Soviet willingness to become part of the commerce and politics of Western business was indicated in an announcement in Moscow of a number of economic initiatives. Moscow said it was cutting oil exports to the West by 100,000 barrels a day, or about 6 percent, at the request of Iran, a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Western diplomats said it was a significant symbolic gesture of support for OPEC efforts to stabilize oil prices. Moscow also said it had applied for observer status at the next round of multilateral trade negotiations, scheduled to begin September 15 in Uruguay.
In addition, Soviet officials said Moscow was considering approval of joint business ventures with Western companies seeking to do business in the Soviet Union. But the head of the Foreign Ministry’s international economic relations department, Ivan D. Ivanov, reiterated Moscow’s hostility to the International Monetary Fund and said, “We are taking no steps toward participating in the fund or gaining access to its credits.” The United States quickly objected to the Soviet request to be an observer at GATT, a 90-nation organization based in Geneva that works to expand and liberalize world trade. “We consistently see that their participation does not provide any benefit to the GATT process,” Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, told reporters at a briefing in Santa Barbara, California, on Thursday, after news of the Soviet application to GATT was disclosed.
In Brussels, Willy de Clercq, the commissioner for external relations of the European Community, told Reuters that he thought Moscow was not seeking observer status but a deeper involvement. “The Soviet Union has yet to submit a formal bid,” Mr. de Clercq was quoted as saying. “When they do, the governments of the community’s nations will have to decide.” In the past, the major Western trading nations have shown little interest in Soviet participation in GATT. Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Rumania, four of the Soviet-bloc trading partners, are members of GATT. China has observer status and has applied for membership.
The United States and the Soviet Union signed a nuclear safety and research protocol today, permitting reciprocal on-site inspections of selected atomic research stations. The protocol was signed by Alvin W. Trivelpiece, the director of the Office of Energy Research at the Department of Energy, and Andronik M. Petrosyants, chairman of the State Committee for the Use of Atomic Energy.
A senior Manchester police officer, assigned to investigate police actions in Northern Ireland, was cleared today of accusations of misconduct. A police panel ordered his immediate reinstatement. The officer, John Stalker, assistant chief constable of the Greater Manchester force, was suspended in May as he was completing an investigation of allegations that police in Northern Ireland killed six unarmed men in 1982 in a shoot-to-kill campaign against Irish guerrillas. Mr. Stalker was suspended after another officer asserted that he associated with criminal figures here and used police vehicles for private trips. Some lawmakers and religious leaders in Britain and Ireland charged that his suspension was intended to keep him from uncovering misconduct by senior officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Egypt has frittered away the chance for basic economic and social change that peace with Israel brought, experts on the Middle East agree, and the country seems to be in more desperate shape today than before it signed the treaty in 1979. An end to three decades of war offered the Government time to try to bring about the kind of fundamental changes that could lead to prosperity, while cushioned by international good will and huge amounts of American economic aid. Egypt ranks after Israel as the second largest recipient of American foreign aid, totaling $18 billion in civilian and military assistance over the last decade. Although Egyptians have ridden out lean periods before, many are pessimistic that the latest crisis, dramatized by a foreign debt approaching $36 billion, may presage domestic instability. “The likelihood of things remaining as they are is very thin,” an Egyptian journalist said.
France wants the P.L.O. to be part of any peace settlement in the Middle East, according to its Foreign Minister. In an effort to resolve conflicting statements by members of the Government on the Palestine Liberation Organization’s possible participation in negotiations, Foreign Minister Jean-Bernard Raimond says his Government believes that the P.L.O. should be associated with the talks. His statement, made in a meeting in Paris with a P.L.O. representative followed recent declarations by Prime Minister Jacques Chirac that disturbed Arabs.
Security forces in Pakistan exchanged fire with demonstrators today, killing at least two people and raising the toll to 29 in over a week of protest against President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. Turnouts at rallies organized by the political opposition declined today, with the riot police often outnumbering protesters. Only one person showed up for what had been billed as a major protest in Rawalpindi and was seized by waiting police officers. About 300 people gathered in Karachi but were quickly dispersed. Prime Minister Mohammad Khan Junejo postponed a trip to Kenya that was to have begun next Thursday, citing “administrative difficulties.” High-level sources said he did not want to leave until the situation was secure. A Government statement said security forces opened fire after shots came from people blocking a road near Shahdadphur in Sind Province. It said two protesters were killed and four were wounded. Opposition activists in the area asserted that 5 people were killed and 11 wounded. They said soldiers tried to stop a march, shots were fired on both sides and the troops then ransacked the village of Oayyab Thaheem. In an interview with a newspaper in Saudi Arabia, where he has been on a pilgrimage to Mecca, General Zia said he would not hold early elections.
It is emblazoned on Benazir Bhutto’s manifesto, and she invokes it repeatedly in speeches. Yet throughout Pakistan there are people for whom the word inspires bitter memories and fear. The term is “Bhuttoism,” and as Miss Bhutto steps up her drive to replace the Government of President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, debate has flared in Pakistan over what “Bhuttoism” once meant, what it means now and what it could mean in the future. For Miss Bhutto, who was arrested last week after addressing a rally that had been banned, Bhuttoism stands for progress and populism espoused by her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was Prime Minister from 1971 until his overthrow by General Zia in 1977.
A Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman insisted today that the Soviet-Chinese border was quiet and refused to comment on a Japanese newspaper report that Soviet border troops fatally shot a Chinese soldier last month. The spokesman, Gennadi I. Gerasimov, was asked at a news briefing about the report by Yomiuri Shimbun, which quoted an unidentified source in Peking as saying one Chinese soldier was killed and another wounded in the clash July 12. “The Soviet-China border is a very long one,” Mr. Gerasimov replied. “Everything is quiet on this border. When some question arises or an incident occurs, it is quickly settled in place. At present, unsettled problems on the Chinese border do not exist.”
A group of Japanese, most of them elderly, have set sail from a northern port to make the first visits permitted in 11 years to ancestral graves on islands that Japan lost to the Soviet Union in 1945. The scheduled four-day journey, which is likely to be an emotional experience for the 52 group members, is the first tangible benefit of recent attempts by the two countries to improve their generally bumpy relationship. For most of the men and women who left Thursday from the Hokkaido city of Nemuro, this will probably be their only return home since the Soviet Union seized their islands at the end of World War II and expelled them.
Jaime Cardinal Sin, in his first criticism of the Government of President Corazon C. Aquino, said today that the gains of the revolution that ousted Ferdinand E. Marcos were “little by little being lost.” The 57-year-old Cardinal, who played a key role in the military revolt that toppled the 20-year rule of Mr. Marcos on Feb. 25, warned against “losing the hard-earned freedom and of the return of the worst kind of evil.”
President Reagan ordered a series of measures today designed to tighten the United States trade embargo of Cuba. Mr. Reagan, in a separate action, also responded to Cuba’s decision to suspend an agreement on immigration, by making it more difficult for some Cubans to enter the United States. The actions reflect the continued strain in United States-Cuban relations. Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader, suspended an agreement on immigration in May 1985 after the United States began broadcasting to Cuba over Radio Marti.
The Honduran Government said today that it would not allow the United States to use Honduran territory for training rebels fighting the Sandinista Government in neighboring Nicaragua. The decision was announced by Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez Contreras in response to statements this week by United States officials that the Reagan Adminstration planned to send soldiers to begin training the rebels as soon as possible after October 1. The decision was reached at a closed meeting of the National Security Council, which is headed by President Jose Azcona Hoyo.
Nicaragua is seeking to become the next leader of the group of countries professing nonalignment, but some diplomats in Managua said the group might instead make a choice that would cause less controversy. Indonesia is the only other active candidate, though there are indications Peru may be available as a compromise contender. A decision is to be made early next month, when the group’s 101 member nations meet in Zimbabwe. President Daniel Ortega Saavedra is to attend the meeting, along with about 70 other heads of state. On his way there he is to press Nicaragua’s candidacy in visits to three African nations, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Congo.
The wife of a moderate Zulu leader was killed tonight and two children were seriously wounded when attackers threw a grenade into their house and sprayed the building with automatic rifle fire, the Government said. The Government Bureau for Information did not say in its report whether the Zulu leader, Wimmington Sabelo, was at home when the attack occurred.
Bishop Desmond M. Tutu today bitterly attacked a white Cabinet Minister who has accused him of calling for economic sanctions against South Africa while enjoying an affluent way of life. The Bishop, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, coupled his attack with a defense of his financial probity and of his modest upbringing as the child of an unemployed father and a mother who washed clothes for a living. “I know black suffering from the inside,” he said. “I don’t want it for my people or any other people.”
he Reagan Administration is urging the Supreme Court to strike down the first affirmative action preference for women that the Court has ever agreed to review. In a brief filed Thursday night, the Justice Department argues that it is unlawful for an employer to prefer women over men in hiring, promotions or layoffs unless the plan is “narrowly tailored” to redress previous discrimination against women by that employer. Neither race-based nor sex-based preferences can be used solely “to achieve some numerical proportion or balance of races or gender” in a work force or to make up for “the mere history of discrimination in the society or community,” the department, which is not a party to the suit, argues in its brief. It said these arguments were supported by three Supreme Court decisions earlier this year on racial affirmative action. The brief acknowledged, however, that those decisions had rejected the Administration’s broad attack on all numerical hiring goals and other affirmative action preferences that benefit minority group members or women who were not personally victims of discrimination.
The President and First Lady prepare for the birthday party in honor of the First Lady the following evening.
President Reagan enjoys a horseback ride with Earl Jorgensen and William Wilson.
Withdrawal of a bid to buy Conrail for $1.9 billion was announced by the Norfolk Southern Corporation. The merger would have created the nation’s largest railroad system. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole, who championed the proposed sale of Conrail, which is 85 percent Government-owned, agreed for the first time to consider the possibility of a public stock offering instead. Norfolk Southern told the Transportation Department that its decision to drop the bid resulted from the negative impact of the new tax bill and a six-month impasse in getting Congressional approval of its offer.
Pan American World Airways has agreed to pay $1.95 million for violations of Federal regulations on aircraft safety maintenance, the Federal Aviation Administration announced today. The fine, stemming from a two-month audit of Pan American’s maintenance records last spring, was the largest ever collected by the agency. Federal inspectors found that Pan American had operated planes in need of repair, had installed parts that had exceeded their approved service life and had failed to inspect planes within mandated time limits. The Government faulted the airline on hundreds of errors, including sending a plane on 37 flights beyond the scheduled overhaul of one of its landing gears, and flying one jet 18 times despite a misalignment in the part of the wing that guides direction and movement.
Drug use by air traffic controllers in Southern California is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration. Thirty-four air traffic controllers have been transferred to desk duty because of allegations of off-duty use of cocaine and hashish, the Federal Aviation Administration said today. The 34 controllers work at the agency’s Air Route Traffic Control Center at Palmdale, 60 miles north of Los Angeles. The center, one of the busiest in the country, directs air traffic from Bakersfield to Mexico and into parts of Arizona and Nevada, including all flights to and from Los Angeles International Airport. The center handles roughly 1.6 million military, commercial and private airplanes each year.
The estate of Karen Silkwood will get $1.38 million from the Kerr-McGee Corporation to settle a 10-year-old lawsuit charging that Miss Silkwood, a laboratory analyst for the energy company, had been contaminated by radioactive plutonium in her work. Miss Silkwood, who died in an automobile accident in 1974, had complained of safety problems at the Oklahoma plant. A Federal court jury in 1979 awarded her family $10.5 million in punitive and compensatory damages, but this was reversed and a new trial was ordered.
Attorney General Charlie Graddick told supporters today that he would run as a write-in candidate for Governor of Alabama if court appeals failed to give him another chance at the Democratic nomination. “We’re going to be on the ballot in November one way or the other,” Mr. Graddick said after a rally at his campaign headquarters. The Democratic Party’s nominee for Governor, Lieut. Gov. Bill Baxley, was chosen by a five-member subcommittee. Mr. Baxley contested the June 24 primary runoff, which Mr. Graddick led by 8,756 votes, saying the Attorney General had encouraged Republicans who had already voted in their primary to cross over and cast ballots in the Democratic runoff. A panel of Federal judges ruled August 1 that Mr. Graddick had misused his office by calling for the crossover voting.
The California girl who turned in her parents to the police on drug charges was released from a county shelter and allowed to go home to the mother and father she missed “desperately,” the family’s lawyer said today. Deanna Young, 13 years old, of Tustin, was released Thursday from the Orangewood Children’s Home, a shelter for abused and abandoned children, where she had been for more than a week. The girl was allowed to be reunited with her parents after a Juvenile Court referee was persuaded that they would not harm her in reprisal for her actions, said the family’s attorney, Gary Proctor. On August 13 Deanna walked into the Tustin police station shortly after midnight with a plastic trash bag containing cocaine worth nearly $3,000 that she said belonged to her parents, Bobby Dale Young and Judith Ann Young. Police arrested the couple and confiscated a small amount of marijuana, some cash and a pistol at their home. The parents were later released on their promise to return to court for a September 23 arraignment.
Senator Jake Garn underwent tests today to determine whether he is a suitable candidate to donate a kidney to his diabetic daughter. Senator Garn, who is seeking a third term, reported to the University of Utah Health Sciences Center after being informed that the condition of his daughter, Susan, had worsened, said Jeff Bingham, an aide. The daughter, Susan Garn Horne, 27 years old, suffers from progressive kidney failure and is being treated at Georgetown Hospital in Washington, where the transplant would take place, according to Laurie Snow, a press secretary.
The U.S. Air Force successfully tested its antisatellite weapon today, the Pentagon announced. In the test an F-15 plane took off from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., flew to a high altitude, and fired a rocket pointed at the light emitted by a distant star. The rocket is designed to detect the heat emitted by enemy satellites and guide itself toward its target, which it would destroy by direct impact.
The Vatican is not considering any further action against the Rev. Charles E. Curran, officials there said today. The Vatican officials said they hoped the Roman Catholic authorities in the United States would handle any further developments in the case of the American theologian, who was told Monday that he had been found no longer “suitable nor eligible” to teach theology at the Catholic University of America because of his dissenting views on sexual morality. The officials denied Father Curran’s contention that he had been singled out for punishment because he is an American.
A man convicted of murdering a convenience store clerk in a robbery that netted $25 was executed Friday in Huntsville, Texas. Larry Smith, 30 years old, was pronounced dead at 12:24 AM, said the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox. Mr. Smith was the second inmate executed by injection in Texas in 48 hours. “All I want to do is tell my mother that I love her and to continue on without me, and tell her may God bless her,” Mr. Smith said just before the execution. Mr. Smith robbed a 7-Eleven store in Dallas on February 2, 1978, and killed the clerk, Mike Mason, 26, by shooting him in the back of the head.
Lake Okeechobee, giant linchpin of the water resource network of south Florida and the Everglades, is dying, and the state government is mobilizing to rescue the lake and prevent what some experts fear could be an environmental disaster. State officials were already preparing a program to protect the lake when an eruption of blue-green algae covered more than 100 square miles of its surface last week. Such huge algae blooms are considered unmistakable signs of declining water quality and a stage leading to the biological death of a lake. The loss of Okeechobee would be “an environmental calamity of the first magnitude,” said Pat Bidol, an official in the water district that includes the lake. The lake is considered “the liquid heart” of south Florida and is a reservoir for coastal cities such as Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Moreover, it has key functions in flood control and supplies water in the long dry season to the Everglades and the region’s sugar cane and vegetable industries.
An armada of Coast Guard vessels staged a “blockade” of New York Harbor Thursday night and yesterday, and teams of heavily armed guardsmen boarded dozens of pleasure boats and commercial vessels in search of drug smugglers. But after 22 hours of the highly unusual operation, in which more than 90 vessels were searched at random, the Coast Guard said it had found no illegal drugs.
“Stand By Me,” a film based on the novella “The Body” by Stephen King, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O’Connell, is released.
Major League Baseball:
The Baltimore Orioles nipped the California Angels, 8–7. Fred Lynn bounced a double off the glove of the third baseman, Doug DeCinces, to score John Shelby and cap a five-run eighth inning as the Orioles rallied to win. With Baltimore trailing, 7–3, Eddie Murray and Jim Traber led off the eighth with singles to chase Gary Lucas. A pinch-hitter, Juan Beniquez, greeted Donnie Moore (2–5) with a single to load the bases. Floyd Rayford then doubled to left to score two runs. The pinch-hitter Jim Dwyer tied the score with a two-run, ground-rule double. Jackie Gutierrez sacrificed Shelby, a pinch-runner, to third, then Lynn hit his double.
The Cincinnati Reds bowed to the Chicago Cubs, 3–2. Jerry Mumphrey hit a bases-loaded triple and Lee Smith pitched two hitless innings for his 24th save, enabling the Cubs to snap a three-game losing streak. The loss snapped a four-game winning streak for the Reds. Chicago rookie Jaime Moyer, 5–3, gave up eight hits and five walks over 5 ⅔ innings. Ron Davis allowed both of the Cubs’ runs over an 1 ⅓ innings before Smith pitched the final two innings. Cincinnati’s Ted Power, 4–6, who was making his first start since May 30, 1983, allowed five hits over four innings.
The Boston Red Sox downed the Cleveland Indians, 6–3. Bill Buckner’s two-run single in the seventh inning put Boston ahead, and the Red Sox went on to gain their eighth victory over Cleveland in as many games this season. Bruce Hurst (8–6) yielded three runs, two of them earned, in six and one-third innings. With Cleveland ahead by 3–2, Wade Boggs singled leading off the seventh and moved to second on Marty Barrett’s sacrifice. Ken Schrom (11–5) then hit Jim Rice with a pitch. After Don Baylor flied out, Dwight Evans walked to load the bases. Scott Bailes relieved Schrom, and Buckner lined an 0–2 pitch into right field for the tying and winning runs.
John Grubb and Darnell Coles had RBI singles in Detroit’s two-run fifth inning and rookie Eric King pitched a four-hitter as the Tigers beat Seattle, 4–1. King, 9–3 for the season and 5–0 in Tiger Stadium, walked two and struck out four en route to his third complete game. He retired the last 14 batters after hitting Phil Bradley with a pitch in the fifth inning.
Jeff Hamilton singled with the bases loaded in the 10th inning to lead Los Angeles over Montreal, 2–1. The Dodgers snapped a three-game losing streak. Tim Burke, 8–5, the third Montreal pitcher, walked Enos Cabell to open the inning. Steve Sax singled Cabell to third and Franklin Stubbs was walked to load the bases. Hamilton followed with a line single to center. Ken Howell, 3–5, gained the victory with three innings of the three-hit relief to extended Montreal’s losing streak to six. Bob Welch, seeking his 100th career victory, fell behind 1–0 in the first inning on doubles by Mitch Webster and Andre Dawson.
The Kansas City Royals beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 4–2. Danny Jackson threw a four-hitter over eight and two-thirds innings, giving up only one hit after the fourth inning, to lead Kansas City. Hal McRae homered to start a three-run fourth-inning rally. Jackson, 9–8, struck out five and walked five in his second complete game. Dan Quisenberry got the final out for his 11th save.
Greg Gagne hit a pair of two-run homers and Bert Blyleven allowed seven hits in seven innings as Minnesota beat Toronto, 4–3. Gagne’s sixth home run, off Jim Clancy, gave Minnesota a 2–0 lead in the third inning after a single by Roy Smalley.
The New York Yankees’ Dennis Rasmussen did not pitch like an expectant father last night. He called his wife early in the afternoon, went to Yankee Stadium and offered an efficient performance: a four-hitter through eight innings, a 3–2 decision over the Oakland A’s and his first victory in a month. When he arrived at his locker, Rasmussen conceded that he had still not spoken with his wife, Sharon, who is expecting the birth of twins in Omaha. “I hope nothing happened,” he said, smiling. The Yankees scored the deciding run because Rickey Henderson was able to unnerve Joaquin Andujar, the A’s starting pitcher. It was strictly in the Henderson mold: He reached base when Carney Lansford, the Oakland first baseman, bobbled a grounder behind the bag; stole second on Andujar’s first pitch to the next batter, Willie Randolph; went to third on a balk by Andujar, and trotted home when Randolph took a pitch on the fists and blooped it to right field for a single.
Sid Bream went 5 for 5 and drove in five runs tonight as Pittsburgh rapped out 19 hits in their biggest offensive showing in three years and defeated the Atlanta Braves, 16–5. Bream hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning, his 14th, and had a two-run single in Pittsburgh’s eight-run sixth. Each team scored four times in the first as the Pittsbugh starter, Larry McWilliams, left before getting an out. Dale Murphy hit a two-run single, and Bob Horner and Terry Harper got run-scoring hits. Jim Winn (3–5) then relieved. Barry Jones worked the final three and two-thirds innings for his second save.
The Philadelphia Phillies beat the San Diego Padres, 4–1. Rookie left-hander Bruce Ruffin pitched a seven-hitter for his fifth complete game in just 12 major league starts for Philadelphia. Ruffin, 6–3 since being called up from Reading of the Eastern League, struck out a career-high eight batters and walked two in leading Philadelphia to its fifth victory in six games. Tony Gwynn’s RBI single in eighth inning spoiled Ruffin’s bid for his first shutout.
The pitcher worked with runners on base for most of the night. He committed a balk and he let a run score on a wild pitch. It was another performance in which Dwight Gooden was not quite at his peak. But it has long been established that it does not matter. The Mets are 40 games over .500 again, and Dwight Gooden is now a 13–4 pitcher. Where he used to be overpowering, he has now become cool. The Mets beat the Giants tonight on a chilly evening here, 5–3, for their fifth consecutive victory. Darryl Strawberry hit a home run and the Mets’ magic number for clinching the National League East division title is now 22.
The Houston Astros were edged by the St. Louis Cardinals, 6–5. John Tudor scattered nine hits over seven innings and drove in two runs on singles for St. Louis. Tudor (13–6) struck out seven and allowed one earned run in helping the Cardinals snap a four-game losing streak. A wild Nolan Ryan, 8–8, was unable to earn his 250th career victory. He struck out six in 5 ⅓ innings, but walked five and had three wild pitches.
The Texas Rangers routed the Chicago White Sox, 11–3, at Arlington, Texas. Gary Ward broke a fourth-inning tie with a two-run double and reliever Jeff Russell shut out Chicago on one hit for four innings. Ward’s double, which snapped a 2–2 tie, made a loser of Chicago left-hander Floyd Bannister, 7–10, who lasted only 3 ⅔ innings.
California Angels 7, Baltimore Orioles 8
Cincinnati Reds 2, Chicago Cubs 3
Boston Red Sox 6, Cleveland Indians 3
Seattle Mariners 1, Detroit Tigers 4
Montreal Expos 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Kansas City Royals 4, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Toronto Blue Jays 3, Minnesota Twins 4
Oakland Athletics 2, New York Yankees 3
Atlanta Braves 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 16
Philadelphia Phillies 4, San Diego Padres 1
New York Mets 5, San Francisco Giants 3
Houston Astros 5, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Chicago White Sox 3, Texas Rangers 11
Stock prices rose moderately yesterday in slow pre-weekend trading. The Dow Jones industrial average, down a bit in early trading, ended with a 6.61-point gain at 1,887.80. For the full week, the Dow showed a rise of 32.20 points.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1887.8 (+6.61)
Born:
Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress (“Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon”, “The Fast and the Furious: Toyko Drift”), in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
Andray Blatche, NBA power forward and center (Washington Wizards, Brooklyn Nets), in Syracuse, New York.
Tony Fiammetta, NFL fullback (Carolina Panthers, Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Bears), in Kaneohe, Hawaii.
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