The U.N. Security Council extended the presence of the U.N. peace-keeping force in Cyprus for another six months, until December 15. The council resolution, approved 14 to 0, also asked Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to continue peace talks in Vienna with Greek and Turkish Cypriot factions.
U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger will discuss the international situation this morning at Waldheim’s New York residence. Sources said the meeting would focus on the Middle East and Kissinger’s efforts toward an Egyptian-Israeli agreement. They will also discuss the Cyprus problem, in which Waldheim, Kissinger and President Ford have all taken a hand in the last few weeks.
French Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski accused Spanish police of waging an undercover war against Basque nationalists on French soil. He charged “organizations working parallel with Spanish police” of being responsible for bomb attacks against Basque refugees in southwest France.
Terrorists firing from speeding cars killed two persons in a Roman Catholic district of Belfast. Police said a 58-year-old woman was killed and six persons were seriously wounded in the New Lodge area when they were sprayed by bullets. Hours later, a car pulled alongside the Garden Bar on Meadow Street and shot dead a man standing there.
The debate within the Ford Administration over policy toward Portugal’s leftist military Government has ended, according to high‐ranking officials. The agreed‐on policy, according to the officials, is to work with the Lisbon Government as long as the appearance of democracy remains in Portugal, a view that they said was once held by only a minority within the Administration. The officials also said that the meetings of NATO leaders in Brussels last week indicated that the American policy was, in harmony with that of other members of the Atlantic alliance.
The Portuguese Government nationalized 54 bus companies today in its campaign to establish socialism in Portugal. The Transport Ministry said that the bus companies would be taken over by the state in accordance with a decree issued in April to nationalize transportation. The leftist military rulers have taken control of banks, insurance companies and some key industries and were reported considering nationalization of communications concerns and large farm holdings.
Senator Henry M. Jackson told President Nicolae Ceaușescu of Rumania here on Wednesday that Rumania was “not complying with the law” intended by the Congress to facilitate emigration from Communist countries, it was learned today. As described by two Senators and, three Representatives who were present, Mr. Jackson was “rude” and “insulting” to Mr. Ceaușescu. Asked to comment, Senator Jackson denied that he had been rude. “I was firm, blunt, I don’t always speak in diplomatic language,” he said.
The Vatican’s foreign affairs secretary, Archbishop Agostino Casaroli, ended six days of friendship talks with East German leaders in East Berlin and agreed to continue the contacts, an official East German newspaper reported. Both the archbishop and East German Foreign Minister Oskar Fischer described the talks on reorganizing the Roman Catholic hierarchy in that country as useful and successful.
Although Congress enacted a law six months ago giving itself veto power over United States arms sales, it has never exercised it. The law is aimed particularly at controlling multibillion-dollar sales to the Arab countries and Iran. Since its passage, the Defense Department has given Congress notice of about 26 proposed sales, mostly to the Middle East. None of them has been challenged, but all are still to be fulfilled, The failure of Congress to exercise the veto power is regarded by some legislators and their aides as one instance of the lack of congressional interest and follow-through on new international legislation.
British commercial diver George Turner drowned after experiencing nitrogen narcosis and slipping his lifeline while conducting a surface-orientated SCUBA dive from the construction/pipe laying barge Choctaw I in the North Sea.
State Department officials said that despite three days of intensive discussions with Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel, the United States was still uncertain whether a formula could be worked out for a new limited agreement between Israel and Egypt on Sinai. The uncertainty caused Secretary of State Kissinger to continue the talks beyond their official conclusion in Washington and he and Mr. Rabin will meet again today in New York.
For the first time in a decade all differences between Iran and Iraq are settled, Iranian Foreign Minister Abass Ali Khalatbari said in Tehran, Iran, after the two countries signed a treaty in Bagdad, Iraq. The treaty sets a common border bisecting the Shatt al Arab estuary instead of following its eastern bank to Iran’s disadvantage, delineates 670 land border positions and agrees to security arrangements in border regions to prevent infiltration of undesirable elements.
[Ed: Don’t. Hold. Your. Breath…]
Leaders of India’s political opposition parties began a nationwide protest movement to force Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who has been found guilty of corrupt election practices, to resign. Officials of the Old Congress party and other opposition groups said they planned further legal action against her and had ordered provincial party workers to start “anti-Indira” rallies and other nonviolent demonstrations throughout the country. As the political and legal crisis set by the court’s ruling entered its third day, Mrs. Gandhi told cheering supporters outside her New Delhi bungalow to confront the “new challenge from our enemies with courage and determination.”
India has twice humbled its Prime Minister in recent days in a stunning reaffirmation of liberty under law by the world’s largest — and most troubled —democracy. At a time of growing economic and social distress throughout India, it is not surprising that Indira Gandhi’s faltering and increasingly arbitrary leadership should be challenged. What is noteworthy is that political protest in India so far has been largely channeled through peaceful democratic institutions — the courts and the polls — where Mrs. Gandhi took her chances and lost. By appearing in her own defense before the court which has now convicted her of election law violations, Mrs. Gandhi properly acknowledged the principle that no one in a truly free society can be above the law. If the court’s findings are upheld by the Supreme Court to which she has appealed, the Prime Minister is bound by the same principle to accept the verdict which requires her retirement from office.
Calm appears to have been restored in the Burmese capital, Rangoon, after a week of student and worker demonstrations protesting high living costs and the detention of student activists, reports reaching Bangkok yesterday said. The reports said that students had been cleared from the main campus of the Rangoon University of Arts and Sciences and that some demands of striking workers in the industrial zone of the city had been met. Colleges and universities remained closed, but troops, who have been on the streets in the last few days, were no longer seen, the reports said. They said that government offices reopened Thursday and that public transportation had been restored. Students started demonstrations at two schools on June 6, demanding the release of others detained by the government during riots last December and government action against inflation and unemployment.
The Ford Administration says the Vietnam peace agreement signed in 1973 is moot. The Presidential press secretary, Ron Nessen, gave that assessment when questioned yesterday about reports that North Vietnam might seek economic and rehabilitation assistance from the United States. Mr. Nessen reminded reporters angrily that Hanoi had not permitted the United States to search for the graves of Americans still unaccounted for in Vietnam, and had refused to give an accounting of their fate. Asked if the Paris accord was moot, he said: “I think it’s fairly obvious.”
Thailand today sought the release of 18 fishermen captured by a Cambodian gunboat in Thai waters in a clash two days ago. Cambodian patrol boats captureda Thai trawler and its crew on Thursday in a clash near Kud Island, 10 miles from the Thai coastal province of Trat. A Thai naval boat attempted to rescue the fishermen and, in an exchange of fire, six Thai marine policemen were wounded. Several Cambodians were reported killed. Thailand has no direct contact with the new Cambodian Government, and it was not, clear how the fishermen’s release would be negotiated. Cambodia’s official radio has not mentioned the incident.
A 15% federal tax on restaurant and nightclub bills in Mexico will be abolished for foreign tourists beginning July 1, Deputy Finance Minister Carlos Tello announced. He said that tax would remain in effect for Mexicans but foreign tourists will be exempted upon presentation of as passport or tourist card.
Latin American and Caribbean ministers will meet in Panama next month to draw up a constitution for the region’s proposed new all-embracing economic organization, it was announced in Mexico City. The Mexican Foreign Ministry said economics or planning ministers had been invited to a four-day meeting in Panama City starting July 28 to work out the basic structure of the Latin American Economic System, proposed by Mexico and Venezuela.
The Honduran Army has retired 29 officers in a reorganization reportedly forced by young officers demanding an end to corruption. An army communiqué issued yesterday said that 25 colonels and four lieutenant colonels had been retired, effective June 1. The list included the army chief of a staff, Colonel Andres Ramirez Ortega, nearly a dozen other prominent officers and two former Cabinet ministers.
Kenya denied charges in the British magazine the New Scientist that members of President Jomo Kenyatta’s family were involved in ivory smuggling so extensive that the elephant might soon become extinct in that country. An official Kenya news report said, “We do not believe that scandalizing and blackmailing the people and government of Kenya is the best method of wildlife conservation.”
Twenty persons were killed in a battle between Rhodesian security forces and black nationalist guerrillas this week, a security forces communiqué said today. The communiqué said that the incident occurred Thursday in the “operational area,” usually a reference to the northeast border region. The shooting reportedly began when a security patrol went to the aid of a tribal headman being beaten by attackers in his village. “The patrol came under fire from a terrorist group,” the communiqué continued. “In the ensuing fight 20 people were killed.” It did not mention guerrilla casualties and said that no members of the security force had been hurt. The dead were not further described or identified.
The Venera 10 space probe was launched by the Soviet Union to explore the planet Venus. It would land on Venus on October 25 at 13:42 Venus solar time (0102 UTC) and transmit data for 65 minutes.
President Ford, paying homage to the United States Army on its 200th anniversary, said that the country’s current all-volunteer Army was better than ever. Speaking at Fort Benning, Georgia, home base of the United States Infantry, Mr. Ford said that the “doubters” had been wrong in warning that the end of the draft system would produce an ineffective army of low-quality volunteers. He repeated an admonition he has made frequently since the collapse of Vietnam and Cambodia — that the United States requires strong armed forces now more than ever. His visit to Georgia also gave him an opportunity to do a little politicking in the Deep South, and he had a meeting with local Republican leaders.
In an intense policy debate between the Ford administration and Congress, the sale of billions of dollars of American nuclear equipment is being balanced against the dangers of hastening the spread of atomic weapons throughout the world. The immediate focus of the debate is how aggressively the United States should work to tighten restrictions on plutonium, the waste product of nuclear power plants. There are 426 nuclear power plants either operating, under construction or planned in 39 different countries, each producing plutonium which, after relatively simple processing, becomes a raw material of bombs.
The Environmental Protection Agency has canceled plans to call 1.4 million 1972‐model cars for Federal pollution violations, revealing its original test results were unreliable. The recall, involving cars built by General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and Volkswagen, would have been the largest ever under the Federal agency’s authority to enforce compliance of clean air standards. An E.P.A. spokesman in Washington said this week that letters were sent to the automobile companies last week, notifying them that the recalls were being canceled. The auto companies had disputed the agency’s findings and had threatened to challenge any recalls.
Project Sanguine, the Navy’s underground antenna system for emergency communication with submerged nuclear submarines — a project many people assumed had been barred from Northern Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula — is suddenly the cause of renewed heated public controversy. Opponents of the project assert that it has been modified into a simpler, less expensive system called Seafarer, but that questions about its hazards to life, the environment, the proper use of land, and the impact upon electric power supplies remain unanswered. Supporters of the Seafarer system assert that some such Extremely Low Frequency radio communications system is essential for the survival of submarines deeply submerged, for example, beneath the polar ice cap, since at present submarines can only receive messages if they rise to the surface or to within a few feet of the surface.
One of every five welfare mothers in New York City has either broken up her marriage or her relationship with a man so that she can go on welfare or has pretended to do so to increase family income, according to a federally financed study, which says that a major defect in the national welfare system is “gross discrimination” against intact families. Even in New York, with its home-relief program and the national Aid to Dependent Children, the study said, “the intact family fares substantially worse in terms of the benefits it can receive from welfare than the female-headed family.”
Disclosures of thievery and corruption throughout its East Coast operations have shaken Chevrolet, which last year accounted for 60 percent of General Motors total car and truck sales. The most serious disclosure so far, one that could carry criminal penalties, involves a pattern of phony warranty work covered by false serial numbers that outwitted the corporation’s computers at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The scandal provoked the swift, summary dismissal of 43 Chevrolet employees in the New York area and in New England. More than a score of dealers, dealers’ employees and dismissed employees of Chevrolet were willing to talk about the abuses they observed or took part in, and they depicted a corporate world seldom encountered by the ordinary consumer.
Three years ago, Agriculture Department officials blocked efforts by one of its own investigators to press the kind of broad inquiry into alleged corruption in the grain trade recently undertaken by the United States Attorney’s office in New Orleans and other ports. It is not clear which officials made the decision, but the agent, William Griffin, was ordered to turn his attention to other matters, and when he attempted to take his alleged evidence to the United States Attorney in New Orleans he was rebuffed as a scandal monger.
Six out of 10 Americans questioned in a Gallup Poll survey said they believed there should be a limit on the amount of money a jury could award a plaintiff in a medical malpractice suit. In interviews with 1,626 persons, Gallup pollsters also found that 8 out of 10 felt that lawyers’ fees should be fixed in advance and that 85% believed the medical profession should take more effective measures to get rid of incompetent doctors.
A computer error that went undetected for at least nine months brought New York state $10 million in federal funds to which it was not entitled, an audit by the General Accounting Office shows. Between November, 1973, and July, 1974, beneficiaries of the state medical assistant program who did not meet Medicaid requirements were listed in the computer as being eligible for Medicaid, resulting in the federal government paying $1.1 million a month in benefits that should have been paid by the city and state. The error was corrected in August, 1974, and the state government has been reimbursing the federal government.
A woman vanished mysteriously during the transatlantic voyage of the Italian liner Leonardo da Vinci, which docked in New York. The woman, identified by the ship’s captain as Alice Hunt, 37, of Calgary, Alberta, boarded the liner in Genoa on June 5 and was last reported seen June 7 just before the liner briefly dropped anchor off Algeciras, Spain. There was no record that she had gone ashore. She had shared a cabin with three other women, one of whom said Mrs. Hunt had been crying in the room. “What is strange,” the captain said, “is if you’re going to throw yourself in the sea, you take off your shoes and lay down your bag. But the passenger left no passport or other documents behind…I have a sixth sense that tells me this passenger is still alive.”
Fire shooting 250 feet into the air from a blown-out gas well in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast mysteriously choked itself out, but a stream of natural gas and oil-like condensate continued to spray from the well. A spokesman for Amoco Production Co., operators of the well, said it was possible that a large bubble of water had surfaced in the well, temporarily extinguishing the flames, which had burned for 15 hours. Crews worked to cap the pipe above the water’s surface.
The death of a sailor who apparently threw himself in front of a train has spurred an investigation into reports that he had been severely beaten and otherwise abused by Marine guards in the Great Lakes Naval Base brig, authorities said. Steven E. Stawnychy, 18, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, died on tracks near the base, where he was to have been discharged from the Navy the day after his death, officials said. Lake County Coroner Oscar Lind had scheduled an inquest. Stawnychy was being discharged as unable to adjust to military service, according to authorities.
A Russian hydrofoil made an emergency unauthorized docking in Mayaguez harbor on Puerto Rico’s west coast after running low on fuel during a storm, a Coast Guard spokesman said. The U.S. government accepted the explanation offered by the master of the 115-foot hydrofoil Kometa and allowed it to remain in port. The vessel was en route to Jamaica from Venezuela.
After years in an economic slump, the Broadway theater has made a sharp comeback despite inflation and the worst recession in 30 years. The 1974-75 season, ended May 31 generated gross receipts of $108,398,181 for Broadway and road performances, a record, and an increase of nearly 15 percent over the previous season’s take, according to Variety, the show-business journal. The remarkable box-office activity is probably a result of a variety of factors — a bumper crop of hits, the drawing power of quality shows, the importation of popular British stage productions and a bigger variety of shows appealing to a wider audience.
Janis Ian releases “At Seventeen”.
French Open Women’s Tennis: Chris Evert beats Martina Navratilova 2–6, 6–2, 6–1 for her 2nd of 7 French singles titles.
Major League Baseball:
The relief pitching of Dave Giusti in the ninth inning enabled the Pirates to emerge with a 2–1 victory over the Braves. The Pirates scored what proved to be the deciding run when Al Oliver, Dave Parker and Richie Zisk hit singles in the sixth inning.
The Reds keep hitting Chicago pitching, beating the Cubs like a rented mule to win, 11–3. Johnny Bench had 2 doubles and 3 singles, and Tony Perez drove in four runs as the Reds built up an 11–3 score against the Cubs before the game was suspended after eight innings because of darkness. The final inning was played before the next day’s regularly scheduled game.
After escaping from a jam at the expense of only one run in the first inning, Woodie Fryman pitched the Expos to a 3–1 victory over the Giants. The Expos scored all their runs in the first after loading the bases on walks to Pepe Mangual and Mike Jorgensen around a single by Larry Lintz. Bob Bailey singled, driving in two runs, and the third counter followed when Pat Scanlon forced Bailey. The Giants then raised their threat with two out in the home half when Chris Arnold and Chris Speier singled and Willie Montanez walked to fill the sacks. Arnold scored on a wild pitch by Fryman, but the veteran lefthander retired Bruce Miller to stave off further scoring.
A four-game New York Mets’ winning streak crumbled tonight as the San Diego Padres scored a 7–1 victory behind Randy Jones, who brought his season won-lost record to 9–3. Last year Jones had an 8–22 mark. The only run off Jones was unearned on an error by Mike Ivie in the second inning. The Padres came back with two runs off Jerry Koosman in their half on the first of four hits by Tito Fuentes, a double by Dick Sharon and single by Fred Kendall. Ivie made up for his error with a two-run double in the third.
The Astros gained what was just their third victory in the last 13 games when Tom Griffin pitched a three-hitter for his first shutout of the season and beat the Cardinals, 9–0. Cliff Johnson and Bob Watson swung the big bats for the Astros. Johnson drove in four runs with a homer and single, while Watson accounted for three RBIs with two singles and a sacrifice fly.
The Dodgers snapped their four-game losing streak when Ken McMullen hit a pinch-homer with two men on base in the seventh inning to defeat the Phillies, 4–3. With the score tied, 1–1, Manny Mota batted for Burt Hooton and singled. Davey Lopes walked. McMullen then came up for Bill Buckner and hit his homer. Mike Marshall pitched the last two innings for the Dodgers and allowed one run on three singles in each stanza.
Hitting safely in his 19th straight game, Fred Lynn smashed a three-run homer to help the Red Sox defeat the Royals, 4–3. Lynn’s round-tripper drove in Bernie Carbo and Rick Burleson in the third inning. The Royals came back with singles by Amos Otis, John Mayberry and Hal McRae for a run in the fourth and tied the score in the sixth when Mayberry and Harmon Killebrew doubled and Fran Healy singled. Carl Yastrzemski doubled for the Red Sox in the eighth, advanced to third after a long fly by Lynn and scored the deciding run on a sacrifice fly by Jim Rice.
The Yankees lost to the Chicago White Sox, 7–2 — not because of anything that happened in their injury-riddled, makeshift outfield, but primarily because Deron Johnson hit two balls over the outfield into the left‐field bullpen. Johnson, who at nearly 37 years of age is a Chicago reclamation project (Chuck Tanner’s, not Mayor Daley’s), hit a 1–2 pitch from George Medich into the bullpen in the fourth inning with no one on base and he socked a 1‐2 pitch from Larry Gura into the same area in the seventh with two on. In between, he hit the ball to right field in the sixth and got only a sacrifice fly, giving him five runs batted in for the night.
Winning for only the second time this season, Ross Grimsley pitched the Orioles to a 7–0 victory over the Twins. The Orioles gave Grimsley four runs for working room in the third inning. After singles by Ken Singleton and Al Bumbry around a pass to Mark Belanger loaded the bases, Lee May hit a two-run single, Jim Northrup added a tally with a sacrifice fly and Don Baylor drove in a run with a double. Baylor also homered in the ninth inning.
The Indians suffered their seventh straight loss and fifth in that span by a one-run margin when the Rangers gained a 2–1 victory in a duel between Fergie Jenkins and Roric Harrison. Harrison, a loser in his first decision with the Indians since being obtained from the Braves, served up a homer by Cesar Tovar in the first inning. John Ellis tied the score with a circuit clout in the sixth, but the Rangers put over the winning run in the seventh when Jim Sundberg doubled and Toby Harrah singled.
A groin injury that forced Sonny Siebert to leave the mound with two out in the second inning also resulted in the veteran righthander’s absorbing a tough-luck defeat as the Athletics lost to the Tigers, 3–2. Siebert had a count of two balls and no strikes on Tom Veryzer before departing.
A crowd of 36,191 fans who turned out to watch Nolan Ryan saw the Brewers defeat the Angels’ fireballing righthander, 6–4, with the aid of Hank Aaron’s seventh homer of the season and 740th of his career. The Brewers scored twice in the first inning on a single by Robin Yount, pass to George Scott, an error and single by Darrell Porter. The Angels came back with a pair in the second, but Aaron shattered the tie with his homer in the third.
The Angels trade Denny Doyle to the Red Sox in exchange for a player to be named later (Chuck Minor) and cash. Boston’s new slick-fielding second baseman will play a pivotal role in the team’s championship season, compiling a 22-game hitting streak and batting .310 after arriving from California.
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, Atlanta Braves 1
Cincinnati Reds 11, Chicago Cubs 3
Oakland Athletics 2, Detroit Tigers 3
Boston Red Sox 4, Kansas City Royals 3
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
California Angels 4, Milwaukee Brewers 6
Baltimore Orioles 7, Minnesota Twins 0
Chicago White Sox 7, New York Yankees 2
New York Mets 1, San Diego Padres 7
Montreal Expos 3, San Francisco Giants 1
Houston Astros 9, St. Louis Cardinals 0
Cleveland Indians 1, Texas Rangers 2
Born:
A. J. Mleczko, American women’s ice hockey forward, broadcaster (Olympics gold medal, 1998; silver medal, 2002; NBC), in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Peter Munro, MLB pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros), in Flushing, New York.
Rob Bohlinger, NFL tackle (Carolina Panthers), in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Reggie Lowe, NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars), in Phenix City, Alabama.
Bob Nanna, American rock musician (Braid; Hey Mercedes; The City on Film), in Chicago, Illinois.
Died:
Clancy Cooper, 68, American actor (“Enchanted Forest”, “Girls in Chains”).
Pablo Antonio, 74, Filipino modernist architect.
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