Secretary General Waldheim tried today to avoid a breakdown in the new round of peace negotiations here between Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders. Even before the negotiations were opened officially, they were near collapse tonight over the failure of the Turkish Cypriots to come with concrete proposals on the territory they would be willing to relinquish on the island. Turkish troops now control 40 percent of Cyprus, which they invaded last summer. The fourth and, according to officials at the UN, the most critical round of Cyprus negotiations was to have been opened formally by Mr. Waldheim this afternoon. However, after meeting privatly with Rauf Denktaş, the Turkish Cypriote representative, and with Glafkos Clerides, the Greek Cypriot spokesman, it was announced that Mr. Waldhehn had put off the scheduled opening ceremony. Instead, he met again separately with each side and arranged to have them join him at a working dinner tonight. Before leaving Nicosia for New York, Mr. Clerides made it clear that he expected to be given concrete proposals for territorial concessions by the Turkish Cypriots.
Relief workers dug bodies out of the wreckage of the earthquake-ravaged village of Lice, Turkey today as occasional faint tremors continued to shake the rubble-strewn earth where more than 2,000 people may have been killed. Brigadier General Alparslan Demirel, in charge of soldiers engaged in rescue work here, said in an interview tonight that 950 bodies had been found in Lice since the earthquake struck at midday Saturday. He said that 1,000 bodies had been recovered in 40 smaller villages in this agricultural region of southeastern Turkey. Five survivors were dug alive out of the rubble of Lice today. A grim and workmanlike mood among the relief workers, mostly Turkish soldiers, replaced the anguish of the first day and a half after the quake. The town’s gaunt and unshaven Mayor, Kutluay Oktem, said softly, “We will rebuild.”
Prison terms ranging from one to 25 years were demanded for 27 Greek army officers and men charged with torturing political prisoners. The accused served with the special investigation branch of the Athens military police, which became the feared security service during the seven years of military rule that ended in July, 1974.
Anti-Communist forces in the High Council of the Revolution in Portugal made further gains tonight and imposed tough restrictions on press reporting of political activity within the armed forces. At the council’s first meeting since the Communist‐backed Premier, General Vasco Gonçalves, was deprived of all positions of authority, an effort to tighten military discipline and end confusion about where the armed forces stood politically was accomplished by moves to strengthen the more moderate wing within the military. General Gonçalves, who formally resigned as Premier late Saturday night to take effect today, agreed to stay on in a caretaker capacity until Thursday when the new Premier, Vice Admiral Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo, hopes to announce a new cabinet weighted more toward the center. In view of the complicated negotiation with the political parties, it was uncertain whether he would achieve his goal.
Two gunmen escaped with $1.35‐million tonight after releasing unharmed seven hostages seized during a Paris bank holdup and eluding the police in a high‐speed chase. The robbers had held the hostages for more than 10 hours in a bank in central Paris while negotiating for the money and a getaway car. When the police delivered the money and a white limousine, the gunmen fled, taking three women hostages with them but freeing four men. Police cars pursued the getaway vehicle across the city — sometimes at speeds nearing 90 miles an hour — but the robbers managed to switch cars twice and vanish. When they abandoned the first car they left one of the woman hostages behind and got into a car on the northern edge of Paris with the other two women. The second car was found in southern Paris with the two women inside, chained but unhurt, and witnesses said the bandits drove away in a third car.
A 21‐year‐old Northern Irish woman, described by Scotland Yard as “probably the most dangerous woman terrorist in Britain,” emerged today as a source of dispute between the London and Dublin Governments. The conflict, which erupted over the weekend, shows the extent of the gulf between Britain and Ireland on policy in Northern Ireland. One element is that the Irish Government insists privately that London is softening and has failed to deal with Protesant and Roman Catholic extremists. The British in turn, maintain that Ireland has served as a haven for terrorist leaders. This was underlined last week when Scotland Yard announced that it was conducting a nationwide hunt for Margaret McKearney, who was linked with the murder of a London policeman, the shooting of five others and numerous bomb attacks. It said her arrest was sought “as a matter of urgency.”
Protestant political leaders voted overwhelmingly today against any sharing of administrative power with representatives of Northern Ireland’s Roman Catholic minority. This decision came at a meeting of the United Ulster Unionist Council, a coalition of three Protestant parties. The meeting was held in preparation for the resumption on Thursday of the constitutional convention that has been in recess for the summer. The council controls 45 of the 78 seats in the convention. The British Government, which has been governing the province, had hoped that the Ulster politicians could settle among themselves the provincial future. The convention was elected last May to draw up constitutional framework that would have “widespread acceptance.” The principal Catholic group, the Social Democratic and Labor party, has insisted on its right to be represented in any future government.
Voters in Moutier, Switzerland, decided that their community should remain part of the canton of Bern rather than join in creating a new autonomous canton of Jura. After the 2,540-2,151 vote became known, several hundred pro-Jura demonstrators marched through the city chanting slogans and damaging parked cars. The issue of autonomy for French-speaking Jura, attached to German-speaking Bern since 1815, is to be decided by a nationwide vote within the next two years.
Officials in the intelligence agencies of Israel (the Mossad) and West Germany (the Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND) met secretly to discuss a joint effort to conduct a new type of electronic eavesdropping by Mossad on foreign offices in Germany.
Israel offered today to allow free passage of goods to her Arab neighbors through her seaports, and proposed regional cooperation in the Middle East to share her advances in agriculture, irrigation and other technology. Speaking at the General Assembly’s Special Session on Development and International Economic Cooperation, Israel’s new representative et the United Nations, Chaim Herzog, said that his Government was making its offers as proof of goodwill “and without reference to the political problems which divide our area.” The first reaction from Arab countries to Israel’s offer was scornful. “It’s not terribly original,” said the representative of Jordan, Abdul Hamid Sharaf. “They have been saying the same thing before. Use of seaports isn’t a substitute for the evacuation of occupied territory.”
President Anwar el-Sadat says the Egyptian-Israeli agreement on Sinai does not include any secret clauses nor was it a final settlement. In an interview published today in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Seyasseh, he defended the agreement as a military one and criticized Syria and the Soviet Union. President Sadat said he had asked the Soviet Union in 1972 to provide Egypt with a monitoring station in Sinai, but than the Russians had refused and he had to ask President Ford. He assailed Syria’s attitude toward the pact, saying that when the first Egyptian‐Israeli disengagement agreement was reached, “the Syrians raised hell and charged Egypt with quitting the battle, but when the Syrian‐Israeli disengagement agreement was reached on the Golan front they said the Egyptian agreement was okay.”
Sporadic street fighting continued this evening in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, where at least 31 lives have been lost in six days of violence, according to unofficial figures. A three‐hour Cabinet meeting today ended inconclusively. Premier Rashid Karami, who is from Tripoli, said a full meeting of the Cabinet with President Suleiman Franjieh on hand, would be held tomorrow over the security situation. Reports from Tripoli said that shops and cafes that belong to people from the nearby town of Zgharta had been gutted and pillaged. Tripoli was without water, since the pipeline from Zgharrta had been blown up. Electricity was also cut in much of the northern port. Exploding rockets and mortars and machine‐gun fire echoed throughout the city, according to reports from the area. Gunmen from Tripoli, a predominantly Moslem city, have been warring with gunmen from Zgharta since a traffic accident last Wednesday led to a quarrel and the killing of a Tripoli man. Most of the people of Zgharta are Maronites, members of an eastern rite of the Catholic church. Late yesterday a Zgharta man reportedly selected 12 men from a group of 25 Tripoli people, who had been taken off a bus as hostages, and killed the 12 in revenge for the killing of his brother earlier in the day.
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, titular head of state of Cambodia, left Peking for Phnom Penh, the capital he has not seen since he was ousted by the former government in March, 1970. China’s Hsinhua news agency reported the departure in a broadcast monitored in Tokyo. It said he was accompanied by his wife and Cambodian Premier Penn Nouth and Deputy Premier Khieu Samphan.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors canceled the visit of 14 mayors to China next week, charging that Peking introduced a political element into the conference by objecting to the inclusion of the mayor of San Juan, P.R. Mayor Carlos Romero Barcelo favors U.S. statehood for Puerto Rico and Peking backs the island’s independence movement. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, who was scheduled to go to China, said he was disappointed that the plans had to be canceled because of the “injection of a political element.”
Soviet patrol boats apparently strafed and captured a 99-ton Japanese fishing boat with nine crewmen off the southern tip of the island of Sakhalin, the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency said. The Japanese boat radioed that “Russian boats gunned at it and were going to inspect it on board,” then went off the air. The agency said it had no more information. Last Tuesday, North Korea seized a Japanese fishing boat in the Yellow Sea. Two crewmen were reported killed.
For the first time since 1961, the United States authorized merchant ships from Cuba to enter American ports for refueling, as well as to no longer raise objections if other nations permitted port access to Cuban vessels.
The inspector general of Colombia’s army was assassinated in Bogota by leftist terrorists who cut off his limousine with their car and opened fire with submachine guns. The victim, General Ramon Arturo Rincon Quinones, had been conducting a strong campaign against the terrorists. His chauffeur was seriously wounded in the ambush.
Ecuador President Guillermo Rodriguez Lara reorganized his cabinet one week after he crushed a revolt by about 100 soldiers led by the army chief of staff. The new cabinet has nine portfolios held by military officers and two civilian ministers.
Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiri, who put down an attempted coup last week, announced the indefinite closing of the University of Khartoum where he said security agents had discovered “antigovernment instigators, guns and ammunition.” Numeiri also promised a purge in the civil service. In a nationwide speech, the president blamed the abortive coup on Sudanese living in Libya but stressed that he was not “accusing or insinuating” that the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, was responsible for the incident.
Senate Democratic leaders indicated they thought they had little chance of overriding President Ford’s expected veto today of a bill to extend oil price controls for six months. If the prediction is correct, a likely result would be acceptance of Mr. Ford’s plan to phase out price controls over 39 months, allowing the price of U.S. oil to rise gradually during that period. House Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma said Mr. Ford apparently was willing to support a 45-day extension of controls only if Congress was willing to go along with the Ford plan to phase out controls over 39 months.
President Ford invited leaders of American Jewish organizations to the White House today to seek their support for his effort to obtain an overwhelming majority in Congress in favor of the stationing of American technicians in Sinai as part of the new Egyptian-Israeli agreement. Following the 40‐minute session, also attended by Secretary of State Kissinger, a spokesman for the Jewish leaders said that they had assured Mr. Ford of the support of the organized Jewish community‐ for the resolution endorsing the stationing of as many as 200 civilian technicians at early‐warning stations in Sinai. During the meeting, Mr. Ford told the leaders, according to one participant, that he was already confident of obtaining a majority in both houses, but that he wanted a very large majority to “help the atmosphere for peace.”
No unusual security precautions will be taken to protect President Ford when he travels later this week to New Hampshire, Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the White House said today. Ron Nessen, the White House spokesman, said that the President had not asked for a review of Secret Service procedures despite the alleged attempt on his life Friday by a woman who aimed a loaded 45‐caliber pistol at Mr. Ford from close range in Sacramento, California. Lynette Alice Fromme, a 26‐year‐old disciple of convicted, murderer Charles M. Manson, is being held under $1‐million bond in Sacramento pending a request by Federal prosecutors that a grand jury charge her with attempted assassination.
Charging a coverup by both the FBI and CIA, Senator Richard S. Schweiker (R-Pennsylvania), a member of the Senate intelligence committee, called for a reopening of the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The appeal, however, was quickly rebuffed by the chairman and vice chairman of the committee. “Recent disclosures have devastated the credibility of the Warren Commission report,” which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin, Schweiker told a press conference. But in a statement issued several hours later, Senators Frank Church (D-Idaho) and John G. Tower (R-Texas) said. “We do not think there is sufficient evidence” to justify “reopening the Warren Commission’s work.”
Boston’s public schools began their court-ordered citywide busing program with attendance down by one-third, but with only scattered incidents of violence. State and federal law enforcement officers, including agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, joined Boston police officers to prevent a repetition of the stoning of buses that occurred last year when the city’s schools opened under a limited desegregation program. “It was better than last year,” an aide to Mayor Kevin White said.
The Justice Department said in a brief filed in Federal District Court in Washington that Congress had ample reason to conclude that former President Nixon “would not be a trustworthy custodian, even temporarily”, of his presidential papers. The brief upheld the law that placed the Nixon papers under government control. It also cited “what Congress perceived, again quite rationally, as Mr. Nixon’s propensity to distort the historical record.”
Republicans in the House of Representatives out of power since the 1954 election, announced today a legislative program they would follow if they ran things. The program, drawn up by a group of House Republicans, independently of the White House, proposed, among other things, a balanced Federal budget within three years, an automatic extension of unemployment benefits coupled with job training programs during economic hard times, health insurance protection against “catastrophic” illness, a thorough review of “the run‐away food stamp program” and making the use of a handgun in a criminal act a Federal crime.
Anthony Giacalone was reported by his lawyer today to have refused to cooperate with a Federal grand jury investigating the disappearance of James R. Hoffa, former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The reputed underworld figure refused to talk to reporters as well as to the grand jury. His attorney, S. Allen Early, made no statement as Mr. Giacalone emerged from the (grand jury room. But just before Mr. iGacalone went in Mr. Early said he would advise him to take the Fifth Amendment. “He will refuse to answer questions before the grand jury,” said Mr. Early, who said that his client had “nothing to hide” in the Hoffa disappearance. Mr. Early said Mr. Giacalone had taken the Fifth Amendment because he was under indictment for mail fraud and tax evasion. Mr. Hoffa told his family and friends that he was on his way to meet Mr. Giacalone July 30, the day he disappeared. Mr. Giacalone has denied that he was scheduled to meet Mr. Hoffa that day. He has produced witnesses who say he was at the Southfield Athletic Club near Detroit that afternoon.
Senior Army officials disclosed that LSD was surreptitiously given to soldiers in cocktails in much the same way the Central Intelligence Agency did in an experiment that led to the death of one of its employees. They testified at the start of hearings on drug experimentation in the military forces being held by a House Armed Services subcommittee. They said that both the Army and research institutions working under contract to the Army at times failed to follow “sound ethical principles” in their experiments with hallucinogenic and other drugs involving more than 7,000 persons in the last 25 years.
On a cover captioned “I Am a Homosexual”, U.S. Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich became the first openly gay cover subject of TIME magazine after being discharged from the service for admitting his sexual orientation. Author Randy Shilts would comment later that “It marked the first time the young gay movement had made the cover of a major newsweekly. To a movement still struggling for legitimacy, the event was a major turning point.” Matlovich, a Vietnam War veteran with a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart, would eventually settle his lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force for $160,000 and continue his work as a spokesman for gay rights. He would die from complications of AIDS in 1988.
Breaking a 50-year tradition, coal miners refused to let pickets stand in the way of their return to work after a month-long strike that idled thousands in southern West Virginia. Only 7,500 of 50,000 miners were still off the job, the West Virginia Coal Association estimated, compared with 40,000 who were out Friday. A progressive fine by U.S. District Judge K. K. Hall against the United Mine Workers reached $1.2 million.
The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. said it categorically denied an announcement by the Food and Drug Administration that it was recalling 515,852 cases of canned beer produced last June at its plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The company said no recall was underway, there was no reason for one and that the company had never been requested by the FDA to make one. The company said last July a wholesaler reported an off-taste which apparently was caused by defective can lids and that out of the 11,500 cases involved it had been able to reclaim 3,685 of them.
The Federal Trade Commission has found no evidence of antitrust violations in its 30-day investigation of the shortage of canning jar lids. Sources said the report for the House small business subcommittee says the shortage was due to a demand greater than anticipated and to consumer hoarding.
After California passed the first (and only) law in the United States to permit farm workers to organize labor unions, hundreds of vegetable workers for Bruce Church, Inc. voted in the first election on the choice of whether to join the United Farm Workers, the Teamsters, or no union at all. The UFW won the voting.
A steel company was fined $1.9 million for dumping billions of gallons of waste water per day into Lake Michigan. Cook County Circuit Judge Nathan M. Cohen imposed the fine against Inland Steel Co. after ruling in a suit filed three years ago by Illinois Attorney General William J. Scott and the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chicago. But Scott asked that the fines be reconsidered if Inland can present an acceptable cleanup program within 30 days.
A ban on use of pesticide-contaminated vegetable oils in livestock and poultry feed was proposed by the Food and Drug Administration. It would require industrial-grade oil byproducts with high levels of the pesticides dieldrin and endrin to carry the warning. “Not for food or feed use.” Eight million chickens were destroyed in Mississippi last year when it was found they had eaten feed containing high levels of dieldrin, the FDA said. The proposed ban would apply to deliberate addition of industrial-grade vegetable oil byproducts to animal feed, not to chemical contamination caused by pollution or industrial accidents.
Boris Spassky, the former world chess champion, is testing the Soviet Union’s sincerity in fulfilling the spirit as well as the letter of the humanitarian provisions of the Helsinki declaration. The 30,000-word document deals mainly with the inviolability of frontiers and noninterference in internal affairs, but it also contains a few paragraphs inserted at Western insistence, dealing with marriage between citizens of different nations. Mr. Spassky wants to marry a French woman, and he believes Soviet authorities might want to block the marriage. He has cited the Helsinki declaration in his behalf.
Major League Baseball:
The smallest crowd in Atlanta Stadium history (737) saw the Braves bow to the Astros and the bat of Cesar Cedeno, who knocked in six runs with two homers and a double in the 9–6 Houston victory. Cedeno doubled home two runs in the first and scored himself on an infield out. He hit a solo homer in the third, then wiped out a 5–4 Atlanta lead in the eighth with a three-run shot. Darrell Evans had an RBI single and two-run homer for the losers. Jose Sosa gets his only career win. The loss goes to Frank LaCorte, making his major league debut.
Dock Ellis, with relief help from Ramon Hernandez, picked up his first victory since his two-week suspension as the Pirates downed the Cubs, 4–1, and moved 6 ½ lengths ahead in the National League East. Doubles by Dave Rosello and Joe Wallis gave the Cubs a 1-0 margin in the first. Following a 48-minute rain delay, the Bucs tied the score on singles by Rennie Stennett and Al Oliver and a groundout by Willie Stargell. Stargell singled home Oliver, who had tripled, with the go-ahead run in the sixth. Richie Zisk’s single, a double by Dave Parker and Manny Sanguillen’s single made it a three-run inning.
The Expos all but eliminated the Mets from the National League East race with a 6–5 and 6–1 sweep which dropped New York nine games back of the Pirates. Pat Scanlon’s bases-loaded single in the ninth inning of the opener drove in the winning run after the Expos had blown a 4–1 lead. Jerry White and Jim Cox hit solo homers for the winners while Mike Vail and Dave Kingman connected for the Mets. Don Carrithers scattered eight hits in his route-going, second-game effort. The Expos got two runs in the first on only one hit and upped their lead to 4–0 in the third on RBI singles by Bob Bailey and Pete Mackanin.
The Phillies rallied with four runs in the seventh to turn back the Cardinals, 6–3. The winners used three walks, a wild pitch, fielder’s choice, double by Greg Luzinski and single by Mike Schmidt to manufacture the decisive comeback. Lou Brock, Ted Sizemore and Willie Davis were credited with RBIs as the Cards scored all their runs in the fifth. Tommy Hutton singled home the first Phillie marker in the third and Luzinski drove home the second with a single in the fifth.
Johnny Bench’s 29th homer, with Tony Perez aboard in the eighth, lifted the Reds over the Padres, 3–2. Willie McCovey had given San Diego an early lead with a homer in the first after a single by Hector Torres. Singles by Ken Griffey, Perez and George Foster produced Cincinnati’s first run in the sixth.
Andy Messersmith (16–14) tossed his sixth shutout of the season, blanking the Giants on three hits, 4–0. The game was scoreless until the sixth when Henry Cruz and Steve Garvey laced back-to-back doubles. The Dodgers tacked on three more in the eighth. Steve Yeager chased across two with a bases-loaded single and Bill Russell’s base hit drove in the final tally.
The Yankees tagged Mickey Lolich with the 12th defeat in his last 13 decisions, 3–0, as Rudy May (13–10) shut out the Tigers on seven hits. Graig Nettles homered to lead off the second. The Yankees scored the final two runs in the fourth on Rick Dempsey’s double, an error and a single by Bobby Bonds.
Don Hood (6–8) , hurling only his second complete game of the season, scattered seven hits as the Indians, scoring three unearned runs in the fourth, defeated the Red Sox, 4–1. Boston’s only run came on Carlton Fisk’s homer, which gave the Sox a 1–0 lead in the second. Alan Ashby flied out in the third to apparently retire the Indians’ side, but was awarded first base on catcher’s interference, loading the sacks. Frank Duffy’s single scored a pair and Ashby crossed the plate on Fred Lynn’s error. John Lowenstein, starting in place of Buddy Bell, out with a leg injury, homered for the Indians in the fifth.
Mike Torrez (17–8) achieved a personal victory high, winning his 17th game of the season as the Orioles bounced the Brewers, 6–2. Tommy Davis collected three hits, including a two-run homer in the seventh which locked up the victory, to pin an eighth straight defeat on Milwaukee starter Jim Slaton (11–18) . Charlie Moore doubled home both Brewer runs in the sixth. The losers had only one other baserunner reach third against Torrez.
The A’s increased their lead over the Royals to six games as Sal Bando and Gene Tenace swatted two-run homers and Claudell Washington added a solo blast in an 8–2 triumph over Kansas City. George Brett homered in the first to give the Royals a 1–0 lead, but Bando connected in the third to put the A’s ahead 2–1. The A’s struck for five in the sixth as they stopped Kansas City’s eight-game winning streak.
Houston Astros 9, Atlanta Braves 6
Boston Red Sox 1, Cleveland Indians 4
San Francisco Giants 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Baltimore Orioles 6, Milwaukee Brewers 2
New York Mets 5, Montreal Expos 6
New York Mets 1, Montreal Expos 6
Detroit Tigers 0, New York Yankees 3
Kansas City Royals 2, Oakland Athletics 8
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Philadelphia Phillies 6
Chicago Cubs 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Cincinnati Reds 3, San Diego Padres 2
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 840.11 (+4.14, +0.50%)
Born:
Deshea Townsend, NFL cornerback (NFL Champions, Super Bowls 40 and 43-Steelers, 2005, 2008; Pittsburgh Steelers, Indianapolis Colts), in Batesville, Mississippi.
John Thomas, NBA center and power forward (Boston Celtics, Toronto Raptors, Minnesota Timberwolves, Memphis Grizzlies, Atlanta Hawks, New Jersey Nets), in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Elena Likhovtseva, Kazakhstani-Russian tennis player (Wimbledon mixed doubles with Mahesh Bhupathi, 2002), in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union.
Larenz Tate, American actor (“Rescue Me”, “Power”), in Chicago, Illinois.
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