President Francisco da Costa Gomes of Portugal swore in a new cabinet devoid of any strong political base but leaning toward the Communists. He said the cabinet, formed earlier in the day by Premier Vasco Gonçalves, was a stop-gap government that he hoped would provide for a political pause during which “we may construct something more definitive.” He was warned on Thursday by political parties and fellow military officers of the threat of a Communist dictatorship. Under the new government, General Gonçalves will have two Deputy Premiers, Jose Texeira Ribeiro, an economics expert from the University of Coimbra, and Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Arnao Metelo, the Minister of the Interior in the previous cabinet. That cabinet collapsed shortly after the Socialist and Popular Democratic parties resigned from the year‐old coalition government. General Gonçalves promised quick emergency measures to deal with the long‐neglected economic crisis. He warned that what he termed “neo‐fascist” activity would be severely repressed and he appealed for reconciliation and unity among all Portuguese who favored socialism.
The Communist party newspaper Pravda today invoked the Helsinki declaration of the European security conference to warn the Common Market countries against what it contended was new interference in Portugal. It was the first time that the official Soviet press cited the declaration of principles, which was signed just a week ago, to advance an argument. Western diplomats here have expected that Moscow would begin using the declaration to bolster its position in its dealings with the West. The objection raised by Pravda today concerned the decision of the Common Market members in Brussels last month to defer until this fall the question of whether to give Portugal economic and financial assistance. In a commentary datelined from Lisbon, Pravda asserted that the Common Market would approve such aid “only if events in Portugal develop in a direction that suits the capitalistic West.” To lay down such conditions, it concluded, was “to interfere directly in the internal affairs of the Portuguese.”
The British Government has given official blessing to the idea that the daily radio broadcasting or parliamentary debates will benefit politicians and public alike. In an announcement in the House of Commons late yesterday, William Price, under secretary of the Privy Council Office, said the Government hoped that Parliament would approve permanent broadcasting of proceedings in the Commons early next year. The final decision is up to the 635 members of the Commons, which has had a special subcommittee assessing the matter since a one‐month experiment ended early in July. The Government’s backing, with the generally favorable reaction to the experiment among M.P.’s, means virtually certain approval.
Israeli gunboats appeared off southern Lebanon tonight as Israeli artillery shelled three villages close to the border, according to residents of the areas. The Lebanese Army fired flares when reports of the gunboats were received about 9:30 PM, they said. The villages of Yarin and Dhaira, near Tyre, and the village of Aitaroun, near Bint Jbeil, were the targets of intermittent artillery shelling, but the villagers reported no casualties or damage. Israeli flares were also fired in the Bing Jbeil district, the residents said. Since an attack against Tyre and a neighboring refugee camp on Tuesday — when 18 people, including four Lebanese officers, were reported killed — Palestinian guerrillas have been on a state of alert.
Israel has submitted to the United States her latest proposals for a new agreement with Egypt, and there was increasing optimism about the chances of reaching a new accord in the next several weeks. A final, intensive round of diplomatic shuttling by Secretary of State Kissinger was believed by Israeli officials to be likely. The latest Israeli ideas on a new agreement were passed to Secretary Kissinger last night by Simcha Dinitz, the Israeli Ambassador in Washington. Their meeting followed a conference here earlier in the day of Premier Yitzhak Rabin and the two other Israeli negotiators, Foreign Minister Yigal Allon and Defense Minister Shimon Peres. The three reviewed Egyptian proposals and comments relayed earlier in the week by Washington. After their meeting, sources close, to the ministers reported that the latest Egyptian ideas contained “significant changes” from earlier offers.
Egypt’s relatively moderate stand on the issue of expelling Israel from the United Nations, which was brought into the open at last week’s African summit meeting in Uganda, has underscored the sharpening divisions between two camps in the Arab world. On one side are the Libyans, the Iraqis and extremists among the Palestinians who oppose negotiated settlement with Israel. On the other are the Egyptians and, to some extent, the Syrians. The Egyptians, who voted last month with other Islamic nations at Jidda, Saudi Arabia, to demand expulsion of Israel from the United Nations, seemed to alter their position in Uganda, where they quietly prevailed upon African heads of state to adopt a resolution merely urging “pressure” on Israel. That resolution provoked an angry anti‐Egyptian and anti-African outburst from Colonel Muammer el‐Qaddafi, the Libyan, leader, and also from the Palestine Liberation Organization, which had not criticized the Egyptians for‐almost six months.
The fate of 10 Japanese terrorists who landed in Tripoli, Libya after a flight from Malaysia with four hostages remained unknown today. The Libyan Government was reportedly considering freeing the 10, who gave themselves up peaceably after a Japan Air Lines DC‐8 brought them and the hostages here, ending a four‐day ordeal that began Monday when five of the terrorists took over the consular section of the United States Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital. The plane, carrying its crew of nine and two Japanese and two Malaysian officials who had come along as guarantors of the terrorists’ safety, left Tripoli later today. The government’s decision on the terrorists — five more, released from a Japanese prison, joined the original five on the flight to Libya — was said to be up to the Libyan leader himself, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi.
Mohan Dharia, the lone voice of dissent in parliamentary action that cleared Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of election abuses, has been expelled from the governing Congress party. The 50‐year‐old Mr. Dharia was dismissed as Minister of State for Planning by Mrs. Gandhi in March because he advocated a dialogue between her and Jaye Prakash Narayan, a leading critic of the Government who later was imprisoned. Mr. Dharia also openly accused the Congress party of corruption and called for reforms.
India’s Parliament today completed legislative action designed to insulate the election of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from challenges in the courts. By a vote 161 to 0, the upper house ratified a constitutional amendment that shields the Brime Minister and three other high‐ranking government officers from having their elections to office even considered by the judiciary. With the opposition boycotting the session, the debate lasted less than three hours. It consisted largely of speeches praising various aspects of the state of emergency that Mrs. Gandhi’s Government declared six weeks ago to combat what it said was a threat of internal disruption.
The Thai Government today ordered the expulsion of two Laotian diplomats in retaliation for the arrest of two Thai military attaches in Vientiane Tuesday on espionage charges. The Laotian Ambassador to Thailand, Phagna Anurack Ruja Sena, was summoned to the Thai Foreign Ministry this morning and handed an “urgent” note saying that it was necessary for the counselor and third secretary of the Embassy “to depart from Thailand as soon as possible as they are no longer considered persona grata by the Government of Thailand.” The two men will return to Vientiane tomorrow. According to reports reaching Bangkok, Laotian policemen arrested two assistant Thai military attachés at their “house in Vientiane on Tuesday, together with a Thai mechanic. The policemen searched the house and questioned the men before arresting them. They also removed their belongings, which are said to have included weapons, strategic documents, and transmission materials.
The Banqiao Dam, in China’s Henan Province, failed after a freak typhoon, drowning over 26,000 people and leading to famine and disease that killed 145,000 more. At 12:30 am local time, the Shimantan Dam, on the Ru River, gave way from a downpour; thirty minutes later, the pressure caused the Banqiao dam to burst, and 62 more dams further downstream failed as well. A large wave, at least 3 meters (nearly 10 feet) high, swept through the valley rendering eleven million people homeless. The People’s Republic of China would not acknowledge the disaster until 30 years later.
Seeking to escape the bloodshed that has already taken 5,000 lives in Angola, whites are abandoning their homes, farms and jobs and are fleeing by air, land and sea. About 20,000 whites were crowded into schools and exhibit halls in Nova Lisboa, Angola’s second largest city; another 20,000 were trying to reach South-West Africa, and plans were under way to airlift out 20,000 more. This is the largest exodus of whites from a black African country since the chaos in the former Belgian Congo in the early 1960’s. Three black independence movements are fighting for control of Angola, which will be freed from Portugal on November 11.
Gerald Ford took over as President pledging to pursue the same foreign policies that had brought wide respect to Richard Nixon. A year later, Mr. Ford has neither altered those policies significantly nor left a discernible imprint of his own on international affairs. The fact that he has not produced a personalized foreign policy has worried White House aides who are looking toward the 1976 elections, according to the second of a series of three articles assessing Mr. Ford’s first year in office.
The United States Steel Corporation, the nation’s largest steel producer, announced price changes that would raise the company’s prices an average of 3.8 percent between now and October 1. The increases, although bringing about a delay in larger price rises announced earlier this week by two smaller steel makers, confirm that there will be a general price increase.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was negligent in handling a 1971 airplane hijacking in which three persons died and has entered a judgment of $388,530.98 against the Federal Government. The court yesterday reversed a lower court’s ruling that actions of the FBI were immune from civil action. The appellate court said that immunity could only be applied if the Government agents involved acted reasonably and within the guidelines of the law. The decision said that James O’Connor, special agent in the Jacksonville, Florida, FBI office, was negligent in his handling of the October 4, 1971 hijacking of a charter airplane from Nashville. It said that Mr. O’Connor had violated the FBI handbook on hijackings by failing to consider the safety of passengers ahead of action against the hijacker. There were five persons on the plane. The court awarded $269,441 to the estate of the pilot, Quinton Downs of Nashville; $56,958 to the estate of Susan Germaine Giffe, wife of the hijacker, and $62,131.98 to the owner of the plane, Big Brother Aircraft, Inc.
Leon Jaworski, the former special Watergate prosecutor, lavishly praised the nation’s judges today for their work in both Watergate and other cases and castigated persons who criticize the judiciary. Mr. Jaworski, in a speech tonight at the American Bar Association here. said that the judiciary’s performance in Watergate was “resplendent.” He contended that in other cases as well — despite “adverse and burdensome conditions” — the courts “by and large” have continued to administer justice in the highest tradition.” Yet, he said, there is great “misunderstanding” about the proper role of the courts. And, he said, “In these days, when justice miscarries, we find it paraded in prominent headlines, and reformer‐activists as well as those who seek radical changes in our system (for which they offer no substitute) talk ceaselessly about it — often dramatizing their comments so as to distort the facts.”
A year after the scandals of Watergate drove him to resign the Presidency, Richard M. Nixon is emerging from the trauma of that ordeal and, according to associates, is taking an active interest in Republican party politics. The exile of San Clemente was said by several friends who see him frequently to be spending hours on the telephone “talking 1976 politics” with persons of influence in Republican affairs, urging upon them the necessity of keeping the party united behind President Ford’s election. “He is deeply concerned about the challenges from the right to Mr. Ford’s leadership,” said one friend, “especially efforts by Ronald Reagan and a few others to mobilize Republican conservatives, even though he is confident those opponents cannot possibly succeed in casting the President aside. “He feels strongly, nevertheless, that any right‐wing revolt centering largely upon foreign policies which President Ford inherited from him, and has generally kept intact, would not only be a gift to the Democrats but would turn the party back toward obsolete and dangerous isolationism with serious consequences for the nation and the cause of world peace.”
Officials of the National Security Agency said in a closed session of the House Select Committee on Intelligence today that “at the present time” the agency was not eavesdropping on domestic or overseas telephone calls placed by Americans, the committee chairman reported. But the chairman, Representative Otis. G. Pike, Democrat of Suffolk, said that after more than four hours of testimony he and a “great many members” of the committee still had “doubts” that the agency was not intruding on telephone calls placed in this country by American citizens. Moreover, Mr. Pike said there were contradictions in what N.S.A. officials said and what was reported to the committee earlier this week by William E. Colby, Director of Central Intelligence, and Albert C. Hall, who is in charge of the Defense Department’s intelligence operations. Mr. Pike did not say what the contradictions were.
Federal officials ended a two-hour meeting in Washington with representatives of New York City’s Municipal Assistance Corporation still resolutely opposed to government backing of the corporation’s municipal bonds but full of encouragement for the city’s efforts at self-help. “They believe we’re very much on the right road and if we continue on the same path, we won’t need it [federal help],” said Felix G. Rohatyn, chairman of the M.A.C. financial committee and spokesman for the New York group. A statement issued after the meeting said that the federal officials viewed recent actions by the city as “clearly in the direction which is necessary to place New York City on a sound financial basis.”
A New York criminologist testified today at the Joan Little murder trial in North Carolina that Clarence T. Alligood, the night jailer at the Beaufort County Jail, may have tried to clean the blood off his body before he died. Herbert Leon MacDonell, professor of criminalistics at Elmira College and Corning Community College, said that light yellow stains on the back and shoulder area of Mr. Alligood’s sports shirt “were consistent with blood diluted with water.” He said the stains could have, been caused by water splashed over the jailer’s shoulder as he tried to wash his face. The testimony is significant because it raises the possibility that the jailer was alive and conscious in the early morning hours of August 27, 1974, when Miss Little fled the cell where she was appealing a breaking and entering conviction. Miss Little has said that she slew Mr. Allgood after he assaulted her and attempted to rape her.
Governor Carey of New York signed a bill requiring both parties in a divorce action to file sworn statements of net worth before the start of the trial. The bill, which had been sought by the women’s movement, requires complete disclosure of all income and assets, including any transfer of assets during the preceding three years. This provision was intended to prevent a husband or wife contemplating divorce from deceptively lowering his or her net worth in a last-minute financial manipulation.
An explosion tore through an entrance of the United States Courthouse in downtown Denver early today, the police said. There were no reports of injuries, although damage was extensive. The police said it appeared that dynamite had been deposited at a side entrance to the building. A door and nearby windows were shattered by the blast. In Washington, the United States Marshals Service advised marshals throughout the country to “exercise increased surveillance and screening of suspicious persons in judicial areas of the building.” Several hours before the blast, a bomb threat was phoned to the Denver Westside Court building, where night court was in session. The building was evacuated but a search uncovered no bomb.
Booths operated by Jewish and Nazi groups at the Wisconsin State Fair were closed today following outbursts of anger at the Nazi booth on the opening day of the 11‐day fair yesterday. Officials of the Wisconsin State Fair Board requested the closings yesterday in separate meetings with the groups. The Nationalist Socialist White People’s party, the Nazi group, heeded the request before last night’s midnight closing of the fairgrounds. The Jewish booth, operated by the Milwaukee chapters of, the Concerned Jewish Citizens and the Zionist Organization of America, remained open last night but was not in operation today.
The Civil Aeronautics Board announced a “major liberalization” of charter rules that will make ticket-plus-hotel bargains in the United States and overseas available to anyone at prices that will “frequently be less” than the cost of a scheduled airline ticket. The new charter flights will omit the requirement that a traveler be a bona fide member of a club, society or union or other “affinity” group, The new rules become effective September 13.
Singer Hank Williams Jr. was seriously injured in a near-fatal mountain climbing accident at Ajax Peak in Montana, when the ground beneath him gave way, and fell 500 feet down the slope. After two years of reconstructive surgeries, Williams would set about rebuilding his career and become one of the best-selling country music artists in history.
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Pinch-hitter Champ Summers drove in one run with a sacrifice fly and Gene Hiser singled in another for the seventh-inning runs that boosted the Cubs to a 3–1 victory and a split with Braves, who won the opener, 1–0, on a five-hitter by Carl Morton. The Cubs’ rally began on a two-base throwing error by Darrell Evans. After a sacrifice bunt by Rob Sperring, Summers tied the score before Don Kessinger singled and Rick Monday walked, setting up Hiser’s hit. Darold Knowles replaced winner Ray Burris for his 11th save. Morton extended his scoreless streak to 17 innings in the opener with the only run coming in the first when Ralph Garr doubled, was sacrificed to third and scored on a grounder by Earl Williams.
Larry Parrish’s run-scoring single capped a three-run ninth as the Expos ended the five-game Reds’ win string with an 8–7 victory. Mike Jorgensen tied the score with a two-run single, took second on the throw to the plate and scored on Parrish’s hit. The Reds had taken a 7–5 lead in the eighth on RBI singles by George Foster and Merv Rettenmund. The Expos broke from a 5–0 deficit in the sixth against starter Tom Carroll with Parrish hitting a two-run triple and Larry Biittner, Tim Foli and Pete Mackanin singling in runs. A Rettenmund homer and two-run triples by Pete Rose and Johnny Bench put the Reds in front.
Jim Crawford relieved injured Doug Konieczny in the first and pitched 8 ⅓ shutout innings as the Astros downed the Pirates, 5–3. The Bucs took the lead on a three-run homer by Dave Parker and chased Konieczny when the hurler’s pitching hand was struck by a two-out single by Manny Sanguillen. The Astros scored twice in the first on run-scoring singles by Cliff Johnson and Milt May and added a tally in the second against reliever Kent Tekulve when Jerry DaVanon walked, stole second, took third on Sanguillen’s throwing error and scored on Wilbur Howard’s grounder. The go-ahead runs came in the third on doubles by Greg Gross and Johnson and a single by Doug Rader. The loss was their third straight and ninth in 13 games for the Pirates.
The Dodgers used a pair of RBIs by Ron Cey and homers by Steve Garvey and Jim Wynn to defeat the Mets, 4–3. Mike Marshall hurled three scoreless innings for his seventh relief victory. Wynn and Garvey singled off reliever Ken Sanders to open the Dodger eighth and advanced on a sacrifice before Cey’s hit to center. The Mets had taken a 3–2 lead in the sixth when Dave Kingman was safe on Garvey’s throwing error, took second on Joe Torre’s single, moved to third on Rusty Staub’s sacrifice and scored on a sacrifice fly by Jack Heidemann. Two-out doubles by Torre and Staub and an RBI single by Heidemann scored the Mets’ runs in the fourth.
The first six Cardinals singled in the first inning for a 4–0 lead that grew to 8–0 by the third when winning pitcher Bob Forsch hit a two-run homer before hanging on long enough for a 10–6 victory over the Padres. Forsch added a single to his first major league homer to raise his batting average to .316. The four-bagger was his first since 1970 when he played third base for Modesto (California). Lou Brock, making his first start since July 21, singled twice and walked twice. Mario Guerrero, making his first start in nine days, singled twice and doubled. Ted Simmons had three singles to raise his average to .342.
A ninth-inning single by Dick Allen scored Garry Maddox with the winning run as the Phillies defeated the Giants, 5–4. Maddox singled with one out, stole second and took third on Randy Moffitt’s wild pickoff attempt. Greg Luzinski was intentionally passed before Allen’s hit to left past a drawn-in infield. The Giants had tied the score, 4-4, in the eighth on a three-run homer by Willie Montanez. The Phils scored twice in the second on Luzinski’s homer and an RBI single by starting pitcher Tom Underwood. Luzinski’s sacrifice fly made it 3–0 in the third. Gene Garber pitched a scoreless ninth for his ninth relief triumph.
Larry Gura upped his career record to 3–0 over Nolan Ryan and the Angels with a 4–3 five-hit victory. Ed Herrmann cracked a home run and two singles to pace the Yankees. Ryan lasted 2 ⅓ innings and made two throwing errors in his second comeback bid from a groin pull. The Yankees scored three in the first when Bobby Bonds walked, stole second and raced home when Ryan threw Sandy Alomar’s bunt attempt away. Alomar stole second and then scored on Roy White’s double. White advanced on Ryan’s errant pickoff and scored on Thurman Munson’s sacrifice fly. Dave Chalk hit a two-run homer in the ninth for the Angels, who tied a club record by turning six double plays.
Gene Tenace hit a two-run homer in the seventh to boost the A’s past the Red Sox, 3–2, after Reggie Jackson broke up Reggie Cleveland’s no-hitter with a two-out homer in the same inning. Billy Williams followed Jackson with a single and scored on Tenace’s shot. Cleveland had allowed just two runners on a walk and a hit batsman before Jackson’s No. 28. Winner Ken Holtzman allowed five Red Sox hits before Rollie Fingers struck out four of five batters he faced for his 15th save.
Don Baylor banged a single and double, drove in one and scored twice to keep his batting average at a .708 pace in his last six games and power the Orioles past the White Sox, 7–4. Dyar Miller posted the sixth save in his last eight appearances to clinch the Orioles’ sixth straight triumph. The Orioles chased loser Wilbur Wood with a pair of walks in a three-run eighth capped by Lee May’s RBI single and two-run Ken Singleton one-bagger off Rich Gossage. Dave Duncan homered in the sixth for the Orioles with Deron Johnson connecting in the eighth for the White Sox.
Oscar Gamble greeted reliever Doug Bird with a two-run homer in the eighth for a 4–3 Indian triumph, ending the Royals’ five-game win streak. Dave LaRoche notched his 10th save after John Mayberry homered off winner Roric Harrison, who had a four-hit shutout until the eighth when the Royals rallied on Tony Solaita’s single, Vada Pinson’s forceout, a single by Al Cowens and two-run double by Fred Patek. John Ellis and Gamble drove in early Indian runs off Marty Pattin.
Jim Hughes pitched a seven-hitter as the Twins edged the Tigers, 3–1, for the losers’ 13th consecutive setback, tying a club record set by the 1920 Tigers and tied in 1953. The Twins scored in the first on singles by Dan Ford, Tony Oliva and Eric Soderholm and made it 2–0 in the second on Lyman Bostock’s RBI single. Ford had four hits and drove in the Twins’ final run in the ninth. The Tigers avoided a shutout in the seventh on singles by Tom Veryzer, Ron LeFlore and Gary Sutherland.
A two-run homer by Toby Harrah and three-run pinch-blast by Roy Howell sparked a five-run Ranger sixth and a 6–4 victory over the Brewers. Harrah’s homer followed a single by Lenny Randle off starter Bill Travers, who departed after a double by Jeff Burroughs and a base on balls. Howell, batting for Leo Cardenas, hit the first pitch off reliever Eduardo Rodriguez. The loss was the Brewers’ eighth straight at County Stadium, which had a two-alarm fire in a storage area beneath the grandstand in the morning. Power was restored 2 ½ hours prior to the game.
Chicago Cubs 0, Atlanta Braves 1
Chicago Cubs 3, Atlanta Braves 1
New York Yankees 4, California Angels 3
Baltimore Orioles 7, Chicago White Sox 4
Montreal Expos 8, Cincinnati Reds 7
Kansas City Royals 3, Cleveland Indians 4
Minnesota Twins 3, Detroit Tigers 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Houston Astros 5
Texas Rangers 6, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, New York Mets 3
Boston Red Sox 2, Oakland Athletics 3
San Francisco Giants 4, Philadelphia Phillies 5
San Diego Padres 6, St. Louis Cardinals 10
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 817.74 (+1.95, +0.24%)
Born:
Chris Terry, NFL tackle (Carolina Panthers, Seattle Seahawks, Kansas City Chiefs), in Jacksonville, Florida.
Chad Meyers, MLB second baseman, outfielder, and third baseman (Chicago Cubs, Seattle Mariners), in Omaha, Nebraska.
Jeremy Scott, American fashion designer (Moschino), in Kansas City, Missouri.
Died:
Cannonball Adderley, 46, former high school music teacher who became a contemporary jazz artist.
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