The U.S. chiefs of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s military forces strongly criticized what they saw as a tendency in other member nations to downgrade the Soviet-bloc threat to Western Europe. Speaking to the annual assembly of the Atlantic Treaty Assn. in Ottawa, General Andrew Goodpaster, NATO’s supreme commander in Europe, warned of “creeping coercion” of Europe by the Communists. His counterpart in NATO’s forces in the Atlantic, Admiral Ralph Cousins, said NATO members must soon make the decision to increase their naval strength.
Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington) wrote to Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev, urging him to intercede on humanitarian grounds in the case of imprisoned Ukrainian historian Valentyn Moroz. The historian is reported near death because of a two-month hunger strike, having been imprisoned since 1970 after being found guilty of antiSoviet agitation and propaganda.
Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders are expected to agree on the quick release of sick and wounded prisoners and students by both sides when they meet here tomorrow, two days ahead of schedule, well informed sources said today. President Glafkos Clerides, the Greek Cypriot leader, and the Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktaş, will meet under United Nations auspices to discuss these humanitarian issues. They are scheduled to meet again on Friday at the United Nations headquarters in the Ledra Palace Hotel on the Green Line dividing the two communities in Nicosia. But the sources said that at tomorrow’s meeting the two leaders would probably not get down to the problem of a general release of war prisoners, and the even more complex political problem of the return of the estimated 190,000 Greek Cypriot refugees to their homes.
At their first meeting last Friday, the two men agreed to allow the Red Cross to draw up a plan immediately for the release of all prisoners and detainees, giving urgent priority to the sick and wounded and those under 18 or over 50. At the same time, they promised to give every assistance to the aged and sick on both sides who found themselves isolated because of the hostilities. Key points on their agenda for tomorrow, drawn up by the United Nations special representative, Luis Weckmann‐Munoz, are swift steps to exchange the students and sick and wounded. The over‐all number of students was not yet known, the sources said. The International Committee of the Red Cross, according to the sources, will have completed lists by tomorrow of the several thousand prisoners of war. Some of the Greek Cypriot prisoners are being held in Turkey.
Kurt Waldheim, the United Nations Secretary General, blamed Turkish and Greek political leaders today for relying too heavily on the presence of the United Nations peace‐keeping force on Cyprus instead of working for a political settlement on the island. In a speech at the National Press Club, Mr. Waldheim praised the “dedication to peace” of the United Nations forces, which have lost 36 men since last November on duty in the Middle East and Cyprus. “But they are not a substitute for political negotiation,” he remarked. “There is unhappily a tendency — and this is particularly true in the Cyprus situation over the past 10 years —for the parties to a dispute and other concerned parties to relax their efforts to reach a political settlement when a United Nations peace‐keeping operation is functioning effectively. For the past 10 years in Cyprus all the instrumentalities for a peaceful solution were there except for the political will and sense of urgency. The result of the absence of that will and that sense of urgency has been a tragedy for the people of Cyprus and has created acute and grave new tensions.”
A debate is underway within the Pentagon and the State Department over the status of American nuclear warheads in Greece which, officials acknowledged, are there illegally because Athens has withdrawn from the military command of the North Atlantic alliance. Pentagon civilians and some State Department officials call the situation dangerous and in violation of the Atomic Energy Act, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff and aides of Secretary of State Kissinger assert that removal of the warheads would only alienate Greece further.
About 1,500 students demonstrated against the United States in Salonika, Greece tonight and burned the American flag in protest against what Greeks consider to be United States support of Turkey in the Cyprus conflict. The students marched through Salonika’s main streets shouting “Kissinger, murderer!” and other slogans, including “Americans out of Greece!” and “Makarios for Cyprus!” The United States Consulate here was heavily guarded by police forces. The students marched to the International Trade Fair grounds, where they lowered the American flag and burned it.
Three members of the anarchist Baader-Meinhof gang that terrorized West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s with violent acts that included bombings and bank robberies went on trial in Berlin. Ulrike Meinhof, 39, and Hans-Juergen Baecker, 35, were charged in a 1970 jailbreak that freed Andreas Baader, 30. Former leftist lawyer Horst Mahler was charged with assisting in the break.
Police warned citizens throughout Northern Ireland to beware of bombs in their mail. The post office was also alerted. The warnings were sparked by reports that a number of parcel bombs had been mailed by terrorists. The warning came after bomb-disposal experts disarmed two bombs discovered in a Belfast post office Monday. “They were sufficiently powerful to kill anyone who opened them without care,” a spokesman said.
The government of Portugal recognized the independence of its former colony, Portuguese Guinea, almost one year after the West African nation had declared its independence as the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Guinea-Bissau, led by Luís Cabral, had declared its independence on September 24, 1973.
President Ford welcomed Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel to the White House today with a strong public pledge that the United States remained “committed to Israel’s survival and security.” At the start of four days of important talks about the Middle East and Israeli‐American relations, Mr. Ford coupled his assurances of support with a reminder that the United States expected Israel’s cooperation in accelerating a movement toward Arab‐Israeli negotiations. Mr. Rabin, making his first visit to the United States as Premier, received full honors — a 19‐gun salute, a military honor guard and several thousand invited guests waving Israeli and American flags on the south lawn of the White House. American officials said Mr. Ford wanted to make certain the Israelis felt assured of the continuing United States support even as they were being urged by the United States to join in further negotiations with the Arabs.
Mr. Rabin, a former Ambassador to Washington, and one‐time Israeli Chief of Staff, made it clear in his response to Mr. Ford that the Israelis, wary of Arab intentions, could only continue with diplomatic efforts as long as they were certain that their security needs were met. “Only a strong Israel, which has the capacity to deter aggression and to defend herself successfully by her own strength, has a chance of winning peace,” Mr. Rabin said, speaking softly in English. “I cannot underline strongly enough our conviction that the constant maintenance of Israel’s strength is an absolute prerequisite for the attainment of solutions to the problems of our troubled region.” Israeli officials have asked the United States for $1.5‐billion in economic and military aid for the next year, in addition to the nearly $550‐million approved by the Senate and House committees dealing with the aid bill.
Jordan denied reports by the British press that it had secretly sold British warplanes, tanks and missiles to South Africa and Rhodesia. Premier Zeid al Rifai said Jordan had never contemplated such action “and will not contemplate doing so in the future.” Britain said it was investigating a reported $17.5 million sale to South Africa.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi climbed atop a platform on the beach here last night and told thousands of South Indians that the nation was facing “tremendous difficulties” but that the democratic system would endure. Mrs. Gandhi’s spirited speech was the highlight of a two‐day visit to Madras that ended today. Her comments echoed other speech that she is making around the nation in an attempt to lift the morale of India’s urban dwellers and farmers, who face food scarcities and the worst inflation since India became independent 27 years ago. Speaking on the Madras Marina, where tens of thousands sat on the sand and listened silently to her comments, Mrs. Gandhi covered a wide range of subjects and included thinly veiled remarks against the United States. Mrs. Gandhi also fleetingly mentioned family planning, India’s fundamental problem. She defended her government against charges of corruption and said that some of India’s difficulties were actually a result of rising expectations.
Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto said he hoped India’s “swallowing up” of Sikkim would convince the United States that it must resume arms aid to Pakistan. Bhutto described India’s making Sikkim an “associate state” last week as “simply the latest demonstration of their psychosis — a craze to dominate…” Since taking over power following India’s defeat of Pakistan in 1970 and the creation of Bangladesh out of what had been East Pakistan, Bhutto has repeatedly called upon the United States to supply arms to his country.
Ten badly burned bodies were recovered near the wreckage of a twin-engine Grumman Goose that crashed Monday in rugged terrain 30 miles southwest of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Officials said 11 people — nine adult passengers, a child and the pilot — were aboard the West Coast Air Services plane when it crashed near Mt. Cooper in heavy clouds and rain. The search for the 11th person, believed dead, was continuing. No names were released, but a rescue center spokesman said most victims were believed to be from Vancouver Island.
Citing national security, the Central Intelligence, Agency censored the first printed account of some of its operations against President Salvador Allende of Chile from a recently published book, “The C.I.A. and the Cult of Intelligence,” according to Washington sources. Before the censorship, the book reportedly contained a detailed account of the discussions that preceded the Nixon administration’s covert activities to prevent the Marxist election victory in Chile in 1970.
White settlers in Mozambique gave up organized resistance to Portugal’s decision to hand over the government to a black guerrilla movement. A short-lived show of defiance by white crowds collapsed suddenly in the face of rising black anger, vented in rioting and blockage of the highway to South Africa. Truckloads of injured people began arriving at hospitals and a pall of smoke hung over some black shantytown areas. It was difficult, however, to witness or to assess the violence. Much of it seemed, confined to the black areas. A black-white race riot had apparently not occurred, although whites were among the injured. Gunfire and exploding‐ grenades, heard in the city were believed to have originated in small army units operating on the fringes of the black areas. One explanation for the collapse of the white movement was that the Portuguese armed forces did not give the sympathy or support the dissident settlers expected. It took only three officers of the security police this noon to persuade scores of armed white men to yield the national radio studios, which the settler dissidents had controlled since Saturday.
Amid defensiveness and confusion at the White House, a spokesman said President Ford was studying the possibility of pardoning those persons convicted or accused of crimes in the Watergate and related scandals. While confirming that “the entire matter” was “under study,” other White House officials declined to say how serious Mr. Ford really was about pardoning any or all of the 48 individuals involved. Late tonight, after the suggestion of further pardons had net with almost universal opposition in Congress, a high White House official, who would not permit the use of his name, sought to minimize the President’s intentions in the matter. He said he doubted that Mr. Ford would give very serious consideration to pardoning the Watergate defendants.
Strong bipartisan opposition developed in Congress to the idea of a blanket presidential pardon for former Nixon aides charged with Watergate offenses. The House Republican leader, John Rhodes of Arizona, re-affirmed his support of President Ford’s pardon of his predecessor but said the cases of Nixon assistants were not the same as that of a “fallen President.” Moreover, Mr. Rhodes said, the aides’ “fates are not directly connected with the well-being of the Republic.”
The Speaker of the House, Representative Carl Albert, Democrat of Oklahoma, said that pardoning the many Nixon aides “would’ be viewed as an abuse of Presidential power.” Senator Robert. C. Byrd of West Virginia, the assistant Democratic leader in the Senate, said that further pardons would “complete the cover-up of the cover-up.” Telephone calls, telegrams and letters about Mr. Nixon’s pardon continued to flow into the White House. John W. T. Hushen, Mr. Ford’s spokesman, said that as of last midnight the White House had received 5,700 calls supporting the President and 3,900 opposing him.
Philip Buchen, White House counsel, said that granting a pardon to former President Nixon implied guilt since there was “no other reason for granting a pardon.” He spoke to newsmen as the White House released a memorandum from the special Watergate prosecutor listing 10 areas of possible criminal activity by Mr. Nixon.
The new chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers said today the Administration must fight inflation by cutting government borrowing, tightening the money supply and aiming for a federal budget surplus. Alan Greenspan, the chairman, outlined his views at a meeting of the National Petroleum Council, a semi‐official industry council advising the federal government. The council’s co‐chairman, Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton, asked the council to study the relationships between energy production and pricing and economic inflation. Both Mr. Morton and Treasury Secretary William E. Simon, however, urged the removal of price regulation from oil and gas, allowing their sale at free market prices. Mr. Simon suggested an immediate effort to remove government restraints that he said had retarded development of energy resources. Mr. Simon cited as an example “environmental controls of questionable validity” on the production and use of fuels.
Federal drug officials said they had broken “a group of interlocking conspiracies” that supplied the illicit drug market with billions of amphetamine tablets. The announcement was made as authorities began unsealing 102 federal indictments in 11 cities.
Labor leaders due to meet at the White House tomorrow on the inflation issue seemed in no mood to ease their pay demands as long as real wages lag and tight money policies squeeze the economy. At the White House meeting — the second in a series of 12 — labor is to be heard on how to curb inflation and spur the economy.
Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Massachusetts) labeled abuse directed at Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) at an anti-busing rally in Boston “a disgrace” and appealed for calm at the start of forced busing in the city. Brooke’s plea for the people to “put their emotions behind them” came after a television appeal by Mayor Kevin White for “undivided cooperation and common purpose” in implementing a federal school desegregation order to bus 18,000 students when schools open Thursday.
Tennessee’s 1973 “Genesis Law,” which rekindled memories of the 1925 John Scopes “Monkey Trial,” has been held unconstitutional. The law specified that all biology textbooks in the state’s public schools must give equal consideration to all theories of creation of man. Nashville Chancellor Ben Cantrell ruled that the celebrated law was an act “respecting the establishment of religion” and thus ran counter to “the constitutional doctrine of separation of state and church.” The Chancellery Court rules on all civil challenges to state laws.
The Food and Drug Administration said it had not determined whether cyclamates caused cancer and put off a request by Abbott Laboratories to resume production of the controversial sweetener. FDA Commissioner Dr. Alexander M. Schmidt said data submitted by the lab to back its petition were inconclusive. Cyclamate, 30 times sweeter than sugar, was banned in 1969 after showing a cancer-causing potential in one strain of rats.
A pile of bones found in a wooded area east of Seattle contains the remains of at least two of six young Washington women who have disappeared this year, King County police announced. Captain J. N. Mackie said the identification of Mrs. Janice Ott, 23, of suburban Issquah, and Denise Marie Naslund, 18, of Seattle, was made by their dentists. The two women vanished July 14 from a state park. Four vertebrae and a thigh bone also found in the pile did not belong to either of the two women.
[Ed: These were victims of serial killer Ted Bundy.]
The United States could be overbuilding medical schools to such an extent that there will be a surplus of doctors in the 1980s, Dr. Clark Kerr, chairman of the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, said. Kerr spoke to a session in Austin, Texas, at the 40th annual Southern Governors Conference. He warned the officials that the South faced a particularly difficult situation in regard to its medical needs. “You’ve exported doctors to the North and West, you’ve borne the costs and then seen them leave, yet you still have a lot of rural areas without doctors,” he said.
A world food expert said President Ford should call on Americans to eat less so that more food can be shipped to starving people overseas. “I believe Americans would do it,” Lester R. Brown, former U.S. Agriculture Department official, said at the opening in Washington of House subcommittee hearings on the world food situation. Brown said such a move could provide up to 15 million extra tons of food. But Donald Paarlberg, the USDA’s director of agricultural economics, said his agency, instead of recommending that Americans change their diets, would suggest that technical assistance to poor countries be more than doubled so they can feed themselves.
The Department of Agriculture proposed today a new grading plan for beef that could lead consumers to eat leaner cuts and save millions of bushels of costly feed grains each year. “The net effect — increased production at less cost and with less waste fat — could be reflected in lower prices at the retail level,” John C. Pierce, director of the Livestock Division of the department’s Agricultural Marketing Service, said at a news, briefing on the proposals. The amount of price reductions would depend on merchandizing and the degree to which competition forced suppliers and retailers to pass savings on to buyers, Mr. Pierce said.
Scientists reported today that they had deciphered and synthesized most and perhaps all of the code that governs the turning on of the hereditary instructions in a gene. The gene is the basic unit of heredity in all living things. It is made up of a twisted double strand of the master chemical deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. In any specific gene, the sequence of chemical subunits in its double helix of DNA is a code that spells out genetic instructions for the living cell. The sum of coded messages in all the genes of any cell gives it complete instructions, telling the cell what it can do and what it can become. However, most of the genes are turned off most of the time in most cells. Thus, the puzzle of how genes are turned on and off is one of the key questions of modern biology. Today, Dr. Har Gobind Khorana and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported deciphering what they believe to be most and perhaps all of the “on” signal for a gene they had studied for several years, as well as a significant portion of, the corresponding “off” signal.
The controversial TV drama “Born Innocent” premieres on NBC TV, starring Linda Blair as an abused teen in a juvenile detention home.
Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 miles in 24 hours.
Former batting champion Alex Johnson, purchased by the New York Yankees from the Texas Rangers yesterday, arrives in Boston during the Red Sox–Yankee game. With the score tied 1–1 in the 12th, Johnson socks a pinch-home run to win it for New York 2–1. It gave the Yankees two straight in Fenway Park—where they had won nothing in more than a year—and 20 victories in their last 26 games. And as they headed for Baltimore tonight, after 10 threadbare summers in the American League, they were holding a two‐game lead over both the Red Sox and Orioles with 21 left to play in the free‐for‐all for the Eastern‐Division title.
The Milwaukee Brewers downed the Baltimore Orioles in extra innings, 8–5. Sixto Lezcano, playing in his first major league game, singled home John Briggs with the winning run with one out in the 10th. The defeat, Baltimore’s second in the last 13 games, dropped the Orioles into a second‐place tie with Boston in the Eastern Division, two games back of the Yankees. The score was tied, 5–5, when Briggs led off with a walk. Bob Coluccio sacrificed Briggs to second, then Lezcano singled to center for the deciding run.
The Cleveland Indians trounced the Detroit Tigers, 12–6. Cleveland’s Oscar Gamble drove in three runs and scored three times to help Fritz Peterson win his first game since August 22.
The Minnesota Twins edged the Chicago White Sox, 8–7 in extra innings. Rod Carew drew a walk with one out, stole his third base of the game then scored the winning run when Larry Hisle singled in the bottom of the 15th inning.
The California Angels downed the Kansas City Royals, 8–2. California scored five unearned runs in the sixth, three on a bases-loaded triple by Joe Lahoud.
The St. Louis Cardinals lose to the Philadelphia Phillies 8–2, but Lou Brock breaks Maury Wills’ Major League record by stealing his 104th and 105th bases of the season. It also gives him 740 career stolen bases, breaking Max Carey’s National League record of 738. However, the Cardinals fell 3½ games behind Pittsburgh in the National League’s Eastern Division. Mike Schmidt drove in four runs for the Phillies with a homer and two doubles, and Brock, trying for his 106th steal, was thrown out in the last inning.
The Cincinnati Reds kept pace with the Dodgers last night by beating the San Diego Padres, 5–2, in Riverfront Stadium behind the six‐hit pitching of Don Gullet. Gullett, winning his 16th game in 26 decisions, struck out 10 and retired the first eight batters he faced. The Reds collected 12 hits off four San Diego pitchers, and Pete Rose got a pair of doubles and single.
But the victory did the Reds little good because the Los Angeles Dodgers got a shutout performance from Don Sutton in a 1–0 victory over Atlanta. The Dodgers beat the Braves for the second successive night, this time on a four‐hitter by Don Sutton, who posted his fifth shutout of the season and his 15th victory in 24 decisions. Sutton struck out seven and walked one in pitching his ninth complete game. The Dodgers gave Sutton the only run he needed in the second on consecutive singles by Steve Garvey, Willie Crawford and Ron Cey off Carl Morton (14–10). Sutton said of his teammates: “This is a fantastic ball club. If we don’t win it, we ought to be kicked.” He was referring to the Western Division title. The Reds are probably wondering what they have to do to catch the Dodgers. There isn’t much they can do. They’ve got to have some help from the other clubs.
Chicago Cubs pinch hitters Carmen Fanzone and Jim Tyrone each clout homers against the Pittsburgh Pirates, but the Bucs win 12–4. Richie Hebner, collecting four hits for the second successive game in Wrigley Field, paced a 20-hit Pittsburgh attack that included three hits apiece by Rennie Stennett, Ken Brett and Manny Sanguillen. The victory was the seventh in the last eight games and the 15th in the last 18 for the Pirates, who lead the Eastern Division. Brett, who singled safely his first three times up, pitched six innings in earning his 13th triumph against seven defeats. The Pirates collected 18 of their hits and all their runs in the first 4⅓ innings.
The Montreal Expos ended their losing streak at seven games last night by beating the New York Mets, 6–4, at Shea Stadium. However, the Mets staged a ninth‐inning uprising that came close to changing the outcome. With the bases loaded, two out and one run in, Benny Ayala who had sp ent most of the season with the Mets’ triple‐A farm team at Tidewater, batted for Bud Harrelson. The pinch‐hitter lashed a liner down the right‐field line that missed being fair by the length of a baseball bat. Then he struck out, ending the game. The conclusion provided a hectic final inning during which the Expos acquired their last two runs on three singles, a stolen base and a walk off Bob Apodaca, who had relieved Tug McGraw, the Mets’ starter, at the top of the ninth.
The San Francisco Giants edged the Houston Astros, 6–5, in 11 innings. The Giants scored twice in the top of the inning, and then had to endure a nail-biting bottom of the inning as the Astros got three hits and scored a run off Elias Sosa. Gary Lavelle pitched to one hitter and walked him, loaded the bases. Randy Moffitt came on to record the last out and earn his 15th save.
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Born:
Ben Wallace, NBA center and power forward (NBA Championship-Pistons, 2004; NBA Defensive Player of the Year, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006; NBA All-Star 2003–06; Washington Bullets-Wizards, Orlando Magic, Detroit Pistons, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers), in White Hall, Alabama.
Nick Harper, NFL cornerback (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 41-Colts, 2006; Indianapolis Colts, Tennessee Titans), in Baldwin, Georgia.
Roosevelt Blackmon, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers, Cincinnati Bengals), in Pahokee, Florida.
Mirko Cro Cop (ring name of Mirko Filipović), Croatian kickboxer and mixed martial arts fighter, 2014 IGF champion; in Vinkovci, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia.
Ryan Phillippe, American actor (“Cruel Intentions”, “Shooter”), in New Castle, Delaware.
Died:
Melchior Wańkowicz, 82, Polish book author and journalist.
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