Andrei A. Gromyko, the Soviet Foreign Minister, said today that the Reagan Administration was using “deceptive maneuvers” to avoid talks on limiting space weapons. He said the Soviet Union remained open to “an honest and serious dialogue.”
“We have judged United States policies not by rhetoric but by concrete acts,” he said on the 35th anniversary of the founding of East Germany. “We will continue to do so. On behalf of the Soviet leadership we would like to affirm once again that, if Washington is really interested in solving the pending problems of the present, especially in curbing the arms race, we will not be found lacking.” Mr. Gromyko, who had talks with President Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz last month, told the East German audience that the United States and West Germany were seeking to spur the arms race and trying to undermine the postwar division of Europe.
“Those who have set their minds on rolling back socialism must be made to realize that the socialist countries will neither tolerate nor allow this,” Mr. Gromyko said, speaking in the modernistic Palace of the Republic. Mr. Gromyko accused Bonn of a policy aimed at “abolishing the socio- political border existing around the German Democratic Republic and incorporating the latter into the government system” of West Germany.
On the issue of limiting space weapons, Mr. Gromyko said that the United States was determined to “cram outer space with the most advanced weaponry” and that it had reacted negatively to Soviet proposals aimed at limitation of such weapons. “The United States has once again laid bare the real nature of its policy,” he said. “It is obviously not inclined to negotiate about the prohibition of space-based weapons, but is trying to disguise this in every possible way.”
A U.S. airliner flying from Alaska to Europe narrowly missed accidentally flying over sensitive Soviet nuclear bases, a Norwegian military official said. The South Pacific Island Airlines charter jet “flew some 80 degrees out of course” after leaving Anchorage on the polar route and was headed directly for the Kola Peninsula, where the Soviets have an extensive network of strategic bases. Two Norwegian F-16 fighters were sent to intercept the Boeing 707 after Norwegian radar operators spotted its course, but the airliner’s pilot discovered his error and changed course to make a safe landing in Amsterdam. On September 1, 1983, Soviet fighters shot down a South Korean airliner that strayed into Soviet airspace during a flight from Anchorage to Seoul, killing all 269 people aboard.
Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald said that for the first time in 60 years there is a real chance of progress in settling the problem of Northern Ireland, racked by 15 years of civil strife. In a keynote speech to the annual congress of his Fine Gael Party in Dublin, FitzGerald said he and countless others had worked for years to create an atmosphere in which a breakthrough could be achieved. FitzGerald said his government is still waiting for a considered response from Britain to proposals on Northern Ireland from an all-Ireland forum earlier this year.
Greek officials blamed the United States this week for the frequent anti-American statements of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and his associates. They said Washington so infuriates Athens with policies seen as pro-Turkish that their Government must retaliate — not with actions but with words that provoke anger in Washington. The officials were commenting on a caustic reaction from the State and Defense Departments to an assertion by Mr. Papandreou at a political meeting this week that the South Korean jetliner shot down by the Soviet Union last year had been on a spying mission for the Central Intelligence Agency. The United States has repeatedly denied that charge.
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres begins a weeklong visit to the United States aimed primarily at enlisting American help in solving Israel’s worsening economic crisis. It will be the first time that an Israeli Prime Minister has gone to Washington more to discuss Israel’s economic plight than to talk about the Arab-Israeli conflict. The trip is also personally significant for Mr. Peres. It will be his first visit to Washington — or anywhere outside his country — as the Prime Minister of Israel, a job that he has labored after for the past decade.
The British Embassy in Beirut has been closed since last week, when bomb threats were received and the staff was dispersed to offices in other parts of the Lebanese capital, the Sunday Times of London reported. The newspaper quoted an unidentified Foreign Office official as saying that the closure was a “temporary decampment,” but reported that the embassy has not reopened. Foreign Office spokesman could not be reached for comment. The Sunday Times said Foreign Office officials last week discussed, but rejected, the possibility of withdrawing the 12 British diplomats still in Lebanon.
The Cambodian Pol Pot guerrillas said today that they had inflicted heavy damage on Vietnamese transport and supply links in Cambodia, and had “crushed down” more than 10,000 Vietnamese soldiers during fighting in the rainy season, from May to September. The Pol Pot forces’ radio, monitored in Bangkok, said they cut off railroads to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh from the seaport of Kompongsom and from Battambang Province. The radio report did not say what it meant by “crushed down.” The Pol Pot forces, the Khmer Rouge, who ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1978 and have been held responsible for killing hundreds of thousands or millions of Cambodians, were driven out of Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese invasion in 1978. Vietnam then installed a government headed by Heng Samrin.
Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, in an abrupt reversal, granted permission for an anti-government protest led by prominent businessmen and politicians to be held today. Marcos had threatened Friday to arrest organizers of the rally and accused the archbishop of Manila, Cardinal Jaime L. Sin, of “fanning the flames of rebellion” for supporting it. But Marcos later authorized a permit for the rally and ordered police and soldiers to stay away. Marcos authorized an anti-Government rally scheduled for Sunday after a group of businessmen appealed to him and assured him the gathering would be peaceful, Major General Prospero Olivas, the chief of police, said. General Olivas said in a television interview that he had ordered his men “to keep away from the place of the rally.” Several leading businessmen are expected to take part in the rally, which is being organized by Agapito Aquino, younger brother of the slain opposition leader, Benigno S. Aquino Jr. On Friday Mr. Marcos threatened to arrest people taking part in illegal protests.
Washington believes the Salvadoran military has broken a long stalemate with guerrillas and is capable of neutralizing the insurgents by the end of 1986 if current military and political trends continue, according to senior national security officials. The officials said Government forces have gained the initiative in the fighting and have increased their mobility with an infusion of United States military aid.
Nicaragua recommended a pardon for a Roman Catholic priest accused of collaborating with rebels in a case that has widened the split between the ruling Sandinista government and the church. Interior Minister Tomas Borge said the regime is urging a pardon for Father Luis Amado Pena in an effort “to reach an understanding and a possible solution” with the Catholic authorities. The rift began when the Vatican denounced pro-Sandinista “people’s churches” and ordered four priests in the government to give up their posts.
The leader of Peru’s Marxist alliance opened a campaign for the presidency with a call to end mounting violence involving Maoist guerrillas. Lima Mayor Alfonso Barrantes said the law of the jungle is gripping Peru even as the government’s war intensifies against guerrillas of Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). “Sendero’s irrationality and adventurism are starting to go hand in hand with the illegality and irrationality of representatives of the state,” he said. “We still have time to stop the wave of death and insanity.”
Riot policemen arrested 63 Chilean students during two hours of clashes Friday between hundreds of pro-government and anti-government demonstrators at the University of Santiago. Eleven students and employees were reported injured and university officials said there was $70,000 in damage to campus facilities. The clash erupted between participants in two rallies on the campus. One group of about 400, organized by political parties opposed to the military Government, was demanding that the university’s army rector be dismissed and that 18 students who had been expelled for political reasons be reinstated. A rival group of at least 100 gathered to hear Angel Bates, a university professor, speak against “violent minorities that try to paralyze our university.”
Calls for national unity by both Joshua Nkomo, the opposition leader, and leaders of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe’s Government marked the hero’s funeral today of the nationalist Josiah Chinamano, the vice president of Mr. Nkomo’s party. Some 4,000 Zimbabweans attended the funeral at the Heroes Acre national monument — an unusual display of conciliation after years of tension between Mr. Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union and Mr. Nkomo’s Zimbabwe African Peoples Union. Mr. Chinamano died Monday at 61 of complications from high blood pressure and asthma. He had often been the target of invective from Mr. Mugabe’s party, but when he died the Government declared him a national hero and set aside Friday and Saturday as national days of mourning. Mr. Mugabe had not returned from a visit to the United States, but most of his Cabinet attended the funeral. The unity theme was shared by the three speakers, Mr. Nkomo, Acting Prime Minister Simon Muzenda and President Canaan Banana.
South Africa arrested three of the six political fugitives who took refuge in the British consulate in Durban last month. The three men, all of Indian descent, left the consulate sanctuary to challenge the South African Government on several points. Before the three surrendered to the police, the six fugitives called the United States Government “reprehensible” for rejecting a plea for sanctuary.
The space shuttle crew overcame one problem and were working on another as they struggled to carry out one of the most ambitious programs of Earth observation ever. First, a communications antenna malfunctioned and then a radar panel would not stow properly. The crew, seven astronauts, switched off the antenna’s steering motor and Dr. Sally K. Ride used the shuttle’s long robot arm to compress the radar panel, allowing its automatic latches to close. It was the second time in two days that Dr. Ride had used the Canadian-built arm in a spectacular fashion: On Friday, she used it to unlock balky solar panels on a $40 million scientific satellite and gently place it into orbit.
President Reagan’s popularity seems to have so strengthened the image of the Republican party that about as many voters now consider themselves Republicans as Democrats, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll. The Republicans appear to be in a better position now than four years ago, and, looking toward the future, a solid majority of young people now identify with or lean toward the Republican Party.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the Nation on drug abuse.
President Reagan attends a briefing on his upcoming Presidential Domestic Policy Debate with senior White House staff.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “Woman in Red.”
In a major drive against electronic eavesdropping, the National Security Agency is reportedly proposing that government and industry be equipped with as many as 500,000 spy-proof phones in a program that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars starting two years from now. The New York Times in today’s editions quoted an agency official as saying that intelligence experts believe the Soviet Union and other foreign powers are gathering important intelligence information by intercepting phone conversations. A Reagan Administration official said no final decision has been made on the phones.
[Let me guess though: The NSA will still be able to eavesdrop whenever it wants…]
Twelve public housing agencies filed suit against the Department of Housing and Urban Development, charging the agency is seeking illegally to reduce the money it owes the housing authorities. At stake is $14.5 million in operating subsidy funding for maintenance of public housing units. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, alleges that HUD arbitrarily changed its rules on maintenance payments and is trying to “recapture” funds spent under the old rules dating back to 1980.
Notes being examined in Congress suggest that Justice Department officials discussed starting a criminal probe of Environmental Protection Agency aide Rita M. Lavelle to keep some sensitive documents secret, the Washington Post reported. The paper quoted a lawyer as saying that “there were clearly discussions about starting a criminal investigation for the purpose of being able to throw a protective cover over the documents and the employees” of the EPA, thus keeping the documents away from a House subcommittee investigating the EPA last year.
The Presidential campaign this fall has opened a broad philosophical divide between President Reagan and Walter F. Mondale, but they have yet to join a practical debate over the most pressing domestic issue facing the next President: The Federal deficit. They will hold their first nationally televised debate in Louisville Sunday night.
Police moved a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who has been accused of conspiring to sell secrets to the Soviet Union for $65,000 from San Diego to a special cell block at the Terminal Island Federal Prison.
On dozens of street corners in Oakland, California, heroin, cocaine and other illegal drugs can be bought day and night. At least 20 people, including a pregnant 15-year-old girl who was shot by mistake, have died so far this year in warfare involving rival drug gangs. Oakland, says the Rev. Frank Gilbert, associate pastor of Love Temple Baptist Church, “has been taken over by the dope dealers; it’s got so that people have been afraid to go out of their houses.” Now, he and others here say, this industrial city of 440,000 people on the edge of San Francisco Bay, aroused by the presence of a pervasive, violent drug industry, is trying to force it off the streets through collective action. In recent weeks Oakland residents have begun to fight back in an effort, they say, to reclaim their neighorhoods from drug dealers. Their campaign has included public marches and meetings designed to focus public attention on the problem and to put pressure on the police and other city officials.
[Sadly, it’s only about to get much worse. The advent of crack cocaine is at hand.]
Spencer W. Kimball, the ailing 89-year-old world leader of the Mormon Church, surprised members today by showing up on the opening day of the church’s 154th semiannual conference. Mr. Kimball, who Mormons believe is the prophet of God, missed the morning session but appeared at the afternoon meeting of the church, formally known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mr. Kimball has been in ill health for several years and made few appearances in that time. He did not speak, but sat quietly and listened as his colleagues defended the church against critics and urged its 5.5 million members to remain faithful to the religion’s teachings. Mr. Kimball’s first counselor, Marion G. Romney, 87, did not appear at either of today’s sessions. He has also been ill in recent years. Gordon B. Hinckley, the church’s second counselor, defended the church against “those who criticize our leader because he is an elderly man.” Mr. Hinckley said the church was guided “by the Lord.”
A former mental patient was hospitalized in police custody today after being accused of torturing and killing two children and seriously injuring a third. The hospitalized man, Darnell Parker, 26 years old, was in fair condition with self-inflicted stab wounds to the chest. He is accused of killing Kashonna Davis, 2, and Myril Davis, 8, and injuring their sister, Natalia Davis, 4. Detectives said Mr. Parker also scalded and burned his companion, Linda Davis, 24, over a period of 18 hours of torture that ended Friday afternoon. Miss Davis was treated for emotional trauma and burns and released late Friday. The police said Mr. Parker was the father of Kashonna and Natalia and Myril was Miss Davis’s son by another man. Detective Gregory Kunz said that in the ordeal Miss Davis said Mr. Parker was talking about “driving the devil out of their bodies.”
A pregame beer party spilled out of two houses near Purdue University early today and a mob of 200 people smashed car windows and threw bottles at the police. Twenty people were arrested and two suffered minor injuries in the three-hour disturbance preceding today’s Purdue-Ohio State football game. The police estimated that 1,000 people, including Purdue and Ohio State students, attended the party. About 200 of them ran into the street at about midnight, overturning garbage cans and smashing car windows. Three young men pulled a passing motorist from his car and beat him, the police said. Someone else injured a pizza shop employee by throwing a stone, the police said. On Thursday, five people were injured and four were arrested in a rampage by about 1,000 students at Illinois State University in Normal.
Officials fighting a citrus canker outbreak in Florida announced the discovery of a seventh infected nursery, in Haines City, and said that it had sold plant stock to retailers. Because retailers seldom keep records of who purchases trees, officials said that eventually every citrus plant in Florida will have to be inspected. The find apparently is not connected to previous outbreaks.
A 12,000-gallon tank of pesticide ruptured at the American Cyanamid Co. chemical plant in Linden, New Jersey, belching toxic fumes that spread over a 50-mile radius and sickening residents in two states. At least nine persons were admitted to hospitals, including a man who was placed in intensive care with severe respiratory problems. Among those affected were 40 crew members on two oil tankers off Staten Island, New York.
New York City plans to begin the massive task of fingerprinting and running criminal checks on more than 60,000 child-care workers this month. The city’s fight on child abuse stems from a recent scandal at day-care centers, funded by the city, where employees have been charged with raping or sexually attacking children in their care.
Icy Canadian air brought record cold to the Northeast and heavy rains pushed across the Mississippi Valley into the Plains states, dumping nearly six inches of rain in Kansas. Temperatures dipped into the 20s from western New York to Maine and freeze or frost warnings were posted for northern New England. Showers and thunderstorms scattered over the Tennessee and Mississippi Valleys, the northern and southern Plains and western Washington state.
Steve Garvey’s 2-run home run in the bottom of the 9th inning gives San Diego a 7–5 win over Chicago and evens the National League Championship Series at 2–2. Game 4 proved to be the most dramatic of the series, and it left many Cubs fans dreading another harsh disappointment for the franchise nicknamed the “lovable losers.” The Padres jumped out to a 2–0 lead in the third off of Scott Sanderson on a sacrifice fly from Tony Gwynn with two on followed by a run-scoring double from Steve Garvey, but the Cubs took the lead in the fourth off of Tim Lollar on a two-run homer by Jody Davis after a leadoff walk followed by a shot by Leon Durham, who would later suffer ignominy in Game 5. The Padres tied the game in the fifth on an RBI single from Garvey, and took the lead in the seventh when Garvey singled in yet another run after two walks by Tim Stoddard. A passed ball allowed a second tally in the inning to make the score 5–3 San Diego. The Cubs bounced back in the eighth to tie the game off of Rich Gossage when Ryne Sandberg hit a leadoff single, stole second, and scored on an RBI single by Keith Moreland. Right fielder Henry Cotto pinch-ran for Moreland and scored on an RBI double from Davis.
With dominating closer Lee Smith on the mound for the Cubs in the bottom of the ninth, Gwynn singled to center with one out. Garvey then capped an extraordinary five-RBI game by launching a two-run walk-off home run to right center field at the 370 sign, just out of reach of leaping Cubs right fielder Henry Cotto. Previously, he had been hitless against Smith in eight career at bats. During the game, the Padres lost McReynolds for the season after he broke his wrist trying to break up a double play.
Born:
Joanna Pacitti, American pop singer (“Let It Slide”), and actress, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Died:
Eliseo Pajaro, 69, Filipino composer (The Life of Lam-Ling; Marilag Fantasy), pedagogue, and school administrator.
George Gaylord Simpson, 82, American paleontologist.
History Diaries 