A missile struck an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, according to reports received in Cairo. There was no serious damage to the ship, a fully loaded Panamanian tanker, and apparently no casualties. The missile started a fire on deck that was swiftly brought under control, shipping sources said, and the ship, out of danger, steamed under its own power toward Dubai. Neither Iraq nor Iran claimed responsibility for the attack, the second on a vessel in the same area in four days. A shipping company executive in the port of Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, told The Associated Press there was “no doubt” in his mind the two attacks were carried out by Iran. He and other shipping sources suggested that they were in retaliation for an Iraqi attack on a Greek ship August 7.
Shipping sources in Bahrain and Lloyd’s of London, the insurance exchange, said the vessel hit today, the 47,310-ton Endeavour, was heading south in the central gulf, about 150 miles northeast of Qatar, when it was struck in its starboard side. Iraq, which has been at war with Iran since September 1980, began attacking shipping in the northern Persian Gulf earlier this year in an effort to cut Iran’s oil income. The attacks, which were often followed by Iranian retaliatory strikes against other vessels, were most numerous in May and June. The Iraqi attack August 7 was the first in a month. Lloyd’s of London has calculated that in 38 successful attacks on Persian Gulf shipping this year, 18 crewmen have been killed and 27 wounded.
Moscow attacked President Reagan for his remarks on Friday at a White House luncheon that the United States rejects interpretation of the 1945 Yalta agreement as United States consent for the division of Europe and that the United States could not passively accept the “permanent subjugation of the people of Eastern Europe.” Moscow accused Mr. Reagan of distorting history and defaming both the Soviet Union and Poland, and said his remarks “challenge the postwar political setup in Europe.”
Greece will not participate in North Atlantic Treaty Organization maneuvers in the Aegean Sea next month, the government announced. The announcement said that because the Greek island of Lemnos was not included in the exercise scenario for maneuvers, called “Display Determination,” Greece would not participate. Greece and Turkey have an ongoing dispute over Lemnos. Turkey, believing that Lemnos should not be fortified, wants Greece to remove its air base from the island.
After three nights of riots, thousands of Protestants marched through Belfast today to protest what they said was police brutality against suspected Loyalist guerrillas and to demand an end to police use of informers. Policemen wearing bulletproof vests and carrying automatic weapons lined the streets as more than 20 bands led marchers past shops burned out in the rioting. There were no reports of violence. The police estimated that 3,000 demonstrators marched. Some witnesses put the number as high as 10,000.
In London, about 3,000 demonstrators demanding the removal of British troops from Northern Ireland marched through the city to mark the 15th anniversary this week of the sending of troops to the province. A small group carried a black wreath in memory of Sean Downes to No. 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was vacationing in Austria. Mr. Downes, a 22-year-old Catholic, was killed by a plastic bullet fired by the police at a rally in support of the Irish Republican Army in Belfast last Sunday.
A leading British Defense Ministry official has been charged with wrongfully passing on information under Britain’s Official Secrets Act. The official, Clive Ponting, Assistant Secretary at the Ministry and head of a branch responsible for advising the Royal Navy, appeared in court today, charged under the Official Secrets Act with passing information to an unauthorized person. Mr. Ponting, who was charged under a section of the act usually reserved for lesser offenses than spying, was released on unconditional bail and told to appear again September 13. A Ministry spokesman said Friday that Mr. Ponting, 38 years old, had been suspended from duty. The spokesman gave no details of the reported leak but said it had occurred “on or about July 16 this year.” The spokesman said Mr. Ponting joined the Ministry in 1970 and had been in his current post since March.
A mysterious new terrorist group that has demanded $3.5 million from France’s Socialist goverment is suspected of causing the latest of three bomb explosions in southeastern France, according to police. Police sources said a man, his face covered with blood, ran from the area after the explosion and boarded a bus. Hospitals were searched, and the police set up roadblocks in the region. The bomb caused minor damage, the police said. No one has claimed responsibility for the explosion that damaged the Grenoble railroad station on Friday, but a group identified as M-5 claimed responsibility for bomb explosions in Annecy on Thursday in which five people were injured, and for another in Lyon on Monday in which there were no injuries.
Erich Honecker, the East German leader, called for “a return to détente” and urged a resumption of negotiations on reducing nuclear arms in an interview published Friday. In the interview with the East German press agency, Mr. Honecker also accused “ultras” in West Germany of “continuing to blast the rusty trumpets of revanchism.” But the East German leader stopped short of directly attacking the West German Government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, as official Soviet news organizations have done in recent weeks. The Soviet commentaries have accused Bonn of harboring revanchists, or those with a vengeful desire to regain territory lost during World War II. In his interview, Mr. Honecker did not mention his expected trip to West Germany next month. East Berlin has not officially confirmed the visit, which would be the first by an East German leader to West Germany.
Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley, a haven for Muslim guerrillas, is nearly devastated after a three-month Soviet offensive, a Western traveler said. Anders Fanger, 38, of Stockholm, said all the villages in the upper half of the 70-mile-long valley are in ruins. “There are areas… that were home to tens of thousands of people that are totally deserted. Thousands and thousands of homes and village after village are burned out.” Fanger is director of the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, a non-governmental group of volunteers who visit Afghanistan clandestinely to help set up clinics run by Afghan doctors.
In Sri Lanka, an island country of 15 million people near the southern tip of India, the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority do not speak the same language. Last week, their linguistic, ethnic and religious differences were exacerbated by Tamil terrorism and army reprisals in a revival of violence that took hundreds of lives last year. Officials said 95 people, including a dozen soldiers, had been killed in the last two weeks. They confirmed that soldiers, angered by a guerrilla ambush last weekend, burned more than 100 shops in the northern, Tamil town of Mannar. The Government blamed leftists in the army (which is predominantly Sinhalese). The Roman Catholic Bishop of Mannar, Thomas Sundanayam, disagreed. “Police and army are harassing innocent people,” he said. “They are as brutal and beastly as ever.” Mindful of the sensitivities of 55 million Tamils living in southern India, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said, “The killing of innocent people in Sri Lanka is highly shocking.”
Most Tamil guerrilla groups want a separate Tamil country. The largest Tamil political party, which campaigned for separatism in 1977 elections, now says it is open to other solutions. Under pressure from the mainly Sinhalese Buddhist clergy and opposition politicians, the government pulled back from a proposal for regional autonomy that it had submitted to an all-party conference. Instead, the government offered greater Tamil representation in a proposed second house of Parliament. The body would not deal with security and ethnic issues, Tamil politicians noted as they rejected it.
China announced plans for a 70-story bank tower in Hong Kong that will be the British colony’s tallest building and a symbol of its impending shift to Communist control. The futuristic, angular skyscraper, designed by American architect I.M. Pei, will be the new home of the Bank of China, Peking’s state bank. Pei, at a news conference with Chinese officials, said work on the $125-million structure will begin in February, with completion scheduled for 1988. China assumes sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997.
China has signed a contract to buy monitoring equipment from West Germany for nuclear power plants, the Peking newspaper China Daily reported today. The newspaper said the equipment, used to monitor combustible elements, was being ordered from West Germany’s Kraftwerk Union, a leading contender for billions of dollars in reactor sales to China. Wu Fuxing, deputy general manager of the China Nuclear Energy Industry Corporation, was quoted as saying that the contract had been signed after negotiations with the French company Framatome “made no progress.” The official did not say what the contract was worth. China plans to build about six nuclear plants by the end of the century.
Canada’s new prime minister, John N. Turner, attempting to revive former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s peace initiative, has asked to meet with Soviet President Konstantin U. Chernenko to discuss international issues. Turner wrote Chernenko, saying that he is “firmly committed” to improved relations between Canada and the Soviet Union, he told an election rally in Winnipeg. Manitoba.
The women’s vote in Canada may be pivotal in the national elections next month, according to many political commentators. Women make up 52 percent of the Canadian electorate and the leaders of the three major parties have been addressing specific issues of interest to them.
Salvadoran military leaders are unhappy with the role of the United States military advisers, and they are asking that the Americans’ mission be redefined to emphasize basic training skills. Moreover, some Salvadoran officers say there is no need to increase the number of advisers, as has been recommended by Gen. Paul F. Gorman, the commander of United States military forces in Latin America. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering said of the Salvadorans, “I think there is a strong feeling that they would like to do as much themselves as they can.”
A former Nigerian Finance Minister is to go on trial in closed session Monday on corruption charges, the army has announced. In a statement Friday night, the army said the former minister, Victor Masi, was charged with corruptly receiving nearly $5.45 million from a construction company in return for a guarantee by the central Government for a foreign loan sought by a state government. He is also charged with insuring that a $17 million road contract went to a company of which he owned half. His former personal assistant, Simon Nwokomah, will be tried at the same time on charges of aiding and abetting corrupt practices, the statement added. Mr. Masi was Finance Minister for four years under the civilian Government of President Shehu Shagari, who was overthrown in a military coup last December 31.
Zambia has begun deporting more than 2,500 Zairians and West Africans held in a crackdown against aliens who are accused of undermining the country’s fragile: economy. The Zambia News Agency reported. The agency said more than 500 Zairians, out of 1,000 foreigners detained at the copper belt town of Kitwe, have been repatriated.
The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution rejecting South Africa’s new constitution and urged all governments not to recognize elections later this month for separate chambers representing that country’s mixed-race and Asian citizens. The vote on the resolution was 13–0 with Britain and the United States abstaining. The resolution, sponsored by eight nonaligned members of the 15-nation council, maintained that the constitutional changes are aimed at entrenching white minority rule and the system of racial separation. The new constitution makes no change in the status of South Africa’s blacks, who cannot vote.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the nation about the Administration’s policies and programs. The Republican ideological lines of the Presidential campaign were set forth by President Reagan in his weekly radio address. As Republicans gathered in Dallas for their party’s 33d convention, Mr. Reagan asserted that voters faced “an historic choice” between his economic policies and Walter F. Mondale’s program of “higher taxes, more bureaucracy and a bigger welfare state.” He contrasted the Democrats’ economic agenda of “gloom and doom” with the “new patriotism” offered by the Republicans.
John A. Zaccaro changed his mind, his wife, Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro announced, and will release tomorrow his income tax returns from the time she entered Congress in 1979. Her announcement noted that she and her husband began filing separately in 1979, and that their joint tax return for 1978 would also be released.
Walter F. Mondale gave his Vice-Presidential nominee a big vote of confidence today as she announced in New York that her husband’s tax records, as well as her own, would be disclosed Monday. “I am proud of Geraldine Ferraro,” the Democratic Presidential nominee told reporters just before the news about her husband’s tax disclosure was made public. “She is a superb candidate for Vice President. I have absolutely and utterly no doubt about her honesty, and her whole record stands for that. She has been an excellent public servant.” Mr. Mondale said he was pleased with the decision by Mrs. Ferraro and her husband, John A. Zaccaro, to make public their tax records for the six years that the Queens Congresswoman has sought and held office.
Walter F. Mondale’s leadership was questioned by Reagan strategists and Republican spokesmen in Dallas. They used the controversy over Geraldine A. Ferraro’s finances for a broadside attack on the Democratic Presidential candidate’s qualities as a leader.
The nation’s school bill will increase 6% to $240 billion this fall despite a predicted enrollment drop of 350,000 to 56.3 million, according to the government’s annual forecast of education costs. The Department of Education broke down the nation’s school bill for the coming academic year this way: public elementary and secondary schools $134.5 billion; private elementary and secondary schools $10 billion; public institutions of higher education $63 billion, and private institutions of higher education $32.5 billion. The department said state governments will pay 40% of the $240-billion school bill; local governments 24%; the federal government 8%, and 28% will come from a variety of sources, including tuition, fees, endowments and private gifts.
The Portuguese government said that Romanian Orthodox Archbishop Valerian Trifa, deported from the United States for Nazi ties, will be expelled from Portugal if accusations against him are true. Trifa arrived in Portugal last week after being stripped of his U.S. citizenship and deported for his role in the Iron Guard, a fascist organization that killed thousands of Jews during World War II. Trifa has denied any involvement in the pogroms. Trifa entered Portugal with a three-month visa, and the government said it will investigate his past carefully before making a decision. Portuguese authorities. said they knew nothing of his Nazi involvement when he was granted an entry visa.
Patrick Kennedy, the youngest son of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, was released today from Cape Cod Hospital, where he had been under observation after suffering a concussion in an automobile crash. The 17-year-old Mr. Kennedy and his father were hurt Friday when their car collided with a pickup truck. The Senator was treated for cuts and bruises. The truck’s driver, Jack Bell, was treated for a leg injury. He was cited for failure to stay in his own lane and driving to endanger.
Approval by Nebraska officials of regulations allowing church schools to skirt teacher certification requirements will end a seven-year church-state battle, according to a minister who went to jail rather than close his school. The state Board of Education approved the regulations, which allow church schools to hire teachers without state certification. However, students’ parents must give the board background on church school teachers, a chart of courses to be offered and proof students comply with compulsory attendance laws. State officials may visit schools to verify information. The Rev. Everett Sileven, who went to jail, then into hiding for refusing to close his unaccredited Faith Christian School, said passing the rules resolved the seven-year fight.
Scores of blacks outraged at the death of a black man in police custody took to the streets in Waynesboro, Georgia, setting fires and ignoring a curfew imposed by police. At least 11 were arrested, three on weapons charges and the rest for violating curfew. The unrest followed the death of Larry Gardner, 32, in the Burke County Jail. Mayor George DeLoach said the incidents may have started after a TV station broadcast “an erroneous report that someone had been beaten to death in the jail.” Mayor George DeLoach said he ordered the city limits blocked off shortly after the fires started around 10 PM “to try to keep outside agitators from coming in.” A preliminary autopsy report released today listed heat exhaustion as the cause of Mr. Gardner’s death, and said explicitly that Mr. Gardner did not die of injuries and that his body was not bruised. Gardner was arrested on a drug charge after a foot chase in 90-degree weather.
Suspicious fires broke out Friday night in a house near the recent scene of riots between Hispanic residents and whites in Lawrence, Massachusetts, a deputy fire chief said. No one was injured in the two fires Friday night in a vacant house on Oxford Street, said the fire official, Charles Laverty. He said the building had been abandoned and boarded up earlier Friday by unknown tenants and that its gas meters were missing. Deputy Chief Laverty said the city’s arson squad would investigate the fires.
Parts of Hawaii’s most populous island were blacked out for more than 10 hours early today by an explosion at a power plant that shut off electric water pumps and forced hospitals and the Honolulu airport to operate on emergency generators. The blackout on Oahu, where 80 percent of Hawaii’s 1.2 million people live, came about 12:50 AM, said Malcolm Sussel, the Civil Defense administrator. Some areas were getting their lights back on as little as 90 minutes later, but power was not completely restored until 11:15 AM.
Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville, Florida, spills 2.5 million gallons of oil and burns after lightning sparks a fire. A severe thunderstorm moved through the city in the afternoon. At 4:14, PM, a lightning bolt struck Tank 16 at Triangle Refineries’ Ocean Terminal, 2470 Talleyrand Ave. The tank ruptured and the resulting fire raged for over 22 hours.
An Encyclopedia of Southern Culture is expected to be completed in 1986 by scholars at the University of Mississippi. It will be offered as the most complete single reference volume on the mind and manners and the mythology of the American South, which “historically has been our most isolated, our most intense regional experience,” said Prof. William E. Ferris, who is directing work on the encyclopedia.
Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes (22) weds Des Moines department store heiress Julie Anne Friedman (25) at London registrar’s office.
Mike Boddicker pitched his second straight shutout as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the California Angels 1–0, today, the only run scoring on a first-inning error by Mike Witt, the California pitcher. Boddicker (15–8) allowed four hits, struck out two batters and walked three en route to his fifth straight triumph. It was the fourth consecutive loss for the Angels. Witt (11–10) allowed six hits, struck out six and walked six in seven innings. He has lost three in a row to the Orioles this season without benefit of a California run, and the Angels have scored no more than two runs in eight of his losses.
A pitcher who has been incapacitated and a hitter who has been ineffective joined forces last night in the New York Yankees 8–0 victory over the Oakland A’s. John Montefusco, who had pitched only nine innings this season and had been on the disabled list for three and a half months, worked six scoreless innings with just three hits. Don Baylor, hitless in his last 16 at bats, opened the scoring with a second-inning home run and singled in another in the Yankees’ four-run third inning.
Bobby Castillo allowed only one hit in six innings in his first 1984 start and Rick Lysander completed a four-hitter as Minnesota swept a doubleheader from the Boston Red Sox, winning 6–4 and 3–1. The Twins, raising their American League West lead to four games, won the opener wth a three-run, ninth-inning rally. In the second game Castillo, plagued by shoulder troubles for a year, earned his first victory since August 10, 1983, and Lysander collected his second save of the day and third of the season. Kirby Puckett, Mickey Hatcher and Kent Hrbek drove in one run each in the ninth inning of the opener as the Twins overcame a 4-3 Boston lead. Puckett, Hatcher and Hrbek also drove in runs during a three-run fifth inning against Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd.
Detroit’s Juan Berenguer goes 8⅓ innings and strikes out 12 to give the Tigers a 4–3 victory over the Mariners. Berenguer, who had never beaten Seattle in six previous decisions, gave up three hits and walked four as he raised his record to 6–8. Kirk Gibson drives in three runs with his 20th homer of the year, and becomes the first Tiger ever to reach 20–20 in homers and steals. Gibson’s homer is his 15th game-winning RBI this year. Willie Hernandez finished for his 26th save despite allowing a two-run single by Steve Henderson.
Vance Law singled home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and Harold Baines cracked a pair of home runs in leading the Chicago White Sox to a 7–6 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. With the score tied, 6–6, in the eighth, Greg Walker smacked a two-out double and Ron Kittle drew an intentional walk to set up the third hit of the game for Law, who had earlier hit a two-run single.
The victory went to the reliever Bert Roberge (3–0), who came in for the starter, Floyd Bannister, in the seventh. Roberge walked the leadoff batter in the ninth and Juan Agosto came on for his seventh save. Roy Lee Jackson (7–6) took the loss in relief of Doyle Alexander.
Buddy Biancalana smacked his first major league homer and had a bunt single that led to the ejection of the Texas pitcher Danny Darwin as the Kansas City Royals hung on to beat the Texas Rangers, 5–4. With the game scoreless, Don Slaught doubled to start the fifth and Biancalana then bunted. The first baseman Pete O’Brien fielded the ball and threw to Darwin, who collided with Biancalana and fell down. Darwin (6-9) was ejected after bumping the first base umpire Ken Kaiser while protesting the call.
Leon Durham’s two-run single keyed a seven-run first inning and Rick Sutcliffe won his ninth straight game tonight as the Chicago Cubs held off the Cincinnati Reds, 13–11. The Reds committed four errors in the first inning. The loss was the first for the Reds under their new player-manager, Pete Rose, who started at first base and went 3-for-6, including a pair of run-scoring singles. The victory ended a four-game losing streak for the Cubs and increased their lead to two and one-half games over the Mets.
At Busch, Dale Murphy has 5 hits, including three doubles, to lead the Braves to an 8–3 win over the Cardinals. Murphy scores 4 runs. Glenn Hubbard contributes a 3-run homer. Hubbard’s ninth homer of the year came off Danny Cox (6–10) during a four-run Atlanta uprising in the second inning. That blow and a barrage of extra-base hits, which included the three doubles by Murphy, proved more than enough support for Tony Brizzolara (1–1), who yielded nine hits in six innings. Gene Garber pitched three innings to earn his sixth save.
The Houston Astros blanked the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5–0. Denny Walling and Jose Cruz each drove in two runs to back the combined five-hit pitching of Mike LaCoss and Dave Smith as Houston won its eighth straight. LaCoss (7–3) missed a chance at his third complete game of the season when he left after seven innings with a blister on the middle finger of his pitching hand. Smith pitched the final two innings. Walling drove in a run in the first with an infield grounder that brought home Bill Doran, who had led off the game with a triple.
The Mets, who beat the San Francisco Giants on a home run in the 10th inning Friday night, laid an egg for an encore today: They lost in the ninth inning, 6–5, on a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly. The wild pitch was thrown by the rookie Brent Gaff, the fourth pitcher for the Mets and the third rookie they sent to the mound. Then, with the winning run on third base and one out, he threw a pitch that was a little too good and Manny Trillo hit it to left field for the sacrifice fly that sank the Mets. As a result, the Giants ended a six-game losing streak that had dropped them to their worst record since they came West from New York in 1958. And the Mets missed a chance to put more pressure on the Chicago Cubs in the race in the National League’s East.
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