The Portuguese Socialist Party threatened to leave the coalition government Saturday unless a dispute over a pro-Socialist newspaper is resolved. The Information Ministry closed the newspaper Republica on May 19 after Communist printers had tried to take it over and oust the editor, a leading Socialist. Meanwhile, President Francisco da Costa Gomes arrived in Paris on his first official trip abroad for talks on closer links with France.
Greek Cypriot leader Glafkos Clerides threatened to walk out of Cyprus communal negotiations if Turkish Cypriots go ahead with plans for a constitutional referendum in their part of the island on Sunday. Clerides said a new round of talks starting in Vienna today under the guidance of U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim would be jeopardized if the Turkish community held the referendum. Waldheim, meanwhile, cautioned that no decisive results should be expected from the resumed talks.
The long and often bitter campaign on whether Britain should remain in the Common Market ended tonight with Prime Minister Harold Wilson calling for a “clear and decisive” vote in favor in the referendum tomorrow. The vote will be the first of its kind in British history. But its historic nature has eluded many voters who have found themselves weary of all the conflicting rhetoric and at the prospect of tramping to the polls again so soon after the two national elections last year. The opinion polls continued to show a comfortable lead for the pro‐Market forces, predicting at least a 60 percent margin in favor of remaining in the nine‐nation European Economic Community.
Maintenance engineers at London’s Heathrow Airport ended a week-long wildcat strike that grounded most British Airways flights and cost the airline about $3.95 million in lost revenue. Amount of the contract settlement was not disclosed as the 700 men voted to return to work.
Former King Constantine and members of his family and descendants may return to Greece and run for election to public office, the Greek Parliament decided yesterday. On the final day of a five-month debate on the country’s new Constitution, Parliament deleted a clause accepted earlier that banned Constantine and his family from holding elective or other public offices. Constantine, 34 years old, left Greece in December, 1967, after leading an abortive countercoup against the military government of George Papadopoulos. The monarchy was abolished in referendum in December, 1974, after the military regime fell.
Finland’s coalition Cabinet resigned today under the pressure of a 17 per cent annual inflation rate and a fourfold increase in the country’s trade deficit. The four‐party coalition headed by Premier Kalevi Sorsa, a Social Democrat, agreed to President litho Kekkonen’s request that it continue in a caretaker capacity until a new Cabinet is formed — Finland’s 57th in nearly 58 years of independence. At a special Presidential Council meeting, Mr. Kekkonen told Mr. Sorsa he would call a general election for September 21 and 22, as urged by the political parties. The elections for Parliament were not due until March of next year.
Israel completed its promise to withdraw half of its occupying troops from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.
Secretary of State Kissinger reported to Ambassador Simcha Dinitz of Israel today on President Ford’s discussions this week with President Anwar elSadat of Egypt. The purpose of the meeting, which lasted an hour and a half, was to give the Israelis an idea of the ground covered in Salzburg, Austria, on Sunday and Monday by Mr. Ford and Mr. Sadat in advance of the arrival here next Tuesday night of Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel. Mr. Kissinger returned to Washington early this morning with Mr. Ford. The President gave his own report of the one‐week European trip, including the two days with Mr. Sadat, at a meeting of the Cabinet this afternoon.
The armed forces of Israel, Syria and Egypt, the main combatants in the 1973 Middle East war, have apparently increased their strength in most major military items. Israel in particular has also used the 19 months since the war to adjust her defense policies in view of the increased military power of her potential adversaries, according to United States, British and North Atlantic Treaty Organization analysts. The strong probability that another war would involve an Arab blockade of the Red Sea oil route at the Bab el Mandeb Strait has convinced many analysts that Israeli military policy is now concentrated on waging a swift, decisive campaign before a blockade could take effect. The authoritative International Institute for Strategic Studies in London has published tables showing major military holdings of the three countries today and before the 1973 war. They reflect a sharp increase of Israeli strength in tanks and armored fighting vehicles, field artillery and fighter‐bombers.
Warring political factions traded bullets, rockets and mortar fire in Beirut’s suburbs, crumbling the shaky cease-fire that had temporarily restored calm after weeks of violence and which has cost at least 110 lives. The shooting broke out after a leader of the mostly Christian National Liberal Party was kidnaped and a Palestinian commando officer was wounded. Meanwhile, Premier-designate Rashid Karami said he had made progress in efforts to form a new coalition government to take Lebanon out of its political crisis. His major problem is to appease both the right-wing Christian Falangist Party and left-wing supporters of the Muslim Palestinians.
A secret report says that Northrop Corp. paid $450,000 in 1971 and 1972 to bribe two Saudi Arabian generals to help it get a big contract for fighter planes, a knowledgeable source said. The Senate subcommittee on multinational corporations voted to release the report next Monday, but some information leaked out earlier and an account was carried in a Hearst newspapers story. However, the alleged conduit for the money denied that any such bribes were paid. “There is no foundation to the reports,” Saudi arms agent Adnan Khashoggi was quoted as saying. “It is an insult to my country.” Senator Dick Clark (D-Iowa), who was quoted in the Hearst story, would neither confirm nor deny the remarks attributed to him.
State Department officials today rejected a North Vietnamese offer to normalize relations with the United States if Washington lived up to the Paris cease‐fire accords of 1973. Robert Anderson, the State Department spokesman, said that in view of Hanoi’s “wholesale violation” of the Paris accord by its recent vanquishing of South Vietnam, Washington believed it was “ironic” for North Vietnam to make American observance of the agreement a condition for the normalization of relations. Yesterday, Premier Phạm Văn Đồng said Hanoi would normalize relations if the United States recognized the “national rights” of both Vietnams and seriously implemented “the spirit” of Article 21 of the January 1975 accord.
The new administration in Savannakhet, Laos’s second largest city, issued a series of edicts today ordering price controls on food and other goods, the “registration” of rightists and the seizure of all property of Prince Boun Oum, the most prominent southern rightist leader, who has fled the country. The mayor and administration of Savannakhet were installed in office last weekend after nearly a month of student unrest and the take‐over of the town by Communist‐led Pathet Lao troops nearly two weeks ago. The new mayor, Boun Signevong, is not known to most Western analysts in Vientiane but it is understood that he is not a member of the Pathet Lao or its front organization. Nevertheless, most of the edicts made public today are very much in line with the Pathet Lao program.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Laotians, many employed for years by the United States, are being refused permission to go to the United States. American consular officials here as well as at Udon and Bangkok in Thailand said today that they had turned away hundreds of such Laotians, while at the same time granting refugee status to hundreds of other Laotians holding South Vietnamese or Cambodian passports. Many of the Laotians have told American officials that they fear for their lives as the Communist‐led Pathet Lao movement takes over control of the country. “It’s a scandal,” an American consular official said today.
Thousands of gallons of crude oil poured into the sea from a ruptured tank after the 228,136-ton Japanese supertanker Eiko Maru ran aground in the shallow waters of Tokyo Bay. An oil slick covered the water up to a half-mile around the tanker and a fleet of 32 vessels, including oil pumping ships, was fighting the oil slick. The ship was heading through one of the world’s most crowded waterways to a berth on the eastern side of the bay when it went aground.
Heavy fighting is raging between government troops and followers of a Muslim sultan in eastern Ethiopia near the border of the French territory of Afars and Issas, diplomatic sources said today. They said the heaviest fighting centered on the town of Aisaita, 350 miles east of Addis Ababa and 30 miles west of the Frecnh territory. The town was the headquarters of Sultan Ali Misah before he fled to Djibouti, the capital of the Mars and Issas territory. Reports from the area said many people were killed or wounded when government aircraft strafed the town.
Drought in Ethiopia and Somalia has affected 800,000 people and reports reaching neighboring Kenya say Ethiopia faces a famine even worse than that suffered two years ago, when thousands died in Ethiopia. The area worst hit by little or no rain over the last eight months is where the two countries share a border — an area that Somalia has long claimed from Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, officials said that about 500,000 have been affected. In Somalia, about 300,000 have been hit, with unofficial figures putting the death toll between 2,000 and 4,000.
Stanford University does not want to pay the $500,000 ransom demanded by African guerrillas holding two of its students captive since May 19, a university spokesman said. But Dr. David Hamburg said “Stanford certainly would not stand in the way of private individuals who want to raise funds.” The two Stanford students, Kenneth S. Smith, 22, of Garden Grove and Carrie Jane Hunter, 21, of Atherton, were being held with Emilie Bergman of the Netherlands.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian D. Smith said today he had agreed to drop all preconditions for holding constitutional talks with the African National Council, Rhodesia’s main black nationalist group. In a radio interview, Mr. Smith said he had suggested to the council that both sides drop conditions for the talks. The Prime Minister said that the nationalist group had decided to consider the suggestion and that although he had not heard officially that it had been. accepted, he understood the council would agree. Gordon Chavunduka, the council’s secretary general, said yesterday that both sides had agreed to drop conditions. He said this meant that nationalist guerrillas would not have to observe a cease‐fire and the Government would not have to release any more nationalist detainees.
President Ford, in a Commencement Day address at West Point, warned that efforts to strengthen the Atlantic Alliance could be jeopardized if Congress cuts his “bedrock” defense budget or failed to enact an energy conservation program. Appearing at the Military Academy only 12 hours after returning from Western Europe, the President said that the nation’s major allies were confident of this country’s resolve to be “strong and conciliatory” in pursuing world leadership.
The House has failed to override President Ford’s veto of the $5.3 billion emergency job bill in what amounted to a stunning defeat for the Democrats and their leaders. The vote —277 to 145 — was five short of the two-thirds majority needed to carry the measure. It is the second time in two months that this Congress has failed to override a presidential veto.
The Senate has rejected a proposed $1.2 billion cut in a $25 billion measure authorizing the Defense Department’s weapons procurement and research programs for the next fiscal year. By a vote of 59 to 36 the Senate rejected Senator Stuart Symington’s effort to put a $23.8 million ceiling on the weapons measure.
The White House press secretary said that President Ford would announce his 1976 candidacy before the end of the month. The President’s return from Europe, his intimates say, signaled the beginning of a 90-day period of assembling a campaign structure so that he can begin intense political effort this fall.
Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Investigating Committee, said he has heard “hard evidence” implicating the Central Intelligence Agency in more than one scheme to assassinate a foreign political leader. And he cautioned against drawing the conclusion, based on recent public statements by Vice President Rockefeller and others, that the agency’s transgressions had been minor.
President Ford’s veto of the strip mining reclamation bill was criticized by New Mexico Governor Jerry Apodaca, a Democrat and chairman of the 10-state Western Governors’ Regional Energy Policy Group, during a speech in Albuquerque. The President “has apparently decided the people of coal-producing states must sacrifice their land,” Apodaca told a regional meeting of the Association of Petroleum Geologists. “The cost of repairing the damage done in extracting coal is a legitimate cost of energy.”
Radioactive pellets found outside the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corp. factory at Crescent, Oklahoma, might have been planted there by an employee to embarrass the plant’s management, according to a government memorandum. It was prepared by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspector and released by the General Accounting Office. The commission, formerly the regulatory arm of the Atomic Energy Commission, has been investigating the plutonium contamination of Kerr-McGee employee Karen Silkwood. Silkwood, who had complained about conditions at the plant, was killed November 13, 1974, in a car crash.
The federal government has set up a computer network involving the FBI, Treasury and other agencies that gives the White House, the CIA, and the Defense Department access to information on 5 million Americans, NBC News reported. It said the technology could be used to tap private computer files for information on millions of others. NBC’s Ford Rowan said the key is a device — called an interface message processor — that translates the “language” of different computers into a common language. A Pentagon spokesman said the IMP was no secret and was made commercially for use in the exchange of scientific computer information among universities. The spokesman said he knew of no Pentagon use of the device for exchanging personal information.
The Food and Drug Administration told the cosmetics industry it would no longer be able to say a product was good for people with allergies unless it could be proved. New rules will require skin tests for any product claiming to be “hypoallergenic” so it can be compared against competing products. The industry will have two years to make the tests. The rules become effective June 6, 1977, and everything from shampoos and suntan lotions to lipsticks will be covered. The FDA said test data would be made available to the public.
Inmates armed with clubs, knives and icepicks seized 11 hostages at the Granite, Oklahoma, Reformatory but released them all unharmed after grievances were broadcast by radio. No injuries were reported from the incident, which began in late morning in the prison’s educational building where 62 inmates were attending classes. The inmates surrendered late in the afternoon after the broadcast. The rest of the 503 prisoners were locked in their cells. A spokesman said the men wanted expanded visitation hours, permission to decorate their cells, better rehabilitation and job training programs, and amnesty for the takeover. Officials said most of the grievances would be corrected.
Saying he was ruling “in favor of life,” a Pittsburgh judge permitted a hospital to amputate a critically ill man’s right leg despite the objections of the patient and his family. Shortly after the court decision by Judge Rolph Larsen, surgeons took off Milko Husar’s leg above the knee. Husar, 67, was in a critical but stable condition, a hospital spokesman said. He added that later a determination would be made whether to amputate the other leg. Dr. William E. Novogradac told the court Husar had a “zero” chance to survive a gangrenous condition with the leg intact and only a slight chance with it amputated. Judge Larsen said he knew of no legal precedent for his decision.
New York City’s chief elected officials have been told they have no alternative to accepting a state agency to solve its billion-dollar cash shortage, even though the agency would have a voice in the city’s future budgetary affairs. The Controller’s office says the city will be $43 million short of cash today when it must meet $132.9 million in bills, including an $89.1 million payroll.
The Northrop Corporation paid $450,000 in bribes in 1972 and 1973 earmarked for two Saudi Arabian generals, according to a report prepared by Northrop’s accounting firm. The bribes, apparently designed to help Northrop win an aircraft procurement contract, were said to have been paid to a concern controlled by a Middle East businessman who has served as a sales agent for a number of United States arms manufacturers, including Northrop.
A 22-year-old Lodi, California man faces a maximum $500 fine after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of killing a California bighorn ram. Sentencing has been set for June 23 for Dennis R. Gomes, who was charged with shooting the ram October 20, 1973. The killing of bighorn sheep is forbidden by state law. The ram was part of a herd inside an enclosure at the Lava Beds National Monument where state and federal officials are attempting to reintroduce bighorn sheep into Northern California. His co-defendant, Johnnie Ray Kearney, 24, was granted immunity in exchange for testimony at Gomes’ preliminary hearing in Yreka last month.
Lee Mazzilli of the Visalia Oaks (California League) ties the minor league record when he steals 7 bases. He will end the year with 49.
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Danny Goodwin, picked first in the June, 1971 free-agent draft, is picked first again, this time by the Angels. The next 4 picks, including the Padres number 2 pick of pitcher Mike Lentz, fail to make the major leagues in what is arguably the worst draft of the 20th century (the most successful first-round pick is Rick Cerrone). Picking 10th, Montreal takes shortstop Art Miles, who will break his neck diving into shallow water while celebrating West Palm’s FSL win in 1977. The Expos finally pick right, taking Andre Dawson on the 10th round, the Dodgers picking pitcher Dave Stewart in the 16th, and the Braves take Glenn Hubbard in the 20th.
John (Blue Moon) Odom, who threatened to leave Cleveland unless he got more money, pitched a two‐hitter for the Indians in shutting out the Kansas City Royals in Municipal Stadium last night. Odom, traded to Cleveland by Oakland on May 22. had told Philip Seghi, the Indians’ general manager, that he would not pitch unless his contract was re‐adjusted. Odom felt that he was being deprived of the playoff and World Series money he had received at Oakland while the A’s won three successive world championships. Apparently Seghi satisfied his recalcitrant right‐hander because Odom in his first start for Cleveland, pitched no‐hit ball for five innings before yielding successive singles to Hal McCrae and Johu Mayberry in the sixth — following a 21‐miute rain delay — and beat the Royals, 4–0.
At times in the last six weeks, George “Doc” Medich had to wonder if life as a doctor wouldn’t be easier than life as a pitcher, even with the rising cost of malpractice insurance. However, not even six straight losses were enough to drive Medich back to medical school. Tonight his loyalty to his athletic profession paid off when he pitched eight strong innings as the Yankees defeated the Minnesota Twins, 6–3.
Cesar Tovar singled home the winning run, and Jackie Brown pitched 4 ⅓ innings of hitless relief as the Rangers snapped a three‐game losing streak, edging the Orioles, 3–2. Brown, the fifth Ranger pitcher of the game, walked only one batter and allowed only two balls hit beyond the infield. Mike Hargrove hit his fourth homer, and Jeff Burroughs his 10th in the second inning, but Jim Bibby failed to hold a 2–0 lead. Tovar singled after Joe Lovitto opened the 12th with an infield hit and moved to second on a sacrifice.
The Red Sox came up with three consecutive pinch‐hits, and then Rick Burleson singled home the winning run with two out in the ninth inning, to best the White Sox, 7–6. With Chicago leading, 6–3, Rich Gossage relieved Jim Kaat. Bernie Carbo, the first pinch‐hitter, doubled for two runs. Tim McCarver and Cecil Cooper got pinch‐hit singles to tie the score. One out later, Burleson looped a single over shortstop to drive in the deciding run. Manager Darrell Johnson said, “That’s what we have these people here for — to do a job when needed. Of course, you can’t possibly expect three pinch‐hits in a row, but when it happens, it’s beautiful, just beautiful.”
The Angels edged the Tigers, 2–1. Ed Figueroa, put in California’s starting rotation last week, stopped Detroit on six singles. Ray Bare, making his first American League start, lost, giving up runs in each of the first two innings.
The A’s hammered the Brewers, 11–3. The A’s rapped out 13 hits and designated hitter Billy Williams had four of them, in four at-bats. Gene Tenace added a homer for the A’s. Ken Holtzman won it to improve his season record to 4–6.
The Giants downed the Cubs, 10–8. Derrel Thomas and Glenn Adams hit ninth‐inning homers, the fourth and fifth home runs of the game for the Giants. Adams’s homer was his second. Seven homers were hit with an 18‐mile‐an‐hour wind blowing out, tying the league high for homers in one game this seson. Marc Hill and Bobby Murcer also connected for the Giants, Bill Madlock and Manny Trillo for the Cubs. It was the 10th victory in San Francisco’s last 14 games. It ended a three‐game winning streak for Chicago.
Jerry Koosman pitched the New York Mets to a 1–0 victory over the Houston Astros, meaning that the Mets were just one game out of first place. It was the third straight time the Mets had beaten the Astros, and again they turned the trick with revived pitching. Not only that, but the Astros failed to score off Jon Matlack on Monday night and off Koosman last night as he pitched a fivehitter with six strikeouts.
Los Angeles shut out the Expos, 3–0. The Dodgers, held hitless for seven innings by Dennis Blair and Don Carrithers, got their only two hits in the eighth off Don DeMola. A wild fifth inning against Blair did the damage. The Dodgers used a Montreal error, two wild pitches, two walks and a hit batsman to score their runs for Andy Messersmith. The Los Angeles right‐hander, winning his eighth game in 10 decisions, struck out seven and walked two in posting his 31st career shutout.
Bob Boone drove in three runs with a single and a sacrifice fly, and Mike Schmidt and Ollie Brown hit consecutive homers in the second inning to carry the Phillies to a three game sweep of San Diego, winning today, 7–2. The home runs by Schmidt and Brown were the ninth and 10th by the Phils in the last four games.
The Cardinals beat the Braves 5–2. Reggie Smith cracked a tie‐breaking two‐run triple in the eighth inning, then scored on a single by Ken Reitz. After Smith’s hit, the Braves pulled Ray Sadecki, a former Cardinal, in favor of Max Leon. Sadecki, who pitched the night before in relief, took the defeat.
The Pirates downed the Reds, 2–1. Dave Concepcion smashed a seventh‐inning single off the leg of Jerry Reuss to spoil another no‐hit bid. The hit knocked Reuss out of the game, but the Pirates won on Richie Hebner’s fifth‐inning homer. Reuss and two relievers—Dave Giusti and Ramon Hernandez—combined to hold the Reds to two hits.
The Texas Rangers traded their star centerfielder, Willie Davis, to the St. Louis Cardinals today for an infielder, Ed Brinkman, and a pitcher, Tommy Moore.
Texas Rangers 3, Baltimore Orioles 2
Chicago White Sox 6, Boston Red Sox 7
Detroit Tigers 1, California Angels 2
San Francisco Giants 10, Chicago Cubs 8
Kansas City Royals 0, Cleveland Indians 4
New York Yankees 6, Minnesota Twins 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, Montreal Expos 0
Houston Astros 0, New York Mets 1
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Oakland Athletics 11
San Diego Padres 2, Philadelphia Phillies 7
Cincinnati Reds 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Atlanta Braves 2, St. Louis Cardinals 5
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Born:
Angelina Jolie [as Angelina Joline Voight], American film actress (“Mr. & Mrs. Smith”, “Wanted”, “Salt”, “Maleficent”), in Los Angeles, California.
Russell Brand, English comedian and actor, in Grays, Essex, England, United Kingdom.
Julian Marley, Jamaican reggae musician, son of reggae legend Bob Marley, in London, England, United Kingdom.
Henry Burris, American CFL Hall of Fame and NFL quarterback (Grey Cup 1998, 2008, 2016; Grey Cup MVP 2008, 2016; CFL MVP 2010, 2015; Calgary Stampeders, Ottawa Redblacks; NFL: Chicago Bears), in Spiro, Oklahoma.
Alonzo Mayes, NFL tight end (Chicago Bears), in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Died:
Evelyn Brent, 73, American actress (“Nitwits”, “Last Command”, “Spy Train”).
Clark Kessinger, 78, American fiddler.
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