Communist Party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev assured the West that the Soviet Union supports the continuing existence of West Berlin and respected the rights of its inhabitants. At a luncheon honoring former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who is in Moscow on an eight-day visit, Brezhnev said that continuing controversy over the Berlin question could hinder increased Soviet-West German cooperation.
A new edition of the underground Chronicle of Current Events has begun to circulate in Moscow. The 57-page typewritten journal, dated May 31, is the 36th edition of the chronicle to come out since it first appeared in 1968. The latest issue contains reports of arrests of dissidents and Jewish activists, statements on conditions in Soviet prison camps and documents alleging persecution of religious believers.
The Italian Senate approved a bill that would provide free contraceptives and birth control advice to all citizens and visitors of the Roman Catholic nation. The measure, which needs approval by the Chamber of Deputies, was a dramatic change for a country where until four years ago public advocates of contraception faced up to one year in jail. A Fascist-era provision that made public incitement to birth control a crime was killed by the Constitutional Court only in 1971. The proposed measure calls for establishment of birth control centers in cities and towns to give free advice and contraceptives to any Italian or foreigner.
Two men armed with shotguns ambushed and killed a top state attorney in Italy’s deep south. Police said the killing of Francesco Ferlaino, 61, was in Mafia style, but there was no immediate indication whether it was an underworld or political crime.. Ferlaino, assigned to the Catanzare appeals court, was ambushed shortly before lunch as his chauffeur-driven car pulled up outside his home in the small town of Lamezia Terme.
Portugal’s military rulers said today that they would nationalize the country’s radio stations in a move aimed at ending a power struggle over control of a Roman Catholic station. The decision further strained the already deteriorated relations between the Government and the once powerful church. “We will try to get a meeting with the Revolutionary council,” a spokesman for the Lisbon Patriarchy said. “We cannot accept this.” The decision was a reversal of an announcement two days ago by Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonsalves, who said workers occupying the studios of the Catholic Renascenza station had to give it back to its owner.
French customs officers at Orly Airport seized 73 pounds of hashish in separate hauls from the luggage of two women. Officials said they found 53 pounds in the suitcases of Rita Gardner, 26, of Houston, Tex., when she arrived from Casablanca. Police said they also found 20 pounds of the drug in the luggage of an unnamed Moroccan woman living in Marseilles. She also was on a flight from Casablanca. Customs said hashish can be bought for $77 a pound in Africa and can be sold for 10 times that much in Paris.
A tough Lyons magistrate known throughout the French underworld as “the Sheriff” was gunned down outside his home in what appeared to be a revenge killing, police said. Francois Renaus, 50, was killed by several pistol shots fired by an unidentified assassin as he drove up outside his home. The shooting took place just hours after the sentencing to 20 years in jail of a bank robber whose case had been handled by Renaus. In court, the sentenced man vowed vengeance against Renaus.
Three persons were being questioned by London police in connection with the discovery of an arms cache possibly linked with an international guerrilla network. Police also were keeping close watch on all ports in the hunt for an international assassin linked to the discovery called Carlos Martinez or Garcia, a South American. They said he apparently planted the arms cache in London and also left a “death list” of about 500 well-known people, many of them prominent Jews.
The Church of England decided in principle today to admit women to the priesthood, but to bar their actual entry until worldwide opinion was more favorable. The decision, which reflects the deep division among Anglican bishops, clergy and laity over an exclusively male priesthood, was made at the annual summer meeting of the General Synod. Bishops and laity were generally in favor of ordaining women, while clergy, who would be the most directly effected by the entry of women priests into their ranks, opposed the move.
The State Department announced today that Secretary of State Kissinger and the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Simcha Dinitz, met secretly in the Virgin Islands Tuesday night and Wednesday morning to discuss what concessions would be made to Israel if she yielded to Egypt’s insistence on Israel’s withdrawal from the Mitla and Gidi mountain passes in Sinai. The meeting was reportedly held at Israel’s request. Israel, it was said, sought firm assurances of more future American economic, military and political support if she gave up the two mountain passes.
Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian guerrilla leader, predicting an imminent new war in the Middle East, said in an interview today that his forces had stepped up attacks on Israel and would launch even more in the future. “As you well know, we have escalated our activities in the occupied territories; a fact easily discovered from the declarations of the military and information officers in Israel,” Mr. Arafat said in an interview. “We will continue to escalate more and more because we have homes and our rights there, and we must recover them. We have no choice. These are our homes.” Mr. Arafat said peace was not possible on the ground that Israel was both preparing to start a new war and “vowing the destruction of the Palestinian movement.
Lebanon’s capital was almost back to normal today as security forces moved into the last areas still under sniper fire. With the help of Palestinian police forces the Lebanese security forces took up positions in Chia, a predominantly Muslim area where extremists have been holding out against the cease‐fire proclaimed Tuesday night. Two men were wounded in an exchange of fire with security forces in Chia and a sniper in another area of conflict between Muslims and Christians killed one man and wounded another, according to police. There were a few explosions of rockets last night and occasional bursts of machine‐gun fire. The United States Embassy here said that it had requested a full investigation by the Lebanese Government of the disappearance Sunday of Colonel Ernest R. Morgan, who was seized by armed gunmen as he rode in a taxi from the airport to a hotel in Beirut.
One week after the emergency proclamation that critics of the government say has fundamentally changed the nature of the Indian society, the country was generally calm today amid indications that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was still firmly in control. Although arrests were reported to be continuing in several parts of the country, no word of significant violence or disruption reached this rumor-filled city. “The Gandhi coup,” as some diplomats here are calling the government’s stern crackdown on its opponents, appeared to have succeeded, for the time being at least. “The Empress has done something we never thought she could do,” a university professor exclaimed bitterly this evening. “She has taken away our democracy.”
An aging state railway executive was dismissed. Plans to “rejuvenate” old tea plantations were proclaimed. Delhi utility workers were threatened with “strict diciplinary action” if they showed a lack of visor. Youthful aggressiveness was the order of the day in this crisis‐weary capital today as officials high and low rushed to carry out Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s new economic program, which is widely seen here as a hopeful augury for the sputtering economy. As official announcements piled up, the impression grew today that the government was making use of the sweeping powers it gave itself last week to push through a vast array of economic innovations that it was not able to carry out in normal times. “Greater vigor and determination” were demanded by Mrs. Gandhi in a nationwide broadcast Tuesday. In it she outlined what she called her “new program,” economic measures that seemed largely designed to enhance her support.
Flights to Guam from Subic’s Cubi Point runway have resumed, with 450 refugees a day, being carried, a public affairs officer, Commander Ery Sharp, has announced. Allout 900 Vietnamese remain on the small island at the mouth of Subic Bay that has served as an evacuation center the last two months. “If no hitches develop and the daily refugee flights continue, we will wind up this operation in about five days,” Commander Sharp said Tuesday.
There was no word from the Philippine Government or United States Embassy sources on whether the 76 Vietnamese who arrived last week at the coastal town of Lian, Batangas, would be allowed to proceed to the United States naval base. A statement from the provincial government of Batangas said that the refugees who arrived in a lone fishing boat after weeks on the high seas had indicated the United States as their first choice of refuge and the Philippines as the second. They are temporarily being housed and fed by the Government and civic groups of Batangas.
President Mohammed Siad Barre declared today that he had offered the United States naval refueling and supply facilities in Somalia provided “the Americans come to us as friends.” In an interview a few hours before the arrival of an American Congressman, General Siad Barre categorically denied Administration charges that he had permitted the Soviet Union to establish a naval base at Berbera on the Gulf of Aden. He called the charges, made by Defense, Secretary James R. Schlesinger, a “provocation.” An American delegation, headed by Senators Dewey F. Bartlett, Republican of Oklahoma, will go to Berbera tomorrow at the invitation of the Somali Government. It includes several military officers as well as James H. Noyes, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern, African and South Asian Affairs.
The Labor Department said that in June the nation’s job picture apparently stabilized and inflation continued to be moderate. The statistics showed that the unemployment rate fell from 9.2 percent to 8.6 percent of the total labor force last month, but officials, ranging from the White House to Labor Department statisticians, emphasized that the apparent decline resulted from an unusual statistical aberration. Allowing for the aberration, the jobless rate appears at least to have stopped worsening.
The Ford administration, warning of possible adverse effects on the economy, asked four major aluminum companies to delay proposed price increases for 30 days. Two of them, the Aluminum Company of America and the Reynolds Metals Company, immediately agreed. The Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation initially turned down the request, but later announced it would comply. The Alcan Aluminum Corporation said it would give the request “serious consideration.”
The Central Intelligence Agency has told the Justice Department that it will not comply with a Justice memorandum requiring reports to the attorney general on inventories of electronic surveillance equipment, said department spokesman Robert Feldkamp. He said the 1972 memorandum dealt with domestic surveillance and the “CIA is saying that it is exempt essentially because it’s not a domestic investigative agency.” The question of CIA compliance is now under study by Justice, Feldkamp said, noting that “at this point the department is not saying the CIA is incorrect.”
Barriers against the hiring of gay and lesbian people, as employees of the United States government, were ended, by order of the U.S. Civil Service Commission. Previously, employment could be denied to a homosexual person on grounds of “possible embarrassment to the federal service”. The Commission ruled that, as with any other government employee, “there must be some rational connection between the individual’s conduct and the efficiency of the service”.
A report by the Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that there has been a “massive failure” of automobiles to meet federal antipollution standards and that “the data indicate that only at low mileage are any of the standards even approached.” The report was made public by Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate, who told President Ford in a letter that 1974 model cars “put out more than twice as much pollution as standards would permit.”
The Environmental Protection Agency asked the Justice Department to determine whether Chrysler Corp. might have marketed an estimated 5,000 cars that did not meet anti-pollution standards. The agency said an inspection last year at Hamtramck, Michigan, Chrysler plant uncovered several cars equipped with improper exhaust control parts. A Chrysler spokesman agreed a few “misassembled” cars were found during the inspection, but said the problem had been corrected.
Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp kept a pledge to hold the line on state taxes this year by offering striking state employees a 9% wage boost with the greater part of it to come in the second year. The offer. aimed at ending the first state employees’ strike in Pennsylvania’s history, was rejected immediately by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees during an evening bargaining session. AFSCME President Gerald McEntree said, “The important thing is that they (the state) did not say it was their final offer.” The Shapp administration earlier had first offered 3.5% for one year. The union has asked for 11%.
Former Senator Edward J. Gurney (R-Florida) testified at his bribery-conspiracy trial in Tampa that he had not told newsmen the full truth about fund-raising activities because “I’m under no obligation to have my affairs tried on the front pages of newspapers.” He made the statement in responding to questions concerning a press release in which he denied that fund-raiser Larry Williams ever worked for him. Gurney and three co-defendants are accused of amassing a political slush fund by getting builders to contribute in exchange for favors from the Federal Housing Administration.
The National Transportation Safety Board moved to repair one of the most potentially dangerous flaws in U.S. aviation-the possibility that pilots and air traffic controllers might not understand each other. In a recommendation growing out of the Trans World Airlines jet crash that killed 92 people near the John F. Dulles Airport last December 1, the board proposed that the Federal Aviation Administration publish a “comprehensive lexicon of air traffic control terms and provide for its use by all pilots and air traffic control specialists.” The TWA crash could have occurred due to a pilot-controller misunderstanding.
A panel of three judges in Hamilton, Ohio, convicted James U. Ruppert of aggravated murder in the Easter slaying of 11 members of his family. Defense lawyers described Ruppert as a “sick, psychotic, mentally ill individual.” The prosecution had maintained he planned the murders to inherit a $300,000 estate. Ruppert, 41, a bachelor, pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to the slayings of his mother, brother, sister-in-law and eight nieces and nephews during a family gathering.
In a unanimous decision, the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court disbarred John Mitchell, the former United States Attorney General, from the practice of law in New York State. Mr. Mitchell was convicted of perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Watergate scandal. The disciplinary proceeding was initiated by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Lynn Townsend announced his intention to retire as chairman and chief executive officer of the embattled Chrysler Corporation on October 1. Mr. Townsend, who is 56 years old, said in his unexpected statement that he thought the best interests of the company would be served by “an early and orderly transition of leadership to our younger executives.”
The Food and Drug Administration is proposing a strongly worded label for pills used by diabetics, warning them that they may be more likely to die of heart disease if they become regular users of the pills, usually designated as oral hypoglycemic. It is estimated that 1.5 million persons take the pills, which are intensely controversial.
New York City’s striking sanitation men returned to work following an accord in Albany giving the city $330 million in new tax powers — but only after an unusual union agreement to guarantee their wages with $1.6 million in union funds. The police and firemen’s unions, unable to come up with similar funds, were told that not all their members could be rehired.
Jimmy Connors crushed Roscoe Tanner, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4, today on center court in 80 minutes. Saturday he will meet Arthur Ashe, a 5-7, 6-4, 7-5, 8-9, 6-4 victor over Tony Roche, in the first all-American tennis final at Wimbledon since Jack Kramer granted a meager six games to Tom Brown in 1947.
Tennis’s famous love match has been suspended with no resumption in immediate sight. Chris Evert said yesterday at Wimbledon that her on‐and‐off romance with Jimmy Connors was over. “He is no longer my fiance,” said the 20‐year‐old Miss Evert a day after being beaten in the semifinal round by Billie Jean King. “All thoughts on marriage have been shelved. We are both going our separate ways.” And Connors, who will attempt to win his second straight men’s singles title tomorrow in the final against Arthur Ashe, confirmed the breakup.
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The relief pitching of Rich Gossage enabled Jim Kaat to gain his 13th victory of the season as the White Sox defeated the Athletics, 3–2. Gossage took over with two men on base and one out in the ninth inning and struck out both Bert Campaneris and Bill North to save the game. Campaneris had three hits previously in the game, including a triple in the first when the A’s scored both their runs. Singles by Bill Melton and Jerry Hairston and an infield out by Bucky Dent retrieved one run for the White Sox in the second. Jorge Orta doubled in the fifth and pulled a hamstring, forcing him out of the game. Lee Richard took Orta’s place on the paths and scored the tying run on a single by Deron Johnson. An error by Campaneris, who threw high on a grounder by Brian Downing, led to the winning run in the seventh. Downing stole second and stopped at third on an infield hit by Pat Kelly. Richard then hit a high bouncer to Campaneris, who had no chance for a play at the plate and threw to first for the putout as Downing scored.
Don Hood allowed only two hits, both homers by Bobby Bonds, in 8 ⅓ innings as the Indians defeated the Yankees, 3–2. Hood’s only previous victory also was over the Yankees on a four-hitter April 29. Bonds homered in the fourth and again in the ninth. After his second drive, Dave LaRoche relieved Hood and retired the last two batters. The Indians also scored all their runs off Doc Medich on homers. Oscar Gamble connected for the circuit in the fifth, and in the sixth John Lowenstein walked and Boog Powell rapped a round-tripper for the deciding blow.
An error by Fred Lynn, second of the game for the center fielder, allowed the Brewers to score in the 10th inning for a 3–2 victory that moved them into a virtual tie with the Red Sox for first place in the East Division, just two percentage points behind. Hank Aaron homered for the Brewers in the fourth, but the Red Sox took a 2–1 lead with the aid of a round-tripper by Cecil Cooper before the Brewers rallied to tie the score in the ninth. Aaron walked, Bobby Darwin sacrificed and Gorman Thomas doubled to drive in pinch-runner Tom Murphy. In the 10th, with two out, Robin Yount walked. Kurt Bevacqua followed with a single to center and when Lynn let the ball go through for an error, Yount raced home with the winning run. The win lifts the Brewers into a tie with Boston in the American League East. But Milwaukee will fall flat in August and slide to a 5th place finish.
Joe Coleman, who had lost seven straight games, was able to gain his first victory since May 19 when the Tigers erupted for four runs in the seventh inning to defeat the Orioles, 9–5. In the early going, Ken Singleton and Jim Northrup hit homers for the Orioles and Willie Horton hammered one for the Tigers. With the score tied, 5–5, the Tigers opened the seventh with a single by Ron LeFlore. Gary Sutherland walked. After Dan Meyer grounded into a forceout, Horton singled to drive in the tie-breaking run. One out later, Mickey Stanley clinched the victory with a three-run homer.
Joe Lahoud hit a run-scoring triple in the ninth inning for his third RBI of the game to bring the Angels a 7–6 victory over the Twins. The Angels built up a 6–0 lead with the aid of a two-run homer by Ellie Rodriguez and appeared to be cinch winners behind the pitching of Nolan Ryan, who allowed only four hits in the first six innings. However, Ryan quickly lost his stuff and gave up three runs in the seventh and three more in the eighth before being removed. The Angels then won the game for reliever Mickey Scott when Winston Llenas singled and crossed the plate on Lahoud’s triple in the ninth.
The Royals smashed four homers, giving them a total of 11 in the three-game series, while slugging their way to a 10–5 victory over the Rangers. John Mayberry started the bombardment with a two-run blow in the first inning and, one out later, Tony Solaita also hit for the circuit. Fred Patek supplied a solo swat in the second and Solaita hit his second homer of the game with a man on base in the seventh.
While Dock Ellis was doling out five singles, the Pirates got a homer and triple by Al Oliver and a homer by Dave Parker to power their way to a 5–1 victory over the Expos. Oliver started the scoring with a circuit clout in the first inning. Parker, playing in the outfield for the first time since hurting his knee on June 24, pounded his homer after a double by Willie Stargell in the sixth. Oliver hit his triple in the eighth and scored on a single by Richie Zisk.
Buddy Bradford hit his first two homers in a St. Louis uniform, each with a man on base, but that was not enough for the Cardinals, who lost to the Phillies, 7–4. The Phillies, in beating Bob Gibson, broke a 2–2 tie with four runs in the fourth inning. Dick Allen singled and trotted home on a triple by Bob Boone. After a pass to Garry Maddox, Tom Underwood laid down a squeeze bunt, scoring Boone. Dave Cash singled, driving in Maddox. An infield hit by Larry Bowa, on which Gibson threw wildly to first, then allowed Cash to cross the plate with the fourth run of the frame.
Jerry Koosman not only pitched a four-hit shutout but also drove in two runs with a double as the Mets defeated the Cubs, 4–0. Rusty Staub doubled and John Milner homered for the Mets’ first two runs in the sixth inning. Koosman then clinched the victory with his double in the eighth, scoring Del Unser and John Stearns.
Randy Jones pitched a perfect game for seven innings before giving up a run on an error and a double by Bill Plummer for the Reds’ only hit, but the Padres then scored on a dropped fly ball in the ninth to gain a 2–1 victory. The one-hitter was the second of the season for Jones, who also had a similar performance against the Cardinals May 19. Gary Nolan, pitching for the Reds, almost matched Jones, allowing two hits in eight innings before going out for a pinch-batter. However, the Padres scored in the third on a double by Ted Kubiak, an infield out and balk by Nolan while pitching to Bobby Tolan. Jones’ string of retiring 21 straight batters came to an end in the eighth when Rusty Torres threw wildly to first on a grounder by Tony Perez, allowing the batter to reach second. After George Foster grounded out, Plummer rapped his double to break up the no-hitter and tie the score. Will McEnaney replaced Nolan in the ninth and drew the defeat when Tolan singled, Tito Fuentes doubled and Ed Armbrister dropped a fly by Gene Locklear to right field.
Steve Garvey drove in five runs, a high for his career in one game, to lead the Dodgers to a 7–1 victory over the Giants. Garvey doubled for a run in the fourth inning, batted in two more with a bases-loaded single in the fifth and capped his big night with a two-run homer in the seventh. Don Sutton gained his 12th victory, pitching eight innings before turning the mound over to Mike Marshall.
Oakland Athletics 2, Chicago White Sox 3
New York Yankees 2, Cleveland Indians 3
Baltimore Orioles 5, Detroit Tigers 9
San Francisco Giants 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 7
Boston Red Sox 2, Milwaukee Brewers 3
California Angels 7, Minnesota Twins 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Montreal Expos 1
Chicago Cubs 0, New York Mets 4
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Philadelphia Phillies 7
Cincinnati Reds 1, San Diego Padres 2
Kansas City Royals 10, Texas Rangers 5
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 871.79 (+1.41, +0.16%)
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John Hargis, American swimmer (Olympic gold medal, 4x100m medley relay, 1996), in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Warren Luhning, Canadian NHL right wing (New York Islanders, Dallas Stars), in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Marlon Garnett, NBA point guard (Boston Celtics), in Los Angeles, California.
Christian Parker, MLB pitcher (New York Yankees), in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Matt Haig, British author and journalist (“Reasons to Stay Alive”, “The Midnight Library”), in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom.
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