Secretary of State Kissinger said today that the rescue of the merchant ship Mayaguez and its crew should demonstrate to the world that “there are limits beyond which the United States cannot be pushed.” He stressed at a news conference at the State Department that the United States had not sought the military confrontation in the Gulf of Siam and that whatever international benefits accrued to this country was only a “by-product, a bonus” of the main rescue operation.
The United States air attacks against the Cambodian mainland in the rescue of the Mayaguez were more extensive than had been previously reported, according to a spokesman for the Defense Department. It was disclosed that less than an hour after their first attack, on an airfield at Ream, naval planes destroyed an oil depot closer to the nearby port of Sihanoukville.
The Cambodian Embassy in Peking said today that American planes had bombed Sihanoukville in Cambodia and the neighboring town of Ream after the captured freighter Mayagüez and her crew had been released. The embassy also charged that American military intervention started at dawn on Tuesday, Cambodian time. Well‐informed sources in Bangkok said Friday that the crew of the Mayaguez — seized on Monday by Cambodian naval forces — were handed over at 9:30 AM and that Thai‐based American fighter-bombers attacked Sihanoukville and Ream at 10:09 AM. In the first of two texts, the embassy said that the Cambodian Government had decided to free the 10,485-ton Mayaguez and her crew in the early hours of Tuesday.
After forcing millions of people out of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s rulers are now repairing the city’s airport and other facilities “so that the town can become active again,” radio Phnom Penh said today. The radio indicated that people had already been moved from the countryside into the city, which had been evacuated after the communist takeover a month ago. Because the new inhabitants were not used to living in towns, troops and “revolutionary forces” were instructing them in basic hygiene, the radio said. There were also unspecified “infectious illnesses” in the capital and sanitary arrangements were being made, it added.
A week‐long visit to France by Deputy Premier Deng Xiaoping of China ended tonight. French officials said the main results were an agreement for political consultations and trade and Chinese support for French efforts to promote world energy talks. Some of Mr. Deng’s denunciations of the Soviet Union durling his visit surprised French officials by their vehemence, informed sources reported. The sources said some French officials felt Mr. Deng’s remarks indicated he considered war between China and the Soviet Union as inevitable.
The head of a Soviet business organization that purchases Western equipment for furniture manufacturing has been sentenced to death for having contracted for the equivalent of $500,000 in bribes from a Western concern seeking Soviet orders. The official was identified as Yuri Sosnovsky. The Western businessman, identified as Walter Haefelin, whose nationality was not disclosed, was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Portugal’s ruling armed forces movement nationalized five more manufacturing concerns today and began an effort to remove any “right-wing” influence from the air force. The take‐overs raised to 48 the number of concerns nationalized in the last 10 days. A government spokesman said all those nationalized today had been operating at a loss. He did not identify them. The move within the air force was initiated by a recently promoted general, Morais da Silva, identified with the radical wing of the armed forces movement. The general, who is 34 years old, was named yesterday by President Francisco da Costa Gomes to replace General Mendes Dias as air force Chief of Staff.
The leaders of Austria gathered in palace in Vienna late one October afternoon to consider in a hastily summoned conference reports of unrest in Serbia, brought by a traveler from Belgrade. The meeting took place last year, but Austrian newspapers that disclosed the details remarked that it seemed like something from 60 years earlier. They ridiculed the government for having overreacted to rumors — telephoned to an Austrian politician — that Preslident Tito had suffered a heart attack and that a pro‐Soviet group of officers in the Yugoslav Army was prepared to seize power. In Belgrade where President Tito had just returned from a hunting trip, there was no laughter. The Yugoslav Government took the matter seriously and said so in a note delivered to Vienna on October 29.
Since then, relations between Austria and Yugoslavia have become increasingly strained, reaching a low this week with the publication by Belgrade of a declaration condemning Austria in strong terms for what Yugoslavia said was nonfulfillment of the Austrian State Treaty, which was signed 20 years ago yesterday, restoring Austrian sovereignty and ending postwar Allied occupation. The declaration, sent in translation to all foreign correspondents and news agencies in Vienna and Belgrade, said that Austria “has not displayed the readiness to carry out in their entirety, consistently and in good faith the basic provisions of the treaty with regard to Yugoslavia.” The Belgrade statement said that “Naziism and Great‐Germany chauvinism” were being revived in Austria and that antiYugoslav right‐wing organizations were being tolerated in Austria and were not being hindered from terrorist attacks against Yugoslavia.
Extremists shot and slightly wounded a Christian Democratic politician, attacked party offices and set the apartment of a judge afire in various Italian cities yesterday and today in a wave of violence a month before nationwide elections.
Scotland’s 33 shires were reorganized into nine regions (Borders, Central, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Grampian, Highland, Lothian, Strathclyde and Tayside), and three islands (Orkney, Shetland, Western Isles, as the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (given royal assent October 25, 1973) became effective. Each of the regions, in turn, was divided into districts. The system would remain for almost 21 years until the effective date of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, which replaced the regions with 32 local government areas.
The Spanish Ambassador to Morocco has been summoned to Madrid for urgent consultations as officials in the Spanish Sahara spoke of a threat of armed conflict with the Moroccans. The Governor of the Spanish Sahara, Federico Gomez de Salazar, said in Aiun, capital of the province: “For some time, the possibility of a sudden Moroccan attack on the Sahara has existed, but the Spanish Army is ready to repel any kind of aggression.” He also confirmed the previously reported capture of 10 Spanish military men, including two lieutenants, by Saharan guerrillas last Saturday and Monday. In addition, the Governor said that Moroccan forces had fired rockets at Spanish Army helicopters recently. The rockets missed, he said.
A military warehouse full of explosives blew up today in an industrial area 15 miles from Tel Aviv. The explosion sent up a cloud of black smoke and shattered windows for several miles. It was felt in the center of Tel Aviv. An official announcement said that there had been no serious injuries, although several persons were cut by flying glass. The warehouse area was deserted because of a Jewish holiday. “There is absolute certainty that the incident was not the result of sabotage,” the announcement said. Authorities said that the blast appeared to have been set off by a spark or by a flammable chemical.
President Anwar el‐Sadat arrived in Jordan today for a 24‐hour visit during which he reportedly hopes to reduce some of the differences between King. Hussein and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Egyptian leader flew here from Baghdad, where he obtained financial assistance in the form of an Iraqi promise to supply Egypt with large quantities of oil. Earlier in the tour, Mr. Sadat spent three days in Kuwait, and he is understood to have obtained commitments of substantial financial assistance. President Sadat will fly to Syria tomorrow for talks with President Hafez al‐Assad before returning to Cairo Sunday night.
The Shah of Iran inspected American radar‐carrying planes at Andrews Air Force Base today and then flew by helicopter to the Pentagon for talks with Secretary of De fense James R. Schlesinger. The Shah, in the United States on an official visit, is known to be considering the purchase of four or five of the $110‐million Boeing 707’s equipped with an airborne warning and control system that can scan a 200‐mile area. The Shah is also said to be considering the purchase of other planes, including Fairchild A‐10 attack bombers and Grumman F‐I4 fighter jets. He has already bought more than $2‐billion worth of American arms in the last 10 months.
Conservative Arab governments in the Persian Gulf area have reportedly been approached about a possibility of eventually adhering to regional cooperation pact now being contemplated by Iran and Iraq. These soundings were reported here this week by highly placed Muslim sources. They did not specify whether Iran or Iraq had taken the lead in making the approaches nor did they specify which other countries were involved. But if prospects for such a pact prove promising enough, they said, a meeting of Persian Gult leaders is expected to he held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with a second to follow here. The reports of the diplomatic soundings were further indication of a movement toward solidarity among the Persian Gulf countries — a trend that has gathered momentum since Iran and Iraq ended a longstanding feud earlier this year.
Sikkim, formerly an absolute monarchy, became the 22nd state of India and its 200,000 residents became citizens, as Indian President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed an order ratifying an amendment to the nation’s constitution. Sikkimese voters had overwhelmingly approved annexation on April 14 and India’s Parliament had approved statehood the same month.
Premier Kukrit Pramoj said that Thailand was recalling its Ambassador to the United States for consultations after what he described as an American violation of his country’s sovereignty. He said that all agreements and treaties with the United States were being reviewed and that the American presence in Thailand might be ended. Despite his anger at Washington, he ruled out a break in diplomatic relations with the United States.
Top‐ranking civilian leaders of South Vietnam’s Provisional Revolutionary Government are in Saigon for the big celebration of the Communist victory, but it is not clear when they will take over the government of the city. A military administrative committee is still governing the South Vietnamese capital. Its chairman, Colonel General Trần Văn Trà, said at a news conference on May 8 that he could not predict when the transition to civilian government would take place.
The U.S. Senate, voting 79 to 2, gave final congressional approval to a $405 million appropriations bill that is expected to hasten the resettlement of South Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees. The bill now goes to President Ford, who is expected to sign it promptly even though it provides less than he had originally sought.
Junko Tabei, a 35-year-old homemaker from Japan, became the first woman to reach the top of Mount Everest, arriving at the summit 29,028 feet above sea level at 12:30 pm local time. Mrs. Tabei was accompanied by a Sherpa guide, Ang Tsering. At the time, she was only the 36th person to scale the mountain, the first two having been Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Mrs. Tabei would go on to become the first woman to scale the highest peak on all seven continents.
Michael Abdul Malik, who as “Michael X” was a major figure in London’s black-power movement in the nineteen-sixties, was hanged today in his native Trinidad for the machete murder of his cousin.
The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said today his committee’s investigation had discovered “gaps” in Central Intelligence Agency records on covert operations, raising the question of whether the records had been lost or destroyed. In a breakfast meeting with reporters, Senator Frank Church, Democrat of Idaho, said that he could not amplify on what specific areas of the records contained gaps, but he said they concerned covert operations. He answered a question in which newsmen noted that Richard M. Helms, former Director of Central Intelligence, had ordered telephone taps of his personal calls destroyed shortly before he left the agency. Mr. Helms’s action came under criticism during the Watergate case, because Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, the Senate majority leader, had ordered the agency not to destroy any records.
Bob Dorsey, chairman and chief executive officer of the Gulf Oil Corporation, told a Senate subcommittee that, over the last decade, his company had made about $5 million in illegal political contributions abroad, including $4 million in South Korea. Payments were also made in Bolivia and perhaps Italy, he said. He also said under oath that Gulf had contributed to a group in Beirut, Lebanon, that was promoting a pro-Arab public relations campaign in the United States. He said payments were “disguised” by being sent through a Gulf subsidiary in the Bahamas that also channeled about $5 million to American political groups such as President Nixon’s 1972 re-election committee.
A House subcommittee informally agreed today on a bill to free draft resisters willing to sign a certificate swearing their action was due to the Indochina war. The subcommittee’s chairman, Robert W. Kastenmeier, Democrat of Wisconsin, whose judiciary subcommittee staff wrote the compromise proposal, said that it would have been futile to seek legislation granting unconditional amnesty.
The Social Security Administration says the Medicare program was overcharged $27‐million by doctors, hospitals and nursing homes over the last five years. About half that amount was recovered by the end of 1974 and the balance remained outstanding, agency witnesses said yesterday to a House panel investigating fraud and abuse in the budget of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Representative Fortney H. (Pete) Stark is not exactly an “average” member of the House. He is a rich former California banker, a liberal Democrat, a mod dresser and given to flamguoyance, his friends says. But if he gets his way, he will be even more unusual — he will be the first white member of the Congressional Black Caucus. At the moment, his application for membership in the caucus has caused a stir, some confusion and much thinking in the offices of the 17 black members of Congress who comprise the caucus.
The Senate passed and sent to the White House today a $5.3‐billion measure designed to fund job‐producing projects across the country, but the bill faced a possibility of a Presidential veto. The measure was passed by voice vote after Senators agreed to yield on a point of controversy with the House —a $700‐million allocation to improve the nation’s railroad lines and services while creating 35,000 jobs. Senator John L. McClellan, Democrat of Arkansas, said the Senate could push its plans for job‐producing railroad rehabilitation in a similar $800‐million bill passed earlier today.
Patricia Hearst acknowledged she participated in a robbery by the self‐styled Symbionese Liberation Army of a San Francisco bank, a witness at the Marcus Foster murder trial has testified. Tom Matthews, a 19‐year‐old Los Angeles area youth, told the courtroom he was kidnapped for seven hours May 16, 1974, by Miss Hearst and William and Emily Harris. His remarks yesterday came as the defense went into the second day of the case in behalf of Russell Little and Joseph Remiro, two S.L.A. members charged with the cyanide bullet killing of Marcus Foster, Oakland schools chief. Mr. Matthews said both Mr. Harris and Miss Hearst of the newspaper family told him the Hibernia Bank robbery was staged April 15, 1974, because “they needed the money.”
Mayor Beame, attacking what he called “the Republican pincer movement in Washington and in Albany,” asserted that he would have to cut 38,000 city jobs if his $640 million proposal for aid and taxes was rejected by the state. At a news conference at City Hall he presented a “horror list” of what the cutbacks would mean in municipal services.
Moody’s Investor’s Service, a leading securities-rating agency, gave its highest grade to New York City’s $280 million note issue scheduled for sale Monday morning. “New York City’s credit, according to our analysis, is still good,” Moody’s senior vice president said, but bankers preparing to bid for the notes said they were not sure the high rating would make any difference in whether the sale would be successful.
“Build 66 Now!” demanded auto bumper stickers prepared by supporters of I‐66, a $200‐million, 10‐mile missing link of superhighway through the Virginia suburbs. Opponents of the road picked up the free stickers, snipped away here and there with scissors and came up with their own message —“66 No!” Proponents produced new stickers: “Build 66.” “Stop 66,” countered opponents in their own stickers. For more than five years, area residents, local groups, the State of Virginia and the federal government have been arguing whether to expand traffic capacity to and from the capital by closing a 10‐mile highway gap between Washington and the Capital Beltway, adding mass transit facilities or coming up with some combination of both.
As many as 500 illegal aliens — most of them Mexicans — were taken into custody today at handbag factory by agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Joseph Dernetz, deputy district director of the immigration service, said the raid at the Beltline of California plant in the garment district of Los Angeles was the largest of its kind at one factory in the agency’s history. The action started at 9 A.M. with 50 agents entering the building by various means, some of them climbing down ropes from adjacent rooftops. Another 25 agents were called to assist in the operation and extra officers of the Los Angeles Police Department were called for traffic control. Agents chased suspected aliens through the streets and around the buildings until Mr. Dernetz called a halt to the operation because he realized the agency did not have the facilities to handle more arrests.
Four Brownie Scouts were killed and six others hurt in a collision of a station wagon and a truck about three miles east of Fowler, Colorado on U.S. Highway 50 yesterday. The dead were identified as Kendi Lou Gunn, 7 years old, Vicki Donovan, 6, Melinda Craft, 6, and Kelley Kesterson, 7, all of Fowler.
A 27‐year‐old Russian from the oceanographic research ship Dmitri Mendeleyev has defected to the United States, the immigration authorities said today. John O’Shea, district director of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, said that he was holding the defector, identified as Vyacheslav Kovalev, after he turned himself in to the United States Attorney’s office yesterday afternoon.
Wings release “Listen to What the Man Said” in UK.
Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title. Behind on points on the scorecards of two of the three judges, Muhammad Ali suddenly registered an 11th-round knockout of Ron Lyle tonight in retaining the world heavyweight boxing championship. After a straight right hand drove the 33‐year‐old ex‐convict across the ring and left him defenseless against the champion’s assault, Ali beseeched the referee to stop the bout. Ferd Hernandez complied after 68 seconds of the round. Lyle protested briefly, then staggered to his corner in a daze. It was Ali’s second successful title defense in his second reign as champion. His career won‐lost record is now 47‐2, with 34 knockouts. It was the first time Lyle had been stopped. He absorbed his third loss against 30 triumphs.
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Royals manager Jack McKeon made out several lineup cards before the game. The official one he gave to the home plate umpire had George Brett hitting second and Amos Otis batting third. The one shown on the scoreboard and the one the Royals followed had Otis second, Hal McRae third, and Brett down in the sixth spot. The Royals followed that order the entire game because the Red Sox never checked the one they had been given when the lineup cards were exchanged. In the top of the third, they could have had at least two runs erased had they been paying attention. With runners on first and third and one out, Otis came up in the number two spot and hit a single to left that resulted in two runs after an error. At that point, the Red Sox could have protested and Brett would have been called out with Otis batting again, this time with two outs. The Royals scored three in the inning and won the game 5–2. Dennis Leonard gained his first major league victory with a five-hit effort, and Jim Wohlford batted home two runs as the Royals sent the Red Sox to their fourth straight defeat, by a score of 5–2. Kansas City jumped on Bill Lee (4–4) for three runs in the third after the Boston left-hander helped himself by picking off his sixth and seventh runners of the season in the first two innings. Leonard (1–1) walked six and hit a batter.
Baltimore takes game one against the Angels, 1–0, when Bobby Grich hits a game-ending homer in the 9th off Frank Tanana. Jim Palmer (6–2) got the win. The Halos take game two, 3–2, on two homers by Tommy Harper off loser Mike Cuellar (2–3). Don Baylor had homered in the nitecap for Baltimore.
While Vida Blue was routinely pitching his eighth victory of the season last night at Shea Stadium, Pat Dobson was displaying a variety of talents in his first appearance on the mound in a week. As the Yankees were losing to the Oakland A’s 4–2, for their ninth defeat in 11 games, Dobson showed how to walk eight batters in less than seven innings, how to pitch out of three bases‐loaded situations in five innings without a run scoring and how to seethe in public without uttering a word and without flinging his arms wildly. Blue had little trouble with the Yankees. He remained his ever‐cool self throughout and stopped the staggering New Yorkers on seven hits.
The Brewers put together five hits for all their runs in the fourth inning to down the Twins, 3–1. Bill Champion posted his fifth triumph with relief from Bill Castro. Dave Goltz (2–3) was the victim of Milwaukee’s batting spree. Bill Sharp, Bob Mitchell and Darrell Porter produced run-scoring singles. Castro relieved Champion in the seventh after successive singles by Steve Braun and Rod Carew and ended the threat by striking out Larry Hisle and getting Bobby Darwin to ground out.
Dennis Eckersley, the third relief pitcher in the ninth inning, hit Buddy Bradford with the bases loaded to tie the score, then walked Jorge Orta to force home the deciding run in Chicago’s three-run rally, as the White Sox eked out a comeback 3–2 victory over the Indians. Jim Kern had given up three hits and had fanned nine going into the inning. Kern was relieved by Tom Buskey after walking Bill Melton. Singles by Deron Johnson and Tony Muser got one run home and a single by Bucky Dent loaded the bases. Dave LaRoche relieved and fanned Bill Stein but Eckersley came on when Bradford batted for Pat Kelly.
The Rangers routed the Tigers, 10–3, with a 14-hit attack that included a two-run homer by Tom Grieve and a three-run double by Toby Harrah. Backed by that hitting display, Bill Hands coasted to his fourth triumph of the campaign against two losses. Mickey Lolich was the victim of the Texas outburst and took his third defeat in six decisions. The Rangers drove Lolich to cover with a five-run third.
Don Sutton came within five outs of pitching a perfect game, then lost it all when Al Oliver slammed a tie-breaking two-run homer in the ninth, as the Pirates edged the Dodgers, 3–2. For 7 ⅓ innings Sutton was perfect,striking out seven, allowing only two balls out of the infield and permitting the slugging Pirates nothing resembling a hit. But with one out in the eighth Richie Zisk slapped a single past Ron Cey at third for Pittsburgh’s first hit. Dave Parker followed with a single to center, and Manny Sanguillen singled to left–center to tie the score. Rennie Stennett’s single in the ninth preceded Oliver’s third homer of the season, sending Sutton to only his second defeat in his last 21 decisions, including playoff and World Series games.
The Padres crushed the Cubs, 8–2, as Enzo Hernandez drove in three runs and Dave Winfield batted home two more to back the six–hit pitching of Joe McIntosh. McIntosh (4–2) coasted after the Padres raked Bill Bonham (3–3) for six runs in the first three innings. Mike Ivie broke out of a mile slump with a triple and two singles in San Diego’s 13-hit assault.
Montreal downed Cincinnati, 4–2. The Expos sent the Reds to their sixth straight loss as Pepe Mangual sparked two rallies with a pair of singles. Dennis Blair (2–4) stopped the Reds on five hits through the first eight innings before faltering in the ninth. Chuck Taylor relieved and shut off Cincinnati’s threat after Blair yielded a run on a single by Pete Rose. Larry Biittner hit his second homer of the season in the second, and Tony Scott drove in two runs with a bases-loaded grounder and a single.
The Phillies won a 12–8 slugfest from the Braves for their fifth straight victory as Mike Schmidt, Larry Christenson, the pitcher, and Larry Bowa all slammed two–run homers — all in the second inning. Vic Correll hit a pair of two–run homers for the Braves, who knocked Christenson out of the box with a five-run fifth inning. Gene Garber (3–2) was the winner.
The Giants edged the Cardinals, 4–3, as Luis Melendez singled with the bases loaded and no one out in the 10th inning to score Derrel Thomas with the winning run. The Giants ended a six-game losing streak. Gary Lavelle got the victory in relief. Lou Brock homered for St. Louis; Bobby Murcer hit his third home run for the Giants.
Tom Seaver was a long way from being overpowering tonight against the Houston Astros. But, with a little bit of luck and a massive hitting attack by his teammates, he chalked up his fifth victory of the season as the New York Mets pummeled the Astros, 10‐2, before a crowd of 10,672 at the Astrodome. Seaver gave up 11 hits in seven ragged innings of work. However, except for the first when the Astros hit five singles but produced only two runs, the Met right‐hander squirted out of trouble time after time.
California Angels 0, Baltimore Orioles 1
California Angels 3, Baltimore Orioles 2
Kansas City Royals 5, Boston Red Sox 2
Cleveland Indians 2, Chicago White Sox 3
New York Mets 10, Houston Astros 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Minnesota Twins 1
Cincinnati Reds 2, Montreal Expos 4
Oakland Athletics 4, New York Yankees 2
Atlanta Braves 8, Philadelphia Phillies 12
Chicago Cubs 2, San Diego Padres 8
St. Louis Cardinals 3, San Francisco Giants 4
Detroit Tigers 3, Texas Rangers 10
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 837.61 (-11.19, -1.32%)
Born:
Simon Whitfield, Canadian triathlete, and 2008 Olympic gold medalist; in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
John Jakopin, Canadian NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers, Pittsburgh Penguins, San Jose Sharks), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jeff Mitchell, NHL right wing and centre (Dallas Stars), in Wayne, Michigan.
B. Slade [Anthony Williams] (formerly known as Tonéx), American gospel, hip-hop, R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and social activist, in San Diego, California.
Tony Kakko, Finnish power metal singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Sonata Arctica), in Kemi, Finland.
Died:
Michael X (Michael de Freitas), 41, Trinidadian revolutionary and convicted murderer, was executed by hanging.
Mel London, 43, American jazz producer and songwriter.
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