Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a scholarly liberal Democrat, was nominated by President Ford as the new chief representative of the United States to the United Nations. Moynihan, 48, is a professor of government at Harvard University. He will succeed former newsman John A. Scali as the U.S. ambassador. The White House said Scali was considering an unspecified foreign policy job in the Ford Administration.
Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger advised against any changes in North Atlantic Treaty Organization plans concerning southern Europe until the longer-term situation there becomes clear. Speaking to reporters on his arrival in Brussels for a meeting of NATO defense ministers today, Schlesinger was referring to Portugal’s shift toward the left, Greece and Turkey’s enmity over Cyprus and Italy’s economy cuts in military strength.
Portugal’s military leaders met in emergency session following Socialist Party threats to withdraw from the coalition government. Socialist leader Mario Soares, a minister without portfolio, and Justice Minister Francisco Salgado Zenha, another high party official, informed Premier Vasco Goncalves that they would attend no more cabinet sessions until the Socialist newspaper Republica was returned to its owners.
The trial of Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe began under tight security inside the Stammheim Prison near Stuttgart. The trial would last for almost two years, during which Ensslin confessed to most of the charges, and Meinhof was found hanged in her prison cell.
Five priests are being held and tortured under the state of emergency regulations in Spain’s northern Basque province of Vizcaya, a Basque church source in Madrid said. One of the five, Rev. Eustasio Erquicia, 30, is in critical condition under armed guard on a kidney machine at Basurto Hospital in Bilbao. The priest was taken to the hospital after being held overnight at a police station last week.
Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev reportedly has been sidelined by an undisclosed illness for the second time this year and will be away from work for at least two weeks. Diplomatic sources in Moscow said that the 68-year-old general secretary of the Communist Party probably was being treated for a jaw condition that had left him with slurred speech. He suffered from a “cold-like illness” that incapacitated him for seven weeks last winter.
Seventy-six of the 100 United States Senators signed a letter to U.S. President Ford, asking him “to endorse Israel’s demand for defensible frontiers and massive economic and military assistance” when preparing the budget to be submitted to Congress. A joint letter from 76 Senators to President Ford urged him to submit to Congress a foreign aid request responsive to Israel’s military and economic needs. The Israelis have asked for $1.8 billion in military grants and $700 million in economic assistance loans. The administration has delayed its recommendations on the request pending its Middle East policy reassessment.
Syria accepted a six-month extension of the United Nations peace-keeping force separating Syrian and Israeli troops on the Golan Heights. Israel had agreed much earlier to the extension through November. Many at the United Nations had expected that Syria would limit the extension to two months. Secretary General Waldheim welcomed Syria’s action as providing additional time for diplomatic efforts to reach a Middle East peace agreement.
Three terrorists shot and killed two United States Air Force officers in Tehran on their way to their Military Assistance Advisory Group at Iran’s armed forces headquarters. The killers fled after scattering leaflets said to be in Persian and English. They used Israeli-designed Uzi submachine guns, which are widely used by security forces.
When cakes are served in the presence of the Shah of Iran, security men sometimes poke them with rods to make sure they do not contain bombs. When a visitor arrives at the United States Embassy here, he passes two Marine guard checkpoints, his briefcase is searched, and he is discreetly screened by closed‐circuit television. And when a member of the Shah’s family or a United States dignitary travels in Iran, his itinerary is not disclosed in advance to deter assassination or kidnapping attempts. In this vast and changing nation, the Shah’s regime and its main ally, the United States, are the targets of terrorist violence that has seemingly mounted in recent years.
Administration spokesmen in Washington disclosed that 23 American servicemen killed in a helicopter crash in Thailand were being transported from one air base to another there for possible use in the Mayaguez rescue. But they were not actually taking part in the operation, for which the latest and final casualty total was given as 15 killed, three missing and 50 wounded.
Three Soviet tankers have arrived at nearby Nha Be port with badly needed fuel for Saigon, where gasoline is selling for up to $8 a gallon. It was the first call at a South Vietnamese port by Soviet tankers. What little gasoline is being sold in Saigon is often diluted with water. The shortage has caused a reduction in the number of motorcycles and automobiles on the streets and more people have begun using bicycles. Meanwhile, the Provisional Revolutionary Government said that the United States and the former Saigon government had It a hunger problem behind. among the city’s 3.5 million people but that it was being solved. The government newspaper said more than 120 tons of rice had been distributed in two districts in Saigon. It carried photos of civilians lining up for the free rice.
A 13‐member North Vietnamese Government delegation arrived in Bangkok, Thailand today and said that “in the present situation, conditions are now favorable for negotiations to normalize relations.” The mission, headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Phan Hien, was the second Communist delegation to arrive here in a week as Thailand sought peaceful relations with her Communist neighbors after more than a decade of supporting the American war effort in Indochina. A three‐member delegation of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam left here Monday saying that “favorable conditions for the establishment of new relations between the Republic of South Vietnam and Thailand” had not been created.
Students and Laotian employes of the American aid program spent the day yesterday looting the program’s headquarters, which they had occupied before dawn. They also barricaded an American supply depot and residence compound outside Vientiane. Late last night the Cabinet sent two top officers, Sot Petrasy, the Minister of Economy and Planning, and Kou Souvannamethi, the Minister of Religion, to negotiate with the demonstrators in conjunction with the American charge d’affaires, Christian A. Chapman. Both ministers are members of the Communist‐led Pathet Lao.
Britain will grant independence to her Solomon Islands protectorate in the Pacific by mid-1977, it was announced today. A joint statement issued in London at the end of talks between British and Solomon Islands officials said it was agreed that self‐government should be introduced if possible by November 1 and not later than December 31, 1975. Subject to parliamentary approval independence should follow in 12 to 18 months.
The hemispheric embargo against Cuba possibly might be lifted in the next two months, according to William D. Rogers, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs. He said that a meeting of the Organization of American States scheduled for Costa Rica at the end of July might proceed immediately to vote on lifting the Cuba sanctions after a procedural change that would permit such action by a simple majority vote instead of a two-thirds margin.
Devastating fires and angry demonstrations have erupted in Paramaribo, Surinam daily for the last week as this former Dutch colony painfully works out final plans for independence. Last night, a fire destroyed five buildings and threatened the whole downtown area, made up largely of old frame houses. Earlier fires destroyed two administration buildings, an agency of the Department of Agriculture and an inspection office of the Department of Education. In addition there were half a dozen unsuccessful arson attempts.
Gulf Oil Corp.’s Bolivian representative was sent into “preventive detention” after a judge said there were “enough indications that he may be guilty of the crime of bribery.” Carlos Dorado Chopitea, a 65-year old Bolivian, was jailed despite his protestation that he was not a legal representative of the company and knew nothing about the $460,000 in “political contributions” Gulf says it paid Bolivian officials more than six years ago.
President Juan Maria Bordaberry of Uruguay held tense negotiations with three top military commanders who have demanded that the cattleman president rescind his order firing the meat board chairman. “A solution is being worked on,” a presidential aide said. Bordaberry has been under pressure from the armed forces since June 27, 1973, when he took extraordinary powers beyond his elected authority.
Forty armed Africans have kidnapped three Stanford University students and a Dutch woman from a wildlife research station in western Tanzania, United States officials reported today.
CIA Director William E. Colby made fresh admissions of illegal activities conducted by the agency when questioned under oath, reported Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), chairman of the Senate intelligence committee. “In some cases he was testifying to activities that he himself conceded were outside the law,” Church said after Colby’s closed-door testimony. “Some of the information was new to the committee and to my knowledge had not surfaced heretofore.” Church refused to provide details but admitted alleged CIA assassination plots were “perhaps the central issue” discussed during Colby’s three-hour appearance before the committee.
An April upturn in food prices produced a seasonally adjusted increase of six-tenths of 1 percent in the consumer price index — the largest in three months reported by the Labor Department. But in a separate report the Commerce Department said there was a huge increase in April in new orders to manufacturers of durable goods, giving the strongest sign yet that the recession may be at or near the bottom.
President Ford met with senior economic and energy advisers to discuss action on energy policy he would take if, as seems almost certain, Congress recesses today without acting in this field. Administration officials said he was virtually sure to announce a major action before leaving for Europe May 28.
The Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives decided to postpone rather than face a possible failure in attempting to override President Ford’s veto of the strip mine control bill. By a vote of 208 to 195, with defections by supporters of the measure from both parties, the question of overturning the veto was postponed until June 10.
A constitutional amendment providing for the direct popular elections of Presidents and Vice Presidents was approved by a Senate judiciary subcommittee. The amendment, cosponsored by 48 senators, was unanimously sent to the full committee. Before the amendment could take effect, it would have to be approved by two-thirds of the Senate and House and ratified by three-fourths of the states. Under the electoral college system, a candidate can win even though he gets fewer popular votes than his opponent. The Constitution also does not legally bind members of the college to vote for the candidate they have been pledged to.
Senior Democrats on House and Senate banking committees modified a bill designed to restore life to a homebuilding industry suffering 40% unemployment. In hopes of overriding an expected veto, the measure was changed to retain only temporary “emergency” provisions. These are designed to spur creation of 400,000 houses and 800,000 jobs and offer loans to jobless homeowners facing foreclosure. Dropped from the bill was a permanent plan to subsidize 8% mortgage loans. The House floor vote was expected about June 4.
The House approved a broad plan to overhaul the 45-year-old federal prison parole procedures and sent it to the Senate. The bill would spell out prisoners’ rights in presenting a case to the parole board and require the board to treat the prisoner in a more humane manner than has been the practice in the past, supporters said. The bill was the result of a nationwide tour of U.S. prisons by a House Judiciary Subcommittee more than two years ago. It would make a convict eligible for parole consideration after serving a third of his sentence or after 10 years, whichever was sooner.
Betty Ford visited former South Vietnamese Premier Nguyễn Cao Kỳ today is what he called “my humble palace” is she toured the Southeast’s Asian refugee center at Camp Pendleton, California.
Lowell W. Perry is confirmed as chairman of US Equal Opportunity Commission.
A contract dispute that threatened to destroy the nation’s most advanced rapid transit system before it could be put into operation has been settled, and the system probably will be expanded, the Transportation Department said. The agreement with the University of West Virginia, on whose campus in Morgantown the project is located, will mean the system could start operation this summer. Called the Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit System, it is a fully automatic commuter rail project that works like a horizontal elevator, with cars responding to signals sent by passengers at various stations.
A 95-stick dynamite bomb with its fuse burned to within a few inches of the explosive was found in the basement of the Orangeburg County Courthouse in Orangeburg, South Carolina. The three-story building houses 100 office workers during business hours. Sheriff Vance L. Boone said the 50-pound bomb, about the size of a typewriter, was “enough to level the courthouse and anything near it.” A church kindergarten is next door. Police said the bomb apparently had been tossed through a basement window sometime during the night. They had no clues as to its origin.
G. Gordon Liddy, convicted Watergate burglar, has asked Federal District Judge John J. Sirica to reduce his 6 ⅔‐to‐20‐year sentence, saying that the term “is vastly greater than that imposed upon any other defendant in the Watergate tragedy.” In the plea filed yesterday, Mr. Liddy asked that his sentence be reduced to the time he has already served, about two years, and that the $40,000 fire imposed by Judge Sirica be vacated.
Up to 100 persons, in addition to the nine privately employed grain inspectors already indicted for corruption in certifying grain for export, are under investigation in the continuing federal investigation at New Orleans and other ports. There is said to be evidence of thefts from elevators by employee rings.
Proposals to create four new national wilderness areas in mountainous regions of California, Montana and New Mexico are under consideration by the environment and land resources subcommittee of the U.S. Senate. A 37,000-acre Snow Mountain wilderness in Mendocino National Forest and a 52,000-acre Sheep Mountain wilderness east of Los Angeles are the two California areas being studied. The National Forest Service has expressed opposition to both measures. Rexford A. Resler, associate chief of the service, said Snow Mountain has a “low quality rating for wilderness purposes” and urged that action be withheld on Sheep Mountain pending completion of a study.
Oil prices probably will increase 10% to 20% when the world economy revives, according to John A. Hill, deputy administrator of the Federal Energy Administration. Hill urged an increase in the use of coal to replace oil imports, saying that “if we do nothing other than curb our consumption of foreign oil, the American consumer will have to pay the bill.”
Flashing lights, streamers and wire mesh will be used in efforts to keep birds off a polluted lake that causes their deaths, the commanding officer of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal said. The lake, which is on arsenal land near Denver, is used for disposal of pesticide manufacturing wastes and has been the dumping ground for waste matter from the manufacture of nerve gas, the commander said. He said that by the end of 1977 the lake will probably be dried up.
The musical “A Chorus Line” was performed for the first time, opening at the Newman Theater in New York City. When the production moved to the Shubert Theater on Broadway, it would run for 6,104 performances.
Major League Baseball:
The Reds, entering the game with a 20–20 record, 5 games behind the first-place Dodgers, come from behind to beat the Tom Seaver and Mets, 11–4. Cincinnati will go on to win 41 of the next 50 games and run away with the National League West title. The Mets had jumped on Jack Billingham, the Reds starting pitcher, for three quick runs, and Tom Seaver had held Cincinnati without a hit for three innings. Then the Reds’ power hitters started to loosen up. In the fourth inning, Joe Morgan picked up the first hit off Seaver with a line single to right, Johnny Bench doubled over third base for a run and Tony Perez deposited a home run into the leftfield seats to quickly even the score, 3–3. With their scoring appetite whetted, the Reds came back with four more runs that won the game and chased Seaver in the fifth. Again Perez had the crucial hit.
The Giants reached the 500 mark and ran their unblemished extra‐inning streak to five as they swept the three‐game series, beating the Pirates, 2–1 in eleven. Chris Speier’s bases-loaded single was the deciding hit, scoring Bobby Murcer in the 11th. The victory put the Giants at 19–19.
The Astros blanked the Phillies, 4–0. Milt May doubled home three runs in hacking the six‐hit pitching of Larry Dierker as the Astros swept the three-game series and won their fourth straight game. Dierker, pitching his second shutout in his last three starts, won his fifth game in nine decisions. He walked three and fanned seven. Three walks by Wayne Twitchell (3–5), the last one intentional, preceded May’s double in the fifth.
Darrell Evans hit two home runs and Mike Lum smacked one in powering the Braves to a 6–3 win over the Expos. Evans got his seventh homer in the first off Steve Renko (0‐2) and his eighth in the fourth, also off Renko.
San Diego edged the Cardinals, 1–0. The Padres won their third straight game from St. Louis, behind the eight‐hit pitching of Joe McIntosh, who posted his fifth triumph in seven decisions. A throwing error by Bob Gibson (1‐4) in the seventh permitted Enzo Hernandez to score from second base for the only run. The loss was the Cardinals’ fourth straight and third shutout since they scored 17 runs on 23 hits against the Giants in San Francisco last Saturday.
Andy Messersmith won his seventh straight game of the season and 11th over two seasons, and Steve Garvey drove home four runs, as the Dodgers pummelled the Cubs, 10–0. Messersmith, who batted in three runs, allowed seven hits in posting his second shutout and sixth complete game. He fanned six to raisehis season total to 66, second only to Don Sutton, his teamate, in the National League.
Frank Robinson, the 39‐year‐old manager and designated hitter of the Cleveland Indians, and Jim Kern a rookie right‐handed pitcher. combined their talents to give the Indians a 3–2 victory over the California Angels in Municipal Stadium last night. Robinson, the major league’s first black manager, hit two home runs, and Kern, making his third start of the season and sixth of his major league career, hurled seven shutout innings and earned his first triumph.
The Baltimore Orioles downed the White Sox, 6–2. Jim Palmer pitched his fourth straight victory and seventh of the season with the help of Bobby Grich’s three‐run homer that keyed a four‐run first inning. The triumph ended the Orioles’ four‐game losing streak.
At Fenway, Carl Yastrzemski’s 7th inning grand slam is the difference as Boston beats Oakland, 7–3. Reggie Cleveland (3–2) goes the distance for the win. Rico Petrocelli hit a two‐run homer as the Red Sox swept the three‐game series in winning their fourth straight game. Ken Holtzman, the victim of Yastrzemski’s clout in the seventh, saw his record drop to 1–5.
Fran Healy hit a three‐run home run in the 10th inning that carried the Kansas City Royals past the Yankees, 4–1, at Shea Stadium tonight. It had to hurt because Medich was trying to end a personal five‐game losing streak and Healy had hit only one previous homer this season and had driven in only two runs. George Brett started the 10th by hitting a ground ball to first base that Chris Chambliss fumbled for an error. Cookie Rojas then rapped a single to right field and that brought up Healy.
Jim Spencer slammed a two‐run homer and Jeff Burroughs hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning that scored the deciding run, as the Rangers edged the Brewers, 5–4. The defeat cut Milwaukee’s lead in the Eastern Division to 1 ½ games over Boston. Bill Champion (5‐3) was the victim of the Rangers’ rally.
The Twins squeked past the Tigers, 6–5, in 11 innings. Detroit’s star relief pitcher, John Hiller, was clipped for a two‐run homer with none out in the 11th by Larry Hisle, and that gave Ray Corbin the victory after 1 ⅓ innings of relief. Hisle, the league leader in runs batted in with 28, delivered his game‐winning blow following a walk to Steve Brye. It was Hisle’s seventh homer. Willie Horton gave Detroit a 3–0 lead in the first with his league‐leading 10th homer.
Montreal Expos 3, Atlanta Braves 6
Oakland Athletics 3, Boston Red Sox 7
Baltimore Orioles 6, Chicago White Sox 2
New York Mets 4, Cincinnati Reds 11
California Angels 2, Cleveland Indians 3
Philadelphia Phillies 0, Houston Astros 4
Chicago Cubs 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 10
Texas Rangers 5, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Detroit Tigers 5, Minnesota Twins 6
Kansas City Royals 4, New York Yankees 1
St. Louis Cardinals 0, San Diego Padres 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, San Francisco Giants 2
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 818.68 (-11.81, -1.42%)
Born:
Todd White, Canadian NHL centre (Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers, Ottawa Senators, Minnesota Wild, Atlanta Thrashers, New York Rangers), in Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
Alexei Yegorov, Russian NHL right wing (San Jose Sharks), in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (d. 2002).
Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist (No Devotion), in Pontypridd, Wales, United Kingdom.
Abbas [Mirza Abbas Ali], Indian Tamil film actor and model (Kadhal Desam), in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Died:
Barbara Hepworth, 72, British sculptor, in a fire at her studio.
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