As a deadline set for his ouster passed, Premier Vasco Gonçalves of Portugal continued to hold onto office and maneuver for support tonight. Last Friday, President Francisco da Costa Gomes was understood to have told visitors that he would remove the Premier, against whom a majority of military and political forces are arrayed for what they view as his support of the Communist party. The President was working under a deadline from the Premier’s opponents, who were thought to be ready for a coup if the deadline was stretched beyond tomorrow. The High Council of the Revolution issued a statement after a meeting that touched only on secondary matters and omitted mention of the crucial issue that the country has been waiting to be resolved. Military leaders met throughout the day while the country remained in an agitated and confused state and anti‐Communist violence continued to erupt here and there in the north. Everyone talked about how grave the crisis was and ordinary Portuguese expressed fear of bloodshed, but still the crisis dragged on.
Almost any public gathering in Portugal today — a country fair, a political rally, a religious parade — risks turning into a brutal anti‐Communist demonstration. What had been a mild Roman Catholic march for religious freedom became a fierce witchhunt that lasted all last night in this prosperous city in central Portugal and was renewed tonight. “The people are full of pent-up hatred and will explode at any pretext,” said a Portuguese journalist who has followed the explosion of anti‐Communist violence in north and central Portugal over the last month. Two people were reported killed tonight when anti‐Communists attacked the party’s headquarters in Leiria for the second straight night and were driven back by intense gunfire from Communists inside the building and troops guarding it. The Communists fired hunting rifles at anyone approaching the building. Two peasants returning home across the bridge in front of the building were wounded. “We’re going to get the Communist headquarters tonight or some other night but we’ll get it,” one of the demonstrators said. Others shouted insults at the soldiers for defending the Communists.
Belgian intelligence officials are checking persistent reports that the Soviet Union has sent political funds to Portugal through a shipping concern it runs in Antwerp. A spokesman for the company, Transworld Marine Agency, said its only transfer to Portugal lately had been 20 million Belgian francs, or about $500,000, sent in January for the purchase of a building and equipment of an agency in Lisbon to be called Marflot. He said there had been no transfer since. A similar agency was set up in Spain five or six years ago, he added.
The Greek cabinet decided unanimously to spare the lives of the three men who led the military coup in 1967, former President George Papadopoulos, Nikolaos Makarezos and Stylianos Patakos, and commuted their death sentences to life imprisonment. The decision was made under growing opposition to clemency from political parties, the press and the public. Fifteen associates of the three men received prison terms. A government statement said the Cabinet had decided to “set in motion the appropriate procedure under the law and recommend the commutation of the three death sentences to terms of life imprisonment.” The Cabinet decision followed charges by opposition leaders that the government’s haste, on Saturday, to hint at clemency, implied either submission to pressure or previous commitments. The government rejects these charges.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization exercises including soldiers from the United States and Turkey will be held in eastern Turkey and the Aegean Sea September 12-28, NATO officials said. The exercises will be the first large-scale military maneuvers by the Western alliance since Turkey took control of American military bases last month because of the U.S. arms embargo against Turkey.
About 50 crewmen of three North Sea drilling rigs were evacuated by helicopter after a telephone caller claimed bombs had been attached to the platforms below the water. British navy bomb experts were diving to examine the rigs, which belong to the Phillips Petroleum Co. of the United States. But police and oil drillers were becoming increasingly skeptical after one of the two deadlines passed without an explosion. The bomb threat was said to involve the Palestinian organization Fatah.
Two men in their twenties were shot and killed on a lonely country road in Northern Ireland’s County Armagh near the Irish Republic border. Police called explosives experts, fearing the bodies were booby-trapped. Each man had been shot once in the back of the head.
Interpol gave the U.N. Human Rights Commission a 69-nation survey indicating there is a lively international business in procuring women for prostitution. The survey tells of waitresses from Trinidad and Tobago and Australia being engaged by an English agency to work as prostitutes in Africa, Frenchwomen recruited to work in West German “eros” centers and a young Danish girl narrowly escaping abduction into a bordello.
Soviet troops are helping to harvest grain in Kazakhstan and Siberia in an apparent move to boost output in the east and offset low yields elsewhere. Pravda, the official party newspaper, said troops of the Central Asian military district were assisting mainly in the transport of the harvest. Soviet agricultural planners, apparently worried by a drought-hit harvest in the west of the country, have switched their attention to Kazakhstan and Siberia.
Secretary of State Kissinger shuttled between Jerusalem and Alexandria today working on final details of the projected Egyptian-Israeli agreement in Sinai, which seems close to conclusion. Following a late meeting with Israeli officials after his return from Egypt, Mr. Kissinger said: “We’re making constructive and good progress on all issues, and still have not run into unusual difficulties.” He said there was a possibility he could finish the negotiations by the end‐of the week. No snags have appeared so far in Mr. Kissinger’s five days of mediation on this latest Middle East “diplomatic shuttle,” and American and Israeli officials said today that virtually all major substantive issues seemed resolved. But reporters on Mr. Kissinger’s Air Force 707 jet flying between Israel and Egypt were cautioned by Mr. Kissinger and his top aides that obstacles could still arise.
With an interim accord with Israel apparently in sight, the Government of President Anwar el-Sadat faces the delicate problem of selling it to the Egyptian people and the Arab world. The core of this political public‐relations problem is a collection of so‐called secret undertakings, that, it is reported, consist for the most part of Egyptian concessions to the Israelis. Several of the reported Egyptian concessions — what are described as a promise to ease the boycott of American and possibly European concerns doing business with Israel, a pledge to abstain from attempts to oust Israel from the United Nations and a commitment not to join an Arab military attack on Israel — are likely to draw criticism elsewhere in the Arab world.
Egypt dissociated itself from Syrian and Palestine Liberation Organization resolutions urging suspension of Israel’s U.N. membership. Foreign Minister Mahmud Raid said before the opening of a conference of 78 nonaligned nations in Lima, Peru, that a caucus of 20 Arab delegations had agreed to ask the conference to support the declaration of Rabat, where Arab heads of state met last year. At Rabat, the Arab leaders asked the United Nations only to “consider explusion” but not actually to implement it, Riad said.
Foreign ministers and other officials from nearly 80 nonaligned nations opened a five-day conference today with several Arab countries and the Palestine Liberation Organization pressing for a formal decision to seek Israel’s expulsion from the United Nations. Egypt seems hesitant, and some black African and other members of the so‐called nonaligned bloc are known to be opposed to a United Nations drive to oust Israel. Yugoslavia, a charter member of the third‐world coalition, advocates the creation of a standing group of nonaligned countries that would take part in efforts to bring about a Middle East settlement.
Lawyers opposed to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi went into India’s highest court today to open their legal assault on a constitutional amendment that the government hastily put through this month to end her entanglement with the courts. “The amendment alters the basic structure of the constitution,” declared Shanti Shushan, a lawyer representing Raj Narain, the obscure country politician who has been fighting the Prime Minister in the courts for several years. “Certain persons are being put above the law.”
The Pathet Lao’s take-over of Vientiane, extending its rule throughout Laos, followed weeks of elaborate preparations for the formal ceremonies, according to reports reaching Bangkok from diplomatic circles. More than two weeks ago, Pathet Lao workers and policemen assigned to Vientiane began a house‐to‐house survey of families and compiled extensive lists of the population of the capital and its environs. Meetings, sometimes beginning at 7 AM, sometimes toward the end of the business day at 4 PM, were held throughout the city for “re‐education.” According to officials who attended some of these sessions or had friends present, the meetings were occupied largely with teaching the words and music to a series of new patriotic songs, most of which were sung at the victory celebrations Saturday on the parade grounds at the That Luang Pagoda.
Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger headed an American delegation that opened a two-day meeting here today with South Korean officials. The meeting an annual one, was designed to work out measures to assure security in the post-Indochina war era. “We shall discuss where we stand and just what we need to do to make our strength and resolve so manifest that no adversary will ever doubt that aggression would be met and turned back,” Mr. Schlesinger said on his arrival yesterday.
Refugees from Portuguese Timor said today that bodies had littered the streets in Dili, the capital. The refugees, who arrived in Darwin today, said that supporters of the Revolutionary Front for Independent East Timor, which is engaged in a struggle for power with the Democratic Union of Timor, had cut the throats of babies. Some 1,170 refugees sailed into Darwin on a Norwegian freighter, the Lloyd Bakke, and were given one‐week visas for Australia. A Government official said that more than half of them wanted to stay in Australia, but a decision on the question would be a matter for Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Nine of the refugees were treated for bullet or shrapnel wounds. They included two 9‐year‐old boys who were hit when a grenade exploded on the wharf while the refugees were waiting to board the freighter.
The commander of the Argentine army, Lieutenant General Alberto N. LaPlane, pledged full army support for President Maria Estela Perón’s civilian government, believed to mean specifically her new cabinet. Some officers had been reported furious over the appointment of an army colonel as interior minister, a move they regarded as a violation of the military’s hands-off policy toward the government. Press reports said two dissenting generals were leading a drive to oust LaPlane from the military.
President Idi Amin is planning to visit the Soviet Union to seek arms for liberation fighters in southern Africa, according to a broadcast from Uganda. Amin has said that he will personally lead a black invasion of white-ruled Rhodesia and South Africa within a year.
An extraordinary effort was made at a meeting in Rhodesia by Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa and President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia to force Rhodesian leaders, black and white, to find a solution to their racial differences. But it appeared that the talks might break down. The difficulty seemed to be division among black nationalist leaders on whether to agree to a formula for future hard bargaining inside Rhodesia — a plan some regard as a humiliation.
In a luxury railroad car parked in the middle of the Victoria Falls Bridge, Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia and leader of the white minority government of the mostly black African nation, met with Bishop Abel Muzorewa of the black African National Council, to negotiate a peaceful solution to a threatened racial war. The bridge linked white ruled Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) and the black ruled Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia). Earlier in the day, Prime Minister John Vorster of white-ruled South Africa met with Zambia’s President Kenneth Kaunda at the Musi-o-Tunya Hotel at the Zambian town of Livingstone, later referred to as Maramba, with both leaders sponsoring the meeting between Smith and Muzorewa. However, the meeting was not successful.
President Ford plans to ask Congress soon for temporary authority to continue through next winter federal controls over deliveries and prices of propane, the bottled gas widely used to heat rural homes, to protect small propane consumers from shortages and runaway prices. Administration and Democratic congressional sources said the request was likely to be coupled with a veto of the proposed six-month extension of oil-price controls.
In an address at a meeting of hardware merchants in Chicago, President Ford set forth three themes that represented a preview of the broad economic philosophy on which he will base his candidacy next year for a full term in the White House. He told the merchants attending the opening of the National Hardware Week Convention that he would “get the federal government out of your business, out of your pockets, and out of your hair.”
The Mobil Oil Corporation’s proposal for a gradual decontrol of domestic oil prices was dismissed today by other major petroleum producers, as unrealistic at this time. Mobil broke ranks with the big producers over the weekend when it publicly announced its opposition to President Ford’s plan to remove controls Sunday.
The director of the Voice of America said today that the State Department exerts intolerable pressure to control parts of the organization’s worldwide new’s broadcasts. The director, Kenneth Giddens, said in an interview that the Voice of America was subjected constantly to such pressures as “don’t say this, don’t say, that or don’t talk about, that.” Mr. Giddens is a broadcasting executive from Mobile who is on vacation. The interview, with him appeared in today’s editions of The Mobile Register Press. He said the State Department’s efforts to censor information it considers embarrassing or detrimental to foreign policy have increased since the beginning of active efforts toward détente with the Soviet Union.
Philip W. Buchen, council to President Ford, told a Federal court today that he planned to comply with a Senate Intelligence Committee’s subpoena for certain documents compiled under the Nixon Administration, unless the court ruled that he could not do so. His plans were described in a motion filed by the Justice Department in United States District Court. The committee has subpoenaed former President Richard M. Nixon’s files concerning efforts to prevent Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens from becoming President of Chile in 1970. The committee’s subpoena also seeks the files kept by Mr. Nixon and his aides on the socalled Huston Plan to initiate domestic intelligence operations. The committee’s subpoena stated that the materials should have been turned over by today, but Mr. Buchen and Justice Department lawyers questioned whether an existing court order would prevent them from doing so.
The Harris Poll said yesterday that President Ford would decisively beat former California Governor Ronald Reagan for the Republican Presidential nomination if the election were held now. In a survey between August 6 and August 10, 683 Republicans and Independents said they preferred Mr. Ford to Mr. Reagan by 55 percent to 34 percent. Among rank and file Republicans, Mr. Ford’s lead widened to 60 to 32 percent. The survey said that independent voters favored the President 50 to 35 percent, according to The Associated Press.
Treasury Secretary William Simon chastised the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation for apparently not having been “forthright” with the government about the bribes that the company has paid overseas. He told the Senate Banking Committee that the Emergency Loan Guarantee Board, which was set up to supervise federal loan guarantees to Lockheed, and of which he is chairman, was “disturbed” that the board had failed to detect “Lockheed’s apparent long-standing practice of resorting to bribery to sell its products in foreign markets.” Mr. Simon, under persistent questioning, refused to say that the board would stop guaranteeing loans to the company if Lockheed did not stop paying bribes. He said he would favor that position, but that he could not speak for the board.
The jury in the $46 million Kent State University civil damages suit in Cleveland returned to the courtroom to ask U.S. District Judge Don Young to clarify his charge concerning the possible liability of Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes. Young had outlined four questions the jury was to consider in determining Rhodes’ liability. The jury challenged one of them, which had been worded negatively instead of affirmatively as the rest had been put. The judge reworded the question and the six men and six women returned to their deliberations on the 29 defendants. On Friday noon the jury was given the case involving the deaths of four students and the wounding of nine others during campus antiwar disturbances May 4, 1970.
A candidate for Mississippi state treasurer, Doxey Fisher, and Danny Keyes, a candidate for state representative, died Sunday night when their small plane crashed in a thunderstorm four miles south of Decatur. They were to have been in the runoff elections today. Also found in the wreckage of the twin-engine Piper Apache was the body of pilot Mark Jones, of Jackson. The three men had left Meridian after a political rally and apparently ran into a severe thunderstorm.
The American Postal Workers Union announced that its membership had ratified a new three-year contract with the U.S. Postal Service by a majority of better than 3 to 1. The vote by the largest of the four postal unions virtually rules out the possibility of a strike by the 600,000 workers. The pact called for raises totaling $1,500 over three years, continued cost-of-living increases and a no-layoff clause. It will increase the service’s annual operating costs by $2 billion and bring a first-class postage increase to 13 cents by the end of the year, officials said.
Cleveland struggled to recover from a torrential rainstorm that damaged streets and highways, tore down power lines and left four persons dead. In one section where flash floods created water running six feet deep the body of Richard Ambeau, 41, was found. Another drowning victim was Jacqueline Boomer, 9, apparently sucked into a storm sewer. Two Cleveland Heights boys, both 12, were killed by lightning in a park. Mayor Ralph Perk, who asked that his city be declared a disaster area, said damage could run into millions.
Howard D. Tipton of Coronado will be sworn in today as head of a federal effort to cut the nation’s fire losses in half. Tipton, former city manager of Glendora, will be in charge of the Commerce Department’s new National Fire Prevention and Control Administration, an agency designed to upgrade fire prevention techniques. Legislation establishing the agency came last fall as a result of a two-year study of the fire problem by a commission headed by Tipton.
Vietnamese war refugees in this country are turning to public welfare at a lower rate than native Americans, according to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. It said that as of July 16, 4,814 Vietnamese and Cambodians were receiving cash and medical assistance in 27 states. That is about 9% of the 52,000 refugees who had been moved from reception centers to communities. Nationally, 25 million Americans receive welfare cash, medical or social services — roughly 11% of the population.
Bruce Springsteen’s album “Born to Run” was released in the United States, becoming a hit and making Springsteen a rock superstar.
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Darrel Chaney, batting .212, gave the Reds a boost with his first homer of the season, a three-run blast in the fifth, and drove in a fourth run with a single as Cincinnati toppled the Cubs, 11–4. Tony Perez drove in the 1,000th run of his career with a third-inning single. Six of the winners’ 19 hits were doubles. Bill Madlock and Jerry Morales homered for the Cubs, who kayoed winner Fred Norman in a three-run sixth. Clay Carroll hurled runless relief over the final three frames.
Jim Rooker tossed his first shutout of the season, stopping the Braves on three hits as the Pirates claimed their sixth victory in the last seven games, 4–0. Willie Stargell singled home two runs for the Bucs, plating Rennie Stennett in the first and Craig Reynolds in the third after Stennett had walked, moved to third on Reynolds’ single and scored on Al Oliver’s groundout. Richie Hebner’s single, two errors by the Braves and a base hit by Stennett got the final run across in the fourth.
Cliff Johnson’s homer in the 11th gave the Astros a 4–3 lead, but rain in the bottom of the frame caused the game to be called, with the score reverting to the 10th, giving the Cardinals a 3–3 tie. Lou Brock’s single and stolen base and a double by Bake McBride gave St. Louis the tying run in the 10th, after Houston had taken a 3–2 lead in the top of the inning on Ken Boswell’s sacrifice fly. The Astros forced extra innings by tagging Cards’ ace reliever Al Hrabosky for the tying run in the top of the ninth.
The Mets’ Hank Webb hurled his first career shutout, stopping the Padres on five hits, 4–0. Jerry Grote tripled home Dave Kingman, who had doubled, with New York’s first run in the second inning. Mike Vail, who had four hits for the winners, made it 2–0 in the fifth with an RBI single. Rusty Staub drove in two insurance runs in the ninth with a double.
Greg Luzinski singled home tallies in the first and fifth innings, and Mike Schmidt led off the second with his 31st homer as the Phillies defeated the Dodgers, 4–2, and remained three games behind the Pirates in the N. L. East. Singles by Larry Bowa and Jay Johnstone and a sacrifice fly by Dick Allen accounted for the final Philadelphia run in the seventh. The Dodgers scored once in the fifth on John Hale’s double and two infield outs. Steve Garvey doubled home the second L.A. run in the sixth.
Rookie Dennis Eckersley held the White Sox hitless until the seventh and got home-run backing from Frank Robinson and Charlie Spikes as the Indians defeated Chicago, 5–1. Cleveland scored an unearned run in the second and moved ahead, 2–0, in the fifth when Buddy Bell doubled home Duane Kuiper. Robinson hit a two-run homer and Spikes followed with a solo shot in the eighth. A walk, passed ball and single by Bill Melton accounted for the Sox’ only run in the seventh as Eckersley became the first Indian pitcher to win 10 games this season.
Dave McKay’s two-run homer in the second, added to two RBIs by Lyman Bostock, propelled the Twins past the Brewers, 6–3. Bill Butler, relieving starter Joe Decker in the fourth with the bases loaded and none out, checked Milwaukee the rest of the way on two hits, handling the Brewers their ninth defeat in the last 10 games. The Twins added an unearned run following McKay’s homer in the second. Rod Carew singled home Bostock, who had doubled, in the fourth, and Bostock singled in the final two runs in the fifth. Bill Sharp drove in all the losers’ runs with an infield out in the second and two-run single in the the fourth.
Designated hitter Tom Grieve singled home the game’s only run in the second as the Rangers’ Jim Umbarger outdueled the Tigers’ Ray Bare, 1–0. Grieve’s RBI hit followed a single by Jim Spencer and walk to Toby Harrah. Umbarger, making only his fifth start of the season, worked out of jams in the last three innings to preserve the shutout victory.
The game between the Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals at Royals’ Stadium is postponed due to rain. It will be made up tomorrow.
Cincinnati Reds 11, Chicago Cubs 4
Chicago White Sox 1, Cleveland Indians 5
Philadelphia Phillies 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Minnesota Twins 6, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Atlanta Braves 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
New York Mets 4, San Diego Padres 0
Houston Astros 3, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Detroit Tigers 0, Texas Rangers 1
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Petria Thomas, Australian swimmer (Olympic gold 100m butterfly, 4×100m freestyle, 4×100m medley 2004; World C’ship gold 100/200m butterfly, 4×100m medley 2001), born in Lismore, Australia.
Molly Tuter, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury), in Soldotna, Alaska (d. 2024).
Sarah Manners, English actress (“Doctors”), in Harborne, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.
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