British troops rescued Archbishop Makarios III, the Greek Cypriot leader who had been overthrown as President of Cyprus, from the coastal city of Paphos and flew him to Malta and then to the UK.
Archbishop Makarios, deposed as President of Cyprus in a coup that heightened international tensions, flew to Malta from a British air base on Cyprus where he had taken refuge. He was expected in London and then reportedly at the United Nations to press the cause of his ousted government. Greek sources said his home town of Paphos had fallen to rebel forces.
The British government, as a guarantor of the Cyprus independence treaty, was heavily involved in diplomatic efforts to head off a conflict between Greece and Turkey. Foreign Minister James Callaghan said Greece was being asked to withdraw her officers from the Cyprus National Guard, which overthrew President Makarios, in effect to reverse the coup.
The United Nations Security Council heard the delegate of President Makarios’s Cypriot government call for a cease-fire and for aid in preventing intervention by outside military forces. But after the United States and Britain had contended more facts were needed, the council adjourned without taking any immediate action.
Washington officials said the United States was leaning hard on Greece and Turkey to keep a dangerous situation in Cyprus from getting out of hand. An interagency special action group was convened. The United States reportedly believed National Guard units had seized effective power. It now seeks to discourage Turkish involvement.
The Greek government called the Cyprus coup an internal affair of an independent state and said Athens would not interfere. But some former politicians and average citizens share Makarios’s broadcast view, accusing the Greek regime of trying to impose a “dictatorship” in Cyprus. Right-wingers are rejoicing and calling Makarios a traitor to Hellenism.
In Ankara the Soviet Ambassador conferred with Turkey’s President and then said his country supported “those who are fighting against insurgents.” The Turkish Premier, Bulent Ecevit, said Greece was trying to change the status of the independent republic. He said Turkey had asked Britain to help implement the 1960 agreement on Cyprus.
French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing has created a cabinet-level department to look after the status of women and named as its first head magazine publisher Francoise Giroud. Mrs. Giroud, 57, the fourth woman in the cabinet, says she doesn’t like the term sexual equality because she believes in a “specific feminine physiology,” but she insists on the total recognition of equal intellectual prowess. The department will deal with the problems of women in a society oriented by law and tradition toward men.
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s minority Labor government suffered its heaviest defeat yet in the House of Commons — by 25 votes on a finance bill to implement its budget. Earlier, Wilson lost the support of the 82-year-old Baroness Stocks who said that henceforth she would sit in the neutral section of the House of Lords, the upper house. A week ago, former Navy Minister Christopher Mayhew abandoned the Labor Party to join the small Liberal Party group in the Commons.
Three bomb explosions destroyed several vehicles accompanying the Tour de France bicycle race at St. Lary-Soulan in the French Pyrenees. In Lourdes 13 buses used to transport pilgrims to the shrine were set afire and 10 were destroyed. An anarchist underground organization calling itself the Internationalist Revolutionary Action Group claimed responsibility for both incidents. No injuries were reported.
The nine nations of the European Common Market have agreed not to import any beef from other countries until November. The move is aimed at raising the price for beef received by farmers in the market nations. The agreement was reported by a French spokesman after a meeting of agriculture ministers in Brussels. A similar agreement is expected for pork.
Eight climbers, including six teenagers, were swept down the north face of Mont Blanc by an avalanche and buried in a crevasse under tons of snow and ice. Buried were four boys and two girls aged 16 to 18 — from the Saint-Etienne, Brest and Toulon areas of France — and two guides.
U.S. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon signed economic aid agreements with Egypt that will guarantee foreign investment and provide funds for reconstruction projects, including the Suez Canal. He then flew from Cairo to Tel Aviv and pledged to help “in every way we can” to solve Israel’s financial problems. On arrival in Tel Aviv, Simon admitted he had called the Shah of Iran a nut, as reported in the magazine American Banker. But he said he only meant that the shah has “very firm ideas’ on oil prices.
King Hussein of Jordan arrived in Alexandria for talks with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on the possibilities for a reconciliation between Jordan and Palestinian guerrillas. Another reported reason for the three-day talks was coordination of Arab policies for the Geneva Middle East peace conference, which is expected to resume in October.
The Ethiopian Defense Minister, Lieutenant General Abebe Abye, was detained today by the armed forces following the arrest of 60 other leading officials in the last 18 days. A brief announcement by the Allied Forces Committee said General Abebe had surrendered after orders to do so before next Sunday. The announcement did not say how the orders had been pissed on to the general, who has not been seen in public since troops took control of Addis Ababa June 29 and began arresting prominent officials, including members of the royal family, members of the crown council, advisers to Emperor Haile Selassie, clergymen and civil servants. General Abebe’s arrest was the first among the members of Premier Endalkachew Makonnen’s Cabinet.
A former President of South Korea went on trial before military court today on charges of subversion that carry a possible death sentence. Yun Po Sun, a frail 77‐year‐old, was accused of having advocated the overthrow of President Park Chung Hee and having provided the equivalent of $1,000 to anti‐Government student demonstrators. The court action today was the latest in a lengthening series of trials that have already resulted in the conviction of South Korea’s best-known poet, the former publisher of the country’s most respected intellectual magazine and 89 other clergymen, students and opposition party members. The trials grew out of demonstrations and a petition campaign last winter and spring against President Park’s increasingly autocratic rule. Mr. Park responded, first in January and then more sweepingly in April, with a series of emergency decrees that now make virtually any dissent punishable by death.
A man who said he was a Vietnam war veteran told a radio audience by telephone here today that he and three other New Zealand soldiers shot and killed six American soldiers they had found torturing Vietnamese civilians more than two years ago. Gordon Dryden, host of the Auckland program, said the man asked New Zealand’s Defense Minister, Arthur Faulkner, for immunity before he would divulge his name and provide written details of the incident in Vietnam. Mr. Faulkner, after listening to a tape recording of the radio report, said that if he were given the time and date of the alleged incident, he would “prosecute an inquiry with the utmost vigor.” Pentagon sources said they had checked the records of the 300 American servicemen missing in South Vietnam, and in no case, were six men missing on the same day and in the same place under such circumstances.
President Maria Estela Perón ordered Argentina’s local and federal security forces to unite in an all-out effort to end political terrorism. The order followed the assassination of Dr. Arturo Mor Roig, one of the nation’s best-known political leaders. As part of the drive, the Justice Ministry was ordered to draft “rigorous new penalties” for terrorist crimes.
The House Judiciary Committee released testimony of Clark Mollenhoff, a former White House staff member, that H.R. Haldeman told him in 1970 that President Nixon personally wanted a report on an Internal Revenue Service investigation of Gov. George Wallace of Alabama. The testimony showed that Mr. Nixon’s first two I.R.S. commissioners confirmed earlier indications that they had offered their resignations .in the face of White House pressures to take actions they thought improper.
Senior officials of the House Judiciary Committee said that its special counsel, John Doar, would take a forceful line urging impeachment of President Nixon when he presented his brief late this week. He was said to believe that the evidence led to that conclusion. Senior committee Republicans took strong exception. “John Doar is going to tell it like it is,” the committee’s chairman, Representative Peter W. Rodino Jr., Democrat of New Jersey, said in an interview. “John believes, as I do, that the facts speak for themselves.” The disclosure of the special counsel’s plan to argue on behalf of an impeachment finding — to which senior committee Republicans took strong exception — signaled the end of the committee’s long investigation of Mr. Nixon’s conduct in office. The Judiciary Committee spent all day and much of the night questioning Charles W. Colson, the former White House special counsel, and Herbert W. Kalmbach, Mr. Nixon’s former personal attorney.
Robert S. Strauss, the Democratic National Chairman, predicted today that the House of Representatives would vote to impeach President Nixon because of “devastating and overwhelming” evidence against him. Mr. Strauss, who issued his forecast at a breakfast meeting with a group of reporters, said he reached his conclusions about the evidence last weekend, when he read at his Texas home a substantial portion of the transcripts of White House Watergate conversations for the first time.
The five-day strike of Baltimore’s 2,800 policemen ended with all but 100 resuming normal assignments. Many were bitter because the new two-year agreement omitted any promise of amnesty from departmental discipline for those who walked out. Now that the strike of Baltimore’s municipal workers has been settled, the government of that city has to make the hard decision whether or not to penalize those who abandoned its vital services, particularly policemen. A display of the forgive‐and‐forget attitude so common in the wake of strikes can only reinforce the intransigence of public workers in Ohio, who a few days ago voted to “shut down the state” if they don’t get a wage boost of forty cents an hour.
A jury in the U.S. state of Texas recommended that Elmer Wayne Henley, the teenage murderer who had assisted in serial murders carried out in Texas by Dean Corll between 1970 and 1973, be sentenced to six 99-year terms in prison after convicting him in 6 of the 27 murders carried out by Corll. Formal sentencing was set for July 26, with the judge to determine whether the sentences should run concurrently or for 564 consecutive years. “I’m just so happy. Thank the Lord. Thank the people. Thank the state. Thank anybody around,” said Bettye Shirley, mother of one of the victims, after the six men and six women of the jury announced their decision on the sentence.
A Republican cosponsor of the House strip mining bill sought to win Nixon Administration support for the measure by proposing a number of key changes. Rep. Philip E. Ruppe of Michigan proposed amendments that would, among other things, eliminate a controversial severance tax on coal to finance reclamation of abandoned strip mines. The legislation now facing the House would establish the first national environmental standards for surface coal mining. Rupp said his amendments had been drafted after conferring with Federal Energy Administrator John Sawhill but that he had received no commitment that the Administration would give its support even with the changes.
Senator Edward J. Gurney, Republican of Florida, was arraigned today on charges of bribery, perjury and conspiracy in a surprise appearance before United States Magistrate Joseph Hatchett. Florida’s senior Senator and member of the Senate Watergate Committee pleaded not guilty to all the charges and was freed on a personal recognizance bond. Senator Gurney and six others were indicted by a Federal grand jury last Wednesday in the alleged collection of money from Florida builders in return for promises of favored treatment by the Federal Housing Authority.
National guardsmen and animal inspectors in Texas manned quarantine roadblocks and ranchers burned their diseased cattle in hopes of stopping the spread of anthrax that threatens the beef industry in the Southwest. In bordering Oklahoma, Governor David Hall ordered a halt to all cattle movement in the state because of an anthrax outbreak at the Oklahoma City stockyards. In Texas, the disease was believed to be limited to the eastern half of Falls County in the central part of the state. A county spokesman said at least 175 animals had died. Anthrax can be transmitted to humans and its symptoms are similar to pneumonia.
New Mexico Attorney General David Norvell said he would file suit in federal court to force the Army to permit a search of the White Sands Proving Grounds for billions of dollars’ worth of gold allegedly buried there. Norvell claimed the worth could be as high as $225 billion. The state would get 25% of the loot if it is brought out by a group represented by attorney F. Lee Bailey, who refused to identify his clients. The legend of a lost treasure has been cropping up since the time of the Spanish explorers.
Alarming numbers of children are being poisoned by accidental overdoses of iron-fortified vitamins and iron compounds, the American Medical Association warned. For children under 5, iron compounds have become the fourth most common cause of poisoning, according to an editorial in the current issue of the association’s Journal. Fifty per cent of all iron poisonings among children are fatal unless treated promptly, with death occurring within two to four hours, said editorial writer Barbara F. Murphy. But she said iron substances taken under doctor’s orders were not harmful.
Sarah (Baby Doll) Cowan, the 73-year-old prostitute who attracted national attention, has died of pneumonia in Peoria, Illinois. Miss Cowan said recently after she was arrested for the 50th time that she was abandoning her 54-year career in favor of writing her memoirs. Her body was found by neighbors. An autopsy showed she died of bronchial pneumonia. The Peoria Journal-Star said a prostitutes union called Coyote (cast off your old tired ethics) had asked where to send flowers. Coyote named Miss Cowan the queen of prostitutes at its recent national convention in San Francisco.
Frank Sinatra closed his troubled Australian tour in Sydney with a final swing at the press. The singer told an audience of 4,000 — and several million television viewers — that “whether I was right or wrong, or whether they were right or wrong, the fact remains that the main issue was that they tried to keep me from saying what I thought and I think that’s the thing we’ve got to fight all the time. I wouldn’t consider censorship for all the tea in China.” Sinatra’s remarks that Australian journalists were “bums” and “hookers” got wide coverage in the press.
Proceedings to dissolve the marriage of entertainers Sonny and Cher Bono go under way in Santa Monica Superior Court in California and will continue today before Superior Judge Goscoe Farley. At issue are differences over division of property, including the couple’s Holmby Hills mansion, and custody of their 4-year-old daughter, Chastity. Cher, 28, asked for sole custody of the girl. Sonny, 39, asked for joint custody. The singing team’s television show ended after they separated earlier this year.
“The Osmonds” singer Alan Osmond (25) weds Suzanne Pinegar at LDS Temple in Provo, Utah.
The Chicago White Sox shut out the Detroit Tigers, 6–0. Dick Allen hit a 450‐foot homer to center field off Mickey Lolich that drove in three runs and backed Jim Kaat’s two‐hitter. Allen’s homer was his 23rd, highest in the majors.
The Kansas City Royals came from behind to give Steve Busby his 13th victory, edging the Boston Red Sox, 5–4. Trailing, 4–2, they scored three times in the sixth, with Al Cowens’s single driving in two of the runs.
Cincinnati pounded out 19 hits, three of them by the pitcher, Don Gullett, who also drove in three runs, as the Reds pounded the St. Louis Cardinals, 12–7.
The San Diego Padres pulled off a shocking comeback to beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 5–4. The Padres stunned Philadelphia with ninth‐inning homers by Nate Colbert, Willie McCovey and Dave Winfield to tie the game and a run‐scoring single by Bobby Tolan to win it. The Phillies, still in first place in the East, had scored twice in the top of the ninth for a 4–1 lead.
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Born:
Jonathan Johnson, MLB pitcher (Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, Houston Rockets), in La Grange, California.
Michelle Cleary [neé Chandler], Australian National Team and WNBA point guard (Olympics, bronze medal, 1996; Phoenix Mercury), in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Stefano Fresi, Italian film and TV actor known for “Ma Cosa ci Dice il Cervello”; in Rome, Italy.
Espido Freire (pen name for Maria Laura Espido), Spanish novelist; in Bilbao, Spain.
Chris Pontius, American stunt performer and TV personality; in Pasadena, California.
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