The European security conference tonight approved draft agreements on improving human contacts and the flow of information across frontiers. The completion of work on one of the key, parts of the final document that will fix guidelines for East‐West relations marked a major accomplishment for the 35‐nation conference that began two years ago yesterday in Helsinki. Nevertheless, hopes are rapidly fading that the conference will be able to complete its work in time to call a summit session before the end of July in Helsinki for the formal adoption of the final pact, as has been proposed by Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader. While the West has been receptive to a July meeting, it has opposed the fixing of a date until the remaining key issues have been settled. These include the conditions to be set for the advance notice each side would give the other of military exercises and arrangements for meetings to review how the provisions of the pact are observed.
After hours of conflict that was said to have reached the highest levels of the ruling armed forces, thousands of extreme leftists marched through Lisbon protesting what they charged were fascist and capitalist maneuvers against the revolution. This led President Francisco da Costa Gomes to urgently appeal in a broadcast for calm and discipline. He chided the Portuguese for “talking too much and working excessively little,” and he denied that there were deep differences within the military. His unusual appeal included a denial of deep divergences within the armed forces, although he said, “I do not deny that there exist different currents of opinion.” At one point today, Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, who is close to the Communist party, was reported to have quit or been dismissed. The President charged that the rumors were a “veritable offensive” by counter‐revolutionaries who sought to create a climate of agitation and anxiety. But the apparently contradictory behavior of the armed forces appeared to be aggravating the political situation.
The miners emerged today as the pivotal group in the efforts of the Government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson to curb labor increases and put a lid on Britain’s rapidly climbing inflation. Government officials were buoyed by union reaction to the measures, announced Tuesday, to place a statutory limit of 10 percent on wage increases. Recent union gains average more than 30 per cent and the consumer prices have now climbed 25 percent over last year. Following talks yesterday between trade union leaders and senior Cabinet ministers, some union representatives indicated that they would press for a flat increase of £6 a week — about $13.20 — that would fall within the 10 percent range. Attempts to achieve agreement on the pay curb plan will probably reach a climax next week at meetings of the leaders of the Trades Union Congress, a confederation of unions representing some 10 million workers.
Spain has requested extensive military aid from the United Slates as part of a deal to permit its continued use of Spanish. bases though on a reduced scale, American diplomatic sources said today. A precise list of items for ground, sea and air forces, handed over during the round of negotiations that ended here yesterday, is reported to run to $1‐billion to $2‐billion. An American official who said the request was being studied in Washington, indicated that it would not be fully met. The United States and Spain are negotiating an agreement to replace the one on cooperation and friendship that expires at the end of September. Under the present terms the United States has the use of four bases — at Torrejón, Saragossa, Rota and Moron — for its Air Force and Navy.
Turkey is involved in an increasingly angry political struggle between the right‐wing Government of Premier Suleyman Demirel and its leftist critics, led by former Premier Bulent Ecevit. Partisans of both sides clashed twice within 10 days, leaving two persons dead and dozens wounded. Violence has often been a feature of political life in Turkey, a developing country of 38 million people that did not have a multiparty system until after World War II and has seen two military coups in 15 years. There are no signs that the military is preparing to intervene again, but most political analysts here regard the situation as potentially dangerous. Elections for a third of the Senate are scheduled for October, and the campaign is just getting under way. As one diplomat put it, “It’s going to be rough around here this fall.”
A bomb inside an abandoned refrigerator killed 13 people and injured 72 in Jerusalem’s Zion Square in the worst terrorist attack on Israelis since the founding of the Jewish state in 1948. An explosive charge concealed in an old refrigerator left on the sidewalk detonated at 10 AM, hurling bodies into the air, scorching the stone building fronts in historic Zion Square and shattering windows for blocks around. Israeli officials assumed that the blast was an attempt by the Palestinian guerrilla organizations to disrupt the delicate diplomatic negotiations for new interim agreement between Israel and Egypt. Most of the casualties were Jewish shoppers who were making their purchases on the eve of the Sabbath. Explosives had been placed inside of the refrigerator that had been set by terrorists in front of a toy store. A Palestinian guerilla group claimed responsibility. The police rounded up 300 Arabs for questioning as well as to protect them from vengeful Israelis.
Continuing its drive against its opposition, the Indian government declared a ban on the activities of several major dissident organizations. The anti-government groups, which have tens of thousands of members, were accused of “indulging in activities prejudicial to the internal security, public safety and maintenance of public order.” Some foreign diplomats and knowledgeable Indians in this sultry capital believed that the ban could be a significant move in the direction of one‐party rule, as the world’s most populous democracy remained locked in the gravest political crisis of its 28‐year history of independence. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi told a group of visitors at her well-guarded home in New Delhi that she hoped the crackdown would be only “a temporary phase.” Her critics maintain, however, that the 57‐year‐old Prime Minister, who has been in office nine years, has “killed democracy” by giving the government sweeping new emergency powers, suspending some civil liberties and imposing rigid press censorship.
As Indian Muslims thronged to worship in New Delhi’s mosques today, several of their leaders affirmed support for Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her assumption of sweeping emerzency powers. The 60 million Muslims in India have remained largely silent during the current political crisis, but the indications are that their rank‐andfile generally welcome Mrs. Gandhi’s crackdown in hopes that it will forestall attacks from militant Hindus. The national president and the general secretary of the Muslim League, the country’s chief Islamic political party, issued a communiqué at midday today that endorsed the Government’s state of emergency and praised Mrs. Gandhi’s newly announced economic program as “a list of good intentions which need speedy implementation.”
Laos returned to the United States today the Information Service Library that was occupied by Pathet Lao troops and student demonstrators nearly a week ago. This afternoon, Lawrence D. Daks, the American diplomat who was driven from the premises at gunpoint yesterday. took possession of the library and the upstairs offices, standing empty since the departure of most of the embassy personnel in recent weeks. The move, together with the attendance of many Laotian officials at the Embassy’s Fourth of July reception this evening, was taken as a first indication that Laos is not intent on driving out the last American Embassy remaining in Indochina.
Some 200 homesick Vietnamese refugees boarded United States Air Force planes headed back to Asia today, following 50 others who started the return trip home a day earlier.
Sydney newspaper publisher and heiress, Juanita Nielsen, disappeared after leaving her office at 11:00 AM for a luncheon appointment that she never kept. Her handbag was found on July 14 nearby in Penrith. Nielsen published NOW, and had been a crusader against the demolition of an historic part of the city. She was never seen again.
A United Nations delegation scheduled to investigate human rights in Chile will not he allowed to enter the country, President Augusto Pinochet said tonight. He gave no reason for barring the delegation, which was to have arrived here July 10.
The political crisis in Argentina entered its second week today with most by activity paralyzed by wildcat strikes and little prospect of agreement on wages between organized labor and President Isabel Martinez de Perón. The continuing confrontation between the Government and the conservative labor movement has again roused fears of an imminent military coup, and sparked feverish moves in Congress to select a Senate president who could take over as chief of state if Mrs. Perón were forced to resign. Interior Minister Alberto Rocamora alluded directly to widespread rumors when he said yesterday: “I don’t believe in a coup d’état. The armed forces know their constitutional duty. There is only a vague idea of a coup, encouraged by a minority.” The commanders in chief of the armed forces have met repeatedly during the crisis.
Angola’s five‐month‐old transitional government, composed of representatives of the three guerrilla movements and Portuguese officials, has not been able to bring order or confidence to this territory scheduled for independence November 11. The guerrilla movements, which fought one another while they fought the Portuguese recently agreed to establish unified army, and they are discussing setting up a nonpartisan government. But at the same time they continue to compete for partisan control and influence in this territory rich in oil deposits. Armed clashes between guerrillas continue. Guerrillas still block roads, recruit members, propagandize among civilians and build up their arms. The once‐bustling Angolan economy has been reduced to less than half its potential, civil administrations no longer function in some regions and a refugee crisis threatens.
The Justice Department says it is studying the Central Intelligence Agency’s refusal to comply with a requirement that Government agencies describe their electronic surveillance equipment to the Attorney General. A spokesman for the Justice Department said last night that the CIA had notified the department last month that it did not intend to comply with the rule on the ground that the agency was not a “domestic investigative agency.” The department, in a 1972 memorandum, required executive agencies to file annual reports giving inventories of their electronic surveillance equipment. Robert Feldkamp, a spokesman for the Justice Department, said agencies such as the Agriculture and Commerce Departments and the former Atomic Energy Commission had complied, but not the CIA.
Dick Gregory, comedian and activist, was arrested in front of the White House today while protesting what he described as Central Intelligence Agency involvement in domestic assassinations. Ray Lomax, a spokesman for the United States Park Police, said Mr. Gregory had been arrested for protesting without a permit. Mr. Gregory was carrying a sign saying “C.I.A.—Protesting Conspiracy Inside America.”
The new Legal Services Corporation to provide free legal advice for the poor is scheduled to come into official being next week, a full year after Congress authorized its establishment. President Ford is reported ready to announce on Monday the nomination to two vacant seats on the 11‐member board of former Senator Marlow W. Cook of Kentucky, a Republican, and J. Melville Broughton Jr., Democrat of North Carolina, the son of a former Governor and Senator. The Senate Labor Committee has tentatively scheduled hearings on the two nominations for Tuesday morning. Some opposition is expected on the ground that the corporation, with these additions, would still have no female member and no representative of legal services clients.
Soaring electric bills and a depressed building industry have combined with other economic forces to cut the production and use of air conditioning equipment. Manufacturers and distributors find themselves in a slump after two decades of booming growth. Business is down by as much as 50 percent, and some workers are being laid off. Home owners and businessmen have reduced or cut out altogether the use of air conditioning units, while fan sales have increased.
William Coleman, a lawyer from Philadelphia who became Secretary of Transportation four months ago, believes that hard-pressed urban transit systems should examine the possibility of installing a two-tier fare system, charging higher fares to all but low-income passengers. “Relief recipients, job-seekers and others perhaps should be treated like senior citizens,” Mr. Coleman said in an interview.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, concluding its 66th annual convention here today called on civil rights enforcement agencies, the courts and Congress to protect the job rights of minorities and women during the recession. The nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization asked the government to act to protect minorities and women from being victims of the traditional “last‐hired, firstfired” approach to cutting back the labor force. “This empowers us to go ahead with increased vigor in our efforts to take up the cudgels for black workers,” said Roy Wilkins, executive director of the association.
Blacks and other minorities are moving in increasing numbers into the new club-like apartment complexes, in which young single persons and married couples predominate, that have sprung up in suburbs around the country. Some observers believe that new apartment complexes are easing the way to more racial integration in housing. Two factors are the poor state of the economy — in which the ability to pay is the main qualification — and a growing awareness of the many laws and court rulings against discrimination in housing.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation says that the arrest of Thero Wheeler means only three known members of the selfstyled Symbionese Liberation Army are still at large, among them Patricia Hearst. Mr. Wheeler, an escaped convict believed to be one of the founders of the S.L.A., was arrested yesterday without incident at the electrical company where he worked as a handyman. The F.B.I. said that he was arrested on a charge of escaping from the California medical facility in Vacaville on August 2, 1973. He had been serving a sentence for battery on a police officer. Today, he is being held under $100,000 bond. The F.B.I. would release little information, but credited Mr. Wheeler’s capture to an alert Houston policeman who was on duty in a hospital emergency room.
The cost of completing 41 major weapons‐development programs will be $3.1‐billion lower than was estimated earlier, Pentagon financial specialists say. The reduction, given in a quarterly report yesterday, comes about because of a “more realistic, optimistic” forecast of inflation in future years, one official said. Many of the programs are multi‐year projects. Unlike previous quarterly reports, which had been compiled from figures provided by the individual services, the financial specialists based their projections on their own computations. According to the report, the estimated cost of completing the programs stood at $146.7 billion as of March 31. The largest rollback was in the Army’s development of the XM‐1 tank, whose estimated cost dropped by $1.7‐billion to a new level of $4.5‐billion.
Possible Ted Bundy victim Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah. Baird vanished from where she worked at a gas station in East Leyton. Upon investigating the gas station, police discovered that $10 worth of gas from the pumps was unpaid. Nancy’s locked car was still in the parking lot where she left it. Her purse, containing medication and $167 from a cashed check, and keys were still inside. Police soon found eye-witnesses who saw two men talking with Baird shortly before she disappeared. After investigating several persons-of-interest in the Baird case, some detectives came to suspect she had fallen victim to serial killer Ted Bundy. When police explicitly asked Bundy about Nancy’s case, he blatantly denied involvement in her disappearance. While the theory was still popular with police in the years after, it has been challenged. Modern investigators have pointed out numerous differences between Bundy’s known abductions and Nancy’s, including the setting and vehicle used. Nancy’s presumed abduction remains unsolved.
The Board of Supervisors in San Francisco has passed an ordinance prohibiting discrimination against families with children in the rental or leasing of homes and apartments. The objective of the move is to stem the flight of families from the city. Public school enrollment has fallen from 92,000 to 73,000 over the last five years.
Undaunted by floodwaters that killed two persons and turned the famed Strip into a mass of mud, gamblers gambled as usual today as thousands of tourists jammed Las Vegas at the start of a traditionally big weekend. Shoeless gamblers, pant‐legs rolled up, continued to plunk coins into slot machines in some casinos as calf‐deep water swirled around them after the freakish storm yesterday. Casinos canceled shows last night and gambling dropped of just after the storm, but most resort complexes expected the holiday weekend to be one of the busiest this year.
Billie Jean King defeated Evonne Goolagong to win the Wimbledon women’s singles championship for the sixth time. The 6–0, 6–1 win was the most one-sided women’s final since 1951. King announced afterward that she was retiring from singles’ tournaments to concentration on her professional league, World Team Tennis.
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After rallying for two runs to tie the score, the Braves defeated the Astros, 5–4, when Ralph Garr homered in the eighth inning. A two-run single by Bob Watson put the Astros ahead in the seventh, 4–2, but the Braves came back with a matching pair in their half on a single by Marty Perez, double by Dusty Baker, infield out by Darrell Evans and single by Earl Williams.
Pitching coach Marv Grissom said, “Maybe it’s home cooking,” to account for the Cubs’ success in sweeping a doubleheader with the Pirates, 6–1 and 2–1, on the club’s return to Wrigley Field after a long road trip. The second game went 11 innings before Jose Cardenal won it with a bases-loaded single. Steve Stone pitched a five-hitter in the opener and also batted in two runs with a single. In the second game, Andre Thornton tripled with one out in the 11th. Jerry Reuss then issued intentional passes to Steve Swisher and Manny Trillo, loading the bases with the hope of setting up a double play, but Cardenal wrecked the strategy with his single.
With relief help from Dan Warthen, Steve Renko beat the Cardinals for the second time in six days and contributed two hits to the Expos’ 5–1 victory. The Cards’ only run came on a homer by Reggie Smith in the fourth inning. Renko scored one run and drove in another before leaving the game with a stiff shoulder after throwing one pitch in the seventh. In his previous meeting with the Cardinals June 29, Renko pitched the route and also rapped three hits in a 7–3 victory.
Homers by Dave Kingman and Jerry Grote provided the fireworks as the Mets exploded for three runs in the ninth inning to defeat the Phillies, 4–3, before a holiday crowd of 55,301, the largest turnout in the National League so far this season. Tom Seaver, who was losing, 3–1, before going out for a pinch-hitter in the rally, was the beneficiary of the blows and gained the victory at the expense of his former teammate, Tug McGraw, who was the loser in relief. Kingman led off the ninth with his homer. Cleon Jones batted for Del Unser and singled. After a sacrifice by John Stearns, Jesus Alou struck out as the pinch-hitter for Seaver. Grote then came to bat for Mike Phillips and delivered the game-winning homer.
Although unable to hurl the route, Jack Billingham gained his seventh straight victory when the Reds defeated the Padres, 7–6. Ken Griffey and Cesar Geronimo each drove in two runs for the Reds and Johnny Bench contributed a homer to the attack. Dick Sharon homered off Billingham with two men on base in the third inning. Billingham was removed after walking Randy Hundley and giving up a double by Ted Kubiak with one out in the sixth. Greeting the arrival of Pedro Borbon in relief, Bobby Tolan smashed a homer, cutting the Reds’ lead to one run. However, Borbon choked off further scoring before being lifted for a pinch-hitter in the eighth and Will McEnaney checked the Padres in the final two frames.
A hit batsman led to a run in the fifth inning and enabled John Montefusco to pitch the Giants to a 1–0 victory over the Dodgers in a duel with Andy Messersmith. Derrel Thomas, who was nicked by a pitch with one out, advanced to third on a single by Bobby Murcer. Willie Montanez then grounded into a forceout at second, but Murcer broke up the attempted double play, allowing Thomas to score.
The Orioles caught up with Catfish Hunter in the ninth inning and scored three runs to defeat the Yankees, 5–4, and bring Jim Palmer credit for his 13th victory. Ken Singleton and Lee May hit homers in the sixth for the Orioles’ first two runs, but the Yankees picked up one in their half of the sixth on a triple by Ron Blomberg and infield out by Thurman Munson. Graig Nettles homered to tie the score in the seventh and the Yankees then took a 3–2 lead in the eighth on a double by Blomberg and single by Munson. Don Baylor sparked the Orioles’ rally in the ninth, hitting his fifth homer in the last four games. Brooks Robinson singled and, after a pass to Dave Duncan, Tommy Davis and Singleton rapped run-producing singles to put the Orioles ahead, 5–3. The Yankees forced the exit of Palmer in their half of the ninth when Nettles led off the inning with a double. Grant Jackson relieved and retired the side after a run scored on a sacrifice fly by Walt Williams.
The Indians posted their 11th victory in the last 14 games when Oscar Gamble homered with a man on base in the seventh inning to beat the Red Sox, 3–2. Carl Yastrzemski homered for the Red Sox, who held a 2–1 lead before George Hendrick walked in the seventh and Gamble followed with his game-winning blow off Luis Tiant.
The Tigers scored four runs in the first inning, three coming on a homer by Bill Freehan, to defeat the Brewers, 8–2, and hand Bill Travers his first loss of the season after the lefthander had won four previous decisions. Ron LeFlore and Gary Sutherland led off with singles and when Travers failed to cover first on a grounder by Dan Meyer, LeFlore scored. Travers then retired Willie Horton but failed to get past Freehan, who hit the homer that decided the outcome. One of the Brewers’ runs came on a round-tripper by Don Money.
A single by Wohlford in the ninth inning scored Frank White from second base and gave the Royals a 3–2 victory over the White Sox, who lost for only the second time in their last 13 games. The Royals counted their initial pair in the first on a triple by George Brett, sacrifice fly by Hal McRae and John Mayberry’s fourth homer in four games. The White Sox, after picking up a run in the sixth, tied the score in the ninth when Bucky Dent doubled and Jorge Orta singled. In the Royals’ half, Al Cowens singled and White beat out a bunt. Fred Patek, trying to sacrifice, forced Cowens at third, but Wohlford then came through with his winning hit off Wilbur Wood.
Dan Ford drove in five runs with two homers and a double in support of Bill Campbell, who pitched the Twins to an 8–0 victory in the opener of a doubleheader, but the Rangers came back with a four-run outburst in the sixth inning to win the nightcap, 4–2, although Ford hit another homer. The Twins’ outfielder opened his slugging in the lidlifter with a circuit clout in the first. After driving in another run with a double in the third, Ford homered with two aboard in the sixth. In the second game, the Twins counted both their runs in the fourth on Ford’s third homer of the night, a double by Tony Oliva and single by Eric Soderholm. The Rangers opened their rally in the sixth with the tying tallies on a walk to Roy Howell and homer by Jeff Burroughs. Singles by Mike Hargrove and Jim Spencer, a ground-rule double by Toby Harrah and single by Cesar Tovar then added the winning pair.
Ken Holtzman, who started the season in faltering fashion and had a 3–6 record with the Athletics at the end of May, gained his sixth victory in his last seven decisions, pitching a four-hitter to shut out the Angels, 6–0. Bill North and Gene Tenace each batted in two runs to entertain the crowd of 40,879.
Houston Astros 4, Atlanta Braves 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Chicago Cubs 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Chicago Cubs 2
Boston Red Sox 2, Cleveland Indians 3
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Detroit Tigers 8
Chicago White Sox 2, Kansas City Royals 3
San Francisco Giants 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 0
Texas Rangers 0, Minnesota Twins 8
Texas Rangers 4, Minnesota Twins 2
Baltimore Orioles 5, New York Yankees 4
California Angels 0, Oakland Athletics 6
New York Mets 4, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Cincinnati Reds 7, San Diego Padres 6
Montreal Expos 5, St. Louis Cardinals 1
Born:
John Lloyd Young, American actor, winner of Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, 2006, for “Jersey Boys”; in Sacramento, California.
Tania Davis, Australian violinist (Bond Quartet), born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Mike Crowley, NHL defenseman (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim), in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Reinhard Divis, Austrian NHL goaltender (St. Louis Blues), in Vienna, Austria.
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