Britain’s rail unions canceled a national campaign of disruptions, and a dock walkout showed signs of crumbling, but there was little hope that weekend negotiations would end the nation’s six-month-old coal strike. A management-sponsored ballot of longshoremen at London’s Tilbury port found most of 1,475 men voting to return to work, but more than 1,300 other ballots sent out were not returned. The National Union of Mineworkers and the National Coal Board are to resume talks today. but neither side indicated any willingness to make key concessions.
Food poisoning, which killed 24 elderly patients at a northern England psychiatric hospital, has been traced to improperly handled or cooked beef, the Sunday Times of London said. The newspaper reported that experts investigating the epidemic at the Stanley Royd Hospital in Wakefield said the beef was contaminated with “a common variety of salmonella organism which has now been identified.” At the height of the two-week outbreak, 346 patients and 50 staff members were under treatment.
A report by 21 present and former UNESCO staff members says there is duplication, overlapping and fragmentation in the organization’s program, echoing criticism by the United States and other Western nations. The report also says the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization should leave such divisive issues as journalists’ rights to other U.N. agencies or professional associations.
Israel’s armed forces chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Moshe Levy, disputed President Reagan’s view that strategic cooperation with the United States is aimed at countering a potential Soviet threat in the Mideast, United Press International sources in Washington said. Levy said that in Israel’s view, the purpose of the pact is to prepare for a possible confrontation with its Arab neighbors, the sources reported. “I, as chief of staff of Israel, don’t regard the Soviets as the enemy.” Levy was quoted as telling an audience made up mostly of Israeli reporters.
An Iran Air jetliner carrying more than 120 people was hijacked on a domestic flight Saturday and forced to land in Bahrain and then Cairo. After 52 people dashed to freedom there, the plane was flown to Iraq today, an airport security official here said. The official, who declined to be identified, said the Boeing 727 left Cairo for Iraq with 62 of its original passengers, nine crew members, and five hijackers. “The hijackers told us their number was five,” the official said, commenting on earlier reports which had put the number at three and seven. The jetliner, on a flight from Bandar Abbas to Tehran, was hijacked minutes after taking off, Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency said.
The official Afghan radio said that more than 100 anti-government guerrillas were killed today in fighting with government forces in 12 Afghan provinces. There was no mention of government casualties. The radio reports, monitored here, said dozens of rebels had been captured and large quantities of arms and ammunition, including some with foreign markings, had been seized. Earlier, Western diplomats said hundreds of people, including many Soviet soldiers, had died in heavy fighting.
The head of a United Nations group studying the political situation in Cambodia said today that Vietnam was continuing to settle its nationals in that country at a rate that was of serious international concern. Willibald Pahr, the former Austrian Foreign Minister who is now chairman of the International Conference on Kampuchea, a term for Cambodia, said at a news conference here that information he had gathered indicated that at a minimum, 500,000 Vietnamese had been settled in Cambodia, a country of 6 million to 7 million people. “And I have heard figures much higher,” Mr. Pahr added. “This must be of concern,” he said, “to all those trying to re-establish the independence of Cambodia.” Vietnam, which installed the present Cambodian Government under Heng Samrin in 1979, also maintains about 180,000 troops in the country.
China will cut back on big construction projects during the five years beginning in 1986 to save money and prepare for an economic boom in the 1990’s, the Government’s chief economic planner was quoted as saying today. According to the official New China News Agency, the planner, Song Ping, told a National Planning Conference here that the last few years have shown that unchecked investment in construction strangled real growth. He was quoted as telling delegates that during the next five-year plan, money would go toward making existing enterprises bigger and more modern.
South Korea’s President ended a landmark visit to Japan today with leaders of both countries pledging to reinforce their relationship “as mutually mature partners.” But the trip to Tokyo by President Chun Doo Hwan also seemed to underline subtle, yet potentially important, differences between the two countries on how best to deal with North Korea and to achieve peace on the Korean peninsula. Mr. Chun returned to Seoul this afternoon after spending 49 hours in Tokyo on the first official visit to Japan by a South Korean leader. For both Mr. Chun and Japan’s Prime Minister, Yasuhiro Nakasone, the journey had domestic political ramifications as well as diplomatic significance, and they chose to emphasize their points of agreement rather than discuss differences. In a joint statement issued with Mr. Chun today, Mr. Nakasone affirmed his support of South Korea’s demand for a “direct dialogue” between the two Koreas, and said he had “high regard” for the Seoul Government’s defense policies.
The heaviest downpour on record has battered Mexico City, killing four people, flooding homes and paralyzing traffic, police said. About 5,000 people have been left homeless. Two tropical storms hovering off both the Gulf and Pacific coasts have dumped almost five inches of rain on the capital in five days of nearly nonstop storms, Mexico City police said. Authorities have closed the ports of Tampico on the Mexican Gulf Coast and Mazatlan on the Pacific.
Mexico’s bank advisory group announced yesterday that it had formalized the agreement with the Government to restructure the repayment of the country’s public debt. The plan, if approved by the banks holding loans to Mexico, would extend Mexico’s $66 billion in public debt over 14 years at lower interest rates and would permit Mexico to return to normal transactions in the international credit market. The proposal was worked out, during eight weeks of meetings in New York City, by a group of bankers representing 13 financial institutions known as the Bank Advisory Group. Among the members are Citibank, Bank of America and Swiss Bank Corporation. The agreement affects the repayment of approximately $48.5 billion of principal on Mexico’s debt, which had been scheduled to come due between August, 1982, when its financial crisis became apparent, and 1990. A spokeman for Citibank said the proposal will be sent within the next few days to some 600 creditor banks.
Nicaraguan rebels raised $10 million in the last six months from corporations and individuals in the United States and from foreign governments, according to Reagan Administration officials and rebel leaders. The countries that reportedly contributed include Israel, Argentina, Venezuela, Guatemala and Taiwan. Each of the foreign governments had denied any involvement with the rebels.
Plans to build homes in Nicaragua for landless peasants were announced by former President Jimmy Carter, a director of Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit, international Christian organization that builds housing for the poor. Mr. Carter and other members of the Habitat group spent a week in New York beginning the renovation of a Lower East Side tenement.
Salvadoran troops swept through guerrilla strongholds in four provinces in stepped-up counterinsurgency operations that leftist rebels said were supported by Honduran soldiers crossing the border. One source called the sweeps “the most effective tactic for not making a truce with the terrorists.” There was no immediate word on casualties. The rebels’ Radio Venceremos accused the Honduran army of firing mortars into El Salvador, killing a 5-year-old girl in Morazan province.
Salvadoran troops have been accused by local peasants of killing 68 undefended residents of mountain villages northeast of San Salvador. Their account has not been confirmed, but the Salvadoran Roman Catholic Church legal aid office supported their charges, and President Jose Napoleon Duarte has ordered an investigation.
A cutoff of foreign aid to drug-producing countries is being suggested by members of Congress, who believe the United States should try more drastic approaches to drug abuse. Almost every drug-control strategy has failed 20 years after it first became a major national concern.
Bishop Abel Muzorewa, released by Zimbabwe last week after nearly a year’s detention, said at a press conference in Harare that his detention must have been politically motivated. Prime Minister Robert Mugabe’s ruling party believed that detaining him would intimidate Muzorewa and his opposition organization, said the Methodist bishop, who was briefly prime minister in 1979. At a news conference at his suburban estate, the politician, Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa, who was freed Tuesday, dismissed the assertions by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe’s Government that he had conspired against Zimbabwe with agents from Israel, South Africa and the United States. The Government never pressed charges against Bishop Muzorewa. He was held under sweeping emergency powers that allow indefinite detention without trial. Bishop Muzorewa was arrested last year after a visit in October to Israel, where he criticized Mr. Mugabe’s Government and called for closer ties between Zimbabwe and Israel.
Walter Mondale will focus his debate with President Reagan on domestic and foreign policy issues while virtually ignoring the area of “leadership” on which Mr. Reagan is rated high in the polls. His aides say the polls show that voters are far closer to Mr. Mondale’s positions on various issues than Mr. Reagan’s. On Monday, at a campaign stop in Philadelphia, Mr. Mondale is to announce his plan to reduce the Federal budget deficit. In other appearances early in the week he plans to concentrate on economic and farm issues in such states as Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. The candidate’s senior aides say Mr. Mondale seeks to close what James A. Johnson, his campaign chairman, concedes to be Mr. Reagan’s lead of 12 to 15 percentage points in public opinion polls by emphasizing issues on which the Democrats say the Republicans are vulnerable.
Archbishop John J. O’Connor accused Geraldine A. Ferraro, the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee, of misrepresenting Roman Catholic views on abortion. Talking with reporters before addressing a Pennsylvania pro-life convention, the Archbishop of New York said, “Geraldine Ferraro has said some things about abortion relevant to Catholic teachings which are not true.”
Extensive efforts at school reform are being made by educational leaders across the country amid signs that an “excellence backlash” may be developing. They represent one of the most extensive attempts to improve public education in its history. The changes range from merit pay for superior teachers to loan waivers for college students willing to become mathematics and science teachers to an increase in courses required for a high school diploma.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the Nation on the national renewal in education. President Reagan urged the nation’s students today to study harder, stay in school, cut out violence and “stop watching too much TV.” “Time given to a television show that ought to be given to a school book is time badly used,” Mr. Reagan said in his weekly radio address paid for by his re-election committee. The President, who was host of television’s “Death Valley Days” two decades ago, said television was entertaining and “sometimes educational,” but added: “Watching TV is passive. It’s not living life. Life involves effort and growth. You won’t grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book.”
In a rebuttal statement for the Democrats, the House Speaker, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., gave Mr. Reagan a failing grade for his education policies. “When it comes to education, President Reagan has been the country’s No. 1 Scrooge,” Mr. O’Neill said. “The first thing he did on taking office was ax the guaranteed student loan program for college students.”
President Reagan enjoys a horseback ride around the grounds at Camp David.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “Phar Lap.”
NASA’s space shuttle orbiter Challenger moved to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for mating with her external fuel tank and SRBs for her upcoming STS-41-G mission.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that the number of serious crimes reported to the police fell 7 percent nationwide last year, the biggest drop in 23 years, and experts attributed the decrease to the aging of crime-prone “baby boom” teenagers. Crime experts also said there were more criminals than ever behind bars, another factor in the decline. The bureau’s annual crime survey counted 12,070,200 offenses in 1983, with declines in nearly all crimes counted, in every part of the country and in every size community. The survey included data from nearly 16,000 law-enforcement agencies. It is the second year the bureau reported a drop in the number of crimes after a record in 1981. The number of crimes dropped 3.4 percent in 1982, the first decrease since 1977.
Federal Aviation Administration officials told a meeting of airline executives in Washington that the FAA is considering some restrictions on business jets and other private flying to ease delays in New York-area arrivals and departures. Delays are more frequent in New York than elsewhere and ripple across the country from there. A major contributor to those delays, the airlines contend, is an airport in Teterboro, New Jersey, that has about 1,000 flights a day, many of which have to be coordinated with flights at nearby Newark, home of the rapidly growing People Express.
Negotiators for striking union workers and Merck & Co. Inc. in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, reached a tentative agreement to end strikes at the company’s plants in five states, Merck spokesmen said. Donald Brooks, Merck’s chief negotiator, said that the new master contract had been proposed by the Merck Interunion Council, but no details of the agreement were released. It covers workers at plants in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Virginia, and Georgia.
The government may order recalls and repairs of cars regardless of their age or mileage, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington said as it upheld, 8 to 3, a 1980 rule by the Environmental Protection Agency requiring manufacturers to repair cars and engines that have been subject to recall but have exceeded their statutory “useful lives” of five years or 50,000 miles. General Motors had challenged an order to recall some 1975 Cadillacs that did not conform to carbon monoxide emissions standards.
Grass fires that burned more than 400 square miles of Oklahoma rangeland were reduced to “a few hot spots,” but a 15-day ban on open burning was in effect in Kansas, where fires scorched 11 counties, destroyed a home in Butler, Kansas, and routed 30 residents of a nursing home in Sedgwick County, Kansas. Authorities in both states said that the wind-swept fires were aggravated by the parched condition of grasslands, but rain eased some of their fears that new blazes could spring up. An unknown number of cattle died in northeast Oklahoma despite the efforts of cowboys who rode through the flames to cut fences. Kansas Governor John Carlin sent the National Guard to help local efforts.
The wets and the drys are gearing up for another showdown over Oklahoma’s antisaloon laws. For the third time in little more than a decade, voters will be asked September 18 whether to abolish a state constitutional ban on selling liquor by the drink. Twice before, in 1972 and 1976, voters upheld the antisaloon laws. Larry Wood, manager of the campaign to change the laws, says he foresees a “no holds barred” fight over the issue. Oklahoma is the only state in the nation without any legal across-the-bar liquor sales. Liquor stores, however, are legal.
Attorneys for convicted murderer Timothy Baldwin, scheduled to die Monday in Louisiana’s electric chair for the beating death of his son’s 85-year-old blind godmother, argued in briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court that the execution would violate his rights because a prosecutor earlier had offered to let him plead guilty to second-degree murder. Justice Byron White was assigned to handle the case after the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans and a U.S. district judge in Alexandria refused to stay the sentence of Baldwin, 46. A state judge in Monroe and the Louisiana Supreme Court had refused earlier in the week to block the execution, set for between midnight tonight and 3 AM Monday.
Cancer researchers plan to comb three Philadelphia neighborhoods in hopes of discovering why men living there exhibited significantly high rates of lung cancer in a recent study. The study showed that the risk of developing lung cancer for men in three neighborhood clusters — all in low-income, industrialized areas — was 2.65 times as great as the risk for men in other areas. The sites with high cancer rates were of different racial composition, and only one of the areas showed a high rate of lung cancer among women. A new $450,000 study, financed jointly by Philadelphia and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will be undertaken next month as a follow-up.
The suicide of Danny Holley has focused new attention on economic hardships facing the family of many American enlisted men and women, especially those based in the United States in regions where housing costs are unusually high, such as around Fort Ord on California’s Monterey Peninsula. Worse off are the families of enlisted men in California, the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Alaska, and on installations near major urban areas.
Efforts to cut disability rolls have produced a “major crisis in litigation” and have led to a “huge volume of adverse court decisions,” the Social Security Administration has concluded in a new study. Meanwhile, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York has refused to defend the Government in some cases where it is trying to cut off disability benefits.
The Southwest has a “substantial hunger and malnutrition” problem, a team of physicians traveling the country to investigate hunger in America says. “We clearly have seen that health is placed in jeopardy by hunger and inadequate nutrition,” Dr. Larry Brown of the Harvard School of Public Health said Friday, “especially among those high risk or vulnerable population groups: the elderly, pregnant women and young children and infants.” Dr. Brown is chairman of the Physician Task Force on Hunger in America, a Harvard University project financed by the Field Foundation.
The tropical storm Diana suddenly sprang to life in the Atlantic today with 60-mile-an-hour winds. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm threatened the Eastern Seaboard and could delay the return of the space shuttle Discovery from California to Cape Canaveral, Florida, Sunday evening. The storm, the fourth of the hurricane season, was centered 150 miles east of Cape Canaveral and moving west-northwest at 10 miles per hour. The forecasters said the storm could hit land by late Sunday afternoon. Gale warnings were in effect from south of Virginia Beach, Virginia, to Cape Canaveral. Small craft from Palm Beach, Florida, to Chincoteague, Virginia, were advised to stay in port. Tides were expected to be three to five feet above normal in the gale area.
U.S. Open Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, New York: Martina Navratilova retains her title, beating Chris Evert-Lloyd 4–6, 6–4, 6–4.
The New York Yankees break a 4–4 tie with 2 runs in the 6th to roll over the Boston Red Sox, 12–6. Toby Harrah paces the 15-hit attack with 4 hits, and Dave Winfield one of the game’s 12 doubles — 8 by the Yankees — to extend his hitting streak to 20 games, which is and will be a career high. Joe Cowley (7-1) is the winner. In two days, including the 4-2 Yankee victory over Boston Friday night, they have collected 28 hits. They have won five of their last six games.
Tim Laudner broke out of a 1-for-33 slump with 4 hits, including a homer and a double, leading the Minnesota Twins to a 5–4 victory over the Texas Rangers today. His double in the eighth inning drove in the run that proved to be the game winner. The victory enabled the Twins to remain atop the American League Western Division with Kansas City. With the score 4–4 and two out in the eighth, Randy Bush ended an 0-for-30 slump with a pinch single. Laudner followed with his double deep to right- center off the reliever Dickie Noles (1–2), scoring Bush. John Butcher (12–8) allowed nine hits and struck out five in pitching his seventh complete game.
Steve Balboni belted a three-run, sixth-inning homer to lead the Kansas City Royals to a 5–4 victory over the Seattle Mariners. Jorge Orta singled to left and Frank White blooped a single to center off Mike Moore (5–15) to open the sixth. Both runners advanced on Don Slaught’s sacrifice before Balboni unloaded his 23d home run, a shot into the left-field bleachers, to move the Royals ahead by 5–3. Balboni also clouted a three-run homer in the sixth inning Friday night to help the Royals to a 5–4 triumph.
The California Angels edged the Chicago White Sox, 6–5. Bobby Grich collected a two-run homer and an RBI single to pace the triumph in a game delayed 1 hour 30 minutes by rain after the sixth inning. With the Angels trailing by 5–4 when play resumed, Fred Lynn tied the score in the seventh wiith his 20th home run, which came off the reliever Ron Reed (0–6). It was the 11th straight game in which Lynn had driven in a run, a team record. After two out, Juan Beniquez singled and Grich looped a single to short center, allowing Beniquez to score all the way from first. Luis Sanchez (9–6) pitched the final three and two-thirds innings to earn the victory. Ron Kittle hit a pinch two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth that gave the White Sox their 5–4 lead.
The Detroit Tigers pummeled the Toronto Blue Jays, 10–4. John Grubb belted two home runs and Alan Trammell drove in three runs as Detroit increased its division lead over the second-place Blue Jays to 10½ games. Bill Scherrer (1–0), pitching in relief of Jack Morris, worked one and two-thirds shutout innings and struck out three. Morris, making his third unsuccessful bid to become the American League’s first 18-game winner, was forced to leave with one out in the fourth because of stiffness in his right shoulder. Aurelio Lopez worked the final three innings to earn his 13th save, despite yielding a run in the ninth on singles by Dave Collins and Willie Upshaw. Detroit put the game away with six runs in the eighth.
Bill Almon slugged a two-run homer, Mike Heath added a two-run triple and Carney Lansford went 4 for 5 in the Oakland A’s’ 9–5 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Chris Codiroli (3–3) worked the first six innings. Lary Sorensen pitched two and two-thirds innings of two-hit relief, then Bill Caudill got the last three outs for his 29th save. The Cleveland starter, Neal Heaton (9–14) lasted only one and two-thirds innings.
The Baltimore Orioles downed the Milwaukee Brewers, 5–3. Eddie Murray’s eighth-inning homer snapped a tie after Wayne Gross stroked two home runs, giving Baltimore a victory and Storm Davis his first triumph in over a month. Murray’s 26th homer and 19th game-winning run batted in came off a 3–0 pitch from the Milwaukee reliever Jack Lazorko (0–1). Joe Nolan added a run-scoring sacrifice fly later in the inning.
Having just watched Dwight Gooden beat his team with a one-hitter, Jim Frey, Chicago’s manager, shrugged off the overpowering performance Friday night and said: “Every Friday we come into Shea, Gooden beats us. Then we come back Saturday and win.” The Cubs, particularly Rick Sutcliffe, proved their manager correct last night, stopping the Mets, 6–0, and reclaiming a seven-game lead over them in the National League’s Eastern Division. The loss, which Sutcliffe engineered by pitching a four-hitter for his 14th victory against only a single defeat, was devastating for the Mets because it prevents them from sweeping the three-game series and slashing a significant chunk off the Cub lead. The worst the Cubs can do now is leave New York with a lead one game less than when they arrived. Sutcliffe has created a phenomonal record since they acquired him from the Cleveland Indians on June 13. He has started 17 times and the Cubs have lost only one of those games. In this game he struck out 12 and walked none.
Chili Davis broke a scoreless tie with a run-scoring pinch single in the seventh, and Dusty Baker followed with a three-run pinch homer, both off loser Craig McMurtry (9–15), as the San Francisco Giants blanked the Atlanta Braves 4–0. Bill Laskey (8–12) pitched one inning of relief and got the win.
Andre Dawson drove in three runs with a bases- loaded double in the seventh inning, lifting Steve Rogers and the Montreal Expos to a 4–0 victory and sending the Philadelphia Phillies to their sixth straight loss. Rogers (6–13) gave up six hits, walked five and struck out two in eight innings. Bob James worked the ninth. The Expos had managed only one run off the starter John Denny (6–6) before their three-run seventh against the reliever Renie Martin.
Joaquin Andujar became the major league’s first 19-game winner, Tommy Herr and David Green hit homers and Lonnie Smith drove in three runs to lead the St. Louis Cardinals over the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9–2. Andujar (19–11), who has won his last four decisions, pitched his first complete game since August 6. The Cardinals got six runs and 11 hits against the starter Larry McWilliams (9–10), who entered the game as the league leader in earned run average.
The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 6–3 as Jerry Reuss hurled a complete game, scattering nine hits and striking out five. The Dodgers won it with four runs in the sixth. Dave Andersen contributed three singles, and pinch hitter Sid Bream’s two-run single in the 6th was the winning margin.
Born:
Bobby Parnell, MLB pitcher (New York Mets, Detroit Tigers), in Salisbury, North Carolina.
Rob Delaney, MLB pitcher (Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Rays), in Westwood, New Jersey.
Vitaly Petrov, Russian racing driver (Renault F1 Team in 2010), in Vyborg, Soviet Union.
Died:
Johnnie Parsons, 66, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1950; AAA/USAC Championship 1949).
Rene Bernier, 79, Belgian composer.
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