Secretary General Waldheim of the United Nations and the leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot administrations of Cyprus conferred in Nicosia. They agreed that their discussions had made some progress toward an eventual solution of the Cyprus crisis. President Glafkos Clerides, the Greek Cypriot leader, and Rauf Denktash, head of the Turkish Cypriot administration, met for the first time since the Geneva conference on the Cyprus problem collapsed two weeks ago. It was the collapse of the talks that led to the Turkish Army’s advances until it held about 40 percent of the island. Secretary General Waldheim, who spent 18 hours in Nicosia on his way from Greece to Turkey, said before boarding a helicopter at Nicosia’s airport that the meeting of the two leaders and an agreement by them to confer weekly from now on was “a very hopeful development.”
“I leave the island in hope that we have made a step forward,” Mr. Waldheim said. “A limited step, but the fact that the leaders have agreed to direct talks is a very encouraging, sign for the future.” Mr. Clerides and Mr. Denktash, who met with Mr. Waldheim and each other in a corrugated metal barracks of the United Nations forces in Nicosia, agreed that the meetings had been useful. The Cypriot leaders emphasized, however, that their forthcoming meetings would be to discuss “humanitarian issues.” Both leaders indicated clearly that they were approaching the talks gingerly. There were no promises of dramatic or imminent political solutions.
Secretary General Waldheim conferred for three hours today on the Cyprus crisis with Premier Bulent Ecevit of Turkey and his advisers. “I have come to see if negotiations can be resumed,” Mr. Waldheim said as he entered the Premier’s office. Mr. Ecevit has said the best way to deal with the Cyprus issue would be by direct talks between him and the Greek Premier Konstantine Karamanlis.
Officers of the rightwing EOKA‐B movement said today they were ready to wage guerrilla warfare in the mountains of Cyprus to achieve union of the island with Greece. “We will die rather than give up enosis (union with Greece),” said, Andreas. Mpfistakas, have enough men, guns and supplies mountains. We are all ready to go.” Mr. Moustakas, speaking in this small town in the Troodos Mountains in the heart of the Greek Cypriot area of the island, said his men would fight the Government of President Glafkos Clerides if he should hand over any parts of the island to the Turks. “President Clerides cannot go against the wishes of the Greek Cypriot people,” Mr. Moustakes added, “Cyprus is a Greek island and we will fight to the death for enosis.”
Turkish military commanders are not seriously concerned about Greek Cypriot guerrilla action and they are confident that Turkey can match any Greek build‐up of modern jets and tanks. General Semih Sancar, chief of the Turkish General Staff, said in an interview made public today that the Greeks in Cyprus would “suffer a new defeat” if they tried to use guerrilla tactics. In an interview yesterday, the head of the Greek Cypriot community, President Glafkos Clerides, warned that guerilla warfare might result if the Turkish forces that invaded Cyprus last month continued to occupy areas formerly controlled by the ethnic Greeks. The Turkish force of close to 10,000 men on Cyprus includes units specially trained for counterguerrilla action. The army demonstrated skill in crushing left‐wing revolutionary guerrillas in Turkey in 1971–73.
Turkish troops fired machinegun bursts against Greek position’s across the Greek‐Turkish border in Thrace at noon today, according to local press reports here. Sources here said the incident took place near the village of Likofi. But officials in Athens said they had no reports of any incident along the border today. A spokesman for the information ministry said that no such incident was reported to military authorities. Greece and Turkey have reinforced their borders since the Cyprus crisis began, bringing the two countries close to war.
Geir Hallgrimsson, 48, a former mayor of Reykjavik and a staunch supporter of his country’s participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was nominated by the parliamentary group of the Independence Party as Iceland’s new prime minister. Halgrimsson, who also supports close cooperation with the United States regarding defense, is expected to head Iceland’s new cabinet. His selection as prime minister probably would mean a reprieve for the American-manned NATO base at Keflavik which had been scheduled for closing by the middle of 1975.
A sniper armed with an American-made M-1 rifle killed a British soldier as his patrol car drove past a suburban Belfast Roman Catholic housing development, the army said. Members of the patrol fired back but the gunman escaped, leaving behind cartridges identifying the type of rifle.
The Scottish National party, now holding a record seven seats in the House of Commons, is coming under increasing pressure from the major parties, intent on recapturing lost electoral ground. With the next national elections expected ill October, both the governing Labor party and the Opposition Conservatives are intensifying their efforts to show that they, too, stand for more self‐government for the Scots. It has not been easy for the major parties because they have been forced to backtrack from past stands opposed to more home rule for the area.
“Whatever else we’ve achieved, we’ve managed to get both Labor and the Tories committed to some form of self‐government,” said William Wolfe, the 50‐year‐old chairman of the Nationalist party. “They are still not promising enough. We remain after full independence so we can run our own affairs and have firm control over the millions due from the oil off our shores. North Sea oil has destroyed at a stroke the old argument that Scotland was too poor for independence. The confidence is growing that Scotland could stand alone.”
Israel complained to United Nations truce supervision officials tonight that Soviet vessels clearing mines from the southern approach to the Suez Canal had violated waters under Israeli control. Defense Minister Shimon Peres and the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Mordechai Gur, recorded their protest at a meeting here this evening with Lieutenant General Ensio Siilasvuo, commander of the United Nations forces in the region.
Emperor Haile Selassie has apparently been stripped of nearly all his wealth inside Ethiopia. The Armed Forces Committee, now in virtual control of the country, said in the statement yesterday that the state had taken over the National Resources Commission. The extent of the take‐over became clear when details were made known today. The committee said that since the commission was formed after World War II it had been manipulated by the Emperor to further his personal ambition and political schemes. It said the commission was now under the direct control of the Ministry of Finance. The statement said that the Emperor had realized nearly $500,000 from property owned by the commission in the Addis Ababa area in one year and that he had used the organization’s wealth to reward officials.
A Jesuit Priest and one of his students were charged with rebellion and conspiracy against the Philippines government. The Rev. Jose Blanco, a Filipino and assistant director of the Jesuits Institute of Social Order, and Jose Alto were among 21 people arrested in a weekend raid by government troops on the Sacred Heart novitiate outside Manila. Officials charged the priest was secretary general of an anti-government group and said Alto was “the suspected leader of a dissident liquidation squad.”
U.S. military helicopter crews ended their part in relief operations for Philippine flood victims after six days of dawn-to-dusk supply sorties, involving 244 missions and nearly 1.2 million pounds of supplies, a U.S. spokesman said in Manila. Hardest hit areas were metropolitan Manila and 13 central Luzon provinces. The Red Cross estimated almost 1.5 million people were affected, with the death toll reaching 94.
The deadlocked third U.N. sea law conference in Caracas agreed to reconvene in Geneva next year from March 17 to May 3 and possibly return to Venezuela to sign à “Caracas convention” in mid-1975 if a new sea treaty has been negotiated. The 148 nations at the 10-week Caracas conference have been deadlocked on four key issues: territorial sea limits, deep-sea mining rules, anti-pollution controls and the passage of straits.
The St. Lawrence Seaway may be blocked for two weeks while the wreckage of a bridge is cleared from the Welland Canal, officials said. Passage of more than 150 ships may be delayed. The American freighter Steelton rammed the bridge five miles north of Welland, Ontario, sending the structure and one of its two 300-ton counterweights into the canal which connects Lakes Erie and Ontario. It was the worst accident in the canal’s 43 years. The Steelton was taking a load of ore from Buffalo to Contrecoeur, Quebec, for its owner, Bethlehem Steel Corp.
Representatives of Portugal and of the independence guerrilla organization PAIGC (Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde) signed an agreement in Algiers to end the 11-year war between Portugal and the PAIGC, effective September 10, and granting independence to Portuguese Guinea, ending 500 years of dominance over the West African territory. Portugal agreed to remove its troops from Portuguese Guinea by October 31 and to recognize the independence of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, in return for the PAIGC agreeing to protect Portuguese citizens and property in the West African nation. Thus Portugal began the dissolution of her African empire. However, difficult negotiations are ahead with nationalists of Angola and Mozambique.
Pope Paul VI dismissed the chief Roman Catholic prelate of Mozambique. Vatican officials who declined to be named said the prelate, Archbishop Custodia Alvim Perreira of Lourenco Marques, opposed a wide section of local clergy because of his support of the dictatorial Mozambique regime ousted last April. A Vatican announcement said the archbishop had resigned and the Pope had accepted his resignation, which, in Vatican terms, means the decision was prompted by the Vatican. The Archbishop clashed publicly with another Mozambique prelate, Bishop Manuel Vieira Pinto of Nampula, over colonial policies. Bishop Pinto was deported to Portugal under military escort after he voiced solidarity, with missionaries who had denounced atrocities allegedly committed by Portuguese soldiers. In a public statement Archbishop Perreira branded these denunciations as Marxist propaganda.
Farm crops may not be so bountiful this fall as in past years, but “there is absolutely no basis for panic” about the available food supply in the United States this year or in 1975, Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz told a news conference that was held to allay that fear. Mr. Butz and his aides said: food prices continue to rise; reduced foreign demand will ease the impact of the recent drought on supplies of corn and other livestock feed grains; this country will have plenty of beef in the coming year despite the smaller harvests of feed grains, and there will be less pork and chicken.
President Ford’s “summit conference” on inflation will be held in Washington on Sept. 27 and 28 and will be preceded by a series of preliminary meetings between administration officials and state and local government officials and representatives of individual sectors of the economy. The White House press secretary said the President had set five goals for the summit. Among these are clarification of the nation’s economic condition and identification of the causes of inflation.
A young Army private pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a helicopter joy ride that ended on the White House lawn. “I just wanted to get some attention… I just had the urge to fly,” Robert K. Preston, 20, told a military judge as he related how he stole an unguarded helicopter at Ft. Meade, Maryland, and flew to nearby Washington, D.C. He buzzed the Washington monument and the Capitol and landed twice on the White House lawn before surrendering in the predawn hours of last February 17. Then-President Richard M. Nixon was in Florida at the time. Preston, of Panama City, Florida, faces a maximum sentence of 2½ years plus a dishonorable discharge.
Samuel Dash, chief counsel of the Senate Watergate committee, said today he believed that former President Richard M. Nixon should be prosecuted for obstruction of justice in the cover‐up. Mr. Dash said that if a grand jury found probable cause that the former President had committed criminal acts, then Leon Jaworski, the special prosecutor, had “a responsibility to the country” to approve an indictment and bring Mr. Nixon to trial. “If the evidence — and I believe it does — demonstrates the former President was involved in the obstruction‐of‐justice conspiracy, then he should be treated, by the grand jury and the special prosecutor as everybody else is treated and should be prosecuted,” Mr. Dash said in response to question after he spoke before the National Press Club.
Attorney General William B. Saxbe, who was asked by President Ford to study the amnesty problem, indicated today that he would recommend against any prison terms for draft evaders when a Justice Department panel offers its final report to the President next week. “The extreme” requirement for draft evaders, Mr. Saxbe said, would be for the Government to demand two years of “substantial” service — in hospitals or “some public works” — as conscientious objectors have done to fulfill their military obligations. “Now that’s the most we can expect,” Mr. Saxbe said during an interview on the “Martin Agronsky: Evening Edition” television program today. “Nobody wants to put them in the Army or in the Action package of VISTA or the Peace Corps or anything like that.” Mr. Saxbe said during the interview that if draft evaders were “staying away because they are afraid of going to prison, and this is what the President said, we are going to say, ‘You come back and you’re not going to prison.’”
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a move to develop safety standards for book matches, including possible ways to make them “childproof.” The agency said it would soon publish a notice inviting both industry and the general public to submit suggestions. Commissioner R. David Pittle told a Washington briefing “special emphasis” would be placed on trying to make book matches tamperproof where children were concerned. A report has estimated that children playing with matches in 1971 set 46,830 residential fires costing 462 lives and $61.2 million in property damage. Matches that can be ignited on any surface are not involved in the project.
An estimated $2 million worth of cocaine was smuggled into the United States inside hollowed out water skis, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said. Three top officials of a Seattle-based company that manufactures the skis and three other suspects have been arrested, said DEA regional director Fred A. Rody Jr. in Seattle. Ten pounds of cocaine were seized during weekend arrests in the Seattle suburb of Redmond and in San Mateo, Calif. Arrested suspects included Ronald H. Ossenberg, 35, executive vice president of the water ski firm of O’Brien Manufacturing Corp., and Robert L. Foulkes, 24, company controller and John P. Foulkes, 21, purchasing agent. Others arrested were Ossenberg’s wife, Carol, 34, and Gordon John Jacopi, a luxury car specialist.
The General Motors Corporation disclosed that it was raising prices of some of its 1975 models hundreds of dollars more than the average $426 increase it announced last week for 1975 cars and trucks. The company is also adding some new, more expensive models to its automobiles, a familiar pricing device in the industry. It released a detailed list of prices for the Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Cadillac models.
The Ford Motor Co. said it was recalling 282,000 of its 1973 and 1974 model cars to replace a part in the emission control system that might fail after extended use. It is the second major defect recall for a pollution system. In the other, Chrysler was ordered by the Environmental Protection Agency this spring to recall 825,000 cars. It is not known how many car owners will respond to the Ford recall, since a malfunction in the antipollution equipment could actually improve fuel economy. Vehicles affected are 1973 and early 1974 Maverick, Comet, Torino, Montego, Mustang and Ranchero models with either the 250-cubic inch or 200-cubic inch engines with automatic transmissions.
Passengers of Frontier Airlines have been subjected, without their knowledge, to baggage searches that may be illegal, according to Frontier ticket agent Roger Barks of Tucson. Barks said Frontier employees conduct the searches to help police find illegal drugs and to claim reward money from authorities. In an affidavit filed in Denver District Court, Barks said he was involved in the searches and implicated two or three fellow employees.
Three escaped convicts who had terrorized the Texas ranch country were cornered by police last night. One convict was killed and the others were captured. The state police said three officers saw the silhouettes of three men near a farm road and started shooting when the men refused to halt. “We had some dogs with us” said Jim Elmore of the Mineral Wells Police Department. “The dogs barked. We threw the light at them and we saw the silhouettes. We hollered for them to stop. They did not and then started running and we started firing.” The three policemen had joined 200 other local officers, sheriff’s deputies and state troopers in the two‐day search in the rugged, mesquite‐covered ranchlands near Stephenville.
The oil-hungry United States paid more for imported goods in July than in any other month on record, sending the nation into its third-deepest monthly trade deficit ever. The Commerce Department said the dollar value of imports increased for the eighth straight month, totaling just over $9 billion last month.
The authorities said today that at least 13 persons died yesterday in a fire that destroyed a 150‐year‐old brick and wood hotel and leveled a block of stores in the small town of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Nine bodies were pulled from the still smoldering debris and four other persons were listed as missing and presumed dead, Richard Hawvermale, a county official in charge of the search, said. The fire broke out in the four‐story Washington House Hotel and quickly spread to adjoining buildings. Damage was estimated at $750,000. Officials said that the blaze had apparently started in the hotel’s basement and then had shot up an elevator shaft.
Charles Lindbergh, whose nonstop flight from New York to Paris in 1927 in the monoplane “Spirit of St. Louis” made history — he was the first man to fly the Atlantic solo — died at his vacation home in Hawaii at the age of 72. He had cancer of the lymphatic system, and when it became apparent that death was imminent, he was flown from New York to his home on the island of Kipahulu. He died at 7:15 AM Hawaii time and was buried three hours later in a cemetery on Kipahulu.
The Soviet Union launched the Soyuz 15 mission, crewed by cosmonauts Gennady Sarafanov and Lev Dyomin. At 48, Dyomin was the oldest human to have flown in space up to this time. Soyuz 15 was intended to dock with the Salyut 3 space station but failed to do so due to a malfunction in the Igla docking system. After two days in orbit, the spacecraft returned safely to Earth on August 28.
Robert Gainer, a 21-year-old American sailor, landed safely at Falmouth, Cornwall, after a two-month solo voyage across the Atlantic Ocean aboard the 22-foot (6.7 m) Sea Sprite sloop Hitchhiker.
The Denver Racquets defeated the Philadelphia Freedoms, 2 games to 0, to win the first championship of World Team Tennis. After winning the first game in Denver, 27 to 21, Denver won the second game, 28 to 24, in Philadelphia to win the best 2-of-3 series.
The high hopes the New York Yankees had harbored about closing in quickly on the leading Boston Red Sox in the American League East race received a jolt tonight. They were beaten by the Minnesota Twins, 7–6, despite an auspicious start. Given a three‐run lead in the second inning, George Medich, the Yankee pitcher with the club’s most victories (15), was unable to protect it. He finally was shelled from the mound during a three‐run sixth that proved decisive. As a result of the setback, the second‐place New Yorkers dropped 5½ games behind the idle Red Sox. The defeat, which opened a sixgame road trip, was particularly disheartening because the Yanks have fared extremely well against Western clubs this season.
Bill Freehan, Ed Brinkman and Ron LeFlore each hit home runs, and Lerrin LaGrow won his first game since July 5, ending a personal seven‐game losing streak, as the Detroit Tigers beat the California Angels, 6–2. Freehan opened the second inning with his 11th homer. After Aurelio Rodriguez singled with one out Brinkman cracked his 11th homer. LeFlore hit his second leading off the fifth. LaGrow (8–14) yielded 10 hits. The loser was Andy Hassler (3.9).
The Cleveland Indians’ Jim Perry put a crimp in the Kansas City Royals’ pennant hopes, beating them, 4–1, with a five‐hit effort that raised his record to 14‐9. Rusty Torres and Frank Duffy delivered sacrifice flies and Joe Lis added a runscoring single to produce the triumph that snapped Cleveland’s five‐game losing streak. Perry, pitching his seventh complete game, struck out only two but walked only one. Paul Splittorff was the loser (13‐13).
The Milwaukee Brewers edged the defending champion Oakland A’s, 2–1. Billy Champion and Tom Murphy combined to pitch a six‐hitter, and Darrell Porter drove in the deciding run in the third inning. Champion held the A’s to four hits and one walk before tiring in the seventh with Joe Rudi on first and one out. Murphy relieved and, after throwing a wild pitch, yielded a run‐scoring single by Jesus Alou. Then Murphy shut out the A’s the rest of the way to post his 16th save.
The Atlanta Braves are on a treadmill—they keep winning, but they are not getting any place in the National League’s Western Division. Last night in Montreal’s Jerry Park the Braves beat the Expos, 3–2, on Dusty Baker’s eighth‐inning home run, his 16th of the season. Buzz Capra, the former New York Met, pitched shutout ball for eight innings, struck out eight and allowed only three hits. He got credit for his 12th victory in 18 decisions but needed relief in the ninth from Max Leon. It was Atlanta’s 14th victory in the last 17 games, but the Braves still trail first‐place Los Angeles by 9½ games. The Expos, fourth in the Eastern Division, lost their fourth straight game and their ninth in the last 12 to fall seven games behind front‐running Pittsburgh.
These are the times when the New York Mets need miracles to get back into the National League’s Eastern Division pennant race. And they came up with one last night at Shea Stadium, scoring three runs in the ninth to beat the Houston Astros, 5–4, in the opener of a four‐game series. Coming to bat in the ninth the Mets seemed on the verge of losing for the eighth time in 11 games. But they chased three runs across the plate in a madcap finish that brought, Jerry Koosman his 13th victory against 8 losses. Rusty Staub capped the rally by lining a single over the glove of Roger Metzger at short. Bud Harrelson scored standing up as the New York crowd went wild.
The Philadelphia Phillies downed the Cincinnati Reds, 7–6. Jay Johnstone collected three hits and drove home two runs, and Junior Kennedy’s wild throw home on Dave Cash’s bases‐loaded grounder in the eighth accounted for two more runs deciding the victory.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 688.13 (+1.33, +0.19%).
Born:
Kelvin Cato, NBA center and power forward (Portland Trailblazers, Houston Rockets, Orlando Magic, Detroit Pistons, New York Kicks), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Freddie Scott, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons, Indianapolis Colts), in Southfield, Michigan.
Meredith Eaton, American actress (“Boston Legal”, “Family Law”-first female with dwarfism to fill a regular role in an American prime time series), on Long Island, New York.
Huang Bo, Chinese film actor and director, winner of the 2009 Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor for the film “Cow”; in Jiuquan, Gansu province, Peoples’ Republic of China.
Eric D. Snider, American humor columnist / movie reviewer, in Lake Elsinore, California.
Joaquín Furriel, Argentine stage, film and TV actor, winner of the 2016 Premio Cóndor de Plata award for Best Actor for “El patrón: radiografía de un crimen”; in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Died:
Charles Lindbergh, 72, American aviator, military officer and activist who made the first solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, died of lymphatic cancer. U.S. President Ford commented on Lindbergh’s death: “In later years, his life was darkened by tragedy, and colored by political controversy. But, in both public and private life, General Lindbergh always remained a brave, sincere patriot.”.
Junio Valerio Borghese, 68, Italian Royal Navy World War II commander in the Axis, and a neo-fascist activist known as “the Black Prince” (il principe nero), died in exile in Spain, where he had been harbored by the Franco government after the failure of the 1970 attempted coup d’etat, the Golpe Borghese.
Sir Donald Hopson, KCMG, DSO, MC, TD, 58, British diplomat and Ambassador to Argentina since 1973, and the Chargé d’affaires to the People’s Republic of China from 1965 to 1968, died of a heart attack. Hopson had also served as ambassador to Laos (1962-1965), Mongolia (1965-1966), and Venezuela (1969-1972).
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