The Soviet press, more optimistic than some Western assessments of the talks between President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, emphasized what Pravda called the “weighty and constructive results” of the meeting. Pravda asserted that the complex of agreements signed in Moscow “signifies an essential movement forward on the path of strengthening peace and mutual trust,” and added that the summit meeting was “an important new milestone in Soviet-American relations.”
W. Averell Harriman, discussing a long private meeting he had with Leonid I. Brezhnev in Moscow prior to President Nixon’s recent summit discussions, said he believes the Soviet party leader is committed to reaching agreements that will ease the threat of nuclear war. Harriman, 82, a key figure in U.S. postwar diplomacy, said: “He told me about how he and I had seen the tragic suffering of World War II and (asked) how could anyone conceivably start a war of that kind.”
Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Arkansas), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said Congress had weakened President Nixon’s bargaining hand with the Soviet Union and “undermined the whole idea of detente” by refusing to affirm a favorable trade policy with the Russians. He particularly criticized Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington), the chief backer of the move to block most-favored-nation trade status for Russia until it permits freer emigration for Jews. Fulbright, defeated in the recent Arkansas primary in his bid for reelection, was interviewed on the television program “Meet the Press.”
Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington), back from a six-day visit to China, said the United States is developing a “real detente” with Communist nations, giving rise to “opportunities ahead. in the pursuit of world peace.” Jackson said he did not detect any sign of rapprochement between the Soviet Union and China.
A group of Jewish scientists prevented by the Soviet secret police from holding an unauthorized international seminar during President Nixon’s visit, said today that they would try again to hold the seminar in September or October. The scientists, who all lost their posts since applying to emigrate to Israel, gathered today in the Moscow apartment of Prof. Aleksandr V, Voronel, a physicist who had helped organize the project. Nearly all of the dozen scientists present had been released from detention in the last few days. They were among the several dozen Jewish activists arrested in a police crackdown several weeks ago intended to forestall any possibility of protests during Mr. Nixon’s visit.
The Soviet Union disclosed today that for the first time in its space program the two astronauts now in earth orbit could land at sea. In a radio report taped before he was launched into earth orbit four days ago, Colonel Pavel Popovich said on Moscow radio tonight that he had trained for an ocean landing. He did not say he was expecting a sea landing—only that he would know how to handle it.
Turkish Deputy Premier Necmettin Erbakan said his government would welcome “any American approaches to supervise the controlled growing of poppy seeds.” Relations between the two countries became strained after Premier Bulent Ecevit’s government lifted a ban on poppy cultivation imposed in 1971. U.S. authorities claimed that 80% of the heroin reaching American addicts came from Turkish poppy fields.
A 20-year-old Roman Catholic man was injured seriously in North Belfast by a gunman firing through a glass door at his home. Police said the reason for the shooting of the unidentified victim was not known. Earlier the outlawed Irish Republican Army paralyzed business in downtown Belfast with more than 40 fake bomb alerts.
Two 17-year-old escapees from a Montreal psychiatric institution who abducted a nurse and held her at knifepoint for three hours released the woman unharmed and surrendered to police after talking with a psychiatrist. The pair originally demanded money, guns and transportation to Dorval Airport where they wanted a plane to fly them out of the country.
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who heads Canada’s Liberal party, and his principal rival, Robert Stanfield, leader of the Progressive Conservatives, ended their campaigns with appearances in southern Ontario, a crucial region in Canada’s parliamentary elections tomorrow. Last-minute polls and predictions indicated that the election will be extremely close.
The commander of the Israeli Air Force, Major General Binyamin Peled, said today that if missile launchers were set up in Palestinian camps in Lebanon, they would be subject to attack by his bombers. “If they set up an air‐defense system, we’ll tackle it,” the general told reporters. “If we have to tackle it and they place the system in areas where there are people we do not want to hurt, they will be hurt too.” The commander said in an interview that decisions to attack enemy air defenses would be determined only by cost‐effectiveness —”if we want to take the losses that such an air‐defense system will require of us and the results we want.” Israel has raided Palestinian guerrilla centers in refugee camps in Lebanon recently in reprisal for guerrilla attacks in Israel; Lebanon has been considering measures to protect herself.
Israeli authorities have refused to allow the body of the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el‐Husseini, to be buried in the city, his birthplace, Jordanian officials said today. A request for permission to bury the Mufti, who led the fight against a Jewish state in Palestine in the nineteen‐thirties, was made by the Islamic Council of Jerusalem to the Israelis, who rejected it, the officials said. The Mufti died Thursday in Beirut, Lebanon.
[Ed: Feed that Hitler-loving Nazi asshole to pigs.]
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie called parliament into special session today to begin work on a new constitution granting extensive power to the people for the first time and stripping the monarch of many of his traditional rights. Meanwhile, the army, which seized power two weeks ago, renewed efforts to reach an agreement with the civilian cabinet on the formation of a new government. The army also told feudal aristocrats to give back government property they had taken and to give up their private arsenals.
Food supplies are being dropped by air to thousands cut off by severe flooding in northeast India. In Bombay, which experienced its heaviest downpour in 100 years on Thursday, the death toll from drowning and other accidents was put at 42.
The Cambodian command said today that government troops pushing north from Phnom Penh retook a key pagoda yesterday. The command said that 400 insurgents had been killed and 30 captured in the day‐long battle for the Chet Dei Thmei pagoda, 20 miles north of the capital on Route 5. Government casualties were put at 6 killed and 40 wounded. Two miles west of the pagoda, Government troops were said to have continued their drive to retake the provincial town of Phsar Oudong. One army source said that government forces were within half a mile of the town, which the rebels captured in mid-March,
South Vietnamese warplanes pounded Communist positions in the seven‐week battle for a strategic infiltration corridor 25 miles north of Saigon, the South Vietnamese command reported today.
Heavy rain fell on Bangkok’s riot-torn Chinatown and Thailand authorities reported that all was quiet for the second night, after three days of running gunfights between police and marauding youths. Bangkok police announced that 24 people were killed and 127 wounded during the rioting.
Early unofficial returns from Japan’s national election showed the ruling Liberal Democratic party taking a commanding lead in its bid to hold the majority in the upper house of Parliament. In the heaviest voting on record for the upper house, the Liberal Democrats had won 53 of the 78 contests already decided. Voting was held in Japan for 130 of the 252 seats of the House of Councilors (the Sangiin, upper house of Japan’s parliament, the National Diet). The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka lost 11 seats, finishing with 126, one delegate shy of the 127 needed for majority control. The LDP, which controlled the lower house, was well ahead of the second-place Japan Socialist Party, led by Tomomi Narita, which finished with 62 seats.
As much as 12 inches of rain from a typhoon lashed western, and southern Japan over the weekend. Thirty‐three persons were killed and some 50 injured in the storm, while 15 persons were reported missing, the police reported today. They said the typhoon had destroyed about 300 homes and flooded more than 39,000. Roads and bridges were washed away and four ships sunk. The typhoon grazed the southern coastal areas of Korea late today, and authorities there said that 8 persons were killed and 6 reported missing. In the evening, weather officials said that the storm had abated.
New Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa.
The U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearings tomorrow morning in a highly charged political atmosphere on two cases that will have profound legal and personal implications for President Nixon and his former aides, six of whom are accused of conspiring to cover up the Watergate burglary. The Justices — there will be only eight because Associate Justice William Rehnquist has disqualified himself — will consider two questions: Can President Nixon refuse to surrender 64 tape recordings subpoenaed by the Federal District Court on the ground of executive privilege? Can the Watergate grand jury name President Nixon as a participant in the conspiracy to defraud the United States by concealing the Watergate burglary, without its indictment charging him with a crime?
Kenneth Rush and Herbert Stein, President Nixon’s top economic advisers, warned that the administration might have to take drastic steps to combat inflation. Mr. Rush, the President’s economic counselor, said in a magazine interview that “we may very well need again” some kind of voluntary machinery involving business, labor and the federal government to restrain excessive wage increases. Mr. Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said on television that Americans would have to undertake more disciplinary measures against inflation.
President Nixon made an unannounced trip to Palm Beach by helicopter Sunday morning to look over the posh Mar-A-Lago estate, willed to the government last year for possible use by presidents or visiting foreign dignitaries. A White House spokesman explained the secrecy by saying the President “wanted to go privately.” He said there was no room for a second helicopter for reporters to land. The estate covers 17 acres and includes a nine-hole golf course. It was officially turned over to the government January 1. Mar-A-Lago was left to the government by Post cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. She died in 1973. The property includes citrus groves and tropical plantings and is between Lake Worth and the Atlantic Ocean in Palm Beach.
At the time of her death in 1973, Post bequeathed the property to the National Park Service, hoping it could be used for state visits or as a Winter White House. However, because the costs of maintaining the property exceeded the funds provided by Post, and because it was difficult to secure the facility, the property was returned to the Post Foundation by an act of Congress in 1981. In 1985 Donald J. Trump, primarily a businessman and real estate investor at the time, acquired Mar-a-Lago and used it as a residence. In 1994 he converted it into the Mar-a-Lago Club, a members-only club with guest rooms, a spa, and other hotel-style amenities. The Trump family maintains private quarters in a closed-off area on the grounds, marked by decorative dolphins.
Many high-volume filling stations did not make the July 1 deadline to start selling unleaded gasoline, the American Automobile Association reported. It said a survey of 1,110 stations along major routes last month showed 71% to 77% of them had counted on making the federal deadline. But 38% said in a follow-up survey they had been stymied because they couldn’t get the necessary equipment. The survey also found that about 10% of stations in metropolitan areas would stop selling premium grade, 19% did not know or would not comment.
Baltimore’s striking city workers said they would continue their walkout despite a back-to-work court order and the threat of heavy fines. “What we are facing is whether the strike will escalate, not whether it will wind down,” said Ernest Crofoot, president of the union local representing 2,500 sanitation workers. Other strikers were power, sewer, road, and parks employees. The city faced additional trouble in the police department, whose members have threatened slowdowns and other job actions in an effort to get higher pay. The police are seeking $10,000 to $13,000 annually, up from the current $8,716 to $11,082. The strikers want a 50-cent increase in the hourly wage rate to $3.50.
Angry Gypsies walked out of the Expo ’74 world’s fair folklife festival in Spokane after accusing the Expo Corp. of insulting them and their culture. Gypsy spokesmen said fair officials had closed their fortune-telling booths and banned use of hot spices in the Gypsy food served to the public. Robert Glatzer, director of the folklife festival, said he had ordered the booths closed because the Gypsies had been charging visitors for fortune telling. All exhibits are supposed to be free, he said. But he denied that the fair had banned the use of hot spices. “The main problem was the fortune tellings,” Glatzer said.
Park rangers on horseback and foot, aided by bloodhounds, searched on rugged Mt. Washburn in Yellowstone National Park for two 21-year-old women missing since Friday. Park spokesman Joe Carder said Christine Smith of Three Forks, Louisiana, and Rebecca Russell of Memphis had last been seen after hiking to the top of the mountain and telling a lookout there they were headed back down. The two women are employees at a store at Old Faithful, about 50 miles southwest of the mountain, and were not equipped for spending the night in the open.
A minor malfunction in the instrumentation system triggered an automatic shutdown of the San Onofre nuclear power plant in southern California at 11:34 am Sunday, San Diego Gas and Electric Co. reported. No lives were endangered and damage was minimal, said a spokesman for the San Diego utility firm which operates the facility jointly with the Southern California Edison Co. Although necessary repairs may be done quickly, the spokesman said, the plant will be closed for several days, pending the filing of a written report and the running of safety tests required by the Atomic Energy Commission.
As his wife screamed in horror, Louis Rodriguez was knifed fatally in a crowded public swimming pool Sunday by two fully clothed men who had jumped in after him. The victim’s wife, Taimas, identified the killers as men her husband had turned in to authorities “in connection with a narcotics case,” police said. Rodriguez, 23, staggered out of the Brooklyn pool and collapsed as his wife screamed that he had been stabbed. He died an hour later at a hospital. Although there were 3,000 persons in and around the pool, Mrs. Rodriguez was the only one who admitted seeing the knifing. Two policemen on guard duty at the pool said they had been drawn away by reports that a knife fight was going on at a boundary fence. “We were looking for a knife fight,” said one officer. By the time we arrived they had fled.” Hector Rosa, 24, was arrested later and charged with homicide. A second man was being sought.
The body of an unidentified young man was discovered at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, police said. He had been stabbed to death. Officers said the man was well dressed and in his mid-20s. His pockets had been slashed open. This was one of the city’s “The Doodler” murders which plagued gay men in the 1970s. The nickname was given due to the perpetrator’s habit of sketching his victims prior to stabbing them to death. The perpetrator met his victims at gay nightclubs, bars and restaurants. The victim turned out to be Klaus Achim “Claus” Christmann, 31, a German-American immigrant, whose body was discovered by a woman walking her dog.
The suspect was described as a black man between 19 and 25 years of age. He was about six feet tall with a slender build. Police eventually questioned a young man as a murder suspect in the case, but could not proceed with criminal charges because the three surviving victims did not want to “out” themselves by testifying against him in court. Among the stabbing survivors were a “well-known entertainer” and a diplomat. The suspect cooperated with police during his interview but he never admitted guilt for the murders and attacks. Officers stated that they strongly believed that the man in question was responsible for the crimes, but he was never tried or convicted because of the survivors’ refusals to appear in court. To date, the suspect has not been named publicly or apprehended; very little information is available to the public about the crimes.
An explosion in an 18-unit apartment complex in the Chicago suburb of Skokie touched off a small fire and injured nine people, one seriously. Residents reported smelling gas in the three-story brick building before the explosion, which blew out a large section of wall and caused extensive damage.
West Germany defeated the Netherlands 2–1 to win the World Cup, at Olympiastadion, Munich. Repulsing a fierce attack that lasted 89 minutes, West Germany gained a 2-1 victory over the Netherlands in the World Cup soccer final at the Olympic Stadium in Munich. In an electrifying atmosphere before a capacity crowd, including Secretary of State Kissinger and dignitaries from many other countries, the Dutch with overwhelming speed scored in the first minute of the game, but the Germans, shocked and confused, rallied and scored twice before the half was over and kept the Dutch scoreless for the rest of the game. The Germans will be the reigning soccer champions at least until the next World Cup tournament is held in Argentina four years from now.
Sweden’s Ronnie Peterson won the 1974 French Grand Prix motor race at Dijon, finishing 20 seconds ahead of Austria’s Niki Lauda.
In the opener of a doubleheader, Don Money sets a Major League record for consecutive errorless games at third base with 78. The Brewers beat the Twins 8–5, then lose 5–3. Money will end the season with just 5 errors, breaking George Kell’s record set in 1950. Money also holds the National League record with just 10 errors, set with the Phils in 1972.
The Red Sox and the Royals split a pair at Fenway, with Kansas City taking the opener, 11–9, in 10 innings. Rick Miller has 5 hits and 5 RBI for Boston, 4 coming home on a grand slam. Boston wins game 2, 5–3.
In an 11–2 win over the Cardinals, Reds’ pitcher Darrel Chaney hits a grand slam. Chaney will hit 14 homers in the Major League, but the radio call on the slam will end up as his front door bell chime.
The Chicago Cubs snap Buzz Capra’s nine-game winning streak when the team beats the Atlanta Braves at Wrigley Field, 4-3. The 26-year-old All-Star right-hander, who established a franchise mark for consecutive victories, will finish the season with a 16–8 record, posting a major league-leading ERA of 2.28.
Born:
Patrick Lalime, Canadian NHL goalie (NHL All-Star, 2003; Pittsburgh Penguins, Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Blues, Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres), in Saint-Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada.
Dialleo Burks, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers), in La Grange, Georgia.
Ingeborg Arvola, Norwegian novelist and children’s book writer; in Honningsvåg, Norway.
Died:
Joachim Brendel, 53, German Luftwaffe flying ace with 189 victories in aerial combat during World War II.
Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, 76, U.S. journalist and publisher.
Nancy Newhall, 66, prolific photography book writer and editor, died of injuries sustained on June 30 while she and other people were on a rafting trip in the Grand Teton National Park in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Mrs. Newhall and 11 other people were in the rubber raft on the Snake River when a giant spruce tree fell onto them.
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