Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige says the United States and the Soviet Union have agreed to measures that are a good start toward more trade between the two superpowers. But he indicated at a Moscow news conference after bilateral talks that major obstacles to improved trade remain, including Soviet policies on human rights and emigration. Baldrige said he detected no change on emigration curbs that have caused the U.S. Congress to deny the Soviets most-favored-nation trade status.
”Unequivocal proof” of the feasibility of destroying intercontinental missiles in flight could be demonstrated in three years if the research was ”properly streamlined,” President Reagan’s science adviser said today. The adviser, George A. Keyworth 2nd, spoke to representatives of about 65 military contractors already involved in or seeking work on the research program on space defense weapons. In a brief interview after the speech, Mr. Keyworth said the program should concentrate resources on seeking to prove the soundness of technology intended to destroy Soviet missiles in the takeoff period of flight. This period is the first three to five minutes when the missiles’ propulsion rockets are still burning and before the missile has dispersed into multiple warheads and deceptive decoys.
Britain is to import artillery shells from a Belgian company that uses Polish explosives, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said today. She was answering questions in Parliament by the opposition Liberal Party suggesting that the TRB Company, a state-run Belgian concern, would be using Polish explosives to fulfill a British order for 11,000 medium artillery shells. Prime Minister Thatcher said TRB was a company with a high international reputation that occasionally obtained some of its explosives from Eastern Europe. ”We do not procure any ammunition from the Eastern bloc,” she said. A Liberal Member of Parliament, Paddy Ashdown, said the ammunition order would have gone to Britain’s Royal Ordnance Factory if the Government had not decided to make the state-run arms concern private.
Pope John Paul II ended his often stormy journey through the Low Countries today much as he started it, confronting face-to-face criticism of his traditionalist views. This afternoon, at Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium, Veronique Oruba, a 22-year-old sociology student of Polish extraction, stood directly before the Pope and declared: ”Certain stands you have taken with regard to the peoples of Latin America and the theology of liberation surprise us.” ”We are worried,” she said, ”to know that using means of contraception can put couples on the margins of the church, worried that the church would call for a penal and temporal sanction.” But the Pope, looking neither shocked nor angry, kissed Miss Oruba on the forehead after she finished her speech, and he thanked her in Polish.
Israel’s exchange of 1,150 prisoners with the PFLP-GC in return for 3 Israeli soldiers is being sharply criticized at home. Pleas for freeing Jewish terrorists increased in Israel in the aftermath of the release of 1,150 Palestinians and other prisoners in exchange for three Israeli soldiers. Hundreds of backers of 27 convicted and suspected Jewish terrorists demonstrated outside Parliament.
Palestinians and Shiite Muslims battled for a third day in Beirut today, and the top Shiite leader said the Palestine Liberation Organization would not be allowed to re-establish the power base it had in Lebanon before the Israeli invasion three years ago. The police said today that the toll in the fighting between the two Muslim groups had risen to 80 dead and about 500 wounded. Harsh fighting, which broke out Sunday night and continued Monday after a brief lull, raged today in and around three Palestinian refugee camps in heavily populated southern sections of the city and its suburbs, where Shiites predominate. Militiamen belonging to Amal, the dominant Shiite movement, have penetrated the Sabra camp, but they are still not in complete control.
Iraqi airplanes attacked installations inside Iran today, shattering a lull of several weeks in Persian Gulf war strikes on nonmilitary targets. A military spokesman said the planes launched ”destructive strikes” against three oil-pumping stations, in retaliation for Iran’s rejection of a proposed cease-fire during the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan. Iran’s national press agency also reported attacks by Iraqi jets on three industrial centers. Iraq said Monday that it had withdrawn its acceptance of a Ramadan cease-fire because Iran had rejected the idea. Ramadan started Monday in most Muslim countries.
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India arrived in Moscow today for his first official visit abroad and began talks with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. At a Kremlin dinner, Mr. Gorbachev said that the five-day visit, in which economic accords are expected to be signed, could lead to a ”qualitatively new level” in relations. These were also close under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Mr. Gandhi’s mother, who was assassinated in October.
The President of Sri Lanka has called a meeting Wednesday of leaders of all the country’s religious organizations to discuss the rising level of violence surrounding the demands by Tamil separatists. The meeting called by the President J. R. Jayewardene comes amid calls from the influential head of one of Sri Lanka’s main Buddhist sects for broader national political talks that would include representatives of Tamil separatist groups. Buddhists were shocked last week by a Tamil terrorist attack in the holy city of Anuradhapura that left more than 150 people dead, including a monk and several nuns gunned down on the grounds of a national shrine.
Cambodians may stop resettling in the United States. State Department officials said there were almost no more eligible Cambodian refugees left in Thailand deemed eligible for resettlement by American officials on the scene.
Cuba has not begun a threatened “radio war” with the United States over the start of Radio Marti and has subjected the U.S. broadcasts to only “light jamming,” the State Department said. The new radio service began Monday, beaming news and entertainment into Cuba. In response, Cuba canceled an immigration agreement and threatened to jam U.S. stations.
The Salvadoran Legislative Assembly fired the country’s rightist attorney general, Jose Francisco Guerrero. His critics said he had blocked the administration of justice, but did not elaborate. Guerrero said he was dismissed for political reasons and vowed to fight the ouster. The vote along party lines was the first major showdown between the right, which controlled the assembly for three years, and President Jose Napoleon Duarte’s Christian Democrats, who gained control of the assembly in the March 31 election. Guerrero belongs to the far-right Arena party, led by Roberto D’Aubuisson.
Leftist Salvadoran rebels announced that starting today, they will stop traffic on all the nation’s highways and sabotage electrical services throughout the country in their five-year-old war against the U.S.-backed government. Meanwhile, the Salvadoran army reported the discovery of large caches of weapons and medical suppliestwo in northern Chaletenango province and one in southern San Vicente province.
President Reagan meets with the President of the Republic of Honduras Roberto Suazo Cordova. The U.S. vowed to defend Honduras ”against Communist aggression.” The pledge was made in a joint communique issued after a brief White House meeting between President Reagan and President Roberto Suazo Cordova.
Honduran leaders reached an agreement designed to resolve a power struggle between President Roberto Suazo Cordova and Congress over control of the nomination of presidential candidates. Under the agreement, the party getting the most total votes for all its candidates wins the presidency; the candidate getting the most votes within that party takes the office. The Supreme Court, which Suazo and Congress attempted to manipulate in the struggle, will be dissolved and a new court named. And Supreme Court Justice Ramon Valladares Soto is to be released from jail. Appointed by Congress, he was arrested on treason charges.
The Nicaraguan government raised the price of chicken by 16.4% and of eggs by 19.2% and warned of possible future price hikes for milk, meat and other goods because of the U.S. trade embargo. Nicaragua is trying to expand trade with other countries to offset the embargo, and Trade Minister Alejandro Martinez arrived in Belgium with a shipment of 60,000 boxes of bananas.
President Reagan meets with Republican Congressional Leaders to discuss the situation in Nicaragua. President Reagan, pounding his fist on a table, voiced anger and impatience today over Congressional obstacles to his Nicaraguan policy. ”We have got to get where we can run a foreign policy without a committee of 535 telling us what we can do,” Mr. Reagan told Republican legislators at the White House, alluding to the 435 members of the House of Representatives and the 100 senators. His comments came despite optimism expressed today within the Administration and among Republican legislative leaders that the mood on Capitol Hill had shifted in favor of some aid to the rebels. The Senate is expected to take up a bipartisan aid proposal this week.
The Bolivian Government said today that it was raising the price of bread by 75 percent, and unions denounced the move. The latest price increase followed a 40 percent devaluation of the peso and a 50 percent increase in the price of fuel. The government also ordered employers last week to raise wages sixfold to offset the inflation of 566.5 percent for the first four months of the year. The Bolivian Workers’ Federation, which staged a 16-day general strike in March, said it would meet Wednesday to consider ways to protest the price rises.
The House defeated an attempt to delete a major economic sanction against South Africa from legislation designed to force the white-minority regime to abandon apartheid. An amendment by California Rep. Ed Zschau (R-California), rejected 256 to 148, would have dropped a ban on new bank loans to the Pretoria government. Votes on other major economic sanctions are pending. At the United Nations, meanwhile, the United States cast the only negative vote as the Economic and Social Council approved plans for hearings on multinational companies operating in South Africa and Namibia.
South Africa and Israel conducted a joint nuclear weapons test in 1979, a private lobbying group said today, and a member of Congress called for a new investigation of the report. The report, by the Washington Office on Africa, said the Carter Administration suppressed information about the atomic test because the test was politically inconvenient and potentially embarrassing. The group said the report was based on published information and nearly 500 pages of previously secret documents from the United States Naval Research Laboratory. Representative John Conyers Jr., Democrat of Michigan, said at a news conference that he believed there was a ”scientific cover-up” of the incident. ”We are now moving forward and demanding that there be a Congressional oversight investigation,” he said. In 1980, a scientific panel appointed by the Carter Administration dismissed the evidence of a nuclear test. The State Department spokesman, Bernard Kalb, said the department ”has no reason to change the U.S. Government’s 1980 verdict that the case for a bomb test has not been proven.” Israel and Africa have denied detonating a nuclear device.
The U.S. punished General Dynamics by announcing a suspension of all new contracts with two major divisions of the corporation because of ”pervasive” business misconduct. Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. also said he was fining the nation’s third-largest military contractor $676,283 for having given gratuities to Admiral Hyman Rickover, who directed the Navy’s submarine program until he retired in 1981. In addition, the Secretary said he was canceling two missile contracts worth $22.5 million and putting them up for competitive bidding. But he said he saw no reason why the Navy and General Dynamics could not reach an agreement that would restore normal business relations in a few weeks, assuming the company did not choose to be ”confrontational and litigious.”
The White House urged an MX plan that would temporarily limit deployment of the missile to 50 sites. The offer, an acknowledgement of increasing opposition to the missile, halves the Administration’s original request for basing 100 of the huge weapons in existing silos. In effect, the Administration has conceded defeat, at least for now, in its efforts to field a full MX force. But the White House wants to leave open the possibility of requesting more missiles in the future, in case arms control talks break down and tensions rise with the Soviet Union.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted today to send the United Nations treaty against genocide to the Senate, adopting reservations insisted upon by Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, who has led opposition to the treaty in the past. Ten of the 17 members of the committee voted to send the treaty to the floor for advice and consent to its ratification. Five members voted ”present” because they favored having the full Senate vote on the treaty but objected to the reservations. Two members were absent.
A woman gave birth to seven babies in a hospital in Orange, California, and six lived in what was apparently the largest multiple birth in the United States. The babies were born by Caesarian section in three minutes to Patti Jorgensen Frustaci, a high school English teacher, who had been taking a fertility drug. The father is Samuel Frustaci, a salesman.
Economic growth nearly halted in the first three months of the year after almost two years of vigorous expansion, the Commerce Department reported. It said the gross national product, undermined by the effects of a strong dollar, grew at a rate of seven-tenths of 1 percent. At the same time, the Labor Department said the Consumer Price Index rose four-tenths of 1 percent in April, a moderate increase that was not enough to worry economists. The Reagan Administration and private economists were inclined to label today’s report the epitaph of an erratic deceleration of the economy that began late last summer, rather than a signal of worse to come.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission came under Congressional criticism today for amending its regulations to permit secret meetings without public notice and without a stenographic transcript. Representative Edward J. Markey, the Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of a House subcommittee that oversees the agency, said at a hearing today that the commission adopted the new regulations last week without notice or opportunity for public comment on the change out of ”apparent mistrust of the public.” Under the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976, Federal agencies are required to provide public access to their meetings, but each agency adopts its own regulations to conform to this requirement.
Texas finds revenue tight and legislators are trying to balance the state’s budget in the face of continued recession in the oil industry, which long gave Texans a kind of free lunch on taxes. Texas ironically is now struggling to make ends meet at a time when once-distressed Northern industrial states like New York and New Jersey are suddenly enjoying comfortably balanced budgets and are even cutting taxes.
A drilling rig capsized and sank in a remote coastal area near Morgan City, Louisiana, killing at least 6 of the 22 people aboard and leaving 5 missing and feared dead. Rescue operations were hampered through the day by a thunderstorm.
Philadelphia has received more than $1.2 million in donations so far to rebuild a neighborhood ravaged by fire in the police battle against the radical cult MOVE, Mayor W. Wilson Goode announced. The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has pledged an additional $1 million, and Goode will ask the City Council to allocate $500,000 from the city’s general fund. Goode planned also to seek $5 million from the state. About 250 persons were left homeless May 13 after the massive blaze destroyed 53 row houses and severely damaged eight others. Seven adults and four children living in the MOVE house died in the fire.
The American Academy of Pediatrics called for a moratorium on the sale of all-terrain vehicles-an increasingly popular three-wheel motorized bike blamed for a rising number of fatal accidents. There were 67,000 emergency-room treated injuries associated with the bikes last year, a tenfold increase from 1981, and most of them involved children, Dr. Joseph Greensher, an academy officer, told a House hearing in Washington.
Advocates of free choice on abortion stood in a downtown Washington plaza near the Capitol and told of the rape, the poverty, the youth or the biological defect that led them to choose abortion. The demonstrators sought to defend abortion against its attackers and to show that Americans who have abortions ”are not selfish, irresponsible people who don’t care about family.” More than 100 women, many saying they had never before acknowledged their abortions, declared at a Washington rally that they would be “silent no more” in the face of attacks on women’s access to abortion. The rally, sponsored by the National Abortion Rights Action League, was billed as “a forum for concerned and outraged pro-choice supporters who have flooded the league office with calls and letters expressing concern about the current abortion debate which ignores women and the reality of individuals’ lives.”
A Lutheran lay minister was convicted in federal court in Baltimore of conspiring to bomb 10 abortion clinics in three states and the District of Columbia. The attacks occurred from January, 1984, through January, 1985. Michael D. Bray, 32, of Bowie, Maryland, who faces a possible 90-year prison term and a $100,000 fine when he is sentenced July 2, did not testify.
The son of a victim of Alzheimer’s disease asked a House committee for increased federal research into the disease, saying the baby boom generation may also create an Alzheimer’s boom before long. “Depending on the success of research funded now … there may be 4 million cases of Alzheimer’s by the year 2000,” said James Strong of Oakland. That contrasts with an estimated 2.5 million current victims, whose care costs an estimated $34 billion a year, Strong said.
Air pollution is damaging wildlife and vegetation in the National Parks and is also eroding monuments and buildings and reducing visibility, according to the National Park Service. In testimony before a House subcommittee, park superintendents warned that increasing pollution, including acid rain, threatens many units of the park system.
High winds whipped small brush fires into larger ones on Florida’s southwestern coast, but rain left the rest of the state “generally in good shape” after thousands of acres burned, officials said. In northeastern Florida, fires that had destroyed or damaged 550 homes and scorched 21,500 acres in Flagler County’s Palm Coast, north of Daytona Beach, were “virtually out” and fires that burned 36,700 acres in Volusia County were contained, an official said.
Glen Sather came to town with his defending champion Edmonton Oilers and immediately proclaimed the Flyers the favorites to win the Stanley Cup. A smokescreen, said the Flyer coach, Mike Keenan. ”But if they believe it,” added Philadelphia’s rookie coach, ”I’m happy.” Now there is all the more reason to believe it, as the Flyers totally dismantled the Oilers tonight at the Spectrum, 4–1, in the opening game of the four-of-seven game Stanley Cup finals. Paced by a strong checking game that completely shut down Edmonton’s two most explosive scorers, Wayne Gretzky and Jari Kurri, the Flyers easily outplayed the defending Stanley Cup champions.
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Vince Coleman’s first Major League homer is inside-the-park and Ozzie Smith went three-for-four to spark St. Louis as the Cards beat the Braves, 6–3. Bob Horner accounts for the Braves’ runs with 2 homers. Danny Cox (4–1) went the first five and one-third innings to pick up the victory, but he needed help from Ricky Horton, who earned his first save in pitching the final three and two-thirds innings. Len Barker (1–4) was the loser.
Dave Parker’s tiebreaking double was the key hit in a three-run eighth inning that led Cincinnati to a 5–2 win in Chicago. Eddie Milner, a pinch-hitter, drew a walk off George Frazier (1–1) to open the eighth. One out later, Dave Concepcion singled and Parker followed with his double off the left-field wall, extending his hitting streak to 13 games. Alan Knicely was walked intentionally, filling the bases, and walks to Tony Perez, who earlier had hit a homer, and Nick Esasky forced across two more runs. The victory was the sixth in the last seven games for the Reds.
Tim Wallach drove in three runs, two of them with his second homer of the season, as Montreal defeated Los Angeles, 6–1. Bill Gullickson (5–4) allowed scattered five hits over six and one-third innings and contributed two hits, including a two-run double. Jeff Reardon picked up his ninth save with two and two-thirds innings of hitless relief.
Rick Reuschel, just recalled from the minors, checked Houston on one run and three hits in seven and two-thirds innings in his first major-league start since last August 10 as the Pirates edged the Astros, 3–2. Reuschel, a 12-year major-league veteran, almost all of it with the Chicago Cubs, retired 15 of the first 16 Houston batters but fell four outs short of what would have been only his second complete game since 1981. He was relieved by John Candelaria with two out in the eighth inning. Reuschel, a 36-year-old right-hander, was 6–2 with a league-best 2.50 earned run average at Hawaii of the Pacific Coast League until joining the Pirates.
The Phillies beat the Giants, 6–5. Glenn Wilson drove in two runs and the Phillies took advantage of shoddy fielding by San Francisco. Shane Rawley (4–3) gave up seven hits and Kent Tekulve, the fourth Philadelphia pitcher, worked an inning and a third for his second save in two nights.
Dwight Evans and Tony Armas snapped long batting slumps with home runs, and Marty Barrett drove in three runs with four of Boston’s 16 hits to power the Red Sox to a 9–1 rout of the Twins. Boston had hit just one home run in losing five of its previous six games. But the Red Sox came alive to back the pitching of Bruce Kison (1–0), who allowed seven hits over eight innings in his first start since he injured a hamstring April 14.
The Yankees made the game academic after the first inning, scoring four times and eventually routing the Seattle Mariners, 11–1, at the Kingdome. Ron Guidry, the Yankees’ starter, gave up three hits over eight innings for his fourth victory. He allowed just one hit after the fifth and struck out six. Although Billy Martin, the Yankees’ manager, had spoken of his ”hate” for artificial turf only one day earlier, his club won its fifth straight game at the Kingdome dating to last season.
Jeff Burroughs singled home George Bell with the winning run with one out in the ninth inning tonight to give the Toronto Blue Jays a 4–3 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Bell led off the Blue Jays’ ninth with a double off the glove of Harold Baines in right field and advanced to third on Jesse Barfield’s long fly. Burroughs then singled off Bob James (1–1) to make a winner of Gary Lavelle (1–0).
A one-out double by Ruppert Jones scored Juan Beniquez in the bottom of the 11th to give California a 2–1 victory over the Tigers. Beniquez led off with a single off Willie Hernandez (2–1). Brian Downing sacrificed and Jones ripped a double just inside the first-base line, scoring Beniquez and making a winner of Donnie Moore.
The Royals blanked the Rangers, 5–0. George Brett smacked a pair of two-run homers to support Bud Black’s three-hit pitching for Kansas City. Black (4–3) recorded the second shutout and the third three-hitter of his major league career, giving up singles to Pete O’Brien in the fifth inning, Buddy Bell in the sixth and Glenn Brummer in the seventh. He struck out four and walked three. Frank Tanana (0–5) gave up five hits. He has lost his last seven decisions, spanning two seasons.
Brook Jacoby cracked a two-run homer in the fifth inning, and Bryan Clark and Rich Thompson provided six and two-third innings of strong relief to lead Cleveland to a 6–4 victory over Milwaukee. Julio Franco walked to lead off the Cleveland fifth and Jacoby lined his third home run of the season over the left-center field fence to give the Indians a 5–4 lead. Chris Bando hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth as the Indians won their third straight game.
The A’s edged the Orioles, 3–2. Mike Boddicker walked Dwayne Murphy on four straight pitches with two out in the 10th inning, forcing in the run that gave the A’s a win at Oakland. A’s reliever Jay Howell got the win.
Detroit Tigers 1, California Angels 2
Cincinnati Reds 5, Chicago Cubs 2
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Cleveland Indians 6
Boston Red Sox 9, Minnesota Twins 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Montreal Expos 6
Baltimore Orioles 2, Oakland Athletics 3
San Francisco Giants 5, Philadelphia Phillies 6
Houston Astros 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
New York Yankees 11, Seattle Mariners 1
Atlanta Braves 3, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Kansas City Royals 5, Texas Rangers 0
Chicago White Sox 3, Toronto Blue Jays 4
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1309.7 (+4.82)
Born:
Andrew Miller, MLB pitcher (All-Star, 2016, 2017; Detroit Tigers, Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals), in Gainesville, Florida.
Matt Hunwick, NHL defenseman (Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche, New York angers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins, Buffao Sabres), in Warren, Michigan.
Mark Cavendish, British road cyclist (UCI Road World C’ships 2011; Points classification winner Tour de France 2011, 21; Giro d’Italia 2013; Vuelta a España 2010), brn in Douglas, Isle of Man, United Kingdom.
Frustaci Septuplets, four boys and three girls (daughter Christina stillborn, three more die later) born to Patricia Frustaci (first known septuplets born in the United States), in Orange, California.
Kano [Kane Robinson], English rapper and actor (“Top Boy”), in London, England, United Kingdom.
Marco Carta, Italian pop singer, in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.
Mutya Buena, British pop singer (Sugababes – “Push the Button”), in London, England, United Kingdom.
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