President Reagan tours the countryside of Shanghai. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese jammed the streets of Shanghai to greet President Reagan as he completed his six-day visit to China. Workers in the old commercial city, many apparently given time off, gave Mr. Reagan the biggest reception of his career. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese jammed the streets of this old commercial city to greet President Reagan Monday as he completed his six-day visit to China. Mr. Reagan used the occasion to reiterate American readiness to help the nation modernize and prosper. Workers, many apparently granted time off, gave Mr. Reagan the biggest reception of his career, an outpouring that some said was reminiscent of the one accorded President Nixon when he traveled here to sign a communique opening relations with China in 1972. Mr. Reagan’s first stop Monday was at the Shanghai Foxboro Corporation, China’s first industrial joint venture with an American partner, the Foxboro company of Massachusetts. There Mr. Reagan borrowed a soldering iron from one of 40 workers in white smocks and tried his hand at soldering chips onto a circuit board.
At Fudan University, Mr. Reagan received enthusiastic applause from students as he spoke of American willingness to help China develop skills in science, technology and management techniques. “My young friends, history is a river that may take us as it will,” Mr. Reagan told 700 students at the university on Monday. “But we have the power to navigate, to choose direction and make our passage together. The wind is up, the current is swift and opportunity for a long and fruitful journey awaits us.” Mr. Reagan also visited a model commune on the outskirts of Shanghai that is frequently visited by dignitaries. The commune produces vegetables and grows livestock, and is starting factories to produce farm machinery, plastics, furniture and handicrafts.
Menachem Begin, who resigned as Israeli prime minister last September, has decided not to run for the Knesset (Parliament) in general elections scheduled for July, Israel radio reported. The broadcast said the 70-year-old Begin-who has been in seclusion, reportedly in ill health, for several months-had not entered his name on the Herut Party’s list of Knesset candidates by the time that registration closed. “I have nothing to say. I have nothing to add,” Begin, 70, told an Israel radio reporter after the Herut announcement.
Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat appealed to Egypt to let him move his headquarters from Tunisia to Cairo. “I hope Egypt will agree… so that we will be near our occupied country, Palestine…” Arafat told the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Qabas. “If such a step is accomplished then it will be a… key violation by Egypt of the Camp David accords, which will eventually mean the destruction of this pact,” Arafat added. The Camp David accords, signed in 1978, led to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979.
Rashid Karami, Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate, announced the formation of a new national unity government that for the first time would bring the leaders of all warring militias into one cabinet. However, the Shiite militia leader, Nabih Berri, rejected any participation,
The British police blasted their way into the deserted Libyan Embassy in London and found every door in the building locked. The embassy was vacated on Friday by Libyan diplomats and political activists who had been holed up there during an 11-day police siege after the shooting of a policewoman by someone inside the building. Britain broke diplomatic relations with Libya as a result of the incident, the break becoming official at 12:01 AM today. Shortly after 4 PM, a shotgun was placed against the back door and set off by remote control to guard against the accidental detonation of a booby-trap or explosive charge. Then civilian munitions officers and a team from the army’s Royal Engineers forced the door with a crowbar and wedges and began a careful search. A police spokesman said tonight that it might be several days before all the doors were opened.
The police plan to look for forensic evidence in the killing of Constable Yvonne Fletcher, such as traces of gunpowder at the window where the shots are believed to have come from. They also hope to find and remove any weapons or explosives left behind. A Saudi Arabian diplomat, whose embassy is now representing Libya’s interests in this country, looked on as the police forced their way in.
Libyan police officers entered the British Embassy here tonight after the British search of the Libyan Embassy in London. The Italian Ambassador, Alessandro Quaroni, said that the Libyans entered the British premises shortly after 10 PM “They did it in an orderly manner,” Mr. Quaroni said. The Italian Embassy is representing British interests here after the break in diplomatic relations between Britain and Libya. Reporters who tried to verify the report of the Libyan entry were prevented from leaving their hotel tonight by Libyan officials.
The United States withdrew controversial conditions and agreed with seven North Atlantic Treaty Organization partners to study the prospects of jointly building a new frigate for the 1990s. Alliance sources said Washington infuriated Canada, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Britain when it produced the new demands three weeks ago. The allies — who complain that NATO weapons procurement is a one-way street from the United States to Europe — objected to the U.S. conditions, which they saw as undermining the possibility of real cooperation in the distribution of work and the transfer of technology.
Five masked gunmen stole about $1.5 million from Venice’s beachside municipal casino, hauling the loot away in speedboats on the city’s canals, Italian police said. About 50 people were in the casino during the early morning robbery. One casino employee was hit on the head with a pistol but sustained only minor injuries. Police said the gunmen overpowered the guard at the casino’s main door and raced upstairs, where they forced cashiers to open two vaults, which they emptied.
The underground of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity labor union federation flooded streets and factories with leaflets urging Poles to boycott May Day ceremonies today. The Communist government responded by mobilizing extra policemen, setting up summary courts and banning the sale of alcohol. It warned that troublemakers risk severe punishment. The May Day celebrations will be the first major test for Solidarity since the failure of a national day of protest called by the union last December.
Sikh extremists succeeded on their fifth attempt in killing a former top Indian police official, shooting him as he traveled in a rickshaw in the Sikhs’ holy city of Amritsar, police said. Bachan Singh, the former police superintendent of Amritsar, his wife and the couple’s bodyguard were slain by two Sikh extremists using submachine guns. The couple’s 18-year-old daughter was critically wounded.
The Dominican Government sought to avoid a confrontation with labor by announcing a series of measures intended to raise incomes and lower food prices for the poor. A nationally broadcast address by President Salvador Jorge Blanco came only hours after unions threatened a general strike if the Government did not raise the $45-dollar-a-month minimum wage and lower prices.
Colombian Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was shot and killed in Bogota by a gunman who fired a machine gun from a motorcycle. A police patrol accompanying Lara opened fire on the two men on the motorcycle, killing his assailant and wounding the driver, police said. The driver, Byron Velasquez Arena, told police that he and his companion were offered $20,000 by an unknown person to kill the official. Lara had initiated an energetic campaign against Colombia’s multi-million-dollar drug rings. U.S. Ambassador Lewis W. Tambs gave Lara a bulletproof vest because of death threats, but Lara rarely wore it.
The Sudanese President, acting under a state of emergency declared Sunday, invoked sweeping powers today that he said were needed to control a growing threat from his enemies “inside the country and abroad.” The President, Gaafar al-Nimeiry, issued decrees giving the Government the power to search private homes, control transport and impose curfews and censorship, the state-run Sudanese press agency said. The decrees also ban strikes, processions, unauthorized public gatherings and demonstrations.
Offenses under the emergency law would include “causing discontent or rebellion among the armed forces and civilians and causing damage to public utilities or means of communication and transport,” the agency said. Violators could be punished by up to 10 years imprisonment and a maximum fine that is the equivalent of about $5,000.
A key issue in libel law was resolved as the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment’s free press guarantee requires appellate courts to conduct especially careful reviews of libel judgments. The 6-to-3 ruling was a key victory for the press, which has come increasingly to rely on appellate courts to overturn jury awards in libel cases.
Senate Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-West Virginia), calling the potential impact on his state “staggering,” testified that he would oppose any immediate effort to begin an acid rain control program and instead support additional research into the problem. Byrd told a Senate committee that the costs of controlling acid rain are too high when so much about the pollutant is unknown. He said legislation calling for a reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions of 10 million tons a year could cost billions of dollars nationwide and as many as 24,500 jobs in West Virginia alone. Other officials said the Administration does not now support any plan to control acid rain.
The Administration, in a shift of policy, said it will support legislation that would set liability ceilings from an offshore oil spill and establish a federal trust fund to pay for the cleanup. Transportation. Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole promised to work with Congress “to achieve prompt action in this important effort to streamline and strengthen the oil pollution liability and compensation laws.” The legislation would create a single system to establish liability and pay for cleanup costs.
The House passed and sent to the Senate legislation intended to encourage all states to require the use of special safety seats in cars to protect children against death or injury. The legislation, passed by voice vote, would require each state to use 8% of its share of federal highway safety money on the programs. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has reported that nearly 3,400 children under the age of 5 were killed and more than 250,000 injured in traffic accidents from 1978 through 1982.
Space scientists are concerned about the Administration’s planned manned space station and Congress should not allow it to lock the nation into a purely manned system, Rep. Bill Green (R-New York) told a news conference. Green said scientists he surveyed fear the high costs of a manned space station could “put the squeeze on other vital scientific programs.” A manned station is estimated to cost as much as $8 billion by the early 1990s when it is to begin operation in orbit.
The Senate, working slowly on ways to reduce the federal deficit, handily defeated a proposal that would have cut 7.5% from all spending except the military, Social Security and Medicare. The proposal, from Senator Steven D. Symms (R-Idaho), which went down 18 to 50, was patterned after one from Senator Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina) that was defeated soundly last week. Helms’ plan would have cut spending 10%, with the same notable exceptions. The vote came on the fourth day of debate on the deficit reduction plans. Little progress has been made.
Gary Hart assailed Walter Mondale as a “weak” candidate and President Reagan as a “reckless” one. Addressing an ebullient crowd of students at Texas A & M University, Senator Hart said Mr. Mondale, as Vice President, was part of an Administration that was “weak,” “inept,” “uncertain” and marked by “days of shame” in Iran.
The South, starting with today’s primary in Tennessee, is again in a position to have a major impact on the dynamics of the Democratic Presidential campaign. The Tennessee contest, along with Saturday’s Texas caucus and Louisiana primary, could determine whether Gary Hart will be able to upset what some consider Walter Mondale’s downhill run toward the nomination.
Nondrug treatments for hypertension should be emphasized more, according to a recommendation by the Federal Government. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, afflicts about 60 million Americans and is a major risk factor in causing heart disease, stroke and kidney disease.
Potentially the worst spill of radioactive material in North American history occurred five months ago when an electrician in Juarez, Mexico, forced open an unmarked capsule filled with 6,010 tiny, silvery pellets. More than 200 people have been exposed to radiation from the pellets of cobalt 60 that had been the core of a cancer-treatment device.
Survivors of Nazi horrors met in Washington to begin transforming two buildings into a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that will show “the dark side of human civilization.” There was a symbolic ground-breaking for the $100 million, privately financed museum near the Washington Monument.
Corruption in Providence, Rhode Island, under the administration of Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. has been charged by several City Council members, and eight employees of the Cianci administration have been indicted in a cluster of Federal, state and city investigations. Now, after Mr. Cianci’s resignation last week in an unrelated case, and with his bureaucracy in disarray, more tips are being passed on to prosecutors.
A strike by 17,000 workers against Las Vegas hotel-casinos entered its second month today, and it was likely that two more unions would join the dispute. A 30-day no-strike clause in contracts covering the front desk clerks, parking attendants and engineers expires Wednesday. It would allow members of a teamsters’ local and an operating engineers’ local to honor picket lines of striking culinary workers, bartenders, stagehands, musicians and bellhops. The teamsters and operating engineers represent about 4,000 workers, including front desk clerks.
Irrationality of executives is being looked at with increased intensity by an unusual breed of organizational consultants, many of whom are practicing psychotherapists. The studies have shown, among other things, just how extreme irrationality, if unchecked, can eventually result in a catastrophe for a company and great pain for subordinates.
Police are looking for an alleged drug dealer who “throws money around like confetti” for questioning in the death of David Kennedy, it was reported. Palm Beach, Florida, authorities were reportedly looking for Harry L. Wolkind, 29, identified by police as the man who provided the cocaine that killed Billy Ylvisaker, a polo player found dead of an overdose March 28, 1983. Meanwhile, toxicologists were still testing blood and tissue samples to determine whether the concentration of cocaine and Demerol in Kennedy’s body was sufficient to have caused his death last Wednesday.
A man whose illegal fireworks factory blew up last spring, killing 11 people, today pleaded guilty to 11 counts of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Dan Lee Webb, 31 years old, entered the plea on the day his trial was to begin. In return for the plea, Circuit Judge David Harrod ordered Mr. Webb’s sentence to be served concurrently with a 10-year Federal term he was given April 19 for manufacturing explosives without a license. Mr. Webb also was fined $10,000 in the federal case. All of the victims worked at the plant. Mr. Webb’s mother, brother and uncle were among those killed when Webb’s Bait Farm exploded May 27.
A drug that has proven 85% effective in treating herpes in animals may be tested on humans before the year is out, researchers in Virginia and Canada said Monday. The patented drug’s tongue-twisting name — methoxymethideoxyuridine — is abbreviated MMUDR, said Virginia Tech toxicologist Blair Meldrum in Blacksburg, Va. Unlike other drugs on the market or under study, it does not merely lessen the severity of bouts of genital herpes, but seems to halt the growth of the virus that infects at least 5 million Americans.
After a night of flying through West Philadelphia, the city zoo’s rare green macaw Tyrone apparently decided there’s no place like home. The wayward bird, which escaped from the zoo after workers failed to clip its wings properly, was found Sunday morning pecking hungrily at some food left out as a lure. “We left a pan of food on our office roof and this morning Tyrone was sitting up there munching out,” said Deborah Derrickson, a zoo spokesman.
1,700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are, Sweden.
In Toronto, a game is called on account of wind. Despite gusts up to 60 mph, Jays starter Jim Clancy manages to retire the first 2 Rangers before the umps step in and call the game. Clancy was blown off the mound several times. The two will split a twinbill tomorrow.
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William Timmons, U.S. Rep.-R-South Carolina (2019–), in Greenville, South Carolina.
Seimone Augustus, WNBA guard and forward (WNBA Champions-Lynx, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017; WNBA All-Star, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2013-2015, 2017, 2018; Minnesota Lynx, Los Angeles Sparks), in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Brooke Smith, WNBA forward and center (WNBA Champions-Mercury, 2009; Phoenix Mercury), in San Anselmo, California.
Shawn Daivari [Dara Shawn Daivari], Persian-American professional wrestler and manager, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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