A group of prominent Democrats called for a tougher stance in future dealings with the Soviet Union, asserting that “the goal of detente has not been reached in any sense of the term Americans can accept.” The group is one seeking to move the party away from the policies of Senator George McGovern during the 1972 presidential campaign. The group accused the Nixon administration of seeking partisan advantage with its “myth of detente.”
The House voted 373 to 8 to require an act of Congress before nuclear material or technology could be transferred to a foreign nation. The action came after a narrow 194191 vote to substitute language in a bill proposed by the joint atomic energy committee which would have given Congress 60 days to veto any nuclear agreement with another country. The Senate earlier approved the committee version but the House action sends the amended measure back to the Senate for concurrence.
The Cyprus cease-fire was marred by the Turkish takeover of two towns near Kyrenia following bombardment, in the absence of United Nations peace-keeping troops, between the opposing sides. At the United Nations, the Soviet delegate vetoed a Security Council resolution to give the force added duties under the Geneva accord. Greek Cypriot sources had said that the advance on Lapithos from nearby Karavas, on the western limits of the Turkish bridgehead, came in late afternoon after a tranquil day in which the Turkish‐Greek agreement to uphold the ceasefire appeared to have quieted the fighting front. Separation of military forces and movement of relief convoys to Cypriot communities caught in the hostilities were apparently paralyzed in the absence of action by the United Nations Security Council defining the peace‐keeping and humanitarian role of its forces on the island.
President Glafkos Clerides reported to United Nations officials that the Turks had extended their lines from Karavas. Except for the reported violations at Lapithos, which is two miles from Karavas, no reports of major clashes followed the announcement yesterday that Greece, Turkey and Britain had agreed on measures to strengthen the cease‐fire. There was decline of tension as indications mounted that there would be no drive by the Turkish invasion force to link its major sector with isolated Turkish enclaves around the island. Most of the enclaves have been overrun by Greek Cypriots.
Premier Bulent Ecevit of Turkey, hailed as a hero since Turkey’s Cyprus intervention, said at an Ankara news conference that the United Nations force had been unable to help the Turkish communities on the island during the crisis. He said those communities outside the Turkish-held corridor would inevitably be assisted with supplies, weapons, and perhaps training.
Most spokesmen for Greek leftist groups, emerging from seven years of repression, have endorsed the Caramanlis government. The new cabinet is said to be considering the major political step of lifting the ban since 1947 on the Communist party. A senior anti-Communist minister said: “Let them come out and run for office. There is nothing for us to be afraid of.”
The British government announced plans to nationalize the faltering shipbuilding, ship repairing and marine engineering industries. The Labor government’s left-wing supporters cheered and the Conservative opposition immediately denounced the proposal as “doctrinal.” The London stock market fell further on the news.
The Consumer Credit Act 1974 was given royal assent and became law in the United Kingdom.
The East German delegation that came to Washington July 15 to complete negotiations for an exchange of embassies went home with the word that the United States could not inaugurate ties while traffic on access routes to West Berlin was hampered. A State Department spokesman said the decision “must be held in abeyance” until interference with the traffic is halted.
The worst floods in 20 years spread over 12,000 square miles of Bangladesh farmland causing heavy casualties, government officials and the press reported in Dacca. The floods reportedly have affected more than 15 million people and unofficial sources said the death toll was as high as 250. The flooding was caused by monsoon rains which forced the Brahmaputra River over its banks.
Strong Communist forces supported by tanks and artillery stepped up pressure in the northern Đà Nẵng area of South Vietnam, heavily shelling the beleaguered town of Thượng Ðức. The town is one of four in the area threatened by Red forces. Elsewhere, enemy units blew up the Binh Khe bridge on the nation’s main east-west highway in the Central Highlands.
A former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the United States did not try hard enough to win the Vietnam war and warned against falling behind in military preparedness now. Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, 62, who retired as chairman July 2, said military leaders including himself “would have preferred that the government had taken a more aggressive policy” in Vietnam.
U.S. military authorities in Bangkok said that large amounts of American-made war supplies, including at least 15 500-pound bombs, had been stolen from ammunition barges owned by private shippers the past six weeks. The supplies are transported up the Mekong River on barges owned by private shipping companies.
Premier Chou En-lai attended an Army Day banquet in Peking, marking his first public appearance since May. The Chinese leader, who recently underwent hospital treatment believed to have been connected with a heart ailment, appeared slightly thinner and pale but responded to applause as he entered the dining hall by smiling and clapping in return.
The Dewan Rakyat, national parliament of Malaysia, was dissolved by order of the Asian nation’s elected monarch, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Abdul Halim of Kedah, and elections were scheduled for August 24.
Philippine government forces drove back an estimated 1,000 MosJem rebels, capping two days of fighting in a major town in the southern Philippines, military sources said in Manila. The sources said the rebels attacked the town of Upi and were beaten back in fighting that left “heavy casualties,” including civilians. Upi is a highland town in central Mindanao.
In Canada, the Official Language Act (Quebec) (also known as “Bill 22”) was passed, making French the official language of government and business in the province of Quebec. The Quebec National Assembly has adopted French as the official language of the province, replacing a bilingual policy that allowed both English and French for official purposes. The legislation was expected to become law after receiving royal assent from Lt. Gov. Hugues Lapointe. It sets up a nine-member board known as the Regie de la Langue Francaise to enforce the law.
Carl Albert, the Speaker, met with key members of the House to lay ground rules for the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon, Some said they expected a “modified open rule”. that would speed debate. In the Senate, Mike Mansfield, the majority leader, met with Rules Committee members to discuss revision of its rules, including provision for television coverage, if the House votes impeachment and a trial in the Senate.
John Ehrlichman, a former chief aide to President Nixon, was given a 20-month to five-year prison sentence for conspiring to violate the civil rights of Dr. Lewis Fielding by breaking into the office of the former psychiatrist to Daniel Ellsberg. Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell called the crime “a shameful episode in the history of this country.” In addition, Mr. Ehrlichman alone was found guilty of two counts of lying to a grand jury in connection with the break‐in and was acquitted on a third count of making a false statement to a grand jury.
The jury had also found Mr. Ehrlichman guilty of making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but Judge Gesell threw out that conviction last week on the ground that Congress had not intended the law to apply to such cases as Mr. Ehrlichman’s. Before sentencing, Mr. Ehrlichman, speaking almost inaudibly, told the court, “I am the only one in this room who really knows whether I am guilty or not guilty of the charges against me. Your honor, I am innocent of each and every one of the charges in this case.”
G. Gordon Liddy, one of Mr. Ehrlichman’s co‐defendants, received a one-to-three-year sentence, to be served concurrently with his present sentence of six years and eight months to 20 years. Mr. Liddy, who also took part in the June, 1972, break‐in at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, was a member of the White House special investigations unit, known as the “plumbers.” Their mission was to stop what President Nixon viewed as “leaks” of sensitive information to the press and, public. The “plumbers” planned and carried out the Fielding break‐in on September 3, 1971.
The White House disclosed that President Nixon was considering a shift in strategy in which he would try to bypass any impeachment debate in the House by asking it to vote unanimously for his impeachment. He would then take his case to the Senate for quick resolution. He has not reached a decision on this.
The House of Representatives gave a surprising 323 to 83 margin to the education bill with a compromise provision to limit the busing of children for school integration. The Supreme Court decision last week banning busing across school district lines apparently eased passage.
Compromise legislation to extend a special aid program for the jobless in high unemployment areas and to provide cost-of-living increases in benefits for aged, blind and disabled persons was passed on a voice vote in both the House and Senate. The bill, if approved by the President, continues for nine months an extended unemployment compensation program — 13 weeks beyond the normal 26 weeks — in the 26 states now participating or likely to participate if unemployment increases. About 100,000 persons are affected by the extension. The bill also provides for an automatic cost-of-living increase for aged, blind and disabled persons, now totaling more than 3 million beneficiaries assured monthly incomes of $146 for individuals and $210 for couples.
Telephone workers appeared to have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a nationwide strike against the Bell Telephone System, with a survey of several major union locals showing heavy rank-and-file sentiment for a strike. No date for any walkout had been set, but possibly it could come as early as Monday. The Executive Council of the Communications Workers of America, representing 500,000 Bell employees, was to meet Sunday in Washington to consider the next course of action.
Overwhelming ratification was given a contract with Pan American World Airways covering nearly 20,000 flight attendants and ground personnel. The contract, approved by secret mail ballot, provides for a retroactive 17% wage increase followed by two cost-of-living adjustments and for improvements in pensions and health and welfare benefits.
Richard W. Velde, now deputy administrator, has been nominated by President Nixon to succeed Donald E. Santarelli as head of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. Santarelli resigned May 30 in a controversy over his reported comment that Watergate revelations had “measurably cheapened” government service.
The U.S. Army is getting more black recruits than it wants and plans to put more emphasis on recruiting in the suburbs, Army Secretary Howard H. Callaway said. Of the Army’s recruits in the last year, 27% were black, although only 13% of military-age youths are black. Callaway said he wanted the Army to be a crosssection of the general population so that it would be “looked at by the American people as representative.”
New York City’s $5.4 million in securities reported missing by an outside audit two weeks ago was there all the time. Investigation Commissioner Nicholas Scopetta and District Attorney Richard Kuh of Manhattan announced that after talking with knowledgeable civil servants and checking supplementary records, the reported “discrepancy” had been reconciled. Investigators said they have solved the mystery of New York City’s “missing” $5.4 million in securities that had involved Mayor Abraham Beame and his successor as city controller, Harrison J. Goldin, in bitter accusations and denials. Manhattan District Attorney Richard H. Kuh and investigations commissioner, Nicholas Scopetta, members of Beame’s task force, said they were able to resolve the discrepancies “relatively simply.” Previous auditors just did not look hard enough, they said, in examining original documents and talking to employees in the controller’s office who had custody of the securities.
The 6th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel.
New York Yankees, although frustrated by double plays for four consecutive innings, finally found the right combination of offense and defense to end their five‐game losing streak and topped the Milwaukee Brewers, 4–3, tonight before a crowd of 14,836 at County Stadium. The winning run scored in the eighth inning when Bill Travers, the second Milwaukee pitcher, walked Elliott Maddox and Bobby Murcer with the score tied, 3‐3. Tom Murphy, who replaced Travers and who had retired 23 consecutive Yankees this season, fell as he fielded a hunt by Roy While, filling the bases. Graig Nettles lifted a fly to medium center field and Maddox held third base, Then Walt Williams delivered the winning run by hitting a grounder to deep shortstop that resulted in a force play at second as Maddox scored.
The Boston Red Sox nipped the Detroit Tigers, 5–4. The Red Sox increased their Eastern Division lead to 2½ games over Cleveland as Luis Tiant won his fifth straight complete game and 16th of the season, Boston cashed in five runners in the fourth after an apparent inning-ending strikeout. With two on and two out, Lerrin LaGrow threw a fastball past Rick Miller for a strikeout. But Gene Lamont dropped the ball, and Miller reached first base. Rick Burleson then doubled in two runs and Doug Griffin singled home two more, then scored on a single by Tim Blackwell. Tiant scattered 10 hits, but walked none. He lost his shutout to Jim Northrup’s homer in the seventh.
During a 7–4 loss to the Montreal Expos, the Chicago Cubs’ Bill Bonham strikes out 4 batters in the 2nd inning, tying the Major League record. The Expos also win the nitecap of the doubleheader, 4–0.
Ron Cey drives in 8 runs with a 3–run single (one on error) and three–run homers in the 8th and 9th to lead the host Los Angeles Dodgers to a 15–4 victory over the San Diego Padres.
Phil Niekro scatters 4 hits for his 11th win as the Atlanta Braves whip the San Francisco Giants, 9–0. Catcher Vic Correll helps with his first Major League homer, a grand slam.
At Houston, the Cincinnati Reds’ Don Gullett twirls a 2–hit, 4–0, shutout over the Astros. Roger Metzger has both Astro hits. Gullett improved his record for the season to 13–7.
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Born:
Jonathan Ogden, NFL tackle (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 35-Ravens, 2000; Pro Football Hall of Fame, inducted 2013; Pro Bowl, 1997-2007; Baltimore Ravens), in Washington, District of Columbia.
Emilia Fox, English actress (“The Pianist”), to Joanna David and Edward Fox; in Hammersmith, London.
Died:
Raymond Aloysius Lane, M.M., 80, American Roman Catholic missionary.
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