President Ford has asked John A. Scali to continue serving as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and reports that former Senator Thomas Kuchel (R-California) might replace him are groundless, said White House Press Secretary J. F. terHorst. TerHorst said the “confusion” stemmed from an FBI investigation being run on Kuchel, who is one of five possible nominees to the U.S. delegation to the next U.N. General Assembly session beginning September 17. If appointed, Kuchel would serve as a public member under Scali’s direction.
Turkey rejected a Soviet call for an expanded peace conference, urging instead that Greece resume negotiations in Geneva “without delay.” Ankara made public a statement presented to the Soviet Ambassador denying that the Cyprus crisis was an attempt to make the island a NATO stronghold. The statement said Turkish intervention sought to maintain Cyprus as an independent non-aligned state against any attempt to unite it with Greece.
Greek Cypriot military and civilian leaders of varying political affiliations are planning to organize a Cypriot Liberation Army for guerrilla warfare against Turkish occupation forces unless the Cyprus crisis is settled. About 300 armed men are said to be already based in the Greek-controlled Trodos mountains on the island. More than $1‐million to finance the force has already been received from Greece and Greeks in the United States and Britain, the sources said. Collections of money and jewelry are being made among Greek Cypriots, they added. Last week, the sources said, 18 members of the force were sent to Lebanon for tactical training with Palestinian guerrilla groups.
Eventual plans for the guerrilla force were said to envision a strength of 500 men. The leadership is said to include officers from EOKA‐B, a group favoring union of Cyprus with Greece that helped depose Archbishop Makarios from the Presidency last month, and from the Tactical Police Force, a pro‐Makarios paramilitary organization. Recruiting is also going on, the source said, among members of the National Guard and refugees. EOKA‐B members are said to be a, minority in the new force. A representative of the liberation group, who said his name was Alkins Stavropopolous, said today that it did not intend to become involved in Greek Cypriot politics. He issued a formal statement of the force’s purposes, but declined to discuss its leaders or details of its formation. This information was obtained elsewhere. There is evidence that the Greek Cypriot Government of President Glafkos Clerides is aware that the “liberation army” is being organized.
A premature explosion in an apparent Irish Republican Army bomb factory tore the head off one man and injured two others in the Northern Ireland border town of Newry. Witnesses said three men, one with his clothing ablaze, and a woman and a child escaped from the house. The blast occurred in the home of Noel Murphy, who is serving a five-year sentence in the Irish Republic for possession of explosives.
A Common Market summit meeting to promote European political unity was proposed by French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing. In a nationally televised address assessing his first three months in office, Giscard d’Estaing said he had been struck by the lack of attention paid to Europe by both President Nixon and President Ford and had concluded that “Europe must rely on itself alone.” He proposed no date for the summit but said it should be before the end of the year.
France will lift her embargo on arms sales to Middle East “battlefield” countries imposed in 1967 by President Charles de Gaulle. This decision is part of a fundamental review of defense policy, not yet complete but already definite on continuing French development of nuclear weapons. One aim is to convert France’s submarine-based missiles to multiple independent re-entry vehicles.
British commercial diver Peter Kelly died of anoxia due to pure helium being fed through his breathing mask during a bell dive in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea. The other diver in the bell pulled off his mask before losing consciousness and survived.
Andrew Head, a tractor driver, discovered a woman’s headless body near Swaffham, Norfolk in England. Police concluded that the woman was murdered during the first two weeks of August. The woman’s head has never been found; she remains unidentified and her murder remains unsolved.
Preliminary talks in Washington with Israeli and Arab representatives leave the future course of negotiations unclear. Secretary of State Kissinger will probably fly to the Middle East in September or October to seek an agreement on the next stage. The Arab states are divided on this and the Israeli position is not yet explicit. Washington hopes to maintain the momentum of Israel’s disengagement agreements with Egypt and Syria.
Israeli authorities, reporting an increase in guerrilla incidents over the last few days, announced today that they had arrested four infiltrators from Jordan. They said the arrests brought to seven the total number of infiltrators from Jordan seized since Saturday, when three were taken into custody in the Israeli‐occupied West Bank area near Jericho. Both groups, the Israelis said, originated in Syria, whose border is now separated from Israeli‐controlled territory by a United Nations buffer zone. The guerrillas were said to have moved southward from Syria through the kingdom of Jordan and to have crossed the Jordan River into the West Bank in the Jericho area.
Also reported today was an attempt to bomb a steak‐house restaurant at a crossroads near the Israeli coastal town of Netanya. An employe preparing to open the building this morning found a grenade under a charred, smoking, rag in a crate of soda bottles in the yard. The police dismantled the exposive before it could go off. Other incidents reported this week included an attempt to place time bombs among bathers on Netanya Beach. Two authorities said it was foiled yesterday by two lifeguards who apprehended two Arabs from Tulkarm, a town in the West Bank. On Sunday night a time bomb concealed in a hollowed loaf of bread was found in the Mahane Yuhuda market in Jerusalem. The bomb also was dismantled before it could detonate.
The Greek Catholic archbishop of Jerusalem, Hilarion Capucci, is on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison to force his release from detention on charges of supplying arms to Arab guerrillas, two bishops were quoted as saying in Beirut after spending five days in Israel. Authoritative Israeli sources, however, denied the report, saying the cleric was taking advantage of permission to have his meals sent into the prison.
Iraqi tanks reportedly smashed through rebel Kurd lines to within 30 miles of the Iranian border, and travelers in the area said at least two divisions of Iraqi troops, supported by Soviet-built tanks and jet fighters, had recaptured positions lost in fighting last spring. The Baath newspaper, which reflects official Iraqi thinking, accused Iran of arming the Kurds and of massing her own troops along the Iraq-Iran border and charged Iran was hoping to spark a revolution.
People living close to the giant Tarbela dam in eastern Pakistan are reported to be fearful that the world’s largest rock‐filled dam will collapse. The Government of Sind Province has set up 27 posts to warn villagers living along the Indus River downstream from the dam. Press reports said that villages with nearly half a million people close to the dam have been warned to be ready to have residents move to higher ground at 12 hours notice and to avoid the river valley.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger expects to return his attention to U.S.-Chinese relations with a trip to Peking at the end of the year or early next year, State Department officials said. Chinese diplomats at the United Nations and in Washington have indicated they are disappointed that relations have not developed faster, and that the Taiwan problem remains unresolved.
Venezuela ruled out any drop in oil prices, warning that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would cut back production to dry up the current oversupply in world markets. Mines Minister Valentin Hernandez said inflationary pressures that led OPEC members to raise prices four-fold continued high and as long as this situation existed oil prices would remain high.
Only a few thousand trade unionists gathered today to hear President Isabel Martinez de Perón, in her first public rally since she took office, speak in the historic Plaza de Mayo, where her late husband, General Juan Domingo Perón, had drawn scores of thousands of supporters on numerous occasions. The event was marred by the Government’s mounting problems with left‐wing industrial workers in Córdoba, 430 miles northwest of the capital. Early this morning, unidentified terrorists gunned down the labor relations manager of IkeRenault, a leading car manufacturer in Córdoba, as he drove to the main plant that has been in the center of a bitter workers’ strike. The killing of the Argentine executive, Ricardo Goya, 55 years old, followed a clash last night between left‐wing auto workers and policemen that left two trade unionists seriously wounded.
Five people died in an explosion at a meatpacking plant in Cipolletti, Argentina.
The Ford administration has a personal go-ahead from the President for an attempt to identify all federal policies and programs that may be causing higher prices and adding to inflation — for example, Interstate Commerce Commission rules barring truckers from shorter routes. Those making the review acknowledge that changes would bring economic injury to some, at least in the short run.
Treasury Secretary William Simon told reporters that the spending target for the fiscal year 1975 is now $298 billion — a cut of some $2 billion from previous administration targets. Another administration official said the new target seemed capable of achievement in view of recent congressional reductions in defense appropriations. This indicated that President Ford is now willing to let these defense cuts stand.
Former President Richard Nixon has hired Herbert Miller, a Washington lawyer, to represent him in connection with the Watergate cover-up and other matters. Mr. Miller was counsel for Richard Kleindienst when the former Attorney General was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor rather than to a felony. Mr. Miller’s task now, according to reliable sources, will be to persuade Leon Jaworski, the special Watergate prosecutor, not to seek an indictment of Mr. Nixon.
Political friends and foes of Governor Rockefeller, replying to questions from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, apparently had nothing derogatory to report regarding his suitability to be confirmed as Vice President. This was the consensus of prominent politicians of both parties after their interviews by the FBI agents.
Associated Milk Producers, Inc., despite having “been put to virtually every conceivable test,” reported that annual sales were up a record 28.5%. The nation’s largest dairy cooperative has been embroiled in political funding controversies and exhaustive antitrust suits. The San Antonio-based cooperative recently pleaded guilty to making an illegal corporate contribution of $100,000 to former President Richard M. Nixon’s 1972 reelection campaign. Other private suits and a state suit are pending and a former co-op attorney is to testify against former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally, who faces charges of accepting $10,000 of milk producer money, allegedly in return for help with government action.
Boston police arrested two men and confiscated 50,000 bogus Master Charge cards which authorities said could have cost the credit card company a minimum of $5 million to $10 million nationwide. Authorities said it was probably the largest seizure of illegal credit cards ever reported. Charged with extortion and illegal possession of the cards were David Hunter, 36, of East Boston, and John C. Flynn, 33, of North Reading. The two allegedly tried to negotiate sale of the cards to a Master Charge security agent for $37,000.
The Federal Highway Administration urged states to ban or limit the use of studded tires on their roads, saying the tires do not provide any net safety benefit. Administrator Norbert T. Tiemann wrote governors that a study showed the studded tires could create serious safety problems because the tires increase road wear and cause ruts. The study, however, admitted that the studded tires were effective in shortening stopping distances, maintaining steering and in giving better traction on glare ice. But balanced against those benefits were the safety problems and the fact that on bare wet concrete the stopping distance was increased by up to 27%.
By a vote of 40,083 to 27,932, residents of Alaska voted to move the state capital from Juneau to a location near the village of Willow, 575 miles (925 km) away. The proposed capital was 37 miles (60 km) from Anchorage and voters opted for a site at least 30 miles (48 km) from Anchorage or Fairbanks. However, voters would later reject the move’s associated construction costs, and Juneau remains the state capital.
At the age of 12, Becky Schroeder of Toledo, Ohio, was granted her first patent for an invention, receiving U.S. Patent 3,832,556 for her creation, the “Glow Sheet”, a “luminescent backing sheet for writing in the dark” that could be placed underneath a regular sheet of paper for use by persons needing to work in dimly lit places. She had applied for the patent on December 26, 1973, with the assistance of her father, a patent attorney.
The case of Joan Little began at the jail in Beaufort County, North Carolina, when she stabbed a guard as he was raping her. Little escaped, then turned herself in to police and was charged with the murder of Clarence Alligood, who had made a practice of forcing female inmates to engage in sex with him. Little would be acquitted of the murder charge on August 15, 1975, after autopsy evidence confirmed her claim of self-defense. She became the first African-American woman to be acquitted of murder committed in self-defense against a sexual assault.
United Auto Workers at the General Motors assembly plant in Youngstown, Ohio, ratified a local contract, ending a seven-week strike that had threatened to idle thousands of GM workers across the nation. The plant builds subcompact Chevrolet Vegas and light trucks and vans. A union spokesman said the local of 7,800 members had ratified the contract but declined to give details. Workers were expected to be back on the job today. While Youngstown workers were ratifying their contract, strikers in two other plants, in Milwaukee and St. Louis prepared to vote also on their new local contracts.
The Boy Scouts of America denied allegations of racial discrimination and asked for dismissal of a lawsuit in Salt Lake City involving a scout troop sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Scout attorney Edward L. Clyde listed seven defenses against the suit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, two black scouts and their guardians. The suit charged the Scouts with racial discrimination via a policy of the Mormon Church that linked priesthood positions with scout leadership. Blacks are denied the Mormon priesthood, which is held by nearly all other active males over the age of 11. Since the suit was filed, the church has altered its policy to say that positions such as senior patrol leader would “generally” instead of always be held by priesthood members.
A memorial service for Charles Lindbergh was held in Kipahulu, Hawaii, at the small church next to which Lindbergh had been buried the previous day. Lindbergh’s name was not mentioned during the half-hour service, at which fewer than 24 people were present.
A Soviet spacecraft with a crew of two is orbiting in preparation for docking with the Soviet orbital station launched in June. A senior Soviet space official said it was a preliminary exercise for the projected U.S.-U.S.S.R. link-up in space which is scheduled for next July.
The A.B.A. Utah Stars sign 19-year-old schoolboy center Moses Malone to a pro basketball contract.
Hal McRae ties the Major League record with 6 extra–base hits — 5 doubles and a home run — as the Kansas City Royals split a doubleheader with the Cleveland Indians, losing the opener, 12–8 and then winning, 13–3. McRae has a home run and 3 doubles in the opener as he drives in 6 runs, then adds 2 doubles in the nightcap. Rico Carty has 4 hits for Cleveland in game 1, while Joe Lis homers in each game. George Brett records an unusual strikeout in the 3rd inning of game 1 when he fouls a ball off his foot and Catcher Dave Duncan throws to first. Umpire Odom calls Brett out and when Brett argues too vehemently, he is ejected. The umps confer and then decide to reverse the call at first base, ruling it a foul ball. But the ejection stands. John Mayberry then pinch hits for Brett and strikes out. It is ump Odom’s second ejection of the game: he tossed Aspromonte earlier for protesting that McRae interfered with Duncan on a throw home. Umpire Phillips ejected Doby from the dugout on the same play.
The California Angels, after blowing a three-run lead in the ninth inning, pushed over a run in the 13th inning Tuesday night at Tiger Stadium to defeat Detroit, 7–6, and end a four-game losing streak. It was a big night for Bob Oliver as the Angels’ deprived the Tigers’ ace reliever John Hiller of his 16th victory, which would have tied the American League record. Oliver entered the game in the sixth inning as a pinch hitter with the bases loaded and broke a 3–3 tie with a single off Hiller. Then, after the Tigers had scored three times in the ninth, Oliver, playing right field, cut down Al Kaline at the plate trying to score the winning run from second on Bill Freehan’s single to right. In the 13th after Ellie Rodriguez doubled and went to third on Bob Heise’s bunt, Oliver hit a long fly to left to send home the winning run.
Aware that the next best thing to closing ground on the first‐place Boston Red Sox is at least keeping pace with them, the New York Yankees turned in one explosive inning tonight to register a 4–2 triumph over the Minnesota Twins. For most of the game, it appeared that the Yankees, beaten here last night to drop 5½ games behind the leaders of the American League East, were not going to be equal to the challenge. They were held scoreless for six Innings while the scoreboard told of the Red Sox’s winning in Chicago. Minnesota had got to Dick Throw, the Yankee starter, for two runs in the fifth, and it began to look bleak for New York. Bill Hands, unable to finish a game in eight previous starts this season, was controlling the Yankees with ease — four scattered hits in six innings. But in the seventh, New York pounced on the Minnesota right‐hander. Ten Yankees went to bat, five got hits and four scored the runs that resulted in the victory. Four times during the inning, the Yankees loaded the bases.
Mike Hegan’s error in the eighth allowed the Oakland A’s to score two unearned runs and squeak out a 3–2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. Hegan, playing first base, dropped a throw on Sal Bando’s grounder with two out, allowing a run to score. Then Joe Rudi followed with a single to center that brought in Reggie Jackson with the winning run. The Brewers had scored twice in the seventh, one run coming across on Charlie Moore’s double off Vida Blue.
The Boston Red Sox defeated the Chicago White Sox, 6–1. Reggie Cleveland, dropped from Boston’s starting rotation earlier this month, filled in for an ailing Juan Maricha] and held Chicago to only seven hits. It was his ninth victory in 21 decisions. A bases‐loaded single by Jim Rice in the fourth gave Cleveland all the support he needed.
Ferguson Jenkins fired a five-hitter for his 19th victory of the season and Cesar Tovar and Jeff Burroughs hit successive run-scoring doubles in the first inning to lead the Texas Rangers to a 2–1 victory over Baltimore Orioles tonight.
Homers by Bob Bailey and Ron Fairly, a two‐run single by Jim Northrup — and a park promotion in which fans were encouraged to bring noisemakers — were more than the Atlanta Braves could handle, as they lost to the Montreal Expos, 6–1, at Jarry Park.
Benny Ayala homers in his first Major League at bat as the New York Mets top the Houston Astros 4–2. He’s the first National League rookie in 13 years to go deep on his 1st at bat, and the 40th major leaguer to accomplish the feat. Tug McGraw, usually a reliver, got the start and the win for the Mets, giving up just one run in six innings of work. Harry Parker worked the last three innings for the save.
The Cincinnati Reds shut out the Philadelphia Phillies, 3–0. The National League has been a little slow developing a 20‐game winner this season. Jack Billingham became the league’s leading winner when he blanked Philadelphia on seven hits for his 16th victory. Tony Perez’s two‐run double in the sixth helped shutout loss in five games and helped the Reds keep pace with the Dodgers in the Western Division.
Home runs by Willie McCovey and Dave Winfield off Bob Gibson enabled the San Diego Padres to snap a four‐game losing streak, beating the St. Louis Cardinals, 3–1. Gibson allowed only four hits.
Jimmy Wynn’s 29th home of the year drove in two runs in the fourth, and Bill Buckner and Joe Ferguson also hit homers to power the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 12–5 drubbing of the Chicago Cubs.
The Pittsburgh Pirates crushed the San Francisco Giants 13–2. Al Oliver drove in four runs with a double and a single during a nine‐run third inning as the Pirates increased their East lead to 1½ games. Dock Ellis posted his eighth straight victory.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 671.54 (-16.59, -2.41%).
Born:
José Vidro, Puerto Rican MLB second baseman (All-Star, 2000, 2002, 2003; Montreal Expos-Washington Nationals, Seattle Mariners), in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
Manny Fernandez, Canadian NHL goalie (Dallas Stars, Minnesota Wild, Boston Bruins), in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada.
Aaron Downey, Canadian NHL right wing (Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Dallas Stars, St. Louis Blues, Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings), in Shelburne, Ontario, Canada.
Died:
Otto Strasser, 76, Nazi German politician who broke with the party in 1930 in opposition to Adolf Hitler, and lived in exile in various countries until coming to West Germany in 1955.
[Ed: Original caption, obviously. In four years, everyone will know who Carrie Fisher is…]
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