News stories from Saturday November 20, 1982
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- To give their babies U.S. citizenship, thousands of Mexican women cross the border each year to deliver their children in the United States. Their destination is often Cameron County in Texas, where Spanish-speaking midwives have clinics. The practice is not illegal, the authorities say, as long as the mothers have valid documents for crossing the border. [New York Times]
- The government's chief informant in the indictment of John DeLorean on drug trafficking charges had previously lied twice under oath about William Hetrick, who was charged with being Mr. Delorean's partner in a drug conspiracy, according to court documents in Los Angeles. [New York Times]
- The steel union's rank and file appears to support their local leaders, who on Friday overwhelmingly rejected a tentative contract agreement endorsed by top union officials that called for major concessions in wages and benefits. [New York Times]
- Unrestricted world trade was endorsed by President Reagan amid growing demands for protection of domestic industries in the United States and Europe. In a radio speech on the eve of the meeting of the world's trade ministers in Geneva, Mr. Reagan said that government restriction on free trade ultimately posed a threat to peace. [New York Times]
- South Africa had give up its plan to install a black-led government in South-West Africa when the leader of the present governing coalition refused to step aside. The plan of Prime Minister P. W. Botha of South Africa to replace the multiracial front known as the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance was apparently aimed at providing an alternative to the black nationalist leader Sam Nujoma and his South-West Africa People's Organization in future internationally supervised elections. [New York Times]
- Iran's Islamic rulers are more firmly in command than at any time since the revolution that overthrew Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi almost four years ago. The war with Iraq has been a major factor, arousing patriotism and stifling dissent. [New York Times]
- An Iraqi official said the U.S. was permitting the sale of arms to Iran by American companies overseas. The official, Tariq Aziz, a Deputy Prime Minister, also charged that the United States was encouraging "friends and allies" to sell arms to Iran. [New York Times]
- Lech Walesa and Poland's Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp, met for two hours at the Archbishop's home in Warsaw, their first meeting since the union leader was taken into custody 11 months ago. The talks were believed to have been concerned with Mr. Walesa's future activities and the current political situation. [New York Times]