President Reagan held an unscheduled meeting today with the Soviet Foreign Minister and conveyed to him “the strength of his feelings” over the Soviet Union’s refusal to allow an American journalist to return to the United States, the White House said. There appeared to be no breakthrough in the case of the correspondent, Nicholas S. Daniloff of U.S. News & World Report, who was arrested in Moscow last month and accused of espionage. Instead, the Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, surprised the American side by delivering a letter to Mr. Reagan containing the official response from Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, to Mr. Reagan’s wide-ranging letter on arms-control issues that was sent in late July. Mr. Gorbachev, speaking today on a tour of the Soviet region of Stavropol, said he had sent a letter to Mr. Reagan on the possibilities of a second summit meeting, according to Moscow Radio.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev again specified the Soviet Union’s conditions today for a summit conference, saying his second meeting with President Reagan would have to result in an arms treaty. “Why meet again in order just to talk?” the Soviet leader said on a visit to a collective farm in Stavropol, his home region. “We need to agree that nuclear weapons will not be tested and perfected. We need to sign a treaty.” Mr. Gorbachev spoke before the unscheduled meeting in Washington today between Mr. Reagan and the Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who was in the capital to discuss summit prospects and other Soviet-American issues with Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Mr. Gorbachev was speaking during a swing through southern agricultural areas at the end of his summer vacation. His remarks were reported by the official press agency Tass, which carried questions from farm workers on local and international issues, followed by Mr. Gorbachev’s answers.
Diplomats from NATO and the Warsaw Pact said tonight that, after nearly three years of protracted negotiation, they were close to a historic new security agreement intended to prevent either of the two military alliances from launching a surprise attack in Europe. The diplomats cautioned, however, that important issues were not completely resolved. As a result, the 35-nation Conference on Confidence and Security Building Measures and Disarmament, under way here for 31 months, was about to overrun its midnight deadline tonight and continue into the weekend. Nevertheless, the heads of the United States and Soviet delegations both expressed optimism that an agreement was in sight under which the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact would give each other advance notification of military maneuvers and invite observers to check that these exercises were not secret preparations for a surprise attack.
A human-rights group said today that a Soviet soldier who deserted in Afghanistan, went to the United States and later decided to return home had been sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp. The group, the International Association for Human Rights, which has contacts with Soviet emigres, said the soldier, Nikolai Ryzhkov, 22 years old, was convicted of high treason and sentenced several months ago.
Reagan Administration officials said today that a close ally of the United States had slowed its sharing of information on terrorism because much of its intelligence data had appeared in reports by American news organizations. The officials, elaborating on a speech by William J. Casey, the Director of Central Intelligence, said the unnamed intelligence service had previously followed a policy of passing reports to the United States immediately, even when its own security services had not yet acted on the information. But after some of this raw data recently appeared in the American press, the ally told American officials that it intended to delay such sharing in the future until after providing it to the domestic authorities.
The French police said today that they would issue a list of nine suspects in the terrorist bombing campaign that has rocked Paris in the last two weeks. The suspects include four brothers of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the suspected terrorist leader whose release from a French prison has been demanded by the group that claimed responsibility for the bombings. The five others on the list of suspects are all presumed followers of Mr. Abdallah believed by Western intelligence agencies to have taken part in terrorist attacks in Europe. The police said pictures of all nine would be posted throughout France.
Italy signed a formal agreement with the United States today that would make it easier for Italian companies to bid on research projects for the “Star Wars” missile defense program, the Defense Department announced.
Two high-speed trains filled with weekend commuters collided today in central England, and the police said 2 people were killed and 60 injured, 36 of them seriously. British Rail, which is government-run, said about 400 people were aboard the trains as they sped through Staffordshire at about 100 miles per hour. One was heading north from London to Liverpool, the other south from Manchester to London. One train delivered a “glancing blow” to the other at a junction about six miles from Stafford, at a point where the tracks crossed, and 11 cars overturned, a railroad spokesman said. The railroad said a train driver and a passenger died. Firemen said not all passengers were accounted for.
Ministers of major nations agreed on a global undertaking to ease national restrictions on international trade in such services as banking, insurance and shipping. Procedural discussions at the trade meeting in Uruguay continued into the evening on a final accord to set the agenda for the postwar era’s eighth round of trade liberalization, but most delegates expressed optimism that a final agreement would be reached by the 74 participating nations.
John Cardinal O’Connor, the Archbishop of New York, accepted an invitation yesterday to visit Israel from Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Israeli diplomats and Jewish leaders have been trying to get the Cardinal to visit Israel ever since he returned from a trip to Lebanon in June. After that trip, the Cardinal said he favored the creation of a Palestinian homeland, which Israel opposes as a threat to its security.
Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar threatened today to pull United Nations peacekeeping soldiers from southern Lebanon, blaming Israel for what he called the “major crisis” facing the nine-nation force. He asked the 15 members of the Security Council to “collectively and individually” take “urgent action” to get Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon. But Prime Minister Shimon Peres, speaking today in New York, said Israel plans to stay in Lebanon. “For the time being, we cannot reach an agreement with the Unifil forces,” he said during a visit to The New York Times.
Iraq said today that its troops had regained border positions captured by Iran. Iran had said its troops captured a strategic hill in hand-to-hand combat in the central sector of the war front, west of the Iranian border town of Mehran. The Iranian press agency, monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus, said an Iraqi battalion was “smashed” and prisoners were taken. A communique from the Iraqi military command today said that Iran had seized positions held by two platoons of Iraq’s 35th Division but that the positions were recaptured in a “resolute attack.” The communique gave no casualty count, but the Iraqi press agency gave it as 1,400 Iranians dead and 3,000 wounded.
A new package of economic aid for the Philippines, which the House of Representatives approved Thursday within hours of President Corazon C. Aquino’s visit, faces an uncertain future in the Senate. Unless the problems are resolved early next week, Senate aides said today, there is little chance the $200 million in aid can receive final approval despite support from the Reagan Administration. Timing is important, because the $200 million must be not only approved but also delivered to the Philippines by Oct. 1, when the new fiscal year begins and stringent budget ceilings become operative. The money the House approved, by a vote of 203 to 197, would be counted as a 1986 expenditure and so would escape the new limitations.
President Corazon C. Aquino was triumphantly welcomed back yesterday to the city where she went to college, garnering tributes from Mayor Koch and drawing emotional cheers from enraptured New Yorkers. Mayor Koch, in presenting Mrs. Aquino with a key to the city, said: “It will open our doors. You already have our hearts.” Meanwhile, in an important development, a spokesman for Mrs. Aquino said last night that the 483 commercial banks to whom the Philippines owes $14 billion of its $26 billion foreign debt were ready to lower annual payments.
With a new coat of white paint, an infusion of state money and constant army patrols, the Salvadoran Government retook the war-weary village of Sesori today. Officials made it clear it was a calculated effort to win support and show that the Government is more interested in peace than the leftist guerrillas in the surrounding hills. President Jose Napoleon Duarte had been scheduled to meet the guerrillas here today for a third round of peace talks. Their encounter foundered, however, when the Government rejected a guerrilla demand that army troops be withdrawn from the region.
President Reagan has rejected an invitation from President Kenneth D. Kaunda of Zambia to meet with leaders of black-governed nations near South Africa to discuss the Administration’s policy in the region, White House officials said today. Mr. Kaunda made a public request for such a meeting in late August, saying that talks were needed to discuss a “humane U.S. policy” toward southern Africa and “promote the restoration and development of the countries being strangled by the tentacles of apartheid.” The Zambian leader also said the African leaders of the so-called front-line nations would be willing to come to Washington to meet with Mr. Reagan if he would not travel to Africa.
Flaws in mine safety procedures were acknowledged by the owners of the South African gold mine where 177 men died Tuesday in a fire that sent billows of toxic gas into the shafts. Executives of the Kinross mine acknowledged that they did not know whether a polyurethane sealant, said to have emitted fumes that killed most of the men, had ever been tested for toxic properties.
The Republican-controlled Senate overwhelming approved legislation early this morning to reduce the 1987 budget deficit by $13.3 billion, a proposal one member dubbed “a package of golden gimmicks.” This characterization, by Senator William L. Armstrong, Republican of Colorado, captured the general embarrassment of both the designers and Mr. Armstrong’s fellow supporters of the bipartisan package, which is also backed by the White House. The vote was 88 to 7, with all the opposing votes coming from Democrats. “I’m not going to say that I am proud of the product,” said Senator Pete V. Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, who heads the Budget Committee. Mr. Domenici is co-author of the Senate plan with the committee’s ranking Democrat, Lawton Chiles of Florida, who said, “It’s midway between the best we could do and the worst that could happen.”
President Reagan participates in a meeting to commemorate the signing of H.R. 4151, the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986.
Federal health officials announced today that an experimental drug had markedly improved the health of a group of AIDS patients, adding months to the lives of some. They said thousands of victims of the deadly disease would soon be given access to the drug. The antiviral drug, azidothymidine, holds “great promise for prolonging life for certain patients with AIDS,” said Dr. Robert E. Windom, the Assistant Secretary for Health. The announcement today provided the first beam of hope in the battle against acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The drug, manufactured by the Burroughs Wellcome Company and also known as AZT, is the first to show effectiveness against the fatal disorder in controlled scientific studies.
The House of Representatives today voted, 329 to 4, to strengthen the law protecting public health and the environment from chemical pesticides. If the legislation is passed by the Senate and signed by President Reagan, it would accelerate the retesting of more than 600 potentially dangerous chemicals in nearly 50,000 products. Under the law, pesticides include chemicals to control insects, weeds, rodents, fungi and other agricultural and household pests. Many of the pesticides now in use were registered as long ago as the 1940’s, well before some of the dangers they represented were recognized. The Environmental Protection Agency has been retesting the pesticides as a prelude to reregistering them, but has been able to review only about 25 a year.
A three-judge Federal appeals panel ruled today that a key fairness policy governing the broadcast industry is not required by law. Opponents and supporters of the Fairness Doctrine said that today’s finding, by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, bolsters efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to repeal the regulation without the approval of Congress. The Fairness Doctrine, which requires broadcasters to cover important community issues and to present different views on issues of controversy, has been under repeated attack by a majority of the current members of the commission.
Federal District Judge Harry E. Claiborne, the first member of the Federal bar to face a Senate impeachment trial in half a century, testified today in his own defense and accused the Government of “putting the hammer to me” to convict him of income tax evasion. Under oath, he said agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and lawyers with the Justice Department “felt a personal dislike for me” because he had opposed “arrogant” Government plans to “get rid of a lot of people” in Las Vegas, where he served as chief Federal District judge. He took the stand before a special Senate committee of six Republicans and six Democrats, all of them lawyers. The impeachment prosecution is being conducted, under the Constitution, by a nine-man team of “managers” from the House of Representatives, which approved the impeachment charges unanimously last July.
A group of judges that sets policy for Federal courts asked Federal District Judge Alcee L. Hastings of Miami today to respond to a report urging his impeachment. The Judicial Conference of the United States sent a letter to Judge Hastings and his lawyer instructing him to respond.
A white man who raped and slashed a white nurse and left her to bleed to death in a field was executed by injection today after the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal based on race. John William Rook, 27 years old, said, “Freedom, freedom at last, man — it’s been a good one,” and died at 2:11 AM, said Renee McCoy, a spokesman for the Correction Department. He was allowed to wear western boots and a Harley-Davidson T-shirt.
Anti-collision devices on airliners are to be required by the Federal Aviation Administration in action spurred by the midair collision of a Mexican jetliner and a small plane in California August 31. The F.A.A. also said it would set aside additional traffic control areas where private aircraft would have to carry equipment automatically showing their altitude on radar.
The primary today in Hawaii is widely regarded as one of the most pivotal in Hawaii’s 27 years as a state. Republican leaders have entered unusually large number of candidates in local and state races in an effort the end of the dominance of Democrats, led by Governor George R. Ariyoshi, who has served three terms and is prevented by law from seeking another. Few Hawaiian politicians give the Republicans much chance of capturing the governorship.
A Federal jury in Manhattan, clearly divided in its deliberations, brought in two partial verdicts yesterday that convicted four defendants and acquitted four accused of racketeering as members of the Taiwan-based international gang, the United Bamboo. Three other defendants among the 11 in the trial were found guilty of separate charges involving illegal drug and arms dealing. The trial is the first to prosecute the United Bamboo in this country as a criminal enterprise under a law widely used against organized crime elements, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The jury of seven women and five men began deliberating Wednesday evening in the trial before Judge Robert L. Carter in Federal District Court.
A stroke victim who helped his disabled wife end her life but then did not carry out his end of their double-suicide pact was cleared of a murder charge today and pleaded guilty to a lesser crime. Jay McFadden’s sobs and cries punctuated the brief court hearing in which he acknowledged assisting in the suicide of his 61-year-old wife, Gladys, who was crippled by multiple sclerosis. “As a human being, I’m relieved,” said Jeoffrey L. S. Robinson, the Deputy District Attorney who moved to drop the murder charge. He said his office would recommend probation for aiding and abetting a suicide.
Veterans of three wars and their supporters today ended a 37-day vigil in a bamboo cage in Milwaukee, Wiscosin to call attention to American soldiers missing in action. About 40 people spent time in the cage at some point in the vigil, which began August 13 and ended on National P.O.W.-M.I.A. Recognition Day. Gary Wetzel, a Medal of Honor winner in Vietnam who was the last person in the cage, called on President Reagan and Congress to continue the fight to bring home those who died and any who may still be held in Southeast Asia. Mr. Wetzel said Wisconsin Vietnam Vets Chapter 1, the sponsoring organization, had collected more than 3,000 signatures on a petition to Hanoi urging the return of any servicemen or civilians still in Vietnam and information on the remains of those still missing.
Amid harvest-time strikes at California’s largest wineries, labor and employer negotiators faced each other today for the first time in more than two weeks. Union leaders, who called strikes at 11 wineries and associated operations from the Napa Valley to Bakersfield, continued a tough stance, while the employers appeared to welcome the strike pressure as encouragement for labor to settle.
Ten children, including four babies, were punished with shocks from a 50,000-volt stun gun at a day care center in Daly City, California, the police said Friday. A Deputy District Attorney, Elaine Tipton, reviewed the case with pediatricians and stun-gun experts to help decide what charge could be filed against the couple, Max and Frances Santiago. The Santiagos have no listed telephone number and did not answer when reporters went to their door. Dennis Pinnatore, a juvenile officer, said they had run the licensed center since 1970 without incident. After a tip from parents, the police interviewed the children separately and several said they were “electrocuted” with a stun gun, the officer said.
Three weary travelers who hitchhiked 27,000 miles from southernmost South America to Alaska claimed a world record today for what they called “the most important experience” of their lives. “A new world record,” Fernando Skliarevsky joyfully shouted as he relaxed in the home of Carma Roberson, the Spanish-speaking City Clerk of Fairbanks, whose officials planned a celebration in honor of the men and their accomplishment.
3-D short film “Captain EO” with Michael Jackson premieres at Disney theme parks.
Major League Baseball:
Pitcher Kelly Downs, Mark Davis and Jeff Robinson combined for a four-hitter Friday night as the San Francisco Giants blanked the Atlanta Braves, 4–0. Downs, 3–4, gave up all four Atlanta hits in the first 5 ⅔ innings as he struck out three and walked one in winning his third straight decision. Robinson earned his seventh save by pitching the final three innings. The big blow of the night was Bob Brenly’s 15th homer of the season in the top of the ninth inning. Chili Davis led off the second with a double to center and scored when shortstop Rafael Ramirez led Brenly’s line drive get through his glove and go into left field. Mike Aldrete’s two-out hit in the sixth drove in Will Clark, who had doubled to left.
Ken Dixon won his first game since August 1 with a six-hitter, Cal Ripken Jr. had two RBI and rookie Ken Gerhart hit his first major league homer as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Milwaukee Brewers, 3–1. The Orioles, trying to avoid finishing last for the first time in their 33-year history, now lead the seventh-place Brewers by 2 ½ games in the American League East. Baltimore’s victory was only its sixth in 26 games.
White Sox pitcher Joe Cowley, who had been demoted to the minors earlier in the season, pitches an ugly no-hitter against the Angels. Cowley, a right-hander who was so ineffective earlier this season that he was sent to the minor leagues, pitched the major leagues’ first no-hitter in nearly two years tonight, giving the Chicago White Sox a 7–1 victory over the California Angels. It was the first no-hitter since California’s Mike Witt closed the 1984 season with a perfect game against Texas. Cowley, a 28-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky, was far from perfect, allowing seven walks. In the sixth inning he walked the bases loaded and gave up a sacrifice fly to Reggie Jackson. For Cowley, this win is his high note, as he won’t record another big league victory, going 0–4 with the Phils in 1987.
The Chicago Cubs downed the Pittsburgh Pirates, 8–2. Leon Durham drew a bases-loaded walk with two-out in the eighth inning to break a 2–2 tie and spark a six-run eighth inning, snapping the Cubs’ three-game losing streak.
The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Cincinnati Reds, 9–7. Steve Sax’ two-run homer off reliever John Franco with two out in the top of the ninth inning snapped the Dodgers’ six-game losing streak. Franco, 5–6, inherited a 7–4 lead from starter Ted Power in the eighth. He served up a two-run homer in the eighth to Bill Madlock, his 10th of the season, and allowed a one-out single in the ninth to Larry See before Sax hit a 2–2 pitch over the left field wall for his sixth homer.
Alan Trammell and Chet Lemon each homered to help Dan Petry earn his first victory since elbow surgery in June as the Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees, 8–3. There is no pretense now about miracle finishes. The Yankees will spend the final days of the 1986 season trying to avoid looking up to any team other than the Red Sox. And that may be more difficult than they envisioned. The Tigers’ victory put Detroit one game behind the third-place Yankees in the American League East. Petry, 5–8, allowed seven hits,
walked one and struck out four in 7 ⅔ innings to snap an 0–3 string since his return to the Tigers’ rotation in August. Petry left the game after giving up a two-run homer to Mike Easler in the eighth, his 14th, and Mark Thurmond and Eric King finished up.
Charlie Kerfeld pitched the final three innings Friday night to record his 11th victory of the season in the Houston Astros’ 5–4 victory over the San Diego Padres. Kerfeld, 11–2, broke a club record for pitching victories by a rookie, set by Tom Griffin in 1969 with 10 victories. Dave Smith got his 31st save by retiring the last two batters. Kevin Bass knocked in the winning run with a single in the seventh inning and moved the Astros a step closer to the National League West crown. Bass’ hit and Kerfeld’s pitching came as no surprise to the Padres’ outfielder Tony Gwynn. “They get hits when they need them and they make the pitches when they have to have them,” Gwynn said after Friday night’s game. “It’s the same thing they’ve been doing all season.”
The third single of the game by Casey Candaele scored Tom Foley from third base in the 11th inning to give the Montreal Expos a 3–2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. Foley drew a leadoff walk from Pat Perry, 2–3, and went to third on Wallace Johnson’s single. Dann Bilardello was intentionally walked to load the bases and then Candaele singled through a drawn-in infield.
The Mets finished their most important task three nights ago, so it hardly matters that they stumbled at Shea Stadium last night and lost to the Philadelphia Phillies, 4–3. Consider that their lineup was generously filled with rookies and backups, many of whom are unlikely to be seen once the National League playoff begins next month. Even so, they did not go down easily, scoring two runs in the ninth after being shut down for eight innings by Kevin Gross, the Philadelphia starter. “This was just a game where a lot of guys got to play,” Manager Dave Johnson said later. “We’re letting them get comfortable here so we can get a look at them.” Kevin Gross spaced six hits over 8 ⅔ innings to beat New York for the second time in six days, and Von Hayes doubled home the tying run in the sixth inning and scored on Ronn Reynolds’ single, leading the Philadelphia Phillies to a victory. The Phillies beat New York for the sixth straight time and increased their edge in the season series to 9–7 over the National League East champions.
Left-hander Curt Young pitched a four-hitter Friday night, leading Oakland to a 5–1 victory over Cleveland, the A’s first win of the season in 10 games against the Indians. Young, 12–8, walked none and struck out four to outduel veteran knuckleballer Phil Niekro, 11–11. The A’s were led offensively by Dwayne Murphy’s three hits, Dave Kingman’s 32nd homer and two RBI by Jose Canseco, giving him a league-leading 113.
Rookie Dave Hengel knocked in the winning run with one out in the ninth inning on a fielder’s-choice groundout to give the Seattle Mariners a 6–5 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
Charlie Hough pitched a six-hitter and Darrell Porter drove in all the Texas runs as the Rangers beat the Minnesota Twins, 4–1.
Dave Stieb survived a shaky start and went on to combine with two relievers on a nine-hitter to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to a 6–4 victory over Boston, halting the Red Sox’ winning streak at four and reducing their American League East lead to 9 ½ games.
San Francisco Giants 4, Atlanta Braves 0
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Baltimore Orioles 3
Chicago White Sox 7, California Angels 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, Chicago Cubs 8
Los Angeles Dodgers 9, Cincinnati Reds 7
New York Yankees 3, Detroit Tigers 8
San Diego Padres 4, Houston Astros 5
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Montreal Expos 3
Philadelphia Phillies 4, New York Mets 3
Cleveland Indians 1, Oakland Athletics 5
Kansas City Royals 5, Seattle Mariners 6
Minnesota Twins 1, Texas Rangers 4
Boston Red Sox 4, Toronto Blue Jays 6
The anticipation was worse than the event yesterday on Wall Street as stock prices declined, but not by a large amount, during the feared “triple witching hour.” When it was all over, a lot of stock had traded in the final minutes of the session, but blue-chip prices moved only a bit lower and secondary issues did not move much at all. This was quite unlike previous “witching hours,” when volume has soared and prices either surged or sank depending on the price relationship between regular stock indexes and stock index futures. “If you expected something dramatic, you didn’t get it,” said Jack Baker, head equities trader at Shearson Lehman Brothers, who conceded that tension was high throughout the session. “You could hear a pin drop here at 4 o’clock. But nothing happened.” The Dow Jones industrial average did finish 11.53 points lower, at 1,762.65. That compared with only a 4-point loss at 3:30 PM.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1762.65 (-11.53)
Born:
Sally Pearson, Australian women’s hurdler (Olympics, 100m hurdles, gold medal, 2012; silver medal, 2008), in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Ryan Succop, NFL kicker (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 55-Buccaneers, 2020; Kansas City Chiefs, Tennessee Titans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Hickory, North Carolina.
Anthony Vasquez, MLB pitcher (Seattle Mariners), in San Antonio, Texas.
Gerald Ciolek, German professional road racing cyclist, in Cologne, West Germany.
Ken Gushi, Japanese racing driver, in Okinawa, Japan.
Peter Vack, American voice performer and actor (“I Just Want My Pants Back”), in New York, New York.
Alessandro Borghi, Italian actor (“The Eight Mountains”, “Suburra”), in Rome, Italy.
Ilya [Salmanzadeh], Swedish pop songwriter and record producer (Ariana Grande; Skip Marley), in Stockholm, Sweden.
Died:
Vivian Duncan, 89, American vaudevillian (Duncan Sisters), actress (“Topsy and Eva”), of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
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