Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn accused President Ford of participating in “the betrayal of Eastern Europe” with his announced decision to attend the 35-nation European summit meeting in Helsinki next week and said that he could see no point in meeting with Mr. Ford. In a statement read over the telephone, Mr. Solzhenitsyn continued his campaign aimed at alerting the American people to the dangers he perceives in the policy of Soviet‐American detente. The impetus for Mr. Solzhenitsyn’s call was the flurry of statements and press reports about President Ford’s efforts to reverse his original decision not to receive Mr. Solzhenitsyn at the White House when the author first arrived in Washington for a speech on June 30. After first snubbing him, the White House said it was holding open an invitation to Mr. Solzhenitsyn. Mr. Solzhenitsyn said that one of the original reasons given by Ron Nessen, the White House spokesman, when Mr. Ford did not see the author was that the President preferred “substantive” meetings to “symbolic” ones.
British lawmaker John Stonehouse, jailed in London on multiple fraud charges, brawled with prison officers in an attempt to avoid being served with a writ, according to Kenneth Jones, a lawyer and server of the writ, which claimed that one of Stonehouse’s companies owed almost $440,000 to the London Cooperative Society, a chain-store group. Stonehouse had just been returned to Brixton Prison from a hearing where he was refused release on bail a second time.
Wage curbs and price controls enforced by the Labor government dramatically will cut Britain’s soaring inflation, now running at an annual rate of 26.1%, by the beginning of next year, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey predicted. He said the government was drafting laws to punish employers who give wage increases of more than $13.80 a week.
Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen (D-Texas) said President Ford should not attend a summit meeting on European security until the extent of Soviet intervention in Portugal is determined. Bentsen, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, said a Central Intelligence Agency spokesman had reported, without conclusive evidence, that Moscow may be giving Portuguese Communists more than $10 million a month “to support their efforts to destroy the fledgling democracy in that nation.”
Portugal’s ruling body, the High Council of the Revolution, met last night to discuss the political fate of the Communistoriented Premier, Major General Vasco Gonçalves, whose ouster has been demanded by the Socialist party. As the military rulers met, Socialist leaders were summoned to the presidential palace for separate discussions, Reuters reported. President Francisco da Costa Games said on Sunday that an attempt would be made to get political figures to join in a new government, but Mario Soares, the Socialist secretary general, said his party would not participate so long as General Goncalves remained as Premier. The general was opposed also by the Popular Democratic party, which last week followed the lead of the Socialists and quit the coalition Cabinet.
Independence from Portugal is being openly considered in the Azores, but political and military leaders predict that the final break will not come unless there is a virtual Communist take-over in Lisbon.
For the second time in two weeks, the Soviet Union has entered the United States grain market for sizable purchases, the Department of Agriculture said. The latest transaction involves 177 million bushels of corn and 51 million of barley. The latest purchases seem to support rumors of a drought in the Soviet Union.
Peking accused the Soviet Union of forcing up grain prices on the international market. Third World grain-importing countries have suffered most, the Peking People’s Daily said. In the 10 years since Soviet party chief Leonid I. Brezhnev came to power, the Soviet Union has imported 70 million tons of grains — a record high for Russia — the paper reported.Secretary of State Kissinger received an initial report today on the Egyptian response to the latest Israeli proposals on a pullback in Sinai. Administration officials predicted privately that the deadlock in the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations for a new agreement would be broken. Robert Anderson, the State Department spokesman, said that the negotiations, through American mediation, were “very intense and delicate” and that “we continue to hope that progress can be made.”
He refused to give details on the report, sent to Mr. Kissinger by Ambassador Hermann F. Eilts, who conveyed the new Israeli proposals to President Anwar el‐Sadat last night. The mood of key officials here seemed optimistic that the Israeli proposals, worked out in the last three weeks through intensive consultation with the United States, would form the basis for an eventual agreement that could be completed in the middle of next month when Mr. Kissinger will probably return to the Middle East.
Ismailia, the headquarters of the Suez Canal Authority and the United Nations Emergency Force in Sinai, was bustling, thriving and even joyful today, with most of its citizens oblivious to the facts that the mandate for the force is in doubt and that a new Egyptian-Israeli disengagement agreement is hanging in the balance.
The Security Council voted 13 to 0 tonight, with two members not participating, to appeal to Egypt to reconsider and consent to extension of the mandate of the United Nations peace‐keeping force in Sinai. The mandate expires Thursday, but a number of Council members said the chances that Cairo would accede were good and that the Council could act before Thursday. Eugenio Plaja of Italy, president of the Council this month, sent a letter to President Anwar el‐Sadat of Egypt saying that the extension would help create “an atmosphere conducive to progress toward agreement on a just and lasting peace in the area.” China and Iraq did not participate in the vote. The appeal by Mr. Plaja was prepared on the understanding that Cairo would respond favorably, according to diplomats here.
The Ford Administration was under Congressional pressure today to compromise on a proposed $350‐million sale of air‐defense weapons to Jordan by scaling down the size of the transaction. Unless it is willing to compromise, the Administration, in the opinion of Congressional aides, faces the likelihood that the entire deal will be vetoed by Congress. Negotiations continued today between members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and State Department representatives on a possible compromise, but no agreement was reached, according to Congressional sources. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to vote tomorrow on a resolution, sponsored by Senator Clifford P. Case, Republican of New Jersey, disapproving the sale. With Senator John J. Sparkman, Democrat of Alabama, the committee chairman, now supporting the resolution, it is expected to be adopted by the committee, thus increasing the pressure on the Administration to compromise.
The Parliament of India voted to approve Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s declaration of a state of emergency, with a 301-76 vote in the lower house and a 147-32 vote in the upper house. Opposition members of the Indian Parliament, in a special session that was called for a vote on it, condemned the state of emergency declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on June 26. They protested the jailing of their colleagues in the opposition, the censorship of the press, and the suspension of civil liberties. But Mrs. Gandhi’s Congress party and its supporters have majorities in both houses, and with dozens of the opposition in jail, the government’s control of the proceedings was firm.
A radical leftist group calling itself the Battle Flag Faction claimed that it was two of its members who hurled a firebomb at Japanese Crown Prince Akihito last Thursday in Okinawa in an attempt to assassinate him, police in Tokyo said. The group distributed handbills in Naha, the Okinawan capital, claiming responsibility for the incident. Akihito and his commoner wife, Princess Michiko, escaped unhurt.
Some foreign priests are using “the sacred sanctuary of the church to create social agitation in Honduras,” a group of landowners said in a published communique in Tegucigalpa. The National Federation of Ranchers and Farmers held a meeting of 700 members after the government announced the discovery of the bodies of two foreign priests and five other persons who disappeared during a peasant protest for land reform.
An attempt by Peru to disengage Latin America from U.S. global military strategy was defeated at an Organization of American States conference in San Jose, Costa Rica, revising the Rio de Janeiro treaty of hemisphere defense. Most countries tended to side with the U.S. position to the effect that if the United States is to provide a defense umbrella to the rest of the hemisphere, then it should also ask for support from within the hemisphere for that defense effort.
Freak frosts over the past week were estimated to have hit three-quarters of Brazil’s coffee crop and all exports were halted until the damage can be assessed. London’s market price for coffee to be traded in September soared $391 per metric ton in one day to close at $1,881. The fierce trading indicated housewives around the world could be paying half as much again for coffee by this fall.
A meeting between Argentine labor leaders and President Isabel Martinez de Perón was cut short today because according to the union chiefs the President was “in a state of extreme fatigue and nervousness.” The labor leaders had met with Mrs. Perón to demand an end to austerity measures and a return to the populist economic policies traditionally associated with Perónism. Their observations agreed with previous comments by ranking Government officials that the month‐old political and economic crisis has taken a heavy toll on Mrs. Perón’s physical and mental health. According to Casildo Herreras, the secretary general of the three‐million‐member General Confederation of Workers, the labor leaders decided not to finish reading a long document they had prepared on the economic situation because Mrs. Perón was too ill to listen. Mr. Herreras added that the President hardly spoke during the meeting.
The two Soviet astronauts of Soyuz 19 touched down safely in a billowing cloud of dust on the steppes of Soviet Central Asia today, successfully winding up their rendezvous in space with the American Apollo astronauts.
After the Soyuz astronauts landed safely today, the three Apollo astronauts continued to orbit the earth, taking pictures, making scientific observations and maneuvering their spaceship into a better position for its return to earth on Thursday.
Administration sources said that Congress would receive in a few days a second, modified plan for raising the price of domestic crude oil. The House is expected to reject today President Ford’s plan of last year that would let prices rise over a period of 30 months to $13.50 a barrel, a ceiling that Mr. Ford would put on some of the crude oil not now under a price limit.
President Ford personally apologized to the family of Frank Olson, who is said to have killed himself after he was given a dose of LSD by Central Intelligence Agency agents in 1953. It was announced afterward that Mr. Ford had told the Olsons he would make available information on the case and have the Attorney General meet with their legal representatives “to discuss the claims they wish to assert against the C.I.A. by reason of Dr. Olson’s death.”
The House passed legislation to create a self-governing commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands under the U.S. flag. A voice vote sent the measure to the Senate, which is expected to pass it. Already approved by a plebiscite in the widely scattered Pacific Islands, the plan is to go into full effect about 1981 if remaining preliminaries are carried out as expected. The island group, with a population of about 15,000 is part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, which the United States has administered under U.N. trusteeship since World War II.
The House, responding to complaints by President Ford, voted to repeal or change parts of a new child-support law focusing on finding parents who desert their families. The bill, sent to the Senate, involves a law that Congress approved and Mr. Ford signed on Jan. 4, 1975. Its features were aimed at forcing runaway parents to support their families currently on welfare. The new bill would repeal the law’s use of federal courts in enforcing support obligations and repeal the use of Internal Revenue Service as the collecting agent.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 went into effect in the United States, along with regulations from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, after which all American universities, colleges and schools that received federal funding were required to provide the same level of funding for women’s and girls’ sports programs as had been spent for men and boys.
A package that police said apparently was booby-trapped exploded at a United Parcel Service headquarters in New York City, injuring 17 persons, one critically. The blast occurred in a package sorting area on the first floor of the block-square building on West 43rd St. near the Hudson River piers. The first floor was demolished and windows were blown out on the second and third floors but there was only a minor blaze, which firemen quickly extinguished. Police said at least 100 employees were in the building at the time, classifying and routing packages.
Richard M. Nixon viewed Watergate dispassionately as something “that was happening down the street” and, in his last days as President, sought not advice from his family but reassurance that he was loved, according to son-in-law David Eisenhower. He said Mr. Nixon, like Lyndon B. Johnson before him, was driven from office for “noncompetence.” Eisenhower, married to Mr. Nixon’s daughter, Julie, said in an interview in McCall’s magazine that Mr. Nixon “was in awe of the Presidency” and loved to share it with those close to him, somewhat like a child with a new toy.
One of Washington’s best known bureaucrats, Frances G. Knight, is 70 years old today, but she isn’t about to quit. Not while the new-style passport she has been developing is under a cloud in Congress. Miss Knight is director of the U.S. State Department’s Passport Office. After more than 20 years on the job, she won approval of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to stay past the mandatory retirement age. The passport she favors has had five electronic engineers working on it. would still be in booklet form but would be “read” by machines and the information in it stored in computers. Last month, however, Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio) persuaded the House to block its development, commenting, “Some people said this was the forerunner of the national identity card.” But Miss Knight, a political conservative, retorted, “This is not a political situation… It would save the government $40 million over the next several years.”
It was hot in Washington and Arthur Ashe remarked, “I told him not to go out in weather like this. This is even too hot for us to be playing in.” Tennis stars Ashe and Billie Jean King were visiting in the Oval Office with one of their fans, President Ford, who plays an average game once or twice a week. Mr. Ford told the pair that he had watched their victories at Wimbledon two weeks ago on television and “we’re very proud of them and glad to have you back here after doing a first-class job.”
Nelson Bunker Hunt and W. Herbert Hunt, sons of the late oil billionaire H.L. Hunt, the Houston lawyer Percy Foreman and four other men were indicted by a Federal grand jury tonight on charges of obstructing justice and impeding an investigation into a wiretape case involving the Hunts.
Striking Albuquerque policemen voted 303 to 125 late Monday to accept a new contract offer, ending a 10-day strike. The officers walked off their jobs July 12 to protest lack of progress in negotiations with the city. Details of the new offer were not immediately known. Negotiators for both sides in the strike had agreed earlier Monday to present the new offer to policemen, 300 of whom were striking.
Judge Hamilton H. Hobgood denied today a defense motion to sever a special prosecutor, hired by the family of Clarence Alligood, the slain jailer to aid the district attorney in the Joan Little murder case. Miss Little a 21-year-old black woman, is charged with killing Mr. Alligood in a jail cell in rural Beaufort County in 1974.
The marriage intentions of Christina Onassis, 25-year-old daughter of the late Aristotle Onassis and his principal heir, were disclosed by a relative. Miss Onassis reportedly will marry Alexander Andreadis, the youngest son of a Greek shipping family.
A federal grand jury in New Orleans indicted the Bunge Corporation, of New York, one of the world’s largest grain companies, and 13 present and former employees on charges of conspiracy to steal grain by short-weighting shipments and conspiracy to cover up the thefts.
The federal Bureau of Land Management said it would go ahead with plans to round up 400 wild mustangs from the Stone Cabin Valley area near Tonopah, Nevada, unless enjoined by the court not to do so. The American Horse Protection Association has said it might file a suit for an injunction. The roundup will be conducted by buckaroos under contract to the BLM. The mustangs will be placed in “foster homes” where they may be used for ranch work or pleasure riding. The BLM has received more than 2,000 applications for the animals. The horses are being moved out as a means of reviving grazing land.
California’s deepest offshore well, located about 10 miles southeast of Santa Barbara, was closed down because of lack of oil discovery and mechanical problems, a spokesman for the Phillips Petroleum Co. said. The well, which reached a depth of 18,438 feet and cost $6 million, was started more than a year ago by Phillips, Cities Service Oil Co. and Continental Oil Co. No environmental damage or safety problems were reported caused by the well.
Florida Keys beaches from Boca Chica to Big Pine Key were threatened by thick blobs and streamers of crude oil-possibly dumped off the coast by a passing supertanker, the U.S. Coast Guard reported. Shifting winds began to push the oil toward the beaches as the Coast Guard deployed oil containment booms and other equipment in the area. No reports were received of wildlife injured or killed by the oil, according to Florida wildlife officials, but damage to the beaches could be extensive. The Coast Guard was reported making an investigation in an effort to determine responsibility for the spill.
Three types of trout native to California. Nevada and Arizona were taken off the endangered species list by the U.S. Interior Department in Washington. They are the Lehontan cutthroat trout, the Paiute cutthroat trout and the Arizona trout. A department spokesman attributed the action to the successful “rebuilding” of the populations of the three types. They are the first animals to be taken off the list in the nine-year history of the program.
Major League Baseball:
Billy Martin, a tempestuous man known as baseball’s street fighter, was dismissed as manager of the Texas Rangers today. He was replaced by Frank Lucchesi the Rangers’ third base coach and a former manager of the Philadelphia Phillies. He guided the team tonight in a 6–0 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
Lee May, continuing to swing a hot bat for the Orioles, drove in two runs with his 17th home run and an RBI double as the Birds cut down the Athletics, 6–2. Baltimore wiped out a 1–0 Oakland lead in the second when May homered and Brooks Robinson later delivered an RBI single. The first of two errors by center fielder Bill North produced the winning run in the third. Tommy Davis and May singled and North then dropped a routine fly off the bat of Bobby Grich, Davis scoring. The O’s knocked out loser Ken Holtzman in the fifth with back-to-back doubles by Davis and May. Winner Mike Torrez ran into control problems in the sixth, forcing in the final Oakland run with a bases-loaded walk. Wayne Garland came on and pitched scoreless relief the rest of the way.
Bobby Darwin’s pinch three-run homer highlighted a four-run eighth which carried the Brewers past the White Sox, 7–4. Darwin connected after singles by Bill Sharp, Sixto Lezcano and Robin Yount had produced the first run of the frame, giving Milwaukee a 4–2 lead. The Brewers broke on top, getting a run in the second on doubles by Gorman Thomas and Bobby Mitchell, then adding two in the third on a bases-loaded single by Hank Aaron. Brian Downing and Pat Kelly got Chicago on the board in the seventh with RBI singles. Nyls Nyman singled home the final two Sox runs in the eighth.
Bert Blyleven recorded his first shutout victory of the season as the Twins’ righthander stopped the Yankees on four hits, 3–0. The winners bunched singles by Jerry Terrell, Rod Carew and Tony Oliva in the first inning for the only run Blyleven needed. Lyman Bostock’s third hit of the game plated the final two runs in the seventh following singles by Carew and Oliva (who was removed for pinch-runner Larry Hisle) and a sacrifice by Eric Soderholm. Blyleven walked only one, an intentional pass to Lou Piniella in the seventh.
John Mayberry drove in all of the Royals’ runs with his 10th and 11th homers of the month as Kansas City edged the Tigers, 3–2. Mayberry hit his 19th round-tripper of the season in the first and unloaded again in the third with Frank White at first with a single. The Tigers got their first run in the fifth on Gene Michael’s RBI single. Jack Pierce hit a bases-empty homer off winner Dennis Leonard in the seventh.
Inserted in the leadoff spot by new manager Frank Lucchesi, Dave Moates hit a first-inning homer to get the Rangers started on their way to a 6–0 victory over the Red Sox. After the homer by Moates, Texas tallied three more runs on a double by Lenny Randle, single by Mike Hargrove, double by Jeff Burroughs and two groundouts. That was more than enough for Fergie Jenkins, who shut out Boston on five hits. Burroughs hit his 19th homer of the season in the fifth.
Oscar Gamble hit a leadoff homer in the bottom of the 11th to lift the Indians past the Angels, 2–1. California had taken a 1–0 lead in the second on Leroy Stanton’s 10th round tripper of the season. Cleveland scored the tying run in the fourth on Rick Manning’s single, a double by George Hendrick and infield out by Rico Carty.
Although he gave up 11 hits, including homers to Rusty Staub and Dave Kingman, Ken Forsch went distance for first time this season in pitching the Astros past the Mets, 6–2. Houston turned over four double plays, all on grounders by Joe Torre, who set an N.L. record by hitting into the quartet of twin-killings. The Mets’ Felix Millan has 4 straight singles but is wiped out each time when Torre grounds into double plays. The Astros counted twice in the first inning on the first of three hits by Wilbur Howard, Greg Gross’ infield single, a throwing error by Mike Phillips and two groundouts. Howard doubled home a run in the second, Roger Metzger tripled home a pair in the third, and the final Houston run came in the fourth on singles by Howard and Gross and an infield out by Enos Cabell. Staub hit a solo homer in the second and Kingman duplicated the effort in the seventh for the Mets’ only runs.
The Braves tallied all their runs in the final two innings to defeat the Expos, 4–1, Earl Williams delivering the clincher, a two-run, ninth-inning homer. Montreal scored their run in the second on a walk, Larry Parrish’s single and a sacrifice fly by Tim Foli, and made the lead stand up until the eighth. Cito Gaston walked and scored the tying run on Vic Correll’s double. Dusty Baker followed with a pinch-hit single to send home Correll with the winning run.
Ted Simmons has a 4th-inning home run erased because his grooved bat is illegal. The Cardinals play the game under protest but beat the Padres anyway as rookie Eric Rasmussen wins his Major League debut, 4–0. Rasmussen, making first big league start, shut out the Padres on seven hits and drove in a run with a single as the Cardinals climbed to the .500 level. Lou Brock’s double, a stolen base and wild pitch by loser Brent Strom gave St. Louis its first run in the third. A double by Ken Reitz, singles by Mario Guerrero and Rasmussen and a a double play on which Guerrero scored pushed the Cardinal lead to 3–0 in the fifth. Reggie Smith singled home the winners’ final marker in the eighth.
The Reds used a big inning — a five-run second which saw 11 batters go to the plate — to turn back the Phillies, 10–4. George Foster, Dave Concepcion and Ken Griffey had run-producing singles in the frame. Cincinnati scored another run on catcher Johnny Oates’ bad throw as Concepcion stole second. Tom Hilgendorf relieved Philadelphia starter Ron Schueler after Griffey’s hit, and walked Joe Morgan and Tony Perez to force in the fifth run. Morgan’s RBI single and Johnny Bench’s sacrifice fly got two more Cincy runs across in the fourth. Morgan singled across another marker in the sixth and Foster tacked on a two-run double. Dave Cash got the Phillie runs across in the third and fifth with sacrifice flies. Oates drove in the final two in the sixth with a bases-loaded single.
The Cubs scored an unearned run in the ninth to pin a fourth consecutive defeat on the Dodgers’ Andy Messersmith, a 1–0 shutout. Jerry Morales opened the Chicago ninth with a single, and went to second when right fielder Willie Crawford bobbled the ball. Andre Thornton sacrificed Morales to third and Manny Trillo followed with an RBI single to center to make a winner of Rick Reuschel, who got ninth-inning relief help from Oscar Zamora. Reuschel pitched out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the eighth.
The Giants, who had scored only eight runs in Jim Barr’s previous eight starting assignments, made amends as San Francisco defeated the Pirates, 7–2, giving the Frisco hurler his first victory in nearly two months. A three-run double by Chris Speier in the seventh wrapped up the game for the Giants, who never trailed. A walk, Derrel Thomas’ triple and a Pirate error accounted for two runs in the first. A double by Gary Thomasson and single by Gary Matthews made it 3–1 in the third, after Richie Zisk had put the Pirates on the scoreboard with a solo homer in the second. Singles by Speier and Mike Sadek, sandwiched around an infield out, produced a Giant run in the fourth. Base hits by Paul Popovich, Rennie Stennett and Richie Hebner, who broke out of an 0-for-27 slump with four safeties, gave the Pirates their final run in the fifth.
Oakland Athletics 2, Baltimore Orioles 6
Milwaukee Brewers 7, Chicago White Sox 4
California Angels 1, Cleveland Indians 2
Kansas City Royals 3, Detroit Tigers 2
Chicago Cubs 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 0
New York Yankees 0, Minnesota Twins 3
Atlanta Braves 4, Montreal Expos 1
Houston Astros 6, New York Mets 2
Cincinnati Reds 10, Philadelphia Phillies 4
St. Louis Cardinals 4, San Diego Padres 0
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, San Francisco Giants 7
Boston Red Sox 0, Texas Rangers 6
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 854.74 (-7.67, -0.89%)
Born:
Mike Sellers, American NFL and CFL fullback and tight end (Pro Bowl, 2008; Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns; CFL: Edmonton Eskimos), in Frankfurt, West Germany.
Larry Atkins, NFL linebacker (Kansas City Chiefs, Oakland Raiders), in Santa Monica, California.
David Dastmalchian, American character actor (“The Dark Knight”) and producer; in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Died:
Billy West [Roy B Weissburg], 82, Russian-American silent film actor and director.
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