A bill to lift a ban on American weapons sales to Turkey, failed 206–233 in the U.S. House of Representatives. Turkey’s government would retaliate by closing American military bases there. The House of Representatives rejected by a close vote a major effort by the administration to partly lift the six-month-old arms embargo against Turkey. The vote followed a day of often bitter debate and weeks of intensive lobbying by pro-Greek forces. It was regarded as a significant personal setback for Mr. Ford, who gained 103 votes from Democratic and Republican members of the House, but failed to carry 184 Democrats and 39 members of his own party. The Senate had approved a similar bill empowering the President to lift the embargo, but today’s decision in the House effectively stops attempts at ending the arms suspension until at least the fall. The House had consistently been‐more opposed to Administration policy on the Turkish arms question than the Senate. The closeness of this afternoon’s vote represented greater support,” particularly within the Democratic party, for the Administration, but it fell short of what was needed. Mr. Ford said he was “deeply disappointed” by the vote. He said the House action “can only do the most serious and irreparable damage to the vital national security interests of the United States.” It was unclear what effect the vote would have on relations with Turkey. As a result, of the arms embargo, Ankara has called for negotiations on the status of American bases and intelligence‐gathering stations in Turkey.
Turkey’s Deputy Premier has declared that restrictions on the United States use of bases here might be unavoidable if the embargo on arms sales to Turkey continues. “The existence of the bases as they now function,” Deputy Premier Turhan Feyzioglu said in an interview, “represents a threat to our security because under the arms embargo it will be impossible for us to defend ourselves and the bases.” Mr. Feyzioglu asked how Turks were expected to reconcile the American refusal to sell arms with the expectations that the United States, under the North Atlantic Treaty, would come to our rescue in the event of war.” Mr. Feyzioglu was interviewd on Tuesday, two days before the House of Representatives vote against sifting the ban on arms sales. The uncertain future of the 26 bases and other facilities has aroused anxiety among American officials. They are especially concerned over the fate of three bases that are regarded as essential to the readiness of the American and North Atlantic forces in the area.
The Apollo space program came to an end as Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton, with parachutes bringing their space capsule down to a recovery on the Pacific Ocean. No further manned space trips are planned by the United States until 1979 at the earliest [Actually it would be 1981]. Brigadier General Thomas P. Stafford of the Air Force, Vance D. Brand and Donald K. Slayton were reported in excellent physical condition. They walked briskly, with no apparent stiffness, to a platform for the formal welcoming ceremonies that included a telephone call from President Ford at the White House. The President said: “On behalf of your fellow Americans, about 214 million of them, congratulations and thanks, for your very successful and extremely productive flight, in space.” Mr. Ford also noted that the splashdown marked the conclusion of the Apollo program, which included the landings of men on the moon, the operation of an orbital space station for periods of up to 84 days at a time and the first Soviet‐American mission.
The “splashdown” would be the last water landing of a crewed space mission for more than 45 years, with cosmonauts landing their capsules in the desert, or astronauts landing on a runway in a space shuttle. On August 2, 2020, the SpaceX Demo-2 mission would successfully splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico with astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken. The U.S. would not venture into space again until 1981.
In a move to maintain the fragile five-month Ulster cease-fire, the British government announced plans to end the controversial policy of interning suspected terrorists without trial in Northern Ireland and to release all internees by Christmas. “I cannot commit myself at this stage to a specific date,” he said, “but I hope that the situation will progress sufficiently to enable all detainees to be out by Christmas.” For British officials, the release of the 246 remaining internees is a risky move that seeks to meet a key demand of the I.R.A. Provisionsls. Nonetheless, there is some fear that the release of the 246 men, who include the hard core of the Irish Republican Army, will lead to a resumption of maor violence. There has been some evidence in recent weeks that the cease‐fire had been used by the I.R.A. to rearm its units. The announcement by Merlyn Rees, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, brought immediate protests from Protestant leaders in Ulster.
The number of jobless Britons soared past the 1 million mark this month for the first time since 1940 and will continue to rise until inflation is curbed, the government said. The Employment Department said that 1.087,869 Britons, or 4.7% of the working population, are now out of work. The July figure is 218,041 more than in June.
The 240-member General Assembly of Portugal’s Armed Forces Movement meets today and is expected to push the nation further to the left by establishing a three-man junta. The troika would consolidate power in the hands of President Francisco de Costa Gomes, an army general; General Otelo Saraiva da Carvalho, chief of military security forces, and Premier Vasco Gonçalves, also a general. National television reported that the new regime would probably be announced Monday or Tuesday.
A coalition of underground political and labor groups called on Spaniards to join in efforts to overthrow the authoritarian regime of General Francisco Franco and replace it with a democratic system. The coalition was formed recently with groups representing Communists, socialists, democrats, monarchists and a number of labor organizations from all over Spain.
The Security Council today approved a three‐month extension of the United Nations peace force in Sinai. The mandate of the force was scheduled to expire at midnight. The vote was 13 to 0, with China and Iraq not participating — China because of objections to United Nations peacekeeping actions and Iraq because of a contention that such measures are only limited and not a satisfactory solution. An extension of the mandate of the United Nations force was assured by Cairo’s announcement yesterday that it would agree to a renewal, in response to an appeal on Tuesday to President Anwar el-Sadat by the Security Council. Israel agreed earlier to an extension, but wanted it for six months.
Egyptian proposals for a new Sinai accord, including a map detailing Cairo’s recommendation for a new cease-fire line, were received in Jerusalem from Washington. High Israeli officials said they were “serious and well-considered,” but that important differences remained on several issues before the time would be right for another attempt at shuttle diplomacy by Secretary of State Kissinger.
India’s Parliament voted to amend the constitution to prohibit the nation’s courts from considering any challenge to the June 26 emergency decree. As opposition legislators boycotted the sessions, the measure passed 342-1 and 164-0 in the lower and upper houses. Explaining today why it was important to the Government, Law Minister H. R. Gokhale told the legislators: “The very purpose of the emergency would be defeated if the Government were called upon to give grounds for certain actions. It is only the Government which can judge or apprehend danger to the security of the country, either from external aggression or from internal disturbances.” Prime Minister Indira Gandhi maintains that the emergency under which her Government has assumed an authoritarian new position, was necessitated by a conspiracy aomng” her political opponents to destroy the fabric of India.”
Most of those opponents are now in jail among the thousands of Indians who have been arrested in the last four weeks, and who are being held incommunicado. One of the other bills ratified in this special oneweek session of Parliament approves the presidential proclamation that the prisoners do not have to be told why they being held. The emergency, which the Parliament has also ratified, automatically suspends other basic freedoms as well, such as the right to free speech and free assembly.
France and the Comoros have set up a joint commission to supervise the handing over of administrative powers to the newly independent island government, authorized sources indicated in Paris. France’s withdrawal from three of the four islands, located in the Mozambique Channel, got under way with the departure of 36 Foreign Legion troops. The army is still on Mayotte Island where the majority of the population wishes to remain French.
Earlier fears of a bloodbath have been realized in Cambodia, but no substantial reports of killings have come from South Vietnam. Undersecretary of State Philip C. Habib told a Senate judiciary subcommittee on refugees. He said the Cambodian situation involved “substantial killings” and “goes far beyond the bounds of normal decency.” The situation in the Cambodian countryside is “a major human disaster” in terms of disease, malnutrition, retaliation against political opponents and the general living conditions for the very young and elderly, Habib said.
The Philippines and Thailand announced that they would gradually withdraw and dismantle SEATO, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 21 years after the alliance had been formed in 1954 to halt the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia.
More than a hundred South Korean policemen were dismissed today as part of a threeweek‐old campaign against corruption in the nation’s police force. Early this week, the Seoul police chief jailed six of his own subordinates on charges of taking money regularly from pickpockets. A total of 119 policemen, or nearly 10 per cent of those handling felony cases, are now said to be either out of work or in jail on charges of taking bribes. Those removed today were on a blacklist that a special prosecution team recently supplied to the national police headquarters. The team is bent on breaking up the approximately 50 large pickpocket rings operating throughout the country and employing about 17,000.
A tornado swept through the town of St. Bonaventure, Quebec, killing three persons and destroying nearly 100 buildings, police said. A spokesman said about 45 persons had been hospitalized and rescue crews were still searching through the debris. St. Bonaventure is located 50 miles northeast of Montreal.
The Peruvian military government announced the expropriation of the U.S.-owned Marcona Mining Co., a subsidiary of Utah Co. Mines and Energy Minister Jorge Fernandez Maldonado said the government would take over without payment all of Marcona’s iron mining installations at San Nicolas. Gen. Fernandez said Marcona has debts with the state and has violated contracts. He accused the company, which has operated in Peru for 20 years, of exploiting iron deposits in “an irrational way.”
Argentine President Maria Estela Perón’s physicians confined her to bed, announcing that the pressures of a deepening political crisis had prevented her from resting sufficiently since she came down with a bad cold nine days ago. Mrs. Perón will make no more public appearances until Saturday.
A scholarly looking Peronist coalition legislator stood up last night in the Argentine Congress and accused the largest opposition party of “knocking on the doors of the military barracks, as usual.” No sooner had the legislator, Marcos Merchensky, finished making his charges than member of the Radical Civic Union, the party he had attacked, tapped him on the shoulder and punched him in the face, sending his glasses flying. Legislators from a half‐dozen parties joined in, and what started out as a squabble between supposed militarists and antimilitarists degenerated into a free‐for‐all along party lines, forcing security guards to intervene.
Frequently nowadays, politicians and commentators picture Argentina as a ship drifting toward a roaring waterfall while the crew fights over who should sit at the captain’s table. Nobody wants to take the helm. The disaster ahead is economic and political. A recession is fast approaching, with unemployment and hyperinflation bringing social consequences that no civilian government could survive. The main political forces — including organized labor, big business, legislators and provincial governors — see clearly that right‐wing military dictatorship lies ahead. But all seem more eager to preserve their privileges than to compromise enough to avert a return to military rule.
President Ford, affirming that he and Governor George Wallace of Alabama share “a good many similarities” on domestic issues, is nearing the end of his first year in the White House with apparent confidence in the conservative course he has set. In an interview marking the approach of his anniversary, Mr. Ford credited his administration with having restored faith in the White House at home and abroad and with having “kept our cool” during a simultaneous recession and inflation. The fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia were his biggest disappointments, he said. Mr. Ford defended his plan to go to Helsinki, Finland, next week to sign a 35‐nation accord on European security that is the latest product of the detente with the Soviet Union begun by President Nixon. Responding to charges by some Democratic Presidential aspirants and by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, the exiled Soviet novelist, that the agreement is a betrayal of Eastern Europe, President Ford said the security conference had been initiated only after an East-West agreement on the status of West Berlin and that the accord could be followed by mutual reductions of military forces in Europe.
“You did a wonderful job.” President Ford told Captain Charles T. Miller during a ceremony in the White House Oval Office. His praise was for the skipper of the American merchant ship Mayaguez, which was seized by the Cambodians in May. The nation was electrified when the President sent in the Navy and Marines to rescue the crew, which Mr. Ford also congratulated for “being so strong and resourceful. I am proud of you and the American people are proud of you.” In response, Miller presented Mr. Ford with the ship’s wheel. After looking it over, the President said he was trying to decide where to put it, but expected to keep it on display in the Oval Office for a few days, and “maybe longer.”
President Ford disavowed today a report by a Presidential council that charged his Administration with “apparent lack of consideration for the economic plight of the elderly.” The President also rejected two specific recommendations made by the council, one calling for legislation to develop high health and safety standards in nursing homes, the other to provide adequate funding for Government programs for the elderly. Mr. Ford transmitted the report of the Federal Council on The Aging to Congress today, but declared in his accompanying message, “The report does not reflect the Administration’s policies, which must reflect broader range of responsibilities and priorities.”
Robert Strauss, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said that before his party could select New York for its 1976 convention it had to have assurances from municipal unions that they would not disrupt city affairs during the convention. “If the committee was to vote today, my judgment is that it would tilt toward New York,” he said, But, he added, New York’s deepening economic problems are creating serious misgivings within the site selection committee that will choose either New York or Los Angeles.
Pennsylvania asked the United States Supreme Court to enjoin New Jersey from taxing the incomes of Pennsylvanians who work in New Jersey. The Pennsylvania Department of Justice said there was “no distinction whatsoever” between the Jersey tax and a New Hampshire tax on non-residents which was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court last March.
Informed government officials said that the Central Intelligence Agency last year informed the Justice Department that Richard Helms, the former Director of Central Intelligence, may have committed perjury in testimony regarding Chile before a Senate committee. They said that William Colby. the present intelligence director, decided after reviewing the results of a three-month internal inquiry by the CIA to inform the Justice Department voluntarily.
The Senate Intelligence Committee reached agreement with the FBI on acquiring needed documents and information and is working out a similar problem with the White House. But the committee apparently angered Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger by abruptly announcing on the eve of his trip to Europe with President Ford that he would be called to testify in September. Vice Chairman John G. Tower (R-Texas) announced that the panel met with CIA Director William E. Colby and FBI and White House counsel to resolve difficulties in obtaining material. “We feel we have made substantial progress,” Tower said.
The Federal energy administrator, Frank G. Zarb, and Senator Edmund S. Muskie, chairman of the Public Works Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution, are in a snarl over the revised auto emissions standards endorsed by the subcommittee. In a July 18 letter to Senator Jennings Randolph, chairman of the parent committee, Mr. Zarb said that the standards, offered as an amendment to the Clean Air Act by Senators Gary Hart, Democrat of Colorado, and Robert T. Stafford. Republican of Vermont, would “significantly limit potential new car fuel economy” and considerably increase the cost of a new car, thereby having an “inhibiting effect on the auto industry and thus on the economy.” Mr. Zarb asked Senator Randolph, a West Virginia Democrat, to use his influence to defeat the amendment in full committee. In a letter to Mr. Zarb today, Mr. Muskie, Democrat of Maine and the authors of the amendment accused the energy administrator of “clear distortions of fact.”
The Senate Finance Committee voted tentatively today to impose a special tax ranging from $100 to $800, starting in 1978, on automobiles that get less than 17 miles per gallon. The $800 tax would apply to cars gettiing less than 13 miles per gallon. The tax would increase, year by year, until, by 1981, cars getting less than 20 miles gallon would be subject to the $100 tax and cars getting less than 13 miles per gallon would be taxed $1,400. The action is the first major step potentially affecting the general public that the committee has taken in four days of consideration of legislation aimed at conserving energy. A dozen other tax‐law changes that the committee has tentatively approved chiefly provide tax breaks for business taking steps that are thought to aid energy conservation.
Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) released a study showing that even when their incomes and credit characteristics are the same, minority applicants for mortgage loans are turned down almost twice as often as white applicants. Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, said the six-city survey showed that the Ford Administration was not enforcing laws against discrimination in the home loan industry.
Rep. Fortney H. (Pete) Stark (D-California) said a detailed investigation by the U.S. State Department had largely confirmed stories of widespread abuses against an estimated 543 U.S. citizens in Mexican jails and prisons, but said the department had hesitated to bring the situation to the attention of President Ford. He said the department’s report on 15 representative cases was submitted to a closed meeting of the House international relations subcommittee last Monday. He said he was making the department’s findings public in an effort to force the Administration to aid the prisoners.
G. Bradford Cook, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has been suspended from the practice of law for perjuring himself in an attempt to postpone disclosure of a Nixon reelection campaign contribution by fugitive financier Robert Vesco. The Nebraska Supreme Court, which had jurisdiction over Cook’s law practice because Cook was first admitted to the bar in Nebraska. handed down the three-year suspension in Lincoln. The court found that Cook lied to a federal grand jury in New York City during the Vesco investigation and admitted the lie at the trial of former Cabinet members John N. Mitchell and Maurice H. Stans.
A three-judge federal panel ruled in Philadelphia that children committed to mental institutions had the right to a hearing on whether the commitment was justified. In what was called a landmark decision, the judges ruled unconstitutional a Pennsylvania law under which parents could waive their children’s right to a hearing. Similar laws exist in 38 other states. The court ruled that a child must be granted a hearing in 72 hours of detention, an attorney. grounds for the proposed committal and the right to call and cross-examine witnesses.
Twelve children and an adult counselor from a day camp group were struck by lightning at a park in Rochester, New York, leaving three teenaged girls critically injured, authorities reported. The group had left a swimming pool, closed when a thunderstorm appeared, and headed for a play area in the park, police said. Some were playing on a metal “jungle gym,” others were in a sandbox and several under a tree when the bolt struck.
Giorgio Armani and Sergio Galeotti found Giorgio Armani S.p.A. in Milan, Italy
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With Dick Tidrow failing twice in relief, the Yankees lost both ends of a doubleheader to the White Sox, 4–3 and 1–0. The opener was decided in the 11th inning after Tidrow came to the mound. Bill Stein, who was the first batter to face the Yankee reliever, flied out, but Brian Downing smashed a homer to win the game for the White Sox. The Yankees sent the game into overtime when Graig Nettles tied the score with a two-run triple in the eighth inning. Larry Gura, who started the nightcap for the Yankees, gave up singles by Pete Varney and Lee Richard around a sacrifice by Pat Kelly before Tidrow took over. Tidrow walked Ken Henderson to load the bases and struck out Deron Johnson, but then hit Bill Melton with a pitch to force in Downing, who ran for Varney.
Although Don Money hit two homers and George Scott, Gorman Thomas and Hank Aaron added one apiece, all five blows came with the bases empty as the Brewers lost to the Orioles, 10–7. Aaron’s drive was his 10th of the season and 743rd of his career. The Orioles enjoyed a pair of four-run innings. In the sixth, Lee May walked and scored on a double by Jim Northrup, who advanced to third when Robin Yount threw wildly to the plate in handling the relay from the outfield. Northrup then scored on a wild pitch by Pete Broberg. Don Baylor singled and, after a forceout by Elrod Hendricks, a double by Doug DeCinces, error by Thomas and squeeze bunt by Mark Belanger added two runs. The Orioles won the game with their other four-run burst in the eighth on a single by DeCinces, triple by Belanger, singles by Ken Singleton, Bobby Grich and Tommy Davis and a wild pitch. Davis’ single drove in two runs and put him over the 1,000 RBI mark for his career.
Starting their scoring with a two-run homer by Jim Rice in the first inning, the Red Sox defeated the Twins, 6–2, behind the pitching of Rick Wise, who gained his sixth straight victory. Bob Heise also batted in two runs for the Red Sox, hitting a single with the bases loaded in the fifth.
The relief work of John Hiller, who made his 10th straight appearance without allowing a run, saved the game for Joe Coleman as the Tigers defeated the Athletics, 5–2. Coleman gave up a homer by Reggie Jackson in the second inning but then did not allow another baserunner until Claudell Washington singled and went to third on another single by Joe Rudi in the seventh. After Jackson hit a sacrifice fly, Gene Tenace walked. Coleman threw three straight balls to Billy Williams before being removed in favor of Hiller. On Hiller’s first pitch, Williams swung away and grounded out to end the inning.
The Indians – Rangers game at Arlington Stadium is rained out. In the top of the first in a game against the Rangers, the Indians John Lowenstein hit a homer of off Steve Hergan. Cleveland scored another run for a 2-0 lead before a severe thunderstorm hit resulting in the game being called before the half inning was completed. It will be made up on August 18.
Phil Niekro doubled and drove in the deciding run in the seventh inning while pitching the Braves to a 5–4 victory over the Phillies. The Braves took a 3–2 lead in the fourth when Earl Williams and Dusty Baker singled and Rowland Office homered, but the Phillies tied the score in the fifth with singles by Larry Bowa and Greg Luzinski and infield out by Dick Allen. Larvell Blanks singled for the Braves in the seventh and counted the tie-breaking run on a double by Biff Pocoroba. Niekro followed with his two-bagger and the run proved decisive when the Phillies counted once in their half of the seventh on a double by Dave Cash, a flyout and a passed ball.
With a triple by Larry Milbourne as the big blow, the Astros scored four runs in the sixth inning and defeated the Expos, 6–5. Trailing, 3–2, the Astros tied the score on singles by Bob Watson and Milt May around a balk by Steve Renko. Metzger also singled and Milbourne then hit his triple, driving in two runs, before crossing the plate himself on a single by Wilbur Howard. Renko, Mike Jorgensen and Pete Mackanin hit homers for the Expos.
Tom Seaver struck out five batters to raise his career total to 2,004, but the Mets’ ace was defeated by the Reds, 2–1. The Reds scored both their runs in the second inning. Johnny Bench walked and, with one out, was forced by George Foster. Dave Concepcion also walked. Cesar Geronimo then singled to drive in one run and Fred Norman followed with a single to plate what proved to be the deciding tally. The Mets collected four hits off Norman in the fifth but failed to score because two runners were thrown out on the bases by throws from outfielders Ken Griffey and Foster. The Mets, who collected 12 hits, finally counted in the ninth on singles by Ed Kranepool and Gene Clines and a sacrifice fly by Felix Millan.
Bill Bonham helped himself with a run-scoring single and gained a victory with the assistance of Oscar Zamora as the Cubs defeated the Giants, 4–3. An error by loser Ed Halicki led to two unearned runs in the first inning. Then in the fourth, Gene Hiser, Tim Hosley and Bonham hit singles to produce another run and Don Kessinger followed with a sacrifice fly to plate what proved to be the deciding tally. Chris Speier drove in two of the Giants’ runs with an infield out and single.
The Cardinals, who had won five straight games, were stopped on their streak by the Dodgers, 8–2. Burt Hooton pitched a six-hitter and gained his first victory since June 18. The Dodgers, after scoring on a double by Steve Garvey in the first inning, put the game away with four runs in the second on three hits, an error and sacrifice flies by Lee Lacy and Garvey. Steve Yeager had three hits in three official trips, including a homer. Doug Howard hit his first major league homer for the Cardinals in the fifth, batting for loser Lynn McGlothen.
The Royals fire manager Jack McKeon, hiring Whitey Herzog to replace him.
New York Yankees 3, Chicago White Sox 4
New York Yankees 0, Chicago White Sox 1
Oakland Athletics 2, Detroit Tigers 5
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 8
Baltimore Orioles 10, Milwaukee Brewers 7
Boston Red Sox 6, Minnesota Twins 2
Houston Astros 6, Montreal Expos 5
Cincinnati Reds 2, New York Mets 1
Atlanta Braves 5, Philadelphia Phillies 4
Chicago Cubs 4, San Francisco Giants 3
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Born:
Eric Szmanda, American TV actor (“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”); in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Jamie Langenbrunner, NHL right win, centre, and left wing (NHL Champions, Stanley Cup, Stars-1999, Devils, 2005; Dallas Stars, New Jersey Devils, St. Louis Blues), in Cloquet, Minnesota.
Reggie Swinton, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions), in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Ryan Stack, NBA power forward (Cleveland Cavaliers), in Nashville, Tennessee.
Bill Ortega, Cuban MLB pinch hitter (St. Louis Cardinals), in La Habana, Cuba.
Died:
Barbara Colby, 35, American TV actress. Ms. Colby, who had just gotten her first major television role, as a regular on the new TV show “Phyllis,” had completed filming of her third episode when she and actor James Kiernan were gunned down in a drive-by shooting. She died at the scene, and Kiernan died 40 minutes later. The killers were never apprehended.
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