General Alexander Haig, the White House chief of staff, was appointed by President Ford as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. Ford’s selection was approved unanimously by the Defense Planning Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels. Haig, 49, who succeeds General Andrew J. Goodpaster, will take command of the U.S. troops November 1 and of NATO December 15. He is expected to give up his job as White House chief of staff Friday. There was no word on whether Mr. Ford will appoint another chief of staff.
U.S. President Ford signed a presidential proclamation granting conditional amnesty to American draft evaders and military deserters from the Vietnam War era. To be eligible, individuals would need to agree to work for up to 24 months in alternative public service jobs. He designated Charles Goodell, a former Republican Senator from New York, who had opposed the United States involvement in the Vietnam war, as chairman of the clemency board. On his first full day in office (January 21, 1977), Ford’s successor, Jimmy Carter, would issue an unconditional pardon to most evaders of the draft, which did not, however, include deserters.
British air force fighters scrambled to intercept four Soviet aircraft surveying a North Atlantic Treaty Organization naval exercise, the Defense Ministry said. The British planes intercepted the Soviet aircraft off the coast of Scotland, the ministry said, but gave no details. British aircraft and ships have been keeping an eye on any Soviet ships and submarines which might attempt to get a look at the exercise.
Martin McBirney QC, 56, and Rory Conaghan, 54, both judges in Northern Ireland, were assassinated in Belfast by terrorists from the Provisional Irish Republican Army. McBirney was Protestant and Conaghan (who was killed in front of his 8-year-old daughter) was Catholic. The extremist Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army announced later that both had been warned frequently that they were “part of the British war machine.” The slayings took place within five minutes of each other at breakfast time in suburban districts on the south and east sides of this city. In both cases, the attackers, believed to be teenagers, ran to getaway cars that had been stolen earlier. A police spokesman said that the guerrillas apparently overestimated the importance of the victims. The statement of the Provisional wing, which claimed responsibility for the killings, described them as “British High Court judges,” but neither, the police spokesman said, sat in the High Court.
The Greek and Turkish communities of Cyprus took the first step today toward settling severe problems of human misery resulting from the summer’s strife. The two sides exchanged a total of 245 prisoners of war and detainees on the grounds of the Ledra Palace Hotel here under the supervision of the United Nations and the Red Cross. The exchange is the first of a series to be carried out in coming weeks. More than 5,700 prisoners are held by the two sides, but only 816 — 493 Turks and 323 Greeks — will be exchanged in the first stage. These are men between the ages of 50 and 60 and under 18. As four busloads of prisoners from each side of the Green Line, which divides the Greek and Turkish sectors of Nicosia, drove into the grounds of the hotel, thousands of anxious relatives waited along the road. Many women wore black and wiped away tears as they waited for the buses to pass, hoping that missing relatives might be aboard.
The exchange was one of the agreements to emerge from talks held by President Glafkos Clerides, a Greek Cypriot, and Rauf Denktash, the Turkish Cypriot leader and nominal Vice President. It is hoped that the exchange will lead to a more comprehensive agreement aimed at alleviating social and economic problems brought to the island by the war. Greek Cypriots held by the Turks include thousands of men taken from villages. They are in addition to National Guardsmen captured during the fighting after the Turkish invasion of July 20. The Turkish Cypriots held by ethnic Greeks are mostly men rounded up in Limassol and Larnaca as well as in surrounding villages.
The exchange is only a small step to solution of the island’s refugee problem. More than 150,000 Greek Cypriots have fled or been expelled by the Turks from the north of the island. The Turks are pressing the British Government to transfer to Turkey the 8,200 Turkish Cypriots who sought refuge at British bases on the island. It is the intention of the Turkish military administration to resettle these people in the areas occupied on the island.
French seamen’s unions went on strike in support of crewmen occupying the luxury liner France to prevent the ship from being taken out of service next month. The striking crewmen of the France, the largest passenger ship in the world, held out against police and coast guard cutters that isolated the liner from contact with the shore and kept all other vessels at least 100 yards away. The ship is lying offshore near Le Havre. The unions’ strike is scheduled to last two days and could affect all the 427 ships in the French merchant fleet.
A Moscow municipal court today imposed 15‐day prison terms and fines on four artists and a photographer friend on charges of “petty hooliganism” for resisting bands of vigilantes who broke up an outdoor nonconformist art show yesterday. At the same time, the United States embassy lodged a protest with the Foreign Ministry over the mistreatment of three American correspondents who were beaten by unidentified persons working with others who ran bulldozers, dump trucks and sprinkler vehicles through the site of the art show. One Russian who was taken to a police station said he had evidence that the violence had been carried out by plainclothesmen. Viktor Tupitsin, a 31‐year‐old mathematician, said that while he was detained at the 90th Precinct he had seen some of the young vigilantes pass near him into a back room and reemerge in police uniforms. He said he had also seen a notice on the office bulletin board instructing “all the staff to report in civilian clothes” on Sunday morning, in evident preparation for disrupting the art show.
Ethiopian soldiers today blocked attempts by about a thousand university students to demonstrate for an immediate return to civilian rule and for a speedy court martial and conviction of the deposed Emperor, Haile Selassie. One official said the military government was bent on maintaining a deliberately slow pace in the belief that this is the only way to keep the country peaceful. The government has said it will court‐martial the 160 government figures of the Selassie era who have been arrested on corruption charges. There has been no official announcement about a court martial for the Emperor. Nevertheless, such proceedings are widely expected eventually.
A Việt Cộng force of unknown size made a predawn attack on a Mekong Delta village guarded by a 300-man government battalion. Radio contact with the village of Hóa Quan was reported lost. Saigon reported 140 Communist cease-fire violations in 24 hours.
In Cambodia, government troops reportedly liberated more than 4,000 persons from rebel control near the provincial capital of Kompong Chhang.
Emmet Kay, last known living American prisoner of war in Indochina, will be released Wednesday by the pro-Communist Pathet Lao, government sources said in Vientiane. Kay was captured in Laos after last year’s cease-fire when he was forced to land his small civilian plane in bad weather. At the time he flew for Continental Air Services, under charter to the U.S. government. He will be released 24 hours before a scheduled exchange of Thai and North Vietnamese POWs held in Laos.
Martial-law authorities announced the surrender of 100 heavily armed Muslim insurgents on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines and the outbreak of fighting with Maoist guerrillas on Luzon Island. The surrender of the Muslims was effected through efforts of local army authorities in the island province of Basilan, 510 miles south of Manila. The clash between Philippine constabulary troops and the Maoist guerrillas resulted in the death of three of the rebels, authorities said.
Foreign Minister Kim Dong Jo said in Seoul that South Korea and Japan have agreed to settle a diplomatic dispute over the August 15 assassination attempt on President Park Chung Hee. Kim, breaking a news blackout on the progress of negotiations, said the two nations are still discussing the contents of a diplomatic note to be exchanged between him and Japanese Ambassador Torao Ushiroku.
The first female “Mounties” began training at RCMP Academy, Depot Division, as 32 women entered the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as members of the new RCMP’s Troop 17. The first all-female group would graduate on March 3, 1975.
During a televised press conference, U.S. President Ford acknowledged that the Central Intelligence Agency had been active in Chile during the presidency of Salvador Allende, working to preserve the existence of opposition media and political parties, but denied CIA involvement in the September 1973 coup d’état during which Allende died. President Ford, at a televised news conference at the White House, declared his support for the clandestine use of the Central Intelligence Agency to help carry out foreign policy and protect national security. He made the statement in response to questions about the alleged involvement of the CIA in the overthrow of the late President Salvador Allende of Chile last year. He denied CIA involvement in the Chilean coup d’état.
In another development related to Chile, it was learned that the staff of a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee has recommended that contempt of Congress charges be placed against Richard Helms, the former CIA director, and three retired Nixon administration officials, including Edward Korry, Ambassador to Chile from 1967 to 1971, because of allegedly misleading Senate testimony on Chile.
On the 19th anniversary of the beginning of the Revolución Libertadora, multiple terrorist acts took place in Argentina, including over 50 bombings, and four people were killed. Hipólito Atilio López, 45, a labor union leader and the former Vice-Governor of the Province of Córdoba, was one of two men forced out of a car 36 miles (58 km) from Buenos Aires and shot to death.
An old friend of former President Nixon, who had been a member of his presidential staff, said that General Haig was “primarily responsible” for President Ford’s pardon for Mr. Nixon. General Haig reportedly persuaded Mr. Ford to reverse his publicly stated position on a presidential pardon after being advised of the “alarming state” of Mr. Nixon’s health.
President Ford strongly defended his pardon of former President Nixon under a barrage of questions about the matter at his televised White House news conference. He said that he had made “no deal” with Mr. Nixon and insisted that the major reason for the pardon was “to heal the nation.”
Judge Fred Nichol of the Federal District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota, strongly criticized the prosecution, the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for “misconduct” and then dismissed the charges against two men who led last year’s Indian takeover of the reservation community of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
Resounding support for the Ford administration’s proposals for a balanced budget and cuts in federal spending was expressed by 40 of the country’s leading businessmen at a conference on inflation in Pittsburgh. A majority, however, departed from basic administration policy and recommended an easing of tight money, joining the economists, housing specialists and labor leaders who do not share the administration’s views on tight money.
A move to force President Ford to grant full public access to all of Richard M. Nixon’s Watergate tapes and documents is gaining momentum in the Senate and may win approval from the Government Operations Committee on Thursday. The proposal is being spurred by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana, who took the floor to assert that a presidential order giving Mr. Nixon custody of the papers might eventually result in destruction or suppression of vital parts of the Watergate story. Mansfield wants Mr. Ford, regardless of his agreement with Mr. Nixon, to retain physical control for the time being and to see that all pertinent materials be made public.
The government estimated it would cost more than $1 million instead of $850,000 to complete former President Richard M. Nixon’s transition to private life in six months rather than 11. General Services Administrator Arthur F. Sampson said the speedup would cost an extra $233,800, mainly for additional salaries, overtime and rented equipment. Sampson gave the estimate to Senator Joseph M. Montoya (D-New Mexico), who questioned the legality at hearings last week of taking more than the six months prescribed in the Presidential Transition Act of 1963. The longer period has been requested by the Ford Administration.
Privately, Julie Nixon Eisenhower has indicated to a close friend that her father’s health is better than news reports have suggested. Publicly, however, Mrs. Eisenhower says her father probably should be hospitalized. The friend added that attempts to reach Pat Nixon in the last 10 days had been unsuccessful. And in California, another close friend of the Nixons said, “Mrs. Nixon should be allowed privacy at this point. . . Dr. (Walter R.) Tkach should have kept his cotton pickin’ mouth shut.” Tkach has been quoted by Newsweek magazine as saying that Mr. Nixon’s phlebitis condition has deteriorated until “it’s going to take a miracle for him to recover…”
The Transbay Tube (officially the “Bay Area Underwater Rapid Transit Tube”), the first tunnel underneath the San Francisco Bay in California, opened to the public for passengers traveling between San Francisco and Oakland on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) railway system.
School officials in Charleston, West Virginia, and surrounding Kanawha County decided to reopen schools today as a two-week protest against textbooks appeared to be slowing down. Schools for the county’s 44,800 students were closed Friday and Monday because of fears of violence stemming from the protest, which has shut coal mines and other businesses also. Two hundred state troopers have been on patrol. The protest began September 3 over the use of certain textbooks that protesters claimed would tend to undermine the moral and religious beliefs they had taught their children.
Chanting bands of white youths roamed the streets of South Boston today, protesting court‐ordered integration of the area’s schools. But the buses carrying increased — although still small — numbers of black students into the neighborhood came and went without serious incident, in contrast to last week’s stonings. Outside of troubled South Boston, the heart of antibusing sentiment, the first full week of school under the busing plan began uneventfully, with slightly increased enrollment. Assessing the situation tonight, Mayor Kevin H. White said, “The general consensus is this is the best day so far.”
Throughout the morning, policemen mounted on horses and motorcycles blocked and cut through groups of young whites trying to stage protest marches in South Boston, while helmeted squads of the tactical patrol force, wearing blue coveralls and combat boots, sealed off the corners. Shouting “Here we go Southie, here we go,” the high school’s football pep cheer, the crowds marched down the area’s main boulevards until they were blocked, then scattered up side streets and alleys. There were 22 arrests during the day, all but three in South Boston. Two black juveniles were arrested in the Dorchester section for stoning a bus with white students. Those arrested ranged in age from 14 to 38. There were no injuries to students riding school buses, although there were nine injuries in related incidents during the day.
Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr. announced today that he had introduced legislation to make the practice of dogfighting a federal crime. A spokesman for the New Jersey Democrat said the bill was prepared and introduced. last Wednesday after an article on August 15 in The New York Times described the illegal and apparently growing practice of pitting one dog against another and betting on the fights. “Although all of our states have laws prohibiting dogfighting, the fact that the practice transcends state boundaries and is increasing indicates that additional measures are warranted,” Senator Williams said in a statement.
Fifteen thousand employees struck American Motors Corp. after contract talks with the United Auto Workers broke down just hours prior to the start of the 1975 production. The strike halted all output at plants in three cities — Milwaukee, Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Brampton, Ontario. Talks adjourned after an all-night bargaining session when the old, 47-month contract expired.
A federal judge in Salt Lake City released a convicted skyjacker on five years’ probation, on the basis that the man’s difficulties were medical rather than criminal. Donald Lewis Coleman, 26, of Downers Grove, Illinois, attempted to hijack an American Airlines passenger jet on December 26, 1971, armed with a toy pistol and a pocket knife. He was subdued by crew members. U.S. District Judge Willis W. Ritter sentenced Coleman to two concurrent 10-year prison terms after his conviction in July, 1973. Prison doctors at the time diagnosed him as a manic depressive. Ritter said he has now reduced the sentence because a medical report shows “a complete remission of his difficulty” as a result of medication.
Amid a growing controversy over the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his well‐publicized appearance at Madison Square Garden tomorrow, some religious leaders and parents are organizing opposition to the 55‐year‐old Korean evangelist. A rabbi in White Plains has set up an anti‐Moon committee of parents and “concerned citizens” and is preparing a brief for the Attorney General’s office. A Brooklyn couple is seeking to start a similar committee in New York. Korean ministers of various denominations here are planning to issue a statement disassociating themselves from the movement.
Bob Dylan begins recording his 15th album “Blood on the Tracks”, in New York City.
Bert Blyleven won his 15th of the year in the only American League game this day, as the Minnesota Twins topped the Kansas City Royals, 7–2. Catcher Glenn Borgmann hit his third homer of the year for Minnesota.
At Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers beat the Astros, 7–2, as Andy Messersmith wins his 18th. Mike Marshall provides 2 shutout innings of relief and hits a single. He ends up at third base and then is cut down as left fielder Bob Watson nabs him for an unassisted double play after he catches Jim Wynn’s line drive. It is the third unassisted double play by an outfielder this year (right fielder Dave Parker; center fielder Bill North).
Cesar Geronimo, Dave Concepcion and Johnny Bench drove in two runs apiece tonight and the Cincinnati Reds walloped the San Diego Padres, 9–2. The Reds’ victory was their seventh in the last eight games. They scored seven runs in the first three innings, making it easy for Clay Kirby (10–8). He scattered seven hits, one a run‐scoring double by John Grubb, in the eight innings he worked. Pete Rose had two singles and a double, while Geronimo and Dan Driessen each hit a single and a bases‐empty homer. The loss was the fourth in a row for the Padres, who are 4–12 against the Reds this season.
With the temperature in the low 50’s, the Montreal Expos gave the New York Mets a cold welcome to Canada tonight by topping them, 3–2, in the opener of a double‐header. But New York, behind outstanding pitching by one of its rookie right‐handers, Randy Sterling, and its seasoned southpaw, Tug McGraw, warmed to its task and triumphed in the second game by the same score, 3–2, to end an Expo winning streak at eight games. Mike Torres won the opener for Montreal.
Jim Barr’s seven‐hit pitching and home runs by Bobby Bonds and Gary Thomasson led the San Francisco Giants to, a 4–2 victory over the Atlanta Braves today. Barr, improving his won-lost record to 13–9, defeated the Braves before only 748 fans, the fewest in the Giants’ San Francisco history. The previous low was 1,306 on October 4, 1972. With the score tied at 1–1, the Giants went ahead in the second inning on Steve Ontiveros’s double and Mike Phillips’s single.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Oakland Raiders 20, Buffalo Bills 21
Joe Ferguson’s 13‐yard pass to Ahmad Rashad with 26 seconds to play tonight rallied Buffalo to a 21–20 victory over the Oakland Raiders in a National Football League opener. Three touchdowns — two by the combination of Ferguson-to‐Rashad (the former Bobby Moore) — were scored in the final 1:56. Then Oakland’s George Blanda, who turns 47 tomorrow, missed a 50‐yard field‐goal attempt with 6 seconds left. The Bills played the second half without O. J. Simpson, who sprained his right ankle just before half‐time. He gained 79 yards on 12 carries. With 1:56 to play, Ferguson hit Rashad with a fourth‐down scoring pass of 9 yards and the conversion put the Bills ahead, 14–13. Five plays later, a defensive tackle, Art Thomas, recovered a fumble by Buffalo’s Jim Braxton with 1:14 left and scampered 29 yards to score. Blanda’s kick put the Raiders in front, 20–14. Then the Bills went 72 yards in eight plays. They moved to the Oakland 47 when Ferguson hit Braxton with a 10‐yard pass, and Oakland was penalized 15 yards for roughing the passer. Two plays later, Ferguson hit Rashad at the Oakland 27, and five plays later he hit him for the winning touchdown.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 639.78 (+12.59, +2.01%).
Born:
Julián Castro, American lawyer and politician (U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 2014-2017; Mayor of San Antonio, 2009-2014), in San Antonio, Texas.
Freddie Jones, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers, Arizona Cardinals), in Cheverly, Maryland.
Bob Wren, Canadian NHL center (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Toronto Maple Leafs), in Preston, Ontario, Canada.
Loona (stage name for Marie-José van der Kolk), multilingual Dutch pop singer; in IJmuiden, Netherlands.
Died:
Forrest “Phog” Allen, 88, American college basketball coach at the University of Kansas, inductee into the Basketball Hall of Fame, 1952 NCAA tournament champion, known for his winning percentage of almost 74% of games coached.
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