The Socialist Party of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez won a solid victory in national elections Sunday, according to nearly complete offical returns. Based on returns early today from 96 percent of the ballots cast, the Interior Ministry said the Socialists had won 184 of the 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies, a drop from the 202 they held before the election but 8 more than they needed for the majority that a spectrum of rightist, leftist and centrist parties tried to deny them. The showing of the Socialists, who have been in office for four years, was a victory for the charismatic Mr. Gonzalez, a 44-year-old politician known for his pragmatism. In rallies and television spots during the campaign, he had asserted that Spain needed to consolidate the left-of-center course he has set for the nation. Mr. Gonzalez had called the elections four months early to take advantage of the momentum he expected after his victory in a referendum in March that kept Spain in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Almost 30 years after the uprising of 1956, 280 Hungarian students and political figures who were hanged for their participation in it still lie in unmarked graves in a cemetery in Budapest. Hardly anyone comes to Section 301 these days, and until five years ago most of the relatives of the executed men and women did not know what had been done with their bodies. Now, as the 30th anniversary of those events approaches, a few Hungarians, most of them relatives or comrades-in-arms of those who were executed, are urging that they be allowed to reinter the dead in family plots, or failing that, to mark their graves with names. Almost all the graves are overgrown with high grass and bushes. Wild poppies bloom in the hay, and on some of the visible mounds drying wreaths have been left, presumably by people who could not be sure whether the graves they decorated were those of relatives or friends.
Sicilians voted today in regional elections that have become an unexpectedly important personal test for Prime Minister Bettino Craxi. The voting is to elect a regional assembly for the sunny island known best to the rest of the world for the role of organized crime. But the results could determine whether Mr. Craxi’s Government, the longest lasting in Italy’s postwar history, survives or falls. The ballots will not be counted until Monday. About 3.9 million Sicilians are eligible to vote, and three-quarters of those are expected to.
Security forces in Northern Ireland found and defused a 1,000-pound bomb set to go off during a charity event expected to attract 10,000 people, authorities said. An army patrol discovered the explosives packed in fertilizer bags on a roadside at Warren Point, 35 miles south of Belfast, where a fundraising event and golf tournament. sponsored by the Concerned to Raise Funds for the Third World. was to be held. It took experts 48 hours to defuse and dismantle the bomb. Authorities blamed the outlawed Irish Republican Army for planting the explosives.
At least 20,000 people demonstrated near a nuclear power plant in northwestern Switzerland, demanding an immediate shutdown of the country’s five nuclear plants The demonstration outside the Goesgen nuclear plant was mostly peaceful, but police used water cannon and tear gas to disperse a band of about 50 masked militants who broke through the plant fence and set a wooden hut afire.
The Philippines will get $200 million in United States aid faster than originally expected to help it deal with immediate economic problems, American officials said. Secretary of State George P. Shultz is expected to announce the speed-up in the transfer of funds this week in Manila.
Israeli supporters of extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane set fire to the office of a socialist newspaper in Haifa, police said. Two young activists in Kahane’s Kach party were arrested shortly after setting the blaze, police spokesman Dov Lutzki said. “There is little doubt that their motives were political,” Lutzki said. The U.S.-born Kahane has accused the media of being leftist and has threatened “to take care of all the journalists” if he ever attains power. The fire at the Haifa bureau of the daily Al Hamishmar was extinguished quickly and caused little damage.
Syria said today that the release last week of two French television journalists who had been held by Muslim militants was the beginning of the end of captivity for all Western hostages in Lebanon. “The end of the ordeal of the foreign hostages in Lebanon is at hand now that two of the French captives have been freed,” the state-controlled Damascus radio said in a commentary. Five Americans and seven Frenchmen are among the Westerners missing in Lebanon. Despite the Syrian statement, it was not known if there had been any concrete progress toward the release of the remaining hostages.
A textile factory collapsed during monsoon rains in India, and at least 67 people were feared killed. The United News of India news agency reported that more than 100 workers were inside the three-story building at Taloja, about 40 miles south of Romhay, when it collapsed during the downpour. Reporters said they saw workers trapped under the debris, and rescue operations continued into the night. At least 22 workers were injured.
Terrorists believed to be Sikh extremists stabbed to death three Hindu children in Punjab, and eight other people were killed in attacks in the troubled northern Indian state, police reported. In the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, police fired into the air to stop rioting by Hindus protesting the death of a youth shot by police during an anti-Sikh demonstration. Sikh militants are conducting a campaign of terror in an effort to gain a separate nation in Punjab.
A bomb that the Sri Lankan authorities said was planted by Tamil guerrillas exploded in a crowded market in the eastern town of Kantalai today, killing 2 people and wounding 20, a military spokesman said. The spokesman, Colonel Lakshman Wijeyaratne, commander of military operations in Trincomalee district, said by telephone that the bomb, hidden inside a parcel, had been placed outside a boutique at the Kantalai market. The town was put under a curfew until Monday morning.
Anti-riot forces in Manila fired pistols, tear gas and water cannons at stone-throwing demonstrators who had gathered in front of a suburban army camp today, shouting their support of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos and Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile. Several people were reported wounded, four of them by gunshots.
Haiti is in such disorder that no one can predict what will happen next. Four months after the collapse of the Duvalier regime, there have been scores of lynchings, house-burnings and strikes, and very little seems to have changed for the better.
An explosion believed caused by a bomb tore through the Honduran Embassy in Lima, Peru, causing extensive damage but no injuries, the ambassador and police said. The blast blew out all the doors and windows of the embassy in a residential area in western Lima, Ambassador Carlos Martinez Castillo said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, the third to hit the Peruvian capital in a 24-hour period. The bombings followed last week’s prison uprising by Maoist guerrillas in which at least 250 inmates were killed.
The body of a Green Beret sergeant stabbed to death by a Honduran soldier during joint military maneuvers in Honduras was flown to Panama en route to the United States. A joint U.S.-Honduran investigation was continuing into the death of Staff Sgt. Timothy Hudgens, 28, of Morristown, Tenn. A second American, Sgt. Christopher Bresko, was wounded. The U.S. soldiers, members of the 7th Special Forces unit based at Ft. Bragg. N.C.. were participating in maneuvers that began June 4 in two provinces of eastern Honduras near the Nicaraguan border.
Senator Jesse Helms said today that General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the army commander and strongman of Panama, was “head of the biggest drug trafficking operation in the Western Hemisphere.” Senator Helms, a North Carolina Republican who is a senior member of the Foreign Relations Committee, was the first American public official to affirm on the record published reports about what has been described as General Noriega’s connection to drug traffic and other illegal activities. The first of the reports appeared in The New York Times on June 12.
The Government of Peru has acknowledged that the military may have used excessive force in retaking one of the three prisons where imprisoned guerrillas rioted last week. A communique Saturday night from the press office of President Alan Garcia said the government “guaranteed” that the guilty would be punished. It said the military command had been ordered to begin the necessary investigations. At the same time, the government expressed support for the armed forces, which it said had “loyally complied with their obligation of service to the nation and obedience to the constitutional government.”
Three bombs exploded around Durban late Saturday night and early today, and one of them caused a huge fire near an oil refinery, the police said. A mile-long slick of oil from ruptured pipes was spreading in the Indian Ocean this evening. No injuries were reported. The blasts came a week after a car bomb devastated a seaside section of Durban, killing three women, two white and one of Indian descent, and wounding 69 people. Oliver Tambo, the president of the African National Congress, a banned anti-apartheid group, said last week in Geneva that the earlier bombing in Durban might have been carried out by his guerrillas. In Bophuthatswana, one of four nominally independent homelands within South Africa, a black police brigadier was shot to death while visiting a friend, according to the police.
The leader of a high-level Commonwealth study group on South Africa warned this weekend that imposing economic sanctions against that country was the only way to protect Western investments there. “The choices before the West are very stark now,” said Malcolm Fraser, the former Prime Minister of Australia, who was co-chairman of the Commonwealth’s Eminent Persons Group that last week completed a seven-month study of South Africa’s crisis.
White South Africans are untouched, for the most part, by the nationwide emergency decree. Smoke curled up from the white-hot charcoal fire grilling plump chickens and sausages lathered in red barbeque sauce. A clump of white men and women in their 20’s warmed their hands over the grill. By the small pool, another cluster of guests talked excitedly about dipping real-estate prices. Here, and at many other braais, or cookouts, in the white suburbs of Johannesburg, there are no signs that South Africa is a country in a state of emergency, that heavily armed police officers in steel-plated vehicles roam black townships a 12-minute drive away. To those in Johannesburg’s white suburbs, the police patrols and tear gas are a world away. One white resident said: “Well, you wouldn’t see it here, would you? It doesn’t affect us.”
Federal civil rights laws provide some protection to AIDS victims, but employers and public health officials who believe they are preventing the spread of the fatal disease may discriminate against people afflicted with it, the Justice Department has ruled. This decision interprets the legal rights of people with AIDS and related conditions much more narrowly than the department’s career civil rights lawyers had recommended. Despite scientists’ assurances that the infection cannot be spread through casual contact, under the Justice Department’s opinion employers and others would apparently be able to discriminate against AIDS victims even if the employers’ fears were not based on scientific opinion. “The risk of medical uncertainty must be borne” by the person alleging discrimination, the department says.
The President and First Lady leave for the White House after their stay at Camp David.
The President and First Lady enjoy their lunch on the Truman Balcony.
The governors of New Jersey and New York are expected to sign a “memorandum of understanding” today designating that sales tax revenues from ventures on Liberty and Ellis islands go to aid the two states’ homeless and hungry, officials said in Trenton, New Jersey. The memo, awaiting signatures from New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean and New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo, will settle a longstanding feud over which state should get revenues from the historic islands and how the money should be spent, a spokesman for Kean said.
A Soviet passenger plane believed carrying an expelled Soviet Embassy air force attaché whom FBI agents caught trying to dig up U.S. military secrets in a Maryland woods last week left New York for Moscow. The plane was believed to be carrying Colonel Vladimir Makarovich Izmaylov, his wife and family. Officials could not confirm that Izmaylov was aboard the plane, but one official in Washington said no delay was anticipated in expelling the Soviet official. FBI agents captured Izmaylov, 43. late Thursday night trying to dig up classified documents they had planted at a wooded “dead drop” in Fort Washington, Maryland, outside Washington.
Violence at a Denver festival resulted in the wounding of a police officer, and a suspect was being questioned. The “Juneteenth” festival, in which black communities in the Southwest celebrate the emancipation of Texas slaves in 1865, was marred by three consecutive nights of brawls among youths. Extra police remained on duty in Denver for the end of the Juneteenth black emancipation celebration, after one officer was shot in the arm and a bottle-throwing crowd of more than 200 was scattered by tear gas and police dogs in a second night of violence. Juneteenth celebrates the day Texas slaves learned of their freedom in 1865. The observance began in black communities of the South, and blacks carried the tradition with them when they moved north and west. Denver’s celebration is held annually in the city’s mostly black Five Points area. This year’s five-day festival, marred by street riots Friday and Saturday nights after the official festival had closed, ended with a gospel concert.
The National Science Foundation said it is flying four teams of scientists to Antarctica in the dead of winter to try to find out what is causing a dramatic “hole” in the ozone radiation shield above the frozen continent. About half of the ozone above a broad area of Antarctica has been disappearing every spring since the mid-1970s and researchers do not know if it is an early warning sign of changes for the entire planet or whether it is just a local phenomenon. Ozone, a form of oxygen, filters out harmful amounts of ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
Residents of the Grand Canyon National Park paid their respects at a memorial service for the 25 victims of an in-flight collision Wednesday between a sightseeing plane and helicopter About 300 people from the small Arizona community filled the multi-denominational center in Grand Canyon Village. Many were forced to stand in the aisles because of the large crowd. The families of the pilots of both planes attended the service. The Rev. Richard Matteson of the Grand Canyon Community Church and the Rev. Ronnie Nation of the Grand Canyon Baptist Church spoke at the 45-minute service.
Union negotiators for two divisions of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company today rejected a new offer as talks were held in the three-week strike. Rozanne Weissman, spokesman for the Communications Workers of America, said a bargaining committee for 35,000 union members employed by A.T.&T.’s division that installs and services business telephone equipment had unanimously rejected the offer. She said negotiators for the company and 76,000 union members who work in A.T.&T.’s division that primarily handles long-distance service had also failed to reach an agreement on a new three-year contract. “We are still bargaining,” she said. A tentative national pact reached Tuesday is subject to approval of separate accords with A.T.&T.’s six large operating divisions.
States are backing entrepreneurs, playing the role of venture capitalists and bankrolling high-risk projects they hope will create jobs in new industries. Middle West states like Michigan, Ohio and Indiana are taking the lead in this field, trying to shape a new industrial base.
A merger of retail giants may take place if a bid by May Department Stores is accepted by Associated Dry Goods Inc., the owner of the Lord & Taylor and J.W. Robinson retail chains. The merged company would move into a virtual deadlock in terms of sales with the industry’s current leader, Federated Department Stores.
Schools dominated by black students but ruled by white officials still fill the rural South, a generation after the imposition of integration. The system has persisted in parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas because of a structure that perpetuates white control, and because the black voting-age population has often failed to vote its strength.
The threat of breast cancer may be lessened by the manipulation of a woman’s hormones through diet or exercise or perhaps simple drug therapy, early findings from new studies suggest. Breast cancer, a disease that will strike one in 11 American women, has in the last few years forced researchers back to square one in their efforts to understand its causes and develop methods of prevention. Based on early findings from new studies, some experts now predict that manipulation of a woman’s hormones through diet and exercise or perhaps simple drug therapy may help to keep the disease at bay. The suggested changes involve following a low-fat or low-calorie diet throughout life and pursuing vigorous physical activity, especially during the teens and early adult years. Although a decade or more of research needs to be completed before the effectiveness of such measures is fully known, the investigators point out that good diet and exercise habits can only help, not hurt. At the least, they would reduce the risk of developing heart disease and obesity and its attendant health problems.
High winds knocked down trees and power lines in Indianapolis as strong thunderstorms spread across the state. “We’ve got trees and hot wires down every place,” said Kathy Stockman, an Indianapolis police dispatcher. Utility crews restored electricity to thousands of customers in parts of northeastern Minnesota that were raked by high winds the night before. Winds gusting from 60 mph to 70 mph also blew down trees and power lines Saturday night and damaged roofs across parts of South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska, and rain soaked the region, the National Weather Service said. Scattered tornadoes also were reported.
Judy Dickinson holed an 87-yard shot for an eagle then made up for a double bogey with three birdies to gain a one-stroke victory today at the Rochester International. Mrs. Dickinson shot a two-under-par 70 on the final 18 holes to finish at 281 for the Ladies Professional Golf Association tournament at the Locust Hill Country Club. She earned $38,250.
Returning to the area where he was reared, Bob Tway birdied five of the final eight holes today to complete a round of eight-under-par 64 and capture the $500,000 Georgia-Pacific Atlanta Golf Classic. “I just didn’t make any mistakes,” Tway said after becoming the first player this season to attain three victories on the PGA Tour. Tway’s 72-hole score of 269 was 19 under par on the hilly, 7,007-yard Atlanta Country Club course.
Senior Tournament Players Championship Men’s Golf, Canterbury GC: Chi Chi Rodriguez wins his first career major title by 2 strokes from Bruce Crampton of Australia.
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Storm Davis and Don Aase combined on a three-hitter, and John Shelby drove in three runs with three hits today as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Boston Red Sox, 4–0. Davis (6–7) took a one-hitter and a 2–0 lead into the eighth inning. He left after allowing singles to Dwight Evans and Rich Gedman, and Aase got the final four outs for his 19th save, the most in the major leagues. Shelby singled and scored in the first inning, drove in a run with a single in the fifth and added a two-run single in the ninth. Jeff Sellers (0–3), a rookie, took the loss. He gave up nine hits before being relieved in the ninth inning. The Orioles, who had lost 8 of their last 10 games, won two out of three in the weekend series against Boston.
The Chicago White Sox beat the Seattle Mariners, 10–4. Ozzie Guillen and Bobby Bonilla each drove in two runs and the Chicago White Sox made Jim Fregosi’s managerial debut a success. Fregosi, who had been managing Louisville in the American Association, replaced Tony LaRussa, who was fired Friday. Doug Rader, who managed Friday and Saturday, was back as third base coach.
The Reds set back the Braves, 5–2. Eric Davis scored the game’s first run on an error and added a two-run homer to lead Cincinnati. Atlanta’s Craig McMurtry (1–4) allowed five hits in seven innings but was victimized by the second baseman Ken Oberkfell’s error for an unearned run in the sixth and Davis’s homer in the seventh.
The Kansas City Royals downed the California Angels, 7–4. Steve Balboni hit a three-run homer and Scott Bankhead, a rookie, pitched seven strong innings for Kansas City. The Royals broke a four-game losing streak and ended California’s five-game winning streak. Balboni’s 14th home run of the season capped a four-run rally in the second inning.
The San Diego Padres edged the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5–4. Tim Flannery hit a tie-breaking home run with two out in the top of the ninth as San Diego completed a three-game sweep of Los Angeles, all one-run victories. The homer came off the reliever Tom Niedenfuer (5–3) and landed just inside the right-field foul pole. It was the ninth home run allowed by Niedenfuer in 43 innings. Craig Lefferts (5–2), the third San Diego pitcher, allowed two hits over the final three and two-thirds innings to get the victory. The Padres, who erased a 5–0 deficit Saturday night, came from 4–0 behind this time, tying the game in the eighth when Graig Nettles singled with two out and Garry Templeton’s single scored the pinch-runner Bip Roberts, who had stolen second. The game marked the debut of Craig Shipley, the first Australian-born player to appear in a major-league game. The 22-year-old switch-hitting shortstop from Parramatta, New South Wales, was called up to replace the infielder Dave Anderson.
Mike Felder’s bases-loaded single with two outs in the ninth inning gave Milwaukee a 5–4 victory over Detroit. With the score tied at 4–4 in the bottom of the ninth, the Brewers’ Billy Jo Robidoux drew a leadoff walk from the reliever Dave LaPoint (2–6). Earnest Riles sacrificed the pinch-runner Rick Manning to second, and John Pacella came in to pitch and intentionally walked Jim Gantner. After Dale Sveum lined out, Rick Cerone walked, loading the bases. Willie Hernandez then relieved Pacella, and Felder lined his game-winning single. Bob Gibson (1–0) just called up from Class AAA Vancouver, pitched one hitless inning and got the victory. The Brewers had tied the score at 4–4 in the eighth when Cecil Cooper greeted LaPoint with a two-out, two-run single that scored Felder and Robin Yount, who had each singled.
Phil Niekro allows two hits in the 1st inning and then knuckles down to hold the Twins hitless in the next 8 innings as Cleveland wins, 4–1. Niekro, 4–6 this season and 304–256 in his career, pitched his ninth career two-hitter. He struck out four and walked none in his second complete game of the year. Niekro gave up a single to Kirby Puckett in the Minnesota first. Puckett took second on a groundout and scored when Kent Hrbek followed with a single that tied the score at 1–1. The only other Twins to reach base were Gary Gaetti, who got aboard on the third baseman Brook Jacoby’s error with two outs in the first and Hrbek, who was hit by a pitch with two outs in the ninth. Mike Smithson (6–6) lasted just two and one-third innings for Minnesota, leaving after Mel Hall hit a two-run homer in the third.
The Expos edged the Pirates, 2–1. Vance Law’s pinch-hit single in the seventh inning scored Herm Winningham with the go-ahead run to give Montreal the victory. Winningham led off the seventh with a double and went to third on Mike Fitzgerald’s bunt single. After a popout, Law, batting for Al Newman, singled behind the bag at second to drive in Winningham. Joe Hesketh (5–4) pitched seven innings and allowed nine hits, for the victory. For Pittsburgh, Bill Almon’s leadoff homer in the first inning was one of four hits he got off Hesketh. Hesketh struck out six and walked none before Jeff Reardon pitched the final two innings for his 17th save. Montreal tied the game in the second on singles by Hubie Brooks, Tim Wallach and Jason Thompson.
“That’s the Darling I love,” said a relaxed Davey Johnson yesterday, without even one twitch in his brush mustache. His sometimes-erratic young right-hander, Ron Darling, unveiled a new pitch, didn’t walk a batter and threw a complete game as the Mets beat the Cubs, 4–2. He even slugged two singles after compiling only two hits his first 34 times at bat. Darling, who raised his record to 8–2, thus helped the Mets retain their 10-game lead over the Expos, who start a three-game series at Shea Stadium tonight, facing Dwight Gooden.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 7–4. Terry Pendleton’s three-run double capped a five-run sixth inning as the St. Louis rookie Greg Mathews won for the third consecutive time. Mathews (4–1) allowed seven hits and struck out eight in seven and two-thirds innings before Todd Worrell came on for his 13th save.
San Francisco sweeps a doubleheader from Houston 4–2 and 3–2 and leapfrogs past the Astros into first place in the National League West. Mike Aldrete’s bases-loaded grounder in the eighth inning gave San Francisco the nightcap victory. The Giants won the opener as Chris Brown drove in a pair of runs with a double and a single and Mike Krukow (9–4) scattered seven hits. After the Astros tied the second game in the top of the eighth on Billy Hatcher’s two-run single, Rob Thompson drew a leadoff walk in the bottom half from the Houston relief ace Dave Smith (1–4), who replaced Mike Scott at the start of the inning. One out later, Candy Maldonado singled Thompson to second and Chris Brown walked to load the bases. Aldrete then forced Brown at second as Thompson scored the winning run.
The Oakland Athletics bowed to the Texas Rangers, 5–4. Gary Ward drove in four runs with three hits, including a two-run triple that broke a seventh-inning tie and gave Texas the victory. Texas won its 11th straight game at home, a team record. The A’s lost for the 14th consecutive time on the road, also a club mark. The Rangers rallied from a 3–2 deficit with three runs in the seventh, capped by Ward’s triple.
Willie Randolph wore the scars of a long and difficult afternoon. He had been spiked on the left forearm, burned on the palm of his right hand by a slide into the artificial turf, and cut inside his mouth by a head-first slide into third base. But Randolph’s wounds were bearable. The Yankees suffered a far greater indignity: an utterly humiliating 15–1 loss today to the Toronto Blue Jays on the eve of another important three-game series with the Boston Red Sox.
Baltimore Orioles 4, Boston Red Sox 0
Seattle Mariners 4, Chicago White Sox 10
Atlanta Braves 2, Cincinnati Reds 5
California Angels 4, Kansas City Royals 7
San Diego Padres 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Detroit Tigers 4, Milwaukee Brewers 5
Cleveland Indians 4, Minnesota Twins 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Montreal Expos 2
Chicago Cubs 2, New York Mets 4
St. Louis Cardinals 7, Philadelphia Phillies 4
Houston Astros 2, San Francisco Giants 4
Houston Astros 2, San Francisco Giants 3
Oakland Athletics 4, Texas Rangers 5
New York Yankees 1, Toronto Blue Jays 15
Died:
Matti Rautio, 64, Finnish classical composer (The Blue Heron).
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