The Ford Administration’s efforts to lift the arms embargo imposed by Congress against Turkey appeared to have collapsed late tonight when the House of Representatives refused to waive its rules and act on ending the ban before starting a month’s recess tomorrow. The refusal means, in effect, that any vote to end or modify the arms embargo will not take place until Congress returns in September. It would have required unanimous consent in the House tonight to bring up the Senate bill for consideration immediately and will need a two–thirds vote on the floor tomorrow. This was considered highly unlikely because of the strength of the forces there that are opposed to arms for the Turks. The House action came at the end of a day of worldwide negotiations that began in Helsinki, Finland, where President Suleyman Demirel of Turkey turned down an offer by President Ford to reopen United States military bases in his country in return for a grant of $50‐million in American weapons. The action in the House tonight reached a climax at about 11:30, when the chamber recessed after the Republican leader, Representative John J. Rhodes of Arizona, failed te get unanimous consent to take up a Senate bill that had been passed an hour earlier in last minute Administration effort to end the embargo.
Earlier, in Helsinki, Finland, Premier Suleyman Demirel of Turkey rejected a plea to reopen United States military bases in exchange for a gift of $50 million in arms. Secretary of State Kissinger said after Mr. Demirel and Mr. Ford had met that there was “no reason to believe” the Premier would rescind his order to shut down activities at the American bases and facilities unless Congress lifted its embargo on arms sales to Turkey. Secretary Kissinger, discussing the offer of an arms grant, said President Ford had offered it under a provision of the foreign military sales act. This allows him to provide up to $50‐million a year in free arms by signing a formal waiver that such aid was essential to national security. But Mr. Kissinger said the offer, tied to a resumption of activities at the bases in Turkey, had been rejected because Mr. Demirel objected in principle to the “embargo of an ally.” Mr. Demirel told Turkish reporters that his Government “has done all it can to maintain relations” with the United States and that the embargo “is not friendship but hostility.”
Leonid I. Brezhnev said at the European security conference today that its “important conclusions” for Europe’s future would discourage any nation from telling another how to run its internal affairs. “No one should try to dictate to other people, on the basis of foreign policy considerations of one kind or another, the manner in which they ought to manage their internal affairs,” the Soviet party leader said.
[Ed: Except Czechoslovakia, right, you fucking Communist asshole?]
There was some confusion about Mr. Brezhnev’s intent in making this assertion, which simply reiterated a principal provision of the European declaration to be signed here tomorrow. Some delegates said they hoped that the Soviet leader might be setting aside Moscow’s demonstrated prerogative to intervene militarily if the Communist governments of its Eastern European allies were threatened, as has happened in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. However, it was more likely, Western diplomats said, that Mr. Brezhnev was informing the West that the human rights section of the European declaration worked out in Geneva could not be used to press for the liberalization of the authoritarian societies of the Soviet bloc.
Three members of a popular Irish pop group, The Miami Showband, were murdered by terrorists near the Northern Ireland town of Newry, while returning from a performance at Banbridge. Their van was flagged down by members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, who were wearing British Army uniforms and who had set up a phony checkpoint. While the van occupants were being lined up, two of the UVF men were trying to place a time bomb underneath the vehicle. The bomb went off prematurely, killing the two UVF men, and the rest of the terrorists shot the five bandmembers, killing lead singer Fran O’Toole, trumpeter Brian McCoy and guitarist Tony Geraghty. The other two bandmembers, bassist Stephen Travers and saxophone player Des McAlea, were wounded.
Portugal’s High Council of the Revolution approved the setting up of a three-man military junta that will rule the country. Soon after the announcement, nine officers and four sergeants of a special commando unit stationed near Lisbon were removed from their posts. Some of the commandos were reportedly arrested.
Madrid police killed two suspected Basque terrorists in a running gun battle in which more than 100 shots were fired, police sources said. It was the worst such incident in Madrid since the end of the Spanish civil war in 1939. In addition to those killed, two suspected terrorists were arrested, the sources said.
The United States will take “definite and clear action” if Israel is expelled from the United Nations, Secretary of State Kissinger said today. He said at a news conference that President Ford and the leaders of Britain; France and West Germany had unanimously agreed to vigorously oppose threats by Arab and African states to oust Israel from the United Nations in September. “The United States has expressed its strong opposition to expulsion of Israel from the United Nations on grounds that it would be a violation of the U. N. Charter,” Mr. Kissinger said. “The United States will take definite and clear action should the U.N. take such action in violation of the charter,” he said. “We believe such action would have serious consequences for the world organization.”
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has asserted that democracy is not dead in India and that measures taken under her Government’s month-old declaration of emergency have already led to improvements in social and economic life. Replying to cameo questions from the editors of Saturday Review magazine, Mrs. Gandhi was quoted in the current issue as saying further that the state of emergency would “not be unduly prolonged.” Opposition figures arrested under the measure will be released “as soon as we are assured that they will not endanger the situation and that they will renounce the threat of extra‐constitutional direct action,” she said. She turned aside a suggestion that her actions might be inconsistent with the ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru, her father and India’s first Prime Minister.
The Maharani of Jaipur, one of India’s most glamorous and wealthiest aristocrats, has been arrested, the government announced today. Although the charges against the 56‐year‐old Maharani were economic, rather than political, her arrest had been widely expected in the current crackdown on political opponents of the government. She has been an outspoken critic of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The Maharani has been a Member of Parliament since 1962, representing the “pink city” of Jaipur, the ancestral realm of her late husband, and is a disciple of Jaya Prakash Narayan, who emerged early this year as Mrs. Gandhi’s principal political opponent. Mr. Narayan, a frail ascetic who preached “total revolution against the corruption and rottenness of the Government,” is also in jail now. He was among the thousands rounded up in the month since the Government declared a state of emergency, citing the threat of “internal chaos.”
The American Friends Service Committee said it had begun buying supplies for shipment to Vietnam in defiance of a government prohibition. The Quaker group, although given government approval to send $575,000 worth of food, medical and school supplies to Vietnam, has been denied permission to send more than $300,000 worth of machinery and agricultural equipment. But spokeswoman Catharine Harrington said the group’s Hong Kong office had been given a list of supplies to purchase. “They are proceeding along our priority lines,” she said.
A special envoy of the Japanese Premier has reported after a visit to Pyongyang that the North Korean Government would like to open talks with the United States about an agreement that would replace the existing Korean armistice accord.
A Taiwan domestic jetliner trying to pull up from a second landing attempt in a rainstorm hit its wing on the runway, turned over and split into three sections, killing 26 of the 75 persons aboard, officials said. The U.S. Embassy said the victims included an American couple. Taiwan officials identified one of them as a woman with the last name of Cehon. The flight’s manifest listed her as accompanied by Richard Cehon. The Viscount jetliner was Far Eastern Air Transport’s Flight 134 from the eastern Taiwanese city of Hualien.
About a dozen university students were reported killed and 40 people wounded after an hour-long gun battle between troops and demonstrators at the El Salvador national university in San Salvador. A Defense Ministry communique said the shooting had broken out during a demonstration involving about 2,000 students protesting the arrest of colleagues during an earlier antigovernment demonstration.
Argentine President Maria Estela Perón was reported to have burst into tears during her first cabinet meeting in two weeks and threatened to quit, but her ministers talked her out of resigning. There was no official confirmation of the report. carried by the news agency Noticias Argentinas. Mrs. Perón complained over the lack of support from a large group within her party during the cabinet meeting Tuesday, the report said. She has been suffering from the flu and is under severe strain because of the mounting opposition to her government.
A British-born financier, who was kidnapped by left-wing Argentine guerrillas two years ago and released after his company paid a reported $1-million ransom, was kidnapped again today, apparently by guerrillas. A year ago, the financier, Chaves Agnew Lockwood, a tall, dapper man who has lived in Argentina since 1938, recounted his eight‐week ordeal at the hands of the guerrillas, but said he had no intention of leaving the country. “The guerrillas told me they don’t squeeze the same lemon twice,” he said.
Ethiopia dropped all claims that it had had to Djibouti, the African colony of France once known as French Somaliland. Djibouti would become independent two years later.
A fierce battle of words raged in the Organization of African Unity summit over moves by Arab-African states to have Israel expelled from the United Nations, conference sources said. They said that while hard-line Arab-African countries were demanding outright expulsion, moderate black African countries now were considering a milder text calling only for Israel’s isolation from the world body. On the question of southern Africa, the OAU rejected calls for an immediate war and said a peaceful solution should be sought through continued contacts with Pretoria.
The Organization of African Unity today approved a declaration calling for further efforts to negotiate with whiteminority governments of southern Africa. According to the declaration, the O.A.U, is prepared, as an alternative to fighting, to participate in negotiations with South Africa and Rhodesia as long as Rhodesian and SouthWest African liberation movements think the talks are making progress toward black majority rule. The declaration made clear, however, that there was no room for negotiation on the question ending the policies of racial separation in South Africa.
Nigeria’s new military leaders lifted the dusk-to-dawn curfew they had imposed after a bloodless coup two days ago. They also ordered a resumption of domestic air flights and external telecommunications. But a special announcement over Radio Nigeria said the nation’s borders would remain closed for the present to all foreigners except those living in countries belonging to the Economic Community of West African States.
After rejecting successive presidential proposals for a gradual decontrol of oil prices, Congress sent President Ford a bill extending the present legal authority for controls for six months beyond the expiration date of August 31. Frank Zarb, the Federal Energy Administrator, and Ron Nessen, the White House press secretary, said the bill would be vetoed. It seemed likely that all oil price controls would be removed at the beginning of September. Mr. Nessen made his comment to reporters in Helsinki, where he is accompanying the President at the European security conference.
The situation remains uncertain, however, as it has been for many months. Apart from the slim possibility that the President might change his mind and sign the bill extending controls, Congress might override his veto upon its return in early September. In that event, decontrol would be in effect for only a few days. Under decontrol, the price of “old” oil—from fields that were producing before 1973 up to pre‐1973 production levels—would probably more than double from their present controlled price of $5.25 a barrel in a fairly short period. But this oil accounts for only 40 per cent of total domestic consumption, and thus the effect on the over‐all prices of final oil products mould be much less than double.
James R. Hoffa, the former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was reported missing by his family this morning after he failed to come home last night. Mr. Hoffa, who has been seeking, to again become head of the 2.1 million‐member union, the nation’s largest, was reported missing to the Bloomfield Township police. They found Mr. Hoffa’s 1979 Pontiac in the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township this morning. Detective Robert Bloom said that there was no evidence of struggle and that the police had no immediate clues to Mr. Hoffa’s whereabouts. The Oakland County Prosecutor, L. Brooks Patterson, said however, that the police suspected foul play since Mr. Hoffa “never stayed out this long without reporting in.”
It was Vice President Rockefeller’s turn today to talk to news reporters about suggestions that he is too old and too liberal for the 1976 Republican ticket, and he termed the whole discussion “a tempest in a teapot.”
The House majority leader, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., reversing an earlier statement, said today he is now convinced that Senator Edward M. Kennedy will not seek the Democratic nomination in 1976. Representative O’Neill, who predicted last Sunday that the Massachusetts, Senator would be a candidate, called reporters to his Capitol office to explain how his opinion had changed.
The postal official who stopped the CIA’s mail-opening program is leaving the Postal Service under congressional criticism that he allowed the illegal operation to continue too long. William J. Cotter, the chief postal inspector, is taking early retirement for health reasons, Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar said. Postal officials said the early retirement was unrelated to the mail-tampering controversy. The announcement of his retirement came four days after Rep. Charles H. Wilson (D-California), chairman of a House post office subcommittee, released a letter to Bailar urging him to fire Cotter.
Copies of the “pumpkin papers” — a set of five microfilms presented as evidence that Alger Hiss was a Communist spy at his two trials in 1949 and 1950 — were released by the Justice Department. One film had been overexposed and was totally blank. Two others were faintly legible copies of Navy Department documents relating to life rafts, parachutes and fire extinguishers. The other two were photographs of State Department documents. Mr. Hiss was convicted of perjury and imprisoned for 44 months. He was present when the microfilms were made public in New York.
Hiss would go to his grave protesting his innocence, though Soviet era cables, decrypted through the now-declassified “Venona Project”, seem to convict him beyond a reasonable doubt of being a soviet agent. Venona transcript #1822, sent in March 1945, from the Soviets’ Washington station chief to Moscow, describes a spy codenamed “ALES” as having attended the February 4–11, 1945 Yalta conference, before traveling to Moscow. Hiss did attend Yalta on those dates, before going to Moscow with Secretary of State Edward Stettinius.
Judge Hamilton Hobgood, acting on a motion by the defense, temporarily barred the admission of Joan Little’s “personal papers” as evidence in her murder trial in Raleigh, North Carolina. The materials include a Bible, books and magazines left behind in a Beaufort County cell when Miss Little, a black, fled on August 27. Her white jailer. Clarence Alligood, was found dead in the cell. Miss Little reportedly had written several entries in the magazines. The state contends that Miss Little lured Alligood into her cell and then killed him so that she could escape.
A 12-member jury retired for the fourth consecutive night in Tampa without returning a verdict in the slush fund conspiracy trial of former Senator Edward J. Gurney (R-Florida) and three others. Earlier, U.S. District Judge Ben Krentzman complied with the jury’s request to rehear testimony of I.S. Keith Reeves, a partner in an architectural firm that paid the apartment rent of a Gurney aide. Gurney, 61, former aide Joseph Bastien, 33, and suspended Federal Housing Administration officials K. Wayne Swiger and Ralph Koontz are charged with conspiracy to raise an illegal political fund from builders by promising preferential treatment from the FHA.
The Army said Dr. Van M. Sim has been removed as head of medical research, which has included drug tests on soldier and civilian volunteers. It said Sim, who is under investigation by the Army, has been reassigned as special adviser to the top scientist at the Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland.
About 60,000 American women develop painful and dangerous pelvic disease each year from intrauterine devices, a new study suggests. IUDs are credited with 95% or more success in preventing pregnancies. A University of Washington study points to IUDs as one cause of pelvic inflammatory disease, which can make women sterile by invading and damaging the fallopian tubes. Pelvic inflammatory disease would appear to be the most common adverse consequence of using IUDs, says Dr. King K. Holmes of the university. Other complaints include bleeding, discomfort and upset menstrual cycles.
An environmental group that sent test balloons to higher altitudes than those achieved in previous experiments has asked the Food and Drug Administration to ban aerosol sprays with fluorocarbon propellants. The Natural Resources Defense Council claimed the new research provides the first conclusive proof that fluorocarbon gases are detrimental to the earth’s high-altitude ozone layer which, if depleted, could result in a rise in skin cancer. A spokesman for the Du Pont Corp. argued, however, that the studies only confirm that “some fluorocarbons rise into the upper atmosphere and are broken down by ultraviolet radiation.”
The great elephant hunt ended with Lilly, one of the two young female elephants who wandered away from a circus camp, being felled by shots from a tranquilizer gun. The hunters planned to take the 1,500-pound Lilly back to Carson & Barnes Circus camp in Hugo, Okla. Lilly and her partner, Isa, who was captured Wednesday, escaped from the camp July 12 and thrived in the lush countryside. The pair had been the target of a hundred dune buggies and horses. searchers using planes, helicopters.
With flour prices on the rise, the AFL-CIO gave its formal backing to a threat by maritime unions to block the shipment of Soviet grain purchases. AFL-CIO President George Meany has called the grain sales “a ripoff of the American taxpayer.” In a resolution adopted during its Executive Council meeting in Chicago, the federation said it wants solid assurance from the Ford Administration that the grain sale will not drive up consumer prices or create domestic shortages.
The television show “Almost Anything Goes,” pitting teams from three small towns against each other in a competition that mixed athletics and stunts, was first broadcast. The competition for the “Eastern Conference Championship”, involved Webster, Massachusetts, Burrillville, Rhode Island, and Putnam, Connecticut, all near the point where the three states’ borders met.
Major League Baseball:
A six-run rally in the ninth inning, climaxed when Rowland Office homered off Mike Marshall with two men on base, carried the Braves to an 11–10 victory over the Dodgers. Darrell Evans homered for the Braves in the first. The Dodgers erupted for six runs in the fifth on only four singles plus two walks, two hit batsmen and a sacrifice fly. The Braves began their last-stand rally with a single by Ralph Garr, who stole second and scored on a single by Rod Gilbreath. Evans walked and Earl Williams doubled to score Gilbreath and bring Marshall to the mound. Dusty Baker struck out, but Larvell Blanks drove in a run with a single before Office won the game for the Braves with his homer.
Giants pitcher John Montefusco predicts he’ll shut out the Reds and strike out Johnny Bench 4 times. The Count’s a little off as the Reds score 7 runs in 1 ⅓ innings off Montefusco (10–5). The Reds win, 11–6. The Reds rapped nine extra-base hits, including a three-run homer by Bench. Darrel Chaney had three doubles among the Reds’ 12 hits. The Reds exploded for six of their runs in the second inning. George Foster, Chaney and Clay Kirby hit doubles for two runs. Ken Griffey walked and Dan Driessen singled for another tally before Bench connected for his homer. The Reds clinched the verdict with three more runs in the sixth on a hit batsman, Chaney’s third double, a triple by Pete Rose and a wild pitch. The Giants had homers by Bruce Miller and Von Joshua among their 11 hits.
The Cardinals handed out three intentional passes in the eighth inning and two of them backfired as the Cubs scored two runs to gain a 5–3 victory. Ken Reynolds, who relieved in his first appearance with the Cards, walked Rick Monday to open the stanza before giving way to Mike Garman. Bill Madlock sacrificed. After an intentional pass to Jose Cardenal, Jerry Morales doubled, driving in Monday to break the 3–3 tie. Pete LaCock was handed an intentional pass to load the bases. Manny Trillo laid down a sacrifice bunt, scoring Cardenal. A third intentional pass then went to George Mitterwald and this time it worked when Paul Reuschel struck out to end the inning. Reuschel pitched two perfect innings in relief and received credit for his first major league victory.
Larry Parrish and Jim Dwyer drove in two runs apiece to lead the Expos to a 7–4 victory over the Phillies. Parrish accounted for his RBIs with a single in the first inning. Dwyer hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth and inside-the-park homer in the seventh. Larry Bowa hit a homer for the Phillies in the fifth and doubled home another run in the seventh.
Two homers by Dave Kingman and one by Joe Torre enabled the Mets to gain a 6–2 victory to end their string of eight straight losses to the Pirates this season. Kingman hit his first homer of the game in the second inning. With the score tied, 2–2, Gene Clines was safe on an error in the eighth. Felix Millan forced Clines. One out later, Kingman came to the plate and whacked his second homer of the game and 13th in the month of July for an all-time Met record. Rusty Staub drew a walk after Kingman’s blow and Torre iced the victory by hitting for the circuit.
The Padres, after tying the score with the aid of a homer by Mike Ivie in the sixth inning, added an unearned run in each of the last two stanzas to defeat the Astros, 5–3. Two of the Astros’ tallies also were tainted. Willie McCovey was hit by a pitch in the eighth and after successive forceouts by Dave Winfield and Bobby Tolan, a stolen base by Tolan, wild throw by catcher Skip Jutze on the play and an error by Larry Milbourne on a grounder by Hector Torres allowed the tie-breaking run to score. An error by Greg Gross was a factor when the Padres picked up an insurance run in the ninth.
Denny Doyle hit safely in his 17th and 18th straight games to help the Red Sox sweep a twi-night doubleheader from the Tigers, 3–2 and 6–1. The opener was decided in the 10th inning when Doyle singled, Fred Lynn walked and Jim Rice singled to drive in the winning run. In winning the nightcap, the Red Sox collected only six hits but benefited from seven walks, plus an error by Gene Michael that resulted in three unearned runs. Doyle and Bernie Carbo had two hits apiece and each drove in one run and scored one.
Three homers, including Phil Roof’s first of the season, featured the Twins’ 7–2 victory over the Royals. Eric Soderholm homered in the second inning. Tony Oliva connected in the fourth and, after Steve Braun doubled and Johnny Briggs walked, Roof also hit for the circuit.
Los Angeles Dodgers 10, Atlanta Braves 11
Detroit Tigers 2, Boston Red Sox 3
Detroit Tigers 1, Boston Red Sox 6
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Chicago Cubs 5
San Francisco Giants 6, Cincinnati Reds 11
San Diego Padres 5, Houston Astros 3
Kansas City Royals 2, Minnesota Twins 7
Philadelphia Phillies 4, Montreal Expos 7
New York Mets 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Government reports of an upturn in factory orders and another decline in business inventories bouyed stock prices in early trading yesterday, but the list backed down in late trading, closing with little net change for the day.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 831.51 (-0.15, -0.02%)
Born:
Gabe Kapler, MLB outfielder (World Series Champions-Red Sox, 2004; Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, Colorado Rockies, Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, Tampa Bay Rays), in Hollywood, California.
Randy Flores, MLB pitcher (World Series Champions-Cardinals, 2006; Texas Rangers, Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Cardinals, Minnesota Twins), executive (American director scouting, Cardinals) and broadcaster (Pac-12 Network), in Bellflower, California.
Ruben Patterson, NBA small forward and shooting guard (Los Angeles Lakers, Seattle SuperSonics, Portland Trailblazers, Denver Nuggets, Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Clippers), in Cleveland, Ohio.
Sergei Gusev, Russian NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars, Tampa Bay Lightning), in Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Emarlos Leroy, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars), in Albany, Georgia.
Elissa Steamer, American skateboarder and four-time X Games gold medalist; in Fort Myers, Florida.
Stephanie Hirst, British radio & TV presenter; in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
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