1st of October 1985 News
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Date: 01 October 1985
By James F. Clarity and Warren Weaver Jr
James Clarity
What'll they think of next, these breathless lobbyists and creative publicists who seem so busy around Capitol Hill these days? Well, this week's made-for-television-news events include the unfolding on Thursday of a pair of blue jeans to dramatize legislation to reduce textile imports. The pants are 54 feet long and 35 feet wide and are being displayed by Representative Howard Coble, Republican of North Carolina, who could easily fit into the hip pocket of the jeans with several other adults, according to a press release from his office.
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NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1985
Date: 02 October 1985
International Israeli planes bombed the P.L.O. headquarters near Tunis in what Israel said was retaliation for the slaying of three Israelis in Cyprus last week. Yasir Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization chairman, was visiting a P.L.O. installation in northern Tunis when the Israeli jets struck his offices south of the capital. He was not among the wounded. [Page A1, Columns 4-6.] The White House said that Israel's attack on the P.L.O. headquarters in Tunisia appeared to be ''a legitimate response'' against ''terrorist attacks.'' [A1:4-5.]
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QUEBEC'S NEW LEADER: PIERRE MARC JOHNSON
Date: 01 October 1985
By Christopher S. Wren, Special To the New York Times
Christopher Wren
Less than a decade ago, a young doctor quit his residency at a hospital in East Montreal to try his hand at politics, reasoning that he could help more people as a politician than as a physician. On Sunday night, Pierre Marc Johnson was elected the new leader of Quebec's governing Parti Quebecois, collecting the votes of 59,925 party members, or 58.5 percent of those casting ballots. Mr. Johnson, who turned 39 in July, will be sworn in as Quebec's next Premier, possibly Thursday, succeeding the party's founder, Rene Levesque. The style of the new party leader is different from that of Mr. Levesque, who entrusted him with two provincial portfolios as Minister of Justice and Intergovernmental Relations. While Mr. Levesque was emotional, even volatile, Mr. Johnson is cool and pragmatic. He has set aside Mr. Levesque's old vision of an independent Quebec to bring the Parti Quebecois into the mainstream of Canadian politics.
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NEWS SUMMARY: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1985
Date: 01 October 1985
International The Soviet Union formally proposed that the United States cut by 50 percent its long-range and medium-range nuclear weapons, while offering a reduction that would cover only Soviet long-range weapons, American officials said. The proposal made such cutbacks conditional on a ban on research into space-based defenses and on testing or development of space-based defenses or anti-satellite weapons. [Page A1, Column 6.] Four Soviet officials were abducted as they rode in official cars in West Beirut. Radio reports said the Russians were kidnapped by gunmen in two separate incidents. In one incident, the police said a group of heavily armed men pulled two Russians from their car on a street near the Soviet Embassy, pushed them into another vehicle and drove them away. [A1:1.]
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A SHREWD AND COMBATIVE ENVOY TO IRELAND: MARGARET MARY O'SHAUGHNESSY
Date: 02 October 1985
By Robert Pear, Special To the New York Times
Robert Pear
In agreeing to become the United States Ambassador to Ireland, Margaret M. Heckler displayed two of the traits that have characterized her career in politics. Initially, in resisting the offer, which she regarded as a demotion, Mrs. Heckler was tenacious and outspoken. She complained that there was ''a campaign against me by some members of the White House staff.'' But when President Reagan pressed her to accept the new assignment, she yielded to political considerations, hailing the President as a ''Great Communicator'' whom it would be an honor to serve in Dublin.
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SPY'S DEFECTION FUELS DEBATE IN GREECE
Date: 01 October 1985
By Paul Anastasi, Special To the New York Times
Paul Anastasi
The newly confirmed defection of a senior Soviet military intelligence official who was based in Greece and the arrest of three purported Greek spies has fueled an intense political dispute here over the extent of Soviet spying in this NATO nation. Last week Constantine Mitsotakis, the leader of the conservative opposition, said revelations by the defector, Sergei Bokhan, made it evident that Russian spies had extensively infiltrated Greece, including the foreign ministry, the armed forces, Greek businesses and the press. Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou denied the allegations, saying that no one beyond the three people arrested were involved in spying. He also criticized the United States for what he said was its refusal to allow Greek officials to interrogate Mr. Bokhan and for withholding information on the case.
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FILIPINO QUANDARY: THE YES AND NO OF U.S. BASES
Date: 02 October 1985
By Steve Lohr, Special To the New York Times
Steve Lohr
Richard Gordon, the Mayor of this mountain-rimmed harbor city, puts it bluntly: ''Olongapo is a company town.'' In Olongapo's case, the ''company'' happens to be the Pentagon. The town's nightclubs, bars, hotels, restaurants, massage parlors and 250,000 people are almost wholly dependent on the huge United States naval base at Subic Bay, whose grounds cover an area slightly larger than Manhattan and whose gates open onto the city's main street. Yet even in Olongapo, and even in the Mayor's office, there is a hint of the ambivalence Filipinos increasingly express toward the presence of two big American military bases on their soil, Subic Bay and the nearby Clark Air Base.
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WEST GERMAN BACKS PARTICIPATION IN 'STAR WARS'
Date: 01 October 1985
By James M. Markham, Special To the New York Times
James
Chancellor Helmut Kohl's national security adviser called today for a governmental agreement with the United States to coordinate the participation of West German industry in the Reagan Administration's research program for an antimissile shield. The security adviser, Horst Teltschik, said it was ''a vital interest'' for the Federal Republic to take part in the American research effort, and he said a decision to strike a government-to-government accord could reached by the end of this year or early next year. Mr. Teltschik's endorsement of West German participation in the strategic defense initiative, often called the ''Star Wars'' program, was the Kohl Government's first public statement on the issue since Mr. Teltschik returned from an 11-day fact-finding mission in the United States earlier this month.
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NBC ASKS THAI INVESTIGATION
Date: 02 October 1985
The president of NBC News has asked the Prime Minister of Thailand for a full investigation into the killing of two network employees by a Thai Army tank early last month, saying that ''this was no accident.'' The NBC official, Lawrence K. Grossman, in a letter dated Sept. 27 to the Prime Minister, Gen. Prem Tinsulanonda, wrote, ''To dismiss the incident as an accident is an insult to the memory of Mr. Davis and Mr. Latch and an embarrassment for the Government of Thailand.''
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U.S. OFFICIALS SAY SOVIET ARMS PLAN IS NOT BALANCED
Date: 01 October 1985
By Hedrick Smith, Special To the New York Times
Hedrick Smith
The Soviet Union formally proposed today that the United States reduce its long-range and medium-range nuclear weapons by 50 percent, while offering a reduction that would cover only Soviet long-range weapons, according to American officials here. These officials said the Soviet proposal in Geneva made such cutbacks conditional on a ban on research into space-based defenses, which the Soviet Union calls ''space strike weapons,'' and a ban on testing or deployment of space-based defenses or anti-satellite weapons. Retreat From Earlier Hints The officials here said the proposal was regarded in Washington as a retreat from recent indications - in a Time magazine interview with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, and comments to a group of United States Senators visiting Moscow - that the Kremlin might accept basic laboratory research on antimissile defenses. Another central element in the Soviet proposal, officials here said, was a ban on deployment of new strategic weapon systems. American officials said this appeared to allow Moscow to proceed with deployment of two land-based intercontinental missiles, the SS-24 and the SS-25, but to bar the United States from deploying the land-based MX and Midgetman missiles, the submarine-based Trident D-5 missile and the Stealth bomber, which are at earlier stages of development.
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