A Reagan-Gromyko meeting has been scheduled, a senior Administration official said. He said that Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko had agreed to confer with Mr. Reagan in Washington on September 28, two days after Mr. Gromyko meets with Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Mr. Gromyko, who is also a First Deputy Prime Minister, sits on the Soviet Union’s ruling 12-member Politburo, the top leadership group. It would be the first time Mr. Reagan has met such a high-level Soviet official. Administration officials said the meeting would demonstrate the President’s interest in building a constructive relationship with the Soviet Union and reducing the chill in relations that has marked his term in office.
At the same time, officials said that as a result of pressure from Senate conservatives, the White House will make public a secret report on purported Soviet arms control violations compiled by the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. Senators Steven D. Syms, Republican of Idaho, and John P. East, Republican of North Carolina, have sought its publication on the ground that it undercuts Democratic arguments in favor of arms control. Last January, the Administration itself issued a brief report charging the Russians with seven possible violations. Officials said today that while release of the new report might not help the atmosphere for the talks with Mr. Gromyko, it underscored the “realistic” view the Administration holds of making sure future agreements are verified and complied with.
Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu, again defying Soviet pressure, will visit Bonn despite the cancellations of trips by two other East Bloc leaders, West German officials said. “This visit has nothing to do with other political events,” a German aide said, referring to the recent abandonment of visits by East German leader Erich Honecker and Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov. Ceausescu, whose country defied the Soviet Bloc boycott of the Los Angeles Olympics, is scheduled to visit Bonn the middle of next month.
While belatedly backing some aspects of the Soviet Union’s hard-line foreign policy, the East German leadership appears determined to continue to its working relationship with West Germany, according to Western diplomats and East German officials in East Berlin. They say that Erich Honecker, the East German leader, does not want to allow his postponement of a visit to West Germany to lead to an unraveling of ties between the two countries. “We are now following a policy of not letting the damage become any greater,” an East German policy-maker said. “The damage is already great enough. We want to stabilize our relations in a complicated international environment.” At the same time, East Germany has started accentuating the Soviet theme of West German “revanchism” — a purported wish to reinstate the borders of the German Reich — and is putting new emphasis on the need to halt the deployment of American nuclear missiles in West Germany.
A sunken French freighter with 30 cannisters of radioactive material inside broke up tonight in heavy seas, maritime and salvage officials said. Marc Claus, nautical director of the pilot service here, said he had no information on the fate of the containers of uranium hexafluoride, a radioactive material that was being shipped to the Soviet Union, but he did not exclude the possibility that they might be strewn on the seabed. He said the hull of the freighter, the Mont Louis, broke under the “continuous attacks of the waves,” whose height was put at 12 feet in gale-force winds. “The hull broke but the parts of the wreck are still attached by the bow,” said Henk Drenth of the Dutch salvaging company Smit Tak International.
Veteran British politician James Prior, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, or Ulster, left Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet to retire to the back benches of the Conservative Party in Parliament. He was succeeded in what has been called the “most thankless job in the British government” by Douglas Hurd, a minister in the Home Office. It is rumored that Prior, 56, who held the Ulster post for three years, will become chairman of Britain’s General Electric Co. Hurd, 54, has also served as political secretary to former Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath and as a minister in the Foreign Office.
Contaminated roast beef served in a salad at a psychiatric hospital started a food poisoning outbreak that killed 26 patients, a medical expert said today. “There was nothing wrong with the beef itself, but it became contaminated and was the vehicle by which the infection spread,” said Dr. Geoffrey Ireland, district medical officer of the Wakefield Health Authority. Since the epidemic began more than two weeks ago, 26 elderly patients have died at the 900-bed Stanley Royd Hospital. At its height, 346 patients and 40 to 50 staff members were treated. Dr. Ireland said at a news conference that experts were trying to find the source of the salmonella bacteria that contaminated the beef. The beef was cooked August 24, left in a refrigerator overnight, taken out at 7:15 AM the next day and not served until 5 PM, Dr. Ireland said. “The fact that it remained at kitchen and ward temperature on a warm day for some 10 hours is significant,” he said, “and we firmly believe it allowed the organism to develop.”
Malta’s Foreign Minister singled out the United States today in an attack on superpower military interests in the Mediterranean. “The uses to which the U.S. Navy has been put in our region, during the problems in Lebanon and elsewhere, is a reality which cannot be ignored,” the Foreign Minister, Alex Sceberras Trigona, told members of the movement of nations professing nonalignment. The meeting is being attended by the Foreign Ministers of Egypt, Yugoslavia, Syria, Morocco, Libya, and Tunisia, officials from Algeria and Cyprus, and a representive of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
World chess champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Gary Kasparov ended their first game in the world chess final in Moscow with a draw on the 36th move. In the hard-fought game, Kasparov, 21, obtained a slight advantage against Karpov, 33, but had to settle for the draw. The two Soviet grandmasters will play three games a week until one of them scores six victories. Draws do not count, and there is no limit to the number of games.
A proposed coalition government with Israel’s Likud bloc was approved overwhelmingly by the 1,150- member central committee of the Labor Party after more than four hours of frequently angry speeches and occasional scuffles. The vote came after the Labor leader, Shimon Peres, told the committee that under the national unity government, Israel would not seek to annex the occupied West Bank or Gaza Strip.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 71, was admitted to a Jerusalem hospital with a prostate ailment and will undergo a series of tests. Doctors said they do not know how long he will be hospitalized and that no decision has been reached on surgery. Begin has been in seclusion since he resigned in December, 1983. However, on admission to the hospital, he was described by an aide as feeling well and in high spirits.
Ethiopia established a Communist party to govern the East African nation after 10 years of revolutionary rule under a Marxist military council known as the Dergue. The nation’s leader, Lt. Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam, was elected secretary general of the new party, which is to be formally known as the Workers Party of Ethiopia. Mengistu said his goal is to establish a people’s republic like those of Eastern Europe.
Iraq said its warplanes hit a “large naval target” — the usual term for an oil tanker — south of Iran’s Kharg Island today. There was no independent confirmation of the attack, the first reported in two weeks. A military spokesman said on the Baghdad radio that the Iraqi planes returned safely to base. He gave no further details. The last vessel reported attacked was the Cypriot-registered tanker Amethyst, which was hit by a missile south of the oil terminal on August 24. Iraq’s Culture and Information Minister, Latif Nassif al-Jassem, later told a news conference here that the blockade of Kharg Island — Iran’s main outlet for oil exports — would continue.
Meanwhile, a charter plane headed for Iran carrying 52 people from an Iran Air jet that was hijacked to Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, over the weekend. The Iranian Boeing 727 remained in Iraq, and Iraqi Information Minister Latif Jasim said his country will encourage the hijacking of Iranian planes and will not return them.
Nine soldiers died in a bombing and four Tamil separatists were killed in an ensuing gun battle with Government troops today in the Tamil-dominated northern province, the Defense Ministry said. The bombing and skirmish occurred in the Mullaitivu district despite continuing talks between Tamil separatist leaders and President J. R. Jayewardene. Tamils, who constitute 17 percent of the nation’s 16 million people, are seeking a separate state in northern Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, thousands of school children in the northern Jaffna peninsula, where the armed separatist groups are concentrated, were kept home by parents because of a separatist call for student boycotts.
Kiichi Miyazawa, a leading policy-maker of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said he will probably challenge Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in a November election for party president, a post that carries the premiership with it. Miyazawa, 64, who is well known to U.S. leaders through service in various Cabinet posts, said that his faction of the party, led by former Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki, is discussing a possible challenge. Nakasone, 66, is hoping for a second two-year term.
The Administration acknowledged for the first time that high-level policy makers had made a deliberate decision that Washington would not discourage private American citizens and foreign governments from supporting rebels in Nicaragua.
Colombia is fighting drug trafficking for the first time after years of disregarding United States pressure to crack down on marijuana and cocaine shipments. The shift was prompted by the April 30 slaying of the country’s Justice Minister, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, by gunmen in the pay of drug bosses.
On the eve of the 11th anniversary of the military coup that brought him to power, President Augusto Pinochet of Chile renewed powers today allowing him to restrict freedom of assembly and information. In another move, the Government charged 10 opposition leaders with trying to overthrow the regime. The 10, including former Foreign Minister Gabriel Valdes, were charged in connection with their role in organizing anti- Government protests last week in which nine people died. A decree published in the official gazette extended for another six months the “State of Threat to Internal Peace,” which also empowers General Pinochet to expel or send into internal exile anyone deemed a threat to public order. The powers, contained in Article 24 of the 1980 Constitution, have been renewed every six months.
The kind of unrest that has erupted in a dozen black townships in South Africa over the last two weeks spread briefly today to Soweto, the huge satellite city outside Johannesburg. At the same time, the police reported incidents of stone throwing and arson in three other townships, and the authority responsible for the education of blacks ordered vacations a week ahead of schedule and closed schools hit in recent weeks by boycotts involving more than 100,000 students. In Katlehong, outside Johannesburg, the police said one man was killed by a civilian after trying to set fire to a shop. The police said they used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds there. On Saturday, a crowd set fire to the home of Katlehong’s Mayor, A. P. Kumalo, after the funeral of an 18- year-old said by relatives to have been shot dead by the police in earlier unrest. Crowds gathered in Soweto today and stoned school buildings and a delivery truck. Over the weekend, a store in the sprawling township was hit by a gasoline bomb, and the police fired birdshot at people who gathered outside. A bus was also reported to have been overturned and burned.
A plan to cut $177 billion from the Federal budget deficits by the end of the decade was made public by Walter F. Mondale. The plan announced by the Democratic Presidential nominee calls for $85 billion in new taxes, which would fall heaviest on the wealthiest Americans, $105 billion in cuts in projected spending, $17 billion in new revenues through economic growth and $30 billion in increased spending on new education, job-training and other programs.
Edward M. Kennedy suggested gently that the Roman Catholic hierarchy was wrong to expect public officials of any faith to impose a Government ban on abortion. In a major address, Senator Kennedy, a Catholic, defended the positions of Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro and Governor Cuomo on the moral obligations of Catholic politicians.
The Archbishop of New York, John J. O’Connor, and Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro discussed their dispute over Roman Catholic teaching on abortion, but apparently failed to resolve the central question of whether the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee had misrepresented church doctrine on abortion.
President Reagan participates in a signing ceremony for Proclamation 5232, designating September 10–14 as Hispanic Heritage Week.
The House passed legislation today to replace the 13-year-old general warning on cigarette packages and advertisements with labels detailing specific health risks from smoking, including cancer and heart disease. The House acted on a voice vote and sent the measure to the Senate, where passage is expected, perhaps this week. It would then go to President Reagan for his consideration. Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of Calififornia, noting that an estimated 340,000 Americans are expected to die this year of smoking-related ailments, said, “The purpose of this legislation is to make the public more aware of the adverse health risk from smoking.”
The NASA space shuttle orbiter Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
Improperly tested microchips are components of a wide range of military weapons, according to the Pentagaon, which said it had stopped accepting the systems. The chips are made by Texas Instruments, a leading military contractor. Pentagon officials said the problems involved more than 1,700 types of chips that have been used for years by at least 80 military contractors.
The Stinger antiaircraft missile may not be useful in combat and should be cut back to a minimum rate of production, according to a study by Congressional auditors. The special study by the General Accounting Office for the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense suggested cutting nearly $200 million from the Reagan Administration’s request for tactical missiles in the 1985 fiscal year, which begins October 1. Six major missile programs valued at more than $1.6 billion in the 1985 military budget were included in the study, which was completed in July although not released until today. Besides a $109 million cut in the $298 million requested for the Stinger for 1985, the auditors suggested reducing the budgets for the TOW-2 antitank missile and the Hawk antiaircraft missile.
[Ed: HAHAHAHAHA… HA. Does Congress ever get anything right? Ask the Soviets in Afghanistan in a few years about the Stinger…]
Deadly phosgene gas leaked from a chemical plant near Lake Charles, Louisiana today, and the authorities said 42 people were treated for respiratory problems. Forty workers at a Conoco oil refinery were treated for respiratory problems after the gas leak at the Olin Chemical Company plant here, where two workers required treatment but were not hospitalized. The two plants are separated by Interstate 10. Joe Day, an Olin spokesman, said the leak occurred in the head gasket of a phosgene production unit and was brought under control within minutes. Mr. Day said there were about 120 Olin workers between the phosgene leak and I-10, and none of them was affected. Carlton Adams, a Conoco spokesman, said that 30 minutes after the refinery was notified by Olin of a phosgene alert, “37 Conoco employees and four contract personnel reported respiratory ailments commonly associated with exposure to phosgene.”
Attorneys for two minority groups and Houston’s public schools ended a 28-year-old school desegregation lawsuit by signing a settlement that district officials said will cost $53.2 million over five years. The signing by the Houston Independent School District, the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People and the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund came after more than a week of haggling among the attorneys. The agreement will raise the ratio of white students to minority students at inner city magnet schools from 50-50 to 65-35, the ratio already in effect at other magnet schools.
A Massachusetts group of Protestant and Jewish leaders denounced as “morally indefensible” a statement by New England Roman Catholic bishops strongly opposing abortion rights. Noting that many religious bodies support freedom of choice on abortion, Rabbi Michael Mayersohn said at a Boston news conference, “There are major Protestant and Jewish religious denominations which support the right of women to choose.” Mayersohn is co-chairman of the Massachusetts Policy Council of the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights.
School strikes ended in six Rhode Island districts, and a school official ordered an end to another, but more than 138,000 youngsters in six states were still unable to attend classes because of teacher walkouts. Continuing strikes affected 59,370 children in Illinois, 56,000 in Michigan, 19,000 in Pennsylvania, 1,600 in New Jersey, 1,300 in Louisiana and 960 in Rhode Island. Strikes began in Jersey Shore and Panther Valley, Pennsylvania, affecting 4,800 youngsters.
General Motors Corp. presented the United Auto Workers with a proposal that company bargainers said addressed the union’s demands for job security for its members. Details were not available, but GM spokesman Alfred S. Warren Jr.. said, “We think that it addresses the needs of our employees and the demands of the UAW…” Negotiations between GM and the union were adjourned so that the union could study the proposal.
Physicist William Shockley told jurors hearing his libel suit in Atlanta that a newspaper article about his genetic theories had falsely portrayed him as a “rabid, anti-black who is in favor of eliminating the black race. I am not an intellectual racist or any other kind of racist,” the 74-year-old scientist told a six-member jury in federal court before resting his case. Shockley, who shared a Nobel prize in physics in 1956 for his role in the invention of the transistor, is seeking $1.25 million in damages from Cox Enterprises Inc. and Roger Witherspoon, a former reporter for the Atlanta Constitution.
Two years after eight persons were killed on a fishing boat — including its skipper, Mark Coulthurst, and his wife, Irene — a 24-year-old laborer who once worked for Coulthurst was arrested and charged with the slayings. At least two of the victims were shot in the head before the 58-foot Investor, which had been on a salmon fishing expedition, was torched while anchored off southeastern Alaska. John Kenneth Peel was arrested in Bellingham, Washington, on a Ketchikan warrant for the killings.
Voters in the South Pacific republic of Palau have approved by a 2–1 margin an agreement with the United States that provides self-government while the United States provides defense and $900 million in aid. But there remained a question on whether the United States would accept the compact because of a Palauan constitutional ban on nuclear energy. Waiver of the ban on nuclear weapons and nuclear-powered ships requires approval by 75% of the voters.
Successes in transplanting cells into the brains of animals have spurred the belief that such therapy may eventually become practical for the treatment of diseases that damage the human brain.
Victims of the imposter phenomenon include many high achievers who have a secret sense of being a fraud and live in constant fear of being exposed as one. Studies show that 70 percent of people have felt themselves to be an impostor for at least one period of their lives despite their high achievements.
The first episode of the daily syndicated TV game show of “Jeopardy!” with Alex Trebek as host is aired.
Sean O’Keefe (11) is the youngest to cycle across the U.S. (in 24 days).
Baltimore’s Mike Flanagan spins a five-hitter and evens his record at 12–12 with a 3–1 win over the Tigers. Wayne Gross and Eddie Murray homer as Murray extends his consecutive game hitting streak to 22. Despite the loss, Detroit’s division-clinching number in the American League East was reduced to eight as the Yankees beat Toronto. Gross connected off Juan Berenguer (8–10), as the leadoff batter in the second inning to give Baltimore a 2–0 lead.
Don Mattingly hit a double and a three-run home run and the Yankees beat the Blue Jays, 6-2. He hit his home run in the fifth inning, after Willie Randolph and Bobby Meacham had led off with singles. He hit the first pitch from Toronto’s starter and best pitcher, Dave Stieb. Butch Wynegar accounted for the Yankees sixth run with his sixth homer of the year in the sixth inning. The victory moved the Yankees to within two and a half games of the second place Blue Jays and it also represented another good outing for John Montefusco, making his fifth start since coming back from the disabled list where he had been with a chest sprain.
A double by Tim Teufel of Minnesota that was lost in the lights by Darryl Motley and Willie Wilson in the third inning tonight started the Twins on their way to a 7–3 triumph over the Kansas City Royals. The victory moved the Twins into a tie with Kansas City for first place in the American League West. California, which did not play, trails by a game. Mike Smithson (14–12) struck out six and walked two in going the distance for the ninth time. Two of the hits he allowed were homers by Steve Balboni, his 24th, in the seventh and Frank White, his 16th, in the eighth.
Ray Burris (13–7) held Chicago to three hits over eight and two-thirds innings as the Oakland A’s shut out the Chicago White Sox, 1–0. Rich Dotson (13–13) walked in the only run in the third, an inning in which Dave Kingman was hit by a pitch and charged the mound. Rickey Henderson started the rally with a one-out walk off Dotson. After Dwayne Murphy walked with two outs, Dotson’s first pitch hit Kingman in the left hip and the 6-foot-6-inch slugger went after Dotson. He landed two punches to Dotson’s face before being wrestled to the ground by Chicago’s Greg Walker. Both benches emptied and, after order was restored, a pinch-runner, Gary Hancock, replaced Kingman, the only player ejected. Bruce Bochte then walked on four pitches, forcing in Henderson.
Don Sutton moved up on baseball’s career strikeout list and collected his 279th major league victory as the Milwaukee Brewers used a five-run fourth inning to beat the Boston Red Sox, 7–4. Sutton (13–11) struck out four to raise his career total to 3,194, moving him past Ferguson Jenkins into sixth place on the career list.
The Seattle Mariners downed the Texas Rangers, 7–3.Rookie Alvin Davis’ two-run homer, his 25th of the year but his first in 30 days, highlighted a three-run seventh inning that carried the Mariners to victory at Seattle.
A seventh-inning throwing error on a potential double-play ball by the second baseman Juan Samuel allowed the tying and winning runs to score today as the Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 3–2. The victory, coupled with tonight’s loss by the Mets to the St. Louis Cardinals, increased the Cubs’ lead in the National League East to seven games over the Mets. Any combination totaling 12 victories by the Cubs and losses by the Mets would give Chicago the division championship. The Phillies took a 2–0 lead into the seventh behind the pitching of Jerry Koosman (14–12), who was trying for his 33rd career shutout. Overall, Koosman walked five and struck out two. He allowed only four hits in the first six innings.
Jim Wohlford drove in five runs with a three-run homer and a single to lead the Montreal Expos to an 8–5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Dick Grapenthin (1–2) pitched four and two-thirds innings of one-hit relief to earn his first major league victory. Joe Hesketh pitched the final four innings for his first major league save. Wohlford hit his fourth homer off John Candelaria in the first. It followed a walk to Andre Dawson and single by Gary Carter. Pittsburgh scored four runs in the bottom of the first off Dave Palmer, who retired only one hitter before giving way to Grapenthin. Lee Lacy, Jason Thompson and Tony Pena had run-scoring singles and Denny Gonzales drew a bases-loaded walk. Tim Raines hit a run-scoring single in the second against Candelaria to make it 4–4. The Expos scored three runs against Lee Tunnell (1–5) in the fourth. Dawson doubled home a run and Wohlford singled home two more. Wallace Johnson added an r.b.i. single in the fifth for the Expos.
Zane Smith, making his major league debut, and Pete Falcone combined on a seven-hitter to lift the Atlanta Braves to a 3–1 win over the Houston Astros. Smith (1–0), a 23-year-old left-hander, went six innings, allowing one run on six hits while walking one and striking out four. Falcone went the final three innings to record his second save. Nolan Ryan (12–10 was the loser despite striking out nine Braves in six innings.
The New York Mets were locked in a 1–1 game with the St. Louis Cardinals with two out in the seventh inning, when Willie McGee hit the 3-and-2 pitch from Sid Fernandez down the right-field line. The ball bounced on the chalk for a double, two runs crossed and the Cardinals went on to beat the Mets, 3–2, with Bruce Sutter relieving Dave LaPoint in the ninth inning and ending a rally for his 41st save of the season.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Washington Redskins 31, San Francisco 49ers 37
Joe Montana passed for two touchdowns and ran for another tonight as the San Francisco 49ers held off a late rally and handed the Washington Redskins their second straight loss, 37–31. After trailing, 27–3, at halftime, the Redskins got two touchdown runs from John Riggins and cut the margin to 6 on a 12-yard touchdown pass from the quarterback Joe Theismann to Virgil Seay with 3 minutes 44 seconds to play. The Redskins never got the ball again. The 49ers, now 2–0, received a first down on a personal-foul penalty and ran out the clock. The running back Wendell Tyler had one of his best games since joining the 49ers last year, scoring one touchdown on a pass, another on a run and helping Montana on his touchown run with a superb block at the goal line. The 49ers’ kicker, Ray Wersching, booted field goals from 19, 46 and 38 yards. He has now kicked 26 straight field goals on attempts within 40 yards. The game was a rematch between the teams in last year’s N.F.C. title game, which the Redskins won, 24–21. Tonight Montana, who had 381 yards passing, completely outplayed Theismann, a fellow Notre Dame alumnus, who was unable to move his team until the final minutes of the first half. Montana started quickly on the 49ers’ first possession, completing his first eight passes. On the drive, Tyler scampered 20 yards to Washington’s 18. Four plays later, he plunged over the goal line from a half-yard out. Later in the period, Montana threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Tyler. In the second quarter, Montana hit Dwight Clark with a 15-yard touchdown pass, making the score, 27–0. The Redskins did not score until just before the intermission. Mark Moseley kicked a 38-yard field goal.
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Born:
Andrew Brown, MLB outfielder and pinch hitter (St. Louis Cardinals, Colorado Rockies, New York Mets), in Dallas, Texas.
Darnell Bing, NFL defensive abck (Detroit Lions), in Long Beach, California.
Zabian Dowdell, NBA point guard (Phoenix Suns), in Pahokee, Florida.
Matthew Followill, American alternative-rock backing vocalist and musician (Kings of Leon – “Use Somebody”), in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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