The United States has begun discussions with the new leadership on Cyprus but Washington insists that no decision has been made on diplomatic recognition. High American officials indicated the Nixon administration was leaning toward Nikos Giorgiades Sampson rather than President Makarios, who was overthrown in the military coup that Mr. Sampson led.
Archbishop Makarios and Premier Bulent Ecevit of Turkey conferred separately in London with Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Foreign Secretary James Callaghan, trying to work out a common approach to reverse the Cyprus coup. Britain is reluctant to use more than diplomatic pressure on Greece. Word that the United States is dropping Archbishop Makarios adds another complication.
Turkey took no decisive action in the Cyprus situation, in response to American and British requests. Government spokesmen expressed satisfaction with Britain’s quick response to Turkey’s call for consultation, but some informants said Turkey was disappointed at British reluctance to undertake joint military action.
The exiled Greek ex‐Premier, Constantine Karamanlis, called last night for an uprising by the Greek armed forces and declared himself “at the disposal of the nation to restore normality and achieve national reconciliation.” Mr. Karamanlis did not explicitly urge another military coup to oust the current Athens riders, but it was the clear inference of his appeal. He has lived in Paris since late 1963 and was the leader a strong conservative government. He maintained a following in Greece for a number of years. But now, aged 67 and ill exile for a decade, it is questionable how much influence he still wields.
Most of the diplomats calling at the Foreign Ministry in Athens urged respect for an independent Cyprus and for the constitutional procedures under which Archbishop Makarios was elected President. Privately, however, their feeling was that the coup that overthrew him had succeeded despite the archbishop’s escape from Cyprus.
More than 40 tourists were injured and one of them was killed by a time bomb in a cellar armory of the Tower of London. There was no advance warning and no claim of responsibility for the attack. A major tourist attraction was apparently chosen for maximum emotional impact. The bombing of the Tower of London by terrorists of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) killed one person and injured 41 others. The blast was from a time bomb, planted under a cannon on display, and took place while tourists and sightseers were in the 60-by-30-foot Mortar Room of the Tower. Dorothy Household, a London librarian, died of her injuries after the blast.
The Northern Ireland Act 1974 became effective upon receiving royal assent by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The Contraceptive Bill, sponsored by Ireland’s National Coalition government, was defeated in a vote in the Dáil Éireann. The Taoiseach (prime minister), Liam Cosgrave, was one of seven Fine Gael members to vote against the bill. Legislation to legalize the sale of contraceptives to married couples has been rejected by the lower house of Parliament in Dublin. Lobbyists against birth control in the 95% Catholic Irish Republic recited the Rosary outside the Parliament building during the vote on the first attempted reform of Ireland’s stringent birth control laws.
The international trade subcommittee of the House Banking Committee approved a $25 billion, four-year extension of the Export-Import Bank Act but included a provision barring loans for the Soviet Union until the Senate acts on the trade reform bill. That bill, as passed by the House, blocks favored tariff treatment for Moscow until it eases emigration restrictions on Jews and others wishing to leave the country.
The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia sharply attacked Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington), who has been a leader of the congressional effort to block trade concessions to the Russians. The paper called him the “mouthpiece of the military-industrial complex” and said he was for using atomic bombs against the Vietnamese, the Arabs and North Korea. It linked his geopolitical ideas for closer ties with China to those of Hitler.
West Germany approved acquisition by the Iranian government of a one-fourth interest in the steelmaking subsidiary of the giant Krupp enterprise. It was the largest move yet of an oil-producing state to invest in Western industry.
The French government sought to calm farmers who have been piling manure against public buildings and hanging dead pigs from streetlights in a protest campaign against low prices for beef and other agricultural products. Tractors blocked airport runways in Brest, burning bales of straw blockaded government offices in Mayenne, and windows were smashed in a sausage factory near Morlaix using imported pork. President Valery Giscard d’Estaing met with farm advisers and put new farm proposals before his cabinet.
The Cambodian command reported today that government troops killed 180 Communist‐led insurgents in fierce fighting 18 miles northwest of Phnom Penh near Oudong. The command gave government casualties as two soldiers killed and 14 wounded in the clash.
The international peace‐keeping commission met today for its first regular session in three months. The agenda was routine, but informed sources said the meeting was intended to prod the North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese to resume suspended military and political negotiations. The commission is made, up of Iran, Indonesia, Poland and Hungary. Their aim is to prompt some action by the Joint Military Commission, made up of representatives of the South Vietnamese Government and the Việt Cộng, and the four‐party Joint Military Team, which includes the United States and North Vietnam as well as the South Vietnamese and Việt Cộng. Activities of both groups have been suspended for two months because of a dispute over the Vietcong’s diplomatic immunity and privileges in Saigon.
A full-scale investigation of diversion of U.S. military aid in South Vietnam was called for by Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin), following reports that the wings of at least 15 A-37 jet bombers were found in a scrap dump outside Saigon. Aspin quoted articles in Saigon newspapers reporting a police raid on an illegal scrap dump just outside the Tan Son Nhut Air Base. Aircraft industry sources said that Cessna Corp., the A-37 Dragonfly manufacturer, shipped replacement wings for 15 to 20 aircraft to Saigon in 1967 when the original wings were found to be too weak for steady combat use.
It stood about 4 or 5 feet tall, was covered with thick black hair below the waist and brown hair above, had thick, stout fingers with long nails and its heels were turned forward. It was, a 19-year-old Nepali girl told district officials, a yeti-or Abominable Snowman-and it knocked her unconscious and killed five yaks she was herding near the foothills of Mt. Everest. The girl said the yeti killed the yaks by twisting their horns around their necks. Authorities are attempting to verify her story by finding footprints, which the girl said she marked off with stones.
France conducted an atmospheric nuclear bomb test over the Mururoa Atoll test site in the south Pacific, roughly 780 miles (1,260 km) southeast of the French colony at the island of Tahiti. The test, code-named Centaure, had been carried out at 7:04 in the morning local time based on inaccurate weather predictions and the cloud of radioactive fallout passed directly over Tahiti and surrounding islands 42 hours later, on July 19, 1974, exposing as many as 110,000 people with 500 times the maximum exposure to radioactivity.
Argentina President Maria Estela Perón broke into tears as she welcomed Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez upon his arrival in Buenos Aires for a five-day official visit. The 43-year-old widow said, “Allow me to evoke now the memory of our spiritual leader, the unforgettable Juan Perón,” during her tearful welcoming speech. Echeverria’s six-nation tour is aimed primarily at boosting Mexican trade.
Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee are torn between pressures for and against a vote recommending impeachment. Undecided Republicans are being urged by those against impeachment to join a solid Republican bloc. Constituents are warning they could lose support either way. But the senior Republican member, Robert McClory of Illinois, said he would ignore the perils to his own career if he decided Mr. Nixon should be held accountable for “wrongdoing taking place right under the President’s nose.”
Herbert W. Kalmbach, the final witness before the impeachment inquiry, told the House Judiciary Committee today in a first‐hand account that dairy industry leaders had been required to reaffirm their pledge of campaign contributions before President Nixon announced an increase in milk price supports. Much of Mr. Kalmbach’s story had already been told in other forums. But some Democrats on the’ committee seemed to feel the ‘impact of his direct testimony ‘and indicated that they were beginning to consider more strongly the possibility that an impeachable offense had been committed in the President’s dealings with milk producers.
A committee of Democratic members of the House reopened the battle over reorganizing its committees with a proposal that would reduce the power of the Rules Committee and increase that of the Speaker. The changes are more modest than another proposal by a bipartisan panel.
Patrick J. Buchanan, a special assistant to President Nixon, renewed today his attack on “the big media,” which he charges dominate the thinking of Americans, citing what he called “enormous, positive and favorable publicity to movements associated with the far left.” Mr. Buchanan listed some of these “far left” movements as “the antiwar movement, the civil rights movement, the consumer movement,” His final words were spoken against a background of boos and hisses from the audience of about 700 persons, many of them young, that filled the orchestra section of the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater for ‘A Critique of the Media.”
Frank Peroff, the undercover agent who implicated fugitive financier Robert L. Vesco in a drug-smuggling scheme, filed suit in federal court in Washington, D.C., to head off what he claims is an act of vengeance by the Justice Department. Federal marshals, who have been safeguarding Peroff and his family since December, are scheduled to withdraw their protection today. Without it, Peroff claims his life and the safety of his wife and five children will be in jeopardy from friends of the man he has helped put behind bars. Peroff said his plight springs from the fact that he has caused law enforcement officials embarrassment by charging that a major drug investigation was squelched after evidence surfaced that Vesco was involved.
Local Republicans have been the chief beneficiaries — and the party’s national committee the financial loser — in cross-country travels by Vice President Ford that have raised $700,000 in the last seven months. One reason is that the national committee has been paying more of the bills than it should have, Ford aides said. As a result, it has revised its methods of assigning the costs so that the committee pays only that part directly related to politics.
New York City Controller Harrison Goldin reluctantly borrowed $800 million in short-term funds at an interest rate of 8.586 percent, the highest in New York’s history, to meet debts due in the next few weeks. He then left for Washington to ask top federal officials to help ease the credit squeeze on cities, and won a promise from the chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers to consider speeding federal payments to cities.
A kidnapped industrialist and his wife were shot to death after their abductor, later identified as an employee of the industrialist, apparently spotted police tailing them, officials said. Officers said Sydney Gans, 64, and his wife, Lillian, 60, were killed in their car as police closed in on their captor in an area of dense bush and farmlands southwest of Miami. A suspect identified as Thomas Knight, 23, of Miami, was arrested six hours later after 200 police and FBI agents surrounded the spot. Authorities said Knight, who worked at Gans’ paper bag company, forced Gans and his wife to go to a bank and withdraw $50,000. A bank employee alerted police and a helicopter began following as Knight forced the couple to drive away in an escape attempt.
The Republican Party has slipped to a record low in party affiliation, according to a Gallup poll that also documented the growing challenge of the large bloc of independent voters to both major parties. In interviews with 12,430 persons between March and June, a survey found 23% classifying themselves as Republicans, 44% as Democrats and 33% as independents. GOP affiliation has slipped five points since the months immediately preceding the 1972 presidential election. But the Republican decline has meant only a one-point gain for the Democrats.
Two defense witnesses testified yesterday that relative calm prevailed around Wounded Knee the day that two men charged in connection with the 71‐day occupation of the village last year were arrested. Defense attorneys for Gregorio Jaramillo of Denver and Michael Eugene Sturdevant of Neopit, Wisconsin, opened their case after Judge Warren K. Urbom denied motions for judgments of acquittal in both cases yesterday morning. Ronald Rosen testified that he went to Wounded Knee from New York and found that a “holiday atmosphere” prevailed on March 10, 1973. He said the scene the day before was like a “Sunday picnic.”
Animal health officials in Texas and Oklahoma said they had isolated and controlled an anthrax epidemic which threatened to destroy cattle in both states and spread across the nation. Texas officials said unvaccinated cattle were still dying in Falls County, where the outbreak began June 28 and killed more than 200 animals, but that animals were being inoculated as quickly as possible. Oklahoma has banned the movement of Texas cattle into the state and Arkansas has followed suit. A U.S. Agriculture Department official said there was no anthrax risk to consumers who eat meat.
American Airlines, Inc., and Trans World Airlines reported yesterday sharply higher earnings for June compared with the same month in 1973. Albert V. Casey, the chairman and president of American Airlines, Inc., said yesterday he still hoped for a profit for the full year, “even though signs of softness in traffic are appearing.”
The Baltimore police commissioner has revoked the exclusive bargaining representation of the police union that led to a five-day strike here. In a letter dated yesterday, the day that members of the union ratified a new contract ending the walkout, Commissioner Donald D. Pomerleau informed the City Board of Estimates of his action. He also asked it to approve the contract but with the deletion of clause allowing check‐off of union dues from policemen’s paychecks.
John Lennon is (again) ordered to leave U.S. in 60 days, due to a 1968 marijuana charge in the UK (he doesn’t).
The Moody Blues open the first quadrophonic recording studio in UK.
Milwaukee Brewers’ third baseman Don Money commits a first–inning error in a 10–5 loss to the Minnesota Twins, ending his perfect defensive season after 86 games and 257 chances. Money holds both the National League and American League records for most consecutive chances without an error in a season.
The Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers, 7–1. Dick Allen drove in three runs, two on his 24th homer, and Wilbur Wood won his 15th game with a three-hit effort as the White Sox won their sixth game in their last seven starts. Wood (15–11) joined Cleveland’s Gaylord Perry as the majors’ only 15-game winners. At one stretch the knuckleball pitcher retired 20 successive Detroit batters. Wood did not walk any and struck out seven in helping the White Sox complete a sweep of the three-game Detroit series: Woody Fryman (4–6) was the victim of Chicago’s 13-hit attack.
At Baltimore, Reggie Jackson doubled home one run and scored another, and that was all the Oakland A’s needed, as Vida Blue shut out the Orioles, 2–0.
Pitcher Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals became the first player in National League history, and only the second in Major League Baseball, to strike out 3,000 batters in his career Cardinals pitching great Gibson fans the Reds Cesar Geronimo to become the second hurler to strike out 3,000 batters. Geronimo will become Nolan Ryan’s 3,000th K victim 6 years later. The Reds shrug it off, scoring 6 runs in the first inning and 3 in the 2nd on their way to a 12–7 win.
In Los Angeles, during a 5–4 loss to the Expos, Dodger pitcher Tommy John blows his elbow out while pitching to Montreal first baseman Hal Breeden. Dodger doctor Frank Jobe will suggest a ligament replacement for the torn ulnar collateral ligament, a first for a professional athlete. “When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did, but it was Mrs. Koufax’s,” quipped John, about his famous surgery. Given one chance in a hundred of ever pitching again, John will return after the surgery to post a 10–10 record in 1976, with a 3.40 ERA in 207 innings. He will gain 164 wins after the eponymous surgery, pitching until age 46.
In less than 24 hours at Candlestick Park, the New York Mets dissipated whatever momentum they had achieved in Los Angeles last weekend, as they followed last night’s 9–4 loss to the San Francisco Giants with a 6–2 loss today. Today the winning pitcher for the Giants was John D’Aquisto, who walked eight — but only gave up two hits in six and a third innings. Randy Moffitt came in the game in the seventh and shut out the Mets the rest of the way.
At San Diego, the Padres take a 10–0 lead over the Philadelphia Phillies after 3 innings, doing most of the damage against Jim Lonberg. They win 15–1 behind Randy Jones. Leadoff hitter Bobby Tolan has a pair of homers and drives in 6 runs.
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Born:
Jargaltulgyn Erdenebat, Prime Minister of Mongolia 2016 to 2017; in Mandal, Selenge Province.
Stalin Colinet, NFL defensive tackle and defensive end (Minnesota Vikings, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars), in New York, New York.
Laura Macdonald, Scottish jazz musician, in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Died:
Dizzy Dean [Jay Hanna Dean], 64, U.S. baseball player and inductee in the Baseball Hall of Fame, of a heart attack.
Don Rich (stage name for Donald Eugene Ulrich), 32, American country music guitarist and fiddler for The Buckaroos, was killed in a motorcycle accident at Morro Bay, California while on his way home from a recording session with Buck Owens at Bakersfield.
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