Two bombs exploded at a U.S. Army installation in West Germany, damaging a radio tower used by the U.S. Armed Forces Network. There were no injuries but the tower was moved about three feet from its base and will be out of operation for “a couple of days,” the network’s commander said. Two other explosive devices were disarmed near the tower. Police suspect the Red Army Faction planted the bombs, although the leftist group did not claim responsibility as it did for the car bomb that killed two Americans and wounded 20 other people last week at the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Base.
An estimated 165,000 Poles flocked to the country’s holiest shrine for a sermon by Cardinal Jozef Glemp, but the primate disappointed many in the crowd by avoiding any mention of politics or the outlawed Solidarity trade union. Glemp spoke of his vision of a country without conflict, while below him, at the foot of Jasna Gora Monastery, scores of banners displayed pro-Solidarity slogans, some proclaiming violent dissent. The monastery holds the icon of the Black Madonna.
A Jewish activist who is a member of an unofficial peace group was sentenced today to three years at hard labor on a charge of “malicious hooliganism,” his wife said. The activist, Vladimir Brodsky, was tried in a makeshift court in a factory that makes construction materials. Only his wife, Dina, was allowed inside. She said the charges against her husband, who had served two 15-day terms for “petty hooliganism,” were a fabrication, and that an appeal was planned. Mr. Brodsky, 34 years old, irritated authorities because of his activism as a member of the independent group that has issued calls for disarmament by the United States and the Soviet Union.
The Virgin Atlantic Challenger, a powerboat trying to beat the trans-Atlantic speed record set by the liner United States, sank in stormy weather today hours from the British lighthouse that marked the end of her 2,850-mile course. Her crew of nine, including a yachtsman who had rowed the Atlantic and a millionaire sponsor whose experience was limited to a canal boat, were rescued unhurt by a British banana boat, the Geestbay, that lumbered along in answer to their calls of Mayday. The $2.1 million Atlantic Challenger, a 65-foot-long twin-hulled vessel with two 2,000-horsepower engines, was reported still floating, submerged and bow-up, 138 miles from the finish line at the Bishop Rock Lighthouse in the Isles of Scilly, where champagne and the relatives of the crew were waiting. Ted Toleman, Atlantic Challenger’s skipper, who with other crew members was whisked off the banana boat by a Royal Air Force helicopter just as they were about to sit down to dinner, reported that his vessel met disaster when it hit a solid object beneath the surface.
Lebanese gunmen exchanged fire across Beirut, killing 10 people and wounding 45 with a furious barrage of rocket, mortar and tank fire that forced thousands of people into bomb shelters. The presidential palace in Baabda, a Christian suburb, was hit, but President Amin Gemayel was not in residence and was reported safe. It was the worst cross-city shelling of the Lebanese capital in a week. In southern Lebanon, a suicide bomber drove his Mercedes-Benz packed with explosives toward a pro-Israeli militia post before detonating the charge, killing himself and as many as three militiamen.
There is a major Iraqi air raid on Iran’s main oil export terminal, Kharg Island. The Iraqi Government, locked in a five-year war with Iran, said today that its fighter-bombers had “demolished” Iran’s oil shipping terminal on Kharg island. But United States officials said they had no information that would confirm the assertion. A military communique broadcast in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, said Iraqi planes had dealt a “crushing” blow to the island and had “changed it into ashes.” United States officials reported that Iran later broadcast an assertion that it had shot down one Iraqi aircraft north of Kharg. One American official said it appeared that an Iraqi attack did take place today, but this official and others said it was unclear whether the major damage claimed by Baghdad had occurred. One United States official said sources in the shipping industry had reported that a Norweigan oil tanker had been damaged at Kharg, but that the damage was believed to be light. Iran and Iraq have been at war since September 1980. Ground fighting has been inconclusive, but Iraq has many more combat-worthy aircraft than Iran.
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi announced a settlement in the bitter dispute between the Hindu residents of the northeastern state of Assam and a half million foreign immigrants, most of them Muslims fleeing the poverty of neighboring Bangladesh. An estimated 5,000 people were killed in Assam during a state election in 1983. The accord called for new state elections, but barred immigrants who arrived after 1965 from taking part.
Chinese President Li Xiannian acknowledged that there are a “very few isolated cases” of infanticide in China but said the government is carrying out a “vigorous campaign to uproot such practices.” Li told James Grant, executive director of the U.N. Children’s Fund, that killing of girl babies by parents hoping for a son is a carryover from feudal days.
Japanese airlines began examining the country’s entire fleet of Boeing 747 jumbo jets for possible defects. The Government ordered the inspections as growing evidence suggested that damage to the vertical fin on a Japan Air Lines jumbo jet had caused the crash on Monday that killed 520 people on a routine flight from Tokyo to Osaka.
American aviation officials reacted cautiously yesterday to news that the Japanese Government had orderd a special inspection of all Boeing 747’s flown by Japanese carriers as a result of Monday’s crash. The Federal Aviation Administration announced that for the time being it would not order similar inspections of 747’s flown by United States airlines.
French police issued arrest warrants for three men and a woman — all believed to be French secret agents — who are suspected in the bombing of a Greenpeace ship in New Zealand that killed one person. New Zealand authorities requested the warrants from Interpol, the international police organization, which then notified French authorities. French news reports said one of the suspects had infiltrated Greenpeace, an anti-nuclear and environmentalist group. Authorities said two explosive charges. were placed on the hull of the Rainbow Warrior, which was sunk in Auckland harbor July 10.
The Miskito rebel leader Steadman Fagoth was forced to flee into Honduras from a rebel-held area in Nicaragua after he was unable to force the directors of the Misura Indian rebel organization to rename him as head of the group, a rebel spokesman said today. The Misura spokesman, Adan Artola, spoke in a telephone interview from Honduras. Alfonso Robelo, a leader of the rebel United Nicaraguan Opposition, which is allied with Misura, said Mr. Fagoth had been arrested in Honduras. His account could not be confirmed. Mr. Fagoth was expelled from Honduras in January after holding a news conference in which he said he would order the execution of 23 Sandinista soldiers his forces had captured. Last week Mr. Fagoth and 20 followers captured 12 members of the Misura council of elders and two Misura commanders, held them for 48 hours and beat them, Mr. Artola said. When the Misura officials refused to accept Mr. Fagoth’s demand to be named as leader, Mr. Artola said, the men deserted him and he fled into Honduras.
The Chilean government fired 29 paramilitary police officers, including four generals and 17 colonels, in the biggest armed forces shake-up since the military seized power 12 years ago. A government statement gave no reason for the move. But the head of the paramilitary police, General Cesar Mendoza, resigned recently after a judge accused the force of involvement in the March murders of three Communist foes of the government.
Tanzania’s ruling party elected Vice President Ali Hassan Mwinyi to succeed President Julius Nyerere, 63, who plans to step down this year after leading his country since independence in 1961. Delegates at a special convention of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party voted 1,731 to 14 for Mwinyi in a secret ballot. According to the constitution, the vote means that Mwinyi, 60, who has a reputation as a moderate economic reformer, will be the sole candidate in October.
South Africa’s President P. W. Botha, in defiant and sometimes belligerent tones, today rejected foreign and domestic calls for major concessions to South Africa’s black majority. He also said he would not soften his terms for the release of Nelson Mandela, the jailed black leader. Addressing 1,800 whites in Durban’s City Hall at the opening of the Natal Provincial Congress of the governing National Party, Mr. Botha said: “I am not prepared to lead white South Africans and other minority groups on a road to abdication and suicide,” He continued: “Listen, my friends, listen. Destroy white South Africa and our influence in this subcontinent of southern Africa, and this country will Excerpts from speech, page A6. drift into factions, strife, chaos and poverty. “We have never given in to outside demands and we are not going to do so. South Africa’s problems will be solved by South Africans and not by foreigners. We are not going to be deterred from what we think best, nor will we be forced into a position of doing what we don’t want to do.”
Responding to P. W. Botha’s remarks, the Reagan Administration said that the South African President had made “an important statement” with steps that it hoped would “advance the end of apartheid.” In a statement approved by President Reagan, Robert C. McFarlane, the national security adviser, said the Administration hoped for “early implementation” of policy changes outlined by Mr. Botha.
Hours before President P. W. Botha reiterated tonight that he would release Nelson Mandela only if the jailed black leader agreed to renounce violence, Mr. Mandela’s wife said her husband remained adamant in demanding an unconditional release. She also said Mr. Mandela wanted to meet President Botha in prison over the issue of violence. “His attitude has always been, as was stated at the beginning of this year, that he is not going to negotiate his own release from prison,” Winnie Mandela said, referring to a similar offer held out by Mr. Botha in January. “He is not prepared to accept conditional release from prison.”
A South African black’s pass — other race groups are not obliged to carry passes — is central to the apartheid policy called influx control. Without the pass, the black is subject to arrest, and more than 500,000 have been arrested for offenses against the pass laws in the last two years, according to one opposition legislator.
President Reagan spends the day at the Ranch.
Production rose a scant two-tenths of 1 percent last month in the nation’s factories, mines and utilities, as the economy showed little evidence of the second-half rebound forecast by the Reagan Administration and most private analysts.
Washington is cracking down on the commercial offices of Soviet and Soviet-block countries that have long played a critical role in obtaining American military technology and secrets, Federal law enforcement officials said. By operating as legitimate businesses, these organizations can legally obtain credit information on American business executives and and acquire crucial technology and documents.
A presidential commission launched an investigation into Pentagon buying practices with statements from Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger. The 15-member Commission on Defense Management, headed by former Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard, met for nearly three hours with Weinberger and James. Wade, the assistant secretary for research and engineering who is responsible for the acquisition of weapons and their spare parts.
The General Services Administration said it will cost $982,000 to remove potentially hazardous PCB chemicals from 33 electrical transformers serving the White House complex and three other federal office centers in Washington. The White House announced last week that two electrical transformers in the executive office complex had leaked PCBs, polychlorinated biphenyls, used as a coolant but found to be a potential cancer-causing agent. Officials said the leaking transformers were under a street adjacent to the White House.
The space shuttle Discovery was cleared for launching August 24 and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it will have better heat sensors than those that shut down one of Challenger’s engines last month, nearly causing an in-flight abort. Discovery’s five-man crew is to deploy three commercial communications satellites and then is to track down and try to repair a Syncom communications satellite that failed to activate after being released in April.
John A. Walker Jr. left a paper bag at a secluded Maryland site and waited for it to be retrieved by a “contact,” his lawyers said at a court hearing today. They were quick to assert that their statement, contained in a three-page document, was not an admission of guilt. The chief prosecutor agreed that the information in the document, read at a hearing in Federal Disrict Court, could not be admitted as evidence in a trial. The defense lawyers, Fred Warren Bennett and Thomas Mason, said the statement had been made only for the purpose of a defense motion to suppress information about the contents of the bag. They would not say whether they believed the statement was true.
Jay Kelly Pinkerton, a 23-year-old man ordered to die for raping and killing a woman, won a temporary stay of execution early today minutes before he was to be put to death by injection. Mr. Pinkerton had already been moved to a holding cell a few steps from Texas’s death chamber when the Supreme Court voted 6 to 2 to consider a formal appeal in his behalf. The court’s order staying his execution was issued at 12:40 AM. Executions in Texas normally take place just after midnight. The court did not say when it would hear the appeal. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Justice Byron R. White voted to let him die. Justice William H. Rehnquist did not participate. Mr. Pinkerton, who maintains his innocence, contended that he was denied a fair trial and received inadequate legal help.
Three miners suffocated and another was injured tonight when air rushed out of a mine and into an abandoned shaft they had just penetrated in a small southeastern Kentucky coal mine, the authorities said. The abandoned shaft acted like a vacuum, sucking air from the mine, they said. The Kentucky Department of Mines and Minerals sent inspectors to the mine to investigate the accident. “The three killed were asphyxiated,” said Carl Paul, the Whitley County coroner. The injured miner was sent by helicopter to a hospital in Knoxville. The dead miners were identified as Robert L. Bauer, 21 years old, and Randy W. Powers, 18, both of Meador Creek, and Reed McKiddy, 21, of Siler.
Public health authorities have identified an ingredient in the making of polyurethane and explosives as a potential cause of cancer and are warning manufacturers to limit worker exposure to the chemical compound. Workers and manufacturers who work with the ingredient, technical grade dinitrotoluene, or DNT, have been warned that it can cause cancer and also fertility problems. About 720 million pounds of technical grade DNT was produced in the United States in 1982.
Potentially dangerous bacteria was discovered by federal investigators in Liederkranz cheese sold by General Foods Corp. and the firm voluntarily issued a national recall of the product, government and company officials said. The specific type of bacteria found in the General Foods cheese is not the same that was found in soft Mexican-style cheese produced by Jalisco Mexican Food Products of Artesia, Calif., but it can be just as deadly, a Food and Drug Administration microbiologist said. Officials said the entire contaminated cheese batch was recovered in an Ohio processing plant.
With rising college costs widening the tuition gap between private and public colleges, a group representing private schools has proposed restructuring federal aid to low-income students to give more to those attending more expensive schools. Under a plan by the National Assn. of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Pell grant program for low-income students would be changed to take into consideration the cost of the college the student attends, in addition to a living allowance.
A San Bernardino, California maintenance man was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and pouring acid on a 15-year-old girl who was left blind and disfigured by the attack. Jack Oscar King, 65, a maintenance man at the victim’s housing project, was convicted of all eight felony counts in the attack last October 24 on Cheryl Bess, a high school sophomore. He faces a maximum of 32 years in prison.
More than 1,800 members of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers struck the Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation today to protest company orders that some of them work weekends as part of their regular schedules. Tilton L. Fields Jr., the president of the union’s Local 684, estimated that more than 95 percent of the unionized workers stayed off the job. Al Hartnett, the yard’s chief negotiator, said about 400 non-unionized superivisors were operating the yard, which employs about 2,550 people. The union’s contract expired nine months ago. No contract talks have been held in two months.
More than 1,000 Latino Catholics gathered for their national “encounter” in Washington, D.C. The gathering, referred to by all involved as the third national Encuentro, will take up Latinos’ complaints about being given too little attention in a U.S. church in which they make up more than 25% of membership and are still growing as a percentage of the 52 million total. Authors of the working version of a document the gathering will approve this weekend request greatly expanded literacy programs and much greater efforts to train Latinos for leadership positions “in all aspects of life.”
States are turning to tourism as an important source of revenue and new jobs, and are spending increasing amounts of money to promote their attractions to the public. The United States Travel Data Center, an independent research organization, said state spending on travel development and promotion increased from $98.1 million in 1979 to more than $189 million last year.
Scientists found a crucial link in the evolutionary path that led to human beings among fragments of a primate jawbone found in Burma and estimated to be 40 million to 44 million years old. The scientists said the bones represent the most ancient species yet discovered from the higher primate group known as anthropoids, the family that gave rise to monkeys, apes and humans.
Hurricane Danny swept across the swampy Louisiana coast, unleashing winds of 85 miles an hour, tornadoes and torrential rain that forced the evacuation of up to 30,000 people. A Texas man was electrocuted while helping to move a boat in the storm, which originated Sunday in the Caribbean near Cuba, but no other deaths or injuries were reported. The National Weather Service downgraded the hurricane, designated Danny, to a tropical storm about 8 PM and lifted hurricane warnings along the coast. Gale warnings remained in effect east to Pensacola, Florida.
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Cal Ripken hit a three-run homer and drove in another run with a double to lead Baltimore to a 9–1 drubbing of the Rangers. Storm Davis (7–7) won his second straight decision, scattering six hits, striking out seven and walking three over seven innings. Sammy Stewart pitched the final two innings as Baltimore won its third game in a row. Ripken, who has 82 runs batted in and 80 runs scored, sparked a two-run first inning with a double off Chris Welsh (2–5). The double knocked in Lee Lacy, who also doubled. Ripken then scored on Eddie Murray’s single. Baltimore chased Welsh with a five-run second inning that featured Ripken’s 18th homer of the season. Three singles and Alan Wiggins’ run-scoring double preceeded Ripken’s smash off the Texas reliever Dickie Noles.
Andre Thornton hit a three-run homer to lead a four-run ninth inning tonight that gave the Cleveland Indians a 7–6 victory over the Detroit Tigers. The Indians, trailing by 6–3 going into the ninth, won against Willie Hernandez (7–7) for the second time in less than a week. Last Friday, Thornton’s homer off Hernandez, the ace left-hander of the Detroit bullpen, gave the Indians a 4–2 victory.
Gary Gaetti hits a 3-run homer and Kent Hrbek bangs his third grand slam in four weeks as the Twins sink the Mariners, 14–5. John Butcher (9–11) snapped a personal two-game losing streak, scattering 10 hits over eight innings. Matt Young (7–14) took the loss.
Robin Yount hits a 2-run homer and Cecil Cooper has a grand slam in Milwaukee’s 7–5 win over the White Sox. Cooper’s seventh-inning blast, his ninth home run of the season and fifth career grand slam, broke a tie and made a winner of Ted Higuera (10–6). Rollie Fingers earned his 15th save. Floyd Bannister (5–10) took the loss.
The Mets won a sloppy game over the Phillies, 10–7. The Mets began the day with Dwight Gooden on the mound and, by the end of the first inning, had three home runs and a 5–1 lead over the Phillies. It was going to be, by all early signs, just one more routinely amazing victory. As things progressed yesterday, however, the victory became anything but routine and all the more amazing. Gooden, after four straight complete-game victories, was barely a factor. The homers meant far less than Len Dykstra’s eighth-inning ground-rule double. And the fly ball Darryl Strawberry hit to left field, turned into a three-base error by Von Hayes, was the final knockout punch.
Ozzie Smith walked on four pitches with the bases loaded and two outs in the 12th inning today, giving the St Louis Cardinals a 4–3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates, a sweep of their doubleheader and a share of first place in the National League East. Darrell Porter rapped a two-run single, and Kurt Kepshire allowed five hits over eight innings as St. Louis won the opener, 3–1. The sweep moved the Cardinals, who have won eight of nine, into a first-place tie with the Mets, each with a 69–43 record. The losses were the eighth and ninth in a row for Pittsburgh. The Pirates, since a 6–3 triumph July 22 at Los Angeles, have lost 14 straight away from home.
Mike Scott pitched a six-hitter, and an error by the Giants’ shortstop, Jose Uribe, led to three unearned runs that helped Houston win, 4–1, over the host San Francisco Giants. Scott (12-6) walked three, struck out six and retired 13 straight batters at one point to give the Astros a 9–2 record against San Francisco this season. Houston has won 15 of its last 17 games with the Giants. The Astros opened the scoring in the second with the help of the loser, Dave LaPoint (5–11). Jerry Mumphrey walked with one out and took second on a single by Glenn Davis off the glove of Dan Driessen at first base. Mark Bailey walked, loading the bases, and Dickie Thon walked for a 1–0 lead. The Astros scored three unearned runs in the fourth. Davis led off and was safe on Uribe’s throwing error. He took second on Bailey’s single. Thon’s single to right scored Davis and sent Bailey to third, from where he scored on Scott’s double play grounder. Bill Doran then followed with his 12th home run of the season.
A pinch-hit single by Tony Perez with two out in the 10th inning drove in Ron Oester to break a tie to give Cincinnati a 5–4 victory in San Diego. The Reds, who lost a 4–0 lead in the ninth, rallied in the 10th when Oester led with an infield single. Tom Runnells moved Oester to second on a sacrifice, and he moved to third on a ground out. After the reliever Gene Walter (0–1) intentionally walked Pete Rose, Roy Lee Jackson came in to face Perez, who lined his game-winning hit to center field. John Franco (10–1) pitched one-third of an inning to earn the victory. Joe Price picked up his first save. Andy McGaffigan made his fifth start since being recalled from Denver of the American Association on July 24. He walked one and struck out eight before yielding to Ted Power with none out and two on in the ninth.
Vance Law hit a two-run homer for Montreal to help send Chicago to its 10th loss in 11 games, as the Expos triumphed, 7–3. Bill Gullickson (11–8) pitched six and two-thirds innings to win his first game since July 26. He got relief from Bert Roberge and Randy St. Clair. Steve Engel (0–2), still seeking his first major league victory, gave up eight hits and five runs in seven innings. It was his second start since being recalled from the minors.
Terry Whitfield’s pinch-hit, two-run homer off relief ace Bruce Sutter in the bottom of the eighth inning rallied the Dodgers to their seventh straight win, a 5–4 victory in Los Angeles over the Atlanta Braves. Fernando Valenzuela (14–8) got the win. Tom Niedenfuer pitched the ninth inning for his 12th save.
Texas Rangers 1, Baltimore Orioles 9
Montreal Expos 7, Chicago Cubs 3
Cleveland Indians 7, Detroit Tigers 6
Atlanta Braves 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
Chicago White Sox 5, Milwaukee Brewers 7
Seattle Mariners 5, Minnesota Twins 14
Philadelphia Phillies 7, New York Mets 10
Cincinnati Reds 5, San Diego Padres 4
Houston Astros 4, San Francisco Giants 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, St. Louis Cardinals 4
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Born:
Emily Kinney, American actress (“The Walking Dead”) and singer-songwriter (“This is War”), in Wayne, Nebraska.
Nipsey Hussle [Ermias Asghedom], American rapper and activist, in Los Angeles, California (d. 2019).
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Joe Carveth, 67, Canadian ice hockey right wing (NHL All Star 1950; Stanley Cup 1943, 50 Detroit Red Wings; Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens).
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