Six nuclear-equipment exporting countries are meeting in a secret conference in London to discuss possible means of controlling sales and developing safeguard standards to prevent the spread of atomic weapons. The session, the second in the last seven weeks, is being attended by the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, West Germany, France and Canada, with Japan and Italy “technically” represented as countries on the threshold of exporting nuclear equipment. The meetings were initiated by the United States, which has become concerned about the potential spread of weapons-making capability through the export of nuclear power plants and fuel‐enrichment facilities. United States officials said the need for controls had been made more urgent by pending deals involving sales by France and West Germany. France is negotiating to sell nuclear fuel‐reprocessing plants, which could be turned to making plutonium for weapons, to Argentina, Pakistan and South Korea. West Germany has contracted to sell an entire nuclear fuel cycle, including fuel‐enrichment and reprocessing facilities, to Brazil.
The United States has assigned more submarine‐launched Poseidon missiles to the defense of Western Europe as part of a plan to strengthen the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s nuclear forces. High‐ranking Defense Department officials said today that the commitment would also increase the conventional capacity of North Atlantic forces, particularly those of West Germany and the United States. With increasing reliance on the missiles, the American officials explained, it will be possible to transfer aircraft from nuclear missions to conventional ground support and cutting of supply lines. The planes would be equipped with a new generation of accurate bombs that should greatly increase the alliance’s ability to attack supply lines of the Warsaw Pact forces.
The Soviet Union reportedly has quietly shelved its campaign to convene a new Geneva peace conference on the Middle East. Soviet sources say the move appears to be an indefinite postponement, the duration of which depends on the success of new American initiatives in that region. The decision to hold of on a conference that Moscow has long insisted is the only way to lasting peace in the Middle East constitutes a tacit admission of failure to bring together the necessary participants in a manner to assure some hope of success. As one Soviet insider sees it, this means that the Kremlin is ready for Secretary of State Kissinger to resume the sort of step‐by‐step diplomacy that he gave up on last March Publicly, Moscow has criticized Mr. Kissinger’s approach as merely putting off a proper peace settlement. But some officials in Moscow have privately acknowledged that the United States must play a significant role in any Middle East settlement, since only the Americans have the leverage to move the Israelis, while the Soviet Union has been beset by divisions among its Arab allies.
Turkey gave the United States a month to lift its arms embargo before taking the first steps toward shutting down the two dozen American bases on Turkish soil. Foreign Minister Ihsan Sabri Caglayangil said the bases, which include U.S. intelligence-gathering facilities on the Black Sea opposite the Soviet Union’s coastline, would be placed on “provisional status” on July 17 subject to Ankara’s conditions. Officials would then work out new guidelines for the U.S. presence there.
Reunification of Germany remains an important goal and may be one of the big tests of East-West detente, West German President Walter Scheel told a joint session of Congress in Washington, adding that Germans cannot give up the idea of reunification. In Berlin, detente is tested daily, Scheel said, crediting alliance with the United States for easing Berlin’s problem. U.S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia has not shaken the confidence of European allies, he reported.
The Italian Communist leader Enrico Berlinguer, announced in an address tonight that after his party’s big gains in local elections throughout Italy Sunday and yesterday it would take “new initiatives” on the national level. Speaking at a Communist victory rally in front of the ancient Basilica of St. John Lateran, Mr. Berlinguer declared it was now “unthinkable” to presume that Italy’s many problems could he solved without his party. While Mr. Berlinguer, secretary of the Communist party, did not elaborate on what “initiatives” he had in mind, he was generally understood to mean that his party would press strongly for a permanent role in national decision‐making.
The Lisbon plant of the Socialist newspaper Republica, which Portugal’s military rulers had handed to the Communist‐led printers yesterday, was back under Government control today. The ruling Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, meanwhile, met to consider the controversy over the afternoon daily as well as the larger question of worker participation in the revolution with or without political parties. As the council met, policemen stood guard outside the Republica building, whose doors were sealed again. The paper had first been closed a month ago after some of its workers rebelled against the Socialist management.
A Paris court ordered the French government to compensate Canadian David McTaggart for what it called the deliberate ramming of his yacht by a French warship near a nuclear test site run by France. The court found the French navy entirely responsible for the incident. McTaggart sailed the yacht into a danger zone around the French nuclear bomb testing site at Mururoa Atoll to protest atmospheric tests.
The Israeli cabinet decided to continue efforts for a new interim peace agreement with Egypt. In a brief communique after an eight-hour meeting in Jerusalem the cabinet reaffirmed Israel’s readiness to make further concessions if Egypt did the same.
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved today the expenditure of nearly $14-million to expand the United States military base on Diego Garcia, the tiny coral island in the Indian Ocean. By a vote of 10 to 6, the committee recommended that the full Senate authorize spending $13.8‐million to expand the existing base by lengthening the runway and enlarging fuel storage tanks so that larger planes and ships could use the facilities. The opposition reflected in the committee vote was expected to emerge again when the full Senate debates the issue. The decision to improve the military facilities on the British island has strained relations between the United States and India. New Delhi has expressed concern that the expansion of the base will touch off a United States‐Soviet power struggle in the area. Pentagon officials have insisted that the facilities are needed to offset a growing Soviet influence in that part of the world and to assure the ability of the United States Navy and Air Force to refuel there.
Mass starvation has marked efforts by the Communist-led Khmer Rouge to establish “a peasants’ revolution” in Cambodia, the London Daily Telegraph reported in a dispatch from Bangkok, Thailand. Quoting Western diplomats and others who used to live in Cambodia, the story said that “Cambodia is now in the midst of what may prove to be one of the most profound human tragedies in recent times.” Food shortage, cholera and lack of gas for transportation were cited as critical problems.
Voters in the Northern Mariana Islands approved an agreement to become a commonwealth within the United States. Congress would approve the new status on July 21, and the Commonwealth would come into existence on January 9, 1978, with the Northern Marianans becoming United States citizens. The people of the northern Mariana Islands have voted to become American citizens and turn the string of Pacific islands into a commonwealth of the United States. With 87 percent of the 3,800 eligible voters turning out, the “yes” vote was 78 percent of the total. The Marianas will be the first territorial acquisition by the United States since 1925.
The State Department welcomed Cuba’s decision to return $2 million in ransom money from the hijacking of a Southern Airways plane in 1972. Department spokesman Robert Anderson said, “The day is going to come when we will have discussions with Cuba” on mutual problems. He did not expect, however, any U.S. reciprocal gestures toward that nation until after an Organization of American States meeting next month.
Zaire’s main state-controlled newspaper has accused the United States of financing and directing a coup attempt against President Mobutu Sese Seko. Mobutu, in a thank you letter to Elima for its Sunday editorial, referred to the alleged “criminal enterprise aimed at eliminating me physically.” Mobutu did not name the United States in his letter, but it was clear throughout the speech to which country he was referring.
Angolan liberation leaders, meeting in Nakuru, Kenya, agreed on measures to restore peace to their troubled land and worked out details for creation of a united Angola army, conference sources said. “Things are running very smoothly indeed and are going much better than expected,” one high-level delegate said after a four-hour session of leaders of Angola’s three liberation factions, meeting to pave the way for peaceful independence from Portugal this November.
The White House press secretary, Ron Nessen, says that President Ford feels that it does not serve the national interest to have “unclear bits and pieces of incomplete information” on assassination plots made public. The comment appeared to be in response to the growing number of news articles recently on the Central Intelligence Agency’s possible involvement in plots to assassinate leaders of foreign nations.
The House passed legislation reviving nearly $2 billion in funds for job programs that died earlier by presidential veto. The money was incorporated in a bill providing stopgap funding for executive departments until the regular appropriations bills are finally enacted. President Ford vetoed a $5.3 billion bill that Democratic leaders said would have provided 900,000 jobs. The latest measure passed includes $1.625 billion for public service jobs in state and local governments; $30 million for the Older Americans Program and $339.8 million for work study grants for college students.
The energy tax and tariff bill survived a new attack as the House rejected an attempt to wipe out the measure’s proposed energy conservation and conversion trust fund. Money from the trust fund would go toward research and development of new energy technology. The fund would be fed by taxes that the bill I would levy on some business use of oil and natural gas, as well as receipts from new duties on imported petroleum. The House, starting a second week of action on amendments, already has killed proposals to increase the federal gasoline tax and a tax on new cars that use too much gas.
The future of the House Select Committee on Intelligence Activities was cast into doubt today as Democratic leaders struggled to work out a compromise between Representative Lucien N. Nedzi, the committee chairman who does not want the job but cannot resign, and six Democrats on the panel who find his leadership unacceptable. Consideration of a resolution that would dissolve the fivemonth‐old committee altogether was put off temporarily in the House Rules Committee following a request by Speaker Carl Albert, who reportedly was talking and meeting informally with key Congressmen, including Mr. Nedzi, in a last-minute effort to “reconstitute” the panel.
Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania emerged from a White House meeting with President Ford and other Republican leaders and commented with a smile on the current disarray of the enemy. The difference between a Boy Scout troop and the Democrats controlling Congress is that “a Boy Scout troop is led by adults.” Congress he said jovially, “doesn’t have the energy to light a 5-watt bulb.”
Senate Democrats turned back today a concerted Republican effort to send New Hampshire’s disputed Senate election of last Nov. 5 back to that state for a new election. The vote, which was 55 to 43 and largely followed party lines, could plunge the Senate into a long floor fight over the nation’s closest Senate election more than seven months ago between Louis C. Wyman, a, Republican, and John A. Durkin, a Democrat. The Senate plans to vote tomorrow on a counter‐proposal by Senator James B. Allen, Democrat of Alabama, that would declare the New Hampshire Senate seat vacant as of Aug. 1, thus sending it back for a new election, if Mr. Wyman or Mr. Durkin had not been seated by then.
President Ford has pledged that he would curb federal regulation of business and oppose those who would, in his view, turn the government into “an instrument of philanthropic collectivism.” The President, in an address to the National Federation of Independent Business, said that well-intended regulation to protect consumers and the environment “often does more harm than good.”
Housing starts in May showed the first significant monthly upturn since the current steep slide began in early 1974, the Commerce Department reported. Although the housing picture has improved from its recent depressed state, it is still far from robust. New housing starts in May were at an annual rate of 1,126,000 units, up from 986,000 in April and the highest since last September. Starts had been hovering near a rate of one million since last November, with a low point of 880,000 reached in December. In the whole year of 1972, starts totaled almost 2.4 million.
Officers at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, have increased security after 18 jet trainers were damaged. Wires and fuel and hydraulic lines on 12 T-A4 Skyhawks and six T-2C Buckeyes were found cut early Monday, Navy spokesmen said. A search and subsequent investigation failed to produce a suspect and the FBI was called in. “I would say the damage was the work of somebody who was apparently familiar with the aircraft,” said an information officer.
Julian Bond, civil rights activist and a black member of the Georgia Legislature, said he would seek the Democratic nomination for President. He denounced one of his potential rivals, Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, as a “hillbilly Hitler.” Bond, 35, told a news conference before a speech in Youngstown, Ohio, that if he found when he got to the Democratic National Convention that he did not have enough delegates for nomination he would withdraw. Bond discounted the chances of Wallace, who is expected to disclose his 1976 presidential plans in Washington today.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. must pay nearly $300,000 in death benefits to the widow of former Bell executive T. O. Gravitt, U.S. Dist. Judge James A. McKay ruled in San Antonio. Southwestern Bell had withheld lump sum death benefits and a $586 per month pension pending outcome of the widow’s $29.2 million lawsuit against Bell. The Gravitt family and ousted executive James H. Ashley claimed in the suit that “corporate rapacities” by Bell led to Ashley’s firing and Gravitt’s suicide last October. Mrs. Gravitt’s lawyer argued that she could not be legally forced to choose between her pension and her right to sue.
Meeting in Atlantic City, the American Medical Association has affirmed the right of doctors to withhold all but emergency medical services as a means of protesting conditions that adversely affect the physicians’ and surgeons’ services to their patients.
The most powerful sandstorm in the United States in several decades began in the Southern California desert and continued for two days. Driven by winds of up to 80 miles hour, the desert sands peeled paint off of thousands of cars, sent sand into homes, and created “darkness at noon” in an area between Palm Springs and Indio, California.
Two experimental solar-powered pumps will be built by Palm Springs during the next 18 months for distribution of water in the city. Funds for the $1.1 million project are being sought by the Desert Water Agency from the Energy Research and Development Administration. The larger of the two pumps will generate 40 horsepower. If the experimental pumps prove practicable, two larger models will be built later.
More than $43 million has been apportioned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be used for wildlife preservation, improvement of deteriorating fisheries and promotion of hunter safety programs. The allocation represents funds collected from a 10% excise tax on fishing equipment and on sporting arms and ammunition.
The San Onofre nuclear generating station was back in operation after a five-day shutdown to repair what Southern California Edison Co. termed minor leakage in a relief valve. Company spokesmen stressed the leak was internal, entirely contained and constituted no hazard to the public. The valve was on the pressurizer system of the 450-megawatt plant.
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After trailing, 5–0, the Cubs rallied with three RBIs by Tim Hosley and two each by Don Kessinger and Jerry Morales to defeat the Phillies, 9–5. Phillies’ runs included a homer by Greg Luzinski. The Cubs wiped out their deficit with six runs on seven hits in the fifth inning. Hosley drove in one run with a single, Kessinger plated a pair with single and Morales knocked in two with a double. The Cubs wrapped up their scoring in the sixth. Manny Trillo singled for his third hit of the game and Hosley followed with a homer. Then, after singles by Tom Dettore and Kessinger, Dettore scored on a wild pitch.
Carl Morton pitched a three-hitter and Dave May smashed a grand-slam homer to provide the Braves with a 5–1 victory over the Reds. A single by Ralph Garr, double by Mike Lum and intentional pass to Dusty Baker preceded May’s drive that ended Gary Nolan’s personal six-game winning streak. Darrell Evans homered off reliever Fred Norman for another run in the eighth. Morton held the Reds hitless until Joe Morgan doubled in the seventh. Morgan added a single in the ninth and scored the Reds’ run on a double by Johnny Bench.
Two rookies, Gary Carter and Dan Warthen, were standouts as the Expos won the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, 6–5, before the Mets came back to take the second game, 5–2, in 11 innings. The Mets jumped off to a 4–0 lead in the first inning of the lidlifter, two scoring on a double by Rusty Staub, who also accounted for another RBI with a single in the fourth. Carter singled for one of two runs in the Expos’ half of the first and Larry Parrish homered in the fourth. The Expos then went ahead to win when Jose Morales and Bob Bailey singled in the fifth and Carter hit for the circuit. Warthen pitched six scoreless innings in relief of Don Stanhouse, allowing only three hits, to gain the victory. In the nightcap, the Expos were stopped on their six-game winning streak when the Mets shattered a 2–2 tie in the 11th. With two out, John Milner walked and counted the tie-breaking run on a triple by Mike Phillips. After walks to John Stearns and Harry Parker loaded the bases, Wayne Garrett added an insurance pair with a single. Expos’ scoring in the game included a homer by Pepe Mangual.
Ted Simmons, Reggie Smith and Willie Davis collected nine hits among them as the Cardinals broke out of their three-game losing streak with a 7–4 victory over the Pirates, who were stopped on a five-game winning streak. Simmons had four straight singles, Davis collected a double and two singles and Smith rapped a double and single, driving in three runs. The Cards, after picking up an unearned marker in the second, added enough runs to win with four in the fifth on singles by Lou Brock, Ted Sizemore, Davis, Smith, Simmons and Ken Reitz.
The Giants snapped a six-game losing streak behind the pitching of Pete Falcone, who defeated the Padres, 3–1. A walk to Bobby Murcer, an infield out and single by Gary Thomasson started the Giants’ scoring in the fourth inning. Their two other runs followed in the sixth on a double by Chris Speier, pass to Thomasson, single by Steve Ontiveros and sacrifice fly by Dave Rader. The Padres averted a shutout in the eighth with a double by Bobby Tolan, an infield out and sacrifice fly by Fred Kendall.
Pitching a four-hitter, Andy Messersmith became a 10-game winner when the Dodgers defeated the Astros, 6–1. Ron Cey started Messersmith on the way to triumph with a three-run homer in the first inning after Davey Lopes and Jim Wynn reached base on singles. Steve Yeager added a homer in the fourth. A run-scoring single by pinch-hitter Enos Cabell spoiled Messersmith’s shutout bid in the eighth.
Behind Vida Blue and Ken Holtzman, the A’s sweep a pair from the Twins. After Reggie Jackson and Bert Campaneris drove in two runs apiece to account for a 4–2 victory in the first game, the Athletics exploded for eight runs in the fifth inning of the second game and defeated the Twins, 8–7, to complete the sweep of a twi-night doubleheader. Campaneris batted in his two runs in the opener with a single in the third inning. Jackson homered in the fourth and added an RBI with a double in the eighth. Dan Ford hit an inside-the-park homer for one of the Twins’ six hits off Blue. In the nightcap, the Twins had a 4-0 lead, three runs coming on a homer by Larry Hisle (after striking out 4 times in game 1 — no one will match that till 2014), before the A’s went on their scoring rampage in the fifth with a three-run double by Gene Tenace and two-run single by Bill North among their hits.
A homer by Juan Beniquez in the eighth inning supplied the run that enabled the Red Sox to defeat the Tigers, 7–6. The outfielder’s smash put the Red Sox ahead, 7–4, but the Tigers narrowed the gap in their half of the eighth when Ron LeFlore, who had four hits, drove in a run with a triple and scored on a single by Gary Sutherland. The Red Sox had to call on six pitchers, beginning with Rick Wise, Diego Segui and Roger Moret. In the ninth, Dick Pole gave up a hit with two out and Bill Lee yielded another before Dick Drago came in to save the game.
Elrod Hendricks, who entered the game with a batting average of .135, drove in three runs and Mike Cuellar gained his first victory since May 11 as the Orioles defeated the Indians, 5–3. Hendricks hit a sacrifice fly in the second inning and homered in the fifth. After Brooks Robinson doubled in the seventh, Hendricks batted in his teammate with a double and also scored himself on an error. Boog Powell hit two homers and Frank Robinson rapped one off Cuellar, who left the game in the eighth inning. Doyle Alexander finished.
Three runs in the first inning, two of them unearned on a pair of errors by Orlando Ramirez, were all that the Royals needed to defeat the Angels, 3–2, behind the five-hit pitching of Steve Busby. The Royals loaded the bases in the first when Vada Pinson and George Brett singled and Ramirez booted a bouncer by Amos Otis. Ramirez then let a grounder by John Mayberry skip through him for a second error, allowing Pinson and Brett to score. Hal McRae followed with a sacrifice fly. Busby blanked the Angels until the ninth when they scored their two runs on a walk to Joe Lahoud, singles by Leroy Stanton and Dave Chalk and an infield out by Doug Collins.
Faced with the loss of both games, the Yankees rallied for three runs in the ninth inning to gain a 4–2 victory for a split of a twi-night doubleheader with the Brewers, who won the opener, 4–3, on an unearned run. In the first game, the Yankees scored all their runs in the fifth inning, two crossing the plate on a pinch-single by Roy White. The Brewers picked up a pair in the seventh and put over the tying and winning runs in the eighth. Kurt Bevacqua and Gorman Thomas singled and, after Robin Yount forced Bevacqua, Sixto Lezcano singled to score Thomas. George Scott then lifted a pop fly behind short and when Jim Mason dropped the ball, Yount scurried across the plate. In the nightcap, Terry Whitfield led off Yankees’ ninth with a single and Thurman Munson beat out a bunt. Chris Chambliss grounded into a double play, wiping out Munson. Graig Nettles singled to tie the score at 2–2 and Ed Herrmann followed with a homer to provide the winning margin.
Starting with a three-run homer by Deron Johnson in the first inning, the White Sox walloped the Rangers, 13–3, to provide Jim Kaat with his 10th victory of the season. Kaat failed to finish, however, going out in the seventh in favor of Rich Gossage. Bucky Dent singled and Carlos May walked ahead of Johnson’s homer. The White Sox went on to pile up a total of 16 hits and beat the Rangers for the first time in seven meetings this year.
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Chicago Cubs 9
Atlanta Braves 5, Cincinnati Reds 1
Baltimore Orioles 5, Cleveland Indians 3
Boston Red Sox 7, Detroit Tigers 6
California Angels 2, Kansas City Royals 3
Houston Astros 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 6
Oakland Athletics 4, Minnesota Twins 2
Oakland Athletics 8, Minnesota Twins 7
New York Mets 5, Montreal Expos 6
New York Mets 5, Montreal Expos 2
Milwaukee Brewers 4, New York Yankees 3
Milwaukee Brewers 2, New York Yankees 4
St. Louis Cardinals 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
San Diego Padres 1, San Francisco Giants 3
Chicago White Sox 13, Texas Rangers 3
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Born:
Donnie Sadler, MLB outfielder, second baseman, and shortstop (Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Texas Rangers, Arizona Diamondbacks), in Clifton, Texas.
Mark Brownson, MLB pitcher (Colorado Rockies, Philadelphia Phillies), in Lake Worth, Florida (d. 2017, from drug abuse).
Petra Vaarakallio, Finnish ice hockey center (Olympics bronze medal, 1998), in Helsinki, Finland.
Tavis Hansen, Canadian NHL centre and right wing (Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes), in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Shevin Smith, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Miami, Florida (d. 2019)
Chad Overhauser, NFL tackle (Houston Texans), in Sacramento, California.
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