Western nations are divided over a confidential World Bank proposal for an emergency aid fund for the poorest African nations, Western diplomats said. The diplomats said the confidential World Bank report gives the gloomiest possible picture of black Africa’s current prospects, saying that unlike most other regions of the developing world its economic problems have been growing worse rather than better.
Poland’s Roman Catholic Church criticized the Communist government for proposing to temporarily exile its critics instead of imprisoning them. The criticism, published in a partly censored article in the Catholic newspaper Tygodnik Powszechny, referred to September 4 remarks by government spokesman Jerzy Urban. “Banishment of political offenders would contradict the Christian and moral values of a big section of society,” the newspaper said.
A second son was born to the Princess of Wales. The Prince of Wales attended the delivery at a London hospital. The child is in third place in succession to the British crown after his father and his 2-year-old brother, Prince William.
A Spanish Basque separatist who has been on a hunger strike with seven compatriots for more than four weeks is being force-fed by doctors, a senior official of the French Justice Ministry said today. The official, Jean Favart, said staff members at the Fresnes Prison hospital near Paris decided to start feeding the 29-year-old separatist, Francois-Javier Lujambio Aldeano, Friday night because his condition was worsening. The hunger strikers began their action on August 8 to protest a court ruling in favor of the extradition of seven of them wanted in Spain on murder and assault charges. The French Government has said it will not decide finally on extradition until the supreme court of appeal has heard the case, probably next month.
A strong wind and five-foot seas halted the salvage today of the radioactive cargo of a French freighter that sank three weeks ago, a Belgian Government official said. A spokesman for the Belgian Environment Ministry said three more containers of uranium hexafluoride and one empty container had been removed during the night before bad weather stopped the operations. A total of 13 full and 16 empty containers have been retrieved, leaving 17 containers with uranium hexafluoride still trapped in the ship. Twenty-two empty containers were on the vessel. The spokesman said that a new oil leak had developed at the rear of the ship and that an oil slick more than a mile long was drifting toward the Belgian coast. He said the bad weather was helping to break up the oil slick.
The Rev. Billy Graham preached in Moscow’s central Baptist church, but police and KGB agents barred U.S. reporters and camera crews from covering the event and excluded many ticket-holding Christians. Earlier in the day, Graham, on a 12-day invited tour of the Soviet Union, visited the Moscow Synagogue and the USA-Canada Institute.
The USSR performs a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk.
Israeli police detained 50 Palestinians overnight in the killing of the Arab mayor of Rafah, an Israeli-occupied Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip. Four of those arrested are still being held, an Israel radio broadcast said. The slain official, Abdel-Hamid Mansour Kishta, 70, an Israeli appointee, was shot as he walked home from evening prayers at a mosque. A Sunni Muslim radio station, the Voice of Arab, Lebanon, reported that “guerrillas killed (Kishta) because he was a collaborator” with the Israeli military administration of Gaza.
President Hafez al-Assad has ordered Syrian security forces to help find a Reuters correspondent who disappeared in Lebanon 17 days ago, a Government spokesman said today. The President has “issued instructions to the competent Syrian security authorities to exert all possible efforts to help find his abductors, free him and return him to his family,” a spokesman for Mr. Assad said. The correspondent, Jonathan Wright, a 30-year-old Briton, disappeared Aug. 29 after he left the Reuters office in Beirut to visit the scene of an Israeli air raid against Palestinian positions in a Syrian-controlled region of eastern Lebanon. News organizations in Europe have received anonymous telephone calls saying Mr. Wright was being held by a revolutionary group. Lebanese authorities and militias and Palestinian groups are also helping in the search for Mr. Wright.
Airline security guards shot and wounded at least three armed hijackers trying to commandeer an Iraqi Airways Boeing 737 over Jordan, Israel radio reported. A guard was also reported wounded. The plane was carrying 100 passengers and crew on a flight from Cyprus to Baghdad, Cypriot airport sources said. Iraqi media did not report the incident, and the Baghdad airport refused to comment. The reason for the seizure attempt and identities of the would-be hijackers were not known.
Eleven crewmen were killed by an Iraqi missile attack last week on a West German-owned oil supply vessel in the Persian Gulf, the British Foreign Office said. A spokesman said the Seatrans 21 was apparently struck by an Iraqi Exocet missile near Iran’s oil terminal at Kharg Island. Earlier reports said six seamen died in the attack and five were saved, but the Foreign Office spokesman said new information from Tehran indicated that the death toll was 11-including three British divers, the ship’s West German master and chief engineer and several Philippine seamen.
Supporters of Morocco’s King Hassan II won a majority of seats in elections for Parliament, but leftist opposition parties more than doubled their representation. The centrist Constitutional Union Party, led by former Premier Maati Bouabid, became the largest political group with 55 seats. The Popular Socialist Union and two Marxist groups boosted the total number of their seats to 37, from 16.
Supporters of the former Chief Minister of a south-central Indian state clashed with the police today during a daylong general strike protesting his ouster, and about 50 people were wounded and 500 arrested, officials said. The strike in Andhra Pradesh was called in support of N. T. Rama Rao, an opponent of Indira Gandhi who was dismissed August 16 by the state governor she appointed. He was replaced by N. Bhaskara Rao, who is backed by Mrs. Gandhi’s Congress Party. Mr. Rama Rao said the strike was “total,” while Mr. Bhaskara Rao called it a “miserable failure.” In Hyderabad, the state capital, the strike halted traffic and closed shops, businesses and schools, according to police and Indian press reports. The police control room said that the strike also crippled activity in many other parts of the state of 54 million people, and that demonstrators burned at least six buses and hurled rocks at the police in the southern part of the state.
An idea of what it is to be an inmate in Vietnamese prison camps where Hanoi sent thousands of South Vietnamese for “re-education” has been drawn from the stories of recently released inmates. A former captain in the South Vietnamese Army, who was recently freed after six years of imprisonment, said political prisoners had to do hard agricultural labor, had little nourishing food and had no visits from relatives for months at a time. Other former camp inmates tell of harsher treatment.
Nicaragua’s new military airport will be ready for use by the end of this year or early in 1985, and “several dozen” pilots will be trained by that time, allowing the country to deploy advanced combat aircraft, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega said. Speaking in Mexico City at independence day ceremonies, Ortega said Nicaragua is seeking MIG-21s from the Soviet Union to base at the airport. U.S. officials have hinted that American forces might attack such planes if they were based in Nicaragua, and Ortega said Moscow has not yet made a decision on supplying MIG-21s.
Cuban advisers have been seen by almost everyone in the Nicaraguan town of Santa Clara. But the commander of a military training base there, Lieutenant Carlos Gonzales, said no Cubans were in the area and insisted in an interview that he had not seen a single foreign military adviser in his five years of service along the Honduran border. The United States has reported that four Cuban instructors were killed in a rebel air attack on the Santa Clara base this month.
President Daniel arap Moi ordered all civil servants today to join his ruling Kenya African National Union, the country’s only legal political party, the state radio said. The move followed the expulsion Friday of 15 party members, including former Constitutional Affairs Minister Charles Njonjo. The developments were seen as part of Mr. Moi’s efforts to consolidate his position since a coup attempt was foiled on August 1, 1982. Mr. Moi said that state employees must register with the party by January 1 and that only party members would be considered for future government job vacancies. The directive left unanswered the question of whether civil servants expelled by the party for political reasons would lose their posts.
South Africa included nonwhites in the Cabinet for the first time in the country’s history. Its new President, P. W. Botha, announced a Cabinet that includes the leader of the Labor Party, which represents some people of mixed race, and the leader of the National Peoples Party, whose members are drawn from the Indian community. The Cabinet offered no representations to the blacks who make up 73 percent of the population.
General Motors workers struck at 13 selected plants in nine states shortly before midnight Friday as the deadline for a national strike approached and negotiations remained stalled. Instead of a national strike that would have affected 350,000 employees, the United Auto Workers Union chose the partial strike tactic, which is to idle 62,700 workers starting Monday morning. Contract negotiations continued with no reports of whether progress was made.
Security is being tightened under a sweeping new Government program to improve the protection of Federal facilities where nuclear warheads are designed and made. The program has come about because of a new perception of the threat of terrorism and because Congressional investigations have disclosed serious lapses of nuclear security, according to Federal officials. “We have an aggressive program that has improved our security dramatically,” said William W. Hoover, a retired Air Force major general who was recently confirmed by the Senate as Assistant Secretary for defense programs at the Department of Energy, which runs the nuclear facilities.
Top Democrats are pessimistic about Walter F. Mondale’s campaign. The deep pessimism grew in the two weeks since he kicked off his general election drive. His campaign officials believe Mr. Mondale has an opportunity for a dramatic turnaround in the two televised debates with President Reagan in October, but doubts persist among Democrats at the local, state and national level about his personal appeal and the management of his campaign.
The President and First Lady attend the annual National Italian-American Foundation Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro are also in attendance.
The Veterans Administration awarded a $3.6-million contract for the first major study of readjustment problems of Vietnam veterans, including flashbacks, sleep disturbances and alienation. The study, to be conducted by the Research Triangle Institute of North Carolina, will focus on veterans who are having — or have had — problems adjusting to civilian life, as well as those who made the transition without difficulty. The VA estimates that up to 800,000 of the 9 million Vietnam-era veterans, 3.3 million of whom served in Southeast Asia, suffer some degree of stress disorder.
The Reagan Administration has decided not to file an appeals court challenge at this time to a “comparable worth” ruling awarding millions of dollars to women employees of the state of Washington. A U.S. District Court ruled last year that nearly 15,000 women working for Washington state must receive substantial pay increases because their skills and responsibilities are comparable to those of men in higher-paying jobs. However, the Administration would be free to appeal the decision later.
A dress rehearsal countdown for the October 4 launching of the space shuttle Challenger went off without a hitch, NASA officials said. The test of Challenger, which will be making its sixth trip into orbit, was “highly successful,” said Rocky Raab, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Hurricane Diana’s damage toll was estimated at $65.5 million and continued to climb as damage assessment crews scoured the hardest-hit areas along the North Carolina coast, according to a spokesman for the state’s Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Edouard died off the Mexican coast and was downgraded to an area of disturbed weather. Diana, reduced to tropical storm status, was about 450 miles southwest of Newfoundland and was expected to follow a northeasterly course.
The owner and top salesman of a Denver meat packer were convicted by a U.S. District Court jury of selling tainted meat to the federal government. Much of it went to the nation’s school lunch program, and contaminated samples were found in schools in Riverside and Long Beach, among other cities nationwide. The verdicts ended a nine-day trial in which employees and federal inspectors described filthy conditions at the Cattle King Packing Co. plant, which has been closed since February. Cattle King owner Rudy (Butch) Stanko of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and salesman Gary Waderich of Sterling, Colorado, face the possibility of up to 23 years in prison and $70,000 in fines.
An Air Force report has concluded that drug testing procedures at a Brooks Air Force Base laboratory are reliable, but some results do not meet scientific standards set by an investigative panel. The finding means that about 6,500 military personnel, who were discharged from the service or face drug charges, will have a chance to clear their records, Air Force officials said Friday. The report was based on an investigation of the Quality Control Function in the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine Drug Abuse Detection Laboratory at the base here. The investigation, from September 1, 1983, to June 7 of this year, stemmed from charges that inefficient testing led to erroneous results in tests to detect drug use. The report said the results of about 6,500 tests did not meet the legal and scientific standards set by a commission appointed to examine the Army- Air Force drug testing program.
Chicago officials are moving to combat home improvement scams after a string of elderly residents complained that they were conned into spending thousands of dollars for repairs, including one woman who paid $44,000 to cure “cancer of the brick” in her home. Jesse Madison, Chicago commissioner of consumer services, said that his department has received 103 complaints about home repair firms since January 1.
Leaders of the International Typographical Union have been directed to seek a merger with the Graphic Communications International Union, dealing a possibly fatal setback to a drive by the Teamsters Union for such an alliance. Merging with the communications union “would bring virtually the entire printing industry workforce under one colorful umbrella within the AFL-CIO and Canadian Labour Congress,” President Robert McMichen said as the ITU ended its 126th convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Puerto Rico’s electric authority rotated power shortages on the island Friday as workers repaired two relay towers officials said were sabotaged the day before. The Puerto Rico Electric Energy Authority placed advertisements in San Juan newspapers showing photographs of the electrical relay towers that officials said were toppled by explosives. The authority estimated damages at $100,000, and offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to arrests in the case. Hundreds of thousands of people were without power Thursday morning. With traffic lights inoperable, about 20 minor traffic accidents were reported, but there was no word of injuries, the police said. The energy authority on Friday began rotating the shutdown of power for four-hour periods to blocks of 50,000 customers.
A proposal to ban antibiotics in animal feed is expected to be revived again by the Food and Drug Administration, according to its officials who say an array of new evidence has linked human illness to drug-resistant strains of bacteria in meat.
A fight for the Senate seat being vacated by Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts because of illness is one of a series of battles that will be settled in the Massachusetts primary election Tuesday.
Joe Kittinger sailed his “Balloon of Peace” across Newfoundland today and headed toward Greenland, hoping to become the first person to make a solo balloon flight across the Atlantic. The helium-filled balloon, which is 10 stories high, was traveling about 30 miles an hour. Mark Kirkham, a flight spokesman at the Rosie O’Grady Balloon of Peace trans-Atlantic operations center in Bedford, Massachusetts, said: “We’d like to get him to much higher speeds. But in order to catch the wind velocity, he must get to higher altitudes.” The balloon was reported headed toward Greenland at an altitude of 10,000 feet, about 6,000 feet short of the height needed to catch upper level winds that could propel his craft to speeds in excess of 60 miles an hour. The trip is expected to take from three to six days.
The crew of a Taiwanese freighter, marooned at sea aboard their debt-ridden ship since mid-summer, set foot on land today for the first time in nearly three months. The Immigration and Naturalization Service agreed Friday to place the 27 crew members in the custody of Mayor Dianne Feinstein for the weekend, and the Mayor promised them dinner in Chinatown and a tour of the city. The crew of the 700-foot Panamax, loaded with coal, has been kept aboard the vessel by federal agents in a legal battle over possession of the ship for nonpayment of bills. The Panamax docked at Pier 96 Thursday after being stranded 45 days in international waters by the owner, the Way Wiser Navigation Company of Taiwan, to avoid seizure by creditors.
Siamese twin sisters, Patricia and Ashley, born joined at the head, slept in separate beds for the first time in their lives today after a 31-hour operation to separate them. John Dwan, a spokesman for the University of Utah Medical Center, said the twins had a good chance of reasonable recovery because of their age. The twins remained in critical but stable condition today in the hospital’s cerebral-vascular intensive care unit. The twin’s parents, who were not identified, are “very pleased” with the outcome of the surgery, Mr. Dwan said. The twins were in the operating room for 31 hours and 10 minutes. It took doctors more than 24 hours to severe their heads and brain tissue and implant an artificial membrane to protect their brains. Plastic surgeons needed another seven hours to complete the operation, Mr. Dwan said.
Sharlene Wells (Miss Utah), 20, is crowned the 58th Miss America, for 1985.
9th Toronto International Film Festival: “Places in the Heart” directed by Robert Benton wins the People’s Choice Award.
San Diego Chargers’ running back Chuck Muncie, who failed a drug test yesterday, agreed to enter a drug rehabilitation program to avoid being suspended by the NFL.
Milt Wilcox and Willie Hernandez combined on a three-hitter and Ruppert Jones hit a home run and made a game-saving catch as the Detroit Tigers beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 2–1. Wilcox (17–7) struck out a season-high eight and walked only one. The only mistake he made was to George Bell, who hit his 24th home run in the second to give Toronto a short-lived 1–1 tie.
Like a man dodging falling pianos, Al Nipper (10–5) slipped past one peril after another yesterday. Then finally, just when it looked as if one of the pianos might hit him, along came Bob Stanley to rescue the day for the Boston Red Sox and Nipper. The Red Sox defeated the Yankees, 4–3, on a raw day at Yankee Stadium, surviving breathlessly from one inning to the next. The Yankees left 12 runners on base, including 2 in the ninth when Nipper was finally relieved after throwing 158 pitches. That left it to Stanley, the ace reliever who really could have entered at any point during the game, such was Nipper’s struggle. And Stanley, who has struggled in recent weeks, too, did in the ninth what Nipper had done for himself throughout the day: thwarted a Yankee rally. With Ken Griffey on second and Dave Winfield on first, Stanley got Steve Kemp on a left-field fly and Butch Wynegar on a ground out to first base, ending the game.
Which Bob Gibson is that? Brewers pitcher Bob Gibson allows one hit, a leadoff single by Al Bumbry, in beating the Orioles, 7–0. It is a record-tying 4th time that Bumbry has had the only hit for Baltimore in a game. Gibson is back by a grand slam from Robin Yount, off Sammy Stewart, in the Brewers 6-run 6th. O’s manager Cal Ripken is not around to see it, however. He’s tossed in the 1st inning for arguing a checked swing call.
Willie Wilson drove in a pair of runs and Steve Balboni and Jorge Orta hit homers to pace Kansas City’s 18-hit attack as the Royals downed the Seattle Mariners, 8–5. Onix Concepion had four hits, including a run-scoring double. Trailing by 3–2 in the sixth, the Royals scored two runs off Karl Best (1–1), the second of six Seattle pitchers. Don Slaught led off with a bunt single, went to third on Concepcion’s single and scored on Greg Pryor’s sacrifice fly. Concepcion stole second and scored on Wilson’s double.
Mike Smithson pitched a six-hitter for his first career shutout and Pat Putnam drove in the only run of the game with a third-inning single to lead the Minnesota Twins past the Texas Rangers, 1–0. Smithson (15–12) struck out five and walked one. The Texas starter Danny Darwin (8–11) went the distance and scattered eight hits in defeat. Putnam singled home Mickey Hatcher from second after Hatcher had singled to right and advanced to second on a fielder’s choice.
Reggie Jackson hit his 499th career homer to lead a four-homer assault as the Angels beat the Chicago White Sox, 11–2, today. With the score 1–1 and Doug DeCinces on with a single, Jackson got his 21st homer of the season to come within one of becoming the 13th member of the 500 circle. Bobby Grich immediately followed with a homer off Tom Seaver (14–10) to put the Angels on top, 4–1. Mike Witt (13–11) held Chicago to five hits through seven innings, with Luis Sanchez working the final two. The victory kept the Angels one-half game behind the Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals, who are tied for the lead in the American League West.
The Cleveland Indians came back to beat the Oakland A’s, 6–3, with three runs in the top of the ninth, knocking out A’s starter Ray Burris (15–8). Mike Hargrove singled in the eventual winning run then scored himself on Mel Hall’s double. The A’s held a 3–0 lead after two but could not score again.
The Chicago Cubs kept rolling relentlessly toward their first championship in 39 years today when they beat the Mets, 5–4, and moved nine and a half games in front with only 13 to play. “We’re on the doorstep,” said Bob Dernier, the Cubs’ center fielder, who has been on base six times in the last two games. “It looks real good. But we’ve got to keep up the momentum, and not go into the playoffs after losing five in a row. You can’t turn it on once you turn it off.” But the Cubs seemed in little danger of turning it off. They won their 90th game of the season today against 58 losses; they have now won 49 games and lost only 24 at home; they have beaten the Mets 12 times in 17 meetings and they have held first place in the National League’s East since August 1. Sid Fernandez yielded four first inning runs. He settled down after his shaky start, but the Mets managed only three hits in seven innings off Scott Sanderson and never made up the difference. They got two runs in the third inning and two more in the eighth after Lee Smith relieved Sanderson. And it took a snappy play by Ryne Sandberg at second base to keep them from tying the game in the ninth. But once more they did not survive an afternoon in Wrigley Field, not even against a pitcher with a chronically bad back.
The Houston Astros downed the San Diego Padres 2–1. Glenn Davis doubled home Phil Garner in the eighth inning to give Houston the victory. Garner singled with one out off Craig Lefferts (3-4). One out later, Davis doubled over the head of the center fielder, Kevin McReynolds. Bill Dawley (9-4) was the winner. Tony Gwynn, the league’s leading hitter, had two hits, giving him 200.
Terry Pendleton hit two doubles and drove in three runs to pace the St. Louis Cardinals to a 8–3 triumph over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Dave LaPoint (11-10) pitched his second complete game, allowing seven hits, walking two and striking out one. John Candelaria (12-11), the victim of a four-run fourth, took the loss.
The Montreal Expos edged the Philadelphia Phillies 4–3. Tim Raines cracked a three-run homer and Bill Gullickson won his fifth straight decision as Montreal ended Philadelphia’s five-game winning streak. Gullickson (11–7) gave up seven hits and three walks in 8⅔ innings. Bob James picked up his ninth save.
The Atlanta Braves downed the San Francisco Giants, 4–1, as Mike Krukow (10–11) could not make it out of the fifth inning. Dale Murphy went 4-for-4 with two doubles. Rick Camp won his seventh of the season and had a shutout until the ninth inning.
The Los Angeles Dodgers won their fourth consecutive game behind the complete game five-hitter of Orel Hershiser (9–8), downing the Cincinnati Reds, 5–2. Mike Scoscia had three hits, including a double, for the Dodgers.
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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, son of Prince of Wales (later King) Charles and Princess Diana, in London, England, United Kingdom.
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