The foreign ministers of the three-nation conference on Cyprus were informed in Geneva that the Soviet Union had decided to send an observer to the meeting, but this had no visible effect on the deadlock between Greece and Turkey. The foreign ministers of Greece, Turkey and Britain were continually meeting an impasse each time progress on a new cease-fire was reported.
Premier Bulent Ecevit of Turkey, at a hastily called news conference in Ankara, said that Turkey would not sign a cease-fire agreement in Geneva unless “real security” was established for ethnic Turks in Cyprus, “Security on paper would not satisfy us,” he said. “Every Turk in every corner of the island must feel at home.”
A high Greek official said that Greece may have to ask the United States to put “more drastic pressure” on Turkey to achieve a solution to the deadlock on Cyprus, The Greek government, which had been highly optimistic, was grave and solemn today as reports indicated that the Geneva negotiations seemed to be faltering.
Communist troops pushed back Saigon government forces half a mile in fighting southwest of Da Nang, South Vietnam’s second largest city. Officials said a 3,000-man government regiment had been battling 1,000 Communists in the 11-day fight for the area, 370 miles north of Saigon. They said a total of 13,000 enemy soldiers were in the area and had overrun half a dozen villages, a major coal mine and several militia outposts since the drive began July 17.
The reports from the area said that North Vietnamese and Việt Cộng troops fired about 15 122MM. rockets at the air base, 375 miles northeast of Saigon, and its vicinity. Military sources said at least seven persons were killed and 24 wounded, mostly civilians. Sixteen were killed and 73 wounded in a rocket attack on the base, July 19.
One of the district towns hit was Thượng Ðức, on Highway 14 about 20 miles southeast of Da Nang. Thượng Ðức and several other district capitals have been besieged in a Communist campaign that began July 17.
The North Vietnamese and the Việt Cộng have also been hitting regularly at South Vietnam’s major air bases in apparent retaliation for heavy air strikes that the South Vietnamese air force has been flying in Communist zones of control.
New riots broke out in more than a dozen prisons in France. The outbreaks marked the 10th day of protests against conditions in French jails. An inmate was shot and killed at a prison near St. Etienne in central France, bringing to four the number of prisoners killed in the past week. The director of Sante prison in Paris said if the rioting continued, guards may strike, leaving the police and military to guard the prisons.
General Francisco Franco remained in a Madrid hospital — with no further word about his release forthcoming from his doctors. Last week they said he would be able to leave the hospital sometime over the weekend, but the latest medical bulletin said only that he was continuing to make a normal recovery after “overcoming the acute phase” of his attack of phlebitis and that he is undergoing “routine additional checks.”
The British Defense Ministry received warning of a possible major bomb campaign against naval, air, army or oil installations and these facilities were put on alert throughout the country. The ministry refused to say whether the warning came from the Irish Republican Army, which is believed responsible for a bomb blast in a parking structure Friday at London’s Heathrow International Airport.
Kuwait, one of the richest oil-producing nations, has refused to contribute to a U.N.-sponsored emergency aid program for countries hardest hit by inflated fuel prices. The General Assembly set up the program after an appeal by Secretary General Kurt Waldheim. Kuwait’s blunt refusal was contained in a note to Waldheim that said it could not participate because it is dependent on a depletable source of income (oil) and must look to its own development and growth.
Foreign Minister Yigal Allon of Israel arrived in Washington, beginning a month of intensive discussions between American officials and Israeli and Arab leaders on establishing a formula for further progress toward a Middle East settlement. In addition to Mr. Alton, Premier Zaid al-Rifai of Jordan, Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy of Egypt and a Syrian envoy will come to Washington for separate consultations with Secretary of State Kissinger.
The irate families of eight victims of a Mexico City bus-train crash seized 11 suburban buses and forced the bus company to agree on payment of $12,000 per victim. The eight were killed, and 36 others hospitalized, when a freight train slammed into the bus at a railroad crossing Friday. The families of the eight said they would continue to occupy the seized buses until the money is handed over.
Sixty-nine die when a packed bus strikes a heavy truck in Belem, Brazil.
The sinking of the South Korean ship Western Star, after its collision with the Japanese freighter Kikuko Maru, killed 24 of the 26 people on board. A Liberian-flagged freighter sank after colliding with a Japanese ship in Japan’s Inland Sea, and 24 of its 26 Korean crewmen were reported missing. The Japanese freighter, Kikuko Maru, bound for Los Angeles with a cargo of automobiles, rescued two crewmen of the Western Star, but an air-sea search found no other survivors. The collision occurred between the main islands of Kyushu and Shikoku in calm seas with unlimited visibility. The Western Star was carrying chromite from the Philippines to a Japanese port.
Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee held a caucus to revise the wording of a second article of impeachment charging that President Nixon had abused his constitutional authority. The new draft of the second article incorporates and revises previous drafts offered by Representative Harold Donohue of Massachusetts, a Democrat, and Representative Robert McClory of Illinois, a Republican. Meanwhile, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the Democratic whip, said that chances were increasing for the removal of President Nixon from office.
Nixon’s closest aides said that he was able to go stoically about the business of the presidency through the exercise of enormous self-control as the crisis of impeachment nears its climax. The President ended a 16-day working vacation at his estate in San Clemente, California. He has worked at avoiding impeachment an average of two hours a day, a White House spokesman said.
Congressional authorities have noted that while the impeachment inquiry has been gaining momentum, President Nixon has made important concessions of authority to the Congress that must decide whether he remains in office. The administration is said to be more cooperative in providing Congress with information and access to officials in the executive branch and that Mr. Nixon has consulted congressional leaders more often on a wider range of issues than had been his custom.
Senator Jacob K. Javits refused to be pinned down yesterday on how he would vote in a Senate trial of President Nixon. Appearing on WCBS‐TV’s “Newsmakers” program, the New York Republican said that he would cast his ballot “in accord with the evidence.” The Senator reiterated his belief that the President should not resign. Last March, when James L. Buckley, the Conservative‐Republican Senator from New York, urged Mr. Nixon to resign, Mr. Javits disagreed. Mr. Javits, warm in his praise of the House Judiciary Committee’s conduct, described the proceedings as “nonpartisan” and said that all the members had “comported themselves well.”
Temple University of Philadelphia has paid $5,000 in an out-of-court settlement to a white historian who claimed he was denied the opportunity to compete for a faculty position in the school’s Institute of Pan-African Studies. The complainant, Martin Goldman, 34, was lecturer in black history at Clark University in Massachusetts when he applied for the Temple position in 1972. In a telephone interview he was offered the job and advised he was “the most qualified applicant they had.” The offer was withdrawn when he told the institute’s director he was white.
Fred Gomez Carrasco, 34, who described himself as a “person about to be executed,” said he expected to flee the Texas State Prison in Huntsville, Texas, today — and possibly head for Cuba. “The TDC (Texas Department of Corrections) knows as well as I do that I have the four aces and the joker,” Carrasco said of the 15 hostages held by himself and two other armed convicts. All of the group — convicts and hostages — earlier attended an informal Mass in the prison library conducted by the Rev. Joseph O’Brien, prison chaplain and one of the hostages.
The chairman of the Western Governors’ Conference meeting in Albuquerque, Governor Bruce King of New Mexico, said Americans were looking to state officials for leadership because of the impeachment proceedings at the federal level. King, a Democrat, said he did not feel the delegates to the conference, opening today, would “dwell on the issue of the possible impeachment of President Nixon.” Governors Reagan of California, a Republican, and Thomas Judge of Montana, a Republican, said that reaction to Watergate might cause many Republicans to stay home on election day in November.
While refusing to comment on the House Judiciary Committee’s vote recommending the impeachment of President Nixon, Senator Robert Dole (R-Kansas) said security surrounding Vice President Ford should be increased. “It would be a tragedy of profound magnitude if something should happen to Ford that could be prevented by adequate security precautions,” Dole said at a campaign appearance in Pomona, Kansas.
New York Mayor Abraham D. Beame charged that his successor as city comptroller, Harrison J. Goldin, was “weaving a pattern of confusion and suspicion” and engaging in “downright distortions of the truth,” in trying to make the public think Beame purposely covered up multimillion dollar discrepancies in the city’s books. “If the mayor feels that his credibility, his professionalism, his competency have been undermined or cast into serious doubt, his quarrel is with three of the most distinguished independent accounting firms in the country,” said Goldin in rebuttal.
A U.S. Air Force SR-71 Blackbird set an absolute altitude record of 85,069 feet (25,929 m) and an absolute speed record of 2,193.2 miles per hour (3,529.6 km/h), both superlatives for a non-rocket-powered aircraft.
The Reds whip the Padres, 14–1, at Riverfront Stadium. Joe Morgan homers and Johnny Bench has 4 hits.
At Fenway, the Red Sox break a 3–3 tie with the Yankees to win, 8–3. It is their 10th straight win over the Yankees at Fenway and their 19th in 20 games with the Bronx Bombers. Bill Lee takes the win while batterymate Tim Blackwell steals home on the front end of a double steal. He’ll next have a steal in 1981. The Red Sox lead the bunched-up American League East. Detroit, in 6th place, is only 6 games back.
In a doubleheader split, the Twins edge the Angels, 5–3, in the opener to hand California its 15th straight home loss. The Haloes come back in game 2 to win, 12–9 in a slugfest. Starter Frank Tanana gives up a pair of 3-run homers to Bobby Darwin, who drives in 6 runs, then watches as reliever Nolan Ryan gives up a pair of pinch homers to Harmon Killebrew and Rod Carew. But Ryan gets his 13th win. Leroy Stanton has a steal of home in the 5th and catcher Phil Roof hits the roof on the call and is ejected, challenging a fan in the process.
The Reds whip the Padres, 14–1, at Riverfront Stadium. Joe Morgan homers and Johnny Bench has 4 hits.
The Houston Astros beat the San Francisco Giants for the third straight time when Lee May singled‐in the 10th for a 3–2 victory. Roger Metzger had opened the inning with a single‐and moved to third on Cesar Cedeno’s single. May’s hit went over the head of Gary Matthews. The Giants had tied the game in the ninth on Ed Goodson’s single.
Al Oliver has three hits and a stolen base as the Pirates trip the first–place Phillies, 4–3, at Veterans Stadium. Oliver has now hit in 23 straight games. It will end tomorrow but he will start another 21-game streak on August 4.
Born:
Alexis Tsipras, Greek politician (Greek President 2015-2019), in Athens, Greece.
Jeremy Stevenson, NHL left wing (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Nashville Predators, Minnesota Wild, Dallas Stars), in San Bernardino, California.
Hannah Waddingham, British actress (“Ted Lasso”; “Game of Thrones”), and musical theater singer, born in London, England, United Kingdom.
Justin Lee Collins, British radio host, actor and comedian, born in Southmead, Bristol, England, United Kingdom.
Died:
Don McCafferty, 53, head coach of the Detroit Lions and former head coach of the Baltimore Colts, died of a heart attack at his home shortly after the opening of training camp in preparation for the 1974 NFL season.
Truman Bradley, 69, American TV host (“Science Fiction Theater”).
Konstantin Chkheidze, 76, Czech-Georgian-Russian writer, committed suicide.
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