Moscow warned Washington that if it developed space-based weapons, the price could be not only an end of the Geneva arms control talks, but also “the scrapping of every prospect for an end to the arms race.” The warning was issued by Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, in a speech at a dinner for the visiting Prime Minister of Italy, Bettino Craxi. The Soviet leader said he did not sense “an adequate readiness” on the American side for what he called businesslike talks at the Geneva arms negotiations, which resume Thursday. Willy Brandt, the former West German Chancellor, who is also on a visit here, said, “I would be surprised if any progress would be made at this next round of negotiations in Geneva.” Mr. Brandt, who talked with Mr. Gorbachev on Monday for five hours, said at a news conference that he believed there could be progress only if the three subjects under negotiation were dealt with in their interrelationship.
A soccer-match riot in Brussels between fans of British and Italian teams killed 39 people and injured more than 250. The violence erupted as the teams -Juventus of Turin, Italy, and Liverpool, England – were about to play for the European Cup soccer championship at the 70,000-seat Heysel Stadium. Most of the victims were crushed under the weight of a stadium wall that collapsed when British fans charged into a section reserved for Italian spectators, officials at the scene said. Millions of television viewers worldwide, watching live coverage of the match, could see dozens of people, including numerous children, lying on the ground or pressed underneath pieces of rubble. The match — the Cup of Champions final, matching Europe’s best professional teams — was played after a delay of more than an hour while the police and riot troops gained control of the stadium. Juventus beat Liverpool by 1–0 on a penalty kick. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain, in a statement in London, expressed “universal horror” at the Brussels incident. “Those responsible have brought shame and disgrace to the United Kingdom and to football,” the statement said.
The tragedy resulted in English football clubs being banned by Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) from all European competitions (lifted in 1990-91), with Liverpool being excluded for an additional three years, later reduced to one, and 14 Liverpool fans were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to six years’ imprisonment, with the Belgian authorities also being blamed, including police captain Johan Mahieu, who had been in charge of security, found guilty of manslaughter. The disaster was later described as “the darkest hour in the history of the UEFA competitions”.
A Turkish defendant in the trial of eight men in a purported conspiracy to shoot Pope John Paul II described today how, four days before the 1981 shooting, he delivered the weapon to the Pope’s assailant in a restaurant near a Milan train station. It was the first public testimony intended to reinforce statements by Mehmet Ali Ağca, who has been convicted of the shooting, that he did not act alone when he wounded the Pope in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981. Besides Mr. Ağca, the defendants in the case are three Bulgarians and four other Turks. The testimony today by a Turkish defendant, Omar Bagci, 39 years old, was intended to strengthen the credibility of Mr. Ağca, who startled defense lawyers and prosecutors alike in the first two days of the trial by telling the judge that he was Jesus Christ and predicting the imminent end of the world.
The opposition candidate in Greece’s national elections Sunday asserted tonight that the Greek people were yearning for an alternative to the Government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, whose policies he said had left them “deeply worried.” “They are oppressed by a Government that does not respect democratic rights,” said Constantine Mitsotakis, the leader of the New Democracy Party. In a race that is considered close, Mr. Mitsotakis said the main issues were a stagnant economy, rising unemployment, inflation and heavy taxes. New Democracy has pledged to cure the ills largely by encouragement to the private sector and favorable conditions for investment.
The head of the International Chess Federation announced that a replay of the world title match between champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Gary Kasparov will start in Moscow on September 2. Florencio Campomanes told a news conference in Madrid that the match will have a 24-game limit and that whoever wins six games or 12.5 points will be declared champion. A victory will be worth one point to the winner, and a draw gives each player half a point. Last February, Campomanes halted the first Karpov-Kasparov match after 48 games — 40 ended in draws that did not count — on the grounds that the two players were exhausted.
President Reagan meets with King Hussein I of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Jordan and the P.L.O. are in accord on holding negotiations for peace with Israel at an international conference, according to King Hussein. After a meeting with President Reagan at the White House, the Jordanian leader also said that the P.L.O., after years of refusing to do so, had agreed that the talks should be held on the basis of United Nations Security Council resolutions that Washington has insisted for 10 years be a prime condition for any American dealings with the P.L.O.
Amin Gemayel narrowly escaped injury after artillery shells and rockets struck the Lebanese President’s palace in the predominantly Christian suburb of Baabda, according to reports in Beirut. The incident occurred during a flare-up of artillery exchanges between Christian and Moslem militiamen across the Green Line that divides Beirut and in the hills to the east, but the source of the rockets and shellfire was not clear. The bombardment was apparently unrelated to the bitter fighting between armed Palestinians and Shiite militiamen and soldiers that has been going on for the last 11 days in and around three Palestinian refugee settlements in the south of Beirut. After the incident, Mr. Gemayel flew to Damascus for emergency talks with President Hafez al-Assad of Syria. Mr. Gemayel was expected to seek Syrian assistance in putting an end to the latest wave of violence, and there was speculation here that he would ask Mr. Assad to order Syrian troops into Beirut to halt the fighting.
The Israeli Parliament defeated motions offered today to set up a commission of inquiry into events surrounding the invasion of Lebanon three years ago. Relatives of the war dead, campaigning for a public inquiry, followed the discussion from the visitors’ gallery at the Parliament building in Jerusalem and a few shed tears as 15 deputies voted for an inquiry, 37 opposed it and 22 abstained. The Labor Party, when it was in opposition during the previous administration, had demanded a public inquiry. It abstained in the vote today, to preserve the National Unity Government. The Likud bloc, which was the ruling coalition responsible for the war, had threatened to break up the Cabinet if Labor voted for the inquiry.
A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, is investigating allegations that some supporters of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi plotted to assassinate anti-Qaddafi Libyans in the United States, according to sources familiar with the investigation. Sources said as many as three Libyan dissidents may have been the targets of the alleged murder plot. FBI agents have subpoenaed about 15 pro-Qaddafi Libyans in four states to appear.
Iraq said its warplanes struck the Iranian cities of Tehran and Tabriz today, and a West German cargo ship was hit by a rocket in the Persian Gulf in an apparent Iranian raid. No injuries were reported. A military spokesman in Baghdad said Iraqi planes raided Tehran for the second time in five hours and later hit targets in Tabriz, a northwest Iranian city about 44 miles from the Turkish border. Iran and Iraq, at war since September 1980, have been locked in retaliatory strikes on civilian centers since Sunday, after Baghdad accused Tehran of taking part in a bid to assassinate Kuwait’s ruler, a charge Iran denies. Meanwhile, Iraq’s official news agency said Iranian shelling of the southern Iraqi city of Basra today killed 3 schoolgirls taking exams and wounded 27 others.
President J. R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India will hold talks next week on the island nation’s deepening ethnic crisis, officials said today. The time and place of the meeting were not disclosed. Mr. Jayewardene met with India’s Foreign Secretary last night to prepare for the meeting and to discuss proposals to end the ethnic unrest between Sri Lanka’s minority Tamils and majority Sinhalese, the sources said. They said the Government would be prepared to give greater autonomy to the Tamils in northern areas. Tamils, who make up 18 percent of the island’s population, are demanding a separate state in the northern and eastern provinces where most of them live.
North Korean Red Cross officials left Seoul for home after talks with their South Korean counterparts on reuniting families separated by the 1945 partition. Both sides made proposals to facilitate visits by separated relatives, but no final accord was reached. A southern spokesman said the two sides agreed in principle to exchange folk art troupes and some visitors on August 15, the 40th anniversary of the end of Japanese colonial rule. Talks between the two sides are to resume August 27 in Pyongyang.
Mexico agreed to supply 320,000 barrels of oil to Nicaragua on preferential terms, the first such agreement since the United States imposed a trade embargo against the Sandinista government earlier this month. The 320,000 barrels will cover Nicaragua’s needs for only 25 days. Another 410,000 barrels may be shipped to Nicaragua on terms to be decided later. Mexico suspended its oil deliveries to Nicaragua last October when the Sandinista regime failed to pay an oil bill now totaling about $500 million.
U.S. spy planes are flying over strategic Nicaraguan sites in an attempt to determine whether the government has acquired advanced Soviet warplanes, a Nicaraguan army officer charged. “Two American planes, a U-2 and an RC-135 … have been surveilling the Monotombo geothermal power plant and the Punta Huete airport,” the Nicaraguan officer said. U.S. officials maintain that the 12,000foot-long runways being built at Punta Huete are intended to receive advanced Soviet warplanes.
Peace talks between Government leaders and Nicaragua’s Miskito Indians have collapsed after six months, negotiators for both sides said today. The fourth round of talks, held last weekend in Bogota, Colombia, dissolved into rancor and charges of insincerity and bad faith. Each side accused the other of breaking off the talks. Both sides said they hoped the talks would resume despite major differences between them.
Gunmen believed opposed to U.S. military support for Costa Rica fired at the presidential palace in San Jose from a passing car, officials said. President Luis Alberto Monge does not live in the building. and there were no reports of injuries. No one claimed responsibility, but officials said the attack could be related to leftist protests against the presence in Costa Rica of about 20 U.S. military trainers.
A series of raids by Argentine police has turned up proof that rightist terrorist groups, linked to former military dictatorships, still exist in Argentina, an Interior Ministry official announced. Raul Galvan said there have been several arrests since last week, adding that police have identified about 15 members of one group. However, he said, an unspecified number of similar squads remain at large, possibly sheltered by military intelligence officers. The terrorists are suspected of taking part in the kidnappings of several industrialists.
Fidel Castro, in a militant speech with the United Nations Secretary General sharing the dais, criticized the United States today and raised the specter of a war with heavy American casualties. In a discourse on the conflict in southern Africa, the Cuban leader accused the United States of siding with South Africa and anti-government forces in Angola while representing itself as a neutral mediator.
South Africa repeated its denials today that a group of its soldiers who clashed with Angolan troops in northern Angola eight days ago had been on a sabotage mission directed at American-operated oil installations. The denial followed a news conference Tuesday in Luanda, the Angolan capital, at which a captured South African officer was reported to have contradicted his government’s account by saying he and his men had been ordered to sabotage installations run by the Gulf Oil Corporation.
The State Department said it is not satisfied with South Africa’s explanation for having its commandos in Angola. South Africa said two commandos who were killed and a third who was captured were gathering intelligence on guerrillas. But the captured commando told a news conference in Luanda, the Angolan capital, that the commandos were not checking on guerrillas but were trying to sabotage Gulf Oil Co. petroleum tanks and other facilities.
President Reagan addresses a meeting of special interest groups on Tax Reform. President Reagan pressed the Administration drive today to forge a coalition behind his plan to simplify the Federal income tax as he formally submitted the proposal to Congress. Attempting to counter criticism as he spoke to more than 200 representatives of ethnic, religious and business groups, Mr. Reagan defended several of the more contentious aspects of the plan, including one that would repeal state and local deductions. The President characterized such tax deductions as a force that has increased income tax rates and said they must be eliminated in the interest of fairness. The attack in effect underscored the forecast of Administration officials that repeal would be one of the most difficult provisions of the President’s tax program to get through Congress.
Resistance to the tax revision plan proposed by President Reagan Tuesday started to take shape as Congressional critics and lobbyists protested against specific elements of the plan. Groups ranging from the energy industry to Ralph Nader’s consumer advocates took issue with various provisions. Mr. Reagan and his aides said they would work very hard to prevent a piecemeal reduction or defeat of the proposals.
A third man was accused of spying for the Soviet Union in a major Navy security breach. Law-enforcement officials arrested Arthur Walker, a retired Navy lieutenant commander who taught antisubmarine tactics, on charges of taking part in an espionage ring that included his brother and nephew. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in an affidavit prepared for the case, said the retired officer, Arthur J. Walker, admitted that in September 1980 he began turning over secret documents to his brother. The documents included “files, photographs, booklets and defense plans relating to United States naval forces,” the F.B.I. said. Navy officials have said the case is one of the most serious security breaches in the history of the service. They have been particularly concerned about the transmission of sensitive information on the ability of American forces to track Soviet submarines.
The Defense Department, which tests military personnel for drug abuse, is expanding the program to include civilian employees who hold “critical jobs,” officials disclosed. The new policy was outlined in a directive from Deputy Defense Secretary William H. Taft IV and is effective Saturday. Personnel who might be subject to the mandatory drug testing include law enforcement officers, those with “jobs involving the protection of property or persons from harm” and those in “positions involving the national security or the internal security of the Department of Defense.”
The Administration will not give up on offshore drilling despite disappointments in offshore energy exploration and starkly lowered estimates of amounts of recoverable oil and gas, Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel said. “It seems to me that the new estimates make it even more important… for the nation to explore the offshore to find out exactly what we do have,” Hodel told a Washington news conference.
CIA Director William J. Casey earned a minimum of $128,700 from his outside business holdings last year, according to a financial disclosure statement his agency released. The statement from Casey, whose job pays about $70,000 a year, declared that the bulk of his outside income “over $100,000” came from a blind trust he established in 1983. In March, the newspaper Newsday disclosed that the multimillionaire lawyer held as much as $7.5 million in stock in Capital Cities Communications, a company that is merging with ABC-TV.
A 34-year-old man pleaded guilty in federal court in Baltimore to possession and receipt of a destructive device, wrapping up the prosecution of three men charged in connection with 10 abortion-related bombings. Pleading guilty was Kenneth Shields, who remains free on $25,000 bond pending his July 12 sentencing. Shields, Thomas E. Spinks and Michael Bray were named in a federal indictment issued in February accusing them of involvement in 10 bombings at abortion facilities or the offices of pro-choice organizations in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C., from January, 1984, through January, 1985.
A judge in Billings, Montana, voided the Montana portion of the largest sale of federal coal rights in history, saying the government’s impact statement failed to address potential social and economic effects of the transaction on an Indian tribe. U.S. District Judge James Battin declared void the 1982 sale of rights to 363.3 million tons of coal in southeastern Montana’s Powder River Basin, giving a legal victory to the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe.
A coal truck driver was shot to death today near Pikeville, Kentucky and several others were injured in violence linked to a seven-month strike by the United Mine Workers against concerns that failed to endorse a union contract. The truck driver, Hayes West, 35 years old, was killed in a hail of bullets fired from ambush, the authorities said. Mr. West became the first fatality in the strike. The authorities said Mr. West’s truck and another behind it were headed for the Samoyed No. 2 mine in Canada, Kentucky. The driver of the second truck was shot in the hand. E. Morgan Massey, president of the A.T. Massey Coal Company, which has refused since October 1 to endorse the union’s national contract, said union leaders were responsible for the violence.
In a key ruling for the news industry, Massachusetts’ highest court has said that newspapers may not be sued for libel when they reprint stories from The Associated Press or United Press International because of the news agencies’ reputation for accuracy. In a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court upheld lower court rulings dismissing libel actions brought in 1981-82 by convicted rapist Kenneth A. Appleby of West Springfield, Massachusetts, against four Massachusetts newspapers.
An order for Three Mile Island issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission generated a rash of challenges. The panel voted 4 to 1 to revoke an order that has kept the undamaged reactor at the Pennsylvania nuclear power plant shut down since its twin reactor was wrecked in 1979. But a barrage of challenging lawsuits began within minutes of the vote, and the effect of the action was questioned even by the commissioners themselves. Governor Dick Thornburgh of Pennsylvania promptly denounced the decision as “premature and irresponsible.” He called an afternoon news conference to announce that attorneys for the state had petitioned a federal appeals court to nullify the decision. An antinuclear group based in the area of the nuclear power plant in central Pennsylvania also said it was taking legal action.
About 90 law officers using tracking dogs, airplanes and horses today scoured the hills of eastern Oklahoma for five inmates who escaped from a maximum-security prison in McAlester by cutting through two fences, officials said. The breakout first was noticed by the son of a deputy warden who saw three of the men running away from the prison Tuesday. The deputy warden, Ted Wallman, lives on the grounds. “All five are considered extremely dangerous,” Mr. Wallman said. “In a case like this, we will go to all lengths to get them back.”
A jury has been selected in the trial of the Mississippi Senate’s President pro tem, Tommy Brooks, who is charged with attempting to extort $50,000 in exchange for using his influence to get a horse racing bill passed. Federal District Judge Tom Lee told potential jurors Tuesday that the trial would last at least a week.
Nitrate is imperiling water supplies increasingly around the nation, according to findings made public by the United States Geological Survey. Nitrate can be converted in the body to substances that have been linked to cancer and to a life-threatening disease of newborn infants.
Repair of key roads is keeping pace with their deterioration after years of steady decline, according to a report to Congress by the Transportation Department. But the agency said the cost of maintaining the nation’s major roads at current levels for the next 15 years would range from $296 billion to $324 billion, or about $18 billion a year.
Deep-sea divers today recovered more elaborate emerald and gold jewelry from the wreck of a Spanish galleon, bringing the haul of sunken treasure to nearly $1 million in the past four days, according to the company bringing up the treasure. The latest discovery, four pieces, was retrieved from a hole in the bottom of the sea off the Florida Keys where the Nuestra Senora de la Atocha sank in a hurricane in 1622.
Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
29th European Cup: Juventus beats Liverpool 1–0 at Brussels.
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At Comiskey, Carlton Fisk drives in 5 runs with a pair of homers and Ron Kittle drives in 3 with 2 homers as the White Sox prevail over the Blue Jays, 8–5. Chicago, which had lost seven straight, snapped Toronto’s eight-game winning streak. The Blue Jays’ Buck Martinez snapped an 0-for-32 slump with a two-run homer off Britt Burns (6–4) in the sixth.
The Yankees downed the Angels, 7–2 in Anaheim, behind the pitching of Phil Niekro and the slugging of Mike Pagliarulo and Omar Moreno. Pagliarulo and Moreno slugged home runs on consecutive pitches but off different pitchers in the fourth inning. The win was the club’s eighth victory in eight home games with Billy Martin.
George Brett knocked in two runs with a homer and a single to lead Kansas City to a 6–2 win over the Rangers. The Royals moved into a first-place tie with California. Danny Jackson (4–2) allowed both runs, walked three and struck out two over seven-plus innings. Brett now has 17 runs batted in his last nine games.
Earnest Riles, a rookie, had three hits, including his first major league home run, and Jim Gantner had a two-run homer among his three hits to power Milwaukee to a 7–2 victory over the Indians. Ray Burris, after a shaky start, scattered nine hits over six innings and got the victory.
The A’s downed the Tigers, 4–2. Carney Lansford hit two homers and Dave Collins hit one as they backed the six-hit pitching of Chris Codiroli. Codiroli (6–2) allowed only an infield single through the first four innings. He struck out five in completing his first game.
The Red Sox shut out the Twins 7–0. Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd pitched a five-hitter, and Wade Boggs led a 12-hit attack with three hits and three runs batted in as Boston sent Minnesota to its seventh consecutive defeat. Boyd struck out five and walked three in improving his record to 5–4 with his second shutout of the season. The Red Sox put together a pair of three-run innings against Frank Viola (6–4).
Darnell Coles hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the 11th inning, scoring the pinch-runner Dave Henderson with the winning run, as the Mariners edged the Orioles, 5–4. The Mariners, held scoreless after taking a 4–0 lead in the first inning, loaded the bases in the 11th off Don Aase (4–2), the fourth Baltimore pitcher, on singles by Alvin Davis and Barry Bonnell and a walk to Spike Owen. The sacrifice by Coles came off Sammy Stewart to score Henderson, who was running for Davis.
Mario Soto, the ace of the Cincinnati Reds’ staff, fresh from a four-day rest, baffled the Chicago Cubs with his slider, allowing just two hits in a 1–0 victory. It came the day after the Cubs had amassed 19 hits but had blown two huge leads in a 13–11 loss. “I think everybody was a little tired; you could tell by the score,” said the outfielder Gary Redus, who had two of the Reds’ five hits off Dick Ruthven and scored the run.
At the Astrodome, the Astros score 7 in the 7th to upend the Pirates, 8–3. Jim Pankvits belts a grand slam off John Candelaria for Houston. Nolan Ryan beat Pittsburgh for the ninth straight time. Ryan (5–2) had a one-hitter going until the seventh inning. Ryan He struck out eight over seven innings, raising his major league strikeout record to 3,950.
The Mets opened an eight-game trip to California today by slumbering in the sun through seven innings of one-hit pitching by Dave LaPoint of the San Francisco Giants. But they revived mightily in the eighth, peppered three pitchers with five hits, pulled a double steal, scored four runs and stormed to a 4–3 victory. It was a rousing turnaround for a team that had limped West with a collective batting average of .225 after losing five of nine games at home. And it was clinched by the remarkable rookie Roger McDowell, who relieved Ed Lynch and gave another precise performance as the new bullpen stopper: two more shutout innings that extended his recent success to 21 scoreless innings over seven games, during which he was won three and saved three others.
Dale Murphy hit his 13th home run of the season, and Bruce Sutter, making his first appearance against his former team, earned his ninth save as the Braves beat the Cardinals, 5–3. Murphy’s second homer in two nights came in the fourth inning off John Tudor (1–7).
R.J. Reynolds drove in two runs and scored once to back the four-hit pitching of Orel Hershiser as the Dodgers thumped the Phillies, 6–1. Hershiser (5–0) struck out a season-high nine batters and walked two in pitching his third complete game of the season. He lost his shutout bid when he committed an error in the fifth inning.
The Expos edged the Padres, 2–1. Andre Dawson led off the ninth with his seventh home run of the year to snap a 1–1 tie. Dawson hit a 2–2 pitch from reliever Craig Lefferts, who entered the game in the eighth. Lefferts fell to 1–2. Rookie right-hander Tim Burke, who pitched the eighth inning for the Expos, earned his first major-league victory while Jeff Reardon got the last three outs for his 14th save.
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Atlanta Braves 5
Seattle Mariners 5, Baltimore Orioles 4
Minnesota Twins 0, Boston Red Sox 7
Toronto Blue Jays 5, Chicago White Sox 8
Chicago Cubs 0, Cincinnati Reds 1
Oakland Athletics 4, Detroit Tigers 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Houston Astros 8
Texas Rangers 2, Kansas City Royals 6
Philadelphia Phillies 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 6
Cleveland Indians 2, Milwaukee Brewers 7
California Angels 2, New York Yankees 7
Montreal Expos 2, San Diego Padres 1
New York Mets 4, San Francisco Giants 3
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Nathan Horton, Canadian NHL right wing (NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Bruins, 2011; Florida Panthers, Boston Bruins, Columbus Blue Jackets), in Welland, Ontario, Canada.
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Madge West, 93, American actress (“McLean Stevenson Show”)
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