The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to resume the strategic arms limitation talks June 23 in Geneva, the State Department announced. The talks have been recessed since May 8 when negotiations were broken off to allow the delegations to consult with their governments. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger has said repeatedly during the interim that the recess was called because of the need to examine technical aspects of the talks.
A Geneva conference to review progress toward implementing the 1970 treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons ended with adoption of a statement designed to soften the split between the two nuclear superpowers and the non-nuclear nations. The final declaration called on the United States and the Soviet Union to step up nuclear disarmament efforts and speedily conclude strategic arms limitation talks.
President Ford arrived in Madrid for talks that were intended to ease the way toward a new agreement that will keep United States air and naval bases in Spain. Mr. Ford, who said his visit was undertaken in “the recognition of Spain’s significance as a friend and partner” received an elaborate and outwardly friendly greeting from Generalissimo Francisco Franco and tens of thousands of Spaniards. Mr. Ford had arrived from Brussels, where at a meeting of heads of government of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, he had tried to push for closer relations between Spain and the alliance, but there was no reaction from most members.
The Greek and Turkish premiers agreed that their conflict “must be solved peacefully,” and also agreed on guidelines for future negotiations. Both sides said it was a “good start on the dialogue” and “very encouraging.” A diplomat said with relief “it may be the major breakthrough we were hoping for.” The meeting in Brussels between Premier Konstantine Karamanlis of Greece and Premier Suleyman Demirel of Turkey culminated an intricate series of separate meetings with President Ford and a number of European chiefs of state during the meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The editor of a non-Communist newspaper closed by the Portuguese government met in Lisbon with President Francisco da Costa Gomes and other officials to discuss the conditions for its reappearance. The talks were another sign of lessening political tension following a meeting of Socialists with the revolutionary council of the nation’s ruling Armed Forces Movement which led to the end of a boycott by the Socialist Party of the cabinet.
A private commission of prominent Americans, West Europeans and Japanese strongly denounced a call today for less democracy and more government authority in their respective nations. Members of the Trilateral Commission, an association of leading professional persons, business executives, labor leaders, academicians and politicians acting as private persons, nearly demolished a study that the commission itself had requested be made. The report, entitled “The Governability of Democracies,” was issued in Kyoto and made available in Tokyo. It was perhaps the most ambitious and provocative since the Trilateral Commission was established in October, 1973, at the initiative of David Rockefeller, chairman of the, Chase Manhattan Bank. It was prepared by three scholars, Samuel P. Huntington of Harvard, Michel Crozier of the University of Paris and Joji Watanuki of Sophia University in Tokyo.
American officials believe that the likelihood of a resumption of the “step-by-step” approach toward a peace settlement in the Middle East is increasing. Reporters aboard Air Force One carrying President Ford from Brussels to Madrid were told that his meeting with President Anwar Sadat in Salzburg, beginning today, would be a “very important, crucial meeting.” Unless there is some progress toward a peace settlement “it is mathematically certain” that a war will break out in six months to two years, the reporters were told. But American officials believe that Mr. Sadat “wants some progress.”
U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy wound up his Middle East tour today and flew home after an 18‐hour visit to Israel. The Senator, who arrived here yesterday after visits to Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, said his talks in Jerusalem last night with Premier Yitzhak Rabin and other Govetnment leaders and university professors had been most useful. He predicted that Congress would continue to support Israel in its efforts to achieve a settlement “based on safe, secure and recognized borders.” Senator Kennedy arrived at Kennedy Airport last night.
Security forces made progress today in separating armed factions in areas of Beirut, but a wave of political kidnappings has aroused new tensions. Major General Saed Nasrallah, an army officer serving as Minister of Interior in a caretaker cabinet, said that he had obtained agreement from both Phalangist party leaders and Palestinian guerrillas to the creation of “demilitarized zones” in areas where there has been fighting. This would reduce the danger of clashes at barricades and checkpoints of the right‐wing Phalangists and Palestinians.
Meanwhile, Rashid Karami, a Muslim leader who has been designated as Premier by President Suleiman Franjieh, continued his efforts to form a broadly based cabinet capable of resolving the political crisis. The discussions on a cabinet, have encountered opposition from left‐wing party leaders like Kemal Jumblat, and from some Muslims against joining in a cabinet with the Phalangists, the largest Christian party in the country. The antagonisms have been sharpened by charges leveled against the Phalangists by Mr. Jumblat and Wafa, the Palestinian press agency, that the Phalangists had kidnapped many people and were holding them as hostages.
A Cairo court sentenced three Egyptians to hang for leading a conspiracy to overthrow President Anwar Sadat. The court found 60 of the original 92 defendants innocent, sentenced eight to life in prison and gave terms of from five to 15 years to the other 21. They were charged with plotting to seize arms and ammunition from a military academy and using the weapons to attack the political headquarters where Sadat was attending a meeting. The attack on the academy April 18, 1974, left 13 dead.
Twenty years in prison is the sentence imposed in Algeria on an American, 35‐year‐old Frank Curtiss, convicted in Algiers criminal court today for drug trafficking. Mr. Curtiss, who was born in Brooklyn, shook his lawyer’s hand and smiled after the reading of the sentence, for his two fellow defendants were sentenced to death yesterday by the same court on a similar charge. The three were the last to he tried among the 99 foreigners arrested at the Moroccan frontier by Algerian police last December and January. Aboard 47 cars, mostly new models specially prepared to conceal drugs, the police found three tons of hashish. According to the Algerian police, the drug carriers, many of then young people of 22 to 25, had been recruited in Europe to pick up hashish in Morocco, transport it through Algeria and then by car ferry via Italy for sale in Europe, the United States, and Canada.
The government of Iran has contracted with a U.S. defense contractor to build an intelligence base from which Iran could monitor military and civilian electronics communications throughout the Persian Gulf. Well-placed United States officials have disclosed that Iran has signed a multi-million-dollar contract with a United States defense contractor to set up a communications intelligence facility in Iran that would be capable of intercepting military and civilian communications throughout the Persian Gulf area. The contract, which at the request of the Shah of Iran has not yet been publicly announced, also calls for the defense company, Rockwell International of Anaheim, Calif., to recruit former employees of the United States National Security Agency for the project. The agency’s employees generally have or have had access to the United States government’s most closely guarded intelligence techniques. Rockwell’s electronic operations are headquartered in Anaheim, California.
Communist Pathet Lao troops took control of Savannakhet, the second largest city in Laos, as Laotian Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma ordered the Royal Army to lay down their arms and cease further resistance. By year’s end, Laos would become the third nation in Indochina (after Cambodia and South Vietnam) to fall under Communist control during that year.
The acting Defense Minister ordered Laotian soldiers tonight to break off all relations with Americans. Kham Ouane Bupa, a Communist representative in the coalition government, issued the order over the Vientiane radio. It was the latest move in a series of anti‐American acts that began with demonstrations against the United States aid program in Laos. These led to a major American evacuation that is still going on. The Defense Ministry broadcast also announced that the government was confiscating the property of two generals who fled the country three weeks ago in a purge of loyalist officers.
Former South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyễn Cao Kỳ said Graham Martin, the last U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, sought him out two weeks before the fall of Saigon and asked him to consider taking over the government from President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. Martin was often portrayed as being unwilling to suggest that Thiệu step down. Kỳ, now living in Arlington, Virginia, said a change of leadership might have saved South Vietnam from the Communists.
Muslim rebels have stepped up their activity against Philippine Government forces after a two‐month lull coinciding with talks aimed at ending the rebellion. At least 12 persons were killed, 10 of them rebels, in a series of encounters off the island of Jolo in the third week of May, military headquarters said today. An unspecified number of civilians were injured. The report said that a Philippine Navy patrol boat was attacked by rebels in small craft armed with .30‐caliber machine guns. The gun control officer of the patrol boat was killed. The patrol boat then sank the 14 small craft, plus three others that attempted to intercept it the next day, the government report said. Three days later when the ship docked at Jolo Island carrying 18 rebel prisoners, it was fired upon by insurgents hidden behind a row of houses at pierside. Marines who searched the area also met heavy fire, the report said.
Anguilla won a new constitution from Britain, but one that falls short of total independence demanded by the natives of the tiny Caribbean island that defied British might six years ago. Shortly after the association of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla came into being in 1967, Anguillans complained of misrule by the federation government based in St. Kitts. A declaration of independence from Britain led to paratroopers landing on the island and a British promise to refer the issue to a special commission. Most Anguillan demands are met in the new constitution.
Refugees poured into Luanda today to escape continuing fighting between rival Angolan nationalist movements. Nearly 100 civilians have been evacuated by air from the town of Bula Atumba in the northeast, where some of the worst violence has occurred. The latest clashes began Wednesday over a wide area east and northeast of the capital.
South Africa has gambled that it can give a little, but not what it regards as too much, on the disputed territory of South‐West Africa and still succeed in its campaign to achieve increased inernational respectability. This week it offered some change and eventual self‐determination for South‐West Africa — called Namibia by the United Nations — but refused to withdraw from the territory now or to guarantee its independence as a single state. The United Nations Security Council met in New York this week to discuss the 30‐year‐old dispute over the territory. In December the Council gave South Africa six months to outline its plans for withdrawal or face “appropriate measures.”
Defendants in the numerous suits that followed the crash of the DC-10 jet aircraft near Paris in March, 1974, in which 346 people were killed, have agreed on a formula under which they would split damage awards that are expected to approach $100 million. The offer to negotiate individual settlements, or have juries decide the amounts of compensation in each case, was made in Federal District Court in Los Angeles. But it appeared to be hedged with a precondition that the plaintiffs withdraw all claims to so-called “punitive” damages, as opposed to amounts compensating survivors for their losses. Lawyers representing scores of survivors rejected the condition, and the court put off further action until mid-June.
Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. refused to set aside an order barring news media from publishing jurors’ names during a Texas murder trial. The Austin American Statesman had applied for a stay of the order of District Judge Thomas D. Blackwell in the trial of Robert Kleasen, 42, in the shooting death of Mark Fisher, a 19-year-old Mormon missionary from Milwaukee. Blackwell said his ban would be lifted when the jury retired to deliberate its verdict. The trial was expected to end this week.
Black activist Angela Davis joined about 3,000 persons for a demonstration in Washington, D.C., against alleged inequities in the criminal justice system and in support of the “Wilmington 10.” The 10 defendants — nine black men and one white woman — will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse their convictions on arson and conspiracy charges in the fire-bombing of a store in Wilmington, North Carolina. The incident occurred during a period of racial tension in 1971.
A six‐year‐old agency created to help minority businesses has been found by the staff of a House committee to be so torn by internal racial strife, beset by political pressures from Congress and badly operated that the committee staff has recommended that the agency be disbanded. The Office of Minority Busi ness Enterprise, established by President Nixon to focus Federal programs on minority businesses, has been ineffective, according to the Staff of the House Appropriations Committee, and its multimillion‐dollar budget would be better spent in other ways.
A Ralph Nader group accused the Consumer Product Safety Commission of letting a lobbyist for the nation’s small businesses serve as a consumer representative on an advisory panel. Richard O. Simpson, chairman of the commission, said the charge was valid. Nader’s health research group identified the lobbyist as Margaret Robson, who was assistant secretary-treasurer of the National Small Business Association for 33 years and is still a consultant to the business group.
Welfare rolls in New York City passed the million mark in May, putting one out of every eight residents on the dole, Commissioner James Dumpson said. He said the number on public assistance would climb to a record high in July. The previous record of 1.2 million was set in 1972, but it included disabled, aged and blind persons, who have since been transferred to a federal income supplement program. Dumpson blamed the national recession and federal economic policies for generating “a caseload of catastrophic proportions” and said the state and federal governments must help prevent civil unrest.
Boston longshoremen walked out in a dispute over a guaranteed annual wage package. Only one ship was in port as many firms, anticipating the strike, diverted cargoes elsewhere. The lone vessel, a passenger liner, was loaded and unloaded. A port spokesman said longshoremen traditionally do not include passenger ships in labor disputes. A union representative said the 600 longshoremen and clerks on strike want a guaranteed 1,500 hours of work a year compared to 2,080 in the old contract.
A Federal judge in Philadelphia refused today to dismiss the robbery indictment of Susan E. Saxe and rejected several pretrial potions filed by her attorneys. Miss Saxe, 26 years old, of Albany, will go on trial June 9 for the $6,240 robbery of the Bell Savings and Loan bank on September 1, 1970. Defense attorneys asked United States District Judge Alfred L. Luongo, who will preside at the Philadelphia trial, to dismiss the indictment against Miss Saxe on grounds that the Government used “illegal electronic or other surveillance.”
A California jury of eight women and four men ended this evening its second day of deliberations in the trial of two men accused of murdering Dr. Marcus A. Foster, Oakland Superintendent of Schools, with cyanide-tipped bullets on November 6, 1973. The deliberations will resume to morrow at 9 AM.
A state judge in North Carolina declared Morrey Joe Campbell an outlaw as more than 100 law enforcement officers pressed a search for the man or men involved in the slaying of two sheriff’s deputies. The outlaw order authorizes any citizen to kill Campbell “without accusation or impeachment of any crime.” Authorities identified Campbell as the man sought in the Friday night shootings of two deputies — one slain when he stopped a car near Clemmons, North Carolina, because he thought the driver might be under the influence of alcohol, and the other shot to death when he stopped a car fitting the description of the slayer’s vehicle.
After five days of confrontations between melon growers and United Farm Workers organizers in south Texas, the union announced plans for a religious pilgrimage and Mass for nonviolence today, but farmers ignored an offer of church mediation in the dispute. The UFW plans a six-mile march from Hidalgo, Texas, to St. Joseph Catholic Church in McAllen. Forty growers met to organize a permanent group to oppose UFW organizing, and farmers opened a drive to pressure GovernorDolph Briscoe to send Texas Rangers to keep peace and protect property.
The rigid chronological barrier that has long existed between high schools and colleges is being increasingly breached by tens of thousands of restless American teenagers who are performing college-level work before they get their high school diplomas by eliminating the high school senior year or combining it with the freshman year of college. They are getting their Bachelor’s degrees at earlier ages. Beth Silverman, for example, who would have graduated this month from high school in Dayton, Ohio, is instead competing her second year at Simon’s Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and preparing to transfer to Cornell.
The federal government for the first time will share information with the state on the economic value of oil and gas resources off the Southern California coast. The state Energy Commission had pressed for the data to assess environmental risks involved in the Interior Department proposal to lease 1.6 million acres off the coast. State Energy Commission Chairman Richard Maullin said the information will help California make sure it gets a fair price for its oil and assure that oil resources “are exploited in a way that doesn’t run us dry too quickly and leave us with nothing.”
The astronomer who discovered Jupiter’s 13th moon last September says more moons will be found in the solar system during the next few years, and possibly this year. Charles Kowal, 34 years old, says there is a growing interest in the satellites because scientists must know where they are when calculating the flight paths of spacecraft to other planets. Mr. Kowal, the Hale Observatories’ astronomical observer, said better observing techniques may show that Jupiter has even more satellites. He is also looking for additional moons near Saturn and Uranus.
Larry Grossman and Hal Hackady’s historical musical comedy “Goodtime Charley”, based on King Charles VII of France, and starring Joel Grey, closes at Palace Theater, NYC, after 104 performances
“Fight the Power” single released by The Isley Brothers (Billboard Song of the Year, 1975).
Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition.
Chris Evert crushed Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia 6-1, 6-0, today and retained the women’s singles title in the $120,000 Italian open tennis championships. It was a repetition of last year’s final.
Major League Baseball:
Jim (Catfish) Hunter came within a whistle of throwing a no-hitter against Texas tonight as the second largest crowd in Rangers’ history — 38,714 — watched him shut out the Rangers, 6–0, on one single. Cesar Tovar gets the only hit for Texas, the 5th time in his career he has had his team’s lone hit in a game. Hunter faced only 29 batters, two over the minimum, he struck out four and walked none. The only other Ranger to reach first base was Toby Harrah. He got on in the third on Jim Mason’s error and stole second, but got no farther as Hunter retired the side on a ground out, a strikeout and a fly ball by Tovar.
Willie Horton hit a two‐run homer in the fourth inning and Vern Ruhle pitched a two‐hitter as the Detroit Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox, 2–0, today. Danny Meyer singled off Jim Kaat in the fourth, and Horton sent the next pitch into the left‐center‐field stands, his 11th homer of the season. Ruhle didn’t allow a Chicago runner past second base. The only hits off him were singles by Ken Henderson in the fourth and Brian Downing in the fifth.
John Mayberry slammed three hits, including his fifth home run of the season, and scored three times to send the Kansas City Royals to a 7–5 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers today. The Royals beat the Brewers in a game bridging the generation gap. Home run leaders Henry Aaron and Harmon Killebrew are in their 22nd Major League seasons and winning pitcher Lindy McDaniel is in his 21st. All three were playing in the majors before Brewers shortstop Robin Yount was born.
Mike Cuellar allowed only a third‐inning single by Bruce Bochte tonight and Brooks Robinson hit a homer in the eighth to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 1–0 victory over the California Angels. The loss was the Angels’ fifth straight and extended their scoreless‐inning streak to 22. Bill Singer lost for the seventh time in 11 decisions despite yielding just three hits. It was the third one‐hitter for Cuellar, who won for the first time since May 7. It was also his 32d career shutout.
George Hendrick drove in three runs with a pair of homers and Dennis Eckersley pitched a six‐hitter, leading the Cleveland Indians to a 4–1 victory over the Oakland A’s today.
Jim Rice’s three‐run homer in the seventh inning highlighted a 17‐hit Boston attack and lifted the Red Sox to a 12–8 comeback victory over the Minnesota Twins today. Rice’s seventh homer of the year, a 371‐foot belt into, the left‐field seats off Tom Burgmeier, came after Jim Burleson and Carl Yastrzemski had singled. Yastrzemski’s hit was the 2,300th of his major league career. Minnesota wasted three‐run homers by Larry Hisle and Rod Carew and a solo shot by Steve Braun as the Red Sox rallied from a 7–3 deficit and maintained their lead in the American League East.
Houston erupts for twelve runs in the eighth inning, setting a club mark, during a 15–3 bombing of Philadelphia. Wayne Twitchell, a former high Astros draft pick, had allowed two hits in seven innings before the collapse. Pinch-hitter Cliff Johnson belts a double and a home run for three RBIs during the frame but the league later rules that the homer cannot officially be a pinch hit since he batted earlier in the inning.
Backed by a 17‐hit attack — the Mets’ biggest production of the National League baseball season — Tom Seaver posted his sevemh triumph last night at Shea Stadium as the New Yorkers pounded the San Diego Padres, 7–2. Seaver, who has lost four times, scattered six hits and struck out the same number. He yielded his first hit in the sixth inning. The only San Diego batter who really troubled him was Johnny Grubb, who knocked in both Padre runs. Grubb followed a one‐out single by Joe McIntosh in the sixth with a double to right center and in the eighth he belted his second home run of the season over the rightfield fence.
Andy Messersmith gets a loss and a save for the Dodgers in Chicago. In a game continued from the previous day, he saves a 3–1 win for Don Sutton, then loses 2–1 to the Cubs on two solo home runs. Jose Cardenal’s homers in the fourth and sixth innings led the Cubs to victory. Rick Reuschel, gaining his fourth victory against five losses, held the Dodgers to three hits. He struck out 11, the most strike‐outs against the Dodger team this season.
Joe Morgan hit a two‐run homer tonight and Ken Griffey and George Foster added solo shots in leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 6–0 triumph over the St. Louis Cardinals. Don Gullett, the winning pitcher, allowed the Cards four hits.
Dave Parker paced a 16‐hit attack with three hits and scored three runs tonight as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Atlanta Braves, 11–4, for their third straight victory. Bruce Kison recorded his fifth victory against one loss. The triumph kept the Pirates a half‐game ahead of Chicago in the National League East.
Mike Jorgensen greeted Gary Lavelle, a relief pitcher, with a leadoff home run in the bottom of the ninth inning tonight, giving the Montreal Expos a 3–2 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Steve Rogers shut out San Francisco on two hits until the eighth inning, when Dave Rader walked and Glenn Adams hit his first major league home run to tie the score.
Baltimore Orioles 1, California Angels 0
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Chicago Cubs 2
Chicago White Sox 0, Detroit Tigers 2
Kansas City Royals 7, Milwaukee Brewers 5
Boston Red Sox 12, Minnesota Twins 8
San Francisco Giants 2, Montreal Expos 3
San Diego Padres 2, New York Mets 7
Cleveland Indians 4, Oakland Athletics 1
Houston Astros 15, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Atlanta Braves 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 11
Cincinnati Reds 6, St. Louis Cardinals 0
New York Yankees 6, Texas Rangers 0
Born:
Amy McGrath, U.S. Marine fighter pilot (first woman to fly an F/A-18 combat mission; 89 combat missions against al-Qaeda and the Taliban), in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Kenny Mixon, NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings), in Sun Valley, California.
Mac Suzuki, Japanese MLB pitcher (Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals, Colorado Rockies, Milwaukee Brewers), in Kobe, Japan.
Merle Dandridge, American actress (“Station 19”, “The Last of Us”), in Okinawa, Japan.
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