Without debate or even objection, Daniel P. Moynihan, 48, a former urban affairs expert in the Nixon administration, has been confirmed by the Senate as ambassador to the United Nations. He succeeds John A. Scali. A Democrat who held cabinet rank as a counselor to former President Richard M. Nixon from 196971, Moynihan was ambassador to India from 1973 until early this year. The senate also confirmed Malcolm Toom as ambassador to Israel, Galen L. Stone as ambassador to Laos and Andrew L. Steigman as ambassador to Gabon.
The chief of the Soviet secret police charged in a rare speech tonight that unnamed adversaries in the West were attempting “ideological sabotage” against the Soviet Union under the guise of calling for democratic reforms. Yuri V. Andropov, who runs the K.G.B., the huge foreign and domestic security apparatus, told a Russian audience outside Moscow that “ill‐wishers of socialism” were deliberately distorting the facts of Soviet life when they brought up “occasional shortcomings.” He contended that actual oppression lay in the West, where millions of workers were unemployed. Mr. Andropov, a member of the 15‐man ruling Politburo, made his remarks in a speech at Novo‐Moskovsk, south of Moscow, as a part of his candidacy for the single‐slate elections scheduled for the republics next Sunday. The appearance was a relatively unusual one for Mr. Audropov, who usually shuns exposure.
Turkish Cypriots overwhelmingly ratified the draft constitution for the separate federated state they declared unilaterally last February on Cyprus. A spokesman said that only 230 of 37,732 votes cast Sunday opposed the constitution. Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktaş already has been named the first president of the federated state, which has yet to gain outside recognition.
East German border guards machine-gunned a car before it could cross into West Berlin and captured its occupants, including one man in the trunk, West Berlin police reported. The incident took place at the Drewitz border crossing along the wall that divides the city. Traffic was halted for about half an hour, police said. The car was rented in West Berlin, but it was not known if the driver, who was injured in the incident, was a professional engaged in smuggling East Germans to the West.
Peter Samuel Cook, a 47-year-old truck driver, was brought to court in Cambridge, England, and charged with being the hooded rapist who has terrorized women of the English university city since last October. Cook was charged with raping seven women in an eight-month period, attempting to rape another and wounding still another. The courtroom was packed and about 200 people were outside, many of them women with some shouting “Hang him!” and “Pig!”
Thirty-six people died and 86 were injured in the head-on crash of two passenger trains in the Alps foothills south of Munich, police said in an updated report on the death toll. Police said there were no Americans among the identified victims in West Germany’s worst train wreck in four years. The death toll eventually would be confirmed as 41.
The Belgian Government, despite mounting domestic opposition, signed a contract today with the United‐States for 102 F‐16 fighter planes to reequip its air force. The signing gave the go-ahead for three other countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark — to buy American planes instead of the rival French F‐1 Mirage. They had said they would buy the F‐16 if Belgium did. The four‐nation deal, involving a total of about 350 planes, will be worth $2:billion to the St. Louis‐based General Dynamics Company, maker of the F‐16. Spin‐off sales could raise that figure to $20‐billion.
Fish caught off the Flanders bank near Calais in France have been showing mysterious ulcers and tumors for several years, the Common Market’s executive commission said in Brussels. The commission was responding to a question from Cornelis Laban, a Dutch Labor member of the European Parliament, about reports that about half of all fish caught in the Calais area were unfit for consumption by humans or animals. Laban suggested that the trouble was caused by discharges into the North Sea by chemical industries.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel, who will visit Washington this week, plans to press President Ford for an overall understanding with the United States on what diplomatic steps should follow in the Middle East if Israel and Egypt put aside differences and worked out an interim Sinai agreement. This appeared to indicate a shift in Israeli policy and surprised United States officials.
Western military sources said that the military forces that Israel claims to have withdrawn from the Suez Canal region a week ago had actually been pulled out many months earlier or, in some cases, had never been there. They said that the Egyptian command knew that the forces had been withdrawn earlier but decided not to challenge the claim because the Israeli announcement was considered politically important. Israel denied the report.
A rise in the price of gasoline in the United States from 1 to 1½ cents a gallon was in view as the oil-producing nations agreed to sever the link between oil prices and the dollar and to start quoting prices in Special Drawing Rights. The ministers from the 13 nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries also agreed that oil prices must go up when the current price freeze ends October 1.
In recent weeks the ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheik Zayed, and other potentates have been putting their weight increasingly behind a movement for solidarity among Iran and the neighboring Arab states that adjoin the Persian Gulf. The movement has now progressed so far, according to the privately owned Iranian newspaper Etelaat, which has close ties with the Iranian Government, that the leaders of Persian Gulf nations are to hold a conference, probably in the fall, where a mutual security pact is expected to be signed. However, this has not been officially confirmed here. A corollary to the solidarity movement is the idea, tirelessly promoted by Iran, that the gulf should be free of interference from outside powers. This means mainly the United States and the Soviet Union, whose naval vessels cruise in the waters of the gulf.
The United States plans to sell Iran three diesel‐powered submarines, which would help give the Iranian Navy the ability to operate in the Indian Ocean. The 24‐year‐old submarines would be the first to be obtained by the growing Iranian Navy, which has already arranged to purchase six new large destroyers from the United States. A Defense Department official disclosed the planned sale in testimony before a House Armed Services subcommittee. According to Pentagon officials, the acquisition of the submarines and large destroyers marks the transition of the Iranian Navy from a force essentially restricted to operations in the Persian Gulf to one capable of operating in the Indian Ocean.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi faces two crucial decisions this week, one political and the other judicial, either of which can affect her position and change the course of Indian politics. There is the much awaited outcome of state assembly elections in Gujarat state. And there is a judgment by the high court of Allahabad, her home town, that is due on Thursday on the petition of a political opponent against her election to Parliament four years ago. An opposition victory in the Gujarat elections that are now being held would weaken Mrs. Gandhi’s position at the center. It would also encourage a Gujarat‐style united onslaught by major opposition parties during the parliamentary elections eight months from now. If the court decision goes against her she will immediately lose her Prime Minister’s post and be barred from running for election for six years. Political analysts do not rule out either possibility and the focus of the whole nation is thus on these two decisions.
About 50,000 salmon eggs will be planted in Nepal’s mountain streams during the November spawning season, it was announced in Tokyo by the Japanese Society for the Protection of Freshwater Fish. The society will send a survey team, lead by Jiro Kawikita, a former professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, to Nepal this fall. The plan to plant salmon for the Indian Ocean was prepared by Kinji Imanishi, professor emeritus of Giftu University, who has succeeded in planting the trout-like Yamame fish in rivers on Yaku Island in the East China Sea.
The last squadron of American combat planes, 18 F-4 Phantom bombers, has been pulled out of Taiwan, the Department of Defense said. A Pentagon spokesman said the withdrawal was made about a month ago and was part of a plan announced last year to scale down the American presence on the island. Officials said the departure of 450 support personnel along with the aircraft brought the strength of the U.S. military contingent in Taiwan to about 4,000.
China and the Philippines announced today that they had established diplomatic relations. An agreement on relations was signed in Peking by the Philippine President, Ferdinand E. Marcos, and China’s Premier, Chou En‐lai. Later a trade agreement was, signed by the trade ministers of the two countries. The Philippine Government and the Chinese Nationalists on Taiwan thereupon broke all ties. With today’s action, the Philippines, long a strongly antiCommunist country and American ally, but one that is now questioning the value of American bases on her soil, became the second member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to recognize Peking as the sole representative of the Chinese people. Malaysia did so a little more than a year ago. Thailand, another long‐time American ally which is now seeking normal relations with both North and South Vietnam, is sending her foreign minister to Peking at the end of this month.
Melbourne police arrested British member of Parliament John Stonehouse when he tried to board an airliner for London. He was charged with attempted obstruction of justice by trying to leave Australia while proceedings against him were being heard in a Melbourne court. Stonehouse disappeared from a Miami Beach hotel last November and was arrested in Australia on Christmas Eve. He was free on bail during hearings in extradition to England on charges of fraud, theft and conspiracy involving $310,000.
France confirmed it had set off its first underground nuclear explosion last week beneath Fangataufa Atoll in the South Pacific. It claimed the blast put it on a technical par with the world’s leading nuclear powers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The test was described as a complete success from technical and safety points of view.
West Germany plans to go ahead and sign a multibillion dollar nuclear clear technology agreement with Brazil on June 27 despite American fears that the Brazilians may use the technology to build atomic weapons, according to officials in Bonn. The West Germans acknowledge that they have been able to get the Brazilians to agree to many but not all the international controls that the United States had pressed for meetings in Bonn and Washington this spring. In particular, West German officials concede, the agreement would not bind the Brazilians to agree to international supervision of the process that yields fissionable enriched uranium if they developed their own equipment. Only what they buy from the West Germans will be submitted to such control.
Portuguese paratroops stormed the strongholds of two rival black African nationalist factions that have been fighting each other and confiscated their arms stores, a spokesman for the Portuguese command said today. The spokesman said the action was taken because the National Front for the Liberation of Angola and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola had ignored an agreement to keep weapons such as rocket launchers out of the capital. The two movements have been clashing in the Luanda area since mid‐March. Government sources said a main cause of the violence was uncontrolled issuing of automatic weapons to followers of the rival movements. Officials say hundreds have been killed in the fighting.
President Ford announced that he was forwarding the Rockefeller commission report on the Central Intelligence Agency, including information on alleged assassination plots against foreign leaders, to the Department of Justice for possible prosecution. He said he would release the report today, but withhold information on the assassination question because it was “incomplete and extremely sensitive.” The assassination data also will be sent to two congressional committees.
President Ford’s policy of increasing oil costs to encourage conservation is “very unwise,” according to Arizona Rep. Morris K. Udall, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. He said Ford’s policy will “keep this recession going and kick off another round of energy inflation… it’s the most disastrous possible energy policy we could have, and doing nothing isn’t even that bad.” Udall made his comments on CBS’s Face the Nation program. He also indicated Ford should take more environmental advice from Russell Train, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and less from Frank Zarb, the federal energy administrator.
Representative Lucien Nedzi, chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, agreed to appoint a special subcommittee to take over the investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency, thus blunting an assault by Democrats on his chairmanship. The agreement was worked out between the Democratic members of the committee and the House leadership under Carl Albert, Speaker of the House.
The House and Senate deadlocked again on a $15 billion money bill while veterans in school continued to go without benefits and the food stamp program was threatened with a shutdown. The House voted 273 to 101 to send the big appropriations measure back to the Senate and insist on the $5 million it proposed for improving railroad track rather than the $175 million the Senate said should be spent. The Senate now can reject, accept or ask for a conference to work out a compromise. A Veterans Administration spokesman said so far checks totaling $46 million have been delayed for 159,000 veterans. About 500,000 veterans will not receive their education checks by July 1 if the bill continues to be stalled.
Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp said he planned to seek the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and would enter a number of presidential primaries. “I’m very much concerned about the major issue of the economy, which no one else is addressing.” Shapp told reporters at the National Governors Conference in New Orleans. If Shapp wins the nomination, for which observers consider he is a distinct long shot, he would be the first major party nominee of the Jewish faith.
Susan Edith Saxe, antiwar radical and militant feminist, in a surprise move pleaded uilty today to bank robbery and theft from a Federal arsenal and said she did not regret those 1970 crimes. “That armed struggle against the American state was a valid and necessary escalation of the politics of the sixties,” the 26‐year‐old Brandeis University honor graduate from Albany, New York, said in a defiant statement before United States District Judge Alfred L. Luongo. The sudden withdrawal of a plea of not guilty on the day her trial was to start was part of a deal with the Government guaranteeing that she will not be compelled, even under a grant of immunity, to testify in any proceedings, about events that occurred from 1969 until now. Because she refused to cooperate, the Government recommended a prison sentence of not more than 10 years for the $6,240 holdup of the Bell Savings And Loan Association in Philadelphia and two years, to run concurrently with the 10, for theft and related crimes at the Newburyport, Massachusetts, Arsenal.
Russell Means, American Indian Movement leader, was arrested in Bismarck, North Dakota, on charges of resisting and interfering with Lieutenant Pat Kelly of the Bureau of Indian Affairs police. Means was served the warrant in a hospital where he is in satisfactory condition with a pistol wound in the abdomen suffered during an incident Saturday night near Cannonball Bridge in northern Sioux County. A BIA officer said Means was shot during an altercation involving other AIM members, Means and Kelly in which Kelly’s gun accidentally discharged.
Evidence shows that drug abuse problems are worse and narcotics more available now than when the Drug Enforcemen Administration was created two years ago, a Senate investigations subcommittee was told today. Philip R. Manuel, a subcommittee investigator, also testified that corruption and mismanagement within the agency had been severe. “The need for clean, experienced hands is overwhelming,” said Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff, Democrat of Connecticut, a committee member. He said he would introduce legislation turning over all federal drug enforcement responsibility to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
There may be a shock hazard in 11,000 Philco-Ford black-and-white TV sets sold nationwide, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said. The sets involved-portable 9-inch models include four numbers. They are B350F, B380F, B370F and NT75 and were made from May 21 until Aug. 1, 1974. All were Philco-Ford brand except the last number, which was a house brand sold by Korvette. Commissioner Barbara Franklin said the company originally found the hazard — an electric leakage which could be transferred to the chassis — in 25,500 sets but had corrected 14,000 of them at the factory, in the pipeline or in the hands of owners.
Federal Customs agents arrested one of their own officers in El Paso and charged him with conspiracy to sell $2.4 million worth of cocaine to an undercover agent, said Vernon D. Acree, U.S. Customs commissioner, in Washington, D.C. A statement identified the man as George E. Hough, 34, a former customs sky marshal and police officer. Acree said Hough had attempted to sell 11 pounds of cocaine to the undercover agent. Unknown to Hough, who had been under surveillance by customs internal affairs agents for weeks, a synthetic Moscow, diplomatic sources said, and substance had been substituted for the real cocaine.
The government told a jury of eight whites and four blacks that Fayette, Mississippi, Mayor Charles Evers used assumed names to evade $51,593 in federal income taxes for the years 1968–1970. U.S. Attorney Michael J. Allen opened the trial in Jackson, Miss., by telling the jury that the black civil rights leader used a complex system of bank and checking accounts to conceal $159,355 in taxable income during the period. Allen said the income came from businesses and money diverted from a Fayette emergency fund.
The New York state legislature, summoned into late session in Albany, continued to meet amid reports that a final agreement was near among state and city politicians and the banking industry on creating a new fiscal agency designed to rescue New York City from pending default. Negotiators said cautiously that the major points appeared to have been settled and that, barring substantial complaints from the legislators, there would be an attempt to enact a bill.
A fire inside a jail at Sanford, Florida, killed eleven people (10 inmates and 1 guard). A convict set fire to his mattress today, touching off a blaze that killed 10 inmates and a guard in the Seminole County Jail. John Spolski, a spokesman for the county sheriff’s office, said that at least 39 persons had been admitted to three of the area’s hospitals. All of the victims died of smoke inhalation, Mr. Spolski said. Sanford’s Fire Chief, John Harriett, said that his men had to batter a hole through a side wall of the two‐story building to fight the blaze and lead prisoners and jailers to safety. Mr. Spolski said the fire was started about 12:12 PM, when a convict in a second‐floor hospital cell set his mattress ablaze. “The fire spread quickly to an adjacent area where all the jail’s mattresses are kept,” Mr. Spolski said, “and they caught fire quickly.” There were 68 prisoners in the jail when the fire started.
When 18-year-old Ernest Terrell of Des Moines drew an award-winning poster promoting shipping, he unexpectedly created a sexist storm strong enough to sink a fleet. Shortly after the youth won the $500 first prize and a trip to Washington, D.C., for his cartoon depicting an attractive woman dressed in Stars and Stripes, one member of the National Maritime Administration’s poster committee quit in protest. The work had no connection with the sea, he said. Sandra Jenkins, an administration lawyer, called it “cheesecake” and as degrading to women as the airline stewardess who invites passengers to “fly me…” The remaining poster judges, however, called the figure the “madonna of the sea.” But young Terrell couldn’t care less about the dispute, or the epithet “male chauvinist.” The subject was assigned to him by his art teacher, he pointed out, and “whatever they want to do about it, I really don’t give a damn.” And, he added with finality, “I’ve already spent the money.”
Fifteen charges of unfair labor practices against the National Football League in dealings with its players’ union were issued yesterday in a complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board.
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It doesn’t rain in the temperature‐controlled Astrodome in Houston, but the ball game between the Astros and the Chicago Cubs was almost rained out last night. Not because there was too much water on the artificial playing field, but because there was too much water on the streets leading to the ballpark. The Cubs won, 4–3, in 10 innings, sending the Astros to their ninth straight defeat. Heavy rains caused flash floods throughout the area. Nearly five inches of rain fell on parts of the city during the day. By game time, 7:35 PM, cars were stalled and deserted along highways and traffic on some roads reportedly was backed up for eight miles. About 50 lonely fans were in their seats at game time, and team officials, who considered postponing the game altogether, decided to delay the start as long as possible because several Houston players were stranded a few miles away. One Astro, Greg Gross, walked the last three miles to the park after his car stalled, and Joe Niekro and Tommy Helms hitchhiked the last two miles.
Two ninth‐inning errors by the New York Mets gave the San Francisco Giants four runs and a 5–4 victory tonight. Jerry Koosman came within one pitch of the 100th victory of his career. Taking a 4–1 lead into the ninth, Koosman made the first error. After posting his eighth strike‐out on the first hitter, he yielded a single to Gary Thomasson, but made Derrel Thomas hit back to the mound for what could have been a game‐ending double play. Instead, Koosman threw low to second, so that both men were safe. He seemed to be working out of trouble when he made Bobby Murcer fly out to short right and got ahead of Chris Speier with two strikes and no balls. However, Speier singled through the left side for one run, and Willie Montanez followed with a similar hit. That one, however, bounced past Bob Gallagher, who had gone to left field as a defensive measure, and on the error Speier scored the tying run while Montanez reached second. Bob Apodaca replaced Koosman, and Bruce Miller greeted him with a solid single to left that ended the game.
The Dodgers beat the Expos 4–0 and go over the one million mark in home attendance in only their 27th date. This breaks the Major League record of 28 days set by the 1948 Indians. Andy Messersmith, with a four‐hitter, gained his fourth shutout and Jimmy Wynn belted his 12th homer. After a 5–7 road trip during which they dropped out of first place in their division, the Dodgers moved to within a half‐game of the Cincinnati Reds by the victory. Messersmith improved his record to 9–2, striking out 12 men and walking three.
The Cardinals edged the Braves, 5–4. Ted Simmons smacked a tie‐breaking two‐run homer in the fifth inning in the Cardinals’ victory that spoiled the Atlanta pitching debut of John (Blue Moon) Odom, Reggie Smith walked before Simmons hit his sixth homer to break a 2–2 tie and chase Odom who was traded to the Braves by the Indians last Saturday for Rorie Harrison. The Cards got the winning run off Mike Beard in the seventh when Marion Guerrero singled to drive home Simmons who had walked.
Dave Parker and Willie Stargell walloped three‐run homers and Jerry Reuss scattered eight hits as the Pirates unleashed a 15‐hit assault that began with a five‐run first inning, and routed the Reds, 9–2.
The Padres dumped the Phillies 8–3. With John Grubb and Enzo Hernandez each knocking in two runs, Randy Jones coasted to a 5–0 lead. After the Phils had narrowed the gap to 5–3, the Padres raked Ron Schueler, Tom Hilgendorf and Gene Garber, relievers, for three more runs.
The Twins were playing the Indians in Cleveland and Minnesota manager Frank Quilici gave the wrong lineup to the Press Box and evidently to the players. Dan Ford, Danny Thompson and Glenn Borgmann were listed officially as batting seventh, eighth and ninth. However, Ford and Thompson batted in reverse order until the ninth inning. In the first, Thompson made the last out of the inning. Ford and Borgmann, who was also out of order now, both grounded out to start the second. In the fourth, Thompson singled but no runs scored in the inning. Thompson popped out to end the fifth. Ford tripled to start the sixth and eventually scored but Cleveland manager Frank Robinson did not object. In the seventh and eighth innings, all three batters made outs. In the ninth inning, the Twins finally batted in the proper order. Ford and Thompson both hit run-producing groundouts. The Twins won in the eleventh inning, 11–10, when Thompson drove in the game-winner with a single to center field. The Twins batted out of order four times and in the correct order twice in the game.
Jim Sundberg for Texas and Bernie Carbo for Boston each hit grand slams, but Sundberg gets some help as Texas wins, 12–4. Texas hits three more homers and Jackie Brown wins with 6+ innings of relief. Jeff Burroughs collected his 14th homer in the fifth and Toby Harrah and Jim Spencer each got two‐run blasts in the eighth. Yaz hits his 500th double.
The Yankees returned to New York in strength last night and, by any definition, “fat.” They had won eight straight games and 16 of their last 20, and they had the rich, reliable Catfish Hunter pitching against the California Angels. But neither Hunter nor the eight‐game streak survived the fast footwork of the Californians, who streaked to two runs in the seventh inning and two in the ninth for 5–3 victory. And they did their scoring on things like three singles, two walks, a bunt, their 99th stolen base of the year, a two‐base overthrow of second and a “foul sacrifice fly” to the shortstop. So Hunter, who had won six of his seven previous decisions, came out second best to Bill Singer and the Angels’ track team.
Darrel Porter smashed his fifth homer of the season into the rightfield seats off Rick Gossage in the ninth inning to give the Milwaukee Brewers a 1–0 triumph over the White Sox. The clout was the first off Gossage in 54 ⅔ innings this season and the first by a lefthanded batter off him since 1973. It was his fourth defeat against three victories. The triumph went to Ed Rodriguez, his fifth in five decisians, with three innings of relief.
The Royals downed the Tigers 5–2. The Royals scored three runs in the eighth, two on an inside‐the‐park, two‐run homer by Amos Otis, his fourth clout of the season. The triumph ended a five‐game losing streak for Kansas City. Lindy McDaniel relieved in the fifth and escaped a bases‐loaded, one‐out, situation and picked up the victory.
The A’s beat the Orioles, 4–3, as Joe Rudi singled Bill North home with the winning run in the 15th inning. North led off with a walk, was sacrificed to second by Bert Campaneris and, after Claudell Washington had been intentionally passed, Rudi hit a liner to left field. Paul Lindblad, 4–0, was the victor, and Dyar Miller, a rookie making his major league debut, was the loser. Campaneris hit a home run down the left‐field line in the eighth to tie the score, but it was disputed by the Oriole manager, Earl Weaver, who argued so forcefully he was ejected by Nick Bremagen, the third‐base umpire.
St. Louis Cardinals 5, Atlanta Braves 4
Oakland Athletics 4, Baltimore Orioles 3
Texas Rangers 12, Boston Red Sox 4
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Chicago White Sox 0
Pittsburgh Pirates 9, Cincinnati Reds 2
Minnesota Twins 11, Cleveland Indians 10
Chicago Cubs 4, Houston Astros 3
Detroit Tigers 2, Kansas City Royals 5
Montreal Expos 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
California Angels 5, New York Yankees 3
Philadelphia Phillies 3, San Diego Padres 8
New York Mets 4, San Francisco Giants 5
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 830.10 (-9.54, -1.14%)
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John Milem, NFL defensive end (San Francisco 49ers, Carolina Panthers), in Concord, North Carolina.
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