In the first yes-or-no referendum ever held in the United Kingdom, the electorate voted to stay in the European Community by a margin of 17,378,581 to 8,470,073. Millions of Britons voted today in an historic referendum to decide whether their country should remain in the European Common Market. As they walked into polling stations in schools, churches. community centers, pubs and garages, they seemed ready to endorse continued membership and end more than two decades of uncertainty over relations with Western Europe. Voters, many of them bewildered and weary after more than five weeks of intense campaigning, reflected their confusion to the last. Some said they did not know how they were going to vote until they reached the polling stations; others said they had changed their minds at the last minute. Prime Minister Harold Wilson, whose political future hangs on the outcome, walked a quarter of a mile from his home on Lord North Street near Parliament to vote. His Cabinet was divided on the recommendation to vote yes, and rejection could lead to his downfall.
Tentative agreements have been reached at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe concerning measures for improving the working conditions of foreign journalists and for facilitating human contacts across frontiers. The draft accords, prepared by informal working groups at the 35‐nation conference, cover points that have been major issues between Eastern and Western European participants here for nearly two years. Switzerland is the coordinator of the negotiations on working conditions for foreign newsmen, while Austria is coordinating bargaining for freer travel abroad and otherwise facilitating human relations between countries.
The leaders of the Greek and Turkish communities on Cyprus met here with Secretary General Waldheim for two and a half hours today and agreed to continue their talks tomorrow. The talks were the second round of discussions on the future of the island convened after a personal appeal from Mr. Waldheim. The Secretary General succeeded in steering the two men away from a referendum scheduled by the Turkish Cypriots this Sunday on the formation of a separate federal state in the part of Cyprus they have held since the fighting there last summer. Glafkos Clerides, leader of the Greek Cypriot community, warned on his arrival yesterday that he would walk out of the talks if the referendum was held. He repeated the threat today on his way into the meeting, in a former cloakroom of the old Hapsburg palace.
Two armed men presumed to be Basque separatists commandeered the San Sebastian-Bilbao train and fought a gun battle with its two-man police guard, an official Spanish communique said. One policeman was killed when he fell off the train. The communique did not say whether he had been hit by bullets. The other guard was wounded but no passengers were hurt. The gunmen escaped.
Since the early 1970’s, the Northrop Corporation has paid or committed more than $1.8 million in commissions to a Swiss-based organization that was formed to promote Northrop’s overseas aircraft sales on a no-questions-asked basis, according to a confidential report prepared by Northrop’s accounting firm. The report identified the Swiss organization as the Economic and Development Corporation, which apparently employs influential individuals abroad to assist Northrop in winning contracts in exchange for a share of commissions.
Five members of the House judiciary subcommittee on immigration, back from the Soviet Union, told reporters in Washington the Russians remained keenly interested in a trade deal but did not seem to comprehend U.S. concern over human rights — the factor that led Congress last year to block U.S. trade concessions to the Soviet Union pending an easing of emigration barriers. The members said they felt the only way to help Jews and others who wished to emigrate was continued pressure from the United States.
Egypt informed the United States today that she was ready to resume negotiations for an interim Sinai agreement with Israel and to make concessions if Israel does. However, well-placed informants said that President Anwar Sadat had made it clear to President Ford in their talks in Austria that Egypt would still insist, as a minimum condition, that Israel withdraw from the Abu Rudeis oil field and the Mitla and Gidi Passes, all captured in the war of June, 1967.
The Suez Canal opened for the first time since the Six-Day War eight years earlier. Because there were still mines left in the waters from 1967, the American guided missile cruiser USS Little Rock made the first transit, sailing from Port Said, where Egypt’s President Sadat oversaw the celebration, to Ismailia. “This is the happiest day of my life,” Egypt’s President declared as the Suez Canal reopened to international shipping exactly eight years after it was closed during the Arab-Israeli war of June, 1967. President Sadat, in an admiral’s white uniform, stood on the bridge of the Egyptian destroyer Sixth of October as she cut through a thin chain across the canal’s entry and then led a ceremonial convoy from Port Said harbor.
Mohammad Ibrahim Khan was sworn in for his third term as president of Pakistani-held Kashmir and promised to work for the liberation of India-held Kashmir. “If we can persuade international opinion to demand the right of self-determination for the Kashmiris, then the days of reunification will ultimately come,” he said. He declared it would be useless to ask the United Nations to resolve the dispute over the divided Himalayan territory.
The French ambassador, the Vatican’s representative to South Vietnam and five newsmen flew to Vientianne, Laos, after being expelled from or asked to leave Saigon by the Provisional Revolutionary Government. Eighty-four persons were aboard the plane, including some who were recently released from various prisons by the PRG. Expelled were French Ambassador Jean Marie Merillon and Msg. Henri le Maitre, the apostolic delegate in Saigon. Pressured to leave were Americans Paul Vogle and Chad Huntley of United Press International and George Esper of Associated Press; West German free-lance photographer, Dieder Ludvig, on assignment for Time magazine, and an unidentified Japanese journalist.
The leader of South Korea’s opposition party charged today that the nation’s security was under greater internal threat than it was from North Korea. This statement, made to Korean newsmen by Kim Young Sam, the head of the New Democratic party, appeared to signal the end of a political truce with President Park Chung Hee. Since the Communist takeover of South Vietnam at the end of April President Park has been warning that South Korea is the next Communist target, and he has been calling for national unity to repel any North Korean aggression. Until now that stand has dampened the anti‐Park movement led by the opposition party, the Christians and university students. Mr. Park and Mr. Kim also reportedly discussed the issue at a recent meeting.
Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam announced a sweeping cabinet reshuffle, demoting Dep. Prime Minister Jim Cairns from the powerful treasury post to the Environment Ministry. The reshuffle involved the switching of 12 of the 27 cabinet portfolios. Ten ministers were assigned new jobs, one was given an additional ministry and a parliamentarian elected to the cabinet three days ago was named to his first ministerial post.
Ten years after 23,000 American marines landed in the Dominican Republic to prevent “another Cuba,” the Dominican Republic is still ruled by an unswervingly pro‐United States Government that has crushed repeated challenges from the left. The tight grip that the military‐backed regime keeps on this traditionally volatile Caribbean nation was evidenced on April 28 when it blocked demonstrations by university students that had been planned to mark the anniversary of the United States intervention in the 1965 civil war.
Fighting broke out between rival liberation movements in Luanda and at least three persons were killed when the Angolan capital’s university hospital was hit by mortar and bazooka fire. A medical student said she saw three bodies at the hospital after the attack and that more persons had been killed when mortar fire hit a nearby bar. The Portuguese commander of the Luanda military area confined troops of Angola’s three liberation movements to their barracks.
Ugandan President Idi Amin said that he is ready to play an active role in obtaining the release of American and Dutch students kidnaped by Marxist guerrillas from Tanzania to Zaire nearly three weeks ago. Amin said the rebels warned Peter Steiner, a University of Michigan economics professor who volunteered to negotiate the release, that they do not want to deal with him.
A continuing moderation of inflation and the prospect of a relatively slow recovery from the recession were indicated by two government reports. The Labor Department said that the Wholesale Price Index for May rose four-tenths of 1 percent after adjustment for normal seasonal changes in some prices. This was less than the 1.5 percent increase in April and was again caused mainly by higher farm prices. A Commerce Department report showed a small downward revision in business plans to invest in plant and equipment this year.
Democrats in the House engineered passage of two more bills, one dealing with oil-price controls and the other with housing subsidies, that face almost certain presidential vetoes, especially in view of the inability of the House on Wednesday to override President Ford’s veto of a widely supported appropriation for government-financed jobs. The oil bill would extend from five to 15 days the period in which Congress may block the removal by the President of oil-price controls. The other measure, one in a series of Democratic proposals to stimulate the economy, would provide various housing subsidies for the building industry.
A majority of the Democratic members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence moved to oust the chairman, Representative Lucien Nedzi, on the ground that his alleged prior knowledge of involvement by the Central Intelligence Agency in assassination plots and domestic wrongdoing impaired his ability to conduct an impartial investigation of the agency. Meanwhile, Vice President Rockefeller’s office announced that the final report of his commission’s investigation of the C.I.A. would contain no information about charges that the agency was involved in plots to assassinate foreign leaders.
President Ford has signed a bill to permit states to defer payment temporarily of required matching funds in order to make use of $11.1 billion in highway construction funds to generate jobs. Ford said he had some reservations about the bill because he strongly opposed in principle deferring payment of matching funds. But he said, “This one-time exception is made to enable the states to take advantage of the special job-producing highway funds which I released in February and of the additional funds made available in April.”
Senator Philip A. Hart (D-Michigan) announced he would retire when his current term expired. He noted that if he won reelection next year to another six-year term he would be 70 when that term ended. Hart, who first won election to the Senate in 1958, is the third-ranking Democrat of the Senate Judiciary Committee and heads its subcommittee on antitrust and monopoly. His retirement will advance Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) to the No. 3 seat on Judiciary.
A bill to boost the federal debt ceiling to a record high of $616.1 billion through June 30, 1976, was approved by the House Ways and Means Committee. If cleared by the Rules Committee, the bill could reach the House for a vote next week after action on the highly controversial energy-tax bill, said Al Ullman (D-Oregon), chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Republican leaders said they were not aware of any veto threat by President Ford. A new debt limit bill is necessary soon because the present temporary $531 billion top on Treasury borrowing is due to expire at the end of this month. The legal limit would then fall to its permanent $400 billion level.
The General Accounting Office said 12,000 small, rural post offices should be closed to save $100 million annually without reducing postal service. GAO, Congress’ auditing agency, recommended that two-thirds of the nation’s 4,100 fourth-class and 12,190 third-class post offices, which serve about 2 million families, should be phased out. After conducting interviews in 32 communities in 28 states where such offices recently have been closed, GAO found, “mail service was at least as good as, and in a number of instances better than, before the changes.”
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare said 250,000 children have been shifted around within schools in the last two years to eliminate subtle forms of racial discrimination. The changes took place between mid-1973 and February of this year and represent a breakdown of racial barriers erected by schools after they were forced to desegregate, a HEW spokesman said. “These are schools that used ‘ability grouping’ as a shield for in-school discrimination,” said the HEW civil rights spokesman. “Once they opened the school doors on an integrated basis, they put the blacks in one classroom and the whites in another and said it was based on classroom ability.”
A man listed as a key prosecution witness in the upcoming trial of radical underground figure Susan Saxe escaped from a county prison near Philadelphia. Officials identified him as Robert Valeri, 26, a convicted bank robber. He walked away from the Chester County Prison while working in a garden outside the walls with seven other prisoners, Warden Thomas Frame said. An FBI spokesman said the escape “certainly reduces the chance for a conviction,” in the case, scheduled to begin in Philadelphia Monday. Miss Saxe, who was on the FBI’s most wanted list for 4 ½ years before her arrest in Philadelphia last March, is accused in the $6,000 holdup of the Bell Savings & Loan Association on September 1, 1970.
The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (CALRA), which establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers, becomes law.
48th U.S. National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling “incisor.”
Major League Baseball:
Dave Chalk had two bloop doubles and a single, and Billy Smith added a key two‐run single tonight, helping the California Angels erase a 3–0 deficit and defeat the Detroit Tigers, 8–3. The Tigers contributed three errors to go along with California’s 13‐hit attack. Four hits came on popups that fell safely. The Angels also engineered four stolen bases to run their major league lead to 91. Bill Singer allowed only one hit after the fourth inning in winning. Smith’s two‐run single capped a four‐run outburst that gave California the lead for good at 4–3 in the fourth.
Buddy Bell’s home run with one out in the 11th inning gave the Cleveland Indians an 8–7 victory over the Kansas City Royals tonight. Marty Pattin, (3–1), was the victim of Bell’s fourth homer of the season. The Indians had tied the game, 7–7, on Rick Manning’s run‐scoring triple in the ninth. Fran Healy knocked in three runs and Tony Solaita drove home two, helping Kansas City take a 7–6 lead into the ninth.
By the fourth and last time Catfish Hunter faced Rod Carew today he had figured out how to keep the Minnesota Marvel from getting a hit — something Carew had done nine of 10 previous times in the series. Hunter walked him on four pitches. In his first three times at bat against Hunter, Carew hit a bases‐empty homer, a two‐run homer and a run-scoring single. The hits were enough to give the Twins a 4–4 tie. However, Graig Nettles socked a two‐run homer in the seventh inning and added a run‐scoring single in the ninth, lifting the Yankees to a 7–4 victory and an over‐.500‐record, (25 victories, 24 defeats) for the first time this season.
Bill Madlock’s eighth‐inning single, his third hit of the game, drove home the tiebreaking run during a foul run rally that gave the Chicago Cubs an 8–4 victory over the San Francisco Giants today. With the score tied at 4–4. Don Kessinger opened the eighth with a single, and Jose Cardenal followed with a single. Then Madlock, who had singled and doubled earlier, again to score Kessinger with the lead run. George Mitlerwald and Manny Trillo also singled home runs and Steve Swisher delivered a sacrifice fly in the decisive inning.
“Who said Dave Kingman couldn’t hit right‐handers?” Manager Yogi Berra asked, a look of mock indignation on his face after the Mets beat the Houston Astros, 2–1, at Shea Stadium yesterday. For the third time in the Mets’ four‐game sweep of the Astros, Kingman batted in the winning run. And for the second time he did it against a right‐hander. This time the victim was Tom Griffin, whose won‐lost record dropped to 2–6 despite a well‐pitched game. Kingman hit a run‐scoring single to left, his second hit of the game, to help Tom Seaver to his eighth victory against four defeats.
Detroit Tigers 3, California Angels 8
San Francisco Giants 4, Chicago Cubs 8
Kansas City Royals 7, Cleveland Indians 8
New York Yankees 7, Minnesota Twins 4
Houston Astros 1, New York Mets 2
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 842.15 (+2.19, +0.26%)
Born:
Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Lithuanian-American NBA center (NBA All-Star, 2003, 2005; Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat), in Kaunas, Lithuania SSR, Soviet Union.
Benji Olson, NFL guard (Tennessee Titans), in Bremerton, Washington.
Jason Green, Canadian MLB pitcher (Houston Astros), in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada.
Beth Cunningham [née Morgan], WNBA guard (Washington Mystics), in Bloomington, Indiana.
Died:
Kenneth Horne, 75, British writer and playwright (“Fools Rush In”; “The Coming-Out Party”), of cancer.
Paul Keres, 59, Estonian chess grandmaster.
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