Isabel Perón was sworn in as the first female President of Argentina replacing her sick husband, President Juan Perón, who would die two days later. Vice President Maria Estela Martinez de Perón took over as acting President of Argentina so that her husband, Juan Domingo Perón, could continue treatment for what doctors said was infectious bronchitis with heart complications. Mr. Perón, 78 years old, was ordered to take an “absolute rest.” Mrs. Perón, a 43-year-old former dancer, ran the country under a similar mandate for two days when her husband took trips to Uruguay and Paraguay.
At a Soviet and American summit in Moscow, U.S. President Nixon and Soviet Union General Secretary Brezhnev signed a 10-year economic agreement. The two then flew on the same plane from Moscow to Simferopol in Crimea in the Ukrainian SSR, then rode in a car to Brezhnev’s beach resort home at Oreanda, near Yalta. In a session with the Soviet leaders in the Kremlin, Mr. Nixon was understood to have called for concessions on issues of human contact to achieve agreement for a meeting at the heads-of-government level concluding the European security conference. The trade agreement had been expected. It includes provisions for exchange of economic information and commitments to facilitate working conditions for American businessmen, who have often encountered bureaucratic delays in the Soviet Union.
Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet tour was in Toronto, Canada, and requested political asylum in Canada.
Greek Premier Adamantios Androutsopoulos accused Turkey of provoking a crisis with Greece over conflicting claims to oil-prospecting rights in the Aegean Sea. “Turkey has provoked the situation, continues it with various pretexts, and backs it with threats which disturb the otherwise calm reality,” he told newsmen in Athens. The premier recalled that at a meeting earlier in the week with Turkish Premier Bulent Ecevit in Brussels, the two only agreed that it was “senseless” that differences should exist between the two NATO allies.
A sniper shot and shot and critically wounded a British soldier on guard outside a pub in Belfast’s Catholic Ballymurphy quarter. The army said the sniper fired a number of shots, two of them striking the soldier in the neck and head. A platoon of soldiers was searching patrons at the pub when the shooting started.
A magistrate in a tiny Northern Ireland fishing village has angered militant Protestants by ruling that the waters around the British province belong to the neighboring Irish Republic. Patrick Maxwell, magistrate at Cushendall, a fishing port 40 miles north of Belfast, held that he could not judge four men charged with illegally fishing for salmon in the sea because under the 1920 act that partitioned Ireland his powers only extended to the high-water mark on Ulster’s coastline. He added that consequently the waters of Northern Ireland came under the control of the Dublin Government. The ruling implies that the Ulster coast between the high and low water marks also belong to the the republic.
As many as 20 people were reported dead and 17 wounded in gun battles between rival Palestinian guerrilla factions in and around Beirut. The fighting between two rival Marxist groups, the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, was intense.
President Nixon, acting under authority from Congress, waived repayment of $500 million in credits to Israel as replacement of equipment and supplies expended in the Arab-Israeli war of last October, the White House announced. Mr. Nixon acted on the waiver in the Soviet Union, where he is holding summit talks with Russian leaders. The action completed allocation of $2.2 billion in emergency aid to Israel voted last December by Congress, and was taken only hours before expiration of the President’s authority to change the credits to a grant.
Ethiopian troops imposed a curfew on the capital of Addis Ababa tonight and in effect declared themselves in control of the country. Dozens of soldiers massed at the airport, the telecommunications headquarters and the capital’s two radio stations. A former cabinet minister was arrested, but Government officials denied reports that several members of the present civilian Cabinet had been detained. Premier Endalkachew Makonnen, who has not satisfied military pressures for political and social reforms of Ethiopia’s feudal system, called his Cabinet into emergency session. The Cabinet met for three hours and named a committee to confer with military leaders, a publicly unidentified group believed to include mostly young army officers. No military activity was reported in the provinces.
There appeared to be no immediate move against Mr. Makonnen’s four‐month‐old Government, whose slow progress toward political and economic reform has displeased military radicals, but the soldiers evidently believed they could oust the Premier if they wished. A military statement delivered to broadcasters by an officer carrying a submachine gun announced the curfew effective between 11 PM and 6 AM The statement said the curfew was “to accomplish the peaceful completion of the movement started last February,” a reference to a military mutiny that toppled a 10‐year‐old Government widely considered corrupt. Soldiers told newscasters, “If you get any comment from the civilian Government, check it with us first.”
Cambodian government troops attacked rebel forces as they were building bunkers outside Peam Satha along Highway 5 north of Phnom Penh and killed at least 80 of the insurgents in an all-day battle, field reports said. Meanwhile, in South Vietnam, Communist troops fired several B-40 rockets into a government army ambulance, killing four soldiers and wounding three others, the Saigon military command said. The vehicle, reportedly marked with a red cross, was evacuating sick soldiers on a road in Tan Uyen district, 22 miles north of Saigon.
A landslide that covered a section of a highway about 95 miles east of Bogota, Colombia, killed at least 200 persons, Colombian officials reported. The country’s civil defense director said that “We’ll never know exactly the number of victims of this national tragedy.” Six loaded buses were among the vehicles engulfed by the cascade of earth and rocks. There was a threat of more slides.
Venezuela implemented one of its announced oil price and tax actions, raising export prices moderately for crude oils as well as refined products, including gasoline. The government did not, however, reveal details of announced plans to increase taxes paid by U.S. and other foreign oil companies, aimed at cutting company profits. The increase in official export prices, used to tax oil companies an effective 58%, ranged from 5% for crudes to smaller increases for refined products.
Alleged massacres by Portuguese troops in colonial Mozambique, reportedly claiming hundreds of lives between 1965 and March, 1974, actually did take place, a U.N. inquiry has unanimously determined. A spokesman for the five-nation panel said the new Portuguese government of President Antonio de Spinola, which came into power last April 25, had refused to cooperate in the inquiry, and questioned the new regime’s professed anticolonial stance. Evidence leading to the conclusion was gathered in Europe and Africa, but the panel has not yet fixed responsibility for the killings.
Ugandan President Idi Amin granted citizenship to 14 black Americans who arrived in Kampala from the Pan-African Congress in Dar es Salaam. He called on all black people to unite and embark on joint scientific projects for the good of all blacks.
The March 24 secession of Tanna, southernmost of the New Hebrides islands, from the rest of the jointly-administered “Anglo-French Condominium” was ended as British and French troops invaded the island. Tanna is now part of the Tafea Province of Vanuatu.
The Soviet Union has given its support to a proposed 200‐mile offshore economic limit so long as navigation through international straits is not restricted. I. Kozlovsky, leader of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations conference on the law of the sea, said a 200‐mile economic zone of national shorelines would enable developing countries to “strengthen their economies and reinforce their political independence using the resources of the ocean.” Observers described the Soviet speech as low‐key and conciliatory. They pointed out that by supporting the 200‐mile economic limit the Soviet Union — the world’s number two fishing nation behind Japan — stands to lose substantial catches of fish. Mr. Kozlovsky also told the conference, which is trying to draft a global treaty for the use of the oceans, that his country favored a 12‐mile limit for political and territorial control. The Soviet position was similar to the stand taken by the large maritime powers, including the United States.
Partisan conflicts that split the House Judiciary Committee this week and brought White House call for the committee chairman’s ouster were described today as the advance warning signs of a coming political eruption in Congress over impeachment. “Things have gotten out of hand,” said a Republican member of the committee, “but I’m afraid they’re going to get worse.” “The honeymoon is over,” agreed a Democrat on the panel in an assessment of the apparent collapse, after seven months, of a tissue‐thin bipartisan committee facade. “We’re being attacked both frontally and from the flank.”
Three days ago, the committee argued bitterly over the refusal of Democrats to summon immediately all the impeachment hearing witnesses recommended by the White House. Two days ago, the panel wrangled over the form of rebuttal evidence offered by President Nixon’s defense attorney. Yesterday the rancor spilled onto the House floor as a consequence of a published report that the chairman, Representative Peter W. Rodino Jr. of New Jersey, had estimated that all 21 of the committee’s Democrats would support a recommendation that Mr. Nixon be impeached. Congressional authorities said that the disputes were precursors of intense political pressures that, inevitably, will accompany debate as to whether the President’s conduct in office would warrant a Senate trial on charges of constitutional crimes that would, upon conviction, lead to his removal from office.
Senator Lowell Weicker, a Republican member of the Senate Watergate committee, charged that “every major substantive part of the Constitution was violated, abused and undermined during the Watergate period.” He declared in a personal, 146-page report that members of President Nixon’s administration and campaign organization were responsible for some 370 abuses of law or the Constitution in the making of the Watergate scandals. His report, based on evidence presented to the committee over the last 20 months, was made public in anticipation of the full committee’s formal report, which was presented to the Senate on Friday and is expected to be made public in early July.
With the work it started 20 months ago just about over, the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, better known as the Senate Watergate committee, will be officially dissolved tomorrow.
The federal energy administrator, John Sawhill, accused 15 major oil companies of “foot-dragging and calculated resistance” to the government’s plan for the companies to share their relatively cheap crude oil supplies with independent refiners. In his first general criticism of the oil industry, Mr. Sawhill said that the program, however distasteful it was to the major companies, was explicitly mandated by Congress to protect the smaller companies.
Protest marches against the jailing in Atlanta of the Rev. Hosea Williams, leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, were called off for 72 hours, but the group said it would resume protests if Mr. Williams was not released. He was arrested Wednesday at a demonstration against the police shooting of a black teenager. Seven persons, including four policemen, were reported slightly injured during the protest. Mr. Williams, charged with inciting to riot and parading without a permit, has said he will not post bond of $10,200 until Police John Inman is dismissed.
Most of the nation’s 35,000 copper workers are ready to strike for higher wages at midnight tomorrow. Among the major producers, only the Anaconda Company had made a contract offer that the United Steelworkers Union planned to submit to the 400‐member Nonferrous Industry Conference here tomorrow. Offers made by Kennecott Copper Corporation, the nation’s largest copper producer, and Magma Copper Company have been rejected, and a strike is thus “virtually a foregone conclusion,” according to a spokesman for the steelworkers’ union, Cass Alvin. A walkout, the first since 1971, would idle about seven–eighths of the nation’s major copper mines and smelters and about 30,000 workers.
A veterans’ group was barred from holding a camp-in on the Capitol Mall in Washington by a decision of an emergency panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals. The group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War — Winter Soldier Organization, had planned a four-day camp-in starting Monday to dramatize its campaign for improved veterans’ benefits and an end to U.S. aid to Cambodia and South Vietnam. A district court Friday granted the group permission to sleep on the mall at the foot of the Capitol but that was reversed by the appeals court decision.
The newly elected president of the New York state Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary was barred from taking office after she expressed sympathy in a newspaper interview for granting amnesty to draft resisters. Betty Grecco of Johnstown was to have been installed at the conclusion of a three-day VFW conference at Binghamton, but state VFW President Wolfgang J. Nauke intervened to forbid it. The outgoing president, Mary A. Schaefer of Rochester, will remain in office until the matter is resolved.
Minority-group membership in building trade unions increased slightly in the 1969-1972 period, but mostly in the lowest-paying jobs, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reported. Figures compiled from 2,615 locals showed that minority-group membership rose by about 52,000 to 250,799, the agency said. In 1972, minority groups accounted for 15.6% of 1.6 million members, compared with 13.2% of 1.5 million members in 1969, the agency reported.
The man federal authorities indicate is the chief target of an investigation into an alleged scheme to cheat big-name entertainers, politicians and others out of millions of dollars has denied all allegations of fraud. Robert S. Trippet, 56, former chairman of the bankrupt HomeStake Production Co., insisted he ran the business in accordance with his obligations to investors.
Plans to expand storm detection and warning programs over the next five years were announced in Washington by Robert H. White, chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. His announcement followed a report by a tornado survey team that weather service warnings may have saved several thousand lives in the “once-in-a-century” outbreak of tornadoes in 11 Midwestern and Southern states last April. White said 66 new local radar warning units would be installed in the next several years, along with five new long-range radar units.
One rocket launched tonight from Wallops Island, Virginia by the nation’s space agency spread clouds of colorful chemicals in the skies over some of the East Coast, but second shot failed when the missile malfunctioned and tumbled in flames into the Atlantic Ocean. The two rockets were the most spectacular so far in the series of 54 being lofted to test the upper atmosphere. The successful rocket, fired shortly after 9 PM, lit up the sky over Virginia’s Eastern Shore with blue‐tinted chemicals before the second rocket fell back toward the ocean, leaving a trail of white smoke. The cause of the failure was not known immediately.
Run-scoring singles by Hal McRae and George Brett propelled the Kansas City Royals to a 2–0 victory tonight over the Oakland A’s behind the five-hit pitching of Steve Busby. Busby (10–7), who pitched a no-hitter against Milwaukee June 19, allowed only four singles and walked just one in besting Vida Blue, who gave up only four hits.
Dave McNally pitched a two-hitter and Earl Williams’ ground rule double drove in the game’s first run in the seventh inning as the Baltimore Orioles beat the New York Yankees, 2–0. McNally (7–6) retired 18 of 19 batters following a one-out single by Lou Pinella in the first.
The first-place Red Sox use an 18-hit barrage to pound the Indians, 12–2. Juan Beniquez has a pair of homers, including a grand slam, and Danny Cater and Terry Hughes go deep as well.
Left-hander Jon Matlack fired a one-hitter Saturday, earning his first victory since May 18 and pitching the New York Mets to a 4–0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. The only hit off Matlack was a third-inning single by pitcher John Curtis, who looped a soft, opposite-field liner to left. Matlack (6–5), had lost four games and had three no-decisions since his last win. He struck out seven Cardinals and walked three.
Joe Morgan singled home the winning run with his third hit of the game in the seventh inning Saturday night as the Cincinnati Reds edged Atlanta. 2–1, behind Jack Billingham’s six-hit pitching. Morgan’s single scored Pete Rose, who had singled with one out and moved to second on Cesar Geronimo’s grounder. The victory was the eighth in the last 10 games for the Reds and kept them 6½ games behind first-place Los Angeles in the National League West. The Braves have lost eight of their last 10. The Reds took a 1–0 lead when Johnny Bench led off the fourth with his 14th home run. Atlanta tied it in the bottom of the inning when Dusty Baker doubled, advanced to third on a single by Mike Lum and scored on Dave Johnson’s force out.
Pitcher Jerry Reuss drove in the tie-breaking run with an infield hit in the sixth inning and Richie Zisk slammed a three-run double in the seventh, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 6–3 victory over Philadelphia Saturday night. It was the sixth victory in the last eight decisions for Reuss (7–5) while Philadelphia’s Jim Lonborg (10–6) was the loser to end his six-game win streak.
Born:
Vish Iyer, Indian-born American yoga guru, author and actor; in Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu state, India.
Died:
Xavier Guerrero, 77, Mexican mural painter.
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