President Ford, in West Germany, marked the formal beginning of a 10-day trip that will take him across Europe with a pledge of economic cooperation with Western Europe and a declaration that the United States would continue to defend “the freedom of Berlin.” At a meeting in Bonn, Mr. Ford and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said that it was “vitally important” that the United States intensify efforts to coordinate economic policy with Western Europe. Mr. Ford later went on a picnic with families of United States and West German forces at the Ayers Casern base where he said he stood behind the firm United States commitment to Berlin. The Commander in Chief dropped in on a picnic of 3,500 American soldiers and their families in Kirchgons this afternoon, and ate so much cake that he said he would have to swim it off.
Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov criticized Western nations for failing to prevent the Communist takeovers of South Vietnam and Cambodia, according to excerpts from his new book published in TIME magazine. “The U.S. should have acted more resolutely and consistently by putting pressure on the U.S.S.R. to prevent deliveries of arms to North Vietnam,” he said. The book, “My Country and the World,” will be published later this year.
The leader of Portugal’s Socialist party appealed for a government of national salvation backed by a majority of the people to avoid the restoration of a dictatorship. The party leader, Mario Soares, spoke at a mass demonstration at the seaside city of Figueira da Foz, north of Lisbon, called to protest the pro-Communist direction of the military leadership. Portugal’s Socialist Party called on President Francisco da Costa Gomes to break away from the nation’s newly formed junta and form a new government. The country’s largest party charged in a communique that the junta was illegal and said that only Costa Gomes, the lone moderate in the three-general directorate, could unify and save the nation from a radical leftist dictatorship. “Who chose these men?” Soares, asked the rally of about 10,000 people in the northern port city. “Little by little our revolution has been stolen from us.”
American officials in Ankara said today that the United States had begun to suspend operations at four of its Turkish bases yesterday. They were listed as the installations at Golbasi near Ankara, Sinop on the Black Sea coast. Karamursel on the Sea of Marmara and Diyarbakir in the southeast. Some of the sensitive monitoring devices had now stopped altogether, the officials said, but in other cases it had been impossible to close down machinery as this would have damaged it permanently. No intelligence data was being collected, however, they added.
The United States action was aparently in response to orders by the Turkish Government on Friday directing its military, to take control of American installations in the country. That order followed the refusal of the United States House of Representatives Thursday to modify an arms cutoff to Turkey. The four bases had been used for surveillance over military activities in the southern Soviet Union and on the Black Sea. Former Czechoslovak party chief Alexander Dubcek is now supervising a parking lot, says the current issue of TIME magazine. Dubcek, who was removed from office by the Soviet Union in 1968 after he had tried to liberalize his country, when last heard from had been working for the Bureau of Forestry in Bratislava.
An emigrant from the Soviet Union shot two driving instructors and a policeman to death in Israel’s port city of Ashkelon after failing a driving test. The man, Israel Schnitzer, 40, then put the gun to his head and killed himself. Witnesses said he told an instructor before taking the test, “If you fail me, I’ll shoot you.”
For the first time Egypt has been using leverage on Soviet naval and air activities to win financial concessions from Moscow. For about three months, Soviet naval ships using repair and maintenance facilities in Alexandria have not had automatic access to the harbor, but have been required to apply for permission in advance, according to diplomatic sources in Cairo. And Communist bloc sources in Cairo reported a sharp dispute between Cairo and Moscow over the conditions regulating the operations of four Soviet MiG-25 reconnaissance planes from Egyptian bases. Egypt demanded more control over these operations, but the Soviet authorities, rather than give in, angrily withdrew the planes, the sources said.
Jordan’s Premier Zaid Rifai said his nation will stand by its decision to call off a $350 million arms deal with the United States if Congress forces cuts in the order. Rifai met with his cabinet and said the government fully backed King Hussein’s decision to seek another arms supplier rather than buy only part of the air defense system the Ford Administration had agreed to sell it.
Iran cracked down on black market profiteers, arresting industrialists, multimillionaires and merchants all over the country. Hundreds of army officers were trained to man special courts to mete out justice to hoarders and other profiteers. Some leading businessmen were charged with selling products at prices higher than those set by the government.
The two American correspondents in India of The New York Times, after extensive consultations with Indian officials, today signed a statement acknowledging “full responsibility” for their reports from here in regard to the Indian Government’s rules for censorship. The correspondents, Eric Pace and William Borders, acted after consultations with their editors in New York and after the Government had modified the text of a statement that The Times had refused to sign early last week. “I have received the censorship guidelines of the Government of India,” the new version declares. “I agree to undertake full responsibility for my reports in regard to these guidelines and other instructions issued thereunder by the responsible authorities, which are communicated to me in writing.”
Two members of a delegation from South Vietnam’s new Communist government who arrived in New York seeking U.N. membership were welcomed by American peace activists and diplomats from Communist nations. Ambassador Đinh Bá Thi and Huỳnh Hữu Nghiệp are the vanguard of a delegation that will ask the United Nations to seat both North Vietnam and the present government of South Vietnam.
Premier Huỳnh Tấn Phát of South Vietnam’s Provisional Revolutionary Government told Japanese correspondents in Saigon that this country would become self-sufficient in rice this year and could regain the status of an exporter next year. A report in a Tokyo newspaper quoted the premier as saying his administration would provide funds, food and farming appliances to residents in cities and strategic hamlets who go to farming villages.
Thailand’s Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj announced that all military agreements with the United States were at an end, and ordered that all American troops were to leave Thailand by March 20, 1976.
North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il Sung was quoted as saying a peace agreement is needed between his country and the United States “which today base their relations only on a truce.” Reports published in Tokyo said Kim made the remark to a delegation of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party that is visiting Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.
The head of the Panamanian Government said today that he believed that the Ford Administration was stalling negotiations for a new Panama Canal treaty because of political pressures in the United States. The leader, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, said he was profoundly disturbed about the possible consequences for himself and his country. “It seems to me progress has almost been paralyzed,” he said of the negotiations, which began in June, 1974. It seems to me that our problem has been replaced by your politics. The delay has lasted four months now.”
The recent departure of Jose López Rega, the former rightwing strongman of the Argentine Government, has opened a strange interlude in which the press, television and other news media are employing more freedom of expression than at anytime before in two years of Perónist rule. The newspapers are suddenly filled with fascinating detail about behind‐the‐scenes politics and hard‐hitting articles on the country’s economic decline. The Government, which nationalized television stations a year ago, has promised air time to non‐Perónist parties and viewpoints. Mr. López Rega is the butt of endless political jokes in cabaret acts. Actors and journalists who fled abroad in recent months under threats from right‐wing terrorists allegedly controlled by Mr. López Rega are starting to return.
Americans and Europeans fled Luanda, Angola, and witnesses reported that angry Portuguese soldiers fired on a crowd of blacks, killing at least 20. Britain closed her consulate and 20 Americans and 85 Britons and other West Europeans left the country by boat and plane to escape fighting among black nationalist groups.
Democratic leaders indicated today that some form of President Ford’s compromise plan for gradual decontrol of oil prices would probably win Congressional approval this week. Mike Mansfield of Montana, the Senate majority leader, said he saw a “50‐50” chance of passing some form of the new Ford package. Asked for his personal reaction, he replied, “I think it should be given every consideration. I think he has come a considerable length of way to reach a compromise.” In a separate television interview, Representative Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. of Massachusetts, the House majority leader, said that Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, would propose this week a new oil plan patterned after the President’s most recent ideas.
Nearly half of the Americans interviewed by the Gallup Poll say they are afraid to walk in their neighborhoods at night. In the largest cities, 500,000 and over, the figure reaches well over half, or 56%. These findings reflect a growing concern over the rise in serious crime. The latest FBI figures show that crime increased by 18% in the first three months of 1975 over a comparable period in 1974. In the latest Gallup survey of 1,558 adults, 19% said they did not feel safe and secure even in their homes. The trend is consistent with other survey results that show 49% believe crime has worsened in their communities over the last 12 months.
The economic recovery during the second half of this year should not cause consumer prices to rise more quickly, the Council on Wage and Price Stability reports. The prediction was included in the council’s third quarterly report, released by the White House. It said also that “business should not use the recovery as an occasion to raise prices in anticipation of increased demand.” The report said “productivity gains that will accompany an expansion of output will help to hold unit labor costs in check and there will still be enough unused capacity to keep price competition vigorous.”
Vernon E. Jordan Jr., executive director of the National Urban League and a member of the Presidential clemency board, broke with the Ford Administration today and urged total amnesty for Vietnam veterans. Mr. Jordan’s position was disclosed in remarks he had prepared for delivery tonight in his keynote speech at the 65th annual convention of the league.
Jordan also proposed that the nation replace its welfare system with a program to guarantee every American a livable income. “The nation must replace a welfare system that destroys families and discourages work,” Jordan told the opening session in Atlanta of the league’s 65th annual conference. In a speech for delivery to 6,000 persons in government, business, education and labor, Jordan said his proposed “universal, refundable credit income tax” would provide a basic annual grant or tax credit for everyone.
A new government study shows that the number of women going to prison may be increasing at a faster rate than the number of men. The report by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration concludes that the number of male prisoners increased 4% in state institutions and 4.6% in federal prisons in 1973. The number of female prisoners rose 5% in state prisons and 17.4% in federal prisons. But the researchers cautioned, “Only limited and tentative significance can be imputed to these data” because of the small statistical base. Females, it said, account for only about 3 of every 100 prisoners.
Officials dealing with the resettlement of 130,000 Vietnamese and Cambodians have discovered in refugee camps more than 300 children who arrived in the United States unaccompanied by their parents, most of whom are alive. The disposition of these children, members of the President’s Interagency Task Force on Indochina refugees acknowledged, poses serious legal and moral problems that have to be resolved.
Federal gasoline taxes should be used to replace or repair 32,420 defective bridges on the nation’s highways rather than be diverted to mass transit and other uses, an American Automobile Association official told a Senate hearing in Washington. John De Lorenzi, in condemning proposals to divert half of the 4-cent-a-gallon tax to the general fund, said the original intent of the tax was to repair roads and bridges and build new highways. Replacement and repair of the bridges alone, he said, would cost $20 billion.
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare administered the drug LSD to about 2,500 prisoners, mental patients and paid volunteers from 1954 to 1968 to determine whether it had any medical value, according to government sources. Millions of dollars in grants also were given by the department to more than 30 university researchers for additional LSD experiments with human subjects. It was disclosed recently that the Central Intelligence Agency and the Army had given LSD to scientists and servicemen without their knowledge to study the drug’s effects. Sources at H.E.W.’s National Institute of Mental Health, which conducted the government’s “in‐house” experiments, said that the potent mind‐altering drug was not given to anyone without his or her knowledge and consent. It was not explained how informed consent was obtained, however, from mental patients at Spring Grove State Hospital at Catonsville, Maryland. The experiments were conducted years before the department’s informed-consent procedures were tightened to protect human research subjects.
A spill of about 120,000 gallons of crude oil from an unidentified tanker off the lower Florida keys last weekend will do little harm to the environment, a spokesman for the Florida Marine Patrol reported. Major John Walker said massive concentrations of the heavy crude had been eliminated but small, football-size blobs still remained to be cleaned up. Meanwhile, the Coast Guard was taking samples from tankers all along the East Coast in an attempt to identify the ship that spilled the oil. Its owners would be liable to huge state and federal fines plus damages.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced in Washington that it wants to make the grizzly bear a threatened species. A spokesman for the service said that although the grizzly population has “remained fairly stable for the last 50 years, increasing human activity such as road building and development affect the grizzly’s remaining habitats.” Rules proposed by the service would make it illegal to kill, capture, harm, harass, import or export grizzlies in the lower 48 states, with limited exceptions. The approximately 12,000 grizzlies in Alaska are not considered threatened.
Air Force officials started reassembling the charred wreckage of a C130 Hercules transport, seeking the cause of a crash that killed five of six Michigan reservists taking part in a routine weekend exercise. Officials said the crash, which took place in a farm area three miles north of Imlay City, possibly occurred during a low altitude exercise to avoid enemy radar. The pilot of one of the two other C-130s in the flight said he saw an engine on the ill-fated craft explode about five minutes before the crash. He said the doomed plane could not make it back to the base and “it turned north because there was an open field that way.”
Hundreds of municipal employees are in a state of revolt against city administrations across the country, continuing their pressure for higher wages and fringe benefits despite tight municipal budgets. Seattle is a microcosm and, to some observers, provides a preview of a bitter new adversary relationship that is developing between public employees and elected officials. The dispute in Seattle centers largely on efforts to increase the productivity of city workers, which the city’s mayor asserts is essential if the city is to avert the kind of economic crisis faced by New York City.
In his nationally syndicated weekly column, astrologer Sydney Omarr predicted a “hot-weather, colorful week” in which “Leo, Aquarius persons grab headlines”, noting that “Aquarians in the news during this ‘hot week’ could include such persons as Hank Aaron, James Hoffa and Betty Friedan.” Hoffa would be in the news four days later after disappearing.
In one of the tightest finishes of this year’s professional golf tour, Tom Weiskopf twice overtook Jack Nicklaus today, then beat his old college friend in a sudden-death playoff to win the Canadian open.
American men led the way in swimming and women from East Germany and Australia picked up gold medals in free‐style races on the last day of competition in the second world aquatic championships in Cali, Columbia. Andy Coan of the United States took the 100‐meter free‐style and came back an hour later to anchor a victorious American team in the 400‐meter medley relay. Kornelia Ender, the 100‐meter free‐style record‐holder from East Germany, easily won that event and Jenny Turrall gave Australia her first gold medal in the 800‐meter free‐style.
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Completing a sweep of the four-game series, the Padres gained a 3–1 victory behind the pitching of Randy Jones, who beat the Braves for the first time in his career after losing six previous decisions. Dave Winfield drove in the Padres’ first two runs with a sacrifice fly and single before a double by Johnny Grubb, bunt by Tito Fuentes and sacrifice fly by Mike Ivie added a counter in the fifth inning. The Braves’ run scored in the eighth on a walk to Rod Gilbreath and singles by Ralph Garr and Marty Perez.
The slugging of Bill Madlock, who hit two homers and drove in three runs, led the Cubs to a 4–2 victory in the first game of a doubleheader, but the Mets won the second game, 4–1, by erupting for three runs in the 10th inning. Madlock homered following a pass to Rick Monday in the third inning of the first game and added a solo swat in the seventh. Dave Kingman had a round-tripper for the Mets. Steve Stone, who pitched the route for the Cubs, collared Felix Millan in four trips to end the Met second baseman’s 19-game batting streak. In the nightcap, the Mets counted in the sixth on a walk to Hank Webb and singles by Millan and John Milner. Pete LaCock tied the score with a homer in the seventh. The Mets loaded the bases in the 10th on singles by Millan and Rusty Staub and a walk to Joe Torre. Wayne Garrett capitalized on the opportuntity, driving in two runs with a single. John Stearns added the final tally with another single.
After Ken Brett and Larry Demery combined on a three-hitter to mark a 4–1 victory in the opener of a doubleheader, the Pirates also beat the Expos in the nightcap, 5–3, on the strength of a three-run homer by Willie Stargell in the eighth inning. Doubles by Rennie Stennett, Dave Parker, Frank Taveras and Stargell figured in the Pirates’ scoring in the lidlifter. The Expos’ only run was unearned. In the second game, the Expos took a 3–1 lead in the eighth when Gary Carter homered with a man on base. The Pirates came back with the winning rally in their half, scoring once on a walk to Taveras and singles by Stennett and Al Oliver before Stargell smashed his decisive homer.
Bob Gibson pitched four innings and gained his first victory in relief in more than 10 years when the Cardinals defeated the Phillies, 9–6. Gibson’s other relief triumph came in the Cardinals’ pennant-clinching victory over the Mets October 4, 1964. Gibson replaced John Denny in the fourth after a single by Bob Boone and double by Tony Taylor. An infield out by Dave Cash and sacrifice fly by Mike Schmidt then tied the score at 6–6. Ted Simmons broke the tie with a homer in the seventh. Gibson went out for a pinch-hitter later in the same inning and Mike Garman finished. The Cardinals iced the verdict with their final two runs in the eighth on a safe bunt by Bake McBride, sacrifice by Luis Melendez, double by Willie Davis and single by Ted Sizemore.
Steve Yeager, who had four hits, singled in the fourth inning when the Dodgers scored four runs and homered in the eighth to wrap up a 5–3 victory over the Reds. In the fourth, John Hale doubled and Ron Cey singled for the Dodgers’ first tally. Singles by Yeager and Bill Russell added another run. Yeager and Russell advanced an extra base on a throwing error by Ken Griffey and both scored on a single by Lee Lacy. Reds’ runs came on homers by Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench and Tony Perez.
John Montefusco, who pitched five innings before his shoulder began to tighten, received credit for his 10th victory of the season when the Giants defeated the Astros, 3–1. The Giants opened the scoring with a run in the second on a double by Gary Matthews, a balk by J.R. Richard and sacrifice fly by Willie Montanez. After adding an unearned run in the third, the Giants completed their scoring with a homer by Chris Speier in the fourth. Doug Rader accounted for the Astros’ run with a round-tripper in the fifth.
In the first of a twinbill at Shea Stadium, Red Sox centerfielder Fred Lynn makes a great running catch to save the game for pitcher Bill Lee. Getting shutout pitching from Bill Lee and Roger Moret, who gave up six hits apiece, the Red Sox whitewashed the Yankees in a doubleheader, 1–0 and 6–0. Lee was the winner over Catfish Hunter, who gave up only three hits but was the loser on an unearned run in the ninth inning. Lynn was safe on an error by Jim Mason and stole second as Jim Rice struck out. Rick Miller then slashed a single to left-center field to decide the pitching duel. Tippy Martinez, making his first major league start for the Yankees, was beaten in the nightcap. Rice led the Red Sox at bat with four hits, driving in two runs and scoring two. Carl Yastrzemski contributed a homer to the attack.
The Orioles, after winning the first game of a doubleheader, 7–4, made a sensational rally in the second game, scoring six runs to tie the score in the ninth inning before capping a five-run explosion in the 10th with a grand-slam homer by Tommy Davis to beat the Brewers, 11–6. Don Baylor and Bobby Grich combined for seven hits, batting in five runs between them, in the opener. Grich’s four hits included a homer. Brewers’ runs counted on round-trippers by Mike Hegan, Darrell Porter and Gorman Thomas. With the score tied, 4–4, Lee May and Grich singled in the sixth inning and both came home on a double by Baylor to decide the outcome. The Brewers had three more homers in the nightcap, this time by Robin Yount, Don Money and George Scott, in taking a 6–0 lead before the Orioles rallied in the ninth. Grich walked and Elrod Hendricks singled, leading to the exit of Tom Hausman. Tom Murphy, in relief, failed to retire a batter. Doug DeCinces tripled for two runs and counted himself on a single by Tony Muser. After Ken Singleton also singled, Al Bumbry hit a three-run homer to tie the score. In 10th, Grich and DeCinces drew walks from Rick Austin, but two were out when Singleton singled to drive in the tie-breaking tally. Baylor then walked to load the bases and set the stage for Davis’ clinching grand slam. The O’s sweep the 4–game series.
The Tigers came from behind to gain an 8–7 victory in the first game of a doubleheader before losing the second game to the Indians, 7–2. In the opener, Jack Pierce homered for the Tigers with a man on base in the second inning, but the Indians tied the score in the third and erupted for five runs in the fourth, three crossing the plate on a homer by Jack Brohamer. The Tigers began their comeback with a circuit clout by Leon Roberts in the fifth and pulled even in the sixth with a two-run single by Pierce and two-run double by Tom Veryzer. Then in the eighth, Pierce doubled and scored the winning run on a triple by Aurelio Rodriguez. The Tigers quieted down in the nightcap, collecting only four hits. Their two runs scored on Pierce’s second homer of the day. Before Pierce’s poke, the Indians already had built up a 7–0 lead. Oscar Gamble drove in three runs with a double and homer. Rick Manning accounted for two RBIs.
Two unearned runs in the fifth inning enabled the Royals to defeat the Rangers, 2–1, for their fifth straight victory and fourth in a row under Whitey Herzog as new manager. Gaylord Perry, who had pitched shutouts in three of his last four starts for the Rangers, was the victim of two errors. Jim Wohlford walked to open the inning. With two out, Fred Patek was safe on a boot by Lenny Randle. Vada Pinson doubled, driving in Wohlford, and when Mike Hargrove made a wild throw from left field, Patek also scored. The Rangers counted their run in the eighth on a walk to Roy Howell, single by Tom Robson and infield out by Dave Moates.
Dick Lange, hurling the route for only the third time in 28 starts in his career with the Angels, doled out four hits and defeated the Twins, 6–1. Lange’s bid for his first major league shutout was ruined when Tony Oliva homered in the ninth inning. The Angels’ scoring included a homer by Dave Collins with a man on base in the third.
Reggie Jackson and Joe Rudi homered in each game of a doubleheader in support of Vida Blue and Stan Bahnsen as the Athletics thumped the White Sox, 10–1 and 7–1. In the opener, Jackson hit for the circuit after a single by Bill North in the third inning. Rudi homered in the sixth and knocked in two more runs with a double in the eighth. Jackson hit another two-run blow for the A’s in the first inning of the nightcap and Rudi followed with a round-tripper in the third. The White Sox averted a shutout at the hands of Vida Blue in the first game when they scored in the seventh on a triple by Bill Stein and infield out by Nyls Nyman. Their run off Bahnsen in the second game counted on doubles by Pete Varney and Bucky Dent in the third inning.
The Mets release outfielder Cleon Jones, following a suspension for insubordination. He will not be picked up by another team this year, but will play for the White Sox in 1976.
San Diego Padres 3, Atlanta Braves 1
Minnesota Twins 1, California Angels 6
New York Mets 2, Chicago Cubs 4
New York Mets 4, Chicago Cubs 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Cincinnati Reds 3
Cleveland Indians 7, Detroit Tigers 8
Cleveland Indians 7, Detroit Tigers 2
San Francisco Giants 3, Houston Astros 1
Texas Rangers 1, Kansas City Royals 2
Baltimore Orioles 7, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Baltimore Orioles 11, Milwaukee Brewers 6
Boston Red Sox 1, New York Yankees 0
Boston Red Sox 6, New York Yankees 0
Chicago White Sox 1, Oakland Athletics 10
Chicago White Sox 1, Oakland Athletics 7
Montreal Expos 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Montreal Expos 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Philadelphia Phillies 6, St. Louis Cardinals 9
Born:
Álex Rodríguez, MLB shortstop and third baseman (World Series Champions-Yankees, 2009; All-Star, 1996-1998, 2000-2008, 2010, 2011; Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, New York Yankees), nicknamed “A-Rod”, and highest paid baseball player in history; in New York, New York.
Shea Hillenbrand, MLB third baseman and first baseman (All-Star, 2002, 2005; Boston Red Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays, San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers), in Mesa, Arizona.
Blake Sloan, NHL right wing and left wing (Dallas Stars, Columbus Blue Jackets, Calgary Flames), in Park Ridge, Illinois.
Fred Mascherino, American alt-rock guitarist and singer (“Taking Back Sunday”; “The Color Fred”), in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
Taïg Khris, Algerian-born inline skating champion; in Algiers, Algeria.
Died:
Anne Spencer, 93, African-American poet.
Alfred Duraiappah, 49, the mayor of the Sri Lanka city of Jaffna, was assassinated along with two of his associates, while on his way to prayers at a Hindu temple. The killer was 20-year-old Velupillai Prabhakaran, founder of the Tamil Tigers separatist group, Mayor Duraiappah had been blamed for the January 10, 1974 killing of 9 people by police in Jaffna.
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