The Administration stepped up public criticism today of what it said was the failure of American allies to combat international terrorism, and a senior White House official said President Reagan would make the issue a top priority at the economic summit meeting in Tokyo in May. The official said the United States had already told key allies that Mr. Reagan would seek to raise the question of a “collective solution” to terrorism in the first session of the Tokyo meeting of the seven leading industrial democracies. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, in a speech in Boston, said he felt “considerable disappointment” with the French Government over its refusal to allow American F-111’s to fly through French airspace during the bombing strikes against Libya on Monday. Mr. Weinberger said the French action had required the American planes to fly twice as far as they might have to reach Libya and increased the risk to the pilots. The planes, which left from Britain, also avoided Spanish airspace.
Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, in his first public statement since the United States bombing raid, condemned the attack and Britain’s role in its execution. He thanked France for refusing to take part and pledged to continue his support for “popular revolution.” The 20-minute appearance on television partly cleared up questions about the Libyan leader, who had not been seen publicly since the raid early Tuesday. His absence had set off rumors that he might have left the country or been wounded or even killed, or that a coup might be underway, though these rumors were denied by Libyan officials.
A senior White House official said today that the Administration had made periodic contact in Libya over the last several years with opponents of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader. The official indicated that the efforts had not gone far, but he implied that they were continuing. “Pockets of opposition” to the Libyan leader exist, particularly in the Libyan military, the official said, but “trying to work with them is very difficult.”
Two Air Force aviators missing after the bombing strike over Libya died when their plane crashed and their F-111F fighter-bomber may have been hit by Libyan fire, American military officials conclude. They said that several of the 33 United States attack aircraft failed to drop bombs, apparently because of orders not to endanger civilians.
Officials in the travel industry across the country yesterday reported a surge in cancellations by travelers to Europe in the two days since the American bombing raids against Libya. “I would put it in the category of devastating,” said one New York travel agent, Hal Green, president of the MacPherson Travel Bureau, when asked what effect the air raids and fear of reprisal by terrorists were having on flights to Europe. “It’s understandable, because people are apprehensive at the moment,” said Mr. Green, who estimated cancellations by pleasure travelers at 90 percent. Some agents in Philadelphia, Detroit, Miami and Chicago said sales had declined between 20 to 80 percent. Many travel and airline officials were reluctant to discuss the matter for fear of hurting ticket sales further.
The American people overwhelmingly support the bombing of Libya, despite widespread fears that it will lead to more international terrorism and even to war with that country, a New York Times/CBS News Poll shows. But a poll in Britain found very heavy disapproval. The telephone survey of 704 Americans Tuesday night showed that 77 percent of the public approved of the bombing and 14 percent disapproved. Thirty percent thought it would reduce terrorism, but 43 percent thought it would lead to more. The attack led to a huge surge in backing for President Reagan’s handling of foreign policy. Last week 51 percent of the public approved; after Monday night’s bombing the figure was 76 percent. His highest previous rating level was 56 percent just before the Geneva summit meeting.
The Soviet Union announced today that it had promised the Libyans to strengthen their defenses in the wake of the American air strike on Tuesday. The pledge was promptly made later that day in a message sent by Mikhail S. Gorbachev to Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader. “The Soviet Union firmly intends to fulfill its commitments in terms of further strengthening Libya’s defense capacity,” the message said, as made public today by the Tass press agency. Western diplomats said they expected the Russians to replace damaged military equipment, including fighter planes, radar and air defense systems. The Soviet Union has long been Libya’s main arms supplier.
President Reagan and his top advisers met today to consider whether the United States should continue to abide by the unratified 1979 treaty on strategic arms limitation. Officials said no decision was taken. They said Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Paul H. Nitze, his arms adviser, favored continued adherence to the treaty, which the Soviet Union and the United States have said they would continue to observe as long as the other side does. The officials said those opposed to continued honoring of the pact included Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger; Kenneth L. Adelman, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; William J. Casey, director of the Central Intelligence Agency; Edward L. Rowny, an arms adviser, and Edwin Meese 3d, the Attorney General. The Joint Chiefs of Staff take the position that this is a political issue and have not offer a recommendation, officials said. Mr. Nitze is due to leave next Tuesday to consult with the Western European allies on the adherence issue, and Mr. Rowny will leave somewhat earlier for consultations in Japan, China, South Korea and Canada.
The issue of continued adherence arises at this time because the 1979 treaty set a limit of 1,200 on the number of multiple-warhead missiles. That number will be exceeded next month when a new Trident missile-carrying submarine begins sea trials, unless the United States dismantles other multiple-warhead missile systems. One possibility is to dismantle two older Poseidon submarines. One official said today that the decision on what to do with the older submarines was largely “symbolic” and that the real issue was the efficacy of the 1979 pact. The United States has accused the Soviet Union of violations, although the nature of the violations has become a matter of dispute. The United States’ allies generally favor continued adherence. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain told Mr. Reagan in a letter in February that she looked to continued compliance, officials said. Supporters of the treaty hope that her position will carry weight in view of her decision to allow American fighter-bombers to attack Libya from bases in Britain.
The French government has received short, handwritten letters from four French hostages in Lebanon that reportedly show they are in good health, officials in Paris and a French television station said. The messages from the four — Antenne 2 television crew members Philippe Rochot, Georges Hansen. Aurel Cornea and Jean-Louis Normandin — are believed by the government to be genuine and represent a “glimmer of hope,” the station said. Authorities refused to provide further details, and a station spokesman said he does not know how the letters were sent.
Amnesty International issued a report saying it has documented 1,125 executions worldwide in 1985 but that the unknown total is much larger. The London-based human rights organization said it counted only those executions for which it obtained individual details. Some countries retain the death penalty but do not carry it out, the report said. It added that there were some encouraging developments in 1985 in efforts to abolish the death penalty, with all Australian states now forbidding capital punishment.
U.S. ambassadors spend too much time on “traditional diplomacy behind closed doors” and too little on efforts to sell U.S. policies to the ordinary people of foreign nations, a presidential commission said. In an annual study overseeing the work of the U.S. Information Agency, the panel said that “it’s as important for an ambassador to know how to conduct a television interview as it is how to write a fitness report or an embassy budget. In some respects, the ambassador has to be a campaign manager for the United States.”
Italian magistrates ordered the trial of Palestine Liberation Front leader Abul Abbas and 13 others on charges stemming from the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in the Mediterranean last October. One elderly American passenger, Leon Klinghoffer, was shot to death and his body dumped overboard. The charges include murder, kidnapping and assault.
Kurt Waldheim today spurned the idea of abandoning his bid for the Austrian presidency because of questions about his World War II record, and he said he was “quite confident” of being elected. In a lengthy interview, the former Secretary General of the United Nations conceded for the first time that as a lieutenant in the German Army he was aware of atrocities committed against Yugoslav partisans, but he insisted that he had not been implicated in them. Mr. Waldheim, 67 years old, who looked drained after what has been the most divisive electoral campaign in Austria’s postwar history, said he was unaware of the deportations of Jews not only from Greece, where he served, but also from Vienna, which he often visited during the war. Displaying occasional flashes of emotion, Mr. Waldheim rejected the suggestion that his credibility had been damaged by his varying accounts of his war record or that as President he could become a liability for Austria’s reputation abroad. He ruled out renunciation of his candidacy.
A Yugoslav family is trying to freeze the American assets of Andrija Artukovic, on trial as a war criminal, a newspaper here said today. The newspaper, Vecernji List, said the request was filed by relatives of Jeso Vidic, once a lawyer and Member of Parliament who the indictment says was one of Mr. Artukovic’s victims. The family wants to freeze Mr. Artukovic’s bank accounts in the United States and prevent the sale of his real estate. At the start of his trial Monday, Mr. Artukovic, 86 years old, told the five-member panel of judges that he had no property. Mr. Artukovic, extradited from California earlier this year, was charged with mass murder of civilians and war prisoners while Interior Minister of the Nazi puppet state of Croatia and with the murder of Mr. Vidic.
President Reagan participates in a meeting with Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, Hans-Dietrich Genscher.
President Spyros Kyprianou, the Greek Cypriot leader, has decided to ask for major revisions of a United Nations plan for the reunification of Cyprus, according to an informed Cypriot source. The Greek Cypriot position was worked out here in consultation with Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou of Greece. Mr. Kyprianou returned to Cyprus on Tuesday after talks with the Greek leader. Greek Cypriot officials say that the United Nations plan, offered by Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, may reflect American influence in favor of the Turkish side. A Cypriot official said that a recent Soviet proposal was regarded favorably by the Greek side and that the Greek Cypriot Foreign Minister, George Iacovou, would discuss it in Moscow on April 28.
After a five-hour siege by the police in Dublin today, kidnappers freed the wife of a banker who is related to the Guinness brewing family. She had been held for eight days. The hostage, Jennifer Guinness, was unharmed, and the police said her courage and negotiating skill had contributed to her release. The police said three kidnappers, whom they did not identify, were captured at the house where Mrs. Guinness was held. The authorities said the three had criminal records and were wanted for questioning in other cases. They said there was no evidence linking the Irish Republican Army to the case. Looking healthy and tanned at a news conference today, Mrs. Guinness said: “I was angry and determined to survive. And I had this conviction they were not going to get to me mentally. If they were going to shoot me, I was going to be shot intact.”
Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Josef Stalin, left the Soviet Union Wednesday for Chicago via Zurich, Heinz Lanz, manager of the Swissair office in Moscow, said today. Miss Alliluyeva returned to the Soviet Union in November 1984 after 17 years in the West. Reuters quoted Swiss sources in Moscow as saying that she was expected to spend a short time in the United States before joining her American-born daughter Olga in Britain. Olga arrived in Britain on Tuesday to return to her old boarding school in Saffron Walden, east of London. Her American father, William Peters, was Miss Alliluyeva’s fourth husband. They were divorced in 1973.
Olga Peters, the 14-year-old American granddaughter of Stalin, returned to her Quaker school here today, tearfully embracing teachers and classmates and saying that her mother now regretted having taken her to the Soviet Union. “It is a very emotional moment,” the girl said. “I did not think I would get back.
Two Israeli Cabinet ministers exchanged portfolios today, officially ending a political crisis that had threatened the coalition Government. The Labor Party and the Likud bloc, feuding partners in the Government, kept up their bitter exchanges in Parliament today but finally closed ranks to make Yitzhak Modai, an economist, Minister of Justice, and Moshe Nissim, a jurist, Minister of Finance. The two officials, both members of the Liberal wing of Likud, agreed to the exchange to satisfy Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the Labor leader. Mr. Modai had enraged Mr. Peres by criticizing the Prime Minister and attacking Cabinet decisions in interviews. In Parliament today, Mr. Peres said Mr. Modai had done a good job as Finance Minister, but he warned his Cabinet colleagues if there were further breaches of collective responsibility, he would react the same way.
Pakistan banned public rallies, banners and posters for two months in Lahore, the scene recently of huge demonstrations by supporters of opposition leader. Benazir Bhutto, who has just returned from exile in Europe. Shouting of political slogans was also prohibited. In Peshawar, where Bhutto is to speak next week in her campaign for new elections, carrying of firearms in public was banned for the next two months.
The Chinese Government today rejected a Soviet suggestion that the two nations hold a summit meeting, calling the idea “unrealistic.” A Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed that the Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, had raised the idea of “upgrading the level of political dialogue and holding meetings between the leaders of the two countries” in a meeting in Moscow on Monday with a Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister, Qian Qichen. “The Chinese side maintains that the key to the normalization of relations between the two countries lies in the removal of the obstacles,” Ma Yuzhen, the Chinese spokesman, said. “It is unrealistic to hold such meetings while the obstacles remain.”
An opposition party legislator has charged that a civilian serving in the military reserve died after being beaten for defending the opposition’s constitutional revision drive. The opposition politician, Song Chun Young, questioned Korea’s Home Affairs Minister, Chung Suk Mo, about the matter during a session of the National Assembly last week. Mr. Song said that Chang Yi Kee, a 31-year-old civilian who was serving his required stint in the military reserve, died last month after repeated beatings. The Home Affairs Minister said the man in question had died of kidney failure, and other Government officials denied he had been beaten. The questions and answers were printed without further elaboration in several daily newspapers here as a part of regular reporting about National Assembly proceedings.
The Philippine Government, seeking to recover millions of dollars that it says Ferdinand E. Marcos hid in Swiss banks, has charged the deposed President and 25 others with embezzlement, a Government spokesman said today. The charges assert that Mr. Marcos, his wife, their three children and 21 friends misappropriated or embezzled American military aid and foreign loans, the spokesman for the Commission on Good Government said.
The United States has decided not to send the Stinger, its most advanced portable antiaircraft weapon, to the Nicaraguan rebels, Administration officials said today. A senior Administration official said the rebels did not need the weapons. “Too sophisticated for down there,” he said. “They’re not needed. Nicaragua does not have the same type of air force that Angola and the Cubans have.” Other officials said the decision was intended in part to avoid further complicating the Congressional debate over aid for the Nicaraguan rebels. Officials said late last month that the Administration planned to supply hundreds of Stingers to insurgents in Angola and Afghanistan to counter the increasing use of heavily armored helicopter gunships by Soviet-backed Government forces.
Using a surprise parliamentary maneuver, House Republicans today ambushed the Democratic leadership and foiled attempts to attach President Reagan’s request to aid the Nicaraguan rebels to a supplemental spending bill. Representative Robert H. Michel, the Republican leader, said the Democrats had been playing a “con game” with the rebel aid issue because the $1.7 billion spending bill was headed for a Presidential veto that would also kill the aid package. Addressing a chamber that was charged with partisan rancor, Mr. Michel drew cheers from Republicans when he asserted, “We refuse to play the roles assigned to us by the directors of this farce.” But the day’s events left the ultimate fate of the President’s aid request in doubt. Republican leaders said they had devised a strategy that could force a floor vote on the President’s request as early as May 12, and they predicted that the request would pass.
Argentine President Raul Alfonsin revived the idea of relocating the nation’s capital out of overcrowded Buenos Aires, suggesting that a new administrative center be built in the sparsely settled northern edge of the vast Patagonian region. He did not say how much the relocation might cost nor how Argentina, struggling to pay off a huge foreign debt, would finance it. Alfonsin suggested that the new capital be situated in the area of Viedma and Carmen de Patagones, 500 miles south of Buenos Aires.
A recent surge in the number of Ethiopian refugees going to northwest Somalia has set off a sharp dispute between the Government in Mogadishu and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees here. The dispute began early this month when Somali officials warned publicly of “starvation not seen since World War II” because of what they said was the failure of the United Nations agency to provide enough food. The agency has countered the Somali charges, saying there is enough food to feed the refugee population, which has risen from an estimated 700,000 to 850,000 since December. United Nations officials say the influx of new refugees has at times exceeded a thousand a day at the Tug Wajale reception camp, about five miles from the Somali-Ethiopian border.
The United States has ordered the evacuation of the 200 dependents of American Embassy personnel in the Sudan because of concern over Libyan-directed violence against Americans there, Administration officials said today. The evacuation, which is expected by the end of the week, was ordered after a 33-year-old embassy communications officer, William J. Cokals, was shot and seriously wounded in the head in Khartoum by an unknown assailant as he was driving home Tuesday night. He was flown to Jidda, Saudi Arabia, where he was hospitalized with a bullet wound in the head that partly paralyzed him.
Right-wing rebels in Mozambique said that Zimbabwean forces have launched a new offensive against them in the central region of the African country. In a statement in Lisbon, the rebels said that 7.000 troops from Zimbabwe, backed by helicopters and Soviet-built MIG-21s, began operations last Saturday against rebel camps. There was no immediate confirmation of the operations, but the rebels said they have killed 237 Zimbabwean troops and shot down two helicopters and one MIG-21. The Mozambique National Resistance is battling the Marxist-led Mozambican government, which is supported by Mozambique.
To the strains of a black nationalist anthem, and in the face of reported bomb threats, South Africa’s largest nonparliamentary opposition movement has begun a new campaign to draw whites into its battle against minority rule. “Now is the time to choose between apartheid and war, or democracy and peace,” the organization, the United Democratic Front, which claims a following of 1.5 million, said in a leaflet distributed the other day to about 1,000 whites crammed into City Hall in Johannesburg. The meeting seemed a significant widening of the front’s campaign to present itself as the major alternative voice to that of the authorities. Twice, the police and civic officials told those at the meeting that there had been bomb threats. But participants said they did not want to leave, and the meeting continued.
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger reported breakthroughs in technology for the proposed “Star Wars” defense against Soviet nuclear missiles. In a speech in Boston, Weinberger defended the Strategic Defense Initiative, a research and development program commonly known as “Star Wars,” which was first announced by President Reagan three years ago and designed to protect the United States from a Soviet missile strike. Recent advances in booster rocket technology have been made for a non-nuclear space-based interceptor vehicle, Weinberger said in an address at Tufts University.
Members of the Presidential commission investigating the space shuttle disaster said today that they do not expect to be able to identify the precise cause of the explosion that destroyed the Challenger on Jan. 28. In the commission’s first formal news conference, four members of the group’s accident analysis panel said that a burned-out section of the shuttle’s right booster rocket recovered from the Atlantic Ocean this week provides important confirming evidence that a failure of the rocket joint set off the disaster. But they added that they did not expect that evidence, or any other evidence likely to emerge in the rest of the investigation, to prove what caused the joint to fail. “I don’t believe that we’ll home in on any one specific action that caused this failure,” said Major General Donald J. Kutyna of the Air Force, chairman of the analysis panel.
The space agency has privately told the families of some members of the Challenger crew that their bodies will probably not be released for burial until next month. Gay Smith, sister-in-law of the shuttle’s pilot, Commander Michael J. Smith, said officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had told their family that the first weekend in May would be the earliest time funeral services could be held for Commander Smith. “But it might be the weekend after that, or even later,” she said, referring to the family plans for a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
Mississippi and Virginia became the eighth and ninth states to give final approval to measures calling for presidential primaries and caucuses to be held during the same week in March, 1988. A bill approved by Maryland’s Legislature is awaiting approval by Governor Harry Hughes. The action is designed to give the South more clout in choosing a presidential candidate by conducting conventions and primaries at the same time. Laws for the March primary are already on the books in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri and Tennessee.
President Reagan places a call to Mrs. Diana Lorence, widow of the weapons officer aboard the F-111 fighter bomber which was shot down during an air strike on Libya.
A convicted killer who asked that no appeals be filed in his name was executed by lethal injection. “I’m sorry for what I done. I deserve this. I hope Jesus forgives me,” Jeffery Allen Barney, 28, said shortly before he was pronounced dead in the Walls Unit prison in Huntsville, Texas. Barney, a native of Dayton, Ohio, was convicted of the 1981 strangling and rape of the wife of a minister who helped Barney get a job after his release from prison on an auto theft conviction.
The Chicago election board deprived an ally of Mayor Harold Washington of a simple majority in a hotly contested aldermanic election, throwing into doubt whether Washington could gain control of the City Council for the first time since his 1983 election. The Board of Elections Commissioners decided to count 10 write-in ballots for a minor candidate in the March 18 election, increasing the number of valid votes enough to pull Luis Gutierrez’s total below 50%. An aldermanic candidate must receive 50% of the vote plus one in order to avoid a runoff election.
Federal officials said today that 3,506 fugitives, most of them Americans, had been arrested in an eight-week effort along the Mexican border that included the first collaborative roundup by American and Mexican law-enforcement officers. The search, directed by the United States Marshals Service from a command post at Fort Bliss, Tex., was joined by investigators from 35 state, Federal and local police agencies in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, plus members of Mexico’s Federal Judicial Police. Stanley E. Morris, director of the Marshals Service, said at a news conference here that while much work remained to be done to develop close cooperation between United States and Mexican law-enforcement agencies, “this was a valuable beginning.” “In effect,” he said, the two nations “have agreed to eliminate the use of our borders as a gateway to a safe haven for criminals fleeing from justice.”
A decision whether Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers should be place in trusteeship by its parent union for refusing to end an eight-month strike against Geo. A. Hormel & Company is expected in about three weeks, union officials said today. The officials completed three days of hearings to determine whether the local should be placed in receivership and its leaders removed for refusing to end the strike against Hormel’s flagship plant in Austin, Minnesota, 110 miles south of here. The union limited the hearing to the local’s decision to disobey its order to end the strike on March 14. James V. Guyette, president of Local P-9, called the hearings a “sham.”
The chief official of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Florida said today that he would not send any Nicaraguans back to their homeland because he was concerned they might be persecuted by the Marxist Sandinista Government. The official, Perry A. Rivkind, is the only one of the 33 district directors of the immigration service to adopt such a policy. But it is significant, Federal officials said, because at least three-fourths of all asylum applications by Nicaraguans come from Florida. Mr. Rivkind stated his policy in an interview after stopping the deportation of eight Nicaraguans this month.
A federal safety panel has expanded an investigation into more than 4 million 1983-1986 Ford cars to determine whether their front seats could suddenly fall backward, government documents showed. The National Highway Transportation Safety Board said that it has elevated the inquiry to what it called the mid-level engineering analysis stage.
An American held by the Soviet authorities for nearly two weeks after he strolled across the frozen Bering Sea into Soviet territory has returned with some reluctance to the United States. The American, John Weymouth, a 33-year-old resident of San Francisco, was brought to this rocky, windswept island from neighboring Big Diomede Island by a Soviet helicopter Tuesday evening. Mr. Weymouth, dubbed The Wanderer because he has spent the last three years wandering through the West and Alaska, said he had been treated well while in custody, although he was interrogated several times.
The nation’s largest silver mine closed its doors today after a local of the United Steelworkers of America refused to vote on a wage cut proposed by the Sunshine Mining Company. The shutdown, which idles 400 miners, could last until union contracts expire next April, officials have said. After that, Sunshine could legally hire nonunion workers. Sunshine offered stock for each worker if the union accepted a company demand that wages and benefits be cut to an average of $9 an hour. The typical wage is now $14 an hour. In exchange, the Dallas-based company promised to keep the mine operating. Keith Collins, president of Local 5089, said Tuesday that the union did not plan to resume talks or schedule a meeting to vote on the matter.
A California state appeals court panel declared today that “the right to refuse medical treatment is basic and fundamental” and ruled that Elizabeth Bouvia, a quadriplegic cerebral palsy victim, has the right to refuse to be force-fed. In 1983 Mrs. Bouvia, now 28 years old, sought to be allowed to starve to death but was denied court approval. Now she says she does not want to commit suicide. But should she change her mind, one member of the Court of Appeal for the Second District said today, she is entitled to do so. “Whatever choice Elizabeth Bouvia may ultimately make, I can only hope that her courage, persistence and example will cause our society to deal realistically with the plight of those unfortunate individuals to whom death beckons as a welcome respite from suffering,” wrote Justice Lynn Compton.
Two-thirds of American adults would permit their children to attend school with a student who had AIDS, while one-fourth would not, according to the latest Gallup Poll. The poll, based on telephone interviews with 1,004 people from March 7 to March 10, found that 98 percent of the respondents were aware of the disease, acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Six percent believed that AIDS could be contracted by casual social contact, a view not shared by medical authorities. Seventeen percent of those who said they would not allow their children to attend classes with AIDS victims said they believed the disease could be transmitted by casual social contact, while 59 percent of this group said AIDS could not be transmitted in this fashion; 24 percent were undecided. According to the Gallup Organization, the poll’s margin of sampling error is four percentage points in either direction.
A nursing American infant will receive 18 times the recommended lifetime dose of cancer-causing dioxins within the first year of life, a study reported. Most cows’ milk, in comparison, has only a trace of the dioxins found in a nursing mother’s milk, said Dr. Arnold Schector of the New York Medical Center in his report during an American Chemical Society conference in New York. The report that human breast milk is laced with dioxins comes three years after another report that Americans everywhere have undesirable levels of dioxin in their bodies.
The first surrogate mother for a baby conceived in the laboratory has given birth to a 7-pound, 3-ounce girl, and tests have confirmed that the infant is the genetic offspring of the donor parents, a hospital spokesman said today. It was the first time a baby conceived in a glass dish using the parents’ sperm and egg had been carried by someone other than the biological mother, according to Dr. Wulf H. Utian of Mount Sinai Hospital here, where the fertilization took place Aug. 1. The surrogate mother and the baby were in good health after the birth Sunday in a hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said Ruth Jacobowitz, a spokesman for Mount Sinai.
Mount St. Helens rumbled back to life today for the first time in almost a year, spewing a 25,000-foot plume of ash, officials said. The emission was accompanied by minor seismic activity, but the incident was not considered an eruption that could lead to lava flows, said Bobbie Myers, a geologist for the United States Geological Survey. Mount St. Helens, in southwest Washington, exploded violently on May 18, 1980, leaving 57 people dead or missing, and flattening timber as far as 20 miles to the north. The eruption blew off the top 1,600 feet of the mountain. Miss Myers said cloud cover around the mountain obscured the view of the emission, which occurred at 5:15 PM. “It looks like a minor steam or gas emission, or else a rockfall,” said Jim Zollweg, an official of the survey organization. The seismic jolts lasted about two minutes and died out suddenly. Miss Myers said there had been minor seismic activity around the volcano for the past several days, but it was not of the kind normally associated with an eruption. “We will have to go out and get ground measurements to determine the significance of this,” she said. “But our last measures showed no increased swelling in the crater.”
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The Cincinnati Reds defeated the Atlanta Braves, 5–3. Dave Concepcion hit two home runs and drove in three runs, and Tracy Jones drove in the tie-breaking run with a pinch-hit sacrifice fly for Cincinnati. Bo Diaz followed Concepcion’s seventh-inning homer with a single to center. He was replaced by the pinch-runner Eric Davis, who raced to third on Ron Oester’s single to right. Paul Assenmacher came on in relief of Rick Mahler, and Jones hit a fly to center, scoring Davis with the go-ahead run.
Steve Balboni clouted a long homer and Bret Saberhagen allowed only two hits today as the Kansas City Royals defeated the Boston Red Sox, 1–0, for their fourth victory in a row. Balboni’s homer, leading off the second inning, gave Saberhagen his first victory of the season. Saberhagen, the 1985 American League Cy Young Award winner and the most valuable player in the World Series, allowed only singles by Tony Armas with two out in the second and by Don Baylor leading off the fifth. Neither Armas nor Baylor advanced beyond first. The only other Boston runner was Wade Boggs, who walked in the fourth. Saberhagen (1–0) struck out six in outpitching Al Nipper (1–1).
The Angels’ Ron Romanick lost his no-hit bid on Ivan Calderon’s two-out single in the sixth inning and settled for a two-hit 4–0 shutout for California over the Seattle Mariners. Romanick (2–0) issued four walks but no hits until Calderon’s broken-bat single through the shortstop hole. In the ninth, Gorman Thomas singled with one out for the other hit. Romanick finished with five walks and six strikeouts. Wally Joyner’s homer gave the Angels a 1–0 lead in the first against Milt Wilcox (0–2).
The White Sox pummeled the Tigers, 10–4. Ron Kittle drove in four runs with a three-run homer and a sacrifice fly for Chicago. The game was disrupted in the seventh when a pitch from Chicago’s Floyd Bannister (1–1) sailed behind Dave Collins. Collins charged Bannister and was ejected.
Gary Gaetti hit a two-run home run in the 10th inning off Keith Atherton for a 7–5 Minnesota victory over the visiting Oakland A’s. With two out in the 10th, Mark Salas reached base on an infield hit. Gaetti then hit a two-strike pitch deep over the left-center field fence. Ron Davis (1–0) earned the victory in relief of Bert Blyleven.
The Padres edged Los Angeles again, 2–1. Graig Nettles lined a pinch-hit single with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to score Kevin McReynolds from second as San Diego swept the three-game series from the Dodgers. Dennis Powell (0–2), making his first start of the year, allowed the Padres just four hits in eight and one-third innings. Tom Niedenfuer relieved after Powell had walked McReynolds with one out. Steve Garvey grounded out to first, moving McReynolds to second, and Garry Templeton was intentionally walked to bring up Nettles, who was 1 for 16 on the season. Nettles got his hit on a 3–2 pitch to make a winner of Rich Gossage (2–0), who worked the ninth in relief of Dave Dravecky. It was the 10th consecutive one-run game for both teams, one short of the National League record for consecutive one-run games in a season. The teams added to the record they share from the start of the season. Dravecky’s first major league home run, a drive over the 375-foot sign in left-center, gave the Padres a 1–0 lead in the third inning. The Dodgers tied it in the fourth.
The Houston Astros downed the San Francisco Giants, 4–1. Nolan Ryan singled home two runs and combined with Dave Smith on a seven-hitter. Ryan (2–1) allowed six hits, struck out nine and walked three before leaving with two out in the eighth when the Giants got an unearned run.
The scheduled game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Mets in New York is postponed due to rain. This game is made up as part of a doubleheader on August 14.
The scheduled game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Phillies in Philadelphia is postponed due to rain. This game is made up as part of a doubleheader on August 16.
The scheduled game between the New York Yankees and the Indians in Cleveland is postponed due to rain. This game is made up as part of a doubleheader on August 1.
The scheduled game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Blue Jays in Toronto is postponed due to rain. This game is made up tomorrow.
The scheduled game between the Texas Rangers and the Brewers in Milwaukee is postponed due to cold. This game is made up as part of a doubleheader on August 1.
Cincinnati Reds 5, Atlanta Braves 3
Kansas City Royals 1, Boston Red Sox 0
Seattle Mariners 0, California Angels 4
Detroit Tigers 4, Chicago White Sox 10
Oakland Athletics 5, Minnesota Twins 7
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, San Diego Padres 2
Houston Astros 4, San Francisco Giants 1
Wall Street recorded one of its biggest gains ever yesterday, as investors concluded that the Libyan crisis did not threaten the American economy. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 38.32 points to a new high of 1,847.97. Investor relief was centered on oil prices, whose low levels have fueled one of the most-vigorous stock market rallies in decades, As analysts and oil traders turned confident that the Libyan crisis would not disrupt supplies, oil prices slipped lower yesterday.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1847.97 (+38.32)
Born:
Paul di Resta, British auto racer (BP Ultimate Masters, 2006; Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, 2010), in Uphall, England, United Kingdom.
Peter Regin, Danish National Team and NHL centre (Olympics, 2022; Ottawa Senators, New York Islanders, Chicago Blackhawks), in Herning, Denmark.
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