Greek and Turkish military delegates met near Nicosia to agree on buffer zones where United Nations peace-keeping forces will separate the troops still skirmishing in Cyprus. It was the first step toward implementing a Security Council resolution calling for separation of Greek and Turkish forces to strengthen the recent cease-fire agreement. “We are here to map out a demarcation area between the Turkish and Greek forces,” said Colonel Jerry Hunter, a pipe‐smoking British officer, before the talks began.
Major Nezihi Cakar of Turkey and Major Evangelos Tsolakis of Greece, who did not shake hands, faced each other across the square table covered with a white sheet on which was spread a map showing the general area occupied by Turkish forces since they invaded on July 20. The meeting took place in a small stone building in the United Nations camp near the Nicosia international airport, where Greek and Turkish forces are separated by a United Nations military cordon.
On the western edge of the Turkish‐occupied sector, which stretches from this capital to the port of Kyrenia, on the northern coast, both sides fired artillery and machine guns. The Greek Cypriot National Guard has accused the Turks of repeatedly violating the cease‐fire as they expanded their sector. The Turkish commander has said that his forces were reacting to hit‐and‐run attacks by Greek Cypriots, who are said to be moving up reinforcements today on both sides of the Turkish sector. Truckloads of Greek Cypriots, many wearing armbands of EOKA‐B, an organization committed to the union of Cyprus with Greece, joined national guard troops in green uniforms on hillside roads overlooking the Turkish position. There were calls for attacking the invaders to “drive them into the sea.”
Fighting was reported in northwestern Cyprus today and Turkish forces moved into four Greek Cypriot villages, two on either side of the craggy, narrow western part of the Kyrenia range. Turkish tanks were reported moving against the single remaining Greek outpost on Mount Kyaparissovouno. The peak towers over the four vilages that were reported captured: Karavas and Lapithos on the seaward slopes of the range and Larnaca and Agridaki on the southern slopes, 18 miles northwest of Nicotia.
In other Cyprus developments, the Turks today released the first group of Greek Cypriote captives seized in the fighting during the last two weeks. The group consisted of 120 women, children and old men, mainly from suburbs of Nicosia overrun by the Turks. Many of the returning families had been given up for dead. Women in the group told newsmen they had been repeatedly raped by Turkish soldiers during their captivity. Greek officials said these complaints would be passed on to the International Red Cross after the police took statements from the women.
Turkish troops fired on a British patrol of the United Nations peace‐keeping force today as fighting raged in the foothills of the western tip of the Kyrenia range. The patrol of two armored cars, which came under fire as they nosed their way into the approaches of Elea, retreated without casualties.
Greek forces captured a Turkish armoured resupply column, including an M47 tank and an armoured personnel carrier. The captured M47 later engaged a confused Turkish tank squadron near Skylloura on 15 August, hitting seven M47 tanks.
Turkey plans to replace the troops that spearheaded its invasion of Cyprus, probably with armored units, sources close to the military said today. They did not say when the exchange, affecting an estimated 6,000 commandos and paratroops, would take place. The plan indicates that Turkey intends to consolidate its position in the 200‐square‐mile wedge it holds between Nicosia and a 23‐mile beachhead around the port of Kyrenia, the sources said.
French and Dutch farmers blocked traffic today to protest falling agriculture prices in the European Economic Community. In the French port of Saint-Jean‐de‐Luz, fishermen joined the farmers’ protest by barricading the road to Spain — used mostly by tourists — to protest imports of Spanish tuna. In Périgueux yesterday, 10,000 farmers burst into Government offices and slashed tires on official cars to protest falling prices. The farmers were dispersed by riot policemen. Wine growers in Narbonne blocked traffic and gave out free wine to motorists. Near Toulouse and Ussel, farmers cut railway lines.
Defense Minister Shimon Peres charged today that Egyptian military units had broken the troop disengagement agreement with Israel by conducting exercises in crossing the Suez Canal to the Sinai Peninsula. The disengagement agreement, which was signed last January, limits Egyptian forces on the eastern bank of the canal to 7,000 men, 30 tanks and 36 artillery pieces. Speaking at a Cabinet meeting, Mr. Peres also charged that Egyptian mobile and infantry soldiers had encroached on the United Nations buffer zone in Sinai between the Israeli and Egyptian lines. Ground‐to‐air missile launching sites have been erected by the Egyptians near Port Fuad and el‐Qantara on the eastern bank of the canal, the Defense Minister reported, but missiles have not been installed. The disengagement agreement bans missile batteries within 20 miles of the canal.
William E. Colby, Director of Central Intelligence, said in Congressional testimony made public today that, contrary to Pentagon concern, the Soviet Union was unlikely to build up its Indian Ocean fleet significantly unless the United States built up its fleet there first. In a closed‐door hearing of the Senate Armed Services on July 11, Mr. Colby also scoffed at the view often heard in Washington that the reopening of the Suez Canal would lead to a major transfer of Soviet warships from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and then to the Indian Ocean. Mr. Colby said that the opening of the canal, expected by the end of this year or early next year, “will increase the over‐all flexibility of the Soviet Navy in the Indian Ocean, but not in itself cause a significant increase in the Soviet presence.”
Because the canal could be easily closed in time of crisis, lie said the Russians were unlikely “to be caught with a substantial portion of available units on the wrong end of blocked canal.” Mr. Colby said that Soviet priority would be to maintain the Mediterranean Fleet at top efficiency rather than risk haying warships cut off in the Indian Ocean.
A three‐day conference of high‐level Indian and Canadian officials has failed to end the impasse between Ottawa and New Delhi over the Indian nuclear explosion last May in which material from a Canadian research reactor was used. In a protest against the test blast in the Rajasthan Desert last May 8, Canada has suspended further nuclear assistance to India, and threatened to cut off all other economic assistance to New Delhi except allotments for food and agricultural development. The strongly opposed positions of the two countries on nuclear explosions remain unchanged, according to a joint statement issued today following meetings here this week between, Indian and Canadian diplomats. The Indian team was led by Foreign Secretary Kewal Singh. A second meeting is expected to be held in New Delhi.
Charm Singh Maan, one of the farmers of the Punjab, India’s most productive state, is frightened. He has sold his tractor, cut back purchases of fertilizer and watched the wheat production. falter on his family’s farm. Mr. Mean stood the other day on the 25 acres he and his family share with his two brothers and their families, 19 persons in all. As a rented tractor plowed an acre of land on the farm, 40 miles west of Chandigarh on the road to Ludhiana, he explained that for the first time in years his family was avoiding the use of the initial dose of fertilizer. “We give three doses,” he said in English. “The first we give before sowing, the second on the crop and the third before it ripens.” But now, he went on, “we can’t afford to give three. “It will hurt the crop,” he said, “of course it will hurt the crop. But what can a farmer do about it? “Less and less,” the 55‐year‐old farmer said of his wheat crops. “The fertilizer costs so much, The water is not available. It’s bad — very bad.”
Mourners in the funeral procession of an assassinated leftwing, congressman clashed repeatedly with the police today. More than 200 people were reported arrested. Policemen using tear gas dispersed crowds trying to enter the cemetery for the burial of the congressman, Rodolfo Ortega Peña. The polices aid that only the immediate family could enter but Mr. Ortega Peña’s widow stopped the procession. “I will not bury my husband until his friends are released and can be there,” she told reporter. About five hours after the planned time, however, Mr. Ortega Peña was buried with only a small group of family members and friends present.
As Secretary General Waldheim arrived in Lisbon to help Portugal decolonize her African territories, a crisis broke out over the suspension of three afternoon newspapers for reporting a demonstration by the extreme left against the African war. A special 10-man military commission overseeing the press resigned following the suspensions, which were believed to have been ordered by the military junta which has been governing the country.
Uganda’s President Idi Amin called off plans for a threatened invasion of neighboring Tanzania, a day after having ordered the Uganda Army and Uganda Army Air Force to go on full alert. After the mobilization, Tanzania’s President Julius Nyerere warned that the African nation’s armed forces were also on alert to repel any invasion. Amin’s change of mind was disclosed in a telegram to the President of Liberia, William R. Tolbert.
A fire aboard the Swedish motor ship Eos in the North Sea killed four people. Two people were reported killed today and two others missing do a fire aboard the Swedish motor ship Eos in the North Sea off West Germany today, Lloyd’s shipping agency said in London. The 1,600‐ton vessel put out a distress call for immediate assistance and 15 of the 17 crew members had abandoned ship, a spokesman said.
Three climbers were killed when a dormant volcano erupted last Sunday 150 miles north of Tokyo, after 25 of silence, the police said today.
John Dean, former legal counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon, was sentenced to a minimum of one year in prison and a maximum of four years for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal. John Dean, who had been President Nixon’s legal counsel, asked for “compassion” and “understanding” and said he was trying to “right the wrong” he had done as he was sentenced to a minimum of one year in prison and a maximum of four years for his admitted role in the Watergate cover-up, Mr. Dean, President Nixon’s chief accuser in the Watergate affair, is expected to be called as a major prosecution witness in the Watergate cover-up trial and, if Mr. Nixon is impeached, in the Senate trial on the impeachment charges.
President Nixon was described as “an underdog” in the congressional impeachment move by Gerald Warren, one of his spokesmen, who read from notes apparently approved by the President. He said that Mr. Nixon faced an “uphill struggle — it is a political struggle,” but that because it was a political struggle the President had a chance to win.
While the Watergate special prosecution has been accumulating evidence on suspicion gaps in White House tapes, they have also come across at least two instances where White House memorandums have been altered. One memorandum that is known to be under investigation was written by Alexande Butterfield, a former White House aide to Jeb Stuart Magruder, a leader of the committee to re‐elect President Nixon. It concerned the possible political use of wiretap information obtained from J. Edgar Hoover; former director of the Federal Bureau of Inestigation. The contents of the second altered memorandum are not known. Sources close to the office of Leon Jaworski, the special prosecutor, say that it was turned up in an FBI investigation ordered last winter after officials learned of the original 18‐minute gap in a White House tape. The second memorandum is believed to have been cut with scissors to delete or deface certain portions, according to the sources.
The Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate rose in July to 5.3 percent of the total labor force compared with 5.2 percent in May and June and 5 percent in April. The agency also found that the near-explosion of wages in the two months following the end of controls on April 30 was followed by a much more moderate increase of one-half of 1 percent.
The Treasury Department put a 9 percent interest rate on $4 billion of notes it plans to sell to investors next week. The rate is the highest in the country’s history for Treasury securities with maturities of more than one year. The chief cause of the record rate is inflation.
The production of the most widely used pesticides in the United States — aldrin and dieldrin — was ordered stopped by the Environmental Protection Agency on the ground that their use provides an “imminent hazard” to the public health. The order affects the Shell Chemical Company, the only producer of the pesticides. The E.P.A. began its investigation into the toxic qualities of the pesticides about a year ago.
President Nixon asked Congress today to establish by law a “cost of living task force” to replace the defunct Cost of ing Council but without mandatory wage and price powers. The new group would moniprice, wage, supply and productivity developments in the economy but apparently would not seek to “jawbone clown” specific wage or price increases, as has been done sometimes. Gerald L. Warren, the deputy White House press sedretary, specifically declined to characnew the role of the planned new group as “jawboning,” and The list of its proposed activities in a White House “fact sheet” accompanying the President’s brief message contained no reference interference with Individual wage or price decisions. However, while the fact sheet did not say so, the Administration contemplates that the new group will conduct public hearings, presumably to focus attention on sectors of the economy where prices or wages are rising especially rapidly. It will rising continued the role of the old Cost, of Living Council in scrutinizing Government actions that unintentionally push up specific prices, such as marketing orders for fruits and vegetables adopted by the Agriculture Department.
Threatened with a civil rights suit, the Mormon Church revised today a policy that ex cluded blacks from the top leadership posts in church‐sponsored Boy Scout troops. However, Utah leaders of the National Association for, the Advancement of Colored People called the new policy “racist” and said they planned to go ahead with the suit. “It is apparent that the Church of Jesus. Christ of Latter‐day Saints and the Boy Scouts of America are bedfellows against the interests of black people,” said an N.A.A,C.P. spokesman, Mike Clark. Earlier, in a statement with national Boy Scout officials, the Mormon president, Spencer W. Kimball, said the church “never intended to discriminate against anyone.” Its policy had reserved the “senior patrol leader” post in each troop to the local Mormon Deacons’ Quorum president. A deacon is the lowest level in the Mormon priesthood, which boys enter at the age of 12. Church doctrine excludes blacks from the priesthood.
The Offtrack Betting Corporation estimates that New York City is losing $200,000 a week in revenue as a result of the 5 percent surtax it recently imposed on offtrack payoffs, and that the tax has reduced betting at the 132 OTB parlors by about 26 percent since it took effect July 1. The revenue comparisons were based on the last week of June. Paul Screvane, president of the corporation, said “the big bettors aren’t with us anymore. They can’t afford to be. They’ve gone back to the bookies or the tracks.”
Allegheny and Eastern Airlines announced an agreement yesterday on a route swap that will bring new air service to Albany. The plan still must be approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board. A ruling is not expected for at least nine months. Under the agreement, Allegheny would turn over its authority to operate flights between Albany and New York City and Newark.
American comedian and actor Shelley Berman was robbed at gunpoint of $60 and a watch and left bound and gagged on the floor of his hotel room in Queens, New York City.
Jerry Tagge hit Steve Odom with a 50yard pass late in the first period, then went over from the 1 just after the second quarter began tonight to lead the Green Bay Packers to a 16-13 victory over the Buffalo Bills in a National Football League preseason opener.
An eight‐game road trip that the Yankees May remember grimly for a long while ended tonight with the Indians crushing New York, 8–2, before cheating crowd of 18,842 at Municipal Stadium. For the Yankees, it was their seventh loss against one victory since leaving home last Saturday. New York dropperd three games in Boston, two of three in Milwaukee and a pair here. Last night they were shelled, 9–2, in a contest remarkably similar to the one tonight. The Indians again hammered three Yankee pitchers — Sam McDowell, Cecil Upshaw and Sparky Lyle‐for 13 hits, including five doubles (two each by Buddy Bell and Oscar Gamble).
Juan Marichal hadn’t pitched since May 15, when he was beset with arm and back problems. He had won 240 games, but 238 of them were for the San Francisco Giants in the National League. Some said he was through. Marichal began what he and the Red Sox hope will be a successful comeback last night when he was the winning pitcher in a 7‐5 victory over the Orioles. He entered in the fourth inning to relieve Rick Wise, who was making his first appearance since July 6. Wise had been injured, of course, as was Brooks Robinson, who didn’t play for the Orioles because of a bruised rib.
The A’s edged the White Sox, 3–2, as Oakland offset Dick Allen’s 28th homer by scoring twice in the eighth on run‐scoring singles by Sal Bando and Reggie Jackson. Allen’s homer off Vida Blue in the seventh came with Buddy Bradford on base and gave Chicago a brief 2–1 lead.
The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 3–2, as Richie Hebner’s single with two out in the 14th scored Ed Kirkpatrick and snapped a six-game St. Louis winning streak. Lou Brock was twice thrown out trying to steal by Pittsburgh’s catcher, Manny Sanguillen.
The Cincinnati Reds routed the San Francisco Giants, 9–4. Cesar Geronimo led Cincinnati with a triple and homer as the Reds battered San Francisco pitching for four runs each in the third and fourth. Ed Halicki, the Giant starter, contributed to the rally in the third with two errors and two wild pitches.
The Los Angeles Dodgers edged the San Diego Padres, 2–1. Bill Buckner singled twice, scored once and drove in the decisive run, and Mike Marshall snuffed out a Padres’ rally in the ninth to save the victory for Don Sutton. It was Marshall’s 15th save.
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Born:
Paul Grasmanis, NFL defensive tackle (Chicago Bears, Denver Broncos, Philadelphia Eagles), in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Matt Miller, MLB pitcher (Detroit Tigers), in Lubbock, Texas.
Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress (“Love in the Time of Cholera”), in Magangué, Colombia.
Angel Boris, American model and actress (“General Hospital”); in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Jeremy Castle, Oklahoma country singer and songwriter, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Siddharth Roy Kapur, Indian film and TV producer, founder of Roy Kapur Films; known for co-producing the highest-grossing Indian film to date, Dangal (2016) and the Netflix TV series Aranyak and the streaming SonyLIV series Rocket Boys; in Bombay (now Mumbai).
Died:
Fred Allison, 92, American physicist known for the Allison magneto-optic method.
W. Douglas Hawkes, 80, British auto racer and designer.
Cyril Smith OBE, 64, English classical pianist, died of a heart attack.
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