Turkish forces, which began heavy air and ground attacks, seem headed for control of much of northern Cyprus, as armored columns approached the eastern coastal city of Famagusta. Its capture would establish by force the partition plan rejected by Greece at the Geneva peace talks. Greek Cypriotes fled south from Nicosia, the capital, following a heavy air strike, after a day-long fight a cease fire, urged by the United Nations, was agreed to for the capital area. Turkish armored columns pushed east during the day, and late last night they were approaching the eastern coastal city of Famagusta. Its capture would establish by force a Turkish partition plan for Cyprus that Greece rejected at the Geneva peace talks. Other Turkish units were reported moving westward to ward Lefka in the west.
Three United Nations soldiers from Austria were killed during the day and 23 United Nations soldiers were wounded when caught between opposing units. There were no reports of casualties among the Greek Cypriotes or the Turks. The first bombs hit military and industrial areas around Nicosia at 5 AM, few hours after the peace talks in Geneva had collapsed. The attacking Turkish planes were fired at by antiaircraft batteries. Turkish infantry and tanks moved out of the triangular salient that they had seized. after landing in Cyprus July 20.
At Nicosia, ground fighting took place across the so‐called Green Line, the cease‐fire line established July 30, and the outnumbered Greek Cypriotes retreated southward from the southern sector of the city. The main Turkish thrust was eastward toward Famagusta where some 12,000 Turkish Cypriotes had been under siege in the old walled quarter of the city. The Turks reportedly moved toward Famagusta in three parallel columns, one just a few miles south of the coastal mountain range, another on the new highway to the city and the third farther south along the old road. At 6 P.M. they were reported 15 miles from their objective and liter in the evening 5 miles away. The old road runs from the British military base at Dhekelia, one of two that Britain holds as sovereign areas on the island, and the possibility of a confrontition between the Turks and British army units was worrying British diplomats and others.
The Turks struck Famagusta by air early yesterday. The night before thousands of Greek Cypriote residents began to flee in expectation of a Turkish attack.
In retaliation for the Turkish invasion, the Greek Cypriot paramilitary group EOKA B invaded the Turkish Cypriot village of Tochni (in southern Cyprus) and kidnapped and murdered 84 men and boys. On the same day, EOKA-B murdered 126 men, women and children whom it had taken hostage on July 20 from the northern Cyprus villages of Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda.
Greece withdrew its forces from NATO’s military command structure, as a result of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Greece withdrew her troops from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in reaction to the breakdown of the Geneva talks and the new fighting in Cyprus. Officials said it was primarily a political move to rally public opinion at home and to arouse world attention to Turkey’s action.
The United States, after failing to persuade Turkey not to renew hostilities on Cyprus, called for an immediate cease-fire and resumption of negotiations. High-level meetings on the situation were held at the White House and State Department. Aides of Secretary of State Kissinger said he had learned Saturday of Turkey’s. military preparations but had been reassured by Premier Bulent Ecevit that no operations were planned at that time.
Immigration to Israel felt 33 percent in the first six months of 1974, apparently because of economic dislocation and political uncertainty caused by the October war. Unlike the 1967 war, whose overwhelming victory boosted immigration, the inconclusive 1973 conflict discouraged many would-be immigrants, Jerusalem officials said.
Kuwait has concluded an agreement with the United States to buy ground-to-ground missiles worth up to $75 million, the daily newspaper Al Watan reported in Kuwait, quoting special sources. It added that the country expected to receive the missiles within 90 days of making the first payment. No other details were given.
Libya has released four Palestine Liberation Organization commandos who hijacked a Japan Air Lines jetliner in July, 1973, and blew it up at Benghazi Airport. The hijackers — two Palestinians, a Japanese and a Honduran — arrived in Damascus, according to the Beirut newspaper Al Moharrer. The decision to release the hijackers was reportedly reached by Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Khadafy.
Iran, which has ordered 80 of the Grumman F-14 fighter planes, has offered a loan to the company to continue production. The Senate had rejected a Navy arrangement to ease its financial difficulties. Representative Otis Pike of Long Island disclosed the new possibility.
A cyclone threatened the coast of Bangladesh even as refugees from massive floods poured into Dacca and relief workers fought to ward off flood-related epidemics. The floodwaters were reported receding throughout the country, but a depression had created cyclone conditions and heavy storms hit coastal towns. Dacca was still partially under water and 200,000 residents had been vaccinated, relief officials said.
Communist forces, taking advantage of bad weather that grounded South Vietnamese warplanes, renewed their offensive in the north with infantry and artillery attacks on two district capitals near Đà Nẵng. Saigon officials said defense forces at both towns appeared to be holding out. In the south, Red gunners shelled Biên Hòa Air Base and surrounding villages, killing one patient and wounding nine others at a mental hospital. Meantime, in Cambodia, government soldiers reportedly killed 26 insurgents in fierce fighting northwest of Phnom Penh.
In Japan, the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front (EAAJAF) attempted to assassinate the Emperor Hirohito, preparing to explode a bomb underneath a railway bridge where the royal train was scheduled to cross. The plan was aborted after an EAAJAF member was spotted by police. The terrorists would use the explosives to carry out the Mitsubishi building bombing on August 30.
Armed Canadian policemen ringed Anicinabe Park in Kenora, Ontario, where militant Ojibwe Indians defied a government ultimatum and continued a three-week occupation of the land, which they claim is rightfully theirs. Three men and one woman were arrested Tuesday and charged with unlawful assembly. A police spokesman said warrants had been issued for the arrest of other Indians known to be in the park but refused to disclose how many persons this involved. Estimates ranged up to 100.
All 50 people aboard an Aeropostal Airlines flight in Venezuela were killed when the airliner crashed into a hill during a storm. The Vickers Viscount turboprop had departed from Cumaná and was on a 34 miles (55 km) hop to Margarita Island and the resort of Porlamar. The plane’s co-pilot initially survived the crash but died 17 days later.
The meningitis epidemic afflicting Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, claimed 20 more lives as it worsened over the last few days, health authorities said. They reported 419 new cases of the disease that has killed more than 400 persons in the city since July 1. The nationwide toll was put in excess of 500, with thousands hospitalized. The epidemic was also reported worsening in the federal capital of Brasilia, where 20 persons died last week.
Argentine President Maria Estela Perón reshuffled her cabinet, naming three longtime Perónists to head the key ministries of defense, interior and education. The reorganization did not affect any other positions in the eight-man cabinet. The new ministers, all of whom served in the late Juan D. Perón’s administrations in the 1940s and 1950s, are Alberto Rocamora, defense; Adolfo Mario Savino, interior, and Oscar Ivanissevich, education.
The USSR performs an underground nuclear test.
The tape recordings made by former President Nixon of his conversations with aides, associates and advisers are his personal property and will be returned to his control, according to President Ford’s press secretary, Jerry terHorst. He said that the decision was based on an opinion by the White House lawyers who coordinated the Watergate defense for Mr. Nixon.
Changes in White House ways of doing things to fit the style of President Ford are under consideration by his transition team, according to its coordinator, Donald Rumsfeld. Another aide said the general theme would be “decentralization,” to restore authority to government agencies and departments which they lost to the White House under President Nixon.
The draft report on impeachment by the House Judiciary Committee, now circulating among its members, says that for more than two years President Nixon engaged in “deliberate, repeated and continued deception of the American people.” It is expected to go to the full House on Monday. But the committee chairman, Peter Rodino, Democrat of New Jersey, said it would lie “dormant,” as a record of events leading to Mr. Nixon’s resignation.
A federal judge in St. Paul, Minnesota, has ordered the White House to disclose whether any taped presidential conversations involve the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. A spokesman for President Ford has said the tapes are the personal property of former President Richard M. Nixon. U.S. District Judge Fred J. Nichol declined immediate comment on that development. American Indian Movement leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means are facing a five-count indictment on charges stemming from the 71-day occupation of the hamlet last year.
Senator Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota has tentatively decided to seek the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1976. Mondale explained that he had not decided definitely to run, but “from the encouragement I’ve had I believe I will.” Mondale, 46, said party leadership, including state chairmen and governors, had supported him in polls. Mondale’s remarks came during a National Legislative Conference, being held in Albuquerque.
Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois is shelving his campaign to capture the 1976 Republican presidential nomination. Percy said President Ford would be nominated by acclamation if he continued to “say and do the right thing” and so his own bid was “on the back burner and maybe into the deep-freeze.” Percy, who has said he would accept appointment as Vice President, if offered, added that now he would “work exclusively for Republican candidates and to help the new Ford Administration.”
President Ford signed a bill today allowing American citizens to buy and sell gold after December 31 for the first time in 40 years. Removal of the ban was part of legislation that also authorized $1.5‐billion for the International Development Association, an agency of the World Bank. The funds for the I.D.A. are to be provided in four annual installments of $375‐million, although the Nixon Administration asked Congress to vote lump sum. The I.D.A. makes loans, at virtually no interest to underdeveloped countries. Removal of the 40‐year‐old ban on gold ownership had originally been opposed by the Treasury, which believed it would encourage speculation in the gold markets and affect the international monetary situation. But the Treasury relented in its opposition this year.
Claude Brinegar, Secretary of Transportation, urged Congress to require localities to assume much more responsibility for financing transit operations, matching federal aid for operating losses on a 2-to-1 basis. Mayor Beame of New York City, who with 14 other Mayors had been talking with President Ford for nearly an hour, was upset and said the Secretary was taking a different position from that of the administration.
In Kansas City, Missouri, 15-year-old David Eyman was found bound at the wrists and knees and burned alive on the boundary road between Jackson and Cass counties. As of 2021 his murder remained unsolved.
Civil rights leader Charles Evers, contending that unidentified forces were trying to break him “financially and politically,” said he was innocent of federal income tax evasion charges. “I don’t know of any wrong that I’ve done,” the black mayor of Fayette, Mississippi, declared at a news conference. Evers, 51, serving his second term as mayor, was indicted this week on three counts of evading income taxes amounting to more than $50,000. Evers said the accusations were part of a “long process of harassment and intimidation” stemming from his civil rights activities. He said he had told the Internal Revenue Service “many times that if I owed any taxes, I was willing to pay. They told me very frankly, ‘No, we want you.”
Consumers can expect some dip in meat prices next fall but a lot depends on whether drought forces as many cattle to market as the situation indicates now, the Agriculture Department said. The Outlook and Situation Board said summer drought, which has burned up pastures in much of the Great Plains and Southwest, could force more cattle to market in the fall. But a report said that if recent rains continued it could mean fewer cattle marketed in that period and sharply higher prices.
Fifty-nine Ecuadorian stowaways, discovered shivering in the refrigerators of the Prudential-Grace Line’s 12,000-ton banana freighter Santa Elena that docked in New York Tuesday, carried blankets aboard a special charter plane for a flight home. Immigration and Naturalization Service authorities said the Ecuadorians boarded a jet, with passage paid by Prudential, at Kennedy International Airport for the return. Six of the stowaways had been carried off the Santa Elena on stretchers and a seventh in a wheelchair, all suffering from malnutrition, dehydration and exposure.
The U.S. performs an underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
American motorcycle racer Rickie K. Milner, 22, was killed during a competition at the Corona Raceway in Corona, California. Milner spilled his motorcycle and was struck in the neck from behind by racer Bill Matherson’s motorcycle.
The Milwaukee Brewers are outhit 15–12 by the Texas Rangers but beat Fergie Jenkins, 6–5. Cesar Tovar is 5–for–5 for Texas, but is one of four Rangers caught stealing by Darrell Porter. Porter doubled home the tying run in the eighth and scored on Tim Johnson’s pinch single for Milwaukee’s victory.
Key late‐inning doubles by Graig Nettles and Elliott Maddox, and more spectacular pitching by Rudy May, gave the New York Yankees a 4–1 victory Over the Oakland Athletics tonight and allowed them to fly eastward with a satisfactory 3–3 won‐lost record for their final California trip of the season. May, who now has a 5–1 record for the Yankees since joining them in June, held the champion A’s to four hits, and the only run he allowed was an unearned one in the first inning. He hasn’t permitted an earned run in his last 28 innings, and. his earnedrun average as a Yankee is 1.48. But for a long while it appeared that run would be fatal. Vida Blue, seeking his 15th victory and sixth straight, still had a 1–0 lead in the eighth when he fanned Bill Sudakis for the second out with a fastball, when there were two Yankees on base. However, Nettles lined the next pitch for a scoring double, and it was 1–1 when Gene Michael and Sandy Alomar singled in succession with one out in the ninth. Blue made Roy White foul out, but Maddox lashed a two‐run double off the leftfield wall, and Walt Williams singled in another run before Rollie Fingers got the last out.
Jack McKeon, manager of the Kansas City Royals, was miffed when he learned that the Oakland A’s had begun accepting ticket, orders for the American League playoffs. “Maybe we ought to start selling tickets, too,” he said. “Heck, I think we can beat them out. We’ve got a little momentum going, and we’re playing our best ball of the year right now.” The Royals have taken their momentum to Detroit, where they beat the Tigers last night, 9–4. They went into the game trailing Oakland by 6½ games, with only a silent minority considering them as serious threats. MeKeon, however, is undaunted.
Frank Tanana stopped the Boston Red Sox on seven hits in pitching the California Angels to a 5–0 victory over Boston. Tanana hurled his first shutout of the year and his fourth victory in his last five decisions.
Henry Aaron, Dusty Baker and Dave Johnson hit homers as Atlanta extended its winning streak to six games, downing the Montreal Expos, 6–1. Aaron’s home run, his 16th of the season and 729th of his ca reer, cleared the left‐field fence with Darrell Evans on base in the seventh. Baker hit his in the‐first after Marty Perez singled and Aaron walked, and Johnson immediately followed with his homer. But the next batter, Craig Robinson, was hit in the. Jaw on a pitch by Montreal’s Dennis Blair. Robinson was knocked unconscious and had to be carried from the field on a stretcher. A hospital report said he was badly bruised, but that there were no broken bones.
The Cincinnati Reds edged the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3–2. Cesar Geronimo’s double with one out in the 10th scored Dave Concepcion and enabled the Reds to move within 4½ games of the Dodgers in the West. The Pirates tied the game in the seventh off Don Gullett, who gave up a runscoring double to Manny Sanguillen and then walked in another run. Bruce Kison, who entered in the ninth for the Pirates, took the loss.
The Philadelphia Phillies lost ground on the St. Louis Cardinals as Bobby Bonds hit a two‐run homer for the San Francisco Giants in the ninth to break up a tie game and lift the Giants to a 6–4 win. A double by Bonds and a homer by Gary Matthews had tied the game, in the eighth after Philadelphia scored three times in the seventh. Mac Scarce walked Ken Rudolph with two out in the ninth, then Jesus Hernaiz entered and gave up the homer to Bonds.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Diego Padres by a score of 5–1. The Cardinals scored all their runs in the fifth off Randy Jones, with Reggie Smith hitting a two‐run homer to highlight the rally. Alan Foster contained the Padres on six hits, one of them a homer by Nate Colbert in the eighth.
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Born:
Christopher Gorham, American TV actor (“Covert Affairs”), in Fresno, California.
Ana Matronic [Lynch], American alt-pop singer (Scissor Sisters), in Portland, Oregon.
Martin Bulloch, Scottish rock drummer (Mogwai), in Bellshill, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Chucky Atkins, NBA point guard and shooting guard (Orlando Magic, Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, Washington Wizards, Memphis Grizzlies, Denver Nuggets, Oklahoma City Thunder), in Orlando, Florida.
Tomer Sisley (born Tomer Gazit), Israeli and French actor and comedian; to Israeli parents in West Berlin, West Germany.
Oleg Bakhmatyuk, Ukrainian businessman and founder, in 2011, of the agricultural company UkrLandFarming; in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
Died:
Arnulf Klett, 69, West German politician and Oberbürgermeister (Mayor) of Stuttgart since 1945, died of a heart attack.
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