The chief U.S. negotiator at the Geneva arms talks with the Soviet Union said the United States will not pursue the “Star Wars” missile defense plan unless it strengthens the Western alliance. Max M. Kampelman, addressing a foreign affairs conference of European Christian Democrats in Florence, Italy, said the plan, known formally as the Strategic Defense Initiative, must bolster the alliance. “If it does not strengthen that unity, it will not be pursued,” he said.
The Soviet Union may have detonated an underground atomic explosion, according to the Energy Department’s Atomic Energy Detection System. The agency said it recorded earth tremors late Friday, “presumably from a Soviet underground explosion.” The signals originated in the Semipalatinsk test area of the Soviet Union, the agency said, but no further details were provided.
U.S. and Soviet diplomats will confer in Washington today on Afghanistan, the latest in a series of discussions on regional issues, the State Department said. The United States will be represented by Richard W. Murphy, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, and the Soviet delegation by Oleg Sokolov, the No. 2 official in the Soviet Embassy, and Yuli Alekseyev, chief of the Middle East department of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will be the third such meeting this year.
Armand Hammer, the industrialist, said today after a meeting with Mikhail S. Gorbachev that negotiations were under way on the time and place of a meeting with President Reagan. Mr. Hammer, who has close ties with the Soviet Union, said in a news conference that Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador, had told him in Washington that Mr. Gorbachev would not go to New York to attend a session of the United Nations General Assembly. The industrialist, who is chairman of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation, said he had not discussed the United Nations session with Mr. Gorbachev.
A six-week-long meeting of the 35 nations who signed the Helsinki human rights agreement in 1975 ended in discord in Ottawa, Canada, when the East Bloc countries turned down a Western proposal to meet regularly. Western and neutral nations tried to persuade the East Bloc states to agree to regular meetings, but the Soviet Union refused, arguing that the conference had no mandate to make such a recommendation, Western delegates said. The meeting ended without a final statement. The sessions, which started May 7, were to review how the participating nations of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe were putting into effect the human rights provisions of the Final Act they signed at Helsinki in 1975. The delegations expressed regret today at the deadlock, which was not broken despite more than 50 proposals from individual countries and blocs. Under the mandate of the Ottawa meeting, the concluding report must be reached by consensus.
In a surprise announcement, 88-year-old Italian President Sandro Pertini said he will not seek another seven-year term in a ballot of electors starting June 24. Until recently, the popular Pertini, a Socialist, was expected to try for reelection despite his advanced years. But last Wednesday, the dominant Christian Democrats called for the replacement of Pertini with its own candidate. Many Italian newspapers identified Senate President Francesco Cossiga, a former prime minister, as the Christian Democrats’ most likely choice.
He has, it seems, traveled everywhere and by almost every known means of transport. But even Pope John Paul II had never had a weekend like the one just past. On Sunday, with scores of gondoliers raising their oars of many colors in the traditional salute, John Paul made his way across the Grand Canal by gondola, offering blessings to the hundreds of boats that crowded around him. The Pope sat back happily as four of Venice’s champion gondoliers paddled him across, and he smiled the smile shared by all who have discovered this city of waterways, fine art and romance. A “most serene city,” the Pope said, a place with “a talent all its own.”
A court today put off a decision on whether to question a confessed racketeer about his assertion that members of the Italian secret service, working with organized crime leaders, prodded the Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II into implicating Bulgaria and the Soviet Union in the shooting. Meanwhile, the racketeer, Giovanni Pandico, said during a trial against a criminal gang in Naples, where he is testifying for the Government, that the aim of the underworld effort was to gain Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Pope’s convicted assailant, “as a future killer.” Talking with reporters from the cage in which he is confined in the Naples courtroom, Mr. Pandico said the Turk was “induced by our supplications, in quotation marks, to talk.” The implication appeared to be that the purported involvement of Bulgaria and the Soviet Union in the Pope’s shooting was an invention.
More than 30 hostages were taken off the hijacked T.W.A. jetliner in Beirut, according to one report. But the prospects for their freedom and the 10 others taken off the plane earlier were uncertain. Nabih Berri, the Shiite Muslim leader, whose militia has assumed a major role in the hijacking, said he had ordered the passengers to be taken off for what he called security reasons. He said the hostages were being held “somewhere in Beirut.”
The key to the hostages’ fate is held by Nabih Berri, the Reagan Administration told him. It insisted that the United States would make no concessions to the gunmen who took the Americans prisoners when they hijacked the T.W.A. jetliner Friday, and that it would not ask Israel to release Shiite prisoners to meet the hijackers’ demands.
President Reagan meets with Assistant for National Security Affairs Robert McFarlane to discuss the hijacking turned hostage situation in Beirut.
Shiite and Palestinian leaders signed a Syrian-sponsored cease-fire accord late today intended to end the monthlong battle for three Beirut refugee settlements, Syrian officials announced. The 13-point accord was reportedly signed by representatives of the Shiite Muslim militia Amal and the Palestinian National Salvation Front, which represents Palestinian factions opposed to Yasir Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization leader, at a meeting with the Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam. The Druse leader, Walid Jumblat, also signed the agreement, Syrian officials said. The accord reportedly includes a cease-fire; evacuation of casualties from the Sabra, Shatila and Burj al Brajneh refugee settlements; an enlarged security role for the Lebanese Army, and the disarming of fighters.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, visiting Sudan for the first time since the coup against Jaafar Numeiri, said he will never extradite the ousted Sudanese president, Egypt’s official news agency reported. “Egypt respects political refugees and has given asylum to more than 100 of them,” Mubarak told a Sudanese reporter. Numeiri was in Cairo on April 6, the day of the coup, and Mubarak dissuaded him from returning to Sudan. Mubarak is in Khartoum at the the invitation of Sudan’s new leader, General Abdul-Rahman Suwar Dahab, who has detained many former officials of Numeiri’s government.
Prime Minister Mir Hussein Moussavi of Iran has rejected Iraq’s unilaterally declared halt to attacks on cities, saying fighting would continue, Iran’s official press agency said today. Iran also said its forces began the second offensive against Iraq in four days, with the one today in the mountainous Marivan sector of the northern front. It said more than 150 Iraqi troops had been killed or wounded. Baghdad has not commented on the offensive. President Saddam Hussein of Iraq announced the moratorium on air and missile strikes against Iranian cities on Friday, with the condition that Iran halt its attacks on Iraq.
Rebels in Nicaragua blew up a highway bridge and ambushed a Sandinista army convoy, killing or wounding 80 soldiers, a spokesman for the contras said. Frank Arana, a spokesman for the Honduras-based Nicaraguan Democratic Force, reported one rebel wounded in the attack, which he said occurred Saturday about 90 miles north of Managua, the capital. There was no independent confirmation of the encounter.
The Nicaraguan Government has confiscated properties belonging to one of its most outspoken critics, Enrique Bolanos Geyer, president of the country’s principal business federation. The government said the land was needed to distribute to peasants. But today Mr. Bolanos characterized the confiscation as a reprisal for his political activities.
The Salvadoran Army said today that it was evacuating hundreds of people from a region in northern Morazan Province where troops began an offensive against leftist rebels. The rebels, meanwhile, charged the army with human rights violations in its campaign to remove the people from the area in Morazan, long dominated by the guerrillas. The intense fighting in Morazan Province near the Honduran border was part of a five-day offensive against the rebels. More than 10,000 soldiers have participated in the Morazan campaign and one in San Vicente Province, closer to the capital. Hundreds of people have either fled or been evacuated from the sparsely populated area, most going to the provincial capital of San Francisco Gotera, 72 miles east of San Salvador, military officials said.
Policemen wielding riot sticks charged demonstrators in a black township near Windhoek today as South Africa handed over limited powers to a new, multiracial administration in Namibia, the former German colony of South-West Africa. At least six people were reported injured as the police, reportedly drawn from a special counterinsurgency unit, fired tear gas and wielded batons against 500 demonstrators opposed to the new Government. The new Government, whose installation marks the end of South Africa’s most recent spell of direct rule here, has been accused by critics of being a front for continued South African dominance. South-West Africa, also known as Namibia, is on South Africa’s northwest border.
President Reagan will veto supplemental appropriations for this fiscal year because of water projects approved by the full House and by the Senate Appropriations Committee, Administration officials said today. Sponsors of the water projects had gambled that the President might sign the bill because it includes aid to rebels opposing the Nicaraguan Government. The threat from the Administration, made this morning in a meeting with Bob Dole, the Senate majority leader, sets up a familiar political confrontation over so-called pork barrel projects. Mr. Dole said David A. Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, delivered the veto threat. Mr. Stockman’s spokesman confirmed the threat, saying that all the President’s top advisers would recommend the veto. Leaders in both the House and the Senate have been fighting for years to get money for many water projects, which are popular with the voters. But the Administration has opposed new projects unless local governments pick up part of the cost.
The crew of the space shuttle Discovery roared into orbit today to help develop arms for President Reagan’s proposed shield against nuclear missiles, to launch satellites and to perform a variety of experiments. In their first key assignment, the astronauts successfully launched Morelos-A, a communications satellite for Mexico. The success was seen as particularly crucial for the shuttle program, which recently has been plagued by satellite failures and increasing competition from abroad in the launching of satellites. “Great job,” Mike Mullane of mission control radioed the crew. “You’ve got a lot of appreciative folks down here. Thanks a lot.” The mission, with three new American astronauts and two veterans, marks the 100th time an American citizen has ventured into space. “We’re trucking along,” said a crew member just after liftoff.
On Tuesday the astronauts are to release Arabsat-A for the Arab Satellite Communications Organization and on Wednesday Telstar 3-D for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The experiment on space weapons is scheduled for Wednesday. It is not meant to demonstrate the ability to destroy a target in space but to gather information that might be used in developing arms. On the seven-day mission of the Discovery are the 98th, 99th, and 100th American astronauts to be taken outside the earth’s atmosphere by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. In addition, Discovery is carrying two Americans with space experience and a French and a Saudi Arabian astronaut.
President Reagan, hit by controversy over reports of Pentagon purchases of $426 claw hammers and $7,000 coffee-makers, asked a former secretary of defense in the Richard M. Nixon Administration to head a panel to help ferret out waste and fraud in Defense Department contracts. Reagan’s decision to appoint David Packard to head the commission came under immediate criticism on Capitol Hill, where it was denounced as a sham and “an admission of incompetence” on the part of Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger.
As the House prepares to debate the military program bill this week, Democrats are walking a fine political line, seeking to convince voters that they are strong on defense but tough on wasteful military contractors. “We are for a strong defense, but a lean and mean defense,” Representative Jim Wright of Texas, the majority leader, said today.”We want to do things more efficiently.” Democrats will be leading the effort to slice additional funds from President Reagan’s requests in the fiscal year 1986 for the MX intercontinental missile, the high-technology antimissile proposal and chemical weapons. They will also be recommending changes in the way the Pentagon does business and promoting greater competition for military contracts.
President Reagan meets with Bipartisan Members of Congress to discuss the United States’ Chemical Weapons program.
A bipartisan group of senators led by Senator John C. Danforth (R-Missouri) and Senator Ernest F. Hollings, Democrat of South Carolina, proposed legislation to curb negative radio and television advertising in political campaigns, blaming the tactics for voter apathy and “distorting the electoral process.” The legislation would require broadcasters to provide free time to candidates to respond to certain types of negative campaign ads. Danforth, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, has scheduled hearings on the bill for next month. Critics say the proposals raise serious First Amendment questions.
A Federal grand jury charged today that Jerry A. Whitworth, a retired Navy enlisted man, was paid more than $328,000 over six years to sell secrets to the Soviet Union. The grand jury, in a one-count indictment handed down here, provided new details about what the authorities say is one of the most extensive spy rings in American history. John A. Walker Jr., of Norfolk, Va., another retired Navy enlisted man, has already been charged with espionage in the case, as has his brother, a retired Naval officer, and son, a sailor. Joseph P. Russoniello, the United States Attorney here, alleged that Mr. Whitworth, 45 years old, sold documents to the Soviet Union through Mr. Walker and that the payments provided one of the major reasons.
Laura Walker Snyder, the daughter of John A. Walker Jr., says her father used intimidation and emotional manipulation to try to recruit her and her brother as spies. In an interview to be broadcast Tuesday morning, Mrs. Snyder said she came very close to succumbing to his persuasion six years ago when she was a communications specialist in the Army. “First he’d break you down,” she said. “He’d tell you you were a failure, that you would never amount to anything in life. Then he would say, ‘Let me help you make a lot of money.’ It was a sales pitch. He tried to make you think everybody was doing it, that this is the way countries were run.”
The government was dealt an early setback in its case to justify why 120,000 Japanese-Americans were put under curfew and evacuation orders during World War II. U.S. District Judge John Voorhees ruled in Seattle against the government’s request to submit hundreds of wartime military documents relating to fears of a possible Japanese attack on the West Coast in the months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The case involves Gordon Hirabayashi, one of three Japanese-Americans to be convicted of curfew and evacuation violations during World War II. He is seeking to have his convictions vacated.
Equal pay is not required under federal law for men and women who perform different jobs of comparable worth, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled. The five-member Federal commission said that if jobs were comparable, the fact that they paid different amounts was not in and of itself proof of discrimination. Jobs are said to be of comparable worth if they require comparable levels of knowledge, skill and effort and if their responsbilities and working conditions are comparable. Labor unions and women’s groups have embraced comparable worth as a way to reduce the differences in pay between jobs held mainly by women, such as nursing and secretarial work, and jobs held mainly by men, such as truck driving and warehouse work, which tend to pay more. Clarence Thomas, the chairman of the commission, said today’s ruling was the first decision by the agency on the issue. He said it would apply to all public and private employers with 15 or more employees.
The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame University and former chairman of a presidential commission on immigration, called the tide of illegal entries into the United States a “living scandal” and warned that failure to enact sweeping changes in immigration laws will lead to military control of the U.S.-Mexico border and wholesale deportations of Latinos. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee considering legislation to revamp immigration rules, Hesburgh argued that the only effective way to check the flood of undocumented aliens is to slap stiff penalties on employers who knowingly hire them. Hesburgh’s views were opposed by Latino groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union, which charged that sanctions would aggravate job discrimination.
Artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder is showing signs of recovery from a stroke as he walks with assistance and speaks in short sentences, a Humana Hospital Audubon spokeswoman said in Louisville, Kentucky. Fellow artificial heart recipient Murray P. Haydon also is improving and shows no ill effects of the stroke he suffered two weeks ago, said spokeswoman Donna Hazle. Schroeder, 53, of Jasper, Indiana, has been recovering from the second of two strokes he has suffered since receiving the Jarvik-7 heart November 25. Haydon, 58, of Louisville, is walking and exercising on a stationary bicycle.
More protection for drinking water from pollutants was approved by the House as it unanimously voted to renew the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act. Among amendments to the law was a sweeping provision requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to decide over the next three years whether and how to regulate a 60 water pollutants.
Investigators from around California were called to a meeting today to try to sort out the widespread investigation into the feared mass killings of as many as 25 victims in the Sierra foothills. So far, the authorities say, the skeletal remains of eight people have been found. The meeting was arranged to coordinate the investigation into the mysterious slayings that have involved numerous law-enforcement agencies from around the state, Deputy Police Chief Joseph Jordan of San Francisco said. Investigators from the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and city and county law-enforcement agencies were asked to participate in the investigation.
Roman Catholic bishops in Ohio announced support today for a boycott of Campbell Soup Company products, in an attempt to pressure the company into approving collective bargaining for farm workers. Campbell, based at Camden, New Jersey, says it has contracts with vegetable growers and does not directly employ farm workers. The Bishops issued a statement saying “the farm workers are seeking the same legal rights to organize and bargain collectively” which other workers have been granted.
Purchase of the Hertz Corporation was agreed to by UAL Inc., owner of United Airlines. The surprise $587.5 million acquisition of the world’s biggest car-rental company would make UAL, owner of the rapidly expanding Westin luxury hotel chain, one of the country’s most important travel companies.
Los Angeles County officials reported another death today in an outbreak linked to bacteria-contaminated cheese, bringing the toll to 30. An 82-year-old Hispanic man who lived in the San Gabriel Valley died within the past week of listeriosis, said Dr. Shirley Fannin, associate deputy director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.
A U.S. Navy Reserve officer was stabbed to death aboard the USS Miller while the frigate was on duty in the Atlantic Ocean, officials said today. The officer, Lieutenant James K. Sterner, 35 years old, of Woodbridge, New Jersey, was stabbed in the back Sunday about 10:40 PM and was pronounced dead about 40 minutes later, said Frank Pritchard, a spokesman for the Naval Education and Training Center in Newport. Mr. Pritchard said a ship of the Miller’s class does not carry a doctor but that Lieutenant Sterner received medical care from a qualified corpsman. He would not say if there was a suspect in the stabbing and would not comment on the circumstances. The incident is under investigation by the Naval Investigative Service.
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Alan Ashby’s double in the sixth, his third hit of the game, gave Houston a 4–3 victory over Atlanta. With two out and the score tied for the third time, Phil Garner — who hit a homer in the fourth —and Glen Davis singled, chasing the Atlanta starter, Steve Shields (1–1). Ashby hit a drive to center, scoring Garner. The hit by Ashby, who had scored twice earlier, made a winner of Nolan Ryan (8–3), who scattered nine hits in six and two-thirds innings while striking out eight and walking three. Ryan ran his strikeout total this year to 100, and his major league record total to 3,974.
Tony Pena drove in three runs with a two-run home run and a single tonight, powering the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5–2 victory over Montreal. The defeat put an end to Expos’ five-game winning streak. Pena’s homer, his fourth this season, broke open a 3–2 game in the sixth inning. The Pirates’ starter, Jim Winn (2–1), pitched five innings before leaving because of a swollen left wrist. He was struck by a ball hit by Terry Francona. Don Robinson pitched the final four innings to record his second save.
It may not have exactly been the long-awaited battle for first place but, as main events go, it wasn’t too shabby: Ron Darling outpitched Rick Sucliffe before 41,986 roaring fans, Gary Carter once more supplied the game-winning home run and the Mets snapped out of their four-game losing streak last night with a 2–0 victory over the Chicago Cubs. The Mets have won only four of their last 14 games, but they won this one with style and snappy pitching. They also sent the Cubs to their sixth straight defeat, and telescoped an already tight four-way race in the National League’s East. The Montreal Expos remained first by a game over the Cubs, with the St. Louis Cardinals still third and the Mets fourth, but only 2 ½ games from the top.
Steve Garvey collected three hits and Eric Show posted his first victory in five weeks, lifting San Diego to a 3–2 win in Los Angeles. The loss snapped the Dodgers’ four-game winning streak. Show (5–4) scattered six hits and struck out seven in seven innings before Rich Gossage took over to record his 15th save. Rick Honeycutt (4–6) failed to last two innings, giving up four straight hits and two runs in the second to take the defeat.
Jeff Leonard knocked in a pair of runs with a homer and a single, and the left-handed Atlee Hammaker pitched a four-hitter, lifting San Francisco to a 4–0 shutout of the visiting Reds. Hammaker (3–6) received all the support he needed when the Giants scored in the first inning off Jay Tibbs (4–8). Manny Trillo walked with one out, advanced on Chili Davis’s grounder and scored on Leonard’s single. The hit gave Leonard his first run batted in of the season. Hammaker, who walked two and struck out six, breezed to his first shutout since June 26, 1983.
In Baltimore, Ron Guidry (7–3) limits the Orioles to 5 hits as the Yankees win, 10–0, over the Birds. Rickey Henderson has 5 hits, Don Mattingly is 3-for-3 with 3 walks, and Dave Winfield drives in 4 runs with a pair of singles. Scott McGregor (5–6) took the loss for the Orioles, who saw their four-game winning streak snapped. Henderson singled up the middle his first time up; singled to left next; singled in a run and stole second his third time; then walked and scored a run, and beat out an infield hit in his fifth time at bat. Then on his way to the plate in the ninth inning, Henderson turned toward the Orioles dugout, and walked to the plate smiling. “Oh, that,” Henderson said later, chuckling. “Earl just asked me if I was ever going to make an out.” He answered by smashing his fifth single of the game.
Moose Haas fired a three-hitter, retiring 16 straight hitters in one stretch, and Jim Gantner hit a homer as Milwaukee won 2–1 and handed Toronto its fifth loss in a row. Haas (6-3) did not allow a walk and struck out five in helping the Brewers snap a five-game losing streak. Gantner’s homer, his third of the year, came off Dave Stieb (6-5) with one out in the sixth and gave the Brewers a 2-0 lead. Rance Mulliniks of Toronto singled to left with one out in the first inning off Haas. The Blue Jays didn’t get another runner on base until Damaso Garcia singled with two out in the sixth.
The Red Sox edged the Tigers 3–2. Dwight Evans hit a two-run homer in the ninth as Boston pushed its winning streak to six games and took sole possession of second place in the American League East, 2 ½ games behind Toronto. It was the 17th victory in the last 19 games for the Red Sox. Mike Easler started the ninth with a single off Willie Hernandez (4-3), who had relieved starter Dan Petry with two out in the eighth. Evans followed by swatting an 0-1 pitch over the screen in right field for his seventh homer of the season. Al Nipper (4-5) pitched his second complete game of the season, a seven-hitter for the Red Sox. Nipper struck out eight and walked one.
Steve Balboni’s second homer of the game climaxed a two-out, five-run Kansas City rally in the sixth, as the Royals routed the Twins, 10–3. Balboni hit his 11th homer leading off the third, then hit a three-run shot off Frank Viola in the sixth. Viola (7-6) had a 3-1 lead and two out in the sixth when George Brett, Darryl Motley and Frank White smacked consecutive singles.
Houston Astros 4, Atlanta Braves 3
New York Yankees 10, Baltimore Orioles 0
Boston Red Sox 3, Detroit Tigers 2
Minnesota Twins 3, Kansas City Royals 10
San Diego Padres 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Toronto Blue Jays 1, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Montreal Expos 2
Chicago Cubs 0, New York Mets 2
Cincinnati Reds 0, San Francisco Giants 4
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Tramell Tillman, American actor (“Severance”; “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”), in Washington, District of Columbia.
Craig Dahl, NFL safety (New York Giants, St. Louis Rams, San Francisco 49ers), in Mankato, Minnesota.
Michael Adams, NFL cornerback (Arizona Cardinals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Dallas, Texas.
Nick Fazekas, NBA power forward (Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Clippers), in Denver, Colorado.
Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player (Australian Open 2006 runner-up; World #8, 2006), in Paramytha, Cyprus.
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