Britain asked the Soviet Union today if the Government could confirm a report that the dissident Yelena G. Bonner, wife of the physicist Andrei D. Sakharov, had been sentenced to internal exile, the Foreign Office reported. The Soviet charge d’affaires, Nikolai K. Posseliaguine, told the British Foreign Office’s Political Director, Derek Thomas, he had “no information” on Miss Bonner, a Foreign Office spokesman said. The United States State Department said Thursday that it had received an unconfirmed report that Miss Bonner had been sentenced to five years of internal exile after a secret trial on charges of slandering the Soviet state. Mr. Thomas told Mr. Posseliaguine of Britain’s “serious concern” over Miss Bonner’s health, the Foreign Office spokesman said. Mr. Posseliaguine reportedly said the Soviet Union considered the cases of Miss Bonner and Dr. Sakharov an “internal affair.”
Three major British ports were at a standstill today after dockworkers heeded a strike call by their union. It is the second dock strike in Britain in just over a month and poses a further threat to an economy already hit by a 24-week-old strike by coal miners. Officials of the Transport and General Workers Union, which represents Britain’s 36,000 dockworkers, said union delegates had voted 78 to 11 in favor of an immediate stoppage. Dockers at Hull and Liverpool, two of England’s largest ports, said they walked off the job soon after the vote was taken. Dockworkers in London began a strike tonight. Those at other ports said they would vote on whether or not to strike over the next few days.
Two admirals in charge of the Royal Navy during the Falkland war in 1982 have denied that Britain ever considered attacking Argentina with nuclear weapons, The Times of London reported today. The admirals, who are now retired, responded to assertions published Thursday in the weekly magazine The New Statesman that a Polaris submarine was sent to Ascension Island. The magazine said that had the war gone badly for Britain, the submarine was to launch a nuclear attack on an Argentine city, probably Cordoba. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Terence Lewin, chief of the Defense Staff during the Falkland war in the spring of 1982, said Britain never sent a Polaris submarine there because of the war.
The Spanish Government announced Thursday that it was willing to hold talks with the separatist guerrilla group E.T.A. to seek a truce that would end years of violence in the northern Basque region. A spokesman said the Government would negotiate with E.T.A. “when and where the organization wants.” E.T.A. rejected the offer to negotiate, calling the proposal a “childish game,” Reuters reported. The Socialist Government vowed to end violence in the Basque area when it took office in December 1982, but said at first that it had no plans to negotiate with E.T.A.’s military leaders.
The 73-year-old leader of one of the French-ruled island of Corsica’s two powerful clans was elected president of the 61-seat Regional Assembly today in the third round of voting. Jean-Paul Roccca Serra, who heads the conservative neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic, won with 30 votes. Although Mr. Rocca Serra did not emerge with a clear mandate, the right-wing National Front swung its six votes to him. The candidate with the most votes in the third round is declared the winner. Leftist groups, which hold 25 seats in the new chamber, dominated the previous assembly but failed to agree on a common candidate this time. The assembly was dissolved by the French Government in June after bombings by nationalists seeking independence.
A tanker was reported sinking in the Persian Gulf after it was struck by a missile. One crewman was missing, but 33 others were rescued by Iranian Air Force helicopters. Almost three hours after the distress signals were picked up, the official Iraqi News Agency quoted a military spokesman as saying Iraqi Air Force jets had attacked a “large naval target” south of Iran’s main oil export terminal on Kharg Island. The Iraqi spokesman said the target had been set ablaze but gave no details. “Large naval target” is a term the Iraqis usually use when referring to an attack on a vessel sailing to or from Iran. “It is still burning furiously,” a shipping official here said hours after tugboats rushed to fight the fires aboard the 31,280-ton tanker Amethyst. “One part of it is low in the water.” The vessel was carrying 50,000 tons of Iranian crude oil. The Amethyst is believed to be the 40th ship hit in the so-called tanker war that Iraq started last February to cut the oil revenues that help pay for Iran’s war effort. Officials here said it was the 83d merchant vessel to be struck since the Iran-Iraq war began in September 1980.
Pro- Iranian gunmen set fire to the Saudi Arabian Consulate in West Beirut today, while others launched two rocket-propelled grenades at the British Embassy, causing extensive damage. No injuries were reported. After the attack on the British Embassy, an anonymous caller telephoned international news services here and said the Lebanese National Resistance Front, a group linked with attacks against Israeli occupation troops in southern Lebanon, was responsible. The attack on the Saudi Consulate came 48 hours after an anonymous telephone caller claiming to speak for a group calling itself Islamic Holy War threatened to destroy the Saudi Embassy, of which the consulate is part, and all Saudi interests in Lebanon in three days unless the Saudi authorities granted free passage for pilgrims to Mecca.
Ethiopia and Kenya, two countries hard hit by drought, will receive additional shipments of American grain, United States officials said today. The United States agreed to lend Kenya $5 million at low interest toward the purchase of 35,000 tons of wheat, the American Ambassador, Gerald E. Thomas, said. The loan and $10 million worth of corn, beans and powdered milk were in response to requests from Kenya, he said. Ethiopia will receive $6.25 million worth of grain, flour and milk powder, said James Cole, an American Embassy official in Addis Ababa, the capital.
A Gandhi appointee resigned as Governor of Andhra Pradesh State, saying he was “pained by the controversy” over his dismissal a week ago of the state’s Chief Minister, who was an opponent of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
At least half a dozen Sikhs demanding to go to the United States seized an Indian jetliner with about 100 people aboard on Friday, made two stops in Pakistan and one in the Middle East. Airport officials in the United Arab Emirates said the short-range Indian Airlines Boeing 737 made a refueling stop in Dubai after landing in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan. People at the Bahrain airport said they overheard a radio exchange between the hijacked plane and the Dubai control tower, and it raised questions about the number of hijackers and how many people were aboard. Previous reports said there were 6 hijackers, and Indian Airlines said there were 93 people aboard when the jet was seized on a flight from New Delhi to Srinagar in Kashmir. But the airport sources said the hijackers talking to Dubai said there were 12 of them and that there were 102 people aboard as the plane approached Dubai. The plane, which had stopped at Chandigarh in India before the hijacking, was forced to fly first to Lahore, Pakistan, and then 650 miles to Karachi after refueling.
A cease-fire agreement in Colombia was signed by the Government with one of the country’s principal leftist guerrilla groups. The agreement with the April 19 movement, also known as M-19, followed a similar accord Thursday with two smaller rebels groups and with the powerful Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces last March. Colombia is the first Latin American country to have successfully negotiated an armistice with leftist guerrilla movements.
Riot policemen in Lima, Peru fired tear gas and water cannon today at hundreds of demonstrators massing to protest human rights abuses attributed to government troops pursuing Maoist guerrillas in the country’s Andes region. Nearly 2,000 people chanting “No more violence!” were driven by security forces out of Campo de Marti, the park where they had gathered for a march called by leftist groups. Policemen in armored vehicles equipped with water cannon chased small groups of demonstrators throughout downtown Lima late today as tear gas wafted into office buildings and caused traffic jams. President Fernando Belaunde Terry put the city of six million under military control earlier today to prevent the march, saying the Government had received intelligence reports indicating Maoist guerrillas would infiltrate the protest and provoke riots. The march, set for this afternoon, was called by Lima’s leftist Mayor, Alfonso Barrantes, major unions and opposition political parties.
Meanwhile, in the Andean city of Huanta, forensic doctors began autopsies on the tortured bodies of 49 young men and a woman found piled into four common graves in Peru’s guerrilla war zone. Some of the bodies were found nude and with their hands tied behind their backs, the authorities said. They said most would be impossible to identify. Sobbing Indian women crowded outside the hospital in Huanta, an Andean city 250 miles southeast of Lima, to learn if the victims were family members who disappeared in recent weeks as the Peruvian military intensified its battle against the Shining Path guerrillas. The area is under military control. Justice officials, acting on a tip from local peasants, found the graves Thursday 10 miles outside of Huanta.
Chile’s military Government said today that the police had killed eight suspected guerrillas in a drive against terrorists. The Government said the results of the operation showed “armed Marxists” were active in Chile. The police said a ninth person was slain accidentally when he was caught in a shootout during the nationwide search for terrorists. The eight purported left-wing guerrillas were killed in clashes in four cities Thursday night. The sweep occurred less than three weeks before President Augusto Pinochet is to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the military coup that deposed the elected leftist Government of President Salvador Allende Gossens. Officials say they expect leftist groups to attempt a bombing campaign at that time. The police said searches of houses in several cities had turned up caches of weapons, explosives and subversive literature. Four men were arrested.
In Santiago, two men who raided a gun shop and took 10 rifles and shotguns were killed in a gun battle with the police after a car chase. The Central Information Agency, the Government’s secret police force, said the men belonged to a Communist Party guerrilla group called the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front and had a Soviet-made submachine gun. A 37-year-old electrician, caught in the crossfire as he drove home from work, was killed in his car. In the industrial city of Concepcion, 220 miles southwest of Santiago, the police shot two armed men who had hijacked a bus filled with passengers. Two men were killed when they resisted house searches in Concepcion and the nearby city of Los Angeles, while another two purported terrorists died in a shootout in Valdivia, 450 miles south of Santiago, the Central Information Agency said.
Five people, four of them police officers, were wounded today when a bomb exploded at a Johannesburg building housing the South African Government department that oversees apartheid regulations, the authorities announced. The explosion occurred two days after elections for a new, segregated assembly of mixed-race representatives. A bomb damaged government education offices in an industrial suburb Thursday but no one was hurt. No one took responsibility for today’s explosion. The African National Congress, the largest guerrilla group trying to end white rule in South Africa, has taken responsibility for other bombings. The bomb appeared to have been in the middle levels of the downtown Johannesburg building, and it buckled walls on three sides. Windows, air- conditioners and pieces of shattered furniture were blown out on the third, fourth and fifth floors.
The President and First Lady attend the 85th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) in Chicago. Sharpening his attack on Democrats, President Reagan said they were reponsible for a “dismal chapter of failed policies and self-doubt,” in a speech at a meeting of Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago. Mr. Reagan likened the Democrats’ support for a nuclear freeze and cancellation of key weapons programs to the views of a “jackass.” He said that “some may insist they ‘re just as committed to a strong deterrent even as they would cancel” production of the B-1 bomber and the MX missile. He said these people “may deny that a nuclear freeze would preserve today’s high, unequal and unstable levels of nuclear weapons.”
“But that way of thinking only reminds me,” he went on, “of what Sam Rayburn, a very wise Democratic Speaker of the House, once said: Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.” The veterans responded with laughter and applause. Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said Mr. Reagan did not intend to apply the epithet “jackass” to Walter F. Mondale, but he said the Democratic Presidential nominee “represents the party of the donkey.”
Mr. Reagan has generally been attacking Mr. Mondale recently without mentioning his name, as he did today.For example, he derided unspecified critics of the American invasion of Grenada last October. “I seem to remember that it took critics weeks to decide whether it was a good idea to rescue our students,” Mr. Reagan said. “They should have asked the students, for those students were already home.”
Mr. Mondale was criticized last year for delays in taking a stand on the invasion, ordered after a coup appeared to endanger American medical students on the island. The former Vice President initially withheld judgment about the invasion while asserting that the President failed to consult the allies of the United States. He also said the invasion “undermines” the American ability to criticize Soviet actions in Afghanistan, Poland, Cambodia and elsewhere.
The President and First Lady participate in a signing ceremony for S. 746, the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Act.
The President and First Lady leave Chicago, Illinois for Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, on the way to Camp David.
A tough Republican campaign battle was foreseen by President Reagan’s campaign strategists as they moved quickly to dispel some of the euphoria of the convention. “This isn’t going to be a cakewalk,” President Reagan said at a meeting of the Republican National Committeee.
Why Republicans turned to the right was an issue on which the party’s conservatives and moderates differed in Dallas. The party’s moderates tend to attribute their decline to being outworked, outspent and outmaneuvered by the conservatives, who were quick to master the new political technology, such as the use of computers to identify voters.
“Let the campaign begin,” Walter F. Mondale demanded as he campaigned in the Middle West, and denounced the Reagan Administration as “government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.” In an address in Springfield, Illinois, he again challenged President Reagan to a series of at least six televised debates.
A.T.& T. will drop 11,000 jobs in management and blue collar positions in its continuing effort to control costs. Most of the cutbacks will be in the A.T.& T. Technologies unit, the company’s biggest. The cutbacks reflect the difficulty A.T.& T. has had in adapting to the competitive telecommunications environment since the Bell System’s breakup January 1.
U.S. forces could fight a war of the intensity of World War II for at least 30 days without resupply, twice as along as four years ago, according to the Pentagon’s senior official responsible for military readiness. Lawrence J. Korb, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for manpower, installations and logistics, said the readiness of the armed forces and their ability to continue fighting would double again by the end of the decade, to 60 days, if Congress approved President Reagan’s military budgets. Mr. Korb, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for manpower, installations and logistics, provided the most specific defense of the Reagan Administration’s posture on military readiness since the release of a critical report by the staff of the House Appropriations Committee a month ago.
The report contended that military readiness had declined, despite rising military spending, and that United States forces could not sustain combat against the Soviet Union or many lesser powers. The Appropriations Committee is controlled by Democrats, and since it released the staff report Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger and other Administration officials have traded charges with leading Democrats over military readiness. Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic Presidential candidate, has contended that too much money has been spent on nuclear arms and not enough has been spent to make conventional forces ready. In the interview Wednesday, Mr. Korb said American forces could sustain a war of the same intensity as the Korean War for 30 days in the region around the Persian Gulf. After that, he said, arms and supplies could be taken from American forces elsewhere.
Two planes crashed in flight over San Luis Obispo, California, killing at least 17 people. A preliminary report indicated that two people were aboard a private plane on a training flight that collided with a commuter plane carrying 15 people.
Electrical fires in Boston preceded the electrical fire that forced the Boston Edison Company to black out much of downtown Boston Thursday, a utility spokesman said. Fires and smaller power failures began August 9, and continued into this week before Thursday’s major fire.
Picketing of Southern supermarkets operated by one of the region’s largest chains was staged for the second day by members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who are boycotting the company. The N.A.A.C.P. is directing consumer action against Food Lion, which operates 30 stores, contending that the chain has failed to reach agreement on improving employment and economic opportunities for blacks.
A 75- year-old man has surrendered to Federal prosecutors 12 years after he walked away from a Pennsylvania prison where he was serving time for mail fraud stemming from his purchase of charters for three Maryland savings and loan associations and for contempt of court, the authorities said Thursday. In a letter sent to local news organizations, the fugitive, Charles O. Mensik, former president of City Savings Association of Chicago, said he wanted to collect $35,000 he said was owed him in Social Security benefits and wanted to spend his remaining years with his wife of 52 years, in Phoenix, Arizona. Mr. Mensik walked away from the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp in Allenwood, Pennsylvania, on October 11, 1971, the authorities said. They said he filed suit Tuesday against the Social Security Administration for the benefits he was claiming.
Two more people have been charged with stealing classified Navy codes and trying to sell them to the Soviet Union. The charges bring to four the number accused in what the Federal Bureau of Investigation says was a plot that could have caused “grave damage” to national security. The latest arrests, of two San Diego men, Bruce Edward Tobias, 19 years old, and Dale Vern Irene, 24, were made Thursday in connection with the theft of “highly classified” code material from the USS Peoria, a tank landing ship based in San Diego. Arrested last Saturday in San Francisco were Mr. Tobias’s brother, Michael Timothy Tobias, a member of the Peoria crew, and Michael Tobias’s nephew, Francis Xavier Pizzo 2d, 18, of Chula Vista. The F.B.I. said Michael Tobias and Mr. Pizzo tried to sell some of the documents to Soviet officials in San Francisco for $100,000. The bureau said that when the men failed to find a foreign buyer, they offered the documents to the United States Secret Service in exchange for $1,000 and a guarantee that they would not be arrested.
Federal District Judge George P. Kazan sentenced a 39-year-old woman today to three years’ probation for smuggling Mexican babies into the United States for adoption. The woman, Nelda Karen Colwell of Lawton, Utah, was also fined $1,000, but the judge said community service could be done instead. She was found guilty June 14 of helping American couples smuggle Mexican infants across the border. But she says she only helped the couples find babies for legal adoptions.
A convicted child molester and his wife were in jail without bond today in Miami, Florida on charges that they had sexually abused children kept in their $150,000 suburban home through an unlicensed baby-sitting service. The couple, Francisco and Illeana Fuster-Escalona, were each charged with one count of capital sexual battery, said Assistant State Attorney Christopher Rundle. He said more charges may be filed next week. The couple cared for dozens of youngsters in their home. Mr. Fuster was convicted in 1982 of molesting a 9-year-old girl and was recently charged with violating his probation on that offense.
An offer to start over again with the Berlin Philharmonic was made by Herbert von Karajan, its estranged conductor.
Pat Bradley sets LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 during 2nd round of Columbia Savings National at Green Gables CC, Denver, CO.
Gary Ward has 4 hits, including a double and a home run, to pace the Texas Rangers to a 10–3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. Ward drives in 6 runs. Frank Tanana wins his 14th for the Rangers. Milwaukee gets ten hits, but leaves nine men on base.
The New York Yankees, continuing their remarkable second-half surge, defeated the Seattle Mariners, 6–4, in 10 innings tonight at the Kingdome. Don Mattingly, whose three-hit performance kept the Yankees in contention throughout the game, scored the winning run on a high-hopper hit by Willie Randolph. Brian Dayett scored the final run when the Mariners’ relief pitcher, Mike Stanton, was charged with a balk. The victory was New York’s 31st against just 14 losses since the All- Star break. Dave Righetti (3–4) was the winner in relief, and Stanton (4–3) the loser.
Cliff Johnson’s double in the eighth inning drove in the go-ahead run and Luis Leal (13-3) struck out a career-high 10 batters to lead the Toronto Blue Jays past the Minnesota Twins, 6–2. Leal allowed eight hits and two walks in eight and two-thirds innings.
Kansas City’s Bud Black (13-10) shut out the Chicago White Sox on three hits for eight innings before getting relief help from Dan Quisenberry to preserve a 5–2 Royals’ victory. Hal McRae provided Kansas City with an early offense when he highlighted a three-run first inning with a run-scoring triple. Steve Balboni’s American League record nine consecutive strikeouts came to an end when he drew a walk in the first inning. But he struck out in his next two trips, then grounded out in the seventh.
The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Oakland A’s, 4–2. Eddie Murray drove in three runs with a first-inning homer, and Mike Boddicker (16-8) went the distance on a six-hitter for Baltimore. Consecutive singles by Mike Young and John Shelby preceded Murray’s 23d homer as the A’s dropped their sixth straight.
Reggie Jackson punched a two-out, bases-loaded single to drive in a pair of runs that sparked a four-run first inning for California, and the Angels went on to beat the Detroit Tigers, 5–3. Mike Witt (12-10) allowed eight hits over eight inning to defeat Detroit for the first time in seven career decisions. Meanwhile, the Angels beat Dan Petry (15-7) for the first time in his six decisions here. California, winning for the second time after a seven-game losing streak, closed to four games of first- place Minnesota in the American League West.
The Boston Red Sox edged the Cleveland Indians, 7–6. Rick Miller’s fluke three-run double broke a 4-4 tie in the sixth inning and sparked Boston’s winning rally.
Rick Sutcliffe allowed just five hits in winning his 10th consecutive game, and Ryne Sandberg drove in two runs as the Chicago Cubs defeated the Atlanta Braves, 3–0, today. Sutcliffe, 12-1 since joining the Cubs after a trade from Cleveland in June, struck out six batters and walked one in recording his second shutout of the season. He also collected two hits and scored a run. Rick Camp (6–6) gave up two runs in five innings and got the loss.
Despite allowing just one hit — an RBI single to Dave Parker in the 7th inning — Pittsburgh’s Jose DeLeon loses to the Cincinnati Reds 2–0. DeLeon walks 3 and strikes out 8 but is beaten by Jeff Russell, who tosses a 3-hitter of his own, and only one of the hits after the second inning.
The San Francisco Giants sweep a pair from the New York Mets, 7–6 and 6–5, with reliever Frank Williams winning both games. He totals 3 innings of work. The Giants overcame deficits in both games of the doubleheader at Shea Stadium, giving them seven one-run decisions in seven victories over the Mets this season. Worse for the Mets, though, the double loss dropped them 5½ games behind the Chicago Cubs, marking the farthest they have been from first place this season. The Mets played well for the first five innings of the first game, taking a 5–0 lead while Ron Darling was holding the Giants to two hits. But in the sixth inning, Bob Brenly followed Jeff Leonard’s two-run double with a two-run homer against Darling, and in the eighth Brenly hit a three-run homer against Jesse Orosco that wiped out a 6–4 Mets lead.
Joe Niekro pitched a five-hitter, and Terry Puhl and Phil Garner each drove in two runs for Houston as the Astros downed the St. Louis Cardinals, 7–2. Niekro (13-9) retired the Cardinals in order before walking Andy Van Slyke with one out in the fifth. He lost his shutout when Van Slyke scored on a single by Mike Jorgensen. The victory was the 12th in 14 games for the Astros.
The Philadelphia Phillies edged the Los Angeles Dodgers, 6–5. German Rivera’s wild throw on Glenn Wilson’s grounder with two out in the 10th allowed Len Matuszek to score the winning run for Philadelphia. Matuszek opened the inning by walking against the Dodger reliever Jerry Reuss (2–6) and was sacrificed to second by John Wockenfuss. After an intentional walk, Matuszek moved to third on a force play. Wilson then ran the count to 3–2 before hitting a slow hopper to Rivera.
The San Diego Padres won the nitecap of a doubleheader 5–4, after the Expos won the opener, 4–1. Steve Garvey drilled a single with two out in the ninth inning to push across the winning run in the second game and earn San Diego a split of the doubleheader. In the opener, Gary Carter of Montreal broke a 1–1 tie in the sixth with a run-scoring single, and Tim Wallach followed with a two-run single to put the game away.
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Charlie Villanueva, NBA p[ower forward (Toronto Raptors, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Pistons, Dallas Mavericks), in Queens, New York, New York.
Kevin Kolb, NFL quarterback (Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals), in Victoria, Texas.
Kyle Schmid, Canadian actor (“Being Human”), in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Cameron Goodman, American actress (“The Phantom”), in Houston, Texas.
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