In response to calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the national government arrested 676 of her political opponents, including Jayaprakash Narayan, who had called for a civil disobedience protest. The Indian government’s principal information officer said today that 676 political opponents of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had been arrested to combat what was described as a grave internal threat. The arrests, which government officials insisted were necessary to preserve the nation’s safety and unity, were unprecedented in the 28-year history of the Indian Republic. A government spokesman said that there had been scattered disorders around the country since the arrests began this morning. The day before, India’s President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, on Gandhi’s advice, had signed a proclamation for a state of emergency, suspending civil liberties and elections. Civil rights would remain suspended in “The World’s Largest Democracy” until January 18, 1977, when new elections would be permitted to take place. Officially, 36,039 people would be arrested and detained during the next 18 months, mostly in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. After being voted out of office and ending “The Emergency”, Gandhi would admit in 1977 that she had made the decision without consulting with her cabinet of ministers.
Delegates to the European security conference in Geneva failed to fix a date for the summit in Helsinki sought by Moscow and chances appeared slim that it would be held before August. The summit had been urged by Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev to wind up the 21-month-old conference. Brezhnev recently proposed July 22 as the opening date.
Secretary General Waldheim appealed to all countries today to slow the nuclear and conventional arms races and to curb the trade in arms. “Never before in peacetime has the world witnessed such a great flow of weapons of War,” the Secretary General told 2,500 diplomats and guests gathered in the General Assembly hall for a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter in San Francisco. He added: “The world cannot be safe, secure or economically sound when global military expenditures are nearing $300‐billion a year, and when some $207 billion of weapons are sold annually in the international aims trade. “On this anniversary. I address a most urgent appeal to all nations, great and small, nuclear and nonnuclear, to exercise unilateral restraint, to slow down their arms races, and to limit the traffic in arms.”
The U.S. Navy has grounded its entire fleet of 600 F-4 Phantom jet fighters temporarily for safety inspections following a crash caused by a control failure. A Navy spokesman said 205 Phantoms had been inspected already and 54 were found to be defective. The action resulted from an investigation into the crash of an F-4 April 9 into the Atlantic off Cape Hatteras, N.C. The crew bailed out safely. The problem involves a malfunction of the control system in the tail flap section.
Turkey still believes that her security depends heavily on the United States, according to well‐informed government officials, and will not make any moves against American military operations in the country until there is no longer any hope of easing the current embargo against American arms supplies to Ankara. However, a combination of domestic political pressure and wounded national pride will eventually force the government to take some action, even if it hurts Turkey’s own defense interests, the officials said. The arms embargo followed by the triumph of Communist forces in Southeast Asia, has caused a widespread loss of confidence here in America’s commitments to its allies. Many Turks and Americans here agree that relations between Ankara and Washington “will never be the same again.” Congress imposed the embargo in February on the ground that Turkey had illegaily used Americans arms to intervene in Cyprus. It said the ban could be lifted only if progress was made toward a Cyprus settlement.
Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov disclosed that the two-man crew in Russia’s Salyut space station will remain in orbit throughout the joint Soyuz-Apollo flight that begins July 15. It will mark the first time a country has had two manned missions under way at the same time. It had been expected that the current Salyut crew, Pyotr Klimuk and Vitalz Sevastiyanov, would return to earth soon. The cosmonauts surpassed the previous Soviet endurance record of 28 days last weekend.
Britain’s Conservative Party won a special parliamentary election in the London suburb of West Woolwich, wiping out the Labor government’s effective majority in the House of Commons. Peter Bottomley, a 32-year-old industrial economist, captured the seat long held by Labor. Bottomley’s victory was seen as a protest against Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the nation’s worst economic crisis since World War II with inflation running at a record 25%. Labor now holds 318 seats in the 635-member House of Commons, but an effective vote of only 315.
The Israeli Government rejected today White House allegations that it had engaged in “competitive leaks of confidential “diplomatic exchanges” in connection with negotiations toward a new interim agreement with Egypt for a Sinai withdrawal. Israeli sources said that Foreign Minister Yigal Allon sent a message to Secretary of State Kissinger early this morning denying that there had been any intentional leaks of confidential information. The message also said Israel felt strongly that the controversy over alleged leaks should not impede the negotiations. The White House allegation, which was read in the name of President Ford by the State Department spokesman, Robert Anderson, surprised and startled Israeli officials.
The United States has received Egypt’s initial response to the latest Israeli ideas for a new interim agreement in Sinai and will probably pass it on to Israel tomorrow.
An unidentified Jordanian middleman stands to receive $2 million in agent’s fees in the proposed U.S. sale of the Hawk antiaircraft missile system to Jordan, the White House told the House International Relations Committee. Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal (D-New York) attacked the $100 million deal as giving Jordan a military system that could have offensive uses and could upset the Middle East military balance. Further, he asked at a committee hearing, “If the negotiations were between President Ford and King Hussein, it would be interesting to see who is making $2 million on the sale.” The issue of agents’ fees already is being investigated by the Senate foreign relations subcommittee on multinational corporations.
Lebanese security forces sought today to end street fighting between a right‐wing militia group and Palestinian guerrillas in two Beirut suburbs, but clashes continued for the fourth day. Security troops in armored cars opened fire on armed positions in Chiyah and Ain alRummaneh that refused to heed a cease‐fire worked out yesterday. The truce broke down less than one hour after it had gone into effect. In three days of heavy shooting, police sources said, nine people have been killed and about 300 wounded. The Associated Press reported that the casualties included one security man killed and five wounded. In all, about 300 people have been killed and scores wounded in the intermittent shooting since April.
At a news conference that illustrated the gulf between reality and appearance in Laos, the Deputy Information Minister said today that although the Cabinet had decided that the Constitution required nationwide elections by July 10, it had postponed them indefinitely. The Minister, Ouday Souvannavong, then announced that the Cabinet had discussed a wave of protest actions throughout the part of the country nominally controlled by Vientiane, as a result of which officials and military and police commanders deemed unsuitable to the Pathet Lao are being replaced by officials chosen by the Communist‐led movement. The Cabinet, he said, decided that such officials must be chosen by the Government, but it also, decided to recognize all the protestors’ choices provisionally, while restating the principle that they should be democractically elected. This amounted to a reaffirmation of a principle while condoning its violation.
Colombian President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen extended to the entire country a state of siege decreed two weeks ago in three provinces where students had been rioting to protest changes in the administration of the national university. In a broadcast, Lopez, 61, said it was necessary to combat what he called “mafias” who were perpetrating a variety of crimes all over the nation, including a wave of kidnappings.
Vast new uranium reserves have been discovered in Brazil, it was reported here today on the eve of the signing of the controversial nuclear treaty between Brazil and West Germany. Brazil has guaranteed West Germany that she has sufficient uranium deposits to meet the requirements of both countries for the duration of the contract, or through 1990, according to O Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil’s leading newspaper. The new discoveries were said to be outlined in a secret report by French geologists who made a 60‐day tour of the country’s main uranium sites.
Somalia rejected as “unfounded, pure fabrication, insulting allegation, absolutely ridiculous, groundless and pure fantasy” Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger’s statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee June 10 that there are Soviet missile facilities in the Somalian port of Berbera. But Ambassador Abdullahi Ahmed Addou would not rule out the possibility that the installations detected by aerial photography could be part of a Somali base, including Somali missiles.
Two FBI agents, Ronald A. Williams and Jack R. Coler, and one American Indian Movement (AIM) member, Joe Stuntz, were killed in a shootout at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that two of its agents were shot and killed while attempting to serve arrest warrants issued on residents of the Oglala Sioux Reservation at Pine Ridge, South Dakota. An FBI spokesman in Washington said reinforcements were being sent from Minneapolis as gunfights continued into the night. Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
Congress approved legislation extending from June 30 to the end of the year the program that guarantees jobless persons up to 65 weeks of unemployment compensation. The measure also contains a provision designed to make it possible for thousands of home buyers to use the $2,000 tax credit contained in the tax bill enacted in March. Experts said the cost of the unemployment features will total $1.2 billion through March, 1977. Unless the bill is signed by Monday, the final 13 weeks of benefits in the 65-week total no longer will be available. The Senate and the House also sought to rush through before their July 4 recess a scaled-down housing bill aimed at overcoming the objections of President Ford, who vetoed a larger bill on Tuesday.
The Senate passed a bill giving the government authority to borrow another $46 billion through November 15 and sent it to President Ford. The Senate first, however, set aside three amendments recommended by its Finance Committee, including one that would have repealed the 6% ceiling on interest paid on U.S. savings bonds. The debt ceiling now is $531 billion, a figure the Treasury says will be reached by Monday.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that patients, even those found “mentally ill” by officials, cannot be confined in institutions against their will and without treatment if they are dangerous to no one and capable of surviving on the outside. But the Court refused to answer two related constitutional questions: Whether the dangerous mentally ill have a right to treatment when involuntarily confined and whether the state can confine the non-dangerous mentally ill against their will in order to give them treatment. Despite its limitations, the ruling appeared likely to force the ultimate release from mental institutions of thousands of inmates.
The White House and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence have apparently agreed on a system for access to evidence that will permit the committee to report in early August on assassination plots, committee leaders said today. Senators Frank Church, Dem ocrat of Idaho, and John G Tower, Republican of Texas, committee chairman and vice chairman respectively, said the system would permit material on assassination from the National Security Council and its Special Group to be available on Capitol Hill. Duplicates can be made for distribution to committee members, the Senators said. Committee members and White House officials discussed the issue for two hours today. Senators Church and Tower then briefed news reporters about the meeting.
Proposed congressional curbs on wiretapping and other surveillance were opposed by FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley as threatening a “crippling impact” on investigation of criminals and foreign agents. He was backed by the Justice Department’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General Kevin T. Maroney but Chairman Robert W. Kastenmeier (D-Wisconsin) of the House civil rights subcommittee told them that to prevent abuses as in the past, Congress would impose curbs in some form.
The FBI and police searched for a hitchhiking couple who vanished after giving names and birthdates matching aliases and birthdates of two Symbionese Liberation Army companions of fugitive newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. Officials said the couple who were stopped by a policeman Wednesday evening in Centralia, Illinois, questioned briefly and then allowed to go on their way, could be fugitives William and Emily Harris using the names of Mike Andrews and Mary Hensley.
The government said that its index predicting the economy’s future gained for the third consecutive month in May, providing administration economists with what they called encouraging evidence of an early and strong recovery.
The Commerce Department also reported that a decline of about 21 percent in imported oil provided the United States with a trade surplus in May of $1.05 billion, a near record.
Dr. F. David Mathews, president of the University of Alabama, was nominated by President Ford to become Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, a post Dr. Mathews called “hard and often thankless.” If confirmed by the Senate, he will succeed Caspar Weinberger.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that the “impoverished and malnourished” Alaskan natives may receive both food stamps and federal funds compensating them for their ancestral lands. The court, reversing a lower court ruling, said funds received under the Alaska Natives Claim Settlements Act cannot be considered resources in determining food stamp eligibility. The settlements act gave title to 40 million acres and payment of $962.5 million to be under control of corporations in which the natives are equal shareholders.
Four men wearing ski masks robbed a Navajo reservation trading post and escaped with what the manager estimated at $1 million in cash and Indian jewelry, sheriff’s deputies said in Flagstaff, Ariz. Elmer Jenkins, manager of the post on a busy highway about 50 miles north of Flagstaff said the robbers invaded his home and threatened him and his wife and took his keys.
A chemical used in some decaffeinated coffee has produced a “frighteningly high” incidence of cancer in test animals and should be banned, Ralph Nader researchers said. The chemical, trichlorethylene or TCE, is used to remove the caffeine, but government rules allow traces of it to remain. Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group, said so far as he knew only two General Foods Products, Sanka and Brim, use TCE. The food company was quoted as saying, however, that lifetime animal feeding studies showed no adverse effects, even at the equivalent of 100 cups of decaffeinated coffee a day.
Lieutenant Governor Mary Anne Krupsak of New York urged women attending the International Women’s Year world conference in Mexico City to stop being sidetracked by political issues and “start speaking from your heart.” She said the two-week meeting, which is now half over, could still be salvaged despite the bickering and political rhetoric that have bogged it down. Miss Krupsak spoke at a panel discussion at the Tribune, the non-governmental conference that parallels the official gathering. She criticized the United States delegation on the ground that it was not representative of women and that its members were selected by a man, Secretary of State Kissinger.
An underground leak from a fuel oil line at an Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. construction camp at Galbraith Lake has grown into the largest oil spill to date in the trans-Alaska pipeline project, the Alaska Dept. of Environmental Conservation reported. The break was discovered in February and Alyeska said at the time that about 100 gallons of fuel had escaped. However, repairs did not stop the leak and authorities now estimate that about 60,000 gallons leaked out before it was noticed again June 11. The state authorities said repairs and cleanup operations were unsuccessful in preventing some oil from reaching streams that flow into Lake Galbraith.
Radioactivity levels of 150 micro-rads an hour — 18 times the allowable maximum — were monitored for two hours at Ft. Griswold State Park in Groton, Connecticut, when a heavy layer of air kept discharges from a nuclear power station from dispersing. The radioactivity set off alarms at the nearby Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics. The alarms warn workers of increased radioactivity near nuclear submarines. Environmental officials said the radioactivity was negligible in terms of yearly maximum allowable levels.
American singer and actress Cher (28) divorces American singer-songwriter Sonny Bono (40), after 10 years of marriage.
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Halting a six-game losing streak, the Tigers scored in the eighth inning on Gene Michael’s third hit of the game to win a 6–5 victory over the Orioles, who suffered their sixth straight setback. Mickey Lolich, who pitched the route for the Tigers, allowed only five hits, but they included a homer by Dave Duncan with two men on base and another by Paul Blair with the sacks empty. With the score tied, 5–5, Mickey Stanley doubled in the eighth, took third on an infield out by Aurelio Rodriguez and scored the winning run on a single by Michael. Ron LeFlore also had three hits, including a triple, for the Tigers.
Carlton Fisk, catching in only his fourth game since fracturing his arm in spring training, hit his first homer since June 17, 1974, and Fred Lynn drove in three runs with a triple and single as the Red Sox defeated the Yankees, 6–1. Lynn accounted for two RBIs with his triple in the fourth inning and scored himself on a single by Cecil Cooper. Fisk homered in the seventh and two more runs followed in the same stanza on singles by Denny Doyle, Rick Miller, Rick Burleson and Lynn.
A grand slam by Bill Melton climaxed a five-run outburst by the White Sox in the eighth inning and clinched an 8–3 victory over the Rangers. The White Sox, in winning their fifth straight game, started the big inning with a single by Jorge Orta, who stole second and scored on a single by Carlos May. After a single by Deron Johnson and an error loaded the bases, Melton hit his homer off Ferguson Jenkins. Wilbur Wood is the winner.
Pitching eight shutout innings, Dennis Eckersley gained his fifth victory against one defeat when the Indians rolled over the Brewers, 9–2. Jackie Brown replaced the 20-year-old rookie righthander in the ninth and gave up the Brewers’ runs on a walk to Bobby Darwin and homer by Darrell Porter. John Lowenstein, Boog Powell and Buddy Bell each batted in two runs as the Indians extended their winning streak to five games.
George Brett had a perfect night at bat with a double and three singles and Fred Patek smashed a two-run homer as the Royals defeated the Angels, 7–1. The Royals stole four bases, giving them a total of 29 thefts in 33 attempts in 10 games against the Angels this season. In the first inning, Jim Wohlford was safe on an error, stole second and scored on a single by Brett. Following Wohlford’s lead, Brett also stole second and counted on a single by Hal McRae. Patek hit his homer, the first of the season for the diminutive shortstop, in the eighth.
Although Cesar Cedeno and Bob Watson each went hitless in five trips, other members of the Astros picked up the slack with a 13-hit attack to defeat the Braves, 8–4. Roger Metzger and Doug Rader collected three hits apiece. The Astros scored in each of the first four innings and coasted home behind the pitching of J.R. Richard.
Rarely a home-run hitter, Ted Sizemore came through with a circuit clout in the eighth inning when the Cardinals scored all their runs to defeat the Expos, 4–3. Doug Howard led off the stanza with a pinch-single. After Mike Tyson came in to run, Lou Brock popped up, but Sizemore then hit his first homer since July 28, 1974, and only the 14th of his major league career. The Cards proceeded to load the bases on a walk, error and single by Luis Melendez before Ken Reitz came up and singled to drive in their two other runs.
Striking out 13, John Candelaria allowed only five hits and pitched the Pirates to a 5–2 victory over the Cubs. The Pirates scored twice in the first inning on a homer by Richie Hebner, walk to Al Oliver, an infield out and error. The Cubs came back to tie the score with a homer by Andre Thornton in the seventh and another by Tim Hosley in the eighth. The Pirates then broke the tie in the ninth when Duffy Dyer singled, Bob Robertson walked and Rennie Stennett homered to score behind pinch-runners Mario Mendoza and Dock Ellis.
The Giants scored two runs off Andy Messersmith in the first inning and Ed Halicki, who pitched a five-hitter, made them stand up for a 2–0 victory over the Dodgers. In the first, Von Joshua singled, went to second on a passed ball and scored on a single by Bobby Murcer, who also crossed the plate on a double by Willie Montanez.
Detroit Tigers 6, Baltimore Orioles 5
New York Yankees 1, Boston Red Sox 6
Kansas City Royals 7, California Angels 1
Texas Rangers 3, Chicago White Sox 8
Atlanta Braves 4, Houston Astros 8
Cleveland Indians 9, Milwaukee Brewers 2
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Montreal Expos 3
Chicago Cubs 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 0, San Francisco Giants 2
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 874.14 (+1.41, +0.16%)
Born:
Stacey Mack, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars, Houston Texans), in Orlando, Florida.
Jason Middlebrook, MLB pitcher (San Diego Padres, New York Mets), in Jackson, Michigan.
Chris Armstrong, Canadian NHL defenseman (Minnesota Wild, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim), in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Umeki Webb, WNBA guard and forward (Phoenix Mercury, Miami Sol), in Dallas, Texas.
KJ-52 [Jonah Kirsten Sorrentino], American hip hop artist, born in Tampa, Florida.
Died:
Josemaría Escrivá, 73, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei; canonized 2002
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