The issue of how to interpret the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty has emerged as the principal barrier to an arms agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. Put simply, the Reagan Administration has proposed a very loose interpretation of the treaty that would permit extensive development and testing of new space-based defense systems. The Soviet Union has adopted the opposite approach. The wide gulf between the two sides was dramatized at the Iceland meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, when the negotiations collapsed over what limits are set by the treaty on “Star Wars” research. But since then, there have been indications on both sides that the discussions on this difficult subject should continue. The White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, said today that the Russians had made private “representations” to the Administration that they “would like to discuss further their interpretation” of the treaty and the American understanding of the Soviet proposals on limiting “Star Wars,” which the Soviet Union put forth in Iceland. American and Soviet negotiators are scheduled to meet on Tuesday in Geneva to discuss space and defense issues, and new Soviet moves could come then.
President Reagan participates in a meeting to discuss the Soviet Union’s action of kicking U.S. diplomats out of Russia. Reagan Administration officials said today that the United States was considering the expulsion of five Soviet diplomats in retaliation for Moscow’s order for five American diplomats to leave. Although White House and State Department officials said they hoped that the issue would not heat up, they acknowledged that the United States was determined to stand firm and that the two sides might become enmeshed in a tit-for-tat expulsion. The officials said that Secretary of State George P. Shultz had discussed the matter with officials at the White House and the Justice Department and that an announcement could come as early as Tuesday. “The only question is how many to expel,” an official said, “and it will be very difficult for this Administration to expel less than five.”
Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said he will not fly to Los Angeles to pick up a human rights award Thursday because Polish authorities will not guarantee him the right to return home. “I must stay in the country in the name of the responsibility,” Walesa said. The John-Roger Foundation in Santa Monica earlier this month named Walesa as one of three recipients of its annual Integrity Award. Walesa, in a telephone interview from his apartment in Gdansk, said that “nobody from the serious people (in the government) gave an answer on whether I could return home.” Walesa’s wife, Danuta, had said last Friday that her husband would not seek permission to travel to America because the “situation (in Poland) is not right.”
Twelve Western European nations agreed on a plan to crack down on drug trafficking but also decided to work toward more open borders for law-abiding travelers. The agreements came at the end of a one-day meeting of interior ministers of the 12 European Communities nations. The ministers agreed on steps that include the confiscation of drug traffickers’ assets and adding more European narcotics officers in drug-producing countries. The ministers also agreed to appoint a working group to study the ultimate abolition of frontier formalities for Common Market citizens and the construction of a “fence” around the 12 nations with a requirement that non-residents have visas to enter.
A car bomb exploded in an eastern suburb of Athens early today, killing the driver, the police said. The police said they could not tell if the victim was a man or a woman. Earlier, a time-bomb explosion at a police station in central Athens caused serious damage but no injuries. No one claimed responsibility for either blast. Eight other bombs have exploded in Athens this month. Two left-wing groups have said they planted them to protest the austerity program of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. Mr. Papandreou’s Socialists were defeated in Athens and two other major cities in municipal elections on Sunday.
A suspected member of the Irish Republican Army was extradited to Britain today on a murder charge, ending a five-year legal battle. The defendant, William Quinn, 37 years old, was turned over to the British authorities and put aboard a Royal Air Force plane for Britain. Mr. Quinn, an American, is accused of murder in the shooting of a London constable, Stephen Tibble, in 1975. He maintained that the killing was a political act and that he therefore could not be extradited. That argument was rejected by a Federal appeals court, and the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal. Mr. Quinn, a book clerk born in San Francisco, lived in Ireland from 1971 to 1979. He was arrested here in 1981.
Martin McGuinness, vice president of the I.R.A.’s political wing, Sinn Fein, was arrested today in the Irish Republic under an anti-terrorist law. The authorities would not elaborate on the reasons for his arrest.
Two Israeli leaders switched posts in accordance with a 1984 agreement. Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud bloc’s leader, was sworn in today as Israel’s new Prime Minister. He replaced Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader. The 71-year-old Mr. Shamir, who had been serving as Foreign Minister, switched jobs with Mr. Peres in accordance with a rotation agreement signed after the 1984 elections, which left their parties with almost equal electoral strength. Mr. Shamir’s 25-member Cabinet will be almost identical to that of Mr. Peres, except for a few changes that may give it a slightly more hawkish tilt on Arab-Israeli issues. It will also include, as Minister of Health, Shoshana Arbeli-Almoslino of the Labor Party, the first woman to serve since Golda Meir retired in 1974.
Yitzhak Shamir is a man with a reputation for saying no. He opposed the Camp David accords; he opposed the peace treaty with Egypt, and he opposed the Cabinet’s decision to withdraw the Israeli Army from Lebanon. But as he prepared to reclaim the office of Prime Minister for his Likud bloc — a job he held previously from October 1983 to September 1984 — Mr. Shamir dropped several hints that his hardline reputation, though well deserved, should not necessarily be considered a guide for future action. A favorite story of his these days is one that an Israeli delegation that met with Rumania’s President, Nicolae Ceaușescu, brought back from Bucharest. A member of the delegation asked Mr. Ceausescu whether he thought Mr. Shamir would continue with peace efforts, to which the Rumanian leader replied, according to Mr. Shamir, “Without doubt he will continue — and you will see, he will surprise you.”
The State Department said it has rejected a request from new Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that the Administration shut down offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the United States. According to reports from Israel, Shamir told Secretary of State George P. Shultz that the PLO was linked to the grenade attack on Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem last week. A spokesman for Shultz said PLO information offices in the United States “are staffed by U.S. citizens and by legal foreign residents” and that there is no justification for shutting them down.
A Lebanese militia spokesman said the Israeli airman taken prisoner in southern Lebanon last week is being held in a secret hideout, possibly in Beirut. The spokesman, a member of the Shia Muslim militia Amal who identified himself only as Ahmed, said Palestinian guerrillas and their allies had attacked the Shias who captured the Israeli in an apparent attempt to make him their own prisoner. He said they fired on the car taking the captive to Beirut last week.
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, ending a four-nation trip to Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said today that India might consider a more active role in trying to end the eight-year-old war in Cambodia. “We will try to look at the situation and see what part we can play,” Mr. Gandhi said at a news conference here before returning to New Delhi after visits to Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Thailand. He said that any change in attitude would be reflected in India’s stand on the issue at the United Nations. The annual vote on Cambodia’s seat in the General Assembly is expected to take place this week. India is the only major nation outside the Soviet bloc to recognize the Phnom Penh Government installed by Vietnam after it invaded Cambodia in 1978 and overthrew the Khmer Rouge in early 1979.
China set up its first AIDS prevention team after four Chinese were found to be carrying the virus because of being “injected with imported medicine,” the New China News Agency reported. A Peking-based World Health Organization official said she believes it is the first time China has reported its own citizens contracting acquired immune deficiency syndrome. One foreign visitor is reported to have died of AIDS in China. The new AIDS team, 13 experts on virology and epidemiology, will combine Western and traditional Chinese medicine.
President Suharto, 65, who has ruled Indonesia for 20 years, accepted his party’s nomination to run for a fifth term, which could keep him in power until 1993. His nomination came at the end of a three-day conference held by the ruling Golkar party to prepare for parliamentary elections scheduled for April, 1987. The president will be chosen in March, 1988, by a special session of the upper house of Parliament, which is dominated by Golkar and presidential appointees. The two legal opposition parties are badly split.
Despite worries about a Government crisis in the Philippines, President Corazon C. Aquino met publicly today with her Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, and smiled and patted his hand. Mr. Enrile, for his part, wore an angry expression. Some Cabinet members had harsh words for Mr. Enrile, who made several provocative statements about the Aquino Government during a southern trip this weekend. Mr. Enrile refused to comment to reporters today. Local newspapers, in reports prepared for publication Tuesday, examined in detail the worsening relations between Mr. Enrile and his colleagues in the Government. The afternoon daily Mid Day ran a banner headline today saying, “Crisis Looms.”
The fate of Fiji’s Indians, the islands’ largest ethnic group, is uncertain as their birth rates have fallen and those of other ethnic islanders, including Polynesians and Malaysians, have increased.
Eugene Hasenfus, the American captured when a rebel supply plane was downed over Nicaragua two weeks ago, was charged here today with several political crimes carrying a maximum sentence of 30 years. The charges — terrorism, association to commit illicit acts and violation of the public security law — were made before a tribunal for political offenses. The trial could last more than a month, and statements by Mr. Hasenfus to the press and police can be used against him. Mr. Hasenfus sat quietly in the sweltering courtroom as the charges were read for more than an hour while schoolgirls looked on and American political activists took photographs.
Public disclosures about El Salvador’s involvement in supplying arms to the Nicaraguan rebels have strained relations between the United States and the Salvadoran Government and jeopardized future efforts to aid the rebels, according to officials of both countries. El Salvador is one of several countries in Central America that have been helping the rebels. American officials said the effort had been expected to continue as the United States gears up to deliver $100 million in aid. But Salvadoran and American officials said El Salvador’s help was likely to be cut, at least temporarily. Officials said El Salvador’s dependence on American aid would eventually force it to resume support of the rebels.
Mozambique’s leader was killed in a plane crash last night in South Africa, Pretoria announced. The cause of the crash, which also killed 25 other people, was not immediately known. The leader, Samora Moises Machel, had been President since 1975. The 53-year-old President was an important figure among African leaders opposed to apartheid. His death coincided with increasing strains in Mozambique’s relationship with South Africa after the virtual collapse of a 1984 nonaggression pact. Mr. Machel led a Marxist Government but was far from being an ideologue who followed a strict Marxist-Leninist line, and in recent years he seemed above all a pragmatic nationalist.
The General Motors Corporation, the largest American company doing business in South Africa, said today that it would withdraw from South Africa by selling its operations there to a group of investors led by local G.M. managers. Roger B. Smith, chairman of G.M., said in a statement that the company was pulling out because it had been losing money in South Africa and because little progress had been made in ending apartheid, the system of racial separation. However, the company will continue to sell automotive components to its former subsidiary. The automotive giant, which in the past has argued that the jobs it provides by staying in South Africa bring economic benefits to all races, has been a leader among American companies doing business there. Its shift was hailed by leaders of groups seeking corporate divestment from that country.
Until virtually the 11th hour last week, it appeared that President Reagan was going to shoot down an arduously achieved bill to extend the national hazardous waste cleanup program. Mr. Reagan and his advisers appeared to be adamantly opposed to a new broad-based tax on corporate earnings devised by Congress to help pay for the cleanup effort. They feared that the cleanup fund, known popularly as the superfund, would set a precedent for wider use of such taxes, a prospect at variance with their strong view of how the nation’s economy should be managed. They also insisted that the size of the program, $9 billion over five years, was far greater than necessary.
President Reagan attends a lunch meeting with a group of sports writers and announcers.
U.S. programs hurt farmers who grow sunflowers and other crops not part of the programs, the farmers say. Sunflower seed prices have dropped two-thirds and the smallest number of fields in a decade are being harvested.
Ferdinand E. Marcos’s daughter and son-in-law could face jail unless they testify before a Federal grand jury, because the Supreme Court refused to hear their case. The panel is investigating Pentagon-financed arms contracts with Manila.
Barbara A. Mikulski fends off attacks from her Republican opponent, Linda Chavez, as the Senatorial race enters its final stretch in Maryland. Ms. Chavez has portrayed the Representative as “anti-male.”
How candidates are using technology is the biggest innovation in the 1986 elections. Among other things, computers are enabling candidates to identify weak spots in their opponents’ campaigns and to communicate their messages more effectively than ever before.
About 300 protesters demonstrating against the “Star Wars” missile defense program blocked streets and sidewalks in Atlanta, Washington, Cleveland and Sunnyvale, California. Police said 93 people were arrested. The demonstrators, members of a group called No Business as Usual, said the Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly called “Star Wars,” is a first step toward World War III. Police at Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. in Sunnyvale arrested 45 people on charges of disrupting traffic into the Silicon Valley defense plant.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff will conduct a two-week global command, control and communications exercise to test procedures for mobilizing and deploying forces for a non-nuclear war in several theaters of operation, the Pentagon said. Scheduled to run from Monday to November 7, the exercise will include the headquarters of all 10 of the unified and specified commands of the military services and several civilian agencies. The Pentagon said the exercise, called “Power Sweep,” is intended to “reveal shortcomings and procedural difficulties… to improve our ability to respond in the event of a crisis.”
The Republican National Committee agreed in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, to stop a ballot security program that Democrats charged was aimed at keeping blacks from voting, but the GOP won a court order suppressing release of depositions that its lawyers said might prove “embarrassing.” The program in Louisiana sent letters to people on voter rolls to see if they actually lived at the addresses listed. If letters were returned as undeliverable, officials were asked to purge the names.
A nationwide price-boosting conspiracy by a pipe fabricating company and suppliers bilked nuclear power plants and other projects of at least $3 million, authorities charged. Seven people and six corporations were involved, they said. Law enforcement officials told a news conference in Seattle that the 12-year investigation had uncovered a “pervasive and far-flung conspiracy.” The scheme involved jacking up cost prices on “cost-plus” contracts, so the charges to the end customers were artificially high, authorities said.
The Department of Energy deliberately distorted a scientific report to make two of its three proposed nuclear waste sites look better than was justified, two House subcommittee chairmen charged. Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Massachusetts) and Jim Weaver (D-Oregon), in a letter to John S. Herrington, Secretary of Energy, said that their staffs discovered that department documents “reveal that DOE systematically deleted unfavorable information concerning the desirability of the Hanford, Washington, and the Deaf Smith County, Texas, sites.”
Officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that they planned to present to a grand jury, probably before the November 4 election, evidence of an office bugging that has added intrigue to the state’s race for governor. Both Gov. Mark White and his challenger, Bill Clements, a Republican who is trying to regain the office that Mr. White captured from him in 1982, have denied knowledge of the bugging. The authorities have questioned aides of both campaigns and at least one newspaper reporter. The electronic listening device was discovered October 5 behind a picture in the office of Karl Rove, Mr. Clements’s chief political strategist.
The Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether California can require owners of private beachfront property to give the public access to their beaches as a condition of allowing the owners to build on adjoining land. The case also raises the more general issue of whether governments can constitutionally withhold approval of building permits and the like to force landowners to surrender part of their ownership rights without paying them compensation. The case grew out of a California couple’s application for a permit to rebuild a rundown bungalow on their 3,800 square foot beach lot in Ventura County into a larger, two-story home.
Natural gas prices may have fallen about 24% in the last two years, but residential prices are down only 3%, a consumer group reported. By contrast, prices major industries are paying dropped 21%, the Citizen-Labor Energy Coalition said. Homeowners and other small consumers of natural gas “have been denied systematically over $3 billion in benefits from falling gas prices,” according to the report. The report blamed interstate pipeline companies and local gas utilities for overcharging.
Striking faculty members offered today to return to classrooms at Temple University immediately under binding arbitration, but the school’s administration rejected the proposal. Philip Yanella, president of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said the instructors made the offer because the strike was disrupting the university. C. Robert Harrington, chief negotiator for the university, said it rejected binding arbitration because it could not delegate authority for setting salaries and ultimately tuition. The strike, begun October 6, affects 22,000 students.
The 6,000-member machinists union at the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company rejected the company’s contract offer but did not authorize a strike, officials said today. The two sides scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, said Bea Woodward, the union’s district spokesman. The two votes, on the contract and the strike authorization, were taken Sunday by Lodge 508 of the International Association of Machinists. Union officials said the contract was “overwhelmingly” rejected.
Six supporters of political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. pleaded not guilty before a federal magistrate in Boston to charges that they were involved in a scheme to finance LaRouche’s presidential bid with $1 million in fraudulent credit card charges. The charges, stemming from an October 6 117-count indictment, did not charge LaRouche but mentioned him in connection with an alleged conspiracy to hinder the two-year federal grand jury investigation. A December 1 trial date was set.
A new Jewish magazine has assailed Commentary magazine as being too conservative. The criticism by the liberal magazine, Tikkun, has prompted resignations of two of its board members, Elie Wiesel and Robert Alter.
A county wilderness park at San Juan Capistrano, California has been closed indefinitely as a result of the mauling of a 6-year-old boy by a cougar on Sunday. It was the second incident of its kind this year at the Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Regional Park.
Too many banks have pursued midsized companies, making the so-called middle market a tough, glutted business where profits on loans have tumbled and loan quality is deteriorating.
Now their backs are literally to The Wall. And there, in the shadow of Fenway Park’s left-field wall, the most inviting and most dangerous home run target in baseball, the New York Mets will resume the World Series on Tuesday night, two games down to the Boston Red Sox and thinking about the unthinkable. They were solemn, maybe subdued, as they gathered at Shea Stadium this morning, not many hours after losing the second game of the Series, 9–3. And that was 24 hours after losing the first game, 1–0. And that was three days after they had soared to dramatic highs by winning the National League pennant in a 16-inning, four-and-a-half-hour performance that spiced a season of 108 victories.
NFL Monday Night Football:
With a new double-halfback offense and a sticky defense, the Jets executed a brilliant game plan tonight to knock off the Broncos, the last undefeated team in the National Football League. The final score of 22–10 was almost a formality, so thoroughly did the Jets dominate the erstwhile Orange Crush while taking a 22–0 first-half lead. But John Elway, the Broncos’ quarterback, couldn’t remember it. He developed amnesia on the sideline late in the game after coming out with a concussion. It occurred with 9 minutes 59 seconds to play when, after one of his numerous scrambles, he collided with a teammate. His status for next week’s game against Seattle is uncertain.
Denver Broncos 10, New York Jets 22
Stock prices were pushed sharply lower yesterday in a selloff caused primarily by rising interest rates, as well as activity by professional program traders. At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 26.02 points, to 1,811.02, while volume declined to 109 million shares, from 124.1 million Friday. The drop offset much of last week’s 43.87-point advance.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1811.02 (-26.02)
Born:
Matt Taormina, NHL defenseman (New Jersey Devils, Tampa Bay Lightning), in Warren, Michigan.
David Sims, NFL safety (Philadelphia Eagles), in Gainesville, Florida.
Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress (“Mardaani”, “Tantiram”), in Katihar, India.
