Guerrilla warfare against the Turks occupying what had been Greek Cypriot territory in Cyprus is possible, Glafkos Clerides, the Greek Cypriot President, said in an interview with Greek Cypriot newsmen, which was made public by the Greek Cypriot administration in Nicosia. He made the statement shortly before the arrival in Cyprus of Secretary General Waldheim of the United Nations, who is expected to try to persuade Mr. Clerides and Rauf Denktash, the chief of the Turkish Cypriot administration, to meet for the first time since the second Turkish military offensive in Cyprus began 11 days ago.
President Clerides declared, according to the Greek Cypriot administration: “If the Turks continue to occupy the north parts of the island, this is bound to provoke bitter resistence on the part of the Greek Cypriot people, and the possibility that this resistance may take the form of guerrilla warfare cannot be excluded.” Mr. Denktash, the Turkish community leader who is nominal Vice President of Cyprus, said he was “surprised” by Mr. Clerides’s, warning. He added that the remarks could delay a meeting between him and Mr. Clerides.
But neither Mr. Clerides nor Mr. Denktash said he would refuse to meet the other. The two have said separately that they would be willing to talk about “humanitarian” matters, such as assistance to refugees and the feeding of livestock abandoned during the war. Both have cautioned that serious political matters affecting the future of the island would probably not be discussed in depth at early meetings. Diplomats here note that Greece and Turkey will probably have considerably more control over the eventual negotiations on the Cyprus crisis than will the two Cypriot community leaders.
Authoritative Greek sources said that the government will tell the Soviet Union tomorrow that any international conference on Cyprus must concentrate on finding “ways and means” to implement Security Council resolutions calling for the removal of foreign troops from Cyprus. In a note to the Soviet Ambassador in Athens, the Greek government will ask for clarifications and make some suggestions for the talks on Cyprus proposed by Moscow.
Two letter bombs destined for Britain were intercepted by police in Londonderry, and residents of Northern Ireland were warned not to open “suspicious or unexpected packages.” Police said each of the two bombs, wrapped in a book-sized, brown paper package, was “large enough to cause serious injury or death.” Six people have been injured in mail bomb incidents in Ulster during the past six months.
The Soviet grain harvest, estimated by Moscow at the halfway point, appears headed toward a crop of 200 million tons, well below the 1973 record harvest of 225 million tons. The last estimate of Soviet production issued in Washington was for 215 million tons. But a harvest in the 195-205 million range would be considered good and would help alleviate high world grain prices and shortages.
Spanish Sahara, is an arid desert colony on the northwest coast of Africa. But beneath its uninviting surface lies vast mineral wealth and squabbles over ownership have now led to a bitter dispute. Just over a decade ago, the neighboring countries of Morocco, Mauritania, and Algeria showed little interest in the sun‐scorched wasteland. But in the early nineteen sixties American prospectors discovered one of the world’s richest phosphate deposits buried near the surface, and today this parched Sahara region is a much sought-after territory. Morocco, the most vociferous claimant to the 108,000-square-mile colony — about the size of Norway, but with a mainly nomadic population of only 70, 000 — has now intensified a diplomatic campaign to strengthen her bid for ownership. Moroccan leaders have warned of possible armed conflict if Spain does not hand over the colony to her promptly, and King Hassan of Morocco has called 1974 “a year of national mobilization.”
Responding to code‐worded calls such as “birthpangs,” “slaughtered chicken” and “Sampson and Delilah,” thousands of Israeli war veterans today immediately joined their reserve units in a test mobilization. The code words were broadcast repeatedly from noon by Israeli television and radio and from cruising police cars. They were also posted on billboards, and leaflets were dropped from aircraft over cities and beaches. The purpose of the exercise was to test the effectiveness of those media in alerting reservists, who make up the bulk of Israel’s forces. Figures are not revealed here, but foreign sources have said that reservists swell the standing army from 75,000 to 300,000. An informed source said that only a small part of the reserves was being called up and registered. The military command did not stage the call‐up as suddenly as it would have liked for fear the Arabs might misinterpret the mobilization. The plans were made public last week, although the date of the operation was not announced.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, In an address to Arab political and Intellectual leaders in Alexandria, said his country will not accept a separate peace settlement with Israel and will resume the Middle East war unless the Arab-Israeli peace conference in Geneva produces an honorable solution. “Egypt will not unilaterally end the state of war and there can be no partial solution,” Sadat said. “The partial solution only exists in the minds of those who are sick and seek to outbid us. We are historically responsible for the Arab cause.”
Time is running out on a Mideast settlement and war could break out| again, King Hussein warned in an interview. “A year from now might be too late. Even six months might be too late.” The Jordanian monarch told U.S. News and World Report he was “most impressed” with President Ford’s grasp of the Mideast situation during talks earlier this month in Washington. He said Jordan would be involved in the Geneva peace talks but stipulated Israel must first begin a withdrawal from the Jordan Valley.
Iraq declared a new amnesty for the rebellious Kurds, provided they lay down their arms within 20 days. The move followed reports that Iraqi troops were closing in on Kurdish headquarters in the northern village of Rania. The Kurds seek autonomy and have started several civil wars against the Baghdad government in the past 30 years.
South Vietnamese Government forces gave up another position near the central coast of South Vietnam yesterday and elsewhere, 15 civilians were killed and 58 wounded when Communist gunners fired mortar shells into a crowded market place, the Saigon command reported today. The command said that several hundred Government militiamen, quit the position four miles southwest of Nghĩa Hành under heavy shelling and infantry attack, The position is between Nghĩa Hành and the district capital of Minh Long, which Communist troops took on August 17. The action is taking place in Quảng Ngãi Province, about 330 miles northeast of Saigon, in a sector long contested. Twelve mortar rounds were said to have been fired into the marketplace of Hoà Hội in Bình Định Province, just south of Quảng Ngãi, killing the 15 civilians. A command spokesman said that most of the casualties were believed to be women. The attack on the militia position was followed up by shells from 130‐mm. artilliery pieces whose range of more than 15 miles make it easy for the Communist gunners to hit Nghĩa Hành, the command said. That target is only five miles from the provincial capital of Quảng Ngãi, to the northeast.
Cambodian troops killed 44 insurgents today in a clearing operating near the isolated provincial capital of Prey Venn, the military command reported. Government casualties were given as 1 killed and 2 wounded in the action 27 miles east of Phnom Penh. Earlier today the command announced that 27 insurgents had been killed in a battle at Prek Trameak Village, 12 miles northeast of the capital.
Prime Minister Abdul Razak of Malaysia and his National Front coalition government won a landslide victory in last Friday’s national elections, but it did not remove the problem of racialism from Malaysia’s political life. It may, in fact, have exaggerated it. The government Front, a multiracial conglomerate composed of nine different parties, appeared headed for control of nearly 90 percent of the seats in Parliament and for big majorities in the state assemblies. The victory wiped out all the moderate and non-racial parties and left a militant, racially-oriented Chinese party as the only alternative to the Front. Razak promised to form “an action-oriented government” that will “not abuse the rights of the people” despite a lopsided election victory that put his party in power for another five years. Razak’s National Front had clearly won 120 seats in the 154-member parliament and was expected to gain 24 more in late vote counts.
In Port Robinson, Ontario, the freighter Steelton struck Bridge 12 on the Welland Canal, destroying it and injuring two people. The bridge was never rebuilt and would be replaced by a passenger ferry in 1977.
In Auckland, New Zealand, politician Robert Muldoon, leader of the New Zealand National Party, punched demonstrators at a protest outside a meeting of landlords and property investors after a sack of flour struck him in the back.
France performs a nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll in the south Pacific.
Australia and New Zealand said France exploded another bomb over the Pacific. It was believed to be the sixth or seventh atmospheric nuclear blast in little over two months. “I hope this will be the last in the series, and indeed, the last atmospheric test in the Pacific,” New Zealand Prime Minister Normal Kirk said. As usual, the French government had no comment.
A report from the New York Times News Service quoted unidentified White House sources as stating that “Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger and the Joint Chiefs of Staff kept unusually close control over lines of command during the last days of the Nixon Administration to ensure that no unauthorized orders were given to military units by the White House,” a story with “the clear implication being that the secretary of defense had helped avert a coup d’état.” President Ford would learn a year later that the source was Secretary Schlesinger himself, who admitted to the Undersecretary of Defense that he had invented the story during a lunch with reporters on August 23. Ford would fire Schlesinger a year later, on November 1, 1975, after commenting to aides, “For the Secretary of Defense to speculate to the press that our military commanders — men who are controlled by civilians under the Constitution — might take some unilateral and illegal action at a moment of grave national crisis was to stab our armed forces in the back.”.
Preparation for the orderly elevation of Gerald Ford to the presidency were begun months before President Nixon decided to resign and were kept secret from Mr. Nixon and, at first, Mr. Ford. The transition was initiated by Philip Buchen, Mr. Ford’s closest friend, and a program for the first days of the Ford administration was drafted in June by Mr. Nixon’s adviser on telecommunications policy, Clay Whitehead, and three other young men, including a stanch Democrat, who have not been identified. The details of the transition were settled 36 hours before it came about.
Jack Grayson, who was in charge of the short-lived Price Commission in the Nixon administration, said on a television program that the voluntary approach on wages and prices advocated by President Ford would in same cases lead to higher rather than lower prices. He said he believed that the new Council on Wages and Price Stability would be of little value and might even do some harm. James Lynn, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who participated in another TV program, gave a pessimistic view of the housing market.
Interviews with families of Vietnam war evaders across the country find that most parents now view their sons with respect. They believe that amnesty should be unconditional and that President Ford’s “earned re-entry” proposal is unfair and impractical. Most of these parents believe that the Vietnam war was illegal.
The bill passed by the Senate for the improvement of Amtrak, the national rail passenger system, provides major incentives to the states to begin expanding regional rail transportation. Under the bill, Amtrak would expand its nationwide network to include routes requested by state, regional or local agencies if the agencies agreed to make good one-third of any start-up and operating deficits. States formerly could get Amtrak routes into operation only by paying two-thirds of any deficits.
An explosion at a butane gas plant rocked the Petal-Hattiesburg area of Mississippi early in the morning and caused the evacuation of 3,000 persons. The blast, in an underground storage tank, shot flames 1,000 feet skyward. A fire was extinguished five hours after the blast and residents then returned to their homes. The explosion shattered windows within a radius of several miles and 22 persons were treated for cuts from flying glass. The explosion at the Enterprise Products Co. plant, about a mile north of Petal, was determined to have been caused by a valve on the storage tank that did not close completely, allowing gas to escape. Authorities said they thought the seeping gas had been ignited by a water heater pilot light.
Three of the nation’s leading businessmen said they were opposed to reimposition of wage and price controls to battle inflation. “They cause only distortions,” said Arthur M. Wood, board chairman and chief executive officer of Sears, Roebuck & Co. He added, “It’s my judgment from reading the tea leaves that inflation will taper off toward the end of the year.” O. Pendleton Thomas, president of B. F. Goodrich Co., said, “The principal reason for inflation is excess demand in relation to supply.” Also appearing on the ABC Issues and Answers program was Frank R. Milliken, president of the Kennicott Copper Corp. He said that President Ford and “other politicians have a great responsibility to decrease the level of expectation.” None of the three thought the United States was heading into a serious recession.
The American Veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam took a stand against amnesty for draft dodging. “The members feel that they served without equivocation and that others should bear their sense of responsibility to this great nation,” said Essley Burdine, an attorney from Decatur, Georgia, and newly elected national AMVETS commander. More than 1,800 delegates representing nearly 250,000 veterans voted at their national convention in Hollywood, Florida, on a resolution that “AMVETS will not consider amnesty,” Burdine said. The vote followed President Ford’s announcement that he favored leniency for the nation’s estimated 50,000 draft evaders and deserters but was opposed to “unconditional blanket amnesty.”
Former Senator Eugene J. McCarthy said he had been appointed chairman of a new national political organization that would campaign for the election of independent candidates for President and Vice President. He told a Chicago news conference that the Committee for a Constitutional Presidency had not selected candidates for 1976 but said he was a “possible candidate” if a no more qualified man was found. The former Minnesota senator, who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968, said the new group was “not a third party as such” and that it planned to “go straight to the people in search of two candidates without a centralized organization or convention.”
A Harlan County, Kentucky, miner was in critical condition from gunshot wounds and a mine supervisor was charged with the shooting, police said. Lawrence D. Jones, 22, was in an intensive care unit and Billy Carroll Bruner, 39, was treated for wounds and was jailed. Police said the four persons at the shooting scene alleged that Bruner had shot Jones and in turn had been shot by unidentified persons as he was leaving. Bruner was identified as a supervisor at Eastover Mine Co.’s operation at High Splint, scene of recent United Mine Workers picketing. High Splint miners are represented by the rival Southern Labor Union.
An early morning fire that killed 13 people broke out at 3:00 a.m. at the Washington House Hotel in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. The blaze destroyed almost an entire block of buildings.
Alexander P. de Seversky, a zealous proponent of strategic air power, who flew more than 50 World War I combat missions after losing his right leg and whose inventions were major contributions to military and commercial flying, died at the age of 80 yesterday at Memorial Hospital.
Belgian racer Eddy Merckx won the Men’s Individual Road Race at the UCI Road World Championships in Montreal.
The Copa Chile, the knockout tournament for soccer football in the South American nation of Chile, was won by Colo-Colo, 3–0, over the Santiago Wanderers team, in front of 50,468 fans at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago. Colo-Colo, which had finished third in regular season play, was based in the Santiago suburb of Macul. Wanderers had finished in 15th place with a losing record (9 wins, 15 losses, 10 draws) before sweeping through the playoffs. Less than a year earlier, the stadium had been used as a detention center for thousands of people arrested after the military coup d’état of September 11.
In American soccer football, the Los Angeles Aztecs defeated the Miami Toros on penalty kicks, 4–3, after both teams had played to a 3–3 draw, to win the championship of the North American Soccer League. The final, televised by CBS, was played in front of a crowd of 15,507 at the Orange Bowl.
Catching Nolan Ryan on a day in which his overpowering fastball was on holiday, the New York Yankees finally made an upward move in the American League Eastern Division pennant race with a tidy 2–1 victory over the California Angels before a crowd of 17,745 yesterday at Shea Stadium. When Bobby Murcer doubled and scored on a single by Graig Nettles in the ninth inning, the Yankees triumphed for the fifth straight time and for the ninth time in their last 11 games, But most of the recent New York victories had only kept pace with matching triumphs by the Boston Red Sox. Thanks to an Oakland victory over Boston yesterday, the Yankees moved to within five games of the Eastern Division leaders. The second‐place Yankees have 36 games remaining to close the gap, including five with the Red Sox.
Joe Rudi has a double and grand slam to drive in 5 runs, and Ken Holtzman wins his 15th as the Oakland A’s shut out the Boston Red Sox, 7–0. It is Rudi’s second grand slam of the season. Before Oakland scored six runs in the fifth, Roger Moret had held the A’s hitless the first four innings. Moret, who pitched a one‐hitter the last time out, was a last‐minute replacement for Juan Marichal, reportedly nursing a groin injury and a minor back ailment. The Red Sox also played without Carl Yastrzemski, their leading hitter (.317), Tommy Harper and Rick Mille, all sidelined with a virus.
Chicago White Sox swept a doubleheader from the Cleveland Indians, winning both games by identical scores of 8–5. Jorge Orta collected four singles, two during the six‐run third that enabled the White Sox to sweep the double‐header from the Indians. Wilbur Wood, who went the distance for the 17th time this season, won the opener. It was his 19th victory.
The Detroit Tigers’ John Hiller won his 15th game in relief yesterday by defeating the Texas Rangers, 6–5, in Detroit and moved within one victory of tying the American League record for the most triumphs by a reliever. The record of 16 victories was set in 1964 by Dick Radatz of Boston Red Sox. Gary Sutherland’s single scored Ron Leflore from second, capping a two‐out, two-run rally an the last of the ninth for the Tiger victory.
Bert Blyleven pitched a four hitter for his 12th victory as the Minnesota Twins downed the Baltimore Orioles, 5–1. He held the Orioles hitless until Tommy Davis’s homer in the fourth. Ross Grimsley, the losing pitcher, also got off to a strong start and didn’t allow a hit until the Twins erupted for their five runs in the sixth.
The Kansas City Royals shut out the Milwaukee Brewers, 2–0. Bruce Dal Canton hurled a three‐hitter, and Orlando Cepeda drove in the deciding run with a ninth‐inning single. It was the 11th time in 12 games between the teams that the Royals had won.
The Astros’ Don Wilson and Mike Cosgrove blank the Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0, scattering six hits. It was the third straight shutout the Houston pitching staff has administered. They have allowed a total of nine hits in the three‐game series, six yesterday. Before the game, Janice Graham Johnson is hit in the face by a batting practice home run leading to a lawsuit against HSA, the Astros and the Phillies. It’s settled five years later and is the reason game tickets now warns fans to stay alert to balls flying into the crowd.
Ray Sadecki, the southpaw who ordinarily is a bullpen tenant, turned in a full‐game performance today against the Atlanta Braves that had his New York teammates marveling.The 33‐year‐old Kansan limited the Atlanta batsmen to only five hits in pitching the Mets to a 1–0 victory. To provide the extra trimmings for his unexpected route‐going effort, Sadecki also singled home the game’s only run. This highlight happened in the fifth inning after Jim Gosger rapped a one‐out single through the first‐base hole. He moved to second on a passed ball, reached third as Duffy Dyer was grounding out and tallied on Sadecki’s single. The hit by the southpaw was particularly notable because Phil Niekro allowed only five hits in eight innings. The single was made. on the first pitch offered by Niekro — a knuckleball — that the Met tosser lined cleanly to right. His timely blow ended the Braves’ six‐game winning streak.
The Pittsburgh Pirates won both ends f a doubleheader from the San Diego Padres, 4–1 and 10–2. Ed Kirkpatrick hit a bases‐full single to cap a three‐run seventh inning that gave the Pirates the sweep of their double‐header with the Padres. As a result, Pittsburgh took first place in the Eastern Division by a half‐game over St Louis. The Pirates won the opener in the 12th inning, scoring three runs, aided by five walks.
The Los Angeles Dodgers routed the St. Louis Cardinals, 9–3. Ron Cey drove in three runs, two with a homer during a fiverun first inning. The Dodgers, who collected 14 hits off five St Louis pitchers, also scored three runs in the sixth, with Jimmy Wynn driving, in his 90th and 91st runs on a double. Dave Lopes, who tied a modern single game record by stealing five bases Saturday night, stole his 54th base in the second.
Pete Rose, on an 11‐game hitting streak, drove in two runs in the eighth with the help of some aggressive baserunning by Ken Griffey and Joe Morgan, to lift the Cincinnati Reds to a 3–1 victory over the Montreal Expos. Griffey, a pinch hitter, led off with a single, stele Second and advanced to third on a bad throw by Barry Foote, the rookie catcher. Terry Crowley, another, pinch‐hitter, walked and was rephieed by Morgan, a pinch runner Morgan quickly stole second, and Rose responded with his third single.
Dave Kingman’s single with the bases loaded in the ninth gave the Giants a comeback victory as San Francisco edged the Chicago Cubs, 4–3. Kingman’s hit scored Tito Fuentes, who had led off the inning with a double. The Giants had tied the game in the seventh on a two out single by Gary Matthews that scored Garry Maddox.
Born:
Gary Matthews, Jr., MLB outfielder (All-Star, 2006; San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Angels; son of Gary Matthews), in San Francisco, California.
Pablo Ozuna, Dominican MLB second baseman, third baseman, and outfielder (Florida Marlins, Colorado Rockies, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers), in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Jason Fabini, NFL tackle (New York Jets, Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins), in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Darren Benson, NFL defensive tackle (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 30-Cowboys; Dallas Cowboys), in Memphis, Tennessee.
Mike Jenkins, NFL wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals), in Portsmough, Virginia.
Eric Millegan, American actor (‘Zack Addy’- “Bones”), in Hackettstown, New Jersey.
Died:
M. J. Coldwell PC CC, 85, English-born Canadian democratic socialist politician who founded the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation political party, predecessor to the New Democratic Party.
Pierre-Louis Gabriel Falaize, 69, French journalist and diplomat who was France’s ambassador to Jordan, Libya, Laos and Lebanon at different times between 1954 and 1967.
Harry K. Newburn, 68, American educator who had served as president of the University of Oregon (1945 to 1953), the University of Montana 1959 to 1963, Cleveland State University 1965-1966 and 1972-1973, and Arizona State University, 1969 to 1971, died of a heart attack.
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