A new kind of strategic weapon that could add greatly to the nuclear striking power of the United States as well as complicate attempts to curb the atomic arms race is being developed by the Defense Department. The weapon, a cruise missile, introduces an entirely new dimension to strategic warfare. But arms control specialists are beginning to raise the objection that the new missile is militarily unnecessary and a potentially unsettling development in the arms race.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger suggested that Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev might cancel his planned fall visit to Washington until progress was made on a new strategic arms limitation agreement. But Kissinger, commenting in an interview with U.S. News and World Report magazine, said he is optimistic that “the chances are better than even” for a new arms agreement in the fall, which would result in Brezhnev making the trip.
Leonid Brezhnev said that his anticipated meeting with President Ford in the United States would take place after the formal conclusion of the European security talks, which are still going on in Geneva, Because a summer windup to the 35-nation conference has been made uncertain by last-minute differences between the East and West, Mr. Brezhnev indicated that he might defer his visit to the United States until late in the year.
Turkey’s Premier Suleyman Demirel declared that the U.S. arms embargo “may seriously impair Turkey’s attitude toward its ally with a past of 30 years of cooperation in all fields.” He said “dramatic decisions” may arise from a security session set for today for “an updated review of Turkey’s defense posture.” Demirel said his government does not feel bound “by bilateral treaties unilaterally broken by the U.S. Administration.”
West German President Walter Scheel arrived in the United States on a five-day official visit that will include a meeting with President Ford and an address to Congress. Scheel, accompanied by Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, government officials and members of the German press, was to spend the night at Williamsburg, Virginia, before taking a helicopter to Washington this morning.
French Premier Jacques Chirac resigned today as secretary general of the Gaullist party, the largest in the National Assembly and an influential part of the ruling coalition. A two‐day congress of the party, Union of Democrats for the Republic, acclaimed Mr. Chirac for having restored unity and self‐confidence to the party, shaken after the death of General Charles de Gaulle in 1969 and his successor Georges Pompidou, in 1974. After Mr. Pompidou’s death, Premier Jacques Chaban‐Delmas sought unsuccessfully to fill the void. During the campaign to elect la successor to Mr. Pompidou, Mr. Chirac swung his support to Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, an Independent Republican, as the most likely figure to beat a strong coalition of the Socialists and Communists led by Francois Mitterand. After Mr. Giscard d’Estaing’s election as President, Mr. Chirac became Premier.
Italy, in a mood of uncertainty and malaise, today started nationwide local elections that will end tomorrow afternoon and could have far‐reaching political consequences. It is widely expected that the Christian Democrats, the country’s strongest party, will lose ground and that the Communist and Socialist parties will advance. Nearly 40 million Italians — out of a total population of 55 million — are elibible to vote. The elections are for legislatures in 15 of the nation’s 20 regions of limited self‐government, advisory councils in 86 of Italy’s 94 provinces, and municipal administrations in 6,300 of her 8.000 cities and towns.
Six executives of European grain companies, seeking answers to their charges of adulteration and low quality in shipments from the United States, arrived in Washington to talk with federal officials and legislators. They said that it was only a coincidence that they arrived when a broad investigation into the handling, grading and weighing of grain was under way in major United States ports. One reason they said they had to go to Washington was that their complaints were routinely shrugged off by the Department of Agriculture. Bill Duncan of Ireland, a director of Unilever Ltd., said “a hell of lot of mistrust is building up.”
Three rockets were fired into the Israeli coastal resort of Nahariya, just 10 hours after a guerrilla attack on a frontier village left two Israelis dead and six wounded. In retaliation for the attack on the village, the Israeli Air Force bombed sites in southern Lebanon described as guerrilla bases. A military spokesman said that two Israelis had been slightly wounded in the rocket attack. The Israeli air strikes this morning were carried out moments after Israeli soldiers had stormed a house in which Palestinian guerrillas were holding several members of an Israeli family. All four gunmen were killed in the shooting along with two men in the family, according to an army communiqué The injured included the mother of the family and her infant son. Military sources said the jets had struck at houses and buildings used by guerrillas in the vicinity of the Lebanese village of Kafr Shuba, a few miles north of the border. There was no immediate estimate here of casualties in the bombed area.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel said today at the close of his consultations with top American officials that differences still had to he resolved before Egypt and Israel could begin another round of negotiations for a Sinai agreement. Both he and Secretary of State Kissinger, who conferred for an hour and a half yesterday at the Waldorf Towers, said that a final decision on whether the United States would try new mediation in the Middle East had to await further Amercan diplomatic contacts in coming weeks with the Egyptians and Israelis. Mr. Kissinger, speaking to newsmen outside the Waldorf after the meeting, left open the possibility of new “shuttle diplomacy,” but said that he would attempt it “only when the chances of success are more clearly established.” Mr. Rabin, appearing on the CBS television program “Face the Nation,” after meeting with Mr. Kissinger, was extremely cautious. He said he was leaving the United States for Israel uncertain to what extent the differences between Israel and Egypt could be bridged.
The 13 nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries earned almost four times as much from their oil exports last year as in 1973, although they exported less oil, according to a Venezuelan report. Earnings in 1974 were listed at $88.8 billion; oil volume, at 10.65 billion barrels. Oil experts said that out of a total surplus of $54 billion, OPEC nations had committed $7.2 billion to aid developing nations.
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi urged her followers today to show restraint in word and deed, as India’s political crisis went into its fourth day. Amid various attempts here to cool political passions, Mrs. Gandhi’s Defense Minister, Swaran Singh, emerged as a front‐runner in discussions within the governing Congress party as to who should succeed her if her entanglement with the powerful Indian court system leads her to leave office. But the Prime Minister, elegant in a pastel sari, showed no signs of quitting as she appeared today at a boisterous Congress party rally. Meanwhile, her lawyers prepared their appeal of last week’s ruling by a judge in Allahabad that the was guilty of corrupt electoral practices and was not entitled to a seat in Parliament —which is a condition for the prime ministership.
Việt Cộng soldiers, aided by private citizens, wiped out a pocket of anti-Communist resistance in the Mekong Delta, Saigon Radio reported. It said that in Chợ Gạo district, “a group of unreported military men” had been “encircled and completely crushed” between May 29 and June 8 and that many other reactionary elements had been brought to light. Isolated pockets of military resistance have been reported since Saigon’s fall April 30, but they have been considered no threat to the new regime.
While the American presence in Laos dwindles, that of the Soviet Union and North Vietnam is growing. A Russian diplomat has acknowledged the growth of Soviet presence here, saying that Moscow was sending in new officials and technicians. The Soviet mission, now one of the largest here, has a staff of about 100, with more coming as the pro‐Communist Pathet Lao movement takes control of Laos. Crews and technicians of Aeroflot, the Soviet airline, take up the largest bloc of rooms in the Lane Xang Hotel. A United States source with access to such information said there were about 30,000 North Vietnamese soldiers in Laos, scattered in remote areas.
The Royal Navy helicopter carrier HMS Hermes, on which Britain’s Prince Charles is serving, was ordered impounded by a Quebec City court after a private damage suit was filed against two crew members. The $61.000 suit was filed by Andre Girard of Quebec City. He alleges that the two crew members broke into his home and beat him. Girard’s lawyer said he is now in the hospital.
Seven killings in a day brought Argentina’s known political death toll for 1975 to more than 250. Buenos Aires police said they found a burned-out car in a suburb with five charred bodies inside. This method of delaying identification has frequently been used by rightist death groups. In the town of Jose Carlos Paz, armed men broke into an apartment and killed a 27-year-old woman and her 64-year-old stepmother.
Didier Ratsiraka, one of 19 members of the National Military Directorate that had ruled the African island of Madagascar since February, was named as President of Madagascar by the Supreme Revolutionary Council. Navy Captain Didier Ratsiraka, regarded as the initiator of the Malagasy Republic’s leftist foreign policy. was named president of the Revolutionary Council and chief of state to succeed President Richard Ratsimandrava, who was assassinated February 11. The council, the policy-making body of the military regime, announced Ratsiraka’s election and immediately inaugurated him as chief of state, the fourth since independence from France in 1960.
Vice President Rockefeller said that there had been allegations that President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy might have been involved in alleged assassination plots by the Central Intelligence Agency. He said that the commission he headed in its investigation of the C.I.A. had found no “conclusive information” of such involvement, no evidence “on the basis of which to draw conclusions,” He said, however, that he thought it “fair to say that no major undertakings by the C.I.A. were done without either knowledge and/or approval of the White House.”
President Ford, who will have his own White House swimming pool early next month, received a Father’s Day present when at Camp David from his wife-red plaid swim trunks and matching shirt. The President and Mrs. Ford flew to the presidential retreat in Maryland Saturday evening. He received his gift after breakfasting on cantaloupe and waffles with fresh strawberries. Tennis and swimming were on the day’s agenda and the President brought with him briefing papers for a White House conference today with West German President Walter Scheel.
President Ford is considering a plan to conduct a series of “administrative hearings” around the country to identify long-range domestic problems and solicit solutions from citizens.
“I’ve always felt that Nelson Rockefeller would make a fine secretary of state,” Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona) said on the ABC interview show Issues and Answers. “I would hate to waste a man’s talents on the Vice Presidency when the Vice Presidency really, as (Thomas) Jefferson said, is about the worst job in government. I would rather see Vice President Rockefeller finish out this term and then become secretary of state. He’d make me look like a dove, to tell you the truth.”
Former Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall said he thinks the Ford Administration leans toward the oil industry in regard to environmental concerns. “It is hard to distinguish the voice of the oil men from the voice of the Ford Administration in regard to environmental concerns,” he said. In an interview at Wilmington College in Ohio where he received an honorary doctor of laws degree and was the commencement speaker, Udall said that “unfortunately the President feels we must sacrifice the environment to solve the energy crisis.” Udall, a leading environmentalist, said he felt the energy crisis can be solved without destroying the environment.
Misleading publicity fed into a depressed national labor market has enticed hordes of people, who cannot afford it, to become losers this summer in the great Alaska pipeline job sweepstakes. Many who go to Alaska are often financially overextended and find frustration and financial disaster instead of big-paying jobs.
Since 1970, the nation’s eight biggest metropolitan areas have had a sharp decline in the rate at which people are moving into them, a key measure of growth. Several demographers say that the decline is without precedent since the first census in 1790.
Wallace D. Muhammad, who had recently become leader of the American Nation of Islam organization (known popularly as the Black Muslims), told NOI members at a convention in Chicago that the group would accept white people into its membership. Rejecting the teachings of his father, Elijah Muhammad, that all white people were “devils”, the new NOI leader said that “from now on, whites will be considered fully human.”
The engineer of a Canadian Pacific passenger train was charged with assault after the train rammed the back of an Amtrak train in a switching yard in Buffalo, New York, on the U.S. side of the International Railway Bridge, officials said. Thirty-four persons were injured in the crash, none seriously. Police said CP engineer Lawrence Beebee, 63, of Ancaster, Ontario, admitted he had been drinking before his two-car motor express crashed into a six-car Amtrak train headed for Detroit.
Two airport firemen were killed while bringing a fire under control at a recently renovated terminal at the Greater Cincinnati Airport, authorities said. Several other firemen were treated for smoke inhalation. The building, which houses the administration offices and a few airline terminals, was practically deserted at the time. The airport is in Florence, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. The main terminal was not affected by the 2 ½-hour blaze. The victims were identified as Donald T. Phillips, 28, and Thomas Zaferes, 28. Airport official Robert Holschear said the fire, of undetermined origin, caused damage estimated at $200,000.
The malpractice insurance crisis has become “the most convulsive and electrifying issue” facing organized medicine, the president of the American Medical Assn. said. Dr. Malcolm C. Todd of Long Beach, California, told the opening session in Atlantic City of the AMA’s 124th annual convention that its board of trustees was considering forming a reinsurance company to support any primary insurance companies set up by state medical societies. Among the chief priorities for remedial state legislation, Todd said, is modification of the statute of limitations.
A government health official said today that the news and entertainment media as well as doctors had contributed to the nation’s malpractice crisis by creating “unrealistic expectations” among patients through misleading accounts of medical and surgical advances.
Governor Robert Straub will sign today a bill making Oregon the first state to ban aerosol cans that use fluorocarbons as propellants, with the ban to go into effect in February, 1977. Aerosol industry spokesmen say they might start pulling their products out of the state as early as this summer to avoid being caught with large inventories later. Oregon’s law prohibits only sprays using fluorocarbons, which some environmentalists say can damage the ozone layer around the earth’s atmosphere. This would let excess ultraviolet rays through and increase the risk of skin cancer.
Clam beds along New Hampshire’s 18-mile coastline have been closed to the public because of red tide contamination. Earlier, officials in Maine and Massachusetts had taken similar action to prevent the gathering of clams and mussels from tidal flats along the Atlantic Ocean because of the red tide, an organic marine poison that can cause illness to humans who eat infected shellfish. New England’s coast has been hit by the tiny red organisms for the last three summers, putting thousands of clam-diggers out of business during a normally productive harvest season. The earliest estimate of when the clam beds might reopen is July 1.
Backpackers will need permits in 34 national parks this year, including five in California. Park Service officials said the program. which included 23 parks last year, has reduced damage and pollution from overuse. The permits are free and on a first-come, first-served basis. They can be reserved in some parks. The California parks in which permits will be required are Lassen Volcanic, Point Reyes, Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks.
Retired Brazilian soccer football star Pelé made his American debut, appearing in a game in New York that was televised live in the U.S. and in ten other nations. Pelé scored a goal for the New York Cosmos in a 2–2 tie against the visiting Dallas Tornado.
French Open Men’s Tennis: Sweden’s Björn Borg retains title; beats Guillermo Vilas of Argentina 6–2, 6–3, 6–4.
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Dave Parker broke a tie with a homer in the eighth inning and Richie Hebner followed with his fourth hit of the game, leading to an insurance run, as the Pirates defeated the Braves, 8-6. The Pirates used homers by Hebner and Bob Robertson to help build up a 6-3 lead before the Braves rallied to tie the score in the seventh. Darrell Evans doubled and Dusty Baker followed with a homer. Earl Williams singled and was forced by Cito Gaston, who took third on a wild pickoff throw by Dave Giusti and scored on a single by Marty Perez. After Parker’s homer in the eighth, Hebner singled, advanced to second on a sacrifice and scored on a single by Rennie Stennett.
Johnny Bench singled for his fifth hit in five times at bat as the Reds posted an 11-3 victory over the Cubs to complete the previous day’s game which had been suspended after eight innings because of darkness. However, in the regularly scheduled game that followed, the Cubs gained a 4-3 victory to end a streak of six straight losses to the Reds. The Cubs racked up their first run in the third inning on singles by Don Kessinger and Bill Madlock around an infield out. Then in the seventh, a double by Kessinger, infield hit by Rick Monday, double by Madlock and single by Andre Thornton made it 4-0. Joe Morgan homered for the Reds in the eighth. Bill Bonham, who started for the Cubs and struck out 12 for his career high, weakened in the ninth and the Cubs had to call on both Darold Knowles and Oscar Zamora in relief before cutting off the Reds’ two-run rally.
Cliff Johnson, who batted in four runs in the previous night’s 9-0 victory, came off the bench as a pinch-hitter in the ninth inning and delivered a grand-slam homer to beat the Cardinals, 8-7. The Cardinals, who had back-to-back homers by Willie Davis and Reggie Smith in the third, failed to hold a 4-1 lead, but then went ahead again with three runs in the eighth. Their defense then failed in the ninth. Greg Gross was safe on a fumble by Mario Guerrero, Cesar Cedeno singled and Bob Watson reached base on an error by Ron Fairly before Johnson batted for Skip Jutze and smashed his homer off Mike Garman.
The Expos scored two runs in the first inning to win the opener, 2-1, and followed with a 14-hit attack to beat the Giants in the nightcap, 5-2, in a sweep of a doubleheader. In the getaway frame of the lidlifter, Pepe Mangual beat out an infield hit, took second on a sacrifice and stole third. After a pass to Mike Jorgensen, Mangual scored on a wild pitch. Pat Scanlon then singled to drive in Jorgensen with what proved to be the deciding run. The Giants scored in the eighth on a double by Von Joshua and singles by Gary Thomasson and Derrel Thomas before Dan Warthen relieved and saved the game for Steve Renko. The Expos again got off to a two-run lead in the first inning of the second game, added a tally in the third and made it 4-0 when Mangual hit a homer in the fourth. The Giants’ two runs came in the fifth on a walk and homer by Marc Hill.
Tom Seaver pitched a three-hitter and posted his second consecutive shutout and 10th victory as the Mets defeated the Padres, 6-0. Only one of the Mets’ runs was earned. Brent Strom, recalled from Hawaii (Pacific Coast), made his first major league start since 1973 and matched Seaver’s shutout pitching until the seventh inning when the Mets scored an unearned run on a safe bunt by Del Unser, double by John Stearns and error by Enzo Hernandez. The Mets piled up their remaining runs against relievers Dave Tomlin and Bill Greif in the ninth on only three hits with the aid of two errors and two wild pitches.
Greg Luzinski homered off Mike Marshall in the eighth inning to lift the Phillies to a 4-3 victory and hand the Dodgers’ ace reliever his fifth defeat in seven decisions. Dave Cash also homered for the Phillies’ initial run off starter Doug Rau in the first inning. The Dodgers came back with a pair in their half when Jim Wynn walked, Steve Garvey singled and Ron Cey tripled. Singles by Dave Lopes and Tom Paciorek and an infield out by Wynn added a Dodger run in the fifth, but the Phillies rallied to tie the score in the sixth. Cash, Luzinski and Dick Allen singled for one run and Tony Taylor hit a sacrifice fly to drive in the tying tally.
Leroy Stanton belts his second grand slam in a week, and drives in 5 to lead the Angels to a hard-fought 8–7, 11–inning win in game 1 with the Brewers. Milwaukee takes game 2, 4–2, as Gorman Thomas hits his second homer of the afternoon. Stanton hit his grand slam off Eduardo Rodriguez in the third inning of the lidlifter. Robin Yount knocked in three runs with a bases-loaded double for the Brewers in the fifth. The Angels went ahead with a run-scoring double by Stanton in the ninth, 6-5, but Thomas homered in the Brewers’ half to send the game into overtime.
A four-run rally in the eighth inning brought the Red Sox an 8-7 victory over the Royals. Fred Lynn collected a double and single, hitting safely in his 20th straight game in the longest batting streak for the Red Sox since Eddie Bressoud had a 20-game string in 1964. Denny Doyle, playing in his second game with the Red Sox since being obtained from the Angels, hit a two-run homer in the second inning. With the score tied, 4-4, Lynn singled in the eighth and took second on a wild pitch. After an intentional pass to Jim Rice, Rico Petrocelli singled, driving in Lynn. Dwighr Evans singled, scoring Rice. Tim Blackwell, who had 3 RBIs, beat out a bouncer in front of the plate and both Petrocelli and Evans scored when the Royals failed to cover home after catcher Fran Healy went out to field the ball. The best the Royals could do was close the gap with two runs in the eighth and one in the ninth before Roger Moret saved the game for Bill Lee.
A homer by Dan Ford in the fourth inning proved the decisive blow for the Twins, who stood off a comeback by the Orioles to gain a 5-4 victory. The Twins rapped Mike Torrez for three runs in the first. Jerry Terrell led off with a double and scored on a single by Steve Braun. Larry Hisle singled, sending Braun to third, and stole second. Eric Soderholm then batted in both runners with a single. Soderholm accounted for his third RBI of the game with a single in the third.
Catfish Hunter allowed only four hits and pitched his fourth shutout of the season as the Yankees defeated the White Sox, 3-0, before a Bat Day crowd of 53,562. Ron Blomberg, coming off the disabled list to play his first game since May 4, had three hits in three official trips for the Yankees and Thurman Munson drove in two runs with a pair of singles. Kerry Dineen drove a run home in the seventh inning with a single for his first major league hit.
The Indians pounded Gaylord Perry, their former teammate, for 10 hits and defeated the Rangers, 5-1, to snap a seven-game losing streak. Perry, making his first appearance in a Texas uniform since the deal was announced on June 13, gave up two runs in the first inning on singles by Duane Kuiper and Rick Manning and a double by Bobbg Powell. Another double by Powell and single by George Hendrick added a run in third.
The A’s and Tigers were rained out in Detroit.
The Tigers give up on first baseman Nate Colbert and sell the slugger to Montreal.
The White Sox make one of their better trades when they swap Stan Bahnsen and a minor leaguer to Oakland for reliever Dave Hamilton and 20–year-old minor league third baseman Chet Lemon.
Pittsburgh Pirates 8, Atlanta Braves 6
Cincinnati Reds 3, Chicago Cubs 4
Boston Red Sox 8, Kansas City Royals 7
Philadelphia Phillies 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
California Angels 8, Milwaukee Brewers 7
California Angels 2, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Baltimore Orioles 4, Minnesota Twins 5
Chicago White Sox 0, New York Yankees 3
New York Mets 6, San Diego Padres 0
Montreal Expos 2, San Francisco Giants 1
Montreal Expos 5, San Francisco Giants 2
Houston Astros 8, St. Louis Cardinals 7
Cleveland Indians 5, Texas Rangers 1
Born:
Jim Bridenstine, American naval officer and politician (Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2018-2021), in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Elizabeth Reaser, American actress (“Twilight” movies), in Bloomfield, Michigan.
Rachel Wacholder, American beach volleyballer who won eight championships and model, in Laguna Beach, California.
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