A Moscow announcement said abruptly without explanation that the two-man spaceship Soyuz had landed safely. A link-up with the orbital station Salyut had been expected. Western scientific observers concluded that the spacecraft’s docking mechanism might have failed, or that Salyut’s condition may have deteriorated seriously since it was orbited last June.
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow said it had received a report that Soviet authorities have released Simas Kudirka, 44, who was imprisoned after he tried to gain asylum in the United States by leaping from a Soviet trawler to a U.S. Coast Guard vessel off New England in 1970. The embassy has ruled that Kudirka, who was given a 10-year sentence, is an American citizen because his mother was born in Brooklyn. The embassy is investigating the reported release.
The United Nations Security Council will resume debate on the Cyprus crisis tomorrow, it was announced today. Delegates decided to go ahead with the meeting, requested last night by the Cypriot Ambassador, Zenon Rossides, despite a sudden illness of Secretary General Waldheim, who returned from the eastern Mediterranean yesterday.
Although the killing has subsided on the beautiful island of Cyprus, politicians and diplomats maneuver in other countries to arrange another round of Cyprus negotiations and most people here — Turks and Greeks — feel that it is only a matter of time before the bloodshed will start again. The ethnic Greek majority of about 80 percent of the population of 660,000 detests the prospect that it may permanently lose control of a sizable part of the island, if not the entire 40 percent of it controlled by Turkish forces. The Turkish minority of about 18 percent feels that its only security lies in a formally partitioned island, with autonomy in its own sector. While there has been a lull in the last week, both Greeks and Turks seem resigned to an eventual political settlement that will leave perennial ethnic and religious animosity and mistrust intact and lead to years of cruel, indecisive guerrilla warfare.
As the officials in Ankara, Athens, London, Washington and Moscow parry over new negotiations, this mountainous Mediterranean island of pines, cedars, lemon groves and sparkling harbors is pocked and scorched by the fighting and its people are anxious about the nervous peace. In recent days life on the island, which is about half the size of New Jersey, has taken these forms:
The Cypriot Liberation Army, as a group of Greek officers call the guerrilla force they report they are organizing, says it is aware that guerrilla warfare involves sacrifices and that it expects Turkish reprisals. A Turkish militiaman, sitting at his barricaded post in the Turkish sector of this capital, comments, “If they want to be guerrillas, then if they kill two or three of us, we go to their village and kill all of them — 2,000 or 3,000.”
Metaxas Square, in the Greek part of the capital, is quiet at night with the tourists missing. There is hardly anyone in the Lido Hotel bar. United Nations and Red Cross jeeps dominate the sparse traffic. Ataturk Square, in the Turkish section, is even quieter. Old men sit at a coffee shop and watch young soldiers from mainland Turkey in a jeep. The soldiers, their automatic rifles stowed carelessly, are listening to rock music on the radio.
On the road from Nicosia to Kyrestia, which is in Turkish‐controlled territory, three tanks are poised on a charred hillside. Nearby, several squads of Turkish soldiers with close‐cropped black hair march around a field, apparently on drill. At the small harbor of Kyrenia, a Turkish sailor in a soiled white uniform chats with two soldiers outside an abandoned cafe. Some of the shops on the waterfront have broken windows and their goods are gone; others have not been touched. A few hundred yards away 500 Greek civilians are in tented in the Dome Hotel, a luxury resort until the war began last month. The Greeks want to go home to see if their property has been looted. Their Turkish captors feed them mostly beans and say they must wait a few more days. In Limassol, on the Greekheld southern coast, several thousand Turkish civilians are detained in schools and other public buildings. Many of their homes have been broken into, their furniture smashed. Greeks in the town admit that they looted but say the Turks did much more in the north.
Premier Bulent Ecevit urged today that “national excitement” over Turkey’s military success in Cyprus be turned toward overcoming this country’s problems in economic development and social justice. In his first political trip outside Ankara since the Cyprus crisis erupted six weeks ago, Mr. Ecevit received a hero’s welcome in this industrial city 60 miles east of Istanbul. The crowd was so large that it spilled over railroad tracks and halted a freight train. Premier Ecevit came here to lay the cornerstone for a fertilizer plant. He said he was happy to be able to talk about problems other than the Cyprus crisis, which took Turkey and Greece to the brink of war. But Cyprus, and Turkey’s military success in landing troops on the island provided the dominant theme in the signs waved by the crowd, which pressed against police cordons to see the Premier and to shower him with flowers.
Turkish Ambassador Nuri Eren said the renewed opium poppy cultivation in his country will be accompanied by strict controls to prevent the plant from reaching criminal drug dealers. Eren, speaking to the Washington Press Club, said a new system of licensing which has been successful in India — where the poppy supply is closely guarded and rarely siphoned off to illicit drug dealers — would be instituted.
The Israeli government defended Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and his Mideast diplomacy against opposition parliamentarians who called him Israel’s No. 1 enemy. Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon branded as stupid the accusations against Kissinger made by the rightwing Likud bloc. In Washington, Kissinger said he would visit the Mideast in October to set the stage for further Israeli pullbacks from occupied Arab territories.
A Soviet minesweeper entered waters off Israell‐held territory for the fourth consecutive day today and was turned back by an Israell patrol boat, the military command said. A spokesman said the ship came within two and a half miles of the coast at Ras Muhammed, on the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula. Defense Minister Shimon Peres said two Soviet minesweepers had sprayed water at Israeli patrol boats on Tuesday. Earlier this week Mr. Peres complained to the United Nations Emergency Force commander, General Ensio Siilasvuo of Finland, that Soviet minesweepers had entered Israeli waters Sunday and Monday. Mr. Peres said that Israel was ready to cooperate on minesweeping in the Gulf of Suez provided it was coordinated properly.
Iraq accused Iran of massing troops along their joint border and of launching a night attack in which an Iraqi frontier guard was killed. In a letter to the U.N. Security Council president, Iraqi representative Abdul Karim al-Shaikhly alleged that Iran had violated a May 28 council resolution calling for a cease-fire and mutual troop withdrawals.
A firing squad executed seven Moroccans who had been condemned to death on charges of plotting against King Hassan II, defense attorneys said. The seven had been accused of stockpiling weapons and planning an uprising in the Atlas Mountains in 1973. Six of those executed were sentenced last January. The seventh defendant received his sentence a year ago. A number of military officers and civilians have been shot for antiroyalist plots over the past few years.
The ruling Ethiopian armed forces continued to chip away at Emperor Haile Selassie’s power, prestige and property by nationalizing the Addis Ababa bus company, which was almost wholly owned by the emperor’s family. The company in the past 22 years had earned the mostly family shareholders an estimated $2.8 million.
The South Vietnamese command today reported heavy fighting for the first time in several months near the old imperial capital of Huế on the northern coast. The command said that North Vietnamese and Việt Cộng forces had fired almost 2,000 artillery rounds yesterday into a string of government positions guarding Route 1, about 15 miles southeast of Huế. Then they followed up with infantry assaults, the command added. Lieutenant Colonel Đồ Việt, deputy chief spokesman, said the positions hit included the headquarters of a government militia battalion, two militia companies and three squad‐size outposts. Colonel Việt, said radio contact had been lost with the outposts. The colonel confirmed reports from the field that, at about the time the fighting was going on, some 1,000 disabled veterans and civilians demonstrated not far from the battlefield for jobs and benefits they said were overdue. Colonel Việt, said the demonstrators barricaded Route 1 for about four hours, then dispersed after authorities promised to try to help.
Communist troops disguised as Buddhist monks shot and killed the security chief of Phước Thành hamlet, 45 miles southeast of Saigon, the South Vietnamese command said. The Communists, in the white robes of the Hòa Hảo Buddhist sect, then opened fire on government convoys on Highway 4, which links Saigon with major cities in the Mekong Delta.
Jubilant South Vietnamese officials announced that the first traces of oil had been discovered 190 miles south of Saigon near the coastal resort city of Vũng Tàu. It was the first exploratory hole of uncertain potential, drilled by a joint venture of Shell and Cities Service. Three other concerns hold exploration rights in a vast area off the coast and are expected to start drilling soon.
The South Korean Red Cross charged that North Korean “radicals” were responsible for the attempted assassination of President Park Chung Hee August 15 and demanded that North Korea find and punish them. The charges came at a meeting of Red Cross delegations from North and South Korea at Panmunjom. The North Koreans said the charge was fabricated.
President Ford said that any United States move to improve relations with Cuba would be taken in concert with the Organization of American States. He said it was up to Cuba to change her policy first. His reply to a question at his first formal presidential news conference came as moves were under way in the O.A.S. to lift its 1974 embargo on trade and diplomatic relations with the Castro regime in Cuba.
The 83-year-old father-in-law of President Luis Echeverria Alvarez of Mexico has been kidnapped, according to the police in Guadalajara. They said that four armed bandits had intercepted the car of J. Guadalupe Zuno Hernandez, beaten off his chauffeur and taken him away in another vehicle. It brings a test for the President’s policy of not negotiating with kidnappers.
Rhodesia announced the selection of the “Ode to Joy” from Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as its new national anthem. Lyrics for the anthem would be chosen through a nationwide competition.
President Ford gives his first White House press conference. President Ford agreed with the view that former President Richard Nixon had been punished enough for the Watergate scandals. He said that until any legal process was undertaken, it would be untimely to commit himself on protection from prosecution or a pardon. At his first presidential news conference, he said that Leon Jaworski, the special prosecutor, had the responsibility for acting as he saw fit against “any and all individuals.”
President Ford ruled out the re-imposition of wage and price controls in combating inflation. At his press conference he said he would consider a massive public employment program, responding “with compassion and action” if necessary. Meanwhile he urged federal and individual belt-tightening as under President Nixon.
Nelson Rockefeller, the Vice President designate, met in Washington with Republican party chairmen from 12 of 13 Southern states. He said as he emerged that it had been “very friendly.” Clark Reed of Mississippi, chairman of the group, added that “we expect him to be down there more than the rest of the country.” He said he thought Rockefeller could do much to erase the image of the “bad, rich Yankee” and help reconcile the North and the South.
Chief Justice Warren Burger denied the request of John Ehrlichman that the Watergate conspiracy trial be postponed until next year. The move virtually assured that the trial will open on schedule in Washington on September 30.
Two Vietnam veterans and a young woman invaded the Washington office of the chief of the Veterans Administration, nailing the door shut and pressing demands for establishment of a special presidential commission on veterans. The three, saying they represented the Vietnam Veterans National Resource Project, were identified as Jack Smith, 30, of West Hartford, Connecticut, Gonzalo Orrego, 31, of New York City, and Ellie Hawkins, 26, also of New York City. Richard L. Roudebush, nominated by President Ford to be the new VA administrator, was in the office at the time. He ordered guards not to break down the door and said later, “There was no violence of any type. They didn’t harm me.” After half an hour of discussion, Roudebush said, they freed the door and “gave me the hammer as a souvenir.” He said he would not press charges.
General Creighton W. Abrams, the Army chief of staff, is suffering from two blood clots, one in the leg and one in the lung, said his doctors at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington. Abrams, who had a cancerous lung removed 12 weeks ago, entered his second week listed in “serious but stable” condition. The principal danger, a spokesman said, is that a clot could move to the heart, where it could cause death.
Public confidence in Congress has increased sharply since April, with 48% in the latest Gallup Poll survey approving the way it has handled its job, compared to 35% who disapprove. In an April survey, 30% approved and 47% disapproved. A major factor in the sharp rise in approval was apparently the televised sessions in late July of the House Judiciary Committee, which reported out three articles of impeachment.
Two Huntsville, Texas, prison inmates who died with two hostages in an abortive escape August 3 were killed by police bullets and not by their own hand, pathologist G. Sheldon Green said. He called the deaths of convicts Fred Gomez Carrasco and Rodolfo Dominguez “justifiable homicide.” The two convicts and another prisoner, Ignacio Cuevas, who survived the shootout, held more than a dozen persons hostage for 11 days.
Two young aviators, drifting for 56 days on a raft in order to test a survival kit they designed, were picked up by a Coast Guard cutter 140 miles northeast of Honolulu. Their condition was not immediately known. Charles Gore, 27, and George Sigler, 29, both inactive lieutenants in the Navy reserve, set out from San Francisco July 4 in a 15-foot raft on a voyage to the Hawaiian Islands. A source said they lost their emergency food only 100 miles off the U.S. coast when their craft overturned. The survival kit consisted of a bottle of sugar, fish hooks, spear and a small water still.
Late returns from the Democratic primary in Oklahoma yesterday brought defeat to Governor David Hall’s effort to succeed himself in office and to gain a national political reputation. David L. Boren, left, State Representative, and Representative Clem R. McSpadden clinched runoff spots for the Democratic governorship primary in Oklahoma. Governor Hall finished a distant third and was eliminated.
An unusually large number of senior military officers are hurrying to retire to avoid a loss in pension incomes. Pentagon figures show that at least 1,817 generals, admirals, colonels and Navy captains put in their papers this summer. That is a 76% increase over last year. By retiring before October 1, a general or admiral can save as much as $203 a month and a colonel or Navy captain about $37 a month for life. Lower ranking officers and enlisted men are eligible for smaller amounts.
New York City is negotiating to buy the bankrupt Penn Central Railroad’s 100-acre Mott Haven yard in the South Bronx for conversion to an industrial park, at a price in the area of $10 million to $12 million. Senator Jacob Javits, in whose office here public and private agencies and legislators have met several times on the subject, said he wanted to make the neighborhood “my pet project and bring it the kind of self-help effort that Senator Bobby Kennedy got started in Bedford-Stuyvesant.”
Frances Cash considers herself a liberated woman — liberated from Rep. Bella S. Abzug, that is. Interviewed while on the job as flagwoman for a company emplacing the marble siding of a Library of Congress annex in Washington, Mrs. Cash, 50, said the racket of construction work was “blissful silence” compared with the racket in the office of the New York Democratic congresswoman and staunch women’s lib advocate. “These machines couldn’t make as much noise as Ms. Abzug.” Mrs. Cash yelled. And these people are so much nicer,” she said, indicating her hard-hatted coworkers. Ms. Abzug was “terribly abusive” to her employees. “She screams at them.” Mrs. Cash said she worked 56 hours a week as Ms. Abzug’s “girl Friday” and waited on her “hand and foot.” But now life is serene. “I used to smoke three packs of cigarettes a day and now I’m down to only one,” Mrs. Cash said with a smile.
The CBS network withdrew its $50,000 bid for live television coverage of stuntman Evel Knievel’s Snake River Canyon jump, planned for September 8. Top Rank, Inc., which was promoting the jump, had threatened to cancel it if the state of Idaho granted live TV rights to any broadcaster.
Pat Dobson, the 32‐year‐old New York Yankees right‐hander, pitched a 5–0 victory over the Minnesota Twins, his 13th against 14 defeats. After a shaky start this season, with only three triumphs by June 4, Dobson has since improved so much that he now rates as the club’s most effective pitcher. Dobson yielded only seven hits, struck out four men and issued no walks in gaining his third straight decision. And only in one inning, the fifth, did the Twins succeed in getting a runner to third. With the division‐leading Red Sox having been beaten in Chicago, the Yankees now trail by 4½ games.
Jim Hunter of the Oakland A’s became a 20-game winner tonight for the fourth straight year, as Reggie Jackson’s two home runs supplied a 3–1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers, Jackson’s first homer — a 420-foot shot into the right-center field bullpen leading off the seventh — gave Hunter a 2–1 lead. Jackson then opened the ninth with his 26th of the year, a 450-foot blast to right.
Gaylord Perry pitched a five-hitter for his 17th victory and Charlie Spikes and Rico Carty drove in two runs apiece tonight as the Cleveland Indians won, 7–1, from Kansas City, dropping the Royals 5½ games behind first-place Oakland American League West.
Bart Johnson held Boston to four singles and Bill Sharp homered tonight,. leading the Chicago White Sox to a 3–0 victory over the Red Sox and Luis Tiant. The loss cut Boston’s lead in the American League East to 4 games over the New York Yankees. It also dropped Tiant’s record to 20–9. Johnson, called up from the minors July 2, raised his mark to 6–2 with his second straight shutout.
A two-run homer by Toby Harrah, his 18th, and a clout by Jim Fregosi rallied the Texas Rangers to a 4–2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles tonight. Jackle Brown evened his record at 10–10. In Texas’s first two years, only one pitcher won as many as 10 games in a season. Brown is the fourth Ranger to win that many this year. The Orioles dropped their record to 65–65, 8 games behind the front–running Red Sox.
The Pittsburgh Pirates move 1½ games in front of the St. Louis Cardinals by winning their 6th straight game, a 3–1 win over the San Francisco Giants. Ed Kirkpatrick’s 2–out 2–run double in the 11th wins it for Jim Barr, who goes the distance. With one out, Dave Parker and Richie Zisk drew walks from Jim Barr, who went the route for the Glants. After Manny Sanguillen forced Zisk at second, Kirkpatrick hit a 3-2 pitch to the wall in right-center field, and two runners scored Richie Zisk and Al Oliver each have a base hit to extend their consecutive game hitting streak to 20 and 21 games, respectively. It is his second 20+ game hitting streak this season for Oliver. He is the first Pirates player stretching back to 1911 (earlier hit streak records are not yet available) to compile two 20–game streaks in the same season, and the first player in the majors since Heinie Manush posted a pair in 1933. Dave Parker of Pittsburgh will compile two streaks of 22 games in 1977.
At Dodger Stadium, Bill Madlock belts a game-tying grand slam in the 8th for the Chicago Cubs, but the Los Angeles Dodgers plate an unearned run in the 9th to win, 7–6. Steve Garvey scores the winner after reaching base with his 5th hit.
The Houston Astros’ Cliff Johnson slams his fifth pinch-hit homer of the year, a tenth-inning shot off Jerry Cram that sinks the New York Mets, 3–2 . The blast puts Johnson one shy of the big league record. Mike Cosgrove gets the win after blowing a ninth-inning save attempt.
Bake McBride cracked a tie-breaking two-run single in the seventh inning tonight and Ted Simmons followed with a two-run double to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 5–1 victory over the San Diego Padres. The triumph kept the Cardinals 1½ games behind first-place Pittsburgh in the Nation League East. Lynn McGlothen (15–8) got the victory, scattering seven hits.
Dave Concepcion hits a 2-run single in the bottom of the 9th and the Cincinnati Reds tip the Philadelphia Phillies, 8–7. Terry Crowley broke an eighth-inning tie with a two-out double that helped the Cincinnati Reds win. Darrel Chaney singled to center off Ron Schueler before Crowley, batting for a reliever, Will McEnaney, lined his double to center, handing the Phils their seventh loss in nine games. Cincinnati has won nine of its last 11. Greg Luzinski, starting for the first time since he tore up a knee June 5, singled to center for the two runs that tied the game at 3–3 in the Phillie seventh.
Ralph Garr belted a two-run triple in the ninth, his 198th hit of the season, and then scored on Marty Perez’s single, lifting the Atlanta Braves to a 4–2 victory over the Montreal Expos tonight. With the score tied, 1–1, Vic Correll led off the ninth with a double off John Montague, but Perez singled. hit and walked, then Garr smacked his triple to right.
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Mark Smith, NFL defensive tackle (Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns), in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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