A Soviet intelligence agent who defected to the West last year provided President Reagan with important insights into Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Soviet policy only weeks before Mr. Reagan met the Soviet leader in Geneva in November, American officials say. The officials said the defector, a former K.G.B. official named Oleg G. Gordiyevsky, had advised Washington that Soviet leaders, although relentless in trying to expand their nation’s influence, were ready to bargain seriously. Mr. Gordiyevsky, who was once the London station chief for the K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence and internal security agency, and who is its highest-ranking officer to remain in the West, also told American officials that although Washington had cause to worry about Moscow, Soviet leaders were perhaps even more concerned about the directions taken by the Reagan Administration. This complicated picture of Soviet thinking came at a time when officials said Mr. Reagan was just beginning to emerge from his unclouded sense of the Soviet Union as the “evil empire.” Mr. Gordiyevsky reinforced the views of other defectors like Arkady N. Shevchenko, the former high-level Soviet official at the United Nations who sought asylum in 1978.
The House of Representatives voted today to impose a one-year moratorium on all but the smallest American underground nuclear tests if the Soviet Union would reciprocate and agree to on-site monitoring instruments. The measure, which would be binding on the Reagan Administration if incorporated into final legislation, was approved by an unexpectedly large margin, 234 to 155. The vote was the first Congressional move to halt nuclear weapons testing. Until today, Congress had voted for only nonbinding measures that urged the Administration to negotiate a ban on nuclear tests. Underground tests are the only type permitted under the 1963 partial test-ban treaty.
The press agency Tass announced plans today for a major cultural conference, to be organized by a committee including the wife of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, as well as many top cultural figures. The November conference will mark the debut of a new umbrella organization for the arts, to be known as the Soviet Culture Fund. Tass said the purpose of the organization was to involve more Russians in the arts and help young Soviet artists achieve public recognition. But it also appeared to be aimed at providing alternative means of financial and public support for the arts, traditionally the preserve of the Ministry of Culture.
The Irish Republican Army is reported to have considerably broadened its list of people facing death threats, alarming many of Northern Ireland’s business officials. People working in areas ranging from construction to communications have been told they face assassination if they work on British police projects in Ulster. The warning that such cooperation with the British “war machine” would mean death has been met by vows from British authorities to step up anti-terrorist security. “This is a declaration of murderous violence against the community itself,” Tom King, Britain’s Northern Ireland Secretary, said Wednesday.
More than 100 British soccer fans fought a pitched battle today on a North Sea ferry, leaving many injured and forcing the vessel to return to port. Fans of Liverpool, Everton and Manchester United were on their way to exhibition matches in the Netherlands and West Germany when they started fighting on the Koningen Beatrix, bound for the Hook of Holland. A fan said the fight started when supporters decided to take revenge for a stabbing last March of one of their friends by rival supporters. Last year, Liverpool fans were at the root of fighting in which 39 people, mostly Italians, were killed in Brussels at the European Cup final between Liverpool and the Juventus team of Turin. British clubs were banned from competing in Europe after the disaster. The incident today was seen as jeopardizing hopes of ending the ban. The fans had been planning on attending matches not affected by the ban.
Israel has started deporting members of the United States-based Black Hebrew sect, a police spokesman said today. The authorities refused to provide any details regarding the deportations, including the date or how many people were involved. The Supreme Court ruled last week that 46 members had been living in the country illegally and upheld an earlier decision to deport them. An Interior Ministry spokesman, Yitzhak Agassi, said that many more Black Hebrew members were living in the country illegally and that their deportations could also be ordered. Israel has deported 30 to 40 members of the sect since 1984 for living here illegally and has denied entry to other groups of Black Hebrews.
Another huge car bomb exploded in the mainly Muslim sector of Beirut, killing 17 people and wounding 90 others. It was the seventh terrorist bombing in Lebanon’s capital since July 28, and it was followed by two hours of artillery and rocket exchanges across the city’s dividing line. The shelling inflicted more casualties in residential areas. The attacks include two particularly devastating car-bombings in West Beirut, the Muslim sector, and one on the Christian side, as well as four smaller bombings in Christian areas. All told, the violence of the last two weeks has left more than 70 people dead and 400 wounded. A previously unknown group was reported to have taken responsibility for the attack today. According to the Christian radio station Voice of Lebanon, a man who said he spoke for the “Revolutionary Liberation Cells” telephoned the station and said his group had set off the bomb. The radio station, which is operated by the Phalangist Party of President Amin Gemayel, said the clandestine faction opposed a Syrian military presence in Muslim areas of the capital.
A representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury who has been trying for more than a year to negotiate the release of Americans being held in Lebanon said yesterday that his mission was “on standby” until there was a response from the group holding the hostages captive. “I do stand clear to go at any moment back to Lebanon,” the Anglican envoy, Terry Waite, said at a news conference at the Episcopal Church Center in New York. “But there is no actual timetable,” he said, and can be none until he hears from the group. Appealing to what he described as the spirit of “compassion, justice and mercy” that Islam shares with Christianity, Mr. Waite also repeated previous calls for the captors to release their hostages. He said he was acting because Islamic Holy War, the group believed to be holding the Americans, has not replied to a recent suggestion of his that negotiations for the release of the hostages be resumed.
An American engineer working for an American company in Iran has been arrested on espionage charges, it was disclosed today. The State Department confirmed the arrest of the American, Jon Pattis, 49 years old, but provided no additional details.
Indirect negotiations between Afghanistan and Pakistan on finding a formula to end the Afghan war were indefinitely suspended today. The Pakistani Foreign Minister said the two sides remained far apart after a week of talks on a key matter crucial to a settlement of the conflict. In a statement issued here, the Foreign Minister, Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, said the meeting had seen “substantive” discussions on arrangements for effecting a settlement and withdrawal of some 120,000 Soviet troops. The Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan in December 1979.
Altaf Hussain addresses Nishtar Park in Karachi, announcing the establishment of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) political movement. The MQM is a Pakistani political party with a liberal political position and a Muhajir nationalist ideology. The party aims to represent the human rights of Muhajirs in Pakistan through peaceful and democratic struggle.
The former commander of the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica’s military force was hanged this morning at the state prison for his role in a failed attempt to overthrow the Government of Prime Minister Eugenia Charles. It was the first execution in 13 years on Dominica, and the first since the island attained independence from Britain in 1978.
A Chilean opposition leader said that a Christian Democratic student whose body was found on a beach Wednesday was a victim of a political killing. “This is not the first student to be assassinated. It is an inhuman thing, which really reflects a state of social putrefaction,” the opposition leader, Gabriel Valdes, a Christian Democrat, said at a news conference Thursday. The student, Mario Martinez Rodriguez, who was finance secretary of the Chilean Student Federation and acting student president of the University of Santiago, disappeared Saturday. A judicial investigation into his death has been started. The Government criticized as speculation a statement in which Christian Democratic students asserted Wednesday that Mr. Martinez had been assassinated.
Prime Minister Robert Mugabe warned his country today to brace for an “economic war” with South Africa, which he said began this week with Pretoria’s new border restrictions against Zimbabwean and Zambian freight traffic. Returning from a Commonwealth meeting in London, Mr. Mugabe said that despite South Africa’s retaliation at the border and the costs to Zimbabwe, his Government intended to put into effect the tough economic sanctions agreed on at the meeting by six Commonwealth heads of Government.
Zulu Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, regarded as the country’s most prominent moderate black leader, assailed President P. W. Botha today, accusing him of “Boer War-style Afrikaner diplomacy.” In a speech to a business conference in Natal, Chief Buthelezi, the Zulu leader, criticized the Government’s response to a peace mission last month by the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, and suggested that Pretoria’s policies were cutting South Africa off from the rest of the world. He said the President had dashed hopes that he might rise to the occasion and negotiate. Instead, the Chief said, he appeared as “a third-world amateur employing Boer War-style Afrikaner diplomacy.”
An envoy’s comment that U.S. policy toward South Africa lacked credibility was “distorted” and taken out of context, the State Department said. The envoy, Terence A. Todman, who is black, is Ambassador to Denmark. Mr. Todman, a career foreign service officer who President Reagan was reported to have been considering as a new envoy to South Africa, made the remark Thursday in a news conference in Copenhagen.
The American Bar Association assailed the South African Government yesterday over the recent detention of lawyers representing clients in security cases. The group’s president, speaking on behalf of more than 310,000 member lawyers, said: “It is fundamentally wrong to detain a lawyer for representing an unpopular client. It would be wrong here and it is equally wrong in South Africa.”
The White House announced today that President Reagan would undergo a urological examination Saturday that is unrelated to his bout with colon cancer. The spokesman, Larry Speakes, said the President would have at least two tests performed at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland after delivering his weekly radio address at the White House. In making the announcement, Mr. Speakes and other White House officials gave no indication whether the 75-year-old President was experiencing discomfort or other symptoms that might have prompted the examination. Mr. Speakes said the tests had been urged by the President’s physician, Dr. T. Burton Smith, a urologist, but left unclear why they are being performed now.
Medical experts said today that the urinary problems President Reagan has had in the past are common in men of his age. The examinations he is to be given Saturday, they said, are standard ways of determining whether those problems have simply recurred or whether something more serious has developed. Experts in both cancer and diseases of the urinary tract agreed that it is highly unlikely that Mr. Reagan’s urinary problems have any connection with the colon cancer that was removed in a major operation last year. But they warned that it would be dangerous to infer how serious the President’s current medical problem may be on the basis of the two tests the White House said he would undergo at the Naval Hospital in nearby Bethesda, Maryland.
President Reagan participates in a photo opportunity for the cover of Fortune magazine.
President Reagan participates in a photo opportunity with Tyrone D. Ford, 12 year old composer and gospel singer.
Twelve people have been indicted on charges of importing 7.5 tons of cocaine from Colombia and laundering more than $25 million since 1980, Federal authorities announced today. Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d, in a statement distributed by prosecutors here, said the ring was responsible for “the largest amount of cocaine ever smuggled into this country by a single drug trafficking organization.” The largest amount of cocaine previously cited in a Federal drug case was five tons in a 1984 indictment in Atlanta. The indictment charged that the defendants used a Scranton-based airplane repair company, Air America Inc., to import the drugs and to fly the profits back to Colombia, where officials said the ring was based.
A jury recommended a life term without parole today for Steven W. Benson for murdering his mother and her adopted son. Under Florida law, he would be able to ask for parole after 25 years. Judge Hugh Hayes said he expected to accept the recommendation but would postpone his final decision until September 2, pending a background check on Mr. Benson, an heir to a $10 million tobacco fortune. The prosecutor, Jerry Brock, surprised a packed courtroom by asking the jury to sentence him to a life term rather than the electric chair. Mr. Brock told the jurors that the Benson family wanted the life sentence. The same jury convicted Mr. Benson, 35 years old, of two counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder. Mr. Benson was found guilty of planting two pipe bombs in the family’s automobile at the home of his mother, Margaret Benson, 63. Also killed was her adopted son, Scott, 21, who was, in fact, her grandson. Scott was the son of Mr. Benson’s sister, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, 43, who was seriously injured in the explosion.
An influx of Japanese firms to the U.S., to build factories or buy real estate, is expected to create thousands of jobs and possibly ease tensions over the trade deficit. The soaring Japanese yen has made factories in Japan uncompetitive, Japanese and American finance experts say.
The Federal Government has for the first time accused an employer of illegally discriminating against a person with AIDS, Federal officials said today. The charge was made by the Department of Health and Human Services, which said that a North Carolina hospital had violated a man’s civil rights by dismissing him from his job as a registered nurse and then refusing to consider him for any other job. Letter Sent to Hospital The Government said the Charlotte Memorial Hospital and Medical Center had violated the law “by discriminatorily denying the complainant individualized consideration for possible re-employment.” The charge is contained in a nine-page letter received Thursday by the hospital. Cecily Newton, a spokesman for the hospital, declined to comment. “Our legal counsel has not had an opportunity to review the letter,” she said.
For voters in Georgia’s mostly black Fifth Congressional District, the Democratic primary Tuesday to pick a nominee in the race to succeed Representative Wyche Fowler Jr. is not an easy choice. Mr. Fowler, who is white, is seeking the Democratic nomination for the Senate. Including Mr. Lewis and Mr. Bond, former comrades in the 1960’s civil rights movement and the most famous names in the race, six of the seven candidates in the field are well-known local blacks, including Alveda King Beal, the niece of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Charles Johnson, a lawyer, and Jan Douglass, the city’s former community relations director. Like Atlanta’s withering weather, the heat of the campaign has grown more intense, wilting old friendships within the city’s closely knit black political community.
The BellSouth Corporation and the Communications Workers of America reached tentative agreement yesterday on a new three-year contract, but negotiators at five other regional telephone companies were reported far apart. A strike deadline is set for 12:01 AM Sunday. The BellSouth agreement would cover 63,000 employees in Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. A union official said the tentative pact called for a wage increase of about 10 percent over three years. Another official said the pact also contained an employment security package.
A cruise ship with 143 passengers and 60 crew members aboard ran aground about 100 miles west of Ketchikan today and began to list after taking on water, the Coast Guard said. The passengers and 40 crew members of the ship, the North Star, were evacuated to a nearby village, and no injuries were reported, officials said. The 307-foot vessel, registered in the Bahamas, ran aground on San Fernando Island, which is near Craig, a logging community on Prince of Wales Island near the southern end of Alaska’s panhandle, the Coast Guard said. It said the weather was clear, and the rock the vessel struck was marked. By evening, the ship had developed a 17-degree list, and was still taking water. Pumps were being taken to the ship by helicopter from Ketchikan. The North Star was traveling from Juneau to Klawock, a Tlinquit Indian village on Prince of Wales Island.
An unidentified high-ranking member of the Saudi Arabian royal family paid $150,000 to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday because he unlawfully purchased falcons smuggled from the United States. He used them for hunting. The Justice Department, in a statement released Thursday, said the Saudi Arabian, identified only as a “senior Saudi Prince,” had contended he was unaware his actions were illegal but had agreed to “settle the matter” by paying money to the Federal wildlife agency. The agency will use the money to pay people who provide tips on illegal wildlife poaching. The Prince has also agreed not to illegally import any more falcons.
Helga, Andrew Wyeth’s mystery model, has been identified by neighbors as Helga Testorf, a middle-aged wife and mother of four who lives with her husband, John, on a secluded property called Zum Edelweiss on the other side of Chadds Ford from Mr. Wyeth’s home. The Testorf home is almost adjacent to the farm of the late Karl Kuerner. Both Mr. Kuerner and his farm were also Wyeth subjects.
Texas paroles American rock singer David Crosby from state prison five months into his five-year prison sentence for drug and weapons convictions; he credits the reprieve with helping him break his cocaine addiction.
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The Atlanta Braves edged the San Francisco Giants, 7–6. Dale Murphy drove in three runs with a home run and double, and Ken Griffey hit a two-run homer as Atlanta built a 7–1 lead en route to its fifth consecutive victory. Doyle Alexander (2–4) won for the first time since July 9. He allowed four runs on six hits in five and two-thirds innings. In one stretch beginning in the first inning, he retired 15 of 16 batters.
The Cleveland Indians blanked the Baltimore Orioles, 3–0. Julio Franco hit a two-run home run and Tom Candiotti allowed five hits over eight and one-third innings as Cleveland snapped a five-game losing streak. Baltimore lost its third straight game after having scored 19 runs in the two previous losses and dropped five games behind Boston.
Vern Ruhle, making his first start in more than a year, allowed two runs over seven innings and Dick Schofield hit a three-run homer tonight to lead the California Angels to a 6–4 victory over the Seattle Mariners.
The Philadelphia Phillies bowed to the Chicago Cubs, 2–1. Jody Davis singled home Ryne Sandberg with the tiebreaking run in the sixth inning to lead Chicago. Lee Smith set a club record with his 134th save. Smith, who pitched the final inning and combined on a six-hitter with Steve Trout and Rick Sutcliffe, broke the record of Bruce Sutter. The defeat extended Philadelphia’s losing streak to five games and ended a three-game Chicago losing streak.
Kal Daniels hit two home runs, and Chris Welsh (4–3) and Ron Robinson combined on a five-hitter in the second game as Cincinnati swept a double-header, beating the Dodgers 4–0 and 5–1. Bill Gullickson (8–7) held Los Angeles to five hits in the opener, the right-hander’s first shutout since May 11, 1985, when he was with Montreal. The sweep ended the Dodgers’ streak of nine victories in 10 games, a stretch in which they averaged 5.5 runs a game. Cincinnati was coming off a 2–7 trip to the West Coast.
Tom Seaver pitched a five-hitter and struck out a season-high nine batters tonight as the Boston Red Sox ended the Detroit Tigers’ four-game winning streak, 6–1. Seaver (5–10), who ended a personal three-game losing streak, pitched his second complete game of the season. He walked one batter and was helped by a home run by Wade Boggs and a four-run, second-inning rally. Seaver had a shutout until the ninth. Randy O’Neal (1–7) took the loss as Detroit fell 5 ½ games behind Boston in the American League East.
The Houston Astros shut out the San Diego Padres, 5–0. Mike Scott pitched a six-hitter and Jose Cruz hit a two-run single in Houston’s four-run sixth inning. The RBIs were the 1,000th and 1,001st of Cruz’s career. Scott (12–7) walked two and struck out nine in recording his fourth complete game and third shutout. He increased his major-league leading strikeout total to 217.
The Chicago White Sox downed the Milwaukee Brewers, 12–6. Daryl Boston drove in four runs with a three-run home run and a single, and Harold Baines and Tim Hulett added bases-empty home runs to power Chicago. There were seven home runs in the game, four by the Brewers, two of which were two-run homers by Rob Deer. Joe Cowley (8–6) allowed seven hits in six innings for Chicago.
Every now and then, the Mets get a reminder that life isn’t all bouquets, and they got one tonight: Bob Ojeda, who hadn’t lost a game in more than two months, lost one. In fact, he lost it early when the Montreal Expos tagged him for three hits on his first three pitches of the game, scored three runs in their first time at bat and held on to defeat the Mets, 5–3. It was the first time Ojeda had lost in 12 starts since May 31, when the San Francisco Giants nailed him. And tonight the Expos chased him after five innings and giving him three losses to go with his 12 victories.
Tommy John, given up for baseball dead more than once this year, brought his 43-year-old magic act back to Yankee Stadium last night and set an example for his younger teammates: If they can resuscitate themselves the way he has himself, the Yankees still have a chance to win the elusive American League East championship. John, surprising Kansas City’s veteran hitters with the improved speed and movement of his pitches, pitched seven and two-thirds shutout innings as the Yankees beat the Royals, 2–0. After John checked the Royals on five singles, Dave Righetti completed the remarkable victory. But then, maybe it wasn’t that remarkable. John, after all, had dazzled Class A Florida State League hitters the past two weeks on rehabilitation assignment, and these were only the weak-hitting Royals, last in the league in runs scored and tied for last in team batting average.
Jose Canseco hit a two-run homer and Dave Kingman hit a bases-empty shot, leading the Oakland A’s to a 5–2 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Canseco’s homer, driven deep into the left-center field bleachers, was the rookie outfielder’s 26th of the season and raised his major league leading RBI total to 94. Canseco has hit three homers and driven in 11 runs in his last five games. Kingman’s homer was his 28th, tying him with Jesse Barfield of Toronto for the American League lead. Joaquin Andujar, 7–4, pitched into the seventh inning for the win.
Danny Cox pitched a three-hitter over eight innings and Terry Pendleton went four-for-four to lift St. Louis over Pittsburgh by a score of 3–1. The victory lifted the Cardinals into a third-place tie with Philadelphia, the highest the National League champions have been since May 25. The Cardinals have won 11 consecutive home games. Cox (6–9) struck out five and walked two.
The Rangers beat the Blue Jays, 9–7. A two-run single by Scott Fletcher with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth inning helped Texas. Fletcher’s hit came off a reliever, Tom Henke, after the Rangers had loaded the bases on a hit batter and two walks. Pete O’Brien added a run-scoring single.
San Francisco Giants 6, Atlanta Braves 7
Cleveland Indians 3, Baltimore Orioles 0
Seattle Mariners 4, California Angels 6
Philadelphia Phillies 1, Chicago Cubs 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 0, Cincinnati Reds 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Cincinnati Reds 5
Boston Red Sox 6, Detroit Tigers 1
San Diego Padres 0, Houston Astros 5
Chicago White Sox 12, Milwaukee Brewers 6
New York Mets 3, Montreal Expos 5
Kansas City Royals 0, New York Yankees 2
Minnesota Twins 2, Oakland Athletics 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Toronto Blue Jays 7, Texas Rangers 9
Ignoring a strong bond market, stock prices ended mixed again yesterday in slow trading. After marking time throughout most of the session, the Dow Jones industrial average ended 3.66 points lower, at 1,782.62, but advancing issues edged out declining ones by 795 to 727. Key indicators other than the Dow also moved narrowly lower.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1782.62 (-3.66)
Born:
Peyton List, American model and actress (“As the World Turns”, “Mad Men”), in Boston, Massachusetts.
Pierre Garcon, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts, Washington Redskins, San Francisco 49ers), in Carmel, New York.
Tony Bergstrom, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders, Houston Texans, Baltimore Ravens, Washington Redskins, San Francisco 49ers), in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Chris Pressley, NFL running back (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cincinnati Bengals), in Woodbury, New Jersey.
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