U.S. flexibility in the Geneva talks on arms control must be preceded by new Soviet proposals, according to Administration officials. They said President Reagan had concluded that the Soviet Union had hardened its positions. Soviet diplomats in Washington, say the Reagan Administration has stiffened its stance, but have broadly hinted that the Russians will present new or at least more specific proposals. Thus the general expectation among foreign diplomats and Administration officials is that the new session of talks, which began Thursday, will produce more activity than the previous round, which both sides recently characterized as fruitless. But although diplomats on both sides have formed an impression in recent weeks of the possible lines of compromise, none, they say, portend a breakthrough. Basic Positions Unchanged By all accounts, neither side has decided to alter basic positions. “We haven’t,” a senior State Department official said, “and there is no sign that any likely Soviet proposal will be attractive enough to push us off our dime.”
Willy Brandt, the former West German Chancellor, who has just returned from talks with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, said today that he doubts there will be a summit meeting this year between Mr. Gorbachev and President Reagan. Mr. Brandt, chairman of West Germany’s opposition Social Democratic Party and a former Chancellor, held talks with Mr. Gorbachev during a visit to Moscow last week.
Greek voters are to decide Sunday whether to grant a second term to Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, the Socialist leader, or return to the right-of-center rule that prevailed, as a democracy or dictatorship, from World War II until 1981. To most Greeks, the election, in which 7.5 million people are eligible to vote, is a referendum on the nation’s first experiment in Socialism. Voters are to elect 300 Members of Parliament by a modified system of proportional representation. The Socialists are facing a strong challenge from the New Democracy Party, led by Constantine Mitsotakis. Late Friday night, as the campaign was officially closing, the opposition received an important lift from the founder of New Democracy, former President Konstantine Karamanlis.
About 600 youths attempted to smash through roadblocks near the prehistoric monument at Stonehenge, about 80 miles west of London, to hold an illegal rock concert but were driven off by hundreds of police. Twelve people were injured and at least 200 were arrested in a clash between club-wielding police and youths hurling rocks and bottles.
Several thousand Israelis gathered outside the Jerusalem home of Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir in a peaceful protest over his call for the release of 27 Jews charged with anti-Arab attacks. Under tight police security, supporters of the anti-war Peace Now movement hoisted signs reading, “No Pardon for Terror,” and “No Package Deal.” Shamir has said that the May 20 exchange of more than 1,000 Arab terrorists for three Israeli soldiers in Lebanon should be followed by pardons for the 27 Jews.
Fighting continued today around three Palestinian settlements in the Beirut area. Shiite militiamen of the Amal movement exchanged machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades on the perimeter of Burj al Brajneh, the largest of the three settlements. There were no immediate reports of casualties. A cease-fire announced Friday, although not stopping the fighting, appears to have eased the intensity of the clashes in and around the settlements, where Shiite fighters and Palestinian guerrillas have been battling for nearly two weeks. Red Cross workers entered Burj al Brajneh today to evacuate the wounded. A spokesman said 12 ambulances would take the casualties to hospitals in the mountains. Palestinian women who had fled the scene of the fighting held protests over continued violation of the cease-fire. They also asked for the release of 2,000 Palestinians held by Amal and the mainly Shiite Sixth Brigade of the Lebanese Army.
Amal’s leader, Nabih Berri, said at a news conference today in Beirut that documents had been seized from the Palestinian prisoners showing what he termed a conspiracy by Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, to provoke national strife in Beirut. Mr. Berri said Amal would release the papers when an investigation into the fighting in the settlements was completed. Shiite fighters took full control of the Sabra settlement Friday. Mr. Berri said his militiamen had occupied nearly all of the Shatila settlement. He said Palestinian defenders were still entrenched in a school and a mosque there. The Shiite leader said he had ordered a cease-fire at the request of President Hafez al-Assad of Syria to pave the way for Syrian-sponsored efforts to arrange peace between Amal and the Palestinians.
Suspected Iranian warplanes attacked a Panamanian cargo ship in the Persian Gulf, killing one crewman, Lloyds of London reported. The maritime insurance carrier said that two rockets were fired into the 15,000-ton Panamanian-registered container vessel Oriental Importer, leaving one crewman dead, another injured and two missing. Meanwhile, Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency said its forces hit Baghdad with a missile in retaliation for Iraqi air raids on Iranian civilian areas. Earlier, Iraq reported that its warplanes attacked Tehran’s Mehrabad airport and the Iranian border town of Gilan e-Gharb.
Afghan guerrillas retreated as Soviet forces attacked positions in Afghanistan’s strategic Kunar Valley with tanks, napalm and bombs, bombing, the insurgents said in Pakistan. Soviet forces attacked Afghan guerrilla positions in the Konar Valley with tanks, napalm and saturation bombing, forcing the insurgents to retreat, rebel spokesmen in neighboring Pakistan said. They said the rebels were falling back from fortified strongpoints in the rugged valley, about 100 miles north of the Khyber Pass. The Soviet forces are driving up the Konar Valley toward the town of Barikot, where guerrillas have besieged an Afghan army garrison for more than a year.
Security forces were placed on full alert in northern India as thousands of Sikhs began a week of ceremonies to mark the first anniversary of the army’s attack on the Sikhs’ sacred Golden Temple at Amritsar, which left hundreds dead. Officials said the border with Pakistan was sealed and a special watch was mounted at railway stations and bus terminals to detect any movements by militant Sikhs.
A senior member of the Sri Lankan Government party said today that separatist guerrillas killed at least 50 people Friday in raids on Sinhalese villages in Eastern Province. He said guerrillas stormed Seruwawila, Neelapola, Dehiwatte and Mahindapura, near the main town of Trincomalee, burning homes and fighting residents.
South Korea’s National Assembly decided today to accept a North Korean proposal for preliminary discussions in July that are intended to set up political talks between the legislatures of the two countries. Replying to the North Korean offer, the Assembly adopted a message approving contacts between five representatives from each of the two parliaments.
Chinese border guards repulsed a regiment of Vietnamese soldiers backed by artillery fire, the official New China News Agency said. The Vietnamese launched several attacks on the Laoshan area of Yunnan Province, the report said Friday. It gave no casualty figures and provided no other details. Laoshan is a frequent flashpoint in a border conflict that began in 1979 when China invaded Vietnam to punish it for invading Cambodia. Statements by both sides cannot be verified because neither side allows independent observers into the mountainous battle zone.
China has adopted a wide-ranging package of educational policy changes designed to bring schooling more into line with the country’s pragmatic economic goals. The move was seen as a further downgrading of the educational system developed under Mao Zedong. A party directive published Wednesday provides more autonomy for colleges and universities, expansion of technical and vocational training and more leeway for private schools. Universities and colleges will be encouraged to develop academic exchanges with foreign countries with money raised on their own. Nearly 30,000 students are now abroad.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos said today that the Philippines might have to call for military help from its allies to fight Communist rebels. “If the integration of aid and foreign-trained troops is so massive that it is the equivalent to outright attack,” he said in a statement, “then we may have to ask for the help of allied troops as provided for in the mutual defense pact.” The presidential palace made his statement public after published reports of an interview that quoted him as saying he might ask the United States to send in combat troops if the Communist insurgency got out of control.
Costa Rican officials charged that Nicaraguan troops crossed into their territory and opened fire on a Costa Rican patrol, killing at least one civil guardsman and wounding nine others. The officials said the Nicaraguans fired mortars before crossing the border at Tiricias, about 75 miles north of San Jose, and then “opened fire on our men from two hills within our territory.” Another nine members of the Costa Rican patrol were reported missing. Nicaraguan officials in Managua denied the Costa Rican charge.
Peru’s National Election Board declared that Alan Garcia, leader of the center-left APRA party, is Peru’s president-elect, and no runoff election will be held even though Garcia did not win a majority in the April 14 election. Garcia, 36, will take office July 28. The constitution calls for a runoff if no candidate receives a majority in the first round. But the board said no runoff is necessary because the second-place candidate, Alfonso Barrantes, the Marxist mayor of Lima, has withdrawn. Garcia received 45.74% of the vote in April and Barrantes 21.26%.
More than 90,000 people remained in makeshift shelters today after rains swept the Argentine capital, killing at least 14 people and disrupting public services. Civil Defense officials said 93,500 people were still unable to return to their homes after a daylong storm Friday lashed the city and its suburbs with nearly 12 inches of rain. Of the 14 reported killed, some were drowned or struck by lightning and others were electrocuted by power lines that fell on streets that had been turned into rivers by the rain, the officials said.
The Government in Addis Ababa announced this week that thousands of Ethiopian college students and teachers have been ordered to spend the summer working with famine victims who have been resettled in the south and west of the country. The announcement said the students and teachers “will fulfill their responsibilities as citizens.” Addis Ababa University and other affiliated schools are to be shut down at the end of next week, less than a month before the students had been scheduled to take their final examinations. They are to stay in the countryside for two to three months.
President Daniel arap Moi said today that failure to slow Kenya’s annual 4 percent population growth would lead to social and economic upheaval in the East African country. In a national television and radio speech marking the 22d anniversary of self-rule that preceded independence from Britain in 1963, Mr. Moi said that the Kenyan birth rate was one of the highest in the world and that it was his government’s greatest challenge. “The most crucial challenge for us in this decade is to slow down Kenya’s population growth,” he said. “The present rate of population growth of 4 percent means that we have nearly one million children born every year.” Kenya has a population of about 20 million.
President Reagan makes a Radio Address to the Nation on Tax Reform. President Reagan, portraying special interests as the stumbling block to his tax proposal, said today that a “strong voice” was needed to make Congress pass a major overhaul of the federal tax system. Proclaiming himself as the “people’s lobbyist” in his weekly radio address, Mr. Reagan sharply assailed special interests as seeking privileges that he said ran counter to the public’s interest. “Here in Washington the special interests are trying to pick apart our tax reform package,” Mr. Reagan said. “Just as it has opposed so many of the other good things that we’ve tried to do for the American people, much of official Washington is going to oppose this tax reform too.” The President’s tone was the sharpest that he has used since he announced the ambitious tax-simplification plan on Tuesday. The criticism was also the most detailed and represented the latest part of the White House’s strategy for winning public support.
Dozens of explosive tornadoes killed at least 85 people in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, Ontario and western New York. They hit hardest in 14 counties in northwestern Pennsylvania, where there were 61 confirmed deaths, and more than 200 injured. National Guardsmen, police, and other rescue workers searched the rubble of flattened homes and businesses for more bodies. Hundreds of people were given shelter in schools and other places, and a state of emergency was declared by Governor Richard Thornburgh.
Albion, Pennsylvania, was left in ruins as tornadoes roared through northwestern Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio Friday evening. At least 12 people were killed and more than 500 were hurt, many seriously, in the small town in the farm country between Cleveland and Erie, Pa. Albion was one of the communities most seriously damaged by the tornadoes, disaster relief officials said.
Cases of espionage against the U.S. have grown as the number of Americans with access to “secret” and “top secret” material has increased by more than 50 percent in the last 10 years to more than 4 million. Never before have so many people been held on charges of spying against this country, Federal officials say. There are 11 people awaiting trial, accused of spying for the Soviet Union or its allies. Three are members of the Walker family, charged recently in what some Federal officials call the most damaging spy case in recent times.
A Federal appeals court panel Friday upheld the dismissal, on the ground of mootness, of a suit challenging the constitutionality of the Government’s barring of reporters from the early stages of the invasion of Grenada in October 1983. But the opinion of the three-judge panel, and a separate opinion by one of the members, explicitly left open the possibility that such a constitutional challenge might be seriously considered in the case of a future similar press ban.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has dismissed complaints against four persons who were accused along with former Deputy Defense Secretary W. Paul Thayer and stockbroker Billy Bob Harris in an insider trading scheme. Thayer and Harris are serving four-year prison terms for obstructing an SEC investigation into the ring. Complaints were dropped against Sandra Ryno, Doyle Sharp, Julie Williams and Julia Rooker after Thayer, Harris and banker Gayle Schroder agreed to repay more than $1 million in illegal stock profits. Nine persons were accused of reaping more than $1.9 million in illegal profits based on tips provided by Thayer.
The first major New York hotel strike in 46 years started when talks broke off in a stalemate over wages. As about 14,000 workers walked off their jobs at 45 of New York City’s top hotels, a dozen pickets were arrested and reports of violence and harassment led Vito Pitta, president of the nine-union Hotel and Motel Trades Council, to ask for a meeting with Mayor Edward I. Koch and Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward. Pickets crowded sidewalks and heckled newly hired replacements, bombarding guests with jeers, but the council blamed several instances of rock and bottle throwing on provocateurs. The walkout prompted the Regency, the Pierre, the Essex House and other noted hotels to replace bellhops, clerks, housekeepers and bartenders.
Military bases in states where the minimum drinking age is 21 went dry for soldiers and sailors younger than the legal definition of adulthood. Those affected by the regulation are the nearly 400,000 men and women in uniform between the ages of 18 and 21. The law will apply even in states such as Florida, which permit servicemen under 21 to drink on bases, although the civilian population must be at least 21. However, in states where the legal drinking age is lower than 21, “it would be silly to prohibit drinking on base when you can drive off base to get drunk,” a Pentagon spokesman said.
Secretary of the Army John O. Marsh Jr. today officially opened the 234-mile Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, ending more than a century of planning and 14 years of construction. Mr. Marsh and Representative Tom Bevill, Democrat of Alabama, turned a wheel that symbolically merged the waters of 23 states served by the $2 billion waterway linking the Tennessee River Valley to the Gulf of Mexico. The waterway was opened to commerce last January, two years ahead of schedule. It connects the Tennessee River at Pickwick Dam on the Mississippi-Tennessee border with the Warrior-Tombigbee River near Demopolis, Alabama. By connecting the two rivers in northern Mississipi, the waterway cuts 800 miles off the river route to the Gulf of Mexico.
Authorities in Chicago seized more than 37 pounds of unusually pure cocaine valued at $8 million to $10 million and arrested two men in what officials called the largest drug seizure in the Midwest. The raid on an apartment occurred after an undercover agent purchased a small amount of cocaine from Jorge Salgado, leading to the arrest of Salgado and Hernando Bernal, both 48 and both Colombian-born employees of the Chicago Transit Authority. When police arrived they found 15 boxes containing 17 kilograms of cocaine, $3,500 in cash and a money-counting machine.
Local black and Hispanic leaders have criticized the agreement between the Justice Department and the City of San Diego to drop court-sanctioned numerical goals for the city’s hiring of women and members of minorities. The department and the city contend that the goals had substantially been reached. But critics, whose views have been echoed by some national human rights organizations, equate the Reagan Administration’s policy on affirmative action with letting the fox watch the chicken coop. “The green light is on now to go back to business as usual,” said Herman Baca, chairman of the Committee on Chicano Rights. “It’s like pulling the Justice Department out of protecting voting rights in the South. Everybody knows what the result is going to be.”
A man shot five people to death inside a home in this San Diego suburb, then called the police and asked to be shot before being persuaded to surrender, a police spokesman said. “An officer talked to the man for at least 30 minutes and talked him into putting his gun down and coming out,” said the spokesman, Lieutenant Bob Lein.
A growing number of Americans believe religion is increasing its influence on American life, with 48% holding this opinion compared to 39% who think religion is losing its influence, the Gallup Poll found. The proportion who see religion gaining influence is more than three times the proportion recorded in 1969, when 14% said religion was increasing its influence and 70% said it was losing. The survey, in which 91% of the respondents stated a religious preference, found a slight upturn in those who believe that religion can answer all or most of today’s problems-from 56% in 1984 to 61% now.
A 9-year-old boy was arrested and charged with five felony counts of extortion for using threats and intimidation to take $170 from his schoolmates since December, authorities in Mount Dora, Florida, said. At least five children were begging and borrowing up to a dollar a day from relatives and friends to pay off the youth, Police Capt. Noel Griffin III said. “This boy was terrorizing those kids,” Griffin said. “We found that these children had been traumatized by these incidents.” The boy, whose name was withheld, was released in the custody of his parents.
Federal agents and the police say they have broken a ring that annually manufactured and distributed up to $150 million worth of “angel dust” – phencyclidine, or PCP – using chemicals stolen from the Eastman Kodak Company.
“Just A Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody” by David Lee Roth hits #12.
Weird Al Yankovic releases his “Dare To Be Stupid” album.
Major League Baseball:
Bruce Kison and Steve Crawford combine on a 10-hit shutout at Fenway, as the Red Sox stop the Rangers, 6–0. Frank Tanana (1–6) gives up 9 hits in 5+ innings, including a grand slam to Rich Gedman. Gedman’s blast came in the sixth. Jim Rice led off with a single and took third on Tony Armas’s double. Steve Lyons ran for Armas, who pulled a muscle in his left leg, and one out later, Marty Barrett was walked intentionally. Gedman then unloaded a 1–2 pitch into the bullpen in right.
Lloyd Moseby hit a homer and drove in three runs, and Damaso Garcia went 4 for 5 in leading the Toronto Blue Jays to an 8–3 victory over the Cleveland Indians today. Jimmy Key (4–2) allowed six hits over eight innings for his fourth straight victory. He struck out seven. Bill Caudill pitched the ninth as the Blue Jays won for the 10th time in their last 11 games. Bert Blyleven (3–6) took the loss as Cleveland dropped its fourth straight. The Indians have lost their last seven games to Toronto.
Andre Robertson didn’t hit a home run, but he did rap three singles that contributed significantly to the Yankees’ 8–2 victory over the Seattle Mariners, their 11th in 11 games at Yankee Stadium since Billy Martin took over as the manager. Robertson, starting the last three games at shortstop after Bobby Meacham suffered a pulled hamstring last Wednesday night, singled across the first run in a three-run flurry in the second inning, triggered another three-run spree in the fourth with a single and singled in the sixth and scored his third run of the evening.
The Angels routed the Tigers, 9–2, as Ruppert Jones hit two home runs and Bob Boone and Gary Pettis also connected for California, and Mike Witt (3–5) pitched a three-hitter. Jones got his seventh of the season in the fifth off Bill Scherrer, then drove a pitch into the upper deck in the ninth off Juan Bereguer. Pettis, with a three-run shot, and Boone, with one on, got their first homers of the season off Dan Petry (8–4).
Dave Kingman hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning to score Dave Collins with the tie-breaking run as the Oakland A’s defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 3–1. Don Sutton, the Oakland starter, earned his 284th career victory, tying him with Ferguson Jenkins for 21st on the all-time list. Oakland got runs in the seventh and eighth innings off Mike Boddicker (6–4), then scored an insurance run in the ninth. Mike Davis spoiled Boddicker’s shutout bid when he opened the seventh inning with his 13th home run of the year, tying the score 1–1.
The White Sox edged the Royals, 8–7. Greg Walker’s tie-breaking single in the eighth inning led the Chicago White Sox to an uphill victory over the Kansas City Royals. The triumph was the fourth straight for the White Sox and went to the reliever Bob James (2–2). Mike Jones (0–2) took the loss despite an excellent relief job in the seventh. The Royals relief ace Dan Quisenberry inherited a 7–4 lead in the seventh but was unable to retire a single batter as Chicago battled to a 7–7 tie.
Jim Gantner drove in the first run, and Charlie Moore and Cecil Cooper each batted in two in Milwaukee’s seven-run second inning as the Brewers defeated the Minnesota Twins, 7–2. It was the 10th consecutive loss for Minnesota, which earlier this season had a nine-game losing streak followed by a 10-game winning streak.
Eddie Milner had three hits, Dave Concepción and Pete Rose added two apiece, and Alan Knicely rounded out Cincinnati’s slugging with a three-run ninth-inning home run today to lead the Reds to a 9–3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. Tom Browning (5–4) went six innings to gain the victory in his first appearance against St. Louis. Tom Hume earned his second save by pitching the final three innings.
Jeff Leonard hit a 425-foot home run and made a victory-saving catch for the Giants, who edged the Phillies, 2–1. Leonard’s leadoff homer in the fourth inning gave the Giants a 2–0 margin against Steve Carlton (1–5), who again had little support. The Phillies have scored just 17 runs in his 10 starts. In the seventh inning, with a Phillie runner on third and two outs, the pinch-hitter Tim Corcoran hit a sinking liner to left-center. Leonard, running at full speed from left field, made a lunging, shoetop grab to preserve the one-run lead.
The Cubs downed the Astros, 4–1. Dennis Eckersley shut down Houston on five hits, and Jody Davis’s double highlighted a two-run sixth inning as the Chicago Cubs handed the Astros’ Bob Knepper his first loss. Eckersley (7–3) shut out the Astros until the seventh when Kevin Bass doubled, went to third on Harry Spilman’s flyout to center and scored on a balk. Eckersley pitched his fifth complete game, striking out one and walking none. Knepper (5–1) yielded a game-opening triple to Bob Dernier, who scored the game’s first run on a single by Chris Speier. Consecutive doubles by Ron Cey and Davis to start the sixth inning scored the Cubs’ second run, and Davis then scored on a single by Leon Durham and a fielding error by Denny Walling in left. Knepper was replaced by Julio Solano following Durham’s single in the sixth inning.
The Mets defeated the Padres tonight when they rallied in the late innings for a 5–3 victory that kept them in first place in the National League’s East. The Mets, who had lost their first three games against the Padres this season, came close to losing this one at the start. Ron Darling walked four of the first seven batters he faced and fell two runs behind in three innings. But he got stricter as the game got longer, and the Mets came back with three runs in the sixth, another in the seventh and one more in the ninth. As a result, Darling won for the fifth time this season against one loss. And the Mets stayed one game in front of the Chicago Cubs, who had won their game in Houston earlier in the evening.
Doug Frobel’s sixth-inning pinch single broke a 3–3 tie and helped Pittsburgh rally to win, 6–3, over the Braves. Rich Reuschel (2–0) gave up all three Atlanta runs on seven hits and four walks in six innings. Rod Scurry pitched three innings of hitless relief for his first save. The Pirates rallied from a 3–0 deficit to tie the score in the fifth and scored twice more in the seventh.
The Expos beat the Dodgers, 4–2 in eleven. Montreal’s Hubie Brooks singled through a drawn-in infield with the bases loaded to score two runs and snap a 1–1 tie in the 11th. Gary Lucas, 1–0, pitched three scoreless innings for the victory, his first since coming to the Expos before the 1984 season. Jeff Reardon pitched the 11th inning for his 15th save, allowing a two-out solo homer to Pedro Guerrero, his fifth.
Oakland Athletics 3, Baltimore Orioles 1
Texas Rangers 0, Boston Red Sox 6
Kansas City Royals 7, Chicago White Sox 8
California Angels 9, Detroit Tigers 2
Chicago Cubs 4, Houston Astros 1
Montreal Expos 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Milwaukee Brewers 7, Minnesota Twins 2
Seattle Mariners 2, New York Yankees 8
Atlanta Braves 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 6
New York Mets 5, San Diego Padres 3
Philadelphia Phillies 1, San Francisco Giants 2
Cincinnati Reds 9, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Cleveland Indians 3, Toronto Blue Jays 8
Born:
Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian athlete (5,000m WR 14:11.15 2008; Olympic gold 5000m, 10000m 2008; 10000m 2012), in Bekoji, Arsi Province, Ethiopia.
Anthony Tolliver, NBA power forward and small forward (San Antonio Spurs, Portland Trailblazers, Golden State Warriors, Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Hornets, Phoenix Suns, Detroit Pistons, Sacramento Kings, Memphis Grizzlies, Philadelphia 76ers), in Springfield, Missouri.
Nick Young, NBA shooting guard (NBA Champions-Warriors, 2018; Washington Wizards, Los Angeles Clippers, Philadelphia 76ers, Los Angeles Lakers, Golden State Warriors, Denver Nuggets), in Los Angeles, California.
Sam Young, NBA small forward and shooting guard (Memphis Grizzlies, Philadelphia 76ers, Indiana Pacers), in Washington, District of Columbia.
Died:
Richard Greene, 66, English stage and screen actor (“The Adventures of Robin Hood”), of cardiac arrest.
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