The United States has agreed to a Soviet proposal that the two sides meet in Geneva July 22 to discuss President Reagan’s decision to repudiate the strategic arms treaty of 1979, Administration officials said today. But the Administration also intends to broaden the agenda by discussing what it says are Soviet arms treaty violations, the officials added. A White House spokesman, Edward P. Djerejian, said today that the United States had responded to the Soviet request for a meeting but declined to characterize the nature of the response or to provide any details. “We have communicated with the Soviet Union through diplomatic channels. We will withhold any further comment until this process is completed,” Mr. Djerejian said. Other Administration officials said later, however, that the United States had agreed to the meeting. The Soviet Union had proposed that the two sides discuss Mr. Reagan’s arms control policy at a special session of the Standing Consultative Commission, to begin on July 22. The commission was established by the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty to discuss disputes about adherence to the treaty and other arms control matters. The question of how to respond to the Soviet request has divided the Administration.
Defense Department officials, who have been sharply critical of the commission, opposed the meeting and argued that the United States was clear in its repudiation of the 1979 treaty, which was never ratified. They said no further explanation was needed. State Department officials favored going to the meeting, as did Kenneth L. Adelman, the director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Edward L. Rowny, an arms adviser to President Reagan. Some officials who favor the session do not believe it will make much progress in the dispute over what the Administration says are Soviet violations of the 1979 accord. They think Moscow asked for the meeting to draw attention to Mr. Reagan’s decision to renounce the 1979 treaty. But they also think the United States could not afford to reject the request because that would give the Soviet Union a propaganda advantage.
The Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, discussed East-West issues with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for a little more than two hours today at her Downing Street residence. A British statement on the session listed arms control and the prospects for a second summit meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, among the topics discussed, but it shed no light on the substance of the exchanges. A letter from Mr. Gorbachev on arms control matters was delivered by the visitor, but there was no clue as to its contents beyond an announcement that Mrs. Thatcher had been invited to make an official visit to Moscow. British diplomats said before the meeting that Mrs. Thatcher would not seek to mediate between Moscow and Washington on issues under negotiation at the Geneva arms control talks.
A bomb planted in a van exploded today as a bus carrying paramilitary Civil Guards was passing by. Nine guards were killed and 43 other people were wounded, including 12 civilians, officials said. No group took responsibility, but the governing Socialist Party said “E.T.A. assassins” were behind the explosion. The Basque separatist group E.T.A. has carried out many similar attacks on military and police targets, the most recent a car bombing on April 25 that killed five Civil Guards.
Five bombs exploded today in three Portuguese cities, with one killing the son of an army colonel and another young man in the officer’s Lisbon apartment. The police said they believed the two victims were handling explosives. A previously unknown group, the Armed Revolutionary Organization, said it was responsible for four bombings overnight that caused damage but no casualties in the southern cities of Evora and Setubal.
Protestants and riot police officers fought running battles here today when marchers tried to tear down a fence separating them from the town’s Roman Catholics. The marchers, commemorating a 17th-century Protestant military victory over Catholics, hijacked a bus and rammed the fence but were driven back by the police, who fired plastic bullets and recovered the bus. The marchers then attacked the fence with their hands and succeeded in pulling parts of it away. A police spokesman said the riot squad was pelted with bottles, stones and darts. The violence followed weekend clashes between the police and members of Northern Ireland’s Protestant majority, which favors continued British rule, and a night of violence in different parts of the province.
A Paris political battle is set. President Francois Mitterrand said today that he planned to try to block one of the conservative Cabinet’s major programs, under which 65 state-owned businesses and banks would be sold to private buyers. The Socialist leader, who spoke after presiding over the largest military parade in Paris since the end of World War II, said in a television interview that the conservative program had to be blocked to safeguard the French national interest. Mr. Mitterrand’s declaration seemed to set the stage for the first major conflict within France’s four-month-old arrangement for sharing power between a Socialist President and a conservative Cabinet. The privatization plan is widely viewed here as the central plank of the Cabinet’s economic program.
France marked the 197th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille today with its largest military parade since World War II. The parade, marking the storming of the infamous prison in 1789 at the start of the French Revolution, was watched by President Francois Mitterrand, France’s Commander in Chief; Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and other dignitaries, and a crowd put at more than 100,000. Gray Mirage fighter-bombers from France’s nuclear strike force flew low overhead in wedge-shaped formations, while 4,000 soldiers moved along the tree-lined Champs-Elysees to the martial strains of military bands.
Rudolf Hess, the 92-year-old former deputy to Hitler, was returned to Spandau prison in satisfactory condition today from a hospital in which he had spent nearly a week, a spokesman for the British military forces said. The four World War II allies — the United States, France, Britain and the Soviet Union — made the decision to return Mr. Hess to prison, the spokesman said. Mr. Hess, who has been the only inmate at the prison since 1966, was sentenced at the Nuremberg war crimes trials in 1946 to life in prison.
The Second Lubbers government is formed in the Netherlands. The Netherlands’ coalition Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, was sworn in after it approved a package of austerity measures. Lubbers’ Christian Democrats and the right-wing Liberals retained their majority in May elections, but negotiations to renew their alliance have just concluded. The Cabinet team completed work on next year’s budget-calling for continued public spending cuts to assist the Dutch economy-before being sworn in officially by Queen Beatrix in The Hague.
Israeli Air Force planes attacked pro-Syrian Palestinian positions 15 miles from the capital today. Four people were reported killed and five wounded. It was the second Israeli air strike against Palestinian guerrilla bases in Lebanon in less than a week and one of the deepest into Lebanon in many months. The Israeli military command did not cite a specific reason for the timing of the raid. But it came after a Palestinian guerrilla group said it was responsible for an explosion in downtown Tel Aviv on Sunday night. The blast, caused by a bomb planted in a garbage can, wounded an Israeli woman, according to the Israeli radio. In addition, the Israeli radio reported that several Katyusha rockets were fired Sunday night in the direction of upper Galilee in northern Israel. No injuries or damage were reported in the area, which is near the town of Hasbeya on the slopes of Mount Hermon. The area is inside the enclave in Lebanon, parallel to the Israeli border, that Israel controls as a security zone. The positions attacked today, which were described as command positions of Syrian-backed terrorist groups, belonged to six guerrilla factions, members of an alliance based in Damascus that is known as the Palestine National Salvation Front.
Israel’s Attorney General announced today that he was ordering a police investigation of a scandal involving the domestic security agency. The official, Yosef Harish, acted hours after the Israeli Cabinet voted, 14 to 11, against establishing its own commission of inquiry into the killing of two Palestinians who had helped hijack a bus in April 1984 and accusations of a subsequent cover-up. The national unity Cabinet debated for eight hours whether to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate charges that Avraham Shalom, the head of Shin Beth, the domestic security service, ordered the slayings and then hid the facts in the affair with the help of several agents. All 10 Labor ministers, as well as Communications Minister Amnon Rubinstein of the liberal Shinui party, voted for setting up an inquiry commission of senior judges. They were outvoted by the 10 Likud ministers, one independent and the three ministers from religious parties.
The Soviet Union recently warned Pakistan not to develop a nuclear bomb, touching off a sharp reaction from the United States, Administration officials said tonight. The officials said that even though Washington is also strongly opposed to Pakistan’s development of nuclear explosives, they felt the Soviet warning was an effort to intimidate Pakistan over the Pakistani support for the Afghan resistance forces.
Four people were stabbed to death in India’s western state of Gujarat, and police fired on suspected arsonists as violence between Hindus and Muslims continued there for the sixth day. The stabbings brought the death toll to 58. A police official in the state capital of Ahmedabad said police fired three rounds at a mob trying to set fire to a house in the suburb of Asarwa. The Press Trust of India said police also fired on arsonists in Ahmedabad itself and on rioters in the town of Baroda, 120 miles south. It was not immediately known whether the police shootings caused any casualties in the three incidents.
Sri Lanka’s main opposition party rejected a government-proposed plan to end the island’s bloody ethnic conflict. The decision by the Freedom Party came as President Junius R. Jayewardene prepared for a second round of talks with moderate Tamil politicians in Colombo, the capital. In the continuing violence, 18 Tamil guerrillas and six soldiers were killed in a clash in the northwest fishing district of Mannar. Sri Lanka’s minority Tamils seek an independent state in the north and east of the island, where they outnumber the Sinhalese population.
A 79-year-old official with a reputation as an ideological hard-liner was chosen today to succeed Le Duan as Vietnam’s Communist Party leader, the official Hanoi radio announced, The post is the most important political office in Vietnam. The new Vietnamese leader, Truong Chinh, had been the second-ranking party Politburo member after Mr. Duan, who died last Thursday. Mr. Chinh is also the State Council Chairman, a position roughly equivalent to a ceremonial president. In the 1950’s, after North Vietnam gained independence from France, Mr. Chinh led an attempt at sweeping land redistribution that historians say may have resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Vietnamese. In the 1960’s, Mr. Chinh was among those who advocated sending North Vietnamese forces to fight in the South.
Two million soldiers and civilians are working nonstop in China’s southern Guangdong province to rescue tens of thousands of people stranded by Typhoon Peggy, the official New China News Agency reported. The agency said that rescue teams have saved 120,000 people trapped by flood waters since the storm struck on Friday. At least 21 Chinese were killed and almost 300 injured by the typhoon, which last week left 119 people dead in the Philippines. Meanwhile, a Chinese newspaper said that a tornado, which also struck Friday, killed 31 people and injured about 500 when it hit Shanghai, China’s largest city.
Nicaragua’s Sandinista government is guilty of thousands of human rights violations, including torture, illegal imprisonment and suppression of religious and press freedom, the International League for Human Rights charged in a report. The New York-based group said that “between 3,500 and 6,500 political opponents are imprisoned at any given time.” The report said that methods of torture reported by Nicaraguan prisoners include beatings, rape, mock executions, death threats, food and sleep deprivation, prolonged isolation and submersion in water.
Senator Alan Cranston of California, the Democratic whip, called today for a Congressional investigation into reports that the Central Intelligence Agency is planning to take control of the insurgent campaign against the Nicaraguan Government. Republican leaders responded positively to the suggestion and said such hearings were likely. Mr. Cranston said at a news conference that the Administration seemed intent on conducting “a vastly expanded war” against the Nicaraguan Government, and warned against deepening United States involvement in Central America. “This could be a rerun of Vietnam,” Senator Cranston said. “First American money, then American advisers, then American control of the war, then American troops.”
Chile’s largest opposition force, the Christian Democratic Party, urged the nation’s military to withdraw its support of President Augusto Pinochet. “There is an arbitrary power in Chile that wants to perpetuate itself,” Christian Democratic leader Gabriel Valdes said, referring to Pinochet’s announcement last week that he plans to remain in power until 1997. “The country needs to know the opinion of the armed forces,” he added. The Roman Catholic Church also criticized the government and blamed a recent wave of violence on a “climate of increasing frustration.”
The White House and State Department defended the American Ambassador to Chile today against charges by Senator Jesse Helms that he acted improperly in attending the funeral of the young man who was fatally burned during anti-Government demonstrations last week. Senator Helms, Republican of North Carolina, said Saturday night during a visit to Santiago that he was sure that if President Reagan had been in Chile, he would have recalled the Ambassador, Harry G. Barnes Jr., for “planting the American flag in the midst of Communist activity.” That was a reference to Mr. Barnes’s attendance at the funeral last Wednesday of Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, a 19-year old Chilean who lived in Washington with his mother, a political exile. Edward P. Djerejian, a White House spokesman, said that Mr. Barnes “is carrying out the President’s policy in Chile, which is to encourage and support movement toward democracy, and continues to have the President’s full confidence.”
Thousands of black students stayed away from classes at the start of a new semester today in apparent protest of new Government orders aimed at preventing classroom dissent. A total of 1.7 million black students were due to return today to the 7,000 schools for black pupils outside the country’s so-called tribal homelands. In some areas, officials said attendance was between 70 and 80 percent, but in others, it was reported to be between 30 and 50 percent. The Government announced Sunday that students who did not enroll for the new term today would be barred from classes for the rest of the year.
A black North Carolinian is the leading candidate to replace Herman W. Nickel, the American Ambassador to South Africa, White House officials said. The candidate, Robert J. Brown, is a publicist and an associate of the Rev. Jesse Jackson with no diplomatic experience.
The space agency said today that the earliest date the space shuttle could resume flying would be in early 1988, a substantial delay from the previous goal of July 1987. In a report requested by President Reagan, the agency also indicated it hoped to redesign the booster rockets so that existing hardware can be used. Problems with the booster rockets caused the Jan. 28 Challenger disaster in which the crew of seven died. But as a contingency, should this equipment prove unable to pass tests and safety reviews, the agency said it would also develop concepts for “a totally new design that does not utilize existing hardware.” It was also announced today that the plan by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to send a journalist on a shuttle flight was being suspended. The agency’s approach to a resumption of flights could leave it open to the question whether it is adopting a “quick fix” of the sort that members of the Presidential commission on the disaster warned against. The commission, headed by William P. Rogers, a former Secretary of State, officially recommended that “no design options should be prematurely precluded because of schedule, cost or reliance on existing hardware.”
President Reagan participates in a meeting to discuss NASA’s plan for implementing recommendations made by the Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident.
The President and First Lady host a luncheon for recipients of the National Medal of Arts Award.
The Senate battle over confirming Daniel A. Manion as a judge for the United States Court of Appeals in Chicago heated up today when Senator Bob Dole, the majority leader, said he might prevent another vote, which would allow Mr. Manion to be seated. Senator Alan Cranston of California, the Democratic whip, responded that Democrats might then block votes on President Reagan’s two nominees to the Supreme Court.
Deficit projections for 1987 are rising beyond the ceiling set in the budget-balancing law, President Reagan’s budget director, James C. Miller 3d, said today. He urged Congress to repair the law by giving him the power to make automatic spending cuts. House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. who has opposed the law, said today that if it had to be changed he would prefer giving the Office of Management and Budget, headed by Mr. Miller, the authority to order the automatic cuts. The comments came as Congress returned from its Fourth of July recess to face the consequences of the Supreme Court decision last week that struck down the provision to force automatic spending cuts if the ceilings are not achieved.
Declaring that espionage must not be taken lightly, a Federal judge today sentenced Richard W. Miller, the first F.B.I. agent ever charged with the crime, to two concurrent life sentences for spying for the Soviet Union. The judge, David Z. Kenyon, also sentenced the 49-year-old former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to an additional 50 years to run concurrently with his life terms. According to the prosecutors, Mr. Miller will be eligible for parole after 16 years and 8 months. Although consideration for parole on a life term is possible after 10 years, the 50-year sentence requires that the prisoner serve at least one-third of that term. Judge Kenyon prefaced his sentencing by saying he hoped to foster “a recognition on the part of all citizens of the United States” of the seriousness of the crime in view of “more and more betrayals of trust” that are occurring. “A person who deliberately, for their own personal gain, betrays their country should not walk the streets a free man,” said Judge Kenyon, who called the former agent “a tormented man.” The judge’s sentence followed closely the request of the Government and rejected pleas for leniency by the defense lawyers, who said they would appeal the conviction. Mr. Miller addressed the courtroom in a rambling speech on the difficulties of dispensing justice, then settled into a chair and heard his sentence pronounced.
The Justice Department today made public a legal brief urging the Supreme Court to rule that Federal law does not bar “discrimination based on concern about contagiousness” against victims of AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases. The department’s argument would leave no recourse under Federal law for people dismissed from jobs or otherwise penalized because of fear, reasonable or unreasonable, that they might infect others. The case involves Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which bars discrimination in federally assisted programs against any “otherwise qualified” handicapped person “solely by reason of his handicap.”
A federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, ruled that about 234,000 illegal aliens with permanent state residency may receive Medicaid assistance. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Charles Sifton came in response to a 1981 class-action lawsuit that could have national significance if adopted by federal courts elsewhere. The Medicaid statute “includes neither an express alienage restriction… nor does the act set forth anywhere a single statement of criteria establishing eligibility for Medicaid,” Sifton said. The Department of Health and Human Services argued that illegal aliens were not eligible for Medicaid.
Education Secretary William J. Bennett called on lawmakers to scrap “mindless paper credentials” and look to the vast untapped reservoir of experts in their fields without education degrees who would be willing to teach. Speaking to the Southern Legislative Conference in Fort Worth, Bennett said the three most important credentials for educators are proof of mastery in their fields, evidence of good character, and demonstrated communication skills.
The government has leased 83% of available federal land around Yellowstone National Park for energy development without any concern for the environmental consequences, the Sierra Club said. The conservationists said their study of six national forests surrounding Yellowstone showed that 5.9 million acres — or 59.7% of the forest land — is considered “available” for leasing to oil and natural gas developers and that 83% of that acreage has already been leased. A spokesman for Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel said department officials are “very comfortable with the total park protection program.”
A man was arrested in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, on charges of knowingly communicating false information that a consumer product had been tainted, the FBI said. Norman Mark Allen, 21, of Honesdale called the Acme store in Honesdale twice over the weekend, saying Jell-O brand gelatin and instant pudding had been poisoned with cyanide, FBI spokesman Jim McIntosh said in Philadelphia. Allen faces a fine of up to $25,000 and a 5-year prison term if convicted.
A Trailways bus and a tractor-trailer making a U-turn across a median on Interstate 40 collided near Brinkley, Arkansas, injuring 29 people, four seriously, authorities said. The truck driver, Earle Wayne Gipson, 29, who was not hurt, was charged with reckless driving, possession of drug paraphernalia, crossing the median and not having an Arkansas driver’s license, officials said. Some of the injured suffered severed limbs, they said. The bus was on its way from Oklahoma City to New York.
In a Supreme Court case brief supporting a school district that fired a teacher who has infectious tuberculosis, the Justice Department said people with contagious diseases are not covered by the Rehabilitation Act, which protects people with handicaps from discrimination in programs receiving federal money. The case was brought to the high court by the Nassau County, Florida, School Board seeking review of a ruling by the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that said tuberculosis was a handicap. The case has been closely followed by acquired immune deficiency syndrome victims and those fighting to protect them.
The Alvin landed on the bow and bridge of the Titanic, the world’s largest and most luxurious ocean liner when she struck an iceberg and sank 74 years ago. Those aboard the submersible craft, Dr. Robert D. Ballard and two pilots, rode along both sides of the liner and looked through her windows at the interior. They also confirmed that the ship had broken in two and that debris had scattered as much as 2,000 feet astern. The most dramatic aspect of this Titanic expedition is to take place later this week, however, when the robot submarine Jason Jr., tethered to the Alvin, is to enter the ship and explore her interior. Mr. Bowen is Jason Jr.’s pilot. Dr. Ballard, reporting to officials at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute after the 10-hour dive, said that he and his colleagues on the Alvin had examined the yawning cavity of the liner’s grand staircase, exposed by destruction of its skylight roof, and found no obstruction that might prevent the Jason Jr.’s entry. They hope to send the self-propelled robot down the staircase to examine the ship’s interior.
Facing a deadline for negotiations with the USX Corporation in two weeks, the United Steel Workers of America is asking members to take a strike authorization vote, a union spokesman said today. The vote, to be completed by Monday, is “standard procedure,” and does not necessarily mean there will be a walkout, the spokesman said. Negotiations have been under way since mid-June between the union and USX, the new name for the United States Steel Corporation. The current pact, covering 44,000 working and laid-off U.S.W. members, expires August 1. James McGeehan, chairman of the union’s negotiating committee, said the company was still insisting on “deep concessions” in wages and benefits and has provided no justification.
A child’s imagination must be bounded, Vicki Frost, a “born-again Christian” parent, testified in a suit against books used in public schools in Hawkins County, Tennessee. “The word of God is the totality of my beliefs,” she said, and objected to introducing her children to ideas that go beyond that.
Alabama Democrats opened hearings into the disputed results of the primary election for governor, which has thrown the state’s politics into turmoil. Lieut. Gov. Bill Baxley lost a June 24 runoff election for the gubernatorial nomination to Charles Graddick, the state’s Attorney General, by 8,756 votes.
25 highly talented people will receive awards ranging from $164,000 to $300,000, the MacArthur Foundation announced. It awarded $272,000 over five years to James Randi, a 57-year-old magician who has used his skills to debunk psychics, seers and miracle-cure promoters.
Astronomers for the first time have observed a star in the process of being formed, the University of Arizona announced in Tucson. The embryonic star, one-tenth the size of the sun, was detected 520 light years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus, hidden in a galactic cloud of gas, by scientists using a radio telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory 50 miles west of Tucson.
Flurries of aftershocks rattled 150 miles of Southern California coastline today, as residents cleaned up after Sunday’s earthquake. That earthquake, the second to hit the area in a week, caused an estimated $720,000 in damage and injured 29 people, one seriously. Today, 16 aftershocks measuring higher than 3 on the open-ended Richter scale shook an area from San Diego to Oxnard, north of Los Angeles, said a California Institute of Technology spokesman, Dennis Meredith. The quake recorded at 6:46 AM Sunday registered 5.3 on the Richter scale. It was centered in the Pacific Ocean, 28 miles southwest of Oceanside.
A torrent of advances in diagnosis and an increasingly deep understanding of disease and the nature of life itself are emerging today from studies of DNA, the master chemical of heredity. Scientists now routinely read the messages of heredity contained in the DNA of the genes, modify those chemical messages almost at will and even fabricate totally artificial genes that function in living cells. The research has led to the development of new drugs, new strategies for treatment of disease and increasingly detailed knowledge of individual human development, the evolution of life on earth and the relationships between species. “It is astonishing how much progress has been made,” Dr. J. D. Weatherall of Oxford University wrote the concluding article in a series of articles on DNA in Medicine published in The Lancet, an international medical journal. The genetic blueprint of all living things is embedded in the chemistry of DNA. The arrangement of the subunits that make up the long twisted strands of DNA constitute the language of heredity molecular biologists are increasingly able to interpret as genetic messages of health or disease, life or death.
The Southeast suffered yesterday in a weeklong heat wave that has killed at least six people. Although some spots got weekend rain, there were increasing problems from a continuing drought. Highs in many cities were expected to hover around 100 degrees at least through today. Columbia, South Carolina, with 102 degrees yesterday, recorded its eighth day with temperatures in the 100’s. The heat has been blamed for two deaths in Georgia, two in North Carolina, one in South Carolina and one in Virginia. Rainfall this year is 15 to 20 inches lower than normal this year in South and North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee; parts of Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware also are below normal.
As the solemn strains of taps flowed through the vaulted National Cathedral this afternoon. the Navy paid its final respects to Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, the founder of the nuclear navy. Former President Jimmy Carter, Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman Jr., senior naval officers, members of Congress and about 1,000 other people gathered to pray, sing hymns and hear praise for Admiral Rickover, who died July 8 at the age of 86.
Raymond Loewy died at the age of 92. More than half a century ago, Mr. Loewy, who has been hailed as the “father of streamlining,” founded the industrial design movement that radically changed the look of American life from toothbrushes to cars to airliners.
Shalamar’s Howard Hewett acquitted of drug charges in Miami.
Paul McCartney releases the single “Press” from the album “Press To Play”.
Motley Crue’s Vince Neil begins 30-day sentence for vehicular homicide.
US Open Women’s Golf, NCR CC: Jane Geddes wins by two strokes in an 18-hole Monday playoff with South African-born Sally Little.
Major League Baseball: No games today as the All-Star break begins.
With declining corporate profits and the weak economy remaining foremost on Wall Street’s list of concerns, stock prices dropped sharply yesterday and the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted through the 1,800 level to its lowest close since late May. “It was the same reaction that you saw last Monday, just not as dramatic,” said Peter Furniss, senior vice president of trading for Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., comparing yesterday’s action with the record-setting 61.87-point drop on July 7. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 27.98 points, to 1,793.45. Just two weeks ago, the average soared to more than 1,900 for the first time ever.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1793.45 (-27.98)
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Nikolai Kulemin, Russian National Team and NHL left wing (Olympics, 2014; Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders), in Magnitogorsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
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