The European security conference resumed negotiations in Geneva after a six-week summer recess. Senior diplomats from 35 nations met in a subcommittee to work out essential principles guiding relations between states. The unresolved key issue of contacts between people of East and West Europe was being discussed in an afternoon session of another subcommittee. Progress on this issue and on other vital questions, including more free exchanges of information, may well decide the relative success or failure of the 35‐nation conference.
Western delegates said there were still wide differences with their Communist counterparts on these issues when the conference recessed last July. The delegates said they hoped the mood at the subcommittee meetings this week would enable them to gauge the prospects for valid compromises. The conference was opened in June, 1973, in Helsinki, Finland after years of urging by the Soviet Union. Its aim is to stabilize Europe’s future through agreements on security issues, economic cooperation and contacts among people. The Soviet Union wants the conference to end with a flourish at a summit level in Helsinki later this year with agreement on Europe’s postwar political map, which divided Germany into two states and established Communist Governments in Eastern Europe. Western powers concede that some uneven progress has been made but not enough yet, they say, to justify moving on to the final phase.
Vice President Rauf Denktaş, the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community, today predicted a virtual economic takeover of Greek assets in northern Cyprus, but added non‐Greek foreign interests and foreign‐owned property would not be touched. Mr. Denktaş said that he would ask non‐Cypriots who owned property in the Turkish occupation zone and foreign companies with interests there to register them with the ethnic Turkish administration of the government. Mainland Turkey does not allow foreign ownership of property. The status of large outside interests in northern Cyprus has been unclear since Turkish forces in the north captured 40 percent of the eastern Mediterranean island after their July 20 invasion. “There is no intention of violating foreign property rights,” Mr. Denktaş said in an interview. But he said that Greek Cypriot‐owned property would be taken over to be run by official concerns or new cooperatives, and small holdings would be leased to Turkish Cypriots. Mr. Denktaş said that his administration had begun issuing its own travel documents to Turkish Cypriots and that mainland Turkish money would become legal tender on the island soon.
President Glafkos Clerides, the leader of the Greek Cypriot community, rejected today as unacceptable Turkey’s request to Britain to allow 10,000 Turkish Cypriot refugees to be transferred to Turkey from a British military base on Cyprus. “The government will never allow it,” he said. Mr. Clerides charged that once the refugees, at the Episkopi base, were in Turkey, they would then be reshipped to territory under Turkish control on Cyprus, “with the aim of altering the population composition of those areas.” The effect of such a move, he said, would be to prevent Greek Cypriots from returning to their homes, which they fled this summer as the Turkish Army advanced.
Premier Bülent Ecevit of Turkey said today that all‐ Turkish Cypriots who wished to move to the Turkish-held zone of northern Cyprus must be allowed to do so. Mr. Ecevit, who was in the eastern Turkish provincial capital of Elazig for the opening of the $500‐million Keban Dam nearby, said in a speech that “this is the only road, the road to achieve Turkey’s goal on Cyprus — the security of Turkish Cypriots. We have reached a stage in the solution of the Cyprus problem froin which there can be no retreat, from which no one, no power can make us go back,” he said.
Placard‐waving supporters of Greece demonstrated peacefully at the White House yesterday to demand a withdrawal of Turkish troops from Cyprus and to criticize United States policies in the Cyprus crisis. The crowd, estimated at about 4,000, gathered at the Ellipse behind the White House, marched around the building and returned to the Ellipse to continue the three‐hour rally. The Free Cyprus Committee said the purpose of the purpose of the demonstration was to support a resolution in the House of Representatives supporting Cypriote independence and “to condemn the inhumane treatment of the Cypriot people” by the Turkish Army.
Three women won seats in parliament in San Marino, the first to challenge male dominance in the 1,674-year-old enclave republic in Italy. Two are teachers and one a textile worker. Women gained the right to vote in San Marino in 1969.
President Yitzhak Rabin of Israel will arrive in Washington tomorrow for consultations with President Ford and other officials that, the United States hopes, will accelerate the pace of Arab‐Israeli negotiations toward a Middle East settlement. State Department officials said in advance of Mr. Rabin’s four‐day visit that disarray in the Arab world and indecision in Israel had produced no decision yet here or in the Middle East on what the next stage of the negotiations should be. The purpose of the talks between Premier Rabin and President Ford, Secretary of State Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger will be to obtain a firm Israeli commitment to a new round of negotiations and to learn Israel’s views on the two major diplomatic alternatives being discussed.
Israel charged today that Syria had advanced her front‐line positions on the Golan Heights into the United Nations buffer zone between the Israeli and Syrian lines. An officer at headquarters told reporters at a briefing that the movement was one of a series of breaches by the Syrians of the troop disengagement agreement reached last May 29. By contrast, the officer said, the Egyptians were observing the spirit and letter of the Suez Canal disengagement agreement signed last January. The officer, who asked not to be identified, said the Syrian breaches indicated that Damascus “did not accept the disengagement, agreement as something to be stable until replaced by a new agreement but rather as a starting point for further pressure.” The present situation cannot continue for long, he said, and forecast that another war would break out unless there was some political agreement.
Two Arab guerrillas were sentenced today to life imprisonment by an Israeli military court for having planned a mass killing in two Haifa theaters last year.
The former president of the lower house or Ethiopia’s Parliament was accused today of having suppressed news of the famine last year in which some 100,000 people died. Radio Ethiopia said Seifu Tadesse, president of the Chamber of Deputies for 12 years until his ‘recent removal, was accused by the National Inquiry Commission of having prevented any parliamentary discussion of the drought situation in Wallo province, in the northeast and of refusing to apprise Emperor Haile Selassie of the situation there.
A Calcutta high court indefinitely postponed the trial of two Americans held for 17 months on charges of spying. Anthony Fletcher, 30, and Richard Harcos, 27, both of San Francisco, had been scheduled to begin trial Monday. The pair are in the third month of a hunger strike. Indian authorities have not revealed the nature of the alleged spy activities” but the Americans’ defense lawyer claimed they were attempting to smuggle hashish when arrested.
Six climbers died in an avalanche on the West Shoulder of Mount Everest. French mountaineer Gérard Devouassoux and five Nepalese Sherpa were killed; mountaineer Claude Ancey survived.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy proposed today that China be included in all future arms control negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Massachusetts Democrat said China’s inclusion mould be a good way for the United States to demonstrate its recognition of China’s importance as a major power. It would also help allay Peking’s fears about its security resulting from improved United States‐Soviet relations, the Senator said in an article to be published in the autumn issue of the magazine Foreign Poilicy.
China declared that its grain production is great enough to feed its 800 million people without foreign help and that many communes have built up stockpiles. It apparently was the first firm claim of self-sufficiency by China. As early as last December, broadcasts from Peking said the country was nearly so. But in recent months, Canada and Australia have reported large grain purchases by the Chinese.
Policemen firing tear‐gas shells today blocked an attempt by angry‐demonstrators in Seoul, South Korea, to march on the Japanese Embassy. Among them, the police said were 15 men who on being stopped, chopped off their little fingers to demonstrate their protest over the attempt of Korean gunman from Japan to assassinate President Park Chung Hee on August 15. The President was unharmed, but his wife was killed. Charging that Japan was not cooperating with the South Korean investigation of the assault on the President, the 15 demonstrators said they wanted to present their fingers to the embassy. They were later taken to a hospital.
Typhoon Shirley battered Kyushu Island in southwest Japan, triggering landslides and floods that killed at least 13 persons and left 23 missing or injured, police reported. The storm dumped 12 inches of rain Sunday night, destroyed 19 homes, flooded 25,000 others, damaged highways and disrupted rail service on Kyushu and adjacent areas. It was later downgraded as it headed toward Osaka and Tokyo.
Coast Guard officers at Youngstown, New York, called off a search for a missing Canadian who had attempted to swim 32 miles across Lake Ontario. Neil MacNeil, 17, of Toronto disappeared Saturday about four hours after he started his swim.
The manager of a Toronto branch of the Bank of Montreal, Eric Waddilove, 33, was arrested on a charge of stealing more than $2 million from the bank during the past two years. Police said loans had been made to a number of companies without authorization, and the funds were then returned by the recipients. A police inspector said that none of the money had yet been recovered. A second man. Desmond J. Steel, 48, not an employee of the bank, was also arrested.
The Organization of American States agreed to meet September 19 to begin formal action on a request for review of the decade-old OAS isolation of Cuba. The request for the meeting is contained in a resolution, offered by Colombia, Venezuela and Costa Rica, which requests a meeting of the OAS foreign ministers in Quito, Ecuador, November 11 to consider lifting economic and diplomatic sanctions against the island.
The State Department made clear that it supported the testimony of senior officials who previously had asserted at congressional hearings that the United States had not intervened in the internal affairs of Chile after the election of the late President Salvador Allende. It was believed that the dispute over the testimony’s validity could lead to further hearings.
Police combed Rio de Janeiro for 47 escaped prisoners led by a convicted murderer with a 300-year sentence who has threatened to kill several policemen. Forty-eight prisoners escaped the jail in a Rio suburb through a hole in the wall which they had concealed with a trash can. Only one has been recaptured so far.
As jubilant white settlers — many of whom were heavily armed — and a coalition of black politicians strengthened their grip on Lourenco Marques, the capital of Mozambique, they formally urged Portuguese officials to modify an agreement made Saturday to give control of the African territory to the black insurgent movement.
A bus crash in Zambia killed 26 people.
President Ford postponed his announcement of a plan to deal with Vietnam deserters and draft evaders. He had been expected to announce his proposal tomorrow. The White House deputy press secretary told newsmen that “the events of the past week, especially of the last 72 hours,” have not allowed the President to consider the questions of the amnesty program.
Former President Nixon successfully beat back White House efforts to have him make a full and revealing statement of his role in the Watergate affair in conjunction with his pardon, a reliable source said. The source said that Mr. Nixon was asked by President Ford’s lawyers to make what the former President regarded as “a public confession of criminal guilt.” He angrily refused, and subsequent negotiations between the two sides caused a delay in reaching an agreement on the eventual pardon.
Several persons who have recently visited Mr. Nixon in San Clemente cast doubt on reports that he is in poor health, one of the reasons given by President Ford in granting him an unconditional pardon. A former counselor to Mr. Nixon said that two of his close friends, Charles “Bebe” Rebozo and Robert Abplanalp, had started the talk that became common around San Clemente that the former President was on the verge of collapse. “Those two guys were really lobbying, in effect,” he said.
Reaction in Congress to the pardon for Mr. Nixon generally followed lines that reflected past positions on his impeachment. Some Democrats sought to reopen formal impeachment proceedings against the former President. However, Representative Peter Rodino, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, declared that “impeachment is dead.”
Representative Jack Brinkley, Democrat of Georgia will ask President Ford for an “absolute and complete pardon” for former First Lieutenant William L. Calley Jr., who is serving a 10‐year prison sentence for the 1968 murder of South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, Bob Fort, a press aide, said Mr. Brinkley would make the reguest because Mr. Ford had pardoned Richard M. Nixon.
Around 4,000 people attended a rally against desegregation busing at Boston City Hall Plaza, sponsored by the organization Restore Our Alienated Rights (R.O.A.R.). Massachusetts U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, who attempted to speak at the rally to urge calm, was chased by the angry crowd, which threw tomatoes and eggs at him. The crowd chased the Democratic Senator into a nearby Federal office building named for his brother, President John F. Kennedy, and broke a large plate‐glass window. The rally had drawn several thousand persons to the broad brick plaza in front of City Hall to protest a court‐ordered integration plan scheduled to go into effect Thursday. The plan calls for busing some 20,000 of Boston’s 94,000 public‐school students.
Six experts who did the detective work on 18 minutes of conversation erased from a White House Watergate tape have been dismissed with thanks and an admonition not to talk for a while. The team’s six-month effort determined the how of the erasure but not the who. U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica told the experts that “the court urges that you refrain from public comment about the panel’s work until after a jury has been sequestered in the Watergate cover-up case.” But he “urged,” rather than ordered. Sirica will preside over the coverup trial beginning September 30.
The Justice Department has begun an investigation of allegedly improper patronage practices at the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, officials said. LEAA Administrator Richard W. Velde said he had asked for the investigation last week after receiving complaints from employees. He said the allegations did not involve criminal misconduct. The General Accounting Office also is investigating at the request of Rep. John E. Moss (D-California). A Moss aide said the allegations paralleled Moss’ conclusions that the Nixon administration had bypassed civil service regulations to place political friends in high-level positions at other agencies.
The firing mechanisms in hundreds of thousands of M-16 rifles and other small arms have been moved from National Guard armories around the country to police stations to discourage theft, the Pentagon disclosed. A National Guard spokesman said the urgent orders for the change had called for the transfer of the firing devices by last Sunday. The Guard has been plagued with thefts. Over the July 4 weekend, burglars broke into the armory at Compton, Calif., and made off with 100 M-16, seven machine guns and other weapons. The new regulations also call for more frequent checks of each weapon and greater controls while they are in use.
The first official explanation of the trouble with last month’s Soyuz 15 spaceflight was made in Houston by the commander of Soviet cosmonaut training. Vladimir Shatalov said a new, fully automatic remote control docking system had failed and prevented the craft from linking with the Salyut space station. Shatalov, head of a group of eight cosmonauts and six engineers working on the U.S.-Soviet spaceflight scheduled for next year, assured Johnson Space Center Director Christopher C. Kraft that the failure would not affect the joint mission.
Evel Knievel and his entourage left Idaho today, leaving the farming community of Twin Falls to clean up the debris left in his wake. Motorcyclists went on another spree of vandalism last night at the scene of the 34‐year‐old Montana stuntman’s unsuccessful attempt to rocket across the Snake River Canyon. Concessidn booths were burned to the ground as marauding bands of youths moved through the littered horse pasture, terrorizing other campers and destroying any technical equipment that had not been cleared out before sundown. But there were no reports of serious injuries, and the local police were moving discreetly today to evict the remaining occupants of the land.
When Mr. Knievel’s steam-powered rocket dropped into the canyon yesterday, aborting its flight when a tail parachute accidentally deployed at the start of the launching, hundreds of young men smashed the fences surrounding the jump site and swarmed over the area. Even before it was determined that Mr. Knievel had survived the landing on the rocky canyon floor, the surging crowd had menaced technicians handling the closed-circuit broadcast from scaffolding adjoining the launching ramp.
Publishing sources say that former New York City Mayor John Lindsay has written a 300-page manuscript of a political novel whose principal character is a handsome young congressman struggling to save civil liberties. “It’s an impressive job, considering Lindsay’s a non-writer, but it’s full of politicians making speeches,” a source said.
Amtrak, the national rail passenger system, sent Congress a five‐year plan yesterday for high‐speed service between major cities that includes raising the average speed in the Boston‐New York‐Washington corridor to 110 miles an hour. The program calls for $1‐billion in grants for track recnnstruction on 12 “corridor” routes and for $263‐million in new equipment so that Amtrak could nearly double its seating capacity by 1979. Congressional approval is required for the expenditures envisioned each year. The massive expense of the track reconstruction program is likely to trigger opposition in an economy‐minded Congress. Yet Congress has previously been willing to grant Amtrak more money than it has asked.
An early morning fire at a nursing home in St. Joseph, Missouri, killed 6 elderly women and an 11-year-old boy. Five persons survived the blaze, including the owners and an employee. Two were uninjured, two were treated for smoke inhalation, and the other was hospitalized with second‐degree burns. Fire Chief Cloyd Campbell said the fire, which broke out shortly after midnight, was a “roaring inferno.”
Tropical storm Elaine formed off the North Carolina coast and pushed northward with winds of 60 mph, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported. The fifth storm of the season grew out of a depression that had been building in the Atlantic and began a northeasterly 20 mph march that was expected to take it well east of the New England Coast. Elaine was 200 miles east-southeast of Cape Hatteras. Meanwhile, Hurricane Carmen, whose 155 mph winds killed two persons and destroyed much of Louisiana’s sugar cane crop, decayed into a breezy rainstorm over southeast Texas.
Billie Jean King won the women’s singles title at the U.S. Open, beating Evonne Goolagong, 3–6, 6–3, 7–5.
At Fenway, the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox, 6–3, for their first win in Boston since July 31 of last year. The Yankees have won 2 of 24 games at Fenway since 1972. The win puts New York in first place with 22 games left to play. They made fast work of it, too, scoring five runs off Roger Moret inside five innings. George Medich made the most of the uprising by pitching his 18th victory with late help from Sparky Lyle.
In Milwaukee, Darrell Porter hits a pinch grand slam in the 9th as the Brewers tie the Baltimore Orioles, 5–5, but Baltimore pushes across the winner in the 11th to take it, 6–5. Bobby Grich singled with two out in the 11th, then scored the winning run on a wild pitch by Milwaukee’s fine relief pitcher, Tom Murphy. The triumph pulled Baltimore into a second‐place tie with Boston in the tight Eastern Division race. It was Porter’s second slam of the season.
Dick Bosman pitched a three‐hitter, his first complete game since his no‐hit effort against Oakland on July 19, and Oscar Gamble cracked a two‐run homer to power the Cleveland Indians over the Detroit Tigers, 7–1. Bosman, aided by a, three‐run first inning and a four‐run third, struck out three, walked two and did not allow a Tiger runner to reach second base over the first eight innings. Bosman, winning his sixth game in nine decisions,’ lost his shut., out ‘ when Ed Brinkman opened the ninth with his 13th homer. Gamble’s homer (No. 17) followed a single by John Lowenstein in the first.
After the California Angels won the first game, 4–1, Roy Howell’s first major league homer sparked a three‐run Texas rally in the fourth inning of the second game to give the Texas Rangers a 5–3 victory and a split of the doubleheader. Chuck Dobson, making his first major league start of the season, hurled a seven hitter for the Angels in the opener.
The Minnesota Twins downed the Chicago White Sox, 3–1. Home runs by Harmon Killebrew, a pinch‐hitter, and Steve Braun in the eighth inning carried the Twins to victory. Killebrew’s homer, his 12th of the season and 558th of his career, came with Pat Bourque on base and broke up Bart Johnson’s shutout. Braun then followed with his seventh homer. Johnson (7.4) had been coasting along with a two‐hitter until the decisive ‘ eighth. Dave Goltz evened his record at 8.8 with a five‐hit per formance,
Vida Blue and Catfish Hunter both toss shutouts as the Oakland A’s beat the Kansas City Royals, 3–0 and 7–0. It is the third time this week that a team has been shut out in a doubleheader. Blue snapped his own five‐game losing streak with a two‐hit effort before a near‐sellout crowd of 45,000 lured by a half‐price admission. Blue permitted only four base runners, and none got past second as he posted his 15th victory. Gene Tenace hit two‐run homer (No. 24) in the fifth off Steve Busby.
Steve Garvey, who has been a major asset to the Los Angeles Dodgers in their quest of the Western Division pennant this season, smacked a two‐run homer, and Ron Cey, another of their young Turks, hit a three‐run homer in pacing the Dodgers to an 8–1 victory over the Braves in Atlanta last night. Garvey, extending his hitting streak to eight games, drilled his 20th homer in the Dodgers’ three‐run third inning off Buzz Capra‐(13–8 won-lost record), giving Los Angeles a 4–0 lead. Cey’s three‐run blow (No. 16) came in the eighth, and the victory enabled the Dodgers to maintain their 3½‐game lead in the West over Cincinnati.
With Ray Sadecki gaining his fourth straight decision on an eight‐hitter, the New York Mets swept to a 7–1 triumph over the Montreal Expos. It was their 12th in the last 15 games. Sadecki, who was mostly a middle‐inning reliever at the season’s start, became the third Met pitcher to put together a string of four decisions. Jerry Koosman and Tom Seaver were the others. In posting his eighth victory against seven setbacks, Sadecki weathered a bit of opening‐inning trouble, but then faced only 23 batters in the next six innings. The Mets had a big inning in the fourth, when nine men batted and four scored.
The Chicago Cubs thump the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9–4. Jose Cardenal and Andy Thornton hit home runs and Jerry Morales smacked a two‐run double as the Cubs ended Pittsburgh’s six‐game winning streak. The loss was only the third in the last 17 games for the Pirates. Steve Stone (7–5) beat the Pirates for the third time in five career decisions although he did not finish the game.
The Philadelphia Phillies edged the St. Louis Cardinals, 2–0. Jim Lonborg thwarted the Cardinals with a two‐hit performance and Bob Boone thwarted Lou Brock by throwing out the speedy Cardinal outfielder in the sixth as Brock attempted to tie the stolen‐base record (104) of Maury Wills. Lonborg (15–11) yielded only third‐inning single to Mike Tyson and an eighth‐inning single to Bake McBride.
The Cincinnati Reds down the San Diego Padres, 8–3. Home runs by Tony Perez (No. 24) and Dave Concepcion (No. 11) were the key hits in a four‐run fifth inning that carried Fred Norman (11–11) to victory over his former teammates. Perez hit his home run leading off the fifth, and, after Dan Driessen beat out an infield single, Concepcion followed with his homer.
The San Francisco Giants rallied for five runs in the eighth inning with Gary Matthews and Dave Kingman supplying the key blows, and defeated the Houston Astros, 8–6. John Montefusco gets his second win in as many major league starts but needs help from Elias Sosa to close it out when the Astros score 3 in the bottom of the ninth. Bobby Bonds hits his 18th home run of the year.
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Born:
Leah O’Brien, American softball player (Olympic gold medals, 1996, 2000, 2004) and honoree at the USA Softball Hall of Fame; in Garden Grove, California.
John Allred, NFL tight end (Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers), in Del Mar, California.
Thomas Guynes, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals), in Marion, Indiana.
Jennie Kwan, American actress (‘Samantha Woo’- “California Dreams”), in Glendale, California
Igor Rotenberg, Russian billionaire businessman and co-owner of the Stroygazmontazh conglomerate; in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg in Russia).
Died:
Choi Tu-son, 79, former Prime Minister of South Korea 1963 to 1964.
Billie Nelson, 32, British Grand Prix motorcycle racer, died in the early hours of the morning after crashing into the crowd the previous day at the 1974 250cc Yugoslav Grand Prix at the Opatija Circuit, injuring several spectators.
Alison Worstead Kerr, 59, Australian counselor and wife of the incumbent Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr.
Gertrude Perlmann, 62, Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist and structural biologist, died of cancer.
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