Leonid Brezhnev proposed in a speech in the Kremlin that the world’s major powers agree to ban new weapons and systems of mass destruction. In his first public speech in five weeks, the Soviet leader declared that such an agreement was necessary because modern technology was capable of producing new weapons even “more terrifying” than existing nuclear ones. “The reason and conscience of humanity dictate the necessity of erecting an insurmountable barrier to the development of such weapons,” he said. Although his proposal appeared to go beyond calls for arms reduction and disarmament made on earlier occasions by the Soviet leadership, Mr. Brezhnev did not spell out how such an accord might be reached or what weapons, nuclear or otherwise, it might include. But he said the Soviet Union and the United States could make a “considerable contribution” by working to bring about such a ban. It was unclear exactly what the Soviet leader’s proposed ban was intended to encompass, in view of steps already taken to outlaw chemical and biological warfare.
With a jump to a record rate of 25 percent, Britain’s inflation rate is now the highest in Europe. An official announcement that the retail price index rose 4.2 percent from April to May, the largest monthly increase on record, was another blow to the government of Prime Minister Wilson who is under increasing pressure to take some dramatic anti-inflationary action. There is a general feeling in Britain that Mr. Wilson’s “social contract” with trade unions for voluntary wage restraints has collapsed.
Three weeks of bitter preliminary wrangling over rules in Ulster’s constitutional convention have left little hope of success when it gets down to real business for the first time next week. At its formal opening on Tuesday, the convention will take up a motion asking the 78 delegates to devise a system of government that will be widely accepted, and the debate should provide an exploration of various forms of provincial constitutions. While all parties support the principle that governmental power should devolve from London to this British province, the two power blocs, the hardline Protestant Unionists, with 47 seats, and the Roman Catholic Social Democratic and Labor party, with 17, are as far apart as ever about how that power should be used. The Protestants demand majority rule with the Catholics confined to high‐powered, but back‐bench committees. The Social Democrats insist on full participation in making decisions. Despite frequent expressions of goodwill and generosity there is little sign of movement by either side.
Two bombs exploded in Paris suburbs early today, one seriously injuring a managing editor of Agence France‐Presse, and the other damaging the apartment of the head of a labor federation. The police linked the bombings to the tense situation at Le Parisien Libere, a popular newspaper where printers are staging a sit‐in in protest against the threatened dismissal of 500 employees.
Finance ministers of rich and poor countries decided in Paris to establish a new lending facility of the World Bank that would make up to $1 billion of low-cost loans to developing countries in the next year. The United States, however, declined to contribute. Secretary of the Treasury William Simon explained why.
Secretary of State Kissinger has told Premier Yitzhak Rabin that the Israeli leader’s talks with President Ford this week had “moved us closer to a new momentum in the Middle East.”
Defense Minister Shimon Peres accused Syria today of attempting to create “an aggressive alignment” against Israel. His comment was the first official Israeli reaction to the agreement yesterday between President Hafez al‐Assad of Syria and King Hussein of Jordan to coordinate military and political planning and to cooperate in civilian fields. Mr. Peres, who spoke at military base in the north to volunteers in defense work, remarked that while Egypt was attempting to negotiate with Israel, Syria aspired to military pressure. Israel cannot ignore this, he said. The Defense Minister said President Assad was seeking to create a front against Israel from Tyre, the Lebanese port on the Mediterranean, to Aqaba, Jordan’s outlet on the Red Sea. He said the alignment was to include Syria, Jordan, the Palatine Liberation Organization and, if possible, Lebanon.
In Baghdad, Iraq and Iran signed a peace treaty formalizing an agreement reached in Algiers. After the monarchy in Iran was replaced by a republic, Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein would declare the agreement void on September 17, 1980, seize the Shatt al-Arab river dividing the two nations, and begin the eight-year-long Iran–Iraq War.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India, determined to remain in power despite a court ruling that she won her seat in Parliament illegally, took her case to the people at a number of street rallies. Her opponents, meanwhile, demanded that she resign at once, even before the Supreme Court rules on her appeal. “We no longer recognize Mrs. Gandhi as Prime Minister,” four opposition parties said in a joint statement. But the Indian public seemed to react with disbelief to reports that the Prime Minister had been convicted of two counts of corrupt election practices.
An island off the coast of Cambodia was captured this week by Vietnamese troops in fighting between the two recent Communist victors in Indochina, United States intelligence sources say. The battle was fought for Poulo Wai, a tiny rock island in the Gulf of Siam, about 60 miles from the Cambodian coast, according to the sources. The United States cargo ship Mayagüez was fired on and captured by a Cambodian gunboat off that same island May 12 while the freighter was en route to Thailand. At the time, the Cambodians asserted that the ship was in Cambodian waters because it was several miles off the island. The seizure set off a three‐day crisis culminating in United States recovery of the ship and its crew. Intelligence sources say that Vietnamese troops landed on Poulo Wai the night of June 10. This island has been claimed in the past by both Cambodia and Vietnam. Cambodian soldiers resisted their onetime allies and fighting continued until the Vietnamese troops overran the island and took control of it, these sources say.
A Thai police boat and a gunboat manned by Cambodian Communist seamen exchanged fire in the Gulf of Siam, and six officers on the police craft were wounded, Thai authorities said today. The officials said the six men were in good condition in a Bangkok hospital following the clash early, yesterday about 10 miles from Thailand’s Kut Island in the gulf, 180 miles southeast of Bangkok and 20 miles off the point on the mainland where Thai and Cambodian territory meet.
The Phnom Penh radio, the only source of news from Cambodia since the Communist take‐over nearly two months ago, went off the air today. The radio failed to broadcast either its 6 AM or 11 AM regular bulletins. The reason for the break in transmission was not known.
The Pathet Lao accused the Central Intelligence Agency today of continued involvement in Laos and warned that the United States Embassy would bear the consequences of what it termed “sabotage.” The Pathet Lao radio charged in a broadcast that Rosemary Ann Conway, 35 years old, of San Jose, California, and Chicago, was a CIA agent who had tried to induce Laotian Air Force personnel to fly T‐28 fighter‐bombers — provided under United States military aid — out of the country. The police have held Miss Conway in Vientiane since June 5. American embassy officials say that despite repeated attempts, they have not been able to learn of any formal charges against her. Police sources said she has been undergoing questioning by Pathet Lao representatives of the joint police force, made up of Communists and nonCommunists.
The body of a former Chinese Nationalist officer who killed himself last week has become the focus of a propaganda dispute between China and Taiwan. The dispute began two months ago when 10 former Nationalist officers, freed by China after having been imprisoned for more than 25 years, arrived in Hong Kong hoping to go to Taiwan to be reunited with relatives and friends. Ten days ago one of the men, former Colonel Chang Tiehshih, 65 years old, hanged himself in his hotel room here, apparently having despaired of rejoining his family. The suicide caused reverberations in China and Taiwan. The Communists have made public several statements by former Nationalist officials now in China denouncing the Taiwan authorities for being “inhumane” toward Colonel Chang and his fellow officers in not acting on their applications to go to Taiwan. The Nationalists, on their Part, have hinted that the Communists were in some way responsible for Colonel Chang’s death.
The United States is preparing to admit a sizable number of political refugees from Chile, the State Department announced today. A high‐ranking United States official said that the number could reach 1,000, or even more, and would include Chileans now held in prison or detention camps by the military Government in Santiago as well as some Chileans who are in exile‐in neighboring Peru. The United States Government has discussed giving Chileans political asylum ever since a junta overthrew the elected Government of President Salvador Allende Gossens, a Marxist, in September, 1973. But only 19 Chileans have been admitted to this country as refugees, while more than 1,500 Chileans have been resettled in 15 other countries. Some 1,200 Chileans are in Peru. United States estimates are that between 4,000 and 5,000 Chileans are still held in jails or prison camps in Chile.
Rumors have always played an important role in Argentine politics, and yesterday provided an illustration of how wild, unconfirmed reports can rage through this capital among politicians, diplomats, journalists, businessmen and ordinary citizens. According to rumors, José López Rega, the Minister of Social‐Welfare and rightist strongman of the government, had been detained at the international airport while trying to leave the country and was under arrest. Within hours, even wilder reports said that army units were being mobilized in Buenos Aires, that the bodies of General Juan D. Perón and his second wife, Eva Duarte de Perón had been stolen from the chapel of the presidential mansion and that labor unions were about to declare a general strike because of the widespread economic discontent. None of these reports turned out to be true.
The Kenyan Government denied today that there were irregularities and corruption in the trade in elephant-tusk ivory here and criticized foreign publications for “dragging in” the family of President Jomo Kenyatta in discussions of the problem.
Leaders of the feuding, and often warring, black liberation movements of Angola are expected to meet in Kenya on Sunday in an attempt to prevent civil war. The meeting could be of critical importance because if it fails there may be a total breakdown of order in the southwest African Portuguese colony that is nearing full independence. Jonas M. Savimbi of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, Agostinho Neto of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and Holden Roberto of the National Front for the Liberation of Angola, as well as their aides, are expected to meet in Nakuru, Kenya, under the auspices of President Jomo Kenyatta. In early January the three leaders met in Kenya and agreed in principle to cooperate and to share power in a transitional Angolan government until Portugal grants full independence on November 11. The agreement was formalized in Portugal and went into effect on January 31, but almost immediately it began to break down.
Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said that his committee had no evidence linking former presidents to plots by the Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate leaders of foreign governments. He told reporters: “I would have to say at this time the committee has no evidence that would directly link CIA involvement in this kind of activity with presidents of the United States during this period under investigation.” He said that the period of investigation covered the Administrations of Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy and the early portion of President Johnson’s Administration. The fact that there was an investigation of possible assassination plots in the Johnson years had not been publicly mentioned before. At his news conference last Monday, President Ford told reporters that he had read material about assassinations that had been collected by members of the executive branch of the Government, “going back to late 1959 and running up through 1967 or 1968.”
Meanwhile, on the other side of Capitol Hill, members of a House select committee also investigating the CIA said that they had been given sketchy details of the CIA’s involvement in an assassination plot against the late General Rafael Trujillo Molina, dictator of the Dominican Republic. Representative Ronald V. Dellums, Democrat of California, told the Associated Press that the killing of General Trujillo “could be traced to actions that were taken by the CIA” Mr. Dellums is a member of the House committee.
President Ford has signed a $15-billion money bill provid ing long overdue aid to veterans and Social Security pensioners and cancelling a potential bonanza of summer unemployment benefits for teachers. White House spokesmen announced today that Mr. Ford has signed the supplemental money bill that is needed to pay half a million veterans the educational benefits due them since June 1. In addition, the measure provides funds for $50 bonuses for 33 million Social Security beneficiaries, provides $5‐billion for unemployment programs, money for the food stamp program and $2‐billion in cost‐of‐living pay rises for military personnel and civilian Federal workers.
The White House press secretary, Ron Nessen, told reporters that Mr. Ford would also sign, as soon as it reaches his desk, a bill carrying $473‐million to finance 840,000 summer jobs for young people.
The 1974 federal law that promises to revolutionize Presidential campaigning was alternatively attacked and praised for four hours today before two court panels charged with determining its validity. Opponents of the legislation argued that the limits it imposes on campaign contributions and expenditures unconstitutionally, curb freedom of speech and political association and that its public funding plan for candidates illegally gives tax revenue to political parties. Defenders of the plan insisted that it was necessary to root corruption out of the election system by eliminating the indebtedness of candidates to large contributors and by equalizing the political prospects of rich and poor candidates.
A number of freshmen Democrats in the House the group that spearheaded the successful move earlier this year to oust three committee chairmen are threatening an open rebellion against Speaker Carl Albert unless there is a marked improvement in the legislative record of Congress in the near future. The new members, frustrated by the House’s failure in recent weeks to override President Ford’s vetoes of important economic legislation and angered by Mr. Albert’s tacit support of an energy program that most of them oppose, have been meeting secretly in small groups for the last week to discuss methods for improving the Democratic leadership. Reportedly, 50 members of the group have advocated calling for Mr. Albert’s removal as Speaker. A resolution of no confidence to be circulated among all 189 Democrats in the House has also been discussed. Still others in the group are said to have argued strongly that no action should be taken against the Speaker now, but, they have advocated a meeting with him.
A Federal judge temporarily blocked today new guidelines that would significantly reduce the number of people on welfare. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare guidelines, which were scheduled to take effect Monday, have been opposed by several states on grounds that they would be too costly and burdensome to implement. In granting a temporary restraining order, which will last at least until a hearing scheduled for June 26, Chief Judge George L. Hart Jr. of Federal District Court for the District of Columbia said that implementation of the proposed regulations “would throw the system of every state into chaos.”
Two leading sociologists in the fields of race relations and education yesterday attacked the findings of a long‐time desegregation proponent that court‐ordered busing was the prime cause of the flight of whites to the suburbs. The sociologists, Dr. Robert L. Green of Michigan State University and Dr. Thomas F. Pettigrew of Harvard University, made the attack at a news conference called by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the Sheraton Hotel, Seventh Avenue and 56th Street. The findings had been made by Dr. tames S. Coleman, a Univarsity of Chicago sociologist, after a five‐year study of 20 school districts around the country. Roy Wilkins, executive director‐of the N.A.A.C.P., said that both the civil rights movement and the educational world were “stunned” by Dr. Coleman’s findings, which Dr. Green and Dr. Pettigrew termed “premature and unsubstantiated.”
In a move that is expected to draw widespread opposition, President Ford has nominated James F. Hooper 3d, a Columbus, Miss., cattle and tree farmer who is active in Mississippi Republican politics, to serve an eight-year term as a directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ordered today that all reference to two “unindicted co-conspirators” be erased from an indictment in 1972 against seven members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War accused of plotting a riot at the Republican Convention in Miami Beach.
President Ford has signed legislation requiring a study of the Grand Canyon National Park that could lead to its inclusion in the National Wilderness Prcservation System, the White House said yesterday.
A decade ago a lot of people thought Seward would become a ghost town. Now, The Seward Phoenix Log, a weekly, is planning a progress issue. “I think we have enough to justify it,” said Beverly D. Dunham, editor and publisher, who with her husband, Willard, founded the paper nine years ago. After a long slide from its one time economic importance as a terminal of the Alaska Railroad, a decline capped by the destructive Alaska earthquake and tidal wave of 1964, the town has staged a comeback with state help and resurgence of fishing and wood industries. Lately, the Alaska pipeline construction has spurred the revival.
Crime and violence, to varying degrees, have become the norm in schools throughout the country. Assaults on teachers by students and outsiders are increasing steadily. A Senate report estimates that 70,000 teachers are injured badly enough each year to require medical attention. Murder, rape and armed robbery are not unusual, and many students carry a weapon.
Nine new swimming pools were opened to all in Jackson, Mississippi, 12 years after the city had drained its old pools and let trees grow up through their cracked bottoms rather than allow blacks to use them. The reopening went off without incident and was a rather typical example of the way old racial barriers are tumbling across the South these days. But few black children swam in predominantly white neighborhoods.
The NHL Pittsburgh Penguins joined yesterday the growing list of major league teams in financial distress as they found their offices padlocked by the Internal Revenue Service.
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Al Oliver hits a grand slam and drives in 5 runs as the Pirates whip the host Braves, 8–3. His fourth career grand slam came off Mike Beard, a rookie reliever, and highlighted a six‐run fourth inning that started against John (Blue Moon) Odom. Odom was making his second start since his trade from Cleveland last weekend. Seven of the Pirates runs came off Odom. in his previous start for the Braves, Odom was tagged for four runs in four innings.
At Dodger Stadium, Jim Lonborg allows just 2 hits — both by Jimmy Wynn — as the Phillies beat the Dodgers, 5–1. Jerry Martin has a grand slam for the Phils. Andy Messersmith (9–3) allows 4 hits in the loss. This is the third time in Wynn’s career that he has the only hits in his team’s loss. Johnny Oates got the first hit off Messersmith, who had pitched shutouts in his last two starts. The Dodgers have scored only two runs in the last 32 innings while dropping four straight games to fall 3 ½ games behind Cincinnati in the Western Division.
The wind is blowing out at Wrigley as the Reds collect 24 hits to outslug the Cubs, 18–11. Cesar Geronimo has 5 of the hits as the Reds score 12 runs in the last 2 innings. Johnny Bench, George Foster, and Pete Rose hit homers as the Reds won their 17th game in the last 21. The Reds scored five runs in the eighth, then added seven in the ninth on singles by Pedro Borbon, Rose, Ken Griffey, Doug Flynn and Tony Perez and a double by Bill Plummer.
George Stone exceeded all expectations in his 1975 debut by pitching seven innings of two-hit ball tonight in a 7–2 victory the New York Mets scored over the San Diego Padres. Stone gave up a run on two soft‐fly hits in the first inning, and proceeded to face only 19 more batters to record the next 18 outs. One of the two walks he issued was erased in a double play. The Mets had been hoping that Stone, restored to health, could become their fifth starter, and his performance tonight made Manager Yogi Berra almost as happy as it made Stone. When he had worked far enough, Rich Baldwin took over and mopped up the last two innings, yielding a run on two hits in the ninth. Stone had the support of a 17‐hit attack, equaling New York’s high for the season. Del Unser had three hits and six other players, including Stone, had two apiece.
The Cardinals downed the Astros, 6–2. Ron Reed helped his own cause with two‐run double in a three‐run fourth inning and picked up his third successive victory since the Cardinals acquired him from Atlanta on May 28. Reed was touched for 10 hits, struck out three and walked none in earning his seventh triumph in 12 decisions.
Pitching five innings of scoreless relief, Dan Warthen was rewarded with a victory when the Expos defeated the Giants, 4-2. The Giants scored their runs off Fred Scherman in the first inning on a safe bunt by Bobby Murcer, walk to Chris Speier, infield hit by Willie Montanez and double by Bruce Miller. The Expos came back to tie the score with homers by Pete Mackanin and Bob Bailey before posting their winning margin in the fifth on a single by Larry Parrish, an error on a bunt by Barry Foote, sacrifice fly by Pepe Mangual and single by Tim Foli.
The Red Sox won the first game of a doubleheader, 10–4, while the Royals came back to take the nitecap, 6–5. George Brett and Amos Otis hit home runs in the eighth inning, giving the Royals a split in the double‐header. A two‐run homer by Bernie Carbo and a three‐run blast by Fred Lynn highlighted Boston’s openinggame victory. The split dropped Boston’s lead in the Eastern Division to 2 percentage points over the Yankees.
The Yankees Elliott Maddox, hitting .305, is sidelined for the remainder of the season with torn cartilage in his knee. The injury occurs in a fall on the wet Shea Stadium turf during a 2–1 win over the White Sox. The also bought Ed Brinkman from the Texas Rangers and reactivated Ron Blomberg from the disabled list. Today, Pat Dobson allowed no hits until the fifth inning, one until the eighth and then four singles in the home stretch. While Dobson has been winning five in a row, Rudy May also has taken five straight, Doc Medich four straight and Catfish Hunter six of his last eight. Dobson’s support was supplied almost entirely by Graig Nettles, who hit a home run off Claude Osteen in the second inning and a single in the seventh for the other run.
The A’s beat the Tigers, 7–5. Joe Rudi’s one‐out double in the eighth inning scored Claudell Washington with the winning run, breaking up a 5–5 tie. Reggie Jackson followed with another double to score Rudi. Paul Lindblad notched his fifth triumph without a loss after two hitless innings of relief. Jackson keyed a threerun first for the A’s with a two‐run homer (No. 13) off Joe Coleman, who suffered his ninth loss in 12 decisions. The Tigers had tied the game in the sixth on Willie Horton’s 15th homer after Danny Meyers’s triple.
The Rangers edged the Indians 2–1. Cesar Tovar and Toby Harrah hit consecutive run‐scoring doubles with two out in the eighth inning, and that gave Jim Umbarger, a rookie left‐hander, his second victory in three decisions. Umbarger, making his first start after 23 relief appearances, lost his bid for a shutout in the ninth on consecutive doubles by Rico Carty and Boog Powell. The defeat was Cleveland’s sixth straight.
Eric Soderholm’s second homer of the game, a three-run blast, keyed a four‐run rally in the eighth inning that gave the Twins a 7–3 victory over the Orioles. Soderholm had led off the seventh against Mike Cuellar with his third homer of the season, tying the game, 3‐3. Dave Goltz, 6‐5, went the distance for the Twins, scattering eight hits. Cuellar lost his fifth game. He has won three.
The Brewers routed the Angels 10–2. Henry Aaron hit a three‐run double and George Scott added a two‐run homer to spark a pair of four‐run innings as Jim Colborn pitched a five-hitter to earn his second victory in six decisions. Aaron hit a bases‐loaded double in the third to drive in three runs that put the Brewers ahead, 4‐2. Scott drove in Milwaukee’s first run with a groundout in the first, then ignited a four‐run rally with his 10th homer in the fourth. Bill Singer, 6‐8, was charged with seven runs in three innings.
The Indians trade pitcher Gaylord Perry to the Rangers for hurlers Jim Bibby, Jackie Brown, Rick Waits, and an estimated $100,000.
Pittsburgh Pirates 8, Atlanta Braves 3
Cincinnati Reds 18, Chicago Cubs 11
Oakland Athletics 7, Detroit Tigers 5
Boston Red Sox 10, Kansas City Royals 4
Boston Red Sox 5, Kansas City Royals 6
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
California Angels 2, Milwaukee Brewers 10
Baltimore Orioles 3, Minnesota Twins 7
Chicago White Sox 1, New York Yankees 2
New York Mets 7, San Diego Padres 2
Montreal Expos 4, San Francisco Giants 2
Houston Astros 2, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Cleveland Indians 1, Texas Rangers 2
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 824.47 (+5.16, +0.63%)
Born:
Dave Roche, Canadian NHL left wing and centre (Pittsburgh Penguins, Calgary Flames, New York Islanders), in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada.
Johannes Grenzfurthner, Austrian artist, writer, curator and director, in Vienna, Austria.
Died:
Merrill Denison, 81, Canadian playwright and author.
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