Premier Vasco Gonçalves of Portugal reportedly stiffened his resolve to fight to keep his post against the pressure of a majority of the country’s political and military forces. The move to force him out ran into further snags as two factions of the armed forces that had agreed last Tuesday on a common platform to replace him suddenly developed disagreements of an undisclosed nature. The disagreements were reported after an all‐night meeting of group led by Major Ernesto Mela Antunes, the former Foreign Minister, and a more radical one supported by the chief of security forces, General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho. General Carvalho was understood to have sent Premier Gonçalves a letter yesterday asking him to resign. The Premier, under fire for allegedly trying to lead the country to a Communist dictatorship, refused to resign.
Refugees from the fighting in Angola who have gone home to Portugal have found there is little room for them, no work and not much hope. Nearly every family, no matter how poor, in the hillside village of Gondomar east of Oporto in northern Portugal, has received or is expecting destitute relatives from the African territory. The situation is similar in towns and villages throughout northern Portugal because most of the 500,000 white settlers in Angola came from this area.
United Nations officials announced today that Portugal had asked increased support from the world body for the evacuation of refugees from Angola. In a letter to Secretary General Waldheim yesterday, Foreign Minister Mario Ruivo said his Government planned to step up the evacuation and “hoped to continue to receive, from the United Nations and its specialized agencies, support which will now certainly have to be reinforced, given the magnitude of the task, which exceeds Portugal’s potential to solve the problem.” Portugal temporarily resumed administrative control of the West African territory August 14 when rival independence groups battling for control once. Portuguese rule ends in November brought the country to the brink of collapse.
French Communists and Socialists have been engaged in fierce controversy over the issues raised by the Portuguese crisis. The Socialists squarely back Mario Soares and his Socialist followers in their attempt to win a leading role after emerging as the strongest party in national elections. The French Communists stanchly defend Alvaro Cunhal, the Communist leader, and his party’s alliance with the military movement that has been mnning Portugal since April, 1974, on the strength of its ouster of the dictatorial regime of Premier Marcello Caetano. All through the week, the French Communist party leader, Georges Marchais, on the radio, in interviews, before party rallies and in a letter to the Socialists, has been charging the latter with slander in picturing his party as backing anti-democratic methods in Lisbon.
Fifty armed Corsican separatists, who took over a wine depot near here yesterday, seized six hostages early today and killed two policemen in a gun battle before surrendering. The policemen were killed as they stormed the wine depot at Aleria on the east coast of the French island. Four other policemen were injured and a Corsican had his foot blown off by a tear‐gas grenade. More than 1,000 riot policemen and paramilitary gendarmes had surrounded the depot.
The United States has refused entry to five Irish delegates to a week-long conference on Irish affairs to be held next week in Amherst, Massachusetts, State Department officials reported today. A State Department official said that four of the delegates had been associated with the militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army. He cited provisions of United States law that barred visas to those seeking to overthrow, a Government recognized by the United States.
Three people died and 12 were injured tonight in a bomb attack on a Roman Catholic owned bar in Armagh, Northern Ireland.
Secretary of State Kissinger flew to Alexandria, Egypt today for talks with President Anwar el‐Sadat of Egypt on resolving differences between Israel and Egypt. Before they began their session at Mr. Sadat’s villa on the Mediterranean, both Mr. Kissinger and the Egyptian leader expressed optimism to reporters about the likelihood that an accord would be reached during the Secretary’s “shuttle diplomacy” that began in Israel yesterday. “I have the impression that there is a gap, but it is narrowing,” Mr. Kissinger said.
After Secretary of State Kissinger left Israel for Egypt, Premier Yitzhak Rabin assured his anxious public on television that the impending interim agreement with Egypt would commit both nations not to resort to force. Mr. Rabin’s remarks, made in an interview, provided little information on the more than four hours of discussions between Mr. Kissinger’s party and the Israeli negotiating team. During the day, 42 persons were reported under arrest for violence during demonstrations in Israeli cities. The demonstrators maintain that an interim agreement threatens the survival of Israel. By this evening, after the departure of Mr. Kissinger and the onset of the Sabbath, Jerusalem regained its calm. After sunset, a large group of demonstrators held a quiet prayer meeting in front of the Premier’s downtown residence. Mr. Rabin’s televised remarks, in the form of an interview, shed little light on the tenor of the more than four hours of discussions between Mr. Kissinger’s party and the Israeli negotiating team. The Premier’s aides were equally guarded.
Syria and Jordan announced today that they had formed a supreme command to direct political and military action against Israel. The command, headed by President Hafez al‐Assad of Syria and King Hussein of Jordan, will develop plans to coordinate the armed forces of the two countries, which lie along Israel’s entire eastern border. Only five years ago Syria and Jordan were virtually at war when Hussein’s army cracked down on Palestinian guerrillas, but they have drawn together in the face of Egypt’s determination to reach a new agreement covering Israeli withdrawals in Sinai. The Damascus and Amman Governments fear that Israel and Egypt mignt conclude an agreement without similar Israeli withdrawals on their fronts. They also fear that Egypt could jeopardize the Arab position by renouncing the use or threat of force for three years.
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, a former President of Bangladesh and now the country’s Foreign Minister, granted the first interview given by an official of the new government. He said that Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed was told of the coup against the late President, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, only “at the very last moment,” by its military organizers, who asked him to be President. They then tried desperately to assemble a cabinet. He said that the first priorities of the new government were “food, clothing and maintaining law and order.
Authoritative sources in Dacca, Bangladesh, said that the young officers who led the coup against Sheik Mujibur Rahman killed him and more than 20 members of his family and political associates, then lost out during a showdown with the new leader. The coup began, they said, when a truckload of troops started firing into the home of Sheik Moni, nephew of Sheik Mujib and editor of The Bangladesh Times. At about the same time, a mile away in the Dhanmondi residential area, troops attacked Sheik Mujib’s house, raking it with bullets. Apparently artillery also was used. One errant shell killed about a dozen people, the sources said. Believed slain with Sheik Mujib were his wife, two sons, Kamal and Jamal, their brides of a few months, and the President’s youngest son, Russell, aged 12, who had been named for Bertrand Russell, the philosopher.
The Kremlin, in its first substantial reaction to last week’s coup in Bangladesh, hinted today that it was concerned that the overthrow of Sheik Mujibur Rahman might swing her away from the Soviet Union and toward China. In an authoritative commentary, the Communist party newspaper Pravda contended that “political observers in various countries” were asking whether “forces hostile” to the aspirations of the Bangladesh people might now exert “an influence on future developments in the country.” The Soviet press often uses the device of quoting others to express Moscow’s sentiments.
Two top Thai police chiefs submitted their resignations today because of the ransacking of the home of Premier Kukrit Pramoj by police-led demonstrators. General Pote Bekanand, Thai chief of police, and Lieutenant General Narong Mahanond, the Bangkok metropolitan police commissioner, sent letters of resignation but they were not immediately accepted, a government spokesman said. Troops and policemen were called to guard Government House and Mr. Kukrit’s suburban home following reports of possible new trouble from protesting Thai air base guards. The guards, who have lost their jobs because of the current pullout of American forces, are demanding improved severance benefits.
Mortar fire today struck the port area of Dili, Portuguese Timor, where more than 1,000 Portuguese refugees are crowded waiting to escape from the island’s civil war, the state radio said here today. The Dili naval communications center, the only link with the outside world for the Portuguese Governor, Lemos Pires, was also fired upon, the radio said, adding that a sergeant guarding the center was wounded. A military spokesman in Macao, the Portuguese colony on the China coast, said on the broadcast that there were no Portuguese casualties in the fighting but that the situation was getting worse.
Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia left Pyongyang, North Korea, today with Khieu Samphan, Deputy Premier of Cambodia, on a special train for Peking. North Korea’s president, Kim Il Sung, was at the station for the ceremony of departure, it was learned from a diplomatic source in a telephone call to the North Korean capital. Several thousand people were at the station to see off the Prince and the Cambodian Communist leader. The Prince who has been living in exile, is the nominal Cambodian head of state.
The security of oil riches is fading fast for Canada, with potentially severe effects in the United States as well. In a drastic turnabout, Canada has lost her traditional place as the leading foreign supplier of oil to the United States, and has suddenly become a net importer for her own needs. President Ford is expected to discuss the deteriorating Canadian situation with thel Canadian Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources on Sunday in Libby, Montana.
The destroyer ARA Santísima Trinidad, being outfitted as the most advanced ship of the Argentine Navy, was sunk in La Plata Harbor by bombs placed by the Montoneros terrorist group, causing $70,000,000 worth of damage. The Montoneros guerrillas said they were responsible for the explosion, which took place this morning at the naval shipyards in Ensenada, about 50 miles south of Buenoa Aires. No injuries were reported. The incident was part of an upsurge in guerrilla violence that apparently is aimed at provoking the armed forces into a coup at a time when the Government of President Isabel Martinez de Perón is flounderting in a political and economic crisis. The ship would be restored and put into service in 1981.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence extended today for two days the deadline on its subpoenas for tape recordings and documents from President Nixon’s files to permit a federal appeals court panel to rule on procedural matters, a committee spokesman said. The subpoenas, issued to Philip W. Buchen, counsel to President Ford, and Arthur F. Sampson, General Services Administrator, sought materials on Mr. Nixon’s policy toward Chile and the planning of domestic intelligence operations in 1970. The subpoenas had required that the material be produced by Monday. The Senate committee’s counsel extended the deadline until Wednesday. Members of the committee are expected to meet early next week to discuss the issue, a spokesman said. Earlier this week, White House lawyers filed a motion with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to clear up procedural matters and permit them to make a search of President Nixon’s papers and tapes. A White House spokesman said earlier this month that the President’s lawyers did not feel Mr. Ford had the power to give materials from Mr. Nixon’s papers to a Congressional investigating committee.
Economic analysts, who have been surprised almost as much as the administration by the resurgence of double-digit inflation, said that they attributed the return of sharply rising prices to politics and psychology, rather than to fundamental economic factors. But they also agreed that higher prices do not at the moment threaten to abort the still-fragile recovery.
President Ford “certainly has not made the decision” to ask Congress to create a quasi-public corporation empowered to underwrite up to $100-billion of investments in energy projects, the White House declared today. Ron Nessen, the White House press secretary, said that the President had not seen the proposed legislation to create the agency and was not aware of the scope of financing authority suggested for it. In what appeared to be a rebuff to Vice President Rockefeller, whose Domestic Council staff drew up the plan, Mr. Nessen said at the Presidential retreat here that Mr. Ford had been given only a “very vague and general” outline of the project.
Recent experiments at government laboratories on Plum Island at the eastern end of Long Island support the theory that global epidemics, or pandemics, of influenza occur after an entirely new influenza virus has been created by the natural recombining of fragments of virus strains from human beings, other mammals and birds. Another flu pandemic has been forecast for 1978-80. A worldwide effort is under way to capture and freeze as many types of flu virus as possible to see whether the way in which the pandemic virus emerges can be traced.
A judge cleared the way today for a federal grand jury to question two witnesses the Government hopes will help them to find Patricia Hearst. United States District Court Judge R. Dixon Herman rejected a bid by attorneys for Jack and Micki Scott to quash subpoenas ordering them to appear before the grand jury in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Federal agents suspect that the Scotts rented a northeastern Pennsylvania farmhouse, where Miss Hearst and two other fugitives, William and Emily Harris, may have stayed last summer. William‐M. Kunstler, attorney for the Scotts, charged that the Federal Bureau of Investigation might have used widespread illegal wiretapping in its investigation and accused the government of harassing potential witnesses in the Hearst case.
A federal appeals court order today stayed an order requiring the public schools of Indianapolis and eight suburban systems to bus pupils to desegregate schools at the start of the coming school year. A three‐judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that all portions of an August 1st ruling by the Federal District Court in Indianapolis would be stayed pending appeal. The order would have required the immediate transfer of 6,500 black Indianapolis public school pupils in grades 1 through 9 into schools in the suburbs; transfers of black and white children within the Indianapolis system to help de segregate it; the enjoining of the Housing Authority of the City of Indianapolis fromlocating any new public housing within the boundaries of the city school system, and the eventual transfer of 3,000 additional blacks to schools in the suburbs, for a total of. approximately 9,525.
Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas was paroled after serving three years of a five-year sentence for attempted kidnapping, and began a killing spree along with his friend, Ottis Toole.
A federal jury of six men and six women began deliberations today in the $46-million civil damage suit that grew out of the Kent State University campus shootings that killed four students and wounded nine others five years ago. The jurers returned to their hotel after failing to reach a verdict after five hours and were to resume deliberations tomorrow.
John Patler, a sniper who had assassinated American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell on August 25, 1967, was paroled after serving nearly eight years of his 20-year prison sentence. A spokesman for the Virginia Division of Corrections said that Mr. Patler, 37 years old, was relased from a correctional unit at Pulaski in Southwest Virginia this morning. He has been described by a probation officer as “a model prisoner who never caused any disturbances or trouble.” Mr. Patler was convicted of killing Mr. Rockwell in 1967 after being expelled from the party because of doctrinal differences.
An 11‐year‐old boy told yesterday at a Congressional hearing how he had been shuttled from institutions to foster homes and back to his mother. who he said beat him, and of going before eight different judges in a two‐year perod in an unsuccessful efford to be freed for adoption. “Free us,” he pleaded at the hearing. “My mother does not love us or want us,” said the boy, Forrest Antoine, seated before microphones with his brother Louis, 8, at a hearing on alZeged abuses by child‐care agencies. “I’m getting older and I want to be adopted,” he said, “and I know that there are families who would adopt us.” Forrest and Louis — and a younger brother, Michael 5, who did not attend the hearings in New York — are examples, Representative Mario Biaggi said, of children “held hostage” by child‐welfare agencies who he said made little effort to place them for adoption. Mr. Biaggi’s committee is holding the hearings to help develop Federal legislation to correct “flagrant abuses rampant in the child‐care industry.” The Bronx Democrat indicated that 3 percent of 26,000 children in 77 child‐care agencies had been placed for adoption last year.
Reflecting a long-standing controversy at Consumers Union over priorities, Ralph Nader is resigning from the board of directors. Mr. Nader, citing a “division of philosophy” on the board, criticized it for devoting too little “energy and resources” to consumer advocacy and to organizing for action to correct “major consumer injustices.”
The United States Custom Service said today that it had burned a 43‐ton cache of marijuana seized in the Bahamas on August 16. A customs spokesman said the more than 86,000 pounds of marijuana was the largest single seizure in history and was valued on the illegal market at $23.8‐million.
A leather-bound volume found in Immenhausen, West Germany 17 years ago is a littered attic filled with chests and cobwebs was identified today as the first half of a two-volume Bible printed by Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of movable type. “When I first showed it to scholars, they just laughed at me,” recalled Friedrich‐Karl Baas, the 37‐year‐old highschool principal who never stopped believing “it could be a Gutenberg” since he first saw it in 1962, four years after its discovery. “I always had something else to do and never got back to having it checked out again until this summer,” Mr. Baas said today, announcing the find and its verification.
The McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens.
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Roger Moret, though giving up nine walks, pitched a four-hit, 2–1 win over the White Sox. Dwight Evans’ homer gave the Red Sox one run in the fifth and Fred Lynn singled for the second Boston tally in the sixth. Car Yastrzemski singled, stole second and reached third on White Sox catcher Brian Downing’s throwing error in the sixth. Yaz scored as Lynn punched a grounder through the drawn-in infield. Claude Osteen pitched a six-hitter in taking his 12th loss.
Catfish Hunter chalked up his 17th win and Chris Chambliss drove in three runs as the Yankees ended their five-game losing streak by downing the Angels, 5–2. Chambliss singled for one run in the fourth, then walloped a two-run homer in the seventh to wipe out a 2–1 Angel lead. Mickey Rivers stole his 63rd base of the season for the Angels in the fourth and scored on Adrian Garrett’s single.
Dave McKay homered on his first trip to the plate in the majors and Phil Roof and Dan Ford also walloped home runs for the Twins in an 8–4 victory over the Tigers. McKay’s shot ignited a four-run third inning and Roof immediately followed suit. Ford socked his homer in the sixth. Detroit starter Vern Ruhle departed in the third as Dave Goltz chalked up his 12th win for the Twins despite leaving in the sixth without retiring a batter. Bill Campbell pitched four shutout innings to earn his fourth save.
Don Baylor drove in three runs and Elrod Hendricks hit a two-run homer as the Orioles downed the Rangers, 8–5. Mike Torrez hurled his 15th win, but needed relief from Grant Jackson in the eighth. Loser Stan Perzanowski and reliever Clyde Wright were the victims of Baltimore’s four-run third inning, which included Hendricks’ blast. Jeff Burroughs smacked his 22nd homer of the season for the Rangers in the sixth and added a double in a two-run eighth.
The Indians scored four unearned runs in the first inning and went on to hand the Royals a 9–5 defeat. Rico Carty’s solo homer in the seventh gave the Indians a 7–5 edge after George Hendrick’s run-scoring double fueled the big first inning. Errors by Cookie Rojas and George Brett in the first and a passed ball by Buck Martinez in the fourth contributed to the Indians’ scoring. Fritz Peterson lasted only five innings but earned the win with relief from Jim Bibby.
The game between the Oakland A’s and Milwaukee Brewers at County Stadium is postponed due to rain. It will be made up tomorrow.
Richie Zisk whacked two home runs in the opener and Dave Parker and Richie Hebner homered in the nightcap to give the Pirates a doubleheader sweep over the Reds, 7–2 and 4–2. A crowd of 46,576, largest of the season in Pittsburgh, saw the Bucs boost their win streak to four games and hike their lead in the National League East to 1 ½ games. In the opener, Zisk’s second homer snapped a 1–1 tie in the fourth, and the Pirates then teed off against Jack Billingham for five runs in the sixth. Larry Demery, in his first start since July 7, picked up his sixth win with ninth-inning help from Dave Giusti. Rookie John Candelaria also needed ninth-inning help from Giusti to nail down his seventh victory in the nightcap. Tony Perez’ homer gave the Reds a 2–0 lead in the eighth inning of the nightcap, but the Bucs rallied for four runs in their half, getting the last two on Parker and Zisk homers.
Rob Belloir socked a two-run triple in the fifth and two-run single in the sixth to spark the Braves to a 9–5 triumph over the Cardinals. The Braves erased a 4–3 deficit with six runs in the sixth off relievers Harry Parker and Mike Garman. Rod Gilbreath, Darrell Evans and Earl Williams singled for one run before Garman relieved and gave up a two-run single to Dusty Baker in Atlanta’s big sixth. Rowland Office was safe on first sacker Reggie Smith’s error to load the bases and Williams scored on Garman’s wild pitch. A walk to Vic Correll loaded the sacks again and Belloir’s single brought home two runs for an 8–4 Atlanta lead. Gilbreath’s second hit of the inning accounted for the final Atlanta run. Reliever Elias Sosa, an ex-Cardinal, picked up his first win of the season.
An error by Ken Boswell and Jose Cardenal’s bunt single gave the Cubs two runs in the 11th and a 6–5 win over the Astros. With runners on first and second, Bill Madlock’s grounder escaped second sacker Boswell as Don Kessinger scored the tying run. Cardenal then bunted toward first as Rick Monday raced home from third without a play. The Astros had taken a 5–4 lead in the top of the 11th on Cesar Cedeno’s RBI single.
Mike Schmidt walloped a two-run homer in the ninth to give the Phils a 6–5 win over the Padres. The Phils wiped out a 5–1 deficit with five runs in the last three innings to remain 1½ games behind the first-place Pirates. Dick Sharon boosted the Padre lead to 5–1 with a three-run homer in the fifth, but Dick Allen hit a 400-foot homer for the Phils in the seventh and the Phils got two more in the eighth on Tommy Hutton’s pinch double. Allen cracked three hits, including a ninth-inning double ahead of Schmidt’s 29th homer. Reliever Bill Greif gave up both Phil blows in the ninth. Tom Hilgendorf, the third Phil hurler, picked up the win.
Larry Parrish crashed a two-run homer in the 12th inning to give the Expos a 3–1 victory over the Dodgers. Al Downing was the victim of the big blow. Expo rookie Dan Warthen held the Dodgers to three hits in eight innings before reliever Dale Murray took over and pitched four shutout innings. Ron Cey homered to give the Dodgers a 1–0 lead in the seventh but pinch-batter Nate Colbert tied it in the ninth with a homer. The Dodgers’ Davey Lopes stole his 35th consecutive base and 54th of the season, high in the National League.
The Mets’ five-run first inning enabled Tom Seaver to become the National League’s first 18-game winner with a 6–4 victory over the Giants. Rusty Staub’s two-run homer and Felix Millan’s two RBIs on two singles paced the Met attack. Gene Clines opened the game for the Mets by reaching third on right fielder Glenn Adams’ error and scoring on Millan’s single. Staub followed with a homer and Dave Kingman doubled, scoring on Joe Torre’s triple. A wild pitch by loser Pete Falcone completed the five-run Met burst. Bobby Murcer’s two-run pinch-single sparked the Giants to three runs in the second, but Seaver weathered a bases-loaded, none-out jam in the third without yielding a run. Willie Montanez’ RBI double in the eighth chased Seaver, with Bob Apodaca finishing for his 11th save.
Chicago White Sox 1, Boston Red Sox 2
Houston Astros 5, Chicago Cubs 6
Cleveland Indians 9, Kansas City Royals 5
Montreal Expos 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Detroit Tigers 4, Minnesota Twins 8
California Angels 2, New York Yankees 5
Cincinnati Reds 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Cincinnati Reds 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Philadelphia Phillies 6, San Diego Padres 5
New York Mets 6, San Francisco Giants 4
Atlanta Braves 9, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Baltimore Orioles 8, Texas Rangers 5
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 804.76 (+13.07, +1.65%)
Born:
Charles C. Smith, NBA shooting guard (Miami Heat, Los Angeles Clippers, San Antonio Spurs, Portland Trailblazers, Denver Nuggets), in Fort Worth, Texas.
Obinna Ekezie, Nigerian NBA power forward and center (Vancouver Grizzlies, Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Clippers, Atlanta Hawks), in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor (“Love Actually”), in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Sheree Murphy, English actress (“Emmerdale”), in Stoke Newington, London.
Died:
Lancelot Hogben, 79, British scientist and author of books on science, mathematics and language.
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