Prime Minister Leo Tindemans won a 112-92 vote of confidence in the Belgian House of Representatives on Belgium’s purchase of 102 American F-16 fighter planes. A day earlier the leader of Belgium’s Socialist Party urged Tindemans to resign on grounds that the selection of the F-16 over the French Mirage was “a bad decision for Belgium and a bad decision for Europe.” Tindemans’ majority in the Belgian Senate was assured. The order for the planes clinched the deal between General Dynamics and Belgium, Norway. Holland and Denmark for a total of 306 planes worth nearly $2 billion.
Italy has been shaken and her left‐wing parties stung by the violent emergence of a clandestine faction professing to fight capitalism with terrorism. A 30‐year‐old woman guerrilla was killed last Thursday in a battle between members of the revolutionary group and a detail of carabinieri, or paramilitary policemen, at an isolated farmhouse in northwest Italy. A wealthy vermouth manufacturer who had been kidnapped the day before was rescued from a secret prison under the farmhouse. The kidnapped man, 43‐year‐old Vittorio Vallarino Gancia, had clearly been held to extort huge ransom from his family. The slain woman was identified as Margherita Cagol Curcio, a militant member of a far‐left movement and wife of a fugitive underground organizer, Renato Curcio. The police say Mr. Curcio is the head of a terroristic network that calls itself the Red Brigades.
An explosion ripped through a coal mine 170 miles north of London, and officials said at least two miners were killed and three missing. Two miners were taken from the mine alive but injured in the Houghton colliery blast.
Three Soviet dissenters appealed to the International Red Cross to provide urgent help for mathematician Leonid Plyushch, who they said was being given insulin shock treatment in a Soviet psychiatric hospital. In a telegram also addressed to international and scientific and medical associations, linguist Tatyana Khodorovich, scientist Grigory Podyapolsky and Tatyana Velikanova said the 42-year-old Plyushch was in desperate condition at the Dnepropetrovsk Hospital in the Ukraine where he was sent in 1973. Plyushch was sentenced in 1972 on charges of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.
Movimiento Nacional General Secretary Fernando Herrero Tejedor, who had been expected to succeed Carlos Arias Navarro as Prime Minister of Spain, was killed in an automobile accident near the city of Villacastín.
Two bombs exploded today and a third was discovered as the war between the Basque nationalists and the Spanish state continued to spread to the otherwise peaceful Basque provinces of France. One bomb exploded in the heart of this summer resort in a building housing a group that gives help to Basque refugees from Spain. Another exploded during the night in a high school in Hasparren, near here. The school has been suspected by the Spanish authorities of being the site of a recent assembly of the main Basque nationalist group, E.T.A. In both cases damage was slight. A third bomb was discovered before it was timed to explode in a Basque‐owned bookshop in Bayonne. The attacks were generally ascribed to Spanish right‐wing counterterrorists linked with the Spanish police. The bombs apparently denoted intensified efforts by the Spanish authorities to halt the use of the French Basque provinces as a nationalist stronghold against the Spanish state.
Public resentment in Turkey over the arms embargo against Turkey imposed by Congress may force the Turkish government to close American-operated military bases in that country, a Turkish spokesman said. Kamuran Inan, a member of the governing Justice Party, told newsmen at the Turkish Embassy in Washington that the arms embargo had aroused bitter hostility against the United States. Congress voted the embargo in the wake of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and its use of American arms in the invasion.
Greece applied for membership in the European Union, and would become a member state in 1981. Greece applied today for full membership in the nine‐nation European Common Market and suggested that Turkey do the same to advance the cause of peace between the two. Stephan Stathatos, Athens’s representative at the European Economic Community here said the application was “based on our earnest desire to consolidate democracy in Greece within the broader democratic institutions of the European community to which Greece belongs.”
Systran made the most successful demonstration of machine translation up to that time, as professors and military officers in Zürich watched the computer translate 30,000 words of Russian text into English.
President Ford and Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel ended their talks in Washington in agreement on the advantages of seeking another limited accord between Israel and Egypt on Sinai. But it was uncertain whether Egypt or Israel would make the crucial concessions needed to achieve such an agreement after their earlier efforts broke down in March.
The International Labor Organization voted overwhelmingly in Geneva to admit the Palestine Liberation Organization as an observer to its three-week session, dealing another blow to Israel and sparking a walkout by the U.S. labor delegation. The U.S. delegation declared the PLO is a terrorist organization and its admission contradicts the ILO’s role as a U.N. technical agency.
At 9:35 a.m., Judge Jagmohanlal Sinha of the city of Allahabad ruled that India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had used corrupt practices to win her seat in the Indian Parliament, and that she should be banned from holding any public office. Her main opponent for the Raebareli Constituency seat in 1971, Raj Narain had brought a petition to unseat her, charging that she had won the 1971 parliamentary election improperly. Mrs. Gandhi sent word that she refused to resign.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India vowed to continue in office despite a high court ruling that she had won her seat in Parliament illegally in 1971 and must give it up. With the opposition demanding that she resign, she announced through an aide that she was appealing the verdict to the Supreme Court and that there was “no question of resignation.”
The long march from the cities into the heart of Cambodia has ended for millions of Cambodians, but, according to reports in Bangkok, they face a series of problems ranging from cholera to a shortage of farm tools needed for the critical cultivation of rice. At least a dozen participants in the march escaped and made their way to Thailand. Most are now on their way to the United States. Before they left, they described life in Cambodia under Communist rule in interviews with Western and Thai intelligence officers.
A gunboat from Thailand and one from Cambodia engaged yesterday in an hour-long battle off Thailand’s southeastern coast, Thai police authorities said today. Six Thai crewmen were reported to have been wounded. The battle followed the seizure of a Thai fishing vessel and the escape of another from Cambodian gunboat fire off the coast of Irat Province about 200 miles southeast of Bangkok. It took place in a stretch of water claimed by both countries, authorities said. The disputed water forms a 50‐degree wedge that runs seaward from the land boundary line of the two countries. A police account said that a Cambodian gunship with a crew of 30 opened up on a Thai marine police gunboat and forced it to withdraw after a firefight. The police said there were 20 marine policemen aboard the Thai gunboat, and that four of those wounded were in serious condition at a Bangkok military hospital.
Failure of three key ramp locks caused the crash of a giant C-5 transport plane during the Vietnam orphan airlift April 4, the Air Force announced. According to the report, this set off what one official called a chain reaction. There was rapid decompression, the ramp and pressure door blew out, the pressure door hit the fuselage and cut important control cables. The crash killed 155 of the 330 persons aboard.
Japan has dropped plans to develop Siberia’s oil after five years of negotiations with the Soviet Union. The plan, the core of joint economic development between Moscow and Tokyo, apparently foundered on Soviet insistence that it be linked to construction of a second Siberian railway. The project for developing the Tyumen oilfields was not among seven joint development projects discussed at a meeting of the JapanSoviet Business Cooperation Committee in Tokyo and a Japanese official said there was no prospect that talks on the projects would be resumed.
The Australian Family Law Act 1975, allowing “no-fault divorce” was given assent, to take effect on January 5, 1976.
Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger was seeing “mirages in the desert” when he charged that a Soviet military base had been built at the Somali port of Berbera, the Kremlin said. And in Washington, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was urged by Senator John Culver (D-Iowa), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, to have the United States accept a Somali invitation to visit Berbera to disprove Schlesinger’s charges. Schlesinger’s remarks came as the committee was considering a resolution disapproving funds for a U.S. naval base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia.
The Government of Jomo Kenyatta appears to have lost its parliamentary majority, an extraordinary development in a one‐party African nation. The turn of events reflects growing discontent and criticism of the way Kenya is run and privilege manipulated. President Kenyatta, who led this former British colony to independence in 1963, has ruled since 1964 as the leader of the sole legal party, the Kenya African National Union. The Kenya Parliament yesterday defeated a Government motion to discredit a committee investigation into the murder of a leading dissident politician, Josiah M. Kariuki. Parliament then went on to vote to “accept” the committee findings that a “massive” and determined cover‐up” of the murder had been carried out by the police, and backed recommendations that police and security officers be suspended or dismissed. Both actions were passed by identical votes — 62 to 59 — in head counts in which those voting could not conceal their decisions.
Progress was reported today in efforts to free two students from the United States and one from the Netherlands who have been held hostage by left‐wing guerrillas in Zaire. “Things have started to move and they are currently in a delicate stage,” said Peter Steiner, an economics professor working in Kenya who returned to Nairobi from Burundi today after nearly two weeks of efforts to free the students. He said that as of a few days ago the kidnapping victims were “alive and well” in jungle hideout in Zaire, which borders Burundi in central Africa.
Prime Minister Ian D. Smith and Rhodesian black nationalist leaders met today and agreed to hold a constitutional conference on the nation’s future, but they became deaddacked over the site. A spokesman for the Prime Minister’s office said after the meeting, which lasted an hour and a half, that Mr. Smith was ready to begin constitutional discussions immediately but that “they would have to take place in Rhodesia.” Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who heads the black African National Council, said, “We are ready and willing to go to a constitutional conference any time and at any place in the world.” But he and other council leaders insisted that the meeting be held outside Rhodesia. The reason is that the council wants the conference to be attended as well by black nationalist leaders who are outside the country and who, it believes, would be arrested on returning to Rhodesia. These include the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, the leader of the militant council faction, the Zimbabwe African National Union, Mr. Smith has made it clear that Mr. Sithole would be detained on re‐entering Rhodesia.
Well-placed government sources said that the Central Intelligence Agency gave “material support” to a group of Dominicans who assassinated the country’s dictator, General Rafael Trujillo Molina, on May 31, 1961. This was one of the “successful assassination attempts,” mentioned by Representative James Stanton, Ohio Democrat, who is chairman of a House subcommittee investigating the C.I.A., sources familiar with the House inquiry said.
Rep. Michael J. Harrington (D-Massachusetts) has been denied access to House Armed Services Committee classified information on grounds that he disclosed secret testimony last year on CIA operations against former Chilean President Salvador Allende. Harrington denied that he was the source and called the committee action so long after the incident “furtive, secret, silly nonsense.”
The Senate passed and sent to the White House a $473 million bill to enable communities to provide summer jobs for 840,000 young people. President Ford is expected to sign. The bill would fund nine weeks of work with a 26-hour work week for economically disadvantaged youths, with a minimum of $2.10 an hour.
The House rejected a proposal that would have put a stiff tax directly on automobiles with low gasoline mileage rates, and then adopted a much less stringent plan that would penalize automobile manufacturers and importers if their entire fleet of cars do not meet certain mileage standards by 1978. It was the third consecutive day in which the House, in a major effort to pass energy conservation legislation, took positions that would minimize fuel conservation.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it had ordered air traffic controllers to alert pilots if their aircraft appeared on radar screens to be flying dangerously low. It said such safety advisories were now “a first priority duty” for air controllers, rather than just an “additional service” as in the past. Its action followed a recommendation by the National Transportation Safety Board, which said its investigations of two crashes showed that the safety advisories should be made mandatory.
The Department of Justice officially opposed today legislation designed to encourage federal employees to make public any evidence of waste and corruption in government agencies without fear of retaliation by their superiors. Mary C. Lawton, Deputy Assistant Attorney General told a Senate subcommittee hearing that the department agreed with the “objectives” of the bill but her formal statement criticized virtually every provision in it. The measure, sponsored by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts would bar disciplining of government workers who give the Press information that an agency is required to make public. The bill would also give an employee who did so the right to go to court to prevent harassment.
The Federal Trade Commission charged that the three biggest car-rental companies, the Hertz Corporation, Avis Rent a Car System, Inc., and National Car Rental System, Inc., had conspired to monopolize the car-rental business at airports and keep the prices artificially high.
Representative Lucien Nedzi resigned from the chairmanship of the House Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, protesting that fellow Democrats on the committee had stripped him of all but “a gavel and a title.” His abrupt withdrawal caused another delay in the stalled investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama bobbed away today from the formal Presidential candidacy that he had been planning to announce next week. “I’m not really interested in making any formal anncuncement right now,” Mr. Wallace declared from his office in Montgomery. He still intends to run, he said, but it will be “toward the end of the year” before his friends and adversaries get the official word. The Governor offered no personal or tactical reasons for the postponement beyond his remark at the National Governors Conference in New Orleans yesterday: “People aren’t worried about 1976 right now. They’re worried about 1975.”
A mistrial was declared in the tax evasion trial in Jackson, Mississippi, of Mayor Charles Evers of Fayette because an Internal Revenue Service agent suggested from the witness stand that Evers might have pocketed campaign contributions. U.S. District Judge Dan M. Russell Jr. made the ruling after conferring with opposing attorneys in his chambers for almost an hour. The remarks were made by William Jack Sykes. When asked about possible sources of taxable income Evers allegedly failed to report, the agent replied, “Well, he did run for Congress.” Defense attorney Michael Fawer strenuously objected, saying the government had agreed not to bring up the 1968 campaign as a source of more than $161,000 in taxable income Evers allegedly concealed during 1968-70.
A witness in the bribery-conspiracy trial in Tampa of former Senator Edward J. Gurney (R-Florida) testified that he personally handed Rep. L.A. (Skip) Bafalis (R-Florida) a $10,000 political contribution in 1972 which Bafalis failed to report. James Groot, Gurney’s top administrative aide for three years, said the money came from funds collected in Florida by Gurney fund raiser Larry Williams, who allegedly got contributions from builders in return for favored treatment from the Federal Housing Administration. In Washington, a spokesman for Bafalis denied the charge.
Twenty oil companies asked the federal government for permission to drill for oil and gas in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast. The area in question is a 3.1 million-acre section of ocean that curves from upper New Jersey to the Delaware-Maryland state line, according to spokesmen for the U.S. Department of the Interior. The 20 companies that made the request were not named but include “the major domestic oil and gas producers as well as some of the independents,” the spokesman said. If the oil company requests are approved next year, the closest wells would be about 23 miles offshore and invisible from the densely populated East Coast beaches.
Convicted killer Charles Manson was quietly transferred from Folsom prison to San Quentin for his own protection, officials said. The transfer took place Friday but was not announced until this week. Manson was assaulted in the prison yard at Folsom May 3. Officials said he needed tighter security, hence the transfer. Manson is serving a life sentence for the 1969 slayings of actress Sharon Tate and six others.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco turned down requests for a rehearing on its May 1 decision permitting construction of two new hotel-casinos at South Lake Tahoe. The state of California and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency contended the hotels — one to cost $45 million, the other $40 million — would cause irreparable damage to the lake’s environment. Last July California members of the agency voted 5-0 against the hotels and Nevada delegates voted 3-2 for approval. Under the Lake Tahoe Basin Compact between the two states, final action on a proposal cannot be taken unless both delegations accept or reject it. If there is a split vote, and no final action is taken within 60 days, the proposal is deemed approved, the compact states.
A new letter reportedly from the New World Liberation Front denies the radical underground group executed ex-convict prison reformer Wilbur (Popeye) Jackson as had been claimed in an earlier letter, also supposedly from the NWLF. The second letter, received by the Berkeley Barb, commended the killer, however, saying Jackson was a police informer whose death “was in the interests of the oppressed people.” Jackson, 45, head of the United Prisoners Union, and a woman companion were shot to death early Sunday as they sat in a car outside his home in San Francisco. The second letter criticized the killing of the woman “who appeared innocent.” The NWLF had claimed responsibility for several terrorist bombings but no deaths until the first letter was received by the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this week.
Major League Baseball:
The Braves took two from the Cubs, 5–4 and 6–2 in Atlanta. In the opener, Darrell Evans raced home with the winning run with two out and the bases loaded in the ninth inning when Bill Madlock booted Larvell Blanks’s ground ball to third base. The second game was suspended after eight innings with Atlanta leading, 6–2. An early curfew had been ordered by the National League office because the Cubs had to catch a plane to Chicago for an afternoon contest today.
In Cincinnati, the Reds score 7 in the 6th inning to clip the Cardinals, 10–1. Gary Nolan won his sixth straight game and helped his cause with a two‐run double and Joe Morgan delivered a two-run single in the Cincinnati rout. The victory was Nolan’s seventh in 10 decisions although he worked only six innings. He allowed three hits. The Reds collected 14 hits, three by Pete Rose.
Jon Matlack gave the New York Mets their third straight brilliantly pitched game tonight as he fired a threehitter and defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers. 2–0. Felix Milian drove in both runs with doubles off Don Sutton in the sixth and eighth innings, scoring Wayne Garrett each time. Matlack retired the last 13 batters in order, striking out the side in the ninth for total of six strike‐outs, as he brought his won‐lost record to 8–4. All three singles off him were grounders, and only three fly balls were hit to the outfield.
Steve Carlton, a Cy Young Award winner in 1972, the year he pitched 27 victories, has been struggling much of this season. But yesterday the Philadelphia left‐hander held the San Francisco Giants to four hits in gaining a 4–1 victory in Candlestick Park. The Phillies had lost Larry Bowa and Garry Maddox because of injuries the last two weeks. But one of the bestkept secrets on the club was the arm misery Carlton was going through in the early part of the season. Apparently there was nothing wrong with his pitching arm yesterday, or his bat. He aided his cause with pair of singles. He also struck out eight batters, his season’s high, in raising his won‐lost record to 6–5. It was Carlton’s fourth straight victory, lending credence to the belief that his arm troubles may be over.
Mike Jorgensen cracked a two‐out double off the right‐field wall in the top of the 15th to score Pete Mackanin from first base with the winning run, as the Expos edged the Padres, 3–2. Mackanin walked with two out, then Jorgensen got the decisive hit off Danny Frisella, the fourth San Diego pitcher. Don DeMola, the third of four Montreal pitchers, hurled five scoreless innings to earn his second triumph in three decisions. Willie McCovey’s pinch‐hit homer in the eighth had tied the score. It was McCovey’s sixth homer of the year and the 441st of his career.
The Pirates beat the Astros, 4–2, as Rennie Stennett doubled home the tying run, then scored the tie‐breaking run in the fifth inning on Manny Sanguillen’s single. Larry Demery, in relief of Dock Ellis in the fifth, held off the Astros with three hits over the last four innings to record his second save. Ellis’s record is 3–3. Dave Roberts was the loser (3–8).
Milwaukee defeats Oakland, 9–7, to move within 4 games of first. Oakland’s Billy Williams’s 400th career home run is matched by Hank Aaron’s first home run in Milwaukee since 1965. Vida Blue (9–5) gave up Aaron’s homer and took the loss for Oakland. Blue has won only once since May 16.
The Angels thumped the Tigers, 7–1. Ed Figueroa pitched six‐hit ball and Joe Lahoud hit a three‐run homer to highlight a six‐run third inning. Lahoud added another home run, this one a solo shot, in the ninth.
The White Sox routed the Red Sox 9–2. Deron Johnson and Bob Coluccio hit home runs as Jim Kaat won his ninth game in 12 decisions, yielding 11 hits. Jim Burton suffered the loss in his major league debut.
The Royals beat the Indians, 2–1, in extra innings. Jim Wohlford scored the winning run from third on a passed ball in the 10th, Wohlford singled with one out and moved to third on a double by George Brett. The run broke up a pitching duel between Eric Raich (2‐1) and Kansas City’s Steve Busby (8–5). Harmon Killebrew’s ninth homer and 568th of his career tied the game, 1–1, in the seventh.
The Orioles downed the Rangers 7–1. Jim Palmer won his 10th game with a seven‐hit performance and Mark Belanger drove home three runs on pair of singles. Palmer, 10‐3, outpitched Jim Bibby, 2–6, giving up the Rangers’ only run in the eighth on a run-producing single by Mike Hargrove.
Chicago Cubs 4, Atlanta Braves 5
Chicago Cubs 2, Atlanta Braves 6
Boston Red Sox 2, Chicago White Sox 9
St. Louis Cardinals 1, Cincinnati Reds 10
California Angels 7, Detroit Tigers 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Houston Astros 2
Cleveland Indians 1, Kansas City Royals 2
New York Mets 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 0
Oakland Athletics 7, Milwaukee Brewers 9
Montreal Expos 3, San Diego Padres 2
Philadelphia Phillies 4, San Francisco Giants 1
Baltimore Orioles 7, Texas Rangers 1
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 819.31 (-5.24, -0.64%)
Born:
Ryan Tucker, American NFL tackle and guard (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 34-Rams, 1999; St. Louis Rams, Cleveland Browns), in Midland, Texas.
Frédéric Cassivi, Canadian NHL goaltender (Atlanta Thrahsers, Washington Capitals), in Sorel, Quebec, Canada.
La’Keshia Frett, WNBA forward (Los Angeles Sparks, Sacramento Monarchs, Charlotte Sting, New York Liberty), in Carmel, California.
Died:
Edward G. Connors, 42, former welterweight boxer and an organized crime figure in Boston. He was set up for a hit by Whitey Bulger and Howie Winter, in retaliation for talking too much. Winter directed Connors to appear at a specific phone booth in Dorchester, Massachusetts. While Connors was engaged in conversation, Bulger and his partner Stephen Flemmi drove up and fired multiple shots into the phone booth.
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