U.S. and Soviet negotiators, approaching a five-week break, will hold extra sessions on arms control at Geneva. A U.S. delegation spokesman said the group on medium-range weapons will meet twice this week, today and again on Thursday. The previous pattern of the talks, which began March 12, has been once-a-week sessions on the three main subject areas-defense and space, medium-range missiles and strategic missiles. The first round is to end April 23.
Senior U.S. and Soviet military officers held an unannounced meeting last Friday, reportedly to discuss the killing of Army Major Arthur D. Nicholson Jr. by a Soviet sentry and ways to prevent similar incidents in the future. But the Soviet commander did not, in that initial meeting, agree to the American request to formally apologize or to pay compensation to the officer’s family, Administration officials said. State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb had no comment on the session except to confirm that it took place.
A Soviet Bloc summit meeting is likely to be held in Warsaw on April 26 or 27 to renew the seven-nation Warsaw Pact treaty, which expires May 14, the Guardian reported in Britain. The meeting is also expected to deal with EastWest issues. Renewal of the pact had been expected later, but the date was reportedly moved up because of a series of major events in May, including observance of the 40th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II.
The head of a Polish underground publishing house was arrested, raising to more than 120 the number of dissidents held by Polish authorities, opposition sources said. Underground political analyst Slowomir Bielecki, 38, heads the CDN publishing house, set up after the Solidarity union was suppressed under martial law in 1981.
Poland’s Roman Catholic Primate, Jozef Cardinal Glemp, arrived today for talks with Pope John Paul II and said he did not believe church-state relations in Poland had recently worsened. His weeklong visit began a day after he criticized Polish press attacks on the Pope in a homily in Warsaw.
Enver Hoxha, the Albanian leader, was given a hero’s funeral today in Tirana, and his successor made clear in a eulogy that Albania would continue to follow a path of isolation. Mr. Hoxha died Thursday at the age of 76, having ruled since World War II. Ramiz Alia, 59 years old, his successor as Communist Party chief, said in a funeral speech that Mr. Hoxha was “the greatest man that Albanian soil has given birth to,” according to the Albanian press agency.
West Germany is expected to seek negotiations with the Soviet Union on construction of a Baltic Sea rail-ferry link that naval experts have said poses potential security risks for the West. West Germany’s northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein, hopes to profit most from the project, which has been estimated to cost $200 million to $400 million. The decline of fishing and shipbuilding in the state has caused unemployment to increase to 13 percent.
A visit to a former death camp in addition to a stop at a Nazi German military cemetery next month is being considered by President Reagan, according to White House officials.
Jews would not be assuaged if President Reagan visited a former Nazi death camp or a synagogue in addition to stopping at a German war cemetery, according to Elie Wiesel, the chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Mr. Wiesel called a Presidential visit to the cemetery unacceptable because it contains tombstones of the SS, the Nazi elite guard, which was adjudged to be guilty of war crimes.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres today narrowly defeated an attempt by the Likud leader, Yitzhak Shamir, to prevent an Israeli envoy from visiting Egypt. By a vote of 13 to 12, Mr. Peres got the Cabinet to reverse a decision made Sunday to block Ezer Weizman from making the trip. But the voting left the already fragile national unity coalition more tattered and polarized than ever. Mr. Weizman arrived in Cairo tonight.
Artillery shells exploded in and around the southern Lebanese port of Sidon on the 28th day of fighting that has pitted Christian militiamen against Muslim and Palestinian fighters. Hospital officials reported at least five people killed and 30 wounded, most of them civilians. The Lebanese army sent armored personnel carriers and troops to the city to reinforce its garrison in a new attempt to end the fighting, which has claimed more than 80 lives in 18 days. Witnesses reached by telephone in Sidon said there were only a few people on the streets to welcome the unit of 400 troops, in 33 United States-supplied armored personnel carriers, since most of the residents were hiding in building basements and shelters.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today that the Iranian Government of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was “a blight on the history of Islam” because of its persecution of members of the Bahai religious sect. Mr. Shultz, opening the International Conference on Religious Liberty, said “religious intolerance and repression are not limited to the Communist totalitarian socities.”
Nineteen Indian nationals, most of them junior government officials, were formally charged with espionage today, marking the end of a five-month investigation into a spying case that reached into the Prime Minister’s office. As they were accused in a New Delhi court, a press report said that six foreign diplomats, two each from France, Poland and East Germany, had been identified as the buyers of military and commercial secrets from them.
Nicolae Ceaușescu, the Rumanian leader, is cutting short his visit to Canada because a tour of a nuclear plant near Toronto could not be arranged, a senior Canadian official said today. Mr. Ceaușescu was scheduled to go to the nuclear plant and to visit Toronto on Wednesday. A spokesman for Ontario Hydro, which operates the plant, said a labor dispute had made security arrangements too complicated.
Six Americans, including former Rep. James Shannon (D-Massachusetts), said they visited guerrilla leader Joaquin Villalobos in the Salvadoran village of Perquin over the weekend and that he showed no signs of injury. The Salvadoran army said 10 days ago that he was wounded and possibly killed during an army sweep in northern San Miguel province. Villalobos, 33, commands one of five groups opposing the U.S.-backed regime.
A drive for Nicaraguan rebels was pressed by President Reagan. He warned Congress that a vote against approving $14 million in aid for the insurgents would lead to “more fighting” and “new wars.”
President Reagan meets with President of the Republic of Costa Rica Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez.
Doctors lowered Tancredo Neves’ body temperature to 95.9 degrees because a liquid buildup and infection had halved the ability of the Brazilian president-elect’s lungs to absorb oxygen. The chilling reduced the amount of energy his body uses and so cut the amount of oxygen needed, but it also drove his heart rate up to 180, a doctor said. Neves, 75, who has had seven operations since being hospitalized hours before he was to be inaugurated, is being kept alive only with kidney dialysis and a respirator, doctors said.
Nigeria announced that 700,000 aliens illegally living in the country must get approval by May 10 to remain or get out. African diplomats quoted in Lagos, the capital, said the move appears to be a veiled expulsion of thousands of people who flocked to Nigeria to escape the ravages of drought elsewhere. Two years ago, Nigeria expelled at least a million aliens, most from Ghana, who it said were a burden on an ailing economy suffering from a drop in world oil prices.
Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha said today that South Africa would complete the withdrawal of its forces from Angola by the end of this week. Mr. Botha, in a statement issued here early this evening, said the “disengagement” of forces was aimed at fostering “dialogue” with Angola. He added that he hoped the move would lead to a withdrawal of Cuban troops from that country.
The South African Government said today that it had decided to abolish the laws forbidding marriage and sex across racial lines. Officials said they would accept a recommendation from a special committee of South Africa’s new three-chamber Parliament to remove longstanding legal barriers to marriages and sexual relations between whites and and nonwhites.
The space shuttle Discovery crew improvised “flyswatter” devices for use in an attempt to snare and repair a disabled $80 million satellite. The devices would be attached to the space shuttle’s mechanical arm during what would be the first unrehearsed space walk. Dr. Jeffrey A. Hoffman and S. David Griggs were scheduled to attach the “fly swatter” to the movable arm in the shuttle’s open cargo bay in a space walk to begin sometime after 7 AM Eastern standard time Tuesday. Never before have American astronauts undertaken such an arduous task without weeks of careful rehearsal.
The NASA space shuttle Challenger moves to the launch pad for the STS-51-B mission.
President Reagan attends the 100th anniversary show of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
A Chrysler-Mitsubishi joint venture to make subcompact cars in the United States was announced by the two corporations. The companies said they would invest a total of $500 million and would build a plant in the Middle West that would employ 2,500 people. Half the eventual annual production of 180,000 cars would be marketed under the Chrysler name and half would be sold by Mitsubishi’s American sales arm.
Convicts seized control in a prison in Odenville, Alabama. Officials said that hundreds of inmates took control of a section of the state prison, holding the warden and 21 other people hostage for more than 10 hours before releasing all the captives unharmed. Five prison employees were injured during the uprising, including two who were beaten unconscious.
Indictments of 23 white supremacists were announced by the FBI and Government prosecutors. They said that sweeping charges had been made against the members of a right- wing hate group and warned racist sympathizers that retaliation against further violent acts would be “rapid and effective.”
Retired auto worker John Demjanjuk of Cleveland was ordered extradited to Israel to stand trial for war crimes he allegedly committed while serving as a Nazi death camp guard. U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti also revoked bond for Demjanjuk, who was taken into custody. Battisti stayed Demjanjuk’s surrender to Israel until May 1 to allow him to file an appeal. The extradition decision will be made by Secretary of State George P. Shultz.
U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop at the request of the Federal Trade Commission will conduct a health review of smokeless tobacco similar to the one his office performed in 1964 that led to health warnings on cigarettes, federal officials said. The Department of Health and Human Services has estimated that 22 million Americans use smokeless tobacco.
A jury was tentatively chosen in the Claus von Bülow attempted murder retrial in Providence, Rhode Island, and the judge in the case warned potential witnesses to avoid reporters. The one-page written warning from Superior Court Judge Corinne Grande was issued during the sixth day of jury selection. Selection was scheduled to resume this morning. Von Bülow, 58, is facing his second trial on charges that he twice injected his heiress wife, Martha (Sunny) von Bülow, with insulin in 1979 and 1980, leaving her in a death-like state from which she is not expected to recover.
A lie-detector test taken by Cathleen Crowell Webb, 23, backs her claim that she lied in testimony that sent Gary Dotson to prison for rape six years ago, her attorney, John McLario, said in Menomonee Falls, Wis. Dotson was convicted in 1979 of raping Webb in 1977. Although she recanted her original testimony, an Illinois judge last week refused to accept her new testimony and ordered Dotson, who had been freed on bond, back to prison. McLario said the test results should prompt Illinois Governor James R. Thompson to act quickly to grant executive clemency. Thompson’s office has said Dotson would have to follow the normal petition procedure, which probably could take until the end of the year.
[Ed: Dotson was released — in 1989, a year after DNA evidence exonerated him, and the State of Illinois and Governor Thompson STILL tried to keep him in prison. No matter how much you despise your government, it will NEVER be enough. They are all evil little cockroaches.]
U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson in Pensacola, Florida, dropped charges involving an anti-abortion bombing last June from the case of four persons being tried for three bombings on Christmas Day. However, Vinson refused to dismiss a conspiracy count against Matthew Goldsby and James Simmons, both 21; Goldsby’s fiancee, Kaye Wiggins, 18, and Simmons’ wife, Kathren, also 18. A jury then was selected to hear the case.
The number of confirmed cases of milk-borne salmonella topped 5,000 as Chicago authorities linked the death of a fourth person to the bacteria that has plagued five states for more than two weeks. Salmonella poisoning caused the death of Thomas F. Levins, 44, of Rockford, officials said. There have been 5,295 confirmed cases of salmonella in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana, an Illinois Public Health Department official reported.
Texas law enforcement officials, frustrated by a suspect who “will confess to anything,” admitted that confessed serial killer Henry Lee Lucas may have claimed responsibility for crimes he did not commit. Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox noted that news reports indicate that, in some cases, including one for which he has been sentenced to death, Lucas was thousands of miles from the scenes of crimes or would have had to travel constantly to commit all the killings. In a newspaper interview, Lucas, 48, claimed that all but three confessions were bogus.
Use of hospitals is declining around the country, largely because of Federal cost containment policies that took effect last year, according to health officials and hospital administrators. The American Hospital Association reported that admissions fell to about 35 million in 1984 from 36.3 million in 1983, the steepest drop in 20 years.
Many emigres have won clearances to read secret and top secret documents even though the Government has no reliable way of checking their backgrounds, according to a Senate investigation. Pentagon data said the clearances had been granted to thousands of emigres from Communist countries.
A new Supreme Court abortion ruling is expected. The Court agreed to hear arguments on a 1982 Pennsylvania law that placed an array of obstacles in the path of women seeking abortions and of doctors who perform them. The statute was substantially invalidated last year by a Federal appeals court.
Severely handicapped infants must receive medically necessary treatment except in cases where death appears inevitable, according to final rules issued by the Federal Government. The rules apply to doctors and hospitals.
89th Boston Marathon: Englishman Geoff Smith repeats as men’s champion in 2:14:05; American Lisa Larsen Weidenbach takes women’s title in 2:34:06.
Major League Baseball:
At Jack Murphy, Carmelo Martinez leads the Padres to an 8–3 win over the Giants as he hits a pair of homers, one a grand slam. Eric Show (2–0) allows 3 hits in 7 innings for the victory. Dan Gladden has 3 hits for SF, drives in 3 runs and gets caught stealing twice.
Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Mike Schmidt sets the team record by playing in his 1,795th game — breaking Richie Ashburn’s franchise record. Schmidt finished his career with 2,404 games, which still remains as a franchise record. Schmidt goes 1-4 in a 2-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.
Cincinnati Reds 9, Atlanta Braves 8
Chicago White Sox 6, Boston Red Sox 5
Philadelphia Phillies 1, Chicago Cubs 2
Houston Astros 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
California Angels 5, Minnesota Twins 0
Seattle Mariners 4, Oakland Athletics 7
New York Mets 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
San Francisco Giants 3, San Diego Padres 8
Montreal Expos 1, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1266.78 (+1.1)
Born:
Andre Caldwell, NFL wide receiver (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 50-Broncos; Cincinnati Bengals, Denver Broncos), in Tampa, Florida.
Durant Brooks, NFL punter (Washington Redskins), in Macon, Georgia.
John Danks, MLB pitcher (Chicago White Sox), in Austin, Texas.
Aaron Laffey, MLB pitcher (Cleveland Indians, Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets, Colorado Rockies), in Cumberland, Maryland.
Ryan Hamilton, Canadian NHL left wing (Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers), in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
Shay Murphy, WNBA guard (WNBA Champions-Mercury, 2014; Minnesota Lynx, Detroit Shock, Washington Mystics, Indiana Fever, Chicago Sky, Phoenix Mercury, San Antonio Silver Stars), in Canoga Park, California.
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