President Reagan will meet with three world leaders over the next few weeks, the White House announced. Argentine President Raul Alfonsin has accepted an invitation to hold his first meeting with Reagan in New York on Sunday when they attend the U.N. General Assembly session. The President will meet with new Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney at the White House next Tuesday and on October 9 with Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel, also newly installed.
The captain of an Alaskan coastal fuel-supply ship that was seized last week by the Russians said today that he and his four-man crew had been told by United States diplomats that they would be released soon, “maybe in a day, maybe two.” In a telephone interview, Captain Tabb Thoms said he understood that he and his crew would be put back aboard their vessel, the supply ship Frieda K, and “escorted to the Soviet maritime boundary.” But he said the Russians still had not told the sailors directly that they would be freed from their place of detention, which is in Urelik, just south of Provideniya, in northeastern Siberia. “They tell us very little and they won’t tell us when we can go home,” the captain said.
Captain Thoms said Soviet officials had been asking the Americans to sign papers acknowledging that they were in Soviet waters. “They want us to sign many papers,” he said. “We did not intentionally violate any laws, but we do not understand Soviet law and we do not want to sign the wrong kind of papers.” Speaking over a poor telephone connection with the remote Siberian outpost on the Bering Sea, the captain confirmed with a “roger” that the crew was fine and being fed well. He said that he had not been permitted to get in touch by telephone with the United States Embassy in Moscow, but that an embassy officer had managed to telephone him.
British dockworkers called off a 25-day-old strike that had paralyzed nearly half the nation’s seaborne trade. The docks committee of the giant Transport and General Workers’ Union voted an immediate end to the strike, its second this summer in support of striking coal miners. The six-month coal strike, meanwhile, appeared likely to last into the winter, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher vowed to never allow miners a veto over mine closures-the issue at the heart of the dispute.
The United States warned the Soviet Union that the plight of dissident Soviet physicist Andrei D. Sakharov will be considered in reviewing results of European security and disarmament talks. James Goodby, chief U.S. delegate to the Stockholm talks, told the conference that the continued exile and isolation of Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, will affect “prospects for continued progress” in the talks.
A Soviet journalist who disappeared while in Italy in 1983 and then spent a year in Britain turned up in Moscow and said he had been abducted by British agents and forced to make anti-Soviet statements while abroad. The journalist, Oleg G. Bitov, spoke at a news conference called by the Soviet authorities.
Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of Atlantic. An American balloonist ended the first solo flight across the Atlantic when he crash-landed his 10-story-tall balloon in storms near Savona, Italy, breaking an ankle but making history. The journey of the American, Joe W. Kittinger, began Friday in Caribou, Maiine, and ended 3,535 miles and nearly 84 hours later in the Italian Riviera.
Soviet forces trying to capture an Afghan guerrilla leader, Ahmad Shah Masood, killed 200 to 300 of his rebels this month, Western diplomats said here today. The attack in the Upper Panjshir Valley came on September 5 as part of a new Soviet effort to crush resistance in the former rebel stronghold north of Kabul, they told reporters. The diplomats said a witness had told them that Soviet soldiers kidnapped several women and girls from Ghazni on Sept. 9, stripped them and then threw them from helicopters hovering over the eastern Afghan city. They had no further details and the report, the second account of Afghans’ being pushed from Soviet helicopters in three months, could not be independently confirmed.
Three senior Afghan state airline employees defected to India today, protesting what they called the killing of innocent civilians by Soviet and Afghan security forces. The three airline employees were the entire Afghan staff at the New Delhi office of Ariana Airlines.
Three people died in two separate incidents today as violence between Hindu and Muslim factions broke out again in Andhra Pradesh state and the police cracked down on guerrillas in Punjab state. Hindu-Muslim violence in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, left one dead and two wounded and resulted in the reimposition of a curfew on parts of the city. In Punjab, 2 Sikh guerrilla suspects were killed and 19 others were arrested, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. The renewed violence in Hyderabad confronted N. T. Rama Rao with his first challenge since being reinstated two days ago as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, when forces loyal to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi conceded defeat. The police said a Muslim rickshaw driver was killed and two others were wounded when Hindu-Muslim violence erupted this morning in the old quarter of Hyderabad.
The police have arrested four Muslim youths in Jakarta on charges of distributing anti-Government leaflets around the Indonesian capital after a fierce riot last Wednesday, a Government official said today. One of the youths, disguised as a soldier, was arrested in western Jakarta on Friday. The rest were handing out leaflets in a market in the eastern part of the city on Sunday morning, the official said. The government appealed this week to Jakarta residents to remain calm and on the alert against groups that might try to spread disorder in the wake of the riot last week in northern Jakarta, which diplomats say left at least 20 dead.
A meeting between Red Cross officials from North and South Korea ended in a deadlock over ways of delivering relief supplies offered by the Communist government in Pyongyang for flood victims in the south. North Korea insisted that some of the medical supplies, rice, textiles and cement be delivered by road to Seoul, the southern capital and the worst-affected flood area. South Korea said that supplies coming by road must be handed over at the border village of Panmunjom, not taken to the capital.
British and Chinese negotiators have worked out a draft agreement on the future of Hong Kong, the British Embassy in Peking announced. “Draft texts have now been submitted by delegations to governments on both sides for consideration,” an embassy statement said. The accord cleared the way for a final session, perhaps next week, at which heads of the two negotiating teams will initial the agreement under which China will regain sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, when the British lease on most of the colony expires.
A 65-year-old American will be charged with first-degree murder in a bomb blast that killed three people and injured 41 at Montreal’s main railroad station. Thomas B. Brigham Sr. will be formally charged today when he appears in Quebec Sessions Court, prosecutor Claude Parent said. Earlier, a coroner’s inquiry found Brigham criminally responsible for the September 3 bombing. Brigham, a native of Rochester, New York, was arrested after he allegedly wrote two rambling letters that seemed to link the bombing with Pope John Paul II’s current visit to Canada.
A cargo jet crashed into a residential area of Quito, Ecuador’s capital, plowing through churches and homes and killing at least 34 people, authorities said. Airport sources said the DC-8 of the private airline Aeroservios Ecuadorianos failed to take off, hit a passenger bus with its landing gear and crashed on a building under construction. An air force official said 50 people were injured in the crash of the DC-8 belonging to a private Ecuadorian airline. The plane, which had arrived from Miami, was taking off from the Quito airport, 9,000 feet high in the Andes, when the crash occurred.
Actions to reduce steel imports were ordered by President Reagan in an effort to help the domestic industry. In a decision that deeply divided his Cabinet, Mr. Reagan directed his trade negotiator, Bill Brock, to work out “voluntary restraint agreements” with steel-exporting countries. The President said that nations refusing to agree to limit their exports would have their access to the American market blocked.
A plan to ease debts for farmers was announced by President Reagan. The program, offered in response to pleas from farm-state Republican candidates, would include $630 million in Federal loan guarantees.
Thousands of missiles are useless because of defects or maintenance problems, according to a General Accounting Office investigator. The investigator, Frank C. Conahan, told Congress that about one-quarter of the Navy’s Sidewinders and one-third of its Sparrows, mainstays of the United States’s air combat arsenal, were “unserviceable.”
President Reagan is gaining support even among voters who disagree with him on fundamental issues, according to the latest New York Times/ CBS News Poll. Mr. Reagan holds a lead of 54 percent to 33 percent over Walter F. Mondale.
Religion should be left out of politics, according to more than 40 percent of the respondents in the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. Prospective voters favor Walter Mondale’s stance over President Reagan’s stance on political issues that have been discussed in a religious context, but most said they would vote for Mr. Reagan.
Walter F. Mondale was booed as he denounced President Reagan’s arms control policies at a rally at the University of Southern California. Shouts from hecklers dominated the event and seemingly pushed Mr. Mondale into delivering one of his most forceful speeches of the campaign.
Geraldine A. Ferraro reacted to polls that show the Democratic ticket trailing the Republicans by saying she goes “slightly berserk” when she reads that voters regard President Reagan as a leader, despite his failure to negotiate arms controls. She called Mr. Reagan’s weapons policies “frightening.”
President Reagan participates in a Cabinet Council on Commerce and Trade meeting.
President Reagan participates in a meeting with representatives of Boys Clubs of America.
President Reagan introduces a credit plan to help farmers who are going broke under high loans and higher interest rates.
Elliott L. Richardson lost in his bid for the Massachusetts Republican Senate nomination. In a major upset, the former United States Attorney General was defeated by Raymond Shamie, a conservative businessman who strongly backs President Reagan’s policies. Mr. Richardson, a moderate, disassociated himself from the Republican Party platform on many issues.
A former auto worker who got off with probation and a fine in a state court for clubbing a Chinese-American man to death in Detroit was sentenced by a federal judge to 25 years in prison for violating Vincent Chin’s civil rights. Ronald Ebens, 44, a former Chrysler Corp. general foreman from East Detroit, faced a maximum sentence of life in prison under federal civil rights laws. Prosecutors argued that Chin, a 27-year-old engineer from Oak Park, was beaten with a baseball bat on a Highland Park street after an argument with Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz, inside a bar. Prosecutors said the two men apparently mistook Chin for Japanese and blamed him for layoffs in the U.S. auto industry. Chin and some friends were celebrating his upcoming wedding.
A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the Abscam conviction of former Rep. John Jenrette (D-South Carolina), making him the last of seven members of Congress involved in the FBI’s undercover bribery “sting” to have his guilt affirmed by appellate judges. The court, by a 3–0 vote, rejected Jenrette’s arguments that he was entrapped into taking a $50,000 bribe from undercover FBI agents posing as Arab businessmen. Jenrette has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.
The Senate voted to cut off debate so it can take up a controversial measure that would allow gavel-to-gavel television and radio coverage of its sessions. Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-Tennessee), is sponsor of the legislation. But the measure is given little chance of passage, despite the popularity of the 58-year-old Baker, who is retiring.
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed standardized tests to monitor the quality of ground water near 5,000 operating hazardous waste dumps in the nation. The proposed regulations, to be published officially in two. weeks, would accelerate the process for granting waste disposal permits by ending duplicating reviews of tests at each site by state and federal officials. They also would allow testing for classes of chemical wastes.
A House-Senate conference committee moved toward expanding government regulation of hazardous waste disposal to thousands of small businesses, such as dry cleaners, that use chemicals in their everyday work. The conferees, working to resolve differences in bills passed earlier by the House and Senate, discussed a compromise that could lead to regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency of businesses generating as little as 220 pounds of hazardous waste each month.
Legislation making it more difficult to remove disabled persons from Social Security rolls will help restore fairness to the disability review process, Senate and House negotiators said. Under the compromise measure, which still must be approved by the full House and Senate, disability case reviewers generally must prove that an individual’s medical condition has improved before terminating benefits. The legislation provides that disability recipients threatened with a benefit cutoff can maintain all payments until they have exhausted the appeal process.
John Z. DeLorean, a month after he was acquitted of charges that he was a participant in a $24 million cocaine conspiracy, said today that he and his wife, Cristina Ferrare, had separated. Mr. DeLorean, the former automobile maker, was staying at his mother-in-law’s house today in Los Angeles. He declined to comment on the trial separation, which his lawyer, Howard L. Weitzman, said began three days ago. The door to the red shingle house in a quiet, tree-shaded neighborhood was open, and Mr. DeLorean, dressed casually, answered a ring. “I don’t want to talk about it,” he said. “There’s nothing to say.” Mr. Weitzman told The Associated Press that no divorce proceedings had been started.
The destruction of a citrus nursery was begun over 40 acres in Venus, Florida., as state agriculture agents raced to halt the spread of a disease that threatens the state’s $2.5 billion citrus industry.
G.M. received a counteroffer on wages by the United Automobile Workers that union leaders said they hoped would bring quick success to contract negotiations with General Motors. Company officials said they have begun to feel the effect of the union’s selective strike.
A bill to curb the insanity defense in the Federal courts was defeated by the House, with Republicans leading the opposition despite widespread support among both Republicans and Democrats for narrowing the defense.
With floodwaters rising and winds gusting strongly, officials closed the Texas island city of South Padre Island to traffic, and residents of low-lying cities on the mainland were evacuated to shelters. Water on the island’s main street was three to four feet deep in some places, and Coast Guard officials reported winds of up to 50 m.p.h. In nearby Brownsville, almost 14 inches of rain had fallen since a storm began Sunday evening.
Olympics gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton will soon be joining millions of Americans for breakfast. Retton, 16, who won a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Games, signed a deal with Wheaties cereal and will be featured on the cereal packages, a General Mills official announced in Minneapolis.
The Detroit Tigers clinch the American League East championship with a 3–0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers as starter Randy O’Neal records his first Major League win. Detroit becomes the 4th team this century to be in first place every day of the season, joining the 1923 Giants, the 1927 Yankees, and the 1955 Dodgers. The Tigers, with a 97-54 record with 11 games left to play, need only three victories to make Sparky Anderson the first manager in major league history to manage teams to 100 victories in both leagues. Lance Parrish drove in two runs and Tom Brookens belted a homer for Detroit as Randy O’Neal and Willie Hernandez combined on a six-hitter.
The Kansas City Royals pounded the California Angels, 10–0. Bret Saberhagen and two relievers held California to four hits as Kansas City opened a two-game lead over Minnesota and a two-and-a-half-game lead over the Angels in the American League West. In two games, the Royals have outscored the Angels by 20-1.
The Chicago White Sox edged the Minnesota Twins, 5–3. Ron Kittle hit a two-run homer, and Harold Baines hit his fourth homer in his last six times at bat to pace Chicago. Kittle belted his 30th homer for Chicago in the fourth, driving in Baines, who had walked, to pull the White Sox to 3–2. Kittle became the first White Sox ever to hit 30 or more home runs in his first two seasons.
At Yankee Stadium, the New York Yankees trounce the Baltimore Orioles, 10–2, as Mike Pagliarulo hits a grand slam in New York’s 7-run 2nd inning. Orioles infielder Todd Cruz retires the side in the 8th on 7 pitches. The victory was a high point of the season because it moved the Yankees past the Orioles into third place, and within two and a half games of the Toronto Blue Jays, which is as close as they have been to second all season. Cruz, excepted, the Baltimore hurlers labored while Ray Fontenot coasted. He gave up one unearned run and six hits in eight nnings and brought his record to 8-8. He was one of the reasons for the early season fall, was moved to the bullpen, but, of late has re-established himself as a starter.
The Boston Red Sox blasted the Toronto Blue Jays, 10–3. Dwight Evans hit two homers (28 and 29) and drove in four runs for the Red Sox.
The Oakland A’s beat the Seattle Mariners, 5–2. Mike Heath and Mickey Tettleton hit home runs for the Athletics.
The Seattle Mariners defeated the Cleveland Indians, 6–3. Matt Moore (6–16) went the distance for the M’s. Alvin Davis had a double and a triple.
Lee Lacy and Johnny Ray cracked consecutive home runs in the fourth inning and Ray later knocked in three runs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 6–2 victory over the Chicago Cubs today. The loss was the Cubs’ second straight. Any number of Cub victories and New York Met losses totaling four would clinch the Eastern Division crown for Chicago. John Tudor (10–11) pitched the first five innings for Pittsburgh, allowing three hits and one run. He left when his left elbow tightened. Don Robinson earned his ninth save by working the last four innings, allowing two hits and two walks. Dennis Eckersley (8–8) was the loser, although he gave up only four hits and two earned runs in his seven innings. The Cubs took the lead in the second when Leon Durham hit his 22d homer, equaling his career-high set in 1982. Eckersley retired the first 10 batters he faced, then Lacy hit his 12th homer. Ray followed with his sixth.
The Mets didn’t have Dwight Gooden out there tonight, firing the heater and striking out all those batters. But they did produce another dramatic form of the art when Darryl Strawberry hit a two-out, three-run home run off Al Holland in the ninth inning to beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 8–5. It was dramatic for two reasons: Strawberry, the rookie of the year in the National League last season, has been struggling all summer with a .246 batting average and has been hearing the catcalls. And, when he unfurled his game-winning shot tonight, it was a titanic one that traveled 425 feet and just missed hitting the scoreboard above the balcony in right-center field. It was only the third time in their last 10 games that the Mets had won. They didn’t even win Monday night when Gooden struck out 16 batters for the second straight game.
Tim Raines becomes the first player in Major League history with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons by stealing 4 in the Montreal Expos’ 7–4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. Dan Driessen hit his 13th homer for the Expos. Brad Smith won his 12th; Joaquin Andujar (19–13) took the loss.
The Houston Astros’ Phil Garner scorches a two-out RBI triple in the bottom of the ninth to tie the San Francisco Giants, 4-4. Craig Reynolds finishes the job the next inning with a single off the fence that plates Terry Puhl for the game-winner in a 5-4 triumph. Dave Smith picks up the win.
The San Diego Padres shut out the Cincinnati Reds, 2–0. Dave Dravecky pitched a three-hitter and Terry Kennedy hit a two-run homer as San Diego moved closer to its first Western Division title. Any combination of Padre victories and Houston Astro losses totaling four would give San Diego the title. Dravecky (9–8) earned his first victory since July 30. He held the Reds hitless through five and one-third innings, then Ron Oester doubled. Cesar Cedeno doubled in the seventh and Wade Rowdon singled in the ninth, his first major-league hit, for Cincinnati’s other hits. Dravecky, who has split time between the bullpen and the starting rotation, struck out three and walked two in his third complete game and second shutout. The Reds, who suffered their fifth straight loss, got only two runners in scoring position. Steve Garvey played a flawless game to tie the major-league record of 178 games without an error by a first baseman, set by Mike Hegan in 1970-73.
The Atlanta Braves edged the Los Angeles Dodgers, 6–5. Dale Murphy cracked his 34th homer of the season. Pinch hitter Chris Chambliss doubled in two runs in the bottom of the eighth to provide the margin of victory.
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