Secretary of State George P. Shultz met tonight with the Soviet Foreign Minister as they stepped up efforts to resolve the cases of an American reporter in Moscow and a Russian in New York, both accused of espionage. After the hour-and-45-minute meeting in the United States Mission, Bernard Kalb, the State Department spokesman, said no solution had been found. Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze drove off without speaking with reporters. Mr. Shultz also waved off questions as he left the building. Shortly before the meeting, Mr. Shultz said he hoped an agreement could be achieved before Mr. Shevardnadze left Tuesday for Canada. It was their third known meeting here this week as they try to shape a deal that would resolve the cases of Nicholas S. Daniloff of U.S. News & World Report and of Gennadi F. Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations. An accord could remove an obstacle to setting a date for a meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. Earlier, a Soviet spokesman said the two sides were negotiating against an informal deadline of Tuesday in view of Mr. Shevardnadze’s scheduled departure. The two sides are reportedly considering a deal under which Mr. Daniloff would be allowed to return to the United States, after which Mr. Zakharov would be permitted to return to the Soviet Union and a number of Soviet dissidents would emigrate.
Talks in Vienna on reducing the number of troops in Central Europe resumed on a sour note today, as officials from NATO and Warsaw Pact nations accused each other of standing in the way of progress. The White House said in a statement that Warsaw Pact members had not responded in a serious way to proposals made by the West last year. “It is time for the Warsaw Pact to demonstrate that it is indeed committed to meaningful and verifiable reductions in conventional forces,” it said. Jan Hein van de Mortel of the Netherlands, who is acting as a spokesman for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, told reporters in Vienna that the Warsaw Pact’s initial response today was “disappointing and hard-line.”
Meeting in an emergency session in response to the bombings in Paris, European officials with responsibility for internal security resolved today to intensify their efforts to “harry and disrupt” suspected terrorist networks. A communique agreed on by officials from the 12 nations in the European Community declared that a new communications system specifically dedicated to antiterrorist action would be set up to link their police forces. The statement spoke also of efforts “to target the major leaders and organizers” through the circulation of regularly revised intelligence assessments. The statement declared, “As terrorists have become better organized, so governments and their counterterrorist forces are having continually to improve their knowledge and cooperation if they are to prevent terrorist attacks and take effective countermeasures.”
The French police have arrested nine people, including five ultra-leftist French activists, in connection with the series of bombing attacks that took place here this month. The arrests, which took place Wednesday night and today, were among several developments that seemed part of a broad effort by the French both to solve the bombing cases and to mobilize international support to prevent a resumption of the attacks. Nine people were killed and 163 wounded in a series of bomb explosions in Paris between September 8 and September 17. Responsibility for the attacks was claimed by a group calling itself the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners, which is demanding that France free from prison a suspected Lebanese terrorist leader, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, and two convicted terrorists.
Israeli Air Force planes struck suspected Palestinian guerrilla targets in Lebanon today for the second time in three days. The attacks today were against targets in the southern port of Sidon. The police and Lebanese radio stations said six Israeli jet fighters struck at the Ashrafiye section of the Mieh Mieh refugee camp, causing large-scale damage and a number of casualties. The Israelis said a tent camp belonging to Al Fatah, the mainline Palestine Liberation Organization movement led by Yasir Arafat, was hit and all the planes returned safely to base. On Tuesday Israeli planes bombed suspected guerrilla bases in the hills overlooking Beirut, targeting the headquarters of a Marxist group, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and a breakaway faction, Al Fatah Uprising. The police said one man was killed and three people were wounded in the raid today. Witnesses quoted by the Moslem radio station Voice of the Homeland said the jets fired three missiles into Mieh Mieh, destroying two buildings.
An Israeli bombing raid of Palestinian guerrilla positions fits into an unusual pattern of military behavior developed over the past two years. As Shiite groups in South Lebanon attack in the area Israel calls a “security zone” along the frontier, Israel retaliates by striking Palestinian targets farther north.
The Iraqi Defense Minister says an expected Iranian offensive will probably begin with a feint intended to draw Iraq’s strategic reserve forces away from the area of the main attack. Commenting on repeated Iranian threats to launch a new thrust in the six-year-old war between the two Middle East nations, the Minister, Gen. Adnan Khairallah, said in an interview Wednesday, “If I were part of Iran’s leadership, I would not see any alternative but to start a major offensive” aimed at eroding Iraq’s will to continue the war. He added, “Our calculations are they will exert efforts in more than one sector.” The general, who is also Deputy Commander in Chief of the armed forces under President Saddam Hussein, said that Iraq expected such a military “deception” and would seek to contain it with local reserves so the country could commit its best reserve forces where most needed. He did not say when he expected the attack might come.
The Iraqi Foreign Minister appealed today to the United Nations to find a way to negotiate an end to the six-year-old Iran-Iraq war. Speaking in the General Assembly’s general debate, the official, Tariq Aziz, repeated Iraq’s call for an unconditional withdrawal of forces and called on the United Nations to take the side of Iraq in the conflict if Iran refuses to withdraw. Mr. Aziz’s appeal came as Iraq’s Government announced it had launched air raids today against factories deep within Iranian territory.
Sikh terrorists shot and killed a popular Communist leader, and two unidentified attackers killed a senior police official in Punjab State, an Indian news agency reported today. The United News of India said hundreds of angry villagers had protested the killing of the Communist politician, Darshan Singh, 68 years old.
South Korea has arrested 263,564 suspected criminals — one in every 150 of the population — in a three-month drive to tighten security for the Asian Games now under way in Seoul, police said. Those arrested include suspected robbers, pickpockets, rapists and murderers, police said. Officials formally charged 48,333, sentenced 76,312 to up to 29 days in jail and are questioning 16,004. The rest have been freed with admonition.
China and the Soviet Union agreed to resume negotiations next year over their disputed 4,350-mile common border, the official New China News Agency reported. The talks were suspended eight years ago. The agreement on resuming talks was reached by Chinese Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who are attending the U.N. General Assembly session in New York. No exact date for the new talks was announced.
Chances of a settlement of the insurgency in the Philippines are narrowing, according to a Communist negotiator. A negotiator for Mrs. Aquino said he was preparing to present the Communists with a take-it-or-leave-it offer of an immediate 30-day cease-fire that they had already rejected.
Cuba expelled two Havana-based Western news agency correspondents and reportedly arrested three Cuban members of an independent human rights organization. The Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reported the expulsions of Robert Powell of the Reuters news agency and Noel Lorthiosis of Agence France-Presse. The report indicated that the expulsions, for violating “the dignity of Cuba,” resulted from stories written by the two after they interviewed Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cruz, one of three members of the Cuban Human Rights Committee reportedly jailed.
Costa Rica closed an abandoned airstrip near its northwestern border with Nicaragua, citing fears that it would be used by narcotics traffickers or anti-Sandinista rebels fighting the government of Nicaragua. The 14-mile-long gravel airstrip was seized by Costa Rican police September 1 after residents in the area reported hearing the sound of airplanes using the field. The airstrip was built by a Panama-based firm for a tourism and reforestation project, but the firm later postponed its plans.
Nicaraguan guerrilla leaders continue to disagree, officials said. The discord underscores the difficulty of expanding the guerrilla army. “At times I think thay are more interested in personal power than in making this thing work and taking out the Sandinistas,” said one American official.
The White House began talks with Colombia, Ecuador and Peru about the use of American military troops in the three nations to aid in drug eradication. The “preliminary” talks could lead to joint exercises similar to one conducted in mid-July in Bolivia.
Leftist guerrillas blacked out half of Chile tonight by blowing up two major power pylons in what a guerrilla spokesman called the beginning of an offensive against the state of siege in effect in this country. Endesa, the state-owned power company, confirmed that the blackout was caused by rebel sabotage. A spokesman for the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, a leftist guerrilla group, telephoned The Associated Press to say his organization was responsible for the blackout. The spokesman said the action was “the beginning of an offensive” against the state of siege declared after an unsuccessful assassination attempt September 7 against the country’s President, Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Endesa said one of the pylons was near Concepcion, 353 miles south of Santiago, and that the other was in northern Chile. The sabotage cut power along a 1,600-mile stretch of territory, including this city, the capital.
The Sudanese government rejected an agreement between rebels and international relief officials to permit food to be flown to starving people in southern Sudan because of what it said was a continuing rebel military threat. Sudan’s high commissioner for refugees, Kamil Shawki, said the Cabinet has rejected a plan for a U.N.-sponsored airlift to transport food and medicine to Wau, which is controlled by the government, and Yirol, which the rebels control.
France said it is sending troops and air support to Togo, where gunfire broke out again after the pro-Western government reported crushing a coup attempt. The French Defense Ministry said it was responding to a request for aid from the Togolese president, Gen. Gnassingbe Eyadema, who led army and police forces in battling several dozen commandos who attacked his residence in Lome, the capital. No details were available on how many French troops and aircraft will be sent to Togo.
President Reagan tomorrow will veto legislation imposing punitive sanctions against South Africa, the White House said, acknowledging that it will be difficult to get enough votes in the Republican-controlled Senate to sustain the veto. Reagan has no more than 20 votes in the Senate to uphold a veto, GOP and Democratic sources said. Reagan has bargained for votes by offering to order some limited sanctions to pressure Pretoria’s white-minority government to end apartheid and give the majority black population full political rights.
The South African authorities announced further restrictions today on the flow of information about the state of emergency in force since June 12. The Bureau for Information, the sole source of authorized news about the emergency, said in a statement that it would no longer respond to telephone inquiries about events related to the nation’s turmoil and would insist that reporters send detailed inquiries by telex for official verification. Previously, journalists could telephone the Bureau for Information to seek an official response to reports of unrest and violence related to South Africa’s racial conflict. The new measures, announced today, seem likely to delay official responses.
The House of Representatives voted today, 201 to 200, to approve a $562 billion overall appropriation bill for 1987 despite the strong threat of a veto from President Reagan. The bill includes the 13 regular appropriation bills needed to finance the Government. Either it or a stopgap bill must be enacted by next Wednesday to keep the Government operating. The large negative vote reflected Republican opposition to the arms control provisions and the spending levels for some domestic programs. Some Democrats also voted against the bill because it did not include the revenue-sharing program for local governments and because it includes aid to the rebels in Nicaragua.
With a majority of both parties in support, the House of Representatives gave its final approval today to legislation creating a new Federal income tax system. The landmark measure now goes to the Senate, where a final vote adopting the bill is expected in the next few days, and then to the White House for President Reagan’s signature. The President made enactment of the tax bill the top legislative priority of his second term. The crucial vote came on a motion to recommit the bill to the conference committee, an action that doubtless would have killed it. That motion was rejected, 268 to 160, a larger margin than most lawmakers had expected.
President Reagan participates in a meeting with members of Committee on the Future of the Western Community.
President Reagan attends the opening session of the 10th Annual Meeting of the National Fraternal Congress.
The Senate passed secret legislation Wednesday that legislators and Administration officials say undercuts the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency to manage its own affairs. Senator Jesse Helms, the conservative Republican from North Carolina, proposed the new requirements for the agency as part of an amendment to the annual bill establishing and extending programs and setting spending limits on the C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies. He said the measures, including an outside review of C.I.A. intelligence assessments, would give direction to an agency that had become a “loose cannon.” The maneuvering this week over the amendments, which will now go to a secret conference committee to work out differences between the Senate and House versions, prompted a confrontation between Senator Helms and William J. Casey, the Director of Central Intelligence. The Senate passed one amendment on a voice vote; its details, as well as nearly all the other provisions affecting the intelligence agencies, were contained in a classified appendix available only to senators. Another Helms amendment, demanding that the C.I.A. look into allegations of human rights violations and drug dealing by the Government of Panama, passed by a vote of 53 to 47.
The Federal Civil Rights Commission began several steps to reduce its staff by more than three-fourths and close seven of its 10 regional offices. A proposal in the House would kill the panel, while a Senate proposal would cut spending for it nearly in half.
The Senate approved legislation authorizing $10.2 billion for college student loans in fiscal 1987. Senators approved the bill by voice vote one day after the House passed it, 385 to 25, and the measure was sent to President Reagan to be signed. Supporters said the bill prevents unnecessary borrowing and weeds out students who do not have a great need for loans. The bill, a compromise of original House and Senate measures, raises the amount an undergraduate may borrow during four years to $17,250 from $12,500 and increases the cumulative limit for undergraduate and graduate loans to $54,750.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kansas), faced with the threat of a filibuster, scuttled legislation that would have revised the nation’s product liability laws. Dole said he supported the bill but added: “It’s obvious it’s not going to happen this year.” He said no more action would be taken before the Senate adjourns next month. The bill provides for a federal takeover of laws governing damage cases involving unsafe or defective products, including caps on the amount of awards for pain and suffering.
A nurse accused of injecting six patients with fatal doses of potassium chloride was acquitted of murder charges in Albany, Georgia. However, she was found guilty but mentally ill on one count of aggravated assault. Terri Rachals, 25, slumped in her chair and wept after the jury delivered not guilty verdicts on six murder charges and 19 counts of aggravated assault. Rachals, who was described by her lawyer as being mentally ill, was convicted of aggravated assault on one elderly patient and could face up to 20 years in prison. Sentencing was set for next week.
The Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for a mentally retarded man who killed his aunt and her boyfriend and was to die in the state’s electric chair early Friday. The Court granted the stay until appeals are completed for Herbert Welcome, 35 years old, of Lafayette. His lawyers say his conviction should be overturned because the death penalty is applied in a racially discriminatory manner in Louisiana. Mr. Welcome was convicted in March 1982 of fatally shooting Dorothy Guillory and Wallace Maturin of New Iberia in a struggle over a pocketknife. Witnesses testified that Mr. Welcome chased both victims, shot Mr. Maturin, and then reloaded his pistol and shot Ms. Guillory.
More than 7,300 AIDS victims and their doctors inundated a national hot line during its first six days in hopes of getting permission to use a promising new drug called azidothymidine, or AZT, officials at the National Institutes of Health said. The hot line was set up last Friday after federal health officials announced that AZT would be made widely available. It had shown dramatic results in a six-month controlled study of 146 patients suffering from AIDS.
Edward Lebowitz, an AIDS victim for whom a man posing as his doctor prescribed a change in his medication over the telephone, died Wednesday, officials said. Mr. Lebowitz, who was 48 years old, died of complications related directly to his illness, according to a statement by St. John’s Hospital and Health Center.
Police pressed their search for a former convict accused of killing three people, but the FBI issued a nationwide alert on the possibility that he had eluded the dragnet around Wright City, Missouri. Michael W. Jackson, 41, had not been seen since Monday, when he wrecked a stolen car after a shoot-out with police in eastern Missouri. Jackson, a former mental patient who police said may have been wounded in the shoot-out, reportedly took off earlier Monday on a three-state crime spree.
Despair among farmers is certain to register in individual races for Federal and statewide offices in the Cotton Belt this fall. Bankruptcies and foreclosures have aroused keen interest in the “farm vote.” The gloom among farmers does not bode well for Republicans. “The majority of the farmers — the ones I talk to — feel like the Republican Party has let them down,” said an insurance agent in Georgia.
The Lynchburg (Virginia) City Council agreed tonight night to forgive a $1.4 million tax bill owed by the enterprises of the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who had threatened to move his organization from the city because of the dispute. The Council, after a four-hour hearing that was moved from the Council chambers to a high school auditorium because of the large turnout, voted 5 to 2 to forgive the debt.
Ten agencies won Ford Foundation grants for outstanding innovations in public services. With Federal aid dropping, the foundation is spending $2.5 million this year to encourage state and local governments to take the lead. Among the winners was a New York City program that seeks to rehabilitate young offenders between arrest and trial.
A Federal prosecutor charged that murder was one way to get ahead in the Gambino crime family. In her opening statement in the racketeering trial of John Gotti, the prosecutor, Diane F. Giacalone, said Mr. Gotti helped kill a man to win a “place of favor” in the organization. But Mr. Gotti’s lawyer, Bruce Cutler, said Mr. Gotti was being unfairly portrayed, and he asserted, “The only family John Gotti knows is his wife and children and grandchildren.”
A group of merchants and residents sued the city to stop further placements of homeless people in midtown Manhattan. The group cited increases in crime, prostitution and drug dealing since the city began placing people in midtown hotels.
Powerful storms raged across the northern Plains with 76-mph winds and heavy rains that killed two girls in South Dakota, while up to 32 inches of snow fell on the Snowbird, Utah, ski resort. In the East, eight record high temperatures were set, with the warm and humid weather preceding the storms as they moved east. Strong winds swirled around the storm center, which was stationed over Montana. Winds gusted to 76 mph at Redig, South Dakota, 71 mph at Bismarck, North Dakota, and 63 mph at Casper, Wyoming, the National Weather Service said. Up to six inches of rain fell in eastern Montana, causing flooding and a breach in a stock dam at Jordan.
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The chairman and president of the New York Mets will purchase the team and retain control of it, said Nelson Doubleday Jr., the baseball team’s chairman. He said that he and Fred Wilpon, the club president, would buy the team from Doubleday & Company, the publishing concern of which Mr. Doubleday is chairman.
The California Angels downed the Cleveland Indians, 6–3. Reggie Jackson hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning that erased a 3–2 deficit and moved California closer to the American League West title. The Angels open a three-game series tonight with second-place Texas needing only one victory to secure their third division title in eight seasons. Kirk McCaskill (17–9) allowed four hits in pitching his 11th complete game. Jackson hit his 18th homer of the season — his seventh this month -after Doug DeCinces doubled off a reliever, Frank Wills (2–4).
Dirt stained the front of his uniform and obscured his Number 12. A film of dirt lined his brow. The pitcher said he was not happy. But he was happy. On a hot day at Wrigley Field that was another landmark day for his team, Ron Darling came away from another gritty performance today with neither a victory nor a loss as the Mets defeated the Cubs, 6–5. Keith Hernandez scored the tie-breaking run on Ray Knight’s ninth-inning grounder and Danny Heep doubled in two more runs to lead the Mets. The victory was the Mets’ 100th, equaling a club record set by the 1969 world series champions.
The Cincinnati Reds defeated the Atlanta Braves, 6–4. Eddie Milner drove in three runs with two singles, leading Cincinnati to its third consecutive victory. Bill Gullickson (14–11) gave up three runs and nine hits over six and a third innings as he ended a personal three-game losing streak. Ron Robinson pitched the last two innings for his 12th save. The Reds took advantage of Charlie Puleo’s control problems and an error by Albert Hall, the right fielder, to score four first-inning runs with one hit. Puleo (1–1) hit Kurt Stillwell to start the inning, then one out later walked Dave Parker and Buddy Bell to load the bases. Hall dropped a sacrifice fly by Tony Perez, enabling Stillwell and Parker to score.
Toronto Blue Jays beat the Detroit Tigers, 4–2. Jesse Barfield and Tony Fernandez hit third-inning home runs to lead Toronto. Joe Johnson, with relief help from Tom Henke, boosted his record with Toronto to 7–2 after being acquired from Atlanta, where he was 6–7. Johnson won his third straight decision, striking out two and walking one. Henke earned his 25th save, his fifth in the last five games, working the final two innings and giving up one run.
Houston’s Mike Scott pitches a 2–0 no-hitter against the Giants at the Astrodome, clinching the National League West title for the Astros. It is the first time a pennant has ever been decided by a no-hitter, and the 3rd consecutive game in which Astros pitchers have allowed 2 hits or less.
Kevin McReynolds hit a two-run homer with one out in the ninth inning, lifting the San Diego Padres to a 7–6 second-game victory and a split of their double-header. In the opener, rookie Jeff Hamilton homered with one out in the 10th inning off loser Lance McCullers to give the Dodgers a 4–3 victory.
In George Bamberger’s last game as manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, Teddy Higuera beats Baltimore 9–3 to become the major leagues’ 3rd 20-game winner this season. Higuera scattered eight hits, struck out four and walked none in pitching his 14th complete game. Higuera also became the first Milwaukee pitcher to win 20 games since Mike Caldwell won 22 in 1978. Robin Yount had a two-run homer, and Paul Molitor drove in three runs. Tom Trebelhorn replaces Bambi, who is retiring voluntarily.
The Kansas City Royals whipped the Minnesota Twins, 8–1. Willie Wilson and Jim Sundberg hit home runs to highlight a 17-hit attack and Bret Saberhagen won his first game in almost two months to lead the Royals. Saberhagen, 7–11, who won the 1985 American League Cy Young Award, had not won since July 27.
Andre Dawson hit a two-run homer and Bob Owchinko won his first major-league game in more than two years as the Expos topped the Pirates, 8–4. Owchinko, 1–0, pitched into the sixth inning, allowing four hits and three runs in his second start of the season. His last victory came on June 13, 1984, when he beat Houston as a member of the Cincinnati Reds.
The St. Louis Cardinals edged the Philadelphia Phillies, 5–4. Tito Landrum’s home run broke a seventh-inning tie and gave the St. Louis Cardinals a victory. Landrum’s solo homer, his second of the season and first since April 11, came against Dan Schatzeder, 4–5, and put St. Louis ahead 4–3.
Cleveland Indians 3, California Angels 6
New York Mets 6, Chicago Cubs 5
Atlanta Braves 4, Cincinnati Reds 6
Toronto Blue Jays 4, Detroit Tigers 2
San Francisco Giants 0, Houston Astros 2
San Diego Padres 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
San Diego Padres 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 6
Baltimore Orioles 3, Milwaukee Brewers 9
Kansas City Royals 8, Minnesota Twins 1
Montreal Expos 8, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Philadelphia Phillies 4, St. Louis Cardinals 5
A steep drop in stock prices on Wall Street yesterday, prompted partly by West Germany’s unwillingness to cut interest rates, nearly nullified the previous three-day advance. Analysts said it did not take much to put investors back into a selling mood, mainly because few were convinced that the rally in stock prices that began Monday was genuine. “The rally was nonsense,” said Larry Wachtel at Prudential-Bache Securities Inc. “It had no credentials, no staying power, no life.” The rally died with the start of trading yesterday, and within 90 minutes the Dow Jones industrial average was down nearly 18 points. It finished with a 34.73-point loss at 1,768.56.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1768.56 (-34.73)
Born:
Sally Kehoe, Australian rower (Olympics, 2008, 2012), in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
Died:
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, 90, Russian Chemist and Nobel Prize winner known for his work on chain reactions.
Donald MacDonald, 77, Canadian politician and former president of the Canadian Labour Congress (1967-74).
