She did not survive.
The 35-nation European Disarmament Conference hit a snag that could scuttle the chance of an agreement before the talks end September 19 in Stockholm, senior Western diplomats said. They said the Soviet Union insists that inspectors checking military activities use planes provided by and flown by the host country, a stipulation that causes concern in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which fears that defective planes might be issued to thwart inspections. The United States and NATO last Friday welcomed the Soviets’ agreement to allow inspections but suggested that neutral planes be used.
A Soviet passenger liner sank after colliding with a cargo ship in the Black Sea on Sunday night, with an unspecified loss of life, the Soviet Union reported. The four-deck ship, the Admiral Nakhimov, could accommodate about 1,000 passengers. The terse announcement and the appointment of a top Government official to head an inquiry suggested that many passengers and crew members might have perished. A Soviet shipping official said the accident was a “real tragedy.”
Nicholas S. Daniloff’s wife said today that the Soviet authorities had told the U.S. News & World Report correspondent that within 10 days he would either be charged with spying or released. “What I learned from my meeting with Nick was that in 10 days he would either be charged or released,” Ruth Daniloff said after visiting her husband at the K.G.B. interrogation center at Lefortovo prison. She said her husband was told of the 10-day deadline by his interrogator.
An East German lieutenant colonel slipped across the heavily guarded border near Ulzen, West Germany, and asked for asylum, the West German federal intelligence office said. A spokesman confirmed a Bild newspaper report that the defector was Lieutenant Col. Dietmar Mann, 38, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 24th Border Regiment. No details of his escape were released. Mann is the highest-ranking East German military officer to flee to West Germany since 1981. In that year, a border commander of the same rank escaped across the frontier, then changed his mind and returned home two days later.
Britain said it is tightening visa controls for visitors from West Africa and the Indian subcontinent after complaints of immigration chaos at Heathrow Airport. A Home Office statement said that visitors from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Ghana who previously were allowed to enter Britain without visas must now obtain one. The move will have the effect of closing a back door through which citizens of former British colonies have entered Britain as tourists and stayed as illegal immigrants.
Spain’s Prince Felipe has begun a year’s course of study at the Spanish naval academy. The 18-year-old heir to the Spanish throne will receive the equivalent of $300 a month during his studies. The prince started three years of military training in 1985 to follow in the footsteps of his father, King Juan Carlos, who was the first Spaniard to win commissions in all three branches of the armed forces. Felipe last year trained with the army; next year, he will start a year’s training at the air force academy.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz has sent a top aide to the Middle East to set the stage for a possible new American effort to encourage closer Israeli-Egyptian relations and to stimulate dormant peace efforts, State Department officials said today. The officials said that depending on the recommendation of the aide, Assistant Secretary of State Richard W. Murphy, Mr. Shultz might go to the region himself next week. If Mr. Shultz decides to go, he will probably take part in the meeting between Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, which is tentatively scheduled for September 10 and 11 in Cairo, officials said. The holding of the meeting, and any trip by Mr. Shultz to the region, depend on the resolution by Egypt and Israel of final details that would set in motion arbitration over the disputed area of Sinai known as Taba, officials said.
Libya’s leader reviewed a parade of Libyan troops and weapons celebrating the 17th anniversary of his coup. Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, continuing a forceful re-emergence in public, appeared hearty and self-confident, despite reports from Washington that he feared a military uprising.
No sign that Libya is plotting “spectacular terrorist actions” was reported by a senior adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany. He cautioned that another American raid on Libya could ruin the chances for a Soviet-American summit meeting. The warning came as Vernon A. Walters, the United States delegate to the United Nations, began a West European tour in Madrid in an apparent effort to win support for tougher sanctions against Colonel Qaddafi’s Government.
Iran said today that its forces had captured seven strategic hills in the northern Gulf war front and had pushed “deep inside Iraq” in a new offensive, killing or capturing hundreds of Iraqis. But the Baghdad radio, monitored here, quoted a military spokesman as saying Iraq’s army crushed the Iranian push, inflicting “thousands” of casualties and destroying most of the attacking force. In Tehran, Iran said the overnight offensive in the rugged mountains of northern Iraq was continuing today and that 3,000 Iraqi troops had been killed or wounded in the fighting, Reuters reported. It was not possible to confirm the claims made by Iran or Iraq. Both sides rarely allow reporters or other observers to visit any part of the front, about 730 miles long. The two countries have been fighting since September 1980.
Muslim guerrillas fired rockets at Soviet military installations in the Afghan capital of Kabul over the weekend, Western diplomatic sources said today. The Western sources, speaking on condition they not be identified further, said the guerrillas attacked Kabul Saturday night and early today. Rockets were fired at a Soviet radar station on Kohe Chehel Gazi Hills, at the Soviet military base at Khair, and the Soviet Embassy and military headquarters in the Darulaman area, they said. The sources said they did not know if the attacks caused any damage or casualties. Soviet and Afghan military units defending the city responded by attacking the surrounding hills with rockets and artillery fire, the sources said.
Gunmen firing automatic weapons in a crowded bazaar killed the judge of a special anti-extremist court in India’s Punjab state, police said. Police in Jullundur said that Judge R. P. Gaind, 50, was shot to death as he made a phone call and that the two attackers escaped on a motor scooter. Gaind had sat on a special court set up to deal with unrest in the northern Indian state, which has been torn by violence sparked by extremists seeking to establish an independent Sikh homeland.
Prosecutors dropped charges against an ally of ousted Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos and six other leaders of a failed July 6 revolt in return for their recognition of the government. “It is hoped that the Philippine people will harken to President (Corazon) Aquino’s appeal to put this matter behind us and work for unity and peace in our land,” Justice Minister Neptali Gonzales said. Former Sen. Arturo Tolentino and six of his associates submitted sworn statements pledging to “acknowledge the existence of the present government” and to “forswear the use of force and violence for the overthrow of the said government.”
Philippine officials reacted with puzzlement and irritation today to what they said were unfair criticisms by Reagan Administration officials of the Manila Government’s approach to combating insurgency. The officials said they believed the criticism, by unnamed officials was intended to put President Corazon C. Aquino on the defensive before her meeting with President Reagan September 17. Administration officials said Sunday that they were increasingly concerned by what they saw as a lack of effectiveness in Mrs. Aquino’s handling of insurgencies by Communists and other groups and urged that she take tougher measures against them. Officials close to President Aquino said they found the initial criticism particularly surprising, as negotiations with the Communists are just beginning and the President and the leader of the largest Muslim insurgency are to meet later this week.
A Nicaraguan businessman, arrested two weeks ago and accused of espionage, said today that he had provided economic information to American officials but that none of the information was secret. The businessman, Guillermo Quant Tai, appeared at a news conference at the Interior Ministry accompanied by Capt. Oscar Loza, chief of operations for the State Security Agency. Captain Loza asserted that Mr. Quant was working for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Gunmen shot to death a Communist member of the Colombian Senate in the second such assassination in three days. Sen. Pedro Nel Jimenez Obanda of the guerrilla-backed Patriotic Union Party was slain by two gunmen on a motorcycle in the town of Villavicencio, about 60 miles southeast of Bogota. On Saturday, a member of the same party, a lawmaker in the lower house of the Colombian Congress, was killed in a similar manner. President Virgilio Barco Vargas was quoted as saying the murders are aimed at sabotaging his attempts to make peace with the guerrillas.
Zimbabwe called on nations professing nonalignment to adopt selective economic sanctions against South Africa. Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, speaking at the opening of the eighth conference of the 101-nation Nonaligned Movement, also renewed calls for the world’s industrialized nations to impose comprehensive mandatory sanctions against Pretoria. The voluntary sanctions would include termination of air links with South Africa and restrictions on trade and investment. The conference is taking place in Harare, Zimbabwe.
A bomb left on a counter exploded today in a supermarket in a white working-class neighborhood of Durban, South Africa, wounding at least 18 people, the Government reported. Two white victims, a 3-year-old girl and a 20-year-old woman, were in serious condition, and those treated for lesser injuries included 10 blacks, the authorities said. The official Bureau for Information said the explosion ripped through the Pick ‘n’ Pay store in the Montclair neighborhood of the Indian Ocean port city shortly after 1 PM. It said the bomb had been left at a counter where customers leave packages while they shop. Witnesses said the blast blew out the front windows of the store and mangled the interior, sending shoppers fleeing in panic.
The California plane collision Sunday occurred in a Government-established restricted zone where the private plane that was destroyed in the collision with an Aeromexico DC-9 was not authorized to fly, the Federal Aviation Administration said. An F.A.A. spokesman also said the controller guiding the DC-9 could not have radioed warnings to avert the collision because “as far as we can determine” no radar blip designating the small plane appeared on his scope. The controller did not know of the small plane’s existence, the spokesman said. But at a news conference in California, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board was more cautious. The safety official, John Lauber, said the Piper airplane carried a device to signal its existence to air controllers and that this transponder had been recovered with its switch in the on position. What is not known, he said, is whether the transponder was working.
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office said tonight that the pilot of the small private plane that collided in midair with an Aeromexico jetliner Sunday had suffered a heart attack minutes before the disastrous collision. Bill Gold, a spokesman for the coroner’s office, said an autopsy showed that the pilot suffered the heart attack “within minutes before the fatal injuries.” Mr. Gold said that the cause of death was “multiple injuries received in the crash.” He said in an interview tonight that it had not been determined whether the heart attack had led to the collision. “We can’t say whether it caused the collision,” he said. “How severe it was we can’t say because he lived long enough to get the fatal injuries.”
A full death toll may not be known for weeks in the midair collision near Los Angeles. Officials said difficulties in identifying victims on the ground were delaying the final toll. All 64 people aboard the jetliner were killed, along with all three passengers aboard the Piper PA-28. Officials have refused to give an estimate of casualties on the ground.
The President and First Lady enjoy a horseback ride together around the grounds at Rancho del Cielo.
President and Mrs. Reagan awoke earlier than usual to watch their younger son, Ron, act as guest host of “Good Morning America.” “Mrs. Reagan this morning said she thought it was great. It was just wonderful — amazingly poised — really very good and we were impressed,” White House spokesman Larry Speakes said from Santa Barbara, near the ranch where the Reagans are vacationing. “It would be interesting if it sets off a week in which they (‘Good Morning America’) beat the ‘Today show’ in the ratings,” Speakes added.
Sharply rising concern over drugs has led two-thirds of Americans to say they would pay more taxes to jail drug sellers, and three-fourths of full-time workers to say they would be willing to take a drug test, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll. Thirteen percent of the 1,210 adults interviewed from August 18 to 21 gave drugs precedence over unemployment, fear of war or other economic difficulties as the nation’s most important problem. Concern has soared since April, when only 2 percent picked drugs.
Laws raising the legal drinking age to 21 went into effect in five states, triggering last-minute booze-buying sprees and a rampage by students at the University of North Carolina. Wisconsin, North Carolina, Minnesota, Iowa and Texas became the latest states to avoid the loss of federal highway funds by passing laws banning the sale of alcohol to people under age 21. The Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota laws allow people who turned 19 years old before September 1 to continue drinking. Students at two universities in North Carolina went on last-minute booze-buying sprees and students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill rioted Sunday night to protest the new law. Chapel Hill police arrested at least 20 people and authorities said that windows were broken and trash cans were set afire, but no one was hurt.
An environmental activist group, the Foundation on Economic Trends, accused the Defense Department of violating federal law by running a multimillion-dollar research program to develop a defense against biological weapons and said it will file suit today in Washington to halt the program. The group, which successfully sued the Army in a similar action, will request both preliminary and permanent injunctions against continued defensive research until environmental impact studies are conducted. The group describes itself as a “clearinghouse for public information” on the implications of such research.
The Texas Senate sent to Governor Mark White a bill to repeal a statewide ban on parimutuel betting established in 1937, paving the way for gambling on horse and dog racing. The legislation includes a provision to put the question on the general election ballot in November, 1987, a provision White had demanded in any racing legislation. The state would share in the profits of parimutuel gambling, though the exact formula has not been worked out. The Legislature has been meeting in special session to discuss solutions to the state’s fiscal crisis, which stems largely from declining oil revenues.
Thousands of people watching a surfing contest in Huntington Beach, California went on a rampage Sunday after the police tried to rescue several women whose bikini tops had been torn off, and 13 people were arrested before order was restored. Six emergency vehicles were burned and a lifeguard station was looted in the three-hour disturbance, which required more than 100 officers to clear up. About 10 officers suffered minor injuries, Police Sgt. Ron Jenkins said. The rioters, estimated at 2,000 to 5,000 teen-agers, surrounded the lifeguard station chanting “Anarchy! Anarchy,” the authorities said. They broke windows in the station with rocks and bottles, then overturned and set ablaze two police cars, an unmarked police car, a police van, a lifeguard Jeep and a three-wheel scooter, Sergeant Jenkins said. Thirteen people were arrested for investigation of charges ranging from resisting arrest to assault with a deadly weapon. Sergeant Jenkins said the melee began when officers went to the aid of five or six young women whose bathing suit tops had been torn off.
Two Vietnam veterans began a “fast for life” in opposition to U.S. aid for Nicaragua’s contra rebels. Standing on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, they declared they would eat nothing and drink only water. Charles Liteky, 55, of San Francisco, read a statement to reporters that said: “As veterans, we will not remain silent — we will not sit passively by — while timid politicians lead us into another Vietnam.” In an earlier protest of U.S. intervention in Central America, Liteky in July renounced the Medal of Honor he won in Vietnam.
Dairy farmers in New York, Maine and Vermont poured milk onto the ground to protest government policies and low prices. John Fogler, a deputy agriculture commissioner for Maine, said checks with other states’ agriculture departments indicated “no sizable support” for the protest. The farmers want a price of $23.10 for every 100 pounds of milk, up from the current price of $11.86, said Bill Mack of Ilion, New York. He said that price would provide a farmer with the same standard of living as the general population.
The Arizona leader of a paramilitary group that detained 15 illegal aliens near the Mexican border in July has been ousted because he planned more border patrols, a spokesman said today. Jim Turney, a spokesman for the organization, Civilian Materiel Assistance, said the Alabama-based group had dismissed J. R. Hagan for continuing to plan patrols after the membership had voted to abolish them. Mr. Turney, the group’s executive vice president, said in a press release that Mr. Hagan, of Tucson, had also been removed as the group’s Arizona director. In the July 5 border incident, several members of a 20-man patrol detained the aliens in the Lochiel Valley for about two hours until United States Border Patrol officials could be summoned to the scene. That incident prompted criticism from several Hispanic activists and Government officials. Mr. Hagan has vowed to continue his activities and has set up his own group, Border Watch.
Teachers in two Michigan school districts voted last night to strike and join walkouts that already have stopped classes for 15,000 students in another Michigan district and in Illinois and Pennsylvania. A strike in the two districts would cancel classes for an additional 15,000 students today.
Two powerboats collided at high speed early this morning on Fox Lake in the northeastern corner of Illinois, killing five people and injuring one. The collision, in which a 21-foot powerboat slammed into an 18-foot boat, occurred just after 2 AM, said Sgt. Ralph Connard of the Lake County Sheriff’s Police. “It’s the worst I’ve ever seen,” he said. The dead were identified as Lisa Messenger, 23 years old, her sister, Susan, 25, James Brankin 27, Wayne Anderson, 28, and Chet Franke. The only survivor of the collision, Patrick Flohr, 26, was listed in fair condition at Northern Illinois Medical Center. Alcohol and high speed may have been “contributing factors,” in the collision, Sergeant Connard said.
Jerry Lewis’ 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733.
Actress Whoopi Goldberg (30) weds cinematographer David Claessen.
Paul McCartney releases the “Press to Play” album.
She was just beginning to shed the label that has dogged her throughout her career, to dispute the critics who claimed that she could never be a true, consistent champion. But during one cool evening at the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, Hana Mandlikova, the defending women’s champion in the United States Open, undid virtually all of that. The 24-year-old from Czechoslovakia, who was the tournament’s fourth-seeded player, was eliminated in the round of 16 last night by her friend and doubles partner, 33-year-old Wendy Turnbull of Australia. The scores in the 1-hour-36-minute match were 6–4, 1–6, 6–3.
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The St. Louis Cardinals downed the Atlanta Braves, 5–2. John Morris singled in the go-ahead run and Ozzie Smith followed with a triple, highlighting St. Louis’ four-run ninth-inning rally for the victory. Jim Acker (3–4) took a three-hitter and a 2–1 lead into the ninth, but he surrendered four consecutive hits with one out to take the loss.
Texas Rangers pinch hitters Oddibe McDowell and Darrell Porter blast 9th inning back-to-back homers off Boston’s Steve Crawford, but the Rangers fall to the Red Sox, 6–4. The two pinch homers ties a Major League record. Tony Armas hit a three-run double and Jim Rice added a bases-empty home run tonight as the Boston Red Sox rallied for their third consecutive victory. After spotting Texas a 2–0 lead on Pete Incaviglia’s 21st homer and Larry Parrish’s 22d, Boston bounced back to retain its lead over Toronto by three and a half games in the American League East. Bruce Hurst (9–7), who struck out nine, allowed five hits in the first three innings before settling down. Hurst yielded only two more hits before getting relief help from Steve Crawford in the seventh inning.
The Baltimore Orioles walloped the California Angels, 9–3. Eddie Murray hit a three-run homer to cap a five-run third inning, leading Baltimore past California and ending the Angels’ seven-game winning streak. Scott McGregor (9–11) allowed 11 hits and raised his career record against California to 19–7. Don Aase pitched the final inning. Mike Witt (16–8), who started the game with an American League-leading 2.52 earned run average, allowed seven of Baltimore’s runs in six and two-thirds innings and suffered his first loss since July 12.
The Houston Astros topped the Chicago Cubs, 6–4. Denny Walling hit a two-run double and Jose Cruz had bases-empty homer to highlight a four-run sixth inning, to lead Houston. The loss eliminated the Cubs from the National League East race. Billy Hatcher opened the sixth with a single, extending his hitting streak to 11 games, and Craig Reynolds drew a walk off Ed Lynch (4–4).
The Pittsburgh Pirates bowed to the Cincinnati Reds, 6–5. Ted Power allowed just one hit over six innings — a homer by Benny Distefano — and Nick Esasky hit a two-run homer for Cincinnati. Power (5–6) retired the first 17 batters en route to his first victory as a starter since May 2, 1983, when he beat Philadelphia with a complete game.
The Chicago White Sox blanked the Kansas City Royals, 4–0. Floyd Bannister pitched a seven-hitter for his first shutout of the season and his 100th major league victory. Carlton Fisk drove in one run and scored another for the White Sox. Bannister (9–10) struck out three and did not walk a batter in his fifth complete game, raising his career mark against the Royals to 14–6.
The Minnesota Twins defeated the Milwaukee Brewers, 9–3. Gary Gaetti hit a two-run and a three-run homer, pacing Minnesota. Neal Heaton (6–12) gained his first victory at home since being traded to the Twins from Cleveland on June 20.
The Los Angeles Dodgers fell to the Montreal Expos, 7–6. Tom Foley’s bases-loaded bloop single knocked in Tim Raines with the winning run with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving Montreal a victory over Los Angeles. Jeff Reardon, 7–8, who allowed a game-tying homer to rookie Ralph Bryant in the top of the ninth, was the winning pitcher.
Sid Fernandez may be fat, and he may be silent, and he may throw with a strange delayed hitch of his left arm. But nobody on the Mets wins more often or strikes out batters more often, and yesterday afternoon before 44,272 fans in Shea Stadium, he was striking them out at a record rate. After three innings, he had eight strikeouts. After six innings, he had 14. In four of the first six innings, he got all three outs by strikeouts. And he still had nine outs to go to match or break the record of 20, set in April by Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox. But inching closer to making baseball history, the 23-year-old pitcher from Honolulu suddenly stopped. He struck out nobody in the top of the seventh inning, he left the game for a pinch-hitter in the bottom of the seventh inning, and he was not even the pitcher of record when the Mets scored three runs in the eighth and defeated the San Francisco Giants, 5–2.
A’s rookie Jose Canseco goes 4-for–5 and hits his 28th home run to become the first Major League player with 100 RBI this season. One more day passed, and the Yankees continued their slow and painful fade from the American League East race. Tonight, they started four players who had been in the minor leagues until last week, and there was no relief. The Oakland A’s struck for seven runs in the first three innings and held on to win, 9–8, dropping the Yankees seven and a half games from first place. Their current deficit is the Yankees’ biggest since July 10, when they were eight games out of the lead.
The Philadelphia Phillies edged the San Diego Padres, 5–4. Von Hayes tied the game with a homer in the fifth inning, then hit a bloop run-scoring double in the eighth, leading Philadelphia to its sixth straight victory.
Jack Morris is backed by four homers — two by Alan Trammell — in Detroit’s 6–5 win over the Mariners. Mike Morgan serves up the four dingers. Jim Presley drives in 4 runs for the M’s with three homers off Morris. Morris (16–8) pitched a seven-hitter to break the Tigers’ four-game losing streak. Morris walked four and struck out 12 in pitching his 11th complete game.
The Toronto Blue Jays nipped the Cleveland Indians, 5–4. Lloyd Moseby hit a bases-loaded single through a six-man infield in the ninth inning, scoring Willie Upshaw and leading Toronto to its ninth straight victory. Ernie Whitt led off the ninth with a pinch-single off Ernie Camacho (2–3). Upshaw then sacrificed to Camacho, who threw the ball past first for an error, sending Whitt to third and Upshaw to second. Rick Leach, a pinch-hitter, was intentionally walked and, after Tony Fernandez forced Ron Shepherd, a pinch-runner, at home, Moseby singled to left to score Upshaw.
St. Louis Cardinals 5, Atlanta Braves 2
Texas Rangers 4, Boston Red Sox 6
Baltimore Orioles 9, California Angels 3
Houston Astros 6, Chicago Cubs 4
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Cincinnati Reds 6
Chicago White Sox 4, Kansas City Royals 0
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Minnesota Twins 9
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, Montreal Expos 7
San Francisco Giants 2, New York Mets 5
New York Yankees 8, Oakland Athletics 9
San Diego Padres 4, Philadelphia Phillies 5
Detroit Tigers 6, Seattle Mariners 5
Cleveland Indians 4, Toronto Blue Jays 5
The Stock Markets in the U.S. were closed for the Labor Day holiday.
Born:
Calais Campbell, NFL defensive end (Pro Bowl, 2014, 2015, 2017-2020; Arizona Cardinals, Jacksonville Jaguars, Baltimore Ravens, Atlanta Falcons, Miami Dolphins), in Denver, Colorado.
Sidney Rice, NFL wide receiver (Pro Bowl, 2009; Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks), in Gaffney, South Carolina.
Antonio Coleman, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills), in Mobile, Alabama.
Brian Broderick, MLB pitcher (Washington Nationals), in Phoenix, Arizona.
Lauri Tukonen, Finnish NHL right wing (Los Angeles Kings), in Hyvinkaa, Finland.
Gaël Monfils, French tennis player (world #6 in 2016; 10 x ATP career titles), in Paris, France.
Jean Sarkozy, French politician, son of the former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
Died:
Murray Hamilton, 63, American character actor (“Rich Man Poor Man”, “Anatomy of a Murder”), of lung cancer.
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