Rich and poor countries agreed unanimously at the end of the United Nations General Assembly’s special session on the plight of the third world on measures to narrow the gap between them. The United States expressed some reservations about specific passages in the 6,000-word document, but its chief delegate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, told the Assembly a genuine accord had been reached.
Basic sanitation still is unsatisfactory for much of the world’s population, environmentalists from throughout the world were told by Dr. A.S. Pavlov, assistant director of the World Health Organization, at the International Conference on Environmental Sensing and Assessment in Las Vegas. Rising population has aggravated the problem, the Soviet scientist said, adding, “Poor sanitary conditions, and the accompanying diseases, are among the greatest causes of morbidity and mortality in the developing nations.”
The prototype of the Soviet Mikoyan MiG-31 “Foxhound” jet fighter was given its first test flight, with Aleksandr Fedotov at the controls. The real MiG-31 shared its name with the fictional MiG-31 “Firefox” featured in the 1982 Clint Eastwood film Firefox and the 1977 Craig Thomas novel Firefox, upon which the film was based.
The Soviet Union began missile tests yesterday in the Barents Sea, an area strategically important to both the Russians and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Western intelligence analysts consider the tests militarily and politically significant. The tests, the analysts said, will demonstrate the extent and effectiveness of Soviet defenses of their huge naval‐air complex around Murmansk, and, in Soviet eyes at least, will warn foreign powers of the dangers of espionage in peace and attack in war. Beyond this military demonstration lies the possible political pressure the tests will exert on Norway. The Soviet Union is about to negotiate with Norway over national boundaries on the continental shelf in the Barents Sea south of Spitzbergen. Soviet propaganda has frequently criticized the existence of NATO electronic installations in Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost province, which lies across the Barents Sea from Spitzbergen.
The U.S. Defense Department has significantly increased its estimates of civilian casualities that would result from a “selective” Soviet nuclear strike against military bases in the United States. The Pentagon now estimates that 3.5 million to 22 million people would be killed in a Soviet attack against the bases of intercontinental ballistic missiles in the United States. Last September, in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on arms control, Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger had estimated that fatalities in such a Soviet attack would range from 800,000 to three million people. Mr. Schlesinger made the earlier estimate in defending his “flexible response” strategy, which calls for a force able to attack Soviet military installations as well as the Soviet urban‐industrial complex with missiles and bombers.
Dieter Goersdorf, 38, a petty officer in the West German naval reserve, was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison as an East German spy. The judge in the city of Celle said Goersdorf joined East German intelligence in 1966, then entered West Germany from Canada on a forged passport. There was no evidence he had passed on any information.
Both Prime Minister Trygve Bratteli’s Labor Party and the opposition Conservatives gained from the results of two-day local elections throughout Norway. The Conservatives polled more than 20% of the vote, their biggest election success in 40 years, and the Labor Party, despite losing control of several municipalities, including Oslo, increased its share of the vote from the 1973 general election.
Attempts to form a sixth government in Portugal in less than a year and a half bogged down when centrist Popular Democrats refused to enter a new cabinet on an equal footing with the Communists. Political sources said the Communists demanded two portfolios, the same number as had been planned for the Popular Democrats, but this was rejected by the party’s secretary general, Emidio Guerreiro. He pointed out that his party had won more votes than the Communists in last April’s elections.
Sharpshooters on rooftops and armed police guarded the Old Bailey courthouse in London for the opening of the trial of three Irishmen and a London girl accused of bombing three crowded pubs last year. Seven persons were killed and 84 others seriously injured in the bomb attacks on the London-area pubs in the terrorist campaign to sever Northern Ireland from Britain. Patrick Armstrong, 24, Gerald Conlon, 20, Paul Hill. 20, and Carole Richardson, 17, are accused of a total of 11 charges.
American administrators of the Rhodes Scholarships plan to make women eligible next year following completion of action in the House of Commons to end sex discrimination in an educational trust. The Rhodes trustees in Great Britain have announced they will move promptly to eliminate the all-male requirement.
The leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher, found a long-lost Londoner while visiting New York’s City Hall and decided to take him under her wing. “I understand you were born in London,” Mrs. Thatcher said to Mayor Abraham D. Beame. The mayor confirmed his birthplace and, noting that she was to meet President Ford Thursday during her U.S. tour, asked, “Maybe you could put in a good word.” Mrs. Thatcher agreed. “You’re one of my constituents. I’d better take care of you,” she assured him.
Four Palestinian guerrillas flew to Algiers today with their hostages from the Egyptian Embassy in Madrid whom they had taken yesterday when they forced their way into the embassy and threatened to blow it up unless Egypt scrapped her disengagement agreement with Israel. The hostages include the Egyptian Ambassador.
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt said in a televised speech in Cairo that his government would not bow to any terrorist demands that it change its foreign policy. He said, however, that he had agreed to a request that the guerrillas be allowed to fly to Algeria with the hostages.
President Ford said the United States would supply Israel with “very substantial military weaponry” in the aftermath of the Sinai agreement, but insisted that American diplomatic, political and defense assurances did not constitute a security treaty with Israel. He said the private assurances to supply advanced equipment were not firm commitments and that a shopping list still had to be discussed with Israel.
Four Palestinians who seized the Egyptian embassy in Madrid yesterday and flew to Algiers with their hostages after Cairo rejected their demands to scrap the Sinai agreement were turned over today to the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization here.
About 2 million fish, including caviar-bearing sturgeon, have been killed by pollution in the Caspian Sea caused by a Japanese-Iranian appliance factory, Iran reported. An official statement said the managing director of the Pars-Toshiba plant was jailed and charged with releasing poisonous wastes into streams feeding the Caspian.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek, widow of the former leader of Nationalist China, said she would leave Taipei today for the United States for medical treatment. Mme. Chiang, who is in her late 70s, said she had not been in good health for two years, but the nature of her illness was not disclosed.
Premier Takeo Miki outlined before Parliament today a program to pull Japan out of recession through vast Government spending on public works, aid for medium and small businesses and plans to lower the bank rate.
Most of the 1,200 persons displaced from Diego Garcia Island in the Indian Ocean to make way for a U.S. naval base are living “well below the poverty line” in Port Louis, Mauritius, Roman Catholic Church officials reported. They said 60% of the families live on less than $33 a month, including welfare assistance.
Dissident Korean poet Kim Chi Ha’s life sentence has been reinstated in order to keep him in prison pending trial on new charges of violating South Korea’s anti-Communist laws. Kim had been freed in February, but was jailed again March 17 in connection with an article he contributed to a newspaper accusing the government of fabricating charges against political prisoners. He was to have been released again this week. If convicted of the new charge, Kim, 34, could be executed.
Papua New Guinea gained its independence from Australia.
More than 3,600 workers will go on strike Friday against eight pulp and paper mills in Ontario and Quebec, according to L. H. Lorrain, president of the Canadian Paperworkers Union. They will join 16,500 fellow unionists already on strike against paper manufacturers in those provinces and British Columbia and Saskatchewan in hopes of scoring a breakthrough in stalled contract talks.
Olga Talamante, 25, of Gilroy, California, was sentenced to three years in prison by a judge in Azul, Argentina, for being involved with a leftist guerrilla group, the official news agency said. A U.S. Embassy official said that Miss Talamante, who went to Argentina in 1973 as a student, might be freed and expelled since she has already been in jail for 10 months.
President Ford said that unless the House Select Committee on Intelligence adopts procedures to safeguard sensitive materials he would defy its subpoena to turn over classified documents on the Vietnam War. A White House official said Mr. Ford hoped to reach a compromise, but the committee chairman, Otis Pike, Democrat of Suffolk, New York, said after the President’s news conference that he would oppose a compromise on either the right of Congress to declassify material classified by the executive branch or the right of Congress to subpoena and obtain Presidential documents. The subpoena requires the President to turn the documents over to the committee by 10 AM tomorrow. If the President does not obey, Representative Pike told a reporter, “the only thing we can do is to go into court, and it will be my recommendation that we do.” Thus the stage apparently was set for the most serious constitutional confrontation between the legislative and executive branches since the Watergate scandal, when President Nixon refused to turn over, documents and tapes subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee and the House Judiciary Committee.
CIA Director William E. Colby admitted to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee that the CIA had ignored a 1970 presidential order to destroy a cache of deadly poisons and lethal weapons, and the materials were still in storage. The Central Intelligence Agency for 18 years developed biochemical weapons, poisons and devices such as dart guns to administer them. Its director, William Colby, told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that after the project was halted by presidential order in February. 1970, the C.I.A. stockpiled two poisons, from cobra venom and shellfish. A retired C.I.A. chemist, Dr. Nathan Gordon, told the committee he assumed the order was directed at the military, not the C.I.A., and kept them without notifying his chiefs.
The Congressional Budget Office said that the economic recovery, which now looks very strong, is likely to slow appreciably by the middle of next year leaving 7 to 7.5 million Americans unemployed at the end of 1976. It warned that failure of Congress to restore oil price controls could “abort” the recovery. The office was created this year to give Congress a better framework for deciding on spending and tax policies.
Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama, who built his political reputation on domestic issues, lashed out today at United States foreign policy, which he said had left the nation “without a single friend who has any military power of significance.”
Top officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, probably including the late director, J. Edgar Hoover, ordered the destruction of a letter in which Lee Harvey Oswald conveyed violent threats before he assassinated President Kennedy. A source familiar with the meeting said that the decision was reached on the weekend after Mr. Kennedy’s death.
John A. Durkin won a second election against Louis C. Wyman for one of New Hampshire’s two U.S. Senate seats, filling a vacancy that had existed since January when neither candidate was seated after the November 5, 1974 election, which Durkin had won by only 10 votes. Durkin, a 39-year-old Democratic moderate, defeated Wyman, a Republican, by a decisive margin in the New Hampshire special Senate election. Mr. Durkin increased the strong urban majority he had won in the deadlocked election last November, and held his previous strength in rural areas. The voter turnout exceeded last year’s.
A diamond cutter accused of passing classified information to the Soviet Union pleaded guilty in federal court in New York City to charges he conspired with others to commit espionage. Sarkis O. Paskalian, 36, was ordered held on $100,000 bail pending sentencing. He faces a maximum life prison term. Paskalian was arrested June 27 along with Sahag Dedeyan, a Rockville, Maryland, mathematician who allegedly supplied the documents detailing NATO military capabilities. The two men, distant cousins, were born in Beirut, Lebanon. Dedeyan had top secret clearance to work on defense data at Johns Hopkins University.
Dwight L. Chapin, appointments secretary to former President Richard M. Nixon and the man who hired Donald H. Segretti to play “dirty tricks” on 1972 Democratic presidential aspirants, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn his 10-to-30 month sentence for lying to a grand jury. Chapin claimed the questions asked of him were ambiguous. The Supreme Court thus far has refused to review any of the convictions of former White House officials under Mr. Nixon.
Federal District Judge W. Arthur Garrity scolded Boston school officials today for what he called slipshod busing practices that resulted in an opening week “horror show” for some students bused to class under his desegregation plan.
More than 50 firemen and a “significant” number of policemen called in sick for day shifts in Tucson to protest Mayor Lewis C. Murphy’s refusal to meet privately with wage negotiators. Murphy says he wants a public meeting. Assistant Fire Chief Matt Garry said his department was operating at half strength after half of 110 men failed to report for duty. Police said no exact count had been taken of the 50-man force but that a “significant number” had reported they were sick. The Police and Fire Association wants to discuss a 30% wage increase, an amount that city officials call unreasonable.
The 400 Kentucky national guardsmen remaining on duty in Louisville and surrounding Jefferson County were sent home, a guard spokesman said. They were all who were left from the 1,000 called in September 6 after antibusing disturbances at several locations in the county. About 200 drivers out of the 577 being used requested guards Tuesday, the spokesman said, and after the afternoon runs were completed, the guardsmen were sent home. After dark, however, at least seven persons were arrested when small crowds gathered to renew protests and were dispersed by police.
A $1.1 million suit has been filed against Ford Motor Co. by a former executive who claims job pressures and being fired without cause in 1971 made him an alcoholic. It was the second time in less than three months that a former top level employee has sued the company over job-related alcoholism. Michael W. Newell, formerly a vice president and general manager of Ford’s Philco Corp., filed the latest suit. Newell, 55, said he was suing for breach of contract, since he had expected to be employed by the firm until retirement.
Elimination of school suspensions for all but the most serious offenses was called for by the Children’s Defense Fund. The private, foundation-financed organization issued a report in Washington showing that black students were suspended twice as frequently as whites, most often for truancy and tardiness.
A sobbing Glenn W. Turner, a sharecropper’s son who parlayed his gift of gab into a business empire he later lost, was fined $5,000 in a Tampa, Florida, court, ending what he called a seven-year battle with the federal government. Turner and three former associates pleaded no contest to federal misdemeanor charges of violating Securities and Exchange Commission regulations. Each was fined $5,000, the maximum. U.S. District Judge Terrell Hodges dropped felony charges that the four used the mails to defraud an estimated 80,000 persons in an illegal pyramid scheme to sell distributorships in Turner’s Koscot Cosmetics Co.
Yosemite National Park was visited by 546,000 persons during August, a 16% increase over the same month in 1974, the National Park Service reported. With more than 2 million having seen the park by the end of this year’s Labor Day weekend, the service said the total probably will be more than 2.5 million for 1975.
Removal or destruction of coral — living or dead — from a 150-mile portion of the Florida Keys was prohibited by the U.S. Department of Interior. The order, effective immediately, bans souvenir hunters and commercial collectors from removing coral in the Florida Keys area. The decision also protects portions of several Hawaiian islands. The keys shelter the only living reefs in the continental United States.
“She has taste and energy and a broad background in the fine arts.” And, added Viking Press Publisher Thomas H. Guinzburg, “She has a lot of not-quite-ordinary contacts.” With that announcement, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis joined the firm as a consulting editor. The 46-year-old widow of President John F. Kennedy and Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis will have an office in the firm’s Madison Ave. headquarters. But her duties seem vague. Guinzburg, who described Mrs. Onassis as “an old friend of mine. I’ve known her since college,” said, “We hope she’ll spend a lot of time in the office.” He declined to say how much she would earn or to specify what projects she might consult on. Mrs. Onassis worked for the Washington Times Herald before her marriage to the late President and she contributed a piece to the New Yorker magazine last spring.
U.S. Patent No. 3,906,166 was granted to Martin Cooper and others on his team at Motorola, for the first hand-held cell phone, after it had been applied for on October 17, 1973. Cooper’s team worked at reducing the original 28 pound Motorola portable device to the first hand-held mobile phone, the DynaTAC, which weighed less than three pounds, and made the world’s first cell phone call on April 3, 1973.
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Rico Petrocelli and Carlton Fisk smashed homers in support of Luis Tiant, who outdueled Jim Palmer and pitched the Red Sox to a 2–0 victory, boosting their lead to 5½ games over the Orioles in the East Division race. Petrocelli rapped his round-tripper in the third inning and Fisk followed with an insurance drive in the fourth. Tiant gave up only five hits and did not allow any Oriole runner to advance past second base.
Two homers by Bobby Mitchell and one by Darrell Porter powered the Brewers past the Yankees, 5–2, and enabled Jerry Augustine to gain a victory in the lefthander’s first major league start. Mitchell homered with two men on base in the first inning. Then in the sixth, Mitchell and Porter hit for the circuit in succession.
Boog Powell, Oscar Gamble and George Hendrick hit homers to account for six of the Indians’ runs in a 9–2 victory over the Tigers. Powell started the slugging with a solo shot in the second inning. Gamble connected following a walk to Rico Carty in the fifth and Hendrick slammed his homer with two men on base in the sixth.
After pitching seven shutout innings in his debut with the Angels, Sid Monge was the victim of two homers and lost to the Twins, 4–3. The Angels staked their rookie lefthander from Salt Lake City (Pacific Coast) to a 3–0 lead before Steve Brye homered in the eighth inning for the Twins’ first run. Then in the ninth, Craig Kusick batted for Jerry Terrell with two men on base and homered to beat Monge.
A homer by Deron Johnson with two men on base climaxed a six-run explosion in the fifth inning and enabled the White Sox to defeat the Royals, 6–5. Singles by Nyls Nyman, Mike Squires, Bucky Dent, Pat Kelly and Jerry Hairston produced the first three runs before Johnson whacked his round-tripper with two out. The defeat dropped the Royals eight games behind the Athletics in the West Division race.
Following an eight-run outburst that produced an 11–5 victory in the first game, the Athletics also defeated the Rangers in the second game, 6–4, to sweep a twi-night doubleheader. The Rangers held a 4–2 lead in the lidlifter before the A’s rose up against Gaylord Perry in the eighth inning. After Bill North and Claudell Washington led off with singles, Sal Bando smashed a homer. Billy Williams also hit for the circuit to kayo Perry. The A’s then added their four other runs off Steve Foucault before the inning ended. Toby Harrah batted in four of the Rangers’ runs with a homer and single. The A’s began the nightcap with a two-run homer by Reggie Jackson. A walk and doubles by Roy Fosse and North added a pair in the second before the A’s wound up their scoring with two more runs in the third on singles by Williams, Gene Tenace and Phil Garner together with a sacrifice fly by Fosse.
The most one-sided shutout in modern major league history saw the Pirates crush the Cubs, 22–0, in a game which Rennie Stennett set one modern record and tied another. Stennett collected four singles, two doubles and a triple to become the only player with seven hits in a nine-inning game since Wilbert Robertson accomplished the feat with the old Baltimore Orioles June 10, 1892. The record for most hits in an overtime contest is nine by Johnny Burnett of the Indians in 18 innings July 10, 1932. Stennett also became the fourth player with two hits in one inning twice in one game. The second baseman singled and doubled in the first inning during a nine-run outburst by the Pirates and then singled and doubled again in the fifth when the Pirates went on a six-run spree. The Pirates’ 22–0 margin was three runs better than the previous modern National League record and one run more than the modern major league mark of 21–0 set by the Tigers against the Indians September 15, 1901, and equaled by the Yankees against the old Philadelphia Athletics August 13, 1939. John Candelaria pockets the easy win, while Rick Reuschel is the loser. His brother Paul, along with Tom Dettore, Oscar Zamora, and Buddy Schultz also pitch for Chicago.
Collared in seven trips, Mike Vail was stopped on his 23-game hitting streak, but the Mets were able to defeat the Expos, 4–3, in 18 innings on a pass with the bases loaded. With one out, Roy Staiger singled and stopped at second on a hit by Mike Phillips. Don DeMola then walked Jerry Grote to load the bases and passed Del Unser, forcing in Staiger, to end the four-hour, 29-minute contest.
After starting with three runs in the first inning, the Phillies did not score again until the 13th when Mike Anderson hit a sacrifice fly to beat the Cardinals, 4–3. As result of their victory, the Phillies remained six games behind the Pirates in the East Division while the Cardinals fell eight games off the pace. In the first, Dave Cash doubled and beat the throw to third on a bunt by Larry Bowa, who was safe at first on the fielder’s choice. Cash scored on a single by Jay Johnstone and Bowa crossed the plate on an infield out by Greg Luzinski. Johnstone took third on a passed ball by Ted Simmons and scored on a wild pitch by Bob Forsch. The Cards, who had a homer by Bake McBride, caught up and tied the score in the sixth. The game then went scoreless until the 13th when Luzinski drew a walk and stopped at second on a single by Dick Allen. Alan Bannister ran for Luzinski and, after a pass to Mike Schmidt loaded the bases, Anderson hit his sacrifice fly for the winning run.
The battery of Larry Dierker pitching and Milt May catching brought the Astros a 5–1 victory over the Reds. Dierker allowed only five hits, while May batted in three runs with a grounder in the first inning and singles in the fifth and seventh.
Successive singles by Bobby Murcer, Gary Matthews and Willie Montanez for a run in the ninth inning gave the Giants a 7–6 victory over the Braves. John D’Acquisto, making his second relief appearance since undergoing an operation for bone chips in his elbow, pitched the top of the ninth as the Giants’ fourth hurler in the game and received credit for the victory.
Davey Lopes stole his 72nd and 73rd bases, setting up a run with each theft, and Jim Wynn accounted for two RBIs with a homer and single to lead the Dodgers to a 5–2 victory over the Padres. Gene Locklear and Willie McCovey homered for the Padres’ markers.
Baltimore Orioles 0, Boston Red Sox 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 22, Chicago Cubs 0
Houston Astros 5, Cincinnati Reds 1
Cleveland Indians 9, Detroit Tigers 2
Chicago White Sox 6, Kansas City Royals 5
San Diego Padres 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
New York Yankees 2, Milwaukee Brewers 5
California Angels 3, Minnesota Twins 4
Montreal Expos 3, New York Mets 4
Atlanta Braves 6, San Francisco Giants 7
Philadelphia Phillies 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Oakland Athletics 11, Texas Rangers 5
Oakland Athletics 6, Texas Rangers 4
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Todd Weiner, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks, Atlanta Falcons), in Coral Springs, Florida.
Kip Harkrider, American baseball infielder (Olympic bronze medal, 1996), in Carthage, Texas.
Denique Graves, WNBA center (Sacramento Monarchs), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Shannon Noll, Australian singer; in Orange, New South Wales, Australia.
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