The U.S. House of Representatives approved a moratorium on tests of antisatellite weapons against targets in space as long as the Soviet Union refrains from similar testing. The restriction, if approved by the Senate and signed into law, would cut short Air Force testing of a small missile designed to collide with Soviet satellites in low orbit after being launched from a fighter jet. Critics of the weapon, which is scheduled for its first test against a space object next month, say that if such weapons are perfected, they would endanger the military satellites that both sides need for early warning of an attack. The only way to prevent such an arms race in space, they said, is to stop testing before either side is sure its weapons are reliable.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev warned today that the Soviet Union would reassess its participation in the Geneva arms talks if the United States continued “marking time” there, as he put it. Though he did not directly threaten a walkout, the statement was the strongest warning to date that the talks could collapse over American plans to develop a space-based missile defense, popularly known as “Star Wars.” In a televised speech in Dnepropetrovsk, Mr. Gorbachev called the proposed American program “a blank wall blocking the way to agreement.” “If our partners in the Geneva talks,” he continued, “carry on their line, marking time at the sessions of the delegations, avoiding solutions to the problems for the sake of which they have gathered and using that time to intensify their arms buildup programs in space, on land and on the seas, we will, of course, have to reassess the entire situation.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz characterized the United Nations tonight as a “troubled organization,” but added that the United States “must play a forceful role in the United Nations to protect its interests.” Mr. Shultz was speaking at a $150-a-plate black-tie dinner at the Fairmont Hotel that climaxed a four-day commemoration of the signing of the United Nations Charter. “Today, few of the goals proclaimed here 40 years ago have been realized,” Mr. Shultz said. “The birth of the United Nations certainly didn’t transform the world into paradise.”
The British police detained four more suspects today in an operation aimed at stopping what they described as a plot by Irish Republican Army guerrillas to bomb seaside resorts. Three people were detained in Lancashire, northern England, and one in Strathclyde, Scotland, bringing to 16 the total being held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, the police said. In 12 English seaside towns, the police searched hotels for time bombs that they said the I.R.A. was to plant and detonate in July at the height of the holiday season. They said there was only a remote chance that bombs had actually been planted, but the police in one of the 12 towns, Great Yarmouth, on the east coast, said they had evidence that a device had been secretly placed somewhere. Queen Elizabeth is to visit the town August 1. The police operation began Saturday with a raid on a Glasgow tenement in which the police said they found a “hit list,” of the hotels. The next day a bomb was found in a London hotel near Buckingham Palace. The Lancashire police said the three new arrests there were made in Blackpool, one of the 12 towns on the I.R.A. list. All those arrested are Irish.
Portugal’s Socialist Prime Minister Mário Soares resigns amid predictions that Parliament would be dissolved and elections called.
West German television audiences viewed a stark documentary on the life of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, culminating in an emotional confession from his son, Rolf, that he was relieved to learn that his father had died. The prime-time ZDF network report catalogued Mengele’s grisly experiments on Auschwitz death camp inmates and played tapes in which the fugitive, believed to have died in Brazil in 1979, ranted at his Brazilian friends.
Josef Mengele was detained in a series of American prisoner of war camps at the end of World War II, but was released into the American occupation zone in Germany without being identified, according to a report in Bonn. In an article on the underground life of the Nazi war criminal based on materials and information supplied by his son Rolf, the West German magazine Bunte also relates that Dr. Mengele hid blood and cell samples from gruesome pseudomedical experiments at the Auschwitz death camp. He retrieved them and took them to Argentina in 1949, according to a consultant to the magazine.
The Shiite leader Nabih Berri freed one of the 40 American hostages in Beirut and proposed that the others be placed in the custody of a third party until Israel freed 735 Lebanese and Palestinian detainees. Mr. Berri said the 39 Americans could be sent to a Western embassy in Beirut or handed over to Syria. There were indications that France was considering making its embassy available.
President Reagan attends a National Security Planning Group meeting regarding the potential release of hostages to an embassy in Syria or Beirut. The U.S. was said to be exploring the possibility of the offer by the Shiite militia leader, Nabih Berri, to move the American hostages to a Western embassy there or to a third country such as Syria.
Finnish U.N. troops staged a mock attack on 11 members of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia three weeks ago to help them defect to the Shia Amal movement, U.N. sources said in Tel Aviv. The incident touched off an international furor after the militia took 21 Finnish peacekeeping soldiers hostage, demanding that the 11 defectors be returned. The Finns were freed eight days later, and the militia said it was convinced that the 11 men-all Shias-had defected. The sources said the purpose of the mock attack was to prevent militia retribution against the defectors’ families.
Indian Government and airline officials announced today that they were putting new measures into effect aimed at forestalling terrorist attacks on airports and airliners. The steps include more rigorous rules for checking baggage. A civil aviation official here said that from now on all passengers on domestic flights would have to personally identify their luggage before it could be placed aboard an aircraft. The requirement is currently in effect for flights to the Punjab, the northern region where most of the country’s Sikhs live.
The Sri Lanka Government and Tamil separatist political and guerrilla groups are to hold talks in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, a Cabinet spokesman said today. The spokesman, Information Minister Anandatissa de Alwis, said the Cabinet had agreed that preliminary talks should begin in the next few days. He said a Government team would leave shortly for the Bhutanese capital, Thimphu. He declined to give the date of the meeting. A spokesman for the Tamil United Liberation Front, the main political party representing the minority Tamils, said representatives of his party and from five major guerrilla groups would attend the talks. The organization and the guerrillas are seeking a separate Tamil state in north and east Sri Lanka. The demand has resulted in violent clashes between the Tamils and the majority Sinhalese. The Government said the guerrilla groups had agreed last week to stop fighting. The cease-fire has held so far except for a clash on Monday between a band of guerrillas, described by the Government as a splinter group, and soldiers.
The two non-communist elements of the Cambodian resistance announced that they will form a joint military command to direct their guerrilla war against Vietnamese occupation forces. The Khmer People’s National Liberation Front and the forces of Prince Norodom Sihanouk appointed a committee to study a command structure and to name a single commander for the forces, which will conduct coordinated operations but maintain distinct units. Spokesmen for the two groups said in Bangkok that there is no plan to bring the third resistance element, the Communist Khmer Rouge, under the joint command.
China accused Vietnam of almost daily bombardments across their border, saying Vietnamese forces launched 90 “acts of aggression” in the first half of June. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman rejected suggestions of an easing of tensions between the Communist neighbors, who fought a bitter border war in 1979. He added that only with Vietnam’s withdrawal from Cambodia would Sino-Vietnamese relations improve.
A Soviet research ship left Manila without releasing 37 Vietnamese refugees it picked up from a boat adrift in the South China Sea, relief and shipping sources said. The Philippine Foreign Ministry earlier agreed to a U.S. request for temporary asylum for the refugees rescued by the Soviet vessel M-S Poisk on June 15. The Soviet vessel had requested permission from the Philippine government to release the “boat people” but then sailed with them still aboard.
After years of jealously guarding their water, Canadians, who possess more than one-fifth of the world’s fresh, usable supplies, are beginning to consider projects to sell it to Americans. “On the whole I find more interest in the idea than opposition,” Robert Bourassa, leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, said in an interview here. Mr. Bourassa is backing at least the feasibility study of a $100 billion plan to turn James Bay into a freshwater lake by means of an enormous dike and then shipping the water south to the Great Lakes. From there it would be piped to arid western Canada and the southwestern United States.
Three new witnesses testified that a Salvadoran Army captain took part in the killing of two American farm advisers and the head of the Salvadoran land-redistribution agency in 1981, according to a senior official of the United States Embassy. The official said the witnesses testified that the captain, Eduardo Alfonso Avila, told them he had helped plan the shooting, provided the murder weapons and then watched as two national guardsmen killed the three men in a San Salvador hotel.
President Jose Napoleon Duarte said today that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had met with him regarding the killing of four American marines and nine other people last week. Mr. Duarte said at a news conference that a special Salvadoran police unit that was trained by the F.B.I. last year had been assigned to find the rebel gunmen who killed the 13 in a cafe.
An outbreak of cholera in refugee camps in northwestern Somalia is killing up to 19 people a day, most of them children, Radio Mogadishu said. The broadcast quoted Ahmed Sharif Abass of the Somali Health Ministry as saying that a total of 6,210 cases of cholera have been reported, with the disease spreading to other districts. Abass said 1,262 deaths have been reported.
Zimbabwe’s white minority goes to the polls today to elect 20 members of the next Parliament, which is expected to be the last with a guaranteed white presence. Two parties have candidates in the election, which will be followed July 1 by voting by the black majority to fill the other 80 seats. Zimbabwe’s 1980 independence constitution, which ended 90 years of white rule and a seven-year guerrilla war, reserves 20 seats for whites until 1990. But Prime Minister Robert Mugabe has made clear that he will introduce a one-party state as soon as possible.
Hand grenade attacks in black townships killed seven people today and explosions in Transkei, a so-called tribal homeland, set a huge fuel depot ablaze, knocked out a power station and cut off the capital’s water supply, the police said. The police said seven people were hurt in the black townships northeast of Johannesburg and that most of the casualties were men whose hands were blown off as they started to throw grenades into the homes of black policemen. The police said another explosion in the area, possibly caused by a limpet mine, killed an eighth man who was apparently planting the explosives, and damaged an electricity substation.
The tax revision plan would cost the Government a significant amount of revenue over 15 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The nonpartisan agency projected the effects of President Reagan’s proposal for 10 additional years. In doing so, it found that receipts from corporate taxes, as a portion of the gross national product, would drop between the years 1990 and 2000 as some provisions, especially the depreciation rules, were phased in and others were phased out.
President Reagan addresses the finalists in the competition to choose the first American teacher in space. “Principal” Ronald Reagan looked out over the 114 semifinalists in the teacher-in-space program gathered in the East Room of the White House and declared: “Class will come to order.” President Reagan told the teachers competing to be the first private citizen in space: “I also want to tell you that your shuttle doesn’t blast off for a while yet, so there’s still time to back out.” The astronaut candidates, selected from 11,000 applicants, arrived in Washington on Saturday for 5 ½ days of lectures, seminars and interviews before a review panel that will choose 10 finalists. That group will go to Johnson Space Center in Houston for more training, testing and evaluation, then return to Washington to meet with space agency officials. The teacher-astronaut will be named around July 23. “For the lucky one who does go up, I have only one assignment,” the President said. “Take notes, there will be a quiz afterward.”
An easing of fuel economy standards, announced by the Environmental Protection Agency, appears to end the prospect of more than $200 million in fines against General Motors and Ford. E.P.A. officials said the action would bring all American auto makers into compliance with Federal fuel economy laws.
Government neutrality on religion was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court for the second time this month. The Justices, 8 to 1, invalidated a Connecticut law that gave employees an unqualified right not to work on their chosen Sabbath.
Judicial observers said the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision on work on the Sabbath was likely to be small. About 30 states, including New York and New Jersey, have laws or regulations requiring employers to accommodate Sabbath observers in some way, but only the Connecticut law made the obligation absolute and unqualified.
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee voted 4 to 1 for a proposed constitutional amendment permitting individual or group silent prayer in public schools. The legislation approved by the Constitution subcommittee went to the full Judiciary Committee. Before the measure can be added to the Constitution, it must be ratified by legislatures of 38 states within seven years. The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 on June 4 that public schools may not set aside daily moments of silence if students are told that prayer is one possible activity during the silence.
The Supreme Court, in a libel ruling, made it easier for some private individuals to recover damages. The Court ruled, 5 to 4, that a plaintiff who is not a public figure may recover a full range of damages when a libel involves only private interests and is of no “public concern.”
The State Department, responding to a shooting incident and a rising tide of terrorism worldwide, inaugurated a series of new security regulations and weighed taking still further action. Starting Wednesday, all employees, visitors and reporters had to pass through metal detectors at the three pedestrian entrances and had to wear their identification cards at all times in the building. The department said that further measures are also under consideration, involving the hundreds of employee cars that are parked daily in the building’s basement garage. The department estimates that 10,000 people use the building daily.
A long delayed bill authorizing the construction of federal water projects costing billions of dollars and requiring cost-sharing by states and local governments was approved by the House Public Works Committee. The bill, approved by voice vote, would end a nearly decade-long stalemate that has blocked the authorization of new flood control, navigation and other water resources projects for construction by the Army Corps of Engineers. The 403-page bill is believed to be the largest water project bill in history, with estimates for the ultimate cost of hundreds of projects it would authorize ranging from $11 billion to $20 billion.
Hostesses handed out white carnations and the San Francisco Boys Choir sang a specially written song of peace as this city celebrated the signing of the United Nations Charter here 40 years ago today. At the elegant Beaux-Arts Herbst Theater, Mayor Dianne Feinstein tried to recapture a bit of the spirit present on the stage there when delegates from 50 nations signed what Senator Tom Connally of Texas then called “the greatest document of its kind that has ever been formulated.” The flags of those nations decorated the stage just as they did 40 years ago when President Harry Truman stood before the delegates and said, “Oh, what a great day this can be in history.” Girl and boy scouts, accompanied by a brass quintet, solemnly carried onto the stage the flags of the 109 countries that have since joined the world body. A vintage black and white film relived the highlights of those heady 62 days in the spring of 1945 when delegates hammered out the historic document that vowed to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.
The California Board of Prison Terms today denied parole to Sirhan Sirhan, rejecting his seventh bid for freedom after serving 17 years for assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy. At the end of a daylong hearing, the board rejected Mr. Sirhan’s request for a parole date and said he could apply again in two years. Mr. Sirhan showed no immediate anger at the decision, though he had pleaded intensely with the board to allow him to return to “a quiet life” in his native Palestine.
A brain-damaged woman, whose parents said she was raped at a convalescent home, was listed in good condition today, a day after doctors completed an abortion on her. Laura Eldridge, 35 years old, was 20 weeks pregnant when she had the abortion at the University of California-Irvine Medical Center. Her parents won court approval for the procedure because the woman was unable to give her consent. They said the pregnancy would endanger her life and that the fetus was probably damaged by medication she had received. Miss Eldridge, who had been in intensive care because of complications that developed during the abortion, was moved to a regular hospital room. The woman, who was once married and healthy and has an 11-year-old son, now weighs only 80 pounds and has had pneumonia for the past year. Doctors believe she may have Huntington’s chorea or another type of nervous disorder. She is unable to speak.
A chemical spill and fire at a California pesticide plant today released a 300-foot cloud of black vapor that sickened 115 people and forced the evacuation of 2,000 residents of two desert communities. The fire at the Wilbur-Ellis Company ignited tons of pesticides inside the plant. At least 115 people were treated for nausea, dizziness and vomiting. All 1,000 residents of Thermal fled shortly after the blaze erupted. Hours later, a wind shift prompted the evacuation of 1,000 people from a community near Coachella, said Capt. Stephanie Black of the Riverside County Fire Department. About 1,500 evacuees were housed at a Red Cross shelter set up at a fairgrounds in the 106-degree heat.
A range fire that scorched 29,000 acres in southeast Oregon burned out of control, while summer snow covering a Utah forest fire allowed firefighters an overnight break. In Montana, cool, damp weather helped contain a fire that had threatened homes. An inch of snow reduced the fire feeding on insect-damaged pines in northeastern Utah to a few smoldering hot spots. A fire line was 75% complete around the blaze, which has burned 4,500 acres near the Wyoming border in the Ashley National Forest, authorities said.
New tailor-made antibodies, the hoped-for “magic bullet” of modern medicine, may not be as effective against some cancers as thought because the cancers can change to avoid detection, two groups of scientists reported. Researchers found certain cancers changed their biologic makeup to escape detection by the specially designed proteins, called monoclonal antibodies. The research was conducted by the National Cancer Institute and the Stanford University School of Medicine. The findings were reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The nation could lose half its minority teachers unless it takes immediate steps to steer more minority children into rigorous academic courses, the president of the National Education Association said. Mary Hatwood Futrell decried the high failure rates for blacks and other minorities on tests that California, Florida and many other states use to screen new teachers. But she said the tests “are a reality,” and the solution is to give minorities “a more solid academic background.” Futrell spoke at a news conference in Washington before her union’s annual convention, which opens Friday.
A Soviet couple, in a plea accord, acknowledged plotting to commit espionage for Moscow in return for reduced sentences. The couple, Nikolay and Svetlana Ogorodnikov, have been on trial in Los Angeles on charges of spying with an FBI agent, Richard W. Miller.
Philadelphia pressed plans to rebuild before Christmas 61 row houses that burned down last month after the police bombed a radical group’s house. Meanwhile, the former residents charge that the approved designs are inferior and that the city is not seeking their opinions.
In Clearwater (Florida State League), after a disputed call at first base, Phillies organist Wilbur Snapp is ejected by the first base umpire for playing “Three Blind Mice.”
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Minnesota’s Ken Schrom one-hits Kansas City, but needs a 2-run single from Roy Smalley in the bottom of the 9th to secure the 2–1 victory. Although Schrom (7–5) had only allowed a one-out single to Willie Wilson in the third, he was trailing by 1–0 going into the ninth. Willie Wilson’s 3rd-inning single is the only Royals hit.
For the second day in a row, the Angels use the long ball to beat the Indians, winning 10–6, as Reggie Jackson contributes a grand slam. It is Reggie’s 11th bases-loaded homer. It’s the second night in a row with a grand slam for the Angels: Rupert Jones hit a walk-off slam last night to end the game. Luis Sanchez (1–0) got the win in relief.
The Yankees edge the Orioles, 4–3, with 2 runs in the 9th. The O’s help with two errors by Lenn Sakata in the frame. The miscues allowed the Yankees to complete a ninth-inning comeback when Bobby Meacham hit a two-run single. For the 10th time in his career, Rickey Henderson steals 4 bases. The last Yankee to do it was Frank Gilhooley, in 1916.
Milwaukee’s Ted Simmons snapped a 4–4 tie with a home run in the eighth inning, and the Brewers edged the Blue Jays, 5–4. Ben Oglivie hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning. Simmons’s homer came off an 0–2 pitch from Doyle Alexander (7–4) and helped snap Milwaukee’s three-game losing streak.
The Tigers blanked the Red Sox, 3–0. Kirk Gibson drove in two runs with his 15th homer and a single. Randy O’Neal, recalled from the minors on June 2, improved his record to 3–1. O’Neal allowed only five hits, struck out five and walked four on a rainy night before yielding in the eighth to Willie Hernandez, who gained his 16th save.
Rob Picciolo’s three-run double and Dave Kingman’s 18th home run of the season highlighted a six-run third inning, as the Oakland A’s crushed the White Sox, 10–0. Don Sutton pitched a four-hitter. Sutton (7–5) walked three and struck out two in picking up his 286th career victory. He passed Robin Roberts and moved into 19th place on the career list.
Barry Bonnell drew a bases-loaded walk from Dave Stewart with none out in the 10th inning to give the Mariners their sixth straight triumph, topping the Rangers, 5–4. Bonnell’s walk forced in Dave Henderson, who led off the inning with a single. Stewart (0–4) then surrendered a single to Jim Presley to send Henderson to third, and intentionally walked Ken Phelps to load the bases.
On a sunny afternoon before 35,876 cheering fans in Wrigley Field, the Chicago Cubs finally did it today: The Cubs beat the Mets, 7–3, ending a club-record-tying losing streak at 13 games, their longest loss streak since 1944 and 1982. Keith Moreland and Ryne Sandberg hit late home runs off Roger McDowell. They’ll lose 14 in 1997.
Rick Reuschel, making a comeback after three seasons with arm problems, stopped the Montreal Expos, 11–2, tonight as the Pirates snapped a four-game losing streak. Pittsburgh had eight doubles in the game and scored six runs in the second inning. The Expos remained one-half game ahead of the Cardinals, who also lost, in the National League East. Reuschel, improving his record to 4–1, scattered nine hits. Bothered by arm problems since 1982, he was released by the Chicago Cubs after a 5–5 season in 1984 and was signed by the Pirates in spring training. He was called up from Hawaii after posting a 6–2 record there.
The Reds downed the Giants, 6–4. Player-manager Pete Rose knows that a good beginning often leads to a happy ending, so he was pleased to see Gary Redus hit the first pitch of the game for a home run at Riverfront Stadium. Things got no better for San Francisco, which also allowed Eddie Milner to knock in three more runs with a pair of singles as the Giants lost their sixth in a row. “Milner got the clutch hits, and Gary got us off good in the first inning,” Rose said. “You can’t start any better than 1–0 after the first pitch, can you?” Dave Parker added a solo homer for the Reds to help offset consecutive solo homers in the eighth by the Giants’ Bob Brenly and Chris Brown.
Ozzie Virgil slammed a two-run homer in the sixth inning to help the Phillies extend their winning streak to five games with a 6–4 victory over the Cardinals at Philadelphia. John Denny, who pitched the first six innings, got the victory to even his record at 5–5. Don Carman blanked the Cardinals for two innings and Kent Tekulve relieved in the ninth to earn his sixth save. Danny Cox (9–3) took the loss.
Albert Hall lined a pinch-hit, run-scoring triple in the 11th inning to lead Atlanta past the Astros, 3–1. Hall’s hit drove in Glenn Hubbard, who led off the inning with a single off Dave Smith (4–3). Hall then scored on Claudell Washington’s sacrifice fly to center off Jeff Calhoun, who came on in relief of Smith. Jeff Dedmon (4–0) was the winner in relief, going two innings and giving up one hit. Bruce Sutter pitched the final inning to earn his 13th save.
Tim Flannery and Steve Garvey hit three-run homers, and LaMarr Hoyt gained his eighth straight victory as San Diego beat Los Angeles, 10–4. Pedro Guerrero tied a National League record with his 14th home run in the month of June, a blast leading off the fourth inning. It was Guerrero’s 18th homer of the year, which tied him with Oakland’s Dave Kingman for the major league lead. After the Dodgers had taken a 2–0 lead off Hoyt (10–4) in the second, the Padres got five runs in their half off Orel Hershiser (7–2), who had shut them out twice earlier this season.
Detroit Tigers 3, Boston Red Sox 0
Cleveland Indians 6, California Angels 10
New York Mets 3, Chicago Cubs 7
San Francisco Giants 4, Cincinnati Reds 6
Atlanta Braves 3, Houston Astros 1
Kansas City Royals 1, Minnesota Twins 2
Baltimore Orioles 3, New York Yankees 4
Chicago White Sox 0, Oakland Athletics 10
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Philadelphia Phillies 6
Montreal Expos 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 11
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, San Diego Padres 10
Texas Rangers 4, Seattle Mariners 5
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Toronto Blue Jays 4
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Alexandre Bolduc, Canadian NHL centre (Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix-Arizona Coyotes), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Kathrin Ress, Italian WNBA forward (Minnesota Lynx), in Salorno, Italy.
Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader, in Chamdo County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
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