President Reagan planned “to set an agenda for the future” in his November summit meeting with the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Administration officials said. The White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, said Secretary of State George P. Shultz and the Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze had agreed on the meeting’s format and agenda when they talked in Helsinki, Finland, two weeks ago. Mr. Reagan, who arrived in California today to begin a 23-day vacation on his ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains, is expected to spend some of the time preparing for his first meeting with Mr. Gorbachev, which will be in Geneva on November 19 and 20. Mr. Speakes confirmed an outline of the United States preparations for the meeting that was provided Saturday by a senior Administration official. The official, who did not want to be identified, said about half the meeting would be used to develop a “foundation” that could lead to problem solving between the two superpowers. He said the other half would cover four specific areas. Those areas, which the official called “baskets,” are arms control, human rights, bilateral issues and regional concerns.
Moscow’s anti-drinking drive, two months after it took effect, has brought a transformation in the social rituals of the Soviet Union. In cities and towns across the land the police are cracking down on drunk drivers and those who make illegal home brew. The well-known obligatory toasts at formal dinners are performed without the shot of vodka and long lines form at liquor stores before the stores open and close for their new five-hour working day.
Three leading Czechoslovak dissidents have been arrested in anticipation of the 17th anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of their country, dissident sources in Vienna said. The three were writer Vaclav Havel, Ladislav Lis, a former Communist politician, and Jiri Dienstbier, one of the three spokesmen for the Czechoslovak human rights movement, Charter 77. Police demanded that the three turn over a Charter 77 statement marking the anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion on August 20, 1968, that crushed the reform leadership of Alexander Dubcek.
About 10,000 Roman Catholics marched in Belfast in a parade that British authorities had declared illegal but made no move to stop. The marchers included 116 visiting Irish-Americans from NORAID, the U.S. fund-raising group accused of providing aid to the Irish Republican Army. The march marked the anniversary of the British policy, introduced in 1971 and abandoned in 1975, of interning terrorist suspects without trial. Meanwhile, in Ireland, radio and television journalists staged a 35-hour strike over the state network’s cancellation of plans to interview NORAID publicity director Martin Galvin.
A bomb exploded early today in a car near this Basque city, slightly wounding two police bomb experts, the police said. The bomb experts had been sent to deactivate the device after an anonymous telephone call was received. No group said it was responsible, but the police said they believed the bombing was the work of the Basque separatist organization E.T.A.
Lead singer Simon Le Bon of the rock group Duran Duran spent 20 minutes trapped in an underwater air pocket with five crewmen after his 77-foot yacht capsized three miles off Falmouth, England, during the final race of the Admiral’s Cup series. A Royal Navy helicopter rescued all 24 aboard after a diver freed the six from inside the hull. The other 18 had managed to free themselves. None of the crew was injured. The yacht, named Drum, was one of about 215 boats participating in the race but not competing for the cup.
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said he has written to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and will write to President Reagan asking that the issue of Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union be on the agenda of the scheduled U.S.-Soviet summit meeting in November. Speaking at the World Union of Jewish Students in Jerusalem, Peres said the Soviets have shown “a renewed interest” in the Middle East because they feel “pushed aside” by the United States in its peacemaking role.
An Israeli military advisory board today urged reconsideration of a decision to banish a Palestinian activist from the occupied West Bank. The board asserted tonight that the Palestinian, Halil Abu Ziad, was active in the Palestine Liberation Organization but said the evidence, heard behind closed doors, did not link him directly with terrorist attacks.
Thousands of Jews left behind in Ethiopia during a secret airlift that brought thousands of others to Israel are starving to death, an immigrant leader said. Yaffa Hadana, wife of an Ethiopian Jewish leader, said her brother, Yetahun Kalef, wrote from Ethiopia’s Gondar province that “all the Jews here are in difficult circumstances. They are languishing in hunger, going to die.”
Rival Christian and Muslim militia gunners unleashed their fiercest barrage on Beirut in two months today, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 47, security officials said. In another development, Shiite Muslim gunmen kidnapped about 50 Lebanese Christians near the capital’s airport early today, but they freed them unharmed after about six hours.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak lashed out at Arab leaders who met in Morocco last week, saying their summit was a spectacle that achieved nothing. “Each attacks the other and works for his own interests, and to hell with the Arabs’ general interests,” said Mubarak, whose country was not invited to attend. “I am really sad about the Arab League, whose membership gives me no honor because it is now lying in a coffin.”
Libya has expelled thousands of Tunisian immigrant workers and used “brutality” in forcing them to leave, Tunisian Social Affairs Minister Mohammed Ennaceur charged. About 7,300 Tunisians have been ousted in recent months, and 5,000 others have been told to leave, he said. There are still about 80,000 Tunisians working in Libya. The government of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi said last week that it will reduce its dependence on foreign workers.
Iran said today that its troops killed or wounded 135 Iraqi soldiers in 24 hours of fighting. Iraq said “a number” of Iranians were killed or wounded in the new clashes. Neither of the reports could be independently confirmed. Iran’s press agency said 95 Iraqis were killed or wounded in the northern sector of the 730-mile battlefront in artillery attacks on Iraqi supply routes. “A number” of tanks were destroyed, the agency said in a dispatch monitored in Beirut. Iranian shelling in the central sector of the front caused another 35 Iraqi casualties, the agency said, and 5 Iraqis were killed in attacks by paramilitary police in the southern sector. In Baghdad, a military spokesman said Iraqi troops destroyed Iranian military positions in the north and killed or wounded “a number of people” in the central sector.
Thousands of Iranian pilgrims demonstrated in the holy city of Medina in Saudi Arabia last Friday calling for the downfall of the superpowers, Iran’s national press agency said today. Their leader, Mehdi Karrubi, urged the demonstrators to turn the annual pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina “into a volcano against the oppressors,” but to avoid confrontation with Saudi security authorities, the agency account, received in London, said. It said male and female columns of demonstrators headed by disabled Persian Gulf war veterans in wheelchairs marched to the Al-Nabi mosque, burial place of Mohammed, shouting, “Down with America, down with Israel, down with Russia.”
Thai military authorities said today that Vietnamese and Laotian forces had been firing across the Mekong River at Thai positions for three days. The Thais were reported to have returned the fire. The mortar and gunfire exchanges were reported near the Thai river town of Nong Khai. A Thai policeman was reportedly killed. Thai and Laotian Government officials had been meeting recently in attempts to reduce tensions between the two countries. Laos, which has been ruled by a Communist Government since December 1975, has been drawn increasingly closer over the last decade to Vietnam.
The Honduran Government has warned Nicaragua that it will cut electricity exports to Nicaragua within a week if the Sandinista Government does not pay $500,000 in overdue bills. “We cannot let Nicaragua accumulate a larger debt because it will not be able to pay up,” Economy Minister Miguel Orellana Maldonado said Saturday. The $500,000 debt was incurred in July, said Mr. Orellana, who added, “If this continues, after one year they will owe us $6 million.” Economic advisers to President Roberto Suazo Cordova decided to give Nicaragua until this Saturday to pay the debt, Mr. Orellana said. Relations between the two countries have grown increasingly tense since the ouster of Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debyle in 1979. The presence of Nicaraguan rebel base camps in Honduras has caused considerable friction between the two neighboring countries.
The official Mozambique radio said today that guerrillas killed 33 villagers attending a funeral near this southeast African country’s border with Malawi. The radio, quoting military sources, said the attack took place Tuesday in a cemetery in Intaque village in Tete province. No details were available. Guerrillas of the Mozambique National Resistance are conducting a campaign of sabotage and assault in many areas, trying to undermine the Marxist Government of President Samora M. Machel. The guerrillas are supported by conservative Portuguese and Mozambican exiles. South Africa promised last year to stop supporting the guerrillas in return for a Mozambican pledge to bar militants of the African National Congress, which seeks to end rule by whites in South Africa.
A South African soldier was stoned and burned to death by a crowd of blacks that pursued him after a funeral for an assassinated civil rights lawyer. The soldier was black. At the funeral for Victoria Mxenge, the lawyer, anti-Government figures delivered some of the strongest invective against the authorities and against the Reagan Administration heard in recent months. New outbreaks were reported in black townships near Durban, and fires were set by Indian vigilantes seeking vengeance for the looting of their shops and homes last week.
An end to all discrimination in South Africa was called for by Pope John Paul II, who is visiting Africa. In a statement issued in in Garoua, Cameroon, the Pope attributed the widening “bloody confrontations” in South Africa to “the unjust situation that is exasperating the various communities” and declared, “Racial separation is inadmissable.”
Toxic vapors escaped from the Union Carbide plant in Institute, West Virginia, and scores of people were treated for eye, throat or lung irritation. Company officials said the vapors came from aldicarb oxime, an intermediate pesticide product made from methyl isocyanate, which killed 2,000 people when it leaked from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, in December. Local residents in Insitute said they smelled the leaking chemical before they heard the horns of a warning system that was installed after the leak in Bhopal.
President Reagan travels to the Reagan Ranch in California for his summer vacation.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kansas) warned that he and other Senate Republicans will not support tax reform legislation unless it is a genuinely “revenue neutral” measure that corrects tax inequities without affecting revenues. “If the tax bill is not revenue neutral, but adds $25 (billion) to $50 billion to the deficit, it will not pass. I will not vote for it; Senate Republicans will not vote for it. The last thing we want is a tax bill that increases the deficit,” Dole said during an interview on “John McLaughlin’s One on One,” a syndicated television program. The majority leader said he doubted a tax reform bill can clear Congress this year, but he speculated that the 1986 election-year Congress will pass “a pretty good bill if the President holds the line.”
Resumption of nerve gas production, which the House is expected to approve soon, is being hailed by the Pentagon as the end of a long campaign. But according to a wide range of experts on both sides of the issue, the debate left unresolved a number of divisive questions about the future of the United States’ involvement with these weapons, including where they will be deployed, how they will be tested and whether the planned weapons can meet the Pentagon’s strategic needs.
Air traffic controllers failed to tell the crew of a Delta Airlines jet that crashed in Texas August 2 about a weather forecast indicating the possibility of thunderstorms, Federal officials said. The forecast was issued 10 minutes before the plane crashed near Dallas. Preliminary inquiries are focusing on the possibility that the crash, in which 133 people were killed, was caused by violent wind shifts in the midst of a thunderstorm that suddenly swept into the area.
The space shuttle Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, in Tucson, Arizona.
Government inspectors are checking electrical transformers in Federal buildings nationwide for leaks of PCB’s that could emit dioxin, a poisonous substance, in a fire, officials say. The checkups had been planned before leaks of PCB’s, or polychlorinated biphenyls, were found July 18 in transformers in museums of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and in the White House complex 11 days later, the officials said.
Competing tributes to Richard Nixon are planned in San Clemente, California, where the former President had an estate. One of the projects is a $25.5 million Presidential library that would be built without Federal aid by friends of Mr. Nixon. The other is a museum dedicated by the local Historical Society jointly to Mr. Nixon and another local hero, Ole Hanson, a land developer who founded San Clemente in 1927.
William J. Schroeder was released from the hospital today for the second time since his artificial heart was implanted last November, and was driven to a specially equipped Louisville, Kentucky apartment where he will live. Mr. Schroeder waved to 30 reporters and spectators from the terrace of the apartment and, when asked if it was good to be getting out of the hospital again, said only: “Yeah.”
Meatpackers union officials recommended that 1,550 workers reject the final offer from Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in Austin, Minnesota. Their contract expired at 12:01 AM Saturday. Workers are asking for $11.25 an hour, while the company is offering a base rate of $10 an hour, Jim Guyette, president of Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, said. The labor action would not affect Hormel plants in other states. A strike vote will be taken Wednesday.
Top officers of Conrail — the government-owned freight railroad whose employees made three years of wage concessions to help keep the line operating — have been quietly awarded salary increases ranging from 7% to 21%. Many of the officers had earned $115,000 or more. From April, 1981, through June, 1984, Conrail’s unionized employees agreed to forgo some salary increases to help their employer keep rates down. But with the ratification by the United Transportation Union of a new contract last week, all of Conrail’s 36,000 employees are now due to return to industry-level wages retroactive to July 1, 1984.
Police officers in Wynne, Arkansas, seeking a gunman who wounded two officers today and killed two other men surrounded a house and fired tear gas, then heard a shot from inside and found a suspect with a head wound, the authorities said. The suspect, Gary Mauppins, 30 years old, of Wynne, was arrested after he was found in a bedroom of the house with a single gunshot wound to the head, said Joseph Boeckmann, deputy prosecutor for Cross County.
Two skydivers were killed today in separate parachuting accidents at the Nelson’s World Freefall Convention in Freeport, Illinois, the authorities said. One of them, Connie Wiedmayer, 28 years old, of Augusta, Michigan, apparently lost consciousness as she jumped from an airplane and fell to her death without opening her parachute.
The American Cancer Society, saying “there is no one approach suited to the needs of all patients with breast cancer,” endorsed a variety of treatments for the disease and said the appropriate one should be worked out between a patient and her doctor. The society strongly recommended testing during surgery to determine if the cancerous tissue is hormone-dependent and said women about to undergo breast cancer surgery should request such a test. The society endorsed the three surgical techniques used to remove the breast-simple mastectomy, modified radical mastectomy and radical mastectomy.
Because school administrators believe it does not predict which students have the highest potential for being top managers, the standardized Graduate Management Admissions Test is no longer a requirement for admission to the Harvard Business School. “The standardized test scores are not helpful to us in selecting, from a pool of highly talented applicants, those individuals we judge to have the potential to become outstanding general managers,” John Lynch, assistant dean and director of admissions, told the Boston Globe. A spokesman for the Educational Testing Service, which administers the test, said other institutions find it useful in determining if students can do the required academic work.
Thousands of menhaden, oily fish that can weigh up to two pounds, invaded the harbor in South Bristol, Maine, depleting oxygen levels and killing hundreds of lobsters in their holding pens as green crabs climbed dock pilings for oxygen, authorities said. The South Bristol Fishermen’s Co-op said it lost about 800 pounds of lobsters. Good sea water has an oxygen level of about six parts per million, but levels in the harbor dropped to two parts per million.
Conditions in Watts today are as bad or worse than those that led to the rioting and burning that nearly destroyed the poverty-ridden Los Angeles community 20 years ago, according to a city-county report. Its unemployment rate has jumped, schools are overcrowded, and drugs are much more pervasive, with youth gangs fighting over control of the drug trade.
The United States Conference of Mayors awarded $145,000 today to help pay for educational projects in eight cities, including a “safe-sex musical,” to combat acquired immune deficiency syndrome. No vaccine or cure has been found for AIDS, which destroys the body’s ability to fight disease, so the only practical way to fight the syndrome now is to teach people how to avoid spreading the virus believed to cause it.
Smoking harms black Americans out of proportion to their numbers, according to a report in a special issue on smoking of The New York State Journal of Medicine. It says black people have the highest rates of coronary heart disease and lung cancer, the main smoking-related diseases, of any population group in the country. It says research on smoking’s effect on blacks is inadequate, and that an increase in antismoking programs aimed specifically at the black community is needed.
“Tap Dance Kid” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 performances.
Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7′ 10 ½”).
PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Hubert Green wins by 2 strokes from fellow American Lee Trevino.
Major League Baseball:
The Yankees won for the sixth straight time today, a 5–3 triumph over the Red Sox, sparked by Ron Guidry’s pitching and the hitting of Don Mattingly (3-for-5), Dave Winfield (2-for-4) and Ken Griffey (3-for-4). In all, the Yankees swept the three-game series at Fenway Park with a total of 22 runs and 42 hits. And today, their 3-4-5 hitters — Mattingly, Winfield and Griffey — collected 8 of their 10 hits. The six-game streak matched their longest winning stretch of the season. Guidry, who leads the league in victories with a 15-4 record, won for the 14th time in 15 games. He took a shutout into the sixth before giving up his first run, but by then his teammates had built a 3–0 lead. And then in the eighth, after being staked to a 5–1 lead, he exited after allowing two more runs.
Al Oliver and Garth Iorg hit 10th-inning home runs today, leading the Toronto Blue Jays to 5–3 victory over the the Kansas City Royals. Oliver’s fifth home run of the season, a leadoff drive, cleared the right-field fence. Two outs later, Iorg hit his third homer of the year, into the left-field bleachers.
John Candelaria picked up his first American League victory, and Brian Downing led the California attack with a bases-loaded triple, as the Angels crushed the Twins, 12–0. Candelaria scattered five hits, struck out three and walked one over five innings in his second start since joining the Angels on August 2.
The Mariners came from behind to beat the A’s, 9–6. Dave Henderson and Al Cowens each drove in two runs in an eight-run third inning as Seattle overcame a 6–0 deficit. The Mariners snapped a five-game losing streak and ended Oakland’s winning streak at five games.
The Indians topped the Tigers, 7–2. Neal Heaton scattered 11 hits for his first victory in more than a month, and Julio Franco and Mike Hargrove each had three hits for the Indians. Heaton (6–12) gave up only one earned run while achieving a career-high 10 strikeouts and walking one.
Greg Walker hit a two-run homer, and Joe DeSa and Carlton Fisk had bases-empty home runs as the White Sox snapped the Brewers’ five-game winning streak, downing Milwaukee, 4–1. Joel Davis, a 20-year-old right-hander making his major league debut, limited Milwaukee to five hits in the seven innings he worked.
Mike Young hit a three-run homer to lead a 14-hit attack for Baltimore, as the Orioles whipped the Rangers, 9–4. Young’s 15th homer of the year came off Save Stewart after Cal Ripken singled and Fred Lynn drew a walk. Sammy Stewart (5–4) got the win in relief.
With Ed Lynch pitching his sixth straight victory and Gary Carter hitting two home runs, the Mets kept streaking yesterday toward the hour of redemption. They beat the Cubs, 6–2, before a whooping crowd of 40,311 in Shea Stadium. After Carter supplied a 2–0 lead in the first with a home run, the Cubs came back with two runs in the third when Bob Dernier singled with two down, Ryne Sandberg doubled and Gary Matthews singled. But in the home half of the inning, Wally Backman singled and Carter lined the first pitch into the left-field bullpen for his second home run of the day, his 16th of the season and a 4–2 lead for Lynch.
Shane Rawley pitched a six-hitter today as the Phillies defeated the Cardinals, 4–1, and dropped St. Louis one game behind the first-place Mets in the National League East. Ozzie Virgil and Mike Schmidt hit bases-empty home runs for Philadelphia. It was Rawley’s second victory over the Cardinals in seven days. Rawley (9–6) struck out six and walked one in ending the Cardinals’ four-game winning streak.
The Los Angeles Dodgers blanked the Cincinnati Reds, 4–0. Jerry Reuss tossed a four-hitter, and Enos Cabell drove in two runs and scored another. The victory gave the Dodgers a seven-game lead over the Reds and the San Diego Padres in the National League West. Reuss (10–7) posted his third shutout of the year and the 37th of his career as he scattered six singles. Reuss struck out five and walked one for his fourth complete game, and faced only 31 batters. It was the Dodgers’ 17th shutout of the season. Andy McGaffigan (1–1) was the loser. The Dodgers broke a scoreless tie in the fifth inning when Mariano Duncan singled with two outs and Cabell doubled him home. Los Angeles added two more runs in the seventh inning. Cabell doubled with one out and scored on Ken Landreaux’s single, his third hit of the game. Landreaux took second on the throw to the plate and scored on Pedro Guerrero’s single. Cabell singled home the final run in the eighth inning.
Andre Dawson hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning to give Montreal a 6–5 victory over the Pirates. Scot Thompson led off the ninth with a single against the reliever Cecilio Guante (4–3). One out later, Vance Law doubled to center field, sending Thompson to third. Dawson then drilled a 1–0 pitch over the left-field wall for his 14th home run of the season. Tim Burke (7–0), the third Montreal pitcher, worked one and one-third innings to gain the victory.
Mark Bailey and Bill Doran hit home runs in the eighth inning to pace Houston to a 7–2 triumph over the host Padres. The homers, off the starter Andy Hawkins (14–4), and broke a 2–2 tie. Bailey led off the eighth with his eighth home run. Bob Knepper (10–9) followed with a single to right, and Doran then cracked his 11th home run deep into the right-field seats.
Rick Cerone broke a tie with a pinch-hit sacrifice fly, setting off a three-run eighth inning rally that gave Atlanta a 7–4 victory over the Giants at Candlestick Park. Dale Murphy hit his 30th homer and Joe Johnson got his first major league victory. Bruce Sutter pitched the last two innings for his 19th save.
New York Yankees 5, Boston Red Sox 3
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Chicago White Sox 4
Detroit Tigers 2, Cleveland Indians 7
Toronto Blue Jays 5, Kansas City Royals 3
Cincinnati Reds 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
California Angels 12, Minnesota Twins 0
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Montreal Expos 6
Chicago Cubs 2, New York Mets 6
St. Louis Cardinals 1, Philadelphia Phillies 4
Houston Astros 7, San Diego Padres 2
Oakland Athletics 6, Seattle Mariners 9
Atlanta Braves 7, San Francisco Giants 4
Baltimore Orioles 9, Texas Rangers 4
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Hannah Davis, Australian sprint canoeist (Olympics, bronze medal, 2008), in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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