East-West summit talks were urged by two Senate Republican leaders because relations are so tense. The urgent appeal was made to President Reagan by the Senate Republican leader, Howard H. Baker Jr., and Senator Charles H. Percy, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. However, the Administration reiterated its view that any meeting between Mr. Reagan and the Soviet leader, Konstantin U. Chernenko, should be carefully prepared and offer the prospect of tangible results.
Soviet President Konstantin U. Chernenko opened a summit meeting with the Kremlin’s closest allies aimed at greater integration of the Soviet Bloc economies. With Cuba’s President Fidel Castro inexplicably absent, leaders from nine of the 10 Comecon trade alliance nations began their three-day meeting amid tight security and a news blackout. Because of differences among members, leaders of Comecon — consisting of East European nations plus Mongolia, Cuba and Vietnam — have not convened since 1969.
At least 12 more Sikh deserters from the Indian Army were reported killed and nearly 350 more were arrested. Military officials in New Delhi said the scattered three-day revolt by Sikh troops was ending, but 200 members of a Sikh battalion in the northeastern state of Tripura stole four military vehicles and deserted today. They were intercepted and, according to officials, surrendered without a fight. “Only stray cases of individuals remain to be mopped up,” said Brig. K. L. Juneja, an army spokesman. He said that all other deserters had surrendered, been captured or killed.
Desertion and dissent among Sikh troops broke out last week after the Indian Army invaded the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the holiest Sikh shrine. The army said militant Sikhs seeking more autonomy for the state of Punjab, which has a large Sikh population, had been using the temple as a refuge. Eleven deserters who had left their posts near Poona, 75 miles southeast of Bombay, were reported killed in Gujarat state, north of Bombay. They were reportedly on their way to Amritsar. One Sikh deserter was killed and 34 others surrendered today after a brief encounter with troops near Agra, 115 miles south of here. They were among Sikh soldiers who revolted Sunday at Ramgarh in Bihar, killed Brigadier R. S. Puri and vowed to go to Amritsar. Seventy-five more of the Ramgarh deserters surrendered today in the state of Madhya Pradesh, west of Bihar.
In another development, the Indian Government arrested two Sikh leaders of the moderate Akali Dal party. The two, Prakash Singh Badal and Surjit Singh Barnala, had previously advocated unity between Sikhs and Hindus but refused to call for communal harmony after the army assault on the Golden Temple.
Meanwhile, reports persisted that the death toll in the battle was higher than the approximately 450 reported by official sources. A report today, from a reporter for The Associated Press who has been held in Amritsar since June 2, when the army took over security in Punjab, put the figure at 1,220. A thousand of these, according to the report, which was attributed to military and civilian authorities, were Sikhs who had been in the temple when the army entered it. The 220 others were said to be soldiers. The official figure for army deaths is about 90.
An accord by Iran and Iraq to halt attacks on each other’s cities took effect, but both sides vowed to continue their 44-month-old war. A limited cease-fire in the Persian Gulf War halting attacks on cities in Iran and Iraq remained in force for the second day, despite border skirmishes and vows by both sides to launch new attacks in their 3½-year-old war. The U.N.-mediated accord calls for both countries to cease shelling each other’s cities but does not apply to attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf. Meanwhile, officials of six conservative gulf Arab nations continued to seek ways to protect their oil shipments.
Afghan resistance fighters have renewed attacks in the strategic Panjshir Valley and shot down four Soviet aircraft in heavy fighting near Kabul, Western diplomatic sources said in New Delhi. Guerrilla attacks increased through much of the country last week as unusually heavy Soviet reinforcements were flown into Kabul, according to Afghan sources quoted by the diplomats. One diplomat said that despite Soviet claims to have crushed the Panjshir insurgents, the guerrillas escaped “relatively unscathed” from a major Soviet spring offensive in the strategic valley.
Soviet forces have launched a major attack on Afghan guerrillas near the Iranian border, Western diplomats said today. The diplomats, quoting information from their missions in the Afghan capital, also reported increased guerrilla activity last week in Kabul and the eastern provinces of Paktia and Nangarhar bordering Pakistan. No details were available on the offensive against the anti-Communist guerrillas in and around Herat. But the diplomats quoted an unidentified Eastern European diplomat in Kabul with good Afghan military contacts as reporting that heavy fighting was continuing in the area last Sunday. Last week, the diplomats reported stepped-up guerrilla attacks in Herat. The diplomats also reported almost daily bombing raids around Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second largest city.
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, warning that he will “deal with America,” said in a speech to servicemen that he has the capability to stage assassinations and other attacks within the United States, the official Libyan news agency Jana reported. Qaddafi has accused the United States of supporting a guerrilla attack in Tripoli on May 8. and U.S. officials have accused him of dispatching squads to kill Libyan dissidents abroad.
About 65,000 schoolteachers joined other Israeli public workers in strikes to press demands for higher pay to offset rises in the cost of living. A day earlier, Foreign Ministry workers began a three-day strike for higher pay, the first ever by Israeli diplomats. In addition, broadcast technicians, national electric company employees and social workers staged work stoppages, with postal and atomic energy workers expected to join next. The Israeli trade union federation is demanding raises averaging 22%. with the government offering 8%.
Rauf Denktash, head of the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, arrived in Ankara today on a two-day state visit. Turkey is the only country to have recognized the Turkish Cypriots’ unilateral proclamation. Since Turkey invaded and occupied the northern portion of the island in 1974, Cyprus has been effectively divided between its Greek and Turkish ethnic communities. The Turkish Cypriot administration in the north, headed by Mr. Denktash, proclaimed itself an independent republic last year. In a speech, President Kenan Evren said Turkey’s “goal is to establish a federated state on Cyprus.” “Turkey will always continue to support a lasting peace on the island” Mr. Evren said. Turkish diplomats said that Mr. Denktash would ask more financial aid from Turkey, which gives around $30 million annually to the Turkish Cypriot state.
A Rome court convicted and sentenced fugitive Marxist professor Toni Negri in absentia to 30 years in prison for complicity in two terrorist murders and for other crimes. Negri, 50, who was elected to the Italian Parliament last June but fled the country after his parliamentary immunity was lifted, is believed to be in France. He was considered one of the masterminds of the Red Brigades and other Italian terrorist groups of the 1970s. At the end of a 16-month trial of suspected terrorists, the court convicted 59 other defendants on a variety of charges and acquitted 11.
The Pope, arriving in Geneva, renewed a pledge to strive for unity among all Christian churches. John Paul II gave an address at the headquarters of the World Council of Churches at the start of a six-day tour of Switzerland.
Benigno S. Aquino Jr., the slain opposition leader, was proclaimed a national hero of Filipinos at an Independence Day gathering of opposition parties tonight. Salvador Laurel, head of the United Nationalist Democratic Organization, extolled Mr. Aquino for his “infectious courage and patriotism,” which he said had inspired significant gains by opposition candidates May 14. In his own Independence Day message, President Ferdinand E. Marcos defended his emergency powers as necessary tools for political and economic crises. He asked for support of new taxes he imposed and devaluation of the peso, saying that in the long term, “these are wise measures which will lead us to recovery.” At the opposition celebration, Mr. Laurel said that in its 12-year rule, Mr. Marcos’s New Society Party had “ravaged the national economy, wasted its natural resources and reduced 80 percent of our people to poverty.”
President Reagan signs an order making it possible for the U.S. to sell defensive weapons to China.
The wife of an American missionary and three of their four children were among seven members of a religious sect who drowned while attempting to cross a rain-swollen river in the Dominican Republic in a pickup truck, the U.S. Consulate in Santo Domingo reported. The victims were Mary Jane Rohrer and her children, Priscilla Kay, 3, Marla Joy, 2, and Justin, 5 months, all of Dover, Pennsylvania. Rohrer’s husband, Marvin, and a fourth child, Rosanne, 5, both initially reported drowned, were saved, a consular official said. Leona Mast, an American not further identified, and two Dominicans also drowned.
The United States Government has lifted a seven-year-old ban on direct economic assistance to Mozambique, the American Embassy said today. An Embassy spokesman said the ban, imposed by Congress in 1977 because of charges the country’s Marxist Government had violated human rights, had been lifted recently by Secretary of State George P. Shultz.
Job seniority was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. In a 6-to-3 decision, the Justices ruled that a court may not order an employer to protect the jobs of recently hired black employees at the expense of whites who have greater seniority. In an opinion by Associate Justice Byron R. White, the Court overturned an order by two lower Federal courts that had shielded newly hired black officers in the Memphis fire department against layoffs. The Court’s ruling comes at a time of continuing debate between union leaders, who say seniority should determine who is laid off, and civil rights leaders, who say such a policy frustrates the employment prospects of minorities. It is likely to have some impact in many cities across the nation where similar cases are in litigation.
A first exception to the Miranda rule was issued by the Supreme Court. The Justices ruled, 5 to 4, that “overriding considerations of public safety” may justify the police in questioning a suspect in custody without first advising him of his rights against self-incrimination. It was the first time that the Court carved out an exception to the doctrine that prohibits the police from interrogating a suspect in custody without first advising him of his right to remain silent, his right to have a lawyer present during the questioning and his right to a court-appointed lawyer if he cannot afford to hire one. Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist used a New York gun possession case to announce what he called a “public safety exception” to the suspect warning doctrine established 18 years ago in the case of Miranda v. Arizona.
The decision today overturned rulings by three New York State courts that the police violated a rape suspect’s rights by asking him, as soon as they cornered him in a Queens supermarket, where his gun was. No warning of his rights preceded the question. The New York courts refused to permit the prosecution to use either the man’s answer — “The gun is over there” — or the gun itself as evidence. The defendant, Benjamin Quarles, has not yet been tried on the gun possession charge. The proceedings were suspended while John J. Santucci, the Queens District Attorney, appealed the Miranda doctrine question to the Supreme Court.
A curb on antimissile spending was approved by the Senate in a 61-to-28 vote. The compromise measure would forbid spending on the testing of antisatellite weapons unless President Reagan certifies he is “endeavoring in good faith to negotiate the strictest possible limitations on antisatellite weapons.”
President Reagan welcomes Republican leadership from both Houses of Congress.
An immigration bill advanced in the House. The representatives voted, 321 to 97, to prohibit the hiring of illegal aliens by employers of four or more people, a central provision of the comprehensive measure.
An effort to mollify Jesse Jackson was made by House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. He said he would appoint a commission to investigate Mr. Jackson’s charges that the delegate-selection process of the Democratic Party had discriminated against his candidacy for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
Flight controllers responsible for New York and Washington airways have asked the Government for approval to hold union organizing elections, saying a shortage of skilled personnel has strained their ability to direct a rising load safely.
A grand jury in Lawrenceville, Georgia, indicted Joseph P. Franklin in the 1978 shootings of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt and his attorney. Franklin, serving two life terms at a maximum-security prison in Marion, Illinois, for the sniper slayings of two black joggers in Utah, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault. Flynt and his attorney, Gene Reeves, were shot on a Lawrenceville street on March 6, 1978, during Flynt’s trial on obscenity charges stemming from the sale of his magazine. Reeves recovered, but Flynt was left paralyzed from the waist down. Flynt is at a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, for defying a court order to turn over videotapes in the John DeLorean case.
The Administration said it has begun revising contracts with the nation’s 80 nuclear power plants to begin taking highly radioactive wastes off their hands in 1998 even if government burial or storage facilities are not completed by then. “The department is obligated to begin receiving spent fuel in 1998 whether or not a repository is in place,” an Energy Department spokesman told reporters. The wastes are being stored under water in “swimming pools” at each reactor site while utilities are paying the government $300 million a year in fees to build a $20-billion permanent underground repository.
The inspector general of the Interior Department turned in “incomplete and unreliable” reports of an investigation into leaks of coal lease bidding data, possibly because then-Secretary James G. Watt wanted a finding before he had to testify about the sale, according to a General Accounting Office report. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Massachusetts), chairman of an oversight subcommittee, and Rep. James Weaver (D-Oregon), chairman of a mining subcommittee, told a news conference that the inspector general and his assistant should resign or be fired.
A vaccine to protect against the disease AIDS will take “three to six years” to develop, Dr. Robert C. Gallo, the National Cancer Institute scientist who discovered the AIDS virus, said. “It will take a few years just to develop the tools to make (vaccine) tests on animals,” he said. Gallo, chief of tumor cell biology at the institute, discovered the first virus linked to a cancer in humans, a leukemia, and more recently found the AIDS virus.
[Ed: This, of course, turned out to be sadly, wildly, overly optimistic. We still do not have a vaccine for AIDS, and probably never will.]
A panel set up by Congress disclosed a plan for making the beleaguered Social Security Administration an independent federal agency instead of a component of the Health and Human Services Department. Elmer B. Staats, the former comptroller general who chaired the Congressional Panel on Social Security Organization, said strong steps were needed to give Social Security “a coherent operational mission” and to strengthen its management.
Representatives of 6,000 striking registered nurses and 15 hospitals in the Minneapolis area held talks for the first time since the strike began June 1. Federal mediator Earl Larson said he did not know what to expect while entering negotiations as both sides appeared firm in their positions and had little hope for a quick settlement. Talks are deadlocked primarily over the issue of how much job security senior nurses should be entitled to during layoffs and recalls.
Officials of the financially troubled World’s Fair in New Orleans said they will begin massive payroll cutbacks to save $15 million in salaries, conforming to a request from Governor Edwin Edwards. In return, Edwards reportedly will ask the state to guarantee a $15-million loan so the fair can pay contractors, who say they are owed $14 million, overdue since May 20. Edwards met with fair officials and creditors Monday in an attempt to arrange a payback schedule.
Huge overcharges for military spare parts have enraged Representative Berkley Bedell, Democrat from Iowa. When told that a Navy repair kit for flight simulators contained 21 small hardware items that cost $10,168.56, Mr. Bedell went to two local hardware stores and bought the 21 identical items — for $92.44.
A teachers’ union says it will sue to keep the Racine, Wisconsin school board from censoring five textbooks, including one that a board member said had “funny pictures of Republicans and nicer pictures of Democrats.” “We definitely intend to see whether we can bring this district in compliance with Federal law,” James Ennis, head of the Racine Education Association, said Tuesday. “This is a wildly serious situation.” The Racine Unified School Board sent five textbooks back for review Monday, even though the board’s own curriculum committee had twice recommended the books. Board members complained that the books were “too liberal.”
A judge who was overruled when he decided to divide twins between their divorcing teen-age parents has now ordered that the 4 1/2-month-old, breast-fed babies spend alternate two-week periods with each parent. The mother has gone back to court to fight the order, which would force the children to travel every two weeks between Houston and northeast Texas, a 500-mile round trip. Judge Virgil Mulanax, a state district judge from Gilmer in northeast Texas, touched off the latest round in the custody fight between Dena Denise Carter and her estranged husband, Stan, both 17 years old. The battle for the twins, Chad Edward and Chase Edward, began after Mr. Carter filed for divorce February 14. Mrs. Carter dropped out of high school and moved to Houston with the infants. In March, Judge Mulanax decided each parent should have custody of one of the twins. But Mrs. Carter fought the ruling and it was suspended last month.
A 7,644-acre parcel of tidelands with a potential multimillion-dollar lode of natural gas belongs to the State of Alabama, a judge ruled today, turning down a university’s claim. Joseph Phelps, a circuit judge here, said the state was the “sole owner” of the Grant’s Pass bottomlands, which are near tracts that brought the state a $450 million oil lease bonanza in 1981. He said the University of South Alabama has no legal title to the land near Dauphin Island. Judge Phelps ruled that a patent on the property issued to the university in 1982 by Governor Fob James, with the legal support of Attorney General Charles Graddick, was invalid.
Mobile telephone service in the New York area, now limited to about 2,000 customers and 12 calls at any one time, is about to become available to many more thousands of customers, perhaps as early as today. About 100,000 simultaneous telephone calls from cars will be possible when the Federal Communications Commission gives the Nynex Corporation, parent company of the New York Telephone Company, permission to turn on its computerized mobile telephone service. The New York metropolitan area is expected to be the nation’s largest and most competitive market for cellular service, with estimated annual revenues of about $200 million within five years. The expanded service is made possible by a technology known as cellular radio, which is a radio-based communications system that greatly expands the capacity of mobile phones.
White Sox First Base Coach Dave Nelson declares his love. At the end of the bottom of the 5th in a 6–1 loss to the Angels, Nelson trots out to the coaching box as Diamond Vision flashes the message “Will you marry me?” Nelson then walks over to his fiancée Kathy Gutknecht, sitting in the first base box, and presents her with a ring.
38th NBA Championship: In the deciding Game 7 of the NBA Finals, the heat that was an issue in Game 5 was not as bad (indoor temperatures hovered around 91 °F (33 °C) during the game, due to additional fans being brought in to try to cool the air). The Celtics were led by Cedric Maxwell who had 24 points, eight rebounds and eight assists as they came away with a 111–102 victory. In the game, the Lakers rallied to cut a 14-point-deficit to three with one minute remaining when Cedric Maxwell knocked the ball away from Magic Johnson. Dennis Johnson responded by sinking two free throws to seal the victory. Larry Bird was named MVP of the series.
The series was the eighth time in NBA history that the Celtics and Lakers met in the NBA finals, with Boston winning each time, and the first championship that the Celtics claimed at home since 1966.
Reflecting back on the series, Magic Johnson said “. . . (the Lakers) learned a valuable lesson. Only the strong survive. . . talent just don’t get it. That’s the first time the (80’s) Lakers ever encountered that, someone stronger minded.” The teams met again in the 1985 finals, which the Lakers won 4–2.
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Born:
Donnie Avery, NFL wide receiver (St. Louis Rams, Tennessee Titans, Indianapolis Colts, Kansas City Chiefs), in Houston, Texas.
Roger Bernadina, Curaçaoan MLB outfielder (Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers), in Willemstad, Curaçao.
Kyle McClellan, MLB pitcher (World Series Champions-Cardinals, 2011; St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers), in Florissant, Missouri.
Michal Barinka, Czech National Team and NHL defenseman (Olympics, 2014; Chicago Blackhawks), in Vyškov, Czechoslovakia.
Lindsey Harding, WNBA guard (Minnesota Lynx, Washington Mystics, Atlanta Dream, Los Angeles Sparks, New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury), in Mobile, Alabama.
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