The presiding judge recessed the trial of three Solidarity activists today because one of the defendants, Adam Michnik, was ill, witnesses reported. The three are charged with inciting public unrest. The witnesses said that the second session of the trial, which began Thursday and is closed to foreign journalists and observers, lasted only 10 minutes and that Judge Krzysztof Ziemiuk recessed it until June 3. The witnesses said Judge Ziemiuk also said the defense attorneys had requested time to meet privately with their clients. Mr. Michnik, Bogdan Lis and Wladyslaw Frasyniuk are also accused of playing a leading role in an illegal union. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Relatives of the defendants said the judge had not given details about Mr. Michnik’s illness.
The Soviet Union announced today that it had created what it called a Committee for the Defense of Sergei I. Antonov, the Bulgarian who is to go on trial in Rome on Monday on a charge of plotting to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981. The committee appeared to be modeled after a Bulgarian group that was created in March. The Bulgarian group has called the case a contrivance by the Central Intelligence Agency. As Mr. Antonov’s trial has drawn near, the Soviet press has printed articles saying the former Bulgarian official was being framed by Western secret services as part of a campaign to smear the Eastern bloc nations. The press has published articles accusing the United States of what it calls “state terrorism.” United States actions in Grenada, Nicaragua and the Middle East are drawn together under this heading.
Andrei D. Sakharov, the Soviet physicist and dissident, was on a hunger strike last month but has ended it and is in better health, a close friend said today. The friend, Irene Kristy, a 47-year-old mathematician, told reporters on arrival in Vienna from Moscow that Dr. Sakharov was on a hunger strike from April 16 until at least May 3, and was force-fed on April 21. “On May 12 I saw a telegram from the Sakharovs saying things are now a lot better, and a letter which arrived to our friends in May was more optimistic,” Miss Kristy said. She arrived in Austria today with her husband, Sergei Gyemkin, 51, and their 3-year-old son, Grisha. The family is trying to gain political asylum in the United States. Dr. Sakharov, in internal exile with his wife, Yelena G. Bonner, in the city of Gorky, was reported to have gone on a hunger strike last summer to press the authorities to allow Miss Bonner to travel to the West for medical treatment.
Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank have stepped up a campaign to oust convicted Arab terrorists who were released in the exchange last Monday of 1,150 Palestinian prisoners for 3 captured Israeli soldiers. Arab sources said militant Jews besieged the homes of Talib Geit in Hebron and Muhamed Abu Kishik in the Askar camp near Nablus Thursday night, pounding at doors and windows with rocks and iron bars.
The battle for control of three Palestinian refugee camps grew more intense today, with Shiite Moslem militiamen and Lebanese Army troops flattening buildings with tanks and bulldozers, and Palestinian defenders mounting ambushes from tunnels. The latest phase in the fighting followed an unsuccessful attempt to halt six days of gun battles in and around the camps, actually cinder-block shantytowns, known as Sabra, Shatila, and Burj al Brajneh. According to police reports, 250 people have been killed and 900 wounded since Sunday. Many of those killed and wounded have been noncombatant civilians. West Beirut hospitals are overflowing. The Lebanese Red Cross said it had to treat many of the wounded in its own clinic because emergency rooms at the American University Hospital and Makassed Hospital had no room.
Libya today denied Egyptian charges that it was behind a plot to blow up an embassy in Cairo with a truck bomb. A report by the official Libyan press agency said, “The Egyptian regime knows that the Egyptian people and not alleged elements from abroad are the ones concerned.” The Libyan account accused Egyptian authorities of fabricating “rumors and lies” about Libya to distract attention from domestic problems. The Egyptian Government said Thursday that it had foiled a Libyan plot, which it said had been planned for Wednesday. The embassy was not named, but a Government-owned newspaper in Cairo said it was the United States Embassy.
Sri Lanka faces martial law. President J. R. Jayewardene, under pressure from the ethnic Sinhalese majority to take more decisive action against militant Tamil separatists, said he intended to establish martial-law courts to deal with what he called “a breakdown of law and order.” He also said that he plans to make all Members of Parliament directly responsible for the security of their electorates. With that responsibility, the President said in an interview, will come the right to arm local communities. “They are complaining, all of them,” the President, 78 years old, said of the legislators. “My people are saying: ‘The terrorist comes and shoots us and goes off. We have no arms. We have no nothing. So give us arms.’ “
The police in Seoul broke up demonstrations today by hundreds of youths at five universities in support of 60 students occupying a United States Government office there. Witnesses said some demonstrators hurled gasoline-filled bottles at the police, who responded with tear gas. The takeover at the four-story United States Mission building continued tonight, with the 60 students still barricaded in the second-floor library while American officials spent a second day trying to persuade the protesters to leave.
President Reagan attends a National Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in Central America.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Managua said today that the United States trade embargo against his country would worsen its already strained economic situation. “The people were already living a very difficult economic situation, with a scarcity of food,” said the Archbishop, Miguel Obando y Bravo. “The embargo further aggravated this situation.”
A Paris-based Nazi hunter led a small demonstration here today to demand the arrest and extradition of the Auschwitz death-camp doctor, Josef Mengele, who she says is being protected by Paraguay’s rightist regime. The Nazi hunter, Beate Klarsfeld, who with her husband, Serge, played a key role in getting Klaus Barbie, the war criminal, extradited from Bolivia to France in 1983, said she was convinced that Dr. Mengele is in Paraguay. “If you think logically, there is no where else that he could be,” she said. “If he left, the police must know, it must be in their files.”
South Africa today requested an urgent meeting with Angola to discuss the return of South African soldiers reported killed or taken prisoner in what appears to have been an abortive covert mission in northern Angola. There was no immediate word of an Angolan reply. On Thursday, South Africa acknowledged for the first time that it had sent troops into northern Angola, saying that they were on a spy mission. Angola, however, said Wednesday night that two South Africans were killed and one was taken prisoner when they were ambushed as they tried to sabotage American-run oil installations in Cabinda, a province sandwiched between Congo and Zaire. In a statement today, the South African Foreign Minister, Roelof F. Botha, defended the mission, saying Pretoria had expressed “grave concern” to Angola a year ago about a purported buildup of African National Congress rebels in that country. The African National Congress is the most prominent of exiled movements seeking to overthrow white minority rule in South Africa. Mr. Botha said South Africa had evidence that northern Angola had become the main training area for the rebels.
President Reagan attends the Annual Conference of the National Association of Manufacturers. The nation’s defense would be at risk if Congress approved the Democrats’ budget for 1986, President Reagan said. In a speech to the meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers in Washington, Mr. Reagan also said that the Democratic budget for 1986, by permitting no increase in the military budget, would place the nation’s defense at risk. . The budget the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives approved by a wide margin Thursday is loaded with unacceptable “phantom” savings and fails adequately to address the “fundamental problem of unbridled domestic spending,” Mr. Reagan asserted.
President Reagan met with Dith Pran, a Cambodian whose ordeal under the Khmer Rouge and subsequent escape is portrayed in the film ”The Killing Fields.” Mr. Dith was accompanied at the 15-minute meeting by his wife and Dr. Haing S. Ngor, who won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his portrayal of Dith Pran.
The Senate voted today to let the Reagan Administration start testing antisatellite weapons in space this summer. A ban on such tests expired March 1, and the Administration has announced its intention to conduct the first of three scheduled tests in July. An amendment that would have revived the test ban for another year was defeated, 51 to 35. The ban was part of last year’s military programs bill.
The workplace safety chief resigned his government post, saying that his “mission has been accomplished.” Robert A. Rowland, the head of the Occupational Safety and Healthy Administration, announced his resignation shortly before the Government Ethics Office cleared him of any wrongdoing in his participation in agency regulatory matters affecting companies in which he owns more than $1 million in stock.
A father and son gave prosecutors details of how they smuggled secret documents to the Soviet Union, Government officials said. The scheme was one of the most serious security breaches in the Navy’s history, authorities said. The father, John A. Walker, is a retired Navy communications officer, and his son, Michael, is a third-class Navy yeoman. The Reagan Administrtation said the Soviet Union had recalled a diplomat implicated in the plot.
The death of a Frustaci septuplet left three boys and two girls as the survivors of the largest multiple birth in American history. The smallest of the septuplets born in California Tuesday, a boy, died from a lung disease common to premature infants.
When Congress passed a law last year requiring that new health warning labels on cigarettes be changed quarterly, it meant four times a year, the Federal Trade Commission ruled unanimously today. Commissioner Patricia P. Bailey said the public might view the commission’s deliberations as something of a “bureaucratic overcomplication,” but she held that it was something that had to be dealt with. Before the commission was a proposal by the cigarette industry that it be allowed to print all four warning labels simultaneously, with each warning having one in four chances of appearing on a given package. This would save the industry money and, at the same time, would not detract from the law’s intent of warning consumers that they faced significant health hazards from smoking cigarettes, according to the industry.
The State Supreme Court today stayed a lower court decision against a rule that keeps public school students who fail any class from taking part in extracurricular activities. It said it would decide later whether the rule was legal. Attorney General Jim Mattox, who had asked the high court to resolve contradictory judgments in the case, said the stay would allow the state baseball playoffs to go forward. Mr. Mattox had filed an appeal of a decision by Judge Marsha D. Anthony of District Court in Houston Thursday that declared the rule unconstitutional. Earlier Judge David Dunn in Orange had upheld the rule. The Supreme Court stay issued today blocks Judge Anthony’s ruling.
Salvation Army officers were bribed by two exporters of used clothing, according to a Federal indictment. The indictment charges Harry Usatch, of Hollywood, Florida, and his son, Jerald, of Philadelphia, operators of the Philadelphia-based Dumont Export Company, of paying kickbacks to Salvation Army officers to assure a steady supply of old clothes for shipment to Asia, Africa and Europe.
Hundreds of Christians plan to fan out across the nation’s capital on Tuesday, kneel down in Government offices and keep praying until they are arrested. The demonstrators are part of an emerging “peace church” that draws adherents from across denominational lines. Their positions for the most part oppose the policies of the Reagan Administration, except that members want to stop abortions and are critical of the Soviet Union.
A judge has refused to grant a new trial for Leonard Peltier, an American Indian activist convicted of murdering two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation eight years ago. “The record of the case, as it presently exists, conclusively shows Peltier is entitled to no relief,” Federal District Judge Paul Benson wrote in a 20-page ruling Thursday.
A Federal district judge today reduced a punitive damage award against the tampon maker International Playtex to $1.35 million from $10 million. The judge, Patrick Kelly, said he had told Playtex lawyers March 21 that he would consider reducing the punitive damages in a suit by the family of a toxic shock victim if the company would admit that the verdict was based on fact and remove tampons with high-absorbency fibers from the market.
United Airlines and its 5,000 striking pilots resolved their dispute today over a proposed two-tier wage scale, but were still negotiating a back-to-work agreement in the eighth day of the walkout, a mediator said. Still unsettled was the question of how the airline should treat pilots hired during the strike, United’s chief negotiator said. The resolution of the two-tier plan, which was the sole issue when pilots struck the nation’s largest airline, was announced by Helen Witt, head of the National Mediation Board. A two-tier plan would place newly hired pilots on a lower salary scale than company pilots of comparable experience.
The Army announced today that it had halted overhead payments to the Hughes Helicopter division of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation because of “serious” accounting irregularities. C. Richard Whiston, the Army’s chief of legal services, said that the payments, which amount to $30 million a month, were suspended on May 17 after the Defense Contract Audit Agency found numerous accounting problems at the company, including unallowable billings, duplicate charges and inconsistent bookkeeping. Hughes, which was acquired by McDonnell Douglas in early 1984 from the estate of Howard R. Hughes, builds the Army’s AH-64 Apache helicopters and guns for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, a hybrid personnel carrier-tank. Army contracts with the company are valued at about $4 billion. James R. Ambrose, the Under Secretary of the Army, will direct an investigation into the problems found by the audit agency, Mr. Whiston said.
Six installments of the comic strip “Doonesbury” that satirize the anti-abortion movie “The Silent Scream” will not be distributed, a Universal Press Syndicate official said today. Lee Salem, editorial director of Universal Press, said the syndicate and the creator of the comic strip, Garry Trudeau, had agreed that “the material was so controversial that it might kill the strip altogether.” “The Silent Scream” shows a fetus opening its mouth and seeming to cringe while undergoing an abortion. Anti-abortion activists say the movements show the fetus to be in pain. Others dispute that interpretation. The “Doonesbury” strips set up a sequel called “Silent Scream II,” Mr. Salem said. In it an abortion occurs within 12 minutes of conception. The narrator names the fetus “Timmy,” and reports that the fetus’s last words were, “Repeal Roe v. Wade,” referring to the United States Supreme Court decision allowing abortion.
Like a lot of other schools in Memphis, Grahamwood Elementary saw white enrollment decline sharply after 1973, when mandatory busing was put into effect as part of a citywide Federal desegregation plan. By 1979 there were only 100 whites among the 600 students enrolled at the school, situated among the mostly white neighborhoods on Memphis’ east side. Today the school’s total enrollment has swollen to nearly 1,200, and about 640 of them are white. The change is a result of a citywide campaign that has lured back to the system some of the students, most of them white, who had deserted the public schools in the 1970’s.
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Bill Doran had three hits and scored three runs, and Nolan Ryan hurled a seven-hitter today to as the Houston Astros defeated the Chicago Cubs, 6–2. Doran doubled and scored in the first inning, walked in the third, singled home a run in the fourth, singled and scored in the seventh and scored again in the ninth after reaching base on an error. Ryan (4–2) struck out seven to increase his carer-leading total to 3,942. He walked three.
Jim Winn, in his first major-league start, combined with John Candelaria on a three-hitter and Jason Thompson hit a three-run homer in the first inning to give Pittsburgh a 4–2 victory over the Braves. Winn (1–0) pitched seven innings before giving way to a pinch-hitter. He had appeared in 16 games as a reliever in the previous two seasons and was recalled by the Pirates from their Hawaii farm club on Tuesday. Candelaria gained his seventh save. The Pirates jumped on Steve Bedrosian with one out in the first. Steve Kemp walked and raced to third on Bill Madlock’s double. Thompson then drilled a 1–0 pitch over the right-field fence for a 3–0 lead.
The Mets lost their third straight game, their fourth in six games on their current home stand, and it was a close one: 4–3 to Orel Hershiser and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers took the lead early when Danny Heep dropped a line drive in right field, and ran it up later when Greg Brock and Mike Scioscia nailed Lynch for home runs in the sixth inning.
Tim Raines and Hubie Brooks hit leadoff homers in successive innings and Joe Hesketh and Jeff Reardon combined on a two-hitter for Montreal as the Expos blanked the Giants, 2–0. Hesketh (5-2) worked 7 ⅓ innings, allowing a third-inning bloop single to Bill Laskey and an eighth-inning double to David Green before Reardon picked up his 10th save of the season, retiring all five batters he faced.
The Padres shut out the Phillies, 1–0. Steve Garvey’s sacrifice fly in the top of the eighth scored Garry Templeton with the game’s only run. For San Diego, Dave Dravecky (4–2) gave up six hits, struck out even and walked two over 7 ⅓ innings as the Padres won their fifth straight game. Rich Gossage gained his 12th save, which leads the major leagues. John Denny (1–5), who allowed only four hits, was the loser. The Padres got only two hits off Denny after the second inning, and at one point he retired 10 straight and 18 of 19.
Dave Van Gorder singled with one out in the bottom of the twelfth inning to score Eric Davis from second base with the winning run as the Reds edged the Cardinals, 7–6. Van Gorder, as a pinch-hitter, keyed a four-run eighth inning with a two-run single. He delivered his game-winner after Davis had singled off the reliever Ricky Horton and stolen second and after Nick Esasky was intentionally walked. John Franco pitched a perfect 12th inning for the victory.
Lloyd Moseby hit a two-run homer, and Ernie Whitt belted a three-run shot in a five-run third inning to help the Toronto Blue Jays defeat the Cleveland Indians, 7–6, tonight and extend their winning streak to five games. Dennis Lamp (4–0) was the winner despite yielding three runs in two innings. Gary Lavelle got the final three outs for his third save after Bill Caudill walked the leadoff batter in the bottom of the ninth. Toronto took a 1–0 lead in the second inning against Keith Creel (0–2), a last-minute starter when Vern Ruhle experienced a muscle problem in his back before the game.
All the cameras and microphones were pointed toward Rickey Henderson and Billy Martin, the two native sons who were returning home. But the Yankees, fighting a two-game losing streak, seemed oblivious to the distraction. They regained their sluggish offense, scoring six runs in the fourth inning and easing past the Oakland A’s, 10–3, tonight. Henderson went hitless, but he scored two runs and turned on his speed in the seventh for the benefit of the Oakland Coliseum fans and his own team. The critical blow, however, was a three-run homer by Dave Winfield in the fourth, the Yankees’ fourth home run in two nights.
The Rangers edged the Red Sox, 1–0. Charlie Hough pitched a six-hitter, and Cliff Johnson drove in the only run with a sacrifice fly in the fifth to lead Texas. Hough (4–3) walked two and struck out seven as he defeated Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd (4–4). Boyd pitched a five-hitter, walking three and striking out three. The Rangers got their run after Gary Ward led off the bottom of the fifth with a triple off the wall in center field. Johnson followed with a fly to left, and Ward scored just ahead of the catcher Rich Gedman’s sweeping tag after the throw from Jim Rice.
The Royals thumped the White Sox, 8–4, as George Brett drove in four runs and Dan Quisenberry earned his seventh save with three innings of one-hit relief pitching. But errors by the second baseman Frank White, the right fielder Darryl Motley and the first baseman Steve Balboni kept Chicago in the game. Hal McRae, making a rare start as Kansas City’s designated hitter, ripped a double off Britt Burns (5–4) leading off the third and the Royals loaded the bases on a pair of walks ahead of Brett’s two-run single. Lonnie Smih, who walked to load the bases for Brett, went to third on the hit and scored to make it 3–0 when Burns walked Balboni and White.
Ted Simmons drove in two runs, Paul Molitor homered and Ray Burris and two relievers combined on a six-hitter to lead Milwaukee past Minnesota, 5–2. Burris (2–4), who hadn’t won a game since April 11, gave up one run on three hits, walked three and struck out four before leaving with two out and bases loaded in the seventh. Pete Ladd retired Mike Stenhouse to end the threat but surrendered Tom Brunansky’s 12th homer in the ninth. Randy Bush followed Brunansky’s homer with a single and Rollie Fingers came on to record his fifth save.
Lenn Sakata’s eighth-inning double snapped a tie and gave Baltimore a 4–3 victory over the Angels. Larry Sheets led off the inning with a single off Stu Cliburn (1–1). Mike Young ran for Sheets and took second on a wild pitch. He was sacrificed to third by Fritz Connally before Sakata lined his double into left-center. Storm Davis (2–1) scattered seven hits for his first victory since April 23.
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Atlanta Braves 2
Baltimore Orioles 4, California Angels 3
Houston Astros 6, Chicago Cubs 2
St. Louis Cardinals 6, Cincinnati Reds 7
Toronto Blue Jays 7, Cleveland Indians 6
Chicago White Sox 4, Kansas City Royals 8
Minnesota Twins 2, Milwaukee Brewers 5
San Francisco Giants 0, Montreal Expos 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, New York Mets 3
New York Yankees 10, Oakland Athletics 3
San Diego Padres 1, Philadelphia Phillies 0
Detroit Tigers 4, Seattle Mariners 3
Boston Red Sox 0, Texas Rangers 1
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