Moscow is extending its test halt on nuclear weapons until January 1, Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced. Mr. Gorbachev, in announcing the latest extension in a half-hour televised speech, said: “The Soviet Union has sufficient reasons for resuming its nuclear testing, and yet we are convinced even now that the ending of nuclear testing not only by the Soviet Union but also by the United States would be a real breakthrough in arresting the nuclear arms race. On behalf of the Soviet people, I am appealing to the wisdom and dignity of the Americans not to miss another historic chance on the way toward ending the arms race.” Moscow has not conducted any underground explosions, the only kind now permitted, since August 6, 1985, the 40th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, and have extended it several times, urging the Americans to join in and make it permanent. Washington has declined on the ground that the Soviet move was a public relations gesture, that a ban cannot be adequately verified and that testing was needed for weapon development.
Two East German border guards escaped over the Berlin wall and then tossed their guns back into the East, the West Berlin police said today. The escape Sunday evening was the first reported over the wall since the ceremonies on Wednesday commemorating the 25th anniversary of the concrete barrier. The two guards made their escape at a sparsely guarded area of the wall. The West Berlin police did not identify the escapees or give additional details.
Twenty-seven Polish and Czechoslovak tourists abandoned their tour groups and remained in West Germany last week, the Bavarian border police said today. In addition, two Czechoslovak brothers, aged 29 and 23, slipped across the border into Bavaria last Thursday without being detected by Communist border guards, the police said.
Suspected Basque separatists killed an artillery colonel at Villarreal in Spain’s northern Basque country, police said. Jose Maria Picatoste Gonzalez de Echevarria, 58, died when gunmen opened fire as he walked toward his car after leaving a restaurant. The attackers, suspected by police of being members of the Basque separatist organization ETA (Basque Homeland and Freedom), fled in a car. The Defense Ministry in Madrid said the colonel was stationed at the artillery brigade headquarters in Burgos. He was a specialist in anti-aircraft artillery. His death brought to 36 the number of political assassinations in Spain so far this year, mainly in the Basque country.
A U.N. panel made up of international experts proposed that the staff of the United Nations be cut sharply to streamline the organization and make it more cost efficient. Ambassador Tom Vraalsen of Norway, chairman of the 18-member panel, said that if the recommendation was accepted, about 1,700 U.N. Secretariat jobs would be eliminated over three years. That would be slightly more than a 15% reduction in the Secretariat’s staff of 11,000. The U.N. controller’s office said an estimated savings of $60 million to $70 million could be achieved by the personnel cuts.
Israeli and Soviet negotiators met in Geneva today in the first official contact between the two countries since the Soviet Union broke off relations with Israel in 1967. But the meeting, which had been widely seen as the possible beginning of a new phase in relations between the two countries, ended after only 90 minutes. Soviet negotiators apparently abandoned an earlier understanding that the meeting in this neutral capital would be held over two days. An Israeli spokesman said nonetheless that the meeting had been “candid and correct.” The two sides, he said, agreed to continue contacts in the future.
Justice Department and Customs Service officials said tonight that they were investigating a dispute in which an Illinois company has accused the Israeli Government of trying to take its technological secrets. The company, Recon Optical Inc. of Barrington, Ill., was to produce aerial reconnaissance cameras for Israel under a five-year, $40 million contract signed in October 1984, according to Larry G. Larson, the company’s president and chief executive officer. Mr. Larson said in a telephone interview tonight that the company ended the contract in May and filed a civil lawsuit in Federal District Court in Manhattan, charging that Israel had not paid its bills and had breached the agreement in other ways.
The Reagan Administration has begun a review of what officials term the “evolving situation” in the Middle East, Administration officials said today. They said the aim of the discussions was to identify ways in which the United States could play a more active role in the region. Among key events that led to the review, the officials said, were a recent meeting in Morocco between King Hassan II and Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel; talks today in Finland between Israeli and Soviet officials, and the increasing political isolation of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Officials said one step under consideration was a trip to the region by Secretary of State George P. Shultz this fall.
Iran attacked shipping in the Persian Gulf today for the second consecutive day and Iraq reported an attack by its warplanes. Shipping sources in the region said Iranian missiles set ablaze the 109,880-ton supertanker Akarita about 50 nautical miles off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. The Spanish and Filipino crew of 39 escaped unhurt. An Iranian helicopter raid yesterday on the Weelek 3, a chemical tanker flying the flag of Panama, killed two seamen and wounded three, shipping sources said. A military spokesman for Iraq said its warplanes last night attacked a “large naval target,” Baghdad’s usual term for an oil tanker or cargo ship, off the Iranian coast. Shipping sources could not confirm the report.
At least 10 people were reported to have died today in Pakistan as the police moved in to break up clashes between pro-Government and anti-Government workers in scattered rural areas. The violence brought the death toll in Pakistan in the last week to at least 16. The Government said today that two poli c constables were among the dead, the first killings of security forces since the new violence began. Here in Lahore, meanwhile, a demonstration that had been billed as the start of a new round of anti-Government agitation failed to draw more than a few thousand participants. A noisy but peaceful procession of protesters marched through the streets of the old city and then blocked the main street of Lahore, shouting slogans and calling for the ouster of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. The recent killings have marked the worst political violence in Pakistan since 1983, when more than 600 people died in widespread clashes with police and soldiers in the port city of Karachi and the farming country of Sind Province in the south.
Philippine police arrested a suburban Manila businessman as the suspected hit man in an alleged plot by supporters of deposed President Ferdinand E. Marcos to assassinate President Corazon Aquino. James Lazo, 45, a former air force sergeant who deals in used cars, denied knowing of the plot, reportedly disclosed in a letter sent to authorities by a former policeman. The letter said three men, including Lazo, were hired to carry out the plot within the next four months.
Senator Richard G. Lugar, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, met today with President Corazon C. Aquino and gave her what he said was a letter of support from President Reagan, who will be her host in Washington next month. The Indiana Republican, who arrived today, led Congressional observers who found fraud during the presidential election in February.
Australia announced that it will not take part in joint military exercises planned for next month with the United States because it lacks the necessary funds. Defense Minister Kim Beazley said that participation in the Sept. 5-20 exercises in the Philippines, code-named Cape Thunder, has been dropped in favor of another exercise in May, 1987. The decision came on the eve of an expected 1986-87 austerity budget and growing Australian government resentment over subsidized U.S. wheat sales to China and the Soviet Union, traditional Australian markets.
The Mexican policemen who American officials say tortured a Drug Enforcement Administration agent last week probably intended to kill him, officials close to the investigation of the case said today. The Mexican Government has flatly denied that the American agent, Victor Cortez Jr., was mistreated. Officials said Mr. Cortez had reported that while he was blindfolded and being tortured in a jail cell in Guadalajara on Wednesday, one of his captors told him: “If you think this is bad, wait until we get you out into the country, and you’ll see what Camarena went through.” Enrique Camarena Salazar, another Drug Enforcement Administration agent, was kidnapped in Guadalajara, then tortured and killed, in February 1985.
Despite efforts to strengthen civilian control, the Salvadoran military still sets its own rules of conduct much of the time, according to foreign diplomats and Salvadoran Government officials. These officials credit the army with taking major steps to reduce human rights abuses and to respect civilian rule. But they note that in recent cases in which army officers were accused of involvement in a multimillion-dollar kidnapping ring, a corrupt arms deal, and the killing of Americans, the military has resisted civilian efforts to force it to make a public accounting of its apparent abuses. In addition, army officers who United States officials and human rights investigators have credibly charged were involved in gross violations of human rights remain on active duty and continue to be promoted.
Chile’s President Augusto Pinochet has rejected U.S. calls for increased democracy, and Washington is now considering economic pressure, the New York Times reported. It quoted Administration officials as saying that Gen. John R. Galvin, head of the U.S. Southern Command, met with Pinochet 10 days ago to tell him that Washington wants a transition to democracy by the end of the decade. “The response was that he, Pinochet, will set Chile’s course without advice from anyone else,” one official said. The State Department confirmed the meeting but declined to provide details.
The International Red Cross suspended emergency food shipments to southern Sudan after rebels in the area shot down a civilian plane, killing 60 people, and warned that relief flights are not immune from attack. The Sudan People’s Liberation Army took responsibility for downing the plane with a missile as it left Malakal and charged that the government uses relief flights to ferry military supplies and troops to the area. Western relief officials estimate that 2 million people face starvation in southern Sudan because of widespread famine brought on by civil war and floods.
The South African Government gave Parliament a list today of those it said had been held in detention, thus acknowledging for the first time that the ranks of people held without charges under South Africa’s emergency decree numbered in the thousands. At the same time, it blamed the African National Congress for a weekend land-mine explosion that killed five blacks, two of them infants. Speaking in the racially segregated Parliament in Cape Town, Louis LeGrange, the Minister of Law and Order, produced a list of 8,501 detainees held since the nation’s newest emergency decree — the second in a year -was imposed on June 12. The list, taking up 171 pages, was apparently disclosed in response to legal requirements that the authorities report to Parliament on some aspects of their conduct under emergency rule. The list did not give details about the detainees, and did not say why they had been held. The official list also did not make clear whether the Government’s figure included people who had been seized and later released.
The President will accept the tax bill approved by House-Senate conferees, but could seek to revise the legislation once it is enacted, White House officials said. The strategy is designed to try to assure that the sweeping proposal becomes law when Congress returns next month.
President Reagan enjoys a horseback ride with the First Lady.
President Reagan continues to take apart the dead oak tree.
Despite appeals for an organ donor by her 6-year-old brother and President Reagan, 2-year-old Kimberly Izzo died at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while waiting for a liver transplant. The Woodbridge, New Jersey, girl, who had been stricken with chicken pox and a virus that attacked her liver, died after lying through the night in a coma. Her brother had spent much of the weekend appealing through the media for a liver donation.
Trash collection in Houston was halted as about 900 sanitation workers, angered by increased workloads and a 3% pay cut, called in sick, officials said. “They’re calling in with stomachaches and headaches and hurt feet and just about everything you can come up with,” said Preston Booker, a Solid Waste Management Department district foreman. Of 1,100 people working for the solid waste department, 159 were dismissed, and routes were lengthened by 20% on August 1, the second round of Mayor Kathy Whitmire’s planned layoffs.
Legal experts say it is usually difficult to convict someone under the perjury laws cited in regard to the testimony of Michael K. Deaver, the former White House deputy chief of staff, before a Congressional subcommittee. “Perjury is one of the most difficult kinds of cases for a prosecutor to make,” said Raymond Banoun, a Washington lawyer who is chairman of the White-Collar Crime Committee of the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association. Mr. Banoun, a former Assistant United States Attorney who has been both a prosecutor and a defense counsel in perjury cases, said it was not enough for a statement to be false. He said that usually it must also be shown that the witness knew the statement was false when it was made, had a motive to hide the truth and concealed a fact important to an investigation.
The only black ever elected to the Utah Senate is seeking the Democratic nomination today to oppose Republican Senator Jake Garn. State Senator Terry Williams is opposed by real estate salesman Craig Oliver for the nomination to face Garn, who has no GOP primary opposition in his bid for a third term. In Wyoming, 11 men are competing to succeed Governor Ed Herschler, who has filed for bankruptcy, listing more than $6 million in debts stemming from a business failure.
Two Iowa legislators and three other people were indicted on charges stemming from a bachelor party last April that led to reports of nude dancing and sexual misconduct. The misdemeanor charges ranged from indecent exposure to violation of the state’s gift laws. Held in Mingo, Iowa, the party was attended by 25 legislators in addition to legislative aides, lobbyists and reporters. Among those indicted by the Jasper County grand jury in Newton were Rep. Al Sturgeon, a Sioux City Democrat, and Rep. Ed Parker, a Democrat from Mingo and the legislator for whom the party was held.
The murder conviction of Frances Schreuder, a former New York socialite accused of coercing her teenage son into murdering his millionaire grandfather, was upheld by the Utah Supreme Court. Ruling that Marc Schreuder’s testimony against his mother was well-corroborated, the court said that the evidence “is clearly sufficient to sustain a conviction of first-degree murder.” Mrs. Schreuder, 48, a former member of the New York City Ballet board, was sentenced to life in prison for the 1978 shooting death of her father, Franklin Bradshaw, 76, to prevent him from cutting her from his will.
A pipe bomb in a package exploded at the downtown Post Office in Fargo, North Dakota tonight, slightly injuring four workers, the police said. The authorities speculated that the bomb, described as being made of black powder packed into half-inch pipe, was probably set to go off later, but detonated when a worker threw it into a mail bag just after 7 P.M. Detective Rollie Rust said the package was mailed in Fargo and was small enough to put into a mailbox.
Gang members smashed seats and beat and stabbed at least 42 people Sunday night at a concert in Long Beach by the popular “rap” music group Run-D.M.C. The group canceled tonight’s appearance at the Hollywood Palladium and vowed not to play in southern California until the police could guarantee protection for their audiences. Rap music is characterized by a driving beat and rhyming lyrics delivered in a rhythmic, singsong vocal style. Run-D.M.C. has a best-selling album that offers antidrug and antigang messages in its songs.
72 Nobel science laureates and 24 scientific groups urged the Supreme Court to strike down as unconstitutional a Louisiana law requiring schools that teach evolution to teach “creation-science” as well. The scientists said that the law threatened “the future of scientific education in this nation” by disparaging proven scientific facts.
The Vatican rebuffed Charles E. Curran, revoking the priest’s authorization to teach theology at Catholic University because of his views on abortion, homosexuality, birth control and other sexual issues. In a letter to Father Curran, the Vatican said it had acted “in light of your repeated refusal to accept” what the Roman Catholic Church teaches.
A battle in the Hare Krishna movement has prompted investigations by the F.B.I. and West Virginia authorities into wide-ranging assertions of criminal conduct. A disenchanted disciple who had accused sect leaders of misconduct was killed in May. Investigators said that evidence collected so far had lent weight to the assertions of murder, drug trafficking and child abuse.
A woman and her infant granddaughter drowned after they abandoned their car when it became inundated by a surging creek in Newberry, South Carolina. The torrents washed out city streets and left up to 10 feet of water in some houses, and about a dozen people had to be rescued from low-lying areas, officials said. State Climatologist John Purvis said 10.4 inches of rain were dumped on the area within a 24-hour period.
About 18,000 firefighters gained ground against lightning-sparked blazes that have burned nearly 400,000 acres of forest and grazing land in the West. A prison inmate on a fire crew in Washington was reported killed, and a pilot surveying blazes in Nevada escaped injury after crash-landing on a steep mountainside. “If the wind dies down, by golly, we’re going to put a hammerlock on this thing in a few days,” said Ron DeHart of the U.S. Forest Service in Enterprise, Oregon. Fires on 92,150 acres in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Oregon, and Washington were reported still raging.
Two Wall Street firms have toughened their drug testing programs of employees, apparently becoming the first brokerage houses to check not just incoming, but existing employees for use of illegal drugs. Kidder, Peabody & Company and Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Company said yesterday that the firms had recently made the changes. Kidder began its program last month and had all of its management committee members take urine tests, which they passed, a Kidder executive said. The program upgrades the firm’s policy of testing all incoming employees for drug use.
In a remote and dusty stretch of the Painted Desert in Arizona, Navajo families are working with an Israeli agronomist on experimental farms that could have far-reaching implications for many impoverished tribal members scattered across the reservations of the Southwest. As far as the horizon, the Indian lands here appear parched and brown except for the acreage where David Mazigh, the Israeli specialist, is helping farmers produce fields of corn, rows of ripening vegetables and orchards of fruit. American philanthropies, including the Ford Foundation, the Jewish Fund for Justice in Washington, churches and individuals are supporting the venture initiated by the Seventh Generation Fund, a national foundation that seeks to encourage economic self-reliance among members of the country’s Indian population. Using the method of drip irrigation developed by the Israelis to stretch their own meager water resources in the Negev desert, the Indians have laid 240,000 feet of thin, plastic tubing with openings every two feet from which a mixture of water and fertilizer is dripped near the roots of the growing plants. They have given their pipeline a Navajo name, “zhini baachee,” meaning black intestines.
Advances in the free electron laser have pushed it to the forefront of efforts to harness intense beams of light for new uses in medicine, chemistry, electronics, pharmaceuticals and energy production.
John Tesh’s first appearance on Entertainment Tonight.
WYSP 94.1 FM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, begins simulcasting the Howard Stern Radio Show from New York City’s WXRK.
American rock band Bon Jovi releases their third album “Slippery When Wet” (Billboard’s top-selling album of 1987).
Jim Kelly signs with the NFL’s Buffalo Bills for $7.5 million over 5 years. Kelly, the former New Jersey General and the most acclaimed quarterback in the moribund United States Football League, became the richest player in N.F.L. history
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The Cincinnati Reds edged the San Diego Padres, 6–5. Buddy Bell hit a three-run homer and John Denny and John Franco survived a five-run rally by San Diego in the ninth to lead Cincinnati to victory. Denny (11–10) had allowed only three hits entering the ninth. Tony Gwynn got three of the hits off Denny including a two-run homer in the ninth. After allowing a single to Dane Iorg, who was pinch-hitting, Gwynn hit a homer and sparked a five-run spurt.
The Cleveland Indians downed the Milwaukee Brewers, 10–4. Tony Bernazard and Mel Hall each drove in three runs to lead Cleveland to the victory despite a nine-strikeout effort by Chris Bosio, the Brewers’ rookie right-hander. Tom Candiotti (12–9) allowed 10 hits while gaining his league-high 11th complete game. He struck out seven and walked four to help Cleveland to its fourth straight triumph. Bosio, 0–2 since being promoted from Vancouver of the Pacific Coast League on August 2, struck out the side in the second and fourth innings and walked three over four and a third innings before wildness hastened his departure.
Tonight, Darryl Strawberry returned to his hometown and made everything with the Mets bright again. He hit a home run, drove in three runs and the Mets beat the Dodgers, 5–4. It was not simple. After the Mets led, 5–0, the Dodgers scored four times in the fifth inning. Then Doug Sisk and Jesse Orosco worked in and out of difficulties before Roger McDowell, the sinkerball specialist, headed off the Dodgers for good when he came in with a runner on base and none out in the ninth. He routinely got Bill Russell to hit a double-play grounder to shortstop and he struck out Bill Madlock.
Rich Gedman’s two-run homer with one out in the ninth and the combined three-hit pitching of Tom Seaver and Bob Stanley gave the Boston Red Sox a 3–1 victory over the Minnesota Twins tonight. Gedman’s 12th homer came on a 3–1 pitch off Frank Viola (13-9) and followed a one-out single by Tony Armas. Seaver (7–10) allowed three hits, walked four and struck out seven over eight and two-thirds innings before giving way to Stanley, who got the final out for his 15th save. The victory was Seaver’s 311th.
The Houston Astros shut out the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3–0. Mike Scott pitched a four-hitter and struck out 10, beating Pittsburgh for the first time in nine career decisions. Scott (13–8) raised his strikeout total to 233, the highest in the major leagues. He pitched his fourth shutout of the season and lowered his earned run average to 2.23, also the best in the majors. Scott entered the game with a career 0–8 mark and 5.73 ERA against Pittsburgh.
San Diego Padres 5, Cincinnati Reds 6
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Cleveland Indians 10
New York Mets 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Boston Red Sox 3, Minnesota Twins 1
Houston Astros 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
he stock market ended mixed yesterday, but the Dow Jones industrial average continued to advance after its 73-point rise last week. The Dow gained for the sixth day in a row, but in the overall market declining stocks forged ahead of advancing issues by 828 to 786. The Dow rose a healthy 13.92 points, to 1,869.52, as volume on the New York Stock Exchange dropped to 112.8 million shares, from 123.5 million on Friday. “Even though the Dow managed to lead the blue chips higher late in the session, the average stock moved inclusively,” said Carol E. Morrow, a technical analyst at Piper Jaffray & Hopwood in Minneapolis. “The market has become increasingly news driven of late, and there simply was not enough news to drive it one way or another.”
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1869.52 (+13.92)
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Evan Gattis, MLB designated hitter, catcher, and outfielder (World series champions-Astros, 2017; Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros), in Dallas, Texas.
Tony Cruz, MLB catcher, p[inch hitter, and third baseman (St. Louis Cardinals, Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds), in Palm Beach, Florida.
Andrew Taylor, MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Angels), in Durham, North Carolina.
