Thousands of Solidarity backers led by Lech Walesa slipped into an official May Day parade in Poland’s port city of Gdansk and shouted slogans of the outlawed independent union as they marched past a reviewing stand. Cheers and shouts of “Solidarity!” rose from the crowd, and officials on the stand appeared stunned. An overwhelming number of policemen were deployed to keep supporters of Solidarity, the outlawed independent labor union, from protesting on the traditional workers’ holiday, but Western correspondents reported that demonstrations nevertheless developed into street clashes in Warsaw, Czestochowa, Szczecin, Wroclaw and Nowa Huta as well as in Gdansk.
In Poland, the most dramatic moment of the day came as Mr. Walesa, the founder of Solidarity, suddenly appeared in front of the reviewing stand in Gdansk, flashing the familiar two-fingered V sign of resistance. Cheers and shouts of “Solidarity!” rose from the crowd. A witness reported that as the provincial Governor, party chief and other ranking officials recognized Mr. Walesa, they seemed stupefied and “went stiff.” Moments later riot policemen waded into the marchers in front of the reviewing stand, flailing truncheons.
London police said they found pistols and ammunition in the former Libyan Embassy along with “positive proof” that the shots that set off the 11-day embassy siege came from inside the building. On the second day of a search, Scotland Yard investigators said they could refute the Libyan government’s charge that the shots that killed a London policewoman and wounded 11 Libyan demonstrators were from British police. Among the discoveries, they said, was a shell casing from a 9-millimeter submachine gun by a second-floor window, where witnesses said they saw a weapon being fired during the April 17 incident.
Margaret Thatcher rejected calls for an independent inquiry into the British Government’s handling of the crisis over the Libyan Embassy. The Prime Minister said she had ordered an internal review to be carried out by established agencies.
Great Britain performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
The Government of the tiny Pyrenean co-principality of Andorra has resigned after opposition to its plans for new taxes in the nearly tax-free territory, officials said today. They said Prime Minister Oscar Ribas Reig, his Cabinet of four ministers and two secretaries of state resigned Monday night after months of debate over the proposed new taxes on banks, hotels, insurance companies and businesses. Mr. Ribas, a liberal lawyer, had backed the new taxes, but conservative groups opposed them.
Konstantin U. Chernenko presided over the May Day parade in Red Square a year after his absence from the march prompted some students of Soviet affairs to begin writing him off as a force in Kremlin politics. A theme of yesterday’s parade seemed to be the ascendancy of the 72-year- old Mr. Chernenko as the Soviet party leader and head of state.
Soviet forces in Afghanistan have seized about half a strategic valley used by rebels as a stronghold, but the guerrillas have retreated into ancillary valleys, according to Western diplomats in New Delhi. The diplomats quoted sources in the Panjshir Valley, 50 miles north of Kabul, the Afghan capital, as saying the Soviet forces, which have been pressing an offensive there since April 20, had not yet entered the side areas sheltering the guerrillas. The sources also said that the insurgent leader, Ahmad Shah Massoud, slipped out of the valley on April 18 or 19 to avoid capture after having been tipped off that an offensive was about to start. The diplomats spoke at a weekly briefing for Western journalists who are barred from visiting Afghanistan. Citing information he had received from Kabul, one diplomat described the offensive as the biggest anti-insurgent action mounted by the Soviet forces since December 1979 when they intervened in Afghanistan.
No major U.S.-Soviet scientific link has been forged in more than two years. The National Academy of Sciences said it would send a delegation to Moscow next month to explore ways to expand United States-Soviet scientific exchanges.
President Reagan, in Fairbanks, Alaska, after his six-day visit to China, said he was heartened by “the injection of a free market spirit” into China’s economy and optimistic about the prospects for friendship and economic cooperation “with this so-called Communist China.” Summing up the China trip, the President said that he was impressed by Chinese curiosity about this country and that he felt his talks with the Chinese leadership had raised Chinese-American relations to “a new level of understanding.” But he said the trip had “not particularly” changed his own thinking about China.
Amid reports of intensified fighting along the Sino-Vietnamese border, China warned that it is ready to “punish” Vietnam if what it called “armed provocations” along the frontier continue. Accusing Hanoi of preparing cross-border attacks to distract world and Chinese attention from the new Vietnamese offensive in Cambodia, China said it might launch preemptive strikes against any Vietnamese troop concentrations threatening its security.
President Reagan’s visit to China represents a “significant step forward” in relations between the two countries, but Taiwan remains a major obstacle, the official New China News Agency said today. “Reagan’s six-day state visit to China is viewed by observers here as having broken ground for an enduring and steady growth of Chinese-U.S. relations,” the press agency said in an analysis issued hours after Mr. Reagan left China. The agency said the visit produced concrete results, “the most important of which, as both sides noted repeatedly, was the direct contact and dialogue between leaders of the two countries.” It said both countries demanded that Vietnamese and Soviet occupation forces in Cambodia and Afghanistan be withdrawn. But China took exception to the stationing of United States troops in South Korea and asked Mr. Reagan to take measures to relax tensions on the peninsula, the agency said.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in a May Day speech that he would break diplomatic relations with any country that moves its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Egypt last month broke ties with El Salvador and Costa Rica for that reason. A resolution before the U.S. Congress, opposed by the Reagan Administration, calls for moving the U.S. Embassy to the disputed holy city, which Israel has designated as its capital.
A Turkish businessman who was shot Saturday in Iran, apparently by Armenian terrorists, has died, the semi-official Turkish news agency Anatolia reported in Ankara. Two gunmen riding on a motorcycle opened fire on Isik Yonder and his wife. Sadiye, a secretary at the Turkish Embassy in Tehran, as they were leaving their house. The wife was not hit. A caller saying he was from the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia claimed responsibility for the attack.
A feud between Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her daughter-in-law intensified today when the Prime Minister’s status as a Hindu was questioned in a courtroom here. A lawyer for Maneka Gandhi, the widow of Mrs. Gandhi’s son Sanjay, told the high court here that Mrs. Gandhi was not entitled to a share of Sanjay’s estate because she had married Feroze Gandhi, a member of the minority Parsis, in 1942. A judge ruled last February that Mrs. Gandhi, Maneka Gandhi and Maneka’s son, Feroze Varun, were each entitled to a third of stock worth $47,500 that Sanjay owned. The latest arguments emerged at an appeal filed by the 27-year-old Maneka Gandhi against the earlier verdict. Using a photograph of Mrs. Gandhi’s 1942 wedding as evidence, the Prime Minister’s lawyer told the high court judge the marriage had been performed according to Hindu rituals.
About 200 unidentified gunmen fired into a Guatemalan refugee camp in southern Mexico, killing six refugees and wounding seven others, Mexican officials said. Lieutenant Colonel Jose Valadez Varela, director of public security for the state of Chiapas, said the attack occurred in the camp of Chupadedos in a jungle area 3½ miles from the Guatemalan border. The armed men reportedly wore fatigues similar to the uniforms worn by the Guatemalan army. Guatemalan leftist rebels also frequently wear such uniforms.
President Belisario Betancur has declared a state of siege throughout Colombia following the assassination of Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, whose death was believed linked to the nation’s billion-dollar illegal drug trade. Lara, 39, was killed Monday by submachine gun fire from one of two assailants on a motorcycle. Bodyguards killed one of the assailants and wounded the other. Lara had reportedly received death threats for his crackdown on marijuana and cocaine. Imposing the state of siege that suspended constitutional guarantees, Betancur vowed to continue the fight against the drug trade.
About 130 people were killed in April in a surge of violence by Peruvian Maoist guerrillas, an army commander said today. The commander said that 61 guerrillas belonging to the Shining Path group, 58 peasants, 7 soldiers and 2 civilian government officials were among those killed.
The foreign ministers of nine Latin American countries, meeting in Panama City, ordered their vice ministers to draw up a general plan for peace in Central America, incorporating proposals from the so-called Contadora group of nations — Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Costa Rica. The Contadora group has been unable to come up with a generally accepted peace plan since it began its deliberations in January because of differences covering such issues as the presence of foreign military advisers and arms control in the region. Proposals in the latest peace plan effort are to be presented in 30 days.
President Reagan, saying he had “no tolerance” for what the Ku Klux Klan represented, today repudiated the group’s endorsement. In a letter to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the President said: “Those of us in public life can only resent the use of our names by those who seek political recognition for the repugnant doctrines of hate they espouse. ‘The politics of racial hatred and religious bigotry practiced by the Klan and others have no place in this country, and are destructive of the values for which America has always stood.”
Walter F. Mondale won a decisive victory in the Tennessee primary, setting back Gary Hart’s hope of rebounding as the Democratic Presidential campaign entered a crucial eight-day phase. The Rev. Jesse Jackson came in a strong third, but the record black vote generated by his candidacy was a notable exception to the apathy that election officials said was responsible for a low voter turnout. Mr. Mondale said at an impromptu news conference at Love Field in Dallas tonight, “I was really encouraged by Tennessee.” He added that he was surprised by his margin of victory. In a statement issued tonight in Dallas, Mr. Hart said: “I’m disappointed that we didn’t do better in Tennessee, but I am encouraged by the fact that a majority of the voters in that state are looking for an alternative to the kind of traditional special-interest politics represented by the front-runner. We waged a good fight and now take our campaign into states which vote next week. The nomination is still an open contest and will go all the way to the convention.”
Jesse Jackson won the District of Columbia primary in his first clear-cut victory in the Democratic Presidential campaign, handily defeating both his rivals. “I feel good about our day’s work,” Mr. Jackson said while campaigning and raising money at the Turf Valley Country Club in rural Maryland. “Our momentum continues.” Appearing somewhat subdued in the face of his first-place finish in the district and a third-place showing in Tennessee, Mr. Jackson said “it is not clear” that Mr. Mondale would be the nominee. “All this will be much clearer next Tuesday night,” he said, referring to the contests in Ohio, North Carolina, Maryland and Indiana. “I have reason to believe it will not be a first-round victory.”
President Reagan, on the way home from China, attends a welcoming ceremony at the University of Alaska where the President addresses a crowd of 3,000. After a nine-hour flight across the Pacific, the President took an overnight stop here to meet Wednesday morning with Pope John Paul II, who will touch down in Fairbanks en route to Asia.
There are 250,000 homeless people in the United States, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Previous estimates of the homeless population put the total at two million to three million. A spokesman for an antipoverty group termed the department estimate “utterly ridiculous.”
The House approved 343 to 72 and sent to the Senate a bill that would increase funds for nutrition programs for poor women and children. It would raise the income eligibility for reduced-price school meals and lower the meals’ price. “We have only restored 14% of the $1.5-billion cut in 1981,” Rep. Carl D. Perkins (D-Kentucky), chairman of the Education and Labor Committee, told House colleagues in urging them to approve the legislation. He said the child nutrition programs were cut 36% in the 1981 budget. Because of those cuts, Perkins said, 3 million children have dropped out of the school-lunch program in the last three years.
The Senate defeated 38 to 57 a deficit-reduction plan that would have frozen most spending for a year, including Social Security, but still would have allowed a 4% increase in military expenditures. The plan, offered by Senator Ernest F. Hollings (D-South Carolina), was the first of several budget “freeze” proposals set to come up in the Senate as it continued its second week of debate on deficit reduction. Senate Republican leaders support a $144-billion three-year deficit plan that has the backing of President Reagan. The House has approved a $182-billion three-year deficit-cutting plan as part of its fiscal 1985 budget.
The Senate voted a 3.5% pay raise for federal judges retroactive to January 1. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. George J. Mitchell (D-Maine), was approved on a 67-28 vote as an amendment to the pending budget-control bill. Congress earlier approved a 4% pay raise for members of Congress and civilian federal employees but not for federal judges, who now earn from $73,100 to $77,300 a year, with Chief Justice Warren E. Burger earning $100,700. Members of Congress earn $72,600.
Illegal aliens forced to jump from a trestle because of a freight train had been led by smugglers on a forced march for 18 to 20 hours without food or water, a United States Border Patrol officer said today. Four aliens were killed and seven were injured seriously Saturday night when a Missouri Pacific train surprised the group as they walked across a long, narrow trestle. Survivors said three smugglers had allowed the group of 47 predominantly Salvadoran aliens to stop only once in a 24-hour period, said Bob Gilbert, the assistant chief Border Patrol agent in McAllen. “They said they stopped once and slept for six hours under some bushes,” Chief Gilbert said today. “But they didn’t get any food or water. The men said there would be food when they reached the vehicles.”
Babies born last year can expect to live 74.6 years, an all-time high for the United States and almost a year longer than the 1980 life-expectancy rate, a report released in New York said. If the trend continues, the average American will live into his 80s by the year 2050, said Stanley Kranczer, senior research associate for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. The improvement “primarily reflects the continued downward trend in infant mortality rates,” Kranczer said.
One of six young persons reported missing since they went for a Saturday joyride in the woods of Pennsylvania’s coal country near Llewellyn was found dead in a car that had plummeted more than 70 feet into a collapsed mine, a rescue official said. Five other bodies remained underground. After working all day to get heavy equipment into position to reach the four-wheel-drive Chevrolet Blazer, rescue workers pulled a body out of the hole on a stretcher at 7:30 p.m.
Indianapolis Mayor William H. Hudnut III signed into law a controversial ordinance defining pornography as a form of sex discrimination, but a group including publishers and booksellers immediately filed suit challenging the law’s constitutionality. Under the ordinance, a person can file a complaint with the Office of Equal Opportunity about a specific item that he or she considers pornographic. If the panel determines that the material offends community standards and is without redeeming social value, a court order to ban the material can be requested.
Milwaukee’s Police Chief, who came under fire for remarks linking school busing to crime by black youths, announced today that he would retire June 30 after 20 years as head of the department. The move by Harold A. Breier, 72 years old, came weeks after the Wisconsin Legislature enacted a bill curtailing his power and authorizing the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission to initiate rules for the city’s Police Department. Chief Breier was criticized after he said in a February newspaper interview that school busing for integration was linked to crime involving black youths. “We have bused crime all over the city,” he said in the interview.
Charges that a Vitamin E solution linked to 38 infant deaths got on the market despite a warning by a Food and Drug Administration worker that it had not been tested will be discussed at a House panel hearing Friday. The maker voluntarily recalled the product April 9.
Danielle Steel’s romance novel “Full Circle” is published.
The 1984 NFL Draft: Nebraska wide receiver Irving Fryar is the first pick by the New England Patriots.
Devil’s Bag will not run in the Kentucky Derby Saturday because his handlers think he would probably run a poor race that could jeopardize his future, Woody Stephens, his trainer, announced. The colt, a sensation last year and an early favorite to sweep the Triple Crown races, will be pointed for the Preakness Prep at Pimlico May 12 and the Preakness Stakes May 19.
Dwight Gooden strikes out ten batters for the second game in a row. The Mets’ 19-year-old phenom, who will set a major league rookie record with 276 strikeouts, will have a total of 15 double-digit strikeout games this year. The Mets won, 8–1, to take sole possession of first place in the National League East.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1183.00 (+12.25).
Born:
David Backes, Team USA and NHL centre (NHL All Star 2011; Olympics, silver medal, 2010, 4th, 2014; St. Louis Blues, Boston Bruins, Anaheim Ducks), in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Patrick Eaves, Canadian NHL right wing (Ottawa Senators, Carolina Hurricanes, Detroit Red Wings, Nashville Predators, Dallas Stars, Anaheim Ducks), in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Byron Storer, NFL running back (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Modesto, California.
Farah Fath, American actress (“Days of Our Lives”), in Lexington, Kentucky.
Died:
Gordon Jenkins, 73, American arranger and orchestra leader (Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra), of Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS).
Jüri Lossmann, 93, Estonian athlete (Olympic silver medal, marathon, 1920).
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