News stories from Sunday May 30, 1982

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

The service industry is growing as heavy industry, including steel and its dependent industries, decline in the United States. Employment in the service industry, exemplified by eating and drinking establishments, increased by 36 percent from 1971 to 1981, while manufacturing employment in the nation increased only 12 percent. In the same decade, jobs in the steel industry decreased 14 percent, and today its jobless rate is 30 percent. The change worries many business and labor leaders, who say the United States needs a strong manufacturing capability to retain its strength. [New York Times] A tornado In southern Illinois killed at least 10 people and injured more than 100 in the area around Marion. At least 15 people were missing and an increase in the number of dead was expected, officials said. The storm made 1,500 people homeless. Following reports of looting, an 8:30 P.M. curfew was imposed. [New York Times] The Birmingham, Ala., Rotary Club is being asked by Rotary International, its parent organization, to reverse a vote retaining a rule restricting membership to white men. Several members resigned after the 120-to-90 vote, which has caused controversy in a city that has been working to change its historic racist image. [New York Times] Survivors of the 369th Infantry, which fought for 191 days in the trenches of France in World War I, longer than any other American unit, were honored at a Memorial Day ceremony in Harlem. The regiment never lost ground or had a single soldier captured, though 1,500 died. However, its members were segregated from other American soldiers because they were black. The French military attache at the United Nations presented four surviving members of the regiment with the French Medal of Honor, the second time that France has honored the regiment and its members. In World War I, the 369th was awarded the Croix de Guerre, and 171 members received medals. [New York Times] The loss of 12 British troops and the wounding of 31 Friday at Goose Green in the Falklands, the biggest battle so far in the war with Argentina, was announced by the Ministry of Defense in London. The ministry officially confirmed that another British force, operating along the north coast of East Falkland Island had captured without fighting two settlements about 30 miles from Stanley, the islands' capital. A battalion of Royal Marine commandos reportedly took Douglas and a battalion of paratroopers took Teal Inlet. [New York Times] Argentina's military asserted that its warplanes attacked and put out of commission a British aircraft carrier, hitting it with bombs and an Exocet missile. A spokesman said pilots suspected that the carrier Invincible had been hit. In London, the British Ministry of Defense denied that the carrier had been hit. [New York Times] Spain formally joined NATO. It became the 16th member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with the presentation by the Spanish charge d'affaires in Washington to the State Department of a document ratifying its membership by the 15 other member nations. The formality cleared the way for the attendance by Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo at the NATO summit meeting in Bonn next week. Spain is the first new member of the organization since West Ger-many joined in 1955. [New York Times] An outdoor mass in Poland turned into a denunciation of martial law and of the imprisonment of members of the Solidarity union movement as tens of thousands of men participating in an annual pilgrimage converged on a shrine to the Virgin Mary in Piekary in the heart of the Silesian coal-mining district. The mass, lasting nearly four hours, was attended by the Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp, and other members of the church hierarchy, and was thought to be the largest public gathering in Poland since martial law was declared in December. [New York Times] The Pope continued his pastoral visit to Britain, traveling to Liverpool and Coventry, where he was greeted by the largest crowds since he began his visit Friday. [New York Times]