The President met for the first time with the new Soviet Ambassador, Yuri V. Dubinin, who presented his credentials and a letter from Mikhail S. Gorbachev. White House officials said the Kremlin had been sending “positive signals” about a summit meeting in the United States this year. There was no discussion in Gorbachev’s letter of a date for a summit meeting between the Soviet leader and the President, the White House added. Reagan has said he is waiting for Gorbachev to set a date for the summit. In his first meeting with Reagan, lasting 40 minutes, Dubinin formally presented his diplomatic credentials. Michael Guest, a White House spokesman, said Mr. Reagan and Mr. Dubinin had discussed “a lot of topics” in a 40-minute meeting. Mr. Guest declined to discuss details of the meeting or the content of the letter from Mr. Gorbachev.
Allied disarmament experts met today in Brussels to begin what is expected to be a long effort to forge a new approach to the control of conventional arms. North Atlantic Treaty Organization sources said a high-level task force, set up last month, held its first meeting with arms control experts from all 16 member countries under the chairmanship of Deputy Secretary General Marcello Guidi. The group is expected to meet periodically over the next few months. It has been told to produce an interim report on its work in October. The NATO move and comments by the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, have focused new attention on the East-West balance in conventional arms and military forces. The West says its forces are outgunned and outnumbered in Europe. The NATO task force has been assigned to find new proposals to be presented at the long-stalled Vienna talks on force reduction levels in central Europe and at the 35-nation Stockholm conference on European disarmament.
Portugal expelled two Soviet Embassy junior officials for activities threatening the country’s security, the Foreign Ministry said. A ministry spokesman said that Vladimir Galkine and Guennadi Chiniev, members of the embassy’s commercial department, were told to leave within three days for “inadmissible intervention in internal affairs against the security of the state.” He declined to elaborate but said the officials held “non-diplomatic status.” The expulsions raised to nine the number of Soviet diplomats and officials ousted since Portugal established diplomatic relations with Moscow in 1974.
The seventeen nations that made up the United Nations War Crimes Commission are unlikely to allow public access to its 36,000 files on war criminals, suspects and witnesses, according to diplomats and United Nations officials. According to these sources. the governments may recommend that the files be made more readily available for official use; they may also request that the master list of names be made public, since another copy of the list was discovered last month on an open shelf in a United States military archive in Maryland. But representatives of a number of the countries involved have indicated an unwillingness to allow public access to the files, which may contain unsubstantiated charges against people who may still be alive. Some diplomats have expressed the belief that Israelis and American Jewish groups that are calling for public access are manipulating the issue in an effort to discredit the United Nations, whose members often take positions against Israel.
Two Dublin brothers were sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison for kidnaping millionaire banker’s wife Jennifer Guinness from her home in Howth, Ireland, eight miles north of Dublin, last April. John Cunningham, 35, was sentenced to 17 years for falsely imprisoning the wife of brewing-banking heir John Guinness, and his brother, Michael, 36, was sentenced to 14 years. The kidnapers had demanded a $2.8-million ransom for her safe release, but she was freed by police after eight days, with no ransom paid.
Northern Ireland police stormed the Parliament building in Belfast before dawn and removed 20 Protestant politicians protesting the British government’s closing of the provincial assembly. The 20, led by the Rev. Ian Paisley, head of Protestant forces who demand continued British rule in Ulster, had refused to leave the assembly the previous afternoon, when the order officially closing the assembly was read. Britain ordered the dissolution earlier this month, saying the legislature was a failure. Roman Catholic parties have boycotted the assembly since its founding in 1982.
France staged a preview of New York’s July 4 celebrations in Paris today, unveiling a newly renovated copy of the Statue of Liberty. The 52-foot-high copy was presented to the French people in 1885 by Americans living here in gratitude for France’s gift of the real one, which was still a year away from completion in New York Harbor. It stands at the tip of an island in the Seine near the Eiffel Tower, staring toward her bigger sister an ocean away. But the colorful ceremony along the Seine also acquired political significance as Prime Minister Jacques Chirac sought to dispel American resentment at his refusal to let United States warplanes fly over France on their way to attack Libya two months ago.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel has sent a good-will message to the new Austrian Chancellor, Franz Vranitzky, a step diplomats described today as a sign that the two countries are moving to repair relations damaged by Kurt Waldheim’s election as President. The Israeli charge d’affaires, Uri Prosor, said the telegram was sent over the weekend. Foreign Minister Peter Jankowitsch has received a similar message from Yitzhak Shamir, his counterpart, a spokesman said. Diplomats said the messages, together with a visit to a kibbutz today by Austria’s Ambassador to Tel Aviv, indicated attempts to heal the rift over the former United Nations chief, who has been accused of deliberately concealing his war record. Israel withdrew its ambassador to Vienna for consultations after Mr. Waldheim, who has denied charges of involvement in Nazi atrocities, won earlier election this month.
Twenty-five Hindu paramilitary troops were charged today with beating three Sikh policemen and freeing Hindu militants from jail. The authorities also announced that paramilitary troops had killed Harminder Singh Shammi, president of a group representing victims of the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. The authorities said Mr. Shammi was carrying two pistols when he was shot Sunday as he rode his motor bike. Supporters charged that he had been murdered and that the weapons were then planted on his body. In another incident, a Sikh locomotive engineer, Sarup Singh, was stabbed to death by a mob of Hindus returning from a meeting with the Punjab Chief Minister, Surjit Singh Barnala, who arrived here to assess the deteriorating situation, the police said.
A state of emergency was declared on southern Thailand’s resort island of Phuket after tens of thousands of people protesting plans to open a metal refinery set fire to the plant, a hotel and six vehicles, officials said. Police reinforcements were rushed in, troops were put on alert and Thai Industry Minister Chirayu Isarakun Na Ayuthaya was evacuated by helicopter after being manhandled by a mob. The demonstrators charged that the refinery-which would produce tantalum, used in the aerospace, electronics and weapons industries-would pollute the environment and hurt tourism.
South Korean dissident leaders, responding to criticism over their agreement to negotiate constitutional changes with the ruling party, pledged today to work for the release of political detainees. The dissident leaders, Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam, who control the main opposition New Korea Democratic Party, said during a meeting with about 60 relatives of prisoners that they would seek a Government promise that all political prisoners would be released before they started discussions with the Government. The party, which agreed Saturday to form a parliamentary committee with President Chun Doo Hwan’s party to work on a new Constitution, had earlier said some 1,500 dissidents remained in prison.
A strong earthquake rocked Tokyo and central Japan, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The Central Meteorological Agency in Tokyo reported a preliminary reading of 6.9 on the Richter scale, indicating a tremor capable of extensive damage near the epicenter, situated in the seabed 50 miles off the coast east of the capital. A tidal wave warning was issued for the eastern coastal region, from the northern tip of Honshu, Japan’s main island, to Shizuoka, about 100 miles south of the heavily populated capital region. The international airport at Narita was shut down, and high-speed rail service was also halted while runways and tracks were inspected for damage.
The Prime Minister of this Southeast Asian nation warned Secretary of State George P. Shultz today that failure by the Reagan Administration to resist protectionist pressures in Congress could encourage Soviet inroads in this region of the world. According to a senior American official, Mr. Shultz told Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew that he shared his concerns and would do all he could to prevent passage of bills now before Congress that would severely limit exports to the United States from nations like Singapore, which specializes in textiles and high-technology manufactures. Protectionist trends pose “real dangers,” Mr. Shultz said in a news conference as he flew here. Mr. Shultz is in Southeast Asia to attend the meeting of the foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The meeting this year is in Manila, where Mr. Shultz flies Tuesday after a stopover in Brunei.
President Corazon C. Aquino urged leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations today to look to the organizations’s own shortcomings before blaming the developed nations for all of the region’s economic woes. Mrs. Aquino’s unexpectedly pointed remarks were followed later in the morning by a speech in a similar vein by Vice President Salvador H. Laurel, who is also the Philippine Foreign Minister. At a meeting expected to concentrate on complaints against protectionist trade legislation in the United States, a theme sounded by Thailand and Malaysia, Mr. Laurel instead put forward specific suggestions for better economic cooperation among the association’s nations: Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei and the Philippines. The ministers from the regional association are to meet with Secretary of State George P. Shultz later this week. At the regional association’s last ministerial meeting in Bali in April, Mr. Laurel was reported to have annoyed Mr. Shultz with demands for large increases in aid to Manila. Today he acknowledged being disappointed with the results of the Bali meeting and of the economic summit meeting that followed in Tokyo.
The House Speaker rejected a White House request that President Reagan be permitted to address the House today to make an appeal for $100 million in aid for the Nicaraguan rebels. Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. said the President was welcome to address a joint session of Congress, but that “having the President appear before only one house to lobby for a legislative proposal would be unprecedented.”
President P. W. Botha has spoken at length about a Communist threat to the nation. The theme is not new among the nation’s white leaders, but increasingly it finds a kind of counterpoint in the nation’s segregated black townships. For roughly a year at black political gatherings it has been a custom to pay some kind of homage to Marxism, for which any support is perceived as a challenge by the white authorities. Sometimes it is the unfurling of a Soviet flag that makes the tribute. Other times, demonstrators chant slogans lauding the formal alliance between the outlawed African National Congress and the banned South African Communist Party.
One of South Africa’s biggest treason trials ended today with the acquittal of the last four of 16 defendants. The four, all union activists, would have faced the death penalty had they been convicted. The charges were dropped after the prosecutor said he wished to stop the trial. He offered no explanation for his request. Cries of “Amandla!” (“Power!”) rang out in the Pietermaritzburg courtroom as Justice John Milne, the Natal Province Judge President, left the court after ordering the four defendants acquitted of all charges. The four are Sisa Njikelana, Sam Kikine, Isaac Ngcobo and Thozamile Gqweta. In Johannesburg, meanwhile, the authorities ordered Newsweek magazine’s correspondent in South Africa to leave the country by midnight Thursday. It marked the second time since the declaration of a nationwide state of emergency on June 12 that a foreign journalist had been ordered to leave. “I have considered it to be in the public interest to order your removal from the Republic of South Africa,” the Minister of Home Affairs, Stoffel Botha, said in a telex to the reporter, Richard Manning. The Government gave no formal explanation for the order.
In a major expansion of the Government’s unmanned rocket program, Air Force officials said today they plan to build a new, mid-sized rocket to lift military payloads grounded by the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. The officials also said they would require the rocket’s manufacturer to develop a commercial version of the vehicle to compete with Ariane, the European program that launches private commercial satellites. The announcement by Edward C. Aldridge Jr., who was appointed Secretary of the Air Force two months ago, marked the Reagan Administration’s first concrete proposal since the Challenger disaster about how it planned to encourage a national rocket industry. “What we are hoping,” Mr. Aldridge said today after an address to aerospace executives, “is that we can create the basis for a production line that will let private industry compete effectively with Ariane.” Air Force officials said the White House and Congress had not granted final approval for a mid-size rocket that would reduce the military’s dependence on the space shuttle. But the officials said there have been no major objections and the formal request for proposals from aerospace companies is expected to be sent out in the next few weeks.
It may be impossible to redesign the shuttle booster rocket and conduct tests on it in time to resume shuttle flights by NASA’s target date of July, 1987, Richard H. Truly, chief of the shuttle program, told aerospace executives in Washington, D.C. He pointed out also that the National Research Council panel that is to oversee the redesigning is just beginning its work. Competition for space on the resumed shuttle flights is likely to be intense, and Air Force Secretary Edward C. Aldridge Jr. said that half of about 20 backlogged Pentagon payloads may be launched by expendable rockets.
President Reagan participates in an interview with Jack Nelson, Washington Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times. President Reagan today called abortion “murder” but said he had made no effort to seek the views of his judicial nominees on this or any other social issue. Mr. Reagan made the remarks in the course of discussing social issues and his judicial appointments in a wide-ranging interview with The Los Angeles Times, a transcript of which was released by the White House. In opposing abortion, the President said, “I don’t think that I’m trying to do something that is taking a privilege away from womanhood, because I don’t think that womanhood should be considering murder a privilege.”
President Reagan places a call to Arnaud de Borchgrave, Editor in Chief, Washington Times.
The House passed a bill to place communication by electronic mail, paging devices, car telephones and data transmitters under the same privacy protection as first-class mail. Rep. Pat Swindall (R-Georgia) said that the measure also outlines due process for authorities to follow when they intercept such communications. A prosecutor would have to demonstrate probable cause to suspect criminal activity and get court permission to search electronic files. The change is backed by both the Reagan Administration and civil libertarians. A similar bill is pending in the Senate.
The General Accounting Office told Congress that aircraft chartered to move military personnel have a higher rate of failing federal inspections than commercial airliners. The report said that 75% of the planes under Pentagon contract were ranked in the lower half of all aircraft inspected by the Federal Aviation Administration. Rep. Charles Bennett (D-Florida) has introduced legislation to require Pentagon inspection of all such flights.
A bitterly divided Supreme Court today upheld by 5 to 4 a Florida man’s conviction and death sentence for a brutal murder, despite what all nine Justices condemned as an improper effort by prosecutors to inflame the jury’s passions. The decision was marked by sharp exchanges between the majority, which stressed the repetitive appeals that had delayed the execution for the 1973 murder, and the dissent, which said the majority was willing to send to his death a man who had not received a fair trial. Both the majority and dissenting opinions condemned statements by prosecutors in their closing arguments that the defendant was “an animal” who should be on “a leash,” that someone should have “blown his head off,” and similar comments. But Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.’s majority opinion, noting that there was no constitutional right to a “perfect” trial, said, “We agree with the reasoning of every court to consider these comments that they did not deprive petitioner of a fair trial.”
Opposition to a judicial nominee is increasing. Deans of more than 30 of the nation’s most prestigious law schools have joined to urge the Senate to reject the nomination of Daniel A. Manion, an Indiana lawyer whose legal background and conservative politics have come under fire. The deans say that Mr. Manion is not qualified for a post on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago.
State by state, through the huge new churches, the handsome new clubs and restaurants of the New South, the Rev. Marion G. (Pat) Robertson, the television evangelist, is promoting himself for the Presidency. He is a Republican, and it is in a Southern regional primary, he says, that the nomination will be won. It was in the election of Jimmy Carter, another Southerner, as President that the evangelical Christian vote became an important factor, and it has grown more potent through a decade of political awakening. In the process, television ministers of the religious right like the Rev. Jerry Falwell have become powerful brokers within the national Republican Party structure, heavily influencing the form and appearance of the party, its candidates and its platform. But Mr. Robertson, who commands the largest national television audience of them all, from the studios of his Christian Broadcasting Network in Virginia Beach, Va., is the first to enter the secular world of politics as a possible candidate himself.
People Express may be forced to sell all or part of the company. The carrier, which revolutionized the airline industry with its low-fare strategy, has been plagued by losses as its more established rivals fought back with low fares of their own and as it struggled to cope with its rapid growth.
An armed robber took five hostages in a jewelry store on Rodeo Drive this morning, causing the authorities to cordon off several blocks of one of the world’s most exclusive shopping districts as they negotiated into the night for the release of the captives. More than 80 officers, including three specially trained police teams, surrounded the Van Cleef & Arpels of California store, and negotiated by telephone with the gunman, who said he had stabbed one of his captives to death because the man had disobeyed his orders “to keep his mouth shut.” The police said the suspect had threatened to kill his five hostages, all store employees, but said they could not confirm his claims that he had stabbed the store security guard. Chief Marvin Iannone of the Beverly Hills police said that based on telephone negotiations with the gunman, “It is my firm belief that no one is injured inside. I hope and pray that it is true.”
The bodies of two reputed mobsters who disappeared more than a week ago were found in a shallow grave in an Indiana cornfield, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. Officials said the badly beaten bodies of the brothers, Anthony and Michael Spilotro, had been discovered in a five-foot grave by a farmer working on his land.
As the AIDS epidemic worsens, changes in various patterns of the untreatable lethal disease can be expected to increase the complexities of dealing with it, according to a leading expert. Some experts say an increasing number of AIDS patients are apparently suffering dementia.
Women as well as men may be prosecuted for statutory rape, the Maine State Supreme Court ruled today, paving the way for trial of a woman accused of raping a 13-year-old boy. The justices concluded that Maine’s rape laws under the criminal code are “gender neutral” and dismissed a defense argument that only women may be the victims of rape, said Assistant Attorney General Wayne Moss. “Taken together, these statutes represent a comprehensive effort on behalf of the Legislature to outlaw the sexual exploitation of children, whether male or female,” the court said.
The Lyndon LaRouche candidate for Illinois secretary of state, Janice Hart, was arrested and fined $50 in a late court appearance in Skokie, Illinois. Charged with disorderly conduct — allegedly striking a Roman Catholic archbishop with a slice of raw liver at a meeting in Chicago last year — Hart, 31, was fined for failing to appear on May 27, the original court date on the charge, and ordered to return August 19 for a hearing. She told the judge that she spent last month campaigning for LaRouche candidates in Europe.
The Air Force is testing use of drugs, chiefly Pyirdostigmine bromide, that it hopes can improve fighter pilots’ tolerance of extraordinary gravity forces, Aviation Week & Space Technology reported. The magazine said that the aim of the experiments, at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, is to find a fast-acting, short-term means of elevating a pilot’s blood pressure to offset the effect of blood leaving the brain during high-speed flight maneuvers.
Many cities will fail to meet a deadline next year for reducing ozone pollution, a major component of smog, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said today. Lee M. Thomas, the Administrator of the agency, warned that Federal, state and local governments would have to take more stringent actions to protect public health and the environment from ozone. He said new studies had shown that ozone in the air could hurt people in good health as well those in poor health. Previously, it was believed that ozone was mainly a threat to people suffering from asthma and other respiratory and pulmonary disorders.
Roy M. Cohn may no longer practice law before New York State courts. A unanimous 49-page decision by a five-judge panel of the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court ordered the disbarment of the prominent lawyer because of what it called Mr. Cohn’s “unethical” conduct in four legal cases.
Len Bias was described this morning as a “blessing to our generation” by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and as someone whose sudden death should be a “message” to the young people who admired him. “God sometimes uses our best people to get our attention,” Jackson said during a moving, 90-minute funeral service at the Memorial Chapel here on the University of Maryland campus. “He called him to get the attention of this generation. On a day the children mourn, I hope they learn.’
Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84).
Major League Baseball:
At Fenway, the Yankees collect 19 hits as they beat the Red Sox, 11–3, to move 5 games in back of Boston in the American League East. The timing isn’t the same, but the idea is, as far as the Yankees are concerned, that is. Battering the Red Sox as they did in a memorable series at Fenway Park in 1978, the Yankees won tonight and took a one-game slice out of Boston’s division lead. The Red Sox, who swept three games at Yankee Stadium only last week, now lead the Yankees by five games, with two games left in this series. When the Yankees arrived at Fenway on that Thursday in September ’78, they trailed the Red Sox by four games. When they departed, the teams were tied because the Yankees won all four games by scores of 15–3, 13–2, 7–0 and 7–4.
Ron Kittle hits homers in the 1st and 2nd innings and Greg Walker adds a 2nd-inning grand slam as the White Sox score 8 runs off starter Bert Blyleven in 1 ⅔ innings. The White Sox top the Twins, 11–2.
The Astros edged the Reds, 7–6. Glenn Davis hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth to give Houston a victory that snapped a four-game losing streak. Davis’s home run, his 15th of the season, came after Phil Garner led off with a single off Ted Power (3–5). Larry Andersen (1–0) got the victory in relief.
The A’s bowed to the Royals, 6–3. George Brett and Lonnie Smith drove in two runs each to hand the A’s their 15th consecutive road defeat. The A’s (28–43) are four losses from the American League record for consecutive road defeats.
The Braves tie the National League record for a 9-inning game by leaving 18 runners on base in a 6–5 win over the Dodgers. Pinch-hitter Ted Simmons singled home Ken Oberkfell in the eighth inning with the tie-breaking run to lead Atlanta past Los Angeles, despite the record.
The Mets staged a pair of tantalizingly poor performances last night before 44,199 spectators in Shea Stadium, and the bad actors were the two “stoppers” in the cast, in this order: For the second time in a week, Dwight Gooden pitched against his old backyard friend Floyd Youmans, and for the second time in a week did not win. And for the second time in three games, the Mets called on Jesse Orosco to protect a tie, and for the second time he lost it. Johnson Belts Two Homers As a result, the Montreal Expos beat the Mets, 5–4, in 10 innings and now have won three of four games in one week against the team with the best record in baseball. They didn’t exactly shatter the Mets’ glistening record, which now stands at 46 and 20, and they didn’t exactly shatter their lead in the National League’s East, which now stands at nine games. But they may have raised a few eyebrows.
The Phillies set a club record with 11 doubles, and Juan Samuel hits a pair of 3-run home runs in a 19–1 drubbing of the Cubs at Veterans Stadium. The Phillies set a National League record with 15 extra-base hits in support of six-hit pitching by Shane Rawley in the rout of the Cubs. Rich Schu had four hits, four runs batted in and scored three runs for the Phillies, who set a club record with 11 doubles among their 20 hits. Mike Schmidt and Milt Thompson also hit home runs.
The Indians beat the Mariners, 8–6.Rookie Andy Allanson hit his first professional home run, a two-run shot, and fellow rookie Cory Snyder drove in four runs for Cleveland. Allanson’s homer, which barely cleared the 349-foot mark in left field, a three-run double by Snyder and Tony Bernazard’s solo homer came in a six-run fourth inning that gave the Indians a 7–2 lead.
Mike LaCoss pitches a 3-hitter and belts his first Major League home run, off position player Dane Iorg, as the Giants pound the Padres 18–1. Tying a Major League record, 14 Giants get hits and 13 come around to score in the game. In his next at bat, on June 29th, LaCoss will belt the 2nd and last homer of what will be a 14-year career. That homer will be served up by Tom Browning of the Reds. Iorg gives up 4 runs in his inning, but does strike out centerfielder Randy Kutcher.
The Cardinals edged the Pirates, 2–1, in 11. Tom Herr, who went 5-for-5, singled home the winning run with the bases loaded in the 11th inning for the Cardinals, who rapped 15 hits. Herr, who had a double and four singles, drove home both runs as St. Louis won its fourth straight game, matching its season high.
Don Sutton won his 301st career game, and Doug DeCinces homered as California ended the Rangers’ 11-game home winning streak, beating Texas, 6–4. Sutton (6–5) allowed six hits.
The Brewers beat the Blue Jays, 5–3. Cecil Cooper belted a two-run homer and Robin Yount collected three hits to lead Milwaukee. Danny Darwin (4–3) scattered 10 hits and struck out three in seven and one-third innings. Dan Plesac worked one and two-thirds innings for his sixth save.
New York Yankees 11, Boston Red Sox 3
Minnesota Twins 2, Chicago White Sox 11
Cincinnati Reds 6, Houston Astros 7
Oakland Athletics 3, Kansas City Royals 6
Atlanta Braves 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
Montreal Expos 5, New York Mets 4
Chicago Cubs 1, Philadelphia Phillies 19
Cleveland Indians 8, Seattle Mariners 6
San Diego Padres 1, San Francisco Giants 18
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, St. Louis Cardinals 2
California Angels 6, Texas Rangers 4
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Toronto Blue Jays 3
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1864.26 (-15.28)
Born:
Sonya Balmores, American actress (“Beyond the Break”), model, and surfer, in Kalaheo, Hawaii.
Died:
Nigel Stock, 66, British actor (“Lost Continent”, “Young Sherlock Holmes”).
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