Secretary of State Kissinger met for seven hours in Geneva tonight with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the Soviet Union and “made progress” on nuclear-missile negotiations, Mr. Kissinger said. He declined to give details on the nuclear-arms discussion, but said it would be continued tomorrow.
An Administration‐backed bill that would end the five‐month-old embargo on sales of American arms to Turkey was both defended and attacked today in House testimony. Testifying for the Administration, the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Joseph J. Sisco, said the bill would help “in preserving our vital security relationship with our NATO ally, Turkey, and in strengthening our close ties with an equally important NATO ally, Greece.” Mr. Sisco, appearing before the International Relations Committee, said that continuance of the arms embargo, imposed by Congress in February as punishment for Turkey’s use of American weapons in her invasion of Cyprus last summer, would impede progress in negotiations for a Cyprus settlement.
Portugal’s Socialist leaders withdrew from the military government in protest against the takeover by the military of the Socialist newspaper Republica. Mario Soares, the Socialist Secretary General and Minister Without Portfolio, and Francisco Salgado Zenha, the Minister of Justice, chose to resign with a number of deputy ministers solely on the Republica issue.
France expelled three high-ranking Cuban diplomats who were believed to have been associated with a man called Carlos, a suspect in an international terrorist network. A worldwide search is being made for Carlos, wanted for the killing of two French counterintelligence agents and a Lebanese informer in Paris on June 27. French officials said that the Cubans had been “constant visitors” to Carlos in Paris.
Prime Minister Harold Wilson will announce today severe curbs on British living standards with the aim of reducing inflation and setting the country on the road to economic recovery. The measures, which will be introduced by Wilson in the House of Commons, are expected to include a rigid limit on wage increases next year. Agreement on the package was reached at a cabinet meeting attended by Attorney General Sam Silkin, reinforcing speculation that some kind of legal enforcement of the government’s 10% wage hike limit is in store.
David O’Connell, often described as the most wanted man in Ireland, was charged today with being a member of the Irish Republican Army. Arrested last night at the home of a Dublin journalist, he appeared before the Special Criminal Court set up to try suspected members of illegal organizations. The court, which sits without a jury, ordered Mr. O’Contell detained for two weeks. If convicted he could be jailed for up to two years.
Madrid police announced the arrest of 17 persons, including a Roman Catholic priest and two women, all allegedly members of an outlawed Communist group calling itself the Antifascist Patriotic Revolutionary Front. They were charged with taking part in terrorist acts in Madrid over the past three years.
The fourth day of the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, went off without mishap after eight bulls gored a Spaniard to death Wednesday and injured scores of others including three Americans. More than 1,000 runners, all of them men, stayed well ahead of the eight bulls along the 900-yard route from the bullpen to the bullring. Doctors at the infirmary said it was one of the quietest runnings in recent years. They said nobody turned up for treatment.
Italian Radical Party leader Marco Panella, arrested 10 days ago after he smoked hashish in public to protest Italy’s drug laws, was released from jail in Rome on provisional liberty. The drug squad officer who arrested Panella later apologized to him and expressed support for his campaign to liberalize drug laws. The officer was relieved of his post.
Francois Rossi, a 36-year-old Corsican and the reputed kingpin of the “Latin-American connection” in heroin, was held in $5 million bail — a record — following the opening of a sealed indictment in Federal Court in Brooklyn. He had been extradited from Spain after a two-and-a-half-year fight to remain there.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel plunged into a busy round of meetings with Government officials, Opposition figures and leading businessmen today on the third day of his visit to West Germany. At each meeting, according to Israeli sources, he stressed a need for patience in dealing with the Middle East crisis and he explained Israel’s concern about pressure to meet arbitrary deadlines in negotiations with Egypt toward a new interim agreement on Sinai. He apparently was alluding to the actions of Secretary of State Kissinger, who has been publicly pressing Israel to move quickly on concluding a Sinai accord with Egypt. Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Rabin are scheduled to meet here Saturday after the Secretary’s two days of talks in Geneva with the Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko.
A kidnapped American Army colonel appealed today to the United States to meet his abductors’ demands for distribution of food and clothing to the poor in a Beirut district. The kidnappers postponed their deadline for killing the colonel until Saturday night. In a tape‐recorded message delivered to a news agency here, Colonel Ernest R. Morgan asked that his “Government and people should not abandon me because of my color and my race.” The officer is black.
King Hussein of Jordan said today that he was buying sophisticated American weapons for his armed forces to defend Syria against any flanking attack by Israel through Jordanian territory. In an interview published here by Al Hawadess, the most widely circulated weekly magazine in the Arab world, King Hussein also hinted that he might allow Palestinian guerrillas to pass through Jordan to the Israeli‐occupied West Bank of the Jordan River if they did not return to Jordan as a sanctuary. King Hussein appeared to be seeking to restore his position in the Arab world by presenting Jordan as a bastion against Israel and a supporter of Palestinian aspirations to recover their homeland.
In the tumultuous two weeks during which Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has brought fundamental changes to the world’s most populous democracy, “discipline” has emerged as the watchword of the new order. Cabinet Ministers, business leaders and local officials from around the country seem to be trying to outdo one another with appeals for discipline in the building of a new India. Labor leaders and civil servants, also eager to respond to the calls from above, are urging greater national discipline and increased self‐discipline at the office, in the factory and on the farms. And the Prime Minister mentions it almost daily. Today, for example, an official statement quoted Mrs. Gandhi as having said to a group of supporters paying a call at her modest, well‐guarded residence: “The country cannot progress without unity and discipline.”
North Vietnam’s two top ranking generals, in a lengthy analysis of the Communist victory in South Vietnam, say that even direct. American intervention could not have prevented the Saigon Government from toppling this year. General Võ Nguyên Giáp, the North Vietnam Defense Minister, and his deputy General Văn Tiến Dũng, said in a 20,000‐word article that surprise, speedy tactical troop movement and the classic military siege defeated the million‐man South Vietnamese Army. The two men said that fast decision‐making at the Hanoi command centers and the battlefield enabled the military to follow up gains quickly and consolidate forces for more attacks that led to the fall of Saigon April 30.
Four kidnappers were killed and two wounded by Bogota, Colombia, police who raided a house to rescue an abducted businessman, police said. They said the kidnappers opened fire when police arrived at the house shortly after relatives had handed over $70,000 for the release of Caicedo Lopez, who was seized two weeks ago. Lopez, the owner of a machine shop. was found unconscious when police entered the house and was taken to a hospital.
Brazilian commuters, angered by continual delays on Rio de Janeiro’s suburban railway, rioted for the second consecutive day, burning one train. wrecking a second and ransacking a station. On the first day commuters also burned a train and wrecked a station.
Leftist terrorists attacked police stations, news agencies and businesses in downtown Córdoba, Argentina today with gunfire and firebombs. They apparently escaped after gun battles with the police. One gunman was reported wounded, but the police gave no immediate information on the incidents, which begun at mid‐afternoon. The police surrounded the area quickly and were fired upon by snipers, according to unofficial reports. The terrorists were believed to be members of the Montoneros, a leftist. Peronist guerrilla group that has declared itself at war with President Isabel Martinez de Perón’s Government.
A ceasefire, mediated by the Organization of African Unity, was reached between the African nations of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), and its bordering nations of Mali and Niger.
President Idi Amin of Uganda today freed Denis Cecil Hills, the British lecturer he twice threatend to execute by firing squad. The President took the action while discussing future relations between Kampala and London with Foreign Secretary James Callaghan of Britain. Foreign Minister (and future Prime Minister) James Callaghan of the United Kingdom flew to Uganda to personally request Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to release Briton Denis Hills, who had been threatened with execution for his criticism of Amin. Hills and Callaghan would leave Uganda the next day.
The Nigerian government has apologized for the 24-hour occupation of the U.S. Embassy annex in Lagos, the State Department announced in Washington. The occupation by Nigerian troops was protested both in Lagos and at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington. press officer Robert Funseth said. “We have received apologies in Lagos and also here.” he said. There was no violence during the unexpected takeover, and no official reason has been reported for the action.
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Nathaniel Davis told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee that a Colorado man recruiting mercenaries for the Rhodesian armed forces was under investigation and that if any violation of law was determined, prosecution would follow. Davis responded to a charge by Edgar Lockwood, director of the Washington Office on Africa, that the State Department has known about the activities of Robert K. Brown of Arvada, Colorado, since March without taking action.
Completing nearly five years of preparation, the United States and the Soviet Union are now set to launch an unprecedented space mission — a manned-flight linking American and Soviet spacecraft in earth orbit. The spacecraft will be launched Tuesday: an Apollo from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and a Soyuz that will take off 1,400 miles southeast of Moscow. There will be two astronauts aboard the Soyuz, and three Americans in the Apollo.
Secretary of the Treasury William Simon said that he no longer fears a budget deficit in the present fiscal year of $80 billion to $100 billion — something he said seemed “a certainty” six months ago. He said he was now “optimistic” that the deficit could be held to about $60 billion, President Ford’s latest official estimate, though he conceded this depends on several things, one of which is the expiration on schedule at the end of this year of the 1975 tax reductions enacted in March.
John Mitchell, the former United States Attorney General, and Richard Helms, former Director of Central Intelligence, authorized a secret program to infiltrate the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs with agents, authoritative sources said. The Rockefeller commission found the program illegal in its recent investigation of the domestic activities of the CIA.
The Senate approved a bill allocating $5.5 billion to finance school breakfast programs and other special nutrition programs for children and pregnant women through Sept. 30, 1977, but refused to expand the school lunch program at a cost of $150 million a year. For the first time, the bill assures that a child whose principal supporter and parent is unemployed, will receive a free lunch at school. The measure now goes to a Senate-House conference committee.
The Senate agreed it was deadlocked on New Hampshire’s disputed senatorial election and temporarily shelved the eight-month-old controversy while it dealt with other matters. The impasse was recognized by both Democrats and Republicans after a sixth unprecedented attempt in 16 days to halt debate failed by a 54-38 vote. Sixty votes are needed to invoke cloture. Contending for the seat are Democrat John A. Durkin and Republican Louis C. Wyman. each of whom has been awarded the seat in see-saw rulings since the close vote returns on November 5.
The Senate approved a bill that would make it a federal crime for a merchant to pull a “bait-and-switch” trick on a consumer. Bait-and-switch is the tactic of attracting customers with an advertisement for a low-priced item, which is unavailable, and then trying to sell a much more expensive item when the customer comes into the store. The measure would also prohibit certain false advertising and the use of threats or harassment to collect from a customer.
The House Rules Committee took action to abolish the strife-ridden House Select Committee on Intelligence and replace it with a larger, reconstituted panel that would retain the same authority to investigate the CIA and other federal agencies.
The reversal of the nearly century-long trend toward federal supervision of key industries and national resources, directed at regulating competition and representing consumer interests, appeared imminent under action taken by President Ford. He summoned the chairmen of the federal regulatory agencies to the White House and in the name of “maximum freedom for private enterprise” asked them to dispense with as much regulation as possible.
The FBI has been ordered by Attorney General Edward H. Levi to turn over many secret files on the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case to the sons of the couple. The Rosenbergs were executed 22 years ago after being convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Russians. Levi’s action overruled FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley’s decision to withhold important parts of the file from the sons, Robert and Michael Meeropol, who go by the names of their adoptive parents. The sons contend their parents were innocent and that the secret documents will prove it. They petitioned for the records under the Freedom of Information Act.
[Ed: Sorry, Kids: Your parents were guilty as sin. Proven by both the VENONA intercepts and the Mitrokhin Archive.]
A Baltimore woman was returned to New York from Havana and seized by the FBI to answer charges of kidnapping a cab driver and hijacking a plane to Cuba five years ago from Gastonia, North Carolina. Arrested after being sent back by Cuba was Dianne Vivian McKinney, 23, who had been held since she and a companion, Ira David Meeks, 33, landed in Cuba April 23, 1970. Meeks is presumed to be still in custody there.
John R. Bartels Jr., fired May 30 as head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, testified to a Senate subcommittee that while there might have been some instances of corruption in his agency, it did not deserve to be regarded as “the bubonic plague of law enforcement.” He told the permanent investigations subcommittee that he believed his two main accusers were simply trying to conceal their own shortcomings. Allegations that Bartels impeded an internal investigation were made last November by Andrew Tartaglino, then acting DEA deputy director, and George Brosan, then DEA’s chief inspector.
Taxes on crude oil to provide up to $200 million to help pay for damages caused by oil spills were requested by President Ford. He asked Congress to set a fee on certain oil, not to exceed 3 cents a barrel. Ford also asked Congress to set liabilities for oil dischargers ranging from $20 million for individual vessels to $50 million for offshore drilling rigs involved in spills, and unlimited liability in cases of gross negligence or willful conduct leading to spills.
President Ford’s dog Liberty, a 17-month-old golden retriever, will be flown to Medford, Oregon, today to be mated with Misty Songold Ladd, a 10-year-old champion golden retriever. The President will pay all of the expenses involved, including the stud fees and flight on a commercial airliner.
A returnable plastic beer bottle that can be used for fuel? The makers of Coors Beer said in Golden, Colorado, they are on the verge of developing one and plan to test market it by mid-1976. Bob Mornin, president of a subsidiary, Coors Container Co., said the plan is to use petroleum in the manufacture of beer bottles that can be recycled several times and eventually used as fuel. As for the taste of the beer, he said, the new bottles are made of durable, flexible plastic that has no effect on the beer itself.
Electrically powered trucks designed in cooperation with General Motors are being produced at the Riga Motor Works in Latvia, the Soviet news agency Tass reported. The trucks will be used in Moscow, where recharging and service stations have been set up. Controls are transistorized on the vehicles, whose top speed is 40 mph. U.S. engineers are working with Soviet colleagues to reduce the weight of the trucks, which Tass said were prototypes.
Public access to national wildlife refuges may be restricted by the U.S. Department of the Interior when it believes the ecology is being harmed. the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. The court ruling specifically dealt with the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia Beach, Virginia, but Interior and Justice Department officials have said the case is of “national importance.” The Interior Department had banned driving on the refuge’s beach for all but a few residents to keep the food chain from being destroyed by hordes of four-wheel-drive beach buggies and trucks A group of beach property owners tried to overturn the ruling.
American singer and actress Cher (28) files for divorce from musician Gregg Allman (27), 10 days after their marriage – they reconcile, but separate in 1977 and divorce in 1979.
Gladys Knight & the Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV.
Major League Baseball:
The Red Sox, after failing to hold a 7–3 lead, scored in the ninth inning and beat the Rangers, 8–7, to end Gaylord Perry’s mastery. While with the Indians, Perry had defeated the Red Sox 13 times in 14 decisions. Fred Lynn drove in four runs, three of them with a homer, to guide the Red Sox to their early lead. The Rangers, who cut their deficit with a homer by Lenny Randle in the eighth, tied the score in the ninth when Toby Harrah and Jim Spencer singled and Jeff Burroughs hit for the circuit. In the Red Sox half, Denny Doyle singled with two out, moved to second on a passed ball and raced home with the winning run on a single by Cecil Cooper.
The Tigers, who executed four double plays in support of Vern Ruhle’s pitching, defeated the Royals, 3–2, for their ninth straight victory. Both of the Royals’ runs in the third inning, putting them ahead, 2–1, were unearned on a pair of errors by Aurelio Rodriguez. Jack Pierce tied the score with a homer in the fourth and the Tigers then pushed over the deciding run in the fifth. Ron LeFlore singled, stole second, moved to third on an infield out and beat the throw home when Leon Roberts bounced to Frank White. Ruhle was removed with one out in the ninth and Bob Reynolds came in to register his first save in a Tiger uniform. The last place Tigers win their ninth straight. The streak hasn’t taken them out of the bottom spot.
Starting with a homer by Ken Singleton on Ed Figueroa’s second pitch of the game, the Orioles piled up 15 hits and defeated the Angels, 7–3. Jim Northrup also homered, while Bobby Grich collected two doubles and two singles and Elrod Hendricks smacked two doubles and a triple. Al Bumbry beat out three bunts for hits.
Tony Oliva had a 4-for-4 night at bat, including a homer, and Glenn Borgmann drove in two runs with a double to pace the Twins to a 6–3 victory over the Yankees. Oliva led off the second inning with his circuit clout. After two walks, Borgmann hit his double. The Yankees had a homer by Bobby Bonds but never caught up. However, the Twins’ victory was in doubt in the ninth when the Yankees loaded the bases, but only one run scored on a sacrifice fly by Lou Piniella.
Willie Stargell drove in the Pirates’ go-ahead run with a single in the sixth inning and then smashed a two-run homer in the eighth to clinch a 4–1 victory over the Dodgers. Al Oliver singled in the sixth, took second on Tom Paciorek’s bobble of the ball and scored on Stargell’s single to break a 1–1 tie. Stargell’s homer was the 361st of his career, tying him with Joe DiMaggio for 24th place on the major leagues’ all-time list.
Although held to five hits, the Cubs were able, with the aid of two unearned runs, to defeat the Padres, 3–1, to end a five-game losing streak. Dave Freisleben, who started for the Padres, yielded only two hits in six innings on the mound, but wound up with the defeat when the Cubs scored twice in the second on a pass to Manny Trillo, double by Steve Swisher and a wild throw by Enzo Hernandez in handling a grounder hit by Ray Burris.
The Expos-Braves game in Atlanta today was rained out.
Texas Rangers 7, Boston Red Sox 8
Baltimore Orioles 7, California Angels 3
San Diego Padres 1, Chicago Cubs 3
Detroit Tigers 3, Kansas City Royals 2
Minnesota Twins 6, New York Yankees 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 871.87 (0.00, 0.00%)
Born:
Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor best known for his role as Robbie Rotten on the show “LazyTown,” as well as his popularity as an Internet meme throughout Reddit and multiple other websites; in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland (died of cancer, 2018).
Alain Nasreddine, Canadian NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, New York Islanders, Pittsburgh Penguins), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Chukie Nwokorie, NFL defensive end (Indianapolis Colts, Green Bay Packers, in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Ryan Hale, NFL defensive tackle (New York Giants), in Rogers, Arkansas.
Died:
Achiel H van Acker, 77, Belgian premier (1945-1946, 1954-1958).
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