The U.S. Defense Department reported to Congress that it had spent nearly $20 million in the first half of this year on chemical and biological warfare programs. The bulk of the Army’s $10.1 million procurement program went for defensive equipment such as masks and clothing. Another $4.8 million was spent for research, development and testing of chemical warfare agents, while $4.7 million went for biological research.
Negotiations for the release of the French Ambassador to the Netherlands and eight other hostages held by Japanese terrorists at the French Embassy in the Hague reached an impasse. The conditions of the captives was not known. The captors, who said they were members of the Japanese Red Army, a terrorist group, seized Ambassador Jacques Senard and the others in the embassy Friday, demanding the release from a French prison of a man named Yutaka Furuya. The prisoner was flown from France to the Hague but was said to have refused to leave the plane.
For more than six weeks, two ships have been plying between the southern Cypriot port of Limassol and Piraeus, Greece, carrying Greek Cypriots who would rather leave this island than remain here as refugees. Unofficial but reliable sources estimate that more than 20,000 Greek Cypriots, most of them refugees from the north, have left since the Turks invaded the island on July 20. When Athanasios Tsardaris, the director of Greece’s welfare agencies, visited Cyprus earlier this month, he reportedly urged the Cyprus Government to put a stop to what he termed “a massive exodus” of Cypriot refugees to Greece. He is said to have expressed the fear that Turkey might exploit any reduction of the island’s Greek population by claiming a larger share of Cyprus for the Turkish Cypriot minority. President Glafkos Clerides of Cyprus has reportedly ordered the passport agency not to disclose the number of applications received for fear that disclosure would “create a panic.” A passport official said the figure was “simply enormous, well over 10,000.”
Evidence of this exodus is readily apparent on Ledra Street in Nicosia, where business activity is centered in luggage stores. Stephanos Kyriakides, who has been making and selling luggage for 30 years, described the demand for his goods as “unprecedented.” Many of the people who crowd the hallways outside the British High Commission, or embassy, on the first floor of the Nicosia Hilton are refugees from the north who fled the advancing Turkish Army. Andreas Spyrou, 45, from Kyrenia and now a refugee in the village of Ormidia on the southern shore, is waiting to be allowed to emigrate to Britain. “I had nearly 1.500 acres of lemons and grapefruit, a ranch house and two Ferguson tractors,” he said. “Now I am a penniless refugee. I cannot provide my four daughters with a dowry as a refugee. I must leave Cyprus.”
Premier Bulent Ecevit, whose prestige has grown with Turkey’s military success in Cyprus, was challenged today by the party that shares power in his coalition Government. A split in the Cabinet be tween the Premier’s Republican People’s party and the Islamic traditionalists of the National Salvation party has been growing for months. It widened with a declaration by seven Cabinet ministers that they opposed Mr. Ecevit’s visit to Scandinavia scheduled for next week. Deputy Premier Necmettin Erbakan called a news conference to announce that he and six of his fellow party members in the Cabinet would not sign a decree authorizing the Premier to undertake official visits to Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland from September 18 to 30. “The coalition is in difficulties,” Mr. Erbakan declared. “It is better for the Premier to stay and solve the problems than go to Scandinavian countries.”
Yugoslav President Tito angrily denounced a group of pro-Russian Communists who are on trial in Belgrade on charges of attempting to overthrow his regime, government sources said. The sources said Yugoslavia’s relations with the Soviet Union had cooled even though the Russians had denied any involvement with the group. Tito reportedly branded the group as old-guard Stalinists who intended to import a new Yugoslavian leader.
The chief of the Madrid police today blamed the Basque nationalist guerrilla organization known as E.T.A. for the bomb explosion that killed 11 persons and injured 82 in a central Madrid restaurant yesterday. Police Chief Federico Quintero said that the Government was offering a reward of $15,000 for information on the whereabouts of an E.T.A. suspect identified as Juan Manuel Galarraga Mendizabal. “Investigations so far show in a concrete form that the attack was planned and carried out by the terrorist organization E.T.A.” the chief said in a written statement. Yesterday’s blast was the biggest in Madrid since the explosion that killed Premier Luis Carrero Blanco last December. That explosion has been officially attributed to E.T.A.
The heads of the nine European Common Market nations met informally in Paris to discuss European unity, inflation, the high cost of oil and depressed farm prices. The meeting was called by French President Giscard d’Estaing who earlier said that France was planning initiatives to stimulate progress toward economic, monetary and political unity of the nine countries. The informal meeting is expected to lead to full-scale formal summit talks in Paris later in the year.
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany is hoping that President Valery Giscard d’Estaing of France will make a significant gesture toward European unity and drop past objections to a political decision‐making role for the Common Market’s nine foreign ministers, according to sources in Bonn. The two men say they have a friendly working relationship, but Mr. Schmidt and some of his advisers hoped that the French leader would go beyond atmospherics tonight at an informal dinner meeting of the heads of state of the Common Market countries.
While the West struggles with inflation and recession, Saudi Arabia is enjoying an economic boom that benefits the rich and the poor. Because of the oil revenues pouring into its treasury, the government is able to spend several hundred million dollars a year for an import subsidy program that protects Saudi Arabians against inflated world prices. For example, the price of such food staples as rice and sugar are at the level of a year ago. The government has also subsidized public utility rates, reducing electricity and water charges by 50 percent. The price of gasoline is very low: an automobile owner may fill his tank for little more than $2 at the new, reduced, high-test gasoline price of 16 cents a gallon.
Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan returns to Washington this week for consultations at the State Department following publication of a blunt diplomatic dispatch by him on United States intelligence activities and India’s nuclear plans. Embassy officials said that the trip, previously unannounced, had been arranged before Mr. Moynihan sent his message to Secretary of State Kissinger last week. The message, as reported by The New York Times, could have major repercussions on Indian‐American relations. The embassy officials said that Mr. Moynihan would heln prepare for Mr. Kissinger’s planned visit to New Delhi late next month. According to published excerpts from the message, Mr. Moynihan predicted that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi would, “proceed to develop nuclear weapons and a missile‐delivery system, preaching nonviolence all the way.” Mrs. Gandhi has repeatedly said that India would use nuclear energy only for peaceful purposes.
Lieutenant General Kim Jae-gyu, who would become the Director of the Korea Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA), was welcomed by South Korea’s President Park Chung Hee upon becoming the new Minister of Construction. Kim would tell his lawyer in 1979 that he had been prepared to shoot and kill Park upon shaking hands with the president but abandoned the plan. After becoming the KCIA Director, Kim would assassinate Park Chung Hee five years later on October 26, 1979.
Japan and South Korea agreed to make “utmost efforts” to avoid a break in their relations, strained following last month’s attempt to assassinate President Park Chung Hee, diplomatic sources in Tokyo said. The sources said the agreement was reached during two meetings between Japanese Ambassador Torao Ushiroku and Korean Premier Kim Jong Pil and Foreign Minister Kim Dong Jo. The dispute has been growing since the August 15 attempt on Park’s life, allegedly by a Korean resident of Japan.
Japanese fishermen at Mutsu threatened to form a blockade to prevent the Mutsu, Japan’s first nuclear-powered ship, from returning to its home port. The 8.214-ton experimental ship sprang a radiation leak 14 days ago while on its first test cruise and must return to port to have a defective reactor shield repaired. Supplies aboard the ship, now sailing aimlessly off the Hokkaido coast, are running low. The fishermen fear contamination of local waters where they fish.
Labor and management representatives reached agreement on salary demands that had threatened strikes in almost all industries and factories in Mexico. The agreement, signed in Mexico City by national union representatives and leaders of industrial associations, calls for a general 22% across-the-board pay increase for most of the 5 million members of the national unions.
Taiwan Ambassador Kuo Ping-yu was shot to death in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and police were holding a former embassy chauffeur as a suspect. Police charged the driver, Juan Jose Ferreyra, 26, shot the ambassador after a dispute over severance pay. Kuo’s body was expected to be flown back to Taiwan following the arrival of his wife and two daughters, who were in New York on vacation at the time of the shooting.
Well-informed government sources said that Secretary of State Kissinger personally directed a far-reaching Nixon administration program intended to curtail all United States economic aid and credits to Chile after the election of the late President Allende in 1970. They said that Mr. Kissinger, who was then President Nixon’s adviser on national security, took charge of a series of weekly interagency meetings at which administration officials worked out a policy of economic sanctions — “retaliation,” as one source put it — against Chile. The Nixon administration repeatedly denied that there had been any deliberate economic sanctions against the Allende government. Mr. Kissinger had no comment.
The São Paulo Metro, the first underground subway in Brazil, began operations.
Habib Bourguiba, the only president that independent Tunisia has had, today was named President for life. Mr. Bourguiba, who is 71 years old, immediately accepted the title that he had refused on two previous occasions. The Congress of the Socialist Destour party, the only authorized party in Tunisia, took the action in a meeting here in the town where Mr. Bourguiba was born. The congress unanimously elected him president of the party for life. The party president is the only candidate permitted in presidential elections, automatically making Mr. Bourguiba the nation’s President for life.
Troops of the Mozambique Liberation Front today began patrolling the streets of Lourengo Marques (today Maputo) as Portuguese officials in, this capital made final preparations for a transfer of power to a government led by the front. About 200 troops of the front, known as Frelimo, arrived here yesterday to keep peace in the black shantytowns where racial violence flared earlier this week, killing at least 82 people. Government officials said that more of the front’s soldiers were being brought into the capital by air and sea, But they declined to give the exact number expected.
Islam, the religion of millions from Africa to Asia, is flourishing and attracting many converts as Christianity is declining, perhaps smothered by secular cultures.
The General Accounting Office has accused the Federal Power commission of acting improperly in allowing a number of natural gas producers to raise prices to millions of their customers. It also alleged that a number of commission officials had owned securities of the companies they regulated, and had failed to comply with the commission’s rules against conflicts of interest. The F.P.C. ordered 19 officials to sell some of their securities. In reply, the commission denied that it had acted improperly, and said most of the non-compliance with the conflict-of-interest regulations had resulted from inadequate record keeping procedures. It also said that all of these situations had been cleared up.
The Northeast and some other regions of the country are moving toward a natural gas shortage this winter that will be the biggest yet, according to industry and government experts. These authorities believe that the shortage will be still greater in 1975-76 and even worse in 1976-77.
The special Watergate prosecutor’s office, although strongly opposed to the decision to return White House tape recordings and documents to former President Nixon, was given no direct role in the discussions that led to the decision according to several well-placed sources.
The Ford administration has drafted the first national criteria for determining which cities will get federal aid to build rapid transit systems and which will have to settle for buses. The standards are expected to be sent to Secretary of Transportation Claude Brinegar on Tuesday for approval. They indicate that many cities that expected the government to pay most of the cost of transit lines will be disappointed.
In the Detroit News column that he resumed when he resigned as President Ford’s press secretary, Jerry terHorst said that Mr. Ford was “spending an inordinate amount of time soothing his own loyalists and placating the sensitive feelings” of General Alexander Haig, President Nixon’s former White House chief of staff. He said that this was time that Mr. Ford “might better devote to the task of devising a policy to bring inflation under control, shaping his administration’s domestic and foreign policies and installing his own men in the key posts of government.”
The Senate will begin hearings Tuesday on the controversial presidential nomination of Gov. Thomas Meskill of Connecticut to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The Governor’s prospects of confirmation are believed to be not good. Among the opposition is the American Bar Association, which believes Mr. Meskill has had too little courtroom experience. His nomination was one of former President Richard Nixon’s last official acts. The Second Circuit hears appeals from Federal District Courts in Vermont, Connecticut and New York.
The proposed presidential appointment of Civil Court Judge Henry Bramwell, a Brooklyn Republican, to the federal bench in the Eastern District of New York has met some opposition among the district’s federal judges. His appointment has been recommended by both New York Senators. The opposition believes that Judge Bramwell has not had adequate experience for the federal bench and that he has been selected, at least in part, because of his race.
Black leaders in Boston discussed the possibility of requesting federal marshals to protect black children if city officials could not guarantee their safety amid disturbances over a court-ordered school integration plan. The federally ordered busing plan has been frustrated for two days by boycotts involving blacks and whites and stone-throwing by whites in which 23 persons have been arrested and 21 others injured. Boston Mayor Kevin White said he was “strongly opposed” to calling in federal marshals when classes resume Monday, but Boston NAACP leader Thomas J. Atkins said he would discuss the question at a news conference today.
Dropping of bribery charges against Austin attorney Jake Jacobsen would not be in the interest of justice, even if the Associated Milk Producers, Inc. lobbyist testified against former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally, a federal judge said in Dallas. U.S. Dist. Judge Robert M. Hill refused to recognize a Justice Department “plea bargain” deal, noting that the charges against Jacobsen in an unrelated case in his court could result in a penalty of 35 years in prison and a $70,000 fine. Government lawyers believe that Jacobsen will testify that he gave Connally $10,000 from the dairy cooperative in return for Connally’s help in getting milk subsidies increased.
“Financial exploitation of consumers” by the natural gas industry was aided by the Federal Power Commission, Rep. John E. Moss (D-California) charged in Washington. A General Accounting Office report to Moss accused the FPC of allowing gas producers to reap excess profits because of lax enforcement. It also charged “widespread noncompliance” by upper-level employees with conflict-of-interest regulations. Moss called for investigations by Congress and the Justice Department and said he would recommend that the FPC be stripped of its power to raise gas prices.
A stubborn blaze that ate its way through six decks of the luxury liner Cunard Ambassador was doused finally. The $34 million ship was being towed to an anchorage off Key West, Florida, where an assessment of damages will be made. The fire started Thursday morning in the engine room when the ship was in the Florida Straits.
A juror in the Wounded Knee trial who has been hospitalized with high blood pressure may be able to rejoin the panel Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney R.D. Hurd said. The trial, in St. Paul, Minnesota, has been in recess since Therese Cherrier, 53, was taken ill Friday. On Thursday the jury had received the case against two leaders of the American Indian Movement, Dennis Banks and Russell Means, charged with three counts of assault, one of theft and one of conspiracy in connection with the 71-day takeover of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
Ten other killings may have been committed in Manhattan in the last two years by an ex-convict charged with the strangulation of a wealthy 69-year-old widow, authorities said. Calvin Jackson, 26, was arraigned Friday in the death of Pauline Spanierman, whose body was found Thursday in her ransacked apartment. Jackson, who has a record of drug and robbery convictions, implicated himself in the killings of at least 10 other elderly women, six of whom lived in the same hotel, according to Assistant District Attorney Kenneth Klein. The defendant was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination.
A flash flood killed 10 people when it destroyed the Nelson’s Landing Marina in Nelson, Nevada, in the U.S. as it swept through the El Dorado Canyon on Lake Mojave. At least 15 persons were missing today after a flash flood gushed through a narrow canyon on the Colorado River and wiped out a small marina. Captain Ken Campbell of the Las Vegas police said the flood washed away about 10 trailers, 10 cottages, the boat landing and a small store with a restaurant and bar. “The people have just vanished,” he said. Officers of the United States Park Service, the Nevada Highway Patrol and the Las Vegas Police Department went to the site in Eldorado Canyon for rescue operations. The marina is on a dammed portion of the Colorado Riyer that is known as Lake Mojave. An estimated 40 campers were reported to be stranded at Aztec Cove, a few miles south of Las Vegas. “The canyon is about three miles long and only about 100 feet wide, and the walls are up to 100 feet high,” Captain Campbell said. “There’s no place for the water to go but right through.”
The 24 planes that make up the first two operational squadrons of the Grumman Corporation’s F‐14 fighter were aboard the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) this weekend. The nuclear‐powered carrier is expected to sail early in the week for the western Pacific, where she will be Rear Admiral Owen Oberg’s flagship for command of Carrier Group 7. The Enterprise will operate for at least six months out of Cubi Point in the Philippines. The 1,600‐mile‐an‐hour, swing-wing fighter was built by Grumman at Bethpage on Long Island. In 1972 the company wrote off $220‐million in losses on the F‐14 development. Banks cut off Grumman’s credit line. The Navy began to make advance credit payments against future deliveries, causing a Congressional uproar that culminated in August in the refusal of the Senate to approve a $100‐million advance payment to Grumman.
American astronomer Charles T. Kowal discovered Leda, the 13th moon of Jupiter to be found up to that time, using the 48-inch (1,200 mm) Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory.
American composer-arranger-producer Quincy Jones Jr (41) weds American “Mod Squad” actress Peggy Lipton (28) in Los Angeles, California; they divorce in 1990.
Graig Nettles homers for the New York Yankees in the first inning, and brother Jim Nettles homers for the Tigers in the 2nd. This is the 2nd time that the 2 brothers have homered in the same game for different teams, having done it on June 11, 1972, when Graig was on Cleveland and Jim was with Minnesota. Graig’s team wins 10–7. “Our guys are confident, now,” said Elliott Maddox, the centerfielder. “We can overcome anything. We knew we’d come back.” Maddox, who starred by stroking one of three first-inning home runs that knocked Mickey Lolich out of the game, as well as making a tremendous diving catch off Ron LeFlore’s drive, also in the first, was alluding to two comebacks: from last night’s loss after taking a 3–0 lead, and from today’s game after seeing the Tigers tie them, 4–4, after the Yankees had led, 4–0.
Billy Champion hurled a two‐hitter today and George Scott belted his third home run in two days to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 3–1 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Scott’s 17th home run of the season came off Reggie Cleveland in the first inning and staked the Brewers to a 1–0 lead. They made it 2–0 in the second on a single by Gorman Thomas, a walk and a single by Pedro Garcia. Champion retired the first 13 Red Sox batters, all on routine plays, until Bernie Carbo hit a line drive that landed a few feet in front of the right‐field wall and bounced over for a groundrule double with one out in the fifth. Carbo scored Boston’s only run on a two‐out single by Dick McAuliffe.
Bob Oliver and Brooks Robinson batted in two runs apiece during a five‐run third as the Baltimore Orioles made it three straight over the Cleveland Indians with a 7–1 victory tonight. The Orioles completed a sweep of Friday night’s suspended double‐header earlier in the evening when Bob Reynolds and Grant Jackson preserved a 8–6 triumph by pitching one shutout inning.
Minnesota and Kansas City split their doubleheader. The Twins and Dave Goltz (9–8) won the opener, 7–5; the Royals came back to win the nightcap in a 13–3 rout behind Nelson Briles’ (5–5) complete game.
The Texas Rangers shelled Vida Blue (15–15) and the Oakland A’s, winning 8–3. Blue yielded six runs on nine hits, and could not get out of the fourth inning, when Texas scored five runs. Jackie Brown (12–12) hurled a seven-hitter for the win.
Frank Tanana (12–17) threw a six-hit shutout to lead the California Angels to a 5–0 win over the Chicago White Sox, who were without slugger Rich Allen, who left the team tonight. Wilbur Wood (20–18) took the loss.
Larry Lintz drove in four runs and Mike Jorgensen and Barry Foote knocked in three apiece today as the Montreal Expos routed the Pittsburgh Pirates, 17–2. After the Cardinals won at night, the Pirates dropped to second place, a half‐game behind. Larry Parrish and Tim Foil each had two runs batted in as the Expos posted their sixth consecutive victory. Montreal grabbed a 1–0 lead in the first inning when Foli walked, went to third on a double to right by Willie Davis and scored on Jorgensen’s sacrifice fly. The Expos added four in the third, knocking out the Pittsburgh starter, Larry Demery.
Bill Robinson misplayed Lou Brock’s second‐inning two‐run single, allowing two more runs to score, as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 9–2, tonight and took over first place in the National League East. The Cardinals took a halfgame lead over the Pittsburgh Pirates, who lost, 17–2, earlier in the day to the Montreal Expos. Trailing, 1–0, the Cardinals filled the bases in the second on an infield single by Bake McBride and walks to Ken Reitz and John Curtis. Brock then singled sharply to center and the ball skipped by Robinson who was charged with a three‐base error. After Mike Schmidt knocked in a Philadelphia run with a groundout in the third, St. Louis added three runs in the fifth off Dick Ruthven. In the sixth, Brock singled, stole his 107th base of the year and scored on a sacrifice fly by Ted Simmons.
Although deeply entrenched in the National League East’s cellar, the Chicago Cubs performed yesterday as if they were powerful pennant contenders determined to enjoy the full advantages of Fun City. The visitors hit four of five New York pitchers with abandon in a 15‐hit attack that enabled them to sweep to a 12–0 trumph over the Mets, who were loaded with sub stitutes. The defeat was the most one-sided suffered by the Mets this season. That this was to be a happy outing for the Cubs was demonstrated early. They fell on Ray Sadecki, the Mets starting pitcher, for seven hits and six runs in the first two innings. Then, with all the pressure off them, the Cubs scored in pairs in three of the remaining innings. Adding to the enjoyable Chicago experience was a stingy pitching performance turned in by Burt Hooton, who scattered four hits, struck out four and walked only one.
In Los Angeles, the Cincinnati Reds defeat the Dodgers, 4–2, to pull to within 1½ games of the National League West lead. A tie-breaking home run by Tony Perez in the fourth inning and an insurance homer by Joe Morgan in the eighth brought the Reds the victory over the Dodgers tonight, and moved them within 1½ games of the division‐leading Dodgers — the closest the Reds have been to first place in five months. That’s as close as they come, as they lose 6 of their next 8 games. Don Gullett, pitching into the eighth inning tonight, earned his 17th victory, aided by Clay Carroll, who also locked up John Billingham’s 19th here last night. A crowd of 52,970 had little to cheer about as he Dodgers were held to five hits. Not even the use of Mike Marshall for five innings could help the Dodgers. Making his 95th appearance of the Season, Marshall started the fifth with the Dodgers trailing, 3–2. He was effective, but Morgan led off the eighth with his 21st homer.
The Houston Astros shut out the San Francisco Giants, 5–0 behind Larry Dierker’s five-hitter. Dierker struck out eight and improved his record to 10–9. John Montefusco (2–1) took his first major league loss.
The Atlanta Braves downed the San Diego Padres, 7–3. Hank Aaron hit his 18th homer of the season. The Braves scored four in the eighth, led by bases-loaded singles by Dusty Baker and Dave Johnson, to win it.
Born:
Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan middle-distance runner and holder of the world records for the fastest mile run (3 minutes, 43.13 seconds) since 1999, and the 1500 metres run (3 minutes, 26.00 seconds) since 1998; in Berkane, Morocco. In addition to the mile record that has stood for almost 25 years, Berkane won Olympic gold medals in 2004 for the 1500 metre and 5000 metre races, and three consecutive world championships in the 1500 m race (1999, 2001 and 2003).
Chad Bradford, MLB pitcher (Chicago White Sox, Oakland A’s, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, Tampa Bay Rays), in Jackson, Mississippi.
Josh Outman, MLB pitcher (Oakland A’s, Colorado Rockies, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees), in St. Louis, Missouri.
Ryan Sutter, NFL defensive back (Carolina Panthers), in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Died:
Warren Hull, 71, American film actor and radio and TV host known for his performances in movie serials as “The Spider” (in 1938 and 1941), “Mandrake the Magician” (1938), and the “Green Hornet” (1940), died of congestive heart failure. Hull, a popular singer, also hosted “The Warren Hull Show” on CBS Radio and the game show “Strike It Rich” on radio and TV.
Barbara Jo Allen (stage name for Marian Barbara Henshall), 68, American actress and comedienne known for the character “Vera Vague”.
Agostino Novella, 68, Italian communist who led the Italian General Confederation of Labour and served for 26 years in Italy’s Chamber of Deputies.
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