At a news conference on the South Lawn of the White House, President Ford warned the oil-producing countries against new price increases which he said would have an adverse impact worldwide. He refused to rule out or endorse the use of tactical nuclear weapons to assist South Korea if a new war breaks out. He said more years of high unemployment were unacceptable and that if the economy has not improved measurably by next year he would seek an extension of income tax cuts.
President Ford disputed the published views of former Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird who accused the Soviet Union of cheating on the first agreement on limiting strategic arms. Mr. Ford said categorically that he had investigated the charge and found that the Russians “have not violated the SALT agreements.” This brought an immediate criticism from Senator Henry M. Jackson, an arms‐control expert. Mr. Jackson said testimony before his Armed Services subcommittee did not “reconcile” with Mr. Ford’s statement. Mr. Jackson, a Democratic Presidential candidate from Washington, said Mr. Ford’s statement “can only be construed as an apology for recent Soviet behavior.”
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko will be visiting Italy this week, less than two weeks after major Communist gains in regional elections. Italian Foreign Ministry officials said the timing of the trip had nothing to do with election results, having been arranged last month as part of regular exchanges. It was not known whether Gromyko would have any formal contacts with Italian Communist leaders who are jealous of their independence from Moscow.
Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin told the prime ministers of Communist bloc nations meeting in Budapest that Communist states had the power to protect their economies against the inflation of the capitalist world. He said these nations could protect themselves from inflation and crises in the capitalist world by coordinating their activities on Western markets, speeding up integration and aligning their economic policies.
London’s fiscal problems are smaller and less serious than New York’s, largely because of its much closer relation with the central government, making bankruptcy out of the question unless Britain herself goes broke. But wages and debts are soaring, with servicing charges running about 17 percent, as in New York. As warnings come from the central government, capital spending is gradually slowing and there have been small cutbacks in services, but no layoffs of municipal workers.
The retiring chief of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said today it was not possible for the poorer and hungriest nations to achieve self-sufficiency in food within a decade.
The new United States Ambassador to Israel, Malcolm Toon, said today that an over-all Middle East settlement should include “some rectifications” in the Arab-Israeli borders that existed before the war of June, 1967. Mr. Toon said in an interview with Israeli journalists here yesterday and he repeated the remarks in a telephone conversation today that “you need some rectifications in order to satisfy your legitimate requirements for security.”
Street fighting in two outlying neighborhoods of Beirut continued today and into the night. Two persons were killed and 10 wounded, according to an unofficial account. Early in the evening, a Government communiqué said that Major General Saed Nasrallah, Interior Minister in the caretaker military cabinet, had met “with all parties concerned” and that a truce had been agreed upon. But the communiqué acknowledged that sporadic shooting and explosions continued after the truce was to have gone into effect, and it warned motorists and others to stay clear of the Chiyah and Ain al‐Rummaneh sections of the city. It was difficult to verify the identities of the combatants, but they were believed to be militiamen of the right‐wing Phalangist party, which is made up largely of Christians and leftist supporters of the Palestinian guerrillas. The resumption of the sniping and small‐arms fire yesterday broke an uneasy three‐week lull during which Lebanon’s political leaders sought to form a cabinet acceptable to the country’s major religious and political groups.
India’s President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the proclamation to declare a state of emergency. The order was implemented the next day. President Fakhruddin All Ahmed of India declared a state of emergency that took effect early the next day, as arrests began in a severe crackdown against critics of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The arrests, the first of this magnitude in India’s 28 years of independence, included Jaya Prakash Narayan and Morarji Desai, a former Deputy Prime Minister, who have been particularly sharp critics of her government.
Thai border guards have killed five Khmer Rouge soldiers in gun battles, according to reports reaching Bangkok. The actions took place in Surin province, 240 miles northeast of Bangkok, where authorities have reported a continuing influx of refugees from Cambodia. Border Patrol Commissioner Lieutenant General Surphol Chullaprom said the infiltrators apparently were on food-foraging missions because of the reported famine in Cambodia.
Five days before an important deadline, the Pathet Lao‐dominated government has made no move toward discussing with the United States embassy a knotty issue in their uneasy and mutually suspicious relationship. The issue is the turning over to Laos of all property of the Agency for International Development that is due to Laos and to allow the United States to remove all other property and personal effects of employees. The embassy, negotiating under the duress of the occupation of the aid agency’s compound by unruly demonstrators, signed an agreement on May 27 to wind up all aid activities by next Monday. In the embassy’s view, any further assistance to Laos, and thus the future relations between the two countries, is heavily dependent on an equitable solution of this issue.
North Korea marked the 25th anniversary of the Korean war with a mass rally in Pyongyang, the North Korean News Agency reported. The agency reported the rally of 200,000 persons in Kim Il Sung Square protested the continued presence of U.S. troops and strategic nuclear weapons in South Korea.
President Ford declared today, the 25th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean war, that the United States had a strong deterrent force in South Korea but refused to say whether he would use nuclear weapons in that country’s defense in case of a new war. At his news conference, Mr. Ford also avoided a direct answer to whether the United States would ever be the first country to use nuclear weapons in an emergency. American Presidents have consistently not ruled out the first use of nuclear weapons in case the enemy, by overwhelming conventional forces, was close to victory — particularly in Europe. The questioner, however, misstated the policy and asked if it still was American policy not to be the first to use nuclear weapons. “The United States has the policy that means that we have the maximum flexibility for the determination of what is in our own national interest,” the President said.
Kidnappers have seized Mrs. Conrad Blanchet, member of Quebec margarine manufacturing family, and are demanding a $1 million ransom, police said. They reported that the 62-year-old woman was taken Tuesday from her home in the village of Rock Forest, about 75 miles southeast of Montreal. Her family said she suffers from a heart condition and requires daily medication.
A prominent West Indian lawyer and politician, John Rowan Henry, and his wife were slashed to death in front of their children in a cutlass attack at their home near St. John’s, Antigua. The children told police their parents were attacked by the gardener after a heated exchange over ending his employment. The man was later arrested. Henry, 60, a pilot officer with the RAF in World War II, was the founder and leader of the People’s Party in Antigua.
Military intelligence agents captured 25 Marxist extremists in a southern farming province after they slipped into Chile from neighboring Argentina where they had received guerrilla training by Cuban instructors, Chile’s military government claimed. The 25, presumably Chileans although the “high government official” giving the announcement did not say so, were captured near Talca, a farm community 150 miles south of Santiago.
United States officials said today that an unsuccessful attempt was made yesterday to rescue two American students and a Dutch research assistant who had been kidnapped five weeks ago from western Tanzania and taken to neighboring Zaire. The officials declined to give details of the rescue attempt, but witnesses said the attempt was made by American diplomats who crossed Lake Tanganyika in a boat as the captives signaled them from the Zaire shore with flashing mirrors. The attempt reportedly failed as a Zaire gunboat opened fire and prevented the rescue vessel from landing.
The People’s Republic of Mozambique, formerly the colony of Portuguese East Africa, gained independence from Portugal shortly after midnight, with Samora Machel of the FRELIMO Party as its first President. Within two years, the civil war would be renewed in Mozambique as a new group, the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO), supported by South Africa would begin a 15-year-long war against Machel’s Soviet supported government. Machel would die in a plane crash in 1986. The Marxist republic would give way to a democratic regime in 1990.
Police in Windhoek, South-West Africa, arrested the wife of an expelled Anglican bishop after she defied her own expulsion order for two days. Police said American-born Cathy Wood, 24, and her two-year-old daughter would be put on a plane later in the day. Bishop Richard Wood, 54, an outspoken critic of apartheid, met the terms of his expulsion order by driving to neighboring Botswana Monday with 30 minutes to spare.
More than half the delegates at last night’s session of the International Women’s Conference walked out on Leah Rabin, the wife of Israel’s Premier, as she delivered Israel’s keynote address. Most of those who left were from Arab, African and Communist countries. “We shall wait until the exodus is over,” Mrs. Rabin said as the delegates streamed out of the conference hall at the Mexican Foreign Ministry. “I know there are conflicts and misunderstandings between countries,” she said. “But not even wanting to listen to each other is truly missing the objectives and goals of this convention.” Earlier in the conference, Mrs. Rabin said in response to a question from an interviewer that she would be glad to meet and talk with Jihan el‐Sadat, President Anwar el‐Sadat’s wife, who headed the Egyptian delegation for the first few days of the conference. But Mrs. Sadat said she “couldn’t sit down with a lady who is occupying Arab territory.”
The International Whaling Commission reached a compromise agreement cutting next season’s catch quota for the fin whale from the 1,300 of last season to 220, and for the sei whale, from 6,000 to 2,230, sources at a London meeting said. The commission’s technical committee decided that all species except for the sei whale should be automatically protected when stocks fell 10% below the level known as maximum sustainable yield. The protection point should be 20% below that level for sei whales in the Antarctic, the committee decided.
The Democratic majority in the House of Representatives for the fourth straight time failed to override a veto by President Ford — this one of the emergency housing bill. The vote fell 16 short of the necessary two-thirds majority, despite an unusually fiery partisan attack on Mr. Ford by Speaker Carl Albert, The margin was closer than had been expected.
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that slum dwellers were not entitled to a trial on their charge that suburban zoning restrictions unconstitutionally exclude the poor and minorities. The majority found that inner-city residents in Rochester, New York, and other would-be plaintiffs, including home builders, lacked legal standing. A dissenting opinion accused the majority of using procedural grounds because it was hostile to the case on its merits.
The Supreme Court ruled today that victims of discrimination in hiring or promotion do not have to prove bad faith on the part of the employer to qualify for a compensatory award of back pay. It was the first time that the Justices had been called upon to consider the authorization by Congress, in the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, of payments to workers who had been refused jobs or advancement because of their race or sex. The high court agreed unanimously that back pay was a remedy that the Federal courts could apply at their discretion in such cases. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger dissented, however, with, respect to the award in the particular case.
President Ford said today that he would consider recommending continuation next year of the individual income tax reductions that went into effect this spring, provided certain conditions existed. He would do this, he said at his news conference, only if the economy was “not moving ahead,” if he was convinced that continuing the tax reductions would not create a dangerously large Federal deficit, and if the evidence showed that the tax cuts put into effect this year really were beneficial in moving the economy forward. Mr. Ford’s comments contrasted somewhat with those made just a few hours earlier by his Secretary of the Treasury, William E. Simon. Mr. Simon told a group of reporters at a luncheon he hosted, that he would not recommend continuation of the tax reductions unless the performance of the economy was “disappointing, if it is not pulling out of the recession as rapidly as hoped.”
Members of Congress are not immune from surveillance by the Central Intelligence Agency while traveling abroad, a House subcommittee was told by Director William Colby. This drew an outburst from Representative Bella Abzug, Democrat of Manhattan, who doubted that it was appropriate for the C.I.A. even to maintain files on members, since they are judged by the electorate.
The death toll in Tuesday’s crash of an Eastern Airlines jetliner landing at Kennedy International Airport rose to 110 with the discovery that a two-month-old infant had not been listed on the manifest. Ten of the 14 survivors were reported in critical condition. Pilots of other airliners reported vicious downdrafts creating severe hazards during the landing approach at that time. The National Transportation Safety Board opened its investigation at the scene.
The General Accounting Office said the Department of Housing and Urban Development had illegally impounded $214.5 million in housing funds for the elderly. Comptroller General Elmer B. Staats said a GAO investigation showed the decision not to use the funds “constituted an impoundment of budget authority which should have been, but which was not, reported to the Congress” as required by law. Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts), who asked for the GAO report, said it was “particularly tragic” that the finding “came too late for any legal action to be taken.” He said that “apparently not a single application will have been approved” by Monday, the end of the fiscal year.
Ron Nessen, White House press secretary, says reporters are too quick nowadays to accuse officials of a coverup. He made the charge after James Deakin of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked during a briefing whether the White House or a Senate committee investigating the CIA would decide what executive materials the panel needed for its work. “We’re awfully fast these days to see coverups in everything.” Nessen said. “We’re awfully damned fast. I think it poisons these briefings.” No one had used the term “coverup.” Deakin asked Nessen to withdraw his remark, but he refused.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch said it had filed suit against the FBI demanding access to the agency’s files on the newspaper’s Washington bureau and on its chief Washington correspondent, Richard Dudman. The suit was filed under the Freedom of Information Act and grew out of a disclosure last year that the FBI had secretly subpoenaed long-distance telephone records of the bureau and Dudman for periods in 1971. A Justice Department spokesman said the records had been obtained in connection with an FBI investigation into publication of the Pentagon Papers, parts of which were published by the Post-Dispatch.
The Food and Drug Administration has advised owners of 12,500 additional General Electric microwave ovens to discontinue use until they are inspected for excessive radiation leakage and repaired. The recall of GE and GE Hotpoint ranges is an expansion of action taken in May to correct 5,300 other GE microwave units for radiation leakage up to 10 times the maximum federal limits. There have been no known injuries from any of the 17,800 ovens, the FDA said. The expanded recall involves GE models J896002, J896003, J856003 and J856004 and Hotpoint models RHV886002 and RHV886003. The oven units are called Cooking Center or Versatronic.
The Philadelphia morning Inquirer and afternoon Daily News were due back on the streets today after a strike by mailers had caused the papers to suspend publication. The papers, two of the city’s three dailies, had not been published since Friday when the mailers, who wrap the papers after they come off the presses and before they are loaded onto trucks, walked off the job amid stalled contract talks. A court order failed to force them back to work and Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.. which publishes both, ordered the papers shut down. A settlement was reached late Tuesday.
A former Federal Energy Administration aide told the agency and The New York Times that between December, 1973, and March, 1974, his office had received six to eight telephone calls from the office of Representative Hugh Carey, now Governor of New York, on behalf of a licensing deal involving Edward Carey, his brother. The aide, who withheld his name, said he had received two of the calls personally.
Former Senator Daniel B. Brewster, maintaining that “I did not accept a bribe,” pleaded no contest today to a charge of accepting an illegal gratuity and was fined $10.000. The plea and sentence ended Mr. Brewster’s fight of nearly six years against Federal prosecution on charges that he received bribes while in office. Mr. Brewster, a Democrat from Maryland, served one term in the Senate from 1962 through 1968.
An order to burn coal instead of oil or natural gas will be given to 31 power-generating plants this month, according to Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb. The order, involving power plants in 17 states, could save 64 million barrels of oil a year, Zarb said in testimony prepared for a Senate public works committee. He said the agency is compiling a list of major industrial plants to be surveyed to see if they should convert to coal as part of the Ford Administration’s efforts to cut petroleum consumption.
Funds for the liquid metal fast breeder reactor program at Clinch River, Tennessee, were included in the $3.9 billion Energy Research and Development appropriation passed by the House. The measure supports programs for 15 months — the year beginning July 1 plus a three-month special period prior to a new fiscal year October 1, 1976. Various features involving the liquid metal fast breeder reactor total $365.5 million for the year and a comparable amount for the three-month period — about a one-sixth reduction in the Ford Administration’s request.
The cost of generating electricity by nuclear power will be going up as a result of the Energy Research and Development Administration’s action in increasing charges for enriched uranium used to fuel nuclear power plants. The charges had to be raised. the agency said, because of the recent rapid increase in the cost of electricity supplied to the plants where the uranium is enriched.
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Supported by five double plays, Tom Carroll and Will McEnaney combined to pitch the Reds to a 2–0 victory over the Braves. Carroll gave up only three hits and walked four in the first eight innings. The Reds executed double plays in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth. After Carroll issued his fourth pass of the game to open the ninth, McEnaney took over and the Reds pulled off their fifth twin-killing. The Reds scored their first run in the sixth on a double by Pete Rose, bunt by Ken Griffey and sacrifice fly by Joe Morgan. Their other tally did not come until the ninth when Dave Concepcion hit a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded.
Rick Reuschel is the hard-luck loser to Dennis Blair in the Cubs 12–2 loss to the Expos. Montreal scores 10 unearned runs. The Expos exploded for 10 runs in the seventh inning for the biggest single outburst in their club’s history to overwhelm the Cubs. With the Cubs leading, 4–2, the Expos opened the stanza by loading the bases on two errors by Don Kessinger around a single by Pepe Mangual. Mike Jorgensen singled, driving in two runs, and Jose Morales tripled to plate another pair. After a single by Pete Mackanin scored Morales, singles by Gary Carter, Larry Parrish and Pat Scanlon added two runs before Mangual climaxed the spree with a three-run homer.
A two-run triple by Rusty Staub enabled Tom Seaver to gain his 11th victory of the season, but the Mets needed game-saving relief by Rick Baldwin in the ninth inning before defeating the Cardinals, 2–1. Felix Millan was hit by a pitch in the seventh and Joe Torre singled before Staub rapped his triple off Bob Forsch. Seaver, with the shutout in his grasp, lost his bid and was forced out of the game when Ted Simmons and Ron Fairly hit back-to-back doubles in the ninth. Baldwin gave up an infield single by Bake McBride, but then got out of the jam when Ken Reitz grounded into a double play to end the game.
In a remarkable comeback, the Phillies wiped out a 6–0 deficit and then defeated the Pirates, 7–6, when Mike Schmidt drew a pass from Dave Giusti with the bases loaded in the 13th inning. Richie Hebner and Richie Zisk homered to pace the Pirates to their early lead. After picking up a run in the third, the Phillies scored three times in the fifth on singles by Larry Bowa and Greg Luzinski, a triple by Dick Allen and single by Johnny Oates. Luzinski provided the tying tallies in the seventh, hitting a homer after a single by Jay Johnstone. In the 13th, Johnstone doubled and Luzinski was passed intentionally, leading to a sacrifice by Allen. Giusti issued another intentional walk, this time to Oates, and then failed to relocate the plate facing Schmidt, who walked to force in the winning run.
The Astros, who had lost to Don Sutton seven straight times, turned around, defeating the Dodgers’ ace righthander, 5–4. Cesar Cedeno started the Astros’ scoring with a homer in the first inning. Two more runs followed in the second on a double by Milt May, triple by Enos Cabell and infield out by Rob Andrews, but the Dodgers tied the score in the third when Jim Wynn homered with two men on base. After a single by Ron Cey and double by Henry Cruz put the Dodgers ahead in the sixth, the Astros came back with a tally in their half on a single by May, stolen base by pinch-runner Skip Jutze and single by Cabell. Roger Metzger then opened the seventh with a single and counted the deciding run on a triple by Cedeno.
The Giants’ inability to beat southpaws manifested itself again in a 6–2 loss to the Padres. Rich Folkers, who pitched the route for the Padres, became the ninth straight lefthander to tame the Frisco crew. The Padres jumped off to a 2–0 lead in the first inning on a double by Bobby Tolan and singles by Dave Winfield, Willie McCovey and Mike Ivie. A walk to Fred Kendall, sacrifice by Folkers and single by Tolan added a marker in the second. Enzo Hernandez plated a run with a sacrifice fly in the fourth and McCovey singled for his second RBI of the game when the Padres wound up their scoring in the seventh. A triple by Derrel Thomas and double by Bruce Miller produced the Giants’ tallies.
Triples by Thurman Munson and Walt Williams led to the Yankees defeating the Orioles, 2–1, for their fifth straight victory and 20th in the last 25 games. The Orioles scored their run in the first inning when Paul Blair walked and raced home on a single by Tommy Davis, who hit a line drive that Roy White lost in the stadium lights. Jim Palmer protected the Orioles’ slim lead until the seventh when Munson hit his triple and Chris Chambliss singled. Williams then led off the ninth with his three-bagger and scored the winning run on a sacrifice fly by Munson.
George Scott hit a pair of solo homers, accounting for the Brewers’ sixth and seventh runs in a 7–6 victory over the Tigers. Bill Freehan rapped a two-run homer for the Tigers in the second inning, but the Brewers came back with three runs in the third. Singles by Sixto Lezcano, Bill Sharp and Pedro Garcia produced the first tally. After Don Money bounced out, Aurelio Rodriguez threw low to the plate on a grounder by Robin Yount, allowing Sharp to score. Garcia reached third and worked a double steal with Yount for the third run. A single by Sharp and double by Garcia plated two more tallies for the Brewers in the fourth. Scott then led off the fifth with his first homer of the game and followed with his other round-tripper in the seventh for the deciding run. Pete Broberg wins his 8th of the year.
Jorge Orta extended his batting streak to 10 games with a double and triple, knocking in two runs and scoring two, to pace the White Sox to a 5–2 victory over the Rangers. Orta, after drawing a walk and crossing the plate in the first inning, hit his double in the fifth to break a 1–1 tie, driving in Brian Downing, who had singled and reached third on an error. The White Sox added their winning margin in the seventh. Bucky Dent singled, advanced on a sacrifice and scored on a double by Pat Kelly. Orta tripled to drive in Kelly and then counted himself on a single by Deron Johnson.
Roric Harrison, who pitched 8 ⅔ innings, gained credit for his first victory in a Cleveland uniform when the Indians defeated the Red Sox, 8–5. Alan Ashby hit a two-run homer for the Indians and Duane Kuiper drove in two runs with a single. Frank Duffy joined in the attack with three hits, scoring two runs and batting in one. The Red Sox loaded the bases in the ninth to chase Harrison. Tom Buskey, in relief, gave up a two-run single by Denny Doyle before retiring Bernie Carbo on a grounder to save the game. Boston catcher Carlton Fisk, injured last June 23rd, returns to action for the first time in a year.
Frank White, a defensive replacement in the Royals’ lineup in the 10th inning, came to bat in the 12th and smashed a grand-slam homer to beat the Angels, 6–2. Steve Busby (11–5), hurling the route for the Royals, fell behind, 2–0, before his teammates caught up for him in the seventh when Fran Healy singled and Al Cowens homered. Busby pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the 11th, striking out Rudi Meoli and Billy Smith. The Royals then filled the sacks in the 12th on a single by Healy and passes to Cowens and Bob Stinson before White whacked his homer off Luis Quintana.
Ken Holtzman continued his mastery of Minnesota, defeating the Twins for the sixth straight time, as the Athletics breezed to a 7–1 victory. The A’s supported their southpaw with a two-run double by Phil Garner, two-run single by Ray Fosse and two-run double by Bert Campaneris. The Twins’ lone tally counted in the sixth inning on singles by Steve Brye, Johnny Briggs and Jerry Terrell.
Cincinnati Reds 2, Atlanta Braves 0
New York Yankees 2, Baltimore Orioles 1
Cleveland Indians 8, Boston Red Sox 5
Kansas City Royals 6, California Angels 2
Texas Rangers 2, Chicago White Sox 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Houston Astros 5
Detroit Tigers 6, Milwaukee Brewers 7
Chicago Cubs 6, Montreal Expos 12
St. Louis Cardinals 1, New York Mets 2
Minnesota Twins 1, Oakland Athletics 7
Pittsburgh Pirates 6, Philadelphia Phillies 7
San Francisco Giants 2, San Diego Padres 6
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Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player, World Champion 2000-2007; in Tuapse, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Michal Grošek, Czech NHL left wing and right wing (Buffalo Sabres, Boston Bruins), in Vyškov, Czechoslovakia.
Michael Dickerson, NBA shooting guard (Houston Rockets, Vancouver-Memphis Grizzlies), in Greenville, South Carolina.
Alberto Costa, Spanish professional tennis player, in Lleida, Spain.
Linda Cardellini, American actress (“Freaks and Geeks”), in Redwood City, California.
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