The United States and the Soviet Union have been holding high-level talks in an attempt to negotiate an unusual exchange of radio programs. Charles Z. Wick, director of the United States Information Agency, said in an interview today that the tentative plan was to beam Voice of America broadcasts over Soviet domestic stations in return for the right of Moscow radio programs to being carried by stations in the United States. As a result of talks in Iceland during the meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Mr. Wick said, he has undertaken to find a radio network willing to allocate time to Moscow radio programming. The effort, one of the most intricate of the Soviet-American discussions in recent months, is a direct outgrowth of a brief discussion on Soviet radio jamming held by Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev on October 11, Mr. Wick said. Most of the attention has been focused on the arms-control talks in Geneva, where the United States has now instructed its delegation to pursue ideas discussed in Iceland. In addition, talks resumed here today on cooperation in space exploration. Several other issues are also being negotiated.
Five Soviet scientists who will arrive in the United States November 9 to discuss sites in Nevada and California that have been proposed for monitoring American nuclear tests will be limited to a stay of one week, a private environmental group announced yesterday. A spokesman for the group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, which is based in New York, said the State Department had set the limit on the stay of the five scientists and had forbidden them to visit the proposed sites themselves. Three monitoring stations installed by the council have already begun collecting seismic data from the principal Soviet test site, in Kazakhstan, and Moscow has accredited two American scientists to staff them permanently. The Soviet Union, which has declared a unilateral moratorium on testing, has not conducted any nuclear tests since the Americans arrived, however.
Soviet authorities detained a pregnant American woman and her Russian husband for more than two hours because they were protesting Moscow’s refusal to let him go to the United States for the birth of their child. Susan Graham, from Spokane, Washington, said she and Matvey Finkel were stopped by police from gathering signatures on a petition outside Moscow’s Cosmos hotel. The couple were married in 1979, but Finkel has been denied permission to emigrate. They want their baby to be born outside the Soviet Union to avoid any potential citizenship dispute.
A bomb exploded in the main offices of Lufthansa German Airlines here today, and hours later a West Berlin official was shot and wounded. A prosecutor’s spokesman said both attacks might be linked to the refugee problem. The Revolutionary Cells, a far-left group, took responsibility for the bombing early today, saying Lufthansa was flying people back to their home countries who were expelled while seeking asylum here. No one was wounded in the bombing. Less than six hours later, Harald Hollenberg, whose duties include handling the recent wave of refugees in West Berlin, was shot by two men and a woman outside his apartment building as he was going to work. Authorities say more than 75,000 refugees and asylum-seekers have poured into West Germany and West Berlin this year, leading to increased Government efforts to stem the flow.
The Italian writer Luigi Barzini once likened the countries of Western Europe to a bunch of “irritable hens” more likely to peck at one another — or to quarrel with the United States — than to get on with a unity that would enhance the continent’s strength and influence. The failure late Monday of the Foreign Ministers of the 12 member countries of the European Community to agree to a set of measures against Syria, despite urgent British pleading that they do so, seemed a good example of the way many conflicting interests can prevent joint European action. The British, represented by their Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, pressed during a foreign policy meeting of the 12 Community members here Monday for something other than a verbal response to what he said was direct Syrian involvement in an attempt to blow up an Israeli airliner in April. Different Interests Despite many hours of closed-door discussions, words are all the British got, as several of Britain’s European partners showed themselves reluctant to assume hostile positions against Syria.
An Anglican priest from Australia who is searching for a missing Israeli nuclear technician said today that he was leaving Israel. The priest said that he was convinced the technician was being held here against his will and that he was frustrated he had not been able to make any contact with him. The Israeli, Mordechai Vanunu, disappeared from his London hotel four weeks ago, shortly after he had sold film and detailed descriptions of Israel’s nuclear installation at Dimona, in the Negev, to The Sunday Times of London. The newspaper used Mr. Vanunu’s information as the basis of the most detailed expose ever on Israel’s top-secret nuclear installation. Based on Mr. Vanunu’s data, The Sunday Times said Israel had already built 100 atomic bombs in its Dimona plant.
Ever since 200 pounds of highly enriched uranium was discovered missing from a Pennsylvania plant more than 20 years ago, the mystery of Israel’s nuclear-weapons capability has been the subject of intelligence analysis and speculation. There is evidence that Israel has manufactured a small arsenal of warheads, as asserted by an Israeli nuclear technician, Mordechai Vanunu, who worked in the secret nuclear installation outside Dimona, in the Negev. Mr. Vanunu was reportedly abducted by the Israeli secret service after reportedly selling details and photographs of the Dimona operation to The Sunday Times of London.
Israelis who favor the coexistence of separate Jewish and Palestinian states are expected to meet in Romania on November 6 with representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization, meeting organizers announced in Jerusalem. They declined to name the Israeli participants but said most are from small, leftist Zionist groups including the Committee for Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue and the East is Peace movement.
Leaders of Lebanese Muslim and leftist militias said today that Palestinian guerrillas loyal to Yasser Arafat had made major progress in re-establishing a military presence in southern Lebanon. Guerrillas belonging to the Palestine Liberation Organization were driven out of the region by invading Israeli troops four years ago. The Lebanese militia leaders said the P.L.O.’s efforts to reclaim a foothold in southern Lebanon had made big strides and had assumed “dangerous proportions.”
Iran has agreed to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to resume visits to Iraqi prisoners of war, a senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official said today. Such visits had been barred by Iran for two years. The official, Sirous Naseri, who heads the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s International Organization Department, said Tehran issued visas today allowing Red Cross delegates to enter Iran. He said the action followed extensive negotiations with Red Cross officials. Officials of the Red Cross Committee, which has two delegates in Teheran, confirmed that Iran had notified them about the visas and said they would send about 10 delegates to Tehran. The organization was banned from visiting Iraqi prisoners in 1984, after a shooting incident at a prisoner-of-war camp that Iranian officials said was distorted in a Red Cross report.
A land mine planted by Muslim rebels killed the Communist Party chief of Herat province in western Afghanistan, the official Kabul radio said. Mohammed Ali Samim, the province’s senior government official, died in the Gulran district to the north of Herat province, about 420 miles west of Kabul, it said. Afghanistan’s leader, Najib, was among those who attended the funeral. The radio report gave no other details. Meanwhile, Western diplomats in Pakistan said that Afghan guerrillas attacked a homebound Soviet regiment last week, killing at least 30 soldiers. The report could not be independently confirmed.
Pakistani investigators have concluded that the hijacking of a Pan American World Airways jumbo jet in Karachi last month was probably directed from Lebanon rather than Libya, Government officials said today. The officials said the conclusion had been reached despite the fact that a Libyan is suspected of involvement in the incident. The officials said the investigation was proceeding slowly and had yet to identify any organization in Lebanon as responsible for the 16-hour incident, which ended when four hijackers threw grenades and shot at the 389 passengers inside the airplane. Twenty-one people were killed and more than 100 were wounded.
A senior Sikh leader of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s party and eight other people were killed today in the Punjab as separatists stepped up their campaign of violence, the authorities said. The incidents caused renewed tension in the state, where 34 people have been killed in clashes since last weekend. In an attack today, two gunmen shot Sewa Singh, a vice president of the Gurdaspur district unit of the Congress Party. Mr. Singh was the uncle of a senior Sikh police official and a member of a powerful Sikh committee that supervises the conduct of religious and educational affairs.
Investigators have determined that explosives planted in a toilet of a Thai Airways International jet ruptured the plane’s rear bulkhead, sending it into a near-disastrous 21,000-foot dive, news reports said today. “There is a strong possibility that a small bomb had been brought into the aircraft,” Kyodo News Service quoted the police as saying. “Metal fragments that exploded in the toilet section were powerful enough to rip through the toilet partition and destroy the pressure bulkhead.” The French-built Airbus A-300 with 247 people aboard was flying from Bangkok to Osaka via Manila when it suddenly lost cabin pressure and was forced to make an emergency landing at its scheduled destination, about 250 miles west of Tokyo, Sunday evening. Sixty-two people were injured. Four passengers and three crew members remained hospitalized.
Investigators in Japan have determined that explosives planted in the toilet of a Thai International Airways jet ruptured the rear bulkhead and sent the plane into a 21,000-foot dive, injuring 62 people, the Kyodo News Service and the public television network NHK reported. “There is a strong possibility that a small bomb had been brought into the aircraft,” Kyodo quoted police as saying. The French-built Airbus A-300 with 247 aboard was flying from Bangkok to Osaka via Manila. It made an emergency landing at Osaka.
With Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino and Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile on a seeming collision course, some of Mrs. Aquino’s advisers said today that they were meeting to seek ways to counter the vigorous political attacks of Mr. Enrile. They said they were eager to counter an appearance of weakness and indecisiveness in the Government. Today, Mrs. Aquino reaffirmed her commitment to seek a peaceful end to the Communist insurgency, telling a group of nurses that her own Christian convictions led her to seek talks with her opponents rather than bloodshed. Mrs. Aquino compared the insurgency to a lingering illness, and added, “Should it prove to be as incurable as a cancer, then it must be removed by the more drastic surgery of warfare.”
The United States used its veto in the U.N. Security Council to block the second demand in three months that it comply with a World Court ruling against U.S. aid to Nicaraguan contras. Eleven other members voted for the resolution, offered by a group of nonaligned states, with Britain, France and Thailand abstaining. On June 27, the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled that U.S. aid to the rebels fighting Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government violates international law. The United States said in advance that it did not recognize the court’s jurisdiction in the matter and would not abide by the decision. Because the World Court has no enforcement powers, Nicaragua sought action by the Security Council to implement the decision.
Nicaragua’s armed forces recently received new helicopter gunships that doubled their inventory of the aircraft, the Pentagon said today. The delivery of the gunships, which the United States says have proved effective in the past against rebels operating inside Nicaragua, comes after deliveries of new troop transport helicopters over the summer. Six of the heavily armored helicopters, known as MI-25’s by the Soviet Union and as Hinds by American intelligence, were delivered to a Nicaraguan port aboard a Soviet freighter late this month, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters. Together, the helicopter shipments bring the Nicaraguan air forces to 12 Hind gunships and 35 MI-17 troop carriers, which American intelligence calls Hips.
The Justice Department has begun examining whether a special prosecutor should investigate possible violations of the law by Administration officials in aiding the Nicaraguan rebels. The department, in a letter to Congress delivered today, said it was conducting a review of allegations by 12 Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee. The legislators urged Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d to appoint a special prosecutor, or special counsel, to examine whether senior Administration officials played any illegal role in a private network supplying arms to the rebels. A Justice Department spokesman, Patrick Korten, said the review was the first step in determining whether to appoint a special prosecutor. If sufficient evidence emerges, the department would undertake a “preliminary investigation,” which would be followed by a report to a Federal court on whether the special counsel would be appointed.
Chile’s military government lifted the state of siege in three more rural provinces and announced that another 200 political exiles will be allowed to return to Chile. It was the third time authorities have eased restrictions in sparsely populated parts of the country since the nationwide state of siege was declared Sept. 7 after a failed assassination attempt against President Augusto Pinochet. The state of siege remains in effect in areas where more than 90% of the 12 million Chileans live. The Interior Ministry said Pinochet has authorized the return of 200 political exiles barred from Chile since the military took power in a 1973 coup.
President Samora M. Machel, killed in a plane crash in South Africa a week ago, was buried here today in emotional ceremonies attended by tens of thousands of people. As a darkened sky released a light, windswept rain, Mr. Machel, leader of Mozambique since it won independence from Portugal in 1975, was interred to the strains of revolutionary songs and under the somber gaze of his widow, Graca, his eight children, visiting heads of state and Mozambican dignitaries. Crowds gathered along the six-mile route of the funeral procession wept as the coffin passed by. The foreign guests at the funeral included Yasir Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization; Prime Minister Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and Presidents Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola, Quett K. Masire of Botswana, Daniel arap Moi of Kenya, Ali Hassan Mwinyi of Tanzania and Kenneth D. Kaunda of Zambia.
As the 1986 political campaign enters its final week, the Democrats appear to have slightly improved their chances of posting the net gain of four or more seats they need to take control of the Senate. To meet the challenge in close races, the Republicans are spending millions to bring the voters out and are relying heavily on President Reagan’s popularity to help tip the balance. “Either the President is going to do it for us,” said one Republican strategist, “or we’re not going to do it. He’s our last, best hope of keeping control of the Senate until 1988.” In his latest campaign swing, Mr. Reagan stepped up his attacks on the Democratic Party as spendthrift, weak on the military and soft on criminal justice. Democratic candidates in four closely contested states have gained ground on their Republican opponents in the last two weeks while Republicans have closed in on Democrats in only two of the battleground states, according to opinion polls and local political analysts. If the election were held tomorrow, the Democrats would probably pick up four seats now held by Republicans and the Republicans would be likely to win one seat now held by a Democrat. This would bring about a net gain of three for the Democrats.
President Reagan, seeking to retain Republican control of the Senate, stepped up his attacks on the Democratic Party today as spendthrift, weak on the military and soft on criminal justice. Mr. Reagan spent the day campaigning in Georgia, North Carolina and Alabama, key Southern states with Senate races. In Columbus, Ga., before an enthusiastic, flag-waving crowd of several thousand at the Municipal Auditorium, he said: “Will you choose the Democratic leaders who in 1980 weakened our nation and nearly brought our economy to its knees, who raised your taxes and have announced their plans to do so again, who oppose our efforts to build a defense to protect us from attack by nuclear ballistic missiles? “Or will you choose to give the clean-up crew of 1980 aa chance to finish the job?”
President Reagan attends a political rally in Columbus, Georgia for Senator Mack Matingly’s campaign.
President Reagan receives word that the Reagan’s long-time friend Bob Arthur has passed away.
On the Rio Grande, where thousands of illegal aliens from Mexico play a cat and mouse game daily with Border Patrol agents, there is widespread skepticism that the immigration legislation passed by Congress will dramatically alter the porous nature of the border. Even though the immigration bill is already changing some aspects of life, as employers re-evaluate their need to hire illegal aliens and lawyers prepare for a business windfall from aliens applying for amnesty, many people doubt it will disrupt the legal and illegal interplay that has developed over decades between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez across the river in Mexico. “I don’t think it will change too much,” said Victor Munoz, head of the El Paso Central Labor Council of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. Like many union members here, Mr. Munoz is an enthusiastic supporter of sanctions against employers who hire illegal aliens. “From the days of the building of the railroads, in mining, cattle, and agriculture,” he said, “El Paso has always depended on cheap labor from Mexico. How can you expect the community here to comply with the law when people here hire Mexicans to clean their houses and care for the children? I think the enforcement here will be very, very watered down.”
The revision of the Freedom of Information Act that President Reagan signed into law Monday gives Federal law-enforcement agencies new authority to withhold documents they believe might compromise current investigations. The Justice Department, and particularly the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have warned for years that the information act was being abused by organized crime and narcotics traffickers, who could piece together valuable information even from the heavily edited versions of documents they received in response to their requests. Proposals for addressing the problem have been the subject of numerous hearings and several bills over the years, none of which passed both houses of Congress. But this year a bipartisan compromise resurrected the revisions in the last weeks of the Congressional session, adding them to the $1.7 billion anti-drug bill.
A girl injured by an adverse reaction to a vaccine pleaded with President Reagan to sign legislation that would provide federal funds to help youngsters who share her plight. “We need you to care about us,” Stacy Scholl, 10, of St. Petersburg, Florida, told the absent Reagan at a Washington news conference. Flanked by lawmakers, businessmen and representatives of medical groups, the girl urged the President to sign the legislation, which would also benefit pharmaceutical houses that have been hit with lawsuits over vaccine injuries.
The centennial of the Statue of Liberty’s dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor. About 1,500 people gathered on Liberty Island yesterday for the official birthday of the Statue of Liberty in a ceremony that was as subdued and small town in its way as last July’s was joyous and extravagant. In speeches, a small group of French and United States officials, including Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel, Treasury Secretary James A. Baker 3d and France’s Minister of Culture and Communications, Francois Leotard, extolled the statue both as an embodiment of the friendship and common values of the two countries and as one of the “greatest symbols of modern mankind.” At the ceremony, the statue was dedicated as 1 of 80 internationally recognized World Heritage Sites, joining such sites as the pyramid fields of Giza, the old city of Jerusalem and the palace at Versailles as a property of “outstanding universal value to mankind.” Such sites are provided for in an international treaty recognized by 92 nations.
A veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency provided critical information that enabled prosecutors to file criminal charges against Edward Lee Howard, a former C.I.A. agent who recently defected to the Soviet Union, according to a forthcoming article. According to intelligence sources, the former official, William G. Bosch, disclosed that he met with Mr. Howard before the defector escaped Federal surveillance. Mr. Bosch also said he had learned of Mr. Howard’s sale of American secrets to the K.G.B, the sources said. Mr. Bosch, the sources said, also told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Mr. Howard had attempted to recruit him into espionage. Mr. Bosch’s involvement in the investigation and other details of the case are disclosed in an article by David Wise to be published this Sunday in The New York Times Magazine. Distribution of the magazine to dealers begins on Wednesday.
Even Charles Black, Paula Hawkins’s chief strategist, who likes to compare her to Joan of Arc, concedes that the Florida Senator “didn’t have a totally good week” last week. Mr. Black had insisted that the campaign “let Paula be Paula,” but the Senator with the flair for the dramatic went a little far in some rare campaign appearances in Miami and Tampa. She called Mexican-Americans less patriotic than Cuban-Americans. She suggested that her Democratic opponent, Gov. Bob Graham, was getting the support of Communists. She dismissed some difficult questions by saying, “Ask Charlie Black.”
The Government, moving to end a windfall enjoyed by millions of small investors, is expected to announce a substantial cut Wednesday in the guaranteed 7 ½ percent interest rate on United States savings bonds. The decision to reduce the minimum yield on bonds held at least five years comes as sales have boomed to more than $1 billion a month, a pace not seen since World War II. Although the new rate is not known, Government and private analysts suggested that it would drop at least a full percentage point, perhaps as much as two points. The cut, if it occurs, would be effective November 1, leaving savers three days to take advantage of the present 7 ½ percent guarantee.
Political strategists have found so many ways to evade Federal statutes that the laws on campaign financing have been seriously undermined in the election cycle that ends next Tuesday, according to experts in the field. “The two major parties are literally thumbing their noses at the law,” said Edward Zuckerman, publisher of PAC’s and Lobbies, a newsletter that monitors trends in political financing. Robert F. Bauer, a lawyer specializing in election law, says the parties “have got their legal departments working overtime” searching for ways to get around the restrictions governing Federal elections. The experts agree the Republicans are more adroit at skirting the law because they have more money than the Democrats and are constantly looking for ways to spend it. Reports filed earlier this month with the Federal Election Commission say Republican campaign committees have a 5-to-1 edge over the Democrats in fund raising.
Special interests poured a record $61 million into the campaign chests of 795 House candidates through the end of September, a Common Cause study showed. The study showed that House contributions by political action committees — which represent business, labor and other special interests — jumped about 28% from the $47 million given to 802 candidates in the last election cycle. Incumbents got the lion’s share-more than $50 million-the report showed. Challengers got only $5 million and candidates for open seats received $5.5 million from PACS.
A Philadelphia city councilman described by the FBI as having “larceny in his heart” was indicted along with a reputed mobster on charges of trying to extort $1 million from a waterfront developer. In a second indictment, Councilman Leland Beloff was also accused of election fraud, including voting more than once, during the November, 1984, election, and with extorting use of a luxury apartment in exchange for his influence. Also charged in the extortion case was reputed mobster Nicholas (Nicky Crow) Caramandi and Beloff’s legislative aide, Robert Rego.
The United Farm Workers union, backed by New York City’s major trade unions, began a nationwide boycott against A&P groceries after the huge supermarket chain’s refusal to pull California grapes from its shelves. The UFW charges that the grapes are contaminated by pesticides that cause cancer and birth defects. The boycott was kicked off by UFW President Cesar Chavez after a demonstration in front of a Greenwich Village A&P store by hundreds of union members, including activists from flight attendants to knitwear workers.
A Pentagon directive aimed at restricting participation by soldiers in the Ku Klux Klan or neo-Nazi groups is too broad and violates the Constitution, the American Civil Liberties Union said. The memorandum by Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger for the first time authorizes commanders to discharge a member of the military, if necessary, for activities related to participation in so-called “hate” or white supremacist groups.
One corrections officer was fired and another demoted for negligence in the escape of convicted killer David J. Roberts. Roberts overpowered officer Mario Rodriquez and Sgt. Dale Frazier Friday during a trip from an Indianapolis hospital to the Indiana state prison at Michigan City by pulling a derringer when they loosened his restraints to let him eat a sandwich near Valparaiso. The search for Roberts, 42, of Indianapolis, entered its fifth day with no leads.
The Defense Department’s inspector general is investigating the Navy’s handling of two foreign military sales agreements to determine whether the service used for its own benefit refunds due the two countries, a Pentagon spokesman. confirmed. At issue is a 1985 deal overseen by the Navy, consolidating requests by Canada and Turkey to purchase 268 MK-46 torpedoes from Honeywell Inc. Internal Navy and Honeywell documents indicate the Navy applied a $14.3-million reduction negotiated in the original contract price to one of its own contracts for similar torpedoes.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that it was investigating two train derailments in Michigan that were apparently a result of sabotage. Three engines and 12 cars on a 77-car Grand Trunk & Western freight train derailed north of Richmond in Macomb County shortly after midnight Monday, a day after 2 engines and 5 cars of a Tuscola-Saginaw Bay Rail Company freight train derailed near Farwell in Clare County, 125 miles northwest.
Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr.’s finances are under a continuing Federal investigation, law-enforcement officials said. Some of the closest aides of the ultraconservative conspiracy theorist face fraud charges.
The University of Rochester will rename its graduate business school after William E. Simon, the private investor and former Treasury Secretary. Mr. Simon raised $15 million for the school.
A sharp earthquake centered five miles southeast of downtown San Diego shook a wide area tonight from Tijuana, Mexico, to the Los Angeles suburbs but apparently caused no injuries or major damage. A spokesman for the seismology laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena said the temblor, which struck at 6:38 P.M., measured 4.7 on the Richter scale.
Scientists are growing fish twice as fast as they grow naturally, cutting their feed requirements by nearly half and raising them on a diet of ground chicken feathers and soybeans.
Major League Baseball:
Former Phillies shortstop Larry Bowa is named manager of the Padres, replacing Steve Boros.
Wall Street enjoyed another small gain yesterday, but the session was mainly uneventful as investors ignored such usually important factors as economic projections and stayed riveted again to gossip about takeovers. One of the hottest issues on the New York Stock Exchange was American Brands, which jumped 4 7/8, to 49 1/8, on a rumor that it would become the target of Hanson Trust, a British-based company with a cache of about $5.5 billion. But Wall Street sources, while conceding that Hanson might attempt an acquisition soon, doubted it was looking at American Brands. The Dow Jones industrial average, which was up nearly 17 points early in the day, ended with just a 3.65-point gain, at 1,845.47. The blue-chip index faded around noon when the morning’s heavy volume tapered off. The slowdown, not coincidentally, came about the time that a ticker-tape parade honoring baseball’s champions, the New York Mets, was passing through the Wall Street area.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1845.47 (+3.65)
Born:
Janne Müller-Wieland, German field hockey player (Olympics, bronze medal, 2016), in Hamburg, West Germany.
Josh Thole, MLB catcher (New York Mets, Toronto Blue Jays), in Breese, Illinois.
Matt Kassian, Canadian NHL left wing (Minnesota Wild, Ottawa Senators), in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
John Moffitt, NFL guard (Seattle Seahawks, Denver Broncos), in Guilford, Connecticut.
John Gill, NFL defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts), in Los Altos Hills, California.
May El Calamawy, Egyptian-Palestinian actress (“Ramy”), in Bahrain.
Died:
Marga Klompé, 74, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM).
John Braine, 64, English novelist (“Life at the Top”).
