Secretary of State Kissinger has been off in the American heartland giving speeches in an attempt to fill a policy vacuum left by the setbacks in Indochina and to shore up his political position in Washington. One speech indicated he was taking a tougher line on détente to reestablish closer ties with allies. He is noting that it has become increasingly difficult to pursue better relations with Moscow and at the same time keep alliances together. The second speech held out an olive branch to the developing world. Again, Mr. Kissinger is pointing out that it has become increasingly difficult to maintain the economic security of the industrialized world without also coming to terms with the new demands of the third world. Mr. Kissinger’s aides have been telling him that although he is under fire in Washington, his popularity is still strong in the countryside. It is time, in their judgment, to send this message back to the capital.
The foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey this weekend will conduct the first high-level talks between the two countries in almost six months. Meeting in Rome, Ishan Sabri Caglayangil of Turkey and Dimitrios Bitsios of Greece will try to list specific points of disagreement in the dispute over oil rights in the Aegean Sea, and will discuss recent efforts toward a Cyprus settlement and Turkish claims that Greece is staging a military buildup in the Dodecanese Islands off the Turkish coast.
Secretary of State Kissinger said the United States was now ready to attend a new preparatory meeting for an international energy conference. The first meeting last month broke down over the question of including the wider problems of all raw materials. He said the United States would consider international readjustments in raw material prices of individual commodities on a case-by-case basis.
Turkey’s Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel was punched in the face with brass knuckles by a 34-year-old unemployed man, Vural Onsel, at Ankara. Demirel’s nose was broken as he walked out of a cabinet meeting. It was first physical assault on a Turkish premier since an assassination attempt on the late İsmet İnönü 11 years ago. A government communiqué issued several hours after the attack said that four stitches were required to close a cut over the Premier’s fractured nose. It said there were other minor cuts and bruises on his face, but that Mr. Demirel’s condition was satisfactory. It said policemen found the assailant in possession of several leftist publication and a handwritten declaration calling for “armed struggle to realize sacred revolution.”
Israel’s Defense Minister, Shimon Peres, said the Jordanian Army had advanced tanks to the plain on the eastern bank of the Jordan River in the last few days. He said this was uncharacteristic of the Jordanians and speculated that it might be related to talks between Jordanian and Syrian leaders on military cooperation. He said the Jordanians were moving toward the harder-line Syrian attitude on Israel. The mandate of United Nations peace‐keeping forces on the Golan Heights is up for renewal before the end of this month. The movement of forces may be intended to create a sense of tension and instability to strengthen the bargaining Position before renewal of the mandate. Mr. Peres said at a military base today, “This may turn out to be more of a mistake for Jordan than a threat to us.” The Jordanian frontier with Israel has been quiet since King Hussein suppressed the Palestinian guerrilla movement in Jordan in September, 1970.
The United States and Israel announced agreement today on a package of economic accords and issued a statement opposing Arab boycotts of companies doing business with Israel. The 13‐page statement, summing up two days of talks between American and Israeli officials, was welcomed by the Israelis as a major step in their effort to improve their economic situation. Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz told newsmen that the accords with the United States, promoting American investment in Isreal, should be viewed along with Israel’s accord signed on Sunday with the European Economic Community. Under that agreement. Israeli industrial goods and some agricultural products will be allowed into the Common Market area free of duty starting in 1977.
Four more cabinet members have resigned in Lebanon, leaving Premier Rashid al‐Solh’s Government with only five ministers. Beirut newspapers said today that he would resign before the end of the week. The papers said the resignations so far of twelve ministers had ended Mr. Solh’s chances of salvaging his six‐month‐old government after an outburst of dissatisfaction over the Premier’s handling of clashes between right‐wing Phalangists and Palestinian guerrillas last month. Mr. Solh said last week he would ask Parliament for a vote of confidence but added that he was “not optimistic.”
The chairman of Pan American World Airways, William Seawell, said it was close to agreement with Iran on a $300 million deal designed to solve its immediate financial woes and provide time for a long-term solution including a possible merger. Obstacles include failure so far to win the approval of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a major creditor.
United States marines, warships and planes have been placed on alert in the western Pacific following the seizure of an American merchant ship yesterday by Cambodian gunboats, Administration officials said today. Eight hundred U.S. Marines arrived in Thailand, the Foreign Ministry reported. It announced the arrival of the Marines a few minutes after Premier Kukrit Pramoj said that he and his government opposed their being sent by Washington to back up American attempts to secure the release of a merchant ship seized by Cambodia’s new Communist government. Officials of the State and Defense Departments and United States diplomatic and military officials in Bangkok refused to comment on the reported troop arrival. The basic strategy under consideration was said to be the use of air or sea power to prevent the ship’s being taken into a Cambodian harbor.
The fragile coalition that has ruled Laos for 13 months appeared to be holding together today as various elements expressed their support for the Government on the eve of a crucial cabinet meeting. A senior official of the Communist‐led Pathet Lao reaffirmed the group’s decision to continue the coalition government and to replace the acting defense minister, a Pathet Lao, with a rightist. “We want the coalition to continue; it will continue,” he said. In the last few days, all the major powers represented here, including North Vietnam, have apparently been quietly expressing support for continuing the coalition concept. That concept was endangered in the last week by resignation of four right‐wing government ministers, by street demonstrations and by a political assassination.
The South Korean Government today outlawed all opposition to the Constitution and criticism of it. South Korea’s President Park Chung-hee issued “Emergency Decree No. 9 for the Preservation of National Security and Public Order”, prohibiting anyone from trying to “deny, oppose, distort, slander, revise or abrogate” the Yushin constitution that had been adopted in 1972.
A Japanese official, asked what long-term impact the fall of Indochina would have on Japan, jabbed the air slightly with his chopsticks and shot out a one‐word answer: “Korea.” “Indochina is of no real concern to us,” he continued moment later. “We are sorry about the refugees and all that. But it is a long way from us. Korea is our neighbor next door.” All over Tokyo, conservative politicians, officials, foreign diplomats and businessmen both foreign and Japanese, produced the same answer with the same speed. All were concerned that Korea would be the next battlefield in Asia and that this would have unhappy, if unpredictable, consequences for Japan.
Police regained control of the copper mining town of Panguna on Papua-New Guinea after two days of rioting by miners that at one point forced the town’s evacuation. Authorities said four persons were injured and damage was done with stones and bulldozers to a police station, the mine office, about 200 vehicles and a cricket club. The striking miners are seeking better pay and working conditions. The rampage started when they became impatient with arbitration following suspension of a union leader, police said.
Two hundred and fifty policemen early today stormed a Montreal aircraft plant occupied by strikers and freed 10 hostages who had been seized and held for four hours. The hostages were found tied to concrete pillars but otherwise unharmed, police said. Five persons, three of them policemen, were injured when the police moved in after a tear gas assault to end the take‐over of a plant of the Pratt & Whitney division of the United States-based United Aircraft Corporation in a suburb of Montreal. The police said 34 people were arrested on a variety of charges.
A Honduran investigating commission said it had confirmed that United Brands paid a bribe to get officials to reduce the Honduran export tax on bananas. But it would not say who got the money. “I can affirm that a bribe did occur,” said Jorge Arturo Reina, rector of the National University and head of the commission looking into the report that a $1.2-million bribe had been paid. Another commission member, Attorney General Serapio Hernandez Castellanos said only two persons-ex-President Oswaldo Lopez Arellano and former Economy Minister Abraham Bennaton Ramos-refused permission to examine their accounts.
Venezuela’s oil industry, which supplies the bulk of U.S. imports, will be nationalized within 60 days, according to the acting head of the nation’s mine commission, Celestino Armas. He predicted that a bill calling for the takeover of a score of U.S. and other foreign firms and for compensating them for part of their nearly $5 billion investment, will be partially approved by the Chamber of Deputies by July 5, Venezuela’s independence day.
Peru’s military government ordered the immediate expropriation of Gulf Oil Corp. operations, whose value is estimated at “several million dollars.” No compensation is expected for the operations, which involve several service stations and sales of lubricating oil to a number of private and government concerns. The government accused the U.S.-based firm of “offending public morals,” an apparent reference to the company’s recent admission that it paid $4.2 million in bribes to officials of an unnamed foreign country.
Thousands of Portuguese refugees, fleeing political and economic change at home, are streaming into Brazil and crowding into relatives’ homes or hotels. Although there have been no demonstrations, public clamor is mounting for Brazil to create special centers and stop “ignoring the problem.” Statistics on Portuguese immigration since the Lisbon dictatorship was ousted by an armed forces coup in April, 1974, are difficult to obtain. The Brazilian Foreign Ministry reports only a 20 percent increase in the yearly official immigration from Portugal of 2,000. Portugese sources challenge the figures. Members of the numerous Portuguese clubs and associations say a conservative estimate on the new arrivals in the last year would be 40,000, many of whom did not register.
President Maria Estela Peron of Argentina forced the resignation of moderate General Leandro Anaya as army commander and replaced him with a right-wing nationalist, General Alfredo Numa Laplane. Anaya, who headed the army since December, 1973, cited a disagreement with Mrs. Peron last month as the reason for his ouster. At that time he had told newsmen the dispute concerned “national security.”
A report by a Rhodesian Catholic group alleged that Africans have been resettled and tortured by Rhodesian forces. The report by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Rhodesia, published in London, said security forces fighting insurgents in northeast Rhodesia carried out deliberate assaults and destroyed villages, property and crops.
The 94th Congress failed in its first attempt to override a White House veto when a 245-to-182 vote fell 40 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed after President Ford vetoed the emergency farm bill. Among those who voted to sustain his objections were 71 Democrats.
The Senate voted 71 to 27 to limit debate on legislation to create an independent federal agency to represent the interests of consumers. The vote clears the way for almost certain passage of a measure this year. Last year’s overwhelming House vote on a similar bill was blocked by a filibuster in the Senate.
The House Select Committee on Intelligence, in its first formal action since it was set up three months ago, named today A. Searle Field, a 30-year-old Connecticut lawyer, to head its investigation of Federal intelligence.
The Senate passed and sent to the White House a bill allocating $1.118 billion to run Amtrak through October, 1977. The bill includes a section that allows the salary of Amtrak President Paul Reistrup to rise from $60,000 to $85,000, which sponsors Isaid was more in line with the pay of private railroad presidents. Opponents, led by Senator James B. Allen (D-Alabama) said the raise was excessive considering the shortcomings in Amtrak service. Allen asked when the taxpayers could expect Amtrak to “break even.” Senator Vance Hartke (D-Indiana) replied, “I do not know, and I don’t think anyone else knows. It is not going to be on a break-even basis at any point in the near future.”
House and Senate conferees said they had agreed on a housing bill to produce 400,000 new homes and 800,000 new construction jobs, with financial aid to families faced with mortgage foreclosures because of unemployment. The cost would be $1.3 billion to $1.5 billion over a two-year period starting in June, 1976.
Melvin R. Laird, a political intimate of President Ford for mere than 20 years, said today that the likeliest big fight at the Republican convention next year would involve a conservative challenge against Vice President Rockefeller’s renomination.
President Ford said he would tell Mayor Beame and Governor Carey within 24 hours whether the federal government would help the city find $1.5 billion to pay its bills through June 30. Mr. Carey said the President’s response was contrary to the previous administration position that it would not help.
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company and most of its operating companies agreed in an order filed in federal court in Philadelphia that they had failed to comply fully with the 1973 agreement to end discrimination in employment. Their agreement to pay some $2.5 million in compensation and penalties has not been put into effect as a court order because of a legal challenge by the Communications Workers of America that some promotions or transfers would violate union contracts.
Part of a freight train jumped the track at Vinton, Louisiana, cracking open a carload of Army anti-tank missiles. The center of town was temporarily evacuated. An Army task force from Ft. Polk, about 100 miles away, unloaded the missiles and moved them to a field for inspection before resuming the shipment. The four-block circle in the middle of Vinton was cleared because gasoline leaked from the tanks of new automobiles packed on triple-decker flat cars, posing the threat of a fire that could have exploded the missiles. “But there was no danger unless we had a fire,” said a deputy state fire marshal. Vinton has a population of 3,500. Cause of the derailment was not immediately determined.
A New Jersey state Appeals Court ruled that a quota hiring system that discriminated against any class of people — whether a minority or a majority — was illegal. Judge Joseph Halpern said a plan to find jobs for blacks by denying work to whites “piles discrimination on top of discrimination.” The court struck down a ruling by the state Division of Civil Rights, which imposed hiring quotas for the police and fire departments in Montclair, New Jersey. Halpern noted that both federal and state laws banned discrimination based on sex, race, color, creed or marital status.
A county judge in Juneau, Wisconsin, dismissed all misdemeanor charges against 24 persons involved in the armed Indian takeover of the Alexian Brothers novitiate near Gresham. Judge Henry Gergen Jr. gave no reason for the dismissal. In their motion to dismiss the charges, Wisconsin Legal Services attorneys representing the 24 said Shawano County authorities filed improper warrants. Special prosecutor Donald Zuidmulder said he would refile the charges. The 24-day occupation ended February 3 when the Chicago-based Roman Catholic religious order deeded the estate to the Menominee Tribe. Still to be heard are defense motions to dismiss felony charges lodged against five Warrior Society members as a result of the takeover.
The National Rifle Association of America, the country’s leading opponent. of gun control, ‐ is soliciting monetary and political support in a letter that says, “In New York City, important city officials have publicly advocated that all firearms he taken away from the city’s patrolmen.” The letter was sent to more than 100,000 people who are not members of the association. It was written by General Maxwell E. Rich, retired, executive vice president of the association. The letter outlines what it views as the perils of gun control, which is receiving new political support in the Congress. Enclosed with the letter is a four‐item questionnaire to be answered on computer punch cards, and two post cards to be used by the recipient for telling his Senator’s his opinion of gun control.
An executive of a large West German industrial firm has been charged with the theft of three rare mineral specimens worth $19,000 from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Smithsonian officials said in a court report that Heindrich Jahn, 47, a chemist, was arrested while attempting to remove the samples from the Museum of Natural History last Friday. Jahn is head of the research and development division of Farbenfaberken Bayer AG, manufacturer of chemicals and pharmaceuticals. He was released on $5,000 bond and surrendered his passport. The specimens were identified as perovskite, chrysoberyl and calaverite.
One of Connecticut’s first private houses with solar heating, in Westbrook, saved 66% in fuel costs this last winter, designers of the system said. Assuming such savings would continue, the owners of the home would recover the cost of the solar heating system in about 15 years. The cost was not disclosed. Designers said a conventional oil furnace takes over in the three-bedroom house when storms or clouds obscure the sun for long periods and the heated water in the system cools off. The house reportedly used 548 gallons of fuel oil between August and April. Homes of similar size in the area used about 1,900 gallons during the entire year.
A tornado slashed across Coleman, Texas, late in the day, killing two persons and causing extensive damage in cutting an erratic path across the southern edge of the town. City officials said no one was injured, but damage was considerable in both business and residential areas. The two dead were identified as the Rev. Samuel G. Taylor, 72, and his wife. He was pastor of Kingdom Hall Jehovah’s Witnesses Church. Coleman, a town of 6,000 is about 50 miles south southwest of Abilene.
Hailstones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville, Tennessee.
Reportedly bound for New York, Jacqueline Onassis flew from Athens yesterday after a brief trip to the island of Skorpios to collect some personal belongings from the home of Aristotle Onassis, as well as mementos of him. Friends of the Onassis family said the 24‐year‐old Christina Onassis had told her stepmother she was welcome to vacation on Skorpios at any time. They also said the heiress had been cool to Mrs. Kennedy following the funeral because Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who also attended, had tried to speak to Miss Onassis about financial matters.
“Rodgers & Hart” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 108 performances.
The inspiring saga of the three‐year‐old New York Islanders came to a close tonight as the Philadelphia Flyers finally let out the tiger and roared into the Stanley Cup finals with a 4–1 victory. The Flyers thus earned the right to meet the Buffalo Sabres in a four‐of‐seven‐game final round beginning here at the Spectrum Thursday night.
Major League Baseball:
Nolan Ryan (7–1) added to the New York Yankees’ miseries tonight when he stopped them on two singles while pitching the California Angels to a 5-0 victory that buried the Yankees deeper into last place. The Yankees are now three games behind fifth-place Cleveland.
Billy Williams drove in three runs with his third homer of the season while Joe Rudi, who also homered, Gene Tenace, and Reggie Jackson added two RBI each in the A’s 9–5 victory over Boston in Oakland. Ken Holtzman, making his first relief appearance in nearly five seasons, took over for starter Glenn Abbott in the fifth and got the victory.
The Orioles edged the White Sox, 3–2. Tommy Davis doubled home a run in the fifth to snap a 1–1 tie and send Jim Kaat, the Chicago pitcher, to his first loss since last September 4. Kaat had won 12 games in a row, five this season.
The Indians beat the Twins, 3–2. Denis Eckersley, a rookie, relieved Fritz Peterson in the seventh with a run in, two men on base and none out — and held Minnesota scoreless. Buddy Bell hit a homer earlier for the Indians, and Jack Brohamer recorded an unusual bunt double when Rod Carew, the Twins’ second baseman, over‐ran the ball in the third. Brohamer sprinted to second, then scored on Frank Duffy’s double.
The Royals held on to beat the Tigers, 8–7, as Kansas City survived a four‐run Detroit rally in the ninth that included a three‐run homer by Dan Meyer. Tony Solaita hit a homer for the Royals during a five‐run second, and Bob Stinson drove in three runs with two doubles.
The Rangers shut out the Brewers, 5–0, in a 5½ inning game. Cesar Tovar and Jim Spencer hit first‐inning homers in the rain‐shortened game as Texas gained its fifth victory in a row and 13th of the last 16.
The Los Angeles Dodgers shut out Cardinals, 5–0, as Burt Hooton, acquired by Los Angeles on May 2 in a trade with the Chicago Cubs, yielded only two hits — a double to Ted Sizemore in the fourth and a single to Luis Melendez in the ninth. Hooton had entered the game with a 7.20 earned‐run average and an 0–3 won‐lost record. He struck out seven, walked one and got two hits himself.
Jerry Reuss pitched a three‐hitter for Pittsburgh and struck out a personal high of 12 batters to blank the Padres, 2–0. He also singled in the eighth and scored on a sacrifice fly by Manny Sanguillen.
Steve Stone was the winning pitcher when the Cubs defeated the Houston Astros in Chicago, 2–1. His won‐lost record is 5–0, at least as surprising as the team’s 19–9 mark. The 27‐year‐old right‐hander’s best previous record in the majors came last year, when he was 8‐6.
The Phillies shut out the Reds, 4–0. Tom Underwood, a rookie, pitched his second shutout for Philadelphia. Five of Cincinnati’s six hits came in the first four innings, but Underwood emerged unscathed — thanks to two sensational catches by Mike Anderson in right field.
Atlanta scored six runs in the fifth and sent Montreal’s Dave McNally to his fourth loss in seven decisions, as the Braves beat the Expos, 9–4. Earl Williams had a big night for the Braves, driving in four runs on a double, single and force‐out.
Chicago White Sox 2, Baltimore Orioles 3
New York Yankees 0, California Angels 5
Houston Astros 1, Chicago Cubs 2
Kansas City Royals 8, Detroit Tigers 7
Cleveland Indians 3, Minnesota Twins 2
Atlanta Braves 9, Montreal Expos 4
Boston Red Sox 5, Oakland Athletics 9
Cincinnati Reds 0, Philadelphia Phillies 4
San Diego Padres 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, St. Louis Cardinals 0
Milwaukee Brewers 0, Texas Rangers 5
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 850.13 (+2.66, +0.31%)
Born:
Chris Crawford, NBA power foirward (Atlanta Hawks), in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Jamie Allison, Canadian NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames, Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Nashville Predators, Florida Panthers), in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada.
Jack Cressend, MLB pitcher (Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians), in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mickey Callaway, MLB pitcher (Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Anaheim Angels, Texas Rangers), in Memphis, Tennessee.
Brian Geraghty, American actor (“The Hurt Locker”), in Toms River, New Jersey.
Peter Iwers, Swedish rock bassist for heavy metal group In Flames and The Halo Effect; in Gothenburg.
Died:
Marguerite Perey, 65, French chemist who discovered the element francium.
Bob Wills, 70, American country western singer.
Richard Hollingshead, 75, inventor (in 1933) of the drive-in theater.
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