At separate meetings in France and Austria, two groups of leading European Socialists took contradictory stands on working with Communists, and appeared to be drifting into rival factions. Socialist leaders from southern Europe ended their weekend meeting in southwestern France with a plan to call a formal conference of their parties later this year. The prime purpose seemed to be support for Mario Soares, the Portuguese Socialist leader. Mr. Soares came to Paris this evening and indicated that he might see President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing tomorrow, if invited. While the southern European Socialist chiefs were meeting in Latché near Biarritz, at the country home of the French Socialist leader François Mitterrand, German, Swedish and Austrian Socialists were meeting in Vienna. The separate conferences, and a marked difference in statements on relations with Communist parties, was an unusual public reflection of a growing divergence among European Socialists.
Portuguese Socialists launched a scathing public attack against their Communist rivals today, the day before a scheduled conference by the military rulers that could abolish all civilian parties. At a five‐hour rally in a Lisbon sports arena, 10,000 Socialists shouted notice that they were determined not to lose more influence to the Communists, thus prolonging a crisis that threatens to collapse the fragile coalition government. The Socialist rally came as the Assembly of the Armed Forces Movement prepared to meet to consider the future of civilian parties.
A high Soviet official, formerly head of a state furniture-buying agency, has been executed by firing squad after his conviction on charges of accepting bribes from a Swiss businessman, Soviet sources in Moscow said. They said the widow of Yuri Sosnovsky, former director general of the agency, was informed that the sentence had been carried out. There was no indication when Sosnovksy was convicted of accepting about $145,000 in bribes from Walter Haefelin, a representative of a Swiss furniture firm, as an inducement to buy the firm’s equipment. Haefelin was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
Marios Fissentzides was home last summer from studying in Canada when President Makarios was overthrown and Turkish troops invaded Cyprus. The engineering student, called up by the Cypriote National Guard, was sent to lay mines along the north coast. His group was surrounded by Turks, and he has not been heard from since. Andreas Kassapis was born in Detroit. Several years ago his family returned to Cyprus. He was 17 when Turkish troops swept through his village, Asha, seizing all able‐bodied young men, including Andreas and his brother‐in‐law. His father thrust the boy’s United States passport into his hands as he Was led away. Marios and Andreas are two of about 2,700 Greek Cypriotes still listed as missing. They symbolize the pain that still throbs through every Cypriote ten months after the coup and the invasion — the pain of a lost past and an uncertain future. The families of the missing men — and 27 women — insist that many might be alive, either hiding in the northern mountains or languishing in a Turkish prison Privately, Greek Cypriote officials hold out no hope for most of them.
Police investigating the kidnapping of an Italian judge by left-wing guerrillas have arrested a 27-year-old woman and issued five other arrest warrants, Rome police said. They named the woman as Immacolata Accardo, a clerk, who has been charged with the abduction of Judge Giuseppe di Gennario, who was held for five days early in May. The guerrillas also staged a bloody prison revolt before releasing the judge in return for massive publicity and the transfer of three rebel convicts to other jails.
A 19-year-old Protestant was found shot to death near Omagh in County Tyrone, bringing the weekend toll of Northern Ireland violence to four dead and nine wounded. Others killed were two Roman Catholic brothers, shot while playing cards with Protestant friends in a Belfast apartment, and a Protestant police officer, blown up by a bomb near Londonderry.
A Protestant clergyman who was instrumental in arranging the current cease-fire by the Provisional I.R.A. said today that the British Government had secretly promised the Provisionals that it would withdraw its troops from Northern Ireland if the newly elected Constitutional Convention failed.
Singer Frank Sinatra has canceled a concert that had been scheduled in Berlin today because of “scurrilous” attacks in the local press and rumors that he could be in danger there, according to Sheldon Roskin, his American publicist. Sinatra began a seven-nation tour May 19, most recently appearing in Frankfurt Sunday.
Facing solid opposition from Muslims and parliamentary forces, Lebanon’s military cabinet was near collapse. A severe clash in southern Lebanon with Israeli troops in which seven Lebanese soldiers were killed and two seriously wounded barely distracted attention from the political crisis caused by weeks of street fighting and the appointment Friday’ night of a cabinet of military officers. President Suleiman Franjieh was under heavy pressure from other Arab governments to restore a parliamentary cabinet. Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam of Syria, accompanied by Air Marshal Naji Jamil, the Syrian Air Force commander, sat in on a meeting between President Franjieh and Lebanon’s two leading Christian politicians, Pierre Gemayel and Camille Chamoun, who initially welcomed the military cabinet.
The opposition of all Muslim political and religious leaders here, as well as of Arab governments, to the cabinet drawn from army officers stems from a belief that this is a move inspired by the rightwing Christian Phalangist party against the Palestinian guerrillas based here. During the last month, recurrent clashes between armed Phalangists and Palestinian guerrillas, who are based in refugee camps here, have turned this commercial, banking and tourist city into a battleground. In the last week, at least 40 persons have been killed and more than 150 wounded in these clashes. In some neighborhoods where Christian and Muslim sectors face each other, the fighting has extended to other groups, including Shiite Muslims and left‐wing military forces of various Muslim political leaders.
A midnight border encounter between Israeli and Lebanese soldiers, described by the Israeli military headquarters spokesman as “accidental and unintentional,” developed into an occasionally fierce battle that lasted 12 hours, with an Israeli air strike and artillery and mortar exchanges. The Israelis said that two of their soldiers were killed, and estimated that Lebanese losses were much heavier. The fighting began shortly after midnight when a 12‐man Israeli patrol pushed two miles into Lebanon near the village of Aita al Shaab in search of Palestinian guerrillas who might be preparing to infiltrate Israel. The patrol encountered some Lebanese troops and the clash developed into a battle involving exchanges of artillery fire and Israeli jets. It was the first Israeli air strike in Lebanon since December 12.
The United States evacuated 70 more Americans from Laos, cutting the number of U.S. officials and dependents in the country by more than half since the airlifts began. No more special charter flights are planned, although about 350 U.S. officials and diplomats remain in the nation. Most of those are packing. Officials said they would depart on regular commercial flights.
Customs officials have uncovered an international smuggling operation using German and Mexican connections that supplies cancer sufferers in the United States and Canada with large quantities of a drug, generally known as laetrile, but also sold under other names, that has been outlawed in both countries as a worthless nostrum. Quantities coming from Mexico are said to exceed in volume the Mexican brown heroin reaching addicts in this country.
A small band of Christian missionaries has stirred a storm of controversy by helping South Koreans to resist what they consider to be Government repression. The missionaries — Americans, Irish, Canadians, Europeans, Roman Catholics and Protestants — have preached sermons, signed public protests, taken part in demonstrations, and urged American officials from President Ford down to disassociate the United States from the Government of President Park Chung Hee. The South Korean Government, which maintains that political restrictions are necessary to prepare for an attack from North Korea, has struck back by expelling two American missionaries, detaining and interrogating others, preventing still others from entering Korea and leveling a barrage of criticism at those here.
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield said the United States “would have no choice” in defending South Korea against a North Korean attack and “we’d be back in another war on the mainland of Asia.” However, Mansfield said in an interview scheduled for Public Broadcasting Service television stations that he feels such an attack was unlikely in the foreseeable future.
Time and Newsweek magazines printed similar reports from sources concerning alleged efforts by the administration of the late President John F. Kennedy to “depose” or “eliminate” Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba after the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Both magazines stressed that their sources stopped short of saying that the Kennedy administration ordered attempts to assassinate Castro.
Leftist guerrillas from Zaire today released a young American woman unharmed but in shock from six days of captivity in the wilderness and began bargaining over the fate of three other hostages.
Nine months after taking office, President Ford, who did not have time to develop a national platform, has begun defining the goals he would like the nation to endorse. As described in the White House, they are essentially conservative goals, including two high-priority programs. The first will deal with crime control and will call for mandatory imprisonment of repeating offenders. The second contains a series of proposals that curb the rapid growth of federal spending on social programs, including food stamps, veterans’ benefits, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and government pensions.
A 31-year-old Air Force sergeant, a self-declared homosexual, has decided to challenge the ban against homosexuality in the military forces. Sgt. Leonard Matlovich joined the Air Force in 1963 and has served with distinction, receiving a medal, including the Purple Heart, for each of his three tours in Vietnam. He recently delivered a letter to his supervising officer at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Va., stating that he was a homosexual, knowing that this would likely bring a discharge. He was notified that a discharge had been initiated — a “general” one, less than fully honorable. Sergeant Matlovich’s letter was, to lawyers, the opening round of a classic test case — a clear-cut challenge by a “perfect” challenger.
The National Information Bureau, a private organization that reviews the operations and ethics of charity groups, says the Easter Seal Society puts the bite on citizens unfairly by using uniformed national guardsmen and firemen to collect funds for crippled children. It made the charge in a “confidential bulletin” dated March 20 and said also that Easter seals had enticed donors with sweepstake tickets in one locale. Easter Seal officials confirmed that societies in 16 or 17 states had used guardsmen or firemen as collectors, but they defended the practice as perfectly proper.
A man who protested during President Ford’s visit to Charlotte, North Carolina, has signed an assault warrant against the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. Daniel Lewis Pollock of Charlotte alleges that Ruth Graham committed simple assault, a misdemeanor, “by pushing him away and taking a sign away from him. The sign he was carrying read, “Eat the Rich” and “Don’t Tread on Me.” Mrs. Graham took the sign from him and then returned to her seat, where she placed her foot on the sign and refused to surrender it. Pollack said a policeman then made him leave.
The Transportation Department said it had tentatively determined that a safety defect existed in the power brake systems on certain 1965 through 1970 General Motors cars. The alleged defects are in the power brake vacuum check valves installed as original equipment on certain models, the department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said. It estimated that more than 10 million vehicles equipped with the check valves were still in use. It said failure of the valves could lead to loss of the power brake assist feature. Production of the check valves was terminated at the end of the 1970 model year, the agency said.
A former official of Baltimore County said former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, when he was Baltimore County executive, had pressured him to deposit government funds in a bank in which Agnew held a financial interest. The official, former County Finance Director Norman W. Wood, was quoted by the Baltimore Sun as saying the pressure had come both from Agnew and from J. Walter Jones, a close business and personal associate of Agnew. The report was denied by Jones.
A policeman was killed in East St. Louis, Ill., as officers traded shots with a well-armed gunman barricaded for more than an hour in a housing project. John Tiller, 31, was charged with murder and attempted murder and was held without bond. Police said Tiller had exchanged gunfire with 20 policemen from his second-story apartment in the John DeShields housing complex after police answered a disturbance call. After 70 minutes, Tiller’s wife talked her way into the apartment and persuaded Tiller to surrender.
The nuclear power industry, which has lost most of its influence in the Federal Government and is under increasing public criticism, has begun a strong campaign to try to turn the tide of opposition to atomic power. The campaign is starting at a time when Congress is considering major issues affecting the future of nuclear power in the United States. At stake is nearly $80‐billion invested in nuclear‐power generating facilities and manufacturing plants and equipment, since the mid‐1950’s. Also at stake is $100‐billion expected to be spent during the next 10 years by the electric utility in dustry and the Government if the industry has its way. Through its campaign, which officially began in Washington at a recent gathering of advocates at a Nuclear Power Assembly, the industry will argue that the nation must embrace nuclear power in its program to lessen dependence on foreign Fuels, to meet the nation’s energy needs and that the risks involved are not as great as some antinuclear people contend.
A central total lunar eclipse was visible in eastern Australia, Pacific, both Americas, Africa and western Europe, and was the 32nd lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 130.
The sign read: “He who lives by the Sabre dies by the Hammer.” The Hamner was an allusion to Dave Schultz, the bellicose left wing 11, who is known as the Hammer of the Philadelphia Flyers, and today in fifth game of the National Hockey League’s. Stanley Cup championship series, it proved prophetic as Schultz led the Flyers to a 5–1 victory over the Buffalo Sabres. It gave the Flyers a 3–2 lead in the four‐of‐Seven game series.
Bobby Unser won the 1975 Indianapolis 500, which was halted after 435 miles (700 km), with 25 laps left. Unser, in his second win, was in the lead when a rainstorm caused officials to stop the race. It was the second Indy victory for Unser, a 41‐yearold member of a distinguished racing family, who first won in 1968. Johnny Rutherford, the defending champion, finished second after an inopportune pit stop for fuel toward theend. A. J. Foyt, who had been the heavy favorite, had to settle for third place after he was done in by a combination of tire and fuel problems and an ailing hip. Indy always has a hardluck story and today, besides the usual Lloyd Ruby jinx (he lasted only seven laps) it was also Wally Dallenbach’s turn. Dallenbach looked like a sure winner until the 161st lap, when he slowed down a bit too much and burned a piston.
Before the red flag could be waved at the drivers, there was so much rain water that race cars were floating on the track surface of Indianapolis Motor Speedway like boats out of control in a strong current. Racing tires have no tread — which is why they are called “slicks” — and no traction or adhesion. On a wet surface and especially when there is as much water as there was today, the race cars aquaplane on the film of water, with no contact between tire and pavement. That is how Steve Krisloff, moving as slowly as though he were parking a car, spun and lightly tapped the wall and stopped near the start/finish line, facing the traffic. As Krisloff frantically waved his arms in warning — he could not get out and run because his left ankle was in a cast — Unser and Foyt came boating along, at less than 20 miles an hour, around his disabled car. At about the same time, 1,500 feet away and the head of the front straight, another three cars floated — not skidded — into one another and the retaining wall. They were moving quite slowly, really at a crawl, and no one was injured.
The Golden State Warriors won the NBA championship in a four-game sweep over the Washington Bullets, winning Game Four 96-95, at Landover, Maryland. Displaying the same poise and team balance that had carried them into the title playoffs, the Golden State Warriors won the 29th National Basketball Association championship today by completing a four‐game sweep of the Washington Bullets with an almost unnecessarily dramatic 96‐95 victory. The exciting circumstances, ignited in the opening minutes of the game when Coach Al Attles was ejected for rushing to the defense of his star, Rick Barry, obscured the essential simplicity of what had been happening since this series began here exactly a week ago. The Warriors, with no players of great reputation, aside from Barry, simply played sounder basketball, especially on defense, than the Bullets, who had enjoyed a more impressive season. In all the pressure situations, the. Warriors proved more controlled and more effective and became only the third N.B.A. team to win the title in four games. The other two were the 1959 Boston Celtics and the 1971 Milwaukee Bucks.
Major League Baseball:
Cleveland’s Dennis Eckersley, in his first Major League start, hurls a 3–hit shutout in beating Oakland 6–0. Limiting the A’s to three hits in the first game of a doubleheader, Eckersley outpitched the winner of 212 major league games and the 1970 Cy Young Award as the American League’s best pitcher, Jim Perry. Although Perry could not defeat his former teammates, Dick Bosman did. He won the second game, 6–3, but needed relief help.
Mickey Lolich’s 200th career victory is a rain-shortened (8 innings), 4–1 win over the White Sox. His catcher is Bill Freehan, who also caught him in his first Major League start May 21, 1963. Lolich brought his career strike‐out total to 2,570, two short of Bob Feller’s total, seventh on the career list. Lolich’s fifth victory in eight decisions snapped a three‐game losing streak of the Tigers.
The Rangers, who came to New York last Friday alone in first place in the American League’s Western Division for the first time this season, fell to the Yankees, 5–4, in the second consecutive game the teams played without throwing even one beanball, a 1975 record. That’s not to say there were, no errant pitches in the game. There was one — Jim Bibby’s sixth‐inning wild pitch — and it enabled Graig Nettles to score the run that gave the Yankees their sixth victory in the last seven games. The Yankees erupted for three runs that inning, wiping out a 4–2 lead the Rangers had built on Jim Spencer’s three‐run homer off Pat Dobson in the fourth.
Hal McRae has a 3–run homer and drives in 6 runs as the Royals top the Orioles, 9–1. The Royals won their fourth straight game and the Orioles suffered their eighth defeat in the last nine games. Steve Busby pitched a five-hitter to halt Jim Palmer’s four‐game winning streak.
The Angels downed the Red Sox, 6–1. Ed Figueroa, his trailing fastball alive, limited the Red Sox to three hits and struck out seven, six on called third strikes. He improved his record to 3–0. Darrell Johnson, the manager and two Red Sox players, Carl Yastrzemski and Bernie Carbo were ejected from the game for arguing with Lou DiMuro, the plate umpire.
The skidding Brewers lost their fifth straight game and their seventh in eight starts, bowing to the Twins, 7–2. No Milwaukee player has hit a home run since May 17 and the Brewers have managed only 24 hits and 5 runs in their last 41 innings. Dave Goltz spaced nine hits for his third triumph in seven decisions before a Jacket. Day crowd of 46,782.
At the Astrodome, Doug Rader’s 5th hit of the game, and his third double, leads to the tying run in the 12th, and another hit in the frame gives the Astros an 8–7 win over the Expos. Cesar Cedeno’s homerun in the 9th knotted the score. Enos Cabell made up for his error that allowed Montreal to score the go‐ahead run in the 12th inning. The Astro outfielder doubled home the tying run in the bottom of the 12th and scored the winning run on Milt May’s single.
“He was up on his pitches a little too much,” John Stearns said after catching Jerry Koosman for four innings in a 6–3 New York defeat. “He got the ball up too high and Earl burned him. That’s about it.” The worst of many bad pitches Koosman threw came in the third inning and Earl Williams, the Atlanta first baseman, drilled it over the leftfield fence for a three‐run homer.
The Giants, trailing, 7–1, scored seven runs in the fifth to extend their winning streak to seven games, beating the Cubs, 9–7. The Cubs lost their fifth in a row. Chris Speier and Ed Goodson each collected two singles in the big inning. Bobby Murcer hit his fifth homer to give San Francisco the insurance run in the seventh.
The Reds edged the Phillies, 4–3. George Foster’s home run, his seventh, was the margin of victory and extended the Phillies losing streak to six games. Cesar Geronimo, who collected three hits, drove in the Red’s other three runs with a double.
Jimmy Wynn drove in four runs with a double and a homer and Joe Ferguson, batting .186 at game time, slugged two home runs that enabled Don Sutton to win his eighth straight game, as the Dodgers thumped the Cardinals, 7–3.
The Pirates edged the Padres, 6–5 in eleven innings. Ed Kirkpatrick, a pinch‐hitter, belted his first home run of the season with one out in the 11th for the Pirate victory. Ted Kiibiak’s two‐run single off Dave Giusti in the ninth sent the game into extra innings.
New York Mets 3, Atlanta Braves 6
California Angels 6, Boston Red Sox 1
Detroit Tigers 4, Chicago White Sox 1
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Cincinnati Reds 4
Oakland Athletics 0, Cleveland Indians 6
Oakland Athletics 6, Cleveland Indians 3
Montreal Expos 7, Houston Astros 8
Baltimore Orioles 1, Kansas City Royals 9
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 7
Minnesota Twins 7, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Texas Rangers 4, New York Yankees 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 6, San Diego Padres 5
Chicago Cubs 7, San Francisco Giants 9
Born:
Randall Simon, Curaçaoan MLB first baseman (Atlanta Braves, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Philadelphia Phillies) in Willemstad, Curaçao.
Gennaro DiNapoli, NFL center and guard (Oakland Raiders, Tennessee Titans, Dallas Cowboys), in Manhasset, New York.
Mark Jones, NBA small forward (Orlando Magic), in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Died:
Count Dante (John Keehan), 36, American martial artist who billed himself as “The Deadliest Man Alive”, died in his sleep of internal hemorrhaging caused by a bleeding ulcer.
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