King Hussein of Jordan called on Arab governments today to form a working group to address critical problems confronting the region. The King, saying efforts to convene an emergency meeting of Arab leaders appeared to have collapsed once again, said that formation of such “a new constructive alliance” was essential. “We simply can’t go on like this,” he said. Last month, King Hassan II of Morocco proposed a meeting of Arab leaders to discuss attacks by Shiite Muslim militias on Palestinian settlements in Lebanon. King Hussein emerged as an ardent supporter of the idea.
Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was quoted today as saying that his group was sending personnel and weapons back into southern Lebanon. “We have the right after Sabra and Shatila and other genocides to help our people protect themselves, and to help the Lebanese people protect themselves,” the English-language newspaper Arab News quoted Mr. Arafat as saying in an interview.
Sikh leaders unanimously approved an accord negotiated earlier this week with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and said they would immediately halt their organized agitation for Sikh demands in India. One of the demands was a separate state for Sikhs. Announcement of the decision by Sikh leaders came after a sometimes stormy three-hour meeting in a Sikh shrine in this farming community in the state of Punjab at which two key moderate leaders raised heated objections and then apparently accepted the wishes of the majority. Balwant Singh Ramboomalia, secretary general of the Sikh political party, Akali Dal, said the approval was unanimous.
The police issued warrants today for three crew members of a French-registered yacht believed to be somewhere in the Pacific after having left Auckland, New Zealand the day before the Greenpeace flagship was bombed. A crewman was killed when the environmental group’s converted trawler, the Rainbow Warrior, was sunk in Auckland harbor on July 10. Allan Galbraith, who heads the investigation, said the charges included murder, arson by use of explosives and conspiracy to commit arson. Mr. Galbraith would not give the names or nationalities of the members of the crew of the yacht, the Ouvea. A French-speaking couple, Sophie and Alain Turenge, are being held in Auckland on charges of murder and arson.
Looting spread today and protesters’ barricades kept the French Caribbean commercial center of Pointe-A-Pitre, Guadaloupe, isolated from the rest of the island. It was the fourth day of protests in support of Georges Faisans, an independence advocate jailed in Paris. Mr. Faisans is serving a three-year sentence for striking a schoolteacher with a machete after the teacher purportedly insulted a young black. In Paris, the French Government Minister for Guadaloupe, Georges Lemoine, said political leaders on the island “are unanimous that an act of clemency be taken.” The Central Government said 180 soldiers and a riot-police unit from Paris had reached Guadeloupe along with 200 police officers from Martinique.
Nicaragua’s Miskito Indians are returning with the Government’s blessing to their homeland along the Atlantic Coast, four years after they were abruptly uprooted by the Nicaraguan Army. The Miskitos had been uprooted from their homes along the broad, muddy Coco River without warning, their houses destroyed, possessions removed, crops and farm animals left behind. The mass evacuation and the travail the Miskitos faced as refugees attracted worldwide attention. Opponents of the Sandinista Government, including President Reagan, held up the Indians’ plight as an example of official repression in Nicaragua.
Two House-Senate conferences overrode Administration objections today and agreed to bar the Central Intelligence Agency from distributing $27 million in non-military aid to Nicaraguan rebels. The Reagan Administration had been pressing the negotiators to allow some role for the intelligence agency, but House members stood firm. “When we got down to the end, they had to face the facts of life,” said Representative Dante B. Fascell, Democrat of Florida. “There was no way the House could change its position.”
Secretary of State George P. Shultz today rejected the idea of resuming direct talks with Nicaragua’s Government. Three months ago, President Reagan promised Congress that he would reopen the talks. But Mexico’s Foreign Minister, Bernardo Sepulveda Amor, expressed optimism that the talks would be renewed. Mr. Shultz and his Mexican counterpart made their statements separately after the close of a one-day meeting of the Mexico-United States Binational Commission. Although both sides reported progress on trade, cross-border pollution and control of narcotics, they remained sharply at odds over the conflict in Central America. Mexico, along with the other members of the Contadora group — Colombia, Venezuela and Panama — called last weekend for the renewal of talks between the United States and Nicaragua. It was the negotiating group’s first direct call for United States participation in resolving the conflict.
Three United States military helicopters will begin delivering emergency food aid in the western Sudan, a remote, famine-stricken area, officials said today. M. Peter McPherson, administrator of the Agency for International Development, said that for three months the helicopters would supply areas made inaccessible by the rainy season. Relief workers say 500 tons of food must be delivered daily to the area.
Language equating Zionism with racism was removed from a document presented at the close of the United Nations women’s conference in Nairobi, Kenya, averting a possible walkout by the United States and Israel. The passage that caused the dispute blamed “imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, expansionism, apartheid, racism, Zionism” for placing obstacles in the path of women’s development. The compromise, proposed by Kenya, dropped the term “Zionism” and replaced it with the phrase “and all other forms of racism and racial discrimination.” This morning, when Margaret Kenyatta of Kenya, president of the conference, announced that the document would be adopted by consensus, the 2,100 delegates from more than 150 countries burst into applause and continued clapping in rhythm. The vote, after days of recriminations, parliamentary wrangling and forecasts of failure, was a welcome surprise to delegations that had fought hard to insure that the 12-day conference ended on a note of harmony.
The Ugandan Government radio reported today that army units had mutinied and seized territory in northeastern Uganda. An aide to President Milton Obote said later that loyalist troops had gained the upper hand in fighting. Nevertheless, there were reports that a mutinous general and his rebel army units were marching on a strategic eastern town, Soroti. The rebel leader was said to be Brigadier Basilio Olara Okello, the northern brigade commander. He and his supporters are from the Acholi tribe. There has been friction along tribal lines within the army between the Acholi and the Langi, the tribe of President Obote. Brigadier Okello fought in the 1979 war in which irregular Ugandan forces, who now form the nucleus of the army, ousted Idi Amin with the aid of Tanzanian troops. Mr. Obote, who was overthrown by General Amin in 1971, returned to power in elections in December 1980.
The Reagan Administration called on South Africa today to lift its six-day-old emergency decree. The decree affects areas hit by widespread unrest in black townships. The American statement, the strongest since the emergency was declared, was issued after President Reagan presided over an hour-long meeting of the National Security Council. It came amid growing pressure from Congress, and it coincided with a United Nations Security Council debate on sanctions against South Africa. The Administration remains opposed to sanctions, Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said.
Detention of 118 more people in South Africa was announced by the authorities, bringing to 910 the number held without charges under a emergency decree imposed five days ago. The main target of detentions so far, political activists said, seems to have been members of student and community groups affiliated with the United Democratic Front, the biggest nonparliamentary alliance of anti-apartheid groups in South Africa. A prominent civil rights monitoring group, meanwhile, said it feared “the inevitability of deaths in detention” and demanded to know where detainees were being held. “No citizen is safe from the arbitrary action of the security forces,” the rights group, the Detainees’ Parents Support Committee, said in a statement. It called the decree “a vendetta against democratic organizations.”
Congressional leaders exchanged barbs across Capitol Hill today over the Senate Republicans’ latest proposal for a 1986 budget compromise. But by the end of the day, House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. issued a conciliatory statement saying he would “go the extra mile to achieve an agreement.” The Senate proposal, which includes $38 billion in tax increases over three years and a reduction in the Social Security cost-of-living increase, has thrown the fate of efforts to cut the Federal deficit into the laps of the President and the Speaker. But both sides demanded that the other make the first move.
Congress this year has appeared to be torn at times between standing up to a hostile world and standing up to a profligate Pentagon. Both of these urges were accommodated in the military programs bill approved by a House-Senate conference Thursday night. In response to fears of runaway Pentagon spending, the bill declares a halt to the steady, five-year buildup of military budgets and imposes a Congressional vision of reform on the putative waste in the military procurement system. At the same time, the compromise measure allows the Pentagon to proceed on two military frontiers, chemical warfare and space weapons, and to keep existing weapon assembly lines running, though some of them will move at a slower pace.
Nancy Reagan said today that doctors who publicly discussed President Reagan’s cancer surgery acted in an unprofessional manner. “I have problems with doctors who had nothing to do with the case going on television or in the press and talking about it,” she said in a television interview. “It’s unethical.” It was Mrs. Reagan’s first public comment on the subject since a cancerous polyp was removed from the President’s colon on July 13. Many doctors said after the surgery that Mr. Reagan should have undergone a full colon examination in March, when the polyp was discovered.
CBS said yesterday that it had reached a compromise with the Justice Department regarding the Government’s subpoena of videotapes the network made in the recent crisis involving the hijacking of a Trans World Airlines jet. It said it would provide only those materials “relevant to crimes committed during the hijacking.” The material might include footage that was never aired, according to a CBS spokesman. Under the compromise, which was similar to ones already announced with ABC and NBC, CBS agreed to screen its tapes, identify material it considered relevant and make it available to the Federal authorities.
Water project costs will fall heavier on localities than they have in the past under cost-sharing formulas that are to be worked out in Congress. Congressional negotiators agreed that communities benefiting from federally subsidized water projects will have to bear a greater share of the costs in the future, something that has been strongly supported by the Reagan Administration. Until now, the government absorbed most of the costs of such projects.
An innovative auto labor pact covering employees at a plant to be built by General Motors for its new Saturn car was approved by the board of the United Automobile Workers, clearing the way for the company to announce the Saturn plant’s site. Approval of the contract had been delayed for several weeks by disputes over job security and some technical issues. Spokesmen for General Motors had said they would not announce the location of the $5 billion Saturn project, which will employ 6,000 U.A.W. members, until the approval came. In Washington, Senators Albert Gore Jr. and Jim Sasser, both Democrats, said there was no doubt that the factory site would be near Spring Hill, Tennessee, about 30 miles from Nashville. “This is a day of joy and celebration for Tennessee,” Senator Gore said. “We won.”
For Lawrence G. King, a tall, 53-year-old man with neatly combed white hair, the announcement Wednesday that the General Dynamics shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts will be closed means the end of a lifetime. Mr. King, a design supervisor, has worked at the shipyard for 29 years. And today, with reddened eyes, he talked vaguely about moving to the South, “where they have jobs.” The shutdown of the yard, which employed 4,200 workers, also brings an end to shipbuilding here, where it had been practiced almost since Quincy was settled in 1625.
21,000 new-car haulers walked off their jobs in all 50 states. The members of the teamsters’ union who deliver cars to dealers went on strike after their chief negotiator, Walter Shea, announced that their trucking company employers “submitted a totally unacceptable proposal” at a bargaining session Thursday. That meeting was scheduled after union members overwhelmingly rejected a tentative pact two weeks ago that Mr. Shea and other top union officials had recommended for ratification. Some dissidents in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters contended the wage provisions would have reduced drivers’ earnings to 1979 levels.
The Environmental Protection Agency today notified the Smithsonian Institution that it was violating Federal rules controlling polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCB’s, at three of its most important museums. In a letter to the institution, Stephen R. Wassersug, director of the hazardous waste division of the agency’s regional office in Philadelphia, which manages the Washington area, said that an inspection of three Smithsonian buildings last Friday found that 12 transformers were leaking PCB’s. The three buildings were the American History Museum, the Natural History Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.
Two members of the Army’s Special Forces were convicted today of stealing tons of Army weapons, then trying to trade the arms for cocaine and cash from Federal agents posing as smugglers. A jury in Federal District Court returned the guilty verdicts against Master Sgt. Keith Anderson, 33 years old, and Sgt. 1st Class Byron Carlisle, 45. The soldiers, who were based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, said they believed they were cooperating with a covert operation of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Members of the armed forces convicted of spying could face the death penalty under part of a bill approved by a House-Senate conference committee, lawmakers said today. They said the measure would permit the first executions under military law since a Supreme Court decision in 1972 ended the death penalty for federal crimes. Legislators proposed the measure in response to the arrest of four Navy men on espionage charges this spring, although Federal officials have said the death penalty could not be applied retroactively. The four men have pleaded not guilty. The conference committee, which approved the bill on military programs Thursday night, rejected a House proposal that would have given the Pentagon sweeping powers to perform polygraph, or lie-detector, tests on millions of military and civilian workers with access to classified material.
A judge in Galveston, Texas has ordered the exhumation of the bodies of 58 people who died at a nursing home in southeast Texas where five officials or workers have been indicted for murder. Autopsies on the bodies are to be done by September 9, when five current or former workers for Autumn Hills Convalescent Centers Inc. are to go on trial on charges of causing the deaths of two patients by failing to provide nutrition, fluids, care and medication. The judge, Don Morgan of state District Court, ordered the exhumations Thursday. The bodies of two women who died at the nursing home in Texas City were exhumed earlier, and autopsies led to the murder indictments.
Two Clewiston, Florida farmers shooting from their pickup trucks killed each other in a parking lot, ending a 40-year feud that began when they were children, officials and residents say. Fifteen shots were fired Wednesday in the fight between the men, Haywood Bryant, 49 years old, a Lake Harbor rancher, and James MacDonald Booth, 47, a farm employee in Clewiston, according to the Hendry County Sheriff’s Department. Both suffered chest wounds but kept firing until they died. The men had a long history of filing complaints such as cattle-stealing against each other. Residents say the two started as friends when Mr. Bryant’s father worked for Mr. Booth’s family, but later they became enemies.
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Wade Boggs goes 0-for–3 in Boston’s 6–2 win over Seattle to halt his hitting streak at 28 games, the longest in the major leagues since 1980. Marty Barrett hit a wind-blown, three-run home run, and Mike Easler had a home run as Boston beat Seattle for its sixth straight victory. Al Nipper (7–6) pitched 7 ⅔ innings for the victory. He left after Al Cowens’ two-run single, and Bob Stanley got the final four outs for his 10th save.
Ron Guidry was on the mound with Dave Righetti in the bullpen, and that has usually meant good fortune for the Yankees. But it failed tonight. Guidry wilted under the 94-degree temperature at Arlington Stadium, and Righetti was unable to slow a Texas stampede in the eighth inning. The Rangers pulled out a 9–8 victory, sending the Yankees reeling to their fourth consecutive defeat. The Yankees now have lost four and a half games in the American League East race in five days. Toronto, which scored an 8–3 decision over California earlier tonight, has won six straight to extend its lead over the second-place Yankees to six games. Guidry had a 7–2 edge after four and a half innings and took an 8–4 lead into the bottom of the eighth after a Mattingly home run. But the Rangers, who are 6–2 since the All-Star break, came back with five runs — three off Guidry and two more off Righetti (7–7), who threw two costly wild pitches.
Willie Upshaw hit a two-run home run in the fourth inning, and Jeff Burroughs pinch-hit a two-run triple in the seventh as Toronto won its sixth straight, topping the Angels, 8–3. Upshaw hit his eighth home run, his first since June 30, after a single by Al Oliver in the fourth. Upshaw’s home run off Urbano Lugo (3–3) gave the Blue Jays a 4–0 lead. Jim Clancy (7–4) pitched five shutout innings, allowing just two hits. He left the game with a sore shoulder with five strikeouts and no walks. Trailing, 4–0, the Angels snapped a string of 15 consecutive scoreless innings against Toronto in the seventh when Ruppert Jones hit a two-run home run off Dennis Lamp. After Jones’ 17th home run, Bob Boone singled with two outs and Rod Carew greeted Gary Lavelle with an RBI single. Toronto scored twice in the first inning on a run-scoring double by Rance Mulliniks and an RBI single by Oliver.
The Twins edged the Tigers, 6–5. Kirby Puckett and Tim Teufel drove in two runs apiece for Minnesota, and Detroit had the apparent tying run nullified in the eighth inning because of a controversial time out call. With two outs, runners on first and third and Detroit trailing, 6–5, the Twins’ catcher Mark Salas tried to pick off Darrell Evans at first. Evans dove safely back to the base and landed on top of the first baseman Kent Hrbek as Garbey broke toward home and crossed the plate. But the first base umpire, Ken Kaiser, returned Garbey to third, saying he had called time out when he thought Hrbek was hurt on the play. Sparky Anderson, the Tiger manager, announced he was playing the game under protest, claiming Garbey had started for the plate before Kaiser called time. Dave Bergman struck out to end the inning.
Tommy John, making his first appearance since being released by California on June 5, scatters 4 hits over 6 innings as the A’s defeat the Brewers, 7–3. John (3–4) released by the California Angels in June, gave up one run on four hits. The only run he allowed came in the second inning on an RBI grounder by Mark Brouhard. John walked none and struck out two. Keith Atherton worked the last three innings for his third save.
The Royals beat the Indians, 7–1. The Royals gave rookie Ramon Romero a rough baptism to the majors in this game at Kansas City. Frank White, suddenly a power hitter, hit a two-run homer off the youngster in the third and when Darryl Motley opened the sixth with another one, Romero was gone. Steve Balboni and Hal McRae also homered for the Royals, who advanced to within five games of the Angels in the West. Danny Jackson went seven innings to improve his record to 9–6. John Testrake, the pilot of the TWA plane hijacked at Athens, Greece last month by terrorists, threw out the first pitch. He was given a standing ovation by the crowd of 27,860.
The White Sox beat the Orioles, 9–8. Carlton Fisk didn’t hit a home run in this game at Chicago but he did the next best thing. With one out and two on in the ninth inning, he hit the centerfield fence with a triple that gave the White Sox the victory. Earlier, the slugging catcher drove in a run with a double. The White Sox rallied from a 7–2 deficit. Eddie Murray drove in two of the runs, one on his 17th home run, as the Orioles built the lead in three innings.
In a 10–0 blanking of the Cubs, the Dodgers’ Pedro Guerrero is 2-for–2 to complete an on-base streak of 14 straight, setting a National League record (Barry Bonds will break it). Guerrero ignited Los Angeles in the third inning, hitting his 23rd homer, with Ken Landreaux aboard on a double. The streak, which began on the 23rd includes 2 singles, 3 doubles, 2 homers, 6 walks, and a hit by pitch. He’ll be 1-for-3 tomorrow. Jerry Reuss scatters 7 hits in the shutout and is backed by 3 homers, including a grand slam by Mike Marshall, a 3-run shot by Brock and a 2-run homer by Guerrero.
The Reds outlasted the Expos in extra innings, 7–6. Nick Esasky led off the 11th inning with a home run to lift Cincinnati over Montreal. Esasky drilled the first pitch from Jeff Reardon (2–4) over the left field wall for his eighth home run of the season. It was a wild game in which Cincinnati player-manager Pete Rose was called out for interference for running out of the basepath to first and in which the relief pitcher with the best record, John Franco (9–1), couldn’t hold a lead. Mario Soto, pitching with three days’ rest, left after six innings, giving up just three hits and holding a 5–1 lead.But Franco was chased in the eighth, and Ted Power couldn’t stop the Expos, either. In the inning Hubie Brooks had a two-run single, Terry Francona a two-run double and Tim Wallach a run-scoring single that tied it.
Bob Horner hit a two-run homer and added two RBI singles Friday night at Philadelphia to lead the Braves to a 6–4 victory over the Phillies in a rain-delayed game. Horner’s hitting helped Rick Mahler improve his record to 15–8, although Mahler gave up 10 hits and four runs in six innings. Bruce Sutter finally came in to strike out three batters and get the last five outs for his 17th save.
The Cardinals edged the Padres, 2–1 in twelve innings. Ozzie Smith of the Cardinals dealt his former team’s pennant hopes a severe blow. With two out in the 12th inning at San Diego, ex-Padre Smith ripped a single to right off Tim Stoddard to score Jack Clark from third with the winning run, sending the Padres to their sixth defeat in a row. Joaquin Andujar, who pitched the first 11 innings for the Cardinals, improved his record to 17–4. Andujar, a 20-game winner last season, has more victories than any pitcher in the majors. Ken Dayley pitched the 12th, retiring Tony Gwynn, Steve Garvey and Graig Nettles in order to gain the save.
The Giants downed the Pirates, 3–1. Chris Brown hit a three-run homer at San Francisco to enable Bill Laskey to win his third in a row and improve his record to 4–11. Laskey gave up five hits in 8 ⅔ innings, and Scott Garrelts came in to get the final out for his seventh save. Lee Tunnell held the Giants scoreless on two hits through five innings, but gave up two singles before Brown hit his game-winning home run.
The New York Mets – Houston Astros game at Shea Stadium was rained out tonight.
Seattle Mariners 2, Boston Red Sox 6
Baltimore Orioles 8, Chicago White Sox 9
Cleveland Indians 1, Kansas City Royals 7
Chicago Cubs 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 10
Oakland Athletics 7, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Detroit Tigers 5, Minnesota Twins 6
Cincinnati Reds 7, Montreal Expos 6
Atlanta Braves 6, Philadelphia Phillies 4
St. Louis Cardinals 2, San Diego Padres 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, San Francisco Giants 3
New York Yankees 8, Texas Rangers 9
California Angels 3, Toronto Blue Jays 8
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1357.08 (+3.47)
Born:
Linda Marlowe, Australian-born British film, theatre, and television actress (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” [2011]), in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Marcus Benard, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns, Arizona Cardinals), in Adrian, Michigan.
Mat Gamel, MLB pinch hitter, third baseman, and first baseman (Milwaukee Brewers), in Jacksonville, Florida.
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