An archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church asked visiting evangelist Billy Graham how President Reagan can call himself a Christian and yet “surround us with missiles.” Archbishop Gideon, head of the Russian church in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, asked Graham to use his influence as a friend of the President to stop what he called threats of war against the Soviet Union. Graham, in a sermon, said he, the American people and Reagan all favor peace.
Five American seamen who had been held in Siberia for a week after their vessel strayed near the Soviet Union, headed home today after being released in a rendezvous on the high seas, officials said. The transfer took place in the Bering Sea near the international date line at 3:20 P.M. when the five were allowed to leave the Aisberg, an armed Soviet icebreaker that had been met by the Coast Guard cutter Sherman, Lieutenant (j.g.) Paul Newman said in Juneau. The Americans then sailed their vessel, the Frieda K, to Gambell, a tiny Alaskan whaling village on St. Lawrence Island. The skipper, Tabb Thoms, went aboard the Sherman, while his four-man crew boarded the Frieda K, according to Chief Petty Officer Dan Dewell. Although the Soviet Union had reportedly pressured the seamen to sign papers saying they had intentionally violated Soviet territorial waters, “the crew tells us they didn’t sign anything,” Sondra McCarty, a State Department spokesman, said.
Pope John Paul II tonight denounced “the absence of agreements to reduce and eventually halt the arms race” and criticized what he called the “reprehensible” denial of religious liberty in many nations. He also issued a strong condemnation of abortion, and an appeal to nations to show greater sensitivity to the needs of refugees and immigrants.
A budget-cutting plan by Israel must be presented before Washington will consider a big increase in economic aid for the new Israeli Government, according to State Department officials.
Lebanon’s national unity government failed again to reach agreement on a committee to revise the consitution and give majority Muslims equal political power with Christians. A third day of closed-door meetings between the eight Cabinet ministers and Christian President Amin Gemayel ended in deadlock over the selection of the committee’s 40 members.
The head of the Agency for International Development said today that the Ethiopian Government’s lack of cooperation in handling emergency food supplies from donor nations was hampering the delivery of badly needed food to the country. M. Peter McPherson, administrator of the agency that manages United States overseas food donations, said the Marxist Ethiopian Government had at times closed off its ports to shipments of emergency aid, giving priority to cargos of fertilizer and concrete from the Soviet Union. “The Ethiopian Government frankly isn’t especially responsive to the United States Government, and I don’t think we’ve had much impact on them,” Mr. McPherson told a joint hearing of Senate Agriculture and Foreign Relations subcommittees that deal with African affairs. While a prolonged drought has severely affected several countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia has been particularly hard hit. Ethiopian Government officials and relief workers there have acknowledged that eventually as many as 200,000 people may die of starvation.
Cabinet ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council agreed to give “top priority” to military means for the defense of the gulf and to strive to prevent disruption of oil shipping by the Iran-Iraq war. The ministers also agreed to continue diplomatic efforts to end the four-year-old conflict. A communique issued at the end of a two-day conference of foreign and defense ministers in the Saudi summer resort of Abha gave no details on plans for joint military measures. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates. Bahrain, Qatar and Oman belong to the council.
The president of a tribunal set up to rule on United States claims against Iran suspended arbitration indefinitely on Wednesday because of an accusation that two Iranian judges punched a Swedish judge. On Tuesday, the United States asked for the dismissal from the tribunal of the two Iranian judges, Mahmoud M. Kashani and Shafey Shafeiei. The Swedish judge, Nils Mangard, was not seriously injured in the incident September 3. On Wednesday, the tribunal’s president, Gunnar Lagergren of Sweden, extended indefinitely a suspension he had put into effect shortly after the incident. It was originally to expire September 14, but had been extended into this week. “A situation in which the conduct of arbitration in an appropriate manner is not feasible continues to exist,” Mr. Lagergren said today.
Two people died and eight were wounded in new violence in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad before an important state assembly session, the police said today. The Hyderabad Police Commissioner, Prabhaker Rao, said a series of stabbings began Tuesday. One person died last night and a Hindu youth was stabbed to death today, he said. Commissioner Rao said extra security precautions were being taken in anticipation of a session of the Andhra Pradesh state assembly on Thursday in Hyderabad, the state capital. The assembly will decide whether the new state government led by Chief Minister N. T. Rama Rao commands a majority.
Japanese mercenaries have given military training to right-wing guerrillas fighting to overthrow Nicaragua’s leftist government, according to a rebel spokesman. Steadman Fagoth Mueller, leader of a group of Indian rebels from Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast, said seven Japanese helped his men form special attack units and trained them in martial arts and weapons handling.
Fire believed to have been caused by Molotov cocktails hurled from two trucks swept through the headquarters of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo, causing damage on five of the building’s nine floors. About 60 party workers and journalists were in the building, but only two minor injuries were reported. A spokesman for the party, led by Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, said those in the building escaped safely. Two firemen were slightly injured. The building is across the street from Parliament, which was not in session. The Chukaku (Mid-Core) Faction, a group of former student radicals who fought the construction of Tokyo’s Narita Airport, claimed responsibility for the attack.
North Korean officials have accepted South Korea’s conditions for the delivery of relief goods to South Korean flood victims, a Japanese news agency reported, quoting a broadcast from Pyongyang. The vice chairman of the North Korean Red Cross said the north will respect Seoul’s proposal that the relief goods moved by truck be turned over to southern officials at Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone, rather than trucked directly to Seoul. Other shipments will move by sea.
The sovereignty of Hong Kong would be transferred from Britain to China in 1997 under a draft agreement reached by London and Peking after two years of sometimes contentious negotiations. The accord may be initialed soon.
El Salvador and leftist guerrillas are moving to expand contacts, according to senior officials in the Government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The moves are supported by top army commanders.
Nicaragua’s Defense Minister said Tuesday that his country would acquire Soviet- built MIG jet fighters to inhibit “flagrant violations” of its territorial waters and airspace by United States warplanes and ships. The Defense Minister, Humberto Ortega Saavedra, refused to reveal how many planes Nicaragua would receive or who would provide them. But he added that “by the end of the year,” a runway to handle the planes would be ready at Punta Huete, near Managua, and Nicaraguan pilots would have finished flight training.
Mr. Ortega rejected any suggestion that the MIG’s represented a security threat to the United States. “The danger would be if we put missiles or Soviet bases here, but the MIG’s are another matter,” he said, adding that the MIG’s represent “our legitimate right” to have an air force. Mr. Ortega, the brother of the coordinator of the Nicaraguan junta, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, also said three United States Navy ships violated Nicaraguan waters Monday and carried out “threatening acts of aggression.” Mr. Ortega said the two ships cruised within eight miles of the military base at Montelimar and a civilian port at San Juan del Sur. He added that helicopters from the ships flew up and down the coast. He said that in recent months the United States had stepped up its involvement in the conflict and had increased overflights of Nicaraguan territory to study the country’s defenses and prepare for “the landing of troops.”
Disaster teams uncovered 10 more bodies today from the ruins of a neighborhood where an Ecuadorian DC-8 cargo jet crashed Tuesday. The authorities said that 60 people had died, 56 of them on the ground, and that more bodies might be found. President Leon Febres Cordero Rivadeneira ordered an investigation. The crash occurred seconds after the plane took off from Quito on Tuesday. The plane was on the last 200-mile leg of a cargo run that started in Miami and was to end in Guayaquil. Officials said that 50 of about 75 people injured in the crash remained hospitalized and that some were in critical condition. Witnesses said the DC-8 rose just 80 feet after taking off, then hit a telephone pole and broke up, showering burning debris over a two-block area. All four crewmen were killed.
Three Togo citizens were convicted of killing a 23-year-old Peace Corps worker from Oneonta, New York, in June, according to a spokesman for the Togo mission to the United Nations. The spokesman said that two defendants were sentenced to life in prison and that a third defendant, who is believed to be in hiding in a neighboring West African country, was tried in absentia and sentenced to death by firing squad.
Seven black South African gold miners were killed and scores were injured in riots that police put down with volleys of shotgun pellets, tear gas and rubber bullets. Later, in the black township of Soweto outside Johannesburg, riot police were stoned by about 75 black youths and responded with birdshot, rubber bullets and tear gas. There was no immediate report of casualties. The seven deaths, which occurred at the Western Areas mine outside Johannesburg, came amid a wave of wildcat strikes that swept the mines after the black mineworkers’ union called off the country’s first legal strike by black miners.
President Reagan attends a Reagan – Bush ’84 campaign rally in Waterbury, Connecticut with 40,000 in attendance.
President Reagan attends a Republican Party rally in Hammonton, New Jersey.
Walter F. Mondale was endorsed by the Sierra Club as the environmental organization broke a 92-year tradition of not backing political candidates. Michele Perrault, who heads the 340,000-member organization, said that “since 1981 Ronald Reagan has managed to subvert every agency and law designed to protect the environment.”
The House approved and sent to the Senate legislation that would put in the statute books what federal courts have consistently held: that CIA operational files are off-limits to Freedom of Information Act requests. Rep. Glenn English (D-Oklahoma) and other proponents said the proposed law exempting operational files from FOIA requests would help cut into a three-year backlog of FOIA requests pending at the CIA The legislation further would require the agency to make twice-yearly reports to Congress on specific measures it is taking to improve the processing of FOIA requests.
The U.S. Supreme Court by a 7–2 vote cleared the way for James Dupree Henry, 34, to die in Florida’s electric chair this morning for the 1974 slaying of a civil rights leader, but it refused to allow convicted child-killer Aubrey Adams to be executed with him. Henry’s execution was set for 7 AM, said Department of Corrections spokesman Vernon Bradford. The U.S. Supreme Court voted 8 to 1 to deny a request by Florida officials to execute Adams along with Henry.
Members of the Senate Ethics Committee postponed until next week a vote on whether to begin a formal investigation into ties of Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-Oregon) to Greek entrepreneur Basil A. Tsakos. Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said members agreed on the week’s delay after receiving a staff report that recommended against any formal investigation of Hatfield’s dealings with Tsakos on a proposed trans-African oil pipeline.
After vetoing $820 million in public works projects, Mayor Harold Washington said “the door is still open” to compromise with the City Council in a longrunning battle over Council review of major contracts. As a result of the veto, financing was to be terminated today for 400 design consultants assigned to a $1.5 billion expansion of O’Hare International Airport, and 600 construction workers face layoffs by October 1. The veto, part of the latest battle between the city’s first black Mayor and a white Council majority, came shortly after the Council approved a $300 million bond issue for the expansion and measures seeking Federal aid for rapid transit projects. The Mayor objected to amendments giving the Council the authority to approve large contracts. Without the $300 million bond issue, money for the O’Hare expansion will run out by October 1.
The judge in retired Army General William C. Westmoreland’s $120 million libel suit against CBS reluctantly denied a petition to permit television coverage of the trial. U.S. District Judge Pierre Leval said he believes that such coverage should be allowed, but that his hands are tied by a judicial rule against it.
Robert and Lois Bentz, accused of sexually abusing their 6-year-old son and four neighborhood children, were acquitted in Chaska, Minnesota, on all counts. Bentz, 37, and his wife, 33, were the first to go on trial of 24 adults charged by the Scott County attorney’s office with involvement in two related child sex-abuse rings.
For the first time, doctors have cured a case of sickle cell anemia with a bone marrow transplant, but they caution that this life-saving therapy will be suitable for only a small number of victims of this disease. Sickle cell anemia affects 1 in every 600 blacks in the United States. Around the world, it kills about 80,000 persons each year. “This is the only curative therapy currently available for sickle cell anemia,” said Dr. F. Leonard Johnson of St. Jude’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
Efforts to save Florida citrus were pressed by the state’s agriculture department. It imposed an emergency measure empowering state agents to decide on the spot whether to burn trees and destroy citrus crops they suspect of carrying a virulent disease. The department also banned all shipping of uninspected citrus fruit within the state.
College-bound high school seniors got scores averaging four points higher this year on their Scholastic Aptitude Tests. It was the largest gain since the scores began to decline in 1963, according to the College Board. The scores rose by 1 point in the verbal section, to 426 from 425, and by three points in the mathematics section, to 471 from 468.
Cheating at the Air Force Academy has prompted the Air Force to suspend the cadet-run system of discipline for honor code violations pending a thorough review of the academy’s strict honor system. Officials said evidence that large-scale cheating occurred on a senior-class physics test last spring suggested it was the worst cheating scandal at the academy in nearly 20 years.
A broader education for doctors was proposed by a panel sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges. The new approach, which favors more courses in nonscientific areas, is intended to promote problem-solving skills rather than memorization among undergraduate students hoping to attend medical school.
Talks between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers appeared to be at a standstill as strikes and layoffs left nearly one-third of the company’s workforce idle. The fruitless day of talks came after the union decided to increase the pressure on General Motors by calling strikes at four additional plants, pulling 28,700 more workers off the job.
A Pentagon official blamed Congress in part for the Navy’s high number of currently unusable air combat missiles, saying that Congress’s insistence on competitive bidding for maintenance contracts had slowed servicing them. Lawrence J. Korb, an Assistant Secretary of Defense, acknowledged that 21 percent of the Navy’s Sidewinder and Sparrow missiles were not in service.
William Randolph Hearst 3rd, 35 years old, was named publisher today of The San Francisco Examiner, which his family has owned since 1887 when it became the first publication in the nationwide chain of newspapers established by his late grandfather. Mr. Hearst, a 1972 Harvard graduate, worked at The Examiner until he left in 1976 to help establish a new magazine. When that folded after five issues, he returned to jobs in his family’s media interests. The publisher’s position has been vacant three years. Mr. Hearst’s father is William Randolph Hearst Jr., editor in chief of the Hearst newspapers.
Three days of torrential rains in South Texas have caused “millions of dollars in damage,” officials estimated, but exact figures will not be available until evacuees go home and see what they have lost. Flood warnings were lifted for eastern Cameron and Willacy counties, where flooding has displaced families living in low-lying areas. “The major threat of any new rain causing flooding seems to be over,” said the National Weather Service in Brownsville. A cold front that dumped nearly 20 inches of rain in some parts of the Rio Grande Valley between Sunday and Wednesday was hovering in the Gulf of Mexico.
Bobby Grich’s bad-hop single with one out in the 11th inning tonight drove in a pinch-runner, Rick Burleson, and gave the California Angels a 4–3 victory over the Kansas City Royals. The defeat cut the Royals’ American League West Division lead to 1½ games over California. Minnesota, which lost tonight, trails by two. Doug DeCinces led off the 11th with a single off Joe Beckwith (8–4), and Burleson, running for DeCinces, took second on Brian Downing’s sacrifice. Reggie Jackson was intentionally walked before Grich hit a bouncer that hopped over the head of the third baseman, Greg Pryor. Kansas City had outscored California by 20-1 in the first two games of this four-game series, which concludes Thursday.
Steve Christmas hit his first major league home run, a three-run pinch-hit blast that broke a seventh-inning tie and gave the Chicago White Sox their third straight victory over the Minnesota Twins, 7–3. Floyd Bannister (13–10) allowed five hits in seven innings before yielding to Ron Reed. Mike Smithson (15–13) was the loser as the Twins dropped their third straight. Greg Walker led off the seventh with a single. With two outs, Walker stole second and the pinch-hitter Roy Smalley was intentionally walked. Christmas, batting for Marc Hill, then hit a 370-foot shot to right field to give Chicago a 6–3 lead. Bannister was cruising along with a one- hitter in the fifth inning before Chris Speier walked with two outs. Tim Laudner tied the game at 2–2 with his ninth homer.
The Detroit Tigers, playing a predominantly reserve lineup the night after clinching the American League East title, got a run-producing triple from the rookie Scott Earl in a three-run second inning to defeat the Milwaukee Brewers, 4–2. Jack Morris (18-11), the first of four Detroit pitchers, allowed nine hits in six innings for the victory. Willie Hernandez worked the final inning for his 31st save of the season.
The Oakland A’s edged the Texas Rangers, 8–7 in Oakland. The Texas starter, Charlie Hough, left after pitching six innings and holding a 7–4 lead. But the A’s battered the relievers Dickie Noles and Tom Henke for four runs, capped by a bases-loaded, two-out single by Garry Hancock in the ninth. The A’s also retained Jackie Moore as manager for next season. Moore had replaced Steve Boros as manager on May 24.
At Toronto, the Boston Red Sox are led by Dwight Evans, who lowers the boom on Jim Clancy for a pair of 3-run homers in Boston’s 10–4 win over the Blue Jays. The 6 RBIs, plus 4 yesterday, gives Evans 100 RBIs for the year and gives the Red Sox three outfielders (Rice, Armas) with 100 RBIs. Boston left-hander Bruce Hurst (12–10) earned his first road victory since beating California on July 21. In five and two-thirds innings, he allowed two runs on six hits, struck out five and walked one. Boston’s Jim Rice took over the American League RBI lead when he drove in his 118th run of the season with a ninth-inning single.
The New York Yankees were young again on this September night. Five players no older than 24 took the field for the Yankees, scored five runs and drove in all six to propel them to a 6–5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium. And they sent a charge through the rest of the team in these waning days. “It gives you a great feeling to see this,” said Butch Wynegar, the catcher, who is 28. “I’m not thinking winter now. I’m thinking April.” Joe Cowley, 26, won for the ninth time this season in 10 decisions.
The Seattle Mariners edged the Cleveland Indians, 4–3, tonight. Mark Langston needed relief help in the ninth but struck out nine Indians while winning his 16th. Alvin Davis cracked two doubles and had the game-winning RBI.
Behind 6–5, the Pittsburgh Pirates score 6 in the top of the 6th to beat the Chicago Cubs, 11–6. Tony Pena hits a grand slam in the frame. The defeat was the third in a row for the division-leading Cubs. Chicago’s division-clinching number is three. Larry McWilliams (11–10) was the winner. He pitched five innings, giving up six runs. Rick Sutcliffe who has won his last 13 decisions, was knocked out with one out in the fifth. Marvell Wynne opened with a triple and scored on Lee Lacy’s single, making the score 5–3. Thompson’s single chased Sutcliffe, bringing on Stoddard.
Bob Brenly, the catcher, dropped a throw from the second baseman, Manny Trillo, with the bases loaded, allowing Eddie Miller to score the winning from third base in the bottom of the 10th inning tonight as the San Diego Padres defeated the San Francisco Giants, 5–4. The victory cut San Diego’s division-clinching number — the combination of Padre victories and Astro defeats — in the National League West to two. Steve Garvey of the Padres set a major league record at his position with his 179th consecutive errorless game at first base. He broke the mark held by Mike Hegan of the Oakland A’s and Milwaukee Brewers set from Sept. 24, 1970 through May 20, 1973.
The strikeout pitching, the clutch home run and all the other fantasies fled tonight as the Mets committed five errors, got nowhere against Steve Carlton and took a 13–5 hammering from the Philadelphia Phillies. Things got so bad that they used five pitchers and 17 other players to get through nine innings, setting a club record for manpower. But nothing worked, the Phils got 15 hits, and the Mets ended the night with four defeats in six games in Chicago and Philadelphia, and they were only two games in front of the third-place Phillies with nine to play. It was a rout from the first inning, when the Phillies tore into Ron Darling for five runs. That made things rosy for the 39-year-old Carlton, who has always found the Mets one of the mysteries of life. They have beaten him 33 times, and he has beaten them 30 times. But tonight, the left-hander went eight innings, struck out eight batters for a career total of 3,872 and won for the 313th time in 19 seasons.
The Cincinnati Reds downed the Atlanta Braves, 4–2. Duane Walker and Tom Foley hit homers, and Pete Rose tied the National League career record for doubles in Cincinnati’s victory. With two out in the second inning, Rose doubled home Ron Oester, who had doubled, to make the score 2-0. Rose’s double tied him with Stan Musial for the league career mark in doubles with 725. It was also Rose’s 100th hit of the year, extending his major-league record of consecutive 100-hit seasons to 22. Rose now has 4,090 career hits, and needs 102 more to break Ty Cobb’s major league hit mark.
The St. Louis Cardinals won a pitchers’ duel with the Montreal Expos, 1–0. Danny Cox threw a three-hitter for his first major-league shutout as he raised his record to 9–10. St. Louis scored the game’s only run in the sixth when Ozzie Smith tripled with one out and came home on Terry Pendleton’s sacrifice fly. Steve Rogers (6–15) took the hard-luck loss.
The Los Angeles Dodgers downed the Houston Astros, 3–1 Jerry Reuss tossed a four-hitter for his second win since coming off the disabled list on July 12. Dave Anderson had three hits, including a run-scoring triple. Steve Sax added a double and a single. Bob Knepper (14–10) took the loss for Houston.
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Danny Valencia, MLB third baseman, first baseman, and outfielder (Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Kansas City Royals, Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland A’s, Seattle Seahawks), in Miami, Florida.
Eamon [Doyle], American pop singer (“F*ck It (I Don’t Want You Back)”), in Staten Island, New York, New York.
Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor and model, in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada.
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June Preisser, 64, American acrobatic dancer and actress (“Babes in Arms”, “Strike Up the Band”), dies in a car crash.
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