General Alexander Haig, the chief of the White House staff, is expected to be appointed to the top military position in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Europe, despite repeated assertions that President Ford had asked him to stay on “indefinitely.” High administration sources, reporting the possible shift, said General Haig would be recalled to active duty as a four-star general, the status from which he retired in 1973 after replacing H.R. Haldeman as President Nixon’s aide.
State Department officials disclosed that East Germany has agreed to discuss possible compensation for Jews and other victims of Nazism following tomorrow’s establishment of diplomatic relations. In contrast with West Germany, the East Germans previously refused to pay, but Washington made it clear during recent talks that unless the matter was formally negotiated there would be no diplomatic recognition from this country — and no trade relations.
Progress toward a Cyprus settlement was indicated by the leader of the Turkish Cypriote community, Rauf Denktash, who said that Greece and the Greek Cypriot government had privately conceded that the island might be partitioned into autonomous zones for the Greek and Turkish communities. Mr. Denktash said formal negotiations toward such a solution could begin in a few weeks in Switzerland. Mr. Denktash said the Greek concession came during contacts in the last week between Greece and Turkey and between the two Cypriot communities. A formal partition of Cyprus has been Turkey’s demand since the Turks invaded the island on July 20. The Turkish insistence on partition has been the major obstacle to a political solution of the Cyprus crisis.
The Greek Cypriot administration of President Glafkos Clerides is studying a plan for a federated state of Cyprus, with two separate and autonomous parts. Mr. Clerides had said in recent days that he had “an open mind on all possible solutions to the crisis, including partition. The position of Greece and the Greek Cypriot Government has been that the Turkish Army must retreat from its present lines on the island before any negotiations can begin. Mr. Denktash said today that he had made no concessions to the Greek side in return for partition. The Turkish position has been that all issues would be negotiable once the Greeks had agreed to partition. The Turkish leader said that this policy had not changed.
A new left-wing movement was formed in Greece by Andreas Papandreou, who sharply rebuked the government of Konstantine Karamanlis for not acting quickly enough to purge public offices of the remnants of seven years of military rule. Mr. Papandreou, the son of a former premier, is regarded as a serious political threat to Mr. Karamanlis, and his initiative heralded a campaign that was expected to culminate — perhaps before the end of the year — in general elections.
One of England’s most controversial politicians, Enoch Powell, was chosen by the hardline Ulster. Unionist party tonight as a candidate for the British Parliament. He will run at the next election, expected next month, in the Protestant stronghold of South Down and is regarded in political circles as a virtually certain winner. The present member, Captain Lawrence Orr, who is retiring because of ill health, had an imposing majority in the general election last February. As a Conservative member of Parliament for Wolverhampton, England, Mr. Powell sat in the Cabinet as Minister for Health. In the nineteen‐sixties, when the Conservatives were out of power, he was dropped as a party spokesman after campaigning for an end to immigration of non whites into Britain from commonwealth countries. Later he opposed the action of the Conservative leader, Edward Heath, in taking Britain into the European Economic Community. Mr. Powell declined to run in the general election last February.
European Common Market agriculture ministers agreed in Brussels to an early meeting on pressing agricultural issues. The chief advocate of new moves was the French minister, Christian Bonnet, whose government has been particularly hard pressed by farmers protesting low prices received for their produce.
A scarcity of pasta, caused by the Government’s attempts to control the price of the national staple, is angering Italian housewives just as many, families have returned from vacation and are bracing for what threatens-to be a difficult autumn and winter. A shopper in a store in Rome holding one of the few packets of spaghetti left on the shelves. Price rises in pasta have led to hoarding, speculation and black market deals.
Senator Charles H. Percy (R-Illinois) said in a New Delhi news conference that President Ford should defer plans to expand U.S. military facilities on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia for at least a year. Percy, on a two-week visit to the subcontinent, said a delay in the proposed $29 million expansion would help the U.S. inflation fight and avoid escalating a U.S.-Soviet arms race.
Two Americans held in prison for 17 months after being charged under India’s Official Secrets Act were granted bail by a Calcutta court on the condition that they rent a specific house and stay in it under constant surveillance until they are put on trial. The two men, Anthony Fletcher, 30, and Richard Harcos, 27, both of San Francisco, have been on a hunger strike since June 16 in protest of the delay in their trial.
China denounced India’s plan to give the tiny kingdom of Sikkim parliamentary representation as the first step in an Indian attempt to expand its power in South Asia. The Peking People’s Daily called it an act of expansion “just the same as that of the old-line colonialists.” Sikkim’s ruler, Palden Thondup Namgyal, was expected to fly to New Delhi today to delay action until a referendum can be held.
South Vietnam moved a naval task force into the Gulf of Thailand and threatened to seize a French-American oil rig if it is not moved within. 10 days, diplomatic sources said. Sources said the rig, in waters claimed by both Cambodia and South Vietnam, is owned 65% by the French state oil company and 35% by the Exxon Corp. It is drilling near Wai Island, 65 miles southwest of the Cambodian naval base at Ream.
General Võ Nguyên Giáp, North Vietnam’s master strategist, whose army defeated the French and fought the Americans to a stalemate, is reported to be gravely ill with cancer. Intelligence reports reaching Saigon described the 62‐year‐old Defense Minister as frail and emaciated, although he apparently still functions. This was dismissed by official sources in Hanoi. Giáp, who had fallen out of favor, taking the blame for the failure of the Easter Offensive in 1972, would live to the ripe age of 102 and die in 2013.
A seven-man bipartisan congressional group led by Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Arkansas) opened talks with Chinese leaders in Peking on the first full day of a 13-day visit to China. They conferred for 90 minutes with Vice Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua and were scheduled to be entertained at an evening banquet by Chou Chu-yeh, vice president of the Chinese People’s Institute for Foreign Affairs.
The South Korean Ambassador to Japan warned in Tokyo that relations between his country and Japan had reached a “dangerous” stage and left little doubt that a diplomatic rupture was possible. American interests are involved in the increasingly quarrelsome situation between Seoul and Tokyo because Washington has security treaties with both capitals and American troops in South Korea depend on support from United States bases in Japan. Kim Young Sun, speaking at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Tokyo, made the comment in answer to a question about remarks by Korean officials that warned of possible action against Japan if Japan refused to “cooperate” in an investigation of an assassination attempt on South Korea President Park Chung Hee. High Japanese government sources say they consider a diplomatic break with South Korea “inconceivable.”
Toronto’s transit workers voted overwhelmingly to give in to a provisional government edict and return to work, ending a 23-day strike. The Ontario legislature Saturday had ordered the Toronto Transit Commission to put its subway, streetcar and bus systems back into operation. The legislature had provided for daily fines if its provisions were not carried out. It also stipulated a 12% wage increase.
Counsel for David Meroro, chairman of the South‐West Africa People’s Organization, alleged today that his client had been tortured by the police. Mr. Meroro, 57 years old, went on trial in Windhoek on charges of being in possession of forbidden literature. Captain Jan Griebenauw, a security police officer, said that five copies of an African Communist magazine were found in a search of Mr. Meroro’s home and shop in February. He said he knew nothing of acts of torture. The defense counsel, David Soggot, said Mr. Meroro contended that his hands were tied behind his back and he was suspended on a rope, and that he was deprived of sleep and food, slapped repeatedly and forced to stand for a day during interrogation. Mr. Meroro’s arrest followed several demonstrations and riots by supporters of the black independence movement last year. He was held for five months until his release on bail in July.
President Ford may put off until next week a decision on leniency for Vietnam draft evaders and deserters pending further talks with the Departments of Justice and Defense. Leaders of veterans groups who met with Mr. Ford said he might appoint a board to deal with the issue.
President Ford’s effort to make the management of the economy a bipartisan matter, much like foreign policy, takes on a new dimension with the start of a number of “summit” talks on inflation. Mr. Ford also spurred budget cooperation with congressional Democrats.
William Seidman, the man who is orchestrating President Ford’s forthcoming series of conferences on inflation, cautioned against expectations that the meetings might generate dramatic new departures. While not ruling out some policy changes this year, Mr. Seidman said that the “real action period will be next year.”
Nelson A. Rockefeller, back in New York City for the first time since his selection two weeks ago by President Ford to be Vice President, said yesterday that he would take “whatever steps are necessary” to resolve any possible conflicts of interest arising from his vast financial interests. Mr. Rockefeller, who returned to his Westchester estate Saturday after a vacation at his summer place in Seal Harbor, Maine, held a news conference yesterday morning in the group of West 55th Street townhouses that were his city headquarters during his years as Governor and now serve as the offices of his National Commission on Critical Choices.
The Labor Day traffic death toll was the lowest in 12 years and the National Safety Council said lower speed limits might have contributed significantly to the decrease. A final count showed 516 persons died on the nation’s highways during the three-day weekend, 8% fewer than in 1973 when 559 fatalities occurred. A Safety Council spokesman said Americans traveled 11.8 billion miles, a dip of 3.3% from the 12.2 billion miles the previous year. “We think that might account for some of the fatality reduction, but we think reduced speeds also may have played an important role,” he said.
President Ford sent to Congress a supplemental budget request for $73 million so the Atomic Energy Commission can pay for an accelerated nuclear weapons test program and an enlarged security program. It asks $55 million for weapons testing in addition to the $160 million request that former President Richard M. Nixon sent to Congress last January. A “threshold test ban treaty,” not yet ratified by the Senate, was negotiated last summer during the summit conference between Mr. Nixon and Soviet leaders. It takes effect March 31, 1976, and limits underground nuclear tests to devices with yields no larger than the equivalent of 150 kilotons of explosives.
The United Mine Workers and the nation’s soft coal producers began bargaining on a new contract, with the union presenting about 200 wage, safety, cost-of-living and fringe-benefit demands. The current contract is due to expire November 12 and spokesmen for both sides expressed hope that agreement could be reached in time to avert a walkout of the 120,000 workers. Deep miners now earn between $41.25 and $50 a day.
A 33-day strike by 61,000 members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers against Western Electric Co. ended after a close vote on a new contract. With over half of the strikers voting, a new agreement was ratified nationally by about 80 votes, according to union official Pasquale Gino. After the vote announcement, Western Electric, the supply and manufacturing arm of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., began to restore production at most of the 16 plants across the nation that have been affected.
Amid tight security at Newark (New Jersey) City Hall, officials ordered a curfew for adolescents in a wide area and banned demonstrations to prevent a recurrence of the disorders that beset that city Sunday and Monday. Only a few incidents were reported today as Mayor Kenneth Gibson issued “An Appeal to Reason,” addressed to the Puerto Rican and other Hispanic residents of his city.
A federal court in Newark, New Jersey, sentenced four men to prison for their part in the kidnapping last March 6 of John Calzadilla, 8, from his Long Island neighborhood. Roberto Martinez, 37, of New York, was sentenced to 30 years and his brother, Jorge, 28, of Union City, New Jersey, was sentenced to 25 years. Jose Hernandez and Norberto Fernandez, both 18 and from Union City, were given 10 and 12-year indeterminate terms. The men were convicted of trying to extort a $50,000 ransom. The boy was released unharmed after being held for two days.
Eastern Air Lines has spent $35 million to settle damage suits arising from a jumbo jet crash in the Florida Everglades that claimed 101 lives. Payments to survivors and next of kin ranged from $150,000 to $850,000. The L-1011 Tristar jet crashed 20 miles west of Miami on December 29, 1972, carrying 186 passengers and crew. The National Transportation Safety Board ruled that the crash occurred because the cockpit crew was engrossed in trying to replace a burned-out warning light and did not realize the huge jet had lost altitude.
A special New York state grand jury has reportedly voted indictments against-seven big oil companies, charging them with illegally restraining competition in the sale of gasoline by practices designed to eliminate independent filling stations. Another reported charge concerned efforts to thwart open bidding for gasoline sales to public agencies.
One man died, and another was injured, in the explosion of a 5,000-gallon gasoline storage tank of the deMarzio Construction Company in Wareham, Massachusetts. The police identified the dead man as Joseph deMarzio, 25 years old, of‐Brockton.
Philippe Prost, a member of the French national junior basketball team, died of a heart attack at the age of 18 during a game in Roanne, France.
Future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame guard Oscar Robertson retires; leaves NBA with 26,710 points, 9,887 assists & 7,804 rebounds in 1,040 games.
Long time Golden State Warrior center Nate Thurmond is traded to the Chicago Bulls for center Clifford Ray, a first round draft choice, and cash.
The Detroit Tigers won the opener of their doubleheader, 5–1, the edged the Cleveland Indians, 5–4, in 11 innings in the nightcap. Gaylord Perry, backed by two homers from Oscar Gamble, got his 18th victory in the opener. He didn’t allow a hit until Aurelio Rodriguez singled leading off the sixth and didn’t allow a run until Al Kaline homered in the ninth. In the second game, Tom Veryzer singled home the winning Detroit run with two out in the 11th. John Hiller got the victory, his 16th, to tie a league record for victories by a reliever. Dick Radatz set the mark playing for Boston in 1964.
The Oakland A’s shut out the California Angels, 7–0. Ken Holtzman pitched a five‐hitter for his 17th victory, and the A’s took advantage of Nolan Ryan’s wildness. The California ace walked eight.
The Kansas City Royals fell to the Chicago White Sox, 2–1. Tony Musser’s run‐scoring double and Ken Henderson’s single in the first provided the runs in support of Jack Kucek, a rookie making his third start for Chicago. Kucek pitched until the eighth, when Terry Forster came in to put down a Royals’ rally.
Errors by Rod Carew and Danny Thompson allowed Jim Fregosi to score a tie-breaking run in the sixth as the Texas Rangers offset two homers by Bobby Darwin, to beat the Minnesota Twins, 6–3.
Count that. The Giants John Montefusco makes his Major League debut, homers in his first official time at bat, off Charlie Hough, and pitches 9 innings of relief to earn a 9–5 victory over the Dodgers. Gary Matthews belts a grand slam for the Giants. Montefusco took over for Ron Bryant in the first after Los Angeles had taken a 4–2 lead. He went the rest of the way, handing the Dodgers their fourth loss in five games. They lead Cincinnati by only 2½ games in the West Division.
Jon Matlack pitched a four‐hit shutout and Tom Seaver won his ninth game today in 2–0 and 11–4 victories for the Mets over the Chicago Cubs. The Mets have now won six straight games. A sparse and chilled paying crowd of 3,731 sat in Wrigley Field and saw Matlack notch his 12th victory (against 10 defeats) in the first game of a double‐header. He beat Bill Bonham, who also allowed only four hits. Matlack struck out 10 and walked none and picked up his sixth shutout of the season, tying him with Luis Tiant of the Boston Red Sox for the major league lead. Bonham also struck out 10 men but walked three and saw his won‐lost record drop to 10–18 on the season. His walk to Felix Milian in the first inning got him behind, 1–0, as Milian stole second and came home on John Milner’s single to right.
The Cincinnati Reds downed the Houston Astros, 7–5. Joe Morgan’s single in the ninth snapped a 5–5 tie that had resulted froin Tony Perez’s two‐run single in the seventh. Lee May’s 22nd homer of the year had put the Astros up, 4–3, in the fifth.
The Pittsburgh Pirates won a 8‐2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in Pittsburgh. The Pirates scored seven runs in the fifth inning. Stargell was walked to load the bases, and then Richie Zisk tripled past Greg Luzinski in left field. Jim Rooker, one of the most outspoken of the Pirates pitched a six‐hitter and also had two hits in the big fifth. It gave the Pirates a sweep of the three‐game series and virtually left the Phillies aboard a sinking ship, seven games off Pittsburgh’s pace. The Pirates’ voyage to first place is one of the baseball season’s most intriguing. On July 14 they were 12 games below .500; now they are 10 above, with only the St. Louis Cardinals pressing them.
The St. Louis Cardinals took two from the Montreal Expos, winning 5–1 and 8–4. Lou Brock singled twice in the second game and stole his 99th base, and Ken Reiti had two‐run-scoring doubles to lead, the St. Louis sweep. In the opener, Reggie Smith hit two homers and Joe Torre hit one. Brock, closing in on Maury Wills’s record of 104 steals in one season, stole second base in the third after singling to center.
The Atlanta Braves walloped the San Diego Padres, 7–2. Mike Lum broke a 1–1 tie in the sixth with a run‐scoring single, then scored on a hit by Craig Robinson. Willie McCovey homered for the Padres, who lost for the 31st time in 39 games. The Braves, who have beaten the Padres 11 straight times, got a homer from Dave Johnson.
Prices resumed their recent losing pattern on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday Friday’s sharp technical rally ran out of steam. Prices on the exchange opened higher and then began declining after the first half-hour of trading. At the final bell, the Dow‐Jones industrial average was off 15.25 points at 663.33. The market was closed Monday in observance of Labor Day.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 663.33 (-15.25, -2.25%).
Born:
Renaldo Wynn, NFL defensive end and defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars, Washington Redskins, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants), in Chicago, Illinois.
Harold Shaw, NFL running back (New England Patriots), in Magee, Mississippi.
Martin Gerber, Swiss National Team and NHL goalie (Olympics, 2002, 2006; NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Carolina, 2006; Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Carolina Hurricanes, Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers), in Burgdorf, Switzerland.
Clare Kramer, American actress (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jen Royle, American sports reporter and chef, in Mansfield, Massachusetts.
Died:
John Thomas Baldwin, 63, American botanist.
Aurora Bertrana, 74, Catalan cellist and writer.
Marie Ames Byrd, 85, widow of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and namesake of Marie Byrd Land, the largest unclaimed territory on Earth.
Harry Partch, 73, American composer, died of a heart attack.
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