President Ford urged House members to follow the Senate’s example in lifting the four-month-old ban on U.S. arms shipments to Turkey. His appeal came three days after Ankara announced it was giving the United States 30 days to end the embargo or begin renegotiating terms for use of about two dozen U.S. bases on Turkish soil. Mr. Ford later discussed Greek-Turkish relations in a meeting with NATO Secretary General Joseph Luns and representatives of the 15-nation North Atlantic Council.
A Socialist-oriented newspaper and a Roman Catholic radio station in Lisbon remained under control of Communist-led workers as the ruling military council debated how much leeway to give workers in national affairs. After marathon sessions that began last Friday, the High Council of the Revolution, a military group led by President Francisco da Costa Gomes, was reportedly preparing to announce a decision today.
The Greek parliament elected Constantine Tsatsos, hand-picked candidate of Prime Minister Konstantine Karamanlis, as the first president of the Greek Republic. Tsatsos, 76, a former university professor and an elected deputy at large of the Greek parliament, received 210 of the 295 votes cast by members of parliament to become chief of state for a term of five years.
Don Juan de Borbon y Battenberg was banned from returning to Spain in response to his renewed claim to the Spanish throne, the news agency Europa Press reported in Madrid. Don Juan, styled the Count of Barcelona, has lived outside Lisbon for 29 years but has frequently made trips to Spain. The 62-year-old pretender has declared that he, and not his 37-year-old son Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon, should rightfully succeed General Francisco Franco as Spanish head of state.
Spain and the United States spoke of “progress” today in an interim communiqué on their effort to negotiate a renewal of a defense agreement involving American military bases in Spain. But diplomats said on conclusion of the sixth round of negotiations since last November that the two sides remained “far apart” on questions of substance relating to the bases. There has been relatively strong political opposition in Spain to full‐scale renewal of the mutual defense agreement, which was inaugurated in 1952.
The missing Earl of Lucan was named by a London coroner’s jury as the killer of his family’s nursemaid. It was the first such verdict ever handed down at an inquest in Britain in a murder case against a British peer. The jury said the children’s nanny, Sandra Rivett, 29, was beaten to death by the 40-year-old earl in the town house of his estranged wife, Lady Veronica Lucan, in London’s fashionable Belgravia district. Scotland Yard has warrants for the earl’s arrest but police have been unable to find him. There has been speculation that he fled abroad or committed suicide.
The thunderous series of appeals to Indian national feeling that the Congress party is making on behalf of its beleaguered leader, Indira Gandhi, came in fir a flood of opposition criticism today. Glorifying Indian achievements, decrying foreign threats, even denouncing uncomplimentary novels about India, the governing party has argued that true patriotism means support for Prime Minister Gandhi — although a legal showdown is approaching over her conviction on charges of electoral corruption. Today’s opposition outcry wes touched off by a Congress party meeting last night at which Mrs. Gandhi, who has been appealing to Indian patriotism as lustily as her party colleagues, was praised as the personification of the nation. “India is Indira and Indira is India,” one Congress leader cried. “Dangerous claptrap,” said The Hindustan Times, a perennial opponent of Mrs. Gandhi. “Fascist techniques,” said The Motherland, the newspaper of the opposition Jan Sangh party. And several opposition spokesmen charged that the appeals to nationalist emotions constiItuted an improper attempt to influence the Supreme Court.
The CIA station chief has left; the USAID compound is nearly deserted and under Pathet Lao control; the American encampment of Kilometer 6 has become a Pathet Lao military camp and the officers of Long Tieng air base have gone over to the Pathet Lao. In the special language of the American involvement in Laos, these incidental facts mean that the involvement, which began in the nineteen‐fifties, has ended in defeat. The station chief was the chief local representative of the Central Intelligence Agency. The agency directed, paid and supplied an irregular army made up of Laotian tribesmen and Thai volunteers that was the principal fighting force against the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese forces in Laos.
Pollster Louis Harris says a recent nationwide survey shows a 43-37 plurality favoring the use of troops, air and naval power to defend South Korea. But, Harris added, those polled were overwhelmingly opposed to defending “corrupt governments.” Harris also reported what he called a “surprising” increase in the number of people who do not believe all wars are “morally wrong.”
Secretary of State Kissinger was praised by Japanese officials today for his call yesterday for closer relations between the two countries and his pledge that the United States “will not turn away from Asia.” Officials said his speech, delivered in New York before the Japan Society, was well timed in view of Premier Takeo Miki’s projected trip to Washington in August. Mr. Kissinger appeared to have succeeded in assuaging Japanese irritation over such American moves as the 1971 approach to China without consultations with Japan. “We have learned from experience,” the Secretary said. “Those strains are behind us.”
The Canadian Government has expressed determination to continue supplying nuclear reactors to developing countries while pressing internationally for stronger safeguards against a spread of nuclear weapons. Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau said Tuesday in a speech at a meeting of the Canadian Nuclear Association, an industrial organization, that a withholding of nuclear technology from needy nations would be irresponsible.
Secretary General Waldheim of the United Nations opened the first major world conference on the status of women, in Mexico City, with the declaration that the equality of rights between men and women has become “a matter of vital necessity.” He said that women’s rights had too long been regarded as a “luxury” and called for a concerted world effort on behalf of women similar to one waged against racial discrimination.
Queen Elizabeth has sent a personal message to President Idi Amin of Uganda appealing to him to spare the life of a Briton there. The message was carried to Kampala today by two British army officers. The dispatch of the officers, under whom President Amin served as a sergeant when Britain was the colonial power in Uganda, was one of several demands made by the Uganda dictator as a condition for sparing Denis Hills, 61 years old, who faces a firing squad this weekend. Mr. Hills was found guilty of treason by a military tribunal for having written slightingly of the President in the manuscript of a book not yet published. The case against him had earlier been thrown out by a civil court.
British businessman Stanley Smolen, who was facing a possible death sentence in Uganda on a hoarding charge, has been acquitted, Radio Uganda reported. Smolen, 38, had pleaded innocent to hoarding cooking oil and soap, an offense that normally calls for a prison sentence. But President Idi Amin had warned that Smolen could face a firing squad if convicted. Amin congratulated Smolen after his acquittal, Radio Uganda said, and told him that it was now clear that Ugandan justice was fair.
Zaire has ordered the United States Ambassador, Deane R. Hinton, to leave the country by Saturday after allegations there that the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in a plot to overthrow the Government of President Mobutu Sese Seko, the State Department said today.
The leaders of Angola’s three feuding liberation movements have agreed to unite their armed forces in a single army, according to a communique issued in Nakuru, Kenya. The three leaders have been meeting to find a solution to factional bloodshed in the territory, which is scheduled to gain its independence from Portugal on November 11. Another decision announced was to set up an office that eventually will handle Angola’s foreign affairs.
The International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, often referred to as the CLC, came into effect by its terms, six years after its 1969 signing. The CLC provides that the sole liability for pollution damage, caused by an oil spill, lies with the owner of the ship, unless the shipowner can prove one of the exceptions (such as a spill caused by an act of war).
President Ford asked Congress to enact laws that would impose mandatory minimum sentences for certain violent or dangerous federal crimes and for certain multiple offenders, with a shift of emphasis from protecting the rights of criminals to insuring those of their victims. He presented Congress with a long list of criminal justice reforms that he said were urgently needed. Mr. Ford also said that, while he remained “unalterably opposed to federal registration of firearms, Congress should ban the domestic manufacture, assembly or sale — but not the possession — of handguns known as “Saturday night specials.”
Completing nine days of debate, the House pass a scaled-down energy tax bill — a bill that was once intended to be a major part of the congressional alternative to President Ford’s energy conservation program. Supporters and opponents of the bill agreed on one basic point: The bill is not likely to become law in the form in which it was passed by the House.
The House Commerce Committee narrowly approved today an oil pricing plan that would push back uncontrolled oil prices by several dollars a barrel and gradually free the oil that is controlled.
The Food and Drug Administration will propose new regulations to insure that different brand names of the same drug will all be equal in biological activity. There have been some cases in which important drugs have differed from brand to brand with potentially serious hazards for patients. The proposed regulations could also have important economic consequences in favor of consumers.
Five days before he was scheduled to testify before the U.S. Congress on organized crime, Sam Giancana, a former boss of Chicago mafia, was shot and killed while in the basement of his home in Oak Park, Illinois. The Chicago Police Department had had his home under surveillance that evening, but the two police drove away at 10:10 PM. At 10:30, the police heard a “popping noise” while listening, but didn’t believe it was gunshots. Giancana was found the next day, shot in the mouth and the neck, despite having been in a room with an armored door. The murderer, whom Giancana apparently knew well enough to open the door for, shot Giancana in the back of the head, then in the mouth and five more times under Giancana’s chin; leaving seven bullet wounds was considered a warning sign left by the Mafia for those persons who were felt to have betrayed the organization.
Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma said the press was trying to stir up trouble between him and freshmen Democrats who criticized the House leadership. Albert announced earlier after a two-hour private meeting with 30 of the 75 freshmen that whatever complaints they had had been cleared up “without rancor.” Albert afterward told reporters, “The press is trying to stir this up.” When Albert was asked if he had any one reporter in mind in his press criticism, he registered surprise. “No,” he said. “I’m not mad at anybody. Just drop it.”
William E. Colby, Director of Central Intelligence, said today that over the years foreigners had suggested assassinations to him and United States Government employes had discussed the possibility of assassinations with him, but that he had rejected the ideas every time. The 55‐year‐old head of the United States spy agency declined to name the suggested, or potential targets or the persons who had made the suggestions. Nor would he give the dates or locations of these conversations. Mr. Colby said that he opposed public disclosure of facts behind these or other alleged assassination schemes involving the CIA because “I think there is positive harm to the reputation of the country to go into great detail on these things.”
Hundreds of East Coast postal workers marched in front of the U.S. Postal Service headquarters in Washington in protest of what they called “stalling” by management in current contract negotiations. Union leaders said if a new agreement was not ratified by July 20 a nationwide strike was inevitable. Under law, postal employees are forbidden from striking but in 1970 they staged a wildcat walkout. The Postal Service said it felt negotiations with six unions representing the nation’s 600,000 postal workers appeared to be making satisfactory progress.
Radical feminist Susan E. Saxe formally pleaded guilty in Philadelphia to stealing a truck and ammunition from a National Guard Armory in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1970. Sentencing of Miss Saxe, a Brandeis University honors graduate and native of Albany, New York, was held up pending her trial in Boston on murder and bank robbery charges in the September 23, 1970, holdup of a Boston bank — three days after the arsenal robbery — in which $26,000 was taken and a Boston policeman was killed.
The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill which would nullify state fair trade laws and lead to retail price reductions totalling an estimated $1.5 billion a year. The Administration-backed measure would repeal a 1937 exemption to the antitrust laws that allows manufacturers and merchants to fix minimum selling prices on brand name merchandise.
Helmeted guards and highway patrolmen charged into the state Corrections Center for Women in Raleigh, North Carolina, when dissident inmates refused to return to their cells. The violence climaxed five days of protest and disturbance. An official said 14 inmates were injured, one seriously. Newsmen saw 17 inmates carried out of the prison gates on stretchers. The official said 11 guards were bruised, cut or burned in the incident. The move by authorities came after inmates refused an order to return to their dormitories. The protest began Sunday night against alleged poor medical and counseling services.
Bull Buck is challenging General Sherman for the title of largest tree in the world. A survey team will measure the two sequoias this fall to decide, the American Forestry Assn. said. The Buck — in California’s Sierra National Forest — has an 85-foot circumference at chest height, two feet more than the Sherman, at Sequoia National Park. However, the 272-foot Sherman is 14 feet taller — and has a slightly larger top. “There’s a lot of room for error in measuring these trees,” offered a spokesman for the Buck. “Even a minor error in measurement can make a big difference in something this big.”
A federal safety board urged a minimum one-year review of new Coast Guard regulations designed to guard against oil spills, saying the effectiveness of the rules “is not presently known.” The recommendation by the National Transportation Safety Board was issued in a report on the probable cause of a gasoline spill and fire that destroyed a tanker barge and threatened the entire Carteret, New Jersey, port area on October 25, 1972. The board ruled that the fire was ignited by an unknown source after an estimated 45,000 gallons of gasoline had overflowed from the barge tanks and spread across the water. It said the gasoline flow was not shut off until 10 minutes after the fire started.
An atomic blast at least 10 times larger than the one that leveled Hiroshima was detonated by the federal government 3,000 feet below the desert about 95 miles southeast of Las Vegas. A slight tremor from the weapons-related explosion was felt in Las Vegas. The test was the ninth announced nuclear detonation at the site this year, a federal spokesman said.
Evonne Goolagong of Australia, who is fourth seeded in women’s singles next week at Wimbledon, was married in a quiet ceremony yesterday to Roger Cawley, a 25-year-old English metal broker.
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Doubles by Dave Cash, Johnny Oates and Ollie Brown resulted in three runs in the 14th inning to give the Phillies a 6-3 victory over the Cubs. The Phillies struck for their first three runs in the sixth on singles by Oates and Greg Luzinski, a double by Dick Allen and single by Jay Johnstone. The Cubs, held to three hits over the first eight innings, tied the score against Larry Christenson in the ninth when Bill Madlock and Jerry Morales singled and Pete LaCock homered. The Phillies then got one hitless inning of relief by Gene Garber and four by Tug McGraw before breaking away against Darold Knowles, the Cubs’ third pitcher of the game, in the 14th. Cash and Oates hit consecutive doubles for the first run. After an intentional pass to Luzinski, Brown doubled to drive in Oates. Luzinski then scored on an infield out by Mike Anderson.
Observing his 26th birthday, Jerry Reuss pitched the Pirates to a 5-0 victory over the Cardinals. The Pirates backed their lefthander with homers by Bill Robinson, Willie Stargell and Dave Parker to account for all their runs.
A single by Gary Carter with the bases loaded and one out in the 13th inning brought the Expos a 3-2 victory over the Mets. Dave Kingman homered for the Mets in the fifth and their other run followed in the sixth on a double by Jerry Koosman and singles by Gene Clines and Felix Millan. Barry Foote homered in the Expos’ half of the sixth and the tying run counted in the eighth on a walk, wild pitch and double by Larry Parrish. In the 13th, a pass to Dale Murray, a sacrifice, intentional walk to Mike Jorgensen and single by Tony Scott loaded the bases to set the stage for Carter’s hit.
With help from Mike Marshall, who relieved in the eighth inning, Doug Rau gained his first victory since May 10 when the Dodgers defeated the Padres, 4-1. The Dodgers had 14 hits, including four apiece by Steve Garvey and Jim Wynn, but were leading only 2-1 when Rau was lifted with one out and the potential tying run on second. Marshall retired the last five batters in sucession. The Dodgers iced the verdict with their final two runs in the ninth.
Catfish Hunter retired the first 17 batters in succession before settling for an eight-hitter and gained his 10th victory as the Yankees defeated the Tigers, 9-2. Roy White led the Yankees’ attack, driving in five runs. The Yankees were held scoreless until they broke loose for four runs in the sixth inning, two crossing the plate on a single by White. Their other runs followed in the seventh and included a homer by White with two men on base and a solo swat by Graig Nettles. Tom Veryzer homered for the Tigers’ first hit off Hunter. Their other run counted on a double by Ron LeFlore and a pair of infield outs.
Sending 10 men to bat, the Rangers scored all their runs in the seventh inning to defeat the White Sox, 5-3. The White Sox racked up their tallies in the first on two walks, two singles and an error. Claude Osteen, who had throttled the Rangers on five hits over the first six innings, was removed with one out in the seventh after a single by Leo Cardenas, pass to Jim Sundberg and single by Cesar Tovar had produced the first Texas tally. Rich Gossage gave up a run-scoring single by Toby Harrah and struck out Jim Spencer, but Tom Grieve doubled to drive in two runs, sending the Rangers ahead. After an intentional pass to Mike Hargrove, Lenny Randle singled for the final marker.
The Athletics, stymied by Jim Hughes after scoring two runs in the first inning, caught up with the rookie righthander in the 10th and defeated the Twins, 5-2. Phil Garner singled with one out in the overtime stanza and took third on a single by Claudell Washington. Hughes uncorked a wild pitch while facing Reggie Jackson, allowing Garner to score. And when catcher Glenn Borgmann made a wild throw after retrieving the ball, Washington also crossed the plate. Then, after retiring Jackson, Hughes was rapped for a homer by Joe Rudi.
Philadelphia Phillies 6, Chicago Cubs 3
New York Yankees 9, Detroit Tigers 2
Oakland Athletics 5, Minnesota Twins 2
New York Mets 2, Montreal Expos 3
St. Louis Cardinals 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, San Diego Padres 1
Chicago White Sox 3, Texas Rangers 5
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 845.35 (+17.52, +2.12%)
Born:
Hugh Dancy, British actor (“Hannibal”, “Confessions of a Shopaholic”), in Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom.
Brandon Mitchell, NFL defensive end and defensive tackle (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 36-Patriots, 2001; New England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks), in Abbeville, Louisiana.
Anthony Parker, NBA shooting guard and small forward (Philadelphia 76ers, Orlando Magic, Toronto Raptors, Cleveland Cavaliers), in Naperville, Illinois.
Willis Roberts, Dominican MLB pitcher (Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Pirates), in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic.
Died:
Sam Giancana, 67, American mobster and boss of the Chicago Outfit (1957-1966), dies of multiple gunshot wounds.
Henry Nelson Wieman, 90, American Christian philosopher and theologian.
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