News stories from Sunday June 6, 1982
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Illinois was the focal point of demonstrations held in four states seeking ratification of the proposed equal rights amendment. It is the only Northern industrial state that has failed to ratify the amendment. Thousands gathered at the Capitol in Springfield, demanding ratification before the June 30 deadline. [New York Times]
- Reproductions of U.S. currency may now be used legally in illustrations in newspapers and magazines. Two counterfeiting laws, dating from 1884, that limited their use were ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in New York in a case brought by Time Inc. [New York Times]
- 500,000 prospective registrants who have not yet signed up with the Selective Service System will be given a final opportunity to do so before they face prosecution by the Justice Department, draft officials said. Letters will be sent to the men who have failed to register notifying them to go to the nearest post office. [New York Times]
- The Boston Marathon became involved in a bitter controversy following a report in the Boston Globe that the 86-year-old amateur foot race had been improperly turned over to a "mysterious promoter." The promoter says the newspaper is conducting a vendetta against him. [New York Times]
- California opinion polls indicate that Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, and Mayor Pete Wilson of San Diego, a Republican, will win their parties's nomination for the United States Senate in Tuesday's primary elections. Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles, who is seeking the the Democratic nomination for Governor, was considered a heavy favorite, according to the polls. [New York Times]
- Israel invaded southern Lebanon by land, sea and air in an attack aimed at destroying the main bases of the Palestine Liberation Organization. More than 250 tanks and armored personnel carriers backed up by thousands of infantrymen rolled past observation posts of the United Nations peacekeeping troops and spread out over the frontier, according to a United Nations spokesman in Beirut. [New York Times]
- The Israeli army was ordered to push Palestinian forces northward to a distance of 25 miles from Israel's border so that the P.L.O. artillery would be removed beyond the range of Israeli territory, Prime Minister Menachem Begin said in a letter to President Reagan. [New York Times]
- Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon "forthwith and unconditionally" was demanded in a resolution unanimously voted by the Security Council of the United Nations. At the demand of the United States, it called on Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization to halt all military action "within Lebanon and across the the Lebanese-Israeli border." [New York Times]
- Hard-bargaining in Versailles at the economic conference of the major industrialized democracies resulted in limited agreement on two contentious subjects -- East-West trade and the handling of currency fluctuations. There was also an apparent breakthrough on relations with developing nations. [New York Times]
- 3,000 fresh infantrymen reinforced the British troops besieging the Argentine garrison at Stanley in the Falklands, the Defense Ministry in London announced. They raised the British strength on East Falkland Island to about 8,000. [New York Times]
- Argentine military spokesmen said British positions surrounding Stanley were bombarded by Argentine planes. Other fighting was minimal in "the calm before the great battle," one of them said. [New York Times]
- West Germany's Social Democrats were outpolled for the first time by the opposition Christian Democratic Party in elections for the Hamburg State parliament. It was a stunning defeat for Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's party and its severity may affect the future of the federal coalition government in Bonn. [New York Times]