U.S. spacecraft have photographed Soviet missile silos that the White House believes will be used for test launchings of a new weapon in violation of the SALT II treaty, the magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology reported. The magazine said that Administration officials believe that the silos at Plesetsk will be used for testing the new SS-X-26 intercontinental ballistic missiles. It said this would be the third ICBM that Moscow has tested, despite the fact that each side is limited to one by the unratified 1979 SALT II treaty, which both sides have informally agreed to abide by.
Fifteen Western nations and Japan have achieved a breakthrough in a two-year effort to tighten controls on the sale of computers to the Soviet Bloc, Western officials reported. The nations, members of the Western Coordinating Committee on Strategic Exports (Cocom), achieved a “flexible compromise” covering various personal and mini-computers among banned items that could be of military value to the bloc, the officials reported.
President Reagan addressed representatives of major human rights, East European, Southeast Asian and Cuban-American organizations. President Reagan renewed his sharp attacks on “Soviet expansionism” and called for a “full accounting” of the health and whereabouts of dissident Soviet physicist Andrei D. Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner. Reagan, who had moderated his criticism of Moscow in recent weeks as he sought to coax the Soviets back to suspended arms negotiations, concentrated his fire Monday on the widely watched Sakharov case and on alleged Soviet human rights offenses.
Speaking at a White House ceremony marking the start of Captive Nations Week, Reagan said of Sakharov and Bonner: “The world demands to know the fate of these good and courageous people.” In extemporaneous remarks reminiscent of his denunciation of the Soviet Union last year as an “evil empire,” Reagan declared he could not ignore the “ugly truths” about totalitarian oppression in the search for peace. Communist rule is a tyranny that “puts itself above God” and denies millions “the most basic yearnings of the human spirit,” he said
Two Warsaw police officers were acquitted in the beating death in May 1983 of Grzegorz Przemyk, the 19- year-old son of a well-known Polish dissident. Two ambulance drivers were convicted of negligence and were sentenced to two and a half and two years in prison. Two doctors were also convicted of negligence, but were given amnesty.
The Government said today that the Soviet Union had appointed Igor Y. Andropov, son of Yuri V. Andropov, as its new Ambassador to Greece. A Government spokesman, Dimitrios Maroudas, said Moscow officially disclosed its choice of Mr. Andropov late last week, and added that Greek Government approval was expected shortly. The new Soviet Ambassador is expected to take up his post by October, replacing Vladimir Kamposkin, who is retiring from the diplomatic service. Mr. Andropov is not a career diplomat, and his involvement in Soviet foreign policy affairs appeared to be linked to the rise to power of his father in November 1982. The father held office a little over a year as the Soviet leader before his death in February this year. Igor served earlier as the Soviet representative at the Madrid Security Conference.
Israel opened a new Jewish settlement, called Asfar, in the Hebron hills of the West Bank, part of its plan to establish nine new settlements in the occupied territories before next Monday’s elections. Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israelis were hastily moving into a number of partly completed settlements in case the Labor Party opposition should win the election and halt the settlement program. At one site, called Adam, seven families — the first of about 25 — moved in before proper sewage facilities were installed.
Two warring pro-Syrian militias completed their withdrawal from confrontation lines in northern Lebanon as required by a Syrian-imposed peace plan, police and witnesses reported. A police report said that, after five days of fighting, the Marada militia loyal to former President Suleiman Franjieh and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party militia under Inaam Raad pulled their fighters back from the battle areas. Syrian President Hafez Assad had told the two militias’ leaders that his troops would intervene unless the fighting stopped.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appointed a new 32-member Cabinet that includes a new foreign minister and changes in a number of key economic posts. Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali, 62, was formally named prime minister replacing the late Fuad Mohieddin. Former U.N. Ambassador Esmat Abdel Meguid was named foreign minister. General Hassan abu Basha was relieved as interior minister and given the lesser portfolio of minister of local government. The biggest overhaul involved the merging of the ministries of foreign investment and petroleum.
Iran has proposed a regional conference to keep the nearly four-year-old Persian Gulf War in check, Arab officials and diplomatic sources said in Bahrain. The proposed conference would include Saudi Arabia and its five conservative Arab allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council but would exclude Iran’s war foe, Iraq.
The fortunes of the Persian Gulf war have clearly placed the United States and the Soviet Union in a de facto alliance in support of Iraq, according to diplomats in the Middle East. The siding of the superpowers with Baghdad is but one of the curious international alignments to have grown out of the nearly four-year-old war. The Saudi Arabian monarchy is footing the bill for Communist-made arms, and France is supplying missiles that Iraq is using against oil tankers of the industrialized nations. The most common thread running through the alliance building around Iraq is hostility toward the Islamic fundamentalist regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran. But the countries supporting Iraq are also, according to diplomats here, hoping to secure a hold in what they see as a relatively stable, oil-producing nation that could play a major role in the area when the war comes to an end.
[Ed: “Relatively stable?” Ho, ho, ho. Just wait until you see 1991.]
A group of 125 elderly Sikh women were arrested tonight as they tried to march to the Golden Temple to demand an end to the Indian Army occupation of the shrine. No violence was reported. Authorities imposed a curfew until 11 AM Tuesday in an effort to stop further Sikh protest marches to the temple. But Sikh authorities said they expected more volunteers to march in what they called “martyrs’ brigades” and be arrested on Tuesday. The women, unarmed and singing hymns, and some men were arrested, driven away in buses and charged with curfew violations as they left the Sahidan shrine, a little more than a mile from the Golden Temple. About 2,000 policemen and soldiers were posted outside the temple and the police assigned 50 women officers to handle the protesters. The protesters wore black scarves to signify their mourning for an estimated 1,000 Sikhs believed to have died in an army raid on the temple on June 5 to remove Sikh militants who were inside.
Philippine bishops called on President Ferdinand E. Marcos to give up emergency legislative powers, which they said are “open to gross abuse.” A pastoral letter by the nation’s Roman Catholic Bishops Conference asserted that the longtime leader’s power to issue decrees is causing “great anxiety” in the country. It added that the 1973 provision that gave Marcos the powers is “open… even to destruction of life, simply because there are no adequate guarantees against its misuse.”
American warships will not be sent to New Zealand waters for the rest of this year and probably not until mid- 1985 at the earliest, senior American officials said. The decision is an effort to avoid a crisis within the Pacific alliance. Prime Minister-elect David Lange has pledged to ban nuclear- armed and nuclear-powered ships from New Zealand.
South African police fired tear gas at black protesters in the second day of demonstrations against rent and tax increases in a black township 50 miles south of Johannesburg. A police spokesman here said 40 demonstrators had been arrested in the nearby township of Tumahole on such charges as public violence, theft, looting, arson and burglary. He said four policemen had been slightly injured in the unrest, which began with a march Sunday by 1,000 youths. They dispersed after warnings from the police, but some regrouped and began hurling stones. The trouble continued this morning and the police said they used tear gas twice to chase protesters from makeshift roadblocks. The police said the protesters set fire to shops belonging to a local black official, damaged vehicles, burned barricades of tires, and threw stones.
Democratic Convention: An appeal for Democratic unity around the common goal of defeating President Reagan was made by Governor Cuomo in the keynote address of the party’s 39th national convention. Mr. Cuomo urged Democrats to rally to a Walter F. Mondale-Geraldine A. Ferraro ticket to defend “the family of America.” As Mr. Cuomo spoke of party unity at the convention hall, Mr. Mondale was meeting for the first time with his main rivals, Senator Gary Hart and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, in an effort to make such unity a fact.
Mr. Cuomo, stirring a swell of emotional applause, castigated Mr. Reagan as a man who used “appealing rhetoric” to mask an attitude of royal indifference toward working Americans. With a persistent, preacherly rhythm, Mr. Cuomo drove his speech to a stirring peroration linking Mr. Mondale and Mrs. Ferraro, the presumed Presidential and Vice-Presidential nominees, to the immigrant experience. “We will have a new President of the United States, a Democrat born not to the blood of kings, but to the blood of pioneers and immigrants,” Mr. Cuomo said in a ringing voice, his eyes glistening. “We will have America’s first woman Vice President, the child of immigrants, and she will open, with one magnificent stroke, a whole new frontier for the United States.”
[Ed: Well, actually, you’ll have an appalling landslide loss. It’s the Economy, Stupid.]
The re-emergence of Bert Lance on the national scene has rejuvenated many of the young people who were aides to Jimmy Carter. Privately, some of them say that Walter Mondale’s handling of the appointment of Mr. Lance as head of his campaign and the unsuccessful attempt to replace Charles T. Manatt as the Democratic Party’s chairman were appallingly inept.
Democrats exuberantly welcomed Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro to San Francisco. At a lunchtime rally downtown, Mr. Mondale shouted: “We are a ticket for the future. We are a ticket that embodies fairness and openness and decency in American life.”
Backers of Jesse Jackson said that “tremendous ferment” was building in the Democratic convention in support of four minority platform planks they plan to bring to the floor today. A key aide to former Vice President Mondale said that a compromise was possible on affirmative action but not on the other proposals.
Jesse Jackson, in conciliatory tones, has indicated a strong wish to continue a major role in Democratic Party politics, as he prepares his delegates for the likelihood that they could leave the convention without clear-cut victories.
President Reagan signed legislation authorizing $7.3 billion for nuclear defense activities, the White House announced. The total is $72 million less than the amount Reagan proposed. The legislation also earmarks $5.2 billion for domestic energy programs. In other action, Reagan signed legislation that bars the Pentagon from putting nuclear missiles and “weapons of mass destruction” on an American space station now in the planning stage.
Federal agents, encouraged by the discovery of an abandoned automobile, streamed to the Lexington, Kentucky area today to search for a fugitive sought in a five- state crime spree of murder, rape, abduction and beating. The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes the auto was driven to Lexington by Alton Coleman, 28 years old, who is charged or wanted for questioning in six murders. The auto, reported stolen from the home of a suburban Cincinnati woman who was beaten to death Friday, turned up on Lexington’s north side Sunday night. The dead woman’s husband was severely beaten. “Now that we’ve found the car, we are flooding the Lexington area with agents,” said Terence Dinan, special agent in charge of the bureau’s Cincinnati office.
Computers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, were illegally tapped, apparently by teenagers, the FBI disclosed after raiding four homes and seizing equipment allegedly used by the youngsters. “Valuable computer time was stolen and certain computer records have been destroyed by persons who made the penetrations,” said Cecil Moses, special agent in charge of the FBI in Birmingham. The FBI refused to disclose the identity of the youths.
Negotiators for the U.S. Postal Service and 600,000 employees discussed new contracts as a union bargainer declared both sides “oceans apart” despite next Saturday’s scheduled expiration of the current pact. Moe Biller, president of the American Postal Workers Union, said management has not budged from its proposed wage freeze for current employees and lower pay for the newly hired. The unions are asking for wage and benefit increases that would total more than 10% in the first year of a proposed three-year contract.
The Federal Aviation Administration said an error by air traffic controllers caused a near-miss between an Eastern Airlines jet and an Air Force C-135. FAA spokesman Jack Barker said the two planes, both flying at 35,000 feet, passed within a quarter of a mile of each other just north of Atlanta. “It appears there was an error in the air traffic control system,” Barker said. The Air Force plane had just been handed from the air traffic control center at Jacksonville, Florida, to the center in Atlanta when the incident occurred.
The FBI is investigating allegations that Edwin J. Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, improperly used a special fund and failed to account fully for redecoration of his office, the Washington Post reported. Gray, a longtime friend of President Reagan, has spent $47,254 in federal funds to renovate his office since his appointment last year, according to Post sources. They said the bank board erroneously told Congress that the renovations cost $17,442. In addition, the sources said that Gray spent most of a $1,500 entertainment fund on food and drink for himself and his top staff, in possible violation of a regulation requiring the money to be spent for official entertainment.
A federal judge in New York dismissed a $2.5-million lawsuit by Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan’s former company against two federal prosecutors who began an investigation of Donovan. Civil suits filed by the Schiavone Construction Co. of Secaucus, New Jersey, and three current officers of the company against Thomas Puccio and James Harmon Jr. were dismissed by U.S. District Judge Richard Owen.
About 46,000 striking health care workers expanded their strike to include 45 hospitals and nursing homes with 22,000 patients in New York City and on Long Island, but state inspectors reported no drop in the quality of care as dentists mopped floors and a radiology chief worked as a nurse’s aide. “Our only problem right now is garbage,” said Peter Slocum, a spokesman for the state Health Department. He said the city had to declare health emergencies at about half the 28 struck hospitals to force unionized private garbage collectors to cross picket lines.
Wrightsville, Arkansas Police Chief Thomas Womack Jr. today threatened to arrest the town’s entire board of aldermen to quell resentment he says was brought on by his hiring of a white officer in this predominately black community. Chief Womack, who heads a three-member force, is black, as are all the aldermen. Alderman Fred T. Bridgewater, who was arrested Sunday, said Chief Womack had a habit of arresting city officials every time they disagreed with him. Mr. Bridgewater said the chief was upset this time because the aldermen had been discussing the possibility of rehiring the previous chief, Paul Phifer, who was dismissed in December. Chief Womack was appointed acting chief by the mayor after the dismissal of Chief Phifer.
Chief Womack said he planned to arrest the other aldermen after a meeting with the Pulaski County prosecuting attorney. He has arrested aldermen at least five times on charges of inciting a riot and criminal slander. In April, Judge David Hale of Pulaski County Municipal Court dismissed the cases, ruling Chief Womack was not the legal chief because the aldermen had not approved his appointment.
The Rio Grande is no barrier to the constant legal and illegal traffic that flows between Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico. Neither city could survive easily without the other, and that has lead to a complex array of reaction to the comprehensive immigration bill that is moving through Congress.
Vitality in U.S. industrial research is reported in the face of Japan’s technological challenge. For several years, American companies have been raising research spending far faster than the rate of inflation, hiring the best college graduates in science and engineering, setting up new consortiums to perform basic research of value to all companies in an industry and forging new links with leading academic scientists.
Seven Philadelphia ex-policemen charged with extorting more than $350,000 were acting to protect illegal gambling, a federal prosecutor charged in his opening statement at their trial.
Family photo albums speak volumes about relationships, both close and distant. They are powerful documents of people’s emotional as well as social history, containing photographs that can help people understand relationships and recall long- forgotten or repressed events that are still significant.
Don Mattingly has 4 hits and Dave Winfield cracks a 1st inning grand slam as the New York Yankees edge the visiting Texas Rangers, 9–8. Texas scores 4 in the 9th to take the lead but the Yankees use 4 hits and 2 errors to score 4 runs and win. The Rangers had just wracked Dave Righetti for four runs, two each on doubles by Bill Stein and Pete O’Brien, in the ninth inning and grabbed an 8-5 lead. But the Yankees, almost incredibly, struck with four runs in their half of the ninth and snatched their sixth straight victory. Don Mattingly (with his fourth hit), Ken Griffey and Roy Smalley, a pinch-hitter, singled home the last three runs of the stunning rally.
The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Minnesota Twins, 3–1. John Shelby, John Lowenstien and Eddie Murray hit home runs, and Storm Davis gave up just five hits in getting his fifth complete game of the season. Davis (8-4) overcame tendinitis in his ankle, which has been hampering him for the last two weeks. He struck out four and walked three.
Bobby Brown hit a two-run homer to back the combined four-hit pitching of Mark Thurmond and Rich Gossage and lead the San Diego Padres to a 4–0 triumph over the Chicago Cubs today. Thurmond (6–5) allowed all four hits, walked two and struck out three before Gossage came on with one on and none out in the ninth. He got the final three outs, two on strikeouts, to help the Western Division leaders improve their record to 52–36, their best ever. The loss was only the third for the Cubs in their last 11 games.
Bob Walk, activated earlier in the day, gave up just five hits before injuring himself in the ninth inning as he earned his first major league victory in two seasons and the Pittsburgh Pirates extended their winning streak to seven games, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4–1. Walk (1-0) struck out eight and walked two in earning his first major league victory since August 21, 1982, when he pitched for the Atlanta Braves.
Sid Fernandez finally made his debut with the New York Mets tonight, and got a rousing welcome from his teammates: They hammered out 22 hits, their highest total in nearly three years, and buried the Houston Astros, 13–3. It was the ninth victory in the last 10 games for the Mets, and it came one day after they had said goodbye to an eight-game winning streak. It also widened their lead to one and one-half games over the Chicago Cubs in the National League East.
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Born:
Solomon Jones, NBA power forward and center (Atlanta Hawks, Indiana Pacers, Los Angeles Clippers, New Orleans Hornets, New York Knicks, Orlando Magic), in Eustis, Florida.
Louis Leonard, NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland Browns, Carolina Panthers, New England Patriots), in Los Angeles, California.
Hayanari Shimoda, Japanese racing driver, in Tokyo, Japan.
Sara Mayhew, Canadian writer, graphic artist, and skeptic, in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada.
Died:
Billy Williams, 73, American singer (“Your Show of Shows”).
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