President Reagan attends the 11th G7 Summit in Bonn, West Germany with Prime Ministers Mulroney (Canada), Craxi (Italy), Nakasone (Japan), and Thatcher (UK), President Mitterrand (France), and Chancellor Kohl (West Germany). Compromise on a key U.S. trade goal continued to elude President Reagan and the leaders of the six other major industrial allies at the meeting in Bonn. An agreement would lead to a new round of global trade negotiations early next year. Negotiations for a compromise followed the refusal of President Francois Mitterrand of France to agree to set a firm date for the start of the trade talks, which the United States, Britain, Canada, West Germany and Japan all want. Only Italy showed sympathy for the French position.
The U.S. won support on arms talks from the economic conference in Bonn. Leaders of the seven nations taking part in the meeting termed President Reagan’s proposals to the Soviet Union “positive,” but Mr. Reagan ran into broad criticism of his trade embargo against Nicaragua. Over dinner Thursday night and in talks today, the seven leaders discussed prospects for a meeting this fall between President Reagan and the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and then declared their readiness “to pursue a high-level dialogue to deal with the profound differences dividing East and West” on arms control and other issues. The White House, meanwhile, announced that Mr. Reagan’s visit to the Bitburg military cemetery on Sunday would be limited to 10 minutes and would include a wreath-laying ceremony. Before visiting the cemetery, where 49 SS soldiers are buried among others, Mr. Reagan will spend 50 minutes visiting the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp site, the White House said.
The Western countries are preparing to press the Soviet Union anew on human rights at a formal review of progress on the issue, which was enshrined in a 35-nation agreement at Helsinki 10 years ago. The session, which is to begin Tuesday and is to last six weeks in Ottawa, is the first meeting called specifically to examine compliance with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki accords signed at the conclusion of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in 1975. Western participants say the United States, Canada and other countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are adopting a coordinated strategy of detailing purported human rights abuses by the Soviet Union and its allies while trying to avoid more inflammatory statements. “It is our full intention to lay out all of our concerns and to lay them out clearly and unmistakably,” said Richard Schifter, the chairman of the United States delegation at the Ottawa meeting. “We don’t think it is necessary to do anything other than let the facts speak for themselves.”
Poland expelled two U.S. diplomats. The police said the diplomats had taken part in an illegal May Day demonstration in Cracow. Government and party newspapers condemned the diplomats “for brutally exploiting their diplomatic status.” The United States retaliated by ordering four Polish diplomats to leave. A State Department official said the action was a reflection of “grave displeasure” with the “unjustified expulsion of our diplomats but also with the Polish Government’s bald fabrication of a story to justify their expulsion.”
According to the Polish press accounts, the two diplomats, William Harwood and David Hopper, both assigned to the United States Consulate in Kraków, were among 15 people taken into custody when the police detained marchers carrying anti-Government signs and shouting anti-Government slogans near a church in Nowa Huta, a steel-mill suburb of Kraków. A spokesman for the United States Embassy reported that Mr. Hopper had been struck, kicked and shoved into an unmarked car.
The Labor Party held on to most seats it won in a 1981 landslide and the Social Democratic, Liberal Party alliance made strong gains today as British voters in county elections registered their growing unhappiness with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Government. What appears to have been a big switch of voters from the Tories to the alliance deprived the Conservatives of control of eight counties, while Labor’s failure to hang on to all of its 1981 gains cost it the marginal control it had won in five other counties. Conservative leaders, such as the Environment Secretary Patrick Jenkin, described the results as “not as bad as it might have been.” But Neil Kinnock, leader of the Labor Party, said it pointed to a Labor victory in the next general election. The alliance interpreted the results as a major victory in its battle to gain the balance of power by staking out the ground between the Tories and Labor.
Britain and France agreed today to hasten preparations for the long-awaited tunnel under the English Channel. A spokesman for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said she had agreed in talks here with President Francois Mitterrand to speed up work on a treaty fixing the details for the tunnel — most likely a rail link.
Two bombs blew up in this Mediterranean beach resort and four exploded in the Basque country today in a second day of explosions claimed by the Basque separatist group E.T.A. No one was injured in the blasts, which went off in a discotheque, two car-rental offices and an automobile on a railroad car, the police said. Minutes before a bomb exploded on a beach in the southeastern city of Alicante, a man identifying himself as an E.T.A. member called a radio station and said a bomb would be set off. He also said E.T.A. was responsible for explosions on Thursday in Valencia and Benidorm, the radio reported.
Militias traded mortar and rocket fire in Beirut today as Christian units of the Lebanese Army fought a two-hour tank and artillery battle with Druze fighters in the hills east of the city. Initial police reports said two civilians had been killed and 33 people wounded in the fighting in the capital, which continued into the night. Scores of rockets and mortar shells crashed into residential areas on both sides of the line dividing Beirut into Christian and Muslim sectors. Radio stations urged residents to remain indoors. An army spokesman said the hill fighting centered around Souq al Gharb, a strategic army base in the mountains eight miles southeast of Beirut.
The United States and India were described today as being close to an accord that would permit India to acquire highly advanced American technology that could sharply improve its military ability. In addition, a senior American policy maker said after discussions with Indian officials that the Reagan Administration had begun thinking about how India could become “a power we could work together with” in 10 or 20 years. The official, Fred C. Ikle, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, said his meetings with top leaders here convinced him that India could become “a power that contributes to world stability the way the United States will see it and want to shape it in 1995 or 2005. That, I think, is an exciting possibility of perhaps a new chapter in U.S.-Indian relations.” But he cautioned that the situation in the subcontinent was “delicate” and that the United States had no desire to support “Indian hegemony” over Pakistan or any other neighbors.
Armed with surface-to-air missiles, rebels fighting the Nicaraguan Government have moved from their main camp on the Honduran border, according to two Western diplomats and a rebel official in Honduras.
Direct aid to the Nicarguan rebels is still a bad idea, the Speaker of the House, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., declared. And he said President Reagan’s trade embargo against Nicaragua was premature. Mr. O’Neill made the statement following a report that said he and other House Democratic leaders had met on Thursday to discuss legislation that would allow them to vote for the $14 million in aid to the rebels that they had opposed last week.
A shipment of Iranian arms and ammunition has arrived at the North Korean port of Hungnam and is awaiting delivery to Nicaragua, United States officials said today. The shipment is reported to contain more than 9,000 Soviet-made AK-47 rifles, several million rounds of ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades and land mines, the officials said.
United Nations officials said today that they would investigate reports that 56,000 famine victims were evicted from the country’s largest feeding center and sent back to their home villages. Ethiopian officials have denied force was used to remove famine victims from the camp, and said evacuation was necessary to prevent epidemics and to get peasants back to their farms to take advantage of recent rains that have eased the drought.
Nigeria told 700,000 aliens to leave within a week. The Government said its borders, normally closed, would be open so the aliens could depart. It was Nigeria’s second mass expulsion of aliens — migrant workers drawn by an oil boom or refugees from drought. The first expulsion two years ago drove out about two million people in a chaotic and often violent action.
Sixteen prominent opponents of the Government won a protracted legal battle today to obtain their release on bail. They are to be tried later this month on charges of high treason. Defense lawyers, however, said the terms of bail, set by a Supreme Court judge at the equivalent of $85,000 for the group, resembled house arrest, since the dissidents are required to report twice daily to the police, stay away from political gatherings and remain home between 9 PM and 6 AM. The 16 are all members or supporters of the United Democratic Front, a nonracial opposition alliance that says it has 600 affiliate groups and a following of over 1.5 million. It is the biggest extra-parliamentary opposition organization in the country The dissidents had been refused bail since the police, invoking security laws, began detaining them in October for what is expected to be the biggest political trial in South Africa in a quarter of a century. At one point, the Attorney General of Natal Province issued an order forbidding bail altogether, but a Supreme Court judge overruled it, enabling them to apply for bail again today at the Supreme Court in Pietermaritzburg.
Three thousand discontented white farmers resolved today to withhold corn crops from South African Government buyers for one week to press demands for higher official prices. The decision, made at a rally in a rugby stadium, represents a major challenge to President P. W. Botha, who refused Thursday to increase producer prices for corn, and it offered a vision of conflict between whites once known for the monolithic unity of Afrikanerdom.
The nation’s jobless rate remained at 7.2 percent in April, the same as in the two preceding months, while the Government’s measure of the number of people employed showed a slight decline, the Labor Department reported today. The report, the first major indication of second-quarter economic performance, was regarded by many analysts as tending to confirm a marked slowdown in activity. Some said it now appeared that industrial production probably fell in April. On Wall Street, some economists speculated that if other figures for April were equally lackluster the Federal Reserve Board might relax its monetary policy to some degree.
The Senate voted today to cut the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs by $17.5 billion over three years, a reduction that is slightly smaller than proposed in the White House budget package. The vote was 93 to 6. The Senate is working on a package of spending reductions aimed at shrinking projected Government deficits by more than $50 billion in 1986 and nearly $300 billion over three years. Senators will continue to vote next week on amendments to a 1986 budget that is sponsored by the White House and the Senate’s Republican leaders. After the health-care vote, the Senators rejected by a tie vote a proposed 10 percent cut in their own salaries, now $75,100 a year.
Preoccupied as they are with experiments aimed at finding out more about some of the earth’s mysteries, the astronauts in the space shuttle Challenger today also reported receiving data on an area that may be 200 million billion miles away. The mission specialists are operating an advanced detection device that is trying to collect evidence that some cosmic radiation may be coming from exploding stars much larger and brighter than the Sun. Dr. Sukumar Biswas, the astrophysicist from Bombay who devised the experiment, explained that his theory held that such cosmic ray sources were 100 kiloparsecs, or 200 quadrillion, miles away. “There may be a new class of radiation emitter out there and if there is we need to find out what it is in order to fully understand the universe,” Dr. Biswas said in an interview at the Johnson Space Center.
Cities say they will fight back against efforts by the Reagan Administration to overturn affirmative hiring plans. In New York, New Jersey, Miami, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and San Francisco, officials said they opposed the Administration’s effort to eliminate plans using quotas for hiring blacks, Hispanic-Americans and women. “The Justice Department is trying to reopen this wound and nobody here is excited by the prospect,” said Philip R. Trapani, the City Attorney in Norfolk, Virginia, one of the 50 local governments involved. “No community that has been through this and achieved the success we have is anxious to go back and revisit it.”
Louis Farrakhan, leader of a Black Muslim sect based here, says he has accepted a $5 million loan from Libya’s Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, a man he has called “a fellow struggler in the cause of liberation of our people.” Mr. Farrakhan said in a speech in Washington Wednesday night that he had received the loan interest-free. He noted that it had to be repaid, but did not say by when. In addition, he said, “there are many more Muslim nations that are going to help us” besides Libya.
About 7 million ill-housed families still need Federal assistance if they are to have adequate housing they can afford despite the $100 billion the Government has spent since the enactment of a Federal housing program in 1968, that was one of the landmarks of President Johnson’s Great Society. Once again, the question of what the Federal role in housing should be is being debated as the Administration seeks to cut back assistance for the second time since President Reagan took office in 1981.
An alternative to abortion is offered by counselors to unmarried pregnant women in a new kind of maternity home that has been established from Orlando, Florida, to San Diego and from Kansas City, Missouri, to Hillsboro, New Hampshire, in an effort to reduce abortions. More than 300 such residences, nearly all of them sponsored by churches or conservative Christian organizations, have opened since 1980.
Steelmakers will deal separately with the United Steelworkers of America. The five major steel companies have decided to abandon a joint bargaining arrangement that was hailed as enlightened labor-management relations when it was adopted nearly 30 years ago. Each company will now seek reductions in labor costs individually.
A 30-year-old doctor in Illinois was convicted today of lacing his co-workers’ snacks with arsenic. Judge Dennis Cashman of Circuit Court found the doctor, Dr. Michael Swango, guilty after a two-week trial without a jury on six counts of aggravated battery. He faces up to 10 years in prison on each count. The charges stemmed from the poisonings last fall of doughnuts, tea and soda that Dr. Swango served co-workers while he was employed as a paramedic with the Adams County ambulance unit. Dr. Swango worked as a paramedic while he was awaiting medical licensing by Illinois and Ohio. None of the six paramedics was injured seriously.
The Texas Democratic Party, already reeling from a serious defeat in 1984 and continuing defections in its ranks, suffered another blow today with the announcement by Kent Hance, a popular former Representative, that he too would rather be a Republican. Mr. Hance, who ran unsuccessfully last year for the Democratic Senate nomination, said in Washington today, “I’m a Republican.” He was joined at the announcement by Phil Gramm, another former Democrat who was elected to the Senate last year as a Republican. Mr. Gramm carried the state with 59 percent of the vote against a liberal Democrat, State Senator Lloyd Doggett, in the strongest Republican showing in more than a century. Judges Join Republicans In the wake of Mr. Gramm’s victory, three Democratic judges switched to the Republican Party, ignoring pleas by Governor Mark White, a Democrat, not to do so.
The Houston police said today that a wheelchair-bound man robbed a hamburger stand, rolled to a discount store parking lot and shot a woman, then took two hostages and forced them to hail a taxi for him. The gunman, whose legs were amputated above the knees, released the hostages after they helped him in the cab, the police said.
A Minnesota processor is voluntarily recalling some of the company’s turkey roasts distributed in New York, Minnesota, Georgia, Maine, Washington and the District of Columbia, the Agriculture Department said today. Officials said Lea Foods of Albert Lea, Minn., initiated the recall after metal fragments thought to be from processing equipment were found in two roasts by two consumers.
A court-martial today found Commander James Wyatt 3d guilty of violating the Navy’s “officer and gentleman” code of conduct by living with an unmarried junior officer and lying to a superior officer about it.
Major League Baseball:
Cal Ripken, playing in his club record-tying 463d consecutive game, smashed a two-run homer in the eighth inning to help the Baltimore Orioles to an 8–7 triumph tonight that ended the Minnesota Twins’ winning streak at 10 games.
The White Sox downed the Detroit Tigers, 7–1. Tom Seaver hurled a seven-hitter for his 291st career victory, and Carlton Fisk belted a two-run homer as Chicago handed Detroit its third straight loss.
Bert Blyleven pitched a four-hitter for his first victory of the season and Tony Bernazard doubled and hit a sacrifice fly, as the Indians blanked the Rangers, 4–0.
The Brewers shut out the Angels, 7–0, as Ted Higuera hurled a four-hitter for his first major-league victory and Cecil Cooper collected three hits and three runs batted in to spearhead an 18-hit Milwaukee attack.
Glenn Wilson belted a two-run homer in the eighth inning to spark Philadelphia to a 3–2 win over the Astros. The starters were Nolan Ryan, baseball’s career strikeout leader, against Philadelphia’s Steve Carlton, the runner-up. Ryan struck out 10 in six innings, raising his career total to 3,912. Carlton, who has been bothered by stiffness in his left shoulder, could not add to his total of 3,883, leaving after five innings because of minor tightness in his shoulder.
Sixto Lezcano, Tony Pena and Bill Almon cracked two-run singles during a nine-run fourth inning, as the Pirates routed the Dodgers, 16–2. Jason Thompson drilled a two-run home run and a two-run single in the Pirates’ top offensive output since they scored 16 runs against the Chicago Cubs on June 2, 1981.
Mike Fitzgerald went 3-for-3, including a two-run single during a four-run fifth inning, and Hubie Brooks drove in two runs with a homer and single to lead Montreal to a 9–2 win over the Braves in Atlanta.
Darrell Porter and Jack Clark slammed three-run homers and John Tudor pitched a five-hitter to lead St. Louis past the San Francisco Giants, 8–1.
Montreal Expos 9, Atlanta Braves 2
Milwaukee Brewers 7, California Angels 0
San Diego Padres 6, Chicago Cubs 5
New York Mets 9, Cincinnati Reds 4
Texas Rangers 0, Cleveland Indians 4
Chicago White Sox 7, Detroit Tigers 1
Baltimore Orioles 8, Minnesota Twins 7
Kansas City Royals 1, New York Yankees 7
Boston Red Sox 10, Oakland Athletics 0
Houston Astros 2, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 16
Toronto Blue Jays 5, Seattle Mariners 4
San Francisco Giants 1, St. Louis Cardinals 8
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Corvey Irvin, NFL defensive tackle (Carolina Panthers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dallas Cowboys), in Augusta, Georgia.
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Greg Raposo, American pop singer (Dream Street), rock singer-songwriter, and actor, on Long Island, New York.
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