The death of Haile Selassie I, the last Emperor of Ethiopia, was announced by the African republic’s radio station. Officially, the 83-year-old deposed Emperor had been found dead in his palace, and had been in failing health after prostate surgery two months earlier, and he was buried in a “secret location” by orders of President Mengistu. After the overthrow of the Mengistu regime 16 years later, Selassie’s body was unearthed from a grave beneath Mengistu’s office at the former Imperial Palace, and it was revealed that the Emperor had been smothered with a pillow while sleeping, after he refused to provide information about his overseas bank accounts.
Marxists. Murdering bastards. But I repeat myself.
New demands for the ouster of Portuguese Premier Vasco Gonçalves were made today from within Portugal’s armed forces, and the Communist‐influenced military propaganda unit that has supported him was seized by troops. But the foes of the Premier also suffered setbacks as the seesaw struggle over him continued, creating a picture of political confusion and chaos. The new denunciations of the Premier came froth military commanders on Portugal’s Atlantic island of Madeira. They warned President Francisco da Costa Gomes that Madeira might break away from Portugal if General Gonçalves remained in office. These officers said they were “extremely preoccupied with the consequences of the continuation of a minority and unpopular central Government,” and warned that “independence sentiment” was spreading through large parts of Madeira’s population.
The Soviet newspaper Pravda accused the West today of open interference in the affairs of Portugal and said such acts were in conflict with principles set down by the recent European security conference in Helsinki.
The West German government, faced with a stubbornly continuing recession, adopted a $2.2 billion recovery program for the building industry and raised the projected 1975 federal deficit to a record of nearly $15 billion. The Opposition Christian Democrats are preparing to campaign on the recession issue in next year’s elections.
The French government announced that it planned a massive injection of money to boost the lagging economy. The priorities are being shifted from the fight against inflation to the fight against unemployment. There were reports of a $5.5 billion increase in public spending, including $2 billion for improving roads, canals and railroads.
France outlawed a Corsican separatist movement whose members killed two policemen in a gun battle last Friday. President Valery Giscard d’Estaing promised “severe punishment” for about 50 members of the so-called Action for the Rebirth of Corsica movement. The Corsicans have always complained that although they gave the world Napoleon, they got precious little in return.
The blockade of most of Holland’s ports and waterways started crumbling as scores of skippers followed an appeal by their leader to end their three-day protest. Leo van Laak made the appeal after Parliament rejected government proposals that had sparked the blockade. The government had suggested substantially reducing the number of Dutch freight barges because there was too little cargo for them.
A group of nonconformist artists in Leningrad said they had received official sanction to hold a 10-day exhibition of their work in the middle of next month-the first such show in the Soviet Union since February. Yevgeni Rukhin, one of the group. said the culture department of the city council had given permission for 70 artists to show their works in the Palace of Culture near the city center.
Intense negotiations in the last few days have reduced differences to two or three points in the language of the projected Egyptian‐Israeli accord, American officials said today. Reporters aboard secretary of State Kissinger’s Air Force jet between Alexandria and Jerusalem were told that in addition to these remaining points, which have symbolic if not substantive, importance, much of the paperwork for the accord, such as supporting annexes, protocols and memorandums of understanding, has not been completely agreed upon. As a result, despite earlier reports in Egypt that the accord would be initialed by Egyptian and Israeli officials on Friday, Mr. Kissinger now does not expect to be able to conclude the negotiations before Sunday or Monday at the earliest. In the drafting stage, the Egyptians, Israelis and Americans are working from the same basic text, proposed by the United States.
The State Department said the United States had made no military commitments to Israel as part of the interim Mideast peace agreement being negotiated by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. A spokesman said a report that American warships would escort oil tankers to Israel in the event of another Arab embargo was “totally inaccurate.”
Commerce Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton has refused a subpoena by a House interstate and foreign commerce subcommittee requesting the names of U.S. companies approached to comply with the Arab League’s boycott of Israel, contending identification could result in a backlash against the firms. Under the Export Administration Act of 1969, the government requires all U.S. companies asked to cooperate in the Israel boycott to notify the Commerce Department each quarter.
The Indian Government said today that it was continuing to maintain normal diplomatic relations with neighboring Bangladesh. The official announcement amounted to diplomatic recognition of the Government of President Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed, who took office after the overthrow and assassination of Sheik Mujibur Rahman on August 15. India, which had very friendly relations with Sheik Mujib’s Government, had not formally recognized the government of his successor, although there have been recent diplomatic contacts between the two countries. Recalling these contacts today, the government spokesman said: “It would be clear from all this that we continue to recognize Bangladesh.”
The Soviet Union has begun citing the success of the recent European security conference to impart new momentum to its long-standing proposal for a Soviet-backed collective security system in Asia. A lengthy analysis in to government newspaper Izvestia tonight asserted that the Asian continent would particularly benefit from the adoption of the principles agreed upon by 35 states at Helsinki. Izvestia went on to contend that Asia was now in “extremely urgent” need of its own system of collective security. Also, in the latest issue ol the Soviet foreign affairs weekly Novoye Vremya, a Soviet historian declared that the European conference, which wound up in Finland at summit level earlier this month, had provided “a fresh stimulus to the realization of the idea of security and cooperation in Asia.” The idea of an Asian collective security system, in which the Soviet Union would expect to participate as an Asian power, was first raised six years ago by the Soviet party chief, Leonid I. Brezhnev, at a world conference of Communist parties, and was proposed anew on several occasions, notably a major policy speech that Mr. Brezhnev delivered in the Central Asian city of Alma Ata in August, 1973.
The United States assured South Korea today that it would honor its defense treaty with South Korea and would help deter any new attack from the North against the South. Speaking at a news conference in Seoul this afternoon, the United States Secretary of Defense, James R. Schlesinger, reaffirmed the United States intention neither to reduce the number of American troops stationed in South Korea nor withdraw them in the foreseeable future. There are 42,000 United States combat troops in South Korea today. Mr. Schlesinger concluded a two‐day consultative meeting with South Korean officials this afternoon.
The General Accounting Office, in a report to Congress, said the Army, Navy, and Air Force “passed up” opportunities for making savings of at least $9.1 million a year in Japan, Okinawa, and Hawaii. The GAO said it had recommended consolidation of “expensive military support functions” more than three years ago but that little had been done. It blamed the failure on “self-centered objections” by commanders.
Governor Mário Lemos Pires of the colony of Portuguese Timor abandoned the capital Dili and departed by the freighter Macdili, along with 722 refugees, to the tiny nearby Atauro Island.
A group calling itself Jaws bombed a Bahamian freighter in Miami and an unidentified spokeswoman telephoned authorities to say that the bombing was motivated by “the attitude of the Bahamian government toward American fishermen.” Only hours later the State Department announced that negotiations with the Bahamas over U.S. fishermen’s rights to take Bahamian spiny lobsters had collapsed. The Bahamas claimed jurisdiction over the lobsters July 9.
The Argentine army officer corps forced President Isabel Martinez de Perón to appoint a hard-line opponent, General Jorge Videla, as commander in chief, replacing General Alberto Numa Laplane. For two days the country had been on the brink of a military coup. The designation of General Videla does not appear to have ended tensions between Mrs. Perón’s floundering government and the restless armed forces. But it does seem to have given the President another temporary respite in her struggle for political survival. The army had been in a state of virtual insubordination because of Mrs. Perón’s insistence on retaining Gen. Alberto Numa Laplane as commander in chief despite widespread calls for his dismissal by fellow officers. The officer corps had rebelled against General Numa Laplane because of his open support of the government and his attempts to involve the army in Peronist politics.
All 16 black members of Rhodesia’s white-dominated Parliament announced they consider the African National Council “the true voice of the African people” in the country. They said they had no desire to take over the role of the council, Rhodesia’s main black political organization, or to participate in a constitutional conference in place of it. Prime Minister Ian D. Smith broke off constitutional talks with the council yesterday and said that he would seek a political settlement with the conservative Council of Chiefs and other like‐minded blacks in Rhodesia. Most political observers consider the African National Council the most representative black movement in the country.
The West German communications satellite Symphonie-B was launched into space from the United States.
Senate Democratic strategists disclosed that they would not try immediately to override President Ford’s expected veto of the bill to extend oil price controls for another six months starting at midnight Sunday. Senate sources said the Democrats were uncertain that they could muster immediately the necessary two-thirds majority to override a veto. Their hope is that added time will bring added pressure on a dozen Senators whose votes are now in doubt. Administration officials concede that they would lose in the House, but the Senate must vote first because the bill originated there.
With the scheduled expiration of price controls authority at midnight Sunday, the entire petroleum industry — from the crude oil well to the neighborhood service station — will be free to raise its prices by any amount. The industry has not had such freedom since August 15, 1971, when President Nixon froze wages and prices. However, the effect of big increases on the vote to override Mr. Ford’s expected veto and the absence of a general shortage of crude oil or petroleum products are expected to inhibit any immediate runaway of prices.
A federal jury in Cleveland exonerated Governor James Rhodes, 27 Ohio National Guardsmen and the former president of Kent State University of any responsibility for the 1970 shootings at Kent State in which four students were killed and nine wounded. Former Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes, former KSU President Robert I. White, and 27 members of the Ohio National Guard had been sued by the parents of the four students for $46 million. The jurors voted 10 to 2 that there were no grounds to hold them personally and financially liable. They had deliberated more than 33 hours.
The Democratic party chose New York over Los Angeles for its 1976 convention. Tense balloting by the site selection committee in Washington gave New York an initial 11-9 margin that shifted quickly to the necessary two-thirds majority and was finally made unanimous. Mayor Beame called the decision a timely gesture of confidence. The convention will be the first in New York since the Democrats nominated John W. Davis in 1924. It will meet in Madison Square Garden next July 11.
Republican voters are closely divided on whether Vice President Rockefeller or former California Governor Ronald Reagan should be President Ford’s running mate next year if Mr. Ford becomes the GOP nominee, according to the Gallup Poll. A survey showed 44% for Reagan, 40% for Rockefeller and 16% undecided. The results were based on interviews with 341 Republicans out of a total sample of 1,529 adults during the period August 1-4.
Vice President Rockefeller, who regularly asserts that he is not actively seeking the second spot on next year’s Republican ticket, campaigned avidly here and in Alabama today among Southern Republicans, many of whom have never forgiven him for not supporting Barry Goldwater in 1964. The balm he poured on the old wounds was made up of strictures on the dangers оf bureaucracy and high government spending, especially it the form of welfare programs Proclaiming his dedication to “states rights and states responsibilities,” he said here that the programs had to be simplified to “avoid the cheats who are taking advantage of the situation.” As he delivered these remarks, Mr. Rockefeller was flanked by South Carolina’s Republican Senator, Strom Thurmond, and Governor James B. Edwards, who is thought to be withholding support from President Ford in the hope that a challenge from Ronald Reagan will still materialize.
President Ford might deny the Senate intelligence committee some of former President Richard M. Nixon’s White House files on Chile even if the courts released the material, said the committee chairman, Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho). He said his committee had given the White House a week to reconsider and suggested it was improper of Mr. Ford to withhold the files when he already had supplied White House papers from the administration of John F. Kennedy. Church made his statement after a closed committee meeting with Presidential Counsel Philip W. Buchen and General Services Administrator Arthur F. Sampson, court-appointed custodians of the Nixon tapes and documents.
The Federal Election Commission is investigating the campaign contributions of the American Medical Assn.’s political arm to see if its control of where the money goes violates federal laws, the Washington Post reported. FEC investigators have received confidential AMA documents from congressional committees and have talked to a former AMA employee who has been distributing them. If the FEC finds evidence of criminal activities, it can turn the case over to the Justice Department for prosecution.
The Food and Drug Administration said it had ordered new warning labels on a drug linked to six deaths from liver disease. It said the drug Dantrium had been approved in early 1974 to treat reversible spasticity because it afforded a “modest but clear-cut improvement” in treating victims of spinal cord injury, stroke, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis. It added that “adverse reaction reports indicate” its toxicity “is more serious than was apparent in the pre-marketing clinical trials.” Doctors were advised to discontinue Dantrium therapy if no benefits have been observed after 45 days.
U.S. District Judge Owen Cox granted a preliminary injunction ordering longshoremen between Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Brownsville, Texas, to continue to load shipments of grain bound for the Soviet Union. The judge set a hearing for Sept. 30 on a permanent injunction and said he “was not concerned with the pros and cons of shipping grain” to Russia. That “was for someone else to decide.” But the longshoremen “cannot violate the contract.” The injunction was sought by the Gulf Maritime Assn.. which said the International Longshoremen Assn. had violated its labor contract when it refused to load the grain. Judge Owen’s injunction was an extension of an earlier temporary restraining order made August 18.
Dogs especially trained for investigating kidnappings have reportedly led Federal investigators to believe that James R. Hoffa had been in a car that was borrowed by his foster son, Charles O’Brien, on the day of his disappearance. The Detroit Free Press said today that, according to offidais close to the investigation, the dogs had given positive indication that the former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, missing since July 30, had been in both the back seat and trunk of the car. In the test, sources said, the Federal Bureau of Investigation used three dogs, gave them Mr. Hoffa’s scent and then led them to the car to determine whether that scent was in the car. The Free Press reported that a high Federal source had said that the dogs had made a positive identification.
Riot-equipped police, some armed with rifles, were called out after dark in Springfield, Massachusetts, to quell trouble in the city’s predominantly Puerto Rican north end. Rampaging youths were reported throwing rocks, bottles and Molotov cocktails at cars and storefronts. Police said every available officer was sent into the area to halt the trouble, which was in apparent response to the shooting by police of a young Puerto Rican the night before who allegedly was fleeing the scene of a burglary. At least three persons were injured, two of them firemen, and an undetermined number arrested.
A federal judge fined the United Mine Workers International $500,000 and scolded the union’s leadership for its “feeble” attempts to bring an end to a wildcat strike that has brought coal production to a halt in the Appalachian coal fields. But U.S. Dist. Judge K. K. Hall said he would drop the fine if miners reported back to work by next Tuesday. If not, he would increase the fine by $100,000 each day the strike continues. About 40,000 miners have been off the job for nearly three weeks in West Virginia. The strike began as a local protest over a miner’s suspension and then spread to whether miners could strike over local disputes.
Employment in the New York-Northeastern New Jersey area declined by 241,000 in the year ended last June. The United States Bureau of Statistics said it was the largest loss for any one year in the 25 for which data were available. In New York City, employment was down by 115,000, the largest one-year drop since November, 1971. In the five counties in the state outside New York City, manufacturing employment dropped by 6.7 percent.
New York City’s three biggest banks rejected Governor Carey’s proposal that they help raise the $2 billion in cash to avert municipal default next month. The action by Chase Manhattan Bank, Morgan Guaranty Trust and First National City Bank threw into question the future of Mayor Beame’s agreement to share fiscal authority with the state government. Aides to Mr. Carey and the Municipal Assistance Corporation scrapped previous plans and turned to alternatives. some of which were said to have been suggested by the three banks.
Veronica and Colin Scargill of England complete their tandem bicycle ride around the world, a record 18,020 miles.
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After scoring three runs in the first inning, the Red Sox proceeded to defeat the Angels, 6–2. Denny Doyle and Fred Lynn hit doubles and Jim Rice followed with a homer to give the Red Sox their running start.
In a trade of shutouts, the White Sox won the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, 2–0, and the Indians took the second game, 5–0. Claude Osteen and Rich Gossage combined to pitch the shutout for the White Sox, who scored their runs on homers by Jorge Orta and Bill Melton. In the nightcap, Fritz Peterson swung the whitewash brush for the Indians and recorded his sixth straight victory. John Lowenstein started the Indians’ scoring, leading off the first inning with a homer.
Gene Tenace hit a sacrifice fly in the ninth inning, scoring pinch-runner Matt Alexander, to lift the Athletics to a 3–2 victory over the Yankees. Billy Williams led off the inning with a single. Alexander, replacing Williams on the paths, stole second and continued to third on a throwing error by Thurman Munson to set the stage for Tenace’s sacrifice fly.
Bert Blyleven yielded only six hits and struck out 13 while pitching the Twins to a 1–0 victory over the Brewers in 11 innings. Loser Bill Travers allowed four hits before yielding the mound to Tom Murphy, who was tagged for a single by pinch-hitter Tony Oliva for the Twins’ run-scoring blow. With one out in the 11th, Craig Kusick was hit by a pitch for the third time in the game, tying a major league record. Steve Brye ran for Kusick. After Johnny Briggs walked, Murphy replaced Travers. Oliva batted for Dave McKay and delivered the winning hit.
Mike Torrez posted his 16th victory and turned in his 13th complete game, equaling his major league highs in both departments, as the Orioles defeated the Royals, 4–2. The Orioles scored on a triple by Bobby Grich and single by Tommy Davis in the third inning before putting the game away with three runs in the fourth on a single by Paul Blair, double by Brooks Robinson, single by Mark Belanger and double by Ken Singleton.
Jeff Burroughs and Tom Grieve each contributed a two-run single to the Rangers’ attack in an 8–2 victory over the Tigers. Jim Spencer had a perfect night at bat with four singles, driving in one run and scoring two.
The Braves, after being held hitless by John Candelaria for 6 ⅔ innings, took advantage of three errors to score five unearned runs and defeat the Pirates, 6–2. The Pirates counted their pair in the first when Rennie Stennett was hit by a pitch and Al Oliver homered. Errors by Craig Reynolds and Stennett and successive singles by Rowland Office and Larvell Blanks for the first hits off Candelaria produced the Braves’ tying pair in the seventh. Reynolds committed his second error of the game in the ninth, booting a grounder by Vic Correll. After a sacrifice and pass to Blanks, Cito Gaston popped up for the second out but Ralph Garr singled, driving in the tie-breaking tally. Rob Belloir greeted reliever Dave Giusti with a run-scoring single. After a pass to Darrell Evans, Dusty Baker singled to climax the Braves’ four-run outburst.
Ken Griffey rapped four straight singles to lead the Reds’ 15-hit attack in a 6–5 victory over the Cubs. Pete Rose scored three runs after reaching base on two walks and a single. The Cubs rapped Pat Darcy for two runs in the second on a bases-loaded single by Rick Monday and added a pair in the third on a walk to Jerry Morales, single by Andre Thornton and double by Pete LaCock to take a 4–3 lead. The Reds went ahead with two in the fourth on a walk to Rose, single by Griffey, sacrifice fly by Tony Perez and single by George Foster before scoring the deciding run in the fifth on singles by Bill Plummer, Pedro Borbon and Griffey.
The Cardinals’ defense fell apart with five errors that resulted in three unearned runs and made it easy for the Astros to post a 5–1 victory. Wilbur Howard drove in two of the Astros’ tallies with a triple and single. Jim York made his second start and gained his second victory since reporting to the Astros from Iowa (American Association). York pitched seven innings before Jose Sosa took over to finish the game.
Continuing his mastery of the Padres, Tom Seaver became a 19-game winner by pitching the Mets to a 7–0 victory. Dave Kingman and Rusty Staub hit homers for the Mets. Seaver beat the Padres for the fourth time this season and for the 18th time in 19 decisions over a seven-year span.
Burt Hooton pitched a three-hitter and posted his seventh consecutive victory as the Dodgers romped over the Phillies, 10–0. The shutout was Hooton’s fourth in a Dodger uniform since being acquired from the Cubs in an early-season trade. The Dodgers, who started their scoring with a homer by Ron Cey off Steve Carlton in the second inning, added two runs in the fifth and then enjoyed their biggest stanza of the season in the sixth, sending 11 men to bat and scoring seven times.
John Montefusco struck out 14 batters, a high for an National League game this season, while pitching the Giants to a 9–1 victory over the Expos. Bobby Murcer, returning to action for the first time in 12 days after suffering a hamstring pull, drove in two runs with a single and Bruce Miller accounted for four RBIs with a triple and single in the Giants’ support of their rookie righthander.
California Angels 2, Boston Red Sox 6
Cincinnati Reds 6, Chicago Cubs 5
Chicago White Sox 2, Cleveland Indians 0
Chicago White Sox 0, Cleveland Indians 5
Baltimore Orioles 4, Kansas City Royals 2
Philadelphia Phillies 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 10
Minnesota Twins 1, Milwaukee Brewers 0
Oakland Athletics 3, New York Yankees 2
Atlanta Braves 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
New York Mets 7, San Diego Padres 0
Montreal Expos 1, San Francisco Giants 9
Houston Astros 5, St. Louis Cardinals 1
Detroit Tigers 2, Texas Rangers 8
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 807.02 (+3.91, +0.49%)
Born:
Jonny Moseley, American freestyle skier (Olympic Gold Medal, 1998) and TV Presenter, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Trent Durrington, Australian MLB pinch hitter, second baseman, and third baseman (Anaheim Angels, Milwaukee Brewers), in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Ryan Bast, Canadian NHL defenseman (Philadelphia Flyers), in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada.
Died:
Haile Selassie, 83, Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974), of suspected assassination by strangulation.
Bob Scholl, 41, American doo-wop vocalist (Mello-Kings — “Tonite, Tonite”), in a boating accident.
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