Democrats were rebuffed as the Senate rejected, by a vote of 55 to 41, a proposal to withdraw nearly one-third of American troops in Europe in 1990 if NATO members failed to increase military contributions. The proposal was offered by Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia. The Senate later voted, 94 to 3, to accept a compromise measure urging NATO members to increase their contributions to the alliance, but omitting any threat to withdraw American troops. The Nunn amendment was strongly opposed by the Administration, which had contended it would drive a wedge among members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Senate Republicans, fearing a close vote on the Nunn proposal, scrambled throughout the day to put together a compromise. “The Administration lobbying had a very large effect on the outcome,” Mr. Nunn said, adding that he might attempt to bring his proposal up again as part of the defense appropriations bill that will be considered later this year.
Widened Saudi air defense activity was indicated by Reagan Administration officials. They said that Saudi Arabia had told the United States and friendly countries in the Persian Gulf region that it would move to intercept threatening aircraft in waters beyond Saudi territorial limits. This interception range, or “air defense interception zone,” is known as the Fahd Line after King Fahd. It extends beyond the commercial traffic control zone and the 12-mile territorial waters. Officials declined to specify where the line had been drawn, but said it was far enough into the gulf for Saudi aircraft to protect shipping. One official said the Saudis conveyed the new rules of engagement to Washington two weeks ago when they shot down an Iranian aircraft flying over gulf waters. Another said the Saudis notified Washington “sometime after June 5” but before the recent lull in military air activity over the gulf.
Shooting broke out at the National Museum crossing between Beirut’s Christian and Muslim sectors as U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew passed through in a bulletproof limousine, but he was unhurt, U.S. officials said. Bodyguards in the two cars accompanying the Ambassador’s limousine leaned out of the windows, pointing rifles in all directions, said a reporter who witnessed the scene. There was no indication that the envoy was the target, they added. Lebanese police said the shooting was between “intruding gunmen” and police guarding the crossing. There was also more fighting between rival militias across the Muslim-Christian line, and the Museum crossing was reported briefly closed.
Mock casualties were airlifted from ships of the United States Sixth Fleet to hospitals in Israel today, an Israeli military communiqué said. Military officials said it was the first joint military exercise between the two nations. “The exercise is being executed according to the agreement which was reached between the American Secretary of Defense and the Ministers of Health and Defense in Israel,” the communiqué said. The exercise resulted from a strategic cooperation agreement reached by President Reagan and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of Israel in November.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir proposed talks with Jordan to forge “understanding and cooperation” between the two countries. Shamir’s proposal, made at an international conference on Jewish education in Tel Aviv, contained no details. He did, however, say that such talks would not replace the discussions on the autonomy of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in the formerly Jordanian West Bank and the Gaza Strip. After a year of meetings involving Israel, Egypt and the United States, the autonomy talks have been bogged down since October, 1980.
Francois Mitterrand flew to Moscow for a visit that both the French and the Russians are approaching warily. The visit, his first as France’s President, is expected to be rich in political maneuvering and symbolic gestures but short on firm results.
Poland’s underground Solidarity activists have accused the government of inflating the turnout in last Sunday’s local elections by 15% to 20%, according to a statement issued in Warsaw. Solidarity said that information gathered by its secret poll-watchers showed a 57.4% turnout in Warsaw, with all but 14 voting stations canvassed. The government claimed a 71% turnout in Warsaw and just under 75% nationwide. Solidarity, which had called for an election boycott to protest government policies, said its findings for other areas would be issued later this week.
President Francois Mitterrand of France arrived in Moscow for a three-day official visit during which he is expected to raise questions about the status of noted Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov, who has been reportedly on a hunger strike since early May. Mr. Mitterrand was greeted at Vnukovo airport by Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko. Under a procedure first adopted by Yuri V. Andropov, Konstantin U. Chernenko, the Soviet chief of state, welcomed Mr. Mitterrand at the Kremlin, where the French leader will stay. French diplomats say the very fact of the trip may be its chief political achievement. Mr. Mitterrand has the reputation of being a staunch critic of the Soviet Union and, while seeking to restore at least something of the special French-Soviet relationship, he has taken precautions to leave his reputation intact.
On the Soviet side, the visit offers an opportunity to win back some of Moscow’s standing and to project an image of the Kremlin leadership as reasonable and open to the Western Europeans despite the chill in relations with the United States. But the Russians, too, have been wary of the visit, and the Soviet press has been chiding France for its support of the deployment of new American missiles in Western Europe.
A drive against Portuguese guerrillas has resulted in the detention of at least 40 people and the seizure of caches of weapons, explosives and money. The police said the raids were aimed at destroying an urban guerrilla organization. One of those detained today, according to a police statement, is Lieutenant Colonel Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, a hero of the Portuguese revolution, which began with an army-sponsored coup in April 1974. Colonel Carvalho was the military architect of the coup and a founder of the military movement that ran Portugal during the revolution. Widely known as “Major Otelo,” he was its most recognized and flamboyant public personality. The police sweep comes at a time when Prime Minister Mario Soares is visiting Japan. He has often warned against Communist and leftist attempts to undercut his Socialist-led coalition Government, elected in April 1983. The operation is also being undertaken at a time when Parliament is considering two bills that have been the subject of disputes. One would set up an intelligence gathering service and the other would expand the power of the police to combat subversion by tapping telephones, intercepting mail, searching homes without warrants and detaining suspects without charge for up to 48 hours.
A bomb exploded in a Turkish diplomat’s car as it pulled up to his embassy today, killing the driver and wounding five other people. Telephone calls to news offices in Stockholm and Paris said the Armenian Revolutionary Army was responsible for the bombing. The explosion, which the police said might have been detonated by remote control, scattered debris over a 150-foot radius and burned the driver’s body beyond recognition. The police said the booby-trapped car belonged to the Turkish trade and labor attaché, Erdogan Ozen, but that the dead man had not been positively identified.
Thirty-five Turks, most of them diplomats stationed abroad or family members, have been killed in the last decade by several groups of Armenian terrorists, who say they seek to avenge Turkish killings of Armenians at the turn of the century. A 62-year-old police officer on duty outside the downtown embassy was hospitalized with third-degree burns, the police said. Two male passersby were admitted to a hospital with cuts and bruises, and two other passers-by were treated at the scene.
China announced that despite the abrupt cancellation last month of a high-level Soviet visit to China, it will send a top specialist on Soviet affairs to Moscow this summer. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Vice Foreign Minister Qian Qichen will visit Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union in late June and early July. Qian has been the chief Chinese representative in recent Sino-Soviet talks on improving relations. Last month, Moscow canceled a trip by Vice Premier Ivan V. Arkhipov the day before he was to arrive in Peking.
Deputy Prime Minister Li Peng said today the United States would be the first to suffer financial loss if Congress blocked a nuclear cooperation agreement with Peking, the New China News Agency reported. Mr. Li, meeting with visiting Japanese journalists, said the agreement, initialed during President Reagan’s visit in April, was being held up by Congress. He said the agreement would benefit both countries and that undue delay in implementing it would mean that Washington would suffer financial loss. Earlier, the Foreign Ministry accused Washington of raising unnecessary new issues. It said the agreement had been worked out in long negotiations and initialed on that basis. If approved by Congress, the accord would clear the way for nuclear sales worth billions of dollars. China plans to build up to 12 nuclear power stations by the end of the century.
Nicaraguan authorities reported that they broke up a CIA-backed plot involving business and labor leaders and a Roman Catholic priest and aimed at setting up urban guerrilla groups to sabotage factories, buses and electricity plants. Lenin Cerna, director of state security, said that the rebel groups were organized by the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), a CIA-directed guerrilla organization. Presented to the press was Pedro Hernan Espinoza Sanchez, 27, who said he was the military commander of the new guerrilla unit and reported receiving funds from the FDN and sabotage training from Argentine and U.S. soldiers.
David Kitson, a white South African dissident imprisoned for nearly 20 years for bombings and other anti-apartheid activities, arrived in Britain to a joyous welcome from family and supporters. Kitson, 64, of both British and South African nationality, was jailed in 1964 after being convicted of several bombings and membership in the military wing of the banned African National Congress. He was released in South Africa six weeks ago.
A passenger train driven at “great speed” by an engineer who “appeared to be drunk” crashed about 160 miles southeast of Luanda and killed at least 50 people, Angola’s official press agency said today. The agency, Angop, in a report monitored here, said the accident occurred Monday. A report by the official Yugoslav press agency Tanyug from Luanda, capital of the former Portuguese colony, said the same train had run over a woman before the accident and the driver had been arrested on suspicion of drunkenness.
A comprehensive immigration bill designed to stem the flow of illegal aliens into this country was narrowly approved by the House. The landmark measure would prohibit the employment of illegal aliens and offer legal status to illegal aliens who can show they have been living in the United States continuously since January 1982. The final vote for passage after a week of bitter debate was 216 to 211.
The fear of deportation haunts the lives of illegal aliens. A Mexican couple in Houston with four children is torn about getting further help for an ill child who is a citizen, lest it expose the whole family to deportation. The immigration bill will affect perhaps six million “illegals.”
President Reagan participates in an Alcohol Awareness Program at the River Dell High School, Oradell, New Jersey.
President Reagan attends the 44th Informative Conference of the National Sheriffs’ Association.
The economy is growing much faster than expected while inflation is continuing to ease, the Commerce Department reported. It announced a “flash” estimate of a 5.7 percent annual rate for growth of the gross national product in the present quarter. At the same time, it said, inflation is declining, to 3.5 percent from 4.9 percent in the first quarter.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to expand the nation’s hazardous waste cleanup effort fivefold, boosting the “superfund” toxic waste program to $9 billion and ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to move more quickly against polluted dump sites. The committee approved the bill 38 to 3 after two days of debate during which the panel easily turned back efforts to make any major changes in the bill. The measure now goes to the House Public Works Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee.
Backers of Jesse Jackson tried to put the Democratic Party on record as favoring “an independent state for Palestinians,” but the attempt was defeated overwhelmingly by the 15- member committee drafting the 1984 convention platform. The vote was 13 to 2, with only the two Jackson delegates in support.
Walter F. Mondale telephoned the Rev. Jesse Jackson twice on Tuesday, but apparently failed to resolve differences over Mr. Jackson’s demand for rule changes that would give the civil rights leader additional delegates at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco next month.
A reprimand for George Hansen was recommended by the House ethics committee. Representative Hansen, Republican of Idaho, was convicted by a Federal District Court in April of four felony charges relating to his failure to disclose complete details of his complex financial holdings that are required by the 1978 Ethics in Government Act.
An 11% surge in airplane flights accompanying the economic recovery has choked the nation’s rebuilding air traffic control system, leading to a 55% increase in delays at airports and prompting fears among some federal officials that safety is being compromised. Senior controllers have said privately for more than a year that safety would suffer under the enormous pressures from the airlines and other users to increase flights and reduce restrictions even as the system recovers from the strike in August, 1981, when President Reagan fired 11,400 controllers.
U.S. farm policies are costing taxpayers too much and the continuation of those policies “may be the road to U.S. agricultural oblivion,” the Joint Economic Committee of Congress said. The panel issued a report calling for a new direction in agriculture. It said a largely unrecognized and undesirable effect of farm price supports has been to protect less efficient foreign producers from U.S. competition. That, it said, has been tremendously costly for U.S. taxpayers.
Carl Shriner, a drifter who confessed to killing a convenience store clerk but later maintained his innocence, died in Florida’s electric chair. Shriner, the boyish-looking son of an Ohio window-washer, had been in and out of reform schools and jails since he was 8. He offered no struggle as he was led to the electric chair at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was pronounced dead at 4:12 am PDT.
The man charged with killing 10 women and children in a New York massacre April 15 pleaded innocent and was ordered held without bail. Christopher Thomas, 34, of the Bronx, had already been in custody on charges he sodomized and attempted to rape his mother when he was arrested Tuesday for the worst mass murder in the city’s history. police said. Police said Thomas mistakenly thought the husband of one of the victims was romantically involved with his estranged wife, Charlene, 32.
The defense in the drug trial of John Z. DeLorean today got a federal drug agent to admit that he “lied” in filling out the date on a government authorization form “so I wouldn’t look bad” and that he had given false information to a grand jury for much the same reason. The agent, John M. Valestra, de-emphasized the significance of the admissions. He testified to the jury that the form was a “dumb” example of useless government paperwork, an assertion that made several jurors smile. He chalked up the false information to “a mistake.” The defense continued to try for gains in its effort to undermine the integrity of the investigation that led to the indictment of Mr. DeLorean.
A homosexual Briton denied citizenship by the U.S. Supreme Court is hoping that differing appeals court rulings on immigration by homosexuals will permit him to stay in the United States, his lawyer said. Richard John Longstaff, 44, a Dallas clothier, has moved to San Francisco where he may be able to avoid deportation, attorney Leonard Graff said Tuesday. If Longstaff had stayed in Dallas he most likely would have faced deportation proceedings. But the U.S. appeals court in California ruled in 1983 that homosexuality is insufficient reason for denying citizenship and the Supreme Court ruling may not apply to Longstaff’s case.
A moderate earthquake shook two California counties today and was felt at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, which was undergoing a federal inspection. The authorities said no damage occurred at the plant and no injuries or damage were reported elsewhere. A preliminary estimate placed the strength of the quake at 4 on the Richter scale, Rob Cockerham, a geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey, said from Menlo Park. The plant has been a source of controversy in part because it is within three miles of an offshore fault. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff members were conducting a scheduled full-power readiness inspection of the plant’s Unit 1 reactor, when the earthquake struck about 12:28 PM.
The Air Force plans to use slender mechanics no more than 16 inches wide to play a key role in the planned deployment of the controversial MX intercontinental ballistic missile, the coordinator of the Air Force’s ICBM modernization program has told Congress. Brigadier General Gordon E. Fornell told a House Appropriations subcommittee earlier this year that because the huge MX is to be based in silos which were originally built to hold the much smaller Minuteman missile, there will be a need for small persons to work in a space 16 inches wide in the silos. Fornell’s testimony was just released by the panel.
The lawyer handling the estate of Mario Rios, a California millionaire, said she had learned that Mr. Rios was not the biological father of two frozen embryos “orphaned” by his death and that this should clear the way for a grown son, Michael, to inherit his father’s fortune. Laura Horwitch, who represents Michael Rios, said doctors at the Melbourne, Australia, clinic where the embryos are held frozen told her that the sperm used to fertilize eggs taken from his wife, Elsa, came from an anonymous donor, not Mr. Rios.
A number of doctors have warned that the break-dancing fad can push the body beyond its endurance, causing torn ligaments, broken bones and more serious injuries. One man broke his neck and was left a quadriplegic after trying to imitate the acrobatic movements of a breakdancing group. If the dancers are out of shape or lack the flexibility of the young breakers, doctors said, they could end up with severe injuries. In the worst injury reported, Efrain Arreola, 25 years old, broke his neck trying a difficult stunt with no training, said Nadine Filipiak, a spokesman for St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago. Mr. Arreola was left paralyzed after attempting a flip to a handstand, followed by a headspin. Dr. Herbert Schwartz, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Chicago Hospital, said he had treated five break-dancers who broke arms trying to support their body weight by standing on one hand. “The wrist is not used to bearing that kind of a load,” he said.
Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America’s Junior Miss.
Dave Kingman hits his 3rd grand slam of the season in the first inning of the A’s 8–1 win over Kansas City. Kingman’s 14 grand slams are the most among active players.
At Detroit, Yankee reliever Jose Rijo goes to 1–7 on the season when he serves up a 2-out three-run homer to Howard Johnson in the 13th inning. Detroit wins, 9–6. Alan Trammell, Lance Parrish, and Chet Lemon also hit homers for the Tigers, who draw their 3rd straight 40,000+ crowd. The Yankees may not be playing winning baseball this season, but they have devised their own system of sudden- death baseball. They played another of those games tonight and lost to the Detroit Tigers, 9-6, when Howard Johnson hit a two-out, three-run home run against Jose Rijo in the 13th inning. The game was the ninth in the Yankees’ last 13 games that was decided in the winning team’s last time at bat. The Yankees have won four and now lost five.
The New York Mets continued their strange mastery over Steve Carlton last night when they overpowered the Philadelphia Phillies, 7–4, and beat the renowned left-hander for the 33rd time in his career. The big hits of the game were a three-run homer by Darryl Strawberry in the third inning and a two-run homer by Mookie Wilson in the fourth.
Lee Lacy singled in two runs and Jose DeLeon hurled a three-hitter tonight to help the Pittsburgh Pirates snap a four-game losing streak with a 5–1 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1131.63 (+15.80).
Born:
Cole Gillespie, MLB outfielder and pinch hitter (Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, Miami Marlins), in Portland, Oregon.
Hassan Adams, NBA shooting guard (New Jersey Nets, Toronto Raptors), in Inglewood, California.
Nitu Chandra, Indian actress and Taekwondo black belt, in Patna, Bihar, India.
Died:
Estelle Winwood [Goodwin], 101, British-American stage and screen character actress (“Quality Street”; “Darby O’Gill and the Little Peoples”; “The Producers”), and oldest member of the Screen Actors Guild.
Hans Studer, 73, Swiss composer.
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