President Reagan attends the first real summit session which, among heads of state, includes finance and foreign affairs ministers. Negotiations to resolve conflicts were urged by leaders of the seven major industrialized democracies, but they disagreed over a new appeal to Moscow on arms control talks. On the second day of the economic summit conference in London, the leaders issued a 500-word statement affirming belief in freedom, equality and progress.
United States budget deficits were criticized by finance ministers at the summit meeting of the seven leading industrialized democracies. The Reagan Administration had been trying to keep the deficit issue off the conference agenda.
President Reagan arrives at the National Portrait Gallery in London for a working dinner and tour of the gallery.
Amid bobbing yellow balloons and waving British and American flags, Nancy Reagan toured the London Zoo today accompanied by 41 children, in her only official engagement during the seven-nation economic summit meeting that ends here tomorrow. Criticized by the British press on previous visits for her busy social schedule and her refusal to curtsy to the Queen, the First Lady is keeping in the background during her third trip to Britain. She has given no interviews. A visit to Kensington Palace on Thursday, during which she had coffee with the Princess of Wales and presented the infant Prince William with a hand-painted rocking horse made in South Carolina, was described as “completely private.”
The National Academy of Sciences in Washington, citing concerns about dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov, announced it is suspending talks with its Soviet counterpart over a new scientific cooperation agreement. The move was the strongest so far by the American scientific group to try to pressure the Soviets to improve their treatment of Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner. Sakharov’s family reported he went on a hunger strike May 2 to win permission for Bonner to go abroad for treatment of eye and heart problems.
A team of Polish medical experts told a Warsaw court today that a beating that killed a supporter of the outlawed Solidarity labor federation must have been inflicted while he was in custody at a police station. Dr. Andrzej Jaglinski, who represented the team, concluded that the police station was the only place that Grzegorz Przemyk, 19 years old, could have been fatally beaten between the time he was detained on a disorderly conduct charge and two days later, when he died. The doctors said Mr. Przemyk’s intestines were badly damaged and the damage could have been done with “a shod foot, fists or an elbow.”
Mr. Przemyk’s death on May 14, 1983, aroused widespread anger. About 20,000 mourners attended his funeral. Last month six men went on trial in connection with the death. Two policemen are charged with beating him after he was detained. Two ambulance drivers who later drove him to a clinic are charged with the more serious crime of inflicting the fatal blows. Meanwhile, the authorities today announced the conditional release of Janusz Palubicki, an imprisoned leader of Solidarity who underwent heart surgery after a hunger strike.
Princess Caroline of Monaco has given birth to her first child, a 62-pound boy, and both the princess and baby “are well,” a spokesman for the Monaco Royal Palace said. The spokesman said the baby was born last night at the Princess Grace Clinic of the principality, and will be named Andrea Albert. The royal family’s surname is Grimaldi. The baby was born five months and two weeks after the 27-year-old Caroline married wealthy Italian businessmen Stefano Casiraghi, 23. The quiet civil ceremony on December 29 in Monte Carlo was her second marriage and his first.
Sikh terrorists holding out at the Golden Temple in Punjab were said to have fired at troops during a visit to the Sikh shrine by President Zail Singh. The Indian Government said that terrorists elsewhere in Punjab killed at least 15 more people and at least 30 more Sikh terrorists were rounded up in the state.
Two foreign priests and six Filipino lay workers who are charged with multiple murder returned to jail today after rejecting a presidential offer of freedom. President Ferdinand E. Marcos offered to pardon the Columban priests, Brian Gore of Perth, Australia, and Niall O’Brien of Dublin, Ireland, and to parole the lay workers, on the condition that the priests, who are charged with ambushing and murdering a town mayor and four aides in 1982, leave the country immediately. Juan Hagad, the defense attorney, said that “what the Government wants is a hint that all of these people are guilty,” and that “even a hint of guilt” was out of the question. The two priests contend the Filipino military brought the charges to stop their organizing work in rural areas where, they say, people are oppressed by rich sugar barons.
The Australian government has given up hope of finding six of its servicemen missing in Vietnam and believed killed in the war, officials said. Foreign Minister Bill Hayden has requested that Parliament approve the report by a team of Australian officials that returned recently from a search in Vietnam. The team failed to uncover further details about the fate of the servicemen. The report says there is no point in initiating further investigations and that the question of the missing servicemen should not be an issue in relations between Australia and Vietnam.
Homosexuality is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
Less American spending in Honduras is in prospect. The Senate voted to delete from a military authorization bill $4.4 million for construction of two military bases in Honduras that had originally been sought by the Reagan Administration. A large-scale military exercise in Honduras involving American, Honduran and Salvadoran troops ended, and officials said the number of American servicemen in Honduras would be reduced from 1,700 to fewer than 700.
Argentine authorities found a bomb aboard an airliner hours before former President Isabel Martinez de Perón was scheduled to board it to return to Spain. The authorities said there were no indications of who might have placed the one pound of TNT in the nose of the Boeing 747. Mrs. Perón, who left on another plane, caused bitter divisions in her Perónist Party and its military unions during her 19-day visit to Buenos Aires. The airport chief said the bomb would have destroyed the plane in flight.
The bomb was later detonated in a field two miles from the airport, the major said. Airport police said the bomb had been placed in an electrical compartment beneath the cockpit and had been expertly set with sensors to detonate when the plane was pressurized after takeoff. They said it was found only because of heightened security inspections to protect Mrs. Perón. Mrs. Perón sidestepped a question on the bomb in an airport news conference, saying, “Nobody dies five minutes before the time God has set for them.” The divisions caused by the 53-year-old former President in her party are severe. Senior officials in the Government of President Raul Alfonsin said the divisions threatened to undermine the national unity accord Mrs. Perón and other opposition leaders signed Thursday with Mr. Alfonsin.
President Fernando Belaunde of Peru has declared a state of emergency, suspending civil rights guarantees for 30 days throughout the country. “Individual guarantees of personal liberty and security, the inviolability of the home and the freedom to meet and to travel throughout the country have been suspended,” Interior Minister Luis Percovich Roca said last night. The government announced no further action. Nearly 170,000 teachers struck Monday, demanding an increase in their minimum wage from the equivalent of $133 to $170 a month. The teachers were followed out Tuesday by 500,000 government employees, who wanted a wage increase of $150 a month. Their salaries now range from $160 to $640 dollars a month.
House-Senate negotiators, trying to agree on $50 billion in tax increases, decided Friday to let utility companies take tax deductions for the cost of dismantling old nuclear power plants. The provision would allow companies to avoid taxes on money set aside in accounts earmarked for decommissioning such plants. It would cost the Treasury about $250 million over the next three years. In addition, the conferees agreed on some minor changes in the way insurance companies are taxed but postponed consideration of major insurance issues until next week.
As of Friday, the conferees had held three meetings and had agreed on about $35 billion in taxes for the next three years. The Senate and House have approved different $50-billion, three-year tax bills as part of their efforts to reduce the federal budget deficit, which would increase by about $600 billion over that period if nothing is done. Under federal and state law, utilities that operate nuclear power plants must dismantle them at the end of their useful lives, which average 30 years. The provision that the congressional negotiators agreed to was included in the Senate bill. Senate Finance Committee members said it was intended to underscore that establishing a special reserve fund for paying future nuclear decommissioning costs is of sufficient national importance to deserve a tax break.
A tornado killed at least nine people and injured as many as 150, 57 of them seriously, in Barneveld, Wisconsin, and the small town became a heap of rubble. The twister was one of 49 that killed at least 16 people and injured hundreds in the Plains states and upper Middle West.
Gary Hart determinedly continued preparations for seeking the Democratic Presidential nomination with efforts designed to stress issues and minimize any discord with Walter F. Mondale.
Fair hearings on any challenges that might be made to the number of convention delegates backing Mr. Mondale will be held, according to assurances made by officials of the Democratic National Committee to Senator Hart and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. However, officials left uncertain whether any challenged Mondale delegates would be allowed to vote on such challenges.
A top insurance brokerage dismissed several key executives as a result of bond trading that generated a $90 million loss, according to the company’s chairman. John M. Regan Jr., the chairman of Marsh and McLennan Companies, said those dismissed included the treasurer, the head of the investment management group and the chief bond trader.
A $5 million libel suit brought by two former Federal prosecutors will be settled by an $800,000 payment by Dow Jones & Co., the publisher of The Wall Street Journal. The payment is the largest reported settlement in a libel suit that did not go to trial. As part of the agreement, the company acknowledged it could not prove a major allegation.
An environmental suit was filed against 26 companies, including some of the nation’s largest oil and petrochemical concerns, by 39 plaintiffs in Harris County, Texas. The class-action suit, filed in Houston, charged that the companies recklessly handled many toxic waste materials and exposed large areas of the county to severe health hazards, including birth defects and cancer.
Six cars of an Amtrak train bound from Boston to Washington, D.C., derailed in southwest Philadelphia, causing three dozen minor injuries, authorities said. The derailment occurred at 2:40 pm, 10 minutes after the nine-car passenger train left 30th Street Station. One woman suffered a broken leg and a man was trapped briefly inside a car, Captain Robert Drennen of the Fire Department said. The cause of the accident was not immediately known.
Two of six convicted murderers who escaped from Virginia’s death row and set off a manhunt in North Carolina were recaptured in Vermont today, one of them about five miles from the Canadian border. The other, Lem Tuggle Jr., was recaptured after a robbery at a gift store in Woodford, Vermont. A second, Willie Leroy Jones, was apprehended in Newport, Vermont, about five miles south of the Canadian border, according to Governor Charles S. Robb of Virginia. Mr. Robb said he learned of the capture from Virginia State Police. Mr. Tuggle, 32 years old, and Mr. Jones, 30, were among four fugitives remaining at large of the six who escaped from the Mecklenburg Correctional Center on May 31. Two were recaptured in North Carolina on June 1.
A jury in Lovelock, Nevada took less than four hours Thursday to find a man guilty of sexually assaulting two California teen-agers in the back of his van while his wife drove, then battering them to death and burying them in Nevada. Gerald Gallego, who already faces the gas chamber in California for two other murders, was found guilty on charges of murder and aggravated kidnap. The Pershing County District Court jurors are to recommend either the death penalty or life in prison in a sentencing hearing set for Monday. Mr. Gallego, 37 years old, was convicted of kidnapping and killing Stacey Redican and Karen Chipman-Twiggs, both 17 years old, who disappeared from a suburban Sacramento shopping mall in April 1980. Their bodies were found the next summer. The public defender, Tom Perkins, had argued that wide publicity made it impossible to pick an impartial jury. He noted that more than $25,000 has been raised through donations of between $1 and $5,000 from around the country and Canada to help the county defray the cost of prosecution.
Three Bedford, Texas, teen-agers who stole three 12-packs of beer from a convenience store left the clerk to wrestle with the holdup weapon — a 3-foot-long snake. The three teens entered the 7-Eleven store about 1:30 pm yesterday and threw the snake at the attendant on duty, said police Sgt. Bob Bramlett. While the employee wrestled with the slithering reptile, the youths escaped with three 12-packs of beer valued at less than $20, Bramlett said. The snake, identified by Texas Parks & Wildlife game warden Donnie Fitts as a biting but non-poisonous garter snake, was killed by police, officers said. The unidentified store attendant was recuperating yesterday from being “scared out of his shoes,” and one of the three boys was in custody, police said.
House fires in two states killed eight children yesterday, four in Constantine, Michigan, and four in Baltimore. In Baltimore, the children were asleep in a three-story brick rowhouse that had no electricity, officials said. Preliminary reports indicated an unattended candle caused the fire, according Captain Pat Flynn, a fire department spokesman. Mr. Flynn said electricity at the house had been turned off several weeks ago because the utility bill had not been paid. The victims were 9 to 17 years old. In the southwestern Michigan town of Constantine, four children died when a fire whipped by strong winds swept through a two-story house. The victims ranged in age from 3 to 13.
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland, who also served as Arizona governor and chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, died Friday of respiratory failure at the age of 89. McFarland was hospitalized May 29 for congestive heart failure and transferred to a critical-care unit Sunday.
A big travel summer for Americans at home and abroad is predicted by government and industry experts because of a resurgent economy, a strong dollar and plentiful gasoline. The number of new passports issued this year is expected to be a record 4.7 million, a 12 percent rise over last year’s total, which in turn was up 16 percent over 1982, according to the State Department.
“Ghostbusters”, American supernatural comedy film, directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson premieres.
“Gremlins”, American comedy horror film, is released.
Pete O’Brien has 3 hits and drives in 6 runs as the Rangers top the visiting A’s, 8–4. For Oakland, Rickey Henderson has 4 hits, including a double and triple, but is twice caught stealing.
In Game 5 of the NBA Finals, the Celtics took a 3–2 series lead with a 121–103 victory, as Larry Bird scored 34 points and grabbed 17 rebounds. The game was known as the “Heat Game”, as it was played under 97 °F (36 °C) heat, and without any air conditioning, at Boston Garden. The Celtics did not warm up with their sweat pants on because of extreme heat, and an oxygen tank was provided to give air to an aging Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Referee Hugh Evans became dehydrated and fainted at one point in the first half. He worked the first half, but was replaced by John Vanak for the second half. It was also the last time that a team with home court advantage in the NBA finals played Game 5 on its own floor until 2014. The next year, the NBA Finals switched to the 2-3-2 format with Game 5 going to the team without home-court advantage, which continued through 2013.
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Born:
Andrea Casiraghi, son of Princess Caroline of Monaco, in The Princess Grace Hospital Centre, Monaco.
Barbara Turner, WNBA guard and forward (Seattle Storm, Houston Comets, Connecticut Sun), in Cleveland, Ohio.
Died:
Gordon Jacob, 88, British composer.
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