News stories from Sunday November 28, 1982

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

Deployment of the MX missiles would make "a relatively small" contribution to the nation's strategic capabilities, the Congressional Budget Office has concluded in considering President Reagan's $26 billion plan. Meanwhile, the controversy over the missiles intensified. Senator Henry Jackson of Washington said the deployment plan was in "deep trouble" in Congress. [New York Times] Congress will return to work Monday for a final three-week post-election session to take on the same fiscal issues and priorities that have been its major concern for the last two years. The session is expected to test whether President Reagan can continue his mastery over Congress and also test a new spirit of cooperation between leaders of the Republican-controlled Senate and Democratic-controlled House. [New York Times] Fumes from an missile test cell in Tullahoma, Tenn., prevented rescue workers from entering the underground chamber where four civilian workers were killed in an explosion and fire. The 250-foot-deep chamber was used to test rocket motors for the new MX missile. [New York Times] California's medical care for the poor will be based under a new law on competitive bidding among hospitals, physicians, dentists and others who provide medical care to reduce the cost of running the system. Supporters predict that the law will increase efficiency, eliminate waste and lead to the development of new cost-cutting concepts in medical treatment. The law is opposed by medical groups and hospital administrators who say it will lead to second-rate care. [New York Times] The government is a co-defendant with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in three long-pending lawsuits involving the Ku Klux Klan's attacks on civil rights workers in the south in the early 1960's. The trials will be held in federal courts in New York and Michigan. The suits arise out of the F.B.I.'s use of a paid informer in the Klan, Gary Thomas Rowe, who took part in attacks on civil rights workers. [New York Times] The unbeaten filly Landaluce died of a viral infection at Santa Anita Race Track in Arcadia, Calif. She outran every horse she raced against and might have been the fastest 2-year-old filly in racing. [New York Times] The Geneva world trade conference reached a consensus on ways to strengthen the international trading system, even though differences remained between the European Economic Community's 10 members and other countries over subsidized competition in agriculture. Deadlocks between the United States and the Common Market were broken after the conference went into an extended session over the weekend under the chairmanship of Canada's Deputy Prime Minister, Allan MacEachen. [New York Times] The Pope will visit El Salvador early next year, a Roman Catholic Church official in San Salvador said. The visit by Pope John Paul II is also expected to include other Central American countries and Haiti. [New York Times] Essential hospital drugs were seized by Lebanese army troops from a hospital serving the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps near Beirut, the hospital's director said. The drugs, including anesthetics and antibiotics and said to be worth at least $250,000, were taken from the 100-bed Gaza Hospital, which was operated by the Palestine Liberation Organization before it left West Beirut in August. [New York Times] Israel dropped a demand that talks with Lebanon over withdrawal of its troops must be held at a ministerial level. The announcement of the modification of its negotiating terms said that the Lebanese and Israeli delegations must be led by "properly authorized civilians." [New York Times] An article by Ernest Hemingway written for the Soviet newspaper Pravda in 1938 has been found and published for the first time in English. In it, Hemingway wrote presciently of the fascists in Spain and their German and Italian supporters on the eve of World War II. [New York Times]