News stories from Saturday May 29, 1982
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- A Soviet-U.S. nuclear arms freeze is favored by Americans, but only if it does not give the Soviet Union an advantage, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll. [New York Times]
- A gunman invaded a TV station in Phoenix, held a news anchorman and three others of the staff hostage and forced the anchorman to broadcast over KOOL-TV a statement saying that World War III would begin in 1984 and that Argentina would destroy London with an atom bomb. After the statement was read, the gunman surrendered. [New York Times]
- 900 Argentine prisoners were taken by Britain during its recapture of Darwin and Goose Green on the Falkland Islands, the Ministry of Defense announced in London. The British reportedly advanced on two fronts toward Stanley, the Argentine-held capital of the Falklands. [New York Times]
- Help from "other latitudes" may be sought by Argentina in its war with Britain over the Falkland, President Leopoldo Galtieri said in a speech in Buenos Aires on Argentina's Army Day. [New York Times]
- American foreign ministers condemned Britain's attack on the Falklands and urged the United States to halt its aid to the British. The vote to place the Organization of American States on the side of Argentina was taken after 17 hours of debate in Washington. The United States was among the four nations that abstained in the 17 to 0 vote. [New York Times]
- The Pope was welcomed joyfully in Canterbury, England, home of the Anglican Church, where, on the second day of his historic "pilgrimage for peace" to Britain, he participated in an emotional service at Canterbury Cathedral with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Robert Runcie. [New York Times]
- A protracted U.S.-Soviet nuclear war is possible, Pentagon policy-makers have decided, and they have drawn up their first strategy for fighting such a war. [New York Times]
- U.S. encouragement of democracy in developing countries and where possible in Communist countries will be the aim of a new quasi-governmental organization that President Reagan is expected to announce soon. [New York Times]
- Vietnam released information about four American soldiers who were believed killed in the Vietnam War to a group of six Vietnam veterans and three other Americans who are visiting Hanoi. [New York Times]
- U.S. and European economic goals are expected to be wide apart when the leaders of the seven major industrialized democracies meet this week for an economic summit conference in Versailles, France. The United States's principal concern with fighting inflation is expected to clash with the Western European aim of stimulating employment. [New York Times]