The U.S. Senate has completed a two-day debate on United States military and foreign policy with sharply differing views on whether the nation’s strategic force needs can safely be scaled back. The debate was a prelude to Senate action on amendment and enactment of a $25 billion defense procurement authorization bill. Senator Barry Goldwater, who urged no reduction in our strategic forces, said he believed Asia would be more important to the United States over the next 20 years than Europe.
The Soviet Union has been showing signs of anxiety recently over what it views as an insidious campaign by China to outflank Soviet interests in both Europe and Asia. In press articles, speeches and private comments over the last few weeks, the Russians have expressed displeasure at Chinese efforts to develop closer ties with both Western Europe and Japan as well as to discredit Soviet support of Communists in Indochina. The already cool relations between the two Communist nations have turned chillier with a number of Peking initiatives that apeared to set Moscow on the defensive. The Soviet Union has been upset by China’s plan to open up relations with the European Common Market, an opportunity that the Kremlin passed up earlier. This was exacerbated by the cordial reception that Deputy Premier Deng Xiaoping received in France last month.
President Ford ended his week‐long trip to Europe today with a largely ceremonial visit to Rome for talks with President Giovanni Leone and Pope Paul VI. American officials traveling with the President said that though outstanding issues between the United States and Italy were few, the visit was intended to reaffirm the United States ties with its ally and demonstrate its support of the Government.
The Belgian Government today postponed discussion on the purchase of a new fighter plane pending a Cabinet meeting tomorrow, a Government spokesman said. He said it was not certain whether the cabinet would make a final decision tomorrow on whether to choose the American F‐16 or the French Mirage F‐1. Defense Minister Paul Vanden Boeynants was not present at today’s Cabinet meeting, which was devoted to education. The minister was believed to be studying technical details of the F‐16 offer from Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger, whom he met in Washington yesterday.
Three other West European countries — the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark — have decided in favor of the American plane provided Belgium does the same. The Belgians expressed an initial preference for the Mirage. But there is increasing speculation here that Belgium could also take the F‐16 following last week’s talks between President Ford and Belgian Government leaders here and Mr. Vanden Boeynant’s visit to Washington. Belgium would buy 116 aircraft out of the 350 needed by the four countries to replace their existing F‐104 Starfighter force.
Three Protestant men, reportedly returning from a dog show in the Irish Republic, were shot fatally inside Northern Ireland near the border on the Belfast-Dublin road. Police said the victims — two dead and the third mortally wounded — were found in an auto and trailer parked near the border town of Newry, a stronghold of the Roman Catholic Irish Republican Army. The triple slaying raised to 1,229 the known death toll in nearly six years of religious warfare in Northern Ireland.
British opposition leader Margaret Thatcher threw the full support of her Conservative Party behind Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s call for a decisive “yes” vote in Thursday’s Common Market referendum. However, Edward Du Cann, an influential Conservative Party member, indicated that the party is sharply divided over the issue. Polls predict an overwhelming “yes” vote Thursday.
French Finance Minister Jean-Pierre Fourcade froze the prices of all clothes, shoes, household linen and tableware and domestic paper products until September 15. He also made minor cuts on oil prices, reflecting lower crude costs and dollar devaluation. Fourcade said the orders were parts of a campaign aimed at limiting inflation to 8% to 9% this year.
Recent gestures by Egypt, Syria and Israel have sharply reduced the outlook for new warfare in the Middle East in the view of Israeli analysts and Western diplomats in Israel. The decision by Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal, Syria’s extension of the United Nations’ peace-keeping mandate on the Golan Heights for six months and Israel’s announcement of a thinning of forces east of the Suez front are all factors in the reduction of tension along the cease-fire lines.
Israel began thinning out its forward forces and weapons near the Suez Canal in a unilateral goodwill gesture to coincide with the reopening by Egypt of the canal after eight years. Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres said that by 8 A.M. tomorrow Israel would have pulled back half of the 7,000 troops and 15 of the 30 tanks that had been allowed in the restricted forces zone. That is a strip just east of the United Nations buffer zone, which separates the Egyptian and Israeli forces. The Defense Minister said also that there would be no Israeli artillery in Sinai closer than 20 miles from the Suez Canal. That would mean a withdrawal of the guns behind Mitla Pass. In addition, Israeli missiles were to be deployed no closer than 25 miles of the United Nations zone.
Heavy shooting erupted in scattered areas of Beirut and joint Palestinian-Lebanese security units moved in to contain the fighting. There were no immediate reports of casualties, but shooting earlier in the day brought the casualty figures to 128 dead and more than 300 wounded in 15 days of fighting. The latest shooting, which went on for about an hour, was concentrated in suburbs, witnesses said. A political kidnapping upset efforts by security forces today to restore order, where the port, many offices and stores and some schools resumed activities after nearly two weeks of street fighting. In most areas where there had been heavy fighting, roadblocks were gone this morning. Traffic was heavy and stores were open.
But the fragile peace was shaken in midafternoon when reports circulated that Tanios Abi Najem, a leader of the National Liberation party of former President Camille Chamoun, had been kidnapped in Hazmiye, a district adjoining Beirut. The identity of the kidnappers was not known. Security officers were able to obtain his release tonight, according to an official statement. Shortly after the kidnapping, roadblocks appeared in Chia, a Muslim district, in Ain al‐Rummaneh, a Christian area, and in Hazmiye. A bus was stopped by the militia of the right‐wing Phalangist party and 22 people, believed to be Palestinians and other Muslims, were held as hostages and later released. Amid the uncertainty and tension, Rashid Karami, the Muslim leader designated to form a new cabinet, is trying to obtain agreement from Christian and Moslem political factions.
At a meeting of the National Assembly Premier Phạm Văn Đồng calls for normalization of relations with the United States, conditioned on U.S. economic aid to Hanoi and a pledge to observe the 1973 Paris cease-fire. With Secretary of State Kissinger and Philip C. Habib, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs, out of Washington, the State Department declined to comment immediately on the substance of the Hanoi proposal. A spokesman said the department wanted to study the text of Mr. Đồng’s remarks, which were received in Washington late in the day.
The Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam ordered three American news correspondents to leave the country within 48 hours. They are Paul Vogle and Chad Huntley of United Press International and George Esper, bureau chief for the Associated Press. A PRG representative told the three that they were being expelled to reduce the number of foreign correspondents in Vietnam. The expulsion order will leave only three American reporters in Saigon — UPI bureau manager Alan Dawson, Frances Starner of the AP, and free-lancer Dan Rodill.
Assistant Secretary of State Philip C. Habib wound up two days of talks with the Laotian Government leaders today, saying that Laos still wanted to retain her ties with the United States. “There is no question in my mind that the leadership seeks to maintain relations with the United States,” said Mr. Habib, the highest ranking Administration official to visit Southeast Asia since the turnover in South Vietnam and Cambodia. “There have been a number of statements concerning that relationship,” he added, “but it is still a matter for discussion and negotiation.” Shortly after Mr. Habib left by plane for Bangkok, senior American officials disclosed that negotiations on American property and projects and on the future aid program had begun, with a committee of 21 Laotian Government representatives from each of the ministries.
Three Americans charged with hijacking planes to Cuba in two separate incidents in 1971 have been returned to the United States at their own request, the Department of Justice has disclosed. Gregory Graves, 26, a former marine, pleaded not guilty in Macon, Georgia, to charges of hijacking. Carl and Norma White, a Detroit couple, quietly were returned to the United States last week and pleaded not guilty to hijacking charges at their arraignment in San Diego.
Sultan Alimirah Hanfere, leader of Ethiopia’s Afar people and of the Afar Liberation Front, declared war on the Ethiopian government.
A parliamentary committee investigating the killing of a critic of the Kenyan Government said today there appeared to be a “massive and determined coverup campaign” to conceal the facts of the assassination. The 15‐member select committee expressed the belief that the police knew who killed a fellow member of Parliament, Josiah M. Kariuki, on March 2. The committee, which presented its report this afternoon, urged that several senior security and police officers be dismissed or suspended so that a meaningful further investigation could be carried out. The report was a landmark in African politics, where strongman administrations are seldom openly challenged. The report did not mention Kenya’s 83‐year‐old President, Jomo Kenyatta, but it did carry a long passage describing Mr. Kariuki’s bitter criticism of the Kenyan establishment and remarking on punitive sanctions the administration had used against the popular young politician.
Uganda’s President Idi Amin declared the nationalization of all land within the boundaries of Uganda.
The United States opposes a total arms embargo and an economic and diplomatic boycott of South Africa, Ambassador John A. Scali told the U.N. Security Council. However, Scali did urge South Africa to act soon to end its occupation of Namibia (South-West Africa). He spoke after five of the council’s nonaligned members privately circulated proposals for mandatory sanctions against South Africa.
The first recorded ascent of the 22,740 feet (6,930 m) Himalayan mountain Kalanka was achieved by Japanese climbers Ikuo Tanabe, Noriaki Ikeda, Tsuneo Kouma, and Kazumasa Inoue.
New federal regulations, set to go into effect on July 21, were sent to Congress by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The new rules ended separate phys. ed. classes for boys and girls, and prohibited schools from excluding pregnant students from the classroom. The Ford administration’s regulations aimed at equalizing opportunities for women in the nation’s schools and colleges have been released by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Scheduled to take effect on July 21, the regulations require institutions to end discriminatory practices against women in school admissions, employment, financial aid, vocational and academic counseling and athletics.
A Justice Department agency has attacked a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for expanded computerized communications and record keeping on the ground that it might lead to federal control of the police. The criticism is in a 19-page report of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration and echoes similar complaints from White House and congressional sources. Despite the wide opposition, the FBI reportedly still seeks approval of the plan.
The House defeated today by wide margins several attempts to weaken legislation to renew the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the bill to extend it for 10 years appeared headed for approval tomorrow. By margins of more than 2 to 1, the House rejected key amendments to make it easier for states already covered by the 10‐year‐old act to “bail out” of its requirements. The Voting Rights Act, originally passed to give voting privileges to blacks long denied the franchise in seven states of the Old Confederacy, was renewed for five years in 1970. Due to expire in August of this year, the act would be extended for 10 additional years under provisions of the pending legislation.
The House passed and sent to the Senate to today a bill that would make it easier for elderly people to obtain credit and loans. The measure, approved on a voice vote, includes provisions dealing with age in a law enacted last year prohibiting lenders or credit officials from discrimination on the basis of sex or marital status. Also included in the new measure is the reiteration of provisions of a 1968 civil rights law that race, color, religion or national origin cannot be used as the basis for rejecting an applicant for a loan or for credit.
Black voters and the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to delay Mississippi’s 1975 legislative elections until a new reapportionment plan is worked out. They said the apportioning law approved by the Mississippi Legislature would dilute black voter strength and is a violation of the federal Voting Rights Act.
The House Commerce Committee voted to strip the Consumer Product Safety Commission of its powers to require safety warnings on ammunition. It adopted an amendment by Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Michigan) to prohibit the commission from forcing makers to label ammunition. Dingell is a director of the National Rifle Association. Before his amendment, the bill would have allowed the commission to regulate labeling of ammunition which might cause substantial personal injury.
Reversing an earlier report, the Agriculture Department announced that illegal hormone contamination in cattle livers had jumped to the highest level since 1972. Officials of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said residues of DES — a synthetic hormone fed to cattle to promote faster and cheaper growth — were found in nine out of 565 animals checked from January through March in a sampling program. The rate, 1.6%, compared with 0.3% in 1974, 0.41% in 1973 and 2.03% in 1972. Federal law prohibits inclusion in food of any trace of an additive classed as cancer producing, such as DES.
A $1 million executive jet allegedly used to run illegal guns to fugitive financier Robert Vesco in Costa Rica was forfeited to the U.S. government. In handing down his decision in San Antonio, Texas, U.S. District Judge Adrian Spears said the government had “established probable cause for seizure and forfeiture” of the aircraft because “the plane was used to export or remove arms and ammunition of war” from the United States in April of 1974. The Lear jet was seized last August 21.
Laws concerning rape — the major crime least reported to the police — are undergoing fundamental revision throughout the country. The changes are aimed at encouraging more women to seek police help in arresting their attackers and to give prosecutors a better chance to get the attackers convicted. In 25 states checked, 15 in the last year have changed the rules of evidence in rape cases to limit the introduction in trials of material about the victim’s personal sex life, except in limited instances.
Florida’s former Education Commissioner Floyd Christian has been ordered to prison for income tax evasion and Thomas O’Malley, insurance commissioner-treasurer, has been impeached in the state’s latest scandals. In another development, Alan C. Sundberg, 41, was sworn in as a state Supreme Court justice to succeed Hal P. Dekle, who resigned under threat of impeachment. Christian, 60, the first state cabinet officer sent to prison, was convicted of not reporting $30,000 income from kickbacks on education contracts. The impeachment of O’Malley stemmed from charges that he had obtained about $72,000 in financial favors. Dekle quit in February during an investigation of a multimillion-dollar utility tax case.
Eight more electrical utilities were warned by the Federal Energy Administration that they may have to switch 19 power plants from oil or natural gas to coal. The announcement brings to 87 the number of plants across the country that have been told they may be prohibited from burning oil or natural gas. The FEA, which has authority to issue such orders under the 1974 Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act, will hold public hearings on the warnings June 10 in New York and Atlanta.
A House subcommittee began consideration of a bill to make a major federal commitment to the production of electrically powered automobiles. An Administration energy spokesman told the science and technology panel the White House strongly favors research into battery-powered vehicles as an alternative to internal combustion vehicles. But, he said, the timetable proposed by the measure is too short. The bill under consideration would allocate $40 million during each of the next three years for the development of electrically powered vehicles.
The head of the nation’s third largest electric and gas company said the federal government should distribute “energy stamps” to persons who qualify for food stamps. “Rate increases in recent years and, to a greater extent, a dramatic rise in fuel costs in the last 18 months, have made the monthly electric bill a major item in low-income household budgets,” said Edward Eberle, chairman of the board of the Public Service Co. of Newark, N.J. Eberle said utility companies need rate increases because their costs for natural and synthetic gas, labor and taxes are rising.
A man accused of robbing University of Illinois coeds may be the “enema bandit” whose activities have been reported over a wide area of the nation during the last 10 years. Michael Kenyon, 38, of Palatine, west of Chicago, surrendered in connection with two robberies in suburban Glen Ellyn, Chicago officials said. But Champaign police issued two arrest warrants for Kenyon on charges of armed robbery and battery in connection with attacks on several coeds on May 3. Police said the robber administered enemas to the women before taking their money. The incidents near the Illinois campus were similar to ones in the Champaign-Urbana area, Los Angeles, Norman, Oklahoma, and Manhattan, Kansas.
The Broadway musical “Chicago” premiered at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 936 performances, closing on August 27, 1977.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, who is better known in the sports world as Pele, the king of soccer, has agreed to sign a contract with the New York Cosmos. The team is reported to have offered $7 million for three years, making Pele the highest-paid team athlete in the world. Pele, who is expected to sign his contract within the next few days, will play in about 85 games for the $7 million, of which an estimated $2 million will go to taxes.
Major League Baseball:
With 4,129 fans in attendance on a Tuesday night at the Oakland Coliseum, Hank Aaron connects for a double off Jim Perry in the 1st inning. The hit is career #3,631 for Hank and he passes Stan Musial and moves into 2nd place, at the time, on the all-time hits list. A wild pitch by a reliever, Jim Todd, scored John Briggs with the winning run in the sixth inning as the Brewers won 6–5 over the A’s.
The Yankees beat the Twins, 4–3, on the strength of Alex Johnson’s two-run pinch-hit double in the eighth inning. Bobby Bonds homered for the Yankees; Rod Carew and Steve Brye hit home runs for the Twins.
The Orioles beat the Rangers 6–3. Dave Duncan, batting only .176, hit a three‐run homer and Mike Torrez recorded his first pitching victory since May 14. The Orioles had gone 11 innings without a hit until Lee May led off the second with asingle,
The Royals rolled over the Indians 5–2. Al Cowens singled home two runs in a three‐run sixth and Dennis Leonard, a rookie, pitched six‐hit ball as Kansas City won for the 10th time in its last 11 games. John Mayberry hit a homer for the Royals in the eighth.
Jim Rice hit a three‐run homer in the first and Dick Pole made it stand by pitching a three‐hitter, as the Red Sox blanked the White Sox, 4–0. The 24‐year‐old Pole, making only his second start of the season, struck out eight and walked three.
The Tigers bested the Angels 8–5. Nate Colbert scored the tiebreaking run on Ben Oglivie’s infield grounder in the ninth inning and Gary Sutherland followed with a two‐run single.
Jim Lonborg pitched a five‐hitter and won his fourth game of the season last night, but pitching is not the story of the Philadelphia Phillies this season. Power is. The score of the game was 12–1, and by the seventh inning the Phillies had all 12 of their runs, Mike Schmidt and Greg Luzinski had combined for four homers and nine runs batted in, and Lonborg was coasting against the San Diego Padres. Schmidt and Luzinski hegan their modern‐day impressions of Ruth and Gehrig in the third inning. Schmidt started it with a two‐run homer off Dan Spinner. Mike Anderson homered off Spillner in the fourth with a man on base, and an inning later Luzinski gave the Phillies a 7–1 lead with a three-run homer. Not to be outdone, Schmidt hit a three‐run homer in the sixth, giving him five runs batted in for the night. Two batters later, Luzinski homered again, giving him four RBIs.
The New York Mets made it two straight over the Houston Astros last night when Yogi Berra’s irregulars went to the rescue of his regulars and supplied a 4–3 victory in wet Shea Stadium. It proved a neat trick because Yogi reached into his bull pen for both a starting and finishing pitcher on a night when his frontline pitchers were resting. Tom Hall, who hadn’t started a game in a year, started and won this one. He lasted five innings and then turned matters over to Bob Apodaca for the final four. Meanwhile, Berra’s bench was supplying the runs, with Dave Kingman knocking three home with a 450‐foot home run that carried into the parking lot.
The Cubs edged the Giants, 6–5, in ten innings. Bill Madlock hit a homer in the ninth that tied the game, then singled in the 10th to win it. His single drove in Don Kessinger, who had walked and had been sacrificed to second. It also saved the first‐place Cubsfrom their own mistakes. Their starter, Ray Burris, balked with the bases loaded in the fourth, and two of their infielders, Rob Sperring and Manny Trillo, made errors in a four‐run seventh.
The Reds downed the Pirates, 8–4. Gary Nolan’s latest comeback for Cincinnati appears to be success. The right‐hander, who has been bothered by shoulder ailments for several seasons, pitched 6 ⅓ innings, struck out five and won his fifth game in eight decisions. Joe Morgan’s bases-loaded triple in the fourth broke the game open.
The Cardinals beat the Braves, 4–2. Ron Reed, making his first start since the Cardinals acquired him from the Braves last week, received the victory, thanks to a three‐run rally in the seventh. Ron Fairly homered, Luis Melendez tripled and Ken Reitz doubled during the inning.
Don Sutton became the first pitcher in the majors to win 10 games this season, as the Dodgers edged the Expos, 6–5. He pitched eight innings and struck out four, then left because of a. blister on a pitching finger. Dave Lopes drove in three runs, and Jim Wynn and Steve Garvey hit homars.
Texas Rangers 3, Baltimore Orioles 6
Chicago White Sox 0, Boston Red Sox 4
Detroit Tigers 8, California Angels 5
San Francisco Giants 5, Chicago Cubs 6
Kansas City Royals 5, Cleveland Indians 2
New York Yankees 5, Minnesota Twins 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, Montreal Expos 5
Houston Astros 3, New York Mets 4
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Oakland Athletics 4
San Diego Padres 1, Philadelphia Phillies 12
Cincinnati Reds 8, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Atlanta Braves 2, St. Louis Cardinals 4
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 846.14 (-0.47, -0.06%)
Born:
José Molina, Puerto Rican baseball catcher (World Series Champions, 2002-Angels, 2009-Yankees; Chicago Cubs, Anaheim-Los Angeles Angels, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, Tampa Bay Rays), in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
Jamie Nails, NFL guard (Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins), in Baxley, Georgia.
Died:
Eisaku Satō, 74, Prime Minister of Japan 1964-72, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974, of a stroke.
Ozzie Nelson, 69, American actor (“The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”).
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