Israel and Syria carried out the second stage of their troop separation agreement with the exchange of wounded prisoners of war. Red Cross aircraft took off simultaneously from Tel Aviv and Damascus, carrying 12 Israelis home from Syria and 25 Syrians released from prison camps in Israel. One Moroccan, who fought with the Syrians, was also released.
President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger conferred with Secretary General Waldheim at the White House on the role of the United Nations peace-keeping force on the Golan Heights following the signing of an agreement on the separation of Syrian and Israeli forces in the area. Mr. Waldheim was expected to leave tonight on a tour of the Middle East.
Eight Palestinian guerrillas accused of killing three foreign diplomats, including two from the United States, pleaded innocent as their trial opened in Khartoum, Sudan. They were charged with first-degree murder in the deaths last year of U.S. Ambassador Cleo A. Noel, U.S. Charge d’affaires Curtis Moore and Belgian Charge d’affaires Guy Eid.
Arab oil ministers meeting in Cairo postponed a decision on confirming the free flow of oil to the United States pending the arrival of the Syrian delegation. The Syrians gave no reason for their delay. Arab oil ministers, meeting in Cairo, discussed further elimination of oil production restrictions and sales embargoes imposed after the October war, but they postponed decisions until tomorrow, when the Syrian representative is expected to arrive. Their discussions were mainly concerned with whether to end the embargo against the Netherlands and Denmark, which some Arab countries felt had withheld clear support for full Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab lands. The end of the embargo against the United States, which was lifted March 18, was not in question since Secretary of State Kissinger succeeded in mediating the Syrian-Israeli agreement. The ministers also are considering lifting their embargo against Holland. Arab oil ministers soon decide to end most restrictions on exports of oil to the United States but continue embargo against the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, and Rhodesia.
The Eritrean Liberation Front said today that it had “no connection whatsoever” with the kidnapping of a pregnant. American nurse or the killing of a Dutch nurse in Ethiopia. “We have never killed or harmed innocent civilians in Eritrea or Ethiopia throughout our 13 years of rebellion against Ethiopian rule,” a guerrilla statement issued here said. The statement charged Ethiopian authorities with engineering the attacks to “defame and slander the front overseas.” The United States Embassy in Addis Ababa had reported that the guerrillas abducted Mrs. Deborah Dortzbach, 24 years old, of Freehold, New Jersey, on Monday at a mission hospital in the northern Ethiopian town of Ghinda.
South Vietnam launched a major drive in an attempt to retake territory around Bến Cát, 25 miles north of Saigon, and stiff fighting was reported. Saigon military sources said 1,000 government infantrymen stormed across the Thị Tính River from Bến Cát and met fierce North Vietnamese resistance. At least 60 South Vietnamese troops were reported killed, wounded, or missing as 1,000 infantrymen battled against heavy artillery tonight to recapture a village on Saigon’s northern defense perimeter. As evening approached, the infantrymen were still held up after an all‐day battle by Communist troops dug in along the rim of the bombed‐out village of An Điền, less than 25 miles from the capital.
The new Laotian coalition government announced yesterday that it had agreed to establish diplomatic relations with North and South Korea and with East Germany.
More than 6,000 gangsters have been arrested in the Tokyo metropolitan area in one of the biggest crackdowns against organized crime in six years, police said. Among those held were the heads of 15 nationwide crime organizations and 350 smaller bosses. Their multimillion-dollar operations included gambling, extortion and drug-pushing, police said.
National police arrested 19 leaders of the Japan Teachers Union in an early stage of the confrontation between the teachers and the government of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. The charges against the union leaders stem from a one-day national teachers strike in April. Teachers and other government workers are prohibited from striking under Japanese law. The teachers’ union, which has close ties with the Socialist and Communist parties, is an old sparring partner of the conservative governments that have ruled Japan in nearly unbroken succession since World War II.
At least six Philippine Government soldiers have been killed and 19 wounded in a renewal of fighting with Muslim rebels on Jolo Island, military sources and travelers from the south said today. There was no estimate of rebel casualties on the island, 600 miles south of Manila. The same sources said that fighting had also spread to neighboring Siasi Island. Officials said that they had no information about fighting in the islands. But the military sources said that fighting was continuing on Solo about 30 miles east of Jolo City.
Pakistan has called off a meeting with India scheduled for June 10 to discuss further steps toward normalization of relations. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said here that in a brief communication received from Islamabad, Pakistan had cited the Indian nuclear test held two weeks ago some 90 miles from the Pakistan border as her reason for canceling the meeting. The Pakistani communication said that the talks should be deferred until the situation was more favorable, the spokesman said.
The new leaders of France and West Germany said today that they would work together to reinvigorate the Common Market and that France had no need right now for any special economic aid from the West German treasury. President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing of France and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany stressed in public statements the similarity of their positions on West European and world problems after nearly six hours of talks. Friends as fellow finance ministers before their recent elevation, the two men came to broad understandings rather than specific agreements in their deliberations this morning and last night at the Elysée Palace, the Presidential residence.
Before the meeting there were rumors that France, which like most other industrial countries is finding trouble paying its bills because of higher oil prices, would ask the West Germans for aid or would decree protectionist measure to redress her balance of payments. Mr. Giscard d’Estaing said France had ruled out both of these approaches. He told Mr. Schmidt that France intended to take internal measures, which means to clamp down on inflation.
At least 55 people were killed in an explosion in a chemical plant in a small English village near Scunthorpe, in Lincolnshire, 180 miles north of London. The blast occurred at the Nypro plant in Flixborough, which manufactured raw material used in nylon cloth products. The blast from the ignition of liquid cyclohexane occurred at 4:53 in the afternoon at the Nypro chemical fertilizer factory, near the village of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, after chemical engineers discovered a leak in one of the plant’s six reactors and bypassed it rather than shutting down operations. Flixborough was shattered, and its inhabitants and those of two neighboring villages were evacuated as toxic fumes escaped from the plant.
Portugal and Rumania today‐announced agreement to re‐establish diplomatic relations, broken off more than 25 years ago. The statement said that the two countries had pledged not to interfere in each other’s domestic affairs, and that they would soon exchange ambassadors. Rumania will be the first Communist country in Europe to have a diplomatic mission in Lisbon. At present, the only Communist country represented here is Cuba. Foreign Minister Mario Soares announced the diplomatic recognition of Rumania on his return here from London and Paris. He said the move was the first step toward normalization of Portugal’s relations “with all Socialist countries, all Arab countries and all African countries.”
Jacques Rose, who jumped bail in February while appealing his conviction as an accessory in the 1970 kidnap murder of former Labor Minister Pierre LaPorte, was arrested in his south Montreal apartment. Rose, a member of a Quebec French revolutionary group, offered no resistance in the raid by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Quebec provincial police and Montreal police. His brother, Paul, was convicted in 1971 of LaPorte’s murder and is serving a life term.
Argentina will soon be able to make its own atomic bomb, according to two Argentine newspapers, La Opinion and Mayoria. La Opinion said all conditions were favorable, including uranium deposits, scientific know-how, industrial capability and a nuclear trigger of plutonium. Mayoria published a front-page story headed “Argentina and the Atomic Bomb-First Attempt in Latin America.”
The government of Peru outlawed the Acción Popular political party that had been founded by former president Fernando Belaunde Terry and ordered the deportation of the party’s leader, Javier Alva Orlandini. Accion Popular, a major Peruvian political party of moderate leftist views founded by ex-President Fernando Belaunde Terry, was outlawed and its secretary general, Javier Orlandini, was ordered deported. Observers interpreted the action as a toughening stand against critics by the military regime of President Juan Velasco who overthrew Belaunde Terry five years ago. The party had been demanding elections and a return to constitutional government.
The commander of the Portuguese forces in Angola says that it will be “a little difficult” to create the conditions for a referendum on the future of the territory. In an interview at his headquarters in the gleaming white 16th century fortress dominating this capital on the Atlantic, the commander, Lieutenant General Joaquim António Franco Pinheiro, cited the war waged by three black guerrilla movements and the struggle of white extremists to defend their interests. “If the war continues there can be no referendum,” the general said. “We must have peace to have a credible referendum.”
Vice President Ford found himself enmeshed in intraparty acrimony in New Hampshire, where he had gone to attend a Republican fundraising reception. The state’s largest newspaper denounced him as “a jerk” and berated him for “treacherous” lack of loyalty to President Nixon. The editorial added, “As left‐wing media heap their smears on the President, the Vice President backs further and further away from his benefactor, claiming to support him while sticking a political dagger in his back in the best style of Brutus.”
Administration officials said that the Attorney General’s formal list of subversive organizations would be abolished by President Nixon. The list has been dormant for years, but in the 1950’s it was the scourge of the liberals and civil libertarians, since persons who belonged to organizations on the list in many instances lost jobs or were otherwise blacklisted. Its abolition “is more important symbolically than in fact,” an official said. “Even though the list is absolutely worthless, it has a ring to it of enemies of the government.”
The Rev. John McLaughlin will be allowed to keep his job as a White House speech writer on a full-time basis, his religious superior said, but he will have to take time off every year for prayer and reflection. Earlier, the Rev. Richard T. Cleary, provincial of the Jesuit order in New England, had tried to recall Father McLaughlin to Boston for “prayer and reflection” after the priest had defended President Nixon’s frequent use of profanity, as reflected in the Watergate tapes.
Drug use among Vietnam veterans appears to be far more complex and serious than has been indicated publicly by some of the highest Pentagon and other government authorities concerned with the issue. This became apparent in interviews with many veterans who used drugs in Vietnam and with many drug treatment experts and government officials, supported by evidence gathered by the government itself.
People are moving into condominium residential developments at such a rapid rate that federal officials expect half the population to live in them within 20 years. The purchase of a condominium dwelling is regulated, like real estate transactions generally, under state law, but it appears there are virtually no consumer protection laws for buyers who find fault with their purchase, in shoddy construction, for example, after the contract has been signed. The switch to condominiums is bringing fundamental changes to American housing, and is creating special problems.
For the first time in 53 years, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, representing 110,000 workers, called an industry-wide strike. About 40,000 of the union members are employed in the New York area. The union is seeking a sizable increase in the present average wage of $3.50 an hour, and a cost-of-living escalator clause in a new contract. The strike affects about 750 manufacturers of men’s and boys’ clothing.
Retail businesses soon will receive official Treasury Department permission to hand out paper scrip instead of pennies as change because of the shortage of the copper coins, department sources said in Washington. The Treasury has also designated June as get-out-the-penny month in an effort to ease the shortage. Mint Director Mary Brooks said she was hopeful the need for scrip would be over by the end of summer as more copper pennies were returned to circulation.
Former Teamsters leader James R. Hoffa was refused access to presidential papers relating to his grant of conditional clemency. In refusing to hand over the documents concerning the barring of Hoffa from active involvement in union affairs until 1980, President Nixon claimed executive privilege. U.S. District Judge John H. Pratt scheduled a hearing for Monday on the government’s motion to quash the subpoena sought by Hoffa in his fight against the ban.
Mr. and Mrs. Randolph A. Hearst have hired former U.S. Attorney Cecil Poole to counsel them on a possible legal defense of their daughter, Patricia, against a variety of criminal charges. Miss Hearst was kidnaped by the Symbionese Liberation Army February 4, but she now says she is a willing SLA member. She faces at least 22 state and federal charges. Poole said he conferred with the Hearsts at their home in Hillsborough.
The U.S. medical magazine Emergency Medicine published “Pop Goes the Cafe Coronary”, an informal article by thoracic surgeon Henry Heimlich, describing the effective use of abdominal thrusts to dislodge an object blocking an airway to save a person choking on food. On June 11, Arthur Snider, science columnist for the Chicago Daily News wrote about Dr. Heimlich’s findings, opening with the sentence, “A leading surgeon invites the public to try a method he has developed for forcing out food stuck in the windpipe of persons choking to death,” in a story reprinted nationwide, and on June 19, 1974, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that retired restaurant owner Isaac Piha, who had read the Snider article in the Seattle paper, used the procedure to rescue a choking victim, Irene Bogachus, in Bellevue, Washington, a story reprinted in other newspapers.
Ted Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Washington. Ball disappeared after leaving the Flame Tavern in Burien, near Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. She was last seen in the parking lot, talking to a brown-haired man with his arm in a sling. The following March, forestry students from Green River Community College discovered her skull and mandible on Taylor Mountain, where Bundy frequently hiked, just east of Issaquah. Brenda was the fifth of many young women to go missing in the area. All of the cases were believed to be connected, and were believed to have been committed by the man in the sling, as a man fitting his description was sighted in the area of the other disappearances. This man was known as “Ted.”
Bundy later confessed to Brenda’s murder, saying he took Brenda back to his home, and had a “consensual” sexual encounter, before strangling Brenda in her sleep. This didn’t explain the damage done to Brenda’s skull, and Bundy usually raped his victims. Bundy also confessed to twenty-nine other murders, very shortly before his execution on January 24, 1989.
Unless there are “drastic and rapid” changes in a “dismal” job picture for blacks, “a large part of an entire generation of young blacks will never enter the labor force” in the 1970s, a civil rights leader said in Washington. Herbert Hill, labor director for the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, said the situation was “the single most explosive factor in causing urban unrest.” He said that so-called “hometown plans” and union “outreach” training programs had failed to provide fair employment opportunities for blacks.
The Food and Drug Administration warned against the use of imported Chinese herbal medicines containing phenylbutazone, a powerful and potentially dangerous drug that can cause a fatal blood disease. The FDA said the products were being sold at groceries in Chinese communities in major U.S. cities. The FDA said four known cases of the disease, agranulocytosis, which causes a shortage of infection-fighting white blood cells, had been confirmed recently in the San Francisco Bay area.
The live album “June 1, 1974” was recorded at the Rainbow Theatre, London. The main performers were Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico.
At Wrigley Field, Ron Cey drives in 7 runs as the Dodgers romp over Chicago 10–0. Dodgers third base coach Tommy Lasorda is hooked up to a “Game of the Week” microphone and predicts a Cey home run in the 2nd inning.
At Cleveland, Leron Lee drives in all 5 runs with a solo shot and a grand slam in the Indians 5–2 win over the Royals.
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Alanis Morissette, Canadian alternative rock singer (“You Oughta Know”, “Hand in My Pocket”, “Ironic”), 1996 Grammy Award Album of the Year winner (“Jagged Little Pill”) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Michael Rasmussen, Danish road cyclist (best climber classification Tour de France 2005, 06), in Tølløse, Denmark.
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