Action to curtail international credit available for loans to debt-burdened countries was announced in Washington by the International Monetary Fund. The decision, made over the protests of many representatives of developing countries, was the result of a compromise between the United States, which sought deep cuts, and developing countries led by India, which wanted no cut at all.
A Soviet ballistic-missile submarine was being towed toward home today after drifting in the Sea of Japan for two days, a Defense Agency spokesman said. The spokesman, Sadao Noro, said a Japanese patrol plane watched the 3,000-ton Golf II class submarine being towed by a tugboat this afternoon about 50 miles northwest of Okinoshima, a cluster of islands off the west coast of Japan’s main island, Honshu. The Japanese escort ship Mogami was also in the area to observe the Soviet vessels, he said. Another tugboat and a 5,500-ton Soviet supply ship accompanied the submarine, according to Mr. Noro. White smoke had been pouring from the sub’s conning tower Friday, but none was sighted today. The submarine was believed to be heading for the Soviet naval base at Vladivostok.
A brief telegram reportedly sent by the wife of Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov implied that the couple has been reunited. “We greet you and kiss you,” was the entire text of the telegram, sent to a friend in Moscow. The telegram was signed by Sakharov’s wife, Yelena Bonner, and was sent from Gorky, where he has been in exile since 1980. Sakharov and Bonner were separated when he began a hunger strike in May to persuade authorities to allow her to travel to the West for medical treatment.
In the completion of the game adjourned Friday, champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Gary Kasparov played the fourth game in the world chess championship to a draw. After Karpov’s sealed 41st move was revealed, Kasparov made only three more moves before accepting the defending champion’s offer of a draw. Karpov leads the series 1-0, with the championship going to the first man to win six games.
Israel intends to ask the U.S. to act as the intermediary with Syria in the new coalition Government’s negotiations for a withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir said. Mr. Shamir, Prime Minister under the former Likud government, said in an interview that he would raise the possibility of a new American mediating role in discussions in New York next week with Secretary of State George P. Shultz.
Iraqi forces battled Kurdish insurgents in Iraq’s oil-rich Kurdistan region, ending a nine-month cease-fire and shattering hopes for an agreement on autonomy for the Kurds, rebel sources reported. The fighting erupted a week ago when Iraqi troops ambushed a car 170 miles north of Baghdad, killing five senior military officials of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
Vietnam indicated that it is unwilling to discuss the future of political prisoners with U.S. officials during a U.N. conference next month. The Vietnam News Agency quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying inmates of Vietnamese reeducation camps “have nothing to do” with a Geneva conference on emigration of Vietnamese. The spokesman said Hanoi is willing to negotiate directly with the United States. The two countries do not have diplomatic relations. The United States has said it would take in 10,000 Vietnamese who were associated with U.S. forces during the Vietnam War.
Britain and China will sign their draft agreement on the future of Hong Kong on Wednesday in Peking, the two sides announced. Richard Evans, the British ambassador to China, and Zhou Nan, assistant foreign minister, will initial the draft text. The agreement then will be ready for formal approval by the two governments. It provides for the British colony’s return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
A series of events in Mexico not in keeping with the country’s international image of civil liberty and social calm have raised alarm among opposition groups and even some officials of the governing party. In one instance, a group of opposition legislators and human rights activists is in the third week of a hunger strike, demanding information about “political prisoners” and people who have “disappeared,” reportedly into Government custody. In addition, at least 18 leaders of peasant organizations were reported to have been killed by unidentified assailants in seven states in the countryside in the last few months.
Five Haitians have been sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor for terrorist bombings in 1983 that killed five people. Frantz Hereaux, Eugene Nazon, Fred Esper, Frantz Joachim and Schneider Merzier pleaded guilty Friday to charges of activities against the security of the state. Two other Haitians, Johnny Deeb and Guy Bourcereau, were convicted in absentia. Their sentences were not pronounced. Justice Ministry sources said it was believed they had fled to the United States, and extradition proceedings would be initiated. A blast a block from the National Palace on January 1, 1983, killed four people, an explosion at a Toyota agency owned by the family of President Jean-Claude Duvalier on March 20, 1983, killed one, and a bomb damaged the Government newspaper Le Nouveau Monde building a week later.
Nicaragua will accept a peace treaty for Central America that was proposed two weeks ago by the the four nations known as the Contadora group, the Government announced. Diplomats and others familiar with the draft said the treaty would require signers to offer amnesty to political dissidents, hold impartial elections under independent auspices and end support for groups fighting to overthrow other governments.
Nicaragua’s Marxist-led government rejected opposition requests to postpone the November 4 elections but moved to give the major opposition coalition a new opportunity to participate. A statement from the Sandinista government, published in the official newspaper Barricada, said the Council of Political Parties, the official body that sets the legal status of parties, will reinstate the Nicaraguan Democratic Coordinating Council, a three-party opposition coalition. The opposition coalition will now have until September 30 to register candidates for the election.
Leftist guerrillas in Bogota, Colombia, held 50 hostages in a school for seven hours after a brief shootout in which one guerrilla was killed and two policemen were wounded. According to students, about 20 guerrillas, armed with submachine guns and pistols, arrived at the school shouting leftist slogans during the lunch recess. Police arrived, and the rebels retreated into a school building holding 50 teachers and other school employees hostage. Police said the five guerrillas, four men and a woman, surrendered after the seven-hour siege. None of the hostages were injured.
A Mauritanian opposition group today took responsibility for killing a Libyan found beaten to death in a Rome hotel room two days ago. The group said he was killed because he had cut off aid to rebels. A French-speaking telephone caller told the Italian news agency Ansa that the Organization of Mauritanian Nationalists had killed Mohammed Homsi, 39 years old, for treachery. The caller said Mr. Homsi was a Libyan secret agent who had obtained aid from his government for the nationalist group, which is comprised of former Mauritanian soldiers seeking to overthrow the military government of Lieutenant Colonel Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla. Mr. Homsi had lived in Italy for the last two years and had described himself as an opponent of Libya’s leader, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi.
President Reagan’s performing skill and the communicative impact of television seem to have combined to turn the incumbency into a political weapon of awesome potency. Mr. Reagan seems to be pointing the way toward campaign techniques of the future, while Walter F. Mondale and the Democratic Party and the press appear to be re-enacting the rituals of past elections. Since Labor Day, Mr. Mondale has insistently waged a campaign “on the issues.” The press, despite the traditional criticism that it is interested only in the “horse race,” has exhibited a consistent, detailed interest in such issues as the federal deficit, tax policy and nuclear disarmament. But Mr. Reagan has mounted a campaign in which “issues” are clearly secondary. His re-election effort is based on the macro-politics of mass communications. Issues take a back seat to invoking such themes as leadership and opportunity, to creating visual images, communicating shared values and stimulating moods and feelings in the audience.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the nation on the economic expansions of the steel and agriculture industries. President Reagan said today that he decided last week to aid debt-ridden farmers but declined to impose import quotas on steel to aid that industry because they were a “quick fix” that might backfire on agricultural America. In his weekly paid political address on radio, Mr. Reagan said such quotas could spur inflation and prompt other nations to retaliate against American exports, including farm products. He said steel and agriculture “have not shared fully” in the economic recovery because declining land values made it hard for farmers to repay high- interest loans and foreign “dumping” of government-subsidized steel in the United States made it hard for domestic makers to compete.
President Reagan spends the day crafting his upcoming speech to the United Nations.
Anti-inflationary wage agreements, according to economists and labor experts, appear to have been accepted by automobile and coal mine workers in the tentative contracts they reached Friday with General Motors and the soft coal industry. Initial reports on the agreements indicated that the United Automobile Workers and the United Mine Workers accepted wage increases averaging no more than 3 percent annually for three years.
Statements on the abortion issue made recently by Roman Catholic prelates were intended to place the issue on the high level that civil rights for blacks held in the 1960’s, Archbishop Bernard F. Law of Boston said. Their intention, he said, was not promoting President Reagan’s re-election.
A planned parenthood counseling center in the affluent suburban community of Marietta, Georgia has been firebombed, the second such attack directed against an Atlanta area family planning clinic in a week. “There is really extensive fire and smoke damage,” said Kay Barn, executive director of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Atlanta, which operates the six-room facility. Miss Barn estimated damage at about $15,000 in the firebombing Thursday night. She said the clinic would stay open even if it had to use temporary quarters. The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the local authorities were trying to find a man reportedly seen driving away from the clinic shortly before the fire was reported. The incident Thursday came seven days after the North Side Family Planning Clinic, sustained several thousand dollars worth of damage after it was firebombed.
Tree-killing citrus canker turned up in a sixth Florida nursery, as agriculture officials worked to burn young trees and grafting stock in an effort to save the state’s billion-dollar fruit industry. The latest outbreak was found on a potted grapefruit tree at Congen Property Inc., a nursery west of La Belle, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Agriculture Department. A total of 2.3 million trees in the first five nurseries will have to be burned because there is no cure for the disease.
Thirteen persons were arrested in New York after an eight-month investigation by two undercover agents who authorities said had cracked a ring that made bombs for extortion and to set fire to cars and buildings in insurance frauds. A spokesman for the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms division of the Treasury Department said that agents had bought $70,000 worth of homemade bombs, guns and drugs during their investigation, which culminated in a raid on a Staten Island factory.
Teachers see declining financial support and parental indifference as the major causes of today’s crisis in American public education, but the public blames students’ drug use and lack of discipline, two Gallup polls showed. A Gallup survey of teacher attitudes also found that 78% of 813 teachers polled nationwide last May gave their fellow educators an “A” or “B” grade in performance. A Gallup survey of public opinion on schools, also conducted last spring, found that 50% of Americans gave teachers an “A” or “B,” the highest marks given teachers in a decade.
Seven years behind schedule and $2 billion over budget, the No. 2 nuclear plant of the Washington Public Power Supply System was expected to hit full power this week and enter commercial operation this fall. “This is a story of persistence, perseverance and success,” Senator Dan Evans (R-Washington) said at dedication ceremonies for the plant Saturday. No. 2 is the lone survivor in a plan for five plants. Two plants have been terminated, with the system defaulting on $2.5 billion in bonds sold to finance construction, and the other two plants have been mothballed.
An Austrian Mayor honored by predominantly Jewish Miami Beach was a member of a Nazi “murder brigade” and a concentration camp official, according to a group that keeps track of Nazi war criminals. Mayor Malcolm Fromberg of Miami Beach presented a gold medal to Franz Hausberger, Mayor of Mayrhofen in the Austrian Alps, at a ceremony Friday dedicating a new boardwalk in Miami Beach, where Jews make up 70 percent of the population. Mr. Hausberger, 64 years old, said he was cleared of wrongdoing by a special commission in Vienna and was never convicted of any war crimes. The allegations about Mr. Hausberger were made by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. Mayor Fromberg, a past international vice president of B’nai B’rith, said, “Oh God, I don’t believe this!”
Rhode Island’s cable television operators will begin what they call the nation’s first statewide crackdown on so-called “cable pirates” — those who illegally obtain cable TV services. “Many people are simply unaware that stealing cable service is a serious crime,” said David Rosenbloom of Times Mirror Cable Television in West Warwick. The Rhode Island Cable Operators Association said the crackdown will begin this week and will include door-to-door inspections of cable hookups and an advertising campaign to warn of possible penalties for the felony violation.
Despite a tentative contract settlement between the United Mine Workers and coal producers, some of the 12,000 miners who work at independent companies may still walk off the job when the current pact expires October 1, union officers said. The UMW has agreed to a tentative contract with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, an organization that represents about 30 of the nation’s largest soft coal companies. But other large companies demanded independent negotiations with the union, and that bargaining is not resolved.
Researchers said that they have the first clear evidence of a biological difference between homosexual and heterosexual men, a dissimilar response to hormones that may have developed before birth. In measuring rising and falling levels of hormones due to stimulation by other hormones, scientists found that the responses of homosexual men fell in between those of heterosexual men and women, said a report published in the current issue of the journal Science.
A man who could not afford $50 bail after being arrested Friday in Santa Rosa, California, for panhandling and public drunkenness was stunned to learn that he might be the heir to millions of dollars.
“I figured I’d get a check for $20,” said Victor Fimia, 40 years old, whose trembling hands, missing tooth and stubbly beard made him an unlikely looking heir. “I thought I was the black sheep, and here my father left me something.” Mr. Fimia, who said he has spent 23 years on the streets, was arrested in a downtown Santa Rosa park. Through a national computer check, the police learned he was reported missing from San Jose years ago. A police report said Mr. Fimia’s father, who died five years ago, left his son “several million” dollars. But Mr. Fimia’s sister, Maggie, who filed the missing-person report, said the inheritance was much less, probably $30,000 to $40,000. Mr. Fimia, who is scheduled to be arraigned Monday, said that if the promised money materialized, “I’m gonna buy an old pickup truck and camper.”
Euthanasia is more common, and more accepted, than most Americans realize, according to doctors, ministers, nurses, legal authorities and family members. And the consequences of deliberately ending the life of a gravely ill person are receiving increasing attention.
A new drug has proved promising in tests to treat recurrent outbreaks of a herpes virus and to help prevent the development of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, a pharmaceutical concern said Friday. It was the first public confirmation by Newport Pharmaceutical International that the test results were encouraging. Initial results had been published in medical journals. Company officials said the results of tests on the drug, Isoprinosine, would be explained in more detail at a London medical conference Tuesday.
Darryl Motley drove home two runs with a triple and Dan Quisenberry earned his 43rd save, helping the Kansas City Royals maintain their lead in the American League West with a 4–2 victory today over the Oakland A’s. The Royals lead the Minnesota Twins by a game and the California Angels by a game and a half. The winning pitcher, Bud Black (17–11), gave up seven hits and two runs, striking out seven in six innings. Joe Beckwith did not allow a runner in two innings and Quisenberry finished. Ray Burris (13–9) allowed four runs in his first three innings, then settled down and only allowed one hit over the final five.
Mickey Hatcher hit a two-run homer, helping the Minnesota Twins stay alive in the pennant race by beating the Cleveland Indians, 4–1. Ken Schrom (5–9) allowed only Andre Thorton’s home run in six innings. Rick Lysander pitched the next one and two-thirds innings, and Ron Davis finished for his 28th save. The three pitchers combined on a five-hitter. Bert Blyleven (17–7) lost only for the second time in his last nine starts. He allowed five hits, struck out seven and walked one.
Gary Ward hit two home runs, including a two-run inside-the-park shot in the eighth inning to lead the Texas Rangers to a 9–7 win over the California Angels. With the loss, California slipped into third place in the American League West. With one out in the eighth and the Angels clinging to a 6-5 lead on two homers by Reggie Jackson, Alan Bannister lined a ball into center that skipped past a diving Fred Lynn for a triple. Ward followed with a looper down the right field line. Juan Beniquez dove for the ball but missed as the ball rolled into the corner, and both runners rounded the bases. Buddy Bell followed with a hit, chasing Luis Sanchez (9-7). The reliever, Don Aase, allowed singles to Larry Parrish, George Wright and Mickey Rivers for another two runs. Joe McLaughlin (2-1) pitched three and one-third innings for the victory, and Tom Henke got the final two outs for his second save, yielding a sacrifice fly to Brian Downing in the ninth.
The Detroit Tigers played their 99th winning game of the season today, 6–0, over the New York Yankees. Dan Petry pitched one of his most solid games of the season, registering his second shutout with a four-hitter against the Yankees. Only one Yankee reached third base, and no Yankee advanced past first base after the fourth inning as Petry got the final 15 outs in facing 15 batters.
The Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles, 4–2. Tony Armas hit his 41st home run in this game at Baltimore and Dwight Evans drove in his 100th run. Evans is the third Boston hitter to drive in 100 runs this season. Jim Rice has 118 and Armas, the major-league leader in home runs, has 117. The Red Sox are the third team in history to have three outfielders drive in 100 or more runs in a season.
The Seattle Mariners thumped the Chicago White Sox, 7–1. Matt Young pitched a three-hitter and Danny Tartabull hit his first home run in this game at Chicago. Young (5–8) struck out nine and pitched his first complete game in 21 starts. The Mariners clubbed LaMarr Hoyt for nine hits and six runs, knocking him out before he could retire a batter in the sixth. Hoyt, the Cy Young Award winner last season, has a 13–17 record. The White Sox, runaway winners in the West last season, fell into sixth place, below the Mariners.
Rance Mulliniks broke a 1–1 tie with a two-out single in the ninth to back the three-hit pitching of Doyle Alexander as the Toronto Blue Jays edged the Milwaukee Brewers, 2–1. The victory was a club-record eighth in a row for Alexander (16–5), and his 11th in 12 decisions. The right-hander struck out six and walked three as he pitched his third consecutive complete-game victory. Moose Haas (9–11), who had won three in a row, gave up five hits in defeat.
Wally Backman made a misplay in the fifth inning that gave Montreal the lead for a while yesterday, but the Mets’ second baseman hit a sacrifice fly in the seventh inning that gave the Mets the lead for good in a 4–2 decision over the Expos at Shea Stadium. “I wish we could have played the start of September this way,” Backman said after the Mets had put together consecutive victories for the first time in three weeks. The outcome kept the Mets barely alive in the National League East, while rain in St. Louis postponed a game between the Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs, who have lost their last five. The Cubs will play a doubleheader today, and the Mets send Dwight Gooden to the mound against Montreal. Should Chicago sweep and the Mets lose, the race will be over. Even if the Mets win all seven of their remaining games, the Cubs need only three victories in eight games to move into postseason play for the first time in 39 years.
The San Francisco Giants edged the Los Angeles Dodgers, 8–7. The last-place Giants won despite using six pitchers, losing two leads and committing two errors that resulted in Dodger runs. But fortunately for the Giants, the Dodgers used four pitchers, committed three costly errors and blew a 6–4 lead in the sixth inning when the Giants scored four runs on five hits.
The Pittsburgh Pirates scored with one out in the bottom of the twelfth to beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2–1. Pinch-hitter Lee Mazzilli singled off first baseman Al Oliver’s glove to score Jim Morrison from second base with one out in the 12th inning at Pittsburgh. Morrison reached base after striking out on a pitch by Larry Andersen that hit the dirt and skipped to the backstop.
The Cincinnati Reds prevailed, 2–1, in 13 innings, over the Houston Astros. The Reds pushed across a run in the 13th inning at Houston on a fielder’s choice. With the bases loaded and one out, Eddie Milner grounded to first. Glenn Davis tried for the force at home, but his throw was too late. The winner was Ted Powers (9–6), making his 75th appearance of the season.
The Atalnta Braves downed the San Diego Padres, 5–2. Outfielder Milt Thompson hit his first major league home run leading off the eighth inning at San Diego and drove in another run in the ninth. Thompson was 4 for 5 and his home run broke a 2–2 tie. He made a winner of Pascual Perez (13–7). There were no incidents in his first appearance against the Padres since the beanball war August 12th. Perez was roundly booed by the fans.
Born:
Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress (“Haven”, “Smallville”), in Toronto, Ontario.
Misha Green, American screen writer, director and producer (“Lovecraft Country”), in Sacramento, California.
Ross Jarman, English drummer (The Cribs), in Wakefield, England, United Kingdom.
Theresa Fu, Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress, in British Hong Kong.
Clint Session, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars), in Pompano Beach, Florida.
James Casey, NFL tight end and fullback (Houston Texans, Philadelphia Eagles, Denver Broncos), in Fort Worth, Texas.
Herbert Taylor, NFL tackle (Kansas City Chiefs, Jacksonville Jaguars), in Houston, Texas.
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