With major gains in regional elections held a week ago, Italy’s Communist party today outlined its proposals for bringing about “the necessary, economic, social and political changes,” in a 2,000-word statement carried on the front page of the party newspaper L’Unita. The statement avoided specifics, but its scope indicated that the Communists, who won 32.4 percent of the vote in the elections, will expect to be consulted on matters at the national as well as the local level.
The prospect of a complete split between church and state in Portugal came a step closer when Catholic bishops branded last week’s siege of Catholics in a church palace an attack against fundamental liberties. Meanwhile, the editorial staff of the embattled Socialist newspaper Republica issued an underground edition amid reports that a military team would take over management of the paper.
Terrorists of the Ulster Volunteer Force try to derail a train by planting a bomb on the railway line near County Kildare, Ireland; a civilian who tries to stop them is stabbed-to-death (his actions delay the explosion to let the train pass safely). Two Protestants were shot dead from a passing car and a 15-year-old boy was seriously wounded in a crowded north Belfast street. The action came after the death of three Roman Catholics. One, Christopher Whelen, 48, was found stabbed to death on the side of the railway track at Sallins, and police said he was killed by men who planned to blow up a train packed with supporters of the Irish Republican Army.
Two children of a wealthy industrialist were found unharmed today 24 hours after they were kidnaped from their parents’ villa in a resort near Ostend, Belgium. Four bandits, believed to be Italian, broke into the home of Pierre Bonnet at the plush seaside resort of Knokke-Le Zoute, stole money and jewels and fled in two cars with 6-year-old Hubert and 3-year-old Ingrid Bonnet.
Former Turkish Premier Bulent Ecevit charged the rightist coalition regime with “masterminding” a mob attack on him during a weekend rally at Gerede, 120 miles northwest of Ankara. Political observers predicted the incident would lead to a polarization of Turkey’s leftist camp, guided by Ecevit’s Republican People’s Party, and the ruling coalition.
The $2‐billion deal in which four Western European countries agreed two weeks ago to purchase American‐designed F‐16 fighter planes is having a strong impact on other branches of the international weapons industry, business and government officials report. An example is what has happened in Sweden’s 25‐year‐old military aviation industry, which has subsisted mostly on government contracts. Swedish officials had hoped as late as early June to sell 58 of their new Viggen jet fighters to Denmark for about $435‐million. Instead, Denmark joined Belgium, Norway and the Netherlands in an arrangement to purchase 348 of the General Dynamics F‐16. The impact of the F‐16 sale on France’s Dassault Mirage output has yet to be measured. The Mirage F‐1 was in hot competition with the F‐16 for more than a year in Western European markets.
Newsweek magazine quoted Egyptian intelligence officials as saying Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi offered Palestinian guerrilla leader George Habash $16 million to assassinate Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Officials were quoted as saying Habash accepted. The magazine did not say when the offer was made or what happened to the plan.
Soviet and Palestinian leaders opened talks in Damascus today aimed at consolidating ties between them, the Palestinian press agency Wafa reported. The Palestine Liberation Organization delegation was led by Yasir Arafat, chairman of the organization. The Soviet team was led by Boris N. Ponomarev, a member of the Soviet Communist party secretariat. No details were immediately available.
Algeria’s top delegate, Abdellatif Rahal, says that Secretary of State Kissinger has made a welcome gesture toward the third world countries by agreeing recently to consider measures to stabilize prices of raw materials. “There is forward movement,” he declared. “I can say more, there is movement toward a genuine dialogue between the United States and other industrialized countries and those like us.” Algeria was the principal initiator of the special General Assembly held here last year, which evoked a confrontation between rich and poor countries over the third world’s terms for establishing what its members call a new international economic order. The Algerians have been among the harshest critics here of American policy.
Motorists stare at the great pink and cream Supreme Court building with its five domes, where Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer will hear appeals tomorrow of a lower court ruling that found Prime Minister Indira Gandhi guilty of two counts of election corruption. The appeal will shift to the Supreme Court the focus of the 11‐day‐old political and legal crisis that has brought from Indians many reaffirmations of respect for their powerful judicial system. Mrs. Gandhi, in one of her many speeches last week, paused to observe proudly, “You know that my family has had long association with the judiciary.” The independence of the Indian courts, which were built up during the two centuries of British rule here, was underscored dramatically on June 12 when a judge of the High Court in Allahabad, Mrs. Gandhi’s home town, found her guilty of two charges of electoral corruption. The judge also ruled that Mrs. Gandhi was not entitled to a seat in Parliament, which is a precondition to her remaining Prime Minister. However, even without a seat in Parliament, she would be allowed under India’s Constitution to remain in office for six months on the assumption that she might be re‐elected within that period.
The border region of southern Thailand and northern Malaysia has been described by a Thai border official as Thailand’s “wild west,” where outlaws roam and lynch law prevails. Officials are trying, as they have been for 20 years, to vanquish Communist terrorists from Malaysia, Thai Communists, Muslim separatists and roving bandits. Killings and kidnappings are frequent.
North Korea responded to U.S. statements that tactical nuclear weapons are deployed in South Korea, and to hints that the United States might use them, by calling Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger a “notorious war maniac” and President Ford “the villainous boss of war.” Pyongyang’s official news agency declared that “the powder-reeking, nuclear-trumpeting of the U.S. imperialist war-thirsty elements can frighten no one.” It added that it was a “ridiculous ruse” for Washington and Seoul to talk of invasion from North Korea.
General Augusto Pinochet, head of Chile’s military government, warned that political parties will disappear if they insist on violating a ban on political activities. When armed forces seized power in 1973, Marxist parties were banned outright and dissolved. Non-Marxist parties were sent into indefinite recess, but apparently have been holding semi-secret meetings to keep themselves intact under the eye of government security agencies.
A former U.S. ambassador to Zaire, Sheldon B. Vance, arrived in Kinshasa. Zaire, to try to persuade President Mobutu Sese Seko that the United States had nothing to do with an alleged plot to kill him and overthrow his regime. The State Department hopes the Vance mission will repair relations which declined rapidly last week with the expulsion of current U.S. Ambassador Deane R. Hinton, accused of having connections with the Central Intelligence Agency and the coup preparations.
Uganda’s dictator, Idi Amin, postponed the execution of British citizen Denis Hills, a day before Hills was set to go before a firing squad for statements made in the unpublished manuscript of “The White Pumpkin.” Amin’s decision came after he hosted two British envoys at his hometown of Arua. The envoys, bearing a written appeal from Queen Elizabeth II, had been Amin’s commanding officers when Amin had been a sergeant in the King’s African Rifles in the colonial British Army. Hills would be released by Amin on July 10. Radio Uganda said that two British Army officers approached President Idi Amin “on their knees” in a successful appeal to him to stay the execution of a British citizen who had offended President Amin by describing him as a “village tyrant.” President Amin said recently that he wanted the British to come to him on their knees. A personal letter from Queen Elizabeth II to Mr. Amin on behalf of Denis Cecil Hills, the radio said, persuaded Mr. Amin to stay the execution.
A State Department official said last night that the department had asked the Justice Department to investigate reports that a Colorado company was recruiting Americans to serve as mercenaries in the Rhodesian Army. Temple G. Cole, the Slate Department desk officer for Rhodesia, said there was a possibility that the company, Phoenix Associates of Boulder, Colorado, might be violating a law that requires agents of foreign governments to register with the United States Government. At the same time Mr. Cole said the State Department had no confirmation of a report that about 60 Americans were already serving with the Rhodesian Army in its fight against black nationalists.
President Ford’s top economic adviser said that although the recession had bottomed out, unemployment would not decline until fall and then only slowly. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said that June unemployment figures would show a decline from the 9.2 percent level of May, but primarily for complex statistical reasons. He said he expects the rate to decline by fall, and as the economy improves “the decline in unemployment could be quite perceptible.”
Every six weeks or so, some of President Ford’s closest acquaintances outside the White House assemble in the Cabinet Room to criticize his work. The “very blunt talk” to which seven of Mr. Ford’s old friends have subjected him has been at the President’s invitation. The President and his friends believe the talks are useful in staving off delusions of grandeur.
Attorney General Edward H. Levi said Americans had a “strange tolerance of crime” that must be changed before the record crime rate started going down. He called the rate shocking. In an interview with the U.S. News & World Report, Levi said judges must be “willing to send people to jail” and prosecutors must be more willing to take cases to court. But, he said, “The main thing really — it sounds like not much but it’s everything — is to change the attitude of the American people, this kind of strange tolerance of crime.”
The Drug Enforcement Administration has agreed to adopt more efficient methods in combatting narcotics smuggling along the Mexican border after a warning that Government attorneys here would refuse to prosecute many of its cases. Already under severe criticism in Congress, and the subject of a Senate investigation into allegations of laxity and misconduct by its officers, the agency was recently notified by Harry D. Steward, the United States Attorney there, that it must meet 10 “minimum requirements” in handling routine arrests and drug seizures, to assure stronger cases that will hold up in court. Since the agency was set up two years ago to combine the Government drug enforcement operations, attorneys on Mr. Steward’s staff have privately asserted that inattention to details and lack of professionalism have contributed to a growing number of acquittals in narcotics trials.
Testimony given to the Rockefeller commission investigating Central Intelligence Agency activities has shown that the National Security Agency tuned in on a massive Soviet intelligence eavesdropping campaign on Americans, including Congressmen, The Chicago Tribune said today. The Washington‐datelined article by a Tribune reporter, Jim Squires, said that the disclosure had prompted investigations by both the White House and a Congressional committee to determine how much information was gathered, how it was used and what, if anything, was done by the United States intelligence agencies to stop the monitoring by the Soviet K.G.B. The article, appearing in the newspaper’s Monday editions, said that the monitoring, conducted mainly through long distance telephone calls, was detailed in a section of the commission’s report that Vice President Rockefeller himself wrote. The White House then heavily censored it “for national security reasons,” the article said.
The Rev. L. Peter Beebe, the Episcopal priest who was admonished for allowing two women priests to celebrate communion in his church, permitted the same two women to repeat the rite there Sunday. Beebe had been warned he might be suspended for allowing a repetition of last December’s ceremony, which a church court said violated canon law. Father Beebe, pastor of Christ Episcopal Church in Oberlin, Ohio, was found guilty of violating its vows and breaking church laws excluding women from the priesthood. The two women were Alison Cheek of Annadale, Virginia, and Carter Heyward of New York City.
Federal investigators said organized crime figure Momo Salvatore (Sam) Giancana was slain during a 20-minute lull in police surveillance of his home in Oak Park, Illinois. They repeated speculation that the killing was gangland-ordered to ensure that he would not disclose underworld information to federal prosecutors. Giancana, 65, former boss of Chicago syndicate’s day-to-day operations, was shot seven times late Thursday night in the basement of his heavily secured home. A two-man unit of the Chicago police had been watching the house just before the shooting, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
The Inquirer and the Daily News of Philadelphia have suspended publication for an indefinite period as striking mailers stayed off the job despite a judge’s order that they return to work. The city’s other major daily, the Bulletin, continued to publish. A spokesman for the Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc., which publishes the morning Inquirer and the afternoon Daily News, said the organization “had no alternative” but to stop printing “until the mailers honor their contract.” About 2,900 employees were laid off. It was the fifth time in two years that the mailers had stopped publication of the Knight-owned newspapers. The union has been without a contract since last December 31.
An economically sound process to remove sulfur from high-sulfur coal, thus making it environmentally acceptable, was announced by Battelle Memorial Institute of Columbus, O. Dr. Sherwood Fawcett, president of the research institute, said the process could be at least 20% less expensive than an alternate means for producing coal that meets federal emission standards. Most of the coal east of the Mississippi River contains too much sulfur to meet those standards.
A team of research scientists said acidity in rainfall, caused by industrial and motor vehicle pollutants, is stunting vegetation growth and killing fish in some parts of the northeast. The scientists, from Dartmouth, Cornell, and Yale, said rain in Hubbard Brook Forest, a 7,500-acre area in New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Park, averaged 100 times more acidic than pure rain. They said they based their conclusions on samples taken over a 10-year period.
America’s nuclear power program may have to be abandoned in the next 20 years, according to a prominent biologist and environmentalist. Barry Commoner. director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Washington University in St. Louis, said a shortage of nuclear fuel will leave several hundred reactors powerless. He criticized the federal government for its “dismal failure” to create a viable energy program. Commoner’s remarks were prepared for the National Press Photographers Assn.’s annual business and education seminar in Jackson. Wyoming.
The world’s second biggest whale, the fin whale, may be barred to hunters by the 27th annual convention of the International Whaling Commission opening today in London. Hunting of the biggest whale, the blue whale, has already been prohibited because it was in danger of becoming extinct. The U.S. delegation, among others, is expected to try for a ban on hunting of the fin whale. The move is likely to be resisted by Japan and the Soviet Union, which together account for 80% of the world’s whale catch.
Two Soviet astronauts began their 30th day in the orbiting space laboratory Salyut 4, setting a new Soviet space endurance record. The experiment has apparently been flawless, making up for the failure in April of a previous rocket crew to dock with the Salyut 4 station.
Schuyler Chapin confirmed that he had been dismissed as general manager of New York City’s Metropolitan Opera and his title retired. The action was taken at a meeting of the Met’s executive committee last week. Chapin, 52, turned down a two-year contract at a salary of $100,000 to raise money for the opera. Commenting on the committee’s decision, Chapin said, “I don’t think they are qualified to run the opera house. The administration of the theater now is directly in the hands of the board of trustees as opposed to a professional artistic administration. I think this idea is 100% wrong.”
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The Braves erupted for seven runs in the first inning and coasted to an 8–2 victory in the opener of a doubleheader, but it was different in the nightcap when Pete Falcone yielded only three hits and pitched the Giants to a 5–2 triumph. Ed Halicki, who started the lidlifter for the Giants, gave up four hits and two walks in the first inning, with an error by Derrel Thomas thrown in, while retiring only one batter. The Braves added a run in the second, but Mike Thompson failed to profit from the big lead. The Braves’ starter was removed after walking three straight batters with none out in the third. Mike Beard relieved and gained his first major league victory, with the Braves’ run coming on a sacrifice fly by Larvell Blanks. In the nightcap, Falcone did not yield a hit until Rod Gilbreath and Ralph Garr each singled with two out in the eighth. Falcone then lost his bid for a shutout in the ninth when the rookie walked Dusty Baker and Darrell Evans and Blanks doubled. Thomas drove in three runs for the Giants with a pair of singles and Dave Rader hit his first homer of the season.
Willie Davis and Ted Simmons batted in two runs apiece in support of Lynn McGlothen, who yielded only five singles and pitched the Cardinals to a 7–2 victory over the Cubs. Simmons homered in the second inning and accounted for his other RBI with a double in the third. Davis hit a double and triple, scoring twice, before driving in two runs with a single in the sixth.
The Astros snapped their five-game losing streak by defeating the Reds, 8–4, with a 15-hit attack that included homers by Cliff Johnson and Cesar Cedeno. Larry Dierker gave up a homer by Tony Perez among 11 hits off his deliveries, but the Reds were able to score only one run at a time. The Astros, on the other hand, jumped on Gary Nolan for three runs in the second on Johnson’s homer, a double by Enos Cabell and singles by Rob Andrews and Greg Gross. Cedeno added his homer in the third. The Astros iced their victory with three runs off Rawly Eastwick in the seventh. Dierker batted in two of them with his second single of the game.
The Pirates scored one run on the wildness of Randy Tate and another as the result of an error to defeat the Mets, 2–0, behind the five-hit pitching of Dock Ellis. In the second inning, Tate walked Richie Hebner and Richie Zisk. After picking Zisk off first base, Tate hit Paul Popovich with a pitch, passed Ellis to load the bases and walked Frakn Taveras to force in Hebner. Ellis counted the other run in the ninth after reaching base on an error by Mike Phillips. Taveras sacrificed and Al Oliver sent Ellis home with a single.
The Phillies, after being shut out by Steve Rogers in the first game of a doubleheader, 4–0, were on the verge of losing the second game until they rallied for two runs in the ninth inning to defeat the Expos, 4–3. Rogers swung an effective bat in his own behalf, hitting a single and scoring in the sixth inning and driving in two runs with another single in the seventh. In the nightcap, the Expos took a 3–1 lead with two unearned runs in the seventh before Jay Johnstone narrowed the Phillies’ deficit with a homer in the eighth. Greg Luzinski then led off the ninth with a homer to tie the score. Tommy Hutton followed with a single and, after two out, scored the winning run when Tony Taylor delivered a double as a pinch-hitter for Mike Anderson.
Bill Buckner doubled in the eighth inning and scored on a double by Willie Crawford to give the Dodgers a 3–2 victory over the Padres. Al Downing pitched the first six innings for the Dodgers and left with a 2–1 lead. After Mike Marshall took over, the Padres tied the score in the seventh with an unearned run on an infield hit by Bobby Tolan, wild throw by Ron Cey and single by Fred Kendall. Buckner then hit his double in the eighth and scored the winning run with one out when Crawford smashed his double past Willie McCovey down the right field line.
A brilliant pitching performance by Ed Figueroa, who yielded only two hits and retired 19 straight batters at one stretch, enabled the Angels to defeat the Rangers, 1–0. Fergie Jenkins was the loser on an unearned run in the fourth inning. Bruce Bochte beat out a dribbler to Roy Smalley, raced to third on the shortstop’s bad throw and crossed the plate on a single by Joe Lahoud. Lenny Randle, who singled in the second, was the only Ranger to reach base until Roy Smalley led off the ninth with another single. Then, with two out, Mike Cubbage and Mike Hargrove walked to load the bases, but Figueroa bore down and saved his victory by retiring Jeff Burroughs on a fly ball for the final out.
After being shut out by Mike Cuellar in the first game of a doubleheader, 3–0, the Red Sox snapped a string of 25 scoreless innings against Oriole pitching and won the second game, 5–1. The Orioles scored their initial run in the lidlifter on singles by Bobby Grich and Mark Belanger around a sacrifice in the second inning and added their other tallies in the eighth when Don Baylor homered with a man on base. In the nightcap, the Red Sox finally ended their scoring drouth in the fifth inning when Juan Beniquez singled, stole second and crossed the plate on a single by Rico Petrocelli. The Red Sox added another run in that stanza to take a 2-1 lead and went on to win behind the pitching of Luis Tiant, who scattered seven hits and struck out 12.
A two-run triple by Sandy Alomar, who was batting only .198, put the Yankees on the road to a 5–3 victory over the Tigers. Chris Chambliss and Ed Herrmann hit doubles in the fourth inning to tie the score at 1–1. Ed Brinkman singled, Herrmann stopping at third, and Alomar then drove them both home with his triple. The Yankees added two more runs for their winning margin in the ninth on a single by Roy White, pass to Ron Blomberg, single by Chambliss and sacrifice fly by Graig Nettles.
Jesse Jefferson and Cecil Upshaw each yielded only one hit as the White Sox posted a 9–2 victory in the second game to complete the sweep of a doubleheader after a two-base hit by Bob Coluccio in the 10th inning beat the Twins in the first game, 6–5. Although Rod Carew, Johnny Briggs and Dan Ford hit homers for the Twins in the opener, the White Sox held a 5–4 lead going into the ninth before being forced into a tie when Steve Brye singled, Briggs walked and Jerry Terrell singled. With two out in the 10th, Bucky Dent beat out an infield hit, Brian Downing walked and Coluccio doubled to drive in pinch-runner Lee Richard. Jefferson, who started the nightcap, walked Dan Ford to open the sixth inning and gave up a single by Eric Soderholm for the Twins’ only hit off his deliveries. After Tony Oliva forced Soderholm, Ford scoring, Jefferson left the mound because his arm was beginning to feel the effects of being hit by a batted ball earlier in the game. Upshaw relieved and the Twins’ only other hit came when Briggs homered in the seventh. The White Sox iced the victory in the third when Deron Johnson homered with a man on base and Buddy Bradford hit for the circuit with two aboard.
Winning for only the third time in their last 15 games, with all three victories coming on Sundays, the Indians were able to beat the Brewers, 3–2, when Rico Carty was hit by a pitched ball with the bases loaded in the 10th inning. The Indians scored their first two runs in the fifth on a double by Carty, pass to Oscar Gamble, double by Alan Ashby and infield out by Duane Kuiper. George Scott knocked in the Brewers’ tying tallies with a single in the seventh. John Lowenstein drew a walk to open the Indians’ 10th and moved around to third on a wild pickoff attempt and a sacrifice. The Brewers then walked Rick Manning and Boog Powell intentionally to load the bases. Eduardo Rodriguez, replacing Ed Sprague, struck out George Hendrick, but hit Carty with a pitch that forced in Lowenstein with the winning run.
The Athletics rallied for two runs on a double by Sal Bando in the 12th inning to win the first game of a doubleheader, 7–6, before completing the sweep by defeating the Royals in the second game, 8–1. Bando and Reggie Jackson hit homers to pace the A’s to a 5–2 lead in the lidlifter, but the Royals chased Vida Blue and tied the score with three runs in the ninth. The Royals then took the lead in the 12th with a run on an error by Bert Campaneris and singles by Jim Wohlford and George Brett. In the A’s half, Jackson singled and was forced by Joe Rudi, who was replaced on the paths by Don Hopkins. Gene Tenace walked. The Royals then brought in Lindy McDaniel to face Bando, who doubled to drive in the tying and winning runs. In the nightcap, Dick Bosman pitched a five-hitter for the A’s and had the support of a two-run homer by Billy Williams. Claudell Washington, who rapped three singles, also drove in two runs.
San Francisco Giants 2, Atlanta Braves 8
San Francisco Giants 5, Atlanta Braves 2
Boston Red Sox 0, Baltimore Orioles 3
Boston Red Sox 5, Baltimore Orioles 1
Texas Rangers 0, California Angels 1
Minnesota Twins 5, Chicago White Sox 6
Minnesota Twins 2, Chicago White Sox 9
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Cleveland Indians 3
New York Yankees 5, Detroit Tigers 3
Cincinnati Reds 4, Houston Astros 8
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, New York Mets 0
Kansas City Royals 6, Oakland Athletics 7
Kansas City Royals 1, Oakland Athletics 8
Montreal Expos 4, Philadelphia Phillies 0
Montreal Expos 3, Philadelphia Phillies 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, San Diego Padres 2
Chicago Cubs 2, St. Louis Cardinals 7
Born:
Andreas Klöden, German professional road cyclist (Olympics, Bronze medal, 2000), in Mittweida, East Germany.
Esteban Yan, Dominican MLB pitcher (Baltimore Orioles, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, Cincinnati Reds), in Campina, Dominican Republic.
Kenshin Kawakami, Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball and MLB pitcher (Chunichi Dragons; Central League MVP, 2004; NPB All-Star selection, 1998, 2002, 2004-2006, 2008; Atlanta Braves), in Tokushima, Japan.
Laila Rouass, British actress (“Footballers’ Wives”), in London, England, United Kingdom.
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