After nearly two years of negotiations, the 35 countries attending the European security conference in Geneva decided on July 30 as the target date for their leaders to meet to sign a charter on relations between the East and West. The closing ceremonial session, which is expected to last three days, would bring together President Ford, Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet Communist party chief, and 33 other leaders in Helsinki, Finland, where the conference opened on July 3, 1973. The document they are to sign, consisting of about 100 pages, in effect ratifies Europe’s postwar borders as inviolable. The Soviet Union, which had been pressing for a conference on European security problems since 1954 to win such an accord, had to accede in exchange to the West’s insistence that frontiers “can be changed, in accordance with international law, by peaceful means and agreement.” The document also contains guidelines for improving political, military and economic relations between East and West and for easing the movement of information and human contacts across frontiers. But the pact will not have the force of a treaty. Nor will it contain binding legal commitments.
Secretary of State Kissinger warned the third world majority of the United Nations today that its “arbitrary tactics” in the General Assembly were alienating the support of the American people for the organization. He made the statement in a speech at the Institute of World Affairs in Milwaukee. It appeared to be an oblique warning to the third world nations that if they suspend Israel from the General Assembly this fall, as they did South Africa last year, the United States might withhold financial support from the United Nations or withdraw from the session.
The moderate Popular Democratic Party has decided to pull out of the Portuguese government Wednesday because of a lack of democratic guarantees and join the Socialists in opposition, a high party official said in Lisbon. The official predicted that Portugal would come under full military rule within 48 hours, ending all pretense of civilian government.
The city council of Turin, Italy’s automobile capital, elected a Communist mayor and Communists won 31 council seats in the June 15 regional and municipal elections-an increase of seven. The new mayor. Diego Novelli, a 44-year-old journalist, won 43 votes from the 80-member council and led a Communist-Socialist coalition into control of city hall.
Israelis resentful of American pressure for an Israeli pullback in occupied Sinai stoned the United States Embassy in Tel Aviv. The attack followed a demonstration by about 15,000 people organized by the generally pro-American Likud party and other Israeli nationalist groups. Speakers, who included Members of Parliament, said that Sinai territory was negotiable in a peace settlement but that American “dictation” was intolerable. President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger have been viewed here to be withholding economic aid and postponing arms sales to put pressure on Israel to accept Egyptian for a second‐stage disengagement agreement.
A 10-member U.S. team radioed that it was giving up its attempt to climb K2, the world’s second highest peak. The message to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, from the head of the expedition, Jim Whittaker of Seattle, said the team had returned to its base camp at 17,600 feet and would arrive in the town of Skardu, Pakistan, by July 28.
The Supreme Court of India today set August 11 for the start of the appeal in the electoral corruption case against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The decision meant that Mrs. Gandhi’s legal entanglement, which has kept India in political turmoil for a month, will probably not be resolved before September. The Prime Minister’s lawyers. arguing that “this appeal should be disposed of as expeditiously as possible,” had sought to begin the hearing next week. Lawyers for the other side expressed satisfaction that the court had accepted their request for the later date. “It’s proof that the Indian courts are truly independent, even in a case like this one,” said Shanti Bhushan, the lawyer for the politician, Raj Narain, who ran for Parliament against Mrs. Gandhi in 1971, and then took her to court when he lost. His action led ultimately to the present political crisis.
Dozens of recent Cambodian refugees, some of whom escaped from the country as late as last Tuesday, are telling of a nation in a state of total revolutionary upheaval that is rapidly returning to its undeveloped past of a century ago. Relief at the end of the war was the initial reaction of most Cambodians to the Communist victory, according to the refugees. But that relief yielded to terror when the forced exodus of all the population from most inhabited places was announced. This was done in some places, like Phnom Penh, the capital, immediately after the victory, in others within a few days. Only villages long held by the Communists appear to have been exempt. The only accounts of villages still populated by their original inhabitants came from refugees who fled through regions of Kompong Thom and Siem Reap Provinces occupied by the Communists since 1970. Cambodia’s towns now are said to be empty except for small groups of Communist soldiers planting banana trees around palaces, public buildings and monuments and in any arable urban space. Paved roads are nearly deserted, as are most of the villages along them.
Most of the country’s population, about seven million, is apparently engaged in clearing the jungles, forests and shrub-studded plains for the planting of rice, while many fields long under cultivation lie fallow because they are situated near once‐inhabited places or important roads. Money is no longer used, according to the refugees. Nor are medicines, because what little stocks existed remained in the towns. Children are said to supervise the work of their elders and report their failings to the Communist authorities for punishment. Cambodians are told that the past is finished and all habits of the past must be cast off; that all people are equal and everyone is master of his destiny; that Cambodia has defeated all foreign enemies, notably the Americans, but the internal enemy remains to be vanquished. Those who resist are warned they will be crushed by “the revolutionary wheel,” a phrase often repeated. Cambodians must address each other as Samak Mit for men and Mit Neary for women. Those are new terms roughly equivalent to “Comrade.” Subtleties of the Khmer language, which has different vocabularies and forms of address indicating social relationships, are forbidden. All the refugees speak of killings by Communist soldiers, often arbitrary. Many assert that they have witnessed such killings, and most say that they saw bodies of people who had died by violence.
North Korea rejected a southern proposal for the unconditional reopening of talks about reunification, a South Korea spokesman said. Cho Myung II, northern vice chairman of the coordinating committee set up under a joint detente declaration in 1972, rejected the proposal and reiterated his country’s demand that the south discontinue anti-Communist and national security measures and drop a proposal for admission of the two Koreas to the United Nations, the spokesman said.
Radical youths threw firebombs into the U.S. air base at Yokota outside Tokyo, and at the Japan Defense Agency, the main office of the giant Mitsubishi Oil Co. and the Japan Air Lines office at Tokyo International Airport. Makoto Matsuo, chairman of the Middle Core faction of the Zengakuren student organization, said the action was to protest a visit to Okinawa by Crown Prince Akihito to open an international ocean fair. Matsuo claimed the visit was aimed at assisting “a plot of Japanese capitalists to turn Okinawa into their colony.” No one was hurt in the bombings.
The Philippine Government has reportedly taken advantage of a lull in fighting with insurgents in southern Mindanao Island to press its campaign to win over Muslim rebels while sending troops to clean out scattered areas of continued resistance. According to military headquarters here, more than a thousand insurgents from the Cotabato and Sulu areas have gone over to the Government since peace discussions began in early April. Last week, one group of 109 rebels from the Luuk district of Sulu pledged allegiance to the national Government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos and surrendered all arms.
A former aide to Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos said in San Francisco that the Marcos government offered him $100,000 to leave the United States and retract testimony before a House committee about tyranny and corruption in the Marcos regime. The aide, Primitivo Mijares, confirming an account of the attempted bribe reported by Washington columnist Jack Anderson, said the government originally had offered him $50,000 not to testify and another $50,000 to leave the country. Later, he said, they offered him $100,000 to go to Australia and repudiate his testimony.
Đặng Văn Quang, a former South Vietnamese general facing a Canadian deportation order, filed a claim of refugee status in Montreal seeking to have the order quashed by the Immigration Appeal Board. The claim is the first step in Quang’s legal battle to halt the deportation order by Immigration Minister Robert Andras after a government investigation found the general “guilty of nefarious activities in the drug trade” in South Vietnam.
Ethiopia’s military rulers have announced the formation of a political party “guided by the aims of Ethiopian socialism” to govern the country. The new party will be the first in Ethiopia’s modern history. During the 44‐year reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, who was deposed last September 14, political parties were banned.
Guinea re-established diplomatic relations with France, 17 years after voting complete independence from French colonial authorities, and a decade after the two nations closed their embassies.
President Ford announced that the United States had recognized the Republic of Cape Verde, a group of islands off the west coast of Africa that were recently granted independence by Portugal. He expressed concern about a serious drought that has affected the islands for the past eight years and talked of U.S. technical assistance to ease the hardship.
Troops of one Angolan faction drove a rival group from the capital of Angola today as the Portuguese Foreign Minister arrived in Luanda in an attempt to prevent full‐scale civil war. Angola is due to become independent from Portugal on November 11. Sources in the National Front for the Liberation of Angola said that its political leaders were forced to flee to neighboring Zaire after their Luanda offices were destroyed in five days of fighting with troops of the Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. More than 300 people have been reported killed and about 1,504 injured in the clashes. Radio Luanda broadcast regular appeals for blood donors and doctors to help treat the wounded lying in overflowing hospital wards and corridors. Most of the wounded were civilians, but a spokesman at the military hospital said 10 Portuguese soldiers were wounded.
South Africa began aiding the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), pro-Western Angolan independence fighters, against the Marxist People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which had taken control of the capital of Angola earlier in the month. U.S. President Ford, on recommendation of Secretary of State Kissinger, signed an order four days later to begin Operation IA Feature, providing American financial aid to FNLA and UNITA as well.
Preparations proceeded smoothly at the Kennedy Space Center, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, for the launching tomorrow of the Apollo spacecraft and its three astronauts into a nine-day journey into space and a link-up with the Soviet Union’s Soyuz spacecraft. The launch is scheduled at 3:50 PM, Eastern daylight time. The weather forecast was favorable. And up to a million people poured into the nearby beach towns for a glimpse of the last American manned launching for at least four years and the last Apollo launching forever. The Apollo launching is scheduled for 3:50 PM, Eastern daylight time from the Kennedy Space Center — seven and a half hours after the planned lift‐off of the Soviet Union’s Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The major event of the Apollo‐Soyuz Test Project, as the mission is called, is scheduled to come at about noon on Thursday when the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft meet 140 miles above the earth and unite for two days of joint experiments and ceremonies.
Ready for rendezvous with Apollo, two Soyuz spaceships, one of them held in reserve, were ready atop their launching rockets for a lift off tomorrow at 8:20 AM, Eastern daylight time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Soviet Central Asia, about 1,400 miles southeast of Moscow. Soyuz will be manned by two astronauts. The flight plans calls for a link-up with Apollo on Thursday.
President Ford announced a plan for the gradual removal of all price controls on domestic oil over a 30-month period. He said that it was a “reasonable compromise” that would stimulate the production of oil in the United States. The administration estimates that if the plan is accepted by Congress the price of gasoline and fuel oil would be increased by 7 cents a gallon at the end of the 30 months.
Democrats in Congress were sharply critical of President Ford’s plan to remove price controls on oil and moved ahead with plans to act this week on legislation that that will put Congress on a collision course with the President over energy policy. “There is no chance of his selling decontrol,” Representative Tip O’Neill, the House Democratic leader, said. The Democrats argued that Mr. Ford’s plan to reduce fuel consumption and increase domestic production by raising oil prices was likely to fail to achieve its goals and would be disastrous for the economy. The Democrats in Congress would rather attack the energy crisis through regulatory means. They prefer, for instance, to impose quotas on imported oil and penalize the manufacturers of cars with poor gasoline mileage.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will limit its investigation of covert activities by the Central Intelligence Agency to a “half‐dozen or so representative cases,” including the intervention in Chile, the committee chairman said today. Senator Frank Church, Democrat of Idaho, said that his committee had neither The time nor the resources for an exhaustive review of all the covert operations conducted by the CIA in the last three decades. He said, therefore, that the committee would select six operations for its attention. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives began debate on a resolution to abolish its Present committee investigating the intelligkence community and substitute a new committee with expanded membership and, possibly, a new chairman.
Clarence Kelley, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, acknowledged that after World War II, agents of the FBI had committed break-ins and burglaries not authorized by search warrants to secure “information relative to the security of the nation.” His statement provided the first official confirmation of a practice that former FBI officials have alluded to. Speaking at a news conference that marked the beginning of his third year as FBI director, Mr. Kelley, a former police chief, said he did not believe that such “surreptitious entries” were illegal. “I do not note in these activities any gross abuse of authority,” he asserted. “I do not feel that it was a corruption of the trust that was placed in us.”
The Justice Department has broadened its response to requests from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for classified FBI documents, following an assertion by Senator Frank Church, the committee’s chairman, that the department’s sluggishness had “severely hampered” the committee’s work. Senator Church made the remark last Thursday after the committee decided to ask Attorney General Edward H. Levi and Clarence M. Kelley, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to appear before it this week to discuss the delays. In an interview on Friday, Mr. Levi expressed surprise and dismay upon being told of Mr. Church’s statement, saying: “I’m sorry he said that, and I hope it isn’t true. I don’t think we should be severely hampering their investigative work.”
The retired Air Force colonel who unleashed a storm of controversy last week by charging that a high-ranking paid in the Nixon White House was a CIA contact man said today that he may have been fed misleading information to protect the identity of the “real” contact. Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty told The Springfield Daily News in a telephone interview that the Central Intelligence Agency contact may not have been Alexander P. Butterfield, as he has charged, but another White House aide. “They may have told me the wrong name to cover up they real informer,” said Colonel Prouty, who was himself a CIA contact officer in they Defense Department from 1955 to 1963.
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace is the leading fund raiser among declared and possible candidates in the 1976 presidential election campaign, according to reports on file Monday with the new Federal Election Commission. All the new reports were from Democrats. Wallace reported raising $1.67 million through June 30, compared with $1.2 million in the same period for Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington), the runner-up. In third place with $763.000 was Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen (D-Texas). Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter and Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-Arizona) were nearly tied with just over $300,000 each.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., upheld the conviction of former presidential appointments secretary Dwight L. Chapin on charges of lying to a grand jury investigating political dirty tricks by the Nixon White House. U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell had sentenced Chapin on May 16, 1974, to serve 10 to 30 months in prison after his conviction in a jury trial. The jury found that Chapin, 34, had lied when he denied knowing that political saboteur Donald H. Segretti had gone after specific Democratic presidential candidates like Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine. Chapin has been free pending appeals.
The Senate passed legislation providing for simultaneous translation into relevant languages of federal court proceedings involving persons who speak no English. Senator John V. Tunney (D-California), the bill’s sponsor, said the measure “would end a subtle but real legal discrimination against millions of Americans of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Chinese, Japanese, and other national extractions.”
Defense attorneys for Joan Little made clear as her trial opened today in Raleigh, North Carolina that they were putting the Southern system of justice on trial as much as they were defending a young black woman accused of first‐degree murder. The attorneys for the 21‐year old Miss Little, who is accused of the icepick slaying of a 62‐year‐old jailer she said sexually assaulted her, repeatedly accused the prosecutor of using peremptory challenges to exelude blacks from the jury, raised constitutional challenges to the jury selection process and contended that blacks convicted of capital crimes in North Carolina were eight times as likely to be given the death penalty as whites. The first three potential jurors, all blacks, were told to step down by Lester B. Chalmers, special state prosecutor, who the defense asked be barred from the prosecution on the ground that he had once represented Ku Klux Klansmen before the House Committee on Un‐American Activities.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said it had rejected a petition that asked for a ban on fluorocarbon propellants in aerosol sprays on the ground that they threatened to damage the atmosphere. The commission voted 3 to 2 that there was insufficient evidence to support the Natural Resources Defense Council charge that continued use of freon in aerosols could result in 100,000 to 300,000 additional cases of skin cancer annually within 25 years in the United States, and up to 1.5 million more cases worldwide. Commissioner Lawrence Kushner said the majority wanted to wait for a scientific report due next spring on fluorocarbons and the ozone layer, which shields against ultraviolet radiation.
One black youth was shot to death and at least four youths, all white, were badly beaten in a melee on tennis courts in a small park on Pittsburgh’s south side, police said. Two of the injured youths, beaten with clubs and chains, were reported in guarded condition. The dead youth was identified as Omar Bey, 18.
Declaring they are “firmly convinced of the innocence” of their executed parents, the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg filed suit in federal court in Washington. D.C., in an attempt to bare all the government’s files on the celebrated espionage case. Robert and Michael Meeropol asked the court to order the handover of all such records from the FBI, the CIA, the Energy Resources Development Administration and the Justice Department.
The oil industry should be able to develop energy sources other than oil, an executive of Continental Oil Co. told a Senate panel. “To deny the oil companies the opportunity to deploy their capital, skills, and experience in developing these alternative energy supplies would be national folly,” C. Howard Hardesty said. He was testifying before a Senate judiciary antitrust subcommittee, which is considering legislation that would prohibit ownership of assets in most other forms of energy resources by major oil companies. Continental Oil Co. took over Consolidation Coal Co. as a subsidiary in 1966, and in 1972 Continental began production of uranium through its minerals department.
“I feel about 40,” said President Ford as a Navy soul band played “Happy Birthday” with a rock ‘n’ roll beat, Betty Ford gave him a big kiss on the cheek and Flip Wilson’s Geraldine got cheeky with him on his 62nd birthday. About 200 White House staffers deserted their offices and poured into the East Room for the birthday party. which led Mr. Ford to ask, “Who’s keeping the store?” Flip-Geraldine, dressed as a nurse with the presidential seal emblazoned on the bodice and a “Go Navy” slogan on the hemline, had kind words for the Fords (“the main man” and “first mama”) and said he would have liked to reveal what Mr. Ford had said as he passed his semiannual medical examination that day but the President had “just kept mumbling.” The smiling President told Wilson, “It’s the nicest birthday celebration I ever had.” Presents from the family included a tennis shirt and shorts, a bag for tennis gear and a racquet cover.
Plans for the EPCOT Center at Disney World in Florida are announced. The park, originally onceived as a futuristic “city of tomorrow” in the 1960s by Walt Disney, would emerge as a future-oriented theme park in October 1982. The park spans 305 acres (123 hectares), more than twice the size of Disney World’s Magic Kingdom Park. In 2023, the park attracted 11.98 million guests, making it the eighth-most visited theme park in the world.
No baseball today; the all-star game is tomorrow.
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Born:
Tim Hudson, MLB pitcher (World Series Champions-Giants, 2014; All-Star, 2000, 2004, 2010, 2014; Oakland A’s, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants), in Columbus, Georgia.
Erick Dampier, NBA center (Indiana Pacers Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat, Atlanta Hawks), in Jackson, Mississippi.
Jay Graham, NFL running back (Baltimore Ravens, Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers), in Concord, North Carolina.
Eric Vance, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Indianapolis Colts), in Tampa, Florida.
Taboo [Jaime Gomez], American rapper (Black Eyed Peas – “I Gotta Feeling”), in Los Angeles, California.
Died:
[Arthur] Zutty Singleton, 77, American jazz drummer (Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five).
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