Today, five years after he signed the accord founding Solidarity, Lech Walesa finished his shift at the Gdansk shipyard and laid a wreath at a memorial to slain workers as 500 people cheered. Afterward he unveiled an ambitious 500-page report in which hundreds of experts sympathetic to Solidarity called for renewed talks between Government and the people to end cycles of what they described as social, economic and ecological decay, stagnation and loss of hope in Poland. In terms of tumult and heady emotion, the occasion was a far cry from August 31, 1980, when Solidarity members and supporters watched on television as Mr. Walesa, using a huge pen with a picture of Pope John Paul II on it, signed the 21-point accord in which Poland’s Communist leaders agreed to the formation of free trade unions, affirmed the right to strike, promised to lower the retirement age and said they would speed up housing construction and phase out censorship. Today in Gdansk, the police looked on but did not interfere as workers ending their shifts cheered Mr. Walesa, the electrician who won the Nobel Peace Prize, as he laid the wreath and addressed himself to Poland’s leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski. The general banned Solidarity and proclaimed martial law 15 months after the accords were signed.
A passenger train derailed early today near the central French town of Argenton and a freight train hit the wreckage, killing 36 people and injuring dozens, officials said. An official of the state-run railroad said it appeared the driver of the passenger train was going too fast when he passed through Argenton. Thirty-five bodies were pulled from the wreckage and another person died at a hospital, according to an official statement from the local government.
Israel arrested another 14 West Bank Arabs today after seizing 18 Thursday night. The Israeli military announced the detentions this morning. A spokesman said the administrative orders were issued for “subversive political activity.” The orders were signed by Major General Amnon Shahak, the military commander in the West Bank. In accordance with the law in the West Bank, the detainees are to be given a hearing in military courts that can ratify or annul the orders within 96 hours of their arrest. Three of the Arabs were ordered expelled from the country. The decision to resume expulsions and administrative detentions was made by the Cabinet August 4 after an increase in Arab attacks.
A cloud of chlorine gas escaped from a chemical plant in an industrial Indian suburb today and spread through residential areas, killing one person and injuring at least 150, officials reported. The gas leaked for at least two hours in Chembur, a northwest suburb of Bombay known as the “gas chamber” because of the number of chemical plants there. It was the fourth major leak of toxic material in this Arabian Sea port since March. In Bhopal, central India, last December 3, methyl isocyanate escaped from a Union Carbide plant, killing more than 2,000 people and injuring hundreds of thousands in the world’s worst industrial accident.
The Sri Lanka Government, pressed by India to make concessions to Tamil insurgents, has agreed to a new formula to grant more self-rule to Tamil areas, Indian officials said today. The agreement was seen as a possible step toward a resumption of talks between the Colombo Government and the insurgents to end more than two years of guerrilla warfare on the island. India has been acting as a mediator in the conflict.
South Korea said today that it would allow the pilot of a Chinese bomber that crashed in a rice field to go to Taiwan despite Chinese protests. The other surviving crew member of the Soviet-designed light bomber will be sent home to China, and the body of the navigator, killed in the crash Saturday, will be returned, the South Korean authorities said.
Defendants in the Aquino case won an important legal victory when the Philippine Supreme Court upheld the exclusion of key evidence against them. The 10-3 decision, affecting eight military men, including the armed forces Chief of Staff, said they had not been advised of their rights when they testified last year before a fact-finding commission investigating the assassination of the opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr.
Three Salvadorans appeared at a Government news conference today and described what they said had been their role in the killings of 13 people here, including four United States marines. One of the suspects said he had opened fire; the other two said they had assisted those who did the shooting. The self-confessed gunman, William Celio Rivas Bolanos, said there was no return fire when the rebels shot up an outdoor cafe with automatic weapons here two months ago. He also said he accidentally shot one of the other seven rebels who took part in the attack. The wounded rebel died in a downtown hospital, government officials said.
President Reagan announced today that he had set up a special office to distribute $27 million in “humanitarian assistance” to the rebels who are seeking to overthrow the Nicaraguan Government. Mr. Reagan, in making the announcement, said the United States sought “to support the democratic center against extremes of right and left” in Nicaragua. White House aides said the office would operate as a separate body within the State Department, similar to the Agency for International Development. Officials said the State Department would replace the Central Intelligence Agency as the vehicle for channeling American aid to the Nicaraguan rebels.
A strategic town held by Eritrean rebels for two months has been recaptured by the Ethiopian Army, according to both the rebels and the Ethiopian Government. But the two sides both claimed victories in the operations centering on the town of Barentu, the major urban center of western Eritrea. In a statement issued in Paris, the Eritrean People’s Liberation Army said Government troops had failed in 13 attempts to recapture the crossroads city of about 10,000, which was seized by the rebels on July 6. When new troops were moved to the area, the rebels decided to withdraw, it said. “There was no confrontation whatsoever in Barentu as the E.P.L.A. has effected a timely and orderly withdrawal,” it said. “Our evacuation has consequently no bearing on the overall balance of military forces.” The rebels said that more than 4,000 Ethiopian soldiers were killed in earlier attempts to seize the town.
The Government of Zimbabwe said today that 17 people were killed in a rebel attack on a village in Matabeleland Thursday night. A band of about 15 rebels armed with automatic rifles came to Sweetwater Ranch in the Mwenezi area of southeastern Zimbabwe, according to a government spokesman. They ordered all Shona-speaking laborers, their wives and children into a hut and then opened fire, killing 13 and wounding two, according to the government report. The rebels then burned down the home of the ranch owner, Ian Shipley, who was not present at the time. They stole a vehicle from the farm and drove to the nearby town of Makambe, where they killed four more people and wounded two, according to the government report.
The United States urged South Africa to allow the African National Congress to take part in any discussions between Pretoria and black leaders on South Africa’s future, the State Department said. It was the first time that the Reagan Administration had specifially said the congress should be included in negotiations. The organization, outlawed 25 years ago, has been accused of being pro-Communist and dedicated to the forceful overthrow of the Pretoria Government. There is no indication that the Government of President P. W. Botha is willing to deal with the congress. A principal leader of the congress is Nelson Mandela, a black lawyer who has been imprisoned since 1962 on charges related to his involvement in the group. A State Department spokesman reiterated today that the United States viewed Mr. Mandela’s release as crucial to bringing about “a national dialogue.” Such a dialogue has been advocated by Washington as a way of ending the violence there and of finding a formula for the abolition of apartheid.
Schoolchildren in this mixed-race area outside Cape Town hurled rocks at the police and set up barricades of blazing tires across the highways today in a third straight day of violence in the region. Unofficial reports said 28 people had died in the violence, which is among the worst and most sustained in this area in years. On Thursday the police reported that 19 people had died in the Cape, with 3 more people killed elsewhere in the country, but it was not clear whether the increase included the discovery of bodies from earlier violence in the three days of turmoil. Protest at University Policemen fired rubber bullets and shotguns at the protesters here and at the University of the Western Cape, a college reserved under segregationist law for students of mixed race, known in South Africa as “coloreds.”
The governor of South Africa’s central bank arrived in New York for urgent talks with officials of Citibank and other commercial banks to try to find a way out of South Africa’s financial crisis, banking sources said. The central bank governor, Gerhard de Kock, will try to persuade major American banks to maintain credit to South African borrowers, bankers said. He is expected to warn that unless the credit is extended, South Africa will be forced to declare a moratorium on payments of foreign debt. South Africa must take some action by Monday, when its currency and stock markets are scheduled to reopen after a five-day halt, bankers said.
One of South Africa’s most powerful Afrikaner businessmen has said that the Government has only one “final opportunity” to introduce the reforms needed to bring about political and economic stability. Anton Rupert, chairman of the Rembrandt Group of companies and a wealthy industrialist, said that the Government had ignored violence and riots in the past but could not afford to do so now. He said a “man of vision” was needed to pull South Africa out of its current crisis.
The Senate majority leader, Bob Dole, several other key members of Congress and the Republican National Committee oppose the Reagan Administration in a North Carolina voting rights case. Briefs signed by five Republicans and five Democrats filed in the Supreme Court charged that the Administration had misstated the intent of the 1982 Voting Rights Act. The case involves a redistricting plan by the North Carolina legislature, which was overruled by a panel of federal judges last year on the ground that it diluted the rights of black voters. In explaining the decision to file the brief, Republican officials said legislative districting that holds down black representation hurts Republican chances in elections in heavily Democratic states in the South. They also spoke of the need for the Republican Party to broaden its appeal to blacks by supporting their political goals.
President Reagan goes horseback riding and does chores around the Ranch.
Listless economic growth this fall was indicated by a key Government index intended to predict the course of the economy. The index rose four-tenths of 1 percent in July. Analysts based their forecast on the latest data reported by the Commerce Department, including a substantial downward revision in the increase previously estimated for June. The Commerce Department also reported a large $2.9 billion declne in the nation’s merchandise trade deficit last month, a development that inspired widely different interpretations. But most analysts said they thought nothing fundamental had occurred to lessen the nation’s record trade deficits.
The White House Office of Management and Budget predicted today that the budget deficit for the fiscal year starting in October would be $178 billion, almost the same as it predicted last April. The office said in its mid-year report that the 1986 deficit would be a result of $780 billion in income and $958 billion in outlays.
Astronauts today steered the space shuttle Discovery toward a rendezvous with a stranded communications satellite and were ready to go outside their spaceship Saturday morning to haul the satellite aboard for repairs. Dr. James D. van Hoften and Dr. William F. Fisher are scheduled to begin their space walk at 8:18 AM, Eastern daylight time. They spent much of today checking out their spacesuits and reviewing revisions in the planned repair operations necessitated by a malfunction in the mechanical arm to be used in the satellite retrieval. The two astronauts were instructed to get as much work as possible done Saturday and then to complete the repairs and redeploy the satellite in another space walk Sunday morning. As planned, the Saturday space walk should last six hours, with three or four hours of work remaining for Sunday.
President Reagan today issued an executive order invoking a two-month cooling-off period under the National Railway Labor Act to head off a threatened national railroad strike. The order establishes an emergency board to attempt to resolve a dispute between the United Transportation Union and most of the nation’s major railroads, which are represented by the National Railway Labor Conference. “The situation appears to the President to be extremely critical,” the White House said. The board has 30 days to report its findings to Mr. Reagan, after which the parties will have 30 days to consider the recommendations. The White House said a strike would idle hundreds of thousands of employees and halt the flow of $750 million worth of goods each day.
The man wanted in a series of 16 killings that have spread terror throughout California was identified tonight as Richard Ramirez, a 25-year-old native of El Paso, law-enforcement officials announced at a news conference. Mr. Ramirez has lived in the Los Angeles area for several years, said Sheriff Sherman Block of Los Angeles County, who spoke at the news conference with Police Chief Darryl Gates. Sheriff Block said officials believed Mr. Ramirez has been using several aliases, including Richard Jimenez, Richard Moreno and Richard Munoz. Sheriff Block said the identification was made through fingerprints found on a stolen car believed to have been used by the killer and other evidence. Mr. Ramirez was described as 6-foot-1-inch, 155 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes, thick lips and extreme decay of the upper and lower front teeth. That description appeared to match those of the man dubbed the “night stalker,” who the police say has killed 16 people and wounded at least 21.
Philadelphia cut off payments for the reconstruction of 61 homes destroyed by fire in a police siege of a radical group on May 13. The announcement by the controller, Joseph C. Vignola, that the payments would be halted came hours after the arrest of the senior partner in the company that is rebuilding the houses. He was charged with forging the signature of a former business associate on two checks.
A Federal appeals court today upheld the conviction of former Representative George V. Hansen, Republican of Idaho, who was sentenced to 5 to 15 months in prison for filing false documents with Congress. Mr. Hansen, who had served seven terms in the House, was convicted in April 1984 of violating the 1978 ethics law by omitting mention of loans, profits from the sale of silver contracts and other transactions, some of which involved the Texas billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. Mr. Hansen omitted from his disclosure forms $87,475 in profit that his wife, Connie, made trading silver futures with the help of Mr. Hunt; a $50,000 bank loan to Mrs. Hansen that was guaranteed by Mr. Hunt; a $61,503 personal loan from Mr. Hunt to Mrs. Hansen and $135,000 in personal loans to the Congressman from three Virginia men: John Meade Jr., Carl McAfee and Odell Rogers.
The Pentagon will test all prospective military recruits for exposure to the AIDS virus. Dr. William E. Mayer, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, said at a news conference that the test was intended to protect new recruits from the dangers that routine smallpox vaccinations, which are required of all new enlistees, would pose for victims of AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Dr. Mayer said someone with AIDS, which leaves the body unable to resist disease, would have little defense against even the weak dose of smallpox virus in the vaccination.
Plans to shelter AIDS patients in a vacant convent on the upper West Side were withdrawn by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York after parents threatened to keep their children out of an adjacent parochial school.
School children with AIDS would be screened on a case-by-case basis by a city-appointed panel to determine whether they should attend regular classes, city and school officials said. The committee — to be made up of medical experts, an educator and a parent representative — will evaluate before classes begin on September 9, the seven school-age children in the city now known to be suffering from AIDS.
Carl C. Icahn’s takeover of T.W.A. is a tale of one of the most unusual alliances in the history of the high-stakes, frenetic takeover game. The key to his victory over Frank Lorenzo of the Texas Air Corporation, who had all but locked up control of Trans World Airlines, was the cooperation that two of T.W.A’s major unions offered in return for winning control of their own destiny.
A Federal district judge has denied a request by the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation to bar striking steelworkers in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia from collecting unemployment benefits. Judge Glenn E. Mencer ruled Thursday that the steelmaker’s request for an injunction did not meet standards established by the Supreme Court.
Teachers’ pay is going up, after a decade of losing ground economically. The public school teacher’s salary is now $23,546. In each of the last two years that average had increased more than 7 percent, twice the rate of inflation. The increases are being paid all across the scale, to beginnersand to 25-year veterans.
An artificial heart recipient was reported much improved but still very weak after an implant operation Thursday at the University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona. The head of the surgical team said he was still concerned about a low-grade fever that the 25-year-old patient, Michael Drummond, developed two days before the operation.
The California Assembly overwhelmingly passed and sent to the State Senate a measure requiring most able-bodied welfare recipients to seek jobs as a condition of receiving their government grants. The $327 million plan, a bipartisan compromise that ended years of stalemate, was approved Thursday on a vote of 68 to 8.
Hurricane Elena hovered off the Gulf Coast with winds of up to 100 miles an hour, chasing tens of thousands of residents and vacationers from Alabama to Florida inland. Six-foot waves pounded beaches and the eastern Florida panhandle was battered with torrential rains that flooded roads and bridges as the storm, 350 miles wide and bearing winds up to 110 miles an hour, hovered in the Gulf of Mexico. Governor Bob Graham of Florida early Saturday ordered the immediate mandatory evacuation of low-lying coastal areas in 10 counties from Taylor County, southeast of Tallahassee, to Sarasota County, south of St. Petersburg, The Associated Press reported.The order is to be enforced by the police and other law enforcement personnel in the affected counties. Forecasters for the National Hurricane Center in Miami said the center of the storm might now come ashore at midday Saturday somewhere on the 100-mile stretch of coast north of Tampa Bay.
Johnny Carson and his third wife, Joanna, were granted a dissolution of their 10-year marriage today under which the host of “The Tonight Show” will pay Mrs. Carson $35,000 a month for 64 months beginning Sept. 1, unless she remarries or dies. Mrs. Carson also gains ownership of the couple’s home in Bel-Air, along with three New York City apartments. Mr. Carson retains ownership of their apartment at Trump Tower in New York and their home in Malibu.
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Storm Davis pitched a three-hitter and Floyd Rayford and Rick Dempsey homered as Baltimore tied a major-league home run record in beating the Seattle Mariners, 6–0. Rayford and Dempsey each hit their 10th home runs of the season, enabling the Orioles to become the ninth team in history to have nine players reach double figures in homers. Another Oriole, Lee Lacy, has nine. The Orioles lead the majors with 166 homers.
Last night at Yankee Stadium, under skies that threatened rain, the Yankees’ bats slumbered again: just five hits in a 4–1 loss to the California Angels. In their last three games, two of them defeats, the Yankees have totaled a mere 16 hits and 5 runs. They began the night with a .272 team batting average. The Yankees left eight runners on base, two at third base, and are now just 3 for 32 with runners in scoring position over four games. The night was also not productive for Marty Bystrom, who started for the Yankees but was unable to survive the fifth inning. He allowed three walks and a run in the first inning, gave up a home run to Jack Howell in the fourth, then opened the fifth by giving up another homer, this one to Ruppert Jones. When Rod Carew followed with his third straight hit, Martin called for Bob Shirley, who promptly served up an RBI double to Reggie Jackson, the 1,000 extra-base hit of his career. Meanwhile, Toronto beat Chicago, stretching its advantage in the American League East to five games. The Yanks have not witnessed that kind of deficit in almost two weeks.
Lloyd Moseby hit a bases-empty homer and Garth Iorg drove in two runs tonight, leading the Toronto Blue Jays to a 5–3 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Toronto moved five games in front in the American League East. Jimmy Key set a team record for left-handers by earning his 11th victory of the season. He has lost six games. Key gave up nine hits over eight and two-thirds innings and left the game after a run-scoring single by Julio Cruz. Tom Henke got the final out for his eighth save. After Moseby led off the fourth with his 10th homer of the season, Floyd Bannister walked the bases full. Cecil Fielder grounded into a double play that produced a run, and Iorg hit a run-scoring double for a 3–1 lead.
Don Sutton of the A’s pitched a five-hitter over eight innings for his 293rd career victory as the A’s downed the Tigers, 8–3. Mike Davis, who had three hits, led a four-run first inning for Oakland. Sutton (13–7) gave up one earned run and struck out four while not walking a batter. He has won 10 of his last 12 decisions and was making his 666th career start, tying him with Walter Johnson for fourth on the career list.
The Rangers topped the Royals, 4–1. Charlie Hough (14–12) scattered seven hits, and Pete O’Brien doubled home two runs in a three-run fifth inning for Texas. The loss dropped the Royals two and a half games behind the Angels in the American League West.
The Brewers beat the Indians, 9–6. Ted Simmons and Jim Gantner hit home runs for Milwaukee. The Brewers, held hitless for four and one-third innings by Tom Waddell (7–6), broke through with three runs in the sixth inning.
The Red Sox bested the Twins, 7–3. Rich Gedman robbed of a two-run homer in the fourth by Minnesota center fielder. Kirby Puckett connected for a two run homer in the sixth that rallied Boston. Gedman’s drive to center in the fourth was grabbed by Puckett, who reached high over the seven-foot fence. But Gedman got revenge with his 13th homer that gave the Red Sox a 3–2 lead.
The Mets ended a three-game losing streak tonight and moved within two games of the St. Louis Cardinals when they scored an unearned run in the ninth inning and defeated the San Francisco Giants, 2–1. They did it on the five-hit pitching of Ron Darling, who outlasted Mike Krukow and won his 13th game of the season. But they got massive help from Dan Gladden of the Giants, who dropped a fly ball in left field with two down in the ninth inning. And, when Howard Johnson doubled on the next pitch, the Mets took the lead. pick up b copy The Mets, watching the scoreboard lately with growing intensity, got the word not long after their game began: The Cardinals dropped one to the Houston Astros in St. Louis. So, once more, the opportunity was there for the Mets to gain ground before they faced the Cardinals six times in September.
Denny Walling drove in three runs tonight and the rookie Glenn Davis doubled and pounded his 10th homer as the Houston Astros defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 7–5. Mike Scott (14–7), the Houston right-hander, pitched six and two-thirds innings, striking out three and walking two while yielding a seventh-inning homer to Cesar Cedeno in his first time at bat for St. Louis. Scott’s victory was his second over the Cardinals in 11 days. Singles by Bill Doran and Craig Reynolds set up Walling’s first run-scoring hit and Cruz’s run-scoring double in Houston’s first. Kevin Bass hit a sacrifice fly to score Walling for a three-run inning.
Ninth-inning doubles by Ron Oester and Max Venable gave Jay Tibbs and Cincinnati a 1–0 victory at home against the Pirates. Oester doubled off the glove of Bill Madlock, the third baseman, with one out in the ninth. Venable followed with a pinch-hit double that eluded Denny Gonzalez, the left fielder who tripped on the play. The Pirates suffered their fifth consecutive loss and 19th straight road defeat, just three short of the major league mark shared by the 1890 Pirates and the 1963 Mets. Pete Rose of the Reds went 0 for 2 with a walk, leaving him eight hits from breaking Ty Cobb’s career record of 4,191.
A three-run home run by Terry Harper, and a bases-empty homer by Bob Horner powered Atlanta to an 8–1 win over the Cubs at Wrigley. The victory was the fifth straight for the Braves under their new manager, Bobby Wine.
The Phillies set back the Dodgers, 5–2 as Mike Schmidt’s two-run triple and solo homer paced the Phillies over Los Angeles for the second consecutive game. Schmidt tripled to deep center field off Bob Welch, who had held the Phillies to just two hits entering the eighth. Los Angeles got a pair of solo homers from Pedro Guerrero and Mike Marshall, who for the second successive night homered on a 3–0 pitch. Reliever Dave Shipanoff earned his first major-league save.
Seattle Mariners 0, Baltimore Orioles 6
Atlanta Braves 8, Chicago Cubs 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, Cincinnati Reds 1
Oakland Athletics 8, Detroit Tigers 3
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Cleveland Indians 6, Milwaukee Brewers 9
Boston Red Sox 7, Minnesota Twins 3
California Angels 4, New York Yankees 1
New York Mets 2, San Francisco Giants 1
Houston Astros 7, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Kansas City Royals 1, Texas Rangers 4
Chicago White Sox 3, Toronto Blue Jays 5
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Born:
Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer (Olympic gold medals, women’s 4×100-metre medley relay, 2004; 100-metre breaststroke, 2008; silver medal, 4×100-metre medley relay, 2012), in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia.
Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer (2 silver and 1 bronze Olympic medals, 2008), in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Duane Brown, NFL tackle (Pro Bowl, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2021; Houston Texans, Seattle Seahawks, New York Jets), in Richmond, Virginia.
Lawrence Jackson, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks, Detroit Lions), in Inglewood, California.
Died:
“Philly” Joe Jones, 62, American jazz drummer (Miles Davis Quintet), of a heart attack.
Tatiana Proskouriakoff, 76, Russian-American Mayan archaeologist who helped decipher Maya hieroglyphs.
Taylor Caldwell [Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell], 84, Anglo-American novelist (“Dynasty of Death”, “Dear and Glorious Physician”).
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