President Reagan plans to hold firm to his positions in the Geneva arms talks and does not plan to introduce new proposals at his meeting this weekend with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, according to an Administration official. The official said the Administration planned to exceed the limits of the 1979 strategic arms treaty on Nov. 11, before an expected regular summit meeting in the United States. These plans are likely to change only if there is a “dramatic change” in Soviet positions, the official said. Mr. Gorbachev and Mr. Reagan will meet Saturday and Sunday in Reykjavik, Iceland, and will spend six to seven hours together over the two days. The American stand on arms control, affirmed a day after Mr. Reagan met with his advisers and decided to hold firm, suggests that considerable differences with the Soviet Union remain.
The Soviet Union has provided fresh information about a mysterious outbreak of anthrax in 1979, which the United States had linked to the development of Soviet biological weapons. At a recent international conference in Geneva, the Soviets said that the outbreak was caused by government distribution of contaminated cattle feed, which infected privately owned cattle and ultimately led to the deaths of about 200 people. Previously, the Soviets said that the outbreak was caused by ingestion of tainted meat but said nothing about the origins of the contamination.
The Soviet skipper whose Yankee-class missile submarine sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Bermuda this week initially refused rescue, U.S. officials said. The skipper waited alone until the last minute before paddling away from the sinking submarine in his raft, sources said. He then resisted attempts to take him aboard a small boat to ferry him to a nearby Soviet freighter, they said. He was then ordered to board the freighter, according to officials, and finally did so. The freighter was last seen heading toward Cuba.
President Reagan today rejected overtures from the House of Representatives to resolve a deadlock on arms control issues on the eve of his weekend meeting in Iceland with Mikhail S. Gorbachev. In a campaign speech here, the President accused House Democrats of trying to tie his hands. At issue are House provisions, attached to a spending bill, that would curb the production of new chemical weapons, the testing of an antisatellite missile system and spending on a space-based missile defense system. The House has also voted a one-year ban on most nuclear testing and the requirement that the United States adhere to the provisions of the unratified 1979 treaty on strategic arms. Mr. Reagan accused the Democrats of trying to tie his hands.
U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar today sharply criticized a report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that charged that one of his assistants is a Soviet intelligence officer. In an uncharacteristically harsh statement, Mr. Perez de Cuellar defended the assistant, Vladimir Kolesnikov, and called on the Reagan Administration to prove allegations that spying goes on at the United Nations. Called spying “incompatible” with the oath of office taken by all United Nations employees, Mr. Perez de Cuellar said through a spokesman that if there was “convincing evidence of such activity,” he “will take appropriate remedial steps.” He added that it was unfair “that the reputation and integrity of entire categories of staff members should be called into question because of their nationalities.”
A Yugoslav court sentenced a naturalized American citizen to seven years in prison for anti-Yugoslav activities, the official Tanjug news agency reported. Peter Ivezaj, 30, of Sterling Heights, Michigan, was jailed in August while in the country visiting relatives. Ivezaj, an ethnic Albanian, was accused of participating in anti-Yugoslav demonstrations in Detroit, Chicago and Washington. A State Department official said the United States is outraged and demanded Ivezaj’s release.
A Waterford-Wedgwood merger has been proposed; it would combine two of the leading names in tableware. The Waterford Glass Group of Ireland offered more than $360 million for Wedgwood P.L.C., the 227-year-old maker of fine china.
Yisrael Kitaro, the Ashkelon taxi driver whose throat was cut Tuesday while he was having his car repaired in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip, was buried today in a funeral that erupted into a demonstration of anti-Arab emotions. With some of the crowd shouting “Death to the Arabs!” and “Let’s kill some of their people so they’ll be scared!” Mr. Kitaro was buried before thousands of mourners at Ashkelon’s main cemetery. His wife and three children wailed in grief as his body, carried on a simple green army stretcher, was lowered into the grave, which was adjacent to that of Haim Azran, another Ashkelon resident who was stabbed to death on September 27 while shopping in Gaza. Many of the 40,000 Arab workers from Gaza, who have to drive past Ashkelon every morning to get to their jobs inside Israel, stayed home today for fear of retribution by Mr. Kitaro’s fellow taxi drivers, who on Tuesday night twice blocked the highway and stoned cars bearing Gaza license plates.
In a move that appears to underscore the Palestine Liberation Organization’s increasing isolation in the Arab world, the P.L.O. is moving its military headquarters from Tunis. The P.L.O. chief, Yasir Arafat, in remarks to Arab journalists on his arrival in Kuwait on Tuesday evening, confirmed that his military command posts would be shifted to Yemen and Iraq. Both Iraq and Yemen are geographically and politically peripheral to the Palestinian guerrillas’ main interests in Israel. Baghdad, particularly, would appear to promise little freedom to the P.L.O. The move, according to both Arab and Western diplomatic sources, appeared to reflect a growing concern on the part of Arab governments for their own security.
Citing the importance of personal and governmental credibility, Bernard Kalb resigned today as the State Department spokesman to protest what he called “the reported disinformation program” conducted by the Reagan Administration against the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi. “Faith in the word of America is the pulsebeat of our democracy,” Mr. Kalb told reporters at the State Department. “Anything that hurts America’s credibility hurts America.” President Reagan, asked about the resignation of Mr. Kalb as he boarded Air Force One tonight in Atlanta, en route to Washington, said, “No one on our side has been lying to anyone.”
Bernard Kalb said the Administration’s reported effort to deceive news organizations has deeply disturbed him. Mr. Kalb, 64, who has had a long career as a newspaper and television reporter, said he was concerned about “what the word of America means” and “my own integrity.”
Many journalists said today that they regarded the resignation of the top State Department press spokesman as a demonstration of his integrity and further evidence of the existence of a disinformation program within the Reagan Administration. In explaining his resignation, Bernard Kalb, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, repeatedly declined to confirm that there was a policy to disemminate false information to accomplish political objectives. But he also said his resignation was a “modest dissent” prompted by press reports of a disinformation policy.
More than 100 Iranians stormed the West German Embassy compound in Tehran to protest the closing of Iran’s exhibit at the Frankfurt Book Fair but were driven out with tear gas, West German officials said in Bonn. The attackers, carrying iron bars and saws, shouted, “Revenge for Frankfurt!” as they scaled the compound fence, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. They tried to force entry to the embassy building but retreated after failing to get in, he said. Iran’s official news agency said the assault was carried out by 300 students from Tehran University belonging to the extremist Shia Muslim organization Hezbollah, or Party of God.
The Soviet Union said today that it would begin the previously pledged pullout of six regiments from Afghanistan next Wednesday and complete it this month. The announcement from the Defense Ministry was made after Secretary of State George P. Shultz had voiced concern that the Soviet Union planned to “publicize” the pullout to coincide with the Iceland meeting this weekend. Afghanistan is expected to figure as a topics for discussion in the meeting.
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger told Chinese officials in Beijing today that the Soviet pullout would be an elaborate “ruse” to make it appear that the force in Afghanistan was being reduced.. Mr. Weinberger, who is here at the start of a world tour that will take him to Pakistan, said American intelligence had picked up signs of new Soviet troops arriving a few weeks ago. Another American official said the arrivals represented six regiments, or 6,000 troops. That is also the size of the force to be evacuated.
Vietnam, without any explanation, has called off talks scheduled for this week on accounting for the nearly 1,800 Americans missing in the Vietnam War, an American official said today. The Vietnamese Embassy in Bangkok told American officials on Tuesday that the talks must be temporarily postponed, the official, Colonel Joe Harvey, said. Colonel Harvey was to lead a four-man team of American military specialists to the talks in Hanoi that were to begin today.
South Korea and Japan were attempting to verify reports that Soviet naval vessels seized a South Korean fishing boat carrying 26 people off southeastern Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. South Korean authorities reported that the 295-ton boat was fishing for cuttlefish when it was boarded by Soviet sailors.
A senior military officer said today that Filipino Communist guerrillas put to death 600 of their own men this year in an effort to purge their ranks of informers. The officer, Brig. Gen. Mariano Adalem, the Northern Mindanao commander, told a military command conference that the purge had caused a major depletion in rebel ranks, the official Philippine News Agency reported.
Mexico denied that its police had been arrested in Texas last month and accused of kidnapping seven Americans — two women and five children. Texas officials said that one of the three arrested men carried a Mexican Federal police photo-identification card and badge and said the two others said they were also Mexican policemen.
The Nicaraguan Government formally accused the Reagan Administration today of sponsoring a rebel supply plane downed here and demanded an end to all American support for attacks in Nicaragua. The accusations were made in a formal diplomatic protest that Nicaraguan officials said was sent to Secretary of State George P. Shultz today. An American Embassy spokesman said the embassy had not seen or received the Nicaraguan protest. Noting that one American had been captured and two others killed when Nicaraguan troops shot down the rebel supply plane last Sunday, the protest note asked the United States “to obey the sentence of the International Court of Justice and end military and paramilitary activities in Nicaragua and against Nicaragua.”
President Reagan strongly suggested today that he approved of efforts by private American citizens to help Nicaraguan insurgents fighting the Sandinista Government, including those Americans who sent in a cargo plane that was shot down on Sunday. But Administration officials disclosed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had opened what was decribed as a “preliminary investigaton” of those private activities as possible violation of American neutrality laws. Even so, President Reagan compared the efforts of private citizens at this time to those of Americans who joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the 1930’s to fight alongside Spanish Republican soldiers against Franco and his rightist insurgents. Referring to the Nicaraguan insurgents by their popular name, contras, the President said that “we’ve been aware that there are private groups and private citizens that have been trying to help the contras to that extent.”
A retired major general, John K. Singlaub, denied today that a group he heads had any connection with the cargo plane that was downed over Nicaragua. The general said in a telephone interview that he was trying to find out why Government officials “would want to put out this misinformation” of linking the supply plane to his group, which calls itself the United States Council for World Freedom and was founded in 1981 to provide private assistance to the Nicaraguan insurgents.
Chile’s president, General Augusto Pinochet, replaced the army member of the ruling four-man junta with the director of secret police and retired nine generals in what appears to be a move against military men at odds with him. Pinochet named Lieutenant General Humberto Gordon, director of the secret police agency and one of his most loyal aides, to represent the army on the junta starting December 11. The Government announced a series of retirements and promotions in the army leadership today that appeared to strengthen President Augusto Pinochet’s already tight control over the most important of Chile’s military branches. Three generals considered more independent in their thinking than most of the others were retired. The head of the intelligence service was promoted to the army position on the four-man military junta. The number of army generals was increased to 54 from 51.
Somalia has agreed to normalize relations with the Soviet Union, the official news agency Sonna reported. Foreign Minister Abdirahman. Jama Barre told the news agency that he and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze reached an agreement in New York last weekend. Somalia’s break with Moscow was a side effect of its undeclared war with Ethiopia in 1977. The Soviets, despite a treaty with Somalia, supplied weapons to Ethiopia. This new agreement follows a cautious rapprochement between Somalia and Ethiopia.
President Reagan today railed against “liberal judges,” asserting that they were a factor in a crime epidemic that included the proliferation of illegal drugs. The attack came as Mr. Reagan warned that if the Democrats won control in the Senate this November, it would turn over the Judiciary Committee to Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Joseph R. Biden Jr. He suggested that this would undermine his attempt to appoint judges to the Federal bench “who will aggressively use their authority” to protect “our families, communities and way of life.” The President’s comments, the first time he has interjected the judiciary into this election campaign, came in a speech in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was stumping for Senator James T. Broyhill, a Republican newly appointed to succeed the late Senator John P. East.
The House and Senate tonight approved a two-day stopgap spending bill to keep the Federal Government operating through Friday. An Administration official said that President Reagan would sign the financing bill, avoiding a shutdown of the Government, as he leaves for his meeting with the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, in Iceland. The aide asked not to be identified. The bill was approved by a vote of 255 to 150 in the House and by a voice vote in the Senate. The current stopgap bill expires at 12:01 AM Thursday.
President Reagan addresses the largest indoor rally in Georgia’s history.
Members of Congress today reported progress in efforts to revive a comprehensive immigration bill, which many lawmakers considered dead last month. Senators and representatives said they had worked out a compromise on foreign agricultural workers that would permit the bill to come to the floor of the House before Congress adjourned. The exact date of adjournment is not known, but Congress is expected to be in session for at least several days next week. Late today the House Rules Committee approved the compromise bill, and House members said it had a good chance of passage in the waning days of Congress. “The factions that were very much opposed to each other have been reconciled,” said the committee chairman, Representative Claude Pepper, Democrat of Florida.
The House of Representatives approved legislation today to strengthen the toxic waste law, moving Congress and the White House toward a confrontation over the toxic waste cleanup program. The fate of the Federal program, and perhaps its very existence over the coming months, will be determined by the outcome of the confrontation. The House, following the lead of the Senate, which overwhelmingly approved the measure last Friday, voted 386 to 27 today for a compromise bill that would strengthen the toxic waste law and provide $9 billion for cleaning up the nation’s waste sites over the next five years. The vote in both the House and the Senate, which passed the bill by a vote of 88 to 8, was far more than the two-thirds necessary to override a veto.
Representative Jack F. Kemp, a leader of conservative Republicans, today delivered a sharp attack on what he called the Reagan Administration’s decision to release “a high-level Soviet spy” in exchange for “an innocent American journalist.” He also criticized a foreign policy based on what he termed “the allure of detente” and “summits for the sake of summits.” In a clear rebuke to the Administration, Mr. Kemp, a Republican Presidential hopeful for 1988, carefully refrained from criticizing President Reagan himself. Couching his remarks in words of praise for the President’s “clear-eyed determination,” the upstate New York Representative directed his challenge to “too many in Congress and in the State Department who will not listen and will not see.”
The Senate, in a key preliminary vote in the impeachment trial of Federal District Judge Harry E. Claiborne, voted today not to call any witnesses or to hear further from the judge himself. The vote meant that the Senate will rely on the record compiled by a special 12-member impeachment committee that took seven days of testimony last month. Judge Claiborne testified before the committee for three days. The three-volume record of the committee hearings has been on each senator’s desk since the impeachment proceedings began Tuesday morning.
Pressured by election-year politics on the one hand and an urgent desire to adjourn on the other, the House and Senate remained deadlocked tonight on legislation to combat drug trafficking and narcotics abuse. The House, by a vote of 391 to 23, approved its latest version of the measure this afternoon, including a provision to allow the death penalty for murders related to drug transactions. But a group of senators opposed to capital punishment vowed to prevent that measure from coming to a vote in the Senate, and additional senators objected to other, relatively minor parts of the House bill.
The House and Senate reached a final agreement on a bill authorizing the federal government to sell Conrail through a public stock offering, ending a stalemate that threatened to torpedo the deal. The agreement sets $2 billion as a goal for the amount to be raised through the stock sale of the federally owned freight railroad but sets no minimum price for the transaction. The sticking points during deliberations on the bill had included whether the measure should provide job protection for railroad workers who lose their jobs as a result of a merger and whether the bill should set a minimum price.
Disciplinary actions by the Vatican against American Roman Catholic leaders are alienating Catholics and could cause many to drift away, Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee has warned. He said that overzealous pursuits of doctrinal purity have led to “cruelty, suppression of theological creativity and lack of growth.”
Boeing Co. machinists approved a three-year contract that provides cost-of-living raises and lump-sum bonus payments to about 40,000 employees in three states, a union spokesman said. Richard Aldrich, machinists union business representative in Wichita, Kansas, declined to give specific numbers but said. 88% of the machinists had voted to ratify the contract. Boeing machinists in Seattle, Washington; Wichita, Kansas, and Portland, Oregon, voted on the company offer, which provides a 40-cent-an-hour cost-of-living allowance that will be rolled into the general wage scale.
Hundreds of residents in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, were allowed to return home and a major highway and shopping mall were reopened as crews cleaned up a leak of as much as 220,000 gallons of gasoline. “The area is clear of danger,” Upper Merion Township Manager Ronald Wagemann said a day after the fuel leaked from a Sun Pipeline Co. distribution line. Workers with pumps and tank trucks continued removing gasoline from a stream and storm drains under the 140-store mall and a 22-mile segment of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was reopened.
Two more suspects, both tied to a white supremacist group, were charged in a series of bombings in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. David Dorr, 35, and Edward Hawley, 22, were each charged with three counts of bombing a building and one of attempted bombing. The charges stem from the September bombing of a priest’s home, two other bombings and the planting of another bomb that failed to go off. Robert Pires, 22, was arrested on the same charges Monday. Dorr, Hawley and Hawley’s wife, Olive, 26, were arrested last Thursday on federal counterfeiting charges.
A Federal appeals court today ordered a temporary halt to a plan by the Interior Department to sell for $2.50 an acre Colorado oil-shale land that experts estimate is worth at least $300 an acre. The United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit said it wanted time to consider a lawsuit opposing the sale of the 82,000 acres on Colorado’s Western Slope.
The U.S. Public Health Service has awarded a $1.5-million contract to a New York health group to operate an expanded version of the government’s AIDS information hot line. The new hot line, operated by the American Social Health Association, will provide 24-hour, seven-day-a-week service with both prerecorded messages and live operators starting in mid-December. The toll-free line will be available in 50 states and Puerto Rico.
Many premature babies are kept in the hospital longer than necessary while their parents, with training from a nurse, could care for them at home and save thousands of dollars in medical costs, a new study concluded. Researchers reviewed a model program and found that many premature babies weighing less than four pounds could be sent home an average of 11 days earlier than usual, saving an average of $18,560 each. The study, conducted at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, was described in today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
As the evening news brought fresh reports over the last week of yet more rain and worse flooding from Oklahoma to Michigan, David Word stared out at the cloudless Georgia sky and shook his head in disbelief. “It’s amazing — and we didn’t get a drop of that rain,” said Mr. Word, who, as chief of the state’s water management office, is helping local communities deal with the continuing effects of the South’s yearlong drought, including dried-up streams, shrunken reservoirs and falling levels of ground water. What has been described as the worst drought in a century continues to maintain its grip on much of eastern Alabama, Georgia, western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, where there was virtually no rainfall over the last two weeks until today, when some rain fell in the region. Because October and November are usually the driest months in the Southeast, Mr. Word and other officials say the situation facing some small communities could get worse before it gets better. That is because local water supplies are already dangerously low after months of below-average rainfall.
The Senate approved a compromise bill to establish the Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area in Oregon and Washington. The measure authorizes $40 million for land acquisition and provides for payments to counties for land acquired by the U.S. Forest Service. A similar measure was passed in the House.
“The Color of Money,” directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise, premieres in New York City.
Run-DMC calls for a day of peace among L.A. street gangs.
Major League Baseball, American League Championship Series, Game 2:
Angel errors and a lost fly ball in the late-afternoon sun hand the Red Sox a 9–2 victory in game 2. The Red Sox struck first in the bottom of the first when Wade Boggs hit a leadoff triple off Kirk McCaskill and scored on Marty Barrett’s double. Barrett’s bases-loaded RBI single next inning made it 2–0 Red Sox, but Bill Buckner hit into an inning-ending double play to limit the damage. Dick Schofield’s bases-loaded single in the fourth cut the Red Sox’s lead to 2–1, but Bruce Hurst retired the next two batters to keep them in front. Next inning, Wally Joyner’s home run tied the game, but in the bottom half, Dwight Evans’s RBI double with two on put the Red Sox ahead for good, 3–2. Boston padded its lead in the seventh. An error, single and walk loaded the bases with one out before another error on Evans’s ground ball allowed one run to score and keep the bases loaded, then a third error on Rich Gedman’s force out allowed two more runs to score. Next inning, Buckner’s sacrifice fly with runners on first and third off Gary Lucas made it 7–2 Red Sox before Jim Rice’s home run off Doug Corbett capped the game’s scoring at 9–2. Hurst pitched a complete game as the Red Sox tied the series 1–1 heading to California.
California Angels 2, Boston Red Sox 9
Major League Baseball, National League Championship Series, Game 1:
Houston takes a 1–0 lead over the Mets in the National League Championship Series as Mike Scott ties the National League Championship Series record with 14 strikeouts. Game 1 featured a pitching duel between eventual NLCS Most Valuable Player Mike Scott and Mets ace Dwight Gooden. Scott allowed just five hits and walked one while striking out 14 in a complete-game effort as the host Astros prevailed. Gooden allowed one run in his seven innings, getting Scott to ground into a double play to end an Astros threat in the bottom of the fourth inning. Houston first baseman Glenn Davis hit a long home run leading off the second inning, producing the game’s lone run. Scott struck out Wally Backman and Keith Hernandez to escape a jam in the top of the eighth inning. With one out in the top of the ninth inning, Darryl Strawberry singled, stole second and reached third on a Mookie Wilson groundout. However, Scott struck out Ray Knight to end the game.
New York Mets 0, Houston Astros 1
Stock prices rose smartly yesterday on a strong showing by both transportation and oil issues and the continuing positive influence of takeover news. Trading was fairly heavy. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 19.40 points to close at 1,803.85, after having fallen about 7 points in early trading.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1803.85 (+19.4)
Born:
Adron Chambers, MLB outfielder, pinch hitter, and pinch runner (St. Louis Cardinals), in Pensacola, Florida.
Erik Davis, MLB pitcher (Washington Nationals), in San Jose, California.
Died:
Walter Burkemo, 67, American golfer (PGA Championship 1953).
