The defense ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization this week will tackle the alliance’s oldest and most complex internal problem: the financial waste and military weaknesses arising from duplication and lack of standardization in weapons and equipment. A recent State Department report asserts that the allies: waste between $10‐billion and $20‐billion annually because of duplication and lack of standardization. The alliance’s conventional military strength, the report states, “is far below the standard we and our European allies should expect from the more than $90‐billion per year that together we spend on general‐purpose forces.”
The Foreign Ministers of Greece and Turkey went into their second day of talks here today, marking the first high‐level contacts between their two governments in more than six months. Later they voiced cautious optimism that tension between their countries might be eased. The Rome talks are scheduled to end tomorrow. The Cyprus dispute and rights to prospect for offshore oil in the Aegean Sea are the main topics. If the two ministers — Dimitrios Bitsios of Greece and Ihsan Sabri Caglayangil of Turkey — reach agreement in principle, their government chiefs will confer in Brussels at the end of May.
Demonstrators waving red flags and shouting anti-American slogans gathered outside the United States Embassy here Sunday vandalized diplomatic vehicles and splashed the walls with red paint. The outbreak occurred as Portugal’s leftist military leaders prepared to meet to discuss creating a Cuban‐style people’s movement and a revolutionary tribunal to try soldiers and civilians accused of political crimes. Meanwhile, soldiers of a leftist artillery unit said that they had discovered a major counter‐revolutionary plot and urged military units throughout Portugal to join in a search for the men implicated in it.
Italy is bracing for a week‐long wave of strikes that will disrupt transportation and other essential services and that threaten to slow recovery from the recession. The scheduled walkouts will affect air traffic, railroads, customs operations, schools, health care and the civil service. Visitors to Italy will face long delays and improvisation of services. As a result of earlier successive stoppages by various groups of aviation workers, international and domestic air service in Italy has been chaotic for weeks. Conditions seem to be worsening just as the main tourist season begins.
Gunmen in Northern Ireland shot and killed a 17-year-old Roman Catholic, and a militant Protestant group claimed responsibility, saying the attack was in retaliation for the shooting of a policeman a week ago. Police found the body of the youth, Francis Rice, beside the main highway to Belfast.
Pope Paul VI, celebrating a Pentecost Mass at which he gave communion to King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola of Belgium, said modern man may have lost the key to self-reflection. Both in his sermon and later in his noon blessing to 100,000 pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope called on Catholics to open their hearts to “the encounter with the holy and sanctifying spirit.”
Hysterical fans mobbed a Scottish rock music group at a British Broadcasting Corp. “Funday” at Mallory Park, England, and at least 44 persons were injured. Four required hospitalization. The melee erupted when the “Bay City Rollers” were helicoptered into the Mallory Park auto racetrack north of London to give a performance before about 50,000 spectators. Fans, most of them young girls, surged toward the group and police and security men tried to drive them back with water cannons.
A retired Soviet army colonel active in the Jewish emigration movement was stripped of his rank and deprived of his pension, Jewish sources reported. He is Yefim Davidovich of Minsk, who holds several decorations for distinguished service in World War II. has been denied permission to emigrate to Israel and has frequently charged authorities with repression of Soviet Jews, the sources said.
Israeli political writer Matti Golan, author of “Confrontation and Disengagement,” a book about Middle East peace negotiations that was banned by the government in Jerusalem for security reasons, denied a report by the German newspaper Die Welt that the book quoted Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger as calling then-Vice President Ford a dummy. “The name Ford did not appear in my book.” Golan said.
Two more Arab children died from a mortar blast, bringing the casualty toll to nine dead and three wounded in the Lebanese border village of Aiteroun. Children found the mortar round Saturday and were playing with it when it went off. Aiteroun was raided by Israeli commandos. twice last week, and Lebanese officials said the shell was left over from a recent Israeli bombardment. Israel denied it.
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, completing a week’s tour of four Arab countries in Damascus, said that he had obtained a mandate to speak for the Arab world, not only Egypt, when he meets with President Ford in Salzburg June 1. At a news conference as Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, sat next to him, Mr. Sadat made it clear that he believed his trip strengthened the Egyptian negotiating position.
Saudi Arabia’s Council of Ministers approved a five-year domestic economic plan of vast magnitude, requiring the investment of $140 billion and the assistance of a half million foreign technicians, managers, teachers and laborers who would be imported into the country. The foreigners would increase the domestic labor force by 31 percent to 2.3 million from 1.6 million.
The Shah of Iran said today that his government was holding fewer than 3.000 persons in jail on charges related to “terrorist” actions. He was replying to a question on the NBC television program “Meet the Press” about changes that there were 40,000 political prisoners in Iran. Dismissing the charge as “purely Communist propaganda,” Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi said those in detention were “not even political prisoners because they are all terrorists.” Some of them, are said, “have come out in the streets with their machine guns, with hand grenades — they have even killed children two or three, or five years old.”
The United States was considering using B-52 bombers against the Cambodian mainland after the seizure of the freighter Mayaguez last week if the carrier USS Coral Sea had not arrived in the area of the freighter by Wednesday, a top United States official said. Reporters aboard the plane that brought Secretary of State Kissinger to Vienna for talks with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the Soviet Union, were told that to wait longer would have brought a high risk of the Cambodian government making public ransom demands, thereby freezing its position in regard to the freighter.
Senators John V. Tunney (D-California) and Carl T. Curtis (R-Nebraska) both said that they thought President Ford did exactly what was necessary in using force to rescue the merchant ship Mayaguez and its crew from Cambodia. “It was an outstanding job, raising the status of the United States around the world.”
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger said that the number of United States marines and airmen killed, missing and wounded in the rescue of the freighter Mayaguez was considerably larger than initially reported last week. He said today that the latest information lists three marines and two airmen killed in action, 16 missing and 70 to 80 wounded.
Saigon broadcasts said the last of 1,300 former political prisoners from Côn Sơn had arrived in Saigon aboard a naval vessel to the cheers of waiting soldiers and civilians and shouts of gratitude from the liberated. Côn Sơn Island was the site of the “tiger cages” that caused an international furor against the former Saigon government.
Chinese writer Ding Ling was unexpectedly released from five years of solitary confinement in prison, as the Communist government continued to reverse the Cultural Revolution. Two days later, she was paroled from the Qincheng Prison and moved to the town of Changzhi.
Alfred Butler, the leader of the People’s Democratic Party in the Bahamas, was shot and killed in Nassau by an armed robber, police said. Butler was visiting a food store owned by a friend when two armed men entered and demanded cash. Butler resisted and was shot, police said. His friend was unharmed.
A conference of journalists and publishers has concluded in Lagos, Nigeria that “government ownership of the press is potentially dangerous to the survival of its freedom.” About 100 delegates from Africa. Asia, Europe and America at the International Press Institute’s conference agreed that freedom could be attained in government‐owned newspapers if they were “commercially run and professionally controlled.” In Africa, most of the press and broadcasting is government controlled. Another conclusion was that “the existence of a free press should not depend on the tolerance, mood and charity of any government or persons. Delegates came from Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Cameroon, India, Rhodesia, Sweden, Japan and the United States.
The administration will send to Congress this week the first of three bills aimed at fundamentally changing the way the government regulates transportation. The first bill, administration officials said, will be submitted in the next day or two and will propose changes in the way the 88-year-old Interstate Commerce Commission regulates railroads. Similar legislation for trucking is expected in the next two weeks and a proposal affecting the Civil Aeronautics Board and the airlines within the next month.
Rep. Al Ullman (D-Oregon), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said President Ford’s approach to solving the nation’s energy problems unfairly penalized certain areas of the country. Speaking at Boston University commencement exercises, he said the President believed that if oil prices were allowed to continue to increase, consumption would decrease. “Well, you and I know that New England has turned down its thermostat as low as it will go.” Ullman said. He later said the House this week would consider an energy proposal to limit imports as an alternative to the President’s plan.
One of the advisers who attended the first meeting of President Ford’s campaign planning committee recently made remarks that indicated that the federal election act of 1974, which changes the way campaigns for federal office are financed, was complicated beyond understanding. The second in a series of three articles on the new law finds that the situation is even worse than it appears. Not only is the law full of ambiguities and contradictions, it is also under all-out legal challenge, and no one is sure whether it will survive long enough for the 1976 election.
The government’s guarantee of private bank loans to Lockheed Aircraft Corp. has been extended for two years, to December 31, 1977. The extension was approved by the Emergency Loan Guarantee Board. Under a 1971 agreement, the board guaranteed 24 banks against loss of principal and interest on credits to Lockheed of up to $250 million. The board said the extension was an essential element of a Lockheed financial restructuring plan announced May 9.
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to study the possibility of reformulating a defoliant that the Air Force decided in 1970 was too dangerous for use in Vietnam. The agency has recessed hearings on what it should do with 1.5 million gallons of Herbicide Orange being stored on a South Pacific atoll and 808,000 gallons in Gulfport, Mississippi. Three chemical companies want to study possible reformulation of the poisons. While this is being done, the hearings are being recessed, a delay expected to last six months. The Air Force halted use of the herbicide after the Agriculture Department banned the use of Dioxin, a highly toxic substance suspected of causing birth defects. Dioxin is a component of Herbicide Orange.
Policemen searched highway overpasses and embankments without success for shells or other clues to the identity of a sniper who wounded seven persons while firing at trucks and buses from at least two positions Saturday night. The shootings occurred along U.S. 75 near Sherman, Texas. None of the wounded, three students and two adult chaperones and two truck drivers, was seriously hurt. “The folks who were shot at, were very fortunate,” said detective J. L. Foster.
One inmate died and at least three others were injured in a disturbance at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City. The outbreak, described by one prison official as a “small riot.” was confined to one cellhouse and guards had the situation under control about an hour later. No guards were reported injured. The identity of the dead man was not immediately known. Officials declined to say what caused the fighting. But at the noon meal an estimated 12 Mexican-Americans and 16 blacks had started to fight, using homemade weapons, and guards had separated them by firing a volley of shots over their heads.
Leaders of the Baltimore Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are calling for an investigation. by Maryland congressmen into the Army’s decision to resume testing on beagle puppies at its Edgewood, Maryland, arsenal. “We’re not going to drop this,” said Mary Downey Wilkes, SPCA executive secretary, on announcing the request for an investigation. The Army announced last week that it was resuming the use of the dogs in tests at the arsenal. But a spokesman stressed the experiments would not involve chemical or biological warfare research.
New York state Senator John Marchi said that Mayor Beame would have to commit the city to some ceiling on spending in the coming year to get state aid, but added that the ceiling figure would be negotiable and “part of the political process.” Meanwhile, state Senator Roy Goodman said Treasury Secretary William Simon had told him that the “door to federal aid” that appeared closed last week “could be reopened.”
Expatriate Eldridge Cleaver, former Black Panther leader, said he no longer was interested in “talking about guns or advocating just violence in the abstract, or calling people ‘pigs’.” Cleaver, now living in Paris, said in a TV interview that he would like to come home, “no later than the 4th of July, on the 200th anniversary of our country.” In 1970, the black militant jumped bail in connection with a shooting in Oakland, California, and fled to Cuba and then to Algeria and on to Paris. He said again, as he had in March in a Newsweek magazine interview, that he was ready to stand trial for the incident but insisted that he remain free on bail.
Federal officials have begun an investigation of correspondence schools across the country for possible fraud in connection with a federally guaranteed student loan program. The filing for bankruptcy of a large correspondence school in Chicago, Advance Schools, Inc., prompted the investigation, undertaken primarily by the Office of Education of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency issued a health advisory warning state residents of potentially threatening ozone levels. The ozone watch began Saturday, confined mostly to the western half of the state. Sunday’s alert included all of Illinois. An EPA spokesman said a warm high pressure area coupled with the brightness of the sun had caused the condition. High ozone levels are known to cause itching of the eyes and tightness of breathing in persons with respiratory problems. The spokesman said an ozone level of .07 parts of ozone per million parts of air can be harmful over long periods. By 1 PM Sunday, the EPA’s monitoring station at Joliet was registering an .081 reading, Rock Island. .086. and Cahokia. .097. Higher ozone levels were projected for today, the spokesman said.
The Maine Central Railroad received its second fine in a week for spilling oil into bodies of water along its New England route. The latest involved a $750 fine for spilling 3,000 gallons of diesel oil into Moose Lake and the Passumpsic River in St. Johnsbury, Vermont on November 12. The first fine of the week was $1,500 for a 10,000-gallon spill into Lake Messalonskee in Belgrade, Maine. Both spills were caused by the rupturing of tanker cars due to derailment.
Two eggs plucked from the nests of Maine bald eagles and incubated under laboratory conditions have hatched, giving hope to U.S. Interior Department scientists that the pesticide level that has plagued the eagle eggs for the past decade is diminishing. For the past 10 years, the eagles have been unable to produce offspring because of pesticide-contaminated eggs. scientist said. DDT has been banned from the area since 1970 and scientists think the hatching may be the first sign of declining pesticide levels. But they cautioned that the success of the survival of the eggs may be dependent on the laboratory conditions under which they were incubated.
CBS’ vice president in charge of programming for the last five years, Fred Silverman, will move to ABC next month as president of ABC Entertainment, Frederick Pierce, president of ABC Television, said. He said Silverman, who has kept CBS in the No. 1 place in nighttime ratings since he assumed the programming post, had just completed the CBS schedule for the 1975-76 season. Silverman, 37, replaces Martin Starger, 43, who is leaving June 15 to form a production company.
Badly outmuscled, out hustled and outshot in the first half, the Golden State Warriors stunned a crowd of 19,035 at Capital Centre today by rallying to beat the Washington Bullets, 101-95, in the opener of the National Basketball Association championship playoff.
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Walks have been just as much a trademark of Nolan Ryan as strike‐outs, and yesterday a walk cost him a shutout. But the California right‐hander posted a two‐hit, 5–1 decision over the Baltimore Orioles with some relief help, and joined Vida Blue of Oakland as the only eight‐game winners in the majors. Ryan (8–1), the American League leader in walks and strike‐outs for the last three seasons—and this year too, so far—walked eight men, struck out five and had a no‐hitter until Al Bumbry laid down a bunt single in the sixth inning. Tommy Davis’s double ruined Ryan’s shutout bid in the ninth. It drove home Ken Singleton, who had walked with one out.
The Rangers edged the Tigers, 7–6, in 11 innings. Tom Grieve was given another chance to hit when, with one out and two on in the 11th, Leon Roberts dropped his foul fly. Grieve then singled in Willie Davis from second with the winning run. After Texas had tied the game at 3‐3 on a two‐out homer by Jim Sundberg in the eighth, the Tigers took a 6–3 lead in the 10th on two‐run double by Nate Colbert, who then scored on double by Gene Lamont. But the Rangers bounced back and tied it on Jim Fregosi’s two‐run homer and Cesar Tovar’s groundout that brought in their sixth run.
Jim Hughes, a rookie righthander pressed into service as a starter last week because of injuries on the Twins’ pitching staff, turned in his second consecutive shutout, a four‐hitter, and lifted his record to 4–1 as he blanked the Brewers, 6–0. Steve Braun and Larry Hisle supported the 23‐year‐old hurler with homers, Braun’s two‐run shot providing a 2–0 lead in the third and Hisle’s clout coming in the fifth. The Twins broke out for three runs in the fourth. Hughes blanked Cleveland on four hits last Wednesday.
The Red Sox downed the Royals, 4–2. Bernie Carbo continued his hot streak with two homers that accounted for all of Boston’s runs. He got a third hit, making a total of 22 hits (and 20 walks) in his last 20 games. Carbo’s performance enabled Boston to end a five‐game losing string and gave Rick Wise his fourth triumph in seven decisions. Wise struck out nine and gave up six hits in snapping Kansas City’s streak of five road victories.
The Yankees whipped the Oakland A’s, 9–1, with a less‐than awesome attack that featured three runs scoring on sacrifice flies and one each on a passed ball, a wild pitch and a hit batter. The victory, of course, might have been pre‐ordained because Catfish Hunter was pitching. The Yankees have won four of the 14 games they have played in May and Hunter has won all of them.
Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians, major league baseball’s first black manager, has been suspended for three days and fined $250 for an altercation with an umpire, Jerry Neudecker, in last night’s 10-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
Ken Brett, one of the best hittting pitchers, doubled twice, singled to drive in a run and scored another in a 13‐hit Pittsburgh attack as the Pirates routed the Dodgers, 7–2. On the mound he gave up only two hits, both by Davy Lopes, first‐inning single and ninthinning home run. Lopes got the first Dodger run, scoring as Steve Garvey grounded into a double play with the bases loaded after Lopes’ single and two walks. Hooton, the Dodger starter, suffered his fourth defeat in five decisions.
The Phillies beat the Braves, 5–1. Besides allowing only four hits on the mound, Tommy Underwood singled home a run in the second, helping the Phils win their seventh straight game and 12th in a row at home. Underwood lost his shutout in the fourth when Rod Gillbreath singled and scored on Earl Williams’s double, but he raised his won‐lost record to 5‐3. Runscoring doubles by Greg Luzinski and Mike Schmidt gave Philadelphia two more in the third.
Pete Rose drove in the lead run on a groundout in the second and hit a home run in the fifth to lead the Reds to a 6–1 win over the Expos. George Foster also homered to help Gary Nolan pick up his second victory in five decisions. Nolan, the one‐time ace trying to come back after a shoulder operation last year, allowed only four hits. Dave McNally, who had won his first three games, dropped his fifth straight. After giving up a first‐inning homer to Mike Jorgensen, Nolan blanked the Expos.
For the second time in three years, the Giants Jim Barr shuts out the Cardinals, winning 2–0, and allowing just two hits, both by Lou Brock. Brock did it April 17, 1973. Three other Cards reached base on walks, but two were erased on double plays. Lynn McGlothen gave up runs in the fifth and sixth and his record fell to 3–4.
The Cubs edged the Padres, 3–2. With a three‐run homer in the sixth, Adrian Garrett, utility first baseman, knocked out the Padres’ starting pitcher, Dan Spillner, erased a 2–0 deficit and helped the Cubs avoid a three‐game sweep by San Diego. The Padres scratched out runs in the first and third. Ray Burris (5–2) got the victory and Spillner (2–5) suffered his fourth straight defeat.
After losing nine of their last 11 games, including the last two to the Mets, the Houston Astros took out their frustration today by pounding the New Yorkers, 12–7, in a ragged exhibition of baseball at the Astrodome. The Astros, winning for only the 13th time in 40 games, hammered five New York pitchers for 12 hits and gratefully took as a bonus eight bases on ball, and three Met errors.
California Angels 5, Baltimore Orioles 1
Kansas City Royals 2, Boston Red Sox 4
Cleveland Indians 7, Chicago White Sox 6
New York Mets 7, Houston Astros 12
Pittsburgh Pirates 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Milwaukee Brewers 0, Minnesota Twins 6
Cincinnati Reds 6, Montreal Expos 1
Oakland Athletics 1, New York Yankees 9
Atlanta Braves 1, Philadelphia Phillies 5
Chicago Cubs 3, San Diego Padres 2
St. Louis Cardinals 0, San Francisco Giants 2
Detroit Tigers 6, Texas Rangers 7
Born:
Jack Johnson, American singer-songwriter (In Between Dreams, “Upside Down”), in Oahu, Hawaii.
Jem [Jemma Griffiths], Welsh pop-rock and “folktronica” singer-songwriter, and keyboard player, in Penarth, Wales, United Kingdom.
Peter Iwers, Swedish heavy metal bassist (In Flames, 1999-2018), in Stockholm, Sweden.
Flozell Adams, NFL tackle and guard (Pro Bowl, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008; Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers), in Chicago, Illinois.
Olandis Gary, NFL running back (Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions), in Washington, District of Columbia.
John Higgins, Scottish snooker player (4-time world champion), in Wishaw, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Died:
Kazimierz Fajans, 84, Polish-American physical chemist (Fajans’ rules).
Roy Hart, 49, South African and French stage producer, was killed in an auto accident, along with his wife and another actress.
Leroy Anderson, 66, American composer (“Syncopated Clock”).
Christopher Strachey, 58, British computer scientist.
Aníbal Troilo, 60, Argentine tango musician.
Hanora O’Leary, 79, survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912.
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