A terrorist attack by the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade on the Bayardo Bar, a popular pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killed five people and injured 50. Two people outside were killed by gunfire first, and a bomb thrown inside the bar exploded and collapsed the building. Brendan “Bik” McFarlane was arrested 20 minutes later, along with Peter Hamilton and Seamus Clarke. Sentenced to life imprisonment, McFarlane would later coordinate the 1981 Irish hunger strike at Maze Prison, and lead the successful 1983 Maze Prison escape.
A group of radical but anti-Communist officers in Portugal called for a political system based on organizations such as neighborhood and worker associations but excluding political elections as an aspect of middle-class democracy. This group of officers, who are Commanded by General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, a triumvirate member and military security chief, is the third struggling for predominance. The others are the supporters of proletarian control under Communist leadership, backed by Premier Vasco Goncalves, and the gradualists seeking a transition, supported by free political parties, to democratic Socialism.
The Roman Catholic Church, initially intimidated and embarrassed by a revolution that it neither promoted nor foresaw, has 15 months later taken the offensive against it in terms suggesting almost a crusade. “What is the problem, the real problem that our fatherland faces today?” the Archbishop of Braga, the Most Rev. Francisco Maria da Silva, asked a crowd last Sunday. “The Portuguese problem is this and only this: On one side a minority, against the will of the people, is imposing Communism on the nation in which there would be room for neither an independent fatherland nor for religion; on the other hand, an overwhelming majority says no to Communism. The fight is between the two sides. This is the basic problem and only this.” Some in the crowd then went on to riot, burning down the Communist headquarters in Braga and suffering more than 30 casualties. Clearly the church’s capacity to arouse and mobilize was still formidable.
Margaret Thatcher’s biggest single frustration is that she cannot order up a national election tomorrow. “I think the ordinary British voter is not happy about‐economic and social trends in this country,” she said. “And I think further that they are cynical about Mr. Wilson’s promises to correct them.” In an interview at her pleasant narrow row houses in the Chelsea neighborhood of London, Mrs. Thatcher marked the end of her first six months as Conservative party leader much as she began it with icy comments about Prime Min ister Harold Wilson, pleas for tax incentives for individuals and industry, and a nervous glance or two at the portly specter of the man she displaced former Prime Minister Edward Heath. For much of the interview she came close to the image that both she and the press have constructed intense, prim and tough — the sort of person who punishes vague questions with thin smiles and caustic silences.
What seemed to animate her was the suggestion that some of Mr. Wilson’s recent actions, notably his plans to combat Britain’s 25 percent annual inflation rate by restricting wages and letting unemployment rise, had pre‐empted some hallowed Tory ground and taken away some of her own better issues. “Mr. Wilson,” she said, “is simply catching up with reality, with the reality that foreign investors had lost confidence in us, with the reality that we were running out of money to borrow to keep unproductive industries artificially alive. But he did not go far enough. He has not cut public spending, and he has not been able to control the left wing in his party. His major objective is to keep his party together, which is not the same thing as leadership.”
Japanese Red Army terrorists have entered Spain on a mission to free jailed radicals, the government newspaper Arriba said in Madrid. The paper said nine men and four women, all reportedly members of the extremist group that earlier this month claimed responsibility for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Malaysia, had slipped into Spain from France. It said they might be planning to strike against foreign tourists.
Secretary General Kurt Waldheim announced today that he would ask the forthcoming General Assembly to approve a $737-million budget for the next two years, 21.6 per cent above the two-year $606-million budget for 1974 and 1975. Mr. Waldheim cited inflation and the need for new services, especially Arabic‐language interpretation and records, as reasons for the proposed increase. In 1973, Arabic joined the languages in which United Nations business had until then been transacted — English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese. The Arab nations offered to pay for the full cost of the new facilities to the end of 1976. But these facilities will amount to a $3.6‐million item in the organization’s budget in 1977.
Yuri Zhukov, the Kremlin’s top political commentator, said that stopping the arms race is of paramount importance now that the Helsinki summit conference has been held. Writing in the Communist Party organ Pravda, Zhukov gave new momentum to a developing policy line saying agreements should be achieved so that Europe and America will be able to show the world “how to solve the most important present problem-stopping the arms race and gradual disarmament.”
The papers of Thomas Mann, sealed for 20 years under the German writer’s will, have been opened in Zurich. A representative of the archives said the papers included what amounted to diaries for 1918-21 and from 1933 to Mann’s death in 1955. Thus, they include the period of his shift after World War I from rightist imperialism to left-center support of democracy, as well as his voluntary exile from Hitler’s Germany.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin and his negotiating team today studied Egypt’s reply to Israel’s latest proposal for an interim Sinai agreement and found that it left something to be desired. However the Israelis acknowledged that it had “narrowed the issues to a degree.” No details were disclosed. Ambassador Simcha Dinitz, who had forwarded the Egyptian reply from Washington, was instructed to seek further clarification. The negotiating team, which also includes Foreign Minister Yigal Allon and Defense Minister Shimon Peres, decided that Egypt’s reply did not alter the situation sufficiently to warrant convening the Cabinet before its regularly scheduled meeting on Sunday. The clarifications, to be sought by Mr. Dinitz concern the proposed Israeli pullback as well as political and economic compensation expected from the United States.
Egypt and Israel have moved closer to an interim accord under which the Israelis would surrender almost all of the two Sinai passes, a spokesman for President Anwar el‐Sadat said today. Some differences must still be bridged during a new mission by Secretary of State Kissinger, expected to begin late next week, he added.
Syria is replacing 100 Soviet oil experts with Western technologists because the Russians fell short of Syrian expectations, it was reported in Beirut. The Kuwaiti newspaper Al Siyassa quoted Syrian Oil Minister Adnan Mustafa as saying Syria had depended on Soviet technical advice for 10 years. “But when these did not help in realizing the desired aim, we decided not to renew our contracts with them,” the newspaper quoted Mustafa.
A group of 33 Libyan Army officers attempted to overthrow the government of Muammar Gaddafi and his ruling Revolutionary Command Council, in the first major coup attempt since Gaddafi took power in 1969. The coup failed and the officers would be publicly executed in 1977.
The first 45 of 8,000 French citizens who remained in South Vietnam after the Communist victory last April arrived here today with the most recent reports of life under the new authorities. Most of the refugees interviewed on arrival at Charles de Gaulle‐Roissy Airport said that they had not been allowed to take any money out of Vietnam and that all banks except the Government’s central bank remained closed. One man, however, said he had with him a large amount, received in compensation for a family rice plantation that was nationalized by the Government of Ngô Đình Diệm in the early nineteen‐sixties. Some French concerns — a shipyard, a bicycle factory, a brewery and a cigarette factory — were said to be still operating in Saigon; but on a limited scale. Most of the large landholdings have come under “people’s committees” and the new South Vietnamese administration, the refugees said.
South Korean serial killer Kim Dae-doo murdered 63-year old Ahn Jong-hyun and injured Ahn’s wife, beginning a 55-day spree of killing that would not end until his arrest on October 8, 1975. Over a period of eight weeks, Kim murdered 17 victims ranging in age from an infant to a 70-year-old man, including 14 during the month of September. His final victim was a 26-year-old man, Hong Jin-man.
Fighting broke out in Portuguese Timor today, causing deaths and injuries both in the capital of Dili and the countryside, a government spokesman said. Women and children are being evacuated by sea. There was no report on the number of casualties in the fighting triggered by what was apparently a coup attempt by local anti‐leftist militants. “The situation is so tense in Dili that all commercial establishments and government offices have closed,” the spokesman said. He said the dependents of soldiers were being evacuated by ship to Darwin, Australia.
Three persons were killed and 23 wounded when a grenade exploded in the Rio Theater in Cotabato in the Philippines, sources said in Manila. Violent incidents have left 100 dead throughout the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines in the last week.
A 24-year-old Saskatoon man, with a history of sexual offense against youngsters, was charged with strangling four children whose disappearances had sparked a nationwide search in Canada. The bodies of the four, whose ages ranged from 7 to 12, were found near Saskatoon covered with brush. It was not immediately determined if they had been sexually molested.
Brazil’s Trans-Amazon Highway, started five years ago, is behind its construction schedule but is already a reality, slowly opining the Amazon Basin. It is generally believed that unless oil is discovered in the area, it will be impossible to give it an asphalt surface and make it a year-round, all-weather road.
Several of Argentina’s top military leaders disagree with President Maria Estela Peron’s appointment of a military man as interior minister, reliable sources said. They said the military leaders believe the naming of Col. Vincente Damasco in a major cabinet reshuffle gives the appearance of military interference in the executive branch of government. They want Damasco to retire from the army as a means to defuse the potentially explosive situation, the sources said.
Former Ugandan Foreign Minister Princess Elizabeth Bagaya of Togo denied in London reports that her life had been threatened by Uganda’s President Idi Amin. British newspapers have said the former model was threatened by the president because she was planning a book revealing “the grim facts” of life in Uganda. In a statement issued by her lawyers, the princess also denied that she was lending her name to a film to be made about her in Italy.
Heavy fighting involving the three rival liberation movements in Angola has broken out in the port of Lobito, a Lisbon radio station said tonight. The radio, Clube Portugues, quoted a telephone report from the Portuguese Army in Angola as saying 1,000 people had taken refuge in a barracks in Lobito, a major port and the Atlantic Ocean outlet for the Benguela railroad across Africa. The radio, monitored here, said fighting had spread through the city and outlying districts. Official sources, it said, had reported power and water supplies cut off. It added that the Zaire-backed National Front for the Liberation of Angola had formed an alliance with the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola in Lobito.
Attorney General Edward Levi, addressing the American Bar Association’s convention, disclosed Justice Department proposals to curtail but not abolish, the domestic intelligence operations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Among the proposals were a ban on using informers to plant the idea of committing a crime and a limit on intelligence gathering to situations that might involve unlawful force or violence. Mr. Levi, in a speech to the American Bar Association’s annual convention in Montreal, also outlined Justice Department proposals that would similarly restrict, but not altogether stop, FBI investigations such as those previously taken at the request of the White House and the FBI’s retention and use of unsolicited derogatory information about people, including members of Congress. The disclosures of Watergate and of the FBI’s keeping files on Congressional members have prompted calls for severe restrictions on the FBI. It appeared to some observers that Mr. Levi’s proposals today were designed at least in part to ward off Congressional action for controls more stringent than the ones he is proposing.
President Ford will probably ask the Supreme Court to reverse an appellate judgment that his $2-a-barrel oil import fee is an illegal tariff, the White House said today. Ron Nessen, the Presidential spokesman, said that Mr. Ford had not made a final decision whether to appeal the ruling Monday by the. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. But Mr. Nessen said, “I’ve assumed and I think everybody has assumed from the beginning that it will be appealed.” He told reporters at a briefing in Vail, where Mr. Ford is spending two weeks on a working vacation that an appeal would be intended to establish the President’s legal authority to impose the fee on imported crude oil and would be unrelated to any economic considerations. The President said earlier this week that he was considering lifting the oil tariff if price controls on domestic oil from pre‐1973 wells, so‐called “old oil,” are ended August 31. Congress approved a six‐month extension of the controls but Mr. Ford is expected to veto the extension.
The newest major energy agency outlined today a threepart strategy to have the sun meet one-fourth of the nation’s enemy needs in 45 years. The Energy Research and Development Administration described its national partnership with industry in a research and development effort to get widespread practical uses of the sun for heating and cooling buildings for creating electricity and for turning farm wastes into energy. By the year 2020 Donald A. Beattie deputy assistant administrator said solar energy can replace the equivalent of more than four million barrels of oil a day. That could represent one-fourth the nation’s energy use by then he said. The sun offers a huge and virtually inexhaustible potential supply of energy that is widely available over the United States the agency said. However solar energy will not be utilized unless its costs and in some cases environmental impacts can be reduced.”
The federal government’s efforts to rehabilitate prisoners and prepare them for society are so loosely monitored it is hard to tell what works and what does not, the General Accounting Office says. The congressional watchdog agency said sponsors of inmate training and job-preparation programs often do not keep track of prisoners after they are freed. This makes officials unable to tell whether the federally supported programs were successful or not and inhibits goals of establishing standards for model programs, the GAO said. It recommended that the secretary of labor review what the department’s role in rehabilitating prisoners ought to be, including how much guidance it ought to give.
The American Bar Association registered its opposition today to restrictions on news organizations in sections of the proposed Federal Criminal Code before Congress. The code would redefine federal laws on espionage and the communication and possession of Government information and documents. By a nearly unanimous voice vote, the 340‐member House of Delegates, the policy‐making body of the association, recommended that any codification should “not go beyond present law.” The judicial guidelines “developed under present law have worked well in protecting the nation’s true ‘national security’ interest,” the bar association’s resolution said.
Kent Frizzell, the Interior Department solicitor, is the front runner to become Interior Secretary but support for his nomination by several Senator and most environmentalist could hinge on his views on two controversial environmental issues. The first issue facing Mr. Frizzell, now serving as Acting Secretary, is whether to recommend the grant or denial of leases for four chemical companies to strip mine one‐third of the 150,000‐acre Osceola National Forest in northern Florida. Reubin Askew, the state’s Democratic Governor, and Senators Lawton Chiles and Richard Stone, both Democrats, oppose the leases. The second decision Mr. Frizzell must make is whether to take a position on North Carolina’s application to place 26.5 miles of the free‐flowing, unpolluted New River in the Federal Wild and Scenic Rivers System to block construction of a huge, two‐dam hydroelectric plant by the American Electric Power Company.
A sudden loss of power from two batteries forced a second postponement at Cape Canaveral of the flight to Mars of a Viking spacecraft. It means it probably will arrive too late to land on Independence Day next year as a celebration of the nation’s 200th birthday. As things now stand, the earliest the Viking could leave earth is August 22, which gets the craft to Mars next June 21. Scientists, however, have planned to have Viking spend 18 days in orbit to make sure the landing site and Martian weather are safe. The reason for the battery drain was a motorized rotary switch, which was mysteriously turned on. A problem with a valve forced the first delay two hours before liftoff Monday.
The Agriculture Department issued an administrative complaint charging Wilson & Co., one of the nation’s largest meat packers, with commercial bribery, $38,000 of illegal rebates to customers and conversion of $15,000 of cooperative advertising funds to its own use. The complaint alleged that Wilson’s plant at Albert Lea, Minnesota, made “more than $19,000 worth of illegal payoffs to food store employees over a four-year period to induce the purchase of meat products, a practice known as commercial bribery.”
The General Motors Corporation said it was raising prices on its 1976-model cars by an average of $206, or 4.4 percent, somewhat less than industry analysts had forecast. The company was the first of the four major United States car makers to announce its prices and analysts expected the others to follow its pattern.
A new communication in the form of a tape recording was delivered to the family of Samuel Bronfman II, the kidnapped 21-year-old heir to the Seagram liquor fortune. An unconfirmed report said it was the young man’s voice. It followed apparent messages to the asserted kidnappers that were published as classified advertisements in three newspapers. A law enforcement source familiar with the investigation said things were at a “critical stage.”
High winds, heavy rain and hail pelted parts of Pennsylvania and New York late in the day and downed trees and power lines. But at the same time, welcome rains wet parched areas of the corn belt. Two persons were injured by wind-driven objects in the Buffalo, New York, suburb of Hamburg and electrical power was knocked out for several hours. Power outages also were scattered across metropolitan Pittsburgh and hail fell on the downtown area. The rain falling on some of the drought-hit croplands might have been either too little or too late, officials said. At the same time, severe thunderstorm watches were posted for parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Arkansas.
A young mountain hiker fell to his death despite rescue efforts that included the use of one of the helicopters assigned to President Ford in nearby Vail, Colorado. Jim Olsen of the Vail Mountain Rescue Squad said Grey Bogden Jr., 19, of Golden, was pronounced dead at the scene, about four miles from Vail. Olsen said Bogden, hiking with two companions, fell about 60 feet from a cliff on the Booth Creek Trail. The presidential helicopter flew two rescue squad members to the area.
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A bad-hop single by Mike Lum capped a two-run rally in the seventh inning and brought the Braves a 4–3 victory over the Pirates. Ralph Garr led off with a double, went to third on a single by Rob Belloir and scored the tying run on an infield out by Darrell Evans. Belloir reached third on another infield out by Dusty Baker and then scored the winning run when Lum hit a grounder that took a bad hop over the head of first baseman Bob Robertson.
A homer by Bobby Tolan with two men on base climaxed a five-run rally in the eighth inning and enabled the Padres to defeat the Mets, 8–5. The Padres, who had a homer by Mike Ivie in the fourth, trailed, 4–2, before they began their comeback in the eighth with a run on a walk to Tito Fuentes and double by Gene Locklear. After a pass to Dave Winfield, Ivie singled, driving in Locklear. Tolan then smashed his homer for the Padres’ winning blow.
Gary Matthews walked in the 12th inning and with two out raced home from first base on a double by Willie Montanez to give the Giants a 4–3 victory over the Expos. The first 10 innings of the game were scoreless in a duel between Dan Warthen and John Montefusco. Warthen, who had allowed only one hit, folded in the 11th and gave up a pass to Bobby Murcer and a homer by Matthews. After Chris Speier singled, Don DeMola relieved. Speier stole second and scored on a single by Bruce Miller. The Expos came back to tie the score in their half with a walk to Gary Carter, single by Larry Biittner, double by Larry Parrish and triple by Pete Mackanin.
A homer by Steve Garvey and double and triple by Lee Lacy were the Dodgers’ big blows in a 5–4 victory over Phillies. The Dodgers teed off on Steve Carlton for four runs in the third inning. Davey Lopes doubled and scored the first run on Lacy’s two-bagger. Jim Wynn got new life at the plate when Dick Allen dropped his pop foul and walked. Garvey then smashed a three-run homer. As events turned out, the Dodgers needed another run to win and they got it in the fifth when Lacy hit his triple and scored on a sacrifice fly by Wynn. The Phillies rallied for three runs in their half of the fifth, getting doubles by Mike Schmidt, Tony Taylor and Dave Cash. Another rally in the ninth produced an unearned run before Mike Marshall retired Larry Bowa with the bases loaded to save the game for Burt Hooton.
An infield hit by Luis Melendez with the bases loaded in the 11th inning drove in the Cardinals’ winning run and Bob Gibson struck out three straight batters in a relief role to preserve a 4–3 victory over the Astros. The Cards were forced into overtime when Doug Rader tied the score with a two-run homer in the ninth. With two out in the 11th, the Redbirds loaded the bases against Mike Cosgrove with singles by Ted Sizemore and Ken Reitz and a pass to Mike Tyson. Melendez then topped the ball down the third base line for the hit that scored Sizemore.
Sending 12 batters to the plate, the Angels scored six runs in the third inning and proceeded to beat the Red Sox, 8–3. Mickey Rivers and Adrian Garrett hit run-scoring doubles during the outburst and Mike Miley knocked in two tallies with a single.
A pass to Pete Varney with the bases loaded and two out in the 12th inning handed the White Sox a 4–3 victory over the Indians. Jim Bibby walked Carlos May and then Ken Henderson with one out before giving way to Rick Waits. Jorge Orta beat out an infield hit to load the bases. Lee Richard forced May at the plate for the second out, but Varney batted for Nyls Nyman and drew four straight balls for the walk that forced in Henderson.
Jim Palmer had to wait out two rain delays totaling nearly two hours, but the Orioles’ ace righthander pitched his second two-hitter of the season and beat the Royals, 3–0. The victory was Palmer’s 18th and the shutout was his eighth of the year, tying the Baltimore club record set by Steve Barber in 1961. The Orioles scored all their runs in the sixth inning. Paul Blair singled, stole second and crossed the plate on a single by Lee May before Don Baylor wrapped up matters with a homer.
The Tigers failed to hold a 5–1 lead and lost to the Rangers, 6–5, in 11 innings for their 18th straight defeat. Bill Freehan drove in two of the Tigers’ runs with a homer and single before the Rangers rallied to tie the score in the eighth with doubles by Mike Hargrove and Jim Spencer, a single by Toby Harrah and homer by Tom Grieve. Dave Moates had homered for the Rangers’ initial run in the third. In the 11th, Jim Sundberg beat out an infield hit with one away and Moates singled. After Cesar Tovar came in to run for Sundberg, Lenny Randle forced Moates at second but Gene Michael threw wildly to first attempting to complete the double play, and Tovar scored on the error to doom the Tigers to defeat.
Back-to-back homers by Steve Braun and Danny Thompson in the sixth inning and a two-run blow by Phil Roof in the eighth powered the Twins to a 5–2 victory over the Brewers. Darrell Porter hit two homers to account for the Brewers’ runs.
Catfish Hunter beat his former Oakland teammates for the third straight time this season, allowing only three hits while pitching the Yankees to a 3–1 victory over the Athletics. The Yankees scored in the first inning on singles by Sandy Alomar and Roy White and a sacrifice fly by Thurman Munson before the A’s picked up their lone run in the second with a single by Reggie Jackson, an infield out and two wild pitches. The Yankees broke the tie with their remaining pair in the third. Fred Stanley singled and took third when Bobby Bonds was safe on an error. Bonds stole second. Alomar laid down a squeeze bunt sacrifice to score Stanley, then White hit a sacrifice fly to send Bonds home with the final tally.
The A’s release pitcher Jim Perry and purchase outfielder Tommy Harper from the Angels.
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Atlanta Braves 4
Kansas City Royals 0, Baltimore Orioles 3
Boston Red Sox 3, California Angels 8
Cleveland Indians 3, Chicago White Sox 4
Texas Rangers 6, Detroit Tigers 5
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Houston Astros 3
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Minnesota Twins 5
San Francisco Giants 4, Montreal Expos 3
San Diego Padres 8, New York Mets 5
New York Yankees 3, Oakland Athletics 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Philadelphia Phillies 4
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 820.56 (-7.98, -0.96%)
Born:
Marty Turco, Canadian NHL goalkeeper (NHL All-Star, 2003, 2004, 2007; Dallas Stars, Chicago Blackhawks, Boston Bruins), in Sault-Ste-Marie, Ontario, Canada.
Katryna Gaither, WNBA center (Utah Starzz, Indiana Fever, Los Angeles Sparks, Washington Mystics), in New York, New York.
Brandon Som, American poet, 2024 Pulitzer Prize for “Tripas: Poems”, in Phoenix, Arizona.
James Carpinello, American actor (“Rock of Ages”), in Albany, New York.
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