Andrei Gromyko concluded his talks in Washington with an agreement with the Reagan Administration “on a process of follow up exchanges between the two sides,” a senior State Department official said. The Soviet Foreign Minister’s final session with Secretary of State George P. Shultz, was “a constructive useful meeting,” the official said. Today’s talks brought to a conclusion an unusual week of foreign policy activity that marked an interlude in President Reagan’s re-election campaign. At the same time, White House officials have made no secret of their goal of using the meetings with Mr. Gromyko and others this week to enhance the President’s ratings as a leader concerned about reducing world tensions.
There seemed to be no substantive agreements emerging from the discussions, which covered three separate meetings involving Mr. Shultz and President Reagan. The senior official, however, argued that the talks had been worthwhile and could lead to an easing in tensions in coming months if the two sides, after pondering the results of the meetings, come back with constructive replies. The official, who took part in Mr. Gromyko’s two meetings with Mr. Shultz, on Wednesday and today, and in Friday’s White House session with President Reagan, said that in the nearly nine hours of talks there had been a “rigorous give-and-take on nearly every global and bilateral issue.”
President Reagan makes a radio address to the nation about U.S – Soviet relations. Mr. Reagan, providing his own evaluation of the meetingwith Gromyko in his five-minute political radio address today, promised that the Russians would “get a fair deal if they seek the path of negotiation and peace.”
The Soviet Communist Party Central Committee is planning to hold a meeting in early October, sources in Moscow reported. A full session of the Supreme Soviet will follow the plenum, which will be held within the next two weeks, the sources said. Officials at the Supreme Soviet confirmed that a session is planned for the beginning of October but refused to give a date or any details of the agenda. Both gatherings are normally held in November for the purpose of endorsing the economic plan for the coming year. Reports of the early sessions refueled speculation of new changes in the Soviet leadership.
A West German official said the Soviet Union has shifted SS-22 nuclear missiles to East Germany and Czechoslovakia during the last three weeks. Juergen Todenhoefer, disarmament spokesman of the ruling Christian Democratic Union, said the Soviet had so far moved 50 SS-22 launchers, each with two missiles, into position and would eventually deploy more. The Kremlin had threatened to deploy the SS-22s, which have a range of about 540 miles, in East Bloc countries to counter the placement of U.S. cruise and Pershing 2 missiles in Western Europe.
A week of anti-NATO protests in West Germany ended with an anti-nuclear arms demonstrations by tens of thousands of people in Fulda, in the region where the North Atlantic Treaty organization held maneuvers. Thousands of West Germans linked hands in a 12-mile-long “human chain” to protest North Atlantic Treaty Organization maneuvers in the strategic Fulda Gap region near the border of Communist East Germany. Protest organizers said that 30,000 people took part, but Fulda police put the number at 18,000 “at most.” A number of violent confrontations were reported, including the holding of a U.S. depot guard at gunpoint and stealing his pistol.
Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski unexpectedly canceled his first scheduled meeting with the nation’s Roman Catholic primate, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, in nine months, church sources reported. They said that the reason for the cancellation was unclear but that it underscored strains between the church and Communist authorities. Church leaders had hoped Jaruzelski would give his final approval at the planned meeting to a church-sponsored fund to channel Western aid to Poland’s private farmers.
Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald said today that many lives may have been saved by the predawn capture of a trawler he said was carrying arms from the United States to Irish “subversives.” “These were arms being brought to this country to murder Irish people north and south,” Mr. FitzGerald told reporters after a patrol boat in the Atlantic fired tracer bullets and forced the trawler to surrender. Mr. FitzGerald said the arms came from the United States and that while an inventory of the cache had not been taken, “it is clear already it is a significant find, and many lives of Irish people and indeed others may have been saved by this.” The police said the supply of automatic weapons, ammunition and explosives aboard the boat was the largest arms seizure in Ireland in more than a decade.
A drum of nuclear material lifted from the wrecked French cargo vessel Mont Louis has sprung a slight leak, but the escaping gas is fluorine, the nonradioactive component of its uranium hexafluoride contents, salvage officials said tonight. Henk Drenthe, spokesman for Dutch salvage firm Smit Tak International, said in Rotterdam that the leak was “very light.” He said the barrel had started to leak after it came out of the water because its valve and protective plate had been damaged. The barrel, the latest to be recovered and the 29th out of a total of 30, was immediately put into a hermetically sealed safety container, he said. Paul Goris, spokesman in Ostend for a Belgian salvage firm, said the leakage had been of fluorine gas. He said the alarm was raised after salvage workers smelled fluorine, a gas that can burn the skin.
Assistant Secretary of State Richard W. Murphy left Beirut after nine days of Mideast shuttle diplomacy, and news reports said he had laid the groundwork for a possible new U.S. peace initiative. The Christian Falangists’ Voice of Lebanon said Murphy completed the framework for an initiative and is expected to return to work on the details after the U.S. election if a final decision to undertake the effort is made.
Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiri lifted a five-month nationwide state of emergency that he had imposed in the face of growing social unrest over economic problems and government corruption. Numeiri also suspended the operation of special “decisive justice courts” set up under his April 29 decree to enforce Islamic law. The Sudan news agency said radical changes in the judiciary will be announced soon. The moves were the latest in steps to defuse tension in Sudan, where non-Muslim southerners were angered when Numeiri imposed Islamic law a year ago.
Famine caused by drought will take the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians unless a major relief operation is mounted immediately, private Western aid agencies warned. The Christian Relief and Development Association, which includes 26 churches and voluntary agencies, said Ethiopia “has not experienced a food shortage of this magnitude in living memory.”
Iraq today attacked a petrochemical complex under construction at Bandar Khomeini in southwest Iran for the second time in eight days, an Iraqi military spokesman and diplomats here said. The Iraqi spokesman, in Baghdad, called the attack a “warning strike,” and said it was in retaliation for Iranian attacks on Iraqi oil installations earlier this month. He gave no further details, and diplomats here could give no details of any damage or casualties in the attack. Officials of Japan’s Mitsui group, which is building the complex, said earlier this week that several Japanese workers were injured in an Iraqi air attack on the site on September 22.
North Korea gave flood-relief aid to South Korea. A convoy of 370 trucks, carrying rice, medicine and cloth, entered South Korean territory in the first movement of supplies across the border since the Korean War ended 31 years ago.
The Marcos Government is shaky, Reagan Administration and Senate staff analysts have concluded in a study of the Philippines. The analysts have found that Communist insurgents are growing in power throughout the country and that “many Filipinos” believe that the era of President Ferdinand E. Marcos “is in its terminal stage.”
Grenada’s international airport will be officially opened to civilian aircraft next month, the Government announced this week. Pat Emmanuel of the eight-member interim Government said Friday that the inauguration date had been set for October 28. The Reagan Administration cited the pending completion of the airport as one reason why it sent troops to invade the Caribbean island nation last year after the leftist Government of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was overthrown by a hard-line insurgent group. It said the airport could have been used by Soviet and Cuban military aircraft. The $71 million airport was built with the help of American and Canadian contractors and with Cuban labor. Although Soviet and Cuban aid was involved, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela and Algeria also contributed to the expenses.
Napalm incendiary weapons are among the equipment of the Salvadoran military, the United States Ambassador to El Salvador said. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering said he had confirmed the existence of the weapons and that the napalm came from outside El Salvador, but not from the United States.
An American journalist was released from jail here Friday night after a 78-day detention on charges of marijuana possession. The journalist, Thomas Quinn, a part-time correspondent for TIME magazine and a longtime resident in Colombia, told a meeting of the Foreign Press Association in Bogota that a military judge found no criminal evidence against him. Mr. Quinn was arrested July 12 together with a BBC correspondent, Nigel Parsons, when the police found 2.8 ounces of marijuana hidden behind the back seat of the car they were traveling in. Mr. Parsons, a Briton, was released a month later and has left the country. Mr. Quinn said he wondered why it took the authorities nearly 80 days to find out he was innocent. The Foreign Press Association President, Jesus Fonseca, said a formal protest would be lodged against what he called Mr. Quinn’s unjustifiable detention.
The Senate today crushed a filibuster by conservative Republicans on a civil rights bill, which its supporters hope can be attached to a catchall spending measure to keep most Government agencies operating in the new fiscal year beginning Monday. The 92-to-4 vote to limit debate by imposing cloture, in a rare Saturday session, indicated that the chamber was impatient with dilatory tactics that could hold up adoption of the catchall spending resolution until after the Monday deadline. An hour after the vote, the Senate unanimously approved a resolution that continues spending for a number of Government agencies at current levels through Tuesday. A similar measure is pending before the House. In effect this would delay by two days the deadline for approval of the catchall spending measure, needed because Congress has not adopted appropriations bills for most Government agencies for the new fiscal year.
Enforcement of civil rights laws is to be partly delegated to state officials in selected states under a Reagan Administration proposal. Administration officials said the transfer of power was consistent with President Reagan’s “new federalism” initiative, which seeks to reduce Federal regulation and to strengthen the role of state government.
Campaigning with Jimmy Carter by his side today, Walter F. Mondale charged that President Reagan’s meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko, the Soviet Foreign Minister, apparently ended in failure. He challenged Mr. Reagan to prove him wrong. The Democratic Presidential candidate cited the session with Mr. Gromyko as part of the “growing evidence of a failure of foreign policy and foreign policy by this Administration.” At a campaign appearance at a picnic today, Mr. Mondale criticized Mr. Reagan’s arms control policies. “At the end of today’s negotiations there’s apparently been no progress toward arms control at all,” Mr. Mondale said. “We’ve completed four years of this Administration with no progress whatsoever.”
President Reagan places a call to former President Richard M. Nixon.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “The Bear.”
Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger today said he would not ask Congress for any more money to buy the Army’s problem- plagued Sergeant York antiaircraft gun, pending the outcome of further tests. Mr. Weinberger, reacting to strong Congressional opposition, said in a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees that he was reviewing the future of the weapon. “One of the alternatives being considered is cancellation,” he said. Mr. Weinberger said that he personally conducted an “intensive review” of the Sergeant York and that “I have concluded that until further testing is finished, there should be no fiscal year 1985 procurement.”
Walter Mondale’s health is excellent, according to the Democratic Presidential nominee’s physician. But he, like millions of other Americans, must take medication daily to control high blood pressure.
Mario M. Cuomo says he would not run for re- election as Governor in 1986 if he decided to seek the Presidency in 1988. The Governor made his remarks in an interview in which he discussed his thoughts about running for President while emphasizing that he had made no such decision yet. He said he believed Walter F. Mondale, this year’s Democratic nominee, would come from behind to defeat President Reagan.
Volatile church and state issues are high on the agenda of the Supreme Court’s new term which begins tomorrow. The new term could produce new developments in the constitutional relationship between religion and government.
The federal government wastes about $1 billion each year in issuing food stamp recipients too many benefits, according to a General Accounting Office report. Recipients’ failure to report all their earned income “is the most significant cause of food stamp over-issuances…” the congressional auditing agency said. Other causes cited are fraud and state food stamp agency errors. The report also said that in fiscal years 1981 and 1982, state governments issued about $2 billion in food stamp benefits to households which were not entitled.
Max Hugel, former CIA deputy director in charge of reorganizing the agency’s clandestine operations, has been awarded $931,000 in a defamation suit against two brothers whose allegations of illegal business activities by Hugel prompted him to resign the agency. Hugel had sought $7 million in damages that he said occurred when the Washington Post published the allegations by Samuel and Thomas McNell, who accused him of leaking stock tips about his company. The McNells failed to appear for a hearing in the suit and now are fugitives from unrelated fraud charges.
Teachers in two Illinois community colleges went on strike Friday as educators elsewhere in the state went back to work, while school officials in Louisiana pondered two new plans to end a two-month-long walkout there. Nationally, strikes affected more than 2,600 teachers and nearly 60,000 students in Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In Illinois, teachers struck Morton Community College in Cicero and Carl Sandburg Community College in Galesburg, but teachers in the Orion school district in western Illinois went back to classes as contract talks continued.
Agriculture officials relaxed an embargo on citrus sales within Florida as the burning of millions of seedlings infected with canker disease moved toward completion. Nearly 2 million seedlings have been burned, and an additional 700,000 are scheduled for destruction. Florida grocery stores will be permitted to sell oranges and grapefruit for one week to help deplete current citrus stock. Officials said the embargo was relaxed because grocery stores were stuck with fruit that had already been harvested.
Chunks of debris up to eight feet long fell from a Boeing 747 jet shortly after takeoff on a flight from Seattle to Seoul, South Korea, officials said. Northwest Orient Flight 19 returned safely to the Seattle airport, and all 350 persons aboard were unharmed. The debris apparently struck one car, and pieces of the aircraft were found on house roofs in Milton, Wash., an FAA spokesman said, but no injuries on the ground were reported. The spokesman said the debris apparently came from a left inboard engine cowling.
The United Mine Workers continued contract talks with three independent coal companies in West Virginia, including the Massey Coal Group, the nation’s sixth largest, under the threat of a midnight strike deadline tonight. The union has said negotiations with the three firms will be tougher than they were with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, which signed a new pact last week. The independent companies chose to negotiate separately.
A man whose murder conviction was overturned 20 years ago by a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, was found guilty in Chicago of sexually abusing his second wife’s daughter. Daniel Escobedo, 46, was found guilty of deviate sexual assault and indecent liberties with a child. Escobedo was accused of twice molesting the girl, then 12, in December, 1982, and January, 1983. The Supreme Court in 1964 overturned Escobedo’s murder conviction because his lawyer had been illegally barred from the police station.
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace was treated with antibiotics at Birmingham’s University Hospital in an effort to cure a urinary tract infection. Wallace, 65, was hospitalized Thursday with a fever of around 101 degrees. His press secretary, Billy Joe Camp, said Wallace had “a fairly restful night.” A decision is expected to be made Monday on when the governor will be released.
An Indian community near Santa Fe, New Mexico, has asked a federal district judge to set aside the settlement of its lawsuit against The New Mexican, accusing the newspaper of violating the settlement and of seeking to ridicule the Indians in print. The Santo Domingo pueblo had agreed to the dismissal of its $3.65 million suit against the newspaper alleging invasion of privacy in exchange for concessions including a public apology, which The New Mexican published September 18. But in a motion filed this week in Federal District Court, the pueblo said the newspaper had breached the agreement by “dodging” the main issue of the suit in its apology and by publishing an accompanying article the pueblo considered “demeaning.” A hearing is set for Friday. The newspaper’s lawyer termed the pueblo’s reaction “incomprehensible,” and defended the apology and article as meeting the terms of the settlement “in the spirit of good faith.”
Organized crime has a “stranglehold” on a large part of the cargo business at Kennedy International Airport, extorting millions of dollars every year from shipping and trucking companies, according to the head of a Federal investigative unit.
Elizabeth Taylor undergoes substance abuse rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Center; meets construction worker and future husband Larry Fortensky.
“Let’s Go Crazy” by Prince and The Revolution peaks at #1.
“Drive” by The Cars peaks at #3.
“Cruel Summer” by Bananarama peaks at #9.
Fred Manrique singled home the tie-breaking run in the top of the ninth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays edged the Milwaukee Brewers, 5–4, today, clinching second place in the American League East. With the Blue Jays trailing, 4–3, in the ninth, Ernie Whitt singled to left to score Mitch Webster. The pinch- hitter Rick Leach drew a walk and Manrique followed with a single off the glove of the third baseman Willie Lozado to score Upshaw.
Mike Boddicker scattered 12 hits and became the American League’s first 20- game winner as the Baltimore Orioles ended a four-game losing streak with a 6–3 victory today over the Boston Red Sox. Boddicker struck out one and didn’t walk a batter in struggling to the victory. The right-hander has lost 11 games. The Orioles combined six hits and five walks for three runs off the Boston starter. Boston’s Wade Boggs had two singles for his 200th and 201st hits of the season and became only the third Red Sox to reach 200 hits in two or more seasons. He had 210 in 1983.
With a five-run burst against Ron Guidry in the sixth inning, the Detroit Tigers crushed the Yankees, 11–3, and erased New York’s chance of finishing second in the East behind Detroit. Guidry finished with a 10–11 record, the first losing year he has had in eight full seasons in the majors.
Geoff Zahn of the California Angels blanked the Texas Rangers, 4–0. Rookie right fielder Mike Brown had a solo homer, an RBI single, and threw out a runner at the plate to reserve the shutout.
The Chicago White Sox downed the Seattle Mariners, 6–2. Floyd Bannister went seven innings, giving up eight hits and strikng out seven to earn his 14th win.
The Cleveland Indians defeated the Minnesota Twins, 6–4. The Twins led in this game at Cleveland, 3–0, but blew that lead just as they had blown leads in their three previous games. Their fifth straight loss, however, wasn’t as painful as the four others, since the race in the AL West had ended Friday night.
The Oakland A’s beat the Kansas City Royals, 6–2. Chris Codiroli wasn’t really impressed with his seven-hitter at Oakland that beat the newly crowned champions of the AL West. “It’s easy to beat a team that celebrated the night before,” he said. “It was a different team out there.” One of the hits was Steve Balboni’s 28th home run. Only John Mayberry, with 34 in 1975, hit more in a season for the Royals.
The New York Mets downed the Montreal Expos, 8–4, and won their 90th game in a season of startling success. It also was a night of success for Ray Knight, who got four hits for the Mets, and Darryl Strawberry, who hit a double and his 24th home run and who now has knocked in 95 runs.
The Chicago Cubs spanked the St. Louis Cardinals, 9–5. Dennis Eckersley won his tenth game against eight defeats. Ryne Sandberg, spurred on by the chants of “MVP! MVP!,” had four hits at Chicago, reaching the 200 mark. Sandberg needs a home run and a triple in the finale today to become the first player to score 100 runs and reach 200 hits, 20 doubles, 20 triples, 20 home runs and 20 stolen bases in the same season.
The Cincinnati Reds beat the Houston Astros, 4–1. Jay Tibbs (6–2) hurled a six-hitter and the Reds scored three in the first. Joe Niekro (16–12) took the loss.
The Los Angeles Dodgers edged the San Francisco Giants, 4–3 in 11 innings. Ken Landreaux’s bases-loaded single with none out in the bottom of the 11th ended it. Frank Williams (9–4) gave up three hits and an intententional walk without recording an out to take the loss. Tom Niedenfuer got the win.
The Pittsburgh Pirates blanked the Philadelphia Phillies, 4–0, behind Rick Rhoden’s (14–9) four-hitter.
The San Diego Padres downed the Atlanta Braves, 6–2, as The Padres scored five times in the second inning, and Ed Whitson won his 14th, shutting out the Braves for six innings.
Born:
Mark Flood, Canadian NHL defenseman (New York Islanders, Winnipeg Jets), in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Brandon Coutu, NFL kicker (Buffalo Bills), in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Adriene Mishler, American yoga teacher (“Yoga with Adriene” on YouTube), in Austin, Texas.
Died:
Marnix Gijsen [Jan-Albert Goris], 85, Belgian writer (Lament for Agnes).
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