High administration officials said that Secretary of State Kissinger made no secret arrangements with Soviet leaders about the missile limitation agreement of 1972, but that he also did not inform Congress of several aspects of it that may have led to confusion over the agreements. The officials, giving their version of the controversy, said that it evolved from a misunderstanding over what appeared to be an ambiguity in one of the protocols to the agreement and from a “prediction” Mr. Kissinger had made about the number of United States missile launchers aboard submarines.
Israel today evacuated the last strip of Golan Heights territory she captured near here in the October war. All that is now left for her to evacuate by Wednesday, when the separation of forces agreed on with Syria last month is to be completed, are two positions at the peak of the 9,232‐foot Mount Hermon, this shattered town, Quneitra, and some land around Rafid. The Mount Hermon positions were captured in October and the two other areas in 1967. The rock‐strewn, three‐mile strip handed over to the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force today forms part of the buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian forces.
Only policemen will be allowed back, carrying light arms, to look after the problems of Syrian villagers and farmers. Israel today also handed over to the United Nations a military cemetery deeper inside Syria, near Khan el Arnabeh on the Damascus Road, that contains the remains of 780 Syrian soldiers who died in the war. An Israeli officer said that headstones carried a name or a number or other information to help the Syrians identify the graves.
Today’s evacuation, like the two previous ones, appeared to go without a hitch. The few Israeli units in the strip today left early and as they rolled westward, United Nations troops, mainly Austrian, moved in. They laid out white barrels as zone markers as they took over. The Mount Hermon positions, which will be part of the buffer zone, are to be turned over to the United Nations on Tuesday, when Quneitra and Rafid will also be handed over to allow Syrian resettlement. By Wednesday, both Israel and Syria are also to have reduced their forces in the area to the approved level. Each side will be permitted 6,000 troops, 36 artillery pieces of 122‐mm. caliber and 45 tanks in a strip six miles wide on either side of the buffer.
North Vietnamese troops fired a barrage of more than 1,000 shells into government positions 25 miles north of Saigon yesterday in the heaviest bombardment on record so close to the capital, the Saigon command said. The all‐day barrage of artillery and mortar shells was concentrated on government troops fighting to recapture a camp lost five weeks ago, Lieutenant Colonel Lê Trung Hiền, the command spokesmen, said. The shelling hit two 18th Infantry Division positions, killing four men and wounding 45, he said.
North Vietnam and the Việt Cộng suspended their participation in military talks with South Vietnam and the United States, saying the latter two had not shown a serious attitude and continued to intensify the war. The talks are aimed at achieving a true cease-fire and renewing a search for about 1,100 missing American soldiers. A Việt Cộng statement indicated one reason for the suspension was the sinking of a North Vietnamese vessel by South Vietnamese forces last week.
Cambodia has become a paradise for food profiteers. Merchants brand new to the food business are reportedly making a $10,000-a-day profit by flying scarce staples from Cambodia’s agricultural areas over insurgent-held territory into Phnom Penh, the capital, where many families spend their entire incomes to feed themselves. In an economy stagnated by war, this is one of the only booming segments. Sixteen private airlines are operating their 30‐year‐old DC‐3’s jamming Phnom Penh’s Pochentong Airport, turning the tarmac into a busy truck terminal and marketplace. American and Taiwanese pilots have flocked to Cambodia. A man selling planes arrived last week. Two huge new aircraft engines stood on a flatbed trailer outside an airline office in the center of town. The frenzied commerce has run like a fever through Phnom Penh, as if the city were an old western mining town whose plentiful gold might run out at any moment.
American aid for war refugees in Laos is turning toward long-range reconstruction, rehabilitation and resettlement, the General Accounting Office reported in a survey sanitized of classified material. But Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts); chairman of the Senate’s refugee subcommittee that received the report, said he was disturbed that the remaining U.S. presence in Laos prolongs that nation’s division and poses the threat of renewed conflict.
The Soviet Union’s resumption of purchasing large quantities of cultured pearls from Japan is giving the sagging pearl industry here a ray of hope for the revival of an export boom. Pearl‐industry spokesmen report that the Soviet Union imported Japanese cultured pearls valued at $1.7‐million in the first five months of this year. The last shipment of pearls to the Soviet Union was early in 1972, when the Russian purchases were valued at $20,000. Pearls exported to the Soviet Union are of large size and of high quality. Moreover, the price being paid is more than two times the average price of pearls exported to the United States and Western Europe. Officials of the Soviet Government. Trade Corporation who handled the business deals with Japanese pearl exporters have given no indication of the objective of resuming pearl imports from Japan.
A British soldier was charged with murder in the shooting death of a Catholic civilian in Strabane, Northern Ireland, during a weekend scuffle. The British army at first called the slaying by trooper Alec J. Fury, 19, accidental but said after charges were laid that it would call off its inquiry and leave the case to the courts. It marked the first time that a soldier stationed in Ulster was charged with murder rather than manslaughter. Two more shootings over the weekend raised the death toll to 1,041 in the nearly five years of strife.
The skeletal remains of a retired MI-6 intelligence officer, Sir Peregrine Henniker-Heaton, the 3rd Baronet Henniker-Heaton, were found in an armchair in his home in the London suburb of Ealing, almost three years after he had last been seen alive. On October 5, 1971, Henniker-Heaton had gone out on a walk, came back to his home, and locked himself inside his study, where he apparently committed suicide.
Austria’s Foreign Minister Rudolf Kirchschläger defeated Alois Lugger, Mayor of Innsbruck in the nation’s presidential election, by a margin of 51.7% to 48.3%. The election had been called to fill the remainder of the term of President Franz Jonas, who died on April 24. with a 51.7% share of the vote. The unbroken record of victories by Socialist candidates in Austrian presidential elections since World War II was maintained with the election of Rudolf Kirchschlager, a lawyer and diplomat. Mr. Kirchschlager, who has been his country’s Foreign Minister since 1970, succeeds Franz Jonas, who died April 24. He is not a member of a political party but was the personal choice of Chancellor Bruno Kreisky as the nominee of the Socialist party.
A purge of municipal councils associated with the ousted dictatorship is giving the Portuguese Communist party one of its best opportunities yet to establish a. local power base. The purge is under the direction of Joaquim Magalhaes Motta, the anti‐Marxist Minister of the Interior, who said in an interview last week that the country’s political future was at stake in the battle being fought at the local level, and that Portugal’s first elections since the coup would probably be held in about three months — for new councils. In the meantime, administrative committees are being organized to fill in. The Communists want to gain control of these and of 400 smaller, district units.
Three of the seven Swiss districts of the Jura region bordering France voted to set up a new canton, or state, within Switzerland by seceding from the mainly German-speaking Protestant canton of Bern. The Jura is mainly a French-speaking, Catholic area. Its four other districts voted to remain in the Bern canton. Tension over the language issue has arisen frequently in the past 150 years.
With only two weeks to go until national elections, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s ruling Liberal Party was shown in a public opinion poll to be widening its lead over opponents — 42% to 34% favoring the Progressive Conservative Party and 18% favoring the New Democratic Party.
Delegates to the deadlocked U.N. conference on the law of the sea took a break amid indications of progress on a procedural wrangle that has paralyzed sessions since their opening in Caracas, Venezuela, last week. Outnumbered by about 4 to 1 by small or landlocked countries, the major maritime powers were jockeying for tactical advantages, demanding large majorities for any resolutions approved.
The military authorities in Chile commuted jail sentences imposed on four left-wing activists by a naval court-martial, but upheld the sentences against 28 others involved. The group has been accused of attempting to organize armed resistance to the military regime that ousted the government of the late President Salvador Allende.
Faced with strikes and mounting political pressure from the Perónist Government, the mass media have entered a period of crisis that some commentators and political figures feel is threatening press freedom in Argentina. In Congress yesterday, legislators belonging to the Radical Civic Union, the largest opposition party, voiced concern over “notorious recent incidents that threaten fundamental liberties,” and warned President Juan Domingo Perón that “any attempt at limiting the freedom of the press is dangerous.” The concern has risen in recent weeks because of clear signs that the Perónist Government and its allies have become more intolerant of criticism directed at their economic and political programs.
The constitutional defense being erected by President Nixon against demands that he produce additional evidence for the Watergate and impeachment proceedings are viewed by number of experts interviewed over the last week as a flimsy argument standing on shaky factual ground. In a letter to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Peter W. Rodino Jr., Mr. Nixon said he was basing his refusal to obey the committee’s subpoenas for evidence on the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers. “I am determined,” the President told the New Jersey Democrat, “to do nothing which, by the precedents it set, would render the executive branch henceforth and forevermore subservient to the legislative branch and would thereby destroy the constitutional balance.”
The White House made a similar argument with regard to the power of the Presidency in relation to the judiciary as part of a brief presented to the Supreme Court yesterday. But constitutional experts in the academic community and members of Congress concerned with constitutional matters, when asked for comment on the President’s letter to the Judiciary Committee, flatly rejected Mr. Nixon’s argument.
Leaders of the nation’s mayors, who are meeting in San Diego, rejected three Watergate-related resolutions to prevent a fight they believed would have been bitter and divisive. Led by Mayor Kenneth Gibson of Newark, a Democrat, and Mayor Ralph Perk of Cleveland, a Republican, the resolutions committee of the United States Conference of Mayors tabled the resolutions, which would have supported laws proposing to curb executive privilege and implied presidential powers, to require public financing of election campaigns, and to establish an election finance reporting system.
Senators Edward Kennedy and Jacob Javits made public confidential documents of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare that warned the administration that its policies could lead to serious shortages of doctors and other key professionals in the next 10 years.
The American Medical Association began its 123nd annual convention in Chicago with its leadership hoping to prevent a split in the medical profession over the issue of peer review, under which physicians examine the professional methods of colleagues.
A spectacular rocket barrage by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is scheduled to start tomorrow above the East Coast, weather permitting, and will last for 24 hours beginning at 12:50 P.M. Fifty-four rockets will be fired from Wallops Island on the Virginia coast, and six will release chemicals that should make brilliant trails in the night sky, visible from Boston to Florida and as far inland as the Middle West.
Secretary of State Kissinger went alone to a large wedding party given for him and his wife, the former Nancy Maginnes, by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller at Pocantico Hills, the Rockefeller family estate in North Tarrytown, New York. His wife, whom he married nearly three months ago, is recuperating from a gastric ulcer at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
New York and California each received more than $4 billion in federal money in fiscal 1973, but Alaska got more dollars per citizen than any other state, Treasury Department figures show. New York received $4.79 billion, or $263 for every man, woman and child, and California got $4.62 billion, or $225 per person. Alaska received $209 million, or $634 for each citizen. Wyoming got the smallest amount of government money — $119 million — but was second on a per capita basis with $326. On a per capita basis, the District of Columbia received more — $810 per person — than any state, but its federal total was only $605 million.
Officials said the federal government would disburse an extra half billion dollars in pay over the next few months because of court rulings that President Nixon had illegally delayed pay raises in 1972. In September of that year Mr. Nixon delayed for three months the annual October 1 pay raise due federal employees, both military and civilian. But the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled earlier this year that Mr. Nixon had used the wrong law as the basis for his action. Officials of the Office of Management and Budget said the error would cost the Treasury about $530 million.
Police in Jacksonville, Florida, said the deaths of two white youths were the work of a “small band of idiots” who left notes and sent tape recordings claiming the slayings were the work of the Black Liberation Army. As authorities increased patrols, detectives tried to track down information on the slayings. Steven A. Orlando, 18, was killed a week ago. Stephen Lamont Roberts, 17, was killed Saturday. Each was stabbed numerous times and Orlando was shot twice in the head. The note found on Orlando said he had died for “a black cause” and that more deaths would ensue.
When Maynard Jackson was inaugurated six months ago as Atlanta’s first black Mayor, many members of this city’s legendary legion of civic boosters saw his installation as ultimate proof that Atlanta was, indeed, the Southern city that was “too busy, to hate.” Today, there are some second thoughts. Locally, Atlanta’s carefully nurtured racial harmony is threatened; nationally, the city’s reputation as a smoothly run businessman’s paradise is threatened. Under pressure from rising crime statistics and black constituents, who in recent years have come to account for slightly more than half of Atlanta’s residents, Mayor Jackson has been involved lately in ap acrimonious struggle to replace the city’s controversial white police chief, John Inman. The battle is Mr. Jackson’s first major test as the leader of one of the few major American cities controlled by blacks.
Mayor Jackson has attempted to link the chief to a “plot” by a small, conservative group of wealthy, white Atlantans who allegedly want to regain control of the city. Many blacks contend that the chief, who was appointed by the previous mayor, runs a racist force. They note that Mr. Inman recently demoted several high‐ranking black officers. And they say he put a “spy” on a local black newspaper because he feared black activists. To underscore their contention that the chief runs a racist force, several dozen blacks marched on police headquarters today, some chanting anti-Inman slogans. They were protesting a shooting yesterday in which the police fatally wounded a young black. Several of the demonstrators were arrested.
United Presbyterians have overruled their central executive council and authorized the church’s social action unit to take stands on public issues on its own initiative. The action in Louisville, Kentucky, frees the Council on Church and Society to apply Christian principles to current social issues, apart from supervision by the Missions Council. The assembly, which runs through Wednesday, of the 2.7-million-member denomination was in recess for an ecumenical service of worship with its Southern branch, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. The Southern branch, whose assembly closed over the weekend, has authorized a preliminary study on reunion with the larger group.
One person was killed when at least two tornadoes from desert thunderstorms touched down in the area of 200-year-old San Xavier del Bac Mission, 10 miles south of Tucson. About 40 persons were injured and 17 trailer homes destroyed. Tucson police said no tornadoes struck in the city but high winds blew out several windows in houses and businesses. Elsewhere, 11 persons were injured, one seriously, and mobile homes were damaged when a tornado ripped through a trailer park near Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and a rash of storms that battered much of the Midwest moved into Indiana. Thundershowers spread from southern New England, the northern Appalachians and the eastern Ohio Valley to the central Gulf states.
LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Pleasant Valley CC: 1965 champion Sandra Haynie wins by 2 shots from JoAnn Carner.
Rick Wise and Dick Drago combined for a four‐hitter yesterday as the Boston Red Sox pounded the Cleveland Indians, 8–0. Wise, who started for the first time since May 24 because of tendinitis and a broken finger, gave up only two hits and a walk in five innings. He received credit for his third victory against two defeats when Drago (5–2) continued the shutout hurling. Boston pounded Steve Kline (5–9) and two Cleveland relievers for 11 hits including two homers by Rico Petrocelli, the designated hitter, who is unable to perform in the field because of a pulled hamstring muscle. Dick McAuliffe, Bernie Carbo and Mike Guerrero each contributed two hits to a typically strong Red Sox attack.
Darrell Porter connects for a first inning grand slam, Milwaukee’s 2nd in four days, as the Brewers beat the Baltimore Orioles, 9–4.
Los Angeles Dodger closer Mike Marshall completes a sweep of the San Francisco Giants, winning today, 4–3. Marshall was the winner in yesterday’s 3–2 win, and also on the 21st in another 4–3 victory. Not till California’s Chuck McElroy, in 1996, will another pitcher sweep a series, though several will tie Marshall’s three wins in 3 straight games.
The Cubs hopped over the Pirates into fourth place in the Eastern Division with a four‐run rally in the eighth that broke a 3–3 tie, and won 7–3. Bill Madlock, who had doubled home the tying run for Chicago in the sixth, also brought home the first tally in the eighth with a single that scored Jose Cardenal.
The Reds swept a doubleheader from Atlanta, 4–2 and 2–1, and moved past the Braves into second place in the Western Division before a crowd of 54,147, the fourth largest regular‐season attendance in Cincinnati history. Tony Perez cracked his 12th homer leading off the 12th inning of the second game to give Cincinnati a sweep. In the opener, Joe Morgan led the Reds with three hits, including his eighth home run. Roric Harrison, the losing pitcher, slammed his third homer, the sixth of his career.
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Princess Maria Carolina de Bourbon de Parme, fourth and youngest child of Princess Irene of the Netherlands and Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, in Nijmegen, Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Mark Hendrickson, NBA power forward (Philadelphia 76ers, Sacramento Kings, New Jersey Nets, Cleveland Cavaliers), and MLB pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles), in Mount Vernon, Washington.
Dontonio Wingfield, NBA small forward (Seattle SuperSonics, Portland Trailblazers), in Albany, Georgia.
Robert Wilson, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks, New Orleans Saints), in Tallahassee, Florida (d. 2020, due to complications resulting from a stroke).
Meg-John Barker, English psychotherapist and writer of self-help books on gender issues; in Hull, East Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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