Moscow signaled it was not yet ready to shift from a hard-line stance toward the Reagan Administration. The President’s overtures toward the Kremlin in his Monday speech at the United Nations were dismissed by the Soviet press agency Tass as “a vesel with nothing in it.” And Konstantin U. Chernenko, in a speech at a writers’ meeting that was probably written before Mr. Reagan addressed the General Assembly, said: “In the United States, as all signs indicate, they either do not want, or are not yet ready to understand, that there is no sensible alternative to the normalization of Soviet-American relations.” Western diplomats said they had not expected the Russians to publicly alter their stance before Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko meets this week with Mr. Reagan as well as with Secretary of State George P. Schultz and Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic Presidential candidate.
These prospective meetings have not been announced in the Soviet press, and most diplomats expect the Kremlin to treat them as unexceptional. The diplomats said the Russians would be naturally cautious in signaling any shift in policy after their public criticism of Mr. Reagan over the past year. Moscow is also reluctant to give any impression of fostering his re-election chances, especially when his ability to deal with the Soviet Union has been an issue in the race. Thus most diplomats expect the policy toward the Reagan Administration to be kept in a holding pattern while Mr. Gromyko sounds out the American leaders.
West German peace demonstrators trying to disrupt North Atlantic Treaty Organization military maneuvers blockaded U.S. Army exercise grounds northeast of Frankfurt, near the East German border. About 150 people sat down at the main entrance to the Wildflecken maneuver grounds near Fulda until riot police carried many of them away, a police spokesman said. Most were later released after their names were taken for possible prosecution, the spokesman said. Demonstrators trying to disrupt NATO military maneuvers blockaded United States Army exercise grounds today and disrupted a service in a cathedral by unfurling a banner saying “With God Against Rockets.” Earlier, a United States Army spokesman said protesters broke into a barracks Monday night and painted antiwar slogans on a tank.
The newly elected Greek opposition leader, Constantine Mitsotakis, has accused Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou of “playing with fire” by making what he called anti-American and anti-Western gestures while continuing as a member of the Western alliance. Mr. Mitsotakis asserted in an interview at his party headquarters that the Socialist Prime Minister had assumed antagonistic public stances for domestic political reasons while remaining, in fact, an ally of the United States and the West. “He even signed the bases agreement,” the new leader of the New Democracy Party said. The conservative Government in which Mr. Mitsotakis was Foreign Minister did not renew the accord under which the United States maintains four military bases here. Long negotiations conducted by Mr. Mitsotakis reached no conclusion. Last year, however, Mr. Papandreou, who won election in 1981 on a platform of removing the American military, concluded an agreement for the bases to remain for five more years.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko met for 90 minutes at the Soviet mission to the United Nations, the first meeting between the two in more than three years. Shamir pressed Gromyko to allow Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel, while Gromyko proposed that Israel and its Arab neighbors join an international conference that would include the superpowers, Israeli officials said. Israel and the Soviet Union have no diplomatic relations.
Some lapses in security were identified by a State Department team that was sent to the Beirut area to investigate last week’s bombing of the United States Embassy, according to department officials. But they said the mission concluded in general that adequate steps were being taken to defend the building. Several members of the team, which was sent to Beirut by Secretary of State George P. Shultz to examine the adequacy of embassy security, returned to the United States on Monday. They briefed Mr. Shultz in New York, where he is attending the United Nations General Assembly session.
The team determined that all traffic should have been barred from the street leading to the embassy and that the construction of steel gates at both ends of the road should have been completed more quickly, department officials said. But the team, which was headed by Richard W. Murphy, the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, found no evidence of negligence or widespread breakdown in security procedures and does not intend to fix responsibility for the vulnerability of the embassy on any individual or office, the officials said. Instead, one member of the team said, the investigators attributed vulnerability to routine construction problems, including delays in the manufacture, shipment and installation of protective devices, and the difficulty of stopping the kind of attack that took place last week.
Jordan and Egypt are resuming ties, King Hussein’s Government announced. Jordan, 1 of 17 Arab countries that severed diplomatic relations with Egypt after President Anwar el-Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, is the first of those countries to resume ties.
An Afghan airliner carrying 308 passengers was hit by rebel fire Friday and forced to make an emergency landing at the Kabul airport, the Kabul radio and a Western diplomat reported today. No casualties were reported. The state-run radio said the pilot had landed the crippled Ariana Airlines DC-10 safely at the end of a flight carrying pilgrims from the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. According to the Western diplomat in New Delhi, the attack was the third on Afghan airliners in a week. The diplomat said the jumbo jetliner “was struck on the wing or tail section by machine gun fire or a rocket.” “The plane circled Kabul five times and was seen dropping its fuel before making an emergency landing,” the diplomat said.
The Indian army withdrew from the Golden Temple of Amritsar, the Sikhs’ most sacred shrine. The withdrawal came within hours of an announcement by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that soldiers would be leaving the Punjab temple several days before a Sikh protest march. Leaders of India’s 13 million Sikhs had said they planned to “liberate” the temple from the army during the march. Troops stormed the shrine in June to dislodge Sikh militants who had used it as an arsenal and headquarters in an effort to gain an autonomous Sikh state in the northern Punjab.
Amnesty International said that China is holding thousands of political prisoners in jails and re-education camps and has executed thousands of people in a 13-month-old campaign against crime. The London-based organization, in its first report on China since 1978, urged the Peking government to free those imprisoned for their beliefs, guarantee fair trials and end the death penalty. Amnesty International said it has adopted as “prisoners of conscience” 24 Chinese, including 10 Catholic priests.
Engineers bulldozed mud, boulders and other volcanic debris from provincial roads today, allowing relief goods to reach thousands of refugees isolated by mud flows from the eruption of Mount Mayon. The 8,100-foot volcano continued to spew ash that was carried more than 50 miles and darkened the skies over much of Albay Province, 200 miles southeast of Manila. Relief officials estimated that 60,000 people have sought refuge in more than 30 evacuation centers put up by the government in this provincial capital and eight outlying towns.
President Reagan meets with the newly elected Prime Minister Mulroney of Canada.
Canada’s new Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has frozen government hiring and discretionary government spending, Treasury Board President Robert de Cotret announced. The move is described as temporary, pending a review of all government spending, De Cotret said. Essential services, such as air traffic control, penitentiary services and health care are not considered discretionary and will be exempt from the freeze.
Former Prime Minister Herbert Blaize urged his fellow Grenadians to vote for a “new age” in the Dec. 3 parliamentary election. The Grenada National Party, led by Blaize for 30 years, merged with the National Democratic Party and the Grenadian Democratic Movement to form the New National Party and field 15 candidates in the election, the first in Grenada since 1976. Blaize headed the government from 1962 to 1967.
An accord on credit for Argentina has been reached by the Buenos Aires Government and the International Monetary Fund. Under the plan, Argentines would live austerely and the Government would be entitled to billions of dollars of new credits from both the I.M.F. and commercial banks.
About 1 million people paraded in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum to celebrate the first anniversary of President Jaafar Numeiri’s introduction of Islamic law. Under the system, called Sharia law, alcohol is prohibited, violent robbery may be punished by loss of a hand or a foot and petty offenders are lashed. Numeiri marked the occasion with a conciliatory gesture to the country’s southern region, populated principally by animists and Christians. He said that he would scrap controversial administrative changes introduced last year in the south if its people so wished.
A Reagan Administration human rights official has arrived in Uganda, a month after another senior United States official said there had been widespread atrocities against civilians in this East African country. The Uganda radio said James Thyden, a director in the State Department’s Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, arrived here Monday and held talks with Vice President Paulo Muwanga. The radio quoted Mr. Thyden as saying he would play a positive and constructive role, not that of a critic, in talks about refugee problems in the Luwero triangle, north of Kampala, and other parts of Uganda.
In August, Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, said that more than 100,000 Ugandans might have died in the Luwero Triangle in an army drive to crush rebels in the area. The Uganda Government responded by canceling a military aid agreement with Washington, and strenuously denied the allegations.
Walter F. Mondale, speaking bluntly, ridiculed President Reagan’s address before the United Nations as “deathbed conversions” and suggested Mr. Reagan was pretending to change the course of his Presidency to win re-election. The Democratic Presidential nominee appeared before an enthusiastic audience at George Washington University.
President Reagan attends the Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). President Reagan called on nations today to support a new round of trade liberalization to “strengthen the global trading system and assure its benefits spread to people everywhere.” In an address to the 39th joint annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the President made the strongest appeal yet by the United States for negotiations to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers. Defending his trade record, Mr. Reagan said that the United States was “fighting protectionism,” and he pointed to the benefits other countries are reaping as a result of record United States imports. The speech was politely received by the delegates from 148 member countries of the two institutions, pillars of the world economic order since their founding in the closing days of World War II. The address was not interrupted with applause, but at the end Mr. Reagan received a 30-second standing ovation.
President Reagan hosts a reception for Supreme Court Justices.
Heckling of Democratic candidates on college campuses may be spurred by political seminars conducted by a former White House aide, according to President Reagan’s campaign officials. They said they had no role in originating the protests. The seminars have been conducted by Morton Blackwell, who served in the Reagan White House as a liaison with religious groups.
A Senate-passed anticrime package was approved by the House, and the Senate voted to widen permitted uses of Medicaid funds for abortion as the 98th Congress worked toward adjournment. Backers of both bills attributed their passage to election- year politics and a wish to adjourn as scheduled on Oct. 4.
The Justice Department and the I.R.S. were rebuked by a Federal district judge in Denver for violating the constitutional rights of defendants and witnesses in what was once termed the biggest tax fraud case in American history. The judge dismissed indictments brought in 1982 by a grand jury against seven individuals and the Bank of Nova Scotia.
A sale of offshore oil leases on New England’s Georges Bank was canceled by the Interior Department after the only bids submitted came from an activist environmental group that opposes the sale. The Interior Department, facing a federal court order not to proceed, canceled a proposed sale of oil exploration leases on 6.5 million acres off the New England coast on grounds no bids were received. The announcement came less than two hours after U.S. District Judge A. David Mazzone in Boston issued an injunction against the sale, which had been scheduled for today. Mazzone’s action came on a request from environmentalists and the state of Massachusetts.
Agriculture Secretary John R. Block’s chief business partner received a $400,000 subsidized loan from the Farmers Home Administration this year, even though at least three commercial banks said they would give him credit, a House subcommittee was told. The disclosure by Rep. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), raised new questions about the farm disaster loan to John W. Curry of Galesburg, Illinois, although Department of Agriculture officials continued to insist the transaction was entirely proper.
A federal judge in Nashville, Tennessee, approved a settlement to end segregation at traditionally black Tennessee State University by setting as a goal a 50-50 ratio of black to white students by 1993. The U.S. Justice Department and many black students opposed the settlement of a 1968 discrimination lawsuit that was reopened last year, arguing that establishing racial quotas is arbitrary and illegal. But U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Wiseman said higher education should be a system “in which race is irrelevant.”
The Justice Department is investigating whether the suspended U.S. attorney in Cleveland attempted to obstruct justice by allegedly interfering in a criminal case involving a friend, said a department source who asked not to be identified. The U.S. attorney, J. William Petro, was expected to appear before a federal grand jury in Baton Rouge, La., that is investigating the allegations, said the source. Petro was suspended Friday. The allegation is that Petro told a friend about the impending indictment, and the friend then tipped off the Cleveland individual who was the target of a federal investigation.
Three of five convicts who escaped Monday from the Kansas state prison in Lansing were captured in woods near a residential area, and officers armed with shotguns and led by bloodhounds searched a nearby county for at least one other inmate. Convicted murderer Thaddeus Jones, 28, was captured after a resident tipped authorities that the fugitives had been seen entering woods near Lansing. Later, inmates Arzo Tucker Jr., 28, and Lawrence E. Lane, 33, were seized by officers nearby. Murderers Thanh Van Pham, 20, and John Allen Purdy, 23, remained at large.
Charles Manson, sentenced as a mass killer, was drenched with paint thinner and set on fire today by a fellow inmate who said Mr. Manson threatened him because of the inmate’s membership in the Hare Krishna religious sect, the authorities said. Mr. Manson, serving a life sentence in the slayings of the actress Sharon Tate and eight others in a cult murder, was treated for second- and third-degree burns in the prison infirmary and was in good condition, said Bob Gore, a spokesman for the State Corrections Department. Mr. Manson, 48 years old, was in the hobby shop of the California Medical Facility, the state’s prison for psychiatric prisoners, when he was attacked by an inmate identified as Jan Holmstrom, 36, who is serving a life term for second-degree murder. Mr. Manson suffered burns over 18 percent of his body, concentrated on his face, scalp and hands, Mr. Gore said. Mr. Gore said Mr. Holmstrom told officers that Mr. Manson had threatened him for Mr. Holmstrom’s religious beliefs.
Eduardo Arocena, leader of the anti-Castro terrorist group Omega 7, was one of five men charged today with the manufacture and possession of machine guns, silencers and other illegal weapons. Mr. Arocena, 41 years old, a former New Jersey longshoreman, was accused of 43 weapons violations. He already faces a possible life prison term for his conviction Saturday in New York on charges he assassinated a Cuban diplomat and masterminded a 10-year bombing spree in New York, New Jersey and Florida. Two federal indictments unsealed today in Miami charged Mr. Arocena, along with a former gun store owner and three other men with the manufacture, sale and possession of illegal weapons, and with conspiracy.
Leaders of the United Automobile Workers began gathering here today to review a tentative contract with the General Motors Corporation that the union president, Owen F. Bieber, has predicted workers would ratify. The 300 members of the union’s G.M. Council, representing 350,000 workers in 149 locals, were to participate in staff meetings and to receive a detailed outline of the accord on Wednesday. The union said it also would make the outline public at that time. If the council approves the tentative pact as expected, it will go to the rank- and-file members for a vote. The voting usually takes about a week.
A chartered bus carrying homeless men from several cities in the East and Middle West to the Rajneesh religious commune in Oregon collided head on with a car today, killing the driver of the automobile and injuring 31 bus passengers, the authorities said. All but four of the men taken to Caldwell Memorial Hospital were treated there and released, according to a spokesman. The four who were admitted were listed in stable condition with fractures or back injuries, she said. The religious group, which reveres the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, recently has been bringing homeless people to the community from cities around the nation in what Rajneesh officials describe as an act of charity. Others contend that the move is an attempt to sway election in Wasco County, Oregon, in November.
Walter Pidgeon died at a Santa Monica, California, hospital at the age of 87 after suffering a series of strokes. The longtime actor lent intelligence and dignity to roles in scores of movies, including “Man Hunt,” “Mrs. Miniver,” “Madame Curie” and “Advise and Consent.”
First London performance of musical “Stepping Out” presented.
Barbara Damashek’s musical “Quilters” opens at Jack Lawrence Theater ,NYC; runs for 24 performances.
Boston Red Sox manager Ralph Houk, 65, announces he will retire at the end of the season.
Steve Balboni hit a two-out single over the head of the California left fielder, Juan Beniquez, in the 12th inning to give Kansas City a 6–5 victory last night over the Angels and increase the Royals’ lead to a game and a half in the American League West.The Royals picked up a game on the second-place Minnesota Twins, who lost, 8–4, to Chicago, while the Angels dropped to 4½ back with their third straight loss to Kansas City. Dane Iorg doubled off Curt Kaufman (2–3), leading off the 12th and George Brett was walked intentionally. Jorge Orta and Darryl Motley popped out before Balboni drove in a pinch-runner, U.L. Washington, with the winning run. Dan Quisenberry pitched four innings in his longest stint of the year and raised his record to 6–3.
The Chicago White Sox downed the Minnesota Twins, 8–4. Minnesota, battling for first place in the American League West, ran into a man with a mission. That man was the Chicago pitcher, Tom Seaver, who reached some preseason goals in Chicago’s victory at Comiskey Park and dealt the Twins a setback in their title chase. “In spring training, I said that if I win 15 games and pitch 235 to 240 innings, I would be happy,” the 39-year-old Seaver said. He pitched eight and two-thirds innings, allowing 10 hits and four runs, to raise his season record to 15-10 and giving him 288 career victories. He has pitched 228⅓ innings this year. Seaver struggled during the cold, windy night, throwing 145 pitches before Ron Reed came on to get the last out and his 12th save.
Mike Easler drove in five runs, and Jim Rice had four of Boston’s 18 hits as the Red Sox rode a six-run fifth inning to a 14–6 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. The Red Sox spotted the Blue Jays a 3–0 lead, including George Bell’s 25th homer in the first inning, then stormed back to hand the 15-game winner, Dave Stieb, his eighth defeat of the year. A Boston rookie pitcher, Al Nipper, also surrendered a homer to Cliff Johnson, his 15th, with one out in the fourth but settled down to improve his record to 11–6 with his sixth victory in seven starts. Every Boston hitter except Dwight Evans had at least one hit.
Pat Tabler collects 4 hits, including a grand slam, to drive in 6 runs in the Cleveland Indians’ 13–5 win over the Seattle Mariners.
In a bench-clearing move, the Baltimore Orioles use 8 pinch hitters, tying the American League mark, in an attempt to beat the Yankees, but New York prevails, 6–5. Bob Shirley (2–3) gopt the win in relief and Dave Righetti earned his 29th save. Don Mattingly cracked a double, his 42nd of the season.
At County Stadium, Howard Johnson connects for a grand slam in the first inning and the Detroit Tigers roll to a 9–1 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. Randy O’Neal (2–0) and 4 relievers combine for Detroit. The loss assured the Brewers of finishing last in the American League East for the first time since 1976.
The Oakland A’s beat the Texas Rangers, 7–5. Rickey Henderson stole his 64th base this season. Rookie Curt Young boosted his record to 9–4.
At Shea, the New York Mets’ Rusty Staub homers to become the second player to homer as a teenager and also at the age of 40. Ty Cobb is the only other. Staub’s blast, a 2-run pinch homer climaxes a 4-run 9th inning as the Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 6–4. It is a bad week for Phils reliever Larry Andersen, who takes the loss today with a third of an inning of work. He has lost five games this past week with a total of 1.1 innings of pitching, losing to the Mets on the 18th, 24th and 25th, and to the Pirates on the 21st and 22nd. He’ll continue the streak next April 12th with loss in a third of an inning (as noted by Tom Ruane).
Phil Garner goes 4-for-5 to pace a 12–6 Houston win at Dodger Stadium. Houston pounds Orel Hershiser for five runs in the second but Los Angeles gets to Joe Niekro for six runs in the bottom of the frame. No problem. The Astros tally four more times the next inning and then it rains. Niekro staggers to his 16th win while Jose Cruz and Alan Ashby go deep.
The Pittsburgh Pirates pummelled the Chicago Cubs, 7–1. Jose DeLeon broke his nine-game losing streak by pitching a four-hitter against a reserve-filled Chicago lineup. The Cubs, who captured the division title by beating the Pirates Monday night, did not play any of the starters they used in the title-winning game. DeLeon (7-13) won for the first time since July 12, a span of 13 starts. He struck out eight and walked two. Jim Morrison and Doug Frobel belted two-run homers for the Pirates.
Steve Braun’s two-run triple highlighted a four-run fifth inning that carried the St. Louis Cardinals to a 6–4 victory over the Montreal Expos. The pinch-hit by Braun was the 100th of his career, the most by an active players.
The San Francisco Giants edged the San Diego Padres, 4–3. Mike Krukow (11-12) got the win. Greg Minton piked up his 19th save.
The Atlanta Braves downed the Cincinnati Reds, 4–2. The game was called in the top of the ninth due to rain. Brad Komminsk’s line drive inside-the-park homer broke a 2–2 tie in the eighth.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1207.16 (+2.10).
Born:
Matt Carle, NHL defenseman (San Jose Sharks, Tampa Bay Lightning, Philadelphia Flyers, Nashville Predators), in Anchorage, Alaska.
Dustin Keller, NFL tight end (New York Jets), in Lafayette, Indiana.
Rashad McCants, NBA shooting guard (Minnesota Timberwolves, Sacramento Kings), in Asheville, North Carolina.
Ivory Latta, WNBA guard (WNBA All-Star, 2013, 2014; Detroit-Tulsa Shock, Atlanta Dream, Washington Mystics), in McConnells, South Carolina.
Víctor Gárate, Venezuelan MLB pitcher (Washingotn Nationals), in Maracay, Venezuela.
Michael Crotta, MLB pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates), in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Died:
Walter Pidgeon, 87, Canadian actor (“Mrs Miniver”, “Madame Curie”), from a stroke.
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