The United States and the Soviet Union ended an eight-week recess in strategic arms limitation talks and resumed negotiations in Geneva. Chief negotiators U. Alexis Johnson and Vladimir S. Semenov are under instructions to reach agreement on a new pact by the end of the year. Progress this summer will largely determine the date of the prospective visit to Washington by Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev, who wants to sign the pact during that visit.
A United States Senatorial delegation conferred with Leonid I. Brezhnev for two and one half hours today and came away saying they were convinced that the Soviet leader was genuinely worried about the arms race. The delegation of 14 Senators said at a news conference later that their visit had resulted in no major changes in Soviet positions. The Senators said that, if nothing else, their visit had helped convince Moscow that dealings with the United States must involve the Congress as well as the White House if results are to be achieved. Mr. Brezhnev appeared to be in good humor as he received his visitors in his office in the Council of Ministers Building of the Kremlin.
A White House official said today that President Ford had refused to meet with Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn on advice from the National Security Council. Mr. Solzhenitsyn, who has been critical of the Soviet system in his writings, was deported from his homeland last year, and Mr. Ford was persuaded, according to the White House source, that a meeting with the exiled writer would be inconsistent with the policy of détente. For several days, the White House has been avoiding saying that Mr. Ford does not want to see the author. The President reportedly did not want to embarrass Mr. Solzhenitsyn or offend his admirers. The President turned down an invitation from the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations to hear Mr. Solzhenitsyn speak at a dinner in his honor on Monday. Mr. Ford also rejected a request from two conservative Republican Senators, Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, to meet with the exiled writer, who is visiting the United States.
Four bombs blasted official buildings in separated areas of the French Riviera coast, injuring one man and causing wide damage. First hit was an office at Nice dealing with compensation for former French North African settlers. Other explosions hit the town hall of Sainte-Maxime and tax offices in Toulon and Hyeres. There was no indication who made the attacks. The injured man was the custodian of the Sainte-Maxime town hall.
Nicos G. Dimitrlou, the Cypriote Ambassador to the United States, charged at a news conference today that the Government of Turkey was attempting to alter the ethnic structure of Cyprus by settling thousands of mainland Turks in previously Greek areas. Asked to respond, a top-ranking official of the Turkish Embassy said that Mr. Dimitriou’s charges were “fictitious, unfounded, not true and sheer propaganda.” Ambassador Dimitriou asserted that he had received information from Nicosia that Turkish occupation forces had “forcibly, displaced nearly 1,000 Greek Cypriotes from the Karpas peninsula” since last Friday. He added that Turkey was “systematically colonizing” the regions she controls on Cyprus “at a rate of 1,500 Turks a week.” His informants in Nicosia, the Ambassador continued, said that Turkey also planned to transfer about 8,000 Turkish gypsies from the mainland to Cyprus. The Turkish Embassy official said that he had “never heard” of a plan to transfer gypsies and that the idea of moving 1,500 Turks a week to Cyprus was “impossible.”
The Government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson moved today on several fronts to build public support, particularly among the trade unions, for its proposed measures to reduce Britain’s high inflation rate. The measures, announced yesterday in the House of Commons, would place a statutory limit of 10 percent on wage increases unless labor and management agreed by the end of next week to a voluntary policy that satisfies the 10 percent target and includes “convincing arrangements for ensuring compliance.”
Hundreds of persons were evacuated from Vienna as the Danube overflowed its banks and elsewhere caused a train wreck and fatal landslides. Nine persons have died in Austria from the heavy rains and floods that have inundated farmlands in Austria, southeast Germany and Czechoslovakia. A slide crushed a cottage in Opponitz, Austria, killing two women. Three persons were injured in a derailment at St. Poelten, near Vienna.
West Germany was shaken by the American withdrawal from Indochina, not into reappraising its nearly indissoluble trans-Atlantic ties but into worry that the United States might consider pulling out some of its troops. The American role in West Germany is nevertheless considerably less powerful than immediately after World War II. America was almost loved by many Germans in the years immediately after 1945. Rescue from the vindictive Soviet Army to the east came with American and Allied occupation. The Marshall Plan later brought an end to the misery of the war’s destruction and guaranteed that West Germany could prosper in a capitalist society at the boundary with the, system of Soviet‐dominated Communism in Eastern Europe.
Secretary of State Kissinger will meet with the Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei A. Gromyko in Geneva next week to discuss a possible reconvening of the Middle East peace conference and other issues affecting the United States and the Soviet Union. The possibility also arose today that while in Europe Mr. Kissinger would also discuss Middle East diplomatic efforts with Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel. In addition to the Geneva meeting between Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Gromyko on July 10 and 11 that was announced here in and in Moscow today, American officials said that Mr. Kissinger would probably stop in Paris and Bonn and perhaps some other cities on his way to and from Geneva. He is expected to leave Washington July 9 and return July 13.
The debate in Israel whether to accede to Egypt’s demand of a complete withdrawal from the Sinai mountain passes has opened deep divisions in the Israeli government, the ruling Labor party and the smaller parties. No decision is expected before Sunday and it might take a week longer, depending on clarifications of the Egyptian demand and the American attitude. Whatever the outcome of the Israeli discussions, the issue is already being described by Israelis as the most divisive and difficult faced by the 13‐month‐old Government of Mr. Rabin. At stake is not only the future of the American‐sponsored step‐by‐step negotiating approach in the Middle East, but, in the opinion of top Israeli officials, the future of American‐Israeli relations.
Lebanese security forces in armored cars today moved into the embattled Christian and Muslim neighborhoods where nearly 300 persons have died in violent street fighting in the last week. There was no resistance. A cease‐fire agreement announced by Premier Rashid Karami gradually took hold in this battered capital. The appearance of normal life grew. During the day only isolated bursts of gunfire were heard. Camille Chamoun, Minister of the Interior, warned in a television announcement that security forces had orders to reply to any fire with cannons. Armored cars and trucks filled with heavily armed gendarmes, reinforced by army troops, circulated through the city center. Fighting still went on last night and until dawn in the adjoining Christian neighborhood of Ain al‐Rummaneh and the Moslem district of Chia, where the heaviest clashes hate taken place since the crisis began April 13. Since yesterday, 30 more bodies have been brought to hospitals and the morgue, increasing the death count in the fighting since May 24 to 280, according to police sources. More than 700 persons were wounded. Armored cars went into the Chia and Ain al‐Rummaneh streets to evacuate some civilians who had been trapped in their homes for a week while snipers shot at anything that moved, and rocket‐grenades shattered building walls.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said that democracy in India had given too much license to newspapers and opposition leaders trying to abuse it and weaken the nation’s confidence. Arrests of large numbers of anti-government demonstrators were reported in parts of Northern India. Strict censorship rules were extended to cartoons, photographs and advertisements likely to come within the purview of the regulations. “Even today we are more democratic than any developing country in the world,” she added, according to a Government summary of her remarks, which were made in Hindi, India’s principal language. Critics of the Government, however, continued to charge that it had “killed democracy” with its emergency decree last Thursday, when it imposed rigorous press censorship and assumed sweeping new powers. Arrests reportedly continued in several parts of northern India today. But in general, India was calm and order prevailed, as the fierce monsoon rains swept across the country. Despite Mrs. Gandhi’s declaration that she was responding to a “threat to internal stability,” many Indians feel that the only real threat was to her own political future.
Diplomats arriving in Laos from South Vietnam reported clashes between the new Communist rulers and die-hard troops holding out in the Saigon area and around the country. They said the Saigon government also was concerned with recovering hidden weapons and weeding out civil servants and army officers, many of them high ranking, who have ignored orders to register with the government. Meanwhile, in Vientiane, the Lao cabinet met to discuss the takeover of five American installations in the capital by demonstrators, informed sources said.
Radio Phnom Penh indicated reports that Cambodia’s new Khmer Rouge rulers no longer recognize Prince Norodom Sihanouk as head of state were untrue by making a reference to the prince. The radio, in a broadcast monitored in Bangkok, referred to a victory meeting in the Cambodian capital on April 28, less than two weeks after the city had fallen to the Khmer Rouge: “April 28 recalls for all of us the sacrifices made by our fighting men, by our chief of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk, our Premier Penh Nouth and our Vice Premier Khieu Samphan” Meanwhile a Pyongyang broadcast confirmed that Sihanouk remains in North Korea.
Former Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr., once the main political opponent of President Ferdinand E. Marcos, will be tried in a military court on charges of subversion, murder and illegal possession of firearms, the Philippine government said. Aquino was hospitalized last month after fasting for 40 days to protest the trial by military tribunal. He has been under military detention since Marcos imposed martial law 34 months ago.
Deputy Australian Prime Minister Jim Cairns was fired by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam after being accused of improper activity in obtaining foreign loans for Australia. Australia’s Parliament voted 55-33 on July 14 to accept the firing.
Prison guards at Canada’s 49 federal penitentiaries staged a one-day walkout to back demands for full observance of the death penalty. The unprecedented strike followed the slaying of a guard last week as he escorted a convict to a Montreal hospital. Canada’s partial abolition laws retain the death penalty for murders of police and prison guards but the federal cabinet has used its commutation powers in all such cases since 1962.
The International Women’s Year World Conference in Mexico City adopted a 10-year plan of action intended to improve the status of women. As the conference wound up, some saw it as the beginning of a new world and others cautioned that it could lead only to token gestures. A separate Declaration of Mexico was also voted, over U.S. and Israeli opposition, urging an end to colonialism, Zionism and apartheid.
The World Wildlife Fund appealed to all governments to adhere to a convention protecting endangered animals. It said only 12 nations so far had joined the convention. The fund said it was particularly important that Japan, the Soviet Union and the nine members of the European Common Market, all major importers of wildlife and its products, adhere to the convention. The agreement calls on participating nations to protect the leopard, jaguar, cheetah, tiger, gorilla, orangutan, five species of whales, chimpanzees, grizzly bears and many plants threatened with extinction.
President Ford, calling a strong housing industry “crucial to our overall economic recovery,” signed into law today a compromise housing measure intended to spur the construction and sale of 300,000 homes. The bill makes available $10‐billion for Government purchase of housing mortgages at a subsidized interest rate of 7.5 percent. Congress approved the measure last week after failing to enact over Mr. Ford’s veto a $1.3‐billion program of direct mortgage assistance to middle-income homebuyers. At a bill‐signing ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, the President praised Congress for “quickly enacting meaningful and effective housing legislation.”
Government alone cannot cure unemployment and the Ford Administration will not make large promises about jobs which it cannot keep. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon said. He was addressing the 66th annual convention, being held in Washington, D.C., of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, where jobs and their lack were prime topics. The best way to put people back to work, Simon said, is to get the economy moving.
The Central Intelligence Agency has retained Arnold & Porter, a leading Washington law firm, as consulting counsel during Senate and House hearings on the agency. A partner and prominent civil rights lawyer, Mitchell Rogovin, will head the work for the CIA. Some lawyers were surprised at the move. The agency has its own legal staff and also can get the assistance of Justice Department attorneys.
U.S. Senate Republican candidate Louis C. Wyman of New Hampshire denied a news report that he might have arranged a diplomatic appointment in return for a political contribution to former President Richard M. Nixon. The New York Times reported that Ruth Farkas, ambassador to Luxembourg, told a grand jury she got her post by contributing $300,000 to Mr. Nixon’s 1972 reelection campaign. According to the New York paper, she implicated Wyman in the deal. Mrs. Farkas would not comment. Wyman, however, vehemently denied any illegality in acting as middleman.
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused the bankrupt Stirling Homex Corporation, once one of the nation’s leading modular homebuilders, of creating phantom sales, making illegal political contributions, using illegal bugging equipment and making payoffs to union officials. Also named among defendants in a fraud suit was the brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., which underwrote the sale of the company’s preferred stock in 1971. It was charged with inadequate inquiry into its financial condition.
A White House spokesman predicted there will be no shortage of gasoline for motorists this summer — but warned of some shortages of natural gas in the industrial Midwest and Northeast this fall and winter. An energy meeting called by President Ford to assess the nation’s fuel supplies and prospects concluded that New Jersey, Ohio, North Carolina and some other states may face serious natural gas shortages, and industries — rather than residences — will be hardest hit.
A survey by the Federal Energy Administration shows the United States has 11% more crude oil in reserve than previously estimated by the petroleum industry. The FEA study, based on questionnaires sent to more than 22,000 operators, showed proven crude oil reserves of 38.2 billion barrels, compared with an American Petroleum Institute estimate of 34.2 billion barrels, according to Eric Zausner, an acting FEA deputy administrator.
American space officials are confident that the U.S.-Soviet joint space mission set for July 15 can go on as planned while two Russian cosmonauts orbit the earth aboard the Salyut space station, a space agency spokesman said. That was in answer to Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin), who has expressed doubt that the Russians could handle two missions at once.
A former Ohio National Guard sergeant testified he screamed to guardsmen, “If you’re going to fire, fire in the air,” when guardsmen began shooting at anti-war demonstration students at Kent State University May 4, 1970. Mathew McManus testified in Cleveland in federal court at the trial of a $48 million civil suit filed by parents of the four students killed and nine wounded by guardsmen. Meanwhile, a federal appeals court called “constitutionally impermissible” and threw out the gag rule imposed by the Kent trial judge forbidding trial participants from talking to news media representatives.
Thousands of striking state workers picketed public buildings for the second day as Pennsylvania filed 13 requests for injunctions and won two key court suits. Officials estimated that about 50,000 of 120,000 employees were out. One court suit forced nurses back to work at general and mental hospitals and the other ordered custodial workers back to eight general hospitals. The strikers want raises of 10% or 11%. Gov. Milton J. Shapp has offered 3.5%.
Millions of acres of some of the richest agricultural land in the nation have been devastated in the worst disaster ever to strike the Red River Valley region of North Dakota and Minnesota. Damage in North Dakota alone from the torrential weekend rains and storms could amount to $1 billion, according to one North Dakota official. Much of the damage is not thought to be insured and the governors of the two states said they would ask that the 10,000-square-mile area be declared a disaster zone.
An Indian who allegedly bragged to friends about the shootout on the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux Reservation in South Dakota in which two FBI agents were killed last week will testify before a federal grand jury, the FBI said. “You should have been there, we had fun,” David Sky told friends two days after the gun battle, according to an affidavit.
A young child fishing with his father discovered the body of Donald Watt Cressey, the senior cook at Old Faithful Lodge, who had died on the night of June 29-30 in a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park. Only partial remains could be recovered. Cressey had died in the same hot spring in which Brian Parsons, also a Yellowstone park concessioner employee, had been fatally burned in July 1967. After Cressey’s death the hot spring was named “Dead Savage Spring” by the U.S. Geological Survey, “savage” being Yellowstone jargon for a park concessioner employee.
The long-dormant volcano Mount Baker in the state of Washington is coming back to life and may provide the first volcanic activity in more than 60 years within the 48 contiguous states. Authorities have closed almost 10,000 acres of recreational lands because of the threat of landslides, avalanches and mudflows from the steaming mountain, just as the vacation season is getting underway.
Major League Baseball:
With two out in the ninth inning, successive singles by Jerry Hairston, Bucky Dent and Brian Downing gave the White Sox a 5–4 victory over the Athletics.
In a 13–5 win over Detroit, Baltimore’s Don Baylor homers his first 3 times up, giving him 4 consecutive home runs over 2 games to tie the Major League record. Jim Northrup added a two-run homer for the Orioles, while Al Bumbry accounted for four of the Birds’ 18 hits and drove in three runs. Although staked to an 11–0 lead at one point, Mike Torrez failed to hurl the route and needed relief from Dyar Miller in the seventh inning.
Jim Rice, installed today as the Red Sox regular left fielder, belts 2 homers in the first game, including one that is the longest ever hit at County Stadium. Boston’s Rick Wise wins the opener, 6–3, not giving up a hit until two are out in the 9th. Wise, only one out away from becoming the second pitcher in modern history to throw a no-hitter in each league, opened the ninth by striking out Robin Yount and retiring Don Money on a pop fly. The Red Sox righthander then walked light-hitting Bill Sharp on four pitches before disaster struck in the form of homers by George Scott and Bobby Darwin. Wise pitched a no-hitter for the Phillies against the Reds in the National League in 1971. The only modern pitcher with no-hitters in each league is Jim Bunning, who hurled one for the Tigers in 1958 and another for the Phillies in 1964. In game 2, the Brewers win, 4–3. Fred Lynn is kept off the bases, ending his streak of 38 straight games. Gorman Thomas and Pedro Garcia hit homers for the Brewers, who scored their winning run in the sixth inning on successive singles by Thomas, Charlie Moore and Bobby Mitchell. Cecil Cooper rapped a round-tripper for the Red Sox.
An unfortunate error by Bobby Bonds on a throw to third base enabled the Indians to defeat the Yankees, 3–2. The Yankees collected only four hits to 10 for the Indians, but took a 2–1 lead when Chris Chambliss smashed a two-run homer in the fourth inning. The Indians tied the score with a double by Duane Kuiper and single by Rick Manning in the fifth. Kuiper opened the ninth with a single for his third hit of the game. Ed Crosby followed with a single, sending Kuiper to third. Bonds’ throw hit the sliding runner on the helmet and bounced away, allowing Kuiper to get up and score the winning run.
Bert Blyleven, making his second appearance since being sidelined by shoulder trouble, gained credit for his first victory since May 23 when the Twins defeated the Angels, 9–4. Blyleven was hurt on June 4 and did not return to action until June 27, when he was beaten by the Rangers, 2–0. The Angels rapped Blyleven for 10 hits and forced his exit after 7 ⅔ innings. Vic Albury picked up his first save of the season in relief. Dan Ford drove in three runs for the Twins with a bases-loaded double in the fourth. Rod Carew helped assure the victory, batting in two tallies with a single in the eighth.
John Mayberry, who hit three homers in a losing cause in the previous night’s game, delivered a two-run blast in the 10th inning to power the Royals to a 7–5 victory over the Rangers. The Royals had a three-run homer by George Brett en route to a 5–3 lead before the Rangers rallied to tie the score in the ninth. Gaylord Perry, who drew his fourth straight defeat with the Rangers, was removed after walking Fred Patek to open the 10th. After Stan Thomas relieved, Jim Wohlford sacrificed. The Rangers then brought in Mike Kekich, who retired Brett before facing Mayberry, who homered on the reliever’s first pitch.
After giving up three runs in the first inning, Steve Carlton clamped down and pitched the Phillies to a 5–3 victory over the Cardinals. The Phils picked up one run in their half of the first, tied the score with a two-run homer by Greg Luzinski in the sixth and then won when an intentional pass backfired on the Cardinals in the eighth. Larry Bowa singled with one out and stole second. After Jay Johnstone flied out, Ron Reed passed Luzinski intentionally to get at Dick Allen, who promptly tripled to drive in two runs for the Phils’ winning margin.
A homer by George Foster with two men on base in the sixth inning lifted the Reds to a 4–3 victory over the Astros. After the Astros scored all their runs in the first, the Reds picked up a tally in the fifth and then boomed ahead in the sixth when Ken Griffey and Dan Driessen singled and Foster hit his homer.
Jon Matlack, having the best season of his entire career, posted his 10th victory as the Mets defeated the Cubs, 7–2. The lefthander’s high for games won over a full campaign is 15 with the Mets in 1972. The Mets, who had a homer by Joe Torre, broke a 2–2 tie in the fifth inning when Matlack walked, Mike Phillips singled and both crossed the plate on a double by Felix Millan. Three walks and an error let the Mets wrap up their scoring with three runs on only one hit in the sixth.
Steve Garvey singled with the bases loaded and two out in the 14th inning to drive in the run that gave the Dodgers a 6–5 victory over the Padres. The Padres took a 5–4 lead in the eighth on a two-run single by Gene Locklear, but the Dodgers tied the score in the ninth when Garvey was hit by a pitch and Ron Cey doubled. In the 14th, Paul Powell, who was called up from Albuquerque (Pacific Coast) to replace injured Joe Ferguson, singled and Willie Crawford sacrificed. Davey Lopes was passed intentionally. After the runners advanced on an infield out by Ken McMullen, Jim Wynn also was handed an intentional pass to load the bases, setting the stage for Garvey’s winning single.
Phil Niekro pitched his first shutout of the season and only the second to the credit of the Braves’ staff, stopping the Giants on four hits, 6–0. Biff Pocoroba, catching for Niekro, backed him with three hits, scoring one run and driving in two.
The Pirates and Expos game in Montreal was rained out.
Oakland Athletics 4, Chicago White Sox 5
Houston Astros 3, Cincinnati Reds 4
New York Yankees 2, Cleveland Indians 3
Baltimore Orioles 13, Detroit Tigers 5
San Diego Padres 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 6
Boston Red Sox 6, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Boston Red Sox 3, Milwaukee Brewers 4
California Angels 4, Minnesota Twins 9
Chicago Cubs 2, New York Mets 7
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Philadelphia Phillies 5
Atlanta Braves 6, San Francisco Giants 0
Kansas City Royals 7, Texas Rangers 5
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 870.38 (-7.04, -0.80%)
Born:
Elizabeth Reaser, American actress (The “Twilight” Saga, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “True Detective”), in Bloomfield, Michigan.
Éric Dazé, Canadian NHL left wing and right wing (NHL All Star [MVP], 2002; Chicago Blackhawks), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Ryan Huska, Canadian NHL left wing (Chicago Blackhawks), in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada.
Matt Cushing, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers), in South Bend, Indiana.
Daniel Kowalski, Australian swimmer (Olympics, bronze and silver medals, 1996), in Singapore.
Erik Ohlsson, Swedish punk rock guitarist (Millencolin), and graphic artist, in Orebro, Sweden.
Died:
James Robertson Justice, 68, British character actor (“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, “Moby-Dick”), from effects of a stroke.
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