Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, has proposed July 22 for the start of the Helsinki summit session that would close the 35‐nation European security conference approaching a windup in Geneva. Informed conference sources said that proposal had been made in letters sent by Mr. Brezhnev to Western leaders. “It looks very difficult, but not impossible, to complete the conference’s work here in time,” a Western delegate said. The Finns have asked for four weeks’ notice to stage the ceremonial session that is to mark the conclusion of negotiations that began here in September, 1973, on the guidelines for conducting East‐West relations. The major issue still outstanding is the question of the advance notice of military maneuvers that Soviet‐bloc and Western European countries propose to give each other as a confidence‐building measure.
Top officials from several countries that produce nuclear power plants met secretly in London to discuss ways of preventing the spread of material used in producing nuclear bombs, reliable sources said in Washington. The officials, believed to be from Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, West Germany, Canada and France, among others, reportedly were considering ways of strengthening safeguards under which nuclear plants are sold.
British Secretary of State for Energy Anthony Wedgwood Benn turned a valve and the first oil from Britain’s North Sea reserves was pumped from a tanker to an island refinery in the Thames River estuary. Benn said the occasion called for a day of national celebration, and the sirens of tankers moored at British Petroleum’s Isle of Grain Refinery screamed a salute. The ceremony was a symbolic climax to years of effort to tap and bring ashore the billions of barrels of oil estimated to be under Britain’s sector of the North Sea.
Lord Lucan, the high-living English aristocrat sought in the murder of his children’s nurse, wrote a despairing farewell letter to a friend shortly after the killing, the jury was told on the final day of the murder inquest. Lucan’s main concern in the letter was to clear his name for his children’s sake, the friend said. Nothing has been seen of Lucan since the murder last November. Another note of doubt was introduced into the hearing when the jury foreman claimed a discrepancy in evidence given by Lady Lucan concerning her knowledge of the nanny’s death.
The Egyptian ambassador and his wife will receive “substantial” damages from a radio station that wrongly reported she was a shoplifter, it was agreed in London’s High Court. Counsel for Mrs. Zeinat el Shazly told the court that neither the ambassador nor his wife had the remotest connection with two women actually charged with shoplifting in June of last year. A lawyer for the London Broadcasting Co. blamed the mistake on a hastily summarized report.
The Portuguese military leaders allowed Communist‐led printers to occupy a Socialist newspaper’s plant today, then, bowing to Socialist party pressure after a day of tension, cleared the building again. The Socialists have been threatening to resign from the Cabinet as part of their battle to recover control of the newspaper República The military closed the newspaper on May 20 after clashes between Socialist journalists and Communist-led printers, who were seeking to oust the publisher of the paper and influence its editorial stance. As a result of today’s action the situation at República remained stalemated as it has been for weeks.
The United States may be facing the tightest gasoline supply situation since the Arab embargo if present production trends continue, according to industry statistics. The threat comes at a time when crude oil stocks are high and there is as much as 12 million barrels a day in surplus producing capacity throughout the world. But there was a sharp drop last week along with a decline in gasoline production and refinery capacity use.
Lebanon’s political crisis continued today after three weeks of unsuccessful efforts by the designated Premier, Rashid Karami, to form a cabinet. The danger of renewed hostilities between Christian and Muslim political factions is causing enough concern among Arab countries for Syria and Egypt to have made new mediation efforts, but without immediate success. Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam of Syria, who, helped mediate an end to heavy fighting at the height of the conflict, was here again this week, meeting with President Suleiman Franjieh and leaders of all the major political groups. President Anwar al‐Sadat of Egypt sent special messages yesterday to Mr. Franjieh, Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Kamal Jumblat, a leader of the Socialist left, and Mr. Karami. The message was believed to have urged them to end the political conflict in the interests of Arab unity.
The problem of forming a cabinet revolves around the insistence of most Christian parties that the right‐wing Phalangist party must be included in any cabinet, while Mr. Jumblat and other left‐wing Muslim groups insist on excluding the Phalangists. Pierre Gemayel, the Phalanoist leader, has said that the attempt to “isolate” the Phalangists is an attack on all of Lebanon’s Christians and part of a left‐wing plot to subvert the Lebanese political system, based on a balance between Christians and Muslims. The fighting, which lasted for six weeks and cost 300 lives, has left bitter emotional attitudes on both sides. Phalangist propaganda has played on the traditional fears of Christians that they are threatened by Muslims, and the left‐wing enemies of the Phalangists play up the killing of 27 persons in a bus returning from a Palestinian rally by Phalangist gunmen.
Faisal bin Musaid, the 31-year-old assassin of his uncle, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, was publicly beheaded at Dira Square in Riyadh. As a crowd of thousands watched, a court official read a verdict declaring him guilty of murder, then directed him to kneel and then forced him to raise his head. Reportedly, “the executioner, a black Saudi in a yellow Galabiya robe”, used a gold-handled sword to carry out the execution in one blow, after which “the assassin’s head was hoisted briefly on a wooden stake and displayed to the applauding crowd.”
India’s ruling Congress party affirmed today its “fullest faith” in Prime Minister Indira Gandhi despite her conviction on charges of electoral corruption. A caucus of 450 Congress party members with seats in Parliament adopted a resolution declaring that her continued leadership as Prime Minister was “indispensable.” Despite the prospect that the Supreme Court, after reviewing the conviction, may order her to step down, no mention of the courts was made in the resolution and no disrespectful reference to them was heard during the noisy 90‐minute meeting. But party leaders made oblique statements that suggested widely differing attitudes toward India’s judiciary. This is a sensitive subject since opposition party leaders have questioned whether Mrs. Gandhi would obey an adverse ruling by the Supreme Court.
Secretary of State Kissinger has pledged that despite recent setbacks in Indochina the United States “will not turn away from Asia,” and will continue to oppose efforts by any state to impose its will by force on the Asian continent. He made the statement in a major policy speech on Asia before the Japan Society here and sought particularly to ease Japanese concerns in the post-Vietnam era.
South Vietnam’s Giải Phóng news agency said that thousands of people in Saigon-Gia Đình have been working hard to fight against famine. Quoting an editorial of the Saigon Giải Phóng newspaper, the agency, monitored in Hong Kong, charged that “famine is obviously one among tens of thousands of big crimes committed by the American aggressors and their lackeys against our people.”
Throughout Laos, civil servants are attending seminars to rid them of what a high Pathet Lao official called today “their erroneous conceptions.” “We want them to learn the new,” the Communist official said, stressing that Laos, now dominated by the Communist side while remaining nominally under the leadership of a neutralist Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, would continue to need the technical expertise of the civil servants. Almost all Laotians with higher educations work for the Government.
The Soviet Union has again cautioned Japan not to conclude a new treaty with China incorporating a clause aimed at limiting Soviet influence in Asia. The clause, which Peking seeks to have included in a treaty of peace and friendship now being negotiated with Tokyo, would pledge both states to resist attempts of a third nation to establish hegemony in Asia, an apparent allusion to the Soviet Union.
The territory of Papua New Guinea will become independent Sept. 16, Chief Minister Michael Somare announced in Port Moresby. Parliament approved the date after months of repeated postponements of the date, wrangling over the constitution and of separation from Australia. The constitution still is unfinished, but Somare persuaded Parliament to set the date.
Chile’s President Augusto Pinochet has told his countrymen there will be no elections in the foreseeable future in Chile. “I shall die and my successor shall die and there will not be elections,” Pinochet told a group of regional authorities in Concepcion. His remarks were published in the newspaper La Segunda. The military regime that overthrew President Salvador Allende in 1973 has banned political activity in Chile.
Argentine police intercepted 12 trucks loaded with food and clothing that apparently were part of a ransom payment for two executives kidnaped by terrorists last September, police sources said. Bunge and Born Co. gave newspapers an advertisement announcing distribution of $1.2 million worth of goods “in consideration of Juan and Jorge Born,” the firm’s kidnaped officers. The Montoneros urban guerrilla group also placed ads in several U.S. and European newspapers that spelled out their ransom demands.
Mali’s ambassador to Belgium, Alioune Sissoko, was shot to death in his Brussels office by his chauffeur, who then committed suicide. Police sources said it was not a political murder and that the chauffeur, Kalifa Keita, 23, had acted for “private reasons,” which were not disclosed. Sissoko, 52, also was ambassador to the European Common Market.
The divided leaders of the black liberation movements in Angola said tonight that agreement was in sight to end incipient civil war and political stalemate in their country as it approaches independence. The Angolan leaders were meeting in this agricultural Kenyan town under the auspices of Kenya’s President. Jomo Kenyatta, in an attempt to end violence as well as theological and personal strife in the Portuguese colony of more than five million people in southwest Africa. After three days of discussions lasting many hours each day, the Angolan leaders issued what was clearly meant to be an optimistic communiqué indicating that they felt agreement would be reached within a few days.
The Central Intelligence Agency organized an attempt in 1961 to poison Fidel Castro, his younger brother, Raul, and Che Guevara, according to a source who claims direct knowledge of the operation. The triple assassination plot, the source said, was conceived in 1960 during the Eisenhower administration and was directed by Sam Giancana and John Roselli, two alleged organized crime figures recruited by the CIA as middlemen on the project. The CIA’s plot was directed against the three Cuban political figures, according to the source, because the agency believed that they would be capable of rallying Cuba after a counter revolutionary invasion — the Bay of Pigs operation — then being planned. Several reports have been published recently about three CIA‐inspired attempts on Mr. Castro’s life around the time of the April 15, 1961, invasion at the Bay of Pigs. But the source’s account is the first that has included other revolutionary leaders as targets, suggesting that the CIA hoped to create a power vacuum in Cuba to foster confusion and disorientation following the invasion.
Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, rejected a suggestion today by William E. Colby, Director of Central Intelligence, that evidence of alleged American involvement in assassination plots against foreign leaders be kept secret. “I don’t accept that thesis,” the Idaho Democrat said. “We need to know what went on and the degree to which assassination was an instrument of foreign policy.” In a statement released by the Central Intelligence Agency. Mr. Colby referred to recent agency directives baring any C.I.A. involvement in assassination plots and argued that public exposure of past actions would serve no useful purpose because United States policy now explicitly forbids such activity. Senator Church, who has pledged a full public disclosure of evidence pertaining to assassination, said he had no doubt that the tactic of assassination has been officially banned but added that “this is a matter that ought not to be left to executive directives.”
Caspar W. Weinberger, secretary of health, education and welfare, said there would be “nothing worse for America” than a federal, tax-financed health insurance program. Speaking at the National Federation of Independent Business convention in Washington, Weinberger said health insurance bills were strongly supported by organized labor and public health groups. “They would not bring us better health care,” he said, “but they would bring us more government and an extravagant health bill for the nation.” While acknowledging that millions have no health coverage, Weinberger said, “We should not throw our existing system out simply because there are some gaps and deficiencies in it.”
Two former Social Security Systems officials proposed sharp increases in Social Security taxes to keep the system solvent. The proposals came in testimony before the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security from Robert M. Ball, Social Security commissioner from 1962-73, and Robert J. Myers, former chief actuary. Ball suggested an increase only for middle and upper income wage earners ($16,500 and over in 1977) while Myers proposed an increase to be felt by all who pay the tax. The wage base is scheduled to rise from this year’s $14,100 to $16,500 next year, raising the maximum tax to $965.25. The tax is paid by both employee and employer.
The Senate refused to set an August 1 deadline for settling the dispute over last November’s Senate election in New Hampshire. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana said the Senate now would devote itself exclusively to the election contest between Republican Louis C. Wyman and Democrat John A. Durkin. Mansfield said the Senate would meet early each day, stay late, have Saturday sessions and bar all legislative and investigative committees from conducting hearings. Republican leaders turned down a series of Democrat proposals for fixing a time limit. The controversy over the election, the closest in Senate history, has become increasingly heated as both sides accuse the other of acting in bad faith.
President Ford has selected Howard Callaway as chairman of his 1976 election campaign. The designation of Mr. Callaway, who will resign his present post as Secretary of the Army, ends Mr. Ford’s search for a full-time campaign director with conservative credentials but only limited ties to the 1972 campaign of President Nixon.
The Ford Administration is seriously considering steps to permit production and sale of enriched uranium by private industry, a White House spokesman said. Currently the federal government by law controls all such enriched uranium production. The spokesman said legislation being considered by President Ford would “allow production through private enterprise rather than through the government, but with government supervision.” The spokesman also would not confirm a New York Times story that Mr. Ford already has decided to ask Congress for the legislation and he was unsure when any official announcement would be forthcoming on the proposed move. Under the plan, the three existing uranium production facilities would remain under government control.
Strip mining regulations will soon be issued by the federal government, according to Energy Administrator Frank Zarb. Last week the House failed to override a veto of a strip mining bill that the Ford Administration said would cost thousands of jobs over the next few years. “We have a responsibility now to take some initiative and put in strip mining regulation around the nation,” Zarb said. The regulations will be set by the Department of Interior, he said.”
The Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks said it had reached an impasse in contract negotiations with the nation’s railroads and expected to begin a nationwide strike at 12:01 Monday when it will be legally free to walk out. Union President C. L. Dennis said management had taken an “adamant and unbending position” in the talks, making it impossible to resolve the dispute. The union, representing about 117.000 workers, has refused to go along with a pattern agreement already signed by other rail unions representing 60% of the industry’s 500,000 employees.
The aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy was hit by eight fires within 16 hours last Sunday while tied up at a Norfolk Naval Air Station pier. Two of the fires were in storage compartments, two in “confined spaces,” and four in barrels, a strong indication of arson, the Norfolk Ledger-Star said it learned from “a well-placed source.” The Kennedy is preparing to leave next week for a six-week deployment with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean. Navy officials said an investigation was underway.
Old radios, used television sets, bottles of sake and Russian-made vodka and cartons labeled “Datsun parts” and “Honda parts” were dumped into New York’s East River to protest Japanese and Soviet whaling. The demonstration, organized by the Sierra Club, was to publicize a club campaign urging a boycott of Japanese and Russian products while whaling ships from those countries continue operating. Among uses for whales are pet food, shoe polish, soap and lubricants for Soviet missiles, a Sierra Club member said. She said there are synthetic substitutes for every product made from whales. Continued whale hunting may result in extinction of all whale species within 10 years, she said.
A spill of toxic sodium cyanide threatened to contaminate water supplies near Barstow, California after an undetermined amount of the liquid leaked from a mine storage tank. Water quality officials ordered a clean-up and roughly 200 tons of contaminated soil were hauled from the site of the abandoned mine.
The United States Air Force launched the Canyon 6 geostationary ELINT/SIGINT satellite.
The NBC Radio Network launched the NBC News and Information Service (NIS), and 24-hour all-news network over 33 of its stations. The unprofitable experiment would be ended on May 29, 1977.
Major League Baseball:
The Phillies downed the Cubs, 9–7, as Dick Allen of Philadelphia got four hits, including his 322d career homer for his best day of the season. Allen was on base when a pinch‐hit homer by Tommy Hutton in the ninth inning, broke a 7–7 tie. Allen’s home run was his 180th as a Phillie and tied him for fifth place on the club’s list with Willie Jones.
Johnny Bench doubled home two runs when a ball ricocheted off an umpire’s shoe, and Jack Billingham, an .074 hitter, singled in one run for the Reds, as they beat the Braves, 6–1. Bench, leading the major leagues with 57 runs batted in, hit a sharp grounder inside the third‐base bag in the third. The ball bounced off Lee Weyer’s shoe and rolled to left‐center for Bench’s 24th double of the season.
Ron Cey cracks a 1st inning grand slam and Bert Hooton allows just 3 hits in posting his third shutout of the year as the Dodgers beat Houston, 4–0. All of his victories have come since be joined the Dodgers from Chicago in a trade. Cey’s homer was his 10th. It followed a single by Bill Buckner and walks to Jimmy’ Wynn and Willie Crawford, all off Tom Griffin.
Derrel Thomas, Von Joshua and Chris Speier each collected three of the Giants’ 15 hits in an 8-1 victory over the Padres. Thomas doubled and scored in the first inning, batted in two runs with a single in the fourth and scored again after hitting a single in the sixth. Joshua hit three singles and Speier had a triple and two singles. John Montefusco held the Padres to eight hits, with singles by Bobby Tolan, Johnny Grubb and Enzo Hernandez producing their run in the third inning.
The Expos topped the Mets, 7–6, in ten innings Nate Colbert led off the frame with a double and scored on Pete Mackanin’s single to right-centerfield. Rusty Staub’s throw to the plate was a heartbeat too late to nail Colbert.
Ed Kirkpatrick had a four‐for-five night at bat and Bill Robinson drove in three runs in the Pirates’ 17‐hit attack as they thumped the Cardinals, 9–3. Jim Rooker, raising his record to 5–3, allowed only one earned run and struck out six. Kirkpatrick had two singles and a pair of doubles and scored one run.
Boston’s stellar rookie Fred Lynn drives in 10 runs with 3 home runs, a triple, and a single during a 15–1 drubbing of Detroit. Lynn’s 16 total bases ties an American League record. He is hitting .340 with 14 home runs. Lynn ripped Joe Coleman for a two‐run homer in the opening inning and then added a three‐run blast in the second. In the third, he hit a two‐run triple off Bob Reynolds. He beat out an infield single in the eighth, then capped his startling performance with a three‐run homer in the ninth off Tom Walker. Lynn finished with five hits in six plate appearances and raised his season runs batted in total to 50, tops in the American League. Behind Lynn’s personal assault, Luis Tiant, now with a 9–6 won‐lost record, allowed just three Detroit hits before Reggie Cleveland relieved in the seventh.
The Orioles crush the Indians, 13–6. Baltimore’s 19‐hit attack, its biggest of the season, led to the most runs by the Orioles in a game this year. Lee May, Tommy Davis and Paul Blair combined to drive in 10 runs.
Marty Pattin shuts out the California Angels, 13–0, while his Kansas City teammate Tony Solaita hits 2 home runs and scores 5 runs. Nolan Ryan (10–6) lasts just 2 innings in taking the loss. Hal McRae started a four‐run first inning with a run‐scoring single against Ryan. George Brett drove in three runs with a two‐run single and a sacrifice fly.
Joe Rudi connects for a pair of home runs, including a grand slam, as Oakland edges the host Twins, 7–6. Rollie Fingers earned his eighth save of the season. A walk to Bert Campaneris, an error and a walk to Reggie Jackson preceded Rudi’s fourth career grand slam and eighth homer of the season. Fingers preserved the triumph for Jim Todd, who had relieved Jim Perry in the fifth.
Fergie Jenkins wins his 8th as Texas routs the White Sox, 10–3. Tom Grieve doubled two runs across in a four‐run sixth. Roy Smalley’s 8th inning grand slam puts the game away.
The Brewers downed the Yankees, 5–3. Walt Williams hits a three-run homer for the Yankees in the fifth inning but the Yankees can manage nothing more. Sixto Lezcano added a bases‐empty homer to the Milwaukee margin in the seventh.
Philadelphia Phillies 9, Chicago Cubs 7
Atlanta Braves 1, Cincinnati Reds 6
Baltimore Orioles 13, Cleveland Indians 6
Boston Red Sox 15, Detroit Tigers 1
California Angels 0, Kansas City Royals 13
Houston Astros 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Oakland Athletics 7, Minnesota Twins 6
New York Mets 6, Montreal Expos 7
Milwaukee Brewers 5, New York Yankees 3
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 9
San Diego Padres 1, San Francisco Giants 8
Chicago White Sox 3, Texas Rangers 10
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 827.83 (-0.78, -0.09%)
Born:
Martin St. Louis, Canadian National Team and NHL right wing (Hockey Hall of Fame, inducted 2018; Olympics, gold medal, 2014; NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Lightning, 2004; NHL All-Star, 2003, 2004, 2007-2009, 2011; Calgary Flames, Tampa Bay Lightning, New York Rangers) and head coach (Montreal Canadiens), in Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Jeff Saturday, American football center (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 41-Colts, 2006; Pro Bowl, 2005-2007, 2009, 2010, 2012; Indianapolis Colts, Green Bay Packers) and sports analyst (ESPN), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Félix Heredia, Dominican MLB pitcher (World Series Champions-Marlins, 1997; Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees, New York Mets), in Barahona, Dominican Republic.
Marie Gillain, Belgian actress and model for Lancôme (Adrienne Chanel in “Coco Before Chanel”, Véro Arnel in “My Father the Hero”), in Liège, Belgium.
Died:
Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, 31, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king.
Hugo Bergmann, 91, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher.
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