The Helsinki Conference on European Security and Cooperation opened with formal speeches in which Communist leaders stressed the importance of the declaration to be signed tomorrow establishing detente and requiring its further evolution. Western and neutral leaders stressed that the document’s value will depend entirely on how it is applied. Western speakers stressed that it was not a treaty binding in law. The real tensions and problems among the 35 countries represented were being discussed in a hectic round of private meetings.
President Ford and Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, emerged from their first meeting at the European security conference in Helsinki to call their discussion constructive. They reached no specific agreements on nuclear arms limitation. Mr. Ford also held private meetings with Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Great Britain and Premier Konstantine Karamanlis of Greece.
General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Portugal’s security chief and a member of the three-man junta, said the Armed Forces Movement was prepared to undertake harsh repressive measures against its opponents. Commenting on anti-Communist violence occurring throughout Portugal, he told reporters that it was becoming impossible to have a socialist revolution by completely peaceful means. The High Council of the Revolution was reported to be evenly divided on the assumption of full powers by the junta.
Former King Constantine had the power to prevent the 1967 military coup in Greece but did not use it in order to avoid bloodshed, two witnesses told an Athens court. The witnesses, Panayotis Canellopoulos, who was deposed as premier in the takeover, and George Vayenas, a retired army officer and former aide to the monarch, were giving evidence for the prosecution in the high treason trial of 20 leaders of the military junta, including former President George Papadopoulos.
Seven military officers arrested by Spanish armed forces are suspected of being sympathetic to the left-wing military government of neighboring Portugal. sources close to the Spanish army said. The Madrid area military command did not specify the reasons for the arrest of the major and six captains but merely said a military judge had ordered their detention to “ascertain the facts and explore the responsibilities which (they) may have incurred.”
The Soviet Union has offered to meet all of Jordan’s modern arms requirements. a Beirut newspaper reported. Russia’s offer was coupled with liberal payment arrangements. regarded as the first of their kind in Soviet-Arab arms deals. The paper added that King Hussein had not defined his attitude to the offer and apparently still wanted U.S. arms. Congress reduced the amount of U.S. arms Jordan could buy, and Hussein refused to accept the reduction.
Senior U.S. analysts say Israel has made more than 10 nuclear weapons each with explosive capacity comparable to the atomic bombs dropped on Japan by the United States in World War II, the Boston Globe reported in today’s editions. In a copyright story, the paper said the analysts think the Israelis can deliver the weapons hundreds of miles beyond their boundaries.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government said the Indian economy was on the threshold of recovery after several years of virtual stagnation. Finance Minister Chidambaram Subramaniam told Parliament in a special 10,000-word report that the proclamation of a state of emergency last month should further help the economy.
Nguyen Van Luu, the North Vietnamese envoy to the United Nations where the country will have observer status, arrived in New York. Luu cut short a news conference at Kennedy Airport when a disturbance occurred. A spokesman for the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. said about 20 members went to the airport to present a demand to Luu for information about 1,300 U.S. servicemen listed as missing. He said that shoving and yelling started when his group was restrained by a member of the official welcoming party.
South Korea formally renewed its application for membership in the United Nations, for which it first applied in 1949. The candidacy was vetoed at that time by the Soviet Union. The application was expected to provoke controversy since North Korea has insisted that only a unified Korea should enter the world body.
Near Detroit, former Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa was reported missing after his car was found abandoned outside of the Machus Red Fox, a restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he had said he had an appointment to have lunch with a longtime friend, Detroit mobster Anthony Giacalone. Giacalone denied being aware of any plans for a luncheon date. A missing persons report was filed the next day after Hoffa failed to return to his home in Lake Orion. Neither Hoffa, nor his body, had been found 50 years after he vanished.
By a single vote (214-213), the U.S. House of Representatives joined the U.S. Senate in approving pay raises for Congressmen, federal judges, the U.S. Vice-President and other U.S. officials. The President’s annual salary remained at $200,000. On the same day, the House voted 228-189 to remove price limits on American gasoline, effective August 31.
The U.S. Senate voted 71-21 to declare one of the two seats for New Hampshire vacant, as both John A. Durkin and Louis C. Wyman continued to claim that they had won the November 1974 election to replace Senator Norris Cotton, whose term had expired in January. Cotton was then appointed to return to his former seat as the interim Senator until elections could be held. Under state law, this opens the way for a new election in mid-September between the Republican and Democratic candidates, Louis Wyman and John Durkin. Mr. Durkin had broken the Senate deadlock by asking for the election.
The House of Representatives killed President Ford’s plan for a gradual rise in oil prices over 39 months with a 228-189 vote that bars him from putting it into effect. It was a major political defeat for Mr. Ford. He has said that if Congress blocked his plan he would veto an extension of authority to control oil prices, which expires at midnight August 31.
More than half of the 131,000 persons who fled Vietnam and Cambodia to the United States earlier this year have been resettled. Julia V. Taft, director of the Interagency Task Force for Indochina said. Taft told a New England regional conference on refugee resettlement that 61.977 persons had been released in the United States and 5,259 more had moved on to other countries from camps established at four U.S. military bases.
A federal judge ordered full desegregation of schools in the Louisville, Kentucky area and disclosed a plan to bus 22,600 pupils. The city-county school district has an enrollment of more than 140,000, including about 26,000 blacks. School officials said slightly less than half of those to be bused were black. U.S. District Judge James F. Gordon warned those “who would resort to public disorder and violence” to think twice. The ruling came after four years of suits by civil rights groups and appeals by school administrators. Gordon said each school would have a black enrollment of at least 12 and not more than 40%.
Riot-trained federal marshals will join more than 2,000 police officers on the streets when Boston schools open in September under a new integration plan. city officials said. National Guard units also will be mobilized and housed in armories and FBI agents will be stationed at potential trouble areas as observers. U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. has ordered into effect a new citywide integration. plan that requires the busing of about 26,000 students. The schools have an enrollment of 84,000, with 35% of the pupils being black.
A federal judge has found massive civil rights violations and unnecessary violence by police during every major demonstration in the nation’s capital since 1969. In a sweeping opinion, U.S. District Judge Joseph C. Waddy cited the Washington police force for violating the civil rights of thousands of demonstrators and ordered the erasure of records of illegal arrests for the last six years. He said arrests of protesters for crossing a “police line,” a common tactic in controlling crowds, were in clear violation of the First Amendment.
A. Reginald Eaves, the Atlanta public safety commissioner, said an investigation did not support the story of a young convict who claimed to have overheard a plot to kill Dr. Martin Luther King. But Eaves, reporting the results of an investigation begun after civil rights activist Dick Gregory gave him a copy of the convict’s sworn statement, said the possibility of such a conspiracy still exists. Robert B. Watson, 21, said he was working at an art gallery in 1968 when he overheard several Atlanta men discuss a plot to kill King. Eaves said a report of the investigation would be turned over to the Justice Department and he urged that “agencies with proper jurisdiction” conduct a thorough study.
Calling “the interests of average families” a major campaign issue, former Oklahoma Senator Fred H. Harris launched his drive for the Democratic presidential nomination in a camper van in Washington, D.C. He spoke to a crowd of several hundred persons in LaFayette Square across from the White House before setting out on a 5,300-mile, 52-stop trip to drum up support for his candidacy. Before setting out with his daughter. Laura, 14, and his wife, LaDonna. Harris outlined his plans and said: “We’re going to laugh a little and have a good time, despite the fact that the issues are terribly serious.”
Robert Maheu, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who later became an aide to the industrialist Howard Hughes, told reporters that he had recruited a Mafia figure for the Central Intelligence Agency in a plot to poison Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba. Mr. Maheu said that the order from his C.I.A. superiors to make the attempt never came through. After testifying for more than four hours to a closed session of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, he told his story at a news conference. He said that he had been asked to “contact” John Roselli, a Mafia figure, for help in removing or eliminating Mr. Castro, and later met a man in Miami who he learned was Sam Giancana. He said that both had been sought out because they still had contacts in Cuba from their pre-revolutionary gambling interests who might be able to poison the Cuban leader’s food. Mr. Maheu said that he knew of no agreement to protect Mr. Roselli and Mr. Giancana from prosecution.
Isa, the baby elephant whose 17-day frolic in Oklahoma timberland was ended by tranquilizer darts, stood on wobbly feet and chained to a tree. Weary hunters hoped her fellow runaway would pay her a call. Isa, separated from her friend, Lilly, by cowboys on horseback, was brought down near the town of Hugo by two shots from a tranquilizer gun on Tuesday. Colma Banes, co-manager of the Carson & Barnes Circus winter quarters nearby, said, “It may take several days to get them both in the barn.” The two young elephants bolted into the brush when spooked by a falling tent pole at the circus quarters.
7th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel.
Simon Gray’s “Otherwise Engaged” premieres in London.
Major League Baseball:
The Dodgers, after breaking a 2–2 tie with a run in the sixth inning, scored on a double steal in the seventh and then added four tainted tallies in the eighth to clinch an 8–2 victory over the Braves. Steve Garvey doubled in the first to drive in the Dodgers’ first two runs. Billy Williams tied the score with a two-run double in the third. Garvey walked in the sixth, advanced on a sacrifice and counted the tie-breaking run on a single by Ron Cey. Davey Lopes singled in the seventh, took third on a single by Bill Buckner and scored on a double steal, streaking home during an attempted rundown of Buckner between first and second.
Rookie relief pitcher Jose Sosa homers in his first Major League at bat as the Astros beat the Padres 8–4. It will be Sosa’s only home run in the majors. The Astros scored their first five runs on two homers in the sixth inning. Tommy Helms singled and Greg Gross walked ahead of a circuit clout by Jose Cruz. Then, after Cliff Johnson also walked, Doug Rader homered on reliever Bill Greif’s first pitch. In the eighth, Gross walked and, after a sacrifice by Cruz, Johnson was handed an intentional pass, setting the stage for Sosa’s smash off Danny Frisella. Bobby Tolan homered for the Padres.
The Cincinnati Reds’ Pat Darcy pitches a complete game win, 6–1, over the visiting Giants. It’s the first complete game by a Reds pitcher in 45 games; and the first ever for Darcy. Johnny Bench drove in a run with a single in the first inning and another with a double in the sixth, while Tony Perez accounted for three RBIs with a single in the first and triple in the seventh.
Manny Sanguillen has 5 hits to pace the Pirates to a 8–1 victory over the Phillies. Jerry Reuss (12–6) goes the distance. The Pirates ended their string of nine straight losses to the Phillies. The Pirates built up a 7–0 lead against Steve Carlton before the Phillies picked up their lone run on a homer by Ollie Brown in the sixth inning. Three of the Pirates’ runs counted in the fourth when Willie Randolph was safe on an error and Sanguillen and Al Oliver unloaded successive circuit clouts.
With all scoring packed into the first two innings, the Cardinals defeated the Mets, 5–2. The Mets counted their pair in the first on four straight singles by Felix Millan, Rusty Staub, Dave Kingman and Joe Torre. The Cardinals came back with their runs after two were out in the second. Larry Lintz and John Curtis walked and Bake McBride singled to drive in Lintz before Willie Davis came to the plate and smashed a three-run homer. Singles by Reggie Smith, Ted Simmons and Ron Fairly then added the final tally.
The Expos backed Steve Rogers with a 13-hit attack and defeated the Cubs, 6–1. The Expos scored twice in the second inning on a walk to Pete Mackanin and singles by Tim Foli, Rogers and Pepe Mangual. Two more runs followed in the third on an infield hit by Gary Carter, two errors and a homer by Mike Jorgensen before the Cubs picked up their lone tally in the fourth when Rick Monday hit for the circuit.
Rudy May pitched a three-hitter and gained his 10th victory when the Yankees scored in the sixth inning on doubles by Bobby Bonds and Roy White and a single by Thurman Munson to defeat the Tigers, 2–1. The Tigers’ run came in the previous stanza. Aurelio Rodriguez doubled, advanced to third after the catch on a fly by Ben Oglivie and scored on a sacrifice fly by Gene Michael.
Homers by Charlie Spikes and John Ellis carried the Indians to a 3–1 victory over the Orioles, who scored their lone run on a round-tripper by Ken Singleton. Spikes connected for the circuit in the fifth inning. Singleton tied the score in the seventh. Ellis then supplied the winning blow, hitting his homer in the eighth after Rico Carty reached base with a double.
Fred Patek, who went into the game batting only .230 with 29 RBIs to his credit, rapped four hits and drove in three runs to pace the Royals to a 6–4 victory over the Twins. After the Twins took a 2–0 lead, Patek doubled and scored on an error by Rod Carew in the third inning. The Royals then erupted for four runs in the fourth, two scoring on a single by Patek. The Royals’ tiny shortstop batted in another run with a single in the sixth.
The Brewers, who forged ahead with a pair of unearned runs in the seventh inning, clinched a 6–2 victory over the Red Sox when Sixto Lezcano homered with two men on base in the eighth. In the seventh, a single by Bill Sharp, forceout by Mike Hegan and double by Robin Yount set the stage for the tainted tallies on an error by Bob Heise and single by Don Money, breaking a 1–1 tie. Dwight Evans homered for the Red Sox in their half, but singles by George Scott and Hank Aaron and Lezcano’s round-tripper iced the matter for the Brewers in the eighth.
The Angels rallied for three runs in the ninth inning and defeated the White Sox, 5–4. The White Sox built up a 4–2 lead with the aid of a two-run single by Ken Henderson before the Angels opened their rally with a walk to Leroy Stanton and singles by Tommy Harper and John Balaz, loading the bases and chasing Jim Kaat. Rich Gossage failed in relief, walking Joe Lahoud to force in one run and then giving up a pinch-single by John Doherty that drove in the tying and winning tallies. Nolan Ryan goes the distance for his 12th win.
A homer by Bert Campaneris in the third inning enabled the Athletics to defeat the Rangers, 1–0. Fergie Jenkins was the loser in a duel with Ken Holtzman, his former Cubs’ teammate. However, Holtzman needed help after Toby Harrah and Tom Grieve hit singles in the ninth inning. Rollie Fingers relieved and struck out Jeff Burroughs. Paul Lindblad then took over and retired Jim Spencer on a grounder for the final out.
Los Angeles Dodgers 8, Atlanta Braves 2
Cleveland Indians 3, Baltimore Orioles 1
Milwaukee Brewers 6, Boston Red Sox 2
Chicago White Sox 4, California Angels 5
Montreal Expos 6, Chicago Cubs 1
San Francisco Giants 1, Cincinnati Reds 6
San Diego Padres 4, Houston Astros 8
Kansas City Royals 6, Minnesota Twins 4
Detroit Tigers 1, New York Yankees 2
Texas Rangers 0, Oakland Athletics 1
Philadelphia Phillies 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 8
New York Mets 2, St. Louis Cardinals 5
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Born:
Annie Parisse [Anne Marie Cancelmi], American actress (“Law & Order”, “As the World Turns”), in Anchorage, Alaska.
Tifini Hale, American pop singer (Party – “Rodeo”; “That’s Why”), in Palm Springs, California (d. 2021).
Kate Starbird [Catherine Evelyn Starbird], American computer scientist and college (Naismith College Player of the Year, 1997) and ABL (Seattle Reign) and WNBA (Sacramento Monarchs, Utah Starzz, Seattle Storm, Indiana Fever) shooting guard and small forward; in West Point, New York.
Oswaldo Mairena, Nicaraguan MLB pitcher (Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins), in Chinandega, Nicaragua.
Matt Erickson, MLB pinch hitter, shortstop, and second baseman (Milwaukee Brewers), in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Died:
James Blish, 54, American-born British science fiction author known for the Cities in Flight series and for his adaptation of Star Trek episodes to books of short stories, died of lung cancer.
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