A plan to impose a moratorium on deployment of nuclear-armed cruise missiles at sea was rejected by the Senate as it moved toward approval of a $230 billion military authorization bill. The moratorium was sought by Republicans. The proposal for a moratorium on sea-based cruise missiles was offered by Senator Charles McC. Mathias Jr., Republican of Maryland, who noted that the deployment was scheduled to begin this month. At a cost of $3 million apiece, he said, the missiles have “macabre appeal” as a bargain. But he said they endangered prospects for verifiable arms control. Senator David Durenberger, Republican of Minnesota and a co-sponsor of the amendment, said that “unlike MX, the issue is timing, not technology.” He was referring to the prospect of renewed negotiations with the Soviet Union after the Presidential election. Speaking on behalf of the Administration, which opposed the amendment, Senator William S. Cohen, Republican of Maine, called it a “unilateral moratorium.”
Still ahead, as the Senate moved through dozens of amendments, was a measure from Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat of Georgia, that would prod more military contributions from the Western European members of the North Atlantic Treaty organization. Senator Nunn said Administration officials, including President Reagan, as well as foreign officials had kept in touch with him on his amendment. On Monday, Senator Nunn said in a speech that the Atlantic alliance was not prepared to stop a conventional attack by the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces with conventional weapons. “Even if the Soviets limit their attack to conventional means,” he said, “NATO will be forced to escalate the conflict into a nuclear exchange.”
A shift by the White House on abortion is sought by the Agency for International Development. The agency has urged the Administration to reconsider a proposal to eliminate family-planning assistance to Governments and organizations that support abortion.
The Netherlands’ largest peace group, the Interchurch Peace Council, reversed its opposition to U.S. missiles on Dutch soil, saying a temporary deployment would be acceptable as part of an agreement to remove all nuclear weapons from Europe. A council official said the reversal resulted from concern that the Dutch anti-missile movement would lose credibility by rejecting deployment unconditionally. The Dutch Parliament has endorsed the Atlantic Alliance plan for missile deployment but made it conditional on a renewal of U.S.-Soviet arms reduction talks.
The Soviet Union, at the Geneva disarmament conference, challenged the United States to immediately begin two-party negotiations on banning anti-satellite weapons in space. Viktor L. Issraelyan, the Soviet delegate, said a Russian moratorium on placing weapons in space is “only a first step toward the complete prohibition of such systems.” Last week, President Reagan rejected a proposal by Soviet President Konstantin U. Chernenko for full, formal negotiations. But other U.S. officials have said that there can be discussions of limited measures, such as a ban on high-altitude testing.
A group led by former President Jimmy Carter charged that the Reagan Administration appears ready to break the 1972 accord with the Soviet Union limiting anti-ballistic missiles. Spokesmen said Reagan’s “Star Wars” concept of strategic space defense would threaten a new arms race, and they said they are launching a campaign to stop it. The movement’s sponsors, besides Carter, include former Secretaries of State Dean Rusk, Cyrus R. Vance and Edmund S. Muskie; former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, and former CIA Directors William E. Colby and Stansfield Turner.
Bulgaria orchestrated the 1981 plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II in an apparent attempt to end the Pope’s support for the Solidarity union in Poland, according to an Italian prosecutor. The prosecutor, Antonio Albano, said that Bulgaria’s action may have had Soviet support.
Violence in Britain’s coal strike was deplored by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher a day after more than 5,000 pickets and 2,000 policemen fought at a plant near Sheffield for 10 hours. Speaking to an unruly House of Commons, Mrs. Thatcher again rejected Labor demands that she act to end the 100-day-old walkout.
Israeli election officials barred a leftist party composed of Jews and Arabs from participating in the July 23 parliamentary elections. The officials ruled that the party, the Progressive List for Peace, is subversive and identifies “with enemies of the state.” The party’s leaders advocate direct talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Nine people, including a Soviet professor and a retired Afghan general, have been killed by guerrillas in Kabul, and 10,000 Soviet troops backed by tanks and bombers carried out a big offensive in Herat, Western diplomats in Pakistan reported today. They said at least seven other Afghan military officers had died in shooting incidents in the Afghan capital. The Soviet professor was shot dead and his wife was wounded at a polytechnic institute in Kabul on June 9, the diplomats said. The retired general was killed when his house was blown up last week by a bomb believed to have been planted by the rebels, they said.
A Soviet submarine that collided with a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Sea of Japan was targeted for mock kills 15 times by the carrier and its escort ships before the collision, Navy Secretary John Lehman said. That meant that by the Navy’s reckoning, the Victor-class, nuclear-powered attack sub would have been destroyed in an actual combat situation long before the March 21 collision, which occurred when the partially submerged submarine collided with the carrier Kitty Hawk in darkness. In a speech at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., Lehman said “the Soviet submarine skipper made some fundamental mistakes in seamanship.”
The Defense Department notified Congress that it plans to sell Taiwan a dozen C-130H transport planes to replace old aircraft. The Pentagon said that the Chinese Nationalists will pay $325 million for the planes, plus spare parts, support equipment and training. The planes, built by Lockheed-Georgia Co. of Marietta, Georgia, are advanced models of the C-130, which has been a basic U.S. military transport for more than two decades.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz will attend two conferences and visit six nations and the British colony of Hong Kong during a two-week journey through Asia and the Pacific in July, the State Department announced. Shultz leaves July 5 for Hong Kong, with later stops in Malaysia, Singapore, Jakarta, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. He will attend meetings of the Assn. of Southeast Asian Nations in Indonesia and of the ANZUS Council in Australia.
Liberals swept three Quebec by-elections in suburban Montreal districts Monday, extending to 21 the number of by-elections lost by the Parti Quebecois since it took power in 1976. The elections to vacated seats left the 122-member provincial assembly with 68 Parti Quebecois legislators, 48 Liberals and 2 independents, with four seats still vacant. A week ago, a Parti Quebecois convention said a vote for the party in Canada’s next general election would be a vote for independence for Quebec Province. Parti Quebecois gained power in 1976 on a platform advocating greater autonomy for the predominantly French-speaking province from the rest of English-speaking Canada.
Daniel Ortega Saavedra, the Nicaraguan leader, is scheduled to leave here Wednesday after two days of meetings that Western diplomats said were probably aimed at obtaining more military aid. The Soviet press gave little information about the visit, and the Nicaraguans canceled a news conference by Mr. Ortega that had been expected. Western diplomats noted that Mr. Ortega had changed his itinerary by adding stops in Eastern Europe. The diplomats concluded that he had received some Soviet promises of arms and was continuing his shopping trip.
All 10 European Economic Community Foreign Ministers today accepted an invitation to a conference in Costa Rica with Central American countries and the members of the regional bloc known as the Contadora group, diplomats said. All Central American nations will attend the meeting as well as Mexico, Venezuela and Panama, which together with Costa Rica make up the Contadora group, the diplomats said. The meeting in September is expected to discuss ways of restoring peace to the region and possible community aid. The Contadora group has been pressing for Common Market involvement in Central America to offset superpower activity there.
The Uruguayan Government says a military judge has formally charged the presidential candidate Wilson Ferreira Aldunate with aiding subversion and three other counts. If convicted by a military court, Mr. Ferreira Aldunate could be sentenced to 20 years in prison, lawyers said. Mr. Ferreira Aldunate, 65 years old, was arrested Saturday when he returned from 11 years of exile. His son, Juan Raul, 31, was also arrested when the two arrived from Argentina. Mr. Ferreira Aldunate’s attorney, Rodolfo Canabal, said his client was interrogated for seven hours Sunday.
Illegal aliens would be offered legal status if they have lived continuously in the United States since January 1, 1982, under a proposal tentatively approved by a 247-to-170 vote in the House. The proposal was offered by Representative Jim Wright, Democrat of Texas, the majority leader, as an amendment to a comprehensive immigration bill.
The United States is “unequivocally losing” its war on drugs, the chairman of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control said as he released a report estimating that the retail value of illicit drugs imported into this country doubled in five years, to $100 billion in 1983. Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-New York) also called on the Reagan Administration to work harder to develop anti-drug programs with the countries where most of the heroin, cocaine, hashish and marijuana is produced.
President Reagan presents Bill Drennan, the President’s military aide, with a medal for his service.
President Reagan meets with several members of his “California kitchen cabinet.”
President Reagan participates in the dedication ceremony for the new National Geographic Society’s building. President Reagan defended his environmental record today, claiming “great progress” in the year since a management scandal forced widespread changes in the Environmental Protection Agency. The President, addressing the National Geographic Society on an issue that is a source of heavy Democratic criticism in the Presidential campaign, also denounced his conservationist critics as making “ignorant attacks on the entrepreneurs who help the economy grow.” Calling for a balance between business and conservation interests, Mr. Reagan urged the nation to “rid our minds of cant, of empty rhetoric, of mere politics” in considering the environmental issue.
The President was quickly accused by the Sierra Club, however, of indulging in self-serving oratory in an attempt to distract voters from a record of “environmental degradation.” “His record is so bad that he cannot help but feel vulnerable,” said Diane MacEachern, director of communication for the private environmental group. “His speech was an empty balloon.”
Backers of Walter F. Mondale became more conciliatory and put many provisions drafted by Gary Hart and the Rev. Jesse Jackson into the Democratic platform. Only when the opponents’ proposals were specifically counter to Mr. Mondale’s — only several in a long day — did the Mondale supporters seize control and vote down the proposed Hart and Jackson amendments.
A federal appeals court lifted the stay of execution for Carl Shriner, convicted of killing a convenience store clerk, and the U.S. Supreme Court later cleared the way for him to die in Florida’s electric chair this morning at 4 am PDT. Shriner, 30, was sentenced to death for the October 23, 1976, slaying of Judith Ann Carter, a Gainesville store clerk.
The Houston City Council narrowly approved an amendment prohibiting the city from discriminating against homosexuals in its affirmative action programs. The 8–7 vote came despite protesters who sang “Onward Christian Soldiers” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” The crowd also chanted for the impeachment of Mayor Kathy Whitmire. Hymn-singing religious groups and a sprinkling of Ku Klux Klansmen stood outside the chambers, carrying signs asking the council not to turn Houston into the next Sodom and Gomorrah. The council also voted 9 to 6 in favor of an ordinance that rewrites city Civil Service statutes to prohibit discrimination against homosexuals.
Workers in Des Moines stacked sandbags around the clock and carted old records out of a City Hall basement as river waters surged. Elsewhere, thousands remained homeless because of floodwaters still covering the Midwest. Three men died when a helicopter crashed off the New Jersey coast during a thunderstorm, and two persons died in Ohio when high winds blew off a motel roof and knocked over a concrete wall. Floods that covered 1 million acres of farmland in six states, causing more than $80 million in damage in Kansas and Missouri alone, remained high enough to keep most evacuated residents away from home another day.
The notorious Briley brothers, who escaped from prison while waiting to die in Virginia’s electric chair, were arrested without incident by federal authorities, the FBI said. Linwood Briley, 30, and James, 27, were captured at a North Philadelphia residence. The Brileys, awaiting execution for 11 murders, escaped May 31 from prison with four other inmates in the biggest Death Row escape in U.S. history. The Brileys, convicted of a spree of murders, rapes and robberies in the Richmond, Virginia, area in 1978 and 1979, were the last of the fugitives to be captured.
Alan Berg, a combative but popular Denver radio talk-show host, died of multiple gunshot wounds after being ambushed outside his downtown condominium, authorities said. Denver Deputy District Attorney William Buckley said police found numerous .45-caliber shell casings next to Berg’s body after the shooting, which occurred at about 10 p.m. Monday. Police assembled a 60-person crime team to investigate the slaying, and investigators were reviewing hate mail and on-the-air threats against the 50-year-old Berg, Detective Ken Harris said. Radio station KOA, Berg’s employer, offered a $10,000 reward.
A former beauty queen was arrested for harassing a Mormon missionary she was accused of kidnapping and raping seven years ago in England, but her lawyer said Tuesday she did nothing wrong in shadowing the man. “I think her interest in him is a matter of nostalgia, if anything at all. It was for old times’ sake,” said Jim Barber, an attorney for Joyce McKinney, 33. But co-workers and the wife of the missionary, Kirk Anderson, 29 years old, said his life has once again been torn apart by the woman he asserts knocked him out with chloroform, dragged him to a remote cottage in Devon and raped him in 1977. Miss McKinney, of Asheville, North Carolina, was arrested Saturday outside the Western Airlines Commissary at Salt Lake City International Airport, where Mr. Anderson works. She was accused of harassment and disturbing the peace after he called the police and said he wanted to make a citizen’s arrest. Miss McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming who competed in the Miss U.S.A. pageant, remains a fugitive from British justice.
The kidnapping convictions of three persons accused of moving three elderly women from a Florida boarding home to Michigan in a scheme to bilk their estates were reversed by a state appeals court. “Exploitation of these elderly persons, clearly wrongful, cannot be converted into kidnapping,” the court ruled in a 2–1 decision. The court overturned the convictions of Lucille Walker, Miami boarding home manager; her granddaughter, Teresa Walker, and J. C. Collins, a male companion of Lucille Walker.
A Louisiana State Senate committee has approved a bill allowing $15 million in state loan guarantees, the first step toward bailing out the New Orleans World’s Fair. Immediate approval was needed to put the bill before the full Senate in time to keep banks from foreclosing on overdue notes or contractors from filing liens, said Governor Edwin Edwards. Mr. Edwards urged the Senate Finance Committee to approve the measure after the fair’s president, Petr Spurney, said banks backing the event had reneged on a rescue plan.
First live television appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (“Nightline”).
On the previous night of June 18, 1984, actress Sunny Johnson was found unconscious in the home she shared with her boyfriend, Archie Hahn. She was taken to UCLA Medical Center, where doctors discovered that she had suffered a brain hemorrhage. She remained on life support until this day when she was declared clinically dead. Without any hope of her mental recovery, her family agreed to take her off life support. Johnson was 30 years old.
A major change in the ratings code is being negotiated by the motion picture industry. The heads of several major studios said they had approved a new rating of PG-13, which would put certain movies off limits to children under the age of 13 unless they are accompanied by their parents or adult guardian. It would be the first major change in the ratings code since the system was introduced 16 years ago. The new rating would fit between the current ratings of PG and R. The PG rating alerts the public to the need for parental guidance, but allows unaccompanied children of any age into the theater; an R rating requires children under 17 to be accompanied by an adult.
A newspaper printed an entire high school valedictory speech today, one that was never delivered because the principal objected to its criticism of his administration. The San Jose Mercury News also ran a lead editorial on the plight of Lizette Espana, the graduation speaker. She had a 3.93 grade point average at San Jose High and was to attend Yale in the fall. She gave only a greeting, taken from the truncated speech, at the ceremony.
Weird Al Yankovic gives free live performance at the Del Mar Fair.
As expected, the Houston Rockets and the Portland Trail Blazers made Akeem Olajuwon and Sam Bowie the first and second selections yesterday in the National Basketball Association college draft. The unexpected did not occur until after the second round, when the trading ban imposed midnight Monday was removed. The Washington Bullets, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Seattle SuperSonics completed a deal involving five players, including Gus Williams and Cliff Robinson, both outstanding scorers. After Portland went for the 7-1 Bowie, Chicago chose Michael Jordan of North Carolina, the college player of the year. The next three picks, by Dallas, the 76ers and Washington, were all strong forwards and centers: 6-9 Sam Perkins of North Carolina, 6-6 Charles Barkley of Auburn and 6-11 Mel Turpin of Kentucky, respectively.
Down 7–1 to the Red Sox after 7 innings at Fenway, the Orioles get 4 back in the 8th on Eddie Murray’s grand slam, and 4 more in the 9th on 5 hits to win, 9–7. Murray has a 2-run single in the 9th. Jim Rice has a 3-run homer and 4 RBIs for Boston.
Brad Komminsk clubs a grand slam and Claudell Washington has 4 hits to pace the Braves to an 11–6 victory over the Giants. Bob Brenly has a pair of homers for San Francisco.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1115.83 (+6.18).
Born:
Mario West, NBA shooting guard (Atlanta Hawks, New Jersey Nets), in Huntsville, Alabama.
J.D. Runnels, NFL running back (Chicago Bears), in Midwest City, Oklahoma.
Paul Dano, American actor (“Love and Mercy”), in New York, New York.
Died:
Sunny Johnson, 30, American actress (“Flashdance”), of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, 88, composer.
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