As he toured Western Europe, Secretary of State Kissinger was preparing for a major debate when he gets home on the meaning of security in the nuclear age, and the advantages and risks of detente between the Soviet Union and the United States after three decades of hostility. As details of the summit meeting between President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev began to emerge, the Soviet Union and the United States were presented as having arrived at a period of crucial decision.
Former Major General Pyotr G. Grigorenko, a leading dissident who was confined to insane asylums for five years by Soviet authorities, has been given a pension of $60.30 a month, friends said in Moscow. The 67-year-old Grigorenko was freed last week. Friends said a high-ranking army officer, wounded war hero and division commander, which Grigorenko was, normally would rate a monthly pension of from $268 to $402.
In Rome, Mr. Kissinger briefed Pope Paul VI on the Soviet-American talks and also discussed Middle East problems during a 70-minute audience in the Vatican. The future status of Jerusalem and proposals for the establishment of a Palestinian state were major topics, Vatican sources indicated. The Pope reportedly urged international guarantees for the rights of Christians and Muslims in Jerusalem, but he apparently did not press the old Vatican demand for formal internationalization of Jerusalem separate from Israel, Jordan and a proposed Palestinian state.
The Vatican and Poland, the most Roman Catholic Communist nation, have decided to set up permanent working contacts as a step toward full diplomatic relations. The two have not had diplomatic relations since the Communist takeover in Poland at the end of World War II. Pope Paul’s unofficial “foreign minister,” Archbishop Agostino Casaroli, and Poland’s Dep. Foreign Minister Josef Czyrek agreed on the move after two days of talks in Rome.
The Italian government presented the nation with a package of austerity decrees that will cost individuals an average of $100 apiece in new taxes over the next 12 months. A sharp rise in the cost of living is expected. Among other things, the new measures raised the already high price of gasoline, and introduced a special purchase tax on all cars, motorcycles, pleasure boats and private airplanes. The value-added tax — a modified sales tax — on beef and other basic consumer items was increased to 18 percent from 6 percent.
Portugal’s new democratic government announced an extensive economic and social program, combining economic incentives with measures to establish greater social justice than the country knew under the old regime. The measures were drawn up under the direction of Vasco Vieira de Almeida, the Minister of Economic Coordination. He said at a news conference in Lisbon that one of his country’s problems was the need to control “the highest rate of inflation in Europe” — estimated at 30 percent annually — while expanding the country’s economy.
Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave of Ireland has announced his support of the British Government’s new peace plan for Northern Ireland. His announcement yesterday followed talks in London between Foreign Minister Garret Fitzgerald of Ireland and the British Minister for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees. Political sources said earlier that the Dublin Government was angry that Britain had published the proposals without consulting Ireland. The plan calls for a constitutional convention of Ulster residents to come up with new constitution within six months. It stipulates that the formula include power sharing between Protestants and Roman Catholics, be approved by the British Parliament, and that it recognize Protestant‐dominated Ulster’s special relationship with the Irish Republic, which is mainly Catholic.
Members of the failed Northern Ireland Executive and Northern Ireland Office (NIO) ministers held talks in Oxford with Harry Murray, chairman of the Ulster Workers’ Council (UWC).
The editor of the Influential Beirut newspaper An Nahar, kidnaped by four armed persons last Wednesday, was found alive and well in Syria. A spokesman for the paper said Abu Jawdeh was being brought back to Lebanon. Palestinian guerrillas were helpful in recovering the editor and arresting his abductors, the spokesman added.
Emperor Haile Selassie blamed corrupt government officials today for the crisis that led to an army takeover of Ethiopia. “Among the causes of unrest are the selfish motives and greed for power among government officials,” the emperor said in a statement released by the official Ethiopian News Agency. It was the first direct comment from the 82‐year‐old ruler on the situation since the army seized power nine days ago. In an effort to solve the crisis, the emperor called Parliament into special session Monday to put into effect a new constitution that was expected to strip him of most of the absolute power he has wielded for more than half a century.
A new sovereign country is in the making in the Indian Ocean despite vigorous objections by some of the inhabitants. The French Government of President Valery Giscard d’Estaing has agreed to offer full national sovereignty to the Comoro archipelago, a group of tropical, volcanic islands between Mozambique and the northern top of Madagascar. A referendum is to be held early next year among the 284,000 inhabitants to determine whether they want to sever their 130‐year links with France. The population is almost entirely Moslem, except on the island of Mayotte, where most of the 35,000 inhabitants are Christian. The Christian population has formed an anti‐independence party demanding the island’s full integration into metropolitan France.
Ten members of the Burmese Air Force were killed while flying in formation in five separate T-33 jets as part of a training mission, when their aircraft crashed into the side of a mountain in the Peguyoma range during heavy rains and strong winds. The five jets were making a 300 miles (480 km) flight between Rangoon and Meiktila when the accident happened.
Two Vietnamese on a motorbike snatched briefcase today from an American employe of the United Nations, shot him fatally and escaped on a crowded street, the police reported. The police identified the, victim as William V. Saussotte, 60 years old, of the United Nations Development Agency. Authorities said he was from Palo Alto, Calif and had been in South Vietnam for three weeks. Witnesses said Mr. Saussotte was walking by the central post office when the two men snatched the briefcase. When he ran after them, one of the robbers pulled out a pistol and shot him. Mr. Saussotte was dead on arrival at a city hospital, the police said.
Senator Henry M. Jackson arrived in Tokyo today from a six‐day visit to China and confirmed reports that though Premier Chou Enlai of China had been ill, he is recovering. The 76‐year‐old leader’s mind, Senator Jackson said, is sharp and he is mentally capable of handling his job. Mr. Jackson, Democrat of Washington, spoke with the Premier in a Peking hospital for half an hour yesterday. “The man is terribly sharp,” the Senator said during a stopover en route to Washington. He added: “He was quick, well-informed; obviously he has been ill. I do not know the nature of his illness.” Senator Jackson arrived in China on Monday and spent the week mostly in meetings with high Chinese officials, he said.
Twenty‐seven persons were listed as dead and 23 missing early today after a typhoon struck western Japan with winds of 65 miles an hour, the national police reported. Reports said that up to eight inches of rain fell in some areas and caused landslides that destroyed 30 houses. Railway and road transportation were crippled and more than 6,000 homes were flooded. Fifteen of the dead were villagers who lived on Shodoshima Island, some 400 miles west of Tokyo.
Canadian election forecasters see a strong possibility that another minority government will emerge from the national election for Parliament Monday, whether the vote favors Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau of the Liberal party or his principal rival, Robert L. Stanfield, leader of Progressive Conservative party. Minority governments have come out of five of the last seven elections, leaving the Prime Minister to depend on the support of one or more minor parties. The result has been unwelcome insecurity at the top. Mr. Trudeau’s Government fell two months ago, when the Liberals lost the support of the New Democratic party, a Socialist group, on budgetary issues.
Hundreds of people spent the night in public shelters after flash flooding hit the cities of Tampico and Tuxpan on the Gulf of Mexico. Both cities, south of the Texas border, had been hit by heavy rains. In the northern state of Sonora, heavy downpours ended a drought that has killed more than 100,000 head of cattle.
The three-man ruling junta headed by former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle has filed criminal charges against journalists, political opponents and former government officials for urging a boycott of the September 1 presidential elections. The suit accuses the defendants of violating the constitution, which makes voting mandatory. General Somoza, who resigned as president in 1971, is a leading candidate in the election.
A total of 865 black political prisoners died in Portuguese secret police jails in Mozambique during the last three years of the Caetano regime, according to a confidential list drawn up by Portuguese officers in Lourenco Marques. More than 3,000 political prisoners were released by the armed forces after the April 25 coup, the list showed. None had been tried.
The producer of a French-made film on Uganda President Idi Amin said that he had deleted some scenes from the Paris showing after a complaint by Amin to the French government. Amin became upset after the film was shown on British television, bringing London press reviews saying he was “the funniest actor since Woody Allen” and calling the movie “a masterpiece of unconscious comedy.” Producer Jean-Francois Chauvel said that he flew to Kampala, Uganda, for talks with Amin, accepting certain cuts in the film.
The U.S. House subcommittee on foreign economy expressed fears in a report that dollar-rich oil-producing nations and other foreign countries might buy control of America’s vital national resources and export them. The report said huge sums of money available to foreign investors pose problems of investment in this country which the Administration is failing to confront.
The shattering of a window in a police car that was escorting Vice President Ford in Dallas set off reports that he had been fired upon by a sniper, but the reports were quickly discounted by officials. Mr. Ford was on his way to from the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport to downtown Dallas to dedicate the new World Trade Center amid the same complex of buildings President Kennedy was bound for when he was assassinated Nov. 2, 1963. The car whose window was broken was the fifth in line behind Mr. Ford’s automobile.
The White House and the Pentagon are headed toward a multimillion-dollar decision — and perhaps disagreement — over whether this year’s record defense budget should be increased still further because of inflation. For the moment at least, the White House is determined to hold defense spending this fiscal year at the $85.8 billion level set in the President’s budget in January. Roy Ash, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said “We are sure the Defense Department can live within this year’s budget unless world conditions change.” However, defense officials said if they were forced “to swallow inflation,” it could mean reductions in the military establishment.
A West Point board of officers has found that ex-cadet Donald M. Boyd violated the U.S. Military Academy’s honor code by lying when he concealed his marriage during his junior year. Boyd was ordered to leave the academy last month and his classmates were graduated two weeks ago. The board’s finding is neither binding nor final, but if the final decision by the secretary of the Army goes against Boyd, he must serve three years in the Army as an enlisted man.
The black farm owner is disappearing in the South and may be nonexistent by the end of the century, according to Lester Salamon of Duke University. He said a study of 14 Southern states showed that in 1969 there were 67,000 black landowners, representing 6.3% of all landowners in the region, controlling 2% of the total farmland-but the black farmers had been losing land at the rate of 330,000 acres a year since 1954. He listed poor land quality, debt and population shifts to the cities among reasons for the trend.
The urban riots of the 1960s directly influenced rising welfare costs, a University of Tennessee sociologist said. In a study of 43 of the largest U.S. cities, Michael Betz reported that in those that had suffered major riots there was a 6.2% annual increase in welfare payments from 1960 to 1969 — twice the increase in other cities. In one unidentified city, welfare payments climbed 20% directly after a 1965 disturbance, the report in the magazine Human Behavior said.
A building owned by a Chicago ex-convict who was murdered last winter contained two corpses in oil drums, police discovered. John McGee leased the Korner Sandwich Shop recently from the widow of the ex-convict, Sam Rantis. McGee called police when he detected odors coming from the sealed drums, and officers found the bodies of the two men, who have not been identified. Rantis, who served a prison term for counterfeiting, was found dead of stab wounds in the trunk of his wife’s car last February 24. The killing has not been solved.
Officials at the Cincinnati Zoo fought to save a rare white Bengal tiger cub after its moody mother began “playing with it like a cat with a mouse.” Zoo director Ed Maruska described the 16-day-old cub as “very weak.” The cub was one of a litter of four, three of them white with black stripes. The other three cubs had been taken from the mother earlier.
A housing funds conspiracy trial ended when a federal jury in Brooklyn failed to reach a verdict for two remaining defendants, Dun & Bradstreet, the nation’s largest credit rating firm, and a former employee, Arthur Prescott. Judge Anthony J. Travia declared a mistrial in the last of the nine-month-old proceedings, which involved charges that Dun & Bradstreet and a major lending firm had cooperated in a plot to defraud the Federal Housing Administration of $200 million in funds slated to help the poor. The lending firm and four individuals have been convicted.
With garbage piling up in Baltimore for the sixth straight day, a city judge threatened to fine a union representing 2,500 striking city employees $15,000 a day if the workers weren’t back on the job by Monday. Judge James W. Murphy found the strikers in contempt of an injunction he had issued ordering an end to the strike. The walkout started as a wildcat strike by sanitation workers, demanding a 50-cent increase in their $3-an-hour wage. City officials offered a 20-cent increase. After the workers’ union sanctioned the strike, they were joined by sewer, water, recreation and other city employees.
A woman chief of naval operations? Who says? Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., that’s who. And Zumwalt can speak with authority on that post, for he spent four years in it before retiring last month. The admiral, being interviewed in Washington by Senator Charles H. Percy (R-Illinois) for a television program to be broadcast in Illinois, said that the main barrier to women’s advancement in the Navy was a law against assignment of the so-called gentle sex to any vessels except hospital ships and troop transports. And, he said, this obstacle will fall if the states ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
Substantial quantities of vitamins and minerals would be added to flour, bread, breakfast cereals, pastries, cake mixes and cookies, crackers and snack foods under a proposal by the National Research Council’s Food and Nutrition Board. The council, the federal government’s chief independent scientific research arm, has concluded that large numbers of Americans have a variety of vitamin and mineral deficiencies. The Food and Nutrition Board in 1940 urged a vitamin enrichment of flour and bread, which was done, because of nutritional deficiencies among Americans.
The first broadcast was made of the popular American public radio variety show “A Prairie Home Companion,” created and hosted by Garrison Keillor. The initial show was transmitted live by Minnesota Public Radio from the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, before an audience of 12 people.
Dick Bosnian, making only his third start of the season, got late help from Tom Buskey tonight and pitched the Cleveland Indians into first place in the American League East with a 1–0 victory over the California Angels. Bosman and Buskey collaborated on a four‐hitter as the Indians took a one‐game lead over the Boston Red Sox. Buddy Ben singled home Oscar Gamble with the only run in the fourth inning.
The Kansas City Royals belted Rick Wise for 10 hits in less than five innings today and went on to a 5–3 victory over the Boston Red Sox in a nationally televised game. Amos Otis, Hal McRae, Tony Solaita and Fran Healy had two hits apiece in helping the Royals to their fifth victory in the last seven games.
Darrell Evans’s double with one out in the 10th inning today gave the Atlanta Braves a 3–2 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Ralph Garr opened the inning with an infield hit off Oscar Zamora, a relief pitcher, and was sacrificed to second. He scored on Evans’s hit.
Bob Bailey’s 10th home run of the season—a three‐run shot in the first inning —led the Montreal Expos to a 6–1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight. Bailey’s blast off the losing pitcher, Don Sutton, came after Willie Davis and Ken Singleton singled with two out.
Gary Matthews hit his ninth home run of the season as the San Francisco Giants downed the New York Mets, 5–2.
Bob Gibson singled home the winning run during a seventh‐inning rally and stopped the Cincinnati Reds with three hits while pitching the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3–1 victory today. The victory was the fifth of the season against eight losses for Gibson, whose six strike‐outs left him three shy of a career total of 3,000.
Jimmy Connors of the U.S. won the men’s singles championship at Wimbledon, defeating Ken Rosewall in straight sets, 6–1, 6–1, 6–4. Overcoming the hostility of a partisan crowd rooting for its old favorite, Ken Rosewall of Australia, Jimmy Connors completed a United States sweep of the singles tennis titles at Wimbledon with an easy victory. Almost faultlessly, 21-year-old Connors outplayed his 39-year-old rival. The win came one day after his fiancée, Chris Evert of the U.S., had won the women’s singles title over Olga Morozova of the Soviet Union, 6–0, 6–4. Connors and Evert were scheduled to be married in November 1974, but would break up before the marriage took place.
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Steve Sullivan, Canadian NHL right wing (New Jersey Devils, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, Nashville Predators, Pittsburgh Penguins, Phoenix Coyotes), in Timmins, Ontario, Canada.
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