Some 1,200 Indians were killed as the army attacked and occupied the “Golden Temple,” holiest Sikh shrine in an attempt to end a terrorist campaign that has tormented India’s Punjab state for nearly two years. Officials said that about 450 rebellious Sikhs and their backers had been captured inside the temple complex. Among those reported killed was Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the leader of the radical wing of the Sikh militant movement.
At least 17 soldiers and Sikh militants were also killed as the army raided 43 other places of worship throughout Punjab. The shrines were said to have served as hideouts for Sikhs who have been carrying out a campaign of political murder. About 700 Sikhs were reportedly arrested in these raids. Eleven people were reported killed in Amritsar during clashes between security forces and crowds of Sikhs protesting the storming of the temple.
Late tonight, a government spokesman in Chandigarh, the Punjab capital, said the army and paramilitary forces had taken control of all buildings within the temple grounds and that active resistance had stopped. Mopping-up operations were proceeding, the spokesman said. The storming of the temple could have political consequences for Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Sikhs in the United States called the attack an act of “tyranny.” The Sikhs’ Akali Dal party announced in New Delhi that it would start a “protest program” today against the army action.
The world’s major armies are showing “a definite swing of interest” toward waging and defending against chemical warfare, according to the new Jane’s edition of “Military Vehicles and Ground Support Equipment.” It said the United States has resumed stockpiling chemical weapons and has made progress in developing a more advanced form of chemical warfare defense, while West Germany has given “prime importance” to improved equipment for decontamination and Britain is working on a light and portable “sniffer” device for detecting chemicals.
The President and First Lady fly across the Channel in order to take part in several ceremonies commemorating the 40th Anniversary of D-Day.
The 40th anniversary of D-day and one of history’s greatest invasions was marked by veterans of Allied countries who returned to the beaches of Normandy. President Reagan gives a speech at Utah Beach to honor those who fell on June 6, 1944. Reagan, facing rows of crosses marking the graves of men who died in the invasion, called for rededication to the unity of democracies and “a firm resolve to keep the peace.” Mr. Reagan’s speech at the American Cemetery, where 9,380 men are buried, was one of many on a day in which sober tribute to the dead combined with military displays to commemorate the landings in Normandy – crucial in the campaign to liberate France and defeat Nazi Germany.
Mr. Reagan noted that 20 million Russians died in the war, “a terrible price that testifies to all the world the necessity of ending war.” The President emphasized his willingness to begin disarmament talks with the Russians to ease new tensions in Europe. But he added: “We look for some sign from the Soviet Union that they are willing to move forward, that they share our desire and love for peace and that they will give up the ways of conquest.” This gesture toward the Russians was made in the first of two speeches by the President. The first was delivered at Pointe du Hoc, the rugged cliffs taken by American Rangers in a daring and costly operation on D-day.
The Soviet government’s abuse of Andrei D. Sakharov reflects a “profound contempt for even the most basic norms of respect for fundamental human freedoms,” the Reagan Administration said in a report to Congress criticizing Soviet compliance with the 1975 Helsinki human rights accords. The report said that treatment of Soviet citizens has worsened in recent months. Sakharov, a dissident on human rights, has been on a hunger strike seeking permission for his wife to leave the Soviet Union for medical treatment.
Video game Tetris is first released in the Soviet Union by Alexey Pajitnov.
The Polish police have detained 15 people in a raid on an underground printing center and seven others who put up anti-Communist placards in public places, the official press said today. The reports were issued only 11 days before Poles are to vote in local elections. The clandestine wing of the outlawed Solidarity labor union has urged Poles to boycott the elections. The Communist Party newspaper Trybuna Ludu said officers in Warsaw detained 15 people who helped produce and distribute illegal literature. In Tomaszow southwest of Warsaw, seven young people were detained for putting up anti-state placards in public places, the Polish press agency said.
A new edition of “Ulysses” that corrects almost 5,000 omissions, transpositions and other errors in previous editions of James Joyce’s seminal 20th-century novel has been produced by an international team of scholars. Specialists predict that the new three-volume edition will shed new light on the interpretation of entire episodes and characters.
Chinese forces have killed hundreds of civilians in cross-border artillery bombardments and raids on Vietnamese territory in the last two months, Vietnam charged today. The Hanoi radio said that more than 130,000 artillery and mortar rounds had been fired by China but that Vietnamese border guards and civilians had repulsed the cross-border attacks, “putting out of action” more than 5,500 Chinese troops. The Vietnamese broadcast, monitored in Bangkok, was the latest in a radio propaganda war waged by Vietnam and China, each accusing the other of acts of war along their border. The Hanoi radio has carried almost daily accounts of what it calls “Chinese aggression” along the rugged Chinese- Vietnamese border, where the two nations fought a brief war in early 1979.
Jose Francisco Guerrero, 47, a leading activist in the rightist Arena party, was named attorney general of El Salvador. The 33-26 vote in the National Assembly was considered a setback for centrist President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who took office last week. Guerrero belongs to the party of Roberto D’Aubuisson, who lost to Duarte in the May 6 runoff and who has been linked to the so-called death squads in the Central American nation.
El Salvador’s leftist guerrillas said that although they are ready to step up their five-year-old war against the U.S.-backed government, they would still consider negotiating with new President Jose Napoleon Duarte. Duarte, who took office June 1, said Sunday that his government would not negotiate with the insurgents until rebel political leaders gain control over the Marxist guerrilla military commanders. “They are simply tools of the guerrillas,” Duarte said of the rebel political leaders. The rebel Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front repeated an offer to negotiate without conditions and described Duarte’s call for conditions as “abusive and demagogic.”
More than 1,500 Salvadorans fled what appears to be a major guerrilla recruitment drive in territory of northern Morazan Province that has long been held by the rebels, according to refugees, deserters and military officials.
The leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua has canceled all army leaves, charging that the United States is planning to attack its territory. In a radio broadcast, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega charged that the Reagan Administration intends to use military maneuvers in neighboring Honduras as a cover. CIA-backed rebels “are perfectly meshed with the military gears of the Yankee forces in Honduras,” Ortega charged.
Labor leaders in Mexico agreed to accept a 20% increase in the minimum wage, a move that economists said will help the government’s anti-inflation program. Mexico’s umbrella labor organization, the Labor Congress, dominated by groups affiliated with the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, had demanded a 40% increase. The agreement raises the minimum wage in industrialized areas from $3.70 to $4.50 per day. A 30% increase was granted in January.
South African Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha offered to surrender control of Namibia within two months if one of the five Western nations seeking Namibian independence will administer the territory and assume the cost of security. The proposal was quickly rejected as unworkable by Western diplomats and the Namibian independence movement. Botha, visiting West Germany, reportedly made the offer conditional on the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola. Botha said that the proposal had no time limit but that he did not expect it to be taken up. “They won’t do it,” he said.
In Washington, the State Department spokesman, Alan Romberg, declined direct comment on Mr. Botha’s remarks, but said, “We don’t have any reason to believe that the South African Government has altered its longstanding views on the basis for a settlement on United Nations Security Council Resolution 435.” Under the resolution, a United Nations transition group would lead Namibia to independence. Canada, another of the five nations seeking a solution to the Nambian question, rejected Mr. Botha’s offer, as did the South-West Africa People’s Organization, the guerrilla group fighting for Nambian independence.
More than 7,000 people have fled their homes in the South African south coast district of Umbumbulu as the death toll in clan strife last week climbed to 44, local residents and a priest said today. The discovery of three more bodies today at Umbumbulu, about 20 miles southwest of Durban, brought the number of deaths in the area to 69 in the last month, the police said. The dead were victims of fighting between Zulu clans. The police arrested four men over the weekend after battles between the Mkhize and Makhanya clans and seized spears and guns. A Roman Catholic priest in Umbumbuli, the Rev. Cornelius Chiliza, said today that some local people were being accommodated at a mission station but that thousands of others had gone to relatives in black townships around Durban.
House and Senate negotiators quickly agreed on about $30 billion in tax hikes to combat the deficit, including repeal of a law that would have allowed a deduction of up to $450 a year for savers. The action occurred as the lawmakers met for the first time to bargain over election-year promises of a down payment on enormous federal budget deficits. The negotiators are compromising differences between the Senate-passed bill, which would raise taxes by about $45.4 billion through 1987, and the House version, which would raise them by about $47.7 billion.
The Transportation Department, expressing concern that voluntary efforts by the railroad industry are not working, proposed regulations to curb alcohol and drug abuse by train crews. The new rules would bar employees from reporting to work under the influence of alcohol or drugs and would give the industry additional tools for testing and detecting their abuse, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole said. Between 1975 and 1983, the secretary told a Senate committee, alcohol and drug abuse contributed to at least 45 train accidents that killed 34 persons and caused more than $28 million in damage.
The House approved and sent to the Senate a $34.2-billion 1985 agriculture bill for programs ranging from crop subsidies to food stamps. Approval came after the House, by a 232-164 vote, made a 1% across-the-board cut in the original $34.5-billion measure. The measure includes about $10.9 billion for agriculture programs, including price supports, research, extension services, crop insurance and food inspection. It also provides $4.9 billion for rural development programs.
Walter F. Mondale claimed victory in the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. The former Vice President declared that his victories Tuesday in the New Jersey and West Virginia primaries and a flurry of new endorsements from uncommitted delegates pushed him past the total needed for nomination.
Previously neutral Democratic leaders united behind Walter F. Mondale and urged his main competitor, Gary Hart, to end his campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination. New endorsements for Mr. Mondale included those by Senator Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey, Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum of Ohio, Gov. Richard H. Bryan of Nevada, Representative Gillis W. Long of Louisiana, Mayors Andrew Young of Atlanta and Richard H. Fulton of Nashville and several dozen other elected and party officials.
Senator Hart refused to concede defeat to Walter F. Mondale and vowed to continue battling for delegates to next month’s Democratic National Convention.
Senator Hart solidly outpolled Mr. Mondale in every section of California except parts of Los Angeles and a handful of other communities in the southern part of the state. The Colorado Senator won 205 of the 306 convention delegates at stake in Tuesday’s primary to 72 for the former Vice President and 29 for the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Walter F. Mondale carried 18 of New Jersey’s 21 counties in winning Tuesday’s Democratic Presidential primary. Senator Hart carried only two small counties, Hunterdon and Sussex, by a combined total of 448 votes over Mr. Mondale and was unable to hold any region where independent and more affluent voters were expected to help him. Jesse Jackson carried Essex County.
The power of radiation from antennas of radio and television transmitters would be limited by the Federal Government for the first time because of possible human health risks, under a recommendation planned by the Environmental Protection Agency. New studies have raised the question whether broadcast radiation may cause disorders in the nervous and immune systems.
The Illinois Supreme Court today rejected the appeal of John W. Gacy, upholding his convictions in the sex killings of 33 young men and boys and setting a date for his execution. The state’s highest court ordered Mr. Gacy put to death by lethal injection November 14, but that date may be delayed. Mr. Gacy, 42 years old, being held at the Menard State Penitentiary, showed “no outward sign of emotion” when told by guards of the court’s decision, according to a prison spokesman, Nic Howell. He has been convicted of more murders than anyone in American history.
Chicago police today discovered a fourth pipe bomb planted downtown in less than a week and said it was fashioned like 19 other bombs found in the Upper Middle West in the last month. So far, 20 pipe bombs have been discovered in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois since May 25. Notes attached to some of the bombs have been signed “The North Central Gay Strike Force Against Public and Police Oppression.”
Mathematics research has suffered an “extreme” and “staggering” loss of financing and new talent since 1968, according to a National Research Council committee. The panel, after a three-year study, warned that the losses had gone virtually unnoticed because of the rapid growth of computer science.
A Cook County judge denied ever having accepted money to influence his rulings and testified he would have thrown out of the courthouse anyone who offered him a bribe. The circuit court judge, 68-year-old John M. Murphy, is the first judge to be tried as a result of a long Federal undercover investigation of corruption in the county’s judicial system.
Striking musicians reached a tentative agreement tonight with the city’s resort hotels, leaving only one union, Stagehands Local 720, still without an agreement in the 67-day-old walkout that has cost this city millions of dollars. After the agreement, union leaders removed picket lines and said workers who had already settled their contracts would be back on the job Thursday. Leaders of the stagehands local said removal of the picket lines was as “an act of good faith” to the hotels. About 4,000 members of the culinary and bartenders unions reached agreement with the hotels nearly two weeks ago but had remained off the job pending settlements with the musicians and stagehands.
Natural radiation emitted by the soil beneath homes and the construction materials inside may cause “a major portion” of the lung cancer that occurs among nonsmokers, researchers conclude. Two studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine report on the health effects of exposure to “radon daughters,” radioactive particles given off by soil, rock and the building materials made from them, such as cinder blocks. The researchers found that this radiation is associated with a higher-than-usual risk of lung cancer in iron and uranium miners.
St. Louis voters have rejected a $63.5-million bond issue for the second time, raising the possibility that a federal judge could order an increase in taxes to fund part of a voluntary school desegregation plan. The bond issue, and a companion measure that would raise taxes for school funding, fell short of the required 67% majority in Tuesday’s voting. The failure of the two issues cut the funding for a major part of the settlement agreement, which requires the city and state to improve the quality of city schools.
Exxon Corp. will pay the state of New York $1.5 million to drop a $16-million lawsuit that claimed the giant oil company illegally dumped polluted water and took fresh water from the Hudson River, officials announced in Albany. Under terms of the out-of-court settlement, Exxon “denies it has violated any laws or regulations in connection with its activities and denies that it is liable for any sums of money.” Exxon reached a separate out-of-court settlement in April with environmental groups.
Six Haitians drowned and 61 others were rescued when a sailboat capsized as the Coast Guard, suspecting the passengers were trying to enter the United States illegally, attempted to board the vessel, officials said in Miami. A search was started for other Haitians who may have been aboard the 30-foot wooden boat when it overturned about 20 miles off the coast of Haiti during the night, Joe Gibson, a Coast Guard spokesman, said. Survivors estimated that 80 to 90 persons had been on the vessel.
A fan, Anthony Perry, dies when he falls from the upper deck of Candlestick Park following a Giants-Braves game. Witnesses say Perry was leaning over the railing and shouting at the Giants, who had just lost 5–4 in 11 innings. All of the Giants’ scoring came on a Bob Brenly grand slam.
Harold Baines has a pair of homers and drives in 6 runs as the White Sox hang on to edge the Angles, 11-10. Fred Lynn has a pair of homers for the Haloes, including a 3-run homer in the 8th.
In Game 4 of the NBA Finals, the Lakers had a five-point game lead with less than a minute to play, but made several execution errors, including Magic Johnson’s bad pass to Robert Parish late in the fourth quarter, and missing two crucial free throws in OT as the Celtics tied the game and then came away with a 129-125 victory in overtime. Johnson was called “Tragic Johnson” by Celtics fans due to the two crucial errors he committed in Game 4 (the Parish steal, followed by two botched free throws in OT). The Lakers took an early lead in overtime, but a controversial foul call on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with 16 seconds remaining in regulation, had been his 6th foul, and he was out of the game.
The Laker momentum was stalled, and Larry Bird came up with a crucial jumper over Magic Johnson with 16 seconds remaining in overtime, then M.L. Carr stole James Worthy’s inbounds pass followed by a dunk to seal the win. The game was also marked by Celtic forward Kevin McHale’s clothesline take-down of Laker forward Kurt Rambis on a breakaway layup which triggered the physical aspect of the rivalry. Larry Bird would go after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar later on in the third quarter, and 1981 Finals MVP Cedric Maxwell further antagonized the Lakers by following a missed James Worthy free throw by crossing the lane with his hands around his own neck, symbolizing that Worthy was “choking” under pressure. Also, Bird pushed Michael Cooper to the baseline following the inbound play during the second quarter. The series is again tied, at two games apiece. Game 4 of the 1984 Finals marked the last Finals game to go into overtime until Game 2 of the 1990 NBA Finals.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1133.84 (+8.95).
Born:
Jason Trusnik, NFL defensive end and linebacker (New York Jets, Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints), in Macedonia, Ohio.
Leroy Harris, NFL guard (Tennessee Titans, Detroit Lions), in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Joe Cohen, NFL defensive tackle (Detroit Lions), in Miami, Florida.
Emiliano Fruto, MLB Colombian MLB pitcher (Seattle Mariners), in Cartagena, Colombia.
Shannon Stewart, American model America’s Next Top Model,” season 1), in Franklin, Ohio.
Died:
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, 37, Indian Sikh leader, killed in the Golden Temple assault.
A. Bertram Chandler, 72, Anglo-Australian mariner and sci-fi author (“Empress of Outer Space”).
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