News stories from Sunday April 25, 1982
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- A successor to Adm. Bobby Inman, who resigned last week as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, has been chosen by President Reagan, intelligence sources said. He is John McMahon, who has been executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He has been with the C.I.A. for more than 30 years. [New York Times]
- As weeklong Ground Zero activities ended they were described as an "undeniable success" by Roger Molander, a former National Security Council arms control specialist, who heads the national anti-nuclear weapons movement. About 350 towns and cities, 350 colleges and more than 1,200 high schools participated in the activities, the movement's spokesmen said. However, local organizers, politicians and analysts had varying opinions about the effectiveness of the week's activities. The Reagan administration reportedly is watching the anti-nuclear movement with increasing concern. [New York Times]
- John Cardinal Cody, the Archbishop of Chicago, died early this morning at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after a long period of failing health. He was 74 years old. Cardinal Cody was a former bishop of New Orleans, where he enforced desegregation of Catholic schools. He had been head of the Chicago Archdiocese for nearly 17 years and had recently been charged with mishandling church funds. [New York Times]
- Britain made its first military move to regain control of the Falkland Islands with the recapture of the principal port on South Georgia, which is about 800 miles east of the Falklands, and which, like the Falklands, was occupied by Argentine forces three weeks ago. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Defense Secretary John Nott announced in London that the Argentine troops on South Georgia had surrendered after a two-hour battle. The British forces, Mr. Nott said, were landed by helicopter and supported by a number of warships. [New York Times]
- Argentina waged a last-ditch fight against a British naval bombardment and helicopter assault on South Georgia, the Buenos Aires authorities said. Without admitting that either of the two defended positions of Grytviken and Leith Harbor on the glacier-covered island, a series of communiques from the military junta appeared to preparing Argentines for the news that the first battle for the Falkland Islands had been lost. One of Argentina's four submarines was crippled by British helicopters, military sources said. [New York Times]
- U.S. mediation efforts were in doubt after Argentina's Foreign Minister asked for a postponement of a meeting with the Secretary of State and later said that Argentina had suspended talks because of Britain's military action in South Georgia. [New York Times]
- Israel completed Its Sinai withdrawal and turned over to Egypt 7,500 square miles, the last third of the peninsula under Israeli control, as provided for under the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab nation. There were no joint Israeli-Egyptian ceremonies. Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon pledged that it would be Israel's final territorial concession for peace. He promised a new drive to expand Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. [New York Times]
- Israel and Egypt were assured by President Reagan that the United States was "firmly committed to further progress" in carrying out the unresolved part of the Camp David agreements dealing with self-rule for the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. [New York Times]
- A U.S.-Soviet control center that would monitor nuclear weapons was urged by Senator Henry Jackson to ease what he called a growing concern that a nuclear war might be started by accident. Mr. Jackson, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the current hot line between the White House and the Kremlin is not sufficient. [New York Times]
- Artificial genetic instructions have been developed and transmitted by scientists to correct the behavior of a defective human gene that causes an incurable and often fatal blood disease, but it is too early to determine whether the technique would be safe and useful medically. The disease is called beta thalassemia. It can cause anemia, bone deformities and heart problems. The experiments in corrective genetic manipulation were conducted at the University of California in San Francisco on the egg cells of a frog, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where mammalian cells were used. [New York Times]