Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger warned Turkey against using her military superiority to drive the new Greek government “into a corner.” In the toughest diplomatic language used thus far by Washington in the Cyprus crisis, he said that Turkey had gone beyond what any of her friends or sympathizers were prepared to accept in the military advance in Cyprus. His comments also seemed intended to undercut widespread charges that the United States was “tilting” toward Turkey.
The Greek Cypriot government estimates that the Turkish army now controls 40 percent of Cyprus, and that 200,000 Greek Cypriots have been driven from their homes by the war. Despite the cease-fire declared last Friday evening, fighting has continued well south of the line that was assumed would mark the Turkish area.
Turkish forces were battling the beleaguered Greek Cypriot National Guard today around Troulli, only seven miles north of the southeastern coastal city of Larnaca. Turkish forces were also reported south of Pyroi, midway between Nicosia and Larnaca and close to a large Turkish Cypriot area. Maj. Gen. Prem Chand, the commander of the United Nations peace‐keeping force in Cyprus, protested to the Turkish command against the operations around Troulli, contending that area was south of the cease‐fire line. The protest was rejected by the Turks, who contended Troulli was on the line. There were also exchanges of gunfire at Dhenia, 12 miles west of Nicosia.
The extent of the Greek Cypriot disaster could be judged on the roads, where hundreds of cars, trucks and buses sped in confusion in all directions. In southern towns and villages thousands of Greek Cypriots congregated with little food or other belongings. Every main access road from Nicosia to the south was controlled by the Turks except the one leading to Limassol on the south coast.
Two‐thirds of the capital’s water supply, which comes from the Morphou area in the west, is controlled by the Turks. When Greek Cypriot technicians sought permission to undertake repairs and maintenance, the Turks refused and said they would make the repairs themselves. At two points on the perimeter of the international airport, southwest of the capital, Turkish flags appeared and it seemed likely that the Turks would claim a share of control of the airport in a final peace settlement. For the moment the airport is controlled by the United Nations.
Turkey officially accused the Greek Cypriot National Guard today of killing six Turkish Cypriot civilians and called on international organizations to protect Turkish hostages in Cyprus. The report of the killings came from the International Red Cross, which said that an investigation had shown that six persons, including a three‐year‐old boy, had been killed and 10 wounded in the Turkish quarter of Paphos in western Cyprus on Wednesday. The shootings reportedly took place when the Greek National Guard summoned the Turkish Cypriot population of the town to the football stadium to listen to a declaration. The Turkish Minister of Information, Orhan Birgit, said in reply to questions that the killings were a “Greek atrocity.”
The Turkish charge of atrocities was part of a propaganda war in which Greece and Turkey are seeking to publicize violations of civilian rights by the other on the divided island. Meanwhile, Turkish officials were offering to resume negotiations with Greece at Geneva, seeking a settlement that would give the Greek Cypriotes and Turkish Cypriotes separate and autonomous administrations.
The Soviet Communist party newspaper Pravda printed new denunciations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and accused it of “open aggression” in Cyprus. It was the bluntest charge yet in a Soviet press campaign to depict the war in Cyprus as a result of intervention by NATO.
Nineteen Irish Republican Army members blasted through two walls of the maximum-security Portlaoise prison 50 miles southwest of Dublin and escaped in hijacked cars, prison officials said. They called it the most daring jailbreak in Irish history. Among the escapees was Kevin MalIon, a leader of the IRA Provisional wing who escaped from Dublin’s Mountjoy prison by helicopter last year and was later captured. Officials said explosives and weapons were smuggled in to the men. The prisoners, including Tom McFeely, overpowered guards, took uniforms, and then used gelignite to blow open the gates.
Thirty special planes brought 4,000 vacationers home to London from points on the continent, happy they escaped relatively untouched by the collapse of Court Lines Ltd., Britain’s second largest travel firm. However, more than 30,000 persons who traveled abroad with any one of Court Lines’ five subsidiaries still faced the prospect of abbreviated vacations and lost money. Of particular worry were 200 vacationers in the Soviet Union, among them a party of 12 in Tbilisi, 1,500 miles from Moscow.
President Ford and King Hussein of Jordan announced an agreement today to work toWard a troop disengagement accord between Jordan and Israel at an early date. They issued a joint statement as King Hussein ended a three‐day private visit here, during which he met with President Ford, Secretary of State Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger. Announcing his second formal acceptance of an invitation to visit a foreign nation — the first was Japan — President Ford said in the statement he “would be happy” to honor King Hussein’s request that he visit Jordan. King Hussein was the first foreign head of state to visit Washington since Mr. Ford became President. The statement said President Ford had “reaffirmed his commitment that the United States would continue its determined efforts to help bring a peace settlement in the Middle East.”
The Israeli police arrested Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, head of the Greek Catholic Church in Jerusalem, and charged him with smuggling weapons and explosives to Palestinian guerrillas operating on the occupied West Bank. The Archbishop, who reportedly had been under police surveillance since last year, was said to be the undercover liaison between Al Fatah, the largest of the Palestinian guerrilla organizations, and West Bank guerrilla cells.. He was secretly detained 12 days ago after police searched his car as he crossed from Lebanon to Israel and found an arsenal of guns, grenades and explosives hidden in the limousine. Israel had been willing for the prelate to leave the country quietly and never return.
The head of the Soviet delegation at the stalled Sino-Soviet border talks in Peking, headed home for possible consultations with Communist Party General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev. Leonid Ilyichyov, a deputy foreign minister at the talks, was reported returning home on business.
Despite relief efforts, 4 million persons are on the brink of starvation in India’s eastern state of Bihar, worst hit by monsoon floodwaters. Over $150 million worth of crops have been destroyed and the combined India Bangladesh death toll exceeds 3,500. In Bangladesh, Prime Minister Mujibur Rahman appealed for foreign assistance for the 36 million people whose rice crops were rúined. In Bihar, the floods added to the misery of a smallpox epidemic that has claimed 25,000 lives. Outbreaks of cholera, typhoid and dysentery were feared as the waters recede.
Communist forces stepped up their month-old offensive in South Vietnam with the capture of Minh Long, district capital in Quảng Ngãi province, 305 miles north of Saigon, and with new attacks in Quảng Trị province, in the far north. Heavy fighting also was reported near Đà Nẵng and Saigon, the nation’s two largest cities, and in central South Vietnam. In neighboring Cambodia, Communist troops stormed a government outpost in Battambang province, killing the garrison commander.
Venezuelan national guardsmen shot and killed seven prisoners at San Cristobal Prison, high in the Andes Mountains 560 miles from Caracas, and rescued two officials who had been held hostage at knife-point for nearly 40 hours. The hostages, prison director Arcadio Ruedas Chacon and Rafael Ochoa, a Justice Ministry official, were hospitalized in serious condition with knife wounds. The 800 prisoners at San Cristobal rioted Friday to protest prison conditions. Of the 15,000 inmates of Venezuelan prisons, some 12,000 reportedly are still awaiting sentencing.
The crash of a Zaire Air Force C-130 Hercules transport killed all 31 people on board near Kisangani.
President Ford told reporters on his way to the golf course that he will choose a Vice President on Tuesday. He said that he would have “good advisers” on the golf course on that decision. This was taken as a clue by politicians and others. One of Mr. Ford’s golfing partners was Melvin Laird, an old friend, who has been supporting Nelson Rockefeller.
President Ford’s intimate friends include several of Washington’s most powerful corporate lobbyists, some of whom are helping to shape his administration. One of his friends is Rodney Markley, the Ford Motor Company’s chief Washington lobbyist. Among others are Bryce Harlow, Procter & Gamble’s chief Washington representative, and William Whyte, vice president of the United States Steel Corporation and its top man in Washington. Another friend is William Seidman, an accounting firm executive who is assisting in the President’s economic planning.
“After 25 years of marriage, why should they be separated?” asked Nancy Howe. With that remark, the First Lady’s personal secretary disclosed that President and Mrs. Ford will break a longtime White House “tradition” by sharing the same bed at the executive mansion when they change homes today. As far back as the Franklin D. Roosevelts, separate bedrooms were used by the President and his wife. When asked whether Mrs. Ford might not be disturbed by the late night and early morning telephone calls her husband is bound to get, Mrs. Howe said, “This will be nothing new to Mrs. Ford; she’s accustomed to such calls.” The Fords’ double bed has been moved into the suite formerly occupied by Pat Nixon. The former President’s bedroom will be transformed into a combination study and hideaway and will contain Mr. Ford’s favorite blue leather lounge chair and hassock and his bicycle exerciser.
House Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma and the House minority leader, John J. Rhodes of Arizona, agreed that the House should not get involved in any more impeachment action against former President Richard M. Nixon. “As far as I am concerned, there will be no impeachment proceedings… Of that I am sure,” Albert said on the ABC program Issues and Answers. “It would serve no useful purpose,” he said. “The President is no longer President. He is no longer a civil official… subject to impeachment.” Rhodes, on NBC’s Meet the Press, said, “The report is there for posterity. There can be no doubt as to how the House of Representatives, or at least the Judiciary Committee, felt at that time and I don’t believe that the best interests of the country would be served by any further proceedings.”
Newsweek magazine said that George Bush, the Republican national chairman, one of those mentioned as a possible vice presidential choice, had “slipped badly because of alleged irregularities in the financing of his 1970 Senate race in Texas.” The magazine quoted unnamed White House sources as saying there was “potential embarrassment in reports that the Nixon White House had funneled about $100,000 from a secret fund called the Townhouse Operation into Bush’s losing campaign against Democrat Lloyd Bentsen four years ago.” Newsweek’s sources said there were indications that about $40,000 of the money might not have been properly reported as required by law.
A five-day shutdown of the nation’s soft coal mines, called by the United Mine Workers union as a memorial to victims of mine disasters and black lung disease, gets under way today. About 125,000 UMW members are expected to stay off the job in a dozen states. The memorial will close 1,200 surface and underground mines and cost the nation about 8 million tons of coal, said John C. Sawhill, head of the Federal Energy Administration. The shutdown coincides with the planned opening of negotiations on a new UMW contract. The old one will expire November 12. The steel industry is expected to be the first hit by the stoppage, with effects spreading to electric utilities and railroads that haul the coal.
Nationwide inventories of distillate fuel oils and gasoline are up millions of gallons over the same time last year, the American Petroleum Institute reported. Distillate fuel oils, which include some home heating oils, have increased 668 million gallons over last year while gasoline stockpiles are up 882 million gallons. Supplies of other major refined petroleum products, including naphtha and kerosine-type jet fuels and residual fuel oil, also are up.
The 913-megawatt Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, owned by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, was issued a full power operating permit by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The plant, located about 25 miles southeast of Sacramento, is scheduled to be loaded with radioactive fuel today. A spokesman for the AEC said the term for the plant’s license is 40 years from October, 1968, the date the AEC issued the construction permit for the plant.
U.S. industry spent $4.9 billion on capital expenditures for pollution control equipment in 1973 and plans to spend an additional $6.5 billion this year, the Commerce Department reports. Total capital expenditures are estimated at $112.1 billion this year compared with $100.1 billion last year.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has decided to press ahead toward a Detroit-only school integration plan, despite the belief that it could accelerate the flight of whites to the suburbs. Louis R. Lucas, chief attorney for the NAACP in the Detroit school case, says the group will press for busing to make the racial composition of every school the same. The current racial breakdown among school-age children in the area is about 70% black and 30% white.
A riot involving an estimated 25,000 motorcycle fans erupted after daredevil cyclist Bob Gill canceled a 200-foot jump across Appalachia Lake at Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. Sheriff’s deputies and state troopers were sent to the scene in riot gear. A deputy said the fans became enraged when Gill reneged on the jump, citing bad weather. Gill, 28, of St. Petersburg, Florida, had planned to use a specially built Kawasaki for the jump and had billed it as more dangerous than Evel Knievel’s planned rocket-powered leap over the Snake River Canyon.
American Indians, encouraged by a promise of self-government made in a 1970 policy statement on Indians by former President Nixon, are stepping up demands that their reservations be given commonwealth status, but they expect the United States to continue to pay for most of the maintenance costs.
Argentinian driver Carlos Reutemann won the 1974 Austrian Grand Prix at the Österreichring.
The New York Yankees got back to the .500 mark yesterday with one of their biggest offensive barrages of the season. They pounded four Chicago White Sox pitchers for 17 hits while coasting to a 9–4 victory before a crowd of 18,493 on a lovely, sunny day at Shea Stadium. The triumph was the Yankees’ 60th in 120 games and left them fourth in the American League’s Eastern Division, six games behind the Boston Red Sox. There are 42 games left for the Yankees to make a run at the top. But the Yankees’ jubilation was tempered half an hour after the game with the announcement that Mel Stottlemyre was going on the 21‐day disabled list for the second time this season. Troubled by a sore right shoulder, he was reactivated at the beginning of this month and pitched two innings August 4. The right‐handed pitcher, for a decade the ace of the Yankee staff, felt pain after his two‐inning outing against the Boston Red Sox and has not pitched since.
The Texas Rangers won their 62nd game yesterday by defeating the Cleveland Indians, 1–0, and that’s five more games than they won all of last season. The Texas stars are 23‐year‐old Jeff Burroughs, in his second full major league season, and Ferguson Jenkins, 31, who has been a 20‐game winner six times and is now fighting off the over‐the‐hill image. Burroughs and Jenkins combined to polish off the Indians in 1 hour 36 minutes yesterday. The blond outfielder clouted his 24th homer and became the first major leaguer to drive in 100 runs this season. Jenkins tossed four‐hitter for his 17th victory in 28 decisions. It was his 22nd complete game and fourth shutout.
The Baltimore Orioles, limited to four hits until the ninth, put together a double by Paul Blair and a single by Brooks Robinson for a 1–0 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Blair’s hit extended his hitting streak to eight games. Dave McNally, who brought his season record to 11–9, stranded nine while registering his 31st career shutout. The Royals had won 11 of their last 14 games. Amos Otis had his 19‐game hitting streak stopped by McNally.
Luis Tiant, rescued by Boston from baseball’s scrap heap, won his 19th game, tops in the majors, as the Red Sox downed the Minnesota Twins, 9–6. Tiant cruised through seven innings against the Twins before Minnesota erupted for six runs, three on Larry Hisle’s 17th homer. The Red Sox had a five‐run fifth that was highlighted by Carl Yastrzemski’s two‐run double. Rick Burleson blasted three doubles to help Boston increase its Eastern Division lead to 4½ games over the losing Indians.
The Oakland A’s crushed the Detroit Tigers, 13–3. Reggie Jackson and Gene Tenace drove in three runs each as the A’s put the game away with a nine‐run eighth. Oakland sent 12 men to the plate in the eighth and collected five hits to turn one‐run lead into a runaway. Ken Holtzman won his 14th game with relief help from Rollie Fingers, who made his 56th appearance. The triumph increased Oakland’s Western Division lead to 5½ games.
The Milwaukee Brewers bested the California Angels, 5–2. The Brewers bunched five of their 15 singles for three runs in the third and wiped out a 2‐0 California lead. Don Money drove in two runs with a pair of singles and Jim Slaton received clutch relief pitching from Tom Murphy, credited with his 14th save.
The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 10–3. The Dodgers’ losing streak grew to six games and their Western Division lead dwindled to 2½ games, their smallest since last May 8. Bob Robertson drove in four Pirate runs, two with his 12th homer, as Pittsburgh won its 11th game in the last 13. Larry Demery, with relief help from Dave Giusti, checked the Dodgers with seven hits. Dernery, who had lost his first four decisions, has now won four consecutive games.
History began repeating itself this afternoon—but not for the Mets. By defeating New York, 6–5, the second‐place Cincinnati Reds moved to within 2½ games of the slumping Los Angeles Dodgers, who lost their sixth game in a row. At this time a year ago the Reds were also 2½ games behind the Dodgers, whom they ultimately passed to win the National League West. Dave Concepcion, the Reds’ shortstop, broke a 3–3 tie in the seventh inning with a three‐run smash over the left‐field fence. The blow came off Jon Matlack, the Mets’ starter, who was trying to match a bevy of Cincinnati, hurlers, who totaled six by the game’s end.
Chicago routed the San Diego Padres, 14–6. The Cubs produced their largest run total since they scored 18 against the Pirates on April 17. They battered the Padres with a 15‐hit attack and everyone in the Chicago lineup except Carmen Fanzone managed at least one hit. Steve Swisber drove in three Cub runs with a homer and a single. Steve Stone hurled his first complete game in winning for the fifth time. Willie McCovey hit his 17th homer for San Diego and the 430th of his career.
The St. Louis Cardinals ran their winning streak to four games behind the five-hit pitching of John Curtis, as they downed the San Francisco Giants, 4–1. The 26‐year‐old left‐hander also drove in his first two runs of the season with a single in the sixth. In pitch ing his third complete game of the year and his seventh victory in 18 decisions, Curtis limited the Giants to one hit, a double by Bobby Bonds, over the first five innings.
A two‐run homer by Milt May and a solo clout by Bob Watson backed up Dave Roberts’s five‐hit pitching, as the Houston Astros shut out the Montreal Expos, 3–0. Tom Walker, making his third major league start after he had relieved in 122 games over 2½ seasons, lost his third game in five decisions.
The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Atlanta Braves, 7–4. Mike Schmidt, Bill Robinson and Willie Montanez clouted homers as Dick Ruthven limited the Braves to six hits. Schmidt’s homer tied the score at 3–3 in the fifth. It was his 29th, tops in the league.
Born:
Shannon Johnson, WNBA guard (WNBA All-Star, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003; Orlando Miracle, Connecticut Sun, San Antonio Silver Stars, Detroit Shock, Houston Comets, Seattle Storm), in Hartsville, South Carolina.
Jayson Durocher, MLB pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers), in Hartford, Connecticut.
Chris Stowers, MLB pinch runner and outfielder (Montreal Expos), in St. Louis, Missouri.
Died:
Laura Clifford Barney, 94, American Baháʼí teacher and philanthropist, officer of the Legion of Honour.
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