President Reagan meets with the Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Dobrynin. Moscow rejected a U.S. offer to join in talks on banning weapons in outer space, proposed by Moscow this weekend, if other subjects were discussed as well. Soviet leaders said the United States response was “totally unsatisfactory,” but the offer to open negotiations in September to prevent “the militarization of outer space” remained open.
Moscow’s rejection was regretted by the Reagan Administration, but it restated its willingness ” to sit down with the Soviets at a meeting in September as the Soviets have proposed.” The Administration said Moscow had misread the intention of its statement Friday. Responding quickly to the latest in a new series of exchanges with the Russians, the Administration contended that the Soviet Union had misread the intention of its statement last Friday. The rapid public back-and-forth between Moscow and Washington on the arms control issues suggested to several Administration officials that the chances were extremely slim that any serious negotiations would emerge.
Liechtenstein is the last European country to grant women the right to vote through a referendum with 51.3% (of men) in favor. The vote ended majority opposition that in referendums in 1971 and 1973 blocked women from getting the right to vote. It was a victory for Prince Hans Adam, the de facto ruler of the principality, which is the size of Washington, D.C., and has a population of 26,000. Prince Adam has been in charge of the country since his father, Franz Josef II, 77 years old, Europe’s longest-reigning ruler, relinquished his responsibilities but not his title to the throne earlier this year.
Destruction of “five naval targets” in the northern Persian Gulf was claimed by Iraq. It said its air force had also shot down an F-14 Iranian jet, and that in renewing ground fighting, it sent waves of helicopter gunships against Iranian positions east of the southern port of Basra and across the Tigris River with Iran, and it had inflicted heavy casualties. There was no confirmation from Iran.
Iraqi missiles struck a South Korean freighter, the Wonjin-ho, and started a fire in its engine room off the Iranian port of Bandar Khomeini Sunday as the ship headed for the port with 9,000 metric tons of Japanese steel products, a South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said today in Seoul. The spokesman said 4 of 23 crew members were injured and the rest were rescued by Iran.
Meanwhile, Iran’s 81-year-old leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, appeared to rule out any possibility of peace with Iraq, calling for a continuation of the war, estimated to have taken half a million lives since it broke out in the fall of 1980. “To compromise with the oppressor is, in fact, to assist in his oppression,” the Ayatollah said to officials, military chiefs and foreign journalists during a sermon in a Tehran mosque marking the Id al-Fitr festival ending the fasting month of Ramadan. The resumption of Iraqi attacks on shipping after a two-week lull, the renewed ground fighting and the Ayatollah’s intransigence seemed to confirm a pessimistic assessment most Western diplomats here have been making of the prospects for an early settlement of the Iraq-Iran war.
Syrian President Hafez Assad has started a purge to reinforce his authority by sending his brother and other top army officers into temporary or permanent exile abroad, Britain’s Observer newspaper reported. Those exiled include Second Vice President Rifaat Assad, commander of the internal security force, and Rifaat’s rivals, General Ali Haydar, head of the Special Forces, and General Shafik Fayad, commander of the 3rd Armored Division, the paper said.
The Israeli military chief of staff, Lieutenant General Moshe Levy, said some of nine passengers still in custody after the seizure of a Lebanese ferry are suspected of anti-Israeli activity. “There is reason to believe most of the nine will soon be released, while the others I will be held for further questioning,” Levy said. Israeli newspapers said the ferry was seized after Israel received information on Palestinian guerrilla movements. The nine were erroneously reported to have been freed Saturday.
Menachem Begin’s shadow hangs over the Israeli elections coming up July 23, although he is out of the running for elective office for the first time in Israel’s history. The former Prime Minister’s successors imitate him, his followers still shout his name at rallies and his opponents are doing everything possible not to provoke him out of self-imposed exile and into the campaign in which his Likud Party, now led by his successor, Yitzhak Shamir, is trailing the Labor Party led by Shimon Peres.
A senior Vietnamese official says continuing United States unfriendliness toward Vietnam after a war that ravaged the civilian population has hurt Hanoi’s efforts to get villagers to cooperate in searching for missing Americans. “Members of my family were killed,” the official said in an interview here last week with visiting foreign journalists. “Even my friends, even those who are alive, I don’t know where they are. Now the Americans are not friendly to us. How can we get the people’s support?” He said that the United States, without reciprocating, is “imposing” efforts on Vietnam and Cambodia to resolve cases of Americans listed as missing in action.
A United States Embassy spokesman, responding to the Vietnamese official’s remarks, said, “The Vietnamese authorities have agreed with us at a very senior level that resolution of the P.O.W.-M.I.A. issue is a humanitarian matter to be dealt with separate from other issues.”
Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos shuffled his Cabinet, replacing five ministers. The major change was the appointment of Arturo Tolentino as foreign minister. Tolentino, a maverick assemblyman from Marcos’ ruling New Society Movement, replaces the longtime incumbent, General Carlos P. Romulo, who retired earlier this year for health reasons. Imelda Marcos, the nation’s First Lady, will retain her post as minister of human settlements.
The Supreme Court today ordered the reputed leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines removed from the solitary confinement he has endured for more than six years, calling it “cruel and unusual” punishment. The high court ordered the military to give Jose Maria Sison “the opportunity to associate with other persons under detention.” “In our period of repression, that is extraordinarily liberal,” said Mr. Sison’s attorney, Juan David. Justice Abad Santos, in the resolution dated June 21, said “Sison, guilty or not, is a human being, and human beings are social creatures.” Mr. Sison, 45 years old, has been held in solitary confinement at the maximum-security prison at Fort Bonifacio since his arrest November 10, 1977, on charges of subversion and rebellion as the purported leader of the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines.
The United States is about to buy 24 MIG-21 jets from China, Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper reported. The jets will be used by the U.S. Navy to teach carrier pilots how to oppose the MIGs in dogfights, the paper said, adding that the Soviet Union is “furious” about the proposed deal. When the two countries were on good terms, the Soviets trusted the Chinese with MIG designs and let them build their own. The Far Eastern Economic Review reported recently that the Defense Department has already bought some Chinese MIGS. A Pentagon spokesman had no comment.
Canadian rescuers using rope ladders and a hydraulic crane evacuated all 787 passengers, many of them elderly, from a luxury cruise ship that hit a submerged rock off Vancouver Island. The vessel, the Sundancer, left Vancouver, British Columbia’s capital, on a cruise to Juneau, Alaska. It struck bottom late at night while sailing through Seymour Narrows, in the island-dotted Discovery Passage between northern Vancouver Island and the mainland. The ship limped three miles to port.
Leaders of the English-speaking Caribbean nations are scheduled to meet in Nassau July 4 in their first summit meeting since the United States invasion of Grenada. The 13-member Caribbean Community and Common Market, or Caricom, has rarely lived up to its basic goals of regional economic cooperation. Caricom’s members are Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad-Tobago, Jamaica, Antigua, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Bahamas.
Nicaraguan exiles have been ordered by the Honduran government to shut down their guerrilla command center in Honduras, a top Honduran military official said. The official, who requested anonymity, said his government worried about its involvement in Central American conflicts-has also told the guerrillas of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force to close a training camp and a 120-bed hospital. The U.S.-funded force has used Honduras as a base to launch attacks against Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime.
The United States and Nicaragua made no progress toward resolving differences at talks in Mexico last week, the Nicaraguan governments said. A statement by Managua, the first announcement by either side, said that the talks focused on procedures for future discussions but that even on this, there was no agreement. The United States, Nicaragua charged, is “escalating its aggression,” adding that the main obstacle to advancing talks is “the aggressive position of the United States (which) has not undergone any change.” President Reagan’s Central America envoy, Harry W. Shlaudeman, represented the United States at the sessions.
The abduction of Bolivia’s President Saturday apparently was directed by a rightist army colonel, the Government said. Officials said the plot involved a number of military officials, politicians and narcotics policemen. President Hernan Siles Zuazo was found unharmed.
A move to nominate a woman from the floor of the Democratic National Convention “if necessary” for the Vice-Presidential spot was recommended by the National Organization for Women. Judy Goldsmith, the organization’s president, said that if offering the name of a woman set up a contest for the nomination, “there is considerable indication we could win.”
The support of rank-and-file labor union members will be sought by Reagan re-election campaign strategists, who have been cheered by a report by one of their poll takers showing President Reagan with a lead of 14 percentage points over Walter F. Mondale among blue-collar workers. In seeking support from union members, the Reagan strategists plan to bypass union leaders, most of whom are Mondale supporters.
The President and First Lady host a barbeque for Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions and their spouses.
The chief internal watchdog for the General Services Administration has misgauged his budget to such a degree that less than $40,000 remains for investigative trips in the last quarter of 1984, officials said. The office of Inspector General Joseph Sickon, assigned to review allegations of corruption and waste in massive government procurement programs, is now largely toothless with investigations halted or delayed, unidentified officials told United Press International. But Lawrence Dempsey, the office’s investigations chief, asserted that regional chiefs have sufficient discretionary funds to cover critical investigative travel.
Kennedy Space Center workers began disconnecting the main engine blamed for aborting the shuttle Discovery’s maiden launch Tuesday four seconds before liftoff. Dick Young, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said engineers planned to have the No. 3 engine out of Discovery sometime today. The big powerplant failed to fire up on command Tuesday, forcing the mission to be aborted just four seconds before the scheduled liftoff. Engineers said the engine’s main hydrogen fuel valve failed to open in the engine-start sequence. But the valve passed subsequent tests, and engineers decided to install a fresh engine to insure the problem is not repeated. The suspect engine is to be swapped for an engine that was removed from the Discovery after an internal heat shield came unglued in a test firing June 2. It has been repaired. Engineers say it will be mid-July before the orbiter is ready to fly.
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole said she is “very close” to announcing her decision on whether to require air bags or automatic seat belts in new cars, but refused to tip her hand. The issue of automatic passenger restraints is “in a formal rule-making,” Dole said on CBS-TV’s “Face the Nation.” Dole said in May that she would meet a self-imposed July 11 deadline for a decision. The secretary also said that a national drinking age could reasonably be set at 24, but forcing all states to adopt age 21 would pinch the worst part of the drunken-driving problem.
An Army-Air Force crackdown on the use of drugs by servicemen is working, despite controversy surrounding the program, an Air Force official said. Colonel George Lathrop, in charge of drug testing at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, said the number of servicemen found using drugs has dropped by 50% over the last year. Lathrop said that when the Air Force began surprise testing in January, 1983, more than 20.5% of the tests recorded a “positive” result-meaning that drugs had been used. The monthly average during the first six months of 1984 was only 9.4%, Lathrop told the San Antonio Light.
Nearly 200 inmates went on a rampage in the auditorium of Walpole, Massachusetts, State Prison after dark, setting fires and smashing furniture before guards, using dogs and tear gas, quelled the two-hour riot, a Correction Department spokesman said. No officers or prison staff members were reported injured, and medical staff were examining the inmates, said the spokesman, Joe Landolfi. The entire maximum-security prison was locked down, he said. There were no reports of injuries to inmates “and we don’t know what set off the disturbance,” Landolfi said.
Arizona state police in riot gear posted sharpshooters on hills and lined the main highway of the strike-torn copper town of Clifton as they cleared away a smoldering barricade of tires and railroad ties after a night of violence. During the violence, six officers were injured and 20 demonstrators were arrested. The melee broke out after a rally marking the first anniversary of a strike against the Phelps Dodge Corp.’s main mine and smelter in neighboring Morenci. Despite the bitter strike, the nation’s second-largest copper producer has continued to operate the mine.
A jury awarded $10.1 million Saturday to a couple whose 11-year-old daughter was killed when a Pan American World Airways jetliner crashed into their home in the second worst air disaster in United States history. Jennifer Schultz was among eight people killed on the ground along with all 146 people aboard the Boeing 727 when it crashed July 9, 1982. A Federal court jury awarded the damages to the girl’s parents, Christopher and Barbara Schultz of Kenner, Louisiana, for Jennifer’s death and injuries to her mother and sister. Mrs. Schultz and her other daughter, Rachael, 7, were burned when Pan Am Flight 759 smashed into their suburban home shortly after takeoff from New Orleans International Airport.
A 12-year-old boy carrying a 4-year-old friend across a railroad bridge Saturday tripped and fell as he tried to outrun a train and both boys were killed, the authorities reported. Harvey Stamper of the Texas Highway Patrol said the 12-year-old boy had beaten the train to the end of the trestle, but he fell and both children were hit. The authorities withheld the names of the victims until their families could be notified. The accident occurred at about 6:35 PM Saturday just outside Goodrich, about 60 miles north of Houston. Mr. Stamper said a little girl was with the boys, but she did not trip and got safely off the tracks.
Three Tennessee state prison inmates jimmied the locks on their cell doors in a medium-security unit and escaped by scaling two fences in dense fog early today, the Correction Department said. The escapees from the Turney Center included a murderer, an armed robber and a habitual criminal, a spokesman, John Taylor, said. Since April, three other inmates have escaped from the Turney Center in two separate incidents but all have been recaptured. One of two inmates who escaped last Monday from Morgan County Regional Prison in eastern Tennessee is still at large.
A boycott against Campbell Soup is being conducted by labor activists in Ohio in an effort to organize migrant farm workers.
A package of legislation to reduce Delaware state income taxes was approved early today in the final hours of the 1984 General Assembly. Governor Pierre S. du Pont 4th was expected to sign the bills Monday. The key components of the package provide a 10 percent across-the-board cut in the income tax rate, an increase in the personal exemption to $800 from $600 and an increase in corporate and franchise taxes and fees. A related bill would allow an additional reduction, to 10.7 percent, for the top bracket if the state’s major corporations created 6,000 jobs a year over the next three years. If that did not happen, the top bracket would revert to 12.2 percent, the rate for the top bracket under the 10 percent cut. Delaware has had the highest personal income tax rate in the nation for the top brackets, 13.5 percent.
The boycott is opposed by a union representing food-processing workers that includes 10,000 Campbell workers. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. is also against the boycott.
The search for life beyond Earth is about to enter a new era. New discoveries bearing on the probabilities of other civilizations, and new methods of searching for them are exciting the interest of scientists. Two observatories are now engaged full-time in the search, and detectors millions of times more effective than any used before are scheduled to be put into operation this fall in the scanning of hundreds of billions of stars.
Whether an editorial writer is jailed on a libel charge will be decided early this week by the Supreme Court. The case involves an editorial Richard Hargraves, wrote for The Belleville News-Democrat that criticized an elected county official, who is suing for libel. Mr. Hargraves, who now works for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, has refused to tell who the sources were that provided the basis for the editorial.
A year after Samantha Smith found her way onto front pages and talk shows with a visit to the Soviet Union, the 12-year-old schoolgirl is still making public appearances and answering stacks of letters. She also is writing a book about her experience. And after dozens of television appearances, she is still the shy girl who wrote the letter to the late Soviet President Yuri V. Andropov, asking why he wanted to conquer the world and expressing her fears of nuclear war. At his invitation, she and her parents visited his country. “I never thought it would result in all this,” Samantha said as she sat in the kitchen of her home in Manchester, Maine. “I hope it’s done some good for our country. Otherwise, it’s been a lot of fun traveling.” She smiled and added, “I’ve even lost my airsickness.”
The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
“Baby” closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 241 performances.
US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Oak Hill CC: Miller Barber wins by 2 strokes from Arnold Palmer for his second Senior Open title.
Minnesota’s Frank Viola stops the Detroit Tigers, 9–0 on 4 hits in front of 53,484 at Detroit. The Twins’ Kent Hrbek has three hits, including a homer, and 4 RBIs.
The Kansas City Royals’ Paul Splittorff, whose 166 victories in 13 seasons are the most in club history, retires.
The Yankees’ present image of a team without a purpose was reinforced today by another game in which they generated no runs, no color, no excitement. They lost to the Royals, 8–0, their 11th shutout loss of the season, leaving 10 on base. And the loss completed a three-game weekend sweep by Kansas City. The Yankees lost because Bob Shirley allowed a two-run double to the catcher Don Slaught in the fourth inning, and Willie Wilson hit a two-run, two-strike home run in the seventh inning. It was Wilson’s 17th career home run, but only his fourth that traveled out of a ball park. In the eighth, the Royals scored four more times against a reliever, Mike Armstrong. Charlie Leibrandt earned the victory and Dan Quisenberry his 21st save.
Brian Downing has a pair of 3-run homers to lead the California Angels to a 7–6 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.
At the Vet, Houston unloads 13 runs to beat the Phillies, 13–1, behind Joe Niekro, who pitched a six-hitter for his sixth consecutive victory. Jerry Mumphrey drives in 6 runs for the Astros with a pair of homers and Dennis Walling and Jose Cruz each score 4 runs.
Cleveland makes it easy for Don Schulze (7 innings pitched, 2 earned runs) by scoring 15 runs as the Indians win, 15–3 over the Texas Rangers. Carmen Castillo drives in 5 runs, 4 with a grand slam.
Born:
Donald Thomas, Bahamian high jumper (World Championship, gold, 2007), in Freeport, Bahamas.
Rich Thompson, Australian MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Angels, Oakland A’s), in Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia.
Kasey Studdard, NFL guard (Houston Texans), in Denver, Colorado.
DelJuan Robinson, NFL defensive tackle (Houston Texans), in Memphis, Tennessee.
Bracey Wright, NBA shooting guard (Minnesota Timberwolves), in The Colony, Texas.
Died:
Moshé Feldenkrais, 80, Ukrainian-Israeli engineer and physicist (founder of the Feldenkrais method).
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