The Soviet Union is building bases for more intermediate-range SS-20 missiles despite Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s announcement of a seven-month moratorium on deployment, the Sunday Times of London asserted. Quoting unnamed officials in Washington, the paper said Western intelligence agencies have detected the construction of 11 new bases, which they said would indicate that Moscow is preparing to deploy 99 more missiles. Most of the rockets would be targeted on Western Europe, the officials were quoted as saying. The Soviet Union is known to have deployed 414 SS-20 missiles, each carrying three nuclear warheads. The Sunday Times report said most of the new sites would be ready about November, when Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, is due to review the moratorium.
Solidarity union founder Lech Walesa called for May Day protests to demand the release of political prisoners in Poland. “We have not learned how to defend our (opposition) leaders. They are being spat upon, and we have to defend them,” Walesa told about 500 cheering supporters in the northern seaport of Gdansk. Sources in the outlawed Solidarity trade union estimate there are 107 political prisoners in Polish jails. Last week, three Solidarity activists were charged with trying to incite unrest by planning a 15-minute general strike to protest government-ordered price increases.
The fugitive director of a major underground publishing house in Poland has been captured by the police and led off to detention with his head wrapped in a bloody hood, according to sources close to the outlawed Solidarity movement. The arrest of the man, Maciej Polewski, has not been announced by the authorities.
A bomb damaged the offices of a West German electronics company today, 20 hours after a bomb caused a fire at the office of the North Atlantic Assembly, an advisory body to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. No one was harmed in the blast today, at the A.E.G. Telefunken building. Two people were slightly injured Saturday. A previously unknown group calling itself the Revolutionary Front for Proletarian Action said in a telephone call to Belgian radio that it was responsible for the bombing Saturday. No one immediately took responsibility for the bombing today.
The Bergen-Belsen camp’s liberation 40 years ago was observed in Belsen, West Germany, in ceremonies attended by Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who said that he accepted Germany’s “historical responsibility for the crimes of the Nazi tyranny.” Mr. Kohl gave one of the most forthright and unflinching statements a West German leader has made about the Hitler era. He was surrounded by senior political figures, ambassadors, local people and survivors of the camp, where more than 50,000 people died.
Arab leaders were criticized by Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who said they were prolonging the suffering of Palestinians by not supporting direct negotiations between Israel and King Hussein of Jordan. His remarks, made in Washington, seemed to reflect the Reagan Administration’s annoyance with the failure of most Arab leaders to encourage King Hussein to negotiate with Israel.
Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon will be completed by early June, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced. No precise date was made public. Israel will temporarily keep a military force for the defense of its border region, Rabin said. He said this would not necessarily be limited to the strip of Lebanese territory adjacent to the border that Israel plans to proclaim as its security zone.
An Israeli gunboat sank an Arab “terrorist vessel” with 28 people aboard in an exchange of fire off the Israeli coast Saturday night, a military spokesman announced early today. Eight Arabs were captured, one body was recovered and 19 people were missing and presumed drowned, according to a communique.
A dissident Shiite militia leader was killed in fighting in Beirut last night, hours after the Sunni Muslims of Lebanon called for an end to the fierce fighting between Muslim groups that shook West Beirut last week. Security sources said Ali Ayoub, who had been expelled for lack of discipline from the mainstream Shiite militia Amal, was killed in a clash with unidentified gunmen in West Beirut. On Tuesday, Amal and its Druze allies took full control of West Beirut by suppressing the Sunni Muslim militia known as the Mourabitoun.
Syria has invited Lebanese Muslim and Druze leaders for talks in Damascus on Tuesday to try to heal a split caused by a bloody battle between rival Muslim factions in West Beirut last week, Lebanon’s caretaker premier, Rashid Karami, said. Shia and Sunni Muslim religious and political leaders, plus those of the Druze, a Muslim offshoot, have all been invited to the talks, Karami said. “Fighting between brothers is unacceptable,” he said. “We call for a correction of the sad situation.”
Indian troops killed one person in Ahmedabad, hub of the troubled western state of Gujarat, as religious and caste violence spread. Rioting continued in the states of Gujarat, Kashmir and Bihar today as mobs raised protests over affirmative-action programs and local issues. The Press Trust of India reported that the army has also been dispatched to Baroda, a former center of colonial India, to stop violence there. It reported one killed and eight wounded. In Ahmedabad, 300 protesters were arrested at a rally protesting educational admissions policies favoring untouchables, tribal people and low-caste Hindus.
Vietnam, which depends on the Soviet Union for all its oil needs, says it is building two offshore drilling platforms and will begin oil production this year. Foreign Minister Nguyễn Cơ Thạch said 300 million tons of oil could be extracted from the deposits off Vũng Tàu, where Mobil first discovered oil in 1972. Vietnam uses an estimated 1.7 million tons of oil a year.
China’s new Ambassador to the U.S. will be Han Xu, a Deputy Foreign Minister who was a close aide to Prime Minister Zhou Enlai. The announcement confirmed an appointment that had been expected for several months. Mr. Han will succeed Zhang Wenjin, who has been in Washington since December 1982 and who will retire.
A rural audience fled in panic from a fire in a movie house complex in the southern Philippines today, and 44 people, most of them teen-agers, were killed, the police said. Fifty-three people were injured. “Somebody shouted fire and all of a sudden there was confusion – people started rushing to the doors,” said Jeanette Barja, 13 years old, who was one of 20 people injured seriously enough to be hospitalized. She spoke in a telephone interview from a hospital in Tabaco, 200 miles southeast of Manila.
Nicaragua’s offer to call a cease-fire if the United States halted aid to the rebels was rejected by the Reagan Administration. The offer was made public by two Democratic Senators, John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, and Tom Harkin of Iowa, who met Friday in Managua with President Daniel Ortega Saavedra.
The Salvadoran army and leftist guerrillas observed an undeclared truce for a one-day drive to complete the final phase of a nationwide vaccination program for 400,000 children. The first two phases of the program in February and March were also marked by truces in the five-year-old civil war in El Salvador. President Jose Napoleon Duarte, in a radio address, asked, “If we have been able to vaccinate all these children in the midst of violence halted for one day in this war, why can’t we stop the war?”
Brazil’s President-elect died after undergoing seven operations in four weeks, the government said. President-elect Tancredo Neves, who was 75 years old, had been prevented by his illness from taking office as the country’s first civilian President in 21 years. The Vice President, Jose Sarney, who was sworn in as acting President in place of Mr. Neves on March 15, automatically became President tonight, although many politicians believe that new elections may be held within two years.
Argentine President Raul Alfonsin said some opponents of his 16-month-old civilian government have approached high-ranking military officers to suggest staging a coup. Alfonsin, speaking in a nationally televised address, did not elaborate on the alleged plot but said it was disclosed by the officers to whom the overtures were made. “The situation is being controlled,” he added. Alfonsin’s elected government took office in December, 1983, to end nearly eight years of right-wing military dictatorship.
Two members of Sudan’s ruling Transitional Military Council went to Libya today for talks on improving relations, the official Sudanese press agency quoted a military spokesman as saying. The council members, Fadlallah Burmah and Faris Abdullah Hosni, both brigadiers, took a message to Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, from General Abdel Rahman Siwar el- Dahab, the new Sudanese leader, the spokesman was quoted as saying.
The 101 nations of the nonaligned movement urged today that the United States and other Western powers cut diplomatic ties with South Africa and impose economic sanctions on that country because of delays in achieving the independence of South-West Africa. The group made the plea at the close of a three-day conference on the occupation of South-West Africa, also known as Namibia, by South Africa. The conference requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to put into effect its 1978 resolution recognizing the South-West Africa People’s Organization, a guerrilla group, as the representative of the Namibian people. The recommended sanctions include severing diplomatic relations, observing an oil embargo, divesting business interests, denying landing rights for planes and docking rights for ships, prohibiting the sale of South African gold coins, and boycotting sports and cultural activities.
Ten people were killed and eight were wounded today when 4,000 mineworkers were involved in a clash between Xhosa-speaking workers and migrant laborers from Lesotho near a South African gold mine near Welkom, 170 miles south of Johannesburg, a spokesman for the mine’s owners, Anglo American Corporation, said.
A leader of Holocaust survivors called for an intensified campaign to keep President Reagan from visiting a Germany military cemetery in which members of the Nazi SS are buried. At a meeting of Holocaust survivors in Philadelphia, Menachem Z. Rosensaft of New York, chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, said that “for the sake of history,” Mr. Reagan must be prevented from making the visit. His audience responded with cheers. He argued that the visit next month would be exploited by “revisionist historians, neo-Nazis and their sympathizers.” If Mr. Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg, West Germany, he went on, “we must see to it that survivors, children of survivors and American war veterans will be waiting for him at the gates of that cemetery.”
Staff members of the President’s Commission on Organized Crime said the panel’s hearing in Chicago will focus on organized crime’s involvement in labor unions and businesses. James D. Harmon, executive director and chief counsel, said many of the witnesses called have connections with labor racketeering and that the hearing will feature records of electronic surveillance of organized-crime activities. He said the hearing will examine the activities of a number of labor unions, but he refused to name witnesses.
President Reagan returns to the White House from the weekend at Camp David.
Parts of a survivalists’ camp on the Arkansas-Missouri border were secured by heavily armed state and Federal officers trying to arrest the camp’s leader, Jim Ellison, on a Federal weapons charge. Some camp members were said to have links with a neo-Nazi group.
Artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder and his family hung out the “Gone Fishing” sign at their Louisville, Kentucky, apartment, and “he caught a couple of fish” at a nearby lake, his son, Mel, reported. Meanwhile, doctors at Humana Hospital Audubon have inserted a device in the most recent Jarvik-7 heart recipient, Jack Burcham, to help connect him to a kidney dialysis machine, if that becomes necessary, because of a “renal insufficiency,” a hospital spokeswoman said. No change was reported in the condition of Murray P. Haydon, 58, the other mechanical heart patient still under care at the hospital.
Jake Butcher, who ran unsuccessfully for governor of Tennessee twice and organized the 1982 World’s Fair, will plead guilty today to stealing more than $40 million from his own banks, the Tennessean newspaper reported. Butcher, 48, who made a plea-bargain agreement with the prosecution, will admit to 22 counts of bank fraud and income tax evasion in U.S. District Court in Knoxville and will be guaranteed a sentence of not more than 20 years in prison, which would make him eligible for parole in four to six years, the newspaper said. Butcher, a personal friend of Jimmy Carter and Walter F. Mondale, was forced into involuntary bankruptcy after 11 Tennessee banks owned by or connected to Butcher and his brother, C.H., 47, collapsed in 1983.
State and Federal prisons held nearly 464,000 people at the end of 1984, a record inmate population for the 10th consecutive year that has forced officials to find more space, the government reported today. The prison population grew by 6.1 percent over 1983, and the number of Federal and state inmates has increased 40.6 percent since 1980, the Bureau of Justice Statistics said. The largest prison population increases last year occurred in the West and Northeast, said the bureau, a unit of the Justice Department. “Although the states added an estimated 100,000 new prison beds during the last four years, overcrowding remains a serious problem,” Steven R. Schlesinger, the bureau director, said.
An 84-year-old man who was mistakenly injected with 10 times the prescribed dose of morphine has died after nine days in a coma in Auburn, New York Carl F. Smith of Weedsport, a patient at Auburn Memorial Hospital, was prescribed three milligrams of the painkiller, but a nurse injected him with 30 milligrams, said Dr. Walter Prokopiw, Smith’s physician. After the April 1 injection, Smith immediately lapsed into a coma, from which he never recovered. “There’s no question” the morphine injection caused Smith to go into a coma, Prokopiw said.
Fire Chief Robert L. Swartout says he did not think he owed the city of Houston more than the five minutes’ notice he gave when he quit after three and a half months on the job. “They got their dollars’ worth out of me while I was there,” Mr. Swartout said in an interview published today in The Houston Post. City officials tried unsuccessfully to find Mr. Swartout last weekend, after his surprise resignation April 12. On Monday he started driving back to Seattle, where he was Fire Chief before taking the Houston job and where The Post interviewed him Saturday. In the interview, Mr. Swartout said he quit because the city administration did not understand the workings of the department. “There’s so much ill feeling between the administration and the department it amazes me,” he said. In his letter of resignation, which Mayor Kathy Whitmire has not released, Mr. Swartout said he had realized “that having a first-class Fire Department is not a high priority” in the Whitmire administration.
Jose Randolfo Medina, 22, of New York, was seized by Secret Service agents after he jumped a fence near the East Gate of the White House and was charged with unlawful entry. Medina, who was not armed, is to be arraigned in a District of Columbia police court today.
A Pentagon audit of the procedures for buying spare parts says changes aimed at cutting waste and abuse have resulted in “significantly overstated” savings. The audit by the Defense Department’s inspector general said the parts control program “was not working the way it was intended.” “The audit also showed that reported program results and cost avoidance benefits resulting from the program were significantly overstated,” the auditors’ report said. The audit was dated February 20, two days before the Secretary of Defense, Caspar W. Weinberger, sent a report to two Congressional committees saying he believed “very strongly that the department has improved significantly the management of spare parts.”
Donald Shay who was from Maryland is one of 2,477 Americans still listed as missing in action from the Vietnam War. Ten years after the fall of Saigon and 15 years after he enlisted, no one knows for sure what happened to him or any of the other missing Americans. For military records, all but one of the missing are officially presumed dead. Only the case of a missing flier remains open for symbolic reasons. But on the diplomatic and other levels, the issue of the missing Americans remains very much alive.
Nebraska farmers lost $6 million with the collapse of two farm-credit institutions they had believed to be safe. About 500 people in north-central Nebraska lost the money when two Production Credit Associations went under. Their collapse brings to 11 the number of such credit cooperatives that have failed since Sept. 1, 1983, according to the Farm Credit Administration. In the previous 50 years only such institution had failed.
A spring heat wave stretched from the Midwest to the East Coast, toppling high temperature records in at least 21 cities. Thunderstorms accompanied by winds up to 70 mph rumbled across the Plains and tornadoes killed three persons in Texas. It was 83 degrees in Muskegon, Michigan, setting a new record high for the second day in a row. The mercury climbed to 79 in Mansfield, Ohio, surpassing the 1973 record of 78. Fort Wayne, Indiana, had 83, one degree above the 1952 record high.
General Jerome F. O’Malley, Commander of the United States Air Force Tactical Air Command, was killed in a military airplane crash near Scranton, Pennsylvania. His wife Diane and three Air Force crew members were also killed. The general was 53 years old. An Air Force team began its investigation into the crash of a military twin-engine jet that killed General O’Malley, his wife and three crew members. An Air Force spokesman said it may take a month to determine the cause of the crash at Wilkes-Barre-Scranton, Pennsylvania, airport because there was no flight recorder on board. Officials said it was not uncommon for a small plane not to be equipped with one.
Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway wins London Marathon in race record 2:21:06
Major League Baseball:
At Cincinnati, the Reds edge the Giants, 1–0, behind Tom Browning. After Eric Davis hits a triple, one of three Reds hits, he scored on catcher’s interference as he tried to steal home.
Terry Pendleton hits a grand slam off Rod Scurry and the Cardinals roll to a 6–0 win over the visiting Pirates. Ken Forsch gets the win as three Bird hurlers combine for the shutout.
Orel Hershiser pitched a two-hitter and Candy Maldonado and Mariano Duncan each hit solo home runs, as the Dodgers downed the Padres, 2–0.
Don Slaught hit a home run and singled twice to back the combined eight-hit pitching of Mike Mason and Dave Stewart as Texas won, 5–2, and completed a three-game sweep of Milwaukee.
John Butcher pitched a three-hitter and Kirby Puckett delivered a two-run single as the Twins ended a nine-game losing streak, beating the A’s, 2–0.
Houston Astros 4, Atlanta Braves 2
Seattle Mariners 2, California Angels 9
Boston Red Sox 2, Chicago White Sox 7
San Francisco Giants 0, Cincinnati Reds 1
Kansas City Royals 3, Detroit Tigers 2
Texas Rangers 5, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Chicago Cubs 4, Montreal Expos 0
Cleveland Indians 3, New York Yankees 0
Minnesota Twins 2, Oakland Athletics 0
New York Mets 6, Philadelphia Phillies 10
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, San Diego Padres 0
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Baltimore Orioles 3, Toronto Blue Jays 2
Born:
Scott Langkow, Canadian NHL goaltender (Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, Atlanta Thrashers), in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada.
Tyresa Smith, WNBA forward (Detroit Shock), in Dover, Delaware.
Łukasz Trepczyński, Polish classical pianist, in Radomsko, Poland.
Died:
Tancredo Neves, 75, president-elect of Brazil.
Rudi Gernreich, 62, Austrian-American fashion designer (monokini, miniskirt), of cancer.
Foster Hewitt, 82, Canadian radio broadcaster (Hockey Night in Canada).
Irving Mills [Isadore Minsky], 91, American jazz music publisher, manager (Duke Ellington, 1926-48), singer and lyricist.
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