President Ford becomes the first U.S. President to visit the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. Ford, in Poland, laid a wreath at the monument to four million victims at Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp of World War II, and wrote in the guest book that it further inspired the pursuit of peace, cooperation. and security for all peoples. In a speech in Krakow he spoke of growing ties of kinship and friendship between Poland and the United States. He then went on to Helsinki for the final stage of the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Turkish officers took control of all 24 American military bases in Turkey. Turkish commanders announced that they had officially taken control of all U.S. intelligence-gathering bases in Turkey, bringing the total of occupied American installations there to 25. Operations were suspended at all common defense installations except the Atlantic Alliance’s functions at the air base at Incirlik. United States officials said the main impact was on the four intelligence bases, part of a larger network extending out side Turkey to supply the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Washington with information about Soviet military activities in the southern Soviet Union and the Black Sea. Meanwhile, the self-proclaimed Turkish Cypriot state announced takeover of three inoperative U.S. radio stations on Cyprus.
Several of the Senators who support ending the military embargo against Turkey said today that they were considering trying to force a new vote in the House of Representatives, which only last week rejected efforts to lift the embargo. With the Ford Administration pressing hard for the House to reverse its decision, the Senators said a rather intricate plan was being devised, but that final action would probably not be decided on until tomorrow. The Senate voted 41 to 40 in May to lift the embargo, but a similar bill failed in the House last week, 223 to 206. The Congress will recess for a month on Friday, and the thinking among the Senate leadership is to attach the House bill that was defeated to a pending Senate bill. If it is approved, it will be sent back to the House for a new vote. But Administration officials said they were not ready to endorse this action because they were uncertain that enough members of the House were willing to switch their votes to insure passage. The Administration wants to avoid a second defeat in two weeks in the House, a top aide said.
A military judge ordered the arrest today of a Spanish major and six captains, a military communiqué said. Political sources, who could not be further identified, said the affair might have political implications. The communiqué said that due to investigative secrecy, it was not immediately possible to give details on the arrests. The arrests, made in Spain’s First Military Region, which includes Madrid, were the first such detentions known since February, when a major and a captain were arrested in the Barcelona area. Sources close to the Government of General Francisco Franco said the arrested officers belonged to various units stationed in the capital and that all but one were army officers.
Portugal imposed military censorship today on all news coming from Angola, where the situation was described as extremely dangerous. “There’s a state of prewar in Angola and distorted news could have a negative effect on Portuguese troops there and even here at home,” said the Minister of Information, Commander Jorge Correia Jesuino, explaining the decision to restore official censorship for the first time since the‐overthrow of the right‐wing dictatorship 15 months ago. The minister spoke in an interview of the tense political situation in the territory of Angola, as well as in Portugal. He stressed that the main problem was “the loss of authority of the military leadership and the dispersion of the centers of decision.”
The Norwegian Defense Ministry for the past eight months has been sending military information to the East German Embassy in Oslo instead of West Germany’s embassy, a ministry official admitted. According to NATO officials in Brussels, the correspondence dealt with NATO information as well as Norwegian defense affairs. The error was found when the East Germans returned a package “with regret,” they said.
The Orthodox Church of Greece severed relations with the Vatican in protest over the Roman Catholic Church’s continued recognition of the Catholic Uniate Church in Athens, the archbishopric in Athens reported. The announcement said the decision was taken after the Vatican “violated the agreement not to appoint a new Uniate archbishop in Greece, thus terminating efforts to reconcile differences between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church of Greece.”
Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat appealed to the Organization of African Unity summit meeting in Kampala, Uganda, to support moves to expel Israel from the United Nations. The Liberian government newspaper. Liberian Age, called on the OAU to reject such a move. The African summit is considering a PLO resolution calling for Israel’s expulsion and an Egyptian proposal that Israel be suspended for the time being.
Iranian security agents have arrested two left-wing terrorists, one of whom confessed to the slayings of two American advisers two months ago, Pars news agency reported from Tehran. The Americans — Colonel Paul Shaffer of Dayton, Ohio, and Lieutenant Colonel Jack H. Turner of Carbondale, Ill., both 45 — were shot to death in an ambush on a Tehran street May 21.
A month after the crackdown began with mass arrests and the imposition of press censorship, a traveler finds that Mrs. Gandhi is as immune from public criticism, even in the furthest reaches of India, as the Shah of Iran is in his own disciplined nation or as Gamal Abdel Nasser was in Egypt. Shielded from criticism and political sniping, the machinery through which Mrs. Gandhi rules India — including the Congress party, the state governments and the police — has been functioning smoothly, aggressively and, her supporters say, in the best interest of the people. As the days pass and it becomes more and more obvious that the Government is in firm control and intends to stay that way, the opposition has in many areas grown more and more cautious. The change in atmosphere strikes one as eerie because the sights and sounds of the subcontinent are much the same as in the hurly‐burly days before the crackdown, when the opposition was clamoring for Mrs. Gandhi to resign because a court had convicted her on charges of electoral corruption. In Bombay, a noted writer snapped, “She is killing democcary,” but added: “Don’t use my name.”
Chinese troops killed hundreds of rebels and civilians of the predominantly Muslim Hui minority in the village of Shadian in the Yunnan Province. Over a period of eight days of fighting, 900 Hui were killed in the village of Shadian, and hundreds more died in surrounding villages, while more than 400 soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army lost their lives.
The Organization of American States voted 16-3 to discontinue 15 years of sanctions against Fidel Castro by all member nations, and to allow each member to determine its own relations with Cuba. Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay opposed, and Brazil and Nicaragua abstained from the resolution. The Organization of American States abolished its 1964 embargo on Cuba for fostering Communist guerrilla activities in the hemisphere. The United States was among 16 members out of 21 at the meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica, that voted for the decision. Each member may now decide how it wishes to deal with Cuba.
Argentine President Maria Estela Perón rose from her sickbed to preside at a cabinet meeting. She has been suffering from exhaustion, influenza, loss of weight and nervous strain caused by a prolonged national crisis which has threatened to leave her politically isolated. She apparently delayed her departure for a planned week’s rest cure at a seaside military base near Mar del Plata 250 miles south of Buenos Aires.
The Ethiopian military government has declared a state of siege in the northern province of Eritrea after a series of clashes with secessionist guerrillas, according to sources in London. They said the state of siege was accompanied by security measures including sealing off the city of Asmara and impounding hundreds of bicycles used by workers living on the city’s fringes.
Nigeria’s President, Major General Yakubu Gowon, was overthrown while he was out of the country at a meeting of the Organization of African Unity in Uganda. Joseph Nanvan Garba, commander of Gowon’s bodyguards, who had been regarded as one of General Gowan’s closest friends, took control of radio stations in the capital, Lagos, to broadcast the coup announcement, imposed a curfew, ordered most vehicles off of the street, and shut down the capital’s international airport and telecommunications. Colonel Garba said that he and fellow officers had decided on removal of General Gowon as chief of state and commander in chief “after what has been happening in our country in the last few months.” He did not elaborate. There had been labor and student unrest in recent months, with demands for civilian rule. Brigadier General Murtala Mohammed became the new President the next day, and deposed President Jack Gowon declared from Uganda that “I pledge my full loyalty to the nation and the new government”.
Malange, a provincial capital in central Angola, has been captured by troops of the Peking-backed National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) after days of heavy fighting, according to reports reaching Luanda. Unofficial radio messages from Malange said FNLA soldiers were patrolling the streets under a total curfew and “shooting at anything that moves.” Malange, 250 miles east of Luanda and with a population exceeding 100,000, had been a stronghold for the Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola.
The first shipment of American weapons to rebels in Angola was made with the departure of a U.S. Air Force C-141 military transport plane from Charleston, South Carolina to Zaire, for use by the UNITA forces.
Congress overrode a presidential veto for the first time this session when the House voted the $2 billion health bill by 348 to 43. following the Senate’s overriding vote of 67 to 15 on Saturday. Jubilant Democrats applauded and cheered the count, which broke President Ford’s string of successful vetoes on several key issues. The new law authorizes grants to the states for public health service programs, family planning, community and migrant worker health centers, rape prevention, treatment of drug addicts and alcoholics, and education of nurses.
The Senate, with strong backing from President Ford, approved legislation granting automatic annual cost-of-living increases to members of Congress, federal judges, the Vice President, members of the Cabinet and other top-level federal executives. The vote was 58 to 29. The pay raise, for about 17.000 persons, was tacked onto a minor House-passed bill dealing with postal matters and must go back to the House for a vote there before it becomes law. Mr. Ford said the raise was necessary to meet what he called a “critical” problem in recruitment and retention of senior-level personnel. Senator James B. Allen (D-Alabama) called the move a “guaranteed annual increase in salary” and said members should have to vote for it directly each time.
The government has decided to suspend two widely used pesticides — heptachlor and chlordane — because of potential cancer risks, an environmental group said in Washington. The Environmental Defense Fund said it understood the Environmental Protection Agency would issue a notice of intent to suspend the poisons today. The makers then would be allowed to petition for a hearing. The two chemicals belong to the chlorinated hydrocarbon family of pesticides that persist in the environment and can be stored in the body fat of animals, including man.
Special Watergate prosecutor Henry S. Ruth Jr. has decided not to prosecute E. Howard Hunt’s former lawyer, who accepted more than $100,000 in secret cash for the original Watergate defendants, sources said. There was testimony during the Watergate coverup trial, which ended January 1, that directly contradicted what attorney William O. Bittman had said under oath, that he never knew the cash payments were intended to keep the defendants silent. But Ruth has accepted a recommendation not to seek an indictment, the sources said.
Legislation that would require the secretary of agriculture to approve any changes on pesticide control regulations was opposed in Washington by Russell Train, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Train told the House Agriculture Committee that such a procedure “would give the secretary what amounted to a veto over the actions” of the EPA. He said this would bring about “dual administration of a central authority” and would result in “an administrative nightmare.”
The Senate voted today to authorize production of oil from the naval petroleum reserves in California and Wyoming, chiefly the Elk Hills Reserve near Taft, California. Although the Senate bill, which was approved 93 to 2, differs in some respects from one passed by the House earlier this month, it appeared likely that this authority, long sought by the Nixon and Ford Administrations, would become law in the fall. The Senate’s petroleum reserves bill would authorize production of up to 350,000 barrels a day and retain the Navy’s jurisdiction over the reserves. The House bill would transfer jurisdiction to the Interior Department.
Sole jurisdiction over 2 million acres of Western wildlife ranges cannot be assumed by the federal Bureau of Land Management — for the time being, at least. U.S. Dist. Judge William B. Bryant in Washington, D.C., issued a preliminary injunction sought by the Wilderness Society, which favors continued Fish and Wildlife Service control over the C.M. Russell Wildlife Range in Montana, the Charles Sheldon Antelope Range in Nevada and Oregon and the Kofa Game Range in Arizona. Former Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton had decided the Fish and Wildlife Service should no longer control the ranges. A trial on the merits of the Wilderness Society’s suit is expected this fall.
The president of the International Longshoreman’s Association said his union had rejected pleas from several farm organizations to withdraw its refusal to load ships with grain bound for the Soviet Union. ILA President Thomas W. Gleason noted in Chicago that the union had adopted a resolution against loading grain “unless and until” he was “satisfied that the interests of the American public are adequately protected…”
Russell Means, an American Indian Movement leader, claimed he was shot and slightly wounded while driving near Mission, South Dakota, and said it was the work of two reservation policemen and a federal informant. But Richard Colhoff, a Bureau of Indian Affairs special agent on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, said Means apparently had been struck by flying glass caused by an object thrown from another vehicle. Doctors reportedly disputed his claims that his wound, which took eight stitches to close, was caused by a bullet.
Prosecutor Jerry Herman presented today a chronology of events that will form the basis for the state of California’s case against the San Quentin Six. The six five inmates and a former inmate who was recently released are charged with five murders stemming from an alleged escape attempt by George Jackson, the black revolutionary writer, at San Quentin Prison on August 21, 1971. Mr. Herman said the state’s case would be based on “theories of aiding and abetting and conspiracy.” “We do not contend, nor de we intend to prove any of these defendants committed any of these acts,” he said, in reference to the death of three guards and to inmate trusties during the incident. However, Mr. Herman said he would prove that the defendants either joined a conspiracy that resulted in the killing of five persons as part of the escape attempt or that the defendants aided and abetted the commission of the killings.
The General Motors Corporation’s second quarter earnings were 8.8 percent above its corresponding figure during the depressed period last year. Chrysler reported a loss of $58.7 million, which was less than in the previous two quarters. Ford and American Motors are expected to show a turnaround profit after first quarter losses.
An empty Penn Central commuter train bound for Pennsylvania Station in New York City rammed the rear of another empty train in an East River tunnel, killing one crewman and injuring another. The afternoon crash caused extensive delays for 50,000 passengers who normally ride the Long Island Railroad to their homes.
Subsidies and incentives are needed to encourage the use of solar energy, Alan Hirshberg of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena told the 1975 Solar Energy Congress at UCLA. “It is difficult to believe that solar energy can easily compete with an existing multibillion-dollar, highly subsidized fossil fuel industry without subsidies or other incentives,” he said. About 1,500 delegates from 50 nations are attending the five-day conference, which began Monday.
Major League Baseball:
Blue Moon Odom, who had lost four straight decisions since being acquired from the Indians, received credit for his first National League victory when the Braves defeated the Dodgers, 4–2. Odom was lifted with the bases loaded and two out in the ninth inning. Ron Cey then doubled off Elias Sosa, driving in the Dodgers’ two runs, before Tom House took over to retire Steve Yeager. Singles by Rowland Office, Larvell Blanks and Ralpg Garr produced the Braves’ first run in the second and Darrell Evans homered in the fifth before the deciding pair crossed the plate in the eighth on a single by Marty Perez and Evans’ putout at the plate on a grounder by Earl Williams, single by Dusty Baker and error by John Hale.
The Cardinals beat Tom Seaver in the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, 5–3, but the Mets came back to win the second game, 11–6. With the score tied, 1–1, Seaver retired the first two batters in the fifth inning before a triple by Bake McBride, infield hit by Willie Davis, pass to Reggie Smith and singles by Ted Simmons and Ron Fairly produced three runs. Fairly homered off reliever Ken Sanders in the eighth. Del Unser had a round-tripper for the Mets. In the nightcap, Unser and John Milner drove in three runs apiece. Unser had four hits. Three of the Mets’ first seven runs were unearned on a pair of errors by Mario Guerrero before they clinched the victory with four runs in the eighth on a single by Unser, double by Milner, pass to Rusty Staub, double by Dave Kingman and single by Joe Torre. Smith homered for the Cardinals.
Tom Underwood pitched a four-hitter and also doubled home two runs as the Phillies defeated the Pirates, 5–1. The victory, achieved with a four-run outburst in the fourth inning, was the Phillies’ ninth straight over the Pirates. Dick Allen walked to open the fourth and scored on singles by Jay Johnstone and Garry Maddox before Underwood smashed his double. Larry Bowa, who had four hits in the game, then singled to drive in Underwood. A double by Al Oliver and pair of infield outs accounted for the Pirates’ lone run in their half of the fourth.
After picking up their first two runs on homers by Rick Monday and Tim Hosley, the Cubs added a pair in the eighth inning and defeated the Expos, 4–3. Pinch-hitter Champ Summers singled to break a 2–2 tie after the Cubs had loaded the bases on two walks and a hit batsman. Another pinch-hitter, Vic Harris, then forced Summers to drive in what proved to be the winning run.
Greg Gross and Ken Boswell collected three singles apiece and Dave Roberts pitched a four-hitter as the Astros defeated the Padres, 6–2, to snap a five-game losing streak. Boswell batted in two runs and scored one, while Gross drove in one run and scored one. The Padres, who were stopped on their five-game winning streak, had homers by Willie McCovey and Dave Winfield for their markers.
A double by Bobby Murcer on reliever Will McEnaney’s first pitch drove in two runs in the ninth inning and gave the Giants a 4–2 victory over the Reds. A homer by Ken Griffey and triple by Merv Rettenmund paced the Reds to a 2–0 lead before the Giants tied the score in the fifth on singles by Bruce Miller, Steve Ontiveros and Von Joshua and sacrifice fly by Murcer. Fred Norman, who started for the Reds, was removed in the eighth, marking the 45th straight game in which manager Sparky Anderson had been forced to turn to his bullpen. With Rawly Eastwick on the mound in the ninth, Joshua singled and stole second. Dave Rader walked, bringing on McEnaney for his one pitch to Murcer.
Milwaukee’s first two hitters — Don Money and Darrell Porter — crack homers off Red Sox pitcher Diego Segui. That’s enough for Jim Colborn, who wins, 4–0. Money homered again in the third inning. Jim Colborn scattered seven hits in posting the shutout. Gorman Thomas, who had struck out six straight times going into the game, fanned in second and fourth innings to tie the league record for most consecutive strikeouts by a non-pitcher. The mark was set by Jim Fuller of the Orioles in 1973.
Toby Harrah smashed the first grand-slam homer of his major league career to open a four-hit night for the Rangers’ shortstop in a 6–1 victory over the Athletics. Harrah stroked his homer off Jim Perry in the first inning after the Rangers loaded the bases on singles by Dave Moates and Lenny Randle and a pass to Jim Spencer. A homer by Spencer added a run in the fifth. Harrah picked up his fifth RBI of the game in the ninth. Steve Hargan, who hurled the route for the Rangers, gave up the A’s run on a homer by Joe Rudi.
The Yankees, who had been shut out for 27 consecutive innings in three previous games, broke their scoring drouth and defeated the Tigers, 4–2. Thurman Munson, celebrating the birth of a son, batted in two runs, accounting for the initial marker with an infield out in the first inning after a walk to Bobby Bonds and error by Jack Pierce. A single by Bonds, sacrifice by Rich Coggins, single by Munson, double by Graig Nettles and single by Lou Piniella produced three more runs in the fifth before the Tigers got on the board with a double by Ben Oglivie and homer by Willie Horton in the sixth.
Lee May and Bobby Grich drove in three runs apiece in support of Mike Torrez, who pitched the Orioles to a 7–1 victory over the Indians. May knocked in two runs with a double in the third inning to break a 1–1 tie and scored on a single by Grich. The Orioles added three more runs in the third on a pass to May with the bases loaded and single by Grich.
Paul Splittorff, making his first start since June 29 after serving time in the bullpen, allowed only five hits in 6 ⅓ innings and was a winner when the Royals defeated the Twins, 5–2. George Brett drove in the Royals’ first run with a sacrifice fly in the second and then accounted for two more with a homer in the fifth.
Deron Johnson broke out of an 0-for-17 slump with his first homer since June 30 to start the White Sox off to a 7–4 victory over the Angels. Bucky Dent singled and Ken Henderson walked ahead of Johnson’s smash in the fourth inning. The White Sox added three runs in the fifth, one scoring on a single by Pat Kelly and two on a homer by Henderson. Carlos May accounted for their final run with a circuit clout in the ninth. The power display enabled the White Sox to win although they collected only five hits to 11 for the Angels.
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Atlanta Braves 4
Cleveland Indians 1, Baltimore Orioles 7
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Boston Red Sox 0
Chicago White Sox 7, California Angels 4
Montreal Expos 3, Chicago Cubs 4
San Francisco Giants 4, Cincinnati Reds 2
San Diego Padres 2, Houston Astros 6
Kansas City Royals 5, Minnesota Twins 2
Detroit Tigers 2, New York Yankees 4
Texas Rangers 6, Oakland Athletics 1
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 1
New York Mets 3, St. Louis Cardinals 5
New York Mets 11, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 824.86 (-2.97, -0.36%)
Born:
Seth Greisinger, Team USA and MLB pitcher (Olympic bronze medal, 1996; Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins, Atlanta Braves), in Kansas City, Kansas.
Terrence Wilkins, NFL wide receiver and kick and punt returner (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 41-Colts, 2006; Indinapolis Colts, St. Louis Rams), in Washington, District of Columbia.
Greg Comella, NFL fullback (New York Giants, Tennesse Titans, Houston Texans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Yevgeny Shaldybin, Russian NHL defenseman (Boston Bruins), in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Died:
James Blish [pen name for William Atheling, Jr], 54, American-British sci-fi author (“Star Trek Reader”).
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