The Soviet Union has told the United States that it will allow a jailed American journalist to return home only as part of an exchange for a Soviet employee of the United Nations held in New York, State Department officials said today. In three days of negotiations, the officials said, the Soviet Union has turned down two American proposals for obtaining the release of Nicholas S. Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, because they do not treat the two prisoners equally. This was confirmed by Soviet diplomats. Although Washington had threatened retaliatory measures if Mr. Daniloff is not freed, no action has been taken to give negotiations more time. The two sides are now working against an unofficial deadline of Saturday.
A Soviet woman has appealed to Mikhail S. Gorbachev to allow her family to emigrate to Israel, where she hopes to donate blood marrow to a brother who is dying of leukemia. On August 20, visa officials told the woman, Inessa Flerov, that she and her two daughters could emigrate, but her husband’s visa would not be granted because his father refused to approve.
Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar accused the United States today of crippling the United Nations by withholding much of its financial contribution this fall. In his annual report to the 41st General Assembly, which opens Tuesday, Mr. Perez de Cuellar said the crisis was so bad that “it is not clear whether the United Nations will remain solvent throughout the remainder of the year.” Unlike the United States Government, the United Nations is prohibited by its charter from borrowing money and depends on members to make their payments on time.
Norwegian police using dogs and tear gas clashed with 1,500 protesters outside Oslo’s medieval Akershus Castle minutes before a state dinner for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Several of the demonstrators were arrested and some were injured. They were protesting Thatcher’s policies on South Africa and British industrial emissions that Norway says cause acid rain to fall on the country. In London, the Thatcher government announced an $888-million program to reduce air pollution from three of 12 coal-fired power plants.
After years of criticism as one of the worst polluters in Europe, Britain announced a $900 million program today to begin limited controls of sulfur emissions, which have contributed to the acid rain that has damaged forests, lakes and rivers in Scandinavia. The announcement that control devices would be installed at three of the country’s 12 coal-burning power stations was made as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher began a visit to Norway, where officials have long complained about the ravages of air-born industrial pollution from Britain. Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway had the pollution problem high on her list of issues. Norwegian scientists estimate that 16 tons of sulfur dioxide pollutants drift from Britain each year and, after being converted into acids in the atmosphere, fall to earth, help to cause widespread plant and wildlife devastation.
The Polish Government announced tonight that by Monday it would free all 225 prisoners being held for their political views and activities. The announcement, on the television evening news, caught foreign diplomats, opposition figures and ordinary Poles by surprise. In Gdansk, Lech Walesa, the leader of the outlawed Solidarity trade union movement, said he greeted the news “with great pleasure,” but went on to urge the Government to guarantee political freedoms, “if prisons are not to be refilled very soon with political prisoners.” A European diplomat called the announcement “a staggeringly bold step.”
Israeli troops backed by Lebanese Christian militiamen fought a pitched battle today in southern Lebanon with Shiite Moslem guerrillas. In the crossfire, five soldiers of the United Nations peacekeeping force were wounded. The Israelis used helicopter gunships and artillery to drive off Shiite fighters who had attacked a hilltop position of the South Lebanon Army, a Christian militia backed and supplied by Israel, near the village of Yatar. The village is situated on the approaches to the border buffer strip that Israel controls as a “security zone.”
President Hosni Mubarak and Prime Minister Shimon Peres met alone for three hours here today in the first Egyptian-Israeli summit meeting in five years. Mr. Mubarak told reporters after the session that Egypt would return its ambassador to Israel. “I think it is now time to send the ambassador,” the President said. “There is no problem.” The talks are to continue today.
Islamic Jihad, a Shia Muslim fundamentalist group that has claimed responsibility for kidnapping four Americans still missing in Lebanon, denied that it has abducted American educator Frank Herbert Reed and urged “the real kidnappers” to come forward. “We did not kidnap the American . . . although we support all the forces that seek to chop off the hands of international arrogance and its spies in the region,” the group said in a typewritten statement in Arabic. Four gunmen abducted Reed, 53, director of the private Lebanese International School, on Tuesday.
An explosion rocked Baghdad early today, apparently from an attack by an Iranian surface-to-surface missile. The blast came several hours after Iraq said it had repulsed an Iranian ground attack on the southern front. Several missiles have struck Baghdad during the war. Although Soviet-made, the missiles are believed to be supplied by Libya or Syria. The missile today struck a residential area on a side street near the blue-tiled Mosque of the Martyrs off Firdawsi Square on the east bank of the Tigris River. A column of brown smoke and flames rose, but the fire was quickly put out. There was no immediate report of casualties. In the action on the front, the Iraqi Army said Thursday that it had repulsed an Iranian attack in the marshes of southern Iraq. Iran has been proclaiming for weeks that it intends to undertake what it calls a “final offensive” in the war.
The Pakistani police have arrested a man, described by a senior Government official as a Libyan who came here on “official business,” as a suspect in the planning of the hijacking of a Pan American jetliner here last Friday. Government officials said the arrest was the first breakthrough in the investigation into the possibility that accomplices had helped the four gunmen who seized control of the plane and held its 389 passengers and crew members for 16 hours. The hijacking ended when the gunmen detonated hand grenades and sprayed the hostages with bullets inside the darkened passenger cabin, wounding about 100 people and leading to at least 21 deaths. Reagan Administration officials in Washington, asked about the Pakistani investigation, said the Government there had not yet provided a full or detailed account of its interrogation of the four hijackers. Any Libyan link to the hijacking has been denied by Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi, according to President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan, who said he raised the matter with the Libyan leader last week at a conference in Harare, Zimbabwe, of nations professing nonalignment.
Five U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal were wounded in crossfire between Israeli-backed militiamen and Shia Muslim guerrillas in southern Lebanon, a U.N. official said. Two members of Israel’s surrogate militia, the South Lebanon Army, which attempts to enforce security near the border, were reported killed and four were wounded. The militia repelled an attempt by pro-Iranian Islamic Resistance guerrillas to capture a hilltop post near Yater, a village just north of the Israeli border.
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone’s term in office was extended today by a year as the governing Liberal Democratic Party agreed to change rules that would have had him to step down late next month. The action, which had been expected, came in a unanimous vote of Liberal Democratic members of Parliament, caucusing before the start of a new parliamentary session. Party regulations put a limit of two consecutive two-year terms on the Liberal Democratic president, who automatically becomes Prime Minister. Mr. Nakasone was thus required to step down by October 30. But after the party’s landslide victory in national elections two months ago, momentum gained to keep him in office. Nevertheless, party leaders, some of whom want to become Prime Minister themselves, were unwilling to give Mr. Nakasone a third term, and settled instead on a 12-month stretch.
New economic sanctions ordered against Cuba in August by the Reagan Administration have had almost no effect because Havana trades almost exclusively with other Communist nations, according to Ramon Sanchez Parodi, head of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington. “Everything that we need and every country with whom we can trade will trade with us,” Sanchez Parodi said in a breakfast interview at The Times’ Washington Bureau.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole charged that House Democratic leaders are deliberately blocking final action on a $100-million package for aid to the contras fighting Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. A top aide to House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill Jr. (D-Massachusetts) said the Kansas Republican’s charge was “absurd.” Meanwhile, President Reagan again urged Congress to take final action, saying that the contras are “clinging to our promise of assistance.”
United States troops taking part in an anti-drug campaign aimed at destroying Bolivia’s $600-million-a-year cocaine industry will remain for at least another month, the Interior Minister indicated Wednesday. The 170 Americans were scheduled to leave Sunday at the end of the two-month campaign agreed upon by Bolivia and the American Government. The Interior Minister, Fernando Barthelemy, said his Government had not officially requested a continued United States presence. But he said if the Americans left now it would “provide drug traffickers with a truce during which time they could arm themselves and return with greater force.”
Chile’s President Augusto Pinochet, in a speech marking the 13th anniversary of the coup that brought him to power, criticized the Roman Catholic Church, the United States and his local political opponents. Answering criticism from all of those sources, he said that the state of siege he proclaimed in the wake of an attempt to assassinate him last weekend will bring about “a climate of security… beneficial to authentic democratic positions.” He said, “Curiously, those who are said to be defenders of democracy and liberty, in practice, have served totalitarian purposes.” He added that they were causing “enormous damage to that for which they claim to be fighting.” He made the remarks four days after surviving an assassination attempt.
Former President Jimmy Carter said today that the Reagan Administration was wrong to have cut off economic aid to Zimbabwe as a result of a diplomatic episode there July 4 that caused Mr. Carter to walk out of a reception. Mr. Carter and an American diplomat left the reception at the United States Embassy in Harare after a Zimbabwean Cabinet minister read a speech attacking United States policy toward South Africa.
House Democratic leaders agreed to recommend acceptance of the Senate’s version of legislation imposing economic sanctions on South Africa. A House vote could be held today and a finished bill could be sent to President Reagan early next week. To deal with concerns that the Senate bill could be interpreted to preempt state and local laws imposing stronger sanctions, the House will vote on a separate resolution saying it does not intend to preclude stronger local or state action against South Africa.
On the last day of a trip to South Africa marked by political controversy, Coretta Scott King held an emotional hourlong meeting today with Winnie Mandela, one of the most prominent black campaigners against apartheid. Emerging from Mrs. Mandela’s red-brick bungalow in this sprawling black township, Mrs. King fought back tears as she proclaimed the meeting “one of the greatest and most meaningful moments of my life.”
The secret “Star Wars” experiment conducted last week provided information that one day will make it possible for small interceptor rockets based in space to hunt down nuclear missiles, Lieutenant General James A. Abrahamson, the program’s director, said. Lifting the veil of official secrecy surrounding the $150-million experiment, Abrahamson said the main objective of the “Star Wars,” or Strategic Defense Initiative, experiment had been to obtain data on what rocket plumes look like in space beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. Abrahamson said the data collected was sufficient to allow research on actual weaponry to proceed.
House and Senate negotiators agreed today on compromise legislation that would change the command structure of the armed forces by strengthening officers who command joint operations and reducing the authority of the individual services. Its sponsors say the legislation was meant to prevent the sort of mixups that occurred in the invasion of Grenada when Army troops on the ground could not communicate with Air Force fliers. “In this day and age,” said Senator Barry Goldwater, the Arizona Republican who heads the Armed Services Committee, “one service, acting alone, just cannot handle all the complex challenges of warfare.”
President Reagan addresses business leaders attending the Public/Private Partnership Conference.
President Reagan participates in a photo opportunity for a cover story for First Monday magazine.
Van Gordon Sauter resigned as president of CBS News one day after the CBS founder, William S. Paley, and the largest CBS shareholder, Laurence A. Tisch, took control of the company. Mr. Sauter’s departure was apparently the only major executive change prompted by the ouster of Thomas H. Wyman as CBS’s chairman and chief executive.
The shake-up at CBS Inc. has spurred conjecture — and concern — about the direction of a company that has set the standard for broadcasting for two generations.
In a mood to get tough on drugs, the House of Representatives tonight approved a bill that requires use of the military to curb the flow of narcotics into the United States and allows the death penalty for some drug-related crimes. The bipartisan vote was 392 to 16, with opposition coming mostly from liberals, including members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Representative Ted Weiss, a Manhattan Democrat, was the only New Yorker to vote against the bill and Philip M. Crane of Illinois, was the only Republican to vote against the bill, which now goes to the Senate. In another move against drug use, which led some members to express fears about civil liberties, the bill would allow the use of illegally obtained evidence in drug trials. These three measures were among the 31 adopted as amendments to the broadscale bill, which is projected to cost more than $2 billion in 1987 and nearly $5 billion over three years. The three amendments would represent a sharp break from current practice. In general, the military is kept out of the enforcement of civilian laws; courts exclude illegally obtained evidence from a trial jury’s consideration, and there may be, at most, only one Federal crime carrying a death penalty that is possibly enforceable under Supreme Court rulings.
A grand jury indicted a couple on charges of running a multimillion-dollar heroin-smuggling operation through the mail from a source in Pakistan. Those charged are Dr. Nikhet Najim, a research scientist at the National Institutes of Health, and her husband, Najam Ikramulla, a Government engineer.
Sharply increased drug testing of Federal employees is in prospect, according to Reagan Administration officials. They said that every member of Mr. Reagan’s Cabinet backed increased drug testing as part of a nearly $1 billion program designed to reduce narcotics abuse.
Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, said in a statement released by the commission that two recent Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action plans involving training and the role of the courts in ordering race-conscious remedies for past discrimination “give license for unions and other employers to discriminate” against non-minorities. “The Supreme Court’s decisions generate a public perception that minorities in general, and blacks specifically, are permanent victims of discrimination,” Pendleton, who is black, said.
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger has given commanders new and explicit authority to prevent the active participation of servicemen in “hate groups” like the Ku Klux Klan, Pentagon officials said today. The military has long opposed participation in groups that sponsor threats, abuse or violence toward racial, religious or other groups. But the new message from Mr. Weinberger, signed September 5, states, “Active participation, including public demonstrations, recruiting and training members, and organizing or leading such organizations, is utterly incompatible with military service.”
In the first test of a new national plan for setting up sites for disposal of radioactive nuclear wastes, a panel representing eight Southeastern states voted today to designate North Carolina as the repository for all the region’s low-level refuse. The two North Carolinians on the Southeast Compact Commission voted against the proposal, raising the question of whether the state might now decide to drop out of the regional compact rather than become the Southeast’s dump site for 20 years beginning in 1993. Officials in North Carolina, who would decide later on a specific site for the dump, said they would study the decision of the group. State officials have challenged the data on which the other states of the compact and their consulting firm, Dames & Moore, of Pearl River, New York, based their decision. That site would replace a low-level nuclear dump site in Barnwell, South Carolina, which South Carolina officials say they will close in 1992.
A brain-damaged man who requires artificial feeding may be removed from a hospital and allowed to starve to death, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled. In a 4–3 opinion, justices granted the request of Patricia Brophy to stop providing food and water to her husband, Paul E. Brophy Sr., 49, a former firefighter in Easton, who has been in a coma for 3 ½ years. Before suffering a ruptured blood vessel in the brain in 1983, Brophy often told his family he would not want to be kept alive artificially, his wife said.
Raymond Johnson Jr., accused of hijacking a Miami-bound National Airlines plane to Cuba in 1968, was returned from Havana and arrested at Miami International Airport, the FBI said. Johnson, 39, was charged with air piracy and scheduled for a hearing today before a U.S. magistrate. The FBI gave no details of his life in Cuba.
The U.S. performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
An earthen hydroelectric dam in Michigan, weakened by days of torrential rain, burst today, unleashing a torrent that washed away a highway bridge and forcing as many as 300 people to flee two towns, officials said. The water destroyed the southbound span of a bridge carrying U.S. 31 over the river and weakened the northbound span to the point it was “likely to go down soon,” said Lowell Rinker, a spokesman for the Oceana County Civil Defense Office. No injuries were immediately reported.
Favorable weather and quick cleanup work spared wildlife and wilderness shore areas from contamination by nearly 300,000 gallons of oil spilled by the tanker Viking Osprey in the Delaware River, the Coast Guard said. Officials restricted ship traffic on the river near Philadelphia as contractors hired by the ship’s owners began scooping up the thin sheen of oil along a 15-mile stretch from Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, to the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The Coast Guard said it is investigating reports that the tanker hit bottom and ruptured.
Fire at a key telephone installation in San Juan cut overseas communications for Puerto Ricans and left the city’s police and hospitals without phone service. Local calls for at least 35,000 customers in the capital were disrupted by the fire, which broke out late Wednesday and knocked out a new $8-million digital complex. Firefighters battled the blaze until dawn. Authorities have not determined the cause or amount of damage of the fire. On Thursday, officials said an arson fire had been set at the telephone workers’ union headquarters a few hours after the blaze at the telecommunications center.
Hurricane Earl swirled swiftly to life southeast of Bermuda, packing winds of 75 mph in the open Atlantic but posing little threat to land. “With the normal westerlies that you get at high latitudes, the jet stream carries it right out to sea,” forecaster Gil Clark said. Thursday evening, the storm center was about 800 miles southeast of Bermuda and was moving north-northwest at 12 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Florida.
The Daughters of the American Revolution said today that the organization was ending disciplinary proceedings against two members who had accused it of trying to adopt a racist membership policy. In exchange, Faith K. Tiberio, one of the women who had been disciplined, dropped her $3 million lawsuit against the organization and a former president-general, Sarah King, lawyers for both sides said. Provisions of the out-of-court settlement ending the two-and-a-half-year dispute were not disclosed because of a secrecy agreement between the parties, but Mrs. Tiberio said through her lawyer, Jonathan M. Weisgall, that she was “absolutely delighted.”
Major League Baseball:
Lee Lacy singled home the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning tonight and the Baltimore Orioles beat Boston, 8–6, ending an 11-game winning streak by the Red Sox. The Orioles, who scored twice in the seventh for a 6–6 tie, loaded the bases in the eighth on a double by Mike Young, a walk to John Stefero and an error by Steve Crawford (0–1) on Floyd Rayford’s bunt. Lacy singled to center against Joe Sambito, and Juan Beniquez hit a sacrifice fly off Bob Stanley.
The Oakland Athletics edged the Chicago White Sox, 2–1. Joaquin Andujar pitched a six-hitter and Jose Canseco belted his 30th homer to lead Oakland. Andujar hurled his third straight complete-game victory to raise his record to 10–6.
Jack Morris pitched a three-hitter for his fifth shutout, as the Tigers blanked the Brewers, 8–0. Darnell Coles drove in three runs with a first-inning double, and Kirk Gibson, Alan Trammell and Tom Brookens each hit homers for the Tigers. Morris (17–8) struck out five and walked two. He allowed singles in the first, fourth and fifth innings. The Brewers were unable to advance a runner beyond second base. Juan Nieves (10–10), who has not won in eight starts since July 28, struck out six and walked four in six innings.
The Kansas City Royals beat the Seattle Mariners, 7–6. Willie Wilson tripled with one out in the 10th inning, scoring Rudy Law and boosting Kansas City. The winner in relief was Dan Quisenberry, 2–5.
Fernando Valenzuela became the National League’s first 19-game winner, backed by homers from Pedro Guerrero, Reggie Williams and Greg Brock, as the Los Angeles Dodgers routed the Houston Astros 14–6 Thursday night. The Dodgers, aided by three Houston errors, won their fourth straight game with their highest offensive output this year. Williams hit a three-run homer in the fifth, Brock homered with the bases empty in the seventh, and Guerrero hit his first homer of the year for three runs later in the inning. Steve Sax, who had four hits the night before, had two doubles and an RBI. Valenzuela, 19–9, gave up nine hits and five runs in seven innings and struck out six batters without walking one. He gave up three runs in the first two innings before settling down.
The Minnesota Twins downed the Texas Rangers, 6–2. Mark Salas hit two home runs and drove in four runs and Frank Viola beat Texas for the seventh straight time. Viola, 14–11, gave up eight hits and three walks over seven innings and struck out a season high of 10 batters. Viola’s streak against Texas dates back to June 10, 1983.
Ed Wojna pitched a three-hitter in his first major league complete game and Jerry Royster drove in three runs as San Diego routed Atlanta, 9–1. Wojna, 2–0, gave up only singles, walked two batters and struck out five.
Chili Davis hit a two-run homer, and Kelly Downs and Scott Garrelts combined on a five-hitter today as the Giants beat Cincinnati, 2–1. The Giants’ fourth victory in their last five games put them one-half game behind the second-place Reds.
This was a night of milestones for the Yankees. They did not win any kind of championship, as the Mets are poised to do Friday night, but Don Mattingly, Ron Kittle, Dave Righetti and Rickey Henderson each achieved something significant. For Kittle, the night was doubly significant. Kittle, who entered the doubleheader without a home run for the Yankees, hit a two-run home run that propelled the Yankees to a 3–1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in the first game. Then he hit a bases-empty home run that broke a 1–1 tie in the second game. But the Yankees needed a four-run rally in the ninth inning for a 7–5 victory. Dan Pasqua drove in the last three runs with a pinch-hit double.
The scheduled game between the California Angels and the Indians at Cleveland was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on September 22 in Anaheim.
Boston Red Sox 6, Baltimore Orioles 8
Oakland Athletics 2, Chicago White Sox 1
Milwaukee Brewers 0, Detroit Tigers 8
Seattle Mariners 6, Kansas City Royals 7
Houston Astros 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 14
Texas Rangers 2, Minnesota Twins 6
Atlanta Braves 1, San Diego Padres 9
Cincinnati Reds 1, San Francisco Giants 2
New York Yankees 3, Toronto Blue Jays 1
New York Yankees 7, Toronto Blue Jays 5
NFL Football:
Freeman McNeil, without whom the Jets have been a losing team over the years, was sidelined tonight for four to six weeks, the team said. The star runner suffered a dislocated right elbow and was hospitalized while his teammates went on to take a 20–6 battering from the New England Patriots at Giants Stadium. Actually, Freeman wasn’t Freeman tonight. Few players perform up to their potential against the hard-driving Patriot defense. McNeil gained only 23 yards on 8 carries. Yardage came hard for all the Jets tonight. The Patriots have not permitted a touchdown in winning their first two games. The Jets, who are now 1–1, managed only a pair of field goals from Pat Leahy. Meanwhile, Craig James (63 yards on 21 carries) and Collins (18 for 56), the Patriots’ top runners, complemented Tony Eason’s accurate passing game. Eason completed 14 of 22 passes for 148 yards and a touchdown, and Stanley Morgan embarrassed the Jets’ defenders by collecting eight receptions for 104 yards.
New England Patriots 20, New York Jets 6
Wall Street suffered by far its biggest one-day loss ever. Wall Street was badly shaken yesterday by a steep drop in stock prices as investors decided they had waited long enough for the bull market to resume. The Dow Jones industrial average, which just last week seemed perched solidly at record heights, plunged 86.61 points, to 1,792.89, in the busiest session in New York Stock Exchange history. A record 237.6 million shares changed hands, up sharply from 140.3 million the day before. Amid the frenzy of activity at the Big Board, stock market professionals expressed fear and puzzlement as the Dow Jones average plummeted more than 60 points by noon. Until yesterday the biggest drop in the Dow Jones average had been that of July 7, when it lost 61.87 amid growing concern about the nation’s economy. The previous volume record was 236.56 million shares, on August 3, 1984.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1792.89 (-86.61)
Born:
Andrew Cashner, MLB pitcher (Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, Miami Marlins, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox), in Conroe, Texas.
Kyle Blanks, MLB outfielder and first baseman (San Diego Padres, Oakland A’s, Texas Rangers), in Souderton, Pennsylvania.
Ben Scrivens, Canadian NHL goaltender (Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Ageles Kings, Edmonton Oilers, Montreal Canadiens), in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada.
Dwayne Jarrett, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers), in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
LaToya Sanders (née Pringle), German-born American-Turkish National Turkish Team and WNBA forward and center (Olympics, 2016; WNBA champions-Mystics, 2019; Phoenix Mercury, Minnesota Lynx, Los Angeles Sparks, Washington Mystics), in Nuremberg, Germany.
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