The Pentagon is split on arms, according to Defense Department officials. They said that military leaders, including at least three of the five members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a split with Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, have concluded that Washington would probably lose more than it would gain by abandoning the 1979 arms limitation treaty with Moscow. The military leaders, including at least three of the five members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have determined that the Soviet Union would be able to outbuild the United States in an unrestrained nuclear arms race, while the American military would be held back by budgetary and political restraints, the officials said. One official said the military sentiment was also colored by a worry that an all-out competition in nuclear weaponry would drain money away from tanks for the Army and ships for the Navy and other nonnuclear weapons. The White House has said that President Reagan will announce his decision Monday on whether to continue abiding by the 1979 treaty, which expires at the end of this year. Although the pact was not ratified, each side has said in the past that it will informally observe its provisions if the other side does.
A top Soviet military leader said today that the Soviet Union would oppose any effort to revise the 1972 ABM treaty to accommodate the United States’ new space-based defense technologies. The officer, Marshal Sergei F. Akhromeyev, who is the Chief of the General Staff, made the statement after American officials said Moscow would be urged to modify the treaty limiting antiballistic missile systems to take into account the plans for the space-based missile defenses, popularly known as “Star Wars.” “All this is an unsavory trick devised to assure public opinion,’ Marshal Akhromeyev said in an article in Pravda. “The Soviet Union will naturally not agree to turn the treaty on the limitation of ABM systems into a cover-up for the United States policy aimed at an arms race in space-based antiballistic missile systems.”
The Senate, backing “Star Wars” plans, rejected, 57 to 38, an attempt to slice $1.1 billion from President Reagan’s proposal to build an antimissile defense shield in space. But the debate on the issue reflected growing skepticism in Congress about the plan. The House version of the bill provides only $2.5 billion, and that figure could be reduced further in floor debate next week. Any compromise between the chambers could fall well below the total approved tonight. Supporters of the amendment argued that rapid development of the antimissile program would jeopardize arms control talks with the Soviet Union, set off a new weapons race and violate existing treaties that restrict antimissile defense systems. But Senator Sam Nunn, a Georgia Democrat, said the program would not violate existing treaties because it was still in the research stage and not ready for testing. He said the amendment amounted to “micromanagement” of the Pentagon and added, “Congress is not in a position to do that.”
More than 1,500 people were executed under death-penalty laws in 40 countries last year, including at least 661 in Iran, 292 in China and 114 in South Africa, Amnesty International reported. However, the London-based human rights organization noted a worldwide trend toward abolishing the death penalty. By the end of 1984, it had been banned in 27 countries and was still in force in 130 countries-although many of them have not executed anyone for years, the report said. In the United States, the number of executions — 21 in 1984 — is rising, and 1,400 people were under sentence of death at the end of last year, it added.
Portugal’s Social Democratic Party told its Socialist partners in the Government today that it was withdrawing from the two-year-old coalition, a Socialist Party spokesman said. The decision, which was personally conveyed to the Socialist Prime Minister, Mario Soares, by the Social Democratic leader, Anibal Cavaco Silva, came in the aftermath of a bitter policy dispute between the two parties.
Spain’s Socialist-led labor union broke ranks tonight with the Government for the first time by holding nationwide protests against proposed pension changes. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and other major cities, calling on Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez’s Socialist Government to withdraw a bill from Parliament that would cut new pensions and toughen eligibility requirements. The Madrid march was led by the secretary general of the Socialist-led General Workers Union, Nicolas Redondo, who called for the demonstrations in defiance of Mr. Gonzalez’s demand for party unity on the issue. The Communist-led Labor Commissions, a rival to Mr. Redondo’s union, also joined the protests in Madrid and Barcelona.
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, summoned to testify at the trial of three associates, did not appear, saying he was ill. His wife, Danuta, presented a doctor’s certificate to the Gdansk court saying he has a stomach ailment. The three, Adam Michnik, Wladyslaw Frasyniuk and Bogdan Lis, are charged with inciting public unrest. Dissident historian Michnik was ordered taken from the courtroom for a second day after he asked that the three-judge panel be removed.
A U.S. resolution marking allegations of genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by the Turks during and after World War I failed to get enough votes for adoption in the House of Representatives. The vote — 233 to 180 in favor of the measure — was short of the two-thirds majority needed for adoption without amendment. Rep. Tony Coelho (D-California) had more than 200 co-sponsors for the measure but it was strongly opposed by President Reagan and the government of Turkey.
The United States has given Israel the names of at least seven Palestinians for consideration as possible members of a JordanianPalestinian delegation to Mideast peace talks, Washington officials said. The list, submitted unofficially to Prime Minister Shimon Peres, has not been formally approved by Jordan or the Palestine Liberation Organization. Among those reportedly on the list are Abdel-Hamid Sayegh, Speaker of the Palestine National Council; Mayor Elias Friej of Bethlehem, and Prof. Edward Said of Columbia University.
The South African homeland of Bophuthatswana has set up an office in Tel Aviv, embarrassing Israeli officials who fear it could harm relations with black Africa. “We will make clear to those who claim to represent Bophuthatswana here that we regard their activities as dangerous to Israel,” a senior Israeli official said. Israel, along with most of the world, does not recognize the homelands that South Africa has set up to counter opposition to apartheid. The office was recently opened to attract investments to the homeland, the official said. Israel has been seeking to improve relations with black African states, most of which broke diplomatic ties with it on the eve of the 1973 Middle East War. Only Zaire and Liberia have re-established ties.
The destruction in Sabra, one of three Palestinian settlements in Beirut besieged by Shiite attackers for nearly three weeks, is so extensive that the refugee district may no longer be habitable, according to visitors to the site in the last two days. They said many Sabra residents were sleeping on sidewalks outside the makeshift settlement, in a southern suburb of Beirut. Sources close to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees said more than half of the houses in the settlement were not safe to live in, and that most of the rest had suffered some from minor to severe damage.
A resolution was introduced in the Senate today opposing sales of advanced arms to Jordan until the Amman Government actually opened negotiations with Israel. The Reagan Administration immediately criticized the measure as “a serious mistake” that could jeopardize prospects for Middle East peace. Separate statements by the White House and the State Department indicated that the Administration was committed to the projected arms sales to Jordan, in the aftermath of King Hussein’s visit here last week. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who urged senators late Monday not to go ahead with the resolution, which has 69 backers, has said that King Hussein’s statements while in Washington made “a significant” contribution to peace efforts.
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said today that he wanted to achieve a “better understanding” with the United States, but that American policies in southern Asia, particularly toward Pakistan, were causing serious difficulties for India. Among the American actions the Prime Minister criticized were the transfer of advanced military equipment to Pakistan, what he said was the failure to stop Pakistan from building a nuclear weapon and what he called the American policy of “blocking our getting aid” from international institutions. On another subject, Mr. Gandhi, who is scheduled to start a six-day visit to the United States next Tuesday, said American investigators, in foiling a suspected Sikh plot to assassinate him in the United States, had in the process withheld from India essential information about the plot and other purported activities by Sikh extremists. He said the Federal Bureau of Investigation had for several months “been in touch with” and even helped to train the Sikh extremists eventually charged with carrying out the assassination plot and planning to blow up installations in India, including a nuclear power plant.
France’s National Assembly approved a bill that would divide the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia into four autonomous regions and provide for a referendum on independence by the end of 1987. The bill is to be considered by the territorial assembly this summer. The Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front, which claims to represent the territory’s native Melanesian population, has been waging an independence campaign generally opposed by the European, Asian and Polynesian residents.
France exploded its third nuclear device this year at Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange said, angrily protesting the underground test. “There is no justification for continued testing at Mururoa Atoll or anywhere else,” Lange said at a news conference. “France claims the tests are harmless. If that is the case, I fail to see why they cannot be carried out in mainland France.”
The White House assailed Nicaragua for what it called “increased aggressive behavior” against neighboring Honduras and Costa Rica. “The U.S. strongly condemns these actions and calls upon the Government of Nicaragua to halt immediately any further military operations against its neighbors,” said Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman. At another point, Mr. Speakes said, “We’re seriously concerned at signs of increased aggressive behavior by the Government of Nicaragua against its neighbors.”
Reagan Administration officials have begun openly discussing a subject they had previously refused even to speculate about: the possibility that American combat forces might one day be sent into Nicaragua. No one in Government is saying that an invasion is imminent or desirable. But in the last few weeks, President Reagan, Secretary of State George P. Shultz and other senior officials have for the first time begun warning that if other policies fail, the United States may be left with little choice in the years ahead. Interviews with almost 50 military, diplomatic and foreign government experts in Washington, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras indicate that discussion of the issue has become commonplace in official circles.
Most Americans still oppose aid for efforts to overthrow the Sandinista Government in Nicaragua, but support for that Reagan Administration policy is increasing, especially among the growing number who know which side Washington backs, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll. Fifty-three percent of the 1,509 adults interviewed by telephone from May 29 through June 2 said the United States should not help the Nicaraguan rebels, while 32 percent said it should. This represents a modest change since April 1984, when 27 percent favored support for the rebels and 55 percent opposed it. Both polls have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
About 1,500 workers and students held a march in San Salvador today to protest the government raids on hospitals two days ago. The government had warned that the march was illegal under the loosely enforced state of siege. On Sunday government security forces raided five hospitals and some clinics in an effort to break a strike by doctors, nurses and other employees. Four security policemen were killed by other security forces during the raids. The government rationale for the raids was that the strike was being manipulated by the left for political purposes. About a dozen national policemen carrying automatic rifles were discreetly hidden around the assembly buildings, but they did nothing as the marchers chanted anti-government slogans.
All of Brazil’s 230,000 automotive industry workers were back on the job after a 54-day strike that ended without a new contract but with agreement to abide by a labor-court ruling on wage levels. The 13,000 workers at the Ford plant in San Bernardo do Campo, the last holdouts in the strike, voted to return to work after the company offered to make advance payments on wages this month and to make severance payments to dismissed workers.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee overwhelmingly endorsed anti-apartheid legislation that would ban loans to the South African government, limit computer sales and bar the export of U.S. nuclear technology or products. The bill is not as tough as one expected to be passed by the Democratic-controlled House. The 16-1 vote by the Republican-controlled committee indicates growing impatience within President Reagan’s party with South Africa and Reagan’s low-key program of “constructive engagement.”
The U.S. Supreme Court upholds a lower court ruling striking down an Alabama law providing for a daily “moment of silence” in public schools. Stressing neutrality toward religion, the Supreme Court struck down, 6 to 3, an Alabama law that provided a daily one-minute period of silent meditation or prayer in public schools. “Moment of silence” laws are in effect in varying versions in 25 states, and the Court suggested it might find many of them constitutional in future cases.
President Reagan receives the resignation of General Vessey as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
John A. Walker Jr. and his 22-year-old son, accused of smuggling secret Navy documents to the Soviet Union, pleaded not guilty today to charges of espionage. The authorities meanwhile focused on a fifth suspect in what prosecutors are depicting as perhaps the largest American spy ring working for the Soviet Union in 30 years. In the 15th day of expanding allegations of security breaches involving Navy personnel and installations on both coasts, Mr. Walker, a former communications specialist, and his son, Michael, a yeoman on the aircraft carrier Nimitz, were arraigned in Federal District Court in Baltimore. The elder Mr. Walker’s brother and a close friend have already been arrested and charged with espionage, and more arrests are expected. Officials said the Federal Bureau of Investigation now believes a fifth suspect, known to the public only as “F,” lives on the East Coast, perhaps near Norfolk, Va. Earlier, officials had said that at least three men were under surveillance in California in connection with the case. The law-enforcement authorities have not said whether “F” is a man or a woman.
A tax revision plan is fair, in the view of a broadly based majority of Americans, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll. The poll’s finding that 60 percent of adult Americans believe that President Reagan’s tax overhaul proposal would treat most people fairly, even though two adults in five say they expect to pay higher taxes under the plan and only 29 percent believe it is unfair, suggests that Mr. Reagan has seized key political ground.
A heart recipient suffered a stroke late Monday night but made “a dramatic recovery” in the hours thereafter, his doctors reported. The patient, Murray P. Haydon, 58 years old, who was described as the “perfect” candidate for the artificial heart when he received it Feb. 17, remained in critical condition in a Louisville hospital.
A judge aided Claus von Bülow in ruling that Rhode Island prosecutors might present only one more witness in their effort to persuade a jury that Mr. von Bülow tried twice to murder his wealthy wife, Martha. In a series of rulings that brought protests from the state and angry statements from Martha von Bülow’s son and older daughter, Judge Corinne P. Grande excluded any additional testimony about Mrs. von Bülow’s drinking habits. The judge also closed off the state’s last hope that it would be able to tell the jury that Mr. von Bülow would inherit $14 million if his wife died. The defense rested its case this morning, without calling the defendant to the stand. The prosecution said it had 14 witnesses it wanted to call to rebut what defense witnesses said.
The STS 51-G launch vehicle with the space shuttle orbiter Discovery moves to launch pad LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Thirteen new astronauts — NASA Astronaut Group 11 — were named to the U.S. space corps, swelling the ranks to a record 103 as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration prepares for a launching schedule of two missions a month. The new group of five civilians and eight military officers consists of six pilot astronauts and seven mission specialists. They will join 90 astronauts already at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. A NASA official said the 103 astronauts will be enough to sustain a mission rate of 24 a year, the number of space shuttle launchings predicted for the end of this decade.
The National Mediation Board called on United Airlines and its 5,000 striking pilots to resume negotiations Thursday in an effort to settle the pilots’ 20-day-old strike. The pilots’ union, which last week independently asked the airline to reopen talks, quickly accepted. But United — which has refused to negotiate until the pilots drop issues that their union considers critical — has not responded to the board’s request. The key economic issue — United’s proposed “two-tier” salary plan to reduce wages of newly hired pilots — was resolved on May 24. But negotiations were broken off in a disagreement over terms of a “back-to-work” agreement.
The number of reported near midair collisions by aircraft rose to a record 592 last year, the government said, and critics of the Federal Aviation Administration immediately called on Congress to investigate whether it has become less safe to fly. The FAA said the 1984 figure was an increase of 114 over 1983. The previous record was set in 1980, when 568 near collisions were reported. FAA spokesman Dennis Feldman emphasized, however, that there were 3.3 million more landings and takeoffs in 1984 than there were in 1983.
Mississippi Senate President Pro Tem Tommy Brooks was found guilty of attempting to extort $50,000 in exchange for his influence on a horse racing bill. Brooks, the No. 2 power in the state Senate, could be sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined $10,000, plus loss of his Senate seat. U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee, sitting in Jackson, set sentencing for July 18. The defense was granted 30 days to file a motion for a new trial for Brooks, 60, a 29-year veteran of the Legislature.
A television news reporter was sentenced today to three months in jail for refusing to identify a source who, with his back turned to a camera, said he saw police officers looting a drugstore. But the sentence was stayed for at least one night by Justice Neil Lynch of the State Supreme Court, who said he would decide by Wednesday morning whether the reporter, Susan Wornick, would be imprisoned or be heard before the Supreme Court. At the sentencing, Judge James Donohue of the Suffolk Superior Court told the reporter that she was obstructing justice and “undermining our system of law and order.”
The Teamsters Union threw its support behind 14,000 striking hotel workers in New York, saying it would not cross picket lines to pick up garbage or deliver food at 54 hotels affected by a four-day walkout. Negotiators began a second round of talks with a state mediator as the hotel union announced that 1,500 more workers would walk off the job Thursday.
The first Puerto Rican-born Roman Catholic bishop on the United States mainland was appointed today by Pope John Paul II, who assigned him to be an auxiliary bishop in Washington. The Bishop, Alvaro Corrada, has been serving as pastoral coordinator of the Northeast Catholic Hispanic Center in New York and as an assistant pastor of the Nativity Church in New York City. Bishop Corrada called his appointment “a sign of great love from the Pope” for the Puerto Rican people.
Peter Shapiro, a 33-year-old county executive bidding to become New Jersey’s youngest governor, won the Democratic primary and will face popular Republican incumbent Thomas H. Kean in the November election. With 5,745 of 5,763 precincts reporting, or 99%. Shapiro had 99,803 votes, or 31%. Trailing Shapiro were state Senator John Russo, who had 85,839 votes, or 27%, and Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson, 83,755 votes, or 26%. Kean ran unopposed in light voting across the state.
Officials will set fires with napalm to regenerate aging forests. The United States Forest Service dropped napalm from a helicopter in the Taylor River District in Colorado in the first test of the new policy and will continue doing so until several thousand acres of aging and parasite-ridden timberland is burned.
John Ringling North died of a stroke in his hotel suite in Brussels while traveling. Mr. North, the head of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus for 30 years until its sale by the Ringling family in 1967, was 81 years old.
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Willie Upshaw hit a two-run homer to highlight Toronto’s three-run fourth inning, and Jim Clancy scattered four hits over eighth innings tonight to lead the Blue Jays to a 9–2 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Clancy, making only his seventh start of the season after undergoing an appendectomy late in spring training, evened his record at 2–2, with Gary Lavelle working the final inning. Clancy walked one and struck out three.
The long, dry game finally had its moment: Bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs, and the big names in the big trade facing one another, Jay Howell of the A’s versus Rickey Henderson of the Yankees. The Yankees lost to the A’s, 2–0, at Yankee Stadium last night when that final confrontation failed them. The first pitch was offspeed and outside. Howell then made his challenge, a fastball down the center of the plate and Henderson flied to deep left field. “I just missed it,” said Henderson. “I just knew it was going to come to that,” said Howell.
Slump-ridden Dwight Evans celebrated his return to the lineup with a home run and Rich Gedman extended his hitting streak to 14 games with a run-scoring double to lead Boston over the Indians, 5–0. Bobby Ojeda, making his second start since beig recalled from full-time duty in the bullpen, blanked the Indians on six hits for seven innings and earned his third victory in four decisions with relief help from Steve Crawford.
The Royals edged the Brewers, 4–3. Willie Wilson and George Brett drove in two runs apiece for Kansas City, which got relief help from Mike LaCoss. Charlie Leibrandt (6–3), went five and two-thirds innings before giving way to the little-used LaCoss, who picked up his first save with 3 ⅓ innings of three-hit relief. The Brewer pitcher, Pete Vukovich (1–3), was making his first start since a shoulder strain put him on the 21-day disabled list May 11. The right-hander, given a 1–0 lead after two innings, gave up five hits and four runs through five innings.
Seattle’s Phil Bradley hit a 12th-inning home run off Detroit’s Willie Hernandez to lift the Mariners to a 7–6 victory over the Tigers. Hernandez (4–2) had worked four perfect innings and had one out when Bradley jumped on a 1–0 pitch and hit it into the upper deck in left field for his ninth homer. Hernandez then got Dave Henderson on an infield fly before hitting Alvin Davis with a pitch. Hernandez then was ejected from the game for yelling something toward the Seattle dugout.
The Angels bested the Orioles, 6–5, in 15 innings. The Angels scored four in the first inning but only one over the next 13 innings before Mike Brown singled Ruppert Jones home with the winning run at 12:40 AM Wednesday morning. Stewart Cliburn got the win. The Angels are 4–0 in extra innings games so far this season.
The Rangers thumped the White Sox, 7–3. The weather has warmed up in Texas, and Charlie Hough couldn’t be happier. For the last two years the former Dodger knuckleballer has been the American League player of the month of June. He’s on the right track this season. In his first June outing, Hough out-pitched Tom Seaver to improve his record to 5–4. A two-out error by third baseman Tim Hulett paved the way for four unearned runs in the first inning off Seaver, and the way Hough was pitching, Seaver had no chance to win No. 294.
They held the big return match here tonight, and this time Dwight Gooden outpitched Fernando Valenzuela, struck out 12 batters, got three hits himself and led the Mets to a 4–1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was a sizzling duel that was still tied at 1–1 going to the ninth inning. But it was still tied only because Gooden pitched his way out of a monumental jam in the bottom of the eighth, when the Dodgers loaded the bases with nobody out but did not score. Then, in a strange sort of replay in the top of the ninth, the Mets filled the bases with nobody out. But Valenzuela did not escape. He got a forceout at the plate on an acrobatic play for one out. But Danny Heep hit a sacrifice fly for one run, Rafael Santana singled for another, Gooden singled for another and Valenzuela was gone.
Jody Davis’s tiebreaking single in the sixth inning, one of his three hits in the game, and homers by Keith Moreland and Ron Cey led the Chicago Cubs to a 5–3 victory over the Atlanta Braves today. Dick Ruthven (2–4) was the winner despite giving up three runs in the first inning. Rick Mahler (8–5) took the loss.
Gary Redus drove in a pair of runs with a homer and a double to help power Mario Soto and Cincinnati to a 9–3 drubbing of the Pirates. Soto (8–3) scattered six hits and fanned seven over seven innings for his third consecutive triumph. George Hendrick’s two-run homer in the sixth snapped his streak of scoreless innings at 16. Wayne Krenchicki and Redus slammed bases-empty homers off the Pirates’ starter, Jim Winn, to give the Reds a 2–2 tie after six. Cincinnati sent 11 batters to the plate for six runs in the seventh. Pete Rose had two singles in four at-bats, leaving him 52 hits short of breaking Ty Cobb’s career mark of 4,191.
The Giants defeated the Expos, 6–1. Jose Uribe ripped a pair of doubles and drove in three runs and Jim Gott pitched a six-hitter for San Francisco. Gott (3–2) struck out a season-high seven batters and walked two to gain his first complete game of the season. The Expos’ Dan Schatzeder (2–2) went six innings and was charged with the loss.
Vince Coleman, a rookie, singled four times, scored four runs and stole three bases as he led St. Louis over the Astros, 6–1. Joaquin Andujar threw a four-hitter for his 10th victory. Andujar, who has lost once, collected his sixth straight victory and fourth complete game.
Andy Hawkins, who has been leading a charmed life, didn’t get his 11th victory Tuesday night at San Diego, but, on the other hand, he didn’t lose his first, either. Hawkins departed in the eighth inning with a 4–3 lead over the Philadelphia Phillies, but Rich Gossage failed to hold the lead. However, after the Phillies took a 5–4 lead in the top of the ninth in a brawling battle, the Padres came back to win, 6–5, on Kevin McReynolds’ two-run triple with two out in the bottom of the ninth.
California Angels 6, Baltimore Orioles 5
Cleveland Indians 0, Boston Red Sox 5
Atlanta Braves 3, Chicago Cubs 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Cincinnati Reds 9
Seattle Mariners 7, Detroit Tigers 6
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Kansas City Royals 4
New York Mets 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Oakland Athletics 2, New York Yankees 0
Philadelphia Phillies 5, San Diego Padres 6
Montreal Expos 1, San Francisco Giants 5
Houston Astros 1, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Chicago White Sox 3, Texas Rangers 7
Minnesota Twins 2, Toronto Blue Jays 9
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1315.30 (+4.37)
Born:
Evan Lysacek, American figure skater (Olympic gold medal, men’s singles, 2010), in Chicago, Illinois.
Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond, Canadian NHL right wing (New Jersey Devils, Calgary Flames, Pittsburgh Penguins), in Levis, Quebec, Canada.
Died:
John Ringling North, 81, American circus director (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1937-43).
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