The White House said today that President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev had talked in Iceland of ultimately forgoing all nuclear weapons, but without setting a time limit. On specific goals, a newly issued Administration synopsis said, there was agreement on reducing strategic, or long-range, forces by 50 percent during the first half of a 10-year period. But the two sides, according to the synopsis, differed on the cuts during the second half, with the Russians urging the elimination of all strategic forces, including missiles and bombers, and the Americans the total abolition of ballistic missiles, of all ranges. Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, sought to clarify Mr. Reagan’s position as a dispute continued over precisely what the President agreed to at the meeting in Reykjavik on October 11 and 12. Today, Mr. Speakes said that Mr. Reagan had discussed the total elimination of nuclear weapons as an “ultimate goal” or ideal, but that the formal United States proposal called only for the elimination of ballistic missiles over two consecutive five-year periods.
According to the Administration synopsis of the Iceland talks, Mr. Gorbachev put forward a proposal to get rid of “all nuclear weapons,” a goal he had originally proposed for the year 2000. In response, the account said, “the President indicated that the elimination of all nuclear weapons had always been his goal.” But rather than pursuing the point, the account said, the two leaders began debating constraints on the United States’ missile defense program and this led to the termination of the talks.
A call by President Reagan to eliminate all ballistic missiles and proceed with “Star Wars” research has set off a debate that cuts across the American political spectrum and involves some shifts in alignment among conservatives and liberals. Moscow has countered with the suggestion that each side eliminate all long-range weapons and sharply limit “Star Wars” research and testing. But American military experts are asking more and more often whether Mr. Reagan’s proposal to eliminate all ballistic missiles is actually in the interest of United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies. “It is a worrisome proposal,” said Brent Scowcroft, who was national security adviser under President Ford.
The State Department criticized the Soviet Government today for withdrawing all of its 260 employees from the United States diplomatic missions in the Soviet Union. But American officials indicated that they hoped the cycle of diplomatic expulsions had ended. Charles Redman, the State Department spokesman, said the withdrawal of Soviet employees from the embassy was a “wholly unwarranted response” to the expulsion Tuesday of 55 Soviet diplomats from the United States. Mr. Redman said that Americans, in turn, would be prohibited from working for Soviet diplomatic missions. In contrast to the United States Embassy, which has been heavily dependent on the use of Soviet service employees, the Soviet Embassy here uses its own nationals for service jobs and employs only about 10 Americans.
Polish authorities turned down Solidarity founder Lech Walesa’s last-minute, handwritten application for a passport to receive an award in Los Angeles, a Walesa aide said in Warsaw. The labor movement figure said he was “sorry indeed” and added that he hopes to travel to the United States someday. Walesa said earlier this week that he had decided not to apply for a passport because he was afraid the Polish government I would not allow him to return home to his family. He is to be honored tonight with an Integrity Award from the Santa Monica-based John-Roger Foundation at a banquet in the Beverly Hilton.
As dusk settled today, not a single bloom had been placed at the statue of Sandor Petofi to mark the spot where the Hungarian uprising — the fiercest popular revolt against Communist rule in Eastern Europe — began exactly 30 years ago, in 1956. Six leather-jacketed men with the look of the professionally idle lurked near the riverside monument to the 19th-century poet whose lines inspired those who took to the streets three decades ago. Before their battles with Soviet soldiers began, someone declaimed his hymn, beginning: “Rise Hungarian, the homeland calls. The time is here, now or never. We will never again be slaves.”
To listen to Serbs these days in this, their capital, which is also the capital of the multinational federated state of Yugoslavia, is to hear a rising chorus of rancor about their lot. In the cafes and restaurants, but also in Parliament, Serbian politicians, writers, academicians, housewives and handymen rail that their nation, which they consider the founder and chief defender of modern Yugoslavia, is getting the worst economic and political treatment of any of the country’s six constituent republics and two autonomous provinces. The main complaint is that alone among Yugoslav nationalities, the Serbs — the largest group, with over 8 million of Yugoslavia’s 23 million people — were denied their own state within the federation. The problem was that after World War II, the Communist Party saddled Serbia with two autonomous provinces, Vojvodina in the north, now with 150,000 ethnic Hungarians, and Kosovo in the south, now with about 1.7 million ethnic Albanians. Those provinces are increasingly restive today.
With a parting glance at Nezar Hindawi as he sat staring from the Old Bailey dock, the 12 members of the jury began verdict deliberations today on the charge that the 32-year-old Jordanian tried to blow up an Israeli airliner. After five hours of conferring, the jury retired for the night with deliberations to continue Friday morning. Prosecution and defense offered the jury diametric depictions of the defendant as either a committed terrorist with possible ties to Syria, or as a duped drug smuggler who had no idea that he was handing a luggage bomb to his lover April 17, when he dropped her off at Heathrow and told her to head for the El Al counter. “He got very close, didn’t he get close, to getting that bomb on board that aircraft,” the prosecutor, Roy Amlot, told the jury in his summation, contending that shortly before the defendant kissed his lover goodbye he casually armed the sophisticated, well-concealed luggage bomb to destroy the plane as it flew above Europe with 375 passengers, including the woman and his unborn child.
Ireland’s coalition government narrowly won a confidence vote in Parliament, avoiding an early general election. The coalition of the Fine Gael and Labor parties won in an 83-to-81 vote after a revolt by two members evaporated at the last moment. The vote should enable Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald to remain in power until at least next January, when his next major problem will be hammering out a budget with his coalition partners. The main issues leading to the confidence test were a Dublin development plan and social welfare payments.
An explosion ripped through an unused building outside West Berlin’s Spandau prison, where former Nazi Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess has been held for 40 years, and officials said they suspected it was a bombing by right-wing extremists. Neo-Nazis often stage demonstrations at Spandau to demand the release of the 92-year-old Hess, its only inmate. He is the only Third Reich leader still in prison. An anonymous caller to a German news agency claimed responsibility for the blast on behalf of the previously unknown “Rudolf Hess Freedom Commando.”
Artist Keith Haring commissioned to paint a mural on the Berlin wall by Checkpoint Charlie Museum 300 meters long
Palestinian guerrillas in rubber dinghies attacked a Shiite militia camp in southern Lebanon today, killing five people and wounding four others. It was the latest turn in a continuing wave of fighting between the two sides. The police said the attackers had come ashore just outside the port city of Tyre and had escaped by sea. The raid followed clashes overnight around the Palestinian refugee district of Rashidiye. A Palestinian spokesman said three residents were killed and nine wounded when gunners of the mainline Shiite Amal movement pounded the settlement with mortar fire. Each side blamed the other for starting the violence. The seaborne raid was the first by Palestinians against the Shiites since gunfights broke out early this month around Rashidiye, one of three Palestinian districts in the Tyre area, about 37 miles south of Beirut.
Followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini have arrested aides and relatives of the clergyman named to succeed him as Iran’s leader, according to the country’s main opposition group. the Mujahedeen. The arrests indicate a power struggle between Khomeini’s supporters and those of his designated successor, the Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, the exile group said in Paris. Montazeri has been increasingly critical of the fanatical Revolutionary Guards, Khomeini’s staunchest loyalists, who often impose Islamic laws by force and have beaten unveiled women on the streets of Tehran.
An Afghan warplane landed at a Pakistani air base this morning and the pilot requested political asylum, the Pakistani Government said this evening. It was the first defection of a pilot of an Afghan aircraft this year, although there have been about six such incidents in the last several years as Afghanistan has increasingly turned to its air force to suppress a widespread insurgency by Islamic guerrillas.
A Pakistan International Airlines plane on a domestic flight crashed, and officials said at least 13 people were killed and 22 injured. Airline officials said the propeller-driven Fokker Friendship F-27 slammed into an empty field as it approached the airport at the western frontier city of Peshawar, about 50 miles from the Afghan border. The plane, which was on a flight from the eastern city of Lahore, was carrying 49 passengers and five crew members. Airline officials said they did not know what caused the crash.
China welcomed Donald Duck and his pal, Mickey Mouse. The Disney cartoon characters, speaking Mandarin, will appear on Chinese television screens, beginning Sunday, in an effort to woo one billion people.
Even though an independent foreign policy remains essential to its nationalist self-image, Mexico has quietly ceded its place in Central American diplomacy as its economic and political problems have grown. Foreign diplomats say the Government has not entirely withdrawn and is struggling along with Colombia, Venezuela and Panama to keep alive a peace initiative for Nicaragua — an effort that it contends has helped to avert a full-scale regional war. Fearful of the repercussions of a direct United States intervention in Nicaragua, Mexico has also repeatedly offered to mediate between Washington and Managua, urging the two Governments to resume the negotiations that were held — and broke down after just eight sessions — in the Mexican resort of Manzanillo in 1984. Yet, the days are gone when, at the height of its oil boom between 1978 and early 1982, Mexico sought to be a regional power broker, first openly sympathizing with leftist revolutionaries and then boldly offering itself as a “communicator” between ideological opponents. In September, in a state of the nation address that lasted three hours and 40 minutes, President Miguel de la Madrid dedicated just one minute to the region, suggesting that for the moment Mexico and its partners could do no more. A negotiated solution, he said, “now depends fundamentally on the political will of the parties to the conflict.”
President Reagan today began putting legislation into effect to funnel $100 million in aid to the Nicaraguan rebels and allow the Central Intelligence Agency to resume direct support of the insurgent forces. An Administration official said President Reagan signed parts of an executive order providing $70 million in lethal aid to the rebels, or contras, and $30 million in what is officially termed nonlethal aid. The order, and a classified national security directive dealing with details of the program, are expected to be completed and signed by the President this week.
Retired Major General Richard V. Secord is a West Point graduate, a much-decorated combat pilot and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense who was instrumental in persuading the Senate to sell top-secret AWACS radar surveillance planes to Saudi Arabia in 1981. He is also, according to sources who wish to remain anonymous and some public evidence, a key figure in the extensive network supplying critical aid to the insurgents in Nicaragua. The network purports to be privately financed and operated but has the public blessing and seeming covert support of the Reagan Administration. The name of General Secord came up several times this week in connection with the network.
A plane carrying supplies for Nicaraguan insurgents used a clandestine airstrip in Costa Rica this year, according to an American captured after his own supply plane was shot down in southern Nicaragaua. The American prisoner, Eugene Hasenfus, also said in an interview in Managua that a Miami concern, Southern Air Transport, had provided mechanics and hand tools for rebel planes at the mainly military airbase in El Salvador. Southern Air Transport used to work for the Central Intelligence Agency. Company officials have repeatedly stated that it no longer does so.
Panama’s President Eric A. Delvalle, inviting a possible showdown with his nation’s powerful military chief, said he has no intention of bowing to pressures for a shake-up in his year-old government. Delvalle made his position known less than 24 hours after the military leader, Gen. Manuel A. Noriega, said publicly that the president should name a new Cabinet. Noriega’s remarks coincided with a call from the military-backed Democratic Revolutionary Party for its members in top government jobs to quit. Delvalle countered that the resignations are “unnecessary” and that he alone will determine when and if a Cabinet shake-up is needed.
The self-proclaimed emperor of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, returned home from exile in France and was promptly arrested and jailed. He was sentenced to death in absentia in 1983. The Government issued a statement repeating this today. His decision to return here came as a surprise to officials there. “Maybe he is not aware that he is under a sentence of death,” one customs officer said at the airport, where Mr. Bokassa arrived with eight suitcases, his wife and five children. Mr. Bokassa, a 65-year-old former French Army captain, was ousted in a 1979 coup after allegations of human rights violations. Two years before, he had crowned himself emperor in a lavish ceremony of Napoleonic pageantry.
President Reagan, opening the first stage of a 13-state campaign tour, said today that the 1986 election marked a fundamental choice for the nation’s voters on tax increases, law and order, and his program to defend against attacking missiles. Opening an ambitious personal effort in the final two weeks of the midterm campaign to retain Republican control of the Senate, Mr. Reagan made it plain that he considered the election nothing short of a referendum on his policies. Mr. Reagan was welcomed by festive audiences, many of them high school and college students, at his appearances in packed, flag-festooned arenas in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and Springfield, Missouri. He did not mention the farm crisis, but he was greeted by clusters of demonstrators at both stops.
President Reagan addresses a political rally in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
President Reagan addresses a crowd at Missouri State University and then 30-40 major donors afterwards.
The three national Republican committees, continuing their lopsided dominance in fund raising, have collected more than five times as much as their Democratic counterparts in the 1985-86 election season. The major national Republican fund-raising organizations raised about $179 million from January 1, 1985, through September 30, while the three Democratic groups collected $35 million, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. The party committees are important fund-raising vehicles for Federal candidates, as well as for state party organizations that support those candidates. The committees provide both direct contributions and services such as political consultants, advertising and public opinion polling.
Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d’s statements this week that officials need not defer to Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution were denounced as an “invitation to lawlessness” today by the American Civil Liberties Union. The statements provoked a wide range of reactions among legal scholars. Some constitutional experts, especially liberals, said Mr. Meese was undermining the rule of law, others, especially conservatives, applauded the thrust of his statements. Still others agreed with much of what he said while expressing concern lest his more ambiguous suggestions encourage defiance of the Court and disrespect for the law.
The Commerce Department today reported a modest rise of three-tenths of 1 percent in inflation for September. The latest figures, in turn, will mean a 1.3 percent increase in Social Security and related benefits for more than 37 million Americans. The higher benefits, tied directly to the rise in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers between the third quarters of 1985 and 1986, take effect Jan. 1. The average Social Security retirement payment will rise $6 a month, to $488, the smallest increase by far since these benefits were tied to inflation in 1975.
James C. Miller 3d, President Reagan’s budget director, disclosed today that the Federal budget deficit for the fiscal year 1986, ended September 30, amounted to $220.7 billion. While that is $10 billion less than the Administration predicted last August, the deficit figure is more than $8 billion above last year’s record. The new figure, to be reported officially Tuesday, means that deficit spending in the years since Mr. Reagan took office has officially crossed the $1 trillion total that economists have been predicting for months.
Government officers have resumed their questioning of John A. Walker Jr. about his family’s Soviet spy ring, Reagan Administration officials and his lawyer said today. The officers are expected to use a polygraph, or lie detector, in questioning the Navy veteran within the next several days. Justice Department officials said Mr. Walker, who has pleaded guilty to espionage, was found deceptive in earlier questioning with a polygraph about the extent and origins of the Soviet espionage operation. According to prosecutors, the spy ring provided the Soviet Union with some of the Navy’s most secret information about codes and coding equipment.
The I.R.S. issued guidelines on how taxpayers can pay interest penalties before year-end on taxes owed under the old tax law. It was the agency’s first official step in enforcing the new tax law.
Engineers loaded radioactive fuel into the reactor core of the nuclear plant at Seabrook, New Hampshire, while a handful of anti-nuclear activists protested outside the plant gates. In a major step for the $4.8-billion project, already eight years behind schedule, the first dozen of 193 12-foot uranium fuel assemblies were inserted into the reactor core. There were no arrests in the protest outside the plant.
The remains of four American servicemen killed during the Vietnam War have been positively identified by an Army laboratory, the Pentagon said. The remains of the three Air Force officers and one Navy officer, recovered earlier this year, were to be flown from Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii to Travis Air Force Base in California today for a ceremony. Three of those identified were among a set of 21 remains repatriated by Vietnam to the United States last April; the fourth was among 14 recovered last February during an excavation at the crash site of an Air Force AC-130 gunship in Laos.
New figures show the occurrence of AIDS among blacks and Latinos is more than double their percentages of the population, but health officials stressed that the disease attacks people “as a result of underlying risk factors, not because of their race (or) ethnicity.” The national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reported that 25% of the 24,576 AIDS cases reported through September 8 occurred among blacks, who compose 12% of the population, and 14% of the patients were Latinos, who make up 6% of the population.
Twenty-nine telephone company linemen returned to their jobs in Needham, Massachusetts, after doctors reassured them that a colleague with AIDS poses no threat to their health. Paul Cronan, 31, returned to work Tuesday after a yearlong absence and the settlement of a $1.5-million lawsuit against the New England Telephone Co. The next day, 29 of Cronan’s 44 co-workers refused to pick up work orders at their office. Kay Moore, wife of the shop steward, said that most of the families were not aware that doctors believe that AIDS is a virus spread through sexual intercourse or contact with blood and blood products.
Miami police officers who resold stolen drugs made at least $700,000 each, the government’s star witness said in the federal trial of seven officers. The officers are accused of participating in a drug-theft ring responsible for four deaths and the sale of $15 million in cocaine. Under examination by prosecutors, Armando Un said he and fellow dealer Luis Rodriguez calculated that the officers had received $700,000 each. Rodriguez was later found murdered and three officers are accused of conspiring to set up the slaying.
Federal officials in Boston seek city records involving more than 250 restaurants, bars and night clubs, including some of the city’s best known, in subpoenas issued for evidence of police corruption.
Four top Chicago officials failed to respond decisively to assertions that a city official had accepted bribes, according to a long-awaited investigative report ordered by Mayor Harold Washington.
A Federal grand jury today indicted two judges and 17 union officials on charges ranging from racketeering to extortion and bribery. The indictments culminated a two-year investigation that the authorities said had uncovered numerous ties between organized crime and public officials. Two lawyers from a firm that had a contract to provide legal services to union members were also charged with racketeering and embezzlement in paying nearly $45,000 in kickbacks to the unions, Local 30 of United Slate, Tile and Composition Roofers, Damp and Waterproof Workers Association and Local 30B of the Residential Reroofers Union. Edward S. G. Dennis Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, said the investigation found that the two locals were operated as an organized crime operation. They used the kickbacks to build a “slush fund” that financed cash gifts to about 50 Federal, state and local officials in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, he said.
The FBI said it is investigating a convicted robber’s claim that he used false identities to get jobs at nuclear plants in California, New York, Michigan and Washington and eventually earned $60,000 a year as an inspector. Gary Lee McChain, 35, told the Idaho Falls Post-Register that he surrendered to the FBI on Tuesday at the agency’s office in Pocatello so that he could warn officials of bribery and drug use at commercial nuclear plant construction sites as well as of lax security that he claims makes the plants vulnerable to terrorists. He will be extradited to Colorado to face a parole violation charge.
A disheveled band of visionaries passed beneath the arches of the George Washington Bridge at midday yesterday, eight months and hundreds of pairs of hiking boots since their dreams of awakening Americans to the possibility of a world blowing up seemed dashed in the dust of the Mojave Desert. And while their ultimate destination is Washington, D.C., the passage marked a milestone: The Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament had crossed the country. For the 400 people who made it all the way — the contingent has doubled in recent weeks — the journey was long and hard. Anne Macfarlane testified to that.
The Johnson & Johnson Baby Products Co. will recall three soft crib toys that could pose a strangulation threat to infants, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced. The action involves Soft Triplets, Piglet Crib Gym and Triplets Marching Band, the commission reported. The company said it will refund the price of the toys as part of a consent agreement settling a complaint filed May 30 by the commission.
The red tide that has plagued Texas’s Gulf Coast for two months may be weakening and killing fewer fish, state officials say. An aerial survey conducted Wednesday indicated the red tide was not as strong as in the past, when it looked like a huge red oil slick along parts of the coast.
Routine release of radioactive iodine in the 1940’s inflicted major doses on thousands of civilians in the Pacific Northwest, according to documents made public by the Energy Department.
A comatose firefighter died after feeding tubes were withdrawn eight days earlier by order of Massachusetts’s highest court. The patient was Paul E. Brophy, 49.
Major League Baseball, World Series, Game 5:
Mets ace Dwight Gooden loses again as Bruce Hurst gives up 10 hits but wins 4–2 for Boston. The Red Sox struck first in the second when Dave Henderson tripled with one out off of Dwight Gooden and scored on Spike Owen’s sacrifice fly. Dwight Evans’s RBI single next inning with two on made it 2–0 Red Sox. In the fifth, Jim Rice hit a leadoff triple and scored on Don Baylor’s single. After Evans singled, Sid Fernandez relieved Gooden and allowed an RBI double to Henderson. Bruce Hurst pitched 7 ⅓ shutout innings before Tim Teufel’s home run in the eighth put the Mets on the board. In the ninth, Mookie Wilson doubled with two outs and scored on Rafael Santana’s single before Hurst struck out Lenny Dykstra to end the game as the Red Sox’s 4–2 gave them a 3–2 series lead heading back to New York. The Mets go into the fateful game six facing elimination…
New York Mets 2, Boston Red Sox 4
A surprisingly strong increase in orders for durable goods in September gave Wall Street a lift yesterday, sending stock prices to their biggest gain in a week and helping trading volume get back to more normal levels. Before Wall Street began business yesterday, the Government had reported that durable goods orders rose 4.9 percent in September. Robert Barbera, chief economist for E. F. Hutton & Company, said that figure encouraged those who were hoping for better business conditions. “The non-recession team scored a touchdown,” he said. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 26.58 points, to 1,834.93. Yesterday’s improvement was the best for the blue-chip index since October 15, when the Dow gained 31.49 points.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1834.93 (+26.58)
Born:
Emilia Clarke, English actress (Daenerys Targaryen in “Game of Thrones”; “Me Before You”), in London, England, Uited Kingdom.
Jessica Stroup, American Actress (“90210”), in Anderson, South Carolina.
Matt D’Agostini, Canadian NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, New Jersey Devils, Pittsburgh Penguins, Buffalo Sabres), in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.
Died:
Edward A Doisy Sr., 92, American bio-chemist (Vitamin K1, Nobel 1943).
