President Reagan assailed Moscow in Galway, Ireland for mounting “a strong and aggressive military machine that prohibits fundamental freedoms.” In a speech at the University College at Galway that was cut short by a hailstorm, Mr. Reagan defended his policies on his second day in Ireland as protesters demonstrated nearby. He asserted that it was the Soviet Union, not the United States, that had refused to engage in talks to reduce the threat of nuclear arms. “We seek negotiations with the Soviet Union, but unfortunately face an empty chair,” he declared.
President Reagan receives an honorary doctorate of laws from the National University in Ireland. Mr. Reagan, in a scarlet and purple academic gown, received an honorary doctorate of law from the University College at Galway and was granted “the Freedom of the Borough,” entitling him to vote and exercise other privileges in this city on Ireland’s west coast. The honor dates from medieval times, when Galway was a walled community. After speaking, Mr. Reagan returned with his wife, Nancy, to the Ashford Castle Hotel on Lough Corrib in County Mayo. There they had earlier strolled along a terrace facing the lake, with rolling green hills and pastures nearby.
Today the President opened his weekly five-minute radio broadcast to the United States with a cheerful “Top o’ the morning to you,” announcing that he was “in an area of spectacular beauty overlooking a large lake filled with islands, bays and coves. And those of you who, like me, can claim the good fortune of Irish roots, may appreciate the tug I felt yesterday in my heart when we saw the Emerald Isle from Air Force One.”
President Reagan meets with a group of American businessmen who own manufacturing plants in Ireland.
A global economic recovery is expected to be discussed by President Reagan and leaders of six other industrial democracies at a meeting that begins in London on Thursday. The United States budget deficits themselves will not be on the agenda, but many economists and some of the leaders at the meeting blame the tax and spending policies of the United States for economic problems facing the other countries.
West Germany expressed fears that Moscow might interpret the Dutch decision to delay the deployment of new nuclear missiles as a sign of faltering resolve in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Netherlands’ Cabinet voted to link the size of its deployment of NATO missiles to the number of new missiles that the Soviets target on Western Europe. The Bonn government “regrets that the Dutch government has been unable to make up its mind to help carry out the full 1979 NATO decision on schedule,” West German government spokesman Juergen Sudhoff said in a statement.
The capture of St.-Lo, France, on July 18, 1944, by the American First Army was the breakthrough that led to the collapse of the German front in Normandy. Now, there is a monument in the city to an American, Major Thomas Howie, but the town’s residents see the major’s name as a reminder of things they would rather forget.
A British newspaper said it has turned up the most important double agent for the Allies during their planning of the 1944 D-Day invasion, a man long thought dead. The Mail reported locating Juan Pujol Garcia, 72, who fed misleading information to the Germans about the landing sites in France and later was declared dead by British intelligence in order to protect him from Nazi assassins. The paper said Garcia, a Spaniard who worked for British intelligence under the codename Garbo, has been in hiding in South America since the end of the war. “I am proud of what I did,” the Mail quoted him as saying.
Pope John Paul II made a formal visit to Italian President Sandro Pertini in the first trip by a pontiff to the presidential palace in 18 years. The visit, which followed a trip by Pertini to the Vatican two weeks ago, was timed to coincide with festivities marking the June, 1944, liberation of Rome from the Nazis and the foundation of the Italian republic two years later.
The Trilateral Commission, a prestigious group of American, Japanese and Western European political and business leaders formed in 1973, released a report in Paris urging that the United States cut its military expenses and overall budget deficit, that Japan seek faster economic growth and that Europeans reduce their working hours in order to curb unemployment. The 90-page document was issued to coincide with today’s opening of a London summit meeting of the world’s industrialized democracies.
An Italian writer said Yelena Bonner, wife of Andrei D. Sakharov, told her that the Soviet dissident “is no longer among us” but did not clarify the statement. Giovanna Giubelli, a friend of Bonner, said she had a “very brief, very rapid” conversation with Bonner on Friday in a call placed to her home in Florence, Italy. The words were ambiguous and could have meant either that Sakharov has died or has been moved by the Soviets to another location, possibly a hospital. Sakharov, 63, began a protest fast on May 2 in an effort to force Soviet authorities to allow Bonner to travel to the West for medical attention.
The head of West Germany’s public transportation union threatened to pull transit workers off the job to support walkouts by metalworkers and printers. “If the going gets rough, we will strike nationwide,” Monika Wulf-Mathies warned in a newspaper interview. About 350,000 metalworkers have been idled by the strike, called on May 14 to press for a 35-hour workweek.
The new coalition Government in Lebanon said today that it would reopen two crossings between West Beirut’s Muslim and East Beirut’s Christian sectors despite continuing warfare between rival militia forces. Lebanese policemen and French truce observers will take over positions at the two gateways in advance of their opening on Monday in order to separate the militias, Information Minister Josef Skaff said after a meeting between President Amin Gemayel and Prime Minister Rashid Karami. Christian and Muslim militiamen exchanged sniper fire today across the demarcation line after nightlong duels that the police said left four people dead and five wounded. A gateway next to the National Museum has been the only open crossing between Beirut’s two sectors since heavy fighting broke out in the capital in February.
The Indian Army took control for the first time ever of the security of the state of Punjab, where Sikh terrorists Friday and Saturday killed 22 more people, including the leader of the state branch of the opposition Janata Party.
About 12,000 Indian soldiers marched into the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, hours before the start of a civil disobedience drive by militant Sikhs in Punjab state to disrupt food shipments to other states. Troops sealed off roads leading to the Golden Temple, a shrine and command post for the Sikh movement. Tens of thousands of soldiers also fanned out across Punjab, India’s breadbasket, and authorities imposed curfews on 14 communities after 13 people were killed, most of them Hindus attacked by separatist Sikh extremists.
Heavy fighting continued today in western Cambodia near the border with Thailand as Vietnamese troops shelled Cambodian guerrillas harassing their positions, Thai military officials reported. The fighting began May 25 when guerrillas of the Khmer People’s National Liberation Front attacked Vietnamese outposts about seven miles east of their base at Rittisen. The guerrillas put about 400 more men into the attack, prompting the Vietnamese to open up with artillery fire, the Thai officials said. Guerrilla casualties were put at four dead and seven wounded, while 15 Vietnamese were reported killed and several wounded.
The Peking-backed Pol Pot forces said they killed 28 Vietnamese and wounded 40 others during an attack May 28 on a town about 30 miles southeast of Battambang. A Pol Pot broadcast, monitored in Bangkok, said the guerrillas destroyed a Vietnamese stronghold and set 18 railway cars ablaze.
North Korea said today that it would join the boycott of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, citing what it called insufficient security for athletes. The North Korean Central News Agency, monitored in Tokyo, carried a statement issued by the North Korean Olympic Committee saying it had decided not to send a team because of “anti-Communist, antisocialist maneuvers” in the United States. The decision brought to 14 the number of countries boycotting the Games, including all Moscow’s European allies except Rumania. The Soviet Union said it was staying away because of inadequate security, poor arrangements and excess commercialization. Washington says the boycott is in retaliation for the United States-led boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow. The 1980 boycott was called to protest the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos went on nationwide television tonight, for the second time in a week, to give assurances that his government was stable politically and economically. “A climate of anxiety and confusion exists in the country,” the President said, adding that the public was engaging in speculation and hoarding. He reminded them that “patriotism involves self-discipline.” “The alleged shortage of rice does not exist,” Mr. Marcos said, singling out one of the products that consumers have been hoarding in an effort to overcome sharp increases in prices.
President Reagan meets with Secretary Schultz to discuss his upcoming trip to Latin America to attend President-elect Duarte’s swearing in.
More covert military aid for rebels in Nicaragua will be sought by President Reagan even as he plans additional Central American peace talks with Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, according to Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Mr. Shultz said the Administration would seek the $21 million in covert aid to the Nicaraguan rebels that the House of Representatives has rejected.
Walter F. Mondale and Gary Hart stumped Los Angeles, competing for the voting blocs that are expected to decide the outcome of the biggest of the five Democratic Presidential primaries Tuesday. Both campaigns are publicly optimistic but privately apprehensive about the contest in California, one of the two main battleground states in the final series of primaries in 1984. The other battleground state is New Jersey.
The Reagan Administration has closed at least 23 civil rights investigations and narrowed the scope of 18 other investigations as a result of a Supreme Court decision that limits the Government’s power to enforce laws that forbid discrimination at schools and colleges receiving federal aid.
NASA carries out a flight readiness firing of space shuttle Discovery’s main engines. The three main engines of the Discovery, the third space shuttle, spat fire for 19 seconds on the launching pad today in what was termed a successful test apparently clearing the way for the Discovery’s first flight this month. The spacecraft strained against eight 3-foot-long hardened-steel bolts that held it on the pad. In a launching, explosive charges sever the bolts. “A preliminary look at the data indicates it’s all good,” Bob Sieck, the launching director, told reporters. But he said National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials want to inspect the engines and analyze all the data before setting a firm date for the flight. The tentative date for the flight is June 21.
Three New York transit police officers have been indicted on charges of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, hindering prosecution, reckless endangerment, assault and official misconduct in the death of a 25-year-old black man who lapsed into a coma and died after his arrest for spray-painting graffiti on a subway station wall. The three officers — John Kostick, 25, Anthony Piscola, 48, and Henry Boerner, 40, entered innocent pleas and were released on their own recognizance. Attorneys for the family of Michael Stewart charged that the indictments were an extension of a police cover-up that began when 11 white officers allegedly beat up Stewart on September 15, 1983.
The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta overturned a lower court order requiring the government to free Cuban refugees from a federal penitentiary unless it could prove they are dangerous. The court said U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob was wrong when he ruled last summer that excludable aliens who cannot be deported have some constitutional rights. The Cubans imprisoned in Atlanta were among 125,000 refugees in the 1980 “Freedom Flotilla” from Cuba. Immigration officials ruled that they should be deported because they admitted to crimes in Cuba. The Castro government has refused to let the refugees return. The appeals court ruling allows the Justice Department to decide if any of the Cubans can be paroled to organizational sponsors.
Federal investigators met in Denver to determine if a United Airlines plane that hit an 8-foot-high antenna about 500 feet beyond a runway should have taken off despite warnings of severe downdrafts. Joe Hopkins, a United spokesman in Chicago, said it appeared that just after the jet left the ground it encountered “wind shear,” a sudden, dangerous shift in wind direction or speed. The accident last Thursday punched two holes in the fuselage of the Boeing 747. The plane, bound for Las Vegas, returned safely to Stapleton International Airport in Denver. No injuries were reported.
Both units of New Hampshire’s troubled Seabrook nuclear plant could be scrapped without major disruptions in New England’s power supply, but that may not be the most cost-effective approach, a report from the Congressional Research Service said. The study also stressed, however, that if both units were eliminated, increased imports of Canadian hydroelectric power and more energy conservation would be required to fill the projected power gap. “It would appear… that cancellation of both Seabrook units need not be a catastrophe,” the report said. However, it added that “from a financial point of view, the abandonment of both units may not be the most effective approach, given the indebtedness incurred to build the plant.”
Negotiators for Frontier Airlines, based in Denver, and its 800 union flight attendants reported reaching a tentative accord in their 14-month-old contract dispute with less than three hours remaining before a threatened walkout Friday night. The Association of Flight Attendants is to begin the two-day ratification vote on the tentative pact on Monday. Contract talks began in March, 1983, but deadlocked over job security and pay. The union wanted Frontier to limit growth at its new non-union affiliate, Frontier Horizons, and was resisting a proposed 11% pay cut.
No new talks were scheduled as the largest nurses’ strike in U.S. history entered its second day Saturday. Job security, seniority and layoff procedures are the main issues in the strike by almost 6,000 registered nurses against nine hospitals in Minneapolis, three in St. Paul and three in suburban areas. Nurses are picketing, but not striking, at two other hospitals. Also, nurses at Mercy Medical Center in Coon Rapids, a Minneapolis suburb, are scheduled to strike Monday.
The number of states with more than a million old people has more than doubled since 1960, and there has been a surge of Americans in the working ages of 18 to 64, the Census Bureau has reported. A study of the American population by age found seven states with more than a million residents 65 years old and older. In 1960 there were three states, California, New York and Pennsylvania. The states joining the list are Florida, Illinois, Ohio and Texas. “Probably the most significant change in the age structure of the United States since 1960, however, has been the tremendous growth” in those aged 18 to 64, the report said. It said there has been a 46 percent growth in this age group since 1960.
A Pennsylvania jury took 10 minutes Friday to decide that a retired couple living on pension benefits had a right to evict their 43-year-old son. The jury in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court said the son, Andrew Zarna Jr., must leave his parents’ home and pay $7,269.83 in back rent and utility bills. His mother, Angeline, 66, said she and her husband, Andrew, had tried to persuade their son to leave the house. Her son, who earns $27,000 a year as a computer programmer, has refused. His parents live on $884 a month. “I spoiled the hell out of him,” his mother said. “It just took me a while to realize he’s nothing but a chiseler.”
The son stopped paying room and board three years ago after his parents increased his monthly payment to $200. He said he had contributed toward major home improvements. Mrs. Zarna took her son to court twice and won, but he appealed both times, which led to Friday’s trial before Judge Emil Narick. “I hate to say this, but he doesn’t exist,” Mrs. Zarna said. “I’ve replaced him. I got a puppy.”
A Marine Corps helicopter participating in a training exercise off the coast of California’s San Clemente Island crashed into the Pacific Friday, and all four people aboard were killed. The dead were Capt. Barry Michael Thompson, 28 years old, First Lieut. Thomas Otto Schaefer, 25, Lance Cpl. James Merlyn Kloss, 24, and Cpl. John J. Utsinger, 21. Sgt. Richard Odermann said the helicopter, a CH-53E, was from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 465 at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Tustin, California. The aircraft crashed into about 1,700 feet of water, about 11 miles southwest of the island, as the pilot attempted to lift and transport a five-ton truck, Sergeant Odermann said.
Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy.
“Welcome To Fun Zone” hosted by Dr. Demento airs on NBC-TV.
Storm Davis, supported by two-run upper deck home runs from both Ken Singleton and Wayne Gross, pitched a three-hitter today as the Baltimore Orioles beat the Detroit Tigers and the pitcher Jack Morris, 5–0. The game evened the first series of the season between the Tigers and the defending world champions at one victory apiece. The third-place Orioles are now 10½ games behind the Tigers, who lost for only the 10th time in 48 games this season.
Mike Schmidt, who drove in all three runs, cracked a two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning today to give Philadelphia a 3–2 victory over the Chicago Cubs that put the Phillies back in first place in the National League East. After Keith Moreland’s homer in the top of the eighth had given the Cubs a 2–1 lead, Von Hayes opened the Philadelphia half of the eighth with a single to left off Lee Smith (3–3), who had relieved Dennis Eckersley to start the inning. Schmidt then hit a 1–1 pitch over the left-field fence for his 13th homer of the season.
The Houston Astros thumped the Dodgers, 9–3. Jose Cruz drove in four runs, three with a triple in a four-run first inning, to lead Houston and drop Los Angeles into second place in the Western Division, a half-game behind Atlanta. Joe Niekro (3–7) gave up six hits, struck out three and walked two in seven and two-thirds innings as he won for the first time since April 22.
Born:
Mile Ilić, Bosnian NBA center (New Jersey Nets), in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia.
Died:
Georgios Kasassoglou, 75, Greek violinist, composer (“Four Preludes on The Return from The Front”; “Clouds”), educator and arts advocate.
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