A former C.I.A. officer has fled the United States within the last 10 days after apparently being identified by a Soviet defector as a double agent, Reagan Administration officials said. The officials said Edward L. Howard held an “operational” post and had access to “significant” information that could have been damaging if provided to the Soviet Union. According to one intelligence source, Mr. Howard worked for the agency’s clandestine service under the Deputy Director for Operations. The official said Mr. Howard was believed to have fled the country. While it has been disclosed that some former C.I.A. officers have sold classified agency documents to Soviet agents, officials said there was no record that an officer of Mr. Howard’s status had been found to have worked for Moscow on a continuing basis. Administration officials have said that Vitaly Yurchenko, a former top official of the K.G.B., defected in July to the West. He has reportedly been giving the C.I.A. the names and identities of Soviet agents around the world, including several who were said to have once held positions with American intelligence agencies.
Striking what is expected to be the major theme of his visit to Paris starting Wednesday, Mikhail S. Gorbachev said today that if weapons are introduced into space the major existing constraints on the arms race “will go overboard.” Interviewed in Moscow by French television, Mr. Gorbachev said that at this “very critical point” every government had an obligation to take a stand on the issue. “Today it is impossible to sit it out on the sidelines,” he said. “One must take a stand. The times demand that every responsible government or politician destined, so to speak, to lead one state or another should today take a clear stand on these issues.”
The chief Soviet negotiator at the Geneva arms talks accused the United States today of failing to respond positively to what he called a balanced and comprehensive proposal for reducing nuclear weapons. In an unusually long conversation with journalists before a special session of the talks, Viktor P. Karpov, the chief Soviet delegate, said his Government’s proposal could be the basis for further discussions and decisions. “So what we need for progress is that the American side change the attitude toward the discussions,” said Mr. Karpov, who spoke in English inside the Soviet Mission compound here. “And we’ll take a stand that will allow both delegations to work together, having in mind the same aim — preparing concrete, practical results.”
The leaders of the Warsaw Pact will meet late this month in Bulgaria to plan for the United States-Soviet summit meeting in November, West German radio reported today. Citing diplomatic sources in East Berlin, the radio said the meeting would take place in Sofia on October 21–23. The Warsaw Pact nations are the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Rumania. The Warsaw Pact meeting will be part of the preparations for the meeting between the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and President Reagan on November 19-20 in Geneva, the radio said.
The French President has refused an invitation from President Reagan to attend a meeting of seven major industrial democracies in advance of the Soviet-American summit meeting, a spokesman for Francois Mitterrand said. The spokesman also indicated that France would resist Soviet pressures to jointly condemn the American Strategic Defense Initiative when Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, visits Paris today.
A Czechoslovak jet opened fire on an American Army helicopter flying a routine reconnaissance mission along West Germany’s southeastern border last Saturday, the Pentagon said. A spokesman said the helicopter was not hit. The Pentagon spokesman, Robert B. Sims, said the L-39 fighter plane fired “approximately two to four rockets” without warning. None of the rockets hit the aircraft, and the two crew members flew back to their base near Nuremberg without returning fire, he said.
Rioting erupted in Liverpool and flared again in London, with gangs of youths battling police and setting property afire only hours after Home Secretary Douglas Hurd warned of serious inner-city problems. In Liverpool’s predominantly black Toxteth district, scene of 1981 rioting, 10 people were arrested and one was seriously hurt in violence growing out of a murder hearing for four blacks. In London, youths hurled stones and gasoline bombs at police in the Peckham district near Brixton, scene of weekend looting and firebombing.
The leader of the opposition Labor Party, Neil Kinnock, sharply criticized elements of the radical left wing of the party today in a maneuver designed to keep Labor from drifting out of the mainstream of British politics. Addressing the party’s annual conference in this seaside resort on England’s south coast, a region of Britain in which the party is in danger of being eclipsed, Mr. Kinnock, 43 years old, aimed a series of sharp barbs at party members who rely on confrontational tactics as an organizing tool. His immediate target was the Labor-controlled Liverpool City Council, which has chosen to stop raising revenue through property taxes rather than abide by limits imposed by the Government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. “You start with farfetched resolutions,” Mr. Kinnock said. “They’re then pickled into a rigid dogma or code, and you go through the years sticking to that — outdated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs — and you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labor council hiring taxis to scuttle around the city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers.”
About 2,000 people went on a rampage of window-smashing and arson in Frankfurt, West Germany, after a mass rally against neo-Nazism. Hundreds of riot police fought running battles with the rioters, and 65 were arrested and at least five injured. It was the fourth day of protests by leftists over a meeting in Frankfurt of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party. Violence intensified and spread to other West German cities after protesters became enraged over the death of a demonstrator who was run over by a police vehicle on Saturday.
President Reagan attends a National Security Council meeting on the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Israeli planes bombed the P.L.O. headquarters near Tunis in what Israel said was retaliation for the slaying of three Israelis in Cyprus last week. Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization chairman, was visiting a P.L.O. installation in northern Tunis when the Israeli jets struck his offices south of the capital. He was not among the wounded. 68 people were killed. Late today the site of the P.L.O. headquarters was a flat space of crumbled concrete, with burned-out cars and a P.L.O. bus. In the center was an enormous water-filled crater, apparently the result of a large bomb. Yasser Arafat, the P.L.O. chairman, who arrived here this morning after meeting with King Hassan II in Morocco over the weekend, was visiting a P.L.O. installation in northern Tunis when the Israeli jets struck his offices at Borj Cedria, 21 miles south of the city. He visited the bombed-out buildings later.
The White House said that Israel’s attack on the P.L.O. headquarters in Tunisia appeared to be “a legitimate response” against “terrorist attacks.” The statement, which seemed intended to justify the attack, put the United States squarely on the side of Israel in the face of a wave of protests from Arab governments, including those friendly to Washington, such as Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Washington insisted, however, that it had not been consulted by the Israelis or told in advance of the attack by American-made jet fighters.
Egypt and Jordan condemned the Israeli attack in Tunis, but the leaders of both countries vowed nonetheless to continue their efforts to revive the peace process. The Egyptian Government, calling the raid “a criminal act,” said it had suspended talks with Israel on the fate of Taba, a beachfront sliver of land in Sinai that has been in dispute for years. The dispute was believed to be close to resolution. At the United Nations, Tunesia’s Foreign Minster, Beji Caid Essebsi, called the raid an act of “state terrorism” intended to sabotage the Middle East peace process.
House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill Jr. praised the efforts of Jordan’s King Hussein to forge a Middle East peace agreement but indicated that Hussein should go to the bargaining table with Israel in order to win congressional support for a U.S. arms deal. Hussein, visiting Washington, met with about 75 members of Congress in an effort to garner support for President Reagan’s proposed $1.5-billion weapons package for Jordan. The deal is expected to be opposed in the House.
Two groups claimed responsibility for the abduction of four Soviet diplomats in Beirut, and both threatened to kill them all. One caller claiming to represent Islamic Holy War said that two of the hostages had already been put to death — a report unconfirmed by any independent source — while another group said it intended to begin executing the hostages shortly.
Morocco broke diplomatic relations with India after New Delhi announced that it recognized the republic proclaimed by Polisario guerrillas fighting Morocco for control of Western Sahara. The Moroccan Foreign Ministry said India’s recognition of the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic prejudged the outcome of a referendum in the disputed territory, as called for by the Organization of African Unity and the United Nations. By recognizing the Polisario, India belittled the principle of self-determination, Morocco said.
Western diplomats said today that Soviet and Afghan Government forces mounted hundreds of helicopter bombing strikes against Islamic rebels near Kabul last month in one of the most intense airborne operations in Afghanistan’s six-year war. The guerrillas sustained minimal casualities during the assault September 24, but two rebel commanders were killed, the diplomats said. They were unable to say whether there were casualties among the Soviet and Afghan Government forces. The report could not be independently confirmed. According to one diplomat, the airborne operation just west of the Afghan capital was mounted a day after rebel units shot down a helicopter, killing 10 Soviet and 15 Afghan soldiers.
Charles E. Thornton, 50, a medical writer for the Arizona Republic, was killed in Afghanistan on September 25, and a news photographer and two American doctors with him were wounded, Afghan rebels in Islamabad, Pakistan, said. Conflicting reports said Thornton was killed either by gunfire from an Afghan helicopter, a land mine or by rebels who mistook the victims for Soviets. The wounded were identified as photographer Peter Schlueter, 29, and John Maugnum and Judd Jensen.
The defense lawyer for a former Argentine President accused of murder has called the trial of nine former military rulers “arbitrary and unconstitutional.” “It is evident that this trial is political,” said Juan Carlos Tavares, who appealed to the court Monday to rule the trial unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has rejected similar appeals. Mr. Tavares was appointed by the court to defend General Jorge Videla, President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981. Mr. Tavares tried to portray Argentina in the late 1970’s and early 80’s as a country in the midst of a civil war. The armed forces, he said, with the support of the Argentine people, successfully defended the country against a terrorist threat. Many of Mr. Tavares’s arguments have been rebutted by testimony during earlier stages of the trial.
Nigeria has struggled in the 25 years since gaining its independence from Britain, and the African nation’s latest military ruler yesterday announced a 15-month state of economic emergency that he said would require “hard choices” for all.
Angolan rebels said they are holding off an Angolan army offensive and have not abandoned their headquarters in southeastern Angola as the Luanda government reported last week. The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), led by Jonas Savimbi, said that it has no intention of abandoning its base at Jamba. South Africa has supported and supplied the anti-Marxist rebels, and Angola charged that South African planes attacked Angolan troops in the region this week to help the UNITA forces.
Gunmen wearing army uniforms attacked a rural Roman Catholic mission, killing several people and abducting seven girls, the Roman Catholic daily newspaper Munno reported in Kampala, Uganda. The newspaper did not specify how many people were killed in the attack last week on the Kasaala mission station, about 40 miles north of Kampala.
Margaret M. Heckler will leave her post as Secretary of Health and Human Services to become United States Ambassador to Ireland, President Reagan said today. He announced the change with Mrs. Heckler, apparently ill at ease, at his side.’ He denied reports that she was being removed because he and senior White House aides were dissatisfied with her Cabinet performance. In an appearance in the White House press room, he and the Secretary said she had been given the choice of taking the new job or staying in her post. White House officials and members of Congress have said that Donald T. Regan, the White House chief of staff, was trying to force out Mrs. Heckler, one of the President’s two Cabinet-rank appointees who are women. Conservatives in the White House and elsewhere in the Administration have criticized Mrs. Heckler as being a weak manager and as lacking ideological commitment to the President’s programs. Disputing such reports, Mr. Reagan said the new job for Mrs. Heckler had been offered at his initiative because Ireland was becoming “impatient.” The Ambassador’s post has been vacant for several months.
President Reagan participates in a swearing-in ceremony for Admiral William Crowe Jr. as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Crowe, a sailor-diplomat with broad international experience, was sworn in as the nation’s highest-ranking military officer. Crowe, 60, assumed his duties as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during a private ceremony at the White House, with President Reagan administering the oath of office.
The House voted for a 45-day extension of the Superfund program to give Congress time to complete work on a long-term reauthorization of the toxic waste cleanup effort. The bill was approved on a voice vote and sent to the Senate, which last week passed its version of the reauthorization bill, providing a five-year, $7.5-billion extension of the program first enacted in 1980. The House is expected to consider its $10.1-billion proposal in mid-October. The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the plan in July, but it was referred to several other committees.
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, citing medical evidence that “passive smoke” can increase the risk of cancer to nonsmokers, endorsed legislation that would restrict smoking in all federal buildings to designated areas. Koop told a Senate subcommittee that the bill, sponsored by Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), “not only protects the nonsmoker but encourages the smoker to stop.” However, opponents of the measure, including representatives of the tobacco industry, argued that the no-smoking rules would be expensive.
The countdown began today for the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Atlantis on a secret military mission. The exact time the countdown began was not disclosed. The large digital countdown clock at the Kennedy Space Center was darkened, but space agency officials said preparations were under way for the launching, scheduled for Thursday.
An experimental new drug stops the AIDS virus from reproducing and attacking blood cells in the laboratory, and initial tests show it can be given safely to AIDS victims, researchers said. “I think this is very promising. This is one of the most potent drugs” against the AIDS virus, Dr. Hiroaki Mitsuya of the National Cancer Institute said. “The advantage of this agent is that it is less toxic in vitro,” or in the test tube, than other experimental AIDS medicines. The drug, known chemically as azidothymidine, has been code-named “Compound S” by its developer, the pharmaceutical firm Burroughs Wellcome. Reports on experiments with the drug by Mitsuya and others were presented at a meeting in Minneapolis of the American Society for Microbiology.
Homosexual bathhouses and bars and other places should be closed to prevent the spread of AIDS, the Republican New York Mayoral candidate, Diane McGrath, said in her first major news conference since she declared her candidacy in June.
John Cardinal O’Connor of New York and Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, perhaps the nation’s two most prominent Roman Catholic leaders, tried today to dispel what they said was a misperception that they differed in the strength of their opposition to abortion. In a news conference here preceding their joint appearance at the University of Notre Dame, both agreed there was a widespread view that Cardinal Bernardin had tried to subordinate the Catholic campaign against abortion to such issues as the nuclear arms race, while Cardinal O’Connor had tried to subordinate other issues to the importance of fighting legalized abortion. But both men said this was a mistaken notion. Cardinal O’Connor asserted that “in the past 10 years, no one has fought more valiantly in regard to abortion nor has gone on the limb more frequently” than Cardinal Bernardin.
Incumbent Cleveland Mayor George V. Voinovich swept to an easy primary election victory over three challengers who had sought to deny the low-key Republican a third term. With 99% of the votes counted, Voinovich, 48, had 32,972 votes, or 63.4%, while City Councilman Gary Kucinich had 13,346 votes, or 25.6%, James W. Barrett had 5,048 votes, or 9.7%, and Henry Scheer had 577 votes, or 1.1%. Voinovich and Kucinich will meet in the general election Nov. 5. Kucinich and Barrett are Democrats, while Scheer is a member of the Socialist Workers Party.
Two small private planes collided in the air, killing five persons and strewing bodies and wreckage for a half mile, authorities said. The planes crashed near the Mesquite landfill in southeast Dallas. Four bodies, including that of a woman, were found in the debris of a Cessna 441 Conquest, a turbo-prop, said an employee of the city of Mesquite, a Dallas suburb. The fifth body was found in the wreckage of the other plane, a single-engine Cessna 152 owned by Marjorie E. Harwell of Dallas.
The Union Carbide Corporation has been cited for “willful neglect” of numerous safety procedures at its pesticide plant in Institute, W.Va., the Federal agency charged with protecting workers announced today. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, one of several agencies investigating the August 11 leak of toxic gas that injured six employees and about 135 area residents, proposed the maximum fine of $32,100. “Union Carbide willfully violated their own company procedures, standard industry practice and Federal health and safety regulations,” said Patrick R. Tyson, acting head of the safety agency.
Mayor George V. Voinovich swept to an easy primary election victory today over three challengers who had sought to deny the low-key Republican a third term. With all of the votes counted in the nonpartisan primary, Mr. Voinovich had 33,364 votes, or 63.6 percent, while City Councilman Gary Kucinich, brother of former Mayor Dennis J. Kucinich, had 13,385 votes, or 25.5 percent, James W. Barrett had 5,143 votes, or 9.8 percent, and Henry Scheer had 561 votes, or 1 percent. Mr. Voinovich and Gary Kucinich, a Democrat, will meet in the general election Nov. 5.
For the ninth time in less than two months, a young Indian male on the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming has committed suicide, officials said today. A 25-year-old Arapahoe hanged himself in a closet, using a drawstring from his sweatshirt. He was found thismorning by his sister, according to the Fremont County Coroner, Larry Lee. The name was withheld until relatives could be notified. The first suicide occurred Aug. 12. The victims range in age from 14 to 25. Since the beginning of the year, at least 48 suicide attempts have been reported on the sparsely populated two-million-acre reservation, as against fewer than 30 last year.
The nation’s first comprehensive “unisex” insurance law went into effect in Montana, prohibiting companies from using gender or marital status to set premium rates and policy benefits. The state’s unique insurance law was enacted in 1983 after complaints by women that different premium rates for men and women, based on statistical records comparing the two groups’ risk of loss, were discriminatory.
The oyster-based economy of Florida’s Apalachicola Bay was devastated by the effects of Hurricane Elena, which stalled in the Gulf of Mexico and spared much of western Florida but still killed up to 90 percent of the oysters in the Bay.
E. B. White, the essayist and stylist, died at his home in North Brooklin, Maine, at the age of 86. Mr. White’s works delighted readers of every age, and his children’s books, “Stuart Little,” “Charlotte’s Web” and “The Trumpet of the Swan” are classics.
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The Yankees continued to confound the people who thought they were too far gone by lopping another game off Toronto’s lead last night. With Joe Niekro winning the way his older brother, Phil, has been unable to, the Yankees trimmed the Milwaukee Brewers, 6–1, and crept to four games back of the Blue Jays, who have led the American League East since May 13. Detroit defeated Toronto, 6–1. “Our situation improved from bleak to dark,” said Dave Winfield, who drove in the game’s first run and scored the first of three runs the Yankees added in the eighth inning. “We’re dragging it out; we’re not quitting.” The Yankees, who have won six consecutive games, have six games remaining, as does Toronto. They play three of those games against each other this weekend in Toronto. For any part of that series to mean anything, the Yankees must avoid, in the next two nights, any combination of their losses and Blue Jay victories totaling three.
Darrell Evans hit two home runs to regain the American League lead as Detroit slowed Toronto’s drive to a championship, winning, 6–1. The Toronto lead over the second-place Yankees dropped to four games as New York beat the Milwaukee Brewers by 6–1. Frank Tanana (11–14) scattered nine hits, struck out seven and walked one in gaining his third complete game. Evans’s first homer, a bases-empty shot in the first inning, was his 38th of the season. Lou Whitaker singled off Doyle Alexander (16–10) to start the Detroit third and came home on Evans’s 39th homer of the year. Two Toronto errors and a wild pitch led to three insurance runs for Detroit in the seventh.
They have played twice now, but the California Angels and the Kansas City Royals seem to have decided nothing. The Angels, who arrived here with a one-game lead in the American League West, regained it tonight by holding on to beat the Royals, 4–2. Mike Witt (14–9) struck out four batters and took a shutout into the eighth inning before the Royals scored twice and Manager Gene Mauch called for Donnie Moore from the bullpen. Witt came out after giving up a run-scoring triple to Willie Wilson and a single to George Brett that scored another. But Moore cooled the rally, getting Jorge Orta to fly out to the warning track in center and eventually earning his 30th save.
The Red Sox routed the Orioles, 10–3, as Bill Buckner, who drove in five runs, and Dwight Evans hit three-run homers.
The Indians beat the Mariners, 9–3. Andre Thornton snapped a sixth-inning tie with a two-run homer, and Don Schulze ended a personal nine-game losing streak with seven innings of three-hit pitching.
The White Sox thumped the Twins, 12–6, as a pair of two-run homers by Ron Kittle and a three-run blow by Harold Baines powered Chicago’s 15-hit attack.
The Rangers topped the A’s, 4–2. Jose Guzman pitched eight strong innings and Don Slaught had three hits and drove in two runs to lead Texas.
The Mets struck a mighty blow at the St. Louis Cardinals tonight when Darryl Strawberry broke up a pitching classic in the 11th inning by hitting an awesome 430-foot home run that beat the Cardinals, 1–0, and pulled the Mets within two games of first place with five to go. Strawberry hit his home run after Ken Dayley had relieved John Tudor and struck out Keith Hernandez and Gary Carter in the top of the 11th. Then he went to one ball and one strike on Strawberry, who slammed the next pitch deep into right-center field, where it banked off the lower part of the scoreboard behind the farthest seats. It ended a night of high drama, and it was scored after Ron Darling had pitched nine innings of scoreless four-hit ball for the Mets, while Tudor pitched 10 innings of scoreless six-hit ball for the Cardinals. It ended with Jesse Orosco stopping the Cardinals for two tingling innings after Darling had left.
The Los Angeles Dodgers clinched a tie for the National League West title tonight as Mariano Duncan and Enos Cabell each drove home two runs in a five-run fourth inning during a 10–3 victory over the San Diego Padres. One more Dodger triumph or Cincinnati loss will give the Dodgers the title. Los Angeles has five games remaining while the Reds have six left, including their final three at Dodger Stadium. Los Angeles jumped on Dave Dravecky (13–11) for eight runs on nine hits in his three and one-third innings. But the Dodger starter Rick Honeycutt also had problems, surrendering three runs on seven hits before exiting after three and two-thirds innings. Carlos Diaz, the third Dodger pitcher, worked five shutout innings to bring his record to 6–3.
Eric Davis had three hits, including the game-winner off Scott Garrelts (9–5), and drove in four runs, as the Reds edged the Giants, 7–6. The Reds loaded the bases in the eighth on Dave Concepcion’s single, a walk to Bo Diaz and a bunt single by Ron Oester. Dave Parker hit his 31st homer, a career best. He hit 30 for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1978 when he was the National League’s most valuable player. The loss was the Giants’ 97th of the season, setting a San Francisco record. They lost 96 last year.
The Cubs squeaked past the Pirates, 4–3. Leon Durham’s tie-breaking home run in the second inning and Jody Davis’ two-run shot in the fourth powered Reggie Patterson and Chicago. Patterson, 2-0, scattered eight hits, allowed two runs, walked three batters and struck out two in 73 innings. Jay Baller surrendered Mike Brown’s leadoff homer in the eighth, then Lee Smith took over and earned his 33rd save.
The Astros blanked the Braves, 2–0. Rookie Charlie Kerfeld went 8 ⅓ before needing help from Dave Smith, who retired the last two batters. Kerfeld scattered four hits and struck out six. Only one runner reached second base against him.
The game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Montreal Expos is postponed due to rain. This game will be made up tomorrow.
Earl Weaver, the hot-tempered Oriole manager whose fiery clashes with umpires led to his ejection from both games of Sunday’s doubleheader against the Yankees, has been suspended for three games by the American League president, Bobby Brown, beginning with last night’s game in Baltimore against the Boston Red Sox. Weaver could have demanded a hearing that would have postponed the suspension, but after his outbursts at Yankee Stadium he may have decided that he needed a cooling-off period.
Boston Red Sox 10, Baltimore Orioles 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Chicago Cubs 4
Seattle Mariners 3, Cleveland Indians 9
Toronto Blue Jays 1, Detroit Tigers 6
Atlanta Braves 0, Houston Astros 2
California Angels 4, Kansas City Royals 2
San Diego Padres 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 10
Chicago White Sox 12, Minnesota Twins 6
Milwaukee Brewers 1, New York Yankees 6
Cincinnati Reds 7, San Francisco Giants 6
New York Mets 1, St. Louis Cardinals 0
Oakland Athletics 2, Texas Rangers 4
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1340.95 (+12.32)
Born:
Emerald Fennell, British actress, writer and director (“The Crown”, “Saltburn”), in London, England, United Kingdom.
Chris Clark, NFL tackle and tight end (Denver Broncos, Houston Texans, Carolina Panthers), in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Max Hall, NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals), in Mesa, Arizona.
Jeremy Horst, MLB pitcher (Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies), in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Darren Ford, MLB pinch runner and centerfielder (San Francisco Giants), in Vineland, New Jersey.
Mitch Atkins, MLB pitcher (Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles), in Browns Summit, North Carolina.
MacGregor Sharp, Canadian NHL centre (Anaheim Ducks), in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Ryo Miyamori, Japanese rock singer (Orange Range), in Koza, Japan.
Died:
E. B. White, 86, American writer (“Stuart Little”; “Charlotte’s Web”)
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