President Nixon and other leaders of the North Atlantic Alliance signed a new declaration intended to insure close consultation and end bickering among them. In private meetings as well, Mr. Nixon gave the allies assurances that he would protect their interests in his Moscow talks with the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. The ceremony marked the formal conclusion of some 14 months of bargaining.
President Nixon’s left leg is still swollen from phlebitis but is no longer giving him pain, Ron Ziegler, his press secretary, said. Mr. Ziegler said that the President chose to keep the ailment a secret on his Middle East trip to avoid concern by his hosts. His physician said there was no further possibility of clotting, the press secretary reported. In Brussels the President walked the streets and shook hands in the role of a super-active world leader.
The Brussels NATO meeting was also a makeshift summit of their own for many of Europe’s new leaders. Between the speeches and ceremonies, they held bilateral meetings on more immediate problems. West Germany’s new Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, in particular, emphasized at every encounter that the issues of inflation, currency and employment were uppermost.
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minnesota) urged the Administration to reassess its request to Congress for $5.18 billion for foreign aid and “scale it back to bedrock.” “It is more than the country can swallow,” Humphrey told Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
Thousands of peasants from all over Italy paraded with tractors across Rome in preparation for a one-day walkout by 1.7 million farmhands that industrial workers will back with a four-hour stoppage. A nationwide contract with higher pay and a guaranteed minimum income is the farmhands’ goal, while the industrial workers blame government policies for squeezing wage earners but not the rich.
Former Soviet Army Major General Pyotr Grigorenko was released after five years confinement in various psychiatric hospitals, where he had been held without trial since 1969 after speaking out publicly against the Communist government. His freedom came as U.S. President Nixon was scheduled to arrive in Moscow for a summit.
British troops and policemen began a major security operation at Heathrow Airport today in response to a warning that Arab terrorists might attempt an attack there this weekend. An estimated 200 soldiers patrolled the airport perimeter and manned the overseas arrival and departure terminals. Armored cars assisted in the patrolling and policemen at roadblocks stopped motorists approaching the airport. It was the second such operation here this year. Early in January, reports that an Arab guerrilla group planned to use surface‐to‐air missiles to shoot down airliners brought a similar alert, lasting several days. This time the troops are expected to stay as long as a week, patrolling around the clock. There was no official statement on the reasons for the alert. However, an official source said that British intelligence in the Middle East had reported that an Arab attack was possible this weekend, when delegates arrive to attend a meeting of the Socialist International.
Irish Republican Army members “are agents of the devil,” said the Rev. Dr. Edward Daly, in one of the harshest attacks by a Roman Catholic prelate against the organization. “They and their various satellite organizations should not be assisted politically, financially or otherwise until they proclaim a total and permanent cease-fire in this community,” he added, in addressing Catholics in the Bogside and Creggan Estate districts of Belfast-long IRA strongholds.
Scotland Yard indicated bafflement in the death of a former British spy, Sir John Peregrine Henniker-Heaton, whose skeleton was found slumped on the edge of a bed in a locked smoking den of his West London house. A formal inquest was to begin today after a preliminary autopsy failed to establish the cause of his death. Sir John, 68, disappeared October 5, 1971. Two days later his wife reported him missing, setting off a nationwide search. An apparent suicide note was found in the pocket of his suit, police said.
In an atmosphere of public tension, the Cabinet met today to consider what help it might ask from other Arab nations to defend Lebanon against possible new Israeli attacks on Palestinian centers within her borders. A conference of Arab defense and foreign ministers is to open in Cairo on Monday, and according to reliable sources Lebanon would like to have enough missiles to protect herself against Israeli raids and to act as a deterrent. But, the sources said, the Lebanese dol not want to invite foreign troops onto their soil or to become involved in a fruitless arms build‐up. Palestinian guerrillas, apparently worried that their interests may be forgotten during Israeli‐Arab military disengagement and preparation for peace talks in Geneva, have staged four terrorist raids against Israel in recent months, the latest Monday night at Nahariya. Israel has charged that they originated in Lebanon and in retaliation has bombed or shelled Palestinian camps and villages.
Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio), chairman of the House State Department subcommittee, said he will try to cut off all $16 million in U.S. foreign aid to Sudan because of Jaafar Numeiri’s order releasing the eight Palestinian terrorists who killed two American diplomats and a Belgian diplomat 15 months ago. He said, “Let that dictator look somewhere else. Let him get the money from the Palestinian terrorist organizations.”
Ninety‐two people were formally charged in Cairo today with joining “an armed clandestine organization” that allegedly attempted to take over Cairo’s technical military academy last April as part of a conspiracy to overthrow President Anwar el‐Sadat. An indictment named Saleh Wallah Sarreya as the ringleader. Mr. Sarreya, 37 years old, of Palestinian origin and carrying an Iraqi passport, was arrested 24 hours after the abortive attack on the academy on April 18. Eleven people were killed, including a number of the academy’s guards, and 27 injured in the attack.
The Bangladesh Government clamped tight security restrictions on Dacca on the eve of a historic state visit by Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. This will be the first visit by a Pakistani head of state to Pakistan’s former eastern territory since the Bengalis won independence in the 1971 war of liberation. Hopes have risen that a reconciliation with Pakistan and resumption of trade might help solve Bangladesh economic problems.
Fighting between Philippine government troops and Muslim rebels erupted in at least two coastal towns of Zamboanga del Sur province, and travelers reported scores were killed on both sides. Zamboanga city itself was rocked by four bomb explosions, setting off a stampede of frightened people in the center of the tense city of 200,000.
Stories of brutality — including one of a girl found dead after being falsely accused of an affair with a Communist Party member and a woman worker beaten unconscious in jail — were featured on new wall posters in Peking. The posters, revived after a lapse of several years on the Street of Eternal Revolution, have been airing personal grudges as well as attacks on individual leaders.
Police in Thailand rescued 54 children, most of them girls ranging in age from 9 to 15 years old, who had been used as slave labor in a blouse factory in Bangkok.
General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte assumed the newly created post of supreme chief of Chile, it was announced in Santiago. Fifteen cabinet ministers, as well as government undersecretaries, provincial governors, mayors and hundreds of other officials will resign in an “act of deference” to the new head of state, the announcement said.
One of the most profitable pornographic films in history, the French-language “Emmanuelle,” was shown in movie theaters for the first time, with a premiere in Paris.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee won a major partisan fight when the panel agreed definitely to call five key witnesses before its inquiry into the possible impeachment of President Nixon. They are Alexander Butterfield, Herbert Kalmbach, Henry Petersen, John Dean and Fred LaRue. Five others will be interviewed by the staff but will not necessarily be called.
Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell made public the list of defense and prosecution witnesses in the White House “plumbers” trial. The names included Henry Kissinger, General Alexander Haig, Leonard Garment and George Shultz. Most were summoned by attorneys for John Ehrlichman, who is accused of conspiring with three other defendants to burglarize the office of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist in Los Angeles.
President Nixon’s budget chief disclosed today that more than half of the $5‐billion budget cutback announced Monday by President Nixon results from new estimates that some programs may not spend as much as had been thought, rather than from conscious Administration decisions to reduce spending. Roy L. Ash, director of the Office of Management and Budget, told reporters that only about $2‐billion savings could be achieved by “tightening the screws” on spending throughout the government. The rest, he said, would depend on such things as higher revenues from offshore oil leases, which offset spending, and reduced spending in domestic programs where, for example, caseloads now seem likely to be lower than thought when the budget was presented last January. The new estimates could prove wrong, he conceded.
The Senate approved legislation creating an official residence for the Vice President. Under terms of the resolution, the Vice President would take over an 81-year-old house on the Naval Observatory grounds in northwest Washington. The house, located on a 12-acre section of a 72-acre lot, now is occupied by the Chief of Naval Operations. The resolution now goes back to the House to straighten out what agency will maintain the residence. Vice President Ford now lives in his own home in suburban Alexandria, Virginia.
William L. Calley Jr. was brought to the Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, Disciplinary Barracks to await the outcome of the appeal of his Mỹ Lai murder conviction. He was transferred from Ft. Benning, Georgia, after a federal judge took his appeal under advisement following two days of hearings. The Supreme Court has refused to set bail for Calley, who had been free on bond before an appellate court decision. Calley was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre but the sentence was reduced to 10 years by military review. A Ft. Leavenworth spokesman said Calley was assigned a single room pending a two-week processing period.
In a unanimous action, the Senate passed legislation to keep benefits from expiring Sunday for 4 million veterans who served between 1955 and 1966, including 285,000 now enrolled in school. The action came after the Senate and House Veterans Affairs committees remained deadlocked on how much in additional benefits veterans should receive under an omnibus bill that included the extension. The House is expected to pass a separate extension measure today. It would give Vietnam Era veterans 10 years after discharge in which to use their benefits instead of the current eight.
A draft report by the staff of the Senate Watergate committee on campaign practices of Democratic presidential candidates in 1972 found that both Hubert Humphrey and Wilbur Mills received illegal funds from corporations including Associated Milk Producers, Inc., which also contributed heavily to the Nixon re-election campaign. The unreleased staff report links Senator Humphrey to pressure to increase the milk support price.
The American Medical Association voted overwhelmingly to cooperate with the government in establishing a system of monitoring care given under the Medicaid and Medicare programs. Delegates turned back minority objections but agreed to seek to amend some portions of the two-year-old law. The leadership had called a campaign to repeal the law unrealistic.
The United States Steel Corporation, the biggest American steelmaker, will raise prices July 1 on products accounting for about one-half of its total shipments. Included are products widely used by the automotive, construction, shipbuilding and appliance industries. The company said the increases would average about 5.5 percent on total steel mill products.
The Supreme Court will let the second largest bank in the state of Washington acquire the third largest in Spokane. The 5-to-3 decision rejected the argument of government antitrust lawyers that potential competition in the area would be reduced. It was a setback for a theory that a merger should be barred if it might reduce competition in the future if not now.
Former hard-sell magnate Glenn W. Turner announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Florida now held by Republican Edward J. Gurney. Turner said in Orlando that he would finance his primary campaign by asking voters to send him $1 apiece. He said the $1 million he spent in recent legal battles had broken him financially. Turner, seven former business associates and three Turner-controlled companies are to stand trial in federal court in Jacksonville on August 5 on mail fraud charges. An earlier trial of nine months in the same courtroom ended in mistrial last May 30.
Heeding a warning that “women would be a definite liability” and that their organization would become “a battleground of the sexes,” delegates to the International Kiwanis Clubs convention in Denver voted overwhelmingly not to admit women members. The 5,000 men rejected the proposal 10 to 1. By a smaller margin, they defeated a companion proposal that would have allowed women to become honorary members. Robert Campbello of Colorado Springs, whose Kiwanis group includes a woman, said he found the regulation against women ridiculous. “Women are viable and they control a large part of our society,” he said.
The soaring cost of sugar has been a major factor in recent large increases in the prices of cola drinks and other beverages but the prices of sugarless diet drinks made by the same companies have been increased exactly as much as the sugared drinks each time there has been a rise. Figures from a supermarket chain and from a home distributor of soft drinks showed that prices for Coca‐Cola, Pepsi‐Cola 7‐Up and soft drinks made by others have been increased sometimes almost weekly since the beginning of the year, rising from $3.45 at wholesale for a case of two dozen 12‐ounce cans to $4.80 starting Monday.
The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. At 8:01 in the morning, the first purchase of a product with the Universal Product Code (UPC) was made, as 67 cent package of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum was the first item in a shopping basket of items at the checkout aisle in a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The day after the National Cash Register company had installed the scanning equipment and staff of the supermarket had placed the UPC tags on hundreds of items in the supermarket, Marsh research director Clyde Dawson handed cashier Sharon Buchanan scanned the package of 50 pieces of gum. The transaction marked the first use of barcode technology in American retailing.
English-American actress Elizabeth Taylor’s obtains her fifth divorce, from Welsh actor Richard Burton, after just over 10 years of marriage. She gets to keep her 249-ton yacht, and the famous 69-carat, $1.5 million dollar diamond he bought her. He gets visitation rights with the kids.
Negotiations between the National Football League owners and players broke off today, paving the way for a strike on Monday that could possibly wipe out the exhibition season. The talks were ended after it became apparent that there would be no immediate agreement on the 63 demands made by the players March 16. Federal Mediator James Scearce said he thought the sessions yesterday and today had been fruitful, but “we have reached the point now where we cannot be constructive.”
Andy Etchebarren’s one-out, ninth-inning single off reliever John Hiller scored pinch-runner John Bumbry from second base with the winning run tonight as the Baltimore Orioles edged the Detroit Tigers, 5–4.
Hal McRae’s one-out single in the 12th inning Wednesday night scored Frank White from second base and lifted the Kansas City Royals to a 2–1 win over the Chicago White Sox behind the six-hit pitching of Paul Splittorff.
Jim Rooker yielded three hits and Willie Stargell hit a three-run homer in the first inning Wednesday night, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 7–2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
Fred Kendall tripled with the bases full in the sixth inning Wednesday night and right-hander Bill Greif picked up his first win after dropping six straight decisions as the San Diego Padres trimmed the San Francisco Giants, 4–0. The loss was the 14th in their last 17 games for the Giants.
Cleon Jones singled to score pinch runner John Milner with one out in the 12th Inning Wednesday and give the New York Mets a 5–4 decision over the Chicago Cubs and a sweep of the three-game series.
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Born:
Derek Jeter, MLB shortstop (Baseball Hall of Fame in 2020; World Series Champions-Yankees, 1996, 1998-2000, 2009; All-Star, 1998-2002, 2004, 2006-2012, 2014; American League rookie of the year, 1996; World Series MVP, 2000; New York Yankees); in Pequannock Township, New Jersey.
Jason Kendall, MLB catcher (All-Star, 1996, 1998, 2000; Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland A’s, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals), in San Diego, California.
Dieter Kalt, Team Austria ice hockey right wing (Olympics, 1994, 1998, 2002), in Klagenfurt, Austria.
Died:
Ernest Gruening, 87, American politician, the first U.S. Senator (along with Bob Bartlett) for the state of Alaska (1959 to 1969), after being the governor of the Alaska Territory 1939 to 1953. In 1964, Gruening had been one of only two U.S. Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
Margaret Morse Nice, 90, American ornithologist and child psychology researcher.
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