The key to curbing births is the development of free-market economies, according to the Reagan Administration. Its assertion, reflecting the Reagan Administration’s new population policy, came on the third day of the weeklong United Nations International Conference on Population. It was presented by the chief of the delegation, James L. Buckley, the former New York Senator who is now president of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. The United States reiterated that it would no longer contribute funds to private organizations that ”perform or actively promote” abortion as a means of family planning and that it would require assurances from governments to which it sends funds that its aid would not be used for abortions.
The use of United States foreign aid for abortions has been barred since 1974. The major difference in the new Administration policy is that it cuts off all money to nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote abortion, whether the funds are used directly for this purpose or not. Mr. Buckley said that this indicated no diminution of the United States commitment to family planning, since the full $240 million budgeted for this purpose this year — and a larger amount proposed for next year — will be directed to organizations complying with the United States policy.
The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia accused the United States of mounting a “slanderous campaign” by warning Americans not to visit Leningrad because of recent assaults on U.S. citizens.. Izvestia repeated a Soviet charge that Sgt. Ronald Campbell, a Marine assigned to the U.S. Consulate in Leningrad, was drunkenly throwing stones at passing cars when he was arrested in Leningrad last month. U.S. officials said Campbell was lured from in front of the consulate and beaten up by Soviet police. It was the third such incident involving Americans in Leningrad this year.
Britain’s opposition Labor Party issued a defense policy statement promising that if elected to power, it will renounce an independent nuclear deterrent and demand the removal of U.S. nuclear weapons from British soil. The party’s lack of consistency on defense was seen as a major reason for its crushing defeat by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher last year. At that time, party leaders promised to dismantle Britain’s nuclear defense and get rid of U.S. weapons, but this was rejected by some prominent party moderates.
About 1,650 striking British coal miners staged hit-and-run raids on two pits and a regional office of the National Coal Board in a new outbreak of violence in the bloody 21-week walkout, police reported. Dozens of cars were attacked and scores of windows smashed in the three separate overnight attacks at Sutton-in-Ashfield and Bircotes, both in Nottinghamshire county, and at Doncaster in adjoining Yorkshire county. Since the walkout began March 12, two strikers have been killed in picket line violence, nearly 2,000 pickets and police have been injured and about 4,000 pickets have been arrested. Some 60 men were arrested today outside the Harworth mine in Nottinghamshire where strikers charged police lines in an attempt to prevent working miners reaching the mine. The miners are striking in protest against the Coal Board’s plan to close 20 mines with the loss of 20,000 jobs.
In a sharp turnaround from its praise of the Red Sea mine attacks, Iran charged that the United States and Israel are responsible for sowing the mines in a “new conspiracy” to discredit the Tehran regime. The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the recent explosions, which have damaged at least 14 ships, have been blamed indirectly on Iran. It called such accusations a reflection of the “U.S. and Israel defeat” in Lebanon. The statement contradicted an earlier government radio comment lauding the Red Sea attacks and attributing them to the extremist Islamic Jihad (Holy War) organization. Meanwhile, Britain joined the United States and France in agreeing to help Egypt clear the Red Sea of mines.
Two Iranian hijackers freed about 300 hostages from an Iranian airliner the teen-agers had seized and then surrendered to the police in Rome. The two were identified as opponents of the Teheran Government. Iran said most of the passengers on the flight, which began in Teheran, were Muslim pilgrims who had been headed for the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. The Rome police chief, Giuseppe Porpora, said the two hijackers had Iranian passports. The police identified them as Hosein Eftekhari, 18 years old, and Mohsem Rahgohzar, 17, both from Teheran, and said they apparently had been armed only with a knife.
Sri Lankan Government forces battled two groups of Tamil separatists who attacked a police station and blew open a bank in northern Sri Lanka today, the police said. Casualties among the separatists were reportedly heavy in both incidents. The police said about 100 separatists attacked a police station near Jaffna, the principal city in the Tamil-dominated north. Another group of similar size raided the state-owned National Savings Bank in Jaffna, escaping with a safe before the security forces caught up with them, the police said. The authorities said earlier that at least 42 people were killed in fighting that broke out Saturday when armed extremists, demanding a separate state for the Sri Lanka’s 2.7 million-member Tamil minority, mounted what some said was a long-expected offensive.
A Grenada magistrate ordered 19 former Government and army officials today to stand trial in the slayings of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and seven supporters. The magistrate, Lyle St. Paul, who heard testimony for six weeks in a preliminary inquiry, ordered one defendant, Ian St. Bernard, the former Commissioner of Police, set free. If convicted, the defendants, including former Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard, his wife, Phyllis, and General Hudson Austin, commander of the People’s Revolutionary Army, would face sentences of death by hanging or life imprisonment. The charges against the defendants stemmed from a ”palace coup” within Grenada’s leftist Government last year. The coup led to the slaying of Mr. Bishop and resulted in the United States invasion of the island on October 25.
The battleship USS Iowa cruised off the Pacific coast of Central America at the head of a five-ship task force on its first deployment as a newly recommissioned warship, the Navy said. The battleship was being escorted by the guided missile destroyer USS Conyngham. Three other vessels led by the frigate USS Stephen W. Groves conducted exercises on the Caribbean coast of Central America, a Navy statement said. The task force is scheduled to be off the Central American coasts for about two weeks as part of a continuing U.S. naval presence in the troubled area.
Major aid plans for El Salvador advanced on both sides of Capitol Hill. A key House subcommittee approved unanimously most of the military and economic assistance sought by the Reagan Administration for El Salvador next year. Later, the Senate overwhelmingly defeated a series of Democratic efforts to cut $117 million in additional military aid for El Salvador from a supplemental spending bill for this year.
Nicaraguan special tribunals sentenced 15 members of a U.S.backed rebel organization to up to eight years in prison for planning an attack on the key Pacific port of Puerto Corinto, authorities said. Nicaragua’s Justice Ministry said. 15 members of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force were sentenced by the Anti-Somocista Peoples Tribunals, special courts set up to handle cases of those suspected of rebel activities or support for former dictator Anastasio Somoza.
United States and Ugandan officials met in Kampala today in an effort to resolve a dispute that led Uganda to bar an American military attaché and suspend a $100,000 military training program, a United States official said. The official confirmed that Uganda withdrew accreditation for the United States military attache and suspended the military aid in response to reports quoting United States officials as having said Uganda’s army had killed thousands of civilians in the last year in a campaign against rebels.
In a recent interview, Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams called the situation in Uganda horrendous and said United States efforts to stop the killing had been unsuccessful. Reagan Administration officials said estimates by private relief agencies put the number of civilians killed by the Uganda Army in the last year at more than 100,000. Ugandan officials have denied the reports, saying far smaller numbers of civilians had been killed accidentally in crossfire between Ugandan troops and rebels.
Senator Mark O. Hatfield’s aid to a Greek entrepreneur who paid the Senator’s wife $40,000 will be investigated by the FBI, Justice Department officials said. At the time of Basil A. Tsakos’ payment to Mrs. Hatfield, a real estate agent, the Oregon Republican was aiding the entrepreneur’s efforts to win approval to build an oil pipeline across Africa. David Yerkes, who sold an apartment to Mr. Tsakos, said in an interview that Mrs. Hatfield had nothing to do with the sale.
Taxes would not be raised under the guise of any changes in tax structuring that might be proposed by a second Reagan Administration, according to Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan. He told a joint Congressional hearing, ”There are no plans for tax increases in 1985 by this Administration.”
The President and First Lady go on a horseback ride at President Reagan’s Rancho del Cielo in California.
Bishops’ neutrality on politicians was urged by the president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. The leader, Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, in a draft statement that is to be circulated among the 286 Roman Catholic bishops in the United States, recommends that they avoid acting ”for or against political candidates.”
Paul Laxalt is receiving $50,000 from the Republican National Committee this year for being head of President Reagan’s re-election campaign, according to committee officials and public records. The officials said the salary is being paid to help Senator Laxalt, Republican of Nevada, ”fill his gap” from speeches he may have to pass up while performing his duties as general chairman of the Republican Party.
Efforts to collect support payments for children, including the mandatory withholding of wages for delinquent payments, would be strengthened by a bill that won final Congressional approval in the House. The House gave final congressional approval, 413 to 0, to a bill strengthening collection efforts for child support payments, including the mandatory withholding of wages for delinquent payments. Already passed by the Senate, the bill now goes to President Reagan, who is expected to sign it. Key provisions of the legislation include automatic wage withholding from a parent 30 days late in making payments, interstate enforcement of child support orders, and protection for all families, not just those eligible for welfare.
The Environmental Protection Agency expects to make a preliminary decision by the end of month that could lead to orders to seven Midwestern states to reduce emissions of pollutants that cause acid rain, EPA attorney Jose R. Allen told U.S. District Judge Norma Johnson in Washington. Eight Northeastern states are asking the court to force EPA to rule on petitions filed in 1981 by New York, Maine and Pennsylvania, requesting the agency to order reductions in sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen in seven states upwind of them.
The Senate voted to break a Democrat-led filibuster protesting the failure of Congress to pass a 1985 budget, breaking a logjam that had threatened to hold up action on vital spending bills. The 68–30 vote cleared the way for Senate action later this week on a farm-program spending bill. The week-long filibuster was led by Sen. Lawton Chiles of Florida, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, who said he constructed the roadblock to dramatize his opposition to handling the spending bill-or any other-without congressional approval of a budget blueprint.
New objections to the House version of a comprehensive immigration bill have been raised by the Reagan Administration. Senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming, chief sponsor of the Senate bill, said the Justice Department has said it believes the House measure is too broad in protecting the rights of legal aliens and Hispanic workers.
Embryo transfer in humans and in vitro fertilization should be subject to guidelines, according to a coalition of scientists, doctors and lawyers. In testimony before a Congressional panel, members of the coalition raised ethical and legal concerns about the new techniques.
The average cost of attending public and private colleges next fall will rise only 6% — well below the double-digit increases of recent years, according to a new national survey by the College Board. Over the last three years, the study showed, college costs have jumped between 10% and 11% each year. For students attending private colleges in 1984-85, average costs will rise 7%, to $9,022. Average costs at public universities, which enroll 80% of all students, will increase 5%, to $7,782, the survey showed.
Jurors began deliberating in the trial of John Z. DeLorean today after the judge instructed them to consider the law but also to use their common sense in deciding whether the defendant was guilty of conspiring to distribute cocaine. Federal District Judge Robert Takasugi told the jurors that if they decided Mr. DeLorean had committed the crime they must then consider his contention that he was a victim of entrapment by the Government. ”If you find John Z. DeLorean committed the acts charged, but did so as a result of entrapment, you must find him not guilty,” Judge Takasugi said.
One of two jail inmates who sought out reporters to confess murdering several young women in Oregon and Washington now says it was a lie and part of an escape plot, the authorities said today. ”I don’t think we’re dealing with murderers here,” King County Police Captain Frank Adamson said in Seattle. He was referring to the San Francisco jail inmates, Robert Matthias and Richard Carbone. Captain Adamson said Mr. Matthias admitted to Detective Paul Smith of King County, Washington, that the two men had made up the murder story from news reports about the killings of 26 young women in the Seattle area some of whose bodies were dumped in the Green River.
A suburban village in Illinois may offer bonuses to tenants and landlords who integrate apartment buildings as part of a $1-million-a-year program believed to be the first of its kind in the nation. The village of Oak Park, which borders Chicago’s West Side, is considering a plan in which it would hire a rental agent to match tenants with landlords when an apartment becomes vacant, said Ralph DeSantis, village manager. Blacks would be referred to predominantly white areas, while whites would be referred to largely black areas.
Georgia has agreed to hire more blacks and women and pay employment discrimination claims of up to $1.9 million to settle a 10-year-old Federal complaint over hiring practices, Governor Joe Frank Harris announced today. Governor Harris said the state’s agreement with the United States Justice Department meant that past employment practices that might have been discriminatory had been eliminated. The Justice Department brought action against the state in 1974 after a complaint was filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charging that the state systematically discriminated in hiring and promoting blacks and women.
A Montpelier, Vermont, judge threw out about 60 cases involving children from Northeast Kingdom Community Church who are alleged victims of abuse, and ordered all evidence seized in a state police raid returned to their parents. District Judge Frank Mahady called the raid on the religious sect an unlawful and extreme invasion of privacy. “The phrase ‘child abuse’ cannot be invoked as a talismatic incantation to support the exercise of state power which egregiously violates both First and Fifth Amendment rights,” he said. ”Under our system of justice, the state must have an adequate factual basis upon which to act against individuals first,” Judge Mahady wrote. ”It cannot act first, then hope that the action itself will unearth proof to retroactively justify the action.” The state was deciding whether to appeal the decision.
Someone pried open a display case at the Statehouse Archive today and stole the first page of Massachusetts’ original colonial charter, granted by King Charles I in 1629, the capitol police said today. The document was removed from a locked case at the archives within 90 minutes after the museum opened, Police Chief Arthur Beaulieu said. The officials later said some fresh fingerprints had been found and investigators had a description of a man who was carrying a large art portfolio-type case in the museum.
The head of New York City’s huge welfare agency resigned because of a growing scandal at a city-funded day care center where more than 30 children have told authorities they were sexually abused. Human Resources Administration Commissioner James Krauskopf stepped down one day after Gail Kong, one of his top deputies, also quit.
John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical “The Rink”, based on Terrence McNally’s novel, and starring Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera, closes at Martin Beck Theater, NYC, after 204 performances and a Tony Award for Rivera.
Ray Burris allowed only four hits in seven innings and teamed with Bill Caudill to shut out the Minnesota Twins today as the Oakland A’s won, 5–0. The A’s scored their first run in the second inning when Dwayne Murphy walked, went to third on Mike Heath’s single and scored on Bill Almon’s sacrifice fly. Mike Heath’s 11th homer of the year, a leadoff shot in the fifth, gave the A’s a 2–0 lead. Burris (11–6) walked two batters, struck out two and left in the eighth after giving up a single to Gary Gaetti and a walk to Tim Teufel. Caudill retired Ron Washington on a grounder, then struck out Andre David and Kirby Puckett to end the inning. He finished up for his 25th save.
Rich Gedman drove in a career-high five runs with a homer, a single and a sacrifice fly as Boston rolled to a 8–0 victory over Detroit behind Dennis Boyd in the 1984 finale between the two American League rivals. Boyd (7–8), scattered seven hits, all singles, for his first major league shutout and his seventh complete game of the season.
The Seattle Mariners downed the California Angels, 7–2. Mark Langston and Ed Nunez combined on a five-hitter and Alvin Davis drove in two runs with a homer and single to help Seattle break a six-game losing streak. Despite the loss, California remained a half-game behind first-place Minnesota in the American League West. The Twins dropped a 5–0 decision at Oakland. Langston (10–9) worked the first six innings and allowed four hits whilestriking out seven. The rookie left- hander has 135 strikeouts, second in the league to California’s Mike Witt, who struck out four in three and two- thirds innings. Witt (11–9) gave up five runs and nine hits and took the loss.
Veteran Brewers’ pitcher Don Sutton ends Milwaukee’s 10-game losing streak with a 3–2 win over the Kansas City Royals. Sutton (11–9) also passed the 100-strikeout mark for the 19th straight season, a Major League record.
The Chicago Cubs tighten their grip on first place in the National League East with a 7–6 win over the New York Mets at Wrigley Field, completing a 4-game series sweep. Keith Moreland leads the way with 3 hits and 4 RBIs. Hubie Brooks is 4-for–4 with 4 runs for New York. Davey Johnson gets tossed in the 7th after Bob Dernier gets hit by a pitch, a continuation of yesterday’s beanballing. Cubs manager Jim Frey follows Johnson in the 9th when Smith throws behind George Foster.
Bob Welch and three relievers scattered eight hits and the Dodgers took advantage of sloppy Atlanta fielding as Los Angeles surged to a 5–1 victory over the Atlanta Braves. Welch (9-11), gained his third straight victory, scattering six hits over six and a third innings. He also drove in a run with a fourth-inning single before leaving the game with a groin injury.
At Busch Stadium, Dale Berra has a grand slam and collects 5 RBI as the Pittsburgh Pirates clip the St. Louis Cardinals, 6–4. Willie McGee has a solo homer for the Cardinals. John Candelaria (10–8) gets the win for Pittsburgh.
Carl Lewis won his third gold medal at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad. Lewis, Kirk Baptiste and Thomas Jefferson finished first, second and third in the men’s 200-meter final, giving the United States the first such sweep of track and field medals at these Olympics.
Away from the track, the United States continued to strike gold, too. Greg Louganis, as expected, finished first in the men’s springboard diving, and Americans won gold medals in three of the seven yachting races and silver in the other four. With four days of competition left, the United States has 54 gold medals.
Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco becomes the first female Olympic champion of a Muslim nation, and the first of her country in the 400m hurdles at the Los Angeles Olympics.
In the first five events of the decathlon, Daley Thompson of Britain, the 1980 Olympic and 1983 world champion, took a substantial lead over Jürgen Hingsen of West Germany, the world record-holder. Thompson had 4,633 points, the highest first- day score in history, to 4,519 for Hingsen.
Future 5-time America’s Cup winner Russell Coutts of New Zealand wins the Finn Class sailing gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics.
Olympic athletes vie for exposure and fame that will reward them with lucrative contracts to endorse athletic shoes, clothing and other merchandise. The star competitors at the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles seek the kind of fame that will enable them to serve as spokesmen for consumer products and even win them posts as television broadcasters.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1196.11 (-8.51).
Born:
Martrez Milner, NFL tight end (Atlanta Falcons), in Oakwood, Georgia.
Died:
Richard Deacon, 62, American actor (Mel Cooley — “The Dick Van Dyke Show”), dies of cardiovascular disease.
Ellen Raskin, 56, American children’s author (“The Westing Game” – 1979 Newbery Medal).
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