Secretary of State Kissinger has reportedly worked out the basic text of a Syria-Israeli troop separation agreement with just two major issues remaining to be settled: the size of the United Nations force to patrol the buffer zone, and the size of the military forces allowed in the front-line zones. After another day of shuttling between Syria and Israel, American officials said Mr. Kissinger had won agreement on other issues.
Israeli officials called a security alert in Jerusalem and much of northern Israel today to guard against Palestinian terrorist attacks on civilian centers. It was believed that a group of men had infiltrated into Israel from Lebanon. The scale and area of the spreading security alert indicated, however, that authorities feared that other groups of terrorists might move into the country. Israeli officials linked the security measures to last week’s massacre of 20 teenagers at the northern town of Ma’alot and the subsequent retaliatory air raid on Palestinian guerrilla areas in Lebanon. The officials said it was “logical” to assume the Palestinian organizations would want to show that their ability to strike at Israel had not been hampered by the heavy air raids.
The Israeli Government is planning to reconsider its policy of opposing death sentences for Arab terrorists convicted of murder, the Minister of Justice said today. The Minister, Haim Zadok spoke in Parliament in Jerusalem in reply to motions for debate on the matter in the wake of the recent killings in the Galilee area. Indirectly he was responding to a wave of public criticism of the Government’s policy, adopted in 1967. Mourners at the funerals of 18 Israelis massacred in Qiryat Shemona on April 11 and those of 20 teenagers murdered in a school in Ma’alot on May 15 shrieked demands for the execution of terrorists. Angry demonstrators later appeared at the Parliament demanding capital punishment. University students today gave the Speaker of Parliament, Yisrael Yeshayahu, a petition containing 100,000 signatures demanding the execution of convicted terrorists. The students said that they began collecting the signatures after Arab gunmen murdered Members of the Israeli Olympic team at Munich in September, 1972.
Syria said that one of her intensive artillery barrages set fire to an Israeli settlement on the Golan Heights today, “causing destruction and fires which are still burning.” It was the first Israeli settlement reported hit in the 72‐day war of attrition.
The British and Ulster governments began a military, political and economic offensive against striking Protestant extremists in Northern Ireland. Some 3,000 soldiers dismantled street barricades (some were re-established), the provincial government announced what appeared to be a major concession to the strikers by scaling down the immediate plans for an All-Ireland Council and the British government announced the suspension of $12 million in subsidies for a huge Belfast shipyard employing about 10,000 Protestants.
A car loaded with cans of butane gas exploded outside the office of the Spanish Iberia Air Lines in Brussels, injuring two persons and causing heavy damage. In Liege and Antwerp experts disarmed two more butane-laden cars outside Iberia offices after an anonymous call warned of three car bombs. Police suspected Basque nationalists or Spanish anarchists might be responsible for the blasts. Two of the three cars, all carrying Dutch license plates, had been stolen and the third rented in Amsterdam.
An unidentified submarine that was reported trapped by a small task force left Swedish waters after the vessels were withdrawn, defense headquarters in Stockholm reported. The task force was pulled out to give the submarine “a calculated chance to leave” after about 20 light depth charges had been dropped, the headquarters said. A ship and helicopter returned about seven hours later and found no trace of the sub.
French President-elect Valery Giscard d’Estaing said he would place at least three women in the higher ranks of the French government and that one would be a cabinet officer. The average age of cabinet members will be in the 40s, he said in an interview with the Paris newspaper France-Soir.
Kidnappers released a Spanish bank manager in a forest on the east edge of Paris and police said they arrested two men and a woman three hours later. A spokesman refused to comment on reports that police recovered most of the $600,000 ransom paid for the release of Angel Balthazar Suarez, 42, head of the Banque de Bilbao in Paris. It is believed that Suarez’s abductors were members of a Spanish anarchist organization called the International Groups of Revolutionary Action.
In a protest against India’s nuclear test explosion, Canada suspended her aid program to India for nuclear development and called upon other governments for immediate joint consideration of “the broad international implications.” Mitchell W. Sharp, the Secretary of State for External Affairs, said Canada would review her other aid programs “to be sure that our priorities are the same as the Indians’.” He said Canada was calling on other governments for immediate joint consideration of “the broad international implications” of the Indian action. “What concerns us about this matter is that the Indians, notwithstanding their great economic difficulties, should have devoted tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to the creation of a nuclear device for nuclear explosion,” Mr. Sharp said. He spoke at a news conference after a Cabinet meeting on the Indian nuclear test.
India’s Defense Minister today ruled out the use of nuclear weapons and said that her new technology would be developed solely for peaceful purposes. The minister, Jagjivan Ram, said Pakistan was overreacting to India’s nuclear explosion and expressed hope that the underground test on Saturday would not damage relations with the United States or China. Mr. Ram, in an interview, expressed surprise at the adverse comments of several nations as well as American and West European newspapers. “Why should there be this kind of reaction?” the 67‐year‐old minister asked. “We are doing this for peaceful purposes and not for military uses.
South and North Korea, in a four-hour meeting at the truce village of Panmunjom, agreed on a plan to reactivate deadlocked Red Cross talks on helping reunite 10 million relatives separated in the Korean war, a southern spokesman said. The meeting was the sixth aimed at reopening talks stalled in political squabbling last year. Under the plan six-member teams will hold a working-level meeting focusing on procedures for the main talks.
President Juan M. Bordaberry, who has jointly ruled Uruguay with the military over the last year, is again under pressure from army leaders frustrated by the country’s deepening economic crisis. The commanding officers of the strongest army garrisons yesterday forced the resignation of General Hugo Chiappe, the army’s commander, who is thought to oppose a complete military take‐over of the Government. Late yesterday President Bordaberry also reportedly agreed to overhaul his Cabinet in the next few days to avert a further confrontation with hardline officers led by General Esteban Cristi, a strong admirer of Brazil’s military Government.
What is now the world’s largest national park, the Grønlands Nationalpark, was established by Denmark with the protection of 700,000 square kilometers (270,000 sq mi) of uninhabited territory in northeast Greenland. In 1988, it would be expanded to its current size of 972,000 square kilometers (375,000 sq mi).
United Mine Workers of America opened a campaign to condemn coal imports from South Africa where the union said black miners earn about $3 a day. The union said its members joined in a rally at Georgia Power Co. offices in Atlanta and questioned the policy of the Southern Co. at a stockholder meeting in Birmingham, Alabama. The UMW said the wage disparity in South Africa makes it possible to mine the coal, transport it 10,000 miles and still make competitive U.S. sales.
Pope Paul VI, in an audience with members of the U.N. Committee on Apartheid, called for an end to racial discrimination saying the cause is urgent and the hour is late. Without naming South Africa — the committee’s main subject — the Pontiff said racial discrimination was one of the world’s most pressing problems. The committee is on a fact-finding tour of Europe.
U.S. President Nixon informed the House Judiciary Committee that he would refuse to obey any further subpoenas for evidence or appearances. President Nixon told the House Judiciary Committee he would not comply with its subpoena for additional White House tapes on Watergate and would reject future subpoenas. The tone of the President’s letter to the committee chairman indicated that Mr. Nixon has adopted a firm, hardline course that may increase his chances for impeachment since it appears to flout a well-established legal doctrine that the House is entitled to any presidential material it deems relevant to an impeachment inquiry.
Calling the President’s refusal to honor committee subpoenas a “very grave matter,” the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative Peter Rodino, strongly implied that Mr. Nixon’s defiance might constitute grounds for impeachment. But in a statement, he said was issued on behalf of the committee, Mr. Rodino said that formal committee action on the issue would be deferred until next week.
The judge in the trial of the White House “plumbers” said that he might dismiss the case if the government refused to turn over material helpful to the defendants. Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell said that he might have no other recourse “if the court rules the documents are relevant and material and the government doesn’t produce them.” The prosecution contends that so-called national security materials sought by the defense are irrelevant to the case growing out of the break-in at the office of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist, and Judge Gesell has not ruled.
A Jesuit priest who serves as a White House aide and who has spoken out forcefully in defense of the President was summoned back to Boston by his religious superior for “prayer” and “reflection.” In announcing the action, the head of the Jesuit Fathers of New England said it was possible Father John McLaughlin might be ordered to leave the White House staff or be dismissed from the Jesuits.
The Disaster Relief Act of 1974, authorizing the U.S. president to make declarations in order to hasten the sending of federal money to disaster-stricken areas in the United States and its territories, was signed into law by President Richard Nixon, after having passed 91 to 0 in the U.S. Senate and 392 to 0 in the House of Representatives.
Before passing the military procurement bill, the House killed a move to require a 100,000-man reduction in American troops stationed overseas, but refused to approve a $474 million increase in military aid to South Vietnam for the next fiscal year. An intensive administration effort helped defeat an amendment to force the troop cutback, but the administration was unable to get a $1.6 billion ceiling on military aid to South Vietnam, which was set by the House at $1.126 billion, the same level set for the current fiscal year.
The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee voted unanimously to increase educational benefits for veterans by 18% and give them up to 45 months’ schooling instead of 36. The action may break a lengthy Senate-House stalemate over such legislation. The 18% cost-of-living increase is more than the 13% voted by the House some time ago and the 8% proposed by the Nixon Administration but is less than the 25% originally proposed by the Senate.
President Nixon expressed displeasure today with the Senate version of the federal aid‐to-education bill, hinting that he might veto the final compromise measure if it retains mild antibusing provision instead of the stronger one approved by the House. In a statement released by the White House, the President also said he was dissatisfied with some of the technical provisions contained in the bill that was passed by the Senate last Monday because they would “add cumbersome, time-consuming and restrictive administrative procedures.”
Pittsburgh Mayor Peter F. Flaherty won the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate and the right to challenge Senator Richard S. Schweiker, who was unopposed for renomination in the Republican primary, in November. Flaherty, 48, who had the strong backing of the Democratic Party machinery across the state, was a narrow winner over Herbert S. Denenberg, former state insurance commissioner and well-known consumer advocate.
The Justice Department said in documents filed in federal court in Detroit that it used electronic devices to eavesdrop on lawyer Abdeen M. Jabara, a spokesman for Arab causes who represented the convicted killer of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The department and the FBI said agents had exchanged information about Jabara with Zionist groups. The groups were unnamed despite an order from U.S. District Judge Ralph M. Freeman to do so. The statement was in response to a suit Jabara filed in October, 1972, charging that he was under surveillance in violation of his constitutional rights. The department documents added that agents used “lawful national security” surveillance “to obtain foreign intelligence information.”
Bishop Valerian D. Trifa, the head of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate in America, says that despite repeated accusations, there is no proof to link him with Nazi atrocities in World War II. Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D-New York) charged on Monday that Bishop Trifa was one of at least 70 persons with Nazi ties who were using the United States for a haven because of a “haphazard” and “sloppy” investigation by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Bishop Trifa from his headquarters near Jackson, Michigan, said he spent the war as a German prisoner at Buchenwald and Dachau and took no part in violence.
Rebellious inmates freed three guards held hostage in Jackson County (Kansas City, Missouri) Jail when officials agreed to clean up the aging, insect-infested facility. Officials also agreed to demands for amnesty for the 46 participants in the two-hour disturbance.
The apartment where Emily and William Harris lived here had posters of Marx and Lenin in the hallway and pretty China and expensive pots in the kitchen. Books on revolution and the class struggle filled the living room, but the clothes in the closets were nothing but the most stylish kind of contemporary hip. There was also a Waring blender, a color television set, a king‐size water bed and complete set of the best French knives. When the guns and ammunition were out of sight, it appeared to be an innocuous apartment, not unlike thousands of others occupied by middle‐class young people who effect the hippie mode along with a comfortable way of life. Today the Harrises are among the last known members of the Symbionese Liberation Army still alive or not in jail. And, along with their newfound “comrade,” Patricia Campbell Hearst, they have been branded as “armed and very dangerous” by the authorities.
The U.S. performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
“Julie and Jackie: How Sweet It Is” music and comedy variety special starring Julie Andrews and Jackie Gleason airs on ABC-TV.
Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly and dies 14 months later.
Milt May breaks a 1–1 tie with a walk-off pinch grand slam to give the Houston Astros a 5–1 win over the San Diego Padres. Claude Osteen and Randy Jones had dueled to a 1–1 draw for eight innings. Osteen takes the victory, allowing five hits. Osteen had once tutored Jones when the hurler was in junior high school.
Jerry Morales connects for two 3-run homer to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 9–6 win at Shea. His second homer, in the 9th, breaks a 6–6 tie.
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Born:
Henrietta Ónodi, Hungarian artistic gymnast, 1992 Olympic gold medalist in the vault; in Békéscsaba, Békés County, Hungary.
Andrei Nazarov, Russian NHL left wing (San Jose Sharks, Tampa Bay Lightning, Calgary Flames, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Boston Bruins, Phoenix Coyotes, Minnesota Wild), in Chelyabinsk,, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Greg Jones, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins, Chicago Bears, Arizona Cardinals), in Denver, Colorado.
John Bale, MLB pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals), in Cheverly, Maryland.
A. J. Langer, American actress (“My So-Called Life”; “Baywatch”), in Columbus, Ohio.
Sean Gunn, American actor (‘Kirk’-“Gilmore Girls”; ‘Kraglin Obfonteri’ in the Marvel superhero films), in St. Louis, Missouri.
Died:
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, 70, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer.
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