An exchange of able-bodied, military-age prisoners of war across Nicosia’s green line buffer zone began under supervision of the United Nations as 295 Turkish Cypriots were traded for 200 Greek Cypriots. The Turkish prisoners were driven to Nicosia from Larnaca, accompanied by two trucks piled high with suitcases. Most of the Greeks had no belongings with them. About 4,600 men will be released during the exchange, which is expected to be completed by the end of the week.
Greece told the U.N. General Assembly today that the political future of Cyprus must be determined exclusively and freely by agreement between the ethnic Greek and Turkish inhabitants of the island. Foreign Minister George Mavros declared that no settlement could he reached “in the shadow” of the 40,000 Turkish troops on Cyprus or under the pressure of the “ordeal of the 200,000 refugees” on the island as a result of the fighting in July and August. The Greek Foreign Minister spoke a few hours after Secretary of State Kissinger, speaking at the General Assembly, said the United States was ready to play a more active role in trying to promote a settlement of the Cyprus conflict. However, he emphasized that third parties could only assist such efforts and that it remained for the parties concerned to work out the form of government for the island, to decide on the areas to be administered by the Greek and Turkish communities and the conditions under which the refugees could return to their homes.
Senator J. W. Fulbright (D-Arkansas) said he turned down for personal reasons President Ford’s offer to make him ambassador to Britain. He said both he and his wife need time to “unwind and to restore our sense of perspective.” Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, lost his party’s nomination for reelection earlier this year and his wife was operated on for cancer during the same period.
Dissident Soviet physicist Andrei D. Sakharov, 53, was hospitalized for an emergency appendicitis operation, his wife said. Doctors told her later the operation had been a success and his condition was satisfactory, she said. Sakharov, one of the best-known figures in the Soviet human rights movement, staged a six-day hunger strike last June to protest what he called the inhuman treatment of political prisoners in his country.
In Portugal, a late-night fire at Lisbon’s Palace of Ajuda began, causing extensive damage and destroying 500 paintings, including a Rembrandt self-portrait.
Britain’s three main political parties officially launched their campaigns for the October 10 election with inflation the key issue. A sharp blow to the opening of the ruling Labor Party campaign was the resignation of Lord Chalfont to protest “growing left-wing domination.” He said he might join the Liberals later. Meanwhile, the prediction is that whoever wins the election will fail to solve Britain’s problems since the same men are offering much the same policies.
In the UK, the BBC became the first television network to feature texting for viewers as it inaugurated Ceefax. The service offered as many as 30 pages of information for subscribers to view while watching BBC programmes. Ceefax, a pun on the phrase “see facts”, would continue until October 23, 2012.
Israel joined Jordan in denouncing Egyptian and Syrian recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole representative of the Palestine people. Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, as he left Tel Aviv for the U.N. General Assembly, urged Jordan not to boycott the Geneva peace talks because “it is an. important partner in solving the Middle East problem.” Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said he did not think a new Mideast war was “in any sense imminent.”
India’s grave food shortage has worsened in the last two weeks and millions face hunger in several states in northern India. Economists and food experts believe that the crisis can be relieved only by substantial food imports, ranging from 7 million to 10 million tons. Hunger in some areas is breeding violence.
The Saigon Government said today that it would contribute $2.8‐million to the bankrupt International Commission of Control and Supervision, the international group charged with supervising the Paris peace agreements. “Everyone knows that the economic situation of South Vietnam is very low,” said Brigadier General Phan Hòa Hiệp, Saigon’s representative at the Two‐Party Joint‐Military Commission responsible for observing that military aspects of the agreements are, carried out. “But even so we want to contribute to the I.C.C.S. to help keep the peace in Vietnam.” The general was contrasting his government’s decision to make a contribution with the stand of North Vietnam and the Việt Cộng’s Provisional Revolutionary Government. Both have refused to contribute to the international commission on the ground that the United States continued to “interfere in the internal affairs of South Vietnam” and refused to make postwar “reparations” to Hanoi.
The Soviet Union announced that it will conduct tests of “carrier rockets” in the northwest Pacific between September 25 and October 5 and warned ships and planes to stay out of the region. Tass said the rockets will be fired in a radius of 50 nautical miles from a point 36 degrees 3 minutes latitude north and 178 degrees 12 minutes longitude west. The Russians conducted similar tests last February.
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Premier Kakuei Tanaka of Japan held talks today in an effort to establish a firmer relationship between their two countries. In a conversation that lasted more than two hours, the Canadian leader emphasized that Canada offered Japan “a non-United States window into North America,” according to Ivan Head, Mr. Trudeau’s foreign policy adviser. Mr. Tanaka, who arrived in Ottawa today for a four‐day visit, responded favorably to the Canadian leader’s invitation to Japanese industry to come to Canada to put up new factories, which, if built in Japan, would strain that country’s limited space, energy resources, and labor supply while worsening the country’s severe pollution problem, Mr. Head said.
Honduran officials appealed for food, helicopters and gasoline to aid hundreds of thousands of hurricane victims threatened with starvation and disease. They estimated that 5,000 people died, that there were 350,000 refugees and that nearly half the nation’s crops were wiped out. Looting broke out in towns devastated by landslides and floods.
Cubans, still nominally excluded from the Latin‐American cornmunity, are playing a major role in hurrican relief in Honduras. In this Caribbean city’s central cattle market today, Cuban doctors worked at one end and Costa Rican Red Cross workers at the other, toiling to supply the needs of some 40,000 refugees. Volunteer workers from Honduras’s American community aided the effort. About 40 Cuban doctors, nurses and orderlies had set up a tent hospital, complete with ward, a surgical tea and field kitchen. “We area just in the process of organizing,” a Cuban spokesman said. The hospital already was caring for two small children.
A former federal policeman and a hotel owner were shot to death and a policeman was wounded in Argentina in an attempted assassination of Eduardo Ottalagano, the newly appointed rector of the University of Buenos Aires who is a right-wing Peronist. Ottalagano was talking with the owner of the Hotel Lasort in the city of Entre Rios. The former policeman, Hector Echeverria, shot at the rector but killed the hotel owner. Echeverria was shot to death by two policemen, one of whom was wounded, according to a news report.
The Nixon Administration, in what amounted to a change of its clandestine policies toward the regime of President Salvador Allende Gossens of Chile, officially authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to begin supplying financial and other aid to anti‐Allende factions in mid‐October, 1971, highly reliable intelligence sources told jouranlist Seymour Hersh today. The Administration directive, characterized by one insider as an order to “get a little rougher,” resulted in direct CIA involvement six weeks later in the first large‐scale, middle-class demonstrations against the Allende regime. Dr. Allende was overthrown last September in a coup d’état in which he lost his life. The street demonstrations, known as the “march of the empty pots,” led to a series of violent clashes between supporters and opponents of Dr. Allende’s Marxist coalition Government. More than 100 persons were injured before the Chilean Army could impose curfew and restore order.
The United States, asserting that the world was threatened by a depression, said that the continued high oil prices set by producing countries involved the risk of a “breakdown of world order and safety.” In separate speeches by President Ford, in Detroit, and by Secretary of State Kissinger, at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the administration was closer than it had ever been to demanding an end to the rising costs of oil imposed by Iran, Venezuela and the Arab producers over the last year.
U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy announced that he would not be a candidate for President or Vice President in the 1976 United States presidential election.
Senator Edward Kennedy, who had been considered by leaders of the Democratic party as their undoubted favorite for the presidential nomination in 1976, removed himself without qualification from the candidacy because, he said, “I simply cannot do that to my wife and children and the other members of my family.” His withdrawal statement threw the Democratic presidential competition in chaos.
Nelson Rockefeller, on the opening day of the Senate Rules Committee’s hearings on his nomination as Vice President, said that he hoped the “myth or misconception” about the Rockefeller family financial empire would be “exposed and dissipated.” But he disclosed figures that seemed more likely to reinforce the image he was eager to erase.
Two-dozen leading economists met at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York in an effort to reach agreement on proposals for President Ford’s inflation “summit” at the end of the week, but ended the day without having reached any major consensus.
At another preparatory session in Washington, more than 60 state and local government officials pleaded that the federal government not cut funds for domestic programs and recommend several alternative anti-inflation proposals.
Former President Nixon, appearing to be fatigued, was admitted to Memorial Hospital Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif., about 50 miles south from his estate in San Clemente, for extensive tests and treatment of a flare-up of chronic phlebitis in his left leg.
Judge Charles Ridley of the Federal District Court in Washington said that it might be “desirable” to test the “validity” of former President Nixon’s pardon and the agreement on the disposition of Mr. Nixon’s White House tape recordings and documents. He said the test would be “in the public interest,” but delayed action on a lawsuit challenging the pardon and the tapes agreement until after a jury is chosen and sequestered in the Watergate cover-up conspiracy case.
First Lady Betty Ford disclosed that Richard M. Nixon had telephoned her husband occasionally since the former President resigned. She told reporters with her on a flight to Chicago that the contacts were a “general discussion of what’s going on.” Mrs. Ford’s press secretary, Helen Smith, when asked for clarification, said Mrs. Ford was referring to two calls initiated by Mr. Nixon. In Washington, White House Dept. Press Secretary John W. Hushen said further that Mr. Ford had made three calls to Mr. Nixon since the transition last month. He also said the former President called last Tuesday and chatted about foreign policy and the SALT talks and the “valuable contributions” of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.
Court-ordered busing to integrate Boston’s public schools entered its second week and officials said schools were moving toward normal conditions despite demonstrations that led to eight arrests. Mayor Kevin White’s office said attendance was 75.1%, up from 71.5% on Friday. School officials said most schools were quiet. One of the demonstrations involved 300 whites from the Charlestown section who marched toward south Boston shortly after schools opened. Police turned them around in the downtown area and herded them back toward Charlestown.
John B. Connally, former Treasury secretary, asked a federal judge in Washington to dismiss bribery, perjury and conspiracy charges against him or that his trial be moved to San Antonio. The motion claimed that Connally could not get a fair trial in the District of Columbia. A grand jury has charged that Connally accepted $10,000 in bribes from Associated Milk Producers, Inc., a huge milk cooperative, to help influence a price support raise. He also is charged with conspiring to cover up the transaction and with lying about it to a grand jury.
American reporters and members of the U.S. Congress were given a rare tour of the vaults of the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The U.S. Department of the Treasury allowed the viewing, the first since 1943 and the last one in the 20th century, in order to dispel a conspiracy theory that the gold reserves had been emptied. The only tour since 1974 took place on August 21, 2017.
Two of the nation’s top law enforcement officials charged today that prosecutors and courts were responsible for the rising crime rate because they often failed to convict and jail repeated offenders. “Too many dangerous convicted offenders are placed back in society in one way or another, and that simply must stop,” Attorney General William B. Saxbe told the International Association of Chiefs of Police at their annual conference here. “With so few dangerous offenders being convicted and even fewer being jailed,” Mr. Saxbe said, “something has got to be wrong somewhere. Much of the fault, as I see it, must test with prosecutions and the courts.” Clarence M. Kelley, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, told the same receptive audience that “easy bail for hardened criminals,” concurrent instead of consecutive sentences imposed by judges and “unreasonable plea bargaining” were undercutting law enforcement efforts
Failure of some communities and industries to respond adequately is slowing the nation’s efforts to clean up its air, the administration of the Environmental Protection Agency told a House subcommittee in Washington. Russell E. Train cited the electric utilities, which he said have “been somewhat less than aggressive in exploring methods of removing sulfur emissions…” Train said that while progress has been made in meeting the objectives of the Clean Air Act, more time will be needed than is currently allowed under the law for some cities to meet air quality standards.
The House Ways and Means Committee rejected an excise tax on big, gas guzzling cars that was aimed at promoting sales of smaller economy cars and forcing auto makers to provide greater fuel economy in their products. However, the committee voted a 7% tax credit to encourage the recycling of glass, paper, cloth and metals-except iron and steel. The credit would apply to the purchase price of discarded items for recycling.
A leader of migrant workers on a New Jersey farm was charged by a federal grand jury with holding four Puerto Rican laborers in involuntary servitude under a rarely used post-Civil War anti-slavery law. Other charges were placed against Marcos Portalatin, the crew chief on the farm of Rosario Sorbello in Swedesboro.
The young daughter of the board chairman of Taft Broadcasting Corp. was kidnaped from the front yard of her Cincinnati home. Police said a ransom of only $2,000 was mentioned in one of two phone calls to the family. Allison Mechem, 4, daughter of Charles S. Mechem Jr., was taken by a young man driving a white auto, witnesses said. The car was later found abandoned and police said they were looking for a white male with bushy hair. They also expressed concern over the strangely low amount of ransom. The Taft company owns six television stations nationally, two large amusement parks, two production firms, and five radio stations.
Revival of Jules Styne and Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Gypsy” opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 120 performances, Angela Lansbury wins Tony Award for her role as Mama Rose.
John Lennon’s single “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night”, featuring Elton John, released in US; it was Lennon’s only solo No. 1 single during his lifetime.
The Milwaukee Brewers and the Cleveland Indians split a doubleheader. The Brewers won game one, 6–2, behind Jim Colborn’s six-hit complete game. The Indians clouted three homers to take the nightcap, 7–4, as Charlie Spikes, Leron Lee, and Dave Duncan go deep.
The Pittsburgh Pirates move to within a half game of first place by defeating the St. Louis Cardinals, 1–0, in 10 innings. Richie Hebner’s game-winning line drive single down the right‐field line followed a pop‐fly pinch single by Paul Popovich and a sacrifice by Rennie Stennett, and made Lynn McGlothen a loser even though he shut out the powerful Pittsburgh hitters for nine innings. Jim Rooker is the winner, his 14th. Dave Giusti wrapped it up with his 12th save.
Mike Marshall made his 101st appearance tonight bailing Don Sutton out of an eighth‐inning jam and preserving a 4–3 victory for the Los Angeles Dodgers, over the Atlanta Braves. The victory stretched the Dodgers, lead to five games over the Cincinnati Reds in the National League West and reduced their “magic number” for clinching the title four. Sutton, whose won‐lost record is 18‐9, needed help from Marshall after giving up a single to Craig Robinson, a triple to Ralph Garr, and a home run to Rowland Office. Marshall gave up a hit to Marty Perez before retiring the side, then checked the Braves in the ninth.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Dallas Cowboys 10, Philadelphia Eagles 13
Monday night football scored again over television across the nation tonight as the Philadelphia Eagles upset the Dallas Cowboys, 13-10. The winning score was a 45yard field goal-by Tom Dempsey with 25 seconds left. Eagles’ Harold Carmichael losing a pass in the first quarter last night at Philadelphia. But that was not the end for the 64,089 fans in Veterans Stadium or the estimated 30-million at their TV sets. The Cowboys came back and the contest ended as Mac Percival, the Dallas kicker, missed a 48-yard field-goal that would have sent the game into overtime. The Cowboys, whose teams have qualified for postseason playoffs every year since 1966, got the upper hand on the stubborn young Eagles late in the third period and were moving to a second touchdown and a probable 14–0 lead. Doug Dennison, a rookie running back, headed for the end zone from the 4, but fumbled at the 3. Joe Lavender, an Eagle cornerback, scooped up the loose ball and raced 96 yards for the tying touchdown. The game had turned around.
A subsequent weak Dallas punt gave the Eagle offense, until then ineffective, an opening and Dempsey kicked a 33-yard field goal at 3:04 of the final quarter. Roger Staubach, the Cowboy quarterback who missed his first six pass attempts, had the range by then and quickly moved Dallas into the reach of a tying field goal by Percival. The prime mover was Drew Pearson, the wide receiver, who all told caught 10 passes for 161 yards. Then came more mistakes. A long Eagle drive, the only one of the night for the home side, ended at the Dallas 11, where Tom Sullivan, a running back, fumbled and Dave Edwards recovered for Dallas. But Staubach’s pass, aimed for Pearson on the sideline, was intercepted by Randy Logan at the Eagle 29. Four plays later Dempsey, who holds the league record for the longest field goal, 63 yards, achieved four years ago, coolly booted the winning kick.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 663.72 (-7.04, -1.05%).
Born:
Misuzulu Zulu, King of the Zulu Nation in South Africa since 2021; in Hlabisa, KwaZulu, South Africa.
Cyril Hanouna, French radio and television presenter known for hosting Touche pas à mon poste ! (“”Don’t Touch My TV Set!”); in Paris, France.
Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler, 14-time world tag team champion; in Cameron, North Carolina.
Eric Knott, MLB pitcher (Arizona Diamondbacks, Montreal Expos), in Harvey, Illinois.
Jason Chorak, NFL defensive end (Indianapolis Colts), in Vashon, Washington.
Died:
Robbie McIntosh, 24, Scottish drummer and founding member of the Average White Band rock group, of an accidental heroin overdose.
Cliff Arquette, 68, American comedian who created the character “Charley Weaver”, of a heart attack.
Denis Ireland, 80, Northern Irish Protestant political activist and the first member of the Republic of Ireland’s parliament (as a member of the Seanad Éireann to be a resident of Northern Ireland.
Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, 55, member of Indian nobility and the last Maharaja of Mysore, later appointed as Governor of Mysore state and of Madras state, of bronchial pneumonia.
Kiyoteru Hanada, 65, Japanese essayist and influential literary critic.
Gerhard Nebel, 70, German writer and cultural critic.
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