Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres said Friday the Arabs might go to war within a year if a Middle East political settlement was not in sight. But he said that before it undertakes new peace talks, Israel must be assured of a continued American arms flow. Peres, speaking on the possibility of new fighting. said, “I see the space of half a year to a year if it turns out that despite all the hopes, political negotiations do not prove successful. If that is so, the Arabs certainly intend to renew the military confrontation.” Asserting that the Egyptians and Syrians were stepping up military preparations, Peres said he was concerned about “when Arab might reaches a zenith that tempts their level headedness.”
In Cairo, Egyptian and Syrian parliamentary delegations attacked Israel for its retaliatory strikes against guerrillas in Lebanon and called for readiness in the event war should break out again.
A new tone in Israeli statements on the Palestinians, if not a substantive change in the official position, was indicated by the Israeli Information Minister, Aharon Yariv, who said that negotiations between the Israeli and Palestinians could be held if the Palestinians would acknowledge the existence of Israel as a Jewish state and terminate hostile action against her.
A prominent Soviet analyst of American affairs warned tonight that détente was still threatened, not only by outright opponents of good Soviet‐American relations, but by well‐meaning liberals distracted from the main goal by side issues. The comment, part of definitive article taking up nearly an entire page of the Government newspaper Izvestia, appeared to be aimed mainly at American liberals who have directed attention to the problems of Soviet dissidents and Jews. But the main thrust of the article by Georgi A. Arbatov, director of the American Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, was that the recent summit meeting between President Nixon and Soviet leaders represented a much greater success than the Western press has acknowledged. The “opponents of détente,” which Mr. Arbatov described as “the military‐industrial complex, anachronistic imperialist reaction, Zionist circles, professional anti‐Communists and anti‐Soviets of all breeds—not to speak of Peking’s leaders,” have consistently sought to undermine the success of the summit meeting, he said.
“For instance, on the eve of the summit meeting,” he wrote, a long campaign was waged in the United States to convince Congress and public opinion that the President of the United States, due to known domestic political complications, lacked a position of strength, and was not empowered to sign far‐reaching agreements, especially in the sphere of arms limitation, because they would mean “concession” to the Soviet Union. “Now, the same people are waging another campaign. They are trying to lessen the significance of the summit meeting and agreements which were signed in Moscow, on the pretext that the agreements don’t go far enough.” But problems in the development of lasting peace are posed not only by “American philistines,” the official Soviet commentator said, but by “such people as scientists and journalists, including those who belong to liberal circles.” The latter, he said, “like frivolous young girls, even though many of them are gray‐haired, swing from one political trend to another.”
The small (13,300 people) Republic of San Marino adopted a Declaration of Rights of Sammarinese citizens, as well as setting out constitutional principles. San Marino’s two captains regent, Ferruccio Piva and Giordano Bruno Reffi, signed the measure into law after approval by the 80-member Grand and General Council.
A British businessman said Friday a diving team will try to determine whether a plane on the bottom of the English Channel was the one Glenn Miller died in 30 years ago. John Edwards, a sales manager for a telecommunications company, said the divers would use a converted trawler and underwater television cameras to try to positively identify a silted-over aircraft on an expedition next June. Miller, whose big band sound was the rage of the 1940s, disappeared on a flight to Paris from southern England in 1944.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said today that India had observed large‐scale Pakistani troop movements and maneuvers near the Indian border since the first week of June. The allegation came within 24 hours of a similar Pakistani charge about Indian troop movements. The Indian spokesman also alleged that there had been a “number of intrusions by Pakistani aircraft on India’s airspace and incidents of firing.” The spokesman said that India had not moved “any units to forward areas or indulged in any activities which are not usual during this part of the year.” Pakistan said yesterday that there had been “abnormal” movements by Indian troops on the border and that some formations had been put on alert. The Indian spokesman said these allegations were “absolutely baseless.” The spokesman said Indian military commanders conferred with Pakistani commanders over the “hot line” this morning and made it clear that India had not taken any action to justify the Pakistani allegations.
The charges were indicative of the worsening relationship between the two nations, who went to war over Bangladesh, formerly Pakistan’s eastern wing, two and a half years ago. That war, the third since India and Pakistan gained independence from Britain in 1947, resulted in a humiliating defeat for Pakistan and independence for Bangladesh. Until two months ago, when India exploded a nuclear device, the nations were settling their postwar disputes and moving toward normal relations. But Pakistan reacted sharply to the underground explosion close to the border, which she described as nuclear blackmail by India. Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan recently warned his people that, the nation could be heading for a fresh crisis over Kashmir. The state, which is partitioned between Pakistan and India, has remained a rankling issue between the two nations since independence.
Laotian Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma has suffered a heart attack, a cabinet member said today. The United States and Thailand rushed medical teams here to treat him. Sisouk no Champessak, defense minister in Souvanna’s coalition government, confirmed that an illness suffered by the prime minister Friday night had been diagnosed as a heart attack. “We don’t know yet how serious it is and I am just following developments,” said Sisouk, the leader of rightist members of the coalition government
Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister Takeo Miki submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka six days after their party, the LDP, had seen its majority in the House of Councillors drop to one seat. Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda followed four days later. Both Miki and Fukuda would later serve as prime ministers of Japan.
The Nixon administration has lost control of the United States policy of maintaining a political and economic quarantine against Cuba, in the opinion of government officials specializing in Latin American affairs. Pat Holt, staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who met with Premier Fidel Castro in Havana Saturday, is also understood to believe that Mr. Castro and others in Latin America have begun to determine the pace and direction of Cuba’s breakout from hemisphere isolation. This view reportedly is shared by a growing number of Latin American governments.
The remains of John S. Patterson, U.S. vice consul in Mexico, arrived in the United States Friday aboard a presidential jet. Patterson’s body was found near Hermosillo, Mexico, four days ago after the 31-year-old diplomat had been missing since March 22. His murder and kidnapping remained unsolved. Funeral services were scheduled for tomorrow afternoon in Washington’s nondenominational Rock Creek Church.
The U.N. sea conference agreed in a stormy session Friday night to seat Palestinian guerrillas and 11 other national liberation groups as observers despite strong opposition from Israel and the United States. The decision was approved by a general consensus of the 148 nations attending the 10-week conference and no official vote was taken.
The two Soyuz-14 cosmonauts, now in their ninth day in space with a week to go, pushed ahead with their experiments Friday, but found their thoughts wandering again to food. Commander Pave! Popovich said both he and flight engineer Yuri Artyukhin, who were allowed to break into a reserve food supply Thursday, had big appetites again.
Declaring it had set out evidence which “speaks for itself,” the Senate Watergate committee formally went out of business today. Chairman Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-North Carolina, who dominated the hearings which entranced millions on television last summer, said the committee would draw no conclusions about President Nixon’s role in the scandal because of the House Judiciary committee’s impeachment inquiry. “We just set forth the evidence,” Ervin said at a news conference with three other committee senators. “The evidence speaks for itself.” “You know there are two ways to prove a horse is a horse.” said Ervin. “One way is to draw a picture of a horse. The other way is to write under the picture ‘This is a horse.’ We just drew the picture.” The committee concluded its work with a 2,217-page, three volume study which will be released Sunday.
John Ehrlichman, former domestic affairs adviser to President Nixon, and three other defendants were found guilty of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist. The jury also found Mr. Ehrlichman guilty of three of four counts of making false statements. His co-defendants in the conspiracy charge were G. Gordon Liddy, Bernard Barker and Eugenio Martinez.
President Nixon has worked out an agreement with the holders of the mortgage on his San Clemente home for an extra six months to pay a final $600,000 mortgage payment, according to the White House. A spokesman said Nixon agreed to make an interest payment of $16,999.52 Friday because he could not afford to pay the entire amount due on the San Clemente property. The final payment was due July 15. Nixon also agreed to repay an unspecified amount of the principal of the 7½ percent mortgage.
Vice President Gerald Ford said Friday the evidence shows President Nixon is innocent of an impeachable offense. He also said if Democrats elect a “veto-proof” Congress they will unleash a wild spending spree that will aggravate inflation.
Henry E. Petersen, who directed the Watergate investigation from the break-in until the Senate insisted that a special prosecutor be appointed, has testified he never found evidence of wrongful behavior by the President. Petersen, an assistant attorney general and the highest career man at the Justice Department, turned out to be the House Judiciary Committee’s most friendly witness to President Nixon — even more helpful to Nixon than the witnesses invited by James D. St. Clair, Nixon’s lawyer. But Democrats pooh-poohed his defense of Nixon on the grounds that Petersen was a keen admirer of the President.
The Department of Labor reported that wholesale prices rose only a half percentage point in June, and said it was the best performance of this important inflation index since last October, when there was a small decline. The rapid rise of industrial prices slackened a bit, and food prices declined for the fourth successive month. There were, however, two important qualifications.
President Nixon reportedly will soon nominate Alan Greenspan, a consulting economist in New York, to be chairman of the President’s Council of Economic? Advisers. Mr. Greenspan, a conservative, advocates a continuation of the present policies of credit restraint and extension, or even stronger control over federal budget outlays. He would replace Herbert Stein, who plans to teach economics at the University of Virginia. There is a possibility that Mr. Greenspan’s Senate confirmation will run into problems.
Governor Martin Mandel ordered 115 Maryland state troopers and the state’s armored car into Baltimore to deal with the violence that has erupted since some city policemen joined a strike of municipal employees. The strikers are protesting Mayor William Donald Schaefer’s refusal to consider a pay increase of more than 5.5 percent, plus 0.5 percent in fringe benefits.
One of the two armed convicts holding seven hostages in the Federal Courthouse in Washington reportedly promised to “take a lot of people with him” if the pair were not guaranteed their freedom. The statement was attributed to Frank Gorham, 25, one of the convicts, by his sister after she and Mr. Gorham’s mother were allowed to visit him. Despite the threat, a justice Department official expressed confidence that there had been movement to break the impasse in negotiations with the two, who have held the hostages since Thursday afternoon.
Peter Leonard of Greenwich, Connecticut, 22 years old and unemployed, was charged by Connecticut authorities with setting the fire that killed 24 young people and injured 32 others two weeks ago in Gulliver’s, a singles bar in Port Chester, in Westchester County, New York. No homicide or other charges relating directly to the deaths were filed immediately against him because of an unusual jurisdictional question over the exact location of Gulliver’s, which straddles the line between Port Chester and Greenwich.
Results of an autopsy showed Friday that 21-year-old William Wheeler died from injuries received in a traffic accident on a civilian off-limits area and not from a beating by Ft. Dix soldiers as Wheeler’s companion had charged, the New Jersey state medical examiner announced. Dr. Edwin D. Albano said Wheeler died as the result of cerebral damage received when a car in which the New Egypt, New Jersey, man was riding hit a tree. Albano said Wheeler’s body had a few other bruises on it, but Wheeler “was definitely not” beaten by Ft. Dix soldiers as had been alleged by Wheeler’s companion, Robert Dwyer, 26, the driver of the car.
Fugitive financier Robert L. Vesco was billed $2.4 million Friday for the private use of a corporate Boeing 707 jet which he outfitted with a discotheque and sauna. In a default judgment signed by federal judge Charles Stewart, Vesco was ordered to pay the bill to International Controls Corp. of Thomaston, Conn., an electronics firm he once headed. Immediate payment appeared unlikely since Vesco has been living as a fugitive in the Bahamas and Costa Rica since he was indicted in May 1973, with former cabinet officers John N. Mitchell and Maurice H. Stans.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), an agency of the U.S. Congress, was created with the signing of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
U.S. President Nixon signed the National Research Act into law, creating the Office of Human Research Protections and placing research and experimentation on human beings under federal regulation.
Mikhail Baryshnikov, the 26-year-old ballet star who defected from a Soviet touring company in Toronto, will dance in New York for the first time on July 27 when he will partner Natalia Makarova in American Ballet Theater’s production of “Giselle” at the State Theater. Baryshnikov, who is still in Canada, will also appear there with Miss Makarova and American Ballet Theater on August 5 in “La Bayadere” and on August 9 in the grand pas de deux from “Don “Quixote.” Like Baryshnikov, Miss Makarova was a principal dancer with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad before she defected in London in 1970 while on tour with the company.
Negotiators for striking National Football League players and the league’s 26 teams met for seven hours today and made no progress toward resolving the 12‐dayold walkout, the Federal mediator reported. James Scearce, the mediator, said no date had been set for resumption of the talks. However, he said, he is “encouraged by the constructive attitude on both sides.” He said he had asked them to “reconsider and re‐evaluate their positions.” Scearce said he would be in touch with the owners and players early next week in hopes of reconvening the negotiations. Ed Garvey, executive director of the NFL Players Association, agreed that the session had produced no progress.
In Japan, pitcher Naoki Takahashi of Nippon Ham gets a win and save in the same game. Takahashi has a 2–0 count to Clarence Jones with 2 out in the 6th and a man on first base. He then goes to third and lefty reliever Nakahara gets Jones to end the inning. In the 7th, Takahashi takes the mound again and finishes the game, which Nippon Ham wins 2–1, thus fulfilling the criteria for a save. The rules are later changed so that this could not happen again.
The best last‐place team in baseball, the New York Yankees beat the best first‐place team, the world champion Oakland A’s, 3–0, last night at Shea Stadium. Pat Dobson hurled a brilliant two‐hitter for his third straight victory over the A’s this season as the Yankees won their fifth game in a row and the eighth of their last nine games.
The Chicago White Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles, 4–3. Ed Herrman’s two‐out double in the ninth inning scored Bill Sharp from first base with the winning run. Sharp drew a walk from Doyle Alexander, then Herrmann hit an 0–2 pitch into the left‐field corner.
The California Angels won their first game for Dick Williams, who had been the manager for 10 straight defeats, until Ed Figueroa pitched a shutout tonight for his first major league triumph, beating the Boston Red Sox, 7–0. Actually the Angels’ losing streak had reached 11 straight games, longest in the expansion club’s history, a streak that extended back to June 30 under Whitey Herzog, the interim manager.
The New York Mets called upon their reserves tonight and the reserves produced a 5–2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers before crowd of 50,129 in Dodger Stadium. Reserve No. 1 was Bob Apodaca, a 24‐year‐old righthander who had to start because Tom Seaver’s side and sinus troubles were too great. Once before, on May 13 in St. Louis, Apodaca was an emergency starter and went five innings in a 5‐3 victory. Tonight he went six, without giving up a run, and earned his second victory by getting the benefit of a four‐run rally in the seventh, during which he was lifted for a pinch hitter.
The Atlanta Braves handed the St. Louis Cardinals’ 38‐year‐old Bob Gibson his ninth defeat, 7–3. The Cardinals ended their six‐game losing streak by winning the second game, 10–0, behind the four‐hit pitching of Bob Forsch, who made his second major league start.
The San Diego Padres edged the Montreal Expos, 1–0. Dave Winfield doubled home Bobby Tolan in the first inning, and Randy Jones made the run stand up in earning his sixth victory in 19 decisions and first shutout of the year. Jones’s biggest jam came when the Expos loaded the bases in the ninth with two out. But the left‐hander induced Barry Foote to hit into a forceout.
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Born:
Sam Garnes, NFL safety (New York Giants, New York Jets), in The Bronx, New York, New York.
Leomont Evans, NFL safety (Washington Redskins), in Abbeville, South Carolina.
Parvin Dabas, Indian film actor; in Delhi, India.
Olivier Adam, French novelist and screenwriter known for “Je vais bien, ne t’en fais pas” (“Don’t Worry, I’m Fine”) in Draveil, Essonne département, France.
Sharon den Adel, Dutch metal singer (Within Temptation – “Stand My Ground”), in Waddinxveen, the Netherlands.
Died:
Georg Annenkov, 84, Russian-French artist and stage and film set designer (‘The Mutiny of the Machines’).
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