U.S. President Richard Nixon departed from Washington on his last foreign trip as president, and his second overseas tour of the month, flying to Brussels for a meeting of the leaders of the 15 member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Belgium. Following the NATO summit, he proceeded to a summit in Moscow with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
President Nixon, on arriving in Brussels to confer with Western European leaders before heading for his summit meeting in Moscow with Leonid Brezhnev, hailed the 25th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He said he expected the Brussels meeting would give new purpose to an organization which he praised as indispensable in the maintenance of European peace since 1949.
France’s National Assembly approved the extension of adult rights and responsibilities to persons at least 18 years old, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, but allowing persons 18 years old the right to do other things without permission from a parent or a guardian. In addition to the right to vote, France’s Justice Minister Jean Lecanuet said, the law gave persons 18 to 21, for the first time, the right to choose where they could live, the right to get married without parental permission, the right to open a bank account, get a passport or travel abroad, set up a business, open a bank account, attend college and to purchase alcohol.
The Salyut 3 space station was launched into orbit from the Soviet Union’s Baikonur Cosmodrome at 10:15 a.m. local time (0415 UTC). Intended for military purposes, Salyut 3 circled the globe at an average altitude of 270 kilometers (170 mi).
A proposal to blacklist the Soviet Union as a violator of a 44-year-old convention abolishing slave labor was rejected by delegates to an International Labor Organization conference in Geneva. The proposal had drawn angry rebuttal from the Soviet delegate who told the 119-nation conference the charges were designed to renew the cold war.
Several thousand mourners poured out their grief at a beachfront cemetery this evening during the funeral for the four Israeli victims of the Arab guerrilla attack on the northern resort town of Nahariya. Just 12 hours after the assault ended in a bloody gunfight in which the three guerrillas were killed, the coffins of a 31‐year‐old mother, her son and daughter and an Israeli soldier were lowered into sandy graves a few hundred yards from the Mediterranean. The ceremony was the most restrained of the four such state funerals that have been held in Israel in the last 10 weeks as a result of Arab guerrilla attacks on towns and settlements in northern Israel.
Al Fatah, the largest of the Palestinian resistance organizations, said in Baghdad that it was responsible for the commando operation in Nahariya in northern Israel. Because Fatah has never before openly claimed such responsibility, the announcement was seen as a sign that like the more radical Palestinian groups, it will openly maintain pressure by armed attacks on Israel.
Shimon Peres, the new Israeli Defense Minister, said today that Israel did not have tactical nuclear weapons, but declined to say whether she had a plant to process plutonium for atomic weapons.
Four Austrian soldiers serving with the United Nations peace force in the Golan Heights were killed today when their vehicle hit a land mine, Secretary General Waldheim announced. It may take years to clear all the mines in the area.
The Joint Atomic Committee unanimously approved legislation that would give Congress a veto over President Nixon’s promise to provide Egypt and Israel with nuclear reactors. At the same time, Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger, testifying before a Senate appropriations subcommittee, said he could not guarantee that Egypt would be unable to divert nuclear fuels to make weapons. He added that Egypt lacks the ability now to make an atomic bomb.
The United States recalled its ambassador from the Sudan because of that country’s “virtual release of confessed murderers” of two senior American diplomats and one Belgian in 1973. The State Department said the Sudanese authorities had violated a promise to punish the eight guerrillas severely. The terrorists were flown from Khartoum to Cairo. Top United States officials in Washington privately expressed anger.
The Shah of Iran and French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing sealed the biggest-ever agreement for technological cooperation between an oil-producing country and an industrial power. In talks at the Elysee Palace in Paris, the two leaders also discussed nuclear cooperation for peaceful purposes, including construction of five nuclear power plants by France in Iran.
The Soviet Union has sent its chief negotiator of border issues with China to Peking in an effort to revive the long-stalled talks. Leonid Ilyichev, a deputy foreign minister, resumed his role after being absent from the talks for about 11 months. Chinese sources said the move was a Soviet initiative and that they had agreed to receive him. It is timed to the eve of President Nixon’s visit in Moscow.
More than 19,000 Filipinos have fled their homes in Mindanao since the outbreak of renewed fighting there last week between government forces and Muslim rebels, officials reported. Air force jets bombed suspected rebel positions during bloody ground fighting near the city of Midsayap and two major roads on the island were reported blocked by fighting. Midsayap schools have been turned into refugee camps, officials said.
Peking’s deputy mayor, Chia Ting, came under attack in a new series of posters appearing on the Chinese capital’s walls. The writers of the latest posters, “some revolutionary masses” at the Peking Locomotive Works, accused Chia Ting and another city official of being linked with Chen Po-ta, who was purged in 1970 after playing a leading role in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
A series of seven similar murders in 45 days around Tokyo began with the disappearance of a 30-year-old housewife in Matsudo, followed by killings on July 3, 10, 14 and 24 and on August 6.
An Australian compromise proposal on a dispute holding up the U.N. sea law conference in Caracas, Venezuela, appeared to be gaining support. The formula calls for passage of laws and resolutions by a two-thirds majority of delegates present and voting, in accordance with U.N. General Assembly rules, and adds a provision that at least half of all nations represented at the conference support the proposal.
Mexico ordered a price freeze on all basic consumer products until January 1 in a bid to combat 22% annual inflation. It also agreed to study labor demands to link wage increases to the cost of living. A spokesman said the freeze would apply to clothes, shoes, household appliances, food and other essential articles, whereas controls had previously been limited to gas and basic diet items.
Portuguese troops opened fire on an angry crowd of black miners, killing seven men and wounding six, the army command reported in Lourenco Marques, Mozambique. Returning home by train from South Africa to Mozambique, 600 miners refused to allow customs officials at the Ressano Garcia border port to go through their baggage, the army said, setting off the disturbance.
A U.S. proposal to ban all whale hunting failed in the International Whaling Commission meeting in London. The 15-nation commission adopted instead an Australian proposal which would place an automatic ban on hunting those whale stocks which fall below certain levels. It was the third year in a row that the U.S. delegation had come to the annual conference with an abortive proposal for a 10-year moratorium on all commercial whaling.
The Commerce Department announced that the United States export surplus of April had changed to a trade deficit of $777 million in May, second highest on record. It said this was due to a possibly temporary decline in agricultural exports while imports continued to grow. Oil imports were unchanged from April but cost almost four times as much as in May, 1973.
The House Judiciary Committee voted to make public as soon as possible virtually all the evidence assembled for its investigation of President Nixon’s conduct in office. The vote was 22 to16, with bitter and bipartisan dissent from the majority view. The White House was for release, but the Republicans and Democrats who were against it said it would mean a travesty of justice in forthcoming Watergate-related trials.
The House Banking Committee voted to repeal the government’s authority to police closing and settlement costs in home sales. The authority, on the books since 1970, was never used, but its repeal was a major goal of the real estate industry. Rep. Leonor K. Sullivan (D-Missouri) said despite failure to use the power its mere existence has tended to lower closing and settlement costs. Repeal would benefit “the very people who are responsible for scandalously bilking homeowners to the tune of $400 million a year,” she said. But Rep. Robert G. Stephens Jr. (D-Georgia) contended that the federal standards were unworkable,
Legislation that would broaden the government’s power to bring criminal sanctions against employees or government contractors for disclosure of intelligence secrets is being circulated within the Administration. The measure, proposed by William E. Colby, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, could also empower the CIA director to seek injunctions against news media to prevent them from publishing material he considers harmful to the protection of intelligence sources and methods. The proposed legislation comes against a background of court battles on national security secrecy issues ranging from the Ellsberg case to writings by former CIA officers.
The Senate Armed Forces Committee has absolved Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, of blame in military spying on the White House and illegal bombing in Vietnam. The action took the form of a recommendation that Moorer be retired with the full rank, pension and honors of an admiral when he leaves active duty Saturday. The full Senate is expected to give its approval. Sources said the committee concluded that Moorer was “not culpable” in connection with the unauthorized transfer to him of Henry A. Kissinger’s private papers in 1970 and 1971.
The Supreme Court unanimously struck down a Florida law that newspapers must print replies from political candidates attacked in their columns. The Court said the law unconstitutionally restricted press freedom. Chief Justice Burger, who wrote the decision, said that compelling the inclusion of some news was the constitutional equivalent of censorship.
In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that persons not in public office but temporarily prominent in news events may sue print and broadcast media for false defamatory statements. It overruled a 1971 decision that false press accounts of matters of general or public interest involving persons not normally prominent are protected under the First Amendment against libel action.
Federal charges against Arthur H. Bremer were dismissed after Attorney General William B. Saxbe said justice had been satisfied by Bremer’s conviction and 53-year state sentence for the attempted assassination in Maryland in 1972 of Alabama Governor George C. Wallace. Bremer was convicted under state laws of shooting and critically wounding Wallace, who was paralyzed from the waist down. A federal grand jury indicted Bremer on four counts of injuring the governor, assaulting a Secret Service agent, transporting a firearm across state lines and using out interruption for more than 36 hours. It was not known, however, if any progress was made in settlement of the dispute which began June 7.
Vice President Ford expressed grave concern today over what he termed the growing tendency to violate the privacy of doctors and patients. “We are all too painfully aware of wiretapping, bugging and even allegations that records in a doctor’s office are no longer safe from intruders,” the Vice President told the American Medical Association. Mr. Ford did not cite examples of such incidents, but it was obvious that he had in (mind the 1972 break‐in at the office of Dr. Lewis Fielding by the so‐called White House “plumbers.”
The plumbers broke into Dr. Fielding’s office in an attempt to obtain the medical records of one of his former patients, Dr. Daniel Ellsberg. This was part of a White House effort to discredit Dr. Ellsberg after he released the Pentagon papers, classified documents dealing, with United States’ involvement in Vietnam. Vice President Ford is chairman of the Domestic Council on the Right of Privacy, a study group named earlier this year by President Nixon. The council is expected to recommend methods of protecting the privacy of individuals. The invasion, of patients’ rights of privacy has become a major issue at the A.M.A. convention, with leaders hoping to avoid an open split in the medical profession over the issue of peer review.
Television executive Kenneth Dean won the Democratic congressional nomination in Mississippi’s Fourth District, of which Jackson is the largest city, in a closely contested primary runoff election. He will face Republican incumbent Thad Cochran (D-Mississippi) in the November election. The runoff originally pitted Dean against James Meredith, the black man who integrated the University of Mississippi a decade ago, but Meredith withdrew from the runoff and said he would run as an independent in the fall. Dean, second-place finisher in the primary, was thrown into a runoff with the third-place finisher, Alonzo Sturgeon.
The federal government has sharply relaxed its pressure on New York City to meet national clean air standards. The Environmental Protection Agency said the city could take into account the action of Congress in allowing car makers at least until 1977 to meet the exhaust standards originally set for 1975. Measures such as requiring truck deliveries at night and banning cruising midtown Manhattan taxicabs will become less urgent.
The stock market turned bullish yesterday although analysts insisted its rally was just technical. The Dow‐Jones industrial average added 12.52 points to close at 828.85, This was its high point for the day and marked the largest single day’s gain since the Dow rose 15,17 points on June 6. Volume climbed to 11.92 million shares from 9.96 million shares Monday. Almost half of the 1,760 issues traded posted gains—a total of 876. There were 475 declines and 409 issues unchanged, while 8 stocks hit highs and 149 lows. It was a strong blue‐chip market, with only five of the 30 components of the Dow industrial index down and one —Johns‐Manville—unchanged at 17⅜.
Mickey Lolich, now in pitching shape despite his portly figure, hurled the Detroit Tigers to a 2–0 triumph over Mike Cuellar and the Orioles last night in Baltimore.
A 6th-inning single by Dave Cash is the only hit for the Phillies as the Expos Steve Renko stops them, 5–0. Bob Bailey has a grand slam for Montreal.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 828.85 (+12.52, +1.53%).
Born:
Glen Metropolit, Canadian NHL centre (Washington Capitals, Tampa Bay Lightning, Atlanta Thrashers, St. Louis Blues, Boston Bruins, Philadelphia Flyers, Montreal Canadiens), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Vernon Crawford, NFL linebacker (New England Patriots), in Texas City, Texas.
Leeland McElroy, NFL running back and kick returner (Arizona Cardinals), in Beaumont, Texas.
Lee Cole, NFL defensive back (Houston Oilers), in Riverside, California.
Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress, daughter of Randhir Kapoor and Babita, in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
Mario Calire, American drummer (Wallflowers; Ozomatli), in Buffalo, New York.
Nisha Ganatra, Canadian film director (“Chutney Popcorn”), in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Died:
Cornelius Lanczos, 81, Hungarian mathematician.
History Diaries 