President Nixon, who is scheduled to meet with Soviet leaders in Moscow later this month, declared that his policy of detente precluded interference by the United States in the domestic affairs of other nations, an apparent allusion to demands that the United States press Moscow to ease emigration restrictions on Jews. In a commencement address at the Naval Academy, Mr. Nixon said that the first responsibility of American foreign policy must be to prevent nuclear war.
Secretary of State Kissinger reportedly told three Senators that he had received recent assurances from Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko that Moscow’s emigration restrictions would be further eased. Senate aides said Mr. Kissinger had passed on the assurances during a discussion of congressional efforts to link Soviet emigration policies to approval of nondiscriminatory tariff treatment for the Soviet Union.
Secretary of State Kissinger has warned that overseas troop reductions being considered by the Senate would have a destabilizing effect on European allies and would seriously undermine Soviet-American negotiations on mutual troop reductions. The warning was contained in a letter released by Senator John Stennis, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, as part of a White House effort to defeat moves to require troop cuts.
The Soviet Defense Minister has accused the United States of pursuing the arms race and has assured a Moscow election rally that the Soviet Union is “doing everything necessary” to modernize its defense system. The remarks by Marshal Andrei Grechko, who warned that “the danger of war remains a stern reality of our time,” were quoted at length in Pravda.
The new French Government cautioned Britain today against expecting too much from any negotiations over her demands for better membership terms in the European Common Market. In a major policy statement to the National Assembly, Premier Jacques Chirac reassorted France’s attachment to the nine‐nation market, its principles and the “vocation of creating a united Europe.” But he took an especially tough stand against Britain’s demands for a reduction in the costs of her membership. The British demands, presented in detail yesterday by Foreign Secretary James Callaghan in Luxembourg, are “irreconcilable” with the fundamental objectives of the community and the “legitimate interests” of the eight other community members, Premier Chirac said. The foreign ministers of the market countries, meeting in Luxembourg yesterday, heard Mr. Callaghan’s’ presentation and then agreed to an examination of the merits of the British case by the organization’s executive authority.
A private detective who tapped a telephone and recorded conversations for one of his clients was fined $1,150 for “public mischief” in the first telephone bugging case of its kind in Britain. Graham Blackburn, 40, pleaded guilty to tampering with post office equipment, as well as intercepting, recording and listening to telephone calls.
Three armed robbers took gems worth $120,000 from a jewelry store, then eluded police after a chase through a busy shopping district in central London. Police said the three men stormed into the firm of S. J. Phillips, struck a doorman over the head with a shotgun barrel, scooped up three trays of jewels from the display window and fled by car.
Forty persons, including a member of the colonels’ junta that ended democracy in Greece seven years ago, went on trial before a military court in Athens on charges of embezzling $4.7 million by creating an artificial meat shortage. The indictment said the defendants created the shortage between 1971 and 1973, during the regime of ousted dictator George Papadopoulos, then imported large quantities of meat of doubtful quality and sold it at exorbitant prices.
Prince Fahd Abd al-Aziz, second deputy premier of Saudi Arabia and a half-brother of King Faisal, arrived in Washington for a three-day visit and talks with President Nixon and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. The aim of the visit is to secure an understanding on increased U.S. military aid to Saudi Arabia in return for guarantees of continued Saudi cooperation in supplying oil.
The chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, told the movement’s representatives at a Cairo meeting that he was willing to attend the Geneva peace conference if he received a mandate from them to go.
An American teacher who witnessed the killing of Cambodia’s Education Minister and his top assistant yesterday said today they had been shot by a lone gunman who managed to get into a school held by rioting students but was not a student himself. The teacher, who declined to be identified, denied that students had tortured and killed the two officials, as the Cambodian Government has charged. He said the assassin shot down Education Minister Keo Sangkim and his chief aide, Thach Chea, with a .45‐caliber revolver at the height of a student riot that brought the worst street fighting in Phnom Penh since the Government of President Lon Nol took office in 1970. Four Cabinet ministers and two undersecretaries presented their resignations today to Premier Long Boret, who is trying to quell a growing academic protest against Government and military corruption. All the officials said they did not want to be involved in controversy over the investigation of the killings yesterday.
Trần Ngọc Châu, a principal architect of the anti-Communist pacification program and a former member of the National Assembly, was “temporarily released” from prison yesterday, the Saigon Government announced this morning. Bùi Bảo Trúc, the Government spokesman, said that a special military court had decided to release Mr. Châu. But he gave few details about Mr. Châu’s current legal status. Mr. Châu was sentenced in 1970 to 10 years imprisonment on espionage charges. The case created a furor in Saigon and many Americans who had worked with him did not believe the accusations of “treasonable” activities.
Mr. Châu, who is 50 years old, was accused of having had contacts with his brother, Trần Ngọc Hiền, a North Vietnamese intelligence agent. Mr. Châu acknowledged that he had met with his brother eight times but said that he had been encouraged by John Paul Vann, a prominent American adviser, to continue seeing him. Many Americans believed that Mr. Châu was arrested because he had accused an important aide of President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu of corruption. Mr. Châu could not be reached this morning but a relative at his home confirmed that he was freed yesterday and that his wife had seen him for a half as hour. The relative said that Mr. Châu was staying “somewhere in Saigon.”
A U.S. Army helicopter crash landed in downtown Seoul after being hit by gunfire from batteries guarding South Korean President Park Chung Hee’s official mansion. Police said an unidentified American captain was wounded and admitted to the U.S. 7th Army Hospital in the Yongsan area of the capital. Police reported that about 20 rounds of antiaircraft fire were directed at the helicopter as it flew into the restricted zone over the presidential mansion.
The South Korean government has revoked the visa of a Christian Science Monitor reporter because of objections to her reporting, the Boston-based newspaper said. South Korean officials notified correspondent Elizabeth Pond in Tokyo and Monitor Editor John Hughes in Boston of the revocation.
Bolivian Army Generals Gary Prado Salmón and Raúl López Leyton attempted a coup d’état against the military dictatorship of President Hugo Banzer Suárez, but failed. General Prado led a column of tanks into La Paz and surrounded the presidential palace after smashing its wrought-iron gates, but General Banzer’s foot soldiers encircled the rebels and forced a surrender. Banzer was at a celebration in Bolivia’s second capital, Sucre when the palace was attacked. General Lopez failed to take over the La Paz International Airport. In 1978, Prado would later be appointed by the new President, General David Padilla, as Minister of Planning and Coordination.
Mario Soares, at the time Portugal’s Foreign Minister, met with Mozambican guerrilla leader Samora Machel, president of FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique) as the two were hosted by Zambia’s President Kenneth Kaunda at Lusaka. At the time, Mozambique was under colonial rule as Portuguese East Africa, and the war between Portugal and the FRELIMO guerrillas had continued for more than a decade.
Since Idi Amin seized power in Uganda January 25, 1971, between 25,000 and 250,000 people — almost all Africans — have been killed in Uganda, according to a report released by the International Commission of Jurists. The report has been sent to U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim with a request that it be submitted to the Commission on Human Rights.
South Africa is in the process of evicting about 3 million Africans from their homes and settlements, according to a report issued by the Africa Publications Trust, entitled “Uprooting a Nation,” the report said a great march of hundreds of thousands of people was now going on as the government enforced its policy of shifting Africans to the 13% of the land allocated to black people.
A Senate-House conference unanimously approved a bill that would drastically alter the way Congress processes the federal budget and allocates funds. The bill is expected to be ratified by both houses within the next two weeks and sent to the President, who is expected to sign it. The measure, designed to reassert congressional power over the purse, would limit presidential power of impoundment, create congressional machinery to oversee spending and would establish a new fiscal year beginning October 1.
A day after the California primary, the impact of the Watergate scandals was apparent throughout the returns, but most obviously in the overwhelming approval given a radical campaign reform measure, which was approved by a 7-to-3 margin despite vigorous opposition.
The White House has reportedly broken an agreement worked out with a federal judge by refusing to allow John Ehrlichman and his lawyers direct access to Mr. Ehrlichman’s personal notes of presidential meetings. Highly reliable sources said Mr. Ehrlichman and his lawyers had been told that before they could see the notes they would be screened to delete material unrelated to the “plumbers” case.
The House Judiciary Committee heard evidence reportedly suggesting that President Nixon had conditioned a 1971 decision to raise federal milk price supports upon a reaffirmation by dairy industry leaders of a pledge to raise $2 million for the President’s re-election campaign.
The House voted overwhelmingly to insist on strong anti-busing provisions when Senate-House conferees reconcile the two versions of the Federal Aid to Education Act. The vote was 270 to 103. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to ask the Justice Department to consider bringing perjury charges against G. Bradford Cook, a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman who admitted he lied under oath on six occasions. Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin), who pressed the issue at a closed meeting of the committee, said he thought Cook’s admission at the trial of John N. Mitchell and Maurice H. Stans was a big factor in their acquittal. The two former Cabinet members were charged with conspiring to influence, obstruct and impede an SEC proceeding and Cook was a prosecution witness.
The House voted not to compromise its firm stand against school busing in negotiations with the Senate. The action clouds the future of the bill, which would provide $21 billion in aid to elementary and secondary schools. The Senate has passed a similar measure but with less stringent busing provisions. Before agreeing to a conference with the Senate to reconcile the two bills, the House voted 270 to 103 to instruct its conferees to stick to the House language. The House measure would restrict the power of federal courts to order busing beyond the second nearest school and would direct that all prior court orders could be reopened.
The House killed the Sugar Act tonight, freeing the market for the first time in 40 years from Government subsidies, import quotas, and complicated pricing formulas. Liberals and conservatives, prodded by consumer organizations and big industrial users of sugar, joined to let the program lapse at the end of this year. The final vote was 209 to 175. A measure of the broad political opposition to the bill was in the votes against it by both Representatives Benjamin S. Rosenthal of New York, a Democratic consumer advocate, and John H. Rousselot of California, a Republican conservative. The law, which opponents had said would cost consumers more than $500‐million annually, was killed at a time when the market price of sugar was at its highest level in 50 years.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee was reported to have ordered his staff to investigate the circumstances surrounding the indictment of Representative Angelo Roncallo of Long Island and “certain activities” of the United States Attorney’s office that brought the indictment, which resulted in acquittal. These were understood to include the contention that the prosecutor in the case had been drugged.
A Medal of Honor winner who said he couldn’t adjust to being a hero and was growing marijuana as part of his fight for personal freedom has been admitted to a mental institution for observation. Kenneth Kays, 24, of Fairfield, Illinois, entered the state mental health center at Chester on an emergency hospitalization petition granted at the request of Kays’ father, John Kays. Kays was said to have found his son in an incoherent state in his trailer home. Young Kays was arrested twice and convicted once this spring on marijuana charges and placed on probation. In 1970 in Vietnam Kays, a draft-resister-turned-medic, repeatedly crawled beyond his lines under fire, even after his left leg was shot away, to treat and rescue wounded soldiers.
It has found safety problems that could cause engine fires in certain 1965-1966 Chevrolets and 1966 Buicks and tire damage or blowouts in some Ford Pinto station wagons, said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The engine fires might occur in cars equipped with the Rochester Quadrajet carburetor, the agency said, and the tire problems might affect 1972 and some 1973 model Pinto station wagons. The carburetor defect involves a press-fit metal plug on the intake side that might drop out of place. The tire problem involves a metal projection that extends into the rear wheel cavity.
Corrective advertising might be ordered for certain nonprescription antacids if outdated claims “still linger in the public mind,” said J. Thomas Rosch, director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. He said he was less concerned about the possibility of new false claims than what people remember about old advertisements. Rosch said the FTC was drafting a regulation which would require inclusion of some label information in antacid commercials.
General Motors said new federal safety standards covering car restraint systems for children were so strict that its popular infant and child “love seats” might be forced off the market. Industry sources said few, if any, of the many car seats, car beds, infant carriers and child harnesses now sold would be able to meet the standards set to take effect in September next year. In a 34-page comment to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, GM asked for a reconsideration of the safety proposal. GM said there was no way its love seat could meet the new safety requirement and questioned whether a complete redesign of both its safety devices would improve them.
A group of European companies was awarded a $226 million contract to build a reusable space laboratory to be carried aboard the $5 billion space shuttle now being developed by the United States.
Oakland’s Reggie Jackson and Bill North engage in a furious clubhouse fight at Detroit. Jackson injures his shoulder, and Ray Fosse, attempting to separate the combatants, suffers a crushed disk in his neck. He’ll spend 12 weeks on the DL, virtually ending his season. Vida Blue, who also tried to separate the two combatants, then subdues the Tigers, 9-1. North goes 2-for-3 with a double, while Gene Tenace has a grand slam. Reggie is 0-for-4 and will have no homers and 4 RBIs the rest of the month.
Cleveland has just 9 baserunners against the Rangers, and all 9 score. It won’t happen again this century. The Indians win, 9–3.
The June baseball draft produces just 725 picks, the fewest in history, and only 300 of these are from the college ranks, with the low number blamed on the introduction of aluminum bats this past season. The Padres, with their 3rd number-one free-agent pick in 5 years, select Brown University shortstop Bill Almon, the TSN College Player of the Year. They had selected him 3 years earlier out of high school, but he attended college instead. The Rangers take pitcher Tommy Boggs with the 2nd pick and the Phils follow with prep outfielder Lonnie Smith. With the 5th pick, the Braves select Dale Murphy; the Angels, picking 10th take the ill-fated Mike Miley, who quarterbacked LSU to a win in the Orange Bowl, the Tigers take Lance Parrish with the 16th pick, the Royals pick prep football star Willie Wilson with the 18th, and the Red Sox, picking 20th, take shortstop Eddie Ford, son of Whitey Ford. Picking next, the Dodgers get Rick Sutcliffe. The Orioles, with the 24th pick in round 1 pick Rich Dauer, the top player for USC’s championship team; 4 of their other picks will end up in the NFL (QB’s Andy Johnson and Steve Bartkowski, John Sciarra, and Anthony Davis). The Cards use a pick on the NFL Giants Brad Van Pelt, the 5th time he’s been selected. The Twins pick up prep catcher Butch Wynegar, who will make the American League All-star team at age 20.
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