The United States still hopes to reach a second strategic arms limitation agreement with the Soviet Union this year, U.S. officials said. But they added that no breakthrough in strategic arms limitation talks in Geneva was imminent despite reports of progress. They reported that two more meetings between Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko were likely before any agreement could be reached.
U.S. and Soviet negotiators have completed a joint draft treaty banning environmental warfare — the use of weapons such as man-made floods, earthquakes and solar radiation — disarmament officials said. Most of the techniques which would be affected are still in the theoretical stage, but the treaty would allow their use for peaceful reasons, such as cloud seeding in drought areas. The document is expected to be presented shortly to the 30-nation Geneva Disarmament Conference.
A visiting member of the House of Representatives said today that Soviet visa officials had conceded to him that the recent Helsinki declaration might necessitate some change in emigration policies. But Representative Robert F. Drinan a Massachusetts Democrat, reported that the officials in Leningrad and Moscow had not indicated whether any change was being planned. He said he believed that pressure from the United States would be needed to make Moscow implement the provisions on the reunification of families. The House member, who is a Jesuit priest, said that he had originally planned to come to the Soviet Union as part of a group of nine clergymen concerned about Soviet Jewry, but that their visas were revoked. He then came on a trip sponsored by the State Department.
President Francisco da Costa Gomes of Portugal, yielding to pressure from anti-Communist military and political forces, revealed that the government of Premier, Vasco Gonçalves would be replaced in a matter of days. The President told 18 junior ministers sworn in today, “It is not simple to be a member of a government team whose duration is expressed in days.” General Costa Gomes’s decision to replace the Premier, after weeks.of vacillation while the political crisis intensified, came after two competing military groups had presented him late last night with a common platform for governing Portugal. The two groups, united in their opposition to what they regard as attempts by the Premier to bring about a Communist dictatorship here, were said to have backed their demand for the Premier’s ouster with a threat of force if the President did not act quickly.
Czechoslovak State Airlines Flight 542, an Ilyushin-62 jet, crashed while attempting to land in Damascus, killing 126 of the 128 people aboard. Among the 126 persons who died when a Czech airliner crashed and burned while approaching Damascus airport was the Czech military attaché in Damascus and the general manager for Syria of the Czech national airline, CSA, according to a Syrian civil aviation official. Also reported killed was Polish theater director Konrad Swinarski, 46. The two sole survivors were a Syrian student who hospital officials said was in satisfactory condition, and a young girl of undetermined nationality who was in serious condition.
The four defendants in the Baader-Meinhof trial in Stuttgart, West Germany, were removed from the courtroom for the second successive session after they shouted obscenities at the judge. The hearing centers on the health of the defendants — Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe. Two court-appointed doctors said that they were only fit enough to stand three hours of proceedings a day.
The Greek military command seized several million dollars worth of American ammunition during the Cyprus crisis last summer, according to Greek and American officials in Athens. The amount is now being made up, either in cash or in kind. “The matter will be settled honorably and well for both parties,” said a senior Greek official. Greek officials are upset about disclosure of the incident, which they describe as “very minor.” It comes only a few weeks before the United States Congress resumes debate on the arms embargo against Turkey, and the matter could strengthen the hand of the opponents of the embargo. Congressional delegations that have been visiting Athens in recent weeks have privately told the Greek Government that the embargo will probably be lifted next month.
The British Government opened a $4.4-million campaign today to win public support for Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s policy of limiting wage increases to $12 a week for the next year. Mr. Wilson went on national television tonight to deliver a speech aimed primarily at rank-and‐file members of the labor unions and thousands of small businessmen whose wage policies cannot easily be monitored. Mr. Wilson appealed to both groups to “give a year for Britain” by restraining wages, thus diminishing a major cause of an annual inflation rate of more than 25 percent. “There may be those who, by the use of their own industrial muscle, feel that they could get for themselves such a pay increase as to enable them to escape the rigors of inflation,” he said. “In the short term, yes — at the expense of more unemployment, at the expense of millions weaker than themselves. In the long term, they delude even themselves, for they and their families have to face the lashback of the inflation they generated by their own actions.”
Egypt and Israel were reported by well-placed informants in Washington to have narrowed their differences on one of the issues holding up a new Sinai agreement. Cairo has agreed to let Israeli technicians continue to run an early-warning system west of the Gidi Pass which Israeli forces would vacate. This was regarded as a major Egyptian concession.
Three Arab guerrillas were killed and one Israeli soldier was wounded in a clash near the Lebanese border today, military sources said. Israeli forces spotted the footprints of three intruders early today near the wire fence that stretches along the border with Lebanon, the sources said. In a search of the area, the three guerrillas were spotted near the Hanita settlement and a brief battle followed. Army headquarters announced that Israeli planes bombed a guerrilla base in northeast Lebanon today.
The new President of Bangladesh has assumed the power to set up special tribunals for punishing offenders. President Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed’s proclamation assuming such power and defining the martial‐law administration was issued as communications with the outside world opened for the first time since a military coup overthrew the government of Sheik Mujibur Rahman and installed Mr. Mushtaque Ahmed. Sheik Mujib was killed in the uprising. Foreign newsmen arrived at Dacca airport today after Bangkok and Calcutta air services were resumed. Dacca appeared calm, with traffic flowing normally. Some troops were visible at the airport and at Government buildings and cruising the capital’s streets in heavy trucks. Guards manned automatic weapons set on the truck cabs. The President’s proclamation stated: “Martial‐law regulations and orders made by me shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.”
Technical-school students in Bangkok, Thailand, firing pistols and hurling fire bombs, used a stolen bus as a battering ram today to break through the gates of Thammasat University. They looted offices and stores in the neighborhood and set fire to the school’s law building. Despite 24 hours of violence, involving also police and security forces, Premier Kukrit Pramoj held firm to his pledge to avoid widespread use of the army to keep the peace. The students were seeking to avenge the beating and shooting of one of their colleagues last week, allegedly by rival students. The police dissidents were angered by the government’s withdrawal of charges last week against nine persons accused of inciting farmers’ revolt in the north.
President Park Chung Hee said in an interview that in five years South Korea would no longer need American ground, air or naval forces or even logistic support to defend itself against a North Korean attack unaided by China or the Soviet Union. This appeared to open the way for their reduction and eventual withdrawal.
Fighting broke out again in Portugal’s Far East territory of Timor and several Portuguese soldiers were said. There were few details of the killed, informed sources in Lisbon clashes, the first in which Portuguese troops were involved, as communications between Lisbon and the units stationed in Timor were extremely difficult, the sources added. But they stressed the incidents did not involve Indonesia, which shares the island of Timor, just to the north of Australia.
Moscow newspapers reported that purges and deportations had taken place in several provinces of China following uprisings of workers and peasants because of economic problems. The reports, which said some of the information had come from Chinese press reports in mid-July, said that in Hangchou, the administrative center of Chekiang Province, “the sabotage by class enemies led to the stagnation of production and the displeasure of the population.”
British Columbia’s 13,000 striking pulp workers overwhelmingly rejected a mediator’s report for a settlement of the forest industry’s labor disputes. The Canadian Paperworkers Union and the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada, in announcing the rejection, said picketing would increase in an effort to halt the remaining forest operations. The proposed settlement would increase the base rate in the industry to $6.14 an hour retroactive to June 15 and to $6.89 an hour beginning June 15, 1976. Base rate under the old contract was $5.10 an hour.
A United Nations committee, under strong United States pressure, voted to put off indefinitely its consideration of a resolution affirming “the inalienable right of the people of Puerto Rico to self-determination and independence,” Washington had cautioned governments represented on the Decolonization Committee that a vote for the resolution would be considered unfriendly.
Left-wing guerrillas today attacked the police headquarters in Cordoba, Argentina’s second largest city, killing at least five policemen. One guerrilla was killed, according to police reports, and several people were wounded. The attack, attributed by police sources to the two largest guerrilla groups, was part of a resurgence of political violence that has brought stern warnings of repression from military leaders. Meanwhile, former President Arturo Illia, a leader of the Radical Civic Union, the main opposition party, called for the resignation of President Isabel Martinez de Perón. The party had not previously backed efforts to unseat Mrs. Perón. “We need the patriotic resignation of the President,” said Dr. Illia, who was ousted as President in a military coup in 1966. “Congress should choose among the men and women of the Perónist Government for a successor.”
President Ford urged all sides to “cool” the dispute over the shipments of grain to the Soviet Union. He telephoned George Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, urging that the maritime unions work out terms for ending their boycott with the Department of Labor. He asked exporters for restraint to help settle the issue without further confrontation.
The General Accounting Office criticized the federal government for making it difficult and costly for state and local governments to apply for the more than $52 billion in grants that are dispersed by Washington each year. It said because of complexities and the “nonsystem” of handling grants, money often did not go to the most needy, and near the end of the fiscal year, money often was allocated haphazardly just to get rid of it. The report said $51.7 billion was disbursed during the last fiscal year through 975 programs. GAO. Congress’ investigatory agency, recommended that Congress consolidate overlapping programs and that the government set up advisory offices to tell localities what money was available.
Muscle-relaxing drugs widely used in surgery and other clinical procedures might be the cause of a deadly outbreak of respiratory arrest cases at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, officials said. If drugs were involved in any of eight recent deaths at the hospital. officials added, they probably were administered intentionally and without authorization. The FBI, which entered the investigation at the request of the hospital, said, “We have no concrete evidence pointing in that direction.”
Following a night of robberies and scattered violence that included a bomb explosion outside the home of Mayor Joseph L. Alioto, the County Board of Supervisors today passed a resolution declaring a state of emergency in San Francisco and asking the Mayor to summon at least 200 state highway patrolmen to replace striking city policemen. The Mayor did not immediately respond, pending results of his mediation efforts. Concern for public safety, which seemed to grow in this city by the hour, mounted further tonight as the city’s firemen walked off the job in the same two‐day‐old municipal pay dispute. Pickets for the International Association of Firefighters Local 798 appeared at many of the city’s 44 fire stations.
In addition to alarming citizens of this city, which was virtually destroyed by fires after the 1906 earthquake, the firemen’s strike also threatened to shut down operations at San Francisco International Airport, the nation’s fifth‐busiest airfield. Residents and thousands of tourists went about their business and pleasure as usual. But the streets seemed emptier at night. People talked more of fear. The sound of sirens did not ring through the cement canyons of downtown as usual. Parking regulations were frequently violated. Security guard companies reported an avalanche of new clients. And the city of 671,000 today recorded its 79th homicide of the year, the stabbing of Thomas Gant.
Three lots of defective artificial heart valves implicated in two deaths and one serious injury are being recalled on an emergency basis, the Food and Drug Administration announced. It said heart surgeons who have implanted about 65,000 other heart valves in patients during the last 6 ½ years were being alerted also to monitor their patients “very. very closely” for warning signs. Shiley Laboratories, Inc., of Santa Ana, Calif., is recalling three production lots for a total of 204 of its Bjork-Shiley aortic and mitral heart valves made between February, 1973, and July 3, 1975. Surgeons must decide. whether the valve failure is great enough to warrant more open-heart surgery, the FDA said.
Oral drugs being used by nearly 1.5 million diabetic Americans were attacked on grounds they are frequently useless and may be related to a high incidence of heart trouble. Dr. John K. Davidson of the Emory University school of medicine in Atlanta testified at a Food and Drug Administration hearing in Washington that his hospital stopped using the drugs five years ago when a study questioned their worth. Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of Ralph Nader’s Health Research Group, urged the FDA to warn patients that the pills they take to lower their blood sugar also double the risk of fatal heart disease. The Upjohn Co., however, told the FDA it felt such warning labels were “inappropriate, uninformative and hence misleading.”
The North Carolina Court of Appeals ordered attorney Jerry Paul released while it hears his appeal of a contempt of court citation handed down at the end of the Joan Little murder trial in Raleigh. The court was expected to hear the appeal around October 24. Paul successfully defended Miss Little and she was one of the persons who greeted him as he walked out of the Wake County Jail. Judge Hamilton Hobgood ordered Paul jailed for 14 days last Friday on a contempt citation for remarks made earlier in the trial. Paul, who served five days of the sentence, was released under a $1,000 bond.
Work in southern West Virginia’s coal fields came to a near standstill from a spreading wildcat strike by thousands of miners angered by court orders, contract problems and the jailing of a union official. Estimates of how many miners were involved ranged up to 30,000, three-fourths of the state’s total. “The companies use the courts today like they used gun thugs against our fathers yesterday,” said one leaflet from strike leaders. A mass rally was called for Charleston Friday. The walkout began when a mine foreman was fired in Logan County for what his bosses called illegal picketing on a local issue.
New York City is backing its bid for the Democratic National Convention next July with an agreement to rent and refurbish Madison Square Garden, close off adjacent streets for security and parking, provide free transportation in town and for airport connections, and offer Shea or Yankee Stadium for the final session. Neil Walsh, Deputy Commissioner of Civic Affairs, said there had been some “slippage” in support for the bid on the site selection committee, but that New York still commanded a majority.
Former President Nixon’s deposition last month in support of his claim to his presidential documents and files was made public in federal court in Washington. He swore that he would make the material public “as expeditiously as possible,” but contended that only he and his family had the right to decide what should be released. The 168-page deposition included his statement that the Oval Office taping system at the White House was installed on the recommendation of the previous president, Lyndon B. Johnson.
Edgar Bronfman, head of the billion-dollar Seagram Company, Ltd., married Georgiana Eileen Webb, a 25-year-old Englishwoman, in a ceremony at his Westchester County estate that had been postponed until after the rescue of his kidnapped son, Samuel II. The 21-year-old son of the first of his three marriages appeared fit and relaxed and exchanged toasts with his father.
A major interstate pipeline company told the Federal Power Commission it anticipates a natural gas shortage this winter of such severity that it may have to begin cutting back supplies to residential customers as well as to industries. An attorney for the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co. (Transco) said this winter’s shortage may be more severe than last year’s, when numerous industries found their gas either reduced or cut off entirely for brief periods. There were no curtailments of natural gas to residential customers at that time. Under federal guidelines, homes and small businesses have highest priority among gas users. Transco sells gas in states from Texas to New York.
Members of the American Astronomical Society voiced concern that air pollution and the encroaching glare of city lights threaten the usefulness of observatories at urban sites. The group also passed a resolution during its annual meeting in San Diego recommending that an observatory be built atop Junipero Serra Peak 100 miles south of San Francisco.
The price of fruits and avocados will be driven up by a federal ban on the pesticide chlordane, the Council of California Growers predicted. “Both growers and consumers will have to pay more.” the group said in a statement. The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a ban on use of chlordane, which the EPA says has caused cancer in rats. But Charles Woods of the San Diego County Farm Bureau said the ban could decrease the quality of the fruit. “The only way we can effectively control ants in citrus groves is with chlordane,” he said. “And the ants cause most of the diseases in citrus by carrying disease-bearing aphids into the trees.”
NASA launched the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars. Liftoff took place from Cape Canaveral at 5:22 pm local time. After a journey of ten months and 505 million miles, Viking would enter orbit around Mars on June 19, 1976, and the lander would reach the surface of Mars on July 20, sending back pictures and data until November 13, 1982.
Rock superstar Mick Jagger says he is not responsible for land that California ranchers claim was trampled to the tune of $690,000 by 300,000 fans during a free Rolling Stones 1969 concert in Altamont. Oakland Judge Robert H. Kroninger promised a decision soon.
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Greg Luzinski collected his 100th RBI of season with a double which capped a three-run seventh inning, giving the Phillies a 4–1 triumph over the Braves. The Phillies nursed a 1–0 lead into the seventh when Garry Maddox singled, was sacrificed to second, took third on an infield out and came home on a single by Dave Cash. Larry Bowa followed with a single and pinch-hitter Ollie Brown greeted reliever Ray Sadecki with a run-scoring base hit. Luzinski then drove home Bowa. Cash drove home Johnny Oates, who had doubled, with a fifth-inning single for the game’s first run. The Braves tallied in the eighth on a single by Rob Belloir, a walk and single by Darrell Evans.
Cliff Johnson doubled home Cesar Cedeno, who had singled, with none out in the bottom of the 10th to give Bill Virdon his first victory as manager of the Astros, 5–4, over the Mets. Jose Cruz’ pinch-hit RBI single in the eighth had given Houston a 4–3 lead, but the Mets tied the score in the ninth on singles by Jerry Grote, Wayne Garrett and Gene Clines. Rob Andrews singled home a run in the second, Wilbur Howard got an RBI triple in the fifth and Johnson homered to lead off the sixth as Houston built a 3-0 lead. But Dave Kingman, in the Mets’ starting lineup for the first time since August 8, homered with Mike Vail and Rusty Staub aboard in the seventh to tie the score.
Bake McBride drove in three runs with a two-run homer in the fifth and his second inside-the-park home run of the season in the eighth as the Cardinals silenced the Reds, 4–0, behind the tight hurling of Ron Reed. St. Louis took a 1–0 lead in the fourth on singles by Willie Davis, Reggie Smith and Ken Reitz. Lou Brock singled ahead of McBride’s first homer in the fifth. McBride circled the bases and scored without a play when his long drive opening the eighth bounced off the center field wall. Reed held the Reds hitless after the fourth, retiring 18 of the last 19 Cincinnati batters he faced, with the losers’ lone baserunner coming as the result of an error.
Enzo Hernandez broke a 5–5 tie with a three-run double in the seventh as the Padres prevailed over the Expos, 8–6. A walk, single by Fred Kendall and another walk loaded the bases for Hernandez, who put the visitors ahead, 8–5, with a two-bagger down the left field line. Gene Locklear wiped out a 3–0 Montreal lead when he homered with two aboard in the top of the fifth, but the Expos took the lead again in the home half when Pete Mackanin doubled home Tim Foli, stole third and scored on Bob Bailey’s sacrifice fly. The Padres got two to tie the score in the sixth.
Rennie Stennett’s single with the bases loaded in the eighth drove home two runs to give the Pirates a 3–1 victory over the Giants. The Bucs got all of their runs in that frame. Richie Zisk and Manny Sanguillen got one-out singles and rookie Craig Reynolds doubled home Frank Taveras, running for Zisk, with the tying run. Pinch-hitter Bill Robinson was intentionally walked to fill the bases before Stennett connected against reliever Randy Moffitt. Giant starter Ed Halicki scored his club’s only run in the third when he walked and came around on Von Joshua’s double into the left-field corner.
The Dodgers-Cubs game at Wrigley Field is postponed due to rain. It will be made up on August 21.
The Yankees, staked to a second-inning lead when Bobby Bonds belted a three-run homer, were held to two hits the rest of the way by Wilbur Wood, who was credited with his 13th victory when the White Sox rallied to win, 5–3. Jorge Orta led the comeback, collecting a single, double and triple, scoring three runs and driving in one. He scored the first Chicago run in the third on Bucky Dent’s sacrifice fly, tallied again on a Dent single in the fifth, drove in the tying run with a sixth-inning double, then scored, together with Bob Coluccio who had singled, on Brian Downing’s base hit.
Dave Duncan’s ninth-inning double and an infield hit by Tommy Davis on which the Twins’ Rod Carew made the throwing error produced the deciding run as the Orioles nipped Minnesota, 3–2. Bobby Grich hit a solo homer for the visitors in the top of the first, but the Twins quickly tied it on Carew’s infield hit and a two-out double by Craig Kusick. The game was scoreless from that point until the top of the seventh when Tony Muser singled home Jim Northrup for a 2–1 Baltimore lead. Danny Thompson’s sacrifice fly chased home the final Minnesota run in the bottom of the ninth.
Rookie Dennis Leonard hurled his sixth complete game of the season, outdueling Luis Tiant as the Royals stopped the Red Sox, 3–1. John Mayberry doubled and scored the winners’ first run in the fourth on a single by George Brett. Al Cowens’ two-out double got Brett home. Amos Otis tripled with two out in the fifth and crossed the plate on Mayberry’s opposite-field double. Boston’s run came on a two-out two-bagger by Cecil Cooper and Denny Doyle’s single in the top of the third.
Jim Holt’s first homer in two seasons leading off the fifth and Bill North’s RBI double later in that frame gave the Athletics just enough offense to edge the Tigers, 2–1. Oakland’s Sonny Siebert and Jim Todd combined on a four-hitter, Siebert going the first five frames and picking up the victory. Singles by Ben Oglivie and Leon Roberts, plus a sacrifice fly by Aurelio Rodriguez, produced the Tigers’ only run in the top of the fifth.
Last a winner on July 30, Nolan Ryan combined with Andy Hassler on a three-hitter as the Angels rolled over the slumping Brewers, 6–1. California scored three in the second on four walks and a bases-loaded error by first baseman Mike Hegan. Adrian Garrett homered for the Angels leading off the third and Mickey Rivers singled home the winners’ final two runs in the sixth. Ryan had a shutout until Bill Sharp and Robin Yount doubled in the eighth. Hassler relieved and got the final four outs.
Philadelphia Phillies 4, Atlanta Braves 1
Milwaukee Brewers 1, California Angels 6
New York Mets 4, Houston Astros 5
Boston Red Sox 1, Kansas City Royals 3
Baltimore Orioles 3, Minnesota Twins 2
San Diego Padres 8, Montreal Expos 6
Chicago White Sox 5, New York Yankees 3
Detroit Tigers 1, Oakland Athletics 2
San Francisco Giants 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Cincinnati Reds 0, St. Louis Cardinals 4
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