The Joint Chiefs of Staff oppose ratification by the United States of internationally agreed revisions of the 1949 Geneva Conventions on treatment of combatants and war victims that are intended to enhance humane treatment of combatants and civilians during war. Adminstration officials said the principal concern of the Joint Chiefs is that the revisions, known as protocols, would have the effect of legitimizing national liberation movements and terrorists, granting them combatant and prisoner of war status.
France and West Germany will hold unprecedented joint maneuvers of “extraordinary scope” in 1986, French Defense Minister Charles Hernu told the Deutschlandfunk radio station. France does not belong to the Atlantic Alliance military structure, and is said to be abandoning the view held by the late General Charles de Gaulle — that France could defend itself alone in a European war, leaving West Germany to be a buffer between it and the Soviet Union. Hernu said France is now debating whether its defenses should begin on the Rhine — the French-German border — or the Elbe — the border between East and West Germany.
The flood in northern Italy that killed at least 198 people when a dam broke Friday was caused by private negligence and inadequate public precautions, officials said.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres ordered Israel’s attorney general to investigate plans by a Jewish settlers’ town in the occupied West Bank to fire its Arab workers. The town council in Kiryat Arba agreed to dismiss the Arabs after Rabbi Meir Kahane’s extremist anti-Arab Kach movement gained significant strength in recent town elections. Nine Arabs work for the town, which overlooks Hebron, inhabited mostly by Palestinians. Peres asked Atty. Gen. Yitzhak Zamir to report on the legality of the plan to fire the Arab workers.
Israeli-Chinese economic ties have been quietly developing in recent months, according to Israeli officials. Though it has no diplomatic relations with Israel and is a persistent critic of Israeli policies, China is said by Israelis to have an ever-increasing appetite for Israeli technology in many fields.
Money and arms are pouring into Palestinian camps near Sidon, arousing fears of an attempt by Yasser Arafat to provoke a conflict there, a Lebanese legislator said. Nazih Bizri, a Sidon deputy in the Lebanese Parliament, told the Beirut weekly Monday Morning that he believes the Palestine Liberation Organization leader is trying to take over the Ein el Hilwa and Miye ou Miye camps as power bases in southern Lebanon. He added that Sidon’s Syrian-backed Muslim leaders regard pro-Arafat forces as “hostile elements and factors of tension and maybe confrontation.”
Iraqi jets hit a “large naval target” in the Persian Gulf near Iran’s main oil terminal at Kharg Island, the official Iraqi News Agency said. Baghdad usually uses the term “large naval target” to mean an oil tanker. The nationality of the ship was not known, nor was there immediate confirmation of the attack.
Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said that a crucial Communist Party conference scheduled in September will bring more young people into the party’s ruling Politburo, Secretariat and Central Committee. The official New China News Agency said Deng told a visiting Japanese delegation that the leadership changes will seek to ensure continuation of the reform policies he has championed since returning to power in 1978.
Reworking of the U.S. bases treaty with the Philippines has been called for by Philippine Government leaders in retaliation for a proposed reduction in United States military aid to Manila recently voted by the House. The move to scrap the current bases accord and to renegotiate it is led by Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile. He has the support of several Cabinet ministers and many members of the governing party.
The Philippines’ opposition suffered a jolt when the brother of assassinated leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. caused a split in his own group, called Atom. Agapito Aquino and about 80 followers walked out of a meeting called to decide whether the moderate Atom would join a new leftist coalition called Bayan (People). Aquino’s spokesman said that Atom, which has led some of the major demonstrations against the rule of President Ferdinand E. Marcos, “is not anti-Communist” but “has no room for personalities who are too left.”
Mexico’s two state-owned airlines, Aeromexico and Mexicana Airlines, canceled more than 50 flights during the weekend because of an unexplained work stoppage, the Mexico City News reported. Twenty-six flights were canceled Friday and an equal number Saturday, while 90% of arrivals and departures were delayed. The airline pilots’ union said some pilots arrived late for flights or refused to fly as part of a pay raise demand. Flight controllers attributed the delays to faulty equipment.
South Africa’s state of emergency went into effect, and with the near-absolute powers granted them under the emergency, the police said they had detained 113 people. Reflecting newly imposed limits on the access of reporters to information, a police spokesman declined to identify the people detained or say where they had been seized. During the emergency, the security forces may order anyone detained without trial for 14 days. Thereafter the Government may extend the detention indefinitely.
President Reagan must take a role in the budget negotiations, the Senate majority leader, Bob Dole, said. Mr. Dole said he hoped that now the President was home from the hospital he would “step into the breach” and help the Senate and House reach a compromise on the budget and on a plan to cut the Federal deficit. “The President’s got to be a player,” he said, if there is to be an agreement.
President Reagan spends the day at the White House recovering from colon cancer surgery.
President Reagan calls Members of the Senate to discuss the Line Item Veto Bill.
The president of the National Urban League, contending that relations between blacks and the Reagan Administration have reached a new low, called for a “new working relationship” with the White House. Black Americans are suffering under Administration moves to cut social programs and efforts to scrap affirmative action hiring and promotion goals, John E. Jacob told a press conference before the start of the league’s annual conference in Washington.
Former President Richard M. Nixon said in a published interview that he considered using nuclear weapons four times during his presidency, including a “massive escalation” to end the Vietnam War. In an interview on nuclear diplomacy to mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Nixon told Time magazine that he believes the world is safer now than in 1945, and “the bomb made us (the United States) a world power.” Nixon also said he considered the use of nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union during the 1973 Middle East war, during the Soviet border conflicts with China and during the 1971 India-Pakistan war. Nixon, President from 1969 to 1974, also called the late Soviet Chairman Nikita S. Khrushchev “the most brilliant world leader I have ever met… He scared the hell out of people.”
Military research at top universities is returning in force, spurred by the Reagan Administration’s project to develop a shield against nuclear missiles and reviving a heated debate over the proper role of universities in developing weapons systems. The Government will spend more than $600 million on university research in the next five years.
Sweeping revision of Federal laws dealing with espionage and military secrecy are likely to follow the recent arrest of four Navy men on charges of selling military secrets to the Soviet Union, members of Congress say. One measure already passed by the House would allow the Government to submit more than 4 million Federal employees to lie-detector tests. The Navy spy case has also led to a movement within Congress to restore the Federal death penalty for espionage and other crimes.
The Philadelphia medical examiner’s office ruled that all 11 deaths in the police assault on the headquarters of the radical MOVE group were “accidental,” an official said. “The deaths were accidental, as far as we can determine,” said Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Halbert Fillinger, who examined three of the bodies. Forensic experts concluded a two-month investigation of the remains of the MOVE victims — all of whom appear to have died of fire-related injuries. They were killed in a massive fire that broke out shortly after police dropped a bomb on MOVE headquarters after a gun battle and daylong stalemate. The blaze also damaged or destroyed 61 houses in the working-class neighborhood, leaving about 250 persons homeless.
Approximately 8,200 United Steelworkers members, unwilling to take 18% pay cuts without negotiations, struck Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp., a move management said may force liquidation of the nation’s seventh-largest steel producer. Picketing started at Wheeling-Pittsburgh’s nine plants in the Ohio and Monongahela river valleys. Wheeling-Pittsburgh, with annual sales of about $1 billion, has been in reorganization under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy laws since April 16. The walkout was the first strike at a major steel producer since 1959.
The Chicago Tribune, the nation’s seventh-largest newspaper, put out a full-color Sunday edition and vowed to continue publishing despite a four-day-old strike by about 1,000 production workers. A key issue in the dispute is the company’s demand that it be allowed to transfer printers to other departments. The company contends that although most of the printers have lifetime job guarantees under a 1975 pact, modernization has left insufficient work for them in their normal jurisdiction.
Westinghouse Electric Corp. and 12 unions representing nearly 21,000 workers reached a tentative contract agreement in Pittsburgh hours before a midnight strike deadline, company and union officials said. However, a union representing about 7,700 white-collar workers continued negotiating separately, Westinghouse spokesman Jim Daley said. Neither side disclosed details of the agreement.
Eleanor Smeal won an upset victory over Judy Goldsmith in the election for president of the National Organization for Women. Mrs. Smeal had been NOW’s president from 1977 to 1982. She defeated Mrs. Goldsmith, the incumbent, 839 to 703.
Treasure from a Spanish ship that sank 350 years ago off Key West, Florida, is estimated by salvagers to be worth $400 million, most of it in silver bars and coins. A salvaging expedition that began 15 years ago, reached its goal when divers of Treasure Salvors, a private company, discovered the main wreckage of the ship Nuestra Senora de Atocha 40 miles off Key West. The divers believe that nearly 50 tons of silver bars are at the site, under 50 feet of water.
Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America.
“Leader of the Pack” closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 120 performances.
72nd Tour de France won by Bernard Hinault of France.
British Open Men’s Golf, Royal St George’s GC: Scotsman Sandy Lyle wins his only Open title by 1 stroke from runner-up Payne Stewart; last time event features double cut (after 36 and 54 holes), introduced in 1968. Lyle, a 27-year-old Englishman born to Scottish parents, today became the first golfer from Britain to win the British Open in 16 years when he capitalized on a surprising collapse by leaders in a major tournament. Despite a bogey at the final hole that could have been worse following a poor chip shot, Lyle managed to edge Payne Stewart of the United States by a stroke for the oldest title in golf and the $90,870 winner’s share.
Major League Baseball:
The Orioles downed the Royals, 6–4. Eddie Murray’s two-run double with the bases loaded broke a seventh-inning tie for Baltimore. Murray’s slicing drive into the left-field corner came off the reliever Mike LaCoss and pinned Bud Black (6–11) with his eighth defeat in his last nine decisions. Rick Dempsey singled to start the rally and moved to second on a groundout by Rich Dauer after he failed to put down a sacrifice bunt. Black was removed after issuing a two-out walk to Lee Lacy on a 3–2 pitch, with Lacy’s 20-game hitting streak on the line. LaCoss walked Cal Ripken on four pitches before Murray delivered.
Rich Gedman has 4 hits, including a homer, to lead the Red Sox to an 8–4 win over the Angels. Dwight Evans hit his 11th home run for the Red Sox and Wade Boggs extended his hitting streak to 24 games, longest in the major leagues this season, with an RBI double in the sixth. Doug DeCinces has 4 hits for California, but is picked off second base with a hidden ball trick, the second time in two weeks an Angel baserunner has been fooled by the Sox. This time Marty Barrett hides the ball but is nowhere near the bag. When DeCinces takes his leadoff, Barrett flips the ball to shortstop Glen Hoffman for the tag.
Jesse Barfield collected three extra-base hits and three runs batted in and Damaso Garcia drove in a pair of runs today to give the Toronto Blue Jays an 11–4 victory over the Oakland A’s and a split of their four-game series. Barfield doubled in a pair of runs to highlight a four-run first inning, tripled in the third and doubled in a run in a five-run seventh inning.
The Yankees kept pace with first-place Toronto in the American League East, getting a three-run homer from Winfield and beating the Minnesota Twins, 5–2, at the Metrodome. The victory went to Phil Niekro, who won his second game after losing five consecutive decisions. He took a shutout into the eighth inning before Kent Hrbek hit a pinch-hit home run, his second in four games here.
Robin Yount belted a home run and had three runs batted in and Ted Simmons added a bases-empty home run to lift Milwaukee over Seattle, 5–4. Ray Burris (5–7) pitched the first six innings for Milwaukee, allowing three runs on five hits to earn the victory. He walked three and struck out four. Bob Gibson picked up his seventh save by pitching three innings of relief. After the Mariners took a 2–0 lead in the first on back-to-back home runs by Alvin Davis, his eighth, and Gorman Thomas, his 17th, the Brewers scored three times in the first.
Wayne Tolleson hit a two-run home run that sparked Texas to a 7–5 victory over Detroit. The ninth-inning home run off the reliever Aurelio Lopez was the switch-hitting Tolleson’s first home run since Aug. 17, 1983, and his first ever batting left-handed. The Tigers had taken a 5–4 lead on Kirk Gibson’s three-run home run in the fifth and Detroit brought on Bill Scherrer to replace Walt Terrell to start the ninth. Alan Bannister led off with a pinch-single and was sacrificed to second by Curtis Wilkerson. Toby Harrah greeted Lopez with a pinch single, tying the score, and Tolleson won it by sending a 3–2 pitch in to the right-field seats.
The Indians edged the White Sox, 4–3, as Tony Bernazard hit a home run with two out in the 10th inning and Cleveland broke a 14-game losing streak in Comiskey Park. Bernazard’s eighth home run, off Dan Spillner (2–3), gave the Indians their first victory in Chicago since May 1983. The triumph snapped Cleveland’s five-game losing streak and ended Chicago’s five-game winning streak. The reliever Rich Thompson (3–3), who gave up a tying pinch-single to Oscar Gamble in the ninth inning, got the victory.
The Mets devastated the Atlanta Braves, 15–10, with a 16-hit attack that included home runs by George Foster and Howard Johnson. On Saturday, they had won, 16–4, with an 18-hit attack that included five home runs. So, in two days of ceaseless bombardment, the Mets pounded Atlanta pitching for 34 hits and 31 runs. And no Met team in the 23-year history of the franchise has crossed home plate more times in consecutive days. The old record was 29 runs in two days, which the Mets achieved in 1971, getting 9 runs one day and 20 the next, and Atlanta pitching was the target that time, too. The Mets got two runs today in the second when Howard Johnson nailed Pascual Perez for a two-run home run, his sixth of the season and his fourth against the Braves. They got two more in the third on a single by pitcher Terry Leach, a triple by Wally Backman and a double by Keith Hernandez. Then they blew it open with five runs in the fifth, starting with a double by Leach and ending with a three-run home run by George Foster that cleared the wall in straightaway center field.
Steve Braun, hitting only .162 and without a home run since 1983, slugged a two-run pinch homer in the top of the 10th inning to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 4–2 victory today over the Los Angeles Dodgers. ”We’re in first place, and if we’re going to stay there we’re going to have to use all 25 guys,” said Braun, who was only 3 for 21 as a pinch hitter before delivering his first game-winning run batted in of 1985.
Glenn Davis drove in two runs with a single and a homer as the Houston Astros ended a six-game losing streak today with a 5–4 victory over the Montreal Expos. The Astros, who entered the game with only one run scored in their previous 43 innings, got a run in the third on Bill Doran’s two-out off Mickey Mahler (1–4). The hit scored Mark Bailey, who had walked and taken second on a wild pitch.
The Pirates topped the Padres, 5–2. Lee Tunnell won his first game of the season, combining with John Candelaria and Cecilio Guante to stop San Diego on 10 hits. The Padres had won three games in a row, and the Pirates had lost five straight. Tunnell (1–6) ended a personal 11-game losing streak as he went six innings to win for the first time since June 2, 1984. The Pirates scored their first three runs in the second inning. The Padres starter, Eric Show (7–7), walked Bill Madlock. Doug Frobel doubled Madlock to third and Sammy Khalifa hit a two-run double for a 2–0 lead. Khalifa came in on Junior Ortiz’s single.
Jeff Leonard hit a homer for the Giants to back the pitching of Bill Laskey and Greg Minton as San Francisco beat the Cubs, 2–1. Laskey (3–11) lasted until the eighth, when he allowed singles to Thad Bosley and Bob Dernier with none out. Minton relieved and was greeted by Rich Hebner’s run-scoring single. Ryne Sandberg flied out, and Keith Moreland worked Minton to a 3–0 count before grounding into a double play. Minton finished up for his third save. The Giants took a 1–0 lead in the fifth off Larry Gura (0–3). David Green led off with a single and went to second on Laskey’s one-out sacrifice. Dan Gladden then hit a high pop fly to the right side of the infield. The first baseman, Leon Durham, and the second baseman, Sandberg, each lost the ball in the sun and the ball dropped for an 85-foot, run-scoring single. Leonard hit his homer, his 10th of the season, in the sixth.
Dave Parker hit a two-run homer, his 17th of the season, surpassing by one his 1984 total, to give Cincinnati a 7–6 victory over the visiting Phillies. Parker, who had hit into a double play in the fifth inning to kill a Reds rally, hit his homer off the reliever Don Carman (2–3) after Pete Rose had singled with two out in the seventh. Rose went 1 for 3 to draw within 34 hits of breaking Ty Cobb’s career record of 4,191. Rose also drew his 1,500th career walk in the fifth inning. He has 50 walks this season and is 11th on the career walk list, just behind Lou Gehrig’s 1,508.
Kansas City Royals 4, Baltimore Orioles 6
California Angels 4, Boston Red Sox 8
Cleveland Indians 4, Chicago White Sox 3
Philadelphia Phillies 6, Cincinnati Reds 7
Texas Rangers 7, Detroit Tigers 5
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Seattle Mariners 4, Milwaukee Brewers 5
New York Yankees 5, Minnesota Twins 2
Houston Astros 5, Montreal Expos 4
Atlanta Braves 10, New York Mets 15
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, San Diego Padres 2
Chicago Cubs 1, San Francisco Giants 2
Oakland Athletics 4, Toronto Blue Jays 11
Born:
Wei-Yin Chen, Taiwanese MLB pitcher (Baltimore Orioles, Miami Marlins), in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
Rob Wooten, MLB pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers), in Goldsboro, North Carolina.
Tanard Jackson, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Von Wafer, NBA shooting guard and small forward (Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, Denver Nuggets, Portland Trailblazers, Houston Rockets, Boston Celtics, Orlando Magic), in Homer, Louisiana
Died:
Vicki Vola, 68, American actress (‘Miss Miller’-“Mr District Attorney”).
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