In what could be Moscow’s first concrete step toward fulfilling the Helsinki agreement, the Russians have informed U.S. officials that they are ready “in principle” to permit American Moscow correspondents to travel more easily in and out of Russia. A brief U.S. Embassy announcement said that the United States expected to meet with Soviet Foreign Ministry officials soon to work out details of granting both Soviet and U.S. newsmen multiple exit-entry visas.
Demetrios Ioannides, strong man of the former Greek junta, accused the current government of going back on an agreement that no officer would be prosecuted for taking part in the 1967 coup that set up a military dictatorship. The 51-year-old former major general, jailed last month for life in the trial of ringleaders of the military regime, said in a statement released by his lawyer that the assurance had been given shortly before he had handed over power to the politicians in July, 1974, during the Cyprus crisis.
A walkout by blast furnace operators at a steel works in Llanwern, Wales, spread to other plants as urgent talks were held to avert a total shutdown of Britain’s steel industry.
Margaret Thatcher, on her first visit to New York since becoming leader of the Conservative party in Britain, charged last night that 30 years of expansion of the welfare state had caused major damage by curbing British growth. Urging 100 opinion leaders here to “learn from our recent experience,” she stressed private enterprise as the way to increase national wealth. She called for “the pursuit of equality of opportunity” and the right to‐be unequal.” Mrs. Thatcher appeared at a St. Regis‐Sheraton Hotel dinner sponsored by the Institute for Socioeconomic Studies. whose president, Leonard M. Greene, a White Plains computer scientist, urges abolition of the United States welfare system. He proposes a national taxable grant for every citizen as an incentive to climb up from poverty.
Two letter bombs, mailed in Dublin, exploded when they were opened in London today, injuring two women slightly. The Countess of Onslow received minor burns on her arms and face as she opened a letter containing a hollowed‐out paperback book at her apartment in Kensington. A police spokesman said only the detonator exploded or the blast might have been much worse. In 1973, Lady Onslow arranged a meeting between a junior minister in the former Conservative government and a man who said he had been a British spy with information on gun‐running to the Irish Republican Army.
France has invited major developed and developing countries to reconvene a preparatory meeting on energy and other problems of the world’s rich and poor nations. An announcement by the Élysée Palace said that conditions were now favorable for resumption of the dialogue that broke down last April.
The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
Four Palestinian guerrillas invaded the Egyptian Embassy in Madrid and threatened to kill the Ambassador and two aides unless Egypt scrapped her new accord with Israel. But they flew to Algiers early today with five hostages. The hostages were the Egyptian, Algerian and Iraqi Ambassadors to Spain and the Egyptian press attache and consul in Madrid. Algiers radio announced the arrival of the plane at Algiers airport today. Official sources in Madrid reported that the three Egyptians were freed when the plane landed at 4:30 AM. The other two ambassadors were said to have volunteered to escort the guerrillas into the city of Algiers. The Algerian police reportedly barred foreign reporters from the airport. There was no indication what the Algerian Government would decide to do with the four Palestinians.
Other previously unreported United States assurances to Israel under the Sinai agreement were made known by well-placed sources on the eve of the arrival in Washington of the Israeli Defense Minister, Shimon Peres, who will discuss his country’s long-term defense requirements. It was said that the United States, as part of the Sinai agreement, had agreed with Israel to conduct a joint study of Israel’s future defense needs and to develop a contingency plan for the supply of military equipment to Israel in a new Middle East emergency. While in Washington Mr. Peres is scheduled to meet with Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger, Secretary of State Kissinger and key members of Congress and to deliver a speech to the National. Press Club. As the highest‐ranking Israeli official to visit Washington since the signing of the Egyptian‐Israeli disengagement accord earlier in the month, Mr. Peres may also be received by President Ford. Last week it was reported that as part of the unpublished agreement between Israel and the United States that was signed by Secretary Kissinger and Foreign Minister Yigal Allon in connection with the Egyptian‐Israeli agreement, the United States pledged, within Congressional and resources limits, to be “fully responsive” to Israel’s military requirements. In addition to that broad promise, according to the sources, the United States agreed to the following:
— Israel’s long‐term military needs will be subject to periodic consultation.
— A joint study of military experts will be initiated within, three weeks of the sighing of the agreement.
— Within two months a contingency plan will he developed for military supply to Israel in an emergency.
— Israel’s requests for advanced weapons will be reviewed sympathetically.
President Anwar el-Sadat, in a defiant and angry speech, pledged tonight that no amount of pressure from the Soviet Union, the Palestinians or any other source would cause Egypt to deviate from the policy he had chosen for her. Speaking while an Egyptian Ambassador and two members of his staff were held by Palestinian guerrillas in the Egyptian Embassy in Madrid, Mr. Sadat described his Palestinian detractors as being duped by false information spread by the Soviet Union and Syria. He accused those nations of deliberately seeking to divide the Arab World and isolate Egypt. Mr. Sadat delayed his appearance before the membership of the Arab Socialist Union, Egypt’s political party, for half an hour while negotiations with the guerrillas were at a crucial stage. Then, at the start of his televised speech, he announced that he had agreed to request by the guerrillas to be flown to Algeria with their hostages and the Iraqi and Algerian Ambassadors to Madrid.
Scattered sniping and machinegun fire emptied streets in several outlying Beirut neighborhoods today, while in the northern city of Tripoli armed men raided police stations and occupied the town hall. The rampage in Tripoli, which had been settling into an edgy peace after 10 days of intermittent fighting, began after a clash early in the morning between an army patrol and leftists south of the city. Twelve leftists were reported killed. According to a military communique, army units patrolling near the village of Chekka encountered armed men setting up roadblocks. Some of them had also blown up a beach club by the sea, according to the army account. When hailed, the army said, the armed men opened fire on the soldiers, who returned the fire, killing the 12 and wounding another. Three others were arrested, according to the communiqué. The incident seemed likely to spread resentment among leftists, who acceded to an appeal by Premier Rashid Karami and withdrew a call for a general strike today. It had been widely feared that the strike would lead to widespread violence in Beirut.
A New Delhi high court overturned the jailing of a prominent journalist today, ruling that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi must be prepared with specific charges to back up her use of the Internal Security Act to arrest critics of her government. The two‐man tribunal, which ranks just below the Indian Supreme Court, decided that the arrest of Kuldip Nayar, a senior editor of The Indian Express, was unlawful and chastised authorities for their handling of the case. “This is a landmark decision In Indian law which will have an electrifying effect on the political situation,” said a lawyer for a jailed opposition leader, Raj Narain. “With this decision hundreds of jailed prisoners can seek their release on the grounds they were unjustly detained. It’s a great rebuff to the government.”
A Japanese delegation declined today to make a commitment to contribute now to South Korean security and economic development, underscoring the continuing lukewarm relations between the northeast Asian neighbors.
Brigadier General Ignatius Praranoto, military chief in the Indonesian portion of Timor, said the pro-Indonesian Timorese Democratic Union and Apodeti groups had begun guerrilla warfare against forces of the leftwing Revolutionary Front for the Independence of East Timor-Fretilin. An Indonesian Defense Ministry spokesman denied Fretilin allegations that Indonesian troops had infiltrated the Portuguese colony on the eastern end of the island.
At midnight a fireworks display lit up the sky over Port Moresby to signal the beginning of independence for Papua New Guinea, which since 1906 had been territory of Australia. The Australian flag was lowered for the last time at dusk and handed to Prince Charles of Britain, who gave it to Australia’s Governor General, Sir John Kerr. Thus were completed the efforts of the Australian government under Prime Minister Gough Whitlam to thrust Papua New Guinea into independence, thereby shedding the stigma of colonial rule.
In the fourth cabinet shuffle by Argentina’s Peronist government in less than three months, acting President Italo Luder named Toma Vottero as defense minister, shifted Angel Robledo from foreign minister to interior minister after the controversial Col. Vicente Damasco resigned the post, and accepted resignations from the presidential press secretary and presidential private secretary. The latter post will go to Luder’s son, Enrique Luder.
Eritrean rebels threatened today to kill four American prisoners held in a mountain cave in northern Ethiopia unless the United States halted arms supplies to Ethiopia’s military government. “We want a public pledge from the U.S. Government to meet our demands,” a spokesman for the Eritrean Liberation Front said in Beirut. “Otherwise we shall not be responsible for what happens to they four American captives.” His statement, phoned to the Beirut offices of The Associated Press, set no deadline, but he said, “of course we cannot wait forever.”
The chief of the Toubou tribe left N’Djamena, Chad, on what sources said was probably a mission to secure the freedom of a Frenchwoman seized by rebels 17 months ago. Wodei Kichodemi, accompanied by members of the Chad military government, reportedly was heading to the Tibesti desert, where the rebels are based. The rebels have threatened to kill Mrs. Francoise Claustre next Tuesday unless France pays a $2.2 million ransom.
Two English schoolgirls — Theresa Ann Laws, 14, and Lynn Francis, 16, of Woolwich — who accepted free trips to Kenya that involved them in an alleged scheme to smuggle $350,000 back to Britain, pleaded guilty and were placed on probation for 12 months. Arrangements were being made to fly the girls home. A defense counsel said the girls had been used as pawns by London businessman Madhusudan Madhubai Patel, who hid the money in gifts the girls were to take to his wife.
Rhodesian nationalists were urged to resolve their differences by five African heads of state who held a weekend summit in Lusaka, Zambia. A statement from the leaders, representing Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Botswana and Congo-Brazzaville, said also that it was the duty of all Africa to support Angola’s independence, scheduled for Nov. 11.
President Ford said he might strip the CIA of its authority to conduct secret political operations in foreign countries. Although the President did not make a firm commitment to overhaul the CIA, the Chicago SunTimes said in an exclusive interview that he indicated he was considering such action. Mr. Ford said he had “listened to both sides” of the problem and his decision, which could involve shifting some CIA activities to another agency, would be made soon as part of a major package of recommendations for reorganizing the group.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has heard testimony that the Central Intelligence Agency had sent poison to an African outpost for use in killing Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese leader. Mr. Lumumba was deposed as Premier of the Congo (now Zaire) in 1960. But the poison was never used, according to sources familiar with the testimony, which is expected to be part of the committee’s forthcoming report on assassination plots.
The White House succeeded in breaking a deadlock in the Pentagon on controversial aspects of a new Panama Canals treaty last summer, permitting the Ford Administration to resume stailed negotiations in Panama this month, top-level Washington officials said today. The deadlock, resulting in part from powerful opposition to the State Department’s concept of a treaty that would turn over defense of the canal to Panama in less than 50 years, was broken only after the National Security Council had met twice on the issue and President Ford had sent a directive to all the agencies concerned. The canal talks halted last March when Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, the chief United States negotiator, returned from Panama after completing agreement in principle on less controversial aspects of a new treaty. According to participants in Pentagon debates, leading officials in the Defense Department, including Secretary James R. Schlesinger, had expressed sharp antagonism to any agreement that would relinquish defense of the canal to Panama in less than 50 years. The hard line adopted by Mr. Schlesinger and others was opposed by Secretary of State Kissinger, Deputy Secretary Robert S. Ingersoll, Ambassador Bunker and Assistant Secretary of State William D. Rogers.
The Federal Trade Commission accused Safeway Stores, Inc., the nation’s largest supermarket chain, of cheating consumers by advertising items at sale prices but selling them at regular prices. The loss to shoppers, one FTC lawyer said, has been “substantial” over the years, although no complete dollar estimate has been made. Safeway said the overcharges were simply a matter of “human error.” Safeway said the complaint “is based on a survey in 56 Safeway stores in which less than 150 out 10,000 advertised items were purchased above the advertised price.” Safeway, based in Oakland, California, operates 1,950 retail stores in 27 states and the District of Columbia. Its sales in 1973 totaled almost $6.8 billion.
With an election-eve volley over gun controls, Republican Louis C. Wyman and Democrat John A. Durkin staged the final skirmish in their long battle for a New Hampshire seat in the U.S. Senate. A light voter turnout was expected and political oddsmakers looked for another close count in today’s special election. Their 1974 match wound up in a virtual tie. Durkin acknowledged he was worried about the impact of a Republican campaign letter describing him as an advocate of gun control laws, which he denies. But Wyman insisted that Durkin had wavered on the question. Durkin called the Wyman letter “a last-minute attempt to mislead the voters…”
The last contingent of National Guard troops will be withdrawn this afternoon from the Louisville-Jefferson County area of Kentucky if school desegregation continues to be peaceful, the governor’s office reported. Three days of violent antibusing protests and riots that began September 5 resulted in the callup of 1,000 guardsmen and 500 state police. The situation, however, has been generally calm since then. More than half of the guardsmen and state police have already been dismissed. School attendance continued a steady climb, increasing to 100,979 pupils out of an expected enrollment of 124,000.
A suit designed to spark the enactment of a constitutional amendment that would end school busing to achieve desegregation was filed in federal court today by Kentucky Governor Julian Carroll.
A gunman seeking to flee aboard an airliner that he had hijacked was shot and killed by a San Jose, California police marksman today after two hours of violence that left one of his four hostages critically wounded. The gunman was killed by one bullet as he emerged, gun In hand, from an empty jetliner with a captive as a shield Minutes before, police marks,men had fired into the cockpit land shot out the tires of the Continental Airlines 727 as it sat on a floodlit runway at San Jose Municipal Airport. The gunman was identified by the police as Fred Salomon, a 24‐year‐old San Jose man also listed on police records as Fred Soloman. The episode ended at about 1.30 AM after a journey in which the gunman fled the scene of a rape and stabbing, commandeered three autos and took four persons hostage.
The Federal Reserve Board said that industrial production rose strongly in August, further evidence of the economy’s recovery. The increase in output of the nation’s factories, mines and utilities last month was 1.3 percent, the largest of four consecutive monthly rises in the industrial production index. While the industrial production figures seem to confirm a more or less “classic” recovery from a deep recession, they do not give any real clue to how long the recovery will continue.
The federal government reimbursed Northrop Corp. for parties thrown for the purpose of selling the firm’s F-5 jet fighter to Asian governments, the Capitol Hill News Service said. CHNS Director Peter Gruenstein said the parties were attended by top Pentagon officials and that the Defense Department routinely reimbursed Northrop thousands of dollars. The news service said the Defense Contract Auditing Agency was investigating questionable expenses “said to be far in excess of $860,000.” Party hostess was said to be Anna Chennault, widow of General Claire Chennault of Flying Tiger fame. She is listed as a “consultant” in two internal Northrop documents.
The New York state government was warned by Standard & Poor’s investment rating service that further emergency assistance to New York City would jeopardize the state’s AA credit rating and fiscal integrity. Governor Carey, quickly responding to the warning, said that it “supports precisely” his position that no further action by the state was possible and that some sort of federal help was needed. The Governor’s view was supported by Warren Anderson, the state Senate majority leader.
Superior Court Judge Robert Muir Jr. today appointed a public defender to protect the rights of Karen Ann Quinlan, a 21-year-old girl who has been in a coma since April and whose parents are seeking permission to withdraw mechanical life-sustaining procedures from her.
A new study of men who habitually smoke marijuana has confirmed earlier studies linking marijuana use to diminution of the male sex hormone testosterone that can result in impotence or infertility. The latest study, described by the newly formed International Academy for Sex Research, clearly shows that marijuana can interfere with the production of the sex hormone, and that when marijuana smoking stops testosterone increases.
Chris Balderstone, who bowled for the England cricket team and played midfield for Doncaster Rovers F.C. in The Football League became the first and, thus far, only person to play first-class matches in both sports on the same day. In the afternoon, he played for the Foxes of Leicestershire against the Falcons of Derbyshire, then travelled from Chesterfield to Doncaster, where he suited up for the Rovers and played in their 1–1 draw with the Bees of Brentford in a fourth-division match. The next day, he returned to Chesterfield to help Leicestershire’s win its first championship.
Representatives of the National Football League Management Council and the players’ association met in closed session late last night in Washington in an attempt to solve the labor dispute that jeopardizes the start of the regular season on Sunday.
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Rookies Fred Lynn and Jim Rice each collected his 100th RBI and Dwight Evans drove in four more to lead the Red Sox past the Brewers, 9–7. Boston scored four times in the first and second frames, Evans driving in a pair in each inning. The Brewers, who knocked out winner Roger Moret (14–3) in the seventh, got solo homers from Robin Yount and George Scott, while making it close with four runs in the final three innings.
John Mayberry increased his league-leading RBI total to 103 with a two-out, run-scoring single in the ninth which gave the Royals a 3–2 nod over the White Sox. Mayberry delivered after loser Claude Osteen walked Frank White, Jim Wohlford sacrificed, reliever Rich Gossage struck out Amos Otis and purposely passed George Brett.
Glenn Borgmann’s 12th-inning double scored Steve Braun, who had singled, as the Twins nipped the Angels, 7–6. California took a 6-5 lead in the top of the 10th on Bruce Bochte’s fifth hit of the game, a single which scored Mickey Rivers. Minnesota’s Johnny Briggs singled home Braun to knot the count in the bottom of the 10th. In the ninth, the Twins got two to send the game into extra innings on back-to-back RBI singles by Rod Carew and Dan Ford.
The game between the Oakland A’s and Texas Rangers at Arlingotn, Texas is postponed due to rain. It will be made up tomorrow.
Mike Vail extended his hitting streak to 23 games, tying the modern National League record for a rookie, driving home two runs as the Mets nipped the Expos, 3–2. Vail accounted for the deciding tally with an eighth-inning single which scored pinch-runner Gene Clines to snap a 2–2 tie. The Expos scored both their runs in the second. Vail singled home the first New York run in the sixth and the Mets tied the score in the seventh on throwing errors by Larry Parrish and Mike Jorgensen, plus a wild pitch. Jerry Koosman (13–13) notched the victory.
After the Cubs scored twice in the ninth to win the opener, 6–5, the Pirates bounced back with seven doubles and a two-run homer by Richie Zisk to salvage a twin-bill split with a 9–1 victory. Jerry Morales and Jose Cardenal each doubled home a run in the final frame of the first game after Pittsburgh had tallied three in the top of the inning to take a 5–4 lead, getting two runs on Bob Robertson’s pinch-single. In the second game, Jim Rooker stopped the Cubs on two hits, retiring the last 16 Chicago batters in order. Zisk homered in a three-run fourth. Dave Parker collected three doubles in the game and drove in two runs.
Reggie Smith’s RBI pinch-double in the eighth snapped a tie to give the Cardinals a 7–6 victory over the Phillies. Ken Reitz and Ted Sizemore singled ahead of Smith’s game decider, which scored pinch-runner Larry Lintz. Dick Allen socked a three-run homer in the first, but the Cards matched that in the bottom of the frame. Mike Schmidt put the visitors back ahead with a two-run double in the fifth, but St. Louis tallied three times in the sixth, Bake McBride singling home the go-ahead run. Garry Maddox’ sacrifice fly plated Mike Anderson with the tying run for the Phils in the seventh.
The Braves, cracking 17 hits off five Giant pitchers, coasted to a 12–0 triumph behind Jamie Easterly, who went seven frames before a blister on his pitching hand led to his replacement. Dusty Baker drove in five runs with a triple, two doubles and a single, while Darrell Evans plated three more with two doubles and a single. The second smallest crowd in San Francisco history, 851, watched the contest.
Willie Crawford’s three-run homer in a four-run eighth inning brought the Dodgers from behind for a 5–4 triumph over the Padres and gave Burt Hooton a club record-equaling 11th straight victory. Hooton had served up a three-run homer to Willie McCovey in the top of the inning which gave San Diego a 4–1 advantage. Steve Yeager’s infield out with the bases loaded made it 4–2 in the bottom of the inning, setting the stage for Crawford, who had entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the seventh. Burt Hooton go the win, his seventeenth.
Milwaukee Brewers 7, Boston Red Sox 9
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Chicago Cubs 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 9, Chicago Cubs 1
Chicago White Sox 2, Kansas City Royals 3
San Diego Padres 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
California Angels 6, Minnesota Twins 7
Montreal Expos 2, New York Mets 3
Atlanta Braves 12, San Francisco Giants 0
Philadelphia Phillies 6, St. Louis Cardinals 7
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 803.19 (-6.10, -0.75%)
Born:
Tom Dolan, American swimmer (Olympic gold medal, 400m medley, 1996, 2000; World C’ship gold 1994, 98; WR 4:11.76, 2000), in Arlington County, Virginia.
Dan Smith, MLB pitcher (Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox), in Flemington, New Jersey.
Javier Cardona, Puerto Rican MLB catcher (Detroit Tigers, San Diego Padres), in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Derek Bekar, Canadian NHL left wing and centre (St. Louis Blues, Los Angeles Kings, New York Islanders), in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Central McClellion, NFL cornerback (Washington Redskins), in Delray Beach, Florida.
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