President Reagan will decide in favor of “proportionate responses” to purported Soviet violations of strategic arms control treaties, Administration officials believe. Administration officials say they believe President Reagan will decide in favor of continued overall adherence to strategic arms control treaties, but will also agree to limited and measured deviations in response to purported Soviet violations of the pacts. Officials describe this as a policy of “proportionate responses” which they pointed out is the exact phrase used in a resolution the Senate passed overwhelmingly on Thursday calling for adherence to the arms pacts until the end of 1986. The arms control agreements in question are the antiballistic missile treaty of 1972, which is in full force, and the signed but unratified second strategic arms limitation treaty of 1979, which both the Soviet Union and the United States have informally agreed not to undercut. Although Mr. Reagan’s course of action seemed all but certain to the officials, they cautioned that he was not expected to make his final decision until the weekend at Camp David.
The United States negotiating efforts in the Geneva arms control negotiations won strong backing today from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But the organization’s Foreign Ministers, in a communique ending their spring meeting here, refused to endorse research on President Reagan’s missile-defense program. The communique did not mention the research, as part of a compromise to meet objections to the program put forth by France, Denmark, Norway and Greece.
Soviet soldiers rammed a parked car carrying three British officers on a reconnaissance mission in East Germany, then detained them for five hours after searching the vehicle, the British military command said today. No injuries were reported in the incident, which occurred on Tuesday. British officials said that during the incident a Soviet officer took from the car a bag containing binoculars, a camera, a tape recorder, maps and personal effects of one of the officers. The Soviet soldiers also threatened the British officers with rifles before releasing them, according to Hugh Babington-Smith, a spokesman at the British military headquarters in Rheindahlen, West Germany.
President Reagan meets with Vice President George Bush to discuss the Vice Presidents’ upcoming European trip.
Mehmet Ali Ağca, asserting that he felt threatened by the secret services of Bulgaria and the Soviet Union, told a court here today that he would not answer specific questions about purported Bulgarian involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate Pope John Paul II. But Mr. Ağca, who shot and wounded the Pope in 1981, confirmed extensive testimony he has given to Italian investigating magistrates over the last three years to the effect that the Bulgarian state security service, prompted by the Soviet Union, commissioned and financed the attempt to kill the Polish-born Pope. The court fell into turmoil today when Mr. Ağca, questioned by Chief Judge Severino Santiapichi about his activities in Bulgaria in the summer of 1980, replied: “I am not able to answer. I have this concern about the Soviet and Bulgarian secret services. I have received threats.”
One of three Polish dissidents on trial charged with fomenting unrest was ousted from a Gdansk courtroom today for the sixth time in the last five days. The incident began when the court played what was said to be a surreptitiously made tape recording of a conversation last January 25 that the Polish police had with one of the other defendants, Bogdan Lis. At one point another defendant, Adam Michnik, who, with Mr. Lis and Wladyslaw Frasyniuk, stands accused of plotting an aborted 15-minute general strike, leaned forward to hear the tape better. The gesture drew a warning from the judge, Krzysztof Zieniuk. When the tape had ended, Mr. Michnik, a 38-year-old historian, said the judge’s remarks were “motivated by personal animosity.”
Twenty-four Finnish United Nations soldiers were seized by an Israeli-supported militia in southern Lebanon. The militia threatened to shoot “one every hour” until 11 of its own militiamen were released, a United Nations spokesman said. Eight hours after the seizure was reported, a spokesman said two of the Finns had been freed by the South Lebanon Army.
Israel tonight appeared to throw its full backing behind the South Lebanon Army, telling the commander of the United Nations troops in Lebanon that Israel would only seek the return of kidnapped United Nations soldiers if the United Nations secured the release of captured S.L.A. troops. When asked if Israeli troops were in any way supporting the seizure of Finnish troops, an Israeli Army spokesman in Tel Aviv said, “S.L.A. troops are staying in the area and the Israel Defense Forces are watching closely after their activities.” The Israeli spokesman then issued a communique giving the S.L.A.’s version of events and details of the Israeli conditions for helping to free the Finns. The South Lebanon Army, a force of some 2,000 men led by the Christian Lebanese General, Antoine Lahd, is armed and trained by the Israeli Army. Israeli military advisers are in contact with almost all units, although at times the militia initiates action.
Negotiations to end three weeks of fighting for control of three Palestinian settlements in Beirut have reached a deadlock, authorities there said. The development stirred concern that large-scale fighting would resume in and around the settlements — Sabra, Shatila, and Burj al Brajneh. Syrian and Lebanese mediators were said to have suspended their mediation efforts because the Palestinian and Shiite Muslim combatants were unable to reach a compromise on conditions for a complete cease-fire. A key issue is how much the Palestinians will allow the settlements to be disarmed.
Iraq said 27 of its warplanes made three attacks today on Tehran for the third day in row. A military spokesman in Baghdad said the warplanes also bombed the southern Iranian refinery cities of Abadan and Ahwaz and the border city of Ilam on the 13th straight day of raids on civilian targets by Iraqi forces. There was no immediate Iranian comment on the reported air strikes on Tehran, but Iran’s official press agency confirmed the raid on Abadan.
Police forces from two of India’s northeastern states battled each other for four hours Thursday in a dispute over a border fence, leaving 32 dead and 50 wounded and sending 25,000 villagers fleeing, the authorities said today. The violence in Assam and Nagaland, sandwiched between Bangladesh and Burma, was over confiscated fencing material and a five-mile stretch of disputed jungle that separates Assam from Nagaland. The battle, which started when the Nagaland police overran the Merapani police station in Assam, ended today under a cease-fire imposed by the Indian Government in New Delhi.
Indian Government troops opened fire to break up Hindu-Muslim fighting in the western city of Ahmedabad today, killing six people, the Press Trust of India reported.
An amendment on Nicaragua barring the use of United States funds for anti-Sandinista activities that violate international law or the Charter of the Organization of American States was approved by the Senate. But in a last-minute compromise, a phrase was added permitting such activities if they are specifically authorized by United States law. The amendment was added by voice vote to a bill detailing State Department programs for the fiscal year beginning October 1. Final action on the State Department legislation was put off until next week.
President Daniel Ortega Saavedra has condemned the Senate vote to authorize $38 million in nonmilitary aid to anti-Government rebels as “a vote in favor of crimes against the Nicaraguan people.” “There should be no illusions that this course can cause the Sandinista revolution to sink,” he said here Thursday night. Mr. Ortega made the remarks as he toured a Managua neighborhood with the visiting Canadian Minister of External Affairs, Monique Vezina. Earlier, Mrs. Vezina had signed an agreement to provide Nicaragua with nearly $11 million in aid to develop its geothermic power resources.
A blackout plunged Lima, Peru into darkness tonight and a car packed with explosives blew up near the palace where President Raul Alfonsin of Argentina was attending a ceremony with President Fernando Belaunde Terry of Peru. A radio station later said a second car-bomb exploded behind the Palace of Justice, 12 blocks from the Presidential Palace, and caused a fire in a nearby building. The radio broadcast quoted unidentified police officials as saying no one was injured, and that the police arrested two people nearby. A spokesman for the government electrical company said the power failure in Lima was caused by damage to the national power grid in the Mantaro area, 300 miles southeast of the capital. He did not elaborate.
The son of Josef Mengele, the long-sought Auschwitz death camp doctor, apparently visited the man whose body was exhumed here Thursday, the Brazilian police said today. The police have said the body may be Dr. Mengele’s. The federal police chief here, Romeu Tuma, told reporters that a photograph of Dr. Mengele’s son, Rolf, had been found in the home of an Austrian couple. The couple have told the police that they sheltered Dr. Mengele in the 1970’s and that he drowned in 1979 and was buried under a different name.
Several tips, including a letter from Paraguay, spurred the West German authorities last week to search a house in Josef Mengele’s hometown in Bavaria, where they found documents placing the long-sought Nazi death camp doctor in Sao Paulo, Brazil, officials and investigators close to the case said yesterday. The trail led West German, American and Israeli investigators to a cemetery outside Sao Paulo, where the body of a man the Brazilian police say could be Dr. Mengele was said to have been buried after a reported swimming accident in 1979. The bones have now been exhumed for scientific analysis. Officials say privately, however, that the investigation has been hampered by the refusal of members of the Mengele family to provide any information. West German law broadly shields family members from having to testify against a relative. Repeated efforts by reporters to reach family members in West Germany have been fruitless.
A judge today ruled against extending the nomination deadline for the 80 seats designated for blacks in the 100-seat National Assembly. The suit was filed by Joshua Nkomo, the main opposition leader, who said his party did not have time to collect the required signatures for nomination forms or examine the lists of voters, which were sent to regions only two days ago. Parties in this black-ruled nation are required to nominate all candidates for the July 1-2 voting by Monday.
Secret Navy documents were found in the California home of a man accused of participating in a Soviet spy ring, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. At a detention hearing in San Francisco for Jerry A. Whitworth, a retired Navy radioman, the F.B.I. said two documents were recovered. One described Navy communication plans for the Middle East, and the other, they said, gave directions for the handling of secret messages at the Alameda Naval Air Station, where Mr. Whitworth served. The Federal Bureau of Investigation made the assertions at a bail hearing in San Francisco for the suspect, Jerry A. Whitworth, a 45-year-old retired Navy radioman. It was not immediately clear what kind of contingency plans the document described.
President Reagan travels to Camp David for the weekend.
A Federal appeals court today blocked the re-opening of a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island next week and agreed to hear arguments on whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission acted improperly when it voted to let operations here resume. The reactor, Unit 1, has been shut for more than six years, since the accident in March 1979 that crippled the Unit 2 reactor at Three Mile Island. Although undamaged in the accident, Unit 1 was closed for refueling at that time and was kept closed by order of the nuclear commission and later by mechanical problems. It has been shut down longer than any other commercial reactor.
The job market changed sharply when the recession of the early 1980’s wiped out 2.3 million manufacturing jobs that have not since been recovered, a Labor Department study found. The study traces how far the nation’s economy has shifted away from manufacturing jobs since the recession, and the accompanying boom in the service industries. The study was requested by members of Congress concerned about a lack of data on the cost in manufacturing jobs from the shift toward services. a shift that private experts have documented since the economic recovery.
The jobless rate remained steady at 7.2 percent in May, the fourth consecutive month at that level, the Labor Department reported. But analysts said the steady rate masked a number of significant developments in the job market.
A $472,000 legal-fee reimbursement for Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d was awarded by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. This is about two-thirds of the $720,923 that Mr. Meese had sought to help pay legal fees and expenses connected with his successful defense against charges of misconduct made when he was counsel to President Reagan. Leonard Garment, one of Mr. Meese’s attorneys, issued a statement saying, “The court’s decision is thoughtful and fair and ends the Meese litigation.” Another attorney for Mr. Meese, E. Robert Wallach of San Francisco, said he considered his amount “full compensation” for his services.
A Federal jury today found eight people liable for damages in the wrongful death of one of five leftist demonstrators killed at a rally against the Ku Klux Klan in 1979. Those found liable were five Klansmen and Nazis, two Greensboro police officers and an informer for the police, who was also a Klansman. But the jury, ruling in a $48 million lawsuit, found that the defendants, who included Federal agents, had not engaged in a conspiracy against those shot to death at the “Death to the Klan” rally. The six-member jury also found four Klansmen and Nazi Party members liable in the assault and battery of three of the demonstrators. The eight defendants were found liable in the death of Dr. Michael Nathan.
A 12-member jury today began deliberating whether Claus von Bülow is guilty of twice trying to kill his wife, Martha, an heiress, with injections of insulin. Deliberations, interrupted by lunch, began shortly before noon and continued until 4 PM, when the jury retired for the night. Seconds after the jury filed out of the courtroom, Mr. von Bülow’s chief lawyer, Thomas P. Puccio, lodged an angry protest that the judge’s instructions to the jurors were “totally one-sided in favor of the prosecution.” But the judge, Corinne P. Grande, rejected his complaint, refusing to amend her language on what constitutes reasonable doubt as to guilt and how the jury should interpret circumstantial evidence.
A Lutheran pastor was defrocked for violating the church constitution and refusing to obey his bishop in a dispute over church and corporate social responsibility. It was the second time in the 23-year history of the three-million-member Lutheran Church in America that a pastor had been stripped of his robes. There is no appeal of the decision. A moment after the overwhelming vote by the church’s Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod, the former pastor, D. Douglas Roth, and his supporters stormed the platform and briefly took over the convention, which is being held at Thiel College here. After the overwhelming vote in Greenville, Pennsylvania, by a regional synod of the Lutheran Church in America, Roth, the former pastor, and a minister were arrested after they refused to leave the podium they had seized.
Patricia and Samuel Frustaci kept vigil today for Bonnie Marie, the most critically ill of their four surviving septuplets. But doctors at Children’s Hospital of Orange County offered little hope that the 1 pound 8 ounce infant, the fourth delivered May 21, could overcome severe lung disease and other complications of her premature birth. They also said the three other surviving babies, Patricia Ann, Stephen Earl and Richard Charles, remained in critical but stable condition.
City officials proceeding with the rebuilding of the west Philadelphia neighborhood destroyed in the confrontation with the radical group Move have said they would not allow Louise James, the owner of Move’s fortified house, to return. City Solicitor Barbara W. Mather said the city would bar her return by seizing her property through condemnation, if necessary.
For different reasons, neither John McEnroe nor Jimmy Connors was ready today for his semifinal match in the French Open tennis championship. Their opponents, Mats Wilander and Ivan Lendl, were more than ready, and so they advanced in straight sets to Sunday’s final of the Grand Slam tournament. Lendl, seeded second and the defending champion, easily defeated Connors, 6–2, 6–3, 6–1. Wilander, the fourth-seeded player, had little trouble with the top-seeded McEnroe, winning, 6–1, 7–5, 7–5.
Looking at the statistics from tonight’s contest, it would appear that that the 36 points by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the 33 by James Worthy and the 26 points and 17 assists by Earvin (Magic) Johnson were the primary reasons that the Los Angeles Lakers earned a 120–111 victory tonight that gave them a 3–2 lead and placed them on the verge dethroning the defending champion Boston Celtics. But the Lakers believe otherwise. Their hero was Kurt Rambis. When measured with numbers, the contributions of the fourth-year power forward with the thick, black-rimmed glasses and no jumpshot didn’t really amount to much. He scored only 7 points, adding 9 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals in 27 minutes. But those figures don’t reflect his biggest asset: desire.
In the second period, Rambis charged his teammates by diving into the stands to save a loose ball. That play ended with a Laker fastbreak, and it helped inspire his teammates to an emotional 15–3 surge that gave them a 64–51 halftime lead. And late in the final period — after the Celtics re-emerged and pulled as close as 4 points — Rambis converted two free throws after being fouled while grabbing an offensive rebound. Later, he stripped the ball from the Celtic center Robert Parish and started a Laker break that ended with a basket by Johnson. That put the Lakers ahead, 113–103, with 2:43 left.
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Rick Sutcliffe, backed by Jody Davis’s home run, came off the disabled list today and pitched a five-hitter as the Chicago Cubs defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1–0. When the Mets lost to the Cardinals tonight, Chicago moved into a first-place tie with New York in the National League East. Sutcliffe, the 1984 Cy Young winner, had been on the 15-day disabled list because of a torn hamstring suffered at Atlanta May 19. Sutcliffe (6–4) walked three and struck out nine in pitching his fifth complete game and third shutout of the season. Jose DeLeon (1–8) lost, allowing but five hits in six innings. One of them was Davis’s fourth home run, which came on the first pitch in the second.
At Riverfront, the Padres sweep a pair from the Reds, winning 9–3 and 3–2 in 11 innings. In game 1, Carmelo Martinez hits a 3-run homer and Kurt Bevacqua a 4-run homer, both off starter Tom Browning. In the second game, Tony Gwynn has 3 hits, including his 11th homer, and Kevin McReynolds has 4 safeties as the Padres stay 3 ½ games ahead of the Reds in the National League West.
The Expos downed the Phillies, 3–1. Tim Raines utilized his speed to score all three runs, and David Palmer allowed only three hits over six innings as Montreal won. Palmer (4–5) struck out six and walked two, and Jeff Reardon pitched the last two innings for his 16th save, tops in the majors. The Expos took a 1–0 lead off Steve Carlton (1–6) in the first inning when Raines singled, stole second and third on successive pitches, and scored as Jim Wohlford grounded out. Montreal made it 2–0 in the sixth when Raines singled, stole second and scored on Wohlford’s hit.
Mike Scott scattered seven hits in 8 ⅓ innings and drove in the game-winning run with a third-inning single to lead Houston to a 4–1 win over the Giants. Scott (4–2) shut out the Giants through 6 ⅓ innings until Alex Trevino clubbed a pitch over the left-field fence for his second homer of the season. Scott kept the Giants in check the rest of the way until needing relief help in the ninth from Dave Smith.
The hard times continue for Doug Sisk. The 27-year-old Met pitcher, who in only one season has fallen sharply from the ranks of the league’s top relievers, gave up five earned runs last night as the Mets lost a 13-inning game to the St. Louis Cardinals, 7–2. Sisk entered in the 13th inning with the score tied 1–1. He proceeded to allow five hits, a walk and six runs in all, and the Mets committed two errors as the Cardinals took the first of a four-game series before 34,490 fans.
Mike Scioscia homered in the fifth inning and Pedro Guerrero and Greg Brock hit consecutive home runs in the eighth inning to lead Los Angeles past Atlanta, 7–2, in a rain-delayed game. The start of the game was held up for 82 minutes by showers, and the action was interrupted in the fifth inning for 2 hours, 52 minutes by rain. In all, the game took more than six hours to finish and ended with about 1,000 of the original 24,000 fans still présent.
The Brewers edged the Yankees, 10–9, in ten. Every lead in the game proved to be bad luck — except the last one. “We had the lead, we blew it, we had it, we blew it. They had it and blew it,” said Milwaukee manager George Bamberger, describing the Brewers’ 10-inning victory. “It was a very big game to win. We’re above 500 again and we’re going to stay there,” Bamberger said. Dave Winfield hit two of four Yankee homers. Charlie Moore singled in Jim Gantner with one out for the winning run.
The Blue Jays pounded the Tigers, 9–2. Len Matuszek’s two-run double capped a four-run uprising in the third inning, and George Bell and Ernie Whitt homered during a four-run fifth for Toronto. A crowd of 42,455, the largest ever to see a single night game at Exhibition Stadium, watched the American League East-leading Blue Jays win their 15th game in 17 outings and open an eight-and-a-half-game lead over third-place Detroit. The defending World Series champion Tigers have lost seven of their last 10. Dave Stieb (6–4) gave up two hits before being relieved by Dennis Lamp to start the seventh.
Dwight Evans drove in four runs, and Al Nipper allowed six hits over eight innings as Boston beat Baltimore, 8–4. The second-place Orioles fell 6 ½ games behind Toronto, A three-run homer by Eddie Murray and a bases-empty shot by Wayne Gross gave Baltimore a 4–2 lead after two innings, but the Red Sox scored four in the third to chase Mike Boddicker (6–5). Doubles by Bill Buckner and Rich Gedman, wrapped around a walk to Mike Easler, pulled Boston to 4–3. Evans’s two-run single put the Red Sox ahead, and he scored on a two-out triple by Glenn Hoffman.
Steve Balboni hit two home runs, and Bret Saberhagen and Dan Quisenberry combined on a seven-hitter as Kansas City blanked first-place California, 6–0. The Royals trail the Angels by half a game in the American League West. Bret Saberhagen (6–3) allowed seven hits over seven innings, and Quisenberry pitched the final two innings. Saberhagen, who walked one and struck out six, has thrown 23 consecutive scoreless innings against California dating to last season.
The Twins downed the White Sox, 6–3. Gary Gaetti hit a home run, Mickey Hatcher drove in two runs and Pete Filson became the first Minnesota starter to hold an opponent under four runs since May 20. Before the victory, Minnesota had lost 12 of its last 13 games and scored only 39 runs in that span. Twins pitchers yielded 87 runs during the slump. Filson (3–2) gave up 11 hits, including consecutive home runs in the fourth inning by Ron Kittle, his seventh, and Carlton Fisk, his 14th.
The Mariners beat the Indians, 6–4. Bill Swift pitched five innings of scoreless, one-hit baseball to pick up a victory in his major league debut. The 23-year-old right-hander struck out one and walked one after entering the game with Seattle ahead 3–1 in the second inning. when fellow rookie hurler Brian Snyder was forced to leave with a blister on his pitching hand. Mariners catcher Bob Kearney hit a three-run homer.
The Rangers defeated the A’s, 4–2, in ten innings. Rookie Oddibe McDowell hit an RBI double and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Gary Ward as the Rangers scored twice in the 10th inning to beat the A’s at Oakland.
Los Angeles Dodgers 7, Atlanta Braves 2
Boston Red Sox 8, Baltimore Orioles 4
Kansas City Royals 6, California Angels 0
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, Chicago Cubs 1
San Diego Padres 9, Cincinnati Reds 3
San Diego Padres 3, Cincinnati Reds 2
Seattle Mariners 6, Cleveland Indians 4
San Francisco Giants 1, Houston Astros 4
New York Yankees 9, Milwaukee Brewers 10
Chicago White Sox 3, Minnesota Twins 6
St. Louis Cardinals 7, New York Mets 2
Texas Rangers 4, Oakland Athletics 2
Montreal Expos 3, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Detroit Tigers 2, Toronto Blue Jays 9
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Charlie Simpson, British rock singer-songwriter and musician (Busted; Fightstar), in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.
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