Greek Cypriot forces retreated in growing disorder along the northern coast of the island under Turkish shelling. Military delegates from Greece and Turkey continued to draw lines for a United Nations-manned cease-fire zone around the main Turkish sector. President Glafkos Clerides expects to attend the conference in Geneva scheduled for tomorrow. Greek Cypriote soldiers streamed back in retreat today as Turkish armored columns advanced, under cover of artillery bombardment, into the northern coastal village of Vasilia, about 12 miles west of Kyrenia.
“This war has become a comedy,” said a Greek Cypriote soldier, one of more than 250 seen retreating here along the beaches and over the parched hills. “We have been ordered not to shoot back in the name of a cease‐fire that the Turks are not observing,” said the soldier, who was called to service from his job as a computer. technician in a bank in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus. “Last night we had to get under the rocks to save ourselves from the shells.”
“There is complicity here between Athens and Ankara, and we believe that a line has already been drawn to where the Turks will advance,” said a young architect, who is part of an engineering team placing mines in the path of the Turkish tanks. The disorder of the Greek Cypriote retreat—groups of 20 or 30 men did not know where their officers were—indicated that nothing could halt the invaders’ advance on this western end of the invaded area. “If the Turks want to advance to Myrtou, there is nothing we can do to stop them,” said the architect. “They have the armor and they can get around any roadblock.”
The second round of the Cyprus peace talks between Britain, Turkey and Greece is scheduled to begin at 6 PM local time [1 PM New York time] tomorrow, it was officially announced here today. Foreign Ministers Turan Güneş of Turkey and George Mavros of Greece are scheduled to arrive at midday, while Foreign Secretary James Callaghan of Britain is expected in the early afternoon. The first phase of the talks ended on July 30 with a cease‐fire agreement that has been repeatedly violated. Secretary General Waldheim of the United Nations is also expected to come here tomorrow from his native Austria, where he has been spending a brief vacation.
State Department officials said they believed that the controversy with the Soviet Union over East German interference with traffic from West Germany to West Berlin had ended. They said that the three Western allies had advised the Soviet Union that Bonn’s new federal environment agency in West Berlin was not a forerunner of a major influx of West German agencies.
Italy’s antiterrorist squad arrested three alleged members of the neoNazi Black Order and sought two more as suspects in the weekend bombing of the Rome-Munich express train in which 12 people died. Officials said searches of the suspects’ homes in Bologna produced arms and “compromising” documents linking them to the train explosion, including a manifesto claiming responsibility for the attack which said Nazism “will return for the salvation of Italy.”
Israeli leaders report that Syria has received large amounts of modern Soviet weaponry that would enable the Syrians to launch war against Israel independently of Egypt. Jerusalem says this massive rearmament is the keystone of a deliberate Soviet policy to develop an alternative base of influence in the Arab world apart from Egypt. Top leaders see a new war as possible in the next six to 12 months.
Lebanon announced that Israeli planes had attacked several southeastern villages, killing two civilians. Israel said it was the second air attack in 13 hours against “terrorist concentrations.” Israeli jets made two attacks today in southeastern Lebanon, and the Lebanese Defense Ministry said two civilians had been killed and 17 wounded. Israeli military spokesmen said that the attacks—one shortly after midnight, the other in the afternoon—were against “terrorist” targets. The air action followed the reported abduction of four Druse villagers from the Israeli‐held Golan Heights by armed men who, the Israelis charged, had infiltrated from Lebanon.
Only the afternoon raid was reported by the Lebanese Defense Ministry, which said in a communiqué that an agricultural area in the Hasbani River valley, the village of Rachaya Fukhar and nearby villages on the slopes of Mount Hermon had come under a five‐minute bombing attack. The earlier raid was also said to have been directed at the area. The communiqué said that two Lebanese soldiers were among the wounded and that two military jeeps and a pickup truck had been damaged. Cropland was damaged in the communiqué asserted, and a number of houses destroyed. The Defense Ministry said the bombing raid had been carried out by two Israeli planes escorted by eight American‐made Skyhawk and Phantom fighters.
King Hussein of Jordan, who is on his first visit to Canada, said today that he planned to visit Washington at the end of his trip for consultations on the Middle East “if circumstances permit.” The King was apparently alluding to the political crisis in Washington. King Hussein will be the guest of honor at an international air show in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on Friday and then will go to Seattle and, presumably, to Washington. In answer to a question about the effect of the possible impeachment of President Nixon on the situation in the Middle East, the King said he hoped that developments in Washington would not affect the “momentum” that has been achieved toward a solution in the area.
The French government said it would reconsider its Middle East arms sales policy after President Sadat confirmed that French-made Mirage fighter-bombers sold to Libya had been based in Egypt during the October war against Israel. This violated a 1969 contract stipulating that the 110 Mirages sold to Libya would not be used outside the country.
A fresh North Vietnamese army division captured a South Vietnamese district town near Đà Nẵng in hand-to-hand combat, Saigon spokesmen said. The capture of Thượng Ðức put the town of Đức Dục, 9 miles to the southeast, in imminent danger and imperiled the outer defenses of South Vietnam’s second largest city, Đà Nẵng, 25 miles to the northeast. There were no reports of the fate of the captured town’s 500 defenders.
Experienced military men expressed doubt that the government could recapture Thượng Ðức as quickly, if at all. It lies in a narrow valley flanked by hills that provide only one route of access for government troops — a road from the east that would require a frontal assault against the North Vietnamese forces. Furthermore, the Communist’s newly built road network from North Vietnam runs to within nine miles of Thượng Ðức, where it connects with a government road that winds along the river valley into the town from the west. This makes resupply easy for the Communists, some military experts noted.
The loss of the town was the most serious government defeat since heavy fighting erupted in the area in mid‐July. Although there had been virtually no severe combat there since the cease‐fire was signed, the North Vietnamese suddenly took two government positions, moved troops eastward toward Route 1, attacked several district towns and fired rockets at Đà Nẵng air base, from which fighter planes were conducting air strikes. Meanwhile, 100 miles to the south, the Communists have cut Route 1, the country’s vital north‐south link.
As China began basing missile-firing boats near the Taiwan Straits, the United States quietly withdrew half its F-4 Phantom jets from Taiwan. But Defense officials, while acknowledging the pullout of 18 F-4s in late July, said that there was no connection between the two events and that the withdrawal of the squadron to the Philippines had been planned long in advance. The remaining F-4 squadron is expected to be shifted in about a year, probably to Okinawa.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry said that Bishop Daniel Tji, an outspoken critic of President Park Chung Hee’s government, entered a guilty plea to court-martial charges. The Roman Catholic leader from Wonju, east of Seoul, was on trial for allegedly helping a student conspiracy that sought to overthrow Park. The ministry did not specify whether the bishop’s plea was to that charge.
Tribesmen armed with bows and arrows ambushed a seismic survey team pushing into an unexplored area of Indonesia’s West Irian territory for an American oil company, killing four Indonesians. Reports reaching Jakarta said the July 1 attack took place on the Braza River, about 100 miles inland. The 56-member exploratory team was unarmed. The ambush was believed to be the result of a misunderstanding on tribal boundaries.
A Mexican proposal for a new agreement with the United States involving the status of migrant workers is not feasible now or in the future, the U.S. Embassy declared. The embassy said such an agreement could not be signed because of U.S. farm unemployment. The Mexican plan was specifically aimed at alien detention centers in border states and implied that detained Mexicans were mistreated.
U.S. special Ambassador John Stevenson reported to an American Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Caracas, Venezuela, that the main U.S. objective at the third U.N. sea law conference in that city was the continued unimpeded deployment of American warships throughout the world and the maintenance of the U.S. nuclear deterrent. The Soviet Union has joined in the stand against any laws restricting movement of large naval and commercial fleets.
Alfonso López Michelsen was sworn into office for a four-year term as the 24th President of Colombia, succeeding Misael Pastrana Borrero.
Three Republican leaders met with President Nixon and gathered that he was leaving open the possibility of resignation. He told them his decision would be based on the national interest. Under mounting pressure to resign from members of Congress and of his staff, he asked Senator Hugh Scott, the Republican leader, Senator Barry Goldwater and Representative John Rhodes, the House Republican leader to meet him in the Oval Office. Mr. Rhodes found him “in good spirits and good health, and as four old friends we talked over a very distressing situation.”‘
Senate leaders discussed the fate of the Nixon presidency without reaching any conclusion, it was said, about what action, if any, they should take. Senator Barry Goldwater said he had told Mr. Nixon he had only 15 certain votes for acquittal in the event of a Senate impeachment trial. One possibility discussed, according to a ranking Senator, was a ”sense of the Senate” resolution recommending immunity from prosecution if he resigns.
Later this day, Nixon decides he must resign. No public announcement is made until tomorrow.
Vice President Ford told the New York Times that he felt prepared to assume the presidency but had made no “transition plans.” In an interview, he gave the impression of being fully aware he is on threshold but uncertain when he will cross it. He declined to say if transition was discussed in his hour-long meeting with Mr. Nixon’s chief aide, General Alexander Haig. It would be “premature,” he said, to discuss whether he would pick former Gov. Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President.
Jake Jacobson, a former aide to President Johnson who became a lawyer for a major dairy co-op, pleaded guilty in Washington to charges of bribing former Treasury Secretary John Connally. He is expected to be the key witness in Mr. Connally’s trial on charges of perjury, conspiracy and accepting a bribe.
Senate-House conferees announced agreement on a compromise $11.3 billion housing bill reportedly acceptable to the Nixon Administration. The measure would continue some subsidy programs for the poor that President Nixon had sought to end but it does not mandate the Administration to fund them. It would combine major urban programs into a block grant system giving much more flexibility to cities in use of the money, which the President requested. The bill also would raise from $33,000 to $45,000 the ceiling on FHA-insured mortgages on single-family houses, which housing industry leaders hope would help reverse a serious building slump.
The General Accounting Office charged that private concession operators and cabin and trailer owners have been allowed to take over the shorelines of government-built lakes in California, Oregon and Washington. The result was that the public was being “severely restricted” in its recreational use of the irrigation reservoirs. The report, released by Rep. Henry S. Reuss (D-Wisconsin), blamed poor planning and inadequate control by the Bureau of Reclamation. The GAO said the public was being denied adequate access to Lake Berryessa, East Park Reservoir and Stony George Reservoir in California, Haystack Reservoir in Oregon, and Conconully Lake in Washington.
Families headed by women make up 9.6 percent of all white families and 35 percent of all black families, representing a big increase since 1970, the Census Bureau reported today. Citing a growing trend toward female‐headed families, the Census Bureau said 14 percent of all American children under age 18 were being raised by their mothers only last year, compared with 8 per cent in 1960. Only about one‐half of black children under age 6 lived with both parents in 1973, compared with 70 percent in 1960, the bureau said.
French high-wire artist Philippe Petit conducted an unauthorized walk on a tightrope[broken anchor] between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, crossing a 131-foot (40 m) cable at a height of 1,350 feet (410 m). Members of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department arrested Petit for disorderly conduct and criminal trespass, but Richard Kuh, the New York County District Attorney, ordered the charges dropped in exchange for Petit giving a free performance for the children of New York City. Kuh suggested at a news conference that Port Authority security was insufficiently “keen”.
Four men held up the Central Home Trust Co. savings bank in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and escaped with $356,000. But within two hours, four suspects were arrested and the money recovered, authorities said. One of the suspects, Charles B. Keller, 46, was in fair condition after being shot in the buttocks. The FBI identified the others, all of New York City, as James H. Miller, 54, Joseph J. Dellamura, 57, and Frank H. Fischer, 52. Police said three of the men carried out the robbery shortly after the bank’s opening and fled in a car driven by the fourth. Two were captured in the car in nearby Roselle and the other two spotted in a bar.
Spotty rains were welcomed in several drought-stricken states but most farmers and ranchers viewed the moisture as “too little, too late” to save them from additional crop and cattle losses — already estimated at around $10 billion. “If my neighbors and I harvest 15% to 20% of what we did last year, we’ll be doing real good,” said Robert Gruben, a Moran, Texas, farmer. Most experts conceded that the Texas cotton crop was almost lost. The southwest part of Iowa, the nation’s leading producer of corn for animal feed, remained dry with only a 30% harvest forecast. The prices of commodity futures also reflected the expected severity of the drought.
A federal judge in St. Paul, Minnesota, dismissed three charges against American Indian Movement leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means but denied motions to dismiss two other charges. Banks, 42, of St. Paul, and Means, 34, of Porcupine, South Dakota, were facing a 10-count indictment growing out of the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973. Their trial opened last February 12.
United Artists released the neo-Western film “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia,” directed by Sam Peckinpah.
American actress Faye Dunaway (33) weds American rock singer Peter Wolf (28) of J. Geils Band; they divorce in 1979.
As part of a youth movement, the Detroit Tigers release first baseman Norm Cash and sell outfielder Jim Northrup to the Montreal Expos.
At Chicago, Nolan Ryan strikes out 13 and doesn’t allow a hit until a one–out, 9th inning single by Dick Allen. The White Sox have 3 hits in the 9th to score 2 runs, one earned, and beat the California Angels, 2–1. Jim Kaat is the winner. Ryan K’s the side in the 1st and 7th. This is the first of 5 times that Ryan will take a no–hitter into the 9th, only to lose it.
On a day in which the New York Yankee batboy got into the act, the Baltimore Orioles stroked 14 hits in a losing cause and Sparky Lyle was knocked out of the box, something truly unusual happened — Brooks Robinson made a pair of bad plays. As a result of his mistakes, the New Yorkers were able to get two extra runs yesterday and they proved decisive in a 4–3 victory at Shea Stadium. Robinson is the only third baseman in major league history to capture the fielding title 10 times. He has been named a “golden glove” winner the last 14 years.
The Boston Red Sox shut out the Milwaukee Brewers, 1—0. Roger Moret pitched no‐hit ball for 7⅔ innings, then light‐hitting Pedro Garcia lined a two‐out single into left field. Dick Drago and Bob Veale mopped up to preserve Moret’s sixth triumph in ten decisions. Rick Burleson drove in the run in the third after Bobby Mitchell misplayed Doug Griffin’s long fly to left‐center for a triple. The victory was Boston’s seventh in the last nine games and gave the Red Sox a three‐game lead over second‐place Cleveland in the Eastern Division.
The New York Mets gave up the ghost tonight. Any similarity between the team of destiny they became last year and hoped to be this year seemed purely accidental after a 10‐1 shellacking by the Pittsburgh Pirates, who rapped out 14 hits. Almost helpless at the hands of Larry Demary, a rookie pitcher, who held them to three hits and won just the second game of his career, the Mets looked bored to tears. And tears may be the correct word as the sad memory of last night’s 11-inning loss undoubtedly lingered on.
Cincinnati’s red–hot Johnny Bench hits his 3rd game–winning homer in a week, this time accounting for all the scoring with a 2–run homer against the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Andy Messersmith (13–3), who saw his seven-game winning streak end. Jack Billingham struck out 10 and became the first pitcher in the league to win 14 games. The Reds cut the Dodgers’ division lead to 5½ games.
Bob Boone drove in two runs with a double in the eighth, capping a three‐run rally which brought the Philadelphia Phillies back from a 2–0 deficit to win, 3–2. Boone’s hit, coming with the bases loaded, fell in right field as three Cubs converged on the ball but permitted it to drop. The defeat went to Oscar Zamora (3–4), the second of four Chicago pitchers. Gene Garber was the winner in relief, his first decision of the season.
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Born:
Andy Priaulx, British racing driver (World Touring Car Championship, 2005, 2006, 2007), in St. Peter Port, Guernsey, England, United Kingdom.
Jeff Buckey, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers), in Bakersfield, California.
Davis Sanchez, Canadian NFL defensive back (San Diego Chargers), in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Philippe De Rouville, Canadian NHL goalie (Pittburghs Penguins), in Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada.
Michael Shannon, American film actor (“Revolutionary Road”, “Nocturnal Animals”), in Lexington, Kentucky.
Deon Dreyer, South African recreational scuba diver who disappeared during a dive in Bushman’s Hole in December 1994. Diver Dave Shaw died on a dive to recover Dreyer’s body in 2005.
Died:
Virginia Apgar, 65, American physician, inventor of the Apgar score, died of cirrhosis.
Rosario Castellanos, 49, Mexican poet, author, and diplomat, Mexican Ambassador to Israel, died from an electric shock in her home.
Richard Corts, 69, German Olympic sprinter and silver medalist in the 4 x 100m relay in 1928, committed suicide.
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