The foreign ministers of the nine European Common Market countries agreed in Dublin to intensify their trade and aid relations with Portugal as long as such a step seemed helpful in maintaining democracy there, Foreign Minister Garret FitzGerald of Ireland said that it had been agreed that he should sound out Portuguese leaders on such aid during his visit to Lisbon next week. The European approach contrasted sharply with the recent tough line taken by the United States toward the leftward drift in Portugal. Although they did not discuss the American position at today’s meeting, Common Market diplomats said privately that they considered Mr. Ford’s statements “clumsy” and “inopportune.”
The situation in Portugal is expected to be a key topic at the NATO summit meeting that opens in Brussels Thursday and at private talks that Mr. Ford will hold with European leaders during his three‐day stay in the Belgian capital. The United States has come under criticism inside NATO both for what high alliance diplomats consider its negative, unhelpful attitude toward Portugal and its simultaneous demand that Spain be drawn closer to the alliance to close a potential strategic gap if Portugal leaves.
Portugal’s military leadership declared early today that it was bypassing the leaders of political parties and establishing an alliance with the people to “guarantee a correct sequence of the revolutionary process.” After a meeting lasting more than 15 hours, the Armed Forces Movement announced that it would “set up a group to develop the alliance of the military “with popular structures,” or workers’ committees. “These organizations,” it said, “are understood as unified blocs to overcome any political diversions and guarantee a correct sequence of the revolutionary process.” The announcement emphasized that the military was not abolishing political parties. But it was clear that the military leaders would no longer tolerate squabbling among them. It called on the governing Council of the Revolution to “firmly and rapidly” solve the conflict between the Socialist and Communist parties and to make clear its unhappiness with the Socialist party’s threat to boycott the Cabinet.
The Portugese Socialist party leader, Mario Soares, today accused the Communist party leader in Lisbon, Alvaro Cunhal, of endangering improved relations between East and West. Mr. Soares charged that Mr. Cunhal had remained a Stalinist intent on confrontation between the two camps when the Soviet Communist party leader, Leonid I. Brezhnev, was advocating a relaxation of tensions. Mr. Soares came to France over the weekend for a meeting of southern European Socialists called by the French Socialist leader, Francois Mitterrand. The meeting endorsed Socialist collaboration with Communist parties if it was agreed that all parties should respect demoocratic rule. Mr. Soares hammered away at that theme in interviews, one on the Paris‐based Radio Luxembourg, the other in the Paris newspaper Le Monde.
A powerful earthquake was reported in the Atlantic between Portugal and the Azores. The quake shook central Portugal and western Spain and caused no damage or injuries on the mainland. Slight damage was reported on the Madeira Islands, about 500 miles west of the Moroccan coast. A spokesman at the Portuguese Institute of Geophysics said that the quake had a magnitude of 7.5 on the Richter scale.
Buoyed by recent demonstrations of congressional support, Israel has decided to ignore the Ford administration’s repeated requests that it come up with new negotiating proposals before the meeting between President Ford and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt in Salzburg next Sunday. Senior Israeli officials said their country wanted Egypt to make the first concession, and cited a display of support for Israel by 76 United States Senators.
President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger have unexpectedly won additional time — probably at least until the end of this year — for their effort to achieve a diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East and forestall another Arab‐Israeli war that they fear might otherwise result. But despite the breathing space, the Ford Administration is not undertaking the newest round of Middle East mediations in a mood of much optimism. The area’s problems seem as intractable as ever. There are many pessimists here who assert privately that they are really insoluble. After two months of reassessing their Middle East policy, Administration officials are still groping for answers. They believe instinctively that Mr. Kissinger’s step‐by‐step approach is dead. But Mr. Ford will nevertheless make a major effort to resurrect it when he sees President Anwar el‐Sadat of Egypt on Sunday in Salzburg, Austria, and Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel in Washington June 11.
The American Jewish Congress plans to file a suit next month in Federal Court here against the Department of Commerce to force disclosure, under the Freedom of Information Act, of the names of American companies complying with the Arab boycott against Israel.
Lebanon’s military cabinet resigned today after three days of continuing fighting between Christian nationalists of the Phalangist party and armed Muslims, including Palestinian guerrillas. President Suleiman Frenjieh asked the cabinet headed by Nurredin Rifai, a 76-year-old retired brigadier general, to continue in a caretaker capacity until a cabinet with parliamentary support, including that of the Muslims, can be formed. The announcement of the resignation of the Cabinet was greeted with volleys of smallarms fire from jubilant Muslims who re‐enacted the joyful fusillade from Christian neighborhoods that greeted the announcement of formation of the military Cabinet on Friday night. Official reports and newspaper estimates indicated that about 50 people had been killed and nearly 200 wounded in the last week. In similar fighting last month, up to 300 persons were reported killed
Morocco announced that it intends to take over the phosphate-rich Spanish Sahara. Spain said last week that it will-as soon as possible”transfer sovereignty” in the area “in the form and manner that best suits its inhabitants.” Morocco said the Spanish announcement created a confused situation, impelling Morocco “to assume its historical and legal responsibilities.” Mauritania is also claiming Spanish Sahara.
American officials were negotiating here tonight with students occupying they sprawling compound of the United States aid mission on the issue of wages owed to locally hired employes. Economy Minister Sot Petrasy of the dominant pro‐Communist Pathet Lao side in the coalition Laotian Government acted as a go‐between in efforts to end the occupation of the compound, which began last Wednesday with three Americans detained inside. The basic principles that the United States Agency for International Development will withdraw completely from Laos and that the local employes will be paid have been settled, according to American sources here.
China will occupy Nepal by default unless India intervenes, a deposed prime minister of Nepal said in New Delhi. B. P. Koirala, now in exile in India, said that the “pro-Communist influence in Nepal was increasing and if the present state of affairs continues, this influence will sweep the country.” Koirala was ousted from the strategic Himalayan kingdom, a buffer between India and China, in the 1960s on a charge of conspiracy against the late King Mahendra.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos and the United States Ambassador, William H. Sullivan, have held talks, described as strained but productive, over the last month on the terms under which American military bases could remain in the Philippines. Ambassador Sullivan said in an interview today that he had held discussions with the Philippine President on Mr. Marcos’s desire to reassess relations between the two countries. Mr. Sullivan is scheduled to fly to Washington tomorrow to report on these talks. Asked for comment, the President’s executive secretary, Alejandro Melchor, said, “We are restructuring the security agreements so that old inequities can be removed and a more satisfactory relationship arrived at.”
The Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs, Allan J. MacEachen, issued a lengthy statement today, defending the controversial, manner in which the Canadian Embassy staff departed from Saigon, leaving Vietnamese employes behind, just before the city fell to the Communists. Canadian news reports from Saigon were strongly critical of the embassy’s refusal to take Vietnamese aides on a Canadian Air Force evacuation plane going to Hong Kong. Nationally televised news film showed two embassy station wagons being loaded onto the aircraft while Vietnamese begging to go were turned away. Crates of souvenirs were also airlifted out. According to Canadian radio news broadcasts from Saigon, Vietnamese applying for Canadian visas on April 24 had been told to return the following day although the officials knew that the embassy would then be closed.
Haiti has declared a food disaster emergency and has asked the United States for food supplies to feed 350,000 people for five months. The United States has already volunteered enough supplies to feed 150,000 people for three months. Haiti said the emergency was brought on by a combination of drought, obsolete farming practices, inadequate transportation and a deteriorating road system.
Seven Cuban exiles held in Cuba for nearly a month and a half after their two boats drifted into Cuban waters have been returned to Key West, Florida. The 40-foot Willa Mae and the 65-foot Joyce Marie were reported missing March 31 when they failed to return on schedule from a lobster fishing trip to Cay Lobos in the southern Bahama banks. The two boats were officially reported in Cuba last Monday by the State Department.
Thousands of people are threatened with death by starvation in the drought-ridden Ethiopian province of Eritrea because the government is preventing relief supplies from entering the region, officials of the World Council of Churches said in Geneva. Almost no food had been allowed into Eritrea, where secessionist rebels have been fighting government forces since the end of January, they said.
Hundreds of university students and police clashed in Nairobi, hurling tear gas and rocks at each other for hours. The fighting was the latest trouble in Kenya, which has been tense since a series of bomb blasts and the assassination of J. M. Kaniuki, a member of parliament, earlier this year.
The Tanzanian Government today rejected the terms a group of Zaire dissidents set for the release of three kidnapped students — two Americans and a Dutch national — a presidential spokesman said. The kidnappers, members of the People’s Revolutionary party, demanded $460,000, several hundred weapons and ammunition, and the release of two rebels held by the Tanzanian Government. The Tanzanian spokesman, Benjamin Mkapa, said the kidnappers’ ransom note, delivered to President Julius K. Nyerere yesterday, gave the Tanzanian Government 60 days to meet their demands or the students would he killed. The three were seized a week ago by 40 armed men who raided the animal research camp run by the British anthropologist Jane Goodall on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith issued an ultimatum to the nation’s African nationalist leaders — agree to a constitutional conference on Rhodesia’s future or discussions will be called off. “In plain words, I’m tired of being messed around,” Smith told a local government association congress in Inyanga. His remarks were aimed at the African National Council, the umbrella organization for Rhodesian nationalist groups that seek power for the black majority.
The Soyuz 18 rocket linked up with the Salyut 4 space station. The two astronauts aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 18 docked in pitch darkness with orbiting space station Salyut 4 late Sunday night, Moscow time, boarded it and went promptly to work on research begun by the crew that had occupied the station in January and February, and who had set the Soviet record of thirty days in space.
Memorial Day in the United States. President Ford paid homage to the nation’s war dead on Memorial Day and warned that Americans would risk their freedom unless they maintained the military might to deal with international lawbreakers. “Although we live in a rapidly changing world, some things remain the same,” Mr. Ford said in noontime ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery. “One is the need to maintain our military strength,” he said. “For as long as there are lawbreakers in the world, we must have the strength and the resolve to stand up for what is right. “It is the price we have always paid for being free. It is the price we must be willing to pay in the future.” A crowd estimated at 4,500 by cemetery officials broke into applause at that point in Mr. Ford’s brief speech — delivered in an outdoor amphitheater immediately after he had placed a wreath of red, white and blue flowers on the marble Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers.
President Ford will go on national television tomorrow night and is expected to announce new executive actions to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil. The White House said that Mr. Ford had asked for television time at 8:30 P.M. and would announce “decisions” on an energy program “in the absence of congressional action.” The White House did not indicate what actions the President had decided upon. However, Administration sources have been hinting for over a week that Mr. Ford intended to raise the special import fee on crude oil from $1 to $2 a barrel. There was also some mention last week of the possibility that the President might initiate by executive action a gradual elimination of price controls on crude oil. Mr. Ford imposed a $1 a barrel tariff on oil imports on February 1 and said he would make two other $1‐a‐barrel increases at the beginning of March and April unless Congress legislated comprehensive program to conserve energy and reduce dependence on foreign oil.
President Ford signed today a bill providing $873‐million to aid the National Railroad Passenger Corporation better known as Amtrak, to improve its passenger service and routes through the ‐fiscal year 1977. The President, however, in a statement expressed his serious concern that Congress had included in the legislation a requirement that Amtrak must submit to Congress for approval its plans to modify routes and services in its improvement program. Ford said, “The nation needs the important passenger rail service” this measure will provide. But he said: “It is regrettable, however, that the criteria for exercising this authority must be submitted to Congress with the possibility of disapproval by either the House or the Senate within 60 days.”
Preferential provisions in federal tax laws saved 160,000 of the richest taxpayers in America an average of $45,662 each last fiscal year — a total of $7.3 billion — according to a study made public by Senator Walter F. Mondale (D-Minnesota) The 160,000 were persons with gross incomes of $100,000 and over. The study, done for Mondale by the Treasury Department, also showed that 14.6% of the taxpayers — those making more than $20,000 a year — receive 53% of the benefits from tax loopholes. These loopholes cost the Treasury $58.2 billion in 1974, the study said. They include such tax preferences as an extra exemption for being blind, preferential treatment of capital gains and deductions for interest paid on a home mortgage.
Rep. Henry S. Reuss (D-Wisconsin), chairman of the House Banking Committee, said Congress had permitted some banks to grow too powerful and to engage in activities that left them “saddled with billions in shaky loans.” He said “a probing review” was needed. In a speech at Louisiana State University’s school of banking of the South at Baton Rouge, Reuss outlined his plans for a review of financial institutions and the agencies that regulate them. “Although there are some 14,500 banks in the country, the 50 largest banks hold over half the total bank deposits,” he said.
Since war was declared on cancer by Congress and the President of the United States three and a half years ago, a backlash has developed, according to some critics, more from the political than the scientific aspects of the effort. Critics have cited the steady climb of cancer deaths as proof that little, if any, progress has been made despite the more than $1.7 billion spent since the National Cancer Act was passed in 1971.
Many large cities, like New York, are in financial trouble, but much less seriously. Interviews with experts on municipal finance and an examination of municipal budgets indicate there are two principal reasons for this: Most other cities faced with a dramatically widening gap between expenses and income made major cutbacks in city payrolls or raised taxes or did both, No other city has relied as heavily as New York on extremely short-term borrowing, particularly in the form of anticipation securities.
Federal authorities are investigating organized crime’s illegal involvement in the highly profitable agricultural export business, the Kansas City Star reported. It said crime figures have found methods of illegally diverting large quantities of grain from foreign shipments. Some vessels have arrived at foreign ports with their certified cargo many tons short, the newspaper said, and in other instances poor quality grain has been substituted for grain of higher quality. An investigation has been under way for more than a year and recently has been intensified, the Star said it had been told by sources in the Agriculture, Justice and Treasury departments.
Two members of the Black Liberation Army tried to make a daring escape from the Brooklyn House of Detention but one fell eight stories to his death when a makeshift rope broke and the other was captured nearby by an off-duty policeman. A Corrections Department spokesman said Melvin Kearney, 22, of Brooklyn was killed when the rope, made of blankets and bedsheets, broke shortly after he climbed out of a 10th floor window Sunday. Captured was Pedro Monges, 24, who descended the rope first but was spotted by a motorist.
Boston Mayor Kevin H. White, facing possibly the toughest campaign of his career because of the city’s volatile desegregation issue, announced he would run for a third term. White said he disagreed with U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.’s order to implement a city-wide school desegregation plan next fall, but he would “not compromise” his responsibility to implement the plan and he would “continue to obey the law.”
Natural gas shortages will approach disaster levels within five years unless government controls are removed from gas prices, the head of the independent gas producers of Texas said. George P. Mitchell also said annual well completions should be boosted from 31,000 to 70,000 a year. “The nation’s geology will support a 70,000-well per year level of drilling for 15 years,” he said. Mitchell made his remarks upon leaving office as president of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association and becoming board chairman of that group.
Evel Knievel reached a grim possible end to his career as the world’s most spectacular stunt jumper yesterday afternoon when he jumped over 13 side-by-side London buses on his motorcycle, somersaulted off at 80 mph just after landing, and finished unconscious with his machine on top of him. Spectators from the 60,000 crowd at Wembley Stadium scrambled to the spot and a private ambulance appeared instantly with a stretcher party. But within seconds Mr Knievel waved it away as he was helped to his feet. “I have got to get back up there,” he moaned, and insisted that the helpers should drag him to the top of the ramp on which he had landed. “You are the last people in the world who will ever see me jump,” he told the crowd, “because I will never ever jump again, I am through.” Mr Knievel was taken to the London Hospital. He is understood to have crushed a vertebra, broken his right hand, and sustained bruising. [After recuperating, Knievel decided that he had spoken too soon and that he would continue jumping.]
“Rhinestone Cowboy” single released by Glen Campbell (Billboard Song of the Year, 1975).
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At Riverfront, Johnny Bench launches a 5th inning grand slam to help the Reds beat the Expos, 5–4, in the nitecap of a doubleheader. It is Bench’s second grand slam of the season. In the first game Woody Fryman’s bases‐loaded balk scored Dave Concepcion with what proved to be the winning run in the seventh, as the Reds won, 4–3. Fryman hasn’t beaten the Reds since 1968.
The pregame medical report said Wayne Garrett was suffering from tendonitis of his left ankle, but would be available for pinch‐hitting duty. So Garrett stepped in for Tom Seaver in the ninth inning yesterday and hit a three‐run homer that gave the Mets a 6–3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was the first loss of the year for Andy Messersmith (7–1).
The Cubs blanked the Braves, 6–0. Ray Burris, 6‐foot‐5‐inch right‐hander, ended the Cubs’ five‐game losing streak by limiting the Braves to three hits. He retired the first 10 batters, then Marty Perez singled. In all he faced only 30 hitters, three more than the minimum.
The Pirates clobbered the Astros, 10–2. Willie Stargell backed the five‐hit pitching of Bruce Kison by hitting a two‐run triple and his eighth homer of the season in the Pittsburgh rout.
The Phillies won a pitcher’s duel with the Giants, 1–0 in the 11th inning. Larry Bowa singled with two out in the 11th, then scored the winning run on two errors. He advanced to second when Ed Halicki, the Giants’ pitcher, threw wild trying for a pickoff at first. When Ed Goodson misplayed Dick Allen’s grounder at third, Bowa scored.
Willie McCovey’s run‐scoring single set off a three‐run rally in the ninth inning that carried San Diego to a 9–6 victory over the Cardinals. Al Hrabosky walked Enzo Hernandez to start the rally. Bobby Tolan sacrificed Hernandez to second, and Dave Winfield was walked intentionally. McCovey then broke the 6–6 tie with his hit to left field. The Padres added two more runs on singles by Mike Ivie and Tito Fuentes. Reggie Smith, making his first start since May 5 because of a back injury, hit a two‐run homer for the Cardinals in the fifth.
Frank Robinson, major league’s first black manager, began a three‐game suspension yesterday knowing he had unqualified support from his Cleveland Indians. The Indians, unhappy that Lee MacPhail, president of the American League, had upheld Robinson’s suspension and $250 fine for having pushed Jerry Neudecker, an umpire, in Chicago on May 17, offered to boycott the three‐game series against the California Angels. Later the players agreed to drop the boycott plan when Robinson told them he would prefer that they win all three games against the Angels instead.
With Coach Dave Garcia managing and Robinson watching from a radio booth, the Indians routed the Angels, 9–3, with a 13‐hit attack. Peterson, who had entered the game with a 6.91 earned run average, went the distance for only the second time in eight starts. He limited California to seven hits in gaining his fourth victory against four defeats. He fal tered only in the fourth, when the Angels cut the Indian lead to 4–3. Winston Llenas, a pinch‐hitter batting only .136, drove a three‐run double off the left‐field wall.
Frank White dropped a perfect squeeze bunt in the 11th inning to score Jim Wohlford and give the Kansas City Royals a 6–5 comeback victory over the New York Yankees before a paid Memorial Day crowd of 13,156. White, who entered the game in the eighth as a pinch runner for Tony Solarita, stayed in the game to play shortstop. He laid his bunt down adroitly on the first‐base side of the mound to score Wohlford from third. The Royals, who had spotted the Yankees and George (Doc) Medich, a 5‐1 lead before knocking out Medich in a two‐run eighth inning, tied the game in the ninth, getting to Dick Tidrow and Sparky Lyle, who relieved Medich for four singles, one a bunt.
The White Sox beat the Brewers, 4–2, as Jim Katt posted his eighth victory against one loss this season and his 15th in 16 games since last August 30. It was the 223d career victory for the 37‐year‐old pitcher, who has won more games than any other active pitcher in the league. The Brewers lost their sixth straight game when Bucky Dent and Brian Downing hit successive home runs with two out in the ninth.
The A’s edged the Orioles, 6–5, in 11 innings. Gene Tenace singled across the winning run, his fifth R.B.I. of the game, and sent Baltimore to its fifth straight defeat and ninth in the last 10 games. Tenace drove in Oakland’s first four runs with a single and a three‐run homer. Trailing by 5–1, the Orioles tied the game in the sixth, chasing Ken Holtzman, the A’s starter. Bobby Grich walked. Don Baylor singled and Brooks Robinson drove them home with his second double. Jim Perry replaced Holtzman and gave up a two‐run pinch homer by Jim Northrup.
The Twins bowed to the Tigers by a score of 6–2. Dan Moyer hit a two‐run homer and Aurelio Rodriguez drove in three runs with a homer and a double to back the six‐hit pitching of Vern Ruhle who won his fourth game in five decisions.
Dwight Evans hit a two‐run homer in the eighth inning to break a 5–5 tie, and Rick Wise, with help from Bill Lee and Dick Drago, won his fifth game in nine decisions as the Red Sox prevailed over the Rangers, 7–5. Bernie Carbo hit a three‐run homer in the seventh to give Boston a 5–3 lead. That lasted only until Willie Davis tied the game with a two‐run homer in the bottom of the seventh. The loss was the fourth in succession for the Rangers.
Cleveland Indians 9, California Angels 3
Atlanta Braves 0, Chicago Cubs 6
Montreal Expos 3, Cincinnati Reds 4
Montreal Expos 4, Cincinnati Reds 5
Minnesota Twins 2, Detroit Tigers 6
New York Yankees 5, Kansas City Royals 6
Chicago White Sox 4, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, New York Mets 6
Baltimore Orioles 5, Oakland Athletics 6
San Francisco Giants 0, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Houston Astros 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 10
San Diego Padres 9, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Boston Red Sox 7, Texas Rangers 5
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Lauryn Hill, American singer and rapper (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill), in Newark, New Jersey.
Travis Lee, Team USA and MLB first baseman (Olympic bronze medal, 1996; Arizona Diamondbacks, Philadelphia Phillies, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, New York Yankees), in San Diego, California.
P.J. Stock, Canadian NHL centre and left wing (New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Kwasi Kwarteng, British politician (Chancellor of the Exchequer), in London, England, United Kingdom.
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