Rauf Denktash, the Turkish Cypriot leader, said he was prepared to form a provisional independent Turkish state in Cyprus if the Greeks refuse to negotiate a peace settlement. Warning of further Turkish military intervention if Greeks harass Turkish Cypriot villages, he indicated that the refugee problem could be solved by an exchange of populations, moving 60,000 Turkish Cypriots into the Turkish-held area. Mr. Denktash, a heavyset, bald man who is nominally Vice President of Cyprus in a government whose existence he questions, looked confident and self‐assured as he talked to newsmen in his office in the Turkish sector of Nicosia, a city cut in two, like the rest of Cyprus. He arrived here yesterday from Ankara, where he had remained during the Turkish military action.
Yesterday Turkish authorities showed newsmen a mass grave in the eastern Turkish Cypriot village of Aloa, where 57 Turkish Cypriot bodies were said to be buried, although only seven were seen. The Turks charged that the Turkish Cypriot villagers had been killed by Greek Cypriots just before fleeing the oncoming Turkish army. Mr. Denktash, who asserted that this was not the only Greek atrocity, said he wished to impress on the Greeks that this kind of conduct “can only lead to further action by the Turkish forces to save the Turkish population.” He estimated that 60,000 Turkish Cypriots were in the Greek Cypriot part of the island and charged that some of them, notably in the Paphos area in the southwest, were still being mistreated. “If today or tomorrow we hear news that a Turkish village has been surrounded and some people have been killed, this is not something that the Turkish Army will watch from a distance,” he declared.
High Turkish sources in Ankara denied any annexation moves in Cyprus that would preclude a negotiated settlement with Greece on the island’s future. An aide to Premier Bulent Ecevit said Turkey wanted autonomous Greek and Turkish administrations, not a Turkish province in Cyprus. The safety of Turkish Cypriots is the chief concern of Turkey’s government. Mr. Ecevit reiterated that Turkey desired a resumption of negotiations with Greece in Geneva, and offered again to meet at the earliest opportunity with the Greek Premier, Konstantine Karamanlis.
The Geneva‐based International Press Institute today called on Glafkos Clerides, the Greek Cypriot President of Cyprus, to arrange the release of nine Turkish journalists reported held by Greek Cypriot forces. The institute, a private agency supported by editors and publishers in 65 countries, said that it was distressed to learn of the detention of the Turkish newsmen and asked that they be released immediately to “pursue their profession.”
King Constantine of Greece, still an exile in England, has been telling friends that he is ready to return as a ceremonial monarch and forgo a controversial active role in Greek affairs. They say he has constantly warned that “playing around” in Cyprus would bring on a Turkish invasion Greece could not oppose. The 34‐year‐old King, who has been living in exile in Italy and England since his attempt to overthrow the military junta in power in December, 1967, favors a role for himself similar to that of the monarchs in Scandinavia or Britain, who are essentially ceremonial heads of state. The King, now living outside London, has told visitors that he would be happy to have nothing to do with politics and leave the affairs of state to the new civilian leadership, which he believes is off to a “brilliant” start, and to its successor elected governments.
At the United Nations population conference in Bucharest, both China and the Soviet Union called Western fears of excessive world population an “imperialist” myth. But the Chinese delegate was even harsher in references to the Soviet Union for suggesting that rapid growth is a millstone on the necks of the developing countries. “One superpower asserts outright, that there is a population explosion in Asia, Africa and Latin America and that catastrophe to mankind is imminent,” Huang Shu‐tse, China’s Deputy Minister of Health told representatives of 135 countries, who have assembled to formulate a global plan to meet population problems. “Another superpower,” Mr Huang continued, “makes the propaganda blast that rapid population growth is a millstone around the neck of the developing countries.” Both contentions were false, he said, and were simply part of a pattern of “imperialist, colonialist, and hegemonist” aggression against less‐developed nations.
Aleksei N. Kosygin and Willi Stoph, Premiers of the Soviet Union and East Germany, arrived in Bucharest today to participate in the 30th anniversary of Rumania’s liberation from Axis rule during World War II. The coolness of Rumania’s relations with her partners in the Soviet bloc was underscored by the fact that no Communist party chiefs were expected to come from Eastern Europe. Instead, delegations are headed by less prestigious Premiers and Deputy Premiers. By contrast, at last month’s observances of Poland’s 30th anniversary of liberation, the Soviet Communist party leader, Deonid I. Brezhnev, remained in Poland several days despite the eruption of the Cyprus crisis at the time.
Alleged Mafia leader Frank (Three Fingers) Coppola was given provisional liberty by an Italian court less than a month after he was sentenced to six years in prison. Coppola, 76, who was deported from the United States as an undesirable alien, was convicted in July of association to commit crime in a massive trial of 75 Mafia suspects. He faces further charges of ordering the attempted killing of Rome Police Chief Angelo Mangano last year.
The father of a 5-year-old Dutch girl awaited instructions as he stood ready at home with a 100,000 guilder ($39,000) ransom for his daughter, Caroline Pessers, abducted as she played outside her home in Aalst. The kidnapped girl’s millionaire father is cigar manufacturer Willem Pessers, 51, director of the Hofnar cigar factory. Police said an anonymous caller telephoned Caroline’s mother, Mrs. Carla Pessers, and said he would negotiate only with her husband. The caller hung up before Mrs. Pesser could ask for other details, Police believe it is the first kidnapping for ransom in Dutch history.
Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam of Syria arrived today for talks with Secretary of State Kissinger that American officials hope will clarify Syria’s intentions, viewed ominously in Israel and with some disquiet here. In recent weeks, Israeli officials, concerned about large-scale Soviet arms shipments to Syria, have warned that Damascus may be contemplating another offensive on the Golan Heights, without waiting for negotiated Middle East settlement. They have expressed particular concern that when the six‐month mandate for United Nations buffer zone forces between Israel and Syria expires in November, Syria will not agree to a renewal. American officials, while also apprehensive about the buildup, have so far taken the position privately that Syria was not necessarily committed to military action, and that if diplomatic momentum can be continued, there was little likelihood of renewed fighting.
The Treaty of Jeddah was signed between King Faisal of Saudi Arabia and Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with the UAE ceding territory along the two nations’ borders, in return for diplomatic recognition from the Saudis.
Pakistan and India have agreed to resume the reconciliation talks that Pakistan, broke off following India’s May 18 nuclear test, Foreign Ministry sources here reported today. They said diplomats from the two countries would meet next month to discuss the resumption of communications and travel, which have been halted since the 1971 war over Bangladesh.
South Korean protesters smashed through police lines in Seoul and marched on the Japanese Embassy in a demonstration sparked by last week’s assassination attempt against President Park Chung Hee. No arrests were reported as about 100 persons broke away from 200 other demonstrators and charged the embassy with placards accusing Japan of being a “base for propaganda” against South Korea. In Pusan, other protesters demonstrated in front of the Japanese consulate general. Park escaped injury in the attempted assassination but his 49-year-old wife was fatally wounded.
The death toll rose to at least 78 in the wake of the Philippines’ worst floods in two years, and the government ordered a series of austerity measures to save money for rehabilitation. Initial estimates put losses of crops and public works in the “rice bowl” provinces of central Luzon at about $10.3 million. U.S. military helicopters joined government planes for the third straight day in airlifting relief supplies to 967,000 refugees. Among the government austerity measures were cutbacks in foreign travel by officials and banning of overtime for civil servants.
The Singapore-registered freighter Toulouse sank east of Taiwan, taking with it 31 of its crewmen. Only three of the 34 crew were rescued. Three crewmen were saved and 34 others feared lost as the 7,188-ton Singapore freighter Toulouse sank in the Formosa Strait off Okinawa. The Liberian ship Stes picked up the three survivors and said the crewmen were Filipinos and Indians.
A Soviet cruise ship carrying 700 Japanese businessmen and tourists was denied permission to dock at Guam because of top secret military facilities on the U.S. island, the State Department said. The Navy said it was the first time since the détente between the United States and the Soviet Union that a commercial Soviet ship had been barred from entering an American harbor. The ship docked at Saipan instead.
The U.S. State Department expressed regret at Panama’s decision to establish relations with Cuba in violation of the Organization of American States’ embargo of the island. The department statement contained no reaffirmation of the American support for the sanctions, saying only that any change in the embargo should be made collectively by OAS member states. Some officials speculated that the Panamanian decision was designed as a gesture toward anti-American elements in the country.
A Zaire Air Force C‐130 transport crashed near the northeastern town of Kisangani three days ago, killing all 24 passengers and 7 crewmen, the national news agency, Azap, reported today.
President Ford served notice that he intended to run in 1976 for the office he has held less than two weeks. It was surprising that he made the announcement before his nominee for Vice President had been confirmed. Aides said that the move reflected his candor and the quick consolidation of his position that made him feel confident and comfortable in office.
President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger led the mourners at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington today as the body of Ambassador Rodger P. Davies, who was slain in Cyprus on Monday, was returned. “A professional Foreign Service officer has come home,” Mr. Kissinger said to several hundred officials, diplomats and friends of Mr. Davies. “He returns not to joy but to sadness, not to parades but to solemn ceremony.” Mr. Ford, who flew by helicopter from the White House for the brief ceremony, said, “This is a very sad occasion for all Americans as we gather to pay tribute to a great patriot, one of our most respected and admired diplomats.”
Nelson Rockefeller, the Vice President-designate, will probably head President Ford’s Domestic Affairs Council and play a key role in anti-inflation efforts, according to informed sources at his summer home in Maine, if Congress confirms him. Aides said that he would broaden his staff from areas other than New York but would try to avoid a “big operation” aura.
The House Ways and Means Committee found itself split three ways on proposals for National Health Insurance and Representative Wilbur Mills, the chairman, abruptly adjourned the meeting that was to have settled the final outline. Later he discussed this and other issues with President Ford at the White House and indicated some slight hope of salvaging a bill. It was Mr. Ford’s major 1974 domestic proposal.
House Democratic leader Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. of Massachusetts accused a freshman Republican congressman of a “cheap, sneaky, sly” move in connection with the filing and printing of the Judiciary Committee’s impeachment report. O’Neill, in an unusual show of temper, verbally attacked Rep. Robert E. Bauman (R-Maryland), who demanded and succeeded in getting O’Neill’s remarks stricken from the record. When the House accepted the report Bauman complained at the time about the lack of a chance to debate the resolution ordering that it be printed. O’Neill’s outburst came after he noted that Bauman later got unanimous consent to file his own remarks in the record when most of the members had left the floor.
A bipartisan bill for taming inflation by imposing a ceiling on federal spending through joint White House and congressional action was introduced in the Senate. It would hold the budget to $295 billion, an increase of $25 billion over last year but $10 billion less than proposed for the current year. It also would be $5 billion less than the spending level recommended by former President Richard M. Nixon and endorsed by President Ford. The measure would permit Mr. Ford to cut budgets by 15% but would not allow him to cut spending where Congress had reduced a request by at least 5%. The bill also would require Mr. Ford to notify Congress 30 days before cutting an appropriation, thus giving Congress the opportunity to disallow or modify it.
Former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally has resigned his directorships in the First City Bank of Houston and the First City National Bank of Floresville, Texas, because of indictments returned against him in connection with the 1971 milk support case. “Since the U.S. controller of the currency can request an indicted bank director to resign, the voluntary resignations were submitted to avoid possible embarrassment to the banks,” a Connally spokesman said. Connally has pleaded innocent to charges of accepting an illegal payoff, conspiring to obstruct justice and perjury.
The General Motors Corporation, responding to pressure from President Ford, trimmed its announced price increases on 1975 models from 9.5 percent to 8.5 percent. For a car or truck with average equipment the increase would be $426 instead of $480. Ford Motor Company followed with a statement that it would take competitive prices into account.
The Labor Department reported that the steep rise in consumer prices moderated at least temporarily in July. The national index rose by eight-tenths of 1 percent, normally considered a very large rise but the second smallest in this inflationary year. Food prices made the difference, declining by four-tenths of 1 percent, while all other prices taken together continued their rapid increase.
The Federal Trade Commission issued a ruling that would ban outright a system of selling called pyramid marketing. The system has been used most recently in marketing cosmetics and wearing apparel. The basis for a pyramid plan is a “bounty” paid participants who recruit others to join the plan. The system creates a stronger incentive for recruiting than for selling the goods involved and the last recruited face the loss of money they have paid if they cannot get others to sign up. The most widely publicized of the systems has been the recent case against the Dare to Be Great scheme of Florida promoter Glenn Turner.
A man who shot a 12-year-old newspaper delivery girl 15 times in an apparent case of mistaken identity surrendered to police in Detroit because he feared a “lynch mob” in his home town of Highland Park a few miles away. Rudolph Acosta, 24, was ordered held on $100,000 bond on charges of second-degree murder. Acosta shot Edith Perchman at dawn Sunday as she delivered a paper to his door. He said he thought she was a professional killer sent to kill him. Acosta did not explain why he thought he was the target of a “hit man,” but police sources have suggested it was drug-related.
The nude, strangled body of aspiring actress Karin Schlegel was discovered on the roof of a building in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Music teacher Charles Yukl, who had pled guilty in 1968 to first-degree manslaughter in the strangulation death of another young woman and had been released on parole in 1973, would be arrested for Schlegel’s murder on August 24. Yukl would plead guilty in 1976 and would hang himself in prison in 1982.
The 1-cent increase in the New York City sales tax last month added substantially to the rise in the Consumer Price Index for New York and northern New Jersey, which was 0.5 percent in July. Without it, according to Herbert Bienstock, head of the local Bureau of Labor Statistics office, the increase would have been only 0.34 percent — the lowest in any of the major metropolitan areas.
The second Northrop YF-17 prototype jet fighter aircraft (s/n 72-1570) made its first test flight, departing from Edwards Air Force Base in the U.S. state of California. It reached an altitude of 27,000 feet (8,200 m) and a speed of 615 miles per hour (990 km/h).
The Hawker Siddeley Hawk T1 prototype jet trainer aircraft (XX154) made its first test flight, departing from RAF Dunsfold in the UK. Piloted by Duncan Simpson, it reached an altitude of 20,000 feet (6,100 m).
Paramount Pictures released the sports comedy film “The Longest Yard,” starring Burt Reynolds and directed by Robert Aldrich.
Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Moret earns a new contract from Tom Yawkey today by tossing a one–hitter against the visiting Chicago White Sox, to win, 4–0. Dick Allen’s 7th inning single is the lone hit as Moret strikes out 12. The victory raised the 24‐year‐old Moret’s won‐lost record to 7‐5. The loser was Wilbur Wood, who was seeking his 19th victory for the third time but suffered his 15th defeat in an eight‐hit effort. There has not been a nothit game in Boston since Dave Morehead turned the trick in 1965.
George (Doc) Medich, the pitching medical student, carried the New York Yankees to a 4–1 victory over the Minnesota Twins yesterday and kept alive the Yankees’ lingering chances in the American League East. The 25‐year‐old Pennsylvanian allowed only six hits, just a few hours after Pat Dobson had stayed the distance and stopped the Twins, Tuesday night, 2–1. But even after all that fancy pitching, the Yankees found themselves still seven games behind the first‐place Boston Red Sox with 39 left to play.
Andy Hassler pitched a four‐hitter, and Denny Doyle drove in the only run Hassler needed, as the California Angels shut out the Detroit Tigers, 2–0. It was the third straight game in which the teams engaged in a shutout, with the Angels taking two of the three. The shutout was the first of Hassler’s career.
Vada Pinson hits a grand slam homer in the 7th to give the Kansas City Royals the lead, but the Cleveland Indians score 2 in the 9th to beat the Royals, 7–6. Charlie Spikes, who hit a two‐run homer in the first, singled home Frank Duffy from third with the winning run in the ninth.
The Texas Rangers downed the Baltimore Orioles, 5–1. Jeff Burroughs, the major‐league leader in runs batted in, raised his total to 102 with a two‐run homer, and Jim Bibby, with help in the eighth, posted his 18th triumph. Bibby (18‐14) allowed six hits and struck out seven before needing relief from Jim Merritt and Steve Foucault:, Ross Grimsley was the loser (14‐11).
The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Oakland A’s, 5–3. Kevin Kobel, a last‐minute starter for Jim Colborn, and Tom Murphy combined to stop the A’s on three hits. The Brewers picked up two runs in the fourth off John Odom on two walks, Darrell Porter’s double and a sacrifice squeeze by Bob Coluccio. The Brewers added the deciding runs in the seventh on Ken Berry’s two‐run pinch single.
Mike Schmidt, who leads the league in home runs and runs batted in, hit two homers and drove in three runs as the Philadelphia Phillies beat Cincinnati, 10–3, and dropped the Reds 3½ games behind the Dodgers in the Western Division. Schmidt hit his 31st homer off Tom Carroll (4‐1) in the third and his 32d in the eighth with a man on base to increase his runsbatted‐in total to 98. Dave Cash, Willie Montanez and Mike Anderson each had two run‐scoring hits, and Jim Lonborg gained his 14th victory.
A superb pitching performance by Jerry Koosman, lusty hitting by his teammates and sloppy fielding by the Houston Astros tonight produced a 10–2 victory for the New York Mets.
Paul Popovich, a pinch‐hitter, drove in the lead run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth, and Dock Ellis stopped Pittsburgh’s two‐game slide at the hands of the Giants by winning his seventh straight game, as the Pirates downed the flailing San Francisco Giants, 4–2. Ellis has completed five of the last eight games he has pitched.
The Los Angeles Dodgers completed a three‐game sweep of the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley Field, winning 7–5, as Mike Marshall posted his 18th save in his 82nd relief appearance of the season. Marshall relieved Andy Messersmith, who won his 14th game against five defeats. Willie Crawford’s 10th home run in the first with two men on base gave the Dodgers a 3.0 lead off Bill Bonham. Los Angeles added two unearned runs in the second, then two runs in the sixth after Bill Russell led off with his third straight hit.
The Atlanta Braves won 5–4 and completed a three‐game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals behind the home‐run hitting of Mike Lum (No. 8) and Darrell Evans (No. 16), and Buzz Capra won his 11th game with help from Tom House. Evans’s homer was his third in three nights. He also walked three times to bring his bases, on balls for the season to 94, Lou Brock stole his 86th base in the seventh inning and also had three hits.
The Montreal Expos edged the San Diego Padres, 8–7. Barry Foote knocked in the tying run, then Ron Hunt drove home the winning run in the ninth. San Diego had taken a 7‐6 lead in the eighth when Gene Locklear, a pinch‐hitter, hit his first homer of the season.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 711.59 (-15.36, -2.11%).
Born:
Amy Fisher, American woman who when aged 17 shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco while having an affair with her husband, in Merrick, New York.
Pietra Gay, Trinidadian WNBA guard and forward (Houston Comets), in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago.
Died:
Buford Pusser, 36, former sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee, subject of the Walking Tall series of films, was killed in an automobile accident hours after signing a contract to portray himself in a sequel to the 1973 film.
Haim Moussa Douek, 70, the last Chief Rabbi of Egypt from 1960 until his departure from Egypt in 1972, died of a heart attack in New York.
James P. Cannon, 84, U.S. political activist and the founder and first National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party.
Georgia Harkness, 83, American Methodist theologian and philosopher who won equal rights for women within the United Methodist Church in 1956.
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