No significant progress was reported in Secretary of State Kissinger’s efforts to obtain a troop separation agreement between Israel and Syria as he shuttled in his Air Force jet between Damascus and Tel Aviv. He had set tonight as his deadline for the completion of the agreement, but he said he needed 24 to 36 hours more.
President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt has reportedly urged President Hafez al-Assad of Syria to get the best terms he can for military disengagement with Israel and leave discussions on withdrawal by Israel from occupied Arab territories to the Geneva peace conference. A letter from President Sadat was delivered here yesterday by Lieutenant General Abdel Ghany el-Gamasy, the Egyptian Chief of Staff, who negotiated the military withdrawal between Egypt and Israel on the Sinai front.
The 14 American newsmen accompanying Secretary of State Kissinger were taken on a guided tour of part of the Syrian front lines today and ran into a moderate to heavy artillery exchange. At one point, shells from the Israeli side of the Golan Heights fell within 300 yards of the newsmen, who were visiting an underground artillery observation post, west of Sassa, about two and a half miles from Israeli‐held territory. While shells were exploding, the newsmen were given a lecture in the bunker by Brigadier General Ali Hussein, a 42‐year‐old commander of the northern district, who spent a year training at Fort Henning, Georgia, in 1957 as paratrooper. General Hussein’s theme was similar to the view conveyed to newsmen in Damascus during Mr. Kissinger’s stop there. “We want peace,” he said, “but a peace which gives us, justice.” He urged the newsmen to tell the American people the whole story. General Hussein said he was confident that if Americans knew the Syrian viewpoint, instead of the “Israeli, Zionist propaganda” they would sympathize with the Arab cause.
Israeli security forces have arrested nearly 100 Arabs in the occupied West Bank area of Jordan on charges of belonging to the Palestinian National Front, a Jordanian Communist organization, Israeli newspapers reported today. Official Israeli sources refused to comment on the reports, which said the security services had taken action against the organization about four weeks ago when they learned it had decided to take part in guerrilla activities. A military spokesman said later that about 70 West Bank residents had been arrested on a variety of charges ranging from acts of sabotage to incitement against the Israeli authorities. The newspaper reports said that Israeli officials had known about the Palestinian National Front since the Jordanian territory was captured in 1967, but that no action had been taken so long as it limited itself to political activities.
Premier Abdul Salam Jalloud of Libya flew to Moscow today on a mission apparently designed to advance his country as a replacement for Egypt as a conspicuous ally of the Soviet Union in the Middle East. In a Tass interview circulated in the newspaper Pravda before his arrival, Mr. Jalloud affirmed a “unity of aims” with Moscow and urged the Russians to join Libya in the “struggle against imperialism and reaction in the Middle East.” The Soviet press has warmly welcomed Mr. Jalloud’s visit, suggesting that Moscow looked to the opportunity to improve its ties with Libya as a hedge against deteriorating relations with Egypt and appreciated Libya’s own difficulties with Egypt. The current friendship is in contrast to the frictions between Libya and the Soviet Union in the last year, largely a result of allegations by Colonel Muammar el‐Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, that the Soviet Union was conspiring with the United States to dominate the Middle East. The Soviet press responded by branding Colonel Qaddafi as “irresponsible” and “anti‐Soviet.”
Premier Jalloud was greeted at the airport by Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko. The visitor reviewed an honor guard and then was driven into Moscow along streets that were decorated with Soviet and Libyan flags. Tonight, at a dinner, Mr. Kosygin reiterated Soviet support for the Syrian position that no troop disengagement in the Golan Heights was possible without an Israeli withdrawal from all Arab lands occupied since 1967.
The Kuwait government voted in a militant move to take over 60% of the U.S. and British owned Kuwait Oil Co.
Queen Elizabeth II, advised by Prime Minister Wilson, appointed a new Archbishop of Canterbury to succeed Dr. Michael Ramsey, who will retire in November. He is Dr. Donald Coggan, 64 years old, an active evangelist, a critic of permissiveness and, at present, Archbishop of York.
Portugal’s new government, installed during the Carnation Revolution, issued Law No. 2/74, abolishing the bicameral parliament of the Estado Novo, to be replaced by the unicameral Assembleia da República to be elected in 1975.
Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet will not be banned from beginning a scheduled six-week appearance at the London Coliseum on June 12, a spokesman for Prime Minister Harold Wilson. said. He had been asked to ban the visit because the Soviet government had refused to allow Valery Panov, formerly of Leningrad’s Kirov Ballet, to emigrate to Israel with his wife, Galina. Wilson told the Committee for the Release of the Panovs he was not convinced “we will improve the Panovs’ position” by banning the ballet.
Danish Prime Minister Poul Hartling’s minority Liberal government, struggling to push through controversial tax increases, faced a demand in parliament to resign and call elections. The resignation call was introduced by Communist Party leader Knud Jespersen. Five days of intensive negotiations have failed to rally a majority of the parliament behind the tax package.
The first Russian parliamentary delegation to tour the United States in 41 years will arrive in Washington Sunday for a three-day visit to Congress. The eight members of the Supreme Soviet will meet with congressional leaders and attend committee hearings, discussion groups and social functions. After meeting with Administration officials, the delegation will go to San Francisco and New York City.
Patriarch Pimen of the Russian Orthodox Church may visit the United States early next year, according to a leading Russian Orthodox prelate. Metropolitan Juvenaliy. The trip would be the first to America by a head of the church and would follow a trip to the Soviet Union by a delegation from the National Council of Churches. Metropolitan Juvenaliy also said the Orthodox faith remained strong in the Soviet Union.
The Vatican ended a century of secrecy by inviting outsiders to watch the Roman Catholic Church’s city state administer earthly justice. Two journalists were permitted to attend a trial of four former Vatican employees charged with stealing valuable gold medals from the private collection of Pope Paul VI in 1969. The Vatican has administered its own penal code for a century, but always in private.
The United Nations command lodged a protest today with North Korea over the North Korean firing on two United States Army helicopters near the Korean demilitarized zone last Thursday. Speaking for the command at a meeting of the Korean Military Armistice Commission held here, Major General William E. McLeod of the United States Army told the North Korean delegates that “such indiscriminate firing from your side against our helicopters flying over our territory was completely unjustifiable.”
Terming it “a complete disregard” of the 1953 Korean Armistice agreement, General McLeod stated that the helicopters were “on a routine training mission” south of the Han River estuary, 25 miles northwest of Seoul, when they were fired on by North Korean “automatic weapons.” No crewmen were reported injured. His North Korean counterpart, Major General Kim Pung Sop, rejected the protest and asserted that “our troops took proper self‐defense actions” when helicopters intruded into North Korean air space and engaged in “espionage activities.”
The government of India said thousands of striking railroad workers were abandoning their week-old nationwide strike and more and more trains were rolling again. Union leaders reported that two more strike organizers had been arrested, bringing the total to six. Other trade unions have called for a general strike today to express solidarity with the railroad workers. The rail workers are demanding raises of 50%, an annual bonus and shorter working hours.
The Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported in Moscow that Soviet-Argentine relations were entering a new stage of long-term cooperation in developing economies of both countries through trade. Russia recently offered Argentina $600 million in long-term credits to build electrical generators. The deal was believed prompted by Argentina’s increasingly warm relations with Cuba and independence of the United States.
Whether President Nixon played any role in originating the Watergate cover-up attempt was the principal question the House Judiciary Committee considered in its second closed impeachment hearing. The committee moved toward subpoenaing 11 more White House tape recordings when its lawyers decided it would not be possible to clarify the President’s early attitude toward the Watergate break-in without them.
General revulsion was expressed by Republican party leaders in a dozen states — east and west, north and south — who were interviewed about their reactions to President Nixon’s edited Watergate transcripts. They agreed that the President had been harmed by the transcripts’ release, and like most Republicans in Congress they appeared to want the House impeachment investigation to continue.
James St. Clair, Mr. Nixon’s chief defense attorney, has been rebuked by Raoul Berger, a constitutional scholar, for basing the impeachment defense on what Mr. Berger calls “instant history,” “far-fetched theories” and “sheer effrontery.” Mr. Berger’s criticism of Mr. St. Clair’s legal defense of the President appears in the current issue of the Yale Law Journal.
Gifts of jewelry to Mrs. Nixon and her daughters, made in recent years by the Saudi Arabian royal family, were acknowledged by the White House. A White House spokesman deplored published reports that said there had been no public announcement of the gifts. Public disclosure of the gifts to Mrs. Nixon, which included an emerald and diamond necklace with matching pieces valued at $52,400; was made by the Washington Post.
Congress and the Nixon administration appeared to be heading for another battle: this time over the refusal of the Internal Revenue Service to provide certain information about I.R.S. investigations of “militant and revolutionary” organizations wanted by the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, headed by Senator Sam Ervin Jr. The I.R.S. has decided so far to provide only one of the items requested, a list of the names of the 8,000 politically active individuals and 3,000 activist organizations on which the I.R.S. has gathered information.
President Nixon named Air Force General George S. Brown today, to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s highest military post. General Brown, who has been Air Force Chief of Staff since last August, is to succeed Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, who has served two terms as chairman of the Joint Chiefs. The nomination requires Senate approval. The White House said that General David C. Jones, commander of United States Air Forces in Europe, is to succeed General Brown as Air Force Chief of Staff.
Dr. Arthur Kornberg, a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, said the Nixon Administration’s battle plan against cancer would “have disastrous consequences on American health and welfare for generations to come.” Kornberg said before a speech in Seattle at the University of Washington’s school of medicine that the Administration was focusing on quick answers to the detriment of basic research. He also said that emphasis on cancer and heart disease was a mistake because breakthroughs relied on interdependence in all areas of science, including many now being shortchanged.
The Federal Trade Commission, in an effort to speed up the process of getting advertisers to document their claims, proposed to disallow documentation provided too late. It would be disallowed as evidence in charges of making a claim without adequate supporting data but still would be allowed as evidence in charges of false advertising. Delay has constantly dogged the commission’s three-year-old program of requiring proof of claims. Substantiation of pet food claims, released earlier this month, for example, had been requested two years earlier.
The Cincinnati Board of Education filed suit in federal court asking that its neighborhood school system be upheld. The suit names the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which on April 25 impounded $911,918 in emergency school funds. The HEW office in Chicago said the board failed to implement a December 10, 1973, total desegregation policy instituted by the previous board. The suit challenges HEW’s right to withhold aid, charging it was done “for the purpose of coercing the board to abandon its policy of providing a quality integrated education…”
The Pittsburgh Press has reached settlements with striking workers and the Press and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette plan to resume publishing Thursday for the first time since March 30. The morning Post-Gazette uses the plant of the Press. Printers and mailers ratified wage contracts and a favorable vote was expected by paper handlers. Contracts for the craft unions were negotiated after ratification of a new three-year contract by the paper’s circulation employees.
Detroit Police Commissioner Philip A. Tannian said he would not immediately comply with court orders to hire a woman officer every time he hired a male officer. Tannian said he must confer with lawyers and with Mayor Coleman A. Young. Earlier, U.S. District Judge Ralph E. Freeman ordered the Police Department to hire on a one-on-one basis until 1,000 women had joined the force or until he issued another order. Tannian said his main concern was morale and safety. The force now includes 5,409 men and 115 women.
A federal judge ordered an indefinite delay in a Ralph Nader lawsuit that has brought about many disclosures in the case of President Nixon’s 1971 increase in milk price supports. U.S. District Judge William B. Jones ordered government lawyers to ask formally, within the next 10 days, to have the suit thrown out entirely. The suit alleges that Mr. Nixon raised prices illegally because of campaign donations from three huge dairy cooperatives. The government asked for an indefinite stay on grounds that new disclosures might interfere with the House Judiciary Committee’s investigation into possible bribery in the affair.
Standard Oil Co. of California has paid Alaska $5,000 in fines for an oil spill last August at the future terminus of the Trans-Alaska pipeline. Alaska Attorney General Norman Gorsuch said Standard was charged with violating state environmental protection laws after a crewman on the Alaska Standard pumped about 500 gallons of oily bilge water into Valdez Harbor last August. Environmental Conservation Commissioner Max Brewer said the firm also has agreed to install a $41,000 device to separate oil from wastewater, ending the need to pump ballast into the harbor.
A strike against United Air Lines, the nation’s largest air carrier, was averted Tuesday when the International Association of Machinists ratified a new contract. A union spokesman said the contract was retroactive to September 1, 1973, and would run until October 31, 1975.
Mayor Kenneth Gibson of Newark was re-elected to a second term on the strength of black votes in the city’s South and Central Wards, which also put him in office in 1970. He defeated his principal opponent, State Senator Anthony Imperiale, easily, and with 50 percent of the vote he avoided a runoff.
In Central Park in New York City, 13-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. was mugged by a boy of around 18, who took the young Kennedy’s bicycle and tennis racket.
Underground America Day is 1st observed to honor the 6,000 Americans that make their homes in the Earth.
Pitcher Don Sutton drove in the only run as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Houston, 1–0, for their seventh straight win.
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Boston Bruins, 4–2, to take a 3–1 lead in the Stanley Cup final playoff.
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Born:
Ken Belanger, Canadian NHL left wing (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders, Boston Bruins, Los Angeles Kings), in Sault-Ste-Marie, Ontario, Canada.
Jim Crowell, MLB pitcher (Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Florida Marlins), in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Died:
Jacob L. Moreno, 82, Romanian-born American psychiatrist, pioneer in group psychotherapy and developer (with his wife, psychologist Zerka T. Moreno, of the technique of psychodrama.
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