Turkish troops in Cyprus were reported advancing in the mountains west of Kyrenia while Turkish and Greek military delegates continued negotiations on separation of forces under United Nations supervision. The Turks appeared to be trying to occupy all the high ground on both slopes of the mountains that dominate the road train Myrtou to Lapithos, the western end of the Turkish-occupied area along the coast. They shelled the village of Agridhaki, where there was reported to be a Greek artillery position on the peak above the village with a view of the Turkish landing at Ayios Georghios. The Turks were trying to silence the Greek guns.
Five large Turkish cargo vessels were lying off the landing area, known as Five Mile Beach, to the west of Kyrenia, and unloading of cargo was under way this morning. The Turkish and Greek military delegates met near Nicosia for eight hours today with a British officer and a representative of the United Nations peace‐keeping force, but there was still no agreement on drawing a cease‐fire line. Greece, Turkey and Britain are guarantors of the 1960 treaty granting Cyprus independence. A United Nations spokesman issued a statement approved by the military delegates, indicating that the differences between Greece and Turkey were over the location of the line and the role the United Nations peace‐keeping force should play in enforcing a cease‐fire.
A United Nations spokesman had said earlier today that the Greek Cypriot‐held town of Larnaka — a small village east of Myrtou, not the larger port city of Larnaca in the south — had received machine‐gun and mortar fire last night. Karavas, the nearest Greek Cypriote village to the west of the Turkish sector, is deserted. The concrete irrigation ditch from the village spring that waters the lemon groves has been broken by an artillery shell and the water flows aimlesly down the road, toward the beach. Occasional shots could be heard from the estern outskirts of the village which has been heavily shelled. But the Greek Cypriot National Guard soldiers are not in the town. A jeep With a Greek Cypriote Army captain and two soldiers came to fill water containers at the spring. “If the Turks attack we are going to counterattack, and to hell with the cease‐fire,” said the officer, who would not give his name.
The Turkish‐Cypriote leader, Rauf Denktash, arrived in Ankara today for talks with the Turkish Government on plans for Cyprus. He was welcomed at the air port by Premier Bulent Ecevit and Foreign Minister Turan Güneş. Mr. Denktash told reporters that he bad handed a note to President Glafkos Clerides of Cyprus last night asking for Turkish hostages to be set free by the Greek Cypriots and for an end to the blockading of Turkish villages. President Clerides crossed the Green Line separating the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities in Nicosia for the meeting with Mr. Denktash. Both Cypriot leaders will be attending the next phase of the Geneva conference on Cyprus, which opens Thursday.
Rauf Denktash, the Turkish Cypriote leader, called today for a complete federation in Cyprus. Speaking shortly after his arrival in Ankara for talks with Turkish leaders, Mr. Denktash said the federation concept would be different from Turkish Cypriote demands for local autonomy made before the July 15 coup toppled President Makarios and led to the Turkish invasion of the island. In earlier statements Turkish leaders said the kind of federation they had in mind would not violate the independence and territorial unity of Cyprus, which has about 490,000 Greek Cypriots and 115,000 Turkish Cypriots living in separate enclaves.
Greece’s new civilian government continued its steady purge of the remnants of the military dictatorship that ruled the country for seven years. A series of major appointments in economics and foreign affairs followed the report that General Dimitrios Ioannides, the former commander of the military police and the shadowy power behind the deposed regime, had taken a six-month leave of absence. The government of Premier Constantine Caramanlis continued to show concern about the military situation in Cyprus. Greece is still under martial law, which will not be lifted until the Cyprus crisis has eased.
A Royal Air Force missile may have accidentally shot down an Irish Aer Lingus Viscount that crashed in the Irish Sea March 24, 1968, the Times of London reported. The crash killed all 57 passengers and four crew members. The newspaper said navy divers are searching for wreckage to confirm this theory, following the discovery by a fishing vessel of wing fragments bearing RAF markings similar to those on missiles or pilotless aircraft tested at the military rocket range at Aberporth on the Welsh coast.
British troops killed a sniper in an exchange of fire in the Roman Catholic Lower Falls district of Belfast, the army said. One man was arrested. Two soldiers were hit by sniper fire in separate shootings earlier in the town of Lurgan, 20 miles southwest of Belfast.
Three car bombs exploded outside the offices of two right‐wing publicalions and a Jewish welfare organization in Paris early today. The police defused a fourth bomb outside the offices of the national television network. Only one minor injury was reported; but the blasts were of considerable force. Wreckage from the car that exploded in front of the right‐wing newspaper L’Aurore was wrapped around the grille in front of the building. At the United Jewish Social Fund, the office windows were blown but. The first blast, described by eyewitnesses as deafening, went off in front of the L’Aurore offices just after two o’clock. The second bomb exploded shortly afterwards in front of an extreme right‐wing weekly, Minute. The third bomb went off at 2:10 outside the offices of the United Jewish Social Fund, an educational and welfare organization.
Portugal’s military leaders, faced with threats of a shutdown by the news media and a split within the armed forces, rescinded an order suspending publication of three Lisbon newspapers. The order was issued by the so-called Junta of National Salvation, headed by President Antonio di Spinola. A special press commission of 10 junior army officers, disagreeing with the order, resigned in protest. Nevertheless, tough measures were reportedly in store for an extreme-left group whose attacks on Portugal’s war in Africa had been the cause of the censorship measures.
Portugal apparently is going to let the United States continue to operate its Air Force base in the Azores, at least temporarily, without the formality of a new joint agreement, U.S. officials said. The agreement is due to expire today but is continued automatically unless either party gives notice it wants to cancel. U.S. officials said they had no intention of doing so and they have received no such indication yet from the Portuguese government.
In his first official act reflecting some hold on political power, Spain’s acting chief of state, Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon, called an extraordinary meeting of the cabinet. Sources close to the government said it indicated that ailing General Francisco Franco, who delegated power to Juan Carlos two weeks ago from his hospital bed, was not planning to reclaim it for the time being.
Israel told the Arab nations today that they could not expect to take her defenses by surprise a second time, as they did last October. Defense Minister Shimon Peres said that Israel was ready to go on with the peace negotiations started in Geneva but that she was ready should war be forced upon her. Mr, Peres told a meeting of the Labor party near here that Israel detected danger signals across her borders, especially in Syria. He said there had been a change of tone in the statements by Arab leaders threatening Israel, an increased flow of Soviet arms to Syria and Iraq and intensified military training and preparations for war.
President Anwar el‐Sadat of Egypt and King Faisal of Saudi Arabia spent two hours today studying Middle East developments and economic cooperation between their countries. They are due to resume their discussions later in a private meeting at a seashore retreat near Alexandria. There was no official announcement on the subjects discussed in today’s formal meeting, held at the former royal palace of Ras el‐Tin overlooking the Mediterranean, but Cairo newspapers said the two leaders were intent on coordinating Arab policies in preparation for peace talks with Israel in Geneva later this year. A major question is participation of Palestinian representatives in the conference. Differences have emerged between Jordan and the Palestine. Liberation Organization, the main guerrilla organization, over who should represent the Palestinians living in Jordan.
Unofficial reports put the death toll from more than a week of flooding in Bangladesh at 398, although official figures list 158 dead. Official sources said that the Prime Minister, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, met with his Cabinet today in an emergency session and decided to put all national resources on a war footing to deal with the floods.
Contrary to congressional injunctions, John G. Dean, the United States Ambassador in Cambodia, regularly gives military advice to President Lon Nol and other Cambodian officials. This was disclosed in a report by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Indochina which noted that five separate acts of Congress prohibit the United States “from acting in a military capacity in Cambodia.” The report said that Mr. Dean “by his own admission does not hesitate to give strategic military advice to Lon Nol or tactical advice to subordinate military commanders.” It noted that “it is his interpretation of existing laws that Congress did not mean to preclude ‘advising’ at the level at which he performs.”
Members of South Korea’s Government majority party forced cancellation today of a National Assembly meeting to block debate over decrees giving President Park Chung Hee more power. Today was the third day of the 10 ‐ day session and the second day in a row that meetings had been canceled for the same reason. The decrees would ban attempts to revise the Constitution and would outlaw student activities against the Government including petitions and rallies. Though the Government controls nearly two–thirds of the 216 parliamentary seats and can easily defeat any opposition moves, political sources said, that it did not want the opposition motions debated on the assembly floor.
China reported a bumper summer wheat harvest and experts in Hong Kong who specialize in Chinese agricultural affairs have found the report believable.
The Canadian government announced that it is lifting its four-month-old ban on meat imports from the United States, citing a new inspection agreement for American meat. The Health Department said Washington and Ottawa had agreed on procedures to prevent the export to Canada of meat treated with the growth hormone diethylstilbestrol (DES). The chemical is suspected of causing cancer in laboratory animals, and Canadian livestock producers are forbidden from using the chemical.
Cuba reported that it had arrested two counterrevolutionaries aboard a boat in Cuban waters on charges of having departed the country illegally. A third person was arrested in Santa Cruz del Norte, a coastal village northeast of Havana where he was waiting to be picked up by the other two, the report said. The three men were all listed as Cuban exile members of a Miami-based anti-Castro organization “Alpha 66.”
A splinter group of Perónist guerrillas claimed responsibility for the machine-gun killing of leftist congressman Rodolfo Ortega Pena last week in downtown Buenos Aires, A communique signed by “Montoneros — Soldiers of Perón” said Ortega had been sentenced to death “for the usurpation of the name of our leader, General (Juan D.) Perón,” president of Argentina until his death last month. Meanwhile, police said 373 persons had been arrested after clashes between mourners and police at Ortega’s funeral.
Vice President Ford said that President Nixon’s support had “eroded” so badly in the House that he might well be impeached, but he declined to speculate on the outcome of a Senate trial. Mr. Ford made his pessimistic assessment of the President’s prospects as he campaigned in Mississippi for Republican House candidates. This was a shift from his statement a little more than a week ago that the President would be exonerated by the House. However, he maintains his conviction that Mr. Nixon is not guilty of “an impeachable offense.”
With the knowledge that President Nixon would suffer grievous financial losses if impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate — losses that he could avoid by resigning — several of his longtime financial backers, including Donald Kendall, chairman of Pepsico, Inc., have sent word to Mr. Nixon, according to White House aides, that he should weigh his financial future carefully before reaching a final decision. If convicted, Mr. Nixon would lose a number of emoluments provided for former Presidents: a pension of $60,000 a year, free office space, and $96,000 a year for staff salaries and office allowances. Also, Mrs. Nixon would not be eligible for the $20,000 yearly pension for widows of presidents.
A still-secret report of the Senate Watergate committee staff sets forth the theory that the Watergate break-in and the intelligence-gathering plot that inspired it were the result of a White House effort to keep secret a $100,000 payment from Howard Hughes to Charles “Bebe” Rebozo, President Nixon’s principal business associate. It was not released with the committee’s other findings because of reported objections by the chief minority counsel, Fred Thompson, that it was inconclusive. However, committee officials have said that they expect to make it public later.
The 10-day Huntsville Prison siege ended with an escape attempt by drug baron Fred Gómez Carrasco and his two accomplices, during which two women hostages and one of Carrasco’s cohorts were shot and killed and Carrasco committed suicide. Two other hostages were wounded. The dead were Fred Gomez Carrasco, the 34‐year‐old convict leader of the escape attempt; Rudolfo Dominguez, 26, an accomplice; Julia Standley, 43, a prison librarian, and Elizabeth Beseda, 46, a prison teacher. Two other hostages, inducting the Rev. Joseph O’Brien, a Roman Catholic priest who had volunteered to replace another hostage, were wounded when the inmates attempted to carry out an escape plan afters negotiations with prison officials.
The gunfire broke out after the armed inmates and the hostages left the prison library where they had been holed up and walked down a ramp to an armored truck provided by the authorities. As the authorities described it, three of the hostages were handcuffed to their three captors, and all seven were shielded behind two portable blackboards to which books had been attached for extra protection. The rest of the hostages were on the opposite side of the shield, exposed to view.
Suddenly, the prison spokesman said, streams of water from fire hoses were played on the group, knocking down some of the hostages and the blackboards, exposing the armed inmates and their four captives. The officials shouted for the inmates to surrender, the spokesman said, but the inmates opened fire instead, according to the prison authorities. More than 40 shots were fired in the gunbattle, the prison spokesman said. The other 10 hostages were not hurt, nor were any of the prison guards or Texas Rangers, who were wearing armored protection. W. J. Estelle Jr., director of the Texas Department of Corrections, said that Father O’Brien had been shot by one of the convicts, Ignacio Cuevas. Mr. Estelle said the inmate was placed immediately in solitary confinement.
Government is responsible for inflation, say 48% of those interviewed in a Gallup Poll survey. This compares with 19% who blame labor and 17% who blame business. The findings come at a time when the cost of living is the major concern of the public, as shown by an earlier survey. Another survey found that the public was uncertain about the steps that should be taken to curb inflation, although there were suggestions for wage and price controls and a reduction in government spending.
President Nixon spent most of Saturday in his hideaway office in the Executive Office Building, reviewing Watergate materials to be handed over to U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica by Wednesday and conferring with his advisers on impeachment proceedings. Spokesmen would not disclose if any presidential decisions on impeachment strategy had been made. Mr. Nixon and his family and closest friend, C. G. (Bebe) Rebozo, left the White House at 5:13 pm EDT by helicopter to go to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland.
Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin) said that Litton Industries had run into new delays and wanted an extra $750 million to finish two major shipbuilding programs already far behind schedule. Aspin said Litton would finish the last of five big helicopter carriers about 44 months behind schedule — a year later than previous estimates — and was seeking an additional $400 million on the contract. He said the last of 30 new destroyers would be finished 18 months behind schedule and an extra $350 million was being sought by Litton. Both the Navy and Litton confirmed the basic details of Aspin’s charge but said he distorted the facts and made the problem seem worse than it is.
An extortion plot to wring $100,000 from the parents of newspaper heiress-turned-revolutionary Patricia Hearst has resulted in the conviction of a Missouri couple in a nonjury trial. Superior Judge William Caldecott said he will sentence Nile D. Marx, 43, September 20 and his wife, Shirley, 21, August 26. The couple, from Columbia, Missouri, were arrested last February 16 after Catherine Hearst received a phone call from a man who said Patty Hearst was with him and would be released if $100,000 were left at a Los Angeles bus station. When the couple went to pick up the parcel, they were welcomed instead by FBI agents.
[Ed: Criminal Geniuses — NOT.]
Informal talks between coal industry officials and United Mine Workers union officials in Washington raised hopes that a nationwide coal mine strike could be averted this fall. A union official told delegates to a convention in New Stanton, Pennsylvania, that UMW President Arnold Miller had met with officials of the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, which represents 60% of all U.S. coal mining companies, and that “based on that meeting, in my opinion, there will not be a strike.”
District Attorney Richard Kuh of New York said he expected that Jacqueline Onassis would prosecute a 20-year-old man on a charge of stealing a bicycle from her son, John F. Kennedy Jr. The 13-year-old Kennedy was robbed of his bike and a tennis racket in Central Park on May 15. The suspect, Robert Lopez, is being held on an unrelated charge of armed robbery. Neither Kennedy nor his mother showed up earlier for a hearing to identify Lopez, and that hearing was postponed. Police said that without action by Mrs. Onassis, Lopez might escape being charged.
Acupuncture should not be allowed to become a new form of quackery in the Western world, a group of American doctors just back from China said. They reported that while the needle therapy appeared to have some beneficial uses in China as a surgical analgesic, it was used in only about 15% of all major surgery there and “would appear to be exportable to a very limited degree.” The group of 12 physicians and four American Medical Association representatives also pointed out that acupuncture often was credited with curing “self-limiting” diseases that often would disappear untreated.
Federal agents, the District Attorney and a special police squad are investigating allegations that organized crime and official corruption have penetrated virtually every governmental operation in Greenburgh — Westchester County’s (New York) most populous town. Despite the official silence imposed on the law enforcement agencies, the New York Times, after weeks of investigation into the alleged corruption, has been able to trace the key abuses now under scrutiny and, in many cases, to enlarge on them. The focus of the investigation is the former Republican administration of Richard Russo, who was the Greenburgh Town Supervisor from 1968 to last December, when the administration was replaced by a reform slate of Democrats. Until then, Republicans had controlled the town for 76 years.
The original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical “A Little Night Music” closed after 601 performances. It won 6 Tony Awards, 6 Drama Desk Awards, and a Grammy.
“Words & Music” closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 127 performances.
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) was founded at a meeting at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut.
Jeff Baxter, guitarist and founding member of Steely Dan quits the band and joins the Doobie Brothers.
British long-distance runner Brendan Foster broke the world record for the 3,000 meter race, completing the distance in 7 minutes, 35.2 seconds and besting the mark of 7:37.6 that had been set in 1972 by Emiel Puttemans of Belgium. Foster, an employee of the city of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, set the new record at the “Gateshead Games” that he had helped organize to call attention to the town’s new stadium.
Tommy Davis and Don Baylor each hit a two‐run home run off Mickey Lolich in the first inning today and the Baltimore Orioles coasted to a 6–2 victory ever the Detroit Tigers. The home runs were the seventh of the season for each and it must have been a lucky number because Earl Williams also tagged Lolich for his seventh homer to start the fourth inning. Ross Grimsley equaled his victory total of 13 with Cincinnati last season with an eight‐hitter. He has lost eight.
The New York Yankees overpowered the first‐place Boston Red Sox, 6–2. Pat Dobson held the Red Sox to seven hits and got the win.
Jeff Burroughs has 4 hits, including a grand slam off Chicago starter Jim Kaat, to drive in 6 runs in leading the Texas Rangers to a 12–5 victory over the White Sox.
Jon Matlock hurled a seven‐hit, 3–0 victory, his fourth shutout of the season to lead the Mets in that department. He struck out three and walked one to win his 10th game against eight defeats. Against Montreal, Matlack, is 7–1 in his career. Except for the eighth inning, Matlack had few worries. Willie Davis singled with two out in the first, stole second and ended up on third when Jerry Grote’s throw to second was dropped. But Bob Bailey fouled out.
Bill Madlock got four hits and drove in two runs today to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 4–3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Rick Reuschel, the Cubs’ starting pitcher, lasted seven innings and gained his 11th victory against eight losses. Jerry Reuss, 10–9, took the defeat.
Lou Brock singled home the tying run in the ninth inning and then scored on Bake McBride’s hit to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 4–3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies tonight.The Cardinals took a one‐game first‐place lead over the Phillies in the National League East. The teams entered the game with 54–51 won‐lost records. Vic Davanon was walked by Jim Lonborg and was sacrificed to second before scoring on Brock’s single. Brock then stole second, went to third on a ground ball and scored the decisive run on McBride’s single.
Home runs by Chris Speier and Dave Rader led the San Francisco Giants to a 3–1 victory over the Atlanta Braves today.
Andy Messersmith pitched a four‐hitter and Willie Crawford and Von Joshua homered in a five‐run first tonight, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 5–1 victory over the Houston Astros.
Born:
Jenny Beck, American TV actress (“Guns of Paradise”), in Los Angeles, California.
Laura Termini, Venezuelan actress and writer “Telemundo telenovela Guadalupe”), in Caracas, Venezuela.
Derek Grimm, NBA small forward (Sacramento Kings), in Peoria, Illinois.
Died:
Fred Gómez Carrasco, 34, American criminal, shot himself, bringing an end to the Huntsville Prison siege.
Edna Murphy, 74, American silent film and film serial actress (“Rose of the Bowery”).
Almira Sessions, 85, American character actress in over 500 films (“Oklahoma Annie”) and TV shows.
Joaquim Amat-Piniella, 60, Catalan writer known for the Spanish novel “K.L. Reich.”
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