Mikhail S. Gorbachev said today that a week-old Soviet halt of nuclear testing was verifiable by existing means, and he renewed his call on the United States to join the moratorium. The Soviet leader, rejecting an American contention that Moscow had stepped up its tests just before the moratorium, said the Soviet Union had in fact left a series of tests unfinished. He said the subject of a comprehensive test ban was one that should be discussed in his meeting with President Reagan in November. His remarks, in the form of answers to questions from the Government press agency Tass, were presented as a series of debating points, much as he might argue them at a meeting with Mr. Reagan. The Soviet leader, who has a law degree from Moscow University, took up several American charges point by point in lawyerly fashion.
A U.S.-Soviet halt in production of uranium and plutonium for atomic weapons was proposed in a Scientific American magazine article by three Princeton University physicists, who said modern techniques to catch cheating make the idea feasible. The United States has not produced such materials since 1964, relying on a large stockpile and recycled warheads, but President Reagan has proposed resuming production. Moscow has repeatedly rejected U.S. requests to join in a cutoff because it was trying to catch up in atomic weapons, the authors said, but they noted that it has now achieved parity.
The West German police said today that they were investigating a possible link between a car bomb attack at the United States Rhein-Main air base Thursday in which two Americans were killed and the killing of a United States soldier the night before. A Western news agency today received the military identity card of the slain soldier, Edward F. Pimental, and a letter taking responsibility for the killing. The letter was signed by the Red Army Faction guerrilla group and the French extremist group Action Directe. A spokesman said the police were investigating the possibility that guerrillas used the identity card to gain access to the base to plant the bomb. The soldier was killed on Wednesday night after leaving a Wiesbaden discotheque with an unidentified woman and a man.
Officials of the Rome court trying a case of purported conspiracy to kill Pope John Paul II have received testimony from a Turk imprisoned in West Germany, one of the officials said today. The official, the Italian public prosecutor Antonio Marini, said the Turk, Yalcin Ozbey, had testified about the number of people involved in the attack on the Pope in May 1981, how it was organized and who was behind it.
Israel freed another 101 of the Lebanese prisoners whose release was demanded by the Muslim hijackers of a TWA airliner in June. Released from the Atlit detention center, the Lebanese, most of them Shia Muslims, were bused to the Lebanese border and handed over to the International Red Cross. “What is important is that 235 remain kidnaped” by the Israelis, Lebanese Shia Muslim leader Nabih Berri declared. The prisoners, held without charges, were captured during the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon and transferred to Israel in April.
Israel has told the United States that it would object to any meetings between a Palestinian-Jordanian delegation and a State Department official who arrived in Amman today for talks. The official, Richard W. Murphy, who is Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, will go on to Israel and Egypt. State Department officials said Monday that he might meet with a group of Jordanians and Palestinians, but that no final decision had been made.
Israeli Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir recommended that the government court-martial an army officer and discipline eight security men over the 1984 killing of two Arab bus hijackers. The bus was seized by four Gaza Strip Arabs, then stormed by troops. Two hijackers and an Israeli woman soldier were shot to death, and two Arabs were beaten to death in army custody. Zamir followed a government commission’s recommendation that General Yitzhak Mordechai, Israel’s chief infantry and paratroop officer, and eight others face charges of causing grievous bodily harm.
A crowded building in a Bombay slum collapsed early today as residents slept, killing at least 52 people and injuring 56, the police reported. “People living on the upper floors were flung down half asleep on their mattresses,” said a man who lives across the street. “They reached the ground either dead or unconscious.” A police spokesman said 18 children had been killed. Hospitals said most of the injured were in serious condition. The three-story building collapsed at 4 AM during rainy weather that is part of India’s monsoon season. Firefighters sifted through the rubble hours after the building collapsed for 25 people who were believed to be trapped beneath it. The police said about 250 people lived in the building. City officials said the cause of the collapse had not been determined.
A tail fin was found 80 miles from the mountainside where a Japan Air Lines jumbo jet crashed Monday with 524 people aboard. The tail fin’s separation from the fuselage was regarded by aviation experts as important in trying to determine why the jet crashed. Four passengers survived. The loss of life was the highest in a single plane crash in aviation history.
An impeachment move was defeated by allies of President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines. A parliamentary panel rejected an opposition motion charging him with graft and corruption, violating the Constitution and other crimes. Philippine opposition lawmakers filed a motion to impeach President Ferdinand E. Marcos, but a legislative committee killed the measure within hours. The impeachment bill, the first against a Philippine president, accused Marcos of graft and corruption, violation of the constitution, and violating his oath of office. Marcos, 67, has been president for 20 years.
Former Philippine Congressman Raul Daza pleaded innocent to charges of subversion one day after returning to Manila from 12 years of self-imposed exile in the United States. Daza, 50, a key figure in the movement against President Ferdinand E. Marcos, denied charges stemming from a series of Manila bombings in 1980 that killed one American and injured 60 people.
The opposition-controlled French Senate postponed debate until next Monday on the Socialist government’s amended bill for elections to be held in New Caledonia in September. The bill had been approved by the National Assembly, where the Socialists have a majority. Opponents maintain that the bill would favor Melanesians on the Pacific island even though they do not make up a majority in the territory. The move set back the government’s timetable for ending French rule in New Caledonia, a move opposed by French whites on the islands.
Pope John Paul II today apologized to black Africa for the involvement of white Christians in the slave trade. The Pope’s remarks came in an address to Cameroon intellectuals on their tasks in society and on the importance of integrating the Christian message with African culture. John Paul said the task of Christians involved “healing and compassion” because “the man who is in need, on the side of the road, is their brother, their neighbor.” He continued, “In the course of history, men belonging to Christian nations did not always do this, and we ask pardon from our African brothers who suffered so much because of the trade in blacks.”
Captain Thomas Sankara, the leftist leader of the West African nation of Burkina Faso, dissolved his government and sent most Cabinet ministers to work on collective farms. A presidential decree said only that three will be allowed to remain in Ouagadougou, the capital of the country formerly known as Upper Volta, as political coordinators. Ouagadougou sources said the move may be part of a drive by Sankara, an admirer of Libya’s Moammar Kadafi, against “petty bourgeois tendencies” in the revolutionary leadership.
Ugandan rebels reportedly have seized control of Masaka, the third-largest town in Uganda, and appear to be preparing to march on Kampala, the capital. Travelers returning from Masaka, a town of 30,000 people 75 miles southwest of Kampala, said it was overrun by the Uganda National Resistance Army, the strongest rebel group in the East African nation. The reported takeover came as several top leaders of Uganda’s new military government sought to hold peace talks with the rebels, who also fought the regime of President Milton Obote, ousted last month.
The home of Winnie Mandela and an adjacent clinic she runs in a black township in South Africa were badly burned in a fire. Mrs. Mandela, wife of the jailed nationalist leader Nelson Mandela, charged that the fire was set by the “security branch directed by the Government in Pretoria” in an effort to undermine the outlawed African National Congress, which her husband led. The police raided her home a week ago, after firing rubber bullets and using whips to break up a demonstration outside. The police said they had made no arrests in the fire but were investigating it as a case of arson.
South African Defence Force soldiers, travelling in a convoy of more than ten armoured vehicles, surrounded the Thaba-Juluba high school in Soweto and arrest 200 students during a clampdown on school boycotts.
The $4 billion United Nations pension fund has rid itself of all holdings in companies that do business in South Africa, it was announced today. Joe Sills, a United Nations spokesman, told reporters that the fund “has no remaining interests with companies which invest in South Africa.” A week ago, the pension fund still had $100 million invested in 14 companies that do business in South Africa, despite an 11-year policy mandated by the General Assembly to divest. That figure was down significantly from the end of May, when $250 million of the fund’s holdings were in shares of 30 companies with operations in South Africa, including I.B.M.
The leader of South Africa’s six million Zulus said today that the program of change that President P. W. Botha of South Africa is expected to unveil Thursday will be of no interest to him or other black leaders unless it includes an explicit promise of power-sharing for blacks. The Zulu leader, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, who is on a 10-day tour of Israel, also said he could not envisage any negotiations in South Africa between blacks and the Government as long as a state of emergency is in effect, as long as black leaders are in jail and as long as more militant black organizations, like the African National Congress, encourage blacks to continue the present violence.
Chief Buthelezi, 56 years old, is the chief minister of KwaZulu, the biggest of South Africa’s 10 so-called homelands. He is also the leader of the Zulus, who are the largest ethnic group among South Africa’s 22 million blacks. He is considered among the least militant, of South Africa’s black leaders, one who is ready to work with whites for nonviolent change, so his conditions for negotiations with the Pretoria Government are viewed as significant. His nonviolent approach has earned him the enmity of the more militant black South African organizations, like the African National Congress and the United Democratic Front.
The computer-based safety system at the Union Carbide plant in Institute, West Virginia, was not programmed to predict the path of the toxic gas that leaked Sunday, causing 135 injuries. Union Carbide acknowledged the omission after the manufacturer of the computer system, Safer Emergency Systems Inc., charged early yesterday that Union Carbide’s failure to provide critical data to programmers designing the system was at least partly responsible for the inability of the system to warn plant operators that the gas cloud would drift over the town. It was not immediately clear to what degree the omission, which made it impossible for the computer to draw an accurate map of the plume, contributed to the 36-minute delay in the sounding of a public warning siren. Union Carbide officials said yesterday that the leak may indicate a need to change piping and valve systems at chemical plants throughout the country. Experts agreed that undersized pipes could increase the risk that fumes would escape into the atmosphere.
President Reagan spends the day at the Ranch.
Thousands of people carrying banners and flags and chanting slogans of freedom rallied yesterday at 42d Street and Second Avenue against South Africa and its policy of racial separation, then marched toward the South African consulate. Packed between police barricades along 42d Street between First and Second Avenues, the protesters listened to speeches and songs of protest against the Government of the racially torn nation before beginning their march up First Avenue, past the United Nations complex, to the consulate at 48th Street and Second Avenue. Many in the crowd were members of trade unions that had co-sponsored the late-afternoon rally. Thousands more people joined the marchers as offices in the area closed for the day. A march spokesman said the crowd had grown to 30,000, but police officials put it at about 15,000.
A federal judge struck down a law requiring a runoff when no candidate for office in New York City receives at least 40% of the vote in a primary, ruling in a suit that it discriminates against minority candidates. The law affects races for mayor, City Council president and comptroller, for which runoffs are held between the top two finishers if no candidate gets the 40% minimum. The plaintiffs, black and Latino activists, said the runoff system allows white voters to choose one candidate and then defeat minorities in “bloc voting.”
The Justice Department filed suit against the owner of a restaurant and lounge in Virginia Beach, Virginia, who made blacks pay a $5 cover charge but let whites in for free. Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds said the suit was filed in U.S. District Court and charged the restaurant owner, Robert Bradshaw, with discriminating against black patrons by violating a section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The suit asked the court to compensate victims of the discriminatory practices.
A CIA clerk accused of leaking intelligence information to Ghana pleaded guilty to two counts in the alleged spy case and not guilty to 16 others, including the most serious espionage counts she faces. On July 11, the FBI brought espionage charges against Sharon M. Scranage and Michael Agbotui Soussoudis, 39, a relative of Ghana leader Jerry Rawlings. It alleged that Soussoudis wooed Scranage into divulging secrets about CIA operations in Ghana. Ghana has denied asking Scranage to spy.
Two United States marshals were shot and critically wounded today as they were transferring two convicted bank robbers between prisons, the authorities said. One of the prisoners, wounded in the leg, was recaptured a few miles away and the other was arrested about 400 miles away in Illinois after stealing a series of vehicles, officers said. The marshals, Wayne Ruud and Henry Carlson, both of Duluth, Minnesota, were in grave or critical condition at St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth.
A county prosecutor here defended her handling of child sex abuse cases before a panel considering whether she should be removed from office. Twenty-four adults were charged by Kathleen Morris, the Scott County Attorney, with sexually abusing children, but two were acquitted after a trial and the charges against 21 others were later dropped. One person pleaded guilty, the only conviction in the widely publicized cases. Miss Morris, under questioning by Kelton Gage, who is presenting the case against her, testified that in April 1984, she felt she had enough evidence to try the cases. The three-member commission, appointed by Governor Rudy Perpich, is investigating allegations of official misconduct against Miss Morris. At the conclusion of the hearing, the commission will recommend whether she should be removed from office.
In neighborhoods across the country, Americans fed up with muggers and thieves invited police to picnics, organized lookouts from front porches and held block parties and parades as part of the second annual National Night Out. Communities in 46 states took part. “Night Out is a symbolic demonstration that will let criminals know that we’re mad and fighting back,” said Matt Peskin of the National Assn. of Town Watch, based in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, which organized the effort.
A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia refused today to halt an investigation into the activities of Federal District Judge Alcee Hastings of the Southern District of Florida. Judge Hastings, who was appointed to the bench in 1979, was indicted in December 1981, tried and acquited on a variety of charges, including the solicitation and acceptance of bribes.
The California District Attorneys Association is dropping its campaign to oust Chief Justice Rose Bird of the California Supreme Court and two colleagues because the group fears it might lose its tax-exempt status. “The district attorneys association feels that having received legal advice about being a tax-exempt organization, and an election being political in nature, we shouldn’t be involved in a political campaign,” District Attorney John J. Meehan of Alameda County, president of the group, said Monday.
Miami voters rejected by a 2-1 margin a proposal to transfer daily government responsibility from the city manager to a strong mayor. Officials said another proposal, to hold partisan mayoral elections, was also losing by a 2-1 margin in a light voter turnout, which was running even less than the predicted 15%. The strong-mayor proposal, which one black leader called an attempted power grab by Puerto Rican-born Mayor Maurice Ferre, would establish the office as independent of the City Commission. The mayor and commissioners now have equal authority.
Something unexpected happened while Michael J. Connolly was talking on the telephone not long ago. He lost control of his car. Driving home from his office here, he dialed a number on his car telephone. He was distracted by the conversation, and his automobile jumped the curb. He was not hurt, but it cost him $186 to repair a bent suspension rod. The rapid increase in the number of telephones in cars around the nation has touched off a debate about whether this new convenience could contribute to a rise in accidents. Although the companies that supply the phones deny it, many traffic safety authorities fear that motorists may pay closer attention to their phone calls than to their driving. “When the driver is distracted, you’re setting up a condition that is bound to create an emergency for someone,” said Frank Kenel of the American Automobile Association.
The food-poisoning epidemic caused by tainted Mexican-style cheese and blamed for about 95 deaths and hundreds of illnesses throughout the country was declared over Monday by Los Angeles County health officials. Dr. Shirley Fannin, head of the county’s communicable disease control division, said the outbreak had been declared at an end because no new cases involving people who ate suspect cheese had been reported for 15 days, which is longer than the incubation period of the illness.
Government officials are debating whether to expand a California quarantine area after concluding that up to four swarms of aggressive Africanized bees escaped from the first colony of such bees in the United States. Hal Sparks, a spokesman for the bee eradication project, said federal, state and local agricultural officials hoped to decide by Wednesday whether to expand the 462-square-mile quarantine area in Kern County as a precaution.
A Johns Hopkins University cancer scientist said today that his research team had developed the “first effective treatment” for advanced stages of liver cancer, a disease that is almost always fatal. However, the scientist, Dr. Stanley E. Order, stressed that the treatment had helped only seven patients get rid of all traces of the disease, while some of the others were at a plateau where their tumors seemed neither to grow nor to shrink. In all, the treatment shrank tumors by 30 percent or more in 50 of the patients, 48 percent of the total patient group, a significant advance over the 15 percent rate achieved with traditional drug treatments, Dr. Order said.
A hurricane watch was issued for the Gulf Coast from Texas to Alabama as Tropical Storm Danny, with winds of 45 mph, developed 475 miles south-southwest of New Orleans. It is expected to move northwest and strengthen. Meanwhile, Hurricane Claudette was in the open sea about 380 miles off Bermuda and was expected to weaken.
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A two-run homer by Mike Young, his second homer of the game, snapped a 4–4 tie in the eighth inning, and lifted the Orioles to an 8–4 victory over the visiting Indians. Young, who has six homers in his last 12 games, connected for his 17th homer on a 3–2 pitch from Rich Thompson, who replaced Vern Ruhle (2–9) after the pinch-hitter Jim Dwyer drew a one-out walk. Alan Wiggins, who had three hits, tripled home two runs later in the inning.
In the Mariners’ 11–4 win, Seattle’s infield again ties the Major League record for assists with 21 against California. Mark Langston (6–9) goes all the way for the win. Rick Romanick (13–6) gets pounded for 12 hits and does not finish the fourth inning, by which time the Mariners lead 10–1.
Marty Bystrom pitched impeccably tonight, but he was a forgotten man by the time the Chicago White Sox had finally dispatched the Yankees, 4–3. He watched from the dugout as the Yankee winning streak was stopped at seven and the team slid back to seven games behind Toronto in the American League East. Bystrom was not in the game when the pinch-hitter Reid Nichols drove a sacrifice fly to center field that scored Ozzie Guillen with the deciding run in the eighth. Bystrom met his fate in the seventh when his one-hitter faded and when Carlton Fisk hit a two-run homer into the seats in left-center field, tying the game at 3–3.
Lloyd Moseby and Rance Mulliniks hit consecutive homers as the Toronto Blue Jays, scoring all their runs in the first inning, defeated the Rangers by 5–3 tonight. Tom Filer, 5–0 in six starts this season, gave up all three Texas runs in five and one-third innings. He had relief help from Dennis Lamp and Tom Henke. Jeff Russell (0–2) lasted only two-thirds of an inning and allowed all five Toronto runs.
Darryl Motley capped a four-run fifth inning with a three-run homer as the Kansas City Royals sent the Red Sox to their fifth consecutive defeat, winning 6–3. George Brett, who had four hits for Kansas City, triggered the rally with a double down the left-field line. Hal McRae then walked. Steve Balboni broke an 0-for-28 Fenway Park drought with a single high off the left-field wall, scoring Brett. Motley then hit an 0–2 pitch into the Boston bullpen in right-center for his 11th homer of the season and first on the road since June 24. Bret Saberhagen (14–5) picked up the victory, allowing eight hits and three runs, one unearned, in five and two-thirds innings. Dan Quisenberry pitched the last inning for his 27th save.
Mickey Hatcher hit a three-run homer, his first home run in four months, and Tom Brunansky had a two-run drive to pace a 17-hit attack as the Twins routed the A’s, 8–1. Frank Viola (12–9) scattered six hits, struck out six and walked none to record his fourth complete game.
The Tigers edged the Brewers in eleven innings, 5–4. Lou Whitaker led off the top of the 13th inning with a home run to break a 3–3 tie. The Tigers scored what proved to be the winning run later in the inning when Lance Parrish doubled and scored on a single by Nelson Simmons.
The Mets barreled along to their ninth consecutive victory last night. The starting pitching was good, the relief pitching was excellent, the hitting was timely, and the result was a 4–2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies at Shea Stadium. When the rookie starter Rick Aguilera (6–3) faltered in the eighth, Jesse Orosco was there to pitch him out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam. And with the third and fourth hitters, Keith Hernandez and Gary Carter, going a combined 0-for-7, the likes of Aguilera, Len Dykstra and Wally Backman, who now has a 12-game hitting streak, combined for six hits and three runs batted in.
Terry Pendleton singled home the tie-breaking run in the sixth inning tonight and Darrell Porter followed with a two-run double as Joaquin Andujar became the first 19-game winner in the major leagues as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6–5. Andujar (19–6) pitched seven and a third innings, gave up nine hits, struck out two and walked two. Ken Dayley, the third St. Louis pitcher, got his eighth save as the Cardinals remained a game behind the New York Mets in the National League East.
Mike Marshall hit a two-run homer with two outs in the eighth inning to lift Los Angeles to a 2–1 victory over the Braves. The Dodgers won for the game in a row, the seventh in nine games and 24th in the last 32. They now lead the the National League West by eight games over Cincinnati and San Diego. Carlos Diaz (3–1), who relieved the starter, Orel Hershiser, earned the victory. Tom Niedenfuer, the fourth Dodger pitcher, got his 11th save by pitching out of a ninth-inning jam. Candy Maldonado, the Dodger left fielder, threw out Claudell Washington, the potential tying run, at the plate following a single by Gerald Perry off Ken Howell.
Mike Krukow pitched a five-hitter, struck out a career-high 12 batters and hit his first home run of the season as San Franciso beat Houston, 4–2. Bob Brenly hit his 15th homer of the year leading off the bottom of the seventh inning to break a 2–2 tie. Jeff Leonard hit his 16th homer in the eighth. Krukow, who brought his record to 8–8, hit his fourth career homer, off Joe Niekro (9–9), in the second inning.
Andre Dawson doubled in two runs and Hubie Brooks had a pair of triples to lead Montreal past Chicago, 4–1. Joe Hesketh (10–5) scattered six hits in the seven innings and allowed a lone run in the sixth inning when Ryne Sandberg and Keith Moreland hit successive doubles. Scott Sanderson (5–6), the Cub starter, left in the second inning when he sprained his right knee and will miss at least four weeks.
The Reds downed the Padres, 3–2. Dave Parker homered on the first pitch of the fourth inning to spark a three-run Cincinnati rally. Tom Browning (10–9) went six innings for the victory, allowing seven hits, striking out a career-high eight and walking three. LaMarr Hoyt (13–7) was the loser. Parker’s 22nd homer, a liner over the centerfield fence, snapped a scoreless streak by Cincinnati that had reached 25 innings.
Cleveland Indians 4, Baltimore Orioles 8
Kansas City Royals 6, Boston Red Sox 3
New York Yankees 3, Chicago White Sox 4
Montreal Expos 4, Chicago Cubs 1
Atlanta Braves 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Detroit Tigers 5, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Oakland Athletics 1, Minnesota Twins 8
Philadelphia Phillies 2, New York Mets 4
Cincinnati Reds 3, San Diego Padres 2
California Angels 4, Seattle Mariners 11
Houston Astros 2, San Francisco Giants 4
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Toronto Blue Jays 5, Texas Rangers 3
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Born:
Scott Elbert, MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers), in Joplin, Missouri.
Lee Sweatt, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks), in Elburn, Illinois.
Died:
J. Willard Marriott, 84, American entrepreneur and hotelier (founder of Marriott Corporation).
Marion Martin, 67, American actress (“Dakota Lil”, “Queen of Burlesque”).
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