Former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant will undergo further surgery shortly in his fight against cancer, U.N. sources said. They said U Thant was still unable to take solid food and the new operation would try to correct the problem. He has had two operations so far.
President Glafkos Clerides said today that his Government had confiscated hundreds of weapons from illegally armed Greek Cypriots in recent days. The President said in an interview that the weapons had been confiscated to improve internal security in the Greek community on the island. He indicated that most of the weapons had been taken by national guardsmen from men belonging to EOKA‐B, the rightist military group, but that weapons had also been taken from leftists. He did not disclose the number’ taken, the types involved or how many of them had been taken from supporters of any particular group. But Mr. Clerides said that the confiscation had improved the security of his government and that he did not fear a violent attempt to remove him from office. “If I wasn’t feeling secure, I wouldn’t be sitting in an office with all that glass,” the President said, smiling and pointing to the windows in his office.
Since assuming the presidency six weeks ago, Mr. Clerides has been attempting to establish a government acceptable both to the rightists who helped overthrow Archbishop Makarios on July 15 and to the leftists who support the Archbishop and advocate his return to the island. Recently the Archbishop has been issuing statements from London calling without excess enthusiasm for Greek Cypriots to unite behind Mr. Clerides for the present. Asked today whether he thought Archbishop Makarios would return to the island soon, Mr. Clerides shook his head and said, “I don’t think so.” In recent weeks the President has been publicly cool to the prospect of the Archbishop’s return, but he has said he would do nothing to prevent it. Mr, Clerides said that the confiscation of weapons had been accelerated In the last week and that it would continue for two more weeks. But he conceded that the effort would not leave potentially dissident political groups without weapons. For this reason, it is impossible to know whether EOKA‐B is likely to refrain from violence while Mr. Clerides attempts to deal with the problems created by the invasion of Cyprus on July 20 by the Turkish Army which now controls 40 percent of the island.
The President denied knowledge that any Greek or Greek Cypriot officials had told any Turkish or Turkish Cypriot official that they conceded that Cyprus would be formally partitioned into two sectors. Such a concession was reported yesterday by Rauf Denktash, the head of the Turkish Cypriot administration. Mr. Clerides said that Mr. Denktash’s statement indicated that the Turkish Cypriot leader was “dreaming.”
More bodies were dug up today from a mass grave at the Turkish Cypriot village of Maratha, and the Turks reported two more massacres in which they said 158 Turkish Cypriots may have died. Officers of the United Nations force counting skulls removed from a garbage pit outside Maratha said 84 men, women and children had been buried in the grave.
Greece would be willing to discuss federated Cyprus, divided into two geographical regions, at peace talks, an authoritative government source said today. But the source denied a statement by Rauf Denktash, the Turkish Cypriot leader, who said yesterday that Greece and the Greek Cypriots had already accepted the idea of dividing the island into Greek and Turkish zones. In an interview Mr. Denktash said that Athens did not have enough courage to announce its acceptance. The willingness of Greece to discuss a federal solution for Cyprus is in itself an important concession. Historically, Greeks have adamantly opposed federation on the ground that it would ultimately lead to partition. In a series of recent discussions, however, Greek leaders have acknowledged that Cyprus has already been partitioned by the Turkish troops who invaded in July and that any lasting solution would probably involve Turkish authority over a specific region.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture disclosed it had recalled a team of experts from the Soviet Union because of travel restrictions imposed by Moscow. The team arrived there August 26 for a planned 22-week tour of six major spring wheat producing regions. Moscow offered no reason for the curbs. One expert said there was no hint the curb was related to a late start and a shortfall in harvesting.
The United States and the Communist nation of East Germany (officially, the German Democratic Republic) announced jointly that they had agreed to establish full diplomatic relations. Former U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky was nominated as U.S. Ambassador to East Germany, while Rolf Sieber, rector of the Berlin School of Economics and Law, was designated as the East German ambassador to the U.S., with embassies to be opened in December.
Representatives of 10 million British labor union members endorsed voluntary restraint in wage demands. Only one of 131 unions at a conference of the Trades Union Congress voted against the “social contract” proposed by the TUC general council and the Labor Party. The action improved Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s chances of a clear majority in new House of Commons elections expected next month.
Participants in the 24th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Vienna have approved a resolution calling for a world disarmament conference. Long-time observers said it was the first unanimous appeal in the history of the conference, a meeting conceived in the days of the cold war by Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and Cyrus Eaton to bring scientists from East and West together privately to spur disarmament.
India’s lower house of Parliament, the Lok Sabha, voted 310 to 7 to make the kingdom of Sikkim one of the states of India, subject to approval by the Sikkimese government. The upper house, the Rajya Sabha, followed suit on September 7 in a 168 to 8 vote.
South Vietnamese forces hampered by a lack of air support failed for the fourth time in as many days to recapture a Communist-held village 22 miles north of Saigon, military spokesman said. One government soldier was killed and 11 wounded in the latest attack on Thái Hưng, which lies beside the Mekong River infiltration route to Saigon.
South Vietnam has presented a note to the Cambodian Government protesting oil exploration in contested waters, Government sources said today. A French company began drilling about two weeks agd, the sources said, at a site about 60 miles southwest of the Cambodian port of Kompong Som. Reports from Saigon said the South Vietnamese Navy would tear down the drilling rig if it was not removed by September 12. Industrial sources said some traces of oil were found but it Was not commercially exploitable.
According to Western intelligence reports, North Vietnam is getting increased economic aid from China, the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, but with new strings attached. Moscow apparently decided some months ago to make its aid contingent on North Vietnam’s keeping better records, drawing up a detailed economic plan and taking a national census. The demands were reportedly made after Soviet investigators found donated equipment and machinery unused on docks and in warehouses. They were also said to have discovered that Hanoi had no complete picture of its stocks of equipment and, as a Western analyst explained, “no clear‐cut idea of what kind of labor force they had — how many truck drivers, for example.” The census has now been taken and a two‐year economic plan drafted. The aid is pouring in.
Basing their estimates on deliveries so far this year, the analysts here say that North Vietnam will receive about a million tons of grain — including rice, wheat and corn — from China and the Soviet Union in 1974. This is about 20 per cent of North Vietnam’s annual consumption. Much of the wheat has come from the Soviet Union, while the rice has generally been shipped from China, often in the form of local trade between border areas. Officials believe that while the North Vietnamese barter for some of the rice, much of it is simply sent as deficit trade, or as a sort of loan that will probably never be repaid. The bulk of the other aid is in petroleum, machinery and technical assistance, the analysts say. The Soviet Union has provided locomotives, helicopters, bulldozers, machinery for power plants and techniciankip help maintain heavy equipment.
Four more South Koreans, including a dissident lawyer, were given prison sentences by a military court in Seoul, bringing to 178 the number reportedly jailed since January. The lawyer received 10 years with the other three given 3-7 years under decrees aimed at subversive elements. Although the decrees were lifted last month, military courts continued trying cases started before the easing of the bans on dissent.
Tokyo police said they believed that at least three young men were responsible for the bomb explosion which killed eight persons and injured 287 in Tokyo last week. The blast wrecked the head office of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan’s major arms maker. A taxi driver told police he took two young men carrying packages to near the building and heard them say they were going to meet a third.
A Japanese court sentenced an American civilian to death for the murder of an American soldier. Court officials said it was the first time since World War II that a Japanese court had given an American the death sentence. Samuel L. Petterson, 40, of Lake Charles, La., was found guilty of the murder of Pvt. Gregory L. Scrivens, 20, of Warren, Ohio, in June, 1974. Scrivens allegedly had threatened to report a plot to kidnap and kill an American businessman. Patterson has two weeks in which to appeal to a higher court.
Twenty-one economists, representing almost the entire spectrum of economic opinion, will meet tomorrow in the first of a series of White House conferences on inflation. And there are indications that they might approach unanimity on at least some issues. Opening remarks will be made by President Ford, who hopes to collect ideas on ways of dealing with inflation and related problems and to build broad support for policies that his administration is committed to, such as reduced government spending.
The anti-inflation maneuvers of the Ford administration are being closely watched abroad with more than unusual interest. Europeans are worried that new policies in Washington may lead the world into a prolonged slump. In Brussels, the capital of the European Common Market, expressions of official concern have already been registered with American representatives.
President Ford named Mrs. Mary Louise Smith as his choice for chairman of the Republican National Committee to succeed George Bush, whom the President nominated as the United States envoy to Peking. If Mrs. Smith is given committee approval, which is regarded as nothing more than a formality, she will become the first woman to head the Republican party.
President Ford named George H.W. Bush, the Republican National Chairman, to be the United States envoy to China, succeeding David K. E. Bruce, as he announced his first major changes in key diplomatic, political and economic posts. Kenneth Rush, economic counselor to former President Nixon, who has continued in his post under Mr. Ford, was nominated to be Ambassador to France. The changes marked the beginning of Mr. Ford’s efforts to reshape both the government and the Republican party, according to a White House official close to the President. A White House official was quoted as saying, “George Bush was a strong and viable candidate to be Ford’s Vice President until the last minute. He is somebody the President holds in high regard.”
Mr. Ford’s naming of George Bush to fill the top American diplomatic job in Peking comes at a time when Secretary of State Kissinger is reported to be satisfied with the development of United States-China relations. Certain Chinese leaders have expressed displeasure with the pace of change in American policy on the legal status of Taiwan, but it is maintained that Mr. Kissinger has received no indication of this in private communications.
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz and other American food experts made it clear that the days of massive U.S. food programs overseas are over and that poor nations must do more to feed themselves. “We cannot afford to feed the world, nor should we,” Butz said at a meeting in Washington, D.C. preparing for a world food conference in November. In off-the-cuff remarks, the secretary said the American people “have made a commitment not to let anyone starve.”
John D. Ehrlichman demanded that records maintained in the White House concerning Watergate be surrendered for his use in the Watergate cover-up trial. His lawyers issued a subpoena asking for the files by September 16. Ehrlichman and five others are scheduled for trial beginning September 30. The former White House domestic counselor already has issued a subpoena demanding the appearance of former President Richard M. Nixon as a witness.
Scores of persons wearing goggles and plastic bags over their heads looted a tear-gassed supermarket in Newark, New Jersey as police in riot gear tried to quell vandalism stemming from weekend violence. Eleven persons were arrested in the predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood. There were heated verbal exchanges between police and a crowd of 200 persons gathered on street corners, but no violence. Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson promised a complete investigation of the violence, including allegations of police brutality.
A net worth statement submitted by Vice President-designate Rockefeller will not be made public without his consent, Senator Howard D. Cannon (D-Nevada), said. But Cannon, chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, said the panel would have to question Rockefeller about some of his holdings at public hearings on his nomination.
A federal judge has rejected former Teamsters President James R. Hoffa’s request that he be allowed to campaign for union office in Detroit while appealing terms of the executive clemency that freed him from prison. Under that order, signed by former President Richard M. Nixon in December, 1971, Hoffa’s 13-year prison sentence was commuted on the condition that he not engage in union activities until 1980.
A Jesuit priest from New York who performed a baptism in Marlboro, Massachusetts, on Aug. 20 when local priests refused on the grounds that the mother approved of freedom of choice for abortions has been dismissed from the order, the Boston Globe reported. Quoting a Jesuit familiar with the case, the Globe said the dismissal of the Rev. Joseph O’Rourke had not yet been confirmed by the superior general of the Society of Jesus in Rome. Parish priests had refused to baptize young Nathaniel Ryan Morreale, 3 months, on the ground that his mother, Carol, 20, would not bring him up according to the teachings of the church, which is against abortion.
The New York Yankees moved into a first‐place tie with the Boston Red Sox in the Eastern Division of the American League yesterday. The Yankees defeated the Milwaukee Brewers, 3–0, at Shea Stadium, while the Red Sox lost to the Baltimore Orioles, 6–0.
The Baltimore Orioles top the Boston Red Sox, 6–0, for their 3rd straight shutout over Boston and are now 2 games behind the Red Sox and Yankees in the American League East race. The Sox manage just 8 hits in the 3 games. With the victory today the Orioles match a record set by the 1913 Washington Senators: shutting out a 1st–place team in a three-game series. It won’t happen again until 2010.
The Texas Rangers’ Ferguson Jenkins blanked the Minnesota Twins, 1–0, on seven hits for his 21st victory. It was also his sixth shutout, tying him with Boston’s Luis Tiant and the Mets’ Jon Matlack for the major league lead. The Twins’ pitcher, Dave Goltz, allowed only six hits, but one of them was a run‐scoring single to Jim Spencer in the sixth.
The Cleveland Indians edged the Detroit Tigers, 5–4. Rico Carty, pinch‐hitting, broke up a 4–4‐tie with a single in the eighth. The single off John Hiller, Detroit’s relief ace, scored Jack Brohamer with the winning run.
The Chicago White Sox shut out the Kansas City Royals, 7–0. Jim Kaat’s four‐hitter sent the Royals to their seventh loss in a row. Paul Splittorff, who had won all nine of his decisions against Chicago, was the victim of a six‐run fifth. Brian Downing started the onslaught with a homer.
California’s Andy Hassler hands out 10 walks but still beats the Oakland A’s, 5–2. It is the third time this year an Angels’ pitcher has been this generous with bases on balls. Vida Blue (14–14) took the loss for Oakland.
The New York Mets defeated the Chicago Cubs today, 4–2, to sweep their three‐game series and increase their winning streak to seven games. Ray Sadecki, who struck out only three and gave up nine hits and no walks in 6⅓ innings, got the victory, his third straight. He needed relief help from Bob Apodaca, who picked up his third save of the season.
Don Wilson has a no–hitter through 8 innings, but is lifted for a pinch hitter by Houston manager Preston Gomez. Reliever Mike Cosgrove gives up a leadoff single to Tony Perez, and the Astros lose to the Cincinnati Reds 2–1. Jack Billingham, who has a sacrifice bunt in the 2–run 5th, is the winner. Gomez made the same mistake in San Diego on July 21, 1970. The Reds score both runs in the 5th inning on 2 walks, a sacrifice bunt and a 2–base throwing error by Roger Metzger. For Perez it is the second time he has had the lone hit for the Reds in a game started by Wilson.
The Cardinals defeated the Montreal Expos, 5–4. Jim Dwyer’s pinch single in the eighth won the game for St. Louis, which moved to within 1½ games of first‐place Pittsburgh in the East. Reggie Smith hit his third homer in three games, but Lou Brock did not steal a base, leaving him at 99 in his pursuit of Maury Wills’s record of 104. Dwyer’s hit scored Bake McBride with the decisive run. Montreal had tied the score in the top of the eighth when Willie Davis singled and then scored on Mike Jorgensen’s double.
The Atlanta Braves downed the San Diego Padres, 5–3. Mike Lum and Dave Johnson drove in two runs apiece and the Braves swept the four‐game series.
The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants, 6–3 in 11 innings, as Jim Wynn hit a walk-off three-run homer off reliever Greg Minton of the Giants..
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Born:
Taya Kyle [née Studebaker], American author, political commentator, and military veteran’s family activist, widow of US Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, in Portland, Oregon.
Jon Ritchie, NFL fullback (Oakland Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles), in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
Alvis Whitted, NFL wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders), in Durham, North Carolina.
Shawn Swayda, NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons), in Phoenix, Arizona.
Carmit Bachar, American singer (The Pussycat Dolls); in Los Angeles, California.
Nona Gaye, American singer and fashion model; in Washington, District of Columbia.
Died:
U.S. Army General Creighton Abrams, 59, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, died of complications from the removal of a cancerous lung. In 1980, the M1 Abrams battle tank would be named in his honor.
Marcel Achard, 75, French playwright and scriptwriter, died of diabetes.
Hubbell Robinson, 68, American broadcasting executive for CBS, died of lung cancer.
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