Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar of the United Nations arrived in Moscow today for talks with Kremlin leaders focusing on Afghanistan. Mr. Perez de Cuellar was greeted at the airport by Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko. He is expected to meet Konstantin U. Chernenko, the Soviet leader, during his three-day stay.
The trial of a Solidarity adviser, Adam Michnik, whose defiant inspiring letters from prison have helped sustain hope in the outlawed labor movement since martial law was imposed in 1981, was scheduled to begin Friday. It is a trial that the Polish authorities reportedly tried to avoid by offering Mr. Michnik his freedom, but one that the 38-year-old activist demanded.
Scotland Yard’s antiterrorist branch wants to question four more people about the kidnapping of a wealthy Nigerian exile, according to the head of the branch, Commander William Hucklesby. Hucklesby spoke after the court appearance today of four men charged Tuesday in the kidnapping July 5 of the exile, Umaru Dikko, a former Government official who has been described as Nigeria’s most wanted man. Mr. Dikko was found drugged and unconscious in a crate labeled diplomatic baggage. The crate, found at Stansted Airport, 30 miles from London, was addressed to a government minister in Lagos, the Nigerian capital. Nigeria, a Commonwealth country and an important trading partner of Britain, has denied involvement in the kidnapping, but officials in Lagos say Mr. Dikko is wanted to stand trial on corruption charges. Mr. Dikko was Transport Minister in the Nigerian Government that was overthrown in a military coup last December 31.
Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and the United States Ambassador, Monteagle Stearns, met for two hours today to try to ease Greek-American tensions. A statement issued later said the two men “had a direct and sincere discussion on all matters of concern to the two countries, but no solutions could be found at this stage.” Mr. Stearns was quoted as having said that “on some issues our perspectives are different, but I think our interests are common and we are trying to adjust our interests and our perspectives.” The Greek Government has been upset by press reports saying Washington was thinking of barring the transfer of surplus United States-made F-5 warplanes to Greece from Norway, and authorizing their transfer to Turkey. The Reagan Administration has criticized Greece for what it sees as anti-American policies and a failure to help combat international terrorism. Athens, in turn, has accused the United States of interfering in its domestic affairs and trying to strengthen Turkey.
The Greek Government informed the Libyan Ambassador today of “its deep concern following the assassinations and shootings of Libyan citizens living in Greece,” a government spokesman said. The spokesman, Dimitrios Maroudas, said Foreign Under Secretary Karolos Papoulias had summoned Abdalla Abu Mahara, the Libyan envoy, to discuss incidents in Greece involving supporters and opponents of the Tripoli regime. Over the last six weeks, four Libyans have been shot, apparently by countrymen acting on orders from the Libyan Government. Three of the four were killed.
The Ambassador to the Vatican, William A. Wilson, was permitted to retain positions on the boards of two corporations when he was raised to that rank in January, according to State Department officials. The department could not provide an example of an ambassador who had been granted such an exception to the general policy requiring ambassadors to step down from directorships in profit-making companies.
The Lebanese Cabinet named a panel to try to obtain the release of hostages held by Muslim and Christian militias and to investigate the fate of other missing persons in Beirut. Families of missing Lebanese had agreed to suspend their protests, which have blocked access to the port and airport, while the government sought a solution.
A Palestinian guerrilla group put three Israeli prisoners of war on display and said it is willing to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. A spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command said “progress has been made” in arranging an exchange through the Red Cross and that it could be carried out on short notice if Israel agreed. Israel’s chief negotiator, Shmuel Tamir, on Sunday said he hoped that several Israeli POWs would be exchanged “very soon” for 120 Palestinians.
Israel freed two of the remaining four passengers held since it seized a Beirut-bound ferry last month, the Red Cross said. The two were identified by security sources as Mazen Mahmoud Masri, a Lebanese teenager attending boarding school in England, and Ezzedin Ibrahim Oweidat, also a Lebanese citizen. Israel is still holding two passengers for questioning about suspected anti-Israeli activities.
Pakistan can build a nuclear bomb but lacks the financial means and the desire to do so, President Zia ul-Haq said in a speech in Islamabad. “We have the nuclear capability but our financial resources do not permit us to make an atom bomb,” Zia said. “Besides, we are against the spread of nuclear weapons. We have no intention to use this knowledge for military purposes,” he added.
India’s opposition political parties opened a national campaign against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi today over the dismissal of the chief minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. At a five-hour meeting, which could have a major effect on general elections due in the next six months, leaders of 19 parties sharply criticized Mrs. Gandhi and her ruling Congress Party. The Press Trust of India news agency described the meeting as a “rare show of unity” among opposition figures.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz told Indonesian officials that the United States is concerned over charges of human rights abuses in East Timor, a former Portuguese colony annexed by Indonesia in 1976. But Jakarta reports said that Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja dismissed the allegations of atrocities, saying they contradicted the findings of other observers. Shultz is on a two-week, six-nation Southeast Asian tour.
Search parties rescued 18 of the 124 men trapped in a coal mine in Taiwan, raising hopes that others might survive the fire and poisonous gases. They also retrieved 33 bodies, leaving 73 men still trapped 6,000 feet below the surface, 30 miles northeast of Taipei. Initial reports had said that more than 130 were trapped, but officials said nine escaped when fire broke out.
Canada introduced sweeping new air safety measures after a fire last year aboard an Air Canada jet flying from Dallas to Toronto killed 23 people. Seat cushions are to be made fireproof, heat-activated extinguishers and smoke detectors will be put in all Canadian plane lavatories and special lighting systems are to be installed to guide passengers escaping in thick smoke.
Documents that a Salvadoran army commander says were abandoned by fleeing leftist guerrillas indicate that rebel leaders are worried about their ability to get the upper hand in the 42-year-old civil war. Maj. Armando Azmitia displayed the papers, one of which said, “The enemy maintains the offensive and holds the initiative” in the political realm.
The Pope denounced Nicaragua at a general audience in St. Peter’s Square for expelling 10 missionaries involved in a protest and urged the Sandinista Government to reverse its decision. The Pope did so at a general audience in St. Peter’s Square in which he delivered the first of a planned series of pronouncements solemnly reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church’s teachings against artificial birth control. The foreign priests were expelled from Nicaragua Monday after taking part in a protest march in Managua on behalf of a Nicaraguan priest accused of “counterrevolutionary activities.” The march was led by Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo. The head of the Nicaraguan church condemned the expulsion as “evidence that Marxism is trying to eliminate the church in Nicaragua because Marxism is the enemy of the church.”
The estimated 500,000 Guatemalan registered voters who did not cast ballots in the July 1 election for the Constituent Assembly will be fined, a government official said today. The official, Mario Roberto Guerra Roldan, who heads the Citizens Registry, said 2 million of the 2.5 million eligible voters had gone to the polls. Those who did not vote will be fined the equivalent of $5 if they do not have legitimate excuses, he said. This sum is the equivalent of two days’ wages for farm workers who receive the legal minimum wage. Interviews conducted the day of the election suggested that many Guatemalans had gone to the polls to avoid being fined. According to official figures, 352,000 of the ballots cast were either blank or spoiled.
Argentine President Raul Alfonsin completed a major shake-up of Argentina’s top army command aimed at asserting the authority of his seven-month-old civilian government. The Defense Ministry announced that new commanders have been appointed to three important army corps in the main provincial cities, including the powerful and disgruntled 3rd Corps in industrial Cordoba. The government also ordered military officers to speedily provide all information required by a national commission on the disappearance of an estimated 8,800 people under military rule from 1976 to 1983.
Walter F. Mondale prepared to name his running mate before the start of the Democratic convention Monday. The contest for the Democratic Vice- Presidential nomination narrowed and Democratic sources said Mondale’s staff asked two candidates, Mayor Henry G. Cisneros of San Antonio and Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro of Queens, for financial and health information, the final step in the selection process.
Jesse Jackson will not be asked to be Walter F. Mondale’s running mate because of deep differences between them, the former Vice President said in an interview to be broadcast tomorrow on the “CBS Morning News.” “I intend to pick the best person I can find who’s compatible, whose selection speaks for my vision of our future, and there are sufficient differences between Reverend Jackson and myself that I can’t do that,” Mr. Mondale said in the interview, excerpts of which were broadcast this evening. The Mondale comment could help allay the concerns of some Jewish leaders who contend that Mr. Mondale, the probable Democratic Presidential nominee, must separate himself more fully from Mr. Jackson because of statements the black leader has made that they consider anti-Semitic. But Mr. Mondale’s statement could also affect his relations with Mr. Jackson’s black constituents, whose support is also important.
After Mr. Jackson’s accusation that “threats” from Jewish leaders had kept him off Mr. Mondale’s list of potential running mates, there was renewed pressure today from spokesmen for Jewish groups and from Mr. Mondale’s Jewish supporters for the former Vice President to repudiate Mr. Jackson. Mr. Jackson’s remarks also heightened the atmosphere of uncertainty surrounding his appearance next Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. Today the Mondale advisers were described as astonished and dismayed by the latest salvo of criticism from the black civil rights leader. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times that was published Tuesday, Mr. Jackson was quoted as blaming Jews for keeping him off Mr. Mondale’s list of Vice- Presidential candidates.
He also accused Senator Gary Hart of “racism” for supposedly curtailing his dealings with a Washington bank owned by Arab investors, a charge the Hart camp denied. In addition, Mr. Jackson condemned what he called the “Aryan arrogance” of the press and attacked “white women” in the National Organization for Women as appropriating Mr. Jackson’s demand that the party ticket include a woman.
President Reagan participates in a luncheon meeting with members of the President’s Economic Policy Advisory Board.
President Reagan participates in a signing ceremony or the 14th annual report of the CEQ for transmittal to Congress.
Air bags or automatic seat belts will be required on all new passenger cars sold in the United States in five years unless state legislatures representing two-thirds of the population pass laws requiring occupants of autos to use seat belts. The decision, which came after 15 years of controversy, was announced by Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole.
Import protection for American steel producers and workers was recommended to President Reagan by the International Trade Commission in a 3–2 vote. The commission recommended that Mr. Reagan use his powers under the Trade Act of 1974 to impose higher quotas and tariffs for five years on 70 percent of imported steel. By law, the President must decide no later than six weeks before the November election what protection, if any, to give.
The Environmental Protection Agency will restrict the sale to consumers of three widely used wood preservatives that have caused cancer and other illnesses in test animals. Only workers trained and certified as qualified to use the preservatives — creosote, pentachlorophenol and inorganic arsenic compounds called arsenicals — will be allowed to buy them after the new rules go into effect.
Ivon Ray Stanley, a killer who buried his victim alive, died in Georgia’s electric chair shortly after midnight this morning but two Florida killers facing the nation’s first double execution in 19 years today won temporary stays. The Supreme Court rejected Stanley’s final appeal just 18 minutes before he was led into the death chamber. Earlier the U.S. 11th Circuit Court granted a temporary stay for Jimmy Lee Smith and a few hours later a Miami federal judge granted a reprieve for David Lee Washington. Thus, Smith and Washington came within 13 hours of the first double execution in the United States in the last 19 years.
The U.S. Civil Rights Commission, with two members dissenting, issued a statement applauding a recent Supreme Court decision upholding “last-hired, first-fired” policies. The decision that employers may not be forced to scrap seniority plans favoring whites to protect affirmative action gains was “a reaffirmation of the principle that race and gender are not proper bases to reward or penalize any person,” the statement said. It commended the court’s decision that the Memphis Fire Department wrongly insulated blacks from possible layoffs or demotions in a 1981 economic crisis.
The director of the Voice of America for the last two years announced he will leave his post in September to become a managing editor of Reader’s Digest magazine. Kenneth Tomlinson, who previously was a senior editor at the magazine, took over the broadcasting arm of the U.S. Information Agency when it was under attack by critics of the Reagan Administration for having politicized its programming.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation opened a nationwide hunt today for Alton Coleman, who is wanted on charges of murdering young women and children in six weeks in five states. The former nurse’s aide, now 28, was named as a “special addition” to the bureau’s list of the 10 most wanted fugitives. He is only the 10th individual in the 34-year history of the list to warrant its expansion beyond 10 names.
An Amtrak passenger train collided with a gasoline tanker truck in downtown McBee, South Carolina, killing two people and setting off an explosion and fire, authorities said. Four people were injured in the accident at a crossing which had no gates or warning lights, officials said. The truck driver, John Coker, 39 years old, of Coward, South Carolina, and the train engineer, Earl H. Pate, 60, of Hamlet, North Carolina, were killed in the collision at a crossing without lights or gates in this rural community. The Amtrak Silver Star, from Tampa, Florida, to New York, was blackened by flames from the truck, which continued to burn for seven hours.
Lawyers for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church have abandoned efforts in Norfolk, Virginia, to block the auction of 83 fishing boats seized in a tax dispute and instead will pay $41,855 in back taxes. If the church pays by Tuesday, the city will not auction the boats as planned, said Daniel Hagemeister, an assistant city attorney. The 25-foot and 29-foot fishing boats, which have been stored on the downtown waterfront for a year and a half, were seized by the city July 2.
Florida Governor Robert Graham, the new chairman of the Southern Governors Association, pledged regional efforts to fight drug trafficking that has been pushed north by police work in his state. Graham, who took over from Virginia Governor Charles S. Robb at the close of the organization’s 50th anniversary meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia, said discussions of how to fight drugs could be discussed when the group meets next September in Miami.
About 75 inmates broke out of their cells at the maximum-security Tennessee State Prison today, stabbed one guard and took another hostage for about 90 minutes before calm was restored, correction officials said. The inmates released the hostage unharmed and all inmates returned to their cells within an hour, John Taylor, a spokesman for the Correction Department, said. The violence began when six inmates armed with knives jumped the guards as the inmates were being let out for dinner, Mr. Taylor said. The inmates were in involuntary segregation, a term used for inmates with behavioral or disciplinary problems, Mr. Taylor said. The guard who was stabbed, identified as Joe Havis, 30, was taken to Vanderbilt University Hospital, where a spokeswoman said his injuries were not life-threatening.
An outspoken foe of pornography who was in critical condition after setting herself afire in a Minneapolis bookstore had written to city officials that she could no longer live in a society that degraded her as “a piece of meat.” “I have chosen to take my life and to destroy the persons who have destroyed me,” said the letters received by Mayor Don Fraser and Councilman Charlee Hoyt from Ruth Christenson, 23, of Minneapolis.
A natural body substance that helps regulate cell growth appears to be the switch that transforms benign intestinal growths — such as President Reagan had — into cancer, Johns Hopkins researchers said. The researchers are using the enzyme to develop a test to determine who is at high risk for developing colon cancer. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, reports the presence of higher than normal levels of the enzyme can be a good predictor of whether benign polyps in the intestines will become cancerous years later.
Brassaï , whose photographs of the Paris demimonde of the 1930’s and of French artists such as Dali and Picasso made him one of the major European photographers of this century, died Sunday at his home on the Côte d’Azur near Nice.
Britain’s MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe.
The New York Yankees release Bucky Dent. No one beats Father Time. Dent, once an all-star shortstop with the White Sox and Yankees, is 32, and age and injuries have taken their gradual toll.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1108.55 (-18.33).
Born:
Jacoby Jones, NFL wide receiver (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 47-Ravens; Pro Bowl, 2012; Houston Texans, Baltimore Ravens, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Diego Chargers), in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Joe Pavelski, NHL centre (San Jose Sharks, Dallas Stars), in Plover, Wisconsin.
Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins, Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros), in Maracay, Venezuela.
Jon Meloan, MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, Oakland A’s), in Houston, Texas.
Rachael Taylor, Australian actress (Trish Walker-“Jessica Jones”), in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Tanith Belbin White, Canadian-American ice dancer and TV commentator, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Died:
Karel Mengelberg, Dutch composer and conductor.
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