American and Soviet officials have said that one of the most promising areas for negotiation at the Iceland talks is an agreement on a reduction of medium-range missiles in Europe. There is a lesser chance of major progress on nuclear testing though some headway could be made. President Reagan has said, according to advisers, that he will not let arms issues monopolize the Iceland talks. When the two men meet for their planned six or seven hours of discussions in Reykjavik, other topics are expected to include human rights, regional conflicts, and issues that involve Soviet-American agreements on subjects not directly related to arms. The two sides have come a long way on the issue of medium-range nuclear weapons. But so far, Moscow has made all of the main concessions. The Geneva talks on medium-range missiles began in 1980, less than a year after NATO decided to deploy American Pershing 2 ballistic missiles and cruise missiles in five West European countries, beginning in 1983, as a counter to Soviet SS-20 missiles and Backfire bombers.
The U.S.-Soviet Summit talks are the biggest event ever to occur in Iceland. The world has descended on the small remote island touching the Arctic Circle, and Icelanders are doing their best to accommodate the visitors. President Reagan, saying “serious problems” in arms control, human rights and other areas mark the relationship with the Soviet Union, arrived here today for his meeting with Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Climbing off Air Force One at Keflavik Airport after a 5-hour and 20-minute flight from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Mr. Reagan was welcomed by the President of Iceland, Vigdis Finnbogadottir. Mr. Reagan arrived in a chilly drizzle, wearing a raincoat. The temperature hovered around 50 degrees, higher than expected by aides bundled up in top coats.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev is prepared “to do all in his power to bring about reasonable compromises” in his meeting with President Reagan this weekend, a Soviet spokesman said today. The official, Nikolai V. Shishlin, a deputy chief of the Central Committee’s Propaganda Department, said at a news conference that the main objective of the two-day meeting was to “turn on a green light for a full-scale summit meeting” in the United States. Mr. Shishlin said the talks here would “demonstrate the readiness of both sides for full-scale, constructive negotiations.” Soviet officials who have gathered here present a generally positive view of relations with the United States and the prospects for the weekend meeting.
Some arms control experts said today that the American proposal on medium-range arms was unrealistic because it went too far in seeking reductions in the Soviet missile force in Asia. The United States intends to hold firm on its arms positions, hoping that Mikhail S. Gorbachev will make new offers in Iceland. Raymond L. Garthoff of the Brookings Institution said the reductions proposed for Soviet missiles in Asia are “more than the traffic will bear.” The United States seeks a global limit of 200 medium-range warheads, with each side keeping 100 in Europe. This would leave 100 warheads for Soviet missiles in Asia to offset 100 based in the United States. Moscow has indicated that it is willing to make some cuts in Asia, but not to the extent sought by the United States. The Soviet Union now has 513 warheads in Asia and 810 in Europe.
Tracking an elusive trail of missing computer equipment, investigators in the United States and Western Europe are unraveling the complex details of what they say is one of the largest and most damaging diversions of high-technology equipment to the Eastern bloc. The case centers on at least $11 million worth of highly sophisticated American-made computers, high-capacity disk drives and software that may have been spirited out of Western Europe over the past year. Officials who intercepted the tail end of the shipments in June say that, while there is no conclusive evidence, they are nearly certain the bulk of the equipment is now in East Germany or the Soviet Union. “There is no question that the case is among the most serious of recent diversions,” said Richard N. Perle, an Assistant Secretary of Defense, whose hardline position against the export of many high-technology goods has often put him at odds with officials in other Government agencies as well as industry executives. He added: “It’s not the size, as much as the nature, of the material involved: top-of-the-line manufacturing technology, generic in nature, ture, that will enable the Soviets to produce military equipment of very high quality.”
Police in Bournemouth, England, evacuated a conference center and sealed off the city center early today in a full-scale security alert just hours before Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was due to deliver a major speech there. The alert came after a car crashed through a police barricade near a hotel where several senior members of Thatcher’s Conservative Party are staying in connection with the party’s annual convention. The driver was arrested, and police were deciding how to deal with a suspicious package inside the vehicle. Earlier, a satchel was thrown from another car near a second area hotel, but there was no explosion. Police were treating both incidents as possible terrorist episodes.
Polish authorities have banned a seven-man provisional council formed by Solidarity, saying its operation is illegal because it poses a threat to “peace and public order in the country,” officials of the outlawed labor union said in Gdansk. The union’s founder, Lech Walesa, said the decision was expected. “I am not disappointed,” he said. “My reaction is calm, no unnecessary emotions. We will think about what to do about it.”
Foxes have been spreading rabies from Poland and East Germany into Western Europe at a westward rate of 30 miles a year since 1950. The migrating fox population is so dense that in 1980 East Germany installed many tiny wooden trap doors in its border barrier to keep the foxes from burrowing underneath.
Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat announced that he has sent guerrillas to southern Lebanon to defend Palestinian refugee camps against Shia Muslim militias and Israeli forces. Arafat said that an unspecified number of commandos have been sent to Lebanon “with orders to defend the camps until death.”
Fighting continued for a seventh day today between Shiites and Palestinian guerrillas in Tyre in southern Lebanon, despite efforts by a coordination committee to establish a cease-fire. The police said the combatants fought with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns around Rashidiye, a Palestinian center. Militiamen of the mainstream Shiite movement Amal have surrounded the district since clashes broke out a week ago, but Palestinian guerrillas have rejected Amal’s demand that they lay down their weapons. According to police reports, 10 people have been killed and 19 wounded so far. A committee consisting of Amal and Palestinian representatives and Syrian Army observers went to Tyre today to try to enforce a cease-fire negotiated in Damascus this week. Leaders of Amal have been concerned about a buildup of arms in Rashidiye and have served notice they will not allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to re-establish in the predominantly Shiite south.
A 16-year-old member of the Bahai faith was stoned to death in Iran earlier this month and then hanged to suggest suicide, the State Department charged. Peter Martinez, a department spokesman, said Washington received a report, whose source he did not identify, saying that Bijan Talebi was stoned to death at Vardavard, a village near Tehran. He said the boy was killed “by a group of fanatics who have previously harassed Bahais.” He did not identify the group.
The West German government summoned Iran’s ambassador, Mohammed Djavad, and warned him against any repeat of the storming of the West German Embassy compound in Tehran, Foreign Ministry officials said in Bonn. Ministry spokesman Juergen Chrobog said that he does not expect the incident to damage relations with Iran. Chrobog said there were no plans to reduce the embassy staff, which includes about 50 West Germans.
The official death toll from the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India, has risen to at least 2,233, the state government of Madhya Pradesh reported. The toll previously had been reported at more than 2,000. A spokesman said 338 other fatalities are awaiting verification as being gas-related. The government has said that 200,000 were injured. The casualties occurred when 40 tons of methyl isocyanate, used in manufacturing pesticide, escaped from a Union Carbide Corp. plant and spread through Bhopal, about 370 miles south of New Delhi.
South Korea’s main opposition party threw out a dual challenge to President Chun Doo Hwan, demanding a special plebiscite to let the people choose what form of government they want and defying threats of a government crackdown by carrying out a peaceful rally in Kunsan, a southwestern port about 110 miles from Seoul. Lee Min Woo, president of the New Korea Democratic Party, told the crowd of about 15,000, “Let the government beat us. Let the government jail us. . . . We have no way to retreat from our demand for direct presidential elections because we have made that promise to the people of Korea.”
Three United States Navy ships will visit a Chinese port city in November, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger said today as he concluded a visit to Peking. The three combat ships — a destroyer, a cruiser and a frigate — will drop anchor in Qingdao for a week, marking the first return of American warships to China since 1949. The three combat ships — a destroyer, a cruiser and a frigate — will drop anchor in Qingdao for a week, marking the first return of American warships to China since 1949. The importance of the visit was underscored by the decision that Admiral James Lyons, the commander in chief of the United States Pacific forces, would join the ships scheduled to visit China from November 5 to 11. A port visit had been contemplated for more than a year but held up by China’s reluctance to allow nuclear weapons on ships making calls and the American refusal to state whether its ships carry them.
President Corazon C. Aquino said today that her Government had completed the groundwork for an economic recovery and that it was now up to the private sector to become more active. Speaking to a conference of business leaders, she said her economic policy emphasized private enterprise and told her listeners, “It is now your turn at the bat.” Though she said the Philippines’ economic recovery could not be based on foreign aid, she said she was “probably the most relieved person in this hall” at the passage last week by the United States Senate of a $200 million aid package. “You can’t imagine how much heartache that $200 million gave me,” she said, referring to an initial rejection of the bill by the Senate. “I was just so upset and so sick when people were saying, ‘All Cory got was applause.’ “
Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid opened high-level talks today between the United States and Latin American and Caribbean countries on ways to combat drug trafficking. This two-day conference between the United States and Western Hemisphere countries that are the main sources of cocaine and marijuana is the first time they have come together to discuss a joint approach. Countries attending the conference are the United States, Mexico, Jamaica, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.
The C.I.A. supervised supply flights for Nicaraguan rebels, Eugene Hasenfus, an American captured from a downed plane, said. Speaking at a Government-sponsored news conference in Managua, he gave the most detailed account so far of rebel supply operations out of El Salvador and Honduras. An American captured when a plane delivering supplies to rebels was shot down here said today that the supply flights were directly supervised by members of the Central Intelligence Agency in El Salvador. “Two Cuban naturalized Americans that work for the C.I.A. did most of the coordination for the flights and oversaw all of our housing, transportation, also refueling and some flight plans,” the prisoner, Eugene Hasenfus, said at a news conference with Nicaraguan officials seated beside him. Mr. Hasenfus then named the two reported C.I.A. officials and gave the most detailed account so far of rebel supply operations out of El Salvador and Honduras. His statements are being treated as a major political victory by the Nicaraguan Government. Plane in ‘Sting’ Operation “I was told we were working out of the El Salvador Air Force base at Ilopango,” Mr. Hasenfus said. “We would be flying into Honduras to an air base called Aguacate and there we would load up small arms and ammunition and fly into Nicaragua. There it would be dropped to the contra.”
The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence challenged the White House today to acknowledge what he said is its role in the flight of a cargo plane shot down over Nicaragua. Senator Dave Durenberger, Republican of Minnesota, said, “I assume somebody in the United States Government knows something about this and the sooner they speak up the better.” Asked who he thought in the Government was involved in the mission, he said, “Ronald Reagan is sponsoring all of this private action — ask him or somebody who works for him.” Senator Durenberger and Senator Patrick J. Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who is the vice chairman of the committee, were briefed on the incident today by William J. Casey, Director of Central Intelligence. Senator Durenberger said he remains satisfied that the C.I.A. had complied with legal restrictions against aiding the Nicaraguan rebels, known as the contras.
The Ethiopian Foreign Minister, Goshu Wolde, told the U.N. General Assembly today that his country was encouraged by “measures taken by some Western governments to isolate” South Africa. Mr. Wolde also thanked the international community for its “very positive response” in his country’s emergency years of drought from 1982 to 1985. He added, however, that a “lasting solution to the problems of Africa” call for a commitment to “assist the continent beyond the emergency phase.”
The South African authorities today banned foreign financing for the United Democratic Front, the country’s largest anti-apartheid movement. The move tightened a crackdown on dissent that has led to the detention of an estimated total of 20,000 people. The prohibition, the first of its kind against the organization since it was formed three years ago, followed Pretoria’s decision Wednesday to send home 61,000 Mozambican workers in reprisal for purported attacks by African National Congress insurgents said to be based in Mozambique.
The Senate today found Federal District Judge Harry E. Claiborne guilty of bringing the judiciary into disrepute by filing false tax returns and removed him from office in the first such impeachment conviction in 50 years. Judge Claiborne is serving a two-year prison sentence on his conviction in 1984 on tax charges in Federal District Court in Nevada. The Senate convicted the 69-year-old Nevada judge on three of four articles of impeachment voted by the House. He was acquitted on the fourth article, but that vote had no effect on the his fate, because conviction on only one article was enough to remove the judge from office. Four Other Judges Convicted Judge Claiborne is the first Federal official to be impeached by the House of Representatives and convicted by the Senate in 50 years. The Senate has convicted only four other officials, all judges, in the country’s history. He is the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
In a dramatic reversal, the House of Representatives tonight approved a comprehensive bill to overhaul the nation’s immigration law and curtail the influx of illegal aliens. The vote was 230 to 166. Voting for the bill were 168 Democrats and 62 Republicans. Sixty-one Democrats and 105 Republicans voted against it.
House and Senate negotiators ran into a snag today in their effort to reach a compromise on a $12 billion package of savings to reduce the 1987 budget deficit. The dispute centers on an extension of welfare benefits to two-parent families when the principal wage earner is unemployed. The two-parent program is now offered by only half the states; the House provision would require all the states to offer it.
The Education Secretary assails the quality of education at Harvard and other universities in the text of a speech he plans to deliver today. In reply, Harvard’s president, Derek Bok, accused the Secretary, William J. Bennett, of wasting a chance to aid education reform by engaging in uninformed polemics.
These ought to be tough times for Senators Bob Dole and Charles E. Grassley, a pair of Farm Belt Republicans up for re-election in a year of agricultural discontent. But they aren’t. There are, in fact, few senators of either party in any state, according to polls and local politicians, who seem surer of winning re-election next month. Surveys in Kansas show Mr. Dole 45 or more percentage points ahead, and those in Iowa show Mr. Grassley with a lead of about 40 points. Each has drawn a weak Democratic opponent, partly because each was able to fill his campaign treasury months ago and each, in different ways, has managed to create an image of independence of President Reagan’s farm policies, which are extremely unpopular here on the Great Plains, even if the President himself remains well liked.
Congress hoped to adjourn last Friday, but the legislators are now finishing their first week of “overtime.” The belated departure is playing havoc with the schedules of legislators who are campaigning for re-election this year.
A $24-million research project to develop an airborne wind shear detection system will be undertaken by NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole said. Various technologies will be studied aimed at building a system that can forecast wind shear conditions to allow pilots to take necessary precautions. Low-level wind shear alert systems have been installed at 90 airports and the FAA said it will install 20 more within a year. And, the FAA said it plans to install the first 16 Doppler weather radar systems to detect wind shear and microburst in airport terminal areas beginning in 1989.
A study citing limited resources said that NASA should not regularly schedule more than 11 to 13 shuttle launchings a year, even with four orbiters, while eight to 10 flights were possible with the current three-shuttle fleet. The National Research Council’s report, requested by Congress and paid for by NASA, concluded that 13 flights a year is the reasonable maximum number, although up to 15 missions could be carried out in a “surge,” assuming relatively “simple payloads and flight plans.” NASA is planning five flights in 1988.
Gay activists asked Congress to help fight an increasing wave of anti-homosexual violence they contend is being fueled by fear of AIDS and ignored by indifferent or hostile law enforcement agencies. Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee’s criminal justice subcommittee in the first congressional hearing ever on the problem of violence against homosexuals, the activists said that one eight-city survey found more than one in five gay men had been assaulted in the last few years.
Senator Gary Hart (D-Colorado), in his farewell address to the Senate, outlined a seven-point program to contain “the nuclear demon stalking the planet.” Hart, who is retiring from the Senate and who appears poised to make another run at the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, said nuclear arms control was a “moral imperative.” As part of his program, Hart urged a comprehensive nuclear test ban and called on the Administration to initiate a mutual moratorium on the deployment of sea-launched cruise missiles.
The House approved and sent to the White House a liability insurance bill aimed at relaxing state regulatory barriers to the establishment of risk pools among businesses and professional groups. Rep. Norman F. Lent (R-New York), one of the bill’s sponsors, said the measure is “the most and the least we can do” to help people who have either been denied liability coverage or have seen their insurance rates climb to record levels.
John A. Zaccaro was charged with attempted extortion and with bribe-seeking in an indictment unsealed yesterday in Queens. The indictment charges that in 1981 Mr. Zaccaro acted “in concert with” Donald R. Manes, then the Queens Borough President, and “attempted to steal” an unspecified amount of money from a cable-television company seeking a franchise in Queens. Lawyers familiar with the case said the grand jury had received testimony that the amount was $1 million. Mr. Zaccaro, a real-estate and insurance broker, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment and proclaimed his innocence again to reporters outside the courthouse in Kew Gardens. He was joined by his wife, former Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro, who denounced District Attorney John J. Santucci. She accused Mr. Santucci of political motivation in pushing the investigation and declared that her husband had rejected an offer from prosecutors for immunity if he agreed to testify against a longtime friend, Chief Administrative Justice Francis X. Smith of Queens.
About 150 members of the Great Peace March staged a “die-in” at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in a protest against nuclear weapons. Three were arrested on trespassing charges. Marchers, beginning the 235th day of a cross-country walk from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., in support of nuclear disarmament, had briefly blocked the driveway at the school’s main entrance.
In the well-tended parks of the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, the rallies, boycotts and symbolic softball games on the restricted diamonds have ended. And, in practical terms, it is getting too cold to matter much who gets to swim in the pool. But the long-running controversy over the town’s law barring outsiders from its parks, overturned last week by a Wayne County circuit judge, has left deep divisions along already uneasy borders. Paired with other recent disputes, the case is evidence of urban tensions that can flare at the slightest provocation.
Americans’ drug use is very high, Government officials said as they made public a national survey showing that use of illicit drugs, except cocaine, has remained stable or declined. In the first comprehensive national survey of drug abuse in three years, a new Government study today showed that the use of virtually all illicit drugs except cocaine had either remained stable or declined. This survey’s findings come on top of several other recent but less comprehensive surveys that came to the same general conclusions. Even at lower overall levels, “drug use in the country continues to be astonishingly high,” Dr. Donald I. Macdonald, head of the Federal Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, said as the data were announced. Nearly 37 million Americans, about one of five people 12 years of age or older, used one or more illicit drugs in the last year, the researchers reported. More than 1 in 10 used an illicit drug at least once in the last month. “These figures are conservative,” Dr. Macdonald said.
More than 2,000 dock workers walked off their jobs tonight in a dispute with the New Orleans Steamship Association over wage reductions and cuts in overtime pay. The longshoremen and dockside workers worked on the ships in the city’s ports without a contract for the last two weeks while negotiations continued between the International Longshoremen’s Association and steamship representatives.
Twelve cars of an Amtrak passenger train derailed today in rural south-central Wisconsin, killing a crewman and injuring at least 33 other people, officials said. The 17-car Empire Builder, carrying at least 231 passengers and eight crew members from Seattle to Chicago, derailed about 12:20 PM, a police chief, Scott Rychnovsky, said. A switch in the wrong position may have caused the accident, according to an Amtrak sales manager, Dennis Hamilton.
Two executives agreed to pay civil penalties to the Government totaling $630,790 for their part in the Dennis B. Levine insider trading scandal. The executives are Ilan K. Reich, 32, a former partner in the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and David S. Brown, 31, a former investment banker with Goldman, Sachs & Company.
An ex-Morgan officer pleaded guilty in Federal court to charges of defrauding the bank by making $4.3 million in unauthorized withdrawals from the accounts of Brazilian depositors. The plea was entered by Antonio Gebauer, a former senior vice president of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. An ex-official of Chicago was linked with payoffs made by companies to obtain and keep contracts with the city, according to evidence at a Connecticut trial. In a recording, Michael Burnett, an undercover agent for the F.B.I., says the former corporation counsel of Chicago, James D. Montgomery, had been “bought” by a company.
Coastguardsmen traveled from door to door yesterday to persuade residents of a Missouri town to flee shoulder-high water. But about 30 families refused to leave West Alton, where the Missouri River was expected to crest later in the day. “Flood punts are going to be there operating throughout the day, providing evacuation to the people who need it,” Coast Guard Lieut. Christopher Smith said. Traffic to the town was cut off Wednesday, when the Missouri and Mississippi rivers overran levees on both sides of town. Still, most of the community’s 450 residents refused to leave until yesterday, Lieutenant Smith said. Flooding was reported yesterday in 11 states across the Middle West, but much of it was minor, the Weather Service said.
A toxic red tide that has killed hundreds of thousands of fish along 150 miles of the Texas coast drifted into Corpus Christi and along the upper reaches of Padre Island in what was described as the heaviest concentrations yet. Officials at the University of Texas Marine Science Center in Port Aransas warned fishermen to avoid areas where fish are dead or dying. The organisms form toxins, which cause burning eyes, breathing difficulties, tingling or numbness of the mouth and extremities, and irritation of nose, throat and lungs. But officials said no one has been treated for symptoms of red tide, which first appeared in a heavily populated Texas area in late August.
“The Late Show with Joan Rivers” premieres on Fox, making her the first woman to host a US late-night TV talk show; she is fired in May 1987.
Stage musical “The Phantom of the Opera,” written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, premieres in London and runs for 13,629 performances.
A jury in Riverhead, Long Island, New York, yesterday found Martina Navratilova not guilty of hurting a photographer when she grabbed his camera in a scuffle after Ms. Navratilova’s defeat at the 1982 United States Open. The photographer, Arthur Seitz of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., sued Ms. Navratilova for $2 million after she took his camera and exposed his film in the incident.
Thursday, October 9, 1986
Major League Baseball, National League Championship Series, Game 2:
Game 2 saw the Mets tie the series at one game apiece as New York scored two runs in the fourth inning and then got three more in the fifth innings against Astros’ starter Nolan Ryan en route to a 5–1 victory. The Mets were dazzled by Nolan Ryan and his classic fastball for three innings, just as they were dazzled for all nine innings in the opener by Mike Scott, his split-fingered fastball, his 1–0 shutout and his 14 strikeouts. But after three innings this time, they were dazzled no more. They punched out two runs in the fourth inning and three in the fifth, and the spell was broken. Lefty Bob Ojeda went for a complete game on a ten-hitter for the Mets, who were aided by an RBI double by Gary Carter and a sacrifice fly by Darryl Strawberry in the fourth. Wally Backman and Keith Hernandez combined for three RBIs in the fifth. The only Astros run came on a Phil Garner single in the seventh inning.
New York Mets 5, Houston Astros 1
With the International Business Machines Corporation’s stock acting as its millstone, Wall Street’s rally sunk yesterday just one day after it began. The Dow Jones industrial average was impressively higher yesterday morning, but at the close the blue-chip index had fallen to 1,796.82, down 7.03 for the day. I.B.M., which lost 5 ½, to 122, accounted for most of the Dow’s drop.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1796.82 (-7.03)
Born:
Laure Manaudou, French women’s swimmer (Olympics, 2004; 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze medal), in Villeurbanne, France.
Derek Holland, MLB pitcher (Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers), in Newark, Ohio.
David Phelps, MLB pitcher (New York Yankees, Miami Marlins, Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies), in St. Louis, Missouri.
Chaz Roe, MLB pitcher (Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles, Atlanta Braves, Tampa Bay Rays), in Steubenville, Ohio.
Daryl Washington, NFL linebacker (Pro Bowl, 2012; Arizona Cardinals), in Dallas, Texas.
Mickey Shuler, Jr., NFL tight end (Miami Dolphins, Jacksonville Jaguars, Atlanta Falcons), son of Jets’ tight end Mickey Shuler, in Enola, Pennsylvania.
