An anti-satellite weapon will be tested against an object in space by the United States for the first time despite Soviet objections, the White House announced. The White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, said the system was needed as a deterrent because the Soviet Union already has the world’s only operational anti-satellite system. Mr. Speakes also said there was a growing threat from existing and planned Soviet satellites. “We have to test, and we have to test now,” Mr. Speakes said. “They have one, and they don’t want us to have one.” In an interview, President Reagan’s national security adviser, Robert C. McFarlane, said the test was needed to maintain the military balance between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz will confer with Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze of the Soviet Union at the United Nations on September 25 and in Washington on September 27, the State Department said today. Mr. Shultz, who met Mr. Shevardnadze for the first time in Helsinki earlier this month, will continue his custom of meeting with the Soviet Foreign Minister in conjunction with the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in September. The meeting in Washington will come the same day that Mr. Shevardnadze is to meet with President Reagan. The sessions are intended to help pave the way for the Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting.
The Pentagon said today that it had formed a nine-member panel, headed by John M. Deutch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to review the Midgetman nuclear missile program. Mr. Deutch was on the commission that originally recommended in 1983 to build the small, mobile missile. The Defense Department’s statement on the study group confirmed reports last week from Pentagon officials who had asked that they not be named. Last month the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said the Midgetman might be too small to strike some military targets in the Soviet Union and that there were other technical problems.
The British author of a U.N. report on genocide defended the document against critics who want to delete a reference to Turkish massacres of Armenians during World War I. Human rights expert Ben Whitaker told a U.N. subcommission on human rights meeting in Geneva, “We are all anxious to close this chapter, but it must be closed with honor…” A Turkish representative told the subcommission earlier that there were wartime “excesses” against the Armenians, but he denied that this constituted genocide.
A Polish Army colonel has been arrested in connection with the detention in April of Slawomir Bielecki, head of one of Poland’s main underground publishing houses, the government said today. The colonel, Adam Rajski, has been charged with meeting a representative of a foreign organization acting against the interests of Poland, Jerzy Urban, the government spokesman, said at a news conference. A second colonel, who retired in 1968, and two reserve colonels, who left the army in the 1970’s and were later stripped of their ranks, have also been arrested. Mr. Urban said. He declined to identify them.
A car bomb exploded near a police station in the Northern Ireland seaside resort of Newcastle, injuring three people including a child, police said. A spokesman added that none of them were seriously injured. He said several houses were damaged, with minor damage to the police station. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but it is believed to be the work of the outlawed Irish Republican Army.
The Israeli Army today evicted a group of members of Parliament from an apartment in Hebron that they had occupied since Thursday. The legislators said they were there to establish the right of Jews to settle wherever they wanted in the West Bank. Shortly before dawn, a team of soldiers arrived at the three-room apartment in the heart of the Hebron covered market, called the casbah. The soldiers told the seven legislators that the area had been declared “a closed military zone” and that their parliamentary immunity did not apply there, an Israeli Defense Ministry spokesman said.
Three gunmen killed an Israeli envoy and wounded two embassy employees in a Cairo suburb by spraying their car with machine-gun fire. A heretofore unknown group, calling itself “Egypt’s Revolution,” claimed responsibility and vowed to force all Israelis out of Egypt. “Our valiant armed men,” the statement said, “in defense of our freedom and dignity, launched an attack against members of the Israeli intelligence in Cairo.”
A new car bomb exploded in Lebanon, reportedly killing 44 people and wounding 90 in the northern port of Tripoli. In Beirut, 40 people were reported killed and 143 wounded in 24 hours of fighting between Christian and Muslim militias. Most died in artillery and rocket barrages. The police said that the bombers in Tripoli apparently first drew people into an ambush by tossing a small stick of dynamite from a speeding car into Saddun Square. As people rushed to the scene, the car bomb exploded. An anonymous caller who said he spoke on behalf of the Revolutionary Christians of the Cedars, a hitherto unknown group, telephoned a Western news agency in Beirut to say that the group had planted the bomb. The caller said, “We want to assure the whole world that no Muslim fundamentalists will continue to live on Lebanese soil.”
Tunisia expelled 253 Libyans, including diplomats, for spying, the government news agency reported. The move appeared to be in retaliation for Libya’s recent ouster of about 20,000 Tunisian migrant workers, reportedly for economic reasons. Tunisia charged that the Libyans were trying to set up networks to incite terrorism and sabotage, while under the cover of employment with diplomatic offices, a cultural center, the national airline and a Libyan school.
Israel ships 96 TOW missiles to Iran on behalf of the United States.
Soviet troops have launched what appears to be a major offensive against Afghan rebels in the southeastern part of Afghanistan, and heavy fighting has already taken place, Western diplomats and guerrilla sources said. Rebel leaders in Islamabad, Pakistan, said the Soviets are striving to end their control of a road from Gardez, capital of Pakhtia province, to Khost, where an Afghan government garrison has been under rebel siege for most of the year.
Sikh assailants fatally shot a leading Sikh political figure in the Punjab. The slaying of Harchand Singh Longowal, the 57-year-old president of the mainstream Sikh political party, the Akali Dal, came less than a month after Mr. Longowal signed an accord with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to end a three-year separatist crisis in the Punjab in which thousands were killed. Only hours earlier, a Hindu politician of the governing Congress Party was slain in the Punjab city of Jullundur. Two other Congress members were wounded in the attack, which authorities said had been carried out by Sikhs. Two young Sikh men who reportedly shot Mr. Longowal were captured and identified as Malvinder Singh and Gian Singh from Ludhiana District. One of them was reported to have been wounded when guards fired at them. No group took responsibility for the slaying.
The slaying of Mr. Longowal appeared to upset Prime Minister Gandhi’s hopes for a swift political solution in Punjab, where most of India’s 13 million Sikhs live. The Sikhs, followers of a monotheistic creed that combines elements of Hinduism and Islam, have been demanding greater autonomy for their state. The agreement between Mr. Gandhi and the Sikhs, signed July 24, settled some issues while referring others to judicial review. A reporter for the Press Trust of India who witnessed the slaying of Mr. Longowal said two young Sikhs had fired pistols as Mr. Longowal ended a speech. He was said to have been shot as he bowed to greet the congregation at a Sikh temple in the village of Sherpur, near Sangrur. An aide was reported killed and three others wounded in the shooting. The incident drew nationwide condemnation and angry reactions from opposition politicians who said the government bore indirect responsibility by scheduling the Punjab elections for next month. The announcement about elections, made last week, gave extremists a fresh chance to disrupt the state, the opposition said.
The French National Assembly passed an election law for the troubled South Pacific territory of New Caledonia, giving native Melanesians a majority in a new territorial assembly even though they are a minority of the population. The powerful lower house overrode a vote by the conservative-controlled French Senate, which had favored domination of the territorial legislature by European, Asian and Polynesian settlers. New Caledonia, an archipelago northeast of Australia, has been torn by strife between the Melanesiansknown as Kanaks-who want independence, and the settlers, who wish to maintain ties with France.
Grenadian Chief Justice Archibald Nedd adjourned the trial of 19 leftists accused of the 1983 murder of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop to hear a defense motion seeking free access to the defendants. In a brief hearing at a special court at Richmond Hill prison, Nedd said he hopes to start the trial-already delayed for nine months-on Sept. 2. The motion seeks a stay of trial proceedings to give defense lawyers enough time to consult with their clients, a right they say has been denied to date.
A suspected Nazi war criminal who emigrated to Costa Rica after his U.S. citizenship was revoked three years ago has surrendered to authorities in the Central American nation, officials there said. Bohdan Kozly, 62, who had lived in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., since the end of World War II, allegedly was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians, many of them Jews, in the Ukraine. There were no U.S. proceedings against him, but the Soviet Union has asked for his deportation to face trial there.
The new Peruvian Government has dismissed 41 of the nation’s most senior police officials in a widening investigation of links between law enforcement authorities and the cocaine trade. Interior Minister Abel Salinas, announcing the dismissals Monday night, said some of those dismissed could face criminal charges. President Alan Garcia Perez said at his July 28 inauguration that he would end police and Government corruption. Peru is said to produce about half the raw material for the world’s cocaine. Among the senior police officials dismissed was the Civil Guard commander, Juan Valdivia Fuentes. Twenty-one of the guard’s 53 generals were ordered into early retirement.
The main Ugandan rebel group rejected peace overtures from the new military Government today and threatened to fight on unless talks start soon. The National Resistance Army, which is led by Yoweri Museveni, issued a statement in the Kenyan capital saying, “If the military junta in Kampala does not immediately settle down to serious negotiations and instead goes on with gimmickry and treachery, it will be the duty of the N.R.A. to launch a final offensive.” The rebels said they and Ugandan Army elements would “launch a final offensive to clean Uganda once and for all of criminals, thieves, corrupt elements and opportunists.” They said the Government formed by Lieutenant General Tito Okello after a coup last month was made up of the same “clique” that had backed two deposed leaders, Milton Obote and Idi Amin. The statement was issued after the new Ugandan Foreign Minister, Olara Otunnu, said he had spoken with Mr. Museveni and expressed optimism about the talks.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell called Bishop Desmond M. Tutu a phony today and began a campaign to block imposition of economic sanctions against South Africa. The step came amid growing evidence that American conservatives were deeply divided on the issue. Mr. Falwell, just back from a five-and-a-half-day visit to South Africa, denounced the Anglican Bishop who is South Africa’s most prominent clergyman, saying, “If Bishop Tutu maintains that he speaks for the black people of South Africa, he’s a phony.” Bishop Tutu, a leading critic of the Pretoria Government’s racial policies who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, has offered theological as well as social arguments against apartheid.
Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, the Anglican leader, said tonight that he could not “take seriously” criticism by the Reagan Administration over his refusal to attend a meeting Monday between church leaders and President P. W. Botha. “I’m certainly not impressed with their performance,” Bishop Tutu said of the Administration. “Their assessment of the South African situation is one that has always left me aghast.” Bishop Tutu, the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, said he was willing to meet privately with Mr. Botha if the President retracted demands for black leaders to renounce civil disobedience as a means of protest.
A decision by one Senator not to seek re-election has prompted both parties to reassess their prospects in next year’s Senate elections. The decision by Senator Paul Laxalt, Republican of Nevada, to retire next year has also seriously shaken Republican hopes of maintaining a majority in the chamber. Even before the Laxalt announcement Monday, top Republican strategists and White House political advisers had said they felt that the party had only an even chance of holding the slender Senate majority that was wrested from the Democrats in 1980 and has been a key to President Reagan’s legislative successes thus far. Mr. Laxalt’s decision not only deprived Republicans of a Senate seat they had counted as safe but also underscored just how fragile the 53-to-47 Republican majority really is.
President Reagan travels to Los Angeles, California from the Reagan Ranch.
President Reagan has dinner with his family.
Twenty-two residents of West Virginia’s “Chemical Valley” filed a $24.2-million suit in Charleston against Union Carbide, charging the company with negligence in the pesticide leak at its Institute plant August 11 that sickened 134 persons. Each of the plaintiffs who filed the suit in Kanawha Circuit Court is seeking $100,000 in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages. The suit said company officials “should have known that their failure to properly control, contain and store chemicals and gases… would result in damage to persons and property.”
An abortion clinic in Philadelphia where medical equipment was damaged during protests filed suit against 13 anti-abortion activists under federal racketeering laws, charging that the defendants conspired to close the facility. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court by the Northeast Women’s Center against members of the Pro-Life Non-Violent Action Project, seeks an injunction to stop attacks and $300,000 in damages for destruction of property and harassment of clients in the August 10 incident.
The Justice Department has told a Federal judge it would agree to release from jail the uncle of Jackie L. Presser, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, rather than risk exposure of sensitive information, a department official said today. The Justice Department on July 25 dropped a four-year investigation of Mr. Presser in connection with a purported phantom payroll scheme in Teamsters Local 507 in Cleveland, despite recommendations by Federal prosecutors that he be indicted. The department has given no reason for dropping the case, but Justice Department officials who have asked for anonymity have said that they decided not to prosecute after learning that the FBI had approved some actions on which Mr. Presser might have faced charges. They have also said privately that Mr. Presser was an FBI informer on organized crime.
The Governors of seven Middle Western states have spent the last three days on this tiny island between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, giving an upbeat answer to the question of whether the Middle West is pulling out of its decline. Little of what the governors have heard was new, as Governor Robert Kerrey of Nebraska acknowledged today after the group had passed a resolution calling for a reduction in the Federal deficit. But they said it was important to share information on strategies for attracting factories to the region, making life easier for farmers pressed by debts and developing high-technology answers to the problems of basic manufacturing. The theme of the gathering was “The Midwest on the Move,” but the governors made it clear the theme did not mean that the region’s residents and wealth were moving to the South or the West.
Mayor Roger Hedgecock won office in San Diego in 1983 because of a tacit secret agreement to finance his campaign with hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal contributions from a jailed financier, J. David Dominelli, and his former companion, Nancy Hoover, a prosecutor charged in an opening retrial statement.
Three former Chicago police officers who cooperated in the federal government’s Operation Greylord investigation of corruption in the Cook County court system were sentenced to terms of 15 to 30 months for filing false income tax returns. The three, Lawrence McLain, Arthur McCauslin and James LeFevour, helped convict LeFevour’s cousin, Judge Richard LeFevour, of accepting bribes. Richard LeFevour is to be sentenced August 27.
The Philadelphia police had planned as early as a year ago to use explosives in evicting Move members from their fortified house in west Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Daily News reported today. The plan called for officers to crawl onto the roof, detonate an explosive charge and pump tear gas into the house, The Daily News said, citing police sources. In the May assault, 11 people were killed and 61 houses destroyed in a fire that started after police dropped a satchel bomb on the house. In another report, The Daily News said some notes taken by a city detective quoted a police sergeant as saying he “downed” a member of the radical group in an alley behind the Move house. Spokesmen for Mayor W. Wilson Goode and the city police declined to comment on the news reports, citing a special city investigation into the police efforts.
Two men and a boy are being held on charges of first-degree murder after two bodies and a cache of weapons, ammunition and explosives were found on a farm in Rulo, Nebraska, the authorities said. The dead persons were identified as James Thimm, 26 years old, of Beatrice, who was killed in April, and Luke Stice, 5, of the Falls City area, who was killed in March, the authorities said.
New Yorkers hoping to win the largest lottery bonanza in North American history bought tickets at the rate of 18,900 a minute and pushed the jackpot to $41 million. Lottery Director John Quinn said sales “have been unbelievable,” with long lines of bettors stretching out of stores. He said the odds of winning the top prize were 1 in 6 million. If more than one person matches the six winning numbers selected in tonight’s drawing, the prize will be divided.
The head of a Baptist school testified in federal court in Des Moines that its teachers must break Iowa state laws if those laws violate the will of God. The Rev. David Jaspers was the first witness in a court suit over Iowa’s power to require certification of teachers in private church schools. Jaspers’ school in Marshalltown and a Keokuk Baptist church are seeking a judgment to stop the state from enforcing the certification law.
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the Korean evangelist who heads the Unification Church, was released today from a Brooklyn halfway house after serving 13 months of an 18-month sentence for tax evasion. Mr. Moon, 65 years old, was convicted in May 1982 of failing to report $162,000 in income on his Federal tax returns. He appealed to the Supreme Court, but it refused to hear his case, and he began serving his sentence on July 20, 1984.
The number of people who died in home fires dropped 14 percent in 1984, largely because of far fewer deaths in arsons, according to a report issued today. The survey of 3,000 fire departments found that the number of deaths caused by home fires dropped to 4,075 in 1984 from 4,670 in 1983. The drop was the biggest since the nonprofit National Fire Prevention Association began keeping figures in 1978. An official for the association said the presence of smoke detectors in three-fourths of houses nationwide could be a factor in the decrease.
General Foods Corp. recalled two more soft cheese products, its Cheese Lifestyle brand Brie and Camembert, although contamination was confirmed only in the Camembert. The action was taken one week after the firm had recalled its Liederkranz cheese because of contamination with the same bacteria linked to soft Mexican cheese that killed 84 persons in Southern California. The Camembert and Brie were made at the same plant in Ohio and are distributed mainly east of the Rockies.
American Home Foods said it is recalling 39-ounce cans of Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti and meat balls in 37 states because they might contain “a metallic material.” The company, in a news release yesterday in New York, did not specify what the material was, and a company spokesman could not be reached for comment.
The newspaper war between The Detroit News and The Detroit Free Press, combatants for over a hundred years in a bruising struggle for dominance here, may be entering a new and final phase. Both The News, a conservative, family-owned paper, and The Free Press, which has a more liberal editorial page and is the largest daily in the chain of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, lost money last year. Industry analysts estimated the losses ranged from $6 million to $10 million each. Despite that, Knight-Ridder executives say they are committed to the continued operation of The Free Press. But the Evening News Association, the family-owned parent company of The News, is under increasing pressure to sell.
Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle.
Major League Baseball:
Players from nearly all 26 teams in major league baseball have been implicated in criminal investigations of cocaine use across the country. Nowhere has the result of the extensive mix of baseball and cocaine been as dramatic as in Kansas City, where four key members of the Royals were sentenced to prison after the 1983 season. Each served 81 days.
After two somewhat prosaic starts that raised a few eyebrows, Dwight Gooden came blazing back in full command last night in Shea Stadium. In an overpowering performance spiced with 16 strikeouts, the most in the big leagues this year, he pitched the Mets to a 3–0 victory over the San Francisco Giants, and ran his winning streak to 13 games and his season’s record to 19 and 3, and raising his season strikeout total to 208. Gooden (19–3) joins Herb Score as the only pitchers this century to strike out 200 batters in each of their first 2 seasons.
The Mets signed veteran Larry Bowa, who was released by the Cubs a week ago. One of his first moves is to tell Dwight Gooden that he tipped off his pitches when he faced the Cubs. “Every time you throw a fastball you lift your finger off your glove, and every time you throw a curve you keep your index finger on your glove.” (as noted in Sports Illustrated, August 2015). Still, the 20-year-old phenom was 5–0 in five starts against the Cubs, throwing a complete game each time.
Mark Bailey has 3 hits, including a grand slam, and scores 4 runs as Houston rolls to a 17–2 win over the Cardinals. Dickie Thon has a triple and homer to drive in 4 runs to help Mike Scott win his 13th. Glenn Davis and Terry Puhl also each deliver three of those hits. After the game, fans watch a screening of “Jaws,” on the Diamondvision scoreboard.
Mariano Duncan’s 11th-inning run-scoring triple for Los Angeles snapped a two-game losing streak for the National League West leaders, as the Dodgers edged the Phillies, 5–4. Steve Sax singled off the loser, Kent Tekulve (4–9). After the pinch hitter Bill Russell popped up for the second out, Duncan hit a line drive that bounced off the knees of the left fielder Greg Gross and carried into center to score Sax with the winning run.
The Cubs dumped the Braves, 5–2. Ryne Sandberg hit a two-run homer in a three-run eighth inning for Chicago. The Cubs trailed, 2–1, when the pinch-hitter Thad Bosley led off the eighth with a single against the reliever Bruce Sutter (7–6). Bosley took third on a double by Bob Dernier and scored on a sacrifice fly by Gary Matthews. Sandberg followed with his 18th home run of the season.
The Padres blanked the Expos, 1–0. Dave Dravecky (11–7) scattered eight hits over seven innings and Kevin McReynolds doubled home Terry Kennedy with the only run of the game.
Jason Thompson hit a tie-breaking home run and Rick Reuschel won for the first time in more than a month as Pittsburgh beat Cincinnati, 3–2. Mario Soto (10–14) took the loss for the Reds, who fell to nine games behind the Dodgers in the National League West.
The Yankees lacked pitching tonight, but there was no shortage of power. They ripped five home runs — two by Don Mattingly, who pushed his runs batted in total to 100 — and endured several harrowing moments before finally subduing the California Angels, 8–5, at Anaheim Stadium. The victory was the Yankees’ sixth in a row and their 13th in 14 games, keeping them four games behind first-place Toronto in the American League East. The evening should have been a routine exercise, but a 7–0 lead after four innings withered as Ed Whitson, the Yankee starter, weakened in the fifth and was removed after his right forearm tightened. The victory went to Rich Bordi (4–4), who relieved Bob Shirley in the sixth. Dave Righetti came into the game with two out and two men on base in the ninth and struck out Reggie Jackson for his 23rd save.
The Blue Jays bested the Indians, 3–2. Tony Fernandez scored one run and drove in two more, including the tiebreaker in the seventh inning, for Toronto. Toronto snapped a 2–2 tie with one out in the seventh when Jesse Barfield tripled to center and scored on Fernandez’s second single of the night against Roy Smith (1–1). The Blue Jays tied the score at 2–2 in the fourth. With two out, Barfield walked, stole second and continued to third when the catcher Chris Bando’s throw sailed into center field. Fernandez drove him in with an infield single, then stole second and scored on Damaso Garcia’s single.
Charlie Hough tossed a five-hitter and Toby Harrah hit a bases-empty home run for Texas as the Rangers topped the Red Sox, 3–1. The victory snapped a six-game losing streak for the Rangers. It was Boston’s fifth consecutive loss and its 10th in the last 11 games.
Rick Manning singled home the winning run to cap a three-run ninth inning rally for Milwaukee as the Brewers beat the Twins, 3–2. Robin Yount led off the ninth with a single. Steve Howe (1–2) came in and allowed a single to Cecil Cooper. Ben Oglivie then hit a grounder to the shortstop Alvero Espinoza, who threw wildly to second, allowing Yount to score. The first baseman Kent Hrbek picked up the ball by the dugout and threw a strike to the catcher Tim Laudner, who dropped the ball, allowing Cooper to score and sending Oglivie to third. Manning singled to score Oglivie.
Luis Salazar, who had three hits, hit a squib grounder that was misplayed by the second baseman Frank White with two outs in the ninth inning, giving the Chicago White Sox a 2–1 victory over the Royals. The Sox loaded the bases on an infield single by Tim Hulett, a pinch-hit double by Jerry Hairston and an intentional walk. Salazar then hit to the usually sure-handed White, who bobbled the ball and threw too late to get Salazar at first as the pinch runner Scott Fletcher scored from third.
The Tigers beat the A’s, 4–1. The Tigers had only five hits at Oakland, but two of them were home runs by Larry Herndon and Tom Brookens and they beat Tim Birtsas (9–4). Walt Terrell (12–6) gave up seven hits in 7 ⅔ innings and Willie Hernandez finished up to earn his 26th save. Hernandez struck out two of the four batters he faced.
Gorman Thomas walked with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Seattle Mariners a 4–3 victory and snap the Orioles’ six-game winning streak.
Chicago Cubs 5, Atlanta Braves 2
Texas Rangers 3, Boston Red Sox 1
New York Yankees 8, California Angels 5
Kansas City Royals 1, Chicago White Sox 2
Toronto Blue Jays 3, Cleveland Indians 2
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Houston Astros 17
Minnesota Twins 2, Milwaukee Brewers 3
San Diego Padres 1, Montreal Expos 0
San Francisco Giants 0, New York Mets 3
Detroit Tigers 4, Oakland Athletics 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Philadelphia Phillies 4
Cincinnati Reds 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Baltimore Orioles 3, Seattle Mariners 4
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1323.7 (+11.2)
Born:
Joe Vitale, NHL centre (Pittsburgh Penguins, Arizona Coyotes), in St. Louis, Missouri.
Blake DeWitt, MLB second baseman, pinch hitter, and third baseman (Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves), in Sikeston, Missouri.
Matt Hague, MLB pinch hitter and first baseman (Pittsburgh Pirates, Toronto Blue Jays), in Bellevue, Washington.
Mark Washington, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins), in Harbor City, California.
Died:
Harchand Singh Longowai [Sant Ji], 53, Indian Sikh leader and President of the Akali Dal during the Punjab insurgency of the 1980s, assassinated by Sikh extremists less than a month after he signed a peace accord with the government.
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