President Reagan said tonight that the United States was analyzing intelligence information on Libya and was prepared to strike militarily if evidence pointed directly to Libyan support for terrorists. Mr. Reagan’s comments came as White House and other Administration officials indicated that the United States was weighing moves to strike militarily against Libya and was assembling a fleet in the Mediterranean. In a nationally broadcast news conference, Mr. Reagan denounced Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, as the “mad dog of the Middle East,” and said the United States was had “considerable evidence” that he had sponsored terrorist acts aimed at Americans. In his news conference, the President also made these points:
— Mr. Reagan said the United States was seeking to “find out who, who is responsible” for the recent acts of terrorism aimed at Americans. He said he was prepared to strike back at terrorists, even if it meant endangering the lives of Americans being held by Shiite Muslim groups in Lebanon. “We’re going to defend ourselves,” Mr. Reagan said.
— He repeated his intention to observe the unratified second strategic arms limitations treaty, but he said he had not yet made a final decision on the issue. Mr. Reagan said, however, that the United States was aware of violations by the Soviet Union.
— Mr. Reagan portrayed South Africa’s President, P. W. Botha, as someone who is working to change the apartheid system but who is hampered by other whites who oppose change. Most of Mr. Reagan’s news conference dealt with Libya. Administration officials have already indicated repeatedly that there may be information in hand to justify a strike against Libya. Tonight, Mr. Reagan repeatedly declined to specify the nature and sources of the information, saying it could endanger intelligence assets.
Asked if there was an undeclared war between Libya’s Colonel Qaddafi and the United States, Mr. Reagan replied: “Not on his side. He’s declared it. We just haven’t recognized the declaration yet, nor will we. we’re going to defend ourselves and we’re certainly going to take action in the face of specific terrorist threats.” Mr. Reagan declined to discuss possible “battle plans” to retaliate against Libya, but said the United States would respond militarily “if and when we could specifically identify someone responsible for these acts.” “We’ll go wherever the finger points,” Mr. Reagan said. He said, however, that the identification of those responsible for the bombing of the West Berlin discotheque was not complete.
The Reagan Administration is positioning itself for possible military action against Libya by retaining two aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean, Administration officials said today. Administration officials would not say whether President Reagan had made a decision to attack Libya or even to deploy American aircraft carriers back to the Gulf of Sidra, which Libya claims as territorial waters. But they did say he wanted to keep open the option of threatening an attack or making an attack. High-ranking Administration officials said there was growing disposition on the part of the White House, Secretary of State George P. Shultz and, to a lesser extent, the Pentagon for a stronger action than was taken two weeks ago. At that time, American aircraft retaliated against a Libyan missile attack by striking Libyan patrol boats and a missile radar site.
Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi said today that if the United States attacked Libya, he would issue orders for attacks against American targets worldwide. At the same time, the Libyan leader denied that his Government was involved in recent terrorist attacks, and he challenged President Reagan to make public the proof the Administration has said it has. “So far, we have not ordered such attacks,” he said in a news conference. “But if aggression is staged against us, we shall give the orders and the instructions to the Arab Revolutionary Command forces and to the Mathaba to stage such actions against American targets all over the world.”
West Germany expelled two Libyan diplomats for “activities incompatible with their diplomatic status.” A spokesman for the West German Government declined to link the Libyans with the bombing Saturday of a West Berlin discotheque in which an American soldier and a Turkish woman were killed and 230 people were wounded. But there was speculation that the expulsions were a response to American pressure to react to what Washington has said is clear evidence of Libya’s instigation of terrorist acts. The Government spokesman, Friedhelm Ost, said Bonn had “indications but no concrete proof” that the Libyan mission in East Berlin was implicated in the bombing of the La Belle discotheque, which was frequented by black Americans and foreigners from third world countries.
After 24 years as the Soviet Ambassador to Washington, Anatoly F. Dobrynin said his official farewells today. He had lunch with Secretary of State George P. Shultz and then was the host of a reception at the Soviet Embassy. The embassy gates were heavily guarded, and the guests were forced to pass through metal detectors. Only a few journalists, chosen by Mr. Dobrynin, were allowed to attend. “We don’t want reporters asking the Ambassador lots of silly questions,” said Boris N. Malakhov, the embassy press attaché. Mr. Malakhov refused even to reveal the Ambassador’s plans for the day. “Of course, we do not give the Ambassador’s schedule over the telephone,” the spokesman declared. When a reporter offered to stop by the embassy for the information, Mr. Malakhov said he would have to get clearance from the Ambassador’s office. The clearance never came. Despite the characteristic secrecy, the farewells had a certain warmth and wit, reflecting Mr. Dobrynin’s personality. At the reception, Mr. Shultz told him, “You, Mr. Ambassador, would have been a central figure even if you had not represented a great power.”
The National Academy of Sciences announced today that it had urged the Soviet Academy of Sciences to help improve the condition of Andrei D. Sakharov, the nuclear physicist and political activist who has been in internal exile in the Volga River city of Gorky since 1980. The announcement came a day after Luxembourg television reported that the Nobel laureate might be freed next month in exchange for Eastern-bloc spies. White House and State Department said they knew nothing of such an exchange, and Dr. Sakharov’s wife, Yelena G. Bonner, discounted the Luxembourg report, according to her son-in-law, Efrem Yankelovich. Miss Bonner is recovering from open-heart surgery in Newton, Massachusetts.
The Rev. Ian Paisley, a leader of hardline Protestants in Northern Ireland, urged an end to nine days of Protestant attacks on police in the British province. “I unequivocally and unreservedly condemn violence and attacks on police officers’ homes, on police officers’ families and on any individuals connected with the Royal Ulster Constabulary,” Paisley said. Protestant militants who oppose the Anglo-Irish accord, which grants the Dublin government a role in the administration of Ulster, have turned against the overwhelmingly Protestant constabulary. Protestant militants say the police are to be instruments for putting the accord into effect. The police force has until now been mainly concerned with violence by the Irish Republican Army, which is fighting to end British rule in the province. Four people were hurt Tuesday night when buses were attacked in Protestant areas of Belfast, the police said. Shots were fired at one police vehicle, another was fire-bombed and the home of a couple with three sons in the police force was fire-bombed, the police said.
The Polish Government has announced that its Foreign Minister will not go to London as planned this month, apparently because Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has refused to meet him. The cancellation was announced on Tuesday as the Foreign Minister, Marian Orzechowski, was preparing to return from Bonn. He was the first senior Polish official to visit West Germany since martial law was declared in December 1981 and the Solidarity labor movement was outlawed.
French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, in his first major public statement since taking office two weeks ago, said today that his government would move quickly to return nationalized industries to private hands, reduce regulation, and increase the powers of the police to fight crime. He said that his government would encourage a major change in French life by ending this country’s traditional reliance on a powerful centralized state to guarantee personal welfare, shifting responsibility back to the individual. “For decades, the major temptation of the French has been direction from the state,” Mr. Chirac said. The temptation “destroys itself by its own obesity while it threatens to diminish individual liberty,” he said.
An Israeli diplomat examined a secret United Nations file on Kurt Waldheim today and said afterward that there was “clear need for further comprehensive investigation” of Mr. Waldheim’s war record. The Israeli diplomat, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is his country’s delegate to the United Nations, said copies of the file on the former Secretary General would be sent immediately to Israel for detailed study. The file, compiled by the United Nations War Crimes Commission, was made available today to Mr. Netanyahu and Karl Fischer, the chief Austrian delegate, after formal requests from their Governments to Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar. “On the basis of this file, there is no way this matter can be put to rest,” Mr. Netanyahu said in an interview after spending more than an hour at 325 Park Avenue South in New York, an office building in lower Manhattan where the file has been kept. “There is clear need for further comprehensive investigation.” Waldheim has repeatedly denied any involvement in Nazi atrocities. The file was made available to Benjamin Netanyahu, the chief Israeli delegate to the United Nations, and to Karl Fischer, the chief Austrian delegate.
Jewish leaders in Greece today challenged assertions by Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations Secretary General, that he had been unaware of the deportation of the Jews of Salonika and the rest of Greece. At a news conference, Joseph Lovinger, president of the Central Jewish Board here, presented documents that he said he obtained from the World Jewish Congress indicating that Mr. Waldheim, a first lieutenant in the German Army in World War II, headed a department of the intelligence section of Army Group E, the occupation command for the Balkan peninsula, which was based in Salonika in northern Greece. Mr. Lovinger said Mr. Waldheim was stationed in Salonika, the traditional center of Greek Judaism, from March 1943 until March 1944 and again from April 1944 until the Germans retreated to Yugoslavia that October. Beginning on March 15, 1943, freight trains left Salonika at the rate of about two a week carrying to their deaths 96 percent of the 56,000 Jews of the city. By May 9, only a handful were left. In July, the 19th and last train left, extinguishing one of the principal centers of Sephardic Judaism.
Israel’s 19-month-old coalition Government reached the brink of collapse today amid an exchange of new threats by the Likud bloc and Labor Party. Likud cabinet ministers warned Prime Minister Shimon Peres they would collectively resign from the cabinet if the Labor Party leader carried out his threat to dismiss Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai on Sunday. Mr. Peres declared Monday he intended to oust Mr. Modai because of a stream of insults the Finance Minister fired at the Prime Minister, including that Mr. Peres knew nothing about economics and was effectively robbing the treasury to help Labor Party-owned companies. Although some political commentators would not rule out the possibility of a last-minute compromise -since this Government has been to the brink and back several times before -the chances of a successful mediation effort were widely viewed here as extremely slim.
A small Greek cargo ship sank in the Gulf of Suez after being hit by an explosion that may have been the result of a mine, a spokesman for the ship’s operators said. Two crew members were reported missing. The 1,830-ton Alaska II was sailing empty from Jidda, Saudi Arabia, to Suez City in Egypt to pick up oranges.
A French citizen was reported kidnapped in West Beirut today, bringing to nine the number of Frenchmen who have disappeared here in the last 14 months. A French Embassy spokesman said the missing man, a teacher named Michel Brillant, did not show up for work at the French Protestant College.
Senator Alan Cranston (D-California) introduced legislation to block an Administration plan to sell $354 million worth of missiles to Saudi Arabia. Cranston said his resolution is sponsored “by 61 senators and supported by still others.” California Rep. Mel Levine (D) introduced a similar resolution in the House. The Administration says the missiles will boost the oil kingdom’s defenses and prevent expansion of the Iran-Iraq War. The sale will go through in 30 days unless the House and Senate vote against it.
Benazir Bhutto, the exiled Pakistani opposition leader, returned home from exile today to the cheers of tens of thousands of supporters. Hundreds of heavily armed riot police kept the huge crowd from the Lahore Airport terminal, but after Miss Bhutto left the building, joyous backers carried her in triumph to a large truck to lead a massive procession through the border city of Lahore. Supporters lining the streets chanted, “Welcome daughter of Pakistan” and “Benazir brings the revolution,” and called for the ouster of President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. General Zia took power in a military coup in July 1977, arrested Miss Bhutto’s father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and imposed martial law. Mr. Bhutto was executed on April 4, 1979, after the Supreme Court upheld a death sentence imposed for conspiring to murder a political opponent. Miss Bhutto, who is 32 years old, was groomed by her father as his political heir. After his death she assumed leadership of his Pakistan People’s Party. She has been living in London for most of the last two years after several years of house arrest in Pakistan.
Punjab’s new police chief vowed today over the body of a slain policeman to take four lives for every police officer killed by Sikh extremists. The pledge came as Sikh separatists killed two people near the holy city of Amritsar, bringing the death toll from extremist violence in the northern state to 120 in five weeks. The new police chief, Julio Ribeiro, who was appointed 10 days ago, said after laying flowers on the body of a policeman, Racchan Singh: “Death is an occupational hazard for a Punjab policeman. But if you die at least four lives should be taken in return.” Within hours of Chief Ribeiro’s pledge, extremist gunmen struck again, killing two people in Amritsar district, the police said. The attackers, who also seriously wounded two people, escaped on a motorcycle. Mr. Singh died Tuesday after being shot in an extremist attack Saturday in which six policemen were killed.
Over a lunch of Philippine greens and boiled meat, Ferdinand E. Marcos joked that if all else failed he could open a second-hand shoe store with the 3,000 pairs of his wife’s shoes found in his palace in Manila. His joke seemed to illustrate the former Philippine President’s contention in an interview here Tuesday that he was getting over a period of depression, bitterness and nightmares that troubled him after he fled his country six weeks ago. Mr. Marcos, seated in a wicker chair at the modest beach-front home that has become his place of exile, said that he considered his political career over, but that he was prepared to return to leadership if it becomes “absolutely necessary in order to save the country.” He said he considered it necessary to back the new Government of President Corazon C. Aquino to avoid chaos. But he also said, “Poor girl, she may have bitten off more than she can chew.”
A senior Mexican Government aviation official said today that the crash of a Mexicana Airlines jet last month appeared to have been caused by an explosion. But he added: “We don’t know enough yet to say if the explosion was caused by a bomb. There are many things that could cause an explosion.” The crash of the Boeing 727 killed all 166 people aboard. The official said accident investigators were looking for possible residues from explosive materials, including materials that might be used in a bomb. The official also said that a tape recording made automatically of the cockpit conversation of the three Mexicana pilots in the moments before the crash made reference to an explosion aboard the aircraft. “They say something about an explosion,” he said, declining to offer more details. The official said the conversation also indicated the cabin had undergone depressurization, which would suggest something had ruptured the plane’s hull. Anything from an open door or broken window to an explosion could cause depressurization.
The Nicaraguan army ordered 50 seminarians to a military base for physical examinations for military service in what appeared to be a new test of wills between the ruling Sandinistas and the Roman Catholic Church. A church spokesman said that Msgr. Bosco Vivas, auxiliary bishop of Managua, has asked Rene Nunez, secretary to the presidency, to intervene. The government had agreed in early 1985 that seminarians would not be drafted. However, tensions are mounting between the leftist Sandinista government and the church, which has accused the government of human rights violations, and Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo has frequently clashed with the Marxist-led regime.
A Chilean journalist was convicted in Asuncion, Paraguay, of complicity in the 1980 assassination of deposed Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. Although Alejandro Mella Latorre “did not participate directly,” there was evidence he knew the murder plan, Judge Cesar Rey Martinez said. Police charged that he staked out the site and took photographs of the attack. Time served counts toward Mella’s six-year sentence, and he will be freed October 30.
The United States Ambassador to Argentina has cabled the State Department to complain that several members of a Congressional delegation put pressure on Argentine political leaders to oppose Administration positions on Central America, according to aides to the Representatives. Carol Gallant, press secretary to Representative Marty Russo, Democrat of Illinois, said Mr. Russo learned of the cable late today from several reporters. Miss Gallant said that in excerpts read to Mr. Russo, Ambassador Frank V. Ortiz, Jr. reportedly accused some of the 14 members of the bipartisan delegation of “acting inappropriately” in meetings in Buenos Aires last month and “trying to extract anti-Administration positions from Argentine political leaders.”
The South African government said it has captured two black guerrillas who were trained in Libya and returned home to assassinate moderate black leaders and mobilize university students. The alleged guerrillas were among 150 members of the Pan-Africanist Congress who received military and political training in Libya in 1982, an official said.
Challenger’s crew cabin survived the shuttle’s explosion and plunged through the atmosphere intact until it struck the ocean, Federal inspectors said. Experts say the finding did not mean that the seven crew members were alive until the spaceship hit the ocean. They said the astronauts were probably killed by the shock of the initial blast, the sudden depressurization of the cabin or the force of the nine-mile descent. But officials have not made a definitive statement on precisely when the astronauts died, and recording devices being examined at the Johnson Space Center in Houston from the Challenger cockpit may hold final answers. When the Challenger’s forward fuselage hit the water, “it had to have some mass, and the obvious mass was the crew module,” according to Terry J. Armentrout, director of the National Transportation Safety Board’s bureau of accident investigation.
Mr. Armentrout, whose bureau’s investigators have analyzed the wreckage, said the Challenger’s forward section, including the cabin, was broken into large pieces on striking the ocean’s surface. The nose broke cleanly away. The outer shell of aluminum and heat-resistant tiles was especially crushed and fragmented on the left side, indicating that was the side it hit on. Mr. Armentrout said that except for a tail section and some pieces of the huge external fuel tank, there was surprisingly little evidence of fire damage or a large explosion. “We see more evidence of aerodynamic breakup than any blast effect,” Mr. Armentrout said as he led reporters through a warehouse and a portable hangar where most of the shuttle debris is being stored and studied. It was the first public viewing of the wreckage, which is closely guarded and normally not seen by outsiders. About 20 percent of the Challenger orbiter has been recovered, with the pieces carefully laid out on the floor and on sawhorses like a jigsaw puzzle.
[Ed: Later it would be determined that they DID survive the explosion, but not impact with the ocean.]
President Reagan meets with senior White House staff to discuss his upcoming press conference.
President Reagan attends the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) Convention. President Reagan said today that the Government had the right to protect itself against leaks of information in instances where American troops are involved in hostilities. In defense of recent Administration decisions to restrict press coverage of such events, Mr. Reagan told members of the American Society of Newspapers Editors that they must understand the need for governmental secrecy. The President’s comment came in answer to a question that echoed concerns voiced Sunday by Robert P. Clark, the organization’s president and a vice president of Harte-Hanks Communications. Mr. Clark and other journalists attending the conference had expressed concern that reporters were removed from the aircraft carrier Saratoga before the naval task force retaliated against Libyan missile attacks in the conflict last month in the Gulf of Sidra. Mr. Reagan said the Administration had no policy restricting reporters in such situations.
President Reagan tonight firmly restated his position that market forces should determine the price of oil and rejected suggestions that Vice President Bush had created confusion about the Administration’s policy on this issue. “We’re saying the same thing,” Mr. Reagan said at a White House news conference, adding that he had made it a point to read Mr. Bush’s recent statements on the issue. “I can’t find myself quarreling with any of the remarks he’s made.” Mr. Reagan appeared to be trying to extricate Mr. Bush from the political quagmire in which the Vice President found himself after calling for “stability” in world oil prices.
President Reagan tonight accused Congress of dragging its feet on a 1987 budget, asserting that lawmakers appeared unable to break a 50-year habit of “running up debt.” Mr. Reagan said at a nationally broadcast news conference that it would be “foolhardy” for Congress to attempt further cuts in military spending levels “in the world as it is today.” He argued for his own budget proposals, which would eliminate 44 federal programs he considers unnecessary and trim others. Conceding that he was baffled by the complexities of his own tax return, even though it had been prepared for him by experts, the President said he was more persuaded than ever that the tax simplification plan he has been backing should be enacted. He promised, “We’re going to keep on pushing” for tax reform.
The House of Representatives was close tonight to relaxing Federal gun controls. But with one hour of scheduled debate remaining, the session adjourned abruptly at the urging of the Speaker, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., who told the members that under new budget contraints the House could no longer afford to pay overtime to the Capitol police for late-night sessions. Debate will resume Thursday morning. A series of preliminary votes today made it all but inevitable that opponents of gun control would succeed in relaxing the restrictions on the sale and transportation of firearms that have been in place for 18 years.
The early months of 1986 are being called the “era of good feeling,” with a record number of Americans expressing satisfaction with the way things are going in the nation and in their personal lives. The latest Gallup Poll shows two-thirds (66%) of all persons interviewed saying they are satisfied with what’s happening in the United States, the highest percentage recorded in the seven years this measurement has been taken, up 15 points since last November. The low point in this trend occurred in August, 1979, when only 12% were satisfied with the way things were going in the nation while 84% were dissatisfied.
The Senate voted 94 to 3 to give the Vietnam Veterans of America a federal charter, a move hailed by one Senate member of the group as an important step in ending the bitterness of many who fought in the unpopular war. “For myself as a member of the Vietnam Veterans of America, this is a very, very important day and a very gratifying day,” said Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts). The federal charter would enable the 30,000-member VVA to represent Vietnam veterans before the Veterans Administration and other government agencies. The measure now goes to the House, where passage is expected.
Environmentalist Jeremy Rifkin said he has delayed filing a suit against the Agriculture Department to allow it to reconsider its licensing of a genetically engineered swine vaccine. On Tuesday, in response to a Rifkin petition demanding the license be suspended or revoked, the department announced a two-week suspension of the vaccine’s license in order to do an environmental impact study. The vaccine would be used against pseudorabies, a sometimes-fatal swine virus.
Eight House members introduced legislation to restrict smoking to designated areas of U.S. government buildings. “You always hear about important political decisions being made in smoke-filled rooms,” said Rep. Don Ritter (R-Pennsylvania), the principal sponsor. “Well, if our bill is successful, those decisions will have to be made in designated smoke-filled rooms.” Under the measure, the secretary of health and human services, in consultation with the surgeon general, would develop regulations designating the specific areas of U.S. government-occupied buildings in which smoking would be allowed.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service said it will cancel a $64.5-million contract with two computer giants but denied the action was prompted by complaints that the agency manipulated the bidding. The INS will cancel the contract shared by Electronic Data Systems of Dallas and the International Business Machines Corp. on September 30 after spending only $14 million, spokesman Verne Jervis said.
A group of House Democrats and Republicans reached agreement on a compromise acid rain bill, brightening prospects for congressional action on air pollution control legislation this year. The measure, scheduled to be unveiled at a news conference today, would require a 10-million-ton reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions from power plants and other coal-burning boilers by 1997.
The cattle industry is in an uproar over the Federal program to reduce dairy surpluses by slaughtering dairy cows, which has depressed beef prices far beyond expectations. Cattle ranchers say the prospect of nearly 1.6 million dairy cows being brought into an already weak beef market may force large numbers of operators out of business.
Air Force Colonel James G. Burton, who has irritated the Army with his calls for realistic testing of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, a troop carrier, has been ordered to report to a new job in Ohio, prompting sharp protests from Capitol Hill. This is not the first time the Defense Department has tried to reassign Burton, who has become a hero to Pentagon critics in Congress because of his insistence on live-fire tests for the Bradley.
Two Army helicopters crashed tonight at Fort Stewart Army Base in Georgia, killing all eight soldiers aboard, an Army spokesman said. A CH-47D Chinook helicopter carrying six crashed in a remote area of the post about 9 PM, said Colonel James Arnold. An AH-1S Cobra helicopter crashed and burned about the same time, killing both crewmen aboard, the colonel said. “The crashes probably were related,” Colonel Arnold said. “They were very close to each other. They happened at the same time. But how they occurred we don’t know.” Colonel Arnold said the helicopters were on routine missions.
After months of denials to the press that they had anything to do with the family of Ferdinand E. Marcos, two New York real estate executives told a House subcommittee today that they managed some $300 million worth of property in New York City for the Marcos family. In testimony before the subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Joseph E. Bernstein and Ralph Bernstein provided details of personal discussions they had with Mr. and Mrs. Marcos concerning financial, tax and managerial aspects of the properties. In addition, they described an incident at a New York restaurant in 1982 when Mrs. Marcos waved a statement of her $120 million Swiss bank account. They also provided details about the role of a major New York law firm, Rogers & Wells, in representing the owners of three of the New York properties.
An illegal explosives factory disguised as a computer store was the principal cause of the explosion and fire that demolished a block-square San Francisco industrial complex and killed up to nine people, the authorities said today. Arrest warrants are being sought for three or more people in the operation, said Chief Emmet Condon of the Fire Department. The Federal warrants sought were for conspiracy, and additional warrants could be issued for the manufacture of explosives and possibly murder in the Friday blast at the $10 million Bay View Industrial Park, he said. The complex’s owner “had no idea this was an illegal operation” and had been told it was a storage company, Mr. Condon said. “It’s a clandestine operation,” he said, adding that fire inspectors had gone through the two-story building containing 126 shops in the past year. “We have yet to determine the cause of ignition,” he said, but the heavy damage was due to the explosives operation. Investigators said the factory was disguised as a company making forms for computer printouts and manufacturing computer hardware.
A freight train carrying hazardous material derailed today, prompting a brief evacuation of 150 nearby residents and forcing thousands of Amtrak passengers to use buses between Baltimore and Washington. As many as 12,000 passengers and 60 trains were affected by the derailment, said Clifford Black, an Amtrak spokesman in Washington. Fire officials said the tracks should be cleared before the rush hour Thursday morning. The Washington-Baltimore route is part of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor service between Washington and Boston, the nation’s busiest train route. Northbound service out of Penn Station in New York City was delayed for up to an hour, Mr. Black said.
Clint Eastwood, who has made a career out of portraying taciturn cowboys and lawmen bent on righteous revenge, got even Tuesday with leaders of this scenic community who rebuffed him last year when he sought to put up an office building here. The 55-year-old actor defeated the Mayor, Charlotte Townsend, by a landslide in a internationally publicized municipal election and helped defeat two members of the City Council who had sided with the Mayor in imposing strict limits on commercial development in this resort town of 4,700 people. At a victory news conference at which he vowed “to bring the whole community together,” Mr. Eastwood said, ” ‘Dirty Harry’ has always been arguing with the mayor,” referring to his movie role as a tough detective. “He has always been fighting bureaucracy, and I guess in real life I’m fighting bureaucracy, too.”
A vaccine that might combat AIDS is making progress, despite earlier projections that the first successful AIDS vaccine would not be developed before the 1990’s. Scientists have remodeled the vaccinia virus, which conquered the smallpox disease, and plan to seek approval before the end of the year to test it on humans as a protection against AIDS. [Ed: This would later be shown to be wildly optimistic. No vaccine exists even today.]
TV show “Dallas” announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character.
Major League Baseball:
Juan Bonilla hit a two-run double off the right-field wall with two out in the ninth inning as the Baltimore Orioles edged the Cleveland Indians, 4–3. Fred Lynn opened the inning with a walk and Scott Bailes, making his major league debut, relieved Dickie Noles. Bailes walked Mike Young, but retired the next two batters before Bonilla punched a wind-aided double, scoring Lynn and Young.
The Brewers beat the White Sox, 4–3. Paul Householder lined a two-run double to cap a three-run fourth, and Robin Yount had four hits to lead Milwaukee. Tim Leary scattered five hits over seven innings for the Brewers, and Ray Searage pitched the final two innings to gain his first save. John Cangelosi of the White Sox got his first major league homer — and first major league hit — in the ninth inning.
The Phillies manage just one hit in 8 innings against the Reds Tom Browning, but then they plate 4 runs in the 11th to win, 5–3. Glenn Wilson broke a 1–1 tie with a sacrifice fly in the 11th inning and John Russell followed with a two-run homer tonight to give the Philadelphia Phillies the victory over the Cincinnati Reds. The Phillies scored four times in the 11th off Ted Power, the third Cincinnati pitcher. Garry Maddox led off with a single and Juan Samuel also singled. Both runners advanced on Mike Schmidt’s long fly out, and Wilson snapped the tie with his fly ball to center. The Reds got back two runs in the bottom of the inning on Dave Concepcion’s two-run single off Steve Bedrosian.
The Tigers edged the Red Sox, 6–5. Darrell Evans singled home the tying run and scored the deciding run on Dave Bergman’s single in the 10th inning. After Wade Boggs singled home the tie-breaking run for Boston in the top of the inning, Kirk Gibson singled to open the 10th off Bob Stanley. Lance Parrish then drew a walk, and Boston brought in Steve Crawford in relief. Evans hit Crawford’s first pitch for a single. After Alan Trammell sacrificed with two strikes and Mike Laga received an intentional walk, Chet Lemon forced Parrish at the plate. Bergman batted for Tom Brookens and hit the first pitch to right field to make a winner of Willie Hernandez. Evans, who hit 40 home runs last season, belted his first of the season in the fourth and his second in the sixth.
Will Clark and Bob Melvin hit run-scoring doubles and Jeff Leonard scored two runs, leading the San Francisco Giants to a 4–1 victory in Houston. Clark, who hit a home run in his first major-league time at bat Tuesday night, doubled to right field in the third inning, scoring Dan Gladden, who had doubled to center.
The Dodgers’ Bob Welch shut out San Diego, 1–0, on three singles and Mike Marshall singled home the game’s only run in the fourth inning. It was the third straight pitching duel between the clubs. Fernando Valenzuela beat the Padres, 2-1, on Monday. Dave Dravecky shut out the Dodgers, 1-0, on Tuesday.
The Yankees hoped that Ed Whitson would be able to win one before too much of the season passed. His first start, they felt, would be ideal. Whitson, however, did not make it through the third inning last night as the Kansas City Royals beat him, Piniella and the rest of the Yankees, 7–4. George Brett, who has hit a few significant home runs at Yankee Stadium, had two in the game, both hitting the right-field pole high above Dave Winfield’s head. He hit the first against Whitson in the third inning and the second against Bob Shirley in the seventh.
Kent Hrbek broke a 3-3 tie with a run-scoring, eighth-inning double off Jay Howell for a 5–4 Minnesota victory over the Oakland A’s. Hrbek drove the ball into the right-field corner to score Kirby Puckett from second base. Hrbek scored on a two-out single by Roy Smalley.
The Angels downed the Mariners, 9–5. Brian Downing hit a pair of two-run homers and Wally Joyner added a two-run shot to lead the California Angels over the Seattle Mariners. Joyner’s first major-league home run in the third inning pulled the Angels to within 4-3 and Downing’s first homer of the game, which followed Doug DeCinces’ double, gave the Angels a 5-4 lead. The Angels batted around in the third, scoring five runs off Mark Langston, 0-1.
Doyle Alexander scattered seven hits in eight and a third innings and posted his 150th major-league victory as Toronto beat Texas, 3–1, and ruined Edwin Correa’s debut with the Rangers. Correa, at 19 the youngest player in the big leagues, was struck in the left leg by Rance Mulliniks’s line drive in the fourth inning and came out of the game after the fifth. He yielded five hits, struck out eight and walked two. Toronto took a 2–0 lead in the fifth inning on singles by Damaso Garcia and Lloyd Moseby and a two-run double by Tony Fernandez. The Blue Jays scored again in the sixth on Jesse Barfield’s single and a double by Cecil Fielder. Pete O’Brien opened the ninth for Texas with his first home run of the season.
Cleveland Indians 3, Baltimore Orioles 4
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Chicago White Sox 3
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Cincinnati Reds 3
Boston Red Sox 5, Detroit Tigers 6
San Francisco Giants 4, Houston Astros 1
San Diego Padres 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Kansas City Royals 7, New York Yankees 4
Minnesota Twins 5, Oakland Athletics 4
California Angels 9, Seattle Mariners 5
Toronto Blue Jays 3, Texas Rangers 1
Stock prices closed moderately higher yesterday after fluctuating wildly. Stocks rose sharply in the morning, as investors continued to anticipate lower interest rates and perhaps a discount rate cut by the Federal Reserve. But in early afternoon, the market weakened as investors became worried about I.B.M.’s forthcoming earnings report and indications of increased tensions with Libya. The Dow Jones industrial average finished the day at 1,778.62, up 8.86. The blue-chip index was as high as 1,791 and as low as 1,762.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1778.62 (+8.86)
Born:
Paul Fanaika, NFL guard (Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals), in San Mateo, California.
Kevin Brock, NFL tight end (Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas City Chiefs), in Parsippany, New Jersey.
Mike Hart, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts), in Syracuse, New York.
Rob Myers, NFL tight end (Washington Redskins), in Dallas, Texas.
Bryan Petersen, MLB outfielder and pinch hitter (Florida-Miami Marlins), in Agoura Hills, California.
Leighton Meester, American actress (‘Blair Waldorf’ — “Gossip Girl”), in Fort Worth, Texas.
Brian Larsen, American musician and record producer, in Laurel, Maryland.
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