President Reagan took responsibility as Commander in Chief of the recent bombing at the United States Embassy in Lebanon. While campaigning in Texas, he told reporters that “I’m not going to deliver somebody’s head up on a platter, which seems to be the request of so many when things like this happen.
An East German was arrested at Kennedy International Airport Monday night as she was about to board of flight to Czechoslovakia with a tape recording of classified United States military information hidden in a cigarette pack, authorities said.
In a bold attempt to reassert his leadership, Neil Kinnock, the Labor Party’s embattled leader, today vigorously condemned the violence that has marred the seven-month-old miners’ strike. Addressing the annual party conference at the end of his first year in office, Mr. Kinnock made a bitter attack on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He accused her of ”tearing our society apart” and said she was motivated by ”political vanity on a manic scale.” But he also sought to balance the resolution, adopted in an overwhelming vote by the conference on Monday, that condemned police violence in the miners’ strike without mentioning violence perpetrated by pickets.
The president of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, and seven other members of the group were arrested in a predawn raid today and questioned about how a New York lawyer had managed to enter Northern Ireland illegally last August. After six hours, Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader, and the others were released without charges. Martin Galvin, publicity director of the New York-based Noraid, which raises money in the United States, entered the province despite a ban by the British Government. He appeared with Mr. Adams at a rally in Belfast on August 12.
The Polish Government accused Poland’s Roman Catholic Church today of using religion for political purposes and indicated it was delaying a high-level church-state meeting as a consequence. The Government spokesman, Jerzy Urban, said a meeting that had been planned between Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Prime Minister and party leader, and Jozef Cardinal Glemp, the Catholic Primate, had not taken place. The meeting had been intended to provide an opportunity for discussion of ways to improve strained church-state relations.
A chartered ferry carrying more than 40 people on a birthday cruise sank tonight after a collision with a tug towing a barge in rain-swept Hamburg harbor. The police said a man had drowned, 24 people had been rescued and 21 were missing. They said eight children and the captain of the ferry Martina were among the missing in the accident, which occurred near where the Elbe River joins the harbor. Harbor authorities said the Martina went down immediately after the collision, but the tugboat Therese escaped serious damage and joined six fire boats and several private vessels in the search for victims.
Moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was approved in a nonbinding resolution by two House Foreign Affairs subcommittees over the objections of the Reagan Administration. The bill, unlike an earlier version, does not require the Administration to move the embassy but says it is “the sense of the Congress” that it be done “at the earliest possible date.”
An Israeli Nazi hunter said he believes that Josef Mengele, the most wanted Nazi war criminal, is living in the United States. Tuvia Friedman, head of the privately financed Center for the Investigation of Nazi Criminals in Haifa, Israel, said that, according to a source he would not name, Mengele has been living in Florida for the past five years and has been spotted in Tampa, Orlando and New Orleans. Mengele, known as the Butcher of Auschwitz, was once a citizen of Paraguay, but that country’s government says he no longer lives there. If still alive, he would be 72.
Egypt’s President accused Libya of having plotted to attack Egypt’s Aswan High Dam and the Suez Canal. President Hosni Mubarak was quoted in an Egyptian newspaper as saying that after learning of the plots, he had sent a letter to Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, containing what he called an “unequivocal warning.” Egypt has warned Libya that any attack on the Aswan High Dam would draw an Egyptian reprisal “dozens of times as strong as the strike,” Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was quoted as saying. According to the Cairo paper Al Akbar, Mubarak said a defecting Libyan air force pilot warned Egypt of the planned attack on the dam. The Soviet-built dam, on the Nile River 727 miles south of Cairo, is one of the largest in the world.
A Lebanese newspaper reported that the Syrian secret service has identified the abductors of two Americans and a Saudi diplomat and that Syria is attempting to negotiate their freedom. The newspaper, Al Shark, which has close ties to the Syrian government, did not name the kidnapers but said they are holding U.S. Embassy political officer William Buckley; Jeremy Levin, Beirut bureau chief of Cable News Network, and Saudi Consul General Hussein Farrash. There was no mention of a third abducted American, the Rev. Benjamin Weir of Berkeley, Calif., who was kidnaped in May.
Lebanese Premier Rashid Karami appealed for U.S. help in achieving the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon, but he was told that Washington does not want to assist unless there is more flexibility by the governments involved, a senior State Department official said. Karami made the appeal to Secretary of State George P. Shultz in Washington.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines urged professionals and business leaders today to join demonstrations against the Government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. ”It is time that the national leadership is made to realize that the discontent and disenchantment are not confined to students and the workers,” said Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archibishop of Manila. ”It is time that those in power are made to see that the entire citizenry is involved.” Cardinal Sin, a persistent critic of Mr. Marcos, appears to have stepped up his anti-Government charges in response to recent protests that the police have broken up demonstrations by using tear gas, nightsticks and guns. In particular, the church leader condemned the violent dispersal of a rally in Manila last Thursday, when at least 34 people were hospitalized, including 12 with bullet wounds. One demonstrator died of a gunshot wound.
Talks on postponing the elections scheduled in Nicaragua on November 4 failed. Government and opposition leaders announced they had failed to reach agreement on deferring the elections as a way of insuring the participation of a leading opposition coalition.
Daniel Ortega Saavedra, Nicaragua’s head of state, told the United Nations General Assembly that the United States had plans to launch a military offensive against his nation in mid-month to prevent elections set for November 4.
A Colombian cargo plane was hijacked to Cuba today and the hijacker was taken into custody along with two women and two children accompanying him, a Cuban airport official said. He said the plane, commandeered on a flight from the Colombian port of Cartagena to Bogota, the Colombian capital, would return to Colombia soon. The official, in the operations office at Jose Marti Airport here, said the DC-8 of the Colombia airline Lineas Aereas del Caribe had been hijacked by a man who was accompanied by two women and two children. Upon landing in Havana, the hijacker was taken into custody by the Cuban security police, the official said. The women and children were taken from the airport in an official vehicle. The cargo plane reportedly carried five other passengers and a crew of three.
Nigeria’s military government announced the release of about half of its 500 political prisoners, among them several former high-ranking members of the previous civilian government. It said those being freed include former Biafran leader Odumegwu Ojukwu, who led the breakaway state until it was defeated in Nigeria’s bloody civil war from 1967 to 1970. He returned voluntarily from exile in the Ivory Coast last year. Also being released are about a dozen former ministers, a number of ousted state officials, members of now-banned political parties and businessmen.
Three teenage blacks were struck and killed by a delivery truck caught in a mob and a black Iman was beaten to death in renewed violence in South Africa, where about 100,000 youths are boycotting black schools. The truck went out of control when it was attacked in Kwathema by 300 rock-throwing youths. Outside Johannesburg, more than 100 youths stoned a house and beat the black owner to death. The motive for the attack was not known. Meanwhile, police arrested Popo Molefe, secretary general of the anti-apartheid United Democratic Front, whom they had sought since a crackdown on dissent began in late August.
South Africa announced that it will relocate people living in illegal squatter camps near Cape Town to a massive new high-security township where the government “can control the situation much better.” The squalor at the Crossroads squatter camps, about 10 miles from Cape Town, has provoked an international outcry. The new township, called Khayalitsha, is being built 28 miles outside of Cape Town.
Three cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit. Soyuz T-11 landed with the crew that had been launched on Soyuz T-10 (Leonid Kizim, Vladimir Solovyov, and Oleg Atkov).
A civil rights measure was shelved by the Senate after supporters sought vainly to attach it to a catchall spending bill needed to finance most Government agencies beyond midnight tonight. The vote of 53 to 45 came after the collapse of a last-minute compromise proposed by Senator Bob Dole, chairman of the Finance Committee. Senators worked vainly into the evening in an attempt to salvage at least part of the civil rights bill.
A Social Security increase is guaranteed in January in a bill passed by the House even if inflation remains low. The bill is similar to one passed by the Senate. Brushing aside complaints that the whole thing is an election-year stunt, the House gave final legislative approval to a Reagan Administration proposal that would guarantee a cost-of-living raise for the nation’s 37 million Social Security recipients in January, even if inflation stays below the “trigger” level of 3%. However, it appears the exemption will not be needed. Preliminary estimates by the Social Security Administration indicate that an automatic cost-of-living adjustment of 3.2% to 3.6% will be forthcoming. The measure now goes to the White House.
The President and First Lady attend the Texas Republican Party’s Victory ’84 Dinner.
The crew of the shuttle Challenger arrived at the Kennedy Space Center for the start of their 43-hour countdown to blastoff Friday on an eight-day Earth observation mission. The traditional “call to stations” for the countdown was set for early today and was scheduled to end at 4:03 a.m. PDT Friday with Challenger’s launch on its sixth mission.
The Air Force wants to build an underground missile base that could survive a nuclear attack, Pentagon officials said. They said the Air Force, in a top-secret report to Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger in July, asserted that the vast project was feasible, both militarily and technically. The plan has been under study for two years, they said. The officials said the underground base would provide what they called a Secure Reserve Force that could survive a nuclear attack. They said intercontinental ballistic missiles in the underground base would then be ready for retaliatory strikes within two or three days.
The Environmental Protection Agency named 244 new sites to the priority list for “superfund” cleanup, bringing to 786 the number of toxic-waste sites that the agency believes may pose an imminent threat to public health. The new sites, in more than 30 states, represent a 45% increase in sites deemed to be the nation’s “most hazardous.” Sites in Southern California include Montrose Chemical Corp. in Torrance, Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, Operating Industries Inc. in Monterey Park and unspecified sites in the San Fernando Valley and Glendale.
Almost one-fifth of all adult Americans have mental problems of varying degrees, and men, contrary to previous belief, have as many emotional disorders as women, says a major government study. The most comprehensive survey of mental disorders ever conducted in the United States found that alcohol and drug abuse or dependence afflict 6% to 7% of the population, with four-fifths of these disorders specifically related to alcohol. The data also found that depression, mania, a persistent depressive disorder called dysthymia and other so-called affective disorders affect 5% to 6% of adults.
Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan pleaded not guilty yesterday to a 137-count indictment charging him with participation in a multimillion- dollar scheme to defraud the New York City Transit Authority. The indictment, which was released publicly after Mr. Donovan was arraigned in State Supreme Court in the Bronx, charged him and nine other people with grand larceny, falsifying documents and filing false documents. The purported misconduct by Mr. Donovan occurred before he joined the Reagan Administration in 1981, prosecutors said. Granted Leave of Absence Mr. Donovan, who has been granted a leave of absence from his post to defend himself, said the indictment was part of a politically motivated ”inquisition” by the Bronx District Attorney, Mario Merola. ”Mr. Merola may have won today’s battle by misuse of his office,” Mr. Donovan told reporters in a courthouse hallway, ”but he will not win the war.”
A Navy warship was towed from an East Boston shipyard to a temporary berth to end a four-day drama in which the frigate was held hostage in a multimillion-dollar contract dispute. The Connole was “safely tied up” at the old Charlestown Naval Shipyard next to the Constitution, the nation’s oldest commissioned warship, said a Navy spokesman, Commander Dan Davidson. The frigate had been blocked in since Saturday over a dispute between the Navy and the shipyard, whose $8.5-million contract to overhaul the 15-year-old vessel was canceled for what the Navy contended was unsatisfactory work.
Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards said the World’s Fair in New Orleans had turned into a “disaster” and predicted the top administrators of the debt-ridden exposition will be fired within the next couple of days. “If this had been a public venture, there would have been people sent to the state penitentiary,” the governor said. “Like many private enterprise things, it turned out to be a disaster.” Edwards said he was advised that Fair President Peter Spurney and other fair officials will be relieved of their duties within the next day or two.
The dismissal of J. William Petro, United States Attorney in Cleveland, was ordered by President Reagan. The Justice Department is investigating allegations that Mr. Petro disclosed information on a pending indictment from an undercover operation and that the information reached a subject of the investigation.
Mario Savio, the ”silver tongued orator” who helped begin the Free Speech Movement 20 years ago, marked its anniversary today by urging students to prevent a ”blood bath” in Central America. Thousands of students jammed Sproul Plaza and balconies of the adjacent student union, just as they did two decades ago when the nonviolent movement at the University of California ushered in an era of campus activism. Mr. Savio told the students to make Central America the civil rights struggle of the 1980’s. On Oct. 1, 1964, Mr. Savio, then 21 years old, was an sophomore civil rights activist. He jumped atop a squad car at the University of California at Berkeley and with his fiery oratorical style stirred more than 2,000 in a protest of curbs on campus protests. Before it was over, students had participated in two all-night, peaceful vigils. Mr. Savio was later sentenced to four months in jail for his part in one of the protests.
Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, yielding to pressure from the City Council majority bloc, has agreed to the creation of a board to review no-bid contracts, clearing the way for work to continue on a $1.4 billion expansion of O’Hare Airport. Had no agreement been struck Monday night, hundreds of construction and design workers would have been laid off today at the project. City officials contended that money for the project would have run out today unless the two sides broke the deadlock over who has authority to award large municipal contracts.
A ”major disturbance” in electrical transmission lines briefly cut power today to about 725,000 people in parts of eight Western states, officials said. ”We don’t know what caused it,” said Ed Mosey, a spokesman for the Bonneville Power Administration, a Federal agency that supplies hydroelectric power to utilities in the West. Power failed for 15 minutes to an hour in parts of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona. Some large industrial plants in Utah also were affected. The agency’s high-voltage system ”separated from both Idaho and California” about 10:05 AM, Mr. Mosey said. The agency restored power to affected utilities at 10:20 AM, he said, but some individual utilities took longer to restore power.
Papa John’s Pizza is founded by John Schnatter in Jeffersonville, Indiana; it would go on to become the fourth-largest pizza delivery restaurant chain in the United States.
In the first League Championship Series game played with replacement umpires, the Cubs clobber the Padres 13–0 to take a 1–0 lead in the National League series. Chicago hits 5 home runs at Wrigley Field, including one by starting pitcher Rick Sutcliffe, and another by Bob Dernier to lead off the game. Dernier and Gary Matthews hit home runs in the first off Eric Show, then Sutcliffe also homered in the third. Later that inning, after a walk, single and fly out, Leon Durham’s single and Keith Moreland’s sacrifice fly scored a run each. The Cubs then blew the game open in the fifth off Greg Harris. A leadoff double and walk was followed by Matthews’s three-run home run, then after a one-out walk and single, Jody Davis’s single and Larry Bowa’s groundout scored a run each. A walk and single loaded the bases before Ryne Sandberg’s RBI single made it 11–0 Cubs. Next inning, Ron Cey’s two-out home run off Harris made it 12–0 Cubs, then Davis doubled and scored the last run of the game on Bowa’s single. Starting pitcher Rick Sutcliffe held the Padres to two hits over seven strong innings. The Cubs took a 1–0 series lead in a shutout Game 1. This was the Cubs’ first postseason win and appearance since Game 7 of the 1945 World Series.
The American League Championship Series opens with a convincing 8–1 Tiger trouncing of Kansas City. Jack Morris and closer Willie Hernández had solid pitching performances as the Tigers blew out the Royals in Game 1 on the road. The Tigers struck first when Lou Whitaker singled to lead off the game off of Bud Black, then scored on Alan Trammell’s triple. One out later, Lance Parrish’s sacrifice fly made it 2–0 Tigers. Leadoff home runs by Larry Herndon in the fourth and Trammell in the fifth made it 4–0 Tigers. In the seventh, Royals’ right fielder Pat Sheridan’s error on Whitaker’s line drive allowed him to reach second, then score on Trammell’s single off of Mark Huismann. Tigers’ Jack Morris pitched seven innings, allowing only one run in the seventh when Jorge Orta hit a leadoff triple and scored on Darryl Motley’s groundout, with Willie Hernández pitching the final two innings. The Tigers added to their lead in the last two innings off of the Royals’ bullpen. Barbaro Garbey led off the eighth with a single off of Huismann and scored on Darrell Evans’s double, then Marty Castillo’s RBI single made it 7–1 Tigers. Lance Parrish’s leadoff home run in the ninth off of Mike Jones capped the scoring at 8–1 as the Tigers took a 1–0 series lead.
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Born:
Matt Reynolds, MLB pitcher (Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants), in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Oswaldo Navarro, Venezuelan MLB shortstop and pinch hitter (Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros), Villa de Cura, Venezuela.
Courtney Bryan, NFL defensive back (Miami Dolphins), in San Jose, California.
Jonathan Filewich, Canadian NHL right wing (Pittsburgh Penguins), in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
Marion Bartoli, French tennis player (Wimbledon 2013), in Haute-Loire, France.
John Morris, American voice actor (Andy – “Toy Story”), in Paris, Texas.
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