The Indian Army began patrolling the violence-torn state of Punjab in an attempt to quell the two-year-old terrorist campaign by radical Sikhs demanding greater autonomy. The army took control of the security of the state on Saturday. Train and bus services were suspended, all traffic, even bicycles and animal-drawn carts, was banned, and a 36-hour curfew was imposed on almost the entire state. Despite this, terrorists killed 13 more people.
Iraq attacked a Turkish oil tanker 50 miles south of Iran’s Kharg Island oil export terminal. Fire engulfed the vessel and forced the crew to abandon ship, according to the official Iranian press agency. An Iraqi military spokesman said its aircraft struck “two large naval targets” in Iraq’s unilaterally declared war zone near Kharg Island. There was no independent confirmation of a second successful strike. The Iraqi air raid on the Turkish vessel was the first confirmed attack on Persian Gulf shipping since May 24, when Iranian planes struck the Chemical Venture, a Liberian flag tanker sailing off the coast of Saudi Arabia.
Elsewhere in the gulf, the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al- Faisal, expressed hope that the Security Council resolution adopted Friday would help bring an end to the Iran-Iraq war. It was not known whether Prince Saud made his remarks before today’s attack on the Buyuk Hun.
Iran rejected the resolution on Saturday. In a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry, Iran asserted that the resolution had the effect of condoning future Iraqi attacks on ships in the gulf. The Foreign Ministry statement also warned the gulf nations, which along with Saudi Arabia have provided some $35 billion in aid to Iraq, against continuing to support Baghdad.
A senior official of the Israeli secret police was reprimanded for negligence in the beating deaths of two Palestinian hijackers last month, the Jerusalem Post reported. The unnamed officer was the second ranking official to be reprimanded in the case. An inquiry was ordered after it was determined that while two of four Palestinians died when Israeli forces stormed a hijacked bus in Gaza, the other two died from “severe blows” to the head after their capture.
Ireland’s Premier rebuked America by implication for its policy in Central America at a banquet in Dublin for President and Mrs. Reagan. The Irish Prime Minister, Garret FitzGerald, said the Irish people wanted Central American problems to “be resolved peacefully, by the people of the region themselves.”
An elated President Reagan walked the narrow streets of Ballyporeen, Ireland, and prayed in the old stone church of his Irish forebears. The President joined his wife, Nancy, and aides, dignitaries and townspeople at the Church of the Assumption, where the President’s great-grandfather appears to have been baptized 155 years ago. President Reagan meets with Father Murphy at the Church of the Assumption. President Reagan tours the future location of The Ronald Reagan Community Center, in Ballyporeen.
Andrei D. Sakharov’s family and supporters in Moscow reported no new information about his whereabouts and condition after doubts about the Soviet dissident’s fate were raised over the weekend.
The president of the Spanish Senate said that Soviet authorities gave him assurances that Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov is alive and has ended his hunger strike. Jose Federico de Carvajal said in Madrid on his return from Moscow that it was obvious the Soviet authorities “had made prior consultations before releasing the information.” However, the Sunday Times of London, quoting unofficial sources in Moscow, reported that Sakharov died in Gorky city hospital last Thursday night. Sakharov started a hunger strike May 2 to demand that his wife, Yelena Bonner, be allowed to travel to the West for medical treatment.
On the eve of a Moscow visit by Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania’s official press disclosed that Ceausescu has come under Soviet attack for dissenting on key foreign policy issues. The Romanian Communist Party daily Scinteia called for a relaxation of tensions “in a comradely way.” Ceausescu, regarded as a maverick in the East Bloc, is due in Moscow today for talks on policy differences, including Romania’s refusal to join the Soviet boycott of the Los Angeles Olympics.
The founder of Solidarity, Lech Walesa, celebrated the feast of his namesake, St. Lech, by attending a special mass in Gdansk today, and told 10,000 supporters that the outlawed union was indestructible. ”Solidarity exists and the union is indestructible,” Mr. Walesa said from the terrace of the rectory at St. Brigid’s Church. Mr. Walesa, who won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, also said the thousands of people who attended the mass proved that Solidarity, banned by the Polish Government after the declaration of martial law in 1981, is still alive. Mr. Walesa said Solidarity, although banned, was fighting for the rights of the workers in a peaceful way.
Tens of thousands of chanting, banner-waving demonstrators marched in Madrid, calling for Spain’s withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the removal of U.S. military bases from Spanish soil. Members of the Socialist government did not take part in the parade, although some Socialist legislators marched. During their successful election campaign in 1982, the Socialists promised a referendum on NATO membership, but no date has been set.
A British ship was lost in the North Atlantic as it was racing from Bermuda to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Marques, a three-masted tall ship, was abandoned by her 28 crew members and passengers in heavy seas 78 nautical miles north of Bermuda. One person was found dead, nine others were rescued and helicopters and rescue ships were searching for 18 still missing.
A figure of an American parachutist is hanging from the church tower in St.-Mere-Eglise in Normandy. The figure represents Pvt. John M. Steele, a Kentuckian who hung there for most of the night on June 6, 1944, after he was dropped with three regiments of the 82d Airborne Division to prevent German flank attacks on Allied landings. The dummy parachutist is part of the town’s tribute to the troops who helped liberate it 40 years ago.
El Salvador will not investigate the question of whether high military officials attempted to cover up military involvement in the killings of four United States churchwomen, said the new President, Jose Napoleon Duarte.
The leader of El Salvador’s 4 million Roman Catholics, in the church’s first challenge to new President Jose Napoleon Duarte. urged him to lift a state of siege under which security forces have jailed thousands of suspected leftists. “A sign of goodwill could be,” among other things, the suspension of the state of siege and the return of constitutional guarantees,” Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas said in a sermon at the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador. He also called on Duarte to investigate about 3,000 political “disappearances” recorded since 1979.
About 600 Honduran-based guerrillas attacked the northern Nicaraguan town of Ocotal but were driven out with the loss of 45 dead, the Nicaraguan Defense Ministry said. The attack on the capital of northern Nueva Segovia province was the first direct assault on a major Nicaraguan town since the start of cross-border raids two years ago. Military sources said the rebels attacked the government radio station before being driven off.
Some 230 Guatemalan refugees arrived in a temporary camp as part of the Mexican Government’s program to move them from camps on the southern border with Guatemala, a government agency said today. The Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid said in a communique that the refugees, 61 heads of families plus women and children, reached the camp in China on Saturday in ”unsurpassable health conditions.” The group traveled from the southern state of Chiapas, just across the border from Guatemala. The Mexican Government has begun a program to move the refugees from camps supported by the United Nations in Chiapas to the southeastern state of Campeche.
An American professor visiting the archeological ruins at Tiawanacu in Bolivia with a group of tourists was reported shot to death. The victim was believed to be an agronomist associated with the University of Colorado, but the U.S. consulate in La Paz withheld the man’s identity pending notification of next of kin. Police said they did not know the motive for the killing, and they had no suspects. An acquaintance said that an hour before his death, the professor had jotted down notes about the grandeur of the ruins and his good fortune at being there.
The Bolivian Government said today that it would not send a team to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of the country’s economic difficulties. The decision was apparently unrelated to the Soviet-led boycott of the Games. The Bolivian Olympic Committee had planned to send 22 athletes to Los Angeles.
Walter F. Mondale and Gary Hart continued their pattern of criticizing President Reagan’s policies in the final debate of the Presidential primary season, but the two Democratic candidates reserved their strongest denunciations for each other. In the one-hour nationally televised debate from Los Angeles, the Rev. Jesse Jackson came under attack for his stand on United States relations with Israel.
Data comparing medical care around the nation, including surgical mortality rates for individual hospitals, would be made public under a change in Federal policy proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Two exemptions from safety rules were endorsed by the Labor Department’s safety and health agency, and critics say the unusual variances amount to human experimentation for the sake of corporate convenience.
North Carolina searchers sought to intercept two men believed to be among four killers still at large, following bloodhounds to the Virginia state line nearly three days after the fugitives escaped from Virginia’s Death Row. The four were among six murderers who overpowered guards Thursday night, stole their uniforms and tricked gatekeepers into letting them drive out of Virginia’s Mecklenburg Correctional Center. Two escapees were caught Friday night.
Funeral costs are highest, on average, in border and Midwestern states and lowest in the West, where cremation is an increasingly popular option, an examination of government statistics disclosed. Nationwide, the average funeral expenditure is $1,887, ranging from a high of $2,578 in West Virginia to a low of $1,132 in Washington state. Cost calculations showed that Washington, Hawaii, Arizona and California are the least expensive states for funerals.
Minneapolis hospitals admitted only patients in need of urgent medical care because of a three-day strike over seniority and wages by 6,000 registered nurses who planned to extend the walkout to a 16th hospital. Nurses are striking for better wages, improved benefits and a seniority clause in their contract protecting them from layoffs or forced reduction in working hours. Hospital administrators say they need flexible scheduling guidelines, even if it means laying off senior nurses untrained for highly skilled positions.
Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret M. Heckler said on CBS-TV’s “Face the Nation” that the growing national problem of sexual abuse of children must be attacked through education, not increased federal spending. Also on the program was Senator Paula Hawkins (R-Florida) who recently revealed that as a young girl she was sexually abused by a neighbor and then found a judicial system that did not believe her testimony. Hawkins said that from the mail and phone calls her revelation produced, “I’ve learned that nothing has changed in the judicial system.”
A contingent of 300 Army soldiers has been deployed at Davenport, Iowa, to keep the peace today during a planned anti-war demonstration at a century-old weapons plant on an island in the Mississippi River. The Rock Island Arsenal, which manufactures mobile 105-millimeter howitzers, was targeted for the protest because of its production of materials shipped to the war-torn regions of Central America and the Mideast, rally organizers said. Defense Department officials have announced they will close the island today, the first closing of public access in the history of the plant.
Cable cars returned to San Francisco’s streets today after a 20-month absence for a $75 million restoration, lurching up and down hills on California Street to cheers, firecrackers and dancing lions and dragons. ”Welcome back,” the crowd called as the first cars, laden with tourists, residents, photographers and reporters, started moving at 10 AM. City officials and merchants, anticipating big business from the Democratic National Convention in July, were all smiles. Restoration of full cable car service, 44 cars over 69 blocks on three lines, is scheduled June 21.
A labor council in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, representing nearly 4.000 workers at eight Merck & Co. pharmaceutical plants nationwide, called a strike after last-minute contract talks broke off without a settlement, union officials said. Salaried supervisory employees will be used to maintain “essential services” at the plants, said Eleanor Paradowski, a spokeswoman for the firm, headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey. “The company presented us an offer that was merely a shuffle of their previous last offer,” union spokesman Berley Hanna Jr. said.
Home-computer sales have fallen since January by 20 to 30 percent below last year’s levels for models priced under $1,000, according to manufacturers and retailers. Consumers seem to be having reservations about the machines just when a surge in home-computer buying was expected to be under way.
Theresa Needham, known as ”the mother of the blues” here, is back. Last fall, Theresa’s, the South Side blues bar that gave many musicians their start in the 1950’s and 1960’s and drew music lovers from across the United States and Europe, was shut. Mrs. Needham’s landlord, wanting to renovate the building at 4801 South Indiana Avenue, refused to renew her lease. Several days ago, Mrs. Needham held a grand opening of the new Theresa’s at 601 East 43d Street, not far from the old place. There was a full house of people who came for the music, supplied by several blues bands, and the barbecue, supplied by her. ”It’s the same old crowd,” she said.
Floodwaters slowly dropped in communities swamped when rain-swollen New England rivers rushed over their banks. Residents took advantage of the first sunshine in a week to clean up some of the mess. The Connecticut River remained as much as half a mile wide and 12 feet above flood stage in Middletown, with officials saying it could be late in the week before some areas were free of water. Meanwhile, in Colorado, at least six tornadoes touched down and several funnel clouds were sighted as a line of thunderstorms moved across the eastern part of the state.
38th Tony Awards: “The Real Thing” (play) & “La Cage aux Folles” (musical) win.
Revival of musical “The Wiz” closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater, NYC, after 13 performances.
LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Defending champion Patty Sheehan finishes 10 strokes ahead of runners-up Pat Bradley and Beth Daniel.
Tony Armas hit a home run to spark a three-run eighth inning and added a two-run shot in the ninth as Boston won its fifth straight, downing the Milwaukee Brewers, 6–3
Darryl Motley slammed two homers and a double and George Brett hit a homer for the third consecutive day to power Kansas City to a 5–2 win over the Minnesota Twins.
Mike Flanagan pitched a seven-hitter and Cal Ripken delivered a sacrifice fly in a two-run sixth inning as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Tigers, 2–1, today. Flanagan (4–4) struck out six and walked one.
Hard-luck pitcher Mike Torrez dropped to a record of 0–5 as the New York Mets lost to the St. Louis Cardinals, 1–0.
In Game 3 of the 1984 NBA Finals, the Los Angeles Lakers raced to an easy 137–104 victory as Magic Johnson dished out 21 assists, an NBA Finals record. After the game, Larry Bird said his Celtics team played like “sissies” in an attempt to light a fire under his teammates. It was Boston’s worst playoff defeat in franchise history to that date.
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Prince Félix of Luxembourg, Prince of Bourbon-Parma and Prince of Nassau, currently fourth in the line of succession to the throne, in Grand Duchess Charlotte Maternity Hospital, Luxembourg.
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