U.S. President Nixon was greeted by a cheering crowd estimated at two million people in Egypt as he and his wife were escorted in a motorcade through the streets of Cairo. President Nixon was welcomed to Cairo by great crowds of Egyptians who cheered him with unreserved enthusiasm along a 10-mile motorcade route from the airport. Mr. Nixon, who rode into the city in an open car with President Sadat, was proclaimed as a peacemaker in a new era of friendly relations between the United States and Egypt.
At Mr. Nixon’s side most of the day, but glum and attracting little attention, was Secretary of State Kissinger, who threatened Tuesday to resign unless he was cleared of allegations that he participated in “illegal or shady activity” in secret wiretapping operations. Meanwhile, members of Congress and government officials rallied to his support, urging that his reputation be cleared.
Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin termed Soviet-American cooperation a historic turning point in world affairs and rejected Chinese charges of superpower collusion. Kosygin’s remarks came in a televised address in Moscow. He said the Soviet Union would maintain its course toward peace despite “slanders” from Peking.
The South Vietnamese government issued a communiqué calling for an immediate end to all ceasefire violations, return of Communist troops to pre-cease-fire lines, withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops and war materiel to the north, release of civilian and military prisoners, respect for the international truce supervision force and serious political negotiations. The six-point proposal was issued on the first anniversary of a cease-fire agreement that brought no end to the fighting.
Amnesty International appealed to the British Government today to stop the deportation from Hong Kong to South Vietnam of 119 South Vietnamese. The request was made by Martin Ennals, secretary general the private organization, to Lord Goronwy Roberts, parliamentary Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Later, Mr. Ennals expressed optimism that the deportations would be delayed so that the granting of asylum could be considered in each case. The 119 men, women and children were picked up off the coast of Hong Kong on June 5. Many of the men are of draft age and apparently left their country with their families to avoid military service. Amnesty International’s main function is to investigate and publish reports on political prisoners. Mr. Ennals gave Lord Goronwy Roberts Amnesty’s report indicating that a South Vietnamese draft‐evader faced harsh punishment from this government.
Six Chinese-built 107mm rockets were fired into the Cambodian capital, wounding three civilians, military officials said. It was the first rebel shelling of Phnom Penh since Friday. Elsewhere, the Communists shelled the government garrison at Kompong Seila, 69 miles southwest of the capital. Seven defenders were wounded. For the third day, government and insurgent troops clashed along rebel-blocked Highway 5 near Prek Luong, four miles northeast of Phnom Penh.
Premier Long Boret submitted his resignation to President Lon Nol today, a source close to the president reported. The Premier has been under fire from members of his Cabinet for his handling of a student demonstration last week Minister and his deputy were killed. Six ministers resigned and refused Lon Nol’s request that they remain in office until September. The source said that Long Boret, who has been Premier since December, turned in his resignation during a four‐hour meeting with the President this morning.
More than a week has passed since the Cambodian Education Minister and a former minister were shot to death while being held hostage by protesting students, and no one apparently knows who pulled the trigger. The mystery has spawned deep disquiet; which could be felt today even on the lovely grounds of the Bottum Veddey Pagoda, where cremation ceremonies were conducted for the two men. From far off, at the edge of the city, the thump of artillery blended like funeral drums with the chanting of the Buddhist monks around the coffins. The hunt for the criminal goes beyond the search for a murderer; it is a matter of discovering motive and affiliation. Was the gunman working for the Communists, for the police, for the students, for an ambitious politician seeking power through turmoil, for one of the parties out of power or for a dissident faction of the governing party?
A tip from an informer led to the arrest of Patrick Rice, 24, a staff officer of the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army, security sources said in Belfast. They said Rice was picked up Monday in the Falls Road district. Rice was the second Provisional leader in four days to be detained as a result of an informer’s tip.
Faced with soaring inflation and sagging foreign accounts, the French government ordered an austerity program. President Valery Giscard d’Estaing called for higher taxes, most of which will be paid by corporations, lower energy consumption, reduced public spending and stiffer surveillance over prices and credit. Speaking on television tonight, Giscard d’Estaing sought to assure the nation that the measures would be in line with the principles of social justice and the aim of full employment. Finance Minister Jean Pierre Fourcade said the Government was acting to reinvigorate the economy following the blow it suffered from the “brutal” increase in petroleum prices late last year.
Italy has been in even more dire straits, facing problems similar to those of France but of greater magnitude. The Italian coalition resigned Monday after failing to agree on measures to cope with the threat of national insolvency. Italy and France have the highest inflation rates in Europe. Accelerated by higher priced oil, the cost of living in Italy is climbing by more than 20 per cent a year and in France by 17 percent. Both countries are running large deficits in their balance of payments, mainly because of the oil they must import.
Italy’s Communist Party said it must be included in a new coalition government to rescue the country from its worst crisis since the fall of fascism. Emerging from consultations with President Giovanni Leone on the choice of a new premier, Communist Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer blamed Italy’s sick economy on confused and incoherent leadership lacking in moral strictness and unstable.”
East-West United Bank (Banque Unie Est-Ouest) was established in Luxembourg as the Western European subsidiary of the Soviet Union’s government-owned Gosbank.
President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines offered full amnesty to all Muslim rebels in the Mindanao-Sulu region of the Asian nation, conditioned on each individual’s laying down of arms and agreement to negotiate with the Philippine government.
Typhoon Dinah moved across the South China Sea closer to Hong Kong. Its 70-m.p.h. fringe winds kicked up 18-foot waves just south of the colony and forced cancellation of airplane, bus and ferry services. The eye of the typhoon was 270 miles southwest of Hong Kong and was following a course for China’s Hainan Island.
Four inexperienced adventurers were rescued after 43 days of being marooned on the uninhabited Middleton Reef in the South Pacific Ocean, 300 miles (480 km) from Australia. Welsh skipper Irfon Nicholas, Australians Peter Lindenmayer and Christine Braham, and New Zealander Geraldine Yorke had departed from Auckland on April 7 on Nicholas’s yacht, Sospan Fach on a 1,280 miles (2,060 km) voyage from New Zealand to Australia when the vessel ran aground on the coral reef April 28. They lived for the next seven weeks on cans of food from the yacht, as well as rainwater and distilled seawater, before being spotted by the Australian fishing trawler Ata, which had taken shelter near the reef during a storm. Marine authorities said the voyage was “one of the worst-prepared ever to leave New Zealand” and that Nicholas had only two hours of sailing experience at the time that he departed.
Earthquakes struck Peru, Venezuela and Mexico, observatories reported. One person was reported killed in Mexico City when a stone wall collapsed. Three women were killed and seven persons seriously injured in Sucre state of Venezuela by a quake, measuring 5.3 on the Richter Scale, which affected mainly the city of Carupano and the towns of Maturin, Cumana and Casanay. The Peruvian quake was felt in the northern part of the country but authorities were not able to record its exact size or location.
Under pressure from leaders of the Perónist party in Argentina, the entire cabinet of President Juan D. Perón resigned in order to give, according to a presidential spokesman, “freedom to take whatever measures he considers necessary.”
Police battled hundreds of rioting black workers at the Merrispruit gold mine in Welkom, South Africa. A Rand Mines company official said one miner was killed and 18 injured, including eight who were attacked by police dogs. The cause of the outbreak was not immediately known, but riots broke out in an adjoining mine Saturday over pay.
Confidential memorandums drafted by a staff member of the House Judiciary Committee state that President Nixon took an active part last year in attempts to develop a second Watergate cover-up when the first one went awry. The memos, prepared for some Democratic committee members, say the President reacted to disclosures of the Watergate scandal in March and April of last year by counseling close associates to seek new ways to prevent the scandal from touching the White House.
In a surprise decision, Judge Gerhard Gesell reversed himself and said that he would reinstate John Ehrlichman today as one of four defendants in the White House “plumbers” case scheduled to begin next Monday. Judge Gesell made the ruling after attorneys for the special Watergate prosecutor’s office filed a last-ditch motion for consideration in which they said that if Mr. Ehrlichman’s trial was delayed there would be “perhaps no trial at all” for Mr. Ehrlichman.
By voice vote, the Senate approved a House-passed bill to promote the use of coal rather than oil or gas for steam-powered electric plants, but to do it with minimum impact on clean air goals and schedules. The measure now goes to the White House for the President’s signature, amid rumors that he may veto it.
Elsewhere in Washington, the Food and Drug Administration completed a fourth major part of its huge effort to let Americans know what they are eating by regulating food product labeling and nutritional content. The agency issued 18 new proposed and final regulations to govern the addition of nutrients to processed foods.
Federal and state governments are losing about $115 million a year in revenue from taxes and income earned by illegal aliens, according to a congressional subcommittee report. The finding is based on a 10-day investigative program conducted last fall in Manhattan, Chicago and Los Angeles, which indicated that at least 5 percent of illegal aliens fail to file income tax returns.
A $4 million grant was awarded by the National Endowment for Humanities to New York City television station WNET-13 toward the production of a 13-week dramatic series tracing 150 years of United States history. Titled “The Adams Chronicles, 1750-1900,” it will follow four generations of the family descended from President John Adams and will be presented during the 1975-76 season as public television’s major contribution to the national bicentennial celebration.
After a day and a night of persistent and patient pleading with a former mental patient holding a 5-year-old girl hostage at gunpoint in a Queens (New York City) housing project, the police managed to yank the girl to safety. The police also captured her abductor, who had allegedly slain her stepfather at the beginning of the ordeal more than 30 hours earlier.
A Queens jury acquitted police officer Thomas Shea of murder in the shooting of 10-year-old Clifford Glover. The panel of 11 men and one woman found that Officer Shea had shot in self-defense against a gun he said the boy “appeared” to have drawn, although the gun was never found by police searchers. Some of the jurors noted “a conglomeration of inconsistencies” in the testimony — Officer Shea’s, among others — but found “reasonable doubt” of the charge against him.
Rioting began in the South Jamaica section of Queens in New York City, after NYPD policeman Thomas Shea was acquitted of all charges arising from his fatal shooting of Clifford Glover, a 10-year-old African-American child, on April 28, 1973. Over the next few days, 10 civilians and 14 policemen were injured.
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled today that a supersonic Concorde jetliner could land here as planned tomorrow. The two‐judge panel, which had agreed to hear the case after a lower court refused to issue an injunction against the landing, said that it would cause no serious harm. Opponents had argued that the big European jetliner should not be allowed to land here on the contention that its noise and pollution could cause irreparable harm to residents. Government lawyers said that the landing would cause no hazards.
The Senate, as the House had done a day earlier, voted to spend more than $280 million to remove salt from the Colorado River before it crosses the border into Mexico. The huge project, including construction of the world’s largest desalting plant near Yuma, Arizona, was requested by President Nixon to meet Mexican complaints. The bill now goes to a joint conference to work out slight differences.
Nuclear power plants throughout the nation will be checked for valve defects of the kind that caused an accident this week at the Quad Cities atomic power station, L. Manning Muntzing, Atomic Energy Commission director of regulation, said in Chicago. He said the walls of the valve had not been as thick as required by technical specifications. When the valve shattered and released radioactive steam, it caused the shutdown of a turbine room at the plant.
Citing “the changing social climate” in the U.S., Little League Baseball, Inc., by its CEO, Peter J. McGovern, announced from its headquarters in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, that it would allow girls to enroll in the baseball program formerly limited to boys from 4 to 16 years old. The Board of Trustees of the Little League Foundation, and the Board of Directors of the corporation voted that girls would be allowed in the program, but that “Whether they play or not would depend on managers and coaches of the individual teams. The girls would have to provide equal competency in baseball skills, physical endowments and other attributes scaled as a basis for team selection.”
Boy Scout organizers in Michigan, Texas and Oklahoma have quit or been fired after being caught padding membership rolls, scouting officials reported. The national office has admitted instances of cheating to meet quotas but said it was not widespread. It reported that cheating had been discovered in 10 areas and that steps had been taken to halt it. Officials, however, declined to name the areas. Officials said the rolls had nothing to do with federal or private funds and there was no monetary motive in the cheating. Joseph Wyckoff, Detroit area director, blamed part of the padding on pressure from the national headquarters, which he said sets goals too high.
Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas turned down all recommendations calling for increased participation of women in church services and boards. It was considered a victory for conservatives who object to the ordination of women as ministers. The tabled recommendations had been submitted by the Christian Life Commission, the convention’s social concern agency. They included a request for Baptists to acknowledge that discrimination against women existed and that they work against it inside and outside the church. Convention actions, however, are not binding on individual congregations.
New Orleans police said two gunmen hijacked a city bus early in the morning, robbed passengers during a terror-filled ride, then raped a young woman who had been taken aboard as a passenger. One passenger was beaten with a pistol barrel and required hospitalization. Driver Bobby Ellis said he picked up two men about 12:45 AM and felt the muzzle of a pistol against his head. While one stayed with Ellis, the other took money, watches and jewelry from the passengers during the 30-minute ordeal. One man, identified as Reginald Jennings, 20, was arrested.
Vegetarians can be well-nourished, but only if they eat a variety of plant foods selected to provide additional nutrients, the National Research Council’s Committee on Nutritional Misinformation said in a warning issued in Washington. It said restrictive diets, such as the Zen macrobiotic diet, do not consider that nutritional limitations endanger health. It called the Zen diet “one of the most dangerous” and Isaid it could even cause death. The committee said the “most important safeguard for average consumers is great variety in the diet. The greatest risk comes from undue reliance on a single plant food source, usually a cereal grain or starchy root crop.”
The National Hockey League awarded expansion franchises for the 1976–77 NHL season to Denver and to Seattle. After failing to secure financing, however, the Seattle Totems and the proposed Denver team would lose their proposed NHL franchises. Another NHL team, the Kansas City Scouts, would move to Denver in 1976 as the Colorado Rockies and Seattle would get a franchise 45 years later with the Seattle Kraken in 2021.
The California Angels patched up the feud between Frank Robinson and Manager Bobby Winkles yesterday and then, one big happy family again, dropped a 6–4 decision to the New York Yankees. Just how happy the Angels are, though, remains to be seen because the defeat was their seventh on a nine‐game trip that took them across the country and into the cellar of the American League’s Western Division.
Mario Guerrero’s two‐run single in the eighth inning broke a 3–3 tie, and gave the Boston Red Sox a 5–3 win over Oakland. The victory gave the Red Sox a three‐game sweep of the A’s. Dick Drago gained his fifth triumph against one defeat. He scattered five hits and struck out eight. Angel Mangual and Deron Johnson hit homers for Oakland, with Johnson getting a two-run drive in the sixth.
The Philadelphia Phillies shut out the Houston Astros, 3–0. Willie Montanez drove in two runs with a sixth‐inning double and Steve Carlton registered his ninth victory of the season with a five‐hitter, his eighth consecutive complete game, third straight triumph and seventh victory in the last eight games. Carlton with a 9–4 won‐lost mark, is the second nine‐game winner in the National League this season, following Tommy John of the Dodgers, who is 9–1.
The Chicago Cubs pummeled San Francisco, 10–1. José Cardenal, Bill Madlock and Dave Rosello drove in two runs each and Rick Reuschel scattered 10 hits to gain his fifth victory against four defeats. The Giants got their run in the second on singles by Gary Thomasson, Dave Rader and Tito Fuentes.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 848.56 (-3.52, -0.41%).
Born:
Hideki Matsui, Japanese MLB outfielder and designated hitter (World Series Champions-Yankees, Series MVP, 2009; All-Star, 2003, 2004; New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels, Oakland A’s, Tampa Bay Rays), in Neagari, Ishikawa, Japan.
Damon Hollins, MLB outfielder (Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays), in Fairfield, California.
Kerry Kittles, NBA shooting guard (New Jersey Nets, Los Angeles Clippers), in Dayton, Ohio.
Angie Potthoff, WNBA forward (Minnesota Lynx), in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Greta Koss, WNBA forward (UtahStarzz), in Malta, Montana.
Jason Mewes, American film actor known for portraying Jay in “Jay and Silent Bob”; in Highlands, New Jersey.
Denis Simachev, Russian fashion designer; in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Died:
André Marie, 76, Prime Minister of France from July 26 to September 5, 1948
Herb Coleman, 46, American singer for the Delta Rhythm Boys was shot to death after a concert at the Palm Beach Casino in Cannes on the French Riviera. Coleman had been attempting to stop a drunken man who was “playing Russian roulette with a large caliber revolver.”
History Diaries 