A Polish immigrant burned himself to death in front of the Soviet consulate in Hamburg, West Germany, police said. They said the victim, identified as Marek Kucal, 26, who came to West Germany on February 5 from the Polish city of Szczecin, doused himself with a flammable liquid in front of the consulate and set fire to his clothing. Consulate employees called the fire department and police, but Kucal could not be saved, a police spokesman said. Police said they did not know why Kucal killed himself.
About 150 Protestants stoned and attacked police for preventing two militant politicians from joining a parade through a Roman Catholic area in the Northern Ireland city of Portadown. No one was seriously injured, police said. The parade was disrupted again when marchers were stoned as they walked through a Catholic area of town in the first major parade of the traditional Protestant marching season. The marches are held every year to commemorate centuries-old military victories over Catholic forces.
When President Francois Mitterrand leaves Monday on a four-day state visit to the Soviet Union, it will be his second trip abroad in less than a week. The French President is flying to Moscow three days after completing a private visit to New York, where he attended the celebration of the centennial of the Statue of Liberty, a gift to America from France. His trip to the Soviet Union, French political analysts say, gives Mr. Mitterrand, a Socialist, a second chance to upstage his rival, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, a conservative, in the coming French presidential elections, now scheduled for 1988.
Bombs exploded outside the Paris offices of two companies with ties to South Africa, causing damage but no injuries. In a statement to a French news agency, Direct Action, an extreme left-wing French group, claimed responsibility and denounced July 4 celebrations in New York of the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. President Reagan and French President Francois Mitterrand took part in the celebrations. The first bomb went off at a small computer center of Thomson Electronics, blowing a small crater next to a wall. A second blew up in a car parked in front of the headquarters of Air Liquide, damaging the building and seven vehicles parked nearby. Police said the security offices at both companies received anonymous calls just before the blasts.
The families of two Palestinians killed after their capture in a 1984 bus hijacking asked Israel’s Supreme Court to order an investigation into their deaths and to cancel pardons of Shin Bet security agency officials in the case, legal sources said. The relatives of Majdi abu Jamaa, 17, and Subhi abu Jamaa, 18, said it was possible that the two were innocent passengers on the bus. Previous Israeli inquiries disclosed that the cousins were beaten to death after their capture. The head of Shin Bet, who is alleged to have ordered their deaths and a subsequent cover-up, was given presidential immunity from prosecution in return for resigning. Three aides were also given immunity.
Hundreds of elite Syrian troops maintained tranquility in Muslim West Beirut as they continued to enforce a ban on militia street fighting. Security sources reported the Lebanese capital to be unusually quiet since the operation began a week ago, adding that a Syrian-backed truce announced June 14 appeared to be holding at three embattled Palestinian refugee camps on the edge of the city. A number of Lebanese politicians and top militia officials have welcomed the Syrian deployment.
Benazir Bhutto, the opposition leader, said today that nationwide anti-Government protests had been a success and that she would soon announce new plans to oust Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq as president. The protests marked the ninth anniversary of the July 5, 1977, military coup that brought General Zia to power. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was overthrown as Prime Minister in the coup and was executed in 1979 after being found guilty of conspiring to murder a political opponent. Mr. Bhutto’s daughter said that the Pakistan People’s Party would soon move on to the next stage of its campaign by increasing public pressure on the government. Tens of thousands of people took part in the protests Saturday, but the turnouts seemed far short of figures reported today by the opposition group.
Japan’s Liberal Democrats were expected to keep their hold on the Government as vote-counting began in elections for both houses of Parliament. Better-than-expected weather helped produce a healthy voter turnout, 71.4 percent, which tends to work to the governing party’s advantage. The main question seemed to be not whether the Liberal Democrats would win, but whether their victory would be conclusive and restore their clear majority in the key lower house.
Marcos supporters took over a hotel in Manila, and Arturo M. Tolentino, who was the running mate of Ferdinand E. Marcos in February’s election, declared himself acting president on Mr. Marcos’s behalf. But the Marcos backers failed to win the support of the leaders of the armed forces, and the Government radio reported that a large portion of the rebellious troops surrendered during the night. Both Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and the armed forces Chief of Staff, Gen. Fidel V. Ramos, declared their allegiance to President Corazon C. Aquino, and later Mr. Tolentino appeared to soften his assertion that he had become acting president. The United States Embassy also issued a statement in support of Mrs. Aquino, and in Washington State Department officials dismissed the activity in Manila as the “last desperate act” of Marcos supporters. “We are not very disturbed about it at all,” a senior official said, “because the Philippine Government has the situation well in hand.” Early this morning, a military spokesman announced on Government radio that about 200 of the roughly 300 soldiers who had backed Mr. Tolentino had surrendered, saying they had been misled into thinking they were being sent to support Mr. Enrile and General Ramos.
Mexico’s governing party faces one its strongest challenges in an election in one of Mexico’s most important states, Chihuahua. Amid allegations of electoral irregularities, residents of Chihuahua turned out in large numbers to elect a governor and mayors. There were seven candidates for governor, but the race was widely seen as a contest between the two major parties, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which has governed Mexico without interruption for 57 years, and the conservative National Action Party. The results are not expected until later in the week.
Pope John Paul II knelt today before a bare cement cross planted in the desolate sea of dried mud that was once the town of Armero, Columbia and prayed that “through the solidarity, work and willpower of the people of this land, there should arise, as if out of the ashes, a new city.” A vast expanse of soil covers virtually all of the once-prosperous market town, which was engulfed eight months ago by a huge avalanche of water, ice and gravel after the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano. The catastrophe left 23,000 dead. The Pope stayed in Armero only seven minutes, partly because of a heavy schedule on the sixth day of his tour of Colombia and partly because of the danger of another eruption from the volcano. He walked from a helicopter across the dusty earth to the cheers of the few hundred people who had been allowed into the area by the authorities.
Bolivian President Victor Paz Estenssoro is urging the United States to provide at least $100 million for the fight against cocaine or risk having the “cocaine mafia” take over the Bolivian government, Newsweek reported. In an interview in La Paz, he was asked if the present $1.5 million provided by the United States for police work is adequate. Estenssoro answered: “Totally insufficient in every sense. We require at least $100 million to reduce coca-leaf plantations and undertake effective police actions.” He estimated that the cocaine dealers have $600 million at their disposal.
When Brazil’s military regime stepped down last year, the president of the National Bishops’ Conference, Jose Ivo Lorscheiter, remarked that Roman Catholic priests, who had long been at loggerheads with the dictatorship, could also return to their “barracks.” Yet, 15 months later, while the armed forces still maintain a low profile, the church has already emerged as the strongest critic of the new civilian Government and of its hesitancy in addressing the problems of Brazil’s poor majority. “The priests never made it back to the barracks,” said Canon Celso Pedro da Silva, the under secretary general of the Bishops’ Conference, “because the promised social changes were not forthcoming.” As a result, church-state relations are again in turmoil, with officials charging priests with radicalizing the situation in the countryside and some bishops accusing the Government of resorting to tactics of “persecution and defamation” reminiscent of the dictatorship.
The two-day general strike in Chile last week pointed out two major difficulties confronting Chileans who want General Augusto Pinochet to give up power in favor of a democratically elected government. One is the problem faced by the democratic opposition over its relations with the Communist Party and the militant left, which, along with the military and the police, are blamed for turning what was supposed to be a peaceful protest into a nightmare for many Chileans. The other problem is what is widely perceived as the absence of a strong leader within the opposition forces, coupled with a more precise statement of the basis for a future government and the steps in a transition. General Pinochet touched an opposition nerve on the point about violence when he asserted Friday, the day after the 48-hour strike ended, that the protest and other protests against him had united “those who call themselves democrats with the anti-democrats and the terrorists.”
Sometime today and somewhere on Earth a newborn child will become the planet’s 5 billionth living resident and a “sobering symbol” of population growth, the president of the Population Institute said in Washington. “This particular baby.” Werner Fornos said, will be a reminder of the “shocking rapidity at which the world’s population is multiplying.” Another authority warned: “Five billion probably puts the world about at its carrying capacity.”
The C.I.A. received firm support over the last decade from the Congressional committees that oversee it despite some highly public skirmishes, according to past and present committee members and Reagan Administration officials. “The C.I.A. got what it wanted,” said Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York, former vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Senate committee celebrated its 10th anniversary last month with some members of Congress and the Administration questioning the future of the relationship.
President Reagan and the Presidential Party enjoy a birthday dinner for the First Lady at the Jockey Club.
The National Medal of Arts is to be given by President Reagan to 11 Americans and a corporation for their contributions to the nation’s cultural life. The recipients, who are to be honored with a White House luncheon on July 14, are Marian Anderson, the singer; Frank Capra, movie director; Aaron Copland, composer; Willem de Kooning, painter; Agnes de Mille, choreographer; Eva Le Gallienne, actress and teacher; Alan Lomax, folklorist; Lewis Mumford, philosopher and writer; Eudora Welty, novelist and short-story writer; the arts patrons Dominque de Menil of Houston and Seymour H. Knox of Buffalo, and the Exxon Corporation.
Congressional auditors question whether the Federal Communications Commission is getting enough information to carry out its duty to ensure that adequate residential telephone service is available all over the nation at reasonable rates. The General Accounting Office study found that the data being used to monitor phone service “does not provide insight into conditions at the local level, particularly in rural areas,” and that the government has no figures to indicate whether people in poverty regions are going without telephones because they cannot afford them.
Liberty Weekend drew to a close in New York on the hottest day of the year, with capacity crowds at the Statue of Liberty and a spectacular production-show finale. About 50,000 people paid $25 to $200 each to attend the closing ceremonies at Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands in New Jersey. It was a three-hour entertainment on a 20-tiered, motorized stage with fountains and a 12-story waterfall.
A security blanket of thousands of police officers around New York City during Liberty Weekend played a large part in keeping the festival safe and in keeping criminals away, police and military officials said. The crowds seemed both awed and reassured by the officers’ presence. There were 22,000 on duty on the Fourth of July. The city will pay the officers $4.26 million in overtime.
If negotiations resuming Monday between the city of Philadelphia and unions representing 14,000 striking employees do not progress fast enough, the city will arrange to take in trash, Mayor W. Wilson Goode said today. “Until then,” the Mayor said, “we continue to ask people to keep trash in their homes or in the rear of their homes or in their alleys.” Trash has been piling up since Tuesday, when the strike by members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees began. The strikers are asking for wage and benefit increases. Nonunion employees worked under police protection early Saturday to pick up trash left at the city’s Fourth of July fireworks display, but officials said many spectators helped out by taking their trash home. Mayor Goode confirmed a report that he may be willing to offer a 12 percent raise over three years, but added, “That is subject to a lot of negotiation conditions, and I usually do not negotiate contracts in public.”
Technology that mines heat from the earth’s interior has succeeded for the first time in producing energy on a potentially commercial scale, according to scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Department of Energy. Millions of gallons of water pumped two and a half miles deep under New Mexico was heated by underground rock to more than 350 degrees Fahrenheit, enough for efficient generation of electricity as well as heating of factories and homes. The Los Alamos project, Hot Dry Rock, has been closely monitored by energy officials from Japan, which helped pay for it, and from European countries, which are starting or planning similar projects.
Declining law school enrollments have led to increasingly aggressive, even controversial, competition for students. American Bar Association figures show that the number of applicants to the nation’s 175 accredited law schools has dropped by one-quarter in the last four years, from a peak of 70,135 in 1982-83 to an estimated 52,658 next fall.
A convicted murderer in Ypsilanti, Michigan apparently upset over his impending transfer handcuffed a guard and held her hostage in his cell for nearly five hours today before surrendering, a prison official said. The murderer, Tim Meaker, 41 years old, gave up after releasing Sharon Hall, 37. There were no injuries, said Adria Libolt, spokesman for the Huron Valley Men’s Facility, where the incident occurred. He was to be transferred to the Jacksonville State Prison. Mr. Meaker grabbed Ms. Hall as she opened his cell door, probably to make a search, then took her handcuffs and chained her to his bed, the spokesman said. Guards at the prison are unarmed. The authorities were unsure if Mr. Meaker had a weapon.
Hopi Indians took jurisdiction over Arizona land still occupied by Navajos who have lived there for generations, and the Hopi chairman said some members of his tribe are ready to move onto the land but will not evict any Navajos. In spite of tensions aggravated by a meeting of militant Indian and white opponents of a forced Navajo relocation, as planned earlier, there were no reports of violence or other incidents, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs said. There had originally been an official deadline Sunday for moving several hundred Navajos, but it was canceled by Congress in December.
A paramilitary group captured 15 illegal aliens in Arizona near the Mexican border and held them at gunpoint for 90 minutes until Border Patrol agents arrived, an immigration official said. Twenty heavily armed members of the anti-Communist group known as Civilian Materiel Assistance seized the aliens, who were deported, said Harold Ezell, regional commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Ezell criticized the action in the Lochiel Valley as dangerous and “bizarre.” The group reportedly had been conducting night maneuvers along the border to intercept the flow of cocaine from Mexico.
Battered women are getting more protection because of increasingly aggressive prosecution of domestic violence, a new study has concluded. The survey said that until recently, most criminal justice officials looked the other way when domestic violence occurred, treating it as a low-priority problem. In Los Angeles, for example, victims who want to drop charges are advised that a crime has been committed and that the prosecutor should decide whether the court should be asked to dismiss a complaint. The study, conducted for the National Institute of Justice, said more than 1.7 million Americans a year face a spouse with a gun or a knife and more than 2 million are beaten by spouses.
Five people were killed when their small plane crashed and burned near the Colorado River, authorities said. The Cessna 172, registered in Palm Desert, took off from a desert airfield near Lake Havasu, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jim Singley said. Several fisherman said they saw the craft circle the area and then heard it crash. Three men and two women were confirmed dead at the scene, coroner’s spokesman Frank Lee said. The bodies could not be immediately identified, he said.
Thunderstorms brought heavy rain to parts of the central section of the nation, prompting flood warnings, and temperatures ranged from record highs in the East to record lows in Florida and the Northwest. A flash flood watch was posted for northwestern Missouri after heavy showers and thunderstorms drenched parts of the lower Missouri Valley, particularly the Kansas City area. Up to six inches of rain fell in Leavenworth, Kansas, and up to four inches fell at Leawood, Kansas, and St. Joseph, Missouri. Members of an Omaha family said their car was struck by lightning. “It was a burst of blue. It was weird,” said Dawn Paulson. She said that when the family got out of the car they found that all four tires had melted and gone flat.
100th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Germany’s Boris Becker successfully defends his title beating Ivan Lendl 6–4, 6–3, 7–5.
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Bob Horner becomes the 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a game, but it isn’t enough as the Braves fall to the Expos 11–8. Horner is the 2nd to hit his 4 home runs in a losing cause. Ed Delahanty of the Fighting Phillies on July 13, 1896 was the first. For Montreal, Mitch Webster had five hits. He singled twice in the fifth, scoring the first run of the inning and driving in the sixth. He hit a homer in the seventh for the Expos’ last run. Andre Dawson hit his 13th homer for two of the fifth-inning runs. Al Newman hit his first major-league homer in Montreal’s three-run fourth; it’ll be his only homer, as Newman will go to the American League next year and set the junior circuit record by going to bat 1,893 times without a 4-bagger. Tim Burke (6–2), who relieved McGaffigan in the fifth, picked up the victory. The Expos had 16 hits for the third straight game.
The Red Sox downed the Mariners, 7–3. Tom Seaver, making his second appearance for Boston, won the 308th game of his career, allowing four hits and an unearned run in seven innings. Seaver is now 2–0 with Boston and 4–6 over all. Mark Langston (9–6) was locked in a 1–1 tie with Seaver and had retired 12 batters in a row when he walked the rookie Rey Quinones to start the sixth. The Red Sox went on to score twice on just one hit. Quinones went to second on Marty Barrett’s single and Wade Boggs, the major leagues’ leading hitter, sacrificed, loading the bases when Langston’s throw to third was too late to get Quinones. Jim Rice walked on four pitches, forcing home Quinones with the tiebreaking run. Another run scored when Presley, the third baseman, fumbled Don Baylor’s grounder for an error.
He had not quite finished filling in the lineup card. Lou Piniella studied it, almost interminably, then looked up from his desk. “I just need some right-handed hitting,” he finally said. The message came through again as the afternoon dragged on, and later, when the game had ended. The Yankees, who have faltered all season against left-handed pitching, fell again, losing today to the Chicago White Sox, 5–2, mustering only four hits.
Tom Candiotti (7–6) pitched a four-hitter today as the Indians defeated the Kansas City Royals, 5–0, for their seventh consecutive victory. Cleveland moved into a virtual tie with the Yankees for second place in the American League East. The Indians, who have a 43–35 record, are 2 percentage points ahead of New York, which lost to Chicago today. The Indians and Yankees trail the Red Sox by 8 games.
The Dodgers bested the Pirates, 4–3. Jeff Hamilton, a Dodger rookie, broke a 3–3 tie with a run-scoring single in the sixth inning to lead Los Angeles. Rick Honeycutt (5–4) allowed seven hits and all three runs in six innings for the victory. Ken Landreaux, who entered the game in the third inning as a pinch-runner for the injured Franklin Stubbs, began the winning rally with a leadoff single. He advanced to third on a sacrifice and a two-out wild pitch and scored on Hamilton’s RBI. Stubbs had strained his right hamstring in the third inning while running out an infield hit.
In the A’s 6–3 win over Milwaukee, Oakland’s Jose Rijo ended a personal five-game losing streak. Rijo (3–7) scattered nine hits in eight and two-thirds innings before Steve Ontiveros struck out Mike Felder with the bases loaded for his seventh save. Juan Castillo hit a two-run triple and scored on a single by Charlie Moore to give the Brewers a 3–0 lead in the third inning. The A’s started their comeback with two runs in the top of the fourth. Tony Phillips drew a leadoff walk, went to second on a groundout and scored on Carney Lansford’s single, the first hit off Tim Leary (6–8). Lansford went to third on Jose Canseco’s single and scored on Dave Kingman’s grounder. The A’s took a 6–3 lead by scoring four times in the seventh. Tony Phillips of the A’s, ties the Major League mark with 12 assists at second base. It’ll be matched again next month.
The Baltimore Orioles won a pitchers’ duel with the Minnesota Twins, 1–0. Ken Dixon, with ninth-inning help from Don Aase, snapped a personal four-game losing streak, and Fred Lynn hit a home run. Dixon (7–7) allowed three singles, walked two and struck out six before Aase came on for his 22nd save after Kirby Puckett singled with one out in the ninth. Lynn’s line drive over the right-field fence off Neal Heaton (3–7) leading off the fifth inning broke the scoreless tie.
The Astros left 14 runners on base in a 5–3 New York Mets victory that made Sid Fernandez the league’s first 11-game winner. For those who may have glanced at the National League West standing and wondered if the weekend’s events at Shea Stadium might be a preview of the league’s championship series, here are the thoughts of Hal Lanier, manager of the Houston Astros. “When you feel you’re in the position to win three of four, I think I should be unhappy,” Lanier said after the Astros lost their third game of the series to the Mets yesterday. “I’m not going to go out there and say we played a good four-game series, because we didn’t. We stunk.”
The Phillies crushed the Reds, 12–5. Ron Roenicke hit a two-run home run and the pinch-hitter Jeff Stone doubled and hit a homer in an eight-run rally for Philadelphia. The Phillies turned a 4–1 deficit into a 9–4 lead in the third inning with four doubles, a triple and two home runs. The Phillies’ rally tied a major-league record of seven extra-base hits, achieved five other times. Stone opened the inning against the Reds’ starter, Joe Price (1–2), with a double. Gary Redus doubled home Stone and scored on Juan Samuel’s triple. Roenicke then hit a homer, putting the Phillies ahead, 5–4. After Mike Schmidt reached safely on an error and the Phillies made two outs, Ronn Reynolds resumed the attack with a double that sent Schmidt to third. Ted Power replaced Price and gave up a double to Steve Jeltz, scoring Schmidt and Reynolds. Stone followed with his homer.
The Padres edged the Cubs, 2–1. Marvell Wynne hit a homer and Andy Hawkins and Rich Gossage held Chicago to eight hits. Hawkins (6–5) threw seven and two-thirds innings as he lasted past the sixth inning for the first time in his last four starts. He stranded nine runners through the opening six innings. Gossage threw one and one-third innings for his 15th save. The Padres spotted Hawkins a 2–0 lead with Wynne’s first-inning home run and a sacrifice fly by Garry Templeton in the fourth.
The Giants turned back the Cardinals, 8–3. San Francisco bailed out Steve Carlton, making his first start for the Giants, by rallying for six runs in the eighth. Carlton left the game trailing 3–0 in the fourth, but the Giants narrowed it to 3–2, then scored six times in the eighth on a single, two sacrifice flies, a squeeze bunt and a two-run error. Carlton, acquired as a free agent last week, gave up three runs on eight hits in three and one-third innings.
Frank Tanana and Willie Hernandez combined on a seven-hitter as the Tigers ended the Rangers’ four-game winning streak with a 5–2 victory. The only runs off Tanana (8–4) came on homers by Scott Fletcher in the third inning, his first of the season, and Gary Ward in the eighth, his fourth. Hernandez retired the last four batters for his 17th save.
The California Angels defeated the Toronto Blue Jays, 8–2. Kirk McCaskill pitched a six-hitter, and Bobby Grich hit a three-run pinch-hit homer in the ninth for California. McCaskill (9–5) retired the first 12 batters and finished with 9 strikeouts. The Angels nicked Dennis Lamp (2–5) for a run in the first inning on singles by Jack Howell and Rob Wilfong around an infield out. Lamp was relieved by Mark Eichhorn when Ruppert Jones doubled with one out in the fifth, and Gary Pettis greeted Eichhorn with a run-scoring double.
Montreal Expos 11, Atlanta Braves 8
Seattle Mariners 3, Boston Red Sox 7
New York Yankees 2, Chicago White Sox 5
Kansas City Royals 0, Cleveland Indians 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Oakland Athletics 6, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Baltimore Orioles 1, Minnesota Twins 0
Houston Astros 3, New York Mets 5
Cincinnati Reds 5, Philadelphia Phillies 12
Chicago Cubs 1, San Diego Padres 2
St. Louis Cardinals 3, San Francisco Giants 8
Detroit Tigers 5, Texas Rangers 2
California Angels 8, Toronto Blue Jays 2
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