Dockworkers at Southampton and five other ports joined the British dock strike today, but workers at 11 other ports refused to take part in the four-day-old walkout. A spokesman for the National Association of Port Employers said a third of Britain’s 35,000 longshoremen had joined the strike, called by the leftist- led Transport and General Workers Union in support of the 25-week-old British coal strike. The 700-man combined workforce at Immingham and nearby Grimsby on England’s northeast coast, which voted to work over the weekend, walked out today without a vote. Immingham, Britain’s third-largest foreign-trade port, handled five ships on Monday. Workers at the Welsh ports of Cardiff, Newport and Port Talbot also joined the strike today. But dockworkers at Ipswich, the country’s fourth-largest container port, as well as longshoremen at Goole, Poole, Newcastle, South Shields, North Shields, Great Yarmouth, Wisbech, Boston, Guernsey and Jersey voted to work.
Salvage company divers today began surveying the site where a French freighter carrying 225 tons of radioactive cargo sank off the Belgian coast. “The real work can start toward the end of this week,” said Guy Lengagne, the French Secretary of State responsible for maritime transport. “The salvaging will take three weeks, weather permitting.” The freighter, the Mont Louis, is resting in 46 feet of water at low tide, when its hull breaks the surface of the water. Mr. Lengagne and Firmin Aerts, the Belgian Environment Minister, observed the North Sea wreck today from the French patrol ship Glaive.
Konrad Kujau, a West German dealer in Nazi memorabilia who has confessed to having forged the “Hitler diaries,” told a court in Hamburg that the reporter who sold them to Stern magazine knew they were fraudulent. Kujau, 46, testified that reporter Gerd Heidemann, 52, even suggested items to put in the bogus diaries. Mr. Kujau, 46 years old, told the court that Mr. Heidemann enticed into writing the diaries by giving him a uniform that belonged to the Nazi Luftwaffe chief, Hermann Göring. Both are charged with selling Stern 60 volumes. The diaries fooled such Nazi-era historians as H.R. Trevor-Roper of Britain until the West German Federal Archives Office called them forgeries.
The match for the world chess championship will open in Moscow on September 10, with 21-year-old Gary Kasparov challenging world champion and fellow Russian Anatoly Karpov, the Soviet news agency Tass reported. The first player to win six games — draws do not count — will win the world championship.
The USSR performs an underground nuclear test.
Israeli Air Force jets bombed a Palestinian guerrilla base in the Bekaa region of eastern Lebanon and reportedly inflicted heavy casualties. Israel said the base was being used to prepare guerrilla raids against Israeli troops. The radio station of the Lebanese Christian Phalangist Party said as many as 100 people might have been killed.
Rabbi Meir Kahane said he and 150 armed followers will go today to Israel’s largest Arab town, Umm el Fahm, and order its residents to leave the country. Opponents vowed to form a human chain to keep them out. Kahane, the right-wing, U.S.-born founder of the Jewish Defense League and now leader of the Kach Party, was elected to the Israeli Parliament on a platform calling for the expulsion of all Arabs from Israel. About 22,000 Arabs live in Umm el Fahm.
A British minesweeper arrived at the northern end of the Suez Canal today to await three Italian vessels for a trip south to join the growing international task force searching for mines in the Gulf of Suez, where explosions have damaged 18 ships since July 9. The Wilton was expected to reinforce four other British minesweepers operating in the shallow waters at the northern end of the gulf. The Italians will probably search nearby. The international minesweeping force also includes four American Sea Stallion helicopters and 12 Egyptian ships. A spokesman for the Dutch Foreign Ministry announced in the Hague today that the Netherlands will join the effort as well, with two minesweepers arriving in the area within two weeks. No mines have been recovered since the searching began two weeks ago.
Four hours of street battles terrorized residents of Muslim West Beirut, and renewed fighting in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli killed seven people despite a weekend cease-fire between feuding Muslim militias there, police sources reported. They said the West Beirut fighting was triggered by a personal squabble between rival militias that escalated into street battles involving heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
An Iran Air jetliner was forced to fly to Iraq by a young, unarmed Iranian couple. A young Iranian man and woman hijacked an Iran Air jetliner with 206 people aboard to Iraq and said they will ask the Baghdad government for asylum because of oppression in their homeland. Speaking to reporters at Baghdad airport, the man identified himself as Behrouz Hassan and the woman only as Fereshteh, her given name. He said they commandeered the plane on a domestic flight to Tehran. An Iraqi Information Ministry official said the couple are welcome to stay in Iraq and that the freed passengers and crew can return to Iran if they wish, even though the two countries are at war.
The Iraq-Iran war has settled down into a conflict of waiting in the muggy summer heat, with small patrols from each side probing a no man’s land to spot targets for sporadic artillery fire, according to American military analysts. The analysts, with access to the best information on the war available here, said today that they saw no signs of an Iranian offensive that has long been awaited. Moreover, they agree with an assessment by the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Iran would probably be defeated if it attacked Iraq. The analysts said that for Iran to throw its army of 500,000 soldiers, who would fight mainly on foot, against well-prepared Iraqi defenses and an Iraqi advantage in firepower and armor would be to risk having its forces run out of ammunition or be destroyed in the assault. The Iraqis are dug in and well fortified in earthern bunkers, with a swamp on the right flank and a flooded marsh on the left flank. Those defenses would channel Iranian forces into the most heavily fortified Iraqi positions and fields of fire, the analysts said.
Nearly 50 Soviet helicopters have left Kabul, the Afghan capital, for southeastern Afghanistan in a new drive against guerrillas near the Pakistani border, Western diplomats said today. The diplomats also said Soviet troops had stepped up a campaign of destroying crops now that the harvest season is about to start in Afghanistan. They said that helicopters dropped incendiary bombs on wheat fields south of Kabul and that tanks ran over crops in the Panjshir Valley.
Soviet helicopters hunting Muslim rebels in Afghanistan mistakenly bombed their own troops, killing 200 Soviet soldiers and injuring many more, Western diplomats said in New Delhi. They said the bombing occurred August 23, near Koti Sangi on the western fringe of Kabul, the Afghan capital. “On the next morning, a foreign observer noticed four truckloads of wounded Soviet soldiers coming into Kabul,” one diplomat said. The report could not be independently confirmed.
The police rounded up more Sikh political and religious leaders in Punjab state today after Sikhs vowed to defy a government ban on a world Sikh convention. The Press Trust of India news agency said the latest arrests brought to 80 the number of Sikhs detained in in the last two days. The Press Trust of India quoted official sources as saying those detained had been mobilizing public support for the convention planned in Amritsar on Sunday. About 1,000 Sikhs and 100 soldiers were killed when the Indian Army stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar on June 6 in an effort to capture extremists seeking an autonomous state. On Monday, an Amritsar magistrate banned the convention because of worries about law and order. But in a statement, the five head priests of the Sikh religion rejected the ban and announced that the meeting would take place as planned to discuss the future of the religion.
A three-day visit to Sri Lanka’s northern province indicates that popular support is gradually moving away from the main political party representing Tamil separatism and toward militant groups committed to terrorism. “We cannot say that it is going out of our hands, but definitely the militants are more assertive now and in the forefront of the struggle,” said Appapillai Amirthalingam, the secretary of the Tamil United Liberation Front, which has advocated a separate nation for the Tamil minority by nonviolent methods. Civil rights workers, intellectuals and government employees in the northern province say reports of attacks on civilians by government troops have deepened support for the extremists, who say they will never accept a negotiated settlement. Most of the troops are members of the country’s Sinhalese majority. Mr. Amirthalingam said many young Tamils were also upset by his party’s participation in talks with the Government of President Junius R. Jayawardene on a constitutonal settlement.
General Adrian Huaman, head of Peru’s anti-terrorist troops, has been fired after he bitterly blamed government neglect and corruption for provoking a guerrilla campaign in the central Andes. He was replaced by army Colonel Wilfredo Mori, a military communique said. Mori assumed command of about 4,000 troops battling the Maoist guerrilla group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) in 13 Andean provinces. Huaman had described the guerrilla problem as political, not military, resulting from government neglect of poverty in the region.
The Roman Catholic Church in Lima, Peru today ruled out participation in a peace commission with political parties, a plan proposed by leftists to end guerrilla violence.
The acting chief of a new opposition party surrendered today to the military Government, becoming the seventh prominent Liberian arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow the head of state, General Samuel K. Doe. The politician, Dusty Wolokolie, the acting chairman of the Liberian People’s Party, was accompanied to the Justice Ministry by two church leaders, according to the Anglican Archbishop, George Browne. The church has protested reported disappearances and the sudden wave of arrests since August 19, when General Doe returned home early from a European trip amid rumors of a coup plot.
South African policemen fought running battles with students and demonstrators outside Johannesburg today as voters from the country’s Indian minority voted for a new Parliament that the Government has depicted as a major reform in this racially divided nation. Late tonight, first returns from the vote showed a high level of abstentions among the 400,000 registered voters, reflecting widespread discontent among those nonwhite groups to be given a limited political voice in the new three-chamber Parliament. What the white authorities call a “new dispensation” offers places in Parliament to Indians and people of mixed race for the first time, but excludes the country’s black majority of 20 million people.
Jesse Jackson will campaign actively for the Democratic national ticket despite disagreements, Mr. Jackson and Walter F. Mondale announced. After a three-hour meeting at the Democratic Presidential nominee’s home in North Oaks, Minn., Mr. Jackson told reporters he planned to embrace, and campaign for, the ticket. Earlier, Mr. Mondale received the endorsement of John B. Anderson, the Republican-turned-independent who won 5.7 million votes in the 1980 Presidential election.
Geraldine A. Ferraro, in Camden, New Jersey., told a crowd that as a mother she was concerned about her son going off to war and suggested that a second term for President Reagan could increases the chances of war. Earlier, the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate pointed out that her running mate had been a leading advocate of deploying Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in Europe.
President Reagan speaks with Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., Chairman of the Republican National Committee, on the occasion of his 45th birthday.
President Reagan participates in a ceremony to present the 1983 Young American Medals for outstanding acts of bravery.
President Reagan sees off the U.S. Ambassadors to Nepal, Zaire and Kuwait
Testimony by Washington’s mayor is at issue in a federal grand jury’s inquiry into drug use among municipal employees, according to federal law enforcement officials. They said the grand jury was investigating whether Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr.’s testimony conflicted with that of other witnesses, who said he had obtained cocaine on many occasions.
An ex-Wall Street Journal reporter and two other men were charged in a Federal indictment with stealing from The Journal and defrauding its readers by using advance information about forthcoming articles in the newspaper to profit in stock market trading. Those indicted on the criminal charges were R. Foster Winans, who was dismissed by The Journal in late March; David J. Carpenter, a former news clerk at The Journal, and Kenneth P. Felis, a former stockbroker.
The cost of mailing a letter is likely to go up to 23 cents and a decision on new rates and when they would take effect may be made within days, Postmaster General William F. Bolger said. Bolger told the annual National League of Postmasters convention in Las Vegas that the rate hike probably would take effect in early 1985, with first-class mail expected to increase 3 cents from the current 20 cents. Bolger said the increase is needed because “expenses have caught up to us and have exceeded our income.” Bolger also warned that the system must hold the line in contract negotiations underway with 600,000 members of four postal unions.
Striking health care workers ratified a new contract and agreed to return to work in 48 hours, ending the longest hospital strike in New York City’s history. A union official said 99% of the 19,430 members ratified the agreement, ending the 6-week walkout. The contract provides 5% wage hikes for each of the next two years and guarantees alternate weekends off, perhaps the hardest fought issue. The union had asked for a 10% increase in each year.
The Tennessee Valley Authority will cancel four unfinished reactors today and write them off as a $2.7-billion waste, officials said in Knoxville. TVA tied its future to the atom between 1966 and 1975 when the federal agency ordered 17 nuclear reactors — more than any other utility in the nation. TVA finished building five reactors and plans to complete construction of four others. But the utility has canceled four reactors and indefinitely deferred construction two years ago on the four reactors at Hartsville and Yellow Creek because of skyrocketing cost overruns.
Democratic Senator David L. Boren swept to an easy victory in a primary election in Oklahoma that also featured two Republicans vying for the right to oppose incumbent Democratic Rep. James R. Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee. State GOP officials said the national Republican Committee had listed Jones as the No. 1 target for defeat. Frank Keating, a former U.S. attorney. and state senator, held an early lead over Tom Cantrell, a former Department of Energy official, in the GOP primary. Cantrell conceded defeat.
A man who quit the Northeast Kingdom Community Church in Island Pond, Vermont, after claiming that an elder beat his daughter for seven hours said he fabricated the story and has rejoined the fundamentalist Christian sect. “I’ve repented and returned,” Roland Church said. Mr. Church’s allegation was one of dozens of such claims from church defectors and townspeople over the years. In June, 90 state troopers took custody of 112 children from homes of church members in hopes of having them examined for child abuse. A judge ordered the children released.
The Democratic National Committee geared up a $27-million campaign aimed at drawing 5 million new voters to the polls in November — the Democrats’ best hope, party Chairman Charles T. Manatt said, of putting Walter F. Mondale in the White House. The program, called the Democratic Victory Fund, will combine the largest fund-raising project in party history with a massive voter registration and turnout effort.
Washingtonians offered help today to a multiple sclerosis victim who reported being mugged on the Capitol grounds after walking 600 miles to stress the need for more research on his disease. Thomas Tyrrell, 35 years old, of Algonac, Michigan, said concerned citizens gave him three pairs of crutches after hearing reports that he had been robbed, assaulted and his only crutch broken by two men late Sunday on the Capitol’s west lawn. Senator Donald W. Riegle Jr. and Senator Carl Levin, Democrats of Michigan, together bought Mr. Tyrrell a plane ticket with their personal funds for his return trip to Detroit on Wednesday. Staff members in the Senators’ offices donated $70 to replace the $55 of which he was robbed. Mr. Tyrrell said he left Detroit on his trek to Washington on July 17, traveling 25 to 30 miles a day and camping out along the way.
Montana fires charred 100,000 acres of forests and ranges and forced hundreds of people to flee their homes. Scores of wind-whipped blazes raged out of control from the town of Libby in the northwest to the Custer National Forest and the Bull Mountains in the southeast.
A third delay in the liftoff of the NASA space shuttle Discovery for its maiden flight was caused by a fault in an onboard timing device for controlling launching activities. The liftoff was rescheduled for tomorrow.
A wide gap at auto labor talks was reported by officials of the United Automobile Workers. General Motors and Ford made their first contract offers, and union leaders quickly denounced them as “meager” and “inadequate.” They said the wide differences at a time of record profits would make it very difficult to reach agreements by September 15, the strike deadline.
More than a dozen police cars chased two Maine teenagers through three states today at speeds reaching more than 100 miles per hour for stealing $16 worth of gasoline in New Jersey, the police said. The police later discovered that the Chevrolet station wagon the boys were driving had been reported stolen Monday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The chase covered about 55 miles in New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania. The boys’ identities were not released because of their youth. The police said the driver was 17 years old and his companion was 14. Both were from Eliot, Maine.
Teacher strikes yesterday extended summer vacation for more than 76,000 pupils in five states, including community college students in Michigan and Illinois. Nearly 62,000 pupils were kept out of classrooms in Illinois, where more than 2,600 teachers were on strike from the Chicago suburbs to the Mississippi River. More than 10,500 were out of Michigan schools because of strikes at three public school districts and a community college. In the St. John the Baptist Parish school system in Louisiana a strike by 500 teachers and other employees kept 1,200 children out of school. A strike by 74 teachers affecting 1,182 pupils in the South Fayette School District near Pittsburgh was in its fourth day. A strike by 87 teachers in Selma, Indiana, interrupted the first day of school for about 1,400 pupils.
Doctors for convicted murderer Jean Harris said it was too early to know the extent of damage done by a heart attack she suffered Monday but said she was alert and her vital signs were steady. The 61-year-old former headmistress is serving 15 years to life in a Valhalla, New York, prison for the 1980 slaying of her lover, Dr. Herman Tarnower, author of the “Scarsdale Diet.”
The Internal Revenue Service today revoked automatic tax exemptions for contributions to a central California church that gives out ministry titles and church charters worldwide through the mail. The order by Michael Sassi, director of the revenue office in San Francisco, removed the mail-order ministry, the Universal Life Church of Modesto, California, from the agency’s list of tax-exempt organizations. In the past 11 months, $1.85 million was claimed for tax-exempt contributions to Universal Life in the revenue service’s office’s northern and central California service area, Mr. Sassi said. The claims were filed by 113 taxpayers.
The pastor of Denver’s St. Mark’s Church said today that he awaited confirmation that his dispute with Colorado’s Episcopal Bishop over which prayer book to use had ended. The Rev. Louis R. Tarsitanto, who was in Houston for a church-school conference, said his wife read him an article from The Denver Post that quoted Biship William C. Frey as saying he would not try to defrock him. Bishop Frey earlier this month had threatened to take formal action to depose the conservative priest, but said he had decided the matter was “irrelevant to the mission” of the church. The split, which divided the congregation of St. Mark’s, began when the priest refused an order by the bishop to use the revised 1979 version of the Book of Common Prayer, and continued to use the 1928 version.
The Oakland A’s, facing a 10th straight loss, came back once, then twice to defeat the New York Yankees in 12 innings tonight, 4–3. Dave Kingman drove in the winning run to give the A’s their first victory since August 17, and snap the Yankees’ four-game winning streak. The Yankees had taken the lead in the top of the 12th inning when Dave Winfield singled with men one first and third. Winfield knocked in one run and Bobby Meachem continued around the bases to score on Rickey Henderson’s overthrow of third base. But Dale Murray entered the game for Bob Shirley as the Yankees’ sixth pitcher and gave up a run-scoring double to Henderson, a run-scoring single to Carney Lansford, a single to Bruce Boche and finally Kingman’s game-winning hit.
The Texas Rangers blanked the Kansas City Royals, 6–0. Pete O’Brien and Jeff Kunkel hit home runs and Buddy Bell slugged a two- run double in support of Danny Darwin’s shutout pitching for Texas. Darwin (8–9) began the game with an 0–5 career record against the Royals. O’Brien led off the Texas second with his 18th home run and the rookie Kunkel hit his third leading off the third off Frank Wills (1–3).
Kirby Puckett cracks a leadoff triple in the bottom of the 9th, and scores on Tom Brunansky’s bases-loaded single as the Minnesota Twins edge the Boston Red Sox, 2–1. Brunansky, who earlier homered, smashed an 0-2 pitch down the line to make a winner of Ron Davis (6–9). Umpire Bill Kunkel calls his final game; he’s the last umpire in the 20th century to also play in the major leagues, having pitched for the Yankees and Kansas City Athletics.
In Baltimore’s 4–2 loss to the California Angels, the Orioles’ Scott McGregor’s season ends when breaks his ring finger on a Brian Downing line drive to end the 1st inning. A 1st-inning homer by Bobby Grich pins the loss on McGregor, who loses in Anaheim for the first time in six seasons. He had beaten the Angels 10 straight times. Jim Slaton survived a slew of warning-track shots to combine with Don Aase on a six-hitter for California. Slaton (6–6) retired 19 batters on fly balls, six of which were caught with his outfielders’ backs to the wall.
Ruppert Jones’s two-out double in the ninth inning scored Rusty Kuntz, a pinch-runner, from second base to give the Detroit Tigers, who scored three runs in the eight, a 5–4 victory over the Seattle Mariners.
The Houston Astros’ Ray Knight is traded to the New York Mets for Gerald Young and two other prospects. Houston stages a three-run rally in the eighth to nip the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3–2. Terry Puhl’s suicide squeeze scores Jose Cruz after Jerry Mumphrey tied it with a two-run single. Dave Smith (3–2) was the winner in relief of Joe Niekro. The Astros move into second place, nine games behind San Diego.
So Walt Terrell didn’t dazzle the Los Angeles Dodgers the way Dwight Gooden did. So he didn’t strike out 12 in the game or 3 in any one inning. So Dave Anderson hit a home run instead of striking out 4 times. To the New York Mets, it didn’t matter that Terrell pitched his game last night and not Gooden’s. To the Mets, the outcome of Terrell’s game was what was important, and the outcome was a 5-1 victory over Los Angeles. The Mets did lose half a game to the Chicago Cubs – the difference is now five and a half games — but that’s because the Cubs took a doubleheader from Cincinnati.
Keith Moreland hit two doubles and a single and drove in two runs to lead Chicago to a 5–2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds today and give the Cubs a sweep of their doubleheader. Chicago, the National League East leader, won the first game, also by 5–2, behind Moreland’s homer and triple and four runs batted in. The Cubs pounded Frank Pastore (3–8) for four hits and three runs in the first inning of the second game. Ryne Sandberg began the spurt with his 17th home run.
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Born:
Will Harris, MLB pitcher (World Series Champions-Asros, 2017; All-Star, 2016; Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Houston Astros, Washington Nationals), in Houston, Texas.
Tim Sestito, NHL centre (Edmonton Oilers, New Jersey Devils), in Rome, New York.
Joey Haynos, NFL tight end (Miami Dolphins), in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Kaya Jones [as Chrystal Neria], Canadian-born American singer and model (Pussycat Dolls), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Denmark Vessey, American rapper and record producer (Martin Lucid Dream), in Detroit, Michigan.
Died:
Mohamed Naguib, 83, Egyptian general and revolutionary (one of the leaders of Egyptian Revolution, 1st President of Egypt 1952-54).
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