At the suggestion of the State Department, the Defense Department has delayed plans to remove obsolete nuclear warheads from Italy and Greece. The Defense Department hand directed the Army to remove, all the warheads, for Nike Hercules anti-aircraft missiles, from the two countries by July 1. According to Administration officials, however, the State Department intervened, saying that it would not be politically wise at this time to remove the warheads, believed to number in the hundreds, even though they were obsolete and were no longer needed in the countries. To some officials in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill the delay is an example of how nuclear warheads, can assume a political importance far exceeding their military value.
As an era that Italians call “the after-Fanfani” began today, the governing Christian Democrats put off until tomorrow the start of the process of naming a successor to their ousted party leader. Sixty‐seven‐year‐old Amintore Fanfani, who has been a dominant figure in Italian politics for a quarter of a century, was deposed by the party’s National Council last night by a vote of 103 to 69, with 8 abstentions. His detractors had accused him of obstinate conservatism in the face of widespread demands for political change. His removal as party secretary does not have a direct bearing on Italy’s Parliament or on the coalition Cabinet of Premier Aldo Moro.
The Italian affiliate of Exxon Corp. said it channeled its secret contributions to Italian political parties until 1972 through the press, publishing houses and various cultural institutions which kept some of the funds. The statement by Esso Italiana said at least one-third of the $51 million in contributions over a nine-year period went to newspapers and publishers not linked to parties. The officials declined to elaborate.
A small but determined group of militants dealt a blow tonight to the career of one of Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s senior ministers and to Mr. Wilson’s own efforts to unify his party. By a vote of 29 to 19, the management committee of the Labor party in the East London constituency of Newham NorthEast voted to drop Reginald Prentice, the Minister for Overseas Development, as its candidate in the next general election. Mr. Prentice vowed to remain in his seat in the House of Commons and in his Cabinet post until another national election was called. In the meantime, he has one avenue of appeal—to the party’s National Executive Committee.
Protests against the arrest and jailing of a newsman by a military judge shut down five newspapers in Barcelona, Spain. It was the first time in the 36-year Franco regime that Spanish journalists have staged a full-fledged strike. The Barcelona Bar Association and neighborhood associations declared solidarity with the newsmen. The court action against the reporter resulted from an article that he had written about the armed forces.
Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy announced that Egypt would allow a renewal for three months of the expiring mandate of United Nations forces in Sinai. The decision was made at a National Defense Council meeting under the chairmanship of President Anwar Sadat. Fahmy also said that Secretary General Waldheim would arrive Friday for talks with President Sadat. Almost immediately after the suspense’ over the United Nations mandate had been lifted, new doubts arose about chances of an interim agreement with Israel for a troop withdrawal in Sinai. The Israeli Premier, Yitzhak Rabin, said in Jerusalem during the day that an agreement could not be reached without “face‐to‐face negotiations between Israeli and Egyptian delegations” on the final details, and this statement brought an angry reaction from a high Egyptian official.
An Israeli force crossed into southern Lebanon before dawn today in a search for guerrillas, and the Israeli command said seven Arabs were captured in a frontier village and brought back for questioning. The command reported that seven Israeli soldiers had been wounded in the raid on the frontier village of Kafr Kila, where the Israelis blew up two houses used by gunners to fire at them.
King Hussein warned the United States Congress today not to attempt to scale down sales of air-defense arms to Jordan, saying. “Otherwise we shall not hesitate to seek the weapons we need from other sources.” Such attempts “will entail adverse effects on U.S.‐Jordanian relations altogether,” the King said. The State Department said in Washington yesterday that it would submit a reduced arms package for Jordan to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
India’s Parliament completed ratification of the state of emergency under which the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has assumed sweeping powers and arrested thousands of its opponents. The legal emergency thus continues indefinitely. The government asked the resident New York Times correspondent. William Borders, to leave the country voluntarily for refusing to pledge observance of self-censorship, warning that if he stayed he would probably be deported. After consulting his editors here, he declined to leave voluntarily.
The Indian Government asked the resident correspondent of The New York Times tonight to leave India voluntarily, and it warned that if he refused he would probably be deported. The correspondent, William Borders, after consultation with his editors in New York, declined to leave voluntarily. The official spokesman, A. N. D. Haksar, said the government’s next move would probably be made tomorrow. Mr. Haksar, director for external publicity in the Ministry of External Affairs, told Mr. Borders that he had to leave because of his refusal to sign a pledge to observe self‐censorship of his outgoing dispatches about the current political crisis, under the terms of a strict set of rules drawn up by the Information Ministry.
An earthquake that struck Burma July 8 irreparably damaged many of the great temples of Pagan. The disaster to this artistic landmark of Asia got almost no world attention because the country’s isolationism has kept the temples little known.
North Vietnam is holding the bodies of an unknown number of American servicemen as a condition for obtaining U.S. reconstruction aid, the wife of an Air Force pilot missing in action since 1972 said in Columbia, South Carolina. Mrs. Susan Graham said Do Tang, first secretary of the North Vietnamese delegation in Paris, told her during a June 13 meeting that his government will provide an accounting when negotiations for the aid are completed. Mrs. Graham said that if America must supply aid to the Communists to get an accounting of the MIAs and POWs, she would reject it.
Two men in a motorboat threw Molotov cocktails aboard a Chilean training ship and three other vessels visiting Expo ’75 at Naha, Okinawa, injuring two crewmen. Police said the attackers, believed to be Japanese leftists, pulled alongside the sailing ship Esmeralda at dawn and tossed about eight firebombs at it and the other ships before a patrol boat arrived a half-hour later. Police recovered an abandoned boat carrying firebombs at a nearby pier and arrested one suspect.
The United States has “betrayed” its trusteeship obligations to the far-flung Pacific islands of Micronesia and is headed toward approval of an ill-considered acquisition of the Northern Marianas, a foundation report said. According to the study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a proposed commonwealth compact with the Marianas is based on an “exaggerated” American view of the islands’ military importance and inadequate concern for the islanders’ independence and economic well-being.
Canada announced the closing of her Atlantic ports to the Soviet fishing fleet effective Monday, charging that the fleet had exceeded internationally agreed limits on catches in waters off eastern Canada. The Minister of State for Fisheries also said Moscow had failed to settle claims for damages to Canadian lobster gear.
A former South Vietnamese general’s appeal of a Canadian deportation order was rejected because it was made too late, Immigration Minister Robert Andras said in Ottawa. General Dang Van Quang, who was admitted to Canada from a U.S. refugee camp, was ordered deported after checks on allegations that he had been involved in corruption and narcotics trafficking in South Vietnam. The problem now is to find a country that will accept Quang and his family. Andras said.
President Nixon authorized the Central Intelligence Agency in September, 1970, to make an all-out effort to keep Salvador Allende from becoming President of Chile, authoritative government sources disclosed. The CIA thus became involved in planning two separate military coups d’état, but made an attempt to call off one of them before it went forward and brought about the murder of the army chief of staff, General Rene Schneider, during a kidnap attempt, the sources said.
Argentine parliamentarians purged another close associate of ousted government strong man Jose López Rega, forcing the resignation of Raul Lastiri as speaker of the Chamber of Deputies. Lastiri is married to López Rega’s daughter, Norma, and has been the go-between for President Maria Estela Perón and congress. Lawmakers also called for an official report on the health of Mrs. Perón, who is said to have lost 13 pounds during Argentina’s drawn-out political and economic crisis.
Angola’s feuding guerrilla movements were urged Last night to send their military commanders to Kampala next Monday to attempt to work out a lasting peace with the help of African leaders here for the 12th leaders meeting of the Organization of African Unity. Foreign ministers from 43 of the organization’s 46 member states, who have been meeting here since July 18, issued the invitations with the approval of the current chairman of the black and Arab African group President Mohammed Siad Barre of Somalia. Observers from the three guerrilla movements in Angola joined in the invitations. Fighting between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, a Marxist group, and the National Front for the Liberation of Angola, in which thousands have been killed, has brought the oil‐producing Portuguese colony to the brink of civil war less than four months before its scheduled independence on November 11.
The Senate rebuffed a Southern-led effort to carry out President Ford’s surprise request to extend the Voting Rights Act of 1965, due to expire August 6, to all states. It then approved an amendment to extend the act for seven years, instead of 14 years as previously approved by the House of Representatives. The 52-to-42 vote could force the measure to a Senate-House conference.
The House of Representatives rejected today two contrasting proposals on oil prices, one of which would have permitted the price to rise significantly and the other of which would have reduced the average price of domestic crude oil slightly. Thus, involved in its second free‐for‐all on major energy legislation in a month, the House displayed once more that there is nothing approaching a consensus in Congress on long‐term energy policy. Meanwhile, Administration officials and key members of Congress worked today in an effort to find a common ground on oil prices that would prevent the price of oil from rising abruptly at the end of next month. By the end of the day. However, no compromise had been reached. The measure on the House floor today would do nothing to break the immediate impasse since the Senate is not planning to consider it until fall.
The crew of Apollo made preparations in earth orbit today for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii at 5:18 PM Eastern daylight time, tomorrow as a finale to their historic joint space mission with the Soviet Soyuz. Good weather was forecast for the site, some 320 miles west of Pearl Harbor, where the recovery carrier, the U.S.S. New Orleans, is scheduled to pick up the 31st and last American manned spacecraft to splash down. From then on, the United States plans to use a space shuttle that takes off like a rocket and lands like an airplane.
Another 1.3 million Americans were added to the nation’s list of poor last year, raising the total of poor Americans to 24.3 million, the Census Bureau said today. In addition, it said, inflation and recession caused a 4 percent decrease in the median income of all American families last year, after adjustment for inflation. The number of poor Americans increased 5.6 percent in 1974 and made up about 12 percent of the entire population, the agency said.
Dr. Van Sim, civilian head of medical research at the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, told a Pentagon news conference that none of the nearly 600 soldiers given LSD in Army experiments were told they had received the drug before or afterward. He said that follow-up studies were done on only 10 percent of them. He said secrecy was essential to the experiment. Although LSD experiments on humans ended in 1967, he said, other experiments using drugs that can be hallucinatory continue under carefully supervised conditions.
A three-judge federal panel has overturned a Utah Supreme Court ruling and has struck down a state law requiring minors to obtain parental consent before being given contraceptives. The 2-1 ruling came in a suit filed last year by a girl, 15, identified only as “T.H.” who said the law violated her constitutional right to privacy. The federal panel’s majority opinion said the federal Social Security Act was amended in 1972 to make family planning services available to “sexually active minors who desire them on a confidential basis.”
Twelve jurors were impaneled in Raleigh, North Carolina, to try Joan Little, a young black woman accused of killing a white guard in a rural North Carolina jail. The exact makeup after 113 persons were considered during eight days of selection was five white women, three black women, two white men and two black men. Testimony is expected to get under way Friday after the four alternate jurors are selected and various motions are considered. Miss Little, charged with first-degree murder, claims she stabbed jailer Clarence Alligood to death on Aug. 27, 1974, when he tried to rape her.
Rep. John M. Murphy (D-New York) has charged that the Coast Guard, under prodding from Transportation Department officials, rigged a $205 million deal to buy 41 medium-range patrol aircraft from Rockwell International. Murphy said the Coast Guard decided in 1973 to purchase extensively modified Rockwell Sabreliners at $5 million each, without seriously soliciting competitive bids from other manufacturers. Murphy also said William Heffelfinger, assistant secretary of transportation, pressured the Coast Guard to award the deal to Rockwell.
A Jesuit priest said the Central Intelligence Agency secretly gave a missionary colleague $5 million in 1963, part of which was used to support the successful presidential campaign of Eduardo Frei in Chile. The Rev. James Vizzard said in a Washington interview that “my close friend and colleague,” the Rev. Roger Vekemans of Belgium, told him at the time of receiving the money after a meeting with President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, CIA Director John McCone and Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver.
A federal appeals court ordered the Dallas school system to come up with a new pupil assignment plan that will integrate its 147,000 students. The court rejected a plea that adjacent school districts be forced to join Dallas in a single public school desegregation plan for the metropolitan area. The appeals court also rejected a lower court plan to desegregate schools via two-way, closed-circuit television. The decision by the appeals court canceled a 1971 ruling by a lower court and sent the case back with directions to come up with a new assignment plan in time for the 1975-76 school year.
Representatives of the International Longshoremen’s Association voted today to refuse to load American and Canadian grain on ships destined for the Soviet Union. They indicated that the ban would be lifted “if the interests of the American public are adequately protected.” A resolution approving the refusal was passed unanimously at the union’s annual convention by representatives of 132,000 Canadian and American dock workers on the East and Gulf Coasts. West Coast longshoremen indicated today that they would not go along with the move. “Our policy is to encourage two‐way trade between Russia, China and the United States,” said Ed Anderson, a member of the executive board of the International Longshoremen and Ware housemen’s Union and secretary‐treasurer of the Seattle local. “We’ll load any grain ships coming here.”
U.S. Coast Guard officials and other authorities were taking oil samples from every tanker docking at Atlantic and Gulf ports in an effort to track down the source of the oil spill now fouling beaches along the Florida Keys. About 63,000 gallons of gooey bunker oil already have washed ashore and Coast Guard spokesmen said the source was almost certainly a tanker that flushed its tanks while cruising through the Florida straits. If a matching sample can be found, the evidence would be used in criminal actions and to furnish the basis for civil suits that could involve many millions of dollars, since the dumping was apparently intentional. Such dumping is a felony in Florida.
The Pennsylvania legislature refused to override Governor Milton Shapp’s veto of a bill to ban school desegregation by busing pupils from one neighborhood to another. This left standing a proposal by the State Human Rights Commission, filed in a state court, that busing could be used to desegregate Philadelphia in spite of separate residential patterns. The city thus seems to be facing the busing issue that has brought tension and violence elsewhere.
A nationwide group of 75 Catholic priests launched a movement seeking equal rights for women in society and in the church, including ordination to the priesthood. Calling for “equality of opportunity for ordination for both women and men,” the group, called Priests for Equality, declared in a founding charter in New York City that “our instincts for justice tell us that exclusion from the priesthood on the basis of sex is no longer a viable position. Such exclusion violates the justice we preach…” The National Secretary of PFE is the Rev. William R. Callahan, a Jesuit of Mt. Rainier, Maryland.
University of Miami scientists believe they have found a continent that sank thousands of feet below the surface in the mid-Atlantic Ocean millions of years ago. The group of oceanographers, which published its conclusions in a scientific paper recently, has been studying the Atlantic floor for four years. The theory is based on bits of fossilized crab excrement and pieces of ancient limestone dredged from depths of 1,700 to 3,000 feet. “It is not Atlantis,” geologist Cesare Emiliani said, because the new discovery probably sank 70 million years ago, long before anyone could have inhabited the fabled Atlantis.
A tornado smashed through downtown Canton, Illinois tonight. The Illinois State Police said that four persons were killed and at least 37 others injured. The city square, another block farther south and parts of the city’s east and south sides were damaged extensively, Fulton County sheriff’s deputies and witnesses said. The city was blocked off by Civil Defense workers to facilitate cleanup operations. All available law enforcement officers were called to the scene.
Paul Allen and Bill Gates of “Micro-Soft”, inventors of the Altair BASIC software program, written to be operated on the new Altair 8800 computer, signed a contract giving Altair manufacturer MITS the exclusive use of the software for ten years.
Alan Ayckbourn’s play “Absent Friends” premieres in London.
Emlen Tunnell, who talked the New York Giants into giving him a tryout and became one of professional football’s greatest defensive backs, died early this morning, apparently of a heart attack. He was 50 years old.
An American foursome set the first world record of the aquatic championships tonight, winning the men’s 400‐meter free‐style relay in a time of 3 minutes 24.85 seconds. The quartet of Bruce Furniss, Jim Montgomery, Andy Coan and John Murphy beat the mark of 3:25.17, set last September. West Germany was second in 3:29.55 and Italy third in 3:31.85.
Earlier, Shirley Babashoff of Fountain Valley, California, beat the world record‐holder, Kornelia Ender of East Germany, in the women’s 200‐meter freestyle. Thus, the United States has five gold medals after three days.
Major League Baseball:
Staked to a one-run lead in the first inning, Frank Tanana pitched the Angels to a 1–0 victory over the Orioles in a duel with Jim Palmer, who made his first start since July 12 after being sidelined by a pulled rib cage muscle. With two out in the first, Dave Collins drew a walk from Palmer, stole second and scored the game’s only run on a single by Joe Lahoud.
Two rain delays failed to cool off Marty Pattin, who stuck to his job and pitched the Royals to a 4–1 victory over the Brewers. The game was halted for two hours, 33 minutes after the second inning and for 15 minutes more in the top half of the sixth. Royals’ scoring included a homer by Buck Martinez in the second inning and another by John Mayberry in the eighth.
The Yankees – White Sox game at Comiskey Park is rained out. It will be made up on July 24.
Ending a personal three-game losing streak, Vida Blue scattered seven hits and pitched the Athletics to a 3–0 victory over the Tigers. The A’s scored only two runs for Blue in his three losses. This time, Gene Tenace came to his help, driving in two runs, one with a double in the second inning and the other with a single in the seventh. After his single, Tenace took third on a single by Sal Bando and scored on a sacrifice fly by Phil Garner.
The Red Sox broke a tie with an unearned run in the third inning and then got a homer by Cecil Cooper in the sixth to clinch a 4–2 victory over the Twins. Rick Burleson singled with the bases loaded to drive in the first two runs for the Red Sox in the second. The Twins came back with a matching pair in their half on a single by Dan Ford, double by Lyman Bostock, a wild pitch and sacrifice fly by Danny Thompson. But Thompson then committed an error with two out in the third to allow Denny Doyle to score.
After failing to hold a 7–2 lead, the Rangers came from behind with two runs in the 13th inning to defeat the Indians, 9–8, for their third straight victory under Frank Lucchesi. The Indians forced the game into overtime with a five-run rally in the ninth. George Hendrick drove in the first two runs with a bases-loaded single. After manager Frank Robinson walked as a pinch-hitter, another run counted on a wild pitch. Charlie Spikes then singled, driving in two runs to tie the score. The Indians went ahead in the 13th on singles by Rick Manning and Rico Carty and a wild throw by Lenny Randle. The Rangers quickly pulled even in their half when Tom Robson singled and pinch-runner Tommy Moore raced home on a double by Tom Grieve. When Spikes misplayed the ball in left field, Grieve advanced to third. The Indians then passed Toby Harrah and Jim Fregosi intentionally to load the bases, but the move failed when Mike Cubbage batted for Jim Sundberg and hit a sacrifice fly to drive in the winning run.
The Reds, who had fallen into a slump since winning 10 games in a row, lost to the Mets, 5–2, for their fifth defeat in the last seven contests. Jon Matlack held the Reds to five hits. Ed Kranepool led the Mets’ attack, driving in two runs with a single in the third inning and another with a double in the fifth.
Three stolen bases and three bunts were the keys to the Phillies’ 3–2 victory over the Braves. In the first inning, Dave Cash singled, stole second, took third on a sacrifice bunt by Larry Bowa and scored on an infield out by Jay Johnstone. Mike Schmidt singled in the second, moved up on a passed ball, stole third and scored on a squeeze bunt by Bob Boone. Then in the eighth with the score tied, 2–2, Greg Luzinski singled and stole second before giving way to pinch-runner Terry Harmon. After Harmon advanced to third on an infield out by Dick Allen, Schmidt laid down a bunt and beat it out for a hit as Harmon crossed the plate with the winning run.
J.R. Richard gave up five hits and walked five but worked his way out of trouble three times with two men on base to pitch the Astros to a 2–1 victory over the Expos. The Astros scored their initial run in the first inning on a single by Greg Gross and double by Bob Watson. After Gary Carter homered for the Expos in the fourth, the Astros picked up the deciding run in the next stanza on a single by Larry Milbourne, sacrifice by Richard and single by Wilbur Howard.
John Montefusco not only pitched a six-hitter but also smashed a homer as the Giants defeated the Cubs, 10–2. The Giants settled the issue quickly, piling up five runs in the first inning. Gary Matthews and Willie Montanez hit run-scoring singles before Chris Speier capped the outburst with a three-run homer. Montefusco rapped his round-tripper in the fourth. Bill Madlock drove in both of the Cubs’ runs with a double and sacrifice fly.
The Cardinals, after building up a 5–0 lead, stood off the rallying Dodgers and gained a 5–4 victory to extend their winning streak to five games. Willie Davis and Reggie Smith singled and Ted Simmons doubled to produce what proved to be the Cards’ deciding run in the seventh inning. The Dodgers came back with a tally in the eighth and closed the gap with three more runs in the ninth on a walk to John Hale and two-out back-to-back pinch hit homers by Willie Crawford and Lee Lacy before Mike Garman relieved Bob Forsch and struck out Davey Lopes to save the game. They are the second pair of Dodgers to pinch hit back-to-back homers.
Dock Ellis yielded only four hits and pitched the Pirates to an 8–1 victory over the Padres. Manny Sanguillen, hitting safely in his 15th straight game, smashed a homer with a man on base in the eighth inning to cap the Pirates’ scoring.
California Angels 1, Baltimore Orioles 0
Oakland Athletics 3, Detroit Tigers 0
St. Louis Cardinals 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Kansas City Royals 4, Milwaukee Brewers 1
Boston Red Sox 4, Minnesota Twins 2
Houston Astros 2, Montreal Expos 1
Cincinnati Reds 2, New York Mets 5
Atlanta Braves 2, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 8, San Diego Padres 1
Chicago Cubs 2, San Francisco Giants 10
Cleveland Indians 8, Texas Rangers 9
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 836.69 (-10.07, -1.19%)
Born:
Toby Myles, NFL tackle (New York Giants, Oakland Raiders, Cleveland Browns), in Jackson, Mississippi.
Sung Hyun-ah, South Korean actress (Cello), born in South Korea.
Died:
Emlen Tunnell, NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame safety (NFL Championship-NY Giants, 1956; GB Packers, 1961; 9-time Pro Bowler), from a heart attack.
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