Portugal’s new Premier, Vice Admiral José Batista Pinheiro de Azevedo, began difficult negotiations today on the formation of a new cabinet amid continuing deep divisions in the country over his predecessor, General Vasco Gonçalves, and over the pro-Communist line he is said to have promoted. Admiral Azevedo conferred with Mario Soares, the Socialist leader, whose party yesterday said that its participation in a new government depended on settlement of two issues affecting freedom of information. Mr. Soares also expressed opposition to the appointment of General Gonçalves as Chief of Staff of the armed forces and said that the appointment was equivalent to giving the Communist party control over the military. Although they have begun a new afternoon newspaper called A Luta, the Socialists are demanding the return to them of the newspaper República, whose seizure in June by a group of Communist and far‐leftist workers started the long crisis that finally led to the removal of Premier Gonçalves Friday. The paper now run by a committee of workers under military supervision, has run out of money, and its appeals to the government for a loan have not been met. It was widely believed that the paper would be allowed to die.
The new Portuguese Government has inherited a series of measures intended to shore up a failing capitalist economy — measures that Gen. Vasco Gonçalves, widely accused of seeking a Communist state, pushed through just before his ouster as Premier Friday. Faced with a business and financial crisis that appeared to worsen every day, the outgoing cabinet sought desperately to restore confidence by defining the fields in which private capital could operate, encouraging foreign investment and protecting small investors and depositors. The measures will probably he honored by the new Cabinet, in which some who helped draw them up are expected to keep their posts. Moreover, the measures had been demanded by the opposition to General Gonçalves as a way of tempering a revolution that has played havoc with the economy.
U.S. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon said that agreement had been reached on two major issues affecting the International Monetary Fund: Voting strength within the fund will be realigned, but the United States will maintain 20% voting power, sufficient to veto any major actions of the 127-member organization it disagrees with. One-sixth of the fund’s gold holdings, 25 tons, will be sold, and the proceeds will be used to create a special lending fund for the world’s poorest nations.
A general strike to protest police handling of a new outbreak of autonomist violence in Corsica threatened to paralyze the entire island. The 24-hour walkout aimed at turning Corsica, crowded with tourists, into an “isola morta”-a dead island. Leading Corsican unions, political groups and professional organizations called the strike in the name of the island’s Committee Against Repression, a body representing moderate and leftist opinion.
Growers of walnuts in the Grenoble area of France staged protests throughout last night against an influx of cheaper California walnuts that have captured much of the European market from the celebrated Grenoble produce.
Maltese Premier Dom Mintoff asked Spain to spare the lives of two Basque nationalist guerrillas condemned to death for the killing of a civil guard. He called on head of state General Francisco Franco for clemency for the two men “in the name of the friendship between the peoples of Malta and Spain.”
Secretary of State Kissinger and Israeli leaders worked well past midnight to complete the Sinai agreement with Egypt and to prepare for formal acceptance of the accord tomorrow by both Egypt and Israel. Four documents were completed during the hectic rush of events in the last 24 hours. Mr. Kissinger said that all the texts had been concluded, including a United States‐Israeli accord, the only one of the four that will not be made public after the initialing today. The documents were:
— An Egyptian‐Israeli agreement, which will be published.
— A document providing guidelines for the Israeli‐Egyptian teams that will work out details in Geneva for putting the accord into effect.
— A document covering all aspects of the American presence in the Sinai passes.
— The long United States‐Israeli memorandum of understanding covering Egyptian assurances to Israel and American commitments to Israel, which will not be published. All the documents, however, will be deposited with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said its commandos had executed a number of hostages they took in a raid on an Israeli border settlement, Kfar Giladi, after Israel refused demands for releasing prisoners. In Tel Aviv, an Israeli army spokesman laughed at the report. “Nothing of the sort occurred. Maybe the raid and taking of hostages are what they planned to do, but it didn’t come off.” The army had announced earlier that two members of the PFLP had been killed outside the border town of Metullah, near Kfar Giladi.
Filipino kidnappers seized two more foreigners, including an American, on Mindanao but returned them after holding them less than 24 hours in exchange for a $13,300 ransom, officials said. Logging industry sources said the men were believed to be employees of Zamboanga Wood Products, Inc., a timber company in which the American firm Boise Cascade has an interest. The American was identified as Gordon Jane.
Hurricane Caroline, downgraded to a tropical storm, drifted into the sparsely inhabited jungles of northeastern Mexico, precipitating torrential rains but causing no injuries and only moderate damage to the isolated fishing villages between Tampico and the Texas border. The hurricane watch for the Brownsville area was discontinued.
Thirty-nine Haitians who claim to be fleeing political persecution were arrested off Florida as they apparently tried to enter the United States illegally aboard a wooden sailing vessel, officials said. A Coast Guard spokesman said the 40-foot boat was spotted heading for Florida and was intercepted in the Atlantic about two miles off Delray Beach, Florida.
Twice-kidnapped British executive Charles Agnew Lockwood was rescued unharmed by police in Buenos Aires after a gunfight with Marxist terrorists in which four guerrillas were killed and a policeman was injured, police said. Lockwood, 67, was first kidnaped in July, 1973, held for 58 days and released unharmed after payment of $2.5 million ransom. On July 31, he was kidnaped again. It was not known immediately if any ransom had been paid this time.
Nigeria’s military Government assured itself of effective control of the national press this weekend by acquiring 60 per cent of the country’s Times group of newspapers and taking over a northern daily, The New Nigerian. Only three of Nigeria’s 12 daily English‐language newspapers now remain outside government control — The Nigerian Tribune. The West African Pilot and The Daily Express.
The Portuguese High Commission here reported today that forces of the National Front for the Liberation of Angola had advanced toward Luanda, which is firmly controlled by the rival Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. A military communiqué published today said that there had been troop movements in the area between Quifangongo, about 14 miles northeast of Luanda, and Caxito, another 25 miles farther northeast. National Front forces had moved toward the Icolo e Bengo district, the communiqué added, but did not specify to what point they had advanced. Informed sources said that there had been clashes in the last few days roughly halfway between Luanda and Caxito, where the National Front retreated following bitter fighting in the Angolan capital last month.
The leaders of five labor unions criticized the Ford administration’s economic policies and proposed such recession remedies as the creation of public works jobs for the unemployed, a permanent cut in personal income taxes and subsidies for home mortgages. I.W. Abel, president of the United Steel-workers, said the “administration shows no inclination of taking constructive steps.” In another television interview, Labor Secretary John Dunlop said that personal income tax and business tax cuts next year would be “appropriate.”
Federal controls on all oil prices end at midnight tonight, leaving the economy wholly without federal price ceilings for the first time in four years. Energy officials do not believe it is likely that there will be large prices increases for gasoline and fuel oil. They are expecting a compromise plan for a revival of oil price controls, coupled with their subsequent phase-out, that may be worked out between President Ford and congressional leaders. The compromise was proposed after Mr. Ford said that he would veto a bill extending the oil price controls that was passed in July.
With the end of price stabilization of gasoline, a check of the prices being charged in 103 service stations in the New York metropolitan area found the greatest disparity in prices ever known in the industry, amounting in extreme cases to differences of 16 and 20 cents for the same brand and grade of fuel. Around the country there is a similar spread, amounting to 6 and 7 cents a gallon, where formerly the difference was only 2 and 3 cents.
The problems of school desegregation, which have centered primarily in the South since the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown decision in 1954, have apparently shifted significantly to the North, the border states and Texas. Wider new desegregation activity in Louisville, Ky.; Stockton, Calif., and other moderate-size school districts, as well as imminent plans in major cities, such as Indianapolis and Detroit, emphasize the change.
The Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, which has acknowledged paying at least $22 million to foreign government officials and political parties, has told the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sought to give an expensive boat to one of its customers as a “sales concession.” The story concerning the boat appears in a three-page addendum to an original Lockheed report to the S.E.C. about its foreign payments. The addendum describes the sources and uses of a slush fund — established outside a company’s normal accounting controls so that it can dispensed from secretly — and discloses that some of the slush fund money was brought to the United States from abroad.
Logan County (West Virginia) miners, leaders of an unauthorized coal strike that has idled more than 60,000 members of the United Mine Workers, voted today to continue their walkout in defiance of their union leaders and the courts. Union locals in this coal‐rich region, where the picketing began August 11, held meetings and decided to stay off the job until they saw whether the federal government would help mediate an end to the dispute. “A couple of locals voted to go back, but an overwhelming majority voted to stay off,” a spokesman for a local union said. “Everyone is apparently waiting to see what is going to happen on Tuesday.” Tuesday is the day the union faces massive court fines if its members are not back in the pits.
The largest robbery of bus passengers in history netted $35,000 worth of cash, coins and jewelry in what was described as “a 1975 version of a stagecoach holdup”. Two armed bandits were among the 38 passengers on a Greyhound bus that was en route from Chicago to Toronto when the robbery took place near Detroit, taking an estimated $20,000 in cash and $15,000 in other valuables from people who chose not to fly.
New York City will soon start an intensive assault on pornography and prostitution, particularly in midtown, coordinating business interests, community groups and the police. The cleanup has been given top priority following the selection of Madison Square Garden as the site of next year’s Democratic presidential convention.
Fifteen new cases of encephalitis were reported in Illinois, raising to 72 the number of persons with confirmed, probable or suspected sleeping sickness in the state, officials said. The Chicago area accounted for most of the additional cases, with only three new outbreaks reported downstate. The disease is spread by a mosquito, commonly referred to as the “northern house mosquito,” a health official said. “Our epidemiologists agree we have a classic outbreak of St. Louis encephalitis, with approximately 80% of the cases in the 55-and-older age range.” No vaccine for encephalitis exists.
New York City Mayor Abraham D. Beame announced he had summoned his top aides for an emergency holiday meeting today to look for ways to cope with the possibility that the city might be forced to default on its debts. “There will probably have to be a special session of the Legislature,” a top aide said, “because either a workable new financial plan or dealing with an emergency would require state participation.” Governor Hugh L. Carey has said he would probably call the session for Thursday. Investment banker Felix Rohatyn said the city must have $100 million by this weekend to meet payrolls and other expenses and $500 million by September 12.
A Minnesota farmer and his wife died when a tornado snatched their car on a highway 15 miles southwest of Crookston and hurled it a quarter of a mile. Several other persons in the area were reported injured. In other parts of the eastern half of the nation, rain, storms and hail marred the Labor Day weekend. In Wheeling, West Virginia, a man drowned when he was knocked underneath a car during flash flooding. The rising water caused the evacuation of a hospital. In Hesperia, Michigan, residents of 200 homes along White River — 16 feet above the normal level — were cleared out after a dam threatened to break.
The residents of an Eskimo village rescued 22 survivors from the wreckage of a plane that crashed Saturday on St. Lawrence Island off western Alaska. Ten others died in the wreck, Alaska state troopers said. The twin-engine Wien Air Alaska F-27B turboprop was approaching Gambell, an island community about 200 miles off the mainland in the Bering Sea, when it crashed near the top of a 600-foot hill. The aircraft was on a regular weekly one-hour flight from Nome. Most of the passengers were native Alaskans. The cause of the accident has not been determined.
The Army has begun an investigation into the dismissal of a WAC reserve commander who was accused of neglecting her military duties to crusade for women’s rights in the military. The investigation into the firing of Lt. Col. Grace M. King, 50, was started after complaints from several women in her battalion and her own appeal of the case to the 1st Army inspector general. She was relieved of her command in Alexandria, Virginia, on August 6 by Colonel William H. Rumsey, who charged that she was “maintaining the respect of her people through sensationalism concerning women in the Army doing many jobs.” He said she had failed to “keep her personal opinions on women’s rights separated from her position as a commander.”
Major League Baseball:
Reggie Jackson batted in five runs, two of them with a bases-loaded single in the ninth inning, to enable the Athletics to defeat the Red Sox, 8–6. Jackson also drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single in the third and accounted for another RBI with a single in the fifth. Rick Burleson had four hits for the Red Sox, including a pair of two-run doubles. The A’s tied the score at 6–6 with a homer by Tommy Harper in the seventh. Diego Segui, pitching in relief for the Red Sox, lost his control in the ninth and issued three walks to fill the sacks before Jackson broke the tie with his third hit of the game.
Paul Splittorff (7–8) pitched a five-hitter and Hal McRae drove in three runs with a double and single as the Royals defeated the Yankees, 7–0. Larry Gura (5–5) took the loss for New York. Splittorff struck out four and walked one. The Yankees never got a runner past second base.
Homers by Robin Yount and Darrell Porter, each with a man on base, carried the Brewers to a 4–1 victory over the Rangers behind the three-hit pitching of Pete Broberg (11–13). Loser Gaylord Perry gave up four hits, but was condemned to defeat by his gopher pitches. Yount homered after a pass to Mike Hegan in the second inning. George Scott was on base after a forceout when Porter connected for the circuit in the sixth. Perry struck out 11, boosting his career total to 2,489 for 10th place ahead of Don Drysdale on the major leagues’ all-time list.
Three American League games are postponed due to rain: the Angels at Detroit; the White Sox at Baltimore, and the Twins at Cleveland.
Playing for the first time under Connie Ryan as manager, succeeding Clyde King, the Braves won the opener of a doubleheader, 3–1, but lost the nightcap to the Cubs, 9–8, in 10 innings. Phil Niekro (14–12) was the Braves’ winner, scattering eight hits. Singles by Dave May and Vic Correll, plus an infield out by Rod Gilbreath, accounted for the Braves’ initial run in the fourth inning. A single by Niekro, double by Ralph Garr and sacrifice flies by Darrell Evans and Dusty Baker produced the winning margin in the fifth. The Cubs counted in the ninth on doubles by Bill Madlock and Jose Cardenal. In the second game, Mike Lum, May and Evans hit homers to escort the Braves to an 8–6 lead before the Cubs rallied to tie the score in the ninth on a single by Madlock, double by Cardenal and single by Jerry Morales. Don Kessinger walked in the 10th and, after a sacrifice by Gene Hiser and intentional pass to Madlock, Cardenal singled for his fourth hit of the game to drive in the Cubs’ winning run.
With more power in their attack, the Pirates smashed a homer, triple and four doubles among their 14 hits and defeated the Astros, 9–6, in the first game of a scheduled doubleheader. The second game was halted by rain with the score tied, 2–2, and with the Astros batting in the third inning. It would be played off only in the event the game had some bearing on the race in the East Division. The Pirates’ victory in the completed contest enabled them to retain a four-game lead over the Cardinals. The Phillies, who lost to the Giants, slipped back into a tie with the Cardinals, also four games behind. The Astros, after scoring three runs in the first inning and yielding four in the Pirates’ half, came back to tie the score at 5–5 with the aid of a homer by Jose Cruz. The Pirates went ahead to stay with a run in the fourth on a single by Frank Taveras, a sacrifice, infield out and wild pitch by Jose Sosa. Bob Robertson made it 7–5 with a homer in the fifth. The Astros used a two-base error by Taveras and single by Cesar Cedeno for a run in the sixth, but the Pirates clinched their victory with a pair in the seventh on a single by Bill Robinson, triple by Dave Parker and sacrifice fly by Richie Hebner.
Willie Davis homered in the first inning and knocked in another run with a single in the ninth to insure the Cardinals’ 5–3 victory over the Reds. After Davis’ round-tripper, the Cardinals went on to build up a 4–0 lead behind the pitching of Eric Rasmussen, who aided his own cause by scoring one run and batting in another. The Reds bounced back with two runs in the sixth on singles by Ken Griffey and Joe Morgan, an error by Mike Tyson and single by Dave Concepcion. A double by George Foster and Tyson’s second error of the game added a run in the eighth. After a pass to Johnny Bench, John Curtis came in to save the game for the Cardinals, while Tyson made amends for his miscues, hitting his second single of the game in the ninth, advancing on a sacrifice by Curtis and scoring on Davis’ single.
Dave Roberts, hitting safely in his 10th straight game since being recalled from the minors, drove in four runs with a homer and single as the Padres ended their six-game losing streak by defeating the Expos, 6–0. Brent Strom pitched the shutout, holding the Expos to three hits.
Ron Cey smashed two homers for the second consecutive game and Steve Yeager also hit for the circuit as the Dodgers defeated the Mets, 5–2. Gene Clines batted in the Mets’ runs with a double off Doug Rau (12–9) in the fifth inning. Rau was lifted with two men on base in the eighth. Mike Marshall, summoned to relieve, reinjured his rib cage while warming up and had to quit the mound in favor of Charlie Hough, who retired the last six straight batters.
John Montefusco (12–7) struck out 13 in 8 ⅓ innings and, more importantly, hit a triple that helped decide the game as the Giants defeated the Phillies, 5–4. The Phils bunched five of their eight hits to score three runs in the second inning. The Giants came back with a homer by Chris Speier in the fifth and tied the score in the sixth with a single by Von Joshua, double by Derrel Thomas, infield out by Bobby Murcer and sacrifice fly by Willie Montanez. Mike Sadek walked in the seventh and Montefusco followed with a tie-breaking triple to kayo Steve Carlton (11–12). After Tug McGraw relieved, Joshua singled, sending Montefusco home with what proved to be the winning run. The Phillies rallied in the ninth when Johnny Oates walked and Dave Cash singled with one out. Gary Lavelle, in relief, passed Ollie Brown to load the bases. An infield out by Tony Taylor then scored a run before Charlie Williams came in to retire Greg Luzinski for the final out.
Oakland Athletics 8, Boston Red Sox 6
Atlanta Braves 3, Chicago Cubs 1
Atlanta Braves 8, Chicago Cubs 9
St. Louis Cardinals 5, Cincinnati Reds 3
New York Mets 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
Kansas City Royals 7, New York Yankees 0
Houston Astros 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 9
Montreal Expos 0, San Diego Padres 6
Philadelphia Phillies 4, San Francisco Giants 5
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Texas Rangers 1
Born:
Sara Ramirez, Mexican actress (“Grey’s Anatomy”), and singer, in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico.
James Black, Canadian singer-songwriter (Finger Eleven), bor in Ontario, Canada.
Daniel Harding, British conductor (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, 2007 to present), in Oxford, England, United Kingdom.
John Grahame, NHL goaltender (NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Lightning, 2004; Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning, Carolina Hurricanes), in Denver, Colorado.
Raleigh Roundtree, NFL guard (San Diego Chargers, Arizona Cardinals), in Augusta, Georgia.
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