President Reagan agreed to explore Moscow’s offer to begin talks on limiting antisatellite weapons even before the Administration had decided what its bargaining position would be, officials said. Mr. Reagan’s decision was generally seen as reflecting his determination to retain a diplomatic and political initiative. At the same time, officials and diplomats here are uncertain whether the Soviet offer remains valid or has been withdrawn. The White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, told reporters today, “We will be there in September,” as Moscow proposed on Friday. But he repeated that the Administration intended to raise its own agenda at such talks — the resumption of negotiations on medium-range missiles in Europe and strategic nuclear forces — and said Soviet agreement to this was not a condition for the proposed meeting in Vienna.
In Moscow today, Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko spoke of this as an unacceptable condition, and on Sunday the Soviet Union called the American response “totally unacceptable” but stopped short of breaking off the exchanges. Officials in Washington said the diplomatic state of play was not advanced Sunday night at the White House when Mr. Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz talked with the Soviet Ambassador, Anatoly F. Dobrynin, at a barbecue for the diplomatic corps. Mr. Shultz was said to have gained the impression that Mr. Dobrynin himself was unsure where his government would move next.
The latest review of Administration policy in the area of negotiations on antisatellite weapons is not scheduled for completion until the end of July, according to officials involved in the studies. The Administration remains dubious about the value of any accord, and a high White House official said privately today that “we don’t see much prospect for movement” in the talks but that the Administration is willing to talk. Thus far, officials say, only two things are clear about the evolving American position: that Mr. Reagan will insist on making some kind of proposal, and that nothing be proposed or accepted that could jeopardize the planned testing of a new American antisatellite weapon. The Russians have what experts characterize as a rudimentary antisatellite weapon and have on their own refrained, since last August, from further testing of it.
About 60,000 troops of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact are taking part in maneuvers in East Germany that the Pentagon described as the pact’s largest exercises in five years. Pentagon officials said the war games are being closely watched for signs that the Soviets may use the maneuvers to deploy new SS-21 tactical missiles, which can fire a nuclear or conventional warhead, close to the West German border. The SS-21’s range of 75 miles is nearly twice that of the old Frog missiles that they are replacing under a modernization program, according to intelligence sources. Participating in the exercises are Soviet, East German, Polish and Czechoslovak troops.
A former President of Israel, Ephraim Katzir, was reportedly arrested Sunday at the home of a Jewish scientist in the Soviet Union. He reappeared in Moscow today and said he was fine, the Israeli press reported. Mr. Katzir, a 68-year-old biochemist, was in the Soviet Union to attend a scientific meeting in Leningrad. Earlier today the daily newspaper Maariv said that the former President was arrested in Leningrad on Sunday by the K.G.B., the Soviet security police.
The newspaper said the Russian- born Mr. Katzir was taken into custody in front of the home of Yakov Gorodetsky, where about 80 Jewish activists had gathered to discuss plans to protest the jailing of a Jewish activist named Zakar Zunshein. Maariv said Mr. Gorodetsky telephoned a friend in Israel to say Mr. Katzir had been arrested by the K.G.B. The Israeli radio and the Council on Soviet-Jewish Affairs reported that Mr. Katzir had been reached by telephone in a Moscow hotel today and said he was fine.
Metalworkers in Stuttgart have voted to accept a 38½-hour workweek, signaling the end of a seven-week strike-lockout that crippled West Germany’s automobile industry. Metalworkers in other parts of the nation are also expected to approve the 12-hour cut in the regular 40-hour workweek. The metalworkers approved a compromise agreement hammered out by mediators that fell short of the strikers’ original demands for a 35-hour week as a means of alleviating unemployment.
West Germany’s leftist Greens party turned down a request from Petra Kelly, 36, a former member of the party leadership, that she be allowed to stay in her parliamentary seat through the planned party rotation in 1985. The 120-80 vote was taken over the weekend at a convention in Aschaffenburg of the Bavarian branch of the party. Members of the anti-nuclear, environmentalist Greens alternate in the party’s parliamentary seats in an effort, they say, to avoid development of a party elite.
Britain’s steelworkers expressed sympathy for the nation’s striking miners but formally turned down a request that they join the 16-week-old coal strike by halting steel production. Steel union leader Bill Sirs said after a three-hour meeting of the 14 unions in the state-run industry that a shutdown would not be practical. “We have to accept that this policy would be damaging to the (steel) industry,” Sirs said.
British doctors voted to prohibit the British Medical Association from investing their money in enterprises connected with the tobacco industry. At the association’s convention in Manchester, about 600 doctors voted overwhelmingly in favor of the ban, obliging the association’s commercial subsidiary to stop investing in tobacco-related industries. The current level of such investment was not disclosed. The American Medical Association divested itself of about $1.4 million in tobacco company stocks.
A small Greek ship was attacked Sunday in the Persian Gulf and there were casualties among its crew, Lloyd’s Shipping Intelligence reported today. The London-based insurance exchange said the 13,316-ton bulk carrier Alexandra Dyo was attacked while en route to Bandar Khomeini in Iran. It said there was loss of life and injuries, but did not elaborate. Iraq reported on Sunday that its warplanes had destroyed five vessels at the head of the gulf and had shot down an Iranian fighter. Earlier today, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said Iraqi missiles had hit the South Korean freighter Wonjin Ho near Bandar Khomeini, wounding 4 of the 23 crew members. The Lloyd’s report also said the Panamanian Erne, a 15,178-ton bulk carrier, was “safely aground” at the entrance to the Bandar Khomeini channel, but gave no further details.
Kashmir’s leadership was dismissed by the Indian Government. The move put in place a state government that was expected to be more helpful to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi when she runs for re-election.
The U.S. Navy may use MIG-21 fighters in pilot training. A major defense corporation, the LTV Aerospace and Defense Company, has arranged to buy the Soviet-designed jets from Chinese production lines.
Imelda R. Marcos said today that three months before his assassination, Benigno S. Aquino Jr. had sought her permission to return home from exile, and that she had warned him against it. Mrs. Marcos, testifying before a civilian panel that is looking into the August 1983 slaying of the Filipino opposition leader, said she had pleaded with Mr. Aquino to postpone his return to some future time. “I told him it was not wise to ride two bancas,” Mrs. Marcos said, using the Philippine term for canoes. “I said, ‘it will be dangerous.’ ” She said she added: ” ‘If something happens to you, the Government will be at a disadvantage, there will be a stigma. We will be called a nation of barbarians.’ “
The Australian government will investigate 12 nuclear tests conducted by Britain on Australian territory during the 1950s and 1960s after discovery that one of the sites still contains radioactive areas, government sources said. The inquiry will look into allegations that aborigines and servicemen were affected by the tests on islands in western Australia and in an arid region in the south. Britain has denied the allegations.
A 37-year-old professional stunt man survived the 176-foot drop over the Horseshow Falls today. Karel Soucek, a native of Czechoslovakia who lives in nearby Hamilton, was treated for minor cuts on his forehead at Greater Niagara General Hospital after his 150-pound barrel, equipped with a ship-to-shore communications system, was pulled to the bank on the Canadian side of the lower Niagara River. Mr. Soucek, who said he had spent $15,000 on the project, was charged with violating parks commission rules and is scheduled to appear in court here on July 11. He faces a maximum fine of $500. Mr. Soucek, the fifth person known to go over the falls on purpose and survive, said he plans to sell tapes of the trip filmed by members of his crew.
South African Foreign Minister Roelof F. (Pik) Botha flew to Zambia in an apparent attempt to revive a stalled truce with Angola, amid reports of guerrilla attacks on South African troops inside Angola. Botha’s trip came amid reports that South Africa has stopped withdrawing forces that it sent into southern Angola in December to destroy bases of the black nationalist South-West Africa People’s Organization. That group has waged a protracted bush war against South African administration of Namibia (South-West Africa), a struggle supported by Marxist Angola until it signed a U.S.-mediated truce with South Africa in February. After about four hours of private talks with Angola’s Interior Minister, Alexandre Rodrigues Kito, Mr. Botha said he was encouraged that progress had been made. He said he was “not over-much concerned” about the delay in completing the disengagement, which was announced in February.
A corporate takeover wave has been sweeping the country this year as Wall Street deal makers have put together hundreds of buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, including 15 of them worth a billion dollars or more. The frenzied activity is generating rising concern because of the tremendous amounts of borrowed money involved, the tactics used and the long- range social implications.
Gary Hart is well ahead as the choice of rank-and-file Democrats for the party’s Vice-Presidential nomination, and if he were on the ticket he would halve President Reagan’s substantial lead over Walter F. Mondale, according to the latest New York Times/ CBS News Poll. With Mr. Mondale, the likely nominee, under mounting pressure to name a woman as his running mate, the survey showed Senator Hart the preference of 23 percent of Democrats as against 3 percent for Dianne Feinstein and 2 percent for Geraldine A. Ferraro.
Representative Ferraro met for three hours with Walter F. Mondale at his home outside St. Paul. Afterward, the Representative from Queens said her experience as a prosecutor, legislator and mother fully qualified her to serve as Vice President.
President Reagan participates in a photo opportunity with members of the Army Herald Trumpeters on their 25th anniversary.
President Reagan receives a signed baseball of all the Cracker Jack Old Timer Baseball Classic players.
A law barring the broadcasting of editorials by public radio and television stations that receive funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. By a vote of 5 to 4, the Court agreed with a lower court that the Federal statute violates the free speech and free press guarantees of the First Amendment.
Anyone held in police custody and accused of a crime, no matter how minor, must be formally advised of the right against self-incrimination before questioning can begin, under a unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court. But the court ruled that because an ordinary traffic stop does not constitute custody, the police may question motorists without first giving them such a warning.
Petroleum prices are dropping unexpectedly, with retail gasoline prices at their lowest July Fourth levels in five years. Specialists say the Persian Gulf fighting prompted some oil-producing countries to try to stabilize prices by increasing their exports in May and June.
Former Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton, described as “sad” but “strong,” entered federal prison in Montgomery, Alabama, to begin serving a three-year term for extortion and conspiring to fix liquor licenses while in office in 1976. Blanton, 53, had faced a midnight deadline to report to the Maxwell Air Force Base Federal Prison Camp, known locally as “the country club” because of its tree-lined drives, tennis courts and other amenities.
Norfolk, Virginia, seized 83 fishing boats belonging to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, saying that the church owes more than $41,854 in overdue personal property taxes. The boats will be sold at public auction within a month if the bill is not paid, said City Treasurer Joseph T. Fitzpatrick. A spokeswoman for the Unification Church said that it will fight the tax, which was due June 29.
A neighborhood woman was arrested after she wandered into two unlocked homes in the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and fell asleep nude in a bed, officials said. Linda Lee Tatum, 44, was undergoing hospital treatment after the two incidents early Sunday. Family matriarch Rose Kennedy, 93, who is recuperating from a stroke, was unaware of the incident in her house. A neighbor said Tatum, who lives two doors away from the compound, had been under long-term medication and had recently spent several months under psychiatric observation.
A helicopter being used in the search for three fugitives who fled a Tennessee prison crashed, killing two Corrections Department employees and an Air National Guard pilot, officials said in Lobelville. The four-passenger helicopter was flying low when it went down in Humphreys County, and there were no survivors and no word on what caused the crash. An 85-man posse was using boats and bloodhounds to search a square-mile area of woods and river for the three fugitives, who escaped the Turney Center by picking locks on their cells.
New York’s mandatory death penalty law was thrown out by the state’s highest court, along with the death sentence Lemuel Smith received for murdering a female prison guard. The Court of Appeals, in a 4–3 ruling, upheld Smith’s guilty verdict for killing guard Donna Payant and ordered that he be sentenced to life in prison for the 1981 murder. The law ruled unconstitutional required an automatic sentence of death in the electric chair for first-degree murder committed by a convict serving a sentence of at least 15 years to life in prison.
Aleuts wielding five-foot hickory clubs began what may be one of the last large U.S.-sanctioned harvests of the fur seals that are vital to the economy of Alaska’s Pribilof Islands. Animal protection groups fought unsuccessfully in court to stop the hunt on St. Paul, a treeless Bering Sea island and one of the Pribilofs’ four tiny islands 800 miles southwest of Anchorage. For the next four weeks, sealers working under a contract with the U.S. Commerce Department will kill about 22,000 young male seals. By contract, the government will pay the Aleuts $500,000 for the pelts.
A newspaper editorial writer, faced with the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to hear his case, says he will go to jail today rather than identify sources used for an editorial that led to a libel suit. Richard Hargraves, 34, of Belleville, Ill., said that he will report to the county jail at 9 a.m. as directed by Circuit Judge Roger Scrivner after the nation’s high court refused to hear his case. He is being sued by Jerry Costello, chairman of the St. Clair County Board of Supervisors, over a 1981 editorial in the Belleville News-Democrat, where Hargraves then worked, that accused Costello of lying and breaking campaign promises. “I can’t tell them,” said Mr. Hargraves, an editorial writer for The St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “It’s too important. “I can’t disclose my sources when they have made no opportunity to find out the information in another matter.”
Nazi support for psychotherapy is revealed in new historical studies at a time when German therapists are openly and vigorously examining their profession’s behavior under the Nazi regime for the first time. Freud’s books were among the first to be burned, but psychotherapy flourished in an institute headed by a cousin of Hermann Göring.
A ban on pornography is sought by both conservative intellectuals and feminists. Pornography has dramatically grown and spread since 1970, when a majority of members of a Presidential commission concluded that pornography had no significant effect on criminal behavior.
The president of the Directors Guild of America said tonight there would be no strike against movie studios and television networks. “We’re not going to have a strike,” Gil Cates, the guild official, said as movie and television directors here were completing balloting on a new three-year contract. “Things are in good shape here.” With about half the ballots counted late tonight, the contract was winning approval by a margin of about 15 to 1, Mr. Cates said. Directors on the East Coast will vote on Tuesday but the West Coast vote was apparently so overwhelmingly in favor of acceptance that it would probably hold up because two- thirds of the guild membership lives in California and dominates the balloting.
The Harvard Book Store Cafe is an unusual combination of bookstore, restaurant and bar in the Back Bay section of Boston that attracts the city’s writers.
At Arlington Stadium, the New York Yankees take a 5–0 lead after three innings despite having three runners thrown out at bases in the first inning. It won’t happen again this century. Texas comes back to win, 7–6.
At Fenway, the Oakland A’s batter the Red Sox’ Roger Clemens for 6 runs in 7 innings, then score 3 runs off Mark Clear in the 11th to win, 9–6. Bill Caudill (8–1) is the winner. Rickey Henderson steals 4 bases for the 9th time in his career.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1130.08 (-2.32).
Born:
Elise Stefanik, American politician (Rep-R-New York, 2021-), in Albany, New York.
Johnny Weir, American figure skater (World Championship, bronze, 2008) and broadcaster (NBC), in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
Wladimir Balentien, Curaçaoan MLB outfielder (Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds), in Willemstad, Curaçao.
Vanessa Lee Chester, American actress ( “The Lost World: Jurassic Park”), in Brooklyn, New York, New York.
Died:
Ramiro Cortes, 50, Mexican-American composer, dies of heart failure.
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