Delegates from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries met in Vienna with delegates from Communist Warsaw Pact countries to resume negotiations on the possible reductions of their forces in Central Europe. The latest talks came after a two-month summer recess which had followed nine months of earlier negotiations which brought no agreement.
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko hailed détente when he addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations and declared that it had resulted in solid accomplishments. His statement was seen as a reflection of concern in Moscow about a continuation of the détente policy, started under Richard Nixon.
The U.S. House of Representatives, ignoring the pleas of its own leaders and Secretary of State Kissinger, voted 307 to 90 to suspend military aid to Turkey until “substantial progress” is made toward a Cyprus settlement. The cutoff was appended to an otherwise routine measure and sent to the Senate, which last week urged President Ford to halt the aid to Turkey.
Foreign Minister Jean Sauvagnargues of France, addressing the United Nations Correspondents Association, said delegates and world governments seemed “apprehensive about the implicit threats” contained in the latest American statements about the energy situation. He strongly warned against a confrontation between the oil-producing and oil-consuming countries.
The luxury liner France sailed from Le Havre to seek a safer mooring because of a storm. It was the first trip for the vessel since it was occupied by striking crewmen two weeks ago. The crewmen are hoping to get the government to change its mind about scrapping the ship.
Olympic Airways of Greece, owned by Aristotle Onassis, canceled all its flights after striking pilots stayed off their jobs for the fourth day demanding protection from prosecution in air crashes. The pilots want guarantees that pilot survivors of crashes cannot be arrested for negligence until they have been brought before an aviation committee of experts. The strike coincides with the trial of an Olympic pilot charged with manslaughter in a 1972 crash that killed 37 persons.
The Greek Catholic archbishop of Jerusalem, the Most Rev. Hilarion Capucci, vehemently pleaded not guilty in Jerusalem to three charges of smuggling arms from Lebanon for Palestinian guerillas. He also demanded that he be moved to improved accommodations during his detention. The district court in East Jerusalem, which was under heavy guard, rejected a legal challenge to its jurisdiction and the archbishop’s plea of immunity.
Lebanese Prime Minister Takieddin Solh announced that he is resigning, but no change in government policy is expected. The premiership has changed hands each year or two in the last 10 years but all the premiers have followed the same moderate policies. Left- and right-wing blocs, criticizing Solh’s government for rising crime and its handling of security and domestic affairs, had withdrawn their representatives from his cabinet, leaving it without a majority in parliament.
Ethiopia’s 100,000-member trade union confederation called a general strike for today to force the release of three labor leaders arrested Monday. The strike could bring a confrontation with the ruling military provisional council, which has banned all strikes since it dethroned Emperor Haile Selassie September 12. The military government has come under increasing fire from trade unions and students who have been pressing for a return to civilian government.
The Palimbang Massacre, a mass murder of more than 1,000 Muslim Moros by units of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, was carried out in the coastal village of Malisbong in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat, on the island of Mindanao. As many as 1,500 male Moros, rangng in age from 11 to 70, were murdered inside a mosque, and females between the ages of 9 and 60 were raped. The village of Malisbong was completely destroyed.
Pacific Architects and Engineers Inc. of Los Angeles said it had received partial payment on a $2 million debt owed by the international peace-keeping commission in Vietnam and has lifted its threat to cut off services. The company provides food, billeting, security guards and road transportation to the International Commission of Control and Supervision. The payment came after South Vietnam made a contribution to the ICCS budget of $2.8 million-half the yearly amount due under ’73 Paris peace agreements.
At least 100 people in Japan were injured in a collision between an express train and a derailed freight train 40 miles (64 km) north of Tokyo.
Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau agreed in Ottawa to expand their countries’ ties in political, economic, cultural and technological fields. The two, in their second day of talks, agreed that each country would spend $1 million promoting studies by their citizens in the other’s country.
Premier Kakuei Tanaka of Japan said in Canada today that the question of oil prices was related “to the peace of the world.” He said also that there was need for a “frank and open” worldwide assessment of the problem. The Premier made these comments at a news conference when asked for his reaction to statements by President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger warning the Arab oil-producing countries of risks in their price raising policies. Mr. Tanaka appeared at the news conference after two days of meetings with the Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau. A communiqué said that Mr. Tanaka and Mr. Trudeau discussed the possibility of joint Japanese and Canadian extraction of oil from tar‐sand deposits in Alberta.
Vast supplies of food, medicine and clothing have been arriving from abroad for victims of last week’s hurricane in Honduras, but they are not reaching the needy fast enough. The United States Ambassador, Philip V. Sanchez, said at a news conference that he had received reports of starvation among refugees in isolated areas of northern Honduras. “The country is in terrible shape and in dire need of help,” he declared. “In some bad regions, 90 to 99 per cent of the population have nothing to eat today.”
“You ask how people can starve in just three or four days,” the 44‐year‐old Spanish-speaking Ambassador went on, “but these are people who were hungry even before the disaster.” The Honduran Government has estimated that more than 7,500 people died as a result of floods and landslides caused by the hurricane. Forty thousand people are reported still isolated by floodwaters, while more than 300,000 are said to be in need of immediate relief. Relief supplies have been arriving by air at Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula from the United States, Mexico, Cuba and numerous other countries, put their distribution has been hampered by poor roads, deficient organization and a shortage of fuel.
The outlook for world grain production, with governments already worried over increasing hunger, has grown worse in the last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported today. The department’s latest projections show that wheat prospects for the crop year that began July 1 are down 8.9 million tons below last month’s forecast, and coarse grains, mainly livestock feed, are down 3.5 million tons. The deterioration resulted mainly from weather developments, such as drought in Siberian grain‐production areas, and frost threatening late maturing crops in Canada. The report said the world was likely to wind up the year with even smaller food reserves than expected, despite a predicted 26.6‐million‐ton decline in global consumption.
Testifying before the Senate on his confirmation as Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller defended his role in the Attica prison revolt and explained his views on subjects ranging from school prayer to subsidies for mass transit.
President Ford heralded a new government campaign to take professional criminals “out of circulation.” He told the International Association of Chiefs of Police in his first “law and order” speech as President that the fight against violent crime was high on his agenda and that he had asked the Justice Department to join state and local agencies in a program to “target and keep track of professional criminals.”
Preparing for Friday’s “summit meeting” on inflation, government officials say that 12 preliminary conferences and hundreds of hours of debate had confirmed their previous assessment: there are no quick cures for the country’s economic ills. They acknowledge that the preparatory meetings produced few fresh and feasible ideas but insist that the “summit” conference will nonetheless help the President construct an effective program to fight inflation.
The Senate Government Operations Committee voted unanimously for three pieces of legislation meant to maintain government custody of former President Richard Nixon’s tapes and papers despite President Ford’s promise to turn them over to Mr. Nixon. At the same time, two other congressional panels moved to inquire into Mr. Nixon’s pardon and to endorse a subcommittee’s action that cut in half the money asked for his transition to private life.
The Senate overwhelmingly approved today legislation designed to induce medical and dental schools to designate 25 Per cent of their students for future service in medically underserved areas. In voting a three‐year, $2billion health manpower bill, the Senate repudiated attempts by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, to work toward a draft of doctors for certain areas and Federal licensing standards for doctors and dentists. The House has yet to act on health manpower legislation. The key Senate vote came on a substitute measure sponsored by Senator J. Glenn Beall Jr., Republican of Maryland to extend legislation that expired June 30. The vote was 70 to 18.
Physicians at Memorial Hospital in Long Beach, California, have begun giving former President Nixon blood-thinning injections to prevent formation of new blood clots in the damaged veins of his leg and to help heal existing clots. Mr. Nixon’s doctors hope that the use of the anticoagulant drugs, combined with bed rest leg elevation, hot soaks, elastic stockings and other measures, will alleviate the symptoms from the damage that has resulted from Mr. Nixon’s repeated episodes of phlebitis during the last month of his Presidency and the 46 days since his resignation. Anticoagulation is generally considered standard medical therapy far phlebitis and is a complex treatment. Because the dosage of the drug varies from patient to patient, repeated blood tests are usually required to make certain that the dosage is sufficient to achieve a biological effect, yet not too large to pose the risk of unwanted, dangerous bleeding anywhere in the body.
The Senate Government Operations Committee approved a bill that would bring to an end emergency presidential powers in various fields. The measure is the outgrowth of an 18-month study by a bipartisan special Senate committee into ways to limit expansion of presidential power and establish new standards of accountability. Sources said President Ford had expressed general support of the effort. The bill would end four states of declared national emergency and provide ways for the orderly repeal or change of hundreds of laws that grew out of the declarations and other powers delegated to the President.
Senate sponsors abandoned attempts to pass a major consumer protection bill this year. They disclosed they would make no further attempts to shut off a two-month filibuster that blocked final consideration of a bill creating an independent agency to present the consumer viewpoint before federal boards and courts. The decision was a major victory for Senators James B. Allen (D-Alabama) and Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-North Carolina), who directed the filibuster.
The retail cost of a year’s supply of farm‐produced groceries jumped $25 in August to a record annual rate of $1,751 for a typical household, figtires released today by the Agriculture Department showed. Higher prices for beef, pork and eggs accounted for much of the increase. Lower prices were reported for milk, lettuce and bread. Officials said the dollar increase, amounting to 1.4 percent from July to August, was the largest since the indicator rose $52 or 3.1 percent on an annual basis from last January to February. The August basket cost eclipsed the previous record of $1,747 set last March. The figure declined in April, rose in May and then dropped in June and July.
According to the Agriculture Department statistics, compiled at the request of newsmen, almost all of the $25 gain from July was a result of a larger share for farmers. But compared over a one‐year period the figures showed middlemen had contributed to rising consumer food costs. The market basket, which consists of 65 retail items, theoretically provides enough food to supply household of 3.2 persons for an entire year. Officials say the monthly costs by no means correspond fully to actual family food spending. Imported food items and seafood, for example, are not included in the statistics. Only domestically farm‐produced food is used to determine the costs.
At least 14 arrests and three injuries were reported in Boston as racial fights at Hyde Park High School and anti-busing demonstrations and classroom boycotts in the Charleston section disrupted classes. About 1,000 persons participated in anti-busing protests and only 442 of 2,777 students in the senior high, junior high and four elementary schools showed up for classes. At Hyde Park, two students, a 15-year-old white and a 16-year-old black, were arrested in the morning and six others were arrested in the afternoon when whites threw rocks at buses taking black students home.
The retail cost of a year’s supply of farm-produced groceries jumped $25 in August to a record annual rate of $1,751 for a typical household, the Agriculture Department reported. Higher prices for beef, pork and eggs were not balanced by lower prices for milk, lettuce and bread. Officials said the increase, amounting to 1.4% from July to August, was the largest since the indicator rose $52 or 3.1% on an annual basis from last January to February. Statistics showed that nearly all of the $25 gain from July was due to a larger share for farmers. But compared over a one-year period the middlemen have contributed most to rising costs.
AFL-CIO President George Meany told a United Steelworkers of America convention in Atlantic City that the government should issue special bonds, comparable to wartime bonds of the past, designed to help fight inflation. Expressing fear that “we are going down the road to depression,” Meany proposed bonds of $25, $50 and $100 denominations at 7% or 8% interest. He also sharply criticized the economic policies of the Nixon and Ford administrations and said the AFL-CIO would insist that the government “not fight inflation by making recession worse.”
Clarence Jones of the Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th home run to become the first American to win a Japanese home run title, topping the Pacific League in roundtrippers. Sadaharu Oh will lead the Central League with 49 homers. Jones will lead the league again with 36 home runs in 1976.
The New York Yankees tripped over the supposedly fallen Boston Red Sox last night, dropped both halves of a critical doubleheader and tumbled out of first place with only six games left in the American League’s Eastern free‐for‐all. It was a stunning night for the Yankees, who had opened it with a one‐game lead over the Baltimore Orioles and eyes fixed on their first prize in 10 years. But then the Red Sox, who had lost 20 of their 28 previous games in a dramatic collapse from first place, got off the floor and dealt two haymakers. With Luis Tiant pitching a six‐hitter and winning his 21st game, the Red Sox scored a 4–0 victory in the opener. Then, with Roger Moret pitching a seven‐hitter, they took the second game by 4–2. The result, with the Orioles beating the Detroit Tigers in Baltimore, was disastrous: The Yankees fell into second place, half a game back with half a dozen remaining.
Al Kaline doubles off Dave McNally for his 3,000th career hit, but the Detroit Tigers lose to the Baltimore Orioles 5–4. Bob Reynolds (7–5) won it for Baltimore in relief of McNally. Brooks Robinson doubled in the tying run in the bottom of the eighth, then socred the winnign run on a suicide squeeze play.
Gene Tenace hits his second grand slam of the campaign, off Joe Decker in the fourth inning, to back Vida Blue’s 16th win as the Oakland A’s beat the Minnesota Twins, 5–1. It was the 25th home run of the season for Tenace. The win reduces the A’s “magic number” to four.
The Milwaukee Brewers bested the Cleveland Indians, 4–3, in eleven innings. Dave May hit his seocnd homer of the game in the ninth to tie it. In the 11th, Bobby Mitchell went deep for the winning run. Gaylord Perry went all the way for the tribe only to lose his 12th, against 20 wins.
The California Angels, behing Nolan Ryan’s (21–16) five-hitter, routed the Kansas City Royals, 9–3. Ryan struck out nine to bring his season total to 352. Ryan became the first pitcher in Major League history to strike out more than 350 men in a year in two seasons. Last year Ryan had 383, breaking Sandy Koufax’s record of 382. Paul Splittorff (13–19) took the loss for KC as the Angels scored four in the first inning and two more in the second and never looked back.
The Pittsburgh Pirates regained first place in the Nationa League East, which they last held on September 13, by beating the St. Louis Cardinals again tonight, 7–3, before a subdued St. Louis crowd of 37,107. A four-run sixth inning and a three-run homer by Willie Stargell in the seventh provided the support Bruce Kison needed to bring his won-lost record to 8–8, an unimpressive figure for the importance of his assignment. And when he needed help in the seventh inning with a 7–1 lead, Ramon Hernandez supplied it. When Hernandez in turn needed help for the final out in the ninth, Dave Giusti came in and did the job. The Pirates now lead by half a game with eight to play, while the Cardinals have only seven games left.
A passed ball in the 10th inning allowed Steve Yeager to score from third and gave the Los Angeles Dodgers a 2–1 victory over the Atlanta Braves tonight. The victory kept the Dodgers five games ahead of second-place Cincinnati in the National League West and reduced to three the total of Los Angeles victories or Cincinnati defeats needed to clinch the division title. With two out in the 10th, Yeager doubled off Phil Niekro and Bill Russell was walked intentionally. Gail Hopkins batted for the winning pitcher, Mike Marshall (14–11), and also walked, before Johnny Oates mishandled a pitch by the knuckleballer with Dave Lopes at bat. The Dodgers, held to one hit by Niekro (18–13) for seven innings, tied it 1-1 in the eighth when Ron Cey hit his 18th home run of the year. Before that, Niekro had limited Los Angeles to a second-inning infield single by Steve Garvey and had retired 15 batters in succession.
Johnny Bench broke a tie with a triple in a three-run fifth inning tonight to help the Cincinnati Reds defeat the Houston Astros, 5–1. Joe Morgan began the Reds’ fifth with a walk. He scored on the triple and Bench came home on a passed ball. Then Dan Driessen singled,moved to second on an infield out and scored on Dave Concepcion’s single. Bench’s run-scoring triple, one of his three hits on the night, was his 123rd run batted in of the season, best in the majors. The hit was his second triple of the year. Norman, beating the Astros for the fourth time in five decisions this season, struck out eight while walking only one. His won-lost mark is now 13-12.
Steve Carlton improved his record to 16–12 as the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the New York Mets, 6–3. The Phillies took the lead early on Greg Luzinski’s three-run homer in the first, and never relinquished it. The Mets got a run in the ninth, but Gene Garber came on in relief of Carlton to reitre the two batters he faced to end it.
Chicago and Montreal split a doubleheader. The Cubs won the opener, 6–4, as Burt Hooton hurled a six-hitter to improve to 7–11 on the year. Rick Monday and Bill Madlock each cracked two homers. The Expos came back to take the nightcap, 11–2 as Don Carrithers got the win. Willie Davis and George Mitterwald went deep for the Expos.
The San Diego Padres edged the San Francisco Giants, 3–2. Reliever Elias Sosa (9–6) lost it in the seventh. He walked Dave Hilton, then fielded catcher Fred Kendall’s bunt and threw it past second base into centerfield, allowing Hilton to go to third. Pinch hitter Johnny Grubb followed with a sacrifice fly to score Hilton with the deciding run. Rusty Gerhardt (2–1) got the win; Randy Jones, usually a starter, pitched the eighth and ninth for his second save of the year.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 654.10 (-9.62, -1.45%).
Born:
John McDonald, MLB shortstop, second baseman, and third baseman (Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays, Detroit Tigers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Angels), in New London, Connecticut.
Kiwane Garris, NBA shooting guard (Denver Nuggets, Orlando Magic), in Chicago, Illinois.
Kati Wolf, Hungarian singer; in Szentendre, Hungary.
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