President Ford flew to Bonn today on the first leg of a 10-day journey of diplomatic gestures across Europe, accompanied by his wife and Secretary of State Kissinger. He will participate in the summit-level confirmation by 35 countries of a charter on European security in Helsinki, Finland, late this week, the primary purpose of the trip, and will visit the capitals of Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia. A senior White House official said the real, if unpublicized, purpose of the visits to the three East European capitals was to encourage Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia to continue pursuit of political lines relatively independent of Moscow.
President Ford will attempt to meet with Premier Suleyman Demirel of Turkey at the European security conference next week in Helsinki. Newsmen accompanying Mr. Ford on his European trip were told of the proposed meeting and they learned that there was uncertainty whether the Turkish leader would consent to see Mr. Ford privately. They were also told that the suspension of the United States military operations in Turkey “will leave us very vulnerable” and Turkey might seek “radical Arab money” to buy weapons it could not get from the United States. Meanwhile, Turkish troops started taking control of the American bases in Turkey.
The Turkish Government’s termination today of United States operations at all but one of 27 bases regarded by senior officers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a blow to intelligence gathering in a sensitive military area. United States and other North Atlantic officers said they also were concerned over the possibility that Turkey, angered by the refusal of the House of Representatives on Thursday to end the five‐month‐old arms embargo, might move away from the alliance and further weaken its Mediterranean flank. During the last year, Greece has withdrawn from military integration in the alliance and Communist influence has risen in Portugal and Italy. The American bases in Turkey and the well‐trained Turkish Army and Air Force until now have been regarded as stabilizing elements in the east Mediterranean.
Portugal’s new military triumvirate today faced strong opposition from within the armed forces and the main political parties and the prospect of growing unrest. The ruling Armed Forces Movement set up the three‐man junta last night in a move to restore the unity and authority of the military during Portugal’s most serious political crisis since the overthrow of the rightist dictatorship 15 months. The three leaders, all generals, are President Francisco da Costa Gomes, considered a middle‐of‐the‐road figure; Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, the chief of security forces and representative of radical leftists, and Premier Vasco Gonçalves, a Communist party sympathizer. The controversial General Gonçalves has been the center of the political crisis, and the decision to include him in the triumvirate is expected to heighten the opposition. The military has warned it will “forcefully repress” any move to disturb public order, but clashes are expected between supporters and critics of the nation’s leaders.
President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing of France and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany announced in Bonn that their countries would begin synchronized programs at the end of August to improve their economies. France will pump $3.5 billion into her sluggish economy, and West Germany will spend $2 billion; much of the money will go into public building projects. Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, which have already entered into a joint monetary agreement with France and West Germany, will be invited to join their latest economic effort.
Former South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu has applied for a visa to visit Britain, a Foreign Office spokesman said. “On the facts, as known, there is no reason why a visa should not be granted to enable him to visit his family in this country,” the spokesman added. He refused to comment on reports from Hong Kong claiming that Thiệu, 52, wanted to leave Taiwan where he and his wife have been living in isolation and to apply for political asylum in Britain. He reportedly had sought approval to go to the United States, but was advised by American officials that presence would be “inopportune.”
Evangelist Billy Graham, in Brussels for an evangelical crusade and a youth Bible study conference, said he believes the United States perhaps helped pave the way for the Communist conquest of South Vietnam by corrupting the nation with certain aspects of its culture. “I think the American culture that we imported to South Vietnam tended to corrupt the people,” he said. “Religious leaders in Vietnam have emphasized this to me time after time.”
Israel’s ground, air and naval forces are significantly stronger in numbers, weapons and morale than they were when the Egyptians and Syrians attacked on October 6, 1973. This conclusion is a result of interviews with Defense Minister Shimon Peres, General Mordechai Gur, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Force; General Binyamin Peled, commander of the Israeli Air Force and Ariel Sharon, a hero of the 1973 war who now is military adviser to Premier Yitzhak Rabin. Interviews also were held with staff officers at headquarters, brigade and battalion commanders in the field and military attachés at foreign embassies in Israel.
The Israeli Army, as deployed in three critical areas, the Golan Heights, the sunbaked hills of the West Bank of the Jordan River and the rocky hills and rolling sands of the Sinai Desert, gives an impression of a soberly confident force that has learned from past mistakes. The confidence is balanced by an acute awareness that some Arab countries, notably Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, also have Improved their military positions as a consequence of arms shipments from the Soviet Union and the United States. Israel’s forces are maintained at a high state of readiness. Company commanders and generals alike are determined that their forces will never again be caught with insufficient strength at key points, as they were in the first days of the, 1973 war. “I am confident we have enough good men and tanks here to hold a Syrian attack for 30 hours,” said a young colonel as he gazed out from a strongpoint across the Damascus Plain. “After that the reserves will be here and we will take the offensive.”
A Lebanese arms dealer, whose license was suspended in the United States because of fears over the eventual destination of 1,500 automatic combat pistols, denied that the weapons originally were bound for one of the paramilitary militias in Beirut. The $163,000 shipment from Colt Industries of Hartford, Connecticut, was being stored “somewhere outside the Middle East,” according to Sarkis Soghanalian of United Industries of Beirut and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He admitted ignoring U.S. regulations by negotiating to sell the guns outside Lebanon.
As Egypt maneuvers on the Sinai negotiating front, Syria is waiting, with a mixture of impatience and suspicion, for her own turn in the unfinished business of Middle Eastern peace talks. Syrian officials stress that the Government of President Hafez al‐Assad has no intention of revoking its approval of the United Nations peacekeeping force on the Golan Heights when the mandate expires November 30. “It’s not a question of suspending but of extending,” said one well‐placed Syrian official, saying that Damascus is hoping for some diplomatic movement that will permit it to renew the mandate. At the same time, Syria plans to keep leading a campaign to suspend Israel from the United Nations and other international organizations.
The government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi arrested a group of eight prominent elderly citizens, all in their 60’s and 70’s, who had threatened to defy her curbs on freedom of the press and speech. The arrested persons had sent an open letter to Mrs. Gandhi urging her to return to the free-press policy advocated by her father, the late Jawaharlal Nehru.
In a protest against the authoritarian direction Mrs. Gandhi’s government has taken, 10,000 people gathered at a rally on a soccer field in Ahmadabad in the state of Gujarat, one of only two states in India whose governments are not controlled by Mrs. Gandhi’s Congress party.
Laos has announced that she has decided to break diplomatic relations with South Korea. A Government spokesman said at a news conference that the decision was made at a Cabinet meeting this week. The move was proposed earlier this month by the Joint Political Council headed by the pro-Communist Pathet Lao leader, Prince Souphanouvong. The spokesman said that South Korea had shown diplomatic discourtesy in that its representatives had left Laos without giving notice to the Government.
China was able to place a satellite into orbit for the first time since 1971, and only the third time in its history, after April 24, 1970 and March 3, 1971. The Ji Shu Shiyan Weixing I was destroyed after 50 days in orbit.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos has denied charges by a Filipino newsman now living in exile in the United States that Marcos offered him a bribe to stop him from testifying before a U.S. congressional subcommittee. Marcos’ denial was in a lengthy cable to columnist Jack Anderson published in the Philippines. The Filipino newsman. Primitivo Mijares, was quoted by Anderson as saying he was offered the bribe in connection with testimony on martial law conditions in the Philippines.
Fisheries Minister Romeo Lablanc said that Canada, through negotiations or unilateral action, will extend its ocean jurisdiction from 12 to 200 miles on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. He said Canada will seek international agreement on this extension at a September meeting on fisheries in Montreal but might act alone and negotiate with other nations about historic fishing rights if no agreement is reached.
The Organization of American States agreed to meet Tuesday in San Jose, Costa Rica, to consider the remnants of the 11-year-old diplomatic and trade sanctions on Cuba. Diplomats said the sanctions are virtually certain to be lifted. At least 14 countries-the required two-thirds majority-favor allowing the 21 member nations to renew relations with Cuba whenever they wish. The United States is included among supporters of the move.
New directors have been appointed for seven previously nationalized newspapers to rid the publications of alleged anti-government bias, Peru’s military regime announced. The papers were expropriated a year ago when President Juan Valesco Alvarado charged that their former owners had served foreign interests and their own greed.
Ethiopia’s revolutionary government issued Proclamation No. 27, nationalizing almost all land in the former Empire. Families were allowed to own no more than one house, and no more than 500 square meters of unoccupied land. Everything else was confiscated by the government, which then rented out the surplus to low income families. The proclamation affected much land once owned by deposed Emperor Haile Selassie and his family.
A Spokesman for one of Angola’s three rival black nationalist movements said today that his troops would continue their advance toward this capital city to reoccupy positions lost earlier this month. The spokesman, Ngola Kabangu of the, National Front for the Liberation of Angola, rejected the possibility of peaceful negotiations to prevent street fighting and bloodshed in Luanda, a city of more than 500,000 people. “I don’t believe in negotiations with Communists,” Mr. Kabangu said. But he emphasized that his forces did not intend to “massacre” civilians in Luanda or to destroy the city. The purpose, he said, was to “impose respect” for the tattered agreements among rival liberation forces.
President Ford vetoed a $2 billion health bill, and the Senate, acting with unusual speed, overrode the veto, 67 to 15. Congressional observers attributed the size of the vote and its speed partly to the popularity of the health measures and the small amount of the funds appropriated in the bill. The bill would authorize grants to state public health programs, family planning, community health centers and migrant health centers. It would also authorize funding for rape prevention and control, the treatment of hemophilia, and the education of nurses.
President Ford proposed withholding $632 million in funds for programs ranging from forest trails to Head Start help for handicapped children. He said in a message to Congress that the cuts were necessary to avoid duplication, to preserve the effectiveness of demonstration programs and because objectives could be met with lesser amounts. Under a law passed last year in reaction to former President Richard M. Nixon’s refusal to spend what Congress appropriated, the President must send to Congress a list of items he would like to trim from the budget. Congress then has 45 legislative days in which to forbid him to do so. Three such proposed cuts are pending and Mr. Ford’s latest message proposed five more.
By a two-vote margin, the Senate voted to allow the British-French supersonic Concorde to land at U.S. airports, overriding allegations that the plane was an environmental hazard and too noisy. The amendment that would have banned the SST was attached to a $4.2 billion appropriations bill to fund the Department of Transportation this year. The amendment was defeated 46 to 44 and the bill was passed 82 to 1. It now goes to conference with the House, whose bill is about $450 million less than the Senate version.
An additional $3 billion to finance the growing food-stamp program until next June was requested of Congress by President Ford, who said he wanted tighter eligibility requirements enacted at the same time. Mr. Ford’s original $3.8 billion budget request for the fiscal year that began July 1 had been submitted with the assumption that Congress would approve an increase in food stamp prices to participants. But the increase was rejected, and the House informed the President that the $3.8 billion would last only through next January.
Legalization of picketing at construction sites, even when not all contractors are involved in the labor dispute, is now up to the Senate. A bill approved by the House, 230 to 78, would reverse court rulings that such picketing violated the National Labor Relations Act. The bill would give construction workers the same picketing rights that industrial unions now have. It adopts the theory that all contractors and subcontractors on the same construction site are participating in a common enterprise. The courts have held that common-site picketing violated provisions of the act intended to protect innocent parties from harm through activities connected with labor disputes.
Richard Helms, while director of the Central Intelligence Agency, prepared a memorandum in the fall of 1970 informing Henry Kissinger and John N. Mitchell that the agency had supplied machine guns and tear-gas grenades to men plotting to overthrow the Chilean Government authoritative Government sources said today. The memorandum may become crucial evidence as the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence attempts to learn who authorized the CIA to become involved in planning two military corps in Chile in October, 1970. One of the plans resulted in the death of Gene Rene Schneider Chereau, Chief of Staff of the Chilean Army. According to sources who have seen the memorandum, it was written by Mr. Helms after the plot involving the machine guns had been called off. It was in the sense, they said, of an “advisory” to the Administration of President Richard M. Nixon on CIA activities.
The three Apollo astronauts were reported improved at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu where they have been under treatment for lung irritation since their landing in the Pacific on Thursday. A medical bulletin said their “health status” was satisfactory, but that they would continue to be under observation for 24 to 48 hours.
Two Soviet astronauts returned safely to earth from the Salyut 4 orbital station today after setting a Soviet record of 63 days in space. They left unbroken the 84-day record set by American Skylab astronauts early last year.
The federal bribery-conspiracy trial of former Senator Edward J. Gurney was recessed after closing arguments. U.S. Dist. Judge Ben Krentzman said he would instruct the jury Monday. Gurney, a former Republican member of the Senate Watergate committee, and three co-defendants are charged with working an influence-peddling scheme in which builders who contributed to a Gurney political fund were given favored treatment by the Federal Housing Administration.
Ronald Reagan’s Presidential challenge is wilting fast this summer where it was expected to blossom brightest—among the closely allied, mostly conservative chairmen of the Republican party in 13 Southern states. Top Republican officials in the South now expect that on his present course President Ford will win the Republican nomination next summer, whether or not Mr. Reagan, the former Governor of California, becomes a formal candidate against him. Most of the same Republican chairmen expect Mr. Ford will then propose Vice President Rockefeller to the party convention as his running mate. None of the Southern chairmen interviewed this week said he felt committed to the effort being organized by a Citizens for Reagan Committee in Washington. Only a few of them were openly inclined to oppose Mr. Rockefeller as a Vice-Presidential candidate. None said he saw a strong likelihood of defeating Mr. Rockefeller’s nomination if the Vice President continued to have President Ford’s personal endorsement.
Nearly 50,000 Econoline vans and light trucks are being recalled because of a possible defect that could result in partial loss of braking power in about 400 of them, the Ford Motor Co. said.
Governor Carey of New York said he felt “very strongly” that New York City did not need special legislative help in its current fiscal crisis. Insisting, with the strongest terms he has used in discussing the city’s problems, that it would be best that he not become “immersed” in the crisis, Mr. Carey believes, that in addition to the city’s “inherent powers” to carry out such austerities as a wage freeze, the new Municipal Assistance Corporation has received from the state “enough clout to work with the city — I emphasize with the city — to reach a favorable solution.”
Soaring malpractice insurance rates for physicians and hospitals have sharply driven up costs of medical diagnosis and treatment for patients. Many health officials believe the quality of health care is threatened. Patients of some osteopathic physicians, dentists and podiatrists are also paying higher fees, mainly because, these doctors say, they are being charged increasingly higher rates for their liability premiums.
“The Hustle,” by Van McCoy and celebrating the most popular new dance in America, became the #1 song in the United States.
The second season of the World Football League opened with a provision that players would receive a percentage of the game revenues, as the San Antonio Wings beat the visiting Charlotte Hornets, 27-10.
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A two-run homer by Johnny Grubb proved the Padres’ deciding blow in a 4–2 victory over the Braves. Grubb singled and scored in the third before hitting his homer after a double by Jerry Johnson in the fifth. The Braves came back with a pair in the seventh on a homer by Dave May, pass to Larvell Blanks, single by Rod Gilbreath and sacrifice fly by Mike Lum, but the Padres clinched their victory with another run in the eighth on a double by Bobby Tolan and single by Gene Locklear.
Although Bill Madlock collected six straight hits in a perfect day at bat, the Cubs succumbed to the Mets, 9–8, in 10 innings. Madlock batted in three runs. Felix Millan, who extended his batting streak to 19 games, had four hits for the Mets and drove in four runs. Rick Monday homered for the Cubs and Dave Kingman for the Mets, who were forced into overtime when Jerry Morales hit for the circuit in the ninth to tie the score at 7–7. In the 10th, a pass to Jerry Grote and singles by Mike Phillips, Joe Torre and Millan produced two runs and enabled the Mets to survive an RBI single by Madlock in the Cubs’ half.
Pepe Mangual scored two and drove in one of the Expos’ first three runs before Barry Foote hit a two-run triple in the eighth inning to nail down a 5–2 victory over the Pirates. Mangual tripled and crossed the plate on a single by Jose Morales in the third inning. Tim Foli singled, Steve Rogers sacrificed and Mangual singled for another run in the fourth. Mangual took second on the throw and came home on a single by Pete Mackanin. A single by Morales and pass to Nate Colbert preceded Foote’s triple in the eighth. Art Howe hit two doubles for the Pirates and had a hand in both their runs.
Dick Allen drove in three runs with a pair of singles and the Phillies picked up four more runs on two outfield errors to defeat the Cardinals, 9–4. Allen’s hits put the Phillies ahead, 3–2, one of the Cardinals’ runs coming on a homer by Ted Simmons. Steve Carlton hit a fly that Buddy Bradford dropped in the seventh inning, opening the way for three runs, two of them the unearned. Ken Rudolph homered with a man on base in the Cards’ half, but an error by Luis Melendez on another Carlton fly in the eighth enabled the Phillies to add two more tainted tallies.
Four hits by Pete Rose, who scored three runs and drove in one, paced the Reds to a 5–3 victory over the Dodgers. John Hale homered for the Dodgers, who were locked in a 3–3 tie with the Reds before a single by Rose, errors by Ron Cey and Doug Rau and sacrifice fly by Johnny Bench broke the deadlock in the fifth inning. The Reds then added an insurance run in the eighth on a single by Merv Rettenmund, pass to Jack Billingham and double by Rose. Billingham needed help in the ninth from Rawly Eastwick, who relieved with the potential tying runs on base and struck out Ken McMullen to end the game.
The Giants eked out a 3–2 victory in the first game and then had an easier time winning the second game, 9–3, in a sweep of a twi-night doubleheader with the Astros. Doug Rader homered for the Giants in the fourth inning of the opener, but the Astros went ahead, 2–1, before Bobby Murcer drove in two runs with a double in the eighth to give the Giants their edge. In the nightcap, Chris Speier, Steve Ontiveros and Bruce Miller each drove in two runs to lead the Giants’ attack.
Carlton Fisk batted in three runs, including two in the ninth inning, as the Red Sox defeated the Yankees, 4–2. A triple by Fred Lynn and double by Fisk started the Red Sox scoring in the second. The Yankees knotted the count on a grounder by Ed Herrmann with the bases loaded in the fifth. The tie then persisted until the ninth when Denny Doyle doubled, Carl Yastrzemski singled and Lynn walked to load the bases. Jim Rice hit a sacrifice to break the tie and Fisk followed with a single, driving in two runs to supply the Red Sox with their winning margin. The Yankees picked up one run in their half on a walk to Chris Chambliss, a wild pitch and single by Graig Nettles.
Mike Cuellar posted his second one-hitter of the season and fourth of his major league career while pitching the Orioles to a 4–0 victory over the Brewers. George Scott led off the seventh inning with a single for the Brewers’ lone hit. Cuellar had one-hitters in 1969 and ’71 and then this year held the Angels to one hit on May 31.
Dennis Eckersley, Indians’ rookie righthander, posted his second shutout of the season and brought his record to 7–3 with a 6–0 victory over the Tigers. The Indians started Mickey Lolich on the road to defeat in the second inning, scoring two runs on a walk to Frank Robinson, double by Charlie Spikes and single by Frank Duffy. Alan Ashby homered in the fourth. George Hendrick singled and Rico Carty hit for the circuit in the fifth. The final run followed in the ninth on a single by Duffy and triple by Buddy Bell.
John Mayberry, Tony Solaita and George Brett drove in two runs apiece to escort the Royals to a 7–0 victory over the Rangers behind the six-hit pitching of Al Fitzmorris. Mayberry, who collected four hits in the game, accounted for his RBIs with a double in the first inning. Solaita added a pair with a single in the third. After Amos Otis homered in the fifth, the Royals went on to add their last two runs on a single by Mayberry, pass to Solaita and double by Brett.
Nolan Ryan, who had lost eight straight decisions, gained his first victory since June 6 when the Angels won the second game of a twi-night doubleheader, 5–0, after losing the first game to the Twins, 9–4. Ryan, who allowed six hits, was lifted after loading the bases with none out in the eighth inning. Magnificent relief pitching by Jim Brewer, who retired Rod Carew, Tony Oliva and Eric Soderholm without allowing a run to score, saved Ryan. The Angels’ scoring in the game included a two-run homer by John Balaz. In the lidlifter, the Twins trailed, 3–2, until they knocked out Ed Figueroa and scored four runs in the eighth inning on bases-loaded singles by Soderholm and Danny Thompson.
Becoming the first 15-game winner in the major leagues this season, Jim Kaat pitched the White Sox to a 5–2 victory over the Athletics. Bucky Dent provided essential batting support for Kaat, driving in four runs. A double by Pat Kelly, error by Reggie Jackson on the hit to right field and sacrifice fly by Dent produced the initial run in the first inning. The A’s powered their way ahead with homers by Phil Garner and Gene Tenace before Jorge Orta doubled, Kelly walked and Dent hit for the circuit to decide the outcome in the eighth inning.
San Diego Padres 4, Atlanta Braves 2
Minnesota Twins 9, California Angels 4
Minnesota Twins 0, California Angels 5
New York Mets 9, Chicago Cubs 8
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, Cincinnati Reds 5
Cleveland Indians 6, Detroit Tigers 0
San Francisco Giants 3, Houston Astros 2
San Francisco Giants 9, Houston Astros 3
Texas Rangers 0, Kansas City Royals 7
Baltimore Orioles 4, Milwaukee Brewers 0
Boston Red Sox 4, New York Yankees 2
Chicago White Sox 5, Oakland Athletics 2
Montreal Expos 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Philadelphia Phillies 9, St. Louis Cardinals 4
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Liz Truss (Mary Elizabeth Truss), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from September 6 to October 24, 2022 after being elected leader of the Conservative Party; in Oxford, England, United Kingdom.
Joe Smith, NBA power forward, center, and small forward (Golden State Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks, Denver Nuggets, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Oklahoma City Thunders, Atlanta Hawks, New Jersey Nets, Los Angeles Lakers), in Norfolk, Virginia.
Kevin Barker, MLB first baseman and pinch hitter (Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, Toronto Blue Jays, Cincinnati Reds), in Bristol, Virginia.
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