As part of the reforms of the “Metapolitefsi”, the new civilian government of Greece restored the 1952 Constitution, which had been in effect prior to the April 1967 coup d’état. The government temporarily suspended constitutional provisions relating to the monarchy, pending the country’s decision on whether to recall King Constantine. “All civil rights have been restored,” said Panayotis Lambrias, Under Secretary for Press and Information, as Greece took a major step in restoring democratic government by re-invoking the Constitution that had been in force before the military coup of 1967. However, the provisions of the Constitution relating to the monarchy were temporarily suspended.
The Central Intelligence Agency has reportedly been instructed by top officials of the Nixon administration not to interfere in the internal affairs of Greece nor to play favorites among Greek politicians. The orders were said to reflect current policies of Secretary of State Kissinger and of the Director of Central Intelligence, William Colby, that Americans should keep out of politics of countries as much as possible. The C.I.A. is said to have been deeply involved in Greek politics for 25 years.
The Security Council adopted a resolution that enables the United Nations peace force on Cyprus to take on expanded duties under the new Geneva agreement. Twelve of the 15 Council’s members voted for the resolution. The Soviet Union and Byelorussia abstained, and China did not participate in the vote. A substantially similar resolution was vetoed by the Soviet delegate, Yakov A. Malik, during an argumentative session last night. A second veto today was forestalled, European diplomats said, by the addition to the resolution of a few words that may enhance the Soviet role in the Cyprus crisis, and that give indirect expression to Soviet fears about the island’s future.
The resolution was welcomed in speeches by the representative of Cyprus, Zenon Rossides, and by Secretary General Waldheim, who said that as soon as it had been adopted he had instructed the force on Cyprus to undertake the task set for it by the Geneva declaration on Cyprus. The declaration provided for the force, among other jobs, to help determine the size and character of a demilitarized security zone. Addressing the Council, Mr. Waldheim also reported that Turkish authorities had agreed on maintenance of a United Nations force’s “presence in the area of Cyprus under Turkish control”—although the Turkish commander had earlier asked that the United Nations pull its troops out.
Turkey’s Defense Minister, Hasan Isik, said tonight that the Turkish Government interpreted yesterday’s Soviet veto of a Security Council resolution to widen United Nations peacekeeping powers in Cyprus as an attempt to prove the Cyprus crisis “is not only a NATO affair but an international affair, and they’ll have a say.”
On Cyprus, Turkish artillery drove Greek Cypriotes out of Ayios Ermolaos and Siskipos, two villages on the northern coast. Dimis Demetriou, the ethnic Greek who is Foreign Minister of Cyprus, said he had telephoned Secretary of State Kissinger with an appeal for quick adoption by the United Nations Security Council of a resolution giving the United Nations peace‐keeping force that has been here since 1965 an expanded mandate to establish buffer zone between Greek and Turkish forces. A long exchange of artillery and machine‐gun fire around this village and at Siskipos, in the southern foothills of the mountain range on the north coast, ended with Greek Cypriote National Guard forces pulling back at midday.
The ethnic Greek forces, commanded by officers from mainland Greece, apparently felt that Turkish tank columns might sweep from their northern coastal positions toward Myrtou, a major crossroads town, and occupy the rear. However, the Turkish forces, which invaded Cyprus after Archbishop Makarios was overthrown July 15, appeared to be content to ter around the wedge of terrimaintain their defense perimetory between Kyrenia and Nicosia, the capital, that was seized last week. At Lapithos, on the coast west of Kyrenia, and at Karavas, a village in the hills overlooking the sea, there was no further Turkish attempt to gain territory since both were shelled yesterday.
From hill positions the ethnic Greek forces were still overlooking the coastal road between Kyrenia and Lapithos, and there was scattered shooting again today. Yesterday the Greek forces fired several recently acquired French antitank missiles at Turkish tanks. The Greek Cypriotes at Karavas, numbering several hundred national guardsmen and Greek officers who suffered several casualties from tank and artillery fire, said they had knocked out a Turkish tank. Sporadic fighting continued elsewhere for lack of a separation of forces under an effective United Nations military presence.
A British government report attacked employers and trade unions for allegedly failing to curb racial discrimination in the labor market. The select committee report said the Confederation of British Industry should conduct “a special drive to insure that its members act to promote equal opportunity.” The record of the Trade Union Congress — the top British union body — was similar to that of the employers’ group, the report said.
The Italian government proposed a total overhaul of the nation’s health service which is facing massive debts and is widely believed to be near collapse. The three-party coalition agreed to the formation of a publicly financed national health. service and approved the takeover of debts accumulated by the hospitals.
With nearly one-fourth of the Soviet Union’s cereal crop harvested, the Moscow press indicated unsettled weather in some areas has seriously delayed the threshing of cut crops still lying in the fields. Western combines both cut and thresh but Soviet harvesting is usually carried out in separate operations. Long delays in collecting cut grain can lead to heavy losses through rotting, experts said.
Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres complained to the United Nations that Soviet helicopters taking part in mine-clearing operations in the Gulf of Suez are violating Israeli airspace in the Sinai region. The helicopters are based on the aircraft carrier Leningrad which is part of the Soviet minesweeping operation in the gulf. Peres made the complaint to U.N. officers in the Middle East.
Two senior Chinese military leaders who disappeared during the Cultural Revolution when Marshal Lin Piao was at the height of his power have been rehabilitated, the New China News Agency announced in Peking. They are former acting Chief of General Staff Yang Chengwu and Yu Li-chin, a former air force political commissar, both of whom lost their jobs in March, 1968, under the attacks of the Red Guard.
China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy, put into service Changzheng 1 (“Long March 1”), their first nuclear-powered submarine. The Type 091 nuclear submarine has been plagued by various problems since it entered service, including excessive underwater noise and incomplete weapon systems.
Philippine government troops recaptured the town of Upi from Muslim and Christian rebels and freed about 2,000 civilian hostages after a night of heavy fighting, it was reported. The report came from telephone technicians in a relay station overlooking the town, about 24 miles southwest of Cotobato City on Mindanao.
President Luis Echeverria Alvarez returned to Mexico after a tour of Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela and said a trend existed in favor of his idea to establish a Latin American economic bloc. His discussions centered on a group for consultation and coordination in defense of raw material prices, creation of multinational Latin AmeriI can firms and economic independence from the United States.
The British government, spurred by the catastrophic drought in West Africa’s sub-Sahara Sahel region, has set up a special unit to speed relief to disaster-stricken areas. The unit will arrange the speedy mobilization of supplies and specialists while working closely with the United Nations Disaster Relief Office in Geneva. Mrs. Judith Hart, minister of overseas development, estimated that the Sahel drought has led to the death of up to 4 million persons.
White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig came to the home of U.S. Vice President Gerald Ford at 514 Crown View Drive in Alexandria, Virginia, and told him to prepare to assume the presidency. Ford would write later in his 1979 memoir, A Time to Heal, “Al Haig asked to come over and see me, to tell me that there would be a new tape released on a Monday, and he said the evidence in there was devastating and there would probably be either an impeachment or a resignation. And he said, ‘I’m just warning you that you’ve got to be prepared, that things might change dramatically and you could become President.’ And I said, ‘Betty, I don’t think we’re ever going to live in the vice president’s house.’”.
The leadership of the United States House of Representatives tentatively scheduled debate on the impeachment of President Richard Nixon to run from August 19 to August 31 and approved gavel-to-gavel television coverage. The leadership of the House tentatively decided that representatives would start to debate the impeachment of President Nixon on August 19 and permit television coverage through the final vote at the end of the month. The head of the Rules Committee said that the House would probably be operating under a rule that would prohibit the adding of further articles of impeachment to the three voted by the House Judiciary Committee but would allow some revisions.
Associated Milk Producers, Inc., the nation’s largest dairy cooperative, was fined the maximum of $15,000 after pleading guilty to a six-count criminal information alleging that it conspired and willfully made illegal campaign contributions in 1968, 1970 and 1972.
The Atomic Energy Commission recommended that certain radioactive materials be banned from commercial aircraft carrying passengers. The AEC also suggested to the Federal Aviation Administration that lower limits be placed on the amount of radiation airline passengers can receive from radioactive cargo carried in the holds of planes. It is recommended that the isotopes. used in medical research and diagnosis be allowed. Of about 800,000 domestic shipments of radioactive materials last year, about 75% of them went by air, the AEC said.
New federal regulations have taken effect to reduce public exposure to unnecessary radiation from medical and dental X-ray machines, the Food and Drug Administration said. Excessive radiation can increase the risks of cancer, genetic damage and other ill-effects, FDA officials said, adding that 130 million Americans are exposed to such X rays each year and some of that exposure is unnecessary.
Walter Heller, chief economist for two Democratic Presidents, told the congressional Joint Economic Committee that President Nixon’s economic policies were likely to produce a 7% unemployment rate by next year. Mr. Nixon’s economic advisers have predicted the jobless rate will rise to the 5.5% or 6% range — but no higher. “The old-time religion of sky-high money costs and tight budgets will be relatively ineffectual in taming inflation, short of draconian budget slashes, tax boosts and dangerously tight money,” Heller said. He urged tax relief for the working poor and increases in personal income tax exemptions.
Legal action aimed at blocking advertisements that claim eggs are not connected with heart disease and are vital to the production of sex hormones was begun by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC issued a complaint against the National Commission on Egg Nutrition, based in Park Ridge, Illinois, challenging the industry’s assertion that “there is absolutely no scientific evidence that eating eggs in any way increases the risk of heart attack.” The FTC also challenged an ad promoting “the ‘sexy’ egg.”
A government agency has proposed that brewers list the ingredients of their beer on labels beginning by about 1977. The Treasury Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms suggested a ban on any characterization of the quality of the ingredients, such as “finest hops,” and on negative statements, such as “contains no additives.”
A Philadelphia municipal judge overturned the conviction last November of abortionist Harvey L. Karman of Los Angeles, who admitted he assisted in abortions that were filmed and later shown on educational television in New York. Judge Marvin Halbert said that although Karman had violated the state’s Medical Practices Act when he helped perform experimental abortions in a west Philadelphia clinic, the prosecutor had failed to show specific violations. In 1972 Karman was found guilty in Philadelphia on similar charges and fined.
Fred Gomez Carrasco demanded an armored truck today to use to escape from the Huntsville State Prison, according to daughter of one of 13 hostages he and two other armed inmates have held in the prison library for eight days. The daughter told newsmen that Texas prison officials had offered to provide the truck if all the hostages were released. But she said Mr. Carrasco, a 34‐year old convicted murderer and narcotics dealer, had called the prison reply an invitation to suicide. “I have made it very plain that the hostages, all except four of them, will be released immediately after boarding the armored truck,” Mr. Carrasco reportedly told prison officials. He had said previously that he would take the four others — three women and a priest — with him in the escape vehicle and release them when he reached “safe soil.”
“Concentrated industries” — those dominated by a few companies — will be the particular target of an “intensive review” in an investigation of price fixing and other anti-competitive practices by major national industries. Republican members of the House were informed of this by Thomas Kauper, head of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, who made an uncompromising defense of strict antitrust enforcement policies. He had been asked for his views by the Republican group.
Congress has approved a bill to give parents the right to inspect, challenge and protect school records about their children. The authority, applying to all schools receiving Federal funds, is in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, a section of the omnibus education bill awaiting President Nixon’s signature. The right of parents to inspect the records of their children was initially rejected by the House and approved by the Senate. But the House reversed its position yesterday.
A tugboat captain who fell asleep at the wheel rammed four barges into the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, destroying 260 feet (79 m) of roadway. At least two people in vehicles on the bridge were killed.
Former astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space and fifth man on the Moon, retired from the United States Navy after 30 years at the rank of Rear Admiral.
The Detroit Tigers’s Woodie Fryman stops the Milwaukee Brewers, 2–0, giving up just one hit, a 7th–inning single to Bobby Mitchell. Fryman, now with a 5–6 won‐lost record, struck out ten. Norm Cash, another of Detroit’s senior citizens, supplied Fryman with the only runs he needed. Cash hit his seventh homer of the campaign into the right‐field bleachers leading off the second, then gave Fryman a 2–0 cushion with a single following Ben Oglivie’s triple in the ninth. Cash’s homer was his 377th.
The Boston Red Sox pummelled the Baltimore Orioles, 11–3. Cecil Cooper drove in four runs with two doubles and a single and Rick Burleson doubled in three more. Boston rocked Wayne Garland (3–5) for five runs in the first inning and two more in the fourth to provide Bill Lee with his 12th triumph. The Orioles, 3–6 since the All‐Star Game break, scored single runs in the first and second and got their finar run on Earl Williams’s sixth homer leading off the fourth.
The Minnesota Twins rallied for three runs in the eighth inning, two of them coming home on Bob Darwin’s 16th home run, to nip the California Angels, 6–5. Larry Hisle accounted for the first run of the inning with his single. Harmon Killebrew whacked a two‐run homer in the fourth, and Rod Carew, leading hitter in the major leagues, singled home Danny Thompson in the fifth for Minnesota’ 3‐2 lead. Killebrew’s homer was his 10th this year and No. 556 of his career.
With the St. Louis Cardinals (54–50) toppling the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5–2, in 11 innings, the Philadelphia Phillies beat the visiting Montreal Expos to remain tied for 1st in the East. Del Unser’s 3–run homer is the big blow in support of Wayne Twitchell’s 6th win in 9 decisions. Ron Fairly has a homer, his 11th, for the Expos.
The New York Mets drop both games of a doubleheader to the Chicago Cubs. The Mets lost the first, 7–4 in 10 innings, and 3–1, in the nitecap. Tug McGraw lost the first one by walking in the winning run. Ray Sadecki was the loser in the second game despite allowing no hits for more than four innings. The Cubs scored without a hit.
Willie Crawford hit his sixth homer and Dave Lopes also hit one as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres for the 10th time in 10 games this season. The score in this one was 8–1. Al Downing pitched three‐hit ball for six innings, then Mike Marshall made his 71st appearance in the seventh.
At Candlestick, Johnny Bench breaks a 7–7 tie with a 2–run homer, one of three for Cincinnati, to give the Reds a 9–7 victory over the San Francisco Giants. The Reds had tied the score, on a homer by Tony Perez in the eighth. Bobby Bonds gave the Giants a 7–4 lead in the sixth when he smacked a grand slam.
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Born:
Chris Shinn, American singer and songwriter (Live, 2012-16; Unified Theory, 1998-2001), in Hartford, Connecticut.
Kerwin Waldroup, NFL defensive end (Detroit Lions), in Country Club Hills, Illinois.
Justin Baughman, MLB second baseman and shortstop (Anaheim Angels), in Mountain View, California.
Beckie Scott, Canadian cross-country skiing athlete, in Vegreville, Alberta, Canada.
Died:
Ildebrando Antoniutti, 75, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and diplomat as Apostolic Delegate to Canada and then to Spain, was killed in an automobile accident near Bologna.
Harry Manning, 77, American mariner and aviator known for his overseeing the 1929 rescue of 32 crew of an Italian freighter, and for his record crossing the Atlantic in the maiden voyage of the ship United States in 1952. Manning was also a vice admiral in the United States Naval Reserve.
Ross Parker, 59, English songwriter known for the lyrics to “We’ll Meet Again” and “There’ll Always Be an England”.
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