In a major Cabinet shakeup in Spain, Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez changed six of his 15 ministers, including those for foreign and economic affairs, and the Government spokesman. Mr. Gonzalez said he sought to rejuvenate his 31-month-old Government as it prepares to join the European Common Market next January. But aides to the Prime Minister and other officials said that what had begun as a light remodeling of the Cabinet had ended in bitter internal feuding. The Minister of Industry and Energy, Carlos Solchaga, was named to replace Economy Minister Miguel Boyer, the most powerful member of the Cabinet, whose departure caught political and business leaders by surprise.
Portuguese President Antonio Ramalho Eanes said he will dissolve Parliament on July 12 but will keep Socialist Prime Minister Mario Soares’ Cabinet as a caretaker government until early general elections in October. Eanes said he is delaying the dissolution of the 250-seat legislature so it can ratify Portugal’s membership in the European Community. He said that the specific date for elections two years ahead of schedule will be announced simultaneously with Parliament’s dissolution.
Mehmet Ali Ağca said today that he had altered his testimony against Bulgarians accused of helping him in a plot to kill Pope John Paul II after he was convinced that they had engineered the kidnapping of an Italian schoolgirl to obtain his release from prison. Mr. Ağca repeatedly altered his version of events during the 23-month investigation leading to the trial, in which eight people are accused of conspiring to kill the Pope. Mr. Ağca’s explanation of how the kidnapping relates to his case contrasted with earlier testimony in which he said the abduction was engineered by the spurious Masonic lodge known as Propaganda 2, which he said knew he was Jesus Christ and sought to put him in the Vatican.
The United States Ambassador to Moscow told Soviet television viewers tonight in a speech marking the Fourth of July that the United States was expanding scientific frontiers because private citizens had easy access to information. The speech by the Ambassador, Arthur A. Hartman, avoided subjects that are a matter of controversy between the two nations, such as the Soviet combat operation in Afghanistan or the part Moscow plays in Poland. Such references in previous July 4 speeches have led to Soviet demands for changes. Last year Moscow barred Mr. Hartman from giving the televised address that all ambassadors to Moscow are invited to give on their respective national holidays because they said the text of his remarks sounded like part of President Reagan’s re-election campaign.
An Irish Navy ship has picked up a signal believed to be coming from the flight recorder of the Air-India jet that crashed off Ireland 10 days ago, a Government spokesman said today. The spokesman said the patrol boat picked up a “very faint” signal Wednesday night near the spot where the jumbo jet, flying from Toronto to Bombay via London, plunged into the sea, killing all 329 people on board. “The signal was going out at one beat per second, which corresponds to that put out by a black box,” he said. Ships have been searching for the flight recorder in the hope that it will provide some clue to the reason for the crash, the worst at sea in aviation history. Many experts say they believe it was caused by a bomb. Two Sikh extremist groups have asserted that they put a bomb on the plane.
OPEC oil ministers assembled for a critical meeting in Vienna. Officials arranging today’s meeting said that weeks of informal talks had apparently failed to yield any agreement on how to strengthen the troubled organization. Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies have been urging other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to cut oil prices, stick to agreed production levels and perhaps reduce output a bit this summer. All of this would constitute an effort to re-establish OPEC’s control of the world oil market at a time when demand is falling and production by its members is on the rise. At emergency talks in Algiers last weekend, however, the oil ministers of Kuwait and Venezuela failed to convince those of Algeria, Libya and Nigeria of the need for an oil price cut, according to the OPEC officials. Algeria, Libya and Nigeria believe a cut would discriminate against them, making their oil relatively harder to sell.
Tighter security at Beirut’s airport will be enforced to help restore international confidence in the facility, the Lebanese Government announced. It said it had erected earthen barriers to prevent unauthorized vehicles from driving onto the runways and would bar armed militia members from the airport’s perimeter. Officials also said President Amin Gemayel would send a note to the United Nations to complain that the United States effort to organize a boycott of the airport in the wake of the Trans World Airlines hostage crisis was a breach of international law. The Reagan Administration has stopped flights to the United States by Middle East Airlines, Lebanon’s national carrier, and Trans-Mediterranean Airways, a cargo carrier. It also said it would seek to persuade other nations to “isolate” the Beirut airport.
The pilot of the hijacked jet threw new light on the fatal shooting of a young Navy diver, Robert D. Stethem, early in the 17-day hostage crisis. The pilot, John L. Testrake, said the two hijackers killed Mr. Stethem after being rebuffed in their first demand that members of the Amal Shiite militia join them. When they threatened to kill a second captive, Mr. Testrake said, the Amal militiamen agreed to help guard the 39 American captives. “The hijackers got on the radio and apparently demanded that they talk to Amal people,” the pilot said. “As soon as we landed, they asked where the Amal were. When they were told they were not here, that caused a furor. That was when they snatched the young man to his feet and stood him in the door and shot him. They said, ‘See, there will be another in five minutes.’ At that point the Amal said, ‘O.K., we’ll be right there.’ “
King Hussein of Jordan and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt met for four hours in the Jordanian Red Sea resort of Aqaba today to discuss ways of reviving Middle East peace talks. Osama el-Baz, President Mubarak’s key foreign policy adviser, said in Cairo after the meeting that the two leaders had discussed the latest rounds of fighting between Palestinian and Shiite Muslim militia groups in Lebanon, the Iran-Iraq war and prospects for promoting Middle East peace, among other topics. Mr. Baz, who attended the session today, said that Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization would form a joint delegation to pursue peace talks “soon,” but gave no further details. He called upon the United States to “seek a dialogue” with the delegation so it could present “the Arab point of view.”
Hundreds of people marched on the Egyptian Embassy in Khartoum today to demand the extradition of former President Gaafar al-Nimeiry, who has lived in Egypt since being deposed in a coup three months ago. No violence was reported. “Mubarak is a Zionist agent” and “Protectors of Nimeiry are the enemies of the people,” read some of the banners carried by the protesters. Mr. Nimeiry, an ally of the United States and Egypt who ruled for 16 years, has lived under Egyptian protection since being overthrown by the military in a coup in April while returning home from Washington. Witnesses said the demonstrators were mostly students and union members. Five truckloads of riot policemen were deployed near the embassy compound.
Syrian-Iranian ties are close and complex. But diplomats in Damascus believe there are strains or at least ambiguities in the alliance. For example, a diplomat said, Syria, largely a secular state, seeks to keep the domestic influence of the Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, to a minimum. On a wall of the Sitt Zainab Mosque, the holiest Shiite shrine in Syria, is a rare sight in this rather secular country: a large portrait of the Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The busy scene at the mosque, a glittering structure of silver mirrored arches and whirring ceiling fans, is one aspect of the complex relationship that has existed between the two hard-line, bitterly anti-Israeli nations of Syria and Iran, particularly since the Iranian revolution and the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war nearly five years ago.
Iraq said its aircraft had attacked a military camp in western Iran today. It was the first air raid on Iranian targets Iraq has reported since ending a self-imposed bombing halt four days ago. An Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad said warplanes had launched an intensive raid on the camp at Sanadaj this afternoon, causing explosions there. The Iranian press agency, received in London, reported that several Iraqi bombers attacked the city of Sanandaj, destroying houses and killing or wounding an unspecified number of civilians. The report did not mention a military camp.
Indian government investigators have concluded that an explosion in a cargo container caused the June 23 crash in the Atlantic of an Air-India jumbo jet that killed 329 people, the Press Trust of India reported. The news agency, which cited no sources, said “circumstantial evidence and events” leading to the crash convinced investigators that an in-flight explosion was responsible for the disaster. Sikh and Kashmiri separatist groups have claimed responsibility. The Indian government had no immediate comment on the report.
Two political dissidents and a junior Taiwanese Government officer have been arrested and accused of jeopardizing military secrets, investigators from the Justice Ministry said today. The investigators identified those arrested as Chen Pai-ling, 27 years old, a staff member at the Government Information Office, which oversees publications in Taiwan and has the power to ban publications; Chiu Yi-jen, 35, an editor of several dissident magazines, and Shih Chia-yin, 28, a volunteer worker at a care center for dissidents.
An estimated 8,000 Salvadoran troops backed by planes and artillery intensified a drive against rebels in northern El Salvador, pushing most of them from Chalatenango province, a senior army officer said. The rebels’ Radio Venceremos, however, said that guerrilla units attacked an army post in the province, “killing or wounding dozens of soldiers.” The post commander denied the attack.
In a July 4 letter, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega called on President Reagan to open a new round of talks aimed at normalizing relations. “Let this anniversary be a time of reflection for both of our governments,” Ortega said in the letter published in Nicaraguan newspapers. “Let them, through serious and constructive conversations, lead us to the normalization of relations.” Washington suspended talks in January with Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government, which Reagan accuses of trying to spread Marxist insurgency throughout Central America.
In a security move designed to prevent guerrilla attacks during Peru’s presidential inauguration, police arrested 4,000 people and confiscated three cars loaded with explosives, which they believe were intended for use by the leftist urban guerrilla group Tupac Amaru, named for an Inca revolutionary. A police spokesman said the raids were part of citywide sweeps that will be staged nightly until the inauguration of President-elect Alan Garcia on July 28.
Presidential elections in Bolivia will be held on schedule July 14 following the provision of adequate funds to organize the vote, the nation’s top election official said today.
A new coup has occurred in Guinea, Conakry Radio reported. It said that an Army colonel, Diarra Traore, had seized power and warned residents of the capital to stay indoors. There was no indication of the fate of President Lansana Conte, who demoted Colonel Traore last December from Prime Minister to education minister of the West African country. Traore served as premier for eight months after a military coup in April, 1984, that followed the death of longtime dictator Sekou Toure. He was later demoted to education minister as President Lansana Conte reshuffled his Cabinet and abolished the premier’s post, alleging incompetence and corruption. Conte was attending a conference of African leaders in Togo when the latest coup was disclosed.
Voting ended tonight in the southern African nation of Zimbabwe’s first general election since it came under majority rule. For some this week, it was a test of will. All week, long lines in polling places, ranging from school houses to tents set in wide open fields, forced many to wait for hours to exercise their franchise, only to have the stations close before they could cast their ballots. Some returned the next day and then the next, as the voting period was extended from two to four days. Determination brought some voters out into the biting breeze of southern Africa’s winter as early as 2 AM. They huddled around fires until the polls opened five hours later, insuring that they would be first in line and could finally vote for the candidate they believed could best help fashion their country’s future.
A South African anti-apartheid coalition, the United Democratic Front, charged that right-wing death squads armed with a hit list of government opponents were behind 11 killings, including the murder of four activists stabbed near their burned-out car. However, the South African government — strongly denying any links with the murders — suggested that the killings result from a power struggle between the front and the rival Azanian People’s Organization.
President Reagan will take a break from his grass-roots barnstorming for his tax revision package for the rest of the summer to concentrate on getting the budget through Congress, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said. Reagan will resume intensive lobbying for the tax plan after Labor Day and throughout the fall, Speakes said. Meanwhile, a new opinion poll on tax revision proposals suggests that public support has slipped since the plan was outlined by the President in a nationally televised speech. A nationwide telephone survey conducted for the Washington Post and ABC News found that 26% endorsed the proposal and 14% opposed it. A majority — 60% — had no opinion.
July 4, for the freed hostages, was a day to savor independence. There were quiet cookouts with relatives and friends, exuberant holiday parades, a mass celebrated at a hometown church and a baseball toss to open a Chicago Cubs-San Francisco Giants game. Robert Peel Jr. might have said it for all the former hostages of Trans World Airlines Flight 847 on this Fourth of July. “Independence Day has a whole new meaning,” said Mr. Peel, a 33-year-old businessman from Hutchinson, Kan., one of 39 T.W.A. passengers and crew members who were released Sunday after being held captive for 17 days by a group of Shiite Moslems after the hijacking of a Boeing 727 jetliner to Beirut, Lebanon.
President Reagan speaks with the father of the Petty Officer slain in the recent hijacking who thanks the President for visiting his son’s grave.
President Reagan hosts a private dinner party in celebration of Independence Day.
Senator Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina) denied that conservative senators have held up diplomatic nominations while they seek assurances that some conservatives appointed to diplomatic posts would not be ousted by Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Helms blamed the State Department for delaying action on half of the nominations. In a letter to the Washington Post, Helms brushed aside suggestions that the nominations “have been unconscionably delayed by malignant influences in the Senate.”
A Pentagon-Philippines contract is under inquiry. American and Philippines officials said a Federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, was investigating the $35 million contract, much of it financed by the Defense Department, to provide military communications equipment for Manila. Law-enforcement officials said the Pentagon was unable to determine how $6 million paid under the contract had been spent.
An escaped prisoner released five law enforcement officers after holding them hostage in a mobile home for more than six hours in Odessa, Missouri, police said. The man, identified as Robert Allen, 25, had demanded that a helicopter fly him to freedom after he captured the first police officer, who tried to serve him a warrant. He then used the officer as a shield when other officers arrived and he forced them into the home also, Sgt. Jim Watson of the Missouri Highway Patrol said. Authorities were still negotiating with the man, who remained barricaded in the mobile home. He escaped from jail June 19.
A Providence, Rhode Island, couple who said their infant daughter was kidnaped and went on television last November 11 to plead for her safe return have been indicted on charges stemming from the baby’s rape and murder, according to an unidentified source close to the case. Ralph G. Richard, 34, will turn himself in after a grand jury formally reports out the indictment today, his mother, Audrey McGoIwan of Attleboro, Massachusetts, said. The Providence County grand jury weighing evidence in the rape and bludgeoning death of 4-month-old Jerri Ann will hand up an indictment charging Richard and his wife, Donna, the source said.
An unmarried mother who was dismissed from her teaching job after she decided to keep her baby was awarded $2 million in compensation and $1.3 million in punitive damages by a federal jury in Rockford, Illinois on Tuesday. Six past or present members of the rural Hawthorn School Board that dismissed Jeanne Eckmann, who is now 38 years old, are liable. “This will give a message to school boards across the nation that they can’t discriminate against women teachers who become pregnant out of wedlock,” said Donna Kotecki, a lawyer for Miss Eckmann, who said she became pregnant after a rape in 1980.
Changes sweeping U.S. industry have cost many jobs and traumatized lives. To save and attract jobs Donald Stazak persuaded the Chicago steelworkers’ local he headed to accept concessions. But new jobs have not come and much of the mill in which he worked long and loved much is closed. Mr. Stazak’s approach, viewed as realistic by some and naive by others, failed.
Hospital chains have expanded into health insurance, a move that many experts predict will significantly alter the health care industry. The large for-profit chains are mounting a direct challenge to Blue Cross and Blue Shield and other nonprofit health insurance companies.
Sterilization has risen sharply among married men and women in the last 20 years, according to the Government’s National Center for Health Statistics. A survey by the agency also concluded that sterilization has replaced the pill as the most widely used form of contraception for married American women.
Heart muscles adapt to endurance training in ways that depend at least partly on a person’s genes, according to researchers who studied 10 sets of identical twins in a rigorous 20-week exercise regimen. Researchers found also that 20 sedentary persons who had never trained before and who underwent the same regimen showed significant increases in the size of their heart muscles and their capacity to exercise. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Assn., is the first of its type to indicate that athletes with the capacity to be champions are determined by heredity and not merely by training.
Stanley Watras, forced to evacuate his Boyertown, Pennsylvania house in January because radioactive gas seeping from the earth had made it unsafe, was told Wednesday that after a $32,000 cleanup his family could return home. Engineers said the Watras home sits atop a seam of uranium-bearing rocks stretching across eastern Pennsylvania into parts of New Jersey and New York. The contamination was discovered in December.
Scientists at Emory University in Atlanta have succeeded for the first time in reversing Parkinson’s disease symptoms in higher animals by implanting cells from monkey fetuses into the brains of afflicted monkeys. “We’re not calling the transplant procedure a cure for Parkinson’s disease,” cautioned Dr. Frederick A. King, director of Emory’s Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, where the experiments were performed. King called the finding “an exciting beginning” but said it would be years before such a procedure could be contemplated for humans.
A burst in the popularity of rafting down the West’s rivers has made the waiting lists of private, noncommercial rafters at least six months for one wild and scenic section of the Colorado River and at least two years for another. As a result, the do-it-yourselfers have demanded that the National Park Service abolish its practice of reserving more than half the time on the river for commercial operators.
The women’s final at Wimbledon tomorrow will match Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert Lloyd for the fifth time. The friendly rivals meet again one month after Mrs. Lloyd defeated Miss Navratilova to win the French Open and regain the No. 1 ranking in the tennis world.
Major League Baseball:
In a marathon game that borders on the surreal, the Mets endure 2 rain delays and 6:10 of playing time to beat the Braves 16–13 in 19 innings on Fireworks Night in Atlanta. Tied at 8 apiece after 9 innings, the Mets take a 10–8 lead in the top of the 13th inning, only to watch the Braves tie it up. The Mets score again in the 18th, but relief hurler Rick Camp (a .060 hitter who was batting because Atlanta had no more position players available to pinch-hit) ties the score with his first Major League home run on a 2-out 2-strike pitch in the bottom of the inning. No pitcher ever homered that late in a game before. Finally the Mets erupt for 5 runs in the 19th off Camp and Atlanta can respond only with 2. The 5 runs is an Major League record for one team in the 19th, and the 7 combined runs is also an Major League record. Keith Hernandez hits for the cycle for the Mets. New York pounds out 28 hits, a Mets team record (Atlanta has 18, as the two teams fall 6 hits short of the National League record) Gary Carter has 5 hits as does Terry Harper. The game ends at 3:55 AM on July 5th, the latest finish in Major League history. At 4:01 AM the post-game fireworks display begins, causing local residents to think the city is under attack.
Tom Nieto grounded a run-scoring single to right field with two out in the eighth inning tonight, giving Joaquin Andujar his 14th victory as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3–2. Nieto’s hit came off Los Angeles reliever Ken Howell (4–4). Andujar (14–3) has more victories than any other pitcher in the major leagues. He fired an eight-hitter for his eighth complete game, striking out five and walking five. It was the Cardinals’ 14th victory in the last 18 games and their eighth straight at home. Andy Van Slyke opened the eighth by flying out against Howell, the Dodgers’ third pitcher. But Terry Pendleton beat out an infield single, stole his second base of the night and scored the winning run on Nieto’s hit.
Home runs by Juan Samuel, Von Hayes and Ozzie Virgil and three-hit pitching by Kevin Gross carried Philadelphia over Cincinnati by a score of 3–1. Gross (7–7), who has allowed fewer than three earned runs in 10 of his 13 starts, struck out four and walked three. The Phillies jumped to a 2–0 lead in the first off Mario Soto (8–8), who has lost five straight decisions for the first time since 1977, his rookie year.
The Expos downed the Astros, 9–3, as Tim Wallach’s three-run homer highlighted a six-run 12th inning for Montreal. Sal Butera started off the Expo 12th with a one-out single off Frank DiPino (1–5), moving to second on a Tim Raines’s single. Vance Law then doubled in Butera. After a walk to Andre Dawson loaded the bases, Hubie Brooks singled in Raines and Law. Wallach then belted his fifth home run of the season off Bill Dawley, who had relieved DiPino.
Jose Uribe’s tie-breaking two-run single in the seventh inning gave San Francisco a 6–4 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Scott Garrelts (4–2) was the winner and the loss went to the Chicago starter, Steve Trout (7–4). The Cubs executed five double plays, the most in one game this season in the National League.
Garry Templeton went 3 for 3 and drove in four runs, and Eric Show (7–5) scattered seven hits for San Diego, as the Padres routed the Pirates, 9–1. Templeton’s run-scoring single gave the Padres a 1–0 lead in the fifth and he capped a five-run sixth inning off the Pirate starter, Rick Rhoden (5–8), with a bases-loaded double. All the sixth-inning runs were unearned because of a two-out error by the shortstop, Sammy Khalifa.
Dave Collins’s single scored Mike Heath from third with the winning run in the bottom of the ninth for Oakland, as the A’s edged the Blue Jays, 3–2. Mickey Tettleton led off with a walk against reliever Bill Caudill (4–4), the fourth Toronto pitcher. Donnie Hill sacrificed Heath, a pinch-runner, to second and Heath took third when the left fielder, George Bell, misplayed Alfredo Griffin’s fly ball. Collins then singled to center to score Heath.
The Rangers beat the Tigers, 4–1.Burt Hooton pitched a six-hitter, and Pete O’Brien knocked in two runs for Texas. Hooton (4–2) was backed by the defensive play of the third baseman Buddy Bell, who made a leaping grab of a line drive by Lance Parrish in the fourth, a diving stop to rob Bob Melvin in the fifth and a diving catch to take a hit away from Chet Lemon in the seventh.
The Orioles topped the Royals, 5–3. Floyd Rayford and Eddie Murray drove in two runs apiece for Baltimore. Dennis Martinez (7–5) picked up the victory. Nate Snell relieved Martinez with two out in the sixth and collected his fourth save. Bud Black (5–9), the Kansas City starter, suffered his sixth straight loss.
Mike Moore hurled a four-hitter, and Dave Henderson slammed a three-run homer for Seattle, as the Mariners whipped the Brewers, 7–1. Moore (7–4) retired the first 17 batters and didn’t allow a runner to reach second base until the seventh, when Cecil Cooper doubled.
The White Sox blanked the Indians, 5–0. Britt Burns tossed a four-hitter to give Chicago only its third victory in its last 14 games. Burns (8–6) struck out five and walked two while pitching his fourth complete game and second shutout of the season. The left-hander has defeated Cleveland three times this season without allowing a run in 23 innings. Bert Blyleven (7–8) took the loss despite pitching his league-leading 11th complete game.
Jerry Narron’s three-run homer in the seventh gave California a 5–4 victory over the Boston Red Sox before an Anaheim crowd of 62,951, the major league’s largest of the season.
The Yankees’ Ron Guidry struck out eight batters, matching his season-high, and beat the Minnesota Twins, 3–2. In so doing, he won his ninth decision in a row and raised his record to 10–3, giving him the best winning percentage in the league. Guidry mixed his offerings well, using his slider liberally and with good effect. Most of his strikeouts, Ron Hassey, the catcher, said, came on sliders. The Yankees staked Guidry to all three runs in the first inning. After singles by Rickey Henderson and Ken Griffey, Don Mattingly doubled to right, scoring Henderson. Then after Dave Winfield popped to the catcher and John Butcher, the starter, intentionally walked Hassey to load the bases, Don Baylor looped a single to center, scoring Griffey and moving Mattingly to third. Mattingly came home when the next batter, Willie Randolph, flied to right field.
New York Mets 16, Atlanta Braves 13
Boston Red Sox 4, California Angels 5
San Francisco Giants 6, Chicago Cubs 4
Chicago White Sox 5, Cleveland Indians 0
Montreal Expos 9, Houston Astros 3
Baltimore Orioles 5, Kansas City Royals 3
Minnesota Twins 2, New York Yankees 3
Toronto Blue Jays 2, Oakland Athletics 3
Cincinnati Reds 1, Philadelphia Phillies 3
San Diego Padres 9, Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Seattle Mariners 7
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Detroit Tigers 1, Texas Rangers 4
Born:
Eric Weems, NFL kick returner and wide receiver (Pro Bowl, 2010; Atlanta Falcons, Chicago Bears, Tennessee Titans), in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Clifton Smith, NFL kick and punt returner and running back (Pro Bowl, 2008; Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Miami Dolphins, Cleveland Browns), in Fresno, California.
Stanford Keglar, NFL linebacker (Tennessee Titans, Houston Texans), in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Jared Hughes, MLB pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets), in Stamford, Connecticut.
Died:
Jan de Quay, 83, Dutch politician (KVP, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 1959-63).
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