The United States announced that Greece and Turkey had agreed to a cease-fire between their forces on Cyprus beginning at 10 A.M. tomorrow, some 70 hours after a Turkish assault force landed on the Mediterranean island, The cease-fire would come a week after the July 15 coup in which the Cypriote National Guard led by Greek officers ousted President Makarios, setting the stage for the Turkish intervention.
The Turkish general staff announced that there had been a sharp battle off the coast of western Cyprus between a Greek naval unit and Turkish naval and air forces. The Turkish communique said that the Greek vessels had been intercepted by Turkish planes and ships and that a landing operation at Paphos, a port on the southwest coast of Cyprus, had been halted.
Hundreds of people fleeing Cyprus arrived at a Royal Air Force Base in southwest Britain telling grim tales of shooting and bloodshed following the Greek-led coup. A Dublin man said: “People who were told by Makarios to lay down their guns were shot out of hand by the National Guard. They were buried in many graves. I saw paratroopers all over the place and nobody seemed to know quite what to do.”
William Wells, a sunburned businessman from Brentford, near London, said he and his wife and 12‐year‐old son had been trapped in the Amathus Beach Hotel near Limassol for four days before United Nations troops evacuated them yesterday. He said that soldiers led by officers had tried to occupy the hotel because of its strategic location on the main highway. “They mounted a gun on the corner and then a group entered the hotel,” he said. “They spoke to the manager, It was a quick discussion. Within minutes, the United Nations arrived — they were Danish and Australian. They spoke to the guy in charge of the soldiers and they went away. They were going to take it over and use it as a strong point.”
A Turkish General staff communiqué said Greek Cypriots had been attacking Turkish communities in Cyprus today. The communiqué charged that men, women and children were being “incredibly, horribly exterminated.” It said that the Greek Cypriot National Guard was attacking Turkish communities in mountain villages close to Paphos in the far southwest and Lefka in the northwest. There were fears in official circles that the Greek Cypriots might be seeking to hold hostages. The General Staff communique said national guards had slaughtered “women, children and old people whose only crime was to be Turks.” The Greek Cypriot radio said last night that Turkish communities had been overcome in the towns of Larnaca and Limassol and in six villages.
Turkish Air Force fighter planes mistakenly attacked and sank the Turkish Navy destroyer TCG Kocatepe, killing 54 people, and heavily damaged the ships Adatepe and Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak off the coast of Paphos at Cyprus.
A Central Intelligence Agency analysis has concluded that the Soviet military budget has increased in recent years to the point where Moscow is spending slightly more in dollar terms than the United States. From the late nineteen‐fifties until 1970, according to agency estimates, defense spending of the United States exceeded the Soviet military effort, measured by the dollar cost of the Soviet military program. Since 1970, however, the Soviet effort has slightly exceeded that of the United States. By the agency’s figures, two factors accounted for this. One was a relatively steady increase of about 3 percent annually in the Soviet defense program since 1960. The other was a relative, decline in the United States military budget, as measured in constant dollars, in the last few years, particularly as American troops were withdrawn from South Vietnam.
A team of doctors treating General Francisco Franco for a circulatory ailment in Madrid said they had an “optimistic impression regarding the progress” of the aging leader’s recovery. But sources close to the government said earlier Franco had suffered a setback on his 12th day of hospitalization. A Roman Catholic priest celebrated Mass in Franco’s hospital room.
Israel’s cabinet voted, by a large majority, to reject a proposal to begin discussions with moderate Palestinian representatives to establish an independent Palestinian nation on the West Bank in exchange for Arab recognition of Israel’s right to exist. The Israeli cabinet rejected a proposal to begin discussions with moderate Palestinians aimed at agreement to establish an independent Palestinian state in exchange for Arab recognition of Israel. A leftwing minister had suggested negotiating with the moderate Palestinian elements, but the cabinet in a tough stand voted the proposal down by a large majority, Israeli officials said.
Egypt signed agreements granting exclusive rights to prospect for oil and gas to, in an around the Gulf of Suez, to Standard Oil Company of Indiana (Amoco), and for rights in and around the Red Sea to Mobil Oil Corporation and Union Oil Company of California, in return for the companies to pay 20% of any revenues made from the discoveries. Union and Mobil were given prospecting rights on the Red Sea and Amoco in the Suez Gulf area.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s Government came under severe attack today from members of her Congress party for failure on the economic front. Over 60 key party members, at a three‐day session of the party’s policy‐making All India Congress Committee, spoke of a “grave economic situation” and blamed the government’s failure to make good on past pledges. Younger members of the party were particularly scathing in their attack on the leadership. “When Kennedy became President of the United States,” said C. K. Namboodlripad, young Congress leader from the southern state of Kerala, “he brought with him not only a new policy but also a dynamic team to work with him. But our Prime Minister gave us a new policy but retained the old faces in the party to govern.”
Cambodian rebels and government troops fought a day-long battle for Pich Nil Pass on Highway 4, 67 miles southwest of Phnom Penh. Field reports were scant, but the fighting was said to be intense.
In South Vietnam, government troops fought for what was left of Đức Dục, a district town 350 miles northeast of Saigon. The town, with an original population of 5,000, was reported all but demolished after four days of fighting with 300 of its homes destroyed and only 1,000 of its inhabitants remaining. This fighting will rage until October. The North Vietnamese make some minor territorial gains and suffer heavy losses, while South Vietnamese forces are severely weakened by the fighting. More than 4,700 men of the ARVN 3rd Division are killed, wounded, or are missing in the actions in and around Đức Dục in the three months of the PAVN offensive began at Dạ Trạch on 18 July. A disproportionate number are officers and noncommissioned officers for whom no experienced replacements are available.
More than a ton of medical supplies and food was airlifted to about 200 tourists stranded along the flooded Alaska Highway in British Columbia. A police spokesman said the road, blocked by landslides and a collapsed bridge, might be open Thursday. The spokesman said there were no casualties reported among the tourists, other than “a couple of kids with the flu.”
Dozens of forest fires raged in a 2,000-square-mile area straddling the Ontario-Manitoba border, and Canadian fire officials said 850 men using 56 airplanes and dozens of bulldozers were fighting to control 132 blazes throughout Ontario Province. The largest fire was in the Red Lake area, burning across 170 square miles. There was no immediate threat to populated areas but fire hazard was rated high to extreme throughout the province.
Chile’s ambassador to Lebanon was shot and seriously wounded by four gunmen as he entered an elevator in his apartment building in Beirut’s seaside Manara district. Police said Ambassador Alfredo Canales Marques was shot four times in the chest by the ambushers, who fled. Canales was reported in serious condition at the hospital of the American University of Beirut.
A 26-year-old Chilean stowed away in the landing gear housing of a Boeing 707 airliner and survived a temperature of 22 degrees below zero on a 1,500-mile flight from Santiago to Lima. Mario Grez Rivas was hospitalized with pneumonia and frostbite after the three-hour flight, but doctors in Lima said he was recovering rapidly.
Albert Jenner has been replaced as counsel to the Republican minority on the House Judiciary Committee. Mr. Jenner, a Chicago lawyer, supported the recommendation of John Doar, the Committee’s special counsel, that the Senate vote to impeach President Nixon. He has been replaced by Sam Garrison, the panel’s assistant minority counsel, who had been on the staff of former Vice President Agnew.
“Children alone and unprotected and already suffering from personality disorders appear to have been subjected to some of the basest indignities imaginable,” said Senator Henry Jackson, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, which will make public at a hearing Tuesday allegations that children have been grossly mistreated in some private psychiatric treatment centers that have been given funds by the Department of Defense for the treatment of dependents of retired military personnel or dependents of the members of the armed forces. Senator Jackson said Senate investigators had uncovered allegations that children of U.S. military personnel had been tortured in psychiatric centers funded by the Defense Department. The alleged abuses include injections with urine, rampant use of drugs, use of chains and isolation of children in solitary confinement, Jackson said.
A Pentagon spokesman said defense officials would have no comment until they testify Tuesday at Senate subcommittee hearings on the matter. The program, called CHAMPUS for Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services, is designed to pay benefits for dependents of active-duty military personnel and retirees and their dependents where the services are not available at military hospitals.
A burglar attempted to break into the offices of the Senate permanent investigation subcommittee but was surprised by a secretary working late on Capitol Hill, Senate sources said. An armed guard has been posted outside the door. The subcommittee, headed by Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington), is investigating charges that a multi-million-dollar heroin investigation was shelved when fugitive financier Robert L. Vesco’s name surfaced. A subcommittee spokesman said the secretary heard a scratching noise around 8 pm and “so she opened the door and this well-dressed man was trying to pick the lock. She screamed and he jumped 10 feet in the air and ran down the hall.”
Vice President Ford has emerged as the first choice among Republicans polled on their party’s Presidential nomination in 1976. According to findings of a Gallup Poll, released yesterday, the Vice President is ahead of Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona and Governor Ronald Reagan of California, all of whom were close contenders for first place early in the year. Mr. Ford has 27 percent. Mr. Goldwater and Mr. Reagan both have 16 percent, with Nelson A. Rockefeller trailing with 12 percent of the party’s support.
In the Gallup survey, respondents were asked to choose from a list of 11 men whose names have been mentioned as possible candidates for the 1976 G.O.P. nomination. Substantially behind the Vice President and the others were Senator Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee and John B. Connally, former Treasury Secretary, both of whom received 5 percent. Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois registered 4 percent and Elliot L. Richardson, former Attorney General, got 3 percent. Senator James L. Buckley of New York and Senator Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon both had 2 percent and Senator Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts trailed with 1 percent.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed air emission standards for supersonic aircraft that would take effect in 1981. The standards would apply only to foreign-built passenger SSTs landing at American airports. The United States scrapped its plans to construct an SST. Only the British-French Concorde and a Russian plane, the TU-144, now fly at supersonic speeds. The new proposals would reduce emissions of carbon monoxide by at least 64%. Hydrocarbons would be reduced from 70% to 80% and nitrogen oxides to 20%. Visible smoke emissions would be virtually eliminated, the EPA said.
More than 400,000 persons were arrested in the United States on marijuana charges during 1973, an increase of 100,000 over the previous year, according to FBI figures. The statistics, compiled for the FBI Uniform Crime Report for 1973, showed 420,700 persons were arrested on marijuana charges — 66.9% of all drug arrests in that year. The figure represented a 43% increase over 1972, when 292,179 were charged. California led the nation with 95,110 arrests in 1973, accounting for one out of every four felony arrests made in the state. Keith Stroup, director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, estimated the cost of the arrests in terms of law enforcement resources at between $250 million and $600 million.
John C. Sawhill, federal energy administrator, said the nation had “entered a new era of high-cost energy” and that consumers should not expect any price relief. Sawhill, who appeared on the CBS-TV program “Face the Nation” without a coat and tie to dramatize his plea for higher air-conditioning temperatures, predicted that energy prices “will continue to drift upward.” He said he had urged governors “to work with their state utility commission to get the price of electricity up” so the companies would have enough money to expand to meet future power demands. Sawhill said the nation “will face a very critical situation” unless world oil prices come down.
Amparo Muñoz of Spain was crowned as Miss Universe 1974 at the pageant in Manila. Muñoz, one of 65 competitors from around the world, would voluntarily relinquish her title six months later after declining to travel to Japan as part of her worldwide visiting requirements, and no successor would be named.
Four labor strikes in professional sports in the last four years, a rush of lawsuits, soaring salaries and ticket prices, more government involvement in building stadiums, taxes on bets, city-hopping by teams, league-hopping by players — all these lead to the question analyzed by sports writers of the New York Times: “Is the professional sports bubble ready to burst, or is it only inflating with the rest of the economy?”
U.S. Open Women’s Golf, La Grange CC: Sandra Haynie wins by 1 shot from Beth Stone and Carol Mann.
Eddy Merckx won the 1974 Tour de France. Eddy Merckx of Belgium won the 5th Tour that he entered; equaling Jacques Anquetil’s record for Tour victories.
In Chicago, the White Sox win the opener, 6–3, behind Jim Kaat, then blow the nightcap when the Milwaukee Brewers score 5 runs in the 9th to win, 5–3. Starter Fritz Peterson falters in the 9th, a Deron Johnson pounds a grand slam off reliever Terry Forster. It is Johnson’s second grand slam of the season.
It was Bat Day yesterday at Shea Stadium, but they should have called it Arm Day. The New York Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals, 5‐4, as much on their hitting and hitching as on their throwing. Five Royals were cut down on the bases, three on throws from the outfield. Three runs in the 7th inning provided the winning margin. Bobby Murcer’s bloop double was the key blow.
The Texas Rangers’ all‐stars, Jeff Burroughs and Jim Sundberg, helped give Texas a 2–1 victory and cut Boston’s lead in the East to half a game. Sandberg a catcher, singled in the seventh, moved to second on another hit and scored on Burroughs’s single. The right fielder leads the league with 73 runs batted in.
Lou Brock, who specializes in tormenting National League pitchers with his base‐stealing and first‐base antics that keep his opponents on edge, stole his 59th and 60th bases in the Cardinals’ 9–1 victory over the Houston Astros in St. Louis. It was the seventh season the 35‐year‐old Brock has stolen 60 or more bases in one season. He also owns a string of 10 consecutive seasons in which he has stolen 50 or more bases. Brock, caught stealing only 13 times this season, is 20 games ahead of the 1962 pace when Wills, playing with the Los Angeles Dodgers, stole 104 bases, a record. Wills stole 45 of those bases in his last 47 games.
Jim Lonborg tossed a five‐hitter for his 12th victory of the season that cut the Dodgers’ Western Division lead over the Cincinnati Reds to 5½ games, as the Phillies beat Los Angeles, 2–1. It was the Dodgers’ seventh loss in their last 10 games. Willie Montanez’s single to score Dave Cash provided Philadelphia, the Division pace‐setter, with the deciding run. Cash had led off the eighth with a walk, was sacrificed to second by Larry Bowa and moved to third on Mike Schmidt’s single.
A pair of two‐run homers by Willie McCovey — his 11th and 12th of the season — and strong pitching by Bill Greif enabled the San Diego Padres to pin a 7–3 defeat today on the New York Mets, who ended their California tour with a 4–4 won‐lost record.
At Candlestick Park, the San Francisco Giants’ Jim Barr allows 6 hits in shutting out the Montreal Expos, 4–0. John D’Acquisto makes it a doubleheader blanking when follows with a 2-hit 2–0 shutout for the Giants in the second game.
The Atlanta Braves released manager Eddie Matthews. They have not named a successor.
Born:
Geoff Jenkins, MLB outfielder (World Series Champions-Phillies, 2008; All-Star, 2003; Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies), in Olympia, Washington.
Brett Hinchliffe, MLB pitcher (Seattle Seahawks, Anaheim Angels, New York Mets), in Detroit, Michigan.
Terry Coldwell, British pop singer (East 17 – “Stay Another Day”), and actor, in Islington, London, England, United Kingdom.
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