President Ford, in his first address to the United Nations, urged the adoption of a “global strategy for food and energy.” He pledged American cooperation with a proposed worldwide system of food reserves and announced that the United States this year will increase funds for food shipments to needy nations. Mr. Ford also called upon the oil-producing nations to define their policy without imposing unacceptable burdens on the international monetary and trade system.
The world food crisis has developed rapidly over the last few months from what once seemed to be only another exaggerated doomsday forecast to a reality threatening the lives of millions. While it can be concluded that a world food crisis has begun, there is disagreement, however, on how long it might persist.
Britons will vote for a new Parliament on October 10, marking the first time in 50 years that Britain has held two general elections in a year. Prime Minister Harold Wilson came close to being apologetic in calling the election, conceding that very few people want one at a time of such economic crisis.
The British Ambassador to the United States said in Los Angeles that the recent discovery of oil and gas deposits in the North Sea will one day make Great Britain the most prosperous nation in Europe. But, Sir Peter Ramsbotham said, “For the next two years we’re going to have a difficult time.” Sir Peter, here for the opening of a British trade exhibit, added that “by 1980 we will be self-supporting (in energy)” and that later “we’ll be exporting which will make us a very rich country.”
Doomed by deficits and occupied by her crew since last Thursday, the luxury liner France is being taken out of service immediately, according to an announcement by the French Line. The company canceled a final trans-Atlantic round trip and two gala cruises that were to have taken place before her planned retirement Oct. 25.
Portugal’s military government banned the far-right Portuguese National Party, raided and closed its headquarters in Oporto and seized the records there. It was the first ban on a political party since the military overthrew the dictatorship in April. The government ordered an investigation to determine if leaders of the party should be prosecuted for trying to destroy democratic institutions.
An extreme right-wing organization calling itself the Group for the Defense of Europe claimed responsibility for the grenade attack on a Paris drugstore last Sunday which killed two persons and injured 25. The organization, in a communique sent to a news agency in Paris, said it had decided to act because it was “sick of all the guff on the television, the radio and in the newspapers about the resistance, the concentration camps, German and fascist war criminals.”
Turkish Premier Bulent Ecevit handed his resignation to President Fahri Koruturk and agreed to be a caretaker premier until a new administration can be formed. Ecevit said his party would solicit the aid of other parties in seeking December elections. Ecevit resigned to end the eight-month-old governing coalition of his own leftist Republican People’s Party and the ultraconservative Islamic National Salvation Party, whose differences had become irreconcilable, he said.
Leaders of the two Cyprus communities met separately with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Leonid F. Ilyichev to ask for Soviet aid in solving the crisis on the war-torn island. Greek Cypriot President Glafkos Clerides was the first to meet with the Russian, who then planned to cross the Green Line into Nicosia’s Turkish quarter for a meeting with the Turkish Cypriot leader, Vice President Rauf Denktash.
Soviet authorities indicated they would bar a second bid to hold an abstract art show by a group of Soviet painters whose first attempt to show their works publicly was broken up with bulldozers. In the first official report to appear in Moscow on incidents last Sunday when Soviet authorities destroyed paintings, arrested artists and attacked Western reporters, Tass news agency described the show as “a cheap provocation.” At the same time, Western reporters were accused of distorting events.
Israeli gunners fired mortars at suspected Arab guerrilla concentrations in Lebanon today in what a military source described as “routine preventive shelling.” The shelling was all along the Lebanese frontier. It began late last night and lasted through this morning, despite the Rosh Hashanah holiday. “It was nothing serious, just routine preventive shelling to keep them [the guerrillas] busy and to keep them from settling in,” the source said. For the last several months Israel has been shelling suspected guerrilla concentrations in Lebanon as one of the means to keep them from infiltrating into Israeli territory.
An Ethiopian Government statement today said the creation of a civilian provisional Government now was unacceptable to the Armed Forces Committee of military officers and enlisted men, who ousted Emperor Haile Selassie after 44 years of feudal rule in this ancient African kingdom. The statement accused proponents of a civilian government of being influenced by “bourgeois Western capitalists.” But pressures from students and workers on the military to relinquish power to civilians continued to mount despite its promises to establish a democratic government in the future.
Emmet James Kay was freed today by his Laotian captors after 16 months as a prisoner and told greeters he knew of no other Americans in custody. Thus the civilian pilot from Hawaii was the last known American prisoner of war in Indochina. Mr. Kay, 47 years old, was the first prisoner released in a long‐delayed exchange in Laos between the side led by Prince Souvanna Phouma and the pro-Communist Pathet Lao. The two sides, now joined in a coalition government, are to exchange 350 Laotian, Vietnamese and Thai prisoners starting tomorrow.
Mr. Kay landed shortly after sunset at the end of a two‐hour flight from Thailand in a C‐9 hospital jet. It was his third flight for the day, which started with his release at Samneua in the Communists’ mountain stronghold of northern Laos. The British Army pilot who picked up Mr. Kay at Samneua and flew him to the Laotian capital of Vientiane said that Mr. Kay and his Pathet Lao captors had embraced warmly in an emotional farewell. The pilot, Major Peter Shield, said that Mr. Kay had pledged that he would “work toward peace in Indochina” and quoted him as having said that he now opposed American intervention in Indochina and fully supported the Indochinese people “in their struggle for peace.”
After greeting her husband in Vientiane, Florence Kay said: “He looks fine.” Mr. Kay said he had lost 20 pounds in captivity but was “treated very, very well” after his small plane made a forced landing in northern Laos on May 7, 1973. He was flying for a civilian charter line working for the United States Goverment.
President Ford said today that the release of Mr. Kay was a major positive step in carrying out the Indochina peace accords. But at the same time he called on North Vietnam to give an accounting of Americans missing in action. He said that the North Vietnamese had displayed almost no compliance with the agreement to help account for some 2,000 Americans still listed as missing in action.
The Philippine Supreme Court has upheld as constitutional the assumption of emergency powers by President Ferdinand E. Marcos two years ago. In a decision handed down last night, it rejected a challenge and an appeal for freedom brought by former Senator Benigno S. Aquino and 30 other prominent persons who were arrested after the imposition of martial law in September, 1972. Only Mr. Aquino, a principal political foe of Mr. Marcos, is still detained. The rest, including former Senators Jose W. Diokno, Ramon V. Mitra and Francisco Rodrigo and three journalists, Maximo Soliven, Joaquin Roces and Juan Mercado, have been released subject to restraints on travel and free speech.
Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras with 110 mph winds; about 5,000 people die.
A Brazilian Air Force transport plane crashed on takeoff at Ponta Porã, killing 22 of the 23 officers on board.
President Ford’s admission of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency intervention in Chile “has jolted world opinion and confirmed long established facts,” the widow of ousted Chilean President Salvador Allende said in Vienna. Mrs. Allende also accused Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger of being “the driving force” behind the coup by the military in which her husband died, although Mr. Ford has specifically denied any U.S. role in the coup.
Argentine President Maria Estela Perón held an extraordinary meeting of her full cabinet, the commanders of the armed forces and business and labor leaders to discuss ways to combat a three-day wave of violence which included more than 120 terrorist bombings and killed seven persons. The latest victim was Dante Balcanera, 48, Labor Ministry official and leader of Buenos Aires’ bus drivers’ union. Most of the violence has been caused by rightand left-wing urban guerrilla groups.
Government officials say thousands of military deserters will be able to return to the United States and receive undesirable discharges without serving any alternative service. One official says the matter was “discussed at great length at the Pentagon” before final approval. A spokesman for the largest group of war resisters in Canada said he did not know how many deserters would take advantage of it. For many hours today it appeared that the Government had made a mistake in preparing President Ford’s conditional amnesty proclamation, leaving a loophole for deserters. However, John Russell, spoke an for the Justice Department, said late this evening that there had been no mistake. “The Pentagon decided to do it this way,” he said. The Defense Department decided they did not want to take deserters back into the military.
Secretary of State Kissinger delivers tomorrow his long‐expected defense of efforts by the Nixon and Ford Administrations to improve relations with the Soviet Union. Described by the State Department as “a major statement,” Mr. Kissinger’s report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee runs nearly 15,000 words. It includes the views of many high officials and covers Soviet‐American political, military and economic relations. The final product was drafted by several aides of Mr. Kissinger, but was largely rewritten by the Secretary himself in the month since he was first scheduled to make his presentation on August 8. He asked for a postponement on August 7 on the ground that the report was not complete. But aides said later Mr. Kissinger asked for a delay because he was aware that President Nixon was about to resign.
After rejecting a Pan American World Airways request for a $10.2 million federal subsidy, the Ford administration announced an alternate plan aimed at aiding the distressed airline. However, the seven-part plan includes three steps likely to provoke an angry reaction from competing foreign government-operated airlines.
Caught between inflation and budget cuts by Congress, the Pentagon finds itself more than $11 billion short of the funds it needs for planned procurement of weapons and materials. And unless there is some budgetary relief, which seems highly unlikely, officials say the Pentagon will have to cut back.
In a relatively rare operation, a team of 23 doctors and nurses separated Siamese twins at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia. The prognosis for 13-month-old Clara and Alta Rodriguez of the Dominican Republic was called “excellent” by Dr. C. Everett Koop, the hospital’s surgeon in chief and head of the operating team.
A panel of experts appointed by Congress’ Joint Committee on Atomic Energy recommended that stricter controls be placed on the transportation of radioactive materials — especially radioisotopes used in medicine — on commercial aircraft to protect passengers and crew. The experts recommended that the radiation limit for each package be reduced by 90% and the total amount of material allowed on any one plane be cut by 80%. The amount of radiation that cargo handlers can get in an hour should be cut by 25% to 50%. The experts also recommended banning altogether the air shipment of plutonium, used in nuclear weapons.
The House Rules Committee killed, on a 6-6 tie vote, a bill that would have eliminated all restrictions on rice growing for a three-year trial period. The vote was considered a setback for Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz, who championed the measure in his drive to bring commodities under the new “target price” concept of supports. Wheat, feed grains and cotton were put under the simplified plan last year. It sets a price on those commodities and the government pays the difference if the market falls below the target.
Corpus Christi, Texas, officials said they have located documents voiding 116-year-old bonds a Seattle, Washington, woman says are worth at least $500,000. Mrs. Schuyler Cumings, in her 70s, wrote several weeks ago claiming she found in her late husband’s papers a number of old bonds issued to finance the dredging of a ship channel. But Finance Director Harold Zick said he had located minutes of June 4 and 5, 1869, which show that the bonds were “revoked, canceled and nulled” because the corporation doing the dredging had not completed its work.
The Kutenai Indians, a landless tribe that has never had a treaty with the United States, has demanded negotiations and the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs says it is ready. The 67-member tribe has threatened war over 1.6 million acres in Idaho and Montana. BIA Commissioner Morris Thompson sent a telegram to tribal Chairwoman Amelia Cutsack Trice saying a response would be made to the demands prior to the group’s midnight war deadline tonight.
Ten days of rain unleashed floodwaters that left at least 200 Texas families homeless. Three creeks raged over their banks in parts of Abilene and its suburbs and the worst flooding in 30 years was predicted. Rain also forced the Rio Grande over its banks in southwestern Texas and floodwaters poured through Big Bend National Park. Heavy rains also swelled the Concho River and the Upper Colorado. Texas ranchers welcomed the rains, but said they came too late to help crops.
Electric utilities nationwide may have to reduce their use of natural gas by about 8% this winter because of a growing shortage, the Federal Power Commission said in Washington, D.C. In a report, the commission said natural gas production declined 9.4% in 1973 and in most cases the gas was replaced by oil. This winter, the report estimated, utilities will use about 91.7 billion cubic feet less natural gas than last winter — the equivalent of 85,000 barrels of oil or 24,000 tons of coal daily. Federal experts have said the availability of oil appears to be adequate but that the threat of a coal strike in November may stretch oil supplies thin.
The political arm of the New York state United Teachers union contributed more than half a million dollars to political candidates in 1972 but did not file the federal reports required by law until this month. And the organization has yet to file statements of expenditures and receipts on the more than $400,000 it has raised for political donations this year.
American actress Doris Day won a $22,835,646 judgment against lawyer Jerome Rosenthal, whom she had accused of defrauding her and her husband, Martin Melcher, who died in 1968. Day would settle with Rosenthal’s insurers in August 1977 for $6 million to be paid in 23 annual installments.
Four men from Maitland, Florida, ranging in age from 20 to 24, drowned while cave diving at the off-limits Little River Springs near Branford. The executive director of the National Association for Cave Diving told a reporter, “They were totally unprepared for their 1,000 foot dive with equipment nowhere near adequate and only one of them had any cave diving experience at all. It was a suicide except that they didn’t know it.”
New York Knicks center Willis Reed retired due to a chronic knee injury. After two operations, he is in constant pain with arthritis and a bone spur.
Things grew sticky in the American League pennant race tonight when the Baltimore Orioles scored seven runs in the sixth inning and shattered most of the New York Yankees’ fragile grip on first place. The score was 10–4, which was bad enough for the Yankees in their tortured attempt to win their first championhip in 10 years. But the defeat was their second straight to the Orioles, which was worse because it chipped the Yankees’ lead to only half a game with 13 left. Even that traction could disappear this evening, moreover, when Rudy May pitches the final game of the series against Dave McNally with first place at stake in the American , League Eastern Division. And, on the outside, the Boston Red Sox were still alive and only 2½ games behind after beating the Detroit Tigers.
The Boston Red Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers, 8–5. Some of the Red Sox fans may think their team is dead — only 12,213 showed up at Fenway Park — but Fred Lynn doesn’t. Lynn, who spent most of the season with Boston’s Pawtucket farm club, had a two-run double among his four hits as the Red Sox moved within 2½ games of the Yankees in the East Division. It was only Boston’s seventh victory in 24 games but the hitting had to be encouraging. In addition to Lynn, Dick McAuliffe hit a two-run homer and Rick Burleson had three hits. Al Kaline had three hits for the Tigers and moved within four of his 3,000 goal. One of Kaline’s hits was a homer in the ninth, driving in Detroit’s last two runs.
The Oakland A’s edged the Kansas City Royals, 5–4. Reggie Jackson’s single drove in two runs in a four‐run fourth for Oakland, which went on to give Ken Holtzman his 19th victory. Holtzman had a one‐hit shutout and retired 11 consecutive batters before the Royals rallied in the seventh. Joe Rudi’s single in the Oakland eighth drove in what proved to be the winning run.
In other American League games, the California Angels downed the Texas Rangers, beating ace Ferguson Jenkins, 4–1, in the first game of their doubleheader. In the nightcap, the Rangers prevailed, 2–0, behind Steve Hargan’s three-hitter. The Cleveland Indians beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 6–3. And the Chicago White Sox defeated the Minnesota Twins, 3–1, as Jim Kaat won his 18th and Ken Henderson hit his 19th home run.
Lou Brock’s legs notwithstanding, the St. Louis Cardinals aren’t: about to run away from the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League East. The Pirates defeated the Cardinals in Pittsburgh last night, 4–1, avenging Tuesday, night’s defeat in which Brock stole two bases and scored the winning run in the 13th inning. At that point the Cardinals led Pittsburgh by 2½ games, but now it’s 1½ and the Pirates have broken their six‐game losing streak. “We’ve been down before,” says Pirates Manager Danny Murtaugh, “and we got to first place. We can do it again. But to beat these guys you’ve got to keep Brock off the bases.” The Pirates needed all the help they could get, and the Cardinal shortstop, Mike Tyson, provided a good part of it with two errors in the fourth. Al Oliver led off with a double off Lynn McGlothen, and Tyson’s errors followed on a grounder by Willie Stargell and a pop‐up by Ed Kirkpatrick. Two runs scored in the inning as the Pirates offset a 1–0 Cardinal lead stemming from Joe Torre’s runscoring single in the first. Oliver’s second double, in the seventh, drove in two insurance runs and helped Jim Rooker win his 13th game in 23 decisions. Rooker gave up six hits, struck out six, singled and scored a run.
Hank Aaron said good‐bye to San Francisco with his 732nd career homer and a run‐scoring single today in leading the Atlanta Braves to a 4–2 victory over the Giants. It was Aaron’s 19th homer of the season, and it came off rookie John Montefusco in the second inning. Carl Morton (16–10) got the win.
The Houston Astros edged the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3–2. Greg Gross, who threw out the winning run at the plate in the ninth inning. singled in the 10th for Houston and scored the tiebreaking run on Bob Watson’s double to keep Los. Angeles from gaining on the Reds, who trail by 2½ games. The Dodgers, trailing by 2–0 in the ninth, tied the score on Steve Garvey’s single and a pinch homer by Ken McMullen. Ron Cey then doubled, Joe Ferguson followd with a single to right, but Gross pegged out a pinch runner, Rick Auerbach, at home.
The San Diego Padres downed the Cincinnati Reds, 6–5. Enzo Hernandez drove in four runs and John Grubb delivered him with the game‐winner on a sacrifice fly in the seventh inning as the Padres hurt Cincinnati’s fading hopes for the second night. Hernandez, who had singled home two fifth‐inning runs to give the Padres a 3–1 lead, doubled home two more in the seventh to create a 5–5 tie.
Rick Reuschel is lifted after 3 scoreless inning and Steve Stone takes the 5–2 Chicago Cubs win over the Philadelphia Phillies. Jim Lonborg is the losing pitcher as Gene Garber and Erskine Thomason combine for 4 scoreless innings. Thomason’s 8–pitch one inning of work is his only Major League appearance.
The Montreal Expos swept their doubleheader with the New York Mets, winnning the opener, 3–2, and the nightcap, 4–0. The Expos beat the Mets’ two aces, Jon Matlack and Tom Seaver. To add injury to insult, Seaver had to leave the game in the sixth with a flare-up of the hip injury that has bothered him all year.
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Born:
Ticha Penicheiro, Portuguese WNBA point guard (Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, 2019; WNBA Champions-Monarchs, 2005; WNBA All_Star, 1999-2002; Sacramento Monarchs, Los Angeles Sparks, Chicago Sky), in Figueira da Foz, Portugal.
Fred Beasley, NFL fullback (Pro Bowl, 2003; San Francisco 49ers), in Montgomery, Alabama.
Damon Jones, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars), in Evanston, Illinois.
Terry Day, NFL defensive end (New York Jets), in Pickens, Mississippi.
Xzibit (stage name of Alvin Nathaniel Joiner), American rapper; in Detroit, Michigan.
Died:
Edna Best, 74, British stage and film actress (“The Man Who Knew Too Much”, “Intermezzo”, “Swiss Family Robinson”).
Ray Richards, 68, American football player known for the later-outlawed play “the lift”, briefly coach of the NFL Chicago Cardinals, died of cancer.
Brice Taylor, 72, African-American college football player, 1925 All-American, known for lacking a left hand. Taylor was the first black player for the USC Trojans, and later a head football coach for several historically black colleges.
Amanat Ali Khan, 52, Pakistani vocalist, died of a ruptured appendix.
[Ed: The doctor is C. Everett Koop.]
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