President Ford announced today that the Soviet‐American talks on limiting strategic nuclear arms would resume on September 18. A White House spokesman added that the American negotiators will “have an agreed position” by the time they return to Geneva. But that position, according to a number of Administration officials, is likely to be a statement of general principles, objectives and approaches rather than a concrete proposal. One official maintained that “this puts us back to where we were a year and a half ago.” A high State Department official, on the other hand, said: “This is where we and the Russians agreed to be at the summit last summer, and when Kissinger goes to Moscow again in October, he will present some concrete ideas — although still not a proposal that looks like a treaty.” The failure to arrive at a new proposal is no longer the result of disagreement on issues among Secretary of State Kissinger, Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger and others.
The main reason, by all accounts, is the chasm between past Soviet and American positions. There is no clear idea how this chasm can be bridged without accepting what Administration officials see as “strategic inferiority.” Compared with this difficulty, the differences within the Administration are minor. Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Schlesinger, officials say, are not now pressing for specific arms proposals. Both seem to be waiting for President Ford, who is not well‐versed in, this subject, to reveal his attitudes. More than a year ago, Washington began presenting a series of proposals to Moscow. The last one was to extend the interim freeze on missile launchers due to expire in 1977 and to limit the deployment of missiles with multiple nuclear warheads, known an MIRV’s. At the Moscow summit meeting last June — the Geneva talk had adjourned, in March—Prosident Nixon and Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet Communist party leader, could not agree on controls for multiple warheads.
White House officials and Congressional aides continued negotiations today in an effort to reach a compromise next week that would lead to passage of the Administration’s trade bill and stepped‐up emigration of Soviet Jews. Administration officials and aides representing three Senators have already reached basic anderstanding on an exchange of letters that would outline actions on the emigration question that the Soviet Union would be anticipated to take. The trade bill, introduced last year, has been held up because of Congressional refusal to grant the Russians nondiscriminatory tariffs until barriers to emigration were lifted.
In the last few months, Secretary of State Kissinger and White House officials have been negotiating a compromise plan with Senators Henry M. Jackson, Jacob K. Javits and Abraham A. Ribicoff. Mr. Kissinger told the Senators, leaders in the emigration liberalization fight, that Soviet officials had assured him they were ready to allow increased emigration of Jews and others in return for trade concessions. Left for negotiation is the wording of the language in the trade bill, which would allow the Russians to receive the tariff treatment known as most‐favored‐nation status. The White House and the Senate aides are also discussing how much of the agreement to make public.
President Glafkos Clerides, the leader of the Greek Cypriot community, and Rauf Denktash the head of the Turkish Cypriot administration, met privately in Nicosia tonight for the first time since the Geneva conference on the Cyprus crisis collapsed more than three weeks ago. Mr. Clerides and Mr. Denktash were said to have exchanged views on “refugee problems and other important issues.” Their hour‐long meeting took place at a war‐scarred hotel now occupied by the United Nations in the no man’s land dividing the Turkish and Greek Cypriot forces stationed in Nicosia. The private meeting followed a three‐hour session attended by the two leaders and other officials, and stirred speculation that a move toward new politcal negotiations might be starting.
The earlier meeting was scheduled at the request of Secretary General Waldheim of the United Nations to consider “humanitatian” issues, such as the refugee problem created by the war. It was attended by Mr. Waldheim’s special representative, Luis Weckmann‐Munoz, and other officials and produced an agreement between the two Cypriot leaders to exchange lists of prisoners and missing persons and to establish a plan for the release of prisoners and detained civilians. The leaders also agreed to give priority to treatment of ailing refugees. They scheduled another meeting for next Friday. A number of ranking diplomats said before today’s meeting that they hoped it might be broadened by the two Cypriot leaders to begin a discussion of the sharp political differences separating the two sides since the Geneva talks failed, and the Turkish Army advanced to occupy 40 percent of the island.
Britain’s Labor Government proposed legislation today that would protect women — and men — against sex discrimination through a special equal opportunities commission. The planned legislation outlined today in a Government white paper could effect how British women—who make up more than half the electorate—might vote in an election expected next month, political analysts believe. Under the proposed legislation, women would have equal access to such male strongholds as public bars and off‐track betting shops by the end of the year—if the Labor Government is re‐elected. As for men, they would be free to become midwives. Sex discrimination would be prohibited in employment, training, education and accommodation. Women would have to be treated equally when applying for loans and in other financial matters.
Portugal and the guerrilla movement of Mozambique will sign an independence agreement tomorrow. It will end Portugal’s 400-year-old sovereignty over the East African territory and will mark the end of a 10-year guerrilla war against the Portuguese.
Israeli troops broke into several houses in a southern Lebanese town early today looking for Palestinian commandos, according to reports from residents of the area. The residents said that about 35 Israelis of a 120‐man force that had laid siege to Aita ech Chaab, in the Arkub area on the southern slopes of Mount Hermon, reached the eastern part of the town and broke into several homes. The Lebanese Defense Ministry said earlier that the Israeli force had been driven off by Lebanese artillery, but did not mention any search for guerrillas. Villagers in the area said the Israelis told them they were looking for Palestinians, and that they stayed in the town about 45 minutes, exchanging mortar fire with Lebanese Army troops. Earlier this week, Israeli vehicles with trucks were said to have crossed into southern Lebanon twice and to have withdrawn under artillery fire.
Israeli artillerymen shelled numbei of villages on the slopes of Mount Hermon today, according to reports from the area, and several Israeli planes were said to have flown low over the region. Witnesses said this was apparently a show of force in the wake of the Arab guerrilla raid Wednesday on Fassuta, Israel in which two Israelis and two guerrillas were killed.
The Israeli military command said today that one of its army units had fired light weapons and flares when it encountered “suspicious enemy movements” along the frontier near Aita ech Chaab early today, but added: “There was no encounter and Israeli soldiers suffered no casualties.”
President Anwar el‐Sadat expressed confidence today in President Fdrd’s efforts toward peace in the Middle East. “I can assure Arab public opinion that the United States is serious and is committed to everything that former President Nixon pledged,” Mr. Sadat was quoted as saying in an interview carried by the Middle East News Agency. At the same time, he said that Saudi Arabia had helped Egypt acquire “certain kinds of weapons which it lacked” in the war with Israel last October. He did not elaborate.
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have joined other Arab countries seeking investments for the rapidly growing accumulation of funds arising from the recent quadrupling of oil prices. Kuwait offered to pay the equivalent of $246 million for a British commercial real estate company in what may be the largest Arab investment disclosed so far in the West. It proposes to buy all of the shares of the St. Martin’s Property Corporation’s real estate holdings, which are concentrated in London’s financial district and extend to Europe and Australia.
Saudi Arabia has decided to purchase several billion dollars of a special bond issue of the United States Treasury, government financial sources said. An American diplomatic source speculated that the amount and timing of the bond purchase would be geared to progress toward a political settlement between the Arabs and Israel.
Saudi Arabia increases its oil buy-back price from 93 percent to 94.9 percent of posted price.
The Ethiopian military today accused Emperor Haile Selassie of having diverted money from a state brewery, newspapers in Addis Ababa reported. It was the first time the 82‐year‐old Emperor has been directly accused of wrongdoing since the military opened, a drive against official corruption seven months ago. The newspapers said that the reports were based on documents seized by the army. According to the reports, the military said that since 1952‐the Emperor, the late Empress Menen and others had siphoned more than $36‐million from the St. Geoige Brewery. Since last February, the military has jailed many high Government officials and advisers to the Emperor, gradually stripping him of his close advisers and his once‐absolute power.
In a continuation of protests in South Korea following the August 15 assassination attempt on President Park Chung Hee by a Japanese-born North Korean sympathizer, a crowd attacked the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, breaking windows, removing the flag of Japan from the roof and setting a car on fire. Police responded with tear gas. During further protests on September 9, 15 demonstrators cut off their little fingers, saying they wished to present them to the Embassy.
Premier Kim Jong Pil publicly expressed regret today over the ransacking of the Japanese Embassy by, about 200 demonstrators and promised compensation for damages. Later, Foreign Minister Kim Dong Jo handed the Japanese Ambassador a note pledging formally that no similar attacks would occur. The Koreans were members of an anti‐Japanese association and of an anti‐Communist league. Before the embassy was stormed this morning, many chanted slogans attacking the Tokyo Government for not disbanding an association of Korean residents in Japan. The Seoul Government holds that association responsible for the attempted assassination of President Park Chung Hee on August 15, an attack in which the President’s wife was killed. Ambassador Toro Ushiroku and his staff took shelter on the fourth floor of the building when the mob stormed into the embassy grounds, smashing windows, ransacking offices on the ground floor, burning an embassy vehicle and ripping down the Japanese flag. No members of the embassay staff were reported hurt.
Because of “the increasingly repressive measures” of President Park Chung Hee’s government, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee proposed that American military aid to South Korea be sharply reduced now and cut off completely by 1977. If upheld by the full Senate and the House, the committee’s proposal would set back severely the planned modernization program for the South Korean armed forces.
A caucus of New Zealand Labour Party (NZLP) members of Parliament voted, 44 to 6, to choose Finance Minister Bill Rowling rather than Deputy Prime Minister Hugh Watt to be the new NZLP chairman and Prime Minister of New Zealand. The choice filled the vacancy left by the death of Norman Kirk on August 31. Health Minister Bob Tizard was chosen as Deputy Prime Minister.
Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela have joined the growing Latin American movement against political and economic sanctions against Cuba. They proposed to the Organization of American States that the sanctions imposed 10 years ago be removed. The sanctions were sought by the United States in response to what it saw as subversive activities in O.A.S. countries, sponsored by Havana.
Beside the Portuguese flag flying over the Chimbila military camp in eastern Angola there still flutters a 10‐year‐old souvenir of yet another African war: a blue flag with a yellow diagonal and a yellow star. It is the flag of the one‐time secessionist dream of the Belgian‐backed Republic of Katanga, the state once led by Moise Tshombe, who died in an Algerian prison. Stern‐faced black sentries in camouflage smocks guard the gates and forbid entry to the camp. Here in Angola, which has been promised independence in the near future, is a camp of about 400 Katangan mercenaries once emptoyed by the Portuguese as guerrillas against the Angolan liberation armies. No one wants to talk about the Katangans. Military men who are almost always ready nowadays to answer even the most indiscreet questions, are tight‐lipped on the subject.
The Labor Department reported that unemployment rose slightly in August and that the increase, combined with a similarly small one in July, left little doubt that unemployment had moved to a higher level than the one that prevailed during the first six months of 1974. The jobless rate in August was 5.4 percent of the total work force, and was the highest since October, 1972, when the rate was 5.5 percent.
The Ford administration’s two top economic officials expressed opposition to suggestions made by some economists at the White House meeting on inflation Thursday that the nation’s money supply should be expanded. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the President’s Council Of Economic Advisers, told newsmen that easing of the tight money policy would not help fight inflation. Treasury Secretary William Simon said he supported continued restraints on the money supply.
President Ford, speaking tonight at a dinner honoring the reconvening of the First Contimental Congress, said the nation would defeat inflation before its 200th anniversary on July 4, 1976. Mr. Ford said those who made up the Continental Congress were “inflation fighters before they took up arms against the British redcoats.” He said they had met voluntarily to wage economic warfare for their future freedom and prosperity and had made plans for the emerging nation to face a shortage of goods and rising prices. “The tyranny of the British Parliament and crown in 1774‐animated our ancestors,” he said, “The tyranny of doubledigit inflation is our common enemy in 1974. Inflation is the cruelest kind of taxation without representation.”
Speaking to an audience of several hundred persons in a tent outside Independence Hall, Mr. Ford reminded his audience that the first priority of his month‐old Administration was “all‐out war against inflation.” “Like the patriots who met here 200 years ago,” he said, “we may seem to move, cautiously and too deliberately. But I hope no one will underestimate the fighting ability of Americans today the way some did in 1774. I warn you, as wise old Ben Franklin did, that if we do not all hang together we will certainly hang separately. But we will not hang separately nor will we fall divided. We’re going after — one and all, Democrats and. Republicans — the public enemy of inflation in 1974 and we will lick him before July 4, 1976.” Mr. Ford’s speech, which drew repeated and enthusiastic applause, was the culimnation of the two‐day conference held in preparation for the nation’s bicentennial celebration.
Slightly ahead of the official calendar, America’s bicentennial celebration was given a gala inauguration here today as the reconvening of the First Continental Congress ended in historic Carpenters Hall. The two‐day event, which was highlighted by an address by President Ford at a banquet tonight, attracted political and governmental leaders from all 13 of the original states and produced a collection of resolutions dealing with various aspects of contemporary national life. Moreover, its two deliberative sessions and the attendant ceremonies in the heart of Philadelphia’s historic district apparently enhanced the image of the bicentennnial celebration in the minds of its participants.
Social Democrats, U.S.A., descendants of the Socialist party, began their national convention in New York today pledging to work with the trade union movement and the Democratic Party to achieve socialist goals. Carl Gershman, former chairman of the Young People’s Socialist League who is expected to be named the party’s national secretary, said the organization sought “to transform the Democratic Party into the Social Democratic party.” “Our goal as socialists,” Mr. Gershman said, “is to create political structure in America which is equivalent to a social democratic party.”
General Creighton W. Abrams, the Army Chief of Staff, was buried today in rain‐swept Arlington National Cemetery, mourned by President Ford and comrades from World War II to Vietnam. President and Mrs. Ford sat alone in a pew facing General Abrams’ flag‐draped coffin, joining some 600 other mourners in the traditional Roman Catholic funeral service at the Fort Myer Chapel. Generals came from far away, including some of the dwindling group of World War II leaders, General of the Army Omar N. Bradley, Gen. J. Lawton Collins and Gen. Alfred Gruenther. One of the honorary pallbearers was Major General George S. Patton 3d, son of the World War II battle leader who once called General Abrams the “world champion” tank commander.
Mr. Ford walked from the chapel with General Abrams’s widow, and talked with her briefly before returning to the White House while General Abrams’s family, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other national leaders walked in the rain to the cemetery several hundred yards away. There, with a 19‐gun salute, three volleys of musketry and taps, General Abrams was buried with the heroes of past wars.
Governors and lottery officials of the 13 states that run lotteries were assured by Attorney General William Saxbe, who believes that lotteries violate federal anti-gambling laws, that there was no present danger of prosecution of lottery ticket buyers, state agencies or private concerns involved in lotteries. Mr. Saxbe said, however, that he would seek an injunction against lotteries if Congress did not clarify the gambling laws within 90 days. The state officials unanimously protested the Attorney General’s proposed action.
Betty Ford said today that she would campaign for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment for women if her schedule permitted. The President’s wife, who came to Birmingham to be honored as one of 11 “legendary women” of America, told reporters she was wholeheartedly in support of the amendment and said that her feelings on it were well known to Mr. Ford. Asked whether she would campaign for ratification in the five states needed to make the proposal law, Mrs. Ford said, “If my schedule will permit it, I certainly will.”
William H. Merrill, head of the “plumbers” unit for the Watergate prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, resigned today to return to private law practice in Detroit. Mr. Merrill, 51 years old, was chief counsel for the prosecution that won convictions in July of John D. Ehrlichman and three other men for the 1971 burglary at the office of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist. His unit also obtained guilty pleas from two other men in the Ellsberg case.
The Yankees at least proved that they were good “mudders” at Shea Stadium last night as the American League’s Eastern Division race moved into the homestretch. Playing in a continuous rain, they topped the Detroit Tigers, 6‐2, in the opener of a scheduled twilight‐night doubleheader that was halted after six and a half innings by heavy rain. The Yankees battered Mickey Lolich for eight hits and all their runs in five innings pitched by the ace of the Detroit staff. The second game was washed out and rescheduled as part of a doubleheader tomorrow. More rain is forecast and the teams may have difficulty getting in all four games slated for Detroit’s final visit here this season. A fourth game is scheduled for Sunday. The triumph enabled the Yankees to increase to 1½ games their lead over the Boston Red Sox, who were tied for second by the Baltimore Orioles. Boston lost to Milwaukee and Baltimore won two games from Cleveland. Continuing their hottest streak of the season, the Yankees won for the eighth time in their last nine games. Over a longer period, they have taken 13 of 15 and 17 of 21.
Ken Berry and George Scott hit run‐scoring singles and Milwaukee’s Jim Slaton and Tom Murphy combined on a four‐hitter tonight in carrying the Brewers to a 2–0 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Luis Tiant was the losing pitcher. It was the eighth consecutive defeat for the Red Sox and it was the fourth time they have been shut out in their last five games. Slaton, was staked to a 1–0 lead When Don Money led off the game with a double off the left‐field wall and scored on Berry’s single. Tiant, 20–11, then stopped the Brewers until the eighth, when singles by Pedro Garcia, Don Money and Scott produced another run. Since winning his 20th game of the season, Tiant has lost his last three starts by 3–0, 1–0, and 1–0 scores.
Baltimore sweeps a doubleheader from the Cleveland Indians, 2–0 and 1–0. Dave McNally and Mike Cuellar notch the 4th and 5th consecutive shutouts for the Orioles, who set an American League record. The losing pitcher in game 2 is Jim Kern, making his Major League debut. Dave McNally hurled a three‐hitter and Enos Cabell hit his first home run of the season in the opener. Cuellar pitched a five‐hitter in the nitecap. The sweep, which gave the Orioles a string of 46 straight shutout innings, one shy of the league mark, pulled Baltimore within 1½ games of the front‐running New York Yankees in the Eastern Division. Cuellar won his 18th game and McNally his 14th.
The California Angels defeated the Chicago White Sox, 4–2, as the Angels scored all four runs in the 4th inning. Frank Tanana won his 10th game against 17 defeats. Wilbur Wood (20-17) took the loss for the Sox.
Jeff Burroughs drives in the tying and winning runs as the Texas Rangers beat the Oakland A’s, 5–4, in 11 innings. Burroughs tied it in the ninth and won it in the 11th. Both singles came off struggling ace reliever Rollie Fingers. In the seventh, he had an RBI triple, also off Fingers.
Steve Garvey’s three‐run homer off Don Gullett in the first gave the Los Angeles Dodgers a 3–1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds tonight and increased the Dodgers’ lead in the Western Division to 3½ games over the second‐place Reds. Don Sutton, with relief help from Mike Marshall, who came in after Dan Driessen had led of the eighth with a homer and Cesar Geronimo had followed with a single, gained his 14th victory against nine losses. The, save was the 20th of the season for Marshall, who made his 91st appearance, one shy of his major league record.
Dock Ellis hurled a three‐hitter and Ed Kirkpatrick belted a tie‐breaking homer to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 2–1 victory over the Montreal Expos tonight. The triumph was the fourth in a row for the Pirates, leaders in the National League East, and the 12th in their last 14 games.
Dick Ruthven scattered eight hits and Dave Cash drove in one run and scored another today as the Philadelphia Phillies scored a 4–3 victory over the Chicago Cubs. It was Ruthven’s eighth triumph against 11 defeats and fifth complete game of the season. It was the fifth straight loss for the Cub and the second success in a row for the Phillies after a three‐game losing streak.
Lou Brock got two hits in four times at bat, knocked in a run, scored another and went two for three in thefts on the basepaths tonight to spark the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3‐0 victory over New York that snapped the Mets’ seven‐game winning streak. The 35‐year‐old Brock thus raised his stolen base total to 101, three shy of Maury Wills’s season record of 104. Brock is only two shy of the National League career record of 738 set by Max Carey. Brock made both thefts off the Mats’ relief pitcher, Harry Parker, on successive pitches in the eighth inning after leading off with a smash single through shortstop. Ted Sizemore was at bat. Two pitches later Brock was on third base. Two outs later Brock came home on Joe Torre’s single to center field. That was the final Cardinal run.
Greg Gross, a rookie, scored one run and drove in another tonight as the Houston Astros beat the San Diego Padres, 4‐3, on the combined seven‐hit pitching of James Rodney Richard and Ken Forsch. Gross tripled to open the Astros’ first inning off Dan Spillner, the losing pitcher, and scored when Roger Metzger followed with another triple. Metzer continued home when Dave Winfield, Padres’ right fielder, threw wild to third base. Wilbur Howard doubled and scored on Larry Milbourne’s single for the Astros in the second inning, Milbourne then stole second base, went to third on an error, and scored on a single by Gross.
John D’Acquisto hurled a four‐hitter and Chris Speier and Tito Fuentes drove in the runs in the San Francisco Giants’ 2–0 victory over the Atlanta Braves tonight. D’Acquisto (11–12) was never in serious trouble until the ninth when he gave up a single and a double. He pitched out of the jam, however, to stop the Braves’ four‐game winning streak.
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Born:
Nina Persson, Swedish singer (The Cardigans- “Lovefool”), in Örebro, Sweden.
Chad Coleman, American TV actor (“The Wire”, “The Walking Dead”, ‘Fred Johnson’- “The Expanse”), in Richmond, Virginia.
Justin Whalin, American TV actor (‘Jimmy Olsen’- “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman”) in San Francisco, California.
Chad Scott, NFL cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers, New England Patriots), in Capitol Heights, Maryland.
Travis Kirschke, NFL defensive tackle and defensive end (Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers), in Fullerton, California.
Tim Henman, English professional tennis player; in Oxford, England, United Kingdom.
Died:
Olga Baclanova, 81, Russian-born film and stage actress nicknamed “The Russian Tigress”, known for the 1932 film “Freaks”, died of lung cancer.
LaVere Redfield, 76, eccentric American multi-millionaire convicted of tax evasion.
Patricia Cutts, 48, English film and television actress, committed suicide by barbiturate poisoning, shortly after accepting the role of ‘Blanche Hunt’ on the long-running British programme “Coronation Street”.
Otto Kruger, 89, American film and TV actor, died of a stroke.
Michael Benthall CBE, 55, English theater director for the Royal Victoria Theatre.
Frank W. Buxton, 96, American journalist, former editor of the Boston Herald and winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
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