A French-Soviet verbal clash occurred publicly at a Kremlin banquet. Francois Mitterrand and Konstantin U. Chernenko made conflicting statements about human rights, with the French President abandoning diplomatic convention to raise the case of Andrei D. Sakharov, the physicist and rights activist. Earlier, a Soviet spokesman, Leonid M. Zamyatin, indicated that Mr. Chernenko, the Soviet leader, was not prepared to meet with President Reagan soon.
The President criticized the Kremlin. Mr. Reagan said that Soviet officials “do not know what they are talking about” in insisting that his policies were too intransigent to make a summit meeting feasible. The President asserted that he already had made “many adjustments” to respond to Soviet concerns but that “the Soviet Union has not yet made the decision to join us.” Mr. Reagan insisted that criticism today from a Soviet spokesman did not represent a final rejection of a meeting with Konstantin U. Chernenko, the Soviet leader. “I do not think so, no,” the President declared in response to a question at the White House.
Talks to end West Germany’s month-old metalworkers’ strike resumed, but publishing industry negotiations collapsed. Manfred Beltz Ruebelmann, the chief publishing industry bargainer, called a proposal for a shortened work week unacceptable because, he said, it was identical to the printers’ union demand for a general rollback of the standard 40-hour week. The 165,000-member printers’ union. pulled 12,700 workers off the job at 75 print shops across the country. Mediator Kurt Biedenkopf suggested a plan that would essentially meet the union goal of a shortened workweek by gradually adding 7 to 10 extra holidays during the year.
The West German Government today announced a hefty package of tax cuts intended to stimulate the economy. But business leaders voiced disappointment that the measures came late and afforded little help for corporations. The tax cuts, which end months of wrangling within the coalition Government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, would total $7.2 billion.
The head of Britain’s state-run National Coal Board appealed to each of the 130,000 striking miners to end the 15-week-old national coal strike. The appeal in a letter from NCB Chairman Ian MacGregor came as striking miners pelted hundreds of police with rocks at a Scottish mine. Queen Elizabeth II has canceled a visit next week to a mine hit by picket-line violence, and the Government coal chief warned that a strike in its 102d day could go on until next year. “Nobody will win, everybody will lose, and lose disastrously,” Ian MacGregor, chairman of the National Coal Board, said in a letter to each of the 183,000 miners in Britain.
The strike, called to protest plans to close 20 unprofitable pits and to trim 20,000 jobs, has idled all but 50 of the board’s 175 mines. Convoys of trucks hauled coal today into two of the country’s five major steel plants, all under a rail blockade. Policemen at the Scunthorpe steel plant in Yorkshire turned back hundreds of pickets trying to stop the convoys, officials said. Eight were held. In London, Buckingham Palace said the Queen called off an official visit scheduled for June 28 to Yorkshire’s new Selby mine, a regular target of as many as 1,000 pickets.
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, a Portuguese revolutionary leader arrested in a government drive on suspected urban guerrillas, will be kept incommunicado for 20 days, his wife said today. The 47-year-old lieutenant colonel, twice a candidate for President, is being held in prison near Lisbon. He was among 42 people seized since Tuesday in a drive against a group calling itself the Popular Forces of April 25. The date refers to the 1974 armed forces revolution that restored democracy in Portugal. Colonel Carvalho was operational commander of the armed forces coup and later one of three people heading the Communist-dominated Government after the revolution. Associates deny he is connected with the Popular Forces group, which has said it was responsible for a series of bombings in the last four years.
Jordan dismissed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s call for talks on cooperation between the two countries as an attempt to ignore the issue of Israel’s occupation of Arab lands. Shamir proposed that Jordan and Israel open talks, despite a stalemate in negotiations between Israel and Egypt on autonomy for 1.2 million West Bank and Gaza Strip Palestinians. The Shamir proposal “is an attempt to deal with minor issues before basic ones… that Israel is in occupation of Arab lands taken by force and that it is violating human rights of the inhabitants there,” said Leila Sharaf, the Jordanian information minister.
Most Sikh temples in Punjab were reopened for the first time since the June 6 assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Only the Golden Temple and the Sikh temple in Mukstar remained closed, Indian officials said. Most curfew restrictions were lifted and travel bans were relaxed as the army loosened its grip on Punjab. But restrictions on carrying weapons and on gatherings of more than four people remain in effect.
Tens of thousands of people have lost their homes in monsoon floods in Bangladesh and northeast India, officials said today. The floods have taken 200 lives in the last month and are spreading to new areas. Officials here said more than 50,000 people lost their homes in the last week and that nearly 300,000 people had been affected in some way. In India, more than 56,000 people in the Gopalganj district of Bihar fled their homes in 116 villages.
China, contrary to public pledges, may be continuing to aid Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, according to Reagan Administration officials and Congressional sources. The sources said there was evidence that Peking seems to be helping Pakistan in one area, the development of centrifuges that are used in enriching uranium for nuclear arms.
About 2,000 protesters, led by members of the family of Benigno S. Aquino Jr., the assassinated opposition leader, marched in the Makati business district today to denounce the economic policies of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. The march and a rally that followed were reactions to steep increases in the cost of living and education caused by devaluation of the peso. The protest brought together militant and moderate opposition groups that had differed sharply over the May 14 elections to Parliament. Some boycotted the election and others voted. Also taking part were students led by Leandro Alejandro, who said enrollment in colleges and universities this term was down by 50 percent because of the economic situation.
A Jewish terrorist was sentenced by an Israeli court to 10 years in prison for his role in attempted assaults on Palestinian Arabs and for his participation in a plot to blow up one of Islam’s holiest shrines, the Dome of the Rock. The terrorist is 31-year-old Gilad Peli.
An Arab spokesman has rejected charges, made by Jewish groups here recently, that the United Nations has become a center for anti-Semitic polemics. The spokesman, Clovis Maksoud, the representative of the 22-member League of Arab States, said in an interview Wednesday night that Israel and Jewish groups were trying to blur the distinction between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism.
Jewish groups, such as B’nai B’rith International and the American Jewish Committee, have circulated papers detailing what they regard as anti-Semitic outbursts by delegates from Libya, other Arab countries, the Soviet Union and Iran. These have included statements that the Jews have transformed the notion of the “chosen people” into a new theory of race superiority, a concept that the Jewish groups contend harkens back to the anti-Semitic thinking of Nazi Germany.
Nicaraguan soldiers penetrated two miles into Honduras and fought a six-hour battle with Honduran troops around four villages before retreating, Honduran Foreign Minister Edgardo Paz Barnica said. He said three of the 150 invading Nicaraguans were killed and two captured in the incident Tuesday, about 150 miles south of Tegucigalpa. Nicaraguan rebels operate out of Honduras, but Paz Barnica said the targets of the Nicaraguan troops were Honduran military posts at border villages. Nicaragua denied knowledge of the incident.
Roman Catholic Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo of Managua described as a “well-prepared setup” the Nicaraguan government’s assertion that a priest was linked to an urban guerrilla front. Security officials had said they broke up a “CIA plot” to form guerrilla groups against the ruling Sandinistas and that the priest, Father Luis Amado Pena, cooperated with the scheme. The archbishop denied that Pena was involved. Meanwhile, about 1,000 Sandinista supporters invaded a Managua church, breaking up the evening Mass and demanding that Pena be expelled, witnesses said.
Leftist Salvadoran rebels stepped up their campaign of firebombing vehicles on highways, halting traffic across the eastern half of the country and stranding large numbers of travelers. Military officials in San Salvador said the latest attacks destroyed 12 vehicles, most of them buses on the Pan American Highway, one of the two main east-west routes across the country. Since the beginning of the week, leftist guerrillas have burned 47 vehicles and damaged 67 others as part of a new “national campaign of economic sabotage.”
A military authorization bill was passed by the Senate, then the $230 billion version headed for a House- Senate conference. By a vote of 82 to 6, the Senate ended two weeks of debate that gave the Reagan Administration most of its major objectives for financing conventional and nuclear weapons.
President Reagan meets with the participants in the National YMCA Youth Governors’ Conference and gives them a tour of the Oval Office.
President Reagan ends the day with a fish fry on the South Lawn for members of Congress and their spouses.
In the first such ruling since the U.S. Supreme Court’s “last hired, first fired” decision, a federal judge reluctantly reversed his affirmative action order that white public employees be laid off before minorities during hard times. U.S. District Judge H. Lee Sarokin said in Newark, New Jersey, that now “cities or states bent upon discriminatory practices can continue to do so under the guise of economic reduction.” Federal officials say at least 50 court orders may have to be modified following the Supreme Court ruling last week that seniority systems cannot be ignored during financial emergencies to protect affirmative action plans.
The House passed a $78-million package to help those in need of lifesaving organ transplants find a donor. The measure would create a computerized national register to match heart, liver, lung, kidney, pancreas and bone-marrow donors with recipients. “We think this legislation has the potential to save thousands of lives each year,” said Rep. Albert Gore Jr. (D-Tennessee), chief sponsor of the measure.
Adjustable-rate mortgages are “the hidden hand of usury” in the pockets of home buyers, House Majority Leader Jim Wright (D-Texas) warned as he renewed his plea for a national interest-rate ceiling. In testimony before a House subcommittee, Wright was sharply critical of such mortgages, which allow interest rates to go up or down to meet market rates. Although the hearing was called to look for a solution to skyrocketing monthly payments sometimes faced by persons buying a home, Wright was critical of high interest rates in all areas, calling them a “volcano ready to explode.”
Governor Cuomo was chosen as the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco next month, an important symbolic role that traditionally sets the tone for the convention and the general election campaign.
New convention rules for 1988 may be recommended by a panel of the Democratic Congressional Caucus, according to committee members. but they said it would not be up to them to make changes this year to grant the Rev. Jesse Jackson more convention delegates.
Jesse Jackson, in a conciliatory tone, said that efforts by the Democratic Party leadership to resolve his objections to convention delegate rules represented an “earnest” effort to reach a solution. Mr. Jackson said he was now ready to have his objections resolved by a convention floor vote and to back the Democratic Presidential nominee, whether he was Walter F. Mondale or Gary Hart.
Backers of an immigration bill said they wanted swift action to resolve differences between the versions approved by the House and the Senate. But they said they did not expect final action on the comprehensive measure, which is designed to curtail the flow of illegal aliens into this country, until after next month’s Democratic National Convention.
Steps to ease air-traffic congestion, which has caused a 55 percent increase over a year ago in flight delays, were announced by Donald D. Engen, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration. The moves include a government-industry study for improved scheduling and a new evaluation of the most efficient size of the controller force.
A Federal drug agent conceded today that when he told a grand jury that July 6, 1982, was the date when an informer first told him John Z. DeLorean was interested in transacting a drug deal, he had nothing to base the date on other than the informer’s word. The agent, John M. Valestra, went on to testify that when the informer, James Timothy Hoffman, later indicated that the date was actually July 1, Mr. Valestra said he accepted the substitute date because telephone toll records appeared to corroborate it. Mr. DeLorean, a former General Motors executive and later founder of the DeLorean Motor Company, was indicted by the grand jury here in October 1982 on charges he conspired to possess and distribute 55 pounds of cocaine. Mr. DeLorean’s defense lawyers assailed Mr. Valestra’s explanation of the change of dates as one of what they contend are numerous examples of the Government not being able to present a consistent story to the jury sitting on Mr. DeLorean’s trial.
A fifth Mediterranean fruit fly was discovered in Miami as pesticide-spraying teams saturated vegetation in the downtown area, trying to wipe out what officials fear is a growing infestation of the destructive insect. Experts were examining several insects from other areas which also may be Medflies, said Florida Agriculture Commissioner Doyle Conner. “We will adjust our quarantine and our treatment area accordingly” as more of the pests are found, he said. The fifth Medfly was discovered about a half-mile from where four pests were found Tuesday, Conner said.
The Environmental Protection Agency ordered General Motors Corp. to recall and repair-free of charge-more than a half million cars that are exceeding government air pollution standards and producing smog. California vehicles are not included in the recall. The 550,000 affected cars all have six-cylinder engines and are all from the 1980 model year. They are Buick: Regal, Century, Century Wagon, LeSabre and Skyhawk. Pontiac: LeMans, LeMans Safari Wagon, Grand Prix, Catalina, Bonneville, Firebird and Sunbird. Chevrolet: Monza. Oldsmobile: Cutlass, Cutlass Supreme, Cutlass Wagon, Delta 88 and Starfire equipped with 231-cubic-inch displacement engines.
Insisting that he has “never been a boss” of the Chicago mob, Anthony (Big Tuna) Accardo told a Senate subcommittee that he was friendly with other reputed crime czars but never discussed business with them. “I have no control over anybody.” Accardo, 78, said during a court-ordered appearance. He said he never asked his friends about sources of income because it was “not my business” and that his only knowledge of organized crime came from newspapers.
A shakeup of the Texas prison system has been begun by Ray Procunier, who became director of the troubled 35,000-inmate facilities a month ago. Mr. Procunier, a 60-year-old native of New Mexico, is known as a nonpolitical, nonideological administrator who can run an efficient corrections system without resort to fear and brutality.
Cancer cases may double among Americans over the next 40 years and the costs of treatment may become an even greater factor in the economy than Government officials have realized, according to a statistical analysis published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Rain pounded the water-logged Midwest for a ninth straight day yesterday, adding as much as four inches to flood waters that have claimed two lives. Officials said the value of the crops lost might reach $1 billion. As summer officially began after what forecasters said might be the wettest spring on record, President Reagan declared Missouri a disaster area, and Iowa officials said nearly all of the corn and as much as 50 percent of the soybean crop might be lost in flood-stricken parts of the state. Millions of acres of farmland remained underwater in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota, and officials have only begun to assess the cost of destroyed crops.
At Minnesota, the Indians’ Neal Heaton twirls a 3-hitter to win, 7–0. He is helped by a 3-run homer from his batterymate Willard, and solo homers from Butler and Thornton. Umpire Ken Kaiser ejects Pat Majeske, a video operator for the Minnesota Twins, for tipping pitches.
Willie Upshaw drove in two runs, including the tiebreaker in the ninth inning, and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Boston Red Sox, 5-2, tonight. Luis Leal (8–1), who shut out the Red Sox on two hits in Toronto last Saturday, threw only 81 pitches in firing a four-hitter and outdueling Al Nipper. Nipper (0–2), a rookie, allowed five hits over eight innings before being knocked out in the ninth.
At Riverfront, Steve Yeager hits a 7th inning grand slam as the Los Angeles Dodgers escape with a 9–7 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
Baseball players and owners agree to penalties for use of cocaine. Amphetamines, marijuana and alcohol are not included in the agreement.
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Geoffrey Pope, NFL defensive back (New York Giants, Cincinnati Bengals, Philadelphia Eagles), in Detroit, Michigan.
Geoffrey Pope, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers), in San Antonio, Texas.
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