West Germany expressed satisfaction with an explanation by Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti of remarks he made opposing German reunification. Andreotti, in a speech last week at a Communist Party festival in Italy, had said: “Pan-Germanism is something that must be overcome. There are two German states, and there must remain two German states.” The remark, made at a time of warming relations between East and West Germany, caused outrage in Bonn. Andreotti explained that he was referring to an incident in Austria, where protesters called for the return to Austria of Alto Adige, a German-speaking area in northern Italy. He said he supports the long-term goal of German unity.
The Soviet Union postponed its annual economic talks with West Germany because of the death of Deputy Premier Leonid Kostandov, Bonn said. The Kremlin said it will reschedule the September 24-25 talks as soon as Kostandov, who died of a heart attack September 5 during a visit to East Germany, is replaced as delegation leader. After East German and Bulgarian leaders canceled visits to Bonn under Soviet pressure, the West German media speculated that the Soviets would postpone the economic meeting.
A withdrawal of troops from Chad by France and Libya is scheduled, the French Foreign Ministry announced. It said the withdrawal would be “total and simultaneous.” The announcement followed an unannounced two- day trip to Libya by Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson during which he met with Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi.
The first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic was reported by officials in Biarritz, France. They said the 10- story-tall helium-filled balloon of Joe W. Kittinger, an American, had reached the French coast north of Biarritz.
The USSR performs an underground nuclear test.
Unidentified gunmen ambushed an Israeli bus near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, and seven people were injured, police and hospital sources said. A passenger in the bus returned fire, police said, adding that five of the injured were Jewish passengers and the other two were Palestinians in a car alongside the bus. It was not known if the Palestinians were involved in the ambush. Elsewhere in the West Bank, Palestinians clashed with Israeli occupation troops on the second anniversary of the Beirut massacre of hundreds of Palestinians by Lebanese Christian militia men allied with Israel. Refugees in a camp north of Ramallah and a camp near Bethlehem stoned Israeli soldiers, and the troops responded with tear gas, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
Egypt’s defense minister said the British navy has found a second mine in the Red Sea, but it has not yet been retrieved or identified, Field Marshal Abdel-Halim abu Ghazala told the Egyptian Parliament. The first mine found was a relic of a past Mideast war, and blame for more recent mines, which have damaged 18 ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Suez, has not been fixed. Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency reported that the United States has ended its month-long search of the Red Sea and has declared the waterway free of mines.
Ethiopia is suffering the worst drought-related famine in more than a decade, according to private relief workers and Western diplomats in Addis Ababa. Relief workers and Ethiopian officials said that tens of thousands of Ethiopians are probably dying of starvation and related diseases and that six million are in dire need of food.
Iranian security personnel at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport arrested three armed passengers who intended to hijack an Iranian airliner to Paris, the official Iranian news agency said. The report, monitored in Beirut, said the three were arrested before they boarded a flight from the Iranian capital to the southwestern city of Bushehr. No further details were available.
Two former Afghan Army generals and four government officials have defected to Pakistan, an Afghan refugee press service reported today. The report by the press service, the Afghan Information and Documents Center, run by Afghan refugees living in the Pakistani town of Peshawar, said three of the defecting officials were from the Afghan Foreign Ministry. They included Habibullah Anwar, director general of the visa and passport section, and Abdul Tawab Hikmat, the deputy director. The retired army officers were identified as Gen. Mohammad Nazim, a former commander of the Afghan army’s Rishkor Seventh Division, and Lieut. Gen. Abdul Hamid Khan, who served in the Defense Ministry before the Communist takeover. The press service said the other officials were Mohammad Humayun Anwar, an economic assistant in the political section of the Foreign Ministry, and Ahmad Hussain, director of cash accounts in the Department of Chemical Fertilizers.
Two policemen were killed and four others were wounded today when a land mine planted by separatist guerrillas exploded in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province, the Information Ministry said. It said the policemen were patrolling in a jeep in Kilinochchi, about 40 miles south of the troubled northern capital of Jaffna, when the explosion occurred. The Information Ministry also said two rebels were killed today at Cheddikulam, in Northern Province, when the police fired at a truck that failed to stop at a roadblock. Residents in Jaffna said shops and schools in Northern Province were closed today in protest what they termed harassment of civilians by the security forces. According to official figures, the deaths today brought the number of security personnel killed to 29 since early last month.
President Reagan receives the final report of the Presidential Commission on U.S.-Japan relations.
Mount Fuji is slowly crumbling. Rock and sand slides believed to have begun 10 centuries ago occur steadily now, and engineers say they fear the mountain, which is a symbol of Japan, could one day lose its nearly perfect conical shape.
Some 26,000 people were said to have fled to evacuation centers to take shelter today as heavy rainfall brought swift mudflows from the Mount Mayon volcano. Scientists said the main danger from Mount Mayon, which began erupting nine days ago, came not from molten lava but from the mudflows that were moving at up to 40 miles an hour. Hot black mud has tumbled over four villages, and many more villages were expected to be affected if more rain falls. Mount Mayon, with its perfect cone shape, is a major tourist attraction in Albay Province, 250 miles southeast of Manila. Thousands of people are visiting Legaspi to witness Mayon’s nightly display of fireworks.
Brian Mulroney is sworn in as Canada’s 18th Prime Minister, succeeding John Turner.
The Pope condemned inequalities between rich and poor countries. Speaking in Edmonton, Alberta, John Paul II criticized “imperialistic monopoly” and predicted that the countries of “this poor south will judge the rich north.”
A former Peruvian Cabinet minister linked Libya and some Dutch and Belgian groups to the financing of Peru’s Maoist guerrilla group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). Luis Cisneros, a retired general who served as minister of war in 1982, told the magazine Caretas that “Libya had much to do” with funding for the guerrillas. “I am saying that Libya is participating in the subversion, as are some European countries and Dutch and Belgian groups,” he said. Peruvian officials have said the guerrillas were financed from abroad, but Cisneros’ remarks were the first specific accusation.
President Augusto Pinochet today renewed the state of emergency in Chile for another 90 days, extending his powers to restrict freedom of speech and assembly. A decree published in the official gazette named military commanders for each of the country’s 13 regions who are in charge of security operations. The military Government has kept the state of emergency in force for all but a few months of the 11 years since the coup against the elected Marxist Government of President Salvador Allende Gossens. General Pinochet extended a separate set of emergency powers last week.
Walter F. Mondale, in an interview, said that if Nicaragua rejected a good-faith compromise and continued to export revolution in Central America after Washington made a dedicated effort at negotiations, he would respond with a “quarantine.” The Democratic Presidential nominee also said for the first time that he would have used force in Grenada “to protect American lives.”
An accord to sponsor two debates 90 minutes each next month between President Reagan and Walter F. Mondale and one 90-minute debate between Vice President Bush and Representive Geraldine A. Ferraro was announced by the League of Women Voters.
President Reagan participates in a meeting to launch the National Steering Committee of Democrats for Reagan-Bush ’84.
A record trade deficit of $24.4 billion in the second quarter of 1984 was reported by the Commerce Department. The deficit reflected heavy overseas travel by Americans and weaker income from Americans’ investment abroad, both resulting from the surging dollar. The deficit, covering trade not only in merchandise but also in services, surpassed the previous record of $19.7 billion that was set in the first quarter.
Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles) called the Reagan Administration “irresponsible” and “negligent” for failing to support a $56-million U.S. Public Health Service request for additional research on acquired immune deficiency syndrome. At a House subcommittee hearing, Waxman accused Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret M. Heckler, who has called AIDS the nation’s “No. 1 health emergency,” of downplaying the “AIDS epidemic” since she announced April 23 that scientists had isolated the virus that causes the disease.
The Environmental Protection Agency has been given one month to come up with proposed regulations on two pollutants from truck and bus engines that officials say will likely cost the industry $1 billion. In a federal court ruling, the agency was ordered to publish proposed standards for particulate and nitrogen oxide emissions, now at least four years overdue, by October 15. U.S. District Judge John H. Pratt, in what parties on both sides of the dispute said is an apparent precedent, ordered EPA to disregard President Reagan’s directive that all regulations first go through his Office of Management and Budget before they are issued.
Congress will have to consider a means test for Social Security and other government benefits programs to avoid a big, politically unacceptable tax increase in 1985 or 1986, a Republican member of the Senate Appropriations Committee said. Senator Warren B. Rudman (R-New Hampshire) said at a Washington luncheon that a means test for Social Security recipients should apply to those who have other income and should not affect those who rely on Social Security for their subsistence.
Georgia has made “substantial progress” in speeding up the desegregation of its 33 colleges and universities and no longer faces losing up to $200 million in Federal education funds, government officials said today. The announcement ended protracted negotiations between the Department of Education and the state Board of Regents. A Federal court in 1983 directed the department to take action by September 15, 1984, against several Southern states that had not shown progress toward desegregation. Among other things, Georgia officials have agreed to increase remedial training for students at the state’s three traditionally black institutions who fail a test required for graduation. The state has also agreed to improve the schools’ campuses and outlined plans to increase white enrollment.
The Florida Supreme Court cleared the way for the scheduled execution Wednesday of James Dupree Henry, who murdered a black civic leader in Orlando in 1974. In a 6-1 decision, the court lifted a stay of execution ordered last week in circuit court. Defense attorneys said they planned appeals in federal court. Meanwhile, lawyers for Aubrey Dennis Adams Jr., 26, also set to die Wednesday for the murder of an 8-year-old Ocala girl in March, 1974, argued his case in federal court, which indicated it would rule quickly.
A Miami, Florida man convicted of the kidnapping and sexual battery of his wife was sentenced today to 14 years in prison. The defendant, William Rider, who was convicted two weeks ago, could have received life in prison. An appeal is planned. “In my opinion, both the victim and her former husband are unfortunate human beings,” said Circuit Judge Morton Perry. “They are not your average suburban couple.” According to testimony, the attack on Marian Rider occurred in September 1982. Mr. Rider is already serving time for parole violation on a previous 20-year sentence for second-degree murder. The couple divorced in December 1983.
Nearly half of 38 new cars and trucks tested by the Transportation Department failed to protect front-seat occupants from probable death in 35-m.p.h. crashes, government test results showed. But a department spokesman said the results were still much better than what has been recorded in some past years.
Quincy, Massachusetts officials announced today that they are abandoning a controversial anti-racism plan to provide escorts for blacks seeking housing and using instead a scaled-down referral program. “No question about it, the concept of the escort service was a misbegotten one in the first place,” said Donald Hansen, city planning director. “It connoted the city was a dangerous place for blacks to come into and subject to a danger, which is not true.” Quincy, a Boston suburb, has 85,000 residents; less than 2 percent are black. It adopted the plan in an agreement with the state Commission Against Racism in order to receive $2.7 million in Federal water and sewer funds.
The same “capacity for evil” that fueled Nazi Germany in the 1930s exists in the world today, Secretary of State George P. Shultz warned in opening a Washington conference to honor the people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. The legacy of those who fought the Holocaust, he said, “admonishes us all to stand up and fight back.” In remarks prepared for the start of the conference, Shultz said, “Make no mistake. That capacity for evil did not die in the bunker with Hitler. The evidence is all around us.”
A 1798 shipwreck has yielded treasure in waters two miles off the Delaware town of Lewes. The treasure includes 18th-century Spanish doubloons and the gold ring of James Drew, the lost captain of the long-sought British sloop of war De Braak, an attacker of ships of Napoleon’s allies.
A 23- year-old woman who received a man’s heart in transplant surgery four years ago delivered a healthy baby girl, apparently the first successful birth by a heart recipient, doctors said today. “There is no indication in medical literature that this has ever happened before,” said Dr. Thomas Key, assistant professor of reproductive medicine and director of perinatal medicine at the medical center of the University of California, San Diego, where Sierra Jamieson Sneith was born Sunday to Betsy Sneith of Spring Valley. “There have been pregnancies, but they have never gone full term, usually because the cardiac patient did not want to,” Dr. Key said. “This check was done primarily by word of mouth in the medical community.” Sierra was born by Caesarian section because of her breech position. Doctors were concerned whether the male heart would function the same as a female heart during pregnancy, when it is expected to work much harder than normal. They reported no problems.
Citrus canker has been detected at two nurseries that received shipments from a contaminated nursery in central Florida, state scientists reported. A state official said all the trees in the two nurseries would be burned and destroyed.
Legal status for illegal aliens who entered the United States before Jan. 1, 1981, and have lived here continuously since then would be granted under a provision agreed on by House and Senate negotiators on a comprehensive immigration bill.
Strikes continued at 13 G.M. plants after marathon talks between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers broke down early yesterday morning. The negotiations are to resume today.
A burst of knowledge about monkeys and apes is overturning long-held stereotypes about their sex roles and social patterns. Leading primatologists said field studies have shown that the female influence on primate social structure is much stronger than previously believed and that the sexual behavior of female primates is much more diverse.
Confession appears to be good for the body. New scientific studies have corroborated the widely-held view that people who are able to confide in others about their troubled feelings or some traumatic event are less vulnerable to illnesses.
At Yankee Stadium, Ken Griffey has a single, 2 doubles and a homer to drive in 3 runs as the New York Yankees whip the Baltimore Orioles, 12–7. Oscar Gamble has a 2-run homer for the Bronx Bombers. The O’s don’t go quietly as they get 4 hits from Al Bumbry and a grand slam from Wayne Gross, his 2nd of the year. Ron Guidry, in his only relief appearance of the year, pitches a scoreless 9th. By the time it was over, there had been 27 hits, 15 by the Yankees; four home runs had been hit, four leads had been squandered, and several dramatic flourishes were almost forgotten in the game’s last, most memorable sequences in the eighth.
Lance Parrish hits his 30th homer of the year and Lou Whitaker belts a grand slam to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 7–3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. Rookie Roger Mason wins his 1st Major League game. Detroit clinched at least a tie for the division title.
Reggie Jackson hits his 500th career home run in the 7th inning off Bud Black, but the Kansas City Royals beat the California Angels, 10–1, to move into first place in the American League West. Jackson is the 13th player in Major League history to hit 500 home runs. Jackson hit the first pitch of the seventh inning off Bud Black deep into the right-field seats for his 22d homer of the season. He received a standing ovation from the crowd of 28,862 at Anaheim Stadium. Black (16–11) gave up three hits, walked three and struck out four before being relieved by Mark Huismann at the start of the ninth.
Harold Baines slugs 3 home runs to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 7–3 win over the Twins and drop Minnesota into 2nd place in the American League West. Baines homered to right field with nobody on base in the first and fifth innings and smashed a two- run shot to right-center in the seventh. It was the second time Baines has hit three homers in a game and he now has a career-high 27 homers, two more than he hit in 1982.
Garth Iorg singled off the glove of the first baseman Bill Buckner with one out in the ninth inning to drive home two runs and give Toronto a 5–4 victory over Boston. Doyle Alexander (15–5) went the distance for Toronto. It was his seventh straight triumph and his 10th in his last 11 decisions.
Darnell Coles hit a fielder’s choice liner to left field in the 11th inning that drove home Jack Perconte with the winning run as the Seattle Mariners beat the Cleveland Indians, 3–2.
The Oakland A’s snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Texas Rangers, 5–3. Dave Kingman’s two-run homer in the sixth put Oakland ahead to stay.
The New York Mets’ Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 batters for the second straight start to tie the Major League record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games, but balks home the winning run in the 8th inning of a 2–1 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. It is Gooden’s 5th straight outing with 10 or more strikeouts. The 19-year-old rookie ran the full range of melodrama as he mixed awesome strikeout power with mistakes: He allowed seven hits and six stolen bases, committed two balks, threw one wild pitch and made a throwing error on a pickoff attempt. The balk broke a 1–1 stalemate between Gooden and Shane Rawley, who stopped the Mets on five hits that included George Foster’s 22nd home run.
Graig Nettles’s pinch-hit triple, his first hit in 17 times at bat, scored Kevin McReynolds from first base in the 11th inning to give first-place San Diego a 3–2 victory over the Reds in Cincinnati. The Padres’ pennant-clinching number was reduced to 5. McReynolds led off the 11th with a single off Ted Power (8–6). Nettles pinch-hit for Luis Salazar with two outs and blooped a shot into right field that bounced over Dave Parker’s head for a triple. Rich Gossage (10–6) pitched the final two and one-third innings.
The Los Angeles Dodgers blanked the Atlanta Braves, 9–0, as Bob Welch won his 12th. Mario Guerrero (15) and Mike Scioscia (5) homered for Los Angeles. Pascual Perez (12–7) took the loss for Atlanta. It’s the sixth straight win for the Dodgers.
The Houston Astros clipped the San Francisco Giants, 5–3. Joe Niekro (15–10) got the win. Denny Walling tripled in the fifth off losing pitcher Mark Grant and scored on a wild pitch to break a 3–3 tie.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Miami Dolphins 21, Buffalo Bills 17
Dan Marino continued his excellent passing, throwing three touchdown strikes, as the Miami Dolphins raced to an 18-point lead and held off a Buffalo rally to beat the Bills, 21–17, tonight. It was the third straight victory for the Dolphins, while the Bills fell to 0–3. The Dolphins seemed on their way to a rout when Marino hit his third touchdown pass, a 1-yarder to Nat Moore, with 10 minutes 27 seconds gone in the third period. But the Bills followed that touchdown with a 1-yard plunge by Speedy Neal that made it 21–10, then closed to 21–17 on a 37-yard scoring pass on a fourth-and-3 situation from Joe Ferguson to Julius Dawkins with 9:20 left. It took Don McNeal’s recovery of Byron Franklin’s fumble on the Dolphins’ 31 to end a final threat with just over four minutes left.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1237.08 (-0.44).
Born:
Eugenia Volodina, Russian supermodel, in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, Soviet Union.
Jonathan Anderson, Irish fashion designer at JW Anderson and Loewe, in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Died:
Richard Basehart, 70, American actor (“Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” TV series), following several strokes.
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