Foreign Minister George Mavros of Greece said today that Greece accepted the Soviet plan for a solution of the Cyprus crisis. The Soviet Union has proposed that an international conference, including the 15 nations on the United Nations Security Council, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, be called to try to find a political solution for the troubled Mediterranean island. The Soviet plan also calls for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the island. Moscow has also suggested that the United Nations send a special mission to Cyprus to assess the situation first‐hand. Speaking to reporters in the lobby of an Athens hotel, Mr. Mavros said that the Greek Government would today inform the British Goverament of the Greek decision. Britain has been seeking a resumption of the peace talks in Geneva. Mr. Mavros said that the British “have been able to do nothing.”
Greek officials in Athens sought to clarify and soften the sudden statement of Foreign Minister George Mavros that Greece would accept a Soviet proposal for an international conference on the Cyprus issue. An official spokesman said that Greece endorsed the Soviet plan “in principle” but would make further suggestions to Moscow’s Ambassador in Athens on Monday. In an interview, a senior government official said that the forum in which Greece pursued negotiations over Cyprus “is not important for us.” Moscow has proposed a conference of all 15 members of the United Nations Security Council, in addition to Greece, Turkey, the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots.
Greece has told Britain that she is not ready for further Cyprus peace talks with the parties directly involved in the dispute, a Foreign Office spokesman said here today. This Greek reaction was contained in a note to Britain replying to her recent suggestion for an early resumption of Cyprus peace talks between Greece, Turkey, Britain, the Greek‐Cypriot and the Turkish‐Cypriots. Britain has been making soundings about reconvening the five‐sided Geneva peace conference, which collapsed August 14. We are still studying the reply,” the Foreign Office spokesman said, “but they are not ready under present circumstances for further talks in Geneva.”
The Soviet Union, in a new attempt to link the North Atlantic Treaty Organization directly to the hostilities in Cyprus, implied today that the Western alliance had ordered the Turkish invasion of the island after failing to gain control through the earlier Greek‐led coup. The accusation, which appeared in a commentary in the Communist party newspaper Pravda, was seen as a fresh effort by Moscow to substantiate its earlier charges that NATO was to be blamed for having plunged Cyprus into warfare. Pravda did not explain how the alliance could have masterminded both events when they involved two traditional antagonists on the Cyprus problem, Greece and Turkey. Even so, the accusation appeared to be the most specific yet by the Soviet Union on the issue.
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany warned the Ford administration that extreme measures to curb inflation in the United States could seriously disrupt the world economy. In an interview in Bonn, Mr. Schmidt, who had been West Germany’s Finance Minister, recognized the need for anti-inflationary measures in the United States, but he appealed for day-to-day consultation among the major industrial powers to avoid unemployment and recession. “There is a danger,” he said, “that if the United States as a whole goes deflationary, this will spread inevitably to the world markets.”
The International Air Transport Association has proposed an average increase of 10 percent in the air fares on scheduled international routes over the North Atlantic effective November 1. It estimates that the increase would range from 7 percent for first class up to 20 percent for the cheaper excursion fares. The increase is subject to government approval. The association, which has a membership of 111 airlines, also proposes an “early bird” discount plan for individual travelers provided the ticket is purchased 60 days before the flight. The general fare increase would remain in effect until March 31, 1976. The airlines are seeking the fare rise to meet the increasing cost of fuel and other rising expenses.
Two civilians were wounded when they happened into cross fire between British soldiers and suspected Irish Republican Army guerrillas in the Northern Ireland border town of Crossmaglen. A pedestrian was shot in the shoulder when an army foot patrol came under fire outside a pub. Five minutes later the driver of a minivan was hit when he crossed the line of fire between troops and gunmen.
Fifty young people faced drug charges at Windsor, England, after police raided a rock festival — within sight of Windsor Castle — where the organizers of the nine-day affair promised free marijuana for everyone. Bill Dwyer, chief promoter of the festival-which attracted 10,000 fans, will feature about 250 rock groups and is being held on Crown land-said, “We had a bit of trouble getting our supplies past police, but it is now on the site and available to those who want it.”
Heavy Israeli artillery in the western Golan Heights and other regions shelled parts of southern Lebanon tonight. The shelling was concen trated on the Rasheiya area. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. Israeli forces have been reportedly intermittently shelling the southern border area, but tonight’s bombardment was said to be “unusually heavy.”
Kuwait and the Japanese-owned Arabian Oil Co. signed a “participation” agreement that turns over 60% of the firm’s shares and assets to the Kuwaiti government. The ed earlier this year with the Kuwait agreement is similar to one concludOil Co., jointly owned by Gulf Oil and British Petroleum.
Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger wound up three days of talks in Washington with no significant headway in solving the problem of Palestinian refugees which Arab leaders say is the key to unlocking a lasting Mideast peace. The meetings ended without publication of a joint communique.
Iraqi infiltrators killed three Iranian farmers when they attacked a border village this week, the government‐owned Pars News Agency said today. The agency said that the Iraqis fled back over the border after attacking the village, in Khuzistan, with mortar and machine‐gun fire on Wednesday. There had also been six Iraqi attacks on Iranian border posts during the week, it said. In one incident, Iraqis and Iranian border guards were reported to lave exchanged fire near Naft‐i‐Shah in northwest Iran for about five hours. No casualties were reported. The agency reported, that the Iraqi Army pounded other border posts with heavy artillery fire, injuring one chid and destroying crops and livestock.
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, a leader of the Muslim minority in predominantly Hindu India, was sworn in as India’s fifth president since independence from Britain 27 years ago. Ahmed, an attorney, is the second Muslim elected president. The 75‐year‐old former Food Minister and close ally of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was elected President on Tuesday. He succeeds V.V. Giri, a former labor leader, whose five‐year term ended today. India’s Presidents, elected by members of Parliament and state legislators, have vaguely defined role and have generally limited themselves to ceremonial tasks. Although the Constitution gives the President potentially vast powers, the head of state has traditionally played a secondary and acquiescing role to that of the Prime Minister.
North and South Vietnamese forces were reported locked in battle yesterday near Saigon and Đà Nẵng, the country’s two largest cities. Hundreds of South Vietnamese troops, backed by armored columns, were reported to be trying to lift the siege of a Saigon Government outpost of Route 1 about 25 miles northwest of Saigon. They were said to have been halted 700 yards from their objective by strong North Vietnamese resistance. Reports from the field said that infantry and armored retiforcements were being rushed in to keep the North Vietnamese from cutting the strategic road. On the northern coast, the highway was reported cut Friday night when North Vietnamese and Việt Cộng forces seized a two‐mile stretch at dush about 10 miles south of Đà Nẵng. Communist‐led troops were said to have attacked Government outposts in the region below Đà Nẵng, when North Vietnamese forces have been waging an offensive for more than a month.
A senior official of the Communist Pathet Lao said that Emmet Kay, the last known American prisoner in Indochina, would be released Sept. 12 when other prisoners of war are exchanged in Laos. Col. Pradith Thiangtham, a member of the Pathet Lao Central Committee and a delegate to the commission which negotiated the exchange, said Kay would be released “as a humanitarian and goodwill gesture.” Pradith said Kay, 47, a civilian pilot from Honolulu who flew contract missions for the U.S. Embassy, would be released even though the Pathet Lao did not consider him a prisoner of war, but rather a “ceasefire violator.”
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the nominal leader of insurgent forces in Cambodia, believes that President Ford is free to bring about peace in Cambodia quickly because he is not bound by obligations of former President Nixon. In an interview, the prince appealed to Mr. Ford to end American aid to the government of Marshal Lon Nol in Phnom Penh, which would then quickly collapse, he said.
Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak’s ruling National Front won an easy landslide victory in general elections for parliament, thus retaining power for another five years. Unlike 1969, when 200 persons were killed in ethnic riots between minority Chinese and majority Malays, elections were uneventful. In unofficial returns, the National Front won 118 seats out of 154 in Parliament. Voting took place in the 1974 Malaysian general election for all 154 seats of the Dewan Rakyat, the lower house of Malaysia’s parliament. The largest party of the Barisan Nasional alliance, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) of Prime Minister Abdul Razak Hussein, won 62 seats outright, 16 short of a majority, while the other nine parties of the Barisan won another 73 seats. The voting was peaceful, with no recurrence of the violence that had marred the 1969 election. Runoff elections, if necessary, were scheduled for September 14.
Soldiers searching for opponent of the martial‐law regime of President Ferdinand E. Marcos raided a Jesuit seminary today, and temporarily detained the head of the order in the Philipines, an American priest who witnessed the raid said. About 150 soldiers landed helicopters, searched the seminary area in suburban Manila and arrested an instructor and 20 of his students, according to the Rev. Samuel R. Wiley. He said the Rev. Benigng Mayo, head of the Jesuit order in the Philippines and a major opponent of martial law, was detained for questioning and later released.
In Canada, Concordia University was created in Montreal by the merger of Loyola College and the newer Sir George Williams University.
One hundred specially trained Mexican farm workers will be sent to Canada under an experimental labor program, the Mexican Labor Secretariat said. Mexico wants a similar arrangement with the United States but so far Washington has rejected the idea. The braceros, recruited in low-employment areas, were given classes and indoctrination on Canadian customs and were taught not to spend their wages on luxury items. Canadian employers will withhold 20% of their earnings in a mandatory savings program.
The Tunisian high court today found 175 students and intellectuals guilty of charges of subversive activities. They were sentenced to six months to 10 years prison. The record number of accused — 202 — included 81 who were tried and convicted in absentia. Twenty‐seven were acquitted. The defendants were members of the Socialist Study and Action Group of Tunisia, a Marxist organization with headquarters in Paris. They admitted they were Communists but denied they had plotted to overthrow the regime of Presiden Habib Bourguiba. The Communist party is banned in Tunisia. The trial is seen here as warning to the student population, which has been on a slow down strike for most of this year, demanding educational reforms and the release of imprisoned strike leaders.
Leading agricultural experts believe that the United States has substantial reserves of agricultural resources that could help feed the world’s hungry if there were sufficient changes in traditional federal farm policy. Exploitation of anything approaching the nation’s full potential, however, would require enormous investments in land, resources and technology. This would have to be stimulated by government action and a change in federal farm policy, which has never involved an active role in stimulating farm expansion. Virtually no one foresees such a reversal.
Unusually close control over lines of command during the last days of the Nixon administration was maintained by Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This was done to insure that no unauthorized orders were given to the military units by the White House. A senior Pentagon official said that the decision to monitor closely all orders from any source was made by Mr. Schlesinger in consultation with Air Force General George Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to prevent any of a series of hypothetical situations developing. The official said that Mr. Schlesinger began to worry about the situation when it became clear to him in late July or early August that Mr. Nixon’s impeachment or resignation seemed “inevitable.”
With an admonition and a promise, President Ford signed into law a bill establishing a special agency to monitor wages and prices. He warned that the agency, to be called the Council on Wage and Price Stability, must not be expected to provide “an instant answer or an immediate panacea” for inflation, and he promised that the council’s formation was not to be regarded as a preliminary step to establishing another system of mandatory wage controls, The council’s function, Mr. Ford said, was only to give “guidance in very broad terms to management and labor so they don’t take advantage of a free economy in this critical situation.”
The federal government is breaking the law by maintaining milk price supports below the minimum set by Congress, the president of the National Farmers Union said. Tony Dechant said in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz that the department’s $5.26 per hundredweight support price for manufacturing-grade milk was only 75% of the “fair earning power” parity price last month. The legal minimum for this year is 80%, Dechant said.
Rising absenteeism cost the U.S. Postal Service nearly $200 million during fiscal 1974, Postmaster General E. T. Klassen told a convention of postal supervisors in Atlanta. The Postal Service’s sick-leave program is being abused, Klassen said, “and the time has come to put a stop to it.” He said either a rate increase or a government subsidy would be needed to overcome a possible $400 million deficit in the next fiscal year caused by absenteeism, higher salaries and increased fuel costs.
Rallies and celebrations are being held around the nation to mark the 54th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. In Washington, D.C., the National Organization for Women chapter held its third annual Women’s Fair featuring music, speeches, feminist movies and craft displays. President Ford has proclaimed Monday as Women’s Equality Day. Governors and local officials in some areas issued similar proclamations.
U.S. Congressman J. J. Pickle and former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson unveiled a larger-than-life-size bronze statue of Lyndon B. Johnson, carved by sculptor Jimilu Mason, at Lyndon B. Johnson State Park in Texas.
A West Texas rancher on the “death list” of an escaped convict was shot and killed at his home near Rotan, and authorities said the three assailants later killed a woman and took two hostages. Officials said the convicts were believed to have wounded or injured five persons in a shooting and looting spree in north central Texas. T.L. Baker, 58, who had provided testimony in the conviction of Dalton Williams, was slain a day after he had warned police he might be in danger. Authorities said Williams, Jerry Almer and Richard Magnum, all escapees from a Colorado penitentiary, sped across the state in a stolen car and killed a woman at a truck stop in the Mineral Wells area. They said the trio apparently then took a man and a woman hostage and fled.
Lightning killed two members of a New Jersey family and seriously injured a third in Rockland, Me. John VanCleve, 38, of Randolph, New Jersey, and his 9-year-old daughter Elizabeth were killed. VanCleve’s wife, Ruthann, 43, was being treated at a hospital in Portland. Two other children, Suzanne, 12, and Jeffrey, 13, were treated for shock. Police said the family had been at the Rockland Harbor lighthouse and was walking back toward shore when struck by the lightning.
A young woman was killed and two men were missing and presumed dead after a sightseeing helicopter exploded and crashed 200 feet offshore from a crowded beach at Daytona Beach, Florida. Judy Overman, 21, of Milledgeville, Georgia, died en route to a hospital. Missing were her husband, Robert, 22, and the pilot, John Haig, 27, of Daytona Beach.
Hearings are scheduled to open Monday in a $3.9‐million suit against the federal government filed on behalf of an Alamogordo, New Mexico; family that was stricken with mercury poisoning five years ago. Four children in the family suffered severe brain, muscular, and visual damage after eating pork from a home‐slaughtered hog that had been fed grain treated with mercury fungicide. The government is accused in the suit of permitting, through its licensing and regulating authority, the marketing of mercury fungicide while aware of its dangers; with neglecting to issue adequate warnings or instructions about the use of the fungicide, and with failing to examine and inspect the poison suitably.
Eighty men convicted of robbery, arson, burglary and other felonies were released from state prisons this week and 39 more are to be released soon as a result of a State Supreme Court ruling that they had been jailed illegally. The release came so suddenly — all were out of prison within minutes after their sentences were voided Wednesday — that many had to wait outside the prison gates for startled relatives to pick them up. Their eventual release had been expected since June, when the State Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that the sentences were illegal. But many of the inmates released said they had expected the actual release process to take days, not minutes.
William M. Chaney, grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan, has urged Klan members to “arm every household with shotguns” as a result of two shooting incidents in Kokomo, Indiana, in the last month. “We can no longer tolerate these assaults on our klanspeople, so we have no choice but to protect and arm ourselves in our homes,” Mr. Chaney said in letters to Klan members. The shootings involved two klansmen who were wounded, one seriously, in incidents near the Howard County Courthouse at Kokomo on July 27 and August 17. The police arrested 17 Klan members as a result of a disturbance during a Klan recruiting drive. The Klan, a power in Indiana politics in the nineteen‐twenties, is now regarded as generally weak, with a membership of approximately 450 persons centered in Howard, Madison and Morgan Counties, all in central Indiana.
Kevin Olsson, a 17-year-old Blackpool F.C. fan, became the first fan ever murdered inside an English football ground. Olsson was stabbed to death in the Bloomfield Road football stadium at Blackpool, Lancashire, where Blackpool was hosting Bolton Wanderers. A juvenile would be tried and acquitted of Olsson’s murder. As of 2024, no one else had been charged.
Kent Roberts, a 44-year-old jockey, was killed during a race at Prescott Downs in Arizona.
Polish racer Janusz Kowalski and French racer Geneviève Gambillon won the men’s and women’s amateur road races at the 1974 UCI Road World Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The Boston Red Sox, leading the American League by 8 games, lose today, 4–1 to the Oakland A’s Catfish Hunter, to start their slide. They will go 14-33 the rest of the way, and will finish in 3rd place, 7 games in back. Hunter wins his 19th game of the year. A ninth‐inning throwing error by the Boston first baseman, Carl Yastrzemski, following a spectacular stop allowed the tie‐breaking run to score.
The New York Yankees, strengthening their track position heading into the homestretch, won their fourth straight game yesterday when Pat Dobson and Cecil Upshaw pitched them to a 3–1 victory over the California Angels. The game turned on one pitch thrown by Frank Tanana of the Angels to Bobby Murcer of the Yankees with two down and two runners on base in the sixth inning, and the score 1–1. Murcer had struck out four times in a row over two games and had two strikes on him this time. But he lined the pitch into left‐center for a double, both runners scored and California was two runs behind with three innings left.
Lenny Randle singled home the tie‐breaking run in the 10th inning today and the Texas Rangers went on to beat Mickey Lolich and the Detroit Tigers, 6–4. Toby Harrah of the Rangers tied the score in the ninth with a leadoff home run, his 17th of the season, and squeezed home an insurance run in the 10th with a bunt single. Jeff Burroughs opened the 10th with a single, was sacrificed to second and scored on Randle’s single. Randle went to third on Jim Fregosi’s infield hit and a throwing error by Aurelio Rodriguez, the third baseman, and scored on Harrah’s bunt.
Bart Johnson shut out Cleveland on five hits today and Carlos May and Bill Melton cracked run‐scoring singles in the first inning to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 3–0 victory over the Indians. Johnson, with a 5–2 won-lost record, recalled from Iowa of the American Association less than two months ago, beat Gaylord Perry, 16–9, in the nationally televised game. Perry, who earlier this season posted 15 consecutive victories, suffered the eighth loss in his last nine decisions.
Larry Hisle hits a grand slam and drives in 5 runs as the Minnesota Twins beat the Baltimore Orioles, 9–5. Eric Soderholm’s leadoff single, a double by Craig Kusick, and Danny Thompson’s single got Mike Cuellar, the Oriole pitcher, in trouble in the second. Then he walked Glenn Borgmann, filling the bases. Steve Brye’s sacrifice fly scored Kusick and, after Carew was walked to load the bases again, Wayne Garland came on in relief and Hisle hit the homer, his 18th.
George Brett’s double‐play grounder drove in the first run in the fifth inning today and Al Fitzmorris hurled a three‐hitter as the Kansas City Royals beat.the Milwaukee Brewers, 4–0. The Royals pushed across three insurance runs in the ninth, two on a double by Orlando Cepeda, the desighated hitter.
The Houston Astros’ Dave Roberts one-hits the Philadelphia Phillies, 1–0, in the quickest game in club history . Bob Boone’s leadoff single in the sixth is all that separates Roberts from perfection in a game that takes only one hour and 26 minutes to complete. The only hit off Roberts was Bob Boone’s leadoff single to left field in the sixth. Roberts outdueled Steve Carlton, who gave up four hits. Roberts needs just 86 pitches. Roger Metzger singles off Carlton, plating Larry Milbourne in the eighth for the only tally.
The New York Mets proved again tonight that they are becoming unaccustomed to protecting leads — especially early ones. In their third game of a series with the Atlanta Braves before a crowd of 34,000 at Atlanta Stadium, the New Yorkers lost, 4–3, allowing a two‐run, first‐inning advantage to disappear in two innings, tied the game in the ninth, and then, lost it in the 10th. Bob Miller, who was sent to the mound to face the home team in the 10th; absorbed the loss in the most embarasing way a pitcher can suffer one. He walked home the winning run after two were out.
Run‐scoring singles by Tony Perez and. Cesar Geronimo in the ninth inning today gave the Cincinnati Reds a 6–4 victory over the Montreal Expos. Pete Rose led off the ninth with a double and Joe Morgan walked. After Johnny Bench had popped out, Perez drove in the lead run with a single to left. After Morgan was thrown out at the plate on Darrel Chaney’s grounder, Geronimo singled to center to score Perez. It was Geronimo’s fourth run batted in of the game.
Davey Lopes steals 5 bases as the Los Angeles Dodgers top the St. Louis Cardinals 3–0. Los Angeles stole eight bases to establish a club mark for a game. Lopes equaled Dennis McGann’s record with the 1904 New York Giants. Eddie Collins of the Philadelphia Athletics holds the major league record of six steals in a game. Lopes made good on his first five attempted steals, but was thrown out by Ted Simmons the last two times. Lou Brock’s 88th steal in the first inning for St. Louis put him closer to Maury Wills’s season mark of 104. Don Sutton is the shutout winner.
Jerry Morales tripled home one run and scored the other in a two‐run first inning today and five Chicago pitchers collaborated on a six‐hitter as the Cubs beat the San Francisco Giants, 2–1. Jim Tyrone’s one‐out walk started the uprising against Ron Bryant, the loser. Morales’s triple scored Tyron and Andry Thornton’s grounder got Morales home.
Born:
Jennifer Lien, American actress ‘Kes’- “Star Trek: Voyager”), in Palos Heights, Illinois.
Órla Fallon, Irish traditional singer, Celtic harpist, and songwriter (Celtic Woman, 2004-2009; Anúna, 1996), in Knockananna, County Wicklow, Ireland.
Tony McCombs, NFL linebacker (Arizona Cardinals), in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Jeff Kubenka, MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers), in Weimar, Texas.
Bartolomé Fortunato, Dominican MLB pitcher (Tampa Bay Devil Rays, New York Mets), in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Titus (gorilla), known as “The Gorilla King,” silverback mountain gorilla of the Virunga Mountains (d. 2009, old age).
Died:
Alexander P. de Seversky, 80, Russian-born American aviation pioneer, inventor, and founder of the Seversky Aircraft Corporation.
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