Solidarity underground leader Wladyslaw Frasyniuk has been reported missing by his family since he was released from prison on Friday under the Polish government’s amnesty for political prisoners. A government official said that Frasyniuk is “resting in a monastery,” but did not disclose its location. The official said Frasyniuk’s wife, Krystyna, knows. where to find her husband, but in a telephone interview she denied that assertion, saying police told her only that he hadn’t been arrested. Meanwhile, Lech Walesa, former leader of the now banned Solidarity union, said he will organize meetings of political prisoners freed under the amnesty.
At least 13 people were killed and up to 100 were injured when an express train packed with commuters derailed halfway between Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland. Railroad officials said that the six-car train, traveling to Glasgow with about 300 passengers, apparently hit a cow or other farm animal near the village of Polmont in what was described as the worst British railroad accident in 17 years.
Britain’s High Court threatened to seize $4 million in assets from a regional coal miners’ union as a 21-week-old nationwide walkout continued. The court said it will seize the assets if a $65,000 fine imposed on the South Wales unit of the National Union of Mineworkers is not paid by Wednesday. The fine was imposed because the unit’s members ignored an injunction against interfering with coal deliveries to steel mills. Meanwhile, about 4,000 striking miners in northern England and Scotland formed picket lines at mines where workers have refused to join the strike.
As the final results of Israel’s legislative elections materialize out of the slow and antiquated vote-counting center, the bitter truth becomes apparent. The next Knesset is going to be what the British call “a hung parliament” – the outcome of a national draw in which there is no winner. Despite the Lebanese quagmire, spiraling inflation and economic malaise, the Labor Party has failed to win a victory. In fact, it has lost three seats as compared with the 1981 elections when Menachem Begin, then Prime Minister, was heading a pre- Lebanon self-confident Likud. Refuting public opinion polls, spurning the exhortations of the press, half the Israeli electorate opted last week for Likud and its allies to the right. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir is rightly proud of this achievement. Few ruling parties have managed to survive such a series of self-inflicted blows without suffering a crushing defeat at the polls.
Israeli authorities closed An Najah University, the largest Palestinian school on the West Bank, for four months after two truckloads of “hostile and inflammatory” material were found at a Palestinian exhibit. An Israeli spokeswoman said the exhibit in Nablus included a manual on guerrilla warfare, an ax, knives, brass knuckles and several dummy M-16 rifles made of plastic. The display, part of the university’s Palestine Week Exhibit, called “for armed struggle and support of the Palestine Liberation Organization (and included) posters, books, slogans and manifestos urging anti-Israel violence,” she said.
Three bomb blasts over the weekend that killed 10 people in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan were the work of Kabul’s secret police, a Pakistani official said today. The official, Jehan Zeb Khan, Peshawar’s Commissioner, said the bombings over the weekend were part of a growing campaign to terrorize Afghans fighting against Kabul’s Communist Government.
Pakistani authorities have ordered all Afghan resistance parties based in the northwestern city of Peshawar to move out of the city by August 31, a senior refugee official said. The official, Rustam Shah Mohmand, said that single Afghan males are being evicted and forced to move to nearby villages or refugee camps. He said that growing congestion and mounting rivalry among the Afghans caused Pakistani officials to speed plans to get them out of Peshawar, where about a dozen resistance groups are based.
A Vietnamese immigration official has called for direct talks with the United States to speed the resettlement of Amerasians from Vietnam, refugee workers said today. But United States officials in Bangkok said they saw no need to discuss the issue with Hanoi. Refugee workers who recently returned from Vietnam quoted the immigration official, Nguyễn Phi Tuyên, as saying he wanted talks to resolve technical problems that have slowed resettlement. But a United States official in Bangkok said: “We don’t really see any necessity for talks. The orderly departure program is the only program set up to take Vietnamese refugees, and it is working.” Vietnam estimates that it has 11,000 to 20,000 Amerasians, children of mixed race fathered by United States servicemen during the Vietnam War. The United States has taken 3,244 Amerasians and their relatives since Vietnam first began letting them go in 1982, refugee workers said.
In a frenzied stampede for sacks of rice being given away free, at least 19 people were trampled to death and 40 were injured in Bangkok, Thailand. Police said more than 3,000 people stormed the meeting hall of a Buddhist charity group where the rice was being given away, along with other goods. Many children and elderly people were reported killed.
Philippine Prime Minister Cesar Virata was re-elected today over strong objections from opposition legislators, who were joined by a member of President Ferdinand E. Marcos’s ruling party. Mr. Virata, who is also Finance Minister, retained his post by a vote of 120 to 50 during a meeting of the National Assembly. Opposition members blamed Mr. Virata for what they described as the country’s worst economic crisis since World War II. Manuel Collantes, a member of the ruling New Society Movement, joined the opposition in voting against Mr. Virata. It was the first time a member of the ruling party has voted against a party position.
A shift on aid to El Salvador has been occurring among members of Congress since the May election of Jose Napoleon Duarte as the Salvadoran President. Representative Clarence D. Long, the Maryland Democrat who is chairman of a House subcommittee that exerts major influence over foreign aid spending, said he was now prepared to approve almost all the military and economic assistance sought by the Reagan Administration for El Salvador next year.
Honduras expelled six visiting Americans who joined a demonstration calling for the departure of U.S. troops that are holding maneuvers with Honduran troops. Five of the Americans are labor representatives, led by Thomas P. Cronin, and the sixth is a free-lance journalist. State Department spokesman Alan Romberg said the deportation was based on a Honduran law prohibiting participation by foreigners in political activities.
Civil servants in the Bolivian capital began an indefinite strike for higher salaries today. Union leaders said the walkout had paralyzed the country’s administration. The secretary general of the Federation of Civil Servants, Mario Viveros, said union members wanted their average pay of $75 a month brought into line with that of other workers, who he said were making $500 a month. Labor Minister Horst Grebe called the strike illegal and said the country’s economic difficulties made it impossible for the Government to meet the strikers’ demands.
Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi “Angel of Death” responsible for the murders of 400,000 Jews at Auschwitz in World War II, was the target of a 1977 kidnap plot organized by concentration camp survivors, according to a published report. However, the plan to abduct Mengele, now 73, from his residence in Paraguay was aborted because of a lack of interest by the Israeli and U.S. governments, the Orlando Sentinel reported. The newspaper reported that several Jewish concentration camp survivors, who are now successful businessmen in Cleveland, raised $500,000 for the 1977 kidnap plot, but were stymied when Israel refused to help.
Black squatters in Cape Town are harassed by South African authorities, who demolish and confiscate the materials the squatters use for shelters. Before each dawn, Susan Jezile rises from her bed and tears down the shelter of plastic and brushwood that is home for her and her children. After the authorities leave, she rebuilds the shelter.
The death toll from natural disasters is rising sharply. Experts attribute the increases in casualties to deforestation, erosion and other ecological stresses that are reducing the land’s resilience, and poverty is forcing more and more people to live in disaster-prone areas.
President Reagan, at the ranch in California for vacation, phones members of both Houses of Congress.
President Reagan will stand by his choice of Anne McGill Burford to head a government panel that she described as a “joke” and will ignore a House resolution condemning the appointment, if it passes. Burford is scheduled to start Thursday as chairwoman of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere. House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill Jr. (D-Massachusetts) announced that a non-binding resolution urging Reagan to withdraw his nomination of Burford will be voted on today. The job does not require congressional confirmation.
The House has approved portions of the Administration’s anti-crime package that President Reagan has used as a campaign issue against the Democrat-controlled chamber. The five bills passed were not among the most controversial portions of the package, and basically closed loopholes in federal criminal law. President Reagan has repeatedly accused the House of stalling on the legislation. The key measure approved by the House, aimed primarily at white-collar crime, would significantly increase fines under federal law. But the House bills did not include legislation on sentencing. bail reform, the insanity defense and other controversial portions of the Administration’s anti-crime bill.
A conference committee on the nearly $300-billion defense authorization bill broke off its work, putting the possibility of an agreement in doubt. The development makes it unlikely that Congress will pass an authorization bill or an appropriations bill, but will resort to a “continuing resolution” to fund the defense program for fiscal 1985. The MX missile is a major sticking point. The House version of the bill allows construction of 15 of the missiles — but only if Congress gives the missiles a second endorsement in the spring. The Senate’s bill calls for building 21 missiles without any restrictions.
Walter F. Mondale was endorsed for President by Vernon E. Jordan Jr., a former president of the National Urban League. Mr. Jordan, addressing the league’s national convention, said, “The only way to make sure (President) Reagan doesn’t have another four years to dump on us is to elect Walter Mondale.”
Charles B. Rangel was appointed co- chairman of Walter Mondale’s Presidential campaign. The Manhattan Representative described his assignment as Mr. Mondale’s “bridgemaker” to black voters.
The tanker Alvenus spills 2.8 million gallons of oil at Cameron, Louisiana. A 690-foot tanker loaded with 14.7 million gallons of oil ran aground near two wildlife refuges in Louisiana, crumpling its bow and leaking a one-square-mile sheen of crude oil, authorities said. No injuries were reported to the crew of the British tanker Alvenus, which ran aground along a dredged channel from the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles south of Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Hollie Roffey, aged 10 days, is the youngest person to ever receive a heart transplant. She will survive 28 days.
The maximum lead in gasoline would be cut 91 percent on January 1, 1986, under a formal proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency. The agency cited “overwhelming” evidence that the lead is a serious threat to human health. William D. Ruckelshaus, Administrator of the environmental agency, said today that in either case his agency’s intention was total elimination of leaded gasoline by the mid-1990’s. At a news conference, Mr. Ruckelshaus said that the “social and economic benefits” of reducing the lead content of gasoline “will be very substantial and the costs will be minimal.” Lead poisoning of the blood has been found to have a particularly severe effect on the mental capacities of children, even at low levels. Studies have reported an almost exact correlation between the lead levels in gasoline and the average lead level in the blood of the United States population as a whole.
Houston health officials said today that a 12-year-old comatose girl was suffering from rabies, the first case of the disease reported in a human being in the United States since March 1983. The girl, whose name was withheld, was in critical condition at Texas Children’s Hospital. She is not expected to survive, her doctors said.
“There’s never been a reported case of recovery from rabies, other than when there is immunization following known exposure to the rabid animal,” said Dr. Ralph D. Feigin. Dr. Feigin said it still was not determined how the girl contracted the disease, which is generally transmitted by a bite from a rabid animal. A hospital spokesman, Joan London, said there were no bite wounds on the girl and she had told doctors she had not been bitten. “But the incubation period for the disease can be anywhere from one week to 18 months,” the spokesman said. “So it is possible she could have been bitten some time ago and the wound healed.”
Jury selection in the retrial of Federal District Judge Harry E. Claiborne of Las Vegas will begin here Tuesday. The jury in Judge Claiborne’s first trial failed to agree and Federal District Judge Walter E. Hoffman declared a mistrial in April. The retrial will concern only three of the seven counts in the indictment voted by a Federal grand jury here on Dec. 8, 1983. Those remaining counts to be tried accuse Judge Claiborne of filing false income tax returns for 1979 and 1980 and of failing to list a $75,000 loan on a financial statement for 1978. Federal judges and some other leading Federal officials are required to file such statements. On June 27 the Federal Department of Justice asked for dismissal of the other four counts, based in one way or another on the testimony of Joseph Conforte, the part-owner of a Reno-area brothel.
At least 50 burglary suspects were in custody today after an 11-month covert operation by Metro Dade County detectives who recovered nearly $2 million in stolen property, the police said. Investigators started serving 170 arrest warrants early today and were waiting for identifications of at least 170 more people who did business with undercover officers posing as “fences” who would handle stolen goods, said Metro Sgt. Bill Johnson. “They rented a warehouse, and with a touch of humor they called it B and T enterprises,” which stood for burglars and thieves, Sergeant Johnson said.
The covert operation was “so convincing that the trickle became a stream within a month,” he said. “Throughout the late summer and fall, the amount of stolen property recovered became astounding.” Sergeant Johnson said 95 percent of the 170 for whom warrants were issued have criminal histories with Metro Dade, he said. Metro Dade is shorthand for Miami and surrounding Dade County governments.
The suspension of five bridge players from the Boston area has been ordered by the American Contract Bridge League. The team, suspected of cheating by using illegal signals, was videotaped during play at the national championships in Washington, was shown the tapes and withdrew from the tournament.
The white male worker for the first time does not make up the majority of the nation’s work force. In 1983, white male workers fell to 49.8 percent of the work force, from 50 percent in 1982. Experts agree that the trend is of profound importance to American work, homes and families.
The 1798 wreckage of a British warship loaded with booty that capsized and sank in a squall off Delaware has been reported found by divers. The treasure hunters said they located the British brig De Braak 100 feet below the Atlantic Ocean surface. They believe a wealth of gold, silver and jewels lies deep in sand and sediment below the relics and artifacts they have discovered.
An apparently new bacterium in the human stomach has been detected by two Australian researchers. The spiral-shaped bacterium is being tentatively linked to gastritis and peptic ulcers.
Millions of beetles smaller than grains of rice are chewing across East Texas, killing thousands of mature pine trees. Swarms of the Southern pine beetle have been found at about 3,200 sites on public and private land, and thousands of trees have been cut down. Experts say the infestations are epidemic at the state’s four national forests.
America’s schools are inching toward excellence, but unless the reform movement is extended, they could slip again, a national task force warned. The report of the Task Force on Education for Economic Growth, issued at the National Governors’ Conference in Nashville, said there have been improvements on several fronts the past year, but stressed much more needs to be done.
Intelligence as measured by I.Q. tests seems to have surprisingly little to do with achievement in careers, according to a growing number of psychologists. Their research has repeatedly shown that, although the best executives almost always do at least moderately well on I.Q. tests, their ranking on these tests is not the factor that distinguishes those who advance from those who do not.
Soap opera “Santa Barbara” premieres on NBC TV.
Tom Seaver pitched a three-hitter and Greg Luzinski and Vance Law cracked three-run homers as the Chicago White Sox shut out the Boston Red Sox, 7–0. Seaver (10–6) struck out four and did not issue a walk, facing only 29 batters, 2 over the minimum. The shutout was the 59th of his career.
The Kansas City Royals beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 7–4. Steve Balboni led a four-run first inning with a three-run homer, and John Wathan added a one-run shot in the sixth to power Kansas City. It was Kansas City’s fifth consecutive victory over the Blue Jays, who have lost seven of their last eight games. The Royals have won 10 of their last 13.
The New York Yankees, playing the only game in town because the Mets were in St. Louis, won, 4–3, and increased their margin over the sixth-place Brewers to four games. That’s the Yankees’ largest lead since they replaced Milwaukee in fifth place on July 13. Dennis Rasmussen, the rookie pitcher, worked into the eighth inning and, after receiving relief help from Dave Righetti, gained his fourth straight victory. Offensively, Bobby Meacham, Brian Dayett and Vic Mata, all rookies, contributed key singles. Meacham’s hit triggered a two-run burst in the fourth inning, and the sixth-inning hits by Dayett and Mata each drove in a run.
Ned Yost hit a three-run homer, and Larry Parrish added a one-run shot to back the four-hit pitching of Frank Tanana, as the Texas Rangers downed the Baltimore Orioles, 5–1. Tanana improved to 10–10 as the Rangers won their first game in Memorial Stadium since April 1983. Tanana did not give up a hit until the rookie Mike Young singled with two out in the fifth. He walked two and struck out three in his sixth complete game of the season.
The suddenly cold and cheerless world of the New York Mets grew even colder tonight when Tito Landrum of the St. Louis Cardinals hit a home run off Jesse Orosco in the 10th inning and sent the Mets to their fourth straight defeat. Landrum bombed the first pitch from Orosco deep into the left-field seats with Lonnie Smith on second base and one out, sinking the Mets, 3–1. It was the first time they had lost in extra innings in 14 months, and in that time, they had won 16 games past the ninth inning.
Jody Davis, the Cubs’ catcher who admits to feeling “a little tired,” did not show it today. Davis cracked a two-out, tiebreaking double in the sixth inning, and Ryne Sandberg tripled in a run in the seventh to help Dennis Eckersley and Chicago to a 3–2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. The triumph was the fourth straight for the Cubs, second in the National League East, and their sixth in the last eight games.
At San Diego, Dave Dravecky allows one hit — a double to Bill Russell in the 7th — as the Padres rout the Dodgers, 12–0. Kevin McReynolds hit a three-run homer for the Padres. Dravecky is now 8–5 on the season.
Americans’ success in the Games of the XXIII Olympiad continued with two more gold medals in swimming and one in shooting. In swimming, Mary Wayte of Mercer Island, Washington, won the women’s 200-meter freestyle, and the men’s 800-meter freestyle relay team captured a spectacular final from West Germany by four- hundredths of a second, or no more than 3 inches. World records were broken in the three men’s finals. In shooting, the American gold medal came from Ed Etzel, of Morgantown, West Virginia, who won the small-bore rifle competition with a near-perfect score of 599. Michael Gross of West Germany won the 100-meter butterfly by a foot from the favored Pablo Morales of Santa Clara, California.
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Born:
Gina Rodriguez, American actress (“Jane the Virgin”), in Chicago, Illinois.
Gabrielle Christian [as Gabrielle Christine Horchler], American actress (“South of Nowhere”), in Washington, D.C.
Lex Hilliard, NFL running back and fullback (Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, New York Jets), in Kalispell, Montana.
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