Government sources said that President Nixon proposed in Moscow last week that both the United States and the Soviet Union limit the number of their missiles with multiple nuclear warheads and then phase out some of their land-based missiles with single warheads. The areas of disagreement, the sources said, included the questions of how many missiles with multiple warheads should be allowed, what kinds of missiles could be readily fitted with such warheads, and how many of the older land-based missiles should then be phased out. In Moscow, Soviet sources said that the proposals were rejected because “real parity” was wanted with the United States.
Israeli naval commandos raided three ports on the coast of southern Lebanon and sunk 30 fishing boats. The attacks on the ports of Tyre, Saida and Ras a‐Shak were, designed to disrupt preparations for Arab sea attacks against Israel, the army spokesman said. The three gunmen who killed four Israelis in the resort town of Nahariya last month were said to have traveled by boat from southern Lebanon, and an Israeli army spokesman in Tel Aviv said there had been indications of further such raids.
The official announcement did not reveal whether the Israeli raiders last night had been seaborne or airborne or had traveled overland. However, unofficial reports said they had gone by sea and returned to their boats, which had waited for them offshore. Israeli warships bombarded the coast during the operation, according to the report. The raiders scattered leaflets written in Arabic in boats that were not sunk. They told fishermen not to cooperate with Arab terrorists and to deny them shelter so as to avoid disrupting peaceful fishing along the coast. Officials here said the attack was intended as a warning to demonstrate to the Lebanese Government that it would be held responsible for marauding from the Lebanese coast just as it is held responsible for overland infiltration of guerrillas across the border.
The Palestine Liberation Organization said the Israeli attack last night was the continuation of a “plan of extermination by Israel against the Palestinian people” and said that the Palestinian guerrilla forces “will strike back.” There was no immediate report of casualties in the Israeli attack from the sea against the fishing ports at Saida, Tyre and Ras a‐Shak, but dozens of small boats were said to have been destroyed and harbor installations blown up. There are Palestinian guerrilla camps situated near all the ports that were attacked. Press reports from the areas where the raids occurred said that the Israeli attacks came under cover of darkness from the sea, presumably in small boats, and carried out demolition attacks on boats and port facilities. The Lebanese Government has been trying to persuade the Palestinian guerrilla groups here to suspend their operations against Israel, which have provoked severe reprisals.
Voting for all 264 seats of the House of Commons of Canada, where Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal Party had a 109 to 107 seat edge over the Progressive Conservative Party led by Robert Stanfield, and neither party had the 133 seats necessary for majority control. The Liberal Party gained 32 seats for 141 overall, while the Progressive Conservatives, the New Democratic Party and the Social Credit Party all lost seats. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his Liberal party were headed for an overwhelming victory in the Canadian national election. The Liberals appeared almost certain to return to power with a majority in the House of Commons after having governed with a minority for the last 20 months.
Secretary of State Kissinger and British leaders agreed today that financial and energy problems could lead to a world economic slump of huge proportions, but they could not decide what to do about it, informed sources said. Mr. Kissinger and Foreign Secretary James Callaghan also were said to be agreed on the need to strengthen the 1968 treaty that seeks to check the spread of nuclear weapons. The effectiveness of the treaty seems endangered because several non-nuclear countries are believed to be moving toward nuclear status. The pact, drawn up in 1968 and ratified by 83 countries, comes up for international revision next March. Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Callaghan agreed that the Geneva conference on European security could be completed successfully and lead to an East‐West summit conference in due time, provided the Soviet Union yielded on some Western demands, informants said. Among these demands are freer exchanges of people and ideas between East and West.
British army sources said intelligence reports indicate the Irish Republican Army is training a new corps of teen-age bombers recruited from youths on summer vacation. Referring to the more than 40 false bomb warnings that paralyzed downtown Belfast Saturday, an officer said the wave of hoaxes appeared to be the recruits’ first major exercise.
A cabinet shake-up appears to be coming in Portugal. The coalition government has, among other things, been strained by denunciations by the Socialist and Communist parties of appointments of officials who were associated with the regime that the coalition toppled. Portugal’s Communist and Socialist parties, in one of the few critical statements issued by the Left since a military coup ousted the heirs of the Salazar dictatorship in April, sparked a government crisis by complaining that rightists are being brought back to key official positions. Political sources reported strains within the central-left coalition as the cabinet and State Council were called into session. But a government spokesman refused to confirm rumors of a cabinet shakeup.
Health authorities in Lisbon said Portugal’s cholera epidemic is spreading, with 96 new cases registered in the past 10 days. The latest outbreaks have been in slum areas of Lisbon and in Oporto, the nation’s second largest city. Authorities said there have been 368 cases since April, with eight deaths.
Fighting bulls gored two Spanish youths during the traditional running of the bulls, the unique and often bloody ritual described by Ernest Hemingway in his novel “The Sun Also Rises” — highlighting the San Fermin fiesta at Pamplona, Spain. Both young men were hospitalized, but are expected to recover. An estimated 100,000 merrymakers, a third of them foreigners, are attending the week-long fiesta.
Representatives of 11 major central banks of Western Europe, North America and Japan agreed in principle to provide emergency assistance to financially troubled banks wherever necessary to avert a crisis of confidence in the international banking system. They were said, at their meeting in Basel, Switzerland, to have expressed apprehension over the difficulties of certain banks — for example the Bankhaus I.D. Herstatt of West Germany, which recently collapsed — and they were understood to have agreed that more failures might be coming.
The first agreement between India and Sri Lanka, to define their maritime boundaries in the Palk Strait, signed on June 28, came into effect.
Thai police arrested a 25-year-old man whom they described as a ringleader in the Bangkok Chinatown riots of last week that left 24 persons dead and another 127 injured. Police identified the suspect as Sutham Kuavikai, alias “Peng,” an enlisted soldier in the Thai 11th Infantry. Sutham, whose chest and arms are tattooed with flying eagles, snakes and tigers, was charged with attempting to burn down a police station and attempted murder.
Typhoon Gilda dissipated after 10 days of torrential rains and mudslides that killed 128 people in Korea and Japan.
The body of U.S. diplomat John Patterson, the American vice consul in the Mexican city of Hermosillo, was found in the Sonora desert more than three months after he had been kidnapped on March 22. An American, Bobby Joe Keesee, was arrested on May 28 and confessed to writing a ransom note. Keesee pleaded guilty to conspiracy to kidnap in 1975 and would serve 11 years in prison.
The Bolivian cabinet resigned en masse, paving the way for the appointment of an all-military government by President Hugo Banzer, expected to be announced later in the evening and sworn in immediately. According to government sources, the military cabinet will prepare the country for general elections in 1975, the first in Bolivia since 1966. Banzer seized power in 1971 and had promised to hold elections this year.
An army communique said Portuguese forces in Mozambique killed 45 Frelimo guerrillas and lost 18 of their own men last month. The army declared that the Frelimo attacked 32 “defenseless villages,” abducted 321 tribesmen, set 10 ambushes and were involved in 19 armed robberies during June. Thirty-six civilians were reported killed and 48 injured during the same period.
The USSR performs an underground nuclear test.
President Nixon met for more than an hour today with Vice President Ford to report on the Soviet Summit talks and to discuss unspecified domestic issups, a spokesman said. The 75‐minute meeting in the Oval Office was Mr. Nixon’s first appointment of the morning in the White House, where he has spent only two full days in the last month. The President wound up busy day by taking some advisers out for an evening cruise on the Potomac. The White House said Mr. Nixon, General Alexander M. Haig Jr., the White House chief of staff, Kenneth Rush, the President’s economic counselor, and. Major General Brent Scowcroft, a special adviser on national security affairs, went out on the Presidential yacht Sequoia to have a general discussion of international economic matters.
Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski and U.S. President Nixon’s attorney James D. St. Clair appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court to make oral arguments on the issue of whether Nixon’s refusal to release 64 tape recordings, relevant to the Watergate scandal, were protected by executive privilege. After three hours of tense argument and persistent legal questioning, eight Justices of the Supreme Court reserved decision on two questions that could materially affect the possibility of both President Nixon’s impeachment and the conviction of his former aides for concealing the Watergate burglary. The Justices heard arguments by James St. Clair, the President’s defense lawyer, and Leon Jaworski, the Watergate special prosecutor.
Secretary of State Kissinger was ordered by Judge Gerhard Gesell of the Federal District Court in Washington to appear as a defense witness at the trial of John Ehrlichman and three others charged with conspiring to violate the civil rights of Dr. Lewis Fielding, Dr. Daniel Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist. Mr. Ehrlichman, who had been President Nixon’s domestic affairs adviser, took the stand in his own defense and denied that he authorized the break-in of Dr. Fielding’s office. Attorneys for Mr. Kissinger, who is expected to return to Washington from Madrid tomorrow night, tried to quash the subpoena last week. William S. Frates, who heads Mr. Ehrlichman’s four‐man defense team; has said he expects Mr. Kissinger to rebut testimony from David R. Young Jr., a codirector with Egil Krogh Jr. of the special White House investigative unit known as “the plumbers.” Mr. Young has testified that the orders for a psychological profile of Mr. Ellsberg came from Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Ehrlichman.
In a decision that could lead to the refund of $500 million to importers, the United States Customs Court in New York ruled that President Nixon had exceeded his authority in 1971 when he imposed a 10 percent surcharge on all dutiable imports. The decision was the unanimous finding of a three‐judge special panel of the nine‐member court. In the main opinion, Chief Judge Nils A. Boe declared that Mr. Nixon’s action, which was a part of his dramatic proclamation of the Phase 1 economic controls and related measures on August 15, 1971, “arrogated” to the President “a power beyond the scope of any authority delegated to him by Congress.”
The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a marine who prepared a statement critical of U.S. involvement in Vietnam and calling for withdrawal of U.S. troops. In a 6–3 ruling, the court said it was bound by its earlier decision, in the case of former Army Captain Howard Levy, who refused to give medical training to members of the Army’s Special forces. The latest case involved Mark Avrech, who was court-martialed in June, 1969, on charges of “conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.” Avrech, an enlisted man, was stationed at Da Nang, South Vietnam, at the time.
Robert S. Strauss, Democratic Party national chairman, said his party expected to collect $6.3 million of the $7 million pledged during its fund-raising telethon last June 29-30. Strauss termed the telethon a political, artistic and financial success. He said state parties would get two-thirds of the anticipated $4 million profits after payment of $2.3 million for air time and production costs and the national party the rest.
The Secret Service reaffirmed its belief that heat expansion had broken a window in a police car as Vice-President Ford’s motorcade approached Dallas Saturday but a spokesman for Chrysler Corp. called this “highly unlikely.” The spokesman said engineers had virtually ruled out the heat theory and were inclined to agree with Texas authorities who attributed the incident to a flying stone. “It wouldn’t have to be a big one, the spokesman said. “Even a BB could have done it.” The state official car, a 1974 Plymouth sedan, was several places behind Ford’s car when the window on the driver’s side suddenly broke, starting fears that a sniper had fired.
Higher retail food prices in May meant that a family of four spent about 50 cents a week more to eat during that month than during April, Agriculture Department figures showed. Reporting on weekly costs of meals for three family-income levels, it said the 50-cent increase, as in the past, hit the lower-income families hardest. A low-cost food plan, which includes less meat and larger quantities of normally more economical items such as cereals and potatoes, cost $43.90 a week in May. That was an increase of 1.1% from April and $6.70 from May last year. The moderate-cost plan was $55 a week in May, up 0.9% from April and $7.20 from a year earlier. A liberal-cost menu was $66.50, up 0.7% and $8.
A tale of procurement, sexual torture and murder that Elmer Wayne Henley told Houston police nearly a year ago was read into the trial record in San Antonio. Henley, 18, is on trial, charged in connection with six of the 27 deaths disclosed last August 8 after Henley shot and killed Dean A. Corll, 33. Police said Corll was the leader of a homosexual ring that abducted young boys and then raped, tortured and killed them. In the statement, Henley told of being paid $200 each to lure young boys to their deaths.
Baltimore’s strike of municipal workers grew to potentially crippling proportions as more than 4,000 garbage collectors, policemen, water and sewer maintenance crews, park workers and dog pound employees engaged in strike and job actions. The situation was made worse by what apparently was a campaign by police to slow down their work and harass residents with a mass parking ticket writing campaign. The latest group to join the turmoil were 350 guards at the city jail. They left control of 1,500 inmates to about 25 supervisory personnel. Meanwhile, the union for the striking municipal workers became subject to a $15,000 a day fine for ignoring a court order against the strike and Mayor Donald Schaefer repeated that financial troubles made it impossible to meet wage demands.
Filing to run for his seventh House term, Rep. James C. Cleveland (R-New Hampshire) announced in Concord that he had an excellent suggestion on how to fight inflation and improve the public welfare — “If the U.S. Congress just took a sabbatical for about two years, it might be the best thing that ever happened to this country.”
The American oil billionaire opened the gates of his stately country home, Sutton Place, a 16th-century mansion 27 miles south of London, to 5,000 paying guests to raise money for the disabled of Guildford, the mansion’s nearby town. But J. Paul Getty himself was not on display with his house. Getty permits such invasions twice a year for charity. Visitors (treading on thick clear plastic so as not to spoil the rugs and floors) inspected the Great Hall where Henry VIII dined, strolled through the rose garden and lolled by the swimming pool as the 81-year-old lord of the manor reportedly watched television in private.
When he finished Officers Training School in February, he got a document saying his commission as an Army Reserve second lieutenant was on the way. But when he was discharged in April, that paper still hadn’t come. Earl Beacham of Chittenango, New York, has tried repeatedly since then to get his promotion cleared but he had no success until his congressman helped him crack the Defense Department’s silence. Beacham, 78, has had to wait 55 years for that gold bar, which originally was approved by General of the Army John J. (Black Jack) Pershing himself on February 20, 1919.
Deborah Gail Stone, an employee of Disneyland in California, was crushed to death by a rotating wall while working in the new “America Sings” exhibit, becoming the first death of a worker at a Disney park. The ride was immediately closed down and was not reopened until alarms could be installed.
David Bowie’s begins 6 consecutive nights of his “Diamond Dogs” tour at Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania; several shows were recorded and released as the double LP “David Live” later in the year.
One week after the beginning of the players’ strike against the National Football League, the college students scheduled to play in the July 26 College All-Star Game against the Miami Dolphins voted not to practice unless the NFL strike could be settled. The 1974 game was canceled two days later.
New York Yankee shortstop Jim Mason ties the Major League record with 4 doubles in a 12–5 win over the Texas Rangers. Off the field, the Yankees purchase infielder Sandy Alomar from the California Angels.
Cleveland’s Gaylord Perry loses to Oakland in 10 innings, 4–3. Claude Washington, an Oakland rookie, singled home the winning run from third base with two out in the 10th inning. The loss snaps Perry’s consecutive win streak at 15. Vida Blue is the winner for the A’s.
Steve Busby, who pitched a no‐hit game against Milwaukee last month, shut out the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park last night to give Kansas City a 5–0 victory. The 24‐year‐old righthander, winning his 11th game in 19 decisions, did not allow a Boston runner past first base for the first seven innings. Boston’s only hits came from Cecil Cooper, who singled in the fourth, and Dwight Evans, who singled in the fifth and doubled in the eighth. George Brett gave Busby the only run he needed when he hit his second homer of the season in the third. The Royals added their other four runs off Dick Drago in the fifth when Drago suffered a period of wildness.
Andy Messersmith pitched a three‐hitter for his ninth victory against two losses and Steve Yeager hit a two‐run homer for the Dodgers as Los Angeles shut out the Philadelphia Phillies, 4–0. It was the third shutout for the Dodger pitcher who has allowed only six earned runs in his last eight starts. Dave Cash broke up Messersmith’s no‐hit bid with a triple in the sixth inning. The other Phillies hits were singles by Jay Johnstone and Cash in the eighth.
The San Francisco Giants edged the Montreal Expos, 5–4. Randy Moffitt, a relief pitcher, tripled home the tie‐breaking run in the 10th inning, scoring Mike Phillips who was safe on an error at second base. It was Moffitt’s second hit of the season, his first extra‐base hit and his first run batted in. The victory was Moffitt’s fourth against three losses. Montreal’s Steve Rogers pitched the distance, losing his ninth game in 19 decisions.
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Born:
Billy Jenkins, NFL safety (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 34-Rams, 1999; St. Louis Rams, Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills), in Los Angeles, California.
Marcus Wimberly, NFL defensive back (Atlanta Falcons), in Memphis, Tennessee.
Danny Ardoin, MLB catcher (Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers, Colorado Rockies, Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers), in Mamou, Louisiana.
Tami Erin, American actress and model (“The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking”), in Wheaton, Illinois.
Zhanna Friske [Jeanna Kopylova], Russian model, actress, and singer (“Blestyashchiye”), in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (d. 2015).
Died:
Morris “Moose” Charlap, 45, American Broadway composer (“Peter Pan”, “Kelly”).
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