As the countdown began for the first Soviet-American space mission, an official at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida disclosed that the Soviet Union and the United States expected to begin negotiations this fall for more ambitious joint flights in the early 1980s. George Low, deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said the next joint mission would probably involve an American space shuttle, now under development, to a Soviet Salyut space station. The shuttle could carry astronauts to work in the earth-orbiting space station.
Russians are being pointedly reminded by the Soviet press that the Soviet Union has a longer standing claim to space eminence than the United States. Pravda, the Communist party newspaper, noted that the Soviet Union was the forerunner in the early manned-space exploration and attributed this to its Marxist ideology.
British troops shot and killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded his companion in a brief gun battle in Belfast’s Falls Road quarter, which is predominantly Catholic. The soldiers opened fire after the two suspected guerrillas’ car swerved to avoid an army checkpoint and shots were fired from the vehicle at a soldier on duty, the army claimed.
Thousands of Roman Catholics crowded into the northern coastal city of Aveiro today to protest the seizure by leftists and the subsequent nationalization of the church radio station in Lisbon, Radio Renascence. The Catholics converged on Aveiro from various towns in the conservative north where the church still wields great influence. Since yesterday, radio stations have been frequently broadcasting communiqués from the Communist party and allied groups denouncing “a reactionary maneuver against the revolution.” No counterdemonstrators appeared and the demonstration went off peacefully.
The Italian Communist Party denied receiving $86.000 earmarked for it by the American Exxon Corp. The denial came in an editorial in today’s edition of the party newspaper. Unita. The alleged contribution to the Communists was revealed by an Exxon spokesman in New York. when he said the corporation made political contributions totaling nearly $50 million to Italian parties over the 1963-1971 period.
Although public opinion polls and other data indicate that most British wage earners support Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s newest plan to fight raging inflation, their support may not be enough. Mr. Wilson also needs the consent, by no means guaranteed, of a few powerful trade unions, as well as considerable personal courage. Recent history here has shown that without these no incomes policy can work. On Friday, Mr. Wilson went before the House of Commons and gave Britain her third fullscale, enforceable wage policy since 1966. It was not an easy thing for him to do, and only the rapid drop in the value of sterling and the pleadings of a few senior ministers—notably Denis Healey, Chancellor of the Exchequer — forced him into it. To begin with, Mr. Wilson was well aware that the new limit of $13.20 a week on wage increases — about 10 percent of the average industrial wage — would mean a drop in the standard of living for many of the country’s 25 million wage earners, in part because the rate of inflation, now 25 percent, will decline much less rapidly than the rate of wage increases.
The 13th Baptist World Alliance congress ended in Stockholm with a message from its new president stressing the “urgent need for Christians to accept responsibility” for shaping a better world. David Y. K. Wong, a China-born Hong Kong architect who was elected president of the worldwide alliance of more than 30 million Baptists. set goals for the organization in the period until the next congress in 1980.
Coffee-exporting countries and their major customers agreed on a “revolutionary” new treaty to regulate the coffee trade. The 62-nation International Coffee Council ended three weeks of talks in London and officials said the broad outlines of a new agreement had been reached. The council, however, scheduled another three-week session beginning October 27 to fill the final details of the pact.
Israeli planes attacked the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon twice today, and Palestinian guerrillas retaliated with rocket attacks on Israeli communities near the border. Israeli fighter-bombers attacked the Ein al Helweli camp, which shelters about 20,000 refugees just south of the southern Lebanese port city of Saida. Later, Wafa reported that in retaliation for the air raids, guerrillas based inside Israel had fired rockets into the Israeli seaside settlement of Nahariya and also into Ras Nakoura and Malikya, all near the border. Two women were reported injured in Nahariya.
The Israeli Government today stood firm on its terms for an American‐mediated interim agreement with Egypt and decided to continue negotiations and seek clarifications without haste. The decisions were made at life end of a four‐hour Cabinet session at which Premier Yitzhak Rabin reported on his meeting in Bonn yesterday with Secretary of State Kissinger. Mr. Rabin told his ministers that the Egyptians had modified their terms for a Sinai settlement somewhat but not sufficiently. The Israelis want the Egyptians to pledge to refrain from hostilities and to relax their economic boycott and hostile propaganda in return for an Israeli withdrawal from the Abu Rudeis oil field and the Mitla and Gidi mountain passes in Sinai. A key issue has been the extent of the Israeli pullback and Mr. Rabin’s proposal to allow Israeli and Egyptain forces to maintain surveillance stations on heights overlooking the passes.
American Army Colonel Ernest R. Morgan, free after 13 days of captivity by Palestinian guerrillas, left the American University of Beirut Hospital after a night of checkups and flew to Ankara, Turkey, to rejoin his family. In a brief statement to newsmen before his departure, Morgan said appeals by fellow American blacks for his freedom helped convince his kidnappers to release him. “Public opinion did a lot to help, I think,” he said.
Despite the billions of dollars spent on them, Iran’s armed forces are about five years away from a credible military organization capable of achieving the Shah’s strategic goals. The necessarily slow delivery of advanced equipment, the problems of introducing such equipment to forces with al nineteen‐forties technology and the difficulties of motivating conscript forces are among the reasons for the delay in the attainment of security aims. These aims are the stabilization of the Persian Gulf area, the projection of a naval presence into the northwestern corner of the Indian Ocean and the strengthening of ground, sea and air forces to deter invasion or make it extremely costly for any enemy including the Soviet Union. Military and civilian sources, Iranian and foreign, emphasize the sharp difference between the reality of Iranian power and how that power is perceived abroad. They invariably point out as one yardstick that neighboring Iraq has more modern tanks today than Iran. Iranians and officers of the United States Military Advisory and Assistance Group say that most of the sophisticated weapons that Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi hopes will make his country the paramount power in the area have not yet been delivered.
At least 200 people have died and more than a million are homeless after two weeks of monsoon floods affecting large areas of northern India and parts of the south, according to latest reports reaching New Delhi. Worst hit are Uttar Pradesh and Bihar provinces, where the death toll is more than 175.
The usual milling crowds of Sunday shoppers swarmed through the bazaars of India’s capital today, ducking in and out of the tiny stalls to avoid the steady monsoon rains. And as they filled their baskets and string bags with mangoes and rice and flat loaves of bread, many of them commented happily on a phenomenon that some Indians regard as crucial to the success of the tough new course that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has set for her government — lower prices. “So many things have come down,” remarked a housewife who was holding a bunch, of bananas in one hand and the edge of her glittering red sari in the other. “It’s because of the emergency.” Mrs. Gandhi has proclaimed economic reform as the central feature of the current state of emergency, under which the government has arrested thousands of its political opponents, and the problem assigned one of the highest priorities in her program is inflation, which last year reached an annual rate. of 30 per cent.
The Soviet Defense Ministry warned Asian nations today that they could be drawn into military conflicts by permitting United States military installations on their territory. The Defense Ministry view, expressed in an authoritative commentary in its newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, also assailed the Pentagon’s policy of maintaining bases abroad as part of its defense strategy. The commentary seemed a clear attempt to rebut recent statements from Washington and Peking warning of the danger of Soviet expansion based on military power, including installations abroad in such places as Somalia. Both the American Defense Secretary, James R. Schlesinger, and the Chinese leaders have been castigated for their attitudes by the Soviet official news media in recent weeks.
Japanese fishermen in 50 small craft demonstrated at sea against operations of large Soviet fishing vessels working off Cape Erimo on the southeast coast of Hokkaido, Japan’s northern main island. The fishermen say that although such Soviet operations are outside Japan’s 3-mile limit, they threaten Japanese fishing and sometimes cause damage to their gear.
Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley, visiting in Havana, and Cuban Premier Fidel Castro urged the Third World to unite against imperialism and neo-colonialism. The Jamaican said imperialism had kept apart neighboring Caribbean islands, but that the 1959 Cuban revolution “had drawn a path along which Latin America and the Caribbean can walk.”
Chile’s military government reportedly ordered suspension of a ceremony honoring the late Nobel Prize-winning poet, Pablo Neruda, one of the country’s best-known Communist Party members. Homage to Neruda, who died in 1973, was to have taken place at a Santiago theater on the 71st anniversary of the poet’s birth, according to an account in the newspaper La Tercera.
Fighting between rival Angolan liberation movements intensified today, and Portugal’s Foreign Minister was flying to Luanda from Lisbon in an effort to end the bitter conflict in this African colony. Foreign Minister Ernesto Melo Antunes left Lisbon as fighting intensified in Luanda, the capital, and in the town of Salazar, 120 miles to the east. According to a Portuguese Army spokesman here, more than 300 people are thought to have been killed in the latest round of fighting, which began last Wednesday. Mortar and cannon, fire resounded in Luanda and shells ripped through buildings. All hotels in the center of the capital were reported filled with refugees from the fighting, which has been largely between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and the Zaire‐based National Front for the Liberation of Angola.
President Ford’s announcement that he will seek the 1976 nomination came at a time when he holds a wide lead over the field of GOP hopefuls. including a 2-1 margin over former California Governor Ronald Reagan. In a Gallup Poll test of 10 possible GOP presidential candidates, Mr. Ford got the support of 41% of Republican voters. In second place was Reagan, with 20%, followed by Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, with 13%. Mr. Ford has substantially widened his lead over Reagan since the previous test in early March, when he won, 34% to 22%. All other candidates on the list received 5% or less of the vote.
Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar said he did not expect a strike of postal workers but he conceded that there could be disruptions if no contract was agreed on before the current one expired July 21. There have been threats of strikes, mainly in the New York City area, by workers who led a demonstration in Washington, D.C., June 19 to protest the slow pace of negotiations. President Ford’s top labor troubleshooter. W.J. Usery Jr., has entered the talks on an informal basis to try to head off a strike. The main issues are wages and a “no layoff” provision. Bailar said the workers were aware that their contract and the law forbade a strike.
Representatives of Colorado’s and Montana’s governors are drafting a proposal calling for Western states to refuse to supply energy to the rest of the nation until there is a national commitment for energy conservation. The proposal will be introduced during a meeting of the board of directors of the Western Governors Regional Energy Office composed of 10 Western governors. One of the writers of the proposal. James Monaghan, representing Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, said. “Nationally, conservation and energy production are being treated separately and that shouldn’t be the case.” President Ford is only giving “lip service” to conservation, he added.
The House of Representatives voted 400 to 0 to extend until 1984 a 1961 congressional act to acquire land for migratory waterfowl. The measure, sent to the Senate, would authorize an additional $95 million for interest-free loans to the $105 million Wetlands Loan Act set to expire June 30, 1976.
Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court says that he and his fellow Justices should keep in constant touch with the grass‐roots sentiment in the country. “I think it’s so easy, because of the pressures here and the demands on our time, for us to stay in our ivory tower and not get out,” Justice Blackmun said in an interview published today in The St. Paul Pioneer Press. “I think we’re too confined at times. It doesn’t seem to me that we should hit the political circuit, but it’s good to hear the voices of America from a different podium than the rostrum before us.”
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader and John Swearingen, chairman of the board of Standard Oil of Indiana. disagreed on how much removing price controls from oil would cost consumers. Nader said “there is no question” that it would cost the average family $900 a year. Swearingen, appearing with Nader on ABC’s Issues and Answers, said Nader’s figure “is absolutely erroneous. You didn’t do your arithmetic right.” He said, “The energy administration’s estimate was only $121 over that period of time. You are trying to scare the public.” Nader contended that refineries would raise the price of oil, now limited to $5.25 a barrel on 60% of U.S. production, to the world market level, now more than $12 a barrel. Swearingen said today that he favored President Ford’s proposal yesterday for a gradual elimination of price controls on domestic oil. Mr. Swearingen said that decontrol was necessary because continued control of prices would result in a shortage of domestic oil and leave the country vulnerable to a new foreign embargo.
Mayor Kevin H. White said that the Boston School Committee’s $177 million budget for the 1975-76 fiscal year was “wasteful” and he had cut it by $30 million. White said the cost of education per pupil ($2,068) in Boston was substantially higher than the affluent suburb of Lexington ($1,646). noted for its outstanding school system. He said that since 1970 there had been a 14% drop in the student population but a 57% increase in the budget and a 13% increase in teachers. White said also that he would not let the current controversy over a court-ordered integration plan become “an excuse to squander the taxpayers’ money.”
Supervisors patrolled the streets after more than 300 of Albuquerque’s 510 police personnel went on strike in a contract dispute. Officials said the city remained quiet through the first night of the walkout. Police Chief Bob Stover said. “It’s hard to say how long we can go on like this. We’ve been trying to respond only to extreme emergency-type calls.” The officers are demanding a 12% raise and a no-layoff guarantee. The city has offered 8%. with some layoffs possible.
Dirk Fisher, working with his father Mel Fisher, found the first definite proof that the wreckage of the Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de Atocha was in the area, finding five bronze cannons 40 miles off of the Florida coast. The Atocha had sunk in a storm in 1622, carrying with it 47 tons of silver and 27 tons of gold. One week later, on July 20, Dirk, his wife Angel, and another member of the team, Rick Gage, would die when their ship, the Northwind, sank in a storm. The Atocha would finally be located on July 20, 1985, ten years to the day after Dirk had drowned.
Every serial killer starts somewhere, and for Robert Lee Yates, a taste for murder appeared to have been whetted at a popular swimming hole on Mill Creek, a dozen miles southeast of Walla Walla one summer afternoon in 1975. There, according to sheriff’s investigators and prosecutors, Yates, then 23, came upon a pair of local college students picnicking beneath a stand of poplar trees. And he shot them both dead. The victims were 21-year-old Patrick Oliver, an honor-roll pre-med student who had studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, and Susan Savage, 22, a recent graduate of Washington State University. Their bodies were found the next day. Yates ultimately murdered at least sixteen people in eastern Washington between 1975 and 1998. Aside from this first couple, most of them were Spokane area sex workers.
After months of hectic effort on both sides of the Atlantic to find the answer to last fall’s perplexing discovery of two atomic particles that fit into no generally accepted theory, a group in Germany believes it may have found the answer. The group has identified an intermediate particle that conforms to the supposed existence of a hypothetical property of some atomic fragments called charm. The discovery was made as physicists throughout the world, after repeated failure to confirm its existence, had almost abandoned the charm hypothesis as an explanation for last fall’s discoveries.
There are eight-and-a-half inches (21.6 cm) of rainfall today in Dover, Delaware (state record).
Thomas Sturges Watson, who in the past has come oh so close to winning his first major golf championship, finally did it today. In a marvelous round that went down to the wire, he two-putted for a par on the 18th hole to win the 104th British Open by a stroke from Jack Newton, who was bunkered at greenside and took a bogey 5.
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The alert baserunning of Darrell Evans, who scored from first on a single by Mike Lum in the 14th inning, brought the Braves a 5–4 victory over the Astros. Earl Williams drove in three of the Braves’ first four runs for a 4–1 lead. The Expos battled back and tied the score in the eighth when Larry Parrish singled, Pete Mackanin sacrificed and Tim Foli singled for his second RBI of the game. In the 14th, Evans walked with one out. Mike Lum singled to right, sending Evans to third. When Lum broke for second and the Expos attempted to cut off his advance, Evans kept going and crossed the plate with the Braves’ winning run.
Rallying for four runs in the seventh inning, the torrid Reds extended their winning streak to 10 games with a 5–3 victory over Tom Seaver and the Mets. The Mets scored all their runs off Gary Nolan in the first and were breezing along behind the two-hit pitching of Tom Seaver before the Reds erupted. Joe Morgan ignited the rally by drawing a walk and stealing second. After advancing on a passed ball, Morgan scored on a double by Dan Driessen. Tony Perez struck out, but Cesar Geronimo beat out an infield hit. Dave Concepcion singled to drive in Driessen. After Terry Crowley walked to load the bases, Rick Baldwin replaced Seaver. Pete Rose then singled to drive in two runs, putting the Reds ahead and breaking Seaver’s personal eight-game winning streak.
Taking advantage of two errors by Richie Hebner, the Padres scored three unearned runs in the fifth inning for a lead that stood up in a 7–5 victory over the Pirates. Gene Locklear hit a homer for the Padres, who were ahead, 4–3, going into the fifth. Hebner’s first error on a grounder by Bobby Tolan then opened the gates. Locklear walked and Hector Torres drove in both runners with a double. Hebner next mishandled a grounder by Randy Hundley for his second error. Torres, after taking third, scored on a single by Enzo Hernandez. The Pirates could do no more than narrow the gap with two runs in the eighth on a pinch-homer by Duffy Dyer, an error and single by Al Oliver.
The same three players who proved a winning combination in the previous day’s game starred again for the Cardinals in their second successive 2–1 victory over the Dodgers. Dave Lopes, for the second straight game, supplied the Dodgers’ lone run with a homer. After his blow in the eighth inning tied the score at 1–1, Bake McBride tripled off Mike Marshall in the ninth and Reggie Smith singled to give the victory to Al Hrabosky in relief.
The pitching of John Montefusco and Charlie Williams, who combined on a six-hitter, enabled the Giants to defeat the Cubs, 4–1. Montefusco yielded only two hits in the first seven innings before giving up the Cubs’ run on singles by Jose Cardenal, Jerry Morales and Rick Monday in the eighth. Williams, relieving with one out, retired the next two batters and allowed one hit while setting down the Cubs in the ninth. Bruce Miller led the Giants at bat with three hits, driving in one run and scoring one.
Dave Roberts, relieving for only the third time this season, struck out Ollie Brown with the bases loaded in the seventh inning and saved the Astros’ 9–5 victory over the Phillies. Wilbur Howard and Cliff Johnson had three hits apiece in the Astros’ total of 15. Johnson drove in three runs. Mike Schmidt homered among the Phillies’ nine hits.
Fred Lynn drove in four runs and Carl Yastrzemski collected five straight hits as the Red Sox defeated the Rangers, 7–5, for their seventh straight victory. Lynn knocked in one run with a double in the first inning and two more with another double in the third before adding his fourth RBI with a grounder in the fourth. Rick Wise, although staked to a 7–0 lead, failed to last the route and the Red Sox had to call on relievers Bill Lee and Jim Willoughby to nail down their victory. Roy Howell homered for the Rangers.
Nyls Nyman drove in two runs with a single and also stole home, while Wilbur Wood pitched a three-hitter as the White Sox defeated the Brewers, 5–0. In the fourth inning, Bill Travers, pitching for the Brewers, issued three walks to load the bases and Nyman followed with his single. Bill Stein singled to add another run. Nyman took third on the hit and then came home on the front end of a double steal with Stein. Nyman also doubled and scored the last run on a single by Pat Kelly in the sixth inning.
The batting of Gary Sutherland and Aurelio Rodriguez led the Tigers to an 8–4 victory over the Royals. Sutherland drove in three runs with a sacrifice fly and double. Rodriguez, who hit a double and two singles, knocked in two runs and scored two. Joe Coleman gave up three runs to the Royals in the first inning on a double by Jim Wohlford, safe bunt by George Brett, double by John Mayberry, a sacrifice and wild pitch. John Hiller relieved in the seventh, put down a Royals’ threat and gained his 12th save.
The Indians equaled the A. L. record for most consecutive victories in one opponent’s park by defeating the Angels for the 13th straight time in Anaheim Stadium, 8–7. The record was set by the Yankees, who beat the former Browns 13 times in a row in St. Louis in the 1939-40 seasons. The Angels had a 3–1 lead before the Indians erupted for five runs in the seventh inning, two scoring on a pinch-single by Boog Powell and two on a double by Buddy Bell for his fourth straight hit. Powell remained in the game, taking over at first base, and batted in another run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth when the Indians scored twice to take an 8–4 lead. The Angels came close to breaking the Indians’ mastery when Mike Miley hit his first major league homer in the ninth, connecting with two men on base.
Ken Holtzman gained his fifth straight victory, but the lefthander needed help from Rollie Fingers before the Athletics defeated the Orioles, 4–3. A two-run double by Billy Williams in the second inning capped the A’s scoring and proved to be the winning blow. Holtzman had a 4–1 lead going into the seventh when Paul Blair singled with one out and Brooks Robinson homered. Jim Todd, in relief, faced three batters and retired only one while giving up two hits before Fingers arrived on the scene. Fingers walked Bobby Grich to load the bases and then struck out Tommy Davis.
The game between Twins and Yankees at Shea Stadium was rained out. It would be made up on July 20.
Montreal Expos 4, Atlanta Braves 5
Texas Rangers 5, Boston Red Sox 7
Cleveland Indians 8, California Angels 7
San Francisco Giants 4, Chicago Cubs 1
New York Mets 3, Cincinnati Reds 5
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Houston Astros 9
Detroit Tigers 8, Kansas City Royals 4
Chicago White Sox 5, Milwaukee Brewers 0
Baltimore Orioles 3, Oakland Athletics 4
San Diego Padres 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, St. Louis Cardinals 2
Born:
Tim Dwight, NFL wide receiver and kick and punt returner (Atlanta Falcons, San Diego Chargers, New England Patriots, New York Jets, Oakland Raiders), in Iowa City, Iowa.
Donald Hayes, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers, New England Patriots), in Century, Florida.
Andreas Lilja, Swedish NHL defenseman (NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Red Wings, 2008; Los Angeles Kings, Florida Panthers, Detroit Red Wings, Anaheim Ducks, Philadelphia Flyers), in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Gareth Edwards, English film director (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”, “Jurassic World Rebirth”), in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom.
Danni Boatwright, American model/beauty queen (Miss Teen USA 1992 2nd runner-up), in Tonganoxie, Kansas.
Died:
Judith Graham Pool, 56, American physician who developed the cryoprecipitate, a blood clotting agent for treatment of hemophilia, died of a brain tumor.
Thomas Walter Swan, 97, American jurist and judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1926 until 1975 (b. 1877).
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