The Yalta agreement was attacked by President Reagan, who said the United States could not passively accept “the permanent subjugation of the people of Eastern Europe.” At a White House luncheon commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw rising against Nazi troops, he said the United States “rejects any interpretation of the Yalta agreement that suggests American consent for the division of Europe into spheres of influence,” and that he would “press for full compliance” with the agreement, specifically its stipulation on free elections.
The Reagan Administration argues that since Yalta did not legally divide Europe, it is not legally divided. “We recognize no lawful divison of Europe,” Vice President Bush said in a speech last September, after a tour that included stops in Hungary and Rumania. President Reagan, rather than blaming the negotiators at Yalta for the division of Europe, blames Soviet Communism. Last year, he called the Soviet Union the “focus of evil in the modern world.” The official Soviet press agency Tass, in turn, denounced Mr. Reagan’s “pathological hatred of socialism and Communism” and said he revived the “worst rhetoric of the cold war.”
A leader of the Roman Catholic Church in West Germany left today for a visit to Poland that will include efforts to calm a conflict with Jozef Cardinal Glemp, the Polish Primate. The two-day visit by Wilhelm Schätzler, secretary general of the Council of German Catholic Bishops, was planned months ago. But it gained new significance after West German newspapers reported extensively on a sermon by Cardinal Glemp two days ago asserting that concern about a German ethnic minority in Poland was an “artificial problem.” The Cardinal said the Polish church could not “in good conscience” continue celebrating masses in the German language, the press said.
Iran said it would delay traffic in the Persian Gulf’s Strait of Hormuz if Egypt or any of its allies harassed Iranian ships in the Suez Canal. The warning was issued by Hojatolislam Hashemi Rafsanjani, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, during a weekly Friday prayer meeting at Teheran University, according to reports from the Iranian capital by The Associated Press and Reuters. Hojatolislam Rafsanjani’s remarks came as the USS Shreveport, an American ship carrying four minesweeping helicopters, began searching at Egypt’s request for mines and underwater explosives in the southern part of the Gulf of Suez off Egypt’s Red Sea coast. Hojatolislam Rafsanjani made his remarks two days after Egyptian officials disclosed that six Iranian ships and other vessels from “suspect” nations had been stopped and searched before they were permitted to cross the canal.
The Iranian warning also came four days after President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt backed away from his earlier charge that Iran might have been responsible for laying mines in the Red Sea and Gulf of Suez. Earlier in the week, the Egyptian President said he suspected that both Libya and Iran might be involved. A few days later, Mr. Mubarak said that he viewed Libya as a key suspect. He added that he “hoped” that Iran was not involved. Underwater explosions in Red Sea waters have damaged at least 17 ships, according to Lloyd’s of London, the insurance exchange.
Nine people were killed in India and scores were injured during a daylong general strike that led to rioting and arson in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The strike was held to protest the ouster of the state government’s Chief Minister, an opponent of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. At least 11 people have been killed in two days of violence set off by the dismissal of Chief Minister N. T. Rama Rao, an opponent of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s federal Government. The general strike disrupted rail traffic, closed shops and schools and included a lawyers’ boycott of some courts, according to United News of India. In New Delhi, majority and opposition Members of Parliament shouted and pushed each other in arguments over the issue. Both houses adjourned after the pro-Gandhi leadership acceded to opposition demands for a debate on the issue next week.
About 6,000 demonstrators in Manila chanting anti-government slogans faced off today against Philippine policemen with riot shields and water cannon in an eight-hour confrontation that ended peacefully. Opposition leaders and protest organizers said they hoped the nonviolent tone of today’s rally could be carried through to the huge demonstration planned next Tuesday, the first anniversary of the assassination of the opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. In recent weeks, the police have used tear gas and clubs to disperse smaller rallies, wounding demonstrators. Protest leaders said the passive police tactics today could mark a shift in strategy to diffuse tensions before Tuesday.
Dominican Republic President Salvador Jorge Blanco changed his Minister of Defense and the chiefs of the armed forces and police today. There was no official word on the reason for the changes. The Caribbean island nation has been plagued by severe economic problems, which led to riots over food prices in April. A spokesman for the presidency said Major General Ramiro Matos Gonzalez had been replaced as Defense Minister by Major General Antonio Cuervo Gomez. Mr. Jorge Blanco also named new heads of the army, navy and air force. Major General Jose Feliz Hermida, who was police chief at the time of the riots, was replaced by General Manuel de Jesus Tejeda Duverge.
An acquisition of advanced combat aircraft by Nicaragua would disrupt the balance of power in Central America and increase the threat Nicaragua poses in the region, the State Department said today. The department spokesman, John Hughes, made his comment a day after the Nicaraguan Government confirmed Reagan Administration assertions that a major military airport was being built northeast of Managua and that combat aircraft would be delivered once the installation is completed in 1985. On Thursday Nicaraguan officials led reporters on a tour of the airport, at Punta Huete, 13 miles from Managua. Mr. Hughes said the construction of the airport as well as the improvements and lengthening of several other military airfields “would not appear directed, at least potentially, against Nicaragua’s armed opposition as much as against Nicaragua’s neighbors.”
The School of the Americas in Panama, maintained by the United States Army for 38 years, will be closed September 30 and will be moved to a new site, the Army announced. The school has trained 44,000 Latin American military officers in United States leadership and tactics. After long negotiations, the announcement said, “Panama and the United States have been unable to conclude a mutually satisfactory agreement.” Defense Department officials said the disagreements were over how the school was to be operated and whether it would be commanded by an American or a Pananamian. “Panama asked for more than we were willing to give up,” one official said. “So we stood up to them.”
Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, the imprisoned Uruguayan opposition leader, has renounced his presidential candidacy but urged his National Party to take part in the November elections, according to party officials and relatives. The military government of General Gregorio Alvarez has formally enacted a plan for elections November 25 to return the country to civilian rule on March 1. Mr. Ferreira Aldunate’s decision freed the party to select another presidential candidate.
Peru has taken tougher action against guerrillas, according to military and police sources. They say a more severe and systematic strategy involves military and psychological tactics and includes the use of terror as a dissuasive method and the formation of antiguerrilla peasant militias. Peruvian judicial and church sources say the army and police are increasingly resorting to kidnappings, torture and executions of civilians in their fight.
The Security Council voted approval today of a resolution that “strongly rejects and declares as null and void” constitutional changes proposed by South Africa. Included in these changes, which are scheduled to take effect in September, is a provision for a parliament of three houses – one for whites, one for people of mixed race and the third for Indians. Blacks, who make up the majority in the nation, are not to be represented. The vote was 13 in favor, with the United States and Britain abstaining. The two agreed to do so after references to the constitutional changes as a “threat to international peace and security” had been deleted.
The Algerian delegate, Mohammed Sahnoun, chairman of the African group this month, told Council members on Thursdayy that apartheid, South Africa’s system of separation of the races, “cannot be reformed; it must be rooted out.” Mr. Sahnoun noted that last November the General Assembly voted 141 to 7, with 7 abstentions, to recognize that “only the total eradication of apartheid” might provide a solution to the “explosive situation in South Africa.”
The Republicans’ draft preamble to their platform asserts that voters face a choice “between two diametrically opposed visions of what America should be” in the contest between President Reagan and Walter F. Mondale. The tentative preamble also accused the Democrats of resorting to “rhetorical pilfering of Republican ideals” in an effort to deny Mr. Reagan a second term. A draft preamble with even harsher condmennations of the Democrats was turned down.
President Reagan hosts a luncheon with Polish-Americans, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.
President Reagan meets with Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-New Mexico) to discuss problems in the copper industry.
President Reagan said in a statement released today that his Administration would resist efforts to obtain any “government endorsement of homosexuality.” Mr. Reagan made the comment in response to a questionnaire from the conservative publishers of the Presidential Biblical Scoreboard, a magazine-type compilation of past statements and voting records of national candidates.
Mayor Andrew Young of Atlanta expressed exasperation with Walter F. Mondale’s campaign advisers today, calling them “smart-assed white boys” who refused to take advice. “But I can’t let them lose this election,” Mr. Young added. If Mr. Mondale was defeated by President Reagan, he said, black people “are the only ones that will suffer.” He praised the Democratic nominee’s 20-year record on civil rights. Mr. Young, who is black, spoke to about 500 people attending the National Association of Black Journalists convention. In the primary campaign he came out in support of Mr. Mondale over the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
A major rise in voter registrations this year has resulted from new laws and court rulings, according to leaders of registration drives. But they say many restrictions remain. A number of lawsuits have been filed in Federal courts across the nation to further ease registration to eligible citizens.
The dismissal of a Navy petty officer who acknowledged homosexual acts was upheld by a Federal appeals panel ruling that “private, consensual homosexual conduct is not constitutionally protected.” It said that though several Supreme Court decisions had recognized a vaguely defined constitutional “right of privacy,” the Court “has never defined the right so broadly as to encompass homosexual conduct.”
Dozens of women were promptly sworn in as Jaycees today and Thursday after a vote Thursday by the national leadership training group to accept women as members. Local chapters, many of which had already allowed women to participate as unofficial members, held swearing- in ceremonies within hours of the vote. The 5,372-to-386 vote to amend the 270,000-member group’s bylaws at a meeting of delegates in Tulsa, Oklahoma, came after the United States Supreme Court ruled that state laws barring discrimination on the basis of sex could be used to force the Minnesota Jaycees to admit women. “It’s really an exciting occasion,” said Ann Carter before she and 34 other women took the oath Thursday night to join the Louisville, Kentucky, chapter.
John A. Zaccaro is a model landlord to some New York City tenants, but some tenants call him names. He is said to be a generous neighbor, and everyone agrees that he has a penchant for privacy. He and his wife, Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro, reviewed financial data with New York accountants before its scheduled release Monday. He has refused to release his income tax returns as promised by his wife, the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee.
A report on acid rain that asserts smokestack pollution causes the acidic precipitation was “suppressed” by the White House for more than three months, according to two Democratic Congressmen from New England. They said the report by independent scientists contradicts President Reagan’s view that more study is needed of the causes and effects of the problem.
The Minnesota State Supreme Court today censured a municipal judge who referred to female attorneys as “lawyerettes,” was intoxicated in public and was habitually tardy for court sessions. However, the high court rejected the recommendation by the State Board of Judicial Standards that the judge, John J. Kirby of Ramsey County, be removed from the bench. The standards board filed charges against Judge Kirby in October, alleging that he had improperly disposed of traffic cases, was habitually tardy, had been publicly intoxicated, had conducted court business after consuming intoxicants and had been discourteous to women attorneys by calling them “lawyerettes” and questioning their failure to wear neckties. The State Supreme Court was ruling on appeals by Judge Kirby and by the board, whose disciplinary recommendations had been softened by a referee.
John Z. DeLorean’s legal problems are not over despite his acquittal Thursday on Federal cocaine-trafficking charges. The problems are related to his financial conduct of the defunct DeLorean Motor Company and other business ventures. A committee of creditors, headed by a representative of the Government of Great Britain, is pursuing a civil action in Detroit that accuses Mr. DeLorean of fraud, mismanagement and negligence in the operation of his sports car company in Northern Ireland. A grand jury in Detroit is looking into many of the same areas with regard to a criminal indictment. The grand jury issued its first witness subpoena last April. That was for Mr. DeLorean and it came on the eve of his drug trial. The grand jury proceeding was suspended pending the outcome of the drug trial in Los Angeles. The United States Attorney in Detroit, Leonard Gilman, has followed the policy of the Justice Department in refusing to comment on action by a grand jury.
Mr. DeLorean’s chief lawyer in the drug case, Howard L. Weitzman, who is also representing the automobile maker in Detroit, has denied that Mr. DeLorean committed any improprieties regarding the companies’ finances. Mr. Weitzman accused the United States Government of “persecuting” Mr. DeLorean and has raised the question of a possible conspiracy with the British Government.
Two subway trains collided and two of their cars derailed in the evening rush hour today at a station on Chicago’s Northwest Side, killing one person and injuring 44, the authorities said. Both eight-car trains, carrying about 100 people, were headed toward the Loop, when one train rolled back into a train that had just pulled into the Montrose station around 5 PM. The accident occurred about seven miles northwest of the Loop on one of Chicago’s busiest lines. It runs between downtown and O’Hare International Airport. The subway trains run at ground level along the median of the Kennedy Expressway at the site of the collision.
Divers surveyed damage to Molasses Reef today after Federal agents seized a 5,900-ton freighter that slammed into the delicate coral ridge two weeks ago. Federal marshals boarded and seized the Cypriot freighter Wellwood at 8:55 PM Thursday. The vessel was brought to Miami to be held because the United States Justice Department has sued the owners for $22 million. The vessel, traveling from New Orleans to Portugal, veered miles off course in stormy weather August 4 and ran aground on the reef. A spokesman at John Pennekamp State Park about 50 miles south of Miami said it would take about a week to survey the damage.
John Tuck Jr., who helped build the first American outpost at the South Pole, died Tuesday at a hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. Mr. Tuck, who was 51 years old, was a former naval reserve ensign and professor of geography.
A stamp featuring Roberto Clemente, the fourth in a series honoring American sports heroes, is unveiled in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the late Pirates outfielder’s home. The twenty cent six-color commemorative, designed by Juan Lopez-Bonilla, shows the pensive Hall of Famer wearing his Pittsburgh cap with the Puerto Rican flag in the background.
The New York Yankees were less impressed by Dave Kingman’s gargantuan home run in the third inning than they were by his opposite-field single in the first. That was the game-winning hit in a four-run inning that propelled the Oakland A’s to 7–3 victory last night at Yankee Stadium, and it caught the Yankee defenders completely by surprise as they positioned themselves for the powerful right-handed pull-hitter. “Willie was playing him to pull it,” Don Baylor said of Willie Randolph, the second baseman. “Everyone plays him to pull it. It didn’t appear to me that he was trying to go that way, but it was an outside sinker and he just slapped it to right field. Instead of a routine double play that gets us out of the inning, it ends up a game- winning R.B.I.”
At Detroit, the Tigers draw 36,496 to break their attendance mark of 2.031,847 set in 1968. They also top the Seattle Mariners, 6–2, behind Milt Wilcox. Alan Trammell returns to shortstop for the first time in 39 games and adds two hits.
The Minnesota Twins edged the Boston Red Sox, 6–5. Kirby Puckett, Mickey Hatcher and Tim Teufel cracked three hits apiece to highlight Minnesota’s 16-hit attack, while reliever Ron Davis saw his luck take an upward turn. Winning pitcher Frank Viola, 14–10, and the Twins took a 6–1 lead into the eighth before Marty Barrett singled home a run with two outs. Rick Lysander then replaced Viola and promptly yielded a three-run, pinch-hit homer to Rich Gedman. Minnesota called on Davis to protect the one-run lead in the ninth. Davis, who surrendered a game-winning home run to Boston’s Jim Rice the night before, gave up a leadoff single to Dwight Evans before striking out Rice and Tony Armas and getting Bill Buckner on a foul pop for his 24th save.
The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Chicago White Sox, 4–3. Home runs by Lloyd Moseby, Willie Upshaw and Ernie Whitt carried Jim Clancy and Toronto over LaMarr Hoyt and Chicago, which got a pair of homers from Ron Kittle. Upshaw’s 18th home run with two outs in the top of the eighth tied it 3–3. Whitt belted his ninth homer with two outs in the ninth to pin the loss on Hoyt, 10–13. Clancy, 10–12, helped the visiting Blue Jays break a three-game losing skid.
Wally Backman hit a home run for the first time in two years tonight, and he did it in the 10th inning of a scoreless game to power the Mets to a 2–0 victory over the San Francisco Giants. It was only the fourth home run Backman had ever hit in the big leagues. But it broke up a tight pitching duel between Mike Krukow and Dwight Gooden, and it nudged the Mets to one and a half games of the first-place Chicago Cubs, who had already lost their fourth straight game. Backman delivered his rarity just after Mookie Wilson had pinch-hit for Gooden, who pitched nine innings of five-hit ball with 12 strikeouts. Wilson walked, and then Backman drove the next pitch over the right-field fence for his first home run since July 31, 1982. Jesse Orosco pitched the 10th inning for his 26th save.
Rick Honeycutt scattered nine hits in 6⅔ innings and rookie Ken Howell pitched strong relief in leading Los Angeles past Philadelphia 2–1. “The job the kid has done for us is nothing short of amazing considering he’s only been in the big leagues for two months,” Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda said of the 23-year-old right-hander. “He just comes right at you with that great fastball. He doesn’t mess around.
Jim Pankovits cracked a two-run single in the 10th inning as the Astros rallied to beat Pittsburgh, 7–4, and extend their winning streak to seven games. The Astros trailed, 4–3, after Doug Frobel’s solo eighth-inning homer but singles by Mark Bailey and Kevin Bass and Don Robinson’s run-scoring wild pitch in the ninth sent the game into extra innings. Enos Cabell leads the assault with three hits, including a home run.
Joaquin Andujar fired a two-hitter for seven innings to become the majors’ first 16-game winner and also singled home the tying run, as the St. Louis Cardinals downed the Atlanta Braves, 3–1. Chris Speier homered and doubled and drove in two runs in support of Andujar, 16–11, who struck out eight and walked two. Bruce Sutter pitched the final two innings for St. Louis, recording his 32nd save, as the Cards beat Perez, 11–5. Perez yielded seven hits, the final one Speier’s home run leading off the seventh, and struck out seven in as many innings.
Pete Rose returns to the Cincinnati lineup for the first time in six years, going 2-for-4, including a single in his first at-bat, in the team’s 6-4 victory over Chicago at Riverfront Stadium. ‘Charlie Hustle’, traded by the Expos yesterday in exchange for infielder Tom Lawless, also replaces Vern Rapp in the dugout in his new role as the club’s player-manager. In his first time up, responding to a standing ovation, Rose singled, driving in Gary Redus, who had singled and stolen second base ahead of him. The Cub center fielder, Bob Dernier, misplayed Rose’s hit, and the chunky player-manager chugged into third and concluded his journey with his patented belly slide. The crowd roared some more.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1211.9 (+2.76).
Born:
Garrett Wolfe, NFL running back (Chicago Bears), in Chicago, Illinois.
Dee Brown, NBA point guard (Utah Jazz, Washingotn Wizards, Phoenix Suns), in Jackson, Mississippi.
Brady Murray, Canadian NHL centre (Los Angeles Kings), in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.
Died:
Hollie Roffey, 28 days, British youngest ever heart transplant.
Hammie Nixon [Nickerson], 76, American blues harmonica player (Sleepy John Estes).
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