The Turkish government is organizing a major relief and development program for the Turkish-occupied sector of Cyprus whose economic life has been seriously disrupted by the war. The Turkish Cypriot minority was economically dependent on the more prosperous Greek Cypriot sector, where many Turkish Cypriot workers were employed, largely as day laborers, and where Turkish Cypriot farmers sold much of their produce and livestock.
In his talks in Athens with Greek leaders, Mr. Clerides briefed the Greeks on the situation on Cyprus, with the two sides then drawing up a common strategy. Earlier, before leaving Cyprus, Mr. Clerides spoke to reporters at the British Air Force base at Akrotiri. He was asked about his response to the Turkish demand for the island to become a federated state of autonomous communities of ethic Greeks and Turks, a proposal long opposed by the Greek Cypriot majority. He said that he would discuss the federation idea with Greek leaders, “but without it meaning that we have accepted it as the basis of a solution.”
Silva I. Zalmanson, a Soviet Jewish woman who was serving a 10‐year sentence for her role in a plot to hijack a Soviet airliner in 1970, was released from prison yesterday, Jewish sources in Moscow reported today. Miss Zalmanson visited the Soviet Union passport office in Moscow today but said that she would not emigrate to Israel until her husband and two brothers, who were also convicted in the Leningrad case, were released as well, the sources said.
Another battle of the supermarket has been fought in France, this one with sticks and stones, and an uneasy truce has settled on the battleground, the small town of Rochefort near the Bay of Biscay. In the wake of a rapidly growing number of business failures and bankruptcies, the long festering feud between big stores and little ones erupted into violence yesterday at the Leclerc shopping center at Rochefort and at the town hall, where furniture was smashed and tossed out the window. Ten people were injured during yesterday’s battle. Small businesses have been hurt most by the anti‐inflationary credit squeeze decreed earlier this year and by a Government decision not to help what are called “lame‐duck enterprises” existing on‐the margin of viability.
The Greek Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem, who was arrested last. Sunday on charges of smuggling weapons for Palestinian guerrillas, has reported. ly told his interrogators that he had been forced into guerrilla service by threats of blackmail. According to Israeli officials, Archbishop Hilarion Capucci said representatives in Lebanon of the guerrilla organization Al Fatah had threatened him with physical violence and with disclosure of actions that might jeopardize his position in the church. As patriarchal vicar he is the spiritual leader of about 4,500 Greek Catholics, most of them Arabs living in Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank of Jordan and in central Israel. Details of the police investigation have been given to the Most Rev. William A. Carew, the Vatican’s representative in Jerusalem, and to three churchmen from Lebanon who will report to the Greek Catholic Middle East Synod now meeting in Beirut. The legal adviser to the Greek Catholic Church in Jerusalem, Aziz Shehadeh, his undertaken to represent the Archbishop. He said today that he had not initiated any action and was awaiting instruction from the Archbishop and they church representatives.
The final decision on whether the church leader is to be put on trial is to be made at Cabinet level. Israeli officials told the churchmen that the Archbishop had been a courier for Al Fatah for more than a year. At first, the officials said, Al Fatah used him to carry funds across the border for the dependents of guerrillas in Israeli‐held territory. The search of the Archbishop’s car near Jerusalem on August 8 — when a large supply of weapons and explosives was reportedly found — was said to have been filmed and recorded on tape by Israeli officials, The Archbishop, who had just returned from Lebanon, was said to have been in the car when it was intercepted. He later reportedly wrote a statement to the police in longhand.
A senior Israeli military officer said today that Israel was going ahead with preparations for practice mobilization of many thousands of reservists despite the tensions that the plans for the exercise have produced in the Arab world. The officer, who declined to be identified, said at a briefing for foreign newsmen that Israel was aware that the previously announced plans had aroused Arab suspicions that the exercise might be a guise for a real offensive. Therefore, he said, Israel wants to stress that the call‐up is for practice and nothing more. According to the informant, the purpose of the call‐up, which is to last 24 hours, will be to test Israeli reflexes against military attack. He said that the army would try to pinpoint the weaknesses of its mobilization method and test the “lessons we learned” from the call‐up for the Middle East War of last October, when the condition of Israeli preparedness was much criticized.
The officer said that the timing of the call‐up would be a surprise to the public and that it would be felt “in every town, village and kibbutz” although only a small part of Israel’s reserves would be involved. In the exercise, described as the first of its kind in Israel, units are to be called up by code words broadcast on the national radio and television and published in newspapers as Israel tests her ability to swell her armed forces swiftly from 75,000 to 300,000 men.
The Lebanese daily Al Moharror said today that Syrian forces had been placed in a state of alert as a precautionary measure following Israeli announcements of plans for a practice call‐up of reservists. The newspaper, which is known to have close connections with the Palestinian guerrilla movement, gave no details. The Damascus radio meanwhile, quoted unidentified political observers as saying that the Israelis were getting ready to wage a new war against Syria and other Arab countries. The radio said the observers were commenting on a statement made by Israel’s Defense Minister, Shimon Peres, in an the Tel Aviv newspaper Davar. Mr. Peres was quoted as having said that Israel must make certain that she would not again be surprised by an Arab attack as she was during the war last October.
Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam of Syria indicated to Secretary of State Kissinger tonight that peace in the Middle East might depend on recovery by the Palestinians of territory occupied by Israel. “We have spread peace through hundreds of years,” Mr. Khaddam said in a toast at dinner, but it “cannot be established unless it is based on rights and justice.” The Foreign Minister’s remarks came at the end of two days of talks with Mr. Kissinger and President Ford. They were extended into a third day at the White House tomorrow. Mr. Khaddam, the highest-ranking Syrian to visit the United States, said that “Arabs who left an impact are those who could not accept injustice which is a result of aggression.”
Mr. Kissinger, in his toast, described negotiating with the Syrians as a “difficult process” but said that Mr. Khaddam’s visit had made a major contribution toward restoring good relations between Washington and Damascus. The Syrian official, speaking in Arabic, credited the Secretary with playing a key role in improving relations, which he said “can be based only on mutual respect.” He added that the Arab states had “struggled in behalf of the Palestinians,” who themselves “have struggled in behalf of justice to recover occupied territory.” He said “the Arabs want peace and are eager to start a dialogue with the United States.” Earlier, at the White House, Mr. Khaddam had received assurances from President Ford of a strengthening in ties between the two nations.
President Hafaz al‐Assad of Syria has reportedly received a message from King Hussein of Jordan suggesting a summit conference of Arab countries in direct confrontation with Israel — Syria, Egypt and Jordan. Lebanese press reports said the message was delivered yesterday when the Jordanian Premier, Zaid al‐Rifai, visited Damascus. King Hussein was reported to have asked that the Palestine Liberation Organization should also be invited.
The armed forces, opening an austerity drive, urged Ethiopians in a series of broadcasts today to work harder and to shun alcohol and prostitutes. The morality campaign coincides with signs that the governing Coordination Committee of the military is also getting increasingly involved in the day‐to‐day business of running this country of 27 million people. Yesterday it announced rent freeze and a ban on the eviction of tenants for an indefinite period. The measures, which are popular with most of the 1.5 million inhabitants of urban areas, caused surprise because they were decreed by the armed forces rather than the civilian government. The regulations, aimed at containing a sharp increase in the cost of living, are taken as evidence that the anonymous armed forces group, which has gradually increased its authority in the six months since its agitation began, wants to tackle economic and social problems.
South Korea’s President Park Chung Hee rescinded two decrees that had authorized the arrest of dissidents. A January 8 emergency measure had prohibited all criticism or demands for a revision of the nation’s constitution, while an April decree had prohibited student protests against the government, with penalties ranging from five years imprisonment up to execution. Still in place was another January 8 decree, permitting arrests without warrants, and establishing secret trials by court-martial for suspects.
President Park Chung Hee won general applause today for lifting two decrees that suppressed political activity, but he faced criticism for his refusal to be lenient toward those imprisoned under the measures. The President, capitalizing on sympathy arising from the murder of his wife during an attempt to assassinate him last week, acted this morning, but said that those in jail or on trial for offenses under the decrees would not be released. The action followed eight months of increasingly harsh treatment of critics and adversaries.
The people of the Southeast Asian country of Malaysia vote tomorrow in a general election whose outcome, while certain, is clouded by the same issue that pervades all of Malaysian life — race. The question in the national election, the fourth since Britain gave independence to what was then known as Malaya in 1967, is not whether the governing National Front will win, which is assured, but only whether it will win the sweeping one‐party mandate it is seeking. The key is the vote of the Chinese community, a minority but a huge one of about four million in a country of 11.5 million. The majority are Malays, who make up slightly over 50 per cent of the population. Although the National Front Government is a multiracial collection of nine parties, the Malays dominate, and the key domestic policy is to give preferential treatment to Malays in jobs and education to help them catch up with the Chinese. The Malays have been a rural people who preferred the pastoral life in their palm-shaded villages to the crowded cities, where the Chinese have thrived and, to a large extent, have gained control of the economy.
Philip Buchen, President Ford’s legal counsel, agreed to permit aides of former President Nixon, who have been indicted in the Watergate cover-up case, to examine personal files that had been sequestered by the Nixon administration. Soon after the decision was announced, H.R. Haldeman, who was Mr. Nixon’s White House chief of staff, entered a guarded room in the Executive Office Building next to the White House to examine his files.
Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller answered many questions at a news conference at his summer home in Seal Harbor, Maine. One of the questions was how he felt about “amnesty” for former President Nixon. He replied that he agreed with Senator Hugh Scott that “he’s been hung, and it doesn’t seem to me that, in addition, he should be drawn and quartered,” On the subject of the financial disclosures he must make to Congress, he said that he had been assured by the congressional committee to which he is making available detailed information that it will release none of it unless he agrees.
As far as the new G.I. Bill is concerned, President Ford has succeeded, for the moment at least, in solving one of his problems with inflation and one of his problems with Congress. In addition, he appears to have diverted the anger of Vietnam veterans. Last week Mr. Ford faced a Challenge to his hopes for a cut in Federal spending when House and Senate conferees voted to increase the cost of veterans educational benefits by $1.8‐billion. The President hinted publicly at a meeting with the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Monday in Chicago that he might veto the bill to “control inflationary excess.” This would clearly have invited a public battle with Congress to reduce the cost of the bill and would have surely angered the more than two million Vietnam veterans planning to enter college this fall. But in just four days President Ford managed to coax key Democrats as well as Republicans into quickly reshaping the new G.I. Bill, which had been months in preparation, to conform more closely with his policies by cutting the cost of the bill by $200‐million.
Roy Ash, one of President Ford’s economic advisers, hinted broadly that the government would not be able to balance the budget in the next year without reducing future benefits in some social programs legislated long ago. Mr. Ash, director of the Office of Management and Budget, spoke at a business luncheon in New York.
George Steinbrenner, the first corporate executive to be charged with a felony in the special Watergate prosecutor’s investigation of campaign financing, pleaded guilty to two federal charges arising from the illegal expenditure of thousands of dollars in company funds for Democratic and Republican political campaigns. He is chairman of the American Shipbuilding Company and a major owner of the New York Yankees. In addition, American Shipbuilding pleaded guilty to violations of the campaign contribution laws.
United States marshals arrested and jailed two defense attorneys and used disabling chemical Mace to remove several spectators from the federal courtroom at the 7½-month-old Wounded Knee trial in St. Paul. Tension in the long trial exploded as the defense cross-examined a government witness.
At the request of Manhattan District Attorney Richard Kuh, the New York state Supreme Court dismissed the controversial case against William Maynard, who spent six and a half years in prison fighting charges that he shot a Marine sergeant to death in Greenwich Village in 1967.
Pan American World Airways, declaring that it would have to increase borrowings by October to pay its bills, formally appealed to the government for an emergency $10 million-a-month subsidy “to stave off the imminent financial crises” resulting from increasing fuel prices and declining passenger travel. It asked for payments retroactive to April 3. In a petition to the Civil Aeronautics Board, the airline forecast that, by October, it would have to borrow in order to pay current bills, and said that it needed immediate federal funds to maintain its borrowing power. Otherwise, Pan American said, “faced with a threat to its very survival, [we] will be forced to take short‐term measures which are undesirable and counterproductive on a longerterm basis.”
Smiling broadly, Juan T. Trippe, the visionary pilot who in 1927 founded Pan Amerlcan World Airways and built It into a globe‐circling airline colossus, announced on April 13, 1966, the most exciting” decision of his aviation career. Pan Am had just signed an order for 25 models of a new wide‐bodied jetliner — called the Boeing 747 — that would be more than 2½ times larger than any previous jet. For Pan American, it was probably the high point in its 39-year history of aviation pioneering, during which its blue‐and‐white colors had become almost as symbolic of the United States in many parts of the world as the stars and stripes.
Yesterday, Pan American came to what was probably the lowest point in its history; when it said that it urgently needed a huge Federal subsidy to pay its bills. And, in many ways, the two events were closely linked — for, more than any other reason, according to many analysts, it was Pan Am’s decision to order the 747 that brought it to its present plight. Neither Pan American nor the airline world was ready to absorb the huge costs of the 747 or the acres and acres of new seats that it brought into the competitive marketplace. Airline leaders generally agree that Pan Am’s biggest problems of the last year — soaring fuel prices and a drastic drop in the number of tourists flying to Europe only aggravated results of the premature ordering of so many big jets.
A bench warrant was issued today for the arrest of Huey P. Newton, a founder of the Black Panther party, when he failed to appear in Oakland, California for arraignment on charges of assault. Bail of $47,000 was declared forfeited. Charles R. Garry, who has defended Mr. Newton in many court matters in the last six years, said: “I don’t know where he is. I have not seen him since 5 or 6 AM Saturday in jail. I assume he’s got to the point where he doesn’t intend to show up.” In association with Bobby G. Seale, Mr. Newton founded the Black Panthers in the mid‐nineteen‐sixties, Mr. Newton’s leadership was interrupted in 1967, when he was arrested and charged with the murder of an Oakland policeman, Mr. Seale’s career has also been hampered by problems with the police, but he has recently tried to establish himself in politics. He lost a campaign for Mayor of Oakland last year.
A panel of outside advisers told the Food and Drug Administration today that there was not enough evidence yet to approve or condemn the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device. The panel told the agency that the suspension in June of shield sales and distribution should be continued, but that the devices should not be removed from the millions of women who have been wearing them without complications. It emphasized, however, that “patients with an IUD in place who missed their normal menstrual periods or who became pregnant should seek medical advice at the earliest possible date.”
Two children were killed when a Cessna 172 single-engine plane crashed into their home at 403 Tioga Street in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania. The plane’s pilot and his passenger were also killed moments after taking off in a pouring rain from the Slatington Airport, one mile from the house, at 3:15 in the morning.
Dry weather in the Middle West and consequently smaller crops means that food prices will continue to rise in the second half of this year, instead of leveling off as had been expected, the Agriculture Department predicted. It now projects an increase of 3 to 4 percent in average consumer food prices from the beginning of July to the end of December, but the increase would be only half the amount in the first six months of the year.
John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in New York City. “It wasn’t a helicopter, and it wasn’t a balloon, and it was so near,” Lennon said. The singer-songwriter said the round object was black or grey in the middle with blinking white lights wrapped around it and a red light on top.
Former lightweight boxing contender Tommy Tibbs, 40, was shot during an argument at a cafe in Roxbury, Boston. He would die the following day at Boston City Hospital.
Again failing to make up any ground on the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees last night at least demonstrated that their recent ability to pound out hits and score runs seemed an authentic talent. They pounded four pitchers for 14 hits — eight for extra bases — as they defeated the California Angels, 10–4, in the opener of a three‐game series at Shea Stadium. Roy White, a replacement in left field for Lou Piniella, who was suffering from a sore throat, made the most of his opportunity. He drove home four runs with four hits in five times at bat — two singles, a triple and his fourth homer of the season.
The Baltimore Orioles down the Minnesota Twins, 4–1. Earl Williams’s three‐run homer capped a four‐run third that backed the six‐hit pitching of Dave McNally, who ran his record to 12–9. Williams’s homer was his 10th. McNally survived a shaky second inning, then settled down to win his eighth game in 12 decisions since mid‐June, including four of his last five. It marked the first time in eight games the Orioles scored more than two runs.
Luis Tiant, the 33‐year‐old righthander, stopped the world champion Oakland A’s on six hits in pitching Boston to a 3–0 victory. Tiant, considered washed up in May of 1971, was released by Atlanta and signed by Boston as a free agent. It has to be one of the best deals the Red Sox ever made. In winning his 20th game of the season, the first in the majors to do it, Tiant fanned six and walked only two, but forced Oakland into stranding eight runners. The shutout wad Tiant’s sixth, also high in the majors this year. And the Red Sox management could only be happy at the support the club gets from the Boston Brahmins and the Boston Irish. A Fenway Park crowd of 35,866, the largest in modern history, saw their hems win their fifth straight game and the sixth in the last seven. The victory also marked Boston’s eighth triumph in 10 games against Oakland this season.
[Boston seems on their way to a division title and maybe a world series… but a late charge by another team will upset those plans. The Baltimore Orioles will go 27–6 after being in fourth place and trailing the Boston Red Sox by eight games on August 29. The Red Sox, meanwhile, will fade, and finish seven games out, behind the Orioles and the Yankees.]
Jim Sundberg tripled to key a four-run third, and Steve Hargan checked the Tigers on four hits, as the Texas Rangers beat Detroit, 5–2. A leadoff single by Ben Ogilvie in the second was the only hit off Hargan (10–8) until Al Kaline opened the seventh with a single. Jeff Burroughs, the runs‐battedin leader, drove in his 104th of the season with a sacrifice fly in the third. The loser was Joe Coleman (10–12), who lasted just seven outs as the Tigers suffered their fourth defeat in the last five games.
The Chicago White Sox edged the Cleveland Indians, 2–1. The White Sox halted a five‐game skid behind the seven‐hit pitching of Jim Kaat who won his 14th game. Ron Santo, the designated hitter, singled home a run and scored another in helping send the Indians to their 10th defeat in the last 14 games. The loss dropped Cleveland seven games behind Boston. Kaat gave up singles in each of the first four innings, but the Sox bailed him out three times with double plays.
Kansas City and Milwaukee split a doubleheader, with the Royals winning the opener, 8–4, and the Brewers taking the nitecap, 1–0. John Briggs’s run‐scoring triple in the second game gave the Brewers a split after 12 straight Kansas City victories in their series. The Royals took the opener as doubles by Cookie Rojas and Vada Pinson sparked a four‐run second inning and Tony Solaita slammed a two‐run homer in the third. Steve Busby, with relief from Steve Mingori, won his 18th game.
The Houston Astros shut out the Philadelphia Phillies, 1–0. Larry Dierker pitched a three‐hitter and Roger Metzger doubled and scored on Bob Watson’s two‐out single in the sixth to give Dierker his eighth victory in 16 decisions.
Johnny Bench drove in four runs with a first‐inning single end a three‐run homer (No. 26) in the fifth as the Reds scored six runs on seven hits to go ahead for good, and went on to a 10–7 victory over the Montreal Expos. Cincinnati added three runs in the sixth, and Clay Carroll, the third of three pitchers, earned his 10th victory against three‐losses.
The Chicago Cubs won a pitcher’s duel from the San Francisco Giants, 1–0. Don Kessinger doubled leading off the game, then scored the only run on ground-outs by Pete Lacock and Jerry Morales. Rick Reuschel scattered nine hits to win his 12th game despite four Chicago errors. Jim Barr gave up just four hits in seven innings and took the tough loss for the Giants.
Lou Brock’s two‐out single in the ninth against Mike Marshall, appearing in his 83rd game, scored Luis Melendez with the winning run as the St. Louis Cardinals edged the Los Angeles Dodgers, 2–1. The defeat cut the Dodgers’ lead over second‐place Cincinnati to 2½ games. Brock also stole his 86th base in the fifth, putting him 19 games ahead of Maury. Wills’s record pace leading to 104.
The Pirates moved into second place in the East as they won their 27th game in the last 40, beating the San Diego Padres, 6–2. Willie Stargell doubled home a run in the first, and Rennie Stennett hit a homer in the fifth to help Jerry Reuss win his 14th game.
The New York Mets opened their four‐game series with the Atlanta Braves on a dismal note tonight, They let a ninth‐inning, one‐run lead slip away in the opener of a twilight-night doubleheader and lost in the 10th. Then, docilely, they accepted defeat in the second game. The Braves’ sweep, by scores of 4–3, and 6–0, was considered a genuine bonanza by a delighted Georgia crowd of 12,860 watching the contests that took 5½ hours to complete. The successes marked the first time in more than two seasons — encompassing 32 doubleheaders — that Atlanta had posted a pair of triumphs on one program. The second game proved to be no contest. Lew Krausse and Tom House, who shared the Braves pitching, parted with only three hits. So far as his team’s offense was concerned, Krausse took care of that chore himself. Coming to bat in the second inning — it was only the third time at bat for him this season — Lew blasted a one‐out, two-run homer off Harry Parker, the Mets’ starter.
Increasing inflationary pressures sent the stock market into a steep retreat and dropped the Dow Jones industrial average at the close below the 700 level for the first time in more than four years.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 686.80 (-17.83, -2.53%).
Born:
Konstantin Novoselov, Russian physicist (2010 Nobel Prize for isolation of Graphene), in Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Mark Bellhorn, MLB second baseman, third baseman, and first baseman (World Series Champions-Boston, 2004; Oakland A’s, Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds), in South Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Bobby Estalella, MLB catcher (Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays), in Hialeah, Florida.
Alejandro Freire, Venezuelan MLB first abseman, designated hitter, and outfielder (Baltimore Orioles), in Caracas, Venezuela.
Ray Park, Scottish film actor and martial artist known for portraying Darth Maul in “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace”; in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Shifty Shellshock (stage name of Seth Brooks Binzer), American singer for the rap rock band Crazy Town and the 2001 hit song “Butterfly”; in Los Angeles, California.
Died:
Roberto Assagioli, 86, Italian psychiatrist and pioneering psychologist known as the developer of psychosynthesis.
Antoine Marc Gaudin, 74, American metallurgist, researcher for the Manhattan Project.
[Ed: This picture really pisses me off. Linda Blair is 15 years old. Where the fuck is her mother? Why on Earth is she hanging out with these people when she is a minor?]
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