President Nixon and the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, moved toward an agreement that would reduce the number of anti-missile defense systems permitted under the treaty they signed two years ago. Authoritative sources said that negotiations at the Kremlin had focused on limiting each nation to a single anti-missile complex instead of the two now allowed. The 1972 agreement permitted the United States and the Soviet Union to maintain two complexes with up to 100 launches each, one to protect the Capital region, and the other to guard offensive strategic missiles.
High administration officials have disclosed that President Nixon went to Moscow with his two top advisers on national security, Secretary of State Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, still in disagreement over what would constitute an acceptable accord now to limit strategic nuclear weapons. Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Schlesinger were described as having the kind of fundamental differences where neither can be shown to be right or wrong. One administration official said that “it is a matter of judgment and the President has a clear choice.”
The word “personal” was dropped from the official Soviet translation of a speech by President Nixon in Moscow in which he said that the “personal relationship” between him and Mr. Brezhnev would be the basis for continued Soviet-American détente. The deletion caused a controversy and it was interpreted by some in Moscow as indicating that the Soviet government did not want to tie relations with the United States to a President involved in impeachment proceedings.
Political dissident Andrei D. Sakharov began a hunger strike at midnight Friday to protest Soviet political repression and to give force to his appeal that President Nixon and Communist Party General Secretary Leonid 1. Brezhnev consider problems of human rights at their summit meeting. On the eve of the summit, Sakharov, 53, a major figure in the Soviet dissident movement, had addressed a letter to Mr. Nixon and Brezhnev urging them to work for agreements on free emigration and freedom of political prisoners.
Extremists shot a soldier and a civilian today and set fire to a lumberyard. An army spokesman said a sniper seriously wounded a soldier guarding a factory in the border town of Newry. In Belfast, two teen-age gunmen wounded the doorman at a downtown bar at point-blank range. The spokesman said fire bombs set off a blaze that swept through a lumberyard in the Belfast dock area early today, causing an estimated $600,000 damage.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 326 to 225, voiced its confidence in Premier Mariano Rumor and his Cabinet today, implicitly authorizing the patched-up Government to raise $5‐billion in new taxes in the next 12 months. Before the vote, Mr. Rumor appealed to the labor unions to make an “essential contribution” for the success of the fiscal austerity program. The Premier and senior ministers will meet with top labor leaders, Communists and non-Communists, next week in a long‐delayed confrontation.
Thirty-two miners were killed and 29 others injured Friday by a gas explosion in the Silesia coal mine at Dziedzige-Czechowice, the Polish news agency PAP said. The agency said 61 miners were in the underground gallery when the explosion of methane gas took place. PAP credited “immediate rescue action” with saving the lives of the 29 injured.
In Ethiopia, at the time still ruled by the Emperor Haile Selassie, the new “Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces” (known as “the Derg”) seized the radio station in Addis Ababa, and began to arrest high officials, generals and other aristocrats suspected of being behind a reactionary movement.
Rival Palestinian groups clashed at two refugee camps in Lebanon and one guerrilla was killed. The shooting incidents broke out at the Shatila refugee camp on the road to the Beirut international airport and at Tal al Zaatar on the outskirts of the city. The slain guerrilla belonged to the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command were wounded. Both organizations are ardent supporters of the continuation of guerrilla warfare against Israel, but they differ on what the Palestinian role should be.
The State Department said it had been informed that the eight Palestinian guerrillas who were convicted of killing two senior American diplomats add a Belgian in the Sudan last year were now in prison in Egypt. The department had denounced the virtual release of the eight men after commutation of their life sentences by the Sudanese government on Monday.
The United States will provide Iran with two nuclear reactors and fuel under an agreement to be signed in Tehran shortly, the State Department said Friday. Department spokesman Robert Anderson said nuclear cooperation with Iran had been under discussion since mid-May, when the chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Dixie Lee Ray, visited the Iranian capital. The agreement to provide nuclear reactors and fuel is the third concluded by the U.S. Government within a month. President Nixon reached similar agreements with Egypt and Israel during his visit to the Middle East earlier in June. Anderson said there will be strict safeguards to make sure the reactors and fuel will be used only for peaceful purposes. Iran reportedly also is interested in buying three Concorde supersonic passenger jets from the French.
Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto expressed shame and regret today for the repression of Bangladesh in 1971. But his mission of reconciliation was marred by demonstrators branding him a killer. Shouts of “Killer Bhutto, go home,” rose from a crowd of about 3,000 demonstrators during his tense appearance at a monument to Bangladesh martyrs, where he laid a wreath. Bhutto admitted in a later speech that Pakistan had mistreated the people of former East Pakistan. But he insisted he had played no part in the military crackdown that led to civil war, war with India and the breakup of Pakistan.
Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike and India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi signed the Sirima–Gandhi Pact, agreeing that the 150,000 Indian Tamils in Sri Lanka whose status had been unresolved since a previous pact in 1964 would have the option to receive full Indian citizenship and be allowed to move to India, or granted full Sri Lankan citizenship if they opted to remain.
North Korean gunboats sank a South Korean police patrol vessel today in northern waters off the peninsula’s eastern shore. The sunken vessel was reportedly in the 200-ton class with a crew of 50. The number of casualties was not immediately known. The South Korean Defense Ministry, in reporting the sinking, admitted that the patrol craft was in northern waters but said it was forced there by three North Korean gunboats that intruded into southern waters and attacked the police boat. The North Korean Central News Agency confirmed the sinking. It took place after the boat invaded North Korean waters and that North Korea had taken several crewmen into custody. North Korea also said South Korean fighter planes flew into its air space and strafed one of its patrol boats.
Mexico has sent troops into the mountains of Guerrero state in a campaign to rescue a senator kidnapped by Lucio Cabanas and his band of guerrillas. According to reports in the Mexico City press today, soldiers have cordoned off the main towns in the coastal mountains, about 50 miles above Acapulco on Route 200. Traffie is blocked on feeder roads around Atoyac, Tecpan, San Jeronimo and Coyuca, with mountains rising to 12,000-foot Mt. Teotepec behind them. Troops are searching all cars on the highway itself.
A landslide in Colombia killed more than 200 people and injured 100 after burying a highway near the city of Villavicencio in the Meta Department, along with six buses filled with passengers and 14 other vehicles. Many who were not buried were swept off the road and into the Quebradablanca ravine, and 50 bodies were recovered in the first two days after the disaster.
In Portuguese Guinea, soldiers of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde and troops of the Portuguese Army gingerly confronted each other, but the tension dissolved in smiles and handshakes. It was another of the fraternization meetings that have become daily occurrences between the two armies.
The International Whaling Commission wound up its 26th annual convention in London today after taking another step toward saving the whale from extinction. Although the commission once again rejected a U.S. proposal for a 10-year moratorium on all whale hunting, it accepted an Australian plan to impose automatic protection for species whose numbers fall to a critical level. The 15-nation organization failed, however, to decide exactly what constitutes a “critical level.” As usual, Japan and the Soviet Union — whose fleets account for 80% of the world’s whale catch — opposed any moves for a moratorium.
Chairman Peter Rodino of the House Judiciary Committee was accused of bias by some Republicans, and a White House spokesman called for his discharge as head of the impeachment inquiry. A partisan furor followed an article in the Los Angeles Times that quoted Mr. Rodino as saying that all 21 Democrats on his committee were prepared to vote for President Nixon’s impeachment. The chairman went to the House floor and denied and denounced the story and said there was no chance that he would resign.
John Ehrlichman’s lawyers, offering a new defense in the White House “plumbers” case, accused David Young, one of the co-conspirators in the Watergate prosecutor’s case, and who is expected to be a key prosecution witness, of falsifying statements and documents against Mr. Ehrlichman “in order to save his own neck.”
The three-year-old case of William Farr, a newspaper reporter who has been held in Los Angeles for contempt of court, took another turn with the indictment of the chief prosecutor and a defense lawyer in the 1970 Charles Manson murder trial on three counts each of perjury. Vincent Buglosi, the prosecutor, and Daye Shinn, a defense attorney, were accused of perjuring themselves in denying they were the sources of an article by Mr. Farr about the Manson trial in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
Convicted Watergate defendant Herbert W. Kalmbach will surrender to federal authorities in Baltimore by noon Monday to begin serving a six-to-18-month sentence for campaign finance violations, the Justice Department said today. The department said the arrangement for Kalmbach to surrender in Baltimore had been made at the request of the House Judiciary Committee, which expects to summon him to testify in impeachment proceedings. Kalmbach was ordered to serve his sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Lompoc, California, but will be confined at an unspecified detention facility in the Washington-Baltimore area until the Judiciary Committee has no further need for him.
Fundraisers for President Nixon’s 1972 re‐election campaign “made no effort whatsoever” to ensure that contributions they solicited from businessmen were not illegally drawn from corporate funds, the staff of the Senate Watergate committee has charged. The staff said that, while it had found no evidence that any Nixon fund‐raiser had directly solicited an illegal corporate contribution, “the evidence is unmistakable that a number of them either were indifferent to the source of the money” or took no steps to make certain that private rather than corporate funds were involved. In a draft of its report on Presidential campaign financing practices, the staff says that “the bulk of the illegal corporate contributions” uncovered so far, about $750,000, was given to the Nixon re‐election effort.
The House Administration Committee, nearing the end of three months of work on a major campaign spending bill, rejected today a proposal for the use of taxpayers’ money to help finance Presidential primary election campaigns. By a 16‐to‐9 vote against the limited public financing provision, the panel disposed of one of the last major items to be considered by the committee before it sends its version of campaign spending measure to the House floor. Representative Wayne L. Hays of Ohio, chairman of the committee, which has held two dozen sessions since March on the bill, said he hoped to complete work on the measure Monday.
The House has turned back an attempt to prohibit use of any Federal funds directly or indirectly for abortions or abortion research. It voted 247 to 123 last night against an amendment by Representative Angelo D. Roncallo, Republican-New York, to a $33.2‐billion appropriation bill for the Department of Labor and of Health, Education and Welfare for the 1975 fiscal year, starting Monday. The one‐all bill was approved by a 349‐to‐43 vote and sent to the Senate. Of the total, $29.5‐billion would go to H.E.W., $3.4‐billion to Labor and $260‐million to nine related agencies and boards. Mr. Roncallo’s amendment sparked a House debate on abortion. Representative Tim Lee Carter, Republican of Kentucky who is a physician, said that the amendment would have banned Federal aid for abortions even in cases of rape incest or where the pregnancy endangered the life of the mother.
Deportation of a gypsy king without a kingdom and his 75 nomadic followers has become a diplomatic problem, immigration officials said Friday. Meanwhile, George Konovalov and his band roam the streets of Chicago as they have the roadways in cities from Nogales, Arizona, to Washington, D.C., since February. The Bulgarian gypsies, half of them children, were ordered deported as illegal aliens by a U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service judge earlier this week. They asked to be deported to Amsterdam, where some have relatives, and immigration officials began compiling the necessary documents. The gypsies have no passports, and they say they have no money. But when immigration officials contacted the Netherlands consul in Chicago, the gypsies were refused visas.
Construction plans for two major nuclear generating units valued at $1.4‐billion were canceled yesterday by the Consumers Power Company of Michigan. At the same time, the Boston Edison Company announced that it was deferring the planned construction of nuclear generating unit. Difficulties, in raising capital for the project were cited by Consumers Power, while Boston Edison said conservation efforts by its customers had made the utilities’ future growth and needs uncertain. Consumers Power is believed to be the first utility to cancel a major nuclear unit in an advanced stage of planning. According to industry sources, the decisions of the two utilities represent a significant setback to the growth of nuclear‐generated electricity in the United States.
The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that A. H. Robins Co. had agreed to suspend sale and distribution of its Dalkon Shield intrauterine contraceptive device pending studies of its safety. The Richmond, Virginia, company has reported seven deaths and more than 100 cases of uterine infections associated with miscarriages in patients using the Dalkon Shield.
The contempt conviction of Meyer Lansky, alleged financial wizard of organized crime, was reversed by a federal appeals court today. Mr. Lansky, 72 years old, was convicted last year of failing to answer a subpoena issued by a Federal grand jury in Miami. He was sentenced to serve a year and a day in prison, but has been free on bail pending his appeal. The grand jury, which was investigating allegations that Mr. Lansky skimmed gambling profits from a Las Vegas hotel, ordered him on Feb. 22, 1971, to appear in 19 days. But he was in Israel and did not receive the subpoena until March 4.
Vannevar Bush, the engineer whose work in marshaling American technology in World War II was regarded as a decisive contribution to the Allied victory, died at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts, at the age of 84. He also had a long association with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and had been its chairman.
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed to require sale of unleaded gasoline at rural service stations by October 1, three months earlier than previously proposed. The EPA invited written comments within 30 days.
Paul McCartney & Wings release singles “Band on the Run” and “Zoo Gang” in UK.
Real Madrid defeated Barcelona, 4 to 0, to win Spain’s Copa del Generalísimo soccer football championship, held at the Vicente Calderón Stadium in Madrid. Barcelona had finished in first place in La Liga with a record of 21 wins, 8 draws and 5 losses while Real Madrid (13-8-13) had tied for eighth place.
At Cleveland, Indians outfielder Leron Lee scores the winning run in the 9th but crashes into Boston catcher Carlton Fisk in doing so Fisk’s left knee injury is so seriously torn that he will not return to action this year, and, with a broken arm sustained in next year’s spring training, will not play until June of 1975. Gaylord Perry (14–1) is the winner in the 2–1 Indian victory. It is Perry’s 14th consecutive win.
Charlie Fox, under heavy criticism for his management of the hapless San Francisco Giants, resigned Friday and was replaced by Wes Westrum, former manager of the New York Mets. Giants owner Horace Stoneham said Fox will become the team’s major league scout, a position vacated by Westrum. Stoneham and Fox denied that the resignation came under pressure, although the Giants are one game out of the cellar.
The Chicago Cubs and Montreal Expos play 18 innings before the Cubs emerge with an 8–7 win on Jerry Morales RBI triple. Morales is 1-for-9. Ron Fairly hits a 1st-inning grand slam for Montreal. The Expos take a game 2 laugher 15–0 behind Dennis Blair. Ron Hunt has 5 RBIs.
After the Cincinnati Reds win game one, 6–5, over the Braves, Atlanta takes the nightcap 1–0 on Dusty Baker’s game-ending home run in the 10th off Don Gullett. Buzz Capra (9-2) is the winner.
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Born:
Karim Abdul-Jabbar, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, Cleveland Browns, Indianapolis Colts), in Los Angeles, California.
Rob Dyrdek, American skateboarder, entrepreneur and reality television star known for MTV’s “Ridiculousness”; in Kettering, Ohio.
Died:
Vannevar Bush, 84, American engineer, inventor and Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II.
Frank Sutton, American actor (“Marty”, “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.”), of a heart attack.
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