Most of the Sikh troops who deserted in northeastern India on Sunday were arrested at three places, including one where a gun battle left 26 Sikh extremists dead, according to Indian news agencies and officials. The Press Trust of India reported 574 arrests. At the same time, more Sikh defections and attempted defections were reported in the north and in the west near Bombay.
The Sikh soldiers deserted Sunday at Ramgarh in Bihar State in anger at the Indian Army’s assault last Tuesday and Wednesday on the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, the holiest site of the Sikh religion. The soldiers joined other Sikhs in heading across India for Amritsar. The death toll in the attack on the Golden Temple could be as high as 2,000, The Associated Press reported, because many people are unaccounted for and more bodies are being pulled from the lake that surrounds the central shrine. The battle today, which lasted several hours, was near Jaunpur, 350 miles southeast of here in Uttar Pradesh State, and 355 people were arrested there.
Two Sikh members of Parliament from Prime Minister Gandhi’s Congress Party have resigned in protest of the storming of the Golden Temple. They are Amrinder Singh and Devinder Singh Garcha, both members of the lower house.
A light rain today, harbinger of the coming monsoon, soaked the woven jute carpets leading to the golden-domed Bangla Sahib gurdwara, or Sikh temple, in New Delhi. But the rain did not cool the tempers of the knots of turbaned Sikh men, who in agitated tones discussed the assault on their holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, last week. ”If Christ’s temple were destroyed, what would Christians say?” asked Jagjit Singh, a doctor, as a crowd of Sikhs nodded in angry assent. ”What has happened is not tolerable to the Sikh community,” he added. A younger Sikh with intense brown eyes interjected bitterly: ”This is not democracy. This is Hindu democracy.”
Sri Lanka’s government imposed press censorship on reports dealing with the Tamil rebel movement. A government spokesman said the censorship will apply to foreign correspondents as well as the local press. It will cover matters relating to guerrilla violence, security operations against the rebels and training of security forces. The censorship is apparently in response to growing agitation over the government’s decision to seek Israeli help in fighting the guerrillas.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry and all its embassies around the world closed when employees began a three-day strike demanding higher wages and pensions. The stoppage threatened to disrupt the visit of U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, and a Jerusalem court issued back-to-work orders to 26 ministry officials. The strikers say they are entitled to higher wages than other civil servants because they must know foreign languages, handle secret information and face the threat of guerrilla attacks when posted outside Israel.
Sixty-five Lebanese were killed and 200 were wounded in the worst flare-up between Muslim and Christian forces since a new Government was formed six weeks ago. Both sides of Beirut’s Green Line were pounded for 12 hours. A doctor on duty in the emergency room at American University Hospital in the Muslim section said he counted 50 dead on arrival. He added that 20 of 150 people admitted for treatment had suffered serious wounds. A Christian radio station put the toll in the Christian sector at 15 killed and 50 wounded. The police said that among those wounded were six policemen injured when their headquarters near Parliament was set on fire by a direct hit. The Christian radio also said rockets fired from the Muslim sector had fallen near the presidential palace in the southeast suburb of Baabda, where President Amin Gemayel has his office and residence. The radio did not say whether there had been casualties.
The Soviet Union denied today that a United States diplomat had been beaten up recently outside a Leningrad restaurant, and it rebuked the American correspondent, Robert Gillette of The Los Angeles Times, who first reported the incident. The official Tass press agency said the allegation of an attack on the diplomat, Vice Consul Ronald A. Harms, was fabricated by the United States Government in order to divert attention from what Moscow asserted was lack of security at the Los Angeles Olympics. The United States Embassy confirmed reports last month that Mr. Harms, 35 years old, had been repeatedly hit by several young men and knocked to the ground as he left a restaurant near the American Consulate in Leningrad on April 17. Mr. Harms was reportedly meeting with dissidents before the incident.
Solidarity adviser Jacek Kuron, imprisoned without trial for 31 months, began a hunger strike to try to force Poland’s Communist authorities to free him or bring him into court, his son reported. Kuron is one of 11 top leaders and advisers of the outlawed Solidarity union who are awaiting trial on charges of plotting to topple Poland’s Communist system. Meanwhile, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said that three men will take the place of arrested underground leader Bogdan Lis.
Pope John Paul II is scheduled to leave Rome early today for a six-day visit to Switzerland, his 22nd papal trip out of Italy. The pastoral visit will largely follow the schedule of a planned 1981 trip that was canceled after the pontiff was shot in St. Peter’s Square. Vatican officials expect no dramatic developments on the trip beyond the pontiff’s symbolically important visit to the Protestant-dominated World Council of Churches in Geneva.
West German police arrested 46 anti-nuclear demonstrators, part of a crowd of 700 who blockaded a barracks in a continuing protest at a U.S. Army missile base at Mutlangen. The protesters gathered at the gates to the Bismarck Barracks, home of the U.S. Army’s Pershing-equipped 56th Field Artillery Brigade, and prevented two Army buses from entering the facility. No injuries were reported in the incident, which occurred on the fourth consecutive day of demonstrations at the base. The latest arrests brought the total to 133 in the four days.
Enrico Berlinguer died in Padua, Italy, at the age of 62. Mr. Berlinguer, the Italian Communist leader, started a movement among Western Communists toward greater independence from Moscow.
Opposition parties decided at a caucus today to challenge Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos’s New Society Movement for the rules and the leadership of Parliament when it convenes on July 23. Leaders of the United Nationalist Democratic Organization and four smaller opposition parties said they would push for a revision of the rules to achieve an effective two-party system in the assembly. The opposition parties together have 59 declared members in the assembly, as opposed to 113 of the Marcos party and 11 independents. But the opposition parties have formally protested 25 of the Marcos party seats, saying opposition candidates were legitimately elected to them. Ramon V. Mitra, speaking for the opposition parties, said the caucus also formed a committee to propose revisions in the election code in preparation for local elections in 1986 and the presidential contest in 1987.
Salvador’s Roman Catholic Church has assumed a growing role in mediating between the Government and leftist rebels as a result of a series of prisoner exchanges it arranged in the last month.
Left-wing guerrillas who kidnaped the brother of El Salvador’s defense minister on June 5 have freed him in exchange for the release of a rebel through an agreement arranged by the Roman Catholic Church and the International Red Cross, Salvadoran military officials disclosed. Dr. Edward Vides Casanova, 47, a pediatrician and brother of Defense Minister Carlos Vides Casanova, was exchanged for Eugenio Ticas Martinez, who was given safe passage to Mexico.
Six members of an American missionary family drowned in the Dominican Republic when their panel truck was caught in a river swollen by torrential rains, police reported. The U.S. Embassy identified the victims as Marvin Robert, 30, his wife, Magney, 27, and their three young children. A family member identified as Lena Robert, 33, also drowned. The hometowns of the Americans were not released.
Argentina defiantly opposed the International Monetary Fund’s imposition of austerity policies intended to help the country repay its huge foreign debt. The Government sent a letter of intent to the fund outlining its own unilateral austerity program, which negotiators for the fund have rejected.
Canadian officials tried today to play down Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s apparently sharp differences with President Reagan in a discussion over East-West relations and arms control at the London economic conference. According to officials from both countries, Mr. Trudeau, while urging the other six leaders to do more to promote detente with Eastern Europe, provoked Mr. Reagan to the point that the President took off his glasses and said in exasperation: ”Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do? We’ll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table.”
The Vatican condemned South Africa’s policy of apartheid shortly after Pope John Paul II met Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha and Foreign Minister Roelof F. (Pik) Botha. The private audience was held in the papal library, a Vatican spokesman said, without giving details. The Vatican statement reiterated that the Roman Catholic Church considers apartheid contrary to Christian principles. In Johannesburg, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, secretary general of the South African Council of Churches, called the meeting “a slap in the face to all victims of apartheid.”
Rebels have stepped up their attacks against the Government of President Milton Obote, damaging a major power station on the outskirts of the capital with rocket-propelled grenades, the Roman Catholic newspaper Munno reported today. The newspaper said reliable sources had confirmed the attack Sunday, which took place near Kampala’s main hospital. It was not clear what group was responsible for the attack. Guerrillas of Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Movement have taken responsibility for a series of recent attacks on Government installations and military bases. The guerrillas say Mr. Obote rigged the 1980 elections that brought him to power after Tanzanian troops ousted Idi Amin.
An experimental antimissile lofted into space Sunday hit and destroyed an incoming dummy missile warhead, United States Army officers disclosed. The success over the South Pacific is certain to encourage advocates of President Reagan’s proposal for developing a defense against any missile attack. On Sunday, the non-nuclear missile was lofted into space where it unfolded an umbrella-like device 15 feet across that collided with the test warhead, the Army officers said. The interceptor, fired from Meck Island in the Kwajalein Islands, met hundreds of miles away over the South Pacific with the dummy warhead fired from a Minuteman 1 intercontinental missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California.
Dr. Hans A. Bethe is opposed to the development of a new generation of nuclear weapons. Dr. Bethe, a key architect of the atom bomb, believes deeply that efforts to eliminate the danger of nuclear weapons by technical means are futile and that “the only way to eliminate it is by having a wise policy — that means going back to the policy of the six Presidents preceeding Reagan.”
President Reagan phones black attorney Reginald W. Williams, Esq. who had written to the President about black colleges and education.
President Reagan takes part in a brief interview with Time’s columnist Hugh S. Sidey.
A House debate on immigration was set despite objections by Hispanic groups that want to postpone debate indefinitely. A 291-to-111 vote cleared the way for a week of House debate on a comprehensive immigration bill and 69 proposed amendments. The Senate passed a similar measure 13 months ago.
Democratic unity was stressed by Gary Hart and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. They showed little interest in trying to write their own planks into the party platform to be adopted at next month’s national convention in San Francisco. In separate appearances before the convention’s 184-member platform committee, Senator Gary Hart and the Rev. Jesse Jackson both emphasized the need for defeating President Reagan in November, called for Democratic unity to promote that goal and generally minimized their differences with Mr. Mondale on issues. After the primary competition ended last week, Mr. Mondale said he had a majority of the 3,933 delegates who are to attend the convention next month in San Francisco. Several independent compilations have confirmed his statement.
Illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if the prosecution can prove that the evidence “inevitably” would have been discovered by lawful means, under to a 7-to-2 ruling by the Supreme Court. The Justices endorsed a doctrine known as the ”inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary rule” that had previously been adopted by every Federal court of appeals. The exclusionary rule generally bars the use of illegally obtained evidence. There had been little doubt that the Supreme Court would join the lower courts in adopting the inevitable discovery doctrine. ”Exclusion of physical evidence that would inevitably have been discovered adds nothing to either the integrity or fairness of a criminal trial,” Chief Justice Warren E. Burger wrote for the Court. In a dissenting opinion, Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. and Thurgood Marshall agreed with the majority that the inevitable discovery doctrine ”is consistent with the requirements of the Constitution.” However, they differed with the majority on the burden of proof the prosecution should be required to meet in showing that the evidence would have been discovered.
A federal magistrate in St. Paul, Minnesota, set bail at $300,000 for Earl S. Karr, the suspect in the recent rash of Midwest pipe bombings, at a hearing in the hospital where Karr is recovering from burns suffered Friday when a bomb exploded in his rented car. Karr entered no plea and a preliminary hearing was set for June 21. The auto explosion triggered a federal investigation and search of Karr’s boarding house room in Minneapolis. Authorities said items seized from the car and nearby debris appeared to match those used to make pipe bombs planted in 24 locations in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. Five persons have been hurt in explosions since early May, with 21 bombs found since the Memorial Day weekend. Karr has been charged with possession of unregistered firearms.
A federal judge in Milwaukee approved a settlement in a discrimination suit by black police officers, clearing the way for immediate implementation of a court-ordered schedule of promotions and assignments for blacks. The settlement calls for the establishment of a $99,000 fund from which black officers who have experienced discrimination can have monetary claims settled. The agreement was approved despite objections by some black officers that it did not go far enough.
Lawyers for a convicted rapist went before the New Hampshire state Supreme Court to argue that he should be allowed to starve himself in prison. Assistant Attorney General Ronald Rodgers opposed the suggestion, saying the state has a duty to care for those in its custody. He warned that granting the wish of the prisoner, Joel Caulk, could help other inmates ”manipulate” the authorities. But Mr. Caulk’s attorney, Arpiar Saunders, said the state should respect the 36-year-old prisoner’s wish to end his life. Mr. Saunders also urged the court to prevent prison officials from force-feeding his client. Mr. Caulk is serving a 10- to 20-year prison term in New Hampshire for rape and faces 20 to 30 years in prison in Massachusetts after that in addition to ”multiple prosecutions,” Mr. Rogers said.
The Coast Guard took 90 Haitians from two leaky sailboats off the coast of Haiti, burned and sank their rickety vessels, then headed back to Haiti with the refugees, authorities said in Miami. The Coast Guard cutter Hamilton reported no injuries among the refugees whom it was returning to Port-au-Prince. The interception Sunday night of the wooden sailboats — one laden with 39 Haitians and the other with 51 — marked the second time in four days that the Coast Guard has halted vessels jammed with Haitian refugees and returned them to their Caribbean homeland.
Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards flew here today with a proposal to resolve the World’s Fair’s latest financial crisis: $12 million in unpaid construction bills. The goal of the plan, Mr. Edwards said, is to accelerate payments to contractors who have been having a hard time making ends meet. ”It would involve possibly the guaranteeing of an additional loan, but not additional appropriations,” Mr. Edwards said. ”The state is not going to put up any more money.” Mr. Edwards said he expected an answer from contractors and bankers by 5 PM Tuesday. The Governor said he also would seek legislative approval of the plan. The fair owes most of the money for the final month of construction. The big snag in the fair’s finances has been attendance, which so far has been far below the 65,000 per day needed to break even by closing.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, citing the unprecedented Three Mile Island accident, recommended that Congress remove limitations on claims for compensation by nuclear accident victims. NRC Chairman Nunzio Palladino told a House subcommittee that the current $585-million ceiling on utility liability for nuclear accidents could deprive some victims of compensation, especially those who develop cancer or other health problems years later from exposure to radiation. Palladino suggested also that, in view of such possible “latent” claims by cancer victims, Congress should extend the time period from 20 to 30 years. Nuclear insurers and utilities opposed the change.
A labor-environmental coalition said it had incorrectly reported that at least three toxic waste dumps not yet on the government’s “superfund” priority cleanup list are more dangerous than Love Canal. The National Campaign for Toxic Hazards said decimal points were incorrect in hazard rankings of three sites. The coalition study incorrectly rated the site most seriously contaminated but not yet listed by the Environmental Protection Agency for “superfund” cleanup as the IRC Fibers Co. in Painesville, Ohio. The report said IRC has an EPA hazard rating of 79.1 out of a possible score of 100. But, in fact, the group said the site’s hazard ranking is 7.9. Similarly, a Ford Motor Co. site in Monroe, Michigan, which was ranked 78.2, is actually rated 7.8; and the MPS Inc. site in Canton, Ohio, rated 74.1, is actually rated 7.4 by the EPA.
New Mexico is trying to grow from a 19th-century agrarian economy into a high-technology center. The Los Alamos National Laboratory and other military-related facilities employ thousands of highly skilled scientists and engineers who are viewed by New Mexico’s business and government leaders as the potential core of new research industries.
A revolution in genetic engineering is under way and its potential ecological consequences have not yet been thoroughly analyzed. Many prominent ecologists are increasingly concerned that the release of genetically engineered organisms into the environment might get out of control and cause unexpected damage to other life forms or to atmospheric and ecological processes.
Michael Larson shown winning record $110,237 on American TV game show “Press Your Luck” by memorizing patterns.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1115.61 (-15.64).
Born:
Andy Lee, Irish boxer (WBO middleweight title 2014-2015), in London, England, United Kingdom.
Jordan Senn, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts, Carolina Panthers), in Beaverton, Oregon.
D’Juan Woods, NFL wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars), in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Died:
Enrico Berlinguer, 62, National Secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), after a brain hemorrhage.
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