In a dramatic victory for Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, Spaniards voted today to remain in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. With all the ballots in a national referendum counted, the Government said the vote was nearly 53 percent to 40 percent, with the rest blank or invalid. Public-opinion polls through last week indicated that voters, in the first such referendum by a NATO country, would ask that Spain become the first member to quit the alliance. The Reagan Administration and the leaders of several Western European countries had expressed apprehension that Spain’s withdrawal would jar Western unity and set a dangerous precedent for other shaky members, such as Greece. Spain joined NATO four years ago and its armed forces, nearly 330,000 strong, are considered important for the defense of Europe’s southern flank. Spain’s Navy and Air Force are particularly critical in controlling the sea lanes at the Strait of Gibraltar.
The Soviet Union appears to be undergoing its own “Vietnam syndrome,” with veterans returning from Afghanistan to find life empty for them, just as did some U.S. servicemen returning home in the ’70s. Soviet media for the most part have been silent about the negative aspects of the war, but. Komsomolskaya Pravda, a newspaper for young Communists, recently published a letter describing the problems of a group of returned veterans who feel like outsiders. Reports reaching the West also tell of widespread drug abuse among Soviet veterans.
A onetime Nazi SS officer who for a decade was the Soviet Union’s most highly placed agent in West German intelligence re-emerged today in a luxury hotel in East Berlin to present his memoirs. The appearance of the donnish-looking, ostensibly erstwhile K.G.B. agent, Heinz Felfe — he said he collects his pension from Moscow — was a minor sensation in East Berlin and a bit of a mystery. Communist spies do not usually publish their memoirs simply because they grow old and nostalgic. Mr. Felfe, who is about to celebrate his 68th birthday, has titled his 384-page autobiography “In Service of the Adversary.” But although he presented the book on the Communist side of the Berlin wall, it is being published in Hamburg, on the capitalist side, and its target audience is West Germany.
Parliament elected Ingvar Carlsson, a Social Democrat, to succeed Olof Palme as Prime Minister today without any opposing votes. Mr. Palme was shot dead on a Stockholm street on February 28. Non-Socialist parties, which form a minority in the Parliament, abstained, making a gesture of support for Mr. Carlsson’s succession while declining to endorse his party’s politics. Mr. Carlsson, 51 years old, was approved by a vote of 178 to 0, with 159 abstentions. Lars Tobisson, a Moderate Party member and the first speaker in the budget debate, told Parliament that voting for Mr. Carlsson “would be going too far in good will.” Mr. Carlsson, head of an emergency caretaker Government since Mr. Palme’s death, promised after the killing that he would carry on Mr. Palme’s policies.
Danish Prime Minister Poul Schluter announced a major shuffle of his minority, four-party coalition Government late Tuesday night, the most extensive ever in Denmark. Three ministers changed portfolios, and six Cabinet members left the Government. The switches in the three-and-a-half-year-old Goverment were made, Mr. Schluter said, to “show that the Government had the will to continue even after the next election,” scheduled for 1988. As part of the changes, Energy Minister Knud Enggard took over the post of a fellow Liberal, Britta Schall Holberg, as Interior Minister. Mr. Holberg moved to the Agriculture Ministry, replacing Niels Anker Kofod.
The 26 Western member nations in UNESCO are seeking to block an expected re-election bid by the organization’s Director General, Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow of Senegal, diplomats said today. The reported move would mark a shift in emphasis in Western efforts to introduce policy and administrative changes. Instead of trying to change UNESCO operations, Western members are now agreed that significant changes are unlikely as long as Mr. M’Bow, 64 years old, remains, and they are concentrating on stopping his re-election in late 1987 for a third six-year term, the diplomats said.
Israel’s industry and trade minister, Ariel Sharon, strengthened his bid for the leadership of the right-wing Herut Party by winning a key post at the party’s convention. Sharon defeated Benjamin Begin, son of former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, to win the chairmanship of the party’s mandate committee, which screens convention delegates. Sharon is challenging Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Deputy Prime Minister David Levy for the leadership of Herut. Late in the day, a Sharon aide was elected convention president. Sharon’s shouting supporters prevented Shamir from addressing the gathering, and fistfights broke out among delegates.
Amnesty International accused Iraq of gross human rights violations including arbitrary arrests of scores of children, three of whom were said to have died from torture, and summary executions. A representative of the London-based human rights group told the U.N. Human Rights Commission that about 300 children were arrested last autumn in the town of Sulaymaniyah, in Iraq’s Kurdish region. Amnesty said the children, ages 10 to 14, were apparently arrested in retaliation for the political activities of their relatives, said to be either army deserters or members of the armed Kurdish opposition.
Iraq has pardoned two Iraqi men whose expulsion from France two weeks ago was given as a reason for the reported “execution” of a French research scholar by Muslim extremists in Lebanon, the Foreign Ministry said today. Foreign Ministry officials said information received from Baghdad indicated that the two men would be allowed by the Iraqi Government to return to France if they chose to do so. The two men, Hamza Fawzy, 38 years old, and Hassan Kheir Eddine, 36, both supporters of a pro-Iranian dissident group, were sent to Iraq after they were caught in a French police dragnet last January as part of a search for those responsible for a series of bomb explosions in Paris. Islamic Holy War, a Muslim extremist group in Lebanon that last week announced the execution of the research scholar, Michel Seurat, in retaliation for the expulsion of the Iraqis, had given the French Government until Sunday to get them back to France, threatening more executions if this were not done.
Few outside events have fired the imagination of South Korea’s political dissidents as much as the fall of Ferdinand E. Marcos in the Philippines. It takes little prodding, sometimes none at all, to set opposition politicians to talking hopefully about how the same sort of lightning might strike here. “You have many dictatorships in Asia,” says Kim Dae Jung, the most prominent anti-Government figure. “But only in South Korea and the Philippines do you have people actively seeking democracy. They succeeded in the Philippines, and maybe we will succeed here.”
South Korean students demanding constitutional reforms hurled rocks at police and were dispersed with tear gas in the second straight day of unrest on Seoul campuses, witnesses said. Hundreds of police stormed Seoul National University and fired tear gas to disperse about 300 students, and about 500 students at the Jesuits’ Sogang University clashed with about 300 riot police for two hours, student sources said. The students seek direct presidential elections instead of the present electoral college system, which they say favors the ruling party of President Chun Doo Hwan.
Treasury Secretary James A. Baker 3d told the leaders of a Congressional subcommittee today that the Reagan Administration would turn over to the Philippine Government copies of about 1,500 financial documents brought to Hawaii by Ferdinand E. Marcos, the legislative leaders said. According to the ranking Democrat and Republican on the House Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, Mr. Baker said copies of the documents would also be made available to the subcommittee within a few days. Representative Stephen J. Solarz, Democrat of Brooklyn and chairman of the subcommittee, and Representative Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican and ranking minority member of the subcommittee, praised Secretary Baker and the Administration for their cooperation. The decision, according to Congressional and Administration officials familiar with the documents, means that investigators will obtain vital clues to unraveling the Marcos family fortune, an issue of intense interest in Manila as well as in Congress.
President Corazon C. Aquino issued an order today freezing all the assets of Ferdinand E. Marcos, his wife and their associates. She appealed to foreign Governments to take similar action. Mrs. Aquino’s sweeping move came after the Philippine Government received evidence that former President Marcos and his family and friends have transferred large sums of money out of the country in the days since the Marcoses fled on February 26. More than $1 million in Philippine currency was taken to Hawaii by the Marcos party, much of it in 22 boxes aboard a United States Air Force transport plane.
A pro-Marcos legislator surrendered to Philippine military authorities. The assemblyman, Orlando Dulay, has been linked to the murders of as many as 11 backers of Corazon C. Aquino. A pro-Marcos assemblyman linked to the deaths of as many as 11 supporters of Corazon C. Aquino surrendered to military authorities today and said he looked forward to facing his accusers. The legislator, Orlando Dulay, and another member of the National Assembly, Arturo Pacificador, have been characterized by critics as warlord politicians who enforced their control of regional fiefdoms through the use of private armies. An order for their arrest was issued Tuesday. Mr. Pacificador, who has been linked to the murder of Evelio Javier, a political rival who was chased down and killed by masked gunmen in in Antique Province, remained at large today.
President Reagan meets with several White House senior staff to discuss an upcoming trip to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
In an effort to head off a defeat for President Reagan, two of his supporters on Capitol Hill suggested compromise proposals today that would combine United States aid to the Nicaraguan rebels with a stronger push for a negotiated settlement in Central America. Senator Bob Dole, Republican of Kansas, the majority leader, conveyed the “general direction” of these and other potential compromises today to Donald T. Regan, the White House chief of staff, according to a spokesman for the Senator. Mr. Dole reiterated his belief that without a compromise the President’s push to aid the Nicaraguan insurgents would probably be rejected in Congress next week, the spokesman added. Under both proposals, the Administration would receive the $100 million requested by Mr. Reagan for the rebels, known as contras. At the same time, the President would agree to pursue negotiations with the Nicaraguan Government. If the talks made progress, the aid to the insurgents would be delayed or withheld.
Early on a recent Saturday, a squad of Nicaraguan Government agents swooped into the Roberto Huembes Market here and began handing out fines to merchants who were ignoring price controls. As one vendor was being fined for selling fish for one-third more than the price fixed by the Government, others crowded around to complain. They said the prices only reflected their own rising costs, but the inspectors were unmoved. They continued until they had imposed fines equivalent to more than $1,000.
Seven days of tropical storms have flooded towns and villages in the northeastern Brazilian state of Ceara, drowning at least 2 people and leaving 32,000 homeless, according to the Government’s civil defense coordinator. “It has been raining hard every day for the last week, and if this continues, the number of homeless will increase substantially as many people are living in partially destroyed shacks that can’t endure much more,” Clinton Saboia Valente, the civil defense coordinator, said by phone Tuesday from the state capital, Fortaleza, 1,550 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro.
The Reagan Administration, in a reversal of policy, expressed “deep concern” today over what it called “the troubling human rights situation in Chile.” It called on other countries to support an American resolution condemning Chile at the United Nations Human Rights Commission. State Department officials said the United States had been quietly pressing for months for changes under the military Government of President Augusto Pinochet, which has been in power in Chile since 1973. But they said that the efforts had been frustrated and that the United States had therefore decided not only to publicize its unhappiness but also to denounce Chile in a resolution introduced last week at a meeting of the United Nations commission in Geneva.
Prominent whites joined anti-apartheid groups in South Africa in an angry response to reports that police fired into a black crowd without provocation. A teenage boy was killed and 80 people were reported wounded outside a courtroom in Kabokweni township, east of Johannesburg. Police said a crowd of 2,000 refused to disperse and got out of control. Frederick van Zyl Slabbert, a white opposition leader, said he feared “there cannot be peaceful change in South Africa.” Albertina Sisulu, president of the anti-apartheid United Democratic Front, called the shooting “an act of cowardice.”
The Reagan Administration’s top official on African affairs condemned the South African Government today for “banning” two black anti-apartheid campaigners and said Pretoria’s stated willingness to negotiate with blacks was a sham. But the official, Chester A. Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, defended President Reagan’s policy of “constructive engagement” with the Pretoria Government in an appearance before the House Africa subcommittee. Mr. Crocker said the order, which was announced Tuesday and which bans Mkhuseli Jack and Henry Fazzie, two leading anti-apartheid campaigners in the Port Elizabeth area, for five years, was a sign that Pretoria did not intend to negotiate seriously with blacks. “I want to make it abundantly clear that we condemn in the strongest possible terms the banning orders served on these two Eastern Cape leaders,” Mr. Crocker said. A banning order means the person cannot be quoted in news reports or address gatherings of more than a handful of people. The order also imposes restrictions on movement.
The Soviet Union announced it will launch two cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz spacecraft today, and it said the liftoff will be telecast live from the Baikonur Space Center in Soviet Central Asia. A Soviet space official said that Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Solovyov are to travel aboard their Soyuz T-15 craft to the orbiting Mir space station, which was sent up February 20. The rare advance publicity given to the mission follows a string of successes for the Soviet space program, including the launching of the Mir and spectacular photographs taken of Halley’s Comet by two unmanned Vega probes.
The space agency’s decision to let the private rocket industry supplement the shuttle in lofting satellites gives this struggling business its best chance yet to develop the nation’s first commercially run launching apparatus, analysts and executives said today. For several years, private launching companies, which under the new policy would send up communications satellites on unmanned rockets, have been battling opposition from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which argued they were superfluous. But with the Jan. 28 loss of the Challenger, the space agency has come to what analysts have called an inevitable conclusion: Without this industry, the shuttle capacity would not be enough to send aloft a growing list of private satellites. The policy shift was confirmed by the space agency on Tuesday. The private companies, however, will not be ready to launch for at least two years. While France and other nations pushed ahead with unmanned launching technology, the American unmanned rocket program has been nearly dormant and it will take that long to build the rockets and make the other arrangements necessary for a launching. Even then, the experts say, unmanned rockets will have a limited ability to replace the space shuttle.
Navy divers worked to recover the broken crew compartment containing the remains of the Challenger astronauts while other searchers discovered what could be a key section of the shuttle’s right-side solid-fuel booster rocket.
Morton Thiokol Inc. has asked a veteran executive to return from retirement to head its solid-fuel booster rocket operation. The company explained that it needed a respected figure in that post after the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Edward G. Dorsey Jr., who worked for the company 25 years before taking early retirement in January 1984, will replace Calvin Wiggins as vice president and general manager of the Space Division, the company said Tuesday. Mr. Wiggins will become Mr. Dorsey’s deputy.
President Reagan will endorse a report calling for action to curb acid rain, Administration officials said today. The report says acid rain is crossing the border between the United States and Canada and causing environmental, economic and social damage. The officials said the President’s endorsement would come when he meets here with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada on Tuesday. The Administration’s longstanding policy has been that more must be learned about the causes and effects of acid rain before any expensive containment program is undertaken. $5 Billion Program Described The report proposed no specific targets for reducing the sources of acid rain but called for a five-year, $5 billion program by the United States to develop cleaner ways of burning coal, a major source of the pollution that causes acid rain. Half the cost would be borne by Government and the other half by private industry.
President Reagan participates in an interview with Ernest B. “Pat” Furgurson, Washington Bureau Chief for the Baltimore Sun.
Former Education Secretary T. H. Bell says his four years in the Cabinet were a constant battle against a “lunatic fringe” on the right that did not want to spend a dime on education. Mr. Bell contends that his critics on the extreme right, both inside the White House and outside the Reagan Administration, distorted Mr. Reagan’s stands to pursue their own “revolutionary and shockingly radical agenda.” Writing in the March issue of Phi Delta Kappan, an education magazine, Mr. Bell extols Mr. Reagan as “a man of strength, convictions and courage.” But Mr. Bell also says the Administration failed to enunciate a clear policy on education, adding, “Our actions were at times contradictory and inconsistent.”
Tumbling oil prices, which have made economists euphoric and brought glee to investors and motorists, are also raising fears that the nation may again allow itself to become dangerously dependent on foreign supplies. Some analysts maintain that low prices will cause a sharp falloff in American production and a rise in consumption, a combination that could double reliance on imports by 1990 and risk a renewal of the disruptions of the 1970’s. “The United States is now in the process of creating a substantially increased oil dependency for the 1990’s,” James R. Schlesinger, a former Defense and Energy Secretary, said. “We are sowing the seeds of the next oil crisis.” Mr. Schlesinger is to testify in the Senate Friday on the oil outlook. His fear is shared by many, including oil industry executives, some politicians and outside analysts, such as Charles K. Ebinger of Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The A.H. Robins Co. is “out of control” and has violated court orders, the Justice Department said in asking the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to appoint a trustee to run the company. Assistant U.S. Attorney S. David Schiller said in court papers filed in Richmond, Virginia, that Robins had engaged in fraudulent and dishonest conduct in violating two court orders against paying part of its debts without prior court approval. The court must firmly penalize the arrogance evidenced by these payments, Schiller said.
Rep. Claude Pepper (D-Florida), a vigorous 85-year-old who declares that “ageism is as odious as sexism and racism,” sought to enlist public support for his proposal to outlaw mandatory retirement of American workers at any age. Presiding at a televised House hearing, Pepper said the bill he has introduced with 50 House co-sponsors is intended to extend to every American — with a few exceptions — the right enjoyed by federal employees to “be as old as Methuselah and continue to work, if you can do the job.”
Hopes of a quick end to a six-day strike by flight attendants against Trans World Airlines were dashed today when contract negotiations were broken off. “I’m sorry to announce that we have not come to terms today,” said Vicki L. Frankovich, president of the Independent Federation of Flight Attendants, which represents about 6,000 T.W.A. employees. She said that the company chairman, Carl C. Icahn, who took over the financially ailing airline last year, had not been at the talks. “Mr. Icahn failed to appear today, and I think that’s the impediment to the meetings,” she said.
Two charter airlines have been using unsafe planes to transport military personnel, according to the General Accounting Office. The agency has drafted a report accusing South Pacific Island Airways and Air Resorts of making military flights in violation of Federal rules.
Rep. Joseph P. Addabbo (D-New York), chairman of the powerful House Appropriations defense subcommittee, was in a coma and said to be near death after a six-year bout with cancer. His office issued a terse statement saying the 60-year-old congressman “has slipped into a coma and is not expected to survive.” It said he had suffered from bladder cancer for six years, a fact the jovial congressman apparently kept secret from most of his associates despite a four-month hospitalization last fall.
The U.S. Army decided to temporarily ground both of its newest helicopters, the UH-60 Blackhawk and the AH-64 Apache, because of safety concerns. It was the second time in less than a year that the fleet of Blackhawks had been grounded and the second time in a month that the Apache fleet was ordered out of the air. The Blackhawk grounding was prompted by the crash of one of the helicopters Tuesday at Ft. Rucker, Alabama, during a routine training flight. Three soldiers died.
The Defense Department has told Congress that an Air Force missile will work as planned despite warnings from a senior Pentagon official that adequate test data about how the weapon would actually perform in combat is lacking. In a letter Feb. 28 to members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger formally certified that the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile would perform effectively and would not exceed the Pentagon’s cost estimates. Mr. Weinberger’s assurance was given in response to a Congressional stipulation that the Defense Secretary provide such a certification by March 1 or cancel the program, which is projected to cost more than $5 billion. But a memorandum presented to Mr. Weinberger last December from an official who oversees the testing of new weapons asserted that there was “very limited” testing data on how the missile might perform under real battle conditions.
Striking railroad workers from Maine closed commuter rail service into Boston from the north and west today, but about 6,000 commuters made it to the city on shuttle buses pressed into emergency service. “We feel service went rather smoothly in light of the nature of this incident,” said Vincent Carbona, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. About 18,000 people normally commute on the lines daily. Mr. Carbona said the authority feared the strike might spread to Boston’s southern suburbs Thursday. The strike began in Maine on March 3 when more than 100 members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees left their jobs and set up picket lines to protest personnel cuts by the Maine Central Railroad Company. The strikers maintain track structures, bridges and buildings. The picketing spread today to the Massachusetts facilities of the Maine railroad’s sister concern, the Boston and Maine Company, which operates commuter lines at Boston’s North and South Stations under contract with the transit authority. The commuter rail lines were shut when Boston and Maine workers refused to cross picket lines.
The government said it has opened preliminary investigations into the potential for engine fires in an estimated 800,000 1984- and 1985-model cars from General Motors Corp. The two new studies cover roughly 135,000 1984 Pontiac Fieros and about 650,000 1985 J-cars, including the Chevrolet Cavalier, Pontiac 2000, Oldsmobile Firenza, Buick Skyhawk and Cadillac Cimarron. The report also listed the opening of preliminary evaluations of 350,000 1980-1982 Toyota Motor Corp. Tercels for loss of steering control.
Postal inspectors charged 93 grocers today with participating in a ring they said had fraudulently redeemed $186 million in coupons. Agents said they broke the ring by using coupons for a nonexistent roach spray. Inspectors said the suspects redeemed coupons through commercial clearinghouses, collecting refunds from manufacturers for discounts they supposedly gave customers who purchased the products. “The fact of the matter is, the consumers never even handled the coupons,” nor were the products ever purchased, said Mark Grey, Miami’s top postal inspector. The suspects obtained large numbers of coupons from independent newspaper distributors and printing warehouses and got people to clip and sort coupons in their homes, Mr. Grey said. They then mailed them to the clearinghouses, using the names and addresses of nonexistent food stores as well as the supermarkets where they worked, Mr. Grey said. Of the 93 for whom warrants were issued, 69 were in Florida, 16 in California and 8 in Charleston, South Carolina.
The judge in the Tucson, Arizona trial of church members charged with harboring illegal aliens dropped two more criminal counts today while the defense sought dismissal of the remaining 36 charges against the 11 defendants. Federal District Judge Earl Carroll has thrown out eight counts in the last two days for lack of evidence. He dropped six other counts Tuesday. The latest charges dropped involved Nena McDonald, 38 years old, of Lubbock, Tex., and Philip Willis-Conger, 27, of Tucson, who are members the Ecumenical Council’s refugee study group.
A Florida civic leader whose criminal record was uncovered last year when he ran for the school board has received a full pardon on a charge of writing a fraudulent check, for which he served a year in prison in 1958. The Nebraska Board of Pardons took the action Tuesday in the case of Robert L. Gipson, 67 years old, of New Port Richey, Florida, who also had served three years in a Federal prison after conviction of transporting a forged check over state lines. Mr. Gipson admitted to a robbery as a teen-ager and pulling off a fraudulent fund-raising scheme that netted him $100,000 in World War II.
The police in Providence, Rhode Island said today that nude photographs of dozens of women, including 10 students at Brown University and two at a nearby college, had been seized as evidence in a prostitution ring case. They said they believed the ring had operated for at least four years. The photographs of 46 women, found at a converted carriage house near the Ivy League school, included those of at least two students from Johnson & Wales College and two juveniles, said the Chief of Police, Colonel Anthony J. Mancuso. The raid Friday came a day after two Brown seniors from Connecticut were charged with soliciting sex from an undercover officer. Despite public charges of entrapment, the 21-year-old seniors, Dana E. Smith, of Avon, Connecticut, and Rebecca R. Kidd, of Orange, Connecticut, are cooperating with the investigation, Colonel Mancuso said. “There is evidence to suggest that their involvement in this kind of activity began in their freshman year,” he said.
The largest nuclear arms-free zone in the country is now Chicago. In a rare display of unanimity, the Chicago City Council declared the third largest American city and the home of the first controlled nuclear chain-reaction free from all forms of nuclear weapons, their design, manufacture or storage. Until today the largest nuclear weapon-free zone was Jersey City, population 231,000, which last September passed an ordinance banning not only weapons but city investments in weapon manufacturers. The smallest zone is Gay Head, Massachusetts, population 220, which passed a town meeting bylaw in November 1983.
Do not eat raw shellfish because it could kill you, health officials are warning. Medical scientists have concluded that a disease agent called the Norwalk virus is a major cause of outbreaks of intestinal illness among people who have consumed raw clams or oysters. Connoisseurs of clams and oysters be warned: Citing new evidence, health experts from New York and Texas cautioned against the consumption of raw or poorly cooked shellfish. “Potential consumers should be warned that eating poorly cooked shellfish is currently a high-risk venture at best,” said Dr. Herbert L. DuPont of the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. DuPont said there was a “clear risk” of gastrointestinal illness and hepatitis-A infection.
Waves of thunderstorms with damaging wind, tornadoes and large hail swept from Texas into Alabama, killing at least two people, tossing trucks and derailing a freight train in the second barrage of deadly storms this week. In the latest storms, two people were killed when a tornado struck rural homes near Carrollton, Alabama. State officials said tornadoes touched down in several other areas. “We have houses blown down on people. We have a row of houses that was blown down, we have a row of mobile homes that was blown over,” said Virginia Kennedy of the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office.
Susan Butcher wins the 1,158-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Buyers swarmed into the stock market again yesterday, sending trading volume to its second-highest level ever and pushing up the price of most shares. Blue-chip issues, however, retreated a bit. Traders and analysts said that small investors, in a delayed reaction to the Dow Jones industrial average’s huge 43.10-point rise on Tuesday, pushed their way into the action. “We had a lot of retail activity today; our retail traders are very busy,” said Robert Leonard, a vice president at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Company. “They’re still on the phones,” he said 15 minutes after the market had closed for the day.
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Kevin Porter, NHL centre and right wing (Phoenix Coyotes, Colorado Avalanche, Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins), in Detroit, Michigan.
Joey Butler, MLB designated hitter, outfielder, and pinch hitter (Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays), in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Martynas Andriuškevičius, Lithuanian NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers), in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union.
Danny Jones, English pop-rock singer-songwriter, and guitarist (McFly), in Bolton, England, United Kingdom.
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