American CIA case officer Edward Lee Howard flees to Russia after being identified as a KGB agent. Howard was hired by the CIA in 1980 and was later joined by his wife, Mary, where they were both trained in intelligence and counter-intelligence methods. Shortly after the end of their training and before going on their first assignment, a routine polygraph test indicated that he had lied about past drug use, and he was fired by the CIA in 1983 shortly before he was to report to the CIA’s station at the American embassy in Moscow. Disgruntled over the perceived unfairness of having been dismissed over accusations of drug use, petty theft and deception, he began to abuse alcohol. He then began making mysterious phone calls to some former colleagues, both in Washington and in Moscow. In February 1984 after a drunken brawl he was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The charges were later reduced to aggravated assault. At some point, Howard apparently began providing classified information to the KGB, possibly contacting KGB officers in Austria in 1984 during a visit there. His information has been blamed for exposing Adolf Tolkachev, who was then executed by the KGB.
In 1985, the CIA was severely shaken by several security leaks that led to exposure of officers and assets. On August 1, 1985, after twenty-five years of service in the KGB, Vitaly Yurchenko walked into the United States Embassy in Rome and defected to the United States. In the following interrogations by the CIA, he accused Howard and another officer, Ronald Pelton, of working for the KGB. In November of that year, Yurchenko himself re-defected back to the Soviet Union. It has been suggested that Yurchenko was acting as a re-doubled agent, seeking to fool the CIA with wrong leads to protect one of the Soviet Union’s most important CIA double-agents, Aldrich Ames.
On September 20, 1985, Howard walked up to a member of a surveillance team and indicated that he was ready to talk but wanted first to get a lawyer; a meeting was scheduled for the following week. The following night, Howard disappeared. As he and his wife Mary drove back from a dinner away from their home, Howard leapt from the car as Mary slowed to round a corner. He left a dummy made from stuffed clothes and an old wig stand in his seat to fool the pursuing agents, and fled to Albuquerque, where he took a plane to New York City. Once at home, Mary called a number she knew would reach an answering machine, and played a pre-recorded message from Edward to fool the wiretap and buy her husband more time. From New York, Howard flew to Helsinki; from there, he walked into the Soviet embassy. Howard maintained his innocence until his death. He only fled, he said, because he could see the agency had chosen him to fill Yurchenko’s profile and wanted a scapegoat. Howard insisted he refused to divulge anything of real importance in exchange for his Soviet protection. In 1995, Howard’s memoirs, called Safe House, were published by National Press Books in which Howard indicated that he was prepared for a plea bargain with the United States.
Howard died on July 12, 2002, at his Russian dacha, reportedly from a broken neck after a fall in his home.
President Reagan makes a Radio Address to the Nation on foreign policy.
The Administration has called a special meeting of finance ministers and central bank heads of five leading industrial countries today at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The meeting will convene behind closed doors and under intense security measures. A Treasury Department spokesman declined to discuss the agenda of the conference which representatives of the United States, Japan, West Germany, Britain and France are expected to attend.
The United Nations celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Many types of humanitarian or peacekeeping operations being conducted around the world symbolize the essential work of the world organization.
Weary delegates from 130 countries completed a stormy review of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in Geneva by unanimously adopting a report that said the quest for disarmament and an end to testing “remained unfulfilled.” The review conference of the 1970 treaty concluded after an all-night session in which feuding between Gulf War foes Iran and Iraq threatened to block a consensus on the report. It urged greater efforts to end the nuclear arms race.
Foreign diplomats are speculating about who may attend the 40th anniversary of the General Assembly at the United Nations. On the eve of the opening of the three-week debate, the talk of who might come and who might not has eclipsed most serious talk about global issues. Nearly 100 heads of state are expected at the event.
Polish authorities freed five Solidarity activists who were among 250 political prisoners being held in jails. They included a pregnant schoolteacher whose release had been demanded by Danuta Walesa, the wife of the outlawed union movement’s founder, Lech Walesa. The Polish news agency said the prisoners were released for “humanitarian reasons.”
In a marked shift in Britain’s attitude toward the Palestine Liberation Organization, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced that her government is ready to meet PLO leaders to enhance the Middle East peace process. Returning from a visit to Jordan, Thatcher said she had agreed that two members of the PLO executive should go to London as part of a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegations for talks. The announcement was denounced by Israeli officials, who accused Thatcher of “legitimizing terrorism.”
A month-long Soviet and Afghan offensive against Muslim rebels near the border with Pakistan appeared to be ending. Both sides were retreating from the area near the Paktia province village of Lezha, guerrilla sources said in Islamabad. The offensive became one of the bloodier campaigns of the six-year Afghan war when both sides dug in to fight for fixed positions.
Sri Lanka plans to crack down on Tamil rebel activity by establishing Vietnam-style free-fire zones where troops will have orders to shoot anyone on sight, a government official said. The “no-go zones” will prohibit people from entering specific eastern territorial waters, forest reserves and state-owned lands. Similar tactics were developed by the United States in an effort to isolate the Viet Cong. Sri Lankan authorities said they took the step to cut off arms flowing to Tamil guerrillas, who seek to set up a separate nation on part of the island.
Philippine troops blocked 25,000 demonstrators trying to march to the palace of President Ferdinand E. Marcos, while tens of thousands of Filipinos joined in nationwide demonstrations against his government. Opposition organizers said three people were wounded and 30 others were detained in Manila. One of the largest demonstrations took place on Negros Island to protest the killing of 20 demontrators by government forces. The protests marked the anniversary of Marcos’ declaration of martial law in 1972. He ended martial law in 1981, but opponents assert that he still has dictatorial powers.
New buildings crumbled in Mexico City after a second earthquake. No new casualties were reported in the second the quake, which struck Friday night and measured 7.3 on the Richter scale. But the United States Ambassador, John Gavin, said that the death toll in the initial quake on Thursday could rise to 10,000 or more and that damage was worse than originally believed by authorities.
President Reagan speaks with President of the United Mexican States Miguel De La Madrid to discuss U.S. aid. President Reagan offered substantial American aid to Mexico in the wake of the earthquake disaster after learning that the quake is much worse than originally feared. The President was reported to have begun talks with Administration officials about ways to help Mexico mobilize a world-wide relief effort if the Mexican Government decides to request it. “There seems to be a need for a very substantial global response,” said a senior Administration policy maker. “This probably transcends the scale of the Ethiopia famine.”
Thousands of survivors are combing hospitals and morgues day and night in Mexico looking for familiy members and friends following the devastating earthquake that has plunged Mexico City into a numb state of grief and despair. Most of the several thousand bodies that have so far been recovered have yet to be identified, government officials said.
Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi said he hopes for American help to fend off the strongest offensive yet by Angolan government forces. Savimbi, head of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), spoke to reporters flown into Jamba, his base in southeastern Angola. He said the Angolan army, with Cuban and Soviet help, has pushed to within 120 miles of Jamba. A decade ago, covert U.S. aid to the losing anti-Marxists in Angola’s civil war prompted a congressional ban on such aid, a ban repealed effective October 1.
House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill Jr. (D-Massachusetts) accepted a free airplane ride from Beech Aircraft Corp. and will repay the company for the trip, a spokesman for O’Neill said. Chris Matthews said that O’Neill will reimburse Beech for the July 19 flight from Washington to Hyannis, Massachusetts, at commercial rates. Senator Strom Thurmond (R-South Carolina) also said that he had accepted a free trip in May from Page Avjet, the Washington distributor of Beech aircraft. In addition, Thurmond’s 1984 financial disclosure statement lists seven free trips from Page Avjet last year. Thurmond said he did not believe the free trips violated Senate rules.
Anne McGill Burford, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and her husband, Robert F. Burford, director of the Bureau of Land Management, were arrested on drinking-related charges after a highway incident, Arlington County, Virginia, authorities said. Anne Burford was arrested after becoming disruptive at the Arlington County Detention Center, jail officials said. Her arrest occurred two hours after her husband was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated and refusing to take a breathalyzer test.
The Environmental Protection Agency approved a plan by Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary. Halting the bay’s decline and restoring its living resources will cost millions of dollars, said EPA Administrator Lee M. Thomas. The bay, fed by 150 rivers, creeks and streams, drains a 64,000-square-mile watershed. Its fish, shellfish and waterfowl habitat have been a major economic resource since prehistoric times, but heavy human settlement and industrialization have poured tons of pollutants into the bay. State officials said federal participation eased their apprehension that federal support of the bay programs might be weakened by new strains caused by the growing budget deficit.
Controversy has again visited the Oregon desert commune that recruited homeless people from around the country last year in what some residents said was an effort to stack the voting in local elections. Ma Anand Sheela, a key adviser to the commune’s guru, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, has departed amid several allegations by the guru that are being investigated by six law enforcement agencies. The guru also contends that Miss Sheena was responsible for activities that have angered surrounding communities.
The loss of irrigation water before it reaches crops and the wasting of water by manufacturers and households threaten shortages that could limit food production and economic growth, the Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research group, said in Washington. The group said alternative investments in efficiency and improved management would yield more usable water per dollar than conventional water projects, such as dams and river diversions. “Sustaining economic growth and supplying growing cities will require recycling, reusing and conserving water to get more production out of existing supplies,” said Sandra Postel, a Worldwatch researcher.
Price Waterhouse committed illegal discrimination in deciding not to make a female manager a partner, a federal court ruled. U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell, in Washington, ruled that although the bias may not have been intended, the accounting firm broke the law by allowing sex stereotypes to influence its decision not to promote Ann Hopkins, a senior manager. Hopkins had charged that she was denied a partnership because of her assertive personality, a trait she said would be considered desirable in a male partner.
A jury took one hour to decide that a former judge was sane when he killed an attorney associated with a man who defeated him in a bitterly contested election. Former Circuit Judge Daniel McDonald, 43, found guilty earlier by the same Milwaukee jury in the fatal stabbing of James Klein, 31, was given life in prison. Defense attorney William Hayes said McDonald did not know what he was doing when he killed Klein. “Dan doesn’t remember… and it’s just as well,” Hayes said.
As a New York City homosexual group steps up efforts to educate people about prevention of AIDS, some continue to resist the message. There is also wide debate among homosexuals about whether directors of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis or other community leaders have addressed the issue of prevention and education.
“Charlie Two-Shoes,” the Chinese farmer befriended by U.S. Marines after World War II, will be allowed to stay in the United States indefinitely, Attorney General Edwin Meese III decided. The Immigration and Naturalization Service dropped deportation proceedings against “Charlie,” whose real name is Cui Zhixi. His wife and two children also will be allowed to come from China to join him, Meese said. The attorney general cited humanitarian grounds for his decision, noting that Cui Zhixi, who has remained in this country since 1983, “means a great deal” to the Marines he came to visit. The Marines informally adopted Cui Zhixi 40 years ago, paying for his education and giving him a nickname because they could not pronounce his real name.
Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 rounds to become Heavyweight Boxing Champion. He was fighting against time and diminishing skills, and on this occasion, Larry Holmes also took on the memory of a popular heavyweight champion whose record he was trying to equal. Michael Spinks, a bold young light heavyweight, used these factors to his advantage tonight, accomplishing what no one in his weight class had done before. In the process, Holmes left the ring a loser for the first time in his professional career. Spinks became the first light heavyweight to win the heavyweight title and also prevented Holmes from equaling Rocky Marciano’s record of winning 49 consecutive bouts without a defeat. In a closely scored but unanimous decision, Spinks simply outpunched the 35-year-old Holmes, who was the International Boxing Federation champion and had held one version of the title or another for seven years. That was the second-longest reign, after Joe Louis’s.
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Minutes after Don Mattingly fielded Cal Ripken’s bouncer and stepped on first base, Billy Martin sat in his office and said: “We’ve been waiting for that last out for eight days.” Ripken’s long-awaited grounder was the last out of a game the Yankees won, 5–2, ending their losing streak at eight games. The Yankees ended their streak because their pitchers finally limited the opposition to fewer runs than their hitters produced. Joe Cowley, pitching six innings, and Brian Fisher stymied the Orioles on five hits. The victory over Baltimore, their first since September 12, rekindled the Yankees’ hopes of catching Toronto. But barring a total collapse by the Blue Jays, they are only hopes, not a realistic goal. There are only 14 games to play and the Blue Jays are ahead by 6 ½ games.
Kelly Gruber’s bases-loaded single with one out in the 14th inning drove home George Bell from third base and gave Toronto a 2–1 victory over Milwaukee. The triumph enabled the American League East-leading Blue Jays to remain six-and-a-half games ahead of the Yankees. Toronto’s magic number for winning its first division title was reduced to nine, meaning any combination of Toronto victories and Yankee losses totaling nine will give the Blue Jays the championship.
Doug DeCinces homered and drove in four runs and Kirk McCaskill allowed three hits over eight shutout innings to lead the California Angels to a 12–3 victory over the Cleveland Indians. The Angels’ fourth straight victory kept them tied with Kansas City for first place in the American League West. Kansas City beat Minnesota in 10 innings earlier in the night. McCaskill (11–11) walked five and struck out three. Jim Slaton relieved to start the ninth and gave up three runs. Carmen Castillo hit a two-out, two-run homer and Tony Bernazard followed with a home run.
Frank White singled off the third-base bag with one out in the 10th inning, driving home George Brett from second base to give Kansas City a 6–5 victory over the visiting Twins. Brett opened the 10th by walking on five pitches from Ron Davis (2–6) and went to second on George Orta’s sacriifce bunt. Steve Balboni, who had tied the game at, 5–5, with his 34th homer in the eighth, drew a walk and White followed with a grounder that skipped off the third-base bag and went into left field, scoring Brett. Mark Huismann (1-0) pitched two perfect innings for the victory. Kansas City went into the eighth trailing 5–2, but rallied against the starter Mike Smithson and Davis. Lonnie Smith drew a leadoff walk and Brett followed with a run-scoring double, which knocked out Smithson. Brett moved to third on Davis’s wild pitch and scored on a sacrifice fly by Orta. Balboni then homered to left, tying the game, 5–5. Balboni’s 34th homer tied the team record set by John Mayberry. Mark Funderburk’s home run, a bases-empty shot in the eighth, gave the Twins a 5–2 lead.
In a Boston 7–6 win over Detroit, Wade Boggs ties Speaker’s club mark of 222 hits in the 2nd inning with a single. His 5th inning single, his 185th, sets a new American League record for singles breaking the mark set by Willie Wilson in 1980. Wade will end with 187, a mark that will stand until 2001. By going 2 for 5, Boggs raised his average to .374, tops in the major leagues.
Mike Davis singled home two runs and Tony Phillips contributed three hits, including a suicide squeeze bunt, in Oakland’s 8–3 victory over the White Sox at Comiskey Park.
The Rangers downed the Mariners, 7–2. Toby Harrah capped a four-run eighth inning with a two-run single and Steve Buechele added a solo homer. Jose Guzman went six innings and improved his record to 1–2. Greg Harris finished for his 11th save.
Jack Clark hit his first home run since August 16, a two-run shot in the seventh inning, to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 7–6 victory over the Montreal Expos today that kept St. Louis two games ahead of the Mets in the National League East. Clark’s homer, his 22d of the year, climaxed St. Louis’s comeback from a 6–1 deficit and gave the Cards their 9th victory in the past 10 games. The Mets stayed within two games of St. Louis by routing Pittsburgh, 12–1. Cesar Cedeno, hitting .466 since being acquired August 29 from Cincinnati, capped a four-run burst in the sixth off Bill Gullickson, the Montreal starter, and two relievers. Jeff Lahti (4–2) was the winner in relief and Todd Worrell got the final out for his third save. John Tudor, attempting to make the St. Louis the first National League team in 16 years to have two 20-game winners, yielded a grand slam to Andre Dawson in the third.
Dwight Gooden’s three-run homer in the bottom of the first closed out the Mets’ biggest inning of the season — seven runs — and they completed the rout with a 12–1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates before 49,931 at Shea Stadium. The Mets, whose 90th victory matched last season’s total, had 18 hits. Gooden had three of them, giving him 20 this season and breaking the club record for hits by a pitcher, set in 1971 by Tom Seaver, who had 17. Gooden has always approached his hitting seriously. The three hits improved his season average to .230, although he is 7 for 13 (.538) with 3 runs scored and 6 RBIs in his last four games.
Jerry Reuss pitched a five-hitter and knocked in a pair of runs with a single and a sacrifice fly as Los Angeles routed San Francisco, 11–2. The victory increased the Dodgers’ lead in the National League West to five and a half games over the Cincinnati Reds, who lost to the Houston Astros. Reuss (13–10) retired 18 of 19 batters following a two-out, first-inning single by Jeff Leonard and coasted the rest of the way, striking out three and walking two. Dan Gladden hit his fourth home run and Rob Deer added a sacrifice fly for the Giants’ runs in the ninth. The Dodgers scored seven runs in the fifth, equaling their season-high production for an inning. They scored seven runs in one inning against the Giants on July 29.
Tim Tolman slammed a three-run homer in the eighth inning to power Houston over Cincinnati, 9–5. The Astros won for the 21st time in 25 games. With the score tied, 5–5, Tolman belted his second home run of the season off John Franco (12–3). Tolman’s blast followed singles by Kevin Bass and John Mizerock. Houston added another run in the inning on a triple by Bill Doran and a run-scoring single by Craig Reynolds. Dave Smith (9–5) was the winner in relief.
Chicago collected seven straight hits and scored eight runs in the fifth inning to wallop the Phillies, 9–2. John Abrego, a rookie, took advantage of the outburst to record his first major league victory. Abrego allowed only four hits through six innings.
Eric Show (11–10) fired a three-hitter and retired the last 17 batters as for San Diego as the Padres edged the Braves, 1–0. The Padres’ run came in the fourth inning off Joe Johnson (4–2). Graig Nettles hit a lead-off single and went to second on Kevin McReynolds single. Tim Flannery then followed with a single to score Nettles.
New York Yankees 5, Baltimore Orioles 2
Detroit Tigers 6, Boston Red Sox 7
Cleveland Indians 3, California Angels 12
Oakland Athletics 8, Chicago White Sox 3
Cincinnati Reds 5, Houston Astros 9
Minnesota Twins 5, Kansas City Royals 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, New York Mets 12
Chicago Cubs 9, Philadelphia Phillies 2
Atlanta Braves 0, San Diego Padres 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 11, San Francisco Giants 2
Montreal Expos 6, St. Louis Cardinals 7
Seattle Mariners 2, Texas Rangers 7
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Toronto Blue Jays 2
Born:
Justin Durant, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions, Dallas Cowboys, Atlanta Falcons), in Florence, South Carolina.
Darnell Stapleton, NFL center (Pittsburgh Steelers), in Union, New Jersey.
Marcus Buggs, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills), in Nashville, Tennessee.
Antonio Bastardo, Dominican MLB pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets), in Hato Mayor del Rey, Dominican Republic.
Ryan Hawley, British soap opera actor (Robert Sugden — “Emmerdale”), in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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