The U.S. has set policy positions in “every area” of disagreement with the Kremlin for discussion at the November 19-20 summit meeting in Geneva, according to Robert C. McFarlane, President Reagan’s national security adviser. He said the talks were expected to be dominated by arms control, regional issues, bilateral matters and human rights. Mr. McFarlane’s comments came in a speech to the Air Force Association that was devoted largely to relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. He said the United States had no “illusions” that the Soviet Union would change fundamentally and had accepted the fact that the two nations would be “engaged in an enduring competition of ideas.”
The Defense and State Departments today toned down the Reagan Administration’s original description of the Soviet detention of an Army vehicle in East Germany, an episode that was divulged Sunday by Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger. Spokesmen for the two agencies, while repeating that the United States had protested to the Russians over the incident nine days ago, said that the Army vehicle had first got stuck near a Soviet communications installation, then became ensnared in some Soviet barbed wire off the side of the road. Later, a Soviet truck speeding down the road “grazed” the vehicle, said Robert Sims, a Pentagon spokesman. It was only after that happened that Russians who were in the truck prevented the two Americans attached to the military liaison mission in East Germany from leaving their vehicle until a senior officer arrived.
Britain announced today that it had ordered the expulsion of six more Russians for spying. The move marked the latest step in an intensifying diplomatic confrontation that began last Thursday, when the Thatcher Government announced the defection of a man identified as a high-level Soviet intelligence operative and said it was ousting 25 Soviet citizens from Britain as a result of information he had provided. On Saturday, in a step that startled many Western diplomats, the Soviet Government retaliated by ordering the ouster of 25 British diplomats, embassy staff members, correspondents and businessmen. Many officials had expected the Russians to follow past practice and expel only a token contingent of Britons from Moscow.
Washington wants the U.N. to give its biggest contributors a bigger voice in its budget. The Administration is giving the United Nations less money than it wants until it adopts weighted voting on budget issues.
East Germany has begun a campaign to persuade the West German Government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl to back an accord banning chemical weapons from central Europe. The East German campaign, according to several Western diplomats and academic analysts, appears aimed at stimulating the efforts of the Social Democratic Party, West Germany’s main opposition group, to make chemical weapons an issue in the West German elections in early 1987. The accord for which East Germany is seeking support was negotiated between its Government and the Social Democrats.
A grenade exploded at an outdoor cafe crowded with foreign tourists, including Americans, on Rome’s fashionable Via Veneto, wounding about 40 people, police reported. Officers said two grenades were thrown from either a passing motorcycle or a car at the Cafe de Paris but one did not explode, according to Italian news agencies. Most of the victims reportedly were American, Argentine, German and British. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
Muslim militiamen fought artillery and mortar duels across the ravaged avenues of the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli, killing at least 34 people and wounding 76 in what Beirut radio called the worst street battles in two years. The fighting was between two Sunni Muslim militias-the pro-Syrian Arab Democratic Party and the Tawhid, or Islamic Unification Movement. Premier Rashid Karami, a Sunni and a native of Tripoli, hinted that he might resign if the fighting continues.
Jordanian Prime Minister Zaid Rifai traveled to Saudi Arabia and met with his Syrian counterpart in the first high-level contacts between the two nations in five years. The meeting with Syrian Premier Abdel-Raouf Kasm was arranged by a three-member Arab League reconciliation team led by Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Syrian-Jordanian relations have been unfriendly since 1980, when tension led to a military buildup along their common border.
The State Department said it has dropped plans to sell additional F-15 jet fighters to Saudi Arabia in the wake of a major arms deal between Britain and the Saudis. Department spokesman Charles Redman also said the Saudi decision to buy 48 British Tornado fighters and 30 Hawk trainers is not expected to significantly affect the Mideast arms balance. Meanwhile, a senior Administration official carefully avoided denying published reports that the Saudis went ahead with the British deal after President Reagan assured them he would not object.
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, flanked by commandos, wearing a bulletproof vest and speaking from bulletproof podiums, made three campaign appearances in Punjab state, stronghold of Sikh extremists who have slain some of his political allies. Gandhi urged citizens to “fight terrorism with your votes” in state elections September 25. More than 900 candidates are running for 115 state assembly seats in Punjab and for 13 seats in the national Parliament.
Authorities lifted a state of emergency in Thailand that had been in force since a failed coup attempt one week earlier against Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda’s coalition government. The emergency empowered authorities to make arrests without warrants and barred public rallies. Police also questioned two senators, Sawat Lookdot and Amad Kamtestong, both former labor leaders, about their possible involvement in the coup attempt. Sawat reportedly stood by rebel tanks and urged onlookers to join in trying to topple the government. The police were reported to have issued an arrest warrant today for a former Prime Minister implicated in the attempt a week ago to overthrow the Thai Government. Warrants were also said to be out for the country’s Deputy Supreme Military Commander and for three former high-ranking officers.
10 of China’s 24 leaders are retiring, Peking announced. The departure of 10 aging members of the ruling Politburo has prompted one of the most extensive high-level shuffles since the Communists took power in 1949. The party also confirmed the retirement of 64 members or alternate members of the 340-member Central Committee.
The United States today publicly questioned a decision to ignore evidence from six American servicemen at the trial of 26 men accused in the killing of the opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. The comment came in a State Department statement issued by the United States Embassy three days after the prosecution rejected the use of the evidence. The material, which concerns unusual Philippine Air Force activity on the day of the killing, was offered by Washington and included affidavits from six United States Air Force men who were on duty in the Philippines on the day of the slaying. The accounts say two Philippine Air Force jets were scrambled shortly before Mr. Aquino’s arrival August 21, 1983, at Manila Airport from three years of self-imposed exile in the United States. “We had hoped that a rigorous examination of that information would have occurred within the judicial processes,” the statement said.
A former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency testified before the World Court today that there was “no credible evidence” that the Nicaraguan Government had provided significant quantities of arms to insurgents in El Salvador for at least the last four years. The assertion that the Nicaraguans have provided weapons to the leftist guerrillas in El Salvador has been a major reason used by the Reagan Administration to explain its support of the rebels who are seeking to overthrow the Nicaraguan Government. Asked today by Abram Chayes, a Harvard professor who heads the Nicaraguan legal team here, if the Nicaraguan Government was involved in arms traffic to El Salvador, the former C.I.A. analyst, David MacMichael, said: “I do not believe that such a traffic goes on now, nor has it gone on for the past four years at least, and I believe that the representations of the United States Government to the contrary are designed to justify its policies toward the Nicaraguan Government.”
Senior political representatives of the Salvadoran rebel front said today that although a member of the front had met privately with Salvadoran Government representatives about the kidnapping of President Jose Napoleon Duarte’s daughter, he did not do so as a representative of the group. Salvadoran officials were reported to have flown to Mexico on Sunday for a meeting. The representatives of the rebel front, who spoke in telephone interviews from Mexico City and Costa Rica, added that the political wing of the insurgent alliance had nothing to do with the kidnapping. But they did not rule out the possibility that the military wing, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, was responsible.
Brooklyn Rivera, a leader of Miskito Indian rebels in Nicaragua, said today that organizations in Europe had pledged substantial amounts of aid to his cause. Mr. Rivera, who recently returned from a trip to eight European countries, said he had obtained financial commitments that could total $50,000 monthly. He said he had agreed not to disclose the sources of the money because most of it came from private organizations and quasi-government agencies that publicly support the ruling Sandinista Front.
Peru’s top military leader resigned at the request of President Alan Garcia, who accused the military command of having maintained a “policy of disinformation” in the five-year-old war against Maoist guerrillas. Air Force General Cesar Enrico Praelli, head of the command, will be replaced by General Luis Abram, also of the air force. Garcia has accused his predecessor, Fernando Belaunde Terry, of ignoring reports of human rights violations by military and police.
South African forces raided Angola in what was described as a pre-emptive strike against guerrillas fighting Pretoria’s control of South-West Africa. The raid came less than three months after a South African raid into Angola in which 57 insurgents were reported killed and 5 were captured. Details of the latest raid were sketchy this evening. The South African military chief said the action had been taken after “intensive reconnaissance” revealed that the South-West Africa People’s Organization planned to bomb military bases and attack “soft targets” in the north-central part of South-West Africa, as well as larger towns and residential areas in the territory.
The leaders of the six black-governed nations near South Africa have issued a call for increased international pressure against the Pretoria Government, including economic sanctions. The declaration was issued in a communique Sunday in Mozambique by the heads of state of Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The six nations form an alliance of so-called front-line black-ruled countries near white-ruled South Africa.
The Smithsonian will not sell stock of companies that do business in South Africa because a sharply divided board of regents could not agree. Later, the secretary of the Smithsonian, Robert McC. Adams, said all the regents expressed abhorrence of apartheid, but offered differing views on what they should do to express that opposition.
President Reagan meets with American business leaders with businesses in South Africa to talk to them about the quality of life of Blacks in South Africa under apartheid.
The Reagan Administration told Congress it opposes legislation to require businesses to include coverage in their employee health policies aimed at preventing illnesses in children. Testifying in a Senate Finance subcommittee hearing, J. Roger Mentz, a deputy assistant treasury secretary for tax policy, said the Administration does not believe the tax system should be used to regulate employers’ group health plans.
Wartime medical readiness rather than peacetime health care should be the first priority of the medical military services, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger said. “This decision is intended to redirect the decision-making process to fulfill better our primary responsibility for medical readiness,” Mr. Weinberger said. “This policy is clear: Medical readiness will be the primary criterion for determining the size and composition of our medical corps, medical facilities and training programs.” The Defense Secretary, in an address to senior medical officers, said he expected peacetime health care for military personnel and their dependents to be improved by relying more on civilian rather than military medical facilities.
President Reagan meets with the executive committee of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly.
A trailer carrying 3,000 gallons of deadly methyl isocyanate cracked on one side near Morgantown, West Virginia, nearly separating from the truck carrying it to New York, but none spilled, officials said. A shower of sparks followed the truck when metal began scraping the ground after the 14-inch crack opened, officials said. The driver, however, was able to stop the truck, and workers transferred the 30,000-pound chemical tank to another truck sent from a Union Carbide Corp. plant in Institute, West Virginia, where the methyl isocyanate was manufactured.
Workers braving stinging acid burns neutralized or removed poisonous sulfuric acid dumped into a river during a train derailment on a bridge Saturday night near San Antonio have allowed more than 300 persons to return to their homes, but officials said the water was still dangerous. One worker was listed in critical condition, with acid burns over 30% of his body. Eighteen other workers suffered minor acid burns, and most were treated near the mangled train wreckage on the banks of the Medina River about a mile southwest of San Antonio. About 150,000 gallons of acid spilled from the 100-car Southern Pacific train.
A nuclear-powered submarine that was lost in the Atlantic 17 years ago was found and photographed last month, Navy sources confirmed. The sources said the research ship Knorr, operating a new deep-diving submersible named the Argo, located and shot color video and still photos of the attack submarine USS Scorpion on August 17. The unmanned submersible Argo is the same one that photographed the Titanic earlier this month. The Scorpion sank under mysterious circumstances in 1968, with the loss of its entire 99-man crew, about 400 miles southeast of the Azores. Another Navy submersible, the Trieste, managed to photograph the Scorpion just one year after it sank.
A new draft of the Roman Catholic bishops’ pastoral letter on the economy does not back down from calling poverty in the United States a “scandal” or urging a greater government role in directing the economy, a top church official said. “In the second draft we will not back away from our strong conviction that more can and must be done to fight poverty and unemployment,” said Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee. Weakland is chairman of the committee of Catholic bishops writing the pastoral letter on Roman Catholic social teaching and the U.S. economy.
Two fugitives wanted for killing a rookie state trooper emerged from hiding in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the night and slightly injured a resident, then fled into dense woods with a 300-member posse hot on the trail, authorities said in Asheville, North Carolina. Police said William Richard Bray and Jimmy Rios, escapees from an Arkansas prison, were last seen running into dense woods. A heat-detecting helicopter that can find humans on the ground joined the three-day search by 300 people today for two men suspected of killing a state trooper. The state trooper, Bobby Coggins, 27 years old, was slain Saturday in a routine check on a stolen pickup truck.
A 21-month-old Maryland boy missing for six weeks was back with his mother today, but officials said the reunion might have been earlier had the Texas authorities not returned the child to the abduction suspect a month ago. The police say Michael Fitzgibbon of Waldorf, Maryland, was taken by a 14-year-old babysitter, Tammy Giles, who is believed to have hitchhiked to Pittsburgh and Phoenix before arriving in Dallas with the boy August 10.
Louis Farrakhan, a Black Muslim leader criticized by community leaders as an anti-Semitic demagogue, said today that Mayor Tom Bradley’s condemnation of him showed contempt for black people. Mr. Farrakhan, who heads the Nation of Islam sect, said at a news conference that Mr. Bradley had not influenced the content of a speech he gave Saturday night.
Seattle teachers overwhelmingly voted down a contract proposal, after the school district sweetened its offer by $1 million in an effort to resolve the nation’s largest teachers’ strike. The walkout involves about 3,700 teachers and 43,500 students. Elsewhere, hundreds of striking teachers in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, again defied a judge’s back-to-work order after 25 hours of negotiations over the weekend.
The personal secretary of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the Indian guru, has resigned along with several other top leaders in a power struggle within the religious group that lives on a commune in Oregon, a spokesman for the group said today. The secretary, Ma Anand Sheela, 35 years old, who had been the guru’s chief spokesman, and the others left by airplane Saturday night for Europe after a falling out with Mr. Rajneesh, the leader of the commune, said Ma Dhyan Rosalie, a spokesman in the commune’s press office. Miss Rosalie declined to discuss the details of the dispute.
A judge has refused to halt the burial of 16,500 aborted fetuses found more than three years ago in the backyard of a man who operated a medical laboratory, ending an appeal by a feminist group that wanted the fetuses incinerated. In denying the motion Friday, Judge Robert O’Brien of Superior Court affirmed his ruling on a similar motion in July and said the county, which has stored the fetuses for the last three years, had the right to authorize the burial so long as there was no religious ceremony. An attorney for the Feminist Women’s Center, Gilbert Gaynor, had contended that burial of the fetuses was a denial of the “reasonable expectation” of a woman that tissue excised from a human would be incinerated.
Several prospective U.P.I. buyers have submitted nonbinding expressions of interest in acquiring the news service, U.P.I. executives said. Confidential sources said that among those submitting tentative proposals were major communications companies, significant venture capital concerns, U.P.I.’s union, a rival news agency, foreign publishing companies and at least two individuals with former ties to the C.I.A.
A major advance on gallstones has been achieved by doctors at the Mayo Clinic. Up to now, gallstones have normally required major surgery or long-term treatment with pills. But now they can be dissolved in the body in less than three days with an experimental technique developed by the Mayo physicians.
Medical experts who study violence are becoming more confident that by sophisticated studies of brain function they can predict repeated violent crimes by people who have committeed one or more such acts. In the past, such prediction has been seriously flawed.
Top leaders of an Asian crime ring were arrested in an undercover operation that struck “a significant blow” at the organization’s far-flung criminal activities, according to Federal and Manhattan law enforcement officials.
Efforts to force repayment of college student loans have been intensified by New York and New Jersey. The two states are faced with such high levels of default that they could lose part of the Federal money that guarantees the loans.
Country music record sales are plummeting, audiences are dwindling and the fabled Nashville Sound, which defined country music for decades and made the tree-shaded Tennessee city one of the world’s leading recording centers, may soon sound as dated as the ukelele.
Major League Baseball:
Rookie right-hander Jeff Heathcock pitched a four-hitter and Jose Cruz, Jerry Mumphrey and Denny Walling each hit his seventh home run of the season for Houston as the Astros pummeled the Braves, 7–2. Atlanta’s Dale Murphy hit a two-run homer in the first inning, giving him a major league high of 36.
Well, they finally got him some runs: nine, to be exact. They were the first runs scored in his behalf in three games. And Dwight Gooden showed his appreciation in Shea Stadium last night by pitching a masterpiece: a two-hitter that subdued the Philadelphia Phillies, 9–0, for his 21st victory of the season against only 4 defeats. It was also his 14th complete game and his seventh shutout of the season, and his 15th victory in his last 16 decisions. He struck out 11 batters, got 2 hits and knocked in 2 runs. Nobody has scored on him in 31 innings. The only two hits were real ones: a line-drive double into the leftfield corner by Mike Schmidt in the fourth inning, and a single to center by Jeff Stone in the ninth. Two other Phillies walked, nobody else reached base and Gooden pitched to only 31 batters, four more than the minimum.
At Pittsburgh, the Cardinals sweep a pair from the Pirates, winning 8–4 and 3–1. With the sweep, the Cardinals increased their lead over the Mets in the National League East to a full game. The Mets beat Philadelphia tonight in New York. John Tudor wins his 19th in the opener and misses a chance for a shutout when Bill Almon hits a grand slam in the 4th. Rookie reliever Pat Perry wins his first in the nightcap. Perry debuted 4 days ago. Willie McGee’s single scored Vince Coleman with the go-ahead run in the eighth inning of the second game. With four hits in nine times at bat in the doubleheader, McGee raised his league-leading average to .362.
Carmelo Martinez hit a three-run homer and Eric Show (10-10) scattered seven hits over seven and two-thirds innings as the San Diego Padres snapped a five-game losing streak, beating the Dodgers, 4–2. The loss cut the Dodgers’ lead in the National League West to seven and one-half games over Cincinnati. With the score tied at 1-1 in the seventh, Kurt Bevacqua and Terry Kennedy singled off the starter Jerry Reuss (12-10). Then Martinez slammed his 18th homer of the season off the reliever Ken Howell.
The Reds edged the Giants, 7–6, in extra innings. Gary Redus drew a one-out walk from Mark Davis, stole second and third and raced home on a wild pitch to give Cincinnati an 11-inning victory. Redus stole his 45th and 46th bases of the season with Dave Concepcion at bat, then easily raced home on the next pitch when Davis (5-10) bounced a pitch in front of the catcher Alex Trevino and the ball scooted down the first base line. Dave Parker drove in four runs with a pair of singles and a double to pad his National League-leading RBI total to 107.
Scot Thompson snapped a 5-5 tie with a sacrifice fly in the seventh inning and Tim Raines added a two-run single to lead the Montreal Expos over Chicago by the score of 8–5.
This was Cleveland, not Toronto. But the Yankees, a team in turmoil and in trouble, kept sliding. Yesterday at the Stadium, they lost more ground in a pennant race that is slowly falling from their grasp. Their performance in a 9–5 loss to the Indians was both untimely and unlikely. It was a game the Yankees led, 5–3, going into the ninth inning. But Cleveland, which began the day 40 games out of the American League East lead, scored six runs, all off Brian Fisher, the rookie reliever. A testy Billy Martin boiled in the aftermath, defending his decision to leave in Fisher even with two left-handed hitters due to hit in the ninth and with Dave Righetti, his stopper, warmed up.
Detroit’s Nelson Simmons hits a home run from each side of the plate, the first Tiger to do so. But the Orioles answer with 6 homers of their own in overpowering the Tigers, 14–7. Cal Ripken hit is 2nd homer of the game in the 8th, and Eddie Murray and Fred Lynn followed with successive homers. The 3 straight ties a Birds record. The 41 total bases in the game is a club record. The Orioles had 19 hits and increased their team home run total to 194, the most in the major leagues.
Mike Moore’s five-hitter and a two-run homer by Danny Tartabull carried Seattle over Kansas City, 5–1. The Royals, who have lost two of their last three games, saw their lead in the American League West shrink to two games over idle California. Moore (15-8) struck out four batters and walked three. He pitched out of a bases-loaded, none-out jam in the ninth, inducing two popouts and a fly ball to center. The Mariners’ victory was their sixth in seven games against the Royals this year. The Royals had won nine straight at home.
Bob Ojeda balked Ted Simmons home with the winning run in the seventh inning, helping a two-out, three-run rally that gave Milwaukee a 5–3 victory over the Red Sox. Ojeda (7-10) was called for the balk with two out and the score tied, 3-3, as he was pitching to Ernest Riles. Ojeda later walked Riles.
Gary Gaetti lined a home run over the left-field fence with one out in the 11th inning for Minnesota’s winning run as the Twins nipped the Rangers, 7–6.
Pitcher Steve Howe admitted to Minnesota Twins officials tonight that he had used cocaine last weekend, the club said. This will mark the end of Howe’s tenure with the Twins, but just one of his many failures to overcome his addiction, It will finally kill him in 2006 when he crahes his truck under the influence of methamphetamine.
Houston Astros 7, Atlanta Braves 2
San Francisco Giants 6, Cincinnati Reds 7
Baltimore Orioles 14, Detroit Tigers 7
Seattle Mariners 5, Kansas City Royals 1
Boston Red Sox 3, Milwaukee Brewers 5
Texas Rangers 6, Minnesota Twins 7
Chicago Cubs 5, Montreal Expos 8
Cleveland Indians 9, New York Yankees 5
Philadelphia Phillies 0, New York Mets 9
St. Louis Cardinals 8, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, San Diego Padres 4
NFL Monday Night Football:
Gary Danielson hit Fred Banks, a rookie, with a 17-yard scoring pass and Earnest Byner burst 21 yards up the middle for a touchdown as the Cleveland Browns defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers, 17–7, Monday night. The Browns’ defense did not allow the Steelers to get closer than the Cleveland 36-yard line through the first three quarters. But a 38-yard punt return by Louis Lipps gave the Steelers the ball on the Cleveland 15 two minutes into the fourth quarter, and Mark Malone hit John Stallworth with a 6-yard scoring pass two plays later to make it 10–7. Stallworth, whose final reception of the game was the 400th of his career, finished with eight catches for 93 yards. Late in the fourth quarter, Curtis Weathers, a linebacker, sacked Malone at the Pittsburgh 9 and intercepted a pass on the next play to give the Browns possession at the Steeler 16. After a penalty, Byner broke several tackles and lunged into the end zone with 2 minutes 37 seconds to play. Banks, an eighth-round draft choice from Liberty Baptist College, dropped two passes before hauling in the scoring pass, his first as a professional, with 3:56 to play in the first half. The touchdown capped an 80-yard drive on which Byner ran five times for 27 yards.
Pittsburgh Steelers 7, Cleveland Browns 17
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1309.14 (+1.46)
Born:
Nicole Shanahan, American tech entrepreneur and political candidate with Robert F. Kennedy, in Placer County, California.
Madeline Zima, American actress (“The Nanny”, “Californication”), in New Haven, Connecticut.
Matt Harrison, MLB pitcher (All-Star, 2012; Texas Rangers), in Durham, North Carolina.
Andy Studebaker, NFL linebacker (Kansas City Chiefs, Indianapolis Colts), in Congerville, Illinois.
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