U.S. sales of antiaircraft missiles to Saudi Arabia will be doubled by the Reagan Administration, Administration officials said. The Stinger missiles are intended for use against possible Iranian air attacks on oil tankers, oil fields and other installations. The decision was a response to the Saudi request for more missiles than had been designated in an emergency sale of 200 Stinger missiles and 100 shoulder-held launchers tentatively approved Friday by the Administration.
Afghanistan’s Government-run radio has reported that reconstruction has begun in the Panjshir Valley, a traditional guerrilla stronghold that the government says it now controls. The Kabul radio, monitored in Islamabad Saturday night, said the valley was peaceful, but the report was not confirmed by Afghan exiles or Western diplomats in Pakistan. Diplomats said Soviet forces, which launched an offensive in the area April 21, seemed to be in control of the floor of the 70-mile-long valley but it was not clear whether fighting had ended in the many side valleys. Guerrilla sources in Peshawar said clashes were continuing.
Egyptians voted in the first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak succeeded President Anwar el- Sadat in 1981. Four opposition parties were challenging Mr. Mubarak’s National Democratic Party. Opponents said pro-Government crowds stuffed some ballot boxes, burned others, and chased voters from polling places. An opposition candidate was reportedly shot to death by her government opponent.
A group of 26 former Government leaders concluded a three-day meeting today with a call for a meeting between President Reagan and Konstantin U. Chernenko, the Soviet leader. The former leaders, members of the Inter-Action Council, met on this northern Adriatic island under the chairmanship of Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary General of the United Nations. Former Government leaders from Japan, Australia, West Germany, Argentina and Rumania were among those attending. Mr. Waldheim said members of the Council would travel to Washington and Moscow in an effort to bring Mr. Reagan and Mr. Chernenko together for a meeting.
The foreign ministers of the 16 North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations will meet in Washington this week for a major reassessment of East-West relations, the Persian Gulf War and other international issues. Another major topic during the three-day meeting beginning Tuesday will be the Netherlands’ reconsideration of an earlier decision to accept 48 nuclear cruise missiles as part of a NATO arms modernization program to counter a Soviet weapons buildup.
The Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei A. Gromyko, has agreed to receive a delegation from the International Olympic Committee in Moscow this week to discuss the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Games, officials reported today. The delegation, which is expected to fly to Moscow on Wednesday, will be led by the committee’s president, Juan Antonio Samaranch of Spain, the officials said.
A poll of the Common Market nations found French and West Germans expressing particular hostility toward Britain. The poll, conducted for the European Parliament and a group of European newspapers, also found that Europeans were sharply divided over moves to end all trade barriers among the 10 Common Market countries. The poll coincided with a sharp budget dispute in the Common Market community, provoked largely by Britain’s unhappiness over the community’s spending practices and its agricultural program.
The discovery of more than two tons of explosives, 1,600 rounds of ammunition and other lethal material at two sites in Northern Ireland may have foiled plans for a wave of bombings by the Irish Republican Army to coincide with a visit by President Reagan to the Irish Republic beginning Friday, police said. Republican sources said it is unlikely that the IRA would contemplate any attack on the President. But they said that the outlawed IRA may have had plans for spectacular bombings at the time of the Reagan visit to gain attention for its campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland. The munitions cache was one of the largest uncovered since the IRA campaign got under way in 1969.
The Allies’ refusal to invite Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany to ceremonies in Normandy commemorating the 40th anniversary of D-day has been criticized in Paris. Simone Veil, a former president of the European Parliament and a survivor of Auschwitz, said Mr. Kohl should have been asked to attend the ceremonies that will bring together the chiefs of state of the Allied powers.
Five people were killed and nine wounded in northern India in continuing violence that included a bombing at a theater, a mob attack on two policemen and a street ambush. More than 200 people have been killed in the current wave of sectarian strife in Punjab state, where militant Sikhs seek autonomy. In the Bombay (Mumbai) area, there were sporadic cases of violence, but the city appeared to be returning to normal from Hindu-Muslim strife over the last week and a half.
The police said today that they were in control of the southwestern state of Maharashtra, where 223 people have been killed in clashes between Hindus and Moslems in the past 11 days. Sporadic clashes continued and two more bodies were found in Bhiwandi, an industrial town northeast of Bombay, where fighting between the two religious groups broke out on May 18. In the northern state of Punjab, the Press Trust of India news agency reported that nine Hindus and Sikhs were wounded when a bomb was thrown at a movie theater in Patiala. Thirty-four deaths have been reported in Punjab since Sikh extremists began an offensive a week ago.
Thousands of Japanese demonstrated against the planned deployment of cruise missiles on U.S. Navy ships based in Japan. Police said more than 20,000 people took part in rallies and marches in Yokosuka, where the U.S. 7th Fleet has its headquarters. Another 11,000 took part in similar protests near Navy and Marine bases in other parts of the country. Communist Party officials, who backed the protests, said they have collected 70,000 signatures on a petition asking Yokosuka officials to ban port calls by U.S. ships carrying cruise missiles.
China said today that it had ejected Vietnamese troops from two hilltop positions they had held since Vietnam and China fought a border war in 1979. The official New China News Agency said dozens of Chinese villages were within range of the positions, which the radio said were in Chinese territory. In a report from the border, it said that “the Vietnamese forces were driven out of China on April 28 and 30.” Fighting along the rugged, ill-defined border has flared in the last two months, with each side accusing the other of intrusions and artillery barrages against border villages. The Hanoi radio today reported fresh fighting. It said 280 Chinese troops and 11 Vietnamese civilians were killed.
Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, reacting to opposition gains in recent parliamentary elections, created special committees to analyze problems that may have led to the setback at the polls. The new committees will study the government’s propaganda system and analyze regional problems. In the May 14 elections, the opposition increased its number of seats in the 200-member National Assembly from 13 to at least 55, despite Marcos’ prediction of a sweep by his ruling New Society Movement.
The beating of a pregnant woman by the Haitian police was the direct cause of rioting in the port city of Gonaïves last week, residents said. The woman died. Haitians said it was the latest in a series of such incidents of brutality against civilians. But they also said the disturbances grew out of unhappiness over rising food prices and general sense of hostility against the Government of President Jean-Claude Duvalier.
Thousands of demonstrators in Uruguay took part in the largest public protest ever held against the country’s military rulers. Political discussion groups were conducted in the capital of Montevideo, and people took to the streets of several cities to demand free elections, amnesty for political prisoners, full employment and a truly free press. The military has pledged to return the nation to civilian rule by March, 1985, but a deadlock has developed over demands by the armed forces that they retain some powers under an elected government.
South African Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha, buoyed by recent diplomatic gains with neighboring black nations, begins a seven-nation tour of Europe this week. Botha will go to Portugal, Britain, West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and France-the last on a private visit. French President Francois Mitterrand has refused to see the leader of white-dominated South Africa.
Rain deluged Tulsa, Oklahoma, with floods up to 10 feet deep. Eight people were killed, and 2,100 people were forced to leave their homes. Scores of others were injured and thousands were left without power. Heavy thunderstorms bearing tornadoes continued to pound the area this afternoon, but no additional damage or injuries were reported. National Guardsmen were called out in a state of emergency declared by Mayor Terry Young.
Thousands continued to file past the flag-draped coffin in the Capitol rotunda to pay their respects to the Unknown Soldier of the Vietnam War, who will be buried at noon EDT today when the nation honors its war dead with Memorial Day parades and graveyard services. The Unknown Soldier will join the Pantheon of Unknowns from two world wars and the Korean War in ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery.
Walter F. Mondale has not been able to carry out his promise to shut down the delegate committees formed to support his candidacy and to return all the money they had collected from labor union sources. Mondale campaign officials said $400,000 had been put into an escrow account at the D.C. National Bank in Washington for repayments, but the money will not be returned until the Federal Election Commission gives its approval. A campaign official said the process was proving to be a “logistical nightmare” and could take months.
President Reagan enjoys a horseback ride around Camp David.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “Virginia City.”
President Reagan erred by appointing William J. Casey, his 1980 campaign manager, as director of the CIA because of Casey’s “past partisan political activities,” former CIA Director Stansfield Turner said. House investigators last week charged that Casey had received some of the briefing papers leaked to the Reagan campaign from then-President Jimmy Carter’s reelection campaign. Speaking on NBC-TV’s “Meet the Press,” retired Admiral Turner also said the CIA-backed mining of Nicaraguan harbors could be likened to “state-supported terrorism” and had exceeded “the limits of decency.”
A new, computer-controlled ride malfunctioned at Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park in Atlanta, causing a chain-reaction crash and trapping 68 screaming passengers inside planes dangling as high as 100 feet off the ground for up to 3½ hours. A Six Flags spokesman said that at least 34 passengers were treated at area hospitals but that there were no serious injuries. He said most were treated for dehydration from temperatures in the mid-80s. The last of the passengers on the “Great Air Race” were rescued by Fire Department personnel using construction cranes several hours after the ride, packed with holiday fun-seekers, malfunctioned.
Confidential documents from Secretary of Labor Raymond J. Donovan’s former company have cast doubt on denials that he and White House aides had contact with detectives for the firm while investigations of alleged links with organized crime were under way, Time magazine reported. The magazine said it had examined the documents from the files of Robert Shortley, chief investigator for Schiavone Construction Co., and one of them indicated that Donovan had given him some names to “check out” and be prepared to discuss with the labor secretary at a March, 1982, meeting.
A bomb exploded in a Las Vegas parking lot at the strikebound Tropicana Hotel early today. It was the third bombing incident in four days at hotels engaged in a labor dispute with four unions, but there was no indication the incident was strike- related, the police said. The strike against Las Vegas hotel-casinos is entering its ninth week. In the blast, nine vehicles were damaged, but no injuries were reported in any of the incidents, the police said. The bomb detonated at 3:10 AM near a marquee at one of the city’s busiest intersections, a Metro police spokesman, Frank Gerst, said, adding that no arrests had been made.
A six-inch pipe bomb, similar to six found in La Crosse, Wisconsin, went off in Stillwater, Minnesota this morning, and the police say a note similar to those found with the Wisconsin bombs was recovered. The bomb exploded around 10 AM when a man walking along a trail threw a rock into a pile of freshly cut tree limbs, hitting a trip wire, Chief Wally Abrahamson of the Stillwater police said. He said the man was not injured and had asked not to be identified. A note, signed “Gay Strike Force,” was found with the bomb, Chief Abrahamson said. There was no confirmation whether such a group exists. The note found here, 35 miles northeast of Minneapolis, was similar to those found with the bombs in La Crosse, 150 miles southeast of Minneapolis and across the state line, Chief Abrahamson said.
A water emergency due to EDB contamination forced residents of Whately, Mass., to use water trucked in by the National Guard for bathing, cooking and drinking. The town declared a water emergency because of EDB contamination in private wells. Civil Defense Director Paul Fleuriel said, “Some wells within the town are contaminated with pesticides and until the state completes its testing, the state said we must assume a large portion is affected.”
Women who have heart attacks are more likely than men to die and those women who survive are more likely than men to have a second heart attack, according to a federal study. The study also found that death from heart disease is increasing in women 50 to 59 years old, despite an overall decline in heart disease in men, Elaine Eaker, a researcher with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, said at a New York meeting.
A man, apparently on a vigilante campaign to kill drug dealers, claimed responsibility for stabbing two men — one fatally — in Harlem and threatened to kill again. After the knifings, the man called police five times in three hours and threatened to kill two persons unless Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward released a statement on illegal narcotics. Ward did so and said at nightfall Sunday that there had been no further attacks since late afternoon and that the man had not called police after Ward’s statement was broadcast.
Five people were killed when a school bus and three cars collided today on Seven Mile Bridge, which connects the Florida Keys, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The bridge was closed at 8:21 PM when the accident was reported, Joan Dennhardt, a dispatcher for the Highway Patrol said. She said that the identities of the victims were not available and that the affiliation of the group on the bus was not known.
Company-paid “stay well” accounts are among incentives being offered employees by hundreds of companies across the country in a sometimes-controversial program to curb the rise in health costs. In these programs, called flexible reimbursement plans or health expense accounts, an employer creates a pool, usually several hundred dollars, for each employee to draw upon for health needs. The employee may draw money from this pool to pay the first charges on medical bills before company-paid health insurance assumes the burden. If any of the money is not used, it becomes the employee’s.
A fight over educational TV channels among nonprofit institutions is the latest development in the intense struggle to exploit the commercial potential of pay television. Hundreds of colleges and companies are vying for licenses to broadcast on the microwave section of the airwaves in an electronic gold rush set off by Federal Communications Commission decision a year ago. At stake is the prospect of reaching millions of households not yet wired for cable television.
A surge of technological industries in the Philadelphia area has occurred without anyone seeming to be aware of it. The industries are concentrated in a corridor roughly spanning a section of Route 202 and part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, running alongside part of the old suburban train Main Line area. The industries’ most visible growth is around King of Prussia, where Route 202 crosses the turnpike at the Schuylkill Expressway.
Manuela Maleeva of Bulgaria wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day; Italian Open 1984, beats Virginie Ruzici, Carling Basset and Chris Evert in the final 6–3 6–3; only 7th player to beat Evert on clay.
Indianapolis 500: 1979 champion Rick Mears wins second Indy 500 two laps ahead of the field after contenders Tom Sneva and Mario Andretti drop out in second half of the race.
“How do you fine a bat boy?” – William Cutler, president of the Pacific League. Portland Beavers bat boy Sam Morris is thrown out of a game by umpire Pam Postema for refusing to retrieve a folding chair that his ejected manager Lee Elia had hurled into right field during an animated tirade. The 14-year-old junior high school student, who declined to follow the arbitrator’s directive out of loyalty to his skipper, will not have to pay the $25 fine, which is usually automatic for being tossed from a PCL game.
At Seattle, the Mariners top the Tigers, 5–1, for their 3rd straight win over the front-runners. The M’s have 14 hits, including 5 hit-and-run singles, to beat Dan Petry. Mike Young takes the win. The Tigers now lead the Blue Jays and Orioles by 5 games.
At Chicago, the Reds edge the Cubs 4–3 in a contest protested by both clubs. Ron Cey belts a 3rd inning blow originally called a homer by umpire Rippley. The Reds argue the call and, after an ump conference, the ruling is a foul. The Cubs then protest. The umps then huddle with Reds manager Rapp. Mario Soto, Cincinnati’s starting pitcher, is ejected from the game when he shoves Steve Rippley, the third base umpire who called Ron Cey’s foul ball down the left field line a home run. Although the decision will be reversed, the Reds’ right-hander will also attack Cubs coach Don Zimmer, prompting National League president Chub Feeney to suspended the fiery fireballer for five games, the first of the two suspensions he will be given this season. Both teams then file a protest.
At Anaheim, Scott McGregor (6–3) and two relievers combine on a 4-hit shutout as the Orioles whitewash the Angels, 8–0. Al Bumbry has 4 hits for the O’s and Wayne Gross belts a grand slam and drives in 5 runs.
Born:
Miguel González, Mexican MLB pitcher (Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers), in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Blake Ahearn, NBA point guard (Miami Heat, San Antonio Spurs, Utah Jazz), in St. Louis, Missouri.
Chris McCray, NBA shooting guard (Milwaukee Bucks), in Capitol Heights, Maryland.
Darin Brooks, American actor (“Blue Mountain State”), in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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