Robert C. McFarlane was bleak about the prospects for improving United States-Soviet relations. In a speech, Mr. McFarlane, who is President Reagan’s national security adviser, said that “even incremental improvements” in the relations would be hard to reach without changes in the Kremlin’s approach to such key issues as arms control, regional concerns and human rights. The speech, before local civic groups during the President’s vacation here, was made as the White House announced that Mr. Reagan would meet in Washington with the new Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, on September 27. The meeting, the first between the two, will be held in preparation for the Geneva meeting between Mr. Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, November 19 and 20.
Turkey charged that a U.N.commissioned report was “unfair and unjust” in describing the killing of Armenians during World War I as an act of genocide. Ercuement Yavuzalp, Turkish ambassador to U.N. agencies in Geneva, told a U.N. human rights panel that Turkish authorities acted legitimately to suppress an armed rebellion by Armenians who cooperated with Turkey’s enemies during the war. He conceded there were “brutalities and excesses” but said there was no premeditated attempt to wipe out the Armenian population. Turkish officials have said that 300,000 Armenians perished during the period. The U.N. report said one million died.
Egypt and Israel, whose relations have been strained since the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, will hold a series of consultations over the next three months, Israeli officials said. The contacts will begin Wednesday with meetings in Jerusalem of the two nations’ tourism ministers. Former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban is to visit Cairo next month, and the current foreign ministers are expected to confer in October at the U.N.. General Assembly session in New York.
Israel’s coalition Government was facing a new crisis today, this time because of a dispute between Labor and Likud ministers over who may live in a rotting three-room apartment on a narrow alleyway in the marketplace here. The immediate situation was set off by three Israeli Members of Parliament from the right-wing nationalist Tehiya Party, who used their parliamentary immunity to pass through an army blockade and occupy the apartment last Thursday — to establish the principle that Jews should be allowed to settle wherever they want in Arab-dominated Hebron, 20 miles south of Jerusalem. Two Likud Cabinet members, Ariel Sharon and Moshe Arens, have gone to the apartment to demonstrate their solidarity with the parliamentary squatters. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, of Labor, today told them all to get out — fast — before he is left with no choice but to order in the army to throw them out. The Israeli public is sitting on the sidelines waiting to see who blinks first.
Car bombs exploded at a mosque and outside a cafe in Beirut’s Muslim sector, killing at least 24 people and wounding over 100. In Caracol-el-Druze, West Beirut, a car bomb killed 22 civilians and injured 98. The same day, two other bombs in the southern suburbs of Beirut and on the crossing point between West and East Beirut killed two and injured six. The first explosion went off at 12:05 PM outside the Hamedeh sandwich bar in Carakol el-Druze, a Druze neighborhood. Ten minutes later, a car bomb detonated outside the Rawdat el-Shahidein mosque in Ghobeiri, a Shiite district. Residents said worshipers had left the mosque after midday prayers only 15 minutes before the blast. An anonymous telephone caller told a Western news agency that a Christian group had set off the bombs in revenge. “We have a car bomb war on our hands now,” the Muslim radio said.
The police said the first explosion set passing cars afire and sent shards of metal flying through the streets, cutting people down. The police said most of the casualties had been in the street and in a six-story apartment building above the row of shops. A twisted tricycle lay on the sidewalk. Witnesses said a girl and boy who had been playing on it were torn to pieces by the explosion. A 10-year-old girl clutched two charred white sandals. “My two sisters are dead,” she said.
The Pope arrived in Morocco and asked a crowd of 80,000 Muslims in Casablanca to join with Christians in accepting differences “with humility and respect and mutual tolerance.” Earlier, John Paul II told reporters aboard his airliner that he favored a review of the status of Jerusalem, the sacred city for Christians, Muslims and Jews that Israel regards as its capital.
India said today that it had succeeded in inducing Tamil leaders to renew peace talks with the Sri Lanka Government. An Indian spokesman said that six militant members of the Tamil delegation in the negotiations in Thimphu, Bhutan, were flying to Madras today for consultations on strategy and that talks would resume later this week. The Sri Lanka Tamils have been using the southern Indian Tamil city of Madras as their base.
A prominent government critic and former secretary general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was indicted by an Indonesian court today for subversion and involvement in a terrorist conspiracy. Jakarta-based diplomats said the charges against the former official, H. R. Dharsono, represented a significant step-up in a battle against the last remaining vocal opposition to the Government of President Suharto.
As many as 300 people were feared drowned in China when a ferry capsized — apparently because passengers rushed to one side of the vessel to watch a fist fight, officials said. Authorities in the northeastern city of Harbin said the 65-foot-long boat was ferrying passengers from a tourist island on the Songhua River when the disaster occurred about 250 yards from shore. About 110 bodies were recovered from the water and a search was continuing for at least 150 people reported missing.
Conversations of the crew of the Japan Air Lines jumbo jet that crashed last week give no indication that the pilot was ever aware that much of the plane’s vertical tail was missing. According to transcripts of tape recordings, the pilot reported that his hydraulic systems were “gone,” indicating that there was no power to move wing flaps, rudders and other devices that control an airliner’s direction.
At least 24 people were killed and 35 wounded in separate battles involving Communist guerrillas in the southern Philippines in the last two days, military spokesmen said today. Captain Antonio Ga said 14 were killed and 35 wounded when New People’s Army guerrillas raided two neighboring mountain villages in Zamboanga del Norte Province on Saturday.
The editor of an English-language newspaper that is critical of the government was shot and killed today near a slum district of Cebu City in the southern Philippines. The editor, Joselito Paloma, 41 years old, was the 11th journalist slain in the Philippines this year.
New Caledonia’s territorial assembly opposed a French government measure aimed at moving the Pacific island toward independence, saying the bill favors a Kanak (Melanesian) separatist minority. The assembly, dominated by an anti-independence Gaullist party, voted 25 to 1 against the bill to dissolve the local legislature and replace it with four regional assemblies. The vote, however, will have no binding effect on the drafting of the bill, which is being debated by the French Parliament this week.
A spokesman for Greenpeace said today that the environmental group would go ahead with its campaign against French nuclear tests in the Pacific despite orders by President Francois Mitterrand authorizing the use of force against its “peace flotilla.” “This makes no difference at all,” David McTaggart, chairman of the group, said of Mr. Mitterrand’s directive to the armed forces to keep intruders out of French territorial waters and air space around Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls. Defense officials said the directive was a public restatement of a permanent ban on unauthorized vessels penetrating a limit of 12 nautical miles round the atolls. Greenpeace said that during its past campaigns in the Pacific the French navy had violated international law by boarding its vessels outside the 12-mile limit but within a 60-mile “security zone” outside territorial waters that is considered a warning zone for shipping.
More than 3,000 Air Canada flight attendants went on strike today at the peak of summer travel, but the airline vowed to keep flying. “We’re ready and the flights will go out as scheduled,” said an airline spokesman, Esther Szynkarsky, after the strike by 3,211 members of the Canadian Air Line Flight Attendants’ Association began at midnight. The airline trained 1,800 management personnel and university students as substitutes. It rejected union assertions that the crews’ inexperience might jeopardize flight safety.
American and Cuban officials agree on one thing these days: that relations between the United States and Cuba have reached one of the lowest points in years. A modest improvement in the long-chilly relationship — marked by the signing of an immigration agreement in December and indications that some Cuban troops might be withdrawn from Angola — has been stalled, and the officials say there appears to be no hope for improvement in the near future. The warming in the relationship, which United States officials had publicly denied, came to an abrupt halt in late May when the United States inaugurated a broadcast service to Cuba called Radio Marti. Officials in Washington said the station would provide Cubans with news about their Government that was being withheld by their leaders. Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader, denounced Radio Marti as a cynical and provocative attempt at subversion and suspended a five-month-old immigration agreement with the United States, which had been the first major accord between the two countries in seven years.
Burundi’s military government has arrested the country’s senior Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop Joachim Ruhuna of Gitega, and other priests in his diocese for defying restrictions on daylight worship services, diplomatic sources said. A government official said the reason for restrictions on daytime worship is to reduce the number of hours people spend in church rather than working.
Nine South African churchmen met with President P.W. Botha to seek major changes in the government’s racial policies. Later, they said they had won no promises or concessions. The South Africans who met with Mr. Botha were representatives of the Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian, Congregational and Methodist churches. The delegation was made up of four whites, four blacks and one churchman of mixed racial descent. Jerry Falwell, the evangelical lobbyist, also met with Mr. Botha and expressed firm support for the government’s policies.
Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell said today millions of Americans disagreed with criticism of South Africa and vowed a publicity campaign to support the white minority government. A delegation of South African churchmen said Falwell ‘hasn’t the slightest notion’ of reality in South Africa and has not tried to find out.
The U.S. criticized Bishop Desmond M. Tutu for boycotting the meeting in Pretoria between the nine South African churchmen and President P. W. Botha. A White House statement said that “a refusal of any party to meet and negotiate only worsens the prospects for understanding in South Africa.” In using this language, the statement did not name Bishop Tutu. But the statement began by referring to the Anglican Bishop, and Administration officials said later that it had been prompted by his failure to attend the session today.
Paul Laxalt will not seek re-election next year, he announced. His decision, which came despite two days of efforts by Republicans to dissuade him, was a blow to the party’s hopes of maintaining or expanding its 53-to-47 majority in the Senate. Mr. Laxalt said he made his decision for personal reasons, but did not describe them in detail. He had been “forcibly reminded of the obligations owed to the President and party,” he said at a news conference here. But, he said, “Rightly or wrongly, I believe I have paid my dues.” The Senator from Nevada, who has been a key supporter of President Reagan in the Senate for five years, said he would continue to live in Washington through the Reagan Administration and would be available to do anything sought by the Reagans.
President Reagan spends the day at the Ranch.
A top arms-buying official resigned in the face of charges she had violated Pentagon ethical standards by soliciting 29 major military contractors for a planned consulting business when she left office, the Pentagon said. The Pentagon inspector general, Joseph H. Sherick, in a report made public today, said the woman, Mary Ann Gilleece, violated the ethics code while serving as the Defense Department’s second-ranking official on weapons-buying policy. He said she did so by writing to 29 major military contractors offering to serve as their paid adviser and lobbyist on procurement matters when she left office. “The actions taken by Ms. Gilleece, and the ensuing publicity, have so compromised her ability to perform her rule-making and policy-setting role that she can no longer effectively serve the Department in such a position,” the report said. “We recommend that Ms. Gilleece be removed from acquisition-related responsibilities.”
The Veterans Administration said some of its employees accepted gifts, speaking fees and other favors from a pharmaceutical company doing business with the agency. Spokeswoman Donna St. John said the VA inspector general’s office had determined that favors were accepted by 75 to 100 employees from Smith Kline & French Laboratories of Philadelphia. A Smith Kline spokesman said the firm had been cooperating with the VA investigation for more than a year. St. John said each case is being reviewed individually and that the VA intends to impose penalties varying from dismissal to suspension and formal admonishment. In minor cases, she said, the only action may be counseling for the employee.
A judge dismissed a lawsuit that would have forced the federal government to renovate a crumbling shelter for the homeless in Washington, D.C., but ordered federal officials to find new homes for the facility’s residents. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Richey said the government has pledged $2.7 million to find homes and health care for the shelter’s residents. Mitch Snyder, leader of the Community for Creative Nonviolence, brought the suit after the Administration said it would close the building rather than agree to Snyder’s demands for a new shelter.
Four men held hostage in Lebanon after a TWA jet was hijacked in June filed lawsuits against the airline in Boston and Chicago, contending the carrier failed to provide adequate security. The Chicago suit, filed by Peter Hill, seeks more than $1 million in damages. In Boston, Stuart R. Darsch, Jack McCarty and Victor Amburgy sought unspecified damages in their federal suit. TWA reportedly is offering $15,000 to the hostages released early and $35,000 to the 39 American men released June 30, after 17 days of captivity in Beirut.
The death of an Atlanta man in police custody a week ago has generated increasingly angry protests. He was the fourth black man since June to die in confrontations with Atlanta police officers. Residents of a public housing project have said that in the lastest case Eddie Kirkland, 41 years old, was beaten after he was handcuffed for arrest. Mr. Kirkland died 16 hours after he was arrested and injured in a struggle with the police. The protests have been led by the Rev. Hosea Williams, a veteran of the civil rights movement. In addition, Bill Campbell, a member of the Atlanta City Council, has asked Mayor Andrew Young to order an investigation into the four deaths.
A county prosecutor today defended her decision to dismiss charges of sexually abusing children against 21 adults in the little Minnesota town of Jordan. But in testifying tearfully on the last day of a hearing that could determine whether she is removed from office, the Scott County Attorney, R. Kathleen Morris, gave a strong indictment of a criminal justice system that she said was ill-equipped to handle sensitive cases involving young children as victims. At issue in the hearing, which began August 1, is whether Governor Rudy G. Perpich should remove Miss Morris from office for mishandling the cases. The special three-member commission, appointed by the Governor in March, must determine if Miss Morris is guilty of “malfeasance or nonfeasance in the performance of her duties.”
James R. Thompson will seek a fourth term as Governor of Illinois next year. The announcement, made in Springfield and in flying stops in half a dozen cities around the state, set the scene for another of Illinois’ rock ’em-sock ’em, marathon political brawls, this one leading up to the election 15 months away. Another victory by Mr. Thompson would keep the moderate Republican on the national political stage into the post-Reagan years. A loss would make Mr. Thompson, a former Federal prosecutor, available for a prominent Federal job with the Administration he has so loyally backed. Mr. Thompson was state chairman of President Reagan’s re-election drive last year.
The authorities investigated the third chemical leak in a week in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia today after a tanker truck spewed a nauseating irritant that sickened residents and forced the evacuation of 30 homes here, 10 miles west of Charleston. The incident Sunday night came only hours after 400 people gathered at nearby Institute to protest two chemical leaks last week from Union Carbide plants in the area. The tanker was leaking sulfur trioxide, which is used in making detergents and agricultural products, from a loose bolt while hauling the chemical from a Du Pont plant in Wurtland, Kentucky, to another in Belle, east of Charleston. Sheriff Danny Jones said 10 people complaining of burning eyes were taken to hospitals while others went to makeshift treatment centers with symptoms of nausea. Bob Porter, a Du Pont spokesman, called sulfur trioxide “an irritant, a very significant irritant.” He said the company planned to conduct a thorough investigation.
A group of 83 inmates barricaded themselves inside two dormitories during a search for weapons at New Mexico’s state penitentiary, south of Santa Fe. Control of both sections was recovered after about an hour, when prison officials fired tear gas into one of them. The rebellion came less than 24 hours after inmates at the maximum-security institution seized a guard at knifepoint, beat him and held him hostage for two hours. The hostage incident Sunday night ended with the inmates issuing to the warden a list of complaints about conditions at the prison.
A judge today denied a new trial for Gary Dotson, who was convicted of a 1977 rape that his accuser now says never occurred. Judge Richard J. Fitzgerald of Cook County Circuit Court returned his decision after a two-and-a-half-hour hearing in which a prosecutor said the criminal justice system had “turned somersaults for Gary Dotson.” Judge Fitzgerald said he based his decision on an examination of the original trial records and hearings before Circuit Judge Richard Samuels in which Mr. Dotson was denied an acquittal this year.
Hoping to bridge a 25-year gap between a black man’s death in jail and the murder trial of two white former law officers, a prosecutor today showed jurors a scale model of the jail building as it appeared in 1960. Prosecution and defense lawyers have agreed that faded memories will complicate the trial of Marvin Iberg, 50 years old, and O. H. Mullenax, 48, former Conway police officers who are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Marvin Williams on May 6, 1960. A coroner’s jury in 1960 ruled out foul play after the officers said Mr. Williams had struck his head on some steps while being taken to jail. The case was closed until a former inmate wrote to officials last year saying he saw a black man being beaten by two men the night Mr. Williams was arrested.
A Chicago judge ordered a greeting card company to stop selling a card that had the photograph of a Roman Catholic nun on the outside and what the nun said was a “vile and suggestive” remark inside. The company, California Dreamers, did not contest the ruling in the suit brought by Sister Candida Lund. The card showed her seated in a chair with the words, “It’s all right if you kiss me,” imprinted above her. The inside of the card said, “So long as you don’t get in the habit.” Sister Candida, chancellor of Rosary College in suburban River Forest, said the company demeaned her and embarrassed her and the college.
It is safer to drive large American automobiles than small Japanese models because bigger cars afford more protection against injuries and sustain less damage, according to a study by the Highway Loss Data Institute. The study, based on model years 1982 to 1984, said models with the worst injury and vehicle damage losses are the Nissan Pulsar, Mitsubishi Cordia and Plymouth Colt two-door, which is made by Mitsubishi. It said that models with the best results in both categories are the Oldsmobile 88, Buick LeSabre, Mercury Grand Marquis and Chevrolet Caprice, all four-door autos.
A lawmaker is on a six-day flight to Brazil on a C-9 transport that the Air Force says consumes $2,310 in fuel each hour. When members of the House take trips at taxpayer expense, it usually takes at least four of them to qualify for a Pentagon plane. But the Air Force said that Representative Bill Alexander, Democrat of Arkansas, was the only Congressman aboard the plane, which carries up to 42 passengers, for the 11-hour flight to Rio de Janeiro.
The Soviet Union claimed a first for its space program — the birth, on Earth, of healthy baby rats whose mothers spent a week in space while pregnant. The official news agency Tass announced the birth in a review of the “Noah’s Ark” flight last month that carried two monkeys, 10 rats, 10 tritons (a type of marine mollusk), 1,500 flies and a number of fish. Tass said the rats that went into space later bore “healthy, strong offspring, although a large part of the gestation time was spent in the unusual state of weightlessness.”
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Cocaine use among baseball players has been so pervasive in recent years that the drug’s debilitating effects have tarnished individual performances, shortened careers and influenced the outcome of games and pennant races, according to club officials and players. Executives and managers also acknowledge that cocaine has become a major factor in trade talks and has made managers suspicious when they see players make mistakes on the field.
The Baltimore Orioles topped the Texas Rangers, 9–2. Lee Lacy’s surprise steal of third base keyed the Orioles’ six-run fifth inning at Baltimore. A wild throw by Ranger catcher Geno Petralli on the steal enabled Lacy to score the tying run, and Eddie Murray followed with an RBI single to put the Orioles ahead. The Rangers have lost six in a row and 15 of their last 18 games. Ken Dixon (6–3) won the Battle of the Mason-Dixon Line as he allowed six hits and struck out a career-high eight batters. Mike Mason (5–12) took the loss.
Ken Griffey, the veteran outfielder, made a jumping catch of a ball that was headed into the second row of the lower stands yesterday. Griffey took what would have been a home run from Marty Barrett of the Boston Red Sox and turned it into the second out of the ninth inning. That helped preserve the 6–5 triumph, and it meant more. The Yankees won their fifth consecutive game, their 12th in 13 games, and climbed a game up on the Toronto Blue Jays, who lost last night. The Yankees also beat their old rivals for the eighth consecutive time this season as they swept the four-game series with the help of fielding gems and a series of umpires’ calls that seemed to take the heart out of the Red Sox.
Tom Waddell allowed seven hits in his first career complete game and Tony Bernazard hit a homer as Cleveland defeated Toronto, 5–3. Waddell (6-5), making his third start after 98 relief appearances, walked one and struck out four and was aided by two double plays. Cleveland scored a run in the second and Bernazard hit a bases-empty homer in the third to make it 2–0. The Blue Jays scored in the seventh when George Bell knocked in a run with a single. Cleveland, however, chased Dave Stieb (11–9) with two runs in the bottom of the inning.
Dave Leeper hit a grounder to the shortstop Alan Trammell and the pinch-runner Onix Concepcion slid home from third with one out in the 10th inning to give Kansas City a 2–1 win over the visiting Tigers. Detroit’s Jack Morris (13-7) matched Bret Saberhagen (15–5) each allowed four hits.
The Brewers downed the Twins, 4–1. Milwaukee’s Danny Darwin pitched a one-hitter, allowing only Roy Smalley’s leadoff home run in the fifth inning off the right-field foul pole, and broke a personal 10-game losing streak.
The California Angels beat the Oakland A’s, 5–4, tonight, their third win of the four-game series, to drop the A’s six back in the West. The win also preserved the Angels’ 2 ½-game lead over the Kansas City Royals. The Angels slowed Don Sutton’s drive toward 300 wins. A crowd of 25,154 saw Reggie Jackson hammer a two-run homer in the first inning, then single to ignite a three-run fourth.
The Mets move into 1st place in the National League East with a 1–0 win over the Expos. Ron Darling grew a little older, pitched both in pain and out of trouble, and broke a three-game losing streak. Danny Heep came off the bench with a pinch-hit double. And Wally Backman supplied the winning hit, an eighth-inning double. The victory, which gave the Mets a 2–2 record on their four-game road trip, lifted them into first place in the National League East, half a game ahead of the idle St. Louis Cardinals.
Texas Rangers 2, Baltimore Orioles 9
Oakland Athletics 4, California Angels 5
Toronto Blue Jays 3, Cleveland Indians 5
Detroit Tigers 1, Kansas City Royals 2
Minnesota Twins 1, Milwaukee Brewers 4
New York Mets 1, Montreal Expos 0
Boston Red Sox 5, New York Yankees 6
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Born:
Josh Fields, MLB pitcher (Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers), in Athens, Georgia.
Phillip Merling, NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins, Green Bay Packers, Washington Redskins), in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Martin Lojek, Czech NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers), in Brno, Czechoslovakia.
Megan Rochell, American R&B singer, born in Brooklyn, New York, New York.
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