The strategic arms limitation talks have been put off again, this time until late June. The new postponement was anticipated after the May 28 meeting between Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko. It was clear after their meeting that some problems needed further clarification, according to SALT sources in Geneva, where the talks recessed on May 7.
The military commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, General Alexander M. Haig, warned Western allies in Bonn, West Germany, of the need to cooperate on security issues as well as on economic and social problems. Making his first public speech since taking over NATO command five months ago, Haig also argued that political détente between East and West was no substitute for the strength of Western defenses.
On the eve of President Ford’s week-long trip to Europe, White House advisers are saying the President is reducing his reliance on Secretary of State Kissinger and assuming increasing command over his own foreign policy. The advisers said the President retained full confidence in Mr. Kissinger and generally shared his views on diplomacy. Recent interviews with White House and other administration officials indicate that Mr. Ford is determined to put his own stamp on foreign policy and has substantially broadened his circle of foreign policy advisers.
In a significant change in its foreign economic policy, the United States says it is willing to consider arrangements for greater price stability for the raw materials exported by developing countries. At a meeting in Paris of the International Energy Agency, an 18-nation grouping of major oil consumers, Secretary of State Kissinger told the ministers, “Our interdependence will make us thrive together or decline together.” The United States told its Western partners that it hoped the new efforts to deal “seriously” with the problems of the developing world would break a deadlock between oil producers and consumers and help avoid another energy confrontation.
The Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England killed 32 people, all but the driver being middle-aged and elderly women, in the worst road accident in the history of the United Kingdom. The women, all bus passengers from Thornaby-on-Tees, were on a sightseeing tour of the Yorkshire Dales. The poorly maintained brakes of the bus failed as it was descending a steep hill, sending the vehicle out of control and off of a 17 foot high bridge.
Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party Central Committee named its general secretary, Gustav Husak, to succeed incumbent President Ludvik Svokoda, who has been seriously ill for more than a year. He will take over on Thursday. Husak will retain his post as the party’s general secretary, the central committee announced.
Mario Soares, the embattled Portuguese Socialist leader, returned here today from talks with other European Socialists to face sharpened hostility from the ruling arched forces. Mr. Soares gathered support for the Portuguese Socialist cause over the weekend during a meeting in Bordeaux. France, of southern European Socialist parties. But in Lisbon early this morning, after a 16‐hour session, the armed forces General Assembly of 240 officers and enlisted men attacked his party for its boycott of Cabinet meetings and showed no disposition to accede to Socialist demands against the Communists. Mr. Soares, who is Minister without Portfolio in an increasingly shaky coalition, conferred with party leaders after his return from France on whether to continue in the government after what appeared to be a refusal by the military to make concessions to him.
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt would oppose any efforts by the United States to press for a closer association between Spain and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at the alliance meeting this week in Brussels, West German officials said today.
Lebanon’s political crisis eased today as President Suleiman Franjieh consulted political leaders on the appointment of a new Premier acceptable to the country’s Muslims. After a week of street fighting, in which 70 people have been reported killed and nearly 200 wounded, the violence dwindled today to a few shots by snipers. Late in the afternoon, explosions were heard in one of the areas of fighting during the last week. Clashes were reported to have broken out after a busload of persons coming from a Christian village was delayed at a checkpoint by armed Muslims. But security forces obtained the release of the bus and its passengers and the shooting stopped. There were no reports of casualties. Palestinian guerrillas and right‐wing Christian nationalists of the Phalangist party remained on the alert behind sandbag emplacements. The prospect of the appointment of a new Premier, who is likely to be Rashid Karame, a Sunni Muslim from the northern city of Tripoli, brought a wave of relief and a return toward normal life in this capital.
The State Department said today that, “we particularly regret” the incursions of Israeli armed forces into Lebanese territory “at a time when Lebanon is beset by internal tensions.” The statement by Robert L. Funseth, the department spokesman, in response to a newsman’s question, added: “We hope that at this sensitive moment everyone will exercise maximum restraint. We have made known consistently that these incidents of violence are not conducive to the negotiating process in the Middle East.” There was no specific mention of Israel but a high‐ranking State Department official said the statement was meant to caution the Israeli Government. The official said, “We are obviously concerned because if you look back, it is a more serious crisis in Lebanon than in the past.”
The Soviet Union today denied reports in the Egyptian press that it had signed an agreement providing for Soviet naval and air bases in Libya.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy in public appearances today after a meeting with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, questioned the wisdom of large arms purchases by Iran and other countries of the Persian Gulf region.
Laos and the United States reached an 8-point agreement in Vientiane, with all Americans to leave Laos, the last nation in Southeast Asia not controlled by Communists, by June 30.
Two thieves have been executed and a third sentenced to death in Saigon, the official newspaper of the new Communist regime reported. The three were doomed by a vote of residents of the area in which the crimes occurred. The executions were the first confirmed in Saigon since the new government took over the capital on April 30. Meanwhile, the Japanese Kyodo news service reported from Peking that Moscow has demanded the right to use former U.S. bases in South Vietnam in return for Soviet aid to the Vietnamese Communists during the war.
Captain Charles T. Miller of the American freighter Mayaguez tearfully denied in Manila that either he or Sea-Land Co., owner of the vessel seized by Cambodian Communists, unnecessarily endangered the lives of the crew. He said the ship had not been warned to steer clear of Cambodian waters. He added that he did not know details of a lawsuit filed in San Francisco by the vessel’s assistant engineer, but he called it “just a harassing deal.”
North Korea demanded that the United States withdraw its 40,000 troops from South Korea and stop supporting President Park Chung Hee if it wants to escape another humiliation like its defeat in Vietnam. In reply, the United States accused North Korea of presenting the greatest threat to peace in Korea since it invaded the south 25 years ago. The two sides traded the angry remarks at the 362nd meeting of the Korean Military Armistice Commission in the truce village of Panmunjom.
Former Philippines Vice President Fernando Lopez was named in Manila as one of the men behind an alleged plot to assassinate President Ferdinand E. Marcos and visiting Indonesian President Suharto in 1972. The plan reportedly was dropped because of fear of international repercussions. The charge came in a sworn statement by an American gunman, August McCormick Lehman Jr., at his pretrial investigation.
Quechua, spoken by three million of the Quechua people in Peru, was made the second official language in that South American nation, joining Spanish as a language to be used in education and court proceedings.
The judge who jailed Gulf Oil Corp.’s representative in Bolivia last week ordered his release in La Paz. after his lawyers argued that he had no legal responsibility for the company’s political contributions. Judge Mario Torrico ordered the release of Carlos Dorado Chopitea when the general prosecutor gave the court a favorable opinion on the lawyers’ argument.
President Ford told the nation that, as expected, he would impose a second $1-a-barrel tax on imported oil beginning next Sunday and would start phasing out price controls on domestic oil supplies later in June, In a brief, nationally televised address, the President accused Congress of wasting four months in unproductive debate on energy conservation and said he is taking action now because “the Congress cannot drift, dawdle and debate forever with America’s future.”
The United States Supreme Court has declined to change a lower court order under which a former Central Intelligence Agency employee must submit all his future writing about the agency to the C.I.A. for pre-publication censorship. Only Associate Justice William O. Douglas dissented to the court’s decision in declining to review a lower court ruling that bars Victor Marchetti, co-author of “The C.I.A. and the Cult of Intelligence,” from restoring to his book material the agency struck from the manuscript as classified.
A federal jury in Washington, D.C., awarded $7 million in damages to the family and a youth whose neck was broken when he dove into a hotel swimming pool while in Washington for an Explorer Scout convention four years ago. Lawyers said the sum might be the largest such award to an individual in the country. The jury directed that $6 million should go to the youth, Thomas Hooks, of Venice, Illinois, who was 18 at the time, and $1 million to his family. Hooks is now a quadriplegic. Held liable for the accident were the owners of the Sheraton Park Hotel.
Governor Julian Carroll, a veteran of Kentucky politics who has been the state’s chief executive since December, easily won nomination for a full four-year term in a four-way Democratic primary. He turned back a major challenge by outpolling Judge Todd Hollenbach by more than two to one. In a four-way Republican primary for governor that attracted far less voter interest, Robert Gable, a coal and lumber operator, held a substantial lead.
The Food and Drug Administration officially backed off from its controversial 1973 position that superpotent vitamin and mineral preparations should be classified as drugs. Instead, the agency proposed new regulations that would treat such products as foods when they are generally recognized as safe and marketed as dietary supplements. High-potency vitamin A and D preparations would continue to be regulated as prescription drugs because of their demonstrated toxicity.
Public employment programs, which use government funds to provide jobs, are overvalued in their ability to reduce unemployment and deliver more public services, according to a private study released in Washington today.
The Civil Aeronautics Board fined American Airlines a record $150,000 for using corporate funds for political contributions, including a $55,000 contribution to the reelection campaign of former President Richard M. Nixon. American Airlines agreed last week to pay the fine and the CAB has now approved the settlement. The airline was charged last March with illegally disbursing $275,000 in corporate funds to candidates between 1964 and 1973.
Eighteen percent fewer new college graduates are being hired this year and the job market for them may not improve until next spring, according to a survey released in Washington, D.C., by the College Placement Council. It said responses from 709 employers showed the decline was sharpest for engineers and PhDs. Opportunities remain strong for top students, minorities and women in high-demand fields, the report said.
The Alaska Supreme Court ruled, 5–0, that the right to possession and use of marijuana within one’s home could not be outlawed, citing constitutional guarantees of privacy, making Alaska the first of the United States to partially decriminalize cannabis. The decision came in the case of Ravin v. State, 537 P.2d. 494 (Alaska, 1975), a test case brought by lawyer Irvin Ravin of Homer, Alaska, who had arranged to be stopped while driving to his home with a small amount of pot in his possession.
A sharp decline in maternal deaths and injuries related to abortion has accompanied liberalized abortion laws, a report from a panel of the National Academy of Sciences said today.
The predicted solar heating and cooling boom may never materialize unless the industry develops standards of safety and effectiveness, presidential consumer adviser Virginia Knauer warned. She told the opening session of the first major solar energy trade show in Washington, D.C., that the quality of the products during the next two or three years “will have a major bearing on whether this infant industry reaches gianthood or whether it perishes in its first baby step.”
A threat of legal action to force the U.S. Interior Department to add 175 animals to its list of endangered species was made in Washington, D.C., by the Fund for Animals, a conservation organization. The 175 species, including the Indian elephant, Caribbean monk seal and the peninsular pronghorn antelope, are all among the 375 the United States agreed were endangered at an international conference in Washington two months ago. But since then, a spokesman for the Fund for Animals said, the Interior Department has refused to carry out terms of the International treaty that resulted in the conference.
Paul McCartney & Wings release their “Venus and Mars” album.
The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Buffalo Sabres, 2–0, to win the NHL’s Stanley Cup, 4 games to 2. The series marked the first Cup finals, since 1923, that neither of the two finalists had been one of the “Original Six” (Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, N.Y. Rangers, or Toronto). Goaltender Bernie Parent wins his 2nd consecutive Conn Smyth trophy as playoff MVP. “This second Cup is more satisfying than the first,” said Bernie Parent, Philadelphia’s goalie, who won the award as the most valuable player in the playoffs for the second consecutive year. “We proved something this time, that we were no fluke champion.” While Parent was turning away 32 shots. Philadelphia’s Bob Kelly and Bill Clement went from unsung heroes to men of the hour. It was Kelly’s goal at the 11‐second mark of the third period that proved the Cup‐winning tally, while Clement’s score clinched the crown with 2 minutes, 48 seconds remaining.
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In St. Louis, Lou Brock hits for the cycle to back Bob Forsch’s 7–1 win over the Padres. Brock, 35, raised his batting average to .340 with a single, homer, triple and double in that order. Forsch also helped his cause with two singles in winning his fifth game in eight decisions.
Double trouble stalked the New York Mets last night, when they lost Bud Harrelson for perhaps the rest of the season and then lost some of their recent dash under a 10–4 barrage by the Los Angeles Dodgers. The barrage included two home runs by Jim Wynn and another by Dave Lopes that riddled the Mets’ second‐line pitching. But the Mets were even more riddled by medical reports and the No. 1 casualty was Harrelson, their regular shortstop for the last eight seasons.
The San Francisco Giants, whose extra-inning winning streak was stopped at five Monday night in Philadelphia, started another last night in the same place, beating the Phillies, 1–0, in the 10th.
Marty Perez cracked a two‐out, two-run single with the bases loaded in the seventh inning, then the Braves added four runs in the eighth, to beat the Cubs, 7–2. Perez’s blow finished the Cub pitcher, Rick Reuschel (3–5). Phil Niekro held the Cubs to seven hits in evening his record at 4‐4. He retired the first 11 batters and yielded a run on Reuschel’s first major league homer in the sixth.
The Pirates downed the Astros, 6–5. Bill Robinson singled home Willie Stargell with the winning run after two out, capping a three‐run rally in the ninth. Robinson, hitless in four previous times up, including three strike‐outs, lined a 1–2 pitch to left for the decisive blow.
Al Fitzmorris (7–3), the Kansas City right-hander who threw a three-hit shutout and beat the New York Yankees, 3–0, before a crowd of 20,592 in Royals Stadium tonight, confessed that his fastball was nonexistent. His sliders were good enough to handcuff the Yankees, however. Catfish Hunter took the loss.
Bobby Mitchell capped a five‐run rally in the fourth with a three‐run homer that sparked Milwaukee to its 9–8 victory over the visiting White Sox. The Brewers, using a revised batting order picked from a hat at random by the players, rallied from a 4‐0 deficit to shake a slump of six straight defeats and eight in nine starts.
The Twins edged the Tigers, 6–5. Rod Carew hit a homer with none on and Larry Hisle connected with two on in a four‐run sixth, then Carew delivered a sacrifice fly in the ninth for the Twins’ deciding run.
John Ellis’s two‐run single capped a three‐run Indians’ rally in the eighth inning as the Indians defeated the Angels, 6–3. A bases‐loaded walk to Charlie Spikes gave the Indians the tie‐breaking run before Ellis lashed his single to center, giving Gaylord Perry (6–6) his first victory ever in Anaheim Stadium.
The Oakland A’s beat the Orioles, 4–2. Sal Bando — batting just .183 — singled in the tying run in the seventh inning, then Reggie Jackson, who had homered earlier, doubled in the winner as the A’s handed the Baltimore Orioles their fifth straight loss.
Cleveland Indians 6, California Angels 3
Atlanta Braves 7, Chicago Cubs 2
Minnesota Twins 6, Detroit Tigers 5
New York Yankees 0, Kansas City Royals 3
Chicago White Sox 8, Milwaukee Brewers 9
Los Angeles Dodgers 10, New York Mets 4
Baltimore Orioles 2, Oakland Athletics 4
San Francisco Giants 1, Philadelphia Phillies 0
Houston Astros 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 6
San Diego Padres 1, St. Louis Cardinals 7
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 826.11 (-5.79, -0.70%)
Born:
André 3000 [Andre Benjamin], American rapper (Outkast), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jamie Oliver, English chef, restaurateur, media personality, in Clavering, Essex, England, United Kingdom.
Lance Schulters, NFL safety (Pro Bowl, 1999; San Francisco 49ers, Tennessee Titans, Miami Dolphins, Atlanta Falcons), in Guyana.
Jose Cortez, NFL kicker (New York Giants, San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles, Indianapolis Colts), in San Vincente, El Salvador.
Chris Conrad, NFL tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers), in Fullerton, California.
Andre Savage, Canadian NHL centre (Boston Bruins, Philadelphia Flyers), in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Died:
Ezzard Charles, 53, American world heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), of ALS.
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