Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger described the recent decline of Communist strength in Portugal as encouraging. “The United States supports the emergence of a pluralist system there, reflecting the people’s views as they were expressed in the election to the constitutional assembly,” he said. “We are working in the closest harmony on the problem with our European allies.” He said the future level of U.S. aid to Portugal would be influenced by the strength of the Communists.
An effort by the Portuguese armed forces to hide their dissensions by a form of press censorship was unanimously condemned today by newspapers of all political persuasions. The High Council of the Revolution created considerable shock here last night by issuing a law forbidding the press to report on political activity within barracks or on positions assumed by military individuals or groups aside from the top hierarchy itself. Infractions will be punished by suspensions of up to 10 days for dailies and of Up to 40 days for periodicals. The council has swung from left to center as a result of the ousting of Premier Vasco Gonçalves from positions of authority and the defeat of the Communist current that he represented. The law seemed to be directed mainly at this tendency in the armed forces and in the press. But today, A Luta, a daily close to the Socialist party, condemned the measure as “an unjustifiable limitation on the right to inform and on the right of all Portuguese to be informed about matters that involved their future.”
The Pentagon has asked Congress to approve a special airborne antitank unit to counter superior Warsaw Pact tank forces in Europe. In a study entitled “The Guard and Reserve in Total Force,” the Pentagon also called for an extension in the time former active duty men must spend in the reserves to create a backup of 150,000 soldiers needed following a mobilization.
Greek and Turkish Cypriote representatives blamed each other today for the deadlock in Cyprus peace talks as Secretary General Waldheim for the second day postponed the opening ceremony of their fourth round of negotiations. Mr. Waldheim, in his continuing effort to get the stalled negotiations moving, consulted separately with Glafkos Clerides, the Greek Cypriot representative, and with Rauf Denktaş, the Turkish Cypriot spokesman, but diplomats saw little hope of breaking the impasse. Mr. Clerides has blamed the Turkish side for failing to come up with concrete proposals for territorial division of the island, insisting that there is no point in negotiations without knowing what areas the Turkish side is willing to relinquish. Turkish troops now hold 40 percent of the island, which they occupied last summer.
Turkish soldiers and volunteers rescued seven persons from rubble of towns and villages flattened in Saturday’s earthquake that killed more than 2,500 persons, but relief operations were hampered by aftershocks, army doctors said. Officials reported that they were short of supplies and that the final toll could reach 3,000. Three of the survivors were found in debris in Lice, epicenter of the earthquake, and four more were dug out in the nearby village of Yaprakli.
West Berlin police said they arrested three members of the terrorist band that kidnaped Berlin opposition leader Peter Lorenz six months ago. Authorities said they suspected the three-Inge Viett, 32, Ralf Reinders, 27, and a woman identified only as Miss Plambeck-are members of the inner circle of the Movement of June 2, a group of anarchist urban guerrillas wanted for a series of assassinations, bombings and kidnappings.
The producers of three films stolen from a processing plant in Rome last month have offered a reward of $42,000 for information leading to their return. One of the films was an uncompleted work about Casanova by Federico Fellini. Alberto Grimaldi, who financed the Fellini film, said the reward offer was not a ransom. He said return of the negatives was not essential because copies had been made from existing positive prints.
A man and a woman left behind in Czechoslovakia by an American helicopter pilot in an escape attempt will be put on public trial, Prague radio said. The pilot, Barry Meeker of Hartford, Conn., picked up Gunther Neukircher, his daughter and another girl, but he had to leave behind Neukircher’s wife and a West German student who had gone with him on the flight because Czech border guards opened fire on the helicopter before he could take them aboard.
The Communist nation of Albania issued a decree ordering a change of names for “all Albanian citizens who have inappropriate names in view of the political, ideological and moral standards”, apparently to require non-Muslim minorities (such as Roman Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Romani people or “Gypsies”) to take on less “Western-sounding” names. The decree was published in the official journal Buletinit të Njoftimeve Zyrtare and would not be noticed in the West until February 25. Among those whose names would be changed in the decree were 11-year-old Edvin Kristaq Rama who, as Edi Rama, would become Prime Minister of Albania in 2013.
The split among Ulster’s Protestant politicians widened today when William Craig, long a hard-line Protestant leader, resigned as head of his party’s 12-member delegation to a constitutional convention. He quit over the issue of talks with the leading Roman Catholic party. Mr. Craig is leader of the Vanguard party, one of three parties in the dominant United Ulster Unionist Council, a Protestant coalition. He had opposed yesterday’s council decision ruling out all future political cooperation with Catholics and calling for the suspension of the convention, charged with creating a new government for Northern Ireland. He advocated instead continued negotiations with the Social Democratic and Labor party, the leading Catholic group, for an emergency coalition government in which Protestants would share power with Roman Catholics.
Two British commercial divers, Roger Baldwin and Peter Holmes, died from hyperthermia while in saturation in the British Sector of the North Sea.
Secretary of State Kissinger assured Israel privately, as part of the Sinai agreement with Egypt, that the United States would make every effort within certain limits to be “fully responsive” to Israel’s defense, energy and economic needs. But the actual language of United States commitments, as disclosed to The New York Times by a highly reliable informant, seems less binding than Israel had initially sought. Many of the key provisions of the unpublished assurances and undertakings were qualified by references to the need for congressional approval and the limits on American resources.
As fierce fighting continued to rage in northern Lebanon between Muslims and Christians, Premier Rashid Karami announced tonight that he and President Suleiman Franjieh had agreed on “a series of effective measures” to bring peace to the poor, embattled region. Mr. Karami said the measures would be announced tomorrow morning, but there was widespread speculation that the Premier had agreed to call in the army to his native city of Tripoli in return for a shake‐up in the high command. The Premier, who is a Muslim, has been resisting the use of the army in the civil disturbances, in which at least 60 people are reported to have died, because its officer corps is heavily Christian.
Fragmentary reports from Tripoli, which has been effectively isolated from Beirut for several days, said that a force of some 3,000 Muslim gunmen had taken the offensive against some 2,000 Christians holding hills and villages east of the city. One account said that the Muslim force, which was reinforced by supporters from north of Tripoli, had advanced within a mile and a half of the town of Zgharta, a Christian stronghold. The advancing force was said to have established a rudimentary headquarters in the house of a Maronite deputy outside Zgharta. The force in Zgharta was said to be still firing rockets and mortars in the direction of Tripoli, but fighting inside the city was reported to have almost ended. Tripoli, which is Lebanon’s second largest city, is reported to be without water or gasoline, and electricity is said to be limited.
[Ten years later, the killing in Lebanon would still be continuing…]
Five and a half years after being forced into exile, Prince Norodom Sihanouk returned to a triumphant welcome today in Phnom Penh, the capital of a Cambodia vastly different from the one he ruled for nearly three decades. The special China Airlines Boeing 707 plane carrying Prince Sihanouk, his wife, Princess Monique, and a delegation of senior Cambodian leaders from Peking touched down at Pochentong Airport at 1 PM. At 7 o’clock a three‐minute broadcast by the Phnom Penh radio announced that huge crowds had welcomed the returning monarch — crowds that included “people, soldiers of the revolutionary army, members of government.” Following the Prince off the plane were Premier Penn Nouth and Khieu Samphan, a Deputy Premier, who is generally believed to be the real power in Cambodia’s Communist Government. According to a statement released before the Prince’s departure from Peking, he paid tribute to “the immeasurable sacrifices of the Cambodian people.”
Chile’s Roman Catholic leaders called on the country’s military government to seek greater equity and justice in its administration. In a 34-page document, the Chilean episcopate criticized certain economic policies which “are causing an immense amount of suffering.”
A policeman was gunned down in La Plata, Argentina, and two bulletriddled bodies were discovered in Cordova. The killings raised the known terrorist death toll to 393 since January 1. In other incidents, a bomb exploded at a high school in Buenos Aires; two bombs went off at the homes of labor leaders in Cordoba, and three bombs were deactivated at Rosario University. No casualties were reported from the bombings.
More than half a million flamingos have returned to Kenya’s Lake Nakuru, ending concern that pollution had forced them away for good, the World Wildlife Fund announced in Morges, Switzerland. Studies showed that pollution levels in “the lake of a million flamingos” were low and could not have been responsible for the flamingos’ flight.
The airlift of Portuguese refugees from Angola is too limited and is threatened by a lack of troops to protect it on the ground, a Portuguese director of the operation said here today. Seven planes arrived yesterday from the Angolan cities of Luanda and Nova Lisboa, the two evacuation points, with 1,630 refugees. There still are not enough aircraft available to evacuate 350,000 Portuguese refugees before independence is granted the West African territory November 11. Carlos Marques Pinto, coordinator in the Nova Lisboa area, came here a week ago to try to speed the airlift and to press the authorities into sending more troops to Nova Lisboa. Some flights have been added, but Mr. Marques Pinto said that they were not enough. He added that he had received no response to his request for additional security. Only 1,200 Portuguese troops are stationed in the Nova Lisboa area, he said, and at least twice as many are needed. He said that the African nationalist movements had no control of their guerrillas, who, he added, have taken to manhunts and looting.
The House of Representatives easily overrode President Ford’s veto of a $7.9 billion education appropriation bill with 99 votes more than the needed two-thirds majority. The Senate is also expected to override the veto. The Senate will also be undertaking earlier tomorrow the more difficult task of trying to override Mr. Ford’s veto of the oil price control measure. If the Senate does vote to override the veto of the education bill, it will be only the second time in six attempts this year that the heavy Democratic majorities in both houses will have mustered two‐thirds margins to enact a bill rejected by the Republican President. Congress overrode his veto of a $2‐billion health care bill last July after the House failed earlier in the year to override four consecutive vetoes of legislation on farms, housing, strip mining and public service jobs.
The White House announced a temporary agreement under which union workers will resume for one month the stalled shipment of American grain to the Soviet Union. In return President Ford said he would try to arrange new long-term purchasing and shipping agreements with the Soviet Union and would extend the present moratorium on new grain sales to the Soviet Union until mid-October. The agreement between the Administration and labor leaders was announced after Mr. Ford and Secretary of Labor John T. Dunlop met at the White House with George Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations; Thomas W. Gleason, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, and other union officials.
The Viking 2 spacecraft was launched today on a mission to join a sister ship and both are to seek signs of past or present life on Mars. At 2:39 P.M. Eastern daylight time, a Titan‐Centaur rocket propelled the four‐ton spacecraft into the sky. After booster separations and firings of the Titan and Centaur rockets, the Viking 2 was blasted out of earth orbit and on its way to Mars.
Officials reported attendance climbing in a sampling of schools in Kentucky’s Jefferson County (Louisville and its suburbs) during a generally peaceful fourth day of court-ordered busing to achieve integration. Authorities said attendance was at 72% of the 119,000 enrollment. National guardsmen and police again escorted pupils to and from school and Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane said he would like to keep the 1,000 men on duty through the weekend. “We’re not out of the woods yet” as far as more possible antibusing violence goes, he said. There was little violence and few demonstrations. A firebomb was thrown through a school window but failed to start a blaze.
The son of James R. Hoffa, the missing former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said today for the first time that he believed his father was dead — the victim of assassination — but does not know who killed him.
Veterans Day would be moved from the fourth Monday in October back to its traditional date of November 11, beginning in 1978, under a bill that received final congressional approval. The bill now goes to President Ford, who is expected to sign it. The day was one of four federal holidays that were changed in 1971 from their traditional dates to fall on Mondays to create more three-day weekends. But veterans’ groups protested and were finally successful in getting Congress to move it back to the date that marks the end of World War I on November 11, 1918.
A high‐ranking American defense official today denounced suggestions that the volunteer United States Army had too many black soldiers. “We need to combat this notion as being a harmful and a wrong concept of our minorities, blacks in particular,” H. Minton Francis, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity, told the annual equal opportunity and race relations conference organized by the United States Army, Europe. Mr. Francis said that blacks had serves the nation with distinction since the American Revolution and added that, by enlisting large numbers of blacks, the army was fulfilling its “responsibility Of building a society of plurality, justice and integrity.”
The Senate approved legislation that would terminate the use of the drug DES in cattle feed until scientific studies on its cancer-causing potential prove it safe for human consumption. The bill, which also would limit the use of DES as a “morning after” contraceptive to extreme cases, such as rape and incest, was sent to the House. DES — diethylstilbestrol — is used as a growth stimulant in cattle. It has caused cancer in laboratory animals and produced a rare and often fatal form of vaginal and cervical cancer in the children of women who took the drug to prevent miscarriages.
The House voted to seek official designation of a day honoring Elizabeth Seton, the first natural-born U.S. citizen to be designated a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. A resolution asking President Ford to designate National St. Elizabeth Seton Day was sent to the Senate. The date would be September 14, 1975, when the formal canonization ceremonies are to be conducted in Rome. Elizabeth Seton, a New York native and a Catholic convert, founded a school and order of nuns in Emmitsburg, Maryland. She died in 1821.
The FBI does not believe Jerry A. Cooper is D.B. Cooper, the hijacker, but it will continue investigating the construction worker of Annandale, Virginia, until it is certain, officials said. Acting on an anonymous tip, the FBI began investigating whether Jerry Cooper was the hijacker. That Cooper captured headlines around the world by parachuting from a jetliner in 1971 with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found. Jerry Cooper, 30, once a sky diver for eight years, has denied any involvement in the crime. “I do look an awful lot like him.” Cooper said of the hijacker. “It’s scary.”
The fire chief and city attorney of Key West, Florida, were arrested as federal, state and county agents searched for about 30 persons accused of wide-scale narcotics trafficking. The Florida Department of Criminal Law Enforcement reported that Fire Chief Joseph Farto was charged with selling cocaine and marijuana. City Attorney Manny James, son of Key West’s police chief, was charged with conspiracy to sell cocaine, a FDCLE spokesman said. He added that the arrests, which included four other persons, came after a six-month investigation in the Key West-Miami area.
Satellite observations and other experiments have given support to the hypothesis that the distribution in the stratosphere of fluorocarbons such as those used in aerosol spray cans are breaking down the earth’s ozone shield, according to participants in the study. Government specialists are not as yet convinced that the actual depletion of ozone has been demonstrated. Dr. Warren Muir, co-chairman of a task force representing federal agencies, said that recent observations reinforce rather than diminish the reasons for concern.
Annual losses by American banks from frauds and embezzlements have jumped more than fivefold in the last six years. In the first half of 1975, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, these crimes cost banks $71.3 million — almost five times as much as the $15.1 million they lost in armed robberies.
Federal officials responsible for the integrity of American grain shipments have frequently upgraded without justification the quality ratings for export shipment under industry pressures, according to government officials. This pattern of federal aides favoring the industry and victimizing the buyers survived at least until late last year. It had previously been ascribed to federally licensed private inspectors.
Chase Manhattan Bank, as manager for a syndicate of underwriters of a New York State offering, informed state Controller Arthur Levitt that the state would have to pay record interest rates for some of its own needs as well as for notes issued to meet New York City’s cash needs. Financial experts saw this as the first concrete sign that investors were beginning to view the state as more of a credit risk since its pledge of held to the city to avert default.
“Welcome Back, Kotter” premiered on the ABC television network in the United States. Starring Gabe Kaplan, the comedy introduced actor John Travolta, who played the role of student “Vinnie Barbarino”.
Paul McCartney & Wings begin their “Wings Over The World” tour in Southampton, England; 65 concerts in Europe, Australia, Canada, and United States, runs through October of 1976.
Riverfront Coliseum opened in Cincinnati.
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Scoring all their runs on three homers, the Braves defeated the Astros, 4–1. Marty Perez started the slugging in first inning and, after a pass to Dave May, Mike Lum also hit for the circuit. May added a homer in the third.
Unearned runs that resulted from errors by Manny Sanguillen and Art Howe enabled the Cubs to defeat the Pirates, 6–5. A two-run single by Gene Hiser and homers by Andre Thornton and Joe Wallis paced the Cubs to a 4–1 lead before the Pirates rallied to tie the score in the sixth inning on a walk to Frank Taveras, an infield out, double by Willie Stargell and circuit clout by Dave Parker. Hiser walked in the seventh and was on second with two out when Sanguillen dropped a pop foul by Thornton for an error. Returning to bat, Thornton singled to drive in Hiser. A walk to George Mitterwald, single by Dave Rosello and error by Howe then gave the Cubs what proved to he their winning run in the eighth. The Pirates fell short in the ninth with a tally on a double by Parker and single by Sanguillen. Bill Madlock, the Cubs’ league-leading batter, was hit on the right thumb by a pitched ball in the fifth and suffered a hairline fracture.
The Expos completed a sweep of the three-game series and handed the Mets their fifth straight defeat when Jim Dwyer singled in the 10th inning and scored on a double by Mike Jorgensen to produce a 2–1 victory. Jose Morales homered in the sixth for the Expos’ initial run. The Mets tied the score in the seventh with singles by Rusty Staub, Joe Torre and Jack Heidemann.
A loser of five straight decisions, Steve Carlton (12–13) gained his first victory since August 9 and helped himself with a two-run double as the Phillies defeated the Cardinals, 6–2, to move into second place in the East Division, six games behind the pace-setting Pirates. The Cards slipped to third place, 6 ½ games in back of the leaders. After the Redbirds scored the initial run of the game in the fifth inning on a double by Ken Reitz and single by Mike Tyson, the Phillies took command of the game with four runs in their half. Mike Schmidt walked and Johnny Oates singled for the first hit off John Denny. Carlton followed with his double, driving in both runners. Larry Bowa then singled, scoring Carlton, and Garry Maddox doubled to admit Bowa. The Phillies iced their verdict in the eighth when Schmidt and Ollie Brown hit consecutive homers. Ted Sizemore accounted for the Cards’ second run with a round-tripper in the ninth.
Rich Folkers (6–9) pitched a three-hitter and Willie McCovey batted in four runs as the the Padres romped to an 11–2 victory over the Reds. Two of McCovey’s RBIs came on a homer in the fifth inning. Johnny Bench saved the Reds from being shutout, hitting for the circuit after a pass to Tony Perez in the seventh.
Breaking loose with an extra-base attack, the Dodgers scored three runs in the seventh inning and five in the eighth to defeat the Giants, 8–3. In the seventh, a single by Willie Crawford, triple by Steve Garvey and homer by Ron Cey tied the score. Davey Lopes singled in the eighth, stole second and scored the go-ahead run on a single by Lee Lacy. After a pair of walks loaded the bases, Ken McMullen batted in two runs with a ground-rule double and Steve Yeager drove in two more with a triple. Charlie Hough (2–6) got the win over Jim Barr (11–13).
The Indians gained their fifth straight victory and 10th in the last 12 games, defeating the Red Sox, 3–2, in 10 innings. Rick Waits pitched the route, yielding only five hits, and came out a winner when George Hendrick doubled and Alan Ashby singled in the overtime frame.
While Doyle Alexander (7–8) pitched a four-hitter, the Orioles piled up 14 hits and defeated the Brewers, 9–1, to pull within five games of the Red Sox in the East Division race. The Orioles erupted for four runs in the third inning, added another on a homer by Bobby Grich in the sixth and capped their scoring with four runs in the eighth, including a round-tripper by Dave Duncan with two men on base. Don Money hit a homer for the Brewers’ lone tally.
Chris Chambliss collected five hits, drove in three runs and scored two as the Yankees’ batting leader in a 9–6 victory over the Tigers. Willie Horton hit a two-run homer for the Tigers in the first inning, but the Yankees climbed back with three runs in their half. Doc Medich (13–16) got the win.
Leroy Stanton walked in the seventh inning, stole second and scored on a double by Bruce Bochte to provide the Angels’ deciding run in a 5–4 victory over the White Sox. In the Angels’ earlier scoring, Mike Miley drove in two runs with a single and sacrifice fly.
Rallying for three runs in the ninth inning, the Rangers posted a 4–2 victory in the second game of a twi-night doubleheader to complete the sweep after beating the Twins in the first game, 3–0. Jim Umbarger (8–5), who pitched the shutout, had the backing of five double plays. Only six Twins reached base — four on hits, one on a walk and one on an error. Roy Smalley provided Umbarger’s chief batting support. After Jim Sundberg singled and Lenny Randle doubled in the fifth inning, Smalley drove them home with a single. Randle hit a homer for the Rangers in the nightcap to tie the score at 1–1 before Tom Grieve led off the ninth with a double. When Mike Cubbage grounded to Danny Thompson, the shortstop threw wildly, allowing Grieve to score. With two out, Randle was passed intentionally. Dave Nelson followed with a bloop single on which both Cubbage and Randle scored. Craig Kusick homered for the Twins in their half of the ninth.
Scoring an unearned run in the 14th inning, the Athletics gained a 2–1 victory to stretch their lead to seven games over the Royals in the West Division. Fred Patek homered for the Royals’ run in the third, but the shortstop’s error then led to defeat. After Gene Tenace tied the score with a homer in the seventh, Bert Campaneris was safe with two out in the 14th when Patek booted his ground ball. Campaneris stole second and scored the A’s winning run on a single by Bill North.
Houston Astros 1, Atlanta Braves 4
California Angels 5, Chicago White Sox 4
Boston Red Sox 2, Cleveland Indians 3
San Francisco Giants 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 8
Baltimore Orioles 9, Milwaukee Brewers 1
Texas Rangers 3, Minnesota Twins 0
Texas Rangers 4, Minnesota Twins 2
New York Mets 1, Montreal Expos 2
Detroit Tigers 6, New York Yankees 9
Kansas City Royals 1, Oakland Athletics 2
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Philadelphia Phillies 6
Chicago Cubs 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Cincinnati Reds 2, San Diego Padres 11
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Born:
Michael Bublé, Canadian musician (“Haven’t Met You Yet”; “It’s A Beautiful Day”), in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Derrick Fletcher, NFL guard (New England Patriots, Washington Redskins, Carolina Panthers, Jacksonville Jaguars), in Houston, Texas.
Lee Sorochan, Canadian NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames), in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Died:
Minta Durfee, 85, American film actress (“Keystone Comedies”, “Mickey”).
Ethel Griffies, 97, English film actress (“Billy Liar”, “Birds”).
John McGiver, 61, American TV character actor (“Patty Duke Show”; “Jimmy Stewart Show”; “Fitzwilly”).
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