The State Department marked the second anniversary of the Paris cease‐fire accords today with a pledge that the United States would continue to support the Saigon Government with military and economic aid. Asked whether the department had any comment on the anniversary, Robert Anderson, the spokesman, said: “With considerable regret, this anniversary, instead of taking place in an atmosphere of peace and political competition, has been marked by an escalation of North Vietnamese military pressure against the South which violates the letter and spirit of the agreement.” Mr. Anderson said the United States “intends to continue to work in support of the objectives and purposes of the Paris agreement, and to this end, we are going to support the Government of Vietnam with military and economic aid so they can defend themselves.”
The Administration has already announced its intention to ask Congress for a supplemental appropriation of $300‐million this fiscal year to aid the Saigon forces. This continuing aid was justified by Mr. Anderson as in line with the Administration’s original military aid request of $1.4‐billion. That figure was cut to $1‐billion in the authorization bill enacted by Congress, but Congress limited the actual appropriations to $700‐million. The $300‐million represents the difference between the authorization and the appropriation measures. Mr. Anderson was asked whether the Saigon Government had also violated the Paris accords, and he said the question should be posed to the South Vietnamese Government. He said he knew of no new diplomatic approach by the United States to revive the cease‐fire. But he said the United States would support Saigon’s call for negotiations with the Việt Cộng to resume in Paris, where they have been broken off since April.
Meanwhile, 2,000 to 3,000 demonstrators met in Wash ington yesterday to protest against continuing aid to Saigon. At a meeting, Senator George S. McGovern, Democrat of South Dakota, said: “It was wrong 10 years ago when it was Johnson’s war; it was wrong two years ago when it was Nixon’s war; and it is wrong now when it is Ford’s war.” The rally and a candlelight march past the White House were called by the Assembly to Save the Peace Agreement, a group that has attacked both the United States and the Saigon Government.
Over the weekend, the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia also met in Washington to promote support for its effort to get “the fullest possible accounting” of Americans still officially listed as missing in action.
Lê Đức Thọ, who signed the Vietnam ceasefire agreement with Henry A. Kissinger two years ago, charged the Ford Administration today with “giving a new path to the war” by urging additional military aid for the Saigon Government. Speaking on North Vietnamese television to mark the second anniversary of the accord, Mr. Thọ said the Ford Administration was attempting to “intimidate the Vietnamese people” through military aid to Saigon and by “sending aircraft carriers and warships to South Vietnamese territorial waters and putting United States troops stationed in Okinawa on alert.”
Six bombs were exploded in Britain today and at least 23 persons were injured, 19 of them in a single incident. The blasts were the first in England since January 16, when the I.R.A. Provisionals called off their 25‐day Christmas season truce, and they came a matter of days after talks toward possible resumption of the truce had been held between British officials and the Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. The 19 were Injured, none seriously, authorities said, in Lewis’s, a popular department store in Manchester. Two were admitted to hospitals. Later a bomb went off in Gieves, Ltd., a fashionable military tailor’s shop on London’s Stafford Street. A security guard there was reported slightly injured. Tonight a bomb went off in Kensington High Street, one of the capital’s main shopping streets, injuring two persons outside a jeweler’s and wrecking several storefronts. In Enfield, a working‐class suburb, explosives were detonated at an unused gasworks and a nearby chemical factory. Still another bomb went off in Victoria Street, in central London, injuring two persons. Warnings preceded the blasts, the police said, in the form of telephone calls by men with Irish accents to a newspaper and a news agency. The police said they believed the violence was the work of the I.R.A. or its sympathizers in England.
Three bombs went off today in central Londonderry in what police said was a renewed attack by the Irish Republican Army. No injuries were reported. But political sources still expressed hope that the I.R.A. would announce an indefinite cease‐fire. Belfast newspapers reported that the army council of the I.R.A. Provisionals might announce a new cease‐fire today.
If all goes well, the last case of smallpox in the world will be recorded by April, a spokesman for the World Health Organization reported to the United Nations. The spokesman said tens of thousands of workers are tracking down every reported case in Ethiopia, India and Bangladesh and “maybe we can put up a statue for the last victim, as there is a statue in England to the first child who was immunized… in the 18th century.”
Portuguese Foreign Minister Mario Soares warned that if “totalitarians” subvert the democratic process in Portugal, the country runs the risk of civil war. While Soares, leader of the Socialist Party, did not name the Communists in a statement at a press conference, he made it clear his remarks were aimed at the Communists, at radical officers promoting Communist Party policies, and by inference, at the Soviet Union.
Turkey today ended her airlift of Turkish‐Cypriot refugees from British bases in Cyprus and prepared to ship them back across the Mediterranean to Turkish‐held northern Cyprus. About 500 refugees have already made the short voyage from Mersin to Famagusta, and, according to unofficial estimates, 8,900 more are waiting to make the trip.
A United States destroyer today canceled its visit to this Greek island at the Athens Government’s request after two of its officers were attacked during anti‐American riots. The two unidentified officers went ashore on Corfu — an island in the Ionian Sea between mainland Greece and Italy — during a rally by about 4,000 demonstrators protesting the warship’s visit. The police said the crowd stoned the officers as they docked their motorboat and got into an automobile. The crowd tried to throw gasoline over the car and set it ablaze, but the police rescued the pair and, with the help of fire trucks, escorted them safely to their ship, a police statement said. The statement reported that the officers had been “nearly lynched,” but did not give any details to support this account.
The Soviet Union today was reported about to double the fixed price for oil it has been charging its East European allies. Until now it has been selling them oil at roughly one‐third of world market prices. The increase is expected to take effect within a few days, and Hungarian officials are said to have told senior editors of newspapers that the new rates would apply throughout Eastern Europe and not only to Hungary. The price of crude oil sold to Hungary, it was reported, will rise from the present level of 16 rubles a metric ton to 36 rubles. With the ruble, a nonconvertible currency, given a nominal value of $1.30, the increase would be from $20.80 a ton to $46.80. Figured in barrels, the price increase would be from less than $3 to more than $6. The World market price is about $10.
International airlines said that they had voted to restore cut-rate youth fares between the United States and Europe, effective April 1, in an attempt to stimulate declining trans-Atlantic travel and to discourage the young from going to Canada for cheap flights. The airlines’ agreement must be approved by government regulatory agencies on both sides of the Atlantic.
A U.S. Army judge in Frankfurt, West Germany, ordered an investigation into allegations that military intelligence spied on Lieutenant Matthew Carroll of Eldorado, Texas, who is facing court-martial for refusing to get his long hair cut. Lawyers defending the 27-year-old Carroll said there was concrete evidence of widespread surveillance and infiltration, including bugging of telephones, opening of the lawyers’ mail and use of a paid informant. Carroll maintains the Army’s haircut policy violates his freedom of expression and is a form of sexual discrimination, an allusion to long hair allowed women Army members.
Italy’s 80,000 butchers closed their shops today to protest high prices and poor sales, but one butcher running what he called a “meat boutique” faced trial for selling veal at $10.50 a pound.
President Anwar el‐Sadat of Egypt arrived today for a three‐day visit seeking French arms, nuclear reactors, credits and political support. After meeting for two hours With President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, Mr. Sadat said that he was completely satisfied with the opening talks. The visit is his first to a Western country since he became President of Egypt in 1970 and the first to France by an Egyptian chief of state since 1920. Tonight the French President, in a long dinner toast, welcomed and highlighted a remark last week by Mr. Sadat, who said in an interview in Le Monde that Egypt was “ready to conclude a peace agreement with Israel.” Mr. Giscard d’Estaing also made a point of France’s support for Israel’s existence within “sure, recognized and, I add, effectively guaranteed frontiers.” In his reply Mr. Sadat avoided repetition of his peace offer, originally advanced with numerous conditions, or even mention of Israel. He lavishly praised French policy and Mr. Giscard d’Estaing. “Your voice is that of human conscience at its noblest and wisest,” Mr. Sadat said, “when you proclaim that there could be no peace in the Middle East without a just solution of the Palestinian problem and that the Palestinians constitute an entity, a reality and a people who have the right to a homeland.”
Premier Yitzhak Rabin urged the Soviet Union today to stop ignoring Israel diplomatically and to renew contacts if it wants “to play a meaningful role in the Middle East. The Russians can travel from Damascus to Cairo,” he told a conference of Israel Bond leaders, “but they have to learn from the Americans that they cannot have an influence in the area unless they are able to talk to both sides in the Middle East conflict. It is high time for the Soviet Union to stop ignoring Israel.”
Sources close to the Palestine Liberation Organization say the guerrilla group has been able to punish only four Arab terrorists for hijacking operations that it disavows. The informants say the Liberation Organization has been able to gain custody of only the four gunmen who in November seized a British airliner in Dubai and hijacked it to Tunis. The organization announced last Saturday that it had punished the four severely but did not say what the punishment was, nor did it say where the gunmen were being held.
On the 25th anniversary of India’s Constitution Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has staunchly defended the nation’s democratic system and compared some of her opponents to Nazis and Fascists. At the same time Mrs. Gandhi, in a series of interviews published in New Delhi, spoke with ambivalence about the United States.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto said today that Sheik Mujibur Rahman had destroyed democracy in Bangladesh by becoming president under a one-party system.
The South Korean government ordered a crackdown on all illegal campaigns for or against the forthcoming. national referendum on the nation’s constitution. The constitution puts full power into the hands of President Park Chung Hee. Opposition forces have been demanding amendments which would restore a fully democratic government.
The Chinese government, which recently became the United States’ biggest grain customer, canceled contracts to buy 601,000 tons of wheat that had been scheduled for shipment between next month and September, it was announced by Cook Industries, Inc., a major grain trading company. The tonnage was about two-thirds of the total wheat registered for shipment to China from the present to mid-1976. Most grain traders appeared baffled by the shipment’s cancellation.
Tropical Storm Lola whipped up huge waves and triggered landslides that killed at least 30 persons over the weekend before finally blowing itself out, the official Philippine News Agency reported. A landslide buried 11 persons in Buruan city on Mindanao Island, while seven of 18 crewmen on a fishing boat died in rough seas off the central city of Iloilo.
Five persons were killed and 11 others were wounded as dynamite bombs planted by left-wing guerrillas exploded in Mexico City, San Luis Potosi and Oaxaca, police reported. All of the casualties were in San Luis Potosi, located about 300 miles north of the capital. Nine other bombs exploded earlier in Mexico City and Oaxaca, causing heavy damage. The blasts were aimed at banks, government offices and private businesses in all three cities.
Argentina, citing the new United States Trade Act, notified Washington and 22 other hemisphere governments today that as host country she had decided to postpone indefinitey a conference of foreign ministers set for Buenos Aires in March.
British leaders meeting with President Ford this week may seek. American help to unravel the tangled future of Rhodesia, British sources said in London. Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Foreign Secretary James Callaghan cross the Atlantic today for wide-ranging talks in Ottawa and Washington. These will include London’s assessment of the turbulent situation in central and southern Africa.
South African Justice Minister James T. Kruger said Communist Party leader Bram Fischer would not be released from his life sentence in jail even though he is dying of cancer. Kruger said there was no guarantee that Fischer would not continue his activities. Fischer, 66, was sent to prison in 1966 for plotting to overthrow the government.
Seven economists of various political persuasions agreed unanimously that a tax reduction of at least the $16 billion proposed by President Ford, perhaps as much as $25 billion, was needed to pull the economy out of its recession. They testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, which is trying to determine the kind of tax-cut and energy-conservation proposals it should recommend.
The stock market in New York erupted in a sharp rally in the heaviest trading day in New York Stock Exchange history. Brokers attributed the upward surge in prices to further declines in interest rates from previous high levels and to a court ruling last Friday that was favorable to the International Business Machines Corporation, a market favorite.
The sharply higher cost of oil imports pushed the nation’s trade deficit to $3.07 billion last year, the second largest in this century, after $6.4 billion in 1972. The trade deficit — the excess of imports over exports — rose to $606 million in December from $113 million in November. If oil imports in 1974 had cost the same as in 1973, the nation would have had a huge trade surplus — about $14 billion.
The U.S. Senate voted 82-4 to establish its own special committee to investigate the CIA, with Frank Church of Idaho as the chairman. The operations of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and more than a dozen other law enforcement agencies of the government will be investigated by a special Senate bipartisan committee. The Senate voted 82 to 4 to establish the committee, whose chairman is expected to be Senator Frank Church, Idaho Democrat, a severe critic of some of the practices of the CIA.
Vice President Rockefeller, who has been asked by President Ford to make plans for a new science advisory apparatus in the executive branch, has named a group to assist him.
Two aides in the Nixon White House said for the first time that former President Richard M. Nixon abolished the job of presidential science adviser because the scientific advice he was getting was not in line with administration policy. Two years ago, Nixon aides denied the move had been taken in a fit of pique over the advice of scientists who opposed the Vietnam war, the supersonic transport plane and the setting up of an anti-ballistic missile system. But the last science adviser, Edward E. David Jr. told a meeting in New York that the decision was made because Mr. Nixon had been annoyed. His view was echoed by Clay T. Whitehead, director of the Office of Telecommunications during the Nixon years.
Attorney General-designate Edward H. Levi said today he believed that the death penalty, if enforced and applied to a limited category of offenses, would be a deterrent, and that its imposition ought to be left to individual states.
The Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether Congress could compel states and cities to provide the same wages and working hours for their civil servants, including policemen and firemen, as Federal employes receive.
Last week’s Supreme Court ruling that criminal trial juries must be drawn from panels that reflect female representation in the community cannot be applied to overturn convictions rendered before the decision, the Justices held today.
The Supreme Court cleared the way today for lawyers for James Earl Ray to gain access to evidence gathered by the State of Tennessee in investigating the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Supreme Court today rejected G. Gordon Liddy’s contention that United States District Judge John J. Sirica had failed to give him a fair trial.
Senator James O. Eastland (D-Mississippi) has branded as “totally false a report that he received $50,000 to $60,000 to intervene with the Justice Department on behalf of Texas oil billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. The report, contained in a syndicated column by Jack Anderson and Les Whitten, said Hunt and his brother, W. Herbert private investigator, Patrick McCann, Hunt, were charged with hiring a to wiretap some employees of their father, the late H. L. Hunt. After the brothers were indicted, they went to Eastland and took steps to get a parole for McCann who already had been jailed, the column said. Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, acknowledges calling Richard G. Kleindienst, then deputy attorney general, but says he asked for nothing but a square deal Trial of the Hunt brothers has been postponed indefinitely.
Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington will announce his candidacy for the 1976 Democratic Presidential nomination in a five-minute network commercial before the 11 PM news on February 6, he is telling supporters in California.
Three veteran airline pilots expressed a lack of confidence in air traffic control instructions and said many of their fellow pilots would have taken the same actions that caused the worst U.S. air disaster of 1974. The pilots were among the opening witnesses at a National Transportation Safety Board hearing in Washington into the crash of a Trans World Airline flight in the Virginia mountains near Dulles International Airport that killed 92 persons December 1. Hearing Chairman Louis M. Thayer reported evidence of widespread confusion about the meaning of certain air control instructions and said he would explore the difficulty in an expanded investigation.
Officials of four shopcraft unions called an end to a brief strike against railroads in the Midwest, Northwest, and South after a court order was issued sending the men back to work. The strikes were against the Burlington Northern, Chesapeake & Ohio and Louisville & Nashville systems.
An all-white jury in Raleigh, North Carolina, found Marguerite Lightner, wife of the city’s first black mayor, innocent of charges of conspiring to receive and dispose of stolen goods. Mayor Clarence Lightner called the verdict the end of an ordeal. “Somehow we feel this will strengthen the confidence of our people,” he said. Assistant District Attorney William B. Crumpler told the jury the testimony of the state’s key witness, Linda Jones, a convicted shoplifter and confessed heroin addict, bore out the conspiracy charge and was backed by two tape recordings played in court.
A Michigan‐Wisconsin natural gas pipeline ruptured early today, causing an explosion and flames that “lit up the sky” and could be seen for 100 miles. Des Moines County sheriff’s police said. No casualties were reported.
Membership in the Boy Scouts of America dropped by 10.6% in 1974, largely as a result of birth control, the organization reported. A spokesman said membership rolls had also been reduced by an audit showing falsification of members in an effort to meet recruiting goals or, in one case, to obtain more federal funds. The BSA said last year’s decline left total membership in the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts at 4,327,654. The spokesman said the total number of youths between 8 and 16 had “dropped off considerably because of family planning.”
A major statistical study by the American Medical Association has found that pills used by more than 1.5 million Americans to control diabetes are probably hazardous and capable of causing premature death from heart disease. Among the pills, the one most closely studied was one based on the drug tolbutamide, sold by the Upjohn Company under the trade name Orinase.
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Iván Calderón, Puerto Rican boxer (WBO mini flyweight title 2003-07; WBO, Ring magazine, lineal light flyweight title 2007-10), in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
Jason Conti, MLB outfielder (Arizona Diamondbacks, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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