President Glafkos Clerides, the leader of the Greek Cypriot community, and Raid Denktash, the head of the Turkish Cypriot administration, are now, considering specific proposals that could lead to the resumption of formal negotiations toward a settlement of the Cyprus crisis, according to knowledgeable diplomatic sources. The sources emphasized that there had been no agreement on any of the proposals between the two men, who met privately here yesterday for the first time since the Geneva Conference on Cyprus dissolved in failure on August 13. When the conference collapsed, the Turkish army, which had invaded Cyprus on July 10, began a second offensive and now controls 40 per cent of the Island. The proposals under consideration, the sources said, included important concessions by both the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides, along with the political division of the island and the return of Greek Cypriot refugees to their homes in areas now held by the Turkish Army.
The Cypriot leaders, who met for three hours last night on “humanitarian” issues, as distinguished from political ones, were said to have spoken also on “other important issues” during a one‐hour private meeting later. It was not disclosed whether the two men discussed the new proposals last night. The sources stated that both men were reticent for various political and diplomatic reasons to disclose publicly that they were considering the proposals. The sources also noted that opposition to the proposals from Ankara or Athens could compel Mr. Denktash and Mr. Clerides to proceed slowly and cautiously. Negative pressure from Greece or Turkey could also cause the leaders to disclaim publicly that they were considering the proposals, the sources said.
Under a compromise plan now in the final stages of negotiation between the administration and Congress and said to have Moscow’s approval, at least 60,000 Jews and others could emigrate yearly from the Soviet Union. Highly reliable informants said that if agreement could be reached in the next week or two, passage of the administration’s long-sought trade reform bill would be assured but, they said, the differences still holding up final approval were not insignificant. One major problem was said to be the exact wording of the legislation permitting the Soviet Union to get both non-discriminatory tariff treatment and continued government-backed Export-Import Bank credits.
Left-wing demonstrators fought a running battle with police through the streets of London in an attempt to prevent a march by the rightwing National Front. Fourteen persons were arrested but no injuries were reported. The threat of serious violence was averted when the National Front switched its route at the last minute away from Hyde Park. An estimated 3,000 left-wingers, some wearing crash helmets, were waiting in the park. About 3,000 National Front marchers demonstrated in support of Northern Ireland Protestants.
Gunmen firing at a British Army patrol from the grounds of an old people’s home at Dungannon today shot and killed a 59‐year‐old woman in a passing car, the police said. The police said one soldier was hit in the leg during the incident, 40 miles west of Belfast. The latest death came 24 hours after three gunmen suspected of being Protestant extremists shot and killed a police officer during a bank holdup in Belfast.
Communist Party General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev admitted that the Soviet grain crop is below expectation in some areas but said the country, overall, will not have a bad harvest this year. He gave his assessment of the grain crop in a nationally televised speech. Western experts have estimated the crop will reach 200 million tons, just below the target of 205.6 million.
The defense ministers of Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark gathered here today to inspect France’s latest Mirage jet fighter as they weighed their choice of aircraft in what the French are calling the arms deal of the century. The Mirage F‐1 is the chief rival to two United States jet fighters vying for contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The ministers are due go to Washington on Thursday to see Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger and to inspect the American contenders, the Northrop YF‐17 Cobra and the General Dynamics YF‐16. The four NATO countries have agreed to keep down costs by choosing the same type of aircraft.
Pope Paul VI again dissociated the Vatican from the proposed action plan of the world population conference in Budapest and urged scientists to find a method of birth control other than “abortion, sterilization and contraception by means which do not respect the laws of the transmission of life.” The Pope, in addressing a delegation of world pharmacists, said, “One cannot in good conscience profit by distributing products which would degrade man and love, or kill life.”
The United States has stopped delivery of uranium fuel to India, which last May detonated what she described as a “peaceful nuclear explosion,” until New Delhi clarifies its policy on nuclear tests. This is the first time that the United States as a matter of policy has stopped shipment of atomic fuel to a foreign country. The United States has warned India that it will cut off shipments of uranium unless it is assured the material will be used only for peaceful purposes, State Department officials said in Washington. The move stemmed from U.S. concern over India’s explosion in May of what New Delhi called a peaceful nuclear device, using plutonium produced from a Canadian research reactor.
The Constitution of Pakistan was amended to create and maintain a statistical database of all citizens of Pakistan, with each citizen to have a government-issued National Identity Card (NIC). Another amendment set an official definition of “Muslim” (“a person who believes in the unity and oneness of Allah, in the absolute and unqualified finality of the Prophethood of Muhammad (Peace be upon Him), the last of the Prophets, and does not believe in, or recognize as a prophet or religious reformer, any person who claimed or claims to be a prophet, in any sense of the word or of any description whatsoever, after Muhammad (Peace be upon Him)”) and “non-Muslim” (“a person who is not a Muslim and includes a person belonging to the Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist or Parsi community, a person of the Qadiani group or the Lahori group (who call themselves ‘Ahmadis’ or by another name), or a Baha’i, and a person belonging to any of the scheduled castes.”)
A Việt Cộng officer said today that his movement would take action “at the appropriate and necessary time” against oil campanies which have bought offshore drilling rights from the Saigon Government. Colonel Võ Đông Giang, deputy head of the Việt Cộng delegation to the military talks in Saigon — talks which have been suspended — spoke at his weekly news conference in response to questions on Saigon’s announcement last month that oil had been found by an American-owned company, off Vietnam, in the South China Sea. Questioned about a dispute between South Vietnam and Cambodia over drilling rights in the Gulf of Siam, he said that neither government had the right to deal with natural resources in the area.
The crash of a Garuda Indonesia airliner killed 35 of 39 people on board. The Fokker F27 Friendship turboprop struck an airport building while landing in poor weather at Bandar Lampung after a flight from Jakarta. The agency, quoting informed sources, said that three survivors were seriously injured. The condition of the fourth survivor, a child, was not immediately known. The Garuda Indoriesian Airways plane, a propeller‐driven Fokker 27, crashed in a rain storm as it approached the Branti Airport at Tanjung Karang, about 130 miles northwest of Jakarta.
A South Korean court martial today upheld the death sentences of eight persons convicted, of conspiring to overthrow the Government of President Park Chung Hee. One death sentence, on Lee Hyong Bae, was commuted to life imprisonment. Significantly, prison sentences on two Japanese citizens said to be connected with the student plots were upheld. Koreans have been demonstrating at the Japanese embassy here for several days. Today as rock-throwing crowds battled the police, Japan, recalled her Ambassador for consultations. Most of the death sentences upheld were those of leaders of the People’s Revolutionary party, an underground left-wing organization. All those whose cases were reviewed today, can now appeal to the civilian Supreme Court for final deliberations.
Peking sarcastically accused the Soviet Union of being “even smarter than the capitalist countries” in dealings with Third World countries. An article in the Chinese journal Red Flag, broadcast over Peking Radio, called Russia a “rapacious international exploiter… eagerly following the example of the transnational corporations of capitalist imperialism in investing abroad directly.”
Typhoon Shirley with winds of 78 mph at its center edged toward southern Japan after slapping the Ryukyu Islands with fringe winds and rain that destroyed nearly 30 homes. It was reported in the East China Sea, about 800 miles southwest of Tokyo, and was expected to reach the southern Japanese island of Kyushu this morning. Typhoon Polly hit southwestern Japan last weekend.
Testimony before Congress by William Colby, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, indicates that high officials in the State Department and the White House repeatedly and deliberately misled the public and Congress about the extent of United States involvement in the internal affairs of Chile during the three-year government of the late President Salvador Allende. Mr. Colby has told Congress that the Nixon administration authorized more than $8 million for covert C.I.A. activities in an effort to make it impossible for Dr. Allende to govern. Mr. Colby testified that the C.I.A.’s Chilean operations were considered a test of the technique of making large cash payments to bring down a government viewed as antagonistic toward this country, and that they were specifically approved in advanced by the “40 Committee” in Washington, a secret intelligence panel headed by Secretary of State Kissinger.
The Argentine Government’s official news agency reported today that President Isabel Martinez de Perón had met urgently with her top security advisers after leftists threatened guerrilla warfare against her 10‐week‐old Government. Other sources also reported the meeting, involving Mrs. Perón, Defense Minister Alberto Rocamora and three military commanders. But the Government later denied that the meeting had taken place and said that the 43‐year‐old President had spent the day in the presidential mansion at suburban Olivos. It appeared that Mrs. Perón’s Government was trying to play down the significance of the threat by leftist guerrillas and a bomb explosion that killed the 4‐month‐old son of the leftist rector of Buenos Aires University, Raul Laguzzi. The explosion occurred in the Laguzzi apartment and also seriously wounded him and his wife.
The Lusaka Accord was signed in Zambia between the government of Portugal and representatives of FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique), with Portugal recognizing the independence of the southeast African nation of Mozambique and ending the war of independence that had gone on for almost 10 years. The Republic of Mozambique would become independent on June 25, 1975.
Federal officials have begun working out a plan to phase out crude oil price controls by February. They are proceeding under orders from Treasury Secretary William Simon and Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. Morton. The proposal is said to figure importantly in a backstage power struggle among Mr. Simon, who is chairman of the cabinet-level Energy Committee, Mr. Morton and Federal Energy Administrator John Sawhill. An integral part of the plan that Mr. Simon believes will help to make it politically acceptable to Congress would be the enactment of the windfall profits tax on oil producers proposed by the White House last December.
Despite President Ford’s announced intention to implement a program of “earned re-entry,” most Vietnam deserters and draft evaders insist they will return only under an unconditional amnesty. Anything less, they say, will undermine their choices of conscience, choices their supporters contend were born of anguish and long years of loneliness and isolation.
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) was signed into law by U.S. President Ford. Though individual states of the U.S. were free not to follow the guidelines of the Act, only those states that complied with the federal standards were eligible for federal grants for state juvenile programs.
A military reorganization plan that would close down commands in Alaska and the Panama Canal Zone is getting renewed attention in the Defense Department, Pentagon officials said. Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger is described as favoring closing down the Alaskan and Southern (Panama) commands, but officials say no final plan has been submitted to him and that no decisions have been reached. Furthermore, officials say, it is not certain whether the White House would go along with such proposals.
Fuel supplies should be adequate this winter, according to a computer study by the Federal Energy Administration, which said high prices, the economic slowdown and conservation measures had been holding consumption well below 1973 levels. Even if a record cold wave or coal strike should push demand up by 15%, there would be only a 6% shortage of heating oil in early 1975 plus a minor gasoline shortage, both of which would be manageable, the agency said.
Criminal charges of fishing illegally inside the 12-mile limit were filed against the master of a 131-foot Japanese fishing boat. A Coast Guard cutter seized the ship, the Taiyo Maru, with a cargo of tuna and shark, after an eight-hour chase toward the open sea Thursday. The ship had been spotted less than 10 miles off the Maine coast. The seizure occurred at a time when Congress has been debating the imposition of a 200-mile offshore fishing limit.
A ban on handgun cartridges was rejected by the U.S. Consumer Safety Product Commission. The Committee on Handgun Control had sought the ban on such ammunition except that used by policemen, military personnel, security guards and licensed pistol clubs. But the commission decided, 4 to 1, that it had not been the intent of Congress that it exercise such power. It called the petition a back-door attempt to implement gun controls.
Defense lawyers for some of the 61 Attica State Prison inmates about to go on trial on charges resulting from the 1971 prison rebellion said they would subpoena former New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller as a witness. “The trials are being used to justify Rockefeller’s orders to the state police to assault the prison,” said Michael Deutsch, an attorney for the Attica Brothers Legal Defense Fund. A spokesman for Rockefeller in New York said the former governor “would obey the instructions of the court” if subpoenaed.
Controversy over the way a $40 million recruitment advertising contract was awarded in 1972 has caused the Army to ask for new bids rather than extend its agreement with the N. W. Ayer & Son advertising agency. The bidding will be open to all agencies, sources at the Pentagon said. Staff members from the Army’s criminal investigation division found what they believed might be criminal misconduct by senior Pentagon officials in the original contract award. Ayer, which has held Army advertising contracts for about seven years, won the current one over six other agencies in October, 1972.
Heroin and cocaine worth about $300,000 were stolen from a state drug laboratory in Boston. Police arrested a former employee of the laboratory, Louis Pinkney, 21, on charges of larceny and possession with intent to sell narcotics. They said 300 grams of drugs had been found in four jars hidden in a wooded section of nearby Brockton. Pinkney had been employed as a courier for the lab, which makes drug tests for police and other agencies.
The discovery of human remains in a wooded area 20 miles east of Seattle led to speculation that the find was related to the disappearance of five young women. But after intense investigation, police said there was no connection and that the bones, found by grouse hunters, were from only one body.
About a half-million Christians have become members of the “charismatic renewal” or “neo-Pentecostal” movement of the Roman Catholic and major Protestant churches. “Charismatics” are evangelical Christians who emphasize the importance of religious experience, such as prayer and liturgies that follow a free flow of emotion, and a “personal” relationship between the believer and Jesus.
A suit by environmentalists to halt construction of an addition to the San Onofre nuclear power plant was dismissed by a Superior Court judge in San Diego at the request of the San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and the Southern California Edison Co. The suit was filed by the Environmental Coalition of Orange County, Guard, Friends of the Earth. Scenic Shoreline Preservation Conference, and Ruth Peyton and Lloyd Van Whalen.
In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Shirley Cothran, 21, Miss Texas, won the Miss America 1975 pageant.
Revival of Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy’s 1919 musical “Irene”, starring Debbie Reynolds, closes at Minskoff Theater, NYC, after 605 performances.
Professional boxer Bobby Chacon of the U.S. won the World Boxing Council featherweight championship by defeating former World Boxing Association super-featherweight champion Alfredo Marcano of Venezuela. Chacon would die on the 42nd anniversary of his title bout on September 7, 2016.
U.S. Open Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, New York: Billie Jean King wins her 4th and final U.S. singles title; King beats Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia 3–6, 6–3, 7–5.
During a 3–1 win over the Chicago White Sox, California’s Nolan Ryan has a fastball clocked at 100.8 miles per hour — the fastest pitch so far recorded. Ryan strikes out seven, and scatters six hits and seven walks in his complete game victory.
In the nightcap of a doubleheader with the Detroit Tigers, Graig Nettles loses a single when it is discovered he is using a corked bat. The New York Yankees win, 1–0, on Nettles’s earlier home run. Nettles’s homer came in the second inning after the Tigers had taken the opener, 8–3, and it put the Yankees a game ahead of the Boston Red Sox, who snapped an eight‐game losing streak, and the Baltimore Orioles, who won their 10th straight. It was Nettles’s second homer of the day, his 17th of the season, and it allowed Larry Gura to win his second game with a five‐hitter. But it wasn’t nearly as interesting as the single that Nettles hit in the fifth inning of the second game. That’s when his bat came apart, revealing something besides wood.
Mario Guerrero’s single with the bases loaded and two out in the 10th, inning today sent Rico Petrocelli home with the deciding run as the Boston Red Sox defeated the Milwaukee Brewers, 4–3. The victory snapped an eight‐game losing streak for Boston. With two out in the 10th, Petrocelli singled off Tom Murphy, a relief pitcher. Tim McCarver lined a shot to right field that bounced into the seats for a groundrule double. After Dick McAuliffe was intentionally walked, loading the bases, Guerrero blooped his single to right. Bill Lee, the Boston starter, was constantly in trouble, but managed to escape from each threat except in the third inning when Milwaukee scored three runs.
The Baltimore Orioles win their 10th straight, but their consecutive scoreless innings streak is snapped when Charlie Spikes hits a 2–run homer in the 9th off Ross Grimsley. The streak ends at 54 innings. The O’s win, 3–2, over the Cleveland Indians. Mark Belanger walked in the seventh, stole second and scored on Rich Coggins’s single giving the Orioles a 3–0 edge.
Jim Sundberg drove in four runs and Steve Hargan pitched a four‐hitter today as the Texas Rangers roared to an 8–2 victory over the Oakland A’s. Gene Tenace hit his 23rd home run of the season in the second inning and Joe Rudi belted his 17th homer in the seventh for Oakland’s runs off Hargan.
The Kansas City Royals blanked the Minnesota Twins, 1–0. Fitzmorris allowed eight hits and walked five, but the Twins left 14 men on base.
Playing on a badly sprained ankle, Joe Morgan belts a 2–run homer off Mike Marshall to give the Cincinnati Reds a 7–5 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Marshall (13–11) tied his own relief appearance record set last year with the Montreal Expos. He entered in the sixth inning in relief of Andy Messersmith and pitched out of trouble. But in the eighth he gave a oneout walk to Pete Rose and then came Morgan’s home run, his 20th. Before his homer, Morgan had missed a pitch and fallen down, prompting Sparky Anderson to try and remove him. The Reds won today after trailing 5–0.
Lou Brock didn’t steal any bases, but he smashed a bases‐loaded single with two out in the ninth inning to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 2–1 victory over the New York Mets before 36,007 fans in Busch Stadium tonight. “Sweet Lou” is the way Bob Gibson described Brock after the pitcher received credit for his ninth victory against 12 defeats. The Cards remained 1½ games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Eastern Division race. It was a disappointing de‐feat for Jon Matlack, the Mets’ left‐hander. He struck out nine and walked six, two intentionally, while allowing only six hits. His Won‐lost record dropped to 12–11.
The San Francisco Giants capitalized on the six‐hit pitching of Jim Barr and Atlanta miscues to down the Braves tonight, 6–0. The Giants had only eight hits but were aided by three balks by Phil Niekro two errors, a passed ball and a hit batsman.
Dave Parker’s two‐out single delivered the winning run in the 12th tonight as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Montreal Expos, 6–5. It kept the Pirates 1½ games ahead of St. Louis in the National League East. With one out in the 12th, Richie Hebner singled. He moved to second on a walk to Miguel Dilone, then scored on Parker’s single. Larry Biittner’s run‐scoring single with two out in the ninth fashioned a 5–5 tie for Montreal. Pittsburgh had erased a 4–0 deficit in the seventh.
The San Diego Padres defeated the Houston Astros, 8–4. Willie McCovey’s two-run single keyed a six-run eighth inning outburst that allowed the Padres to snap a ten-game losing streak.
The Chicago Cubs shut out the Philadelphia Phillies, 3–0. Rick Monday’s two-run homer in the third inning, his 15th, gave Bill Bonham (11–18) all the support he needed.
Born:
Antonio McDyess, NBA power forward and center (NBA All-Star 2001; Denver Nuggets, Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs), in Quitman, Mississippi.
Texlin Quinney, WNBA forward (Indiana Fever), in Buffalo, New York.
Glenn Ljungström, Swedish guitarist for In Flames and The Resistance; in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Died:
Frank Smith Horne, 75, American poet, Harlem Renaissance figure and government official, died of arteriosclerosis.
Katherine Hupalo, 84, Ukrainian-American actress.
Juan Antonio Ipiña, 62, Spanish football manager.
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