Members of Congress vowed to block the Reagan Administration’s new population policy if changes cannot be achieved through compromise. Six members – five Democrats and one Republican – objected to the Administration’s new policy of denying family planning funds to international private organizations that “perform or actively promote” abortion whether or not United States funds are used for that purpose. Representative James H. Scheuer, Democrat of New York, said the policy was “a bizarre misapplication of United States power and influence.”
In a search for a New York lawyer in Northern Ireland, where he has been banned, the police in Belfast fired plastic bullets into a crowd of several thousand at a political rally, killing a man and wounding at least 12 people. The man they were looking for, Martin Galvin, was about to address the rally when the police moved on the crowd. He escaped as police officers in jeeps fired volleys into the crowd while baton-wielding officers charged, trampling screaming protesters.
Mr. Galvin, publicity director of the New York-based Irish Northern Aid Committee, which supports the outlawed Irish Republican Army, was barred 10 days ago from entering the province. The Government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it feared that the I.R.A. would stage violent incidents to impress Mr. Galvin. Mr. Galvin had said he would defy the Government order. He reportedly slipped into Londonderry on Thursday from the neighboring Republic of Ireland, where he arrived three days ago with a 130-member contingent from the aid committee. Mr. Galvin was believed to have been hiding in Belfast for the last two days.
The crowd, which had gathered outside the headquarters of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.’s political wing, cheered when the Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, declared: “To the Royal Ulster Constabulary and British soldiers and to those in charge, if you want to kill men, women and children, this is your opportunity because we’re not moving. Let’s welcome Martin Galvin.” Mr. Galvin did not say a word. The police charged the moment he came out of the building to address the rally. As soon as the police moved in, Mr. Adams dragged him back into the two-story building. Women and children screamed: “Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!” Roman Catholic youths shouted at the police, “You’ll pay for this!”
The West German army is so ill-equipped and weak that the Atlantic Alliance could withstand a conventional Warsaw Pact attack for only seven days, the West German magazine Der Spiegel said. Basing its article on a recent report to the West German Defense Ministry by Inspector General Wolfgang Altenburg, Der Speigel said the army lacks modern and efficient reconnaissance and command systems, adequate radar equipment and sufficient stocks of ammunition. He said the “grave weaknesses” of the army would force the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to rely on a nuclear escalation in the event of an attack from the East.
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl rejected Soviet charges that his government is trying to reunite West and East Germany and absorb lost territories to regain the Third Reich’s pre-war borders. He also said in an interview with the right-wing newspaper Bild that he is confident East German leader Erich Honecker will carry out a planned visit to West Germany next month despite Soviet hostility to the trip.
Britain may be liable to pay compensation to Australian aborigines alleged to have been contaminated in atomic bomb tests 30 years ago, the Observer newspaper said in London. It said liability was spelled out in a 1956 treaty between Australia and Britain that has been kept secret. The file was to have remained closed until 1999, but the Observer said it has seen a copy. The nuclear tests, in the south Australian Outback, were carried out between 1952 and 1957.
Leaders of Israel’s ruling Likud bloc and the opposition Labor Party decided to accelerate efforts to form a national unity government, officials said. After their fifth meeting since last month’s inconclusive election, party leaders said they will set up two small subcommittees to find common ground on economic and foreign affairs. Each party is to nominate the committee members today, and talks are to begin immediately.
Libya said it did not place mines in the Red Sea, and Iran repeated that it was not responsible. Italian officials said their Government was considering a request by Egypt to join British, French and American forces in the search for the mines or explosives. The Netherlands and Greece were willing to help, according to diplomatic sources in Cairo.
Lebanon published a list of people described as being held in army or police jails. The list of more than 700 people was issued under growing pressure from the relatives of thousands of missing people.At least 19 people were killed Saturday night when bombs wrecked a police station outside this northern city, witnesses said today. The Government, which blamed Tamil separatists for the blasts, put the death toll at 11. A Tamil political party implied that the bombing was the work of the Government’s security forces. The blasts exacted the heaviest toll of any single incident since April 4, when the guerrillas began a new offensive for a separate state for the Tamil minority. According to official figures, 70 people have died so far. The bombs went off at the police station in Chunnakam, which was attacked by guerrillas twice last week. The sources said the two-story building was wrecked. Witnesses said 19 bodies had been recovered.
Japan’s effort to produce computers that can reason like human beings is running into budget and staffing problems that threaten the project announced in 1981 under the name Fifth Generation. The project has already drastically cut back on some highly publicized goals, such as the development of technology to allow computers to “see,” understand human speech and to translate from one language to another.
The South Korean government announced an amnesty for 1,730 people, including 714 former political prisoners. The amnesty restored civil rights to the 714 ‘who were previously released. They include dissidents who allegedly plotted a rebellion against the government in the summer of 1980. The amnesty becomes effective on Tuesday, the 36th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of South Korea. It was the 17th amnesty decreed by Chun Doo Hwan since he became president in August, 1980.
A United Nations conference on population in Mexico City that was due to end Sunday has been extended to Tuesday because of the delegates’ failure to reach a consensus on guidelines to limit population growth. Delegates to the 148-nation conference blamed the United States for the delay because of its emphasis on free-market economic factors in population growth. Chief U.S. delegate James L. Buckley said that under the free-market system, more children are not a problem, since people “are producers as well as consumers.”
The $70 million emergency aid for El Salvador approved by Congress Friday will enable it to counter the threat of a major offensive by the rebels in September, Reagan Administration officials said.
A cocaine removal program in Peru sponsored by the United States has been suspended because of guerrilla raids in the cocaine-growing area, American officials said. The guerrillas are members of the Shining Path movement, who say they are fighting to impose a Chinese-style political system in Peru. In recent weeks, they have killed local policemen, attacked the installations of United States and Peruvian Government employees and routed the United States-trained narcotics strike force in Peru’s cocaine-growing region and its center, Tingo Maria, a town 340 miles northeast of the Peruvian capital. Many workers in the $30 million program in the area around Tingo Maria were withdrawn late last month, United States officials said in interviews last week, and efforts to destroy coca fields and the program to create alternative crops have been halted. Until the Peruvian armed forces regain control of the situation, a United States official said, “we are at a standstill.” “All field operations have been stopped,” he said.
The signing of a truce between the urban guerrilla group known as M-19 and the Government has been indefinitely postponed as a result of the slaying last week of an M-19 founder, official sources said today. The truce was to end 15 years of insurgency. It was to be signed this week after a similar cease-fire in April with the country’s other main rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces, according to official and rebel sources. But the agreement, which would have involved a third guerrilla group, the Popular Liberation Army, has been delayed by the murder on Friday of Carlos Toledo Plata by unidentified gunmen, the sources said.
At least 37 people have been killed in clashes between Colombian troops and left-wing guerrillas who raided the town of Yumbo, 180 miles southwest of Bogota, in revenge for the murder of Carlos Toledo Plata, a founder-member of the M-19 rebel group. The killing of Toledo last week in the city of Bucamaranga by unidentified gunmen prompted an indefinite postponement of a truce between M-19 and the government. The government said three soldiers, two civilians and 32 presumed guerrillas were killed in the fighting.
Rebels from Chad ended five days of talks today by setting up a third force opposed both to President Hissen Habre and to the main guerrilla group. A statement issued after the talks here in Bourkina Fasso, formerly Upper Volta, said the group was named the Assembly of Patriotic Chadian Forces, whose factions rejected Mr. Habre’s “dictatorial” Government.
The leftist Government of Congo was reorganized today after a meeting Saturday night of the Politburo of the ruling Congolese Workers Party in Brazzaville. The reorganization was expected after a party congress last month increased the powers of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso. Former Education Minister Antoine Ndinga Oba has been promoted to Foreign Minister, replacing Pierre Nze, who retains his position as secretary of the Central Committee. Former Prime Minister Ambroise Noumazamaye has been named Industry Minister, replacing Jean Itady, who is leaving the government. Daniel Abibi, Minister of Information, Posts and Telecommunications, has been named Minister for Secondary and Higher Education, a new post. He will be replaced by Gilbert Bembet, adviser to the President.
Tax increases next year would only be “a last resort” and they would have to be accompanied by new tax benefits for some Americans, President Reagan and Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan said. In separate statements, the President and Mr. Regan offered their latest views of the conditions under which they could foresee tax increases.
The President and First Lady leave the ranch after two weeks and go to the Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles.
Geraldine A. Ferraro’s tax returns will be released by her, she said, but her husband’s will not be released as part of her effort to make a full disclosure of her financial affairs. Representative Ferrarro, the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, said her husband had resisted her request to make public his tax returns.
The Pentagon is spending more in fewer states as a result of the Reagan Administration’s military buildup, according to an independent analysis of taxes received and allocated by the Defense Department in the fiscal year 1983.
Mark O. Hatfield’s financial reports for 1982 and 1983 indicate that the senator may have had financial difficulties at the time he became involved with a Greek businessman seeking to construct an oil pipeline across Africa. The forms show large liabilities and personal loans from friends.
Two former employees of Greek financier Basil A. Tsakos have charged in sworn congressional testimony that Antoinette Hatfield, wife of Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-Oregon), performed no services for $40,000 she was paid by Tsakos and that the senator’s account of her real estate work for Tsakos is “a total fabrication.” The Washington Post reported that according to a transcript of their closed-door testimony August 1 before the Senate Select Committee on Ethics staff, Margaret Stocker, who served periodically as Tsakos’ personal secretary, and Marilyn Mangan, an attorney, also said Tsakos offered Hatfield the presidency of his company designed to build a trans-Africa oil pipeline, but the senator declined the offer.
The Environmental Protection Agency will allow mangoes containing residues of the pesticide EDB to be imported even though other fruit bearing the chemical will be banned September 1. The EPA said it was proposing rules allowing the importation of mangoes with up to 30 parts per billion of EDB until September 1, 1985. The one-year extension for mangoes will permit development of other treatments to prevent the spread of destructive fruit flies, the agency said. EDB is believed to be a cause of cancer and birth defects.
Restoration of Federal safety rules at amusement parks after a series of recent amusement park accidents has won support in Congress. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has jurisdiction over traveling amusement rides, but Congress lifted its jurisdiction over permanent installations in 1981.
Firefighters in Oregon and Idaho brought range fires under control, but feared that forecasted thunderstorms could spark new flames. Firefighters in southeastern Oregon said they had extinguished three of seven major range fires that were sparked by lightning and blackened 51,000 acres of brush. They expected to control the other four blazes soon. In southern Idaho, at least 15 brush fires burned more than 106,000 acres during the weekend but most were brought under control.
The man charged with planting six pipe bombs in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and suspected of planting more than 20 others will plead innocent by reason of mental illness, his attorney said. Earl Steven Karr, 24, is believed responsible for bombings in Stillwater, Minnesota, LaCrosse and Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and Milwaukee and Chicago. After he stands trial in St. Cloud, Karr will face charges in the other jurisdictions.
Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested two men in wet suits at Pier 8 in Brooklyn, and seized 75 pounds of cocaine worth $7.5 million in New York. The cargo ship Republica de Colombia was docked at the adjoining pier, and agents theorized the drugs were lowered to the two swimmers, DEA spokesman Andy Pucher said. The two arrested identified themselves as Carlos Palacio, 29, and Hidalgo Mecolta, both of Buenaventura, Colombia.
Clues that ethnic unrest was brewing in the industrial city of Lawrence, Massachusetts were apparent at least three years before hostility between Hispanic residents and other people erupted last week in two nights of rioting, a Federal Justice Department official says. Martin Walsh, regional director of the Justice Department’s community relations service, was quoted by The Boston Globe today as saying his agency tried several years ago to bring city officials and Hispanic residents together to discuss their problems, but the effort collapsed because Hispanic leaders “felt the city wasn’t exhibiting good faith.” But Mayor John J. Buckley, elected to his current term last year, said today that he was not aware of the extent of the Justice Department’s concern. The troubled Lower Tower Hill neighborhood was calm today after the second night of a dusk-to-dawn curfew. City officials decided to continue the curfew for a third night.
More than 160 persons were evacuated from their homes in western Pennsylvania, where seven communities were under a state of emergency because of floodwaters. About 100 residents of Brady’s Bend Township, Pennsylvania, were evacuated to a nearby church after Sugar Creek overflowed, Armstrong County spokesman Gerald Shuster said. Sixty more persons were evacuated near Glade Run, another stream, but began returning home by midday, Shuster said. Damage was estimated at $3 million. Flash-flood watches were declared for northern Virginia, the District of Columbia and most of Maryland.
Directors of the California Jaycees voted unanimously Saturday to urge the national organization to allow women full membership in the community service group. The board of directors, in a special meeting, voted 206 to 0 to support the bylaw change mandated by a Supreme Court decision. The United States Jaycees are scheduled to vote August 16 on a proposal to change the group’s governing policy to admit women. The vote was taken Saturday by the California Jaycees’ group after a legal representative explained the impact of a Supreme Court decision on August 3. The Court upheld the use of a Minnesota public accommodations law banning sex discrimination in civic groups.
A 17-hour negotiating session failed to resolve a dispute on economic issues and end a month-long strike at 45 private hospitals and nursing homes in New York. The three federal mediators in the dispute urged bargainers for the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes and District 1199 of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers Union to make “hard decisions” to end the walkout by 52,000 health-care workers before patient care suffers and the strike spreads to 30 other hospitals.
Four passengers on a Delta Airlines flight from Bermuda to Atlanta were injured Saturday when the wide-bodied jet encountered severe air turbulence over the Atlantic Ocean, an airline spokesman said. Jim Ewing, the Delta spokesman, said Flight 89, an L-1011 carrying 235 passengers and a crew of 13, encountered “severe turbulence” while a meal was being served about 80 miles east of Charleston, South Carolina. The plane landed without incident at Atlanta International Airport about 3:40 PM, Mr. Ewing said, and four people were taken to a hospital. “I’m not aware of the extent of the injuries,” Mr. Ewing said. “They were admitted overnight for observation.”
Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, and Luis Aparicio are inducted into the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York.
In one of the ugliest brawl-filled games in Major League history, the Atlanta Braves beat the San Diego Padres 5–3 in Atlanta. The trouble begins when Atlanta’s Pascual Perez hits Alan Wiggins in the back with the first pitch of the game, and escalates as the Padres pitchers retaliate by throwing at Perez all 4 times he comes to the plate. All in all, the game features 2 bench-clearing brawls, the 2nd of which includes several fans, and 17 ejections, including both managers and both replacement managers. Padres manager Dick Williams will be suspended for 10 days and fined $10,000, while Braves manager Joe Torre and 5 players will each receive 3-game suspensions. But the brawl in Atlanta, as Dave Campbell observed, “woke the Padres up out of their doldrums.”
Ron Cey broke a sixth-inning tie with a 2-run home run and Rick Sutcliffe won his eighth decision in a row as the Chicago Cubs beat the Montreal Expos, 7–3, this afternoon. Sutcliffe struck out 11, walked none and picked up a run batted in on a ninth-inning double. He surrendered eight hits and is 10–1 with the Cubs since being acquired from the Cleveland Indians June 13. Steve Rogers (3–12) took the loss, his seventh in seven decisions.
Ron Darling’s first successful pitching effort in five weeks, George Foster’s second home run in two days and a timely two-run double by Ron Hodges yesterday sent the New York Mets packing for the West Coast in bouyant spirits. The 6–3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates, which lifted Darling’s record to 11–5 and provided Wes Gardner with his first major league save, gave the Mets a split of this four-game Shea Stadium series, when defeats in the first two games ran their losing streak to six.
The Baltimore Orioles score 5 runs in the 8th and beat the host Toronto Blue Jays, 5–4. Birds manager Joe Altobelli gets ejected for disputing a fair/foul call bringing today’s ejection total to 18, a Major League record. Eddie Murray ripped a bases-loaded triple and Mike Young belted a two-run home run to highlight a five-run eighth inning and rally the Orioles. Scott McGregor (13-11) went seven and one-third innings to snap a personal four-game losing streak. Tippy Martinez went the final one and two- thirds innings for his 16th save.
Bert Blyleven tosses a shutout and Joe Carter drives in all the runs as the Cleveland Indians beat the New York Yankees, 6–0. Carter hits a 2-run homer and a grand slam, both off Ron Guidry. For the previous two days, the Yankees had overrun the Indians with 26 runs and 40 hits in victories of 6–4, 10–1 and 10–1. Backed by Carter’s offensive output, though, the Indians’ Bert Blyleven silenced the Yankees. The veteran righthander didn’t allow a man to third base until the ninth, when he gave up singles to Rick Cerone and Don Mattingly, and he otherwise kept them off balance with a good mixture of fastballs and curves.
In a slugfest featuring 7 home runs, the California Angels outlast Oakland, 10–9. Rob Wilfong singled in Gary Pettis to cap a 3-run California rally in the eighth inning that enabled the Angels to break a four-game losing streak in a game that featured seven home runs. With the Angels trailing, 9–7, Pettis tied the score with a two-out triple to drive in Juan Beniquez and Mike Brown, a pinch-hitter. Wilfong’s game-winning R.B.I., his first of the season, made a loser of Bill Caudill (8–5). Luis Sanchez (8–5) got the win despite surrendering a solo home run in the top of the eighth to Mike Davis. Dwayne Murphy has two homers and Tony Phillips and Mike Davis one apiece for the A’s. Reggie Jackson has a homer for California, and Juan Beniquez adds four hits, including 2 homers.
The Boston Red Sox top the Texas Rangers, 3–2, in 11 innings as they are helped by Texas’ George Wright. Wright ties an American League record by leaving 11 runners on base as he goes 0-for–6. The last to match it was Jiggs Donahue, in 1907. David Ortiz will top it in 2009.
Frank Viola tossed a six-hit shutout and Andre David banged four hits to lead the Minnesota Twins to a 3–0 victory over the Seattle Mariners today. Viola (13–10) allowed just one walk and struck out four. The left-hander has won nine of his last 12 starts since June 8. He has nine complete games and four shutouts this season.
Carlos Lopes of Portugal wins the men’s marathon at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2:09:21, an Olympic record that stands for 24 years.
A count of the medals as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad came to a close in Los Angeles found that the United States won 82 gold medals. Rumania was second with 20. The United States won a total of 173 medals, followed by West Germany with 59. But despite the success, the question of what would have happened if the Soviet Union and the 13 other nations that chose not to attend had come here will remain.
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Delanie Walker, NFL tight end (Pro Bowl, 2015-2017; San Francisco 49ers, Tennessee Titans), in Los Angeles, California.
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