A French plan to develop new European technologies, initially announced as a reaction to President Reagan’s effort to develop a space-based missile defense system, has begun to take shape in the last few days, with Britain and West Germany indicating that they will take part. The project, which was given the name Eureka by its French sponsors, seems to have won support in other European capitals because it has taken on the character of a parallel project rather than an alternative to the American initiative. “We don’t want Eureka to be seen as a European S.D.I.,” a French official said, referring to the Strategic Defense Initiative, the $26 billion American research project popularly known as “Star Wars.” “It is a program to organize certain key technologies for the future, with both civilian and military uses,” the French official added.
Talks on northwest Pacific air safety have made “some progress” in unpublicized negotiations between the United States, the Soviet Union and Japan, Reagan Administration officials said. The negotiations are aimed at preventing a repetition of the downing a South Korean airliner by a Soviet jet fighter in 1983. The latest round ended Friday in Moscow. The Russians requested as little publicity as possible.
The Pope installed 28 new cardinals in a colorful ceremony held outdoors in Rome. From his throne in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the 65-year-old Pope received the men, natives of 19 countries, one by one as they climbed the red-carpeted steps of the largest church in Christendom and knelt before him. The Pope bestowed his blessing and gave to each the two red silk hats symbolic of high station in the church: a skullcap and the square-ridged crown called a biretta. Giving a ring to each of the cardinals, the Pope declared, “Receive the ring from the hand of Peter and know that with the love of the Prince of the Apostles, your love of the church is strengthened.” Among the 28 men consecrated today were the archbishops of some of the largest Roman Catholic dioceses in the world, including John Cardinal O’Connor of New York and Bernard Cardinal Law of Boston.
A Warsaw appeals court acquitted Poland’s leading dissident intellectual, Jacek Kuron, of charges that he refused to leave a Solidarity May Day march, and it overturned his three-month jail term. The court ruled there was not adequate proof that Kuron had heard a police order to supporters of the outlawed independent union to disperse as they marched from a church to the Huta Warszawa steel mill.
Justice Minister Erik Ninn-Hansen of Denmark announced today that Jozef Zimnicki, a member of the Polish Communist Central Committee, had been given political asylum. Mr. Zimnicki, a steelworker who arrived in February with his wife and two other relatives by Baltic Sea ferry from Swinouscie, Poland, had been put on the Central Committee under the military regime in 1981.
A Turkish national with possible links to the May, 1981, plot to kill Pope John Paul II was arrested in the Netherlands carrying a loaded handgun and false identity papers the day before the pontiff left the country for Luxembourg, Dutch officials announced. Public Prosecutor L. van der Lann said the suspect, who gave his name as Aslan Esmet, was arrested May 14 on a train entering the country from West Germany. CBS News reported that the gun found on Esmet may have been one of several purchased by Mehmet Ali Ağca and an accomplice shortly before Agca shot the Pope.
Eight bombs exploded early this morning in southern Corsica, the police said. It was the fourth series of attacks to rock the French Mediterranean island this month. The explosions, which caused serious damage but no injuries, occurred at four banks, the offices of the local ferry company, an insurance company and two apartments belonging to people from the French mainland. No one took responsibility for the bombings today, but the clandestine Corsican National Liberation Front, which has been seeking independence from France for the last decade, has taken responsibility or been blamed for hundreds of similar explosions in the past.
King Hussein said there is “a unique chance, a last chance” to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict, and he called on the United States to “reassert its moral leadership and authority” toward that end. Speaking at a Brown University commencement forum in Providence, Rhode Island, the Jordanian added that the denial of a Palestinian homeland “is the human dimension that morality must address.”
The battle for three Palestinian districts spread from the Beirut area to eastern Lebanon. As the fighting went into the seventh day, the police reported that four people were killed when Palestinian guerrillas clashed with militamen of Amal, the mainstream Shiite Muslim movement, in the Baalbek area of the Bekaa region, about 50 miles east of Beirut. Amal has provided the main force that has been trying to seize control of Sabra, Shatila and Burj al Brajneh, three Palestinian refugee districts in the southern outskirts of Beirut. The Amal fighters are backed by a mostly Shiite unit of the Lebanese Army, the Sixth Brigade.
Kuwait’s leader escaped death when a suicide driver rammed a bomb-laden car into his motorcade, Kuwaiti officials reported. They said the driver died and two bodyguards and a passer-by were also killed. A caller saying he represented the shadowy terrorist group known as Islamic Holy War took responsibility for the attack. The group has demanded the release of 17 convicted terrorists from Kuwaiti prisons in exchange for at least four Americans and two Frenchmen kidnapped in Lebanon. Islamic Holy War has issued a crescendo of threats in recent weeks, including vows to attack American diplomats and a warning that it would open “the largest military operation” the United States “has ever seen.”
India said it has sent extra troops to troubled Punjab state two weeks before the anniversary of the army assault on the Sikhs’ sacred Golden Temple. The step is aimed at controlling persistent terrorism by Sikh extremists campaigning for regional autonomy. In a related matter, Indian President Zail Singh, himself a Sikh, signed a sweeping law that significantly expands government and police powers against terrorism, permitting closed-door trials by special courts and providing the death penalty for terrorist killings.
Over 10,000 people were killed when a hurricane struck the southern coast of Bangladesh and offshore islands. An unofficial report put the death toll at 600 in the Noakhali district on the east side of the mouth of the Ganges River, and 1,000 nationwide. Officials feared the final estimates would be much higher.
A Vietnamese force killed five Thai soldiers and a civilian in a one-hour clash with Thai border patrols in northeast Thailand, provincial officials said today. They said Vietnamese soldiers crossed into the Thai province of Ubon Ratchathani from northern Cambodian on Friday, apparently searching for Cambodian guerrillas. The fighting prompted Thai provincial authorities to evacuate about 600 civilians from two border villages to safer areas in the Nam Yuen district. The latest fighting took place in one of the border areas where the Vietnamese occupation forces conducted a major dry-season campaign against Cambodian rebels.
South Korean students today ended a four-day occupation of a United States Goverment office, leaving voluntarily without receiving the American apology that they had demanded. At 12:04 PM the steel door grate of the United State Information Service Building opened, and the students appeared, carrying a handmade South Korean flag, linking arms and chanting “Down with Chun Doo Hwan,” South Korea’s President. They had been demanding that the United States apologize for what they viewed as its complicity in its suppression of the May 1980 Kwangju uprising, in which about 200 people were killed and thousands injured.
Two of the 127 youths detained after a soccer riot have been arrested and charged, but the police have freed others after lecturing them, the Government said today. Lu Jian, a spokesman for the Justice Ministry, said that “some have been freed without charge after education because they committed minor offenses.”
A Philippine court ordered Rebecca Quijano, the only witness to testify that she saw the murder of opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr., to undergo cross-examination. However, her lawyer, Jose Guerrero, said he is uncertain whether she will appear. “She has been hiding, moving from place to place in fear for her life,” the attorney said. Quijano has said she saw a soldier hold a gun to Aquino’s head at Manila airport the day he returned from U.S. exile in August, 1983, and then heard gunshots as Aquino descended an aircraft stairway. A Philippine armed forces chief of staff and 25 others are on trial in the slaying.
An explosion in Chile’s main power station blacked out 80 percent of the country Friday night. The government said today that terrorists opposed to the military Government of Gen. Augusto Pinochet were responsible. The lights went at 8:30 PM Friday in a zone stretching from Concepcion, 220 miles south of Santiago, to Copiapo, 425 miles north of the capital. The area contains four-fifths of the country’s 11 million people. The blackout lasted about 30 minutes. Police officers with flashlights directed congested traffic in major cities, and no serious incidents were reported. The government press office said “terrorist attacks” knocked down three transmission towers in the main electricity distribution system. It was not known what kind of explosion caused the blackout.
Relief officials and Western diplomats here say they fear for the lives of thousands of Ethiopians now returning from refugee camps in the Sudan. Up to 50,000 people are said to be heading for their homes in Tigre and, to a lesser extent, Eritrea, regions that have suffered the combined effects of famine and chronic warfare between Government troops and rebels. According to reports from the Sudan, the refugees are leaving of their own free will. They have told relief workers that “they are returning because they have heard rains have arrived and they need to plant their fields,” one such report said.
Nigeria has completed the expulsion of thousands of illegal aliens. The last shipload of 717 aliens was reported to have left Lagos on Friday. Nigeria had intended to evict 700,000, in the second expulsion since early 1983 when two million left, but diplomats put the total this time at 200,000.
The United States strongly protested to South Africa the threat to American citizens and property posed by South African military patrols still in Angola. All South African troops were to have been pulled out of the country by April 17 under a U.S.-mediated agreement. The patrols-acknowledged by the South Africans-were, according to Angola, trying to sabotage a U.S.-operated oilfield that supplies 90% of its hard-currency earnings. The Angolans say they headed off an attack on the Gulf Oil facility, killing several South African raiders.
The South African Government announced today that it had decided to abolish a 17-year-old law prohibiting multiracial political parties. The announcement followed a decision last month to repeal laws forbidding marriage and sexual relations between whites and nonwhites. The move today, repealing the Prohibition of Political Interference Act, means that political groups whose membership was hitherto restricted to one race may now recruit supporters from other races.
A U.S. Navy yeoman accused of spying with his father for the Soviet Union was returned from sea duty to the United States as investigators assessed the damage that might have been done to national security. Under heavy security, the yeoman third class, Michael L. Walker, stepped off a Navy transport plane at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington and into the custody of several agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He showed no emotion as he was placed, handcuffed, into an unmarked F.B.I. car. He has been charged with smuggling secret documents from the aircraft carrier Nimitz to his father, John A. Walker, a retired Navy communications officer. Yeoman Walker, who was arrested aboard the carrier in Israel, has provided investigators with “extensive” information about the conspiracy, according to a highly placed Government official.
Most state and local governments are not following the lead of the Reagan Administration to alter existing affirmative action programs to hire and promote minorities and women, according to a survey by the Bureau of National Affairs, a publisher of specialized information on business, law and other areas. Of 53 jurisdictions asked by the Justice Department to eliminate agreements to hire a quota of minority or women employees, only three, the Arkansas state police, the Buffalo, New York, Fire and Police departments and the Wichita Falls, Texas, Police Department, are willing to join the federal government effort, the bureau reported.
President Reagan today billed his plan to simplify the Federal income tax as “one of the most compelling issues of our time” and one that would benefit American families. Devoting his weekly radio address to the initiative he will offer Tuesday, Mr. Reagan said it would assist families by greatly expanding the personal exemption, raising the standard deduction, lowering rates and retaining the home mortgage interest deduction on principal residences. Mr. Reagan also contended the plan would significantly reduce taxes for the majority of Americans while assisting low-income households and allowing “working poor families to climb up the ladder of success.”
The President and the First Lady host a tennis tournament at the White House benefiting the Nancy Reagan Drug Abuse Fund.
Long walks, meetings in automobiles and telephone calls to Soviet diplomats are part of the web of circumstantial evidence prosecutors are weaving in the espionage trial of two Soviet emigres in Federal District Court here. The emigres, Svetlana Ogorodnikov, 35 years old, and her husband, Nikolay, 52, were arrested on espionage charges just before midnight Oct. 2. The walks, according to the prosecutors, Richard Kendall and Bruce Merritt, were to insure that their conversations were not monitored. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, part of eight-member surveillance teams that watched the Ogorodnikovs’ apartment in West Hollywood from early September until their arrest, have testified about the couple’s frequent long walks.
Talks broke up between United Airlines and striking pilots after they had reached a tentative agreement on basic economic issues but became deadlocked on troublesome back-to-work provisions. The talks, in a Chicago suburb, were abandoned after a 23-hour session in which the parties could not bridge a wide gap over the rights of nonstriking pilots who have been operating a limited number of flights in the nine-day walkout. No further talks are scheduled. According to spokesmen for both sides, United is insisting that pilots who crossed the picket lines retain improvements in job status and accompanying pay that they were allowed to bid for just after the strike started. Because the strike opened up many job slots, many of these 500 nonstrikers were able to upgrade their status, both in the planes they flew, for instance from a Boeing 727 to a DC-10, and in rank, for instance from co-pilot to captain. The union representing the 5,000 strikers, the Air Line Pilots Association, has refused to allow the nonstrikers to retain their new slots, saying preference should be given to returning strikers who are higher on the United seniority list.
Massachusetts officials, facing vocal opposition to the placement of foster children with homosexuals, outlined a new policy that makes it virtually impossible for lesbians and gay men to take youngsters into their care. Representatives of the gay community expressed disappointment at the new policy, saying gay couples were quite capable of providing a stable home. The issue has gained prominence in Massachusetts since two young brothers were given a foster home with two Boston homosexuals on May 8. When that move became public, the state removed the boys from the home and announced a policy review.
Cancer and natural causes — not a mistaken injection — killed Lillian Cedeno, who died 86 days after she was left paralyzed and comatose after an anti-cancer drug was injected into her spine, doctors in Albany, New York, said. “The cancer had started on the right side of her face and spread throughout her body,” causing massive shock and hemorrhaging, a coroner’s autopsy found. Cedeno, 21, of Schenectady, who gave birth three months prematurely by Caesarean section on March 16, was pronounced dead Friday. Her newborn girl died after 24 days in intensive care.
A jury in Lawton, Oklahoma, recommended the death sentence for two men convicted of murdering four persons during the robbery of a branch bank in Geronimo last December. Jay Wesley Neill, 19, and Robert Grady Johnson, 23, both of Lawton, also were convicted of three counts of shooting with intent to kill and one count of attempted shooting with intent to kill.
Ten scientific studies conducted at Columbia University are being retracted from medical journals because their results are wrong, and a committee investigating the affair said that it could neither prove nor rule out “deliberate fabrication of data.” The committee criticized a researcher for relying on a test for four years after doubts were raised about its accuracy. It also chastised a senior physician for listing himself as a co-author of studies in which he was not directly involved.
Bulldozers began demolishing the remains of the 61 Philadelphia homes destroyed by fire during a police battle with the radical group MOVE, preparing the ground for city-financed reconstruction. As the machinery knocked down walls and removed debris, some of the 270 persons left homeless by the May 13 blaze returned to the rubble of their homes to look for belongings or take photographs. The fire broke out after police, sent to a fortified row house to evict the armed radicals, dropped a bomb on the home’s rooftop bunker.
American Motors Corp. has agreed to open negotiations with the United Auto Workers over its call for wage concessions, a company spokesman said. The firm had previously said its ultimatum that the union accept concessions or face the closing of two Wisconsin plants and the loss of 6,000 jobs was non-negotiable. But the company reversed its stand and agreed to meet with the union by June 3.
The Federal Food and Drug Administration has decided not to take action against doctors who implanted an artificial heart without permission. In a letter to officials at the University of Arizona Medical Center, the agency said the implant was unanticipated, the situation was unusual and the artificial heart was used only as a life-saving measure. The device, which was developed in Phoenix, was implanted in Thomas Creighton of Tucson on March 7 at the Medical Center. Mr. Creighton, 33 years old, died 36 hours after the second of two human heart transplants. The Phoenix heart was used to sustain him for 11 hours between the transplants.
White men dominate the new leadership of the 50 state advisory committees that serve the United States Commission on Civil Rights. According to the commission’s figures, there are 313 new appointees among the 500 members of the new advisory panels. A preliminary racial breakdown found that of the new chairmen, 36 are white. There were 15 white chairmen on the former panels.
An overflow of the Great Lakes is shrinking beaches, covering up piers, flooding roads and causing worries about tourism and home values. The Great Lakes, the world’s largest body of fresh water, are at their highest levels in history. Heavy precipitation last fall and winter is responsible for the unusually high levels of 8 inches to 2½ feet above normal. Officials expect the levels to continue to rise through June and perhaps through the summer.
The Edmonton Oilers regained some of their offensive touch in the Stanley Cup final tonight, racing to a 4-1 lead and holding on for a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. Edmonton now leads the four-of-seven-game series, 2-1. Wayne Gretzky and Paul Coffey had 4 points each and established playoff scoring records as the Oilers moved within two victories of their second consecutive championship. The Oilers took a 2-0 lead in the first 85 seconds and were ahead by 4-1 until the Flyers rallied in the third period. The Flyers cut the lead to 4-2 with 10 minutes 52 seconds left when Mark Howe knocked in a rebound of Rick Tocchet’s slap shot from the right point. And with 5:34 left, Brian Propp cut the deficit to one with a shot from a difficult angle on the right side.
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Rick Rhoden wins his 100th and Bill Almon hits his first grand slam as the Pirates thump the Braves, 8–2. The Pirates handed the Braves their fifth loss in a row. Almon, who had struck out with the bases loaded in the second, drilled an 0-1 pitch from Pascual Perez over the left-field fence in the fourth for his first home run of the season. He also doubled home a run in the sixth.
Davey Lopes, who already had made two sensational catches in left field, drilled a tie-breaking two-run homer in the eighth inning today to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 5-4 victory over the Houston Astros. With one out in the eighth, Ryne Sandberg singled off Houston’s reliever, Mark Ross (0-1), stole second and scored on Lopes’s home run for a 5-3 Chicago lead. It was the seventh home run of the game. A reliever, Lee Smith (2-0), was the winner, working the last two innings. He yielded a run in the ninth on a walk, Enos Cabell’s single and Bill Doran’s sacrifice fly. Doran went to third on Terry Puhl’s double, but Lopes made a running catch of Denny Walling’s fly ball to end the game.
Fernando Valenzuela outpitched Dwight Gooden and won the duel of the titans yesterday, as the Los Angeles Dodgers overpowered the reeling Mets, 6–2, and sent them to their fourth straight defeat. It was a rousing game before 40,052 fans in Shea Stadium and a national television audience, and it was probably decided on one pitch: a change-up that Gooden threw in the sixth inning to Greg Brock, with the Mets clinging to a 1–0 lead and Pedro Guerrero on first. Brock whacked it against the right-field balcony for a home run, and the tide turned from the 20-year-old Gooden to the 24-year-old Valenzuela.
The Expos beat the Giants, 3–1, as Dan Schatzeder earned his second straight victory since joining Montreal’s starting rotation and helped his own cause by driving in he winning run with a second-inning grounder. Schatzeder (2-0) scattered five hits in seven and one-third innings, walked one, struck out four and retired 17 consecutive batters between the second and eighth innings. Jeff Reardon came on to post his 11th save after Jose Uribe singled with one out in the Giants’ eighth.
The Padres downed the Phillies, 4–1. Unbeaten Andy Hawkins won his ninth game of the season, giving up just six hits in his first complete game of the year and the Padres’ sixth straight victory. Hawkins, who leads the major leagues in victories, struck out four and walked three. He has won more games this season than he did in all of 1984, when he was 8-9. Hawkins also executed a suicide squeeze bunt that scored Garry Templeton in a three-run second inning.
The Cardinals defeated the Reds, 6–4, as Tom Herr collected three hits, raising his average to .379, and Joaquin Andujar scattered nine hits over 8 ⅔ innings for his eighth victory. Andujar (8-1) became the third National League pitcher to record eight victories. He struck out two, giving up four walks, and yielded a two-run homer to Dave Concepcion in the sixth inning.
Ron Romanick scattered seven hits before needing ninth-inning help and Ruppert Jones hit a two-run homer today to lead the California Angels to a 5-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Romanick (6-1) walked two and struck out five in winning for the eighth time in his last nine decisions since last September. He lost his shutout bid in the ninth when Eddie Murray singled and Fred Lynn hit a home run. Donnie Moore took over and recorded his 10th save but had to pitch out of a bases-loaded jam.
At first, everything seemed in order: a walk with the bases loaded and two outs in the ninth, a run to decide the game, an 8–7 Oakland A’s victory over the Yankees. But something disrupted the celebrating in the Oakland Coliseum. When Dave Righetti, the Yankee relief pitcher, walked Steve Henderson to force home Carney Lansford, it started an odd series of events and an argument that resulted in Billy Martin’s decision to protest the game. The chaos was caused when Dave Kingman, who was on first base, began to walk toward the dugout before touching second on the bases-loaded walk.
Charlie Leibrandt pitched a three-hitter and Pat Sheridan drove in all three runs with a single and a double, as the Royals blanked the White Sox, 3–0. Leibrandt allowed three singles, walked one and struck out two to improve his record to 5-2 with his second shutout of the season. The victory extended Kansas City’s winning streak to four games and Chicago’s losing streak to five despite a seven-hitter by Tom Seaver (4-3).
Rance Mulliniks and Ernie Whitt drove in three runs each and Jesse Barfield’s single broke a seventh-inning tie as Toronto won its sixth straight game, beating the Indians, 10–7. Ron Musselman (2-0) pitched four innings of one-run relief and Jim Acker pitched the ninth for his sixth save to hand the Indians their fourth consecutive defeat. The reliever Rich Thompson (1-2) was the loser.
The Tigers edged the Mariners, 3–2. Brian Snyder waited a long time for his chance. At 27, the Mariners’ left-hander, who spent six years in the minors, made his debut in this game at Seattle. He was impressive, too, striking out seven batters, but he developed a blister on his pitching hand and departed after 4 ⅔ innings. Snyder was long gone when Chet Lemon hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning to give the Tigers the victory. Ivan Calderon homered in the bottom of the seventh, his fourth in the last six games. Walt Terrell improved his record to 5-1 and Willie Hernandez retired the last four batters to register his 10th save.
Oddibe McDowell, the first Olympian baseball player to make the majors, came out of a slump to help the Rangers win their third in a row, as they routed the Red Sox, 10–3. McDowell came out of an 0-for-17 slump with a bases-loaded triple in the second inning and drove in two other runs at Arlington, Texas. The 3-for-5 night gave McDowell 4 for 28 in his brief career.
Robin Yount hit a two-run home run and Cecil Cooper drove in three runs at Milwaukee and the Brewers handed the Twins their fourth defeat in a row by the score of 9–7. Randy Bush and Gary Gaetti hit home runs for the Twins.
Pittsburgh Pirates 8, Atlanta Braves 2
Baltimore Orioles 3, California Angels 5
Houston Astros 4, Chicago Cubs 5
St. Louis Cardinals 6, Cincinnati Reds 4
Toronto Blue Jays 10, Cleveland Indians 7
Chicago White Sox 0, Kansas City Royals 3
Minnesota Twins 7, Milwaukee Brewers 9
San Francisco Giants 1, Montreal Expos 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, New York Mets 2
New York Yankees 7, Oakland Athletics 8
San Diego Padres 4, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Detroit Tigers 3, Seattle Mariners 2
Boston Red Sox 3, Texas Rangers 10
Born:
Eric Young Jr., MLB outfielder, pinch hitter, and second baseman (Colorado Rockies, New York Mets, Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels), in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Brad Lincoln, MLB pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates, Toronto Blue Jays, Philadelphia Phillies), in Lake Jackson, Texas.
Kevin O’Connell, NFL quarterback (New England Patriots), in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Roman Reigns [Leati Anoaʻi], American pro wrestler (WWE Championship x 4; WWE Universal Championship x 2), in Pensacola, Florida.
Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress (“Floribella”), in Massarelos, Porto, Portugal.
Died:
Harold Hecht, 77, American choreographer, of cancer.
Robert Nathan, 91, American poet and novelist (“Portrait of Jennie”).
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