Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger has recommended a number of actions that would conflict with the unratified strategic arms limitation treaty of 1979, Government officials said today. The recommended actions, which would be in response to Soviet moves purportedly contravening the treaty, have become the focus of a debate over arms control policy. Mr. Weinberger’s recommendations are contained in the second part of a secret report titled “Responding to Soviet Violations Policy Study.” Mr. Weinberger submitted the first part to President Reagan before the November summit meeting, along with a letter that was disclosed in the press. The Pentagon study was requested by Mr. Reagan in June when he decided to maintain the policy of not undercutting the 1979 treaty. The pact, signed in Vienna by President Jimmy Carter and Leonid I. Brezhnev, was not ratified, but the United States and the Soviet Union have agreed informally to observe its provisions as long as the other side does.
A K.G.B. officer working in Moscow told French intelligence officials of purported Soviet plans to steal Western technological secrets, according to a book to be published this month. The book asserts that information provided by the Soviet officer, code-named Farewell, led to the unmasking of many Soviet agents and alerted Western governments to the scale and intensity of Moscow’s efforts to acquire advanced Western technology. The book says the Soviet agents supplied the French with information for 18 months between 1981 and 1982.
Two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters collided in flight near the West German border with France, killing one pilot and a German civilian who was working in his garden. The wreckage of the planes, which were on a routine training mission, fell on a two-square-mile area around the city of Zweibruecken. The flier who died was identified as Captain Craig D. Lovelady, 29, of Glendale, Arizona; the other pilot ejected safely. Police said the falling debris also injured a civilian, touched off a forest fire and damaged numerous buildings. About 500 residents had to be evacuated for fear that fuel and munitions might explode.
Terrorism has shaken tourism over the last six months, according to industry and government representatives. They said that a rash of assaults had altered the patterns of the volatile travel industry. Around the nation, travel agents say, clients are calling to ask whether it is safe to take trips. Some fearful customers, they say, have canceled overseas trips and others have shifted their destinations to places considered potentially less dangerous, choosing in some cases, the Soviet Union and other Communist countries. Immediately after the terrorist attacks on December 27 at the Rome and Vienna airports, for example, Trans World Airlines lost about 4,000 bookings, according to a reliable airline source that T.W.A. spokesmen did not dispute. President Reagan, in his news conference last night, was asked how safe he thought it was for Americans to travel in Europe in view of recent terrorist attacks.
Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union increased last year with 1,140 arrivals registered at the Vienna transit center, the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration announced in Geneva. The number was up from a record low of 904 in 1984. But it still was low compared to the 51,330 Jews who were allowed to leave the Soviet Union in 1979 before the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan heightened East-West tension. Since the 1971 start of the resettlement program, 252,898 Soviet Jews have arrived in Vienna. Of these, according to the committee, 61.1% opted for new homes in Israel while the rest went to Western countries.
Yelena Bonner, wife of Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov, will undergo a heart-bypass operation next week because less drastic treatments failed to correct her blocked arteries, doctors said in Boston. Dr. Adolph M. Hutter, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, decided surgery was necessary after examining Bonner with Dr. W. Gerald Austen, chief of surgery, a hospital spokesman said. Bonner, 62, who received a 90-day exit visa to seek medical treatment in the West, will be admitted to the hospital Sunday, and the operation will be performed the next day. Her visa expires March 2.
World chess champion Gary Kasparov has another three weeks to decide whether he will play a rematch with Anatoly Karpov, an International Chess Federation official said. Lim Kok An, secretary general of the federation, announced earlier that Kasparov had until Monday of this week to agree to the rematch or forfeit his title to Karpov. But Lim later told reporters that “we must have been counting from the wrong dates.” He said the rules show that Kasparov must formally accept the rematch by January 27 or lose his title. Kasparov has said he will ignore the federation’s deadlines.
The Egyptian policeman sentenced to life in prison for killing seven Israeli tourists in the Sinai in October was found dead at a prison hospital, apparently a suicide victim. Egyptian state-guided news media said that Sgt. Suleiman Khater, 25, was found hanged with a bed sheet from window bars of his prison hospital room. An autopsy by the Justice Ministry’s chief coroner was under way. Khater, a law student who was drafted into the police force, shot the Israeli tourists October 5 at Ras Burka along the Egyptian-Israeli border.
President Reagan participates in his 33rd Press Conference. U.S. President Reagan announces economic sanctions against Libya. Virtually all U.S.-Libya ties would be severed under plans announced by President Reagan, who said the Libyan Government constituted “a threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.” Mr. Reagan ordered the remaining 1,000 to 1,500 Americans in Libya to leave at once and said those who fail to do so “will be subject to appropriate penalties upon their return to the United States.” In his first nationally televised news conference in nearly four months, Mr. Reagan read an opening statement that condemned Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, as a “pariah” for his “longstanding involvement in terrorism” and threatened further moves against Libya beyond economic action. “If these steps do not end Qaddafi’s terrorism, I promise you that further steps will be taken,” said Mr. Reagan, who asserted that there was “irrefutable evidence” of the Libyan leader’s involvement in the terrorist attacks at the airports in Rome and Vienna on December 27. Nineteen people died in the attacks, including five Americans and four of the Arab gunmen, and more than 110 were wounded.
For the third time since taking office five years ago, President Reagan has examined the possibility of a military strike against Libya and again chosen to limit actions to diplomatic and economic measures. Although he said tonight that Libya had engaged in the equivalent of “armed aggression” against the United States, Mr. Reagan decided against military force, his aides said, because he felt it would raise unacceptable risks. An Administration official said the main risks involved the fate of more than 1,000 Americans in Libya, an outbreak of explosive anti-Americanism in Arab countries and the possibility that American planes could be downed over Libya. In addition, Mr. Reagan has insisted that any target for retaliation be clearly identified with the actual terrorists. The President’s intelligence advisers could not satisfy that requirement.
Surveillance of Libyan nationals in the United States is now broader following threats by Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi to place “suicide” teams on American streets, according to Federal law enforcement officials. The authorities said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation approached its informants in the Libyan-American community in the last few days, seeking information on whether terrorist squads had been dispatched to the United States. Officials cautioned that they had no proof that such squads existed here and added that similar reports in the past had proved untrue.
Western diplomats said today that the Afghan authorities had arrested at least four army generals for warning Muslim rebels about the movement of Soviet troops and that Soviet commanders were tightening control on information. Diplomats said they had reports from Afghanistan that four generals were arrested in Kabul, the Afghan capital, on December 5. Another source said a fifth general might also have been taken into custody. There have been frequent reports of Afghan Army officers and soldiers providing information, arms and other aid to the rebels. There have also been reports of clashes between Afghan and Soviet soldiers. The Afghan Government bans Western reporters, and reports from inside the country can seldom be confirmed. The Afghan Government has not commented on the purported arrests.
Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos again accused Corazon Aquino, his opponent in the February election, of having Communist advisers. He told a Manila rally that Aquino was influenced by Jose Maria Sison, a founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, who has been jailed since the early 1970s. He also mentioned former Senator Lorenzo Tanada, who has been a key figure in Aquino’s camp and who is on leave from the chairmanship of the leftist group Bayan. Aquino and those named by Marcos could not be reached immediately for a response.
A group of Philippine military officers opened a campaign today for honest elections, saying they feared civil strife if the voting on February. 7 was dishonest. They also said they would support Corazon C. Aquino if she defeated President Ferdinand E. Marcos. The campaign was announced here by seven officers affiliated with the organization We Belong, which says it has a thousand members. The officers said soldiers’ loyalties should mainly be to the law and the Constitution. “The thing we fear most is a disturbance in this country” after the elections, said one of the officers, Colonel Hector Tarrazona of the air force. Captain Rex Robles of the navy said, “Civil strife is a possibility if the elections are perceived as dishonest.”
President Reagan receives a call from Prime Minister Mulroney of Canada.
The South African authorities refused permission today for a visiting United States Congressional delegation to visit Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned black nationalist who is viewed by many blacks as their leader. “The visit will not take place,” a Prisons Service spokesman said, but offered no further explanation. In other developments, the white authorities today turned down a black demand for a delay in reopening the nation’s black schools, the targets of months of classroom boycotts. The authorities indicated, however, that while schools would reopen Wednesday, students would be allowed to enroll until January 28, the date set by black leaders for a return to classes. Dismissals in Mine Strike
In the nominally independent homeland of Bophuthatswana, meanwhile, a South African mining companies began paying off 20,000 workers it dismissed Monday for striking. The company, General Mining Union Corporation, or Gencor, is South Africa’s second-biggest mining house, after Anglo American Corporation. It said about 7,000 of the remaining 10,000 workers at its Impala complex had returned to work today.
Another attempt to launch space shuttle Columbia on the STS-61-C mission was made on January 7, 1986, but was scrubbed at T-minus 9 minutes because of bad weather at contingency landing sites at Dakar, Senegal, and Morón de la Frontera, Spain. Frustrated space officials said they would try again Thursday. The postponement was the fifth in three weeks for the Columbia, which was first set to lift off December 18, but it was the first delay in shuttle history that was caused by storms so distant, rain in Spain and dust in the Sahara. “We’ve got to stop meeting like this,” the mission commander, Lieut. Comdr. Robert L. Gibson of the Navy, joked to technicians as he emerged from the spaceship. It was the third time the seven astronauts, including a Florida Congressman and the first Hispanic-American astronaut, had waited hours in the cockpit for a liftoff that failed to materialize. And it was one more illustration of the myriad factors that can slow operation of the shuttle fleet.
President Reagan, breaking tradition, invited a 75-year-old reporter just out of the hospital to ask the first question at his news conference tonight. The practice is that reporters for the two major news agencies, The Associated Press and United Press International, ask the first questions at a Presidential news conference. But tonight, Mr. Reagan gave that privilege to Sarah McClendon, who has covered the White House under eight Presidents for a group of small newspapers, mostly in Texas. “Sarah has been absent for a while,” Mr. Reagan said, “but she is back now and I’m delighted. Sarah is a true Washington institution who has seen a lot of history that she has covered aggressively and fairly.” Mr. Reagan, who has often felt the brunt of her sharp questioning on the problems of veterans and other subjects not normally on the White House news agenda, joked that he had not held a news conference in four months because of Mrs. McClendon’s absence.
Safety violations at a nuclear facility in Gore, Oklahoma, were cited by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last September. The commission said that compliance with safety regulations was “marginal” at the plant and expressed concern over the type of accident that occurred last Saturday, killing one worker and sending dozens to a hospital. In a safety evaluation report, the agency also reviewed 15 safety violations since 1978 and added that while none were severe, “the total number of violations is excessive and the presence of repeated problems indicates a lack of management oversight” at the plant, a subsidiary of the Kerr-McGee Corporation. A Kerr-McGee spokesman disputed those conclusions yesterday. “Obviously, we disagree,” said Richard S. Pereles, director of corporate communications. The company was required to submit by March a detailed report on how it planned to improve procedures for handling hot cylinders of uranium hexafluoride, which is used to make nuclear fuel and weapons. Another report was also required, describing “actions and measures to mitigate” the effects of a release of the chemical, both inside and outside the plant, after a tank rupture.
Nuclear plant officials had barred a procedure that employees were using to remove a uranium compound from an overfilled shipping container when it ruptured Saturday, causing the accident, a spokesman for the Kerr-McGee Corporation said.
American action to curb acid rain as soon as possible is expected to be recommended today by Drew Lewis, President Reagan’s special representative on acid rain, Canadian and American officials said.
John R. Block has resigned as Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Block, the nation’s chief farm policy administrator in five of the most turbulent years in the history of American agriculture, said he would not return to his family’s hog farm in Illinois, but declined to answer any other questions about his career plans. Late this afternoon, the President accepted the resignation, and in a statement praised Mr. Block’s tenure at the Department of Agriculture. “Yours has been a challenging assignment and you’ve handled it with great distinction,” Mr. Reagan said. He made no mention of a successor. Asked at a news conference tonight if he would look for a working farmer to take over the position, Mr. Reagan said he wanted “someone just as Jack was, who has all the experience necessary in that field.”
The Justice Department is investigating whether a top federal housing official billed the government for trips on which he was paid substantial outside speaking fees, an official close to the investigation said in Washington. Allegations of improper conduct by Gordon Walker, a deputy undersecretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, are under investigation by the agency’s inspector general, at the request of Secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr., a spokesman said. Justice Department spokesman John Russell said the matter had also been turned over to the department’s public integrity section for possible prosecution.
The military’s cut-rate cigarettes would be abolished under a policy proposed by senior Pentagon officials to reduce smoking in the military, officials said. They spoke on condition they not be named.
The new Postmaster General, Albert V. Casey, will serve only for an interim period, the chairman of the postal board of governors, John R. McKean, said, adding there would be a continuing search for a permanent successor to Paul N. Carlin, who was replaced Monday.
A 31-year-old woman received her second heart transplant in Charlotte, North Carolina, less than 24 hours after the first transplant began to fail. Sandra Collier of Forest City, North Carolina, underwent 16 hours of surgery in the 24-hour period and was reported in critical condition at Charlotte Memorial Hospital and Medical Center after receiving the heart of a 25-year-old woman.
Prosecutors in the case of Navy surgeon Donal Billig, charged in the deaths of five patients through negligence in heart bypass operations, won the right to present preserved human hearts as evidence in the doctor’s court-martial. The court disposed of more than two dozen pretrial motions, and the way was cleared to begin the questioning of the court-martial panel in Washington. Cmdr. Billig pleaded not guilty to all the charges. Billig, 54, was chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland in 1983-84. The Navy charges he committed involuntary manslaughter and was derelict in his duties during that period.
The Smithsonian Institution will close a $7-million deal Thursday to buy one of the world’s finest collections of Persian art, once thought to have disappeared during World War II, for display in a new museum scheduled for completion in May, 1987. The sale of the collection, amassed by Parisian jeweler Henri Vever early in this century, is to be completed in Washington Thursday, said Lawrence Brinn, a New York lawyer who represents Vever’s heirs.
Massachusetts employers will have to pay about 500,000 minimum-wage workers an extra 20 cents an hour starting July 1 and 20 cents more by 1988 under a bill signed by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. Dukakis said the move to separate the state minimum wage from the $3.35-an-hour federal rate was necessary because the national rate had not increased since 1981, and President Reagan was unlikely to allow any increase in the near future.
A member of the white supremacist group the Order has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a state trooper. The killer, David Tate, 23 years old, of Athol, Idaho, was sentenced in Columbia, Missouri Monday in Boone County Circuit Court. Also on Monday, in Federal District Court in Moscow, Idaho, Daniel R. Bauer, a founding member of the Order, was sentenced to five years in prison on charges stemming from an armored car robbery. Mr. Bauer pleaded guilty in September to charges of receiving stolen money and being an accessory after the fact to the armored car robbery near Ukiah, California, in 1984. Mr. Tate was convicted of first-degree murder on November 13 and the jury recommended that he be sentenced to life in prison without parole. He killed State Trooper Jimmie Linegar, 31, when Trooper Linegar stopped Mr. Tate’s van at a traffic checkpoint.
The ethics of the Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court will be the topic of hearings in the state’s newly convened General Assembly. Legislative leaders predicted long sessions on a resolution to impeach the Chief Justice, Joseph A. Bevilacqua, because of his association with men who have been called mobsters by law enforcement officials.
A four-year custody battle for 6-year-old Jeffery Hayden has ended in the shooting death of both his adoptive parents. The custody dispute included a kidnapping and national television appearances by the boy’s adoptive mother in an effort to find her son. Those killed in the exchange of gunfire Saturday in the small southeast Idaho farming community of Paul were Judy Hayden McLean, 35 years old, and her former husband, Ken Arthur Hayden, 38. Today, Mrs. McLean’s second husband, Kermit McLean, 30, was exonerated in the slaying of Mr. Hayden. According to Police Chief C. K. Harkness, Mr. Hayden burst into the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Mclean through a window at 4 AM and began firing with a 20-gauge shotgun equipped with a flashlight along the barrel. Mrs. McLean was killed instantly and Mr. McLean was wounded very slightly, according to Chief Harkness, who said, Mr. McLean managed to reach a .22-caliber pistol under his pillow and shoot Mr. Hayden in the head.
A southern California man who pleaded guilty to giving his terminally ill uncle a fatal drug overdose has been sentenced in Pasadena to probation and fined $100 in a case the judge described as “a true mercy killing.” “This is a difficult case and a tragic situation,” said the judge, Coleman Swart of Superior Court, after handing down the five-year probation sentence and fine Monday against the man, Wallace Lambert Cooper, 46 years old.
Frigid arctic air stung the Midwest and Northeast with temperatures as low as 38 below zero, while a fast-moving storm that dumped a foot of snow on the southern Rockies headed across New Mexico for Texas. The bitter cold stalled cars, drove the homeless to shelters in record numbers and spurred interest in get-away vacations to warmer latitudes. The snow and cold have been blamed for at least four deaths nationwide since Monday. Temperatures plunged below zero from Minnesota to northern New England. Wind-chill readings as low as 55 below zero were reported in the northern Plains and 25 to 45 below in northern Maine.
A fifth force may be at work in the universe, according to physicists’ suspicions. Their speculation about a fifth, heretofore unidentified force was prompted by a new analysis of early 20th century experiments that produced results challenging both the findings of Galileo that all falling bodies accelerate at the same rate and a fundamental element of Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Seattle game agents tossing firecrackers routed Herschel and four fellow sea lions from the government canal where they were devouring prize trout. Agents started harassing the animals before dawn. But less than two hours after an initial pair of blasts forced a retreat, the sea lions were back. Agents then took to a motorized skiff and tossed enough firecrackers to scare the animals away. The agents hope the animals are now gone for good.
The Twins trade Ken Schrom to the Indians for Roy Smith and Ramon Romero. Call it a wash: Schrom will go 20–20 in two seasons and Smith will go 23–20 in four. Romero is finished at the Major League level and will die in a fall from a 6th-floor window in 1988 while being pursued by the police for dealing crack.
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Born:
Ramon Foster, NFL guard (Pittsburgh Steelers), in Henning, Tennessee.
Jack Ikegwuonu, NFL cornerback (Philadelphia Eagles), in Jackson, Michigan.
JamesOn Curry, NBA point guard (Los Angeles Clippers), in Pleasant Grove, North Carolina.
Died:
Juan Rulfo, 68, Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer (Pedro Paramo).
Philip D. Eastman, 76, American children’s book writer (“Are You My Mother?”) and illustrator.
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