Secretary of State George P. Shultz, asserting that “the tide of history is with us,” said today that he was confident that freedom would someday be restored to the Soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe. In a speech to the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, the Secretary of State echoed a theme struck by President Reagan on Friday in opposing the “subjugation” of Eastern Europe. Mr. Shultz’s remarks, which coincided with the opening of the Republican National Convention in Dallas, seemed to represent part of an Administration effort to portray American foreign policy as dynamic and the Soviet Union’s as faltering in the face of American firmness.
[Ed: And it will happen sooner than anyone could have believed in 1984.]
A Solidarity activist, released from jail nine days ago under an amnesty for political prisoners, said he had been threatened today with possible rearrest after speaking publicly in a church. The dissident, Jan Rulewski, 38 years old, is the first prisoner freed under the amnesty to be cautioned by the authorities about his activities. The security police and the provincial prosecutor in Bydgoszcz, the northern town where Mr. Rulewski lives, questioned the dissident and accused him of “conduct and speech inspiring resistance and rebellion,” Mr. Rulewski said. Mr. Rulewski said his address last Monday to 3,000 people who attended a service at a Jesuit church in Bydgoszcz was not politically provocative.
Radio Moscow, in the first official Soviet comment on Andrei D. Sakharov in more than two months, reported that the dissident physicist is alive and well in Gorky, where he has been living in internal exile since 1980. It did not elaborate on Sakharov’s condition, but said he was sent to Gorky for engaging in “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.” Sakharov’s well-being aroused worldwide concern in the wake of reports that he was being forcibly detained in a Gorky hospital after ending a hunger strike.
Greece said today it had canceled a series of joint war games with the United States, the latest of which was due to start in 10 days. Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou made the decision last week on grounds that any threat to Greece came from Turkey, not from its Communist neighbors, Greek officials said. A Government spokesman, Dimitrios Maroudas, announced the cancellation a few hours after a Communist newspaper, Rizos, disclosed that the two weeks of exercises were scheduled to start in northern Greece on September 1. He said: “The maneuvers were canceled on Mr. Papandreou’s orders and they will not take place in future. For us, Turkey is the only visible threat.” He said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, of which Greece is a member, failed to recognize this. According to military and diplomatic sources, some 73 American commandos would have participated with Greek Army units in the maneuvers, which have taken place with little publicity every 24 months over the last 10 years.
Turkish commando units were airlifted to four eastern provinces to launch a military drive against Kurdish rebels who attacked three eastern towns last week, officials said in Ankara, the capital. At least 52 suspected guerrillas were seized, the officials said. The guerrilla attacks, which left two soldiers dead, were the first of their kind since Turkey’s 1980 military coup.
Striking British coal miners battled police at a mine near Sunderland in northeast England, and officers made 39 arrests on the picket line. Meanwhile, the National Union of Mineworkers sought support for a virtual general strike to protest new labor laws enacted by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The union has asked the Trade Unions Congress, an umbrella group of British unions, to call strikes in support of any workers punished under the new laws, which restrict picketing.
A crowded London subway train ran into the rear of another one today, killing the motorman and injuring 26 passengers, rescue workers said. A spokesman said that people did not panic and that there was an orderly evacuation of the tunnel at Leyton in East London. Both trains were carrying passengers bound for the West End. Firemen spent more than an hour cutting the dead driver from the wreckage of his cab. A hospital spokesman said one of the injured, an elderly woman, was seriously hurt. The worst accident on the London underground was at Moorgate station in 1975, when a crash killed 43 people.
The search for mines in the Gulf of Suez is “open-ended,” according to Egypt’s Foreign Minister. He said the United States, British and French mine-hunting forces would be asked to stay until there was no longer a threat to the waterway. “As long as there is a job for them to perform, they are welcome as friends,” said Esmat Abdel Meguid, recently appointed Foreign Minister. He emphatically denied Libyan and Iranian charges that Egypt was using the mines as a pretext to establish a Western military presence in the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea. At the same time, he added, Egypt would not hesitate to request military help in the future from the United States or other Western powers if more mines were planted in the gulf, or whenever its vital interests were threatened. “If we’re in need of assistance from friendly countries, we’ll request it,” he said.
An Israeli military court sentenced the chief of a pro-Israeli Arab group in the occupied West Bank to two years in prison for conducting “a reign of terror” against Arab nationalist opponents. Bishara Kumsiyeh, a leader of the Village League, was convicted along with three of his sons and another family member. The charges included arson and attacks on Arab opponents and the planting of a bomb at the residence of Bethlehem Mayor Elias Freij last year. The Village League was set up in 1981 by Israeli authorities to counter the influence of Palestinian nationalists in the occupied territories, but Israel recently ordered the group to curb its activities.
The Lebanese presidential palace was damaged by shellfire overnight as army troops and Druze militiamen clashed in the worst cease-fire breach in weeks, Beirut police reported. President Amin Gemayel and his family were not in the two-story hilltop palace, and no injuries to staff members were reported. The fighting, near the mountaintop town of Souk el Gharb, broke out Sunday after two Lebanese soldiers were wounded by a land mine near the town.
India’s main opposition parties joined in calling for rallies and demonstrations Saturday outside government offices to protest what they consider Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s increasing disregard of democratic practices. The opposition parties rarely act together. The opposition parties, ordinarily divided, called jointly for an “all-India protest day” Saturday against the dismissal of the state government of Andhra Pradesh. The opposition called for rallies and demonstrations outside Government offices on that day. Some political commentators here said it was the first time that all major opposition groups had pledged to unite in a nationwide campaign against Mrs. Gandhi since they split up in 1979. The fragmentation of the opposition was primarily responsible for Mrs. Gandhi’s return to power in the general elections of 1980.
The Pakistani Government reported a second straight day of cross-border artillery fire by Afghan troops today, saying that the latest attack had killed 16 people. The new shelling was said to have taken place Sunday in the same area in which the government had already reported 33 deaths from Afghan shelling in the last week. Eighteen of the 33 were reported killed on Saturday. The border violations flared as talks on a political solution to the fighting in Afghanistan were about to start in Geneva. The talks, which are to start under United Nations auspices on Friday, will be the third round in a series that began two years ago.
The Afghan Embassy’s charge d’affaires in Islamabad was called to the Foreign Ministry and handed a letter strongly protesting the “unprovoked violation,” the Government said. The Pakistanis have made similar protests over the other incidents. Pakistan said the latest shellling, which occurred near the northern border town of Parachinar, was the fifth since last Monday. Twelve Afghans and four Pakistanis were killed, and three other people were wounded, the government said in a statement. It said 12 artillery rounds fell on the Pakistani side of the border. “Pakistan should be taking these incidents as a warning,” a diplomatic source in Islamabad said. “It is perfectly possible that the Afghan Army has been told it’s O.K. to fire on Pakistan territory when pursuing Mujahedeen groups.” Pakistan says there are no Mujahedeen, or rebels, inside its borders.
The United States Navy Secretary, John F. Lehman, began a tour of Chinese naval installations today after an “extremely productive” series of talks in Peking, the American Embassy said. A press release from the embassy said Mr. Lehman’s meetings Saturday with Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang, Defense Minister Zhang Aiping and the Chinese Navy’s chief, Liu Huaqing, ranged from international maritime issues to closer naval cooperation. “The naval talks conducted in a friendly atmosphere of mutual respect were extremely productive,” the statement said. “There was a consensus that the visit laid a sound foundation for friendly relations and technical cooperation between the two navies, including future exchanges of visits and navy-to-navy staff talks.”
Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova named four new Cabinet ministers in a shake-up aimed at curing the country’s ailing economy. Miguel Orellana Maldonado was named minister of economy, and Manuel Fontecha, a former central bank official, became minister of finance. New leaders were also named for the Agrarian Institute and the Council for Economic Planning, in addition to new heads for the Interior and Presidency ministries.
The Sudanese Government today urged rebels in the country’s south to abandon violence and open talks with the authorities. “The door will always be open for the outlaws of the southern regions to return home,” said a statement from the presidential office that was carried by the Sudanese press agency. “Unconditional political dialogue is possible provided they refrain from violence.” Rebels in the southern Sudan, mainly populated by Christians and animists, have demanded greater autonomy from the predominantly Muslim north. The rebellion gained impetus last September after President Gaafar al-Nimeiry introduced Islamic Sharia law, including such penalties as amputation for thieves and flogging for alcohol-related offenses. The statement said religious differences were not a factor in the rebellion in the south, adding, “Islam respects the freedom of non-Muslims and preserves the rights of individuals and respects minority rights.”
Uganda said 15,000 people have died in political and tribal violence since President Milton Obote came to power almost four years ago, but it disputed U.S. charges of widespread massacres. Information Minister David Anyoti, responding to allegations by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams and others, said: “There are soldiers who have done what they should not have. They are being arrested and sentenced.”
Republican Convention Republicans opened their convention in Dallas with a wave of attacks that reflected the belief among President Reagan’s strategists that the Democratic Presidential ticket was in deep political trouble. Senator Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee denounced Walter F. Mondale as a candidate of pessimism who would be rejected because he “has nothing to offer a successful America.”
Reagan strategists, increasingly confident of the President’s political base in the South and West, are preparing to challenge Walter F. Mondale in the Democratic strongholds in the Northeast and the Middle West.
Women appear to be everywhere at the Republican convention and Republican officials emphasize that women are everywhere. The Republican have gone to elaborate lengths to put women on display. Robert D. Squier, a Democratic consultant, remarked, “They are just shoving women out as props.”
Computer companies contributed more than $2 million worth of equipment and services to the Republican convention in transactions that a Federal Election Commission official said could violate campaign laws. Both the Republican and Democratic conventions received $8.08 million from the Federal Government under a law that precludes use of other contributions.
A mass of financial records were released by Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro and her husband in an effort to quiet the controversy over the handling of their finances. The documents answered many questions but also raised some new ones. The records showed that the Democratic candidate for Vice President had received income from a real estate business she owns jointly with her husband. They also showed that the couple had a combined estimated net worth of $3.78 million.
Representative Ferraro and her husband told a New York State agency in signed documents that they had not been fined or charged with any violations of law by any government agency, even though her husband and her campaign committee had paid penalties for violations of Federal campaign financing laws.
President Reagan participates in a tour of the Procter and Gamble World Headquarters building.
President Reagan attends a briefing on downtown Cincinnati’s economic expansion.
President Reagan makes an unscheduled stop near the David Carter Beard Bridge to address some constructions workers.
The economy grew at a 7.6 percent annual pace in this year’s second quarter, the Commerce Department reported. The growth rate was slightly higher than the 7.5 percent originally reported for the period but still significantly eased from the first quarter’s 10.1 percent rate.
Unions representing postal workers voted to leave open the option of a strike in their month-long impasse with the Postal Service. Several unionists said that sentiment for a strike was almost nonexistent, but a union spokesman said that leaders “wanted total flexibility” in resolving the dispute.
The space shuttle’s 1985 launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, has “significant” technical problems that Air Force inspectors say could result in the shuttle blowing up upon liftoff, NBC News reported. Oxygen valves were contaminated with sand and metal particles; liquid was in cables between the command center and the launch pad, and piping welds were cracked, according to reports written July 27 by the prime contractor, Martin Marietta Corp., and obtained by the network. The firm declined to comment on the NBC report.
Environmental groups voiced opposition to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s plan to resume paraquat spraying of marijuana on public lands, arguing that the agency has not proved that plants, animals and humans will not be harmed. The agency wants to resume using paraquat, a controversial herbicide used to kill marijuana plants in Mexico in 1977, but discussed using two other herbicides, 2, 4-D and glyphosate. The DEA document says the chemicals’ effects on plants, wildlife and humans would be minimal and of short duration.
Fire broke out in the engine room of the cruise ship Scandinavian Sun docked at the Port of Miami, causing the evacuation of 500 passengers. Three persons were injured. It was not immediately clear if the fire broke out in the engine room before the ship docked, returning from a one-day cruise to the Bahamas. Police said three persons suffered injuries, which were described as smoke inhalation and cuts. A spokesman for Scandinavian Cruises was not immediately available.
Hurricane Keli veered slightly west of its forecast course, reducing prospects of major damage on Johnston Island, a highly restricted, mid-Pacific storage site for chemical weapons evacuated Sunday night. “The center of the hurricane is now passing 80 to 90 miles from Johnston, instead of 50 miles away, so its effects will be less,” National Weather Service meteorologist Saul Price said in Honolulu. Johnston’s 370 military and civilian inhabitants had been flown to Honolulu, 800 miles to the northeast.
Three youths aged 15, 16, and 17 confessed in tapes played in a Bangor, Maine, courtroom to hurling a 23-year-old homosexual over a bridge to his death in a slaying that shocked the state’s gay community. But the youths all told police in the taped confessions that they did not mean to kill Charles Howard July 7, but only “scare him” for making a pass at one of them weeks before. Judge David Cox ruled there was enough evidence for the youths to stand trial in the slaying.
A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., returned an 18-count indictment against two men accused of kidnapping a wealthy, internationally known bridge player during a Washington tournament last month. A third man, Orland Dwaine Tolden, 26, of Houston, was expected to plead guilty. The grand jury charged Glenn I. Wright, 42, also of Houston, and Dennis Moss, 27, of Cocoa, Florida, with conspiracy to commit armed kidnapping. Edith Rosenkranz of Mexico City, was kidnapped July 19 in the parking garage of the Sheraton Washington Hotel. She was released 48 hours later after her husband, Dr. George Rosenkranz, paid a $1-million ransom.
Authorities eased the curfew in Waynesboro, Georgia, and promised a second autopsy on the body of a black man whose death while in police custody sparked a weekend of street violence. The violence began after the death Friday of Larry Gardner, 32, arrested on warrants charging drug peddling and shoplifting. Gardner collapsed after a 15-minute chase on foot and died in a local hospital.
A fire broke out in the engine room of the cruise ship Scandinavian Sun at a dock at the Port of Miami tonight, causing the evacuation of 500 passengers. Three people were injured. The blaze was reported at 11:20 PM. The ship had just docked, but it was not immediately clear if the fire had broken out before the landing. The ship was returning from a one-day cruise to the Bahamas. A spokesman for the Miami Fire Department said the fire was brought under control by 11:55 PM.
Doctors in Winter Haven, Florida delivered a healthy daughter from a comatose 16-year-old mother today. The baby, Heather Marie Hicks, was delivered by Caesarean section, at 8:07 AM at Winter Haven Hospital, fulfilling the hopes of the father. “I was hoping for a girl,” said Army Corporal John Hicks, 23, “My wife, I guess she was, too.” The mother, Tami Hicks, was three months pregnant on February 26 when she suffered a brain injury in a car accident.
A new maid of Carolyn Skelly Burford, the oil heiress, faces charges in the theft of $2.25 million worth of jewels from her employer’s estate in this coastal resort, the police said today. Barbara Polk, 20 years old, was charged Saturday with stealing jewels ranging from diamonds and sapphires to rubies and pearls less than a week after she began working for Mrs. Burford, the police said. Mrs. Burford, 67, did not learn the jewelry was missing until the police returned it to her. Mrs. Burford, whose father was William Grove Skelly, an early oil magnate and business associate of J. Paul Getty, has been the victim of theft at least twice before. In 1982, the heiress was abducted at La Guardia Airport in New York by a man who commandeered her limousine and robbed her of $1 million in uninsured jewelry. She was unharmed. In 1977, burglars stole $199,000 in jewels from her Long Island summer home.
Under the threat of a lawsuit by American Airlines, a book publisher has recalled 25,000 copies of “Splash of Colors: The Self-Destruction of Braniff International,” by John J. Nance. As part of the agreement, American will pay the publisher, William Morrow and Company, up to $150,000 to cover the cost of the recalled books.
Unexpected stress for men has resulted from society’s changing perception of manhood. Many psychotherapists report they are being confronted by new kinds of problems and new variations of old problems as men try to deal with their changing roles. According to the Government, the proportion of men admitted to mental hospitals increased by about 10 percent in the 1970’s.
George Brett belted a three-run single, and Pat Sheridan drove in two runs with a double and sacrifice fly to lead Kansas City past Boston, 8–5. The Royals jumped on Mike Brown (1–6) for a 5–0 lead after two innings before the Red Sox closed the gap to 8–5 on Marty Barrett’s three-run homer in the sixth that chased the starter Mark Gubicza (9–9). Joe Beckwith relieved Gubicza and yielded to Dan Quisenberry in the eighth. Quisenberry picked up his 33rd save.
The Detroit Tigers clobbered the Oakland A’s, 14–1. Lance Parrish and Chet Lemon hit two-run home runs in the third inning night to pace a 20-hit Detroit attack. Every Detroit starter got a hit and scored a run and all but Howard Johnson drove in a run as the Tigers got enough runs to make Jack Morris the first 16-game winner in the American League. Morris, who has lost eight times, gave up hits in each of the first three innings but settled down after he was staked to a 6–1 lead and retired the last 10 batters he faced before giving way to Dave Rozema at the start of the eighth.
Some of the fans in the crowd of 27,741 may have gone to Yankee Stadium last night hoping to see former New Yorker Reggie Jackson hit three home runs and reach the 500 plateau. Instead, they saw Joe Cowley strike out Jackson three times as he dazzled the California Angels in the Yankees’ 8–4 victory. Cowley recovered quickly from a shaky start — after the first two hitters batted, the Angels had two runs — and gained his fourth consecutive victory, while striking out 13.
The rookie Mike Young slammed two homers to lead the Baltimore Orioles over Seattle, 5–4. The triumph was the fourth in a row for the defending world champions, their longest winning streak since May. Young’s leadoff homers in the first and third innings, his 11th and 12th of the season, came off Jim Beattie, who fell to 9–14 after dropping his sixth straight decision. Dennis Martinez (5–7) allowed seven hits, including a homer by Al Cowens in the fourth, his 13th of the season and his first since July 27. Tippy Martinez came on with two men on base in the eighth and the Mariners scored a pair of runs on bases-loaded groundouts by Barry Bonnell and Cowens. In the ninth, Larry Milbourne had a pinch-hit double and Pat Putnam an R.B.I. single off Sammy Stewart to make it 5–4.
Greg Walker hit a three-run home run, and Julio Cruz had two doubles and two runs batted in to lead the Chicago White Sox past the Texas Rangers, 7–5. Richard Dotson (13–10) got the win despite allowing 12 hits in seven innings. Britt Burns and Ron Reed relieved, with Reed getting his ninth save. Charlie Hough (13–11) struggled through five and two-thirds innings in taking the loss.
The San Francisco Giants trade veteran first baseman Al Oliver, whom they acquired from Montreal in February, and pitcher Renie Martin to the Philadelphia Phillies for pitcher George Riley and minor leaguer Kelly Downs.
Ron Cey blasted a three-run homer and Keith Moreland drove in three runs with a pair of singles today to lead Steve Trout and the Chicago Cubs to a 6–1 victory that ended Houston’s nine game winning streak. In his last 21 games, Cey, who has injured both his wrists, has hit 8 home runs with 23 runs batted in. For the season he has 21 home runs with 78 runs batted in. Moreland also is on a hitting binge. Since the All-Star break, he has slugged 7 home runs and driven in 36 runs. Cey’s homer capped a four-run third inning against the loser Bob Knepper (12–9).
The New York Mets, muzzled by Eric Show and dazzled by Rich Gossage, got only five singles tonight and fell four games out of first place in the National League’s East when they lost to the San Diego Padres, 3–1. The Padres didn’t do much hitting, either. But they did manage a triple and home run among the five hits they got off Sid Fernandez, who lost for only the second time in his six- week career in the big leagues. Show, who won his 13th game of the season, seems to thrive against New York bats. He has won five of six decisions against the Mets in three seasons, and he scattered their five singles across five innings tonight. Then, when he opened the ninth by walking Darryl Strawberry, he was relieved by Gossage, who earned his 23d save on four pitches: One to get George Foster to bounce into a double play, and three to strike out Hubie Brooks.
Pitcher Dave LaPoint drove in three runs, Terry Pendleton doubled in two and Darrell Porter slammed a two-run homer to power the St. Louis Cardinals past the Cincinnati Reds, 9–7. LaPoint, who knocked in runs with a groundout, a single and a sacrifice fly, lasted just 4⅔ innings. The reliever Jeff Lahti (4–2) got the victory. Ozzie Smith, making his first appearance since a broken wrist put him on the disabled list July 13, tripled to start the fourth-inning rally off Jay Tibbs (2–1).
Brad Komminsk doubled in one run and Alex Trevino singled in two more with two out in the top of the 10th inning to lift the Atlanta Braves to a 4–1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Rafael Ramirez led off the 10th with a single. Rufino Linares forced Ramirez at second and Dale Murphy forced Linares at second. Chris Chambliss singled Murphy to third and Komminsk followed with a double to left, scoring Murphy. Kent Tekulve (2–9) intentionally walked Ken Oberkfell to load the bases and Trevino then singled to center, scoring Chambliss and Komminsk. Gene Garber (2–2) pitched two innings of relief to send the Pirates to their fourth straight loss.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1216.98 (+5.08).
Born:
Robert Turner, NFL center, guard, and tight end (New York Jets, St. Louis Rams, Tennessee Titans), in Austin, Texas.
Jamie Hoffmann, MLB pinch hitter and outfielder (Los Angeles Dodgers), in New Ulm, Minnesota.
Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor (“Crying Out Love in the Center of the World”), in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
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