Members of the North Atlantic alliance agreed to wider and more intimate consultations on common problems, including situations outside the alliance area. The agreement was part of a declaration designed to guide the North Atlantic Treaty Organization through its next 25 years. Under the agreement, European members said they would maintain defense forces sufficient to deter or repel a Soviet attack, and the United States pledged not to accept a situation that would expose its allies to external political or military pressure.
The effectiveness of multiple warheads in attacking missile silos may be limited by a phenomenon called “fratricide” in which one attacking nuclear warhead would destroy another with its explosion. Nuclear experts say this phenomenon would come into play in attacks on targets relatively close together such as silos. The Air Force has therefore concluded that it would be unfeasible for the Soviet Union to mount an overwhelming first strike against the United States Minuteman missile force.
President Nixon returned to Washington from his visit to five Middle East countries and declared that “a profound and lasting change has taken place” in the area. Speaking at a welcoming ceremony on the White House lawn, Mr. Nixon said that there was now hope for peace and there was friendship for the United States.
Israeli planes bombed suspected Arab guerrilla encampments in southern Lebanon today for the third time since President Nixon ended his Middle East tour. The strikes concentrated on a rugged region reportedly dominated by Al Fatah guerrillas. “We will strike at the guerrillas wherever they are — at their bases and in the headquarters,” declared Information Minister Aharon Yariv. He had told newsmen that Mr. Nixon’s presence in the area was a factor in the delayed response. The Palestinian guerrilla organizations have announced stepped‐up terrorist attacks against Israeli civilian targets to sabotage the American peace initiative that has quieted Israel’s military fronts with Egypt and Syria.
Israeli aircraft raided Lebanese border villages for about 10 minutes this morning, but there were no reports of casualties, reliable sources in Beirut said. The raids, which followed similar strikes on the Arkub area yesterday, caused some damage, the sources added.
The new Israeli, jet raids on Arab guerrilla positions in Lebanon were deplored today by the State Department as acts that work against the climate for peace. “Violence feeds the climate of hatred which works against the climate of any peace settlement,” a spokesman said, citing “the great loss of innocent life” in the raids.
Legislation requiring congressional approval for supplying nuclear power reactors to Egypt and Israel was introduced in the Senate by Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) in the form of an amendment to the latest regulations on American exports. Meanwhile, the Senate subcommittee on arms control is trying to find out whether President Nixon has secretly reached an agreement with Moscow over arms limitation without telling Congress, according to its chairman, Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington).
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia escaped an assassination attempt two weeks ago, the leftist newspaper Al Moharrer reported in Beirut, but the Saudi Embassy said the report was “utter nonsense, self-denying and a fabrication from A to Z.”
The Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) suspends its constitution.
Pravda, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, revealed that two formerly powerful members of the party were not among the 1,517 persons elected as deputies to the Supreme Soviet in the June 16 yes-or-no elections, meaning that they had not been nominated in any of the electoral districts. Yekaterina Furtseva, the Soviet Minister of Culture since 1960 and a member of the CPSU’s Central Committee, had once been the most influential woman in Soviet politics, but had been disciplined by the Party for extravagance and had been fined 40,000 rubles. Anastas Mikoyan, a member of the Central Committee since 1923, had been the Soviet head of state as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from July 15, 1964 to December 9, 1965, but was forcibly retired at the age of 78. Furtseva would die later in 1974, and Mikoyan would die in 1978.
Britain’s minority Labor government suffered its first major defeat since taking office in March as it lost a 308-299 vote aimed at returning $25 million in taxes to trade unions which had ignored the Industrial Relations Act. Pandemonium broke out in the House of Commons after the defeat, which traditionally would have been cause for the government to resign.
Leaders of Italy’s three-party coalition government reached agreement on a series of tax and credit measures designed to pull the country out of its worst economic crisis since World War II. The accord means that the three-month-old government of Christian Democrats, Socialists and Social Democrats will stay in office despite having tendered its resignation 11 days ago.
Portuguese Communists denounced a strike that has halted mail deliveries and most international telephone calls for three days. The party’s stand raised the likelihood that Labor Minister Avelino Goncalves, a Communist, would agree to strong action against the strikers.
The Canadian government announced a plan to take over the money-losing passenger service of the nation’s two principal railroads and to improve bus, air and sea transportation. The action, which would require special legislation, would depend upon a victory by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal party in the general elections set for July 8.
A trawler flying the North Vietnamese flag was sunk by South Vietnamese patrol craft and jet bombers off the east coast of South Vietnam just below the former buffer zone, military sources said in Saigon. Fighting broke out when the trawler opened fire on a South Vietnamese reconnaissance plane, the sources said. The plane’s pilot alerted patrol boats and jets in Da Nang. The sources said there was no sign of survivors from the trawler.
A Saigon pedicab driver who set himself on fire April 29 has died of extensive burns. The driver, Võ Văn Nam, poured gasoline on himself in a park across from the Saigon cathedral and ignited it. His family said he did it because his three‐wheel pedicab had been stolen while he was in a hospital selling blood and he despaired of being able to feed his wife and five daughters.
Prime Minister Ian Smith moved to end Rhodesia’s political uncertainty over recent international and internal events by ordering an early general election and calling a roundtable conference including African groups to discuss black political power sharing. Smith’s party seems certain to retain power. One of the external events was Portugal’s coup which will almost certainly bring a black government to neighboring Mozambique.
President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania opened a Pan African Congress heavily attended by North American blacks with a plea for an end to racial discrimination around the world. The Dar es Salaam congress is also being attended by delegates from 32 African nations but the largest delegation by far is from North America-the United States, Canada and the Caribbean-where the ideal of Pan Africanism began among American black intellectuals at the beginning of the century. Nyerere said the conference would discuss racialism, colonialism, oppression and exploitation everywhere.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said that President Nixon’s dismissal of Archibald Cox and his continuing refusal to supply evidence to Congress and the courts raised the question of whether the Watergate cover-up had ever ended. Calling it “a very pertinent question,” Representative Peter Rodino discussed the issue during a recess in the committee’s closed hearings on the ouster of Mr. Cox as the Watergate prosecutor.
A key White House aide said today that the vote of the 17‐member Republican minority on the 38‐member House Judiciary Committee, would be “critical” in determining whether or not the full House of Representatives, votes to impeach President Nixon. At a news conference, Patrick J. Buchanan, a Presidential speechwriter and consultant said that “if an overwhelming majority of the Republicans on the committee vote against impeachment, I don’t think he (the President) will be impeached in the House.” This view of the impeachment vote has been discussed by a number of commentators before, but it is believed to be the first time a high staff official has commented publicly on White House hopes for a partisan vote on the committee to block impeachment. The news conference was called by Mr. Buchanan to denounce leaks coming from the Judiciary Committee. It was the latest in a series of such attacks by the White House over the past several weeks.
The Senate approved 91 to 0 a landmark bill for Vietnam-era veterans that would provide college tuition payments for the first time since World War II veterans received them. But the bill, which would pay up to $720 a year, faces a battle in a conference committee with the House, where Veterans Affairs Committee leaders are opposed to any tuition payments. Veterans now must pay tuition costs out of a monthly $220 subsistence allowance. The Senate bill also would increase subsistence payments to $260 for a single veteran and would permit the veteran to borrow up to $2,000 a year to finance his education.
In a series of test votes the Senate refused to halt a filibuster against a tax reform package containing cuts for middle- and lower-income Americans and increased taxes on oil companies. The action virtually killed the package’s prospects for the time being. The votes, divided mostly along party lines, indicated that the more liberal bloc supporting the reforms was losing strength in the face of a determined filibuster led by Senator James B. Allen (D-Alabama). It requires a two-thirds majority to cut off debate and the reformists, led by Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts), fell shorter and shorter of the mark in the test votes.
The House passed 392 to 4, a $3.182‐billion transportation appropriation bill, tonight providing funds for the Transportation Department and related agencies for the fiscal year that begins next month. The agencies covered in the legislation had received $3.196‐billion for the current fiscal year. The Nixon Administration had sought $3.538‐billion for them this time. But the House Appropriations Committee recommended $3.307‐billion, including $125‐million for Amtrak, the national passenger railroad corporation. However, the House deleted all Amtrak funds from the bill because the bill authorizing funds for the agency has not become law. A separate bill appropriating funds for Amtrak is expected to be introduced when the authorization bill is effective.
A study commissioned by the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs has found that the needy in this country are hungrier and poorer than four years ago. The experts also told the committee that abroad as well, rising agricultural output has brought little benefit to the world’s hungry.
The Supreme Court upheld the 1967 court-martial conviction of Dr. Howard Levy, the Army doctor who encouraged his soldier patients to oppose the war in Vietnam. The 5-to-3 decision overturned a Court of Appeals ruling that had set aside Dr. Levy’s conviction on the ground that the relevant sections of the Code of Military Justice were unconstitutionally vague.
A coroner’s toxicologist said a youth found dead in the suburban Chicago home where four members of his family were slain apparently died of an overdose of drugs not yet identified. The youth was identified as Jeffrey Fuchs, 18, who police believe may have killed his parents and a sister and brother in the basement of their Park Ridge home. The cause of Jeffrey’s death had been a mystery since his body-with no signs of wounds or burns-was found Monday in the kitchen by firemen answering an alarm for a minor blaze. The bodies of Raymond Fuchs, 49, his wife, Ruth, 48, daughter Lynda, 14, and son, Scott, 15, were found after the fire was extinguished.
Lights flickered on in the early morning in the Kentucky coal mining village of Wells Camp as residents awoke to the sound of rifle fire and screams. Minutes later the bodies of four local men were found sprawled over railroad tracks, the result of what an official called a “massacre with a .30 caliber carbine.” Bell County Deputy Sheriff Doug Campbell described the spot as a popular place for beer parties. He said none of the victims was armed. “We don’t know what the motive was,” Campbell said.
June graduates netted more jobs than the class of 1973 but hiring was not as strong as expected at the start of this year’s recruiting season, a nationwide survey disclosed. The College Placement Council, a nonprofit organization, found a 4% increase in recruiting at the bachelor’s degree level during the 1973-74 year, compared with the previous year. Employers when polled in December had anticipated an 11% jump in hiring. At the master’s degree level, recruiting dropped 2% from last year, although the projection by employer had been a gain of 13%. Doctoral candidates saw demand rise 3%, but an advance of 8% had been expected. The lower actual hirings were blamed on not taking full account of the energy crisis.
Two lawyers for a man on trial in Lake Pleasant, New York for murder did not disclose for six months that they had seen the bodies of two other people killed by their client because, they said, they were bound by the confidentiality of a lawyer‐client relationship. The court‐appointed attorneys said today that their client had told them where to find the bodies of two missing women. They photographed the bodies, they said, but did not report the discoveries to authorities searching for the murder victims. The lawyers also said they had kept their discovery from the father of one of the women, who had visited them in the hope that they could shed some light on the disappearance of his 20‐year‐old daughter.
“The information was so privileged — I was bound by my lawyers’ oath to keep it confidential after I found the bodies,” said Francis Belge, one of the two lawyers representing Robert Garrow. Mr. Garrow, a 38‐year‐old mechanic for a Syracuse bakery, is accused of fatally stabbing Philip Domblewski, an 18‐year‐old Schenectady student who was camping in the Adirondacks last July. From what his lawyers said in a news conference today, as well as from what Mr. Garrow has—sometimes incoherently—blurted out in court, the defendant may be connected to at least four murders. Mr. Belge and his associate on the case, Frank Armani, told of the secret they had kept at a news conference in this Adirondack village. They indicated that they could come forth now, released from their obligation by Mr. Garrow’s own testimony yesterday. At that time the defendant implicated himself in Essex County Court in three killings in addition to the murder of Mr. Domblewski.
Thousands of foreign-trained doctors are practicing in American hospitals without licenses and often without supervision, according to a report just published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
George Scott, who walks to lead off the 2nd inning, is the Brewers’ only base runner as the Royals Steve Busby hurls a 2–0 no-hitter. Busby is the first Major League pitcher to throw no-hitters in his first 2 seasons.
Runners are passed in 2 different games tonight, depriving Giant Ed Goodson of a home run in a Cardinals–Giants match, and creating confusion in a Pirates–Dodgers match. Goodson clocks a 3rd inning pitch from Bob Gibson, then passes teammate Garry Maddox between first and second base. Instead of a home run, he gets one RBI and a single. The Giants win, 5-4, outhitting the Cards, 14-5. In the latter, Joe Ferguson apparently strikes out with the sacks full, and walks away, while Pirate catcher Manny Sanguillen agrees and rolls the ball to the mound. Lee Lacy, the LA runner on third jogs to the dugout. The runner from second base, Jimmy Wynn comes around but is tagged out sliding at home. Lee Lacy scurries from the dugout, slides home, and is also tagged out. Lacy, though tagged, is ruled safe according to the rules which gives him home automatically when a base on balls is called with the sacks full. The confusion is deemed moot as the Pirates prevail, 7–3.
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Born:
Doug Mientkiewicz, Team USA and MLB first baseman (Olympics, gold medal, 2000; World Series Champions-Red Sox, 2004; Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Kansas City Royals, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Dodgers), in Toledo, Ohio.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, American documentary filmmaker and actress; current First Lady of California, wife of Gavin Newsom, in San Francisco, California.
Died:
Jean Wahl, 86, French philosopher (Sorbonne professor).
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