U.S. President Ford secretly communicated to Congress his decision to authorize $6,000,000 for a CIA operation to combat Marxist soldiers. The plans for Operation IA Feature did not specify the nature of the operation, nor even where it was taking place, but were an intervention in the Angolan Civil War to support the pro-Western National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) and National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)) against the ruling Marxist regime, the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).
The 35‐nation European security conference confirmed early today that it will conclude its two years of intermittent meetings at a summitlevel session in Helsinki. Finland, beginning on July 30. The decision, read out formally by Rudolf Bindschedler, Switzerland’s chief delegate, to a meeting of delegation leaders, followed more than 15 hours of almost continuous negotiations on a compromise text on the crucial issue of troops maneuvers. The issue had been the subject of a long‐standing dispute between Cyprus and Turkey. An agreement on it — finally reached early today — was vital before delegation leaders could confirm the decision made in principle on Monday on the date for the Helsinki session.
Portugal’s military forces were put on full alert as the conflict between the Communist party and its rivals began to move into the streets, amid reports of a possible coup. The Military Security Command warned that it would use “force of arms” against any action by “counterrevolutionary forces,” outside the country. Thousands of rightist supporters of the authoritarian government that was overthrown last year have gathered in Spain. The security command mentioned the “Portuguese Liberation Army,” which these rightists are said to have formed, as one possible source of trouble. Late tonight police and military units reported that Communist vigilante groups were trying to bar access to the Lisbon area by Socialists. Military security headquarters promptly condemned the action as “unjustified,” saying that if roadblocks were necessary, the military would see that they were put up.
The heads of government of the nine Common Market countries met in Brussels this week to discuss their economic and political problems. But, competing for headlines with the United States‐Soviet space link‐up, the Portuguese Government change and the climax of the year’s biggest cycling race in France, they were virtually neglected by the European public they govern. In Brussels, the only visible pomp when Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Britain, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany, President Valery Giscard d’Estaing of France and their colleagues arrived at Common Market headquarters Wednesday was a fly‐over by Belgian Air Force jets. Even this was really a practice run for next week’s Belgian independence day festivities. The low profile of the meeting was not a mistake, however, but part of a script worked out by the nine nations last December when they agreed to hold regular leadership meetings, newly christened “European Councils,” three times a year.
John Stonehouse returned to London today, closing a chapter in the bizarre story of the British Member of Parliament who disappeared in Miami Beach last year and was arrested in Australia where he had turned up under an assumed name. Accompanied by senior Scotland Yard detectives, the 50-year-old former Labor Government minister landed at Heathrow Airport aboard a British Airways flight from Melbourne. Mr. Stonehouse, and his former secretary and companion, 25‐year‐old Sheila Buckley, were immediately taken in two police cars to the Bow Street police station.
The State Department said today that the United States would oppose any revisions in United Nations Security Council resolutions dealing with the Middle East to speed a renewal of the mandate of the United Nations peace-keeping force in Sinai. Egypt has threatened to refuse to renew the mandate, which expires next Thursday. unless pressure was brought on Israel by the Security Council to hasten withdrawals from occupied territories. One suggestion made was a change in Resolution 242 of 1967 or 338 of 1973, which form the legal basis for United Nations involvement in the Middle Last deplomatic efforts. But Robert Anderson, the State department spokesman. said it was his “clear understanding” that the United States saw no need for any changes in the carefully drafted language of these resolutions calling for a peace settlement between Arabs and Israelis. At breakfast today, Secretary of State Kissinger conferred again with Ambassador Simcha Dinitz of Israel to complete their discussion of the latest Israeli proposals to break the deadlocked talks on a new Egyptian‐Israeli accord in Sinai.
The military command in Tel Aviv said today that Israeli troops had killed three Arab infiltrators from Lebanon, blocking an attempt to seize hostages in the frontier area. The Arabs were said to belong to the Iraqi‐backed Popular Struggle Front, which is part of an Arab bloc opposing Egyptian moves to negotiate an accommodation with Israel. A different version of the incident was given in Beirut, Lebanon, where a Palestinian guerrilla organization said its members had seized hostages and then, after an eight‐hour battle with Israeli forces, had blown themselves up along with their captives. Israeli security forces, reporting a second plot, said they had thwarted a guerrilla attack on Ben Gurion International Airport today. Two men with explosives were seized in a routine police search of motor vehicles outside the airport gate.
After the issue of war or peace with Israel, the greatest single problem facing President Anwar el-Sadat is money. Egypt is earning very little hard currency. Yet, in order to make life a little better for her citizens and to stave off potential social unrest, the government is importing twice as much this year as it did in 1974. In turn the 1974 imports were twice as large as those in 1973. More than $1.5‐billion is being spent annually on the import of basic foods like sugar, tea and wheat, which are then sold to the citizens at an average of one–tenth of the purchase value. To end or even reduce these food subsidies would bring severe hardship to millions of Egyptians and disrupt the social and political fabric of the country, creating a threat to the leadership.
Beirut still has the jitters two weeks after the most vicious fighting in modern Lebanon’s history. No official death toll has been reported, but some believe that as many as 700 people were killed and thousands more wounded in three major rounds of street fighting that began in April after an ambush on a bus carrying Palestinian activists. In the past Lebanon thrived as a stable haven of banking, commerce and tourism in the troubled Middle East. But the civil conflict of the last three months dealt staggering losses to the economy and ruined this year’s tourist season and possibility next year’s as well. Some foreign businessmen are beginning to wonder if the Switzerland of the Middle East has turned into a Northern Ireland. “People are in a holding pattern,” said an American banker, noting that so far large companies have not begun to move elsewhere. “But a lot of people are talking about Athens.”
An official of America’s biggest bank has visited Hanoi at the invitation of the. North Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce and discussed possible trade between the United States and North Vietnam. The visit, by Louis E. Saubolle, a vice president and Asia representative of the Bank of America, was believed to be the first by a representative of an American bank to Hanoi since North Vietnam was established in 1954. Analysts here said the invitation indicated that North Vietnam was interested in trade with the United States to help rebuild its shattered economy. But they cautioned that the visit did not represent a major breakthrough in relations between the two countries and emphasized that Mr. Saubolle was acting on his own.
The Honduran government announced the discovery of the bodies of seven persons, including two priests — one of them an American — who had been missing since the army clashed last month with 12,000 peasants demanding land. A Roman Catholic bishop said the slayings “were committed by die-hard forces opposed to the postponed social reforms in the countryside.” The American priest was identified as the Rev. Michael Jerome Cypher of Medford, Wisconsin.
Fifteen of the 24 members of the Organization of American States are prepared to support a resolution lifting the hemisphere grouping’s embargo against Cuba, the Foreign Minister of Costa Rica said today at the OAS conference in San José. However, one faction of the 15, led by Guatemala and Honduras, is demanding that the Cuba decision, which many expected at the end of the treaty‐reform conference here, be made at a meeting of the organization in Trinidad scheduled for the first week of August. Bolivia and Haiti are backing this demand. The other larger faction, which includes the United States, wants to act here and now on the Cuba issue. At least 14 votes are needed to lift the ban on Cuba imposed in 1964 in retaliation for Cuban guerrilla actions against Venezuela.
The government of Argentina sought to quell rumors and local newspaper reports that President Isabel Martinez de Perón was seeking a leave of absence and wished to go abroad. The Argentine constitution allows the President, with Senate approval, to take a leave of absence of up to 60 days. The Minister of Interior, Antonio J. Benitez, said that Mrs. Perón had no intention of asking the Senate for a two‐month trip abroad, as reported by the‐leading newspapers. He added that the President who has reportedly been suffering from a cold, would resume her duties within the next few says. During the last three weeks, Mrs. Perón has witnessed the rapid disintegration of her Government and her support within the Peronist movement. Argentina, which has been the most affluent country in Latin America, is perilously close to economic chaos. There is a strong possibility that she will have to default on her foreign debts and suffer many business bankruptcies, rising unemployment, acute shortages and uncontrolled inflation.
The Apollo and Soyuz astronauts visited each other’s spaceships twice today, sharing meals and speaking of friendship and further cooperation. The spaceships, which were united in orbit Thursday, are scheduled to separate at 8:04 AM, Eastern daylight time, tomorrow. They will practice one more brief docking before going their separate ways 140 miles above the earth. At the end of today’s final visit, Brigadier General Thomas P. Stafford of the Air Force, the Apollo commander, bade farewell to the Soviet astronauts, saying: “I’m sure we have opened up a new era in the history of man. Our next meeting will be on the ground.” Earlier, Colonel Aleksei A. Leonov, the Soyuz commander, described the first international manned space mission in much the same vein.
The Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft, in periods when they are separated, are scheduled tomorrow to perform two experiments designed to take advantage of the two craft circling the earth in formation. With the American Apollo maneuvering away from, up to and around the Russian Soyuz, the astronauts will stage an artificial solar eclipse and also attempt to measure traces of atmosphere that may still be detectable 140 miles above the earth. The solar experiment is scheduled to take six minutes while the two ships cross the southern tip of South America at dawn. The atmospheric composition measurements are spread over almost six hours, on four revolutions of the globe. Almost all maneuvers are being assigned to the larger Apollo craft, which normally carries more maneuvering fuel than a Soyuz does and was given extra supplies for this flight. In the solar eclipse experiments, the Apollo will be positioned between the Soyuz and the sun. The exercise aims at using the almost perfectly round shape of the Apollo, when viewed head‐on, as a disk to blot out the sun so Soviet astronaut Valery N. Kubasov can photograph faint outer reaches of the sun’s tenuous but violent halo of gases, the corona.
Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said that the committee had thus far found “no hard evidence” linking any former presidents to alleged attempts by the Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate foreign heads of state. He said he had now concluded that there was “a very real possibility” that the agency had conceived and attempted to carry out such plots independently. The C.I.A., he declared, “may have been behaving like a rogue elephant on a rampage.” A source close to the Church committee asserted today that the panel had evidence that the Central Intelligence Agency continued to plot against the life of Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba for at least four years after the unsuccessful invasion. of the Bay of Pigs in 1961.
Senate Democratic leaders, facing a bitter dispute with Southern legislators, unexpectedly called up the House-passed voting rights bill for action today and immediately filed a petition to shut off any attempt to filibuster it. The Democratic leader, Mike Mansfield, fearing that a filibuster by. Southerners would delay action on the 10‐year extension of the Voting Rights Act beyond the August 6 expiratitin date, brought the issue to the floor shortly after the Judiciary Committee had approved a similar version. The committee, by a vote of 10 to 4, not only approved a 10‐year extension of the act, but also added a permanent ban on voter literacy tests of all kinds.
The House reversed itself today and voted to allow the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to integrate by sex physical education classes and honorary societies in federally aided schools and colleges. By a vote of 215 to 178, the House defeated an amendment to a $7.5‐billion education appropriation bill that would have prevented the department from spending money to enforce some of the rules it had promugated to prevent sex discrimination in school. The regulations are scheduled to take effect Monday, but compliance with those involving physical education and athletics is delayed. Elementary schools have one year and colleges have three years to comply with those provisions.
Governor Milton Shapp of Pennsylvania announced that he would become a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President. Six other Democrats have already formally declared themselves as candidates, but Mr. Shapp, who is 63 years old, said he was delaying his official announcement until early fall as “a matter of timing.”
Former President Richard M. Nixon happened upon an auto accident at Camp Pendleton, California and spent an hour directing unsuccessful efforts to save the lives of three marines, his son‐in‐law Edward F. Cox said today. Mr. Cox said that the head‐on collision had occurred about two minutes before a car carrying Mr. Nixon, his daughter Tricia and Mr. Cox, her husband, arrived at the scene yesterday afternoon. They were returning from the camp golf course. Mr. Cox said that Secret Service agents had intended to pass the accident because their first concern was protecting the former President. “But the President saw the accident and said right away, ‘Stop, stop the car.’ ” Mr. Cox said in a telephone interview. He said that a warrant officer had been directing the rescue operation and Mr. Nixon had asked him, “Can we give you any help? We’ve got first aid equipment.” “Yes, sir. We sure can use that,” the officer replied, according to Mr. Cox.
A lawyer for Mr. Nixon said today that the former President would make a sworn deposition late next week in his suit to regain custody of his Presidential papers and tapes. “It’s an incredibly important case from his standpoint and that of the institution of the Presidency,” said R. Stan Mortenson, one of Mr. Nixon’s lawyers. Two Federal judges ordered yesterday that Mr. Nixon answer questions under oath within 10 days. There was speculation, however, that he might avoid making the deposition by withdrawing an affidavit he submitted in the case in June.
A tentative agreement to end an 18‐day strike by state unemployment and welfare workers was reached early today, Governor Milton J. Shapp said. The terms were not disclosed, but Mr. Shapp said it was within the “fiscal guidelines” of an earlier proposal to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes. Striking workers represented by the 10,000‐member Pennsylvania Employment Security Employes Association and the 2,600‐member Pennsylvania Social Services Union will vote on the proposal during the weekend, a spokesman said. “The union leadership has assured me that its members will be available to work immediately upon contract ratification,” Mr. Shapp said. “I have instructed our department heads to work this weekend if the contract is ratified and to be prepared to restore full public service Monday morning.”
A threatened nationwide strike of American railroad workers was called off suddenly after the railroads and the unions signed a pact in Washington. Railroad and union negotiators averted a nationwide rail strike today by agreeing suddenly on what the union president called a “most satisfactory” labor contract. “I have no question that this agreement will be completely ratified on Tuesday next week” when the union’s general chairmen gather in Washington, C.L. Dennis, president of the railway clerks’ union, told reporters.
Mayor Beame’s willingness to consider a broad package of economies for New York City appears to have forestalled, at least for the moment, action by a financial rating service that would have been another serious blow to the city’s standing in the financial community. Until Mr. Beame announced yesterday that he was weighing further layoffs, salary cuts, a wage freeze and an increase in the transit fare, Moody’s Investors Service, the nation’s leading rating service for municipal notes, was considering removal of its favorable rating of $3.9‐billion in outstanding New York City notes. Moody’s said yesterday that it still may take the action, but not until it has a chance to evaluate the Mayor’s newest package.
Atlantic Richfield has been granted a permit to drill 17 new oil wells in the Santa Barbara Channel, the first new drilling in the waterway since a 1969 oil spill blackened beaches and killed wildlife. The South Central Coastal Commission, which was established to safeguard California’s coastline against future spills, voted 7 to 5 today to issue the permit. Atlantic Richfield plans to drill the new wells from an already existing platform.
Scientists at the California Primate Research Center in Davis, California have reported the results of three longterm experiments using monkeys as models in a search for better understanding of human health problems. Their findings are published in the July issue of the Proceedings of the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology. One researcher found that a powerful but commonly used drug causes birth defects in monkeys during the middle as well as the early months of pregnancy. Many women believe they are “safe” to use many drugs after the 14th week of pregnancy, he said. A second scientist explained how recent studies with monkeys and rodents had shown that the lungs of normal animals have a built‐in ability to adapt to the damage caused by breathing smoggy air over a prolonged period — if the smog is not too severe.
Jury can’t decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins, the 1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play; criminal charges are not pursued, and a $1M settlement is reached with injured Minnesota North Star Henry Boucha.
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Elrod Hendricks hit a grand-slam homer and Lee May connected for the circuit with two men on base as the Orioles exploded for eight runs in the fourth inning to defeat the Twins, 9–6. May hit his second homer of the game in the eighth for the Orioles’ final run. In the fourth, May and Jim Northrup singled and Don Baylor doubled for one run before Brooks Robinson walked to load the bases and Hendricks hit his slam off Dave Goltz. Bobby Grich and Al Bumbry were on base when May homered on his second time at bat during the inning.
In a 9–3 win over the Kansas City Royals, Boston’s Jim Rice clouts a tremendous homer over the centerfield wall at Fenway, to the right of the flag pole, just the 6th player to accomplish this feat. Owner Tom Yawkey calls it the longest shot he’s ever seen at Fenway. The others: Detroit’s Hank Greenberg, May 22, 1937; Boston’s Jimmie Foxx, August 12, 1937; Yankees Bill Skowron, April 20, 1957; Boston’s Carl Yastrzemski, May 16, 1970; Brewers Bob Mitchell, September 29, 1973. The Red Sox posted their ninth straight victory, for their longest winning streak since the club’s pennant year of 1967. The Red Sox started the attack on Steve Busby when Bernie Carbo singled and Carl Yastrzemski homered in the first inning. A single by Carlton Fisk, an error and doubles by Carbo and Denny Doyle added three runs in the second. Jim Rice homered over Fenway Park’s center field wall in the third. Bill Lee held the Royals to six hits. Harmon Killebrew drove in all their runs with a double and homer.
A winner for the sixth straight time, Jim Slaton outdueled Nolan Ryan and pitched the Brewers to a 2–0 victory over the Angels. Ryan, who lost his seventh decision in succession, gave up the Brewers’ runs in the fifth inning. Bob Sheldon singled, stopped at third on a double by Gorman Thomas and scored on a wild pitch. After Don Money walked, Thomas crossed the plate on an infield out by Robin Yount.
A run-scoring single by Mike Cubbage in the seventh inning enabled the Rangers to edge the Yankees, 1–0, in a duel between Gaylord Perry and Catfish Hunter. Perry gave up four hits. Hunter allowed five and drew the defeat when Lenny Randle walked in the seventh and, after two out, took third on a single by Toby Harrah and scored on the hit by Cubbage, who went into the game batting only .205.
While winning for the 14th time, Jim Kaat racked up his first shutout of the season, pitching the White Sox to a 4–0 victory over the Tigers. The veteran lefthander yielded only four hits. The White Sox scored all their runs in the fourth inning, knocking out Vern Ruhle. Deron Johnson led off with a single and after walks to Ken Henderson and Bill Melton loaded the bases, Jerry Hairston batted in one run with a single and Bucky Dent drove in two more with another single. Brian Downing accounted for the last run with a sacrifice fly after Bob Reynolds replaced Ruhle.
Billy Williams batted in two runs to raise his career total to 1,400 and Joe Rudi hit a homer to help the Athletics outlast the Indians, 7–6. John Lowenstein homered with two men on base in the second inning to put the Indians ahead, 3–2, but the A’s picked up the tying tally in the third and took the lead with Rudi’s round-tripper in the sixth. Williams singled for his RBIs in the seventh when the A’s scored their final three runs. The Indians failed to catch up, although getting homers by Jack Brohamer and Rico Carty.
After issuing three passes to load the bases, Dennis Blair struck out Johnny Bench, but the Expos’ lefthander couldn’t get past Tony Perez, who hit a grand-slam homer to start the Reds off to a 10–3 victory. After Perez’ poke in the third inning, the Reds added four more runs in the fourth. Perez accounted for one run with an infield out for his fifth RBI of the game. Gary Carter homered for the Expos. The Reds lead the Dodgers in the National League West by 12 ½ games.
The Braves, after scoring three unearned runs on errors by Joe Torre and Mike Phillips in the fifth inning, picked up their only earned run of the game in the eighth and defeated the Mets, 4–3. Jon Matlack was the victim of his teammates’ miscues and left the game for a pinch-hitter in the sixth. The Braves then scored what proved to be the winning run off Ken Sanders in the eighth on a single by Marty Perez, passes to Darrell Evans and Cito Gaston and a sacrifice fly by Vic Correll.
Reliever Tom Hilgendorf, getting his first hit since 1972, drove in the tie-breaking tally in the seventh inning when the Phillies scored three times to defeat the Astros, 7–4. The Phillies had an earlier three-run inning in the second, scoring on walks to Dick Allen and Mike Schmidt, a triple by Garry Maddox and double by Dave Cash, but Bob Watson drove in three runs with a homer and single to help the Astros take a 4–3 lead. The Phillies opened the seventh with successive safe bunts by Schmidt and Maddox. Johnny Oates then singled to tie the score. Hilgendorf followed with his single to send the Phillies ahead. Larry Bowa added another run with a single before the inning ended. Schmidt capped the Phillies’ scoring with a homer in the eighth. Hilgendorf did not bat during two years with the Indians because of the A. L.’s designated-hitter rule and was hitless in three previous trips for the Phillies this season.
A two-run double by Gene Locklear in the seventh inning gave the Padres a 4–2 victory over the Cubs. Both of the Cubs’ runs off Randy Jones were unearned. Bill Greif, who relieved when the Cubs tied the score at 2–2 in the top of seventh, gained the victory when the Padres pinned the defeat on Milt Wilcox in their half. With two out, Johnny Grubb and Tito Fuentes singled and both raced home when Locklear hit his double after Ken Frailing replaced Wilcox.
Pinch-hitting in the eighth inning, Manny Mota drove in two runs with a double to bring the Dodgers a 4–3 victory over the Pirates. The Dodgers took an early 2–0 lead before the Pirates erupted for three runs in the eighth on a double by Manny Sanguillen and homers by Al Oliver and Richie Zisk. Mike Marshall, making his eighth straight relief appearance, took over for Doug Rau and was the winner when Bill Buckner singled, Jim Wynn walked and Mota sent them both home with his double in the Dodgers’ half.
Chris Speier singled with the bases loaded in the 10th inning, scoring Von Joshua, to lift the Giants to a 2–1 victory over the Cardinals. The Giants scored their initial run in the fourth on singles by Willie Montanez and Speier and an infield out by Gary Thomasson. The Cardinals, who collected only four hits in the game, tied the score in the ninth on singles by Luis Melendez and Ted Simmons around a sacrifice by Ted Sizemore. Joshua led off the Giants’ 10th with a single and, after a sacrifice by Derrel Thomas, Bobby Murcer was handed an intentional pass. Following a passed ball that allowed both runners to advance, another intentional pass to Montanez loaded the bases to set the stage for Speier’s hit.
Minnesota Twins 6, Baltimore Orioles 9
Kansas City Royals 3, Boston Red Sox 9
Detroit Tigers 0, Chicago White Sox 4
Oakland Athletics 7, Cleveland Indians 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
California Angels 0, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Cincinnati Reds 10, Montreal Expos 3
Atlanta Braves 4, New York Mets 3
Houston Astros 4, Philadelphia Phillies 7
Chicago Cubs 2, San Diego Padres 4
St. Louis Cardinals 1, San Francisco Giants 2
New York Yankees 0, Texas Rangers 1
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 862.41 (-1.87, -0.22%)
Born:
Torii Hunter, MLB outfielder (All Star, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013; Minnesota Twins, LA Angels of Anaheim, Detroit Tigers), in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Eric Ogbogu, NFL defensive end (New York Jets, Cincinnati Bengals, Dallas Cowboys), in Irvington, New York.
Antwuan Wyatt, NFL kick returner and wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles), in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Daron Malakian, American rock guitarist (System of a Down; Scars on Broadway), in Hollywood, California.
M.I.A [Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam], British-Sri Lankan rapper (“Paper Planes”; “Sunshowers”), in London, England, United Kingdom.
Died:
Vaughn Bode, 33, American underground comics artist.
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