Moscow again criticized President Reagan for questioning the decisions of the 1945 Yalta Conference, now widely seen as having led to the East-West division of Europe. The official Soviet news agency Tass said Reagan’s remarks Friday on the Yalta agreements, signed by U.S., British and Soviet leaders, were designed to win votes for his reelection campaign and ignored the Soviet contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Reagan had said in a speech to Polish-American leaders that the United States could not accept any interpretation of the Yalta agreements that imply U.S. consent to the division of Europe.
Pope John Paul II urged American, Soviet, Chinese, and European scientists attending a conference on nuclear war today to use the meeting to promote mutual trust leading to world peace. The Pope, in a message on the opening day of a nuclear arms conference in Erice, Sicily, said “nuclear and new systems of defense yet again call attention to the grave consequences to which all humanity is exposed by the use of nuclear arms.” The Pope said he hoped the meeting would “promote among the people the mutual trust and respect on which peace must be built.” The conference, organized by an Italian professor, Antonino Zichichi, has met annually since 1980 and seeks to find solutions to avoid nuclear war.
Police in Belfast battled mobs of Protestants and Roman Catholics in separate incidents in the fourth straight night of violence in British-controlled Northern Ireland. Protestant youths in east Belfast hurled gasoline bombs and rocks at police in another outburst of violence stemming from the arrest and trial of suspected anti-Catholic terrorists. Police responded by firing plastic bullets that wounded at least two rioters. A similar clash occurred in a nearby Catholic section of Belfast, a week after a Catholic man was killed by a plastic bullet during a police raid.
U.S. minesweeping helicopters searching the south-central Gulf of Suez have not found evidence of what caused the underwater explosions that damaged 19 ships since July 9. The search might last two or three more weeks. Officers aboard the Navy amphibious ship USS Shreveport searching for mines in the Gulf of Suez said today that they would not stop until they found one. “If it’s there, I think we’ll find it,” said Comdr. Chester F. Harrison, who is in charge of the minesweeping RH- 53D Sea Stallion helicopters that have been operating from the Shreveport. “Our capability is that good.” Sonar is providing what Commander Harrison described as some “pretty good pictures” of the bottom.
Israel rejected Lebanese accusations of inhumanity and blamed the Beirut government and Syria for hardships in the area under Israeli occupation. Israel responded to remarks by Premier Rashid Karami, who accused the Israelis of “inhumane, not to say fascist and Nazi, practices” in southern Lebanon. Karami’s charges came after Israel announced that the Bater crossing point in the Shouf Mountains will be closed in an effort to halt guerrilla infiltration into the south. An Israeli official said the closure was made necessary by Lebanon’s decision to shut the Israeli liaison bureau, which issued permits for visits to the south.
Iranian newspapers said today that the Government had sent thousands of volunteers to its battlefront with Iraq and that a new offensive might be launched after the expiration of a deadline for Iraq to meet Iranian demands. “Iran is ready for a military operation as soon as the grace period ends,” Mohsen Rafiq-Dust, Minister of the Revolutionary Guards, was quoted as saying. The report, published in the newspaper Sobhe Azadeghan, did not say when the deadline would expire. Among Iran’s demands are the overthrow and execution of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
Saudi Arabia marked the completion today of a 10-year plan to build two major naval bases, one on the Red Sea and the other on the Persian Gulf. The Defense Minister, Prince Sultan, was quoted by the magazine of the King Khalid Military Academy as saying construction of the bases was not the result of any sudden threat. His statements were apparently intended to avoid the interpretation that Saudi naval power was being developed in reaction to the Iran- Iraq war.
Pakistan said today that 18 people had been killed in Pakistani territory in a one-hour artillery barrage by the Afghan armed forces. The attack, which the Government said occurred Saturday, raised the death toll to 33 in a series of four reported border violations during the past week. The Pakistani Government initially reported two people dead and four injured in the attack on Saturday near the border town of Parachinar in North-West Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan. Today the Foreign Office in Islamabad, citing fresh reports from the area, announced 16 more deaths as well as 11 wounded. All but one of the dead were Afghan nationals, a Government spokesman said. Of the 11 wounded people, six were Afghan refugees, officials said. Pakistan uses the term Afghan refugees to describe Afghan rebels, whom Pakistan refuses to recognize as such.
Officials said that while Afghan artillery units were shelling Pakistani territory for an hour on Saturday, an Afghan warplane intruded about 800 yards into Pakistani airspace and dropped several bombs before turning back. The aerial attack caused no casualties, the officials said, and there was no immediate word of how much damage the shelling had caused. The Foreign Office spokesman said the Afghan Embassy’s charge d’affaires was summoned for the fourth time this week to be handed a protest letter informing his Government of Pakistan’s concern over the continuing loss of life. Pakistan’s chief delegate to the United Nations has also been instructed to circulate details of the latest reported incursions among members of the world organization, the Foreign Office said. Together, the reported border violations represent the most serious incident since one reported violation in January in which 45 persons were killed. The series has occurred one week before a new round of talks in Geneva aimed at finding a political solution to the conflict in Afghanistan.
Indian police officers killed at least 6 people and wounded 38 in Andhra Pradesh state in new protests arising from the dismissal of the opposition- led state government. Police in India’s Andhra Pradesh state opened fire on protesters in the Chittoor district, killing six and bringing to 23 the death toll from four days of demonstrations over the ouster of a popular regional official. Opposition leaders in the state capital of Hyderabad, meanwhile, held a mass rally protesting “the unconstitutional and antidemocratic” dismissal of Chief Minister N.T. Rama Rao, the Press Trust of India news agency said. Ramo Rao was ousted in a move seen as an attempt by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to eliminate opposition before the next elections.
Pakistani authorities said at least 32 people were killed and 25 wounded in four cross-border attacks by Afghan forces last week. An official statement said the incidents took place at Teri Mangal, 60 miles from Peshawar. The Foreign Office in Islamabad summoned the Afghan charge d’affaires for the fourth time in a week to strongly protest continuing Afghan violations of Pakistani territory.
Communist insurgents in southern Thailand threw hand grenades and fired at a truck carrying an army patrol unit, killing five soldiers and wounding nine soldiers and a civilian, a provincial police officer said today. The officer, Major Phan Sangthong, said the attack occurred Saturday in Suratthani province, 553 miles south of Bangkok. The insurgents stole 14 M-16 rifles from the troops and fled, the major said. In a separate development, Thai troops were put on full alert along the border with Laos today after a Thai soldier was killed in a Laotian ambush, a leading Thai military official said. The official, General Arthit Kamlang-Ek, the Armed Forces Supreme Commander, said the ambush occurred Sunday inside Thailand near the disputed village of Ban Savang.
Vietnam accused China today of staging air, land and sea incursions into Vietnamese territory last week and of increasing efforts to “destabilize” Vietnam’s border provinces. The Vietnam News Agency, monitored in Bangkok, said Chinese troops had fired nearly 3,000 artillery shells into three districts of Hà Tuyên (today Tuyên Quang) Province and about 100 mortar rounds into a village of Quảng Ninh Province. Chinese aircraft repeatedly intruded about a mile into Vietnamese airspace in Ha Tuyên, the agency said, while vessels entered Vietnamese waters for reconnaissance 156 times. It said Chinese troops occupying a hill inside Vietnamese territory in Ha Tuyên had conducted repeated raids, many against civilian targets. The agency said the Vietnamese “put out of action” 69 Chinese soldiers and destroyed an antiaircraft gun and other weapons.
The Legal Protection Office of El Salvador’s Roman Catholic Church, regarded as one of the best sources of information on human rights abuses in the country, admitted that it overestimated the number of civilian deaths during a Salvadoran army operation in the northern province of Chalatenango. The church office told the Washington Post that it committed “an error of information” in reporting that troops killed 250 people during the operation in late December, 1983. Director Maria Julia Hernandez said there were only 16 confirmed civilian deaths although her office received reports from people in the area that many more had died.
A formal Vatican interrogation has been ordered for a leading Brazilian theologian to answer charges that he committed serious doctrinal errors while defending the social activism of important sectors of Latin America’s Roman Catholic Church.
15,000 people have died in Uganda in political and tribal violence since President Milton Obote returned to power nearly four years ago, the Government Information Minister said. The official Ugandan figure differs from an estimate given by Elliot Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, who said in interviews and Congressional testimony that more than 100,000 Ugandans may have been killed by the military or died of starvation as result of military policies.
About 3,500 people attended a rally today to protest elections that they contend will entrench South Africa’s system of apartheid. Speakers at the rally at Johannesburg City Hall called for boycotts of the voting Aug. 22 and 28 for mixed-race and Indian chambers of Parliament. The elections will give people of mixed race and Indians a direct but minor parliamentary voice in South Africa for the first time but still exclude the black majority.
The rally marked the first anniversary of the formation of the United Democratic Front, set up to oppose a new constitution that provides for the three-chamber Parliament. An official of the front, Casim Saloojee, told the crowd, “A spirit of defiance against racist rule is alive in the land,” adding, “The tricameral parliament means nothing more or less than oppression three times over.”
The Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan to continue as president.
The Republican rules committee disposed of the last potential obstacle to a harmonious convention in Dallas this week by rejecting a move that would have increased the number of delegates apportioned to larger states in 1988. Under the current formula, adopted in 1972, a disproportionate share of delegates go to states in the South and West, regions that are increasingly at the heart of Republican political strategy. The amendment, offered by James T. O’Neal of Indiana, got only 13 votes among 106 committee members, well below the 27 needed to get a minority report to the convention floor.
The Republicans missed a chance to widen their party’s electoral base at the expense of the Democrats, many analysts in both parties agree. They say the party did little with the opportunity President Reagan provided when many voters traditionally identified with the Democratic Party voted for him four years ago.
Geraldine Ferraro was “surprised” to learn about 10 days ago that her husband had borrowed $100,000 for their real-estate company from the assets of an elderly woman whose finances he was overseeing as a court-appointed conservator, Morton Povman, a lawyer for her husband, said. The lawyer also said he regarded the borrowing as “an error of judgment by a person who thought he was doing the right thing.”
The Representative defended actions she took on several personal financial matters that have plagued her Vice Presidential campaign. In a television interview, she said she had nothing to hide and told her questioners to “take a look at the tax returns tomorrow,” referring to the scheduled release today of her and her husband’s income tax returns. But she declined to discuss about $60,000 in back taxes her press secretary said she and her husband owed from 1978.
His confidence in his running mate was unchanged, Walter F. Mondale said, and he predicted that misimpressions about Representative Ferraro’s finances would be corrected by her financial dislosures scheduled for today. But he deferred inquiries about her and her husband’s apparent underpayment of 1978 taxes. Mr. Mondale said Representative Ferraro and her husband today “will make the most complete, wide-ranging disclosure ever.”
President Reagan participates in a meeting with the Governor’s Advisory Council on Agriculture. In a Farm Belt speech, President Reagan attacked Mr. Mondale on farm issues, charging he hurt farmers in 1980 by supporting a partial cutoff of grain sales to the Soviet Union. In a speech at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, however, Mr. Reagan acknowledged that prosperity had not “spread fully” to the Farm Belt.
President Reagan sits in on the Junior Champion Auction, Sedalia, Missouri.
The theft in Boston of the first page of the royal English charter that granted the Massachusetts Bay Company broad territory in the new land and a form of self-government has raised the question of why it was kept in an unguarded museum in the basement of the State House. A police official said that he had the names of certain suspects but feared they were the kind of people who might destroy the document taken August 8.
Waynesboro, Georgia, officials decided to impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew for another night after two nights of firebombings and unrest touched off by the death of a black man in police custody. The disturbances, triggered by a news report of erroneous rumors that the man had been beaten to death, prompted 30 arrests. No injuries were reported. Burke County Sheriff Greg Coursey said that during the curfew police would block off all streets into town.
About 100 persons, singing and carrying signs, began a march from Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, to New York to enlist new black voters and protest President Reagan’s civil rights record. The people were taking part in the third “Overground Railroad” march in a year sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Marchers will retrace the steps of runaway slaves who followed the “Underground Railroad” to freedom before the Civil War.
Police officers trying to break up a Livermore, California crowd of 10,000 at a “cruise night” for teenagers were pelted by rocks, bottles and firecrackers early today. Eleven officers were injured and 16 people arrested, the authorities said. About 100 officers, including deputies called in from neighboring areas, were involved in the three-hour clash a few hours after the start of the Fifth National Cruise, said Sgt. Jerry Weakland of the Livermore police. The slow-driving parade of vehicles, advertised through leaflets distributed from Los Angeles to Sacramento, began peacefully. It was the last “cruise night” before an ordinance designed to ban the practice goes into effect next month. As the crowd grew, officials closed First Street, citing possible obstruction of emergency vehicles.
At 11:15 PM, police officers declared the cruise an unlawful assembly. An hour later, two battalions of officers brandishing night sticks began pressing the crowd toward Livermore Avenue, nine blocks away. “This is brutal,” said a tearful Robin Sackett, 19 years old, of nearby Dublin, who said she had been knocked to the ground by two officers and jabbed in the back with a stick. The crowd’s mood shifted from threatening to violent, the police said. The streets were finally cleared about 3 AM, Sergeant Weakland said.
Three veteran sky divers died while parachuting at an exhibition Saturday in this suburb of Denver, and experts expressed uncertainty today over the cause. One expert, Robin Heid of Denver, a veteran of 800 parachute jumps, suggested that a sudden wind shift was at fault. “I would say quite positively after viewing the film four times that there was a sudden air turbulence which caused the parachutes to collapse,” Mr. Heid said. “I’ve never seen three parachutes collapse that fast.” Herb Stroh, a Federal investigator, agreed that a wind shift could have been responsible but called it “unlikely” given the relatively low wind speed at the time, less than 12 miles an hour. “It’s also possible the top parachutist allowed his chute to lose its lift,” Mr. Stroh said. The authorities identified the victims today as Robert Vance, 35 years old, of Littleton, Colorado, and Elmer Miller, 32, of Denver, both members of the High Freedom Skydiving Club, and Leslie Smith, 23, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, an airman at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver.
The Environmental Protection Agency said it plans to upgrade standards aimed at protecting agricultural workers against exposure to pesticides. An EPA announcement said the agency wanted to expand coverage from only field laborers to others who handle pesticides on farms; require employers to provide training, supervision and emergency medical attention; lengthen time intervals for re-entry of fields after application of some pesticides and strengthen protective clothing requirements and warning requirements.
Three juveniles were ordered to appear in court in Bangor, Maine, in the slaying of a homosexual male who police say was hurled screaming to his death from a bridge-a slaying that galvanized the state’s gay community. The three youths were charged with murder in the July 7 death of Charles Howard, 23, and a probable cause hearing was scheduled for today.
Molasses Reef, part of the only living coral reefs in North America, was reopened today, giving recreational divers their first glimpse of the damage inflicted on the delicate marine growths by an intruding freighter. The freighter Wellwood left a 19,000-foot dent in the reef when it bulled through the ancient coral heads August 4. The federal government has sued its owners for $22 million for invading the park, and the state has sued for $15 million. Parts of the reef are “flat as a parking lot,” said William Harrigan, manager of the Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary. “It’s a huge dent in a beautiful reef. It’s hard to say how the coral will grow back.”
Three lakes bloated by heavy rainfall over the last three years are steadily encroaching on the desert sagebrush lands of southeast Oregon, inundating at least 95,000 acres and causing an estimated $32 million damage this year alone. Malheur, Harney and Mud lakes normally cover a total of 49,000 to 75,000 acres. But the abnormally heavy rainfall and runoff into the natural basin holding the lakes has merged them into a shallow sea covering 170,000 acres, about half of which is normally ranchland. Dozens of families have been flooded out as the lakes’ level has risen about 12 feet over the last three years, said William H. Beal, Harney County’s watermaster.
PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Shoal Creek: Lee Trevino wins his 2nd PGA C’ship by 4 shots from Gary Player and Lanny Wadkins.
Bill Buckner and Eddie Jurak had run-scoring singles in the eighth-inning today as the Red Sox rallied for a 5–4 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Dwight Evans, who had walked twice and singled, led off the eighth with a triple. The Twins argued there was fan interference with the ball, but the umpires disagreed. Len Whitehouse (2-2) replaced the reliever Mike Walters, and Buckner singled to tie the score. Reid Nichols sacrificed Buckner to second and Garry Allenson was walked intentionally. Buckner took third on a wild pitch and scored on Jurak’s single.
When Ken Griffey came to the plate in the eighth inning yesterday, he was the only New York Yankee starter without a hit. Dave Winfield already had four, including a home run in the third inning and a two-run single that had tied the game moments before. Don Mattingly already had three, including a pair of doubles, and so did Don Baylor and Butch Wynegar. “I just figured they were having a party and didn’t invite me,” said Griffey, who made himself the guest of honor with the Yankees’ 19th hit of the afternoon, a three-run homer that propelled his team to a 9–6 victory over the Oakland A’s.
The Seattle Mariners downed the Detroit Tigers, 4–1. Seattle’s Steve Henderson had three hits and drove in two runs to back the four-hit pitching of Mark Langston and Ed Vande Berg. Langston (12-9) had 11 strikeouts and retired 13 straight batters before yielding to Vande Berg, who got the last two outs for his seventh save. Dan Petry (15-6), who also struck out 11, took the loss.
Dave Collins’s two-run triple highlighted a four-run ninth inning for Toronto Blue Jays as they beat the Chicago White Sox, 7–4. Damaso Garcia and Jesse Barfield led off with the ninth with pinch singles and both advanced on a sacrifice by Tony Fernandez before Collins tripled. Collins scored on a single by Lloyd Moseby, who scored later on a single by Cliff Johnson. The White Sox took a 4–3 lead in the seventh on a double by Greg Walker, a triple by Vance Law and a homer by Rudy Law, his fourth of the season.
The Baltimore Orioles thumped the California Angels, 10–4. Rick Dempsey hit two home runs, and Gary Roenicke had a homer and four R.B.I.s to help Mike Flanagan break a personal five-game losing streak. California lost its fifth straight. Flanagan (10-11) benefited from a 16-hit attack to gain his first victory since July 7. He allowed six hits, struck out two and walked five in seven innings. He faced three batters in the eighth before giving way to Sammy Stewart.
Ned Yost and Gary Ward drove in two runs each and George Wright hit a homer for Texas as the Rangers won 6–4 over the Kansas City Royals. With temperatures reaching 113 degrees, Frank Tanana (13-11) recorded his third straight victory, allowing nine hits and striking out one in six and one-third innings. Tanana retired 15 straight batters from the first through the sixth innings. Dave Schmidt pitched the final two and one-third innings to record his ninth save.
The Cleveland Indians took two from the Milwaukee Brewers, winning the opener of the doubleheader 8–6, then prevailing in the nitecap, 2–1. Mel Hall hit a ninth-inning homer to give the Indians the victory in the first game, then scored the winning run on Pat Tabler’s triple in the ninth inning of the second game as Cleveland extended its winning streak to six games. In the first game, Hall lined a two-run homer to center field with one out in the bottom of the ninth. In the second game, he had an infield single in the ninth, and after Andre Thornton flied out, scored on Tabler’s triple into the gap in right center-field.
Ron Cey and Thad Bosley hit three-run homers today as the Chicago Cubs scored a 9–6 victory over the Reds. Cey’s 20th homer of the season touched off a four-run first inning against Jeff Russell (5-14). Russell’s three-run double helped put the Reds ahead by 6-4 in the fourth inning, but Bosley rapped a pinch- homer in the fifth, his first home run of the season, to cap a five-run Chicago rally. George Frazier (3-2) blanked the Reds on four hits over the final five innings to gain the victory. Every Chicago starter except the pitcher Scott Sanderson scored a run for the Cubs, who were outhit by 12-11. Pete Rose, making his third consecutive start since becoming the Reds’ player-manager, went 3 for 5 and has 8 hits in 15 times at bat with five R.B.I.s since returning to Cincinnati.
For the second straight day, the New York Mets blew a game in the ninth inning. Today, the light-hitting Brad Wellman of the San Francisco Giants whacked a two-run home run off Jesse Orosco to sink the Mets, 7–6. But the Mets atoned in the second game of the doubleheader and beat the Giants, 4–2, with Bruce Berenyi pitching his second victory in a week. Berenyi needed help at bat and got it when Jerry Martin hit a two-run home run in the sixth inning. And, after pulling a hamstring muscle, he needed help on the mound and got it when Orosco returned to the scene and saved the game in the ninth. As a result, the Mets split the series with the Giants, who have the worst record in the major leagues. They also lost half a game in the standing to the Chicago Cubs, who were winning again in Cincinnati, and who now lead the Mets by three games in the National League’s East.
The San Diego Padres dropped one to the Montreal Expos, 3–0. Andre Dawson drove in all the runs with his 12th home run of the season and a single. The rookie left-hander Joe Hesketh (1-0) and Jeff Reardon combined on a six-hitter. Hesketh, who went the first seven and one-third innings, struck out six and walked two. Reardon got his 18th save. Ed Whitson (12-7), who went seven innings, took the loss. He struck out 10.
Ozzie Virgil singled home two runs to highlight a four-run seventh inning for Philadelphia as the Phillies downed the Los Angeles Dodgers, 6–3. Shane Rawley (6-3) scattered seven hits, struck out four and walked one. Bob Welch (10-12) took the loss after four straight victories. Los Angeles, which had been blanked on four hits through five innings, took a 3-2 lead in the sixth inning on Greg Brock’s three-run homer, his 13th home run of the season. But the Phillies rallied in the seventh.
David Green lined an inside-the-park homer and drove in three runs to pace the St. Louis Cardinals to a 8–5 victory over the Atlanta Braves. Green’s two-run homer, his 11th home run of the season, capped a three-run fourth inning and came on a drive that skipped past the center fielder Dale Murphy and rolled to the wall.
The Houston Astros edged the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4–3. Phil Garner’s eighth-inning home run gave Houston its ninth straight victory. Garner’s bases-empty homer, his third home run of the season, came off John Candelaria (10-10) with one out
Born:
Jermon Bushrod, NFL tackle (Pro Bowl, 2011, 2012; New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins), in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
J.D. Folsom, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins), in Worland, Wyoming.
Marcos Carvajal, Venezuelan MLB pitcher (Colorado Rockies, Florida Marlins), in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela.
Simon Bird, British comic actor (Will- “The Inbetweeners”; Adam- “Friday Night Dinner”), in Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
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