Portugal’s Communist party said that it still planned to hold a rally Tuesday in Oporto, an anti-Communist stronghold in northern Portugal, despite the violent disruption by anti-Communists of a rally in Alcobaca, in central Portugal, Saturday night. The Communist leader, Alvaro Cunhal, and 2000 supporters were trapped for nearly four hours in a gymnasium by a few hundred peasants and had to be rescued by soldiers. A score of people were injured before order was restored. In Lisbon last night, the Communist‐backed Premier, General Vasco Gonçalves, acknowledged that he was in trouble as a result of the campaign against him, but indicated that he was not yet ready to resign. He said divisions in the armed forces and party quarrels were making effective government difficult, and called on the people to demand that unity be restored. The announcement that the Oporto rally would be held was considered by many Portuguese as an act of provocation, or poor political judgment.
The Portuguese armed forces are proving much more moderate in their outlook toward change in Portugal than the revolutionary rhetoric of the past year has indicated. Advocates of go-slow political and economic policies and the preservation of a democratic, multiparty system appear to be winning majority support against efforts to create some kind of proletarian dictatorship under either the leadership of the Communist party or the armed forces. Although the armed forces are officially committed to socialism, the current debate here has made it clear that most military men are not prepared to promote a socialism that establishes a one‐party state with a centralized bureaucracy and rigid conformism. Premier Vasco Gonçalves has been accused of trying to establish such a state, and has been meeting growing opposition. It has come as a shock to many officers and men that a majority of the people are now alienated not only from the Premier, but from the armed forces as well.
Sharply rising commercial arms contracts pushed American sales of military weapons overseas to $11.4 billion in the fiscal year that ended June 30. Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin) reported. Aspin charged that President Ford and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger were encouraging a “mind-boggling” arms race abroad. He said that commercial sales had risen in 1975 to $2.3 billion, up from $502 million in the previous year. U.S. government arms sales accounted for $9.1 billion of the 1975 total.
Turkey announced plans to establish an arms industry capable of providing hardware ranging from ammunition to warplanes. The moveevidently aimed at counteracting the U.S. arms embargo-is intended to reduce Turkey’s dependence on foreign arms, although it envisions the help of foreign technology and credit.
An official of the Union of Algerian Workers in Europe was kidnaped in France by a group of Harkis, former Muslim soldiers of the French army, sources close to the Harkis said. The official, Djelloul Bel Fardel, 42, was being held in a Harki camp near Villenueve Sur Lot, France, and will be released when an unspecified number of members of Harki families are permitted to leave Algeria, the sources said.
President Ford directed Secretary of State Kissinger today to undertake a “critically important mission” to the Middle East this week in search of “a successful conclusion” to negotiations for a new separation of Israeli and Egyptian forces in Sinai. Mr. Ford’s instructions followed what Mr. Kissinger described earlier in the day as formal approval by the Israeli government of several “agreements in principle” outlining the scope of a Sinai accord.
Israeli officials prepared for Mr. Kissinger’s trip to the Middle East with an obvious lack of enthusiasm. The cabinet, after a six-hour meeting, authorized Premier Yitzhak Rabin, Foreign Minister Yigal Alton and Defense Minister Shimon Peres to negotiate through Mr. Kissinger for an agreement with Egypt. But the Israelis strongly indicated that Mr. Kissinger did not have the 90 percent prior agreement between the parties that he had said was a condition for a resumption of his shuttle diplomacy, which was suspended in March when his efforts failed.
An American helicopter company that refused to pay the fares home for 75 of the 141 American pilots it fired in Iran now reportedly has changed its mind, a spokesman for the pilots said in Tehran. Glenn Wood said he had received word that the firm. Bell Helicopter International of Dallas, intended to repatriate all pilots and their families. Wood said the pilots were fired when they formed a bargaining unit to negotiate improved sanitary conditions, safety and training standards.
India’s ambassador to the United States, Triloki Nath Kaul, said on the television program “Face the Nation” that there was no possibility of the Indian military seizing power in India, where President Indira Gandhi has imposed one-person emergency rule. Kaul went on to say that if India found it necessary to react to the coup in neighboring Bangladesh “it would be considered by the duly elected government of India and not by the armed forces.”
The new Government of Bangladesh, declaring that the try was “fast returning to normal” after the military coup Friday, eased the curfew today in the major cities. The government radio, monitored in Calcutta, said that the people had been allowed on the streets again from dawn to dusk in Dacca, the capital, which is 150 miles northeast of here, and in half a dozen regional centers. But the nighttime curfew, strictly enforced by tough, well‐armed troops, remained in effect. According to independent reports filtering out of the country, which remained virtually sealed off from the outside world, fighting continued in some areas between forces loyal to the new government and partisans of Sheik Mujibur Ralunan, the former President, who was apparently killed outside his home in Dacca Friday.
Two Vietnamese officials in Saigon have called on Catholics in South Vietnam to support the revolutionary authorities and the nation in healing the wounds of war and rebuilding the country. Radio Saigon said the appeal was made by the vice president of the military administration and the vice president of the National Liberation Front.
At least 12 persons were killed and 23 were missing on Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s four main islands, as Typhoon Phyllis whipped across it with winds reaching 118 mph. Air and ferry service to Shikoku were cut and eight bridges washed out by the typhoon, the year’s fifth. More than 76.000 households were blacked out by electric power failures, authorities said.
A Portuguese officer said today that about 100 people were believed to have been killed in fighting between rival political parties in Portuguese Timor. Families of Portuguese military and civilian officials in Timor have been evacuated, and arrived in Lisbon yesterday. Major Francisco Mota, chief of political affairs in Portuguese Timor, flew to Darwin on his way to Lisbon to report to the Government there on the situation since the politically moderate Democratic Union carried out what was called a “show of force” last Monday. Major Mote said that there was fighting in the hills of the island colony between the Democratic Union, which favors continued links with Portugal, and the Fretilin patty, which wants immediate independence. Another party, Apodeti, favors integration with Indonesia, which controls the western half of the island of Timor.
Premier Fidel Castro and over half a million Cubans gave President Luis Echeverría Alvarez of Mexico a tumultuous welcome in the streets of Havana today. It was the first meeting be tween the two men. The Mexican President, at the end of a 14‐nation, 42‐day trip across the world, acclaimed the success of the Cuban revolution and its triumph over what he called “the threats and pressures” from abroad and called for the unity of the developing nations in their dealings with the rest of the world. “The Cuban revolution, the struggle of Vietnam and the independence of the African countries,” Mr. Echeverría said, “are unquestionable evidence that our time is one of social change, that our era is one of reaffirmation of the third world, and that our task is to build a more just and humane society.” Premier Castro, dressed in a plain army iniform, met Mr. Echeverría at the José Martí International Airport on the outskirts of Havana. They then rode together in an open green Soviet‐made car through a screaming, flag‐waving crowd.
Argentine President Maria Estela Perón was cheered by thousands of supporters as she attended her first major public function in weeks by presiding over ceremonies commemorating the 125th anniversary of the death of Argentine liberator Jose de San Martin. She left immediately afterwards for a vacation at the seaside resort of Mar del Plata.
The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola captured the territory’s major harbor city of Lobito from two rival groups yesterday but the city was later counterattacked, the Portuguese High Commissioner in Luanda said. General Ernesto Ferreira do Macedo said in a radio announcement that the National Front for the Liberation of Angola and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola had surrendered to the Popular Movement in Lobito, some 400 miles south of here. But, he said, a short time later, fresh National Union and National Front troops arrived, and the fighting flared again. He said Portuguese troops were trying to stop it. The commissioner said that Popular Movement forces had also forced National Front troops out‐of the central Angolan town of Lusa and that there was fighting in Caxito, a National Front stronghold 40 miles north of Luanda.
Secretary of State Kissinger strongly reaffirmed today that United States ambassadors were forbidden to negotiate with terrorists for the release of captured Americans. But Mr. Kissinger denied reports that W. Beverly, Carter Jr., the United States Ambassador to Tanzania, would be dismissed from the State Department for having helped to arrange the release of three Stanford University students and a Dutch woman kidnapped in Tanzania last May by revolutionaries from nearby Zaire. “In any individual case,” Mr. Kissinger said at a news conference here, the American policy “requires heartbreaking decisions.” But he added: “If terrorist groups get the impression that they can force a negotiation with the United States and an acquiescence in their demands, then we may save lives in one place at the risk of hundreds of lives everywhere else.”
After the Ford administration deregulates domestic crude oil prices at the end of August, motorists and homeowners are likely to face increases of 2 cents to 4 cents a gallon for gasoline and home-heating fuel during the following four months, and additional sizable increases in the first half of 1976, according to analysts and industry experts.
Samuel Bronfman II was rescued without violence at 4 AM today on the ninth day of his kidnapping. Forty to 60 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and New York City policemen freed him when they surprised a captor in an apartment in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Two men were arrested and were charged initially with extortion by the use of the mails. They were identified as Mel Patrick Lynch, 37 years old; a city fireman, in whose apartment Mr. Bronfman had been held, and Dominic Byrne, 53,, operator of a limousine service and a neighbor of Mr.. Lynch. The $2.3 million ransom was recovered.
For 24 hours before Samuel Bronfman II was rescued, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were sitting in stakeout cars outside the Brooklyn homes of the two alleged abductors, evidently unaware that the victim was only steps away. It was apparently the sight of two of the waiting agents that frightened one of the suspects into giving himself away by calling on the city police to ask for protection in what authorities said was an attempt to set up an alibi.
President Ford ended his first year in office with a 45% approval rating, according to a Gallup Poll. The figure is down seven points from Mr. Ford’s highest rating of 1975 — the 52% approval he received in late June when his decisive action to recover the captured cargo ship Mayaguez from Cambodian hands was still high in the public mind. The latest survey was conducted during the final days of the President’s trip to the summit meeting in Helsinki. When Mr. Ford took office last year, he had a 71% approval rating. The nation’s economic troubles led to his low point of 37% early last January.
The main energy issue is whether the price of oil will be set by the Arabs or by Congress, Senator Birch Bayh (D-Indiana) said. He said on the TV show “Issues and Answers” that he hoped Congress would override President Ford’s promised veto of the oil price control extension. If price controls lapse, prices will go up, possibly hindering the improvement in the economy, Bayh said. Asked about the recent establishment of a committee to promote him as a 1976 presidential candidate, Bayh said it would assess the possibility of pulling together broad support for him and he would then decide whether to become a formal candidate.
Production of poisonous substances at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal should be stopped, Senator Gary Hart (D-Colorado) said. Hart said one poison, hydrazine, can cause serious burns, convulsions, permanent damage to internal organs and cancer. He said danger also is posed by a large pesticide plant on the arsenal grounds that produces organophosphate pesticides, which, Hart said, have “the same effect on humans as nerve gas.” A Defense Department spokesman had no comment on the allegations.
Six firemen were killed and five others were injured while fighting a blaze at a Gulf Oil refinery in Philadelphia. Two of the company employees prevented further destruction by paddling a rowboat through a pool of hot crude oil and shutting off an open valve in a naphtha storage tank.
Consumers may pay more for milk soon, the National Milk Producers Federation warned. It said a moderate price increase in the weeks ahead could help to maintain milk production. relieving pressure for larger price increases later in the year as supplies grew even shorter. An increase is “inevitable” because of declining milk production and rising production costs in recent months. Federation spokesmen said the milk group got an implied endorsement of increased returns for dairy farmers and a defense of milk price levels from Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz in a private meeting last week.
The charred bodies of three crewmen were found by Coast Guard inspectors aboard the damaged ship Globtik Sun, the British oil tanker that slammed into an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico and burned. Three other crewmen lost in the collision were still missing. Searchers were not able to inspect the entire ship, a Coast Guard spokesman said. because of heat and debris. The ship hit the lighted, unmanned oil platform about 100 miles south of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and was towed to a site about 25 miles south of Galveston, Texas, where its internal fires were put out. Forty crewmen were rescued after manning lifeboats or jumping from the burning vessel.
Six out of 10 teen-age mothers are unmarried or marry about the time of giving birth. And “teen-age pregnancy is largely the result of nonuse or sporadic use of contraceptives,” Cynthia Green and Susan Lowe say in an article in Zero Population Growth’s publication, National Reporter. “Teen-agers tend to believe they cannot become pregnant easily. Of those who did not use contracep tion at last intercourse, 56% stated they were too young to get pregnant, had sex too infrequently to get pregnant or had intercourse at the wrong time of the month.” The survey found that births to girls under 15 had increased 8%, to 10,900 from 9,500, between 1971 and 1973.
Whites say their contacts with blacks slowly but steadily increased between 1964 and 1974. A series of surveys over that period by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan documented an increasing social mixing of the races and a change in attitude about blacks on the part of whites from negative to positive.
Two auto racing legends were fatally injured on the same day, thousands of miles apart. Tiny Lund, who had won the 1963 Daytona 500, was killed in a six car pileup while competing in NASCAR’s Talladega 500 car race in Alabama. Earlier in the day, Mark Donohue, who had set a world record at the same track a week earlier, was fatally injured during a final morning practice, hours before the Austrian Grand Prix, when a punctured tire caused his car to hurtle through a fence. Donohue walked away from the crash, complaining of a severe headache, then went into convulsions. Two days after undergoing emergency brain surgery at Graz, Donohue died of complications.
Major League Baseball:
Bake McBride collected four singles and Ken Reitz and Mike Tyson rapped three apiece in a 19-hit attack that carried the Cardinals to an 8–1 victory over the Braves. A homer by Earl Williams accounted for the Braves’ lone tally.
A single by Pete Rose for the 2,500th hit of his major league career capped the Reds’ scoring in a 3–1 victory over the Pirates, who suffered their sixth straight defeat and 17th in the last 22 games. As result of the setback, the Pirates’ once formidable lead in the East Division was reduced to one-half game over the Phillies, two over the Cardinals and 3 ½ over the Mets. The Reds won although Johnny Bench, George Foster and Tony Perez did not play and Dave Concepcion was out of action with an injured wrist. The Reds nicked loser Bruce Kison for an unearned run to start the scoring in the sixth inning. Ken Griffey bunted, reached second on a wild throw by Duffy Dyer and crossed the plate on a single by Dan Driessen. Darrel Chaney singled in the seventh, stole second and scored on a single by Bill Plummer. After advancing an extra base on the throw home, Plummer also scored on Rose’s milestone single.
The Phillies, who had successive homers by Jay Johnstone and Mike Schmidt in their 14-hit attack, defeated the Padres, 10–4. The Phillies scored in the first inning on singles by Dave Cash and Larry Bowa around an error before adding three more in the second on singles by Garry Maddox, Johnny Oates and Tom Underwood and a triple by Cash. Johnstone and Schmidt hit their homers in the third. The Padres reached Underwood for all their runs in the seventh before the Phillies iced the victory in the eighth.
Bill Madlock rapped three singles in six trips, raising his league-leading average to .361, and Jose Cardenal had a 4-for-4 day as the Cubs beat the Astros, 11–7. After taking a 4–3 lead, the Cubs broke the game open in the seventh inning when they sent 11 men to the plate and scored six runs on two walks, six consecutive singles and a sacrifice fly.
Lee Lacy hit a homer and Bill Russell drove in two runs with a single to pace the Dodgers to a 5–3 victory over the Expos. Lacy connected for the circuit in the first inning. After the Expos picked up an unearned run on a wild throw by Russell in their half, the Dodgers’ shortstop made up for his error in the second.
Willie Crawford singled, Ron Cey walked and Steve Yeager drove in a run with a double. Russell followed with his single to put the Dodgers ahead, 4–1. Gary Carter narrowed the gap with a two-run homer for the Expos in the eighth, but Davey Lopes accounted for an insurance run with a single in the ninth.
Rich Gossage gained his 18th save of the season as the White Sox won the first game of a doubleheader, 6–2, but the ace reliever was the loser in the nightcap when the Red Sox scored in the 11th inning to post a 4–3 victory. Terry Forster, who came out of the White Sox bullpen for his first start of the season in the lidlifter, injured his elbow in the second inning and reportedly will be out of action the rest of the year. Dave Hamilton relieved and was the winner with help from Gossage in the eighth. Rick Wise, Red Sox loser, was troubled by wildness and was stopped on his nine-game winning streak. In the nightcap, Gossage made his second appearance of the day, replacing Jim Kaat, and retired nine straight batters before being beaten with two out in the 11th when Rick Burleson singled, Fred Lynn walked and Denny Doyle drove in the winning run with a single.
Al Cowens, who drove in the tying run with a double in the fifth inning, tripled and scored on a sacrifice fly by Amos Otis in the seventh before John Mayberry homered off Catfish Hunter to seal the Royals’ 5–3 victory over the Yankees. Paul Splittorff limited the Yankees to five hits, but gave up all their runs in the third on four singles and a sacrifice fly.
Setting an Orioles’ club record with his ninth shutout of the season, Jim Palmer beat the Rangers, 4–0, to register his 19th victory. The Orioles put the game away with two runs in the fifth inning when Mark Belanger singled, Brooks Robinson walked and Ken Singleton drove them home with a double.
Piling up 19 hits, the Indians walloped the Twins, 14–5, with an attack that started in the first inning when George Hendrick homered with two men on base. The Indians exploded for eight more runs in the second. Buddy Bell batted in two tallies with a single and accounted for two more RBIs with another single in the third. Although the scoring was one-sided, the Twins collected 16 hits, including two homers and two singles by Eric Soderholm.
The Tigers posted their second straight shutout victory, after snapping a 19-game losing streak, when Vern Ruhle pitched a five-hitter and beat the Angels, 7–0. Tom Veryzer hit a two-run homer and Ron LeFlore drove in two runs with a single to lead the Tigers’ scoring.
The Athletics took advantage of Pete Broberg’s wildness and scored three runs without the benefit of a hit in the second inning to defeat the Brewers, 3–1. Broberg walked Billy Williams, hit Sal Bando and Gene Tenace with successive pitches and passed Jim Holt to force in the first run. Another run scored as Phil Garner bounced into a double play and the third run counted when Robin Yount bobbled a grounder by Bert Campaneris. The A’s collected only three hits.
St. Louis Cardinals 8, Atlanta Braves 1
Texas Rangers 0, Baltimore Orioles 4
Detroit Tigers 7, California Angels 0
Boston Red Sox 2, Chicago White Sox 6
Boston Red Sox 4, Chicago White Sox 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Cincinnati Reds 3
Chicago Cubs 11, Houston Astros 7
New York Yankees 3, Kansas City Royals 5
Cleveland Indians 14, Minnesota Twins 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Montreal Expos 3
San Francisco Giants 0, New York Mets 3
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Oakland Athletics 3
San Diego Padres 4, Philadelphia Phillies 10
Born:
LaTonya Johnson, WNBA forward (Utah Starzz, San Antonio Silver Stars, Huston Comets), in Winchester, Tennessee.
Giuliana Rancic [DePandi], Italian-born American television personality (“E! News”), in Naples, Italy.
Died:
Vladimir Kuts, 48, Soviet runner, gold medalist at the 1956 Olympics in the 5,000m and 10,000m events, died of an apparent suicide from an overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills.
Chang Chun-Ha, 56, South Korean publisher who had published the newspaper Sassanggye from 1953 until its shutdown in 1970, fell to his death while mountain climbing. The South Korean government said that Chang, who was known for his opposition to President Park Chung-hee, had lost his footing while descending a mountain near the city of Pocheon, but Park’s opponents said that Chang had been murdered.
Sig Arno [Siegfried Aron], 79, German-Jewish actor (“Holiday in Havana”, “My Friend Irma”).
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