Pentagon officials said today that 16 geographical “choke points” referred to Tuesday by President Reagan included a wide variety of ocean transit areas, ranging from the Panama Canal to stretches of ocean that are hundreds of miles wide between Greenland and Iceland and Britain. Mr. Reagan cited these areas in his news conference in response to a question about the importance of United States bases in the Philippines. Mr. Reagan said that the bases would help the United States protect vital sea lanes that passed through choke points — straits or canals — that the Soviet Union would try to close in a conflict. He said that the basing by the Soviet military showed that the Soviet forces “have placed themselves to be able to intercept the 16 choke points in the world” through which supplies and raw materials are shipped to Western nations.
The Soviet Union is ready to destroy all its European SS-20 missiles on the spot with international inspectors looking on if the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will match the move, a leading Soviet arms control expert was quoted as saying. General Nikolai Chervov made the offer during an interview on West Berlin’s SFB television. West German defense experts who participated in the interview described the offer as the first detailed elaboration by a close aide to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev of Gorbachev’s latest disarmament and verification proposals.
A group of United States senators monitoring the arms negotiations in Geneva said today that the Soviet Union had failed to put specific, detailed elements of its latest arms proposal on the negotiating table in Geneva, a month after it was announced by the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev. “The nitty gritty hasn’t come to these tables yet,” Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, said. “The Soviets haven’t been willing to be pinned down yet on what they mean by their public statements.”
Secretary of State George P. Shultz will travel to four European countries next month and wind up in the Vatican on Easter for an audience with Pope John Paul II, the State Department announced. Over a nine-day period beginning March 21, Shultz plans to visit France, Turkey, Greece and Italy and will see government officials in those countries. In Paris, he will also address the international conference of the Stanford University Alumni Association. Shultz is on leave as a professor of management and public policy at Stanford’s business school.
A minor corporate battle that became a serious political crisis for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appeared to play itself out today as the shareholders of the Westland helicopter company finally approved a rescue bid by an American-led consortium. Voting by a margin of 2 to 1, the shareholders supported a proposal under which the Sikorsky division of United Technologies and Fiat of Italy would purchase about 25 percent of Westland’s shares for the equivalent of $55.4 million. This will enable Westland — Britain’s only helicopter manufacturer, which last year recorded losses of $137.5 million — to undertake a major financial restructuring. The Sikorsky-Fiat bid became a bone in British politics when it was actively opposed by a senior member of Mrs. Thatcher’s Cabinet, Michael Heseltine, who resigned as Minister of Defense, scattering charges that the Prime Minister had used underhanded means to defeat a rival rescue bid by a consortium of five European companies, two of them British.
A public uproar has erupted in Sweden over the use of data banks after it was reported that the abortions of 165,000 Swedish women were recorded in a secret register. The government’s Data Inspection Board said scientists at the Karolinska Institute had assembled the file on women who had legal abortions between 1966 and 1974. The institute, a world-famous research center that chooses the winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine, used the file in a study of the links between abortion and cancer. However, none of the women were told that their names were on the institute’s computers.
A Croatian war criminal was extradited to Yugoslavia to face mass murder charges dating from World War II. American officials said the man, Andrija Artukovic, now 86, had a role in the killing of 200,000 people while he was Minister of Interior and Minister of Justice in the Nazi puppet state of Croatia from 1941 to 1945. A former Justice Department lawyer who worked on the case said the toll might have exceeded 700,000. The victims were said to have included Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and others.
An American schoolteacher said today that she was detained for 24 hours by the Polish police and threatened with jail unless she agreed to leave the country within a week, leaving her Polish husband behind. The teacher, Donna Kersey, 32 years old, whose parents live in Ashland, Kentucky, said the action was taken after the expiration of her visa last November. She was freed today after United States consular officials intervened and she signed an agreement to leave Poland by February 20. Polish officials were not available for comment.
French policemen in five cities carried out simultaneous raids this morning on the homes of several dozen people of Middle Eastern origin and questioned them about a series of bombing attacks that wounded 21 people in Paris last week, a police spokesman said. The raids took place in Paris, Marseilles, Lyons, Metz and Tours. Agence France-Presse reported this evening that a total of 64 people were questioned, most of them students living in France. They included citizens of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, as well as five naturalized French citizens of Middle Eastern and North African origin.
Anatoly B. Shcharansky, describing his release from a Soviet labor camp, said that he flung himself into the snow and refused to continue on his way because his escorts had tried to confiscate a book of Psalms that his wife had sent him from Israel. “They took all my possessions from me” except the book, he said on Israeli television.”I said I would not leave the country without the Psalms, which helped me so much. I lay down in the snow and said, ‘Not another step.’ ” Mr. Shcharansky said the guards examined the book’s bindings, presumably for hidden material, and returned it. They kept other possessions, he said, but he did not specify what. Mr. Shcharansky, a Jewish activist who had been serving a 13-year sentence on conviction for treason, espionage and anti-Soviet agitation, was released Tuesday in West Berlin as part of an East-West exchange of prisoners and was flown to Israel. He and three other men accused by the Soviet-bloc countries as spies were exchanged for five people held by the West.
Yelena G. Bonner, still frail from heart surgery last month, sat at a table in the Regency Hotel ballroom on Monday and welcomed dinner guests who had come to assure her that they would continue to press the Soviet Union to allow her and her husband, Andrei D. Sakharov, to emigrate. Through an interpreter, Miss Bonner acknowledged the warm wishes of about 150 people from politics, publishing, the sciences and academia who had been invited by Robert L. Bernstein, chairman of Random House. In view of a pledge made to the Soviet authorities as a condition for her trip to the West, Miss Bonner did not speak with reporters or make a public statement. But that did not stop her from thanking people in an off-the-record speech and privately — often so sincerely, said guests, that they began to cry — for their support.
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres outlined to Parliament a plan to reduce Israeli control over the day-to-day life of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Peres said his proposal, first aired last weekend, would delegate more powers to the 1.3 million inhabitants of the two territories in the categories of local government, health, education, commerce and tourism. The plan would take effect, he said, only after its approval by residents of the territories, where reaction has been mixed. Peres assured his audience that Israel does not plan to withdraw troops from the areas it captured during the 1967 war.
United States Navy warplanes intercepted Libyan jets more than a dozen times over the Mediterranean Tuesday night and today, but there was no hostile action, Defense Department officials said. The officials said the Libyan planes — including MIG-25, MIG-23 and Mirage fighter jets — gave “no indication of hostile intent” during air and sea exercises by both sides north of Libya. The officials declined to say whether any of the interceptions occurred over the disputed Gulf of Sidra, which the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, contends is Libyan territory and which Washington says is in international waters.
Iranian troops occupied a small, marshy wedge of Iraq’s southern territory this week, but several American officials and military analysts said they saw the offensive as a feint and possible prelude to another attempt to cross the Tigris River north of Basra, Iraq’s second largest city. These analysts said they doubted that either the initial Iranian thrust in the extreme south or a possible move to cut the Baghdad-to-Basra highway would be a conclusive battle in the long conflict that began in September 1980. A State Department statement said an Iranian attack north of Basra “has apparently been turned back with heavy losses.” But this fighting was south of a more likely river crossing where Iran has apparently massed larger units, other experts said.
The Administration moved to curb confusion and uncertainty created in the Philippines by statements made by President Reagan about the unresolved presidential election there. The statements were widely interpreted in the Philippines as an endorsement of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. The State Department, which itself was surprised by some of Mr. Reagan’s remarks, sent instructions to the United States Ambassador in Manila to assure Mrs. Aquino that Mr. Reagan did not intend to imply that he was reconciled to a victory by Mr. Marcos, Administration officials said. Mrs. Aquino said she was particularly “alarmed” at a suggestion by Mr. Reagan that both sides in the election might have taken part in violence and vote fraud. Few people other than Mr. Marcos have asserted that the Aquino forces were involved in such activities.
Corazon C. Aquino said today that she was disturbed by President Reagan’s most recent public comments about the Philippine election, which were widely received here as an endorsement of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Mrs. Aquino, Mr. Marcos’s opponent in the so-far inconclusive voting of last Friday, said she was particularly “alarmed” at a suggestion by Mr. Reagan at his news conference Tuesday night that both sides in the presidential election might have taken part in violence and vote fraud. “I would wonder at the motives of a friend of democracy who chose to conspire with Mr. Marcos to cheat the Filipino people of their liberation,” Mrs. Aquino said. “It would also be a delusion of policy,” she said, “to believe that an opposition whose leaders and followers have been and are being killed can suddenly settle down to a Western-style opposition role in a healthy two-party system. Too many will be dead the moment the world’s head is turned.”
The bodies of four opposition leaders have been found in the Philippines in three days. Aquilano Pimental, the opposition strategist in the National Assembly, charged that the forces of President Marcos had begun a post-election murder campaign against the opposition. A few rows of desks away from the drone of the National Assembly’s presidential ballot count, the lawmakers talked quietly of political homicide. The opposition leader said he did not fear it; the deputy majority leader said he did not commit it. “I am fatalisitic,” said Aquilano Pimental, the opposition strategist. “Even if I have 100 bodyguards, when my time comes I will get it, for how do you expect to match the firepower of Marcos?”
A former Salvadoran army officer, planning to seek political asylum in the United States, said he participated in death squad killings in the early 1980s and witnessed the slaughter of civilians by El Salvador’s U.S.-backed military. In an interview at his suburban Washington home, former Lieutenant Ricardo Ernesto Castro, 35, a 1973 West Point graduate, described death squad killings of suspected subversives as routine in early 1981. He said he personally commanded four assassination missions, claiming about a dozen lives.
United States assistance to Nicaraguan guerrillas has recently been channeled through El Salvador, according to American and Nicaraguan exile officials, apparently in an effort to make up for a recent cutoff of supplies by Honduras. At least some of the aid has been flown from the military airport at Ilopango air base, just outside this capital, one source said. It was not clear whether approval for the flights has come only from the Salvadoran Air Force or also from the Government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. Officially, both Government and military officials continue to deny assisting the Nicaraguan anti-Government guerrillas, who are known locally as contras.
Chad said today that Libyan forces had opened a second front in an attack against Oum-Chalouba just south of the 16th parallel. The Chadian radio said the attack started Tuesday, only hours after the radio said President Hissen Habre’s troops had recaptured a Government outpost at Kouba-Olanga from Libyan forces that attacked it the day before.
Liberia appeared tonight to be backing off from its offer to grant political asylum to Jean-Claude Duvalier, the ousted dictator of Haiti who has been granted temporary asylum in France. Reports from the Liberian capital of Monrovia said the Information Ministry had denied that the Government ever offered asylum to the former Haitian ruler. At the same time Mr. Duvalier’s Paris lawyer said he wanted to stay on in France and was not interested in going into exile in Liberia. “All I can say is that Mr. Duvalier does not wish to leave France,” Maitre Sauveur Vaisse said in a telephone interview.
South Africa accused Botswana again of harboring anti-apartheid guerrillas after a white South African soldier and a suspected black insurgent were killed in a gun battle on a farm near the border between the two countries. A South African military spokesman said the skirmish occurred when troops chased two suspected African National Congress guerrillas who had fired on an army patrol. Botswana has denied authorizing guerrilla attacks on South Africa from its territory. Last June, South African commandos killed 13 people in a raid on alleged guerrilla targets in Gaborone, the Botswana capital.
Winnie Mandela said today that her husband, the black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela, would not accept exile in Zambia as a condition for his release. The comments by the anti-apartheid activist were the latest in a series of remarks to reporters coinciding with intense speculation here that her husband might be freed after more than 23 years in prison and offering clues as to the terms he might accept. Mrs. Mandela visits regularly with her husband in Pollsmoor Prison, near Cape Town. On Tuesday night, the authorities seemed to rule out an early release for Mr. Mandela, saying terms set January 31 for his liberty had not been met. Her statement came as Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha and Chester A. Crocker, the American Under Secretary of State for African Affairs, opened a two-day round of private meetings in Geneva. Diplomats said the talks concerned American-South African relations and regional affairs.
The space agency acknowledged that three years ago it waived a requirement for effective backup safety seals on the space shuttle’s booster rockets. Space agency officials said they continued to launch the shuttles without the backup even though the failure of a single seal could be catastrophic. They said they were confident that the primary seal would assure safety. Those seals at the seams where sections of the giant booster rockets are joined together are a prime focus of the investigation into the January 28 explosion that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger and killed its seven astronauts. The booster joints were originally designed to have an effective double system of seals to prevent hot gases from leaking out the side, where they might cause an explosion. But by late 1982, according to documents released today by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, engineers realized that rotational forces generated by the enormous pressures in the rocket could inactivate the backup seal, leaving only a single seal to do the job.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s safety advisory board, in a report written just before the explosion of the shuttle Challenger, said that the agency’s plan to schedule 18 flights a year was “very optimistic” and warned that a more modest plan of 12 to 15 flights would be a “difficult but attainable goal.” But in its annual report, released today, the Aerospace Safety Advisory Board said that logistical considerations rather than any particular threats to safety would pose the greatest restraints on the agency’s ability meet its goal of a launching about once every three weeks. Some aerospace experts have speculated that Challenger’s liftoff, 16 days after the shuttle Columbia flew into space, could have fatigued ground crews and contributed to the accident. In its report, the panel also said that a new, lightweight casing for the shuttle’s solid rocket boosters, originally scheduled for use in a mid-July military launching, had failed to pass a critical stress test. Members of the group also said they were made vaguely aware last year that NASA engineers were concerned about seals on the shuttle’s solid rocket boosters, the chief suspect in the January 28 explosion, but not overly so.
The latest Gallup Poll reveals that a majority of Americans do not agree with President Reagan’s priorities for reducing the federal deficit in his proposed 1987 budget, which would cut domestic programs while increasing defense spending. The public’s top priority for reducing the deficit is cutting defense spending, cited by 59% in the poll. Next are cuts in government spending for social programs (42% approve), raising income taxes (22%) and reducing “entitlement” benefits, such as Social Security, Medicare and the like (9%).
President Reagan opened his campaign drive for Republican Senate candidates today in Missouri, attacking “big spenders,” “big taxers” and “the liberal dream.” Striking themes that will mark his efforts to elect Republican legislators this year, Mr. Reagan stopped off in St. Louis on his way here and delivered a speech in behalf of Christopher S. Bond, a former Governor who is running for the Senate. “The bad old days of runaway inflation, economic decline and national despair are long gone, but the crowd of big spenders and big taxers who created the mess are still lurking in the wings,” Mr. Reagan told 800 Republican donors at a $500-a-plate fund-raising event for Mr. Bond. “They held out the dream that big government could solve every problem, that Federal money was free money, that the American economy was a horn of plenty which could be taken for granted,” Mr. Reagan said. “Usually when people grow up, they quit believing in the tooth fairy.”
The President and First Lady leave for California.
The President and First Lady enjoy their time at Rancho del Cielo.
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger challenged Congress today to prove its willingness to save money by authorizing him to shut unneeded military bases with two months’ notice. He selected as a starting point three facilities in the home districts of prominent House Democrats who have criticized the Reagan Administrtion’s military spending increases. Secretary Weinberger, in a letter to Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was prepared to shut the three facilities in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Colorado in 45 to 60 days if Congress would authorize it and provide the $300 million needed. The facilities listed by Mr. Weinberger were the Army Materials Technology Laboratory in Watertown, Mass.; the Philadelphia Naval Hospital and a large section of Lowry Air Force Base in Denver.
Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel today removed Lee A. Iacocca, chairman of the Chrysler Corporation, as head of a Federal advisory commission on restoration of the Statue of Liberty and historic buildings on Ellis Island. Mr. Hodel urged Mr. Iacocca to remain as chairman of a separate foundation that has raised $233 million for restoration work. A four-day extravaganza of concerts, festivals and fireworks will mark the 100th anniversary of the statue on the Fourth of July. The Secretary said he had terminated Mr. Iacocca’s appointment as chairman and a member of the advisory commission “to avoid any question of conflict” of interest raised by his service on both the commission and the fund-raising foundation. As chairman of the commission, Mr. Iacocca would have great influence on its review of renovation plans proposed by the foundation.
An airline drug trafficking ring has been under investigation for at least two months, according to Federal law enforcement sources. They said the Justice Department was preparing to seek indictments against 50 employees of Eastern Airlines believed to be smuggling cocaine from South America, by way of Miami. The sources said the suspects were mostly baggage handlers in Miami. Airline industry sources and Federal law-enforcement officials who spoke on the condition that they not be identified confirmed that the carrier was Eastern Airlines. The sources said Eastern officials had been working with investigators for more than a year in trying to break up the ring. Law-enforcement sources said the drug enforcement agency began its investigation last August after customs officials seized two shipments of cocaine totaling 1,700 pounds from two Eastern planes. Eastern Airlines, which had been working with the Customs Service to improve its security procedures, was fined $1.37 million as a result of the seizure.
More than 30 Nebraska farmers are the first of 65,000 farmers around the country to have received letters from the Farmers Home Administration notifying them that they must restructure or renegotiate their loan payments or face foreclosure. Six weeks ago, the agency said it would take action to recover $5.8 billion in delinquent loans.
Marilyn Klinghoffer was eulogized as a heroine who, despite terminal cancer, spat in the face of her crippled husband’s murderers aboard the cruise ship Achille Lauro and went on to campaign against international terrorism in his memory. Klinghoffer, who died Sunday at 59, “was unwittingly thrust into world celebrity” when her husband, Leon, was killed by Palestinian nationalists aboard the cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea last October.
Larry Wu-Tai Chin, who gained $180,000 for spying for China over a 30-year period, gambled with a passion that contrasted with his courtroom demeanor as a scholarly translator for the Central Intelligence Agency. Mr. Chin’s diaries, entered as evidence in his trial, which ended Friday with his conviction, show he paid at least $96,700 to Las Vegas casinos and visited gambling clubs while on trips to meet Chinese intelligence contacts in London and Macao, the Portuguese colony on the Chinese coast. Mr. Chin’s love for blackjack was made clear in a letter dated February 2, 1980, to the Sands casino in Las Vegas in which he complained that the casino allowed him to exceed his credit by 75 percent, or $6,000, a month earlier.
Richard W. Miller, the first agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ever accused of espionage, goes on trial for the second time Thursday. Mr. Miller, who was with the bureau for 20 years, is accused of passing secret documents to a Russian woman and her husband, who later pleaded guilty to espionage charges. Mr. Miller’s first trial ended last November with the jurors deadlocked, 10 to 2 for conviction, on the key espionage counts against him. Several jurors said that the two holdouts felt Mr. Miller had made damaging statements about himself only because of duress in the bureau’s investigation of the case. Mr. Miller was dismissed from the bureau just before his arrest October 2, 1984.
A court-martial reconvened today to decide whether a petty officer who was convicted last month of murdering his superior officer should be the first sailor executed by the Navy since 1849. The sailor, Petty Officer 3rd Class Mitchell T. Garraway Jr., now 21 years old, was described in testimony today as a polite, but deeply troubled teen-ager. He was convicted January 30 in the stabbing death of Lieutenant James K. Sterner, aboard the frigate Miller in the western Atlantic last June 16.
Hormel’s flagship plant has hired all the workers it needs, company officials said in Austin, Minnesota, one month after the factory reopened for the first time since a strike by meatpackers began six months ago. Although violence had flared outside the Geo. A. Hormel & Co. plant in recent weeks, three strikers peacefully picketed each gate Wednesday as workers entered.
The radical right at Dartmouth, embodied by The Dartmouth Review, has assumed the protest mantle of the left. The rightists are using satire, tirade, guerrilla theater and infiltration of the opposition’s meetings -forms that have been mostly forsaken by the current generation of college undergraduates.
The N.A.A.C.P. faces key problems as it prepares to hold its annual board meeting in Manhattan. The problems include declining membership, shifts in sources of funds, high turnover in its headquarters staff and a dispute over the decision to move the organization’s headquarters from Brooklyn to Baltimore.
An American Airlines jet flew to three cities — two of the trips with passengers — before crew members discovered that a rough, aborted landing hours earlier had gouged a “fist-size” hole in the jet’s belly, officials said. The jet had tried to land in Harlingen, Texas, early Saturday in heavy fog, but it bounced 450 feet short of the runway and knocked out several airport lights before proceeding to San Antonio, where it let off the Harlingen-bound passengers, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Gerrie Cook said. The plane flew to the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, loaded passengers and flew on to Denver, Cook said, where a “fist-size” hole was found in the belly of the Boeing 727 during a routine inspection.
In High Desert Hospital, at the tip of the Mojave Desert, Elizabeth Bouvia says that since she lost a court battle to end her life more than two years ago her greatest struggle has been to find a private physician to provide her with the drugs she says she needs. Paralyzed since birth by cerebral palsy, Mrs. Bouvia had sought to force the Riverside General Hospital to assist her in her plan to starve herself to death. Now 28 years old, she described her life, or her “existence,” as she calls it, in an interview. “It’s been a struggle to find a doctor who would take my case in general,” she said. “They say they are worried that I am going to present more problems, particularly more legal problems. They say that I’m asking for certain medication, but not all medication. They know, I make it clear, that I intend to refuse all heroic efforts to save me, if I become acutely ill. It’s been very hard. “
Searchers today found a helicopter that crashed north of Mount St. Helens, killing all three aboard, including a man on assignment to photograph the volcano for National Geographic, the authorities said. There were no survivors, said Mac McIver, a spokesman for the Washington State Aeronautics Division. The helicopter had taken off Monday. Those aboard were Ralph Perry, a photographer on the magazine assignment; Doug Hadder, the pilot, and Ron Montee of Vancouver, a maintenance worker, according to Jim Hamilton, owner of the craft. The cause of the crash was not known, Mr. McIver said.
New Orleans Mayor Ernest N. Dutch Morial dropped his campaign for a seat on the City Council today, ending any prospect of his moving directly to another elected position after he leaves office in two and a half months. Mr. Morial, 56 years old, the city’s first black Mayor, had failed twice to get a charter change so he could run for a third term. He ran for the City Council in the February 1 election, but came in second to an incumbent, requiring a runoff.
Abraham Lincoln’s dream of equality and opportunity remains “an illusion” for 33 million poor Americans, New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo said. “In his time, Lincoln saw that, as long as one in every seven Americans was enslaved, our identity as a people was hostage to that enslavement,” the New York Democrat said in a speech in Springfield, Illinois, at the annual Abraham Lincoln Association dinner in honor of the 16th President’s birthday.
Two organizations of American Indians are accusing the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Natural History of violating Indians’ religious rights by refusing to return its collection of 14,000 American Indian skeletons for reburial. Bruce Smith, a museum curator of anthropology and assistant to acting museum director James Tyler, said that the Smithsonian is willing to turn skeletons over to recognized tribal leaders if the remains have a “clear biological or cultural link” to modern-day tribal units.
Tobacco companies are spending record amounts to influence Congress and the news media, and national magazines are ignoring the hazards of smoking for fear of losing advertising revenue, health experts said. The experts, in testimony at the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health, called for legislation to support the American Medical Association’s controversial proposal for a ban on cigarette advertising. Government statistics show 320,000 Americans will die this year as a result of cigarette smoking, which is now at an all-time high.
A Federal jury ruled in Atlanta today that a University of Georgia instructor had been dismissed illegally in retaliation for opposing favored treatment for athletes. The jury awarded Jan Kemp more than $2.5 million for lost wages, mental anguish and punitive damages. “It’s a victory for academic integrity,” said a smiling Mrs. Kemp moments after the verdict. “I was interested in widespread therapeutic reform, and I think it can be brought about now.” She and her lawyer, Hue Henry, said they were pleasantly surprised by the amount of the award.
Snapping back from a one-day slump, the Dow Jones industrial average rose again to a record level yesterday. The broader market advanced moderately on technical factors and a continued weakness in oil prices. The Dow, which on Tuesday was unable to extend its string of records, rose 7.11 points yesterday, to 1,629.93.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1629.93 (+7.11)
Born:
Todd Frazier, MLB third baseman and first baseman (All Star, 2014, 2015; Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, Pittsburgh Pirates), in Point Pleasant, New Jersey.
Brandon Allen, MLB first baseman and outfielder (Arizona Diamondbacks, Oakland A’s, Tampa Bay Rays), in Conroe, Texas.
Jonathan Sigalet, Canadian NHL defenseman (Boston Bruins), in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Georgina Reilly, English-Canadian actress (“Murdoch Mysteries”), in Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
Valorie Curry, American actress (“The Tick”), in Orange County, California.
Died:
Sid Stone, 82, American comedian (“Milton Berle Show”).
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