A large part of Portugal’s armed forces were close to open rebellion against the appointment of General Vasco Gonçalves, the former Premier, as their Chief of Staff. The attempt by President Francisco da Costa Gomes to end more than a month of crisis by shifting the Communist-backed General Gonçalves to the nation’s lop military post, and naming Vice Admiral Jose Batista Pinheiro de Azevedo as Premier, has exacerbated tensions in the country. A military alert, called Friday night, added to the uneasiness. Nine officers who led a campaign to get General Conçalves out of the Premiership said today that they would not accept him as Chief of Staff. They included two major commanders of ground forces, Brigadier General Carlos Charais, commander of the central military region, with headquarters in Coimbra, and Brigadier Gen. Pedro Pezarat Correia, commander of the southern region, in Evora.
An apparent majority of the military units in the northern region, commanded by a pro-Gonçalves officer, Brigadier General Eurico Corvacho, have reportedly deserted him and put themselves under the orders of General Charais. In a further move against General Gonçalves, the entire military security organization headed by General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho has been placed under the direct orders of President Costa Gomes. According to an unconfirmed report, this was done on General Carvalho’s own initiative. General Carvalho, a member of the supreme triumvirate with the President and General Gonçalves, had been actively trying to oust General Gonçalves from the Premiership. In a letter last week, he told the Premier to stay out of any military installation under Carvalho command. The President’s effort to achieve a compromise to resolve an issue that was tearing apart the country seems to have made matters worse. The President himself had held the post of Chief of Staff; in divesting himself of it, as a gesture of appeasement toward General Gonçalves, General Costa Gomes weakened his own position.
Portuguese troops on the Atlantic island of Madeira passed a resolution of no confidence today in the Armed Forces General Assembly, which has been summoned to meet in Lisbon Friday. A communiqué published after a meeting of military delegates here said that the island’s forces did not recognize the right of the assembly, which backs General Gonçalves, to “restructure” the country’s policy‐making council. Earlier this week the Madeira military command sent a telegram to the Portuguese President attacking the Government of former Premier Gonçalves, which they said was provoking a separatist movement on the island, an integral administrative part of Portugal.
A Romanian Embassy official who defected in Norway has revealed the existence of a network of Romanian industrial espionage agents that covers all of Northern Europe, the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten reported. The paper said Virgil Tipanut, 37, the third secretary at the Romanian Embassy in Oslo, named 40 agents he said were spying on industries in Britain, West Germany and the Scandinavian countries. Romania is trying to develop its industry, the paper said.
Two Basque separatists, condemned to death for the killing of a policeman, got at least a four-day reprieve in Madrid as the legal process leading to their execution moved more slowly than expected. The military command in Burgos, where the two were tried, reported no action on the death sentences. The commander’s signature was considered a formality but without it the process of bringing the case to Gen. Francisco Franco for a final decision could not begin.
A bomb exploded in central London in the fourth consecutive night of bombings in and around the city. Scotland Yard said there were no casualties in the latest blast in the doorway of National Westminister House on High Holborn. It houses the bank’s registrar’s department. A man who telephoned a warning shortly before the blast was said to have a slight Irish accent.
Soviet unhappiness over Secretary of State Kissinger’s latest peace mission in the Middle East was indicated by the Communist party newspaper Pravda, which said today that the disengagement agreement being completed would only further complicate the Middle East situation. The proposed new pullback of forces in Sinai, Pravda said in the first direct Soviet comment on Mr. Kissinger’s shuttle diplomacy, was “a partial agreement of limited significance that not only does not replace a general political settlement in the Middle East, but also does not bring one any nearer.” Pravda also criticized the proposal to station American technicians to monitor warning systems for Israel at mountain passes in Sinai. It said that the United Nations peace-keeping force already had an “effective” monitoring system in the region since 1973.
Egypt agreed with Israel that the presence of American technicians in the Sinai passes was vital to the success of a new disengagement being worked out between the two countries. In Alexandria, a spokesman for President Anwar Sadat said that in Egypt’s opinion, “the idea of United States technicians to help with the working of the early-warning system observers is an important part” of the accord.
The U.N. Security Council was urged “to take all necessary measures” to force Israel to comply with the United Nations resolutions on the Middle East by delegates from 82 nonaligned countries who concluded a week-long conference in Peru. The “Lima Declaration” adopted at the conference omitted a call to suspend or expel Israel from the United Nations despite an effort to oust her by the Palestine Liberation Organization, now a full member of the nonaligned nations, and by delegates from Syria, Libya, Iraq and other anti-Israel Arab nations. These nations unsuccessfully fought to the end to have their demand for the ouster incorporated in the declaration.
Seven former U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations asked Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to restrain members from seeking to deprive Israel of its seat. “Such action may well cause irreparable damage to the United Nations itself,” the ambassadors said in an open letter to Waldheim. They added that several leading members had threatened to withdraw support if the General Assembly acted illegally to expel, suspend or deny rights to Israel.
While the internal Israeli battle over territorial concessions to Egypt rages in the streets of the cities, a potentially more anguished struggle is taking shape on the Golan Heights. There are no Jewish settlements in the western Sinai Peninsula, where the next Israeli withdrawals will take place. Eighteen such settlements stand in the territories seized from Syria in 1967, and more are being established. While Israel has not claimed Sinai as part of Israel, Israeli Governments since the six‐day war have contended that the Golan Heights cannot be returned to Syria. Since the Israeli‐Syrian disengagement agreement of last year, when a small part of the territory, notably the ruins of El Quneitra, reverted to Syria, the Israeli settlers have waged a political offensive to retain what is left. Now that unconfirmed but credible reports are circulating that Israel, under American pressure, is likely to negotiate another interim agreement with Syria, anxiety has risen sharply, and so has political action. Leaders of the settlers are being received this week by Premier Yitzhak Rabin and his entire Cabinet to plead the case for the retention of all land under Jewish cultivation. It is indicative of the seriousness with which the Government views the movement’s potential that ministers are taking time for these discussions in the midst of Secretary of State Kissinger’s shuttle visit.
Muslim and Christian factions renewed their battles with machine guns and rockets in two Lebanese towns and fresh clashes were reported in suburbs of Beirut, police said. They said 21 people had been killed and 35 wounded in three days of fighting. Meanwhile, Israeli security forces killed two Arab guerrillas who infiltrated from Lebanon for a suicide-mission attack on the settlement of Zarit, a military spokesman said in Tel Aviv.
Kuwait’s minister of finance hinted today that the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries might make no increase in prices before January even though its self-imposed “freeze” expires September 30. Abdel‐Rahman Salem al‐Atiqi, who was Kuwait’s Oil Minister until earlier this year, also said in an hour‐long interview that the prospect of a new troop disengagement accord between Israel and Egypt would cause the oil countries to be “more helpful and considerate” in pricing decisions taken at the cartel’s September 24 meeting in Vienna. “But not to retreat back to bring down prices,” the minister added pointedly.
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund estimated today that the surplus income of the oil-producing countries would be reduced by one-fourth this year from last year’s level. But he added that the still-large balance‐of‐payments deficit that faced the oil‐consuming nations would be borne this year entirely by the less developed countries, with the industrial countries as a group about in balance and able to pay for their oil imports.
Bangladesh President Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed banned all political activities in the country and said any violation of the order would be punishable with imprisonment up to seven years. The ordinance also provided for the forfeiture of properties and funds of illegal political parties. Bangladesh switched from a multiparty parliamentary system to a oneparty state in January.
A drain of professional and skilled workers is plaguing Asian countries. The problem is particularly acute in Indonesia, where the government has threatened to revoke the passports of students studying overseas, mainly in West Germany and The Netherlands, if they try to stay abroad. The government has already withdrawn about 100 passports of Indonesian students studying in East European countries who refused to go home because they could earn higher salaries overseas. In the Philippines, the departure of doctors has been causing alarm. Of 23,000 doctors available in the Philippines last year, nearly half went abroad.
Fourteen U.S. mayors may cancel a trip to China unless the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is permitted to join them. New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu, president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, said the Chinese had refused entry to Mayor Carlos Romero Barcelo because they support a Puerto Rican movement seeking independence from the United States.
The “Whites only” and “Nonwhites only” signs on most of Windhoek’s public buildings were removed today, two days before the opening of the constitutional conference on the future of South‐West Africa (Namibia). The move, unprecedented in the history of South Africa’s administration of the territory appeared to dismantle “petty apartheid” at a stroke and give blacks, whites and “coloureds” — people of mixed race — equality in the capital’s public buildings for the first time. Nonetheless at some post office counters whites and blacks were seen forming separate lines.
The African National Council, the main black nationalist group in white-ruled Rhodesia, said it would make no more concessions to Prime Minister Ian Smith’s government to resume political talks. ANC spokesman Edson Sithole said the group would not drop demands for immunity for exiled black leaders if the talks are held in Rhodesia. Smith and ANC leader Bishop Abel Muzorewa met on the Victoria Falls bridge last Monday but the talks got nowhere.
In a speech to a labor union audience in Augusta, Maine, President Ford prodded business and industry to expand production and create new job opportunities to help “maintain the social fabric of America.” Sweeping across New England in a driving rainstorm, the President told a labor union audience in Augusta, Maine, “Labor Day is no holiday for those who are out of work.” He declared that no level of unemployment was acceptable to his Administration and then called, in appearances at political fund‐raising rallies here and in Newport, Rhode Island, for Republican solidarity to enhance the party’s prospects in 1976. “All of us — labor, management and government — must work together if we are to achieve long‐ term economic health,” Mr. Ford told 2,500 participants in a rally in Augusta to raise funds for a children’s hospital. As if to challenge the contention of national labor union leaders that his economic policies were “callous” in tolerating continued high unemployment — the latest national average is 8.4 percent — Mr. Ford took pains to assert that unemployment statistics could never fully reflect the human suffering involved. “There are some losses which are not published,” said. “I refer to the loss of hope among the high school and college graduates seeking their first job, the loss of self‐esteem among the head’s of household who are, laid off, the loss of security and standards of living that people worked for years to achieve and, most important of all, the lops of faith in America’s future.”
After months of apparent unconcern over New York City’s financial condition, President Ford’s principal economic advisers are now suggesting that default by the city could have serious national implications. These implications were described as political as well as economic and they hinted that Mr. Ford has begun to take a deeper interest in the problem. Treasury Secretary William Simon and the President’s Special Assistant for Economic Affairs, L. William Seidman, said in interviews that a default could adversely affect municipalities across the country and the nation’s financial markets. They said it might also complicate the flagging national economic recovery. “I don’t want to see a default — that would be awful,” Mr. Simon said.
The National Security Agency eavesdrops on virtually all cable, Telex and other non-telephone communications leaving and entering the United States and uses computers to sort and obtain intelligence from the contents, according to sources familiar with the operations. The N.S.A., possibly the most secretive of the agencies in the intelligence community, is part of the Department of Defense and is responsible for intelligence gathering and developing and breaking codes. Its operations make it privy to the inner workings of thousands of American and foreign corporations, the sources said, as well as to the private overseas telegrams of an untold number of American citizens. It is able to intrude on the communications of news agencies and newspapers, and communications of other governments, and conducts systematic intrusions on telephone communications in foreign countries, often picking up calls between American citizens, the sources said. There is said to be growing controversy in the intelligence community over whether the agency’s activity is legal.
The first papers from the FBI’s secret Rosenberg investigation files were turned over to Smith College history Professor Allen Weinstein — about three years after he had first petitioned for the records. The documents were also being delivered to Robert and Michael Meeropol, the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. who were convicted of giving atomic bomb secrets to Soviet agents and were executed in 1953.
Guidelines have been issued by the Federal Trade Commission to force automakers to tell the whole truth about their cars’ fuel economy. The guidelines required that anticipated mileage figures for both city and highway driving be given equal billing, that mileage claims in ads be identified as estimates and not actual mileage, that when mileage figures are cited that are not derived from Environmental Protection Agency tests the advertisement cite the optional equipment carried that may affect fuel economy. Though the guidelines, which take effect October 15, are advisory in nature a spokesman for the commission said they are enforceable through cease-and-desist orders and substantial civil penalties for violating them.
At the Statler Hilton Hotel in New York City, the Libertarian Party held its second nominating convention, selecting Roger MacBride as its candidate for President of the United States in the 1976 election. After the 1972 election, MacBride, one of 12 Virginian Republicans in the Electoral College, broke ranks and cast one electoral vote for the Libertarian candidate, John Hospers.
Scuba divers recovered the bodies of the five victims of the second water tragedy in 24 hours in Niagara Falls, New York. The five workmen were trapped in a tunnel at a sewer construction project by a sudden rush of water. Earlier, three persons had been killed and 20 injured when an inflatable raft capsized in rapids below the falls on the Niagara River. A hospital spokesman said the five men killed at the sewer project apparently had drowned. Autopsies were to be performed.
A 13-year old black girl who was shot two weeks ago when she allegedly tried to steal peaches from a backyard in Wilmington, Delaware, died and her alleged assailant was charged with first-degree murder. John H. Bailey, 24, who is white, was arraigned and sent without bail to a correctional center under heavy guard and wearing a bulletproof vest. Police said Sheila Ferrell had been shot in the back when she fled from the rear of Bailey’s house with peaches she had taken from a tree. The shooting caused five days of racial unrest.
A group of five Northern men, including two blacks and an Asian, was assaulted and ejected from the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan convention in a cow pasture at Stone Mountain, Georgia. One of the men, expelled in a hail of stones and racial insults, said the group represented a Syracuse, New York, organization called the Pan American Association and was “gathering information on the resurgence of hate groups in America.” The Klan had opened its convention by declaring that its segregationist principles were unchanged and its membership was on the rise.
A confrontation with a group of demonstrators protesting pending transit fare increases left more than a dozen New York City policemen injured, authorities reported. Police said two of the officers suffered broken bones and six demonstrators were arrested during the disturbance at 103rd St. About 200 persons participated in the demonstration, organized by the militant Progressive Labor Party. The violence began when one of the demonstrators sought to persuade a passenger to go past a turnstile without depositing a token and was stopped by an officer, police said. The transit fare will rise to 50 cents from 35 cents Monday.
Reports that two more patients had died from lethal doses of a paralyzing drug at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, were denied by the hospital’s acting chief of staff. Dr. Duane Freier said the deaths of Adam Oelberg, a 59-year-old Saginaw landscaper, and Benny Blaine, 46, were not suspicious — although Oelberg suffered respiratory failure, as did eight other patients who have died since July 1. The cause of Blaine’s death was not listed.
Hurricane Caroline, packing winds of 100 m.p.h.. was churning on a westerly course toward a sparsely inhabited area of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Texas residents were keeping a wary eye on the storm, moving late in the day toward a point between Brownsville and Tampico, Mexico — almost the same spot where deadly Hurricane Beulah crashed ashore in 1967. The National Weather Service placed the southeastern tip of Texas under a hurricane watch as rain and winds lashed the area.
The Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, sometimes called the London Convention of 1972, entered into force.
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Jim Palmer became the first 20-game winner in the major leagues this season when the Orioles defeated the White Sox, 4–2. Palmer entered the charmed circle for the fifth time in his career, coming back from a 7–12 record in 1974 when arm trouble plagued his efforts. Jorge Orta and Pete Varney homered for the White Sox runs. The Orioles picked up a tally in the seventh inning on a double by Brooks Robinson and single by Al Bumbry. The Orioles then loaded the bases in the eighth and Robinson singled to drive in two runs. A sacrifice bunt by Mark Belanger plated a third run to clinch Palmer’s victory.
After a shaky start, Dennis Leonard settled down and outpitched Catfish Hunter to enable the Royals to defeat the Yankees, 5–2. Leonard gave up four hits and both Yankee runs, one unearned, in the first three innings, but the rookie righthander yielded only two more hits the rest of the way. The Royals tied the score in the fourth after loading the bases on a double by Fred Patek and walks to Amos Otis and John Mayberry. Hal McRae bounced to Chris Chambliss, who bobbled the ball as Patek scored. When Hunter, covering first, mishandled the throw from Chambliss, Otis also crossed the plate. In the fifth, Patek singled, Otis walked and George Brett singled for the tie-breaking run. Mayberry followed with a single and when Roy White overran the ball in the outfield, Otis raced home on the error.
Ray Bare, who snapped the Tigers’ 19-game losing streak with an 8–0 victory over the Angels August 16, terminated another string of five losses by defeating the Angels again, 9–2. The Tigers made it easy for Bare by exploding for their biggest inning of the season, scoring eight times in the fourth. Aurelio Rodriguez and Billy Baldwin each homered with two men on base. Bare lost his bid for a second shutout of the Angels when Bruce Bochte hit for the circuit with a man on base in the ninth.
With two out in the 10th inning, Claudell Washington walked, stole second and scored on a single by Sal Bando to give the Athletics a 7–6 victory over the Red Sox. Reggie Jackson homered for the A’s with a man on base and Washington drove in two runs with a single, while the Red Sox had a two-run homer by Carl Yastrzemski, plus two RBIs by Fred Lynn on a pair of singles, in early scoring that produced a 6–6 tie.
Jim Umbarger, who turned in the first complete game of his major league career and beat the Tigers, 1–0, August 25, had easier sailing with his second route-going performance when the Rangers rapped 12 hits and defeated the Brewers, 8–3. Mike Hargrove batted in two runs with a homer and Jeff Burroughs accounted for two RBIs with a single and sacrifice fly. Pedro Garcia rapped a two-run homer for the Brewers in the third inning and scored their third run after hitting a double in the eighth.
The doubleheader between the Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Indians at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland is postponed due to rain.
Cesar Cedeno smashed two homers and Bob Watson hit one, each drive coming with a man on base, to power the Astros to a 7–4 victory over the Pirates in the opener of a scheduled twi-night doubleheader. The second game was postponed because of rain. Cedeno started his slugging with a smash in the third inning. The Pirates came back with three in their half on a bases-loaded double by Willie Stargell, but the Astros erupted for five runs in the fifth. Wilbur Howard singled, stole second and counted on a single by Enos Cabell before Cedeno hit his second homer of the game. After a single by Cliff Johnson kayoed Jerry Reuss, Watson greeted Kent Tekulve with a round-tripper. Richie Hebner homered for the Pirates in their half of the fifth.
Capitalizing on a wild pickoff throw by Mike Garman, the Reds scored in the 10th inning and defeated the Cardinals, 3–2. Ken Griffey beat out an infield hit with one away and raced to third on Garman’s wild throw. The Cards then issued intentional passes to Joe Morgan and Tony Perez, but Johnny Bench hit a slow roller that allowed Grfffey to score the winning run. Ted Sizemore, who fielded the ball, had no chance for a play at the plate and instead threw out Bench at first. Ted Simmons knocked in both of the Cardinals’ runs with a homer and single. Perez hit a single and double to produce the Reds’ first pair.
Steve Renko, who had not been in the winner’s column since July 4, ended his personal string of four defeats by pitching the Expos to a 5–1 victory over the Padres. A walk to Pepe Mangual, a stolen base and singles by Gary Carter, Jose Morales and Larry Parrish gave the Expos two runs in the first inning. Renko had control trouble in the Padres’ half, passing three and yielding a run on a sacrifice fly by Dave Winfield. However, he settled down and stifled the Padres the rest of the way on three hits. Renko also aided his own cause with a run-scoring single in the second inning.
Andy Messersmith pitched his first shutout of the season and Ron Cey drove in four runs with two homers to escort the Dodgers to a 7–0 victory over the Mets. Cey connected with two men on base in the first inning and added solo shot in the fourth to give him 20 homers for the season, one more than his previous major league high.
Pete Falcone yielded only four hits and no runs before being lifted in the eighth inning as the Giants defeated the Phillies, 4–1. After walking Larry Bowa in the eighth, Falcone gave way to Randy Moffitt, who allowed the Phillies’ run in the ninth on a double by Garry Maddox and single by Tim McCarver. The Giants reached Tom Underwood for their initial tally in the third on a double by Derrel Thomas and single by Gary Matthews. A double by Chris Speier, an infield out and sacrifice fly by Mike Sadek added a run in the fourth before the Giants put the game out of reach with a pair in the seventh.
The game between the Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field is postponed due to rain. It will be made up tomorrow.
The Braves replace Clyde King as their manager with scout Connie Ryan, disappointing some of the fan base who had hoped Billy Martin, recently released by the Rangers, would get the nod for the job before being hired by the Yankees. The 55 year-old former Atlanta skipper will be retained as a special assistant to Eddie Robinson, the team’s executive vice president.
Chicago White Sox 2, Baltimore Orioles 4
Oakland Athletics 7, Boston Red Sox 6
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Cincinnati Reds 3
California Angels 2, Detroit Tigers 9
New York Mets 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 7
Kansas City Royals 5, New York Yankees 2
Houston Astros 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Montreal Expos 5, San Diego Padres 1
Philadelphia Phillies 1, San Francisco Giants 4
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Texas Rangers 8
Born:
Marina Anissina, Russian ice dancer (Olympic gold medal, 2002), in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Darren Hambrick, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, Carolina Panthers, Cleveland Browns), in Lacoochee, Florida.
Bucky Jacobsen, MLB first baseman and designated hitter (Seattle Mariners), in Riverton, Wyoming.
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