Hundreds of anti-Communist demonstrators using stones and gunfire broke up a Communist rally in Alcobaca in central Portugal led by the party’s secretary general, Alvaro Cunhal. Several persons on both sides were badly injured in the fighting around the sports stadium. Mr. Cunhal, who had been the main speaker, ended the rally and retreated into a room in the stadium. Party aides said he was ailing and asked for a doctor, water and fruit juice. Between 2,000 and 3,000 Communist militants and a large group of Portuguese and foreign newsmen were trapped inside the stadium and were waiting for military forces from nearby Caldas da Rainha.
Premier Vasco Gonçalves, opposed by a large part of Portugal’s military and political forces for his Communist leanings, acknowledged for the first time tonight that he was having trouble governing. But the Premier indicated clearly that he was not yet ready to yield to demands that he resign. After two days of emergency high‐level meetings while half of Lisbon was enjoying a long holiday weekend, he called on the people for support, saying that they should demand an end of military divisions and party quarrels that were diverting attention from the country’s economic and other problems. Hardly had the Premier spoken when anti‐Communist violence broke out again in northern Portugal with an attack on a Communist rally in Alcobaça, 60 miles north of Lisbon.
The Official wing of the Irish Republican Army appealed for peace talks among all militant organizations in Northern Ireland to end the violence that left 11 persons dead and more than 200 injured last week.
Former Greek President George Papadopoulos said here today that he led the 1967 coup to save the country from Communism and civil war. In a signed statement to the press issued from the prison where he is held, Mr. Papadopoulos said that his conI science was clear. He and 19 other figures in the coup are on trial before civil court on charges of treeson and insurrection in connection with the coup. The 56‐year‐old former colonel, whose coup established a seven‐year dictatorial regime and then collapsed in July of last year, said: “As God is my witness, I declare that deviation from legality by revolution was not my desire.”
The wife of Andrei D. Sakharov a well‐known Soviet physicist and civil rights activist, left Moscow by train for the West today to obtain treatment of an eye ailment that she says is gradually causing blindness. Mrs. Yelena Sakharov, 52 years old, received permission last month to travel abroad for treatment after nine months of waiting and two rejections by Soviet authorities of her visa application. Mrs. Sakharov plans to spend several days in Paris before traveling to Siena, Italy, where eye specialists have offered to treat her. The Siena clinic has reported success with the type of ailment afflicting her, a form of glaucoma.
Secretary of State Kissinger briefed President Ford here today on the progress of Middle East negotiations as they evidently awaited a signal from Israel that would lead to a resumption of shuttle diplomacy by Mr. Kissinger next week. Asked if there would be an announcement here of such a trip, Mr. Kissinger said “I don’t know yet” as he sat with the President in front of a fireplace in the recreation room of Mr. Ford’s rented chalet. Officials who accompanied the President to the Rocky Mountain retreat suggested that it would be at least noon tomorrow before Mr. Kissinger would be certain whether a series of shuttle trips between Cairo and Tel Aviv would produce a new agreement on a separation of forces in Sinai. The Israeli Cabinet was scheduled to meet tomorrow to consider the outlines of the new agreement that reportedly would call for an Israeli Military withdrawal from the Gidi and Mitla Passes and the Abu Rudeis oilfields in exchange for an Egyptian assurance of nonbelligerency. Cabinet approval of such a plan could come, it was said here, by late evening in Israel.
Israeli artillery opened sporadic fire this morning on the brown stony hills and orchards that roll along the Lebanese border from Mount Hermon to the Mediterranean. “Oh, they do it regularly,” commented a sun‐tanned United Nations observer nonchalantly, looking down from his whitewashed outpost to a tidy kibbutz just across the border. “But they usually don’t shoot on the Sabbath.” To the west, outside the port city of Tyre, flower‐covered jeeps armed with recoilless rifles carried the bodies of two Palestinian guerrillas killed early this morning by Israeli naval gunfire. Guerrillas in red berets flourished their AK‐47 rifles in the funeral procession. It was another day on the Lebanese border with Israel, an area of Israeli and Palestinian raids, firing of rockets, air strikes and artillery barrages that show no sign of abating even as “peace” is discussed elsewhere.
A pro‐royalist coup attempt has been foiled in Yemen, according to informed sources in Sane, the Yemeni capital, who were quoted today by the independent Beirut daily, An Nahar. The sources said that Sheik Bazel al‐Wajih was arrested as he was about to leave for Jidda, Saudi Arabia, and was found to be in possession of correspondence between Prince Mohammed Ben Hussein, of the former royal family, and a large number of army officers and tribal leaders.
The new Dacca government moved today to take Bangladesh out of the political orbit of India. A day after the military coup in which the government of President Mujibur Rahman was overthrown and Sheik Mujib was reportedly killed, the Bangladesh radio stressed the common cause of the world’s Islamic countries, and referred in a friendly way to Pakistan, which was the first country to grant diplomatic recognition to the new government. The Bangladesh radio, monitored in Calcutta, said that Sheik Mujib had been buried “with full honors” in Tungipara, his hometown, 60 miles from Dacca. The Indian government expressed grief at the Sheik’s death and said it was watching developments.
Rep. Joshua Eilberg (D-Pennsylvania), chairman of the House immigration subcommittee, said the United States should turn to a third country, possibly China, to mediate the return of Vietnamese refugees who want to go home. He had just returned to Washington from a fact-finding tour which included a stop at refugee camps in Guam. He said there are 1,620 refugees at camps in Guam who say they want to go back to South Vietnam, and an estimated 200 more on the U.S. mainland, but that efforts to repatriate them were getting nowhere.
More than 200 Southeast Asian students who have been attending U.S. colleges under an American-sponsored educational program will receive no more financial support from the U.S. government after August 21, the Agency for International Development said. AID spokesman Gale Wallace confirmed that funds to the students, including 210 Vietnamese and 24 Laotians, would be halted.
Typhoon Phyllis slammed into Japan’s southern island of Shikoku with winds up to 120 m.p.h., killing one person and halting air and sea transportation. Police said the typhoon dumped more than three inches of rain on Funato in Kochi province in one hour. They said an estimate of damage was not immediately available. The storm was expected to cut across the western half of the country’s main island of Honshu before heading into the Japan Sea.
Serious industrial strife has been reported in a second Chinese province within a month. A regional radio station said dissidents had fomented factional fighting and greatly disrupted production in Heilungkiang, one of China’s richest and most productive provinces. Earlier, in Hangchow, Chekiang province, thousands of troops were sent into factories and schools to maintain order and halt spreading unrest, a Chinese broadcast said.
Premier Chou En‐lai of China conferred today with Cambodia’s Deputy Premier, Khieu Samphan, who is on his first visit outside Cambodia since the Communists captured Phnom Penh on April 17. The official Chinese news agency, Hsinhua, reported that the meeting took place in a hospital here where Mr. Chou has been recuperating from a heart ailment. Mr. Khieu Samphan arrived here yesterday for an official visit. He was accompanied at the meeting with Mr. Chou by other members of the Cambodian delegation, including a new Deputy Premier, Ieng Sary, who is in charge of foreign affairs. The agency said that Cambodia’s nominal Premier, Penn Nouth, who has been living in Peking as a member of Prince Norodom Sihanouk’s government‐in‐exile, also attended the meeting.
Two guerrillas and four policemen were wounded in a shooting in El Salvador after a bomb accidentally -exploded in a guerrilla hideout in a residential neighborhood of San Salvador, the nation’s capital. Police said that six guerrillas inside the house opened fire with pistols and submachine guns when police and firemen rushed to the scene to investigate the blast. Four of the guerrillas escaped.
Honduras has canceled all contracts under which the Standard Fruit Company and a subsidiary of United Brands export bananas from this Central American nation. President Juan Melgar Castro announced the action last night in a broadcast speech to the nation, referring to the damage done to Honduras by a $1.25‐million bribe scandal involving United Brands.
Forty-four professors, students and employees of the education department of the University of Chile in Santiago have been arrested for Marxist activities, the military government announced. All are in the custody of intelligence agents but some will be released for lack of proof of serious involvement in the alleged activities, according to Admiral Arturo Troncoso, the military junta’s minister of education. He said the university remained autonomous, but he was “not going to accept politics in the university.”
Mateus Neto, a leader of the National Front for the Liberation of Angola, one of the territory’s three feuding independence movements, was kidnapped in Luanda yesterday by six armed men, his wife, who is living in Stockholm, said today. Mrs. Neto said her husband was abducted just outside the Luanda airport and that a pilot had seen it. The pilot then conveyed the details to one of Mr. Neto’s brothers who was working in the control tower, Mrs. Neto said. “There were six of them — two whites, two blacks and two mulattos,” Mrs. Neto told a newsman here by telephone from her hotel.
Heavy fighting raged today in Lobito, Angola’s main port, previously said to be controlled by the Popular Movement. “Everyone is racing to a nearby peninsula to get away, an amateur radio operator in Lobito, 350 miles south of Luanday, reported. “They are using motor, sailing and fishing boats. It’s another Dunkirk.” He said mortar shells and rockets were landing in the center of the town, sending people fleeing to the peninsula without food or water. Yesterday, the Popular Movement reported that its troops control of Lobito after fighting off troops of National Front and of the Independent Union for the Total Liberation of Angela. The fighting began in Lobito two days ago.
The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola threatened “grave consequences” today for foreign correspondents if they continued what was termed deliberate falsification of news from embattled Angola. At a news conference called by the Ministry of Information in the now‐defunct transitional government. Information Director Luis d’Almeida, a Popular Movement representative, accused foreign journalists of sending distorted dispatches on the fighting and of labeling his organization as Marxist. Dr. d’Almeida cited the British Broadcasting Corporation, United Press International and Reuters, and characterized as untrue reports that the two other nationalist groups had taken control of the southern port of Lobito.
Serial killer Ted Bundy was arrested by Salt Lake County police sergeant Bob Hayward after fleeing when Hayward approached Bundy’s Volkswagen Beetle. In the search of the car, Hayward found burglary tools and a ski mask. Bundy would be identified as the kidnapper of Carol Da Roach and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Transferred to a jail in Colorado to stand trial for a murder there, he would escape in 1977 and committed three more murders.
The American public is less confident that economic conditions will improve in the next six months, according to a Gallup Poll survey. Interviews with 1,529 adults showed that 40% believed conditions would get better but 39% predicted they would get worse. Last June, 42% foresaw better times ahead. Optimism was at its lowest in August, 1974, when only 13% predicted improvement.
The Justice Department announced in Washington that it would soon make public “as much information as possible” in the spy cases involving Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Attorneys for Hiss and the two sons of the Rosenbergs were seeking the records under the Freedom of Information Act. Hiss was convicted of perjury. The Rosenbergs were convicted on spy charges and were executed.
The retired admiral who brought long hair to the Navy, billeted women on ships of the line and gave a better break to black seamen during his widely publicized tour as Chief of Naval Operations is cruising Virginia this summer and making waves on the otherwise calm political waters of Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., the 54‐year‐old former navy “whiz kid, was here “testing the water” today for a race as a Democrat next year against Senator Byrd, the incumbent heir of one of this century’s great, unbeatable, conservative political names. “The water is not as cold as I thought it might be,” the admiral observed in an interview. Senator Byrd’s father, the late Senator Harry Flood Byrd, ruled Virginia politics—and often swayed the national government — until his retirement in 1965 from an impregnable redoubt called the “Byrd organization” that took him from the Virginia Governorship to a position of power for 32 years in the Senate. “Young Harry” Byrd, who is 60 now, inherited his father’s seat by appointment, and has since survived two elective bids to hold it. Another election is coming in 1976.
A Federal District Court judge in Detroit declined to order the widespread busing of children to accelerate the desegregation of Detroit’s public schools. In a long-awaited decision, Judge Robert DeMascio rejected two divergent desegregation proposals, both involving extensive busing, that had been advanced by the Detroit Board of Education and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The judge ordered the school board to devise a less-sweeping desegregation plan with less busing. In Detroit, the school population is 74 percent black and 26 percent white.
The nuclear industry is growing worldwide, with more suppliers moving into more countries, selling a wider range of related technology. Such exports have become the focus of a worldwide controversy that has spread to high levels of international diplomacy because such plants produce a by-product — plutonium — which after relatively simple chemical reprocessing can become the raw material for a nuclear bomb. To prevent the ostensibly peaceful uses of nuclear power from being used for the development of nuclear weapons, the supplier nations are reported to be in secret negotiations in an attempt to reach agreement on rules governing the controls to be placed on sales. But the efficacy of the controls is being questioned.
A ransom, believed to be $4.5 million, was left for the kidnappers of Samuel Bronfman II early this morning, with an agreement that the 21-year-old heir to a liquor fortune was to be released within hours. But last night there was no word from the kidnappers about the release of the young man, abducted eight days ago. Law enforcement officials were becoming increasingly concerned about his well-being. The New York Daily News and the New York Times reported that the ransom had been paid. The Times said the elder Bronfman had deposited the money shortly before returning to his Fifth Avenue apartment in New York City and reportedly had said his son was “all right.” But the day passed with no other developments.
That millions of Americans cannot afford legal counsel when they need it — the poor, the elderly, Indians on reservations and middle-class people — is a fact known among the legal profession. Ways to change that situation are increasingly getting the attention of lawyers, but not yet with any resolution. Lawyers are calling for solutions that include legal clinics, the deliberate undercharging of middle-class clients on personal matters and bar association backing of public interest law firms.
In the seven weeks since the Supreme Court ruled that certain mentally ill persons may not be confined against their will, the decision has not, apparently, led to the release of a single mental patient other than Kenneth Donaldson, the plaintiff in the case that led to the Court’s decision. It had been expected that thousands of people would soon be released from psychiatric hospitals, but the decision has produced little more than controversy about its narrow and sometimes vague language and efforts to decide how, or even whether, it may be immediately applied. Physicians and lawyers say each of the three conditions on which the decision says a mental patient may be released is stated imprecisely enough to need further clarification.
A research study funded by Consumers Union says it has found evidence that multi-national drug companies “take advantage of a weaker regulatory situation” in Latin America “to pursue labeling and advertising policies of a dangerous kind.” The study said that the companies “frequently minimize risks’ and exaggerate claims” for their dugs in a way they cannot do in the United States because of federal restrictions. The drugs discussed are sold only by prescription in the United States.
Garbage piled up at the rate of 3,000 tons a day in Detroit streets and alleys as a wildcat strike by 800 city drivers entered its fourth day. The walkout by members of Teamsters Local 214 has also crippled the city’s water, recreation, and public lighting departments. Officials said many city workers who belonged to other unions were honoring Teamsters picket lines. There were unconfirmed reports that Mayor Coleman A. Young planned a weekend meeting with top Teamsters officers. Earlier, a county circuit judge had refused to intercede in the dispute, saying the situation was not yet “an emergency,” but he said he would take up the city’s request for a court order against the strike again on Monday.
A search for six missing crewmen on the smoldering British tanker Globtik Sun was suspended until the vessel cooled off. The six have been missing since the ship rammed an oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico and caught fire. A Coast Guard spokesman said all fires had been put out on the 734-foot vessel and the threat of a 300,000-barrel oil spill appeared over, but the ship was too hot to be searched. An air search in the vicinity of the accident was continuing, he said. Two tugs were towing the Globtik Sun to Galveston, Texas.
Chicago literary appraiser Ralph G. Newman, under indictment on charges of having helped to falsify former President Richard M. Nixon’s income tax returns, was indicted again on a charge of lying to Internal Revenue Service agents. Newman, president of the Chicago Public Library Board, was charged with lying three times in connection with his appraisal of the value of Mr. Nixon’s historical papers.
The nation’s major cigarette manufacturers filed suit in U.S. District Court in New York against the Federal Trade Commission, accusing the agency of having improperly charged them with failure to put health warnings in their advertising and promotions. The suit challenged an August 1 FTC letter threatening civil penalties for “apparent violations” of orders specifying the size and typography of health hazard warnings. Joining in the suit were Brown & Williamson, Phillip Morris, American Brands, R. J. Reynolds, and Liggett & Myers.
British singer Peter Gabriel announces his departure from the rock group Genesis.
Musical revue “Rodgers & Hart”, featuring songs of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, closes at Helen Hayes Theater, NYC, after 108 performances.
Major League Baseball:
Pinch-hitter Ed Goodson’s bases-loaded single in the ninth inning pushed the Braves past the Cardinals, 8–7. The winners rallied when Vic Correll, who hit a three-run homer in the first, walked off losing reliever Bob Gibson. Rowland Office singled and Dave May walked to load the bases before Goodson batted for winner Tom House. Buddy Bradford’s two-run homer in a three-run fifth had given the Cards a 7–6 lead.
Joe Torre hit a two-run homer in the second inning and the Mets used two errors in a two-run sixth to defeat the Giants, 4–2, as Craig Swan notched his first victory of the season. The Mets’ final rally started when Dave Rader dropped Dave Kingman’s pop fly. After Torre walked and was forced at second on Jerry Grote’s grounder, Jack Heidemann hit a grounder that Chris Speier threw into right field, allowing pinch-runner Wayne Garrett to score and sending Grote to third. Swan then hit a soft liner to second that Derrel Thomas elected to let fall. The double play attempt, however, failed as Grote scored.
The Padres scored four runs in the ninth to defeat the Phillies, 5–1. Johnny Grubb opened the ninth with a single, and after Dick Allen made a diving catch of Tito Fuentes’ bunt, Dave Winfield walked. Losing pitcher Tug McGraw struck out Willie McCovey, but Mike Ivie followed with an RBI single. Bobby Tolan added a two-run triple and scored when Larry Bowa threw away Hector Torres’ grounder. Randy Jones allowed four hits, including a homer by Allen.
Tony Perez’ tie-breaking two-run homer and Cesar Geronimo’s solo blast in the eighth powered the Reds past the Pirates, 5–3. Craig Reynolds’ first RBI of the season on a seventh-inning double had tied the score at 2–2 for the Bucs, who suffered their fifth consecutive defeat. Rawly Eastwick gained his 13th save in the Reds’ 12th victory in their last 13 games.
Jose Cardenal singled and homered to drive in two runs as the Cubs edged the Astros, 3–2, on Rick Reuschel’s eight-hitter. Cardenal followed Rob Sperring’s single and Rick Monday’s sacrifice bunt with an RBI single in the first and hit a homer in the third. Singles by Andre Thornton and Manny Trillo and a sacrifice fly by Steve Swisher plated a Cub run in the second.
After singling in the tying run in the eighth inning, Jim Dwyer singled in the winning run in the 10th as the Expos nipped the Dodgers, 3–2. Losing pitcher Mike Marshall gave up a leadoff double to Barry Foote in the 10th. After Tony Scott came in to run, pinch-hitter Jim Lyttle was intentionally walked and Jim Dwyer singled. Bill Buckner hit a two-run homer for the Dodgers.
Roger Moret extended his scoreless inning streak against the White Sox to 22 before being sidelined by a stiff neck in a 5–0 Red Sox victory. Jim Willoughby completed the two-hitter with two scoreless innings of relief for his eighth save. Dwight Evans homered and tripled for two Red Sox runs.
Buck Martinez drove in two runs with a double and single and John Mayberry hit his 28th home run for a club record as the Royals edged the Yankees, 4–3. The Royals scored twice in the second inning on a triple by George Brett, sacrifice fly by Tony Solaita and triples by Al Cowens and Martinez. In the fourth, Cowens singled, stole second and scored on Martinez’ double. Mayberry hit a solo shot in the fifth. Nelson Briles gained the victory in relief of Steve Busby, who departed in the third after being hit on the right elbow by Fred Stanley’s line drive.
Jim Fregosi hit a three-run homer and Tom Grieve added a two-run shot as the Rangers bested the Orioles, 5–1. Gaylord Perry notched his fourth straight victory with an 11-strikeout, seven-hitter. The home runs upped Ross Grimsley’s four-bagger yield to 23 for the season.
Jim Hughes pitched a six-hitter as the Twins coasted past the Indians, 9–1. Phil Roof had a home run, double, single and two RBIs. Dan Ford added a double, two singles and two RBIs to lead a 20-hit attack, tying the club record. After the frustrating loss in Minnesota, Indians manager Frank Robinson chewed out his 52-65 team. The fiery skipper appeared to have gotten the players’ attention when the Tribe wins 27 of the remaining 42 contests, finishing season just one game under .500.
Ray Bare pitched a two-hitter and the Tigers collected 16 hits to defeat the Angels, 8–0, and snap their 19-game losing streak, one shy of the American League record. Bare had a no-hitter until Dave Chalk singled with two out in the seventh inning. Bill Freehan led the Tigers with two singles, a double and triple for three RBIs.
Bill North’s one-out, bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth gave the Athletics a 2–1 win over the Brewers. Tommy Harper scored the winning run after pinch-running for Sal Bando, who walked as the leadoff batter in the ninth. Harper moved to third on a bloop double by Phil Garner and, after Bert Campaneris was intentionally walked to load the bases, scored on North’s sacrifice fly. Rollie Fingers struck out four of six batters for the relief victory. The Brewers’ run came on Charlie Moore’s first major league homer.
St. Louis Cardinals 7, Atlanta Braves 8
Texas Rangers 5, Baltimore Orioles 1
Detroit Tigers 8, California Angels 0
Boston Red Sox 5, Chicago White Sox 0
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Cincinnati Reds 5
Chicago Cubs 3, Houston Astros 2
New York Yankees 3, Kansas City Royals 4
Cleveland Indians 1, Minnesota Twins 9
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Montreal Expos 3
San Francisco Giants 2, New York Mets 4
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Oakland Athletics 2
San Diego Padres 5, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Born:
Taika Waititi, New Zealand film director (“Boy”, “Thor: Ragnarok”), in Raukokore, New Zealand.
George Stults, American actor (“7th Heaven”), in Detroit, Michigan.
Michael Coleman, MLB outfielder (Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees), in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jin Ho Cho, Korean MLB pitcher (Boston Red Sox), in Jeonju, South Korea.
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