Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, gave a warm welcome today to Willy Brandt, the former West German Chancellor, and told him the Geneva arms talks had so far proved “completely fruitless.” After the highly publicized five-hour meeting with Mr. Brandt, a member of the West German delegation said at a news conference that Mr. Gorbachev had said he saw little hope for progress at the talks, which resume Thursday, unless the United States revises its policies. Calling Mr. Gorbachev “harder than some believe,” the West German spokesman said the Soviet leader, echoing an assessment he made when the first round of talks ended on April 23, had called the discussions fruitless. The West German spokesman, Egon Bahr, an arms expert in Mr. Brandt’s opposition Social Democratic Party, said Mr. Gorbachev also said that contacts and preparations were under way for a summit meeting with President Reagan but that details had not been fixed.
Eight men went on trial in Rome on charges of plotting to assassinate Pope John Paul II, and a prosecutor asked the state to seek evidence from Turkish terrorists jailed elsewhere in Europe. After an initial outburst, the state’s key witness, Mehmet Ali Ağca, gave a thoughtful account of how he obtained the gun he used to shoot the Pope in 1981. He gave testimony until a breakdown of the courtroom’s public address system forced the judge to suspend hearings until Tuesday. Earlier Ağca, the state’s key witness against five Turks and three Bulgarians, began shouting: “I am Jesus Christ! I am omnipotent, and I announce the end of the world!”
Poland’s official press rebuked West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for his plan to attend a Hanover rally June 16 of exiles from the former German province of Silesia, which was turned over to Poland after World War II. Press commentaries criticized such meetings as signs of revanchism — seeking the return to Germany of territory lost at the end of the war.
Rescue workers have recovered 20 bodies and sighted two more inside the hulls of two oil tankers destroyed by an explosion Sunday, officials said today. A Government spokesman said divers had not yet been able to get inside the wrecks because of intense heat but expected to find the remains of the 11 other missing people. The two ships lie partly submerged in the shallow Bay of Algeciras, near the Rock of Gibraltar. Eugenio Marin, director general of the private oil company Cepsa, which owns a giant refinery nearby, said the disaster was apparently caused by an explosion aboard the Petragen-One, a Panamanian-registered tanker, as it unloaded a cargo of highly inflammable naphtha. The Spanish tanker Camponavia, moored next to the Petragen-One on a floating jetty to take on gas, was also hit in the explosion. About 60 people were aboard the two vessels — Spanish seamen aboard the Camponavia and South Korean and Japanese crew members on the Japanese-chartered Petragen-One.
U.S. Ambassador Samuel W. Lewis apologized to Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir for “misunderstandings” arising from his comments about Israeli plans for the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the Foreign Ministry said. Lewis had said that Ariel Sharon, then defense minister, outlined to U.S. diplomats “in hypothetical detail” Israeli plans for the invasion six months before it took place. A ministry spokesman said Lewis, who is ending eight years in his post, met with Shamir at his own request. Lewis said he “had no intention of intervening in Israel’s internal affairs,” the spokesman added.
Israel announced a 14% to 30% boost in the price of goods and services as part of an economic recovery plan aimed at reducing inflation. The radio announcement came minutes after shops closed for the day and effectively thwarted any last-minute hoarding. The increases had been expected this week after the expiration of a two-month wage and price regulation agreement signed March 31 by the government, manufacturers and the Histadrut labor federation.
Efforts to rescue Palestinians from a besieged refugee settlement in Beirut were only slightly successful. Red Cross ambulances brought out 11 wounded people from the Burj al Brajneh settlement, but the operation had to be abandoned after 30 minutes because of new fighting between the Palestinian defenders and Shiite Muslim militiamen. Palestinian sources said 250 people were in need of medical treatment in Burj al Brajneh, on the southern edge of Beirut. They added that the water supply there was very low.
Polisario guerrillas killed 56 Moroccan soldiers last Wednesday in fighting in Western Sahara, according to a communique published by the Algerian press agency today. The agency, monitored here, said a 90-minute guerrilla attack at Hofrat Oudei El-Guezzah was “in response to the military escalation marked recently by the construction of a fifth defense line” by the Moroccan Army.
Iran fired a surface-to-surface missile at Baghdad today after Iraqi air strikes on Teheran, the official Iranian press agency reported. The agency, in a dispatch monitored here, said the missile was launched at 4 AM “in retaliation for the recent inhuman attacks upon civilian areas in Tehran and other Iranian cities.” “Scores of innocent civilians have been killed or wounded in Iraqi air and missile attacks upon Tehran and a number of other towns in the country over the last two days,” it said. The Iranian agency said Iraqi aircraft bombed two civilian areas of the capital at about 2:30 A.M. It was the second time Iraqi planes had appeared over Iran in less than four hours, the press agency said. The agency said at least 5 people were killed and 15 wounded in the bombing of Tehran, United Press International reported. There was no immediate Iraqi comment on the latest Iranian reports.
10,000 Bangladeshis are missing and feared dead after a cyclone devastated the islands in southeastern Bangladesh, the authorities said as they widened search and rescue efforts. The seas were reported littered with floating bodies.The seas were reported littered with floating bodies. The Government-run Bangladesh radio said that 80 percent of croplands had been devastated and that it was feared that 500,000 head of cattle were missing. News reports said hundreds of fishing boats had been swamped in a fishing area critical to the nation’s economy.
Two men were killed today when soldiers fired on a crowd of about 5,000 Pashtoons attacking an army headquarters in western Karachi, witnesses said. The authorities later imposed an indefinite curfew on an industrial area where about one million people live. Pakistani soldiers defending the temporary headquarters used tear gas and then opened fire after the Pashtoons, members of an ethnic minority, who were demanding the release of an arrested Pashtoon politician, pelted the soldiers with stones, witnesses said. The violence was the latest outburst of unrest between the Pashtoons and the Urdu-speaking Biharis in the slum areas of western Karachi. About 50 protesters were detained for demanding the release of Mir Nawab, a local municipal councilor arrested last month on charges of inciting fellow Pashtoons to fight Biharis, the Pashtoons said.
North and South Korea today began their first full-fledged talks in 12 years aimed at reuniting millions of families separated by the Korean War more than three decades ago. Representatives of both sides spoke of the need to ease the “pain and suffering” of separated families, but longstanding differences over how to conduct the discussions were evident. The chief South Korean delegate, Lee Yong Dok, suggested that the negotiators first deal only with “humanitarian issues,” leaving aside more overtly political matters such as attempts to reunify the divided peninsula. Mr. Lee said that later, “our humanitarian project may well be a national undertaking linked directly to the unification of our homeland.” But the chief North Korean delegate, Li Chong Yul, repeated a decades-old position that Korean reunification must receive top priority. “The most important thing is that on humanitarian grounds we must work toward peace and unification,” Mr. Li said. “We cannot separate peace and unification from other things.”
China and Britain held a formal ceremony in Peking that legally put into effect their agreement to restore Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty when the British lease expires in 1997. Britain’s ambassador to China, Richard Evans, and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhou Nan, who negotiated the Hong Kong accord, signed the exchange protocol, the last step in the ratification process.
The Nicaraguan Indian rebel group Misurasata broke off peace talks in Colombia with the leftist Managua government, saying the negotiations are at an impasse. “The dialogue is stalled because of the intransigence and inflexibility of the government in not recognizing the historical rights of the Indians,” said Misurasata leader Brooklyn Rivera, whose group includes Miskito, Sumo and Rama Indians. Rivera said the organization will continue to abide by an agreement to avoid “offensive military action” against the government.
The United States has sent a high-level official to the Sudan for the first time since a military coup there early last month, State Department officials said today. They said the official, Chester A. Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, would arrive in Khartoum on Tuesday for meetings with the senior Sudanese leadership under Gen. Abdel Rahman Siwar el-Dahab. A ranking department official said Mr. Crocker wanted to discuss with the Sudanese “the enormous number of decisions that they have to make” on economic and political matters. General Siwar el-Dahab replaced President Gaafar al-Nimeiry, a pro-Western leader who was on his way back to the Sudan from Washington when he was deposed on April 6.
Ugandan rebels said they have opened a second front, in western Uganda, the first expansion of their four-year war against President Milton Obote’s government. Diplomats in Uganda speculated that the move was a reaction to a campaign by the army and its North Korean advisers to crush rebels in their strongholds north of the capital of Kampala. Thousands of troops have been used in the government push, which started more than a year ago, forcing at least 100,000 civilians in the area to flee.
One of South Africa’s largest black movements, the Zulu political group Inkatha, handed the U.S. consul general in Durban a petition signed by 100,000 people opposing the withdrawal of U.S. investments in South Africa. “We petition President Reagan, the senators of the United States of America and its congressmen to reject pressures exerted on them to express abhorrence of apartheid through disinvestment,” the petition said. It argued that divestment would hurt black South African workers most and “would further the politics of violence and damage the politics of reason.”
Memorial Day holiday in the United States.
President Reagan today assailed Communism in harsh language, saying the “tide of history is moving away from Communism.” Mr. Reagan’s Memorial Day remarks came in a partisan address at a Republican fund-raising event for Senator Paula Hawkins. He also assailed the Democratic Party, portraying his own party as one that recognizes that military strength is needed to insure world peace. “The opposition often acts like a weaker America is a safer America,” he said. Mr. Reagan, in seeking support for several Administration policies, including his military buildup, aid to Nicaraguan insurgents and the operation of Radio Marti, which last week began broadcasting into Cuba, asserted that Communism was waning as a force in the world. “I firmly believe the tide of history is moving away from Communism and into the warm sunlight of human freedom,” Mr. Reagan said. “To win this struggle, to preserve our way of life, to maintain the peace, we must be strong and true to our ideals.”
Mr. Reagan, who began the day by laying a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery, also made an appearance at Walt Disney World’s Epcot Center near Orlando, where he described the day as “the eve of the second American Revolution.” He was referring to his plan to overhaul the Federal income tax system, which he will make public Tuesday in a nationally televised address. The President seeks major changes in Federal income taxes that would affect the personal finances of nearly every American family and the operations of almost every business. Mr. Reagan will begin the ambitious campaign in a 15-minute television address at 8 o’clock tomorrow night.
Earthquakes continued rumbling within Mt. St. Helens as scientists ventured into the steaming crater to gauge the chances of an explosive eruption. The scientists could feel some of the larger quakes, which registered 2 to 3 on the Richter scale, said Steve Brantley of the U.S. Geological Survey in Vancouver, Washington. That development signaled an “exponential increase” in the energy released by the volcano, he said, adding that such increases have in the past indicated an impending eruption. The 47,000-acre restricted zone around the volcano has been closed for several days, although officials said there was little chance an eruption would affect areas outside the crater.
In a major shift in policy, a low-income-oriented housing group said that federally assisted housing programs should emphasize the use of existing housing to meet the needs of the poor. “What has been built up over decades with considerable positive result ought not to be lightly cast aside,” the National Leased Housing Association said in a new report, released in Washington. But at the same time, the group-a combination of public housing authorities, private developers, nonprofit groups and housing financiers-said there are circumstances that justify new construction or substantial rehabilitation programs to meet the housing needs of low-income people.
Claus von Bulow’s former mistress, Alexandra Isles, flew back from Europe today, one day ahead of a court-imposed deadline for the prosecution to put her on the witness stand at his retrial on charges of attempted murder. Mrs. Isles, who testified at the first trial in 1982 that she gave Mr. von Bulow an ultimatum for leaving his wife to marry her, arrived at Logan International Airport in Boston at 3:45 PM on a Northwest Orient Airlines flight that originated in Frankfurt, West Germany, and stopped in London. The 39-year-old socialite and former soap opera actress was met by one of the prosecutors, Marc DeSisto, Assistant Attorney General of Rhode Island; and Lieutenant Jack Reise of the State Police. She was helped down a special stairway by an unidentified man and taken to an unmarked brown car that left without reporters being allowed to talk to her.
Patti Frustaci was “much happier” after she touched her five surviving septuplets for the first time this weekend, and hospital officials today canceled a news briefing because the infants were progressing. The children remained in critical but stable condition today at the neonatal intensive care unit at Childrens Hospital of Orange County, a nursing supervisor said. Mrs. Frustaci, 30 years ago, was moved from an intensive care unit to a private room and was reported in good condition. She gave birth Tuesday, 12 weeks prematurely, to the five babies, along with a stillborn girl and a boy who died three days later. Mrs. Frustaci has named the babies, but has not disclosed the names.
Nine militant Pittsburgh-area. Lutheran pastors filed a formal church complaint against their bishop seeking disciplinary hearings similar to those that stripped three of the activists of their pastorates, church sources said. The complaint seeks disciplinary action against Bishop Kenneth May of the Lutheran Church in America’s Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod. The complaint is the latest round in the dispute between activist pastors in the unemployment-ravaged Monongahela Valley and church officials and law enforcement authorities.
An agency of the United Church of Christ, reversing a longstanding policy, said it has agreed to “a principle of full divestment” from U.S. corporations doing business in South Africa. And the United Methodist Church, the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination, says it is going to take a hard look at the investment policies of its national boards. Those decisions would combat apartheid, the South African government’s policy of racial separation. The action by the United Church of Christ’s Board of World Ministries would dispose of holdings in companies that do business in South Africa, reversing a 15-year-old policy.
Striking United Airlines pilots called for a resumption of negotiations as their strike against the nation’s largest air carrier entered its 11th day with hundreds of flights grounded on the unofficial start of the summer holiday season. “We are ready, willing and able to meet with United, with or without a mediator, to try to end this strike,” Air Line Pilots Association spokesman Captain Roger Hall said in Chicago. United spokesman Joe Hopkins, asked about the union’s offer, said: “We have not been approached by the pilots’ union, and no talks are scheduled.”
Gasoline-buying is changing on the nation’s highways. A rising number of motorists seek out self-service pumps to save several cents on each gallon. The number of outlets that primarily sell gasoline and automotive products has declined to 130,000 from 220,000 in 1970 while another type of outlet with a broader product line, convenience stores, has increased in number to 55,000 from about 15,000.
Mayors are paying private industry to provide a wide range of public services. The trend is growing because of a drying up of Federal aid, revolts by taxpayers and municipal unions’ wages and benefits, which the officials consider too high.
The United States is the No. 1 choice of the world’s students who go abroad for a college or university education, the Institute of International Education said in a report released in New York. Engineering and business, the fields most sought by foreign students, also are the majors most in demand by American students, said the report on student enrollment in the year 1979, titled “Foreign Student Flows.” The report said that of nearly 900,000 students studying abroad in 1979, the United States accounted for 286,000, or 32.8%.
The group Move attracted people by providing a sense of family and guidelines for living that stressed nature, according to Louise James, a member of the radical group who owned the fortified West Philadelphia row house that the police bombed May 13. She said the group offered people answers for every question and was, for many, a way out of crime, prostitution and drug addiction.
Bands are using industrial tools to make a novel and clamorous type of music. Pop and rock musicians in this country and Europe are using items ranging from cement mixers to pneumatic drills to broken glass in a musical context that is sometimes called “industrial rock,” and it is increasingly popular.
Interest in birth order and its effects on later development is being revived among scientists. Some data show that the amount of time between births in a family has perhaps as much to do with the development of a child as does that child’s place in the order of births.
The Los Angeles Lakers’ heralded running game stood still today. Instead, the Boston Celtics unleashed their own blistering running game, adding torrid shooting and outstanding defense, for a 79-point first half and routed the Lakers, 148-114, at Boston Garden in the opening game of the National Basketball Association championship series. The second game of the four-of-seven-game series will be played here Thursday night. It was a humiliating defeat for the Lakers, who won the Pacific Division title by a record 20 games and swept to their fourth straight Western Conference title by averaging 131.1 points a game. Today, the Laker team that Coach K. C. Jones of the Celtics had referred to as “a tidal wave” was totally becalmed as it trailed by 30 points at the half and suffered the worst playoff loss in its history.
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Bert Blyleven pitched a three-hitter for his 49th career shutout as the Indians ended a five-game skid, blanking the Brewers, 8–0. Joe Carter and Brook Jacoby hit home runs to help Blyleven win his third game of the season — all shutouts — against five losses. Blyleven struck out 10.
The Red Sox routed the Twins, 9–2. Steve Lyons, a rookie, hit his first two major league home runs and Bill Buckner had four hits and three runs batted in to lead a 16-hit Boston attack. The Red Sox snapped a four-game losing streak while extending the Twins’ slump to six straight losses.
Dave Righetti served up a leadoff home run to Dwayne Murphy in the 10th inning as the Oakland A’s edged the Yankees, 2–1. The loss sent the Yankees home with a 5–5 record on their road trip through the West. But they were forced to play this game without Don Mattingly, their regular first baseman, and Ken Griffey, the left fielder, who are nursing injuries.
Rick Dempsey’s sacrifice fly snapped a seventh-inning tie, and the Orioles went on to defeat the Angels, 6–4. Dempsey’s sacrifice, his first R.B.I. in nearly three weeks, scored Fritz Connally, who led off the inning with a pinch-double against Tommy John (2–4) and took third on a sacrifice by Rich Dauer. Baltimore added a run in the seventh.
The Mariners downed the Tigers, 5–2. Matt Young pitched six and two-thirds innings for the victory and Seattle took advantage of four Detroit errors to score three unearned runs. Young (4–5) scattered eight hits. Dan Petry (8–3) was the loser.
The Rangers bowed to the Royals, 4–2. George Brett knocked in three runs with a single and double to support the combined four-hit pitching of Bret Saberhagen and Dan Quisenberry for Kansas City. Saberhagen scattered three hits over the opening six innings to improve his record to 5–3 and give the Royals their sixth straight victory. But after he walked Gary Ward to open the seventh, Quisenberry was summoned to protect Kansas City’s 4–2 lead and pick up his ninth save.
Bob Dernier doubled with the bases loaded for two runs and Keith Moreland broke out of a slump with three hits as the Chicago Cubs defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 4–3, tonight. Dennis Eckersley (6–3) lasted into the ninth, giving up six hits and two runs, striking out six and walking none. Lee Smith got the last three outs for his 12th save, giving up a run.
These are the first-place Mets, who have been worrying about their hitting and starting pitching and injuries and other assorted slumps. But last night at Shea Stadium they burst out on every front in beating the Dodgers, 8–1. Everything played into the Mets’ hands. Ron Darling pitched a complete game for his fourth victory against one defeat. Ray Knight, a late substitute at a position he has rarely played — second base — hit a three-run homer in the third inning when the Mets took a 4–0 lead, and he doubled in another run. And the rest of the lineup sizzled. Mookie Wilson, the leadoff hitter, had four hits. Keith Hernandez had a home run. The team totaled 13 hits, equaling their season high.
Mike Schmidt and John Russell belted three-run homers, and Tim Corcoran broke an eighth-inning tie with a sacrifice fly today as Philadelphia snapped the Padres’ seven-game winning streak, edging San Diego, 10–9. The Padres rapped 17 hits, including three apiece by Jerry Royster and Garry Templeton, off six Philadelphia pitchers. The Phillies collected 12 hits, three each by Schmidt and Jeff Stone, against four San Diego hurlers.
The Giants thumped the Expos, 6–1. Chris Brown had three hits, driving in two runs, and Jeff Leonard hit a three-run double for San Francisco. Brown broke up a scoreless tie in the seventh, tripling off the Montreal starter David Palmer (3–5) to score Gary Rajsich. Brown then scored on Alex Trevino’s ground ball when Montreal shortstop Hubie Brooks threw into the dugout for a two-base error. Brown collected his second single as the Giants exploded for four runs in the eighth, driving home Leonard, who had doubled for three runs.
The Astros beat the Pirates, 4–2, as Bob Knepper and Dave Smith combined on an eight-hitter and Terry Puhl drove in a pair of runs with a second-inning double for Houston. Knepper (5–0) allowed eight hits while walking two and striking out four. He was lifted in the ninth after allowing a lead-off double to Tony Pena and a single to Johnny Ray. Smith came on and got Steve Kemp to hit into a run-scoring fielder’s choice. He then recorded the final two outs for his seventh save.
Minnesota Twins 2, Boston Red Sox 9
Baltimore Orioles 6, California Angels 4
Chicago Cubs 4, Cincinnati Reds 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, Houston Astros 4
Texas Rangers 2, Kansas City Royals 4
Cleveland Indians 8, Milwaukee Brewers 0
San Francisco Giants 6, Montreal Expos 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, New York Mets 8
New York Yankees 1, Oakland Athletics 2
San Diego Padres 9, Philadelphia Phillies 10
Detroit Tigers 2, Seattle Mariners 5
Born:
Liz Wahl, American journalist, in Naval Base Subic Bay, the Philippines.
Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese NPL pitcher (Yomiuri Giants), in Taipei County, Taiwan.
Died:
(Clifton) “Skeeter” Best, 70, American jazz guitarist (Erskine Hawkins; Earl Hines; Oscar Pettiford; Ray Charles; Milt Jackson)
Kay Campbell, 80, actress (All My Children).
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