A three-hour Shultz-Gromyko meeting in New York was characterized by a senior State Department official as “a good start.” Secretary of State George P. Shultz held what he said were “comprehensive and broad” discussions with Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko to set the stage for the Soviet official’s meeting with President Reagan at the White House tomorrow.
Poland’s Roman Catholic bishops approved a plan today for a church-sponsored fund to aid private farmers, church sources reported. They said the Government could give final approval Saturday when General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish leader, meets Jozef Cardinal Glemp. Unlike other Eastern European countries, Poland has kept agriculture mainly in private hands. The 3.3 million private farmers till more than 75 percent of the land but lack modern machinery and other equipment needed to increase efficiency. Andrzej Stemachowski, head of the private foundation that will supervise the farm fund, said the Polish church hopes to raise $28 million from Western governments and Roman Catholic episcopates to begin pilot programs during the fund’s first year. President Reagan asked Congress last month to approve a $10 million contribution.
Three men accused of kidnapping Alfred H. Heineken, the brewery chairman, and extorting an $11 million ransom went on trial here today. Heineken family members, relatives of the defendants and onlookers crowded into a courtroom to hear a witness tell of the months of planning behind the abduction of Mr. Heineken, the 60-year-old head of the world’s fourth largest brewery. Mr. Heineken was kidnapped at gunpoint last November 9 outside his Amsterdam office with his driver, Ab Doderer, 58. They were found by the police 48 hours after a ransom estimated at $11 million had been paid by the brewery. The three defendants, all Dutch citizens, are Jan Boellard, 35, Martin Erkamps, 21, and Frans Meijer, 30. They were arrested in a nationwide manhunt during which the police recovered about $9 million of the ransom. The rest is still missing.
Lebanese military investigators believe that they have identified the driver of the bomb-laden van that exploded at the U.S. Embassy annex a week ago, sources close to the inquiry said. They said that American and Lebanese security guards caught a glimpse of the attacker and picked one man’s photo from several shown them from Lebanese files. “We have sufficient information on the identity of the perpetrator and the people who planned for the operation.” chief investigator Elias Mousa was quoted as saying, but he did not disclose the identity and affiliation of the driver.
The Lebanese government decided to enlarge the nation’s Parliament from 99 to 122 seats in an attempt to placate Muslim and Christian factions jockeying for political power, Beirut radio said. President Amin Gemayel and his national unity Cabinet did not say how the new members would be chosen or how they would be divided between Christians and Muslims. Christians have traditionally held a 6–5 majority over Muslims, but Muslims now form a majority of the nation’s population.
Libya’s official press agency confirmed today that the simultaneous French and Libyan troop withdrawal from Chad had begun. The brief dispatch by the JANA press agency said the agreement was carried out Tuesday, but no details were given. The French Army began moving out Tuesday. The mutual troop withdrawal agreement was reached September 17.
A draft accord on Hong Kong was initiated by Britain and China. The agreement states that life in the crown colony will go on basically unchanged for 50 years after it reverts to Chinese rule in 1997.
The mood in Hong Kong over a future under Chinese rule seemed to reflect a sense of resignation. But there were also expressions of confidence and resolve that Hong Kong would somehow survive.
The extended eruption of the Philippines’ Mayon Volcano subsided slightly, but geologists warned the 60,000 people swamping evacuation centers not to return to their homes in the central part of the country. Mayon, located 200 miles south of Manila, ended six dormant years when it erupted September 9, then followed with a blast Sunday that shot ash-laden steam clouds nine miles into the air and sent tons of ash, volcanic debris and boulders hurtling down rain-slick slopes. Still, no casualties have been recorded. Mayon’s deadliest recorded eruption, in 1814, killed 1.200 people.
Australian Prime Minister Robert J. Hawke’s youngest daughter and her husband sought help for their heroin use after doctors said their son was born addicted to the drug, hospital officials said Tuesday. Hazel Hawke, the Prime Minister’s wife, disclosed in a television interview Monday night that their youngest daughter and son-in-law were being treated as heroin addicts. She said the reason her husband cried at a news conference last week was that he had learned of their daughter’s addiction at a time when he was being accused of being soft on drug dealers. Officials at Sydney’s Brighton Community Hospital said Tuesday that the Hawkes’ daughter and her husband — Rosslyn and Matt Dillon — asked for help after the birth of their second son, Peter, in early August. A doctor at the hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the boy would “have to be treated as an addict for fits and withdrawals,” according to the Australian Associated Press.
The mayor of Mexico City has proposed a 25-year-plan to stem the city’s explosive rate of growth. The cornerstone of Mayor Ramon Aguirre’s proposal would be a ban on construction of new residential neighborhoods, as well as factories that might attract immigrants. Aguirre’s plan also calls for the relocation of some of the city’s heavily polluting factories and a ban on vehicles with mechanical problems that cause pollution. The plan must be approved by several federal government agencies and put before the public, Aguirre said.
Nicaragua returned the bodies of two American mercenaries killed in an attack on a military training school September 1. The bodies of the two men, Dana Herbert Parker, of Memphis, Tenn. and James Powell III of Huntsville, Alabama, were placed aboard a plane bound for Miami at Managua’s airport. The State Department said the two men were mercenaries working with the Nicaraguan Democratic Force when their helicopter was shot down. Expenses for shipping the bodies to the United States were being paid by the men’s families.
A Nicaraguan rebel leader said today that his forces planned to intensify attacks against military installations and Cuban advisers in Nicaragua. The rebel leader, Adolfo Calero Portocarrero, the head of the largest rebel group, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, said the rebels had sufficient money, arms, ammunition and combat aircraft to sustain military operations for at least six months without United States support. “The United States cannot stop this war, whether or not it gives us money,” Mr. Calero said in an interview. He said the rebels had raised millions of dollars from private individuals and corporations in the United States and from some foreign governments. He declined to identify any of the sources.
Sandinista leaders said recently that if the rebels intensified their operations, particularly air strikes, and Central American nations failed to come to terms on a regional peace plan, Nicaragua would take delivery of advanced Soviet jet fighters or buy other warplanes. Administration officials said today that the Sandinistas appeared determined to acquire fighter planes. American intelligence officials have reported that Nicaraguan pilots have been trained in Bulgaria and Cuba to handle Soviet MIG fighters and that airfields capable of accommodating the planes are near completion. The Administration reported in 1982 that crates believed to contain MIG aircraft were unloaded in Cuba and placed in storage. They said the planes might be intended for eventual shipment to Nicaragua. The Reagan Administration has warned that the arrival of such warplanes would represent an unacceptable threat to the United States and friendly governments in Central America. Senior Administration officials have said that the Administration would consider the use of military force to block the delivery of the aircraft or prevent them from being used if they reach Nicaragua.
The South African authorities today lifted a seven-year-old ban on a white cleric who severed the ties that bound him to his Afrikaner forebears by worshiping with black people and espousing their political cause. At the same time, the authorities announced that six people detained last month for their opposition to a new Constitution had been released. The relaxations coincided with continuing unrest in Soweto and school boycotts by 93,000 students in other black townships. The Government’s moves, which offered a counterpoint to the crackdown on dissent that the police have been pursuing in recent weeks, seemed designed to offset adverse publicity and to further an oft-used tactic — that of keeping opponents off-balance by embarking on actions their foes would not normally have forecast.
The World Council of Churches in Geneva announced that it has donated $200,000 from its special fund against racism to liberation movements in southern Africa. The South-West Africa People’s Organization, which is fighting in the South African-controlled territory of Namibia, got $100,000. The council said the money is for legal aid and humanitarian aid for the families of political prisoners and other work. The African National Congress received $70,000 to “unite and lead the oppressed people of South Africa” and for its refugee camps in Zambia. A $30,000 grant went to the Pan African Congress in South Africa.
President Reagan and Vice President Bush have increased their lead over their Democratic rivals to 18 percentage points, according to the most recent Gallup Poll. The Gallup organization said yesterday that a poll of 965 registered voters, taken from last Friday through Sunday, showed the Republican ticket favored by 57 percent, as against 39 percent for Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine A. Ferraro, the Democratic ticket. Four percent of those polled said they were undecided. The polling group said it found 28 percent of self-described Democrats backing the Republican ticket and 8 percent of the Republicans backing Mr. Mondale and Mrs. Ferraro. Two weeks ago the Gallup organization found the Reagan-Bush team ahead by 15 points, 55 percent to 40 percent. The margin of error in the new poll was said to be four percentage points, plus or minus.
President Reagan defended himself from criticism in the bombing of the United States Embassy in Lebanon last week by citing “the near destruction of our intelligence capability” in the years before his Administration. “We’re feeling the effects today,” Mr. Reagan said in describing the difficulty of trying to anticipate terrorist activities.
President Reagan addresses about 4,500 students of Bowling Green State University on foreign policy issues.
President Reagan attends the annual “Family Octoberfest” at the Old Heidelberg Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
President Reagan tours the state-of-the-art Timken Company Faircrest steel facility.
George Bush will release data on the income tax returns filed on his behalf since he became Vice President. Mr. Bush promised to make public the “essential information” of the returns.
As Geraldine A. Ferraro addressed a rain-spattered campaign rally in Boston today, Ruth Packard pressed toward the front of the crowd and raised a hand-lettered sign high above her head. It showed a drawing of the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate and read, “I voted 14 times to kill the unborn.” Mrs. Ferraro has been dogged by anti-abortion protesters throughout her campaign, and demonstrators acknowledge that, on a local level, they have mounted a highly organized effort to embarrass the candidate and gather publicity for their cause. “We got together and decided we’d be here and make our views known,” said Carolyn Longo, a demonstrator who attended a Ferraro rally Tuesday in Youngstown, Ohio,
More than 66 million Americans — nearly 30% of the non-farm population — receive direct government benefits in one form or another, a new government study disclosed. Social Security payments to 31,710,000 people and Medicare assistance for 26,711,000 are the two most common benefits, the report said. But it also showed that nearly one in five Americans receives some aid based on low-income levels — such as food stamps, subsidized housing, Medicaid and Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The details were collected in the Survey of Income and Program Participation, a new Census Bureau study.
House and Senate negotiators failed again to reach agreement over an anti-discrimination amendment to the controversial Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill, leaving both supporters and opponents to predict that the bill could be dead for this legislative session. The amendment would bar employers from denying jobs to applicants merely because they are not U.S. citizens. The bill will die unless it is passed by both houses before final adjournment of Congress.
A federal judge in Denver, citing misconduct by the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department, has dismissed charges involving tax shelters against five persons and a bank in what was once called at $122 million the largest tax-fraud case in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge John L. Kane Jr. said that grand jury rules about secrecy were violated and that witnesses were mistreated and urged to invoke their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. On trial were William A. Kilpatrick, 50, of Littleton, Colo., four other individuals and a Canadian bank.
A federal judge in Washington upheld the Reagan Administration’s denial of special immigration status to thousands of Salvadorans living illegally in the United States. The decision means that efforts to return them to war-torn El Salvador will continue, although the number of such deportations has fallen, in part because more illegal aliens have applied for political asylum, which can involve a lengthy legal process.
Tropical Storm Isidore lashed Nassau, in the Bahamas, with gales and flooding rains, stalled for six hours, intensified, then aimed its 50 mph winds across the Gulf Stream toward South Florida’s “Gold Coast.” Thousands of people rushed to prepare for the season’s ninth tropical twister, which at last report was 120 miles southeast of Miami and moving toward the resort city at 10 mph, generating wind gusts to 65 mph. The National Hurricane Center warned Gold Coast residents to “be prepared to take quick action in case a hurricane warning is issued. The potential for some strengthening still exists.”
The citrus industry today nervously watched the track of the tropical storm that took a bead on the southern Florida coast and threatened to hamper the fight against citrus canker. The storm, named Isidore, formed suddenly in the Bahamas and headed toward Miami. It was 100 miles southeast of Miami early today with top winds of 50 miles an hour, and forecasters said the storm’s path would likely cross southern Florida. But citrus industry leaders were concerned that it might turn north and sweep through the citrus belt in the center of the state. Scientists warned that heavy winds could strip contaminated leaves from trees and broadcast them for miles into uninfected groves. Florida Agriculture Secretary Doyle Conner advised grove operators to burn all newly planted trees that had been traced to nurseries infected with canker before high winds arrived.
No quick resolution seemed in sight as white collar workers struck Yale University in the school’s largest work stoppage since it opened in 1701. The impact of the walkout by 1,500 clerical and technical workers was compounded by 900 food service and maintenance members of an affiliate union who honored the campus-wide picket lines. Members of Local 34, Federation of University Employees, who are mostly women, walked off the job at the New Haven, Conn., school in a prolonged dispute over a first contract.
Bombs exploded at the South African Consulate in New York City and 24 hours later at a Union Carbide chemical plant in suburban Tarrytown, authorities said. The terrorist group Guerrilla Resistance claiming credit for the blasts may be linked to 11 other bombings in the New York area in the last two years, the FBI said. No injuries were reported in either blast.
A 64-foot schooner carrying 23 people capsized and sank in a storm today, tossing vacationers and crew members into the cold waters of Penobscot Bay, where they were quickly rescued. “The schooner began tilting and then all of a sudden we were in the water,” said Becky Burkey, a passenger from Texas. “I’m just glad to be here,” she said, while recovering at Oakland House lodge in Brooksville. Two people from the boat, the Isaac Evans, were hospitalized for treatment of subnormal body temperature and were in good condition, the officials said. Three others who suffered minor hypothermia were treated and released. “It took two people to get them aboard because they were so cold,” said Basil Ladd of Brooksville, who helped in the rescue efforts. The Coast Guard said the water temperature in the strait between Little Deer Isle and the mainland, where the incident occured, was about 52 degrees, normal for this time of year.
Measuring blood levels of a single hormone gives doctors an accurate assessment of the risk of death faced by people with severe congestive heart failure, a University of Minnesota Medical School study concludes. High levels of this stress hormone, norepinephrine, are common among people who are at high danger from heart failure, researchers found. The hormone serves as a better indicator than any of the other routinely measured signs, such as heart rate or blood sodium levels, the study found. Results of the study, directed by Dr. Jay N. Cohn, were published in Thursday’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
I.B.M. expanded into telecommunications, announcing it would acquire the Rolm Corporation, one of Silicon Valley’s leading makers of telephone switching equipment, for $1.25 billion in securities.
Cigarette makers would have to tell smokers more forcefully that they are endangering their health under legislation approved speedily by voice votes in both the House and the Senate. President Reagan has not said whether he will sign the measure.
Whether a woman will be executed in North Carolina for the fatal poisoning of four people, including her mother, has become a central issue in a bitterly fought Senate race between Governor James B. Hunt Jr. and Jesse Helms, the Republican incumbent. The convicted woman, 51-year-old Margie Velma Barfield, contends she acted because her mind was clouded by an addiction to tranquilizers and painkillers. Mr. Hunt is expected to rule soon on a petition for clemency. The execution is scheduled for November 2, four days before North Carolina voters go to the polls.
A warning on fresh-frozen plasma was issued by health experts. They said that up to ten thousand patients might be contracting hepatitis and other infectious diseases each year from transfusions of the plasma, a major blood product that they said was not needed by 90 percent of the patients who received it.
A Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit.
Brian Downing and Doug DeCinces each knocked in a run, and Ron Romanick pitched a seven-hitter tonight to lead the California Angels to a 2–0 victory over the Kansas City Royals. The Royals (83–76), leaders in the American League West, maintained a one-and-a-half-game margin over the second-place Minnesota Twins (81–77), who lost to the Chicago White Sox. The Angels (79–79), in third place, pulled to three and a half games of the Royals. The Royals are off Thursday, then close out the regular season with three games at Oakland. The Twins play four in Cleveland and the Angels four in Texas. Romanick (12–12) walked one and struck out two as the Angels snapped a five-game losing streak that had virtually eliminated them from baseball’s only undecided divisional race. The Royals’ Bud Black (17–12), pitching on only three days’ rest, gave only four hits, but the Angels bunched three of them in the sixth.
The Chicago White Sox downed the Minnesota Twins, 9–3. Greg Walker hit a three-run homer to cap a five-run third-inning rally by the White Sox. Richard Dotson (14–15) snapped a personal five-game losing streak by pitching an eight-hitter against the Twins for his 14th complete game. The Twins took a 2–0 lead in the first inning. With two outs, Mickey Hatcher singled, Kent Hrbek walked and Randy Bush doubled to right-center field to drive in both runners.
When Manager Yogi Berra informed John Montefusco in the dugout that he wouldn’t be starting the eighth inning tonight, the 34-year-old Yankee pitcher, who had broken a blister on his right thumb, pleaded to be left in. “He said that he couldn’t throw his breaking pitch,” the manager explained afterward. “But he said he hadn’t pitched a shutout in a long time. I said, ‘too bad.’ ” So even though Montefusco had allowed no runs and only two hits over seven innings against Baltimore, Dave Righetti came in to pitch the last two innings and get his 30th save. Although he allowed a run, Righetti preserved Montefusco’s masterful outing as the Yankees defeated the Orioles, 3–1, to split their four-game series.
Bert Blyleven raised his record to 18–7 with his fourth shutout, a seven-hitter, as the Cleveland Indians blanked the Seattle Mariners, 1–0. Blyleven struck out six and walked one as he lowered his earned run average to 2.81 with his 12th complete game. The Cleveland right-hander has 46 career shutouts, and the 18 victories are his most since he won 20 with the Minnesota Twins in 1973. Cleveland scored in the fourth inning on a sacrifice fly by Jerry Willard.
The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox, 8–4. Doyle Alexander improved his record to 17–5 with the win at Fenway. After giving up four rns in the second, Alexander retired the next 15 batters in order.
The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Detroit Tigers, 7–5. Milwaukee rallied with four runs in the eighth to win it. Pinch hitter Ben Gilvie’s double and a single by Robin Yount gave the Brewers the lead.
The Oakland A’s defeated the Texas Rangers, 7–5. Dwayne Murphy hit a three-run homer that capped a seven-run second inning to make it easy for Dave Leiper, who got his first major league win.
The Cincinnati Reds downed the Atlanta Braves, 6–3. Dave Parker and Cesar Cedeno each had three hits and Dave Concepcion doubled and singled to knock in three runs as Mario Soto won his 17th.
The Los Angeles Dodgers lost to the Houston Astros, 3–1. Fernando Valenzuela went the distance, struck out 12, gave up just six hits — and lost. It was that kind of year for the Dodgers.
The St. Louis Cardinals shut out the Montreal Expos, 5–0. David Green provided the offense with a three-run homer. Rookie Kurt Kepshire got the win. It was his second consecutive complete-game shutout.
Philadelphia’s Juan Samuel breaks Tim Raines’s record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd in a 7–1 Phillies’ loss to the New York Mets. Raines had set the record of 71 in the strike-shortened 1981 season. 5,251 turn out to see the Phillies play the Mets at Shea Stadium. The second place Mets are the first team to finish above .500 and score fewer runs than their opponents in a full season since the 1932 Pirates.
The Chicago Cubs downed the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5–2. Backup catcher Steve Lake hit a three-run homer to win it for the Cubs.
The San Diego Padres blanked the woeful San Francisco Giants, 4–. Eric Show (15–9) got the win, allowing just three hits in seven innings before Goose Gossage came in to pitch the eighth..
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Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter, 36, after being gored by a bull in the ring.
Shelly Manne, 64, American ‘West Coast’ jazz and session drummer, percussionist, composer, and bandleader, of a heart attack.
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