Accusations were exchanged by top Soviet and United States officials, who each said the other side was impeding the arms control talks in Geneva. Kenneth L. Adelman, head of the United States Arms Control and Disarmanment Agency, contended that the Soviet Union’s recent public statements on arms control threatened progress by breaching the confidentiality of the negotiations. The Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly F. Dobrynin, who appeared with Mr. Adelman at a weeklong conference at Emory University’s Carter Center on international arms control issues, contended that refusal by the United States to disclose details of its space-based missile defense program was slowing the talks. Although neither Mr. Adelman nor Mr. Dobrynin would comment directly on the progress of the talks, experts gathered here said the talks appeared headed for an early deadlock.
The Senate majority leader, Bob Dole, met with Pope John Paul II today and delivered a letter from President Reagan outlining the United States position on the Central American conflict and arms control. Senator Dole, who also met with Italian leaders during his visit here, said the United States and Italy were in “nearly complete agreement” on arms issues. At a news conference after meeting the Pope, Senator Dole also said he was not concerned about a recent statement by the Italian Prime Minister, Bettino Craxi, on the recent Soviet freeze on deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe. Mr. Craxi said the Soviet move deserved a positive response from the West.
Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania. Albanian head of state Ramiz Alia, 59, was elected as First Secretary of the Albanian Communist Party, succeeding the late Enver Hoxha, 76, who died Thursday, Albanian state radio reported. The radio said in a report monitored in Belgrade that Alia was chosen unanimously at a meeting of the party’s Central Committee. As the new leader of Albania, Alia is expected to continue Hoxha’s hardline policies that have made the Balkan state one of the most isolated in the world.
Two predawn explosions in Paris severely damaged an Israeli bank and a French immigration office. The first blast struck Bank Leumi and shattered windows in the area, but caused no injuries. Jewish businesses and places of worship have been targets of a series of Parisian bombings since 1983. The second attack blew out windows at an immigration center near the Montparnasse rail station. The fundamentalist Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the first bombing; the extreme leftist Direct Action said it carried out the second.
The death toll from a restaurant explosion near Madrid was revised downward to 18 from 24, with more than 80 injured, officials said. No Americans were among the dead but 15 Americans were reported injured in the blast at the El Descanso Restaurant, which the Spanish Interior Ministry said was “most likely” caused by an explosive device. Officials said responsibility has not been established.
A Roman Catholic Church proposal to channel millions of dollars from the West to Poland’s private farmers has run into obstacles, with the church and the Government blaming each other. Government officials have been saying for almost eight months that there is “agreement in principle” on the project, in which private farmers, who produce 80 percent of the nation’s crops, would be able to draw from a church-managed fund collected in the West to acquire imported machinery and equipment. The concept, which has been championed by Jozef Cardinal Glemp, the Polish Primate, calls for private farmers, who are relatively well off, to pay for the equipment with Polish currency that would then be used by the church to finance rural education and extension projects.
The liberation of Buchenwald on April 11, 1945, was commemorated in East Germany by tens of thousands of people in a ceremony in which there was no mention of the thousands of Jews who died in the camp, but bitterly attacked the United States and its allies.
A boy who said he was a car-bomber was seized in southern Lebanon by Israeli troops soon before he was supposed to get into a car and blow up Israeli Army headquarters in Lebanon. The capture in February of Mohammed Mahmoud Burro, a 16-year-old Lebanese Shiite, is believed to be the first time that a trained car-bomber has been seized alive. If his account is true, he was not a religious fanatic who wanted to kill himself in the cause of Islam or anti-Zionism, but was recruited for the suicide mission through blackmail.
PLO leader Yasser Arafat said he and King Hussein of Jordan will send a delegation to the five permanent member nations of the U.N. Security Council to seek support for their Middle East peace plan, which has already been rejected by the United States and Israel. Arafat said in Amman, Jordan, that the delegation will visit the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and China to discuss the plan, announced February 11. It calls for creation of a Palestinian state in confederation with Jordan and a peace conference that would include the five Security Council members and other parties, including the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Iran accused Iraq today of using chemical weapons against Iranian forces on Friday and Wednesday. An Iranian military communique said an Iraqi chemical attack in the war’s southern sector Friday wounded many Iranians. It said chemical weapons were also used Wednesday but gave no further details. The communique said the two sides traded artillery fire on the southern front Friday.
In Baghdad, Iraq said its warplanes and helicopter gunships carried out intense raids on Iranian positions in the southern war sector today in preparation for an expected Iranian offensive. A communique said that Iraqi jets flew 128 sorties on Iranian positions in the east Tigris River sector today and that helicopter gunships attacked positions in other southern sectors, inflicting heavy casualties and damage.
In a show of defiance, about 5,000 Sikhs, flanked by heavy security, moved through parts of Amritsar today shouting slogans against the Indian Government and for a separate nation. The protest was peaceful, and the police said they had made no arrests. The procession was watched by crowds of Sikhs and Hindus in this northern city of tiny lanes, where bicycles, rickshaws, trucks, buses and cars swarm over the streets.
Efforts to avoid a trade war between the United States and Japan continued at a meeting in Washington between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe. Mr. Shultz said “we focused on the various efforts to open more trade and more exports from the United States to Japan.”
Hu Yaobang, the Chinese Communist Party leader, arrived in Perth, Australia today at the start of a 12-day South Pacific tour. He was met at the airport by Prime Minister Bob Hawke and a welcoming party of a hundred Chinese residents of Perth. Mr. Hawke has taken an interest in developing closer ties with China and will accompany Mr. Hu on the tour of Australia. The Chinese leader will then go on to visit New Zealand, Western Samoa, Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
More than 1,000 people marched on the national palace in Guatemala today to dramatize their search for relatives who have disappeared after being abducted. There were no major incidents, and no uniformed security officers were visible along the 14-block route of march.
Nicaragua’s government announced it will impose huge price hikes for fuel and telephone calls abroad. Under the new rates effective Monday, a three-minute telephone call to the United States will cost the equivalent of $350 at the current exchange rate, a steep increase from the current $12 price. A similar call to Mexico or other Central American nations will cost $100. The new prices on all liquid fuel, also effective Monday, will increase the cost of a gallon of gasoline to $4.50 from the current $1.80. Nicaragua, with no domestic oil reserves, funnels most of its imported oil to the military.
President-elect Tancredo Neves of Brazil was reported in “extremely serious” condition in a Sao Paulo hospital with mechanical devices being used to pump oxygen into his lungs, to filter his blood and to drain abscesses from his abdomen. Neves, 75, has undergone surgery seven times in a month following his election on January 15.
Sudan’s new military rulers reportedly arrested three major generals of the country’s now disbanded State Security Service, which had protected the government of former President Jaafar Numeiri. The official Sudan News Agency also said that 36 ranking officials of Numeiri’s regime were under arrest and that 506 political prisoners, arrested by the Numeiri regime, had been released since General Abdel Rahman Siwar el-Dahab led a coup last weekend.
The Sudan will be under military rule for probably no more than one year, according to the new leader General Abdel Rahman Siwar el-Dahab. He said during that time an economic austerity program would continue. He also said the Islamic law imposed by former President Gaafar al-Nimeiry would have to “amended” and “modified” to eliminate “incorrect and excessive” punishments.
Twenty-seven victims of recent violence in black townships were buried here today with 60,000 people attending the funeral ceremony that mixed solemnity with politics, mourning with exhortation and clenched fists with the soft swell of African singing. Among those buried were the 19 people, including 11 between the ages of 12 to 20 years, killed in a township in Uitenhage four weeks ago when policemen opened fire with shotguns and automatic rifles at participants in another funeral. Their coffins were among the long row of those, brown or covered in green or yellow felt, lined up side by side at the ceremony today. Organizers and South African radio said the 60,000 people who came today, making this possibly South Africa’s largest funeral service ever, represented a major share of the entire population of the black townships of Uitenhage. They gathered on a grassy, saucer-shaped rugby field and, with a muted, stifled murmuring watched as the silver-handled coffins were carried into the arena from a far entrance.
President Reagan makes a Radio Address to the Nation on tax reform. A tax revision plan will be introduced to Congress next month, President Reagan said in his weekly radio address, urging legislators to “seize this historic moment.” “It’s time for change, sweeping change,” said Mr. Reagan. “And when we return from the economic summit in May, we intend to move.” Mr. Reagan said Treasury Secretary James A. Baker 3d expected “to advance a proposal that can win bipartisan approval this year.” In response, Democrats said that the President’s tax revision of 1981 was responsible for increasing tax advantages for the well-to-do.
President Reagan goes horseback riding and does chores around the Ranch.
Space shuttle Discovery’s astronauts released a second communications satellite from the craft’s cargo bay, but a mysterious failure made the satellite powerless and unable to take off on its own to its intended higher orbit. Officials of the space agency and Hughes Aircraft Company, owner of the Leasat 3 satellite, were considering what measures the astronauts could safely take to restore it to life possibly retrieve it. Teams of engineers were studying the possibility of returning the shuttle to the disabled satellite for a close-up inspection and perhaps a space walk by astronauts to restore life to the dormant craft. The inspection could come Monday and the space walk on Tuesday. Such an operation, never before attempted, would not be without risk, since the satellite, Leasat 3, is fully fueled and its rocket primed for ignition.
The new Space Shuttle, Atlantis, is ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas.
Terrel H. Bell, secretary of education in President Reagan’s first term, criticized the Administration’s plan to cut federal aid to college students as an attack on the nation’s private colleges and universities. Writing in the New York Times’ Sunday editions, Bell said the proposed legislation to cut student aid would result in the transfer of thousands of students from private to public institutions. Bell wrote that the plan “flies in the face of arguments advanced by the Reagan Administration that government policy should encourage the private sector to do more so that government can do less.”
A growing number of U.S. adults admit they sometimes drink more than they should, according to the Gallup Poll. It found that 32% of drinkers acknowledge that they at least occasionally overindulge, contrasted with 23% in 1978 and 18% in 1974. The new survey also shows the proportion who say drinking has been a cause of trouble in their families remaining at a high level. Currently, 21% cite drinking as a family problem, nearly double the 12% recorded in 1974. The survey found that currently, two Americans in three drink alcoholic beverages. Last year, the figure was 64%.
The heart patient who is slated to become the world’s fifth recipient of a permanent man-made heart this morning was joking and confident as he rested for the operation in Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Kentucky. Jack C. Burcham of Le Roy, Illinois, suffered a near-fatal attack in October and “was given up for dead,” one of the Humana doctors said. He has had to use oxygen at all times and can barely sit up or walk even a few steps.
An anti-Castro activist, already serving a life sentence for bombings in New York City, was convicted on 24 counts in seven bombings of businesses and Latin American consulates between 1979 and 1983. A U.S. District Court jury in Miami found Eduardo Arocena guilty of all charges. He faces up to 130 years’ imprisonment. Arocena, who fled Cuba in 1965, testified that he condones violence to halt the spread of communism.
Former Chicago Mayor Jane M. Byrne said she will oppose incumbent Harold Washington in the 1987 mayoral race and intends to make her announcement official next month. “All the debate in my mind is over,” she said in an interview in the Chicago Tribune. She said she is confident she can defeat Washington and would not otherwise enter the race. Washington edged Byrne by two percentage points in the 1983 mayoral primary. Polls have indicated that Byrne is competitive with Washington in a two-way race but that the mayor is an easy winner in three-way contests.
Four corporate executives will go on trial in Maywood, Illinois, this week for murder in the first prosecution of an employer for an employee’s death caused by his work environment. The four executives are charged in the February, 1983, death of Stefan Golab, a Polish immigrant who was poisoned by inhaling cyanide gas at the now defunct Film Recovery Systems Inc. Prosecutors have described as a “huge gas chamber” the Film Recovery plant where cyanide was used to extract silver from used X-ray film.
Eastern Airlines said the rejection by flight attendants of a tentative contract agreement would have little impact on the carrier’s financial picture. Flight attendants rejected the proposal, which contained concessions intended to help solve Eastern’s cash-flow problems, by a 4-1 margin. Eastern’s bankers have extended a deadline for ratification to May 15. They had demanded earlier this year more labor concessions to keep the airline out of default on $2.5 billion in loans and leasing agreements.
Nearly a thousand new cases of food poisoning were reported in 24 hours, bringing the total in the nation’s largest outbreak of food poisoning to 4,742 in five Middle Western states, officials said today. Eight deaths in two weeks have been linked to the outbreak, caused by salmonella bacteria in milk containing 2 percent fat produced by Jewel Company.
For the past several years Times Beach, Missouri, has been a pitiful name in the news, but that has come to an end. The small community some 24 miles west of here has ceased to be a town, and the name has been relegated to history. Last week the last Board of Aldermen of Times Beach voted to disincorporate the old Meramec River community that was ruined by toxic waste. At the time of its death, only two elderly residents remained within the town’s 650 acres, still disputing over the price for their home and property with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The agency has spent at least $24 million to buy out homes and businesses in what was, until last week, Times Beach.
Earthquake preparedness week begins tomorrow in California in anticipation of a catastrophic earthquake that could occur within the next few decades, scientists say. Twenty counties and 200 cities will participate in five days of events underwritten by private industry.
Commemoration of the Holocaust is to begin today in nationwide observances of the 40th anniversary of liberating Nazi death camps, culminating next weekend in Philadelphia with a gathering of 5,000 Holocaust survivors and an “evening of commemoration” Sunday. A similar event will be held Wednesday in New York at Madison Square Garden.
Katrin Dörre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30).
Major League Baseball:
Rollie Fingers records his 217th American League save in Milwaukee’s 6–5 win over Texas, breaking Sparky Lyle’s record. Fingers already holds the Major League record with 325.
Well, this is easy. Jeff Stone has 3 hits and scores twice as the Phillies beat the Astros, 4–2. Stone has a 1st-inning single against Ron Mathis, in his Major League debut, and Juan Samuel follows with a single. Mathis then picks off Stone for the first out, and picks off Samuel for the 2nd out. He walks Von Hayes, who is then caught stealing. Mathis takes the loss.
At the Kingdome Phil Bradley hits an ultimate grand slam, a walkoff 2-out hit in the 9th off Ron Davis to give the Mariners an 8–7 win over the Twins. Bradley’s blow comes after three walks. He finishes with 5 RBI to give Seattle a 5–0 start.
In LA, Candy Maldonado knocks a pinch-hit homerun in the 8th off Giants reliever Mark Davis for the game’s only run. Fernando Valenzuela is the 1–0 winner. It is just the second time in history that a pinch homer has accounted for the game’s only score.
San Diego Padres 5, Atlanta Braves 7
Toronto Blue Jays 7, Baltimore Orioles 8
Chicago White Sox 2, Boston Red Sox 7
Montreal Expos 3, Chicago Cubs 8
New York Yankees 6, Cleveland Indians 3
Philadelphia Phillies 4, Houston Astros 2
Detroit Tigers 3, Kansas City Royals 1
San Francisco Giants 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Cincinnati Reds 1, New York Mets 2
California Angels 6, Oakland Athletics 1
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Minnesota Twins 7, Seattle Mariners 8
Milwaukee Brewers 6, Texas Rangers 5
Died:
Shiva Naipaul, 40, Indo-Trinidadian-British novelist and essayist (“Fireflies”), brother of V. S. Naipaul, of a heart attack.
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