The U.S. Air Force announced that more than 180 jet fighters and fighter-bombers will make training flights to Europe during the coming year. The first unit, flying F-4 Phantoms, is due to arrive Friday at Spangdahlem Air Base in West Germany. There will be 11 separate exercises of about two weeks each “to provide training in intercontinental movements and European theater familiarization,” the Air Force said.
The House voted 382 to 28 to authorize $24 million for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for the next two fiscal years, but with orders that it do nothing to upset U.S.-Soviet arms-limiting agreements. The bill as passed by the House and sent to the Senate continues the ban on the agency using any of its funds to carry on “propaganda” within the United States.
President Ford said he had accepted a congressional proposal for a partial lifting of the embargo on arms delivery to Turkey, imposed by Congress after Turkey was said to have used American-made arms in the invasion of Cyprus. A bipartisan compromise has been drafted but faces opposition from the so-called Greek lobby. The ban on all sales of weapons and military assistance was imposed by Congress after Turkey was said to have used American‐made arms in her invasion of Cyprus a year ago. A large majority voted for the ban. Mr. Ford said he approved a compromise legislative package outlined by Representative Thomas E. Morgan, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, after a White House breakfast today with about 140 members of Congress. The President noted that “the Administration, of course, has asked for a total removal of the ban,” but added that he approved of the substitute as “what we believe is a fair and equitable solution.”
Portugal’s military rulers decided to give the people a direct role in government, bypassing the political parties. They approved the creation of a system of neighborhood and worker committees linked directly to the Armed Forces Movement. Leaders would be chosen and other decisions made by a show of hands. This system of “direct democracy” was announced at a time of deepening economic crisis and feuding between political parties, particularly the Communists and Socialists, while the Constituent Assembly elected by universal suffrage was planning a new constitution.
The General Council of Britain’s Trades Union Congress voted to limit wage increases in support of Prime Minister Wilson’s efforts to curb inflation. The move buoyed his government but the vote is not binding on member unions. The vote by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, representing 10 million workers, called for weekly pay increases of $13.20 from August 1 for a year, and urged a salary freeze for people earning more than $15,400. The increase is well below the sums mentioned by union leaders earlier this year, and falls within the Government’s 10 percent limit proposed last week.
Organized labor, demanding a bigger policy-making role in the wake of Communist election gains, called out a million Italian workers on a four-hour strike that halted trains, planes, ships and buses. Three million workers on farms and in farm-related industries scheduled another work stoppage of from one to eight hours for today and 1.5 million civil servants said that they might walk out soon unless their pay demands were met.
In Washington, Congressional committees moved today to grant trade benefits to Rumania after having heard testimony that the Bucharest Government was making it easier for citizens to emigrate. The Senate Finance Committee voted unanimously to approve President Ford’s request for nondiscriminatory tariffs on Rumanian goods, clearing the way for a floor vote later this month. The Ways and Means subcommittee on trade of the House of Representatives approved identical legislation by a vote of 14 to 2.
Eight fighting bulls charged into the crowd in the street at Spain’s most famous fiesta, The Running of the Bulls, today, killing one person and injuring 20, including at least five young Americans.
The United States and Israel are working on a formula to break the deadlock in Egyptian-Israeli negotiations and to solve the issue of the extent Israel would have to withdraw from Sinai mountain passes. Washington sources familiar with the exchanges said the key to the approach would be its ambiguity, leaving the easternmost slopes in Israeli hands. Secretary of State Kissinger, who has been handling the negotiations with Egyptian and Israeli officials, left today for talks tomorrow and Friday in Geneva with the Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei A. Gromyko, and on Saturday in Bonn with Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel. Mr. Kissinger arrived in Paris tonight. Before his departure, he told reporters “we are not anywhere near” an actual agreement, but that “all sides, Israel and Egypt, are working seriously.” There was no certainty that a formula, if reached, would be accepted by Egypt.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel said today that differences remained to be resolved with Egypt on three “key issues” before a new Sinai disengagement accord could be concluded. Answering questions at a news conference in West Berlin before flying to Bonn for talks with German leaders, Mr. Rabin said the disputed issues included the duration of a new pact, the exact line to which Israel would withdraw and the political concessions Egypt would make in exchange. Without agreement on these points and concessions from both sides, Mr. Rabin said, “I doubt whether such an agreement will be achieved.”
The Palestine Liberation Organization said in Beirut that it had demanded the release of Colonel Ernest Morgan, an American officer assigned to Turkey who has been kidnapped by a group calling itself the Revolutionary Social Action Organization, but that the group had refused. The group has said they would kill him unless the United States provided, aid to the poor in a Beirut neighborhood.
King Khalid of Saudi Arabia announced a record budget of $30.3 billion for the fiscal year beginning this week. About $6.5 billion will be spent on defense. Revenue from crude oil is expected to rise to $19.58 billion, compared with $15.08 billion for the fiscal year that is ending. Total revenue for the new year is estimated at $26.3 billion with the difference being financed from state reserves.
The Indian Parliament will hold a week‐long session beginning July 21, the Government announced today, presumably to consider the sweeping state of emergency declared late last month and the subsequent political crisis. To knowledgeable Indian and foreign sources here, the call to Parliament was an indication of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s eagerness to put legal force behind the emergency decrees of the last two weeks, during which thousands of her political’ opponents have been jailed. “It’s clear now that Mrs. Gandhi has the lid firmly on the country,” one diplomat said. “And she wants the Parliament to legitimize it.” Under the Constitution, the continuation of the state of emergency, which Prime Minister Gandhi says was necessitated by threats to the national security, must be approved by both houses of Parliament before the end of August.
The United States will reject a North Vietnamese offer to discuss the question of Americans missing in Vietnam, officials said in Washington. They said they interpreted the offer, made by Premier Pham Van Dong in a letter to 27 members of Congress, as making a discussion of the missing Americans conditional on U.S. aid to Vietnam. “We don’t think those terms are acceptable,” one official said.
The South Korean parliament passed three laws supporting President Park Chung Hee’s move to place the nation on a wartime footing in face of what the government called a growing threat from Communist North Korea. At the same time, Seoul called on North Korea for resumption of talks broken off since 1973. The new legislation contained measures to establish a civil defense corps, detain dissidents and raise defense taxes.
Mao Tse‐tung still thinks well of former President Richard M. Nixon and says the Watergate scandal was the result of “too much freedom of political expression in the United States,” Premier Kukrit Pramoj reports. Mr. Kukrit said that during his meeting with the Chinese leader in Peking last week. the 81‐year‐old Mr. Mao told him: “What’s wrong with taping a conversation when you happen to have a tape recorder with you? Most people in America love playing with tape recorders.” Mr. Mao said he remembered Mr. Nixon’s visit to China in 1973 and added: “Please tell him I still think of him.” Mr. Kukrit reported. Mr. Kukrit talked with newsmen during a reception marking his return from Peking, where he established diplomatic relations between the Chinese Government and his.
Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam said at an emergency session of Parliament today that his Labor Government had sought a $4-billion loan from unofficial Arab sources partly to nationalize and develop Australia’s vast energy resources.
President Isabel Martinez de Perón enjoyed a brief respite today from the political crisis that has shaken the government, as Argentina observed the 159th anniversary of her independence. But Mrs. Perón was expected to come under pressure again tomorrow to dismiss her private secretary and Social Welfare Minister, Jose López Rega, who has been attacked by labor leaders, the military hierarchy and the political parties for his virtual control over the government. Mr. López Rega and the other cabinet ministers presented their resignations last Sunday. However, Mrs. Perón has not appointed a new cabinet, or given any indication that she will accept all the resignations.
The National Assembly of Senegal passed a law providing for a multi-party system of government, albeit highly restricted and under government control.
Four months before the November 11 date set for Angola to become independent from Portugal, the separate liberation organizations began fighting among themselves, as the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), led by Agostinho Neto, attacked the capital at Luanda, which was under the control of the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA), led by Holden Roberto. The Soviet Union would send aid and Cuba would send troops to support the MPLA, while the United States would support FNLA and South Africa would send troops. The MPLA would be successful in taking over Luanda, and Neto would become Angola’s first President.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan, has received a categorical assurance from President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire that the British lecturer, Denis Hills, imprisoned in Uganda, would accompany him home to London tomorrow, the Zaire press agency AZAP said tonight.
Leaders of the Rhodesian African National Council announced from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that they had achieved unity and would intensify their struggle against the white minority regime of Prime Minister Ian Smith. Zambia, Botswana, Tanzania and Mozambique-also represented at the council meeting-had pressed the liberation movement to end its internal quarrels which hampered the nationalist movement in Rhodesia.
In Maseru, Lesotho, 18 supporters of the opposition Basutoland Congress Party were found guilty of treason. Charges stemmed from an alleged conspiracy to overthrow the government of Chief Leabua Jonathan in January, 1974. Acting Chief Justice T. S. Cotran found two others guilty of violating the internal security act and two were found innocent.
President Ford’s campaign organization chief, Howard Callaway, said it would make no effort to assure the renomination of Vice President Rockefeller. The strategy was to shield Mr. Ford from deep-rooted opposition to Mr. Rockefeller among Republican conservatives.
The House of Representatives voted tonight to permit President Ford to increase substantially the number of top‐level White House staff members. The White House requested the additional staff authorization, although Ron Nessen, Mr. Ford’s press secretary, said today that there were no present plans to use the additional allotment. An effort to hold the White House staff to its current levels was rejected by the House by a vote 234 to 157.
The staff director of the House Select Committee on Intelligence has seen documents indicating that a high-level member of the Nixon White House staff was reporting to the Central Intelligence Agency on activities in and around the Oval Office, according to a source close to the investigation. The source said there was no indication that the “penetration” was known to Mr. Nixon or those around him. A CIA spokesman said there was no infiltration or penetration.
The Democratic mayors of the nation’s biggest, oldest cities were defeated today in a major policy battle with a well‐organized minority of Republican mayors, who were aided by divisions among the Democrats. The United States Conference of Mayors, despite Democratic predominance, turned down resolutions backed by the big‐city mayors calling for cutting defense spending and using the federal funds for urban aid, and calling for greater emphasis on a city’s need in allocating Federal revenue‐sharing funds. At the closing session of its annual conference in Boston today, the mayors’ lobbying organization urged passage of three federal programs, totaling $12.5‐billion, to aid states and cities. The proposals were for continued revenue sharing, for public works, and for an emergency recession measure that envisions special aid to localities where unemployment has exceeded 6 percent for three consecutive months.
Boston demonstrators against school busing, led by City Councilor Louise Day Hicks, late yesterday seized the hotel suite of the host Mayor, Kevin H. White, to demand that he take the busing issue to the conference floor. Ignored by the Mayor, the demonstrators left frustrated this morning, 13 hours later. “I have a message for Mayor White,” Mrs. Hicks said as she left the Sheraton Boston Hotel, her voice shaking with emotion—“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”
Joseph Bastien, former assistant to ex-Senator Edward J. Gurney (R-Florida), took the blame for landing his onetime boss “in a bind” by paying Gurney’s personal expenses out of funds raised illegally. “I am personally responsible.” Bastien, 33, said in emphatically denying two influence-peddling charges against him in his testimony before a Tampa jury hearing the bribery-conspiracy case. As for Gurney’s expenses, Bastien testified that he paid for many personal items, rental cars and sometimes hotel or food bills when the senator was traveling in Florida.
The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday reported widespread easing of job discrimination against homosexuals at federal, state and municipal levels. The organization said it regarded new federal civil service rules that took effect this month as “cautiously an advance,” depending on how they would be applied.
The Pentagon was told by the General Accounting Office that it could save at least $51.7 million each year if it stopped using thousands of enlisted personnel as servants for Navy and Marine Corps officers. Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) called the practice “the most blatant waste of military manpower that can be imagined.” Army and Air Force officers have to pay for such services.
The search for Emily and William Harris of the Symbionese Liberation Army and other fugitives in the Patty Hearst case is being concentrated in the Chicago area, the FBI disclosed. Harris was reportedly seen with a female companion at Centralia, Illinois, late last month when they were stopped for questioning while hitchhiking. Harris was not positively identified until later. The couple showed identification cards bearing the names of Mike Andrews and Mary Hensley, aliases used by the Harrises.
Paramount Pictures has leased to the television networks the rights to 42 recent motion pictures, including “The Godfather” and “Godfather II” in a treatment that will merge the two into a television series. Previously cut footage will be added to make a version running 9 or 10 hours. NBC-TV has reportedly paid $15-million to run the new version once.
The widow and three children of Frank Olson, an Army researcher who committed suicide in 1953 after being used unwittingly in a Central Intelligence Agency drug experiment, said that they planned to sue the agency for his “wrongful death.” They said that they learned the circumstances of the death when the Rockefeller commission disclosed that a suicide had stemmed from a test of administering LSD to unsuspecting subjects.
The federal government has been more generous — by billions of dollars — in compensating its 2.7 million employees than was intended by a law enacted 13 years ago. The General Accounting Office said the Civil Service Commission consistently ignored fringe benefits in computing salaries for federal employees that by law should be equal to that paid to non-government workers. Such benefits, amounting to $11 billion in 1974, will reach $24 billion in eight years, the GAO said.
A former New Jersey state senator was among 11 persons charged in an Elizabeth, New Jersey, conspiracy scheme that involved the theft of 10 million gallons of heating oil from a refinery. The accused include ex-state Sen. Jerome M. Epstein; his father, Frank; his uncle, Solomon, three of their present oil business employees and five Exxon Corp. refinery employees. The value of the pilfered oil reportedly hauled away on a self-propelled barge was estimated at $4 million.
Oil and gas drilling rights on the outer continental shelf should not be leased by the federal government until it explores the shelf to see where the best drilling areas are located, the federal General Accounting Office said. In a report to Congress, the GAO said the Department of Interior leases drilling rights to private companies almost solely on the basis of interest shown by the companies. By knowing where the best potential well sites are, Department of Interior officials would have a better basis for deciding where to lease sites and at what price, the GAO indicated.
Establishment of a $200 million-a-year fund to compensate 13 coastal states for the impact of future oil and gas resource development on the outer continental shelf was voted by the Senate Interior Committee. The fund is proposed to help the coastal states control adverse environmental and social effects of the production process.
Ford Motor Co. said it had repaired rust damage to 69,000 cars and trucks under a previously secret anti-rust warranty program covering 12 million Ford vehicles built from 1969 to 1972. Existence of the program was revealed in Washington where Ralph Nader’s Center for Automotive Safety released a copy of a Ford confidential memo of August 25, 1972, explaining the program. Nader’s group charged the secret warranty program “was designed to pacify customers who complain vigorously, but unfairly withholds relief” from others.
Dutch photographer and artist Bas Jan Ader departed on a yacht from Cape Cod, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in an attempt to make an unassisted voyage from west to east of the North Atlantic Ocean. He was never seen in public again. His unmanned 13 feet (4.0 m) boat, Ocean Wave would be found on April 18, 1976, partially capsized, about 115 miles (185 km) southwest of Ireland.
The British rock band The Rolling Stones began a five-night run of sold-out concerts at the Los Angeles Forum as part of their 1975 Tour of The Americas.
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A homer by Rusty Staub with two out in the 10th inning enabled the Mets to defeat the Braves, 2–1, and brought Tom Seaver his 13th victory of the season. The Braves scored their run in the first when Ralph Garr singled and raced home from first base on a long single by Darrell Evans. Singles by Staub and Del Unser, around a wild pitch, produced the Mets’ tying tally in the fourth.
A homer by Johnny Bench in the eighth inning ignited a five-run rally that carried the Reds to a 9–7 victory over the Phillies. The Reds got off to an early 3–0 lead with the aid of a two-run homer by Tony Perez, but the Phillies erupted for five runs in the sixth. Jay Johnstone knocked in two with a double and Greg Luzinski two with a homer. Bench doubled and scored in the Reds’ half of the sixth before opening the eighth with his score-tying homer. Singles by Perez, Cesar Geronimo, Dave Concepcion, Dan Driessen and Pete Rose and a sacrifice fly by Ken Griffey then added four runs, giving the Reds more than enough margin to withstand a two-run homer by Mike Schmidt in the ninth.
Wilbur Howard was hit by a pitch in the 10th inning, Greg Gross sacrificed and Cesar Cedeno singled to drive in the run that gave the Astros a 4–3 victory over the Expos. Pepe Mangual had a hand in all three of the Expos’ runs, hitting a single and scoring in the first before driving in two runs with a double in the second. The Astros, after picking up a pair of tallies, tied the score when Doug Rader homered in the ninth.
Bill Greif, who took over after Jerry Morales singled off Brent Strom in the ninth inning, retired three straight batters to complete the Padres’ 3–2 victory over the Cubs, who suffered their fifth straight defeat. The Padres took a 2–0 lead before the Cubs tied the score in the third on singles by Manny Trillo and Rob Sperring, a sacrifice by Geoff Zahn and single by Don Kessinger. The Padres broke the tie in the fourth when Dave Winfield singled, Dick Sharon walked and Hector Torres singled to drive in what proved to be the winning run.
The Pirates took advantage of two wild pitches by Andy Messersmith to defeat the Dodgers, 3–2. Willie Stargell walked in the second inning, advanced on the first of Messersmith’s wild pitches and scored on a single by Richie Hebner. A single by Dave Parker, infield hit by Manny Sanguillen on which Davey Lopes threw wildly and Messersmith’s second wild pitch made it 2–0 in the fourth. The Pirates then added the decisive tally in the sixth. Stargell doubled, stopped at third on another double by Parker and scored on a sacrifice fly by Hebner. The Dodgers’ two runs included a homer by John Hale.
While John Denny pitched shutout ball, the Cardinals piled up 15 hits, including four in a row by Ted Simmons, to defeat the Giants, 9–0. Willie Davis set the tone of the game by hitting a homer in the first inning. Bake McBride batted in two runs with a triple in the second and Ron Fairly hit a homer after a single by Simmons in the third.
Fergie Jenkins pitched a four-hitter for his first shutout of the season and Jim Sundberg clinched the Rangers’ 4–0 victory over the Yankees by rapping a homer with two men on base. The Rangers counted their initial run in the first inning on two walks and a double by Tom Grieve. Leo Cardenas singled in the sixth and Roy Smalley walked ahead of Sundberg’s smash.
After trailing by six runs early in the game, the Red Sox came battling back to gain a 9–8 victory over the Twins. The Red Sox smashed four homers, starting with a solo swat by Dwight Evans in the second inning. The Twins erupted for seven runs in the third on seven hits, a walk, wild pitch and sacrifice fly. Jerry Terrell started the outburst with a single and capped it with a double. Two-run homers by Carlton Fisk and Fred Lynn helped the Red Sox get back into contention, but they still trailed by one run going into the ninth. Cecil Cooper provided that needed run with a pinch-homer. Doug Griffin, also pinch-hitting, singled with one away and then with two out raced home from first base with the winning run when Jim Rice doubled.
The Tigers stretched their longest winning streak of the season to eight games with a 6–2 victory over the White Sox. Jack Pierce and Bill Freehan accounted for the Tigers’ runs. Pierce drove in two with a single in the first inning and picked up another RBI with a grounder in the third. The White Sox came back with a pair in the fifth on a single by Jerry Hairston and homer by Brian Downing, but Freehan settled the issue in the Tigers’ half, hitting for the circuit and driving in Mickey Stanley and Willie Horton, who were on base with singles.
Two homers by Don Money and one by Bobby Darwin helped the Brewers defeat the Royals, 6–4. Money led off the game with a homer. Darwin hit for the circuit in the second inning. The Brewers went on to add three more runs before the stanza ended. Money drove in one with a sacrifice fly and then capped the Brewers’ scoring with his second round-tripper of the game in the fourth. Fred Patek plated two of the Royals’ runs with a pair of singles.
The Angels snapped an eight-game losing streak when pinch-hitter Dave Collins drove in two runs with a triple in the eighth inning to beat the Orioles, 3–2. The Angels scored their first run in the sixth on a walk to Dave Chalk and singles by Winston Llenas and Ellie Rodriguez. Brooks Robinson batted the Orioles ahead with a two-run single in the eighth, but an error by the third baseman then led to his club’s defeat. Robinson missed a grounder by Leroy Stanton to open the Angels’ half of the eighth. Chalk sacrificed. After a pass to Joe Lahoud, Collins batted for John Balaz and smashed his triple.
Dick Bosman beat his former Cleveland teammates for the third straight time but needed help from Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers to nail down the Athletics’ 3–1 victory over the Indians. Bosman gave up only two hits before being lifted after issuing two passes in the sixth inning. Lindblad was touched for the Indians’ run in the ninth on singles by Duane Kuiper and George Hendrick and a double by John Ellis. Fingers relieved and struck out Bill Sudakis to save the game. The Tribe push across their run against reliever Paul Lindblad, ending his consecutive scoreless innings at 33 ⅓.
New York Mets 2, Atlanta Braves 1
Minnesota Twins 8, Boston Red Sox 9
Baltimore Orioles 2, California Angels 3
San Diego Padres 3, Chicago Cubs 2
Philadelphia Phillies 7, Cincinnati Reds 9
Chicago White Sox 2, Detroit Tigers 6
Montreal Expos 3, Houston Astros 4
Milwaukee Brewers 6, Kansas City Royals 4
Texas Rangers 4, New York Yankees 0
Cleveland Indians 1, Oakland Athletics 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
San Francisco Giants 0, St. Louis Cardinals 9
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Jack White (stage name for John Anthony Gillis), American alternative rock musician (The White Stripes; Raconteurs); in Detroit, Michigan.
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