Yitzhak Rabin became the fifth Prime Minister of Israel after the Knesset, by a margin of 61 to 51, voted confidence in the ministers selected for his coalition government. Born in Jerusalem on March 1, 1922, Rabin was the first premier to have been born in what would become Israel, the other three having been born in Eastern Europe before immigrating to Palestine. In his first major policy address, Mr. Rabin outlined foreign and domestic policies strikingly similar to those of his predecessor, Golda Meir.
After a 40-day minesweeping operation, the U.S. Navy command office at Ismailia declared that the Suez Canal had been cleared of all active mines.
President Nixon will arrive in Egypt on June 12 and visit Alexandria and Cairo for two days of talks with President Anwar el‐Sadat and for some sightseeing, informed sources said here today. An official announcement of the visit is expected to be made public in Washington and Cairo tomorrow. Mr. Nixon’s arrival in Egypt will be the first phase of a tour of the Middle East that is expected to take him to Israel, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and probably Iran, the sources said. The President will stay in Israel two days, the sources added, while his stopovers in other countries will be briefer.
The Senate opened debate on a $21.8 billion military procurement authorization bill labeled by Chairman John C. Stennis (D-Mississippi) of the Senate Armed Services Committee, “a very large but still vital investment in the nation’s future security.” Stennis and other members of the committee joined in urging the Senate to reject anticipated amendments to cut U.S. forces overseas, particularly in Europe. The measure compares with the $23.1 billion requested by the Nixon Administration and the $22.6 billion approved by the House of Representatives.
Belfast police said a Catholic father of seven apparently was killed on grounds that he used the Irish Republican Army as a cover for his own smuggling and protection rackets. Paul Tinnelly, 34, was killed by men with machine guns Sunday at the seaside resort of Rostrevor. Police said he had been a member of the IRA but had been put on their wanted list for alleged criminal activity.
Communist sappers sank a 1,178-ton South Korean merchant vessel, six miles southeast of Saigon, and four crewmen were reported missing, the Saigon military command said. The sinking followed a Communist rocket attack on Biên Hòa Air Base and a nearby prison that killed or wounded more than 100 people. The command also reported that Red gunners rained more than 300 artillery and mortar shells into Bến Cát and other government bases northeast of Saigon.
The American military presence in the southeast Asian kingdom of Laos ended after 15 years, as the last three U.S. military personnel arrived in Thailand on the final Air America flight. Officially, the embassy here says that the number of Americans has been reduced from 1,100 at the cease‐fire to 472 now. That figure includes 37 contractors, a 30‐man Defense Attaché’s office and 19 Marine guards. Air America, the fabled CIA‐subsidized airline, has pulled out of Laos, as have the paramilitary advisers in the agency who masterminded the “secret war,” according to the embassy.
The deadline for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Laos passed today with a considerable number of North Vietnamese soldiers reported still in the country. “They have withdrawn into the scenery but not back home,” said Defense Minister Sisoukna Champassak, yesterday. Political timetables have never been sacrosanct in Laos, but according to the cease‐fire agreement signed on February 21, 1973, “foreign military personnel” were obliged to leave the country “within a period of no longer than 60 days” after the formation of a coalition government.
The coalition, bringing together the Communist‐directed Pathet Lao, neutralists and rightists, was installed by King Savang Vatthana on April 4 at the royal capital of Luang Prabang. The defense minister, a rightist in the coalition, said in an interview that “the exact figure” for the number of North Vietnamese troops in Laos was unknown, in part because some units had pulled back from relatively visible positions. Generally, Western analysts are unable to agree on a firm figure for the North Vietnamese here, and offer estimates ranging from 30,000 to as many as 55,000.
In addition to the North Vietnamese an uncertain number of Chinese soldiers and workers reportedly remain in northwestern Laos stretched out along a road network that descends from Yunnan Province to Pak Beng just north of the Thai border. The estimates for the Chinese vary from as few as 3,000 to as many as 30,000 but most analysts believe that with the road system nearing completion, the Chinese are scaling down their number as well as defenses.
The State Department denied today that the United States had made secret commitments to North Vietnam as part of the Vietnam settlement. The department spokesman, Robert Anderson, was asked about an article in the current issue of Foreign Policy magazine that said that commitments had been made but not carried out. Mr. Anderson said: “We didn’t make any secret agreements. There are no secret commitments.” He added: “But there are statements on both sides of intentions. None involve added obligations on the part of the United States, but some interpreted formal agreements, that is, put these agreements into specific time frames.” The article, by Tad Szulc, a freelance writer, said that the United States had committed itself to the “removal within a year of all American civilians in South Vietnam engaged in supporting South Vietnamese armed forces.”
The Philippine navy searched the Sulu Sea for 31 persons reported missing when the inter-island passenger vessel Aloha caught fire and sank Sunday. Three persons, including a 6-year-old girl, were confirmed dead. A navy spokesman said 243 others, mostly women and children, were rescued. The ship’s master, Ernesto Huervana, was among those missing.
The Commerce Department said that trade with China surged ahead of United States-Soviet exchanges in the first four months of 1974 and will total $1.25 billion by the end of 1974. To emphasize the importance of American trade, Chinese officials attended a dinner in Washington tonight, at which an official of a trade promotion group said the United States was China’s third largest trading partner after Japan and Hong Kong.
The Himalayan 21,467-foot (6,543 m) high mountain Shivling was climbed for the first time, scaled by a team of mountaineers of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, led by Hukam Singh.
Five days of religious riots have left 27 persons dead and 2,000 in jail in Pakistan, authoritative sources reported. A government ban on detailed reporting of the riots made official information on the extent of the riots available. Tens of thousands of orthodox Muslims in the Punjab and to a lesser extent in three other provinces, are known to have participated in revenge riots against the extreme Qadianis Muslim sect.
Seventy-two Chilean refugees arrived in Mexico City after being granted safe conduct from Mexico’s embassy in Santiago. Some had been in the embassy since the September coup that overthrew the government of Salvador Allende. They joined more than 600 Chileans who have been given asylum in Mexico since the coup. Mexico declared three days of national mourning after Allende’s death and opened its doors to political exiles from Chile, including Allende’s widow and her family.
Peruvian Army Brigadier General Gonzalo Briceño Zevallos arrived at the Golan Heights as the first commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), to oversee the 80-kilometre (50 mi) long UNDOF zone around the Purple Line separating Israeli and Syrian forces.
A U.N. special commission in Dar es Salaam was told by a leader of the Frelimo (Mozambique Liberation Front) that Portuguese troops killed or wounded nearly 200 civilians in northern Mozambique in atrocities between 1965 and 1973. Joaquim Ribeiro de Carravallio was the first Frelimo official to appear before the U.N. group which is expected to take testimony from 40 Mozambicans. Meanwhile, in Lisbon, Foreign Minister Mario Soares confirmed that he would open talks in Lusaka Wednesday with guerrilla leaders, including Frelimo President Samora Machel.
In a surprise one-count plea, worked out in the last week with the Watergate special prosecutor’s office, Charles Colson, who had been one of President Nixon’s closest aides, pleaded guilty to a charge that he attempted to obstruct justice and influence the 1971 trial of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg. It is believed that his plea could have immense — and adverse — implications on Mr. Nixon’s drive to forestall impeachment.
Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz said that he found himself “playing pretty closely” with those Congressmen who support President Nixon against impeachment. His statement, made at a news conference, was the first public acknowledgement by a senior member of the administration of a trend that has been apparent for some time — that policies and actions by the executive branch frequently are shaped to appeal to the pro-Nixon conservative bloc.
In a 5-to-3 decision, the Supreme Court said that women who do the same work as men are entitled to the same wage rates that the men get, whether or not the men work different shifts or claim special privileges predating the equal pay act of 1964. Thus, for the first time, the Court upheld the 10-year-old congressional mandate that employers pay women equal wages for equal work.
Lewis Engman, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, said that television advertising of premiums to children violated federal law, and that television advertising directed at selling dangerous drugs and toys to children was not properly regulated. He told members of the American Advertising Federation that an effort by the television industry to set a new code for children’s television had not been effective.
The directors of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and Textron, Inc., tentatively approved a top-level management change in which G. William Miller, head of the Textron conglomerate, would become chairman and chief executive officer of Lockheed as well. Textron, which is attempting to save Lockheed from insolvency, would invest $85 million in its stock.
Emphasizing his independence of President Nixon, Senator Jacob Javits, the New York Republican, announced his candidacy for a fourth term. He castigated the “moral and systematic decadence that has led us to the disgrace and tragedy of Watergate,” and said that the scandal had made it “extremely difficult” to raise campaign funds.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the Nixon Administration and the American Medical Association brought their three‐way battle over national health insurance before the National Governors’ Conference today. Declaring that the “profit motive” must be taken out health insurance, Senator Kennedy appealed for his $40‐million plan, which would be administered largely by the Social Security Administration. Caspar W. Weinberger, the Secretary of Health Education and Welfare, advocated the Administration’s plan, which, he said, would build on the strength of the private medical profession and the private insurance industry. Dr, Russell B. Roth, president of the A.M.A., said that the “health crisis” had been “trumped up” by politicians in their frustration at solving government’s problems in the economy and public safety, and said that both alternative proposals for national health insurance would be “inflationary.”
There were also political decisions affecting seats in the House. Representative John Rooney, Democrat of Brooklyn and senior member of the New York congressional delegation, said that because of poor health he would not seek re-election this year, ending a 30-year tenure in the House. Representative Angelo Roncallo, a Republican who was acquitted of federal extortion-conspiracy charges last month, announced that he would seek a second term in the Third Congressional District, which embraces parts of Nassau and Suffolk Counties. And former Representative James Scheuer formally declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the 11th District in Brooklyn and Queens.
The Bon Vivant Soup Co. agreed in a Newark, New Jersey, federal court to let the government destroy 1.5 million cans of soup recalled three years ago when a man died of botulism after eating a can of the company’s vichyssoise. The company said it was giving up because legal expenses were too high and the soup probably would be too old to sell even if it won the fight. In return, the government conceded that it was never legally proved that the soup was tainted.
A federal judge in Columbus, Georgia, refused to order the Army or a congressman to release reports of secret investigations into the March, 1968, My Lai massacre for which William L. Calley Jr. was convicted. The Army investigation, called the Peers Report, remains classified. U.S. District Judge J. Robert Elliott also turned down the motion requesting Rep. F. Edward Hebert (D-Louisiana) to produce the testimony of all witnesses who appeared before a House armed services subcommittee that also investigated My Lai. Calley’s attorneys filed the motions in an attempt to overturn their client’s conviction by court-martial of the slayings of 22 Vietnamese villagers.
Donald E. Santarelli has resigned as head of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, congressional sources said. His office refused to confirm or deny the report. Santarelli, 36, said in a recent interview with the Associated Press that the executive branch was “just a nastier place to be these days” because of Watergate. He said he was running his $900 million Justice Department agency almost completely on his own because “there is nobody to tell me no, and there is nobody to can me.” Santarelli later said he had misunderstood the ground rules of the interview and that his remarks were not meant to be published.
Dallas police charged a man with stealing the car of Dan Burney, senior vice president of the Ling-Temco-Vought Corp., who has been missing since May 21. “I feel Burney is dead. Everything points to that conclusion,” said Lt. Charles Burnley. Robbery charges were filed against Paul E. Johnson, who was held in lieu of $100,000 bond. Police said Johnson was sentenced in 1965 to 15 years in prison for robbery by assault. Police said Johnson. 29, also had been charged in California with robbery, grand theft and desertion. Burney, 47, vanished after leaving his offices in downtown Dallas late at night.
William S. Prater, former United Mine Workers official, was sentenced in county court in Erie, Pennsylvania, to three concurrent life sentences for the shooting deaths of UMW insurgent Joseph A. Yablonski, his wife and daughter. Prater earlier received a federal life sentence on a charge of violating the Yablonskis’ civil rights. Prater, 52, of LaFollette, Tennessee, was convicted in March, 1973, on three counts of first-degree murder in the 1969 deaths.
The Justice Department said today that officials of the Consolidation Coal Company, the nation’s second largest coal producer, were under criminal investigation for possible fraud in falsifying coal dust data designed to protect miners from pneumoconiosis, an occupational disease often called black lung. Company officials also confirmed a report of the two-week-old investigation, disclosed today in the June issue of the United Mine Workers Journal.
The Cincinnati Reds visited Shea Stadium last night for the first time since their rough‐house playoff last October, and this time everybody behaved—except the Cincinnati batters, who scored runs in five consecutive innings for a 5–2 victory over Jon Matlack and the New York Mets.
Mark Belanger’s sixth‐inning single drove in the winning run as the Baltimore Orioles beat the Kansas City Royals, 4–3, tonight on the relief pitching of Grant Jackson.
Larry Bowa stole third, then raced home with the lead run on Del Unser’s squeeze bunt in an eighth inning surge that carried the Philadelphia Phillies to a 5–2 victory over the Atlanta Braves, tonight. Steve Carlton scattered six hits to pick up his seventh victory against four defeats, and move the Phillies into first place in the National League’s Eastern Division.
Third-seeded Björn Borg won the men’s singles of the Italian Open tennis tournament. Borg, Sweden’s 17‐year‐old star, won the $16,000 top prize in the men’s singles at the Italian open today, surprisingly overwhelming top-seeded Ilie Nastase of Rumania, 6–3, 6–4, 6–2. The victory enabled Borg to become the youngest player ever to win a major international tournament. The Swedish teenager, seeded third, played a methodical and aggressive game against Nastase, the defending champion and one of the best players in the world.
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Born:
Kelly Jones, Welsh rock singer (Stereophonics), in Cwmaman, Wales, United Kingdom.
Arianne Zuker, American actress (“Days of Our Lives”), in Northridge, California.
Bryan Still, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers, Atlanta Falcons), in Newport News, Virginia.
Allen DeGraffenreid, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals), in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ahmed Khan, Indian film choreographer; in Pune, Maharastra state, India.
Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoletti, Italian law enforcement officer; Director of Security Services and Civil Protection of the Vatican City since 2019; in Gubbio, Perugia, Italy.
Died:
Octavio Muciño, 24, Mexican footballer and centre-forward for the Mexican national team, died three days after being fatally shot by Jaime Muldoon Barreto, who fled the scene and would never stand trial for the crime.
Michael Gaughan, 24, Provisional Irish Republican Army member and bank robber who had been on a hunger strike since March at Parkhurst prison.
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