Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin declared today that the Soviet Union, by cultivating “mutually advantageous economic ties” with the capitalist countries, was helping promote a more stable political relationship between East and West. In a largely economic speech that touched upon the continuing Soviet interest in expanded trade with the West, Mr. Kosygin said that “the prospect for broad business co‐operation’ opened up by détente “meets the interests of all countries.” Mr. Kosygin spoke at a time when the Soviet leadership was studying the final drafts of a new five‐year plan that appears to continue stressing Moscow’s insistence upon better quality and greater efficiency in the Soviet domestic economy. The Premier went on to reassert the Kremlin’s contention that economic cooperation between the Soviet Union and the United States was “being hindered by the discriminatory character of American trade laws” enacted by Congress last December. He characterized this as a temporary “zigzag” in Soviet‐American relations.
Despite growing hope that the long negotiations on a charter to guide East‐West relations may yet be completed by the end of July, many issues remain outstanding. A guarded optimism among delegates at the 35‐nation European security conference here stems from recent rapid progress toward improving opportunities for movement of people and ideas across frontiers. Nevertheless, virtual settlement of these major East‐West issues still leaves a heavy workload to be finished before a final document will be ready for a projected signing by heads of state or government at Helsinki.
President Ford and Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu jointly urged approval of nondiscriminatory trade status for Romania following a 70-minute meeting in the White House. The issue is now being debated in Congress and the outcome depends upon a study of Romania’s emigration policies. The two leaders also conferred on efforts to slow down the East-West arms race and the quest for a peace settlement in the Middle East.
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson was caught in a storm of protest from left-wing Labor Party members of Parliament and trade union leaders resulting from his ouster of Marxist Anthony Wedgwood Benn, 50, from the key job of industry secretary. In Benn’s place, Wilson named former Energy Secretary Eric Varley, 42, one-time coal miner and left-winger. Wilson put Benn in the less prestigious post vacated by Varley. The decision to move Benn was tied to his activities pushing for more state control of big business to the dismay of industrialists.
The United Kingdom became an oil-producing nation as the first crude oil was pumped from a well drilled into the North Sea. The Transworld 58 submersible drilling rig, located 180 miles off of the coast of Scotland, pumped the first oil from the Argyll oil field into the tanker Theogennitor.
Hungary’s New Economic Model, which in the last seven years has turned that country into the consumer’s paradise of the Soviet bloc, is in serious trouble. Although the difficulties are not yet apparent to most of Hungary’s 10 million people, an imbalance of $700 million in trade with the non-Communist world last year may be even worse this year.
About 20,000 workers in northern Spain went on strike in a “day of struggle” against government attempts to put down the centuries-long struggle of the Basques for regional autonomy. Government sources said the strikes, some only lasting for an hour, affected 151 plants in San Sebastián, Bilbao and Pamplona. The “day of struggle” also was called to protest a military prosecutor’s request that two accused Basque guerrillas be sentenced to death on charges of slaying a policeman last year.
Representatives of the Arab League and the European Common Market today began the task of defining areas in which they could strengthen their trade and financial links. Today’s meeting, bringing together about 150 technical experts of the two groups at the Arab League headquarters here, followed the formal opening yesterday of a European-Arab dialogue in Cairo aimed at establishing closer economic and political cooperation.
Meeting at Libreville, Gabon, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries made no immediate increase in oil prices, but made it clear that there would be a rise in prices at the end of the nine-month price freeze, September 30th. Ministers of the 13 member nations said a meeting would be held September 24th in Vienna to determine the level of the prices and announced that oil prices would no longer he quoted in dollars but in special drawing rights based on 16 major currencies.
President Ford and Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel opened two days of talks this morning to see if a formula could be found to break the diplomatic stalemate in the Middle East. The focus of their initial session at the White House was on a possibility of Israel’s resuming negotiations with Egypt toward an interim agreement in Sinai, a participant in the meeting said. President Ford said tonight that the talks today with Mr. Rabin had been “very constructive.” Speaking at a dinner at the White House, Mr. Ford said that both sides were trying to find a formula to break the diplomatic stalemate. “We recognize that stagnation would be most unfortunate in our work for peace,” he said.
Israeli peace crusader Abe Nathan is being held for interrogation after trying to sail his “peace ship” through the Suez Canal, informed sources said. Nathan and his floating radio station, a 110-ton vessel manned by a 14-man international crew, were probably taken to Alexandria, Egypt. He had broadcast plans to sail through the canal June 5, the day the waterway reopened. But Israeli listeners said the broadcasts suddenly stopped that day.
King Hussein of Jordan and President Hafez al‐Assad of Syria inspected the Jordanian Army’s positions facing Israeli forces in northern Jordan today in a demonstration of their announced plans for close military cooperation. Mr. Assad arrived here yesterday for a three‐day visit, the first paid to Jordan by a Syrian head of state in more than 19 years of frequently tense relations. The streets of Amman are a forest of Syrian flags, of portraits of the two leaders and of streamers with the inscription “One people, one army.”
An Air France 747 jumbo jetliner caught fire and was destroyed just before taking off from Bombay, but all 360 persons aboard escaped, the Indian government radio said. The broadcast said the plane, bound for Tehran, Tel Aviv and Paris, caught fire as it was taxiing to take off. The pilot sounded a fire alarm and the passengers escaped via emergency chutes. Four persons were slightly injured, the radio said.
Burmese troops rounded up 213 students in Rangoon’s pagoda district early today after five days of demonstrations against President Ne Win’s military government. The city’s military commander then banned all public assemblies, processions and demonstrations. But this ban was later defied by student demonstrators, who marched through downtown Rangoon chanting anti‐government slogans. Troops and policemen guarding government buildings did not interfere, and the demonstrators returned to their campus without incident.
As the North Vietnamese forces pressed ever closer to Saigon, the South Vietnamese Communists’ Provisional Revolutionary Government asked France to arrange negotiations with ever more urgency, according to authoritative French sources. Information on the politics of the approaching end of the war and some of its aftermath has now become available here. According to the French, the Vietnamese Communists became certain that they were winning the war after the fall of Buôn Ma Thuột on March 10. However, still uneasy about the timetable and the cost in lives, they were expecting to be unable to move into Saigon before late summer and possibly only after a ferocious battle. The Provisional Revolutionary Government preferred negotiations for fear of being eclipsed and left powerless by the North Vietnamese if the war ended with the entry of Hanoi’s troops in the southern capital and without any agreement, according to evidence here. That is what did happen. The new information is that the Provisional Revolutionary Government now has virtually nothing to say in the South.
The new Communist government of South Vietnam sent an order to all “puppet soldiers” of the losing Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), directing soldiers to attend three days of “re-education” (hoc tap), and former officers to bring supplies for one month of training. Most of the officers, complying with the order, were imprisoned for more than one month.
North Vietnam said today there could be no search for the more than 2,000 missing and dead Americans in Indochina unless the United States provided postwar aid to North and South Vietnam. it said it was ready to discuss the issue with the United States. The statement was in a commentary in the North Vietnamese Communist party newspaper Nhân Dân broadcast by Radio Hanoi and monitored in Thailand. United States officials here said that it was the first time they had known the North Vietnamese to link the two subjects so directly. After accusing the United States of continued “crimes” against the Vietnamese people, Nhân Dân said: “We demand that the United States seriously implement the spirit of Article 21 of the [1973 Paris] agreement concerning the United States obligation to contribute to healing the wounds of war caused by the criminal U.S. war of aggression.”
The war scare that swept through Seoul, South Korea after the fall of Indochina seems to have died down. But that only means a return to the normal state of tension between North Korea and South Korea. The chances for belligerent accusations, shooting incidents, subversion and even open hostilities still exist. Informed American military officers said, however, that no major redeployment of North Korean or South Korean forces had taken place during the last two months despite widespread speculation that this divided peninsula might be the next scene of conflict in Asia. They pointed out that both skies were already in a high state of alert. The American military sources said that a new North Korean armored division had been detected north of the demilitarized zone but said that they could not tell whether it was an additional unit or one reorganized from existing smaller units.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos pledged today on his return from Peking that the newly established diplomatic relations with China would not prejudice his Government’s relations with old friends and allies. Apparently alluding to Philippine ties with the United States and the concern aroused by the current reassessment here of base and treaty commitments, the President said at the airport. “Let not the new friendship with China prejudice any relations existing on mutual trust with other nations.”
Prison guards firing guns stormed a small storage vault at the British Columbia Penitentiary in New Westminster early today and captured three life‐term inmates who had held 15 hostages there for 41 hours. The guards rushed in after the hostages themselves had turned on their captors. One woman hostage was killed, officials said. She was shot, and it appeared she had been shot by the guards during the rescue. Two of the Inmates were wounded, one seriously. None of the surviving hostages was hurt.
The Brazilian Government, apparently concerned over criticism from abroad of its pending nuclear fuel deals with West Germany, has ordered a news blackout on the agreement until after it is signed at the end of this month. Foreign Minister Antonio Azeredo da Silveira has said only that the so‐called complete nuclear fuel cycle that Brazil is buying will be restricted to peaceful uses and that the accord is being subjected to all the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
A series of strikes and walkouts has erupted in Argentina in the wake of price increases and the breakdown of wage talks under tough new policies of Economy Minister Celistino Rodrigo. Helicopters and riot-equipped police patrolled the provincial capital of Cordoba, where 3,000 auto workers from four plants refused to work for the second day. Another 8,000 workers in two more plants began to protest, cutting production by 30%. The workers are demanding an emergency salary increase to cope with the worsening economic situation, which saw prices rise by 80% in the last year.
The Somali government denied that the Soviet Union is building a missile base in its northern port of Berbera and issued an open invitation to foreign observers to come and see for themselves that this is so. In hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday, Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger said aerial reconnaissance photographs showed a Soviet missile repair and storage base at the port on the Gulf of Aden.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 209 to 187 to reject President Ford’s proposal for a 23 cent federal fuel tax on each gallon of gasoline sold in the U.S. The President had promoted the tax as a step in eliminating U.S. dependency on foreign oil by 1985. The gasoline tax, as high as an additional 23 cents a gallon, was the heart of the energy conservation measure proposed by the House Ways and Means Committee. Representatives of both parties agreed that the bill was left with little that would actually reduce the consumption of oil. Although the Senate has not begun drafting major energy legislation, there has been little support for a gasoline tax evidenced there either.
Alice Olson, whose husband Frank Olson had jumped to his death more than 20 years earlier, on November 28, 1953, learned for the first time that her husband had been the subject of secret CIA experiments with the hallucinogenic drug LSD. Mrs. Olson had been unaware of the CIA’s role in her husband’s death until reading the details in a front-page story in that morning’s Washington Post, and recognized the unidentified “civilian employee” of the U.S. Army referred to in the story headlined “Suicide Revealed.” The news item, in turn, was drawn from the recently released report of the Rockefeller Commission on CIA activities.
The White House has announced that President Ford plans to seek comments “as soon as possible” from the Secretaries of State, Defense and the Treasury, the Attorney General and the Director of Central Intelligence on the recommendations of the Rockefeller commission. When Mr. Ford has these in hand, he will make his decision regarding the changes in the CIA he will recommend to Congress.
President Ford’s popularity rating has risen to 51 percent in a Gallup Poll made recently to determine how the American public felt he was handling his job as President. The gain of 11 percentage points since the previous survey in early May represents one of the sharpest gains ever recorded in Gallup surveys going back to the middle nineteen‐thirties. Mr. Ford’s latest rating was based on a survey conducted after the Cambodians seized the ship Mayaguez and the first leg of his recent European trip. it may also reflect, in part, an upturn in public optimism regarding the economy.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of former Governor Stanley Hathaway of Wyoming, a Republican, as Secretary of the Interior. The vote was 60 to 36. Prior to the vote, the Senate rejected a motion by Senator Edmund Muskie, Democrat of Maine, to recommit the nomination to the Interior Committee to further examine what Senator Muskie called Mr. Hathaway’s ambiguous and apparently conflicting statements on the strip mining bill.
The government will reimburse the states for their welfare expenses in resettling Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees in the United States, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare announced today. The federal program will be administered under the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975, under which $405‐million was appropriated for refugee costs.
President Ford accepted the resignation of John N. Nassikas as chairman of the Federal Power Commission. He had served on the FPC since 1969. It leaves a major vacancy for the President to fill on the commission that regulates interstate electric power and natural gas industries. Nassikas, who during his six years emerged as one who favors a minimum of regulation, will serve until his successor has been seated.
The nation’s governors expressed their displeasure with higher oil tariffs and gasoline taxes. They also called on the federal government to implement a major conservation program before taking any action that would boost the price of energy. Overriding objections from governors of some oil and gas-producing states, they also rejected pleas for decontrol of prices and a full-speed development of offshore oil facilities. A resolution specifically opposing “both the Administration’s actions raising the tariff on imported oil and the House Ways and Means (Committee) proposal to raise gasoline taxes by 3 cents in January” failed by one vote.
Former Rep. Wendell Wyatt (R-Oregon) pleaded guilty to failing to report spending between $1,500 and $2,000 for Richard M. Nixon’s 1972 presidential campaign. Wyatt was the second person to plead guilty to Watergate-related offenses committed while a member of Congress. Wyatt, who did not run for reelection in 1974, is an attorney in Portland. U.S. District Judge William Jones withheld sentencing. He could receive a maximum penalty of one year in prison and $1,000 fine. Earlier this year Rep. George Hansen (R-Idaho) pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and was given a prison sentence. But the judge later withdrew it after Hansen pleaded for mercy.
The Singer Co. has pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of making a nonwillful illegal contribution to the 1972 Nixon-Agnew reelection campaign. U.S. Dist. Judge R. Dorsey Watkins accepted the plea in Baltimore and fined the company $2,500, despite a government plea that the maximum fine of $5,000 be imposed for the $10,000 contribution made by a Singer division in Silver Spring, Maryland. A prosecutor said a Singer official hired a bogus consultant for $15,000 with the understanding the consultant would keep enough for taxes and give the rest to the Republican National Committee.
The Vermont Supreme Court has upheld a lower court decision to invalidate Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck’s last will. The decision means her estate will to go to her seven children. Miss Buck died in Danby, Vermont, on March 6, 1973, at the age of 80, leaving most of her assets to her business manager, Theodore Harris. In her will, Miss Buck’s foreign royalties and property were deeded to Creativity, Inc., directed by Harris. The Pearl S. Buck 1971 Foundation, a trust fund for her children, was the recipient of her domestic royalties. Those royalties, however, were transferred to Creativity, Inc., to pay off a $110,000 bank loan.
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark was ordered today to show within 20 days why he should not be held in contempt of United States District Court in Cleveland. Federal Judge Don Young, who is presiding over the civil trial stemming from the shootings at Kent State University five years ago, issued the order after defense attorneys objected to an interview that Mr. Clark gave in Columbus, Ohio, on May 31. Sued a gag order preventing all parties involved in the Kent case from commenting to newsmen or the public. Until late April, Mr. Clark was to be the chief counsel for the plaintiffs in the case who are suing Governor James A. Rhodes and members of the state’s National guard for $46‐million in connection with the shooting deaths of four students and the wounding of nine on the Kent State campus.
James Groot, once a top aide to former Senator Edward J. Gurney (R-Florida), admitted in court in Tampa that he lied to a grand jury “with all my heart and soul” to protect Gurney from an investigation into influence peddling. Groot, who switched his plea from not guilty to guilty last week on a charge of conspiracy because “I couldn’t go on any longer,” also testified he paid the expenses of Gurney’s Florida field offices with nearly $20,000 collected by fund raiser Larry Williams from builders in return for favors. Gurney, ex-aide Joseph Bastien and two former Federal Housing Administration officers are charged with conspiracy to build an illegal slush fund by peddling Gurney’s influence.
Louis Farrakhan, who succeeded Malcolm X as minister of the Black Muslims’ Harlem Mosque, is being transferred to Chicago, headquarters of the religion. It will be the first major move within the religion, called the Nation of Islam, since the death in February of Elijah Muhammad, long-time Muslim spiritual leader, and the appointment of his successor. According to Muslim sources, the popularity of Mr. Farrakhan who was Elijah Muhammad’s national spokesman, worried some members of the new leadership. Therefore, it was decided to bring him to Chicago “so his activities could be watched more closely,” one source reported.
“Nashville”, directed by Robert Altman and starring Ned Beatty and Ronee Blakley, is released.
Major League Baseball:
Carl Yastrzemski’s sixth homer of the year, a two‐run blow in the 14th inning, carried the Red Sox to a 9–7 triumph at Chicago. Rich Gossage (3‐5), who came into the game for the White Sox in the seventh, hit Bernie Carbo with a pitch before Yastrzemski decided matters.
Having survived the United States Army and Nolan Ryan, the New York Yankees endured little melodrama last night in surviving Rod Carew and the Minnesota Twins as Rudy May pitched a seven-hitter to lead them to a 5–1 victory in Shea Stadium. It was the 10th time in their last 11 games that they had won — the 18th time in their last 23 — and it kept them on the threshold of first place in the American League’s East. They have been rumbling now for nearly a month, despite a growing list of injuries that added Roy White with a strained leg muscle last night. White joined three other outfielders on the sidelines —Bobby Bonds, Ron Blomberg and Lou Piniella—but Manager Bill Virdon said he would find enough able-bodied help by doing some switching. Besides, he suggested, “when your pitching is going this good, it covers for a lot of problems.”
California’s Frank Tanana threw a brush‐back pitch at Willie Horton, which triggered a wild free‐for‐all in the fourth inning of the first game of a double‐header. Horton, the burly outfielder and designated hitter, fell back from the plate, pointed a menacing finger at Tanana and rushed to the mound. Both benches emptied and a melee broke out, with Horton in the center, slugging away at anyone within reach. As for the game, the Angels saved their slugging for it as they rolled up a 14–7 victory. Lee Stanton hit a grand‐slam homer in the eighth, the first by an Angel in four years. Five runs scored in the fifth, including two on a double by Bruce Bochte. The Angels also stole three bases to run their total to 102. The second game was suspended because of the America League’s 1 A.M. curfew, with the Tigers leading, 5–3, after eight innings. The game will be finished before tonight’s regularly‐scheduled game between the clubs.
Reggie Jackson smacked his 12th homer of the season, a two-run blast, to trigger a four‐run sixth inning that carried Dick Bosman (3–3) to a 5–3 victory at Milwaukee. Bosman held the Brewers to four hits and two runs in the six innings he worked.
The Orioles edged the Rangers, 9–8. Ken Singleton’s 10th‐inning double scored Mark Belanger with the winning run, and Dave Duncan hit a pair of homers in the triumph. Dyar Miller picked up the victory with a third of an inning of relief to even his record at 1–1. The Orioles had tied the game in the ninth on singles by Tommy Davis, Lee May and Andy Etchebarren.
Cookie Rojas cracked a three‐run homer to back the six‐hit pitching of Dennis Leonard, a rookie righthander, as the Royals beat Gaylord Perry and the Indians, 7–1. Rojas’s homer, his first of the season, highlighted a four‐run fourth.
The Reds beat the Cardinals, 3–1. Don Gullett checked the Cardinals on seven hits and also doubled to spark a two‐run third inning in winning his fourth game in succession and eighth of the season. The triumph was Cincinnati’s 17th in the last 22 games, while the defeat ended the Cardinals’ seven‐game winning string.
Larry Dierker pitched five‐hit ball and Enos Cabell tripled during a two‐run second inning as the Astros dumped the Pirates, 5–1. Milt May walked before Cabell cracked his three‐bagger into the left‐field corner. Cabell then scored on a grounder by Doug Rader.
The Giants bested the Phillies, 8–3. Gary Thomasson smacked a three‐run homer and Mike Caldwell scattered nine hits to post his third victory. Thomasson doubled and scored on a sacrifice fly by Chris Speier in the first inning, then hit his fourth homer of the season in the fourth.
The Padres defeated the Expos, 3–1. Rich Folkers and Danny Frisella combined on a six‐hit pitching effort, and the Padres scored a pair of sixth‐inning runs on sacrifice flies by Mike Ivie and Tito Fuentes with the bases loaded. Folkers earned his first victory after three defeats but had to have help from Frisella to quell a Montreal rally in the ninth.
Perfect relief pitching by Bob Apodaca, run-scoring hits in the late innings by Jay Alou and Mike Phillips, and a strong starting job by Randy Tate gave the New York Mets a 2–1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight before a crowd of 40,095 in Dodger Stadium.
Boston Red Sox 9, Chicago White Sox 7
St. Louis Cardinals 1, Cincinnati Reds 3
California Angels 14, Detroit Tigers 7
California Angels 3, Detroit Tigers 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Houston Astros 5
Cleveland Indians 1, Kansas City Royals 7
New York Mets 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Oakland Athletics 5, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Minnesota Twins 1, New York Yankees 5
Montreal Expos 1, San Diego Padres 3
Philadelphia Phillies 3, San Francisco Giants 8
Baltimore Orioles 9, Texas Rangers 8
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 824.55 (+2.43, +0.30%)
Born:
Thomas Bimis, Greek diver (Olympic gold medal, 3m springboard synchronized, 2004), in Athens, Greece.
Casey Dailey, NFL linebacker (New York Jets), in LaVerne, California.
Choi Ji-woo, South Korean actress (“Stairway to Heaven”) and model, in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Died:
Floro Ugarte, 90, Argentine composer (“From My Land”; “Saika”), and educator.
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