Riot police clashed with 5,000 strikers trying to stop miners from crossing picket lines and going to work as Britain’s coal walkout entered its 23rd week. Authorities said two policemen were injured and about 50 miners were arrested in the clashes. Reports that many miners are slowly beginning to return to their jobs prompted the strikers to set up the picket lines in three northern English counties, authorities said. A London radio station reported that the miners “went on a rampage, smashing windows, uprooting fences and stoning police.”
Italian magistrates indicted 180 more members of the Red Brigades on charges linked to the December, 1981, kidnapping of U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier and other crimes committed by the terrorist group from 1978 to 1982. Those indicted include a former Italian trade union leader and his wife, accused of trying to buy, on behalf of Bulgaria, any information the Brigades may have obtained from Dozier during his captivity. The indictments follow the third judicial investigation into the leftist gang’s activities that began after the abduction of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro and his subsequent murder in 1978.
An election aimed at restoring political stability to Corsica resulted in a new stalemate on the troubled French island where separatists have been waging a violent campaign for independence. Neither the right nor the left won a majority in the second election in two years for the 61-seat regional assembly. The separatists won three assembly seats.
Thousands marched in Belfast to protest the slaying of a man by police officers trying to arrest a pro-I.R.A. American barred from Ulster. The victim, Sean Downes, was in a crowd that had gathered Sunday at a rally to hear Martin Galvin, publicity director of a group that supports the Irish Republican Army. Sporadic riots broke out in Belfast after a police attack on an Irish nationalist rally a day earlier that left one dead and at 20 wounded. Thousands of Roman Catholics carrying black flags marched to protest the police attack, and U.S. fund-raisers for the outlawed Irish Republican Army called on Americans to help arm the rebel group, which is fighting British control over Northern Ireland.
A joke by President Reagan was denounced on the front pages of Western European newspapers. While making a voice check before his weekly radio broadcast Saturday, Mr. Reagan was quoted as saying, “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to announce I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.”
Three minesweeping helicopters were sent to Saudi Arabia to widen the search for the source of explosions that have damaged tankers in the Gulf of Suez area, Washington announced. Pentagon officials said the helicopters would focus their efforts on keeping clear the channels from the Red Sea to Saudi ports. Two of the main Saudi ports on the Red Sea are Jidda and Yenbo, where Saudi naval bases are also situated. A State Department spokesman, Alan D. Romberg, told reporters that the helicopters had been sent in response to a request from the Saudi Government. The Saudis, he said, are interested “in providing security in neighboring waterways, and we’re supportive of that effort.” “As we are prepared to work closely with Egypt,” Mr. Romberg said, “we’re prepared also to do that with Saudi Arabia.”
A commentary carried today by the Government press agency Novosti asserted that the United States was exploiting the explosions in the Red Sea because it wanted to turn the area “into an American lake.” “It would be extreme naïveté to believe that Washington has planned a humane act” in sending the minesweepers, the commentary said. It said the Pentagon had orchestrated the mining in order to bolster United States military power in the region. “It was quite recently that the last Amerian serviceman left Lebanon but the Pentagon is already rushing to the Red Sea,” the article continued. “The U.S.A. is now tempted by the idea of turning the Red Sea into an American lake under the pretext of the continued Iranian-Iraqi conflict.”
Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency said today that the sending of United States ships and helicopters to hunt for mines gave the United States “a reinforced presence in the region.” In a commentary, the press agency said that “as the U.S. gunships and helicopters arrived in the Red Sea last week, so did U.S. imperialism come closer to the targets it had set itself in the Suez Canal and the Red Sea.” These objectives, it said, include “a reinforced presence in the region and an anticipated creation of a few military bases in certain states” along the Red Sea.
Egypt said Libya alone was to blame for placing mines in the Red Sea. Last Friday, President Hosni Mubarak said he suspected both Libya and Iran of involvement in the mine laying, but yesterday he told reporters, “I believe the Libyans did it.”
Over American and Israeli protests, the International Conference on Population endorsed a recommendation condemning the establishment of settlements in occupied territories. The action threw into doubt whether the United States could endorse the final report of the Mexico City conference, which is expected to be presented today.
Morocco and Libya sign an “Arabic-African Union” treaty. The Oujda Treaty (also known as the Arabic–African Federation Treaty) was signed between King Hassan II of Morocco and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya. It was approved by Moroccan voters in a referendum on 31 August, and by the Libyan General People’s Congress. The aim was to establish a “union of states” between the two, and eventually to create a “Great Arab Maghreb”. The treaty startled the administration of US president Ronald Reagan, who pointed out Libya’s untrustworthy reputation and called his leader “an instigator of international terrorism”. Other western countries like Spain or France also expressed their discomfort..
Three Afghan aircraft bombed a Pakistani village today, killing one man and wounding five women, a Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman said. The Foreign Ministry lodged a protest with the Afghan charge d’affaires in Islamabad, the spokesman said. The planes entered Pakistan at 9:45 AM and “penetrated 12 miles into Pakistani territory,” the spokesman said. “They stayed in the Pakistani airspace for 15 minutes and dropped bombs and rockets at Kum Alizai, near the village of Nafti Kot,” southwest of the border town of Parachinar. It was the first Afghan bombing of Pakistan in several months.
Troops set fire to the Sri Lankan town of Mannar in retaliation for a Tamil guerrilla ambush of a military convoy, sources said. They reported that more than 3,000 families lost their homes and that “only four to five buildings” are left standing in the town, in a Tamil area in northern Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, student demonstrators stoned the U.S. Consulate in Madras, India, where a large Tamil population has close ties to the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka. The students accused Washington of backing a Sri Lankan campaign to crush Tamil separatists.
Six Chinese nationals who hijacked a jetliner to Seoul, South Korea, 15 months ago were pardoned by the South Korean government, freed from jail and allowed to fly to Taiwan to start new lives. On arrival in Taipei later in the day, the leader of the group, Cho Chang-jen, told a press conference that he and his companions hijacked the plane because of their desire for freedom and hatred of communism. Each of the six was given the equivalent of $750 in “pocket money,” a gift from the Free China Relief Association, a Taiwan group that aids Chinese refugees.
The State Department dismissed as “preposterous” today a charge by a Nicaraguan leader that the Central Intelligence Agency had planned to murder one or more members of that country’s nine-member ruling directorate. Daniel Ortega Saavedra, coordinator of the junta, told an interviewer over the weekend that Sandinista intelligence learned of the purported plot several weeks ago. Alan D. Romberg, a State Department spokesman, noted that President Reagan issued an executive order in 1981 saying that no person employed by the United States Government “shall engage in or conspire to engage in assassination.” He added, “All U.S. Government officials comply with the terms of this order.”
Nicaragua’s Culture Minister, the Rev. Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, has said he and two other Roman Catholic priests will defy Vatican orders to quit their Government posts, which the Vatican considers incompatible with their roles as priests.
The police said today that Maoist Sendero Luminoso guerrillas killed 51 peasants, including 15 children, in attacks on three villages in south-central Peru last week. The military command at Ayacucho, the state capital in the center of the four-year war against insurgents, said it could not confirm the police report. A civil guard officer in Ayacucho said guerrillas of the Maoist-oriented Shining Path movement attacked the villages of Putajasa and Sachabamba, 90 miles south of Ayacucho, last Wednesday. He said they killed 26 people after trying them in public on charges of collaborating with the Government. The officer said guerrillas killed 25 peasants in San Pedro de Huaya on the same day, also after a public trial. He said word of the killings had just reached Ayacucho, 200 miles southeast of Lima.
Vatican sources said the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will try a Brazilian priest who follows an unorthodox theology that seeks to reconcile Roman Catholic teaching with Marxist theory. The priest, Father Leonardo Boff, 46, a lecturer at a Catholic university near Sao Paulo, Brazil, is one of the followers of so-called liberation theology who define their mission in terms of a Marxist class struggle. The congregation, a watchdog group over faith and morals, will conduct the trial September 7, the sources said.
South African leaders held an unexpected meeting with Mozambican Cabinet members today and pledged to crack down on any South African supporters of anti-Government guerrillas in Mozambique. The two countries signed a nonaggression pact in March, promising they would not allow guerrillas to operate against each other. After the meeting with Prime Minister P. W. Botha and other officials today, Teodato Hunguana, Mozambique’s Deputy Interior Minister, said private groups in South Africa and abroad were supporting the Mozambique Resistance Movement. Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha denied that any support for the guerrillas was coming from South Africa, but added, “If there is any evidence, the South African Government will not hesitate to act firmly.”
The lift that Walter F. Mondale hoped to gain from the Democratic convention and the nomination of Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro as his running mate has not materialized, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. The survey found that 62 percent of registered voters approved of having a woman as a Vice-Presidential nominee, but that the voters had a less favorable opinion of Mr. Mondale now than they did before the convention.
G.O.P. leaders opened an attack on Representative Geraldine Ferraro following her announcement that her husband would not make public his income tax returns. The attacks, led by Senator Bob Dole of Kansas and a spokesman for Vice President Bush, reflected the private judgment of President Reagan’s re- election strategists that her announcement offered a chance to dim Mrs. Ferraro’s luster as the new star of the campaign year. The announcement ran counter to her earlier promise of full financial disclosure by her and her husband, John A. Zaccaro. Republican strategists said that for the first time the Republicans had a “genderless issue” that they could use to discredit Mrs. Ferraro without risking a backlash of sympathy for her.
The President and First Lady are made honorary members of the U.S. Olympic team and presented with Olympic blazers by the medalists. President Reagan presents a Steuben glass eagle to nine U.S. Olympic Medalists for the future U.S. Olympics Halls of Fame.
The issue of possible tax increases next year continued to plague Republicans as they began deliberations in Dallas on their party platform for the fall campaign. A draft of the Republican platform released tonight pledged the party to “categorically reject proposals to increase taxes in a misguided effort to balance the budget.” But it was uncertain tonight whether this language would satisfy conservatives who argued for a blanket condemnation of all tax increases in a second Reagan term. Accordingly, there was still a possibility of a fight Tuesday when subcommittees of the full platform committee start polishing the draft document. President Reagan tried to resolve the persistent issue of tax increases on Sunday by saying that he would only raise taxes as a “last resort,” if all other attempts to reduce the budget deficit fail. But testimony here today before the platform committee indicated that the quarrels in the party had not been resolved.
Antoinette Hatfield said she had received $55,000, not $40,000, from a Greek businessman whose proposed trans-African oil pipeline was strongly endorsed by her husband, Senator Mark O. Hatfield, Republican of Oregon. Senator Hatfield, saying he had made “an error in judgment,” announced the couple had given to a charity an amount equal to the real estate fees received by his wife.
U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Wiseman denied the Justice Department’s request for a hearing on its objections to a proposed settlement of a lawsuit calling for racial desegregation of Tennessee state colleges and universities. The Justice Department was the only one of four parties to the 16-year-old lawsuit that failed to agree to the settlement reached two weeks ago. William Bradford Reynolds, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, argued that a proposal to recruit 75 blacks a year for enrollment in professional schools would discriminate against whites. Wiseman asked lawyers to modify wording on racial goals for professional training.
Two Polish sailor trainees who jumped a sailing tall ship in Detroit asked immigration officials for political asylum. Waldemar Kaczmarski, 23, and Grzegorz Solowiez, 25, contacted sources in the city’s large Polish community after they left the 140-foot sailing ship Zawisza Czarny. The ship sailed for Toronto without the pair, both from the city of Nowa Sol in west-central Poland. Sailor trainees on board the three-masted ship were drawn from sailing clubs throughout Poland and had been flown from Poland to Quebec to sail on a cruise of the Great Lakes, Captain Jan Sauer said before the incident.
A moderate earthquake struck south-central Alaska, breaking dishes and causing other minor damage in Anchorage as buildings swayed and street lights flickered. No injuries were reported. The quake, which hit about 5:02 pm, measured at 5.7 on the Richter scale of ground motion, and was centered 60 miles northeast of Anchorage in the Chugach Mountains, said a spokesman for the Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer. The quake was felt from Fairbanks, about 300 miles north of Anchorage, to Cordova, about 150 miles southeast of Anchorage.
Police in Florida cordoned off a plane believed to have unloaded 1,300 pounds of cocaine worth $97 million on an unfinished highway. Following the lead of a caller who reported a low-flying plane, sheriff’s deputies and customs agents found 29 sealed boxes and duffel bags of cocaine abandoned on an incomplete section of Interstate 95 just north of the Martin County line, said a U.S. Customs’ spokesman. A plane matching the caller’s description was cordoned off at Pompano Air Park in Pompano Beach. Inside, agents found empty cardboard boxes of the type found filled with cocaine on the highway.
Two men and two women were arrested in the Tower Hill neighborhood of Lawrence, Massachusetts, as they passed out what a police supervisor said “looked like communist propaganda.” The city lifted a dusk-to-dawn curfew but retained a state of emergency in the area, which had been hit by two nights of rioting between whites and Latinos. “We think things have gotten to the point where we don’t need a curfew,” said Mayor John J. Buckley after attending a closed session with the City Council. The Mayor was expected to introduce a plan to improve conditions in the neighborhood.
A police officer discovered a ticking bomb aboard a bus carrying the baggage of the Turkish Olympic team to the Los Angeles International Airport today and disarmed it moments before it was to explode, the authorities said. The discovery forced the evacuation of about 6,000 people from three terminals at the airport, the police said. The athletes had arrived ahead of the bus carrying their baggage, said Police Chief Daryl Gates. Officer Jim Pearson, who was assigned to a unit providing Olympic security, “was checking around the area and noticed something shiny that shouldn’t have been” on the exterior of the bus, Chief Gates said. “He heard the ticking, the alarm went off” and the officer “pulled some wires” loose, apparently disarming it.
Rep. Tony Coelho (D-California) received the fourth-highest share of the $32.8 million that political action committees have given House candidates for this fall’s elections, according to a study released by Public Citizen Congress Watch. Coelho, who received $228,297 from the committees during 1983 and the first half of 1984, was the only Californian ranked in the top 10 by the organization, founded by citizen advocate Ralph Nader. Congress Watch, using information obtained from the Federal Election Commission, also found that Senate candidates have received $15.6 million from PACS during the same 18-month period. There is no California Senate race this year. Of the $48,464,201 that PACS have given to candidates for this fall’s House and Senate races, more than $40 million — or 83% — has gone to incumbents, the study. found.
A flier was rescued today from a life raft by a Soviet merchant ship after ditching her small plane in the Pacific 535 miles northeast of Hawaii. The pilot, Heidi Porch, 28 years old, of Vacaville, California, was later transferred to a United States Navy freighter. She was reported in good condition.
Parched West Texas has had rain for a week. The downpours totaling up to two inches raised hopes that more than two years of devastating drought might be approaching an end. The drought has forced the sale or removal of two-thirds of the ranch animals in Pecos County.
The biological causes of alcoholism and its effects on the human brain are being learned by researchers. It is believed that the latest findings will provide important elements of understanding — physiological and genetic — for why some people become alcoholics, but most do not; why some drinkers stay friendly, but others become hostile.
The best energy-producing windmill may be an odd device that looks like an inverted eggbeater. The new design is more efficient, smaller, simpler and less expensive than current models.
At Cooperstown, the Detroit Tigers beat the Atlanta Braves, 7–5, in the annual Hall of Fame Game.
The Minnesota Twins downed the Milwaukee Brewers, 5–1. Kent Hrbek and Randy Bush hit consecutive home runs in Minnesota’s five- run fourth inning, and John Butcher (10–7) scattered six hits while walking none and striking out two. Don Sutton (11–10) worked four and two-thirds innings and took the loss. The victory gave the Twins a two- game lead over the California Angels, who were idle, in the American League’s Western Division.
Mike Boddicker pitched a one-hitter and Lenn Sakata belted a two-run home run to lead Baltimore Orioles to a 2-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Boddicker (14-8) allowed only a third-inning double by Rance Mulliniks. He struck out six and walked one in pitching his ninth complete game. The right-hander has allowed two or fewer runs in 16 of his 24 starts.
The Kansas City Royals beat the Boston Red Sox, 6–1, as Darryl Motley hit a home run and Bud Black scattered seven hits to snap a personal four-game losing streak. Black (11–10), winless in six starts since the All-Star Game break, struck out six and walked one as the Royals ended a four-game losing skid. Dennis Boyd (7-9) suffered the loss. Motley, starting his first game since he injured a knee Aug. 9, gave the Royals a 3–1 lead in the fourth inning with a towering home run deep into the right field bullpen, his 10th of the season.
Jerry Mumphrey’s single with one out in the ninth inning gave the Houston Astros a 2–1 victory over the Chicago Cubs tonight. Jose Cruz singled with one out off Scott Sanderson (6–3), the Chicago starter, and stole second to set up Mumphrey’s single. Houston’s Bill Dawley (6–4), who pitched the final two innings. and Mike LaCoss, the starter, combined to hold the Cubs to four hits. Sanderson allowed eight hits.
David Green tripled to touch off a four-run rally in the fifth inning, and Bruce Sutter recorded his 31st save, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5–3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. Ricky Horton (7–2), the St. Louis starter, shutout the Reds until they scored with two out in the eighth on singles by Dave Concepcion and Dave Parker and Nick Esasky’s triple. Horton, who allowed only two hits over the first six innings, yielded two more in the seventh, but escaped from that threat.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1220.08 (+1.99).
Born:
Boone Logan, MLB pitcher (Chicago White Sox, Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees, Colorado Rockies, Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers), in San Antonio, Texas.
Anssi Salmela, Finnish NHL defenseman (New Jersey Devils, Atlanta Thrashers), in Nokia, Finland.
Kareem Moore, NFL safety (Washington Redskins), in Tupelo, Mississippi.
James Morrison [Catchpole], British singer, songwriter and guitarist (“You Give Me Something”; “Broken Strings”), born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
Died:
Clyde Cook, 92, actor (“Dawn Patrol”, “Jazz Heaven”), in his sleep.
Tigran Petrosian, 55, Soviet Armenian World Chess Champion (1963-69), of stomach cancer.
[Ed: Jerzy Popiełuszko has a little over two months to live. He will be murdered by three agents of Służba Bezpieczeństwa (Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Polish secret police).]
[Sorry there, Kiddo. “The Coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”]
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