President Reagan meets with the Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Dobrynin. Mr. Reagan and Mr. Dobrynin sat next to each other Sunday at a White House barbecue for diplomats and engaged in animated conversation. Asked if his talks in Washington left him encouraged or disappointed, Mr. Dobrynin said: “You are going too far; it is diplomacy.” Earlier in Washington, he said the talks were “useful.”
American-Soviet negotiations are proceeding on whether to start talks for a ban on antisatellite weapons, according to Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin. On arriving in Moscow, the Soviet Ambassador was asked about the prospect for such talks. He replied, “I am hoping for the best, but I am not a magician.” The Ambassador said he was bearing a message from President Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Asked if Russians would be in Vienna, where Moscow has proposed talks in September, the envoy replied: “We will see. We are negotiating this.” The Soviet Government issued a statement Sunday saying it found “totally unsatisfactory” Washington’s desire to link space weapons to the issue of nuclear arms. But it added that its offer to hold talks in Vienna remained in force if the United States took a more “responsible” position and eliminated nuclear arms “preconditions.”
Soviet authorities detained two American diplomats for two hours today and accused them of activities incompatible with their status, the embassy said. It reported that it had protested the “unjustifiable detention” and failure to allow the two, Jon Purnell and George Glass, to contact the embassy “in a timely manner.” A spokesman said the two men, assigned to human rights, were meeting in public with a Soviet citizen. Mr. Purnell, a political officer, and Mr. Glass, a consular officer, were among three Americans named May 4 in a Tass article accusing the embassy of plotting to use Andrei D. Sakharov, the dissident, and his wife in “vicious anti-Soviet campaigns.”
The Soviet Defense Ministry has promoted the general believed to be the man who gave the order last year for Soviet pilots to shoot down a South Korean airliner with 269 aboard. Army General Vladimir L. Govorov, commander of Far Eastern troops, has been appointed a deputy defense minister, according to information from the Soviet armed forces newspaper, Red Star. Shortly after the attack, in September, 1983, the Sunday Times of London quoted U.S. intelligence sources as saying that they believed that Govorov gave the shooting order to Soviet fighters tracking Korean Air Lines Flight 007.
Soviet forces in Afghanistan reportedly mounted a heavy offensive against several hundred Muslim rebels entrenched in a small town on the outskirts of Kabul, the Afghan capital. Kohe Safi, 25 miles northwest of Kabul, has reportedly been under siege since June 24, according to Afghan resistance sources in the Pakistani frontier town of Peshawar who were contacted by telephone from Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. There was no independent confirmation of the report, but the rebel sources have proved accurate in the past.
West Germany has approved a large new loan for cash-short East Germany, the second such loan over a one-year period, Bavarian state Premier Franz Josef Strauss confirmed. Last summer’s loan of 1 billion marks ($385 million) was linked to human rights and other concessions by the East Germans. The new loan, reportedly for more than $267 million, is also said to be tied to such concessions, among them an increase in the number of exit permits for East Germans wishing to emigrate to the West, and the easing of currency exchange requirements for visiting West Germans.
Lebanon’s army took over positions from militia units that seized complete control of Beirut five months ago. The deployment was generally smooth. Soldiers of the rebuilt Lebanese Army moved forward today in jeeps, tanks and armored vehicles to take over positions from militia units that seized complete control of this city five months ago. Cheered by the success of the deployment, Prime Minister Rashid Karami said that Lebanon was finally on its way to recovery from nine years of civil war. The troop takeover was carried out with only one minor incident in which some shots were fired but no one was hurt. In the nine years of war, more than 100,000 Lebanese were killed and vast stretches of Beirut and other cities were destroyed.
Iraq said its helicopters and tanks fired on Iranian troops near Basra today, killing five soldiers, and Iran said its forces had shot down an intruding Iraqi helicopter. An Iraqi military report distributed by the official press agency said helicopters had bombed Iranian positions east of Basra, inflicting casualties with direct hits. “Five Iranian troops were killed and more wounded by tank fire on Iranian positions east of Basra,” the statement said.
Iran said its troops set ablaze an “enemy motor pool” in the Bakhtaran region on the border, “destroying several vehicles and inflicting casualties and losses during the past 24 hours.” The Iranian report, distributed by the official Iranian press agency, also said Iranian forces had downed a helicopter in Khurramshahr Province, when “several intruding enemy helicopters came within distance of the Islamic forces positions.” Iraq denied the incident.
Indian authorities imposed a curfew in the northern city of Srinagar after street violence that injured at least 36. The violence developed during demonstrations protesting this week’s dismissal of Farooq Abdullah as chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, the state of which Srinagar is the capital. Abdullah loyalists clashed with supporters of his replacement, Ghulam Mohammed Shah, and police used tear gas and gunfire to break up the mobs. Abdullah was dismissed by the state governor after defections left his ruling party without a majority in the state legislature.
The police in Thailand have arrested 16 high-ranking officials of the outlawed Communist Party implicated in a plot to overthrow the Thai Government, officials said today. “They have clearly been seeking support from abroad to overthrow the government,” the national police chief, General Narong Mahanond, said. “If they had succeeded it would have been a disaster for the whole country.” No details were given. General Narong said the 16 plotters arrested in at least seven simultaneous raids Tuesday included four members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. All 16 were charged with belonging to the outlawed Communist Party. The police also seized propaganda leaflets and $127,000 in bank deposits and cash believed to have been funneled to the Communist Party from abroad. Officials did not specify the source of the support but the party has reportedly received most of its material support in the past from China.
About 500 demonstrators paraded outside the United States Embassy in Manila today, marked here as Philippine-American Friendship Day, to protest United States bases and Washington’s support for President Ferdinand E. Marcos. The demonstrators, many of them from universities and trade unions, chanted and shook their fists at what they described as “the U.S.-Marcos dictatorship.” Later they burned cardboard likenesses of a United States nuclear missile as well as the American flag.
Changes in a U.S.-Honduran accord will be sought by Honduras in an effort to win more economic and military benefits, according to Honduras military officials. They said a Honduran commission was studying the 1954 military agreement and would ask Washington for such changes as preferential trade arrangements and increased Honduran control over United States military personnel.
The official Nicaraguan newspaper Barricada said that an American citizen arrested in May is a CIA agent involved in a plot to kill Foreign Minister Miguel D’Escoto. The Managua newspaper identified the man as William Joseph Luther, 52, of Washington. A U.S. Embassy spokesman confirmed that Luther was under arrest but would not say whether he is a CIA agent. In Washington, CIA spokesman Dale Peterson said: “We don’t assassinate people…. It also is CIA policy not to confirm or deny allegations of association with the agency…”
El Salvador’s leftist guerrillas have obtained Soviet-designed anti-aircraft missiles that could turn the tide in the country’s civil war, according to both army and insurgent sources in San Salvador. Army intelligence sources said the rebels have acquired portable, heat-seeking SAM-7 missiles for use against military aircraft, but it was not known if the weapons have arrived. No ground-to-air missiles are known to have been used in the four-year-old conflict. Salvadoran officials believe that wide use of the missiles could effectively counter the army’s air offensive.
English-speaking Caribbean leaders opened their first meeting since the United States-led invasion of Grenada last October and raised the question whether their 12-year-old regional organization can survive. Four of the 13 member countries opposed the invasion and others are at odds over economic policies.
The legality of Jesse Jackson’s trips for personal diplomacy has been questioned by President Reagan. In an interview, Mr. Reagan cautioned against Mr. Jackson’s traveling to the Soviet Union to seek the release of Andrei D. Sakharov, the dissident, and noted that United States law prohibits private citizens from negotiating with foreign governments.
Women urged Walter F. Mondale to select a woman as his running mate. But the delegation of 23 women, many of them well-known feminists, who flew to St. Paul for a two-hour meeting with the Democratic Presidential aspirant, made clear they would work actively for his candidacy if he chose a man to run with him.
First Lady Nancy Reagan met with a group of elementary school students and their parents today to talk about ways to fight drug abuse, one of the biggest problems facing the city of Oakland, California. Mrs. Reagan watched a 13-minute film and then joined in a group discussion at Longfellow Elementary School, just a few blocks away from a part of town where drugs and prostitution are prevalent.
The President and First Lady host a barbeque for Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions and their spouses.
A free, computerized national “help-wanted” list matching unemployed Americans with job openings was made public by the Labor Department. In the works for several months, the revamped system will be geared toward helping persons who cannot find work in their own hometowns but who are willing to move. It will also help employers find persons willing to take hard-to-fill jobs. The system expands on separate sets of job listings that have been maintained by the various state employment service offices for years.
Secretly recorded conversations between President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. about civil rights marches in Birmingham, Alabama, and Washington are among 9½ hours of White House tapes ready for release. The tapes of White House meetings and telephone conversations — recorded by Kennedy — offer a public glimpse of Kennedy’s involvement in the civil rights issue. Officials with the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston say this will be the last major group of conversations to be released from the 260 hours of recordings Kennedy made from the Oval Office.
Negotiations to end a month-old walkout in Minneapolis by 6,300 registered nurses were resumed as thousands of teachers staged a Fourth of July march in support of the strikers. The two sides returned to the bargaining table without coming to terms on a plan for calling the nurses back to work. A tentative settlement in the dispute was reached, but the nurses’ union won’t schedule a ratification vote until the back-to-work issue is resolved. The nurses got a morale boost from the National Education Association as many of the 7,000 delegates to the NEA’s annual convention in Minneapolis marched through the downtown area.
The annual meeting of the N.E.A. resembled a trial run for this month’s Democratic National Convention. The 7,000 members of the National Education Association sat with their state delegations and the huge Minneapolis Auditorium was festooned with placards and banners proclaiming the teachers’ support for the Democratic Party.
No gavel-to-gavel television coverage of the national political conventions will be provided by the three major networks this summer in a key departure from tradition. Instead, the conventions will be covered in blocks from prime-time schedules. NBC and CBS are planning for the first time to broadcast convention segments as late as 9 on some evenings. ABC will start at 8 PM.
A constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget would cause a “severe recession” and cost at least 5 million jobs, according to a study released by a public employees’ union. The study, prepared for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, noted that 32 states — two short of the number needed — have adopted resolutions petitioning Congress to call a constitutional convention to consider a balanced budget amendment.
Congressional supporters of atomic power received campaign contributions totaling $3.36 million from nuclear and other energy companies in the last two years, according to a study by Ralph Nader’s anti-nuclear Critical Mass Energy Project. It said 93% of all House members and 87% of the Senate accepted contributions from nuclear and energy industry political action committees. The largest single recipient of the industry PAC money was Senator Pete Wilson (R-California), who got $82,815.
Stephen M. Bingham, a fugitive lawyer accused of smuggling a pistol to a prison revolutionary, George Jackson, before San Quentin’s bloodiest breakout attempt in 1971, wants to turn himself in to face murder charges, one of his attorneys said today. “He’s coming back to fight the charges, to clear his name, prove his innocence,” said the lawyer, Paul Harris. Mr. Bingham, a member of a wealthy Connecticut family, faces five counts of murder and one charge of conspiracy in the escape attempt that left three guards and three inmates dead, including Mr. Jackson. Jerry Herman, Marin County District Attorney, said that Ramsey Clark, the former Attorney General, had told him that Mr. Bingham would surrender in 10 days. “As to where, to whom and under what circumstances Bingham will surrender, we don’t know,” Mr. Herman said. Mr. Bingham is suspected of slipping a 9-millimeter automatic pistol to Mr. Jackson while visiting the prisoner on August 21, 1971. Mr. Bingham was 29 years old at the time.
Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the first artificial heart to be permanently implanted in a human chest, is designing a new, more durable model. Jarvik said in Salt Lake City that the heart, a successor to the Jarvik 7 that sustained Dr. Barney Clark for 112 days after his diseased heart was removed, would operate for 5 to 10 years, while the Jarvik 7 would likely break down from diaphragm failure after 3 to 5 years. Clark died March 23, 1983.
Two more Mediterranean fruit flies were found in the Little Havana area of Miami, but agriculture officials say no changes will be made in the quarantine or spraying zones. The Medflies, trapped only blocks from the initial discovery site, raised to 11 the number found in the city in the last two weeks. “We’re not greatly concerned over these additional flies because they were in the core spray area,” said Charles Poucher, state Medfly project director. All the flies found so far were of the same generation.
A Pennsylvania couple whose 9-year-old son attended only 43 days of classes in the past school year were ordered yesterday to spend 10 days in jail by a judge who called them “irresponsible.” The judge, Richard Musser, found Kenneth and Joyce Lesher guilty of violating the state’s compulsory school attendance law and ordered them to jail starting August 3. Tommy Lesher, a second grader, missed 137 days of the 180-day school year at Ross Elementary School, according to a Lancaster School District official’s testimony.
A fire killed at least 14 people and injured 13 in an 80-year-old, three-story rooming house in Beverly, Massachusetts, where many occupants were poor, retarded or former mental patients. Officials said the building had no sprinkler system.
A program to combat wind shear, one of the worst safety hazards besetting the aviation industry, is being accelerated by the federal government. Scientists are stepping up an advanced radar project near Denver’s airport to warn planes of the approach of wind shear, which is an abrupt change in the direction or speed of airflow.
A gene fragment apparently common to human beings, chickens, frogs, flies and earthworms has been identified by researchers in both the United States and Switzerland. The fragment is contained in several genes that have been shown to control the structural development of insects and may play a similar role in the development of humans and other vertebrates.
G.M.’s big new luxury-car plant in the Detroit suburb of Orion Township is to be dedicated today, and President Reagan is scheduled to be there as part of his effort to court rank-and-file union members. Many of the 6,700 workers in the ultramodern plant who had been unemployed for several years reflect the wide support that Mr. Reagan still enjoys among rank- and-file unionists.
Phil Niekro strikes out 5 batters in the New York Yankees 5–0 win over the Texas Rangers to become the 9th pitcher in Major League history to record 3,000 career strikeouts. Larry Parish of the Rangers is the 3,000th K.
Jim Rice caps a 5-for-6 day with a grand slam in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Boston Red Sox a 13–9 win over the Oakland A’s.
At San Francisco’s Candlestick Park, the St. Louis Cardinals sweep a pair from the Giants, winning 4–3 and 5–1. This is the last regularly scheduled July 4th doubleheader this century.
Born:
Gina Glocksen, American singer (“American Idol”), in Tinley Park, Illinois.
Died:
Jimmie Spheeris, 34, American singer-songwriter (“You Must Be Laughing Somewhere”; “Let It Flow”), when his motorcycle is struck by a drunken driver.
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