No progress in arms talks in Geneva was made because the United States and the Soviet Union fundamentally disagree over how the negotiations are to be conducted, according to Reagan Administration officials. They said the Soviet side, throughout the opening six-week round of negotiations, refused to bargain on cuts in nuclear arsenals until Washington first agreed to negotiate a ban on research and deployment of space defense weapons. The officials took issue with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, who in a speech on Tuesday blamed the United States for the impasse in the three-part negotiations on strategic, medium-range, and space weapons. “We reject Mr. Gorbachev’s claim that the U.S. negotiators are not seeking agreements at the nuclear and space arms talks,” a White House official said.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s unexpectedly sharp sally at the United States on Tuesday threw a new chill into what had seemed a warming of Soviet-American relations. In the first six weeks of his rule, the signs had seemed propitious. His early speeches had stressed the detente of old; anti-American statements in the press abated, a few more Jews were allowed to emigrate, and arms negotiators were meeting in Geneva. But in his speech to the Central Committee, Mr. Gorbachev accused the United States of not really looking for an agreement in Geneva and he hinted that the talks could founder. He was also critical of American military and economic policies throughout the world.
The Senate Republican leader, Bob Dole, reflecting increased Congressional opposition to President Reagan’s planned trip to a German military cemetery, urged Mr. Reagan today to cancel the visit to Bitburg. Mr. Dole’s comments came as the White House insisted that Mr. Reagan had no plans to alter his decision to visit a German cemetery, despite the uproar over the fact that 47 Waffen SS soldiers are buried among the 2,000 dead. Today non-Jewish ethnic groups joined in the protest against Mr. Reagan’s planned visit to the cemetery, where he will be accompanied by the West German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl. Mr. Kohl has insisted that Mr. Reagan visit Bitburg. Late today Donald T. Regan, the White House chief of staff, insisted that the Bitburg visit would not be canceled. “Yes, the President is going to Bitburg,” Mr. Regan told reporters. “We are going to Bitburg, period.”
U.S.-West German ties would suffer if President Reagan called off a scheduled stop at the Bitburg cemetery, according to Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s spokesman.
The Pope named 28 new cardinals, including Archbishops John J. O’Connor of New York, Bernard Law of Boston, Miguel Obando y Bravo, the head of Nicaragua’s Roman Catholic church, and Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz of Wroclaw, an outspoken backer of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity union.
The International Committee of the Red Cross pledged to intensify efforts to safeguard journalists covering armed conflicts. At the close of a two-day Red Cross seminar in Switzerland, Vice President Maurice Aubert said more than 300 members of the press were killed between 1950 and 1984 while covering international or internal conflicts. A Latin American delegate said that in Argentina alone, more than 100 members of the media disappeared during the military dictatorship.
An international medical research body issued non-binding guidelines intended to curtail vivisection, but the group’s scientists stressed that they cannot do entirely without experiments on live animals. The guidelines, drafted in Geneva by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences, call for an end to surgical experiments on unanesthetized animals and urge painless killing of injured guinea pigs. Widespread use of research animals calls for “ethical considerations,” Dr. Zbigniew Bankowski, head of the council, told reporters. But Prof. Henry Danielsson of Sweden added, “Our knowledge is still so limited… We need animal experimentation.”
Israeli forces pulled out of the eastern and central sectors of Lebanon, completing the latest phase of the second of three planned stages of withdrawal. As the Israelis left, Lebanese Army troops moved into the area, known as the Bekaa, where 30,000 Syrian soldiers had faced about 8,000 Israeli soldiers since the 1982 Israeli invasion. From their positions in the region, the Israelis had been within artillery range of the Syrian capital of Damascus. The withdrawal today left a vacuum that some military analysts believe the Lebanese Army is too weak to be able to fill and that Israel has warned Syria not to attempt to fill. According to reports from Beirut, there was no sign that the Syrians were moving to advance their positions into the evacuated territory. A military spokesman said Israel held the Lebanese Government responsible for all actions in the area from which it is withdrawing its troops. It said Israel “reserves the freedom of action to respond to terrorist activities, also in the areas already evacuated.”
The U.S. State Department expressed concern today that Iran may have developed an arsenal of chemical weapons to use in retaliation against Iraq, which could lead to a dangerous increase in the use of poison gas. One senior State Department official said that “we’ve kept the chemical genie in the bottle since the First World War, and now it is getting out if we don’t stop it now.” In the last 13 months, the United States has twice criticized Iraq for using mustard gas and nerve gas against Iranian forces in their nearly five-year-old war. Today was the first time that Washington has said that Iran might be preparing to use such weapons also.
Peking’s official New China News Agency confirmed diplomatic reports that Prince Norodom Sihanouk has announced his intention to resign as head of the Cambodian resistance coalition. The agency said Sihanouk wrote to Khieu Samphan, deputy premier of the anti-Vietnamese coalition, asking to be relieved for health reasons. Sihanouk, 64, reportedly suffers from high blood pressure. Peking diplomats noted that Sihanouk has talked of resigning several times in the past and said this may be a ploy to put pressure on others in the tenuous coalition.
Indonesia’s President Suharto, opening a meeting of 80 Asian and African nations today, warned the West that prolonged backwardness in the third world would lead to disaster for industrialized nations. He told the meeting, which marked the 30th anniversary of the Asia-Africa Bandung Conference, that the only way to close the gap between advanced countries and the developing world was to establish a new international economic order. He said Asians and Africans, inspired by the Bandung spirit, needed to unite in their common struggle “to end the backwardness and poverty which still shackles the majority of us.” Poverty spawned political unrest and instability that were often exploited by external forces, he said. He added, “The prolonged backwardness of the developing countries, which represent the majority of the human race, sooner or later will undoubtedly become the beginning of disaster for the advanced countries.”
South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, buffeted by recent political changes in his country, hopes to bolster his domestic standing when he meets President Reagan in Washington Friday. Officials of the two nations say Mr. Chun, who left for Washington today, can expect White House support on most fundamental issues. These include South Korea’s military plans, its strategies for dealing with North Korea and its efforts in what the Seoul Government calls “political development” but that critics call human rights problems.
Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas delivered a Salvadoran government proposal for a third round of peace talks to rebel representatives during a one-day visit to Costa Rica and brought back an undisclosed reply, a church source reported. The source said government officials met at a resort hotel near San Salvador to consider the rebels’ response. The Salvadoran government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte is believed to want a third round of talks with the rebels before Duarte travels to the United States in May. The church arranged and mediated the first two rounds of talks last fall.
Nicaraguan rebels won’t get new aid from the United States. The House of Representatives dealt President Reagan’s Central America policy a stinging setback when it killed all attempts to provide additional assistance to the insurgents battling the Sandinista Government. Although the decision was a serious defeat for the President, leaders from both parties said it was too early to tell whether the aid issue was completely dead for the rest of this fiscal year. They noted that a variety of legislative avenues remained open for supporters of the aid to press for some form of funding in the coming months. Earlier in the day, the House adopted, by a vote of 219 to 206, an amendment drafted by moderate Democrats that provided $14 million in aid to the region, but did not directly assist the rebels. But when it came up for a final vote, liberals and conservatives joined forces to bury the bill, 303 to 123.
The head of Peru’s elections board, his driver and a bodyguard were all critically wounded when five men, firing machine guns, ambushed the official’s car. President Fernando Belaunde Terry rushed to the hospital after learning of the assassination attempt against his cousin, Domingo Garcia Rada, 72. He announced that Garcia Rada’s condition was “extremely critical” and described the incident as an attack on democracy. Peruvian officials blamed the attack on the Maoist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path).
After receiving emotional tributes in three cities, the late President-elect of Brazil, Tancredo Neves, was buried tonight in the tiny mountain town of Sao Joao del Rei, where he was born 75 years ago. In a graveside eulogy, his successor, Jose Sarney, said Mr. Neves had left a legacy of dignity, tolerance and conciliation that would strengthen him during the difficult times ahead, “because never before has so much hope been accompanied by so many problems.” As a symbol of Mr. Neves’ enormous popularity, he was buried wearing the presidential sash that he was to have received hours after he was hospitalized for emergency surgery on March 14. He died in Sao Paulo Sunday.
Argentine federal prosecutor Julio Strassera charged that under three former military presidents, the River Plate was used as a dumping ground for the bodies of murdered prisoners in an attempt to hide killings during the military’s “dirty war” against guerrillas in the mid-1970s. In the third day of the human rights trial of former Presidents Jorge R. Videla, Roberto E. Viola and Leopoldo F. Galtieri, Strassera alleged that prisoners were shot and their bodies stuffed into 50-gallon drums that were dumped into the river. At least eight of the barrels, containing a base of cement to make them sink, were dumped in the river, he said.
The Sudan said today that it will resume relations with Libya, after a four-year break. It is the first major foreign policy shift since the military seized power. The two countries were enemies during the rule of Gaafar al-Nimeiry, who was ousted as President of the Sudan in a coup April 6. He was close to the United States and had made a mutual defense pact with Egypt. Libya quickly recognized the new Sudanese Government after General Abdel Rahman Siwar el-Dahab took power, and today the official Libyan press agency said the decision to resume relations emphasized “the need to confront all the challenges and dangers of imperialism and Zionism.” The new Prime Minister, al-Gazouly Dafallah, said the Government will review ties with all nations. Brigadier General Fadlalla Burma Nasir, a member of the ruling Military Council, announced the agreement with Libya when he returned today from Tripoli.
Key Senate Republicans broke with the Reagan Administration strategy on South Africa today and proposed economic sanctions against the Pretoria Government within two years unless it reverses its apartheid policy. The bill was introduced by Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and other Republican leaders.
President Reagan makes an Address to the Nation on the Federal Budget and Deficit Reduction. The President exhorted Americans to lobby Congress for passage of a compromise budget plan that would reduce spending by $300 billion over three years. In a nationally televised address, Mr. Reagan said that the Federal deficit posed a threat to a “sound and powerful economy” and that he needed the support of the American people to “help put our financial house in order.”
President Reagan attends the First Ladies’ International Drug Conference.
A speedy Senate vote on a budget soon after the Senators begin debate on the compromise proposal today was promised by Bob Dole, the Senate majority leader. Mr. Dole outlined a strategy that sought to build momentum for a budget-cutting plan that is still short of the votes needed for approval.
Student protests on South Africa were held on college campuses around the country. Thousands of students took over administration buildings, boycotted classes and held teach-ins, rallies and marches demanding that their colleges end investments in all companies that do business in South Africa. At the University of California at Los Angeles, 200 protesters occupied a campus building yesterday, after a demonstration Tuesday by more than 2,000 students, many bearing placards with slogans like “Apartheid Kills” and “Divest Now.” In Albany, two dozen chanting students staged a sit-in at the business office of the State University of New York’s central administration building. And at the University of Madison at Wisconsin, about 200 demonstrators occupied a conference room at the State Capitol.
An Illinois appeals court refused to free Gary Dotson on bond while he appeals his conviction for a rape his accuser now says never happened. A four-judge panel of the 1st District Appellate Court rejected 3 to 1 Dotson’s request for an appeal bond. Dotson’s attorney said he is trying two other legal avenues to free Dotson: a petition with Governor James R. Thompson seeking executive clemency and a petition for a new trial. Cathleen Crowell Webb, who has recanted her rape accusation, said in Washington after the ruling that she will continue pursuing Dotson’s release until all potential avenues are explored.
Jack C. Burcham, who on April 14 became the world’s fifth recipient of a permanent artificial heart, died tonight at 9:48. He was 62 years old. No cause of death was given by officials of Humana Hospital Audubon. Mr. Burcham had suffered from kidney problems, as have other artificial heart recipients, but he was the first to require kidney dialysis after the implant. Earlier in the day hospital officials had said that Mr. Burcham’s kidney failure was “resolving” with the aid of dialysis.
Suzanne Tornatzky, a member of the neo-Nazi group called The Order, pleaded guilty in Boise, Idaho, to two federal counts, including being an accessory in a $3.5-million armored car robbery in Ukiah, California, and was expected to be sentenced to 10 years in prison under a plea bargain. She implicated her stepfather in the robbery. In Seattle, Bruce Carroll Pierce, described as a leader of The Order, pleaded not guilty to racketeering charges in an indictment that names 22 other members of the group and alleges that Pierce participated in the killing of Denver talk show host Alan Berg.
More weapons, explosives, a cache of gold and a 30-gallon barrel of cyanide were found at a white supremacist compound near Three Brothers, Arkansas, the FBI said. The search of the secluded Ozark hideaway began Monday after a four-day standoff ended between law officers and members of the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord. Five men, including the camp’s leader, James Ellison, and four reputed members of the neoNazi group The Order surrendered and were charged with several federal offenses.
An ex-teamster chief must go to jail. A Federal judge ordered the former union president, Roy L. Williams, to begin serving a 55-year sentence next month. Former Teamsters President Roy L. Williams was ordered by U.S. District Judge Prentice Marshall in Chicago to report for medical evaluation on May 22 at the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Missouri. Williams, 70, suffers from severe emphysema and heart problems. He and four others were convicted in 1982 of conspiring to bribe then-U.S. Sen. Howard Cannon, a Nevada Democrat, with a lucrative land deal in exchange for his help in defeating trucking deregulation legislation.
Two antiabortionists were convicted by a Federal jury on all counts in the bombing of three clinics in Pensacola, Florida. The wife of one defendant and the fiancee of the other were found guilty of conspiracy. When the jury’s verdict was announced, one defendant, Matthew Goldsby, hugged his weeping fiancee, Kaye Wiggins, 18, and the other, James Simmons, embraced his wife, Kathy, 19. They left the courtroom smiling, however, after Federal District Judge Roger Vinson said the men would be released until sentencing next month. They have been held since January. The maximum penalty the women face is five years; the maximum penalty for the men would be 65 years.
Pastors of Grace Community Church contributed to a young man’s suicide by negligence and improper counseling, a lawyer said today in the nation’s first clergy malpractice trial. The lawyer said pastors offered biblical lectures to Kenneth Nally, a severely depressed 24-year-old, and never advised him to seek psychiatric help. Mr. Nally killed himself in 1979. The lawyer, Edward Barker, accused the chief pastor, John MacArthur, and two of his assistants, Duane Rea and Richard Thomson Jr., of hiding from Mr. Nally’s parents the fact that the young man was determined to take his one life. “Ken would be alive today if he had gotten the proper treatment,” Mr. Barker said. But a lawyer for the church, a fundamentalist congregation, said pastors had repeatedly urged the man not to commit suicide and referred him to physicians, one of whom, a church deacon, urged the man’s family to have him committed.
American Airlines reached a tentative agreement yesterday with the Transport Workers Union. Spokesmen for both sides refused to provide details of the proposal until union members, who must ratify it, are given information about it in meetings this week. American won the first major concessions in the industry in a contract negotiated with the union in 1983. It allowed the company to pay new and part-time workers 25 percent less than union wages and to shift workers to different jobs, blurring former job distinctions. Ed Koziatek, an international union vice president in charge of the 11,849 workers at American, said the proposed agreement provided improvements in wages, benefits and job security but added that its provisions would help the airline compete with “low-fare, non-union carriers.”
The Pentagon’s inspector general said he will recommend that the two top officials of the General Dynamics Corp., David E. Lewis and Gorden E. MacDonald, be barred from any further association with defense contracts. Inspector General Joseph H. Sherick made the statement during testimony before the investigations subcommittee of the House Commerce Committee, which is probing questionable costs billed to the Pentagon as part of the price of weapons systems.
Inquiries on military contractors are being pressed, according to the Defense Department’s Inspector General, Joseph H. Sherick. He told a House panel that 45 of the 100 largest military contractors were under criminal investigation.
“Landscape With Rising Sun,” Vincent van Gogh’s glistening study of a wheat field near St. Remy, France, was sold at auction at Sotheby’s in New York for $9.9 million, a record price for any Impressionist painting and a new high for Van Gogh. The buyer was not identified. The previous high for the artist was $5.72 million. Painted in 1889, while Van Gogh was in a sanitarium, the work was part of the collection of the late Frances J. Gould, widow of American railroad multimillionaire Frank Jay Gould.
Insulin inhaled as a nasal spray before mealtime may replace all but one injection a day for most persons with severe diabetes, a new study shows. “This study shows that it can be tolerated, and you can achieve the same amount of glycemic (blood sugar) control as the patient can achieve with injections,” said Dr. Renate Kimmerle, one of the researchers at Boston University Medical Center who reported the results in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for “Yin”.
Major League Baseball:
Pete Vuckovich records his first win for Milwaukee since his Cy Young Award-winning season of 1982, pitching 7 innings of the Brewers 3–2 win over Chicago. He had been sidelined most of the past 2 seasons with shoulder problems.
The New York Yankees lost to the Boston Red Sox for the fifth time in five games this season, dropping a 7–6 decision when Jim Rice socked a seventh-inning home run against Ron Guidry. The teams had produced a furious flurry of runs in the first three innings that left them in a 6–6 tie.
Mike Smithson pitched a four-hitter, and Kent Hrbek smacked his first homer of the season, a three-run clout, as Minnesota routed Seattle, 10–0. The victory was the Twins’ fourth straight, and the loss the Mariners’ eighth in their last nine games.
Mike Young hit a two-run homer and Mike Boddicker scattered six hits in eight and a third innings to lead Baltimore past the Texas Rangers, 2–1.
Tim Raines scored twice and drove in two runs to lead Montreal to a 7–6 win over the Phillies. Ozzie Virgil hit two home runs for Philadelphia. Gary Maddox and Mike Schmidt hit homers. Schmidt’s was his first. Raines lashed a run-scoring triple off the starter, John Denny (1-2), to highlight a three-run fifth inning. He drove in a run with a double in the sixth, when, helped by two errors, Montreal scored three times.
Leon Durham hit a two-run homer, and Davey Lopes had three hits and drove in two runs as the Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5–2.
Lamarr Hoyt and Rich (Goose) Gossage combined on a five-hitter, and Carmelo Martinez belted a two-run homer to lead San Diego past Atlanta, 3–1.
Oakland Athletics 6, California Angels 4
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Chicago White Sox 2
Detroit Tigers 6, Cleveland Indians 7
Cincinnati Reds 8, Houston Astros 3
Seattle Mariners 0, Minnesota Twins 10
Philadelphia Phillies 6, Montreal Expos 7
Boston Red Sox 7, New York Yankees 6
Chicago Cubs 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Atlanta Braves 1, San Diego Padres 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, San Francisco Giants 2
New York Mets 1, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Baltimore Orioles 2, Texas Rangers 1
Kansas City Royals 2, Toronto Blue Jays 10
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1278.49 (-0.22)
Born:
Lance Louis, NFL guard (Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts), in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Sam Hurd, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Bears), in San Antonio, Texas.
Philippe Dupuis, Canadian NHL centre (Colorado Avalanche, Toronto Maple Leafs), in Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Jakub Petružálek, Czech NHL center and right wing (Carolina Hurricanes), in Most, Czechoslovakia.
Ryan Reid, MLB pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates), in Portland, Maine.
Courtnee Draper, American actress (“The Bold and the Beautiful”), in Orlando, Florida.
Died:
Sergei Yutkevich, 80, Russian film director, (Otello, Banya).
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