The Progressive Conservatives won a huge victory over the governing Liberal Party in voting for a new Canadian Government. With nearly all the results in, the Tories led by Brian Mulroney were elected or leading in 190 of the 282 districts nationwide, the Liberals of Prime Minister John N. Turner in 39, the New Democratic Party in 24 and an independent in one. In terms of vote percentage, the Tories had 49 percent, the Liberals 28 percent, the New Democrats 20 percent and others 2 percent. Mr. Mulroney won in his own district in Quebec.
Polish spokesman Jerzy Urban said the Warsaw government is considering exiling political foes who continue to oppose it. He did not name anyone who might be deported, but informed sources said that Solidarity union founder Lech Walesa may be among them. The sources called Urban’s statement a clear warning to Solidarity activists, recently freed under an amnesty, who are trying to keep opposition alive.
A new initiative to end Britain’s 25-week-old coal strike collapsed today, but Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher rejected demands to recall Parliament from its summer recess to help break the deadlock. The state-run National Coal Board and Arthur Scargill, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, each blaming the other, said a new round of peace talks scheduled this week had been called off. But later, the Chairman of the Coal Board, Ian MacGregor, said he was still ready to hold talks with Mr. Scargill if the miners’ leader would discuss the central issue of the dispute — the board’s plan to close 20 money-losing pits and cut 20,000 jobs. “I’m prepared to do it,” Mr. MacGregor said. “I’ll meet him on Sunday.” Peter Heathfield, the union’s general secretary, responded: “We have always been willing to see Mr. MacGregor. It depends what he wants to talk about.”
Mr. Scargill, in Brighton for the annual conference of the 10 million-member Trades Union Congress, said the impasse between the miners and the Coal Board would stiffen support from other unions. Mrs. Thatcher, replying to a demand by the opposition Labor Party to recall Parliament from its 12-week summer recess due to end October 22, blamed the union for the deadlock.
A car bomb exploded outside an auto showroom in Newry, Northern Ireland, injuring 71 people. The blast took place as police were evacuating the area after receiving two warning calls from the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Police said most of the victims were treated for minor cuts or eardrum damage, and only two were kept in the hospital. The outlawed Irish Republican Army took responsibility for the bombing in a message to news organizations. The police said that an anonymous caller had telephoned them to warn about the bomb and that they had been clearing people from the area when the bomb exploded. “The victims suffered only superficial injuries and shock, and none was seriously hurt,” a spokesman at the Belfast police headquarters said. “All but two were discharged from the hospital.” Newry is 33 miles southwest of Belfast and 4 miles from the border with the Irish Republic.
Ties between the two Germanys have warmed at a time of strained relations between Washington and Moscow. But Erich Honecker, the East German leader, put off a visit to West Germany he had been expected to make at the end of this month. The postponement, which West Germany said it regretted, appeared to be the result of Soviet pressure. The trip would have been the first to West Germany by an East German leader and could have consolidated a warming trend between the two countries that has continued despite strained Soviet-American relations. In Moscow, the Soviet press took no notice of the postponement of Mr. Honecker’s trip, just as it had not reported his plans to begin with. But diplomats said there was little doubt that the Russians were pleased with their success in keeping their most important ally in line.
The largest non-oil merger in history was announced by Nestle S.A., the Swiss food conglomerate, and the Carnation Company, the Los Angeles-based dairy and foods company. Nestle will buy Carnation for about $3 billion. Investment bankers described the deal, rumored for two months and completed in intense Labor Day weekend negotiations, as the largest non-oil merger in history. It tops the $2.8 billion combination in May of two other companies involved in food processing, the Beatrice Foods Company and Esmark Inc.
The leaders of Israel’s two main political groups will meet today to iron out final details on forming a coalition government, a spokesman for Likud bloc leader Yitzhak Shamir said. Israel radio said agreement was reached through informal contacts by representatives of Shimon Peres’ Labor alignment and caretaker Prime Minister Shamir’s bloc. The broadcast said the power-sharing agreement allows for Peres to become prime minister for the first 25 months of the government’s term, with Shamir taking over for the remaining 25 months.
A group calling itself the Muslim Socialist Revolutionary Organization said it is holding Jonathan Wright, 30, Reuters correspondent missing since he left the news agency’s Beirut office Aug. 29 on a reporting trip to eastern Lebanon. A statement, telephoned to the offices of an Arab newspaper in London, also claimed that the Muslim organization killed a British cultural attache in Athens in March. The group is fighting “the British imperialist role, which is in compliance with the American Zionist plot,” the statement said.
Libya’s leader has apparently fused his hold over the country in the wake of an unsuccessful coup attempt last May, according to Western and Arab residents of Tripoli. But they say that thousands of Libyans have been arrested or detained since May and that resistance to the radical economic and social policies of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi is growing.
Two hundred passengers and crew members of an Iranian airliner hijacked to Iraq last week were returned to Iran aboard a Dut jetliner, leaving behind for. sengers and the two Iranian hijackers. A spokesman for the International Red Cross said it was not known if the four passengers want to remain in Iraq or go to another country. The hijackers, a young man and woman, have been granted Iraqi asylum. The plane, a European-built Airbus, remains in Iraq.
Afghan rebels said today that they had bombed three hotels and a movie theater in Kabul, in addition to the previously reported blast at the Kabul airport, and they warned of more such attacks in the capital. The guerrilla sources added that the Muslim rebels had turned to urban warfare in their struggle against the Soviet-backed Kabul Government. They said a bomb blast at Kabul Airport last Friday, which Western diplomats said killed 28 people and wounded 350, and the four other bombings on the same day were part of the new strategy.
The Thai Government announced its annual military shuffle Monday. Prominent in the announcement was the news that the new commander of the army’s Bangkok region is a supporter of General Arthit Kamlang-ek, Thailand’s Supreme Commander, who has lately been moving to extend and strengthen his political power. It was Major General Pichit Kullavanich, named as the First Army Region commander, who had publicly supported General Arthit’s recent bid to extend his term as Supreme Commander, even though he is not due to retire until next year. General Pichit is a West Point graduate who fought in Vietnam and has taken a tough line against Communist insurgents in Thailand.
The death toll reached 438 today as relief workers stepped up efforts to reach remote areas where more people may have died in the fiercest storm to hit the Philippines in nearly 15 years. The typhoon, named Ike, swept into the sugar- producing central Cebu Province Sunday and roared across seven major islands in two days, leaving a city of 135,000 people in ruins and driving hundreds of thousands into shelters.
A Nicaraguan Government delegation arrived in Rome today for meetings with Vatican officials in an an effort to improve strained relations with the Holy See. Church sources said the delegation was expected to meet the Vatican Secretary of State, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, and other officials in the next few days. It was not clear if the delegation, led by an official of the governing junta, Rodrigo Reyes, would meet Pope John Paul II.
Nigerian singer Fela Kuti is sentenced to 2 years on charges of currency smuggling. Amnesty International and others denounced the charges as politically motivated. Amnesty designated him a prisoner of conscience, and other human rights groups also took up his case. After 20 months, General Ibrahim Babangida released him from prison.
Chester A. Crocker, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, pledged U.S. support for Ugandan President Milton Obote despite State Department charges that 100,000 Ugandans may have died of starvation or at the hands of the army in a campaign against rebels. Crocker met with Obote on a visit to Kampala, the Ugandan capital. Last month, Elliott Abrams, assistant secretary of state for human rights, told a congressional panel that Obote’s rights record is “horrendous.”
Zimbabwe authorities released Bishop Abel Muzorewa after detaining him for 10 months. Muzorewa, who headed the short-lived government of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, was detained November 1, shortly after returning from Israel. State Security Minister Emmerson Munangagwa said he was suspected of conspiring with South Africa against Zimbabwe. Muzorewa, 59, heads an opposition party that holds three seats in the 100-seat lower house of Parliament.
South African authorities said today that they had briefly called in army units to guard Government offices in one black township after a wave of rioting, looting and arson in black areas around here on Monday. The spasm of unrest, among the worst since uprisings in 1976, is now estimated by the police to have claimed at least 29 lives, following the discovery today of 12 bodies, some of them bearing the marks of strangulation and others burned. By midevening, police officials in this township, where 69 people died in unrest in 1960 that has since become a code word for black resistance to white rule in South Africa, said they believed they had brought the worst of the troubles in an area roughly 40 miles south of Johannesburg under control.
The Discovery crew, reaching back with a long robotic arm, knocked a troublesome chunk of ice off the side of the orbiting shuttle to clear the way for the conclusion of a six-day mission at 9:38 AM tomorrow. Except for the ice accumulation, which did not pose a threat to the crew, the Discovery’s first flight was acclaimed a complete success. Space agency officials said that all the mission objectives were achieved: the launching of three communications satellites, testing an extendable solar-power array, producing a hormone sample in weightlessness and checking the performance of the third shuttle in the nation’s fleet of re-usable space vehicles. In a telephone conversation with Vice President Bush in Mission Control in Houston, Henry W. Hartsfield Jr., the Discovery’s commander, said, “We’ve got our objectives accomplished.” He added that the crew was “buttoned up to come home.” The $1.2 billion Discovery’s smooth operation in flight was in marked contrast to its balky prelaunching behavior. The start of the flight was postponed three times over two months because of last-minute trouble with computers and a fuel valve and suspected trouble with a timing mechanism.
The space shuttle cannot provide as much “flexibility and security” for launching military satellites as could a dual system of shuttles and expendable rockets, according to a panel of experts assembled by the National Research Council.
President Reagan defended his views on religion and politics, denying that he favored a state religion or mandatory prayer in the public schools. Mr. Reagan, speaking at the national convention of the American Legion in Salt Lake City, said that “Government no more should handicap religious expression than it should show preference for one religious group over another.”
President Reagan participates in a meeting with the leadership of the Utah Republican State Party and the Utah Reagan-Bush ’84 organization.
President Reagan meets with Gordon B. Hinckley, Second Counselor of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Walter F. Mondale expressed anger at President Reagan’s tax policies. The Democratic Presidential nominee, speaking in Compton, Calif., accused the Reagan Administration of substantially increasing taxes for Americans earning less than $10,000 a year while providing tax relief for the wealthy.
Vacation business was sluggish and tourist sites reported flat or declining attendance this summer despite a robust economy and falling gasoline prices. Some experts attributed the trend to the recovery, which gave many people the first chance in years to buy big-ticket items such as houses and cars.
Heating oil prices are far below last winter’s peak and are expected to rise little, if at all, in the coming heating season. The cost of natural gas heating next winter is less certain. Federal price controls for much natural gas are to expire on Jan. 1.
A list of career officials in the Environmental Protection Agency that a business organization wanted dismissed was forwarded to the agency by the White House in 1981, according to a document made public by a House investigations panel.
The nation’s legislators return today to Capitol Hill for what they predict will be a bitterly partisan, four-week session that is intended to conclude the work of the 98th Congress. The session is expected to be overshadowed by the Presidential and Congressional campaigns.
The number of teachers on strike rose to about 7,000 in six states outside the New York metropolitan area yesterday, disrupting school for more than 100,000 students, but major walkouts were averted in San Francisco and at least temporarily in Chicago when educators reported for class preparations despite expired contracts. New strikes began in Kildeer, Illinois, New Castle, Pennsylvania, and in the Michigan cities of Grand Rapids, Escanaba, East China and Saline. Teachers also refused to work in the Tulpehocken School District in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Walkouts continued in Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, and settlements were reached in Saginaw and Gladstone, Michigan. Negotiators in San Francisco reached a settlement that averted a strike by 3,800 teachers, one day before the start of the school year. About 62,600 students are enrolled in the city’s schools. Teachers won a 6 percent pay increase over their previous maximum salary of $31,800, plus other benefits. In Chicago, mediation efforts continued while the city’s 24,700 teachers reported for preparatory sessions. On Monday, they agreed to work until November 1 despite the expiration of the old contract. The city’s 400,000 students report for classes today.
Eliminating diseases such as cancer and heart disorders would prolong millions of lives but would mean burdensome costs to society in caring for the elderly whose lives are extended, a private research group said. The Population Reference Bureau estimated, for example, that it would have cost the government an extra $15 billion if all Americans who died prematurely of heart disease in one year, 1978, had lived to their full life expectancy. The bureau urged the government to focus research on slowing the aging process, to try to accurately predict the number of elderly and to plan programs that will be required to care for them.
Milwaukee must pay $1.04 million to the family of a black man whose 1958 killing by a white police officer was covered up to look like self defense, a federal appeals court ruled. The judgment was issued four days after the family of Daniel Bell had rejected an $800,000 settlement. A jury found in 1981 that former police officer Thomas Grady Jr. shot Bell to death and that two other officers covered up the shooting.
Chicago Mayor Harold Washington signed an executive order banning the use of leaded gasoline in city vehicles and said he hopes that the fuel will soon be unavailable. Soil at city playgrounds has two to five times as much lead in it as the Environmental Protection Agency says is acceptable, the mayor said. The exhaust from cars that use leaded gasoline is an “insidious, silent” poison that endangers children’s health, Washington said.
A federal appeals panel stayed the execution of child killer Ernest John Dobbert Jr., who was scheduled to be electrocuted Thursday with another Florida killer who says he can’t remember his crime. Dobbert was granted a stay of execution until 10 AM Friday “or until further notice of this court.” Lawyers for Nollie Lee Martin, the other man scheduled to die Thursday in Florida, went before U.S. District Judge James King in Miami. King indicated he would have a ruling today. Meanwhile, a third execution was postponed from early today when Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards said he would grant Earnest Knighton Jr. a two-week reprieve to pursue an appeal before the state pardons board.
The Federal Railroad Administration today began a special safety inspection of the 22,000 miles of railway track used by Amtrak, the Government-owned passenger railroad company that has been involved in several serious accidents recently. The track inspection, the first of this size conducted by the agency, comes on the heels of visits to key sites along the carrier’s Northeast corridor between Washington and Boston by agency inspectors. “They wanted to make sure the people were following the rules, letter perfect,” said Wendy DeMocker, an agency spokesman, who said the stepped-up assessment of the rail systems and the operators was prompted by the recent accidents.
A student who was dismissed from a high school honor society after becoming pregnant was a victim of sex discrimination and should be reinstatdd, a federal district judge ruled today. The judge, J. Waldo Ackerman, ruled that Brown County High School officials discriminated against Loretta Wort, now 19 years old, when they dismissed her from the National Honor society two years ago. Judge Ackerman said dismissing the woman from the society was a violation of Federal rights laws and conflicted with equal protection guarantees of the Constitution.
A 776-man Green Beret unit was reactivated at Ft. Lewis, Washington, the first to be called back into service since the Vietnam War, and the Army’s Special Operations commander said that the unit was needed now more than ever. The Green Berets’ wartime mission of infiltrating behind enemy lines and their peacetime mission of training America’s allies are essential for this nation’s military strategy, said Major General Leroy N. Suddath, head of I Special Operations Command at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. “If you train to your wartime mission, your peacetime mission will be in good hands,” the general told the troops.
A record 338,894 foreigners, 99,480 of them female, studied in America’s colleges during the 1984 school year, with the biggest contingents coming from Taiwan, Iran, Nigeria and Malaysia, a report funded by the U.S. Information Agency said. The foreign students constituted nearly 3% of the record 12.3 million college enrollment during the year, said a report from the Institute of International Education.
The 98-year-old Jewish Theological Seminary of New York, the country’s largest and oldest Conservative rabbinical school, prepared to admit women for the first time to its six-year program leading to ordination. Although some women rabbis have been ordained by Reform Jewish seminaries, the 19 women who will register for classes today will be the first admitted to a rabbinical program in the Conservative tradition, seminary officials said.
The New York Yankees, who have hopes of leapfrogging past Toronto into second place, played a game of leapfrog with the Blue Jays at the Stadium last night. The Blue Jays, though, took the last leap and won the game, 6–4. Toronto’s three-run rally in the eighth inning against Mike Armstrong and Jay Howell, wiped out an outstanding pitching performance by Bob Shirley and a dramatic three-run home run by Dave Winfield that highlighted a four-run outburst in the sixth inning and shot the Yankees into a 4–3 lead.
The Chicago White Sox pound the visiting Oakland A’s, 12–2, as Greg Walker drives in 6 runs on a single and two 3-run homers. Tom Seaver (13–6) goes 8 innings for the win, and picked up his 286th career victory.
Mark Gubicza scattered seven hits over eight and two-thirds innings and Frank White drove in the go-ahead run as the Kansas City Royals defeated Minnesota, 4–3, tonight to pull within a game of the division-leading Twins in the American West. Gubicza (10–11) got last-out help from Dan Quisenberry, who collected his 37th save.
Juan Beniquez scored the tie-breaking run from first base with one out in the 12th inning when the left-fielder Joe Carter misplayed Rod Carew’s double to lead the California Angels to a 5–3 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Don Aaase (3–1), who allowed Chris Bando’s three-run homer with two out in the bottom of the ninth, got the victory in relief of the starter Mike Witt. Jamie Easterly (2–1) was the loser.
The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Detroit Tigers 4–1. Cal Ripken and Eddie Murray drove in first-inning runs and Mike Boddicker pitched a six-hitter through seven innings for Baltimore, handing the Tigers their sixth loss in their last seven games. Boddicker (17–9), who has won seven of his last eight decisions, struck out six and walked six. Al Bumbry and Mike Young started the Baltimore rally in the first with singles and moved up on a passed ball by Lance Parrish. Bumbry scored on a sacrifice fly by Ripken and Young came home on a single by Murray that chased Dave Rozema (7–6).
The Boston Red Sox downed the Milwaukee Brewers 3–1, as Boston’s Al Nipper stopped Milwaukee on seven hits while striking out six to improve his record to 8–5. The Red Sox took a 1–0 lead in the first inning when Wade Boggs and Dwight Evans hit consecutive singles and Jim Rice hit a sacrifice fly to right. Bill Buckner increased the margin to 2–0 in the second after leading off with a double off Don Sutton (12–11). Buckner tagged up on Marty Barrett’s fly to center and scored when the throw to third went off his leg and the ball went up the foul line.
Al Cowens drove in Spike Owen with a one-out double in the top of the 13th inning to lift the Seattle Mariners to a 6–3 win over the Texas Rangers. Owen reached on an infield hit and advanced on a wild pitch by the loser Dave Schmidt (6–6). He reached third on Alvin Davis’ grounder before Ken Phelps received an intentional walk. Cowens then doubled off the left field wall to drive in the game winner.
Scott Sanderson scattered 13 hits in posting his first victory since July 29 and Ron Cey drove in three runs with a homer and single tonight to lead the surging Chicago Cubs to a 7–2 triumph over the Philadelphia Phillies. With their consecutive victories in the two-game series, the Cubs, who have won 9 of 10, may have ended Philadelphia’s chances repeating as National League champion. The third-place Phillies trail Chicago by 10½ games and have only 25 games left. Sanderson (7–4) struck out seven and walked one.
This was a sour night for the New York Mets in their quest for the National League East title. They lost to the St. Louis Cardinals, 12–2, allowing as many runs as they have in a game all season and as many hits, 17, as they have all season. And when it was all over, they were seven games behind the Cubs, who won again in Philadelphia. Just about everyone was battered on the Mets tonight: the batters, who gathered just four hits, and three pitchers — Sid Fernandez, Wes Gardner and Brent Gaff. Fernandez, the rookie who started, lasted just into the fourth, giving up six runs and seven hits.
The Braves’ Alex Trevino, not known for his power hitting, and Dale Murphy, one of baseball’s top sluggers, each played a key role in Atlanta’s 8–7 victory over the Houston Astros. Trevino hit his third home run of the season, and only the fifth in his six-year major league career, off a fastball from Frank DiPino leading off the eighth inning. The blast, Trevino’s first at Atlanta, provided the Braves’ margin of victory.
The Los Angeles Dodgers edged the San Diego Padres, 2–1. Pinch-hitter Sid Bream lifted a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give Los Angeles the victory. The reliever Andy Hawkins (7–9) walked Ken Landreaux with one out in the ninth. Landreaux then stole second and continued to third when the catcher Bruce Bochy’s throw was wild for an error. Hawkins walked Pedro Guerrero and then intentionally walked Greg Brock to load the bases. Bream drove his sacrifice fly to right-center.
The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Montreal Expos, 5–3. Jason Thompson singled in two runs during a ninth-inning rally to give the Pirates a 4–3 lead. Catcher Tony Peña, who also homered for the Bucs, provided an insurance run with a sacrifice fly. Rod Scurry (4–6) got the win in relief. Kent Tekulve closed out the bottom of the ninth for his 12th save.
The Cincinnati Reds clobbered the San Francisco Giants, 8–2. Rookie Eric Davis hit two home runs and the second was a three-run shot, highlighting a six-run eighth inning. Pete Rose added three hits, including two doubles, for the Reds. Mario Soto went seven innings and got the win, his 14th.
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Kyle Mooney, American comedian (“Saturday Night Live,” 2013–2022) and writer, in San Diego, California.
Jason Donald, MLB shortstop, second baseman, and third baseman (Cleveland Indians), in Fresno, California.
Demetris Nichols, NBA small forward (Cleveland Cavaliers, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Knicks), in Boston, Massachusetts.
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