President Reagan makes a Radio Address to the Nation on the Soviet Strategic Defense Programs. President Reagan accused the Soviet Union today of “dangerous deception” in failing to acknowledge that it has a strategic defensive system, and he repeated that his Administration will continue research on a similar program. In his weekly radio address, Mr. Reagan said also that the Soviet Union was engaged in “a number of activities” that raised questions about adherence to the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, including the construction of a new radar in central Siberia. Administration officials have made that assertion before. Mr. Reagan indicated that the United States would continue research on its own strategic defense system against incoming nuclear missiles, a program that has been given the name Strategic Defense Initiative and is commonly called “Star Wars.” Mr. Reagan said, as he has in the past, that such a system was needed to assure strategic balance with the Soviet Union.
Three Soviet diplomats were arrested in West Berlin on suspicion of spying on the U.S. Army and were later released to Soviet authorities in accordance with the four-power status of postwar Berlin, U.S. military headquarters announced. The brief announcement did not say what the three were doing or how they had been caught. The incident is the latest sign of growing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in the two Germanies.
The West German government announced the arrest of another suspected spy, the 11th person named so far in an espionage scandal that erupted in August. The Federal Prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe said that a 44-year-old salesman, not identified by name, was arrested early last week on suspicion of working for East German intelligence for the past three years. It provided no details of his activities.
Italy freed 2 P.L.O. aides despite a warrant issued by the United States for the arrest of one of the aides believed to have been involved in the hijacking of the Achille Lauro. The Palestinian, Mohammed Abbas, was reported to have left Italy for Yugoslavia with a colleague on a commercial airliner, and both were said to have been disguised as Egyptian soldiers or airline crew members.
15 Americans flew home from Europe, ending a saga of ship hijacking and murder at the hands of the Palestinian terrorists. At a stopover in Sicily, some of the Americans positively identified the four hijackers who are accused of killing a co-passenger, Leon Klinghoffer of New York, United States officials said.
President Reagan speaks with the widow of the American murdered by hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro.
The ship hijackers shuffled passports of American passengers held hostage to compose a “death list” and assigned a number to those who would be executed, returning passengers said. “They made up a list of who they were going to kill and they were just going to go down the list,” said Neil Kantor of Metuchen, New Jersey. “Leon Klinghoffer was No. 1, Mildred Hodes was No. 2.” “They numbered them like cattle,” said Nicholas A. Veliotes, the United States Ambassador to Egypt, who interviewed many passengers. “They said to them: ‘You’re No. 1, you’re No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5.’ ” Mr. Klinghoffer, the wheelchair-bound owner of an appliance manufacturing company in New York, was eventually shot in the forehead and his body thrown overboard. There are several reports that the hijackers may have ordered the ship’s barber and another crew member to push Mr. Klinghoffer and his wheelchair into the waters off Tartus, Syria.
Polish police detained three top Solidarity trade union activists in Warsaw and dozens of dissidents in other cities for urging Poles to boycott today’s parliamentary elections, dissident sources said. Jacek Kuron, adviser to Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, Zbigniew Romanszewski, in charge of underground Radio Solidarity, and Janusz Onyszkiewicz, a former press spokesman for the outlawed union, were picked up for questioning and had not returned by Saturday evening, relatives said. Walesa said at least 35 people were picked up in his hometown of Gdansk.
Thirty-nine people have died from AIDS in Switzerland and a total of 77 cases have been reported, the Federal Health Office said today. In its latest bulletin, the office said that of the 77 people afflicted by acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 68 were men, and 50 of those were either homosexual or bisexual. Five cases were among drug addicts and two people had been both drug users and homosexual. Eleven patients with AIDS had come from Africa or the Caribbean.
A “piracy” charge against the U.S. was made by President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt for having forced down an Egyptian airliner carrying the four Palestinian ship hijackers out of Egypt.
Islamic Jihad terrorists in Lebanon released a blurred photograph of the body of a man they alleged was executed American hostage William Buckley and offered to exchange his body for 100 Palestinians jailed in Israel. In Washington, a State Department spokesman said, “We do not regard the alleged photograph as convincing evidence that Mr. Buckley is no longer alive.” The 57-year-old U.S. Embassy political officer was kidnaped in Beirut in March, 1984, and the pro-Iranian group claimed to have executed him on October 5 in retaliation for the Israeli air attack on the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunis on October 1. A Muslim fundamentalist group said the body was Mr. Buckley’s, and that it was prepared to turn it over to the United Nations Secretary General if Israel would agree to free 100 Palestinian prisoners.
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi says that India’s relations with the United States have recently grown stronger, but that Washington is still “not tough enough” in opposing what he said was Pakistan’s development of a nuclear bomb. Mr. Gandhi, speaking in an interview here Friday, said “many things have improved” since his visit to Washington in June, particularly because of American willingness to export high-technology items. But referring to Pakistan, he said, “I don’t think the U.S. has been effective enough in this particular area.” Mr. Gandhi again rejected Pakistan’s assertions that it is not making a bomb and that Islamabad’s nuclear research program is for peaceful purposes only.
Vice President George Bush begins a six-day visit to China today in a more favorable atmosphere than prevailed during two previous trips, when U.S. arms sales to Taiwan threatened to unhinge fragile ties with Peking. Despite concern over U.S. legislation that could reduce exports of Chinese textiles, a U.S. diplomat characterized the atmosphere for Bush’s visit as “mostly hearts and flowers.”
Greenpeace’s seaborne protest against French nuclear tests in the South Pacific short-circuited when the organization’s new flagship was forced into port with a faulty generator. The tug Greenpeace ended a vigil off Mururoa atoll and headed for Tahiti after the breakdown, a spokesman for the environmental group said. The tug faced an uncertain welcome in Papeete, capital of French Polynesia. French authorities have marshaled a large naval and military force against the protest group.
Uganda’s new military Government reintroduced the court martial today in an effort to curb rampaging soldiers, an official statement said. The statement quoted the deputy head of the ruling military council, Colonel Wilson Toko, as saying that the Government was determined to insure that Government troops remained disciplined. Villagers have reported several cases of murder, rape and pillage by soldiers in recent weeks. Last Wednesday, the Ugandan leader, General Tito Okello, who took power in a coup in July, pledged to restore discipline. Ugandan armed forces have been in turmoil since the days of Idi Amin in tthe 1970’s.
Moderate South African white politicians seeking a solution to the nation’s racial strife met in Zambia with leaders of the African National Congress. The session, between four legislators of the opposition Progressive Federal Party and four leaders of the outlawed black nationalist group, was the second overture to the rebels by whites in a month. The first talks were with business leaders. The whites, headed by the party leader, Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, traveled to Lusaka, Zambia’s capital, for the meeting and were expected to return to South Africa on Sunday, the congress spokesman, Tom Sebina, said in a telephone interview. Mr. Sebina said the delegations “exchanged views on possible solutions to the crisis created by the apartheid system.”
Apartheid protests are affecting the portfolios of universities. Since Columbia’s decision last week to sell all its stocks in companies doing business in South Africa, other schools in the Northeast are continuing to struggle with the divestment issue.
The Constitution’s interpretation as set forth by the Reagan Administration was criticized by Associate Justice William J. Brennan, the Supreme Court’s most senior and liberal member. In a speech at Georgetown University, he said the idea that the intentions of the Constitution’s framers were the sole guide for decisions today showed “little more than arrogance cloaked as humility.”
Improved medical care for veterans will be sought by the Veterans Administration in several new programs undertaken in response to criticism from members of Congress and state health officials. Stricter monitoring of the V.A.’s doctors is one of the chief aims.
The Coast Guard arrested eight men and confiscated 160 tons of marijuana with a street value of $132 million from a tug and barge off the Virginia coast. The tug and barge carrying its cargo were expected to arrive today in Jacksonville, Florida, under heavy guard. Lieutenant (j.g.) David Cranking of the Coast Guard said a tip led to the seizure of the vessels about 500 miles off the Virginia coast. A Florida resident and seven Colombians aboard the tug Seamaid I and its barge were arrested. They were flying a Honduran flag, but Cranking said Honduran officials disavowed knowledge of the tug.
The Boy Scouts of America said that a youth denied a Life Scout badge for religious reasons has been awarded the rank, and the organization has modified the language of its rules accordingly. Paul Trout, 15, of Shepherdstown, West Virginia, was readmitted after scouting officials agreed to delete language defining God as the Supreme Being, the organization said at its headquarters in Irving, Texas. Trout was excluded from advancing to the second-highest rank when he told a review board last April that he did not believe in God or a Supreme Being.
Two teenagers were arraigned in Detroit on 11 felony charges each in a lunchtime shooting spree that wounded 11 people at a crowded restaurant, and a juvenile also was being held, police said. One of the victims remained in serious condition. Andre Duane Beard and Gregory Maurice Allen, both 17 and of Detroit, were charged with 10 counts each of aggravated assault with intent to commit murder, as well as one count each of possession of a firearm during commission of a felony. Beard also was wounded in the incident, officials said.
Former Teamsters President Roy Williams won a 45-day delay in the date he is to report to prison by agreeing to cooperate in a federal investigation of links between the union and organized crime. The Chicago Tribune reported that U.S. District Judge Prentice Marshall granted the reprieve in Chicago after Williams agreed to testify against nine reputed mob figures on trial in Kansas City on charges of stealing profits from Las Vegas casinos. Williams had been scheduled to report to prison this Saturday to begin a 10-year term for conspiring to bribe former Senator Howard W. Cannon (D-Nevada).
A child-care expert endorsed a bill introduced by Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colorado) that would give mothers four months of protected maternity leave. A woman would be guaranteed her job when she returns to work and would not lose seniority under the bill. Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, 67, an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, said the first four months are when the most critical stages of development take place in the mother-child relationship.
An all-white federal jury in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, acquitted Spiver Gordon, a black political activist, of nine charges of voting fraud and was unable to reach a verdict on 12 additional charges. In Birmingham, a jury in the retrial of Bobbie Nell Simpson, a black activist, found her innocent of voting fraud. The verdicts left prosecutors winless in five trials stemming from a Justice Department inquiry on voting activities in five predominantly black counties in rural Alabama. Jurors in Gordon’s trial were ordered to resume deliberations Tuesday.
A former Indiana state trooper escaped from a county jail early today, 16 days before he was to be tried for murder in the death of his former wife’s boyfriend, the state police reported. The trooper, Jerry Cliver, who eluded the authorities for 13 months before he was arrested May 3 in Florida, broke a window of the Sullivan County Jail to escape, the police said. He was charged with fatally shooting Donald Clayton, 38 years old, and with attempted murder for wounding his former wife, Jerri Lynn Cliver, 30, last year.
A medical products company has recalled one model of the heart valves it manufactures because of a mechanical defect that has caused 14 deaths, a company official said. The recall applies only to the 200 devices sold but not used, said Frank Haskins, executive vice president of the company, Shiley Inc. He said he had no suggestions for the 2,700 heart patients who already had the valves implanted. Twenty-one valves failed, resulting in the deaths, Mr. Haskins said in announcing the recall Friday. The product being recalled is Shiley’s 29, 31and 33-millimeter Bjork-Shiley 60-degree Convexo-concave heart valves manufactured between March and June 1982, Mr. Haskins said. Similar Shiley valves were recalled in 1975 and 1983.
A Texas woman whose fifth husband was found buried in her front yard was found guilty Friday of murdering him. The woman, Betty Lou Beets, said her son, Robert Branson 2d, killed her husband, Jimmy Don Beets, a captain in the Dallas Fire Department. His body, along with that of Doyle Wayne Barker, Mrs. Beets’s fourth husband, was found in June in her yard in Cedar Creek Lake. Prosecutors said she killed Mr. Beets for insurance money. Mrs. Beets, who was tried only in her fifth husband’s death, could be sentenced to life imprisonment or death by injection. Mrs. Beets said she could not explain the presence of her fourth husband’s body or the details of his death. Until his body was found, he was believed to have drowned. Both bodies were shrouded in sleeping bags, according to District Attorney Billy Bandy.
The value of Presidential libraries is being debated by historians and librarians as a private foundation plans to have a library completed at Stanford University to house President Reagan’s papers by the end of his second term. Of the millions of documents being preserved, “95 percent, I would judge, is garbage,” said Louis L. Tucker, director of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Rain drenched the central part of the nation, threatening more flooding in Kansas, where six counties were declared disaster areas by Governor John Carlin. At least 100 residents of Augusta, Kansas, were forced to flee their homes when the Whitewater River spilled over its banks. Several rivers in Missouri and Oklahoma were above flood stage.
The space shuttle Challenger moved to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for maintenance of the upcoming STS-61-A mission.
American League Championship Series, Game Four:
In Game 4, Toronto prevailed 3–1, making it the second game of the series in which the Blue Jays won after trailing going into their final at bat. This gave Toronto a 3–1 lead in the best-of-seven series, and put them one win away from becoming the first team outside the United States to represent their league in the World Series. But Kansas City will take advantage of the format change to come back and take the series.
The fourth game was a rematch of the pitchers who had started Game 1, with Stieb taking on Leibrandt. Entering the bottom of the sixth, the Blue Jays had only two hits and the Royals only one. A walk to Lonnie Smith and a single to Willie Wilson put runners at first and third with nobody out and the hot-hitting George Brett at the plate. Showing great respect for Brett’s dominance in the series, Toronto manager Bobby Cox opted to intentionally walk him, loading the bases with nobody out. Initially, the play seemed to backfire, as Stieb walked Hal McRae to give the Royals a 1–0 lead. Stieb got out of the inning by inducing a Sheridan pop out and a double play grounder from Frank White.
Entering the ninth, it appeared the bases-loaded walk to McRae was going to be the difference in the game. Leibrandt opened the ninth having surrendered only four hits. A walk to Damaso Garcia and a double by Moseby tied the game. Quisenberry entered the game and gave up a single to George Bell and a double to Al Oliver that scored Moseby and Bell, giving the Jays a 3–1 lead. The Royals did get two on with two out in the ninth, but Henke got out of the jam and emerged as the winning pitcher for the second time in three games.
Toronto Blue Jays 3, Kansas City Royals 1
National League Championship Series, Game Three:
In past years, a 2–0 hole would have occasioned a must-win game, but the Cardinals still had a little breathing room due to the best-of-seven nature of the series. They did, however, need a win to get back on track in the series, and they got it with a 4–2 win behind Danny Cox to cut the Dodgers’ series lead to 2–1. The Cardinals got roaring quickly when leadoff hitter Vince Coleman singled and stole second. After a walk to McGee, Dodgers starter Bob Welch seemed to have picked Coleman off, but a throwing error, reminiscent of Andújar’s in Game 2, scored Coleman and put McGee on third. Herr then walked and promptly stole second to give the Cardinals runners on second and third with nobody out. After an intentional walk to Andy Van Slyke, McGee scored on Terry Pendleton’s ground out to give the Cardinals a 2–0 lead.
The next inning, Vince Coleman again singled — and was again picked off base, only to advance to third on a throwing error. McGee singled Coleman home and was promptly caught stealing. Herr followed up with a home run to give the Cardinals a 4–0 lead in the second. The game was for all purposes over. The Dodgers scored single runs in the fourth on back-to-back doubles by Pedro Guerrero and Mike Marshall and in the seventh when Enos Cabell singled off of Cox, then scored on Ken Landreaux’s one-out single off of Ricky Horton. Danny Cox got the win and Ken Dayley got the save with Bob Welch the losing pitcher. The victory cut the Dodger lead to two games to one.
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, St. Louis Cardinals 4
Born:
Michelle Denee Carter, Ammerican athlete (Olympics, gold medal, women’s shotput, 2016), daughter of NFL nose tackle Michael Carter, in San Jose, California.
Mike Green, Canadian NHL defenseman (NHL All-Star, 2011, 2018; Washington Capitals, Detroit Red Wings, Edmonton Oilers), in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Carl Söderberg, Swedish NHL centre (Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche, Arizona Coyotes, Chicago Blackhawks), in Malmo, Sweden.
Lardarius Webb, NFL cornerback, safety, and kick returner (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 47-Ravens; Baltimore Ravens), in Opelika, Alabama.
Marcus Howard, NFL defensive end (Indianapolis Colts), in Huger, South Carolina.
Simeon Castille, NFL cornerback (Cincinnati Bengals, San Diego Chargers), in Phenix City, Alabama.
Died:
Johnny Olson, 75, American radio personality and television announcer (“The Price is Right”).
Ricky Wilson, 32, American rock guitarist (B-52’s — “Love Shack”), dies of AIDS.
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