Israeli foreign policy issues are expected by the Reagan Administration to so seriously divide the government that emerges from the protracted interparty negotiations in Israel that there would be little opportunity to revive President Reagan’s Middle East peace inititative. Administration officials said this division would be particularly true of the “national unity” government apparently agreed to in principle by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of the Likud Party, now in power, and Shimon Peres, whose Labor Party got the most votes in last month’s elections.
A joint announcement in Jerusalem by Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir confirmed that they had agreed in principle to form a 50- month bipartisan government. But they indicated that a formal agreement still awaited approval by their respective parties.
Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was recently elected to the Israeli Parliament, arrived in New York yesterday at the start of a visit to the United States in which he said he hoped to raise money for his campaign to remove Arab citizens from Israel. He said he would also urge American Jews to withhold support for Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic Presidential candidate. “I think that Walter Mondale has capitulated to Jesse Jackson,” the Brooklyn-born rabbi told reporters at Kennedy International Airport after his arrival from Israel. “If Jews can’t bring themselves to vote for Reagan, they should stay home.” Rabbi Kahane, who was greeted at the airport by about a dozen supporters, said he spoke “for the average Jew” in his campaign to rid Israel of Arabs. “The issue here is will Israel be a Jewish state or not,” he said. “The question is whether Israel will be lost to the Arabs through bullets or babies.” He said he hoped to speak to officials in Washington about letting Arabs immigrate to the United States. “Let them do for the Arabs what they did for the Cubans,” he said.
The General People’s Congress of Libya approved a proposed treaty of unity with Morocco today, while Moroccans voted on the pact in a nationwide referendum that was expected to result in an overwhelming endorsement. King Hassan II of Morocco and Libya’s leader, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, announced the union agreement, formally known as the Arab African Federation treaty, at a meeting in Oujda, Morocco on August 14. The agreement, which provides for a rotating presidency and a mutual defense pact, startled the United States, its Western allies, and other Arab countries. The Reagan Administration has viewed Morocco as a bulwark against Libyan subversion and expansionism in Africa. In Washington, a State Department spokesman expressed concern that the union treaty would serve to “legitimize” the position of Colonel Qaddafi, who, the spokesman said, was not trying to “moderate his behavior.”
The United States told Libya’s United Nations diplomats today that they cannot travel outside New York City without special permission. The note gave no reason for the stricter curbs, but a spokesman for the United States Mission cited unspecified security considerations. The spokesman said the new restriction was announced in a note to the Libyans, whose diplomatic staff and families were previously allowed to travel within a 25-mile radius of the city. If United Nations business requires travel outside any of the city’s five boroughs, United States authorities must be given 48 hours’ notice. The restriction will also apply to any Libyan diplomats who come to New York for the General Assembly session that opens September 18.
Iran attacked international organizations today for what it described as their failure to take firm action to gain the return of an Iranian airliner and more than 200 passengers and crew hijacked to Iraq. A Foreign Ministry statement broadcast by the Tehran radio said the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Air Transport Association and the International Civil Aviation Authority had all failed in their duties. The plane was seized by two hijackers over Iran last Tuesday and forced to fly to Iraq. The Tehran radio report, monitored by the BBC, said the organizations had confined themselves to sending telegrams to the Iraqi Government and expressing regret at Iraq’s “noncooperation” with Iran.
Iran warned Kuwait today that it might retaliate in kind for what it views as Kuwaiti collusion in the hijacking of the Iranian airliner to Iraq. “We are considering seriously the actions which we suspect have been done by some neighboring states in the hijacking and we are investigating,” Iran’s President, Hojatolislam Ali Khamenei, told a prayer meeting.
Several women and children died in a bomb blast at Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan today. The official state radio blamed Muslim guerrillas for the blast. The Kabul radio, monitored in Islamabad, said the bomb exploded outside the heavily guarded airport, which doubles as a key air base for Soviet and Afghan military aircraft. The radio gave no precise figure for the dead and wounded. According to Western diplomats in Islamabad, Afghan guerrillas have stepped up their attacks on the airport in the last month.
A United Nations mediator, Diego Cordovez, reported progress today at talks on the political future of Afghanistan but said serious obtacles remained. The talks, which began in June 1982, adjourned Thursday after a week of indirect exchanges between Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Four people were killed and 20 were injured today in Pakistan when two trains collided head-on near Bahawalpur, 260 miles south of Islamabad, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported. Both drivers died in the crash.
Today 85 people sat in silence on a wind-tossed bluff east of the northernmost Japanese city of Wakkanai. It was for a memorial service for 28 relatives who had been among the 269 passengers and crew members aboard the K.A.L. jumbo jet, Flight 007, that was shot down by a Soviet fighter in Soviet airspace last September 1. At daybreak today, the families set sail on a chartered boat to get as close as possible in the Sea of Japan to the underwater graves of their sons and daughters and parents. For some it was a return journey, a painful echo of a similar excursion a year ago when they dropped chrysanthemums and tears into the water. There were services then, too, and there would be yet one more today. The difference now is that the families’ sadness is being overtaken by an enveloping bitterness. “When you think back on the last year,” said Shozo Takemoto, “nothing has been solved at all.”
The United States is considering providing rapid-fire AC-47 gunships to the Salvadoran Air Force, according to the United States Ambassador, Thomas R. Pickering, and other American officials here. If approved, the AC-47 would represent a significant increase in the firepower available to the Salvadoran military. “The AC-47 gunship is under consideration for the Salvadoran Air Force,” Mr. Pickering said. “I don’t want to comment beyond that.” A final decision has not been made on whether to provide the warplanes, he added. American officials would not speculate on when the planes might arrive, should they be approved. But Mr. Pickering said a portion of the recently passed $70 million in supplemental military aid for El Salvador could be spent on the gunships this year.
The Salvadoran Air Force may also receive 10 to 15 new UH-1 helicoptors this year, according to another United States official. The slow-moving, twin-propellor AC-47 is a heavily armed version of the DC-3 cargo and passenger plane. It was widely used in Vietnam where, in tandem with the Cobra helicoptor gunship, it was developed as a major weapon. Dubbed “Puff the Magic Dragon,” the plane can saturate an area the size of a football field with bullets by firing 18,000 rounds per minute from three 7.62-millimeter guns. The guns are “normally controlled by the pilot of the aircraft,” a Western military official familiar with the plane said. “He has a sight, and it’s very precise. It’s extraordinarily accurate.”
South African authorities have lifted their ban on The Windhoek Observer, a weekly newspaper in South-West Africa known for its regular tilting against Government policy in the disputed territory, also known as Namibia. Its first issue in three weeks is to appear Saturday with the banner headline, “A Death Reprieve — Good Morning South-West Africa.” The newspaper was prohibited from publishing after distribution of eight successive issues was banned following publication. Its editor, Hannes Smith, said he believed the prohibition had been ordered because of his attacks on South Africa, which rules South-West Africa in defiance of the United Nations.
In a ruling published today, the Publications Appeal Board of the South African Department of the Interior said a 10-member panel had decided unanimously that it “could not agree that all future editions would be undesirable” and was thus lifting the ban. However, the chairman of the panel, Kobus van Rooyen, said The Windhoek Observer had come “very close” in some issues to deserving a permanent ban. “This warning will be taken into consideration if a total prohibition were in future to be considered,” he said. Mr. Smith, whose final appeal against the ban was heard this week, said the decision “restored my faith in the system.” He promised he would “not overstep the limits of fair comment and reporting” in the future.
At least one televised debate was set under a tentative agreement between President Reagan and Walter F. Mondale, who has challenged Mr. Reagan to at least six debates on campaign issues. Aides of the Presidential candidates said there would be at least one debate. They said substantial differences still had to be resolved over the format and the question whether there would be more debates. The President’s chief of staff, James A. Baker 3rd, said there was “a long way to go to complete negotiations.” Mr. Mondale’s campaign chairman, James A. Johnson, also cited various remaining differences. “Vice President Mondale wants substantially more debating than President Reagan,” he said.
No details have been set on the time, place and sponsorship of the confrontation tentatively agreed upon today. Nor was there any agreement on a debate between Vice President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Geraldine A. Ferraro. Mr. Baker, quoting Mr. Reagan as saying that any more than two debates might bore the public, said the President preferred a debate to be held “not too close to Election Day” because it “could have an undue impact on the voters’ decision.” He contended that excessive debating would “deflect from the records of the two candidates.”
“The President thinks actions speak louder than words,” Mr. Baker added.
President Reagan hosts a reception for chapter presidents of Catholic Golden Age Association.
An agenda for Walter F. Mondale in the South was set by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and 13 Southern Democratic chairmen. They said it represented Mr. Mondale’s best chance to win black and white votes in the South against President Reagan. At a meeting in Alexandria, Va., the state chairmen joined Mr. Jackson in urging the Mondale-Ferraro campaign to stress economic issues in the South rather than try to compete with Mr. Reagan on such issues as patriotism and school prayers. They said this represented his best chance to win both black and white votes in the region. The meeting, which grew out of a telephone conference call last week between Mr. Jackson and the Southern Democratic chairmen, was as significant as any of the political decisions that came out of it, according to some of those who were there. “I had a sense something very important was taking place in that room,” said one participant.
An antitrust exemption for airlines was granted by the Civil Aeronautics Board to let them jointly discuss ways to reduce air traffic congestion and delays. Immediately after the 5-to-0 vote, the Department of Transportation announced that talks among the nation’s airlines would begin next Wednesday. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole said she hoped the airlines would solve the congestion problem and thereby avert a need for the Federal regulation her department had proposed. The action by the Federal regulatory panel gave the airlines 45 days to develop their own plan for solving a situation that has angered millions of travelers who have experienced long delays because of overcrowded departure and arrival schedules, primarily at six major airports. Airline officials acknowledge scheduling more rush-hour flights than the airports can handle, saying they do so to meet competitive pressure for prime-time business.
The crash of the B-1 test plane occurred Wednesday after it stalled while maneuvering to avoid an observation plane, according to Government officials who said their information came from military sources. The observation plane reportedly was filming the the B-1’s test of low-speed flight control and aproached too close, causing the bomber’s pilot to bank sharply to the right. This was followed by a sudden loss of lift, according to the officials.
The crew of space shuttle Discovery launched another communications satellite and began operation of a drug-processing machine that could open the way to a new space industry. The shuttle was reported to be performing remarkably free of trouble spots. A third satellite is scheduled to be deployed Saturday morning, completing the planned six-day mission’s primary tasks. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is earning $34 million for the delivery of the three satellites to orbit. The one deployed this morning, called Leasat, for Leased Satellite, was the first communications satellite designed specifically for launching by the space shuttles. All others have been built to be handled either by the shuttles or conventional rockets. To check on the Discovery’s exterior condition, Dr. Judith A. Resnik flexed the 50-foot-long mechanical arm and operated a camera attached to its “wrist.” The television camera transmitted inspection pictures of the shuttle’s fuselage and tail section. The survey showed that the Discovery had survived its launching with no apparent damage.
John W. Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to kill President Reagan three years ago, has asked the Federal District Court here for increased privileges at the Federal mental hospital where he is confined. In a petition filed with the court Tuesday, Mr. Hinckley asked that a ban on news interviews at St. Elizabeths Hospital be lifted and that he be allowed to to send and receive mail without it first being censored. Mr. Hinckley, who said he could offer “expert testimony” showing that he “has made progress” in his stay at the hospital, also asked to be allowed to place telephone calls from the hospital and to have ground privileges. He has been confined at the hospital since he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in June 1982 of shooting Mr. Reagan and three other people on March 31, 1981.
State Attorney General John Easton announced today that Vermont would not appeal the dismissal of child abuse cases stemming from the raid on a church group in Island Pond. His decision brings to an end a legal controversy that has raged in Vermont for the past two months. “A successful appeal would put us in no better position than we were prior to the legal action taken on June 22, 1984,” Mr. Easton said at a news conference. At issue was the state’s decision to round up 112 children of the Northeast Kingdom Community Church in a state police raid at the group’s Island Pond commune. The church group admits to physically disciplining children. State officials called it abuse. A State District Court judge declared the roundup illegal and refused to give state officials temporary custody of the children to be examined for abuse.
Mayor Donald Bishop of suburban Dearborn Heights, Michigan was convicted today by a Federal jury of trying to extort up to $250,000 from several companies seeking the city’s cable television franchise. Mr. Bishop, 53 years old, who has been Mayor for four years, was convicted of conspiracy, extortion and obstruction of justice for demanding payments from the companies between 1981 and 1983, United States Attorney Leonard Gilman said. Mr. Bishop faces up to 20 years in prison on the conspiracy and extortion charges and up to five years for obstruction of justice, Mr. Gilman said. The verdict automatically stripped him of the Mayor’s post.
A boy who allegedly bought rare comic books and other goods worth about $4,000 by using a computer to get credit card numbers is helping the authorities trace others doing the same thing around the country, the police said today. The boy, whose name has not been released because he is 13 years old, ordered the goods by telephone and had them delivered to unoccupied model homes in his housing development, where he picked them up, the police said. The youth has cooperated with the local police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Secret Service investigators by providing information about illegal computer operating practices, said Lieutenant Michael A. Chiuciolo. The boy was arrested two weeks ago on charges of credit card fraud, Lieutenant Chiuciolo said. The officer said the case would probably be handled through the juvenile courts.
Four members of the family of a former National Football League player were shot to death today in a house in central Los Angeles. The police said they were looking for two men whom neighbors saw running from the house. The victims were the mother of the football player, Kermit Alexander, his sister and two of his nephews. The Los Angeles police were summoned to the neighborhood, a community of neat California-style bungalows near the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, about 8:20 this morning by neighbors who heard the gunfire, according to a department spokesman. When officers arrived they found a woman in her 50’s, her daughter and two children, all shot dead.
Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title.
Rance Mulliniks and George Bell hit home runs and Dave Stieb allowed only four hits as the Toronto Blue Jays shut out the Minnesota Twins, 7–0. Stieb (14–5), who struck out 11 in beating the Twins by 2–1 last Sunday, went the distance for the ninth time this season. He struck out 10 and walked two. The Jays chased Bobby Castillo (2–1) after one and two-thirds innings with a run in the first and two in the second. Damaso Garcia started the Toronto first with an infield single, stole second and went to third on the catcher Tim Laudner’s errant throw. Dave Collins then gave the Blue Jays a 1–0 lead with a sacrifice fly. Bell led off Toronto’s second with a single and Mulliniks followed with his third homer of the season, over the right- field fence.
The Milwaukee Brewers, down 7–2 to the Texas Rangers to start the bottom of the 9th, score 6 runs capped by Buddy Bell’s game-ending grand slam off Pete Ladd to give Texas a 7–6 victory. After the Rangers got two hits in the ninth, reliever Rick Waits came in and gave up a single to pinch-hitter Marv Foley to load the bases and a two-run single to pinch hitter Billy Sample. Ladd relieved Waits, struck out pinch-hitter Alan Bannister and got Mickey Rivers to foul out. The Brewers appeared to have won when Gary Ward grounded to shortstop, but Robin Yount bobbled the ball for an error, loading the bases for Bell.
Jim Presley hits a grand slam for the Seattle Mariners but the Baltimore Orioles hit two homers in the 9th to beat the Mariners, 11–7. Eddie Murray has 4 hits and Cal Ripken has 4, including a 3-run homer and a solo in the 9th, and Ken Singleton adds a 3-run homer in the 9th for the O’s. Both 9th inning dingers come off Dave Beard.
After a fiery start tonight, the New York Yankees were cooled off by the California Angels, losing, 4–3. It was only their second loss in their last seven games. Mike Armstrong (3–1) took the loss for New York while John Curtis (1–1) was the winner for California with Don Aase earning his sixth save. The victory tightened the Western Division race, moving the Angels two and a half games behind first-place Minnesota and half a game behind Kansas City. Armstrong relieved Dennis Rasmussen, who had held the Angels hitless for five innings. Rasmussen left the game with one out in the sixth after allowing a run. The Yankees led at that point, 3–1. The Angels, perhaps energized by the news of Minnesota’s loss, took the lead in the seventh inning off Armstrong. Darryl Miller began the Angels’ surge with a double that dropped in between Ken Griffey and Bobby Meacham. Bob Boone moved Miller to third with a sacrifice bunt, then Daryl Sconiers, pinch-hitting for Dick Schofield, doubled to right to score Miller. Beniquez then lined a single to left to bring in Sconiers.
Dwight Evans hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning to lift the Boston Red Sox to a come-from-behind 8–7 win over the Cleveland Indians. Evans’ ninth inning smash was his second of the game and 26th of the season. Reliever Ernie Camacho, 4–9, took the loss.
Willie Wilson tripled and scored the tie-breaking run on Dane lorg’s sacrifice fly in the seventh inning to lead Charlie Leibrandt and the Kansas City Royals past the Chicago White Sox, 3–1. It gave the Royals a 67-67 record, as they reached the 500 level for only the second time this season.
The Atlanta Braves downed the Chicago Cubs, 3–2. Dale Murphy drove in the winning run with a one- out single past a drawn-in infield in the ninth inning. Murphy’s hit scored Albert Hall, who had singled and stolen second. Paul Runge singled but Hall was forced to stop at third and Brad Komminsk drew a walk to load the bases. The Braves tied at 2-2 in the second inning, when Bruce Benedict singled to right, went to second on Tony Brizzolara’s sacrifice and scored on Hall’s double inside the third-base bag.
The New York Mets lost the first game of their doubleheader, 5-1, to the San Diego Padres. But they won the second game, 4-0, behind the combined five-hit pitching of Bruce Berenyi and Jesse Orosco and moved five-and-a-half games behind the Cubs. They dropped the opener, after they had won four games in a row, despite an outstanding pitching performance by Sid Fernandez, who allowed just one hit in the first seven innings and faced the minimum 21 batters in that stretch. The game fell apart for Fernandez in the eighth when Luis Salazar singled home the tying run and Mookie Wilson dropped Kurt Bevacqua’s two-out fly ball that enabled two runs to score. As they did the previous two games, the Mets played the pair with the Padres without Darryl Strawberry, who has had a lower back ailment.”Darryl said he could play in an emergency,” Johnson said after the games, “so I’m going to tell him tomorrow it’s an emergency.”
Tony Pena belts a pair of 3-run homers, both off Joe Price, as the Pittsburgh Pirates stop the Cincinnati Reds, 6–2. John Candelaria goes 7 innings to win his 12th.
Lonnie Smith belts a 1st-inning grand slam off Nolan Ryan to pace the St. Louis Cardinals to a 7–5 win over the Houston Astros. Ryan gives up all the runs in 4+ innings.
Brad Wellman’s three-run pinch-double with two out in the eighth inning broke a 3–3 tie and lifted the San Francisco Giants to a 6–5 win over the Philadelphia Philllies. Mike Krukow made his first relief appearance since 1978 and got the final out for his first save.
The Montreal Expos downed the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5–2. In the seventh inning, right fielder Andre Dawson made a jumping catch of Greg Brock’s line drive, just as it appeared to be going over his head. One inning later, “left fielder Miguel Dilone tumbled to the ground as he caught a sinking line drive by Steve Sax leading off the eighth. Dan Schatzeder, 7–5, was replaced by Jeff Reardon to start the ninth, and Reardon retired the side in order for his 20th save.
The Cubs pick up some pennant insurance acquiring Davey Lopes from the A’s for a player to be named. Lopes is also the player to be named in the July 15 transaction with Oakland for Chuck Rainey.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1224.38 (+1.10).
Born:
Ted Ligety, American alpine skier (Olympic Gold medals, combined event, 2006, giant slalom, 2014), in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer (U.S. Masters, 2011), in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
Ryan Kesler, Team USA and NHL centre (Olympics, silver medal, 2010, 4th, 2014; NHL All-Star, 2011, 2017; Cancouver Canucks, Anaheim Ducks), in Livonia, Michigan.
Steve Regier, Canadian NHL left wing (New York Islanders, St. Louis Blues), in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Marcus Paschal, NFL defensive back (Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens), in Clearwater, Florida.
Matti Breschel, Danish road racing cyclist, in Ballerup, Denmark.
Rajkummar Rao, Indian film actor (“Shahid”), in Gurgaon, India.
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