The Supreme Soviet is expected to name Communist Party leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev as president when it meets Tuesday in Moscow. Gorbachev was named party chief last March, succeeding the late Konstantin U. Chernenko, but he did not assume Chernenko’s title as chief of state at the time. The session of the Supreme Soviet (the nominal parliament), which will follow a meeting today of the party’s Central Committee, may endorse other changes in the Kremlin leadership, diplomats said.
A curb on Soviet-U.S. exchanges of nonmilitary scientific information is being urged in light of antimissile research programs in both countries. The pressure has touched off a debate. Opponents of such meetings say Soviet scientists could gain not only ideas for exotic weaponry but state secrets as well. The exchanges revolve around nonmilitary matters and are limited to so-called pure, or theoretical, science, according to experts in the United States and Europe. But a debate is intensifying over whether the meetings should be sharply curtailed. Many of these Russian and American scientists work in military laboratories and their meetings are occurring at a time when both nations are searching for powerful space weapons. These weapons have yet to be perfected and will almost certainly depend for their success on future developments in theoretical science.
Irish air traffic controllers recorded “a dull bang, a gushing noise and finally a human shriek,” seconds before an Air-India jumbo jetliner went down in the Atlantic, killing all 329 aboard, the London Observer newspaper reported. But investigators have so far found no evidence to confirm that a bomb caused the June 23 crash and are “moving toward” the theory that the cause was aircraft failure or pilot error, it said. However, the Press Trust of India reported from London that metal fragments were found in the bodies of some of the victims, strenghtening suspicions of a bomb blast.
Lech Walesa told thousands of cheering churchgoers in Gdansk today that workers ”have the right to protest,” but he avoided a direct endorsement of a one-hour general strike on Monday. Mr. Walesa, the founder of Solidarity, is under investigation for illegal union activities. He said he would not publicly back the strike called to protest food price hikes because a prosecutor in Gdansk warned him to stop issuing anti-Government statements. Mr. Walesa, the 41-year-old winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, spoke to about 10,000 people over loudspeakers from the steps of St. Brygida’s Church in Gdansk after a mass.
Police investigating a suspected Irish Republican Army plot to bomb 12 British seaside resorts discovered that one of the explosions was set to coincide with a visit by Queen Elizabeth II, the Mail of London newspaper reported. It said that one of the suspected IRA bombs was to be planted in Brighton and set to explode July 19, the day the queen was scheduled to visit. Officials refused to comment on the report. Seven people are to appear in court today on bomb conspiracy charges linked to the alleged IRA plot.
The 39 remaining U.S. hostages from the TWA flight were freed by their Lebanese Shiite captors in Beirut, then driven to Damascus in a Red Cross convoy, where the jubilant group boarded a flight for Frankfurt on their way home. They were released under an arrangement mediated by Syria.
The final obstacle to the release of the hostages was removed Saturday night when the Reagan Administration accepted a proposal by Syria to issue an old United States policy statement on Lebanon, a senior Administration official said. The official said Syria proposed issuance of the policy statement as a means of inducing the Shiite captors to free the Americans. The statement, read by a State Department spokesman to reporters, said in part that the United States “reaffirms its longstanding support for Lebanon.”
President Reagan makes an address to the nation announcing the release of the American hostages from TWA flight 847. The hostages’ release was welcomed by President Reagan in a television speech from the Oval Office. He said the United States “will not rest until justice is done” in Beirut, and urged Arab nations to assist in gaining the freedom of seven Americans reported missing or abducted in Lebanon over the last 15 months.
The Israeli Cabinet took no decision on when to release 735 Lebanese and Palestinian detainees whose freedom was the principal demand of the captors of the American hostages, but it did discuss the hostages’ release, the Cabinet secretary said.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said President Reagan had been ”going around with a cap in his hand begging” for help in solving the Beirut hostage crisis, Iran’s official press agency said today. ”Although Washington has threatened to resort to force in its dealing with the captors of a group of American passengers, the U.S. President has been going around with a cap in his hand begging this and that person here and there throughout the world for his mediation in solving the hostage issue,” the Ayatollah was quoted as saying.
Investigators said today that nothing in the examination of wreckage recovered so far from the Air-India jetliner that crashed off Ireland last week has confirmed the initial suspicion that the plane went down because of a bomb explosion. ”We’re still at the point where we have an airplane that went into the water and no explanation of why,” John Young, the head of the American team helping India with the investigation, said. ”We are quickly running out of things to look at.” About four tons of wreckage from the Boeing 747 has been recovered, most of it from the plane’s interior. The material includes none of the main fuselage, which is believed to lie in more than 6,000 feet of water. According to unofficial reports about the post-mortems on the 131 victims found last week, there has been no evidence of damage to the bodies such as burns or shrapnel that would support the bomb theory. The evidence gathered to date suggests that the plane was largely intact when it hit the ocean and that it had suffered a sudden severe loss of pressure, investigators say.
A senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party’s rectification commission delivered a strong warning today against what he called ”money worship” and ”spiritual pollution,” regarded as evils of capitalist societies. The warning by Bo Yibo, deputy chairman of the Central Commission for Guiding Party Consolidation, was published on the front page of all major newspapers. Mr. Bo’s statement was the latest in a series of admonitions by Communist leaders, who say that economic policies designed to stimulate growth also have given rise to cheating, fraud and speculation among party members. ”The outlook of ‘seeing only money,’ and the ‘money worship’ ideological trend are corrupting some of our people,” Mr. Bo was quoted as saying.
No arrests have been made in the assassination of the President of Palau, an official of the Pacific island chain said today. He said a mistaken report of an arrest had apparently stemmed from confusion over an unrelated investigation.
Mexico announced 27 arrests in what the nation’s attorney general said was a drug-trafficking network reaching into the United States. Among those held was Jaime Herrera Herrera, identified as the son of one of Mexico’s major drug traffickers, and Hector Quintanilla Gonzalez, former regional coordinator for the government’s anti-drug campaign. The government said the network had operations in several Mexican states, producing marijuana and opium for sale, and also received cocaine from Colombia.
The Prime Minister of the tiny Caribbean nation of Dominica faces the voters Monday after an election campaign in which her opponent criticized what he called her ”slavish” ties to the United States. Prime Minister Eugenia Charles, whose backing for the invasion of neighboring Grenada thrust her into the international spotlight in 1983, is trying to win a second five-year term. The expectation here is that Miss Charles, a 66-year-old lawyer, will win. But the contest is considered close in several parts of the country. Her main opponents are a coalition of groups that contributed to their own defeat five years ago by splitting the vote.
The casualty toll from a rightist guerrilla attack on a civilian convoy in southern Mozambique rose to 40 dead and 95 wounded, the official news agency AIM said. The Mozambique National Resistance guerrillas machine-gunned the convoy of about 100 vehicles Saturday at Patequei, about 30 miles north of Maputo, survivors said. It was the third attack of its kind in two weeks in a war that will not go away. The conflict, diplomats and other analysts said, is paralyzing a nation torn by successive conflicts for more than two decades, where sovereignty is so eroded so that the government controls little more than cities and outlying outposts. It is a war, one Western diplomat said, that seems stalemated, the rebels unable to penetrate the cities and government forces unable to extend their writ into the countryside of this nation lying along the Indian Ocean in southern Africa.
Prime Minister Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe said that if reelected, he will abolish the 20 seats in Parliament reserved for whites. Addressing a final rally before the southern African nation’s black majority begins two days of voting today, Mugabe responded to the reelection last week of former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, a white secessionist, in the strongest terms he has used on the subject of white representation. “We have never accepted that only 32,000 voters can be entitled to 20 seats in Parliament,” he said. “We will not live with that indignity for much longer.” Mr. Mugabe said there could never be an alliance between Mr. Smith’s supporters and Zimbabwe’s black majority. He told up to 200,000 supporters that it would now be ”very hard going for the racists of this country.” Mr. Smith was Prime Minister of the country when it was known as Rhodesia. ”What came out is that the enemy of yesterday is still today’s enemy,” he said at a rally on the eve of voting for blacks Monday and Tuesday, the second stage of Zimbabwe’s first general election since independence in 1980.
South African troops killed 16 South-West African guerrillas in Angola, in another clash with the rebels, officials in Johannesburg announced. General Constand Viljoen, commmander of the South African armed forces, had pledged that his troops would leave Angola on Sunday. However, the withdrawal was delayed by renewed fighting and the seizure of arms caches, South African officers said. The general issued the statement in Windhoek, capital of South-West Africa, a territory governed by South Africa and is widely known as Namibia. Rebels have been fighting to end white control of the territory for 19 years.
Lead concentrations in gasoline will take another step down today, but the government said drivers should not worry that their engines will knock or their valves will wear out as a result. The lower concentration of lead is far above the level needed to prevent valve damage, Environmental Protection Agency officials said. Knocking, or pinging, depends on octane rating, experts said, and refiners expect to maintain the same octane level.
President Reagan attends a private dinner with Secretary of State George Shultz and their families.
The union representing 4,500 shipbuilders at Bath Iron Works in Maine voted overwhelmingly to reject the company’s latest contract proposal for a three-year wage freeze. Union leaders said picket lines would go up at the company’s shipyards in Bath, Brunswick and Portland at midnight. Bath has a $322-million Navy contract to build the first of a class of guided-missile destroyers that may be the Navy’s last major shipbuilding project of the century. Company spokesman Jim McGregor said no new negotiations are scheduled.
A tentative agreement was reached between United Auto Workers representatives and the LTV Corp.’s Aerospace & Defense Division about four hours after 3,600 workers walked off the job. Picket signs had gone up as planned at LTV’s Dallas defense plant and another facility in nearby Grand Prairie. Union spokesman David Perdue said the company “met most of our demands.” The union has wanted LTV to abolish a two-tiered wage scale that lets the company hire new workers at lower wages than called for in the old contract.
Iowans would advise General Motors to take its proposed Saturn plant elsewhere if paying higher property taxes was the only way to lure the project to Iowa, a newspaper poll said. Nine out of 10 Iowans want the huge auto maker to locate its new plant in their state, the Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll said. However, only 14% of those polled said they are willing to pay a bigger tax bill for the plant. Fewer than 20% of the respondents would be in favor of relaxing environmental standards to meet GM’s needs, the poll said.
Most drivers in Illinois and Michigan must wear seat belts or face fines beginning today under laws welcomed by law enforcement, insurance, medical and government officials and grumbled about by some motorists. New York and New Jersey already have such laws, and at least six other states have passed similar measures. Illinois Governor James R. Thompson said public safety issues outweigh arguments that the seat-belt law infringes on personal freedoms. But Illinois state Rep. Sam Vinson, an opponent, said such an argument means “there will be nothing the government can’t regulate because everything affects our health.”
A 25-year-old man intent on “putting the draft on trial” led a march on the state Capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas, the day before he was to go on trial for refusing to register for the draft. “Resistance is in the greatest tradition of this country,” Paul Jacob told a rally of about 40 supporters. Indicted in September, 1982, Jacob has been free on a $75,000 property bond signed by his parents.
Dr. James Oleske pulled a plush rabbit from the pocket of his lab coat, but was unable to quiet his 4-year-old patient. Instead, Dr. Oleske turned the restive boy from his back to his stomach and prescribed Valium as a sedative. ”See you, old buddy,” Dr. Oleske said, leaving the hospital room with a salute and a strained smile. Then he approached a staff physician. ”Resuscitate,” Dr. Oleske said, ”but no respirator.” The child was dying of AIDS, the viral disease that destroys the immune system of both its adult and its child victims. Last fall the boy had been holding his own, walking and talking, until the virus attacked his central nervous system. Now, he lay at Children’s Hospital in Newark, mute but for intermittent weeping, immobile but for spasmodic movements in his stiffened legs. He is 1 of the about 600 children nationwide who health experts estimate have either AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or preliminary symptoms of the disorder. More than 300 are in the New York area, most born to mothers who are intravenous drug users.
California vineyards are threatened by a tiny insect, Phylloxera vastatrix, that devastated vineyards in Europe and California 100 years ago. The pest has reappeared in Monterey County vineyards, which are planted almost entirely in rootstock unresistant to the insect. Scientists have also found a new Phylloxera hybrid that destroys rootstock that has resisted the bug in the past. The hybrid was found in the Napa Valley.
Competency tests for new teachers were endorsed Mary H. Futrell, president of the National Education Association, whose membership includes 1.7 million teachers. Mrs. Futrell told 7,000 delegates representing teachers from the 50 states at the union’s annual meeting in Washington that she would sponsor a resolution supporting the tests.
Tens of thousands of people followed a lavender stripe down New York’s Fifth Avenue yesterday as they cheered, chanted and danced in the 16th annual Lesbian/ Gay Pride Day parade. Many of the marchers carried placards urging ”Gay/Lesbian Vote ’85,” and two of the Democratic candidates for mayor – Mayor Koch and City Council President Carol Bellamy -joined the parade. The police said hundreds of thousands viewed the parade, which went down Fifth Avenue to Washington Square Park and then wound its way through Greenwich Village to a rally at Christopher and West Streets.
A volleyball game for charity, featuring professional football players, failed to take place as scheduled today and the state of Georgia sued two of its promoters. The two, Scott Davis, a former computer graphics salesman, and Clarence Scott, a former defensive back for the Cleveland Browns, had formed a company called National Sports Charities to stage the event, which they said would raise money for handicapped children. The company raised $65,000 through ticket and advertising sales. But the Georgia Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs said the company violated the state professional fund-raiser’s act by failing to disclose that only 20 percent of its contributions would go to charity. Under state law a group qualifying as a charity must give 70 percent of the receipts to charity and file regular financial statements with the secretary of state’s office. Mr. Scott also filed suit against Mr. Davis, saying he was misled about the purpose of the group, which sold tickets to the volleyball contest.
An unemployed Los Angeles parishioner who was apparently distraught over his divorce opened fire today during services at a Baptist church in Chinatown, killing a deacon and seriously wounding a minister in front of hundreds of worshipers, the authorities said. The gunman, identified as Dang Bong Jou, 46 years old, was armed with a semiautomatic .45-caliber pistol, officials said.
A cut in funds for military hospitals has been recommended to the Defense Secretary by a panel of health experts if the military services do not provide better evaluations of wartime and peacetime medical requirements. The panel was appointed by the Defense Department at the request of Congress.
Fire that began in heavy brush roared through a maze of canyons in San Diego, California today, destroying at least 53 houses and sending hundreds of panicked residents fleeing, firefighters said. Mayor Roger Hedgecock asked Governor George Deukmejian to declare the city’s Normal Heights area a disaster zone. The 300-acre fire in the fashionable neighborhood was one of seven blazes that charred more than 30,000 acres today across the state. Officials estimated the damage from the Normal Heights fire at least $5 million.
Unseasonably cool temperatures reached across southern Texas and Arkansas for the fourth straight day, tumbling records in at least 19 cities. Chilly early morning lows in the 60s were common over the southern Plains and readings dropped into the 40s across the northern Plains to the northern Great Lakes. Showers and thundershowers were scattered from Arkansas across the Tennessee Valley and the Carolinas to Florida. Partly cloudy skies extended from the central Plains across the central and southern Rockies.
Revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical “The King & I” closes at Broadway Theater, NYC, after 191 performances.
U.S. Senior Open Men’s Golf, Edgewood Tahore Golf Club: Miller Barber wins by 4 strokes from Roberto De Vincenzo for back-to-back Senior Open titles.
Major League Baseball:
Mike Boddicker scattered eight hits, and Cal Ripken and Gary Roenicke drove in runs with first-inning singles as Baltimore defeated Boston, 3–0. Boddicker (8–7), the American League’s only 20-game winner last season, struck out six and walked one in pitching his first shutout. Bobby Ojeda (4–3), the Boston starter, was the loser.
Cleveland beats Seattle, 7–3, to snap the Mariners’ club-record 9-game winning streak. Carmen Castillo hit a three-run homer and scored twice to lead Cleveland. Castillo, batting .122 entering the game, doubled and scored in the third inning and then belted his first home run in the fourth. Reliever Rich Thompson (2–2) held Seattle to three hits and one run in four and two-thirds innings. Tom Waddell patched the final two and one-third innings to earn his ninth save.
The Yankees watched the Milwaukee Brewers scatter 14 hits around Yankee Stadium and suffered their second straight setback, a 7–5 loss in which their starting pitcher, Bob Shirley, failed to make it through the second inning.
Toronto hit three homers, but it was a run-scoring double by Damaso Garcia that lifted the Blue Jays to a 6–5 victory over the Detroit Tigers today. Aurelio Lopez, the third of four Tiger pitchers, had two outs in the eighth when Tony Fernandez reached on an infield single. A wild pickoff attempt by Lopez (1–5) allowed Fernandez to go to third, and he came around to score on Garcia’s double down the left-field line. The deciding run was unearned.
Mark Gubicza and Dan Quisenberry combined on a four-hitter, and Frank White made two outstanding defensive plays and scored a run as Kansas City edged California, 3–1. Gubicza (6–4), who left after eight innings with a strained thigh muscle, struck out seven and walked just one. Quisenberry got the last three outs for his 14th save despite giving up Ruppert Jones’s 11th home run to open the California ninth. The Angels announced after the game that Gary Pettis, their center fielder, would be sidelined indefinitely with a severely sprained left wrist. Pettis suffered the injury as he dived for a line drive off the bat of Lonnie Smith that fell in for a run-scoring triple.
The Twins defeated the White Sox, 4–3. Roy Smalley’s two-run double keyed a three-run seventh inning as Minnesota completed a sweep of the three-game series with Chicago. Tom Seaver (7–6), who was seeking his 296th career victory, took the loss. It was the fourth straight victory for the Twins, while the White Sox, suffering their fifth straight defeat, lost for the ninth time in 10 games. John Butcher (5–7) was the winning pitcher, snapping a personal five-game losing streak. Ron Davis, the third Minnesota pitcher, got the last two outs for his ninth save.
Dave Kingman hit his 19th home run, Dwayne Murphy hit a two-run shot and Mike Heath drove in three runs as Oakland beat Texas, 7–4. Kingman’s clout gave him the American League lead in homers. Steve McCatty (4–3), the Oakland starter, gave up four hits in six and one-third innings. Jay Howell, the third Oakland pitcher, worked the final one and one-third innings for his 16th save. Charlie Hough (5–10) lost his career-high sixth game in a row. He lasted five and two-thirds innings, giving up six runs, five of them earned, on nine hits and a walk.
In his final at bat of the month, Pedro Guerrero delivers a 2-run home run off Bruce Sutter to give the Dodgers a 4–3 win over the Braves. It is Guerrero’s 15th home run in June (19th overall), tying the Major League record. Guerrero also tied the major-league home run record for June set by Babe Ruth in 1930 and tied by Bob Johnson and Roger Maris in 1961. Ken Landreaux singled with one out in the ninth and Guerrero followed with his home run.
Neither angry words by manager Dave Johnson nor heat by Dwight Gooden spared the Mets today as they lost for the fifth straight time, and this one was a downer: The St. Louis Cardinals played Gooden to a 1–1 tie in eight innings and then beat Jesse Orosco in the 11th. The score was 2–1, the seventh loss in the last eight games for the Mets, the 17th in their last 25, and they now have lost seven of their last eight series. They also fell into fourth place, five games behind the Cardinals, in the four-team race in the National League’s East, and that’s the farthest they have trailed anybody this season.
The Phillies edged the Expos, 3–2. Derrel Thomas and Tim Corcoran lined run-scoring singles in the ninth inning as Philadelphia rallied for two runs against Jeff Reardon, the Montreal relief ace. Reardon, who leads the major leagues with 22 saves, took over to start the ninth with the Expos leading 2–1. Glenn Wilson led off with a single and took third on a one-out single by Garry Maddox, with Maddox taking second on the throw to third. Greg Gross was intentionally walked to load the bases, and Corcoran followed with his tying single. Randy St. Claire replaced Reardon (2–3) and threw a pitch in the dirt, but Maddox was thrown out at the plate trying to score. Thomas then singled to center, driving home Gross with the go-ahead run.
Keith Moreland stroked a tiebreaking, two-run double that keyed a five-run eighth inning as Chicago pummeled Pittsburgh, 9–2. Scott Sanderson (4–3) pitched a five-hitter as the Cubs won for the fourth time in five games since ending their 13-game losing streak. With the score tied 2–2 in the eighth, singles by Billy Hatcher, Ryne Sandberg and Davey Lopes loaded the bases against Don Robinson (2–3). Moreland, who batted in three runs in the game, then drilled his double just inside third base to drive in two runs. Leon Durham was intentionally walked, and Richie Hebner’s grounder scored Lopes before Jody Davis looped a two-run single into right field. The five-run inning was the Cubs’ biggest of the season.
Pete Rose slapped a run-scoring single off Rich Gossage with one out in the ninth inning, giving Cincinnati a 3–2 victory over San Diego. Rose’s second hit of the day pulled him with 38 of tying Ty Cobb’s all-time hit mark of 4,191. Andy Hawkins (11–2), the San Diego starter, was the loser. Hawkins, who was 11–0 on June 9, has two losses and two no-decisions in his last four starts.
Vida Blue recorded his 2,000th career strikeout and the rookie Chris Brown scored three runs as San Francisco snapped a 10-game losing streak and gained a split of its doubleheader with Houston. Houston won the opener, 6–2, as Bill Doran hit a two-run homer to break a fifth-inning tie. The victory was Houston’s 12th straight over San Francisco dating back to last August 7. The opening-game loss gave the Giants their longest losing streak since they moved to San Francisco in 1958. In 1951, while still in New York, the Giants lost 11 straight. Blue (4–2) breezed to a 7–4 victory after being staked to a 7–1 lead after five innings. He gave up four runs on seven hits. In the opener, Mike Scott (6–4) overcame first-inning home runs by Dan Gladden and Jeff Leonard.
Baltimore Orioles 3, Boston Red Sox 0
Minnesota Twins 4, Chicago White Sox 3
Toronto Blue Jays 6, Detroit Tigers 5
California Angels 1, Kansas City Royals 3
Atlanta Braves 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Montreal Expos 2
Milwaukee Brewers 7, New York Yankees 5
Chicago Cubs 9, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Cincinnati Reds 3, San Diego Padres 2
Cleveland Indians 7, Seattle Mariners 3
Houston Astros 6, San Francisco Giants 2
Houston Astros 4, San Francisco Giants 7
New York Mets 1, St. Louis Cardinals 2
Oakland Athletics 7, Texas Rangers 4
Born:
Michael Phelps, American swimmer (record 23 Olympic gold medals, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016), in Baltimore, Maryland. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Phelps tied the record of eight medals of any color at a single Games, held by gymnast Alexander Dityatin, by winning six gold and two bronze medals. Four years later, when he won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, he broke fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz’s 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four gold and two silver medals, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won five gold medals and one silver. This made him the most successful athlete of the Games for the fourth Olympics in a row.
Trevor Ariza, NBA small forward and shooting guard (NBA Champions-Lakers, 2009; New York Knicks, Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Lakers, Houston Rockets, New Orleans Hornets, Washington Wizards, Phoenix Suns, Sacramento Kings, Portland Trailblazers, Miami Heat), in Miami, Florida.
Tim Crowder, NFL defensive end (Denver Broncos, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Tyler, Texas.
Pat Venditte, MLB pitcher (Oakland A’s, Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, Miami Marlins), in Omaha, Nebraska.
Died:
James Dewar, Canadian inventor and baker (Twinkie cake).
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