwandan descent left their homes because of persecution under the Government of Milton Obote, the Ugandan Government has said. Nearly 30,000 fled to Rwanda.
South African police were fired on in a squatter camp near Cape Town. A black man was killed and another was wounded, the police said. Such exchanges of fire have been rare in the last 14 months of protest in segregated black townships because blacks rarely have access to arms. The police said a pistol and a semiautomatic rifle were confiscated after the shooting, which occurred in a camp known as Crossroads. Meanwhile, the Minister of Law and Order, Louis Le Grange, who is in charge of the police, announced that an unspecified number of policemen would be withdrawn from duty on the country’s borders on Sunday to ease “the pressure on police in unrest areas.” Mr Le Grange, speaking at a police parade in Pretoria, did not say how many officers would be withdrawn. His disclosure, however, seemed an acknowledgement of the strains placed on the police trying to curb unrest that first exploded in September 1984 and has since claimed around 900 lives.
U.S. pressure on Israel was stepped up to win interviews with two Israeli diplomats, and possibly other officials, involved in the case of Jonathan Jay Pollard, a Navy employee charged with selling secret documents. A State Department spokesman, Charles Redman, expressed dismay that Israel had so far failed to abide by a pledge to allow the officials to be questioned. Mr. Redman said the two Israeli diplomats, identified in Jerusalem as Mr. Pollard’s contacts, left the United States last Friday, a day after Mr. Pollard was arrested in Washington. Mr. Redman said the Israeli Government did not notify the State Department of their departure. “We have no explanation for that departure,” Mr. Redman said at his regular news briefing. “We were not informed. We are dismayed that the Government of Israel was not as forthcoming as we would have hoped and expected. But the important point now, and the crucial point, is that we have prompt access to those involved.”
An Israeli antiterror official who purportedly ran an espionage operation in Washington was also a top official in an agency that collected scientific data, according to Israeli sources in Jerusalem. In describing the findings of an Israeli investigation of the espionage case, a highly placed Israeli source said earlier in the week that the counterterrorism official used two Israeli science attaches based in the United States as local contacts with an American Navy employee, Jonathan Jay Pollard. Mr. Pollard has been charged with espionage. Despite one official statement and a flood of authorized leaks of information suggesting that none of Israel’s political leaders were involved in the Pollard affair or had any prior knowledge of it, a gnawing doubt and sense of incredulity is creeping into Israeli newspaper headlines and editorials. Several have called for a public accounting by the Government.
President Reagan speaks with Illinois Representative Dan Rostenkowski to discuss tax reforms.
President Reagan’s science adviser resigned. George A. Keyworth 2d, a strong supporter of Mr. Reagan’s proposed space-based missile defense, said he would leave the Administration at the end of the year to set up a consulting firm in association with Herbert Meyer, who is leaving as deputy chairman of the National Intelligence Council. Dr. Keyworth, one of the most ardent supporters of the Administration’s proposal for a space-based antimissile defense, said he gave his resignation to Donald T. Regan, the White House chief of staff, on Wednesday.
The South continues to lead the nation in gaining population, new jobs and migrants from other regions, according to new Census figures. Long the poorest region of the nation, the South in the 1960’s and 1970’s joined the West in attracting people and industries from Northern cities. Now, in the 1980’s, the new figures show the South continuing to build on its new economic base even though Texas and Louisiana have experienced a slump in oil development and many of the Southern textile mills and other plants have been forced to close because of competition from foreign imports. The figures, compiled from an extensive Census Bureau survey of American households last spring, are considered important for the new information they provide about the urban and racial makeup of metropolitan areas and the continuing economic and political struggle between regions at a time of governmental decentralization. They showed that the Northeast, made up of the six New England states plus New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, experienced a strong recovery from its urban job and population losses of the 1970’s.
Leaving the security of the space shuttle Atlantis, two astronauts stepped into space today and spent much of the following five hours and 32 minutes practicing construction techniques that will be needed in building orbiting stations of the future. As Maj. Jerry L. Ross and Lieut. Col. Sherwood C. Spring floated weightless from one task to another, they worked so efficiently and quickly that there was ample time for banter and for admiring the view of the Earth as it wheeled overhead. The trouble-free space construction exercise capped a mission that has been flawless since the Atlantis lifted off its pad at the Kennedy Space Center Tuesday night. Instruments monitoring the astronauts’ heartbeats and rates of oxygen consumption indicated two hours into the exercise that the heavy exertion was tiring them somewhat, but they continued to complete their assignments ahead of schedule.
Pregnant employees are not entitled to more benefits than other employees, the Justice Department said in urging the Supreme Court to strike down state laws that require employers to give more generous disability leave and other benefits to pregnant employees than to others. The department said in a brief filed Wednesday that under a 1978 Federal law an employer might not discriminate against or in favor of pregnant employees. States may not require discrimination that Federal law forbids, it said. California, Montana, Connecticut and Massachusetts have laws requiring special benefits for pregnant employees, and the issue is of major concern to employers, women’s groups and families around the country.
In a settlement reached in a 19-year-old lawsuit over racial discrimination, the General Motors Corporation has agreed to pay $239,000 to 226 current and former black employees at its plant in Lakewood, Georgia. The award for most of the plaintiffs is set at $250 each, but some will receive up to $7,100 under an order signed earlier this week by Judge Orinda Evans in the Federal District Court here.
The authorities in 18 states say that nearly half the murder cases the Texas Rangers attributed to a pair of drifters are no longer considered solved. New investigations of some of the crimes have led to new suspects, The Dallas Times Herald reported today. One of the drifters, Henry Lee Lucas, who has told the police he had committed scores of murders, is now widely viewed as the perpetrator of a hoax. He was arrested in Texas in 1983. Many of the 191 cases against Mr. Lucas and Ottis Toole, his occasional companion, began to unravel earlier this year after The Times Herald challenged the validity of their confessions. Colonel Jim Adams, commander of the Texas Rangers, said he remained convinced that Mr. Lucas killed “a substantial number of people.”
A man who waited a year for a donation of human lungs and a heart underwent transplant surgery today and was later reported to be recuperating in critical condition. The patient, Terry May, 32 years old, of Tempe, Arizona, was in surgery for six hours at University Medical Center for the transplant of the organs of a woman who had shot herself in the head. The woman, Kathryn Jordan, 38, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was declared brain dead were available Thursday when a Phoenix television station broadcast a message in a football game. Mr. May has primary pulmonary hypertension, a degenerative lung condition that causes the heart to fail.
Three members of a Texas family have been killed when their small plane crashed less than a mile from their relatives’ home in California, while in Minnesota another family of three has been killed in a similar plane crash. The dead in the California crash were Norman Dee Bailey, 42 years old; his wife, Glennis, 37, and their son, Russell, 15, all of Dumas, Texas. Their Cessna 177 crashed Wednesday night in the San Bernardino National Forest 60 miles east of Los Angeles. The other crash was near Duluth, Minnesota, Thursday. Donald Ferrari, 40, of Maple Grove, Minnesota; his wife, Barbara, 33, and their daughter, Rochelle, 5, were killed when their small plane crashed on the ice on Grand Lake.
Michigan’s state pension fund is investing in such high-risk, high-return investments as computer concerns. It is one of a number of older industrial states that are moving to revive their economies by assisting in development of new ventures. When Dwight Carlson needed money in 1982 to expand Perceptron, his high-technology company here, he went to an unlikely source: the state government in Lansing. Today the state’s pension fund is a $6 million shareholder in the company, which makes computerized controls that monitor operations in advanced manufacturing plants. The administration of Gov. James J. Blanchard has selected companies like Mr. Carlson’s for special attention, and 5 percent of the state’s $10.5 billion pension fund has been earmarked for investment in such high-risk, high-return investments. In addition, Michigan has set up an $80 million fund for investments in industries selected because of their employment potential and because they look like winners: automotive suppliers, forestry, food processing and tourism, among others.
Bad feelings in Hannibal, Missouri, over the Mark Twain Sesquicentennial, mar the end of the celebration of the writer’s birth in his hometown. Two former mayors who belabored each other over the sesquicentennial, are both out of political jobs, as are three City Councilmen.
For the first 33 years of his life, Willie Jones says, his name never got him into trouble. But last June, mainly because he had the same name as a man wanted on drug charges in Manhattan, Mr. Jones, after being arrested on a charge of evading a subway fare, was wrongly identified through a computer name check and imprisoned for three months on Rikers Island. Law enforcement officials acknowledged that no fingerprint comparisons were made to determine whether Mr. Jones was the Willie Jones who had been arrested on felony drug counts in March and, while free on parole, had failed to show up for a court hearing. Mr. Jones said Legal Aid Society lawyers who represented him refused to believe his protests that he was a victim of mistaken identity. Instead, he said, they offered him plea bargains from prosecutors for a reduced sentence if he pleaded guilty to the drug charges and avoided a trial.
John Victor McNally, the irrepressible halfback who became a legend in the National Football League in the 1930’s as Johnny Blood and was one of the original 17 players inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963, died Thursday at Desert Hospital in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 82 years old. In a peripatetic career that covered 15 seasons (a longevity record at the time), he played for half a dozen N.F.L. teams, set a succession of offensive records, led the Green Bay Packers to four league championships and served as a player-coach of the Pittsburgh Pirates, later called the Steelers. But it was his inspired off-field antics as much as his imaginative play that caused John F. Kennedy to tell Johnny Blood: “Your name was a household word in our home.”
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Born:
Dannell Ellerbe, NFL linebacker (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 47-Ravens, 2012, Super Bowl 52-Eagles, 2017; Baltimore Ravens, Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles), in Hamlet, North Carolina.
Pat Sims, NFL defensive tackle (Cincinnati Bengals, Oakland Raiders), in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Jamar Adams, NFL defensive back (Seattle Seahawks, Philadelphia Eagles), in Matthews, North Carolina.
Shannon Brown, NBA shooting guard (NBA Champions-Lakers, 2009, 2010; Cleveland Cavaliers, Chicago Bulls, Charlotte Hornets, Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, San Antonio Spurs, New York Knicks, Miami Heat), in Maywood, Illinois.
Brett Carson, Canadian NHL defenseman (Carolina Hurricanes, Calgary Flames), in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Died:
Bill Scott, 65, American voice actor, producer and writer (“Mr. Peabody”, “Bullwinkle”), of a heart attack
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