The Soviet Union has given its Warsaw Pact allies research contracts in the second phase of a space-based anti-missile defense that is already more advanced than the controversial U.S. program, a West German legislator said. Juergen Todenhoefer, who is also the disarmament spokesman for Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Christian Democratic Union, said he is making the information public because he is exasperated with Western Europe’s “interminable talking like a bunch of old ladies” over whether to join President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative project, known as “Star Wars.”
U.S. and Soviet negotiators on intermediate-range nuclear missiles met for nearly five hours in the longest session to date of the current round of arms talks in Geneva. Details of the session, headed by Alexei A. Obukhov for the Soviets and Maynard W. Glitman for the Americans, were kept secret. The other Geneva negotiating groups are on space and defensive weapons and on long-range nuclear forces.
Aldrich Ames hands over the names of 20 Soviets working for the CIA, to a Soviet agent, several of whom were later executed. Not only did Ames believe that there was “as much money as [he] could ever use” in betraying these intelligence assets, but their elimination would also reduce the chance of his own espionage being discovered. The CIA’s network of Soviet-bloc agents began disappearing at an alarming rate, including double agents Gennady Varenik and Dmitri Polyakov. The CIA realized something was wrong but was reluctant to consider the possibility of a mole within their agency. Initial investigations focused on possible breaches caused by Soviet bugs or a code that had been broken. The CIA initially blamed asset losses on another former CIA agent, Edward Lee Howard, who had also been passing information to the Soviets. But when the agency lost three other important assets about whom Howard could not have known anything, it was clear that the arrests and resulting executions were the result of information provided by another source.
Three Polish political activists charged with fomenting unrest made their final statements in a Gdansk courtroom today. The trial judge said he would pronounce sentence on Friday. Monitors at the trial said the defendants showed their disdain for the court with perfunctory remarks that took a total of fifteen minutes. One defendant, Adam Michnik, a 38-year-old historian who was repeatedly interrupted by the judge during his earlier testimony, spoke for only 15 seconds, according to relatives of the accused. Western reporters have been barred from the trial. “After what I have seen and heard here and in order to be true to my conscience, I can only say one thing: I forgive those who lie about me and repress me,” he said. The judge, Krzysztof Zieniuk, who had several times ordered Mr. Michnik removed from the courtroom during the 10 days of hearings, this time said “Thank you” and turned to the next defendant.
The Social Democrats quit the Portuguese coalition government today in a dispute over economic policy and presidential elections. Mario Soares, the Socialist Prime Minister, offered to resign. Mr. Soares, 66 years old, speaking on national television, said President Antonio Ramalho Eanes should dissolve Parliament and call elections. The Social Democrats announced June 4 that they would pull out of the coalition, but said they would wait until after Portugal became a member of the European Common Market Wednesday. The Prime Minister said the current makeup of Parliament “clearly makes it impossible to sustain any consistent majority.” Apart from the Social Democrats, the only parties in the 250-seat chamber that could produce a majority by combining with the 101 Socialist legislators are the Communists and rightist Christian Democrats.
The Basque separatist organization E.T.A. took responsibility today for the deaths of four people in terrorist attacks the previous day. E.T.A., which is fighting to gain independence for Spain’s three northern, Basque-populated provinces, made the statement in telephone calls to several newspapers in the northern city of San Sebastián.
A gloomy picture of racial discrimination in Britain was painted by the Commission for Racial Equality, 20 years after the introduction of legislation designed to eliminate it. The agency, in its annual report, said that discrimination in employment, housing and education continues against Britain’s 2 million black and Asian citizens. It said that while it was unreasonable to expect the problem to be solved in two decades, it is up to government agencies to hasten the pace of progress.
A portrait of King Philip IV of Spain by the 17th Century Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens was destroyed by an arsonist in Zurich’s Kunsthaus Museum. The 24 ½-by-31-inch canvas, worth an estimated $2 million, was reduced to ashes, leaving only the baroque frame. Swiss police said they were holding a young man, who declined to identify himself, in the attack. Last January 10, another Rubens work, a sketch in oils titled “Orpheus and Eurydice,” was cut from its frame at the same museum and stolen.
Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters made his debut in the Security Council today and delivered a scathing attack against what he called the misrepresentation of American policy by some delegates. General Walters, who became the chief American delegate last month, had not been one of the scheduled speakers in the Security Council debate on South-West Africa, which is also known as Namibia. But the former ambassador-at-large used his right of reply in defense of American policy toward Namibia at the end of the fourth day of debate.
Gasoline stations and private postal agencies shut down in Israel to protest the government’s denial of price increases to counteract inflation. Most of the nation’s 5,000 cab drivers were already on strike for the same reason, seeking a 39% increase in fares. Operators of about 420 service stations closed for a day to back their demand for a 50% boost in their prices, claiming their profits have been severely eroded by recent tax hikes.
More U.S. economic aid to Jordan is planned, the Reagan Administration announced. It said it would ask Congress to approve a $250 million increase in economic aid to Amman as a show of support for King Hussein’s peace efforts. But because of strong Israel-backed opposition in Congress, President Reagan today deferred any decision on a military aid package for Jordan, White House officials said. Mr. Reagan telephoned King Hussein, who is in London, to tell him of his continued backing but to explain his reluctance to seek the arms aid now. Richard W. Murphy Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, was also sent to London to meet with the King.
Eleven militiamen of the South Lebanese Army being held by the Shiite Amal forces told a United Nations panel today that they did not wish to be sent back to the the area controlled by the militia, an informed source said tonight. A spokesman for the United Nations said the men had been brought from Tyre to the headquarters of the French Battalion of the United Nations peacekeeping force.
Iraq reported “devastating” air raids on nine Iranian towns and cities Wednesday night and today, and Iran said 37 people died and 75 were wounded in the attacks. Iran said it shelled 22 Iraqi border towns in retaliation, and Iranian troops killed or wounded at least 103 Iraqis in ground attacks in the last 24 hours. Iraqi military spokesmen in Baghdad, the capital, said Iraqi jets struck Tehran twice Wednesday night and then hit two northwestern towns. They said that today warplanes struck three villages and the towns of Karind, Dizful and Bakhtaran. Iran’s national press agency, I.R.N.A., monitored in London, said 5 people were killed and 40 wounded in the attack on Bakhtaran, and 25 were killed in air raids on villages in Bakhtaran province. It said two people were killed and five wounded in a raid today on Evan in nearby Ilam Province. I.R.N.A. said five people were killed and 30 wounded in an Iraqi raid on Tehran last night.
Rajiv Gandhi, addressing Congress, said India backed independence and a nonaligned status for Afghanistan. The Prime Minister’s comments were welcomed by United States officials. Mr. Gandhi’s comments, on the second full day of his visit to the United States, buoyed American officials, who said the remarks by the 40-year-old Indian leader reflected a “shift” by India, which in the past has refused to involve itself directly in an Afghan settlement. The Soviet Union joined the fighting in Afghanistan in December 1979 to suppress an anti-Marxist insurgency, and in recent weeks there have been reports of a Soviet drive against Afghan rebels near the Pakistani border. Mr. Gandhi said in a private meeting today that he wanted to “do something concrete” to resolve the Afghan situation and indicated he would discuss this with American officials.
Reagan Administration officials affirmed today that the United States was willing to sell arms to India, but did not expect any transactions soon in view of India’s military ties to Moscow. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in a meeting with reporters today seemed reluctant to enter into arms accords with the United States. He said that in the past the Americans had linked arms sales to foreign policy considerations and were not reliable suppliers.
The court trying 26 people in the assassination of the opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. ruled today that earlier, self-damaging testimony by the armed forces chief of staff and seven other soldiers was not admissible as evidence. The testimony, given by General Fabian C. Ver and the others before a citizens’ review board investigating the Aquino slaying, was a major element in the prosecution’s case against the eight. They were charged as accessories in the 1983 killing. One of the three presiding judges, Augusto Amores, said the ruling was “definitely” a blow to the prosecution. Asked if it was a fatal blow, he replied, “I think so.”
The Supreme Court of Canada declared today that all laws established by the province of Manitoba in English since 1890 were invalid because they had not been enacted in French as well. To avoid chaos in the province’s offices and courts, the Supreme Court ruled that the laws would be “temporarily valid” for the minimum time needed to translate and enact them into French. But it warned that new laws would have no force if they were not bilingual.
The man said to be Josef Mengele, the long-sought Nazi death camp doctor, led a reclusive life for nearly 20 years in and around Sao Paulo, Brazil, according to neighbors, friends and a housemaid. They portray the man as an authoritarian, cultivated figure who tended sick animals, never publicly discussed politics and disparaged black people.
Ethiopian authorities have abruptly canceled plans to construct a new relief center for famine victims that was to be built in northern Ethiopia by a team of 14 Israeli volunteers. The leader of the Israeli team, the fund raiser, philanthropist and self-described “peace crusader” Abie Nathan, said he was told Monday that permission to go to the site, at Ibnat, in the northern Gondar region, would not be granted; that the equipment was being returned to Addis Ababa, and that he would be asked to build the camp in another part of the country. Mr. Nathan has already helped build two other relief centers elsewhere in Ethiopia. Western diplomats said the decision not to permit Mr. Nathan to build in Ibnat was made personally by the Ethiopian leader, Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam.
South African troops crossed into neighboring Botswana and attacked and destroyed targets — houses and offices of the African National Congress — in the capital of Gaborone, Radio South Africa reported. The radio quoted the chief of the South African armed forces, General Constand Viljoen, as saying the targets were scattered throughout the capital. The attack was the latest in a series of cross-border raids by South African forces against sanctuaries of the rebel group. In Gaborone, the Police Commissioner, Simon Hirschfeldt, said homes of African National Congress refugees living in Botswana had been attacked.
The African National Congress, the main guerrilla group fighting South Africa’s white-minority government, will open a 10-day conference at a secret location Sunday, the group announced. The conference, expected to attract about 200 delegates, is not likely to produce any change in the outlawed group’s basic aim, which is to abolish apartheid, overthrow the white regime and set up a multiracial government in South Africa. Sources said the meeting will not be held in Lusaka, Zambia, where the group has its headquarters.
A commission appointed by President Reagan said that resumption of chemical weapons production by the United States is necessary and “would not impede, and would more likely encourage” negotiations to ban such weapons. The commission, in a report submitted to Congress by the President, also said that only “a small fraction” of the current U.S. stockpile of such weapons has any deterrent value while “the bulk of it is militarily useless and should be destroyed.”
President Reagan travels to Bloomfield, New Jersey to make a speech on tax reform.
President Reagan participates in a ceremony to promote Lieutenant General James Doolittle to General.
The Reagan Administration plans to support a new immigration bill that would delay amnesty for illegal aliens until a Presidential commission certified that the United States had better control of its borders. The bill was introduced three weeks ago by the Senate majority whip, Alan K. Simpson, and Administration officials will testify when Congressional hearings begin on it Monday. In draft testimony submitted to the White House for clearance, Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d and Alan C. Nelson, the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, strongly support the new bill. Mr. Nelson says the “deferred legalization” is actually better than the approach taken in earlier versions of the bill sponsored by Mr. Simpson, a Wyoming Republican, and passed by the Senate. The new bill contains the same two main provisions as the earlier legislation: monetary penalties for employers who hire illegal aliens and the amnesty, which offers legal status to those who arrived in this country before Jan. 1, 1980, and have lived in the United States continuously in an unlawful status since then. Under previous versions of the bill, the employer sanctions and the amnesty would have taken effect simultaneously.
The Senate, backing purer water, voted 94 to 0 to renew and strengthen the Clean Water Act, allocating $18 billion — three times the amount asked by President Reagan — for grants and loans over the next nine years to construct water treatment plants.
The Defense Department said that all the military services are now assessing what secret communications the Soviet Union might have intercepted as a result of the alleged spy ring headed by John A. Walker Jr. Spokesman Michael I. Burch, confirming a Washington Post report that the Army as well as the Navy has established a damage-assessment team, said the Air Force also is “moving out” to examine the potential problem of compromised communications.
Up to 70% of former Defense Department employees who go to work for defense contractors fail to report their new employment as required by law, the General Accounting Office said. The investigative arm of Congress said it identified 6,844 persons who probably should have reported being employed by defense contractors in fiscal 1983 but who did not do so. The reporting requirement was imposed by Congress in an attempt to learn the dimensions of the so-called revolving door between the Pentagon and the defense industry.
Texas Air will buy T.W.A. for $793.5 million. The acquisition of Trans World Airlines by the Texas Air Corporation, which owns Continental Airlines and New York Air, would create the nation’s second biggest airline network, after United.
A key toxic waste site will be cleaned under a court agreement accepted by 158 companies. Under the accord, the concerns that dumped chemicals into the site, the Chem-Dyne dump in Ohio, will clean up the contaminated water table below it, a process expected to take at least 10 years and to cost about $12 million.
Mississippi, Arkansas and some Missouri residents were told that they will have to bear the brunt of paying for a completed $3.5-billion nuclear power plant that won’t be needed until the 1990s. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. ruled that the Grand Gulf plant near Port Gibson, Miss., is part of a system serving four states and that its costs cannot be allocated only to residents of Mississippi and Louisiana. Arkansas and Mississippi say that the action could boost electric rates in their states by 30% to 100%, and they vowed to appeal the agency’s decision.
High school students in East Rutherford, New Jersey, will have to submit to urine tests for drugs this fall, and they could be barred from classes and their names turned over to police if traces of illegal drugs are found, Supt. Alfred Marbaise said. Parents will have to sign a consent form for the tests, but administrators have not decided what to do if they refuse, the superintendent said. “It’ll put parents aware and children aware that we’re not going to take it any more,” said Mary Caso, president of the parents association at Becton Regional High School.
Florida Governor Bob Graham said in Tallahassee that he will seek a quick clemency hearing for a 75-year-old man sentenced to life in prison for killing his terminally ill wife in what he called an act of love and mercy. Roswell Gilbert of Fort Lauderdale was convicted of first-degree murder on May 9 after he admitted killing his wife, Emily, 73, with two gunshots to the head. Gilbert told the jury that he killed his wife as “an act of love… to end her suffering” from Alzheimer’s disease.
The remains of a fifth body were reported found today at a remote Sierras retreat in California that is the focus of an investigation into what officials fear were multiple torture-slayings. “There are at least five victims at the absolute minimum,” said Terry Parker, the Calaveras County Coroner. “The maximum could go to anything.” Earlier, after a week in which the police dug around a mountain cabin at the site near Wilseyville, 150 miles east of San Francisco, the authorities said there might be only four bodies there. Some officials had estimated that as many as 25 people might have been tortured, murdered, then cremated or buried at the retreat. A few days ago, after examining the remains found to that point, the coroner estimated that the bones could have belonged to as many as 20 victims. Today he said two of three skeletal remains are believed to be those of a white woman and a black man.
One of the three surviving Frustaci septuplets is breathing on her own, the first of the tiny babies able to function without a respirator, a hospital official said today. Patricia Ann Frustaci, the first-born of the infants on May 21, was taken off the machine Tuesday. Her two surviving brothers, Stephen and Richard, remain on respirators. Their parents are Samuel and Patricia Frustaci. Meanwhile, Steve Poole, a spokesman for Gerber Products, the baby food maker, said the company would not withdraw its offer of unlimited food and other products to the family. He said a comment Tuesday by another spokesman indicating that the company would rescind its offer was “an unfortunate miscommunication.”
A church pastor in Belle Glade, Florida, and three other persons were charged with arranging as many as 300 phony weddings between aliens and American women in a marriage-for-money racket. Federal agents said the fraudulent marriages were intended to make the aliens permanent U.S. residents, allowing them to bring in relatives and apply for unemployment compensation, food stamps and housing aid.
The barge Point Counterpoint II, a floating concert stage, sailed out into Lake Michigan early today, released by the Coast Guard after a week of argument over whether the vessel is a passenger ship, as the Coast Guard says, or a yacht, as Robert A. Boudreau, its captain, maintains. A licensed Great Lakes captain accompanied Mr. Boudreau, conductor of the Pittsburgh-based American Wind Symphony Orchestra, which will present a series of concerts on the barge.
Health officials in Los Angeles today linked two cheeses to more than 80 illnesses that resulted in 28 deaths and stillbirths since April. A statewide recall was ordered and the factory was closed. Officials said samples of cotija and queso fresco cheese made by Jalisco Mexican Products in suburban Artesia were contaminated by the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes. Deaths from the resulting severe flu-like illness began in April, said Dr. Shirley Fannin, the county health official who began studies that led to identifying the cheeses as linking the victims. The disease can be treated with antibiotics. Stephen Gigliotti, an attorney for Jalisco, said the company learned only today that its products were being held responsible and it closed its factory indefinitely. “We don’t know if it’s anything in our cheese,” he said. “Right now we are running tests and the government is running tests.” Most of the cheese is distributed in the Los Angeles area.
“Prizzi’s Honor”, starring Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, and Anjelica Huston, is released.
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Eddie Milner’s one-out single scored Dave Concepcion from second base to ignite a seven-run 11th inning for the Reds, as they routed the Braves, 9–2. The Reds, who had only two hits entering the 11th, sent 12 batters to the plate and had seven hits in the inning. Concepcion led off with a single off the reliever Gene Garber (1–3) and advanced on Gary Redus’s sacrifice. Milner then delivered a single to score Concepcion. After Pete Rose walked, Dave Parker greeted reliever Dave Schuler with an infield single to load the bases. Dave Van Gorder then singled to right for one run and Ron Oester followed with a run-scoring single to center. Nick Esasky walked to force in a run and John Franco produced a run-scoring infield single, his first major-league hit. With the bases still loaded, Redus drove in two runs with a single.
Andre Dawson, Terry Francona and Hubie Brooks drove in two runs each tonight to lead the Montreal Expos to a 9–7 victory over the Chicago Cubs. With the victory, the Expos moved ahead of the Mets into second place in the National League East, two games behind Chicago. New York trails by 2 ½ games. Trailing by 3–1, the Expos erupted for three runs in the fifth inning. Bryn Smith (7–2), the winning pitcher, and Tim Raines both singled, and the losing pitcher, Steve Trout (6–2), walked Vance Law to load the bases. A fielder’s choice on Dawson scored Smith, and Brooks followed with a single to drive in Raines. Reliever George Frazier walked Tim Wallach to load the bases again, before Francona singled home the go-ahead run.
The Cardinals edged the Pirates, 2–1. Jack Clark hit his 13th home run of the season, and Tito Landrum doubled home a run as the Cardinals got only those two hits off Larry McWilliams (3–5). McWilliams lost his fourth consecutive game and the Pirates lost for the eighth time in nine games. Clark led off the second inning with a homer. In the seventh, Landrum’s hit into the right-center field gap scored Tommy Herr, who had walked and went to second on a wild pitch.
The Mets fell into third place tonight for the first time in five weeks when the Philadelphia Phillies rallied to beat them, 5–4, on a two-run home run by Glenn Wilson off Jesse Orosco in the eighth inning. It was the first home run yielded this season by Orosco, and he could not have picked a less opportune time. He had just relieved Ed Lynch with one out, nobody on base and the Mets leading, 4–3. But he invited a problem by walking Von Hayes on the 3-and-2 pitch. Then he struck out Mike Schmidt, and needed one out to make it out of the inning. But then came Wilson’s homer.
The Padres blanked the Giants, 3–0. The Padres turned four double plays to help Dave Dravecky and Goose Gossage shut out the Giants at San Francisco. Dravecky (5–4) also started a two-run rally in the third inning with a leadoff single off Bill Laskey. The umpiring crew had an unusual look because their uniforms were in luggage that remained in Houston. Charlie Williams worked behind the plate in a Giant uniform and jacket, while the other umps wore Giant jackets over street clothes.
Baltimore downed the Brewers, 8–3. The Orioles ended a five-game losing streak as Fred Lynn, who had been in an 8-for-44 slump, hit a two-run homer to cap a four-run rally in the fourth inning. The victory came after Earl Weaver ended 2 ½ years of retirement to resume managing the Orioles, replacing the dismissed Joe Altobelli. A prior commitment kept Weaver from the park, and the third-base coach Cal Ripken Sr. handled the club. With the Orioles trailing by 2–0, Lee Lacy launched the rally with a double and Jim Dwyer was hit by a pitch. Cal Ripken Jr. doubled home Lacy, and Eddie Murray’s sacrifice fly tied the score. Lynn then drove a pitch from Ray Burris (3–5) high off the right-field foul pole for his 10th homer of the season.
In Seattle, Darryl Motley hits a 3-run homer in the 1st inning to mar the debut of Bill Wilkinson. Another homer in the 6th off Wilkinson gives Kansas City a 4–3 win over Seattle. Wilkinson is the great grandson of Jim Bluejacket, a Cherokee Indian who pitched in the Federal League and the National League. They are the only great-grandfather/great-grandson combo to play in the major leagues.
Rich Gedman’s two-run double highlighted a four-run rally by the Red Sox in the seventh inning as Boston beat the Blue Jays, 8–7. Mike Trujillo (1–1) pitched 2⅓ innings of scoreless relief for the victory. Bob Stanley worked the final two innings for his eighth save. Trailing by 6–4 in the seventh, Boston began its rally when Wade Boggs walked. Dennis Lamp replaced the reliever Ron Musselman and Jim Rice greeted Lamp with a double to left center, scoring Boggs. With reliever Gary Lavelle (2–1) pitching, Dwight Evans walked. Gedman then doubled home Rice, and Evans and Marty Barrett greeted reliever Bill Caudill with a single to score Gedman.
The Twins bested the Rangers, 7–5. Kirby Puckett, who homered earlier in the game, doubled to key a three-run Minnesota rally in the sixth inning. The rally came with two outs and broke a 4–4 tie. Greg Gagne, Dave Meier and Tim Laudner hit consecutive singles off Frank Tanana (1–7) to put the Twins ahead. Puckett then hit an run-scoring double, and Launder scored from first on the play when Texas catcher Don Slaught dropped the ball for an error.
Pinch-hitter Reggie Jackson, 2-for-21 coming to the plate, delivered a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth to lift California to a 2–1 victory over Chicago, breaking the White Sox’s five-game winning streak and moving the Angels back into first place in the American League West. In the ninth, Bobby Grich singled off Gene Nelson, 3–2, and took second on a passed ball by Carlton Fisk. Bob Boone and pinch-hitter Daryl Sconiers walked. Jackson then batted for Gary Pettis and greeted reliever Bob Fallon with an opposite field two-out single to make a winner of Donnie Moore, 43
Cincinnati Reds 9, Atlanta Braves 2
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Baltimore Orioles 8
Toronto Blue Jays 7, Boston Red Sox 8
Chicago White Sox 1, California Angels 2
Chicago Cubs 7, Montreal Expos 9
New York Mets 4, Philadelphia Phillies 5
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Kansas City Royals 4, Seattle Mariners 3
San Diego Padres 3, San Francisco Giants 0
Minnesota Twins 7, Texas Rangers 5
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Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese auto racer (FIA World Endurance Championship LMP2 class, 2019-2020; 24 Hours of Le Mans LMP2 class, 2020; 24 Hours of Daytona, 2018, 2021), in Coimbra, Portugal.
Pedro Strop, Dominican MLB pitcher (World Series Champions-Cubs, 2016; Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds), in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic.
Danny Syvret, Canadian NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, Anaheim Ducks), in Millgrove, Ontario, Canada.
Raz-B [De’Mario Thornton], American R&B actor and singer (B2K), in Cleveland, Ohio.
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