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Soviets held observer, Weinberger says
By HENRY GOTTLIEB
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Defense Secretary Cas
par Weinberger, denouncing the Soviets for failing
to “control their troops,” said yesterday that a
U.S. military observer in East Germany was
detained at gunpoint for nine hours after his truck
was deliberately bumped.
Weinberger said the incident, which happened
“a few days ago” but was not previously an
nounced, involved a soldier in the same unit as
Maj. Arthur Nicholson, a U.S. Army officer killed
by a Soviet bloc soldier earlier this year.
“The Soviets bumped his truck deliberately
where we were supposed to be, and doing what we
were permitted to do under a treaty that is some 40
years old,” Weinberger said on CBS' “Face The
Nation.”
“It is the third or fourth incident of this kind,”
Weinberger said. “When he attempted to get out
and fix the truck they pushed him back into the
truck and held him at gunpoint and detained him
for roughly nine hours and generally behaved in
the same way in which they did when Maj. Nichol
son was killed and murdered.”
“It’s a continuing series of episodes,” Weinberg
er said.
Weinberger’s statement, which included no
identification of the soldier or the location of the
incident, was made in response to a reporter’s
questionand appeared to take the White House, the
Anti-apartheid violence rekindled
By MAUREEN JOHNSON
Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Police in an
armored vehicle besieged by a crowd of Blacks opened
• fire and wounded three people, officials said yesterday
. in reporting renewed anti-apartheid violence in seven
’ districts.
On the political front, the white-minority govern-
;• ment shrugged off criticism from white opposition
' newspapers that modest reforms of apartheid an
! nounced last week had come too late to head off limited
; U.S. sanctions.
• And South African business executives, under fire
! from President P.W. Botha for meeting exiled black
• guerrilla chiefs, were lauded by English-language
newspapers for what one called “doing this country a
service.”
Botha said last week the government would restore
South African citizenship to Blacks considered citizens
of independent tribal homelands, and a presidential
commission recommended scrapping “influx control”
‘ laws aimdd at keeping Blacks out of White areas.
Chris Heunis, who as minister of constitutional
development is responsible for drawing up constitu-
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State Department and even Pentagon officials
by surprise.
Public affairs duty officers at all three branches
said they had no information on the incident
beyond what Weinberger had said. Revelations of
previous incidents involving U.S. observers were
made immediately after they occurred.
A diplomatic source in West Germany said the
latest action was “not serious.”
An administration official, providing a few addi
tional details, said Weinberger may have “over
dramatized what happened.”
“It’s not clear if the truck was in a place it was
supposed to be,” said the official, speaking on
condition he not be identified. He said that after
the vehicle was hit it slid into some wire along a
road and became entangled.
The official said that when a Soviet commander
belatedly came to the scene blaming his delay
on getting lost he ordered his troops to disen
tangle the truck.
“The Soviet commander apologized profusely,”
the official said. He also said he had the impres
sion that the soldier wasn’t held nine hours, but
was gone from his headquarters on the mission for
nine hours.
Under a U.S.-Soviet pact, a limited number of
American soldiers are permitted to travel in East
Germany in return for similar rights by Soviet
soldiers in West Germany.
Most of the work of the missions described for
years as “legalized spying,” is to report on mili-
tional changes, said yesterday the moves were not an
attempt to ease international pressure for reform.
“It was part and parcel of what is good for South
Africa ... It is a process not finalized in one particular
day or a year,” Heunis said.
“It was not directed at reaction internationally," he
added, underlining the official stance that South Africa
will not bow to dictates from a hostile world.
Durban’s Sunday Tribune said of the announced
retreats in the nation’s racial segregation policies,
“Unnecessarily late. Groping in a moment of great
national woe.”
The changes make no dent in domination of 24
million voteless Blacks by 5 million Whites, or in an
array of discriminatory laws covering housing, educa
tion and most public transport.
“Properly packaged and delivered with some sem
blance of flair at the right time and in the right place,
the reforms... could have turned the tide of history,”
complained Johannesburg’s Sunday Times.
In new anti-apartheid unrest, a crowd of Blacks
besieged a police armored personnel vehicle Saturday
night in East London’s black Duncan Village township,
bringing it to a standstill as they, tried to steal gasoline,
a police communique said.
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Since the shooting of Nicholson outside a base
near Potsdam, East Germany, on March 24, the
United States has held a series of meetings with
the Soviets to complain of harassment against
members of the U.S. missions.
“We have had promises by the Soviets that they
would tell their people not to use force,” Weinberg
er said. “Either they’re not keeping their promises
or they are very poorly disciplined.”
Asked why the incident had not been announced
by the United States at the time it happened,
Weinberger said: “We're trying our best to get the
conditions corrected. We’re not interested in pub
licity.”
He said a protest had been lodged with the
Soviets and “we hope that ultimately they will do
what they say they are going to do and that is
discipline their troops and control their troops.”
He said there were reports that the Soviet
mission had promised to look into the latest
incident, but “we have not had an apology.”
“We’ve had no compensation for Major Nichol
son’s family and he was murdered.”
Asked if the Soviet action would have an impact
on President Reagan’s summit meeting with
Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva in
November, Weinberger said, “No. I don’t think so,
you just have to recognize that this is Soviet
behavior. The meeting that the President has
scheduled with Mr. Gorbachev should take place, I
trust it will take place.
35 killed
by grenades
in theater
PAG ADI AN, Philippines (AP)
Three grenades hurled from a balco
ny into the lower floor of a crowded
theater yesterday killed at least 35
people and wounded about 100 in a
Mindanao Island town, a local radio
station reported.
It blamed terrorists for the attack
in the town of Lala, 500 miles south of
Manila, but said it was not known if
the killers were members of the com
munist New People’s Army or Mos
lem extremists.
Radio station DXDD in Ozamis
City, across Panquil Bay from Lala
said up to 100 people were wounded,
many seriously.
The broadcast said yesterday was
market day in Lala, and hundreds of
rural residents were in the town to
shop and see the movie.
It was the third time in two years
that grenades have been thrown into
theaters in the area.
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Four killed in Bucks County crash
SOUTHAMPTON (AP) Three teen-agers remained hospital
ized in critical condition Saturday after a two-car collision killed
four friends and slightly injured three other people, police said.
The four dead were among eight teen-agers in a four-wheel
drive vehicle that rammed the back of a car occupied by two
people in Upper Southampton Township Friday at 11:25 p.m,
township police Chief Walter Stevens said.
Both vehicles were traveling at high speeds in a 45-mph zone, he
said Saturday.
According to Stevens, Deputy County Coroner James McGee
pronounced four 17-year-olds dead at the scene: Robert Schweiss
of Southampton and Morris Fradenberg, Brian Ball and Christo
pher Avram, all of Warminster.
The two occupants of the car, Jeffery Marsh of Warminster and
Paul Cupito of Hatboro, suffered minor cuts and were treated and
released at Warminster General Hospital, he said.
In critical condition at the hospital were Paul Gee, Tyson
Baxter and Mike Serratore, all of Warminster, Stevens said. He
said the eighth occupant of the four-wheel-dnve vehicle, John
Gahan of Southampton, walked away with minor scratches.
nation news briefs
Unmarried couples triple in number
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The number of unmarried cou
ples living together has more than tripled since 1970, climbing to
nearly 2 million as young Americans continue to postpone
marriage, the Census Bureau reported yesterday.
There were 1,988,000 unmarried couple households as of March
1984, the Census Bureau said in a study of Marital Status and
Living Arrangements.
The report also found that young people are postponing mar
riage, with median age at tying the knot higher than at any time
since the turn of the century.
And it noted that just since the 1980 census, young people have
shown less inclination to set up housekeeping on their own, with
those not married or cohabiting more often remaining with their
parents.
“A number of factors may be contributing to the change in the
living arrangements of young men and women, including the
postponement of marriage, rise in divorce, emphasis on ad
vanced education, employment problems and high housing
costs,” the report said.
The total of 1.9 million unmarried couples in 1984 was up from
523,000 such couples in 1970 and 1.6 million in the 1980 census, the
agency said.
In 1984 the median age for people getting married for the first
time was 25.4 years for men and 23 years for women. That was the
highest age at first marriage for women ever recorded, and the
top for men since 25.9 in 1900,
Marriage age had been dropping steadily in this century, falling
to a low of 22.5 for men and 20.1 years for women by 1956, after
which the median age began rising again.
Train derails, spills acid in Texas
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) A freight train derailed on a
trestle, rupturing 26 of its tankers and spilling up to 300,000
gallons of sulfuric acid into a river, killing fish and forcing the.,
evacuation of about 300 people, officials said yesterday.
There were no serious injuries and no danger to water supplies
in the Saturday night accident, authorities said.
Several people who complained of skin irritation from the
acid’s fumes were treated by emergency medical workers, said
. Bexar County sheriff’s Sgt. Ray Gerlach,
' The evacuations were ordered within one mile of the accident
on the Medina River south of San Antonio, said Carl Mixon, Bexar
County fire marshal. A nearby school was opened for evacuees
who had no place to go.
As much as 300,000 gallons of sulfuric acid, which is toxic and
highly corrosive, spilled into the river, he said. .
The 100-car Southern Pacific train derailed on a railroad trestle
that crossed the river. At least 26 acid-laden containers ruptured
when they fell to a riverbank below, said Herbie Bart, a spokes
man for Southern Pacific’s hazardous materials office.
“Some of them (tanks) split wide open and some are just
leaking,” Mixon said, adding that a cause for the derailment had
not been determined.
Emergency crews used dirt to dam the river and halt the flow of
the acid downstream and the railroad ordered 20 tons of lime to
neutralize the acidity in the water, Bart said.
“It is being contained,” Mixon said early yesterday. “Southern
Pacific has a strike team surveying the area. The danger to the
public is just in the immediate area and downstream.”
Skip Francis, district manager of the Texas Wafer Commis
sion, said an undetermined number of fish were killed up to 1.5
miles downstream from the accident. Vegetation-in that section
also was destroyed, he said.
The derailment caused at least $2 million in damage, Mixon
said, adding that the bridge on which the accident occurred
crumbled.
Palme's party wins election
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Socialist Prime Minister Olof
Palme was heading for victory yesterday in Sweden s elections,
but early returns indicated he will have to rely more on the
Communists during his fourth term in office. . _
Based on results from 561 of 6,279 districts, national television
predicted Palme’s Social Democrats would win 161 seats in the
349-seat Parliament and the Communists 19, for a coalition total
of 180. The three non-socialist parties were projected to win 169
While retaining power, both the Social Democrats and the
Communists were losing ground. The Social Democrats were
losing five seats from the 166 they held in the outgoing legislature
and the Communists were down one from 20.
Among the non-socialists the Liberal Party was showing
spectacular gains. It was expected to more than double its seats
from 21 to 50. The Conservatives had controlled 86 seats and the
Center Party 56 in the old Parliament for a non-socialist total of
Palme, 58, had predicted a close race. He depicted this year s
campaign as a battle to preserve Sweden’s welfare state. The
opposition had promised to cut taxes and deregulate the economy.
A record 6.4 million people of Sweden's 8.3 million population
were eligible to vote, and nearly 90 percent cast ballots, a figure
in line with past high turnouts.
Copenhagen Jewish sites bombed
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) Bombs exploded in down
town Copenhagen last night at a kosher food store and a travel
agency specializing in trips to Israel, wounding as many as 12
people, police reported.
They said that shortly after the explosions a bomb was found
near the Israeli Embassy and another near the residence of the
Israeli ambassador.
The first explosion occurred outside the food store and the
second came less than five minutes later at the Israel Tours
travel agency, according to the police.
They said about 12 people were treated at hospitals for cuts and
shock, but none was injured badly enough to be admitted.
No group claimed responsibility for the bombings.
Police said that after the explosions they increased security at
Copenhagen’s central synagogue, which was damaged July 22 by
a bomb. An organization of Shiite Moslem terrorists claimed
responsibility for that attack.
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