Turkish Defense Minister Zeki Yavuzturk has told visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger that Turkey will not accept military aid under a proposal approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee calling for the removal of Turkish troops from Cyprus. Weinberger, in Turkey to attend an Atlantic Alliance meeting, said the Reagan Administration will seek to reverse the committee’s decision last week to withhold a $215 million grant for military aid unless Turkey pulls out of Cyprus.
An Israeli settler was jailed for three months and given a 33-month suspended sentence for destroying evidence in the murder of a Palestinian girl, 12, on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Menachem Ilan, security officer at the Israeli settlement of Eilon Moreh, was convicted of switching car license plates and parts of the gun that fellow settler Yosef Harnoi allegedly used to kill the girl last November in Nablus. Officers said that after Harnoi’s car was stoned by unknown attackers, he opened fire on two girls in a bakery, killing one and wounding the other. He is currently standing trial in the slaying.
Three Arab terrorists armed with guns and grenades attacked crowds of shoppers in the heart of Jerusalem, wounding 48 people, one of them critically. Israeli shopkeepers and pedestrians fatally wounded one terrorist, and the police said the two others were captured. Some officials said the attack was the most brazen terrorist action in the city in memory.
Iran can produce chemical arms and may retaliate if Iraq continues its use of such weapons, Iran’s delegate to the United Nations said. The delegate, Rajai Khorassani, said 40 Iranians have died as a result of Iraq’s use of chemical weapons.
A Belgian doctor and a nurse-midwife were freed, more than two months after they were taken prisoner by Libyan-backed rebel forces in Chad. Dr. Christian Delzenne and nurse Marie-Christine Roekens are in good health and have been turned over to the Belgian Embassy in Libya, a Chadian rebel representative in Brussels said. The two were working for the French-based medical relief organization Doctors Without Frontiers near the town of Zigey, about 150 miles north of the capital of N’Djamena, when they were seized in a rebel raid January 24.
President Reagan and former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany conferred for 20 minutes in the Oval Office today, a White House spokesman said. They discussed the world economy, European unemployment and East-West relations, he said. Also present were Vice President Bush, Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Robert C. McFarlane, the national security adviser, and three senior White House officials.
Club-wielding French steelworkers attacked a Socialist Party headquarters in Metz, smashing windows and injuring a woman secretary in another outbreak of violent protest against the Socialist-led government’s plan to streamline five money-losing nationalized industries and eliminate 200,000 jobs by 1987. Other steelworkers near the town of Longwy cut the main railroad line between Paris and Luxembourg. The planned job cutbacks would affect the steel, coal, shipbuilding, telephone and automobile industries.
Queen Elizabeth II has caused alarm among British Jews with her expressions of sympathy for the Palestinian cause and her seeming disapproval of Israeli occupation of the West Bank. The remarks she made while visiting Jordan prompted criticism that she is meddling in politics.
A vast underground Polish culture, much of it operating under the protection of the Roman Catholic Church, has quietly taken root across the country in recent months. However, the stubborn intellectual resistance to the Communist authorities has also brought a sharp new crackdown that, according to the Government’s figures, has doubled the number of political prisoners since the beginning of the year.
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (64) divorces Margaret Sinclair (35) due to irreconcilable differences, after 13 years of marriage.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Canada’s Foreign Secretary, Allan J. MacEachen, signed a long-sought treaty today to prevent flooding of a scenic river valley and ensure a needed energy source for Seattle, Washington. The Skagit River Treaty settlement resolves concerns raised as early as 1942 over the proposed raising of the Ross Dam in the state of Washington, which would have led to the flooding of the Skagit Valley in British Columbia. Seattle wanted the reservoir level raised to produce more water to provide electric power. Under the agreement, British Columbia will supply power to Seattle at a cost equivalent to that of the construction cost of the dam. Mr. Shultz and Mr. MacEachen also discussed Canada’s plan to reduce sulfur-dioxide emissions by half within 10 years. Instead of matching the plan, the Reagan Administration has urged more research into the causes of acid rain and cross-border pollution.
The killings of a Hindu state legislator and his bodyguard by Sikh gunmen set off Sikh-Hindu rioting in the Indian state of Punjab. The government rushed in hundreds of troops, and curfews were imposed in Punjab’s four largest cities. Killed in the attack in Amritşar were Harbans Lal Khanna, leader of the right-wing Indian People’s Party, and his police guard, Kewal Krishan, the Asian Games gold medalist in wrestling.
A forest fire in Indonesia last year destroyed an area three times the size of Lebanon and represents one of the worst environmental disasters of the century, the International Union for Conservation of Nature said today. A report by the group said the fire, which raged across East Kalimantan in the Indonesian part of Borneo from February to June last year, is only now becoming public knowledge. “In what may be the worst continuous forest fire on record, at least 3.5 million hectares, about 13,500 square miles, went up in smoke,” it reported. The cause of the blaze was not known.
South Korean Government officials contended today that two South Korean celebrities, a movie actress and her former husband, a director, had been kidnapped by North Korean agents and held hostage for six years. The Agency for National Security Planning asserted that the kidnappings had been ordered by the son of President Kim Il Sung of North Korea. It demanded the two be returned home, saying the Communist North was now trying to present them as defectors and use them for propaganda. The actress, Choi Un Hui, 58 years old, disappeared January 14, 1978, on a visit to Hong Kong. A few months later, her former husband, Shin Sang Ok, 60, was also reported missing in Hong Kong.
About 200 Argentine veterans of the Falklands War marked the second anniversary of their nation’s unsuccessful invasion of the British-ruled islands by leading more than 10,000 demonstrators on an anti-British march through the streets of Buenos Aires. The demonstrators broke through the door of the 150-foot English Tower and started a fire, then pulled down the statue of a British diplomat. Earlier in the day, President Raul Alfonsin said Argentina will continue to seek control over the Falklands but through diplomatic means.
Chilean President Augusto Pinochet dismissed his two top economic ministers today in a Cabinet shake-up that was seen as a response to nationwide protests against his military regime. Luis Escobar Cerda, a banker, was sworn in as Finance Minister, replacing Carlos Caceres. Modesto Collados, Housing Minister since August, replaced Andres Passicot as Economy Minister. And Miguel Poduje, Mr. Collados’s top aide, moved up to become Housing Minister.
A white South African police officer was acquitted by a judge of murdering a black community leader, Saul Mkhize, during a protest rally a year ago. Mkhize was killed during a demonstration in the Driefontein area of eastern Transvaal over government plans to forcibly relocate about 5,000 blacks from their farms. His slaying set off an international outcry. The policeman, Johannes Andries Nienaber, testified that he fired at Mkhize because he believed the community leader was urging the crowd to attack him.
Whether “moment of silence” laws are unconstitutional will be decided by the Supreme Court. In announcing the decision to review the issue, the high court reaffirmed its rulings that organized prayer in the public schools violates the Constitution. The decision, announced in a brief, unsigned order, appeared likely to shift the focus of the debate over school prayer from Congress back to the Court. Last month the Senate defeated two proposed constitutional amendments, one to permit silent prayer in the public schools and one that would have allowed officially sponsored, vocal prayer. In decisions in the early 1960’s the Supreme Court barred such prayer. The Supreme Court has never addressed the constitutionality of an organized “moment of silence” for prayer or meditation. The Court’s school prayer rulings only bar praying aloud with official sanction, and in fact leave individual students free to pray on their own, silently or otherwise.
The investigation of Edwin Meese 3rd will be led by Jacob A. Stein, a trial lawyer, law professor and former president of the District of Columbia Bar. An order issued by a three-judge panel naming Mr. Stein the independent counsel in the inquiry also gave him the authority to prosecute any violation of Federal criminal law by Mr. Meese, who is President Reagan’s counselor and nominee to be Attorney General.
President Reagan greets the 1984 Cherry Blossom Princesses.
President Reagan attends the annual Lamb Fry at the Georgetown Club.
The Senate took final action on major farm legislation that would pay wheat farmers to idle acreage this year and next and would pay other farmers to idle acreage if surpluses mount. After approving the bill by voice vote and without comment, the Senate sent the bill to the House, which is expected to act today before sending the bill to President Reagan for his signature. The final package also included the easing of rules for financially troubled Farmers Home Administration borrowers.
George Hansen was found guilty on four counts of filing false financial statements, making him the first member of Congress to be convicted under the Ethics in Government Act. Representative Hansen, a conservative Republican of Idaho, could receive a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine on each of the four counts. The Federal jury in Washington had deliberated three hours.
The remains of another body, the fourth in three days, were found today on a wooded hillside above the Green River Valley, and the authorities said the bones were probably those of the 20th victim of a sexual psychopath who has been killing young prostitutes. One of the skeletons discovered over the weekend was identified through dental records as a teenager who was on the Green River Task Force’s list of possible victims of the slayer. The body was identified as Terri Rene Milligan, who was 16 years old when she disappeared. She was last seen August 29, 1982, headed for a fast- food restaurant in the area near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The King County Medical Examiner’s office said she died of undetermined “homicidal violence.”
A dozen other young women who worked the strip of motels near the airport remain missing and are considered possible victims of the “Green River Killer.” The last known victim disappeared last June, and no one has been added to the list of missing young women since November.
An inquiry into illegal profits from security trading based on information improperly disclosed by a reporter at The Wall Street Journal is being conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The brokerage house of Kidder, Peabody & Company has provided the commission with account records involved in the investigation, according to the firm’s associate general counsel.
Edward R. Vrdolyak easily won re-election as head of the Cook County Democratic organization despite pledges by Mayor Harold Washington to force him out and open the party to minorities and women.
The government claimed solid results in its new approach to combating illegal drugs — the penetration since last summer of 535 drug gangs, leading to the indictment of 1,841 top leaders and major drug suppliers and distributors, money launderers and financiers. The summary was given in the annual report sent to Congress by the Organized Drug Enforcement Task Force Program, which was created by President Reagan in October, 1982, but did not begin operations until last summer.
Officially appointed Lutheran and Methodist theologians are asking their respective churches to “declare and establish” full fellowship of word and sacrament, church officials said in Washington. The request, if acted on by the various official bodies of the two worldwide Protestant communions, would mean that Lutherans and Methodists after five years of talks could take communion in one another’s churches and pastors could exchange pulpits for preaching.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that radioactive steel pedestals for restaurant tables have been recovered from 33 states without any signs of injury to local residents, although the NRC said it learned that five persons at a Juarez, Mexico, junkyard received massive doses of radiation before the contaminated steel was shipped to the United States. The radiation came from the cobalt canister of a cancer treatment machine in Juarez, that was broken apart last November and sold as scrap, NRC staff members told a commission meeting.
New York Post employees returned to work with “a lot of good will” after a two-day strike by Newspaper Guild members that briefly interrupted publication, a Post executive said. The agreement on a three-year contract was reached and Federal Mediator Hezekiah Brown said the guild’s 18 negotiators would unanimously recommend acceptance. The Post’s 800 drivers, printers and other craft workers refused to cross picket lines after guild members walked out Saturday, which was a key factor in settling the strike, a guild spokesman said.
Cheating by prospective doctors has been reported by medical educators, state and Federal officials and professional organizations. They said there was increasing evidence of widespread cheating and fraud involving the basic examinations that doctors must pass before they are allowed to practice medicine.
Nearly all leave-takings evoke deep-seated feelings from earlier life, in the view of many psychotherapists. Because of the primal nature of moving on, later leavings — even when highly desired — can raise a confusing mix of emotions, including feelings of helplessness, anger and depression.
A slow-moving lava flow from Mauna Loa on the island of Hawaii continued inching toward the outskirts of Hilo, the state’s second-largest city, and officials said it was impossible to tell if or when it would reach any homes. The current lava flow is one of four that have poured out of the volcano since March 25, when it erupted for the first time since a one-day eruption in 1975. It has traveled about 15 miles from a fissure on the 13,677-foot volcano over an eight-day period. Hilo, with 40,000 persons, is about 20 miles from the volcano.
An April storm spread up to two feet of drifting snow from the central Rockies into Nebraska and Kansas, causing havoc as interstate highways closed and travelers were stranded. The National Weather Service in Denver warned of blizzard conditions on the eastern Plains. Winter storm warnings were posted for most of Nebraska, northwest Kansas, eastern Colorado, portions of eastern Wyoming and southwest and south-central South Dakota. Ranchers in Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, the Dakotas and Kansas were warned to protect young livestock from high winds and rain or snow.
President Reagan flies to Baltimore to throw out the 1st ball as the Orioles and White Sox open another season of baseball. In Baltimore, President Reagan throws out the first pitch, just the third President to do so outside of Washington. He then sits in the Orioles dugout with owner Edward Bennett Williams and Bowie Kuhn for the first inning, before exiting. The Orioles beat the White Sox, 5–2.
For the first time in ten years, the Mets lose on Opening Day, bowing to the Reds, 8–1. The last time the team dropped a season opener was in 1974, when Mike Schmidt hit a two-run walk-off home run off Tug McGraw, giving the Phillies a 5–4 victory over New York at Veterans Stadium.
46th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Georgetown beats Houston, 84-75; Hoyas center Patrick Ewing tournament MOP; John Thompson first African-American head coach to lead his team to any NCAA Division I title.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1153.16 (-11.73).
Born:
Devale Ellis, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions), in Brooklyn, New York, New York.
Meryl Cassie, New Zealand actress and singer (“The Tribe”), in George, Cape Province, South Africa.
[Ed: They use a special gun to simulate anti-aircraft damage, then have their crews fix the bird.]
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