[Ed: Like most political promises, this one was not worth a damn.]
Pre-emptive action against terrorists was again discussed publicly by Secretary of State George P. Shultz. In the Reagan Administration’s fullest public discussion to date of its antiterrorist program, Mr. Shultz said that governments opposed to terrorism must do a better job in infiltrating terrorist groups and be willing to take “appropriate preventive or pre-emptive actions.”
Indian army troops were called into Bombay to stem new Hindu-Muslim clashes, and a resurgence of Sikh religious violence in India’s northern Punjab state left two dead, officials said. In the Bombay incident, a funeral procession was stoned and five people were stabbed to death in the suburb of Bandra, the Press Trust of India reported. Last month, more than 200 people died in riots in the Bombay area. In Punjab, where Sikh extremists are waging a bloody campaign for autonomy, unidentified assailants stabbed to death a Hindu priest, and security forces killed a suspected Sikh extremist.
An Iraqi air attack on a tanker carrying Iranian oil in the Persian Gulf was the first such attack in over two weeks. The Greek-registered ship had only “light damage,” the Greek Merchant Marine Ministry said. Iraq vowed to increase its attacks in the area.
Overnight fighting between rival militias in the center of Beirut left two people dead and four wounded, but it did not appear to threaten a new security plan agreed to the previous day by Premier Rashid Karami and his “national unity” Cabinet of Muslim and Christian leaders. Thousands of Beirut’s celebrated the announced agreement by streaming to the capital’s beaches, and larger-than-usual crowds relaxed in cafes and strolled along the sunny Mediterranean seafront. The Syrian-mediated accord aims at reunifying the army and granting the Muslim majority an equal say in government.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said that his country and Jordan have been holding intensive talks through the United States regarding border problems and that direct talks are being held on other issues. Speaking to reporters in the southern port of Eilat, Shamir would not specify the level of the border talks but said they involve the threat of pollution from Jordanian sewage pools just across the border from Eilat. Unconfirmed reports have referred to direct contacts between the two countries, including secret meetings involving Israeli leaders and Jordan’s King Hussein.
A suspected Jewish terrorist, believed to be the leader of a group that earlier this year attempted to blow up Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest shrines, was arrested in Netanya, north of Tel Aviv, and is being questioned, Israeli police reported. Shimon Barda had been a fugitive since four members of his group were caught in an abandoned house near Jerusalem. The attack in April was foiled when an Arab watchman discovered the group, equipped with explosives, attempting to climb the ancient wall surrounding the mosque.
President Hosni Mubarak officially opened Egypt’s newly elected People’s Assembly today. It includes the largest and most cohesive parliamentary opposition any Egyptian President has faced. In his speech, Mr. Mubarak said he did not want more than two terms as President. His current term expires in 1987 and a second would extend to 1993. On Saturday the New Wafd, the only opposition party to win seats in the May 27 election, voted against the President’s choice for Assembly Speaker, Rifaat Maghoub. The President’s appointment was approved 384 to 66. The President’s National Democratic Party holds 85 percent of the 458 assembly seats.
Egypt has chosen a diplomat to be ambassador to the Soviet Union in another step toward reconciling relations that have been strained for more than a decade, Foreign Ministry sources said Saturday. They said Salah Bassiouny, head of the ministry’s policy research department, was picked to fill the post, vacant since 1978.
At least 850,000 protesters demonstrated in the streets of Paris Sunday to show their opposition to a government proposal that would give the state some new powers to regulate France’s private schools. A television station said the turnout was “the largest since the liberation” of France in 1945. The day passed without violent incident until Sunday night, when several hundred young demonstrators threw rocks at policemen and set ablaze barricades they built in the street. The incidents, in the St.-Michel area of the Latin Quarter, left at least two policemen slightly injured, officials said. The troubles continued into the early morning hours today as groups of leather-jacketed young people continued to build barricades and clash with police. The police said 35 people had been arrested.
The body of a French employee of Club Mediterranee who disappeared on a fishing trip last week was found today in the sea off the resort island of Corfu, Greek and French authorities said. The man’s brother charged that he had been shot dead by border guards on the nearby Albanian coast. The shooting report was not immediately confirmed. “He’s injured in the head, but we don’t know yet whether it’s from a bullet,” a Corfu port spokesman said by telephone. He said the body of Jean-Marie Masselin, 29 years old, was found this morning by the crew of a small boat carrying vacationers from the town of Corfu to the beach. The body was two miles off the southern coast of the island and was clad in a rubber underwater fishing suit, the crew said. Club Mediterranee, an operator of vacation resorts, said Thursday that Mr. Masselin was one of three men who went underwater fishing last Monday in a rubber dinghy off Corfu. Without realizing it, the vacation operator said, they had approached the Albanian coast and when they surfaced border guards fired at them.
An underground Polish human rights organization has sharply criticized an official report on human rights in Poland compiled earlier this year by the office of Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar. In a letter sent to the Secretary General earlier this month, the Helsinki Committee in Poland expressed “astonishment” at the report, particularly at its finding that the human rights situation in the country is “very encouraging on all fronts.” “This evaluation,” the letter says, “is not based on facts but on vague and nonbinding assurances given by the Polish authorities, and on the subjective impressions formed by you and the author of the report while meeting the government representatives.”
Mr. Perez de Cuellar’s report on Poland, compiled by an Under Secretary General, Patricio Ruedas of Spain, was prepared for the annual meeting of the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva in February. There, it was condemned by several Western countries and human rights organizations for what they saw as its stress on improvements in the human rights situation in Poland and a relative absence of critical findings. The report was viewed as a key element in a decision, made over Western objections by the commission, to drop its formal scrutiny of Poland for purported rights abuses.
The president of a Philippine lawyers’ organization has withdrawn from the investigation of the assassination of Benigno S. Aquino Jr., a rival of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Raul Gonzales, head of the National Bar Association, announced his withdrawal in a letter accusing the investigating body of “bias against the Aquino family” and of lack of credibility. Mr. Gonzales’s letter was sent Saturday to the head of the investigating panel, Corazon Agrava, a day after the attorney walked out of a board hearing. The move came as the panel was nearing the end of its eight-month inquiry into the August 1983 killing.
The United States will donate 5,000 tons of rice to Laos, apparently in an attempt to gain greater cooperation from the government in obtaining information about 550 missing American servicemen, well-informed Western sources in Thailand said. The Communist government of Laos has allowed families of some of the Vietnam War-era MIAs to visit the country, but the remains of only two Americans have been returned.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was assured by representatives of two leftist groups fighting the Government in El Salvador that they wanted a peaceful resolution of the long-standing conflict, but there was no commitment that they would be willing to give up fighting. That commitment had been established as a condition for talks by President Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador shortly after taking office this month. Mr. Jackson, who is on a tour of Central America, said he would make a “moral appeal” to President Duarte for flexibility at a meeting scheduled today in San Salvador.
Federal funds were used improperly in Honduras by the Pentagon for much of its large-scale military construction and training activities there in the last two years, the General Accounting Office said. The G.A.O. report was obtained by Representative Bill Alexander of Arkansas, the chief deputy Democratic whip, who asked the agency for “a formal legal decision” five months ago on whether the Pentagon was acting illegally, as he had charged, in its military activities in Honduras, or legally, as the Pentagon claimed. The report says that “operation and maintenance” funds, normally reserved for maneuvers, were used to train Honduran troops. It added that if base camp construction exceeded $200,000, that, too, would violate the law. Congressional Democrats charge that joint military maneuvers conducted in Honduras over the last 18 months are being used to cover up a U.S. military buildup.
Maoist guerrillas attacked five villages in south-central Peru over the weekend, killing more than 30 people, police said. The actions came two days after President Fernando Belaunde Terry said he would lift military control from 13 counties around Ayacucho province if there was no new bloodshed in the next 30 days. The police termed the assaults Friday and Saturday the worst since insurgents of the leftist organization called Shining Path killed 67 peasants in a 1983 Easter Sunday attack on the town of Luricanamarca. The police said three guerrillas were killed in the attacks in the villages around Ayacucho, the center of a military zone 350 miles southeast of Lima where all the attacks occurred. The police said 300 insurgents swept into the town of Huancasancos early Saturday and routed residents from bed after attacking the civil guard post in the village and killing a captain and six guards. The guerrillas killed 14 villagers whom they accused of collaborating with the Government, the police said.
Recent theological movements calling for church involvement in politics were defended by a group of Roman Catholics from Europe, Latin America and the United States in a major challenge to the Vatican. A group of Roman Catholic theologians sharply criticized Vatican officials for attacks on “liberation” theology, whose followers are linked to Third World political struggles and the social justice movement in the United States. The scholars, associated with the international magazine CONCILIUM, registered “a strong and vigorous protest” of the crackdown on liberation theologians, feminists and other liberals in the church. Among those associated with the CONCILIUM group are Hans Kung, already the focus of Vatican condemnation, and Edward Schillebeeckx, the Dutch theologian who has been the subject of protracted Vatican investigations.
Enforcing the immigration bill passed in different forms by both houses of Congress would present a huge new challenge to the Immigration and Naturalization Service if it becomes law, according to people who followed the bill’s progress through Congress. Alan C. Nelson, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, said the agency was prepared to enforce the legislation, which includes a provision banning employment of illegal aliens, but few people outside the agency expressed such confidence.
President Reagan enjoys dinner with his daughter Maureen Reagan Revell.
The Democratic ticket would gain in appeal among rank-and-file Democrats if likely presidential nominee Walter F. Mondale were to select a woman as his running mate, according to the latest Gallup Poll. About 4 in 10 Democratic voters nationwide say that a woman as the vice-presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket would not affect their vote one way or the other. But of those to whom it would make a difference, nearly twice as many say they would be more likely (32%) rather than less likely (18%) to vote for such a ticket. Democratic men are nearly as likely as women to say they would be more likely to back a Democratic slate that included a woman.
After the grueling primary campaign, Walter F. Mondale had a right to hope for easeful times once he apparently had enough delegates to secure the Democratic Presidential nomination. But that is not quite the way things are shaping up. To be sure, the former Vice President got a little relief on two pressing problems. Gary Hart ended the week with a conciliatory speech criticizing President Reagan rather than Mr. Mondale, and party leaders detected hints that the Rev. Jesse Jackson might wind down his challenge of the party’s delegate-selection rules. But a week of fast-paced developments also brought a fresh agenda of problems to the forefront.
For example, the idea of putting a woman on the ticket as the Vice-Presidential nominee has changed from a tantalizing possibility into a potential threat to party unity. Some Democratic leaders are worried that activist women pushing for selection of Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro may become disenchanted this fall if Mr. Mondale passes over the Congresswoman from Forest Hills and asks women to support a conservative male candidate. For another thing, Mr. Jackson has become such a polarizing figure among Jewish voters as to raise the prospect that Mr. Mondale could be forced to choose between them and the civil rights leader.
The Federal Aviation Administration should not rehire any of the 11,400 air traffic controllers fired after staging an illegal strike in 1981, the agency’s administrator said. The fired controllers would need six to eight months of retraining and could clash with controllers who did not join the strike, FAA Administrator Donald E. Engen said. Although the system has roughly 13,300 controllers — or about 1,000 fewer controllers than Congress said it should have — replacements are being trained to fill the gap, Engen said.
A consumer group demanded the recall of 1.6 million Chrysler Corp. cars and trucks that it claims have defective carburetor gaskets that can cause engines to stall, hesitate or race uncontrollably. The Center for Auto Safety said Chrysler should recall 1978-1982 models of the Chrysler LeBaron; Dodge Omni, Aries and 400 cars and Rampage trucks; and Plymouth Horizon and Reliant K cars that are equipped with 1.7-liter and 2.2-liter engines. The center also petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to launch a formal investigation. Chrysler spokesman John Guiniven said the company disputed the allegations.
More than 125 nurses from other states have been hired to work at Twin Cities hospitals where registered nurses are on strike, according to the Minnesota Board of Nursing. Temporary permits have been issued to 78 of the imported nurses, an indication they were not trained in Minnesota and have not practiced in the state, The Minneapolis Star and Tribune reported Saturday. About 50 other nurses have returned to Minnesota from other states and have reactivated their Minnesota registration, according to Margaret Baach, the nursing board’s assistant director for registration. She said some nurses who live in the state but had let their registration lapse have gone back on active status to work at the 16 struck hospitals.
Indian journalists from around the nation met in State College, Pennsylvania, and formed the Native American Press Association to improve communication between tribes and educate the public about Indian concerns. “There’s a very real lack of knowledge about the Indian. Either he is romanticized as the noble red man or he is made out to be a howling savage,” said Tim Giago, editor of the weekly Lakota Times of Martin, South Dakota. Giago was one of 40 American Indian journalists who gathered at Pennsylvania State University for a three-day conference.
Indians from across the country encircled a historic burial ground at Wounded Knee this weekend in memory of Indian deaths in 1890 and 1973 in the prairie foothills of southwestern South Dakota. “Wounded Knee has tremendous symbolism for all Indians,” said Margo Thunderbird, national coordinator of a 54-day, cross-country run by athletes representing 11 Indian nations. Wounded Knee was the scene of carnage in 1890 when more than 200 Sioux were slain by the Army, an assault the federal government considers a battle and Indians a massacre.
In 1973 it was the site of the occupation of Wounded Knee, a takeover of the village by militant members of the American Indian Movement. Two Indians were killed in the takeover. The runners, who are about 1,500 miles into their journey from Syracuse to Los Angeles, site of the Summer Olympics, are honoring the Indian athlete Jim Thorpe, a medalist in the 1912 Olympics. After the ceremony here Saturday they ran into the Black Hills, sacred to the Sioux.
Space shuttle Discovery was ready for its inaugural flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 8:43 AM, Eastern Daylight Time tomorrow. The $1.2 billion shuttle is the third to fly, and its planned seven-day mission in earth orbit will be the 12th of the project. The shuttle will carry a crew of six and cargo that includes a drug-processing facility that could lead to the first space manufacturing.
Discovery of the sixth quark might have been made by physicists at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, near Geneva. Physicists have predicted that six quarks would ultimately be found, and if the evidence in Geneva is confirmed it would be one of the great prizes in modern physics. Quarks are the building blocks of the more massive constituents of matter such as protons and neutrons.
Delegates to the Unitarian Universalist Association meeting this week at Ohio State University will not be eating any products produced by the Campbell Soup Company. Conference organizers asked the university to remove Campbell products from the menus because the organization supports 2,000 Ohio farm workers striking in protest of low wages. Officials at Campbell’s headquarters were unavailable for comment. The association’s board of trustees was to vote Monday on a resolution calling for a boycott of Campbell. In the weeklong session, delegates will address the Central American issue, the role of women, blacks and urban churches, genetic engineering and the philosophy of informed consent in health care.
An acre of South Dakota farmland disappeared every hour as the James River continued to climb. forcing more evacuations along the river while work crews sandbagged and manned pumps. More than 100 homes in Yankton County have been emptied. The persistent summer floods have damaged 2 million acres of South Dakota farmland. Losses could hit $100 million as the river washes away acres of topsoil, officials said. The storms, blamed for flooding that has damaged nearly 7 million acres of prime farmland and cost the Midwestern agricultural community $1.3 billion, pushed eastward into the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.
Senior Tournament Players Championship Men’s Golf, Canterbury GC: Arnold Palmer wins 2nd straight Champions Tour major by 3 strokes ahead of Peter Thomson of Australia.
Oakland’s Joe Morgan hits his 265th career home run as a second baseman, breaking Rogers Hornsby’s Major League record for that position. Morgan, who has 267 home runs overall, connects off Frank Tanana in the first inning of the A’s 4–2 win over Texas. Rickey Henderson’s two-out, two-run ninth-inning homer off the reliever Dave Tobik gave Oakland the victory.
After missing two starts, Jack Morris (12–3) stops the Brewers, 7–1. Morris allowed one hit through the first six innings for his 100th career victory. Ruppert Jones and Lance Parrish hit homers for the Tigers, who have now drawn 165,000 fans for the 4-game series with Milwaukee. Detroit now leads the American League East by 8½ games.
At the Dome, Tim Teufel’s bloop single in the 9th inning with 2 on turns into an inside-the-park homer when it bounces over the head of Harold Baines to give the Twins a 3–2 win over the White Sox. Rich Dotson is the unlucky loser. It is his first loss on the road after 16 straight road wins. The 16 consecutive road wins is a record shared by Dotson, Denny McLain, Cal McLish and next by Greg Maddux. The Twins’ Bush had a home run in yesterday’s 4–3 win over Chicago. Ken Schrom (1–2) gave up seven hits in pitching the complete game for the victory.
Ozzie Virgil hit a two-run home run and drove in three Philadelphia runs, and Von Hayes pinch-hit a homer as the Phillies defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates today, 4–2. Steve Carlton (5–4) survived nine hits over the first six and one-third innings to beat the Pirates for the 12th time in his last 13 decisions against them. The Pirates haven’t beaten Carlton since September 11, 1982. Carlton, who now has 305 career victories, improved his record against Pittsburgh to 38–22. He gave way to Larry Andersen with none on and one out in the seventh. Andersen was replaced by Al Holland, who earned his 16th save, with one out in the ninth.
Rick Sutcliffe allowed only 5 hits and struck out a career-high 14 as Chicago completed a sweep of the three-game series against St. Louis, shutting out the Cardinals, 5–0. The Cubs moved within one-half game of first place in the National League East. Sutcliffe, acquired in a trade with Cleveland June 13, won his second straight start for the Cubs and posted his first shutout since pitching a seven-hitter against the Yankees a year ago. Sutcliffe walked one and hit a batter and didn’t allow a runner past second until Ozzie Smith and Mike Jorgensen singled with two out in the eighth. Sutcliffe’s 14 strikeouts were the most by a Cub pitcher since Ferguson Jenkins struck out 14 in 1971 against Philadelphia.
David Overstreet, the Miami Dolphins’ running back who had not yet fulfilled the promise held for him when he became a No. 1 draft pick in 1981, was killed this morning when his car swerved off a highway into gasoline pumps at a service station in Winona, Texas and exploded. Larry Todd, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said the 25-year-old former University of Oklahoma star was driving his 1980 Mercedes on a highway near the East Texas town when the accident took place at about 6 AM.
Born:
JJ Redick, NBA shooting guard and point guard (Orlando Magic, Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Clippers, Philadelphia 76ers, New Orleans Pelicans, Dallas Mavericks) and sport analyst, in Cookeville, Tennessee.
Died:
David Overstreet, 25, Miami Dolphins running back, in a car accident.
Clarence Campbell, 78, Canadian ice hockey executive (President NHL 1946-1977), from respiratory ailments.
William Keighley, 94, American director (“The Man Who Came to Dinner”), of a stroke.
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