A Presidential report makes charges against Moscow concerning Soviet compliance with arms-control treaties, and modifies some earlier allegations in the light of recently acquired evidence. The report to Congress generally reaffirms earlier Administration charges that there “is a pattern of Soviet noncompliance” with arms-control agreements. The report repeats Administration charges that a Soviet radar under construction in central Siberia violates provisions of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile treaty and restates an earlier charge that Moscow has violated a provision of the 1979 strategic arms treaty limiting each side to development of one new type of strategic missile by testing and deploying the SS-25 missile. Soviet Denies Charges The Soviet Union has denied the radar violates the treaty and has said the SS-25 is an improved version of the SS-13. The 1979 treaty does allow some upgrading of systems.
The Greek Defense Ministry announced plans for a new civil defense system because of a perceived threat from Turkey. Alternate Defense Minister Antonis Drossoyannis said the new system will encompass the Evros region of northern Greece and the eastern Aegean islands, close to the Turkish coast. Greece stationed troops in the eastern Aegean Sea after Turkish forces invaded Cyprus in 1974. The two countries, both members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, have long-running disputes concerning military control of the Aegean region.
An explosion ripped through a petroleum storage depot in the Italian port city of Naples early today, killing at least 4 people, injuring more than 160, forcing the evacuation of as many as 2,000 residents and touching off an oil-fed fire that raged into the night. About 700 to 800 firefighters were called in from throughout south-central Italy to fight the blaze, and air tanker planes dumped fire-retardant foam on the fire, according to Renato Profili, a spokesman for the Naples city government. The Italian Minister of Civil Protection, Giuseppe Zamberletti, declared a state of emergency in the area, where the fire kept blazing in two dozen storage tanks more than 12 hours after the predawn explosion at an oil installation of the state-owned company AGIP. Thick columns of choking black smoke darkened the sky for 20 square miles over the Bay of Naples.
Two Bulgarian diplomats, Todor Aivazov and Zhelyo Vassilev, told Italian court officials that they were not involved in the 1981 plot to kill Pope John Paul II. The diplomats, who were assigned to the Bulgarian Embassy in Rome when the Pope was shot on May 13, 1981, testified in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, in the final phase of the trial of themselves, another Bulgarian and four Turks charged in the shooting. The trial began last May in Rome and is based largely on the testimony of Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turk who is serving a life sentence for shooting the Pope. Only three of the seven defendants are in Italian custody.
Lech Walesa, the founder of Solidarity, said today that he had been told he would be indicted on charges of slandering the authorities during general elections in October. Mr. Walesa said he had received a letter from the public prosecutor’s office in Gdansk that said an indictment was being prepared. Legal sources said that a trial date could be set in a month and that the charge carries a maximum sentence of two years’ imprisonment. Mr. Walesa, who lives in Gdansk, was investigated after issuing figures for the turnout in the election that were considerably lower than those given by the authorities.
Yelena G. Bonner, the Soviet human rights activist, went to a synagogue in Newton, Massachusetts today and expressed her hope that Jews in the Soviet Union will be allowed to join their families abroad. Miss Bonner, whose mother is Jewish, said it was the first time that she had been to a synagogue. It was also the first time Miss Bonner, wife of the dissident and physicist Andrei D. Sakharov, had spoken publicly since she arrived in the United States on December 7. She has said through her son and daughter, Alexei Semyonov and Tatiana Yankelevich, who live in Newton, that she pledged to the Soviet authorities that she would not talk with reporters while she is in the West for medical treatment.
Paris police said today that they suspected that the fire Friday at Fauchon, the renowned luxury food store, was the work of an arsonist. The fire killed the owner and her daughter and injured 11 other people. Although the inquiry into the cause of the fire has not been completed, police sources said their suspicion was mainly based on the fact that two other fires broke out in nearby buildings within half an hour of the blaze at Fauchon, which was discovered at 12:36 PM. A fourth fire occurred on a neighboring street at 4:30 PM Friday.
Israel has the ability to obtain on a routine basis sensitive information about the American secret weapons, advanced technology and internal Washington policy deliberations because of the its intimate relationship with the United States, according to American officials. They say Israeli leaders sometimes react to intelligence reports and policy shifts before their completion. Israeli procurement officers know the stock numbers and specifications of new and advanced weapons and components that have not even been delivered to United States armed forces, according to a well-placed officer. For the most part, the close ties have been created deliberately by the United States as a function of the long years of American military, economic and moral support for Israel’s survival. And in many respects, the military and intelligence relations resemble those between the United States and such other traditionally friendly nations as Britain, Australia and Canada.
Israel removed the mastermind of the Israeli espionage operation in Washington from his post as head of the Ministry of Defense scientific intelligence unit, Israeli officials said. Rafael Eitan headed the liaison bureau that directed an espionage operation in Washington with Jonathan Jay Pollard, who has been accused of spying for Israel.
Lebanese authorities have arrested three men accused of being Israeli agents responsible for planting bombs that killed 121 people, state-run Beirut radio reported. The broadcast identified the men as Shafik Mneimeh, his son Mahmoud, and Jihad Hussein Turk, all Muslims, and said they confessed to being Israeli spies and to carrying out six bombings in Beirut and Sidon. Among the attacks was a March 11 car bombing in a Beirut suburb outside the home of Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, described as spiritual adviser to the radical Shia Muslim group Hezbollah, or Party of God. That explosion killed 75 people.
A British official of the United Nations, kidnapped in West Beirut nine months ago, has reportedly issued a message to the British Government to release a number of Arabs and Muslims who are prisoners in British jails in return for his freedom. The message from the Briton, Alec Collett, was on a videotape sent to the Lebanese daily newspaper An Nahar, according to an article in its Saturday issue. The newspaper also printed a photograph of the hostage. Within hours of the publication of the statement, Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, said he wished to meet with Mr. Collett’s captors. The Anglican envoy is in West Beirut to try to secure the release of American hostages and others held by Muslim fundamentalists. Mr. Collett, 63 years old, a journalist on assignment for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, was seized by gunmen in Beirut’s southern outskirts March 25. A group calling itself the Muslim Socialist Revolutionary Organization took responsibility for abducting him.
The Soviet Union acknowledged widespread opposition to its client government in Afghanistan and said that compromises and negotiation are needed to win popular support. “Far from all people in Afghanistan, even among working sections of the population, accepted the… revolution,” the Communist Party newspaper Pravda said. It blamed a “passion for revolutionary phrases and enforcement of social reforms, without due account for the real situation and social and national specifics of the country.” The heavy-handed policies of the Kabul regime spurred strong resistance and led to Soviet military intervention in December, 1979.
Security sources said seven Tamil separatist guerrillas were killed and a soldier was wounded in a gun battle Friday at Ariyalai in northern Sri Lanka, the national news agency reported today. The agency said guerrillas attacked an army camp in the northern city of Jaffna on Friday night with machine guns and mortars.
Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, preparing for his reelection battle against Corazon Aquino, ordered his Cabinet ministers back to their districts to campaign “as if we were running scared.” A presidential palace announcement said Marcos, facing the strongest electoral challenge of his 20-year rule, met with Cabinet ministers and leaders of his party after talks with officials of metropolitan Manila. He ordered the ministers to “pitch camp in their bailiwicks” to ensure victory in the February 7 voting, state-run television reported.
Picket lines were expected to come down at Mexico’s first McDonald’s restaurant as the company and a food handlers’ union reached agreement to end an 18-day-old strike. The restaurant, located in an upper-middle-class suburb of Mexico City, opened in late October but was closed December 3 when a labor union began picketing and demanding that the student workers join the union. The standoff was resolved when more than 200 McDonald’s workers formed their own union on terms acceptable to the larger union.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in half a dozen towns and cities around this impoverished country in the last few weeks, challenging as never before the family dictatorship that has ruled Haiti with an iron hand for nearly 30 years. The first protest march, last month, when students carried placards calling for an end to the presidency of Jean-Claude Duvalier, met with army violence and touched off protests elsewhere. Three teen-agers were shot to death by the soldiers, and a fourth was beaten to death. Later, a Protestant minister died in police custody, the most prominent opposition leader was jailed and the most outspoken and probably most popular radio station was shut down. The second most popular radio station has stopped broadcasting news.
Forming a Marxist-Leninist party is the aim of the top military leaders of the Salvadoran guerrilla movement. They said increasing support for their cause is a major goal over the next year. The decision to try to organize a Marxist-Leninist party represents the first time the rebel military Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front has publicly defined itself as Marxist. The shift appears to reflect an ideological hardening among the rebels, as well as a narrowing of their public appeal and of the political forces that they once hoped would support them. The decision is one of the strongest indications yet of the growing distance between the five factions that make up the rebel military front and the handful of small social democratic parties that have been allied to them for five years under the banner of the Democratic Revolutionary Front. The social democratic parties have had an increasingly troubled relationship with the armed guerrilla groups. The Democratic Revolutionary Front has consistently defined itself as a supporter of political pluralism, and its senior officials say they will not join the Marxist-Leninist party the rebels hope to form.
President Daniel Ortega Saavedra said today that he would not lift Nicaragua’s state of emergency despite an appeal that he said he recently received from more than 80 members of the United States Congress. The state of emergency, which limits many public liberties, has been in effect for two months. In an address to the National Assembly and members of the diplomatic corps, Mr. Ortega warned Congress against approving military aid for rebels fighting his Government.
In an important change of attitude, major African countries have started to become more open about AIDS, and officials of the World Health Organization, in an expression of mounting concern, say they plan a new push to control the global epidemic of the usually fatal disease. This week Kenya became the first country in black Africa to officially report cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome to the World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations with headquarters here. Kenya reported 10 cases of AIDS; six involved Kenyans and four were patients from three other African countries whose diagnosis was made in Kenya. Eight of the 10 patients are dead.
Winnie Mandela was forcibly taken by armed white policemen from her home in Soweto, South Africa, after she refused to accept renewed and relaxed restrictions on her movements, family friends and lawyers said. Her lawyers said the police said she was to be taken to an airport hotel. Witnesses said Mrs. Mandela had refused to check in at the hotel. Friends said later she had called to tell them where she was, but they did not disclose the location.
In Durban, meanwhile, eight people, including two white children, were wounded when an assailant threw an explosive at a van while the children were waiting for their parents in a crowded street. One of the wounded, a white passer-by, was said by the police to be in critical condition. The South African Press Association quoted an unidentified witness as saying a black youth had thrown a grenade at the vehicle. But the police said a limpet mine was thrown under the van by an unidentified assailant. The attack seemed to be a further effort by anti-Government operatives to strike at what are known as “soft” white targets. Last Sunday, six whites were killed when their truck hit a land mine near Messina in the northern part of the country close to the Limpopo River frontier with Zimbabwe. The outlawed African National Congress took responsibility for the land-mine attack.
The 1985 session of Congress was one of the least productive and most frustrating in recent memory, many members say. They complain that Congress repeatedly missed deadlines and got mired in deadlock until it was forced to the point of crisis. Moreover, several lawmakers say the first session of the 99th Congress provided a preview of the pain and turmoil that is likely to prevail next year when members will have to carry out a new budget-balancing law in an election year. For many, the final week of late-night sessions and last-minute solutions seemed to symbolize the entire year. When Congress headed home this weekend it was 10 weeks after its original goal for adjournment. But the lawmakers still left largely unresolved the single biggest problem they faced all year: a budget deficit that is pushing past $200 billion.
President Reagan calls former Ambassador of the United States to the United Kingdom Walter Annenberg.
President Reagan spends the day at Camp David.
The ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, Washington. At 1626 on December 21, 1985 the Tank Vessel ARCO Anchorage ran aground while anchoring in Port Angeles Harbor, Washington. The vessel was carrying 814,000 barrels of Alaska North Slope Crude Oil en route from Valdez, Alaska to the Cherry Point Refinery in Bellingham, Washington. Weather conditions at the time of the incident were calm with a visibility of 3 miles. The vessel was holed in two cargo tanks resulting in the loss of 5690 barrels of oil into Port Angeles Harbor. Internal transfer of cargo from the holed tanks stopped the discharge of oil into the water by 2052, December 21. The ARCO Anchorage remained aground until 0244, December 22 when it was refloated and moved to deeper anchorage within Port Angeles Harbor. Through discussions with the Canadian Coast Guard it was decided that invocation of the joint U.S. Canadian response plan (CANUSPAC) was not necessary, but that close contact would be maintained. An ARCO spill response team was activated from Long Beach, California. Under the influence of wind and tides, the oil was carried to the west almost to Neah Bay and to the east to Dungeness Spit.
A federal judge has upheld a controversial minority hiring plan in Birmingham, Alabama, rejecting the Justice Department’s contention that the city is discriminating against white employees. U.S. District Judge Sam C. Pointer Jr. said that a 1981 consent decree allows Birmingham to hire and promote blacks and women in municipal jobs over more qualified white male candidates. He said the agreement is a valid defense against charges of discrimination. Birmingham is a majority black city with a long history of discrimination. Before 1974, when the first lawsuit challenging city hiring practices was filed, only two of the Fire Department’s 640 employees were black.
Classified Pentagon reports show that the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, whose $11.5 billion in funding is being questioned by Congress, was severely damaged by anti-tank weapons during testing. Information about the $1.6-million special armored troop carrier, 6,332 of which the military plans to deploy, was obtained through interviews and report summaries. The 1984 and 1985 tests showed that anti-tank weapons could penetrate the carrier armor and hit ammunition caches, triggering explosions.
The United States and Japan settled a dispute over restrictions on American leather imports, with Japan agreeing to give the United States $260 million in trade concessions. Since 1963, Japan has maintained import quotas that the United States has complained have limited American sales to 1% or less of Japan’s $1.6-billion leather market and $2.7-billion leather footwear market. Under the agreement, the United States will get $236 million in concessions on American imports to Japan, while withdrawing $24 million in concessions now allowed for some Japanese imports. Japan will reduce or eliminate tariffs on 142 American items.
Convicted Navy spymaster John A. Walker Jr. will testify at the trial of Jerry A. Whitworth, who is accused of passing highly classified cryptographic and message data to him for transmission to the Soviet Union, prosecutors said. Assistant U.S. Attorney William Farmer said three other members of the Walker family — John’s brother, Arthur, son, Michael and former wife Barbara — may also take the stand. The trial is now scheduled to begin in San Francisco federal court on February 10.
The F.B.I. made spying charges against a Washington man it said tried to sell classified materials to the Soviet Union. The bureau said the man, Randy Miles Jeffries, 26-years-old, obtained classified national security information through his work at a a local printing and reporting firm that transcribes secret sessions of Congress.
The first woman to receive an artificial heart was hooked to a machine today to help her kidneys, and doctors said she was not improving as quickly as doctors had hoped. Officials say the Jarvik-7 artificial heart was performing well but that they feared the implant might have been too late to save the patient, Mary Lund, 40 years old. She remained in critical but stable condition. “Her condition has not changed significantly since last night,” said Dr. Fredarick Gobel, a cardiologist and spokesman for the surgery team. In a statement released tonight, he said a machine that functions as an artificial kidney to help remove the body’s waste products was hooked to the patient this afternoon. Mark Dixon, a hospital spokesman, said: “Her kidneys are working. They’re just not working to the level they should be working.” The surgery was performed after doctors diagnosed a viral infection of the heart. The heart is intended for use until Mrs. Lund is healthy enough to receive a human heart transplant.
The woman accused of hijacking a helicopter to pluck three convicts from a high-security prison had met one of the inmates and visited him several times, apparently developing a romantic attachment, an investigator said today. “She wanted to spring her boyfriend out of jail,” said an investigator who asked not to be identified. A nationwide search continued for the prisoners and the woman who helped them escape Thursday by forcing the pilot to fly to the Perry Correctional Institution. Joyce L. Bailey, also known as Joyce Bailey Mattox, is charged with air piracy in the hijacking of the helicopter. Prison records show Mrs. Bailey, 40 years old, regularly visited Jesse Glenn Smith, who was serving 40 years for armed robbery and other crimes.
Leaders of Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers recommended that its members reject a contract offer of the Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in Austin, Minn. The proposal sought to end the walkout by the 1,500 union members that began Aug. 17. The three-year contract offers a base wage of $10 an hour with a 10-cent an hour increase in 1987.
A transatlantic undercover operation smashed a multimillion-dollar drug ring with the arrests of four men, including one who claimed to be the world’s top hashish dealer, authorities said. The ring’s alleged leader, Stanley Esser, 42, of the Netherlands, and Abdul Wali, 48, a Pakistani associate, were arrested in the Netherlands. “Mr. Esser made the statement to undercover agents that he was the world’s largest supplier of hashish,” a police spokesman said. Esser’s attorney, Martien Roeffen, 48, and Ahmad Saleh El Ahmar, 38, were arrested in New Jersey.
An 11-year-old Beloit, Wisconsin, girl was found delinquent in the stabbing and bludgeoning death of a 9-year-old boy, a killing prosecutors contended was triggered by an argument over the boy’s bicycle. The verdict, based on the testimony of a 5-year-old girl who said she saw the killing, leaves Circuit Judge Mark Farnum to decide whether to commit the girl, one of three juveniles accused in the slaying, to a foster home or a juvenile treatment center.
Jurors in Miami convicted Charles Griffith of first-degree murder for killing his comatose 3-year-old daughter in her hospital crib. Griffith, 25, sentenced to life in prison, never denied he shot his daughter, Joy, twice in the heart on June 28 as she lay comatose in a crib at Miami Children’s Hospital. But the defense claimed he was insane at the time-distraught by the knowledge his child had suffered irreversible brain damage. Joy had been in a coma since October 23, 1984, when her head became wedged in the footrest of a chair.
A federal district judge has issued a permanent injunction barring the Oklahoma Tax Commission and the Tulsa County District Attorney’s office from controlling and taxing operators of a high-stakes bingo game run by the Muscogee Creek Indian Nation. The judge, James O. Ellison, said Friday that state interests and laws are outweighed by Federal and tribal interests in the operation of a tribal trust.
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to drop eight hazardous waste sites, including one in Upper Freehold, New Jersey, from its priority list of dumps requiring quick cleanup action. There are now 850 sites around the country on or proposed for the priority list and agency officials have said the number could reach 2,000. Before the announcement Friday six sites had been cleaned up enough to warrant removal from the list, although one of those, the Butler tunnel site in Pittston, Pennsylvania, later started to leak dangerous substances after a hurricane.
High technology in the Middle West could make the region the center of a manufacturing revolution that could be as dramatic as the one that began with Henry Ford’s moving assembly line. Economists say this will be a $100 billion industry over the next 15 years.
Heart’s “Heart” album goes #1.
NFL Football:
The Giants are in the playoffs. They made it today, in their final game of the National Football League’s regular season, by handing the Pittsburgh Steelers sound beatings on offense and defense and winning, 28–10. Joe Morris’s running carried the Giant offense. The 5-foot-7-inch Morris, chosen this week to play in the Pro Bowl, carried 36 times for 202 yards, both career records. With an unusual combination of speed and power, he scored the Giants’ first three touchdowns, one with a shoe missing. He broke club records en route. By winning, the Giants guaranteed themselves a wild-card playoff berth, their second in two years and their fifth in five years. They will next meet the San Francisco 49ers or the Washington Redskins at Giants Stadium. Even if the Jets, who also play their home games here, clinch a wild-card berth Sunday, the Giants’ playoff game will almost surely be a week from Sunday. Minutes after the Giants-Steelers game ended, the Redskins started playing the Cardinals in St. Louis. The Redskins had to win to stay in the playoff race, and they rallied for a 27–16 victory. The 49ers will meet the Dallas Cowboys Sunday in San Francisco. If the 49ers win, and they are favored, they will win the wild-card berth against the Giants. If they lose, the Redskins will face the Giants. Today, the Giants were favored, and they did fine. They built a 28–3 lead late in the second quarter, survived shaky moments in the third quarter and coasted. They spent much of the game watching Morris work his magic. The Giants took the opening kickoff and drove 71 yards to a touchdown. On that drive, Morris ran 7 times for 45 yards, caught a pass for 15 yards and had a 17-yard run called back because of a holding penalty. Morris exploded 9 yards for the touchdown. In the second quarter, after a Steeler field goal had trimmed the Giants’ lead to 7–3, Morris unreeled his play of the day. On first down from the Giants’ 35-yard line, Phil Simms, the Giants’ quarterback, gave the ball to Morris on a delay. Morris ran off right guard, swung to the left and started to sprint by Rick Woods, a Steelers’ safety. Woods dived, and his hand hit Morris’s right ankle. Woods got Morris’s shoe, but nothing more. With one shoe on and one shoe off, Morris ran the final 52 yards for his second touchdown of the game. Now the Giants were leading, 14–3. The next time they got the ball, they made it 21-3. Rob Carpenter, the Giants’ bread-and-butter running back in years past, ran 46 yards to the Steelers’ 11, and five plays later Morris crashed over from the 1. Andy Headen’s interception quickly gave the Giants the ball again, and this time Simms took care of the scoring. His 23-yard pass to Bobby Johnson in the end zone gave the Giants their third touchdown in three possessions and raised their lead to 28–3.
George Rogers ran for a club-record 205 yards and a touchdown and Mark Moseley kicked two field goals, helping the Washington Redskins keep their National Football League playoff hopes alive with a 27–16 victory today over the St. Louis Cardinals. After the game, Coach Jim Hanifan of the Cardinals and the rest of the team’s coaching staff were dismissed by William V. Bidwill, the team owner. Washington’s defense, ranked second in the N.F.L. against the rush, overwhelmed St. Louis after the opening quarter. The Redskins’ quarterback, Jay Schroeder, combined with Gary Clark on a 27-yard touchdown pass, helping Washington overcome an early 9–0 deficit. The outcome left the Redskins’ hopes for a wild-card berth in National Conference playoffs hinging on the outcome of Sunday’s game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys. Earlier today, the Giants locked up one wild-card spot with a 28–10 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Both the Giants and Washington have 10–6 records, but the Giants have a better record within their division. Aided by Rogers’s fumble on the Redskins’ first play, St. Louis took the lead on Novo Bojovic’s 42-yard field goal in the opening two minutes. The Redskins capitalized later on Dave Butz’s recovery of a Neil Lomax fumble, moving 38 yards to go ahead, 10–9, on Schroeder’s pass to Clark. After Moseley, who missed three kicks, squeezed in a 30-yard field goal before the end of the half, Washington moved away on a 1-yard run by Rogers late in the third quarter. Rogers’s rushing total on 34 attempts gave him a season total of 1,092 yards, the third time he has passed 1,000 yards.
Pittsburgh Steelers 10, New York Giants 28
Washington Redskins 27, St. Louis Cardinals 16
Born:
Bubba Stewart, American motocross racer (FIM World Supercross Champion, 2009; FIM World Supercross GP Champion, 2006, 2007), in Bartow, Florida.
Jarett Dillard, NFL wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars), in San Antonio, Texas.
Brian Schlitter, MLB pitcher (Chicago Cubs, Oakland A’s), in Oak Park, Illinois.
Ed Easley, MLB catcher and pinch hitter (St. Louis Cardinals), in Memphis, Tennessee.
Matt Mangini, MLB third baseman and designated hitter (Seattle Mariners), in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Catherine Annette, American actress (“Iron Man 2”), in McAllen, Texas.
Died:
Kamatari Fujiwara, 80, Japanese film actor (“Seven Samurai”, “The Hidden Fortress”, “Yojimbo”), of a heart attack.
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