Resumption of the strategic arms limitation talks in Geneva has been postponed two weeks, from Monday until July 2, at the Soviet Union’s request, the State Department said in Washington. At the Vladivostok summit meeting last November. President Ford and Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev agreed on broad outlines of a new SALT pact, leaving details to be worked out by specialists in Geneva.
Daniel P. Moynihan, preparing to take over as chief United States representative at the U.N. on July 1, says he wants to dispel a lingering suspicion among delegates that he is spoiling for a fight with third‐world countries for their bold attack on American policies. “The issue is not whether my coming reflects a tougher United States position at all,” he said in an interview. “We have an enormous range of common interests with the third world and this is where we must begin.” In his remarks, Mr. Moynihan seemed to back off a bit from his advocacy of a new American stategy of “raising hell” in the United Nations. Such a strategy was urged in an article published in Commentary magazine last March in which Mr. Moynihan said it was time for the United States to stop being defensive in its relations with the third world and to strike back with forceful argument.
After more than a week of deliberation, Portugal’s military rulers issued a declaration today in favor of democratic socialism and a pluralistic society, but it warned against any impeding of the revolution. The High Council of the Revolution indicated its alarm over the steadily deteriorating economic and political situation and stressed “the necessity for the reinforcement of a firm revolutionary authority by the armed forces.” But it rejected “violent or dictatorial means” to reach its goal of a classless society. Nothing was said that would resolve two major difficulties in the present crisis — the takeover by a group of Communist and other leftist printers of the Socialist-controlled newspaper Republica and a similar takeover of a Roman Catholic radio station in Lisbon.
A national rail strike in Britain was called off last night after union leaders had accepted a 30 percent pay rise from the state-run British Railways Board. The threat of a strike, to have started on Monday, hung over five hours of urgent economic discussions that Prime Minister Harold Wilson held with his Cabinet at Mr. Wilson’s official country residence at Chequers, outside London. The settlement of 27.5 percent more pay from April, to be followed by a 2.3 percent increase in August, relieved worries about the immediate disastrous economic effects of a strike. But it left the Government still tackling the major problem of effectively holding down wages to bring down the 25 percent rate of inflation without alienating the trade union movement.
Turkish opposition leader and ex-Premier Bulent Ecevit took refuge in a grocery store when police traded shots with some of his opponents during a political rally in the town of Gerede, the independent Hurriyet Haber news agency reported. Ecevit and his wife escaped unhurt but three people standing nearby were taken to a hospital with bullet wounds, the agency said. Ecevit later blamed the incident on what he called “the criminals and murderers” in the present government.
Grievances of an estimated 250,000 French Muslims are being studied by the French government following a 28-hour armed siege in St. Laurent Des-Arbres which ended without bloodshed. Four French Muslims, holding a refugee camp director hostage, had threatened to blow up the town hall if their demand for an inquiry into the plight of refugee Algerians who fought in the French colonial army was not met. The refugees, Harkis, settled in France when Algeria became independent in 1962, fearing reprisals by Algerian nationalists. The hostage was released and no charges were filed against his captors.
The Swiss Supreme Court today jailed an East German couple for seven years for spying. The prosecution had asked for eight years in prison for Hans‐Giinther Wolfe, 51, and seven years for his wife Gisela, 49. Both were found guilty of military, political and economic espionage, disclosing manufacturing and trade secrets, and forgery. The indictment said their tasks during six years in Switzerland included gathering of military information on West Germany and other members of the North Atlantic alliance.
A Danish court convicted Prime Minister Anker Joergensen of slander for publicly calling a right-wing magazine “fascist.” But the court decided there should be no fine because Joergensen had been provoked by the magazine labelling him “a criminal” and “a magazine’s labeling him “a disgrace to the nation,” a “criminal” and a “traitor.” The action was brought by Hans Hetler, editor of Minut. ultraconservative weekly magazine.
According to virtually every official one talks with in Damascus, the Syrian Government puts very little trust in Secretary of State Kissinger’s way of seeking a political settlement in the Middle East and is suspicious of President Anwar el‐Sadat of Egypt. The current visit to Washington of Deputy Premier Abdel Halim Khaddam, who is also Foreign Minister, is regarded without enthusiasm here. Officials see it merely as an opportunity for Syria to restate her familiar insistence on full withdrawal by Israel from occupied Arab lands and recognition of the national rights of the Palestinian people. Syrian officials have cooled to the idea, which they championed earlier this year, of an early resumption of the Geneva conference on the Middle East, according to diplomatic sources here. After consultations with Moscow, the Syrians apparently share the Soviet view that such a conference faces no prospect of success, and could lead to a dangerous impasse if there are no changes in the attitude of Israel and the United States on basic issues.
In the virtual surrender of Laotian non-Communists to the Pathet Lao following the Communist victories in Cambodia and South Vietnam, no element of the Vientiane, or rightist side collapsed more quickly and more completely than the armed forces that the United States had built, trained, paid, supplied and all but commanded. Although a semblance of two separate armies — the Royal Vientiane Army and the Pathet Lao — continues to exist, it is conceded from the American Embassy to the Pathet Lao that the only force remaining is the Communist-led Pathet Lao. Well-placed American sources agree ruefully that the flight last month of military leaders committed to the American view was the culmination of a process that began with the truce accord of 1973.
The United States today withdrew the last of its F‐111 fighter‐bombers from Thailand. A first group of 10 F‐4 Phantom fighter‐ bombers is scheduled to leave the Udon Thani air base in the northeast tomorrow. The last B‐52 bombers left Thailand earlier this month. The latest withdrawals leave about 300 United States Air Force planes in Thailand.
With only two weeks to go in its current session, Japan’s Parliament has so far failed to pass any of the major legislation promised by Premier Takeo Miki and has thus jeopardized his political standing.
Two women and a man were killed and 11 people were injured in a fire that destroyed five floors of the old seven-story Royal Olympic Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia. Two of the injured were in serious condition. The 63-year-old hotel is about a block from downtown Centennial Square in the popular tourist city in Canada.
American feminists, who have been unexpectedly restrained at the World Conference on Women in Mexico City, took a related meeting at the United States Embassy there to complain about the way they said the conference had ignored feminist issues. Carole De Saram, president of the New York Chapter of the National Organization for Women, said that “the true issues, the problems of women, are being forgotten here.” The emphasis instead, she said, was on economic issues and world peace rather than such women’s issues as equality with men, education and career choices. The election of a man as president of the conference also made the women angry.
Textile, steel, insurance and commercial workers in Buenos Aires announced new salary increases that in some cases amount to 140% above previous scales. At the same time the government allowed businesses to raise their prices for most products by more than 100%. A gallon of gasoline now costs $2 and a quart of wine 25 cents. One newspaper said that except for 27 controlled food items, the cost of living will have risen 100% in less than a month. Argentina’s annual inflation rate has been 80%.
The divided black liberation movements of Angola issued a communique indicating that they had reached an accord in principle on the country’s main problems and would cooperate to lead it to independence from Portuguese colonial rule next November. Previous agreements by three Angolan nationalist groups had broken down in violence, which eventually forced them together again in a reconciliation meeting in Kenya, called by President Jomo Kenyatta. The latest agreement was reached after six days of negotiations.
Ugandan President Idi Amin told two special emissaries of Queen Elizabeth in Kampala that he was prepared to reconsider the death sentence passed on British lecturer Dennis Hills for alleged treason for calling Amin a “village tyrant” in the unpublished text of a book. Hills was scheduled to be executed in public by a firing squad Monday morning.
U.S. Ambassador Deane R. Hinton left Zaire — two days after he was declared persona non grata by President Mobutu Sese Seko. His expulsion followed an abortive coup against Mobutu last week in which the Zaire government charged there was involvement by the Central Intelligence Agency. Sheldon B. Vance, U.S. ambassador to Zaire from 1969-74. and Walter L. Cutler, director of the State Department’s Office for Central African Affairs, are en route to Zaire to talk to Mobutu about the situation.
White American mercenaries are fighting in the Rhodesian army, according to a Rhodesian black nationalist leader who also says that the Americans are being recruited with State Department knowledge. A state Department official confirmed that the United States is checking to see whether any laws governing agents of foreign powers have been broken, but has done nothing to stop the recruiting so far. “About 60 Americans are there already fighting and many more are being actively recruited in the United States,” Tapson Mawere, chief representative in the United States of the Zimbabwe African National Union, said. Zimbabwe is the nationalist name for Rhodesia.
Despite a 2-1 majority in Congress, the Democrats cannot expect to achieve their legislative goals in the 18 months that remain in the 94th Congress, House Speaker Carl Albert conceded. Albert, Speaker of the House, conceded that with a Republican in the White House that the current Congress would be unable to enact “programs and policies that will return us to full employment, economic prosperity and durable social peace and progress.” In a letter to all committee chairmen in the House, Mr. Albert said: “Try as we might, and we shall cooperate as effectively as we can with the President, frankly we cannot expect to reach these goals during the 94th Congress.” He urged the chairmen to concentrate instead on developing broad policies that could be used as a basis for the Democratic platform in the 1976 election campaign and the party’s legislative program beginning in 1977.
Nine months after President Ford offered clemency to an estimated total of 120,000 draft resisters and military absentees of the Vietnam War he has acted on 165 applications and as of last week, only 11 men were working at “alternate service” jobs required as a condition of his pardon. While such statistics apply to only one of three components in the clemency procedure, they help reflect the program’s overall lack of appeal to those for whom it was intended.
The Pentagon has told a Senate subcommittee that American manufacturers of military equipment paid more than $200 million to sales agents in foreign countries over the last two and a half years. The Defense Department’s report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations is incomplete and tentative. However, it lists more than 20 companies and includes virtually every major American arms contractor doing business overseas. Government sources said the Pentagon had classified the document as “Confidential” and that the subcommittee was trying to have it declassified.
A Federal plan for a clothing stipend for the poor, modeled after the food stamp program, is being analyzed by the staff of the House Ways and Means Committee. The feasibility study was ordered early this month by committee member, Charles B. Rangel, Manhattan Democrat, after the proposal was presented to him by Wilbert A. Tatum, executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Apparel Industry Planning and Development.
“I’ve said facetiously that Louis Wyman will be on Medicare and I’ll qualify for food stamps before this thing is over,” John A. Durkin said the other day. “Now,” he added with a sigh, “it’s becoming less and less facetious.” “I feel embarrassed about tins,” Louis C. Wyman was saying. “I don’t want to tie the Senate up this way. But we’ve got to fight for due process.” Each day now, for more than a week, Mr. Durkin and Mr. Wyman have been allowed into the United States Senate to sit at separate tables at the back of the ornate chamber to watch in silence and frustration as the Senate seeks to determine which man was elected the junior Senator from New Hampshire more than seven months ago in the closest election in the Senate’s history.
The Federal Energy Administration announced that foreign subsidiaries of U.S. oil companies may have overcharged as much as $170 million for oil shipped to the United States during the Arab embargo. The FEA has given 10 days to several unidentified companies to respond to its calculations. Noting that the overcharges may not have been intentional, the agency said it has not charged any wrongdoing. However, if the overcharges are confirmed, the companies may be required to make refunds or roll back prices to the extent that they have passed through to the consumer, the FEA said.
The Federal Energy Research and Development Administration was voted $5.8 billion by the House for research projects over the next 15 months. At the same time the House refused to halt construction funds for the controversial Clinch River fast breeder nuclear reactor, scheduled to be built near Oak Ridge, Tennessee. A group of congressmen headed by Rep. Lawrence Coughlin. (R-Pennsylvania) tried but failed to shave $72.1 million from the reactor project, claiming present safety devices could not protect the local population from explosions.
In a three-way Presidential race, Governor George C. Wallace as a third party candidate would draw more votes away from President Ford than from Senator Edward M. Kennedy and would give the Senator the edge, according to the latest Gallup Poll.
Old people in the United States are growing in number and organization and are increasingly becoming a force that Congress, the administration and the federal establishment cannot ignore. The movement, which began with the push for Medicare in the 1960’s, has grown in earnest over the last four years. It has different groups and differing philosophies, but the National Association of Retired Persons (7.7 million members), the National Council of Senior Citizens (3 million members), the Gray Panthers and others have organized increasingly sophisticated lobbies.
An article by an investigative reporter for the Cox Newspapers’ Washington bureau said that Governor Carey of New York, during his last term in Congress, and Senator John Sparkman of Alabama, had put pressure on federal officials to approve oil export transactions that generated multimillion dollar profits last year for Mr. Carey’s brother, Edward, and for an old friend of Senator Sparkman. The article said that the intercession of the two Democrats had led to the issuance of three licenses by the Commerce Department to Bart Chamberlain, Mr. Sparkman’s friend, that made it possible for Mr. Chamberlain to circumvent federal price controls at the height of the Arab oil embargo.
Wiretapping of children’s telephone conversations to learn of drug activities was admitted by the police chief of four exclusive suburban villages near Houston, the Houston Post reported. The newspaper said Police Chief Joe Shultea had admitted providing equipment and help to parents in tapping about a half-dozen phones over a period of 12 years. The department serves the villages of Hedwig, Bunker Hill, Piney Point and Hunters Creek in west Houston. Shultea told the Post he had borrowed the equipment from the Houston Police Department.
Despite 90 deaths linked to Pam, a cooking spray, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission refused to ban the product. The commission cited jurisdictional grounds in rejecting a petition by the Pam Club of Churchville, New York, some of whose members are parents of children who were victims of intentional sniffing of the aerosol product. The commission said Pam came under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration, but promised to promote a nationwide campaign to educate the public to the dangers of aerosol misuse.
A “perfect” circular orbit 343 miles above earth was achieved by a huge telescope designed to study the sun and perhaps unravel some of the mystery of the “black holes” in space. The one-ton, $58 million Orbiting Solar Observatory 8, last of a series of space telescopes that first went into operation in 1962, began transmitting data within an hour after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launching had been scheduled for Friday but was delayed a day after an electrical malfunction was discovered.
The first drive-through restaurant service was inaugurated, as the McDonald’s in Sierra Vista, Arizona began allowing customers to place their orders at a microphone, then drive up to a window from which their food would be handed to them, without need for anyone to leave the vehicle.
Margaux Hemingway, 20, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, marries film producer Errol Wetson, 33.
British rock guitarist Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow.
Elton John, The Eagles and The Beach Boys play to 72,000 fans at Wembley Stadium, London.
The West Indies cricket team defeated Australia, 291 to 274, to win the first-ever Cricket World Cup, in a one day international (ODI) match played at Lord’s Cricket Ground at London, to win the tournament that had started on June 7 with eight teams. The West Indies team had five players from Guyana, three from Barbados, and two apiece from Barbados, Jamaica, the Leeward Islands and Trinidad & Tobago.
Ruffian leads all the way to win the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont and clinch American thoroughbred racing’s Triple Tiara for fillies.
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Steve Ontiveros hit his first homer of the season to provide the Giants’ deciding run in a 4–3 victory over the Braves. A triple by Derrel Thomas and single by Von Joshua gave the Giants their initial run in the third and Dave Rader doubled for two more tallies in the fourth before Dusty Baker homered for the Braves. After Ontiveros’ circuit clout in the sixth, Earl Williams whacked a two-run homer in the Braves’ half, but Randy Moffitt replaced Mike Caldwell and stifled the Braves on one hit over the last 3 ⅔ innings.
Bob Gibson, making his first start since May 31 after being taken out of the rotation by the Cardinals, was rapped for 11 hits in seven innings in a 6–1 loss to the Cubs. Jerry Morales jumped on Gibson for three straight hits, including a homer, and then made it a 4-for-4 night with a single off Mike Barlow in the ninth. Gibson at least saved the Cardinals from being shut out, driving in their only run off Rick Reuschel with a single in the fifth, scoring Ken Reitz, who beat out a grounder deep to Bill Madlock and took second on the third baseman’s wild throw.
Helping himself, Fred Norman singled in the 14th inning for his first hit of the season and scored the run that gave the Reds’ reliever a 7–6 victory over the Astros. The Reds built up a 4–0 lead before the Astros tied the score in the sixth with two runs on a single by Bob Watson and two on a homer by Cliff Johnson. The Reds went ahead in the 10th, 6–4, when Tony Perez homered and George Foster knocked in another run with a double, but the Astros once more rallied to gain a tie with a walk, double by Greg Gross, infield out by Cesar Cedeno and double by Watson. However in the 14th, the Astros could not come back after the Reds scored on Norman’s single, a double by Pete Rose and single by Ken Griffey.
After Bruce Kison yielded three runs without retiring a batter in the first inning, four relievers pitched scoreless ball the rest of the way to enable the Pirates to defeat the Mets, 7–3. Kison gave up a walk to Wayne Garrett, singles by Felix Millan and Del Unser, a bases-loaded pass to Rusty Staub and single by Ed Kranepool before being lifted. Dave Parker hit a pinch-homer with two men on base to tie the score in the seventh. The Pirates then broke the game apart with four runs after two were out in the ninth. Rennie Stennett singled, stole second and scored on a single by Manny Sanguillen. Al Oliver singled and Bob Robertson walked to load the bases. Richie Zisk drew a pass to force in Oliver. Bill Robinson followed with a single to plate the final pair.
Dennis Blair pitched the first seven innings and Don DeMola hurled the last two, combining on a seven-hitter as the Expos defeated the Phillies, 5–1. The Phillies counted their run in the first on doubles by Dave Cash and Greg Luzinski. The Expos had two hits, a triple by Larry Biittner and single by Gary Carter, in the first five frames, but they resulted in a pair of unearned runs off Jim Lonborg. The Expos then chased Lonborg in the seventh. After a walk to Bob Bailey and singles by Carter and Tim Foli resulted in one run, Tom Hilgendorf came in and gave up a double by Tony Scott for another run charged to Lonborg.
Steve Yeager, who homered earlier in the game, capped a two-run rally with a sacrifice fly in the eighth as the Dodgers beat the Padres, 4–3. The Padres, who did not leave a man on base, collected only three hits off Andy Messersmith, but they came together in the fifth inning to produce a 3–2 lead on a homer by Mike Ivie, single by Willie McCovey and homer by Bobby Tolan. The Dodgers scored the tying run in the eighth on a pass to Joe Ferguson with the bases loaded before Yeager hit his sacrifice fly for the winning marker.
Frank Tanana struck out 17 batters, setting an American League record for lefties, but two short of the major league record, while pitching the Angels to a 4–2 victory in the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, but the Rangers came back to win the second game, 6–5, getting their winning run on a homer by Tom Grieve in the ninth inning. The Angels, in the opener, scored all their runs in the third on singles by Dave Collins, Jerry Remy and Mickey Rivers and doubles by Leroy Stanton and Winston Llenas. Roy Smalley and Toby Harrah each had two of the Rangers’ nine singles. Smalley scored both their runs with Harrah accounting for the RBIs. Jim Umbarger, who was the loser, came back in relief in the nightcap and pitched two innings to gain credit for the Rangers’ victory. The Rangers’ two catchers, Jim Sundberg and Bill Fahey, were hit on their throwing hands by foul tips and were forced out of the game. Lenny Randle, who had not caught previously in his pro career, donned a mask and mitt and worked behind the plate for the last five innings of the game.
Jim Palmer, who was on the Orioles’ disabled list for two months last season and won only seven games while losing 12, continued his comeback pitching by shutting out the Red Sox, 3–0. The victory was the fifth straight for Palmer, bringing his current record to 12–3, and the shutout was his sixth. With two out in the first inning, the Orioles scored all their runs off Dick Pole on a walk to Al Bumbry, singles by Lee May, Don Baylor and Bobby Grich and an error by Rico Petrocelli.
Pat Dobson gained his eighth victory of the season with the Yankees and 100th of his major league career by defeating the Tigers, 4–1. Ed Brinkman, playing for the first time against his former Detroit teammates, singled to drive in the Yankees’ first run in the second inning. Dobson protected the slim lead in his duel with Mickey Lolich until the Yankees gave him more working room with a run in the seventh on a triple by Bobby Bonds and sacrifice fly by Chris Chambliss. Two more tallies in the eighth iced the decision before the Tigers avoided a shutout with an unearned run in the ninth.
After getting two-run homers by Bobby Darwin and Gorman Thomas in their early scoring, the Brewers erupted for five runs in the eighth inning to eke out an 11–9 victory over the Indians. Dennis Eckersley, who had won four straight decisions for the Indians, was kayoed in the seventh and drew his first major league defeat, but the Brewers did their damage in the eighth against Jackie Brown and Tom Buskey on three singles, a double by Darrell Porter, triple by Bill Sharp and an error. The Indians then fell short in their half, chasing both Tom Hausman and Eduardo Rodriguez before Bill Travers came in to stop the rally.
Dan Ford drove in three runs with a pair of homers and Steve Brye accounted for three with a single and double to supply the Twins’ chief punch in an 8–3 victory over the White Sox. Bill Campbell turned in the first complete game of his major league career for the Twins, who beat Jim Kaat for the first time after losing to the lefthander four times since shipping him to the White Sox in August, 1973.
Steve Busby pitched a five-hitter for his 10th victory and George Brett and Hal McRae rapped homers as the Royals defeated the Athletics. 4–1. The A’s counted their tally in the first inning on a double by Bert Campaneris and single by Claudell Washington, but Brett tied the score with his homer in the third. An error by Phil Garner led to a pair of unearned runs in the fourth before McRae completed the scoring with his homer in the seventh.
San Francisco Giants 4, Atlanta Braves 3
Boston Red Sox 0, Baltimore Orioles 3
Texas Rangers 2, California Angels 4
Texas Rangers 6, California Angels 5
Minnesota Twins 8, Chicago White Sox 3
Milwaukee Brewers 11, Cleveland Indians 9
New York Yankees 4, Detroit Tigers 1
Cincinnati Reds 7, Houston Astros 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 7, New York Mets 3
Kansas City Royals 4, Oakland Athletics 1
Montreal Expos 5, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, San Diego Padres 3
Chicago Cubs 6, St. Louis Cardinals 1
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Brian Simmons, NFL linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals, New Orleans Saints), in New Bern, North Carolina.
Andre Cooper, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos), in Camden, South Carolina.
Greg Bellisari, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Boynton Beach, Florida.
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