The United States and the Soviet Union announced agreement today on 13 educational, scientific and cultural exchanges. The accords were the latest to result from the meeting last November in Geneva between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The accords bring cultural exchanges to a higher level than in late 1979, when President Carter cut them off to protest the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. Previous exchanges this year in-volved the Kirov Ballet of Leningrad and French Impressionist paintings from the Soviet Union and the United States. In April, Vladimir Horowitz, the virtuoso pianist, made a triumphal visit to his native land for recitals. The latest agreements were announced at the United States Information Agency, with Ambassador Yuri V. Dubinin of the Soviet Union and American officials participating.
Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici said today that Malta had given Libya advance notice of the American air attack in April and would do so again if it had similar information. Mr. Mifsud Bonnici said Maltese air controllers had not been able to identify the planes that were picked up on their radar screens about 30 to 45 minutes before the raid. But he said the air controllers notified their Libyan counterparts soon after detection that “a number of unidentified planes were going down toward North Africa.” “We’ve committed ourselves to exchange information with all friendly countries, north and south,” Mr. Mifsud Bonnici said. “Any information that might be beneficial to our allies we pass on to them. We do that regularly and systematically and will continue to do so.”
Basque separatist guerrillas threatened today to attack citizens of European Community countries in Spain to protest the group’s support for the Madrid Government, diplomatic sources said. The threat was made in a letter mailed to the embassies of several European Community countries as France pledged further help to Spain in fighting Basque guerrillas, who have killed 29 people this year in their campaign for independence in northern Spain. The letter, signed by E.T.A., the Basque guerrilla group, warned that embassy staff members and other citizens of European Community countries were potential targets for unspecified attacks, the sources said. The text of the letter was not immediately available and the Interior Ministry said it had no information on the matter.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will have surgery on her right hand today and is expected to spend three to five days in the hospital. The 60-year-old leader entered King Edward VII’s Hospital for Officers in London’s West End after a mini-summit of Commonwealth leaders. Her condition is known as Dupuytren’s contracture, which involves a contraction of the little finger that pulls it toward the palm. Members of her staff said she has had the condition for 10 years. Doctors said that without surgery, the problem could cause deformity and the loss of function.
An East Berliner who maintained he escaped to the West in a mock Soviet military car with three tailor’s dummies dressed as Soviet soldiers has admitted his story was a hoax, the West Berlin television said today. The weekly program “Kontraste,” which has good contacts with the United States, British and French authorities who formally administer this city, quoted Allied sources as saying Heinz Braun, 48 years old, admitted his story was untrue. He was being sought for questioning by police but disappeared. Rainer Hildebrandt, who runs a museum about the Berlin wall and organized a news conference at which Mr. Braun announced his spectacular escape last week, said he, too, now disbelieved the story.
The Justice Department has dropped efforts to subpoena at least eight Israelis to testify before federal grand juries as part of an investigation of Israel’s alleged attempt to illegally acquire U.S. technology to build cluster bombs. Assistant Attorney General Stephen Trott said the subpoenas for the Israelis, who work in the United States, were withdrawn “in return for pledges of cooperation by the government of Israel and agreement on providing information relevant to the inquiry.” The United States in 1982 banned export of any technology or equipment to Israel that could be employed in the manufacture of cluster bombs after they were used in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Israel has denied any wrongdoing.
Vice President Bush ended a 10-day trip to the Middle East today by proposing a “framework” for negotiations by Egypt, Jordan and Israel. Mr. Bush, repeating an appeal for face-to-face negotiations, said the talks must take into account the security needs of Israel and other nations in the region and Palestinian aspirations. Mr. Bush also said there were indications that Israel and Egypt were close to resolving their four-year dispute over Taba, a 700-yard stretch of Red Sea beach near Eilat. Israel refused to give up Taba after pulling out of the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, and a luxury hotel has been built on the site. Mr. Bush said a high-ranking Egyptian official had asked that Richard W. Murphy, the United States Assistant Secretary of State for the region, remain in Cairo for at least a day to take part in the Taba negotiations.
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said today that Israel would accept Soviet participation in Middle East peace talks if the Kremlin renewed full diplomatic ties. “The Russians want to take part in an international conference, when and if it begins, between ourselves and the Arabs,” Mr. Peres said. “We do not object to their participation in the opening stages, on condition that they set up full diplomatic relations.”
Gunners exchanged mortar fire across the Green Line in Beirut today, killing a policeman and marring Syrian security in the Muslim area. Muslim and Christian radio stations said the policeman died and seven people were wounded when bombs crashed on both sides of the line, which divides the city’s largely Muslim western section from its largely Christian east. The Sunni Muslim radio station Voice of the Homeland said the clash erupted when gunmen in the west fired a mortar mounted on a car into the Christian enclave.
Mizoram, a tribal region torn by insurgency, was declared the 23rd state of India by Parliament, ending a 20-year rebellion. The new state is in India’s remote northeast region between Burma and Bangladesh. The lawmaking lower house of Parliament passed a bill conferring statehood on Mizoram and another protecting tribal customs, but the bills must be passed by the upper house of Parliament and signed by President Zail Singh before they become law. Mizoram was one of India’s nine federally administered territories. Statehood means it will have an elected state assembly and self-government.
Deng Xiaoping, China’s top leader, said today that a speech by Mikhail S. Gorbachev calling for improved Chinese-Soviet ties contained positive elements but that China needed to study it carefully, Japanese sources said. It was the first reported high-level Chinese reaction to the Soviet leader’s speech, which Western diplomats say offered several important concessions aimed at improving relations. The sources said Susumu Nikaido, senior adviser to Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, met today with Mr. Deng and the Chinese Communist Party leader, Hu Yaobang, at the northern Chinese resort of Beidaihe.
Negotiators for the Philippine Government and the Communist insurgents opened talks in Manila today in a secret meeting that the Government representative later characterized as a reunion of “old friends.” The representative, Ramon Mitra, said he hoped the two groups could agree on a cease-fire before President Corazon C. Aquino visits the United States in mid-September. Mr. Mitra said he had proposed that substantive issues be taken up only after a cease-fire had been agreed on, but that the two Communist negotiators had not agreed to this procedure. “I have no illusions that there will be an easy settlement of the basic issues involved, or about finding the answers to the causes of their alienation,” Mr. Mitra said. “But I am optimistic about agreement on a cease-fire. Once we get that we can take our time talking about the issues.”
Secretary of State George P. Shultz will visit Haiti and the Dominican Republic later this month. His itinerary will include the August 16 inauguration of Joaquin Balaguer as Dominican Republic president, the State Department announced. It said that Shultz will meet earlier that week with government officials in Haiti, where an 11-member defense requirement study team from the Pentagon is conducting an evaluation of the country’s armed forces. The visit to Haiti will be the first by a high-level U.S. official since the ouster of President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier on February 7.
The Senate Appropriations Committee today narrowly approved President Reagan’s request to send $100 million in aid to the rebels fighting the Nicaraguan Government. The bill also contained $300 million in aid for fledgling democracies in Central America. The 15-to-14 vote on aid to the Nicarguan rebels, known as contras, demonstrated that the issue continues to stir deep emotions that cross party lines. Four Democrats on the panel backed the President’s request, and four Republicans, including Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon, the committee chairman, opposed it.
A Peruvian general who led a crackdown on a prison revolt in which more than 100 accused guerrillas were killed must stand trial, Peru’s Supreme Court said. The high court will decide whether army General Jorge Rabanal should face military or civilian prosecution for his involvement in the alleged execution of prisoners that followed the inmate rebellion at Lurigancho Prison in June. A civilian court has ordered Rabanal arrested on murder charges, and the Peruvian Congress has been deadlocked on the naming of a commission to investigate the deaths.
Bolivian anti-narcotics police, backed by U.S. helicopters, have found and seized a cocaine laboratory on an island in a jungle lagoon, the Interior Ministry announced. It said the complex captured in northern Trinidad province included nine tents with dormitories, generators and pumps. A ministry statement did not specify the laboratory’s output capacity nor say if any suspects were detained. It was the seventh cocaine laboratory seized in the three-week operation. American Army actions in Bolivia have dramatically cut cocaine trafficking, and Washington is considering providing more economic aid to Bolivia, according to the American ambassador in La Paz. Bolivian officials say the decreased cocaine production has seriously damaged the nation’s economy.
Pretoria will impose trade curbs against black-governed neighboring countries because of new economic sanctions against South Africa imposed by the Commonwealth. Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha said the new economic countermeasures would include import licenses, a levy on goods traveling across the country and stricter frontier controls.
The Reagan Administration backed down today and agreed to give the Senate Judiciary Committee access to memorandums and legal opinions prepared by William H. Rehnquist when he was a Justice Department official in the Nixon Administration. The action came in the face of an open revolt by a bipartisan majority of the Judiciary Committee against the Administration’s refusal to release the documents as part of the confirmation hearings on President Reagan’s nomination of Justice Rehnquist as Chief Justice of the United States. Ten Senators — all eight Democrats on the committee and two of the ten Republicans — were prepared to vote to issue a subpoena for the material. The vote had been scheduled for Thursday.
Judge Antonin Scalia gave glimpses of his conservative views on such issues as constitutional interpretation today in low-key testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering his nomination to the Supreme Court. But he declined to answer most of the questions in which the senators were most interested, those bearing on his views on such specific issues as abortion rights. Asked by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, whether, if confirmed, “you expect to overrule” the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision legalizing abortion in certain circumstances, Judge Scalia said, “I don’t think it would be proper for me to answer” because, he said, he could later be accused of “having a less than impartial view.” He added: “I assure you I have no agenda. I am not going onto the Supreme Court with a list of things that I want to do. My only agenda is to be a good judge.”
President Reagan said today that by the end of his second term 45 percent of all Federal judges would be his appointees whose decisions on abortion, pornography, crime and other issues would have a long-range impact. In a speech from the Oval Office that was transmitted by satellite to the 104th annual convention of the Knights of Columbus in Chicago, Mr. Reagan reaffirmed his opposition to abortion. He also expressed concern that Congress would take its summer recess next week before the Senate could act on a $100 million aid package for the counterrevolutionary forces in Nicaragua.
President Reagan participates in a meeting with senior White House staff to discuss the defense budget.
President Reagan participates in a satellite address to the annual convention of the Knights of Columbus.
The Presidential space shuttle commission reported today that a launching preceding the Challenger disaster was stopped within 31 seconds of a potentially catastrophic flight because fatigued console operators inadvertently drained some of its fuel. The assertion is contained in a staff report issued today by the commission as part of the final four volumes of its extensive investigation. The volumes provide substantiation and elaboration of the commission’s previous findings and offer new insights into the problems and failings of the space agency. The near accident occurred January 6, just 22 days before the Challenger’s last flight, when the shuttle Columbia was scheduled to carry aloft Representative Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, the second Congressmen to ride on the shuttle.
President Reagan, on the eve of a crucial House vote, said that overriding his veto of cuts in textile and apparel imports would shatter global markets. With the House showdown a day away and both sides scrambling for last-minute votes, textile industry supporters said that they were close to victory in their bid to override the veto. Reagan told GOP leaders in a White House meeting that “an override of my veto would have the effect of shattering (new trade) agreements and our hopes for broad participation” in upcoming world trade negotiations.
The new Postmaster General will be Preston Robert Tisch, president of the New York based-Loews Corporation, according to sources close to the agency. They said the Postal Service Board of Governors had chosen Mr. Tisch to succeed Albert V. Casey at meetings yesterday.
A federal appeals court in Washington ruled that beer, wine and liquor bottles are not required to have labels listing all ingredients. The three-member U.S. Court of Appeals panel reversed a U.S. District Court judge’s decision last year that reinstated a Treasury Department rule requiring labeling on alcoholic beverages. In an 18-page decision, the panel chided the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for its complicated explanation about why the government had reversed itself, and decided that labels were not necessary. However, the panel said that the agency’s finding that ingredient information was of little value to the consumer provides a reasoned justification for withdrawing the regulation.
William J. Schroeder, the longest-living artificial heart patient, has taken a turn for the worse, and his family has gathered nearby, a hospital official in Louisville, Kentucky, said. “Doctors have no idea at this time what caused Schroeder’s condition to deteriorate. All I can say is they are now looking for a cause,” said Donna Hazle, a spokeswoman for Humana Hospital Audubon. Schroeder, 54, the only surviving implant patient of Dr. William C. DeVries, has lived 619 days with the Jarvik-7 heart. He has suffered three strokes since the device was implanted on November 25, 1984.
Closing arguments were set in Fort Myers, Florida, for today in the first-degree murder trial of tobacco heir Steven Wayne Benson, accused in the pipe-bombing deaths of his mother and adoptive brother. Benson, 35, who did not take the stand, is also charged with attempted first-degree murder of his sister. The prosecution rested its case without calling any more witnesses.
Another 100 cases of AIDS were reported in San Francisco last month, health officials said. The number of cases transmitted through heterosexual contact more than doubled in the city in the past six months, as did the number of cases among drug addicts. “The data, again, show that transmission of AIDS is not limited to any group,” said San Francisco Health Director Dr. David Werdegar. However, more than 96% of the 2,250 AIDS patients reported in San Francisco since 1981 have been gay men. “It could spread like wildfire if we don’t take measures now,” said Dr. Dean Echenberg, director of the city’s Bureau of Communicable Diseases.
A mother and her 18-month-old daughter were in custody as suspected stowaways hours before the woman allegedly killed the child in their cabin on the cruise ship Emerald Seas, which had been damaged five days earlier by a fire, court documents showed. Carol Ann Washington, 28, of Detroit, a former mental patient, according to the documents, was ordered by a federal magistrate in Miami to undergo psychiatric tests.
A highly decorated Washington, D.C. police officer drowned Monday in the Anacostia River in an attempt to save a mental patient who leaped off the 11th Street Bridge and fell nearly 45 feet into the murky river. The unidentified woman, who was from St. Elizabeths Hospital, was described only as being in her 60’s. She plunged into the river, but was rescued and taken by helicopter to the Washington Hospital Center shock trauma unit. The officer, Kevin Welsh, 34 years old, was assigned to the city’s Special Operations Division. His body was found about 7:30 PM. Eight city officers, Park Police officers and District of Columbia Fire Department paramedics went into the river, a tributary of the Potomac.
The agreement by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to curb its crude oil production could push gasoline prices up by 10 to 20 cents a gallon, to more than $1, for the first time in months, oil analysts and industry officials said yesterday. “This could have a far-reaching and very sharp effect,” Vic Rasheed, executive director of the Service Station Dealers of America, an industry group, predicted. “If they can plug all the holes that normally appear in these agreements, I believe prices could average $1 a gallon by the end of the month.” Before oil prices began plunging last January, consumers were paying an average of $1.19 a gallon.
Many Southerners are losing farms in this longest drought in the region’s history — a last straw to farmers who have been under rising economic pressure for years.
About 2,500 firefighters battled a “severe fire situation” in which hundreds of lightning-sparked blazes have charred about 160,000 acres of dry forest and rangeland in three Pacific Northwest states. One of the hardest hit areas was the Wallowa-Whitman and Malheur National Forests in northeastern Oregon, where crews battled 117 lightning-caused blazes. More than 200 firefighters contained two fires that burned about 33,000 acres of brush and rangeland in Idaho, and a 240-acre blaze was brought under control in the Okanogan National Forest in Washington.
An art collector has bought 240 previously unknown paintings by Andrew Wyeth that depict a woman named Helga Testorf and that the artist kept secret from everyone, including his wife, for the more than 15 years during which he painted them. The paintings were made by Mr. Wyeth from 1970 to 1985. The collector, Leonard Andrews, said only that the sale price was in the “multi-millions of dollars.”
Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets a 5,000 m world record in 14:37.33 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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The Orioles stake Storm Davis to a 8–0 lead after 4 innings and he coasts home, 9–2. Jim Traber and Larry Sheets hit consecutive homers that capped a five-run third inning and Davis (8–8) raised his career record against Texas to 10-0. Traber’s two-run homer was his eighth in 62 times at-bat since being recalled from the minors. The Orioles won for the ninth time in 12 games and moved to 2 games behind East-leading Boston. It marked the first time since June 1 that Boston’s lead was under three games.
Carlton Fisk and Harold Baines hit home runs, and Richard Dotson pitched three-hit ball for seven innings tonight as the Chicago White Sox spoiled the return of Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd with a 3–1 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Boyd, whose suspension was lifted by the Red Sox last Friday, was making his first appearance in 28 days. Boyd (11–7) gave up eight hits in seven and two-thirds innings. Dotson (8–12) and Gene Nelson combined on a three-hitter as Boston lost for the 14th time in 19 games. Dotson, who had lost his previous five decisions, had a no-hitter through five innings. He walked none and struck out one before Nelson worked the final two innings for the save.
If they had not been 17 ½ games in front, it would have been a memorable loss, maybe a catastrophic one, considering the way it happened: Jerry Mumphrey pinch-hit a three-run home run off Roger McDowell with two down in the eighth inning at Wrigley Field today and the Chicago Cubs beat the Mets again, 8–5. Not only that, but Mumphrey hit his home run only a few moments after the Mets had tied the game on a three-run home run by Keith Hernandez in the top of the eighth. In the bottom of the eighth, the Cubs loaded the bases with nobody out, but the Mets turned a double play and seemed safe. Then they blew it: McDowell, their best relief pitcher, threw a slider to a 34-year-old reserve player who wants to be traded, and the ball cleared the brick wall in left field.
After Detroit wins the opener, 6–5, game 2 starts off with Detroit’s first two hitters — Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell — belting homers off Cleveland’s Jose Roman. It is the 3rd time in a month this has occurred. Whitaker hits another as Detroit wins the shootout, 11–9. Darrell Evans’s three-run homer in the seventh inning gave Detroit the triumph in the first game. In the second game, Whitaker and Tom Brookens added two-run homers in the third. Frank Tanana (9–4) won his fifth straight game.
At Dodger Stadium, Houston breaks open a close contest with 4 runs in the 8th and 5 in the 9th to beat the Dodgers, 10–2. Denny Walling hit two home runs, and Kevin Bass tripled in a tie-breaking run in a four-run eighth inning to help end the Dodgers’ eight-game winning streak. Billy Hatcher hit a grand slam in the ninth as Houston scored nine runs in the final two innings.
The California Angels routed the Minnesota Twins, 13–1. Mike Witt threw a three-hitter and Bob Boone drove in four runs for California. Wally Joyner hit a two-run homer and Brian Downing and Gary Pettis each had four of California’s 18 hits. The Angels also drew 11 walks from five pitchers, and left 17 runners on base.
Dennis Rasmussen made a strong return last night, giving the Yankees the type of starting pitching to which they have not been accustomed. The Yankees, however, still lost, dropping a 10-inning, 2–1 decision to the Milwaukee Brewers. Rasmussen, the 12-game winner who was struck on the left elbow by a Toby Harrah line drive July 22, allowed one run — Gorman Thomas’s home run — in six innings. Dave Righetti pitched the final four innings, giving up the decisive run on a double by Paul Molitor and Cecil Cooper’s single. It was the relief pitcher’s longest stretch in one game this season.
The Montreal Expos blanked the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3–0. Dennis Martinez pitched a four-hitter for his first victory since last September. Martinez (1–3) didn’t walk a batter and struck out two. Montreal loaded the bases on singles by Mitch Webster and Vance Law and a walk to Luis Rivera.
The Atlanta Braves edged the San Diego Padres, 3–2. Cliff Speck, a last-minute replacement for scheduled starter Zane Smith, went 5 ⅔ innings to earn his first major league victory as Atlanta beat San Diego. Shortstop Andres Thomas had three hits, scored one run and drove in another for the Braves.
The Oakland Athletics clobbered the Seattle Mariners, 10–4. Dave Kingman hit two solo home runs, Jose Canseco hit a three-run shot and Mickey Tettleton added an inside-the-park homer to lead Oakland. Kingman went 3 for 4 and drove in three runs. He homered in the fourth inning and again in the ninth, giving him 26 this season.
The Reds pound the Giants’ new pitcher Steve Carlton for 7 runs in 3 ⅓ innings to win 11–6. Carlton records his 4,000th strikeout to join Nolan Ryan as the only pitchers to reach that plateau. Carlton became the first left-hander to reach 4,000 and the only one to record all of his strikeouts in the National League. The Giants will release Carlton on the 7th and he will join the White Sox.
The Philadelphia Phillies bowed to the St. Louis Cardinals, 7–4. Bob Forsch captured his fifth straight decision, and he doubled to trigger a four-run fifth inning. The victory was the Cards’ 13th in 18 games since the All-Star Game break.
George Brett hit a two-run homer and Kansas City scored five runs in the third inning helped by two errors and a wild pitch as the Royals beat the Blue Jays, 8–6. Scott Bankhead (5–5), who had lost five of his last six decisions, gave up five runs on seven hits over seven innings. Bud Black re-lieved, and Steve Farr got the last out for the save.
Texas Rangers 2, Baltimore Orioles 9
Chicago White Sox 3, Boston Red Sox 1
New York Mets 5, Chicago Cubs 8
Cleveland Indians 5, Detroit Tigers 6
Cleveland Indians 9, Detroit Tigers 11
Houston Astros 10, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
California Angels 13, Minnesota Twins 1
Milwaukee Brewers 2, New York Yankees 1
Montreal Expos 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
Atlanta Braves 3, San Diego Padres 2
Oakland Athletics 10, Seattle Mariners 4
Cincinnati Reds 11, San Francisco Giants 6
Philadelphia Phillies 4, St. Louis Cardinals 7
Kansas City Royals 8, Toronto Blue Jays 6
The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 7.03 points at 1,777, after rising as high as 1,795 at midday. Oil stocks continued to dominate the market yesterday. The prices of all major oils were up and they accounted for nine of the 10 most actively traded issues. But, analysts nevertheless found yesterday’s market weak and suggested that recent lows may have to be tested before any significant advance could be supported.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1777 (+7.03)
Born:
Paula Creamer, American golfer (U.S. Open, 2010), in Mountain View, California.
Dexter Jackson, NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Dunwoody, Georgia.
Khadijah Whittington, WNBA forward (Indiana Fever), in Roanoke, Virginia.
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