President Reagan promised today that his Administration would root out and severely punish spies and would not tolerate arrests of innocent Americans “in retaliation for protecting ourselves from espionage.” Speaking at the headquarters of the National Security Agency, the code-breaking and electronic intelligence organization, Mr. Reagan did not specifically mention the case of Nicholas S. Daniloff, the American journalist who faces espionage charges in Moscow and has become the subject of intensive negotiations to remove a major obstacle to a summit meeting. But his remarks were clearly intended to send a tough message about the Daniloff case and to reinforce the Administration’s decision to order the expulsion of 25 Soviet officials in the United Nations mission who Washington says are intelligence officers. Mr. Reagan spoke after being briefed by Secretary of State George P. Shultz on his three meetings in New York with Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze of the Soviet Union. Those meetings so far have failed to produce a resolution of the issue. It was unclear whether the two sides were at an impasse or whether an accord was likely soon. Mr. Shultz returned to Washington from New York today and is scheduled to go back Sunday. Mr. Shevardnadze is scheduled to leave the United States on Tuesday, which gives a sense of urgency to the negotiations, although Mr. Shultz said he was not operating on any deadline.
Lifting all sanctions against Poland is being considered by the State Department. A high-ranking department official said the Reagan Administration was “actively examining” whether the United States should lift the remaining economic sanctions against Poland in response to the recent release of political prisoners. Washington had made the prisoners’ release the main condition for ending the remaining sanctions.
The French Minister of Justice said today that a terrorist suspect whose release from prison was being demanded by a group responsible for recent bombings here would probably stand trial within months. The Minister, Albin Chalandon, speaking in Dijon, said he had ordered prosecutors to demand that the suspect, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, stand trial in Paris on charges related to the slayings of two diplomats, an Israeli and an American, here in 1982. The release of Mr. Abdallah, a Lebanese Christian who the French police say heads the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction, has been the main demand of the group that asserted responsibility for several bomb attacks in Paris from September 8 to 17. Nine people died and more than 160 were wounded in the bombings.
The Basque regional government today called early elections amid political turmoil that officials in Madrid said had complicated the fight against Basque separatist terrorists. The elections, called for Nov. 30, have been caused by a schism in the governing Basque Nationalist Party that the head of the regional government, Jose Antonio Ardanza, said in an address on Basque radio and television had made the region ungovernable.
Two soldiers were convicted of murder today and sentenced to life in prison for the slaying of a Roman Catholic civilian 18 months ago. In passing sentence, Judge Robert Carswell described the killing as “cold-blooded murder.” The victim, Edward Martin Love, 24 years old, was walking along a road the day after Easter 1985 when he was shot in the head. As he lay wounded, he was shot four more times. The judge ruled that Mr. Love was shot by Mark Trotter, 21, an engineer in the British Army, and that the pistol used was supplied by Robert James Kelly, 23, a private in the Ulster Defense Regiment. Private Kelly had pleaded guilty to murder. The engineer had pleaded not guilty, and his lawyer argued that he had been drinking before the shooting.
A former Philippine Ambassador to the Vatican was found guilty in an Italian court today of illegal possession of weapons and was sentenced to a three-year jail term. The diplomat, Bienvenido Tantoco, was arrested along with five bodyguards Aug. 22, when the police found a small arsenal in his villa on the outskirts of Rome. Mr. Tantoco was a close associate of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos and headed efforts to keep the Roman Catholic Church neutral amid rising dissent in the Philippines.
The Foreign Ministers of India and Sri Lanka called today for greater international cooperation to fight terrorism in a day of speeches that touched on subjects ranging from Afghanistan to drug trafficking. Foreign Minister Shiv Shankar of India expressed the “total opposition to all acts of terrorism whether committed by individuals, groups or states.” However, he qualified the struggle of “national liberation movements” against all forms of foreign domination and occupation as “legitimate and not to be confused with terrorism.” The Sri Lankan minister, Shahul Hameed, one of 11 speakers to appear today before the 41st General Assembly, called on the international community to take decisive action to counter terrorism “wherever and whenever it erupts.”
A British journalist said today that he had foiled an attempt to kidnap him in the predominantly Shiite Muslim southern suburbs of Beirut. The journalist, David Hirst, the Middle East correspondent of The Guardian, told colleagues that he had broken free from three armed men who forced him into their car today. He gave the account after making his way back to West Beirut. Later, in a telephone interview, he said he did not know who the kidnappers were but added that he thought they were local thugs rather than members of a political or religious organization.
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone apologized today for remarks about ethnic minorities in the United States. In a statement that was delivered to members of Congress and Administration officials by Nobuo Matsunaga, Japan’s Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Nakasone said: “I realize that my recent remarks have offended many Americans. I would like to express my heartfelt apology.” The statement continued: “Let me make one thing very clear. I have always firmly believed that America’s greatness derives from the dynamism and achievements of her many ethnic communities. It was not my intention whatsoever to imply any racial discrimination nor to criticize any aspect of American society. It is my strong political commitment to strengthen the friendship between our two peoples, and I am determined to work for this cause.”
Two correspondents of The Asian Wall Street Journal were ordered to leave Malaysia today, and sales of the newspaper were banned for three months. The Home Ministry said the work permits of the two reporters, John Berthelsen and Raphael Pura, had been canceled and they had 48 hours to leave. Mr. Berthelsen, The Journal’s correspondent for Malaysia, was not available for comment. Mr. Pura, the paper’s Kuala Lumpur-based regional correspondent, is out of the country.
The Reagan Administration’s policy toward immigration from Cuba, already under attack in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, came under strong bipartisan criticism today at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee. Members of the committee told Administration officials from several agencies that they would introduce a resolution next week to put the House on record as opposing the policy. The current policy bars resumption of normal immigration from Cuba until the Cuban Government takes back 2,700 criminals and former mental patients who arrived with 125,000 other Cubans in the Mariel boatlift of 1980. The 2,700, known as the “Mariel excludables” because they do not meet the legal requirements to enter the United States, are being held in the Federal prison in Atlanta and in other installations.
The Nicaraguan Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the opposition newspaper La Prensa against its closing by the Government three months ago. The newspaper had asserted that the Government was acting illegally by censoring the paper excessively and then shutting it. A report in the official Sandinista newspaper Barricada said the court decided La Prensa was part of the “global strategy of economic, political and military aggressions that Nicaragua suffers.” The order closing La Prensa was for an indefinite period, and the Government has given no sign it is considering allowing it to reopen. About the same time La Prensa was shut, the Government also expelled two outspoken Roman Catholic clergymen, the Rev. Bismarck Carballo and Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega.
About 200 French paratroopers took positions in Lome today, and a French Navy minesweeper steamed offshore in support of Togo’s Government after a coup attempt. Officials said Togo was calm today, three days after a raid by several dozen insurgents who entered from Ghana and attacked the presidential residence and other strategic points. The insurgents were defeated and 13 people were killed, the Government-run Togo radio said. Sporadic shooting also broke out in Lome, the capital, on Thursday as security forces rounded up those still at large.
President Reagan, calling punitive economic measures “the wrong course to follow,” tonight vetoed legislation imposing economic sanctions against South Africa. Setting the stage for a rare foreign policy battle with Senate Republicans, Mr. Reagan said the United States “must stay and build, not cut and run.” In a veto message to Congress, he asked: “Are we truly helping the black people of South Africa — the lifelong victims of apartheid — when we throw them out of work and leave them and their families jobless and hungry in those segregated townships?” “Or are we simply assuming a moral posture at the expense of the people in whose name we presume to act?” The President, whose action had been expected, waited to veto the legislation until about four hours before the midnight deadline at which the bill automatically would have become law. He said he was willing to work with Congress on a better approach.
An explosion apparently caused by a bomb wounded three people today in a downtown bar here, the police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. In another development, the director of housing for Soweto, Del Kevan, resigned today, two days after a bomb attack on her home. Mrs. Kevan, who was appointed housing director of Soweto, the country’s largest black township, in January, had been held responsible by many residents for evictions involving rent protests last month in which two dozen blacks were killed by the police.
The House of Representatives today refused to consider a comprehensive immigration bill, and supporters of the legislation said it was dead. By a vote of 202 to 180, the House defeated a resolution to bring the bill to the floor. The resolution would have set the stage for three days of debate under a plan limiting consideration of key amendments. The resolution would have forbidden proposals to amend a fragile compromise on the use of foreign agricultural workers in the United States. Republicans voted against the resolution by 145 to 13. Democrats supported it, 167 to 57. Republicans complained that they would not have any opportunity to amend or delete a section of the bill that they regarded as much too generous to illegal aliens who have been working on American farms. The Senate passed its latest version of the legislation in September 1985 by vote of 69 to 30. Similar bills, designed to curtail the influx of illegal aliens were passed by the Senate in 1982 and 1983. They died as Congress rushed toward adjournment. Asked if today’s action meant the bill was dead for this year, Representative Peter W. Rodino Jr., chairman of the Judiciary Committee, who is chief sponsor of the House legislation, said, “So far as I’m concerned, it is.” He said he saw “no possibility” that the bill would be revived this year.
Turning a page of history, William Hubbs Rehnquist took his oath today as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States, and Antonin Scalia took his as the newest Associate Justice. President Reagan praised both men at a White House ceremony this morning as “brilliant” jurists who understood that “government by the people” requires “judicial restraint.” He said, “I nominated William Rehnquist because I believe he will be a Chief Justice of historic stature.” Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Scalia formally assumed their new offices at another ceremony at the Supreme Court this afternoon, which the President did not attend.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the Nation on fiscal year 1987 appropriations bills.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “Courage” together.
A compromise on highway speed offered by the chief opponent in Congress to raising the highway speed limit called for tough conditions placed upon the states to insure seat belt use and compliance with a higher speed limit. The offer by Representative James Howard, chairman of the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation, could set the stage for consideration by House and Senate members of a Senate-passed measure allowing states to increase the speed limit to 65 miles per hour along rural stretches of the Interstate highway system.
In a race against adjournment, the Senate opened debate today on a sweeping package of proposals aimed at choking off the supply of dangerous drugs and the demand for them. A parade of speakers warned in dire terms about the poisonous influence of drugs in American society and spoke of the rising tide of public concern. “The nation is angry,” said Senator Lawton Chiles, a Florida Democrat. “It’s sick of the pushers, dealers and hoods who’ve made their living off the lives of our young.”
Twenty-two cargo and baggage handlers for Eastern Airlines were indicted on drug smuggling charges today by a Federal grand jury in Miami. Investigators said the ring had smuggled tons of cocaine, stuffed in suitcases, past Customs inspectors at Miami International Airport over three years. A Mexicana Airlines worker at the airport was indicted on similar charges. Federal officials said the ground crews, working in carefully plotted shifts, kept cocaine shipments in the cargo holds of Eastern flights arriving from Colombia until inspectors cleared the flights to continue on to domestic destinations. Once the flights were cleared, the officials said, the bags were unloaded at another part of the airport and carried to points where they were picked up by accomplices.
Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d today denied that the United States had held discussions with Colombia, Ecuador or Peru regarding the possibility of sending American military troops to help with drug eradication. “No such aid would ever be provided without the formal request of any nation, and no requests have been received from these countries,” Mr. Meese said.
Tests conducted today on a bullet-riddled stolen car that a fugitive was driving when last seen indicate he may be seriously wounded. The search for the fugitive, Michael Wayne Jackson, began Monday when his parole officer and a store clerk in Indianapolis were killed. Mr. Jackson is also being sought in connection with the killing of a motorist in Missouri, at least five abductions and seven automobile thefts. In the test today, Capt. John Ford of the Missouri Highway Patrol said investigators traced the trajectory of bullets fired by the police at the car Monday night. The captain said one slug, which has not been found, passed through the arm rest and probably caused serious injury to Mr. Jackson. Two police officers had fired six shots from powerful .357 magnums in a shootout with Mr. Jackson Monday. When he later wrecked the car and fled on foot, blood was found on the steering wheel. The authorities say Mr. Jackson may be wounded or dead somewhere after fleeing the wreck near here on Interstate 70 and running into the woods. Mr. Jackson has a history of mental illness, violence and drug abuse.
Video games are coming back. Three companies will be selling home video game machines this Christmas and retailers that have not sold machines for two years are stocking up again. Television will soon reverberate once more to the zapping and beeping sounds of commercials about invading aliens and missile warfare. Manufacturers estimate that 2 million game machines will be sold in the United States this year.
Joblessness in Michigan is falling more rapidly than in nearby industrial states, indicating that Michigan is succeeding in its effort to diversify its automobile-dominated economy. According to Department of Labor figures, unemployment in Michigan last month dropped 1.9 percentage points to 8.2 percent. While this is still above the national average of 6.8 percent, Michigan’s jobless rate decline was considerably larger than the declines in Ohio and Illinois.
The Texas Legislature, nearly three weeks into its second straight special session, appears ready to gain control of one of the largest deficits in state history. On Saturday the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a temporary tax increase of $872 million and to consider adopting $510 million in spending reductions. Since the earlier special session, the Speaker of the House. Gibson D. Lewis, Democrat of Fort Worth, dramatically changed his position and asked the House to increase taxes, thus breaking a logjam. His plan, facing some stiff opposition on the House floor, would increase the sales tax to 5.25 cents, from 4.125-cent and increase the tax on gasoline to 15 cents a gallon from 10 cents. If the House approves, the Senate could act early next week.
A 12-year-old boy who was snorkeling in a creek was bitten on the head by an alligator then chased to shore, where his mother yanked him from the gator’s grip. The child’s leg was broken in the struggle Wednesday near his home. “As I was pulling my son onto the rocks, the gator chomped down on him,” the 36-year-old mother, Jessie Morgret, said. “That’s when he injured his leg. I was pulling on him and I felt a release. I pulled again. Hard.” Her son, Michael, was listed in fair condition at a hospital today. Wildlife officials who captured and killed the beast Thursday said it was 11 feet, 3 ½ inches long. The officials said the attack was the eighth this year in Florida.
North-central Montana, drenched by 18 hours of heavy rains, has been hit by the worst flooding in 30 years, officials said. At least one person drowned, many animals were killed and rail and highway traffic was disrupted, the authorities said. National Guardsmen and residents were sandbagging the rising Milk River today and more than 120 people fled their homes. Governor Ted Schwinden mobilized the Guard to help reinforce dikes at Malta after as much as eight inches of rain fell Thursday along the Canadian border. The drowning involved a woman who tried to swim to safety after being trapped in a truck in Harlem, about 45 miles to the west, the authorities said. Officials said there were reports of large numbers of livestock drowned. Today, for the second day, hundreds of Amtrak passengers had to be bused 90 miles around washed out sections of railroad track.
Fashion designer Calvin Klein (43) weds assistant Kelly Rector in a civil ceremony in Italy.
‘Bobby Ewing’ (Patrick Duffy) returns to the TV show “Dallas” as his death is attributed to his wife Pam’s bad dream, erasing all of the previous season.
Run-DMC is the first rap group to hit the top 10 with “Raising Hell”.
Major League Baseball:
The Atlanta Braves edged the Houston Astros, 5–4. Doyle Alexander scattered 10 hits over 8 ⅔ innings and did not allow an earned run and Bob Horner hit a two-run homer to give Atlanta the victory.
Jesse Barfield led off the 12th inning with his 36th homer Friday night, lifting the Toronto Blue Jays to a 1–0 victory over Boston and keeping on hold the Red Sox’ drive for the American League East title. Barfield drilled a 2–0 pitch by reliever Calvin Schiraldi over the screen in left-center as the Blue Jays prevented Boston from clinching a tie for the division title. Boston’s magic number for clinching remained at three games over Toronto with nine regular season games left in Fenway Park. The magic number for clinching over New York was reduced to two as the Yankees lost 3–2 to Detroit.
Brian Downing knocked in five runs with two homers as the California Angels clinched their third divisional title in eight seasons tonight with an 8–3 victory over the Texas Rangers. Gary Pettis and George Hendrick also hit home runs as the Angels wrapped up the American League West championship before a crowd of 46,677 at Anaheim Stadium. The Angels also won the division title in 1979 and 1982, but they have never made it to a World Series.
The Milwaukee Brewers shut out the Baltimore Orioles, 2–0. Rick Manning knocked in both runs and Pete Vuckovich and two relievers combined on a three-hitter to lead the Brewers. It was Milwaukee’s fourth straight victory and the sixth straight loss for Baltimore, which has already ensured itself of its first losing season since 1967. Vuckovich, 2–3, did not allow a runner to reach second base in checking the Orioles on three hits through the first six innings. Baltimore starter Mike Boddicker, 14–12, suffered his seventh straight loss since August 4, despite pitching a four-hitter.
The Phillies beat the host Expos, 5–0, as Marvin Freeman and Kent Tukulve combine on a one hitter, a single by Tim Raines. It is the second time this year that Rock has had the Expos only hits. Von Hayes scored three runs for Philadelphia.
The crowds have become sparse, but Don Mattingly is still playing as if the Stadium were full and a division championship was at stake. The Yankees moved one step closer to elimination from the American League East race last night, losing by a 3–2 margin to the Detroit Tigers, but Mattingly kept alive the streak that matters: he had one hit in four times at bat and now has hit successfully in 24 consecutive games. But even with his fourth-inning single, Mattingly lost a point in his batting average, dropping to .350 and falling behind Boston’s Wade Boggs, who went 4-for-6 tonight to raise his average to .354. But to Mattingly, the chase that matters most is the one he is waging for the Yankee single-season hit record. He now has 224 and needs eight more in the last nine games to surpass Earle Combs, who totaled 231 in 1927.
Manager Davey Johnson proclaimed his pitching staff ready for the National League Championship Series tonight after Sid Fernandez defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3–1, for a record 101st victory for the Mets. A week ago, the Mets’ pitching staff was in disarray, with Bob Ojeda missing a turn with tightness in his elbow, Rick Aguilera nursing a bruised shoulder and Fernandez suffering from stiffness in his shoulder. All three have pitched since and all have come away with no physical problems. Fernandez was the last of the three to pitch, and tonight he won for the first time since August 26.
The Cincinnati Reds beat the San Diego Padres, 8–6. Ron Oester went 3 for 3 with a home run as Cincinnati won its fourth straight game. Oester drove in two runs and scored three times.
The Cleveland Indians beat the Seattle Mariners, 9–7. Brook Jacoby tripled home Otis Nixon in the 12th inning and scored on second baseman Harold Reynolds’ error on the relay throw to give the Cleveland Indians a victory.
Mike Krukow and Scott Garrelts combined on a three-hitter and National League rookie Mike Aldrete snapped a scoreless tie with a two-run triple in the eighth inning, giving the San Francisco Giants a 3–0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers Friday night. Jose Uribe opened the eighth with an infield single off reliever Tom Niedenfuer, 6–6. Krukow, 19–8, sacrificed and Will Clark was walked intentionally. After Robby Thompson fouled out, Aldrete drilled a 400-foot triple off the glove of center fielder Franklin Stubbs against the fence. Candy Maldonado followed with an RBI single to conclude the scoring. Krukow gave up three hits, struck out eight and walked three in eight innings to become the first 19-game winner for the Giants since Ron Bryant won 24 in 1973. Garrelts pitched the ninth for his 10th save. The Giants, who were no-hit victims of Mike Scott Thursday at Houston, snapped that streak when Will Clark led off the first with a single. Steve Sax of the Dodgers belted a one-out single off Krukow in the third, extending his hitting streak to 24 games. That’s tops in the National League this season and equals the ongoing streak of the New York Yankees’ Don Mattingly. Shortly after Sax’s hit, the game was delayed for 1 hour, 51 minutes because of a steady drizzle.
The Chicago Cubs downed the St. Louis Cardinals, 4–1. Rick Sutcliffe ended his eight-game losing streak with his first victory since June 2 and Gary Matthews and Brian Dayett each hit two-run homers to lead Chicago.
The scheduled game between the Oakland A’s and the Royals at Kansas City was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
The scheduled game between the Minnesota Twins and the White Sox at Chicago was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
Houston Astros 4, Atlanta Braves 5
Toronto Blue Jays 1, Boston Red Sox 0
Texas Rangers 3, California Angels 8
Baltimore Orioles 0, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Montreal Expos 0
Detroit Tigers 3, New York Yankees 2
New York Mets 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Cincinnati Reds 8, San Diego Padres 6
Cleveland Indians 9, Seattle Mariners 7
Los Angeles Dodgers 0, San Francisco Giants 3
Chicago Cubs 4, St. Louis Cardinals 1
Stock prices rose slightly yesterday in lighter trading. Traders continued to focus on the course of interest rates and doubts about the economy. Analysts said investors also were cautious as they awaited news from talks this weekend in Washington among financial leaders of the leading industrialized countries.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1769.69 (+1.13)
Born:
Sean Doolittle, MLB pitcher (World Series champions-Nationals, 2019; All-Star, 2014, 2018; Oakland A’s, Washington Natioanls, Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners), in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Cyril Obiozor, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Arizona Cardinals, San Diego Chargers), in Houston, Texas.
Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress (Casey MacDonald in “Life with Derek”), in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
