Greek Premier Konstantine Karamanlis was quoted as saying that Turkey’s provocative actions on Cyprus and in the Aegean Sea could lead to a war Greece does not want. “But if it is forced upon us, we shall react accordingly.” he said in an interview with the West German news magazine Der Spiegel.
The Soviet Union denounced Alabama Governor George C. Wallace as “fiendish” for suggesting that the United States fought on the wrong side in World War II. In a commentary titled, “George Wallace and the Gas Chambers,” the Tass news agency charged that Wallace’s “spiritual precursors” attempted to destroy the alliance of the Russians, Americans, and British.
The dissident Soviet physicist, Andrei D. Sakharov, and his wife Yelena ended a three-day hunger strike in Moscow to protest official refusal to allow Mrs. Sakharov to go to Italy for medical treatment. She suffers from an eye disease which she says stems from an injury received during a bombing in World War II.
Rome Magistrate Giuseppe di Gennaro was freed unharmed after authorities met his kidnapers’ demands to broadcast a nationwide call for an “armed struggle for communism.” He was kidnaped in Rome Tuesday by a group calling itself the Armed Proletariat. The magistrate is a Justice Ministry counselor and a member of a U.N. panel studying social justice.
The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army, saying it acted in retaliation for police raids on Roman Catholic homes in Londonderry, claimed responsibility for the shooting death of police constable Paul Gray, 20, on Saturday.
The Mayor of West Berlin accused East German authorities tonight of inhumanity after a 5‐year‐old Turkish boy drowned in the River Spree within East German territory. The West Berlin police said they were prevented from saving the boy, who had fallen into the river from its hank in West Berlin, by an East Berlin patrol boat. The statement by Mayor Klaus Schütz said: “We resolutely condemn the inhuman attitude of giving preference to political considerations over the possibility of saving a human life.” The boy’s body was recovered by East German divers.
A trade treaty between the European Common Market and Israel was signed in Brussels despite a last-minute demand by Arab nations that the signing be delayed until similar treaties could he signed with Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
Saboteurs derailed an Israeli freight train approaching Jerusalem early today, injuring the engineer and his assistant. An official of the railway, which is state‐owned, said that repairs to the line would permit resumption of service tomorrow. The sabotage appeared to be part of a new wave of Arab terrorism timed in connection with the anniversary of Israel’s independence. An explosive charge went off harmlessly today in an empty lot in Jerusalem. Yesterday an empty bus parked in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank was set ablaze while the driver an Israeli Arab, was having lunch.
India, a nation whose experiment in democracy once served as major source of study on American campuses, is witnessing a rapid decline of interest among teachers and students in the United States. American scholars attribute the decline to a cutback in funds for Indian studies, irksome restrictions by the Indian Government and growing concern with other areas, especially Japan, China Iran, the Arab countries and Africa, some of which are financing studies.
The new Government of Cambodia today stressed its strong ties with China and thanked North Vietnam and North Korea for their support in “defeating the U.S. imperialists.”
South Vietnam’s new rulers intend to hold nationwide elections and eventually to unify North and South Vietnam, according to delayed news dispatches from Saigon — the first reports of a news conference held Thursday by the military commander of the Saigon area, General Tran Van Tra, since the Communist victory of April 30. United Press International reported today that General Tra had said that he was not sure when the elections would be held, or when the Provisional Revolutionary Government would take over from the Military Management Committee that he heads, and which administers Saigon.
Shortly before Saigon fell on April 30, the South Vietnamese government made a desperate attempt to withdraw $40 million in South Vietnamese deposits from the International Monetary Fund. The request was not approved by the IMF. A spokesman said there were doubts about its legitimacy and fears that a successor government might accuse the IMF of helping to dissipate the nation’s monetary reserves.
Vientiane, the capital of Laos, passed a quiet Constitution Day after a week of political and military upheavals. Joint police units, made up of members from the pro-Communist Pathet Lao and the right-wing element in the coalition government, patrolled the streets as ceremonies marking the national holiday progressed and King Savang Vatthana reviewed the government troops. But there was still uncertainty over the future shape of the government and the likelihood that the kingdom will be less neutral and the government a less balanced coalition than it has been for the last year. “Some important changes are about to occur,” the neutralist Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, told the nation by radio.
About 2,000 people demonstrated in the town of Sakonnakhon in northeast Thailand today demanding the expulsion of all Vietnamese from the country. The police said shops owned by Vietnamese were attacked and at least one person was injured in clashes between demonstrators and members of the 5,000‐strong Vietnamese community in Sakonnakhon, 400 miles northeast of Bangkok.
Western oil specialists see China developing as one of the world’s biggest oil-producing and exporting nations by the end of this decade, and possibly joining the cartel of oil states known as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
The aircraft carrier USS Midway arrived at Guam to unload a controversial cargo of 90 military aircraft that the United States had given to the former Saigon government, but had repossessed after Saigon’s fall. The aircraft were estimated to be worth several hundred million dollars. Meanwhile, the curtailment of the refugee airlift from Guam to the continental United States continued. The Midway carried 94 more refugees, who were rescued from a sinking fishing boat in the Gulf of Siam. More than 37,000 refugees were on Guam and an additional 20,000 were expected momentarily on five chartered United States merchant ships.
The Dominican government in Santo Domingo said it was in full control of the situation after an open breach between civilian President Joaquin Balaguer and leaders of the armed forces. Armed Forces Minister Adm. Ramon Jimenez and the chiefs of three services resigned Saturday in a power struggle with Balaguer. Troops that support Balaguer were still mounting an extra guard at the presidential palace but no steps have been taken to confine other troops to their barracks.
After 20 months in power, Chile’s military junta shows few signs of dismantling the vast apparatus of political repression created to “extirpate the Marxist cancer.” According to government estimates more than 41,000 people — one of every 250 Chileans — have been detained at least temporarily for political reasons. Church sources who have concerned themselves with political prisoners believe that the figure is closer to 95,000, one in every 100. Both the government and its domestic critics seem to agree that there are still 5,000 people in prison camps for political reasons.
Attempts to promote cooperation between the Arab and black African nations sharing this continent suffered a severe setback last week when delegates of 37 nations attending the 11th annual meeting of the African Development Bank failed to elect a new president for the next three years.
Britain and the Mozambique Liberation Front agreed that peace and security in southern Africa can only be achieved “when the fundamental rights of the people to freedom and independence are guaranteed.” The statement was issued after a meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, between Judith Hart, the British minister for overseas development, and Samora Machel, leader of the front. The talks centered on British aid to Mozambique after the Portuguese colony becomes fully independent under the front’s rule on June 25.
Surgeons at Cape Town’s Groote Schuur Hospital transferred to a dying South African boy nearly a pint of his younger sister’s bone marrow. A spokesman said it would be 10 days before the boy, 16, and suffering from severe anemia, could be declared out of danger. Two previous marrow transplant patients in South Africa died soon after their operations, in 1972 and 1973.
President and Mrs. Ford spent a quiet Mother’s Day at the presidential mountain top retreat. As a gift for his wife, the President had bought scarves, blouses and other wearing apparel, according to Deputy Press Secretary William Greener. Mr. Ford swam in the heated pool before breakfast and around noon played tennis with David H. Kennerly, his official photographer. White House physician Dr. William Lukash and a Secret Service agent. It was the first time the Fords had been to Camp David since the end of February and they found warm, sunny spring weather. There were no other members of the family on hand for the holiday.
The Supreme Court returns to the bench tomorrow for the homestretch drive of the 1974–75 term, with nearly half its cases for the year still to be decided. The Justices, who normally do not sit for more than two weeks at a time, are scheduled to be in session for the next six weeks without interruption. and it may take 10 days beyond that to clear the Court’s calendar for the year. As of today, the high court had announced decisions in 81 cases since convening early last October. In addition, 72 cases have been argued but no decision announced. Normally, the Justices rule on every case they have heard before adjourning for the summer. Potentially, the dominant case before the high court involves capital punishment and raises the prospect that the death penalty could be reinstated or found unconstitutional under all circumstances.
Large crowds thronged to downtown Philadelphia to take part in a giant celebration commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Second Continental Congress. A wide range of exhibitions, from ethnic dances to demonstration of American labor at work, was centered on an eight-block section of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway under a sunny sky and light winds. Police estimates of the crowds ran as high as 1.5 million. The celebration, dubbed The American Way, marked the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and was part of the city’s bicentennial observation. It ended with a rock concert and fireworks.
The final court order for desegregation of Boston’s schools drew sharp criticism from antibusing leaders. The plan, made public Saturday by Federal District Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr., calls for the busing of about 21,000 pupils — some 3,000 more than were to be bused in this year’s troubled interim plan — and it divides Boston into eight school districts. “It’s the death knell of the city.”‘ City Councillor Louise Day Hicks said. She has strongly opposed busing.
Mayor Beame termed as “specious” and “legal double talk” the arguments by Secretary of the Treasury William Simon for the federal government’s refusal to grant New York City $1.5 billion in special assistance. He said he was “appalled and shocked by Secretary Simon’s assertion that federal assistance to the city of New York would not be appropriate.”
Machinists and aerospace workers in St. Louis voted to accept a new contract with McDonnell Douglas Corp. ending a 13-week strike. The workers, all members of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837, were expected to be on the job by Tuesday. The members approved the agreement despite a lack of recommendation by union leaders. The new pact contains a 31-cent-an-hour raise the first year and 3% hikes in each of the other two years. About 11,500 members of District 837, who now average $7.43 an hour in wages and benefits, struck February 10. About 7,000 machinists in California and Florida also walked out at that time but reached a settlement in March.
Americans gave a record $25.15 billion to charitable causes in 1974 despite the economic difficulties they faced during the year, the American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel said. The group, in an annual review of philanthropy entitled “Giving USA.” reported contributions were up $1.7 billion, or 7.4%, compared with 1973. Individuals gave 86.9% of the donations, or $19.8 billion, and an additional $2.07 billion in bequests. Foundations, many of which announced substantial cutbacks in their grants last year, provided $2.11 billion. Corporations gave $1.17 billion. As usual, religious organizations formed the largest single category of recipients, with $10.85 billion.
Thieves who stole a $500,000 Rembrandt from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts last month have been negotiating for a quarter-million dollar ransom, according to the Sunday Herald Advertiser. The painting was stolen April 14 by two men who held one guard at gunpoint and pistol-whipped another. For the last week officials of the First Security Co. of Boston, acting as a go-between for the thieves, reportedly have been negotiating secretly for the return of the portrait of Elsbeth Van Rijn, the artist’s sister.
Denver police sheepishly canceled an all-points bulletin for an elderly Detroit woman whose suspicious looking packages for Colorado officials turned out to be rocks and socks instead of bombs. The alert had been issued for Janie Bell Guess, 74, after three packages were left at the offices of the lieutenant governor and attorney general and at the state Social Services building. All three were picked up by the bomb squad, which tried to explode them. Police Chief Art Dill said that along with the rocks and socks they found newspapers and tacks. Sgt. Don Mullnix said Mrs. Guess apparently had left Denver by bus shortly after delivering the packages.
A crowd of about 75,000 people in New York City’s Central Park celebrated the end of the Vietnam War Organized by Phil Ochs, the rally included music performances by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and Paul Simon.
An oil leak in a Texaco Oil Co. pipeline running through the Illinois River about 70 miles north of St. Louis polluted a 23-mile stretch of the river, Coast Guard officials in St. Louis said. Coast Guard teams were working to contain the pollution with booms. A local civil defense director called the spill “no great problem.”
On a sunlit strip of palm-lined beach, Thomas Hejl, 25, and Nguyễn Thị Út, 27, were married by island Governor Ricardo Bordallo. A few steps away was the bare refugee camp barracks where the newlyweds would spend their wedding night. The marriage of the ex-airman and his Vietnamese sweetheart was the first formal wedding ceremony at the evacuee camp on the small U.S. Pacific territory of Guam. As for the rings they wore, “We got them 3 ½ years ago,” Hejl said. “We couldn’t get a wedding ceremony then, so we just wore them and morally we were man and wife.” Hejl, of Farmingdale, New York, met Nguyễn Thị Út when he was stationed in her village of Nha Trang in 1971. They tried to marry then but were frustrated by red tape. When he was discharged in California, Hejl started saving money and collecting documents. But the war moved too swiftly. Nguyễn Thị Út had to flee and they lost contact-until last week when she telephoned from Guam. She had escaped in a fishing boat. “This is just beautiful,” said Hejl. “I am very happy,” said Mrs. Hejl. But neither of them was ready to talk about their daughter. Linda, 3, was killed by Việt Cộng bullets as she and her mother were waiting for the fishing boat to take them to freedom.
A partial solar eclipse was visible in Greenland, Europe, north Africa and north Asia, and was the 66th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 118.
Natalie Cole releases her debut album “Inseparable” (wins 2 Grammy Awards).
Successfully walking the tightrope again in their death-defying act, the New York Islanders defeated the Philadelphia Flyers, 2–1, today and tied their four-ofseven-game National Hockey League semifinal series.
Rick Barry scored 36 points, 12 in the game‐turning second quarter, as the Golden State Warriors scored an 86–72 victory today over the Chicago Bulls. The triumph evened their National Basketball Association Western Conference final playoff at three games apiece and sets up a deciding game seven.
The Washington Bullets beat the Celtics in every phase of the game today and ended Boston’s reign as the National Basketball Association champion 364 days after it began in Milwaukee. The Bullets, in winning the sixth game of the four‐of-seven‐game series for the Eastern Conference championship, 98–92, were at their best in the first half and the Celtics were at their worst. The Bullets will get a second crack at playing in the N.B.A. final since the franchise began as the Chicago Zephyrs in 1961 and moved to Baltimore two years later. The 1970–71 Bullets were beaten for the championship in four straight games by the Milwaukee Bucks.
Arthur Ashe, so often taunted as the “world champion runner-up,” won the first prize today as he took the fifth annual World Championship Tennis title in a businesslike victory over Bjorn Borg of Sweden, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-0.
Major League Baseball:
Don Sutton of the Los Angeles Dodgers shut out the Pittsburgh Pirates, 7–0, and became one of two pitchers to win seven games this season (Vida Blue of the A’s is the other). Sutton has lost once. While picking up his third shutout of the season, Sutton yielded only two hits in the final five innings. The Dodgers made it easy for Sutton with 10 hits off Ken Brett and two relief pitchers, including a triple, double and single by Ron Cey.
The Mets edged the Reds, 3–2. Tom Seaver was the pitching beneficiary of the Mets’ success, gaining his fourth victory against three defeats by limiting the Reds to six hits, half in the first inning when they scored their runs.
The Cardinals scored four runs in the opening inning and held on to complete a three‐game sweep of the Giants, winning today, 4–3. Doubles by Lou Brock and Ted Sizemore, a triple by Luis Melendez and Ted Simmon’s fourth homer were all the offense the Cards needed to send Pete Falcone, a rookie, to his second loss in five decisions. Bob Forsch, with help from Al Hrabosky, picked up his third triumph.
The Padres edged the Cubs, 2–1. Hector Torres broke a 1‐1 tie in the eighth with a single off Bill Bonham that drove in Dave Winfield from second. Dave Freisleben permitted the Cubs nine hits, but the only one that hurt him was Tim Hosley’s first homer in the fifth.
A two‐run homer in the first by Earl Williams and a three‐run clout in the fourth by Ralph Garr enabled the Braves to sweep a three‐game series by beating the Phillies, 7–3. Although he gave up three runs in the first two innings, Buzz Capra blanked the Phillies the rest of the way.
The Houston Astros blanked the Expos, 6–0. Larry Dierker limited Expos to five hits as Montreal suffered its seventh shutout in 14 losses. Dierker, picking up his fourth victory in seven decisions, received his main assistance from Roger Metzger, who drove in three runs, two with his first homer.
Catfish Hunter proved a tough act for the New York Yankees to follow today. With their prosperous prodigal watching from the dugout, they were mauled for six runs in the third inning and never fully recovered as the Oakland’s A’s swept to a 7‐5 victory. The Yankees chased Blue in the seventh inning, but the 25‐year‐old left‐hander won his seventh game and became the most successful pitcher in the American League this season. The Yankees, meanwhile, lost for the seventh time in their last eight games and headed for Anaheim still looking for the right formula after having dropped 17 of their 28 starts of 1975.
The Red Sox downed the Angels, 5–2, and Boston moved to within one game of the Milwaukee Brewers, the Eastern Division leaders, behind the seven‐hit pitching of Bill Lee. Chalking up their seventh triumph in eight games, the Red Sox handed Bill Singer his fourth straight loss. Two‐run singles by Rico Petrocelli and Rick Burleson and Jim Rice’s fifth homer helped Lee record his fourth victory against three losses.
The Royals remained two games out of first place in the Western Division as Steve Busby blanked the Brewers, 4–0, on five hits, allowing only one in the final six innings. Harmon Killebrew not only knocked in a Kansas City run with a single, but also stole his first base since Sept. 15, 1971, and it also came against Milwaukee when Killebrew played for the Minnesota Twins. Killebrew’s heroics highlighted a three‐run rally in the fourth that broke a string of 19 scoreless innings by Kansas City against Milwaukee.
A chop single down the third‐base line by Tom McCraw followed by two Chicago errors enabled the Indians to score twice in the 11th and snap a five‐game losing streak, edging the White Sox, 4–3. Trailing, 3‐2, with men on first and third and two out, McCraw beat out the grounder to drive in Rico Carty as Terry Forster, the pitcher, threw wildly past first, permitting John Ellis to reach third. The former Yankee scored the winning run when Bob Coluccio let loose another wild peg past the plate.
The Rangers stayed in a tie with Oakland for first place in the Western Division by completing a sweep of a three‐game series with the Tigers, winning 11–7. Ferguson Jenkins notched his fifth consecutive victory, although he needed four innings of relief from Steve Foucault. Texas’s 15‐hit attack on Mickey Lolich and three relievers was highlighted by home runs by Jeff Burroughs, Roy Smalley, Tom Grieve and Leo Gardenas. Cardenas’s clout, his first in three seasons capped a five‐run rally in the fifth.
Bobby Grich blasted two homers and Al Bumbry slammed a bases‐loaded double to lead the Orioles to a split of a double‐header behind the nine‐hit pitching of Jim Palmer. The Orioles won the nitecap, 9–3. In the first game, Bert Blyleven picked up his fourth triumph against one loss with a six‐hitter for Minnesota and the Twins won, 6–4. Steve Brye and Craig Kusick drove in two runs apiece as the Twins sent Mike Cuellar to his second loss against two victories.
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Atlanta Braves 7
Minnesota Twins 6, Baltimore Orioles 4
Minnesota Twins 3, Baltimore Orioles 9
Boston Red Sox 5, California Angels 2
San Diego Padres 2, Chicago Cubs 1
Chicago White Sox 3, Cleveland Indians 4
Texas Rangers 11, Detroit Tigers 7
Milwaukee Brewers 0, Kansas City Royals 4
Houston Astros 6, Montreal Expos 0
Cincinnati Reds 2, New York Mets 3
New York Yankees 5, Oakland Athletics 7
Los Angeles Dodgers 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
San Francisco Giants 3, St. Louis Cardinals 4
Born:
Francisco Cordero, Dominican MLB pitcher (All-Star, 2004, 2007, 2009; Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers, Cincinnati Reds, Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros), in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
John Jenkins, NFL defensive back (Pittsburgh Steelers), in East McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
Walter Kinsella, 74, American actor (“Martin Kane Private Eye”).
Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese al-Qaeda terrorist who took control of United Airlines Flight 93 in the 9/11 attacks, and crashed the plane near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, murdering 42 passengers and crew, and killing himself. (d. 2001).
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