A secret intelligence survey says the United States is “beyond the peril point” in losing control of the seas to the Soviet navy, according to Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, former chief of naval operations. He urged that the survey be declassified so that the public can make an informed judgment about the Navy’s capabilities and “the policy limitations that flow from our continued weakness.”
The Soviet Union accused Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger of ignoring the U.S. policy of detente. A commentary in the Communist Party newspaper Pravda said, “From week to week the Pentagon chief makes speeches in which he suggests that NATO member countries build up their armaments,” and accused Schlesinger of sowing “suspicion toward the peace-loving aims of Soviet foreign policy.”
The Soviet Union has exploded underground nuclear devices to increase the yield of marginal oil wells, the newspaper Moskovskaya Pravda said. Two explosions reportedly resulted in an annual increase of production of 100,000 tons. The paper did not say when or where the blasts took place.
The K.G.B., the Soviet Union’s security and intelligence organization, has taken on some new foreign assignments and a bigger work load at home as a result of East-West detente, according to Western espionage specialists. While detente has increased the ability of the K.G.B. — the Committee of State Security — to infiltrate Western countries, it has also given the organization more work at home keeping surveillance over the larger number of foreigners moving around the Soviet Union. For the United States, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are similarly occupied.
The people of Northern Ireland appear to be apathetic about next Thursday’s referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Common Market. But the campaign has divided the voters along different lines from the other recent elections. In the six elections held over the last two years Northern Ireland voters have divided along Protestant and Roman Catholic lines. This time, however, the split is between moderates and hardliners in the Protestant and Catholic communities. The Protestant hard‐liners — known as loyalists for their supposed loyalty to Ulster’s links with Britain — have joined forces with their enemies in the republican movement, who believe that Northern Ireland should be united with the Irish Republic, in opposing British membership of the Common Market.
U.S. President Gerald R. Ford arrived in Salzburg, Austria for a meeting with Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat, and slipped and fell on the stairway while descending from Air Force One. Pictures of the tumbling U.S. President were seen again and again, giving Ford a reputation for being clumsy, both physically and in his handling of the presidency.
As their talks on the Middle East began in Salzburg today, President Ford praised President Anwar Sadat of Egypt for creating “opportunities” for peace. Mr. Ford, in a toast at a luncheon given by Mr. Sadat, also said that “the United States will not tolerate stagnation in our efforts for a negotiated settlement?stagnation and stalemate will not be tolerated.” This was taken by some observers as an implied rebuke to Israel. After lunch, Mr. Ford and Mr. Sadat had an hour-and-a-half meeting. Afterward, an aide to Mr. Sadat said that one of the points made was that “the time has come to heal the wounds — to cure them and move to create a peace in the Middle East.”
A year after Yitzhak Rabin was sworn in as Israel’s fifth and youngest Premier, he is coming under stinging criticism from supporters for failing to articulate a comprehensive Israeli program for peace with the Arabs. Political doves in Parliament and the press who have backed Mr. Rabin are accusing him of lacking the leadership qualities necessary to come up with a bold initiative that might break the Middle Eastern negotiating stalemate. Instead, the critics say, he is attempting to preserve the status quo and is pursuing a negotiating strategy of delay in the mistaken notion that time is on Israel’s side. At the same time both Mr. Rabin’s critics and his supporters credit him with providing Israel with a stable Government, rebuilding the armed forces, addressing thornier domestic problems and restoring some of the national confidence that was shattered by the October war in 1973.
Ariel Sharon, an Israeli hero of the October war of 1973 and a frequent focus of political controversy, was today named adviser to the Premier. His field of activity was not officially defined but it will obviously be military. Premier Yitzhak Rabin announced the creation of the new post and General Sharon’s appointment to it at the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. His action stirred another controversy. Some members of the government, including Defense Minister Shimon Peres, were opposed to the appointment, but there was no debate since the appointment did not require Cabinet approval. General Sharon is a hardliner, while Mr. Rabin is a moderate. The appointment was patently political but the Premier’s aim was unclear.
A Muslim extremist group preaching that sex outside marriage is legitimate, that praying in mosques is atheistic and that stealing from the present society is permissible, has been smashed by Egyptian security forces after its members set fire to six holy mausoleums, Cairo’s authoritative newspaper Al Ahram said.
The chief of the Lebanese Christian militia forces of former President Camille Chamoun was killed today during fighting between armed factions on the highway between Beirut and Saida. This capital was calm today, except for an explosion that wrecked the premises of Marcel and Ibrahim, the most fashionable hairdressers here. There was no apparent political reason for the attack. The major development in Lebanon’s political crisis was fighting between the Christian village of Damour and the Moslem village of Naamah, which is about 10 miles south of here on the coastal road to Saida. Three people were killed in an exchange of rocket and machine‐gun fire yesterday, which closed the road, and security forces reported that Naim Bordkan, chief of the militiamen of former President Chamoun, was killed as fighting continued. Mr. Chamoun heads the National Liberal party.
An American has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Algeria for drug offenses. He could have received the death sentence. He was identified as Frank Curtis, hometown unknown. Curtis, whose wife Elizabeth Jarrett was jailed earlier for four years on drug charges, was reported to have been in possession of about 65 pounds of unidentified drugs when arrested. A Briton and Dutchman were sentenced to death last week on drug charges.
Five Burmese insurgent groups have formed a non-Communist federation to consolidate their armed struggle against President Ne Win, according to Bangkok press reports. They said the new front united elements of the Karen, Shan, Mon and Arakeen tribal ethnic minorities but excluded the Communists and the clandestine Parliamentary Democracy Party founded by exiled former Premier U Nu.
A top U.S. diplomat flew to Thailand to discuss Bangkok-Washington relations, badly strained by Communist victories in Cambodia and South Vietnam and the Mayaguez incident. Philip C. Habib, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, said he was in Thailand to review Thai problems rather than set down U.S. policy.
The Senate today begins a reappraisal of the nation’s foreign and military policies after the failure in Indochina. The debate starts immediately after Congress returns from a 10-day recess and as President Ford completes his own mission to reassure America’s allies in Europe.
Two animals thought to be extinct — the giant wild kouprey cow and the one-horned Asian rhinoceros — were spotted by villagers in southern Laos recently, an American zoologist said in Bangkok Harvey Neese of Troy, Idaho, who was under contract to the Bronx Zoo, said natives who had salt licks near the Cambodian border reported a herd of 50 koupreys, and people in another Laos village said they trapped two of the rhinos during an elephant roundup last year.
A Japanese air force delegation left Tokyo for a tour of Europe and the United States in a preliminary survey to select a new jet fighter. Japan wants to buy 130 planes to replace its Lockheed Starfighters, with deployment to begin in 1980, but has not decided whether to import them or build them at home.
Smog is reported causing increasing damage to rice and other food plants in Tokyo and neighboring prefectures. A survey conducted last July and August by seven prefectural governments revealed that leaves of rice plants, which had been believed to resist smog, suffered from cell dissolution and other damage apparently caused by photochemical smog with sulphur oxide pollutants. Leaves of 19 other plants, including onion and spinach, were bleached or spotted, the survey showed.
Rhodesian policemen killed 11 black Africans and wounded 15 others when they opened fire on rioters in the black townships of Salisbury, the capital. The shooting started when the police fired on a crowd of 2,000 blacks in Highfield African Township outside a hall where the African National Council was meeting to discuss Prime Minister Ian Smith’s ultimatum to the council to attend a constitutional conference.
Plea bargaining with key government defendants was vital to unraveling the full story of the Watergate break-in and coverup, said former Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski. He warned at commencement exercises at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City that the court system was choked with backlogs that delayed the administration of justice. He told graduates: “The American public has demanded that the story of Watergate be known and, through the processes of justice under law, they have been made known. And I can assure you that had it not been for perfectly fair and just plea discussions, the full story of the break-in and coverup would never have been known.”
Three Mafia mobsters funneled information to the Central Intelligence Agency that it used to prepare the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, the Sacramento Bee reported. The accusation was made by an unidentified former CIA agent. He told the newspaper that in return for the data the Mafia men would have been allowed to recover money they had left behind when Fidel Castro took control of Cuba and to reopen their Cuban casinos-if the invasion succeeded. The former agent said Lawrence R. Houston, retired general counsel of the CIA, had received the information. Houston told the Bee he did not remember the incident, “But that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”
Despite a resurgence of heroin addiction and other drug abuse, the White House plans to abolish its special action office on drug abuse prevention. The office was created in 1971 in response to former President Richard M. Nixon’s war on heroin, his declared “public enemy No. 1.” The agency will go out of existence June 30 unless Congress extends it. Several senators have introduced legislation to continue the office but Administration officials have told Congress the agency is no longer needed. The White House is aware, however, of the public’s concern and President Ford will discuss the subject this week in a crime message and in a separate statement on drugs later, a spokesman said.
A team of New Orleans detectives has reached the “inevitable” conclusion that Mark Essex single-handedly killed seven persons and wounded 20 others during a 10-hour hotel sniper attack in January, 1973, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. At the time, some witnesses to the shooting rampage at the 17-story Howard Johnson’s Hotel said they thought Essex, 23, who was killed in the gunfight, had accomplices who also were shooting. But the newspaper quoted a 916-page report by four detectives as concluding, “There has been no evidence uncovered which would indicate that anyone else was involved at the time.”
Outlaw Morrey Joe Campbell, sought since Friday in connection with the North Carolina slayings of two sheriff’s deputies, was apprehended in rural Davie County, authorities said. Campbell, a furniture plant worker in nearby Mocksville, was found in a barn near the little community of Farmington, where he lived in a mobile home. His capture climaxed a search by officers and a 100-man posse using helicopters, police cruisers and foot patrols. Campbell, 29, was designated an “outlaw” Saturday by a state judge, which meant that any citizen could legally shoot him on sight if he refused to surrender. The two deputies were killed when attempting to stop Campbell’s car.
Frank Zarb, the federal energy administrator, said that the Ford administration’s energy conservation program would result in an increase of about 34 cents in gasoline prices over the next two years, raising the average cost of a gallon to 70 cents nationally. The increase would result from the administration’s announced intention to de-control the price of “old oil” combined with the $2-a-barrel tariff now in effect on imported crude oil. Asked in a television interview if it was a Ford administration policy to push the price of gas to 70 cents a gallon, Mr. Zarb replied, “That is correct.”
Federal Restrictions on coal mining must be eased if coal is to reduce significantly the nation’s energy crunch, according to Frank Zarb, the federal energy administrator. Uncertainty in the coal industry is “caused … chiefly by the government of the United States,” Zarb said in a magazine article. He said the government has limited the burning of coal and may limit the amount of coal that can be legally mined.
Secret pressures are being put on gasoline service station operators by oil companies urging the stations to sell more gasoline despite the oil companies’ public preaching on energy conservation, according to Rep. Abner J. Mikva (D-Illinois). Mikva said a survey of 300 Illinois gas stations showed 64% of the respondents were being given incentives to boost sales or they were being threatened with loss of their leases. The congressman asked the Federal Energy Administration to act immediately against such oil company tactics.
Construction of a facility designed to explore nuclear fusion as a future energy source has begun in San Diego. General Atomic Co. calls the project Doublet III. It is being financed by a $26 million grant from the federal Energy Research and Development Administration and is expected to be functioning by 1978. Dr. Robert Seamans, director of ERDA, called nuclear fusion a gamble for the future. The successful application fusion for commerical power is not expected until the end of the century, he said — if at all.
Preliminary estimates in a confidential Budget Bureau memorandum indicate that New York City’s budget deficit of $641.5 million for next year will more than double to $1.3 billion in the following year because of the rising costs of debt service, pensions and other expenses. The city’s expenses are so far ahead of its revenues, the memorandum said, that even if it could erase the $641.5 million deficit, Mayor Beame will have to cut the expenditures of all city agencies by 10 percent next fall to avoid a huge deficit for the subsequent year.
In contrast to steady passenger losses that are putting the old mass transit systems of New York and other major cities in the red, innovative public transport elsewhere in the country has been attracting enough new customers to retain for the nation as a whole almost all the ridership gains won during last year’s gasoline shortage.
The former U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9/CVA-9/CVS-9) was sold for scrap by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS), and was towed to the site of the former Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Kearny, New Jersey.
John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical “Chicago” opens at 46th St Theater, NYC; runs for 947 performances.
Ronnie Wood replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stones guitarist, who was asked to leave.
LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Pine Ridge GC: Kathy Whitworth wins her 3rd LPGA Championship by 1 stroke from Sandra Haynie.
Major League Baseball:
The Angels Nolan Ryan pitches his 4th career no-hitter, winning 1–0 over the Orioles, to tie the record set by Sandy Koufax. Three players — Cleveland’s Bob Feller, Cincinnati’s Jim Maloney and Lawrence Corcoran of the Chicago Cubs of the 1880’s — have hurled three no‐hit games. Ryan strikes out 9, including Bobby Grich on a change-up for the last out, and runs his record to 9–3. Ryan has now struck out 96 in 96 innings. Today’s win is his 100th. In addition to the four no-hitters, Ryan has four one‐hitters, three with the Angels, and seven two‐hitters. The Angels got Ryan the only run he needed in the third when Mickey Rivers and Tommy Harper hit two‐out singles and Rivers scored on Dave Chalk’s single to left.
In the second game of a Kansas City-Milwaukee twinbill, Johnny Briggs pinch hits for Hank Aaron. The Royals win, 11–5 after taking the opener, 13–6. John Mayberry slammed a three‐run homer and a two‐run double in the second game during which Tony Solaita and George Brett added two‐run homers. In the opener, the Royals broke a 6‐all tie with five runs in the fifth inning.
Rudy May was a bit wild at the start but hung on, pitched his sixth complete game and picked up his fifth victory tonight as the New York Yankees won, 8–4, from the Texas Rangers.
The Tigers win the opener of a doubleheader, 5–1, and White Sox come back to take the nitecap, 3–2. Mickey Lolich moved to within two strike outs of becoming the top left‐handed pitcher in that department in major league history in winning the first game for Detroit. Lolich pitched a seven‐hitter and fanned three to gain his 201st career triumph and raise his number of strikeouts to 2,582. Only Warren Spahn remains ahead of him among southpaws. A bases‐loaded walk to Deron Johnson with two out in the fifth inning and 4 ⅓ innings of relief pitching by Rich Gossage, in which he yielded only one hit, gave Chicago a split.
The Red Sox beat the Twins, 11–9. Jim Hughes, the Twins’ rookie right‐hander, who started the game with a 6–1 won‐lost record, failed to last two innings as Boston increased its first‐place lead in the American League East. Home runs by Carl Yastrzemski, Fred Lynn and Doug Griffin in the first two innings, when the Red Sox scored seven runs, helped rout the 25‐year‐old Hughes. Luis Tiant lasted only five innings but got his sixth victory in 11 decisions.
The A’s downed the Indians, 6–3. A two‐run homer by Claudell Washington, three hits by Phil Garner and five Cleveland errors, helped Oakland rally and beat Gaylord Perry. Sonny Siebert picked up his second straight victory since coming to the A’s from San Diego less than two weeks ago. He needed and got help in the final four innings from Rollie Fingers. Perry made his exit in the sixth.
The Phillies edge the Astros, 5–4, on Jay Johnstone’s 5th inning homer off Larry Dierker. The homer is the only hit for the Phils after the first inning in which they score 4. Tom Underwood registered his sixth triumph against three defeats but not before the Astros reached him for four runs in the sixth on four hits and two walks.
Bobby Murcer, the former New York Yankee slugger who started fast, then slumped for a while as a new member of the San Francisco Giants this season, has been improving his batting average steadily in recent weeks. Yesterday he showed the power at the plate he once demonstrated in the American League. Murcer belted a pair of two‐run homers to provide the main fireworks in a closing sequence of outbursts by the Giants that gave them a 13–5 triumph over the Expos in Montreal.
Because they had been batting at a .291 clip since May 14 and because they had pounded out 17 hits on Saturday night, the Mets were glad that a morning shower ended soon enough for them to play the San Diego Padres as scheduled yesterday afternoon at Shea Stadium. But the magic drained from the New York bats against the hurling of Alan Foster and Danny Frisella and the Mets suffered their second shutout of the season, 4–0, as the suddenly improved Padres took the deciding contest of the three‐game series. Foster, winning for the third time against one defeat, had the Met bats shackled for seven innings. He gave up five hits and never permitted a Met to reach third base.
The Cubs thumped the Dodgers, 7–2. Steve Swisher’s triple provided the Cubs’ explosive note in a three‐run second inning, and Bill Bonham yielded only four hits before leaving the game in the seventh because of a blister, as pace‐setting Los Angeles lost ground in the National League west race. Bonham’s bid for a shutout was spoiled when Joe Ferguson hammered his fourth home run in the fifth inning. The Dodgers’ second run, made in the seventh, was unearned. A three‐run rally in the eighth wrapped up the for the Cubs.
A three‐run homer by Joe Morgan and a two‐run double by Johnny Bench provided all the offense Cincinnati needed in gaining its ninth victory in 10 games, as the Reds downed the Cardinals, 5–1. Jack Billingham pitched the Reds to the victory, giving up only five hits. The Redbirds’ only run was scored in the sixth on a single by Ted Sizemore, a walk to Reggie Smith and a single by Ted Simmons.
The Pirates bowed to the Braves, 5–2. Two home runs by Dusty Baker and a well‐paced pitching performance by Phil Niekro in which he scattered 10 hits, led to Pittsburgh’s first defeat in seven games. Baker hit a 345‐foot shot into the left‐field seats, with one out in the second inning. Then he blasted one over the 400‐foot mark in center field to open the fourth. Baker now has 10 homers.
Baltimore Orioles 0, California Angels 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Chicago Cubs 7
Chicago White Sox 1, Detroit Tigers 5
Chicago White Sox 3, Detroit Tigers 2
Kansas City Royals 13, Milwaukee Brewers 6
Kansas City Royals 11, Milwaukee Brewers 5
Boston Red Sox 11, Minnesota Twins 9
San Francisco Giants 13, Montreal Expos 5
San Diego Padres 4, New York Mets 0
Cleveland Indians 3, Oakland Athletics 6
Houston Astros 4, Philadelphia Phillies 5
Atlanta Braves 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Cincinnati Reds 5, St. Louis Cardinals 1
New York Yankees 8, Texas Rangers 4
Born:
Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian politician, Prime Minister of Armenia, in Ijevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union.
Kate Magowan, English actress (“Stardust”, “EastEnders”), in Harrow, London, England, United Kingdom.
Larry Moore, NFL center and guard (Indianapolis Colts, Washingotn Redskins, Cincinnati Bengals), in San Diego, California.
Dirk Johnson, NFL punter (New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears, Arizona Cardinals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Hoxie, Kansas.
Michal Grošek, Czech NHL left wing and right wing (Winnipeg Jets, Buffalo Sabres, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins), in Vyskov, Czechoslovakia.
James Storm, American pro wrestler (TNA World Heavyweight Champion 2011; record 7 x TNA World Tag Team Champion), in Franklin, Tennessee.
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