The White House notified Congress today that it was delaying a report on adherence to the second strategic arms limitation agreement until June 10 to give it time to consult with North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies and to assess further its military and diplomatic options. The report was due in Congress by Saturday. The notification of a postponement was made in a letter to the Speaker of the House, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., by the national security adviser, Robert C. McFarlane. He said the report would address the Administration’s policy of not undercutting existing strategic arms agreements as long as the Soviet Union exercises equal restraint. Although the Senate never ratified the second treaty limiting strategic nuclear weapons negotiated in the Carter Administration, both the United States and the Soviet Union have agreed to comply with its terms. The treaty expires at the end of this year.
The organization that governs soccer competition in England, acting two days after English fans helped instigate a fatal stadium riot in Brussels, announced today that no clubs under its jurisdiction would enter European competition next season. “It is now up to English football to put its house in order,” the organization, the Football Association, said in a statement. The national team of England, which has no international matches scheduled on the Continent next season, is not affected. The team has three World Cup qualifying games left, all in London. It is also to play the United States team on June 16 in Los Angeles before going to South America.
An express train carrying tourists from the Gatwick Airport to Victoria Station in London today struck the rear of a commuter train, railroad and hospital officials said. At least 106 people were injured, two of them seriously. Most of the injured were treated at local hospitals for shock or minor cuts and bruises, a hospital spokesman said. Fourteen were admitted for treatment or observation. Service into and out of Victoria Station, one of the British capital’s busiest rail terminals, was continuing with substantial delays, a British Rail spokesman said. The accident occurred at 9:55 AM near the Battersea Park station in south London. About 440 people were on the two trains.
The Greek election campaign came to a close tonight with the last of three huge and exuberant rallies in the capital, this one featuring Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. Saturday has been set aside as a day of calm. On Sunday, Greeks will choose from among the Socialist Party of Mr. Papandreou, the New Democracy Party led by Constantine Mitsotakis, the two Communist parties and minor groupings not represented in Parliament. The race is close, with most political commentators giving a slight advantage to Mr. Papandreou.
Three people, including a 14-year-old boy, have been killed in what appears to be an upsurge of Basque separatist violence in the last 24 hours. The boy and a policeman were killed by a bomb that wounded three other policemen and a woman Thursday night. The bomb exploded shortly after two men shot and killed a munitions factory manager near the Basque port of Bilbao.
An Italian investigating magistrate ordered today that a trial be held for six Lebanese accused of conspiring to blow up the United States Embassy in Rome last November. The six are Shiite Muslim supporters of the Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
President Reagan meets with Prime Minister of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milka Planinc. Prime Minister of Yugoslavia met today with President Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz for sessions that both sides described as friendly and useful. In comments to reporters after a luncheon meeting at the State Department, Mr. Shultz said the United States had expressed its “strong continuing support” for Yugoslavia’s economic stabilization program and had pledged “constructive assistance.” He said the discussions with Prime Minister Milka Planinc had covered a range of international issues, including a mutual resolve to combat international terrorism, the United States position on arms-control talks with the Soviet Union and ways to improve cooperation between the United States and nonaligned countries.
Middle East peace prospects advanced “in a very significant way,” after talks with King Hussein of Jordan, Secretary of State George P. Shultz said. In a news conference summing up the Reagan Administration’s view of the four days of talks in Washington, Mr. Shultz said differences remained on the key question of how to organize negotiations between Israel and a joint Jordan-Palestinian delegation. In a news conference summing up the Administration’s view of the four days of talks that ended tonight, Mr. Shultz said, “There are obstacles between here and the time when King Hussein and his delegation can sit down at a table with Israel, but there is motion today. Impetus to Peacemaking “The King’s visit has given impetus to the process of peacemaking. I think what the King has done is move the process in a very significant way.”
A new steel gate set into concrete blocks on a back road at Kafr Hunah, Lebanon, 15 miles north of the Israeli border, marks the northernmost point of the security zone that Israel hopes to establish when it completes its formal withdrawal from Lebanon shortly. But some authorities in Jerusalem say the likelihood is that, even after the deliberately low-key withdrawal operation is finished, some Israeli troops will remain in the southern Lebanon border zone. Moreover, they say, the military is prepared to retaliate swiftly if there are Palestinian or Shiite Muslim guerrilla attacks over the border. Today, some Israeli soldiers were lounging atop their armored personnel carrier near the gate, in a startlingly beautiful spot with pink hollyhocks and white Queen Anne’s lace blooming on the hills.
Shiite Muslim militiamen, backed by soldiers from the Lebanese Army’s mainly Shiite Sixth Brigade, won control of the last stronghold in the Palestinian refugee settlement of Sabra today. The development came after the Shiite militia Amal and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire that was followed within hours by new fighting. A spokesman for Amal said a large number of Palestinians were killed and 20 captured in a pitched battle for control of the stronghold, a vantage point known as the Daouk Station. The battle occurred at dawn on the 13th day of the struggle for control of the settlements. A total of 435 people have now been reported killed and 1,200 wounded in the fighting, according to police figures.
Iraq said today that it had launched a sweeping attack on Iranian troops in Iraq’s southern marshes. A military statement said Iraqi forces, backed by artillery fire and helicopter gunships, had seized control of man-made islands in the Huwaizah marshes. It asserted that Iran had planned to stage an offensive from the islands, as it did in March. “Large numbers of Iranian troops” were killed, wounded or captured, the Iraqi statement said. A military spokesman said Iraqi warplanes attacked the international airport in Tehran at midnight. On Friday, Iraq said it had bombed Tehran and two other Iranian cities. Iran reported retaliatory air raids on several sites, including a radar installation site at Ruwandiz in the north.
The Indian authorities said today that they had tightened security here and elsewhere in northern India in expectation of a week of anti-Government protests by Sikhs. The Sikhs plan the demonstrations to mark the army raid on a terrorist stronghold in their Golden Temple in Amritsar last June. Officials say they expect an increase in terrorist attacks on Government offices and Hindus. Moderate Sikh leaders have called for peaceful demonstrations, such as temple sessions and public meetings, to remember those killed in the fighting. It is believed that about 1,000 people died.
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India and President J. R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka will travel together to Bangladesh to express sympathy for the victims of the recent cyclone disaster there, an Indian spokesman said today. The spokesman said the joint trip was scheduled for Sunday, after the two leaders hold talks about the conflict in Sri Lanka between the Government and Tamil separatists. Mr. Gandhi and Mr. Jayewardene, who will fly over the devastated Ganges delta with President H. M. Ershad of Bangladesh, are making the trip to show “South Asian solidarity,” the spokesman added.
The hazard of being washed away by storms will continue to be ignored by thousands of Bangladesh peasants who migrate each year to low-lying fringes of their country in search of a livelihood. They are resigned to facing again a calamity such as the cyclone that killed perhaps 10,000 people a week ago. On the tiny island of Urir Char, Mohammed Abdullah, 50 years old, with thick graying hair and a face of sad resignation, told why in simple terms this week. “We came here to start a new life,” he said. “There is no place else for us to go.” The first of $12 million in aid pledged by 13 countries has started to bring some relief to the suffering survivors.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos, in remarks made public today, has dismissed as perjury the testimony against the military men who are on trial for the assassination of the opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Opposition figures immediately accused Mr. Marcos of trying to sway the three-judge court that is now hearing the case against 26 defendants, who include the former Armed Forces Chief of Staff, General Fabian C. Ver, a relative and close friend of the President. “Marcos is blatantly trying to prejudice the outcome of the trial,” said Jaime V. Ongpin, a leading Philippine corporate executive and a member of the opposition. The President’s remarks on the Aquino case were made in an interview Monday with three French television journalists, and excerpts from the interview were released today.
South Africa said today that it was “no longer sure” that United States-sponsored negotiations could be held to secure a withdrawal of Cuban soldiers from Angola in return for a settlement to bring independence to neighboring South-West Africa. The statement, by Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha, seemed to represent a new setback for the Reagan Administration’s policy of “constructive engagement” in the region. The policy includes the idea that a Cuban pullout from Angola would persuade South Africa to relinquish its disputed hold on South-West Africa, a former German colony widely known as Namibia. South Africa’s position was made known a week after Pretoria acknowledged for the first time that it had sent troops into northern Angola. The South Africans say their commandos were on an espionage mission, but Angola says they had been sent to sabotage American-operated oil installations in the northern enclave of Cabinda.
Greater mobility for the poor is a goal of Reagan Administration actions that stress Federal assistance to people rather than places, such as the inner cities that have long received such aid. One of the steps the Administration has taken is a $1 billion demonstration of housing vouchers, the first subsidy that the unemployed could use in moving from inner cities to to where the jobs are. The demonstration program has begun in San Antonio and is expected to be operating by August 1 in 20 cities and states, including New York City, New Haven and New Jersey.
President Reagan travels to Camp David for the weekend.
Surveillance of a group of men in California who worked in the Navy with John A. Walker, accused of spying for the Soviet Union, has been started by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, law-enforcement officials in Washington said. One of the men is a former Navy officer now living in northern California who was identified by Mr. Walker as “D” in secret documents recovered by investigators, the officials said. The announcement brought the number of people under investigation for involvement in the purported spy ring to at about nine.
Fred C. Ikle, the Under Secretary of Defense for policy, has disputed an article in The New York Times, for which he was one of the sources, that reported that the United States was planning to integrate offensive nuclear forces with a projected antimissile shield. While Mr. Ikle had provided some of the information included in the article, he had done so only on condition that he not be identified. After the article appeared on Wednesday, however, the Defense Department’s public information office distributed a statement denying parts of the article and said the statement could be attributed to Mr. Ikle. In his public statement, Mr. Ikle asserted that the article “garbles totally fictitious events or ideas with some actual developments.” He said that it thus “creates a false impression of relevance while being badly misleading in many specifics.”
A former Ku Klux Klan leader said today that he and John A. Walker Jr., accused last week of spying for the Soviet Union, became close friends while serving together aboard a nuclear submarine. Bill Wilkinson, once the Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, said that Mr. Walker had never tried to recruit him or use his Klan contacts for any espionage operation. “I felt like he was a patriot,” said Mr. Wilkinson in a telephone interview from his home in Denham Springs, Louisiana. “I can recall cussing commies with him.”
Chemical and biological warfare projects initiated by the Pentagon received a setback in a Federal court. The Army was barred from building germ-war research laboratories at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Federal District Judge Joyce Hens Green found the risks of a proposed $1.4 million “aerosol test lab” 90 miles from Salt Lake City to be “serious and far-reaching.”
An admiral who was dismissed from his command over the purchase of $659 ashtrays for warplanes said he had been wrongfully accused and that his punishment, which included a rebuke, was “patently absurd.” Rear Admiral Thomas J. Cassidy Jr., said that well before the disciplinary action, the Miramar Naval Air Station in California had already begun reforming the spare parts supply process that led to the purchases of seven of the questioned ashtrays and other equipment.
A tractor-trailer truck carrying farm produce in North Carolina collided with a school bus today, killing five pupils and the truck driver and injuring 20 others, the authorities said. The produce truck crossed into the wrong lane on Route 13 about 3:20 PM, struck the bus and ripped its side off, then collided with another tractor-trailer. A car then struck the rear of the second tractor-trailer. The cabs of both trucks burst into flames. The driver of the second truck escaped. The dead school children ranged in age from 9 to 13 years old. Nineteen injured children were taken to Wayne County Memorial Hospital in Goldsboro. Three critically injured children were flown to Duke University Medical Center in Durham. The children were from Snow Hill Primary School and West Greene Elementary School. A five-member team from the National Transportation Safety Board was dispatched to investigate the crash.
Geo. A. Hormel & Company said today that it was terminating its contract with the meatpackers’ union at its company headquarters plant, where workers have been protesting a wage cut. “The effective date of termination will be either August 9 or August 31 of this year, depending upon whether the parties can agree on the termination date,” the Austin-based company said in a statement. If a termination date is not agreed upon, the matter will be submitted to an arbitrator, the statement said. Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, which represents about 1,700 meatpackers at the Austin plant, has been involved in a bitter dispute with the company since last October, when Hormel reduced wages by 23 percent.
The second-in-command of the white supremacist group the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord was arrested today on weapons charges, and four reputed members were arrested in Missouri, the authorities said. The five were arrested on charges in an indictment returned by a Federal grand jury in Fort Smith. The panel also indicted the leader of the neo-Nazi organization, Jim Ellison, who surrendered to the police at the group’s encampment after a two-day siege last month. The second-in-command, Elder Kerry Noble, left the group’s compound on the Arkansas-Missouri border with officers early today. Gary Richard Stone, 36 years old, Timothy Wayne Russell, 22, Rudy Loewen, 25, and David Giles, 39, were arrested near Ozark, Missouri.
Apple Computer Inc. took a giant step today in the painful transition from its entrepreneurial origins to the ranks of more conventionally managed multibillion-dollar companies. In a move aimed both at streamlining Apple and moving it out of the shadow of its co-founder, Steven P. Jobs, the company announced a corporate restructuring that does away with its two separate product divisions, in favor of manufacturing and marketing divisions responsible for all Apple products. The restructuring eliminates the day-to-day operating responsibilities of Mr. Jobs, who had been general manager of the Macintosh division. Mr. Jobs will remain only as chairman of the board, and will take what the company called a “more global role” in product development and strategy formulation. Apple insiders and analysts saw the move as an urgent attempt by John Sculley, president and chief executive, to assert leadership at a time when the company is beset with numerous problems.
Tornadoes killed at least 43 people and injured hundreds in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York and Ontario, Canada, while severe winds and thunderstorms struck much of the Middle West. Most of the deaths occurred in Pennsylvania, where at least 24 died. Seven deaths were reported in Ohio and at least 12 in Ontario.
Donalee Thomason of Parkfield, California remembers riding her horse around the family farm as a young girl in the 1930’s and watching earthquakes pass through the bucolic Parkfield-Cholame valley from north to south, bending the trees and making the ground undulate. Although she has lived all her 61 years in this Central Valley farming community midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, the frequent slight earth tremors here still frighten Mrs. Thomason. But, like many of the valley’s residents, she appears nonchalant about the prediction last month by the United States Geological Survey that an earthquake with a magnitude of 6 on the Richter scale would occur, probably in early 1988, on a 16-mile stretch of the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield. Mrs. Thomason says that if she worried about it “I’d be in a padded cell in a hurry.”
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States. Federal officials announced today that they were taking emergency action to ban a drug widely known as Ecstasy, saying that abuse of the drug had become a nationwide problem. The ban on use of the drug, formally known as MDMA, will take effect July 1, said John C. Lawn, Acting Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Ecstasy, whose scientific name is 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine. will continue to undergo tests while the emergency ban remains in effect for one year. Some psychotherapists maintain that the drug creates a feeling of well-being in patients, making them more receptive to treatment.
The (NFL) New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000.
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The Cardinals’ Danny Cox retires the first 23 Reds he faces before Dave Concepcion singles with 2 out in the 8th. Cox settles for a 2-hit 5–0 shutout. Cox, a 25-year-old in his third season with the Cardinals, improved his record to 6–1 in pitching his third complete game of the year. He struck out three batters. Jack Clark’s two-run homer highlighted a three-run third inning for the Cards.
The Mets four-game winning streak came tumbling down tonight when they lost to the San Diego Padres, 4–3, on a suicide squeeze bunt by Carmelo Martinez with two down in the eighth inning. The bunt was the second of the inning called by Manager Dick Williams of the Padres, and they stunned the Mets and the sellout crowd of 54,305 persons because they were executed by power hitters. The first bunt was a sacrifice by Kevin McReynolds, the cleanup hitter, after Steve Garvey had opened the inning with a single. Then, with two down and Garvey on third, Martinez dropped a running bunt down the third-base line on the 2-and-0 pitch from Doug Sisk.
Keith Moreland hit a three-run home run to highlight a four-run 10th inning and rally Chicago over Houston by a score of 6–2. Bob Dernier led off the Chicago 10th with a single off Dave Smith (4–2), who took the loss, and went to third on a single by Ryne Sandberg. Davey Lopes then singled to center field to score Dernier with the tie-breaking run. Moreland hit his third home run of the season, over the left field fence, to make it a runaway. Lee Smith (3–0), who replaced the Cubs starter, Scott Sanderson, in the ninth, got the victory. The two combined on a five-hitter. Joe Niekro (2–5), who pitched seven innings, failed once again to get his 138th career victory for the Astros’ career record.
Rafael Ramirez singled home two runs to cap a four-run fourth inning that lifted Atlanta to an 8–2 win over the Pirates in Pittsburgh. The Braves batted around in the fourth to break a 2–2 tie and win for only the third time in their last 10 games. Terry Harper added his fourth homer for two runs in the ninth. Rick Camp (1–3) pitched one-hit ball for five innings in relief of Pascual Perez for the victory. Bruce Sutter pitched a perfect ninth inning, completing a combined three-hitter by Atlanta pitchers.
The San Francisco Giants edged the Phillies, 4–3. Ricky Adams made an auspicious National League debut, hitting a three-run home run with two out in the seventh to beat the Phillies. Adams, brought up from Phoenix Thursday, started at third base and was 0-for-2 when he faced Charlie Hudson with two on and two out in the seventh.
The Expos were blanked by the Dodgers, 4–0. Mike Marshall drove in three runs with a bases-loaded double in the first inning and Rick Honeycutt and Tom Niedenfuer combined on a six-hitter. Honeycutt (3–5) snapped a personal three-game losing streak, giving up three hits in six innings. Niedenfuer pitched the final three innings for his fourth save, completing the Dodgers’ league-leading ninth shutout.
Cecil Cooper smacked a three-run triple in the fifth inning tonight to help the Milwaukee Brewers hand the Minnesota Twins its ninth straight loss, 6–4. The losing skein matches the Twins’ longest streak of the year. They lost nine straight from April 11 to 20. They followed that dive with a 10-game winning streak. Ted Higuera (3–3) scattered five hits, walked five and struck out five over 7 ⅔ innings. Rollie Fingers pitched 1 ⅓ innings to record his eighth save.
The Yankees’ 8–3 victory over the Mariners produced their 10th straight triumph at home under Martin. The team has compiled an 18–10 record since his return. This also was their third straight victory, and it was credited to Brian Fisher, who relieved Ed Whitson and pitched five innings of scoreless ball.
Damaso Garcia hit a two-run double and Rance Mulliniks drove in two runs with a pinch-hit single to pace Toronto to a 7–2 drubbing of visiting Cleveland. Garcia’s double snapped a 0-for-14 slump and broke a 1–1 tie in the fifth inning, while Mulliniks picked up two runs batted in in the sixth. Doyle Alexander, with relief help from Jim Acker, improved his record to 6–2 while Bryan Clark (1–1), a former Blue Jay, took the loss for Cleveland. It was the first-place Blue Jays’ ninth victory in their last 10 games.
Buddy Bell led off the eighth inning with a tie-breaking home run to lift the Rangers to a 3–1 victory over the Red Sox. Mike Mason (4–4) allowed five hits over seven and one-third innings before he was replaced by Dave Stewart, who earned his third save. Bell lined a 1–0 pitch from Al Nipper (1–5) over the 379-foot mark in center.
The Angels downed the Tigers, 6–3. A two-out single by Bob Boone drove in Ruppert Jones with the tiebreaking run in the seventh inning for California. Jones had drawn a lead-off walk off Jack Morris (6–5), moved to second on Jerry Narron’s grounder, and scored on Boone’s single to left. The rally made a winner of Pat Clements (4–0), who came on with one out in the fifth and worked one and two-thirds innings in relief of Kirk McCaskill. Morris gave up only six hits, but the Tigers committed four errors behind him, leading to two unearned runs. He struck out six and walked four.
The Orioles routed the A’s, 9–2. Eddie Murray drove in two runs with a pair of doubles, and Lenn Sakata hit a bases-empty shot for Baltimore. With the Orioles trailing, 2–0, in the fourth inning, Murray hit his first run-scoring double, following a leadoff walk to Cal Ripken Jr. Gary Roenicke doubled off the right foot of the pitcher, Bill Krueger, to drive in Murray, then came around to score the go-ahead run on a passed ball by Mike Heath and Fred Lynn’s infield out.
Home runs by Ron Kittle, Luis Salazar, Tim Hulett and Carlton Fisk powered the Chicago White Sox to an 8–3 win over Kansas City. The White Sox have hit nine home runs in winning their last three games, powering out of a batting slump that had produced a seven-game losing streak. Fisk has hit four home runs in the three victories and has 12 this season. Floyd Bannister (3–4), who gave up three runs and six hits in the first four innings, pitched six and two-thirds innings.
Oakland Athletics 2, Baltimore Orioles 9
Texas Rangers 3, Boston Red Sox 1
Kansas City Royals 3, Chicago White Sox 8
California Angels 6, Detroit Tigers 3
Chicago Cubs 6, Houston Astros 2
Montreal Expos 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Milwaukee Brewers 6, Minnesota Twins 4
Seattle Mariners 3, New York Yankees 8
Atlanta Braves 8, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
New York Mets 3, San Diego Padres 4
Philadelphia Phillies 3, San Francisco Giants 4
Cincinnati Reds 0, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Cleveland Indians 2, Toronto Blue Jays 7
Stock prices rose sharply yesterday on Wall Street, and the Dow Jones industrial average shattered its 10-day-old record, as investors reacted favorably to lower interest rates and speculation that borrowing costs would come down even more. While technology stocks recovered from Thursday’s thrashing, the best gains yesterday came in transporation issues, which soared on reports that both Britain and the Soviet Union planned to trim crude oil prices. The Dow industrials, which had moved no more than 3 points in either direction in any of the previous sessions this week, gained 9.63 points, to finish at 1,315.41, a new record.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1315.41 (+9.63)
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Jordy Nelson, NFL wide receiver (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 45-Packers, 2010; Pro Bowl, 2014; Green Bay Packers, Oakland Raiders), in Manhattan, Kansas.
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