Liberty Weekend. A procession of tall ships joined an armada of mighty warships in New York Harbor and an enormous fireworks show turned the night sky to blazing color in a salute to the Fourth of July and the centennial of a rekindled Statue of Liberty. As darkness fell on a day of stately nautical maneuvers, the biggest fireworks display in American history — a booming 28-minute barrage of skyrockets — burst like supernovas over the harbor and bathed millions of awed spectators and much of the metropolitan region in eerie light. It was, to many, the highlight of a Fourth of July filled with delights, especially the spectacle of tall ships joining warships in the harbor, with President Reagan reviewing the fleet aboard the battleship Iowa and a parade of sail from Governors Island. “We expected the best fireworks since Nero set Rome on fire, and we got them,” Mayor Koch said after the fireworks. From a necklace of 30 barges around the tip of Manhattan, stretching from the Brooklyn Bridge to the World Trade Center, more than 40,000 pyrotechnic shells shrieked skyward in a computer-controlled, nonstop cannonading, with smoke and blasts reminiscent of a battlefield.
President Reagan participates in viewing passing warships of thirty different countries from Governor’s Island, New York. President Reagan mixed politics and patriotism on the Fourth of July in what aides described as one of the most exuberant days of his Presidency. From the battleship U.S.S. Iowa, Mr. Reagan reviewed an international flotilla of warships and then went to a luncheon meeting on Governors Island with President Francois Mitterrand of France, at which the two Presidents discussed arms control and relations with the Soviet Union, which Mr. Mitterrand will visit next week. Mr. Reagan flew by helicopter in the morning to the battleship Iowa and steamed south on the sun-drenched Hudson River to pass an international flotilla of warships. Many of the vessels fired guns in salute as the Iowa, a recommissioned World War II vessel, cruised down the Hudson at 8 knots. As Mr. Reagan left the viewing booth, moments after F-16 Thunderbirds flew over and left a red, white and blue trail in the cloudless sky, he said to Captain Larry Seaquist, the ship’s commanding officer: “Absolutely brilliant. No word to describe my pride.” Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said the President was “exuberant for sure” during his visit to New York, which ends this morning. “There have been other days like these — inaugural days, the release of the Iranian hostages,” Mr. Speakes said. “This ranks with them.” By nightfall Mr. Reagan and his wife, Nancy, ended their celebration on the deck of the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, where they watched perhaps the largest fireworks display in the nation’s history.
The President and First Lady fly to the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy to attend a U.S.O. performance for the sailors aboard.
On a day of flawless weather, New Yorkers and visitors were in a mood appropriate not only to the Fourth of July, but a singular Fourth of July, one that celebrated their roots and their unabashed pride in their country. The cornucopia of festivities in New York seemed to make other Fourth of July celebrations around the nation pale by comparison. Being at the center of the national celebration seemed to add an extra lilt to the delight of New Yorkers.
A gigantic street fair occupied the southern tip of Manhattan. Endless crowds streamed into the canyons of the financial district, filling 50 blocks decorated with balloon arches and echoing folk music. The organizers of the Harbor Festival had predicted that more than 2 million people would come to the festival over the Fourth of July weekend. The first day’s attendance indicated that they might be right.
President Reagan told President Francois Mitterrand yesterday that he was persuaded that Mikhail S. Gorbachev was the first Soviet leader who wanted to negotiate an arms control agreement with the United States, a representative of the French President said. The representative, Michele Gendreau-Massaloux, said Mr. Reagan shared Mr. Mitterrand’s view that an agreement to make meaningful reductions in nuclear arms was possible now because Mr. Gorbachev had placed priority on improving the living standards of his country. This shared assessment emerged from an almost two-hour working lunch in New York between the French and American Presidents, which concluded Mr. Mitterrand’s two-day visit to New York. Mr. Mitterrand, whose country gave the Statue of Liberty to the American people in 1886, was the only foreign chief of state to have been invited to the weekend celebration marking the statue’s centennial. The Reagan-Mitterrand talks came only three days before Mr. Mitterrand is scheduled to fly to Moscow for a three-day state visit. The French President’s trip is in return for a visit by Mr. Gorbachev last fall.
The director of the Soviet Government commission investigating the Chernobyl nuclear accident has been replaced, the official press agency Tass reported today. There had been rumors that the official who was replaced, Boris Y. Shcherbina, a 66-year-old Deputy Prime Minister, was seriously ill from radiation exposure. Mr. Shcherbina was named commission chief right after the April 26 disaster that killed at least 26 people. The Tass report today said the Government inquiry is now headed by Vladimir K. Gusev, also a Deputy Prime Minister.
Rauf Denktaş, leader of the internationally boycotted Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, ordered the indefinite closing of all crossing points on this divided island today. He announced the action immediately after the departure at the end of a three-day visit by Prime Minister Turgut Ozal of Turkey. Mr. Ozal’s visit, the first by a Turkish leader since the declaration of the breakaway nation, was intended to affirm Turkish insistence on the division of Cyprus into two nations. Mr. Denktaş’s action leaves United Nations peacekeeping contingents separated from each other on both sides of the demarcation line. The United Nations representative, James Holger, said the closing left 650 United Nations troops separated from the bulk of the 2,300-member contingent, the first time that this has occurred. He said the helicopter link between the zones had also been ordered grounded.
Italian President Francesco Cossiga, acknowledging that efforts to name a new government were deadlocked, appointed a mediator today to untangle deepening political disputes over who should succeed Bettino Craxi as Prime Minister. The mediator, Senator Amintore Fanfani, who was himself Prime Minister five times, was given an unusual “exploratory mandate” by the President to consult with party leaders and seek a compromise on the make-up of a future government. The major challenge facing Mr. Fanfani, 78 years old, is to negotiate a division of power between Mr. Craxi’s Socialists and the Christian Democrats, the largest of the five parties in the coalition that governed during Mr. Craxi’s 34 months in office, according to politicians and analysts here. “It has come down to political bargaining, pure and simple,” said an official close to the negotiations. The leaders of all major political groupings have agreed that no questions of Government policy are at issue.
A century ago, a British Government led by William Gladstone fell because it tried to establish a political arrangement in Ireland over the protests of Protestants in the island’s northern counties. Now, for the first time since then, the Protestants in Northern Ireland confront a political arrangement that seems invulnerable to their fury. That, at least, is the confident assertion of Government ministers, officials and diplomats in London, Dublin and Belfast as they brace themselves for the start of the “marching season,” when the threat of sectarian violence in Britain’s Irish province is always most acute. This is the time when the majority of Northern Ireland’s residents drape their towns with the red, white and blue of the Union Jack and stage parades to commemorate the victory of King William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 and to celebrate being both Protestant and British. This summer, the 18th since the present run of Northern Ireland “troubles” began, is expected to be an especially difficult testing time as Protestant residents vent their outrage and frustration against the accord reached nearly eight months ago by the British and Irish Governments. The Anglo-Irish accord, as it is called, was decided over the Protestants’ heads and against their direst warnings.
Israel’s Foreign Minister publicly denies accusations by officials of the Shin Beth security agency that he was involved in Israel’s domestic intelligence scandal. But sources close to the Shin Beth chief, Avraham Shalom, were quoted by an Israeli newspaper that Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir was lying. Mr. Shalom has been accused of ordering the killing of two captured Palestinian bus hijackers in April 1984 and covering up the facts before two Government commissions of inquiry. He stated in documents he filed with the Israeli Supreme Court that all of his actions were done “with authority and permission.” These actions were carried out almost entirely while Mr. Shamir was Prime Minister and Mr. Shalom’s direct and only superior.
Gunfire killed 15 people in India’s Punjab state in less than 24 hours in the worst outbreak of Sikh terrorism in weeks, the police said today. In one encounter, 10 people were reported shot to death. The police said Sikh extremists killed seven Hindus with bursts of automatic-weapon fire near Amritsar, then had a shootout with the police in which two assailants were killed. A policeman was also reported killed. Security forces called in a military helicopter to search for three other attackers who fled after being wounded in the gunfight, according to the Amritsar police superintendent, Harkishen Singh Kahlon. The state police reported four Hindus killed Thursday night in other terrorist attacks in the Punjab.
Antiriot forces, using truncheons, tear gas and guns, dispersed 5,000 anti-American demonstrators today who had gathered in front of the United States Embassy in Manila. At least a dozen people were reported hurt, including policemen who were hit with rocks thrown by the protesters. It was the first time that the police had clashed with leftist demonstrators who have given tacit support to the Government of President Corazon C. Aquino. Previously, antiriot forces have broken up only rallies by supporters of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
Leaders of a doctors’ strike in Canada’s most populous province voted today to end a three-week general walkout but will continue to halt medical service on a rotating basis to fight a law limiting their fees. The 250-member governing council of the Ontario Medical Association, which represents 15,000 practicing physicians, voted to end the strike on Monday. But the Medical Association said it would call rotating walkouts throughout Ontario, and threatened to reimpose the general strike unless the law, imposing heavy fines on doctors whose fees exceed those set by public health insurance, is withdrawn or amended.
In a continuing clampdown on domestic opposition, the Sandinista government Friday expelled one of Nicaragua’s leading Roman Catholic bishops, accusing him of “criminal and unpatriotic behavior.” Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, 66, vice president of the Nicaraguan Bishops Conference and one of the revolutionary government’s harshest critics, apparently was driven to the Nicaragua-Honduras border by Interior Ministry officials and deported at El Espino border crossing. Honduran officials at the border and at the Foreign Ministry in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, later said that Vega had been granted political asylum.
Nicaraguan Miskito Indian leaders appear to have failed in a new effort to seek unity, according to several Nicaraguan rebel officials in Honduras. The secret talks aimed at unifying the Indian rebels — who have been long divided by internal disputes — were sponsored by the Nicaraguan guerrilla leader Arturo Cruz and were held over two days this week at a rebel camp.
An Indian introducing Pope John Paul II was interrupted in Popayan, Columbia today when he called attention to the killing of an activist priest. But the Pope, winning cheers from the crowd, asked the Indian to resume his talk and said he would pay close attention to his words. The Pope himself, on the most colorful day so far of his journey through Colombia, spoke out strongly for Indian rights and prayed at a cathedral devastated in an earthquake three years ago. In coming to Popayan, the Pope braved a prophecy. According to legend, a Jesuit priest in the 1600’s said that after an earthquake a Pope coming as a pastor would see his chest “explode with mortifying pain,” but the Pope escaped from his visit unscathed. John Paul survived an assassination attempt in 1981.
Shops reopened in Chile’s capital, shoppers returned to the sidewalks and buses and taxis were back on the street after a 48-hour general strike. But large numbers of policemen continued to be on alert downtown and in the poor neighborhoods in the southern part of Santiago where most of the strike-related violence occurred on Wednesday and Thursday. Leaders of the strike, which was called to press the Chilean military to create a democratic opening, acknowledged that it had not succeeded in halting most of the country’s economic life, but they asserted that it had served to draw attention to the question of Chile’s future.
Former President Jimmy Carter, angered by Zimbabwean criticism of United States policy toward South Africa, led a walkout today from an Independence Day reception in Harare, capital of Zimbabwe. The criticism came in a speech read on behalf of Foreign Minister Witness Mangwende by Sport Minister David Karimanzira.
Nearly 2,000 black mineworkers have gone on strike at four diamond mines to demand the release of detained labor leaders, their employer said today. The stoppage at the De Beers mines, which started Thursday, was the first known protest in the economically crucial mining industry since the newest state of emergency was imposed June 12. South Africa’s gold, diamond and other mines account for more than half the country’s export earnings. The police, meanwhile, said a bomb explosion, the 13th since the declaration of the emergency, wounded 20 people in a white suburb of Pretoria, the capital. The Bureau for Information, the sole source of authorized news under the emergency decree, said the explosion was caused by a device left between two parked cars.
A confusing series of threats, statements and denials by South Africa’s officials and advisers in recent days underline the nation’s growing economic isolation. Moreover, it has become clear that while Western political leaders are debating the wisdom of economic sanctions against the Pretoria Government because of its racial policy, the international financial markets have already imposed sanctions of their own, battering the South African currency. The uncertainty surrounding South Africa’s debt rescheduling efforts grew after statements this week from the Swiss banker Fritz Leutwiler, who had acted as mediator between Pretoria and its foreign creditors, and his spokesman in Zurich. On Thursday the spokesman, Erich Heini, said Mr. Leutwiler was resigning as mediator in response to South Africa’s state-of-emergency declaration last month.
American Indians are using a voting rights law in a new attack on the Western states’ traditional underrepresentation of Indians in local politics. The growing movement to use the voting rights law — written originally to open up politics in the South to black candidates — was illustrated recently when the Big Horn County Commission in Montana submitted a plan to a Federal judge scrapping the county’s at-large voting system for the three commissioners. The voting system is enshrined in the Montana Constitution, but was thrown out by the judge in May on the ground that it diluted Big Horn County’s Indian vote.
All 24 known members of the violent neo-Nazi group called the Order are dead or imprisoned, but their dream of a racist state in the Pacific Northwest refuses to die. Dotted across the region, tiny clusters of disciples and kindreds of a doctrine that holds that Jews are the offspring of Satan and have taken over the Government, are seeking to attract others of like thinking. They aim to establish a racist “territorial sanctuary” in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. In July, racist leaders from around the country will meet at an Aryan Nations Congress at Hayden Lake, Idaho, to discuss the establishment of a “White Sovereign National State in America.” And while few others take such a concept seriously, law-enforcement officials, civil rights organizations and others are concerned over two recent outbreaks of violence apparently abetted by extremist ideology.
The Air Force, which recruits and trains working dogs for the military services and Federal agencies, is having a hard time keeping up with a rapidly growing demand. Officers here said all the services wanted more patrol dogs to guard against intruders, sniff out illicit drugs and detect explosives. The Secret Service wants them for help in protecting the President and other officials, the Federal Aviation Administration wants them for finding bombs and the Department of Agriculture wants them for detecting illegally transported food. The Defense Department’s dog center here shipped 417 dogs in the 1985 fiscal year, which ended last Sept. 30, but has provided 553 dogs to its customers already in this fiscal year. The present backlog is 500 dogs, down somewhat from 720 two years ago.
Negotiators for Caterpillar Inc. and the United Automobile Workers today reached a tentative contract settlement on a new contract for 17,000 workers, ending 30 hours of bargaining. It was the first time the union and the company, which manufactures heavy construction equipment, have reached an agreement without a strike since 1976, James Ward, a Caterpillar vice president and the company’s chief negotiator, said at a news conference after the bargaining ended. Spokesmen for the company and the union would not disclose details of the settlement.
Workers at the Kennecott Copper Corporation were to vote Monday on a contract offer that would recall laid-off workers but slash wages and benefits. Meanwhile, about 1,650 copper workers at ASARCO Inc. agreed to 20 percent wage cuts over three years. Talks between union representatives and officials of the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company recessed Thursday until Tuesday after several hours of negotiations in Globe, Arizona.
On Thursday, Asarco workers in El Paso and Amarillo, Texas; Hayden, Silver Bell and Sahuarita, Arizona; Tacoma, Washington; and South Plainfield, New Jersey, voted 870 to 307 to approve the contract tentatively accepted last weekend.
Kennecott’s offer, which the union has sent on to its membership without a recommendation, would recall 2,000 workers next year and reduce the company’s labor costs up to $5.45 an hour.
Four organizations linked to the political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. could be fined up to $17 million under a decision upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The ruling, issued Thursday, involved groups that have not paid fines they incurred by refusing to produce documents subpoenaed in an investigation of credit card fraud. The fines were imposed in 1985 by Federal District Judge A. David Mazzone. Prosecutors say the groups made unauthorized charges of $500 and $1,000 to credit cards of people solicited to buy magazines. The groups were Campaigner Publications Inc., Fusion Energy Foundation, National Democratic Policy Committee, and Caucus Distributors Inc.
After two days of vigorous debate, the nation’s largest teachers’ union today endorsed a recent recommendation by the Carnegie Corporation to establish a national board of standards to certify elementary and high school teachers. But in a resolution on the subject and in discussions before they voted at their 124th convention, representatives of the 1.8-million-member National Education Association also expressed significant reservations about some aspects of the proposal, made in May by the foundation. They emphasized that any national teacher certification system must supplement, not replace, existing state licensing boards. Mary Hatwood Futrell, the association’s president, said the boards must continue to have the “appropriate, legal and chief responsbility” for the matter.
A Versailles, Kentucky woman and her two teen-aged children were each sentenced to 12 months in jail for holding the woman’s husband captive in the basement of their home for two months. Shirley Kimberl, 39 years old, her daughter Kim, 19, and her son James Jr., 18, were found guilty June 17 of second-degree unlawful imprisonment. Mrs. Kimberl was acquitted of attempted murder. The defendants said they kept James Kimberl, 47, captive to protect themselves from being beaten and abused. Judge David L. Knox of Woodford Circuit Court credited the defendants with the five months they have already served.
A report by the Office of Technology Assessment warns that advances in government computerized record systems have eroded some of the individual protections established by the Privacy Act of 1974. According to the report, made public Monday, technological improvements in storing personal records have helped the government attack fraud, waste and abuse, have assisted law-enforcement agencies and have streamlined some government operations. But the report goes on to say that those advantages have been offset by new opportunities for unauthorized and illegal use of personal files.
The Farm Aid II benefit concert is held in Manor, Texas; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Waylon Jennings, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Nicolette Larson, Los Lobos, and Steve Earle. More than 40,000 pop music fans braved sticky South Texas heat Friday to share the Fourth of July with some 75 Farm Aid II stage performers, ranging from Waylon Jennings and the Blasters to Minnie Mouse and the Playboy Girls of Rock and Roll. Country pop star Willie Nelson’s marathon concert to benefit debt- ridden family farmers did not ap- pear to raise anywhere near the $9 million earned by last September’s first Farm Aid concert, however. Early estimates put the Farm Aid II gross at less than $2 million. Farm Aid II was plagued by a number of problems, including a lack of insurance coverage, and very nearly did not happen at all. A demand for a $200,000 insurance premium, compounded by slow sales of the $20 general admission tickets, forced organizers to move the site of the concert last week from the 80,000-seat University of Texas Memorial Stadium in nearby Austin to the Manor Downs horse race track, where the five-story stage was erected in less than 72 hours.
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The Montreal Expos pounded the Atlanta Braves, 11–5. Floyd Youmans pitched a five-hitter over eight innings and Mike Fitzgerald drove in four runs for Montreal. Youmans (8–5) struck out five and walked seven but fell one inning short of his second complete game. Dan Schatzeder finished. Rick Mahler (10–6) was the loser.
Dwight Evans hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning and Rich Gedman added a bases-empty homer one out later, powering the Boston Red Sox to a 6–5 victory over the Seattle Mariners tonight. The rookie Jeff Sellers (2–3) allowed five hits and five walks in seven and one-third innings for the victory. Sellers gave up three runs on Danny Tartabull’s homer in the eighth
At Comiskey Park, with the score 1–1 in the bottom of the 8th, Chicago White Sox outfielder John Cangelosi leads off with a drive to the right field corner. A fans leans out of the stands and appears to touch the ball as he tumbles onto the field. Anticipating an interference call, New York Yankee outfielder Claudell Washington slows down, while the speedy Cangelosi easily makes third base. The umps don’t see any interference and Cangelosi remains on third, and scores on a sac fly. The Sox win 2–1.
The Indians defeated the Kansas City Royals, 10–3, tonight before the major leagues’ largest crowd in more than 13 years. The game, which was followed by a fireworks display, attracted 73,303 fans. Andre Thornton hit a home run, went 4 for 4 and drove in three runs as the Indians extended Kansas City’s losing streak to seven games. The crowd was the largest in baseball since April 7, 1973, when the Indians drew 74,420 for their opening game. Phil Niekro (5–6) gained his 305th career victory, tying the 47-year-old knuckleballer for 15th place on the career list with Eddie Plank.
Rafael Belliard and Jim Morrison each singled in two runs with the bases loaded to lead Pittsburgh over the Dodgers, 6–4. Mike Bielecki, 5–5, ended a five-game winless streak with his first victory since June 4. The rookie right-hander allowed five hits, struck out five and walked two in 6 ⅔ innings.
The Brewers edged the Athletics, 5–4. Ernest Riles’ check-swing single to left broke an eighth-inning tie and boosted Milwaukee over Oakland. Riles’s two-out single off Steve Ontiveros, his ninth game-winning hit of the season, scored Robin Yount from second base. Ontiveros relieved Doug Bair (0–2) in the eighth after Bair sprained his right hip on Bill Schroeder’s sacrifice bunt, which advanced Yount to second. Dan Plesac (5–5) the Brewers’ third pitcher, went one and one-third innings for the victory.
The Baltimore Orioles outslugged the Minnesota Twins, 12–7. Seventh-inning sacrifice flies by Tom O’Malley and Mike Young allowed Baltimore to capitalize on Roy Smalley’s two-base error as the Orioles rallied for the victory. Fred Lynn hit two home runs and drove in five runs.
If the Mets’ first four starting pitchers were football players, they would be known as the Fearsome Foursome or the Purple People Eaters or the Steel Curtain. They are mere baseball players, though, so they are known simply as outstanding. Dwight Gooden, whose status as No. 1 in the group has become fuzzy because of the success of the others, took his turn yesterday and did nothing to taint the rapidly growing reputation of the four. Gooden registered his strongest performance in a month, allowing five hits as the Mets edged the Houston Astros, 2–1, for their eighth consecutive victory.
The Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 4–1. Tom Browning held the Phillies hitless for six and two-third innings and Bo Diaz doubled home one run and scored another to give Cincinnati the victory.
The Padres edged the Cubs, 2–1. Pinch hitter Bruce Bochy lined a walk-off home run over the left field wall with two out in the bottom of the ninth inning. Bochy’s homer, his fifth of the season and his second game-winning pinch-hit homer of the year, came on a 3–1 pitch off the loser Ray Fontenot (3–4). The winner was Rich Gossage (4–3) who pitched the final two innings.
The San Francisco Giants downed the St. Louis Cardinals, 6–1. Randy Kutcher, a rookie, hit a home run for the second game in a row and drove in two more runs with a single, lifting San Francisco over St. Louis. Mike LaCoss (8–3) gained the victory, holding St. Louis to five hits, striking out three and walking only one.
The Detroit Tigers bowed to the Texas Rangers, 2–1. Greg Harris threw two innings of hitless relief to earn his 15th save and secure the victory for Texas. It was the 12th time in his last 14 appearances that Harris has protected a lead. His clutch pitching came before the second largest crowd — 42,485 — in Arlington Stadium history.
The California Angels drubbed the Toronto Blue Jays, 9–1. Don Sutton threw a four-hitter for his 302d career victory, and the rookie Jack Howell hit his first two homers of the season to lead California. Sutton (7–5) struck out three and walked two while picking up his fourth consecutive victory.
Montreal Expos 11, Atlanta Braves 5
Seattle Mariners 5, Boston Red Sox 6
New York Yankees 1, Chicago White Sox 2
Kansas City Royals 3, Cleveland Indians 10
Pittsburgh Pirates 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Oakland Athletics 4, Milwaukee Brewers 5
Baltimore Orioles 12, Minnesota Twins 7
Houston Astros 1, New York Mets 2
Cincinnati Reds 4, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Chicago Cubs 1, San Diego Padres 2
St. Louis Cardinals 1, San Francisco Giants 6
Detroit Tigers 1, Texas Rangers 2
California Angels 9, Toronto Blue Jays 1
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Terrance Knighton, NFL defensive tackle and nose tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars, Denver Broncos, Washington Redskins), in Hartford, Connecticut.
Ömer Aşık, Turkish NBA center (Chicago Bulls, Houston Rockets, New Orleans Pelicans), in Bursa, Turkey.
Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer, in Tokyo, Japan.
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