The world’s population may double to 10 billion by 2050, with most of the increase in poorer, developing countries, whose economic growth may be held back, according to a forecast by the World Bank. The organization urged intensification of government-sponsored population control programs.
Beirut’s crossing points were open and activity at the seaport and the airport resumed in the first day of real calm since a government peace plan took effect a week ago. Traffic flowed freely through four gateways leading to the Muslim and Christian parts of the capital. Traffic flowed freely through four crossing points guarded by the national army, and the sound of jetliners could be heard flying over the city and the international airport, which, except for several hours on Monday, had been closed for 160 days. The reopening of the airport, the seaport and the Beirut crossing points had been considered key elements of a government plan to end tensions in nine years of civil war. Attempts to open the crossing points were blocked by protests Sunday and Monday by Lebanese demanding the release of kidnapped relatives. The protesters called off their action for the time being to give the government time to decide what course to take regarding scores of Lebanese who have been missing for the last few years.
Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader, today rejected Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s proposal that Labor join the Likud bloc in a government of national unity after the July 23 elections. Mr. Shamir formally announced his intention to try to form such a government in the closing sentence of a 30- minute debate with Mr. Peres that was broadcast on the Israeli television tonight. The meeting had been filmed earlier in the day. In the debate, Mr. Peres made it equally clear that he opposed including Mr. Shamir and his party in a coalition he would lead if Labor wins the election.
The prices of bread and other grain products were increased by 10 to 12 percent in Tunisia today. The move comes six months after a government attempt to double basic food prices touched off riots in which more than 100 died. A Government communique said the price increases would affect bread, spaghetti and flour, as well as semolina, the basic element of the popular couscous dishes. Rioting and looting broke out throughout the country in January when steep price increases were announced, and President Habib Bourguiba canceled the increases.
A senior State Department official said that the presence of AWACS surveillance planes and the supply of arms to Saudi Arabia have reduced the possibility of U.S. military intervention to keep oil flowing in the Persian Gulf. In an interview with news agency reporters, Richard W. Murphy, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, said the U.S. assistance “has served to contain the conflict, to minimize… the need for outside intervention.”
A rocket hit the gate of the United States Embassy in Kabul last week in the first attack on the mission since Soviet troops moved into Afghanistan in 1979, a Western diplomat said today. The reported incident Sunday was one of a series of shellings in the Afghan capital last week and coincided with reports that infighting within the Government’s leadership had erupted in shootings and assassinations.
A State Department official in Washington today confirmed the attack on the embassy last Sunday. He said: “The embassy was hit by a rocket two days ago. There was slight damage and no injuries.”
France has authorized the assembly in Egypt of Mirage 2000 warplanes and has agreed in principle to the sale of the jointly manufactured planes to Arab countries, Egyptian defense officials said in Cairo after meetings in Paris. Assembly of the planes is to begin next year, they said. Construction of French helicopters and air-to-surface missiles has already begun in Egypt.
Britain charged a Nigerian diplomat and three Israelis with the kidnapping in London last week of a wealthy Nigerian exile. The exile, Umaru Dikko, a former Nigerian Government official described as Nigeria’s most wanted man, was found drugged and unconscious in a crate bound for Nigeria. Meanwhile, Nigeria demanded that Britain extradite Mr. Dikko from London.
A national dockworkers strike, touched off by a local dispute in the four-month-old coal miners’ strike, paralyzed most of Britain’s main ports, strangling the shipment of cargo and leaving dozens of vessels stranded. Ports were shut down at London, Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton and Hull, which together handle more than half of Britain’s shipping, said Nicholas Finney, director of the National Assn. of Port Employers. Union and management officials were meeting in an attempt to settle the dispute, centered on the use of private contract workers to move iron ore.
The stepdaughter of Andrei D. Sakharov said she has reliable information that the Soviet dissident has been hospitalized in the closed city of Gorky for the last six weeks and is being injected with mind-altering drugs. Tatyana Yankelevich told a reporter by telephone from her home in Massachusetts that a reliable source in Moscow spoke to a traveler, who brought the report to the West. On May 2, Sakharov, 63, reportedly began a hunger strike to persuade authorities to let his wife, Yelena Bonner, go to the West for medical treatment.
Purported Ku Klux Klan threats against athletes have been received by the Olympic Committees in Malaysia, South Korea, Zimbabwe and other third-world countries, American officials said. In Malaysia, Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who was shown a copy of the letter, suggested that the letter might be a “disinformation campaign of some sort.” The term “disinformation” is used to describe fake documents distributed covertly by the Soviet Union or Soviet bloc nations.
A Soviet naval unit was crippled by an explosion in May at the Soviet naval base of Severomorsk, according to Jane’s Defense Weekly, published in Britain. Jane’s said the fighting capacity of the Soviet Union’s Northern Fleet, the strongest of the Soviet Navy’s four high-sea fleets, had been crippled by the explosion, which it said were the result of carelessness. The blast was first reported last month by United States intelligence officials.
A U.S. Army paratrooper and a Briton running with the bulls in Pamplona’s famed San Fermin festival were severely gored by two bulls that charged the crowd of runners. The two injuries were the first serious ones this year. Paratrooper Stephen Townsend, 23, of Nashville, underwent surgery after the bull’s horn ripped a 16-inch wound in his left leg. David Crowther, 44, a British citizen living in Spain, was gored in his right knee and thigh, apparently by a second bull.
The Indian government said it decided to root out Sikh extremists after discovering that they were planning a full-scale insurgency supported by “foreign sources.” In a 190-page report, the government said Sikh groups based in the United States, Canada, Britain and West Germany actively supported a campaign to establish a separate nation in the rich farming state of Punjab. Three years of violence led to the June 5-6 army invasion of the Sikhs’ holiest shrine.
About 27 million Chinese died from food shortages resulting from the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s, an American analysis of new Chinese census figures concludes. Prof. Ansley J. Coale, of the National Academy of Sciences and Princeton University, said the Great Leap Forward favored industrial development at the expense of agriculture, and the death rate almost doubled between 1958 and 1962.
Angered by the expulsion of 10 foreign priests from Nicaragua, the Vatican today took a strong stand in support of the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy in its latest confrontation with the left-wing Government. “My presence here is to express the solidarity of the Holy See with the church of Managua in these incidents,” Msgr. Jean-Paul Goebels told reporters at the office of the archbishop here. Monsignor Goebels represents the Vatican in Nicaragua as charge d’affaires at the apostolic nunciature here. “In Rome,” he said, “these incidents have been classified as extremely grave. Commentaries made in Rome say that the attitude adopted by the authorities in Managua appears unjustified or at best completely out of proportion with the cause.” The Immigration Department canceled the residence permits of the 10 priests — four Spaniards, two Costa Ricans, two Italians, a Canadian and a Panamanian — a few hours after they took part in a protest march led by Archbishop Miguel Obando Bravo on Monday.
Archbishop Miguel Obando Bravo said today that the expulsion of 10 Roman Catholic priests was part of a campaign by the Sandinista Government to undermine the church.
Walter F. Mondale was assailed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson for failing to consider him as a running mate. Mr. Jackson accused Jewish leaders of attempting to distance Mr. Mondale from him. Mr. Jackson made the comments in a telephone interview. His aides said he was bitter over his treatment by Mr. Mondale in recent days. Mr. Jackson’s comments followed an interview published by The Los Angeles Times in which he expressed doubt that Mr. Mondale was seriously considering a black as a running mate.
President Reagan attends a briefing on endangered species.
President Reagan takes a tour of the skipjack, “Lady Katie,” led by her skipper, Stanley Larrimore.
President Reagan claimed credit on a visit to Chesapeake Bay for cleanup efforts in the area, but provoked a new furor among longtime critics of his environmental policies. He told Chesapeake Bay watermen that his efforts to protect the environment were “one of the best-kept secrets” of his Administration.
President Reagan meets with members of the White House Press Corps.
A.T.& T. announced a salary freeze through 1985 for 114,000 management-level employees, about a third of its work force. The move is the latest of a series of cost-cutting actions announced in recent months by the company, which has been struggling to adapt to the competitive marketplace since it was broken up in January. The freeze is expected to save the company $185 million next year.
The Roosevelt-Churchill correspondence exchanged during World War II, showing the strains that developed between the two leaders, will be published in full this fall by Princeton University Press. The three-volume collection consisting of nearly 2,000 letters, telegrams and memorandums titled “Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence” spans the period from Sept. 11, 1939, to April 11, 1945, the day before Roosevelt died.
Former Scientology officials assert that they helped L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the organization, to divert secretly more than $100 million in Scientology revenues into foreign bank accounts controlled by Mr. Hubbard. The organization maintains that the bulk of its millions are being spent for charitable purposes. But officials no long associated with it say that at Mr. Hubbard’s direction they had channeled much of the money to Mr. Hubbard’s overseas accounts held by shell corporations set up to shield him from criminal and civil proceedings against his organization.
The Government rested its case in the trial of John Z. DeLorean, an automobile manufacturer who is charged with conspiring to distribute 55 pounds of cocaine in 1982, when his company was near bankruptcy. The defense was expected to file a motion today for acquittal.
A ruling for used car dealers that would require them to give buyers more information, such as warranty terms, was tentatively accepted by a divided Federal Trade Commission. The measure, more than a decade in preparation by the agency’s staff, drops an earlier proposal that would have dealers required to post known defects on the car. Consumer groups said the deletion would leave the public open to deception.
Space agency plans to launch the shuttle Discovery on its twice-delayed maiden flight have been disrupted by the apparent test failure of a rocket motor that is used on satellites carried aloft by the shuttle, officials said. Although no official announcement had been made, mission planners were leaning toward a mission in late August for Discovery, with a combined payload of a military communications satellite already on board and two commercial relay stations scheduled for what would have been the shuttle’s second flight August 29. But those satellites rely on solid rocket motors, which are attached to the orbiters, for their boost to high-Earth orbit. The latest test of one motor has failed. The impact of the test results on the shuttle’s flight has not been determined.
Florida’s Supreme Court refused to halt the scheduled Thursday morning executions of two convicted murderers, clearing one roadblock to what would be the nation’s first double execution since capital punishment was restored eight years ago. The court rejected by 6 to 0 the mercy appeal of Jimmy L. Smith and, two hours later, dissolved a stay of execution for David L. Washington by the same vote.
Armed with new findings about the methods of repeat killers, the Justice Department launched plans for a national center to help state and local police track down so-called serial murderers, rapists, child molesters and arsonists. The National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime will open soon at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Serial murderers repeatedly kill strangers over a period of time, often in widely varied locations, baffling local police officers who rarely hear about similar murders elsewhere.
Federal laws designed to protect persons from toxic substances are being flouted by up to as many as 80% of the polluters covered, an environmental watchdog group charged. “It’s a chasm; it’s much more than a gap,” former Surgeon General Luther Terry said at a Washington news conference organized by Environmental Safety. Terry, who served in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations, was joined by Patricia Roberts Harris and Arthur S. Flemming, secretaries of health, education and welfare in the Jimmy Carter and Dwight D. Eisenhower administrations.
A Roman Catholic priest was found guilty of assaulting two women during a paint-splattering incident at an abortion clinic in Huntsville, Alabama, and ordered to pay fines and restitution. Father Edward Markley, pastor of Our Lady of the Shoals Church in Tuscumbia, was given a 60-day suspended sentence and placed on probation for 12 months for two counts of third-degree assault that occurred June 15 in the Women’s Community Health Center.
The widow of the man referred to by residents as the “town bully” of Skidmore, Missouri, who was killed three years ago in an unsolved vigilante-style slaying, has filed a $5 million damage suit, charging that her husband’s civil rights were violated. The suit, filed Monday in Federal District Court in Kansas City by Trena McElroy, says a Skidmore resident, Del Clement, fired several shots and killed her husband, Kenneth Rex McElroy, on a Skidmore street in July 1981. The suit also names as defendants Mayor Steve Peter of Skidmore, who the suit claims was present when the shots were fired, the town of Skidmore, Nodaway County and Sheriff Danny R. Estes of Nodaway County. The Federal Civil Rights Act provides for civil damages against any official who knowingly deprives a person of his civil rights. No criminal charges were ever brought in the case.
[Ed: Over the course of his life, McElroy was accused of dozens of felonies, including assault, child molestation, statutory rape, arson, animal cruelty, hog and cattle rustling, and burglary. In 1981, McElroy was convicted of attempted murder in the shooting of the town’s 70-year-old grocer Ernest “Bo” Bowenkamp. McElroy successfully appealed the conviction and was released on bond, after which he engaged in an ongoing harassment campaign against Bowenkamp and others who were sympathetic to Bowenkamp, including the town’s Church of Christ minister. He appeared in a local bar, the D&G Tavern, armed with an M1 Garand rifle and bayonet, and later threatened to kill Bowenkamp. The next day, McElroy was shot to death in broad daylight as he sat with his wife Trena in his pickup truck on Skidmore’s main street. He was struck by bullets from at least two different firearms, in front of a crowd of people estimated as numbering between 30 and 46. To date, no one has been charged in connection with McElroy’s death. The wife’s lawsuit filed on this day was later settled out of court by all parties for $17,600, with no one admitting guilt, for the stated reason of avoiding costly legal fees should the suit proceed.]
Several hundred of the 6,300 registered nurses who struck 16 hospitals in the Minneapolis area in the nation’s largest nurses’ strike returned to work. But Mike Phillips, a negotiator for the hospitals, said some of the strikers may never get their jobs back because outpatient care, home care and shortened hospital stays have contributed to a decreasing need for nurses.
Female-type hormones derived from plants and known as phytoestrogens have been found in bourbon, raising the possibility they are the cause of the “feminizing” effects sometimes seen in alcoholic men, scientist Judith Gavaler of the University of Pittsburgh reported. Previous research has concentrated on the ethanol in bourbon and other alcoholic beverages as the possible cause of the loss of facial hair and breast enlargement that occasionally occurs in male chronic alcohol abusers with cirrhosis of the liver, she said.
Prolific studio drummer Jim Gordon is convicted of murdering his mother and sentenced 16 years to life in prison. Diagnosed with schizophrenia after the killing, he is serving time in a medical / psychiatric prison, and has been denied parole 10 times as of 2018.
On the 50th anniversary of Carl Hubbell’s legendary 5 consecutive strikeouts in the 1934 All-Star Game, National League pitchers Fernando Valenzuela and Dwight Gooden combine to fan 6 batters in a row for a new All-Star Game record in the National League’s 3–1 triumph. After Valenzuela whiffs Dave Winfield, Reggie Jackson, and George Brett in the 4th inning, Gooden, the youngest All-Star ever at age 19, fans Lance Parrish, Chet Lemon, and Alvin Davis in the 5th. Gary Carter wins the MVP award.
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Sebastian Vollmer, German NFL tackle (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 49-Patriots; New England Patriots), in Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.
Clark Harris, NFL long snapper (Pro Bowl, 2017; Houston Texans, Cincinnati Bengals), in Toms River, New Jersey.
Marcus Harrison, NFL defensive tackle (Chicago Bears), in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Jaymar Johnson, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings, Arizona Cardinals), in Gary, Indiana.
Ernie Wheelwright, NFL wide receiver (Baltimore Ravens), in Columbus, Ohio.
Maria Julia Mantilla, Peruvian dancer and beauty contestant who won Miss World 2004, in Trujillo, Peru.
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