East Germany and the United States are expected to sign an agreement next week to establish diplomatic relations, State Department officials said. Negotiations were completed last month but formalizing the agreement was postponed because of East German interference with people attempting to travel from West Germany to West Berlin on the autobahn. State Department officials said that the United States and East Germany would establish diplomatic relations next Wednesday.
A State Department official said that an East German delegation headed by Herbert Süss, a Foreign Ministry official, would return to Washington Monday to complete the negotiations. His counterpart is Arthur A. Hartman, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. The first American Ambassador to the East German Government, situated in East Berlin, is reported to be John Sherman Cooper, former Republican Senator from Kentucky, who served as envoy to India in the mid‐nineteen‐fifties. The United States and Canada are the only members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that have not established diplomatic ties with the East Germans.
France received more bad economic news with the announcement by Finance Minister Jean-Pierre Fourcade that consumer prices rose 1.3% during July, due partly to higher rents and fuel costs. Despite the quickening pace of inflation, however, the government remained outwardly confident that the austerity measure it took in June will be successful in bringing prices under control. The July price rise, projected over one year, would mean a 15.6% consumer-cost increase.
Iceland’s new coalition government announced urgent plans to devalue the krona-by perhaps as much as 15%-and to extend Iceland’s sea fishing limits from 50 to 200 miles in 1975. A “cod war” was touched off in 1972 when it extended the limits from 12 to 50 miles. Premier Geir Hallgrimsson told parliament Iceland’s security would be ensured by its North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership, indicating the U.S. air base at Keflavik will not be closed.
At Windsor Great Park, a Crown Estate property in southern England, police took action to disperse the 2,000 music fans attending the “Festival of the People”, resulting in an eight-hour battle, 220 arrests and over 50 injuries.
The USSR performs an underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya.
Israel is mounting a campaign to recruit men previously exempt from service in the armed forces, a high officer announced today. Colonel Yitzhak Rosen, head of the army’s recruitment center, said that a temporary conscription bureau capable of processing 500 men a day would be set up to deal with the draftees. At present, exemptions cover new immigrants over the age of 45, civilians who cannot serve for medical reasons and others exempted for administrative reasons. Colonel Rosen was quoted by an Israeli military correspondent spondent as saying that the army would re‐examine the exemotion conditions of a considerable number of persons in the 18‐to‐54 age bracket.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has decided to absorb the 2,818-square-mile Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim into the Indian political system. Mrs. Gandhi’s proposed constitutional amendment, which appears likely to arouse opposition from the Sikkimese figurehead king, Palden Thondup Namgyal, would reduce Sikkim’s claim to sovereignty to little more than a legal nicety and leave the country with almost the same status as Indian states. Aware of the sensitiveness of the issue, the Foreign Ministry said the government “has no intention of affecting or diluting the distinct personality of Sikkim.”
India will “scrape through” the oil shortage this year by stretching foreign ‐ exchange resources for maximum imports, drastically cutting domestic consumption of petroleum products and reorganizing the production pattern of the petroleum refineries, a government official said today. The country’s imports of crude oil this year, a high official in the Petroleum Ministry told newsmen, would be only “marginally” lower than last year — 13.9 million metric tons against 14.1 million in 1973. A metric ton is 2,200 pounds.
South Vietnamese troops began counterattacks southeast of Huế today to drive off Communist forces menacing the area along Route 1 the Saigon command said. The Saigon command said, The command said North Vietnamese gunners shelled dozen government outposts along the main north‐south highway 13 to 15 miles southeat of Huế yesterday and overran three, of the small posts. Lieutenant Colonel Đỗ Việt, a command spokesman, said the attacks appeared to be probe of government defenses in preparation for an attack on the La Sơn infantry base overlooking the highway. He said that 129 North Vietnamese and Việt Cộng and two government soldiers had been killed.
Japanese police believe they have uncovered a plot by Palestinian and Japanese guerrillas to attack athletes at the Asian Games, which open in Tehran Sunday. Police sources said decoding experts had been working on a note carried by a Japanese arrested in Paris five weeks ago while traveling with false passports. The note apparently contained orders for a strategy meeting to prepare joint operations by the Palestinian Popular Front and the Japanese Red Army.
An explosion in the Tokyo business district during the noon rush today killed at least five persons and injured a “great number,” the police reported. It was first reported that a passenger automobile hit a parked tank truck loaded with liquid propane gas, but a witness cast doubt on this report, pointing out that at that time of day, passenger vehicles were banned from operating in the area. The explosion occurred outside the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries building, which was badly damaged. The floor of the building was covered with blood. United Press International and Reuters reported that just before the explosion a telephone call had warned Mitsubishi that a bomb would explode at the building. Windows were blown out in a number of other buildings in the area.
The police said that three persons had been killed inside the Mitsubishi building and two on the street, but it was feared the toll would go higher. People as far as two blocks from the explosion were cut by flying glass, the police said. The sidewalks were crowded with office workers and shoppers at the time. It was believed that the tank truck was owned by Mitsubishi. Ambulances took at least 25 people to hospitals.
Archbishop Jaime L. Sin of Manila called on Filipinos to offer “prayers of reparation for injustices” at a church vigil Sunday in the first display of Roman Catholic opposition to the two-year-old martial law regime of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. His call came five days after troops raided the Sacred Heart novitiate and arrested a Jesuit priest and 20 laymen on subversion charges.
Jimmy Taylor, a 12-year-old Aboriginal Australian boy, disappeared from Derby, Western Australia. As of 2023 the case remains unsolved.
The U.N. Law of the Sea conference ended its session in Caracas with few tangible signs of progress. A new meeting is slated for Geneva next year at which delegates hope to reach agreement on a global treaty governing use and protection of the. oceans. The timetable calls for regional and bilateral meetings to work on issues prior to the Geneva meeting, which will begin March 17 and last through May 3. The resulting treaty would be signed next summer in Caracas.
The body of a former Argentine army captain who had been kidnapped was discovered today in a vacant lot near Buenos Aires, the police reported. The victim was identified as Carlos E. Arteaga, who was seized last Saturday, presumably by leftist guerrillas, as he was leaving a university in Bella Vista, a suburb of this capital city. On Tuesday Ricardo Boya, labor‐relations manager for the French‐owned Ika Renault automobile plant, was killed in an ambush in Cordoba, 450 miles northwest of here. The Peronist Army Forces, a leftist guerrilla group, announced responsibility for M. Boya’s slaying and threatened more violence against “class enemies.”
Malcolm “Mac” Graham and Eleanor “Muff” Graham (born Eleanor LaVerne Eddington), a married couple from San Diego, California, disappeared on Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, to which they had traveled from Hawaii aboard their sailboat, the Sea Wind. Another sailor would discover Eleanor Graham’s remains on the beach of Palmyra in 1981, after which ex-convict Buck Duane Walker and his girlfriend, Stephanie Stearns, the only other persons on Palmyra at the time of the Grahams’ disappearance, would be charged with murdering Eleanor. Walker was convicted of the killing, but Stearns was acquitted. Stearns’ defense attorney, Vincent Bugliosi, would co-write a 1991 book about the case, And the Sea Will Tell, which was adapted the same year into a television film.
Two subpoenas have been served by a United States marshal on former President Nixon at his estate in San Clemente, California. The Justice Department, which announced that the subpoenas were served Wednesday, said they called for Mr. Nixon’s testimony as a defense witness at the Watergate cover-up trial scheduled to start Sept. 30 and for his deposition in a civil suit brought by a group of people who were turned away from a 1971 rally for the Rev. Billy Graham, which Mr. Nixon attended.
Congress was asked by President Ford to appropriate $850,000 for Mr. Nixon to cover the presidential transition period, his pension and other expenses until June 30. Of the $850,000, $450,000 will be allocated for expenses related to the transition period, which will last six months starting with the day of Mr. Nixon’s resignation, Aug. 9. The appropriation would come under the Presidential Act of 1963, which authorizes $900,000 for the transition time between administrations. Administration officials expect that public expenditures for Mr. Nixon will be substantially more than $850,000.
Roy Ash, the Budget Director, disclosed that President Ford planned to make an initial test next week of Congress’s willingness to go along with cuts in the non-defense budget. He said in an interview that Mr. Ford would send to Congress, under the new Congressional Budget Reform Act, about $20 billion in “deferrals” and “rescissions” of spending.
President Ford will receive recommendations on amnesty for Vietnam war draft evaders and deserters Saturday morning, a day earlier than he had requested. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger and Attorney General William Saxbe met to work out details of their joint recommendations. “We’ll have a pretty definite plan, we narrowed it down somewhat today,” Mr. Saxbe said.
A 3:05 a.m. explosion destroyed an entire city block in the African-American nightclub district of Chattanooga, Tennessee, causing one death and at least 13 injuries.
The August Rebellion, a prison riot, took place shortly after dusk at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Bedford, New York, as 200 prisoners took control of two buildings and a recreation yard to protest the brutal treatment of fellow prisoner Carol Crooks. The prisoners returned to their cells after midnight.
Aerialist Philippe Petit fulfilled his promise to give a free show for the children of New York, crossing a 600-foot (180 m) cable at a 30-degree angle from a stand of trees on the northeast side of Belvedere Lake in Central Park to an 80-foot (24 m) height on the watchtower of Belvedere Castle, southwest of the lake.
Ratification of a three-year nationwide contract covering musician services in motion picture and TV films was announced in New York City by the AFL-CIO American Federation of Musicians. The pact, retroactive to August 1, provides for an initial 8% wage increase and at its midpoint, a 9% raise.
General Motors Corp. said that its optional airbag safety system would cost $300 on its 1975 models, an increase of $75 over the price it charged on 1974 models. A GM spokesman said the increase was part of the general boost on options that will average 2.8% on 1975 models. GM has been offering the bags on its full-size Buicks, Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs since last December. It is the only company offering the new system.
The United Mine Workers and Duke Power Co. reached an agreement settling a turbulent 13-month strike at the utility’s Brookside coal mine in Harlan County, Kentucky. UMW President Arnold Miller called the agreement “a major breakthrough” for the 120,000-member union, which had rallied behind the Brookside strikers in its battle to establish a base in the eastern Kentucky coal fields. The settlement calls for a pact similar to other UMW contracts but details were not immediately announced. Miller said the agreement signaled “the beginning of the end for nonunion coal in this country.”
Lori Paton the teenager who became the subject of a federal investigation as the result of a classroom exercise, won her fight today to force the Federal Bureau of Investigation to destroy all records pertaining to the incident. Judge James A. Coolahan of Federal District Court said in a nine‐page opinion that there was no legal justification for the FBI’s possession of the file and said “the existence of those records may at a later time become a detriment” to the 17‐year‐old girl. He ordered the files “removed from the custody of the government and destroyed.” Frank J. Donner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s project on political surveillance and author of several books on the subject of government surveillance, said the ruling appeared to be the first of its kind in the country. “I have worked in this field for a number of years and I have never heard of such a remedy before,” Mr. Donner said. “I hope it’s catching.”
Consumers can expect higher prices for both fresh and processed fruit through next fall and winter, the Agriculture Department said. “Prices at all levels for most categories of fruit will remain high at least until the end of this calendar year,” the department’s outlook and situation board said. A smaller harvest of citrus fruits is part of the reason, but rising production costs resulting in higher contract prices for growers also have been factors, it said.
The National Catholic Reporter, in its second disclosure of financial distress by a Catholic order in a month, reported in this week’s edition that the Pauline Fathers of America have defaulted on a $1.5 million bond issue. The Kansas City newspaper said the fathers have filed the necessary papers in federal court in Philadelphia. The bond money was to build a shrine to Our Lady of Czestochowa. The paper reported August 2 that the La Salette Fathers of Attleboro, Mass., and the Catholic diocese of Reno were in jeopardy over an unsuccessful $25 million investment plan.
Moses Malone, 19 years old, and 6 feet 11 inches tall, became the highest salaried teenage athlete in the United States. He chose a $3 million, seven-year pro basketball deal instead of the University of Maryland. In spite of a C average throughout high school, More than 300 colleges offered him a scholarship — about a quarter of all the colleges that field basketball teams.
Starting this fall, the New York City Board of Education will offer instruction in basic subjects in both English and Spanish as part of a major new program agreed to in federal court. The program to provide bilingual instruction was mandated in response to a class-action suit brought by two related Puerto Rican self-help groups, which had charged that the city schools had failed to meet the needs of Spanish-speaking children.
The Boston Red Sox who have shown signs of faltering as the pennant race nears its final month, gained a shaky 3–2 triumph over the Chicago White Sox tonight behind some fine relief pitching by Diego Segui. Beaten in three of its four previous games, pace‐setting Boston struck early with a run in the opening inning and two more in the third. Then it held on tenaciously to increase its first‐place lead to five games over the New York Yankees in the Amexican League East race.
The Baltimore Orioles beat the Texas Rangers, 6–2, as Tommy Davis drives in 3 runs with a single. Ross Grimsley (15–12) checked the Rangers on six hits. Baltimore led, 2‐1, entering the fourth when Enos Cabell Jed off with a single and moved to second, as Jim Bibby threw high to first on. Mark Belanger’s sacrifice bunt. One out later, after the runners moved up on a wild pitch, Bobby Grich was walked intentionally to fill the bases. Then Davis hit a looping drive to right‐center to clear them.
Dave Kingman singled, with men on first and second in the bottom of the 11th inning, lifting the San Francisco Giants to a 3–2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates today. Gary Matthews opened the inning with an Infield single and was sacrificed to second by Bruce,Miller, Dave Giusti then walked Chris Speier intentionally before Kingman singled to left. Randy Moffitt, who. relieved in the 11th, won his fifth game in 11 decisions. Willie Stargell tied the game for Pittsburgh in the ninth with his 21st homer. Ron Bryant, with a 4–13 won‐lost record after winning 24 games in 1973, shut out the Pirates on two hits through seven innings.
Mike Lum hit a home run in the second inning and, Ralph Garr belted a three‐run shot in the third to lead the Atlanta Braves to a 7–2 victory over the Montreal Expos tonight.
Tom Seaver throws a five-hit shutout and the New York Mets beat the Houston Astros, 7–0. It was Seaver’s first win in a month as he has struggled with an injured sciatic nerve in his hip.
John Curtis pitched a one‐hitter — Fred Kendall’s single in the eighth inning — and Jim Dwyer and Mike Tyson hit run‐scoring singles in the ninth tonight to give St. Louis a 3–1 victory over the San Diego Padres. It moved the Cards within a game of first‐place Pittsburgh In National League East. Curtis was bidding to become the 12th pitcher to hurl a perfect game and the first since 1968. But his perfect game, no‐hitter and shutout all ended in the eighth when he walked the leadoff batter, Dave Winfield, on a 3–2 pitch, then walked Derrel Thomas with one out and gave up Kendall’s solid single past shortstop with two out.
Andy Messersmith and Mike Marshall combined on a three-hitter as the Los Angeles Dodgers downed the Chicago Cubs, 3–1. Messersmith improved his record for the year to 16–5.
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Born:
Jay Onrait, Canadian sports broadcaster (TSN, Fox Sports 1), in Athabasca, Alberta.
Kumi Tanioka, Japanese video game composer (Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles), in Hiroshima, Japan.
Died:
William M. Cann, 32, Chief of Police in Union City, California, died from wounds sustained when he was shot by a sniper on June 11, 1974.
Stanton Griffis, 87, American diplomat and financier, died from injuries sustained in an August 13 fire in his suite at the Pierre Hotel in New York. Griffis had served as U.S. ambassador to Poland, Egypt, Argentina and Spain during his career.
G. Ernest Wright, 64, American Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist.
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