Military officers petitioned President Francisco da Costa Games to end what they view as efforts by Premier Vasco Gonçalves to turn Portugal into a Communist state on Eastern European lines. The petition’s sponsors claimed 90 percent support in the armed forces. It was drawn up by nine officers suspended Saturday as members of the High Council of the Revolution for creating divisions within the armed forces. The widespread and often violent campaign to oust the Premier and the four-day-old cabinet picked up speed.
Visiting U.S. congressmen said they had received “firm assurances” that the Soviet Union intends to live up to the pledges it made at the Helsinki security summit. One clause in the Helsinki document calls on signatories to allow greater freedom of personal movement and to deal sympathetically with family reunification. Some congressmen said they understood this to include Jewish emigration. House Speaker Carl Albert (D-Oklahoma) said Soviet parliamentarians did not think emigration was a problem, “but many members on our side did not agree with that.”
President Ford’s appointment secretary said here today that the recent snubbing of Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn was the result of agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union at the time the writer was exiled from his home country. Warren Rustand, the White House aide, told the Scottsdale Rotary Club that Secretary of State Kissinger had insisted that agreements made to prevent Mr. Solzhenitsyn’s imprisonment had to be kept before the President’s trip to Eastern Europe. Mr. Ford initially refused to invite Mr. Solzhenitsyn to the White House because Mr. Kissinger insisted the meeting of the two men would harm American diplomacy.
Secretary General Waldheim, in a report on the work of the United Nations, urged the world organization today to commit itself more strongly to international disarmament. “While the development of rites weapons, nuclear and conventional, continues unabated, disarmament negotiations in the United Nations framework have not led to any significant new agreement in recent years,” Mr. Waldheim declared. Alluding to the contacts between the United States and the Soviet Union aimed at slowing the weapons race, the Secretary General noted that “disarmament negotiations outside the United Nations are also moving very slowly in comparison to the obvious perils of the situation.”
A major Protestant Parade in Londonderry, Northern Ireland today ended in three hours of fighting between British soldiers and rock-throwing Roman Catholic youths. The march, by the Protestant organization known as the Apprentice Boys of Derry, passed through the city with only two minor incidents, but as it drew to a close about 50 youths, most of them 10 to 15 years of age, attacked the marchers. British troops fired rubber bullets and tear‐gas. An army spokesman described the clash as “minor trouble,” but extra army units and armored cars were being called into action two hours after the incident began. In Belfast, British army bomb experts defused a 300-pound bomb in a truck behind a courthouse, it was one of the largest bombs found in Belfast in recent months.
Spanish police have cracked a Basque guerrilla ring that may have been zeroing in on General Francisco Franco and his senior ministers, sources said in Madrid. They reported that police shot and killed a suspected terrorist as he fled across rooftops in El Ferrol del Caudillo, Franco’s birthplace, and three known Basque commandos were arrested in Lugo in a car containing arms. Police also raided and seized arms and ammunition at a hideout of the Basque separatist group ETA in La Coruna, where Franco is vacationing.
Police evacuated all 94 inhabitants of a village in the path of a 30-foot-high wall of flame racing across Lüneburg Heath northeast of Hanover, West Germany. The blaze, which started last week in the middle of a heat wave, already has killed five firemen. Authorities warned the East German government that the fire, now within a few miles of East Germany, might spread across the border.
The elders of the town of Oberammergau in West Germany have decreed that the next enactment of the Passion Play in 1980 will not use a text that has been sharply criticized for blaming Jews for the death of Jesus. The new script will ascribe the condemnation and Crucifixion not to the Jews but to Lucifer, the fallen angel of evil. A majority of the town council voted to give up the century-old text and revert to a 1750 version, which will need some modernization of the language and new music.
The United States reported to Israel tonight the latest Egyptian views on the differences still holding up a new Egyptian-Israeli agreement in Sinai. Secretary of State Kissinger turned over the Egyptian views to Ambassador Simcha Dinitz of Israel. After a two‐hour meeting, Mr. Dinitz declined to give details but said that negotiations were continuing and that in itself represented progress. Earlier in the day, in anticipation of further progress in the talks, now apparently nearing a conclusion, American and‐Israeli officials opened discussions on drafting possible language for the accord that would be completed during Mr. Kissinger’s trip to the Middle East expected to be next week. After a two‐hour meeting at the State Department, officials on both sides said the drafting would probably begin tomorrow and continue for several days.
North and South Vietnam said the U.S. vetoes of their U.N. membership applications showed a hostility that could hamper discussion of such matters as offshore oil exploration and Americans still missing in Indochina. The North and South Vietnamese U.N. observers, Nguyễn Văn Lưu and Đinh Bá Thi, branded the U.S. action a continuation of U.S. policies pursued during the Vietnam war. The United States vetoed the Vietnamese membership applications Monday in the Security Council in retaliation for the council’s failure to put South Korea’s application on the agenda.
Premier Takeo Miki, fresh from his trip to America, turned his attention to domestic politics today and called on Japan’s leftist opposition parties to stop blocking legislation. Mr. Miki, in a televised news conference, said “I don’t think we can say the opposition parties are fulfilling their responsibilities to the people if they keep opposing everything.” The Premier warned that the Parliament, which approved only two major bills in the 190‐day session that ended in early July, “will not function at all with the attitude of ‘all or nothing.’ ”
A political party in Portuguese (East) Timor that says it has staged a successful coup demanded immediate independence today, according to the office of the Portuguese President. A communiqué said that the Democratic Union or Timor known previously as a group favoring continued ties with Portugal, had presented the demand to Portuguese authorities in Dili, capital of the southeast Asian island. The Portuguese Government has not yet stated its position toward the demand. Portugal has denied that the party staged a coup yesterday and said the Portuguese governor was in full control of the situation.
A senior Canadian government official publicly rebuked Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger for postponing a scheduled Ottawa trip to meet with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Richard Murray, commissioner of the Foreign Investment Review Agency, said he found it “a little surprising” that Kissinger could visit Canada twice during the past two years but could not find time to spend a day or two in discussions with Trudeau.
The Nixon Administration planned a covert campaign to keep Salvador Allende Gossens from becoming President of Chile in 1970 through military and diplomatic channels separate from operations of the Central Intelligence Agency, authoritative government sources said today. According to these sources, the Nixon Administration planned to prevent Dr. Allende from assuming the presidency through the C.I.A. on one hand, as reported earlier in The New York Times, while looking into the possibility of applying traditional, though secret, military and diplomatic pressures on the other hand. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is examining both channels through witnesses from the C.I.A. and military agencies.
A member of Argentina’s opposition Central Democratic Party, Senator Amadeo Frugoli, asked the nation’s congress to determine whether President Maria Estela Perón is fit to rule, saying that “the lack of capability of the executive power is now beyond doubt.” Meanwhile, government sources said Argentina’s chief envoy to the European Common Market, Antonio Cafiero, had been called back from Brussels to become economics minister. The portfolio has been filled by five different ministers in the past 10 weeks.
The Portuguese national airline accelerated the airlift of white refugees from the southern town of Nova Lisboa today and authorities said that they planned to evacuate 250,000 to 300,000 persons to Portugal by October 31. It is estimated that 100,000 of its half‐million whites have already fled from the West African territory, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between rival black independence movements competing for control when Portuguese rule ends in November. Portuguese army sources said the fighting in the capital of Luanda had come to a halt with the withdrawal Monday of nearly 600 soldiers of the National Front for the Liberation of Angola. The troops, armed with Chinese weapons, were holed up in a fortress overlooking the harbor and withstood attempts by the rival Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola to drive them out.
Black and white leaders of Rhodesia announced after nearly 10 years of stalemate that they would meet within two weeks to discuss a new constitution for the racially divided country. The talks will start in railway cars on a bridge over the Zambezi River forming the border between Rhodesia and black-controlled Zambia. White-ruled South Africa has been applying heavy pressure to the white Rhodesian Government of Prime Minister Ian Smith to reach a settlement and end the small but growing guerrilla war south of the Zambezi.
The kidnappers of Samuel Bronfman II were reported to be demanding a $4.5 million ransom and to have buried the 21-year-old son of the head of the billion-dollar Seagram Company, Ltd., with a 10-day supply of air and water, according to law enforcement officials. One such source familiar with the investigation declined to say anything about the timetable put forward in a ransom letter but indicated the arrangements were to be concluded before the end of the week. A spokesman for the family said it would have no comment on the ransom letter or the sum demanded.
A Department of Justice crime survey showed that in 1973 there were 37 million victims of crimes in the nation, 40% of them involving personal larceny. The survey, undertaken for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration by the Bureau of the Census, confirmed earlier LEAA findings that incidents of rape, robbery, assault and burglary were three times higher than those reported to the police. Of the 37 million victimizations, about 55% involved individuals, 41% households and 4% businesses.
Walter J. Scott, reportedly a key witness in the investigation of the Patricia Hearst case, is in protective custody because he fears for his life, the FBI said. It would not say where it was keeping Scott. He allegedly is the person who told the FBI that Miss Hearst had stayed for a time last year at a South Canaan, Pennsylvania, farmhouse rented by Scott’s brother, Jack, a writer and sports activist.
The Agriculture Council of America has opened a toll-free nationwide telephone line to enable consumers to report cases where anyone uses Soviet grain sales as an excuse for raising retail food prices, the council said. It first announced plans for the line last week after asserting the sales were needed to keep U.S. farm prices from plunging under the impact of a big harvest and that they would not be responsible for increasing consumer prices. The number — 800-424-3510 — a spokesman said would be in operation this evening from 4 to 8 PM PDT, and perhaps later after the group determines how many calls were received.
Nine persons were injured, one seriously, as several hundred youths attacked motorists passing through Boston’s Mission Hill and Orchard Park housing projects, police said. Authorities reported 17 arrests in the rock-throwing disturbance. They said the violence in the predominantly black sections was non-racial. One of those hurt was identified only as a young doctor reported to have been pulled from his van near Boston City Hospital and beaten. He was on the danger list with multiple injuries.
Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger has issued a preliminary directive to the Navy to stop planning more giant aircraft carriers and to start planning for smaller ones, and the admirals are fighting the order. If Mr. Schlesinger holds to his decision in the review process under way, it could result in a saving of billions of dollars, but with an attendant loss in naval capability. The Navy riled a formal written appeal to the Secretary yesterday and Mr. Schlesinger will hear oral arguments from the admirals within a week. Whatever his final decision, the Navy is certain to continue its fight for the big carriers on Capitol Hill, where it can expect strong support in the House Armed Services Committee and a mixed reaction in the Senate.
A three-man military panel in Waukegan, Illinois, found Marine Sgt. Michael Williams innocent in the beating of Navy recruit Steven Stawnychy at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. Williams, 23, of Moorhead, Minnesota, was charged with assault and battery and maltreatment of a prisoner. Williams was the second of three marines to be charged in the May 13 beating of Stawnychy, 18, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He was hospitalized for several weeks and then committed suicide by lying down in front of a train the day he was released from the hospital. Marine Cpl. William Mason, 22, has been found guilty of his mistreatment.
The Army disclosed that a 42-year-old patient at the New York State Psychiatric Institute died in an Army-sponsored experiment with hallucinogenic drugs in January, 1953. Elizabeth Barrett, a Manhattan widow, said that the man was Harold Blauer, her father, a tennis professional. She said that she was sure the drug was LSD, but the Army indicated that the patient had been given derivatives of mescaline. She said that she had been told the fatal dose was administered over her father’s objection the day before he was to be discharged. A heart attack was given as the cause.
Noted German-born rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, considered to be the father of the American space program, has undergone successful surgery for removal of a malignant tumor, said an official of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She would not say, however, when the surgery took place or from what part of the body the tumor was removed. The Baltimore Evening Sun quoted unidentified hospital sources as saying Von Braun, 63, had been operated on for a kidney ailment. The scientist was a designer of the V-2 rocket used by Germany during World War II. He retired from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration three years ago to become a vice president for Fairchild Industries.
Alaska’s outer continental shelf can produce oil safely using advanced techniques now operating in the North Sea and used during 25 years of marine drilling in offshore U.S. waters, according to an oil industry spokesman. John H. Silcox, a vice president of Standard Oil of California, told a Bureau of Land Management hearing in Anchorage that although conditions in the North Sea are slightly more severe than in the Gulf of Alaska, the oil industry has been able to construct offshore platforms, drill and place undersea pipelines with success.
Urban police departments are increasingly using civilians in many positions. Figures collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation show that the percentage of civilians has increased from 7 percent in 1970 to 13.2 percent in 1972. A study by the Urban Institute projects further sharp increases, explained by the desire of police managers to free officers for “critical” functions.
DDT levels in humans and animals have been reduced by the three-year-old ban on the chemical but the compound’s threat persists, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The pesticide was banned because it stays in the environment and can be carried through the food chain from lower animals to man. From 1970-1973, intake of DDT in human diets decreased from 13.8 milligrams per day to 1.88 and the level in human fat tissue from nearly eight parts per million in 1971 to 5.9 in 1973. The EPA said residues in some birds also have declined but are still high enough to adversely affect other birds, especially birds of prey.
Charles M. Manson says that a pronouncement of his guilt by then-President Nixon prominently displayed in newspaper headlines was the main reason he and three female followers were found guilty of the Tate-Labianca slayings.
A Soviet woman from Kirovograd has become the first female in history to have made 5,000 parachute jumps, Tass news agency reported. Valentina Zakoretskaya, twice world champion, made her record-breaking 5,000th leap during training for national championships later this month, the agency reported.
John Walker of New Zealand became the first person to run a mile in less than 3 minutes and 50 seconds, clocking in at 3:49.4 in a meet a Gothenburg in Sweden.
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Crossing up the Pirates’ strategy, Rob Belloir batted the Braves to a 3–2 victory with a two-run double in the seventh inning for the rookie shortstop’s first extra-base hit and first RBIs of his major league career. The Braves registered a run without a hit on three walks and an out by Mike Lum in the first before Bob Robertson tied the score with a homer in the second. Biff Pocoroba doubled for the Braves in the seventh and was on second with two out when Pirate manager Danny Murtaugh ordered an intentional pass to Ralph Garr in order to get at Belloir, who upset the move with his double. The Pirates rallied for a run in the ninth before Tom House saved the game for Carl Morton by retiring the last two batters.
Continuing his mastery of the Padres, Tom Seaver became a 16-game winner by pitching the Mets to a 9–4 victory, marking his 17th triumph over the San Diego club in 18 career decisions. The Mets staked Seaver to a 7–0 lead before the Padres notched a pair in the seventh on a homer by Randy Hundley. A single by Willie McCovey with the bases loaded added two runs for the Padres in the eighth. Wayne Garrett led the Mets’ attack with four hits in five trips.
The Giants rapped three doubles in the 11th inning and scored three runs to defeat the Expos, 5–2. Larry Parrish knocked in the Expos’ pair with a single in the first. The Giants picked up a run in the second and tied the score with two out in the ninth on a single by Derrel Thomas, pass to Bobby Murcer and single by Gary Matthews. In the 11th, Gary Thomasson led off with a double, Thomas singled and both runners then scored when Murcer doubled. Murcer overran the bag and was tagged out, but Matthews walked and Willie Montanez doubled to produce the Giants’ final marker.
Paced by Tony Perez, who rapped four hits and drove in four runs, the Reds defeated the Cubs in a free-swinging contest, 12–8. The Reds collected 18 hits, with Joe Morgan and George Foster getting three apiece. Bill Madlock had four of the Cubs’ 16 hits and Jose Cardenal batted in four runs with a triple and two doubles. Dan Driessen drove in two runs with a triple when the Reds tied the score at 6–6 in the third inning. A double by Pedro Borbon, infield out and balk produced the go-ahead run for the Reds in the fourth and they added another on a walk to Morgan and singles by Perez and Foster. The Cubs knotted the count in the sixth, but the Reds went ahead to stay with three runs in their half. Perez drove in two with a double and then singled to account for the Reds’ final marker in the seventh.
Steve Yeager hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning to enable the Dodgers to triumph over the Phillies, 7–6. Yeager’s blow, coming after a single by Jim Wynn, a sacrifice and intentional pass to Ron Cey, snapped a 4–4 tie. The Phillies then fell short by one run in their half of the 10th when Jay Johnstone homered off Mike Marshall with a man on base.
A safe squeeze bunt by John Denny in the seventh inning, scoring Ken Reitz, produced the Cardinals’ deciding run in a 5–4 victory over the Astros, who were stopped on their five-game winning streak. Lou Brock drove in two runs with a single in the fifth and Ted Simmons homered with a man on base in the sixth to give the Cards a 4–1 lead before a double by Reitz, infield out by Mike Tyson and Denny’s perfectly-placed bunt added the winning tally. Al Hrabosky replaced Denny with two men on base in the eighth and gave up a three-run homer by Doug Rader before saving the game. The runs were unearned because Reggie Smith bumped into Simmons, forcing the catcher to drop a pop foul by Rader, before the Astros’ batter went back to the plate and smashed his homer.
The Royals broke away with two runs in the 10th inning to defeat the Orioles, 4–2. Amos Otis led off with a single for his fourth hit of the game and stole second with two out. George Brett doubled, driving in Otis with the tie-breaking tally. Harmon Killebrew followed with a single to produce an insurance marker.
Rick Wise extended his personal winning streak to nine games by pitching the Red Sox to an 8–2 victory over the Angels. The Red Sox got started with two runs in the first inning on a single by Carlton Fisk with the bases loaded. Three runs followed in the third on a single by Denny Doyle, double by Carl Yastrzemski, single by Jim Rice, a walk and single by Cecil Cooper. After the Angels picked up their pair in the fifth on a single by Ike Hampton, two walks and a single by Mickey Rivers, Fisk singled in the ninth to account for two of the Red Sox’ last three runs, giving him four RBIs for the game.
Walt Williams and Chris Chambliss each rapped three of the Yankees’ 15 hits in a 7–2 victory over the Athletics. Williams smacked a homer and two singles, while Chambliss contributed a triple, double and single. Doc Medich limited the A’s to six hits while posting his fourth straight victory.
After driving in one run with a single in the fifth inning, George Hendrick broke a 2–2 tie by a smashing homer with a man on base in the seventh to lead the Indians to a 6–3 victory over the White Sox.
Staked to a four-run lead in the first inning, Bill Travers gained his first victory since April 30 when the Brewers defeated the Twins, 7–4. Travers, who had lost seven straight decisions, was lifted in the sixth inning. Pete Broberg relieved, but the Brewers also had to call on Tom Murphy in the ninth to quell a Twins’ rally. In the first, Brewers’ runs counted on a double by Robin Yount, singles by George Scott and Hank Aaron, a groundout by Darrell Porter, single by Mike Hegan and double by Bill Sharp. The Brewers added the deciding run in the seventh on another double by Yount and single by Scott.
After being shut out in three straight games, the Tigers ended their scoring drouth but still lost to the Rangers, 4–3, for their 17th straight defeat. The Rangers scored all their runs in the first inning on a forceout by Jeff Burroughs with the bases loaded, a double by Toby Harrah and single by Roy Howell. The Tigers in the third scored their first run in 32 innings on a triple by Aurelio Rodriguez and single by Tom Veryzer. The Tigers’ two other runs crossed the plate in the seventh. Ron LeFlore hit a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded and, after a walk filled the sacks again, Dan Meyer hit another sacrifice fly.
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, Atlanta Braves 3
Kansas City Royals 4, Baltimore Orioles 2
Boston Red Sox 8, California Angels 2
Cleveland Indians 6, Chicago White Sox 3
Chicago Cubs 8, Cincinnati Reds 12
Texas Rangers 4, Detroit Tigers 3
St. Louis Cardinals 5, Houston Astros 4
Milwaukee Brewers 7, Minnesota Twins 4
San Francisco Giants 5, Montreal Expos 2
San Diego Padres 4, New York Mets 9
New York Yankees 7, Oakland Athletics 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 7, Philadelphia Phillies 6
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Born:
Casey Affleck, American actor (“Manchester by the Sea”; “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”), in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Paul Gaudoin, Australian field hockey halfback (Olympic bronze medals, 1996, 2000) and coach (Australian women’s team 2016-2021), in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Regan Upshaw, NFL defensive end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Oakland Raiders, Washington Redskins, New York Giants), in Berrien Springs, Michigan.
Rod Rutledge, NFL tight end (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 36-Patriots, 2001; New England Patriots, Houston Texans), in Birmingham, Alabama.
Donovin Darius, NFL safety (Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins), in Camden, New Jersey.
Cory Geason, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers, Buffalo Bills), in St. James, Louisiana.
Luis Ordaz, Venezuelan MLB shortstop, second baseman, and third baseman (St. Louis Cardinals, Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Devil Rays), in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Anders Myrvold, Norwegian NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche, Boston Bruins, New York Islanders, Detroit Red Wings), in Lorenskog, Norway.
Raegan Pebley, WNBA forward and center (Utah Starzz, Cleveland Rockers), in Fountain Valley, California.
Died:
Laurance Labadie, 77, American anarchist and author of Anarchism Applied to Economics, and Origin and Nature of Government.
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