News stories from Saturday October 10, 1981
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Anwar Sadat was buried in the presence of leaders from more than 80 nations. The 62-year-old President received full military honors at Egypt's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where four days ago he had placed a wreath just before the parade at which he was killed. [New York Times]
- Strict security at the funeral of President Sadat kept Egyptian citizens from taking part in the ceremony. Thousands of soldiers, airmen, policemen and special security agents surrounded the family of the slain leader and the foreign dignitaries. Egyptian officials imposed the tight security to insure the safety of world leaders and, they said, to prevent the mass hysteria that accompanied the funeral in 1970 of Mr. Sadat's predecessor, President Gamal Abdel Nasser. [New York Times]
- A budget defferal plan that is expected to save $1 billion through Nov. 20 was outlined by a high-ranking White House official. The official said the action, which is unusual but provided for by law, was needed because "the deficit situation is more severe than normal." [New York Times]
- A plan to sell the Soviet Union sensitive codes used in intelligence and reconnaissance computers was organized by a former American intelligence agent, two of his former associates have charged. According to the associates of Edwin P. Wilson, a former C.I.A. agent who has been charged with illegally shipping explosives to Lybia, he tried to have some of America's most sensitive computer technology "appropriated" for the Soviet Union in 1977. [New York Times]
- Opposition to hiring West Indians in Florida sugar cane fields has strengthened this harvest season, since thousands of unemployed recently-arrived refugees are already in the state. Those seeking to organize farm workers say the West Indian workers keep wages and working conditions too bad for domestic workers, and one group of Haitians has called a strike. Producers say they cannot hire enough reliable workers domestically. [New York Times]
- An anti-NATO protest in Bonn drew 250,000 demonstrators who denounced plans for the modernization of the Atlantic alliance's nuclear arsenal in Europe. Speakers, including members of the two parties in the government coalition, attacked a proposal to deploy new medium-range missiles in West Germany. Speeches were marked by strong tones of German nationalism and anti-Reagan sentiment. The rally was said to be largest in West Germany in the postwar era. [New York Times]
- In London a bomb blast killed one woman and injured as many as 50 people. The anti-personnel bomb, which was apparently planted by the Irish Republican Army, exploded outside a military barracks. Some British soldiers returning from ceremonial duties were wounded; eight of them required major surgery. [New York Times]