For nearly 15 years, the Navy has been using specially equipped electronic submarines to spy at times inside the three-mile coastal limit of the Soviet Union and other nations. The highly classified missions, code‐named Holystone, have been credited by supporters with supplying vital information on the configuration, capabilities, noise patterns and missile‐firing abilities of the Soviet submarine fleet. Critics of the Navy’s operation argue that much of the intelligence gathered by the submarines can be obtained through other, less provocative means — such as satellites. They also question whether such intelligence operations have a place in the current atmosphere of detente. All the sources agreed that the Soviet Union was aware of the Holystone program, although perhaps not specifically of when and where the boats were on patrol.
A group of 10 experts from industrial and less developed countries has reported unanimously to the United Nations that one of the most widely held beliefs about the world economy is not true. This is the belief that in the past quarter century the prices of raw materials exported by poor countries have risen much less than the prices of the machinery and other products that they import from industrial countries. The almost universal acceptance of the view that price movements over the last few decades have been adverse to the less developed countries has been a key element in the attitudes of those countries that the world economy has been rigged against them. Their poverty, they consistently contend, has resulted in considerable part from relative price movements between raw materials and manufactures.
In their study, the 10 experts excluded oil, whose price has recently quintupled as a result of the successful operation of producer cartel. if oil had been included the conclusion of the report would have been even more striking. The group excluded oil on the ground that it was a special case of cartel pricing. The experts looked over a broad range of primary products. The price relationship deteriorated in the case of some items, such as tea and jute, they found. But for the broad range of products, prices of raw materials were found to have risen about as much as the prices of manufactures.
Labor Party parliamentarians called for withdrawal of five American U-2 reconnaissance planes which are in Britain for three months. Several Laborites plan to question Defense Secretary Roy Mason on the matter in the House of Commons. A defense spokesman said the aircraft would fly only over allied countries and would take no photographs.
The Soviet Union denied that a Russian fishing ship had sunk, as described in a note found on a French beach in Brittany. It said Paris had been duped by a “far from clever leg pull.” The note, found in a sealed bottle last week, was purportedly by the vessel’s captain and said the 3,700-ton fishing boat identified as the BMRT 783 was sinking in the North Atlantic.
West Germany’s Krupp Industries will fly desalination equipment worth about $2.1 million and weighing 100 tons to Jidda, Saudi Arabia, this week in an effort to end a water shortage in the port city, a Krupp spokesman said in Essen, West Germany. The equipment is expected to provide 200,000 gallons of fresh water daily by early June.
Italy has nominated a new ambassador to Washington, Roberto Gaja, hitherto Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry in Rome and his nation’s top diplomat. The present Italian ambassador to the United States, Egidio Ortona will go into retirement in September, when he will be 65 years old. Newspapers said today he would become president of the Italian subsidiary of Honeywell Informations Systems, Inc. Mr. Ortona, one of the bestknown members of the diplomatic corps in Washington, has served in various diplomatic capacities in the United States for many years. He was Italy’s ambassador to the United Nations from 1958 to 1961. Mr. Gaja is 63 years old and a native of Turin.
Spain requested Secretary General Waldheim in letter issued today to send United Nations observers to watch over the disputed, phosphate‐rich Spanish Sahara. The Spanish Government also reserved the right to ask for an emergency United Nations Security Council session if peace in the territory was threatened. Jaime de Pinies, Spain’s United Nations Ambassador, said in the letter that Spain would set a deadline for getting out of the Spanish Sahara unless “the parties concerned in the decolonization process” could “harmonize their positions” directly or in a United Nations‐sponsored conference. The parties were not named in the letter but Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria and the inhabitants of Spanish Sahara themselves all claim the right to take over all or part of the territory in Northwest Africa.
Secretary of State Kissinger, in a news conference in advance of President Ford’s trip to Europe this week, said that if Mr. Ford failed to narrow differences between Egypt and Israel next month the United States would probably put forth its own plan on how to make progress toward a Middle East settlement. He said a continued stalemate could lead only to “a catastrophe for all parties concerned,” and that the United States was determined that diplomatic progress be continued.
Muslim political and religious leaders in Lebanon demanded the resignation of the military cabinet appointed by President Suleiman Frenjieh Friday to restore order in the conflict between the right-wing Palestinian guerrillas and the militia of the right‐wing Phalangist party. The military cabinet, the first in Lebanon, split the country with Muslims opposing it and Christians supporting it. At least 30 people have been killed and more than 1,000 wounded in six days of shooting.
Arab countries increased their share of United States oil imports in the first three months of 1975, newly compiled government figures showed today. Unpublished data made available by the Federal Energy Administration showed that Arab oil accounted for 22.7 percent of imports compared with 17.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 1974. Saudi Arabia, the leading exporter, accounted for 13.4 percent of first‐quarter imports compared with 10.6 percent in the fourth quarter. Saudi shipments rose to an average of 780,000 barrels a day from 660,000.
India and Bangladesh have quietly worked out a solution in their long‐standing dispute over the water resources of the Ganges River. An agreement reacted month ago on the issue, which goes back to the time of Pakistani rule in what was East Pakistan and became Bangladesh in 1971, has enabled the Indian Government to divert a limited amount of water from the Farakka barrage, a low barrier across the Ganges 175 miles north of Calcutta. The barrage, 12 miles from the Bangladesh border, is to divert water into the Hooghly River, which has been silting up fast and making the Calcutta port unserviceable.
One of the 39 crewmen taken captive by Cambodia aboard the freighter Mayaguez earlier this month has filed a class action suit in San Francisco for the entire crew charging the ship’s owner and captain with jeopardizing the crew’s safety in pursuit of extra profits. Albert Minichiello, 62, an assistant engineer, charged that Captain Charles T. Miller charted a course through the “ultra-hazardous” waters near Cambodia despite warnings of danger.
The Japanese legislature today extended its current session for 40 days at the insistence of the ruling Liberal Democratic party because little has been accomplished in the four months it has been sitting. A total of 93 bills have been introduced during the session, but only 30 have been passed. Moreover, none of Premier Takeo Miki’s major bills have been passed. They include bills to control political spending, to revise the election law, and to strengthen the nation’s weak antitrust laws. in addition, Japan’s ratification of the treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons is still pending.
Governor Raul H. Castro of Arizona, who fled with his family to the United States from a Mexican revolution 50 years ago, said he is opposed to South Vietnamese refugees in the United States and plans to limit their number in Arizona. “My question is, there are other countries in the world besides us. Let other countries share the burden too,” Castro said in Mexico City where he is speaking at an American Chamber of Commerce meeting.
More than 700 foreign oil engineers, technicians and executives, most of them Americans, face an uncertain future as the time draws closer for the nationalization of Venezuela’s huge oil industry.
A spokesman for Uruguayan President Juan Maria Bordaberry said today that a dispute with military leaders has been “definitively overcome” and Mr. Bordaberry would remain in office. The statement followed a meeting between Mr. Bordaberry and armed forces commanders seeking a solution to the five‐day crisis that had brought threats of resignation from the President. Mr. Bordaberry had angered the military commanders by firing Eduardo Peile as head of the National Meat Board and refusing demands that he reinstate him. An official communiqué released at the end of the meeting indicated that a compromise had been struck. it said that Jose Maria Rocca would be named head of the meat board Monday and that Mr. Peile would become a member of the board of directors “at the request of the junta of commanders‐in‐chief.” Mr. Peile was reported fired by Mr. Bordaberry because he had ordered government slaughterhouses to give priority to small ranchers owning less than 75 acres. The military leaders approved, but it angered the President and big ranchers.
Samora Machel, who will become the first president of independent Mozambique on June 25, returned to Mozambique today from exile in Tanzania. Mr. Machel, president of the Mozambique Liberation Front, arrived at Mueda, northern Mozambique by air on his first official visit to Mozambique since the end of the 10‐year conflict with the Portuguese following the Lisbon coup in April 1974. the Mozambique radio reported.
Three American students and a Dutch woman abducted by a band of 40 armed African guerrillas six days ago in western Tanzania probably have not been harmed, according to a Tanzanian official who visited the kidnap site. Derek Bryscon, husband of Jane Goodall, head of the animal research center from which the four were taken last Monday, said his belief was based on the fact that the kidnappers took clothing, bedding and food, but left behind travelers’ checks and other valuables.
The Tanzanian Government publicly appealed today to the band of kidnappers to free three American students and a Dutch woman taken at gunpoint from an isolated jungle camp on Monday. In a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry, the Government confirmed that investigations so far had failed to find any clue to the kidnappers identity or the whereabouts of their victims. Short of their release, the Dar es Salaam Government asked for confirmation that the three women and the American men were unharmed.
President Ford joined 75 of his World War II shipmates from the light aircraft carrier USS Monterey for a reunion in Washington. Mr. Ford, who was assistant navigator on the Monterey in the Pacific for 1 ½ years, was presented an oil painting of the ship and a photograph of himself on the bridge of the vessel holding a sextant. Cracked Mr. Ford: “I hope my decisions as President are more accurate than my sightings as assistant navigator.” President and Mrs. Ford later flew by helicopter to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., to spend the rest of the weekend.
The White House announced that President Ford had approved two bills providing $405 million for the resettlement of South Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees. The resettlement program had been operating on money borrowed temporarily from other foreign-aid programs.
The resettlement of South Vietnamese refugees in the United States has slowed to a trickle. Most of the 130,000 people who fled their country in the face of the Communist takeover are languishing in military camps nearly a month after their arrival. Many of them may be there much longer. Officials of voluntary agencies that are aiding the refugees believe it may be a year or more before the resettlement is complete. They are frustrated by what they consider to be unnecessarily time consuming security checks and bureaucratic bungling by the government.
Donald MacDonald, civil coordinator of the Refugee Task Force, said no one, including the Central Intelligence Agency, pressured him to expedite the release of Lieutenant General Đặng Văn Quang from Ft. Chaffee, Ark. The Washington Post had reported that the CIA pressed hard for a speedy release for Quang, who operated the South Vietnam equivalent of the CIA and worked closely with U.S. intelligence. “I had no communication from the CIA about Quang,” MacDonald said.
Developing minicars for the growing number of consumers who demand fuel-efficient autos will be the chief goal of the Ford Motor Co. in the late 1970s, its president, Lee A. Iacocca, said. Iacocca said Ford would go all out to halt the “onslaught” of imports with several new small cars in the next three years. He hinted that a Ford minicar would be produced soon. Iacocca predicted that an industry turnaround will begin this fall. “I happen to be one of the school that says 1976 will be a fantastic year for the economy,” he said. “And the auto industry — boom!”
“Cities are viewed as the seed of corruption and duplicity, and New York is the biggest city,” said Senator Joseph Biden, Maryland Democrat, in explaining how his congressional colleagues feel. He said he did not share that view, but, “There is a general negative feeling toward New York, a feeling that ‘who can do anything’ and ‘what difference will it make?’” Representative Richardson Preyer, North Carolina Democrat, said that as far as many of his colleagues were concerned, “New York City has a certain overtone of sinfulness about it” and Representative Robert Kastenmeier, Wisconsin Democrat, said that many on Capitol Hill regarded New York as “Sin City.” Thus does Congress approach New York City’s appeals for aid.
Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew has paid all of his back state and federal income taxes, the Baltimore Sun reported. The newspaper, citing undisclosed sources, said it had learned that Agnew had satisfied all tax liability on the estimated $87,500 in unreported income that the U.S. Department of Justice said Agnew had received between 1967 and 1973. It was impossible to determine how much Agnew paid in taxes, interest and penalties because federal and Maryland state laws prohibit officials from divulging any information about an individual’s tax returns.
Five years after federally financed education vouchers were widely proposed and debated as a device to broaden educational choice and to give parents more control over their children’s schooling, the notion is still having difficulty taking root. The basic theory holds that if families were given a public voucher worth whatever the local district spends to educate each child in the public schools, parents would be able to shop around for school services in a competitive market system. The result, it was hoped, would be schools that were diverse, and more responsive to their students, particularly children of the poor. A voucher system, financed with $7 million in federal money. is operating in the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District in San Jose, California.
A gunman killed his teen-age girl friend and then went on a rampage of death, kidnapping and rape through Dayton, Ohio, that ended when he took his own life. One other woman was killed and nine persons were wounded. The gunman was identified as Russell Lee Smith, 28, an ex-convict who had been on parole since 1971 after serving a term for first-degree manslaughter. Dead are Smith’s 16-year-old girlfriend and a 25-year-old woman. Two other women were kidnapped and raped.
An ex-mental patient whose former homes have yielded the bodies of three persons told Houston police that he had killed four women in Texas, Michigan and Washington state, detectives said. The man, Gary Addison Taylor, 39, was arrested five days ago at his home in Houston and charged with raping a 16-year-old girl. Homicide detectives said Taylor told them he hated women. The detectives say he told of killing Susan Jackson, 21, a Houston waitress who was found dead last Sunday; Vonnie Stuth, 19, who disappeared from her home in Washington state last Thanksgiving, and two women whose bodies subsequently were found buried near Taylor’s former home in Onsted, Michigan. The third body was found Saturday near another former home of Taylor at Enumclaw, Washington. Authorities tentatively identified the victim as Mrs. Stuth.
State troopers stormed a cellblock held by 19 inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Ft. Madison, putting down a five-hour uprising that had briefly involved nearly 300 prisoners. The revolt began when a guard was seized during lockup routine. He was released after inmates’ demands to meet with newsmen were granted. Then, inmates who wanted to leave were allowed out, and 277 of the 296 prisoners in the cellblock left. When it became apparent that the remaining 19 would not surrender, about 50 policemen entered and apprehended them “without conflict or injury,” a prison spokesman said.
The Soviet Union launched a Soyuz spacecraft carrying two astronauts to an expected linkup with a Soviet space research station, Salyut 4, which has been in orbit since last December. Soyuz 18 took off from the Baikonur launching pad on the steppes of Soviet Central Asia at 5:58 P.M. Moscow time (10:58 A.M. Eastern daylight time). Air Force Colonel Pyotr Klimuk, commander of Soyuz 18, and Vitaly Sevastyanov, the flight engineer, reported from orbit that they were well and that the craft’s systems were functioning normally. The next day, the cosmonauts docked with the Salyut 4 space station.
A fallopian tube complete with blood supply system has been successfully transplanted at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. The success of the world’s first such complete transplant is seen as offering thousands of infertile women the hope of becoming pregnant. Fallopian tube transplants have been carried out before but have not included the artery and vein. The operation, performed by a 14-member team headed by Dr. B. M. Cohen, used a live donor. The recipient’s condition was described as good.
The last naturally occurring case of the smallpox virus variola major was found on a woman named Saiban Bibi, who was found ill at a railway station in Karimganj in the Assam state of India. The last case of variola minor would be found in Somalia, at Merca, in October 1977.
Major League Baseball:
At Candlestick, Bobby Murcer hits a three‐run homer in the fourth inning and a bases‐loaded triple in the seventh to drive in 6 runs as the Giants beat the National League East leading Cubs, 10–3. It was the Giants’ sixth straight victory. The Giants chased Bill Bonham in the bottom of the fourth inning, sending nine batters to the plate. Dave Rader’s one‐out single started the rally and Jim Barr walked. Von Joshua was safe and Rader scored on an error by Manny Trillo. Bruce Miller singled and Barr scored by causing George Mitterwald, the Cubs’ catcher, to drop the ball. Murcer then hit his fourth home run of the season, a 400‐foot drive to right‐center.
Randy Tate may have pitched himself out of a demotion to Tidewater tonight and into role as the fourth New York Mets starter. Bothered recently by wildness, the rookie right‐hander threw only 86 pitches as he went seven strong innings in a 5–1 victory over the Braves. He allowed four hits, walked only one, and fanned three. Rusty Staub, hitting safely for the 10th game in the last 11, jumped his average to .327 with two hits. He also drove in two runs, lifting his total for the recent span to 14. And Ed Kranepool, with pair of hits, leaped to .397.
Joe Morgan singled home Cesar Geronimo with two out in the 11th inning and the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Philadelphia Phils, 3–2. The decisive run was unearned and stretched the Phillies losing streak to five games. The game marked the 40th anniversary of the first night game in major league history. On May 24, 1935, the Reds edged the Phillies, 2–1.
San Diego’s left‐hander, Randy Jones, hurled a four-hitter for his fourth shutout of the season and his fourth victory in a row tonight as the Padres defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5–0. The Pades, posting their seventh victory in their last nine games, scored a run in the first when John Grubb doubled, took third on Enzo Hernandez’s sacrifice bunt and scored on Bobby Tolan’s infield out.
Gary Carter’s sacrifice fly with the bases loaded in the ninth inning gave the Montreal Expos a 2–1 victory over the Houston Astros tonight. Pepe Mangual, who hit into a force play after Rich Coggins led off with a single, moved to second on a walk to Mike Jorgensen and took third on Larry Bittner’s base hit before scoring the wining run on Carter’s fly ball to center field.
Keith Hernandez hit his first major‐league homer, a two‐run blow in the seventh, to help the St. Louis Cardinals to a 6–2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight. The Cardinals’ Lynn McGlothen pitched hitless ball for five innings before Ivan DeJesus led off the sixth with a double.
Eschewing the deadly beanball for the timely long ball, the Yankees clubbed Texas, 9–5, behind the hitting of Elliott Maddox and Bobby Bonds, the two targets of Ranger pitchers in Friday night’s throwing war. Maddox, playing with a left elbow that was still stiff and sore from the Stan Thomas pitch that hit it, tripled home Bonds in the first inning and scored on Roy White’s single. Bonds connected for a towering three‐run homer, his seventh, in the fourth.
Billy Williams’s three‐run homer in the fourth inning helped rally the Oakland A’s from a five‐run deficit to a 10–5 victory over the Cleveland Indians today. The Indians held a 5–0 lead after three innings, but the A’s narrowed that when Sal Bando was hit by a pitch and Joe Rudi singled. Then Williams hit his homer off the Indians’ starter, Eric Raich, who was making his major league debut. The A’s scored four runs in the sixth, two of them on walks by Blue Moon Odom, a reliever who was making his first appearance for the Indians against his former team.
Rico Petrocelli and Rick Burleson hit three‐run homers and Bill Lee pitched a five‐hitter as the Boston Red Sox defeated the California Angels, 6–0, today. Andy Hassler, the Angels’ starting pitcher, was the victim of the homers. He started the second inning by walking Dwight Evans and Tony Conigliaro. Petrocelli ran the count to 2–2 and then hit his homer off the screen on top of the left‐center field wall. The victory was the sixth In the last seven games for the Red Sox. it also was Lee’s second straight shutout. He struck out five and walked five to win his fifth game in nine decisions.
Deron Johnson’s three‐run homer in the third rinning paced a 15‐hit attack, but the Chicago White Sox had to survive a seven‐run seventh to defeat the Detroit Tigers, 10–8, today. The White Sox, led by the hitting of Pete Varney, Bill Melton and Jorge Orta, mounted a 9–1 lead before the Tigers struck back. Stan Bahnsen, sailing along with a four‐hitter, gave up four more hits in the seventh, including a three‐run homer to Gene Michael, before departing with two out.
Danny Thompson’s sixth-inning single drove in the decisive run and Jim Hughes, a rookie, pitched a three. hitter for his fifth consecutive victory, and the Minnesota Twins defeated the Milwaukee Brewers, 3–2, tonight. The Twins broke a 2–2 tie in the sixth when Larry Hisle opened with his third successive hit, took second on a fielder’s choice and scored on Thompson’s two‐out single to chase Pete Broberg, the loser. Broberg’s record is now 6–4.
Hal McRae’s three-run double capped a four-run rally in the ninth tonight, giving the Kansas City Royals a 5–4 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Marty Pattin gained the victory, allowing only two hits in five innings of relief.
New York Mets 5, Atlanta Braves 1
California Angels 0, Boston Red Sox 6
Detroit Tigers 8, Chicago White Sox 10
Philadelphia Phillies 2, Cincinnati Reds 3
Oakland Athletics 10, Cleveland Indians 5
Montreal Expos 2, Houston Astros 1
Baltimore Orioles 4, Kansas City Royals 5
St. Louis Cardinals 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Minnesota Twins 3, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Texas Rangers 5, New York Yankees 9
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, San Diego Padres 5
Chicago Cubs 3, San Francisco Giants 10
Born:
Marc Gagnon, Canadian short track speed skater (Olympic gold 1998, 2002), in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada.
Katie King-Crowley, American Team USA women’s ice hockey forward (Olympics, gold medal, 1998; silver, 2002; bronze, 2006), in Salem, New Hampshire.
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