Two passenger trains collided head on at high speed last night between Lenggries and Warngau in the Alpine foothills south of Munich, West Germany, killing 41 people (38 passengers, 2 drivers, 1 conductor) and injuring 122. Many of the injured were reported in serious condition and the police expected the toll to rise. As rescuers worked under floodlights to cut victims from the wreckage, a police spokesman said the crash — the country’s worst rail disaster in four years — had apparently been caused by the failure of one train to halt in a nearby station until the other had arrived. The crash occurred on a single‐track section of the Munich‐Bad Tolz line 30 miles south of Munich. One train was packed with people returning to Munich from weekend outings in the mountains, the police spokesman said. “We have to expect that the casualty toll will go higher as rescue operations proceed,” he added.
Turkish Cypriots began voting in a referendum to approve the constitution of their self-proclaimed federated state in the Turkish occupied northern part of the war-divided island. The vote is being held despite objections by the Greek Cypriot dominated government of President Makarios that it would undermine peace talks. Results of the vote will not be announced until Saturday.
The Socialist newspaper Republica, center of a free press issue that threatened Portugal’s shaky provisional government, will be reopened “by the end of the week,” Socialist Party spokesmen said. But they predicted more trouble from the Communist-led printers who sparked the crisis. The paper, one of the few dailies not under Communist Control, was given permission by the military’s Revolutionary Council to reopen whenever its owners and editorial staff wished.
Britain is on a “suicide course” of skyrocketing prices and wage inflation, Environment Secretary Anthony Crosland said. “The workers of this country are pricing themselves out of jobs,” Crosland, a senior minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, said in a speech in the North Sea port of Grimsby. Wilson, meanwhile, was working in London on a cabinet reshuffle in the wake of an affirmative vote in a national referendum to keep Britain in the Common Market. Government sources said Wilson would now concentrate on what he has called the gravest economic crisis since the 1930s.
French General Paul Stehlin, said to have been paid to lobby for a U.S. aircraft firm, was reported in a coma and in extremely serious condition after being hit by a bus two days ago. The 67-year-old former chief of staff of France’s air force has undergone surgery for head, shoulder and hip fractures at Cochin Hospital in Paris, where a spokesman said, “We cannot comment on his chances for survival at this stage.” Hours before Stehlin was struck by the bus a U.S. Senate subcommittee said he had been paid $60,000 in 10 years by Northrop Corp.
The Soviet government has announced a new tax on money from abroad. The tax could be used to block financial support from abroad for families of imprisoned Soviet dissidents or for Jews who might decide to emigrate to Israel. The law, which goes into effect next January 1, was printed unobtrusively in the law bulletin of the Supreme Soviet, the nation’s parliament.
The World Bank, in an attempt to improve the lot of the poorest people in the less developed countries, is planning a substantial expenditure to improve the productivity of the small farmer. In a 425‐page report, “The Assault on World Poverty,” the bank said it would spend $7‐billion over the next five years on agricultural and rural‐development projects. The program is designed primarily to aid about 800 million people who have an annual per capita income of $50 or less.
Soon after her father’s death in March, Christina Onassis, who was born in New York, took steps to renounce her United States citizenship and to give the American portion of the Onassis shipping empire to a charity. In April, Miss Onassis relinquished control of Victory Carriers, Inc., a shipping concern that has eight United States-flag vessels. Miss Onassis reportedly established a United States-based trust that will operate Victory Carriers for the benefit of the American Hospital in Paris, where her father died. Both her actions were said to have important tax advantages.
Israeli soldiers among a group of hitchhikers at a busy crossroads in the Plain of Sharon today killed a young Arab who had reportedly tried to kill them with grenades and gunfire. The incident was said to have occurred just outside the Kfar, Yona Prison, where convicted Arab terrorists are jailed. According to a series of official statements by the military command here, the Arab threw two grenades and fired with a submachine gun in the direction of soldiers at Beit Lid, where the Netanya‐Tulkarm road intersects in Tel Aviv‐Haifa highway. The grenades did not explode. The soldiers opened fire and killed the Arab, who was identified later as a 22‐year‐old inhabitant of the Tulkarm district. Witnesses said the Arab had thrown the grenades and opened fire from an embankment overlooking the road. One grenade struck a soldier on the leg. He picked it up and threw it back, witnesses said.
Three people were killed and rioting broke out in the state capital on the first day of voting in the closely fought Gujarat assembly elections in India. Police said the deaths followed a clash between members of the Rajput Durbar clan who supported the Congress Party, and the Patels, high-caste villagers backing the Janata (people’s) Front.
The North Vietnamese National Assembly urged that Hanoi eventually be made the capital of a reunified Vietnam. The statement, broadcast over the Hanoi radio and monitored in Bangkok, was in a report of the first meeting of fifth session of the National Assembly, at which the country’s leaders were re-elected. “The National Assembly hopes that people in Hanoi will develop the revolutionary tradition to establish Hanoi as the capital of the entire country,” the report said. “The people in the capital are on the threshold of a new history that requires new efforts in response to the heavier and larger responsibilities toward South Vietnam and Saigon,” it said.
Liberalization of the laws regulating the cultivation of opium and the narcotics traffic in Laos has been proposed by the Communist-led Pathet Lao. This is worrying United States officials and threatens to halt a two-month-old United Nations program to discourage opium production. The Pathet Lao has begun its campaign in the mountain areas of Laos where for generations Meo tribesmen have cultivated opium as a major cash crop, and in the Yao tribal villages around yang Vieng. Laws restricting opium cultivation and sale have been branded as the product of American imperialism and the Pathet Lao has sought to win friends by promising to reopen the markets. Late last week, the joint National Political Council voted to ask the Cabinet to amend the narcotics law to legalize the consumption of opium, release all those arrested under the old narcotics laws and legalize and allow state control of the growth and marketing of opium. That could mean substantial new income for the hard‐pressed central government.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines had talks here today with Deputy Premier Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders. Officials declined to reveal details of the talks, but they were believed to have focused on trade and establishment of diplomatic relations. President Marcos arrived yesterday on a visit aimed at normal relations after 25 years of suspicion and hostility. In a show of the importance China attached to the visit, Mr. Marcos was taken shortly after his arrival to meet Chairman Mao Tse‐tung and Premier Chou En‐lai.
Reports from Tahiti said France had conducted its first underground nuclear explosion but the French government refused comment. The Tahitian daily Depeche de Tahiti, quoting unofficial sources, said the blast occurred last week on the atoll of Fangataufa. Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam also said France had conducted an underground blast. France had warned shipping to keep 30 miles clear of Fangataufa, and another atoll, Mururoa, which lie about 800 miles southeast of Tahiti. France last year announced the switch from atmospheric to underground testing.
A major reshuffle of the Cabinet by Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam last week has created dissension within the leadership of the governing Labor party. The changes, involving 13 members of the 27‐member Cabinet, drew criticism from Labor party officials inside and outside the government. In a week of political drama, the Deputy Prime Minister objected to the Prime Minister’s plans while the Minister for Labor and Immigration refused to give up his portfolio.
Several hundred people have been killed in four days of fighting between rival Angolan liberation movements, a local newspaper said today. A joint cease‐fire order by military chiefs of the three groups appeared to be taking hold as shooting died down during the night and early this morning, but later there were renewed sounds of firing close to the city center. The newspaper A Provincia de Angola said several hundred bodies of men, women and children were in the Luanda city mortuary. At São Paulo Hospital, where three people were killed by mortar fire on Thursday, the mortuary was reported unable to cope with the number of dead. Luanda’s other main hospital, the Maria Pia, received 14 more bodies and 20 wounded yesterday, according to the newspaper.
Attorney General Edward Levi said that it was not within the constitutional authority of the President of the United States to order the assassination of foreign heads of state. He emphasized that he was not suggesting that President Eisenhower and President Kennedy, under whose administrations the possibility of such plots was allegedly studied, had violated state or federal laws because “consideration of alternatives is not the same thing as ordering the violations.” But, he left open the question of whether any of the living subordinates of the late Presidents who were involved in planning and attempting to implement alleged assassination plots would be subjected to a criminal investigation by the Justice Department.
A Senate investigating team directed by Senator Edward Kennedy charged that the administration’s program for resettling 131,210 Indochinese refugees has turned into a “shambles” because of “failure of leadership.” A report to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Refuges and Escapees blamed the Interagency Taskforce on Refugees for “bureaucratic roadblocks.”
The Veterans Administration has run out of money to pay 500,000 veterans their educational benefits. About 900,000 of the 1.4 million recipients got their checks at the beginning of the month, VA spokesman Frank R. Hood said, but the others must wait for Congress to pass a $15 billion supplemental appropriations bill that includes continued funding for the VA and other agencies. At issue is a dispute between the House and Senate over how much to spend for improving railroad beds. The Senate wants to spend $175 million, the House only $5 million. The House takes up the bill again today.
One of every five U.S. commercial airliners would be grounded if President Ford’s proposed decontrol of domestic oil prices becomes effective, an Air Transport Association official said. He said ATA, which represents nearly all U.S. commercial aircraft operations, had formed an unusual alliance with consumer advocate Ralph Nader to ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to tell Congress and the Administration that the Ford program would curtail the aviation industry.
An official of the Environmental Protection Agency estimated that a controversial bill to control strip mining could cause a drop in coal production of 89.6 million tons a year. National coal production was about 600 million tons last year. John Quarles, deputy administrator for EPA, said the agency studies were not undertaken to gauge the impact of the bill but instead to determine the availability of low-sulfur coal, and the figures are not final. The bill to regulate strip mining passed the Congress but was vetoed by President Ford. A vote to override that veto is scheduled Tuesday in the House.
Democratic Governors gathering in New Orleans for an annual midyear meeting agreed that the only one of their colleagues running an active campaign for the presidential nomination — George Wallace of Alabama — would draw a big bloc of delegates but would not win. Governor Calvin Rampton of Utah, chairman of the National Governors’ Conference, who is a moderate conservative, said at a news conference that he could not support a ticket with Mr. Wallace on it. Governor Reubin Askew of Florida called on Mr. Wallace to support the Democratic nominee regardless of who he is, and not bolt to a third party.
Government investigators have broadened their inquiries into illegal political contributions and bribery abroad by American corporations to include a dozen additional corporations that constitute a “who’s who” of American industry. In addition to companies already identified publicly, the investigation has been extended to the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, the Exxon Corporation, the Mobil Oil Corporation, the Standard Oil Company (Indiana), the Del Monte Corporation and American Airlines.
A top lieutenant of reputed Chicago racketeer Sam Giancana once tried to cut off intensive FBI surveillance of the alleged Mafia boss by assuring an FBI agent that “we’re all part of the same team” and that Giancana had been working for the CIA, informed sources said. The incident took place in 1961, after Giancana and his reputed West Coast right-hand man, Johnny Rosselli, reportedly had been recruited by the CIA in a scheme to assassinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. The two men apparently had been enlisted to work for the agency in 1960 during the waning days of the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration.
State hospitals are using medical graduates who are little more than “warm bodies in white coats” to treat their patients, says a leading medical licensing official. The practice constitutes a national scandal, says Dr. Robert C. Derbyshire of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Derbyshire is a member of the New Mexico Board of Medical Examiners and past chairman of the National Federation of State Medical Boards. Almost half of the 14,476 doctors licensed in 1972 to practice in the United States were graduates of schools outside of the United States and Canada, he said, and the majority of them are inferior to U.S. graduates.
The present complicated and wasteful system of military pay and benefits is unfair to single soldiers and could be simplified for an eventual annual saving of nearly $2 billion, according to a study just made public. A senior fellow at the independent, nonpartisan Brookings Institution in Washington, Martin Binkin. found in his study. “The Military Pay Muddle,” that the system favors married soldiers and their expensive dependents. He said that by replacing the current system of taxed pay and untaxed allowances with a single, taxable salary, personnel would be paid according to their job performances, rather than by the needs of their dependents.
Mellon Bank of Pittsburgh, one of the nation’s largest financial institutions, says the recession is ending and that an economic revival is at hand. “The government’s new composite index of leading indicators — which typically foreshadows movements in the economy as a whole — posted a substantial 4.2% advance in April,” said Norman Robertson, Mellon’s chief economist. The index had fallen 28% from June, 1973, through February, 1975. “In other words, the indicators which accurately predicted the 1974-75 downturn are now signaling the imminence of recovery.” Robertson noted.
Susan E. Saxe, anti-war revolutionary accused of murdering a Boston policeman, goes on trial in federal court in Philadelphia today on charges of participating in a 1970 Philadelphia bank holdup. The policeman was killed during a second 1970 bank robbery and Massachusetts officials say she will probably stand trial for that later this year. Witnesses allege that Miss Saxe, 26, remained outside the Philadelphia bank holding a gasoline bomb while Stanley Bond, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, robbed it.
The United States must push ahead with development of “fast breeder” nuclear reactors to keep from running out of uranium, John A. Hill, deputy administrator of the Federal Energy Administration, said in a message to a House subcommittee hearing in Washington. The subcommittee is studying the development program to perfect this fuel-conserving type of reactor. However, Thomas B. Cochran of the Natural Resources Defense Council told the subcommittee the program “is premature” and should be delayed because of “mounting apprehension concerning the human and societal hazards of nuclear fission reactors.”
Scientists brought 4-month-old peregrine falcons to an 854-acre island in the Gunpowder River in hopes of planting a colony of the endangered bird species in a natural environment. The site, part of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, was formerly used to test nerve gas and other lethal chemical weapons but now is considered safe. For the next two months, until they are ready to hunt for themselves, the birds will be fed by soldiers. They cannot fly as yet and will be protected by Army Material Command scientists and technicians until they can.
The Venera 9 space probe was launched by the Soviet Union to explore the planet Venus. It would land on Venus on October 22 at 13:12 Venus solar time (0513 UTC) and transmit data for 53 minutes.
Major League Baseball:
Jim Palmer (9–3) pitched a one-hitter and the Orioles edged the Royals, 1–0. Hal McRae spoiled Palmer’s bid for a second career no-hitter with a fourth inning single. Steve Busby (7–5) pitched a good game, but was the Royals’ loser, despite only allowing four hits himself. Palmer was just a little bit better.
Having wiped out the Rangers in Texas and devastated the Twins in Minnesota, the Yankees completed their annihilation of the Chicago White Sox today and eagerly headed east for what they confidently expected would be more of the same at home. The Yankees’ roving band of marauders defeated the White Sox, 4–1, for their eighth straight victory and 16th in the last 20 games. Included in the torrid streak is a 10–3 record on this road trip, during which they won three of four from Texas and swept three games with both Minnesota and Chicago after dropping two of three in Kansas City.
Detroit’s Tom Veryzer doubles with two out in the 9th to stop Oakland’s Ken Holtzman’s no-hitter. The 29‐year‐old Oakland A’s lefthander came within one pitch of fashioning the third no‐hitter of his career as he beat the Detroit Tigers, 4–0. Outfielder Bill North misjudges Veryzer’s hit, but is not charged with an error. Holtzman retires the last hitter.
The Twins beat the Red Sox, 7–5. Larry Hisle’s disputed double led to a six‐run ninth that enabled the Twins to snap a seven‐game losing streak and halt the Red Sox four‐game winning string. Hisle’s high drive to left field appeared to be caught at the wall by Bernie Carbo, but umpire Jerry Neudecker ruled the ball had hit the wall. In the ensuing argument, Darrell Johnson, the Red Sox manager, was thrown out of the game.
The Brewers catcher Darrell Porter drives in all 4 runs as Milwaukee tops the Angels, 4–3. Jim Colborn wins his first of the year. Colborn and Tom Murphy combined for a six‐hitter. Colborn, who entered the game with an 0–4 record and a 5.14 E.R.A., held the Angels to two hits until the seventh. It was his seventh career triumph in eight decisions against California.
Lenny Randle singled home Jeff Burroughs in the 17th inning with the deciding run to give the Rangers a 7–6 win and a split of their doubleheader with Cleveland. John Ellis doubled in two runs in the opener to cap a three‐run fourth and Eric Raich, a rookie right‐hander, picked up his second victory as the Indians won, 3–2.
The Indians’ John (Blue Moon) Odom was sent to the Atlanta Braves for Roric Harrison in a swap of right-handed pitchers.
Marc Hill singled in two of the three ninth‐inning runs in the second game and Chris Speier and Bobby Murcer drove in all the runs in the opener to fuel the Giants’ sweep of the Pirates, 3–1 and 4–2. Ed Halicki tossed afive‐hitter in the first game as John Candeleria absorbed the loss in his first majorleague start.
The New York Mets salvaged the final game of their three‐game series with the Atlanta Braves at Shea Stadium yesterday, but it wasn’t easy. The Braves forced the issue to 14 innings before bowing. 7–6. As it developed, the New York victory might well be described as a going‐away present from the Braves. A bases‐loaded wild pitch by Elias Sosa, the fourth Atlanta pitcher, brought an end to the 4‐hour‐6‐minute struggle. A few minutes earlier, Clarence Gaston, the Braves’ center fielder, helped tie the strings to the gift package. With Felix Milian on first as the result of a bloop single, Gaston dropped Joe Torre’s windblown fly to right center.
Johnny Bench belts a 2–run homer in the 7th and the Reds beat Rick Reuschel and the Cubs, 2–1 in the opener of a doubleheader, then took the nitecap, 8–5. The Reds ran their winning streak to four straight and have won 16 of their last 19 games. Gary Nolan tossed an eight‐hitter in the first game and Tony Perez drove in three runs, two with a homer in the seventh, in the second game. Nolan, who underwent surgery for removal of a calcium deposit in his right shoulder, won his fifth straight game.
The Phillies downed the Dodgers, 4–2. Dave Cash drove in three runs, two with his first homer of the season, to back Jim Lonborg’s five‐hitter. Lonborg also drove in a run with a single, his first hit in 27 trips to the plate. Don Sutton, the league’s only 10‐game winner, took his fourth loss.
The Cardinals dumped the Astros, 5–1. The Cardinals won their sixth straight game as Ron Reed chalked up his second triumph since arriving in St. Louis from the Atlanta Braves. The Astros, who have the worst record in the majors (20–39), lost their eighth successive game.
The Padres and Expos split their doubleheader; the Padres won the first game, 5–2, and the Expos came back to win the second, 3–1. Pat Scanlon, a rookie, hit a two‐run triple and Steve Rogers gained his fourth victory in the second game. Dave Winfield’s two‐run single and Dick Sharon’s two‐run homer enabled San Diego to win the first game. Dave McNally, who had won his first three games for the Expos, took his sixth straight defeat in the opener.
Veteran Montreal pitcher Dave McNally, 3–6, announces his retirement.
Kansas City Royals 0, Baltimore Orioles 1
Minnesota Twins 7, Boston Red Sox 5
Milwaukee Brewers 4, California Angels 3
New York Yankees 4, Chicago White Sox 1
Chicago Cubs 1, Cincinnati Reds 2
Chicago Cubs 5, Cincinnati Reds 8
Texas Rangers 2, Cleveland Indians 3
Texas Rangers 7, Cleveland Indians 6
St. Louis Cardinals 5, Houston Astros 1
San Diego Padres 5, Montreal Expos 2
San Diego Padres 1, Montreal Expos 3
Atlanta Braves 6, New York Mets 7
Detroit Tigers 0, Oakland Athletics 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Philadelphia Phillies 4
San Francisco Giants 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 1
San Francisco Giants 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Born:
Bryan McCabe, Canadian NHL defenseman (New York Islanders, Vancouver Canucks, Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Florida Panthers, New York Rangers), in St Catherines, Ontario, Canada.
Matt Perisho, MLB pitcher (Anaheim Angels, Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox), in Burlington, Iowa.
Shilpa Shetty, Indian film actress, in Mangalore, India.
Died:
Murray Leinster [William Fitzgerald Jenkins], 78, American science-fiction author (“Time Tunnel”; “Land of the Giants”).
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