Residents of Minsk, the capital of the Byelorussian Republic, turned out in substantial numbers to greet President Nixon. The city was decorated with red banners and enormous portraits of Lenin, Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet officials, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its liberation from the Germans in World War II. The anniversary evoked memories of the Soviet-American alliance during the war. President Nixon, who was accompanied by Mrs. Nixon, used every occasion to mingle with the crowds.
Soviet authorities thwarted an unofficial scientific seminar planned by a group of Jewish scientists who were barred from working since they applied to emigrate to Israel. More than a half dozen of the seminar’s organizers have been jailed recently. Three others who showed up for the meeting today were arrested.
Iceland’s general elections have ended with no party holding a majority in the 60-seat parliament and with the seats equally divided between the leftist coalition government and the conservative opposition Independence Party. Prime Minister Olafur Johannesson said he would resign today. Should Independence leader Geir Hallgrimsson be asked to form a government, it would likely mean a reprieve for an American-manned North Atlantic Treaty Organization base in Iceland.
Mikhail Baryshnikov, 26, lead dancer with Leningrad’s Kirov Ballet, was in hiding somewhere in Canada amid government indications he would be granted asylum. Friends said he left the troupe Saturday after a Toronto engagement and went into hiding with Christina Berlin, an American he met at his Western debut in London three years ago. He had not contacted immigration officials, a government spokesman said.
Sweden became the first nation in the world to have a national data protection law as the Datalagen (Data Act), passed on May 11, 1973, went into effect.
Monmouthshire renamed Gwent and becomes part of Wales.
The leadership of the Palestinian guerrilla movement is reported to have notified the Lebanese Government that it will assume responsibility for keeping terrorists from attacking Israel from Lebanon. According to An Nahar, a, leading Lebanese daily, this assurance from leaders of Palestine Liberation Organization, an umbrella group for the Palestinian movement, was conveyed to Premier Takieddin Solh last night. Premier Solh was also told, the newspaper said, that the leaders had ordered a suspension of all incursions against Israel from Lebanese soil. There was no comment today from the Palestine Liberation Organization on these reports. But Palestinian sources said the guerrillas continued to maintain that all such operations had long been discontinued. Israel, however, has maintained that the raids in recent months against Qiryat Shemona, Ma’alot, Shamir, and Nahariya were carried out by guerrillas from Lebanon.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel said today that his country would not hesitate to strike at targets in Lebanon “even before” guerrillas based there “hit us.” The Israeli leader, who attended a meeting of the Socialist International over the weekend at Chequers, the country home of Prime Minister Wilson, reiterated the Israeli position that Lebanon must stop Arab terrorist attacks across the frontier into Israel or face the consequences. Speaking at a news conference, he said the guerrillas were attempting to wage “continuous activities against us.”
Career diplomat Sabah Kabbani has been appointed Syria’s ambassador to the United States, Damascus announced. The post had been vacant since the Mideast war in 1967 when Syria broke relations with the United States, charging it backed Israel. Relations were restored June 16. Kabbani was counselor in the Washington embassy before 1967 and has headed the Syrian section of the Pakistani Embassy there since January.
Army forces tightened their grip on the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa today and established liaison with units elsewhere in this sprawling African country. Troop carriers with steel-helmeted soldiers in combat dress and a few armored vehicles were patrolling Addis Ababa and its environs. Army officers were reported holding political strategy sessions during most of the day, and were talking with representatives of the civilian Government. Emperor Haile Selassie, as usual, went back and forth from the palace where he lives and the palace where he works, devoting some time also to his Chihuahua dog and other pets. Spokesmen for the still shadowy military movement profess “unswerving loyalty” to the emperor. Their undefined aim seems to be to speed up reforms to modernize and liberalize this semifeudal country of 30 million people.
Eritrean Liberation Front guerrillas in Ethiopia have demanded $1 million for the release of four Americans held hostage for more than three months. Tenneco Oil Co. of Houston, which employs three of the men, has publicly refused to pay any ransom. However, negotiations reportedly have resumed between Tenneco and the ELF through a third party. The fourth hostage is a U.N. geochemist.
South Vietnamese government warplanes bombed and strafed a North Vietnamese-held base north of Saigon in 58 strikes and reported 129 Communist troops killed. But the North Vietnamese defenders of Camp 82 fought off government infantrymen on the ground, blocking the South Vietnamese push for the fifth straight day, field officers said. Government losses were put at two killed and 22 wounded.
Cambodian troops cleared a two-mile stretch of Highway 5 north of Phnom Penh and relieved 500 soldiers who had been trapped by rebel forces in the town of Kompong Luong. The operation was part of a government drive to open a route for food convoys to Phnom Penh from the rice fields of northwest Cambodia.
U.S. Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington), arriving in Peking for a six-day visit, said he favored full U.S. diplomatic recognition of China while continuing to honor commitments to Taiwan. He added that among topics in his talks with Chinese leaders were Chinese involvement in U.S.-Soviet arms agreements, the North Atlantic community, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean, the Far East and Japan.
On “M-day”, road signs in Australia changed from imperial measures in miles to adjusted metric equivalents in kilometers. An advertisement by the Australian Department of Transport told readers “Miles change to kilometers. Make sure YOU understand — it’s important, for safety’s sake!” and explained “Since a kilometer is 1000 meters in length, or about 5/8 of a mile, all road speed signs in kilometers per hour will be shown in much higher figures than the old miles per hour signs — although the speed you are traveling is about the same.”
President Juan Perón of Argentina, one of the most controversial political figures in Latin American history, died in Buenos Aires, reportedly of heart disease, at the age of 78. The announcement of his death was made by his wife, Vice President Isabel Perón. She assumes the presidency, becoming the first woman chief of state in the Americas.
Isabel Perón became the first woman to be designated the president of a nation, being sworn in as President of Argentina after the death of her husband, Juan Perón, at the age of 78. Although other women, such as monarchs, had served as heads of state, or heads of government as prime ministers, Mrs. Perón — who had been elected vice president after being the running mate of her husband in the 1973 election — was the first female president.
Argentina gave its full support at the U.N. law of the sea conference to a 200-mile limit while Japan, the world’s leading fishing nation, favored narrow coastal rights but declined to talk in terms of exact mileage. Argentina’s delegate said unless an agreement guaranteeing “international social justice” is reached, the developing nations would be free to seek their own solutions to coastal rights.
The Communist nation of Cuba officially banned the Jehovah’s Witnesses, closing houses of worship and providing penalties, including imprisonment for violators.
Peter Rodino, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee agreed, in an apparent attempt at conciliation, to summon all of the witnesses proposed by President Nixon’s defense lawyer for the impeachment hearings which are scheduled to resume tomorrow. But this failed to stem growing partisan friction in the committee and the House in general.
Leon Jaworski, the Watergate special prosecutor, said that the Watergate grand jury had named President Nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator so that any evidence he might have would be admissible in any trial of members of the alleged conspiracy. He stated this in legal papers filed in the Supreme Court and it raised the prospect that the government might attempt to summon Mr. Nixon to testify against his former aides in the cover-up trial scheduled to start in September. “While we readily concede that the naming of an incumbent President as an unindicted co‐conspirator is a grave and solemn step and may cause public as well as private anguish, we submit that such action is not constitutionally proscribed,” Dr. Jaworski said.
The Democrats said today that they had netted nearly $4.5‐million — double their previous record — from their third annual fundraising telethon over the weekend. That is enough money to retire the Democratic National Committee’s longstanding debt — if it is used to do so — and still distribute another $3‐million among state and county party organizations around the country. It is also enough, many politicians thought today, to establish the telethon as a serious competitor to celebrity dinners and computerized letters as a political fundraising device.
Marcus Wayne Chenault, a 23-year-old former college student from Columbus, Ohio, accused of shooting to death the mother of the late Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a deacon in an Atlanta church on Sunday, was arraigned in Municipal Court there. The defendant, who is black, said he was “a Hebrew” and gave his name to the court as “Servant Jacob.” Judge E.T. Brock entered pleas of not guilty to two charges of murder, two of carrying concealed weapons and one of assault.
Busloads of fatigue-clad veterans began arriving in Washington, D.C., for a week of demonstrations against the Veterans Administration and discovered that the city apparently was willing to receive them cordially so long as they did not go to sleep. Officials of the guerrilla Vietnam Veterans Against the War/Winter Soldier Organization, one of two groups staging separate but concurrent demonstrations, met with government officials to discuss “alternatives other than arrest,” a spokesman said, after an appeals court refused to grant them permission to camp on the mall facing the U.S. Capitol. The second group, the American Veterans Movement, sought futilely for permission from the Supreme Court to camp on Lafayette Park.
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace announced plans for construction of a $2.75 billion privately financed nuclear fuel plant, saying it would be the largest single industrial development in the state’s history. At full capacity it would supply fuel for 90 nuclear power plants, each of 1 million kilowatts. The uranium enrichment plant to be built near Dothan, will be constructed by Uranium Enrichment Associates, a project sponsored jointly by Bechtel Corp., Union Carbide Corp. and Westinghouse Electric. Construction is expected to begin in mid-1976 and take seven years.
Albert Pass, once a top lieutenant in the former United Mine Workers regime of W. A. (Tony) Boyle, was sentenced in Erie, Pennsylvania, to three consecutive life sentences for the Yablonski murders. Pass, 54, former UMW District 19 secretary treasurer from Middlesboro, Kentucky, said, “I’m not guilty” before he heard the sentence. His attorney said he would ask for a new trial. Pass was convicted last June on three counts of first-degree murder in the 1969 slayings of UMW insurgent Joseph A. Yablonski and his wife and daughter. Boyle, himself, has been convicted on three counts in the same murders and is awaiting sentencing.
Robert Maheu won his defamation suit today against his former employer, Howard Hughes, who told reporters that he dismissed Mr. Maheu because “he stole me blind.” Mr. Maheu had sued for $17.3 million in damages. A $4.5 million counter-claim by the Hughes interests was rejected by the jury. The financial value of the damages claimed by Mr. Maheu will be decided at a hearing in October.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation refused today to comment on published reports accusing the bureau of having mishandled the investigation, of the Patricia Hearst kidnapping. Several newspapers reported over the weekend that the bureau knew the identities of at least some of the self‐styled Symbionese Liberation Army abductors within 24 hours of the February 4 kidnapping and that cyanide bullets had been found in Miss Hearst’s Berkeley apartment. The reports also said that the bureau knew that two S.L.A. members had accounts in a Berkeley bank but had failed to notify the local police, about them, and that the money was withdrawn three weeks after the abduction. The reports appeared in The San Francisco Examiner, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Chicago Tribune.
For many weeks there has been no word on the search for Miss Hearst, who is now a self‐proclaimed member of the revolutionary group. She is wanted on more than 20 criminal charges, along with William and Emily Harris. They were last heard from in a tape recording delivered to a Los Angeles radio station June 7. Mr. Bates said that the cyanide bullets, which he acknowledged, were found hidden beneath a bookcase the day after the kidnapping, did not change the bureau’s belief that Miss Hearst was forcibly abducted and had decided to become a member of the Symbionese group after she had been held for two months. “All indications from Witnesses and everything else is that Patty was kidnapped from her apartment on the night of February 4,” Mr. Bates said. The cyanide bullets were of the same type as used in the murder of Marcus Foster, the Oakland schools superintendent, for which the radical group also claimed responsibility.
The Cost of Living Council, which administered the government’s wage-price control program, officially died Sunday. But John T. Dunlop, its director for 18 months, still has a government job. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon appointed Dunlop as a special consultant for economic policy. This will be added to Dunlop’s advisory duties for Kenneth Rush, President Nixon’s new economic coordinator, and a consulting arrangement with Saudi Arabia. Simon said that Dunlop’s “special expertise in the wage-price area will be unusually important to the department.”
The Mobil Oil Corporation was indicted for alleged criminal violations of New York’s antitrust laws and charged with “willfully, knowingly, corruptly and unlawfully” forcing its metropolitan area gasoline dealers, under threat of the loss of their leases, to carry the company’s brand of automotive accessories. At the same time, the special state grand jury reportedly has voted additional criminal indictments against other major oil companies. Mobil was indicted by a New York state grand jury on charges that it threatened dealers with loss of their leases if they refused to sell Mobil tires, batteries and accessories exclusively. A grand jury impaneled at the request of state Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz charged that certain agents and employees tried to coerce dealers in four countries not to sell products other than Mobil’s. The complaint said Mobil’s prices “were higher than the prices for which such articles could be purchased elsewhere.” The company entered an innocent plea.
Investigators said that lack of an emergency fire detection system in addition to an interior layout that forced scores of patrons to flee up a single exit stairway were the major reasons for the high death toll in Sunday morning’s fire at Gulliver’s night club in Port Chester, New York. The investigators rummaged today through the ruins of the night spot, which straddles the New York‐Connecticut border, trying to pinpoint the cause of the fire. In nearby Valhalla, a team of five dentists and eight doctors worked through the day at Grasslands Hospital, trying to identify the bodies of the victims. By nightfall, the names of 15 persons killed in the fire had been released.
Members of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) walked out on strike and set up picket lines after the deadline passed for the 26 owners of the teams of the National Football League (NFL) declined to meet their demands for an increase in base salary and lifting of restrictions on collective bargaining and reserve clauses in contracts. Most rookie players, who were not immediately eligible to join the NFLPA, would show up to training camps, while most (but not all) veterans declined to pass the picket lines to report for NFL teams.
The first Laura Ashley store in the U.S. opens in San Francisco.
The Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park opened to the public in the Philadelphia area, based in Jackson, New Jersey, near Trenton.
The home‐run ball was a nemesis for George Medich and the floundering Yankees tonight as they lost to the Detroit Tigers, 4–3. The Tigers scored their last three runs on homers. The clincher was hit by Jim Northrup, who broke 3–3 tie in the eighth inning with a two‐out drive into the lower left‐field seats. Medich had previously yielded homers to Ben Oglivie and Gates Brown. John Hiller, who has been highly effective against New York, had no difficulty in holding the narrow lead in relief. He retired the Yanks in order in the ninth to insure their fifth straight defeat.
Cookie Rojas drove in four runs with three singles and a homer as the Kansas City Royals won for the fifth time in its last six games, downing the Chicago White Sox, 9–5.
The Astros’ Don Wilson pitched a five‐hitter, doubled home one run and scored another to pace Houston’s 3–0 victory over the Atlanta Braves.
The Cincinnati Reds called up Ken Griffey, outfielder, and Tom Carroll and Will McEnaney, pitchers, from their Indianapolis farm club.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 806.24 (+3.83, +0.48%).
Born:
Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorian race walker (Olympic gold, 20k, 1996), in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Ray Farmer, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles), in White Plains, New York.
Maxim Sushinsky, Russian National Team and NHL right wing (Olympics, 2006; Minnesota Wild), in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Ibo Kutluay, Turkish NBA shooting guard (Seattle SuperSonics), in Istanbul, Turkey.
Yolanda Moore, WNBA forward and center (WNBA Champions-Comets, 1997, 1998; Houston Comets, Orlando Miracle), in Port Gibson, Mississippi.
Michele Krasnoo, American actress (“Kickboxer IV”), in Culver City, California.
Died:
President Juan Perón of Argentina, Argentine military officer and President of Argentina (1946–1955, 1973–1974), dies of a heart attack at 78
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