John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as leader of the Canadian Liberal Party and will be the next Prime Minister of Canada. Mr. Turner is generally seen as being to the political right of Mr. Trudeau. His campaign promises have been to cut Canada’s $30 billion budget deficit by half in seven years, to increase private sector incentives and to reduce obstacles to foreign investment. But the silver-haired lawyer also reassured delegates that he would push forward Mr. Trudeau’s commitment to egalitarian social programs and nuclear disarmament.
Canada’s Liberal Party elected John N. Turner, a lawyer and former Cabinet member, to succeed Pierre Elliot Trudeau. On Mr. Trudeau’s retirement as Prime Minister, expected later this month, the 55-year-old Mr. Turner, will automatically become the head of government. Mr. Turner defeated Jean Chretien, the energy minister, on the second ballot of the party convention by a margin of 1,862 to 1,368. Donald Johnston, Minister of Economic Development, ran third, with 192 votes.
Reagan Administration officials remain divided over how to respond to a proposal by the Soviet Union to discuss a ban on antisatellite weapons, officials said. They said there was virtually no prospect for beginning discussions before the November elections. The weight of opinion remains skeptical that a prohibition of such weapons can be verified, the officials said.
A sizable voter turnout in Poland was predicted by the government for local elections Sunday, despite clandestine leaflets urging a boycott. From the Government’s point of view, the elections, in which there are two candidates for every local council seat, are a significant change from past single-slate elections.
Speaking on the eve of the first Polish elections in four years, Cardinal Jozef Glemp criticized the Communist government for what he called its political repressions. “We have too many prisoners in our country. We don’t need any prisoners,” the Roman Catholic primate said in an outdoor sermon before an estimated 15,000 people in Radom, 54 miles south of Warsaw, Poland’s 80 bishops are meeting in Radom over the weekend, pointedly staying away from polling areas during elections today for 110,428 seats on local and regional advisory councils.
The Soviet authorities today barred Britain’s Ambassador, Sir Iain Sutherland, from giving a televised speech on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday, on the ground that some of his remarks about the value of travel and a free flow of information were unacceptable. An embassy spokesman said Sir Iain refused to make the cuts and the broadcast was canceled. It has become customary for Soviet television to give time to envoys on their national holidays. Foreign travel for Soviet citizens is generally restricted, and Western sources of information are not widely accessible. Sir Iain had planned to say that East-West relations would benefit “if all of us have access to accurate information and if all members of society can travel to one another’s country.” “In this way we learn that the yearning for peace is not a monopoly of one particular country or ideology, but is shared by all mankind,” his text said.
East and West Germany should lead the way to closer relations between the Communist Eastern Bloc and the Western nations, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher said. Genscher, in a statement prepared for today’s celebration of German Unity Day. said the “unnatural boundary which runs through the middle of Germa ny divides not just our nation but Europe. That means that every step taken to minimize the consequences of the division of the European continent works immediately for the good of Germans who live apart.”
More than 20,000 workers staged warning strikes against the national airline, newspapers and retail shops on Friday as labor strife spread in West Germany. The automobile industry said its production losses had been $2.4 billion in a five-week strike of metalworkers that has idled 370,000 people. The metalworkers want a 35-hour week with no pay cuts. The printing industry was hit hardest by the strikes Friday, with 130 publishing houses targeted by 16,000 workers seeking a shorter workweek. A three-hour strike by 1,500 Lufthansa employees for higher pay forced the national airline to cancel two dozen domestic flights. More than 2,700 members of the trade, bank and insurance union, who are demanding more pay and shorter weeks, struck 21 department stores, supermarket chains, book shops and clothing stores, union officials said.
Two Soviet soldiers who deserted to the anti-Communist rebels in Afghanistan have reached Britain and will be allowed to stay here for a year, the Home Office announced. It identified the men as Sgt. Igor Rhykov, 22, and Pvt. Oleg Khlan, 21. and said they arrived here secretly last Thursday after appealing in writing to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for political asylum. Lord Bethell, a human rights activist who worked on behalf of the two soldiers, said they are in a hospital undergoing treatment for the effect of being forced to take opium continuously during the year they were held by the Afghan rebels.
Voters in the Irish Republic have overwhelmingly approved a proposal to give about 20,000 Britons and other Common Market nationals living there the right to vote in Ireland’s parliamentary elections, officials said. The formal count of referendum ballots had not been completed but the officials, who declined to be identified, estimated that the proposed constitutional change had been approved by a margin approaching 4 to 1. Nationals of the Irish Republic living in Britain have long had the right to vote in elections there.
Israel radio and television went off the air at the start of a three-day strike by broadcast journalists demanding higher pay from the government. The walkout silenced state-owned Israel Radio’s five stations and the country’s one television channel. Only the armed forces radio stayed on the air. The journalists are asking for the same 33% increase paid to print journalists this month. About 300,000 striking Israelis are seeking wage hikes.
An Indian political leader was killed by Sikh terrorists in Punjab. A Hindu priest was also killed in the same district. Hardayal Singh, president of the Jullundur district committee of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s Congress Party was shot and killed in a store to which he had fled after a first shot fired from a car missed.
China today unveiled its first rice paddies in which peasants use a microcomputer to control irrigation and reduce the work force for growing one of the world’s most labor-intensive crops. The official New China News Agency said the computer was installed this month in the village of Zhongguchengzi on the outskirts of the northeast city of Shenyang. With computer help, the agency said, the peasants can more efficiently irrigate their 247 acres of paddy fields.
South African police used tear gas against rock-throwing demonstrators in the black township of Soweto. The demonstrators were commemorating the 1976 uprisings against the white rulers.
Mexico retracted its announcement of Friday that it had been invited to witness talks between the United States and Nicaragua. The Foreign Ministry said, “There has not been defined any presence of Mexico in talks between Nicaragua and the United States.” It said the announcement Friday was “inexact and unauthorized,” and that its role would be restricted to using its good offices. It added that “it has not been decided to witness the talks.”
Nicaraguan churchgoers fought hand to hand with Las Turbas (The Mobs), gangs that support the leftist Sandinista government, so that nine Roman Catholic bishops could enter a church to celebrate a special Mass. There apparently were no serious injuries in the clash in northwestern El Sauce. The government recently claimed that Catholic leaders are lackeys of U.S.-backed rebel groups.
Ten Latin debtor nations will gather at an economic conference in Colombia this week to discuss high interest rates, repayment conditions, trade barriers and other aspects of their debt problems. It will be the first time Latin nations have banded together to seek better terms for repayment of more than $300 billion in foreign debts. But one official said they will negotiate separately on repayment of their individual debts. Argentine officials said they are working to avoid a possible default on June 30 in the wake of U.S. refusal to extend a $300-million loan guarantee.
President Samora M. Machel of Mozambique dismissed three Marxist Cabinet members on Friday, including the Interior and Security Ministers, the state-run Mozambican press agency said today in a dispatch monitored in Lisbon. Those dismissed were Interior Minister Armando Guebuza, Security Minister Mariano Matsinhe and Natural Resources Minister Jose Carlos Lobo. Colonel Sergio Vieira was named the new Minister of Security.
Mozambican guerrillas said today that they killed 169 Government soldiers in four attacks this month. The Mozambique National Resistance said in a communique made public here that the fighting, in three provinces, took place June 8–10.
President Reagan delivers a national radio address about the American Family. President Reagan, in a Father’s Day weekend appeal for a return to traditional family values, said today that families are better off than they were under the Carter Administration. In his weekly radio address, Mr. Reagan announced plans for a federal “sophisticated detective program” to help the police identify and capture “serial killers” who murder women and children one after the other.
Black delegates and supporters of Walter F. Mondale meeting here today indicated that their main concerns were the defeat of President Reagan in the fall and “bread and butter issues” that affect blacks. Noticeably absent from an open session and a news conference afterward was an expression of concern over changes in the Democratic Party rules that have been demanded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who also is seeking the Democratic Presidential nomination. After a private convention strategy session with about 40 black Mondale supporters, Robert Beckel, Mr. Mondale’s campaign manager, said they had voiced concern that a lot of other issues were “getting clouded” in the squabble over party rules. “They want us to keep our eyes on issues that they care about in their communities,” he said, “and that is sound advice that we are going to take.”
Mr. Jackson had asked to address the group this afternoon, but canceled the appearance. Mayor Richard Arrington of Birmingham, Alabama, said he had been told by Mr. Jackson that he had decided instead to return to Washington after visiting his mother in South Carolina. Mr. Arrington and other Mondale supporters did meet privately with a top Jackson lieutenant, Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. of Washington, and several other black Jackson supporters. Mr. Arrington said the Jackson supporters had emphasized “that the matter of party rules was something that went quite deeply as far as Jesse was concerned.”
New England is turning to Canada for alternate power sources while the nearly completed Seabrook 1 nuclear plant on the New Hampshire coast faces cancellation because of cost overruns. The Canadians say they are willing to provide electricity for New England, but it would come from nuclear power, which, in their view, is the most economical and reliable means. The New Brunswick Electric Power Commission says it is prepared to build a plant whose output would be sold to New England utilities for 20 years at slightly more than the cost of production.
Agents on routine patrol in Miami, aided by a drug-sniffing dog. found more than a ton of nearly pure cocaine with a street value of at least $1 billion in a shipment of freezers from Panama at a warehouse near Miami International Airport, U.S. Customs Service officials said. No arrests were made. The cocaine bust at about 2,500 pounds was the second largest in U.S. history. The largest U.S. seizure of illegal cocaine was 3,906 pounds in Miami on March 9, 1982.
Federal investigators say the firm that ran Three Mile Island misled the government by denying that the plant had violated nuclear safety regulations directly related to the 1979 TMI accident. Nuclear Regulatory Commission investigators said that for months before the March 28, 1979, accident, Met Ed, which ran TMI until the end of 1981. violated emergency procedures concerning a valve that malfunctioned that day. The NRC said plant operators failed to close the valve as required when temperatures in part of the reactor rose above 130 degrees Fahrenheit. The commission said the valve remained open from October, 1978, until the accident, although temperatures were 180 to 200 degrees throughout that time.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will publish regulations this week to tighten limits on worker exposure to ethylene oxide, which has been linked to cancer and genetic damage. The rules will reduce the current permissible worker exposure fiftyfold to 1 part per million over an eight-hour day. The colorless gas is used in the manufacture of products such as ethylene glycol, a component of antifreeze.
A coalition of environmental groups has issued a report calling for modernization of older, heavy American industries, such as steel, and the protection of the nation’s natural resources. The coalition’s report listed five goals: a sustainable global economy, a healthy U.S. economy aimed at increasing the quality of life for all, a clean environment and sustainable use of natural resources, “total employment” providing a good opportunity to obtain a job for everyone who wants one, and widespread participation in economic decisions.
Two teen-agers hunting for sharks’ teeth along the beaches under Maryland’s Western Shore cliffs found what scientists say may be the 16-million-year-old remains of a previously unknown species of sperm whale. Scientists pulled the whale’s five-foot, 300-pound jaw, with nearly a complete set of lower teeth, from the earth, along with a sizable section of its rib cage.
Three inmates, allegedly aided by a prison employee, escaped from Trenton State Prison in New Jersey, but two were immediately recaptured several blocks away. The third was found hours later, locked in a food truck in which he and the two others escaped. Kenneth Puchtler, a prison teacher, was charged with aiding in the escape.
A California woman who reported her husband missing almost eight years ago was arrested after the police, acting on a tip, found the man’s mummified body under a bedroom floor. The woman, 38-year-old Faye Flores McCabe, was arrested Thursday for investigation of murder in the death of her husband, James Flores, the police said. Mrs. McCabe, who remarried after she reported Mr. Flores had disappeared, was being held at the Hayward jail. Mr. Flores was 30 years old when he was last seen in December 1976. “We investigated at that time and suspected foul play,” said Detective Bob Muir said. “But we had nothing but circumstantial evidence, not even enough to get a search warrant.” The police said the break in the case came when a friend of Mrs. Flores said that in a drunken moment, she had told her “she had killed her husband seven years ago.”
The fifth Boston, Massachusetts department store fire in less than a week broke out here early today and officials cited arson as the cause. “They’re all arson,” said Captain Matthew Corbett, a Boston Fire Department spokesman. “The nature of the fires, and where they were started all lead to that conclusion.” Today’s blaze was in a Filene’s storeroom. A fire Friday at a nearby Woolworth’s forced the evacuation of 1,500 people.
American schoolchildren lag behind schoolchildren in Japan and Taiwan in reading and mathematics virtually from the day they enter school, a University of Michigan study has found. The study was based on testing and observation of 1,440 first and fifth graders in the three countries.
Surging with runoff water after a week of violent thunderstorms, the raging Missouri River yesterday forced more than 1,000 people out of their homes in Missouri and Kansas and covered thousands of acres of farmland. Heavy thunderstorms continued in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and South Dakota, sending more water into tributaries of the Missouri. Preliminary damage estimates to property and crops in northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas were put at more than $100 million. The river, which has flooded at least 39,000 acres of rich bottomland in northwestern Missouri and was carrying the most water since the record floods of 1952, was expected to crest at 26 feet in St. Joseph.
Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race in the U.S. Olympic Trials.
The Detroit Tigers blanked the Milwaukee Brewers, 6–0. Darrell Evans drove in four runs with a sacrifice fly and a home run, and Juan Berenguer pitched a five-hitter. Berenguer (4–4) struck out one and walked three. The loser was Don Sutton (3-7), who allowed six runs and seven hits in five innings.
Dave Kingman hit his 17th home run, tops in the major leagues, and Steve McCatty recorded his first victory in seven weeks, as the Oakland A’s beat the visiting Chicago White Sox, 6–4. Kingman’s first-inning homer off Floyd Bannister (4–6) was the 359th homer of his career, tying him with Johnny Mize for 30th on the career list.
Ozzie Virgil’s two-run homer capped a five run first inning today to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to an 8–2 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Marty Bystrom (3–3) pitched eight innings for the victory before a crowd of 40,723 at Wrigley Field.
Chili Davis homered twice and drove in five runs to give San Francisco a 6–3 victory over the San Diego Padres. Davis’s ninth home run of the season gave the Giants a 2–0 lead in the first inning and his three-run shot in the fifth broke a 3–3 tie.
Ray Knight’s three-run shot and Phil Garner’s two-run blast in the seventh overcome a 5–1 Dodger lead en route to a 7–5 Houston triumph. Prior to the seventh, the Astros had hit only two homers in the Dome all season. Mike Madden gets the win in relief.
Mario Soto’s second suspension of the season is the result of the Cincinnati starter firing a baseball at a group of opposing players, striking Braves coach Joe Pignatano after he punched Claudell Washington, who was being restrained by umpire Lanny Harris as he charged the mound. The Reds suspended the fiery right-hander for three games due to this incident with Washington, who had been the target of his brushback pitches, getting five games off for pushing the home plate ump. In the game, Dave Concepcion and Nick Esasky belted consecutive doubles to break an eighth-inning tie as Cincinnati edged Atlanta, 2–1.
Born:
Rick Nash, Canadian National Team and NHL left wing (Olympic gold 2010, 2014; #1 pick NHL Draft 2002; NHL All Star, 2004, 2007-2009, 2011, 2015; Columbus Blue Jackets, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins), in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
Jonathan Broxton, MLB pitcher (All-Star, 2009, 2010; Los Angeles Dodgers, Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Brewers, St. Louis Cardinals), in Augusta, Georgia.
Michael Bush, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders, Chicago Bears), in Louisville, Kentucky.
Bryan Kehl, NFL linebacker (New York Giants, St. Louis Rams, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins), in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Died:
Harmonica Slim [Travis Blaylock], 49, American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter (“You Better Believe It”).
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