The Threshold Test Ban Treaty was signed between the United States and the Soviet Union at the end of Richard Nixon’s visit to Moscow. President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev in a friendly but restrained ceremony ended their third summit meeting by signing a communique in which they said their countries would seek a new interim accord on limiting offensive nuclear weapons. The six-day talks failed to devise a permanent agreement. Secretary of State Kissinger observed that the military establishments of both countries must be convinced of the benefits of restraint.
President Nixon returned to the United States tonight after his summit meetings in the Soviet Union and said that the chances for peace were now “the brightest” in a generation. He spoke on national television and radio from Loring Air Force Base at Limestone, Maine, where his Air Force jet stopped to refuel. The President’s schedule called for the him to spend the Independence Day weekend in Key Biscayne, Florida. Mr. Nixon praised the various accords reached in Moscow regarding arms control and other fields. He said that they gave both the Soviet and American peoples “not just a negative, but a positive stake” in peace.
Soviet authorities today began releasing detained Jewish activists shortly after President Nixon’s Departure from Vnukovo Airport. Jewish sources here reported the release from jail of at least eight men who had been detained during President Nixon’s visit. They were identified as Aleksandr Voronel, Dmitri Ram, Mark Azbel, Aleksandr Lunts, Yuli Kosorovsky, Lev Koganov, Mikhail Goldblatt and Leonid Tsitin. Others were expected to be released shortly, the sources said. The men had been rounded up by the police the week before the President’s arrival, apparently to forestall any demonstrations over the Government’s refusal to let them emigrate to Israel.
A Soviet Embassy official said today that an American woman had abducted Mikhail Baryshnikov, the ballet dancer who defected in Toronto Saturday. His apparent reference was to Christina Berlin, daughter of Hearst Corporation executive, who told her family that she was with the dancer. The counselor for press and information at the Soviet Embassy here, Victor Mikheyev, said, “Baryshnikov was a poor boy at home, and I’m sure his abductors promised him that he would earn more money performing under private enterprise.” “We already know he has plans to perform with the Canadian Ballet [National Ballet of Canada] in New York,” he added.
Soviet television technicians for the second night in a row refused to transmit an outgoing American broadcast about Soviet dissent. Although officials expressed “regret” after the previous interruption of seven broadcasts, equipment was turned off when a C.B.S. correspondent tried to send a report on the hunger strike of Andrei Sakharov, the dissident physicist.
Archbishop Makarios III, President of the island republic of Cyprus and a Greek Cypriot in the nation that had large populations of people of Greek and Turkish ancestry, sent an ultimatum to the General Phaedon Gizikis, leader of Greece’s ruling military junta, General Phaedon Gizikis, demanding the removal of the 600 Greek officers within the Cypriot National Guard by July 21. Greece’s military junta responded by ordering the Greek officers in Cyprus to overthrow Makarios and install a new president who would oversee the annexation of Cyprus to Greece.
British soldiers barricaded the main square of downtown Belfast to car and truck traffic in an effort to prevent the Irish Republican Army from carrying its summer bombing offensive to the heart of the city. Security sources said military intelligence had learned the IRA planned to plant bombs in the area of Donegal Square. The IRA launched a wave of bombings last month in what it said was an attempt to force the British government to withdraw its soldiers from Northern Ireland.
The Portuguese government imposed the first sanctions under its new press law, fining two Lisbon newspapers for publishing stories about a student demonstration. In one instance, the newspaper was charged with printing a story that “could incite and provoke military disobedience.” The charge against the other was not reported.
France’s three-channel television network will be divided into independent, competing units but will continue under state control. Premier Jacques Chirac said that if the change failed to cut costs and improve programs, the government might consider introducing commercial television.
Lebanon and the Palestine Liberation Organization jointly appealed to the Arab countries today for help in protecting Palestinian refugee camps on Lebanese soil against Israeli attacks. Speaking at the opening of a special session of the Arab League’s defense council, the Lebanese Premier, Takieddin Solh, declared that protection of Palestinians in Lebanon could no longer be a task for Lebanon exclusively but had to be made the collective responsibility of all Arab nations. Mr. Solh refrained from proposing a specific course of action during the short public opening session at the headquarters of the Arab League. The council then went into closed session. Farouk Kaddoumi, the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization, urged the Arab governments to make it clear that they were ready to reimpose the oil embargo on the United States and other countries if the United States failed to prevent Israel from attacking Lebanese soil.
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie granted requests put forth by the armed forces, including calling a special session of parliament to act on proposed constitutional changes that would strip him of most of his power. Other requests granted were amnesty for all political prisoners, repatriation of all political exiles, immediate implementation of constitutional reforms ordered by the emperor and continuous consultation between civil servants and members of the armed forces.
A Canadian helicopter pilot, held prisoner for three months before being released June 26 by Ethiopian anti-government forces, said he does not fear for the safety of four Americans still held by the Eritrean Liberation Front. He spoke at a Houston press conference called by Tenneco Oil Co., which employs three of the four being held. “They are essentially not a barbaric people,” Don Wederfort, 27, said of the ELF, fighting for independence in Ethiopia’s northernmost province.
The revival of a religious feud that led to the killing of dozens of Pakistanis a month ago has prompted the Government and the National Assembly of this Muslim state to try to answer the volatile question of who is really a Muslim. The question is loaded with political and theological conflict. There is a widespread opinion in this capital that unless the authorities act quickly, the problem could aggravate other difficulties the Government of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is having with various groups in this ethnically diverse nation.
At the root of the situation is the sect known as the Ahmadis, or Qadianis, a minority of about 300,000 in a total population of 70 million. The sect was founded in the late 19th century by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in the village of Qadian, India, Ahmad preached that Mohammed was not the final prophet of Islam. There would be other prophets, Ahmad said, one of whom was himself. The Pakistani Government, supported by conservative Muslim leaders, holds that Mohammed was the final prophet and that the Ahmadis are heretics who must be officially declared infidels and stripped of some of the rights and privileges of true Muslims. The perennial dispute, which resulted in 2,000 deaths in rioting in 1953, broke out again in May when a group of Muslim students traveled by train through the Ahmadi shrine village of Rabwah, west of Lahore.
In Thailand, four days of rioting that killed 26 people and injured 120 others, began in the Chinese community in Bangkok after two police arrested a taxi driver for illegal parking on Phlapphla Chai street. A rampaging crowd of hundreds attacked a Bangkok police station after a dispute over illegal parking, and police inside opened fire, killing at least six persons and wounding many others, Thailand authorities said. Meanwhile, Thai students launched a series of demonstrations planned to coincide with American Independence Day in protest of continued stationing of U.S. forces in Thailand. And at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University, the entire law faculty resigned because of “rude and violent” student demonstrations over other issues. On July 7, Prime Minister Sanya Dharmasakti declared a state of emergency, and the Thai Army and local police quelled the riot.
About 10,000 New Zealand workers cheered trade union leader Bill Andersen after the Auckland Supreme Court freed him from jail, defusing a potential explosion of labor unrest. Thousands of workers had walked off their jobs protesting the arrest of Andersen, Northern Drivers’ Union secretary, after his union defied a court order to lift a longstanding ban on fuel oil deliveries to an Auckland ferry company. Meanwhile, the union reportedly agreed to lift the ban.
The Soviet Union successfully launched Soyuz 14 with cosmonauts Yuri Artyukhin and Pavel Popovich, and docked with the Salyut 3 space station. It would return to Earth on July 19. U.S. intelligence concluded that Soyuz 14 had been on a military mission to use make the Salyut 2 station an orbiting reconnaissance platform, because the cosmonauts had sent and received coded messages with ground control on a special channel.
Albania joined forces with China in an attack on the Soviet Union and the United States at the U.N. law of the sea conference in Caracas, Venezuela, accusing them of wanting to impose their great sea power on the rest of the world. Despite this and other political stresses, there were signs that the purpose of the gathering — the drafting of laws affecting the world’s seas — might eventually be achieved. A consensus was emerging on a 12-mile territorial limit and an economic zone extending out much farther.
A Senate Watergate Committee inquiry has brought to light a tale of a drunken and despondent Central Intelligence Agency aide who apparently told what he knew to a Soviet agent somewhere in an unnamed Latin American country. A report issued by the Watergate committee yesterday contains a cryptic mention of a “W H flap” that highly reliable sources said today resulted from the conversation and its ensuing effect on many of the agency’s clandestine operations. The initials “W H” are C.I.A. parlance for the Western Hemisphere. The agent clearly provided information of value to the Russians, because the C.I.A.’s deputy director for plans later told the Watergate committee, according to its report, that the affair “threatened to compromise Western Hemisphere operations.”
The House Judiciary Committee, in a closed session, heard from two key witnesses in the $75,000 payment to E. Howard Hunt. Members agreed that Paul O’Brien, a lawyer, had quoted Mr. Hunt as saying that if he did not get the money, he sought he would disclose “seamy things” he had done for the White House. Neither Mr. O’Brien nor the other witness, Fred LaRue, said the President had ordered or acquiesced in the payment and, if so, whether he had done so to keep Mr. Hunt from testifying freely.
Charles W. Colson, the former White House special counsel who will go to prison Monday for obstruction of justice, testified today that John D. Ehrlichman asked him to raise $5,000 for the White House “plumbers” unit a few days before the break‐in at the office of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist. Mr. Colson was the last of the major prosecution witnesses in the case, in which Mr. Ehrlichman, the former White House adviser on domestic matters, and three others are charged with having conspired to violate the civil rights of into Lewis Fielding by breaking into his Los Angeles office to look for files on Dr. Ellsberg. In addition, Mr. Ehrlichman is charged with four counts of having made false statements. Mr. Colson, 42 years old, wearing a tie clasp with the Presidential seal across his striped tie, also testified that it had been “the President’s desire and Dr. Kissinger’s desire and the desire of others to get out whatever was available” concerning Dr. Ellsberg in the summer of 1971.
Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger today rejected as unfounded a suggestion by Secretary of State Kissinger that the Pentagon had impeded progress toward a further SovietAmerican agreement on limiting offensive nuclear arms. “I think we have firm civilian control,” Mr. Schlesinger said at a news conference. He spoke in response to a question about Mr. Kissinger’s statement at a news conference in Moscow today that Soviet and United States leaders “have to convince their military establishments of the benefits of restraint.” The military will express their views, he said, but when the President makes a decision “they will support that decision. At the same time, Mr. Schlesinger sought to dispel reports of disagreements and problems with the Administration with regard to the nuclear‐arms negotiations. “I fully endorse what has taken place and I consider it significant,” Mr. Schlesinger said.
Police and about 300 Vietnam veterans clashed on the Capitol Mall as the veterans tried to march to the Capitol to protest government benefits and to urge U.S. compliance with the Vietnam peace accords. Police reported five arrests for parading without a permit and demonstrators said members of their group were injured by motorcycles driven into the crowd and by police clubs. A spokesman at George Washington University Hospital said seven men and a woman were brought in with injuries that included cuts and bruises, two broken arms and two head wounds. The group eventually was permitted to walk to the base of the Capitol, where it staged a brief rally.
Treasury Secretary William E. Simon said adverse economic events could cause the Administration to ask for a delay in letting Americans own gold for the first time in 42 years. The Senate has set a date of September 1 and the House, December 31. A conference committee will reconcile the two. However, Simon said he felt Congress would give the Administration a “very sympathetic hearing” on extending the date should it become necessary. He said the goal still was to phase gold out of the international monetary system but there were a number of questions to be dealt with, such as how and when the Treasury would sell gold on the open market.
After a soulful, two‐hour funeral service, Mrs. Martin Luther King Sr. was entombed on a Georgia hillside this afternoon, and another violent chapter ended in the tragic saga of America’s most famous black family. More than 500 persons crowded into the steaming hot sanctuary of downtown Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church for the emotional ceremony, which reached a tearful climax when Mrs. King’s stooped and visibly saddened 70‐year‐old husband, the pastor of the church, gazed forlornly down at her rose‐covered casket and mumbled: “I’ll be coming up there soon, ‘Bunch.’ I’ll be home most any old time now. We shall overcome.”
Postal officials in Chicago said they were investigating the appearance of illegal “stamps” with pictures of Watergate figures in lieu of regular stamps on letters going through the postal system. Chief Inspector Martin J. McGee said that so far investigations have shown that most of the stamps have appeared in the Chicago area. The stamps were designed by California artist Peter Martin, who has been quoted as saying they should be added to the mail to “help affix Watergate’s dire message in our memory.” There is nothing illegal in using nonpostage stamps as long as there is no attempt to defraud. Using them for postage is another matter, McGee said.
More than 3,000 federally funded family planning clinics serving 3.5 million women were instructed to stop inserting Dalkon Shield intrauterine contraceptive devices in patients. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare said its action was based on recent findings suggesting that Dalkon Shields pose a higher-than-average risk of “complicated pregnancy.” It was not necessary to call in patients for removal of the IUD, but when patients next see their physicians, a HEW spokesman advised, “the device should be removed at that time.”
Houston police arrested a 23-year-old resident of the aging downtown Dixie Hotel and said he was suspected of setting a fire that destroyed the 80-year-old, four-story flop house, routed its roomers and killed at least three persons. Arson investigator Paul Cline said the unidentified suspect was a relative of a hotel employee. As many as 40 tenants had been sleeping in the $1.50 a night rooms and around 19 were unaccounted for, although they could have fled without talking to authorities. Officials had been trying to close the structure as unsafe.
A State Supreme Court Justice in Buffalo has discharged virtually the entire prospective juror list for that city, effectively eliminating all jury trials in Erie County until at least September. The move was made by Justice Edward Provenzano, of Monroe County, who is temporarily assigned to Erie County. The action was based on a ruling last week by Supreme Court Justice Gilbert H. King of Erie County that the Erie County jury pool was illegally constituted because women and students had been deliberately excluded. Justice King’s ruling came at the close of a suit brought by the Attica Brothers Legal Defense, which had contended in Supreme Court that the Attica inmates scheduled for trial in Buffalo could not get a fair trial because the Erie County jury‐selection system discriminated against not only students and women, but also blacks and young people.
The typical American family managed to keep a little bit ahead of inflation on an income of $12,051 last year, according to the Census Bureau. It said there was a 1.5 million decline in the number of persons below the official poverty level. But the definition of that level, while allowing for some price changes, did not take into account that food takes a greater proportion of income for the poor than for the middle class.
The third and last scheduled matches in Group A and Group B of the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany proved to be semifinals matching the two unbeaten teams in both groups. The Group A game in Frankfurt featured the Netherlands and Brazil, both with 2-0-0 records against their opponents, while Group B’s game in Munich had West Germany and Poland, both 2–0–0. The Netherlands beat defending 1970 champion Brazil, 3 to 0, while home team West Germany eked out a 1 to 0 win over Poland.
Gaylord Perry survived a rain delay of 90 minutes last night in Milwaukee’s County Stadium to defeat the Milwaukee Brewers, 4–2, for his 15th consecutive victory. The 36‐year‐old right‐hander, the Cy Young Award winner two years ago, held the Brewers to seven hits. John Lowenstein insured Perry’s triumph with a three‐run homer, his fifth, in the fifth inning. Perry, who lost only his opening‐day assignment to the New York Yankees, tied the Indians’ record for successive victories, set by Johnny Allen in 1937. Perry needs one more to tie the American League mark of 16, shared by Walter Johnson, Smokey Joe Wood, Lefty Grove and Schoolboy Rowe. The major league record is 19, set by Rube Marquard with the New York Giants in 1912.
Henry Aaron pinch hit a sacrifice fly in the 11th with the bases full that scored Dusty Baker with the winning run, giving the Atlanta Braves a 5–4 win over the Houston Astros. Cliff Johnson’s pinch‐hit two‐run homer in the Houston ninth had sent the game into extra innings. Buzz Capra, going after his 10th straight victory, had to leave the game in the fifth after developing a blister on his pitching hand.
The San Francisco Giants edged the San Diego Padres 3–2, in extra innings. Gary Matthews won the game for the Giants by leading off the 10th with a walk-off home run, his fourth hit of the game. The homer, Matthews’s seventh, lifted the Giants out of the cellar in the Western Division past the Padres. Vincente Romo was the victim of Matthews’s big hit that snapped San Francisco’s four‐game losing streak. Randy Moffitt, who hurled two shutout innings in relief, earned his third triumph in six decisions.
Pitching in his Major League-record 13th consecutive game for the Dodgers, Mike Marshall saves Tommy John’s 4–1 win over the Reds in the first game of a doubleheader. Ron Cey hit a two‐run homer in the sixth and Tony Perez hit his 14th in the seventh. The Reds ended a string of seven losses to the Dodgers on Don Gullett’s four‐hit shutout in the second game of the doubleheader. The defeat snapped a Los Angeles victory streak at six. The Reds’ nine‐hit attack included homers by Pete Rose (No. 2) and Joe Morgan (No. 10).
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Born:
Grant Wilson, American paranormal investigator and actor (“Ghost Hunters”), in Providence, Rhode Island.
Jamie Feick, NBA center and power forward (Charlotte Hornets, San Antonio Spurs, Milwaukee Bucks, New Jersey Nets), in Lexington, Ohio.
Pete Monty, NFL linebacker (New York Giants, Minnesota Vikings), in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Died:
John Crowe Ransom, 86, American poet and critic (God Without Thunder).
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