The United States vetoed the proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to the United Nations. The Council had recommended submitting the resolutions to the U.N. General Assembly by a 13–1 margin, with the U.S. against and Costa Rica abstaining. Daniel P. Moynihan, the new American representative, reminded the Security Council that the United States had never before used its veto power to block an application for membership, while other nations had done so. He said the United States would have voted for admission if the Council had not refused even to consider South Korea’s application for membership last week. In barring South Korea, Mr. Moynihan said, the Council had in effect proclaimed “selective universality, a principle which in practice admits only new members acceptable to the totalitarian states.”
U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger today offered the developing nations a compromise United States position on deep-sea mining in an effort to remove a major obstacle in negotiations over a new law of the sea. The proposal was one of several conciliatory gestures to other nations, mostly to developing or so‐called third world nations, in a speech at the meeting here of the American Bar Association. The compromise would permit mining of the deep seabeds both by indvidual nations and their companies and by a new international organization that would mine primarily for the benefit of developing nations. with assistance from the more developed. The developing nations have said that only the projected new organization should be permitted to extract the mineral resources that lie beneath the seabeds; the United States, until now, has said that such mining should be done by the individual nations and their citizens.
Hundreds of demonstrators broke through a protective cordon around the Communist headquarters in the northern Portuguese city of Braga and set fire to the building. About 20 people inside the building escaped. The incident followed an afternoon and night of violence in which 30 persons were injured, most of them with gunshot wounds. Meanwhile, in Lisbon a group of nine anti-Communist military officers said their campaign against Premier Vasco Gonçalves was gaining support. They collected more signatures in barracks around the country and reported that they were receiving a favorable response from 85 percent of the nation’s military units. The violence in Braga, 30 miles north of Oporto, Portugal’s second largest city, left the area littered with debris, and there were bloodstains in the streets. The attack by the Catholics there, was the 35th of its kind on Communist party offices in a little more than a month.
An 18-member U.S. congressional delegation, headed by House Speaker Carl Albert (D-Oklahoma), held more than four hours of talks with Soviet parliamentarians in Moscow on such issues as disarmament, trade and emigration. Albert declined to report on the outcome of the session. However, the Americans had been expected to take up the plight of Jews who wish to emigrate. Soviet authorities are treating this as the first official visit of a House delegation in the history of Soviet-American relations.
The Soviet Union appears to be developing disarmament as a dominant new theme in its foreign policy, following visible satisfaction with the outcome of the European security conference. This has already been indicated in formal remarks by the Soviet leadership, notably Leonid I. Brezhnev, and in official press commentaries. It was further stressed last week when the Government, in endorsing the declaration of principles signed at the Helsinki conference, asserted that the next step was “to supplement the relaxation of political tension with an easing of military tension.” The immediate thrust seems intended to give impetus to two sets of negotiations—the new round of strategic arms talks with the United States and the discussions on the mutual reduction of forces between the Warsaw Pact and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Violence flared in the Roman Catholic stronghold of West Belfast. British troops came under fire from gunmen. And crowds laid siege to a police station after police arrested two men involved in earlier street skirmishing. The outbreak ended a day of mounting tension and minor violence during which troops patrolled the streets in force, trying to avert a repetition of violence that swept the province at the weekend.
French transport planes joined thousands of West German civilians and soldiers battling forest fires that have destroyed 10,000 acres of forests in northern Germany. Authorities said the fires were practically extinguished in some areas. But the fire fighters continued to battle fires in other sectors of the tinderdry region.
The ambiguous wording of remarks by President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing of France that he would limit arms sales to South Africa has made it difficult for South African and foreign sources here to evaluate what effect the policy will have on South Africa’s growing military capability.
British Leyland Motor Corporation, the United Kingdom’s largest auto manufacturer, came under 78 percent control of the British government.
The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith accused the U.S. Department of Commerce of “cooperating and assisting” in the Arab boycott policy toward Israel. A letter of protest from the league to Commerce Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton charged that his department was disseminating purchase proposals from Arab countries which include boycott provisions against Israel.
Israel has decided to boycott a crimeprevention conference of the United Nations, it was announced here today. The conference, set for next month, was transferred to Geneva from Toronto when Canada reacted adversely to observer status for the Palestine Liberation Organization. The boycott decision by the Israeli Foreign Ministry followed criticism of Prof. Shlomo Shosham, a lecturer on criminology at Tel Aviv University, after he had accepted an invitation from the United Nations Secretariat to act as the conference rapporteur, guiding the discussions and organizing the professional papers. Officials in Jerusalem made it clear that Israel’s general policy remained one of not withdrawing from United Nations organizations or conferences even if the P.L.O. was granted observer status. The case of the crime prevention conference is different, an Israeli said, because of the “blatant absurdity of inviting terrorists and criminals.”
High administration officials said that President Ford has delayed indefinitely his plans to visit India this fall because of a tight schedule and the uncertain political situation in India under the state of emergency declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Officially, the State Department and Indian Embassy diplomats say that Mr. Ford’s trip has been agreed to in principle but no exact date has been fixed. Ambassador T. N. Kaul told reporters recently that he thought it might take place early next year because of Mr. Ford’s heavy fall schedule. Noting that thousands of Mrs. Gandhi’s political opponents are reported to be under arrest and that the press is operating under strict censorship, an Administration official said the political climate was not right for a visit.
The Communist-dominated Laotian government, in what it called a goodwill gesture toward the United States, freed Rosemary Ann Conway, an American citizen accused of spying. She was held for more than two months without formal charges. Conway, 37, of Chicago and San Jose, Calif., was not immediately available for comment. She was to leave Laos for Thailand.
The UDT carried out a coup in the Portuguese colony at East Timor, which was in the process of being granted eventual independence from Portugal, beginning a civil war between UDT and a rival independence group, Fretilin. In the civil war that followed, the UDT troops and thousands of refugees were forced, by a counterattack from Fretilin, to flee across the border to Indonesia, but not before their leaders signed a document asking for East Timor to be annexed by Indonesia.
Reports that there had been a coup in Portuguese Timor, the eastern zone of an island in the Malay Archipelago, were denied in Lisbon. A presidential spokesman said militants of Timor’s Democratic Union attacked a police station Sunday to collect weapons, but he denied this represented a coup d’état. “Negotiations are under way to avoid bloodshed,” he said. Timor’s western part is controlled by Indonesia.
The United States will continue to use its bases in the Philippines in accordance with the existing agreement between the two countries and until a new one is negotiated, the State Department said. The statement came in response to a reported agreement between the Philippines and North Vietnam in which they pledged not to allow their territories to be used in conflicts in the area.
Medical officials in Kingston, Ontario, say they have 25 confirmed cases of typhoid fever among people who attended a Free Methodist camp near the Canadian city in July. They said the 300 people who were registered at the camp have been tested for the disease, but “there may be many more” who were not registered. The officials are asking that anyone who was in the camp in mid-July submit to blood tests.
Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba has returned the $2-million ransom paid by Southern Airways in November, 1972, for a hijacked airliner, Senator John J. Sparkman, Democrat of Alabama, said today. The Senator, disclosing the repayment at a news conference, called it “very solid evidence that the Cuban Government is genuinely interested in pursuing a policy of improving relations with the United States.” He urged the Ford Administration to begin a “staged removal” of the United States embargo on trade with Cuba, starting with the immediate elimination‐of all restrictions on trade in food and medicine.
Argentine President Isabel Martinez de Perón reshuffled her Cabinet for the third time in a month today in the midst of Argentina’s worst economic crisis in a generation and continued bickering between factions in the Perónist movement. The key figure in the new Cabinet is an army man, Colonel Vicente Damasco, who took over the Ministry of Interior. Only two ministers were holdovers from the previous Cabinet, Ernesto Nanclares Corvaldn, the Minister of Justice, and Jorge Garrido, the Minister of Defense.
The Luanda radio in Angola reported tonight that the situation in the African territory was “extremely confused” and it said that communications with most of the interior had been lost. There were reports that fighting had spread south to the Nova Lisboa area, one of the main centers of Portuguese colonization in Angola. Tension was said to be growing in the southern city of Sa da Bandeira, which up to now was considered an area of calm, and there were rumors ot violent incidents there. Refugees in relief centers here expressed fear for relatives remaining in Angola and called on the government to evacuate all Portuguese immediately. They accused Portugal’s military government of “betrayal” and threatened rebellion if their demands were not satisfied.
The second of three black liberation factions competing for control of Angola withdrew from Luanda today, leaving the Soviet‐backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in possession of the besieged capital city, which is running out of food and fuel. Portuguese military sources said the collapse of the transitional government could tempt the Popular Movement, led by Dr. Agostinho Neto, to declare independence before Lisbon’s scheduled turnover of power in the West African territory on November 11. The faction that quit the capital today was the National Front for the Liberation of Angola, headed by Holden Roberto. Soldiers of the third group, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, were moving southward from Luanda toward Nova Lisboa. The National Union is led by Jonas Savimbi.
The United States Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia ruled that President Ford had no authority to levy fees of $2 a barrel on imported oil, as he has done this year. In a divided opinion, a three-judge panel said that the only authority granted by Congress to the President to limit imports was through “direct” methods of import quotas. The court also struck down the import fee of 21 cents a barrel imposed by President Nixon in May, 1973. The import fee has not been invalidated, however. The issue now goes back to a lower court for a finding on “appropriate relief.” The administration may also decide to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, or ask for a rehearing by the full Court of Appeals.
President Ford has approved legislation granting the first pay increases in six years to members of Congress, Federal judges, thousands of high-ranking Government employes and Vice President Rockefeller, the White House announced here today. Ron Nessen, the White House press secretary, announced the approval of the pay rise as Mr. Ford began a two‐week working vacation in the Rocky Mountains by playing golf. The President signed into law 19 other measures, including one that he said contained an “unconstitutional exercise of Congressional power” over standards governing the collection of child support payments by the states.
Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) said there was a possibility the U.S. government might have been charged for bribes that Lockheed Aircraft Corp. paid to foreign officials to influence overseas sales of the firm’s widebodied L-1011 commercial jet. He added that the possibility also had been raised that some of the funds borrowed under the government’s 1971 loan guarantee to Lockheed might have been used for foreign payoffs. Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said he would hold hearings on the matter as soon as possible. A Lockheed spokesman said the company would have “no comment.”
President Ford will campaign in New Hampshire — the state with the nation’s first 1976 presidential primary — for the Republican contender in the Sept. 16 rerun Senate election, George Young, the Los Angeles political consultant heading Republican Louis C. Wyman’s campaign, indicated the exact time Mr. Ford would be in the state had not been determined. Former California Governor Ronald Reagan plans to campaign for Wyman Sept. 10. Running against Wyman will be Democrat John A. Durkin.
Jack Ford said today he had advised his father not to run for the Presidency in 1976, but that President Ford did not take the advice seriously. The 23‐year‐old Utah State University graduate said in an interview: “Deep down inside. I would really rather he not run again.” He said he felt this way because of the rigors of the office, but added: “He [the President] never listens to me anyway, so my advice that he not run wasn’t taken very seriously.”
Senator John H. Glenn Jr. of Ohio disavowed today all speculation that he would run as a favorite son Presidential candidate in the Democratic primary in Ohio, but the former astronaut left the door open for a spot on the national ticket in 1976. Mr. Glenn said it would not be fair to his constituents to spend the time and money required to make the race as a favorite son. The Senator’s announcement disappointed the state’s Democratic chairman, Paul Tipps, who said he “would have liked to see” the former astronaut run as a favorite son. Mr. Glenn, however, did not take himself out of the running for a spot on the national ticket.
The Food and Drug Administration may ban some plastic food packages, such as vegetable oil bottles and some meat wrappers, because of a potential cancer link, a spokesman said. In addition, he said, the agency also is about to explore the question of whether water pipes made of the same plastic — polyvinyl chloride — also pose a health risk. About 150 million pounds of PVC in film form are used every year to wrap food.
Joan Little, choking up and breaking into tears on the witness stand today, described how she had stabbed Clarence Alligood repeatedly after grabbing away an icepick she said he had used to force her into an act of oral sex in her jail cell. Speaking in a low voice that had everyone in the courtroom straining to hear, Miss Little, said that the 62‐year‐old jailer had physically forced her to the floor of the cell and held the icepick to her face, forcing. her to comply with his demand. “He was gripping the icepick right in my face… I was looking at that icepick because, I didn’t know what he was going to do, whether he was going to kill me or not,” she said, her voice beginning, to falter. After “three or four or five minutes” of the forced act, she said, the jailer’s hand loosened on the icepick, and she grabbed for it.
The family of Edgar Bronfman, head of the billion-dollar Seagram Company Ltd., said it had received a “substantial” ransom demand from the alleged kidnappers of his oldest son, Samuel Bronfman II, who is 21 years old. A spokesman for the family said that the elder Mr. Bronfman would comply with the ransom demand and the instructions received in a letter, although the letter gave no evidence that the writers actually were holding his son.
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, following a report by his department that dry weather had reduced prospects for this year’s corn crop, called on grain companies to withhold temporarily further sales to the Soviet Union.
The opening of Boston’s public schools under a new integration program will be delayed three school days to give officials more time for preparation. The schools, especially in predominantly white South Boston, were the scene of racial strife last year as black students were bused in. This year they were scheduled to open September 3, but U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. ordered the opening delayed until the following Monday. High school officials argued that they needed at least two extra weeks to work out class assignments. About 26,000 of the system’s 84,000 students are scheduled to be bused.
Walter J. Scott, the brother of Jack Scott, a key figure in the Patricia Hearst case, is missing, his family says. Jack Scott, the sports activist who has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, investigating the case of the missing newspaper heiress, told reporters he last saw his brother in a New York City hotel lobby Thursday. He said Walter was about to make a statement to Jack’s attorneys about alleged FBI wiretaps.
Fear of development prompted purchase of more than 3,000 acres of Florida Keys wilderness by a San Francisco-based conservation organization. Joel Kuperberg, director of the Trust for Public Land, said the $1 million purchase will enable resale to public agencies willing to preserve the natural state of the area. “Too much of the land in the Keys passed out of public ownership many years ago,” he said. The trust hopes to sell the land for about $2 million and use the profit for the acquisition of more acreage.
A scientist who discovered heavy hydrogen and worked on development of the atomic bomb said he opposed sale of nuclear plants to other nations. “It is only a matter of time until somebody will explode a bomb in angry fashion,” Dr. Harold C. Urey said. Urey, 82, a Nobel laureate, said he was “immensely discouraged and frightened” by recent developments in nuclear energy. He received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1934 and later was in charge of purifying the isotope of uranium used in the first atomic bombs.
Following weekend surgery an unidentified hospital source said it was for a kidney ailemnt Dr. Werner Von Braun was in satisfactory condition yesterday at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital. The 63-year-old German born rocket pioneer and NASA official has been a vice president at Fairchild Industries in Germantown, Maryland, since 1972.
Manuel Orantes of Spain upset Arthur Ashe, the Wimbledon champion, 6–2, 6–2, in the final of the United States clay-courts tennis championship tonight.
Major League Baseball:
The Pirates ended a five-game losing streak by defeating the Braves, 8–1, clinching their victory with a six-run explosion in the ninth inning. Rennie Stennett scored the Pirates’ first two runs, one on a wild pitch by Jamie Easterly in the first and the other on an error by Larvell Blanks in the third. John Candelaria, who started on the mound for the Pirates, allowed only four hits in six innings before a blister on his pitching hand forced his exit. Kent Tekulve gave up the Braves’ run on a homer by Darrell Evans in the eighth, but the Pirates then put the game out of reach with their ninth-inning outburst that included a two-run double by Manny Sanguillen.
Skip Lockwood, who pitched five innings of scoreless relief, received credit for his first National League victory when the Mets defeated the Padres, 8–4. Lockwood took over after the Padres had rapped George Stone for four runs in the second to take a 4–3 lead. The Mets tied the score in their half with a double by Gene Clines and single by Felix Millan. Jesus Alou singled in the third, raced to third on a single by Rusty Staub and scored the Mets’ leading run as Joe Torre bounced into a double play. Ed Kranepool then clinched the outcome by smashing a homer with two men on base in the sixth.
George Foster had a perfect 5-for-5 night and Ken Griffey followed with 4-for-5 as the Reds pounded their way to a 9–3 victory over the Cubs. Jack Billingham, who pitched the route, fell behind, 3–1, before the Reds tied the score in the fifth with a triple by Pete Rose, single by Griffey and double by Tony Perez as the chief ingredients. The Reds then broke the tie with a two-run single by Griffey in the sixth and iced the victory with a two-run single by Perez and two-run double by Foster in the eighth.
Jerry DaVanon drove in three runs with the second homer of his major league career and Cliff Johnson rapped four hits as the Astros defeated the Cardinals, 7–2. Harry Parker, making his debut with the Cardinals, was on the mound in the sixth inning when Johnson and Skip Jutze singled and DaVanon hit his homer to nail down the Astros’ victory.
Andy Messersmith snapped his personal three-game losing streak by pitching the Dodgers to a 7–1 victory over the Phillies, who collected only four hits and scored their lone run on a homer by Greg Luzinski. The Dodgers got to Larry Christenson for three in the second inning. Messersmith drew a walk with the bases loaded to force in the first run and Davey Lopes doubled for two more. Willie Crawford homered with a man on base and Messersmith hit a sacrifice fly in the sixth when the Dodgers wrapped up their scoring.
Pitching seven innings, Ed Halicki struck out 12 batters, the season’s high for the Giants’ staff, in a 9–2 victory over the Expos. Halicki, who also drove in two runs with a single, left the game when his right shoulder stiffened. Chris Speier batted in the Giants’ first two runs with a double in the first inning and knocked in another run with a single in the sixth. The Expos’ Jose Mangual struck out 5 times.
The Athletics, after taking a 4–0 lead, staved off a rally by the Red Sox to gain a 4–3 victory. Claudell Washington led the A’s attack with two doubles, scoring one run and driving in another. His second double came after a single by Bill North in the sixth inning and supplied what proved to be the deciding tally. The Red Sox kayoed Vida Blue in the eighth, exploding for their runs on a homer by Fred Lynn, single by Jim Rice and homer by Carlton Fisk. The A’s had to call on three relievers before nailing down their victory.
Yielding only two hits, Mike Cuellar pitched the Orioles to a 4–0 victory over the Royals. Steve Busby matched Cuellar in a scoreless duel until the seventh inning when Bobby Grich knocked in two runs with a double and crossed the plate himself on a single by Ken Singleton. Don Baylor homered for the other run in the eighth.
The Angels stole six bases, setting a club record for one game, while running over the Yankees, 8–1. Four of their thefts came in the fourth inning when the Angels scored three runs to start Pat Dobson on the way to his sixth straight defeat. Mickey Rivers had a perfect night at bat, collecting three singles and a double, and stole three bases to bring his season’s total to 60. The Angels’ team total was 190.
The Tigers absorbed their third straight shutout and 16th defeat in a row when they collected only five hits off Gaylord Perry and lost to the Rangers, 7–0. The Rangers’ support of Perry included a two-run homer by Toby Harrah in the second inning.
Eric Soderholm hit a three-run homer and Steve Braun added a two-run shot to lift the Twins to an 8–7 victory over the Brewers in a game that started off as a slugfest. Don Money homered with two men on base for the Brewers in the second inning and George Scott led off the third with a circuit clout to kayo Bill Butler. Hank Aaron greeted the arrival of Tom Johnson with the 744th homer of his career, but the Twins’ rookie reliever held the Brewers scoreless the rest of the way. Soderholm narrowed the Brewers’ lead to 7–6 in the Twins’ half of the third, hitting his round-tripper after a pass to Johnny Briggs and single by Tony Oliva. Braun then provided the winning blow in the fifth, smashing his homer after a triple by Soderholm.
Pittsburgh Pirates 8, Atlanta Braves 1
Kansas City Royals 0, Baltimore Orioles 4
New York Yankees 1, California Angels 8
Chicago Cubs 3, Cincinnati Reds 9
Texas Rangers 7, Detroit Tigers 0
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Houston Astros 7
Milwaukee Brewers 7, Minnesota Twins 8
San Francisco Giants 9, Montreal Expos 2
San Diego Padres 4, New York Mets 8
Boston Red Sox 3, Oakland Athletics 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 7, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 823.76 (+6.02, +0.74%)
Born:
Chris Kelly [Mack Daddy], rapper (Kris Kross – “Warm It Up”), in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Davey von Bohlen, American guitarist, and singer-songwriter (“The Promise Ring”; “Maritime”), in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Tony Darden, NFL defensive back (San Diego Chargers), in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Joe Germaine, NFL quarterback (St. Louis Rams), in Denver, Colorado.
Died:
Anthony C. McAuliffe, 77, American general famous for answering a German surrender demand at the Battle of the Bulge with the written reply “Nuts!” The U.S. 101st Airborne Division was able to hold out against the German attack for a week until relieved by other American units.
Howard Wendell, 67, American actor (“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, “How to Murder Your Wife”).
Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, 90, Zionist political figure and wife of third President of Israel.
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