Greece sent notes to the United States and other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization informing them that Athens wanted to begin talks on the future of foreign military installations in Greece. Washington officials said that the note stressed the Greek government’s desire, in view of the Cyprus crisis, to assert its sovereignty over all installations, but that it was not explicit about whether Greece would demand the withdrawal of American and other NATO forces from Greece. Because of the sensitivity of the issue, neither the White House nor the State Departwent would publicly provide details of the note, which was said to be lengthy.
J. F. terHorst, the White House press secretary, said that President Ford had received the message. Mr. terHorst said that Premier Konstantine Karamanlis had formally informed Mr. Ford that Greece was withdrawing her military forces from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization a decision announced by Greece on August 14 in protest over the Turkish military occupation of more than a third of Cyprus. There have been recurring reports from Athens that the Greek Government was considering asking the United States, which has several military bases in Greece, to withdraw from them. The Greek note, according to Administration officials, pointed out that all foreign installations in Greece were there as part of NATO and that therelore their future had to be discussed now that Greece was reaffirming her sovereignty.
The United States military facilities in Greece are an Air Force base next to Athens Airport specializing in transport and reconnaissance planes, and a small air group at Suda Bay on Crete; Army units under the 558th Artillery Group, including tactical nuclear weapons; Navy home‐port facilities near Athens for six destroyers, and a naval installation at Suda Bay.
The U.N. Security Council adopted unanimously today reolution calling on the Greek and Turkish Cypriots to resune direct negotiations and to work with the United Nations to solve the problem of the island’s refugees. The Council, in nearly five hours of debate on the resolution proposed by Austria, Britain and France, urged the Parties to permit Cypriots who wish to do so to return to their homes in safety. The session, the first in two weeks, was called at the request of Zenon Rossides, Cyprus’s representative at the United Nations. He, along with several other representatives, voiced fears that unless the United Nations acted decisively the strife between ethnic Greeks and Turks could produce another set of permanent refugees.
Gunmen tried today to assassinate a prominent political leader and one of the most powerful supporters of the deposed Cypriot president, Archbishop Makarios. The intended victim, Dr. Vassos Lyssarides, was slightly wounded, but a journalist was killed and three other people were injured. Officials here reared that the assassination attempt could provoke fighting in the streets of Nicosia and in other Greek‐Cypriot areas of Cyprus. Armed bands of rightists and leftists are still free in the Greek‐Cypriot areas, although President Glafkos Clerides said three days ago that he was taking measures to control them.
Archbishop Makarios, the deposed president of Cyprus, tonight attacked what he termed the two “evils” in Cyprus — the Turks and “the criminals of EOKA-B,” the terrorist organization committed to the union of Cyprus and Greece. In an interview in London with a reporter for Radio Luxembourg several hours after the attempted assassination of the Cypriot Socialist leader, Dr. Vassos Lyssarides, the Archbishop said he was dissatisfied with the role of the United States in the Cyprus affair. He expressed fear that a federal solution to the Cyprus problem would mean “the end of the Cyprus republic.” He said he was never against union with Greece. “I only thought it was impractical,” he added.
The United Nations World Population Conference in Bucharest ended two weeks of talks by approving what it called a Plan of Action. The program, which contains 108 items, sets no quantitative national or international population goals, but it does suggest that the world’s present annual population growth rate of 2 percent could substantially be reduced by 1985.
The Soviet Kashin-class destroyer Otvazhny (Отважный, “Courageous”) sank after a defective anti-aircraft missile launched during Black Sea Fleet drills ignited a fire which resulted in the explosion of the ship magazines. Twenty-four crewmen were killed.
An express train bound for Germany from Belgrade derailed in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), killing more than 150 passengers. A television station in Zagreb —which is Yugoslavia’s second largest city—said the coaches had careened along for several hundred yards after overturning, tearing down overhead power lines. In Vienna, a spokesman for the Austrian national railway said that most, if not all the casualties had been caused by electrocution when the live cables hit the train. The Zagreb television report said thee the locomotive had separated from the coaches and continued by itself, stopping after about 400 yards.
A Zagreb police spokesman, who described the crash as “the worst accident ever to happen on Yugoslav railroads,” said 93 injured people had been taken to hospitals in police cars and ambulances. Others were taken away in army vehicles, private cars and taxis. As dawn came up troops and policemen were tearing at the wreckage of the train, trying to free passergers trapped in side. The crash scene was described by a witness as “horrible, with smashed coaches scattered all around.”
More than 70,000 Iraqi Kurds are believed to have fled to Iran from attacks by the Iraqi Army and Air Force. The refugees began entering Iran late in March after the Iraqi Government began its biggest offensive ever against Kurdish rebels. It is estimated here that the number will soon approach 500,000. The refugees area in 12 camps set up by the Iranian Red Lion and Sun Society, similar to the Red Cross. As in all such camps, there are children without parents, young brides without husbands and old men whose sons have stayed behind to fight.“We walked for nine days before reaching the Iranian border, said Mrs. Halimeh Samad. She fled with her four children, she said, after her husband had been killed by Iraqi soldiers.
She was sitting before her tent at Ziveh, one of the four camps set up near Rizaiyeh in western Azerbaijan. She comes from the village of Heyran‐Nazanin in Iraqi Kurdistan. A son, who is 16 years old, said that a Soviet‐made Sukhoi aircraft had been dropping napalm on their village. At Agh‐Bolagh camp, Ahmad Ghadar said the Iraqi Government was wasting its energy because “the Kurds in Iraq are fighting for the freedom of their homeland and against the fascist regime in Baghdad.” The government’s war in the Kurdish‐inhabited areas follows la long history of armed clashes land the rejection by the Kurds, under their leader, General Mustafa al‐Barzani, of an offer of limited autonomy.
Radical far-left terrorists bombed the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries building in Tokyo, killing 8 and wounding more than 376. In perhaps the most‐severe outburst of deliberate violence here since World War II, the bomb exploded at the entrance of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries building, in the business district, during the lunch hour. Bodies were strewn along the street and sidewalks. Windows were shattered and glass was showered an inch deep on the ground. Two cars were set afire and delivery vans were wrenched over the curb. The police said later that the bomb appeared to have been wrapped in two brown paper cylinders and left behind a flower urn standing before a pillar at the office entrance.
Japanese policemen began searching tonight for extreme leftists suspected of having bombed the main office of a leading indystrial company here, leaving it least eight dead and about 330 hospitalized with injuries.
The director of Thailand’s Mineral Resources Department announced last night that the American Oil Company had struck crude oil in the Gulf of Siam. The official, Samarn Buravas, said that the exploratory well — believed to be the first discovered in the gulf — was situated about 60 miles south of Bangkok.
President Hugo Banzer Suarez, who has been embroiled in a dispute with backers for a week over election plans, threatened to resign today. But after his military colleagues objected and the labor unions threatened to strike, he changed his mind. The question of when the President should call elections to begin the movement from military rule back to constitutional government was argued in a Cabinet meeting that lasted all afternoon. President Banzer has called elections for October, 1975, but some political leaders wanted them earlier. Some politicians have charged that President Banzer is planning a referendum to change the Constitution to make it easier to have a handpicked successor.
President Ford, speaking at summer commencement exercises at Ohio State University in Columbus, pursued the theme of national unity that has characterized his public statements since becoming President. He asked for “real partnership between the academic community and the rest of our society” and promised to help to bring educators and education together with labor and employers in “a new climate of credibility” to confront the nation’s urgent problems and to provide rewarding jobs for graduates.
George Steinbrenner, an industrialist and the principal owner of the New York Yankees, was fined $15,000, but was spared a jail sentence, in Federal District Court in Cleveland on two charges resulting from illegal donation of corporate funds to campaigns of former President Nixon and several Democrats.
Richard M. Nixon’s money problems have left him almost broke, according to the former President’s chief financial adviser. Dean Butler, the aide, said yesterday that it would take at least until the end of the year to get a grip on Mr. Nixon’s economic difficulties, and he is worried that the legal bills alone could amount to half a million dollars, depending on court actions against him. “I would expect that it isn’t too much of an exaggeration” to say Mr. Nixon is broke, Mr. Butler told The Los Angeles Times in an interview.
“We won’t say he’s broke in the sense, of you and I being broke, but all you have to do is look at his most recent financial statement and the payments he has had to make since then to know there is a money problem,” said Mr. Butler, who is a lawyer. “Certainly his financial picture is uncertain and unclear,” Mr. Butler said, and there is the problem of “what to do about his various properties,” referring to the Nixon estates at San Clemente, California; and Key Biscayne, Florida.” Mr. Nixon was unable to make a mortgage “balloon payment” of more than $100,000 that fell due last month on the San Clemente estate, and was given an extension.
The New York Times opines:
Today, all America is debating whether Citizen Nixon should be prosecuted and punished for the “Watergate crimes” of President Nixon. Some hold that he has been punished enough. Others wish him jailed to prove that Justice is impartial. President Nixon accomplished a number of good things for his country, some of them of historic importance. Nevertheless, former President Nixon, a child of our lawless times and a flawed character (even as you and I), has now become one more crime statistic, As crimes go, or rather rampage, in America, the crime he committed, and for, which he can still be prosecuted, was in itself not a particularly horrifying one. He did not commit treason, murder, rape, aggravated assault or grand larceny. (“Nobody was drowned at Watergate.”) (…)
Descriptively, Mr. Nixon’s crime was one of the several million felonies committed in America every year, only a fraction of which result in jail sentences. Mr. Nixon, together with his aides, conspired for political reasons to cover up a felony — the bungled attempt by seven politically motivated amateurs to break into Democratic National Committee headquarters. Shall he now be hauled into court for this obstruction of justice and sentenced to join, behind bars, that 5 per tent of our law‐breakers who failed to cop a plea or make the right underworld or political connections? Or has Mr. Nixon been punished enough?
The reason a person is put behind bars is to punish him. He is punished by being exiled from the “law‐abiding” society in which he lives and forcibly deprived of his freedom and (for the length of his sentence) his means of livelihood.
Few will dispute that Mr. Nixon has already suffered a cruel and unusual — indeed, utterly unique — punishment. It is a punishment that no other man in American history has ever suffered. He has been stripped of the Presidency and plunged from the zenith of political power and world respect to the nadir of personal disgrace and political nothingness.
President Ford’s Committee on Deserters and Draft Evaders argued over whether to recommend that an admission of wrongdoing be a condition for government leniency. The requirement “would be a mistake,” said Senator Robert Taft Jr., Ohio Republican and sponsor of the amnesty bill. Attorney General William Saxbe and Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, who head the committee, were expected to present their recommendations to Mr. Ford tomorrow. Officials in Indiana confirmed that Fort Benjamin Harrison and Camp Atterbury were making contingency plans to receive returning deserters.
The White House announced that President Ford had decided to participate in the fall election campaign by speaking at Republican fundraising rallies and taking the unusual step of urging support for candidates of both parties who back his policy of fiscal restraint.
The growing belief among economists that United States production will be sluggish for the rest of this year and into 1975 has been supported by the rapid build-up of manufacturers’ inventories in July, which was the largest rise in the dollar value of manufacturing inventories so far this year. The Commerce Department reported that the inventories rose by $2.91 billion.
The New York stock market paused in its three-week slide as a strong technical rally sharply advanced prices in heavier trading. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 21.74 points to 678.58. It had dropped 140.72 points since Aug. 7.
Attorney General William Saxbe threatened to seek a court order shutting down state lotteries operated by 13 states, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He said it might be necessary for the Department of Justice to file suit for a permanent injunction against all state lotteries unless Congress passes legislation exempting them from federal anti-gambling laws they appear to violate. He summoned the Governors of the 13 states to a conference in Washington next Friday.
New York City police officer Thomas Shea, who was acquitted by a jury of murdering 10-year-old Clifford Glover of South Jamaica, Queens, was found guilty by the police department and dismissed from the force for “wrongfully and without just cause” firing several shots that caused the boy’s death. Mr. Shea’s partner, officer Walter Scott, was dismissed on charges of having lied in an attempt to protect Mr. Shea. Concluding a departmental trial of nearly two weeks, Deputy Police Commissioner Philip Michael declared that the two officers lacked “the maturity and judgment that is required of all police officers.”
The U.S. performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
The Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, the first Dutch satellite, was launched by a Scout rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
American racing driver Robert W. Bunselmeier was fatally injured during a sprint car race in Bloomington, Indiana. He would die of his injuries at the age of 27 the following day.
The Rangers Dave Nelson steals second base, third, and home in the first inning, only the third such performance in the major leagues since 1928, but it’s not enough as Texas loses to Cleveland 7–3. The big hits for Cleveland were Rusty Torres’s first homer of the season, with a man on base in the second, and Rico Carty’s three‐run double in the fourth. Carty has played 14 games since joining Cleveland two weeks ago and is hitting .444.
In a display that would have astonished even the manager of a lower minor league club, the Chicago White Sox presented the Yankees with four unearned runs in the seventh inning tonight, helping New York to an 8–5 triumph. The White Sox committed three consecutive errors. Since Boston lost, the Yankees moved to within four games of the American League East leaders.
The Minnesota Twins edged the Boston Red Sox, 3–2. Rod Carew, whose error accounted for both Boston runs, turned into a hero after all. He drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the ninth to back Bert Blyleven’s four‐hitter and 14 strike‐out effort.
Claudell Washington, a rookie for the A’s, had five hits, including a run‐scoring double and a two‐run triple as Oakland thumped the Detroit Tigers, 10–5. After the game, he was given a $2,000 raise by the team’s owner, Charlie Finley.
Nolan Ryan of the Angels passed the 300 strike‐out mark for the third year in a row, becoming the first pitcher ever to do so, as his California Angels clobbered the Milwaukee Brewers, 9–2. Ryan’s 300th strikeout victim of the season was Mike Hegan, in the fourth. He struck out nine for the game, raising his season’s total to 304, and was supported with two home runs by Frank Robinson, each with a man on base. Ryan struck out 329 bitters in 1972, then set the singleseason record of 383 last year.
The Baltimore Orioles downed the Kansas City Royals, 9–2. Mike Cuellar scattered eight hits, but the Orioles got a lot of help from the Royals. Bruce Dal Canton, the Kansas City starter, walked three and threw two wild pitches in less than two innings, and the catcher, Fran Healy, gave up a passed ball and made two throwing errors. Brooks Robinson had three hits and two runs batted In for Baltimore.
The Houston Astros edged the Philadelphia Phillies, 3–2. The Phillies have done little lately to justify their slogan, ‘Yea We Can.’ The defeat was their 11th in 15 games. The Astros scored their runs in the fourth and fifth on a hit batsman, two walks, a squeeze bunt, a stolen base and a throwing error. A leadoff triple by Roger Metzger in the fifth was their only hit in the two innings.
Keith Hernandez made his major league debut, going 1-for-2 with a pair of walks and an RBI for the Cardinals. The Cardinals however fall to the San Francisco Giants 8–2, as Sonny Sievert gives up 6 earned over the first two innings and Mike Caldwell goes 8 strong for the Giants. St. Louis never recovered from the Giants’ five‐run first inning, during which Dave Kingman hit a three‐run homer. Only 3,111 fans showed up at Candlestick Park to see the debut of Bay Area product Hernandez.
The Cincinnati Reds, who have chased the Los Angeles Dodgers since April in the National League West, are no less excited than their fans. Johnny Bench, the team’s star catcher, says, “There are six vital games left against the Dodgers, and we’ll have to win at least four out of the six or maybe even five.” Maybe all six, considering what happened to Bench and his teammates last night: an 11–3 defeat in Riverfront Stadium during which the Montreal Expos hit five home runs. The Expos, themselves entertaining hopes of catching the leaders in the East, were led by Bob Bailey. He had two homers and five runs batted in. Ken Singleton, Ron Woods and Mike Jorgensen also hit homers, helping to establish a one‐game record for the Expos. And the 11 runs were the most they had scored — and the most scored against the Reds — this year.
Despite the fact that he shut out the awesome top half of the Atlanta batting order on the way to a 4‐2 victory over the Braves at Shea Stadium last night, Ray Sadecki, of the Mets insists he wasn’t trying any harder against the first four batters. “It just happened that way,” said Sadecki, after picking up his second victory over Atlanta in less than a week. He owns the only two Met triumphs over the Braves this season in 10 meetings. Last Sunday in Atlanta, Sadecki hurled a five‐hit, 1‐0 victory. Last night he blanked the likes of Ralph Garr, the league’s leading hitter who brought a 359 average into the game; Marty Perez, a 263 hitter; Darrell Evans, the Braves’ home run leader with 18, and Henry Aaron, the career home run king, who has 17 this year. They got no hits in 16 times at bat against Sadecki.
The Pittsbugh Pirates beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4–3. Scoring three times in the eighth, the Pirates pounded Mike Marshall, the Dodgers’ relief ace, for two singles a sacrifice fly and Bob Robertson’s tiebreaking double to snap the Los Angeles winning streak at five games.
The Chicago Cubs swept a doubleheader from the San Diego Padres, winning 5–1 and 4–3. The sometimes hapless Cubs routed San Diego in a pair, although they had to go extra innings in each. They went 11 innings before turning back the Padres in the nitecap before scoring on a pair of errors. The first game went 12 before the Cubs broke loose with four runs, thanks to a tiebreaking single by Carmen Fanzone and a two‐run triple by Billy Grabarkewitz.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 678.58 (+21.74, +3.31%).
Born:
Aaron Barrett, American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (Reel Big Fish), in San Bernadino, California.
Rich Cronin, American singer songwriter (Lyte Funkie Ones), in Boston, Massachusetts.
Jigar Shah, Indian-born American clean energy administration as director of the U.S. Loans Program, in Modasa, India
Died:
Eleanor Platt, 64, American sculptor, was found dead in her studio at the Park Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, New York City. Her death was ascribed to heart failure. After Calvin Jackson’s arrest for the murder of Pauline Spanierman the following month, he would confess to the murders of 8 other women, including Platt.
Kris Foster, MLB pitcher (Baltimore Orioles), in Riverdale, New Jersey.
Remy Hamilton, NFL kicker (Detroit Lions), in Wildwood, New Jersey.
Abraham Schierbeek, 87, Dutch biologist (Leeuwenhoek).
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