News stories from Saturday June 5, 1982
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Deployment of anti-satellite weapons by the Air Force within five years has been directed by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. It is part of President Reagan's comprehensive program to revitalize the nation's nuclear deterrent, according to a new military plan, which calls the weapons an "essential ingredient." [New York Times]
- Efforts in Boston have failed to desegregate its public schools after eight years of federal supervision, the city's Superintendent of Schools said, suggesting that the desegregation plan be scrapped in favor of a new approach. [New York Times]
- The candidates for the Senate seat that was held for 24 years by Harrison Williams will be chosen Tuesday in Republican and Democratic primaries in New Jersey. The Republican contenders are Representative Millicent Fenwick of Bernardsville, a popular member of the party's moderate wing, and Jeffrey Bell of Leonia, a conservative and a former aide to President Reagan. Democrats will choose from a group of nine candidates less well-known than the Republicans. Many of the Democrats have never held public office. [New York Times]
- A limit on cheap export credits in world trade appeared to near agreement by the leaders of the major industrial democracies at their meeting in Versailles. However, it would not include the sharp restrictions on credits to the Soviet Union that President Reagan has wanted. A spokesman for the French government said that Mr. Reagan raised the issue "with great intensity" at a luncheon meeting, but quickly found himself "isolated" from the six other leaders at the table. [New York Times]
- A diplomatic uproar broke out over the decision of the United States, Japan and France to break with Britain over a proposed United Nations call for a cease-fire in the Falklands. Britain was dismayed. Japan voted for the resolution, France abstained, and the United States vetoed it, though the American delegate said later it should have abstained. [New York Times]
- Argentina has been purchasing arms, conducting a worldwide shopping effort to replace its losses in the Falklands. According to Argentine and foreign sources, the main suppliers have been Israel and Libya. Some of the weapons have been funneled through third countries, often with the involvement of black marketeers. [New York Times]
- P.L.O. bases were bombed and strafed by Israeli jets and gunboats along the coastal highway between Beirut with southern Lebanon as Palestinian and Israeli gunners traded heavy artillery fire across the Israeli-Lebanese border. [New York Times]
- A feeling that Israel was mobilizing for a possible invasion of Lebanon led to a meeting of President Reagan's advisers at the economic meeting in Versailles. Secretary of State Alexander Haig said the United States considered the Israeli bombings "a very serious turn of events" and was working to restore the cease-fire in Lebanon. [New York Times]
- Iraqi planes bombed the capital of an Iranian province, killing at least 40 people and wounding 200 others, the Iranian government announced. Foreign military observers in Teheran said the attack would make it even more probable that the Iranians would launch a major operation on the border. [New York Times]