The toll in a dam collapse in Italy rose to 163 deaths. The cause of the collapse, which occurred Friday in Stava, near the Austrian border, was being sought in two separate investigations begun by officials faced with protests from opposition parties and citizens groups. Officials of the mining company that owns the dam were called for questioning.
Israel has told the United States that Anatoly F. Dobrynin, who has served as Moscow’s ambassador to Washington for 23 years, will be replaced by Yuli M. Vorontsov, the Soviet ambassador to Paris, the New York Times reported. The paper quoted unidentified Reagan Administration officials as saying the disclosure of the planned switch came during talks between Vorontsov and Ovadia Sofer, Israel’s ambassador to France. The State Department declined comment on the report.
Guards at Beirut airport body-searched passengers twice before they entered aircraft, and workers were building a brick wall around runways previously protected by earth mounds as part of what a senior airport official said was greatly improved security since the TWA hijacking crisis last month. An electronic gateway to detect passengers carrying arms, explosives or other contraband was reinstalled. Political sources said one of five Syrian military observers overseeing a crackdown on militia lawlessness in West Beirut would visit the airport regularly.
Iraq said today that its navy had set ablaze four Iranian oil wells, a pumping station and a storage tank during an attack on the offshore Cyrus Field in the northern Persian Gulf. One shipping source in Kuwait, about 75 miles west of the field, said there appeared to have been an Iraqi attack Friday night that left four platforms and one pumping well on fire. But other sources in the region, with radio access to tugs in the general area of the Cyrus Field, were unable to verify the Iraqi report. The Cyrus Field is connected to Iran’s main oil terminal at Kharg Island by a 45-mile pipeline, the shipping sources said. The sources said the field, in an Iraqi-proclaimed war zone in the northeastern gulf, was old and they doubted it was in full operation.
An Air India jet’s ‘black boxes’ gave no indication why the Boeing 747 plane with 329 passengers crashed off the Irish coast last month, investigators in Bombay said. They said the inquiry would now have to focus on other debris from the crash. The plane’s cockpit voice recorder and a computerized flight data recorder salvaged from the North Atlantic were examined by a team of specialists from India, the United States and Canada. American air safety experts completed their analysis in Bombay, India, of the voice and flight data recorders from the Air-India jetliner crash and said this information alone might not explain why the Boeing 747 plunged into the Atlantic on June 23, killing all 329 aboard. John Young, an official of the National Transportation Safety Board, said, “It’s now a matter of (the Indian investigators) analyzing what data they do have.” Three separate Indian extremist groups claimed responsibility for blowing up the plane, but the investigators have not yet concluded that a bomb caused the crash.
Five people were killed and 20 were injured during fighting in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad as militants protested government policies aiding Hindus of the lowest social caste, the Press Trust of India said. The protesters are trying to overturn a system that reserves 31% of all college places for tribal, low-caste and “untouchable” students. They want the preferences either eliminated or decided on the basis of need rather than caste. The latest victims brought to 224 the number of people killed in religious and caste clashes in the state of Gujarat in five months, the agency said.
Laos said today that it would send a team of officials to Hawaii to join the United States in preparing for a search for servicemen missing in action from the war in Indochina. Laos told the United States Embassy in Vientiane Thursday that it had accepted an American invitation to send a delegation to the Joint Casualty Resolution Center in Honolulu late this year. the Laotian press agency said in a broadcast monitored in Bangkok. The agency said Laos was preparing for a joint excavation of the crash site of a United States aircraft during the next November-to-May dry season. It said Laos pledged further cooperation in the search for missing servicemen and expressed hope “the U.S. Government will take concrete, reasonable steps responding to this humanitarian and goodwill attitude.”
Approval of a U.S.-China pact on nuclear cooperation, which has been long delayed, has been requested of President Reagan by the State Department and the Energy Department, Administration officials said. They said if Mr. Reagan, as expected, gave his approval, the agreement would be announced during the visit to Washington this week of President Li Xiannian of China. Officials said the agreement was consistent with the American policy opposed to the spread of nuclear weapons.
In Palau, two men were arrested and charged with the assassination last month of President Haruo I. Remeliik, and more arrests were expected, the authorities said. Formal charges of first degree murder and conspiracy against the two are expected to be filed Monday, Palau’s Attorney General, Russell Weller, said. They were being held in the Koror jail, he said. Mr. Remeliik was fatally shot June 30 as he got out of his car in front of his Koror home. Vice President Alfonso Olterong has been Acting President pending special elections. No date has been set for the elections. The United States has administered Palau as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under a 1947 United Nations mandate.
A Canadian former high school social studies teacher was convicted today of willfully promoting hatred against Jews and was fined $5,000. The former teacher, James Keegstra, sat impassively as the jury foreman read the guilty verdict. The jury deliberated about 30 hours in the trial that began April 9. Justice John MacKenzie announced the fine, the maximum under Canada’s anti-hate law. Mr. Kreegstra could have also been sentenced to two years in prison. The prosecution’s key witness was a teacher who took over Mr. Keegstra’s class after he was fired. He testified that Mr. Keegstra’s students told him they were taught the world would be better off had the Nazis won World War II and that Jews controlled the banks, politicians and news media. Mr. Kreegstra’s attorney sought to show that he had taught a more balanced view of history than the prosecution charged, and that he did not force his views on students.
The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega called on the United States to withdraw from the Organization of American States, saying the 38-year-old body is dominated by U.S. interests. If the United States refuses to withdraw, the Sandinista leader said, the other nations in the hemisphere should form an independent organization that would exclude the United States. The OAS, founded in 1947 with U.S. backing, includes the United States and every Latin American and Caribbean nation except Cuba, which was expelled in 1959.
President-elect Alan Garcia of Peru named the architect of his economic plan to three key posts in the Cabinet that takes office July 28. Garcia said that Luis Alva Castro, 43, who drew up the economic platform on which Garcia’s American Popular Revolutionary Alliance won elections in April, will be prime minister, economy minister and second vice president.
A South African state of emergency in 36 cities and towns declared by President P.W. Botha gave the police broad new powers to put an end to riots by blacks in which more than 450 blacks have died in the last 10 months. It was the first such emergency in 25 years. The police were empowered to make arrests without warrants. Critics of the Government say the proclamation, prompted by months of widening violence in black townships, will give the police and army nearly absolute powers to act against political foes without fear of legal reprisals. President P. W. Botha announced the declaration in Pretoria at a news conference from which foreign journalists were excluded. He said “violence and lawlessness” in the townships “have increased and become more severe and more cruel.”
An exuberant President Reagan left the hospital and returned to the White House, where he and Mrs. Reagan were greeted by 2,000 cheering officials and their families as the President’s Marine helicopter landed on the South Lawn. Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said Mr. Reagan had lost less than five pounds after his operation for colon cancer.
President Reagan makes a Radio Address to the Nation on the budget.
A key experiment computer aboard the shuttle Challenger has broken down, but Jesse Moore, NASA’s associate administrator for space flight, said it looks as if the next launch will go ahead on its target date of July 29. Challenger’s initial launch attempt July 12 ended seconds before blastoff with an abort caused by engine trouble. The pressurized housing for the three computers that control the experiments cannot be opened at the launch pad, leaving NASA managers with a choice of launching Challenger without a backup experiment computer or delaying the mission for the near future.
The Democratic Party moved into a virtual tie with the Republicans as the party Americans perceive as best able to keep the peace, the latest Gallup survey shows. Thirty-seven percent of those polled backed the Democrats on the peace issue, while 35% supported the GOP. But on the issue of which party is best able to maintain prosperity, the Republicans led 44% to 35%, the survey found. The poll’s results are based on in-person interviews with 1,540 adults, 18 and older, conducted in over 300 localities across the nation during the period of June 7-10.
A sharp cut in air-traffic delays nationally since May 1 has been reported by the Federal Aviation Administration. It said delays have fallen about 34 percent from the same period last year.
Officials monitoring the National Organization for Women’s presidential election in New Orleans stopped balloting when they discovered that two candidates’ names had been switched on the printed sample ballots, then extended the voting until early today. During the final campaigning for the NOW presidency, Judy Goldsmith, the organization’s current leader, accused challenger Eleanor Smeal of “hysterical misrepresentation, duplicity and character assassination” that smacked of “ward boss political mentality.” But Smeal, a former NOW president, refused to be provoked and stuck to her platform.
The first major steel strike since 1959 was shaping up at the Wheeling-Pittsburgh plants in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia where 8,200 steel workers are employed. At shop meetings, employees tore up the company’s latest offer and strongly endorsed strike plans. Wheeling-Pittsburgh officials said a strike would bring “the quick and certain death” of the company, which has filed for protection from its creditors under Federal bankruptcy law.
Undercover agents running a phony tour bus arrested 21 fugitives who responded to notices saying they won a free weekend trip to the Sands Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and a cash bonus of $100, police in New York said: The fugitives — 16 men and five women — were captured at a Brooklyn stakeout by federal marshals and city police. Police said flyers from a fictitious firm — Gem Tours — were mailed to 1,000 felons, wanted on outstanding arrest warrants for offenses ranging from narcotics violations to criminal trespass. About 50 of the fugitives responded by calling to make reservations. Officials said 21 of those showed up and were arrested.
Two separate outbreaks of salmonella poisoning were responsible for illnesses reported by 81 persons in two states, officials said. The Plum Hollow Golf Club kitchen in Southfield, Michigan, was ordered closed after 66 salmonella poisoning cases were confirmed. In Skokie, Illinois, officials closed a delicatessen, the second time in two months that a food-poisoning outbreak has closed the restaurant. Fifteen persons who attended a July 13 boating party where food from Kaufman’s Delicatessen was served suffered food poisoning.
The mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, who resigned from office in a deal with prosecutors after admitting election law violations, was returned to power by a special Democratic Party caucus. Winfield Moses Jr., 42, captured 86 of 99 votes in a special election by Fort Wayne Democratic precinct committeemen. Moses resigned July 8 as part of a plea-bargaining agreement in which he also pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor election law violations in return for a special prosecutor’s dismissal of four felony counts. A judge fined him $3,000 and suspended a six-month jail term. He will finish out the two years left of his second term.
Proposed care for AIDS patients at the New York City-owned Neponsit Health Care Center in Neponsit, in the Rockaways, has raised protests from neighborhood residents. Many of the center’s staff have threatened to quit if AIDS patients are admitted.
Just before his autobiography was published last year, Chrysler Chairman Lee A. Iacocca told the head of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston that the book might “sell a bit” and that net royalties would go to the clinic. “Terrific,” Dr. Robert Bradley remembers saying. Since then, “Iacocca” has risen to the top of the best-seller lists, and the 2-millionth copy has rolled off the press. Bradley told the Boston Globe that the royalties probably “will reach well into seven figures.” The clinic cared for Iacocca’s wife, Mary, before she died from diabetes complications in 1983. Iacocca donated $360,000 to the center earlier.
Artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder went out to the ballgame Friday night to see the minor league Louisville (Kentucky) Redbirds play the Oklahoma City 89ers. Donna Hazle, spokeswoman for Humana Hospital Audubon, said Schroeder and his four sons watched the minor league game while Schroeder’s wife, Margaret, celebrated her birthday with her two daughters. Schroeder, 53, of Jasper, Ind., is recovering from a second stroke suffered May 6. He received his artificial heart last November. The game “was a really good evening for him,” Hazle said. It was a good evening for the Redbirds too. They won, 3–2, breaking an eight-game losing streak.
Mary Decker Slaney resoundingly defeated Zola Budd tonight in a 3,000-meter rematch that brought together the two principals in the most controversial episode of the 1984 Summer Olympics at Los Angeles. Mrs. Slaney never trailed in the much-ballyhooed race at Crystal Palace, winning in 8 minutes 32.91 seconds, the second-fastest time of her career. Miss Budd stayed on her right shoulder through the fifth of the race’s eight laps, but when Mrs. Slaney accelerated in the backstretch of the sixth, the 19-year-old South African who now runs for Britain could not match the faster pace.
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At Memorial Stadium, George Brett has a homer and double to drive in four runs as the Royals trip the Orioles, 7–5. Baltimore’s Mike Flanagan pitched two scoreless innings and was holding a 2–0 lead going into the third. With one out in the inning he gave up three singles to load the bases. Brett, who has made life unbearable for pitchers for the last month, lashed his double off the right-field wall to clear the bases. Hal McRae and Willie Wilson added bases-empty home runs for Kansas City. For the O’s, Lee Lacy is 1-for–3 to run his consecutive game hitting streak to 20.
The Yankees closed to within a game and a half of the American League East lead by scoring four runs in the first inning and easing to a victory over the Minnesota Twins at the Metrodome. Scattering 7 hits, Ron Guidry wins his 12th straight, beating the Twins 8–3. Don Mattingly has a 2-run homer and a 2-run double for the Yanks.
Barbaro Garbey slapped a one-out single to center, scoring Alan Trammell with the winning run in the 15th inning tonight as the Detroit Tigers defeated the Texas Rangers, 6–5. With one out, Trammell hit a single to left and continued to second when the left fielder Gary Ward let the ball get behind him for an error. Garbey then lined a sharp single to center, and Trammell scored easily. Bill Scherrer (1–1), who took over to start the 14th inning, got the victory. Scherrer allowed one hit, walked one and struck out one.
Alfredo Griffin’s two-run triple capped a four-run second inning, and Mike Davis hit a bases-empty home run while Tim Birtsas and Steve Ontiveros combined on a four-hitter, as Oakland beat Toronto, 5–1. Mike Davis hit his 16th home run of the season in the sixth for the final Oakland run. The A’s had 11 hits over eight innings against Dave Stieb (9–6), the most hits he has allowed since June 22, 1983, against Minnesota. Stieb gave up seven hits in the second inning. Birtsas (6–2) yielded two hits over five innings. Ontiveros finished up, giving up two hits, for his second save.
Mike Witt celebrated his 25th birthday by pitching eight strong innings before needing help in the ninth, and Rufino Linares, making his first American League start, hit a two-run home run as California held off Boston, winning, 5–3. Witt (8–6) allowed one unearned run on three hits and took a 5–1 lead into the ninth. Witt left the game when Bill Buckner singled with one out and scored on a triple by Mike Easler. The reliever, Pat Clements, gave up a run-scoring single to Rich Gedman, but Donnie Moore got the final two outs for his 19th save.
Harold Baines hit a three-run homer with one out in the ninth to rally Chicago to an 8–6 victory over the Indians. Trailing, 6–5, going into the ninth, Chicago’s Julio Cruz walked and was sacrificed to second. A pinch-hitter, Jerry Hairston, also walked, and then Baines hit a 1–0 pitch from the reliever Bryan Clark into the center-field bullpen for the winning runs.
Al Cowens hit two triples, one with the bases loaded in a five-run sixth inning, and Gorman Thomas hit two home runs to power Seattle to a 13–10 win in Milwaukee. The Mariners were trailing the Brewers by 9–5 when they came to bat in the sixth.
Fernando Valenzuela pitched a three-hitter and drove in a run and Bill Russell collected three hits and a run batted in tonight as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 3–0. The sellout crowd of 48,582 watched Valenzuela (11–8) strike out seven and walk one in pitching his fifth shutout, best in the major leagues. It was the 12th complete game for the left-hander in 20 starts and dropped his earned run average to 2.17. It was the Dodgers’ third straight victory and ninth in their last 10 games, allowing them to stay one-half game ahead of San Diego in the National League West. The Cardinals’ lead in the East dropped to one-half game over the Mets.
LaMarr Hoyt gives up 5 hits in 8 innings to record his 11th straight win as the Padres beat the Pirates, 4–2. Terry Kennedy drove in two runs for San Diego. Hoyt, making his first appearance since winning the Most Valuable Player award at the All-Star Game Tuesday night, raised his record to 13-4. Rich Gossage pitched the ninth, allowing one hit, for his 20th save.
Dwight Gooden took the mound in Shea Stadium in the afternoon, and won his eighth straight game. Driving in 7 runs on 2 homers, Darryl Strawberry leads the Mets to a 16–5 drubbing of the visiting Braves. Straw’s first home run, in the 1st off Steve Bedrosian, is a grand slam, and his next is a 3-run home run in the third. The Mets add three more homers and amass 18 hits.
Juan Samuel hit a home run, doubled and singled, driving in five runs, to send Shane Rawley and the Philadelphia Phillies to a 10–6 victory in Cincinnati. Samuel’s three-run homer off Ron Robinson (5–1) put the Phillies ahead, 3–2, in the second. Rawley’s bases-loaded single and Samuel’s RBI single capped a decisive four-run sixth inning. Rawley (7–6) fanned two and walked four in seven innings. Pete Rose, the Reds player-manager, did not play, thus remaining 35 hits shy of breaking Ty Cobb’s all-time record of 4,191.
Tim Raines stole three bases and scored two runs to back the seven-hit pitching of Bill Gullickson as Montreal topped Houston, 6–1. Herm Winningham had two hits and drove in two runs for Montreal. The Astros broke a string of 42 ⅔ scoreless innings when Jerry Mumphrey singled home a run with two out in the ninth. Gullickson (9–6) allowed seven singles, struck out seven and walked none in his second complete game of the season. Nolan Ryan (8–7) was the loser. Ryan struck out two and walked eight in six and one-third innings to bring his career total to 4,006, the major league record.
The Cubs edged the Giants, 2–1. Manager Jim Davenport was not at all happy after his Giants were held to four hits and a run at San Francisco by Dick Ruthven and two relievers. “We can’t get a man in from third with less than two outs,” he said. “We’re not taking advantage of situations they’re giving us. That’s why we’re not winning.” Ruthven held the Giants hitless until Dan Gladden tripled with two out in the fifth and scored on a bloop single by Brad Wellman. George Frazier and Lee Smith followed in relief with two scoreless innings apiece.
Kansas City Royals 7, Baltimore Orioles 5
California Angels 5, Boston Red Sox 3
Cleveland Indians 6, Chicago White Sox 8
Philadelphia Phillies 10, Cincinnati Reds 6
Texas Rangers 5, Detroit Tigers 6
St. Louis Cardinals 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Seattle Mariners 13, Milwaukee Brewers 10
New York Yankees 8, Minnesota Twins 3
Houston Astros 1, Montreal Expos 6
Atlanta Braves 4, New York Mets 16
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, San Diego Padres 4
Chicago Cubs 2, San Francisco Giants 1
Oakland Athletics 5, Toronto Blue Jays 1
Born:
John Francis Daley, American actor and filmmaker (“Bones”, “Horrible Bosses”), in Wheeling, Illinois.
Justin Hickman, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts), in El Paso, Texas.
Stefan Meyer, Canadian NHL left wing (Florida Panthers, Calgary Flames), in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.
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