Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev welcomed U.S. President Richard Nixon to Moscow for the third summit between the two leaders, and then hosted him at a banquet at the Kremlin, where the two raised toasts to their personal friendship and for reaching detente between the two superpowers. The “strengthening of universal peace” was pledged in Moscow by President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader. Mr. Nixon was warmly welcomed as he arrived for his third summit meeting with Mr. Brezhnev. A dinner was given for Mr. Nixon in the Great Kremlin Palace, and in an exchange of toasts he and Mr. Brezhnev expressed hope that significant progress could be made in the control or nuclear weapons. Mr. Brezhnev spoke out against critics of detente in the United States.
France and Iran signed in Paris a massive 10-year, $4 billion development agreement. It included a provision for the sale to Iran of five 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactors worth $1.1 billion. The agreement will make France Iran’s principal industrial partner and is expected to greatly ease France’s balance of payments problem provoked by spiraling oil prices. The agreements, signed at the conclusion of a state visit by the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Riza Pahlavi, and his Empress, represent the first vast success of the French effort to cope independently with the oil‐price crisis through huge sales. France has refused to join the cooperative approach initiated by Washington to organize joint negotiations among oil‐consuming and oil‐producing countries, with a view to lowering prices.
Bombs planted in two hijacked trucks exploded in busy shopping streets and in the waterfront area of Belfast wrecking shops and damaging government buildings.
Yugoslav President Tito defended the right of developing nations to control their own oil and other natural resources in a communique in Bonn ending his first state visit to West Germany. Tito urged industrial nations to “employ their technology in a meaningful way to remove… historic injustices in existing world economic relations.”
Portugal has asked the European Common Market for economic aid and cooperative arrangements to help her modernize her economy. High Portuguese officials who met with Common Market aides here today and yesterday also indicated that the two‐month-old Lisbon Government wanted closer political relations with the nine‐nation trade bloc eventually. But they did not specifically say it wanted either associated or full membership in the group. The Portuguese Premier, Adelino da Palma Carlos, and Foreign Minister Mario Soares, who were in Brussels for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting, covered the same issues in talks yesterday with the president of the Common Market’s Executive Commission, François‐Xavier Ortoli, and its Commissioner for External Affairs, Sir Christopher Soames. Mr. Soares, acting as a private individual, had already sounded out community officials on these points during talks in Brussels in early May.
Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto became the first leader of Pakistan to visit Bangladesh, the former province of East Pakistan, which had seceded in 1971 and become independent after a bitter civil war. Bhutto was greeted by a crowd of 5,000 well-wishers upon arriving in Dhaka, the Bengali capital, and was greeted with a hug by his former bitter enemy, Bangladesh premier Mujibur Rahman. Although Bhutto made an apology on behalf of Pakistan for its treatment before independence of Bengali citizens, the first meeting ended with anger on both sides and no agreements on demands made by both sides.
The Israeli Chief of Staff warned today that Lebanon could become a full‐fledged battlefield if Egyptians were allowed to install missile batteries on Lebanese soil. The nation’s top military leader, Lieutenant General Mordechai Gur, spoke at a news conference in answer to questions about reports published in Lebanon that Egypt had offered military aid to cope with punitive military Israeli attacks against Palestinian guerrilla centers. General Gur made it clear that he would continue ordering attacks on gunmen sheltered in Lebanese cities and refugee camps unless the Lebanese authorities themselves took effective action to curb them. The general observed that despite the reprisal attacks that Israelis have staged in response to guerrilla raids into Israel, Lebanon had never really been a battlefield. This could change, he said, if missiles were installed. He said that if Egypt were to send an air squadron to Lebanon in accordance with an offer attributed yesterday to President Anwar el‐Sadat, the action would not be worrisome: “If we decide to crush it, it will not take a long time.”
President Anwar el‐Sadat flew to Rumania this afternoon for four days of talks with President Nicolae Ceausescu, to be followed by a two‐day official visit to Bulgaria. The purpose of the journey, according to informed sources, is to restore the balance of Egyptian foreign policy after President Nixon’s recent visit and to use the two Eastern European capitals as channels to press Mr. Sadat’s invitation to the Soviet leader, Leonid I. Brezhnev, to visit Cairo this fall.
Sentence will be imposed today in Jerusalem District Court on Rabbi Meir Kahane, former American leader of the militant Jewish Defense League, found guilty of “attempted conspiracy to damage the foreign relations of Israel with another friendly country.” He was charged with attempting to send letters to the JDL in the United States last July, calling on it to sabotage the U.S. visit of Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid I. Brezhnev.
A handful of Jewish Defense League demonstrators interrupted the Soviet Moiseyev Ballet dance company performance at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center. The demonstrators hurled flour, eggs and a stink bomb onto the stage, forcing the audience to file out of the auditorium for about 10 minutes until the stage was cleaned up. The performance resumed shortly afterwards.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) accused the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, Graham Martin, of “a petty form of diplomatic blackmail” in proposing a U.S. withdrawal of $2 million offered to the International Red Cross. Kennedy, in a Senate speech, disclosed that Martin made the recommendation May 31 because the Red Cross has been considering inclusion of the Viet Cong in a proposed Geneva conference on “weapons that may cause unnecessary suffering or have indiscriminate effects.”
The U.S. Army announced cutbacks of more than 8,500 military and civilian support and headquarters jobs, most of them in Japan, Thailand and South Korea. This will bring military-civilian manpower cutbacks by the Army to about 10,000 over the coming year.
The crash of a Cambodia Air Boeing 307 Stratoliner killed 19 of the 39 people on board. Three minutes after taking off from Battambang en route to Phnom Penh, the turboprop suffered the loss, in succession, of its number 1, 2 and 3 engines and made a forced landing in a rice field, crashed into a tree, and burst into flames.
President Nixon said in a message to delegates at the international sea conference in Caracas, Venezuela, that they “have a unique opportunity to create in advance of serious conflict, a framework of law” for use of the oceans. The President, now in Moscow for a summit conference, pledged the full support of the United States for a global treaty of the seas in a letter to Hamilton S. Amerasinghe, president of the third U.N. Law of the Sea Conference.
Argentine President Juan D. Perón, who has been kept from his office for 10 days by an “influenza condition,” has reduced his activities still further, a government statement said. The vice president, Perón’s wife Isabel, was reported planning to return to Buenos Aires from Madrid.
The leader of Chile’s four‐man junta, General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, was sworn in as “supreme chief of the nation” here today in a brief ceremony. General Pinochet thus formalized his assumption of the newly created post, which became his yesterday by official decree. With the installation of General Pinochet, Chile has a head of state for the first time since the armed forces overthrew President Salvador Allende Gossens last September 11.
The Senate Watergate Committee (officially the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities), chaired by U.S. Senator Sam Irvin since its formation on February 7, 1973, published its seven-volume, 1,250-page “Report on Presidential Campaign Activities” and disbanded.
Vincent de Roulet, a former Ambassador to Jamaica, apparently received an “express commitment” of a more attractive embassy in return for a $100,000 campaign contribution to President Nixon and other Republican candidates, a Senate panel has been told. Herbert Kalmbach, who was President Nixon’s personal lawyer, made assurances of a reassignment to Mr. de Roulet, who subsequently fulfilled the $100,000 pledge, according to a draft report of the Senate Watergate committee.
President Nixon’s lawyers began their rebuttal to evidence gathered by impeachment inquiry lawyers. James St. Clair, Mr. Nixon’s chief defense lawyer, cited sworn testimony by John Dean in an attempt to convince the House Judiciary Committee that the President had committed no wrongdoing that would justify impeachment.
Members of the House Judiciary Committee said that they believed the wounds from Wednesday night’s partisan battle over the calling of impeachment witnesses need not be permanent, but Republicans insisted that the Democratic majority would have to make some concessions.
A jury of six men and six women was sworn in at the trial in Washington of John Ehrlichman, a senior presidential aide, and three persons accused of conspiring to commit a burglary.
Announcing its sixth major price increase for its 1974 models, the Chrysler Corporation said it was acting to keep up with the rising price of steel, Effective July 1, Chrysler cars will average $60 higher in price — about $49 on the basic price and $11 for options.
An energy research and nuclear reorganization bill that emphasizes safety and seeks to protect development of non-nuclear energy sources, such as coal and sunlight, was sent by a Senate committee to the floor. The measure is said to go well beyond a similar measure approved by the House.
A report to be published tomorrow under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education charges that the affirmative action program by which the federal government is compelling colleges and universities to hire more women and blacks is lowering standards and undermining faculty quality. It asserts that institutions are “playing musical chairs,” pirating the limited number of minority faculty members from each other. Moreover, it is charged that new minority and women appointees may be paid more than white male faculty members at the same level and that some do not have proper qualifications for the tenured and untenured positions to which they are appointed. “The whole affirmative action system by which it is determined whether a university is underutilizing women and blacks in tenured positions should not really apply in choosing a medieval historian,” Dr. Richard A. Lester, the author of the report, said in an interview yesterday. “It is a statistical system that deals more with the hiring of typists, bricklayers or punch press operators.”
After a day of tense negotiations, several hundred blacks marched peacefully through the heart of downtown Atlanta late this afternoon, demanding the ouster of a white police chief they contended was a racist. It was the third mass demonstration this week against the chief, John Inman, whose refusal to leave office has precipitated the hottest racial crisis this Southern city has experienced in almost a decade. The first demonstration, held Sunday after the police fatally wounded a young parole violator, ended with several dozen arrests when marchers refused to disperse.
The fact that only black policemen were involved in the shooting had no apparent effect on the marchers. The second demonstration, held late yesterday after the young black’s funeral, ended in a brief, club‐swinging melee when marchers again refused to disperse, About a dozen protesters were jailed. The leaders of today’s demonstration said it was peaceful only because Maynard Jackson, the city’s first black Mayor, issued an executive order approving the mile‐long march. Normally, march permits are issued by the police. Mr. Jackson has been trying for almost two months to discharges Chief Inman, who has gone to court to retain his job. The case is pending before the Georgia Supreme Court.
A group calling itself the Black Liberation Army says it has killed three young white males in Jacksonville, Florida, in an effort to start a racial revolution. Police have recovered two bodies and were searching for a third, possibly that of an unidentified youth reported abducted from a Jacksonville street. The group boasted of three killings in the latest tape sent to a television station. The three persons whose voices were on the tape assumed — incorrectly — that a third body had been found “floating in a body of water” that “symbolizes the trip we made from Africa to the land of slavery.” Meanwhile, police were questioning three young black men, arrested on drug-related charges, in connection with the killings.
Judge Jack B. Weinstein sentenced two businessmen yesterday for rigging bids and then urged the United States Attorney’s office to “consider seriously” indicting the Grumman Aerospace Corporation of Bethpage, Long Island, New York, and its highest officials. Judge Weinstein asserted that this action should include members of Grumman’s board of directors — “both inside and outside members.” His comments followed the sentencing of the two businessmen in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. Court observers said it was extremely unusual for a judge to suggest to a prosecutor that he should consider indicting persons. While such action is not barred by law, they said it might show sufficient bias to disqualify Judge Weinstein from presiding over a trial, if the executives, directors or the corporation were to be indicted.
About 30% of all teenaged American girls probably have experienced premarital intercourse and about a third of those have had at least one pregnancy outside of marriage, a federally financed study reported. The estimates, prepared by two Johns Hopkins University sociologists, were the initial findings in what is intended to be a national analysis of teen-age sexual behavior. In numbers, the authors said, this meant that about 2.6 million girls had had premarital intercourse. The study was based on interviews in 1971 with 6,000 females between 15 and 19.
An effort to turn the American Medical Association’s primary attention away from the political arena and into the medical laboratory failed as its House of Delegates, meeting in Chicago, elected Dr. Max H. Parrott as its president-elect. Parrot, of Portland, Oregon, edged out Dr. Richard S. Wilbur of Lake Forest, Illinois. The winner is associated with the powerful American Medical Political Action Committee and will take over the presidency next June. Wilbur repeatedly has sought to turn the group’s attention from politics to medicine’s scientific aspects.
A congressional report criticized the Federal Aviation Administration and McDonnell Douglas Corp. for failing to take proper action to correct a safety defect in a Turkish Airlines DC-10, which crashed near Paris in March, killing all 346 persons on board. But the report by the Senate Commerce Committee said it could not determine if proper action by the FAA or McDonnell Douglas would have prevented the crash, the worst in aviation history. The committee added that it did not intend to establish any cause or responsibility for the accident. French authorities have ruled that the crash occurred because a cargo door opened shortly after takeoff.
Seventy-eight gypsies who entered the United States from Mexico four months ago have been ordered deported as illegal aliens by an immigration judge in Chicago, the Tucson, Arizona, Daily Citizen reported. The gypsies will be sent to Holland at a cost of $29,500 to be paid by the United States, Judge Anthony Petrone ordered. The colorful band of men, women and children entered Arizona in February, causing a stir because they were abandoned by Mexicans they had paid to smuggle them in. Officials determined that the gypsies originally were from Yugoslavia but had been in Holland for the last few years.
The American TV variety program “The Flip Wilson Show” last airs on NBC-TV, after 4 seasons, and winning 2 Emmy Awards.
The 61st Tour de France began at Brest with individual time trials which were won by Belgium’s Eddy Merckx of the 10-member Molteni team from Italy. The next day, 13 teams and their 130 riders began the race, which would run for 2,546 miles (4,097 km) and be won by Mercx on July 21, 1974.
The Angels fire manager Bobby Winkles. Whitey Herzog will serve as interim boss for 4 games before Dick Williams assumes the reins.
Deron Johnson bangs a grand slam off Joe Coleman in Milwaukee’s 5-run 5th as the Brewers top the Tigers, 5–1. Clyde Wright pitched seven‐hit ball in raising his record to 7–9. The loser was Joe Coleman (6–9), who dropped his eighth game in succession.
The other pitching Perry from Cleveland, Jim, the brother of the famed Gaylord, won his 200th major league game last night when the Indians edged the Boston Red Sox, 2–1, in Municipal Stadium. Perry was lifted after a one-out single by Dick McAuliffe in the ninth. He scattered seven hits, struck out three and walked none in posting his sixth triumph against seven losses and 33d career victory over the Red Sox.
Nolan Ryan pitched a one‐hitter and walked only one batter in posting his 10th victory and third in succession, as the California Angels shut out the Texas Rangers, 5–0. It was the fourth one‐hit effort of Ryan’s career, which includes two no‐hitters. The Rangers’ hit came from Alex Johnson in the first inning with two out. Ironically, in each of Ryan’s four one‐hitters, the hit came in the first inning. Ryan, who struck out six, raised his league strike out lead to 163.
The Cincinnati Reds beat the Atlanta Braves, 6–3. Dave Concepcion hit a three‐run homer in the fourth and that enabled Clay Kirby to win his sixth game. The Braves led, 3–2, when Tony Perez and Dan Driessen walked. After a fielder choice, Concepcion ripped his sixth homer over the left‐field fence. The victim was Phil Niekro, now 8–6.
Bobby Bonds hit a single, triple and three‐run homer to help the Giants snap a six‐game losing streak, and beat the San Diego Padres, 4–2. The victory prevented the last‐place Padres from moving ahead of the fifth‐place Giants in the West. John D’Acquisto, a righthander, also was instrumental in halting the Giants’ skid. D’Acquisto (6–6) walked to set up one run, doubled to set up another and stopped the Padres on six hits.
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Born:
Christian Kane, American actor (“Leverage”, “The Librarians”), in Dallas, Texas.
Eric Cairns, Canadian NHL defenseman (New York Rangers, New York Islanders, Florida Panthers, Pittsburgh Penguins), in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
Juran Bolden, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers, Kansas City Chiefs, Jacksonville Jaguars, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Tampa, Florida.
Andy Larkin, MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins, Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals), in Chelan, Washington.
Rankica Šarenac, Bosnian and Slovenian WNBA center (Phoenix Mercury), in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia.
Died:
Cliff Friend, 80, American pianist and songwriter.
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