The Soviet Union accused the United States today of “overt sabotage” in the arms negotiations that are to resume this week in Geneva, and warned that no cuts in Soviet arms could be expected until Washington agrees to halt development of space weapons. An editorial from the Communist Party newspaper Pravda dismissed American proposals during the first round of the Geneva talks as “nonconstructive,” “threadbare” and “absurd.” The second round of talks is to open Thursday. “In practice the United States has no intention at all to reduce its nuclear arsenals,” Pravda said. It said the United States’ affirmations of its desire for arms reductions were “total eyewash.” In Washington, a State Department spokesman had no comment in response to the Pravda editorial. Pravda denied accusations by Washington that Moscow is violating the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty, and said American space-weapons research was itself a violation of the treaty. “The actions of the United States Administration are unlawful by their very essence,” the editorial said.
A third round of talks on preventing a repetition of the 1983 downing of a South Korean jetliner has been concluded by the United States, Japan and the Soviet Union in Moscow, a State Department spokeswoman said. The talks were prompted by the shooting down of a Korean 747 by a Soviet fighter plane September 1, 1983, killing all 269 people aboard.
Eight men will go on trial in Rome today, accused of plotting to kill the Pope. Five Turks and three Bulgarians are accused of taking part in a conspiracy to assassinate Pope John Paul II. According to the state’s key witness, they were part of the reported conspiracy that led to an attempt to kill the Pope in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981. Italian justice officials say circumstantial evidence supports the charge. The witness, Mehmet Ali Agca, is serving a life sentence in Rome after his conviction of having shot the Pope.
A Warsaw priest delivered a fierce attack on communism in a sermon at the church of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a supporter of the outlawed Solidarity union who was murdered last year by security police. Drawing thunderous applause from thousands who filled St. Stanislaw Kostka Church and nearby streets, Father Teofil Bogucki declared that “Europe is not recalling the 40th anniversary this year of the downfall of criminal fascism to find itself enslaved by godless communism. Poland is defending itself against the invasion of atheism and communism from the East, as well as indifference and laicism from the West.”
Willy Brandt, the former West German Chancellor, arrived in Moscow today for talks with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, that are expected to focus on disarmament and other East-West issues. Mr. Brandt, chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Party, was accompanied by his party’s disarmament expert, Egon Bahr, and the Mayor of Bremen, Hans Koschnik. Mr. Brandt is scheduled to meet Mr. Gorbachev Monday morning. Mr. Brandt said last week that the talks would focus on East-West issues and Soviet-West German ties. The Social Democratic Party has been praised by Moscow for its criticism of some NATO policies, especially deployment of United States Pershing missiles.
The National Security Council recommended today that martial law be lifted in six provinces in Turkey, including Ankara, the nation’s capital and second largest city, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. The council said martial law should be extended for four months in 17 other provinces. The Government imposed martial law in 1978 in response to political violence.
Pope John Paul II said mass today with the 28 new cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church and told them to “insure” and “manifest” unity in the church. The mass was in celebration of Pentecost, the day Christians believe the Holy Spirit appeared to the Apostles, offering enlightenment and inspiration to carry forward Christ’s message. In Catholic theology, the day is seen as being intimately linked to the creation of the priesthood. The Pope also formally gave the men the gold rings that symbolize their office.
Two tankers exploded near Gibraltar, killing at least 16 people and leaving 19 missing. The explosions occurred at the port of Algeciras, Spain. A Panamanian-registered tanker, the Petragen One, broke in two and sank, and the Spanish tanker Camponavia also broke in two and was sinking, an Algeciras fireman, Joaquin Badillo, said by telephone. Heat from the flaming hulks kept police divers from searching for bodies, officials said. Witnesses said the explosions engulfed the wharf in flames in this southern Spanish port.
The battle in the Beirut area between Palestinians and Shiite Muslims continued for an eighth day. Militiamen of the Amal movement and the mainly Shiite Sixth Brigade of the Lebanese Army pounded the Sabra, Shatila and Burj al Brajneh refugee settlements with tank and mortar fire as intensive Arab efforts were under way to arrange a cease-fire. An attempt by the Red Cross to remove the wounded from the refugee settlements failed. No accurate casualty figures are available, but it is estimated that about 375 people have been killed in the last week and more than 900 wounded, including hundreds of civilians. About 26,000 of the 50,000 people living in and around the three Palestinian settlements are said to have fled their homes. Some have moved in with relatives or friends in other areas of Beirut, while others are being lodged at two apartment buildings in the seaside neighborhoods of Raouche and Manara. The buildings are under the protection of Druze militiamen of the Progressive Socialist Party.
Shiite Muslims are killing Palestinian refugees from two settlements in Beirut, including noncombatants among the Palestinians, according to witnesses and reports from the scene. The death toll in the settlements, Sabra and Shatila, is now 250 and it is feared that will go much higher, the reports indicate. The accounts that are emerging from Beirut come from Palestinians who have escaped the fighting and sought refuge elsewhere in Beirut, witnesses at the scene, medical personnel in several hospitals, Western diplomats and Muslim residents in several sectors of West Beirut. The reports could not be independently confirmed because journalists and the Red Cross were not able to enter the contested area.
Frenchmen Michel Seurat, a researcher, and journalist Jean-Paul Kauffman were kidnaped by unidentified gunmen on the main highway to Beirut’s international airport, police and the French Embassy said. The pair were believed to have been abducted May 18 in the Shia Muslim-populated southern suburbs; however, the news was withheld so that contacts could be made with militia officials, police said. Officials added that Kauffman was on assignment for the French magazine L’Evenement du Jeudi and that Seurat worked for a French government-run science center.
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s enthusiastic overture to the Soviet Union last week has produced a shudder of disappointment among American diplomats here. These diplomats have been engaged in the most aggressive attempt in years to improve relations between the United States and India. But they and others said they were convinced Mr. Gandhi would still use his visit to the United States in June to strengthen Indian-American friendship. They argued that his comments in Moscow were in most respects a predictable reiteration of longstanding policies.
Troops patrolled Karachi today after a man was stabbed to death and 37 people were wounded in renewed ethnic unrest, witnesses and hospital sources said. Pashtuns and Urdu-speaking refugees from India clashed Saturday night after at least 28 Pashtun-owned motor rickshaws, minibuses and taxis were set afire on Thursday and Friday in northern Karachi. The police used tear gas to disperse stone-throwing crowds in six areas. More than 30 people were arrested and about 60 detained for questioning, the police said.
Pakistan’s new civilian National Assembly agreed to study the legality of continued martial law after three members interrupted its first general debate to demand an end to military rule. Speaker Said Fakhar Imam called the continuation of martial rule a violation of the assembly’s powers and asked Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo to name a nine-member committee to report back within a week.
The death toll in Bangladesh from a cyclone that drove huge waves into the islands of the nation’s southeastern region rose to at least 1,400. Officials and survivors said they feared that many more may have died, and one official said the final toll could be in the tens of thousands, including large groups of migrant workers who had flocked to the exposed islands for a rice harvest. [The final toll will exceed 10,000.]
South Korean student demonstrators were taken into police custody today after leaving the United States Government building they had occupied for four days. A South Korean Government spokesman said late tonight that the students would be turned over to the police at their respective universities and would be interrogated to determine whether they should be indicted. He said he did not know exactly where the students were or how many would be indicted. The end of the student occupation came at 12:04 P.M. when the steel door grate of the United States Information Service building rolled open. The students emerged with arms linked, carrying a handmade South Korean flag and chanting, “Down with the military dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan” – the South Korea President.
Kanak separatist groups agreed to participate in August elections for a congress in New Caledonia, the first stage of a French government plan to lead the South Pacific territory toward independence. Separatist leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou told reporters that the seven groups making up the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front have agreed to take part in the voting for four new regional councils and a congress. Political sources said the decision was a victory for mainstream moderate groups.
At least 2,000 people were arrested in Lima, Peru, after suspected Maoist guerrillas killed a policeman and wounded another near a candy factory in the city’s Puente Piedra district, police said. It was the third police killing blamed on Sendero Luminoso (“Shining Path”) guerrillas in Lima in the last 11 days. Peruvian police have arrested several thousand people in swoops throughout the capital during the last few months as Sendero Luminoso stepped up its insurgency and moved into new areas.
Twenty-seven schoolchildren died when a truck carrying them home from a music festival collided with a freight truck near the western Kenyan town of Kapkatet Saturday night, The Nairobi Sunday Nation reported today. President Daniel arap Moi sent a message of condolence to the families of the victims, the official Voice of Kenya radio said. Several injured children were admitted to hospitals, the reports said.
Ghana executed five men for plotting to topple the military regime of Jerry J. Rawlings. An appeals tribunal is considering the fate of a sixth defendant. The six were found guilty in a closed-door trial begun in late February, an unusually long time for such proceedings in Africa. Details of the alleged plot are sketchy, with evidence reported by the West African nation’s military council showing that two of the accused had been contacted by dissidents based in Togo.
More American women than ever before are getting legal abortions, but the rate of increase is declining, a federal survey showed. The survey, conducted by the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, showed that 1,300,760 abortions were reported to state health departments in 1981, the latest year for which statistics were available, compared to 1,297,606 for the previous year. The number of reported abortions “was probably lower than the number actually performed,” the agency said. But “the national abortion rate decreased from 25 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 in 1980 to 24 per 1,000 in 1981,” the CDC reported. The abortion rate for unmarried women is 14 times higher than that for married women, it said.
Excessive profits and overhead in the defense industry exist “because Congress has wanted it that way for 30 years,” Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. said, scoffing at the “simple-mindedness” of Pentagon critics. Lehman, bidding to turn away wrath aimed at military waste in the deficit-reducing budget debate on Capitol Hill, argued in a Washington interview that the root problem is a labyrinth of laws and regulations that invite abuse and excess. He urged a streamlining of procedures to remedy the “horrendousness of the system” and “to liberate the thousands of dedicated defense professionals … from their bureaucratic bondage and allow their common sense to prevail.”
President Reagan joined the appeal for a critically ill 6-year-old boy in a Boston hospital awaiting a liver transplant, a federal official said. Health and Human Services Undersecretary Charles Baker said Reagan spoke to Margaret M. Heckler, secretary of HHS, about Shaun Harrington of Newport, New Hampshire. Shaun was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital April 3 to wait for a donor liver and is in critical condition. Baker said the President had asked the health agency to “do whatever it can” to bring the call for a donor to public attention.
President Reagan hosts a private dinner party including Arkady Nikolaevich Shevchenko, the highest ranking Soviet Officer to defect to the United States.
When Claus von Bülow went on trial here six weeks ago, the prosecutors predicted that their presentation would be a reprise of the state’s case at his 1982 trial in Newport. That widely publicized proceeding ended with the conviction of the 58-year-old New York and Newport society figure on two charges of trying to murder his wife, Martha, a multimillionaire, with insulin injections that caused comas in 1979 and 1980. But this week, with the prosecutors under orders to finish their case Tuesday, both sides said that on a large number of issues the state’s case had been severely limited. The defense has vigorously contested, usually with success, a wide range of evidence and medical opinion that the jury heard in 1982 without objection by the defense.
United Airlines and its 5,000 striking pilots are preparing for the possibility of a long walkout now that contract talks have broken off, spokesmen for both sides said today. “I think we’re prepared to hold out as long as we have to,” said Dale Richter, a spokesman for the striking Air Line Pilots Association. A spokesman for United, Eileen Golab, said no talks had been scheduled. The strike began 10 days ago over a company demand for a pay system that would pay newly hired pilots less than established United pilots. The head of the National Mediation Board, Helen Witt, said Friday night that the wage dispute had been tentatively settled and that the two sides lacked only an agreement on how employees would return to work.
The wreckage of a freight train derailment that set off an explosion continued to smolder today as railroad workers and hazardous chemical specialists made slow progress cleaning it up. A tank car containing liquid propylene exploded Friday after a truck hit the train at a crossing and more than 1,000 people were evacuated. The car was still on fire today and the remaining wreckage smoldering, but the blaze had been contained, Union Pacific System railroad officials said. Another Union Pacific train derailed Saturday about 40 miles southeast of Eastland in Dublin.
The California high school teacher who had the largest multiple birth in American history visited her five surviving septuplets for the first time late Saturday, her doctor said today. Dr. Martin Feldman, the obstetrician who delivered Patti Frustaci’s septuplets last Tuesday, said that Mrs. Frustaci had told him that the babies had “opened their eyes and responded to her touch.” Dr. Feldman, who was not present for the hourlong visit, said the 30-year-old mother “looked at them, touched them and talked to them.” The visit was arranged on the spur of the moment, according to Dr. Feldman, and came one day after a one-pound boy, the smallest and weakest of the six babies born alive, died of a severe lung condition that afflicts all of the infants. Three boys and two girls survive. A girl was stillborn.
The devastating fire that left 250 Philadelphians homeless started when the police bomb dropped on the roof of a cult’s house ignited two gasoline cans and they exploded, according to a newspaper’s analysis of pictures. In an attempt to reconstruct events leading to the May 13 fire that killed 11 people, The Philadelphia Inquirer studied a television news videotape of the explosions and compared it with Inquirer photographs taken of the roof before the bomb was dropped.
The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway across eastern Mississippi and western Alabama is to formally open this week amid uncertaintly over whether the controversial $2 billion public works project will offer the benefits promised when it was planned. The 234-mile system of locks and canals links the Tennessee River, in northeast Mississippi, to the Gulf of Mexico, at Mobile, Alabama.
A machine gun is easy to make from a semiautomatic weapon and a legal conversion kit according to Federal authorities who say one such converted gun, the Ingram MAC-10, has become the favorite weapon of drug dealers and right-wing extremist groups. With a silencer attached, it makes no more noise than a sewing machine. An ordinary citizen, with no felony convictions, can fill out a form, pay a $200 tax, and legally buy a MAC-10 from a gun dealer. It is just as easy, however, for convicted felons, or others who do not want their names on a list, to buy a semiautomatic version of the gun and a couple of parts and put together an automatic MAC-10 with a silencer.
Thunderstorms accompanied by high winds ripped through the Midwest, downing power lines and leaving two canoeists missing at a park in Iowa County, Wisconsin, after lightning struck their boat. Fierce winds swept through a residential area, causing damage near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Winds gusted to 70 mph at Farley, Missouri; 57 mph at Donahue, Iowa; 63 mph at Janesville, Wisconsin; 60 mph in portions of McHenry County, Illinois, and 57 mph at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In Michigan, thunderstorms destroyed at least one building, officials said.
Earthquakes of increasing intensity and strength rattled Mt. St. Helens as pressure built toward an eruption expected within days, scientists said in Vancouver, Washington. “We have increased earthquake activity through the day and we are still building to that eruptive activity we expect,” said Chris Jonientz-Trisler, who monitors seismic activity for the University of Washington geophysics center in Seattle. Earlier, scientists had said that the lava dome in the mountain’s crater was continuing to give off heat, but had not grown significantly overnight.
Indianapolis 500: Danny Sullivan wins by 24 seconds from Mario Andretti after surviving famous 360° spin on lap 120. Sullivan, who once spun out a cab in Central Park, survived a spin at 200 miles an hour today, turned his Cosworth-powered March in the right direction and went on to win the Indianapolis 500 over Mario Andretti. It was a spectacular show that attracted about 400,000 people and turned this city into an outdoor festival on a holiday weekend. Only 12 of the 33 starters finished, and the typical confusion brought on by faulty equipment and crashes was punctuated by A. J. Foyt’s accidentally setting fire to his own car. Meanwhile, Pancho Carter, the fastest qualifier who was driving the closely watched March that was powered by a Buick-built V-6 engine, was the first to be eliminated. He blamed the trouble on a British-built pump.
Major League Baseball:
Ron Cey hit two home runs, including the game winner, today to boost the Chicago Cubs to a come-from-behind 10–8 victory over the Houston Astros. George Frazier (2–1) got the victory in relief while Mark Ross (0–2) took the loss. With the Cubs trailing, 8–6, in the seventh, Ryne Sandberg led off with a single and Davey Lopes walked. Keith Moreland doubled in both to tie the score, 8–8. Cey then hit his second homer of the game, and eighth of the season.
On a bad hop, a bloop double and a bases-loaded walk, and the baffling sinking fastball of Roger McDowell, the Mets eked out a 2–1 victory over the Dodgers yesterday and ended a four-game losing streak. “Somehow,” said the relieved manager, Dave Johnson, “we keep staying away from the big emergency.” It is truly a wonder because the Mets’ big bats have been failing, the medical problems keep growing, and still they are where have been for some time now, in first place in the National League’s Eastern Division, tied with Chicago. Nothing very pretty happened at Shea Stadium yesterday. The Dodgers had five hits, the Mets had four. The Dodgers’ starter, Rick Honeycutt, lasted five innings. The Mets’ starter, Sid Fernandez, lasted only four and two-thirds.
Bruce Bochy’s home run ignited a four-run fifth inning and Kevin McReynolds hit a three-run homer in the eighth as San Diego recorded its seventh consecutive victory, downing the Phillies, 7–2. LaMarr Hoyt (4–4) allowed both Philadelphia runs and nine hits before Rich Gossage came on in the eighth to gain his 13th save. Steve Carlton (1–4) was the loser.
The Braves edged the Pirates, 5–4. Chris Chambliss’s pinch-hit bases-loaded single in a bizarre 10th inning drove in the winning run and enabled Atlanta to snap a five-game losing streak. Chambliss’s fly ball over a drawn-in outfield came after the Pirates walked two batters intentionally to load the bases and employed a five-man infield with only two outfielders. Paul Zuvella started the winning rally against Ray Krawczyk (0–1) with a bloop single and scored the tying run when Gerald Perry’s single got past the right fielder Doug Frobel and rolled to the fence.
The Expos bested the Giants, 3–1. Tim Wallach scored one run and drove in two more to back the six-hit pitching of Bill Gullickson and Jeff Reardon as Montreal won its third straight from the Giants. Wallach blooped a single off the Giants starter, Mike Krukow (3–3), to score Andre Dawson from second base with the go-ahead run in the seventh inning. Dawson opened the inning with a walk and moved to second on Hubie Brooks’s grounder. Terry Francona doubled Wallach home with an insurance run.
The Cardinals thumped the Reds, 7–2, as Danny Cox pitched a six-hitter and Willie McGee hit a pair of triples and batted in two runs for St. Louis. Cox (5–1) struck out six in hurling his second complete game of the season. The Cardinals took a 1–0 lead in the second. Andy Van Slyke walked, went to third on Ozzie Smith’s single and scored on Darrell Porter’s sacrifice fly. They made it 3–0 in the third. Vince Coleman walked and scored on McGee’s first triple. Tom Herr’s sacrifice fly scored McGee.
Jesse Barfield hit a home run with two out in the ninth inning today as the Toronto Blue Jays matched a team record with their seventh straight victory, a 6–5 decision over the Cleveland Indians. Barfield extended his hitting streak to 16 games as the Blue Jays sent the Indians to their fifth straight loss. Barfield’s streak is the longest in the American League this season.
Ron Guidry seems to enjoy incredible success when he pitches for Billy Martin. Guidry won his fifth game of the season today and his fourth since Martin became manager of the Yankees last month. His day was made easier by the Yankee offense, which collected 19 hits, six for extra bases, in a 13–1 clubbing of the Oakland A’s. But the most impressive statistic is Guidry’s career record when Martin is the Yankee manager: 67–22.
Robin Yount hit a two-run homer to highlight a four-run third inning as Milwaukeee handed Minnesota its fifth straight setback, winning 5–3. Paul Molitor sparked the third-inning rally with a two-out double off John Butcher (3–3). Earnest Riles singled home Molitor, and Cecil Cooper followed with a triple. Yount then hit his homer for a 5–0 lead.
The Royals edged the White Sox, 3–2. Frank White led off the eighth inning with his seventh home run of the season to give Bud Black the victory. The Royals completed a three-game sweep of the White Sox and extended their winning streak to five. Chicago lost its sixth game in a row. Black (5-3) scattered six hits and struck out four over eight innings. Dan Quisenberry came on to pitch the ninth and pick up his eighth save.
Ruppert Jones and Brian Downing hit homers to key a 12-hit attack for California as the Angels routed the Orioles, 10–4. Jones singled home a first-inning run, and then his homer triggered a three-run third inning. Downing hit a three-run shot in the sixth. Pat Clements (3–0) pitched two-hit ball the final 6 ⅔ innings for the victory. Clements relieved the starter, Kirk McCaskill, who gave up a three-run homer to Eddie Murray and a solo shot to Larry Sheets.
Cliff Johnson hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning to give Texas a four-game sweep of Boston as the Rangers won, 5–3. Frank Tanana (1–5) went 6 ⅔ innings and gave up three runs on six hits. Dave Rozema went the final 1 ⅓ innings for his third save.
The Tigers blanked the Mariners, 6–0. Jack Morris tossed a five-hitter and rookie Chris Pittaro drove in three runs to lead the Tigers to their fourth straight victory in Seattle.
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Atlanta Braves 5
Baltimore Orioles 4, California Angels 10
Houston Astros 8, Chicago Cubs 10
St. Louis Cardinals 7, Cincinnati Reds 2
Toronto Blue Jays 6, Cleveland Indians 5
Chicago White Sox 2, Kansas City Royals 3
Minnesota Twins 3, Milwaukee Brewers 5
San Francisco Giants 1, Montreal Expos 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, New York Mets 2
New York Yankees 13, Oakland Athletics 1
San Diego Padres 7, Philadelphia Phillies 2
Detroit Tigers 6, Seattle Mariners 0
Boston Red Sox 3, Texas Rangers 5
Born:
Kevin Mulvey, MLB pitcher (Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks), in Parlin, New Jersey.
Lance Zawadzki, MLB pinch hitter, second baseman, and shortstop (San Diego Padres), in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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