The Kremlin continued its criticism of President Reagan’s joking remark about bombing the Soviet Union, characterizing it as unprecedentedly hostile “invective” that endangered world peace. “This conduct is incompatible with the high responsibility borne by leaders of states, particularly nuclear powers, for the destinies of their own peoples and for the destinies of mankind,” the Soviet government said.
Minesweeping forces from the United States, Britain and France crossed the Suez Canal and made ready to search the Gulf of Suez for explosives that have damaged commercial shipping. Meanwhile, Egyptian officials made public new information that further appeared to implicate Libya in the planting of mines in Red Sea waters. Egypt had earlier blamed both Libya and Iran for the explosions, but on Monday Cairo backed off the accusations against Iran. Officials also said the Egyptian authorities were now under orders to search all Libyan, Iranian and other “suspect” ships entering the canal. Any ship found to have given false information about its cargo would be fined 30,000 Egyptian pounds, about $25,000, and barred from using the canal for two years, officials said.
One Egyptian official close to his Government’s investigation of the mining incidents said the Libyan ship Ghada was increasingly suspected of having planted the mines that have damaged at least 17 ships in the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea since July 9. Libya has denied any involvement in the explosions. According to the Egyptian official, the Ghada entered the northern end of the canal on July 6. It was carrying what it declared as “general cargo.” “The ship was checked for general cargo, and general cargo was found,” the official said. “Therefore, we did not search the ship.” The Ghada crossed the canal and traveled down the Gulf of Suez to Assab, a port in Ethiopia, unloaded its cargo, and headed back for the canal. Such a round-trip usually takes four days. Discharging cargo requires another four, the official said. But the Ghada spent 15 days making the same trip.
The man who was killed by the police at an Irish Republican Army rally here Sunday was buried this afternoon after a simple funeral attended by thousands. The services for the man, Sean Downes, 22 years old, at St. Agnes Church took place about 100 yards from where he was struck by a plastic bullet while attending a rally at which Martin Galvin, an American supporter of the I.R.A. banned from Northern Ireland by the British authorities, had tried to speak. At least 20 people were wounded at the rally. Mr. Galvin is publicity director of the New York-based Northern Irish Aid Committee, called Noraid, which supports the I.R.A. There had been much speculation that Mr. Galvin, who eluded the police trying to arrest him, would appear at the funeral, but he did not. The service was marked by pleas for peace from the Rev. Sean McCartney, who conducted the service. “We pray that his tragic death will not be made an excuse or justification for deaths in our community,” Father McCartney said. “We pray that those working for unity and reconciliation, healing of divisions in our community, will overcome their disappointment at Sunday’s events and continue their difficult task.”
The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military. The PKK, also known as Kongra-Gel, is a militant Marxist-Leninist Kurdish separatist group established in 1978 with the goal of creating a unified, independent Kurdistan. Since 1984, the PKK has been involved in asymmetric warfare in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict (with several ceasefires between 1993 and 2013–2015). The establishment of an armed wing, the Kurdistan Liberation Force (Hêzên Rizgariya Kurdistan – HRK) was announced on this day in 1984.
About 300,000 cheering Roman Catholic pilgrims waved U.S. flags and banners of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity trade union as Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago pledged American solidarity with the Polish people at an emotional Mass in the shrine city of Czestochowa. The pilgrims sang “God give us a free Poland” during the Mass before the 14th-Century Black Madonna icon at the Jasna Gora monastery. Later, the Polish primate, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, told the crowd that 652 political prisoners recently released under a government amnesty will be protected by the church.
Israeli police defused a powerful time bomb minutes before it was set to explode in a car parked outside the headquarters of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s Herut Party in Jerusalem. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bomb, but Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas were suspected because of slogans painted under the car’s hood. “The building was packed,” a police spokesman said. “A great tragedy was averted.”
Kuwait, which was refused anti-aircraft missiles by the United States, signed a $300-million arms deal with the Soviet Union that will put Soviet military advisers in the Persian Gulf nation for the first time. No details were given, but the official Kuwaiti news agency said the agreement covered advanced equipment for the air force and air defense command. Kuwait, the gulf country closest to the Iran-Iraq war zone, had told Washington that it needed the missiles to protect its oil tankers against attack.
The Iranian Parliament fired the country’s defense minister and four other senior Cabinet officialsnearly a quarter of the government ministers-in an implicit rebuke to Prime Minister Hussein Moussavi’s administration. The dismissal of Defense Minister Mohammed Salimi was seen as a sign of parliamentary displeasure over the conduct of Iran’s war with Iraq. The Parliament also approved three Cabinet nominations, including that of Mohammed Reyshahri to the key post of information minister.
Nearly 200 people were missing and believed drowned after a ferry capsized, and 33 people were killed by pirates in a separate incident off the Malaysian coast, the Malaysian Police Commissioner said today. The Commissioner, Yahaya Yeop Ishak, said nearly 200 Indonesians, most of them timber workers, had apparently drowned when a ferry capsized Monday off the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah. Six of those aboard were rescued by fishermen, he added. The pirate attack occurred Saturday on a boat sailing from eastern Malaysia to the southern Philippines, the Commissioner said. The victims were Philippine Moslems living in Malaysia.
China objects to the reported deployment of Tomahawk nuclear cruise missiles on U.S. ships based in Japan, a high-ranking Chinese official told a visiting Japanese Socialist delegation. State Councilor Ji Pengfei told the visitors that China opposes Moscow’s deployment of SS-20 missiles on the Soviet Union’s Asian borders with China and, “at the same time, we oppose… Tomahawk missiles in Japan.” It was the first time Peking has expressed its opinion on the Tomahawks, which have become a divisive issue in Japan.
Two private human rights groups charged that Salvadoran armed forces have killed thousands of civilians and displaced hundreds of thousands with indiscriminate aerial bombing, shelling and military sweeps. The charge was made in a report by Americas Watch and the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights, both based in New York. They cited a “marked decline” in death squad killings and disappearances after stern U.S. warnings to Salvadoran security forces, but said they cannot agree that the human rights situation is improving.
The Soviet Union has replaced Mexico as Nicaragua’s principal oil supplier during the first part of this year, industry and diplomatic sources told the Washington Post. Mexico reduced shipments beginning in January because of delays in payments by the Nicaraguans, Mexican officials said. At that time, other sources said, the Soviets stepped in to fill the gap, and they now provide about 60% of Nicaraguan oil imports.
By the time a special claims office stops operations September 2, the United States will have paid about $1.6 million in compensation for damage caused during last year’s invasion of Grenada, a military spokesman said today. The spokesman, Captain Jeffrey Harris, told the Caribbean news agency CANA that the claims office will have distributed the money to nearly 700 claimants, including relatives of 18 patients who were killed when United States forces bombed a mental hospital during the assault last October. Most of the money will go to people whose property was damaged in fighting between United States troops and the Cuban-backed army of the leftist government ousted by the invasion forces, he added. United States troops, accompanied by small forces from a number of Caribbean nations, invaded Grenada after the leftist Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop, was killed by hard-line Marxists in his own government.
An outspoken weekly Namibian newspaper, The Windhoek Observer, has been shut down by the South African authorities, the paper’s lawyer, David Smuts, said today. The authorities have accused The Observer of supporting the South-West Africa People’s Organization, which has been waging a guerrilla war aimed at ending South African rule of the territory, also known as Namibia. The editor, Hannes Smith, who started the paper six years ago, said, “Although we had been expecting this for a long time, it seems unbelievable.” Mr. Smith said the newspaper had been closed because “we have relentlessly exposed the worst administration this country has ever had, without pulling any punches.”
A budget deficit of $172.4 billion for fiscal year 1985, just $1.9 billion less than the projected deficit for the current fiscal year, was predicted by the Reagan Administration in its midyear budget review. The projection shows a significantly lower deficit than the one predicted recently by the Congressional Budget Office.
The average family is better off now than it was in 1980, but the disparities in the incomes of rich and poor people have widened markedly, according to a major study by the Urban Institute of President Reagan’s domestic policies. The study said that real average family income rose 3.5 percent in the last four years, to $21,000.
The President and First Lady return to the White House.
The President and First Lady entertain Ted Graber for dinner.
Geraldine A. Ferraro has often been closely involved with her husband’s real estate business and finances, according to public records. Representative Ferraro, the Democratic Vice- Presidential candidate, is to make a full disclosure of her finances Monday. Yesterday, her husband, John A. Zaccaro, said he was “reconsidering” whether to make public his income tax returns.
The Senate Ethics Committee will wait until September to decide whether to proceed with its investigation into the dealings of Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-Oregon) and a Greek financier, a spokeswoman said. Congress reconvenes September 5. Hatfield is under investigation to determine whether $55,000 his wife received from Basil Tsakos influenced the senator to support a trans-African oil pipeline Tsakos was promoting.
The Environmental Protection Agency proclaimed creosote an “unreasonable risk to public health” and proposed a partial ban of the heavily used wood preservative and pesticide. The agency, which last month decided to substantially restrict availability of the substance for use on wood, said six years of scientific tests have linked creosote with cancer and mutations in test animals and skin cancer in humans.
Temporary curbs on air traffic at six of the nation’s busiest airports might be imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration if the airlines are unable to reduce delays caused by congestion. The regulatory agency’s policy would affect the three New York City area airports as well as Chicago’s O’Hare, Atlanta’s Hartsfield and Denver’s Stapleton.
Caution on Three Mile Island was urged by Governor Dick Thornburgh of Pennsylvania. At a crowded, day- long hearing in Washington, Mr. Thornburgh warned Federal regulators against evading many unresolved safety questions that have delayed a restart of the undamaged Unit 1 at the disabled nuclear power plant near Harrisburg.
More than 1,600 pounds of uncut cocaine packed in Baggies and placed in trunks stacked like cords of wood was found at a remote Arizona airstrip. It was estimated to be worth $148 million, one of the largest seizures ever of the drug, police said in Globe, Arizona. Four men were arrested. Gila County sheriff’s deputies, joined by state and federal officers, discovered the cache near Roosevelt Lake after receiving a tip from a suspicious citizen. The men arrested and held on $1-million bond were identified as James Earles, 24, Apache Junction, Arizona; Robert Krogslund, 41, Garden Grove, California; Charles Lager, 38, Chino, California and Ronald Ridgenhour, 23, Westminster, California.
After an 18-month legal fight that reached the U.S. Supreme Court — which ruled that race should not be considered in custody cases — a woman who lost custody of her 7-year-old daughter because she married a black man finally has gained temporary custody of the girl. “I’m so excited my feet haven’t touched the ground,” Linda Palmore said in Tampa, Florida. Palmore, 38, has not seen her daughter, Melanie, since February 8, 1983, and has spoken with her only once in that time. Melanie has been living in Texas with her father.
Communities may be held liable if police officers stop, but don’t arrest, a drunk driver who later causes an accident, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled. However, in a 4-3 ruling, the court rejected an $873,697 award to Debbie L. Irwin, 25, of Ware, Massachusetts, and ordered a new trial because a piece of evidence had been improperly introduced. Irwin, whose husband, Mark, and 20-month-old daughter were killed in a 1978 accident, contended in her lawsuit that policemen should have arrested the drunken driver who killed them when he was stopped earlier. Irwin later became a director of a local Mothers Against Drunk Drivers chapter. On June 26, she pleaded no contest to a drunk driving charge filed.
A convicted killer’s execution, scheduled for today, was postponed because a clerk of the sentencing judge failed to notify the Texas Department of Corrections of the execution date, officials said. “Our clerk made a mistake,” said Karen Trower, coordinator for Judge Tom Thorp of State District Court in Dallas. “We don’t do many death penalty cases.” Judge Thorp had sentenced Michael Wayne Evans to death for slaying a man who had been abducted outside a Dallas church. Texas law requires the Corrections Department to be given 30 days’ notice of an execution. The department did not learn of the scheduled execution date until Friday, said Charles Brown, a department spokesman. On Monday the convict was returned to Dallas, where the court set an execution date of October 17.
Three workers making explosives were killed in Simsbury, Connecticut, in a blast that leveled a research and development facility. A research manager and two engineers of Ensign-Bickford Industries were “making some limited commercial quantities of PYX,” a high-temperature explosive used in oil drilling, when the chemical exploded, a company officer said.
An advance in treating major burns was reported by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in a news conference in Boston. A medical team there helped save two young brothers who were burned over 97 percent of their bodies by taking tiny patches of skin from the boys’ bodies, growing the patches into large sheets and grafting them back over the severe burns.
Negotiations in New York City’s hospitals and nursing-home strike broke off again yesterday. The hospitals warned that they would begin hiring replacements for the striking union members unless they returned to work. The president of the bargaining group for the hospitals, William Abelow of the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes, blamed the union for the failure to reach a settlement of the monthlong strike.” He said the hospitals “have no further proposals to make or suggestions to offer.”
A powerful storm in the Mojave Desert turned California’s Death Valley into mud today. The rain closed highways and flooded homes in desert communities. The storm began before dawn and heavy rain fell until midday. The hardest hit areas were in the desert, however, particularly Ridgewood, a community of about 22,000 some 110 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Floodwater reached four feet at some intersections, the police said. Dick Rayner, chief ranger at the Death Valley National Monument headquarters in Furnace Creek, said: “Death Valley is isolated at this time, with all of our major roads except one closed because of flooding or washouts. The one road in from Beatty, Nevada, is still open, but once you get into the Valley you can’t go anyplace.”
After a five year absence, Pete Rose is reunited with his hometown Cincinnati Reds when the Expos trade him for infielder Tom Lawless. The Reds immediately name him player-manager, replacing Vern Rapp.
Major-league baseball owners, at their summer meeting, unanimously approved today the sale of the Minnesota Twins to Carl Pohlad, a Minneapolis banking executive. The owners indicated that a group seeking to bring a team to Tampa, Florida, might have helped its cause by cooperating in the sale. Pohlad purchased Calvin Griffith’s 52-percent share of the Twins for an estimated total of $32 million, marking the end of an era for Griffith, the last big-league owner to make his living solely on baseball.
The Detroit Tigers flush Tommy John for ten hits in 6 innings to beat the California Angels, 8–3. Dan Petry scatters 8 hits in 8 innings, and Dave Bergman backs him with two triples and three RBIs. Tom Brookens’s three singles drove in two runs. The victory improved Petry’s record to 15–5, tying him with his teammate Jack Morris for most victories in the American League. With Cleveland beating Toronto twice, the Tigers lead is now 9 games.
Carney Lansford extended his hitting streak to 19 games with a solo homer and two singles and Curt Young scattered 10 hits to lead the Oakland A’s to a 6–1 win over the Baltimore Orioles. Young (6–1) walked just one and struck out one in recording his second complete game of the year. Lansford’s homer, his ninth, came off the starter Dennis Martinez (4–7) in the first inning. The A’s, who had 14 hits, got to Martinez for two more runs in the fifth. Oakland knocked out Martinez in the sixth when Bruce Bochte led off with ground-rule double and when to third on Mike Heath’s bloop single. Tom Underwood relieved and permitted Davis’s sacrifice fly.
The Texas Rangers beat the Chicago White Sox, 6–5. Charlie Hough was rocked for nine hits and three homers by Chicago, but Texas still won, aided by Larry Parrish’s 10th-inning homer. Hough threw 145 pitches before departing in the bottom of the 10th inning. Hough (13–10) gave up five earned runs, but the White Sox stranded seven runners and failed to score in two critical opportunities late in the game.
The Cleveland Indians swept two from the Toronto Blue Jays, winning 16–1 and 4–3. Joe Carter drove in the winning run in the bottom of the 13th with a line drive off the glove of left-fielder George Bell, giving Cleveland a victory in the second game and a doubleheader sweep. In the first game, George Vukovich drove in four runs and Andre Thornton hit three run-scoring singles as the Indians pounded out 19 hits. The second game was tied 2–2 after nine innings and 3–3 after the teams traded runs in the 10th. But with two out and runners at first and second in the 13th, Carter lined a shot to left-center off Jimmy Key (3–5). Bell dove for the ball and held it momentarily in the tip of of his glove, but the ball flew out and the umpire ruled Carter safe. Mike Fischlin, who had reached base on a fielder’s choice and taken second on Brett Butler’s single, scored the winning run.
Mark Bailey drove in three runs, and Bob Knepper and two relievers combined on a six-hitter as the Houston Astros defeated the Chicago Cubs, 6–2, tonight to extend their winning streak to six games. Bailey, who finished with three hits in three at-bats, singled home a run in the fourth, then knocked in a pair of runs in the eighth with a bases-loaded double against losing pitcher Dennis Eckersley (6-7). Knepper (12-8) struck out four and walked two in seven innings to improve his career record against the Cubs to 6-7 and recorded his third consecutive victory. Bill Dawley and Frank DiPino finished up for the Cubs, with the latter recording his 11th save.
Sid Fernandez came home to Dodger Stadium in style tonight and outpitched Fernando Valenzuela while the Mets were defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3–2, and moving within 2½ games of first-place Chicago Cubs. Once the prodigy of the Dodger farm system, Fernandez pitched seven and two-thirds innings of four-hit ball. And he won for the fourth time in five decisions when two errors at third base sabotaged Valenzuela in the seventh inning. This was a match between two young and stout left-handers: Valenzuela, the 23-year-old Mexican who became an instant star three years ago when he pitched eight shutouts as a rookie, and Fernandez, the 21-year-old rookie from Honolulu who was the best pitcher in the Texas League last season.
Brad Gulden singled in Cesar Cendeno with two out in the 11th inning to give the Cincinnati Reds a 3–2 victory over Bruce Sutter and the St. Louis Cardinals. Gulden’s single was his second game-winning hit of the year off Sutter (4-4). The Cincinnati catcher singled off the Cardinal relief ace on May 12 to give the Reds a 2–1 victory. Sutter, who entered at the start of the 10th as St. Louis’ third pitcher, struck out Dave Parker and Nick Esasky to start the 11th. But Cedeno followed with a single and stole his second base of the night. Then Gulden’s hit on a 1–0 delivery from Sutter made a winner of Tom Hume (4–12), the last of four Cincinnati pitchers.
Carmelo Martinez hit a bases-loaded single with one out in the ninth inning to give the San Diego Padres a 4–3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Tony Gwynn led with a triple off Al Holland (5–7), the fourth Philadelphia pitcher. After walking Steve Garvey and Kevin McReynolds intentionally, Holland struck out Terry Kennedy but Martinez slapped a single to left to win the game. Reliever Rich Gossage (7–4), who gave up the tying runs in the ninth, was the winner.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1198.98 (-15.13).
Born:
Jarrod Dyson, MLB centerfielder (World Series Champions-Royals, 2015; Kansas City Royals, Seattle Mariners, Arizona Diamondbacks, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox, Toronto Blue Jays), in McComb, Mississippi.
Chris Pettit, MLB pinch runner, outfielder, and designated hitter (Los Angeles Angels), in Pasadena, California.
Tyson Brummett, MLB pitcher (Philadelphia Philllies), in Columbus, Mississippi (d. 2020, in an airplane crash).
Edward “Ted” Dwane, British folk-rock double bassist (Mumford & Sons), in London, England, United Kingdom.
Ayọ Tometi, Nigerian-American civil rights activist and co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Died:
Norman Petty, 57, American musician, songwriter, recording studio owner, and record producer (Buddy Holly), of leukemia.
[LMAO. Anyone else here old enough to remember when “64K” was a lot of RAM?]
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