Stronger controls on nuclear exports were decided on by Western countries that supply nuclear technology at a secret meeting in Luxembourg last week, Reagan Administration officials said. The suppliers reportedly agreed they had to do more to prevent the spread of the ability to build nuclear weapons. The meeting, arranged at the initiative of the Reagan Administration, began on Wednesday and concluded on Friday. The participants decided to keep the meeting secret to avoid charges, as one Administration official put it, “of the big guys ganging up on the little ones” to dictate terms for nuclear cooperation. Of immediate concern to the participants, officials said, was Pakistan’s growing ability in the nuclear field and indications that Belgium is preparing to provide Libya with nuclear training and technology.
Vietnam will return the remains of eight U.S. servicemen this week in a move that may signal Hanoi’s willingness to help resolve the fate of more than 2,000 Americans listed as missing in action in the Vietnam War, U.S. officials said. It will be the first such release in more than a year. A C-130 transport plane carrying 12 American servicemen and MIA specialists is scheduled to pick up the remains in Hanoi on Tuesday and take them to Clark Air Base in the Philippines. The remains, small boxes of bone fragments and other material, will be flown to Hawaii for identification.
Ariel Sharon has made a comeback, though a limited one, 18 months after being forced to resign as Israel’s Defense Minister following his censure by an Israeli inquiry commission in connection with the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians by Lebanese forces at Sabra and Shatilla. He is being greeted warmly in his campaigning for the Likud Party as the national elections approach.
The first plans to kidnap Nigerian politician Umaru Dikko from London were hatched by white prisoners in a Lagos jail, the London Observer reported. The newspaper said the prisoners, held because of their business links with the fugitive ex-transport minister, offered to arrange an Israeli squad to seize Dikko, wanted in Nigeria for theft and corruption, in exchange for their own freedom. Dikko was abducted from a London street July 5, only to be found hours later, drugged and inside a cargo crate at Stansted airport.
Fistfights between mourners and police broke out in a cemetery during services for a suspected Irish Republican Army guerrilla, slain in a clash with British forces last week. The fistfights started when scores of police entered the cemetery in Ardboe, Northern Ireland, to make sure there were no paramilitary displays over the grave of William Price, 28. A volley of shots traditionally is fired over the grave at IRA funerals. Police Isaid several of their men were injured, and at least one of the 400 mourners was hospitalized.
The third bomb attack in Paris in 48 hours occurred at the French Ministry of Industry. Direct Action, a banned extremist group, claimed responsibility for that explosion and two others. Direct Action, an extreme leftwing French group, claimed responsibility for bomb attacks against two government offices and a research institute. The group, banned in 1982 after a series of bombings and shootings, launched its latest offensive Thursday night when a powerful blast rocked a building housing the Atlantic Institute, an independent think tank. Two similar attacks severely damaged annexes of the Defense and Industry ministries over the weekend.
Fireboats battled all night to contain a blaze on the surface of the Volga River caused by a huge oil slick from a broken pipeline, a Soviet newspaper reported today. The slick, three and a half miles long and 500 yards across, formed near the city of Kazan, 350 miles southeast of Moscow, the newspaper Trud reported. The account said that teams of firefighters had rushed along the banks of the Volga dousing the flames to keep the fire from spreading to shore. The newspaper did not say how extensive the damage was or when the fire occurred.
Sikh women armed with traditional swords plan to hold a “suicide march” on the Golden Temple in the Indian city of Amritsar today to demand that security forces withdraw from the shrine, Sikh sources said. Authorities responded by erecting barricades and imposing an eight-hour curfew on the city. The main Sikh party, the Akali Dal, has called on Sikhs to march to the temple to demand withdrawal of the army from the shrine and Punjab, home of most of India’s 12 million Sikhs. Ubboke Singh, general secretary of the Sikh temple management committee, said the army had arrested at least 2,000 Sikhs in the last two days in an attempt to stop the march to the temple. He said all approach roads to the city had been sealed and bus service from neighboring cities had been suspended. A curfew in Amritsar was imposed during army operations at the Golden Temple but was lifted late last month.
Indian paramilitary troops and police officers dispersed 300 demonstrators today before they could begin an anti-Government march in Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir. No casualties were reported.
China criticized Vietnam today, saying that the main reason for what it called Hanoi’s “wretched” economic state was its occupation of Cambodia and its intensified provocations on the Chinese border. The commentary by the official New China News Agency came three days after China asserted that a Vietnamese division had attacked Chinese positions in Yunnan Province. On Saturday, Vietnam’s state-run press agency said many Chinese divisions had attacked and occupied a number of hills in Vietnam’s border province of Hà Tuyên. The Chinese agency said Hanoi was looking for a new scapegoat for Vietnam’s acute economic problems, and hoped to convince its population that Chinese aggression was responsible.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos paid an unexpected visit today to a northern battlefront, where he reportedly directed soldiers fighting a mountain offensive against Communist rebels. Wearing battle fatigues and a .45- caliber pistol, Mr. Marcos was shown on television giving orders and asking for progress reports from officers gathered around him in a forest clearing about 185 miles north of Manila. Mr. Marcos has said the rebel movement is growing and that the insurgents have taken control of several towns in Mindanao. Mr. Marcos, who is commander of the 200,000-member Filipino armed forces, has rarely appeared in military uniform in public since becoming President in 1966. Today’s appearance at a battlefront in uniform was his first in at least three years.
Cardinal Jaime L. Sin, archbishop of Manila, called for a general amnesty for political dissidents in the Philippines, but the government immediately rejected the move. Sin made the appeal in a pastoral letter in which he declared, “Life is not possible without freedom.” In rejecting the appeal, government officials said the state has a right to protect itself from subversives.
New Zealand’s Prime Minister-elect said he wanted avoid an early confrontation with Australia and the United States over the issue of nuclear-armed and nuclear-powered ships. But David Lange, whose party swept to victory in the general elections Saturday, said he stood by his party’s pledge to ban such vessels from New Zealand waters.
The slaying of 21 Treasury policemen was reported by Salvadoran military sources. They were said to have been killed in an attack by leftist guerrillas on a cargo train 25 miles north of San Salvador. At least three civilians were wounded, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. The attack, which took place at 11 AM at an isolated spot near the small town of San Antonio Grande, is the latest in a series of guerrilla raids against the country’s transportation system. Last week, guerrillas blew up another cargo train and issued repeated warnings to motorists to stay off the Pan-American Highway, which is the country’s main road for trucks and buses delivering goods throughout the country. Leftist forces also set up roadblocks near the Honduran border.
Cuba will accept the return of undesirable Cuban refugees from the United States only if Washington agrees to issue visas to thousands of Cubans still waiting to emigrate, according to official Cuban sources in Havana. The State Department confirmed that the Reagan Administration has been holding talks with the Cuban government on the return of about 1,000 undesirables — including criminals and mentally ill persons.
African drought has spread to Kenya, a one-time model of African development and the main regional client of the United States. Apparently because of its reticence about the drought, Kenya does not figure in the latest statistics of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization showing that of the 24 African countries in need of food aid, six in southern and central Africa will need much more this year. However, Kenya recently acknowledged the growing crisis and has asked foreign governments and aid agencies, including the United States, for assistance in paying for about 1.5 million tons of corn and other cereals with a commercial market value of $250 million.
Democratic Convention: Charles T. Manatt will stay on as Democratic national chairman. Walter F. Mondale decided to keep Mr. Manatt in the job after party leaders all over the country protested his earlier plan to remove Mr. Manatt and to appoint Bert Lance as general chairman of his campaign. Jim Johnson, the campaign manager, announced that Michael Berman, a senior Mondale aide, would become the political director of the Democratic National Committee to direct day-to- day operations of the committee while Mr. Manatt would concentrate on raising “unprecedented” funds for the campaign.
Bert Lance’s appointment by Mr. Mondale as general chairman of his campaign resulted from a combination of Mr. Mondale’s political needs and personal chemistry, according to Mondale campaign aides. They said it was expected that many Democrats would not approve the appointment. One of them said Mr. Mondale was willing to endure “two days of bad press” to gain Mr. Lance’s services, and another said, “We think Lance has the best political judgment in the South.” Mr. Lance, the state Democratic Party chairman in Georgia, helped Mr. Mondale win his primary victory there, Mondale aides said.
Geraldine Ferraro reconsidered remarks she made about President Reagan’s religious commitment and said she may have to think more before she speaks. Representative Ferraro, a Roman Catholic, said she had been irritated by signs in Mr. Mondale’s hometown in Minnesota, her first campaign stop, asking how good a Catholic she was. In an interview today with the Cable News Network, Mrs. Ferraro was asked about Mr. Reagan. “I have no idea whether he is a good Christian,” she said. “That is between him and his God.” The three-term Representative from Queens was accompanied by two Mondale aides and one of her own as she spoke to The New York Times in one of a series of interviews with news organizations at a cottage in which she and her family are staying here.
More than 100,000 people marched through midtown San Francisco today in what union leaders called a vast demonstration of labor’s strength and unity on the eve of the Democratic National Convention. The peaceful parade by union members, their wives, husbands and children lasted almost four hours in sparkling weather. It was the largest of scores of events held to influence and entertain delegates as they prepared for the convention.
In a separate parade, more than 50,000 of the city’s homosexuals marched from the Castro District to Moscone Center, site of the convention, demanding greater rights. San Francisco was a city where it seemed there was a cause on every corner. Delegates entering their hotels were handed leaflets opposing proposed sweeping changes in Federal immigration law, favoring a freeze on the development and deployment of nuclear weapons, opposing United States intervention in Central America, and backing or criticizing many other causes.
A tough fight for the Democrats is conceded by convention delegates. A New York Times poll indicates that only 35 percent of the delegates believe on the eve of the convention that a ticket headed by Mr. Mondale would carry their home states. Another 35 percent rate the Republicans as the favorite, and 26 percent call the contest a tossup.
The President and First Lady return to the White House.
President Reagan receives a call from former President Richard M. Nixon.
Chinook salmon are endangered by the construction of major dams on the Columbia River in the Northwest, and voracious fishing. But Idaho is trying save them.
Whether federal money supports the teaching of religious doctrine under a new Government program designed to discourage adolescent sexual activity has concerned federal officials. Other concerned parties are Methodist clergymen and the American Jewish Congress. Represented by the Civil Liberties Union, they have challenged the law as unconstitutional on the ground that it promotes “excessive entanglement” between Government and religion.
Police in Norwood, Ohio, called in off-duty officers after charging fugitive Alton Coleman, wanted in a five-state crime spree, with bludgeoning to death Marlene Walters, 44, a former Sunday school teacher, and beating her husband, Harry, 45. The FBI advised that Coleman’s traveling companion, Debra Brown, may be more his slave than his accomplice. Police and the FBI searched Norwood, a Cincinnati suburb, for Coleman, 28, and Brown, 21, but there was no indication whether they stayed in Norwood after Friday’s attack, said police Captain Thomas Williams. Mr. Coleman and his companion were last definitely seen July 7 in the Toledo area, about 230 miles north of Cincinnati.
More than a thousand people representing dozens of nationalities marched up New York’s 5th Avenue to protest communist control of their homelands in the 26th annual parade and the beginning of Captive Nations Week. The demonstrators, some in native costumes and others carrying national banners and American flags, gathered outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral, then headed up the avenue to Central Park for a rally of anticommunist speeches and folk entertainment.
Thousands of doctors, supervisors and volunteers filled in for more than 30,000 striking workers at 30 hospitals and nursing homes in New York as union members prepared to walk off the job at 11 more nursing homes. Non-union staffers struggled to maintain services at the 27 private, nonprofit hospitals and three nursing homes struck Friday. No talks were scheduled between negotiators for the health workers’ union and the League of Voluntary Hospitals.
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church has paid more than $41,000 in taxes on 83 church-owned fishing boats but plans to seek a refund in court. “We have an action filed in state court to have the boats deemed religious property,” Kaye Allen, a lawyer for the church in New York, said after the taxes were paid Friday. “We intend to proceed with that.” The city seized the boats last week after the church missed a June 29 deadline for paying the personal property taxes. The City Treasurer, Joseph T. Fitzpatrick, said he received a $41,854.93 check Friday for taxes, penalties and interest.
Negotiators for NBC and the network’s 2,700 engineers and newswriters adjourned contract talks until Tuesday, with the technicians promising to stay on the job at least until after that meeting, officials said. Network representatives and the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians union met through the weekend under the supervision of a federal mediator. The talks adjourned after midnight Sunday, averting the threat of a strike for at least the first two days of the Democratic National Convention.
A secretary claimed $15.6 million in the Massachusetts Megabucks Lottery today, cashing in the second ticket she had ever bought to become what lottery officials said the biggest single jackpot winner in the world. She bought the winning ticket on Friday the 13th. “I would say it was a dream,” said Marcia Sanford of Westfield in western Massachusetts. “But it’s been going on for too many hours today.” Mrs. Sanford, who is 45 years old, is a secretary with Air Compression Engineering in Westfield. Mrs. Sanford’s husband, David, 49, is a mechanic with Consolidated Rail. The couple have two children, David Sanford, 20, and Brenda Kerley of South Hadley, Massachusetts, who is 24. Mrs. Sanford won with the number 8-13-27-28-30-36 for $15,619,880 jackpot. That is $780,994 a year for 20 years, said David Ellis, spokesman for the Massachusetts Lottery Commission.
The entire midsection of Texas, from the Oklahoma state line to the Mexican border, this summer is suffering what could become the worst drought in 30 years, officials said. Mandatory water rationing starts today in Austin, one of dozens of cities imposing conservation measures, including Corpus Christi, which is being patrolled for water thieves. “The last beneficial rain we had was in May of 1982,” Corpus Christi Water Superintendent Paul Werner said. The drought, combined with rapid population growth in some areas that has depleted water supplies, has forced 67 cities and towns into conservation measures, the Texas Department of Water Resources said.
A tornado touched down in an empty field in Yuma, Colorado, and hail the size of golf balls accumulated two inches deep in Hill City, South Dakota, while a 97-degree reading in Boston shattered a 111-year-old record. Thunderstorms developed over western portions of the central Plains and severe thunderstorm watches were posted over sections of Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska.
U.S. Open Women’s Golf, Salem Country Club: Hollis Stacy wins her 3rd U.S. title by 1 stroke from Rosie Jones.
For the fifth consecutive game, the New York Yankees received a well-pitched game yesterday and for the fifth consecutive game, they won. With Ray Fontenot and Howell doing the pitching this time, they defeated Kansas City, 4–1, and completed a sweep of their five-game series at Yankee Stadium. The Royals never had been swept in a five-game series, and the Yankees hadn’t won all five games of a five-game series since they swept the Detroit Tigers in June 1973.
Cal Ripken, Eddie Murray and Wayne Gross hit homers to account for five Baltimore runs as the Orioles defeated the Chicago White Sox, 6–4, today behind the eight-hit pitching of Dennis Martinez and two relievers. Ripken connected for his 18th homer off Richard Dotson (11–5) in the first inning after John Shelby beat out a bunt single. Two pitches later, Murray hit his 19th homer.
The Cleveland Indians beat the Texas Rangers, 5–4, in extra innings. Chris Bando led off the 11th inning with his fifth homer of the year to earn Cleveland the victory. Bando’s hit off Odell Jones (1-4) made Ernie Camacho (4-7) a winner.
Dennis Eckersley tops the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4–1, to move the Chicago Cubs a half-game behind the Mets in the National League East. Fernando Valenzuela is the loser. Ryne Sandberg hit his 13th home run in a four-run seventh inning, and Chicago took advantage of a three-base error by the center fielder Franklin Stubbs.
The New York Mets lose 8–3 to the Atlanta Braves, as Dwight Gooden takes the loss. Dwight Gooden, regarded as the National League’s best rookie pitcher this season, gave up two home runs and five earned runs in seven innings. He had 10 strikeouts, the seventh time this season he has struck out at least 10 batters. Gooden, now 8–6, got into trouble early, much of it caused by Claudell Washington, who hit a home run in the first inning, then doubled to drive in another run in the third. In the seventh, he hit a slow roller to the shortstop Wally Backman with bases loaded to drive in a run and break a 3–3 tie.
The Houston Astros’ Alan Ashby singles home Jose Cruz in the 16th inning to outlast the Philadelphia Phillies, 3–2. Houston leaves 20 runners on base and ties a league record by drawing seven intentional walks, all after the 11th frame. A two-run blast by Mark Bailey provided the other runs. Frank DiPino (3-5), the fifth Houston pitcher, was the winner. Don Carman (0-1) was the fifth Philadelphia pitcher.
It was no contest. The Philadelphia Stars routed the Arizona Wranglers tonight, 23-3, and won the United States Football League championship. The Stars, winning for the 19th time in 21 games this season, were dominant from the start. They were not perfect, however. Three Philadelphia turnovers — two lost fumbles and an intercepted pass — kept the Wranglers reasonably close for three periods and sustained some suspense for the crowd. The Stars went up and down the field against Coach George Allen’s touted Arizona defense, gaining 256 yards on 59 running plays. Kelvin Bryant, who scored one of the three Philadelphia touchdowns, gained 115 yards. Chuck Fusina, the quarterback, completed 12 of 17 passes for 158 yards and scored one touchdown. Fusina, who completed his first 10 passes, was voted the game’s outstanding player.
Born:
Brandon Gomes, MLB pitcher (Tampa Bay Rays), in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Anthony Claggett, MLB pitcher (New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates), in Hemet, California.
Quinton Ganther, NFL running back (Tennessee Titans, Washington Redskins, Buffalo Bills, Seattle Seahawks), in Oakland, California.
Renardo Foster, NFL tackle (Atlanta Falcons, St. Louis Rams), in Ripley, Tennessee.
Andrew Joudrey, Canadian NHL centre (Columbus Blue Jackets), in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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