U.S. support for family planning has not lessened, a United States delegate said, despite the Reagan Administration’s emphasis on economic factors in population growth. Ben J. Wattenberg, a delegate to the International Conference on Population in Mexico City, was responding to widespread criticism of the Administration’s position. The position states that free economies are ”the natural mechanism for slowing population growth” and that population growth itself is ”a neutral phenomenon.” But Mr. Wattenberg, a conservative writer and editor, said the Reagan Administration understood that population control was not ”an either-or phenomenon.” He said the policy had been ”misconstrued” as reflecting a retreat from support of family planning.
The head of the Soviet travel agency Intourist today branded as ”silly and ill intentioned” a State Department advisory warning of harassment of Americans in Leningrad. ”The mentioning of any ‘infringement’ in the U.S.S.R. upon the rights of tourists — American citizens or any other country — is simply absurd,” Valentin F. Lebedev, head of the Soviet tourism agency, said in an interview carried by the Tass press agency. The travel advisory, issued this month, said there had been several cases of unlawful detention of tourists ”following innocent contacts with Soviet citizens.” Mr. Lebedev said Soviet law ”guarantees to foreigners, just as to Soviet people, such rights and freedoms as inviolability of the person, inviolability of the dwelling, the privacy of correspondence, etc.” But he added, ”At the same time the Soviet state, naturally, requires observance of laws of the U.S.S.R., respect for the mores, traditions and customs of the Soviet people.”
East Germany published a top-level defense of discussions with the West today, despite Soviet attacks on its efforts to improve relations with Bonn. Herbert Haeber, East Germany’s senior expert on relations with West Germany, was quoted by the Communist Party newspaper Neues Deutschland as calling for a return to ”peaceful economic and political relations through dialogue.” ”It must be the aim of every sensible policy,” he said, ”to stop rearmament and oppose confrontation and turn the wheel back towards disarmament and détente.” His comments were published as the Soviet press resumed its attacks on closer links between the two Germanys, in what Western diplomats interpreted as an attempt to increase pressure on the East German leader, Erich Honecker, to cut back on his policies of easing tensions. Next month Mr. Honecker is scheduled to make the first visit to West Germany by an East German Communist leader.
A French court has ruled that four Basque separatists should be extradited to Spain on murder and assault charges. France has never extradited Basque militants to Spain, though it has recently expelled violent separatists to other countries. The last time the French courts examined Spanish requests for the extradition of Basque militants was in 1981. The courts favored extradition in six cases, but the Government did not follow the ruling. The decision Thursday came as Basque separatists continued to attack French targets, protesting the Government’s growing cooperation with the Spanish authorities in the campaign against the violent separatists.
On Thursday, for example, bombs believed to have been planted by the Basque separatists went off at two showrooms of the French car company Citroën in San Sebastian, Spain, in the Basque country 10 miles from the French border. And on Wednesday an explosion seriously damaged a tourist office in the French resort town of St.- Jean-de-Luz, near the Spanish border. A Spanish Foreign Ministry spokesman in Madrid welcomed the court ruling as a symbol of French-Spanish cooperation on the Basque question. He called the judgment ”positive in the long-term fight against terrorism.”
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said today that Iran and Libya might be responsible for the recent explosions that have damaged ships in the Red Sea. But he acknowledged that Egypt had no proof. It was the first time that Mr. Mubarak or any other senior Egyptian had suggested openly that Iran and Libya were suspected of having planted the explosives. More than a dozen ships have been damaged, some lightly. No sinkings have been reported. Iran has strongly denied suggestions that it was behind the mining. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Islamic leader, accused the United States and Israel on Thursday of having planted mines in the Red Sea to discredit the Iranian leadership. President Mubarak affirmed an earlier warning that his Government would close the Suez Canal to ships of any country proved responsible. The explosions have occurred in the Gulf of Suez and the Bab el Mandeb, the strait that joins the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
A Libyan national who Federal authorities said had ”a direct link to Libyan Government officials” admitted in a Brooklyn court yesterday that he had illegally bought three handguns with silencers from an undercover agent posing as an illicit arms dealer. Prosecutors in the case previously had said that ”guns and silencers are obviously used for murders” and suggested that, in this case, the items were intended for use against ”defectors” from the Libyan regime of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi. The Libyan who made the admission, Mehdi Hitewesh, did not say in court why he had bought the .45-caliber automatic pistols and silencers, and there was no mention in court yesterday of a link to his homeland’s Government. That accusation had been made by the procesutor in the case, Carol Amon, at a previous court session.
The United States and Saudi Arabia have had informal discussions about Saudi interest in purchasing large numbers of additional American made Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, a senior United States official said tonight. The official, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified, said the Saudis have not made any formal request to purchase the AIM-9L Sidewinders, advanced missiles that are currently used by both the United States Navy and Air Force. The weapon was developed especially for dogfight missions and has a guidance system designed to permit attack from any angle. Saudi Arabia already has an inventory of American Sidewinders that were purchased in a 1981 arms deal that included Airborne Warning and Control System surveillance planes and other equipment. That purchase covered 1,117 Sidewinders, the majority of which have not yet been delivered. A Saudi jet fighter used a Sidewinder missile to shoot down an Iranian jet over the Persian Gulf in June.
Concerts in Malaysia were dropped by the New York Philharmonic. It had scheduled two concerts in Kuala Lumpur from which, at the request of the Malaysian Government, a Hebrew-inspired work was to have been deleted. The work was Ernest Bloch’s ”Schelomo, A Hebrew Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra.” The cancellation was announced after widespread protests from Jewish organizations and government officials.
A compromise Salvadoran aid plan was approved by Congress. It would give El Salvador an extra $70 million in military assistance during the current fiscal year. Though below President Reagan’s request for $117 million, the compromise represented a significant endorsement of his Administration’s efforts to support the Government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte.
The Vatican issued a stern new warning today to Nicaraguan priests serving in government posts, saying they were violating Roman Catholic Church law. The Vatican statement stopped short of ordering the four priests serving in the Nicaraguan Government to quit. But it said they had ignored repeated demands to resign. The Rev. Fernando Cardenal, a Jesuit priest who was recently appointed Education Minister in Nicaragua’s Government, said he accepted the Cabinet post because he had received no formal opposition from Roman Catholic Church authorities. The Vatican communique today described Father Cardenal’s statement as “surprising and almost incredible.”
Two gunmen on a motorcycle in Bogota, Colombia shot and killed Dr. Carlos Toledo Plata, a Member of Parliament and founding member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who strongly advocated peace talks with the Government. The police said Dr. Toledo Plata, 51 years old, a surgeon, was shot in the doorway of his home in the eastern town of Bucaramanga. The M-19 group is scheduled to sign a truce with the Government on Sunday after 15 years of insurgency, but Justice Minister Enrique Parejo said the killing might affect the peace process. The Communist Party leader, Gustavo Rojas Puyo, said the assassination appeared to be an attempt to create obstacles to a truce. No one immediately took responsibility for the killing.
At least 21 Maoist guerrillas have been killed in clashes in the Ayacucho region, 6 of them in a revenge attack by Indians, the authorities said. Civil defense sources said Thursday that the Indians captured the Sendero Luminoso (“Shining Path”) guerrillas a week ago in the region, 350 miles southeast of Lima. They quoted witnesses as saying the Indians killed the rebels after blaming them for the deaths of other peasants. The police said at least 15 guerrillas were killed by an army patrol in the same area on Wednesday.
Chilean opposition leaders are angry about President Augusto Pinochet’s announcement this week that he had no intention of hastening the country’s transition to democracy. They have issued bitter statements denouncing the President, saying he was backing away from earlier suggestions on speeding the return to democracy now that demonstrations against him have waned.
Deep disaffection with U.S. policy toward the South African region is apparent among black activists inside and outside South Africa. The leader of the most prominent exiled group fighting South Africa’s white-minority rule, Oliver Tambo, said the policy called constructive engagement had given South Africa a license to attack its neighbors.
The 1985 military budget remained tied in legislative knots today as Congress adjourned for the Republican National Convention and Labor Day. One bill authorizing Pentagon programs is deadlocked in House-Senate conference, and another bill that provides money for those programs is stalled at the committee level. However, the House and Senate leadership agreed today to a proposal by Senator Lawton Chiles, Democrat of Florida, for a meeting next month on the overall level of military spending next year. The Reagan Administration and the Senate leadership have sought $299 billion, while the House would provide about $292 billion.
”By stonewalling on the single issue of Pentagon spending,” Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., Speaker of the House, said today, ”President Reagan is not only scuttling the budget process, he is scuttling any chance for bipartisan action to draw the line on budget deficits.” Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat of Georgia, in a peppery speech on the Senate floor this morning, said, ”The hangup is the MX and the victim is the national security of this country and the tax-paying citizens who support it.”. The Senate military authorization bill calls for buying 21 MX missiles in fiscal year 1985, with no restrictions. The House bill authorizes 15 missiles and stipulates that no funds be spent unless Congress passes a joint resolution of approval in April.
A bill expanding toxic-waste cleanup was overwhelmingly approved by the House on the eve of a three-week recess. The vote was 323 to 33. The bill would authorize the Environmental Protection Agency to spend up to $10.2 billion over a five-year period to clean up toxic waste sites. The bill, the Superfund Expansion and Protection Act of 1984, was passed despite the objections of some Republican legislators and Administration officials, who said that it was motivated mainly by election-year politics. The Senate has not voted on such legislation. But the chief sponsor of the House bill, Representative James J. Florio, a New Jersey Democrat, said that ”key actors in the Senate” had made a commitment to help pass a waste cleanup bill before final Congress adjournment later this year. Both the House and the Senate adjourned this evening for a three-week recess.
President Reagan places a call to the Convention Manager of the Republican National Convention, Dallas, Texas.
President Reagan plans to return to his home state of California for the traditional Labor Day opening of the Presidential campaign. Larry Speakes, the deputy White House press secretary, said Mr. Reagan would begin his campaign in Anaheim, California, in Orange County. On the same trip, the President is scheuled to stop in Salt Lake City to address the American Legion convention.
House Republican leaders today issued an analysis of Walter F. Mondale’s Democratic platform, saying that it was ”bloated with political promises” that would cost taxpayers $400 billion. The House Republican leader, Robert H. Michel of Illinois, and four colleagues issued the analysis made by the House Republican Research Committee. The analysis contended that the Mondale program would add $108.5 billion annually to the Federal deficit. It cited 83 policy changes called for in the Democratic platform adopted at the party’s convention in San Francisco last month. The price tags given ranged from $1 million for a national panel on teenage suicide to $120 billion for national health insurance.
Walter F. Mondale will undertake a full-scale campaign effort to win California in the fall election, his campaign chairman, James A. Johnson, announced here today. Although Democrats have not carried the state since Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater 20 years ago, the campaign chairman said the Mondale camp had decided to focus on California in part because of Geraldine A. Ferraro’s appeal.
A Federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Bureau of Investigation may spy on domestic political groups in Chicago that advocate violent acts, even if the groups do not commit violence. Douglass Cassel Jr., an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, which opposed easing guidelines on spying, said he was ”extremely disappointed” with the decision, announced Thursday. Mr. Cassel said the majority opinion of the court ”seems to say the FBI cannot base an investigation on nonviolent crimes, such as draft resistance.”
The 6-to-1 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Appeals overturned a ruling by Federal District Judge Susan Getzendanner, who had banned the bureau from spying on Chicago organizations solely because they advocated illegal acts, violent and nonviolent. The decision also reversed a 2-to-1 ruling in February by an appeals court panel. The new ruling said the efforts of the Federal bureau to protect the public would be hampered if it was not allowed to investigate organizations that advocated violence.
Producer prices rose moderately, three-tenths of 1 percent in July. The Labor Department said it was the first increase in three months but was still a continuing sign that inflation remained in check despite the economy’s surprisingly strong growth this year.
A Federal judge was convicted in Reno of filing false income tax returns for 1979 and 1980. Judge Harry E. Claiborne is the first sitting Federal judge in United States history to be convicted of a crime committed while on the bench. He was acquitted of the charge that he intentionally failed to list a $75,000 loan in his 1978 financial disclosure statement.
Two former top officers of the Philadelphia police were convicted of using the power of their department to run a ring that extorted more than $350,000 in bribes from gambling operators. They were convicted with five co-defendants on all 48 counts in an indictment that resulted from a three-year inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
An emergency in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was declared by the City Council, after rioting that broke out Wednesday. Mayor John J. Buckley set a three-day curfew from 8 P.M. to 6 A.M. for the Lower Tower Hill neighborhood. City officials say the rioting was set off by a family feud, but Hispanic residents say the violence reflected deep ethnic divisions.
Five Ku Klux Klansmen were held on charges of breaking into homes to attack an interracial couple and a white woman believed to be associating with blacks. Justice Department officials said the Federal indictments of the Klansmen, who are from Georgia, formed the biggest case they have brought in what they described as an emerging form of Klan violence: the break-ins of homes and beatings of people associating with members of other races.
The indictments in Georgia are the latest in a series by Justice Department attorneys, who are mounting a sweeping crackdown against Klan-related violence in the South. Twenty-nine Klansmen have been indicted in 10 Federal cases since October 1982. In May, nine Ku Klux Klansmen in Alabama were indicted on civil rights charges that grew out of a melee with black demonstrators five years ago in Decatur, Alabama. “We are sending a signal to the Klan and other hate groups involved in racial violence that we will hunt them down wherever we can find them,” said Daniel Rinzel, the Justice Department’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General for civil rights.
James Hawkins Jr., whose family attracted national attention over its feud with a Los Angeles neighborhood gang, must stand trial on charges that he murdered two reputed drug dealers. Mr. Hawkins was held for trial Thursday with a paroled killer, Marshall Bridges, in the slayings of Larry Turner and Roger Grant, shot to death June 18. The men face arraignment in Superior Court August 24. Mr. Hawkins, 40 years old, was charged earlier with murder in the shooting of a gang member whose death led to the feud with the gang. The Hawkinses were the subject of a PBS television special when they armed themselves against raids by gang members. Mr. Hawkins was later charged with murdering a gang member, Anttwon Thomas, 19.
A private academy in Bloomfield, Michigan screened its Jewish applicants by marking their applications with symbols shaped like bagels, its former personnel director says in a lawsuit. Attorneys for Judith Stefanic, the personnel director at the Cranbrook Educational Community from September 1981 through November 1983, filed the suit Thursday in Oakland County Circuit Court. She says the school discriminated on the basis of sex and religion and she was dismissed for protesting. Lillian Bauder, acting president of the academy, denied that it had a policy of ethnic or sex discrimination. The suit says the personnel director discovered the use of bagel-shaped symbols shaped to distinguish Jews from other applicants.
The city of Chicago’s transit system must accept advertising by Planned Parenthood that mentions abortion, a Federal district judge ruled today. Judge Miltion I. Shadur ruled that the Chicago Transit Authority, which had refected the group’s advertising, must now lease space to the group. He declared unconstitutional the authority’s decision to reject the ads, which list abortion as one option in family planning. He also said the authority’s policy of rejecting controversial public messages had been applied in an ”invidiously discriminatory manner.” Officials of the Planned Parenthood Association/Chicago Area said they were pleased with the ruling. Bill Baxa, a spokesman for the transit authority, said it would study the decision before determining their next step.
Don Baylor led the Yankees to a 6–4 and 10–1 doubleheader sweep of the Indians at Cleveland Stadium. Baylor hit a two-run home run in each game, his 22nd and 23rd of the season, and finished with four hits and five runs batted in. He is off to his best home run production since 1982, when he hit 24 home runs. His career best was 36 in 1979. The victories gave the Yankees a 10–0 record against the Indians this season and put them in a third-place tie with the Baltimore Orioles in the American League East. The Yankees now have a 60–54 record, their best winning percentage of the season, and they have now won 24 of their 32 games (.750) since the All-Star Game break.
Claudell Washington and Dale Murphy hit consecutive third-inning homers, and Steve Bedrosian and Donnie Moore combined on a six-hitter to lead the Braves to a 3–1 victory over San Diego in the first game of a doubleheader. San Diego suffered its fourth straight loss, and Atlanta snapped a three- game losing streak. Bedrosian (8–6), making just his third start of the season, struck out four and and walked three in eight and one-third innings. The right- hander, 4-4 lifetime against the Padres, was making only his eighth lifetime start. Moore finished for his 14th save. The Padres came back to rout the Braves in the nitecap, 10–4.
Gary Carter’s solo home run broke a 2–2 eighth-inning tie tonight and the Montreal Expos went on to defeat the Chicago Cubs, 4–2, for their fourth consecutive victory. It was the Cubs’ second consecutive loss after a six-game winning streak. With one out, Carter gave the Expos the lead with a drive over the left-field wall off the reliever Tim Stoddard (8–5). It was Carter’s 23rd homer and 12th game-winning hit.
A leadoff home run by Skeeter Barnes in the 12th inning gave the Cincinnati Reds a 5–4 victory over the Houston Astros in the first game of a doubleheader. Barnes, who entered the game in the ninth as a pinch-hitter and grounded into a bases-loaded double play, hit the first pitch from Julio Solano (0–2) deep over the left-field wall. John Franco (4–0) earned the victory in relief. The Reds’ Gary Redus and Ron Oester tied the score, 4–4, with consecutive home runs in the seventh. In the second game, Bob Knepper won his 11th as the Astros beat the Reds, 11–7.
Mary Decker fell while running in the women 3,000 meter final in the Games of the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles. With little more than three laps remaining, the American world champion fell on her left knee. She tumbled to the infield and lay there, out of the race. She said Zola Budd of Britain had cut in front of her and tripped her. Maricica Puica of Rumania won the gold medal in 8 minutes 35.96 seconds. Miss Budd finished seventh and was disqualified for having interfered with Miss Decker.
The U.S. beats Spain 96-65 to win the men’s basketball gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics; future ‘dream team’ members Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin feature.
Ian Ferguson of New Zealand wins 2 canoeing gold medals in the one day taking the K-1 500 and K-2 500 (with Paul MacDonald) at the LA Olympics; wins K-4 1000 the next day.
Sweden’s Agneta Andersson takes out the women’s canoeing 500m double at the Los Angeles Olympics with wins in the K-1 and K-2 (with Anna Olsson) events.
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Matt Prater, NFL kicker (Pro Bowl, 2013, 2016; Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals), in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.
David Jones, Canadian NHL right wing (Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, Minnesota Wild), in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Jeff Marquez, MLB pitcher (Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees), in Vacaville, California.
Cyrille Aimée, French jazz singer (“Let’s Get Lost”), in Samois-sur-Seine, Fontainebleau, France.
Fridolijn [von Poll], Dutch pop singer-songwriter (Finn Silver – “Crossing the Rubicon”), in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Mariel Rodriguez [Maria Padilla], Filipina-American TV host, in the Philippines.
Ryan Eggold, American actor (“New Amsterdam”), in Lakewood, California.
[Early in the race. Decker has a slight lead with the pack right behind her.]
[This is where the inexperienced Budd, who is not used to running in traffic, starts to slide over in front of Decker — but she is too close.She should have been a full stride ahead before moving over. For her part, Mary Decker is not that used to traffic, either — she’s been running away from her competitors for a decade. It’s a recipe for heartbreak…]
[Mary Decker goes down hard, injured. Zola Budd is shaken and distracted and finishes well back.]
[If you know Decker’s star-crossed history with the Olympics, you recognize how sad this was. In 1972 she could have contended for a medal — but at 13, she was ineligible for Munich. Then she was injured in 1976 at Montreal. Moscow, 1980, she was at her peak — but Carter ordered a boycott. 1984 was supposed to be her year… It was not to be.
She qualified for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, competing at 1500 meters and 3000 meters, but finished in 8th and 10th respectively, failing to win a medal. She did not qualify for the 1992 Summer Olympics.
During her career, she won gold medals in the 1500 meters and 3000 meters at the 1983 World Championships and was the world-record holder in the mile, 5000 meters and 10,000 meters. In total, she set 17 official and unofficial world records, and she was the first woman to break 4:20 for the mile. She also set 36 U.S. national records at distances ranging from 800 meters to 10,000 meters, and has held the U.S. record in the 2000 meters and 3000 meters since the early 1980s, while her 1500 meters record stood for 32 years and her mile record stood for 38 years. In 2003, she was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame.]
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