More than 100,000 antinuclear protesters took part in a five-mile march through London to Hyde Park today in a demonstration that was designed to press the superpowers to end the arms race. “With all the support for the Thatcher Government, sometimes you feel you might as well give up,” said Cressida Evans, a University of London student who was among 20,000 people who sat on the grass to form a giant human peace symbol. “Then you come to something like this, and you see all these thousands and thousands of people.” The march today, which was organized by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, was held in tandem with a mass rally in the Hague, in which the Dutch antinuclear movement presented the Government with petitions against the deployment of cruise missiles there. In six days’ time, Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers is to make a final decision on whether to put 48 of the American missiles in the Netherlands. The two rallies were connected by telephone.
President Reagan makes a Radio Address to the Nation on international stability. President Reagan today reaffirmed his commitment to making his proposal for resolving regional conflicts a “key part” of the summit meeting next month with the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The statements, delivered in Mr. Reagan’s weekly radio address, reflected his continued insistence on broadening the focus of the Gorbachev meeting, even though some European leaders have privately raised concern that that approach might detract from arms-control discussions between the two leaders. The President said consultations with allied leaders during three days in New York for ceremonies commemorating the 40th anniversary of the United Nations had convinced him more than ever “that we are on the right track.”
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi made an unexpected stop in Moscow and met with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to discuss the coming U.S.-Soviet summit in Geneva and other issues. The official Soviet news agency Tass said the two men discussed bilateral relations and arms control. Gandhi was en route home after a two-week tour that included talks with President Reagan and an address to the United Nations.
The U.S. Senate agreed this week to restore $4.8 million for a State Department program that provides grants to American scholars for research on Soviet and Eastern European affairs. Money for the year-old program had been deleted by the Senate Appropriations Committee earlier this month as it tried to keep a measure appropriating $12 billion for the Justice, State and Commerce Departments in line with spending targets set in the budget resolution for the 1986 fiscal year.
The day after France’s most recent nuclear test explosion on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific, television viewers in Paris saw images of a glassy lagoon that seemed to ripple just slightly at the very instant of the underground blast. The television showed Prime Minister Laurent Fabius inside a control room at Mururoa and Defense Minister Paul Quiles in a helicopter circling above the test site. There were images of sleepy dogs and French soldiers swimming in the bay, all of them showing that the underground testing program had little visible effect even at the moment of the explosion. The great attention paid to the test, indeed the presence of Mr. Fabius at the scene, was undoubtedly a result of what has come to be known here as the Greenpeace affair — the intense political scandal that followed the sinking by French agents of a ship belonging to the environmentalist group Greenpeace just before it was to lead a seaborne protest against the French nuclear tests in July. But the presence of French television at the test site is about the only aspect of the Greenpeace affair to be evident here recently. The scandal, the worst since the Socialist Government of President Francois Mitterrand came to power in 1981, has almost entirely faded from the public arena, even though many key questions about the operation remain unanswered.
After a week of princes, presidents and prime ministers, the warmest ovation of the United Nations’ 40th anniversary observances came tonight for a small woman in sandals and a sari. Mother Teresa, founder of the Order of Missionaries of Charity, came from her work in the slums of Calcutta to the vaulted hall of the General Assembly to speak of poverty and love. “We gather to thank God for the 40 years of the beautiful work of the United Nations for the good of the people,” Mother Teresa said, looking out on a capacity audience of about 1,000 diplomats and dignitaries, largely dressed in black tie and evening gowns. “No color, no religion, no nationality should come between us — we are all children of God.”
The Israeli army has persuaded 2,500 deserters to return to their units as part of a two-week-old campaign to find Israelis who are not fulfilling their military obligations, military sources said. The sources said that 300 of the 2,500 were sentenced by military tribunals to terms in military prisons and that the remainder were fined and given suspended jail terms. Military police will start a crackdown Nov. 3 to catch deserters who do not report back voluntarily.
Top Lebanese militia officials met in Syria today to finish drafting a peace agreement that would end Lebanon’s 10-year-old civil war, while fighting continued in several Beirut areas, killing at least two people. Ten people were wounded in five hours of sporadic tank, artillery and mortar exchanges in the city and in battles in the mountains east of the capital, the police said.
Relatives and friends of six Americans held hostage in Lebanon will meet Monday with President Reagan to request that action be taken to free the captives. “We’re hoping very strongly that he’ll have something to tell us,” said Peggy Say, sister of Terry A. Anderson, 37, chief Middle East correspondent for Associated Press who was kidnaped March 16, 1985. “But we’ll have a list of specific questions and initiatives for him,” she said. Speaking in Batavia, New York, Say said she learned Friday that Reagan had agreed to the meeting, which was confirmed by a White House spokesman.
Yasser Arafat might be dropped from Jordan’s peace initiative. According to diplomatic sources in Amman, King Hussein has become increasingly angry with the Palestine Liberation Organization chairman and is threatening to exclude him from peace talks in an effort to force him to recognize Israel’s right to exist and renounce violence. The showdown is expected Monday at a meeting scheduled in Amman between King Hussein and Mr. Arafat. “This is a hard squeeze” on Mr. Arafat, one Western diplomat said. But dropping Mr. Arafat from the latest peace effort could raise new problems for King Hussein, the sources said, and given the constantly shifting alliances of the Middle East, the result of Monday’s meeting is far from certain.
Philippine Communist insurgents are gaining and growing more violent despite assertions by the Government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos that it is being successfully contained, according to reports of American intelligence agencies. Reagan Administration officials said the worsening military balance was the main reason why senior officials decided to get President Reagan more involved.
Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos ordered an additional $27 million released to deploy five new battalions to counter communist guerrillas. A presidential statement said Marcos also ordered an overhaul of the 70,000-member civilian militia. The moves came a week after President Reagan sent Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nevada) to Manila to express U.S. concern over growing rebel strength.
Twenty people were hurt overnight in clashes between loyalists and separatists in Noumea, capital of this French territory in the Pacific, the police said today. They said the unrest began late Friday night when about 200 white settlers opposed to an end to French rule on the island attacked local Melanesians, or Kanaks, as they were leaving two Noumea nightclubs.
France has exploded another nuclear device at its Mururoa test site in the South Pacific, the New Zealand government reported. Acting prime minister Geoffrey Palmer told reporters the blast, estimated to have a yield of between 12 and 14 kilotons, was monitored in New Zealand Saturday morning. On Thursday, France. conducted a nuclear test under a volcanic crater forming the lagoon at Mururoa. Palmer said the second test “is as unacceptable to the New Zealand government as the first.” He said he expects more tests will follow. A three-ship flotilla from the Greenpeace organization is in the area to protest the tests.
A Nicaraguan official says Soviet-bloc countries are stepping up their aid to the Sandinista Government. The official, Henry Ruiz, Minister of External Cooperation, spoke Friday night after a three-day conference in Managua between Nicaraguan planners and leaders of Comecon, the Soviet bloc’s economic organization. In his statement closing the conference, Mr. Ruiz said accords reached this week would strengthen “our already close cooperative relations” with Comecon members. The official Sandinista newspaper Barricada said Comecon and Nicaragua had agreed on an “extensive package of technological cooperation.”
Guerrillas pledged not to kidnap any more relatives of El Salvador’s political or military leaders, senior Government and church officials said. The officials said the pledge was one of several private accords reached last week in Panama during talks that led to the release of the Salvadoran President’s daughter, who was kidnapped by leftists.
Honduran Foreign Minister Edgardo Paz Barnica said Honduras seized 14 tons of U.S. supplies destined for Nicaraguan guerrillas and has asked the United States to take it back. Paz Barnica said that the boots, used clothing and other materials, the first in a $27-million package of non-lethal aid approved by Congress, “were confiscated and are in a military facility” in Honduras. He said Honduras does not want aid to the contras channeled through Honduras. A guerrilla spokesman said no aid has been confiscated, and unofficial Honduran sources said the aid was secretly delivered to the contras.
The leader of the Central American nation of Belize said today that he was ready to accede to United States wishes to resume aerial spraying of his tiny country’s vast marijuana fields, but only if it posed no environmental hazard. Aerial spraying of paraquat, a herbicide that can produce severe lung damage in humans, was suspended by Belize after 1983, when the herbicide’s environmental hazards became a political issue in national elections, the first since the former British Honduras became independent in 1981. “While we share the American concern about the drug problem, because it is our problem as well, we feel that we have an obligation to proceed responsibly,” Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel said in an interview at the Belizean Mission. “If you say that aerial eradication is the only efficient way to do it, O.K. We just want to make sure that whatever we do will not be to our detriment.”
In a move that directly challenges President Raul Alfonsin’s right to use the newly imposed state of siege to detain people suspected of being terrorists, a civilian judge ordered the release today of six men arrested under a presidential order. The judge, Luis Velasco, said the Government did not have enough evidence to hold four army officers and a two civilians who officials suspect of being involved in right-wing terrorist activities. Carlos Alconda Aramburu, the Minister of Education and Justice, told a local news agency that the Government had appealed the decision, which the minister said was “alarming to national security in that the executive power had accused these people of grave public disturbances.” For now, the ruling appears to weaken Mr. Alfonsin’s hand considerbly in curbing a recent surge in violence. If other judges made similar decisions, they could effectively freeze Mr. Alfonsin’s ability to use what is his strongest constitutional mechanism for combating an internal threat.
Sudan’s former vice president, Omar Mohammed Tayyeb, went on trial on treason charges in Khartoum, accused of receiving $2 million from the CIA for his part in last year’s airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. The prosecution said Tayyeb allowed the U.S. Embassy to supervise the evacuation of the Ethiopian Jews and that transferring 8,000 people to Israel by way of Sudan constituted strategic support of the Jewish state.
Explosions and sporadic gunfire, apparently between rebels and government troops, rocked the outskirts of the capital of Uganda today, and military roadblocks were put up for the first time in two months, witnesses said. A resident said the explosions and shots seemed to come from the southwestern outskirts of the capital. Guerrillas of the National Resistance Army have reportedly moved to villages 10 miles from Kampala in their battle against the new military government. The rebels hold Masaka, the country’s third-largest town, 80 miles southwest of Kampala, and are battling Government troops at a key bridge over the Katonga River, 50 miles southwest of the capital.
The sale of tax-exempt bonds to support low-income housing was backed by the House Ways and Means Committee when it voted to permit the bonds to be issued despite the Reagan Administration’s argument that they caused “serious erosion” of the Federal tax base.
President Reagan goes horseback riding at Camp David.
John A. Walker Jr.’s cooperation with military officials will allow them to prepare a much accurate assessment of the security breach caused by what they believe was nearly two decades of spying, the officials said.
Pentagon AIDS guidelines bar the automatic dismissal of military personnel who acknowledge they are homosexuals or drug users in the course of testing for the disease. Homosexuals may still be discharged as “incompatible” to the military and a drug user can be discharged for misconduct if the information are derived from other sources.
During three months of screening military blood donors this summer, the Pentagon discovered 44 people who had been exposed to the virus suspected of causing AIDS, according to a confidential internal report. The cases amount to less than 0.1% of the 62,000 screened. The 44 cases were discovered among 500 individuals who initially tested positive, the report said. The remaining 456 individuals were given a clean bill of health but only after additional, expensive medical exams.
Half of the government’s corps of 11,088 air safety technicians are eligible for retirement over the next decade, a federal report showed, and experts said such a mass departure would hurt aviation safety. The highly trained technicians certify that Federal Aviation Administration radarscopes and computers are in working order. Safety groups and congressional critics say the retirement projections, combined with perceived shortages of air traffic controllers and aircraft inspectors, will hurt the performance of the air system.
The 45-ton humpback whale that has wandered for two weeks in the byways of the Sacramento River returned to the main channel and headed back toward San Francisco Bay today. As the whale swam downstream, a small motorboat edged up and a scientist leaned out and attached a radio tracking device to the whale’s skin.
The conservative Liberty Lobby was found guilty of libel in an article saying that William F. Buckley Jr., editor of the conservative National Review, had a “close working relationship” with American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell. A federal jury in Washington awarded National Review $1 in damages and $1,000 in punitive damages. The jury found that the lobby’s weekly newspaper, Spotlight, did not libel the Review when it called commentary printed in the magazine a “muddled smear” on the lobby’s founder, William Carto.
No-fault divorce laws have backfired, causing an average 73% drop in the standard of living for women and children in the first year after a divorce, Lenore Weitzman, an associate professor at Stanford University, told U.S. News & World Report. No-fault divorce was designed to reach more equitable economic settlements. But Weitzman cited census data showing 85% of divorced women are not awarded alimony. Child support averages $200 a month for two children, she said.
Robin Ahrens, the first female FBI agent killed in the line of duty on September 27, disregarded orders during an arrest in Phoenix, in which fellow agents shot her to death, according to a published report. Quoting a Phoenix police report, the Arizona Republic said the agents believed Ahrens, who was running down a dimly lit apartment walkway toward the agents, was the suspect’s partner, and posed a threat. The police report said that Ahrens, 33, had been warned not to run around the rear of the apartment building.
Thousands of striking Chrysler Corp. workers nationwide began voting on a new three-year contract that would put an extra $5,650 in their pockets. United Auto Workers leaders predicted the 70,000 workers would end their 12-day-old walkout against the nation’s No. 3 auto maker by approving the pact, which gives Chrysler workers pay and benefit parity with GM and Ford.
A Vietnamese immigrant at the defendant’s table kept telling his translator, “Not me, not me,” as a murder trial in Gainesville, Georgia, proceeded for a day and a half before authorities found out they were trying the wrong man. Ngọc Nguyễn Tiểu was supposed to be on trial in a stabbing death. Instead, Hen Văn Nguyễn, 27, who had been jailed on a theft charge, was being tried. The mistake was not discovered until Cathy Pemberton, who knows both men, checked on the status of the case and told officials the wrong man was on trial. A mistrial was declared.
Police groups want pistol controls, reversing their longtime stance. Major police organizations have recently been active at both the national and state levels and are currently pitted against the National Rifle Association over a bill before Congress that would reduce Federal regulation of interstate gun sales.
A drop in minority enrollment from levels of previous decades is evident at colleges and universities across the country. The figures show that black, Hispanic and other young people in minority groups continue to be seriously underrepresented among student bodies and that the situation is getting worse.
Voluntary cooperation by bathhouses catering to homosexuals will be vital to enforcement of a new state rule that seeks to control the spread of AIDS by barring the bathhouses from allowing high-risk sexual activities, a New York City health inspection director said. The rule, adopted Friday by the state’s Public Health Council, will be effective on an emergency basis for 60 days. The city will start enforcement plans Monday.
Hurricane Nele, packing winds up to 110 miles per hour, accelerated toward the Hawaiian Islands today, producing 10-foot waves and prompting the authorities to post a hurricane watch. If the storm follows its course and maintains its speed of 10 to 15 mph, it will pass just to the west of the island of Kauai on Sunday morning, said Dick Sasaki, a forecaster for the National Weather Service here.
CBS’ premiere of fact-based TV film “Children of the Night”, based on sociology student Lois Lee’s expose on female crime and inconsistent enforcement of prostitution laws in Los Angeles.
Doug Harvey’s #2 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens.
1985 World Series, Game Six:
A pitcher’s duel unfolded between Danny Cox and Charlie Leibrandt, the tough-luck loser in Game 2. The game was marked by controversy. In the fourth inning of the scoreless game, the Royals’ Frank White may have stolen second base, but was ruled out in a close call. The batter, Pat Sheridan, hit a single to right field two pitches later. If White had been on base when Sheridan singled, the Royals would have likely taken a 1–0 lead. Instead, Leibrandt and Cox traded scoreless innings until the eighth, when pinch-hitter Brian Harper singled home Terry Pendleton, who had singled earlier, to give the Cardinals a 1–0 lead.
The Cardinals’ 1–0 lead entering the bottom of the eighth was the result of St. Louis taking the upper hand after two situations that were mirror images of each other: In consecutive half-innings – the bottom of the seventh and the top of the eighth – both teams had runners on first and second with their respective starting pitcher coming to bat. Kansas City manager Dick Howser opted to leave Leibrandt in the game to bat, but the Royals starter struck out to end the inning. In contrast, Whitey Herzog pulled Cardinals starter Cox for pinch hitter Harper, who then had the game’s first hit with runners in scoring position to put St. Louis ahead 1–0.
In the bottom of the ninth, Herzog called on rookie reliever Todd Worrell to relieve setup man Ken Dayley, who had pitched the eighth and would have been the winner had the Cardinals won. The first batter, pinch-hitter Jorge Orta, sent a chopping bouncer to the right of Jack Clark. He tossed the ball to Worrell, who tagged the bag ahead of Orta, but Clark’s toss was behind Worrell, causing the running Orta to come between umpire Don Denkinger and his view of the lunging Worrell’s glove. Denkinger called Orta safe. TV replays – not used by officials for play review until 2008 – indicated that Orta should have been called out, and an argument ensued on the field. The Cardinals argued briefly, but as crew chief and believing he had made the correct call, Denkinger did not reverse it. Orta remained at first. In his book You’re Missing a Great Game, Herzog wrote that he later wished he had asked Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who was in attendance, to overrule the call and declare Orta out. If Ueberroth had refused to do so, Herzog would have pulled his team from the field and forfeited the game.
Instead of one out and no one on, the Royals now had no outs and a runner on first for batter Steve Balboni. Balboni lifted a pop-up in foul territory along the edge of the first base dugout. Jack Clark, who had only recently made the transition from right field to first base that season, lost track of the ball as he looked to find the dugout and the ball dropped on the top step of the dugout. Balboni then singled two pitches later, putting runners at first and second with nobody out. Onix Concepción was sent in as a pinch runner for the slow-footed Balboni. Catcher Jim Sundberg attempted to sacrifice the runners over, but he failed. With two strikes, he bunted anyway, and sent it back to Worrell, who threw to third to force out Orta, the only out the Cardinals would record. Darrell Porter then allowed a passed ball, advancing Concepción and Sundberg to third and second, respectively.
With first base now open and two runners in scoring position, Herzog then chose to walk Royals pinch hitter Hal McRae to set up a potential double play. McRae was replaced by the faster John Wathan to pinch-run to avoid a potential double play. With the bases loaded and one out, Royals pinch hitter Dane Iorg (a former Cardinal who had won a championship ring with them in 1982) blooped a single to right field. Concepción scored the tying run and Sundberg approached the plate with the winning run. Right fielder Andy Van Slyke’s throw was on target, but Sundberg slid home safely with the game-winning run.
The Royals celebrated the rally, and mobbed home plate. The Cardinals went to their dressing rooms, only to find champagne waiting for them and plastic over their lockers in anticipation for the celebration that never came. Denkinger stated that he still believed he had made the right call until he later met with Commissioner Peter Ueberroth after the game and had the opportunity to see the replay himself. He would later claim that he was waiting to hear the ball land in Worrell’s glove while watching the bag for Orta’s foot. Due to the crowd noise in Royals Stadium, he ruled Orta safe because he never heard Worrell catch the ball. “I was in good position, but Worrell is tall, the throw was high, and I couldn’t watch his glove and his feet at the same time,” Denkinger told Sports Illustrated. “It was a soft toss, and there was so much crowd noise, I couldn’t hear the ball hit the glove.” ABC showed the play from three different angles; two were high above the field and one was from behind third base, all with what Denkinger claimed he didn’t get: a clear view of Clark’s throw and Worrell’s catch. Denkinger was scheduled to be the home plate umpire in Game 7.
St. Louis Cardinals 1, Kansas City Royals 2
Born:
Monta Ellis, NBA shooting guard (Golden State Warriors, Milwaukee Bucks, Dallas Mavericks, Indiana Pacers), in Jackson, Mississippi.
Andrea Bargnani, Italian NBA center and power forward (Toronto Raptors, New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets), in Rome, Italy.
Chip Vaughn, NFL defensive back (Indianapolis Colts), in Goldsboro, North Carolina.
Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress (“Ghajini”), in Kochi, Kerala, India.
Died:
Bob Scheffing, 72, MLB catcher (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds), manager (Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers) and executive (GM, New York Mets, 1970–1974).
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