News stories from Friday July 3, 1981

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

An extensive Navy buildup is planned by Pentagon officials to meet President Reagan's goal of attaining a clear naval superiority over the Soviet Union by the end of the decade. The $120 billion expansion of the sea and air battle fleet would be 75 percent larger in numbers of ships, planes and costs than that proposed by the Carter administration. The Pentagon proposes to build 143 new ships, including two nuclear powered aircraft carriers and 19 attack submarines. The plan also calls for nearly 1,900 new airplanes. [New York Times] Military assistance would be given to civilian law enforcement officials under proposals by the Attorney General's Task Force can Violent Crime. The Armed forces' aid would initially be given in action against the smuggling of drugs and illegal aliens into the United States. The idea has the qualified endorsement of the Justice Department, but it is opposed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Pentagon, which believe that the historic tradition that has kept the armed forces separate from civilian government would be violated. [New York Times] The government rested its case in the 14-week bribery and conspiracy trial in New Orleans of Carlos Marcello, reputed organized crime leader and four other defendants. In the trial, the government played 162 tape recordings to build its case against the five defendants, who were allegedly part of a scheme involving the payment of bribes and kickbacks in exchange for Louisiana state insurance business. The scheme was organized by the government as part of an undercover inquiry into organized crime and political corruption. [New York Times] A bullet missed the Rev. Ian Paisley, the Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, as he was passing through Belfast with his usual police escort. A telephone caller told news organizations that the Irish National Liberation Army was responsible. [New York Times] Jacobo Timerman's taped testimony at sessions with the Argentine police has raised questions about whether he explained in his recent book the authorities' possible motives for his arrest. Mr. Timerman has said that he was arrested in 1977 and tortured in part because he is a Jew. On the police tape recordings he can be heard acknowledging that had expected his arrest because of his association with the late David Graiver, who had been a fugitive financier and owner of a 45 percent interest in Mr. Timerman's newspaper, La Opinion. [New York Times] Dissidents in Iran have been defeated by the purge ordered Ayatollah Khomeini. the Speaker of the Iran's Parliament said. The Speaker, Hojatolislam Hashemi Rafsanjani, made the statement at prayer ceremony at Teheran University a few hours after another anti-government demonstrator was executed. [New York Times] Poland's cabinet was reorganized, ap-parently to help the government deal more effectively with the country's economic crisis. Eight members were ousted, five new ones appointed, and six reassigned. Except for the replacement of the Minister of Higher Education, all the affected posts were in the economic sector. The shake-up was an-nounced by Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski shortly before the Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, arrived in Warsaw for what was officially described in Moscow as a brief friendly visit. [New York Times] Chris Evert Lloyd won her third Wimbledon singles title, defeating Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia, 6-2, 6-2, in a 60-minute match. She swept all seven of her matches in straight sets, the first such clean slate by a women's singles champion at Wimbledon since Billie Jean King did it in 1967. [New York Times]