Ford Administration officials said today that they expected a political fight to develop here when a new accord with the Soviet Union on the limitation of strategic weapons is submitted to the Senate for approval. After the latest talks in Helsinki with Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet Communist party leader, President Ford said that further progress toward an accord had been reached. But aides said that no matter how scrupulously a new agreement was drafted for putting a limit of 2,400 on strategic offensive missiles and bombers, including 1,320 missiles with multiple warheads, it is sure to come under severe scrutiny. Several public figures who are skeptical of Soviet intentions have already charged the Russians with violations or other acts of bad faith in complying with the terms of the 1972 accords.
Melvin R. Laird, a former Secretary of Defense, has accused Moscow of cheating on both the treaty on antiballistic missiles and the interim accord putting limits on offensive systems. Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., former Chief of Naval Operations, in an article written with Admiral Worth H. Bagley, former deputy chief of operations, has charged Secretary of State Kissinger with negotiating the 1972 accords with enough loopholes “to drive a truck through.” They have accused Mr. Kissinger and former President Richard M. Nixon of deliberately deceiving Congress.
At the time of the Nixon‐Brezhnev meeting in 1973, American intelligence noted that the Russians had begun construction of silos that were identical with silos for the large SS‐18 missiles. So far, about 150 of these new silos appear on their way to construction although the 1972 accord prohibits the building of additional launchers. When the issue was raised with the Soviet Union, the Russian’s indicated that the silos were for command and control purposes. American intelligence now seems willing to accept the explanation, but Admiral Zumwalt contends that the silos could be quickly converted to missile use.
Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington) said that the Ford Administration’s design for detente with the Soviet Union could lead to higher prices for the American consumer and a weakening of support for Israel. Referring to the latest multimillion dollar wheat sale to the Russians, Jackson quoted Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns as saying it would lead to higher prices.
A Jewish group meeting in New York said it had decided to press for excommunication from Judaism of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. The conference of presidents of major American Jewish activist organizations said it would send a representative to Israel to consult with rabbinical authorities on the procedure for excommunication. “To be deserving of such a harsh punishment by his people, a Jew must be guilty of acts that are truly dangerous to the physical or spiritual survival of the Jewish people,” a spokesman said.
Two persons died early today in a new flare‐up of anti‐Communist violence while Portugal’s armed forces continued to be beset by political paralysis. The position and power of the Communist party was a major point of contention both in disturbances in northern Portugal in which the two deaths occurred and in the apparent impasse that the Communist‐backed Premier, General Vasco Gonçalves, had reached in his efforts to form a new cabinet. Reports that he had given up continued to be denied by his office, however. An effort by the Communist party to gain control of an important regiment of commando troops based in Amadora, a suburb of Lisbon, failed today when its commander, Colonel Jaime Neves, who had been removed last week, was voted back into power today at a meeting of the regiment’s 850 soldiers. Three officers whom Colonel Neves had publicly accused of mounting a coup against him on behalf of the Communists were turned over to military justice on charges of having organized an “uprising.”
Temperatures soared as high as 92 in Britain as Northern Europe experienced its hottest and driest summer in years. The heat wave extended all the way to the Soviet Union, where the mercury reached into the 80s and raised the threat of a serious harvest failure. France faced its worst drought in 70 years. The dry spell threatened most of the vegetable crop in Switzerland.
Spain’s most wanted terrorist and several accomplices were arrested in an abortive plot to free 40 political prisoners, the government-controlled Spanish television network reported. The broadcast said that among those arrested was Pedro Ignacio Beotegui, a Basque separatist guerrilla leader wanted for the 1973 assssination of Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco. The plotters were attempting to free the political prisoners from a jail in the town of Segovia, the broadcast said.
Two high ranking Communist Party officials and a regional industry minister were fired in a scandal involving nepotism, bribery and theft in the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan. The republic’s party secretary, Geidar A. Aliev, who ordered a wholesale party shakeup in the republic in 1969 and 1970, said there were still many officials who had not mended their ways. The situation was detailed by a newspaper in Baku.
President Ford, calling a Middle East stalemate “unacceptable,” today urged moderation on President Tito of Yugoslavia and then flew home for apparently intensified efforts to obtain a new Sinai agreement. Standing beside the 83‐year‐old Yugoslav Communist chief after a one‐hour private meeting, Mr. Ford said that the two had discussed their “vital interest in progress” in negotiating between Egypt and Israel. “I stated very emphatically that a stalemate in the Middle East was unacceptable,” Mr. Ford said. “I indicated that moderation on the part of all parties was essential.” Marshal Tito, who complained at a state dinner last night that Middle East peace efforts had been insufficient and urged Israeli recognition of an independent Palestinian state, evidently took the President’s remarks about moderation to heart.
Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, Democrat of Texas, last night called onl the United States to grant Israel preferential treatment in trade agreements to counteract the Arab boycott. The Democratic Presidential aspirant, speaking at the closing sessions of the annual meeting of B’nai B’rith’s board of governors, also urged American retaliation if an Arab‐promoted effort to suspend Israel from the next United Nations General Assembly succeeds among the nonaligned nations. “The United States will not tolerate the expulsion of Israel,” Mr. Bentsen said. “Let no one doubt our commitment on that point.”
A rift has been opened between Egypt and the Palestine Liberation Organization over Egypt’s unwillingness to back a resolution at the African leaders’ conference in Kampala, Uganda, calling for the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations. The leadership of the Palestinian group, though it has long been suspicious of President Anwar el‐Sadat’s negotiations over Sinai, which are under American sponsorship, had refrained from any direct criticism of the Egyptian position since the collapse of Secretary of State Kissinger’s mission to the Middle East in March. But last week’s action at Kampala—the adoption by the Organization of African Unity of a watered‐down resolution on Israel that apparently had the tacit blessing of Egypt — has brought a vigorous reaction from the Palestine Liberation Organization. “The dishonorable defense of Israel’s continued membership in the United Nations,” said an editorial in the weekly Falastin‐al Thawra, which reflects the views of Yasser Arafat, leader of the over‐all grouping. of Palestinian guerrilla organizations, “puts us face to face with the facts of American schemes in the area, aimed at imposing complete domination.”
At least 50,000 to 60,000 people have been seized in India since Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency five weeks ago, according to opponents of Mrs. Gandhi and Indians who have recently left New Delhi. The sources said they had worked out the figures from estimates given to them by members of the Indian police. Official Indian Government estimates in mid‐July put the number of peopel arrested at more than 6,000. A call for an international boycott of the New Delhi Government, coupled with a civil-disobedience campaign in India, has been made by George Fernandez, a former Socialist Member of Parliament and President of the powerful All‐Indian Railwaymen’s Federation. He has escaped from prison and is in hiding, according to reports reaching London.
Members of the Japanese Red Army terrorist group fought their way into the American consulate in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, then took 52 hostages, only five of whom were American. The group demanded the release of 7 jailed Red Army members. Japanese Red Army guerrillas who seized the American consulate in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia held about 50 hostages today while they awaited the arrival of seven comrades the Tokyo government had agreed to free. They threatened to kill the hostages, who include the American consul, Robert Stebbins, if Japan did not release their comrades and make arrangements for their safe passage to an undisclosed destination. Premier Takeo Miki of Japan. who is in Washington, ordered the release of the seven men and a flight was arranged to Kuala Lumpur. Five of the JRA prisoners accepted the offer of safe passage and were flown to Libya.
Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki received an appeal for the end of Japanese whaling and for a ban on the transfer of Japanese whaling ships to other countries. The appeal by 27 conservation, environmental and humane associations was delivered to Blair House, opposite the White House, where Miki is staying during a one-week visit to Washington.
The seagoing American tugboat Pioneer reported it was strafed by a Dominican Republic warplane and seized by a gunboat just off the Dominican coast but released several hours later. “They said it was a case of mistaken identity,” said Capt. James Duffy, general manager of Crowley Maritime Corp. in Jacksonville, Fla. “They told the captain they thought it was a vessel running guns or something like that.”
A frost that devastated an estimated 70% of Brazil’s coffee crop is likely to result in handsome profits for planters with large stockpiles, but is expected to cost thousands of field workers their jobs, an agricultural official said in Londrina in Parana state, the hardest-hit area. “The social problem is the most serious one,” the official said.
Argentine President Isabel Martinez de Perón returned to her office today after two weeks. Her presence at Government House temporarily dispelled reports that she was seeking a leave of absence. Mrs. Perón spent most of the last five weeks of political and economic crisis in her suburban mansion where her doctors said she was recuperating from a cold and fatigue. Other official sources had described the President as verging on physical and emotional collapse, and had hinted that she would take at prolonged vacation or even step down.
Chanting Portuguese settlers marched through the center of Luanda, the capital of Angola, appealing for foreign help after a night of sporadic rifle fire and explosions. About 4,000 people marched past the American. French and Brazilian consulates, chanting: “Help us get out of Angola.” The demonstration came despite Portuguese plans, announced Saturday, to airlift between 250,000 and 300,000 whites out of Angola by the end of October.
Daniel Sullivan, a former business agent of the teamsters union, said that Anthony Provenzano, a former union vice president, had threatened the safety of James Hoffa and his family to discourage Mr. Hoffa from attempting to regain the union’s presidency. Mr. Provenzano was said to have been one of three men who met with Mr. Hoffa last Wednesday, the day he disappeared in Michigan.
President Ford made some critical remarks about New York during a meeting with the city fathers of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. When Mayor Beame and City Council President Paul O’Dwyer heard about them they got in a few licks of their own.
Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana, long considered a potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, is taking a first official step toward that goal. Bayh disclosed that papers would be filed today with the Federal Election Commission authorizing a political committee to work on his behalf. The new campaign financing law requires candidates to designate a principal campaign committee before they can raise or spend funds. Bayh said the committee’s purpose would be to determine whether he would have solid, widespread support before he announced his candidacy.
The chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence complained angrily today that the Central Intelligence Agency and other units of the executive branch were withholding information that his panel needed to advance its inquiry into the Federal intelligence community. Representative Otis G. Pike, la Suffolk Democrat who is the chairman, interrupted an appearance before the panel today by William E. Colby, the Director of Central Intelligence, who declined to tell the Congressmen in public how much money is spent each year by the Federal intelligence agencies. Mr. Colby was the third witness in three days to leave the committee’s curiosity unsatisfied James T. Lynn, the director of the Office of Mfanagement and Budget, who testified last Friday, also refused to disclose the key figures in public testimony, and Elmer B. Staats, the Controller General who preceded Mr. Lynn as a witness, said he did not know the answer.
In his testimony, Mr. Lynn repeatedly declined to answer questions about the financial aspects of the C.I.A.’s operations on the ground that he could not make such information available while reporters and spectators were present. The select committee then voted to close Friday’s hearings, but Mr. Pike said today that this had proved fruitless. “We went into executive session,” the chairman recounted, “and the result could only be described as acutely disappointing. We found first that the witness could only testify after the room had been swept” to insure the absence of electronic listening devices. That was done, Mr. Pike said, but then the panel was told that even though the stenographers present to transcribe the hearings were cleared for top‐secret” information, “we could not get all the information we wanted to get. So we got absolutely nothing.”
In an attempt to make up profit and investment tosses, the nation’s fire and casualty insurance companies raised their rates substantially during the first half of the year on millions of home and automobile insurance policies, and as profits are still declining, insurance men say further rate increases are coming.
A civil service commission report released by a congressional committee said that top officials of the Small Business Administration and the agency’s civil service employees got their jobs through political influence exerted by Congressmen and the Nixon administration, not on the basis of merit. The report named persons at the White House or formerly in Congress, but did not mention by name those still in Congress.
New York City’s huge Co-op City housing development, in the third month of a massive rent strike, was hit with a $436 million mortgage foreclosure suit. It was filed in state court by the State Housing Finance Agency and was described by an agency spokesman as “the largest single foreclosure action in history.” Defendants were the Riverbay Corp., operators of the 15,372-family development — the largest of its type in the nation — and more than 11,500 tenants who, the suit says, are in default on payments of carrying charges. The strike begun June 1 is in protest against increases in carrying charges, up since Co-Op opened in 1969 from $23 to $53.46 a room.
Three federal judges ruled that Alabama discriminated against blacks in distributing welfare payments to dependent children and the elderly. Because the predominantly white recipients of old age assistance get more money than the mostly black recipients of the dependent children program, the court said it was convinced that a “racially based discriminatory intent existed.” The court gave Alabama 60 days to show that disparities between the two welfare plans had been eliminated or to submit a plan to equalize them.
A fire bomb spread flames through the halls of the 33rd floor of the downtown Marriott Hotel in New Orleans around midnight, forcing hundreds of pajama-clad guests to flee, a fire department official said. There were no serious injuries and damage was minor. “It was definitely arson,” said Chief William R. McCrossen. He said two other incendiary devices, which failed to ignite, were found on the 31st and 40th floors. Police said they detained one man for questioning after finding him wandering about the second floor in a stolen hotel uniform. He was not identified.
A man apparently went berserk in Springfield, Illinois, and battered eight persons with a claw hammer, police said. One of the victims later died. “We don’t know what caused him to — how would you say it — flip out,” said Police Chief William Ascher. “For some reason he just completely went berserk.” Ascher said Frank H. Sherry was charged with eight counts of aggravated battery. Sherry was eventually subdued by a customer in a drugstore and was reported in serious condition. Two of the injured were in critical condition. The dead person was identified as Mercer Hopper, 68.
Milton Leventhal, a New York stockbroker and an amateur archeologist, recently dug up a life-size, magnificently carved bronze statue of the Roman Emperor Hadrian on a farm in Israel. The statue, dating from the second century, is only the second bronze of Hadrian known to exist. It is being cleaned and prepared for exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Fear of economic exploitation is making it increasingly difficult for U.S. oceanographic research ships to conduct studies off the coasts of developing nations, a marine scientist said in San Diego. American oceanographers are finding South American countries the hardest to deal with, said Dr. George Shor of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Some of these nations, he added, fear the loss of leasing revenues from offshore oil drilling rights because the research might indicate there is no oil off their coasts.
She was born Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon on August 4, 1900, in Glamis Castle in Scotland. She was once a queen. But since her husband, King George VI, died in 1952, her official title has been Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Yet nobody calls Britain’s best loved grandmother that, not even on her 75th birthday today. “The Good Queen Mum,” one columnist wrote. He described her as a smiling lady “in a flowered hat, three-quarter sleeves and three-strand pearls.” The mother of reigning Queen Elizabeth II has long been enchanting the British. But on her birthday there will be no public ceremony, just a family dinner at Buckingham Palace. The Queen Mother, a diminutive woman with China blue eyes, a second cousin six times removed of George Washington, is also noted for her humor. Once, on a tour of South Africa, an aggressive nationalist told her, “We find it difficult to forget what the English did to us.” Her disarming reply: “I do so sympathize. You see, I’m Scots.”
Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant is seriously hurt in a car crash in Rhodes, Greece.
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Don Baylor had a 5-for-5 night and hit one of the Orioles’ four homers in a 12–8 victory over the Red Sox. Bobby Grich, Brooks Robinson and Ken Singleton also rapped round-trippers for the Orioles, while the Red Sox had circuit clouts by Jim Rice and Carlton Fisk. With the score tied, 6–6, the Orioles erupted for four runs in the seventh on a single by Baylor, double by Grich and homers by Robinson and Singleton. Baylor’s boundary belt with Tommy Davis on base in the eighth clinched the outcome.
The Yankees gained their first victory of the season in Milwaukee, after losing five previous contests, when Thurman Munson drove in a run with a single in the eighth inning to beat the Brewers, 2–1. Fred Stanley walked and Roy White singled before Munson decided the game with his hit.
With a two-run triple by Brian Downing as the deciding blow, the White Sox defeated the Angels, 4–2, to enable Wilbur Wood to receive credit for his sixth straight victory. Jerry Hairston walked and Bucky Dent singled before Downing hit his first triple of the season in the sixth inning to break a 1–1 tie. Wood was lifted in the seventh and Rich Gossage gave up a run-scoring single by Adrian Garrett before checking the Angels the rest of the way.
Charlie Spikes, who had only 20 RBIs to his credit previously this season, batted in four runs with a homer and single to lead the Indians to a 6–4 victory over the Tigers. Spikes hit his homer with a man on base in the second inning. After manager Frank Robinson drove in a run with a single in the fifth for the 1,800th RBI of his career, Spikes sent two runs across with his single.
After tying the score with a homer by John Mayberry in the ninth inning, the Royals pushed over a run in the 10th and defeated the Twins, 6–5. Al Cowens drew a walk to open the overtime stanza and Buck Martinez sacrificed. The Twins then walked Cookie Rojas intentionally to get at Fred Patek, who broke up the game with a single that scored Cowens.
Despite experiencing stomach cramps, Fergie Jenkins yielded only six hits and was an easy winner as the Rangers routed the Athletics, 12–0. Lenny Randle set a Texas club record by scoring four runs after reaching base on two walks and two hits. Mike Hargrove drove in three runs, including two with his first triple of the year.
After being held hitless by Randy Tate for 7 ⅓ innings, the Expos broke the rookie righthander’s hold and defeated the Mets, 4–3. Pinch-hitter Jim Lyttle singled for the first hit off Tate, who struck out 13. Pepe Mangual walked. Jim Dwyer fanned but Gary Carter singled, driving in Lyttle. Mike Jorgensen then came to bat and smashed a three-run homer to win the game for the Expos.
Willie Davis, after making a wild throw from the outfield that enabled the Pirates to tie the score in the seventh inning, atoned for his error with a run-scoring single in the eighth to win the game for the Cardinals, 5–4. Bake McBride singled, advanced to second on an infield out by Luis Melendez and scored the deciding run on Davis’ hit.
Leading off the sixth inning as the first batter to face Tom Hilgendorf, Jose Cardenal homered on the reliever’s first pitch to give the Cubs a 3–2 victory over the Phillies.
The Dodgers went over 2,000,000 in attendance for the year and marked the occasion by defeating the Braves, 9–1. The crowd of 25,036 at the game raised the Dodgers’ total to 2,000,184. Darrell Evans homered for the Braves’ run in the first inning. The Dodgers came back with three runs in the home half and then went into a slugging act of their own with a two-run homer by Willie Crawford in the fourth and consecutive clouts by Davey Lopes and Bill Buckner in the seventh.
Rallying for three runs in the seventh inning, the Astros gained a 5–3 victory to spoil the night for the Padres, who drew a crowd of 15,000 to go over the million mark in attendance. Singles by Milt May, Jerry DaVanon and Tommy Helms, pinch-hitting for Joe Niekro, produced the first run in the seventh to tie the score at 3–3. After a pass to Wilbur Howard loaded the bases, Greg Gross singled and drove in two runs for the Astros’ winning margin.
The Reds’ power asserted itself with a grand-slam homer by George Foster in the eighth inning and successive doubles by Pete Rose and Ken Griffey in the ninth to defeat the Giants, 7–5. Foster’s smash off Randy Moffitt put the Reds ahead, 5–2, but the Giants tied the score with a three-run rally in their half of the eighth. Rose and Griffey broke the tie with their doubles in the ninth. Joe Morgan then beat out an infield hit to Chris Speier and when the Giants’ shortstop threw wildly to first, Griffey came home with an insurance run.
Baltimore Orioles 12, Boston Red Sox 8
California Angels 2, Chicago White Sox 4
Detroit Tigers 4, Cleveland Indians 6
Minnesota Twins 5, Kansas City Royals 6
Atlanta Braves 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 9
New York Yankees 2, Milwaukee Brewers 1
Montreal Expos 4, New York Mets 3
Chicago Cubs 3, Philadelphia Phillies 2
Houston Astros 5, San Diego Padres 3
Cincinnati Reds 7, San Francisco Giants 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Oakland Athletics 0, Texas Rangers 12
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Born:
Eric Milton, MLB pitcher (All-Star, 2001; Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers), in State College, Pennsylvania.
Kevin Williams, NFL safety (New York Jets, Miami Dolphins, Houston Texans), in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Andy Hallett, American singer and television actor (Lorne – “Angel”), in Osterville, Massachusetts (d. 2009).
Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress (Josie – “Perfect Stranger”, Beauty – “Something’s Gotta Give”), in Tuitjenhorn, Netherlands.
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