U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin met for almost an hour in Washington to discuss relations between the two nuclear superpowers now that Gerald R. Ford is president. Dobrynin, who has just returned from Moscow, is assumed to have conveyed to Kissinger the Russian government’s pledge to continue its policy of working for ever better relations with the United States.
Tension on the divided island of Cyprus eased further today with the continued withdrawal of Greek Cypriot forces from Turkish enclaves they had been occupying and with expectations of a reciprocal gesture of goodwill from the Turkish side. The Greek Cypriot National Guard, or army, began its withdrawal. yesterday from four Turkish Cypriot villages it had occupied as a reaction to the Turkish invasion of July 20. Although the Turks continued to occupy a triangular‐shaped beachhead on the north coast, the Greeks pulled out today from two Turkish villages near Paphos and from Turkish residential areas in the towns of Paphos and Larnaca.
“We are awaiting a gesture of goodwill from the Turkish Cypriote authorities,” Rudolf Stajduhar, spokesman for the 4,200‐man United Nations force, said. He did not specify what such a gesture could be. The Greek evacuations were In accordance with the ceasefire agreement worked out in Geneva. But the tensions, if eased, were still present. The Greeks remained in a position. to resume their occupation of the Turkish sites when they wished. Shots were exchanged near Nicosia and near Limassol, indicating that the cease‐fire remained tenuous. Some 10,000 Turks continued to be under siege in the walled old quarter of Famagusta, but there were hopes that the Red Cross might be able to cross Greek Cypriot lines during the night to deliver emergency supplies. This would be another contribution to the easing of tensions.
A Turkish proposal for a division of Cyprus into a number of separate communities under Greek Cypriot or Turkish Cypriot administration brought the Geneva truce talks to a standstill tonight. A meeting of the five representatives at the talks — the Foreign Ministers of Greece, Turkey and Britain, and two Cypriot leaders — had been called for 10 PM, but Greek opposition to the Turkish proposal thwarted the meeting. The meeting was rescheduled for tomorrow morning. The Greek Foreign Minister, George Mavros, said earlier in the day that he expected the conference either to arrive at a limited agreement on principles for subsequent talks on the island’s political structure, or to break down. He threatened to leave Geneva tomorrow and to turn over the matter to the United Nations Security Council. He objected, however, to negotiating “at gunpoint” while a force of 40,000 Turks, who invaded Cyprus on July 20 after the overthrow of President Makarios by Greek and Greek Cypriot officers, was still occupying the northern port of Kyrenia.
Little support can be found at the Cyprus peace talks here for the view expressed in Washington recently that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization emerged “strengthened” from the threat of war last month between two of its members, Greece and Turkey. In fact, in the judgment of Turkish, Greek and even American diplomats here, NATO’s southern flank is still as open as a wound a month after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Last Saturday, the Greek armed forces were put on full alert, Greek sources here said today, after Athens had received information that Turkish reinforcements were being sent toward the Greek frontier. The alert is apparently still in force. Greek and Turkish forces, and the attention of their military commanders, are still directed toward each other rather than toward the Soviet Union and the purposes of the NATO alliance, according to Greek and Turkish diplomats.
“I can’t believe NATO can protect us from threats from the outside if it can’t even keep two of its own members from fighting with each other,” the Greek Foreign Minister, George Mavros, said in an interview. Members of his party here say that things could get worse before they get better. “Unless there are results from this conference, and soon,” one of Mr. Mavros’s associates said today, “Ankara may find that the civilian Government in Athens has no strong roots after all.” Mr. Mavros, who took office last month after the overthrow of the Greek military regime at the peak of the Cyprus crisis, has to consider the colonels who almost went to war with Turkey and might still like to go. Public opinion in Greece has been disappointed so far in this conference, he says. Turkey has made no move to withdraw her invasion force from the island of 650,000 people.
A Soviet violinist, 18, who less than 24 hours earlier had asked for political asylum in Australia, said that he had decided to return to the Soviet Union after huddling for 4½ hours with the Russian president of the International Society for Musical Education at Perth. The British airliner that was to have returned Georgi Ermolenko to Russia took off without him when labor union officials, politicians and students joined forces to prevent his departure, saying he was leaving under duress. A writ of habeas corpus insured that the case will be presented to the Supreme Court.
President Hafez Assad reshuffled Syria’s military command amid growing Arab fears that Israel is preparing to launch another Middle East war. Assad named Hikmat Shehabi, Syria’s chief disengagement negotiator with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, as chief of staff and promoted him to the rank of major general. It was Syria’s first military shakeup since last October’s war.
Indian air force helicopters dropped food packages to eastern Indian villagers stranded by floods which officials describe as the worst in 20 years. The official All-India Radio said Railway Minister L.N. Mishra estimated millions of dollars worth of crops had been destroyed by the overflowing rivers. Mishra said Bihar state was the hardest hit area.
Forty Cambodian soldiers were killed when government air force planes mistakenly bombed a unit of the 7th Infantry Division six miles northwest of Phnom Penh, military sources disclosed. The sources said that Cambodian T‐28 fighter planes bombed the wrong positions Saturday when Government Soldiers closed in on Communist forces near Doeum Ampil and radioed for air support. Military sources also said that rebel gunners sank two Cambodian Navy boats in the Mekong River 26 miles north of Phnom Penh early today, killing four policemen and wounding nine policemen and sailors. Another nine sailors were reported missing.
Meanwhile, military officers in Saigon reported that an outpost manned by 37 South Vietnamese rangers was overrun by Communist forces after being hit by 200 rounds of mortar and artillery fire.
Indonesia and the Philippines proposed to the third sea-law conference that archipelago nations — nations made up of islands — be allowed to draw base lines around their group of islands and exercise full sovereignty over the seas within the base lines. In their proposal to the delegates in Caracas, Venezuela, the two nations said they would guarantee the sea rights of neighboring states.
All 27 people aboard Avianca Flight 610 were killed when the DC-3 airliner flew into the side of Trujillo Mountain in Colombia at an altitude of 9,670 feet (2,950 m). The crew departed Tumaco-La Florida Airport at 0825LT with an ETA in Cali at 0955LT. En route, the crew encountered poor weather conditions with a limited visibility due to rain falls. The airplane deviated from the prescribed flight plan when, at an altitude of 9,670 feet, it struck the slope of Mt Trujillo located in the region of Buenaventura, about 75 km northwest of Cali Airport. SAR operations were suspended after few days as no trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found. Eventually, the wreckage was found in a ravine on October 31st 1974. All 27 occupants were killed.
Provincial policemen killed 16 Marxist guerrillas today in a running battle in the mountains of Catamarca Province, police sources said. It was one of the worst setbacks in four years of terrorism for the guerrilla People’s Revolutionary Army. The police spotted and engaged the guerillas in the province about 1,000 miles northwest of Buenos Aires after an intense search. One policeman was killed in the shooting and an army sergeant died in a grenade accident, the police in Catamarca said. The battle came one day after about 70 of the group’s guerrillas unsuccessfully raided an infantry regiment headquarters in Catamarca. Two guerrillas were killed and several policemen wounded in that fighting. At least 40 persons have been killed in Argentine political violence since President Juan Domingo Perón, died July 1. His wife, Isabel Martinez de Perón, who as vice president succeeded him in office, ordered extra security precautions throughout the country after the group’s raids yeserday.
The eight-man cabinet of Argentine President Maria Estela Perón has resigned. Interior Minister Benito Llambi said the ministers handed in their resignations last Tuesday and were still waiting for Mrs. Perón’s decision on whether to accept them. It was widely believed, however, that the president planned to reshuffle her cabinet and that at least five ministers would be replaced.
In Uganda, physician Peter Mbalu Mukasa died of poisoning. Police discovered the dismembered body of Kay Adroa, a former wife of President Idi Amin, in the trunk of a car belonging to Mukasa. Adroa’s autopsy showed she had died from bleeding after an incomplete abortion. Mukasa’s death was ruled a suicide.
President Ford addresses Congress in the United States House chamber. During a televised address to a joint session of the United States Congress, U.S. President Ford said, “To the limits of my strength and ability, I will be the President of the black, brown, red and white Americans, of old and young, of women’s liberationists and male chauvinists and all the rest of us in between, of the poor and the rich, of native sons and new refugees, of those who work at lathes or at desks or in mines or in the fields, and of Christians, Jews, Moslems, Buddhists and atheists, if there really are any atheists after what we have all been through.”.
President Ford, in a nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress, warned other countries against trying to exploit the change in the administration, and said that the United States would stand by its commitments and would not weaken its defenses. In his references to foreign policy — only a small part of his address — he stressed the continuity of the Nixon administration’s foreign policy and he warned against “unwarranted cuts” in the defense budget.
The thrust of President Ford’s address tonight to an enthusiastic joint session of Congress dealt with the economy, He called for bipartisan restraint in government spending to control inflation. Responding to a recent congressional proposal, he also endorsed — and volunteered to preside over — a domestic “summit meeting” to devise a bipartisan approach to economic growth and stability. His speech was interrupted frequently by applause, but the loudest applause came when he pledged that his administration would never engage in illegal wiretapping or other invasion of privacy.
President Ford castigated the General Motors Corporation for its decision to raise the prices of 1975 cars and trucks by an average of nearly 10 percent, With his admonition, Mr. Ford used an economic policy tool called “jawboning,” which can roughly be defined as the use of moral suasion to force a price or wage rollback or reduction, or to prevent an increase deemed unjustified. It appeared that most of his economic advisers — holdovers from the Nixon administration and said to be unsympathetic to the jawboning technique — were taken by surprise by the President’s criticism.
A prolonged drought in the Corn Belt led the Agriculture Department to reduce its forecast of the corn crop drastically. This will almost certainly mean higher meat prices next year. Smaller reductions were reported in the outlook for wheat and soybeans. The agency forecast a corn crop of 4.97 billion bushels, 12 percent below last year’s record crop.
The House passed and sent to the Senate a bill authorizing $1.7 billion for health programs to be extended through the next two years. Among others, the bill would continue the program initiated by former President Richard M. Nixon for block grants to be spent by local authorities largely at their discretion for public health needs. Authorizations for two years of family planning programs were $215.5 million and $257 million.
President Ford has been assured by two top Senate conservatives that there would be no widespread rebellion in Republican ranks if he chooses former New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller as Vice President. That word was given to Mr. Ford by Senators. Barry Goldwater (R.-Arizona) and John G. Tower (R.-Texas), informed sources said. Both men expressed preferences for other men, however, when they met with the President Sunday. But they said they would not join in a revolt if he picked Rockefeller. Sources said votes against votes against Rockefeller might number no more than five in the Senate and 17 in the House.
Suburbs have used various means to create affluent “white nooses” around central cities, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said. In a 72-page report titled “Equal Opportunity in Suburbia,” the commission accused suburbs of using exclusionary zoning, failing to enact or enforce fair-housing ordinances and failing to use federal housing-assistance programs. It charged that state and local officials have urged zoning regulations, building codes and highway construction to keep out or remove the poor and minority-group families from many suburban areas. Federal fair-housing laws, the commission said, have not solved the problem of racial discrimination in selling and renting, and present programs “often are administered so as to continue rather than reduce racial segregation.” The commission made recommendations that would, it said, insure more vigorous enforcement of fair housing laws.
The United Mine Workers union announced it was shutting down the nation’s soft-coal mines for five days next week as a memorial to victims of mine disasters and of black lung disease. The shutdown will affect between 110,000 and 120,000 workers and will close about 1,200 surface and underground mines. About 75% of the industry will be affected. The steel and power industries, the two most dependent on coal, said the five days will not be enough to force them to shut down, although they will deplete their reserves.
The president of the American Bar Association. proposed amnesty for draft evaders to eradicate a last symbol of “the cancer of Vietnam.” Chesterfield Smith, head of the 185,000-member organization, said, “The ruptures of Watergate and Vietnam have left festering sores in our national life.”. Smith, whose remarks were prepared for ABA’s annual convention in Honolulu, said, “Ultimate forgiveness of governmental punishment is fully compatible with our national traditions.”
A two-year investigation shows a “significant number” of deaths and injuries have occurred when a spare tire called the Space Saver bursts on inflation, according to Robert Boaz, public affairs chief for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The tire, manufactured by B. F. Goodrich, has walls that fold in order to save space. A canister of gas under pressure is used to inflate it. The tire comes as standard equipment on some General Motors and American Motors models and can be bought as an option on others. Boaz said if the tire bead did not seat properly the tire could explode.
Norman Sherman, the former press secretary of Senator Hubert Humphrey, pleaded guilty to charges of aiding and abetting illegal corporate donations to political campaigns by milk producers. Mr. Sherman and his business partner, Jack Valentine, who also pleaded guilty, face a maximum penalty of a year in jail and $1,000 fine. Both were named in a criminal information by the special Watergate prosecutor’s office.
Mayor Beame of New York City and 13 other mayors from across the country will have a meeting with President Ford at the White House on Wednesday to discuss their economic troubles. Mr. Beame and the other mayors are officials of the United States Conference of Mayors and the National League Of Cities. They are expected to press during their one-hour meeting with the President for mass-transportation subsidies, continued revenue sharing and prompt federal funding for housing and community development.
20th Century Fox released the road movie “Harry and Tonto,” starring Art Carney and directed by Paul Mazursky.
In one of the world’s worst mountaineering disasters, all eight members of a team of Soviet women mountain climbers died last week as they tried to traverse the 23,400-foot Lenin peak in the Pamirs, the third highest peak in the Soviet Union. The bodies of seven of the women were found several hundred feet below the summit by Japanese and American climbers. The eighth woman was believed to have been swept over the side of the mountain by high winds.
Four mountain climbers died in the Alps in two separate incidents. Two Austrians fell while climbing the Matterhorn, while two West Germans fell on the Rimpfischhorn.
At the age of 23, jockey Johnny Hathaway was fatally injured when his horse threw him into the path of another horse during a race at Waterford Park in West Virginia.
Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford head a group of 6 inductees at Cooperstown. Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford had a record crowd, including most of baseball’s royalty, bursting with laughter, cheers and tears Monday when the former New York Yankee stars were inducted into the Hall of Fame. Displaying the wit and poise which marked their magnificent playing careers, Mantle and Ford were clearly the “darlings of the crowd,” which also saw James (Cool Papa) Bell, a star for 29 years in the old Negro Leagues; Jocko Conlan, a National League umpire for 25 years, and two former sluggers, no longer living, Sunny Jim Bottomley and Sam Thompson, inducted into the shrine.
The Atlanta Braves won this year’s Hall of Fame exhibition at Cooperstown, defeating the Chicago White Sox, 12–9.
A brilliant pitching duel between Pat Dobson, who is usually tough on the Oakland A’s, and Catfish Hunter, who is usually tough on everybody, broke against the New York Yankees tonight as a wild throw by Craig, Nettles in the eighth inning gave Oakland the two runs it needed for a 5–2 victory. Dobson and Hunter both pitched powerfully throughout. Each gave up a run in the third, and Dobson squirmed out of a major jam in the sixth, but there was no sign that either had the upper hand as the game went into the home half of the eighth.
The Detroit Tigers’ Mickey Lolich moved into ninth place on the career strike‐out list, fanning seven Kansas City Royals in a five‐hit 5–1 victory. Lolich (13‐14) passed Don Drysdale of Los Angeles and raised his strike‐out total to 2,492. The Tiger left‐hander did not walk a batter, and the only run he permitted came in the fourth when Orlando Cepeda doubled after singles by Cookie Rojas and Hal McRae. Ron LeFlore, a rookie centerfielder recently recalled from the minors, hit his first major league home run in the third for Detroit. Aurelio Rodriguez had opened the Rodriguez had opened the inning with a, single and scored on a double by Gene Lamont.
Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 and walks only 2 as the California Angels top the Boston Red Sox 4–2. Ryan broke the previous American League record of 18 set by Bob Feller 36 years ago, and tied the nine-inning major-league record held by Tom Seaver and Steve Carlton.
At Busch Stadium, the St. Louis Cardinals score 5 in the 5th, then plate a run in the 13th to beat the San Diego Padres, 6–5. Ted Sizemore is walked 5 times. Bake McBride hit a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded in the 13th for the winning run. Lou Brock, the leading base stealer in the sport, swiped his 78th and 79th bases of the season, and Al Hrabosky, who pitched 4⅓ innings of hitless relief, earned his sixth victory in seven decisions.
Smack in the middle of a pennant race — somebody else’s — the Mets set back the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3–1, last night at Shea Stadium. It was the fourth of nine straight games the Mets are playing with the two top teams in the West Division of the National League — the Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds. Like the little girl with a curl, when the Mets are bad, they’re horrid, but when they’re good (like last night), they’re beautiful. They evened their season series against the Dodgers at 5 victories, 5 defeats. Harry Parker pitched his fourth victory and first complete game of his major league career and John Milner contributed a homer plus a fine piece of glove work.
Red-hot first baseman Willie Montanez doubled twice and drove in two runs as the Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants, 4–1, behind the seven‐hit pitching of Jim Lonborg.
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Born:
Matt Clement, MLB pitcher (All-Star, 2005; San Diego Padres, Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox), in McCandless, Pennsylvania.
Shane Monahan, MLB outfielder (Seattle Mariners), in Syosset, New York.
Greg Spires, NFL defensive end (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 37-Tampa, 2002; New England Patriots, Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Marianna, Florida.
Wendy Palmer, WNBA forward (WNBA All-Star, 2000; Utah Starzz, Detroit Shock, Orlando Miracle, Connecticut Sun, San Antonio Silver Stars, Seattle Storm), in Timberlake, North Carolina.
Trent Keegan, New Zealand investigative journalist who was murdered while working on a report in Kenya; in New Plymouth, New Zealand (killed 2008).
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