The reduction in Soviet missions to the United Nations ordered last week by the United States causes “direct damage” to relations between the two countries, Moscow said. A Soviet diplomatic protest raised the question whether such actions provided a “favorable background” for another summit meeting. A protest read at the Foreign Ministry to the United States charge d’affaires, Richard Combs Jr., said: “Of course, the Soviet side cannot pass such unlawful United States actions over and will have to draw approriate conclusions.” The protest, which was made public by Tass, the Government press agency, did not specify what actions the Soviet Union contemplated. But it mentioned plans for the next summit meeting and the new agreement to set up consulates in Kiev and in New York.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has told Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, that Britain cannot accept a freeze on British and French nuclear arsenals as a condition for a Soviet-American agreement on the withdrawal of all medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe. Mr. Gorbachev proposed the freeze in January when he offered a version of the “zero option” for medium-range missiles. Mrs. Thatcher’s response was delivered Monday night in Moscow. The Labor Party leader, Neil Kinnock, recalling in the Commons that Mrs. Thatcher had pressed the “zero option” two years ago on Yuri V. Andropov, the late Soviet leader, said that her letter to his successor showed that she had “moved the goal posts” now that Mr. Gorbachev had taken up the idea. Britain plans to greatly increase the number of its nuclear warheads under a $16 billion program to build four new nuclear submarines and arm them with Trident missiles purchased from the United States.
West German federal prosecutors announced a second investigation of Chancellor Helmut Kohl on suspicion that he gave false testimony to a parliamentary inquiry into charges of political donations from the giant Flick industrial conglomerate. Kohl is already under investigation by state prosecutors in Koblenz over possible false testimony to a separate probe in Mainz. The inquiries represent the first time that a West German chancellor has been investigated while still in office.
A producer for Spanish television had insisted for weeks that she would vote to pull Spain out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the coming referendum. But today, the eve of the vote, she has undergone a change of mind, if not of heart. She was opposed out of principle to military blocs, she said. But now she is afraid that Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, who backs NATO, might fall from power if he loses. Somewhat sheepishly, she added that she has also become half-convinced that NATO membership is better for Spain.
Danish Prime Minister Poul Schlueter announced a major shuffle of his minority, four-party coalition government. The changes came after a week of negotiations between his Conservatives, the Liberals and two junior partners in the center-right coalition. Uffe Ellemann-Jensen of the Liberals remained as foreign minister. Three ministers changed portfolios, and six were dropped from the Cabinet. Schlueter said the changes were made to show that the coalition “has the will to continue even after the next election,” due in 1988.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a five-year, $250-million aid package for Northern Ireland, fulfilling a pledge of U.S. support for the British-Irish accord signed in November. The aid bill was sent to the Senate, where approval is also expected. The agreement gives the Irish Republic a consultative role in Ulster’s affairs and calls for an international fund that would spur economic development.
Dominic (Mad Dog) McGlinchey, once the most wanted guerrilla in both the Irish Republic and Ulster, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting at police who arrested him on St. Patrick’s Day, 1984. McGlinchey, 32, one-time leader of the Marxist Irish National Liberation Army, had previously received a life sentence in a murder case. That conviction was overturned on appeal last October.
It has been 1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21, 753 BC.
A French mediator, Dr. Razah Raad, was reported today to have made contact with Moslem extremists holding French hostages. A Christian radio station, Voice of Lebanon, said Dr. Raad, a Lebanese-born heart specialist, held meetings in Beirut’s mostly Shiite southern suburbs. He rushed to Beirut late Monday night from the Syrian capital, Damascus, after the Islamic Holy War organization released photographs purporting to show the corpse of Michel Seurat, one of the French hostages who the group said it killed last week. French officials said they had no way of determining whether the photographs proved that Mr. Seurat was dead. The group claims to be holding three other French hostages kidnapped last spring. It has denied responsibility for the abduction over the weekend of a four-member French television crew.
The Administration formally notified Congress that it wants to sell $354-million worth of advanced missiles to Saudi Arabia-a deal supporters of Israel quickly tried to stop. An Administration spokesman said Saudi Arabia needs the 1,066 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, 800 shoulder-fired Stingers and 100 Harpoon naval missiles to meet “security requirements.” But Senator Alan Cranston (D-California) began circulating a resolution to reject the sale, saying he opposes it “because of the hostility the Saudis have shown for fundamental U.S. national security interests in the Mideast.”
Vietnam has told United States officials that it has found the remains of 21 Americans and can identify 10 of them by name, a senior Pentagon official said today. Richard L. Armitage, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, also said Vietnam has agreed to look into three reports that Americans have been seen alive in Vietnam. The developments took place at a meeting of technical experts late last month in Hanoi. The 21 remains have yet to be repatriated, but the families of the 10 identified by the the Vietnamese have been notified.
About 2,000 opposition leaders and their supporters marched through the streets of the South Korean capital of Seoul today in a campaign for constitutional reform to permit direct presidential elections. At the same time, dissident politicians announced that unless the changes they seek were made, they would boycott indirect elections that the Government intends to use to select a successor in 1988 for President Chun Doo Hwan. “We will never participate in the indirect system and never put up any candidate,” said Kim Young Sam, a leader of the main opposition group, the New Korea Democratic Party. The opposition wants to amend the Constitution to allow direct elections before Mr. Chun’s seven-year term expires in March 1988.
The Philippine Government ordered the arrest today of two members of the National Assembly in connection with killings during the presidential campaign last month, in the first direct action against major supporters of the Marcos Government. The Government also began a process of reconciliation by welcoming back representatives of a Moslem separatist movement who had been living overseas. The office of Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile said one of the legislators ordered arrested today, Arturo Pacificador, an assistant majority floor leader for Ferdinand E. Marcos, was wanted in the killing of Evelio Javier, a local rival who was campaign manager in Antique Province for President Corazon C. Aquino. Mr. Javier, a former provincial governor, was chased down and slain February 11 by a group of masked gunmen. The second member of the National Assembly, Orlando Dulay, was being sought for killings in Quirino Province that were also linked to the election.
Imelda Marcos routinely took large numbers of paintings from a major museum here to display in her houses around the Philippines, a team of Government inspectors found today. “She’d come and pick things up whenever she wanted, even in the middle of the night,” said Arturo Luz, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. “There was no accounting, no questions asked.” Mrs. Marcos fled to Hawaii two weeks ago with her husband, Ferdinand E. Marcos.
Aid for Nicaraguan rebels far short of what President Reagan wants would eventually have to be accepted by him, Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress said. Mr. Reagan opposes a compromise with Congress, but “there will be an accommodation,” Senator Alan K. Simpson, the Republican whip said.
Nicaragua’s new chief delegate to the United Nations today denied the Reagan Administration’s accusation that her Government was exporting revolution throughout Central America, and she called on Washington to negotiate a peaceful settlement of the region’s conflicts. The envoy, Nora Astorga, made her remarks to reporters after presenting her credentials to Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar. “Revolutions are not exportable like Coca-Cola or paperbacks or something like that,” she said. “You don’t produce it internally and send it away. Revolutions are made in a country when the conditions in that particular country are for a process of change.”
The senior Cuban military officer in Nicaragua in recent years has ended his tour here and returned to Cuba, according to the official Sandinista newspaper, Barricada. The officer, General Arnaldo Ochoa, is being replaced by another senior Cuban military man, General Nestor Lopez Cuba, the newspaper said.
While President Reagan was opposing all compromise with Congress on his request to aid the Nicaraguan rebels, leaders in both parties said today that the President would eventually have to accept far less than he wants. “There will be an accommodation,” predicted Senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming, the Republican whip. Senator Jim Sasser of Tennessee said there was a “strong consensus” among his fellow Senate Democrats that Mr. Reagan “had not done enough” to promote a negotiated settlement in the region. Any compromise would probably bar release of any aid to the rebels until the Administration pursues negotiations more seriously, Mr. Sasser added.
Ecuador’s former top general, who seized an air base after he was fired for insubordination, surrendered to end a five-day stand off, the government announced. General Frank Vargas Pazos, the former commander of the air force and chief of the joint military command, has placed himself under the president’s orders, a spokesman for President Leon Febres Cordero announced. Quito radio stations later reported that General Luis Pineiros, the country’s defense minister, and General Manuel Albuja, the army commander, have resigned as Vargas had demanded.
A wave of bomb attacks on public buildings and power lines in Chile marred official fifth anniversary celebrations of the constitution that extended the term of President Augusto Pinochet’s military government until 1989. The attacks brought trains to a halt on Santiago’s subway system and cut power throughout an 800-mile-long region of central Chile. The Communist-backed Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front claimed responsibility and said the bombings mark the start of a campaign of violence to oust Pinochet.
The South African Government today reversed an order expelling three CBS News journalists. The action came after CBS News, in a joint statement with the Pretoria Government, said “more care could have been exercised” in covering a funeral in a black township near here from which cameras had been banned. On Friday, the crew, which included an American, was ordered to leave the country by today because the network had broadcast footage of the funeral of 17 people killed in the township, Alexandra. The network said it had obtained the footage from “outside South Africa.”
Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley’s Comet at 6.8 million km.
The space agency has decided on a major revision of its space operations by shifting to a mixed fleet of shuttles and unmanned rockets to launch earth satellites, officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed yesterday. Under a new policy, prompted by a Federal interagency group in the six weeks since the explosion of the Challenger shuttle, the space agency will move to encourage private space companies to launch satellites that previously would have been sent aloft by the space shuttles. Until the Jan. 28 explosion of the shuttle, with the loss of seven crew members, the space agency had consistently opposed using expendable unmanned rockets to put military and commercial satellites in orbit, saying its four shuttles were the best and most competitive vehicles for that purpose. But in a memorandum to Richard Truly, the new director of shuttle operations, William R. Graham, NASA’s Acting Administrator, wrote last Friday that “a consensus is emerging” within the Reagan Administration to rely increasingly on the unmanned rockets, known as expendable launch vehicles.
The space agency resumed its efforts today to recover the broken crew compartment of the space shuttle Challenger so that forensic experts can identify the decomposed remains of the astronauts that have been discovered inside. Lieut. Comdr. Deborah A. Burnette of the Navy, a spokesman for salvage operations, said weather conditions over the site had improved today, enabling Navy ships to deploy divers to inspect wreckage from the compartment. Eight-foot seas and strong winds on Monday had forced salvage experts to abandon their search of the wreckage, which was is in about 100 feet of water, 16 miles off the Florida coast.
Teams of technical experts are awaiting the recovery of tape recordings and computer data from the wreckage of the Challenger’s crew compartment, space agency officials said today. The tapes and computers may provide clues to the cause of the explosion, which destroyed the space shuttle and killed the seven astronauts aboard shortly after it was launched from the Kennedy Space Center here on January 28. The teams, based at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, are being assembled even though the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has not disclosed whether parts of the crew cabin, which was found last weekend in 100 feet of water 16 miles northeast of here, or its contents have been returned to shore. The technical teams are made up of space agency experts and industry consultants.
President Reagan prepares for a meeting with regional journalists.
President Reagan participates in a meeting to discuss the Administration’s immigration policy.
The chairman and the ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee said today that they were optimistic that they could reach agreement on a bipartisan budget package for the fiscal year 1987 that would include increased revenues and less money for the military budget than President Reagan has requested. Republican and Democratic members of the committee, who said they were aiming to reach agreement this week, met privately this afternoon to continue discussions. The committee chairman, Pete V. Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, said that although he was negotiating with the Democrats he was not negotiating with the White House. “No, not at this point,” he told reporters.
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger has rejected the idea of banning the sale of cigarettes at military commissaries but ordered the most extensive anti-smoking educational campaign in the Pentagon’s history, officials said. In addition, the secretary has ordered new limits on the locations where smoking will be allowed and prohibited any component of the Defense Department from participating in promotional campaigns sponsored by alcohol and tobacco makers and directed at servicemen. A military study concludes that smoking costs the Pentagon hundreds of millions of dollars for health care. In fiscal 1984 alone, “smoking-related costs” totaled at least $209.9 million, the study said.
The House Judiciary Committee passed tough new “revolving door” legislation that would make former Pentagon officials wait two years before going to work for defense contractors they once supervised. Passage of the measure, already approved by the House Armed Services Committee, follows release of a General Accounting Office study estimating that fewer than one-third of former Pentagon officials report business with defense contractors — a legal requirement. The bill also would prohibit former officials from working for a contractor controlled by the firm they supervised.
Secretary of Education William J. Bennett predicted that competency tests for America’s 2 million elementary and secondary schoolteachers will be a fact of life within the next decade. He said the tests and the creation of incentive pay plans will encourage students to become teachers, not drive them away from the profession. Texas on Monday became the second state to force its teachers to submit to a competency test or risk losing teaching certificates. Arkansas was the path-breaker last year, and Georgia is planning a similar exam.
President Reagan met today with key members of Congress to express his support for legislation designed to stop the flow of illegal aliens into the United States. At the meeting, White House officials said, Mr. Reagan prodded members of the House of Representatives to take action on a comprehensive immigration bill passed by the Senate last September. The bill was sponsored by Senator Alan K. Simpson, Republican of Wyoming, the assistant majority leader, who attended the meeting today in the Oval Office. A similar bill, sponsored by Representative Peter W. Rodino Jr., Democrat of New Jersey, is pending before the House Judiciary Committee, of which Mr. Rodino is the chairman.
A divided Federal appeals court in Washington rejected today the Reagan Administration’s assertion of unfettered power to bar aliens from visiting the United States solely because of associations with Communist organizations. The three-judge panel’s 2-to-1 ruling, although narrow and technical, was hailed by civil liberties lawyers as a victory in their battle against the Government’s frequent denials of visas to left-leaning foreign political and literary figures who want to exchange views here. If the State Department has no reason other than Communist affiliation for excluding an alien, the panel’s majority said, it must ordinarily recommend that the visa be granted or certify to Congress that the alien’s visit would threaten the national security. The panel said such certifications by the State Department were required under certain conditions by the 1977 McGovern Amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Thousands of tips slipped to the government over a toll-free fraud hot line have saved taxpayers millions of dollars in the last seven years, the General Accounting Office said. In a report on the effectiveness of the fraud hot line it operates, the agency said 74,000 calls were received between January 18, 1979 — when the line 800-424-5454 opened — and January 17 of this year, including one that revealed a Cabinet member’s wife was using a government car to go grocery shopping.
The Health and Human Services Department is preparing to release lists of the nation’s hospitals that have mortality rates significantly higher or lower than the national average, the first such lists ever compiled. The lists, provided to The New York Times and scheduled for general release on Wednesday, indicate that more than twice as many patients died at certain hospitals than would have been expected under national norms. The lists were derived using case records from 10.7 million patients treated in 1984 whose bills were paid by Medicare, the Government program that assists the elderly and the disabled in paying their hospital costs. Nearly all the nation’s hospitals treat Medicare patients, who make up almost half of all hospital patients. Several New York hospitals were identified as having higher-than-average mortality rates for elderly Medicare patients. But Federal officials warned that the statistics were suggestive, not conclusive. They said that perhaps half the hospitals shown might have acceptable explanations for their abnormal death rates among Medicare patients that had nothing to do with the quality of the medical care.
A coal industry report published today contends that sulfur dioxide in the air, a source of acid rain and other pollution, is diminishing and will continue to do so despite increased use of coal by power plants. But the Environmental Protection Agency and environmentalists challenged the study’s projections, saying they were based on incorrect assumptions. Industry officials said their findings would have a bearing on policy toward acid rain and other sulfur dioxide pollution that is based on the assumption that the amount of sulfur dioxide in the air is rising. Environmentalists contend that acid precipitation is destroying life in lakes and may also be causing other environmental and health problems.
Striking meatpackers at Geo. A. Hormel & Company began voting today on whether their local should resolve differences with its parent union and try a joint contract offer to the company, union leaders said. The voting by Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union will take two days, said Mayor Tom Kough, a P-9 member who supports the reconciliation resolution.
Machinists, ordered to stop honoring picket lines set up by flight attendants on strike against Trans World Airlines, returned to work this afternoon, an airline official said. Federal District Judge Howard F. Sachs issued a six-page ruling this morning granting T.W.A. a preliminary injunction ordering members of the International Association of Machinists to return to work.
Reinventing network television is the aim of John B. Sias, the new president of ABC, who is attempting to rescue the network from ratings failures and declining revenues. Mr. Sias, head of the ABC division of the newly formed Capital Cities/ABC Inc., is part of a management team that is putting into effect policies that promise to drastically alter the network’s personality, its way of doing business and, ultimately, the programs it broadcasts. Mr. Sias, who had a long business career outside television, has never read a television script and says he probably never will.
Judge Earl H. Carroll of Tucson dismissed four counts against three of 11 defendants in the smuggling conspiracy trial of sanctuary activists. Forty charges remain lodged against the defendants, including the three for whom four counts were dismissed — Quaker James Corbett, a retired rancher who is considered a co-founder of the movement, Nena MacDonald and the Rev. Anthony Clark.
A Texas man convicted of shooting to death a city marshal after being stopped during a robbery investigation was executed by lethal injection early today, becoming the second person put to death in the United States this year. The death sentence was carried out after the United States Supreme Court voted 7 to 2 not to block the execution of the man, Charles Bass. Attorneys for Mr. Bass, who had come within seven hours of execution in 1982, had argued that he was denied a fair trial because of a conflict of interest involving a lawyer representing him. A three-judge panel of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected a similar request earlier Tuesday.
A posthumous pardon for Leo Frank, who was sentenced to death for the 1913 murder of a Georgia girl, was granted by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, which had refused to grant a pardon in 1983. Frank was seized by a mob and lynched in 1915 after his death sentence was commuted to a life sentence. The board granted the pardon after the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the Atlanta Jewish Federation argued in a new petition that they should not have to prove Frank’s innocence, only that he was denied justice.
The United States presented a set of Statue of Liberty commemorative coins to French officials in Washington, beginning an international sales campaign for the coins. Donna Pope, director of the U.S. Mint, said the coins presented to Ambassador Emmanuel de Margerie were in appreciation of the statue, a gift from the French people, and a symbol of “the precious ideals of liberty.”
Dick Carlson, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor of San Diego in 1984, has been named acting director of the Voice of America, an agency official said. The appointment of Carlson, head of the VOA’s office of public liaison for the last several months, was made on a temporary basis. Charles Z. Wick, director of the U.S. Information Agency, which oversees the VOA, will make a permanent appointment at an undisclosed later date, officials said.
The New York Islanders’ Mike Bossy scores four goals against Calgary, and becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons.
NFL adopts its first instant replay rule. After more than a year of discussion, limited experimentation and hours of debate, the National Football League owners voted today to use video-taped replays as an officiating aide. The motion, which passed by a vote of 23-4, with one abstention, will be used for the 1986 season, starting with the preseason games, but must be approved again for use in seasons beyond. The replays will be available to a game official in the press box, who will have access, on two monitors, to the same television feed that viewers see. The replays will be used only to decide questions of possession or touching, such as plays involving fumbles, receptions, interceptions, muffs, ineligible players touching a pass or questions involving the sidelines, goal lines or end lines, such as breaking the plane of the goal line.
Wall Street yesterday recorded one of its biggest gains as the public, driven by shrinking yields on investments that are sensitive to interest rates, plowed funds into stocks in a frenzy of buying. The Dow Jones industrial average, the 30-stock indicator that measures the pulse of the market, rose 43.10 points, its second-largest one-day gain, closing at a record 1,746.05. Other market gauges were equally buoyant as the average share climbed 82 cents and trading volume soared to its fifth-heaviest level ever. “It’s fabulous,” said Edward Yardeni, chief economist at Prudential-Bache Securities. “A lot of individuals realize that short-term rates are now 7 percent or less and could move even lower.” This, Mr. Yardeni said, makes stocks a much more attractive investment.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1746.05 (+43.1)
Born:
Amanda Weir, American swimmer (Olympics, 2004, 2012, 2016; 3 silver medals, 1 bronze medal), in Davenport, Iowa.
Jeremy Hefner, MLB pitcher (New York Mets), in Perkins, Oklahoma.
Died:
Sherman Ken, 82, American professor known as the father of intelligence analysis.
Sonny Terry [Saunders Terrell], 74, American blind Piedmont blues harmonica player and singer (Brownie McGhee).
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