The Christopher Columbus Monument was a marble statue of the explorer Christopher Columbus in the Little Italy neighborhood of Downtown Baltimore, Maryland. The monument was brought down by protesters and dumped into the Inner Harbor on July 4, 2020, one of numerous monuments removed during the George Floyd protests.
[Ed: No better than the fucking Taliban.]
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa marked the second anniversary of the outlawing of his labor federation in a statement that said, “Solidarity… still exists as an organization, only (it) cannot officially act.” Walesa urged Poland’s Communist government to respect a provision of the International Labor Organization giving workers the right to create trade unions.
Between six and seven tons of plutonium from Britain’s civilian nuclear reactors were sent to the United States and may have been used in U.S. weapons despite British government denials, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament alleged. At a London news conference, officials of the disarmament group played a tape recording of an interview with the now-deceased Lord Hinton, former chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board, in which Hinton called the board’s denials “bloody lies.”
A bomb tore through the European headquarters of Honeywell Inc., a U.S. defense contractor and computer-maker, wrecking furniture, ceiling and walls but causing no injuries. The bomb exploded at about 5 A.M. outside the Honeywell building close to North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters. The Communist Combatant Cells, a little-known group, claimed responsibility for the early-morning bombing at Honeywell Europe S.A. in Brussels. The blast, several hundred yards from North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters, was the third in a week against foreign businesses. One of the earlier Brussels blasts damaged the offices of Beverly Hills-based Litton Industries Inc. The Communist group took responsibility for the attack today in a letter. The letter accused Honeywell of “collaborating actively in the construction program of cruise missiles by supplying, among other things, electronics for the guidance system.” A spokesman for the company denied that its Belgian unit was involved in the cruise program.
The Greek Foreign Ministry today banned commercial air traffic over the northern Aegean Sea for 36 hours, saying that a Turkish jet fighter taking part in NATO exercises flew into the area and could have caused an accident. Deputy Foreign Minster Yiannis Kapsis said the closing of the international air corridor, which is used for 300 flights daily from Europe and the Middle East, would last from 2 PM today until 2 AM Wednesday. The Turkish F-5 was taking part in an air defense phase of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization exercises, in which Greece refused to take part. The maneuvers, which end next Monday, involve United States, British, French, Italian, Turkish and Portuguese units. Defense Ministry sources said the Turkish jet was intercepted by Greek fighters while flying in Greek airspace.
West Germany and East Germany held more talks today on what to do about dozens of East German refugees who have crowded into the West German Embassy here, but a spokesman for the Bonn Government said the situation remained unchanged. The statement came as Czechoslovak authorities lifted a police cordon around the embassy, where dozens of East Germans seeking asylum in the West have taken refuge. West Germany closed the embassy indefinitely on Friday in an apparently unsuccessful effort to keep more refugees from entering. Czechoslovak officials offered no explanation for the removal of the police, who had been deployed around the embassy to keep more East Germans from gaining access. The officials have refused all comment on the situation since the influx of refugees into the embassy began last week. In Bonn, a West German Government spokesman, Jürgen Sudhoff, declined at a news conference to discuss details of the talks, but he said West Germany was seeking a solution “that is worthy of human beings.”
Israel asked the United States for increased aid and other help for Israel’s troubled economy, according to Israeli and American officials. They said the requests were made by Prime Minister Shimon Peres as he met for two and a half hours in Washington with Secretary of State George P. Shultz. In setting the stage for Mr. Peres’s meeting at the White House on Tuesday with President Reagan, Mr. Shultz also discussed with the Israeli leader the prospects for an accord with Lebanon and Syria to permit the withdrawal of Israel’s troops from Lebanon, the officials said. Israeli officials said Mr. Peres asked for specific economic help from the United States as Israel enters into a period of relative austerity. They declined to provide exact details, but previously, Israeli officials have said Israel will need at least $700 million to $1 billion in additional annual aid for several years above the current $2.6 billion annual level.
Israeli authorities have installed closed-circuit television cameras in the tomb of biblical patriarchs in the West Bank town of Hebron, a holy place for both Jews and Muslims, Israeli military sources reported. The sources added that the tomb, where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are believed buried, is the focus of tension in the occupied territories and the cameras are intended to provide added security against any incident by Muslim or Jewish extremists. A spokesman for the Islamic Council in Jerusalem said the cameras are offensive to the Muslim community.
Egypt announced that President Hosni Mubarak will pay a three-day visit to Jordan beginning today, two weeks after Jordan’s King Hussein defied other Arab nations by restoring diplomatic relations with Egypt. The visit to Amman will be the first by an Egyptian president since Anwar Sadat made the trip in 1977, before his historic journey to Jerusalem to begin the process that led to Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel in 1979. Seventeen Arab nations broke ties with Egypt over Sadat’s overtures to Israel, and Jordan on Sept. 25 became the first to restore them.
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi said Jordan’s King Hussein “will pay the price” for restoring diplomatic ties with Egypt, and he urged “acts of violence inside Jordan.” In a speech at a rally in the town of Hun, broadcast by Tripoli radio, Qaddafi said Jordan’s move amounts to recognition of Israel, with which Egypt has diplomatic relations, and added, “I regard Jordan as an Israeli colony.” Palestinian guerrillas, Qaddafi said, “should be turning Jordan into a land of operations.”
Iraqi warplanes hit a supertanker with a missile and killed six crewmen, shipping officials in Bahrain reported. They said six other seamen were badly burned in the attack on the Liberian-registry ship, which broke a 22-day lull in attacks on shipping in the gulf. The Liberian-registered ship, the 254,000-ton World Knight, is owned by the Niarchos concern and is operated by the World-Wide Shipping Group of Hong Kong. The shipping officials said the crew was made up of five British officers and 33 seamen from Hong Kong.
In Baghdad, an Iraqi communique said “two large naval targets” had been attacked southwest of Kharg Island, the Iranian oil terminal. However, shipping officials here said they knew of only one ship being hit. They said radio operators picked up the distress signal “We are under attack, we are on fire,” from the World Knight at 11:30 AM. The sources said it was not clear whether the tanker was loaded when hit. The Iraqi statement said the attack was an “implementation of previous warnings to all ships against sailing to Kharg or other Iranian ports.” In February, Iraq clamped a blockade on Kharg island, warning shipping to stay at least 50 miles away or risk attack. The communique said the goal of the raids was to prevent Iran from using oil revenues to finance the war between the two nations, which began in September 1980. The shipping officials said the Iraqi missile had struck the tanker’s aft section, wrecking the engine room and setting fire to the crew’s quarters. At least one life raft was lowered.
Pakistan’s martial law President, General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq, today ruled out the return of opposition political parties after elections for an Islamic democracy promised by next March. General Zia’s comments appeared aimed at dampening hopes for a political revival aroused last week by the release of three detained politicians. General Zia told officials in Sukkur, in the southern province of Sind, that Islam had no concept of opposition parties as in Western democracies, the official Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
Three U.S. seamen were honored for rescuing, at great risk, 85 Vietnamese “boat people” adrift in a storm in the South China Sea in 1983. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees presented the award in Geneva to the master of the tanker Rose City, Captain Lewis M. Hiller, and two crew members, Jeffrey H. Kass and Gregg Turay.
Three Bahamian Cabinet ministers of Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling’s Government resigned Monday and two others reportedly were dismissed. Ken Heinrich, a spokesman in Miami for the Government-run Bahamas News Bureau, confirmed the resignations of Deputy Prime Minister Arthur D. Hanna; George Smith, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, and Kendall Nottage, Minister of Youth, Sports and Community Affairs. Hours after the resignations, letters of dismissal were delivered to Tourism Minister Perry G. Christie and Housing Minister Hubert A. Ingraham, The Miami Herald reported today. The Caribbean island nation has been rocked by political scandal over the past year, after reports suggested the Pindling Government was corrupt.
The World Court postponed a decision due this week on a Nicaraguan complaint that the United States is waging “armed attacks” against the Sandinista regime. Instead, the court said it will hold new hearings in The Hague on whether it has jurisdiction to hear the complaint. The United States has argued that the court lacks jurisdiction because Nicaragua has never recognized its authority, but Nicaragua replied that its membership in the United Nations automatically constitutes recognition.
Jose Napoleon Duarte offered to hold peace talks with Salvadoran guerrilla leaders, starting next Monday. President Duarte, who made the proposal at the end of a 55-minute address to the United Nations, said he was ready to begin the negotiations in La Palma, a Salvadoran town near the Honduran border. Senior Salvadoran rebel officials in Mexico City said they were “open and attentive” to the prospect of a meeting with President Jose Napoleon Duarte, provided he formally invited them to El Salvador. Mr. Duarte had declined in the past to meet with guerrilla leaders, who had made their own offers to negotiate an end to the four-and-a-half-year civil war. His aides had said he wanted conditions to be right, and they said that this probably would not be until next year.
A shift in U.S.-Honduras ties is sought by the Honduran Government, according to Foreign Minister Edgardo Paz Barnica. In an interview in New York, he said his government wanted to reduce military ties with Washington and to receive more economic aid from Washington.
Walter F. Mondale made gains at President Reagan’s expense in their Sunday evening debate, in the view of many voters, according to public opinion polls. Both The New York Times/CBS News Poll and a Gallup Poll for Newsweek magazine showed that a solid plurality of voters regarded Mr. Mondale as the winner of the 90-minute debate.
President Reagan’s aides indulged in the prize-fight metaphor of a champion stung by jabs but hardly knocked out in his broadcast debate with Walter Mondale. Mr. Reagan campaigned at rallies in Charlotte, North Carolina and Baltimore. “Last night we had a little sparring in the political arena,” the President said, obviously pleased to face his first partisan crowd of the day in Charlotte, N.C. “Whether I won them or not, I know I have won the fruits of victory because I get to be with you.” The Reagan camp’s analysis of the President’s performance in the debate could be seen in the fact that a corps of ranking Reagan aides made themselves accessible to reporters through the day at a rate rarely seen in the previous four years of his Administration.
President Reagan participates in a Reagan-Bush ’84 Rally with about 50,000 in attendance in Charlotte, North Carolina.
President Reagan attends an unveiling and dedication ceremony of a Christopher Columbus Statue to the City of Baltimore.
An exuberant Walter Mondale proclaimed, “Today we have a brand-new race, today everything is different.” The Democratic Presidential candidate appeared convinced that his performance in his debate with President Reagan had, in the words of one key adviser, “turned the election around.”
The nation’s economic well-being has improved markedly in the last four years, according to President Reagan. Federal Government statistics and experts’ analyses indicate that the overall economy is healthier. However, middle-class Americans have done little better than hold their own, and the disparities between groups have widened.
Neither debater was precisely right many times in the 90-minute session Sunday evening. The sharpest exchanges occurred when Walter Mondale charged that President Reagan had sought to make major reductions in Medicare and Social Security benefits.
The space shuttle Challenger astronauts lost much of their communications temporarily when cosmic radiation disabled a relay satellite. But the astronauts, acting resourcefully and coolly, and their helpers on the ground quickly activated an alternative network for relaying human messages and scientific data. So far in the mission the seven astronauts, the largest crew ever launched into space, have solved a series of minor but vexing problems, including a wobbly communications antenna and a balky radar panel.
Today, midway through the space shuttle’s eight-day mission, one unfixable problem that arose was a tropical storm off the Florida coast that threatened to force the shuttle to land in California instead of Florida on Saturday. A seemingly more manageable problem was the failure of a relay satellite 22,300 miles above the earth, its memory wiped out by a “heavy burst” of cosmic rays, according to officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA officials had hoped to correct the problem within a few hours of the satellite’s failure this morning. But ground controllers struggled most of the day to fix the satellite, finally succeeding about 9 PM. A burst of cosmic rays usually causes a satellite to dump its memo ry, said Brian Welch, a mission official. “The satellite itself is not damaged,” he said. “It’s just a question of reloading the memory from the ground station at White Sands.”
After balking for almost six months, the U.S. Army has agreed to conduct realistic vulnerability tests next year using live Soviet ammunition against combat-equipped, new M-2 Bradley armored troop carriers, acccrding to James P. Wade Jr., principal undersecretary of defense for research and development. The agreement to conduct the tests came one day after the release of Defense Department documents by Rep. Denny Smith (R-Oregon), including one that blistered the Army’s internal testing unit for refusing to conduct the tests with the realism originally proposed. Earlier, Smith and three other legislators asked for “a thorough investigation” of a reported attempt to remove from his job the person who had vigorously pressed for the realistic tests — Air Force Colonel James G. Burton.
Senate and House members itching to leave the capital to campaign are facing what likely will be the final week of the 98th Congress, with the federal government due to run out of cash at midnight today and out of credit a couple of days later. Once those two pressing issues are resolved, it is unlikely any of dozens of other pieces of pending legislation would keep the lawmakers in town for long after they reconvene today. The bill containing nearly $500 billion for most departments of the government over the next 51 weeks is entangled in a running dispute over U.S. aid to rebels fighting the government in Nicaragua.
J. Willard Marriott, the industrialist whose $1.3-billion empire includes 46 Marriott Hotels throughout the world, suffered an apparent heart attack and was rushed to a hospital where he was listed in critical condition. Marriott, 84, was taken to LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City after experiencing chest pains. He was listed in critical but stable condition in the intensive care unit. A hospital spokeswoman said doctors were “still evaluating” whether Marriott had actually suffered a heart attack. Marriott, a Utah native was in the state to receive a special award from Brigham Young University in Provo.
A $17.7 million museum dedicated to black American history will be built in the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District of Atlanta, its organizers say. The African American Panoramic Experience, APEX, will feature life- size exhibits ranging from an African village to a replica of the crowded Montgomery, Ala., bus where Rosa Parks’s refusal to sit in the back set off the civil rights boycotts of the 1950’s and 1960’s. The museum will also include an art gallery, archives, theaters, a library, gift shop and restaurant, said Dan Moore, one of the organizers.
A 16-year-old California girl whose medical care was the object of a custody battle resulting from the refusal of her mother, a Jehovah’s Witness, to allow blood transfusions, has died despite treatment ordered by a court. Melissa Acosta died shortly before noon Sunday at Martin Luther Hospital in Anaheim. Miss Acosta suffered from lupus erythematosus, a degenerative disease that attacks the kidneys and other organs. She was in a coma for a time and suffered seizures and painful internal bleeding. Her father, Thomas Acosta, went to court on June 25 seeking custody or an order to remove control of his daughter’s care from his ex-wife, Susie, who had kept Melissa from receiving blood transfusions, plasma exchanges or dialysis because they conflicted with Jehovah’s Witness doctrines. The court gave temporary custody to the state, and Melissa was moved to the Anaheim facility and the care of a kidney specialist.
Six union officials were arrested today after a group of pickets at Disneyland defied a court order and marched to a forbidden area of the amusement park near the ticket booths, the police said. A Disneyland spokesman, Sydne Huwaidi, said park officials twice asked the pickets to leave an area near the main ticket booths before calling the police. All except six union business agents dispersed when the police arrived, she said. Disneyland officials held the six and turned them over to police, who formally arrested them for violating the court order, she said. Last week, a Superior Court commissioner granted a temporary restraining order barring pickets from the ticket- booth area. Pickets today littered the ground with copies of the court order as they chanted, “We want a contract.” More than 1,800 of Disneyland’s 5,000 workers, including janitors, ticket sellers, ride operators and restaurant workers, struck September 25 after refusing to accept a wage freeze. Their five unions represent about half of the park’s unionized work force.
A parasitic mite that attacks honeybees’ respiratory systems has been discovered in five states, forcing the destruction of millions of bees and threatening the multi-million- dollar bee industry, a federal agriculture official said. The mites, which sap the bees of energy for honey production and pollination, could cause serious economic losses to beekeepers who depend on sales of honey and to thousands of farmers who depend on bees to pollinate crops, the New York Times reported.
A state judge in Houston refused to free a couple who have been jailed for almost one month because they vowed not to tell a grand jury about their teenage son, accused of murdering a female letter carrier. Judge I. D. McMaster refused to order the release of Bernard and Odette Port after the couple reiterated they would not testify about events at their home at the time postal worker Debora Sue Schatz was slain. Although his parents are in jail, David Port, 17, remains free on $20,000 bond. A grand jury, which indicted David Port on a murder charge September 28, is investigating whether Schatz, 23, was kidnapped, raped or robbed before she was killed June 7. The Ports have refused to testify against their son, citing their Jewish faith.
Florida inspectors began surveying stock at the seventh plant nursery where deadly citrus canker has been confirmed, but the burning of its trees probably won’t begin until next week, officials said. It was the first confirmation of citrus canker in nearly two weeks and the seventh since the outbreak, which has threatened the state’s multi-billion-dollar citrus industry, began in August. Destruction of suspect plants by burning is the only known control for canker, which is deadly to trees but doesn’t affect humans.
The last hunter-gatherer societies in the world are in a traumatic transition to an uncertain future. Anthropologists and tribal leaders say the main question is whether the remnants of hunting and gathering peoples can find dignified new modes of living amid societies that have treated them with hostility, indifference or condescension.
The liner United States’s contents are being sold in Norfolk, Virginia. The auction of about one million art works, furnishings and fittings from the luxury liner attracted more than 1,000 enthusiastic viewers and bidders for the first day of a sale that continues through Sunday. The auction is the first step in transforming the liner into a cruise ship.
NBC’s premiere of TV made “The Burning Bed”, based on Francine Hughes.
18th Country Music Association Awards: The group ‘Alabama’ wins.
NFL Monday Night Football:
San Francisco 49ers 31, New York Giants 10
The New York Giants suffered a 31–10 mauling from the San Francisco 49ers. The victory was the sixth straight for the 49ers. They and the Miami Dolphins are the only unbeaten teams in the National Football League. The loss dropped the Giants’ record to 3–3, but the way they played they hardly looked like a .500 team. The game was over almost before it began. After 7 minutes 33 seconds of the first quarter, the 49ers had a 21–0 lead. After that, they had an easy time because Joe Montana passed well, their running game was seldom stopped and the Giants did few things right. The Giants outgained the 49ers for the night, 389 yards to 384, but that hardly mattered. Montana finished with three touchdown passes — 59 yards to Renaldo Nehemiah, 1 yard to John Frank and 9 yards to Roger Craig. Dana McLemore helped with a 79-yard punt return for a touchdown, the second time in two games a punt had been run back for a touchdown against the Giants. The game began with 76,112 spectators in Giants Stadium. By the start of the fourth quarter, the stands were half empty, but enough spectators remained to boo every Giants’ misplay. Those who remained saw the 49ers remove Montana from the game when they had it won. They saw the Giants leave Phil Simms in at quarterback when they had it lost, even after Simms lay on his back when he was hit after a pass. More than 12 minutes remained when Matt Cavanaugh relieved Montana. The statistics told how well Montana had done — 15 completions in 24 atempts for 207 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions. He was sacked once for a 1-yard loss.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1177.89 (-4.64)
Born:
Domenik Hixon, NFL wide receiver (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 42-Giants, 2007: Denver Broncos, New York Giants, Carolina Panthers), in Neunkirchen am Potzberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany.
Died:
Frederick Brisson, 71, Danish-born film and theater producer, after a stroke.
Pieces of the Christopher Columbus statue were retrieved from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Monday, July 6, 2020. WJZ-TV reports the recovery comes two days after protesters pulled down the figure from the Little Italy neighborhood and threw it into the harbor. (AP Photo/Lana Harris)
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