President Ford says he believes world oil prices should not be increased more than 7 or 8 percent and perhaps ought to be cut. Mr. Ford’s press secretary, Ron Nessen, said the President termed any $4-a-barrel increase — the highest figure mentioned for a possible October 1 price rise — would be a “serious act” and not in the best interests of the oil-producing countries. Mr. Nessen said the President’s statement did not amount to a veiled threat.
The Pentagon is still seeking President Ford’s approval for an $800 million foreign military aid program for the 1976 fiscal year although more than half of this amount originally was earmarked for Cambodia before the Communist takeover there. Pentagon officials say they want to take the $425 million previously scheduled for Cambodia and make it available to other countries including Greece, Turkey, South Korea and Indonesia.
Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger says the Soviet Union has begun storing anti-ship missiles at a large new facility at a Somalian port, supporting Soviet naval operations in the Indian Ocean. Mr. Schlesinger made the statement to Senate Armed Services Committee members in Washington while defending the administration’s proposed $108 million naval base at the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have agreed to a six-month renewal of the peace-keeping mandate of the U.N. force on the island, U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim reported in New York. The U.N. force has been on Cyprus for 11 years. In a report to the Security Council on last week’s talks in Vienna between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, Waldheim also said the two sides were still deadlocked on a settlement.
Basque separatists called for mass demonstrations in northern Spain to protest a government crackdown on supporters of Basque autonomy. The call came after the arrest of 39 high school students and a teacher in Madrid for holding an illegal meeting. Basque sources said police also arrested two Basque priests in Alava province who helped prepare a sermon that was read in several churches. Other priests and novices were also reported arrested.
Prime Minister Harold Wilson shuffled his cabinet, moving left-winger Tony Benn from the Industry Ministry to the energy department with responsibility for developing Britain’s North Sea oil. Benn had opposed Wilson in campaigning vigorously against British Common Market membership, but government officials insisted that the switch was not a demotion. Eric Varley, who also campaigned against the Common Market issue, moved from the energy post to head the Industry Ministry.
Looking fit and healthy, Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid L. Brezhnev, 68, made his first official appearance in more than a month by greeting a Czechoslovak delegation that had come to Moscow to present him with an award. Observers, however, were left puzzling over his enigmatic acceptance remarks, which might or might not refer to his physical or political health. Paraphrasing a popular Russian song, he declared: “As I was before, so I will remain.”
Police put down the French prostitutes’ revolt, expelling hundreds of angry women from churches in six major cities after learning that more prostitutes had planned to take over Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. “We heard of plans they had to take over several more churches including Notre Dame, which is totally unacceptable,” Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski said after he gave the order for the removal of the prostitutes from the churches they had been occupying for up to a week.
The European Economic Community and the Arab world opened their long‐awaited talks here today on economic cooperation. Although the recent trade agreement between the Common Market and Israel provided a mildly embarrassing backdrop, both sides expressed confidence in the new encounter. The subject that at one point had threatened to scuttle the talks was dispensed with in almost surgical fashion at the opening session. Najm Eddin Dajani, the Jordanian who heads the Arab delegation, declared that by signing the trade agreement the Common Market had forfeited an important element of pressure on Israel. The air cleared, the delegates then got down to business.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin left Israel today for Washington in hope of improving relations between Israel and the United States, and ending the recriminations that followed the March breakdown of Secretary of State Kissinger’s mediation efforts in the Middle East. In the view of senior Israeli officials, Mr. Rabin also hopes to achieve the foliowing objectives in the talks that start tomorrow:
- An understanding of America’s Middle East policy after the Ford Administration’s two‐and‐a‐half month “reassessment.”
- A resumption, if possible, of the American‐sponsored negotiations with Egypt toward a new Sinai agreement.
- An understanding with the United States on subsequent negotiating steps regardless whether the interim talks succeed.
- A sympathetic hearing of Israel’s record request for $2.5‐billion in military and economic assistance and a resumption of the suspended negotiations over certain key items, such as the F‐15 fighters and Lance missiles.
The principal objective, in the view of officials here, is the improvement of relations with the United States. This is regarded as the linchpin on which the success of the Washington talks and any future steps depend.
Able Nathan, the Israeli peace crusader, and his radio station-ship have disappeared from the air waves. Nathan had announced he would try to pass through the Suez Canal at 10 AM last Thursday, the day the waterway reopened, to “herald the beginning of a new era of peace.” His “peace ship,” a 110-ton converted Dutch coastal vessel with a 14-man crew of Canadian, Australian, French and German nationals, was approaching Port Said when it suddenly stopped broadcasting pop music and peace messages in mid-record at 9:20 AM.
Jordan’s King Hussein welcomed President Hafez al-Assad of Syria with a kiss and a hug today and the two leaders began talks on closer military coordination in their conflict with Israel. American‐made Starfighter and F‐5 jets escorted President Assad’s plane into Amman and the Jordanian king embraced General Assad, the first Syrian President to visit Jordan in 18 years, to the thunder of a 21‐gun salute. About 100,000 people lined the motorcade route from the airport to the Hummar guest palace, west of the capital. The two leaders smiled broadly as they acknowledged the crowd’s welcome. The leaders wasted little time in getting down to the business of establishing closer military ties in the confrontation with Israel.
Anti-government feeling among Islamic militants in Iran has flared into rioting in the shrine city of Qom in recent days, according to Iranian security officials. The reported disorders, on Thursday and Saturday, appeared to be renewed expression of the widespread but generally muted tension between religious conservatives in the Muslim world and governments intent on fostering social change. Over the decade this tension has caused violence in Iran as well as in such disparate Muslim nations as Egypt and Saudi Arabia. According to the officials, the Qom disorders, which were quelled by the police, involved “reactionary elements.”
Prince Norodom Sihanouk plans to leave his official residence in Peking and come to France, probably late this month, friends of the Cambodian leader said here today. They said it was uncertain whether he would return to China at all, or whether he would settle down in his villa at Mougins in the south of France. In any case, his former French adviser, Charles Meyer, Said it was virtually certain that he would never return to Cambodia. “He can go back any time be wishes, of course, Mr. Meyer said, “but to work in the rice paddy like everybody else. That’s the way things are there. It’s a peasant revolution. The cities, the privileges, the royal life are finished and Prinoe Sihanouk knows it.”
The Thai Cabinet today decided to buy weapons and military equipment worth about $23‐million from the United States when American troops are withdrawn from the country over the next nine months. Preeda Watthanathabut, mimister attached to the Premier’s office, said after a Cabinet meeting that the cost of the weapons, equipment and spare parts would be much cheaper than if they were bought at normal prices. The United States has long supplied arms to Thailand. A government spokesman said that the arms and equipment is valued at $55 million.
The Chinese army will support North Koreans in “their just struggle to achieve independence and peaceful unification of the fatherland,” a top Chinese official said. The pledge was made by Chang Tsai-chien, deputy chief of staff of China’s People’s Liberation Army, at a Peking banquet in honor of a North Korean army delegation, according to a Chinese news broadcast monitored in Tokyo.
Japan’s Central Meteorological Agency reported a fairly strong earthquake in the northern Pacific. Officials said minor seismic waves hit the coasts of northern Japan and the large Hokkaido Island, but there were no reports of casualties or major damage. The Uppsala Seismological Institute in Sweden earlier reported that the quake registered 7.1 on the Richter scale.
A Chinese Nationalist official said today that talks would be held with the Philippines to set up an arrangement to handle trade, travel and cultural relations now that diplomatic ties had been severed. As increasing numbers of countries have recognized Pekand ended relations with Taipei — the Philippines did so yesterday — the Chinese Nationalist Government here has expanded its network of nonofficial offices overseas. Many of these trade and information offices perform some quasiconsular functions in the absence of diplomatic relations. They may, for example, provide a prospective foreign visitor to Taiwan with a letter of introduction that can be exchanged for a visa at the Taipei airport.
Negotiators met with three convicts holding 15 hostages in a prison vault and relayed messages from Canadian officials in Ottawa on their demands to be flown out of the country. Prison officials refused to disclose the contents of the messages. While negotiations were under way, sharpshooters in plain clothes were bused to the British Columbia penitentiary where the three convicts — serving life sentences for murder or attempted murder — are holed up with their hostages.
Rhodesia’s white minority government was urged by one of its ministers today to direct the “full force” of the country’s military and civil power against guerrillas on the northern border. Calling for the end of what he described as the current “low‐profile holding operation” in the guerrilla war in the wake of the cease‐fire agreement of last December, the minister also said the government should deal firmly with those members of the black nationalist movement who continued to advocate violence. These statements, made by William Irvine, the Minister of Local Government and Housing, before a conference of town clerks here, were greeted with a standing ovation.
In Washington, D.C., the Rockefeller Commission issued its report on CIA abuses, recommending a joint congressional oversight committee on intelligence. The Central Intelligence Agency has conducted a vast network of unlawful or uncontrolled operations that resulted in the creation of files on nearly a half-million Americans, mail openings, wiretapping, room bugging, burglaries, “monitoring” of overseas telephone calls, secret drug testing and the infiltration of American political groups, the Rockefeller commission’s report has revealed. In the first official report of what is the most sweeping investigation to date of the United States intelligence agencies, the Presidential commission said that the “great majority” of the CIA’s domestic activities complied with the law. But, it said, there were incidents of poor judgment by officials, inadequate internal and external controls, meddling and pressures from past Presidents and operations that “were plainly unlawful and constituted improper invasions upon the rights of Americans.”
The Rockefeller commission has charged that the Justice Department “abdicated its statutory duties” for more than 20 years through a secret agreement that gave the Central Intelligence Agency the power to decide whether or not to prosecute criminal charges involving agency employees. The commission also charged that the agreement “involved the agency directly in forbidden law enforcement activities” in violation of the law that created the agency and limited its power.
The Ford administration has won its third consecutive veto battle of the year with the Democratic-controlled Congress by defeating an attempt in the House of Representatives to override the President’s veto of the strip mine control bill. The bill appeared to be dead as the House vote fell three short of the required two-thirds majority.
Both the House and Senate have agreed to proposals prohibiting payment of federal jobless benefits to employed teachers during summer vacations. But final passage of the legislation has been delayed. The proposals are part of a $15 billion supplemental appropriations bill snagged in a Senate-House dispute over aid to railroads. The bill would deny jobless aid to educational employees during the period between school years if such employees — teachers, researchers, or principal administrators — have contracts for both such academic terms.
John R. Bartels Jr., former drug enforcement administrator, tried “to frustrate, impede and obstruct” an investigation of a top aide’s alleged links to criminal forces, the current DEA inspection chief testified. Bartels also “failed to authorize or discouraged” probes of other high-ranking officers in the agency against whom allegations of corruption still remain unresolved, said Andrew C. Tartaglino. His appearance before a Senate investigations subcommittee came seven months after he had privately registered his complaints with Justice Department officials. Attorney General Edward H. Levi forced Bartels to resign on May 30.
An egg industry group accused the Federal Trade Commission of conspiring with the American Heart Association and “powerful commercial interests” to muzzle its attempts to make known its opinion on the relationship between eggs and heart disease. The National Commission on Egg Nutrition said, “There is no scientific evidence that eating eggs increases the risk of heart attack.” Chairman Hendrik Wentink charged at a Washington news conference that the FTC, which is currently conducting hearings on advertisements by the egg group, tried to prevent it from explaining its position at the press briefing.
Federal prosecutors have dropped all charges against a Singer Co. official in connection with the payment of an alleged illegal $10,000 corporate contribution to the 1972 Nixon-Agnew campaign. They have charged another executive instead. The developments came in federal court in Baltimore. Charges were dropped against Raymond A. Long, president of Singer’s Simulated Products Division, and charges placed against Arthur M. Carter Jr., who in 1972 was vice president and general manager of the division. U.S. Attorney Barnet D. Skolnik said Carter had pleaded guilty to a charge of making an illegal campaign contribution.
A youth of 16, unhappy at being kept in jail because foul-ups had twice delayed his trial in a purse snatching case, apparently set the jail fire in Sanford, Florida, that claimed his life along with 9 other prisoners and one guard, authorities said. Jail Administrator George Proudfoot said the suspect youth was Ray McCall of Orlando, arrested March 3 and charged with burglary in the purse snatching incident. The fire broke out in a pile of 17 plastic-wrapped foam rubber mattresses stored outside McCall’s cell. Fire officials said they had warned for more than a year that the jail was a fire hazard.
Hospitals and nursing homes no longer can expect to be given preferred status in the delivery of scarce fuels, government officials told about 150 health and energy specialists at a two-day conference in Atlanta. A spokesman for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare told the conference solar energy is being considered as a replacement for coal and fuel oil, the spokesman said. The first federal facility to use solar power will be the new Indian Health Service Hospital in Shiprock, Arizona.
A one-time top aide to former Senator Edward J. Gurney testified today that while Mr. Gurney was sitting as a member of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973 he was secretly trying to contain a scandal involving his office.
Five open hearth furnaces near Birmingham, Alabama, must be closed by June 30, 1976, under a consent decree signed by U.S. Steel Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice. The agreement averts immediate closure of the company’s Ensley Plant and settles a suit filed at the request of the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA had charged U.S. Steel with operating the furnaces in violation of Alabama’s plan to meet federal air quality standards.
Probably no more than 10% of all pesticide chemicals will be put into a “restricted” category by the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA officials told the House Agriculture Committee in Washington. Under a 1972 law, dangerous chemicals labeled restricted by the EPA will be available only to certified applicators who have shown they know how to use them safely.
Three more years is as long as the 55-mph speed limit should be extended in California, a Senate committee decided. The Transportation Committee amended a State Assembly-passed bill that would have made the “energy crisis” 55-mph limit permanent. Instead, it fixed a date of June 30, 1978, for the limit to expire. On a 6-0 vote, the rewritten legislation (AB 936) by Assemblyman Walter Ingalls (D-Riverside), was sent to the senate floor. The current 55-mph law expires June 30. Unless it is extended to comply with federal law, the state stands to lose millions of dollars in federal highway construction funds.
At a press conference in New York City, Pelé, the Brazilian superstar footballer, signed a contract with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League that made him the highest paid professional athlete in the world. The salary for Pelé, who grew up in poverty, was $4,700,000 for 107 regular season games for the Cosmos in 1975, 1976, and 1977.
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Jim Perry of Oakland, the older but less well‐known of the pitching Perry brothers, fires a one-hitter to beat Baltimore, 3–0. Al Bumbry has the lone hit for the O’s. Home runs produced the A’s runs. Gene Tenace walloped a two‐run homer (No. 10) in the fourth with Joe Rudi on base, and Claudell Washington cracked his seventh homer leading off the sixth. Both were given up by Ross Grimsley (1–8) who has allowed 13 home runs in 13 starts. Bumbry will repeat his feat three more times. Until Bumbry’s hit, the 38-year‐old Perry had retired 17 Orioles in a row. His sparkling effort included seven strike‐outs and two walks as he earned his first victory for the A’s with his first complete game of the season.
The Yankees sponsor Army Day at their temporary home, Shea Stadium (Yankee Stadium is being refurbished). During a ceremonial 21–gun salute, glass is splintered, the park is filled with smoke, part of the fence is blown away, and another part is set afire. The Yankees then drill the Angels, 6–4, as Larry Gura beats Nolan Ryan.
Jeff Burroughs hit a homer, his 15th of the season and the sixth in the last seven games, with one on and the Rangers hacked Ferguson Jenkins with a 13‐hit assault that sent Boston to its third successive defeat, as Texas won, 8–3. Jenkins breezed to his sixth victory in 12 decisions while Luis Tiant suffered his sixth loss. He has won seven games. The Red Sox took a 1–0 lead in the first on Bernie Carbo’s leadoff homer, his 10th. Carbo hit his second homer of the game in the ninth.
The Royals edged the Tigers 4–3. Cookie Rojas’s force‐out with the bases full in the fifth scored Hal McRae to break a 2–2 tie, then George Brett singled home the deciding run in the eighth after Jim Wohlford had singled and stolen second base. Marty Pattin, making his first start of the season, got credit for the victory with the help of ninth‐inning relief by Lindy McDaniel, who ended the game by getting Gates Brown to hit into a double play, John Mayberry hit his eighth homer in the third off Vern Ruhle to tie the score at 2‐all.
Steve Brye’s run‐scoring single and a two‐out, bases‐loaded walk to Tony Oliva in the 12th carried the Twins and Tom Burgmeier to a 5–3 victory over the Indians. Burgmeier, who relieved in the 10th, picked up his third triumph in five decisions. Rod Carew, who went 2-for-6 and lowered his league‐leading batting mark to .418, put the Twins ahead with his sixth homer in the eighth, but the Indians came right back to tie the score in the bottom of the inning on a homer by George Hendrick.
The White Sox routed the Brewers, 9–2. Jorge Orta collected three hits and batted in two runs in a 14‐hit attack that ended Chicago’s six‐game losing streak — the longest for the White Sox since 1972. Wilbur Wood scattered 10 hits while earning his third triumph in his seventh attempt. He has lost 10 games. The White Sox scored all their runs in the final four innings, four of them in the fifth.
Willie Stargell smacked three doubles and a single and drove in five runs in leading the Pirates to their second straight triumph over the Reds, downing them 9–5. The Pirates bunched five hits, including doubles by Stargell and Richie Zisk, to score three runs and rout Pat Darcy (1–3) in the first inning. Sam McDowell, pitching the first five innings, picked up his second triumph in three decisions.
Tom Seaver, whose ninth victory of 1974 wasn’t achieved until September 3, notched No. 9 of this season nearly two months earlier with a six‐hit, 5–0 shutout of the San Francisco Giants tonight. Apparently back in the form that enabled him to average more than 20 victories a year from 1969 through 1973 before last year’s 11–11 record, Seaver was in command throughout as he completed his first shutout this season. He struck out nine, walked two and got the key outs when he needed them. With two on and one out in the fourth, he fanned Chris Speier and made Bruce Miller — who got the winning hit last night — bounce to the mound. And after the first two men singled in the eighth, he made Derrel Thomas tap into a double play and struck out the remaining four batters. Seaver’s record now is 9–4 and he has won four straight complete games.
Doug Konieczny helped his own cause by driving in two runs with a double and a single and scattered eight hits as the Astros ended a nine‐game losing streak, beating the Cubs, 4–3. Enos Cabell’s single after Cesar Cedeno and Milt May walked to open the eighth broke a 2–2 tie. Konieczny followed with his double off the wall in left field for Houston’s fourth run, giving him his fourth victory in 11 decisions.
The Phillies blanked the Padres, 7–0. Larry Christenson and Tug McGraw combined to pitch six‐hit shutout ball as the Phillies won their first game on the road in the last 11. Jay Johnstone, who had a single and a double; Terry Harmon, who had two triples, and Mike Schmidt, who hit his 12th homer and a double, each drove home two runs.
The Expos edged the Dodgers, 5–4. Pepe Mangual scored from second base on an attempted pickoff throw by the pitcher, Mike Marshall, in the seventh inning and broke a 4–4 tie. Bob Bailey had smashed his first homer of the season, a two‐run shot in the sixth inning off Al Downing, to tie the count.
Oakland Athletics 3, Baltimore Orioles 0
Texas Rangers 8, Boston Red Sox 3
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Chicago White Sox 9
Pittsburgh Pirates 9, Cincinnati Reds 5
Minnesota Twins 5, Cleveland Indians 3
Chicago Cubs 3, Houston Astros 4
Detroit Tigers 3, Kansas City Royals 4
Montreal Expos 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
California Angels 4, New York Yankees 6
Philadelphia Phillies 7, San Diego Padres 0
New York Mets 5, San Francisco Giants 0
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 822.12 (-7.98, -0.96%)
Born:
Risto Jussilainen, Finnish Ski Jumper (Olympics, silver medal, team large hill competition, 2002), in Jyväskylä, Finland.
Kendyl Jacox, NFL guard and center (San Diego Chargers, New Orleans Saints, Miami Dolphins), in Dallas, Texas.
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