Turkish invasion forces resumed fighting in Cyprus around midnight tonight shortly after peace talks broke down in Geneva. Britain immediately called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York. The Turkish military action resumed with an air attack on Nicosia, the capital. Bombs fell near the airport on the southern outskirts of the city. Greek Cypriot defenders answered with antiaircraft fire. There were conflicting reports as to whether there was ground fighting.
Two hours before the attack began, the Turkish radio had warned ships and civil aircraft to stay clear of the area.. It was the same warning given before the attack last month. A meeting of the Security Council was called for 2 AM, but the start was expected to be delayed. The request was announced in Geneva by the British Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan. The Associated Press and Reuters this morning reported the possibility that Greece was withdrawing from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Greek Foreign, Minister, George Mavros, was quoted as having said on the way to Geneva airport, “NATO does not exist for Greece.”
After the Cyprus peace talks broke down here early today, Mr. Callaghan placed the blame squarely on Turkey’s refusal to recess for 36 hours to allow the Greek and Greek Cypriot representatives to consult with their governments. Mr. Callaghan said he had authorized the British Ambassador to the United Nations to ask for an immediate meeting of the Security Council in New York. Asked if he was calling for Security Council meeting because he expected renewed fighting, Mr. Callaghan replied, voice heavy with sarcasm: cannot believe that in view the assurances that have been given to me day after day by the Turkish Foreign Minister. There can be no military solution to the problems of Cyprus.”
The Turkish minister, Turan Güneş, had refused all day yesterday — and during the hours of meetings into the early morning — to grant the recess, The Greeks and Greek Cypriots had requested it so that they could take his proposal to give the 120,000 ethnic Turks on Cyprus autonomy in six separate “cantons” to Athens and Nicosia for consultations. Mr. Callaghan, who said he had last been in touch with Secretary of State Kissinger shortly before midnight (7 PM New York time), said: “It would have been possible to work out a solution. We know that is also the view of the United States Government, and that has been communicated to the Turkish Government.”
The Turkish proposal for “cantonal” government as a solution to the fighting that has racked the island for more than a decade was first advanced yesterday but rejected by the Greek and Greek Cypriot delegations. This morning, however, the Greek Foreign Minister, George Mavros, and the Greek Cypriot leader, Glafkos Clerides, asked for the 36‐hour delay in the talks here, to consult with their governments over the Proposals, Mr. Callaghan said.
The State Department earlier said President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger had taken an active role to keep the Geneva talks on the Cyprus question going. A spokesman said the United States supported more autonomy for the Turkish Cypriot community but would regard as unjustified any resort to direct military action by Turkey or Greece.
Henry Tasca, the career diplomat who has been Ambassador to Greece since 1970, will be replaced by Jack Kubisch, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Greek newspapers have been criticizing him as unduly close to the military dictators who were in power until this summer.
Two British soldiers were killed and two others seriously wounded when a bomb exploded at an army post in Northern Ireland near the border with the Irish Republic. The deaths raised the toll in five years of sectarian warfare to 1,054. Police forces in Belfast, meantime, said the security guard around leading government ministers had been tightened following a tip that the Irish Republican Army was planning a major kidnapping.
On the 13th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, two more West Berliners were sentenced in East Germany for helping East Germans escape to the West. Uwe Schmidt was sentenced to 15 years at Gera for “antistate human trafficking.” Wilfried Meyer drew a 42-year term in Leipzig for a like offense.
A compromise on formulating the United States position on Soviet Jewish emigration is nearing between Secretary of State Kissinger and Senators representing the majority who have linked a solution with support of a trade bill. Congressional aides say President Ford may enter the discussions to help solve remaining points.
A head-on collision between a bus and a fruit truck near Saragossa, Spain, killed 9 people and injured 20.
John A. Scali accepted an invitation from President Ford to remain as head of the U.S. mission to the United Nations, a spokesman said. Scali, 56, was Richard M. Nixon’s third appointee to the post, which he took up on February 29, 1973, succeeding Charles W. Yost and George A. Bush. Born in Canton, Ohio, Scali had previously been a diplomatic reporter for the Associated Press and later the American Broadcasting Co.
Floodwaters began to recede in Bangladesh, where more than 2,500 lives have been lost in the flooding and in a related cholera outbreak, officials said. The capital city of Dacca remained underwater and small boats were being used for transport there and on the main roads in the Kushtia and Faridpur districts. Reports said more than 25,000 people were trapped on high ground near the Chandpur River and that rescue teams had so far evacuated 1,500 flood victims.
The United States has made clear to South Korea its disapproval of the prosecution of political opponents of President Park Chung Hee’s government, the State Department said. Speaking of the trials and prison sentences for prominent critics in Seoul, including former President Yun Po Sun, department spokesman Robert Anderson said, “We do not approve of actions depriving people of their human rights. The Korean government is very much aware of our views on these issues.”
Curaçao riot police flew to strike-harassed St. Maarten in the wake of a fire that burned an administration building and the residence of Lt. Gov. R. O. van Delden to the ground. The fire broke out just hours after utility workers in the Dutch sector of the tiny Caribbean island went on strike, and officials said they were holding at least one person on suspicion of arson. Despite the posting of the 35-man riot force, there were no reports of violence. The strike left St. Maarten’s 4,000 inhabitants without water or electricity.
With 21 guerrillas killed and 23 captured, army paratroopers and police pulled out of the dry, scrub-covered ravines in northwestern Argentina. The chase began after a guerrilla attack on an airborne regiment in Catamarca province failed Sunday morning. That attack, involving the ultra-left People’s Revolutionary Army, was seen as signaling a shift to large-scale operations in the open countryside by the urban guerrilla organization.
Argentine President Maria Estela Perón accepted the resignation of Education Minister Jorge Taiana in what appeared to be the first move in an expected reshuffling of her eight-man cabinet. It was the first cabinet change since the death six weeks ago of President Juan Perón. Interior Minister Benito Llambi indicated earlier that all eight ministers had handed in their resignations to facilitate the changeover and were awaiting her decision in each case.
President Ford discussed the nation’s economic problems with George Meany, labor’s chief spokesman, in a session the President called “very friendly and very constructive.” Mr. Meany, a foe of the Nixon administration, had not been in the White House for 14 months. Mr. Ford sought cooperation against inflation. The White House said the proposed “summit” meeting on the economy would probably take place next month.
Several close associates said that President Ford had decided at least tentatively to seek a full term in 1976. George Bush, the Republican National Chairman, said most party people he had talked with assumed he would run. Associates said that he would not want to commit himself before establishing a record of his own. Ever since he was chosen last winter to replace Spiro T. Agnew as Vice President, Mr. Ford has insisted that he has no political ambition, that he has no intention of seeking the Presidency in 1976. But his sudden projection into the White House, following the resignation of Richard M. Nixon last Friday, is said to have changed the former Michigan Representative’s mind.
George Bush of Texas and Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York were the talk of the Capitol today as House and Senate Republicans submitted their Vice‐Presidential recommendations for President Ford’s consideration tomorrow. But Mr. Bush, chairman of the Republican National Committee and former Governor Rockefeller were among the millions waiting for the first hint of Mr. Ford’s choice. The President is expected to nominate his successor in the VicePresidency later this week, after considering the views he solicited from party leaders in Congress and the states.
Mr. Bush, a former Representative and United Nations ambassador who preserved a “nice guy” reputation as party chairman through the long Watergate affair, was described today as “everybody’s second choice,” “And that’s sometimes a good place to be” said Senator John G. Tower of Texas, who joined Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona and the two Republican Senators from Oklahoma in declaring Mr. Bush his own favorite.
The Senate Defense Appropriations subcommittee cut $5.1 billion from the $87 billion Defense Department appropriations bill while the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reduced the foreign aid bill from the administration’s requested $3.2 billion to $2.5-billion. The White House did not comment on whether President Ford would consider these as “unwarranted cuts in national defense,” which he warned against in his message to Congress.
House Republican leaders said they would recommend that President Ford veto a $20 billion mass transit bill unless the House cut the funding level nearly in half. They said the six-year bill was inflationary and provided too much money. Existing legislation provides up to $10 billion for mass transit, they said, which would make a total of $30 billion for the six years. The bill, scheduled to reach the House floor today, includes over $6 billion for operating subsidies.
The Senate voted 84 to 0 to approve a compromise $11.3 billion housing and community development bill. The measure, worked out by a Senate-House conference committee, now goes to the House for final action. It authorizes $8.6 billion over the next three years in block grants for urban renewal, model cities, open spaces and other community development programs. The block grants, urged by former President Richard M. Nixon, would give communities far more flexibility than they have had in the past in deciding how to use the funds. The bill also provides subsidized housing programs for the poor and the elderly and increases from $33,000 to $45,000 on the ceiling on FHA-insured and VA-guaranteed loans on single-family dwellings.
The Senate, by a 53 to 35 margin, voted down the agreement under which the Navy would advance payments of up to $100 million to the Grumman Aerospace Corporation to continue production of the F-14 fighter plane. Senator William Proxmire, the Wisconsin Democrat who led the fight against the loan plan, said Grumman would have to get commercial financing or a new Navy arrangement. The Senate action was taken under a 1972 law.
The Department of Justice announced an agreement to settle its antitrust suit against Associated Milk Producers, Inc. The group agreed not to threaten boycotts of processors who bought milk from non-members, nor to coerce truckers against hauling milk for non-members, nor to manipulate deliveries to qualify for prices higher than proper under Agriculture Department orders.
The nine members of the Texas Board of Corrections unanimously endorsed the actions taken by prison officials to stop a breakout on August 3 in which four persons were killed. Convicts Fred Gomez Carrasco and Rudolfo Dominguez and hostages Julia Standley and Elizabeth Beseda died in a shootout after an 11-day siege in Huntsville at the Walls Unit prison library. W. J. Estelle, prison system director, has said that despite the hostages there was never any intention of allowing the prisoners to flee.
Frederic V. Malek, the taskmaster of the Nixon administration, will report to work September 1 for New York shipping magnate D. K. Ludwig, known in some circles as America’s answer to Aristotle Onassis. Most of Malek’s duties after he joined President Richard M. Nixon in 1969 were concerned with getting more job devotion from federal executives. His latest post was as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Connecticut’s three Roman Catholic bishops warned the state’s Catholic doctors and nurses they would face excommunication if they took part in abortions. The bishops, John F. Whealon, Walter W. Curtis and Vincent J. Hines, said in a 16-page pamphlet, “Your Conscience and Abortion,” that church strictures applied to all, from mothers to the aides who wheeled them into the operating rooms.
Two of the four convicts who crashed out of the federal prison at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in a garbage truck last Saturday surrendered in Cove City, North Carolina, after a brief gunfight with police. The four fugitives were believed to be the ski-masked bandits who earlier robbed a Cove City bank of $10,000 earlier in the day. Still at large, the FBI said, were Richard F. McCoy, 31, the former Mormon Sunday School teacher who hijacked a United Air Lines jet in April, 1972, and parachuted out with $500,000 ransom, and Melvin D. Walker, 35, a bank robber from Morely, Missouri. Those who surrendered after a brief fight were Joseph Havel, 60, of Philadelphia, and Larry L. Bagley of Iowa. An undetermined amount of the bank loot was recovered.
On the second day of principal photography for the film “The Eiger Sanction,” directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, a falling rock on the north face of the Eiger killed 26-year-old British climber David Knowles and injured climbing advisor and cameraman Mike Hoover.
The champion Oakland Athletics, who have many strings to their bow, used their running weapon tonight to defeat the New York Yankees, 6–1, behind Ken Holtzman’s seven‐hit pitching. They forced three throwing errors from Thurman Munson, the Yankee catcher who has taken to firing the ball sidearm, sometimes a sign of arm trouble. And they took full advantage of the fact that George Medich, the Yankee starter, has trouble keeping runners from getting a big jump off first base. So in scoring three runs in sixth inning and three more in the seventh, the A’s triggered both rallies with stolen bases that were compounded by wild throws. Billy North, who leads the American League, stole No. 42 in the sixth and turned it into the tying run at that time.
Boog Powell hits a 1st inning grand slam and Jim Palmer (4–8) goes six innings in Baltimore’s 8–2 win over the visiting Chicago White Sox. Feeling perhaps like a case for national health insurance instead of the Cy Young Award winner he was last year, the Orioles’ Jim Palmer nonetheless pitched six strong innings. He gave up six hits, struck out four, walked one and allowed two runs, one them unearned, before he was relieved by Grant Jackson.
The New York Mets toppled the first‐place Dodgers, 3–0, behind Jon Matlack’s four‐hitter. Matlack hurled his fifth shutout to lead the league; Jerry Grote hit his first home run in three months, and Felix Milian began a new hitting streak with his first triple of the year. Matlack gained his 11th victory against 9 defeats, striking out eight as he outpitched Al Downing in a contest of left‐handers. Downing lost his sixth verdict. He has won four times.
The Philadelphia Phillies edged the San Francisco Giants, 6–5. Mike Schmidt hit two towering homers and drove in three runs in the first three innings as Philadelphia beat Jim Barr, who had won his last six starts for the Giants. San Francisco kept the game tense on Dave Kingman’s three‐run triple in the fifth and Chris Speier’s homer in the seventh.
The Pittsburgh Pirates pounded out 21 hits, routing the Cincinnati Reds 14–3. The Pirates won for the second straight night and went over the .500 mark for the first time this season. Al Oliver hit a homer and drove in five runs, and Richie Zisk drove in three. Zisk now has a 10‐game r.b.i. streak, one away from the league record set in 1929 by Mel Ott and two away from the Major‐league mark shared by Joe Cronin and Ted Williams.
The Boston Red Sox’ Luis Tiant shut out the California Angels, 3–0. Tiant held California to four hits for his 18th victory, and Doug Griffin, Rick Burleson and Tommy Harper drove in the runs. Tiant struck out five and walked four.
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