Reliable diplomatic sources said today that Greece had come around to the position that Turkey could not be denied “a sovereign physical presence on Cyprus.” Negotiations have been resumed in Geneva to try to define this foothold. Turkey’s minimum objective is said to be a military base. She also wants the outnumbered Turkish Cypriot community to become a part of Turkey or, if Cyprus remains a single, independent country, part of a federal system with Turkish administrators.
Prof. Nihat Erim, Turkish representative in the talks on Cyprus, left Istanbul today for Geneva. He said in a statement that the 1959 treaty of guarantee and the 1960 treaty of alliance, signed by Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, were the basis of Turkey’s rights and those of the Turkish Cypriots. Although Turkey is willing “to accept revision of this or that provision,” he said, “we can never accept the diminishing of our rights.” He added that “to make any change, the other parties have to accept beforehand that our rights are safeguarded exactly or more strongly.” The 1959 treaty, giving Turkey the right to station troops on Cyprus or to intervene to protect the balance between the Turkish and Greek communities, was part of the settlement that gave the island independence from Britain. Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, has sought to scrap the treaty.
It was Archbishop Makarios’s attempt to amend the Cypriot Constitution — ending the Turkish community’s veto power in national affairs — that set off the fighting in Cyprus last December. Today Professor Erim said that a proposal put forward by Dean Acheson of the United States last month was “worth being taken as a basis” and that he would talk in Geneva within that framework. Mr. Acheson, former Secretary of State, advanced the following provisions as “drawing‐board suggestions” for a prossible agreement:
- Cyprus would be given a choice between independence and union with Greece.
- Turkey would get a military base on Cyprus and Castellorizo, a small Dodecansese Island.
- Turkish Cypriots who wished to settle abroad would get compensation.
- Turkish Cypriots who remained would be resettled in two cantons, or states, with Turkish Cypriot administrators.
Turkey believes that without Greek Cypriot pressures the two countries could settle the dispute quickly. Greece has supported the Greek Cypriots’ demand for “enosis,” or union of Cyprus with Greece. But Turkey strongly opposes this.
The American Red Cross sent 100 bottles of serum albumin, a blood derivate, to Cyprus by air today for use in caring for the injured. On Wednesday, Greek Cypriote authorities refused to accept a United States shipment of 2,000 pints of blood flown there at President Makarios’s request. They said the first three of the bottles were bad.
Israel offered practical relief help to Cyprus today, but avoided taking sides in the conflict between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots on the neighboring island. The offer was made in a cablegram by President Zalman Shazar to Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, which was made public here. The message was in reply to pleas by President Makarios earlier this week for action to halt Turkish military attacks against the island. President Shazar told the Cypriote President that the Israeli Ambassador in Nicosia had been instructed to make urgent inquiries as to whether Israel could help in relief efforts.
Hanoi is reported as holding air-raid drills for fear of more U.S. attacks, and the government is urging all civilians with non-essential posts to leave the city. Officials in Hanoi were said to believe that the United States was preparing to bomb North Vietnamese targets in retaliation for further victories by the Communist insurgents in South Vietnam. North Vietnam strongly believes that such advances in South Vietnam by the Việt Cộng will occur in the near future and will be followed by American responses against the North. These reports come from reliable channels that are always open between Hanoi and Saigon despite the political barriers between the Communist and nonCommunist sectors of Vietnam. Some countries represented here also have diplomatic missions in Hanoi, and travelers of various categories — reporters, businessmen and others from neutral countries — move between the capitals through third countries.
Behind Hanoi’s fear is the memory of the stiff United States rejoinder to the North Vietnamese torpedo‐boat attacks on American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin last week. The fears have been given substance by statements from Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor and others this week, to the effect that Washington is giving high importance to defensive measures against continuing North Vietnamese help to the Việt Cộng. The attacks on the destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy in the Gulf of Tonkin brought raids on Hanoi’s small torpedo boat fleet and its bases along the North Vietnamese shoreline. Hanoi is said to fear that the next bombing may wipe out the prized industrial plants that are North Vietnam’s only major economic accomplishment in 10 years of Communist rule.
Hanoi is reported to have been scarred by fresh trenches in the last few days. The excavations are apparently intended as air‐raid shelters. Some schools that normally open at this time of the year have remained closed. Propaganda in Hanoi since the incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin has stressed “vigliance and defense.” It is reported that the official pronouncements have refrained from following the Chinese Communist line, that the United States must “repay a debt of blood” for the Seventh Fleet’s air attacks on the torpedo‐boat bases.
In various military actions, ARVN troops ambush a Việt Cộng platoon south of Saigon; Guerrillas sweep through three hamlets in Vĩnh Bình Province, and a U.S. helicopter crashes 50 miles northwest of Saigon, killing three U.S. airmen.
South Vietnamese Government militia ambushed a platoon of Communist guerrillas south of Saigon, a Defense Ministry spokesman said tonight. The spokesman said 12 Communists were killed in the ambush 13 miles northwest of Rạch Giá. Only three government soldiers were wounded, the spokesman said. It was one of the rare occasions in which government forces have used the Communists’ own tactics against them successfully.
Communist guerrillas swept through three strategic hamlets in Vĩnh Bình Province Tuesday, killing four civil guardsmen and capturing 51 men, American sources reported today. An American spokesman reported that 12 guerrillas were killed in the last two days in an operation just north of Saigon, in Bình Dương province. Four government troops were killed and 16 wounded.
In Tây Ninh Province two American soldiers were killed and five injured when their helicopter crashed 50 miles northwest of Saigon. One of the injured later died.
A United States Army helicopter pilot’s death from antiaircraft fire may have saved hundreds of other lives, American officers said today. The pilot was identified as First Lieutenant Harold L. McNeil of Mount Pleasant, Texas. Guerrilla machine‐gun fire killed him during Wednesday’s 96‐helicopter assault on a concentration of Communist soldiers at Ap Bo Cang village. The heavy ground fire that cost Lieutenant McNeil his life also caused an abrupt switch in plans. The landing was diverted to an area three miles away that was not so heavily defended.
United States officials said today that the situation in the Congo was “extremely serious” and that the rebellion‐torn country was “coming apart at the seams.” The officials added that the United States Government had no intention of becoming involved in the fighting there nor had it made any commitment to pour large quantities of supplies into the country. The statements followed a warning by Senator John Stennis that the dispatch of American planes and paratroopers to the Congo might lead to “another undeclared war such as that in Vietnam.” The officials contended that there was no analogy between the Congo and Vietnam that would justify the supposition of a new involvement. They said the physical, political and geographical conditions in the Congo did not warrant any comparison with Vietnam.
Administration officials sought today to overcome a Senate move to ban any United States aid to Indonesia and to halt further training of Indonesian military personnel in this country. Senators included the ban in President Johnson’s $3.3 billion foreign aid authorization bill by a 62 to 28 vote yesterday. The amendment was offered by Senator John G. Tower, Republican of Texas. The Administration planned to try to get the provision removed when a conference committee meets to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill. The measure passed by the House does not include a ban on aid to Indonesia. Present law forbids assistance to the Government of Indonesian President Sukarno unless the President finds it in the United States national interest. At present, more than 200 Indonesians are receiving military or police training in the United States.
The United Arab Republic (Egypt) entered the war in Yemen with a massive bombing campaign against the royalists led by the Imam Muhammad al-Badr, who had been overthrown in 1962 when the Yemen Arab Republic had been created by coup leaders. Egyptian planes departed from the El Rahaba Airport at the Yemeni capital of Sana’a in an attack on royalist strongholds to reach the Imam’s base at Al-Qarah, and Egyptian troops converged on Al-Qarah by moving north from Sana’a and south from Sa’dah, forcing Imam al-Badr to flee for his life; in September, he and the royalists would receive supplies from Saudi Arabia and would mount a counteroffensive.
Haitian troops were reported today to have suffered heavy casualties in action against rebel forces. Reports reaching Santo Domingo said the troops, armed with heavy machine guns and mortars, were ambushed near Jeremie in southern Haiti early this week. The reports said the Government forces were having difficulty transporting their wounded to Port‐au‐Prince. There was no indication of the casualties suffered by the rebels. A traveler arriving from Port‐au‐Prince said he had been told that a plane landed there yesterday carrying wounded Government troops from Jeremie. He described Port‐au-Prince as outwardly calm but said the people, both foreigners and Haitians, were fear-stricken.
The Congressional drive for adjournment came to a virtual halt today as the Senate battled over legislation designed to thwart the Supreme Court’s ruling on state legislative apportionment. The Senate made no progress on germane amendments to the foreign aid bill as a small group of Northern Democrats began talking at length against an apportionment amendment offered by Everett McKinley Dirksen, the Republican leader. Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, the majority leader, said indications were mounting that Congress would not be able to finish its business by August 22 and would have to return after the Democratic National Convention at Atlantic City, which begins August 24.
Mr. Dirksen appeared unmoved by threats of the Northern liberals to try to talk to death his amendment. It is aimed at countering the Supreme Court ruling of June 15 that districts for both houses of state legislatures must be “substantially equal” in population. “I suppose they will keep the talk rolling until we have to come back into session after the Democratic convention,” he said “I don’t care how long it takes. I’m going to get a vote on this matter.”
However, the prospect that Mr. Dirksen would get a vote on his amendment was not as favorable as it was yesterday. The more the, Senators studied the amendment, the more converts the opponents won to their argument that it might create more “chaos” than that Senator Dirksen asserts has been let loose by the Court’s decision. Some highly placed Democratic Senators were saying today that if the Dirksen amendment was to pass, it would have to be modified. The critics were not in the least mollified by the fact that Justice Department officials cooperated with Mr. Dirksen in framing the language of the amendment or by the fact that Senator Mansfield had co‐sponsored it. They are aware that Administration officials cooperated because Mr. Dirksen appended his amendment to the foreign aid bill, which he knows is vital legislation for the Administration.
Officials said the Administration also believed that Mr. Dirksen hoped to make political capital of the widespread resentment aroused by the court ruling. The opponents of the amendment also say Mr. Mansfield had to go along with Mr. Dirksen, for “practical” reasons. The majority leader has been at pains to state that he does not share Mr. Dirksen’s motivation in offering the amendment, which the Republican leader has acknowledged to be “the puchase of time” for the states to ratify a Constitutional amendment he has offered. This amendment would require that only one house in a state legislature be based on population.
President Johnson asked Congress for $16,375,000 today to help young men who cannot qualify for the draft. The President cited findings that “one‐third of the youth of the nation are unqualified for military service at the present time because of health or educational deficiencies.” The money requested would be used to try to cure these deficiencies. Of the sum asked by the President §5 million would be appropriated to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and $11,375,000 would go to the Selective Service System.
President Johnson signed a $558 million Federal pay rise bill today and used the occasion to praise the accomplishments of this Congress — and to hint he expected more of it. The new scales affect virtually all 1.7 million Federal civilian employes and will push the annual non‐military payroll above $16 billion. With the aim of attracting and keeping top caliber talent, the largest increases go to higher echelon positions. The 10 Cabinet members lead the field with a 40 percent increase, moving them from $25,000 to $35,000. The increases range on down to 2.7 percent, or about $100 annually, for the lowest rated civil servants.
“I believe the Black vote is going to be the determining factor in whether Florida goes Republican or Democratic in November,” said Rutledge Pearson. Some political leaders agree with this assessment of the state president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and key leader in Florida’s Black voter‐registration drive. About 800,000 to one million Floridians are expected to vote in the Presidential election. Statistics compiled last April by Tom Adams, the Secretary of State, showed that 240,616 of the 2,224,626 registered voters then were Blacks. Mr. Pearson said he thought the number had increased to 270,000 and that he and other registration leaders were hopeful it would reach 300,000 before the October 1 deadline for registering.
Four men held in Athens, Georgia under federal charges in the siaying of Lemuel Penn, Washington, D. C., Black educator, will be turned over to a state court for prosecution if they are indicted by a state grand jury. The jury will meet August 24. All of the four waived hearings on federal charges brought under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bond of $25,000 each was set on the federal charges. Mr. Penn was killed July 11. Agreement to release the men to the state if indictments are returned was announced today by United States Attorney Floyd Buford and Solicitor General Clege Johnson of Royston, Georgia. The four, described by federal agents as members of the Ku Klux Klan, are James Lackey, 28 years old; Cecil William Myers, 25; Joseph Howard Sims, 41, and Herbert Guest, 37, all of Athens.
Black children registered quietly at previously white schools in this Gulf Coast resort today. They were the first of their race to break segregation barriers below the college level in Mississippi. The state was the last holdout against the United States Supreme Court’s school desegregation ruling 10 years ago. There were no incidents as the Black children walked under a hot sun into modern brick elementary schools. Policemen stood by and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation watched from parked cars.
Biloxi, which says it is the country’s third oldest city, founded in 1699, is desegregating its first‐grade classes under a Federal court order that also applies to Jackson, the state capital, and rural Leake County. Clarksdale, in the Mississippi Delta, is under similar orders to start integration this fall. There have been no racial disorders here since Blacks tried to integrate Biloxi’s beaches several years ago. At mid‐morning, the first Blacks appeared at Lopez School, on busy Howard Avenue. Two boys and a girl with a yellow ribbon on her pigtails held their mothers’ hands as they entered the building. “We were treated very courteously,” one of the mothers said when she emerged a half hour later. “They couldn’t have treated us any better.”
Members of a group called the May 2nd Committee said yesterday that they planned to hold a protest meeting in the Times Square area this afternoon despite a warning from Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy that the meeting would not be permitted. Seventeen persons were arrested there last Saturday when a rally by the leftist group against the war in Vietnam was broken up by the police. There has been a ban on demonstrations in the Times Square area for two years. “The proper place to test the validity of such an order is in the courts and not on the streets,” Mr. Murphy said. Later a related group, Youth Against War and Fascism, met with an aide to Mayor Wagner’s staff, to demand that the ban on demonstrations in the midtown area be lifted. The group then picketed for about an hour on the Broadway side of City Hall park.
Muhammad Ali married cocktail waitress Sonji Roi, a month after their first meeting.
Bo Belinsky is suspended by the California Angels after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer. Four days later Belinsky is assigned to Hawaii (Pacific Coast League), then suspended for the season when he refuses to report.
The Chicago White Sox backed John Buzhardt’s four-hit pitching tonight with a 16-hit attack to stay in thick of the American League pennant race with an 11–1 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
It was a tale of two bullpens tonight before a record crowd of 47,424 at Memorial Stadium as the New York Yankees slipped farther behind in the American League race by losing to the Baltimore Orioles, 5–4. In successive innings, the Yankee relief staff could not produce and Baltimore’s could. That was the story of an important game that clinched Baltimore’s season series with the Yankees and kept the Orioles’ lead over the secondplace Chicago White Sox at three games. The Yankees, having lost 10 of 16 games to Baltimore this season, are now in third place, 4½ games behind. A three‐run homer by Brooks Robinson turned the game around with two out in the sixth. The Yankees were leading at the time, 2–1, and Steve Hamilton was pitching in relief of Roland Sheldon, the starter.
Dean Chance of the Los Angeles Angels hurled a two-hit 7–0 victory over the Washington Senators in the second game of a doubleheader tonight to run his winning streak to eight games. The Senators won the opener, 7–3.
Harmon Killebrew, the major leagues’ home run leader, hammered his 41st homer last night and led the Minnesota Twins to a 7–6 victory over the Cleveland Indians.
Nellie Mathews hit three singles and drove in two runs, including the winning tally, and sparked the Kansas City Athletics to a 5–4 decision over the Detroit Tigers tonight. The victory broke a seven‐game Athletic losing string.
Walt Bond’s tie‐breaking home run in the seventh inning carried the Houston Colts to a 3–2 victory tonight over the Cincinnati Reds. Bond, who tripled to drive in the Colts’ first run and scored the second in the third inning, hit his 17th homer into the right‐field stands off Bob Purkey with one out in the seventh. Jim Owens, who had replaced starter Bob Bruce after Bruce was ejected by Umpire Al Barlick in the sixth, protected the lead until the ninth, when the Reds filled the bases with two out. Hal Woodeshick came on and got the last out.
In a battle of teenagers at Shea Stadium, 19 year-old first baseman Ed Kranepool homers twice off 18 year-old Philadelphia Phillies’ starter Rick Wise. The young Philadelphia right-hander will prevail to earn the victory in the team’s 6–4 decision over the New York Mets in the second game of a doubleheader. The Phillies won the first game as well, 6–1 behind a Jim Bunning five-hit effort.
Bob Bolin pitched a one-hitter tonight and Willie Mays, Orlando Cepeda and Willie McCovey cracked home runs as the San Francisco Giants defeated the Milwaukee Braves, 3–0.
The St. Louis Cardinals scored four runs in the fifth inning tonight to defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4–3. The victory was Ray Sadecki’s first over the Dodgers in two years. Don Drysdale held the Cardinals to five hits in eight innings, but went down to his 12th defeat against 13 triumphs. Drysdale allowed one hit in four innings. In the fifth, however, Dick Groat walked and Tim McCarver singled. Julian Javier then tripled, and Sadecki singled in Javier. The pitcher scored on Nate Oliver’s throwing error after Lou Brock had singled.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 838.81 (+0.29).
Born:
Neal Anderson, NFL running back (Pro Bowl, 1988-1991; Chicago Bears), in Graceville, Florida.
Doug Aronson, NFL guard (Cincinnati Bengals), in San Francisco, California.
Stephen Griffin, NFL running back (Kansas City Chiefs).
Mark Leonard, MLB outfielder and pinch hitter (San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles), in Mountain View, California.
Tommy Shields, MLB pinch hitter, second baseman, and third baseman (Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs), in Fairfax, Virginia.
Brannon Braga, American scriptwriter, in Bozeman, Montana.
Died:
Johnny Burnette, 30, American rockabilly singer-songwriter and guitarist (“Train Kept A-Rollin”; “You’re Sixteen”), drowned in a nighttime boating mishap.
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