United States allies have turned down an American‐Russian compromise on a key issue about advance notification of military exercises that was worked out about three weeks ago in hopes of making a breakthrough to conclude the European security conference in Geneva. The allies turned down the compromise as “unrealistic.” Negotiations on the point are continuing here between the Russians and the British, according to senior Western diplomats. Secretary of State Kissinger reached an agreement on details of what the security conference calls “confidence‐builddig measures” with the Soviet Ambassador to Washington, Anatoly F. Dobrynin.
Portugal took another major step toward completing decolonization when it announced that an interim government would be set up as soon as possible to run Lisbon’s 420-year-old colony on Timor. A Lisbon delegation met with leaders of two political parties from the Portuguese part of the island, which lies just north of Australia and which Portugal shares with Indonesia.
Twenty-one Greek army officers, ranging in rank from general to captain, were charged with conspiracy for allegedly planning to kidnap Premier Konstantine Karamanlis and restore a military dictatorship. No date was set for the trial of the officers who included General Spyros Eliopoulos and Gen. George Labousis. Pretrial testimony indicated the officers had planned to kidnap Karamanlis and bargain for the freedom of imprisoned former strong man General Dimitrios Ioannides.
About 1,000 police in the university city of Heidelberg, West Germany, fought 2,000 youthful leftists who were protesting raises in public transportation fares. The police used nightsticks, water cannon and tear gas on the demonstrators, who retaliated by tossing rocks and bottles. It was the sixth protest against the fare hikes of about 25% passed by the city council to counter a multimillion-dollar deficit in public transportation.
Six left‐wing members of the central committee of Italy’s dominant Christian Democratic party announced their resignations today to provoke changes in party leadership in response to Communist gains in recent regional elections. The six — three of them Cabinet members — said that they would hand their resignations from the committee to the party leader, Amintore Fanfani, at a meeting on Monday. They have called for profound changes in Christian Democratic policy to take account of the new political situation. They said in a statement that they wanted to prevent the fall of he Christian Democrat‐led Government of Premier Aldo Moro. This presumably means that the ministers involved Carlo Donat‐Cattin, industry; Ciriaco de Mita, foreign trade, and Giovanni Marcora, agriculture — would keep their Cabinet posts.
The Soviet press agency Tass today issued an “authorized” denial from the Kremlin of allegations that Moscow sent instructions to Western Communists on how to seize power in their countries. The statement, following an earlier article ridiculing the charges, indicated that the Kremlin was unusually upset by the charges. Last Monday, the French leftist newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris published what purported to be an analysis of instructions to Western Communist parties from a Soviet party official, Boris N. Ponomarev. Tass said today that the allegations were “nothing but a provocative fabrication intended to slander the activities of Communist parties in the countries of Western Europe and to damage the cause of revolutionary‐democratic transformations in Portugal.”
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko had an hour-long audience with Pope Paul VI, and the Vatican said the discussions centered on the status of the 12.5 million Roman Catholics in the Soviet Union. It was Gromyko’s fifth meeting with the Pontiff since 1965. Officials said later that they had also discussed disarmament, world peace and the European Security Conference in Geneva. The talks were attended by the Very Rev. Agostino Casaroll, the Pope’s foreign affairs aide, who has been a proponent of the Vatican’s policy of better relations with Eastern Europe.
Four companies have been fined $1,000 each for failure to report requests to support an Arab boycott against Israel. The Commerce Department identified the four as National Cash Register Co.; AGIP-USA, Inc.; and Inter-Equipment Co., all of New York City, and Continental-Emsco Co. of Houston. The Export Administration Act requires U.S. exporters to report requests to participate in trade boycotts. The Commerce Department did not identify the Arab companies or banks involved nor did it say whether the U.S. exporters acceded to the Arab requests.
A number of people were killed or wounded in Beirut as street fighting between rightist and leftist factions spread to new areas of the capital. A series of explosions rocked the Hamra shopping area, and a store where members of the foreign community, especially Americans and British, do their shopping was destroyed. Snipers opened fire on a street where there are local and foreign banks. Meanwhile, the exchange of mortar fire and rockets continued in the belaguered districts of Chiyah and Ain al-Rummaneh where the fighting had previously been centered. The exchanges spread to the, district of Sin al‐Fil at the southern end of the city. According to the police, the number of casualties in the last five days has risen to 49 dead and 115 wounded. The fighting continued despite an appeal issued jointly last night by Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, and Lebanon’s former president Camille Chamoun, who is one of the country’s most prominent Christian leaders. Mr. Chamoun is also an ally of the right‐wing Phalangist party, whose militia has fought the guerrillas and their leftist supporters.
Ahmed al‐Azzawi, an Iraqi member of the leadership of the ruling party, has been seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in Damascus, Syria, it was announced tonight. He is a member of the “Pan-Arab” section of the Baath party. Rival wings of the Baath party rule Syria and Iraq. The party here, in announcing the incident, blamed the Iraqi wing for the assassination attempt on Thursday against the pro‐Syrian Mr. Azzawi. The statement said that explosives had been planted under Mr. Azzawi’s car outside his home here and had been set to go off when the car door opened.
Chief Justice Ajitnath Ray of the Indian Supreme Court, which was scheduled to review Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s recent conviction on election corruption charges next month, resigned today, according to sources close to the court. He was named to the post at Mrs. Gandhi’s behest in 1973. No reason was given for the reported resignation, which was the first of a top Indian official since a state of emergency was declared Thursday. His appointment had drawn attacks from a number of Indian jurists because he was promoted over three senior judges. A number of jurists termed the appointment “politically motivated.” Speculation on the reason for the reported resignation of Justice Ray took various lines today. One theory was that it was in protest against the declaration of the stage of emergency, which granted sweeping powers to Mrs. Gandhi’s Government and has touched off worldwide controversy. Meanwhile, India’s new Information Ministry chief called in all foreign correspondents in New Delhi and warned them that they risked expulsion from the country if they failed to submit their dispatches for censorship before sending them to their home offices for publication.
Anti-American demonstrators occupied U.S. buildings in Vientiane for the second time in five weeks to press demands for further removal of U.S. personnel from Laos. The armed demonstrators took over the U.S. Information Service office as well as a suburban maintenance facility. They also surrounded an American residential compound. In a six-page declaration, the Pathet Lao central committee called on the United States to “remove its military personnel, totally dissolve its espionage organization in Laos, like the CIA” and “contribute to healing the wounds of war.” U.S. sources said there were only 42 American officials remaining in the country.
The Japanese whaling industry was deeply shocked by the decision lof the International Whaling Commission in London to cut whale quotas and will apparently be forced to drastically reduce its operations. Major Japanese fining companies are reportedly planning to reduce or merge their whaling departments, cut down their fleets of whalers and switch surplus crew member it other duties. Japan, along with the Soviet Union, is one of the two remaining major whaling nations. The Japanese whaling industry alone last year accounted for 38 per cent of the total world catch quota of 37,300 whales. Despite the rise of antiwhalling sentiment in the United States and elsewhere in recent years most Japanese have tended to look on whaling as an important national industry for this land of scanty resources.
In a television address to the nation, President Isabel Martinez de Perón of Argentina lashed out at Perónist labor leaders who organized a general strike and demonstrations Friday to protest government proposals to roll back recent salary increases. She called for continued support for her government and its economic austerity program, but offered immediate salary increases of 50 percent for employees, with an additional 30 percent by the end of the year. But these concessions were far short of most wage settlements of up to 130 per cent recently obtained by the major trade unions. Her speech seemed to put her on a collision course with a substantial part of the labor movement, a principal supporter of her government.
Marxist guerrillas from Zaire today freed two of the three student hostages they have held for six weeks near Lake Tanganyika. The two students, Carrie Jane Hunter, 21 years old, from Atherton, California, and Emilie Bergman, 25, a Dutch woman, apparently were in good health when they arrived at the Tanzanian port of Kigoma across the lake from the guerrilla hideout. The third student, Kenneth Stephen Smith, 22, from Garden Grove, California, still is being held hostage. His release depends on further negotiations with the guerrillas, a United States embassy official said.
The Anglo-Australian Telescope, at 153 inches the 3rd largest optical telescope in the world (after the Mount Palomar and Kitt Peak telescopes in the United States), and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere went into operation.
A high-level government commission called for dividing the posts of Secretary of State and Assistant to the President for National Security but, the commission indicated, only after Henry Kissinger leaves government service. This was one of scores of reforms proposed by the Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy, which was established by Congress and President Richard Nixon two years ago. Members of the commission acknowledged at a news conference that their purpose was to undo the concentration of power in foreign policy-making that has evolved over the last six years. Mr. Kissinger, however, was praised for “his extraordinary abilities.”
Dennis Banks, a leader of the American Indian Movement, was asked by Indian leaders to meet with federal officials at the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, where 200 armed federal officers are searching for Indians believed to have killed two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday. Mr. Banks is soon going on trial on arson and other charges stemming from the Indian takeover of Wounded Knee on the reservation in 1973. He said he was “available to meet with anyone to stop bloodshed.”
Deaths from heart disease have been declining steadily since 1969, according to a National Lung Institute report sent to Congress by President Ford. “Since 1969, deaths caused by the No. 1 killer-coronary heart disease-have shown a decline of about 2%, or 14,000 deaths a year,” Mr. Ford said in an accompanying message. “Deaths from stroke, hypertension and rheumatic heart disease are continuing their downward trend and the death rate from emphysema and chronic bronchitis, after years of sharp increases, has leveled off.” Mr. Ford attributed the trend partly to federal research programs but did not endorse the report’s recommendation for increased spending on research.
Their number has tripled since 1969, but black elected officials still account for less than 1% of all elected officials in the United States, a survey found. The Joint Center for Political Studies, a black think tank in Washington, D.C., reported that 3,503 blacks were in elected office as of May 1 in 45 states and the District of Columbia. There were 2,991 black officials in 1974 and 1,185 in 1969, the center said. The nation has more than 500,000 elected officials.
The Harris Survey said 49% of persons interviewed in a recent poll opposed the immigration of Vietnamese refugees into the United States. Thirty-seven per cent did not oppose it. Conversely, Harris said, more than five out of six Americans welcomed the Vietnamese orphans who were brought to the United States. Harris said that 85% in the poll felt that there had been too much panic about rescuing refugees from Vietnam and that the United States should arrange to send back those who wanted to go.
The Houston police chief, whose department has been accused of illegal wiretapping, resigned to resume his former post as deputy chief. Carrol Lynn said his effectiveness had come to an end as a result of the controversy growing out of a federal grand jury investigation of wiretap charges. Two former Houston policemen pleaded guilty Wednesday to placing illegal wiretaps on two residential telephones in 1971 and 1972. Nine officers were indicted within weeks after Lynn took office for numerous federal violations that, he said, had occurred during the previous administration.
A five-alarm fire destroyed a 200-year-old Bourbon St. building in New Orleans’ French Quarter as hundreds of tourists watched. Three firemen were injured, none seriously. William McCrossen, city fire department superintendent, said that only a firewall had prevented the blaze from igniting the entire block. Twenty-one pieces of equipment and 105 firemen fought the fire for more than two hours in pouring rain. Huge clouds of yellow smoke billowed from the frame-and-brick building that housed two bars, Your Father’s Moustache and Clarity.
Some Southern judges and civil rights lawyers, faced with the fact that white flight is resegregating many previously desegregated schools, appear to be softening their insistence on total integration. In a number of significant instances in the last several years — and in the last several weeks, in particular — the judges and lawyers have dropped or modified demands for widespread busing and have permitted school administrations to operate neighborhood schools. Their actions seem to be part of a trend that is not limited to the South.
Federal and local officials investigating the murder of Sam Giancana, the Mafia boss slain here June 19, are leaning toward the theory that he was the victim of a conflict between the old and young within the Chicago Mafia similar to the Gallo-Profaci war in New York 15 years ago.
The Interior Department reported that its proposed leasing of offshore oil and gas tracts in the Gulf of Alaska could result in chronic oil spills. The department said the 1.8 million acres in the northern gulf between Middleton Island and Icy Bay might contain between 100 million to 2.8 billion barrels of oil and from 300 billion to 9 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The oil’s value was placed at $1.2 billion to $33 billion and the gas from $156 million to $5 billion at current prices. The department said oil spills would be local and relatively minor, but might still be “disruptive to fish and wildlife.” It also estimated that approximately 12,000 barrels of crude oil will be spilled annually in the northern gulf.
Pollution control officials searched by air for a ship that may have dumped heavy oil that caused beach damage along Lake Michigan near Chicago. The vessel was not found, and officials said it was unlikely the source of the leak could be traced because the ship could now be anywhere in the Lake. The oil caused closing of three beaches and fouled the Jackson Park Harbor yacht basin. Authorities said about 1,000 gallons of heavy No. 6 bunker oil spilled and caused extensive damage to the beaches. A spokesman said the polluted sand must be removed and replaced.
Sanitation workers began picking up tons of trash that had accumulated on New York City curbs, ending a walkout that had started as a protest over the planned firing Monday of 2,900 workers in an economy cutback. Crews from two garages on Manhattan’s East Side returned to work after city officials agreed to lift suspensions imposed on nearly 200 trash collectors who had engaged in a wildcat work stoppage.
New and hidden deficits totaling $292 million in New York City’s budgets for the last two years have been uncovered by the State Controller in an audit of city finances. A confidential draft of the audit said that the deficits resulted from bookkeeping errors that caused the City Controller to “overstate” anticipated federal and state revenues in 1973 and 1974. The draft also said that both the current Controller, Harrison Goldin, and his predecessor, Abraham Beame, had issued notes against federal and state revenues that were not enough to cover the note issues. This means according to the draft, that the city has borrowed to pay its bills against revenues that it did not have, still has not received and has no likelihood of ever getting, and Mayor Beame, who is desperately seeking more money to stave off deficits in the future, will have to find $292 million to pay past deficits. The shortfall will have to be financed from current appropriations, the draft said.
Former White House aide John D. Ehrlichman, convicted in the Watergate coverup case, is “apparently out of touch” with his family, Washington Post columnist Maxine Cheshire reported. She said Ehrlichman was now living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and his wife, Jeanne, was in Bellevue, Washington, their hometown. The columnist said Mrs. Ehrlichman had run into an old friend at a party in Bellevue and “indicated that the couple’s separation is more than geographic.” She quoted Mrs. Ehrlichman as saying her husband had not been “in communication” with his family recently. Ehrlichman was not available for comment, and Mrs. Ehrlichman said she would not discuss personal matters. Miss Cheshire quoted her as saying, “We had a wonderful marriage for 25 years and I would have stuck by him forever if he wanted me to.”
Princess Maria Christina of the Netherlands, fourth and youngest daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard, was married today to a Cubanborn teacher from New York.
Olivia Newton-John, named female vocalist of 1974 by the Academy of Country Music, has crossed musical swords with jazz musician Stan Kenton. “Ridiculous,” she snapped when asked about Kenton’s remarks that country music was a national disgrace. “There’s been a great upsurge in country music because it’s very simple,” Miss Newton-John said. “I’ve noticed in the past six weeks that there have been as many country hits in the pop charts as pop songs.” In remarks to the Nashville Banner, Kenton said, “It is ignorant music and perverted music. I abhor it.” Jazz drummer Buddy Rich has said he felt country music “appeals to intellectuals with the minds of 4-year-olds.”
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Al Bumbry, Lee May and Don Baylor each drove in two runs to lead the Orioles to a 7–4 victory over the Tigers. Bumbry’s two-run triple highlighted a three-run first inning. May raised his RBI total to 46 with a run-scoring single and sacrifice fly, and Baylor singled home two runs in the eighth canto. Oriole manager Earl Weaver was ejected from the game in the fourth frame for protesting too strenuously on ball and strike calls.
Walt Williams doubled home the tie-breaking run in the eighth inning and scored an insurance tally on a sacrifice fly to lead the Yankees to an 8–6 triumph over the Red Sox and regain first place in the A. L. East. The nationally televised game was tied 6–6 when Sandy Alomar opened the Yanks’ eighth with a single. Bobby Bonds forced Alomar but Williams followed with a screeching double that went past third baseman Rico Petrocelli and eluded Carl Yastrzemski in the left-field corner. Bonds scored and Williams took third on the throw to the plate. Thurman Munson’s fly to deep right then delivered Williams. The Yanks took a 6–2 lead with a five-run fifth. Munson’s single with the bases loaded drove in two and two more scored on Dwight Evans’ errant throw from right field. The Sox tied the contest with four in the sixth, the big blow being a three-run homer by Yastrzemski, his second circuit blast of the game.
Ken Henderson drove in two runs with sacrifice flies to back up Claude Osteen’s six-hit pitching as the White Sox scored their seventh consecutive victory by defeating the Royals, 5–3. The Sox scoring began in the opening inning on a walk to Jorge Orta, Bucky Dent’s single, Deron Johnson’s double and Henderson’s first sacrifice fly. After K.C. tied the count in the second, Pat Kelly’s triple and Orta’s double gave the Sox a 3–2 lead in the third. Singles by Bill Melton, Carlos May and Bob Coluccio produced another score in the fourth and Henderson’s second sacrifice fly drove in the final Sox marker in the fifth.
Bobby Mitchell drove in four runs and Charlie Moore broke a 6–6 tie with an eighth-inning double to lead the Brewers to a 10–6 victory over the Indians and snap the Tribe’s six-game winning streak. Mitchell unloaded a three-run homer to climax a five-run first and doubled home a run in the game-winning four-run outburst in the eighth. The score was tied 6–6 with one out when Sixto Lezcano singled and scored on Moore’s double down the left field line. Mitchell doubled to score Moore. Robin Yount’s two-run single completed the scoring. Rick Austin, who joined the Brewers from Sacramento earlier in the week, gained his first major league victory since winning two games for Cleveland in 1970.
Rod Carew doubled home the tying run in the seventh inning and then scored himself on Dan Ford’s single to rally the Twins past the Rangers, 5–3. The Rangers had a 3–2 lead through six frames when Lyman Bostock tripled off starter Gaylord Perry to open the seventh. Carew doubled to tie the game. Perry then walked Steve Brye and Steve Braun beat out an infield hit to load the bases. Ford singled to left to score Carew and chase Perry. Stan Thomas relieved and induced Jerry Terrell to bounce into a double play while Brye scored. Perry was tagged with his sixth straight loss, the last three since being traded to the Rangers a month ago.
Reggie Jackson was the big cannon as the A’s trundled up their heavy artillery to roll to their seventh straight victory, a 10–4 rout of the Angels. Jackson slammed his 17th and 18th homers of the season, doubled, drove in three runs and scored three. After the Angels took a 2–0 lead in the first frame, Jackson tied the score with a two-run blast in the third. The big slugger capped a four-run fourth with a 453-foot shot to right. Righthander Dick Bosman went the first five innings to pick up his fifth win in six decisions since joining the A’s. Paul Lindblad finished up for his fourth save.
At Riverfront Stadium, George Foster hits a 2-out 2-run homer in the 10th inning to give the Reds a 6–4 win over the Padres. In winning, the Reds played errorless ball for the 12th consecutive game, setting a league record. Joe Morgan walked with one out in the 10th, stole second and, one out later, scored ahead of Foster’s 11th circuit blast of the campaign. The game had been a see-saw contest early with the Reds scoring the tying counter in the eighth when Morgan beat out a bunt, stole second and scored on Dan Driessen’s single.
Bill Bonham made the Pirates walk the plank, tossing a six-hitter as the Cubs downed the Bucs, 1–0, on the strength of George Mitterwald’s home run. Mitterwald, a reserve catcher inserted at first base for injured Andre Thornton, lined a 1–1 pitch 380 feet over the left-center field fence in the second stanza and Bonham made it stand up as the winning run. A diving stop by third baseman Bill Madlock on Manny Sanguillen’s smash with the tying run on third and two out in the ninth preserved the victory.
Stout relief pitching by Mike Garman preserved the Cardinals’ 3–2 victory over the Expos. The burly righthander entered the game in the last of the 10th with runners on first and second and none out and retired the side on a force play at third and a double-play grounder. The Cardinals had scored the go-ahead run in the top of the frame on Ron Fairly’s pinch-hit. The winning rally began with two out as Ted Simmons singled, Ken Reitz doubled and Ted Sizemore was walked intentionally to load the sacks. Fairly, batting for winning pitcher Al Hrabosky, then delivered a single back of first base to plate Simmons with the game winner.
Rusty Staub and Dave Kingman each drove in a pair of runs and rookie Randy Tate hurled a four-hitter to give the Mets a 5–2 victory over the Phillies. Staub singled home a tally in the first frame and delivered another with a sacrifice fly in the third. Kingman’s bases-loaded single snapped a 2–2 tie in the fifth. The game was delayed an hour and 27 minutes by rain in the last of the second inning.
Marty Perez singled home two eighth-inning runs and Biff Pocoroba added his first major league homer in the ninth to spark the Braves to a 6–3 victory over the Astros. Perez’ hit broke a 3–3 tie and followed a wild streak by Astro starter Dave Roberts. Roberts walked Pocoroba to start the inning. Rowland Office sacrificed Pocoroba to second before Roberts issued his eighth walk of the game to Larvell Blanks. Wayne Granger replaced Roberts and got the second out before intentionally walking Ralph Garr to load the bases. Perez then followed with a single to center. The Braves had rallied from a 3–0 deficit in the seventh on a pinch-hit homer by Rod Gilbreath, an error, double by Perez and single by Dusty Baker.
Bobby Murcer’s pinch-hit single off reliever Mike Marshall drove in the decisive run as the Giants edged the Dodgers, 2–1. The winning rally came in the seventh inning as Chris Speier doubled with one out and, after Steve Ontiveros flied out, pinch-hitter Chris Arnold drew a walk. Marc Hill singled to center to score Speier and Marshall replaced starter Doug Rau. Murcer then batted for pinch-hitter Jake Brown, who had been announced, and hit a 3–2 pitch to right field for a single. The winning hurler was John Montefusco (5–3), who allowed only four hits and no earned runs before leaving for a pinch-hitter in the seventh. Rau was the losing pitcher and it was the first time the Giants defeated a lefthanded thrower in 10 straight tries.
Detroit Tigers 4, Baltimore Orioles 7
New York Yankees 8, Boston Red Sox 6
Oakland Athletics 10, California Angels 4
Kansas City Royals 3, Chicago White Sox 5
San Diego Padres 4, Cincinnati Reds 6
Atlanta Braves 6, Houston Astros 3
Cleveland Indians 6, Milwaukee Brewers 10
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Montreal Expos 2
Philadelphia Phillies 2, New York Mets 5
Chicago Cubs 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, San Francisco Giants 2
Minnesota Twins 5, Texas Rangers 3
Died:
Rod Serling, 50, American television screenwriter best known as host of The Twilight Zone.
Jesse Langdon, 94, last surviving member of the “Rough Riders” of the Spanish–American War.
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