President Reagan addresses the 39th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. President Reagan urged Moscow to join Washington to bring about “a better working relationship” and proposed the establishment of a new American-Soviet negotiating “framework” to chart a course of arms control talks for the next 20 years. President Reagan’s highly conciliatory remarks to the General Assembly today marked the culmination of a yearlong effort by the Administration to convince the Soviet Union, the American public and Washington’s allies that he is sincere in seeking a new era in Soviet-American relations, despite his previous harsh anti-Soviet remarks.
His 35-minute address to the United Nations, in which he did not criticize the Russians, was the latest in a series of statements that began on January 16 with Mr. Reagan’s call for “a constructive working relationship” with the Soviet Union. Andrei Gromyko sat impassively and did not join in the applause at the end of the speech, or in the middle, when most delegates clapped for Mr. Reagan’s statement that the two superpowers had to reduce their differences. Presumably, he will make the Soviet position known after he has seen Mr. Shultz and Mr. Reagan and has delivered his own speech to the United Nations on Thursday.
A U.S. Army tractor-trailer carrying an unarmed Pershing 2 nuclear missile overturned during a training exercise east of Stuttgart, damaging the rocket but causing no injuries or damage to German property, Army spokesmen said. It was the first reported accident involving a Pershing 2 since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization began deploying the new medium-range weapons in West Germany 10 months ago. The Army said a dirt road gave way underneath the missile transport and that there were no signs that faulty equipment was to blame.
A senior engineer at West Germany’s largest aerospace company has been arrested on charges of spying for the Soviet Union for 17 years, prosecutor Karl Rebmann announced. The suspect was identified as Manfred Rotsch, 60, who emigrated from East Germany in 1954 and was chief engineer of the aircraft construction department of Messerschmidt-Boelkow-Blohm in Ottobrun near Munich. Rotsch, who was involved in projects that included the multipurpose Tornado jet fighter, passed information to Soviet KGB agents, a spokesman for Rebmann said.
Sweden rejected denials by Moscow and said it has proof that a Soviet SU-15 jet fighter intruded 17 miles into Swedish airspace last month while it was following a Scanair jetliner carrying 276 passengers. The Soviet Union had reiterated an earlier denial after a protest by Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. Sweden’s chief of staff, Vice Adm. Bror Stefenson, said he was surprised by the latest Soviet denial. “We have such clear-cut proof that the violation took place,” he said.
Four Protestant inmates resumed a hunger strike in a Northern Ireland prison today to protest being locked up with Roman Catholic prisoners, officials said. The four refused to eat lunch at Magilligan Prison near Londonderry, Britain’s Northern Ireland Office said. They demand segregation from Roman Catholics prisoners, many of whom are guerrillas of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Last Tuesday 10 Protestants, all convicted of terrorist crimes, ended a hunger strike that had lasted for up to a month. They began eating limited amounts of food while prison officials and representatives of the inmates negotiated the prisoners’ demands. Peter Robinson, a Protestant leader in Northern Ireland and a member of the British Parliament, said the four restarted their hunger strike when they were put back into a cell with Roman Catholics.
World chess champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Gary Kasparov played the shortest game yet in their match in Moscow for the world chess title, battling to a draw after 21 moves. Kasparov offered to end the game in a draw and Karpov accepted. Karpov holds a 1-0 lead in the match. Four games have ended in draws.
Democrats accused the President of making light of the bombing last week of the United States Embassy in Lebanon. The Speaker of the House, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., said it was “ridiculous” for Mr. Reagan to liken the incomplete security measures at the embassy to the typical delays in a kitchen remodeling.
Walter F. Mondale, stepping up his criticism, accused President Reagan of letting terrorists in Lebanon “humiliate us and push us around and kill our people.” The Democratic Presidential nominee also said Mr. Reagan “changed his spots” with his address to the United Nations when he proposed periodic consultations with the Kremlin.
Lax American security practices contributed to the three bombings of United States installations in the Beirut area in 17 months, in the view of Western security officials, diplomats and others.
India will receive an initial order of 40 new MIG-29 jet fighters from the Soviet Union, the International Defense Review, a Geneva-based magazine on military affairs, reported. It said the first of the planes will arrive before the end of the year. The magazine said India insisted on fast delivery to counter what it sees as a shift in the regional balance of power because of the sale of American F-16s to neighboring Pakistan. The twin-engine MIG-29, which is equipped with four air-to-air missiles, has still not been fully deployed among Soviet and East European forces, the magazine said. Quoting a senior Indian military official, the magazine said the delivery would come under a contract signed in August, with talks expected to take place later about buying additional fighters and eventually producing them under license. The publication said it was believed that India would get the MIG-29’s before the Soviet Air Force is fully equipped with them and before they are deployed with the Warsaw Pact forces. It said this was a departure from normal Soviet policy of exporting aircraft only after domestic demands had been met.
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi will call for nationwide general elections late in December and withdraw the army from troubled Punjab state before voting begins, the newspaper Indian Express reported. The English-langugage daily quoted “well-placed sources in the government” that an announcement dissolving Parliament “is likely to be made sometime in October.”
Greeted by a 21-gun salute and sunny skies, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arrived today for a Canadian visit that will include celebrations marking 200 years of settlement in New Brunswick and Ontario. The Queen has not been to Ottawa, the Canadian capital, since 1982, when she helped to mark a change in Canada’s Constitution that effectively cut the country’s colonial ties to Britain. Prince Philip is to return to London on October 5 from Toronto. The Queen will continue on to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and then go to the United States on October 7 for private visits at a horse farm in Kentucky and a ranch in Wyoming. In all, the Queen’s trip will last 22 days.
A Salvadoran appeals court is considering a request to reduce the 30-year sentences imposed on five former National Guardsmen for the 1980 slayings of four American churchwomen. An official of the 3rd Appeals Court in San Vicente said the appeal arrived late last week after first being filed in June by defense lawyers. The guardsmen were convicted May 24. The verdict was considered crucial to continued U.S. aid to the Salvadoran government, which is battling leftist guerrillas.
A Brazilian Roman Catholic theologian, in an article published today, likened the Vatican’s criticism of liberation theology to “shooting at the crowd to kill the assassin.” Friar Leonardo Boff, who defended his views Sept. 7 in a four-and-a-half- hour appearance before the Vatican’s Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the Vatican based its attitude on an erroneous analysis of Marxist thought. Writing in the left-wing Rome newspaper Paese Sera, the Brazilian Franciscan criticized a document on liberation theology published by the Vatican congregation four days before he met its prefect, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger of West Germany. Friar Boff said the document’s description of Marxism’s concept of class struggle “is certainly a kind of caricature.” Friar Boff also took issue with the Vatican document’s depiction of Marxist thought as monolithic. “It seems thus to believe what is on the label of the bottle even before trying the real contents,” Friar Boff said.
Melanesian nationalists in New Caledonia say they have decided to break off autonomy talks with France and to elect their own provisional government. Leaders of the National Kanak Socialist Liberation Front said after a weekend meeting that their bid for independence for the territory in the southwest Pacific, west of Australia, would begin with elections for a National Assembly on November 11. This body would then elect the government, to be installed on December 1, which would draw up a constitution for a socialist republic to be called Kanaki.
President Reagan, as expected, signed legislation that its promoters predict will save consumers millions of dollars by speeding to market cheaper but chemically identical generic versions of trade-name prescription drugs. Calling it a bill in which “everyone wins,” Reagan said the measure will encourage pharmaceutical firms to develop more new drugs by giving them longer patent protection for important breakthroughs.
President Reagan hosts a reception for Presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
The Justice Department obtained an agreement to recover $896,500 for the government in a case involving alleged fraud in the federal Medicaid program. Attorney General William French Smith said a civil suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia along with a judgment containing the payment agreement to settle the suit. The civil suit said Alan R. Lieberman of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, fraudulently obtained payments from the Medicaid program through four Philadelphia companies he owned or controlled.
Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan testified before a New York grand jury for 4½ hours and released the results of a lie-detector test that he says clears him of any involvement in an alleged scheme to misrepresent the work of a minority subcontractor. “It is my hope that my appearance today and the presentation of the polygraph results will put an end once and for all to the baseless allegations that have unfairly plagued me throughout my public life,” Donovan said. In question was the relationship between Donovan’s former company, the Schiavone Construction Co. of Secaucus, New Jersey, and the minority firm of Jopel Construction & Trucking Co. of the Bronx. Jopel was co-owned by a black Bronx politician and a reputed organized crime figure.
A compromise agreement has been fashioned on legislation replacing the general health warning on cigarettes with four alternating specific warnings, Senator Wendell H. Ford, (D-Kentucky), said. The agreement appears satisfactory to all aspects of the tobacco industry — growers, distributors, retailers and manufacturers — as well as to health groups, Ford said. The four new warnings would state, following “Surgeon General’s Warning”, that: “Smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and may complicate pregnancy.” “Quitting smoking now greatly reduces serious risks to your health.” “Smoking by pregnant women may result in fetal injury, premature birth and low birth weight.” “Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide.”
Hundreds of antinuclear protesters yesterday blocked roads at weapons laboratories in California and Massachusetts, resulting in more than 150 arrests. The demonstration by about 300 people at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, began as the facility’s 8,000 workers were arriving for work. One lab worker had his car window smashed. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, 52 people were arrested on trespassing charges when they refused to leave the grounds of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
Lower gasoline prices are likely to result from a proposed antitrust settlement involving 13 major oil companies, according to some industry experts. Under the accords, more than 50,000 independent service station operators could sell any brand of gasoline they choose, even though their signs and franchise agreements identify them with one brand. The agreements would let dealers shop for the cheapest gasoline.
Seven former police officers — including a one-time deputy commissioner — were sentenced to up to 18 years in federal prison in Philadelphia for participating in a $350,000 extortion conspiracy to protect illegal gambling. James Martin, a former deputy commissioner and the highest ranking Philadelphia officer ever convicted of corruption, received a term of 18 years. The six others got terms ranging from three to 15 years. The seven were indicted with eight other former policemen who are scheduled to go on trial on similar charges in November. “The corrupt activity cannot and will not be tolerated, and when it is uncovered, it must be dealt with severely,” said Federal District Judge Daniel Huyett 3d in imposing the “substantial incarceration” sought by the government.
Three convicted killers and two other “dangerous” inmates used hacksaw blades to cut their way out of the state prison in Lansing, Kansas, apparently taking advantage of openings left during a renovation. A prison spokesman, Troy Baker, described the escaped men as “fleeing felons, and under the circumstances, we consider them to be dangerous.” The fugitives were identified as Thanh Van Pham, 20, of Wichita, serving a life sentence; John Allen Purdy, 23, of Wichita, serving a life prison term; Lawrence Eugene Lane, 33, of St. Louis, serving a 10- to 20-year term; Thaddeus Jones, 28, of Wichita, serving a life sentence, and Arzo Tucker Jr. 28, of Wichita, serving a life prison term.
James A. Michener is giving Swarthmore College the $2,000 he received as a scholarship to attend the liberal arts college in the late 1920’s – along with $1,998,000 in interest. The 77- year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning author said he always regarded the scholarship as “a loan.”
Two teenage boys in Montana were charged today with murdering their mothers and one youth’s sister after the authorities found the bodies hidden in a mobile home, the police said. Michael Eugene Horvath, 15 years old, and Ted Lloyd Gibson, 14, both of Butte, were charged with three counts of juvenile delinquency by reason of deliberate homicide, according to Youth Court documents. The two, armed with a rifle and pistol, were arrested in Wallace, Idaho, after they allegedly robbed a Superior, Montana, restaurant, Sheriff Wade Vangilder of Mineral County said. The bodies of Mona Gibson, 47, her daughter, Brandee, 16, and Mary Horvath, 61, were found early today after Mrs. Gibson failed to arrive at work at St. James Community Hospital, the authorities said.
Florida barred the harvesting of citrus fruit, even in groves that state agents have just certified disease- free. The new move in efforts to contain the highly contagious citrus canker was expected to limit severely, if not halt, the shipping of fresh citrus fruit from the state over the next few weeks.
South African holdings are being divested by an increasing number of cities and states to protest that country’s official policy of racial separation. Four major American cities, including New York, and five states, have instituted divestment policies, and support for Federal legislation for such divestment is increasing in Congress.
Farmers could employ illegal aliens three years longer than other employers before discontinuing the practice under a proposal accepted by House and Senate conferees as they neared final agreement on a comprehensive immigration bill.
The goal of machine vision has eluded scientists. After two decades of research, they have yet to teach machines the seemingly simple act of being able to recognize everday objects and to distinguish one from another. The failure has generated a profound new respect for the sophistication of human sight.
Water is being collected from clouds with a new apparatus in the first large-scale scientific survey of the chemistry of cloud moisture, its effects on plants and its relationship to acid rain. The nationwide project is expected to provide new insights into the role that clouds, fog and dew play in the destruction of plant life and fish.
A hormone called relaxin that has been a puzzle to medical science for half a century now shows promise for several important uses, including aid to difficult pregnancy and birth, and may even hold a clue to the origin of the human species.
William C. Westmoreland was upheld by a Federal judge. The justice, District Judge Pierre N. Leval, refused to dismiss a $120 million libel suit that General Westmoreland filed against CBS concerning a TV documentary on the Vietnam War.
Paul McCartney releases single “No More Lonely Nights.”
Darryl Motley drove in six runs with a double and a grand-slam home run in support of the rookie pitcher Danny Jackson tonight, powering the Kansas City Royals to a 12–4 victory and a sweep of a doubleheader over the California Angels. In the first game, Bret Saberhagen, another rookie, shut out California for a 4–0 victory. The sweep moved the Royals into undisputed possession of first place in the American League West by one-half game over Minnesota. California fell three and a half games out of the lead with six games remaining. Jackson (2–6) struck out three and walked three in holding the Angels to seven hits through seven innings. The Royals blew open the second game with a six-run rally in the sixth. In the inning, Greg Pryor hit a run-scoring single and Motley hit his grand slam. Motley doubled home two runs in the third. Over all, George Brett drove in three runs with a single and a double.
Frank Viola gained his 18th pitching victory and Kent Hrbek hit a three-run homer to lead the Minnesota Twins to n 8–4 win over the host Chicago White Sox. Viola (18–12) allowed eight hits, struck out three and walked three in eight and two-third innings. Minnesota erupted for seven runs in the sixth. In the inning Hrbek, facing Floyd Bannister (13–11) unloaded his 27th homer into the left-field stands.
The New York Yankees, one of baseball’s hottest teams since mid-July, have hit a cold spell that could ruin what the team had hoped would be an upbeat finish to a disappointing season. The latest setback came tonight at Memorial Stadium, where the Baltimore Orioles swept a doubleheader, 8–1 and 7–6, from the Yankees. The second victory came on a five-run eighth inning that wiped out a 6–2 New York lead. The Yankees have now lost four straight and suddenly share third place with the Red Sox and the Orioles. They are three and a half games behind the second-place Toronto Blue Jays.
The Detroit Tigers downed the Milwaukee Brewers, 7–3. Lou Whitaker and Chet Lemon each hit home runs at Milwaukee and the A.L. East champion Tigers beat the Brewers for their 101st victory of the season.
The Oakland A’s beat the Texas Rangers, 10–6. Carney Lansford drove in four runs, and Rickey Henderson scored four times for the A’s. Oakland reliever Larry Sorensen picked up the win.
The Toronto Blue Jays prevailed over the Boston Red Sox, 9–8. Lloyd Moseby drove in two runs with his third hit of the game and Jesse Barfield followed with a two-run homer in a five-run seventh inning that pushed the Blue Jays past the Red Sox at Boston.
Chicago’s Rick Sutcliffe pitches a two-hitter in a 4–1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates to clinch the National League East title for the Cubs, who will be making their first post-season appearance since 1945. The win is Sutcliffe’s 14th in a row. Sutcliffe strikes out 9 Bucs, including Joe Orsulak for the final out. Ryne Sandberg had a single and a double and scored two runs.
The New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7–5, but were eliminated fromt he playoffs as the Cubs clinched the division. Pinch hitter Rusty Staub drove in the winning runs in the 8th against former Met Tug McGraw. When it was over, it was over, and the Mets had no regrets. They were eliminated last night from any stray chance at first place, but they clinched second, and they had the second-best record in the club’s 23-year history and the best since the World Series winners of 1969. The video screen in left field flashed the news with courtliness in the middle of the ninth inning of the Mets’ victory over Philadelphia, just after the Chicago Cubs had beaten the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-1, and ended the race: “The Mets congratulate the National League’s Eastern Division winners, the Chicago Cubs.”
The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros, 5–1. Pedro Guerrero hit his 16th homer, a three-run shot. Jerry Reuss (5–7) went seven innings for the win, his third straight.
The Montreal Expos edged the St. Louis Cardinals, 2–1. Tim Raines, mired in a 1-for-14 slump, came in for the ninth inning and with one out, singled in pinch runner Miguel Dilone with the winning run. The victory snapped a five-game Expos’ losing streak.
The San Diego Padres thumped the San Francisco Giants, 7–1, in the first game of their doubleheader, as the Padres hammered out 17 hits. The The Padres were held to only 14 hits in the nightcap, downing the Giants again, 8–6. The Giants (65–92) are a half-game ahead of the Brewers in the “race” for the worst record in baseball.
NFL Monday Night Football:
San Diego Chargers 30, Los Angeles Raiders 33
Marcus Allen’s fourth touchdown of the game, a one-yard dive with 45 seconds remaining, gave the Los Angeles Raiders a 33–30 victory over the San Diego Chargers tonight. The Raiders (4–0), who overcame a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter, are one of three unbeaten teams in the National Football League. The Miami Dolphins and the San Francisco 49ers have also won four games. Allen’s winning touchdown, his second score of the fourth quarter, came after a 10-play, 76-yard drive engineered by the Jim Plunkett. The Raider quarterback, who completed 24 of 33 passes for 367 yards, took Los Angeles down the field in 2:56 with a series of short passes to the tight end Todd Christensen and Allen. The score overcame a 17-point spurt by San Diego in 3:21 early in the fourth quarter, capped by the linebacker Woodrow Lowe’s 32-yard return of a tipped Plunkett pass for a touchdown that made the score 30–20. A short run by Allen made the score 30–26. The Raiders, because Marc Wilson fumbled the snap, failed to convert the extra-point attempt. The Chargers (2–2) got an outstanding performance from a second-year running back, Earnest Jackson, the replacement for Chuck Muncie, who is in a drug rehabilitation program and Pete Johnson, who was traded to the Dolphins. Jackson rushed for 155 yards on 29 carries, the best rushing performance against the Raiders since 1978.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1205.06 (+3.32).
Born:
Mike Lundin, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning, Minnesota Wild, Ottawa Senators), in Burnsville, Minnesota.
Bobby Brown, NBA point guard and shooting guard (Sacramento Kings, Minnesota Timberwolves, New Orleans Hornets, Los Angeles Clippers, Houston Rockets), in Los Angeles, California.
Scott Carroll, MLB pitcher (Chicago White Sox), in Kansas City, Missouri.
Rafael Rodríguez, Dominican MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Angels, Arizona Diamondbacks), in Cotui, Dominican Republic.
Taylor Eigsti, American Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist, composer (“Lucky To Be Me”), orchestrator, and educator, in Menlo Park, California.
Died:
Neil Hamilton, 85, American stage and screen actor (“The White Rose”, “When Strangers Marry”, ‘Commissioner Gordon’- “Batman” (TV series), of asthma.
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