Agreement on a limitation of underground nuclear tests has been reached, but the summit talks with President Nixon have reached no breakthrough on controlling offensive weapons systems, Leonid Brezhnev indicated at their final Kremlin banquet. While Mr. Nixon’s toast stressed their personal relationship, Mr. Brezhnev’s emphasized hopes for the good relations of the Soviet and American peoples.
President Nixon addressed the Soviet television audience from the Kremlin, saying that the United States and Soviet Union were together weaving a fabric of cooperation to give both nations a positive stake in peace. He said their accomplishments should go beyond an agreed balance of terror because nothing permanent could be built on fear alone.
American news reporters encountered Soviet censorship while trying to transmit stories from Moscow about dissidence within the U.S.S.R.; the three American networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) had jointly spent $281,000 for transmissions by satellite, and ABC was the first victim as it was sending film of an interview with dissident Soviet nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov from a Moscow TV studio. The Communist government had warned the U.S. networks to stop sending “anti-Soviet” stories from the Soviet-American summit, with one commenting “Our technicians get insulted.”
One British soldier was killed and two were wounded during a search of an unoccupied house near the village of Newtonhamilton on Ulster’s border with the Irish Republic, the army reported. Also, a premature explosion of a bomb being planted in Belfast and a police checkpoint in County Down foiled two Irish Republican Army attacks. But other bombs gutted an unoccupied movie theater in Newcastle and a furniture warehouse in Belfast.
Francois Mitterrand, the French Socialist leader, arrived in Lisbon today to give a boost to the Portuguese Socialist movement, which is hard pressed to catch up with the Communists. Mr. Mitterrand, who came close to winning the French presidency in May, will meet President Antonio de Spinola tomorrow, but aside from that will spend almost all of his four days here attending Socialist rallies in various parts of the country. The visit is one sign that the Portuguese Socialists are concerned about the growing gap between their popular support and that of their principal rivals, the Communists. Lisbon is still talking about the Communists’ success last Friday night in gathering 20,000 people for an open‐air rally here despite a pouring rain. No other political group has attempted that kind of mass mobilization up to now.
Turkey has granted farmers in six provinces permission to resume cultivation of opium poppies this fall, ending a ban won by the United States in 1972 in return for a U.S. pledge of $35.7 million in economic compensation. Poppy farmers claimed the money was insufficient. Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-New York) urged all foreign aid to Turkey be halted. At one time Turkey was the source of about 80% of all illicit opium sold in the United States.
Iceland’s premier, Olafur Johannesson, resigned after the defeat of his minority coalition in general elections. It was believed President Kristjan Eldjarn would ask Geir Hallgrimsson, chairman of the conservative-leaning Independence Party, to try to form a new government. The Independence Party won the greatest number of votes — 42.7% — in the election. It supports the continued presence of U.S. forces at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization base at Keflavik.
The Israeli government announced sweeping immediate economic measures to curtail inflation and offset postwar deficits. The program includes cutbacks in spending and new income and property taxes, plus a freeze on half of the 20 percent cost of living increase wage earners were to receive this month. It appears aimed at the spending power of the increasingly prosperous upper middle class.
The armed forces movement that has taken power in Addis Ababa is gradually isolating Emperor Haile Selassie by detaining or removing officials and influential persons close to him. Among the latest arrested, according to reliable sources, is one of his grandsons, who formerly commanded the navy. Detainees are being held on the grounds of the imperial golf club. Ethiopian troops have arrested Emperor Haile Selassie’s grandson, Rear Admiral Eskinder Desta, army officials said in Addis Ababa. Desta fled the country in February and returned to Ethiopia only a few weeks ago. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Endalkachew Makonnen’s government was reported to have offered six cabinet posts to the armed forces now in effective control of the country. Sources said the posts included the justice, defense and interior portfolios.
Pentagon officials predict that military aid to South Vietnam in the new fiscal year will be limited to ammunition, petroleum and spare parts because of congressional budget cuts. The administration had asked a $1.6 billion ceiling, but plans now assume a $900,000 to $1 billion authorization. The curtailment is under discussion with the embassy in Saigon.
A South Korean patrol boat sank a three-ton vessel thought to be a North Korean spy boat after a 50-minute chase off the southern port of Pusan, Seoul announced. The patrol boat reportedly challenged the vessel seven miles off the coast and the vessel suddenly opened fire and moved off. It was sunk about 20 miles off the coast. The South Korean ministry said one of its crewmen was killed and three wounded. The incident came four days after a South Korean police patrol boat was sunk by North Korean gunboats off the east coast.
An Australian senator said U.S. Ambassador Marshall Green had negated his ambassadorial role by urging businessmen to vote for the opposition Liberal Party during last month’s general election. Sen. William Brown, a member of the governing Labor Party, had earlier called the ambassador a “U.S. hatchet man.” Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in turn called Brown’s attack “miserable and cowardly” because the ambassador was not able to reply.
Thousands of workers in New Zealand quit their jobs in mass walkouts in anger at the arrest of Bill Andersen, secretary of the Northern Drivers Union. Andersen was arrested after he failed to obey a court order to lift a union ban on the deliveries of fuel oil to an Auckland ferry company. Government officials said they were hopeful that talks with the union would lead to an early settlement.
Robert L. Stanfield, who has spent six years trying to become the Prime Minister of Canada, faces what is generally regarded here as his last chance in the parliamentary election next Monday. If he and his Progressive Conservatives cannot succeed this time in unseating Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, as they very nearly did in the last election 20 months ago, Mr. Stanfield will probably have to step clown as party leader. Considering that possibility, he once said: “I’ve been Premier of Nova Scotia for 11 years. I’ve been the leader of Her Majesty’s loyal Opposition. I’m not going to cry if that’s the way I go out.”
Ralph Steinhauer, a former chief of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation and agricultural expert, was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, becoming the first person of Native Canadian origin to be a Lieutenant Governor of a Canadian province.
Argentines in vast numbers crowded the streets here today for an emotional farewell to President Juan Domingo Perón, who had a dominant role in the nation’s affairs for three decades. The funeral cortege of President Juan Perón of Argentina stirred widespread grief in Buenos Aires. Mourners lined the five‐mile route taken by the funeral cortege from the suburban presidential mansion to the Metropolitan Cathedral, where a mass was offered for the 78‐year‐old general, who died yesterday of complications of a bronchial infection. Crowds that had gathered outside the cathedral began shouting “Perón! Perón!” as the mass ended and the coffin was carried out. A few women and men shrieked and fainted. The crush of mourners was so great that it took the cortege almost an hour, despite fierce shoving and kicking by policemen, to travel the 10 blocks to the National Congress building, where the general’s body was to lie in state. The once-excommunicated leader was eulogized by Antonio Cardinal Caggiano as a Christian, humanist and enemy of violence.
Latin Americans from Marxist Cuba to strongly anti‐Marxist Chile and Brazil paid homage today to the memory of Juan Domingo Perón as a leader of continental reconciliation. The sick and aging Argentine President, who was unable to overcome bitter political divisions at home, had taken leadership in the long‐faltering moves toward unity in Latin America as a whole. General Perón’s death yesterday leaves a vacuum not just in Argentina but across Latin America, where he had successfully established good working relations with the leaders of Cuba and Brazil.
The police in Dayton, Ohio, are investigating a possible link between the local man charged with killing Mrs. Martin Luther King Sr. and the mysterious shooting deaths of two ministers in Dayton in the last six months. A former roommate of Marcus Wayne Chenault, held in the shooting, has told of “The Troop,” dedicated to killing civil rights and religious leaders it believes have deceived blacks.
Thousands of persons filed sorrowfully into historic Ebenezer Baptist Church today to pay final respects to Mrs. Martin Luther King Sr., who was killed Sunday when a young black man went on a shooting spree in the church’s sanctuary. The stream of mourners, mostly black, was seldom broken throughout the morning and late into the afternoon. Tonight, Mrs. King’s body was removed from the 400‐seat Ebenezer sanctuary to the more spacious Spelman College chapel for a memorial service. The college, a predominantly black institution, is a mile or so west of downtown Atlanta and Ebenezer Church. A funeral service for Mrs. King, the 69‐year‐old mother of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the wife of the pastor of Ebenezer, will be held at 11 AM tomorrow in the Ebenezer sanctuary. The burial will be in Southview Cemetery, about two miles south of downtown Atlanta.
The House Judiciary Committee, in closed session, heard testimony on President Nixon’s staff practices from Alexander Butterfield, a first-term aide. He reportedly said that Mr. Nixon paid close attention to minute details as well as policy matters, but Republicans present stressed later that it was wrong to draw any inference that the President must have known of Watergate cover-up efforts.
A minority staff report to the Senate Watergate Committee said that the Central Intelligence Agency knew more about the burglars’ activities than it has publicly acknowledged. The report indicated CIA officials failed to report fully and tried in one case to withhold information on the Watergate break-in. The current CIA director denied any inference from the report that the agency’s men had knowingly been involved in the break-ins or cover-ups.
A federal grand jury in San Diego has indicted C. Arnholt Smith, a California financier and long-time friend and backer of President Nixon, for conspiracy to misuse $170 million in funds from a defunct bank he once controlled.
A federal indictment of Skitch Henderson for tax evasion said he had used backdated documents in claiming a $350,000 tax deduction for music scores donated to the University of Wisconsin. It said the date was changed to precede the July 25, 1969, cutoff for deductions based on gifts of personal papers by public figures.
Judge Preston Dial changed his mind and decided to allow newsmen and the public inside the San Antonio, Texas, courtroom for jury selection in the trial of a youth charged in a series of homosexual sex-and-torture murders. As soon as the session opened, Will Gray, lawyer for Elmer Wayne Henley, 18, asked Dial to declare a mistrial. His motion was dismissed but Dial said the sessions would be open because it was “the appropriate thing to do.” Henley is charged in the deaths of six of the 27 young men police said were killed by a ring headed by Dean A. Corll, 33. Henley’s shooting of Corll last August in Houston brought the mass murders to light.
State Senator Stephen Rapp won a second victory over Nicholas Johnson, the former federal communications commissioner, in a special primary for the Democratic nomination in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, according to unofficial vote totals. Rapp defeated Johnson by 129 votes in balloting held in four Tama County precincts. Added to the votes cast in the June 4 primary, Rapp’s unofficial total was 8,663 to Johnson’s 8,534. The special primary had to be held because of voting irregularities in the precincts. Rapp had been the apparent winner in the original primary by 62 votes. Rapp, 25, will run against Republican nominee state Rep. Charles Grassley in November. They are seeking the seat now held by outgoing Republican Rep. H. R. Gross.
Chanting demands for improved federal benefits, about 200 Vietnam veterans marched through Washington, D.C., demonstrating at the Veterans Administration building and across the street from the White House. Speakers demanded removal of President Nixon from office, only one category of discharges, amnesty for war resisters and an end to aid to South Vietnam and Cambodia. Medics moved through the crowd, passing out salt tablets to weary and wilted demonstrators, most of whom had been up all night to stay in compliance with the permit that allows the veterans to maintain a 24-hour vigil on the mall area but does not allow them to sleep there.
The Federal Court at Nev Orleans has been asked to set aside a five‐year sentence given H. Rap Brown, the black activist, on the grounds that the Federal Bureau of Investigation set out to destroy him and other black leaders in the summer of 1967. An attorney for the Centel for Constitutional Rights in New York City, a nonprofit legal group, said the center planned to file a similar motion to vacate a state sentence Mr. Brown is now serving in a New York state penitentiary. In an affidavit filed with the New Orleans Federal Court, William M. Kunstler, an attorney affiliated with the center said that Justice Department records show that the FBI under orders of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was the director of the bureau, was ordered to use its “imagination” to stop the spread of black nationalism in the United States.
The FBI instructions to its field offices said that agents could use fabrications and other devices, including the arrest‐upon‐arrest technique on any conceivable charge, to stop the spread of “black hate groups” and to prevent the creation of a “Mau‐Mau” in the United States. The Justice Department records show that the FBI also had programs under way to disrupt the “new left,” the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist party and the Communist party of the United States. Most of the “counter intelligence programs” were discontinued in 1971, the Justice Department said.
Four Californians and an Oregonian died in the crash of a helicopter on Alaska’s North Slope. Four of the victims were members of a Texaco geological survey team. The cause of the accident, which occurred about 50 miles southeast of Umiat Sunday afternoon, was not immediately determined. The victims were identified as John P. Hackett, 27, of Whittier, Kathryn A. Lamon, 23, of Santa Monica, Steven F. Grings, 21, of Los Angeles, pilot Alfred B. Garelicks, 37, of Millbrae and Leroy C. Maynard, 29, of Salem, Oregon.
The nation’s first bicycle safety standards will take effect January 1, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced. The mandatory regulations, covering everything from braking to reflectors, are aimed at reducing the estimated 1 million bicycle-related injuries per year. The commission estimates that 419,000 persons, mostly children, were injured severely enough last year to seek hospital treatment, making bicycles the most hazardous of the tens of thousands of products which the new commission polices. Racing bikes and custom “one of a kind” machines are exempted from the requirements.
In 1970 the Army embarked upon an “austere” $80‐million program to develop the technology for a huge cargo‐carrying helicopter. Four years later the technology has still not been proved, but the program has expanded to $250‐million, two flying models and an ultimate investment of more than $1‐billion. Meanwhile, at an ultimate cost of about $500‐million, the Navy has been developing its own heavy‐lift helicopter. The major difference is that the Army helicopter will be able to lift 22.5 tons and the Navy one, 12.3 tons. Despite Congressional urgings, the Army and Navy were not able to get together on a common helicopter. The Army objected that the Navy craft could not lift a big enough load and the Navy objected that the Army version was too big to fit on its ships.
Winds gusting to 25 m.p.h. and 100-degree temperatures hampered efforts of 380 firefighters to contain a grass and brush blaze that has seared 6,200 acres of Tehama County rangeland 35 miles west of Red Bluff, California. The flames leaped control lines several times.
Nevada’s wild horses should be saved with a refuge set aside in the Hoss Canyon area of the Kawich Mountains 30 miles east of Tonopah, the National Wild Horse Association says. The Las Vegas-based group made its request to a committee set up by Nevada Governor Mike O’Callaghan to study ways to protect the mustangs. The association petition bore 600 signatures.
The 24th Berlin International Film Festival concluded in Germany, with the Golden Bear being awarded to The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravit directed by Ted Kotcheff.
Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81).
The second‐place Cleveland Indians put more pressure on the first‐place Boston Red Sox in the American League Eastern Division race last night with their fourth straight victory, by 5–3 over the visiting Milwaukee Brewers. Jim Perry, the older of the Indians’ brother pitching duo, picked up the triumph, his seventh of the season against seven defeats, although he lasted only 5⅓ innings. Gaylord, Jim’s brother, will be trying for his 15th straight victory tonight. The two have won a combined total of 392 games in their careers.
A four-run rally in the fifth inning, interrupted only by a flareup involving Manager Bill Virdon and Umpire Larry Barnett, was all the Detroit Tigers needed tonight to hand the faltering New York Yankees their sixth straight defeat. Two singles and two doubles were the chief ingredients in the outburst that resulted in a 4–2 triumph for Detroit and the longest losing streak of the season for New York.
The New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 4–2, in the opener of a four‐game series. Pitching for the first time since June 21, Tom Seaver went 7⅓ strong innings before manager Yogi Berra decided to take him out. The right‐handed ace on whom the club depends so heavily had been out of action with a hip ailment.
The Los Angeles Dodgers edged the Cincinnati Reds, 3–2. Mike Marshall, the strongman reliever, made his 52nd appearance in the Dodgers’ 77 games and got credit for the victory, his 10th against three setbacks. Willie Crawford scored the winning run in the eighth as he led off with a single and came home on Ron Cey’s triple.
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Matthew Reilly, Australian writer of action thrillers, known for his Shane Schofield and Jack West Jr novels; in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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