The defection to East Germany of Hans Tiedge, a high official in West Germany’s counterintelligence agency was reported. Officials in Bonn agreed that it had jeopardized Western espionage operations and confronted Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Government with a major spy scandal. A hint of the possible repercussions came in an East German report that suggested that 168 West German agents had been taken into custody over the last year and a half. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization had no official comment, but NATO intelligence experts in Brussels said the defection was a major blow to allied counterintelligence. In Washington, the State Department said the United States would consult with West Germany to determine the damage to their mutual security interests.
British Airways denied knowing of a problem with Boeing 737 engines and said it was not told of the results of an American inquiry into the engines’ reliability. Fifty-four people were killed Thursday when a Boeing 737 operated by a British Airways subsidiary burst into flames as it began to take off in Manchester. One more victim would soon die, making the toll 55. Officials said an engine exploded as the plane neared takeoff speed, sending engine parts flying through the air. One fragment is believed to have severed a fuel line, igniting a kerosene fire.
The Federal Aviation Administration ordered modifications last year in the type of engine that is said to have caused a fatal fire aboard a British Airways Boeing 737. The changes in the Pratt & Whitney engine, as well as new inspection procedures, were ordered because of findings that the engine has been the cause of previous midair emergencies, although none resulted in fatalities. The F.A.A. said there had been seven instances in which rotor disks in the engine had disintegrated in flight, causing varying degrees of engine damage and prompting modifications and inspection changes. In four other incidents, problems with engine combustion chambers were responsible.
Factional fighting in Beirut paused as a Syrian-sponsored cease-fire went into effect. Authorities said 282 people had been killed and about 862 wounded since the sudden surge of car bombing and artillery barrages began 11 days ago. Authorities here say the toll is remarkably high for this country, where people have learned to duck into basements and sandbagged shelters at the first sign of trouble. The cease-fire followed an appeal to Syria Thursday from the Lebanese Cabinet.
The Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, plans to visit New York this fall to take part in ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of the United Nations, a spokesman said today. The visit would be Colonel Qaddafi’s first trip to the United States. A letter delivered this morning by the Libyan charge d’affaires to the United Nations Secretary General, Javier Perez de Cuellar, did not mention when Colonel Qaddafi would arrive or give other details, the spokesman said. A spokesman for the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs said that although the department was obliged to issue visas for foreign nationals with business at the United Nations, “there may be, in some cases, an objection.” The spokesman said the department would review Colonel Qaddafi’s visa application if it is filed. The two countries do not have formal diplomatic relations.
Tunisia recalled its Ambassador to Libya today and accused the Tripoli Government of threatening to use force in a growing dispute between the two countries. The official press agency said Tunisia had decided to recall its Ambassador for consultations over Libya’s expulsion of some 25,000 Tunisian emigrant workers in recent weeks.
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, stepping up his efforts to end the turbulence and bloodshed in the Punjab, has begun what associates say might be his most dangerous political gamble since he took office 10 months ago. Brushing aside warnings from both critics and friends, Mr. Gandhi decided Thursday to proceed with early elections in the Punjab and run the risk of further violence by Sikh terrorists. Several political leaders had advised him to postpone the vote after the assassination Tuesday of Harchand Singh Longowal, president of the main Sikh political party, the Akali Dal. He was killed less than a month after signing an accord with Mr. Gandhi to end the three years of political strife in the Punjab.
An earthquake in western China near the Soviet border killed 55 people, flattened wooden houses and severed communications, the Chinese seismological bureau said today. The quake measured 7.4 on the Richter scale, a bureau spokesman said. It struck Friday night in a sparsely populated farming area around Wuqia, a county seat in the vast Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Eighty-five percent of the houses in Wuqia were reported flattened. There was no report of the number of injuries. The Soviet Union reported the earthquake on Friday and said it was felt in several cities in Soviet Central Asia. An earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale is capable of causing widespread, heavy damage.
Political leaders of the Nicaraguan rebels have decided to spend time in the field talking with rebel commanders and fighters in an effort to halt what they acknowledge are summary executions and other human rights abuses, according to one of the leaders. The rebel political leader, Arturo Cruz, said “certain accords” about human rights were reached at a meeting last week in Honduras of the leaders of the United Nicaraguan Opposition, a new rebel umbrella group known as UNO. The rebels, whom the Reagan Administration refers to as “freedom fighters,” are to receive $27 million in nonmilitary aid under legislation approved by Congress in June. Several international human rights organizations have reported that the insurgents carried out widespread violations of human rights, including executions, rapes and torture.
Relations between the political and military wings of the Salvadoran rebel coalition have grown more tense in recent months, but the continued alliance between the leftist parties and armed guerrilla groups is not threatened, according to senior rebel political officials. The political leaders have criticized the guerrillas for kidnapping mayors, burning their offices and mistreating civilians. The debate within the rebel movement on the treatment of civilians grew especially heated, according to several rebel officials, after a guerrilla squad killed four American marines and nine civilians in San Salvador two months ago.
Uganda’s biggest rebel group said today that several army units had surrendered to its forces in towns north of Kampala. The rebel group, known as the National Resistance Army, listed the towns as Matuga, Busunju and Kiboga, all within 30 miles of Kampala. Defense Minister Wilson Toko said that he had received reports of rebel movements in the area but that the army had not been sent in because the government wanted peace.
Six black protesters were shot and killed by the South African police, who also detained at least 18 prominent political activists and rounded up 500 black schoolchildren in Soweto township. The children were said to have been boycotting classes. On Thursday, 300 children were rounded up in similar circumstances in an effort by the police to force them to abandon boycotts. Township residents said many of the children were under 13 years old.
Religious leaders, local officials and community activists in various black townships say police officers have been taking increasingly repressive measures against student protesters. They said this week that the police were detaining more students and using excessive force against them. Student demonstrations against inequality were central to the unrest that began to take root early last year. The religious leaders and local political figures said the emergency decree imposed in 36 magisterial districts last month had given the police near-absolute powers, including the use of whips and guns against students in an attempt to crush school boycotts.
The sharpening conflict seemed mirrored in avowals by the Government tonight that it would not be deflected from a program of gradual changes, a program that many black leaders have rejected. “We shall not be stampeded into a situation of panic by irresponsible elements for opportunistic reasons,” President P. W. Botha told a gathering of white students in Pretoria. “We shall continue with the process of peaceful deliberation and consultations to find solutions for our unsolved problems,” he said, referring to his unspecified program, which has yet to be put into effect. Speaking of “radical Communist forces,” an allusion to militant blacks, Mr. Botha said, “We will fight and defeat them with all the lawful means at our disposal.” Referring to a curfew in Soweto township, outside Johannesburg, Brig. Jan Coetzee, the Chief of Police in Soweto, said today, “We are not trying to oppress people, but are doing this for their own benefit.”
A conditional apology was offered to the South African Bishop Desmond Tutu by the Rev. Jerry Falwell who said last week that the bishop, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, was “a phony.” Mr. Falwell said in an interview being taped for television that an apology was in order if the bishop believed Mr. Falwell was impugning him “as a person or minister.”
Violations of plant safety procedures led to the leak of toxic gas at its factory in Institute, West Virginia, two weeks ago, Union Carbide officials said. The large leak of toxic gas from a Union Carbide factory near here two weeks ago resulted from violations of plant procedures and other failures left uncorrected by plant workers for up to 10 days before the accident, company officials said today. They accepted full blame for the incident. In a news conference and in subsequent interviews characterized by strong self-blame, top corporate and plant officials pinned the fault for the leak at its factory at Institute directly on failures of management, operations and equipment solely under the company’s control. High-pressure alarms were repeatedly shut off and ignored. A high-temperature alarm was out service. A level indicator in the tank that leaked and was known to be broken was not fixed. Meanwhile, the unit’s computer, which silently recorded the rising problems for days, was never asked for the information by operators, the company’s chief investigator said in an interview. Company officials painted a grim picture of the chemical unit’s six operators huddled together in the control room on the morning of the accident, enveloped by a thick cloud of toxic gas and forced to share the only two breathing devices in the room.
President Reagan returns to the Ranch from Los Angeles, California.
The Tennessee Valley Authority closed the last of its operating nuclear plants yesterday and stopped welding work on one that is under construction. The moves were part of an effort to address persistent management problems that have cast doubt on the safety of the authority’s nuclear program, the nation’s second largest. Early yesterday the authority stopped generating electricity at its four-year-old Sequoyah plant, in Daisy, Tennessee, because of questions over whether the electrical equipment that would be needed for safe shutdown in an accident could withstand the steam, heat and radiation of such an event. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given all utilities until Nov. 30 to determine if their electrical equipment is “environmentally qualified” for such an event. At the Watts Bar plant in Spring City, Tennessee, on the advice of the Regulatory Commission, the T.V.A. halted welding on the two reactors under construction while it seeks to determine whether the welders there were properly qualified, and, if some were not, what work was done by unqualified welders, and its safety significance. About 1,600 workers were laid off. The closing of the Sequoyah plant follows a decision by the authority in late March to shut Browns Ferry, in Decatur, Alabama, which with three reactors is the nation’s largest nuclear plant, until the T.V.A. was certain that it was in compliance with regulations.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting an internal inquiry into possible wrongdoing by its agents in the abortive investigation of Jackie L. Presser, law-enforcement officials said today. The officials said the agency’s Office of Professional Responsibility was looking into whether the agents in the field misled their supervisors about their dealings with Mr. Presser, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who has been described as an informer for the bureau. Last month the Justice Department dropped a three-year investigation into allegations that Mr. Presser had put on the payroll of his hometown local in Cleveland several employees who received salaries, but did no work. A Justice Department official has said this arrangement was approved by bureau agents who allowed Mr. Presser to commit “ordinary crimes” as a mean of improving his ties to organized crime.
Five American astronauts are ready for the 20th flight of a space shuttle to deliver three communications satellites to orbit and make a bold attempt to revive another satellite already in orbit. The launching of the space shuttle Discovery was scheduled for 8:38 A.M. Saturday, weather and final countdown preparations permitting. At a news conference this afternoon, Jesse W. Moore, associate administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said: “We’ve given a green light to go for launch. The countdown is going well. The crew is ready to fly.”
The Farm Belt’s bucolic image is sometimes sundered, as it has been this week in this tiny southeast Nebraska community, where residents have only begun to absorb accusations of torture and murder on a local farm. Officials have called the farm an enclave of right-wing religious survivalists. Two men and a teen-ager who spent time there have been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two members of the group, including a 5-year-old boy whose father once raised hogs on the property. Scores of local, state and Federal officials, in a raid and search at the farm last weekend, found the remains of the boy, Luke Stice, and of James Thimm, 26 years old, in crude graves on the farm. They also reported uncovering bunkers of semiautomatic weapons, ammunition and explosives.
A killer who has terrorized suburbs in both Southern and Northern California has now been linked to at least 14 slayings and possibly as many as 33 attacks, the Los Angeles County Sheriff said tonight. Sheriff Sherman Block, speaking at a news conference, said investigators had added six slayings to the list of those attributed to the suspect who has come to be called the Night Stalker, described as a curly-haired man with bad teeth who investigators say has raped and beaten many other victims. “We have definitely tied 14 murders to this individual and possibly as many as 33 individual cases in L.A. County and the case in San Francisco,” Sheriff Block said.
The suspended police chief of the community of Iola, Wisconsin was charged today with first-degree murder in the shooting last month of his only full-time officer. Bail was set at $200,000 for Michael Schertz, 38 years old, in Waupaca County Circuit Court. He is charged in the killing of Gerald Mork, 31, the son of the county sheriff. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Tuesday. The complaint charged that Mr. Schertz had repeatedly attempted to have Mr. Mork dismissed in the last year and had expressed frustration that the board would not cooperate in disciplining Mr. Mork. The police said they had found no evidence of wrongdoing by Mr. Mork. The police said Mr. Mork had been shot twice in the back of the head with a .38-caliber semiautomatic pistol. Mr. Schertz was arrested July 25 on charges of misconduct in office and theft of a firearm. Today, he waived his right to a preliminary hearing on the lesser charges. The Appleton Post-Crescent said in an article today that an Italian .38-caliber pistol was one of the guns Mr. Schertz had confiscated.
A Saudi Arabian prince donated $250,000 to a family for a 14-year-old boy to undergo a triple transplant operation, family members said. Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, 36, a nephew of King Fahd, had heard of the plight of the boy, Billy Bostick, in a television broadcast while the prince was in Bermuda on vacation. The prince had offered to pay all medical expenses, estimated at $500,000, the boy’s mother said. Receipt of the initial payment was announced at a news conference today.Billy, who suffers from a congenital heart disease called Eisenmenger’s complex, needs transplants of a heart and both lungs, a spokesman for the family said. The boy lives in Islamorada in the Florida Keys.
San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein has vetoed a labor contract that would have given $8.8 million in raises to women and members of minority groups employed by the city. The Mayor, in her veto on Thursday, said the Board of Supervisors did not have jurisdiction to raise the salaries of the social workers, secretaries, nurses, librarians and custodians.
Computers are helping the disabled to read, write or speak for them, things they could not do without help from others. About 20,000 people are using specially adapted personal computers whose technology has the potential to allow about four million Americans to compete in mainstream employment and education.
Senior American intelligence officials, worried by the apparent ease with which spies penetrated American security, have been debating the establishment of an anonymous hot line and reward system to encourage public reports of suspicious activities, the Army’s chief of counterintelligence said today. The counterintelligence official, Colonel Anthony J. Gallo Jr., said in an interview that the hot line proposal was part of an “unparalleled” resurgence of concern about security provoked by a spying case involving former members of the Navy. He said the proposals had been discussed by an interagency security committee headed by Director of Central Intelligence William J. Casey, and that the Justice Department had been asked to review the reward idea to see whether there were legal barriers. “I think there is a majority of us in this business who feel it’s something worth pursuing, looking into, if it’s legal and proper,” Colonel Gallo said.
A 1978 rule of the Federal Communications Commission granting women an advantage in competing for FM radio broadcasting licenses was struck down today by the Federal appeals court here. In a 2-to-1 decision involving competing applications for authority to operate an FM radio station on St. Simons Island in Georgia, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said the F.C.C. had exceeded its statutory authority in establishing the preference for women. The commission, in adopting a formula by which women and members of minority groups were given extra points in evaluation of license applications, said the policy was based on its mandate to serve the public interest and increase diversity in the communications media. “A mandate to serve the public interest is not a license to conduct experiments in social engineering conceived seemingly by whim,” Judge Edward A. Tamm wrote, for the majority. The opinion dismissed the argument that increasing the number of women holding licenses would promote diversity in programming.
Colorado doctors and laboratories would be required to report to state health officials the names and addresses of people found to have been exposed to the virus that causes AIDS under a rule that becomes effective October 30 if approved by the State Board of Health. The board has tentatively agreed to keep such a list over objections of the American Civil Liberties Union.
An extensive shuffling of the Navy’s leadership began today with the reassignment of one admiral and the nomination of three vice admirals to become admirals and to receive new posts. The move will ultimately affect more than a dozen Navy flag officers, including six of the eight full admirals the Navy is authorized to have. The Pentagon announced today that President Reagan intended to nominate Admiral Ronald J. Hays, currently the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, to become commander of all United States forces in the Pacific.
Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games.
Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin.
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Joaquin Andujar becomes baseball’s first 20-game winner this season, beating Atlanta 6–2 for the Cardinals. The triumph marked the second straight 20-victory season for Andujar, who has lost seven games. Last year, he was 20–14 and was the only National League pitcher to win 20. Andujar is the first National League pitcher to post consecutive 20-win seasons since Joe Niekro in 1979–80. The Cardinals struck for four runs in the third, including Andy Van Slyke’s two-run homer.
At Montreal, Dodger teammates Pedro Guerrero and Mariano Duncan hit grand slams as Los Angeles beats Montreal, 8–4. Orel Hershiser (13–3) is the winner. Guerrero’s homer comes in the 6th off Tim Burke (8–2) and Duncan’s comes an inning later off Gary Lucas. It is the first time in L.A. Dodger history that teammates have hit 4-run homers in the same game, and just the second time in franchise history (1901). Tim Raines had four hits for Montreal. Montreal starter Joe Hesketh suffered a fractured left leg in a home plate collision with the Los Angeles catcher Mike Scioscia in the second inning.
On an evening when the offense withered, the Mets took the big plunge last night before 45,156 fans in Shea Stadium when they were swept in a doubleheader by the San Diego Padres and fell into second place, one game behind the St. Louis Cardinals. It was the first time in a month that the Mets had lost two games in a row, and they did it with exceptionally tame bats: 10 singles, one double and one run in 18 innings. They managed only six singles in the opener, and lost it, 6–1. Then Roy Lee Jackson, who had not started a game in three years, muzzled them on one hit for five innings in the second game and they lost that one, 3–0.
The Astros shut out the Pirates, 2–0, as Kevin Bass lined a two-run, pinch-hit double in the 10th inning and Nolan Ryan, Bill Dawley and Frank DiPino combined on a two-hitter for Houston. Ryan gave up two hits over eight innings but did not get the victory, which went to Dawley (2-2). Ryan, who struck out six, failed to break his career-high eight-game losing streak and has not won since June 17.
Ron Oester tripled and scored on Cesar Cedeno’s pinch-hit single in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Cincinnati Reds a 3–2 victory over the visiting Cubs. The reliever John Franco (11-1) allowed just one hit over the last three innings for his 11th straight victory. His winning streak is the longest by a Reds pitcher since Tom Seaver won 11 straight in 1979. Pete Rose went 1-for-4, leaving him 12 hits short of breaking Ty Cobb’s career mark of 4,191.
Chris Brown homered and Atlee Hammaker combined with two relievers on a six-hitter to lead San Francisco past the Phillies, 4–1. Philadelphia’s Greg Gross tied Rusty Staub, Vic Davalillo and Larry Biittner for 10th place on the career pinch-hit list with a seventh-inning bunt single that gave him 95 pinch-hits. Bob Brenly had three hits for the Giants.
The Yankees, who had flexed their muscles in California, scored just three runs tonight off a rookie pitcher with less than three months of major league experience. But that was enough to give the Yankees a 3–1 victory over the Seattle Mariners at the Kingdome. Phil Niekro went six innings for his 12th victory and the 296th of his career, but it was Neil Allen who gave the Yankees their best pitching, getting the final nine outs and earning his first save since joining the club in a trade with St. Louis in July. Mike Pagliarulo hit a home run off Bill Swift in the fifth inning, breaking a 1–1 tie and giving the Yankees their 15th victory in the last 17 games. Dave Winfield added another home run, his 21st, in the ninth.
George Bell hit a tremendous three-run home run — more than 450 feet into the center field bleachers in the seventh inning of the second game — as Toronto swept the White Sox, 6–3 and 10–3. In the first game, Jesse Barfield had three hits and drove in two runs, and Garth Iorg hit a two-run triple for the Blue Jays. Bell’s homer, his 24th, was only the seventh to reach the bleachers in the 75-year history of Comiskey Park. Tony Armas of Boston was the last to accomplish the feat a year ago. The White Sox jumped ahead, 3-0, in the second game, but the Blue Jays rallied with four in the third. Tony Fernandez had a run-scoring single, then Lloyd Moseby hit a two-run triple and scored on a wild pitch. Ron Musselman started the second game for the Blue Jays but failed to go five innings; the victory went to Jim Acker, 6-2. The rookie Tom Filer (7-0) won the opener, allowing four hits in five innings.
The Rangers’ Oddibe McDowell ended a 1-for-32 slump with a bases-empty homer in the top of the ninth inning to give Texas a 4–3 victory in Kansas City. McDowell hit an 0-1 pitch from Dan Quisenberry (6-8) into the right-field bullpen for his 13th homer of the season. George Brett hit his 18th home run for the Royals. The Rangers trailed, 3-1, going into the eighth. But Toby Harrah doubled in one run to chase Mark Gubicza and bring on Quisenberry. Pete O’Brien singled to tie the game.
The Indians topped the Brewers, 10–5. Jerry Willard drove in three runs and Pat Tabler and Otis Nixon each knocked in two for Cleveland. Curt Wardle raised his record to 4-2 since coming to Cleveland in the Bert Blyleven trade with Minnesota on August 1. Wardle was wild, walking seven batters in five innings, but he gave up only three hits and evened his record at 5-5.
Kirby Puckett keyed a four-run seventh inning with a two-run triple as Minnesota snapped a four-game losing streak, downing the Red Sox, 5–2. Frank Viola pitched a five-hitter to become the first visiting left-hander to go the distance this season at Fenway Park. In improving his record to 13–10, Viola struck out seven and walked only two. Viola trailed, 2–1, going into the seventh, but the Twins scored four times, two of them on the triple by Kirby Puckett, to give Viola his victory.
The Orioles rocked the A’s, 7–2. The A’s held a 2–0 lead going into the ninth inning at Oakland, but the Orioles came up with seven runs. Five were at the expense of bullpen ace Jay Howell (9–5). Howell faced six batters. He got one batter out, gave up four hits, including a two-run triple by Jim Dwyer, and a walk. Mike Young completed the scoring when he hit a three-run home run off Rick Langford. A’s second baseman Donnie Hill extended his hitting streak to 17 games with a single in the sixth. Mike Boddicker, who left the mound after eight innings thinking he was a loser, went the distance to improve his record to 11–13.
Restricted to two hits through eight innings and trailing, 6–2, the California Angels scored five runs with two outs in the ninth to defeat the Detroit Tigers, 7–6, Friday night. A disbelieving Anaheim Stadium crowd of 39,932 saw the Tigers contribute three walks and three errors to a rally that included singles by Dick Schofield and Gary Pettis, and that enabled the Angels to move 2 ½ games ahead of Kansas City in the American League West.
St. Louis Cardinals 6, Atlanta Braves 2
Minnesota Twins 5, Boston Red Sox 2
Detroit Tigers 6, California Angels 7
Toronto Blue Jays 6, Chicago White Sox 3
Toronto Blue Jays 10, Chicago White Sox 3
Chicago Cubs 2, Cincinnati Reds 3
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Cleveland Indians 10
Texas Rangers 4, Kansas City Royals 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 8, Montreal Expos 4
San Diego Padres 6, New York Mets 1
San Diego Padres 3, New York Mets 0
Baltimore Orioles 7, Oakland Athletics 2
San Francisco Giants 4, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Houston Astros 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
New York Yankees 3, Seattle Mariners 1
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