A 35-nation meeting opened in Helsinki with an exchange of accusations between Washington and Moscow. Secretary of State George P. Shultz accused the Kremlin of committing human rights violations, and the new Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, countered with charges of an aggressive American arms buildup. The American and Soviet officials spoke at the opening of a gathering to mark the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki accords on East-West cooperation in Europe. Mr. Shultz devoted most of his speech to allegations of Soviet rights abuses. “The most important promises of a decade ago have not been kept,” he said. Naming a score of names, he said the Soviet Union and its allies had prevented the unification of families, emigration, religious practice, labor union activity, demonstrations for peace and Jewish cultural activities. Mr. Shevardnadze, taking a less aggressive tone, said the Soviet Union was a model in guaranteeing freedom from unemployment, poverty, homelessness and racial discrimination. The Soviet Foreign Minister, who belongs to the Georgian ethnic group of the Caucasus, with a language and culture unrelated to those of the Russians, said the Soviet Union guaranteed “the full exercise of the economic, political, social and cultural rights and individual freedom of citizens.”
The Polish Government today invited Poles to write or telephone to advise General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish leader, on what he should say when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly in September. The idea, which was announced by Jerzy Urban, the government spokesman, has surfaced as government and party newspapers are suggesting that a new round of “social consultations” be held to replace the 21-point accord signed five years ago in Gdansk between the government and the Solidarity union movement. That document called for independent unions, a free press and increased freedom of speech.
The British Broadcasting Corp. agreed to a government request to cancel a television documentary featuring an interview with Martin McGuinness, reputed chief of staff of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. British officials had said the interview would give “succor to terrorists” and was “contrary to the national interest.” BBC Chairman Stuart Young said the decision to cancel the program was made entirely by the BBC’s Board of Governors and did not represent a surrender to government pressure.
An AIDS epidemic threatens to sweep Belgian jails unless immediate action is taken to step up prison hygiene and improve treatment, a prison watchdog group, Passe-Murailles, said in Brussels. The group said in a statement that at least 10 prisoners in a Brussels jail are already suffering from AIDS — acquired immune deficiency syndrome. It said prisons are ill-equipped to treat AIDS and that prison doctors are often unwilling to help AIDS patients.
A program for victims of AIDS at the Pasteur Institute in Paris has drawn heightened attention since the actor Rock Hudson went to Paris seeking medical treatment for the disease. About 20 Americans are taking part in the program and most of them receive daily injections of an experimental anti-viral drug.
Israel has agreed to take part in “Star Wars” research, Assistant Defense Secretary Richard N. Perle told a meeting in Bonn on the program, formally known as the Strategic Defense Initiative. President Reagan has invited 17 allies to join the research into space-based anti-missile defenses. France, Norway and Denmark have rejected the offer, and others have expressed misgivings.
Most of the seven American hostages in Lebanon are believed to be under the control of a family of Shiite Muslims who seek the release of a relative being held in Kuwait, according to relatives of the captives and sources in Lebanon. The prisoner is among 17 men convicted in Kuwait of the 1983 truck bombing of American and French embassies there.
Syria delivered 50 Soviet-made tanks to Amal, the mainstream Shiite Muslim militia in Lebanon. The tanks, identified as T-54’s, an older model, dramatically altered the balance of power among Lebanon’s fractious factions.
Anti-Marxist Afghan guerrillas blasted a major Soviet air base in Kabul with rockets and claimed to have destroyed two transport planes. Western sources in Islamabad, Pakistan, confirmed the attack on the Soviet air base and military complex in the Afghan capital, calling it one of the biggest raids in years. Reports from Kabul said Soviet forces responded with heavy artillery fire and ground-to-ground rockets.
Rival Sikh groups fought with swords, stones and field-hockey sticks in the Golden Temple complex of the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, India, leaving 12 wounded. The clash erupted over a controversial peace plan for Punjab state. The Press Trust of India said the fighting pitted opponents and supporters of Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowal, who signed an agreement with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi last week to end violence in Punjab. The battle erupted when Longowal, head of the main Sikh political party, the Akali Dal, arrived for a meeting of his supporters to discuss the peace plan. Witnesses said that about 800 opponents of the accord tried to disrupt the meeting. About 30 shots were fired and about 35 people were arrested, reports said.
A key South Korean dissident, Kim Dae Jung, was placed under house arrest today hours before a convention of the main opposition party was due to open. Mr. Kim, 59 years old, said by telephone from his home here: “The local police chief called on me early this morning and said that as I had been engaging in political activities I would be placed under house arrest for a while.” Mr. Kim, who was under house arrest for a month after returning from exile in the United States in February, said he thought the main reason for the action was to prevent him from attending the two-day national convention of the opposition group, the New Korean Democratic Party. “I think the Government is worrying about my influence on the party convention,” he said. Kim, who returned from U.S. exile in February, has been barred from political activities under terms of a suspended 20-year sentence for sedition.
A preliminary Pacific air safety pact was announced by the Transportation Department. It said Washington, Moscow and Tokyo had agreed on cooperative measures aimed at increasing the safety of civilian aircraft flying North Pacific routes.
Cuban President Fidel Castro convened hundreds of delegates here Tuesday for a “continental dialogue” on Latin America’s foreign debt, a five-day meeting that has the makings of an earnest but tedious talkathon. What gives it a crackle of electricity, a hint of daring and danger, is Castro’s latest pet project. He is campaigning for a foreign debt revolt among Latin American and Caribbean countries. In a recent spate of speeches, press conferences and interviews, Castro has urged the countries of the region to collectively stop payment on their combined foreign debts of more than $360 billion.
The Interior Ministry announced today that 29 soldiers had been killed by rebel forces in northern Nicaragua in what appeared to be a major increase in rebel attacks. Officials said four guerrillas were killed in fighting Sunday and Monday. They said the fighting occurred north of Estelí, a city of 75,000 people about 60 miles north of Managua. The officials also said two bridges in the region had been blown up. Reuters quoted the Defense Ministry as saying that about 3,000 rebels had penetrated northern Nicaragua from Honduras for an offensive to coincide with the sixth anniversary of the revolution that ousted General Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the Nicaraguan dictator.
The rebel movement of Uganda expressed disapproval of the new regime there, leading to speculation that civil strife will continue. A statement issued in Nairobi, Kenya, by the Uganda National Resistance complained that steps taken by the leaders of the weekend military coup “were made without our knowledge or comment.” The new leader of Uganda, General Tito Okello, named nine members to a ruling military council, then flew to Tanzania for a meeting with President Julius K. Nyerere.
South Africa has recalled its Ambassador-designate in Washington. The action appeared to represent a further deepening of Pretoria’s international isolation.
President Reagan meets with Republican Congressional Leadership to discuss the budget. Bob Dole did not appear at a scheduled meeting with President Reagan, and senior White House officials said afterward that repairing relations with Mr. Dole, the Senate majority leader, and other Senate Republican leaders would be difficult. They were said to be angry and frustrated after Mr. Reagan refused Monday to support their latest deficit-reduction proposals. As top Senate and House negotiators began privately weighing possibilities for a budget compromise in the wake of President Reagan’s rejection of new taxes and Social Security cuts, angry Senate Republicans warned Tuesday that no budget might be preferable to the deficit reduction options Reagan has left them. “A budget package that only fiddles around with smoke and mirrors is worse than nothing at all,” Sen. James A. McClure (R-Idaho) said. And, although Senate Budget Committee member William L. Armstrong (R-Colorado) said there still are even odds that Congress will adopt a budget resolution this year, he clearly was unenthusiastic about how effective that agreement would be in curbing the gaping federal deficit.
President Reagan has a small piece of irritated skin removed from his nose.
Some House Democrats rebelled against compromise legislation authorizing military programs and forced postponement of a vote on the measure until after Congress returns in September from its summer recess. At an angry caucus of House Democrats, liberals protested that the spending levels set by the bill were excessive. The Senate adopted it by a vote of 94 to 5.
The space shuttle orbiter Challenger climbed to 190 miles above the earth despite the loss of one of its three main engines, and the space shuttle’s crew pressed ahead with an elaborate set of scientific experiments. Mission experts said the premature shutdown of an engine in the shuttle’s ascent Monday probably resulted from the failure of two heat sensors.
The NASA space shuttle Discovery moves to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating with its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters for the upcoming STS-51-I mission.
The 1985 farm bill returned to what has become its usual state — uncertainty — after a bipartisan Senate agreement on key provisions fell apart. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, said, “At least we’ve identified who’s holding it up,” after a committee meeting in which Senator John Melcher (D-Montana) conceded he had filed an objection to taking up contentious commodity sections of the bill. Melcher said he objected because he wants to be prepared with amendments if senators attempt to rescind a four-year freeze on farm income subsidy levels he narrowly won in a vote last week.
An immigration bill advanced as the Senate Judiciary Committee ap proved the comprehensive measure by a vote of 12 to 4. The bill would offer legal status to illegal aliens within three years and establish criminal penalties for employers who repeatedly hire them.
Two Justice Department officials flew to Cleveland to explain to a federal grand jury there why the federal investigation of Teamsters President Jackie Presser has been dropped. David Margolis, who heads the organized crime section, and Assistant FBI Director Floyd I. Clarke, head of the bureau’s criminal investigation division, made the trip as part of an effort to end the nearly three-year-old grand jury investigation of payroll padding at Teamsters Local 507 in Cleveland, Justice Department sources said. The decision to drop the case was based on the belated understanding by federal prosecutors that Presser had a “source” relationship with the FBI, they said.
The General Accounting Office has agreed to pay $3.5 million to more than 300 current and former black workers who accused the investigative arm of Congress of racial discrimination, lawyers in the case and the GAO announced in Washington. The agreement ends two class-action complaints filed with the GAO and the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. The settlement affects blacks who were denied equal opportunities for promotion to upper-level positions from 1976 to the present.
President Reagan today nominated Charles O. Sethness, a Harvard Business School associate dean, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance. Mr. Sethness, 44 years old, would succeed Thomas J. Healey.
Screening the blood of 2.4 million military personnel and recruits for signs of acquired immune deficiency syndrome was under consideration by a Pentagon medical board. It was also considering whether to recommend discharging those showing signs of AIDS. The extent of AIDS in the military is unknown, but a Pentagon official said that about 100 cases have been diagnosed in the Army. Homosexuals have opposed such tests as being inaccurate and discriminatory.
A three-judge panel of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled 2 to 1 that Georgetown University must grant official recognition to homosexual student groups, as it does other campus organizations. The panel said the anti-discrimination provisions of the district’s Human Rights Act “substantially outweighs” any burden on the religious rights of the Roman Catholic institution.
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and top police officials took firm but restrained measures today similar to those that they believe have so far contained two nights of disturbances in the northwest section of this city.
Medical testimony continued to dominate the murder trial of Joan Little today as Dr. Charles F. Gilbert, a state regional pathologist, gave illustrated testimony about the wound that had caused the death of Clarence Alligood, the jailer Miss Little is accused of killing.
Governor William Sheffield told an Alaska Senate panel considering his impeachment that he learned of a supporter’s interest in a state lease in late 1983, rather than in 1984, as he had told a grand jury. Sheffield testified to the Senate Rules Committee, which is considering whether he should be impeached for allegedly manipulating lease specifications for the supporter, Lenny Arsenault, and lying about it to the grand jury. Sheffield said that he first told the grand jury he became aware of Arsenault’s interest in mid-1984, then he said he wasn’t sure when he became aware. Senate lawyers on Monday had released a December, 1983, note from Sheffield to an aide in which Arsenault’s interest in the lease was mentioned.
Part of Washington was blacked out by a 68-minute power failure in a square-mile area during the morning rush. The Senate convened in semi-darkness and hundreds of people were trapped in subways and elevators. The capital’s utility attributed the failure to a faulty cable at a generating station.
Sharply fewer ducks are expected to migrate south this fall and may be the lowest number on record, according to United States and Canadian wildlife officials. As a result, the Government is considering a steep reduction in the number of ducks that may be taken by hunters.
Actor Rock Hudson was reported in serious but stable condition Tuesday at UCLA Medical Center where he was taken for treatment of the deadly disease AIDS after being flown from Paris on a chartered jetliner.
Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America’s Junior Miss.
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The Padres grabbed the lead three times in today’s game at Atlanta and finally went in front to stay in the 12th, eking out a win over the Braves, 5–4. Jerry Royster hit a sacrifice fly to score Tim Flanney from third with the winning run. The Padres led, 2–0, in the second, fell behind, 3–2, then scored twice in the eighth when Steve Garvey opened the inning with a single. But in the bottom of the eighth the Braves tied it on a walk, a single and a groundout to send it into extra innings.
Dwight Gooden pitched a five-hitter Tuesday night at New York for his 10th consecutive victory, and George Foster drove in both runs, in a 2–0 Mets’ win over the Montreal Expos. Although he won’t be 21 until November, Gooden is already the most impressive pitcher in baseball. His fifth shutout and 10th complete game improved his record to 16–3. In less than two seasons, the hard-throwing right-hander has 33 victories. Gooden struck out 10 to increase his major league-leading total to 173. In 398 innings in his career, he has struck out 449. Gooden struck out the side in the first and fifth innings. He has already struck out the side 25 times in his career. The last time Gooden lost was May 25, when he gave the Dodgers three runs in seven innings. That is about as bad as he pitches. Bill Gullickson matched Gooden until the sixth, when Wally Backman singled, stole second and scored on Foster’s single to left. That was all Gooden needed, but Foster singled in another in the eighth.
Despite the heroics of Gooden, the Mets remained three games behind the Cardinals in the East Division. In today’s game at Chicago, the Cardinals continued their successful trip, routing the Cubs, 11–3. The league’s leading hitter, Willie McGee was 5 for 6, including a home run and a double, scored three runs and drove in two to lead the assault on the injury-riddled Cubs. McGee, raising his average to .346, hit a first-inning home run to start the downfall of rookie Steve Engel, just up from Iowa of the American Association. Engel was pressed into service because most of the Cub starting pitchers are hurt, including Rick Sutcliffe, who was placed on the disabled list for the third time this season. Engel lasted into the fourth, giving up six runs.
The Dodgers, three outs away from losing on a ninth-inning run by the Giants, won, 4–2, on two home runs in the bottom of the ninth. The first was hit by Mike Marshall on the first pitch thrown by Giants reliever Greg Minton in the bottom of the ninth. That tied the score, 2–2. The game-winning homer was hit by second baseman Steve Sax, his first of the season and second in two years. When it left Sax’s bat, on a 2-and-0 pitch from reliever Mark Davis, broadcaster Vin Scully described it as nothing but a high fly ball, which it was. But it continued to carry, as Giants’ outfielder Jeff Leonard watched in disbelief, started after the ball in vain hope, then watched as it cleared the fence.
The Reds downed the Astros, 4–1. Mario Soto and Nolan Ryan are two of the best pitchers in baseball, but before this game at Cincinnati, they had only one victory between them in the last six weeks. Soto, who had an eight-game losing streak until he finally won July 22, won his second game in a row. Ryan gave up two runs in the first inning and lost his sixth in a row. He hasn’t won since June 17. In six innings, Ryan struck out seven to increase his career total to 4,019. “You know when you go up against Soto it’s going to be tough,” Ryan said. “But you have to score more than one run to beat him. I’m not unhappy with the game I pitched.” Player-Manager Pete Rose beat out a bunt in the seventh inning to move within 27 hits of breaking Ty Cobb’s record. The fading Astros are 2–13 in their last 15 games.
Philadelphia blanked the Pirates, 2–0. Pitcher Kevin Gross doubled in the only runs of the game in the fourth inning at Pittsburgh and improved his record to 10–8. But after handing the Pirates their seventh loss in a row, Gross was more impressed with his hitting than his pitching. Gross gave up six hits in six innings before the bullpen came along to save the win. “They hit every pitch I threw and hit it hard,” Gross said. “The guys just made great plays behind me.”
After going 4-for-4, driving in two runs and scoring two runs to help the Detroit Tigers end the Kansas City Royals’ seven-game winning streak, 11–7, Tuesday night, Kirk Gibson. wanted to talk about the plane that buzzed Tiger Stadium. A small jet came roaring in like a runaway rocket some 400 feet over home plate, scaring the players and many of the 34,261 fans. “It didn’t scare me,” Gibson said. “I saw it coming. I saw it and kept waiting for the noise.” With Jack Morris working on a 1-and-2 count to Kansas City’s Onix Concepcion in the top of the sixth inning, there came the orange flame and loud roar of twin jet engines. Tiger second baseman Lou Whitaker began to run toward right field, away from the path of the jet. He stopped after a few steps as the jet climbed and disappeared. Morris, although he gave up nine hits in six innings, improved his record to 12–6. Willie Hernandez got his 21st save, although he gave up five hits in the last three innings. George Brett had three of the Royals’ 14 hits, including his 15th home run.
The Angels lost their fifth game in a row, as Mike Davis hit a 3–2 pitch from Angel reliever Donnie Moore into the right-field corner to score Dave Kingman in the 10th inning and lift the A’s to a 5–4 win in front of 24,186. The Angels had come back from an early 4–0 deficit only to lose it in the tenth.
Tom Seaver blew a four-run lead Tuesday night at Boston but finally won his 299th game when the Chicago White Sox scored three times in the 10th inning to beat the Red Sox, 7–5. The 40-year-old Seaver, who was beaten last Wednesday in his first try for No. 299, was given a 4–0 lead in the first four innings. A home run by Wade Boggs in the fourth was only the second hit off Seaver. The Red Sox finally got even in the seventh, when an error by third baseman Tim Hulett paved the way for an unearned run. Hulett made amends when he opened the 10th with a single. Luis Salazar singled in one run, Bryan Little singled in another, and the last run came in on a sacrifice fly by Greg Walker. The Red Sox scored once in the bottom of the inning. Seaver, who will go for No. 300 Sunday at New York, pitched nine innings, giving up eight hits and three earned runs to improve his record to 11–8.
Ramon Romero, who went into the game with a 6.08 earned-run aver- age, pitched brilliantly in the sec- ond game of a doubleheader at Cleveland as the Indians ended their latest losing streak at five games, winning 3–2, after dropping the opener, 8–5. Although the league’s leading hitter, Rickey Henderson, hit two home runs, Romero gave up only two other hits in 7 ⅔ innings to win his first game. The Indians scored all three runs in the seventh inning. Chris Bando, batting .095, singled with the bases loaded to hand Bob Shirley a tough loss. With the split, the Yankees, who clinched the opener when Don Baylor hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning, were left 6 ½ games behind Toronto in the East. Once again the Yankees were playing without Manager Billy Martin, who remains in a hospital in Texas because of a slightly punctured right lung. Martin kept in touch with acting manager Lou Piniella by phone during both games.
On the way to their big lead and their best season yet, the Blue Jays still find it difficult winning at Baltimore. Lee Lacy’s sacrifice fly with one out and the bases loaded in the 10th inning gave the Orioles a 4–3 win and a home record against Toronto of 45-14. The Orioles spent most of the game missing opportunities to put the Blue Jays away. But in the 10th, a single and two walks loaded the bases with one out, and Lacy hit the fly ball that ended the Blue Jays’ nine-game winning streak. Although he didn’t win the game, Mike Flanagan pitched well for the third time in his third start this season. Flanagan, out most of the season because of an Achilles’ tendon injury, gave up only four hits in eight innings.
Charlie Moore emerged from a deep slump with a two-out triple to drive in two runs in the sixth inning and lead the Brewers to a 6–3 victory over the Rangers at Milwaukee. Moore was hitting .219 and had gone hitless his first two times at-bat before coming through in the clutch. “It’s been a long time since I made a big hit,” Moore said. “I can’t explain the long slump, but it feels good to help win a game.” Bob McClure pitched four scoreless innings to improve his record to 3–1. Although he gave up three hits, McClure struck out five.
Mike Smithson scattered eight hits in eight innings for his sixth straight victory, and Kent Hrbek rapped out four hits, including a two-run homer, to lead the Twins over the Mariners, 12–4, at Seattle. Smithson (11–7), who hasn’t lost since June 23, allowed all the Seattle runs before Curt Wardle pitched the ninth. For Hrbek, struggling with a .238 average, it was his second four-hit game of the season. He had three singles and a walk to go with his home run. The Twins scored in the second inning off Billy Swift (3–5) when Dave Engle walked, Randy Bush singled and Gary Gaetti grounded out. The Mariners took a 2–1 lead in their half of the second on RBI singles by Harold Reynolds and Phil Bradley, but the Twins went ahead to stay with four runs in the third.
Pascual Perez returned to the Atlanta Braves Tuesday for the first time since he left the club after a July 21 game against the New York Mets. Perez, 28, was placed on the restricted list after he went AWOL from the team in New York. He missed a trip to Montreal and, although he returned to Atlanta last Wednesday, decided not to join the team at Philadelphia for a weekend series. He will throw on the sideline at least twice this week, according to Brave Manager Eddie Haas, and could return to the roster this weekend when the Braves play the San Francisco Giants.
San Diego Padres 5, Atlanta Braves 4
Toronto Blue Jays 3, Baltimore Orioles 4
Chicago White Sox 7, Boston Red Sox 5
St. Louis Cardinals 11, Chicago Cubs 3
Houston Astros 1, Cincinnati Reds 4
New York Yankees 8, Cleveland Indians 5
New York Yankees 2, Cleveland Indians 3
Kansas City Royals 7, Detroit Tigers 11
San Francisco Giants 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Texas Rangers 3, Milwaukee Brewers 6
Montreal Expos 0, New York Mets 2
California Angels 4, Oakland Athletics 5
Philadelphia Phillies 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
Minnesota Twins 12, Seattle Mariners 4
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Dylan Axelrod, MLB pitcher (Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds), in Santa Barbara, California.
Shaun Heshka, Canadian NHL defenseman (Phoenix Coyotes), in Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Peter Knight, 68, English musical arranger, conductor, and composer.
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