Secretary of State Kissinger, continuing his peace shuttle between Israel and Syria, virtually completed the details for a cease-fire line on the Golan front and made progress in other areas of a proposed disengagement accord. After five hours of talks in Damascus, an American spokesman said the cease-fire line “is virtually set.” This seemed to mean that all the remaining details for the demarcation line had now been worked out, a step further than yesterday when American officials said that “for all practical purposes” the line had been settled. At the Damascus airport, shortly before boarding the Air Force plane for the trip to Israel, Mr. Kissinger said that he had held “detailed discussions on all elements of a disengagement agreement” with President Hafez al‐Assad and that “progress was made in certain areas.”
Israeli aircraft bombed southern Lebanon today, and security forces set up a general alert to block guerrilla infiltration into northern Israel. Artillery fire between Israel and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights and. the Mount Hermon area also continued, and one Israeli was reported wounded. Israeli jet fighter‐bombers struck at “terrorist targets” in two raids today that lasted about 50 minutes, the Israeli army spokesman announced. The raids were carried out in an area of southeastern Lebanon used by Palestinian organizations as a base area and in “southern Lebanon” where Israel says Palestinian guerrillas have headquarters and facilities close to Palestinian refugee camps.
The Israelis said they had lost no planes in the raids, which followed similar attacks Thursday and Friday. The air strikes were in response to last Wednesday’s guerrilla raid on a school in. Ma’alot in northern Israel, in which Israeli high school students were killed and wounded in a shoot‐out between troops and terrorists who held the students hostage. A widespread security alert was imposed in the Galilee area of northern Israel today. A‐Government announcement said the alert was called “in case” Palestinian guerrillas should try to penetrate Israel to prove that Israeli bombing of the guerrillas’ base areas had not limited the Palestinians’ ability to carry on operations inside Israel. Roadblocks were set up and other security measures were taken and both police and army units patrolled the area.
The pattern of air strikes in Lebanon, now spaced over full week, indicated that the Government was no longer merely retaliating but was pursuing a more vigorous offensive line. Premier Golda Meir said in Parliament that the aim was destroy the “infrastructure” of the various Palestinian guerrilla groups. But she warned that this could not be done in a day.
The Soviet Union and Libya today pledged to render “every assistance” to the Palestinian guerrilla movement. The two countries did not specify what such a commitment would entail. But the promise, appearing in a communique at the end of a weeklong visit by Premier Abdul Salam Jalloud, suggested that the Russians had yielded somewhat to the harder line taken by the Libyans. However, the Soviet Government newspaper, lzvestia, today expressed disapproval of the taking of hostages by guerrillas in Ma’alot last week, contending that “terror against peaceful citizens is not the weapon of a just struggle even in the name of the most just cause.”
The cabinet minister in charge of Portugal’s overseas territories said that he expected Mozambique to become independent within a year. Antonio de Almeida Santos, a member of the provisional government named by the military junta in Lisbon last week, told newsmen during a visit to Mozambique that a referendum would be held there within a year and that the territory’s residents would undoubtedly choose independence.
Strains between Portugal’s ruling junta and the provisional government it named last week came into the open after the departure of the country’s deposed Premier and President for exile in Brazil. Leftist cabinet members, some of whom were in jail under the former regime, objected to the junta’s decision to let the ousted leaders leave the country.
A submarine that has refused to identify itself has been trapped by Swedish naval ships and bomb-laden helicopters in a deep Baltic bay, the navy command reported. The submarine was first reported when its periscope was spotted in Kapelshamn Bay where a naval exercise was under way. Several depth charges were dropped while two destroyers and other ships kept watch at the approach to the bay. In Washington a Pentagon spokesman said the submarine was “not one of ours.”
The Export‐Import Bank of the United States granted a loan of $180‐million today to the Soviet Union to help finance construction of a huge fertilizer complex. The loan is the largest credit ever extended to the Soviet Union by the Eximbank. The project, which was worked out by Armand Hammer, chairman of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation, included the import by the United States of ammonia and urea fertilizers from the Soviet Union in exchange for superphosphoric acid, also a fertilizer, from this country. The entire project is estimated to cost $2‐billion.
President Nixon met with NATO Secretary General Joseph Luns at the White House to discuss the future of the Atlantic Alliance. Luns is in the United States to receive an honorary degree from Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
With political talks between the Saigon Government and the Việt Cộng halted, the four‐nation International commission of Control and Supervision is beginning to show signs of severe strain. Indonesia, professing exasperation at the continuing milltary activities, has threatened to pull out of the peacekeeping commission, which was set up under the Vietnam ceasefire accord in Paris on January 28, 1973. Yesterday Iran, angered by an attack from Hanoi accusing her of partisanship, said she would reconsider her membership. The two Communist members, Hungary and Poland, have protested against attacks by the Saigon Government spokesman, who recently invited them to take “the next plane to Budapest or Warsaw.”
Thailand’s Prime Minister Sanya Dharmasakti (also called Sanya Thammasak) and his cabinet resigned following public criticism over their inability to handle the Asian kingdom’s skyrocketing inflation. Premier Sanya told a delegation of supporters later, “I wonder whether it was the right thing. I am very tired. So many people wanted so many things. I just made the decision that I can’t stay any longer. I may enter the monkhood.” After being asked by people from “all sectors of the country” to reconsider, Sanya announced that he would bring in 14 younger men to replace ministers who had resigned from the 28-member cabinet and was reappointed five days later.
Japanese Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira met with President Nixon at the White House and said afterward that they had not discussed a possible presidential trip to Japan. He reported reaching a general agreement on cooperation in energy, research and development. Ohira later went to New York, where he spoke at the annual dinner of the Japan Society, saying that Japan was irreversibly committed to a nonmilitary role in world politics.
The earthquake that shook the center of Peru last Friday seriously weakened an Andean peak that looms over a village and hundreds of villagers are threatened with death by landslide, according to geologists in Lima. They recommended immediate evacuation of the village. The mountain looms over the village of Anco in the area where a giant landslide dammed the Mantaro River four weeks ago, causing a 20-mile-long lake to form in the deep valley.
Argentine federal police, with army backing, staged an extensive crackdown on guerrillas, government sources said. The targets appeared to be key leaders and members of the People’s Revolutionary Army. The main effort appeared to be in the northern province of Tucuman, where army helicopters and troops helped police surround a forest area where the guerrillas had allegedly set up a training field. About 360 people were reported arrested.
Lieutenant General Hugo Chiappe Posse was relieved as army commander in Uruguay after a power struggle that lasted several days while the army stood by on alert. Named as successor by President Juan Maria Bordaberry’s office was General Julio C. Vadora, now military attaché at Uruguay’s embassy in Washington. Informed sources said the move came as top officers discussed ways of forcing changes in Bordaberry’s military-backed government.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee delayed action on two Nixon ambassador nominees, Stanton D. Anderson for Costa Rica and James D. Hodgson for Japan. The committee questioned Anderson on his youth-he is 33-and on his previous work for the White House on personnel matters. It questioned Hodgson on possible conflict of interest-he is a former Lockheed Aircraft Corp. executive and Japan has made extensive purchases of U.S.-built aircraft. The committee approved William C. Turner of Arizona as U.S. representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; Joseph W. Twinam of Tennessee as ambassador to Bahrain and Michael Sterner of New York as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates.
Representative Peter Rodino, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, raised the possibility that President Nixon may have known of White House involvement in the attempted Watergate cover-up before March 21 last year, the date on which he said he was first informed by John Dean. Mr. Rodino did so after his panel listened to a presidential tape of the meeting with Mr. Dean.
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed a resolution of support for special prosecutor Leon Jaworski in response to his complaint that President Nixon was trying to undercut his mandate. Senator Edward Kennedy, the sole dissenter, argued that the committee should take firmer action and hold public hearings on the complaint.
Jeb Magruder, the deputy director of President Nixon’s re-election campaign, was sentenced to serve from 10 months to four years in prison for his role in the Watergate break-in and cover-up. Mr. Magruder has been cooperating with federal prosecutors for more than a year. District Judge John Sirica ordered him to enter federal prison on June 4.
The Labor Department reported a slowdown in the rise of consumer prices last month, thanks to a rare decline in the cost of food. With food prices easing by four-tenths of 1 percent on average, the overall consumer price index for April was up six-tenths of 1 percent for the smallest increase since last September.
The House rejected a bill, opposed by the administration, to roll back oil and gasoline prices and authorize rationing at the pump. Democratic supporters of the measure said they would try to bring it back to the floor later for another test.
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare is studying data collected from the country’s largest cities on the disproportionate number of minority-group children suspended and expelled from public schools, and it informed a House subcommittee that the study would result in action. In New York City, it said, of 19,518 pupils suspended in the 1972-73 school year, 16,780 were from a minority group.
The largest case of cheating at the United States Naval Academy was carried out at Annapolis, Maryland, when at least 60 and perhaps as many as 150 of 965 sophomore midshipmen were caught with the answers to the final exam in the Academy’s class on navigation. In 1965, 109 cadets at the United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado, had been forced to resign after being caught cheating. The leaked answers were traced to a U.S. Navy quartermaster who had given the information to 150 sophomores, one-sixth of the class of 1976. The 965 all took a new final exam on May 29.
President Nixon moved to block a threatened strike against the nation’s railroads by sheet metal workers unhappy over a 4% wage increase. He signed an executive order setting up an emergency board to investigate the dispute which “threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive sections of the country of essential transportation service.” The action postpones the threatened walkout for at least 60 days. The dispute has simmered since March, 1973, when the railroads signed a new 18-month wage contract with 15 unions representing 500,00 workers. The Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association, with 6,000 members, was not part of that agreement.
Julie and David Eisenhower plan next week to move out of the fashionable Maryland home provided them by C. G. (Bebe) Rebozo and into a $409-a-month two-bedroom duplex apartment a few blocks from the White House, the couple announced. Helen McCain Smith, the First Lady’s press secretary, said Rebozo, President Nixon’s close friend, had sold the house in suburban Bethesda for an undisclosed price. He purchased it a year ago for $125,000. Mrs. Smith said the Eisenhowers had found the house and grounds too large for them to care for without help and that the location involved too much commuting time.
The office of District Attorney Joseph Busch of Los Angeles County said today that new charges of kidnapping, armed robbery, and assault with a deadly weapon would be filed against Patricia Hearst, herself a kidnap victim of the terrorist group that apparently claimed her heart and mind in captivity. Miss Hearst and her two companions in the self‐styled Symbionese Liberation Army, Emily and William Harris, against whom similar charges were also expected, were still at large today despite a manhunt that has spread out across California. Miss Hearst’s family in San Francisco expressed the belief that her incredible journey from victim to apparent violator will soon be resolved by either her capture or her surrender. But there were others who felt that the saga of the 20‐year‐old Berkely coed had not yet exhausted its store of surprises. The appearance of “wanted” posters on post office walls of Miss Hearst as a fugitive from justice — the Federal Bureau of Investigation released posters showing her and the Harrises today — is just the latest development in a case that has sprouted as many venomous features as the seven‐headed cobra that is the S.L.A.’s cachet.
Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, 72, has no intention of retiring because of his recent “small stroke” and plans to run for another term, an aide said. Jane Byrne, city commissioner of consumer sales, weights and measures, said she was speaking out because “men of greed” had planted stories about the mayor’s early retirement. Daley was released from a hospital after 12 days of tests and recuperation. He is expected to undergo corrective surgery in a few weeks.
Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Massachusetts) denounced the Senate-passed education bill that places new restrictions on court-ordered busing, saying it “threatens to reverse 20 years of desegregation efforts in this country.” Brooke called the bill unconstitutional and said, “The foes of integration, the allies of separatists have, at least temporarily, prevailed.” The senator spoke in Washington to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The $24 billion bill now goes to a conference with the House and President Nixon has threatened to veto it because it authorizes more money than originally proposed.
A Cleveland teen-ager testified that she was raped by Mel Stewart, 44, who plays “Uncle Henry” in the TV show All in the Family. Stewart pleaded innocent before Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge George W. White and waived a jury trial. The girl and 11 other high school students earlier this year went to a lecture by Stewart, who formerly worked in Cleveland, the girl, 16, testified. She said Stewart “took me to a house that he said belonged to his family” and raped her in an upstairs bedroom. Dr. David Klausner of University Hospitals testified that the girl was not bruised or lacerated.
Dr. Ralph A. Bohlmann was named to head Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, the scene of unrest since January when the previous head of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod school was fired in a dispute over doctrine. Dr. Bohlmann was named acting president by the Concordia Board of Control. Last January the board suspended Dr. John Teitjen on grounds that he permitted false doctrine to be taught. That firing triggered a walkout by 400 of the school’s 450 resident students.
The practice of assigning students to separate classes for “bright” and “slow” students is resulting in racially imbalanced classrooms within outwardly integrated schools in New York City. The separation is made on the basis of reading tests in the primary grades and continues in the high schools with honors and advanced courses for the best students. Some educators see a tendency for black pupils to be placed in “slow” classes and white in “bright” classes.
Two junior high school deans in the Bronx who had been accused of beating unruly students with a thick wooden paddle were removed from their posts. The superintendent of District 9 in the Morrisania Section reassigned the two to his office pending the outcome of an investigation.
Fire destroyed Bob Stupak’s World Famous Million Dollar Historic Gambling Museum and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Firefighters recovered currency the museum had used as wallpaper.
The Phils Ed Farmer, making his 2nd National League start, strongarms the Cardinals, 4–2. Both teams make 4 hits, but the visiting Phils do all their scoring in the 1st off John Curtis. Philadelphia now leads the National League East by 1½ games.
Paul Blair’s 2nd-inning grand slam is all Mike Cuellar needs as the Orioles whip the Indians, 7-1.
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