Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu was quoted in an interview as saying he is convinced that Soviet President Konstantin U. Chernenko is willing to resume arms control negotiations with the United States if Washington freezes deployment of new nuclear missiles in Western Europe. Ceausescu, in an interview with the Hearst News Service, said he believes that once new arms talks are under way, negotiations could start for a Chernenko summit meeting with President Reagan next year, assuming Reagan is reelected.
Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson was investigated on three occasions by Britain’s intelligences service after a Soviet defector, Anatoly Golitson, alleged in 1963 that Wilson might be a Soviet spy, but no evidence was ever found to support the allegation, Britain’s Observer newspaper reported. Wilson, 68, now Lord Wilson, was quoted by the Observer as saying he had heard rumors of the investigations, “but as prime minister I don’t remember ever getting information directly from the secret services.” He was Labor Party prime minister from 1964 to 1970, and again from 1974 to 1976.
Britain announced that its new Sea Eagle missile knocked out the biggest Royal Navy warship to be destroyed since World War II in the first major test of the weapon. The Sea Eagle, similar to the French-made Exocet, was fired with a live, conventional warhead for the first time last week. In a launching from a Sea Harrier jet fighter, the missile blasted the 5,500-ton destroyer Devonshire amidship and left the warship a floating hulk, the Defense Ministry said. The wreckage of the Devonshire, built in 1962, was then sunk by a submarine. During the 1982 Falklands War, the Argentines used the Exocet to destroy a smaller British destroyer, the Sheffield, and to sink or damage other smaller British vessels.
The troubles of a Soviet truck for which Moscow claimed diplomatic immunity ended when West German customs inspectors were given permission to look inside. In a cursory inspection, West German customs officials noted that the cargo consisted of 207 packed items. The truck then was authorized to continue its journey home. Soviet officials said the truck contained communications equipment.
Victory for Israel’s Labor Party in today’s election for Parliament was predicted by the country’s major pollsters. One of the polls indicated that the Labor opposition would win 48 seats and the governing Likud bloc would get 41. Neither party is expected to win enough seats to form a government on its own.
Sudan’s President Gaafar al-Nimeiry has announced that his forces have regained control of the country’s southeastern border and driven rebels back into Ethiopia. In a speech broadcast Saturday from the eastern regional capital of Kassala, President Nimeiry accused Ethiopia of harboring the rebels and called on the Addis Ababa Government to follow ”our call for peace.”
Iran wants to re-establish contacts with the West, West Germany’s Foreign Minister said. He said the Iranian Government has expressed the ”clear wish” for reviving contacts, but that it was ”open” as to whether the Iranians were thinking about returning to speaking terms with the United States.
The high priests of the Sikh religion excommunicated the leader of a warrior sect for agreeing to repair the battle-scarred Golden Temple of Amritsar while it is still under control of Indian troops. The action was taken against Santa Singh, leader of the Nihangs. The temple, the holiest of Sikh shrines, was badly damaged when soldiers stormed the complex June 6 to drive out armed Sikh separatists. Some of the Sikhs reportedly want to preserve the temple wreckage as a memorial to the attack.
China’s leading newspaper said today that the new United States-Soviet agreement to upgrade the hot line was a ”cheap trick” that would do nothing to reduce the danger of nuclear war. A commentary in the Communist Party newspaper People’s Daily was China’s first official reaction to the accord reached earlier this month. ”The so-called hot-line propaganda is nothing more than a cheap trick to cheat the peace-loving peoples of the world,” the commentary said. ”Nobody believes that a hot line is enough to prevent a nuclear war. ”To lessen truthfully the danger of nuclear annihilation,” it said, ”the United States and Soviet Union have no need for the hot line. All they have to do is stop producing and testing nuclear weapons, and gradually reduce the number of nuclear weapons, and the danger of nuclear catastrophe will clearly diminish.”
President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines might face his biggest political challenge in more than a decade when the newly elected National Assembly meets today for the first time. The Assembly meeting comes at a time when the opposition is stronger than at any time since the days before martial law was declared in 1972. The Philippine military was placed on full alert in preparation for demonstrations and a possible opposition boycott of President Ferdinand E. Marcos’ speech opening the National Assembly today. Riot policemen and soldiers will be deployed near Parliament hours before it is to open. Independent labor groups have threatened to picket the speech in protest against restrictive labor laws and a crackdown on striking workers, and some opposition lawmakers say they will refuse to attend Marcos’ state of the nation address.
President Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador arrived in New York yesterday from Europe en route to a scheduled meeting with President Reagan this morning in Washington. Mr. Duarte arrived at Kennedy International Airport from Lisbon, having flown through Frankfurt. Before going to Portugal, Mr. Duarte visited Britain, Belgium, West Germany and France, seeking support for his government. He has said European support would help him defeat the leftists that are fighting a guerrilla war against Salvadoran troops. Mr. Duarte, a moderate Christian Democrat, was inaugurated June 1 as El Salvador’s first freely elected civilian President in more than 50 years.
The military head of state of Liberia, General Samuel K. Doe, has dissolved his ruling People’s Redemption Council, replacing it with a National Assembly in a step aimed at returning Africa’s oldest republic to civilian rule. General Doe’s announcement came a day after officials published results of a July 3 referendum that, he said, endorsed by a big majority a new civilian constitution. In a nationwide address Saturday, General Doe said the People’s Redemption Council had, after several days of talks, agreed to be dissolved. It is to be immediately replaced by an interim National Assembly, which will include all members of the council and 35 civilians, selected on the basis of population, to represent various political subdivisions throughout this small West African nation.
A U.N.-sponsored conference in Zimbabwe on the food needs of Africa — “the hungriest continent” — urged African nations to spend more on agriculture or face the danger of mass starvation. In the past, governments of wealthy industrial nations have been urged to donate aid, but at the 13th biennial conference of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, the emphasis has shifted to self-help. U.N. experts say the key to self-sufficiency is higher prices for growers, a step few African governments have been willing to take for fear that resulting inflation would lead to social unrest.
Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia before it became the black-ruled independent nation of Zimbabwe, has changed the name of his political group and said it was open to ”all races, colors and creeds.” The decision to change the name of the Republican Front party to the Conservative Alliance Zimbabwe was announced by Mr. Smith at a news conference Saturday. The former Prime Minister also called for the support of Zimbabwe’s blacks who oppose the stated intentions of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe’s Government to create a one-party state.
Congress faces a choice when it reconvenes today whether to press for bipartisan compromises on such legislation as the overhaul of the immigration laws and military aid to Central America, or to yield to the partisan pressures of an election year. Returning after a recess for the Democratic National Convention, Congress has three weeks before it recesses again for the Republican convention. and only four working weeks remaining after that.
Deflation is a new economic ailment spotted when economists and Government policymakers had begun celebrating the conquest of a stubborn, longstanding inflation. Deflation is inflation upside down. It is this summer’s falling prices in chemicals, long-distance telephone calls, silver, gold, internal combustion engines, cattle, common stocks and many other basic items. It is the biggest decline in prices economists have seen in a generation.
The President and First Lady return to the White House.
The President and First Lady enjoy dinner with their daughter Maureen Reagan Revell and her husband Dennis Revell.
Senator Bob Dole, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, today disagreed with the Reagan Administration and said taxes would have to be increased next year to help cut Federal budget deficits. The Kansas Republican said any plan to reduce the deficit would have to combine further spending reductions with tax increases, emphasizing the need for further spending cuts. ”I think very frankly, as I see it from the tax-writing committee chairmanship, it’s going to have to be a combination of some kind,” Mr. Dole said on NBC-TV’s ”Meet the Press.” ”I wouldn’t step away from reality. We’ve got to face up to the deficit.”
Half a million postal workers are without a contract, and are upset about it, but union and U.S. Postal Service spokesmen said they expect “business as usual” at the nation’s post offices. Spokesmen for the Postal Service, the American Postal Workers Union and the National Assn. of Letter Carriers said they do not anticipate any job actions, such as sick-ins or slowdowns.
Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-Oregon) helped a Greek financier try to win government support for a proposed trans-African oil pipeline in 1982 and 1983 while the man was paying Hatfield’s wife, Antoinette, $40,000 in real estate fees. Hatfield’s role in aiding Athens entrepreneur Basil Tsakos with the $15-billion, 2,200-mile pipeline project was reported by syndicated columnist Jack Anderson. In an interview, Hatfield confirmed that he had helped arrange meetings for Tsakos with business and government officials but said there was no connection between his wife’s real estate work for Tsakos and his support of the pipeline project.
CONTI Continental Illinois Corp. in Chicago accused three former officials of negligence in the purchase of loans from Penn Square Bank, whose 1982 collapse contributed to Continental’s recent financial crisis. Continental is the holding company for Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. In a report prepared by a special directors’ committee, Continental said that Gerald K. Bergman, former executive vice president; John A. Redding, former senior vice president, and John R. Lytle, former vice president, showed negligence in connection with the Penn Square loans. Continental had purchased $1 billion in energy-related loans from Penn Square in the late 1970s.
Some grieving residents of the California Mexican-border town of San Isidro, where a gunman killed 21 people in a McDonald’s restaurant, want to convert the site of the killings into a memorial park. About 20 people staged a subdued demonstration at the restaurant Saturday after a Roman Catholic mass for six of the victims. That was followed by a candlelight vigil at the restaurant in the evening. Today more people gathered carrying signs that read, ”Sadness in San Ysidro” and ”Our Sympathies to the families.” The demonstrators said they wanted the site named ”Memorial Park for the Innocent 7-18-84.” James Oliver Huberty, a 41-year-old unemployed security guard, killed the patrons and employees of the San Ysidro restaurant Wednesday. A police officer killed him with a rifle shot. ”One hundred percent of the people we’ve talked to are for not reopening,” Robert Rubalcaba, a demonstrator, said today. ”In fact, we’re going to start collecting signatures today.”
Police departments across the Midwest will reopen their files on unsolved crimes and look for possible links to Alton Coleman, suspected in a six-state spree of rape, kidnaping and seven murders, an FBI official said. Coleman, 28, who was placed on the FBI’s “Most Wanted List,” and his companion, Debra Brown, 21, were arrested Friday in the Chicago suburb of Evanston after authorities pursued them for seven weeks through six Midwestern states. Federal and state officials will meet this week in Chicago to determine where Mr. Coleman should be prosecuted, Mr. Baker said. Because of the number of jurisdictions involved, the decision on where to prosecute him ”may not be determined for months and months,” he added.
Nearly 4,000 legislators from across the United States will gather Tuesday in Boston for the annual session of the National Conference of State Legislatures. John R. Block, secretary of agriculture, and Margaret M. Heckler, secretary of health and human services, are principal speakers scheduled for the four-day gathering.
Unemployment around Pittsburgh has pitted a coalition of clergymen, union leaders and jobless people against corporations and executives they hold responsible for the decline in heavy industry. Among the principal targets of the coalition’s protests are the Mellon Bank and United States Steel.
The future of the auto industry in this country will be shaped by the outcome of contract talks that General Motors and Ford are scheduled to begin today with the United Automobile Workers Union, leaders on both sides say. The talks will involve issues that go beyond wages and benefits.
Edith Rosenkranz’s abduction from a hotel in Washington where she was participating in a bridge tournament was directed by man who also played in the tournament, the authorities said. The suspect, Glenn I. Wright, was arrested with two other men late Saturday after Mrs. Rosenkranz was released unharmed following 46 hours in captivity. Her abduction had been planned for several months, with money as the motive, the authorities said.
Many recession-shattered families have rebounded but social welfare and employment experts say that, in the foreseeable future, these families are not likely to regain the economic status they had before the recession. Their view is confirmed by a look at several families whose economic circumstances were examined by The Times two years ago during the recession.
Vanessa Williams did not consent to Penthouse magazine’s publication of nude photographs of her, Miss Williams said in an interview at the home of a friend in Westchester County. She must decide today whether to relinquish her crown and Miss America 1984 title as requested by the Miss America Pageant. The publisher of Penthouse said in response that he had a release form signed by Miss Williams from the photographer who took the pictures. Vanessa Williams, the reigning Miss America, said that she did not remember ever signing a release for nude photographs taken of her two years ago, and that the pictures were to have been private. The pictures, to be published in the September issue of Penthouse magazine, prompted Miss America Pageant officials to request Williams’ resignation. The 21-year-old Millwood, New York, beauty queen was. to announce her decision this afternoon. “I guess no one owns the right to the pictures. It’s a legal question,” she said in a telephone interview. According to Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione, the magazine does have a signed release.
Tens of thousands of tickets that went on sale for local concerts on the Jacksons’ national tour were grabbed up within nine hours despite a convoluted selling plan that left fans scrambling at the few dozen outlets. Tickets for all five concerts in the New York metropolitan area were sold out by 5:30 pm Sunday — just nine hours after they went on sale, said Pat Hyland, a spokeswoman for Ticketron. Thousands of fans had to wait until Sunday morning to learn from 10 radio stations the location of the 34 sales outlets for 170,000 tickets.
Federal officials charged with monitoring animal care at the nation’s zoos have for years overlooked inhumane treatment, a government report says. The report by the General Accounting Office accuses the Department of Agriculture of routinely approving operations at the Atlanta Zoo, which is under investigation for several animal deaths and has lost its accreditation. The G.A.O., a Congressional investigative arm, plans to publish the report this fall, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said in a news article today. According to the newspaper, Federal inspectors gave clean bills of health to a zoo in Florida where animals lived in squalid cages, to a traveling circus in Maryland where a 300-pound gorilla was kept in a cage so small he could not straighten his back. The Department of Agriculture is responsible for enforcing the Federal Animal Welfare Act, an 18-year-old law designed to protect animals in zoos, laboratories and circuses.
An attack submarine named after Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was commissioned Saturday as the man known as the father of the nuclear Navy became the third person to have a Navy vessel named after him while he was alive. The 84-year-old admiral, who retired two years ago after a 60-year career, was praised as ”a truly remarkable American” at commissioning ceremonies attended by about 900 people at the Navy Submarine Base here. Captain Fredrik H. M. Spruitenberg accepted command of the 360-foot, 6,900-ton ship. Former Representative Carl Vinson, a Georgia Democrat who was chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, had a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after him while he was still alive, and Admiral Arleigh Burke, a former Chief of Naval Operations, had a guided missile destroyer named in his honor.
22nd Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, São Paulo, Brazil: Czech pair Hana Mandlíková & Helena Suková beat Australians Elizabeth Sayers & Wendy Turnbull 6–2, 6–2 for a 2–1 victory.
71st Tour de France won by Laurent Fignon of France.
British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Seve Ballesteros of Spain wins his 2nd of 3 Open titles by 2 shots from Bernhard Langer & Tom Watson.
Three Yankees who made costly defensive mistakes had a chance to redeem themselves in yesterday’s 6–5 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Old-Timers’ Day at Yankee Stadium. Vic Mata, the center fielder who was playing in his first major league game; Bobby Meacham, who is trying to cement the starting job at shortstop, and Ken Griffey, the veteran stand-in at first base, were all charged with errors that led to runs in the final game of the Yankees’ 9–3 home stand. Mata redeemed himself with a fourth-inning single and a double in the sixth inning, when Griffey drove in two Yankee runs with a single. Meacham turned his day into a success by scoring the winning run in the ninth inning, racing home from first base when Willie Randolph singled into the right-field corner and Tom Brunansky bobbled the ball for an error.
At Detroit, Dave Bergman hits a leadoff homer for the Tigers, and they score another on a wild pitch to beat the Texas Rangers, 2–0. Charlie Hough goes all the way for Texas, while Dave Petry (13–4) is lifted with one on, two out in the 9th. Hernandez retires Pete O’Brien for the win. Detroit (66–29) leads the East by 9 games.
The New York Mets continued rolling toward some distant and unlikely goal today when they defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 7–6, on an eighth-inning home run by Darryl Strawberry. It was their third victory in four games this weekend, and their eighth in 11 games on a rousing trip to Atlanta, Houston and Cincinnati. It also was their 17th victory in 21 games this month, and it hoisted them two and one-half games in front of the Chicago Cubs in the National League’s East.
Steve Carlton pitched two-hit ball over eight innings and moved into 11th place on the major league career victory list today as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves, 6–2. The only hits allowed by Carlton were a two-out double by Dale Murphy in the fourth and a single by Glenn Hubbard in the eighth, when the Braves scored on a wild pitch. Al Holland pitched the ninth for the Phillies, giving up a homer to Bob Watson, his first. The victory by Carlton (9–4), his 309th overall, enabled him to break out of a 10th-place tie with Charles Radbourn on the career list.
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