Former President Jimmy Carter said today that President Reagan’s denunciation of international terrorism was “a mistake.” Mr. Carter, here on vacation, said at a news conference: “Terrorism can be dealt with quietly and effectively rather than with threats addressed to a world audience. That’s a mistake for the leader of a great nation like ours.” He said he disagreed with Mr. Reagan’s “basic premises of an international conspiracy, of collusion in terrorism between nations and whole peoples.” Mr. Carter spoke at the end of a weekend visit to the Greek resort island of Corfu, where he met Saturday with Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou of Greece. He said he and Mr. Papandreou had discussed the State Department travel advisory warning Americans to avoid the Athens airport because of what it called inadequate security. He said that the advisory should be rescinded “in a short time” and that Mr. Papandreou had assured him that security at the airport was now adequate.
[Ed: This stupid, venal little shit. He created half the terrorism in the world with his mishandling of the Iran mess in 1978. Fuck off, Jimmy.]
Portugal’s Socialist Party has named Antonio Almeida Santos, the parliamentary affairs minister, as its candidate for prime minister in elections set for October 6. The realignment at the top of Portugal’s largest party is designed to free its leader, Prime Minister Mario Soares, to run for president in an election in December or January, party sources said. Soares will remain as caretaker prime minister until after the October elections, called last week after the ruling coalition split on economic issues.
A postcard from the wife of Andrei D. Sakharov to her daughter contained no mention of the Soviet physicist and dissident for the first time in months, the daughter said Saturday. “She was always speaking of them in plural,” Tatiana Yankelevich said of previous cards from her mother, Yelena G. Bonner, Dr. Sakharov’s second wife. “This is the first postcard to speak of herself in the singular since September 1984, when Sakharov was released from the hospital,” Mrs. Yankelevich said. She said she received the card, which was dated June 29, on Friday. Dr. Sakharov, who helped develop the first Soviet atomic bomb, was sent into internal exile in Gorky in 1980 as a result of his stand against nuclear arms and for human rights in the Soviet Union. His wife was sentenced in August 1984 to five years of internal exile for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda. Mrs. Yankelevich said her mother wrote twice on the card, “I kiss you,” instead of the usual, “We kiss you,” a phrase she said they had agreed to use to indicate all was normal.
Washington is examining a list of about a dozen Palestinians from which about four would be selected for inclusion in a Jordan-Palestinian delegation that would hold talks with the United States this summer, State Department officials said. The talks are designed to be a first step toward direct peace negotiations between a Jordan-Palestinian group and Israel.
The Israeli Cabinet, toughening its economic austerity program despite widespread protests, ordered more layoffs of public employees as officials and union leaders met to avert a general strike. The Cabinet last week suspended the firing of 10,000 civil servants to smooth negotiations with the giant Histadrut trade union federation, which had threatened a nationwide strike. But the Cabinet reimposed the layoffs, broadening the order to include about 12,000 of 400,000 public workers.
A peace plan intended to end rule by militia in Beirut’s mostly Muslim western sector is due to take effect today after the arrival of five military observers from Syria to supervise the accord. The five Syrians are to work with a coordinating committee of Muslim political leaders, army officers and militia commanders. The peace plan, which calls for disarming and disbanding all Muslim militias, was adopted in Damascus last week by Syrian officials and Lebanese Muslim leaders.
Christian, Muslim and Druze militias fought machine-gun and artillery battles until early today in Beirut’s center and in the nearby Shuf Mountains. Mortar and rocket explosions and the sound of automatic weapons fire echoed through the city. The police reported 2 people killed and 15 wounded. The fighting centered on the port and commercial areas of the capital and on the Shuf, stronghold of the Druze militia. The clashes, which began Saturday night, pitted Muslims in West Beirut against Christians in East Beirut, radio reports said. Christian and Druse irregulars battled in the Shuf. The clashes came as five Syrian military observers headed for West Beirut to supervise a plan to end militia rule in the capital and at the airport.
The trails leading north from Pakistan to Afghanistan are alive with men carrying Korans and cartridge belts and leading mules, donkeys and camels piled high with weapons and ammunition. They pass unarmed men, in groups ranging from 30 to upward of 100, walking south to receive training and supplies for what the Afghans describe as a jihad, or holy war, against the Soviet Union, which joined the battle to defeat the insurgency in 1979 and which the rebels refer to as the “atheist invader.” “If you hear a MIG, guide your horse into the shade of some tree or rock; if you hear a helicopter, jump off, forget the horse and get under a rock,” a rebel leader told a foreign reporter as they set out with 115 men, 2 horses, 2 mules and 6 donkeys. The caravan would take weapons, newly acquired in Pakistan, to Shulgara, a district center 60 miles south of the Soviet border. The advice was welcome, but not once during the 23-day trip to Shulgara did the column come under attack by Soviet aircraft.
A Pakistani military court has sentenced seven officers to long jail terms for plotting to overthrow President Zia ul-Haq, Pakistan’s official news agency reported. After a secret trial that prompted protests by rights groups, the officers received sentences ranging from 10 years’ hard labor to life imprisonment. Twelve others were acquitted, the news agency said. The defendants were charged with plotting last year to kidnap Zia, blow up the houses of leading generals and Cabinet ministers, destroy bridges and communications lines and seize power.
In an expansion of its role as the major power in South Asia, India has begun to play an increasingly prominent part in the talks between the Government of Sri Lanka and leaders of the guerrilla insurgent groups there. An official close to the Sri Lanka negotiations, which took place last week in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, said today that the talks were near collapse at midweek when Romesh Bhandari, the Indian Foreign Secretary, went to Bhutan. The official said Mr. Bhandari’s intervention salvaged the negotiations and prevented a breakdown that could have led to a resumption in the fighting between the Sri Lanka Government and the guerrilla groups – Tamils, who seek an independent state called Tamil Eelam in the northern and eastern part of Sri Lanka. After six days of discussions, Sri Lanka Government and insurgent negotiators suspended their talks Saturday and agreed to resume them August 12 in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan. Journalists have been barred from entering Bhutan to cover the negotiations.
An explosion in a coal mine in southern China killed 52 miners, and rescue teams are searching for three workers still missing, a Guangdong Province official said today. The official, He Zhiquan of the Guangdong foreign affairs office in Canton, said 109 miners were at work Friday night when the blast ripped through Meitian Pit No. 3 in the Shaoguan district, 170 miles north of Canton. Guangdong Province borders Hong Kong.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz, in talks intended to reaffirm American defense links with Australia after a rupture with New Zealand, called today for democracies not to allow themselves to be divided from one another. In February New Zealand refused to allow an American destroyer to make a scheduled port call because Washington would not say whether the ship carried nuclear weapons.
New Zealand’s national rugby team canceled a 16-match tour of South Africa after a court injunction barred the players from leaving the country. Prime Minister David Lange had said the tour would make New Zealand “part of the armory of apartheid.” The team’s 1976 tour of South Africa led to a boycott of the Montreal Olympics by black African nations. The national team did not rule out rescheduling the tour once the legal issues are clarified.
The first official results from last week’s controversial Mexican election were released amid growing protests by supporters of the major opposition party that the ruling party stole the election. In one of the first results reported, the congressional candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Hermosillo, capital of the northern state of Sonora, defeated the National Action Party’s candidate by 21,819 votes to 17,317. Since Friday, protesters have prevented vehicles from crossing the border at Agua Prieta, across from Douglas, Ariz. An estimated 1,500 people also demonstrated in Hermosillo, charging voting irregularities.
Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega said the leftist government has distributed 200,000 rifles to civilian militias in renewed fear of a U.S. invasion Ortega said 165,000 of the weapons are Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles and that the Sandinista army is training special brigades in anti-tank and anti-helicopter warfare tactics.
In the Bolivian election, General Hugo Banzer Suarez, a retired military officer who ruled Bolivia for most of the 1970’s, took an early lead in the presidential race. Neither General Suarez nor another frontrunner, Victor Paz Estenssoro, is expected to get more than 50 percent of the vote, which means the President will be chosen by the newly elected Congress in early August.
Ethiopian rebels claimed a victory over Government forces in fighting in the northwestern part of the country this month. In Khartoum, the Sudan, spokesmen for the rebel group, the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front, said their fighters have captured and now hold the city of Barentu, the Ethiopian Government’s most westerly outpost.
Sudanese Government troops and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army are fighting heavily, Western diplomatic sources here said today. They said the fighting was heaviest around the southern town of Mongalla, where 4,000 government troops were fighting their way north to the town of Bor. Bor has been under siege by the rebel group for almost two weeks. The sources said the road to Bor was impassable, apparently because of a crater left by large land mines exploded by the rebels. A pilot who ferried troops wounded in action two days ago said government troops were suffering heavy casualties.
South Africa’s Anglican Church ended an important synod in Johannesburg, but clerics were deeply divided, in the face of worsening violence in the country’s black townships, over the assignment of Anglican priests as military chaplains to troops fighting insurgents in the north of South-West Africa, a territory, also known as Namibia, that South Africa controls.
President Reagan was recovering from colon surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital today. President Reagan began recovering from abdominal surgery as White House officials prepared for a prolonged convalescence in which Mr. Reagan will carry a light work load. Doctors said the President had started on a “spectacular post-operative course.” It will not be known until pathology tests are completed whether the two-inch polyp removed from the President’s colon during the operation is malignant.
Donald T. Regan’s influence is expanded during the President’s recovery period beyond what had already become an increasingly powerful role as the President’s chief of staff, White House aides said. The aides said Mr. Regan has emerged as the dominant figure in the White House and will be serving as the main channel of communication between Mr. Reagan and the daily operations of the White House.
The White House will challenge the United States Supreme Court’s 1973 landmark decision that established the constitutional right to obtain an abortion, a Justice Department official said. The official said the Solicitor General’s office will maintain that the principles of the case, Roe V. Wade, were so sweeping as to block modest and reasonable state and local governmental efforts to control legalized abortions.
A survey found that members of Congress who oppose abortion also frequently vote against programs that would allow more women to deliver and raise healthy babies, a pro-choice abortion group said. The study by Catholics for a Free Choice looked at voting records for 30 senators and 200 House members on six issues determined by the Children’s Defense Fund as critical to low- and moderate-income parents and their children.
The leader of a militant survival group, who was arrested after a standoff with federal agents at his rural compound in the Ozarks, was set to go on trial in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on racketeering charges. James D. Ellison, 38, was arrested on federal weapons charges April 22 at the Marion County compound of the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord. Ellison and four federal fugitives who are reputed members of The Order, a neo-Nazi group, surrendered peacefully after several days inside the armed compound.
Federal officials arrested five men, including a Navy enlisted man, on charges of smuggling military equipment, including radar parts for the F-14 jet fighter, to Iran, law-enforcement officials said. The purported smuggling ring had been operating for years, an official said. The purported smuggling ring was infiltrated in time to permit the authorities to make the equipment in the shipments unusable, according to the officials, who asked not to be identified.
Engineers opened the shuttle Challenger’s engine compartment to replace a rocket engine valve assembly suspected of causing Friday’s dramatic last-second launch abort. The billion-dollar spaceship is not expected to be ready for a second launch attempt until around the end of the month, following necessary trouble-shooting and maintenance.
Ten years after they linked up in space in a historic U.S.-Soviet joint flight, three astronauts and two cosmonauts will meet in Washington Tuesday and Wednesday and mark the anniversary. The Apollo and Soyuz spaceships were launched July 15, 1975, and hooked up 140 miles above the Earth two days later. For two days the craft remained joined, with astronauts and cosmonauts shuttling back and forth between cabins through a connecting tunnel. The Americans are Donald K. Slayton, Thomas P. Stafford and Vance Brand. The Soviet cosmonauts are Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov.
Voyager 2 is nearing Uranus and has begun transmitting occasional television pictures, although the transmissions so far tell more about the hardy spacecraft, which is now seven years and 1.5 billion miles away from Earth, than about the distant planet. The robot Voyager passed Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981, and is on course to fly within 66,000 miles of Uranus by January.
The refurbished NASA space shuttle orbiter Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Nebraska.
Hearings in Juneau on the possible impeachment of Alaska Gov. Bill Sheffield have been postponed a week to allow lawmakers and their attorney time to plow through thousands of pages of evidence, state Senate leaders said. Lawmakers are to decide whether to impeach Sheffield, a first-term Democrat, on charges that he improperly influenced the awarding of a $9.1-million lease for state office space in Fairbanks.
Hundreds of farmers and small landowners near Callaway, Minnesota are entangled in a complex and highly emotional dispute involving some 1,000 separate Indian claims, filed over the last eight years, to 100,000 acres of land that had been set aside in trust for the Chippewa Indians by Congress in 1867. Indian leaders say much of the land was illegally or wrongfully transferred decades ago to non-Indian ownership.
The violent deaths of a Pennsylvania tobacco heiress and her son inside the guarded gates of a country club community have splintered the summer somnolence of the Gulf Coast resort of Naples, Florida. Margaret Benson, 63 years old, and Scott Benson, 21, who wanted to be a professional tennis player, were killed Tuesday morning when two pipe bombs exploded in the family’s station wagon. The car was on the pebbled driveway of the family’s $500,000 home inside Quail Creek Country Club, one of the most exclusive enclaves in this security-minded corner of Florida. Mrs. Benson’s daughter, Carol Benson Kendall, 40, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was critically burned in the explosions, which sent projectiles from the ripped vehicle 200 feet onto a fairway where golfers played.
Lightning left at least 70,000 homes in Michigan without power, and winds toppled a plane at Detroit’s airport as thunderstorms raced across the Upper Midwest, quickly drenching several communities with heavy rain. At least five persons suffered minor injuries in Bloomdale, Ohio, when storm winds blew down a large circus tent. Battle Creek, Mich., was swamped by 2.8 inches of rain, and the nearby community of Marshall received nearly two inches in an hour. Parts of northeastern Ohio’s Trumbull and Mahoning counties were deluged with 2 ½ inches. The rainfall was part of a pattern of showers and thunderstorms scattered across the lower Great Lakes, the upper Ohio and the Tennessee valleys.
The battle to control a week-old forest fire in California’s Big Sur was eased by cooler weather yesterday, and some crews in other areas were finally sent home after containing fires that have charred well over one million acres across the West. The number of states with out-of-control blazes dwindled after several days of favorable weather.
Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and sometime political correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine, was sentenced to three years’ probation and fined $800 by a San Francisco judge who found him guilty of drunk driving in an accident that injured three people. In addition, Thompson was ordered to pay restitution to those hurt. The judge also handed down a six-month suspended sentence to the 45-year-old author of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” ordered him to attend driver’s school and restricted him to work-related driving for the next six months. Thompson pleaded no contest to the charges against him in a May 16 incident in which his car struck a second vehicle.
The “Live Aid” concerts raised from $20 million to more than $50 million in pledges, sales and sponsorships for famine relief to be sent to several African countries.
In an unlikely combination of Mardi Gras and the latest in time travel, fans of a venerable and quirky British television show that has spawned an American cult following brought their annual convention to New Orleans over the weekend. Nearly 1,000 “Companions of Dr. Who,” taking their name from their science fiction hero, descended on the International Hotel for what they called the North American Time Festival’s annual Panopticon. Many fans came dressed as Dr. Who, who favors an overcoat, floppy hat and 20-foot scarf wound round his neck.
In the last USFL game, the Baltimore Stars defeat the Oakland Invaders, 28–24 to win the last championship of the failing league. Kelvin Bryant ran for 103 yards on 23 carries and had three touchdowns in leading the Stars to their second consecutive title. It was the sixth time in eight USFL playoff games he had rushed for more than 100 yards. He also caught five passes for 56 yards.
Kathy Baker, who said she did not particularly like golf a few years ago, won the 40th United States Women’s Open championship today by three shots over Judy Clark as the pressure of the final round took its toll on the more experienced players. The 24-year-old Miss Baker achieved her first victory since turning professional two years ago by shooting a two-under-par 70 for a winning total of eight-under 280. None of her closest rivals broke par in this final round on the 6,274-yard Upper Course at Baltusrol Golf Club. Miss Clark was the only player among those in a position to challenge who shot par 72. That gave her a five-under 283 for runner-up. Miss Clark is still looking for her first victory after eight years on the professional tour.
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Bob Horner hit two home runs and drove in five runs, and Glenn Hubbard had four RBIs as Atlanta completed a four-game sweep of Philadelphia, routing the Phillies, 12–3. Pascual Perez (1–7) and Rick Camp combined on a six-hitter. Perez gave up five hits over five and a third innings.
The Mets, behind the clutch pitching of Dwight Gooden, closed out their most successful trip in the franchise’s history tonight as they defeated the Houston Astros, 1–0. The victory concluded an 11-game trip during which the Mets won 10 games and lost only 1, marking the first time a Mets’ team had won that many games on one trip. The Mets completed the first half of the season before the All-Star Game break with a 50–36 record, in second place two and a half games behind the St. Louis Cardinals.
Tito Landrum’s pinch-hit single scored Vince Coleman in the eighth inning today to give the Cardinals a 2–1 victory over the San Diego Padres. Coleman led off the inning with a double off Dave Dravecky (8–6). Two outs later, Jack Clark was walked intentionally, and Landrum, pinch-hitting for Andy Van Slyke, singled to right field.
Dave Parker’s 10th-inning single scored Cesar Cedeno from second base to give the Reds a 5–3 victory over the Expos. Cedeno, batting for Max Venable, singled to left with one out against Gary Lucas (3–2), Montreal’s fourth pitcher. Cedeno stole second, and Pete Rose drew a walk before Parker lined a single to right, giving the victory to Ted Power (2–2). The Reds tied the score against Bert Roberge in the ninth when Wayne Krenchicki singled, the pinch-runner Gary Redus stole second and Dave Concepcion singled him home.
Keith Moreland drove in four runs, three on a homer, and Ryne Sandberg hit two home runs for Chicago as the Cubs whipped the Dodgers, 10–4. George Frazier (5–2) pitched 2 ⅓ innings in relief of Steve Trout as the Cubs halted the Dodgers’ six-game winning streak. Despite the loss, the Dodgers retained their half-game lead over San Diego in the National League West. The Cubs had 15 hits and the Dodgers had 14. Sandberg hit a homer off Rick Honeycutt (6–8) in the first inning and another off Jerry Reuss in the fourth. Honeycutt’s throwing error gave the Cubs a second-inning run, and then Chicago chased him with a three-run third.
David Green and Chili Davis hit bases-empty home runs for San Francisco, and Bill Laskey ended a personal eight-game losing streak, as the Giants beat the Pirates, 7–3. In the seventh inning, the Giants’ Dan Gladden charged the mound and tackled the Pittsburgh pitcher Rick Rhoden after being hit with a pitch. Players streamed out of both dugouts, but only Rhoden and Gladden were ejected and play resumed within five minutes. Laskey (2–11) won for the first time since May 6 when San Francisco beat the Pirates, 7–5.
Walt Terrell and Willie Hernandez combine on a one-hitter as the Tigers blank the Twins, 8–0. Terrell (10–4) pitched 6 ⅔ innings of no-hit ball, running his overall streak of hitless innings to 14 ⅔, before Tom Brunansky doubled. Terrell walked two batters with one out in the eighth before yielding to Hernandez, who earned his 19th save. The Tigers defeated the Twins for the first time in eight games this season. Tom Brunansky’s double in the 7th is the only hit. Larry Herndon and Darrell Evans hit back-to-back homers in the 4th.
Tom Seaver got his 297th career victory and struck out 11 as the Chicago White Sox defeated the Orioles, 5–3, today. Seaver (9–7), who allowed seven hits, was relieved by Dan Spillner after walking two batters with two out in the ninth. Spillner then struck out John Shelby. Losing pitcher Mike Boddicker (9–9) yielded four runs and nine hits over 6 ⅔ innings. Cal Ripken hit his 15th home run for the Orioles.
Brian Downing’s disputed two-run homer with two out in the ninth inning gave the Angels a 5–3 victory today over the Toronto Blue Jays. The Angels, who kept a six-game lead in the American League West going into the All-Star Game, trailed by 3–2 going into the ninth. Reggie Jackson walked to open the inning off the reliever Gary Lavelle (3–4). Ruppert Jones sacrificed the pinch-runner Craig Gerber to second, and Bobby Grich singled one out later to score Gerber with the tying run.
Midway through the season, Ron Guidry has more than proved he can still pitch. He also is significantly more than halfway to his preseason goal. In fact, he has a better record now than he has at any time in his career except for the fabled 1978 season, when he was 13–1 at the All-Star Game break and 25–3 at the end of the season. Pitching a four-hitter in the Yankees’ 7–1 victory over the woeful Texas Rangers, Guidry gained his 11th consecutive victory and 12th overall in 15 decisions. His latest effort — the Rangers didn’t score until the ninth inning — lowered his earned run average to 2.58, which is lower than any ERA he has had for an entire season except in ’78, when it was 1.74.
The A’s crushed the Brewers, 11–2. Mike Davis slammed a three-run homer in the first inning for the A’s. Davis’s homer, his 15th of the season, came off Moose Haas (7–5) and followed a single by Dave Kingman and a walk to Dusty Baker. Earlier in the inning, Carney Lansford had a bases-empty homer, his 13th.
The Royals downed the Indians, 9–5. Hal McRae drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single, and Willie Wilson collected four hits and scored three runs for Kansas City. The victory ended a personal seven-game losing streak for Bud Black (6–10), who gave up three runs on seven hits in six innings. Dan Quisenberry got his 17th save.
The Red Sox topped the Mariners, 6–2. Wade Boggs hit a two-run homer. Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd, who improved his record to 11–7, combined with Steve Crawford on an eight-hitter. Frank Wills (4–3), the Mariners’ starter, yielded three runs in the seventh when the Red Sox broke open a scoreless game. Boggs, who extended his hitting streak to 20 games to match Don Mattingly of the Yankees for the longest streak this season, drilled a 2–2 pitch from the reliever Robert Long into the left-field seats with one out in the eighth to score Marty Barrett, who had singled. That gave the Red Sox a 5–0 lead.
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Atlanta Braves 12
Chicago White Sox 5, Baltimore Orioles 3
Toronto Blue Jays 3, California Angels 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Chicago Cubs 10
Montreal Expos 4, Cincinnati Reds 5
Kansas City Royals 9, Cleveland Indians 5
Minnesota Twins 0, Detroit Tigers 8
New York Mets 1, Houston Astros 0
Texas Rangers 1, New York Yankees 7
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Oakland Athletics 11
San Francisco Giants 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Boston Red Sox 6, Seattle Mariners 2
San Diego Padres 1, St. Louis Cardinals 2
Born:
Darrelle Revis, NFL cornerback (Pro Football Hall of Fame, inducted 2023; NFL Champions, Super Bowl XLIX-Patriots, 2014; Pro Bowl, 2008-2011, 2013-2015; New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs), in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, English actress (“Broadchurch”, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”), writer and director (“Fleabag”), in London, England, United Kingdom.
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