A training manual discarded by a U.S. serviceman indicates that the U.S. Army plans to deploy more than the 108 Pershing missiles NATO agreed to install in West Germany, Stern magazine said. An article in the West German weekly said the 230-page manual reveals plans to stockpile extra Pershings in a secret depot. It asserted this is why the Pentagon ordered 258 Pershing 2s from the Martin Marietta Corp. instead of just the 108 scheduled for West German deployment. In Washington, an Army spokesman denied the report but acknowledged that more than 108 missiles will be built — for testing, practice and as spares.
Defense Ministers of the Atlantic alliance agreed today on a program to improve nonnuclear defenses and reduce reliance on nuclear arms, but avoided a United States proposal for production of new chemical weapons. The 14 ministers agreed to correct deficiencies in conventional arms by narrowing priorities, improving long-term planning and making better use of existing resources. Lord Carrington, the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said the ministers agreed that there was ”a political and military need for a renewed and determined effort to improve NATO’s defenses.” On the chemical weapons, the United States had sought allied support in its effort to persuade Congress to finance production of new weapons. But in light of coolness to the idea, the United States dropped a proposal to have the allies formally recognize the need for a modern chemical deterrent.
Hundreds of students at Warsaw University staged a protest rally today against plans by the Communist authorities’ to limit student self-government and to exert more official control over courses and teaching methods. Student organizers said at least 1,500 of the university’s 10,000 students filled the main campus hall in a peaceful protest authorized by the university’s rector, Grzegorz Bialkowski. Two university teachers and others addressed the rally and condemned proposed amendments to Poland’s law on higher education that would curtail student autonomy and assert the need for greater Communist ideological training. The rally was the latest sign of political disaffection at the university, a center of support in 1980 and 1981 for the now outlawed union Solidarity.
The Soviet Union has mailed back to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations about 20,000 letters from private citizens protesting the continued internal exile of Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov and his wife, a U.S. spokeswoman said. The letters, in seven mailbags, were delivered to the Soviets on May 15. The Kremlin maintains that the case is a domestic matter. A U.S. statement, issued at the United Nations, called on the Soviets to provide information on the health of the Sakharovs and to end their isolation.
A butane gas explosion and fire at a crowded restaurant in Granada, Spain, injured 79 people and damaged nearby buildings, the civil governor’s office said. Authorities said the explosion at the Meson Andaluz restaurant came just moments after police arrived at the scene and began cordoning off the area in response to complaints by neighbors of a strong gas odor. The blast set the restaurant ablaze, shattered windows and damaged nearby stores and buildings in the heart of Granada, a tourist mecca.
In Lebanon, Michel Seurat, a French history researcher, is abducted. He was kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad Organization, a Lebanese terrorist organization that was the precursor to Hezbollah. Unlike his cellmate Jean-Paul Kauffmann, also kidnapped the same day, he was not released. On 5 March 1986 Islamic Jihad stated that it had executed Seurat; however, his fellow hostages revealed on their release that Seurat had died of hepatitis. In October 2005, the remains of Michel Seurat were found in the southern suburbs of Beirut by construction workers, and were formally identified after DNA testing.
A car bomb exploded in East Beirut, killing at least 50 people and wounding 172 in the predominantly Christian half of the city. In a fourth day of heavy fighting between Palestinian guerrillas and Shiite Muslim militiamen in heavily populated southern sections of the capital and its suburbs, the authorities said at least 34 people were killed and 157 were wounded today. The casualty totals since the fighting started Sunday are believed to have reached at least 155 killed and more than 800 wounded.
Palestinian guerrillas deployed in the Lebanese mountains fired volleys of rockets into Beirut’s southern suburbs today in an effort to relieve the pressure on three Palestinian refugee camps, which have been under attack by Shiite fighters since Sunday. The Soviet-manufactured Katyusha rockets hit several areas around the Sabra, Shatila and Burj al Brajneh camps in a further intensification of the violence that has gripped the Muslim part of the Lebanese capital for four days. Militiamen of the Shiite movement Amal and defenders of the camps appeared to be locked in a fight to the finish. All efforts to arrange a truce have so far failed.
Rajiv Gandhi praised Soviet support of India and criticized some aspects of American foreign policy at the end of two days of talks at the Kremlin. The Indian Prime Minister said that Washington had failed to restrain Pakistan in its efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. He said that his visit, during which two trade accords were signed, had ”strengthened our relations and helped the cause of peace.” The Indian leader said he had chosen the Soviet Union for his first official trip as Prime Minister because ”it has been an old friend over 30 years.” ”We have stood together in times of trial, and we recognize that,” he said.
The Indian police fired on a crowd in Gujarat state today, wounding at least two people, after a man was stabbed to death during rioting and arson. The slaying raised the death toll to 129 since violence began in March in Gujarat over plans to raise quotas for members of lower castes in colleges and government jobs. The student-led protest has sparked clashes between Hindus and Muslims, policemen and demonstrators, and upper and lower caste Hindus.
A local leader in northern Sri Lanka asserted today that government troops had ordered about 20,000 Tamils to leave the area within two weeks for security reasons. The official, N. M. Sornabala, is president of a citizens’ committee in Vavuniya, about 150 miles north of Colombo. He said in a telephone interview that soldiers who arrived Tuesday in the Chundikkulam area told the Tamils to leave their homes. Mr. Sornabala said about 5,000 Tamil families, or about 20,000 people, lived in several villages in the area. The government official was not available for comment. A spokesman for the Home Ministry in Colombo said he was aware of the issue, but declined further comment.
A group of university students today broke into the United States cultural center in Seoul, South Korea, taking over one floor of the building in what American officials described as an unarmed protest. According to the officials, an estimated 50 students managed somehow to get past armed police officers posted outside the cultural center. The students were said to have occupied a second-floor library. American officials tried to persuade them to leave, but more than two hours after the protest had begun the students continued to hold the library. Officials and other workers evacuated the building, which is in central Seoul, about half a mile from the United States Embassy. South Korean police officers were reported to have surrounded the cultural center, but at the request of the Americans they made no attempt to remove the protesters. The action came at a time of rising anti-American sentiment among college students opposed to the South Korean President, Chun Doo Hwan.
The Australian equivalent of the CIA will lose the right to use weapons and carry out certain kinds of spy operations after a series of embarrassing blunders, Prime Minister Bob Hawke said in Canberra. Hawke announced the measures in Parliament in response to a two-year investigation prompted by a series of spy scandals. He said the government has accepted a commission’s recommendations that the Australian Security Intelligence Service be barred from launching covert special and political operations, lose the right to use weapons and dispose of its stocks of weapons and explosives.
Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand has informed the United States that he will not meet with Secretary of State George P. Shultz during the secretary’s Asian trip in July, State Department officials said today. The officials said that Mr. Lange had been considering going to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the annual meeting of foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and meeting with Mr. Shultz, who will be there in early July. But recently, Mr. Lange told American diplomats in Wellington, New Zealand, that he had decided there was no point in going to Malaysia since relations with the United States did not appear amenable to improvement at this time. Ties between the two countries have been severely strained since the beginning of this year when New Zealand barred a port call by a Navy destroyer pending assurances by Washington that the ship was not carrying nuclear arms. Since Washington follows a policy of never saying if a particular ship is nuclear-armed or not, the port call request was canceled.
Salvador rightists are cooling their often fiery rhetoric about a Communist threat, according to many politicians and foreign diplomats in San Salvador. Roberto d’Aubuisson, the leader of the ultra-rightist party, appears to be struggling to recover from a crushing defeat in recent legislative elections.
Honduras’ chief justice of the Supreme Court, Ramon Valladares Soto, was released from prison, one day after an agreement ended a confrontation between Congress and President Roberto Suazo Cordova. Valladares was imprisoned by the executive branch on March 29, hours after Congress replaced five justices of the nine-man court with five new members, including the chief justice. Valladares was accused of treason for accepting the post. The agreement to end the standoff calls for a new Supreme Court to be chosen, and Valladares said he has submitted his resignation.
Protesters looted food markets and smashed the windows of 50 cars in a 24-hour general strike in the northern Peruvian city of Chimbote, police sources said today. They said the Civil Guard arrested about 30 people on Tuesday. Half of them had taken part in a raid on the town’s main food market and smaller grocery stores, they said. The strike was organized by the steelworkers’ and fish-processing factory workers’ unions in Chimbote, a city of 300,000 people.
In the months since the famine in Ethiopia became known around the world, the primary concern has been to find ways to get food from outside to the millions of starving people here. Increasingly, however, attention has been turning to the less dramatic but far more complex problem of what can be done to help Ethiopia transform itself from a recipient of charity into a nation capable of feeding itself. The rains that have lately fallen, combined with a recent announcement that the United States will begin paying for Ethiopian development as well as relief assistance, has brought new immediacy and hope to the debate. But a growing number of Western development specialists say that rain from above and dollars from abroad, while necessary, are insufficient in themselves in bringing economic viability to this country.
South African police and soldiers moved into the black township of Duduza, 30 miles southeast of Johannesburg, to halt three days of rioting that killed four people, including a white nurse who died of head injuries after she was dragged from her car and stoned. Troops escorted cleaning units that began to clear piles of garbage and dismantle makeshift roadblocks erected by rioting youths. Unrest over the white government’s apartheid policies of racial discrimination have claimed at least 350 lives, all but two of them black, in the last 15 months.
President Reagan will have to consider vetoing the Superfund renewal bill if it contains a value-added tax on manufacturers, Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee M. Thomas said. Such a tax is in the version of the bill approved last week by the Senate Finance Committee. A value-added tax is a levy on the difference between the receipts of a business and the cost of its raw materials. Such taxes are widely used in Western Europe but have never been imposed in the United States.
President Reagan attends the graduation ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD.
President Reagan receives the Diplomatic Credentials from new Ambassadors to the United States.
The House Judiciary Committee voted for legislation that would restore full protection of four major civil rights laws that were curtailed by a 1984 Supreme Court decision. The committee version, approved on a 21-12 vote, was a victory for civil rights lobbyists, who fought successfully to keep Republicans from adding restrictive abortion language. The bill would restore the full effect of laws protecting minorities, women, the elderly and disabled in programs and activities that accept federal assistance — both in and out of government.
The U.S. Navy charged a seaman aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz with aiding his father in smuggling secret documents to the Soviet Union. Officials said the charges were filed in Baltimore against the seaman, Michael L. Walker, 22, after investigators found a box containing more than 15 pounds of secret material near his bunk.
General Dynamics’s chief is leaving the military contracting company by the end of this year. The announcement of the retirement of David S. Lewis, the 67-year-old chairman of the company, was made one day after Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. suspended the signing of all new contracts with two of the corporation’s major divisions, citing ”pervasive” business misconduct.
Governor Dick Thornburgh of Pennsylvania and the state’s two Senators urged the Nuclear Regulatory Commission today to postpone a vote on the resumption of nuclear power production at Three Mile Island. The vote is scheduled for next week. A majority of the five-member commission has long been believed to favor restarting Unit 1 at the power plant near Harrisburg, the undamaged twin of the Unit 2 reactor that was wrecked in a March 1979 accident. That partial meltdown, the worst mishap in the 30-year history of commercial nuclear power, remains as much a psychological yoke upon the whole nuclear utility industry as a fiscal burden on the General Public Utilities Corporation, its owner, and the Three Mile Island decision is seen as having widespread significance.
The six premature babies born Tuesday to Patti J. Frustaci, a California schoolteacher, are in slightly worsened condition, Dr. Carrie C. Worcester, reported. She said the babies were all ”critically ill” and were being treated with drugs for complications involving the lungs, liver and circulatory system. However, Dr. Worcester called the babies ”fighters,” whose chances of survival remained 50-50.
The child poverty rate is higher than it has been at any time in the last 20 years, according to the Congressional Research Office and the Congressional Budget Office. Children make up 26.8 percent of the nation’s population but 39.2 percent of the nation’s poor people are children, according to the latest data, the agencies’ 670-page report said.
Managing Director Leo A. Brooks, who supervises the Philadelphia Police Department, said he plans to resign, but denied that the police bombing of the radical group MOVE’s West Philadelphia house influenced his decision. Meanwhile, Mayor W. Wilson Goode announced the appointment of an 11-member independent commission to investigate the siege and resulting fire of the May 13 confrontation, which left 11 persons dead and 61 houses destroyed or damaged.
A jury found Dale Whipple, 18 years old, guilty but mentally ill Tuesday in the ax murder of his parents in Indiana on New Year’s Day. The defendant’s sister, Penny, who was 13 at the time of the slayings, was questioned but not charged.
Rhode Island’s top judge refused to testify before the judicial ethics panel investigating his friendship with convicted criminals and reputed underworld figures, the Providence Journal reported. It quoted unidentified sources as saying the 14-member panel was “astonished” by the action of Joseph A. Bevilacqua, chief justice of the state Supreme Court. The disciplinary hearing on undisclosed charges is not open to the public and Bevilacqua has refused to discuss the proceedings.
Four men surrendered to police in Youngstown, Ohio, after being charged in connection with the deaths Monday of nine workers at what police called an illegal fireworks plant. The four, including the owner-operator of the factory, Anthony Aulisio Jr., were charged with nine counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the explosion at a farm shed that authorities say housed an illicit fireworks business.
Divers found four more bodies in the dark interior of a capsized oil rig, bringing to at least 10 the number of victims among the 21-man crew. Rescuers held out hope that the last missing worker had escaped or found a way to survive, authorities said in Morgan City, Louisiana. The last bodies were found after divers went back inside the rig Tonkawa after an overnight suspension of the search. A Coast Guard spokesman said it may be a month or more before investigators determine what caused the accident. A hearing was set for Tuesday in New Orleans.
A judge in Cleveland granted Chinese farmer “Charlie Two Shoes” another four-month extension of his stay in the United States, where he has been living for two years with the ex-Marines who befriended him 40 years ago in his native land. “I feel more comfortable now,” said Cui Zhxi, 50, whose American friends gave him the nickname when he was 10 because they had difficulty pronouncing his real name. Cui’s lawyer, Samuel J. Levine, indicated that a bill pending before a congressional subcommittee in Washington could grant his client permanent residency within four months.
The number of Roman Catholics fell slightly in 1984 in the first national decrease since 1979, according to the latest Official Catholic Directory. The figures showed the Archdioceses of Boston and New York leading in the decline and a national drop in marriages, conversions and baptisms.
Miami’s Bayfront Park may bloom again under the guidance of a Japanese-American designer-sculptor, Isamu Noguchi. The former civic showcase has declined into a hangout for derelicts, but Mr. Noguchi’s plans for the rundown 38 acres of waterfront park are expected to be the catalyst that transforms the center of downtown Miami.
As heavy rains yesterday doused blazes that had rampaged across much of Florida, the authorities said they thought arson might be involved in many cases. More than 100 wildfires plagued the state for five days, scorching more than 150,000 acres, destroying homes and causing evacuations, but officials said only five major blazes remained uncontained today and those posed no threat to people or buildings. A fire in central Florida south of Flagler Beach, which flared Sunday and Monday, was definitely arson, said a state forestry fire investigator, Gordon Buckles.
“A View to a Kill”, 14th James Bond film, last to star Roger Moore, also starring Grace Jones and Christopher Walken, premieres in San Francisco.
Larry Bird stripped Andrew Toney of the ball with five seconds remaining tonight at Boston Garden to put the Celtics in the NBA Finals. The dramatic steal insured a 102-100 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers that clinched the Eastern Conference final series, 4 games to 1. The Celtics will face the Los Angeles Lakers, beginning Monday afternoon in Boston, in a rematch of last year’s championship series, won by the Celtics in seven games. The play that gave the Celtics a chance at becoming the first team to win successive National Basketball Association titles since the Boston club of 1969, began with 12 seconds left when Bird missed a right side jumper as Boston was clinging to its 2-point lead.
For nearly a year, the Los Angeles Lakers have lived with the bitter memory of losing the championship to the Boston Celtics. Tonight, they earned a chance to erase that memory. The Lakers obliterated the Denver Nuggets, 153-109, at the Forum to earn their fourth consecutive Western Conference title and a berth in the finals for the fifth time in the last six seasons. They will face the Celtics in the first game of the four-of-seven championship series Monday afternoon in Boston. The Celtic-Laker rematch will mark the ninth time the two franchises have met in the finals. The Celtics have won the previous eight, starting in 1958-59, when the Lakers were in Minneapolis. Four of the series have gone the maximum seven games.
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Brian Dayett, a pinch-hitter, got his first major league grand slam today, drilling the first pitch he saw in the sixth inning to help the Chicago Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds, 7–4. Dayett’s homer was his first in a Cub uniform and only the fifth of his major league career. It made a winner of Dennis Eckersley (5–3), who yielded a three-run homer in the top of the inning to Alan Knicely that had staked the Reds to a brief 4–2 advantage.
The Cincinnati Reds’ Pete Rose’s 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as National League all-time run scoring leader.
The Padres beat the Mets, 5–4, in the 10th inning at Shea Stadium, after they had fallen behind, 4–0, after three innings and had gone nearly half the game without a hit. Early, the night had belonged to Ron Darling the Mets’ starter, but by the end, it clearly was Kennedy’s. He hit a three-run homer in the sixth to tie the game. And in the 10th, with runners on first and third and two outs, he ended the game with his single.
Bob Forsch belted a bases-empty home run to break a 3–3 tie and pitched 6 ⅓ innings in relief to lead St. Louis over the Braves, 5–3. Forsch’s home run off the loser, Rick Mahler (8–3) was the eighth of his career. Forsch (3–2) struck out one and walked two after replacing Kurt Kepshire in the first inning with the Braves leading, 2–0.
Jerry Reuss tossed a four-hitter, and Greg Brock contributed a three-run homer as Los Angeles shut out Montreal, 4–0. Reuss (3–4) struck out three and walked one as he pitched his first complete game of the season and first shutout since October 1, 1982. Brock broke up a tight game with two outs in the sixth inning when he sent a 2–1 pitch from David Palmer (3–4) into the left field seats for his third home run of the season.
A two-run double by Bob Brenly highlighted a four-run sixth inning as San Francisco snapped a three-game losing streak, downing the Phillies, 6–2. Dave LaPoint, who has suffered from lack of offensive support in five losses, won for the second time. He allowed seven hits, struck out one and walked seven in six innings. Scott Garrelts pitched the last three innings, striking out seven en route to his fourth save. Kevin Gross (3–5) was the loser as the Phillies stranded 13 men, twice leaving the bases loaded.
Alan Ashby, who tied the game with a ninth-inning sacrifice fly, drilled a two-run double in the 10th to lead Houston past Pittsburgh, 5–3. With the score tied, 3–3, and one out in the 10th, Enos Cabell stroked a pinch-hit single and was balked to second by Al Holland before Phil Garner drew an intentional walk. Ashby followed with a line drive off the top of the left field wall.
The Yankees knew they could not keep winning in Seattle forever. In their last six games in the Kingdome, they played as if it were their second home. But their offense tonight lasted just one inning, and they lost, 4–1, to the Seattle Mariners. Their futility was largely the work of Matt Young, the Seattle starting pitcher, who gave up one run in a shaky first inning then pitched with aplomb the rest of the night. After Ken Griffey’s two-out single in the fourth, Young retired the last 16 batters of the game.
Dave Stieb and two relievers combined on a four-hitter and George Bell drove in three runs tonight as the Toronto Blue Jays crushed the Chicago White Sox by 10–0. Stieb (4–3) worked seven innings and scattered three hits and a walk. He did not allow a runner past second base. Ron Musselman worked the eighth inning and Bill Caudill finished up. Rich Dotson (2–2) took the loss.
The Brewers edged the Indians, 6–5. Ted Simmons’s two-run single capped a four-run fifth inning, and Bob Gibson and Rollie Fingers combined for one-hit relief pitching over the final 5 ⅓ innings to lead Milwaukee. Gibson (5–1) hurled 3 ⅓ innings, striking out two and walking two, to get the victory. After Brook Jacoby singled to lead off the eighth, Fingers replaced Gibson and got the final six outs for his fourth save.
Jorge Orta’s three run homer in the eighth inning off the reliever Dave Stewart powered Kansas City past Texas, 6–3. Kansas City fell behind by one run in the seventh when Bret Saberhagen balked in a run, but the Royals quickly mounted a threat in the eighth off Dickie Noles (2–5). Noles, who had retired 11 straight batters going into the eighth, allowed a single to Lonnie Smith and walked George Brett. Stewart was then summoned by Manager Bobby Valentine and he promptly gave up Orta’s second home run of the season.
Roger Clemens held Minnesota to three hits and one run over seven innings and Tony Armas broke open a pitching duel with a sixth-inning home run as Boston defeated Minnesota, 4–3. Clemens (5–4) coming off a five-hit shutout against Cleveland, became the second successive Boston pitcher to shut down the hard-hitting Twins, who entered the game with a .297 team batting average, the best in baseball. The Twins starter, Frank Viola (6–3), yielded five hits and three walks in the first five innings but matched scoreless innings with Clemens until the sixth, when Boston scored all its runs.
The Orioles blanked the Oakland A’s, 3–0. Baltimore’s Scott McGregor, who brought a 7.92 earned run average into the game, pitched a three-hitter for his 20th career shutout. The Orioles’ left-hander did not allow a runner past first base until the seventh inning, when he walked Dave Kingman and gave up a single to Dusty Baker. McGregor (2–4) had not won a game since April 12. He missed his last scheduled start because of concern over his arm and failed to get through the fourth inning in his three previous starts.
Dan Petry hurled a four-hitter to become the American League’s first eight-game winner as Detroit edged California, 3–2. Petry (8–2) pitched his first complete game, striking out four without a walk.
Detroit Tigers 3, California Angels 2
Cincinnati Reds 4, Chicago Cubs 7
Milwaukee Brewers 6, Cleveland Indians 5
Boston Red Sox 4, Minnesota Twins 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Montreal Expos 0
San Diego Padres 5, New York Mets 4
Baltimore Orioles 3, Oakland Athletics 0
San Francisco Giants 6, Philadelphia Phillies 2
Houston Astros 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
New York Yankees 1, Seattle Mariners 4
Atlanta Braves 3, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Kansas City Royals 6, Texas Rangers 3
Chicago White Sox 0, Toronto Blue Jays 10
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Born:
Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian NHL centre (Edmonton Oilers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Phoenix Coyotes), in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Tom Zbikowski, NFL safety (Baltimore Ravens, Indianapolis Colts), in Park Ridge, Illinois.
Graham Harrell, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers), in Brownwood, Texas.
Rick van den Hurk, Dutch MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Pirates), in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
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