The United States and the Soviet Union have postponed the resumption of the talks on limitation of strategic arms in Geneva until July 2, the State Department announced today. The talks were originally to have resumed June 2, and then were postponed three weeks to allow the two sides to work out a disagreement over the categories of nuclear weapons to be controlled. United States officials did not give a reason for the secand postponement, but they said it was at the request of the Soviet Union. The talks adjourned on May 7 to allow time for consultations. Secretary of State Kissinger met Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko of the Soviet Union in Vienna on May 19 and 20.
Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, in a review of recent Soviet missile developments at a Pentagon news conference, said that the Soviet Union in the last six months had deployed 60 intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with multiple independently targetable warheads. He said last January 15 that the Soviet Union had begun deploying two new intercontinental missiles, presumably armed with warheads. At the news conference he said that he did not regard the deployment as especially surprising or alarming.
Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s press secretary has ended a 30‐year tradition of daily “background” press briefings for British correspondents who cover Parliament. While hardly a major announcement in view of Britain’s broader problems, the decision has given both sides—press and Government—the opportunity to ventilate feelings in language that any American who followed press relations during the Johnson and Nixon Administrations would readily understand. The actual announcement was made late yesterday by Joseph Haines, the Prime Minister’s press secretary. In a note to so‐called “lobby” correspondents — reporters who gather daily in Parliament to receive off‐the‐record or otherwise unattributable information from Mr. Haines — he said the briefings would be discontinued.
The Government put seven Basques on trial before a military court today on charges of stealing 2–5 tons of dynamite. Meantime, legal sources reported more political arrests. The detained included Ramon Tamames, an economist, and 30 young workers in the Pyrenees town of Huesca who are suspected of being members of a clandestine revolutionary group, the sources said. The Basques went on trial behind closed doors in Burgos. They are alleged to be members of the Basque separatist organization. The prosecution asked that they be sentenced to 30 years for their participation in the theft of the explosives from a quarry.
The Jewish Agency for Israel, which receives and administers funds raised abroad on behalf of Israel, has come under criticism here for its annual contributions to Israel’s right‐wing political parties and affiliated social institutions. Most of these contributions, which last year totaled $3.5‐million, go to the National Religious party and to the Likud, the right‐wing, Opposition bloc, and to social welfare projects administered by them. The contributions, which have been standard practice since before the creation of Israel in 1948, were denounced here this week as illegal and immoral by several of the smaller, reform parties that do not share in the disbursements.
Iranians voted today in the first National Assembly elections to be held under the new one‐party system introduced earlier this year by the Shah. With only one set of candidates, the only way to express disapproval was to abstain from registering or from voting. The government said that about 70 percent of these eligible had registered last month, twice the registration for previous elections. Those who have registered include 5,834,666 who can vote for both the Senate and the lower house, or Majlis, and 970,985 who can vote for the Majlis only. The minimum voting age is 25 for both houses and 18 for the Majlis only.
A vast throng of supporters, officially estimated at a million, cheered Prime Minister Indira Gandhi today as she promised to strive for “the removal of poverty” in India. Accusing the opposition of not helping to ease India’s economic woes, Mrs. Gandhi pledged further efforts toward “economic justice” and appealed to farmers and factory workers to do their work well. The Congress party rally was the largest gathering here in recent memory, according to Information Minister I. K. Gujral, It was, he said, “proof of how people are rallying round” the Prime Minister as she approaches a showdown over her conviction on charges of electoral corruption. The rally was called, Mr. Gujral said, to counter efforts by opposition parties to make political capital out of Mrs. Gandhi’s legal troubles.
North and South Vietnam have told Secretary General Waldheim that they intend to apply for United Nations membership as separate delegations within the next few months, according to an informed source here. Representatives of both nations met with Mr. Waldheim yesterday for 45 minutes and told him that their applications for membership were imminent; he source said. The Vietnamese said that they wanted to become members in time for next fall’s sessions of the General Assembly, according to the source. Two representatives of North Vietnam and one of South Vietnam met privately with Mr. Waldheim. Besides discussing procedures for membership application, they also asked the Secretary General for more humanitarian aid for both countries from the United Nations and international relief organizations, the source said. The source added that North and South Vietnam intended to apply for membership as separate countries.
The peaceful take‐over of Laos by the Pathet Lao, completed in the northern bulk of this frying pan‐shaped country, is being wound up in the southern panhandle. According to reports reaching here from Pakse, the largest southern town, a large number of high and middle‐ranking officials have been removed from office when small groups of employes — supported by Pathet Lao policemen and troops and well‐organized groups of high school students — have denounced them as “reactionaries” and “lackeys of the imperialists.” The officials are reportedly undergoing what the Pathet Lao has termed “re‐education.” Earlier this week, Brigadier General Souchay Vongsavan, a moderate officer of the royal armed forces who had been accepted as regional commander of the south, fled to Thailand. He had told friends that he considered the situation hopeless after believing earlier that the Pathet Lao intended to leave some real content in the joint rightist‐Pathet Lao rule.
The chief United States delegate to the World Conference on Women today disputed the view of third world leaders that a redistribution of the world’s wealth and power was a prerequisite in the quest for female equality with males. Patricia Hutar, the United States delegate, said that women must participate as partners with men for social and economic betterment rather than wait for the world’s male‐dominated leadership to accomplish such improvement first. “Women cannot wait with arms folded for men to achieve a new order before women can achieve equality,” she said. “On the contrary, women must continue their “work already begun to achieve a truly equal partnership. Women must be in decision making positions in the power, structure along with men to build a more just world order.” Her statement was contrary to the position expressed at yesterday’s opening session by President Luis Echeverrfa Alvarez of Mexico, who said that economic imbalances between rich and poor countries must be corrected first. Their contrasting views represented a basic division between delegates of industrialized and underdeveloped nations, who are attempting here to write a 10‐year plan to improve the status of women worldwide.
Jorge Born, the son of the Argentine multinational corporation Bunge y Born, was released unharmed after the company paid a then-record $64,000,000 to the Montoneros, the terrorist organization that had kidnapped him and his brother on September 19, 1974. Juan had been released in April “for health reasons.” The Montoneros group would be wiped out by the Argentine government by 1977 in the Dirty War.
As the flight of whites from the troubled territory of Angola continues, about 3,500 Portuguese are preparing to drive 2,000 trucks and 500 cars from here to Lisbon next month. About 80,000 whites have already fled from Angola since the coup in Portugal on April 25, 1974, set the stage for the independence of Portugal’s overseas holdings. The planned movement next month of trucks and cars through eight African and two European countries was the only choice left, according to Guilherme dos Santos, a trucking company operator. Mr. dos Santos said the Portuguese planning the trip with him feared for their lives as a result of armed clashes between three African guerrilla movements that are to take over the territory of 6.5 million people in November.
President Idi Amin of Uganda today postponed the executive of Denis Hills, a Briton, but insisted that only a personal visit by Foreign Secre tary James Callaghan of Britain could save Mr. Hills. Within hours of the arrival of a British representative carrying an appeal for clemency from the Queen. General Amin announced that Mr. Hills, a 61‐year‐old lecturer, would be shot Monday—two days later than originally planned. General Amin then took off by helicopter for northern Uganda to preside over celebrations marking African Refugee Day leaving the Queen’s representative to be welcomed by military officials with a guard of honor and an army band. The representative is Sir Chandos Blair, a lieutenant general who served in the King’s African Rifles in Uganda before Uganda’s independence from Britain in 1962. General Amin was a sergeant under his command.
Former California Governor Ronald Reagan filed papers with the Federal Election Commission, declaring his intention to run for President of the United States in a challenge against incumbent Gerald Ford for the Republican Party nomination. Reagan would lose to Ford at the 1976 convention, but would win the party’s nomination, and the presidency, in 1980.
The Labor Department said that inflation, as measured by consumer prices, continued to moderate in May. Despite a big jump in beef prices and higher gasoline prices, the Consumer Price Index in May rose by only four-tenths of 1 percent, both before and after adjustment for normal seasonal changes in some prices.
Dr. Dixy Lee Ray has resigned as the State Department’s senior science official, charging that Secretary of State Kissinger and other high officials with deliberately not consulting her office on key policy matters. It was the first time in Mr. Kissinger’s 21‐month tenure as Secretary that a senior official had quit and made complaints public. Dr. Ray, the former head of the Atomic Energy Commission, has been well known in Washington for speaking her mind and after sending her letter of resignation to Mr. Kissinger, she was, as usual, outspoken in an interview. Dr. Ray’s irritation seemed directed primarily at being excluded from important policy matters dealing with scientific subjects such as research and development of new energy sources, something she said had been taken over by the department’s Office for Economic and Business Affairs with Mr. Kissinger’s approval.
President Ford received today a report from a Federal commission urging the establishment of a new national court of appeals, but he did not endorse the controversial reform proposal.
Sam Giancana, the Chicago gangster who was said to have been a key participant in a Central Intelligence Agency plot to assassinate Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba, was shot to death last night in his home in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb. An official of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the murder was “a professional hit,” and that friction between Mr. Giancana and other Chicago gangsters may have been the reason for the killing. Shortly after 11 PM the Chicago gangster’s 81‐year‐old caretaker found his body on the floor of a small basement kitchen. The police said that Mr. Giancana had been shot seven times in the head and neck with a .22‐caliber pistol.
Senator John G. Tower, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said today that committee staff members had “located” Chicago rackets chief Sam Giancana shortly before Mr. Giancans was murdered yesterday. According to a committee staff member, Mr. Giancana had been “located” but not interviewed before he was killed in his home in Oak Park, Illinois. Meanwhile, the committee chairman, Senator Frank Church, Democrat of Idaho, told reporters at a news conference in Idaho that there was “no credence” to any notion that the Central Intelligence Agency might have profited from Mr.” Giancana’s death. Mr., Church said that the committee had planned to call Mr. Giancana as a witness, but that it already had the facts on alleged plots gainst Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba from “other sources.”
CBS News said last night that Vice President Rockefeller and Secretary of State Kissinger favored the dismissal of William E. Colby, the director of Central Intelligence. The Associated Press reported that the network, had quoted a high official in the Ford Administration as having said that Mr. Rockefeller regarded Mr. Colby as “a weak person who lacks strength of character” and that he should not be in a major government office. CBS reported that the official, who was not identified, had said that Mr. Colby went before the Senate committee investigating the Central Intelligence Agency “with the idea; “Tell me what you want me to tell you about the CIA and I’ll say it.”
The Mayor of Los Angeles, a member of Congress, a former ambassador to Britain, a former United States Attorney General, the American Legion and the American Civil Liberties Union are listed in what appeared to be part of a master index of persons and organizations that were under scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service. The list was made public by the House Government Operations Subcommittee, which is looking into improper enforcement activities of the I.R.S.
The Democratic Forum, an issue‐oriented roundtable of party activists here, today anflounced a mass meeting in Louisville next November to talk about the 1976 Democratic platform. Three established leaders of the party will serve as co-chairmen of the conference: Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas; Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, and Senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan. “The Presidential campaign seems to be starting out without the issues being clearly‐defined,” said G. Keith Haller, a spokesman for the two‐year‐old forum, at a news conference this morning. “We are going to try to reach a consensus on some thing,” Miss Jordan said. “And we’ll know what that something is as time goes on.
The dedication of what is believed to be the first monument in the United States honoring achievement of Soviet citizens took place in Vancouver, Washington, on the 38th anniversary of the unplanned landing there of three Russian fliers completing the world’s first airplane flight from Europe to North America over the North Pole, a journey of 5,288 miles. Two of the fliers, Georgi Baidukov, 69 years old, and Aleksandr Belyakov, 78, attended the ceremony. The son of the late Valery Chkalov, the chief pilot, also was present.
The House passed a bill today authorizing $272-million for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the next 15 months but prohibiting air transport of plutonium unless crash-proof containers are used.
James Ruppert’s lawyer said today that the 41-year-old bachelor murdered 11 of his relatives on Easter Sunday because he had been “medically and legally insane” for 10 years.
Underwater photographs, purporting to be of the Loch Ness Monster, were taken by an automatic high-speed camera triggered by a sonar. Some of the photos, the result of a project by Robert H. Rines, Charles Wyckoff, and the Academy of Applied Science. The existence of the photos would be announced later in the year and the journal Nature would purchase and publish the photos in December.
The first of two Viking spacecraft, designed to land on Mars next year and search for chemical traces of life under a $1-billion Federal program, emerged virtually unscathed from a sterilizing oven at Cape Canaveral, Florida, James Martin, the Viking project manage, said yesterday.
An El Greco painting stolen nearly 40 years ago from a mansion in Madrid was returned yesterday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to its Spanish owners, two elderly sisters named Carmen and Manuela de Sedgas.
“Jaws,” an action film about a white shark terrorizing a resort island, based on the book by Peter Benchley, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Roy Scheider, premiered nationwide. Within two weeks, the film would recoup its costs, and by September 5, it would surpass The Godfather as the highest-grossing film in history (until surpassed by Star Wars in 1977).
Shirley Babashoff swam to a world record in the 400-meter women’s freestyle event today, the third day of the world championship swimming trials at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool in Long Beach, California.
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A clutch relief performance by Tom House, who took over with the bases loaded and none out in the seventh inning, enabled the Braves to defeat the Giants, 4–2. With Dave May hitting a homer, the Braves took a 3–0 lead before the Giants rapped Phil Niekro for four straight singles, two runs crossing the plate on a hit by Dave Rader. Elias Sosa relieved and passed Glenn Adams. House then appeared and retired the next three batters without a run scoring.
Lou Brock, who sat out the previous night’s game for rest, returned to action with renewed vigor and rapped three doubles and a single to lead the Cardinals to an 8–3 victory over the Cubs. Brock scored three runs and drove in two. The Cardinals’ 11-hit attack also included a homer and double by Ted Simmons, triples by Bob Forsch and Reggie Smith and a double by Willie Davis. Jerry Morales and Pete LaCock hit homers for the Cubs.
Sparked by Pete Rose, who led off with a triple, the Reds exploded for six runs in the fifth inning, capping their outburst with a three-run homer by Cesar Geronimo, to defeat the Astros, 7–3. Rose scored the first run of the inning on a single by Ken Griffey. Joe Morgan and Johnny Bench walked to load the bases and Tony Perez batted in two runs with a single before Geronimo hit his homer. Tom Carroll, who had been recalled from Indianapolis (American Association), went 6 ⅓ innings to register his first victory of the year with the Reds.
Brooklyn-born John Candelaria, making his first pro appearance in New York, allowed only four hits and pitched the Pirates to a 5–1 victory over the Mets. The rookie lefthander was matched against Tom Seaver, who was stopped on his 28-inning scoreless streak when Willie Stargell homered in the seventh. The Mets tied the score in the eighth. John Stearns and Jesus Alou singled, Stearns taking third and crossing the plate on a sacrifice fly by Jack Heidemann, who batted for Seaver. The Pirates then brought Candelaria his first major league victory by breaking loose against reliever Tom Hall for four runs in the ninth. Singles by Stargell, Dave Parker and Richie Zisk sent pinch-runner Art Howe home with the tie-breaking tally. Manny Sanguillen walked to load the bases and, after the next two batters struck out, Rennie Stennett cleared the sacks with a triple.
A four-run rally in the eighth inning brought the Phillies a 7–4 victory over the Expos. Greg Luzinski homered for the Phillies with two men on base in the first, but the Expos eventually went ahead when Pete Mackanin homered for the leading run in the sixth. The Phillies opened the eighth with a single by Jay Johnstone and safe bunt by Mike Schmidt. After a sacrifice by Tony Taylor, Mike Rogodzinski delivered a pinch-single, scoring Jerry Martin, who ran for Johnstone. Schmidt crossed the plate when Ollie Brown was safe on an error. After an intentional pass to Dave Cash loaded the bases, the last two runs were forced home when Luzinski was hit by a pitch and Dick Allen walked.
Cheered on by 35 family members and friends among the crowd for the game, Brent Strom, who is a native and resident of San Diego, pitched the Padres to a 2–1 victory over the Dodgers in a duel with Don Sutton. Strom had lost one previous start since being called up from Hawaii (Pacific Coast), but the lefthander this time yielded only four hits, with the Dodgers’ run coming on a homer by Steve Garvey in the second inning. Sutton also gave up only four hits, but Willie McCovey tied the score with a circuit clout in the fourth and the Padres put over the winning run in the sixth on a pass to Gene Locklear, sacrifice by Mike Ivie and single by Tito Fuentes.
In a slugfest in Anaheim, the Angels and Rangers combine for 37 hits as the Angels emerge with a 12–11 victory in 11 innings. Mike Cubbage slugs a grand slam in the 1st as Texas jumps to a 6–0 lead, only to see the Haloes come back to tie it at 8 apiece. In overtime, Tom Grieve hits a 2-run homer in the top of the 11th as Texas scores 3. but California answers with 4 runs to win. Dave Collins has 5 hits for the Angels. Ironically, an error by Cubbage enabled the Angels to score their winning run. The Rangers broke an 8–8 tie in the 11th with three unearned runs, two coming on a homer by Tom Grieve. In the Angels’ counter-rally, John Doherty and Morris Nettles led off with doubles for the first run. Dave Chalk walked and, with two out, Rudy Meoli singled to drive in Nettles. Dave Collins singled for his fifth hit of the game, scoring Chalk with the tying run. Jerry Remy then hit a slow roller to Cubbage, who bobbled the ball, allowing Meoli to count the winning run.
A sacrifice fly by Rick Burleson in the 12th inning carried the Red Sox past the Orioles, 4–3, for their sixth straight victory. A pair of run-scoring singles by Bobby Grich gave the Orioles a 2–0 lead before the Red Sox rallied for three runs in the ninth on a walk to Burleson and singles by Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice, Rick Miller and Rico Petrocelli. The Orioles came back to tie the score in their half of the ninth with a pinch-double by Jim Northrup. However in the 12th frame, Miller walked, took third on a single by Juan Beniquez and then scored the winning run on Burleson’s sacrifice fly.
Bobby Darwin smashed his first homer since coming over from the Twins and Jim Slaton pitched a six-hitter as the Brewers defeated the Indians, 6–0. Darwin’s circuit clout followed a double by George Scott in the first inning. The ex-Twin also drove in a run with a double in the fifth and capped his night with a single in the seventh. The Brewers’ other scoring included a homer by Gorman Thomas.
The Tigers erupted for seven runs in the first inning and added three more on a homer by Mickey Stanley in the seventh to stand off the Yankees, 10–9. The Tigers collected seven hits in their opening explosion, including a two-run double by John Wockenfuss. Stanley’s decisive smash in the seventh followed a double by Dan Meyer and pass to Willie Horton. The Yankees, who had a two-run homer by Graig Nettles, trailed, 10–3, going into the ninth when they rallied for six runs, starting with a circuit clout by Bobby Bonds. Nettles drove in two runs with a double.
A three-run homer by Steve Brye in the first inning started the Twins off to a 5–3 victory over the White Sox. Dave Hamilton, making his first start for the White Sox since being obtained from the Athletics, walked Dan Ford and Eric Soderholm before being tagged for Brye’s homer. A pass to Johnny Briggs, an infield out, single by Glenn Borgmann and sacrifice fly by Tom Kelly added a run in the sixth. The Twins posted their final tally in the ninth when Soderholm doubled and Briggs singled. White Sox scoring included a homer by Ken Henderson.
Stan Bahnsen, making his first start for the Athletics since being obtained from the White Sox, allowed only five hits in 7 ⅓ innings and received credit for a 3–1 victory over the Royals. Reggie Jackson knocked in two runs for the A’s in the first inning after Bill North walked and Claudell Washington was safe on an error. Washington accounted for the other tally with a homer in the fifth. The Royals’ lone run scored in the seventh when Hal McRae doubled and Jim Wohlford singled.
San Francisco Giants 2, Atlanta Braves 4
Boston Red Sox 4, Baltimore Orioles 3
Texas Rangers 11, California Angels 12
Minnesota Twins 5, Chicago White Sox 3
Milwaukee Brewers 6, Cleveland Indians 0
New York Yankees 9, Detroit Tigers 10
Cincinnati Reds 7, Houston Astros 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, New York Mets 1
Kansas City Royals 1, Oakland Athletics 3
Montreal Expos 4, Philadelphia Phillies 7
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, San Diego Padres 2
Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis Cardinals 8
The stock market, responding to signs of slackening inflation, advanced today in much heavier trading.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 855.44 (+10.09, +1.19%)
Born:
Rashaan Shehee, NFL running back (Kansas City Chiefs), in Los Angeles, California.
Blake Spence, NFL tight end (New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Garden Grove, California.
Died:
Michel Aikpé, Interior Minister of Dahomey (now Benin), was shot and killed at his home by the bodyguard of Dahomey’s president, Mathieu Kerekou. President Kerekou had been outraged after finding Minister Aikpe in bed with Mrs. Kerekou. A new Interior Minister was appointed on Monday.
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