The Soviet Union said it is testing long-range cruise missiles to counter the American nuclear missile program and warned the United States that it would be “naive to assume” the weapons will not be deployed. An editorial in the Communist Party newspaper Pravda stressed that “cruise missiles are something that cut both ways.” Charging that the U.S. cruise missile program is the latest in a series of unsuccessful attempts to gain military superiority over the Soviet Union, Pravda added, “They are heading for a washout this time too.”
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee accused the Soviet Union of violating the 1975 Helsinki accords on European security and cooperation by refusing emigration to Soviet Jews. The panel unanimously adopted a non-binding resolution directing President Reagan to urge the Soviet Union to comply with the accords and the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights, “especially as these documents relate to the emigration of Soviet Jews.” The resolution, which goes to the full Senate, notes that Soviet Jewish emigration has declined from more than 51,000 in 1979 to about 1,300 last year.
Greek workers at United States bases returned to work today after a 27-day strike. The end of the strike followed a compromise that is subject to ratification. A spokesman for the strikers said they were returning to work as a sign of good will. He said they would probably resume their strike if the compromise was rejected by the United States. Sources close to the negotiations said the settlement, proposed by the Greek Government, had satisfied more than half the strikers’ demands. The strike had been the longest yet by the 1,600 Greek workers at the bases and had been accompanied by violent incidents and bitter exchanges between the two sides.
The White House announced today that the Vatican’s Apostolic Delegate to the United States would meet Wednesday with President Reagan at his vacation ranch to discuss the expected easing of American sanctions against Poland. White House officials said privately that the unusual interruption of the President’s vacation had some domestic political overtones of possible value to the President’s re-election strategy of appealing to Roman Catholic voters. But the President’s spokesman, Larry Speakes, insisted that the sole reason for the visit was the President’s interest in Pope John Paul II’s views on how well the Polish Government is fulfilling its promise to ease restrictions on political prisoners. Democratic critics have accused the President of trying to “pander” to Roman Catholic voters, a charge denied by the Reagan campaign.
Eleven-day-old Hollie Roffey was reported improving in a London hospital after becoming the world’s youngest heart-transplant recipient. A day after the delicate operation, a spokesman for the National Heart Hospital said the infant was “waving her arms and legs.” The 61⁄2-pound Hollie, daughter of salesman Anthony Roffey and his wife, Janet, of Ashford, Kent County, was born with the left side of her heart missing. She received the heart of a 3-day-old Dutch baby who died of brain damage.
The United States said it has warned mariners of unconfirmed reports of explosions in the Gulf of Suez that may have been caused by mines. A State Department spokesman said, however, that there are no reports of ships being damaged and added that Washington is seeking more information from the Egyptian government. Cairo officials said they are investigating the reports. Earlier, the head of the Suez Canal Authority denied that there are any mines in the canal “or its outlets.”
A Jerusalem court sentenced an Israeli to three years in prison for participating in a Jewish terrorist plot to blow up Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock shrine, one of Islam’s holiest sites. Yosef Zuria, 25, was the fourth defendant to be sent to prison after the arrests last spring of 27 Jews suspected of involvement in anti-Arab attacks.
Hijackers seized an Air France jetliner over Luxembourg on Tuesday and forced its crew to fly it to Iran. Although Iran at first refused to allow it to land, the hijackers persisted, and after refueling stops at an airport at Larnaca, Cyprus, and in Geneva and Beirut the airliner, carrying 63 people, the plane was reported to have landed in Tehran. A spokesman for Air France in Paris said late Tuesday night, “we heard from our station staff” in Tehran that “the aircraft was on the runway.” There was no immediate confirmation of the report from the Iranian Government.
Fistfights broke out in the Indian state Parliament of Jammu and Kashmir during a vote confirming the ouster of the state’s chief minister, Farooq Abdullah. The vote confirmed as chief minister Abdullah’s brother-in-law, Ghulam Shah, who took over four weeks ago when 13 members of Abdullah’s party defected to him. Abdullah blamed Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for his ouster, calling it part of a campaign to topple governments of opposition-ruled states before national elections.
Thirty-Nine Salvadoran guardsmen were killed along with 19 civilians, witnesses said, when leftist insurgents attacked two farming cooperatives and a small village in western El Salvador. The clashes were among the fiercest to occur in that region, which has been relatively peaceful during the civil war.
The Archbishop of Managua has told United States backers that he is actively directing efforts by his diocese to prevent the Government from imposing a Communist system in Nicaragua, according to businessmen who met with him. The businessmen said that Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo, during a visit to New York in May, said his campaign represented the best organized opposition in Nicaragua to Sandinista efforts to install a Marxist-Leninist society and he appealed for financial aid.
House Republican leaders decided today to give up any immediate effort to gain House approval for aid to Nicaraguan rebels, aides to the lawmakers said. In a morning leadership meeting, the aides said, Robert H. Michel, the minority leader, and other senior Republicans concluded that they could not win a vote on restoring money for the rebels in the intelligence authorization bill for the 1985 fiscal year that is scheduled to come up for floor debate on Thursday. The House Select Committee on Intelligence cut all funding for the rebels out of the bill. The Reagan Administration had requested $28 million. Administration officials said they now hoped that the Republican-controlled Senate would include money for the rebels in its version of the 1985 intelligence authorization bill. The House might then accept the aid as part of an omnibus spending bill.
Commandos stormed an airliner on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, killing two men who had hijacked the Venezuelan DC-9 and rescuing all 79 people aboard. Officials said no passengers were hurt. Commandos stormed a hijacked Venezuelan DC-9 jetliner here early today, killing both hijackers and rescuing all 79 people aboard. No passengers were wounded in the shooting, officials said. Passengers said one hijacker threw gasoline down the aisle and tried to set the plane on fire as the commandos, identified as 12 Venezuelans, surged forward in the early-morning darkness. The hijacker was wounded, then killed in a volley of gunfire, the passengers said.
The jetliner’s three doors opened almost at once and the passengers scrambled out. Hundreds of residents, gathered on hills around the airport, clapped and cheered as the passengers headed for safety after a 36-hour ordeal that began Sunday when the Linea Aeropostal Venezolana DC-9 was commandeered after it left Caracas, Venezuela, for Curaçao.
More than 120 people may have been secretly executed in the West African nation of Cameroon because of suspected involvement in an attempted coup last spring, the human rights group Amnesty International said. Political prisoners, sentenced after brief military trials, were reported to have been tortured. Amnesty International sources said that one well-known prisoner, Ahmadou Bello, a former managing director of Cameroon Airlines, was severely beaten before his trial, kept in chains and had boiling water poured on his hands.
The French National Assembly voted a bill into law today that grants internal autonomy to France’s South Pacific territory of New Caledonia and opening the way to possible independence. The bill provides for elections this year to a new consultative assembly, in which Melanesian tribal chiefs will share power people of European origin. It also provides for a referendum in 1989 on self-determination for the territory.
Leading economic indicators dropped sharply, by nine-tenths of 1 percent, in June, the Commerce Department reported. Analysts expressed relief that the heated economic growth of the last 19 months appeared to be cooling.
President Reagan speaks with Governor James R. Thompson (R-Illinois), and the call is broadcast at the National Governors’ Association Annual Summer meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.
Geraldine A. Ferraro welcomed her running mate to Queens. In their first major joint campaign appearance since the Democratic National Convention and in speeches before the Urban League in Cleveland, Representative Ferraro and Walter F. Mondale virtually ignored President Reagan’s name and spoke instead of “the American dream,” “hard work,” “values” and “patriotism.”
George Hansen was reprimanded by the House for failing to comply with a Federal law that requires public officials to disclose their financial holdings. The vote against Representative Hansen, Republican of Idaho, was 354 to 52. He has been convicted of four felony counts in the case.
Anne McGill Burford was rebuffed by the House, which voted, 363 to 51, for a resolution urging President Reagan to withdraw her appointment as chairman of an environmental advisory panel. Mrs. Burford was forced last year to resign as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency amid charges of mismanagement and favoritism.
Postal unions representing 600,000 workers asked a federal court to block the U.S. Postal Service from imposing a two-tiered wage system that would cut salaries of new employees by 23% and slash their sick leave and vacation. The unions asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for a permanent injunction against the wage system, which the Postal Service announced last week. Bargaining between the two sides broke off July 20 when the major unions walked out after the Postal Service’s final offer of a three-year wage freeze for current employees and the wage cut for new workers.
The head of the nation’s space agency testified that each launch of the space shuttle costs $150 million to $200 million, while the most that each flight can earn back is $71 million. James M. Beggs, the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, told a House subcommittee that a combination of cost-cutting and price increases should make shuttle operations self-sustaining by the end of the decade if the Defense Department does not take its business elsewhere. He told the subcommittee that a major concern to NASA was the Air Force’s search for 10 one-use launch vehicles to carry secret satellites into space instead of the shuttle.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret M. Heckler. saying U.S. inspectors found “appalling” conditions at state-run institutions for the mentally retarded, vowed to double federal surveillance in a new crackdown. Testifying at a Senate subcommittee hearing, she said federal inspectors visited 17 facilities last month and found substandard conditions at all of them, ranging from fire violations and lack of proper heating to overuse of drugs. Senator Lowe! P. Weicker Jr. (R-Connecticut), chairman of the subcommittee, released his own report on seven institutions inspected by his staff, saying it found widespread “abuse and neglect.” Weicker said he does not believe Heckler’s promise that the states will respond. “I’m not about ready to go ahead and trust the governors,” Weicker said. “The governors in this instance have failed miserably,”
For the first time in the two decades the government has kept such records, white men constituted less than half of the U.S. labor force last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said. In 1983, according to a new analysis, white males age 16 and over composed 49.7% of the labor force. In contrast, white males represented 62.5% of the labor force in 1954. “Obviously, the most dominant trend in all of this has been the increasing labor force participation rate among women,” said a bureau spokesman.
Henry Lee Lucas, a convicted murderer, pointed out the site of a 1981 murder and knew other details of the crime for which another man was convicted, a Texas ranger testified today. Sgt. Bob Prince of Waco, Texas, said Mr. Lucas was taken Monday to the store where a clerk was shot to death Nov. 6, 1981, and said that was where he killed the clerk, Betty Thornton. Mr. Lucas, who has been convicted of several murders in Texas, was in Arkansas to testify in a hearing for Scotty Scott, 24 years old, of Hensley, who was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for the Thornton murder.
A shoeless 14-year-old boy found his way into the tiny town or Meadview, Arizona today after walking 10 miles through the mountains of northwestern Arizona, seeking help for his brother at a Grand Canyon helicopter crash that killed their parents and the pilot. Kevin Reed’s arrival here ended a two-day ordeal that began when a sightseeing helicopter crashed on a plateau Sunday. His brother, Brian, 12, was rescued late Monday after a search aircraft spotted the wreckage. Their parents, Richard Reed, 50, and Linda Reed, 38, and the pilot, David Bauer, 23, were pronounced dead at the scene. Kevin was treated for a fractured right wrist and Brian for a fractured pelvis and dehydration at a Las Vegas hospital.
School discipline was stressed by the Justice Department. Contending that “disorder and crime in the public schools have reached epidemic proportions,” the department urged the Supreme Court to grant school authorities more freedom to conduct searches than are permitted for law enforcement authorities.
Dr. William C. DeVries, frustrated over efforts to implant artificial hearts at the University of Utah, announced he was taking much of the program to a private practice based at the Humana Heart Institute in Louisville, Ky. Humana said it had pledged “many millions of dollars” to Dr. DeVries’s team to finance the costs of up to 100 artificial heart implants.
The man accused of intentionally swerving his car onto a crowded sidewalk on Westwood Boulevard was charged today with murdering a teen- age girl and attempting to murder 54 other pedestrians. If convicted of all 55 felony counts, Daniel Lee Young, 21 years old, of Inglewood, California, could be sentenced to a maximum prison term of 93 years to life, District Attorney Robert Philibosian said at a news conference. If any of the 54 people who were injured in the incident Friday night die, Mr. Young could be charged with additional murder counts that could make him subject to the death penalty. Mr. Philibosian said Mr. Young, a convicted burglar who had reportedly been under psychiatric care, made statements to the police in which he indicated that possible motives were revenge and publicity. He was apparently not intoxicated or on drugs at the time.
A dentist was convicted today of three counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of three patients who received huge doses of anesthetic drugs in his clinic. Dr. Tony Protopappas, 38 years old, of Huntington Beach, California, could receive 15 years to life in prison for each conviction. Sentencing was set for September 1. The jurors reached their verdict after five days of deliberation that followed four months of complex medical testimony.
A wide disparity in housing prices is posted around the country, according to experts, mostly because of differences in supply and demand, but also because of differences in construction and labor costs. The average price of a new single-family home is $101,000, and the median price is expected to be $100,000 before 1990.
Five bridge players accused of using illegal hand signals in their bid for a national championship have been suspended from play and lost their chance at the title. The players were suspended from competition after the team withdrew from the Summer National Championships in Washington, D.C., two weeks ago. According to a report in the New York Times, the team’s opponents complained to officials about the team’s unusual bidding and leads, saying they were convinced the team was cheating.
The artificial sweetener cyclamate, banned in the United States 15 years ago because of feared cancer risks, could go back on the market if a new review helps clear its name, industry spokesmen said. New studies of the banned sweetener indicate it probably does not cause cancer, but the data will be reassessed by a National Academy of Sciences committee to make sure. New data and better analysis of older test results led the federal government to reconsider its 1969 ban.
Leeza Gibbon makes her first appearance on “Entertainment Tonight.”
The Boston Red Sox routed the Chicago White Sox, 14–4. Bill Buckner’s bases-clearing double keyed a five- run first inning in a game featuring 27 hits. Boston exploded for five runs on three hits in the first inning. Wade Boggs hit a homer. Then Dwight Evans singled, Jim Rice reached on an error and Tony Armas walked to load the bases. Mike Easler then walked, and Buckner’s double cleared the bases.
The New York Yankees’ 7-4 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers featured clutch hitting, and a perfectly executed hit-and-run single and double steal of second and home. They also had a man race 90 feet to the plate faster than a Brewer could field a grounder and throw the ball 90 feet home. The victory placed the Yankees only 2 games under .500 for the first time since April 25, when they had 7 victories and 9 defeats. It also gave them a 14–6 record since the All-Star break, but that spree has not enhanced their distant position in the standing.
The Texas Rangers edged the Baltimore Orioles, 7–6, as Curtis Wilkerson scored the tie-breaking run on a bases-loaded wild pitch by Tippy Martinez in the eighth inning. With the score tied, 5-5, the Rangers loaded the bases in the eighth on singles by Wilkerson and Gary Ward, and a walk to Buddy Bell, before the wild pitch by Martinez (4-7). After Larry Parrish was walked intentionally, Ward scored as Pete O’Brien bounced out for a 7-5 Ranger lead.
Pat Tabler hit a three-run homer in the first inning and the Cleveland Indians went on to a 6–4 victory over Detroit in the second game, earning a split in their twi-night double-header. Doug Baker hit a bases-loaded triple and Ruppert Jones homered to back the combined four-hit pitching of Juan Berenguer and Doug Bair as the Tigers won the first game, 5–1.
Mark Thurmond and Rich Gossage combined to hurl San Diego’s fourth straight shutout tonight as the Padres defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 1–0. Thurmond (9–5) went the first seven innings and held the Dodgers, who have not scored an earned run in the last 51 innings, to seven hits. Gossage struck out four of the six batters he faced, including the side in the ninth, and earned his 20th save.
At Wrigley, Rich Bordi is one out away from a one-hit shutout when Juan Samuel homers for the Philadelphia Phillies to tie at the game at one apiece. The Phillies score a run in the 12th on a sac fly from Von Hayes and edge the Chicago Cubs, 2–1. It is Chicago’s first loss in extra innings in 8 games. They remain a half game behind the Mets, losers to the Cardinals.
The great plunge deepened tonight when the New York Mets lost to the St. Louis Cardinals, 6–3, for their fifth straight defeat and longest losing streak of the season. The Cardinals, who won their fifth in a row, chased Ed Lynch inside four innings and scored all their runs inside five. Meanwhile, Kurt Kepshire and Bruce Sutter were muzzling the Mets on five hits, including Darryl Strawberry’s 17th home run of the season. The Mets did not lose first place in the National League’s East. But their lead over the Chicago Cubs, which reached 4½ games Friday night, stayed at half a game.
Americans won 5 more finals in swimming at the Los Angeles Olympics, giving them 11 gold medals in the first 14 swimming finals. The capacity crowd of 16,500 in Los Angeles watched Ambrose (Rowdy) Gaines, Rick Carey, Tiffany Cohen, Theresa Andrews and the United States women’s 400-meter freestyle relay team win gold medals. Carey and Miss Cohen set Olympic records in heats. The U.S. men’s gymnastics team scores an emotional upset win over the world champion Chinese team in the combined event to take the gold medal.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1115.28 (+5.30).
Born:
Glenn Holt, NFL wide receiver and kick returner (Cincinnati Bengals), in Miami, Florida.
Rodrique Wright, NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins), in Houston, Texas.
Sean Conover, NFL defensive end (Tennessee Titans), in Brockton, Massachusetts.
Fernando Hernández, MLB pitcher (Oakland A’s), in Miami, Florida.
Died:
Bill Raisch, American one armed actor (“The Fugitive”, “Spartacus”, “Sweet Smell of Success”), from lung cancer
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