News stories from Saturday October 23, 1982
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- In radio talks on the economy President Reagan and the Speaker of the House, Tip O'Neill, exchanged accusations as the fall campaign viewed by both sides as leading to a referendum on the Reagan economic policies was entering its final week. [New York Times]
- Military spending has increased while the numbers of planes, ships, tanks guns and most nonnuclear weapons in the nation's arsenal have declined. In the last 30 years the United States has spent $2,300 billion on the military. The Reagan administration plans to spend $1,500 billion more in the next five years on the Defense Department budget. The plan envisions only relatively modest increases in weapons. Some critics doubt that even those goals will be achieved because weapon costs have historically tended to outpace increases in military spending. [New York Times]
- Law enforcement officers blockaded a small Arizona town in a confrontation with what they described as about 100 members of a faith-healing group who where armed with lead pipes, clubs, tire irons and guns. Two members of the group were killed, and as many as nine other persons, including seven deputy sheriffs, were wounded in a fight and gun battle in Miracle Valley, a town 60 miles southeast of Tucson, the authorities said. [New York Times]
- Cocaine trafficking is luring more and more middle-class and upper-income Americans, and relatively few of them are being caught, according to law enforcement officials. They say the trade is so lucrative, the chances of being caught are so small and the use of the drug has become so acceptable in some segments of American society that it is increasingly attracting dealers from middle-class professional and business life. [New York Times]
- One of the world's tallest buildings is planned in Houston. Its sponsors are John T. Cater, chairman of one of Houston's largest bank holding companies, and the Century Development Corporation. They plan an 82-story building that will dominate Houston's skyline and give the city immediate identification. [New York Times]
- Arab recognition of Israel will come only after Israel removes its forces from the territory it has occupied since the 1967 war, King Hassan II of Morocco said at a news conference in Washington. A day after he and a six-nation Arab League delegation discussed differing Arab and American peace plans with President Reagan, the King said the Middle East dispute had entered "a new phase, not the conflict of war but of law and of rights." [New York Times]
- A British spy for Moscow was responsible for one of the longest and potentially most damaging Soviet penetrations of Western intelligence since World War II, British intelligence officials have told American officials. American intelligence officials say that the accused man, Geoffrey Arthur Prime, supplied Moscow with a stream of highly sensitive information about American and British interception of Soviet communications while he was employed as a Russian translator at Britain's main electronic intelligence center at Cheltenham from 1968 to 1977. [New York Times]
- A general strike in Poland next spring is the aim of leaders of the now-outlawed Solidarity union. [New York Times]