President Ford declined to meet with dissident Russian author Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn because White House advisers warned that such a meeting would offend the Soviet Union, Senator Jesse A. Helms (R-North Carolina) charged. The White House has maintained that Mr. Ford could not see the Nobel Prize winner, who was in Washington last week, because of the President’s “crowded schedule.” A White House spokesman today altered the original explanation as to why President Ford did not meet last week with Solzhenitsyn, the exiled Russian author, and acknowledged that the chief reason was that President Ford believed such a meeting might have displeased the Soviet Union and clouded detente. After repeating his original explanation that Mr. Ford could not find time to meet with Mr. Solzhenitsyn, Ron Nessen, the White House press secretary, added: “Obviously, there were foreign policy considerations.”
Hundreds of aficionados took part in the “running of the bulls” in the fiesta of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain, and only four of them got hurt in what Ernest Hemingway used to call “a morning’s pleasure.” But one young spectator fell off a wall and was killed: An estimated 80,000 visitors have crowded into this town of 130,000 to take part in the week-long fiesta that was the backdrop to Hemingway’s novel, “The Sun Also Rises.”
Romania has quietly but firmly gone against the wishes of the Soviet Union and staked a claim to an Eastern European seat on a committee beginning a long‐range review of the United Nations Charter. The challenge to Moscow is in keeping with Bucharest’s policy of trying to preserve a separate identity and independence. The action comes at a time when Romania is reviving efforts to be accepted as an observer by the more than 70 Asian, African and other third world countries that call them selves the nonaligned group. Because Romania is a member of the Warsaw Pact military alliance she cannot qualify for full membership in the nonaligned group, which is closed to Warsaw Pact members and those in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Romania’s Political Executive Committee, the Communist Party’s top decision-making body, was called into emergency session to discuss catastrophic flooding in the south of the country, the official Romanian news agency, Agerpress, reported. Meanwhile, thousands struggled to contain the Dimbrovith River, which flows through the heart of Bucharest, the capital. Whole districts were flooded and families were being evacuated, the agency said.
Prime Minister Harold Wilson today delivered his strongest plea so far for a 10 percent limit on new wage increases to the group that, on past performance, threatens him most — the National Union of Mineworkers. Addressing the union’s policy‐making conference at this seaside resort on the Yorkshire coast, Mr. Wilson described some of the wage proposals put forth at the conference as “crazy, even suicidal” for the miners and for the nation as a whole. Mr. Wilson plainly had in mind a specific proposal advanced by Arthur Scargill, the, militant president of the Yorkshire miners, who has urged wage increases ranging from 66 to 90 percent above the present average weekly wage of $143.
Damage and casualties were surprisingly light for a large‐scale operation when Israel attacked Palestinian camps and villages in southern Lebanon by land, sea and air early today. The main target was the Rashidiyah refugee camp, south of Tyre, where a landing party came ashore under cover of a bombardment from Israeli naval craft firing missiles. The Palestinian press agency, Wafa, said four guerrillas were killed and seven wounded in heavy fighting on the beach with the Israeli raiding force, which was said to have exceeded 100 men. Premier Rashid Karami said several hours after the night raid that cooperation between the Lebanese army and the guerrillas had “foiled the Israeli attempt to land troops on the Tyre coast.”
Lebanese Premier Rashid Kararni announced today that the Government had made contact with a leftist group calling itself the Revolutionary Socialist Action Organization that is holding an American Army colonel hostage. It has threatened to kill him by Wednesday night if certain demands are not met. Colonel Ernest R. Morgan, 43 years old, who is attached to the United States military mission in Turkey, was kidnapped June 29 by unidentified armed men as he drove in a taxi from Beirut airport to his hotel. He was en route to Ankara from a meeting of Western military officers in Pakistan. After seven days the kidnappers released photographs of the colonel in civilian clothes and tape recordings in which he asks the United States Government to take his captors’ demands seriously.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has granted amnesty to about 2,000 prisoners convicted of trying to overthrow his predecessor, the late Gamal Abdel Nasser, Cairo officials said. Most of those affected are Communists or members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood who were sentenced before May 15, 1971, the date of an unsuccessful coup attempt by key members of the Nasser hierarchy.
A noted woman Socialist and other opposition political figures in the Bombay area have gone into hiding to escape arrest, antiGovernment informants reported today. Dissident underground newspapers have been circulating in this key port, evading censorship, although the police are continuing their crackdown on the opposition: 146 persons were arrested here and in the surrounding state yesterday, a Government spokesman reported, bringing the officially reported total to 448 since the crackdown began. “Indira Gandhi will have to face the people’s wrath” proclaimed a one‐ page underground news sheet that was circulated. It added: “The time for starting Indian Peoples Liberation Army has arrived.”
The takeover of Laos by the Communist-led Pathet Lao and thus the complete Communist domination of Indochina is accepted as an accomplished fact by most Laotians and foreign observers. It is also apparent that the takeover has moved into a new phase. The Pathet Lao leadership, having removed the top officials of the Vientiane government, appears to be ousting the officials who served the Pathet Lao when it was part of a coalition government.
Chinese Nationalist officials today denied a report by TIME magazine indicating that Taiwan was developing nuclear weapons. “We don’t have any plan, to construct or produce nuclear weapons,” said Major General Li Chang‐hao, a Defense Ministry spokesman. “All of this country’s studies and development of nuclear technology are used for peaceful purposes only.” Similar comments were made by Dr. Shu Shien‐siu, chairman of the National Science Council. Taiwan has five nuclear research reactors in operation. It also has four nuclear power plants, with two reactors each, in various stages of construction or planning. The first plant is scheduled to become operational in 1977.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos said today that the Philippines wanted to assume control of all American bases in the country while allowing the United States to use them “to maintain an effective presence over the air and sea lanes of the western Pacific.” Sketching for the first time some of his Government’s concrete proposals, Mr. Marcos said he was now ready to enter into formal negotiations with the United States. He addressed economists and financial experts from Southeast Asian countries at the start of a conference sponsored by The Financial Times of London.
Police in Melbourne, Australia, said they feared that a 19-year-old California girl, Julie Garciacelay, 19, from Stockton, had been kidnaped. Missing seven days, she disappeared from her Melbourne apartment after reportedly going out to use a nearby outdoor telephone. She apparently returned after the call, because her bed appeared to have been slept in, police said. She worked at a Melbourne publishing house. Her sister, Gayle, 22, reported her missing.
The Canadian Government has ordered the deportation of Lieutenant General Đặng Văn Quang, who has been accused by other South Vietnamese refugees here of involvement in heroin traffic and other misdeeds ranging from smuggling to torture and murder. Demands that he be deported came from Members of Parliament, academic circles, the press and the growing South Vietnamese refugee community. Immigration Minister Robert K. Andras said that an investigation had confirmed many of the charges. He said that General Quang “has been asked to leave Canada as soon as he can arrange for his admission to another country.”
Narcotics agents seized 220 pounds of cocaine and arrested at least 11 people, including several foreigners, in a recent raid at a luxury hotel in downtown Mexico City, according to reports in Mexican newspapers. The reports said cocaine worth about $1 million on the street in the United States was seized and that important personalities in Mexican public life were implicated. The Mexican attorney general’s office would not confirm or deny the reports.
The incoming and outgoing heads of the Organization of American States called on the United States today to resolve the problem of the Panama Canal as soon as possible. Both men, Alejandro Orfila of Argentina and his predecessor, Galo Plaza, of Ecuador, also urged representatives of the 24‐nation Hemisphere organization to move toward normalization of relations with Cuba. Mr. Orfila was elected last May to succeed Mr. Plaza as secretary general. At his investiture this morning in the Pan‐American Union Building, Mr. Orfila declared that the organization faced “problems of Hemispheric political importance,” and added: “An adequate solution to them is imperative. Among these looma the question of the Panama Canal and that of the political‐juridical situation deriving from the separation from the organization of the present Government of Cuba and the sanctions adopted against it.”
Argentine workers went ahead with a two-day general strike despite the government’s last-minute effort to prevent it by announcing the resignation of the entire cabinet Sunday night. The resignations — particularly that of the Social Welfare Minister, Jose Lopez Rega — had been one of the demands of labor unions, which are also asking the government to permit the carrying out of wage agreements that would provide increases ranging from 80 percent to 130 percent. A government statement said the eight cabinet ministers would remain in office until President Isabel Martinez de Peron could select replacements.
A second American Congressional delegation has now visited Berbera, the site of a Soviet‐built missile‐handling facility, and Somali officials hope the result of the two visits will be a resumption of United States aid. As the Somalis see it, the Americans came here thinking of world strategy and discovered a poor country of little more than three million inhabitants struggling to solve a host of social and economic problems, including the resettlement of a quarter of a million people displaced by famine and drought. Somali officials expressed the hope that the United States would now resume the assistance program that was cut off nine years ago after the present leftist government came to power.
Congressional observers returned from a weekend inspection trip to Somalia and reported that the Pentagon correctly deduced that a new military facility there is a Soviet missile submarine supply base. Rep. Samuel Stratton (D-New York), chairman of the eight-member group, said, “I would say that this is the most extensive Soviet naval and air support facility” for Soviet forces outside Russia.
President Idi Amin of Uganda arrived in Mogadiscio, Somalia, for two days of talks with President Mohamed Siad Barre, from whom he is due to take over the chairmanship of the Organization of African Unity next month. Amin and a 14-man delegation were welcomed at the airport by the Somali president.
President Ford, in a message to Congress, outlined a new federal highway program that would give states and localities greater flexibility in setting transportation priorities and make basic changes in the highway assistance programs. But the President’s program, which would sharply reduce the federal Highway Trust Fund’s revenues from federal gasoline taxes, a source of highway construction funds, appeared headed for considerable opposition in Congress.
Intelligence sources said that members of Congress, two Vice Presidents and others had flown chartered flights on a Washington-based airline, unaware that the line was owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency. Among those who used the airline, the sources said, were Hubert Humphrey, Robert F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, who apparently paid full charter rates. With political figures as passengers, one source said, “it meant that the C.I.A. had an unusual entree into the personal and campaign travel of some of the most important political figures in the country. It could learn where they flew, with whom they traveled and, if the agency wanted to, it could record or get an employee to listen to what was said.”
The Internal Revenue Service has given the House government operations subcommittee another report on its spying activities in Florida, this one dubbed Operation Sunshine and focusing on organized crime in addition to politicians. The previous report, covering the long-suspended Operation Leprechaun, outlined its intelligence gathering on the sex lives and drinking habits of about 30 prominent Miami-area residents. The content of the Operation Sunshine report was kept confidential pending its release at a subcommittee meeting today.
The physical capacity of Associate Justice William O. Douglas to return to the Supreme Court next October remains in serious doubt amid unchallenged reports that his colleagues have curbed his attempts to vote as an absentee Justice. Mr. Douglas has reportedly been refused a discharge he sought from the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York City because his doctors insisted he was not ready to travel to his home in Goose Prairie, Wash., for the summer. When the 76‐year‐old Justice reported to the institute early in April for stroke therapy, his stay was expected to be three or four weeks, but this time has been steadily extended. His departure was said today by his Washington physician, Dr. N. Thomas Connally, to be “just a matter of a few weeks.”
Damage claims against one former Ohio national guardsman were dropped after he testified in a U.S. district court that there was no reason to shoot student demonstrators at Kent State University five years ago. With the dismissal of Richard B. J. Snyder as a defendant, on a motion from attorneys for the plaintiffs, charges in the $46 million civil suit now remain against 40 former and present guardsmen, Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes and former university President Robert I. White. Snyder, now a butcher in Smithville, Ohio, testified there were times when he felt threatened and admitted firing his rifle into the air twice as “warning shots.” Four students were shot to death and nine wounded during the demonstration May 4, 1970.
Dr. James H. Sammons, executive vice president of the American Medical Association, wrote a letter to state and county officials of the association, minimizing questions that had been raised in the association’s magazine about the safety of a widely used and controversial diabetic drug. He then permitted the 1,100 salesmen of the largest manufacturer of the drug to use his letter in their sales talks despite a warning that such use violated A.M.A policy. Details about the letter’s distribution became known as the Food and Drug Administration published a proposed rule requiring a new label for the drug.
Under an experiment proposed by the Civil Aeronautics Board, airlines would be permitted to compete with one another on selected routes without the agency’s permission, and they would also have considerable freedom to raise or lower fares. The agency said it hoped the experiment could start early next year.
Charles A. Tuller and his son Jonathan, charged with the killing of three persons in a bungled 1972 Arlington, Virginia, bank robbery and subsequent hijacking of an airliner to Cuba, walked into the Washington, D.C., FBI field office and surrendered. Tuller, 51, once a $26,000-a-year Commerce Department executive, and his sons Jonathan, 20, and Bryce, 22, returned to the United States undetected last month after three years in Cuba. Bryce Tuller was captured July 3 during an attempted store robbery in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and was being held there. Tuller and his two sons are scheduled to appear before a magistrate at the U.S. District Court in Washington today. The three Tullers and an accomplice, William White Graham, 20, are accused of slaying a policeman, a bank manager and an airlines ticket agent during the October 25, 1972 bank robbery attempt and airliner hijacking four days later.
The Finley Coal Co. and Charles Finley, its president, were fined a total of $122,500 in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, after pleading no contest to violating federal coal mine safety regulations. The charges came after an explosion at their Hyden, Kentucky, mine in December, 1970, killed 38 miners. The Finleys still have a total of $6 million in civil suits pending in connection with the explosion. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge H. David Hermansdorfer specifically noted that the violations covered mine operations about one week before the fatal explosion, not the explosion itself.
The fireworks have ended atop Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii, but scientists said that frequent tremors within the massive crater indicated it might erupt again. Dr. Robert Tilling of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Volcano Observatory, keeping an eye on the 13,677-foot mountain, said, “We’re continuing to watch this because the lava flow could resume. This appears very much like the 1942 eruption, which continued for one day, stopped and then resumed.”
A British scientist, in New York under the auspices of the chemical industry, yesterday described as “utter nonsense” the argument that fluorocarbons such as those used in some spray cans present a serious threat to the ozone layer. It is this ozone‐rich region of the lower stratosphere that filters out the most lethal wavelengths of ultraviolet sunlight. Fears for its depletion have led a special federal study group to propose that severe restrictions be imposed on the use of fluorocarbons unless new evidence shows the reasons for concern to be invalid.
The U.S. state of Alaska had its highest recorded temperatures ever, with the capital at Juneau registering at 90 °F (32 °C) for the first time, a mark that has not been exceeded since then. Other high temperatures registered that day were 86° at Fairbanks and at Sitka, but only 68° at Anchorage. By contrast, Miami Beach, Florida, was slightly cooler than Juneau, with a high of 89°.
The play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” by Ntozake Shange, often shortened to “For Colored Girls,” was given its first public performance, at New York City’s Studio Rivbea. In 1976, it would begin an 867 performance run on Broadway, at the Booth Theatre.
The ABC-TV soap opera “Ryan’s Hope” premieres.
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour (29) weds American model and artist Virginia “Ginger” Hasenbein (26); they divorce in 1990.
Major League Baseball:
Homers by Rusty Staub and Dave Kingman supported steady pitching by Hank Webb and paced the Mets to a 3–1 victory over the Braves. Staub hit a solo blast in the fourth and Kingman hit a two-run clout in the seventh. The Braves’ run came on a throwing error by shortstop Jack Heidemann.
Tony Perez and George Foster hit two-run homers to power the Reds past the Phillies, 7–3. The Reds jumped on starter and loser Steve Carlton for three runs in their first turn at bat. Ken Griffey’s triple and Joe Morgan’s sacrifice fly started the scoring and, after Johnny Bench singled, Perez unloaded a long smash into the top-most deck of Riverfront Stadium. The fourth Red run came in the third stanza on Bench’s RBI single. Dick Allen’s error gave the home team another score in the sixth and Foster’s 15th circuit clout of the campaign followed a walk to Perez in the seventh inning.
Three Pirate pitchers combined for a 5–0 victory over the Cubs. Ken Brett, recently returned from the disabled list, hurled the first seven frames and got credit for the win. The Pirates picked up a 1–0 margin in the fourth inning on Manny Sanguillen’s RBI single. That was the difference until the ninth when the visitors added four more, the big blow being Al Oliver’s three-run homer.
The Cardinals got away to an early 5–0 lead and held off the Giants to post an 8–6 victory. A triple by Luis Melendez and double by Ken Reitz highlighted the four-run opening inning and, when the Giants narrowed the margin to 5–3, Ted Simmons hit a two-run homer in the fifth. The Card catcher singled home another tally in the seventh. Al Hrabosky recorded his 14th save of the season, tops in the league. Giant pitchers were aided by having three Cardinals thrown out at the plate by outfielders. In the loss to the Cardinals, Giants catcher Marc Hill — as well as the Cards — ties a mark last accomplished in 1905 when he tags out three Cards runners at home on throws from the outfield. The three Cards dealt out are: Ken Reitz, in the first inning. on a throw from left fielder Gary Thomasson. Reitz tries scoring from second base on a Mike Tyson single; Ron Fairly in the 6th inning thrown out by right fielder Bobby Murcer on a Tyson fly ball; Bake McBride in the 7th thrown out by left fielder Chris Arnold when he tries to score on a Willie Davis fly.
The Astros got all their hits and runs in one inning and Larry Dierker pitched his eighth complete game of the season to top the Expos, 5–1. Bob Watson singled with one out in the fourth, moved to second on a wild pitch and, after Cliff Johnson walked, scored on Doug Rader’s double. Roger Metzger received an intentional walk but another run then scored on a passed ball. The bases were reloaded on another intentional walk, this one to pinch-hitter Ken Boswell, and Dierker then helped his own cause, driving in a run with a sacrifice bunt. Wilbur Howard’s two-run single drove in Metzger and Boswell to cap the rally. The Expos’ only score came on a wild pitch.
Three home runs proved the difference as the Yankees defeated the Rangers, 5–2. After the visitors jumped ahead in the first frame on Jeff Burroughs’ single which produced two runs, the home team got one back in the bottom of the inning on a homer by Roy White. The Yanks took the lead in the fourth on walks to Ron Blomberg and Thurman Munson and singles by Graig Nettles and Rich Coggins. Nettles opened the home seventh with hs 14th circuit clout of the year and one out later Jim Mason cracked another to cap the scoring.
Jim Rice’s three-run homer triggered a four-run first inning and sent the Red Sox on to a 6–3 victory over the Twins. Rice’s blow was preceded by Bernie Carbo’s triple and a walk to Rick Miller. Their fourth run came on singles by Dwight Evans and Doug Griffin wrapped around a walk to Rick Burleson and followed by Bob Heise’s groundout. Griffin’s single in the fifth and Miller’s double in the eighth drove in the two other Bosox runs. Twins’ manager Frank Quilici was ejected from the game in the ninth for arguing a ball-and-strike call.
The Tigers scored their sixth straight victory, edging the White Sox, 2–1. After Ken Henderson’s homer in the second inning had given the Sox a 1–0 lead, the Tigers won the game in the fourth. Gary Sutherland opened with a single and scored on Leon Roberts’ triple. Willie Horton then hit a high pop fly to right which Pat Kelly caught after a long run but was unable to make an accurate throw to the plate. It was Horton’s 60th RBI of the season, tops in the league.
Second baseman Bob Sheldon, playing in his second game since being recalled from Sacramento, slapped a two-out, two-run single in the sixth to send the Brewers to a 4–3 victory over the Royals. Sheldon stroked his decisive hit after the Brewers had loaded the bases. George Scott opened the inning with a single and moved to third on Hank Aaron’s single, but was caught in a rundown trying to score on Bobby Darwin’s grounder. Charlie Moore drew a walk to load the sacks and set the stage for Sheldon’s game-winning blow. A walk to Scott and triple by Darwin plated the Brewers’ first run in the fourth and they added another in the fifth on Moore’s double and Sheldon’s RBI single. The Royals got all their runs in the fourth, Cookie Rojas’ single driving in two and Fred Patek’s sacrifice bunt the other.
Joe Rudi slammed two solo homers and Billy Williams added a two-run blast to power the A’s to a 7–3 victory over the Indians. A single by Reggie Jackson and Williams’ homer, his 10th, plus a walk to Gene Tenace, a stolen base and single by Phil Garner staked the A’s to a 3–0 lead in the second. Bill North’s single, his first of two stolen bases and Claudell Washington’s single made it 4–0 in the third and Rudi’s first homer increased the lead to 5–0 in the sixth. The Tribe chased starter Jim Perry in the seventh, getting one run, and scored two more in the eighth on Boog Powell’s circuit wallop. Rudi belted his second homer in the eighth to close out the scoring.
New York Mets 3, Atlanta Braves 1
Minnesota Twins 3, Boston Red Sox 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Chicago Cubs 0
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Cincinnati Reds 7
Chicago White Sox 1, Detroit Tigers 2
Montreal Expos 1, Houston Astros 5
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Kansas City Royals 3
Texas Rangers 2, New York Yankees 5
Cleveland Indians 3, Oakland Athletics 7
San Francisco Giants 6, St. Louis Cardinals 8
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Born:
Tony Benshoof, American luger (Olympics, 2002, 2006, 2010), in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Rumun Ndur, Nigerian-Canadian NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres, New York Rangers, Atlanta Thrashers), in Zaria, Nigeria.
Died:
George Morgan, 51, American country music singer (“Candy Kisses”), father of Lorrie Morgan, and inductee of Country Music Hall of Fame.
Barbara Brown, 73, American actress (“You Were Never Lovelier”).
W. V. D. Hodge, 72, Scottish mathematician who developed Hodge theory, the geometry of the differentiable manifold.
Jacob Bjerknes, 77, American meteorologist.
Ruffian, 3, American racehorse.
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