Moscow has agreed to open two reactors to international inspection later this month, according to Western diplomats in Vienna. It would be the first time the Kremlin has ever allowed impartial outside inspection of any of its nuclear installations, civilian or military, to determine how the facilities work and what they are being used for. In the next two to three weeks, experts from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency are to examine two Soviet reactors of the pressurized water type, to insure that they are being used exclusively for peaceful generation of electricity and not for military purposes. Western officials said the Soviet move seemed to have been carefully timed to coincide with the opening in Geneva on August 27 of a monthlong conference called to review the working of the 1970 treaty to halt the spread of nuclear weapons. About 120 countries that are signers of the treaty are to attend the conference.
Protestant activists demanded the immediate expulsion from Northern Ireland of 116 visiting American “terror tourists” who belong to a New York-based fund-raising group, the Irish Northern Aid Committee (NORAID). A spokesman for the Democratic Unionist Party, led by the Rev. Ian Paisley, said he expects the outlawed Irish Republican Army to wage violent attacks in an effort to impress “the naive and callous Americans.” London, Washington and Dublin have accused NORAID of sending money and arms to the IRA, which is fighting to drive the British from Ulster and unite the province with Ireland. NORAID insists that its money goes to help needy Roman Catholic families.
Radio reporters voted to join British Broadcasting Corp. television journalists in a 24-hour protest strike planned for Wednesday, threatening Britain with a virtual blackout of nationally broadcast news. The journalists are protesting a decision by the BBC last week to cancel a television documentary on the conflict in Northern Ireland, including interviews with Martin McGuinness, an alleged leader of the Irish Republican Army. The cancellation reportedly came at the government’s request.
The biggest battle in south Lebanon since most of the Israeli Army was withdrawn from the region in June was reported by an Israeli Army spokesman. The spokesman said that two Israeli soldiers and three Lebanese guerrillas were killed in the gunfight. The two slain Israelis were the first Israeli soldiers to die from wounds inflicted in Lebanon since April 24. That was by far the longest stretch of time for Israel to go without a death in Lebanon since the invasion of that country began on June 6, 1982. The total number of Israelis killed in action in Lebanon is now 656.
Black Muslims from the United States are fighting in Afghanistan with rebels trying to overthrow the Soviet-backed government, the Daily Telegraph in London said. The newspaper, in a report from Afghanistan’s Logar province, quoted Akhbar Shah, 34, a Black Muslim from Boston who said he served in the U.S. Army and Marines, as saying he helped organize training programs for Muslim rebels in Afghanistan.
Most Americans and Japanese regard their nations as friends, with old hostilities apparently receding 40 years after World War II, according to a New York Times/CBS News/ Tokyo Broadcasting System Poll.
Hiroshima paused to recall its atomic devastation and to ask that the world remember, too, and learn. “No more Hiroshimas,” the city’s Mayor, Takeshi Araki, declared as he stood near a registry of 138,690 known atomic-bomb victims.
The president of the tiny Pacific island nation of Kiribati, Ieremia Tabai, said he tentatively plans to sign a controversial agreement that gives the Soviet Union rights to fish in his country’s huge resource zone for a year in return for $2 million. Tabai said critics of the pact have shown a “patronizing and hypocritical, colonial mentality” by suggesting that the Soviets would establish a base on Kiribati, formerly the Gilbert Islands.
A Chilean military court decided not to try 14 policemen for the murders in March of three Communists and sent the case back to a civilian judge. The court said Judge Jose Canovas’ finding last week that police were involved in the murders was not explicit enough and was based on assumptions. Canovas’ ruling touched off street protests and forced the resignation of General Cesar Mendoza, head of the national uniformed police. Police officers in Santiago, Chile used tear gas and riot sticks Sunday to disperse hundreds of mourners who had gathered in a cemetery to lay wreaths at the graves of three Communist leaders purportedly killed by the police. Several people were injured, six people were arrested and two reporters were clubbed and kicked by the officers in the melee at the Santiago cemetery, witnesses said. The violence came after a warning Friday by the President, General Augusto Pinochet, who said he would “use the most drastic measures” against foes of his 12-year-old military government and maintain political order.
The food crisis continues to deepen in Ethiopia and in four of the other 21 drought-hit African countries, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reported. However, it added, weather conditions for 1985 grain harvests have been good in most of the countries. According to the report, port congestion and other transportation difficulties are hampering distribution of donated food to rural areas of Ethiopia, Chad, Mali, Niger and Sudan. “Further human suffering and loss of life in the lean period leading up to the next harvest are now unavoidable,” it said.
The regime that overthrew Ugandan President Milton Obote named Paul Ssemogerere, leader of the Democratic Party and main opposition leader under Obote, as internal affairs minister and Col. G. Wilson Toko, the chief executive of Uganda Airlines, as defense minister. They are the first to serve under Prime Minister Paulo Muwanga in a Cabinet that is to administer the government until elections, promised by the ruling Military Council, are held.
Sixteen opposition leaders went on trial for treason in South Africa. It is the largest proceeding of its kind there since Nelson Mandela, leader of the outlawed African National Congress, was jailed for life in 1964. If convicted, the 16 black defendants could face the death sentence. All are leaders of the United Democratic Front, the largest opposition movement outside of Parliament. The accused include the group’s joint presidents – Archie Gumede, 72 years old, and Albertina Sisulu, 62, the wife of Walter Sisulu, who was convicted with Mr. Mandela 21 years ago and is still in prison.
President Reagan today vowed “a major fall offensive” to press Congress to act on a series of domestic priorities, including his sweeping plan to modify the Federal income tax code. At a 30-minute news conference, his first since undergoing major abdominal surgery three weeks ago, a vigorous-looking Mr. Reagan made these remarks on a wide range of foreign and domestic topics:
— He will continue efforts to reduce federal spending by eliminating some programs, despite a budget compromise that curtailed spending levels and dismantled only one program.
— His other major domestic priorities include a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget and a Presidential prerogative to veto individual items within an appropriation bill.
— Economic sanctions against South Africa would harm blacks in that country and neighboring countries. He declined to say whether he would veto legislation imposing such sanctions if it came to his desk.
Doctors detected skin cancer in a piece of skin removed from President Reagan’s nose last Tuesday, he disclosed. The form of skin cancer, known as basal cell carcinoma, usually comes from overexposure to the sun and is highly curable. Mr. Reagan said that he had learned of the cancer while resting over the weekend at the Presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, apparently after the result of a biopsy was received. He said no further treatment was needed.
Social Security should be removed from the overall Federal budget as soon as possible, President Reagan said. With the House Democratic leadership also in favor of separating the $200 billion program from the budget, Mr. Reagan’s endorsement opened the possibility that a bill to remove it might start advancing in Congress this fall.
President Reagan signed legislation that will make federal agencies liable for the costs of challenging unjustified government actions. The bill extends the Equal Access to Justice Act and will enable individuals and small businesses to recover attorneys’ fees and other costs in successful challenges of government action. The act expired last October 1 after Reagan vetoed a similar bill on grounds some of its provisions could subject the government to lengthy discovery proceedings.
Democratic governors protested a partisan fund-raising appeal by President Reagan that attacks them for a “liberal mind-set.” The Reagan letter to past contributors to GOP candidates surfaced after a speech to the National Governors Association by Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III at the group’s conference in Boise, Idaho. “Clearly, the huge majority of governors the Democrats have represent the last unchallenged stronghold of the liberal ‘tax and spend’ philosophy that nearly brought America to her knees,” the Reagan letter said.
Arthur J. Walker has told Federal investigators that when he was despondent over the failure of a family business in 1980, his brother recruited him as a spy, according to statements unsealed here today. The statements were released by order of the judge as Arthur Walker went on trial here on charges of espionage. They were part of legal papers filed by the prosecution, which plans to use them as evidence. Mr. Walker has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of espionage. The statements offer the fullest picture so far of the methods he says were used by his younger brother, John A. Walker Jr., to enlist family and friends in what officials have called the most extensive Soviet spy ring in 30 years. According to the documents, compiled from interviews with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Arthur Walker said his brother kept maps for clandestine meetings hidden in a wall in his home. The defendant also told investigators that John Walker drove to the Soviet Embassy and parked out front for several days to begin his career as a spy.
Air controllers hobbled the pilot of a Delta Air Lines jetliner that crashed in Dallas Friday, according to the main theory emerging among investigators. They believe that a control tower order to slow down to maintain proper distance from another plane thwarted the pilot’s desperate effort to pull out of a powerful wind shift pushing the craft down. The accident killed 133 people.
The Alaska Senate laid to rest a move to impeach Governor Bill Sheffield and gutted a resolution questioning the governor’s actions. The Senate signaled the impeachment issue was dead when, without debate, it placed in the Senate Journal a rules committee report saying there was insufficient evidence of wrongdoing to impeach the Democratic governor, accused of steering a lease to a political supporter and lying about it under oath. As amended and passed by the Senate, the resolution reads that the Senate failed to find “clear and convincing” evidence that the governor had committed an impeachable offense.
A California businessman and his wife have been charged with keeping four Central American women as virtual slaves, abusing them as the two moved them between houses in Hawaii, Las Vegas, Southern California and Mexico, the Federal Bureau of Investigation charged today. The two, Kenneth K. Kimes, 67 years old, and his wife, Santee Kimes, 41, were arrested by agents Saturday at their home in La Jolla, Calif., the FBI said. The Kimeses, who also have residences in Honolulu, Las Vegas, Washington, Anaheim, Calif., and Cancun, Mexico, were charged in a Federal criminal complaint issued in Las Vegas with conspiring to keep the women in “a condition of involuntary servitude.” If convicted, Mr. Kimes, who is affiliated with Kimes Motels Inc. and Mecca Motels Inc. of Anaheim, faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, the FBI said. The couple appeared today before a federal magistrate in San Diego who ordered them to be taken to Las Vegas.
Crews working throughout the weekend completed a temporary road today for thousands of commuters after two freight trains of the Burlington Northern railroad collided Friday, killing five people and destroying an overpass on a major highway. The detour, built above the damaged twin-span overpass on United States 36, opened to commuters at about 5:30 AM, the state patrol said. Five crew members were killed and two crewmen suffered minor injuries in the collision, but the overpass was empty of automobile traffic when the accident occurred. Officials of the Federal National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday that the crew of the northbound train might have misread a log sheet that should have kept their train off the track until the southbound train had passed.
A term of 325 years to life, believed to be the longest prison term ever ordered by a New York state court, was imposed on a man with an 18-year criminal history of armed robberies of elderly Long Island homeowners. Daniel Martin, 34, who was convicted of the holdups last summer, was adjudged to be a persistent, violent felony offender.
The city of Borger, Texas, and four police officers must pay $1.38 million to the family of a man who was gunned down by lawmen after he was mistaken for a fugitive, a federal appeals court ruled. Police had been looking for Lonnie Cox, a fugitive they had chased onto James C. Grandstaff’s ranch. Grandstaff was shot when he saw the squad cars’ flashing lights and drove his truck to investigate. After Grandstaff was shot, the city and its police “denied their failures and concerned themselves only with unworthy, if not despicable, means to avoid legal liability,” the ruling by the three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said.
A jury in Dedham, Massachusetts, ruled that five paragraphs of a Boston Globe story on former Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate John R. Lakian were false and defamatory but refused to award damages. The jury ruled that the gist of the 1982 story was true, and it rejected the 1982 GOP candidate’s claim to $50 million in damages. But the jurors found five paragraphs were false when read in the context of the entire story. The court rejected the claim by John R. Lakian, a 42-year-old Republican businessman, of invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Major League Baseball:
Donald Fehr, the MLB players’ labor leader, said late tonight major league baseball players were on strike at the conclusion of last night’s games and that they should treat a negotiating session scheduled for this morning “as if we’re on strike.” “The strike is on as of the end of games tonight,” Fehr said shortly before midnight. “There’s a strike. The players are going to scatter.”
The Dodgers dumped the Braves, 6–1, as Steve Sax drove in three runs with a pair of run–scoring singles for Los Angeles. Sax singled off the Atlanta starter, Len Barker (1–5), in the fifth inning to drive home Mike Marshall, who had singled and gone to second on a groundout, snapping a 1–1 tie. Mario Duncan then singled, driving in Sax for a 3–1 Dodger lead. An inning later, Sax blooped a two-run single off reliever Rick Camp, driving in Pedro Guerrero and Greg Brock, both of whom had doubled. Guerrero advanced only one base on Brock’s bloop hit. Ken Landreaux hit his ninth homer for Los Angeles’s first of the year, a bases–empty shot, in the first inning. The Dodgers added another run in the seventh on a walk and Guerrero’s double, his third hit of the game. Guerrero extended his hitting streak to 15 games.
Darryl Strawberry belts three home runs to lead the Mets to a 7–2 win over the Cubs and vault the Mets into first place in the National League East. In the 9th, Strawberry singles in his fourth at bat as he drives in 5 runs at Wrigley Field. Ed Lynch pitched into the eighth inning and won his fifth straight game.
In their last game before a threatened Baseball players’ strike, the St. Louis Cardinals fell a half game behind the Mets in the National League East tonight with a 9–1 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. The Mets are 62–42 for the season, while the Cardinals are now 61–42. St. Louis had not been out of first place since June 29. Shane Rawley’s five–hitter helped send the Cardinals to their third straight loss and fifth in six games. Rawley (8–6) struck out six batters and walked two. Virgil and John Russell hit consecutive homers off the St. Louis starter, Danny Cox (12–7), in the fourth inning. Virgil added his 13th homer of the year in the eighth.
Andre Dawson, who had hit a two–run home run in the first inning, doubled to break a ninth–inning tie and lead Montreal to a 5–2 victory over the Pirates. With the score tied at 2–2, Tim Raines singled and stole second and Vance Law walked with one out in the Expos’ ninth off reliever Jim Winn (2–4). Dawson then greeted the reliever Rick Reuschel with a double and Hubie Brooks followed with a two-run single. Tim Burke (6–0) worked three scoreless innings for the victory, with Jeff Reardon finishing in the ninth.
Dave Parker’s three–run homer and Dave Van Gorder’s tie–breaking sacrifice fly sent San Diego to its fourth loss in a row, bowing to the Reds, 8–7. Parker’s 21st homer, one of his four hits in the game, helped the Reds turn an early 4–0 deficit into a 7–4 lead. Van Gorder’s sacrifice fly off Roy Lee Jackson (0–2) snapped a 7–7 tie in the fifth. Tom Hume (2–3), the fourth of seven Cincinnati pitchers, retired the one batter he faced to get the victory. Pete Rose went 1-for-4 with a single in possibly his last game before a players’ strike, leaving him 24 hits short of Ty Cobb.
The Astros downed the Giants, 7–5. Houston’s starting pitcher, ex-Giant Bob Knepper, snapped a personal five-game losing streak and Glenn Davis drove in three runs in the Astros’ fourth straight victory.
Davis drove in two runs with a single in the fourth inning that put the Astros ahead by 3–1. It followed José Cruz’s run-scoring double off Atlee Hammaker (3–10).
In Kansas City, Chet Lemon keyed a three-run, seventh-inning rally that boosted Walt Terrell and Detroit to an 8–4 victory in front of Royals Stadium’s largest crowd of the season. Various signs in the standing-room only gathering of 41,251 either implored the players not to strike or exhorted fans to retaliate with a strike of their own if the players union went ahead with its work stoppage. Kirk Gibson and Lance Parrish blasted consecutive home runs in the eighth off reliever Mike Jones and Lou Whitaker added a two–run homer in the ninth as the Tigers whipped the Royals in their home park for the 12th consecutive time.
Mike Witt hurled a five–hitter and California used a throwing error by the Seattle pitcher Bill Swift to score the go-ahead run as the Angels edged the Mariners, 3–1.
The Oakland A’s dumped the Minnesota Twins, 5–1. Bruce Bochte had three hits and drove in two runs for Oakland. The A’s rookie pitcher Tim Birtsas (8–2) gave up six hits and struck out seven before getting last–out relief help from Jay Howell.
Ron Guidry won his 14th game of the season as the Yankees topped the Chicago White Sox, 7–3. Tha Yankees got only eight his, but six of them were for extra bases. The Yanks also turned four double plays in support of Guidry.
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, Atlanta Braves 1
Seattle Mariners 1, California Angels 3
New York Mets 7, Chicago Cubs 2
San Diego Padres 7, Cincinnati Reds 8
San Francisco Giants 5, Houston Astros 7
Detroit Tigers 8, Kansas City Royals 4
Chicago White Sox 3, New York Yankees 7
Minnesota Twins 1, Oakland Athletics 5
Montreal Expos 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Philadelphia Phillies 9, St. Louis Cardinals 1
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Born:
Othyus Jeffers, NBA shooting guard (Utah Jazz, San Antonio Spurs, Washington Wizards, Minnesota Timberwolves), in Chicago, Illinois.
Travis Denker, MLB second baseman, pinch hitter, and third baseman (San Francisco Giants), in Fountain Valley, California.
Lynell Hamilton, NFL running back (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 44-Saints, 2009; New Orleans Saints), in Stockton, California.
Died:
Theodore Sturgeon [born Edward Hamilton Waldo], 67, American sci-fi author (“More Than Human”, “Baby is Three”, “Killdozer!”).
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