[Ed: VOMIT. I’ll do my dancing on Christmas, 1989…]
President Ford and Leonid Brezhnev held their second meeting today in Helsinki without an apparent breakthrough in negotiations to curb the nuclear arms race. But they said “progress” had been made as they emerged, buoyant and smiling, from the Soviet Embassy. Mr. Ford later told newsmen accompanying him on his flight from Helsinki to Bucharest that his meetings with Mr. Brezhnev were “encouraging.” But he said prospects for a meeting with Mr. Brezhnev later this year in Washington, where both sides had hoped to reach a final agreement on strategic nuclear weapons, were no more certain than before the meetings in Helsinki. Moreover, newsmen were told privately that the two leaders had not settled their differences over two of the issues holding up an agreement — whether the Soviet Union”s Backfire long-range bomber should be counted as a delivery vehicle for nuclear warheads and whether the United States” subsonic cruise missile should be included as an offensive strategic weapon. Mr. Ford did agree with Mr. Brezhnev on an unspecified formula to verify the number of multiple‐warhead missiles on each side. Technical experts are to meet soon in Geneva to solidify the agreement.
After the heavy political atmosphere at the Helsinki conference on European security and cooperation, President Ford and a jovial Leonid I. Brezhnev enjoyed a few light moments. The Soviet party chief slapped Mr. Ford on the back and wished him a good trip to Romania, to which the President later flew. Brezhnev then joked with American journalists and stroked the head of one short-haired female television correspondent, asking, “Boy or girl?” Later, when First Lady Betty Ford told reporters about shopping and visiting in Helsinki, the President quipped: “I gave Mrs. Ford $100 to spend and she gave me back three Finnish coins.”
Carrying U.S. President Ford on his departure from the Helsinki summit, Air Force One strayed from its flight plan and veered into restricted airspace near Swedish military installations, prompting the Swedish Air Force to send a J35 Draken to intercept the jet and turn it away. Major Carl-Christen Hjort said that the fighter was equipped with air-to-air missiles, “but, of course, there were no plans to use them”.
The West German government’s stalled reconciliation with the Communist states made a major advance when Poland agreed in Helsinki to let 120,000 to 125,000 ethnic Germans emigrate over the next four years. Edward Gierek, the Communist party leader in Poland, and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany, also agreed that Bonn would give the Poles $500 million to satisfy outstanding pension claims and an additional $400 million trade credit at low interest rates. The pension claim agreement was regarded as atonement by West Germany for the Nazi occupation of Poland in World War II and a settlement of accounts with Poles who worked in Germany during the war.
Turkish Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel said in Istanbul that the U.S.-Turkish defense treaty “is now dead” and the United States may not open military bases in Turkey unless Congress lifts its arms embargo to Turkey. He made the statement on his return from the European security conference in Helsinki.
Portugal’s three top military leaders attempted today to find an effective government for a country rent by divisions within the armed forces and among civilian political groups. Two days after President Francisco da Costa Gomes announced that a new Cabinet had been formed and a three‐week crisis ended, he and his colleagues could say only that they were “restructuring the executive.” This was taken to mean that a power struggle, centering around the Communist‐leaning, widely contested Premier, Gen. Vasco Gonçalves, was continuing, and that he was still endangered by anti‐Communist forces. Despite official assurances that the new Cabinet list would be announced today, the President indicated that something was amiss by returning after midnight from Helsinki, where he had attended the summit meeting of the European security conference.
U.S. Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger said today that the ability of the United States Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean to survive in wartime would be endangered if Portugal became Communist. Mr. Schlesinger was asked during a taped television interview with Senator James L. Buckley, Conservative‐Republican of New York, what the effect would be if Portugal fell within the Soviet Union’s orbit and Soviet submarines were based in Portuguese ports. “I think that any movement of that sort, which we of course hope would not take place, would endanger the viability of the Sixth Fleet,” Mr. Schlesinger said, according to a transcript released by the Pentagon.
For the first time in her troubled history, Ireland is firmly convinced that she is emerging from Britain’s shadow to fill an independent and somewhat iconoclastic role on the European stage. The vehicle for Ireland’s buoyancy is the European Economic Community, which she enthusiastically joined three years ago. As one of the nine members of the Common Market, Ireland and her three million people are in the grip of a quiet but pronounced psychological and economic upheaval. “Relations with Britain have altered considerably,” said Garret FitzGerald, Minister of Foreign Affairs. “For the first time in our history we’re in a position of sufficient equality with Britain and the rest of Europe.”
Four thieves wearing stocking masks and armed with shotguns robbed a safe deposit center in London’s jewelry district and escaped with gems worth about $2.2 million, diamond dealers said. But only 15 of about 1.000 deposit boxes-possibly containing $66 million total in jewels and gold-were broken open by the robbers. They also left about $60,000 worth of precious stones scattered on the floor after tying and gagging seven persons in the center.
Europe’s Social Democratic leaders agreed unanimously to oppose a Third World attempt to oust Israel from the United Nations. A spokesman for the 11 senior Social Democratic politicians and in a joint press conference at a Stockholm meeting that “we are all completely unanimous” that attempts to suspend or expel Israel from the United Nations would violate the charter of the world organization. Countries represented by party delegations at the conference included Britain, West Germany, France, Israel. Portugal, Austria, Norway. Denmark and the Netherlands.
Greek Catholic sources in Jerusalem said imprisoned Archbishop Hilarion Capucci was suffering from a slipped disc and chest troubles. They could not confirm reports in Jordanian newspapers that the convicted gunrunner was on a hunger strike, but they said he was being deprived of needed medical care. They said two doctors recommended X rays, medication and a possible operation two weeks ago, but authorities at Ramleh Prison had done nothing.
Edward Hughes, an American journalist reported from Lebanon Tuesday, said here he had been accused of being an Israeli agent. In a statement yesterday Mr. Hughes described the charge as “a load of rubbish.” He said he was in Lebanon on assignment for Reader’s Digest when he was summoned to security headquarters and accused of being a member of an Israeli assassination squad that killed three Palestinians in Beirut in 1973. Mr. Hughes said that he denied the charges but that Beirut ordered him to leave.
Egyptian Minister of Finance Ahmed Abu Ismail has failed to persuade the Soviet Union to reschedule payment of a $4 billion to $6 billion debt for military purchases, Cairo newspapers indicated. They quoted Ismail as saying at the end of a 10-day visit to Moscow that a date would be set for a visit to Egypt by a Soviet deputy foreign trade minister to continue the talks.
The rival Baath Arab Socialist leaderships of Iraq and Syria are locked in a quarrel that is described as “very serious” by Arab diplomats here and in Damascus, the Syrian capital. The rival Baath Arab Socialist leaderships of Iraq and Syria are locked in a quarrel that is described as “very serious” by Arab diplomats here and in Damascus, the Syrian capital. The flow of irrigation water of the Euphrates is a major point of conflict. Reliable sources said that Syria had moved an armored division from the Golan Heights front, facing Israel, to eastern Syria, facing Iraq. Anti-aircraft missile batteries have been strengthened at the big Tabqa dam, which spans the Euphrates in central Syria. Iraqi officials scoff at the Syrian military moves, which they regard as posturing to influence the Syrian people. “No responsible political leader in Iraq thinks of an attack on Syria, and the idea, of them attacking us seems ridiculous,” said Minister of Information Tariq Aziz, an influential figure in the Baath party.
Thousands of refugees from Indochina face an uncertain future in makeshift camps scattered about Southeast Asia because the United States has reached the limit of 130,000 it has authority to admit. From 12,000 to 18,000 refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are in the Asian camps, which are in such places as Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand. In almost all cases the host governments admitted the refugees only on the understanding that the United States would eventually accept them. American officials dealing with the refugees say they are discouraged and uncertain what can be done unless the quita is raised. “It’s absurd — they are only peanuts compared to what we have already taken,” a saddened diplomat remarked, “but the way things now stand, there’s no more room in the inn.” A total of 131,000 refugees have reached the United States or been accepted for entry.
About 4,000 leftists demonstrated around the heavily policed Tokyo international airport here today when Premiei Takeo Miki left on a 10‐day visit to the United States. The demonstrators were protesting what they said was an intensification of a military alliance by Japan, the United States and South Korea, and the scheduled meeting between Mr. Miki and President Ford next week. Two subjects that are expected to be high on the agenda of the meeting are military security on the Korean Peninsula and Japan‐United States security. The two leaders are also expected to discuss a wide range of world economic topics, including oil, food and other raw material supplies, and economic cooperation in the Asia‐Pacific region.
Chile’s government-controlled press has listed more than 100 leftist extremists as having been killed fighting among themselves or against security forces in Argentina. There is substantial evidence, however, that they have been detained by the Chilean government. In recent weeks the Chilean press has mounted a campaign to impress upon the public its version of the fate of the 119 alleged extremists. Evidence shows, however, that virtually all were arrested months ago by intelligence forces of the military Government in Chile. Moreover, 115 of them are named in long‐standing appeals of habeas corpus lodged in their behalf in Chilean courts. “We suspect that many of these supposed extremists have in fact been eliminated or have died under torture while under detention in Chile,” said a Chilean lawyer who has defended leftist political prisoners in the aftermath of the 1973 military coup that overthrew the Marxist government of the late President Salvador Allende Gossens. “The Chilean intelligence forces have a serious problem justifying the disappearance of people who were detained by them,” said the lawyer. “We are now waiting for more lists of alleged extremists who have died abroad.”
Argentina’s Marxist People’s Revolutionary Army proposed a truce with the government, offering a cease-fire and a prisoner exchange. It also asked that the government repeal “all repressive legislation,” specifically the 1973 law that declared the guerrilla group illegal. The guerrillas offered the truce “in view of the critical national situation.” There has been economic chaos and labor unrest in the country and President Maria Estela Peron is suffering from nervous exhaustion.
Niger’s head of state, Lieutenant Colonel Seyni Kountche, announced the arrest of three prominent political figures, including his right-hand man, Major Sani Souna Sliddo, mines minister and president of the supreme military council. They were accused of attempting to revive the opposition Sawaba Party. The others arrested were former Sawaba Party leader Djibo Bakary and a cabinet secretary in a former government, M. Maitourgadjo.
Hundreds of foreigners stranded in Nigeria by last week’s coup jammed airports seeking seats on the few available planes leaving the country. The new military government headed by Brigadier Muritala Mohammed, which ousted former head of state General Yakubu Gowon, announced the opening of all borders and resumption of international flights.
Two weeks of African summitry were beginning to take their toll on Uganda’s limited resources by the time the Organization of African Unity meeting in Kampala drew to a close yesterday. The shortages that ordinary Ugandans have been experiencing with increasing severity during the last two years had even started to penetrate the well‐protected portals of the conference center. Supplies of beer, a basic part of the local diet, began to become erratic, and milk, sugar, even coffee, Uganda’s main product, were sometimes unobtainable for hours on end as officials scoured the town looking for new supplies.
A source close to the family of James Hoffa, former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said that members of the family and the police have been told the names of two men whom Mr. Hoffa was supposed to have met, along with Anthony Giacalone, a reputed Mafia figure in Detroit, last Wednesday, the day he disappeared. The source said the men were identified by an employee of a friend of Mr. Hoffa’s to whom Mr. Hoffa had spoken before he left to meet the two men. The employee, the source said, recalled the names when a psychologist hired by the Hoffa family put him under hypnosis. He had been unable to recall the names when the police questioned him earlier.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is said to have started in the early 1950s a secret list, known as the “Security Index,” of American citizens “targeted for detention” in a national emergency under the Subversive Activities Control Act. This was made known by two sources claiming direct knowledge of the operation. They said that the list, which at one time contained about 15,000 names, included, in addition to suspected agents of hostile governments, virtually all known members of the American Communist party. The emergency detention provisions of the act under which the index was established were repealed by Congress in 1971. Nevertheless, one of the sources said that the index, now much smaller, was still being maintained by the FBI in anticipation of the reinstatement of such authority.
All categories of serious crime reported to the police, except murder, rose sharply in New York City in the first six months of the year. The rate of major crimes rose 13 percent in the first half of the year over the same period last year, according to the Police Department. The increase, nevertheless, was apparently slower than in most other large cities.
A newly formed group of liberal Democrats, calling themselves the Democratic Conference, announced this week that they would sponsor five regional conferences around the country to allow Presidential candidates to become better known. The group is headed by Representative Donald M. Fraser of Minnesota, and its expenses, thus far, are largely being paid by Americans for Democratic Action, of which Mr. Fraser is president. Its 24‐member organizing committee includes Representative Yvonne B. Burke of California, former Governor John J. Gilligan of Ohio, Barbara Mikulski, a member of the Baltimore City Council, and officials of several large national unions.
Mississippi segregationist Byron de la Beckwith was given five years in the Louisiana state penitentiary. Judge Charles Ward imposed the maximum sentence three months after Beckwith’s conviction on charges of carrying an explosive device into New Orleans without a permit. Police charged that he had intended to bomb the home of a Jewish leader. Beckwith, twice tried but never convicted of the 1963 slaying of civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, was arrested September 27, 1973, in the bomb incident. He remains free on bond pending an appeal.
A mob of 500 youths fought policemen with bricks and bottles, smashed windows and looted downtown stores after refusing to leave Cleveland’s annual All Nations Festival on the city’s mall. “It certainly could be called a civil disturbance and it bordered very closely on a riot,” said Police Chief Lloyd Garey. A crowd of about 4,000 had been asked to leave the festival. When some refused to do so, policemen in riot gear swept the area and the trouble began. Two dozen persons were arrested for various offenses, including intoxication, resisting arrest and burglary.
Attorneys for the victims of the shooting at Kent State University in 1970 have turned to technical testimony in their 12-week-old civil cases to prepare the jury for what they have described as one of the most significant pieces of evidence it will view. The jury of seven women and five men hearing the $46‐million suit against Ohio National Guardsmen and state officials will see a movie next week of the shooting incident that left four students dead and nine wounded. Following the movie and testimony from an expert hired by the Justice Department to analyze the film, the plaintiffs are expected to rest their case. The eight‐millimeter film was taken from a dormitory window a half‐mile away from where the shootings occurred by a former student, Chris Abell. During a Justice Department investigation, the movie was analyzed by experts to determine if there was a rush of students, as the Guard contended and used as justification for the shooting during the protest against the American incursion in Cambodia.
The General Accounting Office has recommended that the Government proceed with the $10.7-billion effort to develop the nuclear breeder reactor as a possible energy source by the end of the century. The G.A.O., which is the investigative arm of Congress, said the most logical course of action was to pursue the breeder program on a schedule that recognized it was in a research and development stage. “Not until some point in the future, perhaps seven to 10 years from now, need a firm decision be made as to whether the nation will commit itself to the L.M.F.B.R. [liquid metal fast breeder reactor] as a basic central station energy source,” the G.A.O. said in a report Wednesday to the House and Senate. The breeder represents a new generation of the nuclear fission reactors used in today’s nuclear power plants. But, unlike current reactors, the breeder would produce more nuclear fuel than it consumes, thus giving the nation a virtually unlimited supply of electricity.
Indianapolis public schools were ordered by a federal judge to transfer 6,500 black pupils in grades one through nine to eight outlying school districts this year. In addition, U.S. District Judge S. Hugh Dillin ordered the school district to present a plan or alternative plans by October 15 for final desegregation of city schools. Dillin acted in a suit brought by two black parents on behalf of all black schoolchildren in the Indianapolis area. His order requires that the enrollments in school districts to which students are transferred be about 15% black after the transfers. Court records show that of the 77.732 children in the Indianapolis school system. 57% are white and 42% are black.
The lack of sleeping pills caused the deaths of identical twin doctors two weeks ago, the acting New York City medical examiner said. Toxicology tests showed that the doctors, Cyril and Stewart Marcus, who practiced gynecology at New York Hospital and Cornell University Medical Center, had died from sudden withdrawal from pentobarbital, a strong. quick-acting sleeping pill. Colleagues had reported that the two had been behaving strangely and that their professional connections were being severed. The medical examiner said that more than 40 bottles that had contained pentobarbital had been found in their apartment.
Citing a lawyer’s rights of confidentiality, a judge in Syracuse, New York, dismissed misdemeanor indictments against attorney Francis Belge for failing to tell authorities that he had found the body of a murder victim. He had been charged with violating the state public health law in failing to report the death of Alicia Hauck, 16, of Syracuse. Belge had been told where to find the bodies of Miss Hauck and Susan Petz, 22, of Skokie, Illinois, by Robert Garrow, whom he was defending in another murder chase. Garrow later admitted having killed the two women. The judge agreed with Belge’s contention that he had been bound to secrecy by the lawyer-client relationship.
More than 60% of beef consigned to the military failed in spot checks to measure up to standards, a Senate subcommittee said. The panel said that up to 1 million of the 1.7 million pounds of beef shipped to depots around the country had been rejected for containing metal, hair, flies, or other foreign materials, being underweight or being too fatty. Subcommittee Chairman Lawton M. Chiles Jr. (D-Florida) and the ranking Republican member, Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr. of Connecticut, said the poor showing demonstrated the laxity of inspection performed by suppliers and military buyers before the meat was shipped.
The highest temperatures ever recorded in Massachusetts (107 °F at New Bedford) and Rhode Island (104 °F at Providence) took place during a heatwave in northeast United States.
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Tommy Davis batted in two runs with a double in the third inning and Don Baylor accounted for two with a homer in the sixth as the Orioles defeated the Brewers, 6–1, for their sixth straight victory. Doug DeCinces also had a round-tripper for the Orioles. Darrell Porter ruined the shutout bid by Mike Torrez, hitting for the circuit in the sixth to account for the Brewers’ run.
Billy Martin had his first game as manager of baseball’s New York Yankees for owner George Steinbrenner being hired and fired in several times between 1975 and 1988. Martin made a successful debut as manager of the Yankees, succeeding Bill Virdon, with a 5–3 victory over the Indians before an Oldtimers Day crowd of 43,968. Boog Powell homered with two men on base for the Indians’ runs in the sixth inning. The Yankees came back with a pair in their half and then won with three runs in the eighth. After infield hits by Roy White and Thurman Munson, Martin disdained a sacrifice and let Graig Nettles swing away for the single that drove in the tying run. Chris Chambliss followed with a single to put the Yankees ahead. Sandy Alomar drove in another run with a single later in the inning to clinch the outcome.
Denny Doyle extended his batting streak to 20 games with three hits as the Red Sox defeated the Tigers, 7–2. The Tigers took a 2–1 lead with homers by Jack Pierce and Gary Sutherland before the Red Sox put the game away with five runs in the fourth on a single by Rico Petrocelli, a hit batsman, singles by Bernie Carbo and Doyle, a double by Carl Yastrzemski and single by Fred Lynn. Petrocelli batted in the final run with a double in the seventh inning.
After Bert Blyleven pitched the Twins to a 4–1 victory in the opener of a doubleheader, Bill Butler showed a reversal of form and also beat the White Sox in the nightcap, 8–3. Blyleven allowed five hits and the only run off his deliveries was unearned. Butler had an 0–3 record and earned run average of 7.13 before twirling the route with a seven-hitter. Tony Oliva homered and Rod Carew, Eric Soderholm and Jerry Terrell batted in two runs apiece in the Twins’ support of their lefthander.
Jeff Burroughs batted in four runs to pace the Rangers to an 8–2 victory over the Angels. Burroughs accounted for two RBIs with a double in the first inning and added two others with a homer in the fifth. Dave Moates also homered for the Rangers in the eighth and Tom Grieve drove in two runs with a single.
A single by Billy Williams in the eighth inning, scoring Claudell Washington, enabled the Athletics to defeat the Royals, 6–5. Reggie Jackson homered for the A’s in the fourth to tie the score at 1–1 and Willams led off the fifth with another homer to spark a four-run outburst. The Royals rallied for three runs in the sixth and tied the score with a circuit clout by Amos Otis in the seventh. However in the eighth, Washington doubled with one away and Jackson walked. After Joe Rudi popped up, Williams came through with his game-winning single.
Jon Matlack yielded only five hits and pitched the Mets to a 6–0 victory over the Pirates. The Mets scored off Bruce Kison in the first inning on a double by Wayne Garrett and single by Ed Kranepool before breaking the game apart with five runs in the seventh. Garrett and Felix Millan hit two-run singles and Rusty Staub batted in the final marker with a sacrifice fly.
Pinch-hitting in the ninth inning, Nate Colbert came through with a three-run homer to give the Expos a 4–3 victory over the Phillies. Although collecting only four hits off Steve Renko and two relievers, the Phillies scored two runs on a walk and homer by Greg Luzinski in the fourth inning and added a tainted tally on a double by Jay Johnstone and error by Larry Parrish in the eighth. The Expos’ initial run came in the third on a single by Jose Morales and double by Bob Bailey. Tom Underwood retired the first batter in the Expos’ ninth before Tim Foli and Barry Foote singled. Underwood’s first pitch to Colbert proved his undoing with the homer by the Expos’ pinch-hitter.
After rain delayed the start of play for two hours and 17 minutes, Bob Forsch went out and pitched the Cardinals to a 4–0 victory over the Cubs in the first game of a scheduled doubleheader. The second game was postponed because of darkness. The Cardinals got to Rick Reuschel for a run in the fourth inning on a double by Ron Fairly and single by Ted Simmons. A single by Bake McBride and triple by Willie Davis added a tally in the eighth.
The longest game by clock in the league this season, four hours and 41 minutes, wound up with the Braves defeating the Padres, 8–6, with a two-run homer by Darrell Evans in the 15th inning. Ralph Garr walked and was forced by Rod Gilbreath before Evans decided the marathon with his circuit clout.
A homer by George Foster in the fifth inning was enough to give the Reds a 1–0 victory over the Dodgers and pin defeat on Andy Messersmith. The Dodgers’ starter yielded only one other hit in eight innings on the mound. Mike Marshall gave up two more in the ninth. The Dodgers collected seven hits off Tom Carroll and forced his exit with one out in the seventh, but Clay Carroll pitched hitless relief for the rest of the game.
The Astros, after wasting a 6–1 lead, tied the score in the ninth inning only to lose to the Giants on a wild pitch in the 10th, 8–7. Jose Cruz had three hits and scored three times for the Astros, while Bob Watson batted in two runs. Von Joshua and Gary Thomasson homered for the Giants. Joshua also had two other hits and drove in three runs. After the Giants took a 7–6 lead on Bruce Miller’s second run-scoring hit of the game, the Astros tied the score in the ninth with singles by Enos Cabell, Watson and Ken Boswell. However, in the tenth Marc Hill singled and Joshua sacrificed. Mike Sadek, coming in to run for Hill, advanced to third on an infield hit by Derrel Thomas and scored the winning run on a wild pitch by Jim Crawford.
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Baltimore Orioles 6
Detroit Tigers 2, Boston Red Sox 7
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Chicago Cubs 0
Oakland Athletics 6, Kansas City Royals 5
Cincinnati Reds 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 0
Chicago White Sox 1, Minnesota Twins 4
Chicago White Sox 3, Minnesota Twins 8
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Montreal Expos 4
Cleveland Indians 3, New York Yankees 5
New York Mets 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
Atlanta Braves 8, San Diego Padres 6
Houston Astros 7, San Francisco Giants 8
California Angels 2, Texas Rangers 8
Born:
Chris Liwienski, NFL guard and tackle (Minnesota Vikings, Arizona Cardinals, Miami Dolphins), in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
Joe Dillon, MLB pinch hitter, second baseman, and outfielder (Florida Marlins, Milwaukee Brewers, Tampa Bay Rays), in Modesto, California.
Ingrid Rubio, Spanish actress (“Infidels”), in Barcelona, Spain.
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