Turkish troops continued to expand their area of control eastward from their beachhead at Kyrenia today and ordered the United Nations peacekeeping force to leave the Kyrenia area, where it has been protecting Greek Cypriots cut off behind Turkish lines. The commander of the United Nations force, General Prem Chand of India, informed Turkish Cypriot authorities who have taken over administration of the Kyrenia area that the matter would be referred to United Nations headquarters in New York. Meanwhile, Turkish forces expanded east about six miles from Kyrenia. This morning the Turks swept past the village of Ayios Epiktitos and there was a report that they shelled it.
The United Nations forces have been protecting Greek Cypriots who have gathered in the Dome Hotel in Kyrenia and in the village of Bellapais. Greek Cypriots in four other villages in the Kyrenia area have also been receiving United Nations help. The Turkish order injects a new element into the Cyprus crisis. The United Nations plans to increase its force on the island to 5,000 men in the coming weeks. Already, the fate of Nicosia airport, threatened by Turkish forces for more than a week, depends on a small United Nations force defending its perimeter. This is the second rift between the United Nations and the Turks since the invasion was launched on July 20. Last week General Chand ordered an alert at the Nicosia airport and rushed reinforcements there when the Turks appeared to be preparing an attack aimed a capturing it.
The Turkish order to the United Nations has raised fears among the Greek Cypriots. At least 2,000 of the refugees from villages in the Kyrenia area are now in Bellapais, a fashionable Greek village overlooking Kyrenia. The Greek Cypriot community prevented Greek Cypriot troops from taking up positions in the village and it was given United Nations protection. The other concentration of Greek Cypriots in Kyrenia is at the Dome Hotel where more than 700 are living under difficult conditions hoping for repatriation by the United Nations to safer areas. Other pockets of Greek Cypriots cut off behind the Turkish lines are to the villages dotting the Kyrem range.
A United Nations spokesman confirmed that the Turks had persisted in their advance despite the agreed cease‐fire. “In the last three or four days the Turks continue to make territorial gains and maintain their build‐up,” the spokesman said. Earlier, the Turkish administration set up in Kyrenia informed the United Nations that relief operations for Greeks cut off in the Kyrenia area must be channeled through Turkish officials.
The Foreign Ministers of Britain, Greece and Turkey recessed until tomorrow after 31 hours of almost continuous negotiations in Geneva without reaching an agreement on a Cyprus cease-fire. After an agreement on a “provisional solution” early today, the talks broke down on the crucial issue of the withdrawal of Turkish troops. At 6 PM, after occasional meetings, many phone calls and hours of just waiting, Foreign Secretary James Callaghan of Britain said there would be no more meetings tonight. “This is a time for reflection, and serious reflection by some,” he said. A new deadline for agreement was set for tomorrow morning.
A Palermo, Sicily, court dealt the Mafia a strong blow in sentencing 32 of its alleged bosses to prison terms of eight months to seven years for conspiracy to commit a crime. The court cleared another 43 men after a five-month trial seen as an attempt to crush the organization. The conspiracy charge, easier to prove than murder, was introduced as a strategy to overcome the Sicilian tradition of “omerta” — silence of frightened witnesses.
East German border officials held up a score of vehicles on the roads through their country to West Berlin this weekend, apparently in a token attempt to make good on a threat to keep officials of a new West German agency from driving to their jobs. The West German Government spokesman, Klaus Bolling, said today that the delays, which, ranged from half an hour to an hour, were “clear violation” of the 1972 four‐power agreement on Berlin guaranteeing free access to the city’s Western sector through East Germany. The spokesman said the three Western signers of the agreement, the United States, Britain, and France, might protest to the fourth signer, the Soviet Union.
Negotiations toward official U.S. recognition of the East German Communist regime broke off in Washington, the State Department said. Spokesman Robert Anderson charged that West German officials again had been denied access to Berlin in violation of a postwar agreement. Official recognition had been expected to come this week, and there were reports that ex-Senator John S. Cooper (R-Kentucky) would be named first U.S. ambassador to East Germany. The State Department announced today it had suspended negotiations on establishing diplomatic relations with East Germany because of interference with traffic on the highway access routes through East Germany to West Berlin. Robert Anderson, the State Department spokesman, said there had been “somewhat of a slowdown” on some of the highways linking West Germany to West Berlin since last Friday because of identity checks on West German travelers by East German border guards. He said the slowdowns apparently reflected East German displeasure with Bonn’s decision to open a federal environmental protection agency in West Berlin.
Eight Irishmen who wore illegal uniforms at the funeral of an Irish Republican Army hunger-striker in London last month were found guilty of the offense and fined $150 each. Their lawyer said the eight men wore black berets, black sweaters and dark glasses at the funeral of Michael Gaughan, who died June 3 after a two-month fast in a British prison.
Yuri Andropov, Director of the KGB, the Soviet Union’s espionage and internal security agency, issued order number 0089/OV, establishing the Alpha Group, a sub-unit of the KGB’s Special Forces.
Israeli soldiers today broke up an encampment of Jewish nationalists who squatted four days near Nablus in occupied Jordanian territory and proclaimed their intention to build a Jewish village there. Some 150 would‐be settlers and several hundred sympathizers were taken in buses to Jerusalem and escorted by armed soldiers. Lieutenant General Mordechai Gur, the Chief of Staff, commanded the operation. The squatters did not resist the soldiers but some refused to leave willingly and soldiers carried or dragged them to the buses, “A Jew does not abandon the ancestral homeland willingly” one of them explained.
The group decided not to disband but to live together in the Merkaz Yeshiva in Jerusalem until they settle somewhere in Samaria, the northern part of the West Bank of the Jordan River captured in the six-day war of 1967. A spokesman said if the government did not approve their settlement there, they would make another unauthorized attempt next month. The bloodless end of the weekend confrontation between the government and the settlers was received with relief in Tel Aviv. Determined demonstrators had said yesterday that they would chain themselves to the crumbling former railway station.
Communist forces kept up their attack along South Vietnam’s northern coast, capturing a series of outposts around Thượng Ðức. North Vietnamese gunners shelled the Da Nang Air Base, killing six persons and wounding 24, most of them civilians, Saigon said. North Vietnamese troops rolled over seven government outposts around Thượng Ðức after firing more than 1,000 rocket, artillery, and mortar rounds into the besieged district capital. Reports from the field indicated that government military and civilian casualties were heavy and that most of the civilian homes in the town of 11,000 people had been destroyed or damaged.
Western diplomats characterize the recent intensification in Communist attacks as “strategic raids and a series of high points” designed to keep the war going and to prevent the South Vietnamese Government from turning its energies and manpower to the country’s severe economic problems. They believe Hanoi is trying to strain the South Vietnamese economy to the breaking point to undermine the Government of President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.
In Thailand, U.S. officials were investigating the disappearance of 500,000 rounds of M16 rifle ammunition from a barge bound from Thailand to Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
An eruption of the Japanese volcano Niigata-Yakeyama killed three students who were climbing the mountain at the time.
Health authorities in Sao Paulo, Brazil, said a meningitis epidemic — which according to some reports claimed 267 lives over a 17-day period in Brazil’s largest city — is now under control. Newspapers in Sao Paulo, however, have had their reports of the crisis heavily censored. Jornal da Tarde, the city’s largest evening newspaper, had been printing columns of cooking recipes, one of its ways of showing it has been censored.
Peru’s President Juan Velasco Alvarado, announced Plan Inca, the ruling military junta’s program for modernizing the South American nation.
Police in Lima broke up a demonstration by 300 students protesting the Peruvian government’s expropriation of eight independent newspapers. Eyewitnesses reported 11 arrests of students shouting “Free Press!” and “Down with Velasco!” as they marched in an affluent Lima suburb. President Juan Velasco Alvarado charged the newspapers were controlled by family groups in service of foreign interests, and it was announced the papers would be taken over by labor unions allied with the leftist military regime.
A group of nine nations, hoping to break a deadlock at the U.N. Law of the Sea Conference, proposed that coastal states have a 12-mile territorial sea plus an additional 188-mile economic zone with fishing and deep-sea mining rights. Excluded from their control would be aerial overflight, freedom of navigation and the laying of pipes and cables. The conference is split into two blocs — pitting poor nations against rich — on a 200-mile vs. 12-mile limit.
France performs a nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll.
The House Judiciary Committee voted overwhelmingly tonight to adopt a second article of impeachment, charging that President Nixon failed “repeatedly” to carry out his constitutional oath and duty to uphold the nation’s laws. By a roll-call vote of 28 to 10 with 7 Republicans joining all 21 Democrats, the committee formally urged the House to impeach and the Senate to try Mr. Nixon for a series of alleged abuses of power.
The new accusation, even more than that contained in the charge by a committee majority on Saturday that Mr. Nixon had obstructed justice in the Watergate case, bore directly on the President’s role in the American system and the constitutional limits of it.
Hoping to stop what may become an impeachment stampede, the House minority leader, John Rhodes of Arizona, is expected to announce this week a plan for a series of informal “rap sessions” to give Republicans an opportunity to debate the impeachment issue. Some Republicans in the House said that impeachment sentiment within the party was growing daily. Mr. Rhodes believes that the House Judiciary Committee proceedings have been “a one-sided affair, to say the very least.”
John Connally, who had been Democratic Governor of Texas from 1963 to 1969 and, after switching to the Republican party, had served as Secretary of the Treasury under President Nixon, was indicted by a Watergate grand jury on five counts dealing with accepting a bribe, perjury and conspiring to obstruct justice. He was indicted for allegedly receiving $10,000 in two cash payments from a dairy organization in exchange for his recommendations that the federal milk-price support level be raised. Jake Jacobsen, a lawyer for the dairy group, against whom an earlier perjury charge had been dismissed, was indicted again with Mr. Connally.
The 1972 decision to ban the use of DDT was “political rather than scientific,” said an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was accompanied by a plea to the Environmental Protection Agency for a more liberal policy on DDT use “as a public health measure for uses that are essential to the control of noxious insects.” The article by Dr. Thomas H. Jukes, a U.C. Berkeley medical biochemist, claimed that over the last three years gypsy moths have denuded East Coast forests and tussock moths have destroyed forests in the West. He acknowledged that DDT is toxic to crustaceans, fish and sometimes birds.
Failure of the Nixon Administration’s fiscal and monetary policies was predicted by a former presidential economic adviser addressing the Midwest Governors Conference in Minneapolis. Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Lyndon B. Johnson, called for the return of some price controls to fight mounting inflation. He warned that current policies would result in “an economy with too much unemplovment and too much inflation.” He described the original Administration price control policies as an “incredible botch,” and said the new approach was not working either.
The former Florida state Republican chairman, Earl M. Crittenden, and two federal housing officials pleaded innocent in Jacksonville to charges in connection with an influence-peddling case involving Senator Edward J. Gurney (R-Florida). Wayne Swiger, director of the Tampa ensuring office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Ralph Koontz, special assistant to the state HUD director in Jacksonville, also entered pleas. They are accused of conspiring to raise funds to go to Gurney in return for influencing government-sponsored housing projects and mortgage insurance grants.
In the U.S., the “Philadelphia Eleven”, all deacons in their own churches became the first women to be ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church. Three men who were Episcopal bishops conducted an unauthorized ceremony at the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Among the 11 were Alison Cheek, future federal judge Emily C. Hewitt, Isabel Carter Heyward, balloon pilot Jeannette Piccard, and Betty Bone Schiess. They were ordained by Robert L. DeWitt, Bishop of Pennsylvania; Daniel Corrigan, Suffragan Bishop of Colorado; and Edward R. Welles II, the retired Bishop of West Missouri. In a ceremony that defied Episcopal laws and traditions, 11 women were ordained as Episcopal priests at the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia. The ordinations could lead to disciplinary actions against the women, who had already been ordained as deacons, as well as the four bishops who ordained them. “We believe it is a Christian duty to disobey unjust laws,” said Dr. Charles Willie, a black Episcopal layman, in a sermon at the ceremony.
In New Jersey, about 18,000 construction workers demonstrated in front of the State Capitol in Trenton and angrily demanded that Governor Byrne act to provide more jobs for their severely depressed industry. The Governor was cheered when he acknowledged that the employment outlook was bleak, but the cheers turned into boos and catcalls as he put the blame on the Nixon administration and began to recount the accomplishments in the first six months of the Byrne administration.
Actor Robert Conrad, 39, star of the television series “Wild, Wild West,” faces possible assault and battery charges in the beating of a man who was playing Santa Claus in a Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, hotel cocktail lounge. The brawl, during a “Christmas in July” party, sent “Santa,” William Boyd, 31, of Ft. Lauderdale, to the hospital with a broken jaw, cracked ribs and a dislocated shoulder. Cause of the dispute was not reported. Conrad has been in Florida working on a movie based on the life of convicted murderer and jewel thief Jack (Murph the Surf) Murphy.
The price of insulin, which many diabetics need to remain alive, has been increased 10%, Eli Lilly & Co. announced in Indianapolis. The firm said sharply rising production costs had forced the first price hike in 28 years. Lilly President Thomas H. Lake said, “Prices for pancreas glands, from which insulin is made, are now 129% above those in 1968 In addition, wages are about 50% above 1968 levels.”
The NBA Detroit Pistons are sold for $8.1 million to a nine-man group led by William N. Davidson.
Detroit hits 4 home runs in the first inning in an 8–2 win over the Cleveland Indians. The Tigers became the first major league team ever to hit four home runs in the opening inning. Al Kaline, Bill Freehan, and Mickey Stanley hit consecutive home runs off Fritz Peterson, and Ed Brinkman adds another, though not consecutive, off Steve Kline.
The Baltimore Orioles downed the Milwaukee Brewers, 6–2. Paul Blair tripled home a run and then scored in a four‐run third inning, and Mark Belanger singled home two runs in the eighth to back the pitching of Baltimore’s Ross Grimsley.
Though they could collect only three hits over three and a half hours, the opportunistic Boston Red Sox scored an unearned run without benefit of a hit in the 11th inning tonight to top the New York Yankees, 2–1, and complete the sweep of a three-game series.
The Philadelphia Phillies walloped the Pittsburgh Pirates, 13–1. Mike Schmidt hit a pair of two-run homers, Steve Carlton pitched a two‐hitter and Philadelphia walked off with its third victory in the four-game series with Pittsburgh.
Garry Maddox had three singles and Bobby Bonds tripled, singled and drove in two runs to lead San Francisco’s 14‐hit attack as the Giants beat the Houston Astros, 7–2.
The St. Louis Cardinals’ Lou Brock steals his 700th base and the Cardinals rout the Chicago Cubs, 11–4. Brock stole the 700th base of his career, becoming the fifth player to reach that mark, and also singled twice and scored twice for St. Louis. Brock singled in the first inning and promptly stole second for his 65th theft of the season. His career total gives him one fewer than Honus Wagner but 192 less than Ty Cobb’s record. Ken Reitz and Joe Torre homered for the Cardinals, who had 18 hits.
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Born:
Josh Radnor, American TV actor (‘Ted Mosby’-“How I Met Your Mother”; in Columbus, Ohio.
Afroman (stage name for Joseph Foreman), American hip hop artist and comedian, Grammy Award nominee; in Los Angeles, California.
Mark Fischer, NFL center (Washington Redskins), in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Derek Wilkinson, Canadian NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning), in LaSalle, Quebec, Canada.
Died:
Cass Elliot (stage name for Ellen Naomi Cohen), 32, U.S. singer for The Mamas & the Papas, known as “Mama Cass” (Mamas & The Papas – “California Dreaming”; “Monday, Monday”; solo – “Dream a Little Dream of Me”; “Make Your Own Kind of Music”, of a heart attack linked to obesity. The death was originally attributed, incorrectly, to choking on food.
Erich Kästner, 72, German poet and children’s book author known for Emil and the Detectives.
W. J. Seeley, 79, former dean of Duke University Pratt School of Engineering.
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