Owing to the jump in world oil prices, the Soviet Union, which supported the Arab oil embargoes and production restrictions, last year took in nearly a billion dollars more in oil revenue than a year earlier, with only a modest increase in exports. The windfall profits came from trade with Western countries only, according to 1973 Soviet foreign trade statistics.
Arab oil producers have agreed to end an allocation quota system tied to consumer nations’ political stance on Middle East affairs and to abandon a 15% cutback in total production. Sources said the reversal of the strategy called into effect during the Arab-Israeli October war came quietly at a meeting of nine Arab oil ministers in Cairo. Sheik Ahmad Zaki Yamani of Saudi Arabia reportedly won the informal agreement.
The government of Saudi Arabia announces that it will increase its participation in Aramco to 60 percent.
Israeli and Syrian army staff officers completed today the logistic and other practical arrangements for carrying out the accord signed Friday on the disengagement of forces on the Golan Heights. All the related documents, including maps showing the positions to which the opposing armies will withdraw, are to be signed tomorrow at 10 AM by Major General Herzl Shafir for Israel and Brigadier General Adnan Talyara for Syria.
Security officials in Israel said today that two armed infiltrators from Lebanon had been intercepted and arrested but three others had apparently escaped back across the border. The two who were taken prisoner were caught at a police checkpoint at Meona, in western Galilee, after they hired a taxicab at a village near the border for a drive south. The army radio station identified the prisoners as l8‐year‐old Israeli Arabs who left their village, Maid al Kurum, last year and joined a guerrilla organization in Lebanon. The two, George Mustapha Diab and Mahmud Shehadeh, told the police they had been on their way to visit relatives in their home town. They had hidden weapons and explosives near the border, where they were recovered later by security forces, according to the radio report. The two men told their captors they had entered Israel with three other guerrillas on Sunday night with orders to carry out a mass killing. They said the others had returned to Lebanon, and an extensive search for them in western Galilee was unsuccessful.
President, Anwar el‐Sadat crossed the Suez Canal today and visited Egyptian Third Army troops in Sinai for the first time since before the October war. He also paid his first visit to Suez City since it was freed from an Israeli siege by the Egyptian‐Israeli agreement on troop disengagement in January. Mr. Sadat’s tour of the canal area was timed to coincide with the seventh anniversary of the war of June, 1967, which ended in defeat for Egypt. He was clearly intent on erasing the bitter memories of 1967 with those of the October war, which restored Egyptian self‐confidence and revitalized its foreign and domestic policy.
Keo Sangkim, the Minister of Education for the Khmer Republic (Cambodia), and former Education Minister Thach Chea, were killed in a school building at Phnom Penh after being taken hostage by students. Cambodia’s Education Minister and his top assistant, who were being held hostage in Phnom Penh by high school students demanding educational reforms, were killed when the government troops attacked the school. The police said that the two men had been shot and stabbed by the students, but a reporter said they had been shot by military policemen when the students used the officials as shields.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed, 354-14, and sent to the Senate a compromise $769 million weapons authorization measure that includes a ban on increased military aid to South Vietnam. A Senate-House conference committee worked out the bill after the House voted for a $1.1 billion authorization and the Senate for only $415.5 million. The Pentagon asked for $1.2 billion.
China has appointed a career soldier, Ma Ning, as chief of the air force, filling a post vacant since the planned coup by Lin Pao three years ago, the New China News Agency said in Peking. The last air force commander, Wu Fa-hsein, disappeared in late 1971 after the discovery of the plot against party Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Ma Ning’s political career began in 1949 when he was the 1st Army’s delegate to the initial meeting of the political consultative conference.
At least 30 persons have been killed, more than 200 injured, and 2,000 arrested, in five days of Muslim warfare in Pakistan’s Punjab Province, authoritative sources report. The government put a ban on official information about the fighting between orthodox Muslims and members of the extremist Qadianis sect in an attempt to keep religious passions elsewhere from being inflamed. But informed sources reported fighting throughout Punjab. It was called the most serious civil disturbance since Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto took office late in 1972.
At least 10,000 — perhaps as many as 20,000 people — in the Indian state of Bihar have died this year from smallpox in what has been described as one of the worst epidemics of disease in recent years. More than 30,000 smallpox cases were reported in the last five weeks from virtually every village in Bihar, an official of the World Health Organization said in Geneva.
The 22,520 feet (6,860 m) Changabang mountain was climbed for the first time. The peak, located in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, was scaled by a team led by Indian Army Lieutenant Colonel Balwant Sandhu and by British mountaineer Chris Bonington.
Britain’s Prime Minister Wilson ruled out a British troop withdrawal from Northern Ireland today as an emergency debate in the House of Commons ended without evidence of progress toward a resolution of the political crisis there. “There is no easy solution through the withdrawal of troops,” the Prime Minister said, “unless this House is prepared to risk a holocaust.” He vowed that British soldiers would be kept in the province as long as they were necessary to protect the public. Although Parliament had been recalled from its spring recess to discuss the situation in the province, two days of talks failed to produce new proposals to resolve the crisis that resulted in the collapse of Ulster’s coalition government a week ago. The Northern Ireland Executive, the chief policy‐making body, resigned last Tuesday after a two‐week general strike that brought the economy almost to a state of paralysis.
A benzine tank exploded and touched off a fresh fire in the ruins of a giant chemical plant at Flixborough, England, that exploded Saturday, killing 29 people and injuring 105. The new explosion came as firemen prepared to uncover the plant’s main control room where, they said, they expected to find at least 20 of Saturday’s victims.
Three armed men broke into the estate of a prominent English racehorse owner and former member of the British Parliament early today and kidnapped him and his wife. The police identified the couple as the Earl of Donoughmore, 71 years old, and his wife, Dorothy. A police spokesman said that the three men arrived by car at about midnight at the estate, which is at Knocklofty, 110 miles southwest of Dublin. They broke into the quarters of Joseph Phelan, the chauffeur, and demanded that he tell them how to get into the mansion. When Mr. Phelan refused, they pistol‐whipped him and then tried to get the same information from his daughter, Patricia, 17. She also refused. The spokesman said that the three then dragged Mr. Phelan’s teen‐age son, Joseph Jr., outside at gunpoint and started to beat him. At this point, the Earl and his wife drove into the grounds. The couple was stopped, placed at pistol point in the gunmen’s blue car and driven away in the direction of Dublin, the spokesman said.
Britain presented in detail to‐day her demands for better membership terms in the European Common Market but did so in tones suggesting that she really wanted to stay in. After the presentation, which contrasted with the uncompromising tone of the original demands put forward on April 1, the Foreign Ministers of the nine‐nation community agreed to look into the British case. As presented by Foreign Secretary James Callaghan, Britain’s demands centered on an effort to reduce her contributions to the Common Market budget. Other points included revision of the community’s agricultural policy of keeping food prices up and easier access for Commonwealth products to European markets. Mr. Callaghan argued that Britain would grow relatively poorer over the years and so needed financial concessions in the interests of fairness, but this was greeted with skepticism by some of the Common Market countries. Ireland, for example, called the British estimates surprising.
Two Peruvian admirals quit their cabinet posts in what appeared to be a widening crisis within President Juan Velasco’s left-leaning military regime. The resignations of Housing Minister Ramon Arrospide and Vice Admiral Alberto Indacochea, head of the National Integration Office that deals with the Andean Common Market organization, came on the heels of the forced resignation last week of Navy Minister Luis Vargas Cabarello.
Portuguese President Antonio de Spinola will visit the African territories of Angola and Mozambique shortly, it was officially announced in Lisbon. The word came as Foreign Minister Mario Soares left for Zambia to open talks with leaders of Frelimo (Mozambique Liberation Front) aimed at paving the way for a cease-fire to end 13 years of guerilla war in the East African territory.
One African was shot dead and two were injured when Rhodesian police opened fire at rioters in Gwelo, 150 miles southwest of Salisbury, police said. Eight Africans were arrested. Observers believed the rioting was sparked by the rejection Sunday by the Central Committee of the African National Council of the Rhodesian government’s latest proposal in the country’s long independence dispute.
A court-appointed panel of technical experts has decided that “the only completely plausible explanation” for the 18½-minute gap in a crucial White House tape recording is that it was caused by “pushing” the keys of a “normally operated” tape recorder at least five times. That recorder, according to the panel, was “probably” the one that Rose Mary Woods, President Nixon’s personal secretary, used last October to listen to the disputed tape. The panel’s finding was released by the Federal District Court in Washington.
The Senate rejected a measure that would require the Central Intelligence Agency to disclose publicly each year the total amount of money America spends on spying. Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) was voted down 55 to 33 on his public disclosure amendment to the $21.8 billion annual military weapons procurement authorization bill.
The House Judiciary Committee heard two White House tape recordings that apparently rebut charges that President Nixon was aware of a plan by the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation to contribute to his 1972 re-election campaign when he intervened in an antitrust case against I.T.T. in 1971. But the impeachment inquiry pursued the possibility that Mr. Nixon joined in or knew of illegal efforts in 1972 to prevent disclosure of his actions in the antitrust case.
The House Judiciary Committee has intensified its inquiry into 17 so-called “national security” wiretaps authorized by President Nixon beginning in 1969. A series of letters filed in court in connection with a lawsuit by Morton Halperin, who was subjected to one of the wiretaps, disclosed that officials of the committee completed arrangements last week for the turnover of highly classified wiretap documents and materials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Under a court decision, the Reserve Mining Company may continue to pollute Lake Superior with industrial wastes from its plant in Silver Bay, Minnesota. Last April, Reserve Mining, owned jointly by the Armco and Republic steel companies, was ordered immediately to stop its waste discharge as a result of a suit brought by the Justice Department, three states and five environmental groups, But a higher court ruling indicates that Reserve Mining will be allowed to continue to use the lake while it converts to on-land disposal of its wastes, a process that company officials said may take from three and a half to five years.
The sudden illness of Peter Schlam, the federal prosecutor in the extortion-conspiracy trial of Representative Angelo Roncallo reportedly was under investigation by the Justice Department, the Suffolk County District Attorney and the County Police Commissioner.
Albert L. Dantzler, a Hallandale, Florida, bank official who told police in April he was kidnaped and held for ransom, has quit his job and is now a suspect in the case, the FBI said. Agent Elie Scott said U.S. attorneys were considering grand jury action. Dantzler, 43, said he left his job as assistant vice president of the City National Bank because of publicity about the incident. On April 19, Dantzler telephoned the bank and said he was being held for $60,000 ransom. The money was never paid but the next day Dantzler turned up in nearby Ft. Lauderdale and told police he had escaped by jumping from a small boat into the Atlantic and swimming ashore.
Treasury Secretary William E. Simon said the government must keep a brake on demand in the economy, even if it meant higher-than-desirable unemployment. He said it was essential that industry have a chance to increase output to catch up with past demand and for that reason the government should hold down its own spending. Simon, at the opening session of the International Monetary Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia, argued against a tax cut, saying, “putting more money into the hands of our citizens will not put more food on their tables or more gasoline in their tanks.”
A self-employed oil field supplier of Tulsa was arrested by FBI agents in connection with the kidnaping of millionaire Oklahoma businessman Walter H. Helmerich. An FBI spokesman said Freddie D. Smith was charged with violating the Hobbs Act, a law relating to extortionate demands affecting interstate commerce. Helmerich, 51, president of Helmerich Payne, Inc., an oil-drilling company, was kidnaped while on his way to work Monday. He was released unharmed after payment of $700,000 in ransom. There was no immediate information on whether the money had been recovered.
A leading Roman Catholic bishop urged the nation to seriously consider giving unconditional amnesty to men who refused to serve in the Vietnam war because of conscientious objections. The appeal was made by Bishop James S. Rausch, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and chief executive officer of the U.S. Catholic Conference. His statement was in line with recent remarks by Pope Paul VI, who called for amnesty to persons “who may have been caught up in political and social upheavals too immense for them to be held fully responsible.”
It is instituting tighter controls to prevent “unwise use” of federal aid to medical and dental students, said the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The disclosure was in response to a General Accounting Office report disclosing that students applying for loans were allowed to list among their needs such things as an abortion for a girlfriend and fodder for a spouse’s horse. The GAO also contended that nearly $300 million in loans and grants under the Health Professions Student Assistance Program have not significantly increased the quality or supply of doctors and dentists. HEW disagreed with that conclusion.
The Food and Drug Administration ordered the $117‐million‐a‐year antacid industry today to stop making exaggerated claims for its products and to limit them to a small set of safe and proven ingredients. Alexander M. Schmidt, the F.D.A. commissioner, said he doubted that the order would force many over‐the‐counter products off the market since most will change their formulas or labels to comply. In addition, the agency said the new rules would give consumers something they had never had before on nonprescription medicine—a warning not to take the antacid if any of the ingredients interferes with or reacts badly to another medicine.
In the case of antacids containing aluminum, for instance, consumers will be warned not to use them in combination with the antibiotic tetracycline, since aluminum kills the effectiveness of that drug.
Robert Hayes, an alleged member of the Black Liberation Army and convicted murderer of a New York Transit Authority policeman, was found guilty last night by a Bronx state Supreme Court jury of the attempted murder of six police officers. A second defendant, Melvin Kearney, was acquitted of murder charges in the same case but convicted of possession of a dangerous weapon. The 23‐year‐old Mr. Hayes, who also uses the name Seth Ben Yssac Ben Ysrael, faces a sentence of 25 years to life in prison. He faces a similar sentence for his conviction last March 28 of the murder of Transit Police Officer Sidney Thompson in a gun battle in the IRT subway station at 174th Street and Boston Post Road in the Bronx on June 5, 1973.
Construction began of the first Space Shuttle, OV-101, later given the name Enterprise, with Rockwell International building the test vehicle to specifications and finishing construction by September 17, 1976.
“Sly and the Family Stone” frontman Sly Stone (31) weds model-actress Kathy Silva at Madison Square Garden.
The NFL awarded the city of Seattle the league’s 28th franchise, which would have its inaugural season in 1976. The arrival of professional football in Seattle was the culmination of several years of work trying to acquire a team, though the efforts dated back to the late 1950s.
The infamous “Ten Cent Beer Night” promotion at the Cleveland Stadium, for a game between the Cleveland Indians and the visiting Texas Rangers degenerated into a riot by drunken fans. With the price of 12-ounce (355 ml) cups of low-alcohol Stroh’s beer reduced from 65 cents to 10 cents (equivalent in 2023 to 60 cents), servings of as many as six cups at time, and no limit to the number of purchases that could be made, the game attracted 25,134 paying customers, twice as many as expected. In the ninth inning, with the score tied, 5 to 5, an inebriated teenager ran onto the field and attempted to steal the cap off of one of the Rangers outfielders, Jeff Burroughs, who stumbled.
The rest of the Rangers team, thinking Burroughs had been attacked, rushed to the outfield, and an estimated 200 fans came out of the stands to confront the visiting team. The Indians team grabbed bats to defend the besieged Rangers, and the umpiring crew ordered the game to be forfeited to Texas, which was credited with a 9 to 0 win under MLB rules at the time. Cleveland police arrested nine fans. A rally by the Tribe had tied the score in the 9th, before fans poured on the field and surrounded outfielder Jeff Burroughs and tried to take his hat and glove. Players from both sides then ran to his aid and the forfeit was called by Nestor Chylak. The Indians decided to cancel the three 10-cent beer nights remaining on the schedule.
At the Vet, the Braves score 6 runs in the 7th to top the Phillies, 7–3. Hank Aaron clubs his second grand slam of the year, off Eddie Watt.
At Comiskey, the White Sox pummel the Yankees, 9–2, as Dick Allen belts a grand slam for the Sox. Bucky Dent adds a 2-run homer.
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Born:
Katie Smith, Women’s U.S. National Team and WNBA guard (Basketball Hall of Fame, 2018; Olympics, Gold Medals, 2000, 2004, 2008; WNBA Champions-Shock, 2006, 2008; WNBA All-Star, 2000-2003, 2005, 2006, 2009; all-time leading scorer in women’s professional basketball; Minnesota Lynx, Detroit Shock, Washington Mystics, Seattle Storm, New York Liberty), in Lancaster, Ohio.
Johnny Taylor, NBA small forward (Orlando Magic, Denver Nuggets), in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Darin Erstad, MLB outfielder and first baseman (All-Star, 1998, 2000; California-Anaheim-Los Angeles Angels, Chicago White Sox, Houston Astros), in Jamestown, North Dakota.
Trace Coquillette, MLB third baseman, second baseman and leftfielder (Montreal Expos), in Carmichael, California.
Jeff Toms, Canadian NHL centre (Tampa Bay Lightning, Washington Capitals, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Florida Panthers), in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Tom Koivisto, Finnish NHL defenseman (St. Louis Blues), in Turku, Finland.
Stefan Lessard, American bassist (Dave Matthews Band), in Anaheim, California.
Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni, Indian celebrity chef; in Uthamapalayam, Tamil Nadu state (died 2012 of a heart attack)
Died:
Mamerto Urriolagoitía, 78, President of Bolivia from 1949 to 1951.
Pon Sivakumaran, 23, Sri Lankan rebel and the first Tamil independence martyr, attempted to rob a branch of the People’s Bank in Kopay, then swallowed a cyanide capsule after being caught by police.
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