The outlook for the Cyprus problem seems gloomier than ever following the breakdown of the fourth round of peace talks in New York last week. Diplomatic analysts here now feel that the current deadlock between Greek and Turkish Cypriots is likely to continue. Accordingly, the results of that stalemate would also persist: corroding tensions between Greece and Turkey, deepening divisions between the two Cypriot communities, hardship and discontent among 180,000 Greek Cypriot refugees and thousands of displaced Turkish Cypriots. Some analysts believe that the Turkish Cypriots, who make up 18 per cent of the population and control 40 percent of the territory, may soon declare an independent state. Such a declaration would have little practical effect, but it would symbolize the bitterness and mistrust that pervade Cyprus. Independent analysts say that both the Greek and Turkish sides share responsibility for the deadlock. Both are gripped by paralyzing inertia. Many of their leaders seem to prefer the status quo to the risks of concession and compromise.
A bill to relax the United States arms embargo against Turkey was approved today by a House committee after President Ford had warned that a continued ban could jeopardize American security interests in the eastern Mediterranean beyond repair. It was not immediately known, when the full House of Representatives would act on the bill, which was sent to the floor by the International Relations Committee today by a vote of 20 to 9. The Senate passed the bill July 31. A week before, the House had voted 233 to 206 to retain the embargo that was imposed February 5 because Turkey used American‐supplied weapons in the invasion of Cyprus.
Talks to head off a strike that would halt most British steel production ended in a deadlock with union leaders accusing the British Steel Corp. of deliberately plunging the country into disruption. The accusations followed the state-owned corporation’s refusal to increase a pay offer to blast furnace workers who are to operate the country’s newest and largest furnace at Llanwern in South Wales.
A military tribunal hearing the cases of five leftist Spanish militants accused of murdering a civil guard officer in Madrid retired to consider a verdict that could mean death for the defendants. Defense lawyers were ordered out of the court shortly after the proceedings opened for persistently interrupting the reading of the prosecution case. They were replaced by army officers.
The Italian Government has called on the country’s restive unions to show restraint in negotiations for new three‐year contracts. In making the plea, Premier Aldo Moro dangled a small carrot before the Communist party, now the second largest in Italy behind the dominant Christian Democrats. In effect, Mr. Moro said that if the Communists use their influence on the unions to help keep social peace, his government would try to take their views into account. He did not offer any formal arrangements for consultation with the Communists, but he did talk of “some way” of associating them with the government.
A French government spokesman said that France had gained permission for the Concorde supersonic airliner to land in the United States, but shortly after the announcement was issued, he retracted it. In Washington, the Department of Transportation denied any landing permission had been granted. They said no decision had been made on whether to grant Concorde’s request for six flights a day to New York and Washington, pending the outcome of an environmental impact study.
Israel’s Defense Minister, Shimon Peres, asked the United States to supply his country with battlefield support missiles. He told the National Press Club in Washington that his government was ready to guarantee that they would be armed only with non-nuclear warheads. He said the Lance missile, with a 60-mile range, and the Pershing, with a 450-mile range, were needed to offset missiles supplied by the Soviet Union to the Arabs. “Nobody is talking about nuclear warheads,” Mr. Peres said, seeking to rebut reports that Israel wanted the missiles, which have a nuclear capacity, to threaten Arab cities. He said the missiles were needed to deter the Arabs from using their missiles, which also have a nuclear capacity, but are reportedly armed only with conventional warheads.
A correspondent visiting the Mitla Pass in Israeli-occupied Egypt found the road nearly deserted. The few military installations that could be seen showed no traces of preparation for withdrawal, and military personnel were not even visible. The area is one that Israel is due to give up under her new disengagement accord with Egypt.
Sporadic clashes between Muslim leftists and right-wing Christian militiamen claimed more victims in Beirut. The Lebanese government again threatened to call in the army to end the fighting between rival political factions. At least seven persons were killed and 20 more wounded, bringing to more than 400 the casualty toll in more than two weeks of fighting in Beirut and in and around Tripoli in northern Lebanon. In the night, partisans of right‐wing and left‐wing militias set up roadblocks in neighborhoods they controlled. Automatic weapons fire and rocket explosions soon followed, engulfing much of the city in violence. Roads leading both north and south from the city were blocked, and a series of fires raged in the downtown Bourj section. After a two‐hour Cabinet meeting at the presidential palace Justice Minister Adel Osseiran told reporters that Premier Rashid Karami would in the next two days attempt to pull together the warring factions that have paralyzed life in the city. But left‐wing groups rejected the idea of a reconciliation council. Kamal Jumblat, leader of the Progressive Socialist party and standard‐bearer of the Lebanese left, said the notion was a “tribal initiative,” of the right-wing Phalangist Party.
A top Guam legislator accused the United States of “a string of broken promises” and angrily demanded that it call off any plans it has to ship “unstable” Vietnamese refugees to that Western Pacific island. “The people of Guam have been extremely patient in the refugee situation despite a string of broken promises by federal officials from Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger on down,” said Sen. Joseph Ada, speaker of the Guam legislature.
Newfoundland’s Conservative Party was returned to power, but its majority was cut from 24 seats to nine. Premier Frank Moores’ forces won 30 of the legislature’s 51 seats, the Liberals 16, up from nine, the new Liberal Reform Party four, and the Independent Liberal Party one. Reelected after a four-year absence was Joey Smallwood, former Liberal premier who organized the new Liberal Reform Party.
Brazilian security forces have arrested at least 30 persons, including several city councilors of the opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement in Parana state in the last few days, opposition politicians said. Justice Minister Armando Falcao said the arrests were in connection with investigations into the illegal Brazilian Communist Party.
Rolando Silioni, the Argentine Defense Ministry’s intelligence chief, was killed by a gunman screaming, “We’ve come to liquidate you!” as he shopped in a suburban Buenos Aires grocery store. Police said the killer escaped in a car occupied by three other persons. Newspapers said they received communiques from a People’s Revolutionary Army commando claiming responsibility for the assassination.
A confidential memorandum to Secretary of State Kissinger from Webster Todd, inspector general of foreign assistance, said the Agency for International Development in its present form “cannot succeed in its mission” of administering aid abroad. The July 10 memorandum, made available to The New York Times, said the programs were “universally strangled in bureaucratic red tape.” Mr. Todd had just visited Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and Somalia.
President Ford temporarily has abandoned formal televised news conferences while awaiting a Federal Communications Commission ruling on the equal-time provision of broadcast regulations, a White House spokesman said. The FCC was scheduled to vote today but it was postponed until next Wednesday so that FCC Chairman Richard E. Wiley could testify on other matters before a Senate committee. CBS has asked the commission to exempt presidential news conferences from the equaltime rule. Mr. Ford has not held a live televised session with reporters at the White House since June 25, two weeks before he announced his candidacy.
A further big upsurge of federal government spending in prospect for the next fiscal year has become a complicating element in the decision facing President Ford on whether to recommend extension of the “temporary” 1975 tax reduction that expires December 31. High Administration officials said today that a budget deficit of $50‐billion or even $60‐billion was “easily” possible for the fiscal year 1977 if the tax cuts were extended and indicated that the President would receive at least some advice opposing extension. The President reiterated at his news conference yesterday that he had not yet made up his mind on the issue. Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon said in an, interview that the outlook for the deficit was “extremely troubling.” He cited the rise in interest rates that is already, under way, in part because of the huge deficit in the current year’s budget and the Treasury’s borrowing to finance it.
New York City’s fiscal crisis will become a major issue in the 1976 presidential campaign, in the opinion of several Democratic presidential candidates and potential candidates interviewed in Washington. They saw it as the focus of a contest between what they considered President Ford’s traditional, laissez-faire, middle-American Republicanism and the Democratic view that was city-oriented, favoring more liberal spending and greater federal intervention.
The Senate in a strong gesture against school busing, voted 50 to 43 to block the Department of Health, Education and Welfare from forcing schools to bus students or to assign students or teachers on the basis of race. The language, however, does not bar the court from ordering busing or pupil assignment. The antibusing amendment was sponsored by Senator Joe Biden Jr. (D-Del.) and was locked into the $36 billion HEW money bill with the help of a big bloc of Northern senators. Civil rights supporters were quick to point out that the amendment won’t stop most school busing orders because it is the courts, rather than HEW, that are issuing virtually all of those orders. Nothing in the amendment interferes with court-ordered plans.
Representative Otis Pike, chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, refused a last-minute White House proffer of subpoenaed classified materials, saying that they were incomplete, pre-screened and delivered on the condition that they not be made public. He said that the committee supported his action, but had decided not to go to court right away to seek enforcement of its subpoenas, because that would delay its investigation. The committee adopted a procedure, which some called conciliatory, to give the White House a day’s notice before releasing classified information so the White House could have a chance to urge that it be kept secret.
Senator Richard Schweiker of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said the Public Health Service had been deeply involved in producing the shellfish poison stored by the Central Intelligence Agency despite a presidential order to the contrary. The Pennsylvania Republican called this a perversion of the health service’s role. A spokesman of the agency confirmed that it had provided the raw toxin to the Army, which is believed to have done the final laboratory work to make it a weapon.
About 4,000 University of Texas students packed the school’s main mall in Austin for a rally and vowed to boycott classes until Lorene Rogers resigned as president. The students cheered a motion demanding Mrs. Rogers’ resignation and urging all 43,000 students either to boycott classes or to discuss problems of academic freedom in the classrooms. The general faculty voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to demand her resignation. She was appointed president Friday by a 5-3 vote of the regents, who rejected recommendations of a student-faculty advisory committee.
Bruce Nurock, a fugitive travel agent, surrendered to the FBI in Camden, New Jersey, and admitted receiving $1.5 million in negotiable bonds stolen from two New York banks. Federal officials say they have recovered all of the bonds but can not yet account for $960,000 Nurock was said to have made selling them to others or by pledging them for loans. Nurock, 42, was indicted last year on charges of receiving the bonds after they disappeared in 1973. He was free on $100,000 bail pending trial when he disappeared two months ago.
An inmate described as having a psychiatric record stabbed four guards and clubbed a fifth at the Attica, New York, prison where 43 men were killed in a 1971 convict revolt. The guards were taken to hospitals, where one was reported in critical condition. The prisoner, Thomas Gray, 30, of New York City, was overpowered with the help of other inmates. He was serving a term for first-degree robbery and had been a patient in Bellevue and Matteawan state hospitals.
White flight from the classrooms will force the federal judge who ordered desegregation of Boston’s public schools into a major overhaul of his plan, predicted John J. McDonough, chairman of the Boston school committee. He cited attendance figures for the first eight days of a plan calling for the busing of 25,905 pupils, claiming that 95 schools now are racially unbalanced, compared to 65 such schools before desegregation.
A Miami gas station attendant became the first known victim of a taser. William Lawson, 27, had been approached by a woman who fired the wire-connected darts, striking him with 50,000 volts of electricity, after which she and a male accomplice cleaned out the cash register. Eight of the “Taser Public Defender” guns had been stolen from an office in Miami Shores, Florida. Lawson told reporters later that being “tazed” “was like sticking your finger in a wall socket”, adding “I’d rather it had been somebody else.”
A ban on the use of cyanide poison to kill coyotes was lifted by the federal government. The action was termed a major defeat for environmentalists. Under the new rule, private stockmen and state or federal officials may set out spring-powered M44 guns loaded with sodium cyanide in areas where the wild animals have killed or might kill sheep, cattle or other livestock. Environmental Protection Agency chief Russell Train said he issued the new rule “because of substantial new evidence on the safety and selectivity of the M44 and restrictions surrounding its use,” including discovery of an antidote to sodium cyanide poisoning.
In a legal maneuver designed to halt the federal government’s roundup of wild horses in central Nevada, the American Horse Protection Association asked a federal judge in Las Vegas to issue a temporary injunction that would remain in effect pending the outcome of an environmental impact study. Attorneys for the federal Bureau of Land Management complained that the study could take up to two years to complete and defended the roundup, claiming curtailment of the drive would result in “starvation of horses, wildlife and cattle and destruction of the range.” The judge took the association’s request under advisement.
Stephen Holcomb Jr., a resident of Traverse City, Michigan walked into a branch of the National Bank and Trust Company with a German Reichbank note for 100,000 marks and presented it for conversion to U.S. dollars. The note had been minted in 1923 during the use of the papiermark currency in the Weimar Republic during a period of hyperinflation and was worth less than one cent American, but the teller used the 1976 exchange rate for the Deutsche Mark and presented Holcomb with $39,700 in cash. Holcomb was not charged with a crime because he hadn’t specifically requested the exchange at 1976 rates, but was sued by the bank later after having gone on a spending spree that left the bank still having failed to recover $18,177 of the money that it had given him.
Dannion Brinkley was struck by lightning in Aiken, South Carolina, while talking on the phone during a thunderstorm. He would later write about his near-death experience in a best-selling book, “Saved by the Light,” reporting his glimpse of the afterlife during an extended period of clinical death.
House and Senate conferees killed today a controversial project to build a $1.2-billion nuclear-powered cruiser for the Navy as they reached agreement on a new military procurement bill.
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The Orioles kept their East Division title hopes alive by posting a 5–2 victory to move back within 4½ games of the pace-setting Red Sox. An error and a single by Fred Lynn produced a Red Sox run in the first inning, but Tommy Davis tied the score with a homer in the third. The Orioles went ahead in the fourth with a single by Don Baylor, a stolen base, wild throw by Carlton Fisk and single by Elrod Hendricks. Three runs for the winning margin followed in the fifth. Paul Blair, Davis and Lee May hit consecutive singles for the first tally. After a walk to Ken Singleton, Davis scored when Baylor grounded into a forceout at second base. Baylor then stole second and when Fisk made his second wild throw of the game, May crossed the plate on the error. Lynn hit his 45th double of the season in the seventh, tying an American League rookie record, and scored the Red Sox’ second run on a single by Fisk. Mike Torrez (19–8) gets the win.
The Yankees broke a tight game apart with four runs in the 11th inning and then staved off a counter-rally to defeat the Brewers, 6–5. An error by Robin Yount enabled the Yankees to score twice in the ninth to knot the count at 2–2 and force the game into overtime. In the 11th, two walks and a double by Sandy Alomar broke the tie. After another walk, Thurman Munson batted in two runs with a single and Graig Nettles hit a sacrifice fly to add what proved to be the deciding tally. The Brewers came back with three runs in their half, but the rally ended when Hank Aaron grounded into a double play with the bases loaded.
The Tigers snapped their five-game losing streak when Joe Coleman (10–17) pitched his first shutout of the season and beat the Indians, 4–0. Willie Horton accounted for his 90th RBI with a run-scoring double in the third inning. Billy Baldwin hit a homer in the seventh.
Staked to two runs in the fifth inning, Dave Goltz (14–13) pitched the Twins to a 2–1 victory over the Royals. Singles by Jerry Terrell and Lyman Bostock, around a sacrifice, produced the Twins’ first run. After Steve Braun also singled, Rod Carew hit a sacrifice fly to plate the deciding marker. The Royals scored their run in the seventh on a triple by Al Cowens and infield out by Jamie Quirk.
The White Sox took advantage of three errors to score two unearned runs and defeat the Athletics, 3–2. The White Sox, who were held to five hits by Ken Holtzman, counted twice in the fourth inning, starting with a run on singles by Jorge Orta, Deron Johnson and Bill Melton. Tommy Harper then fumbled a grounder by Bob Coluccio, allowing Johnson to reach third, and Nyls Nyman followed with a sacrifice fly. In the seventh, a single by Coluccio, another error by Harper and a walk loaded the bases and a run scored when Sal Bando fumbled a grounder by Bucky Dent. Wilbur Wood (15–19) limited the A’s to three hits, but was lifted after Claudell Washington singled in the ninth. Dave Hamilton relieved and gave up a two-run homer by Gene Tenace before retiring the side.
Making his first start for the Rangers since his recall from Pittsfield (Eastern), David Clyde beat himself with an error in a 3–2 loss to the Angels. The young lefthander allowed only three hits and had a 2–0 lead going into the eighth inning when trouble started with a pass to Andy Etchebarren and single by John Balaz. When Jerry Remy bunted for a safe hit, Clyde overthrew first base, allowing two runs to score. Remy advanced to third on the error and counted the winning run on a single by Mickey Rivers.
The Reds won in Riverfront Stadium for the 61st time this season, rolling over the Astros, 10–1, to tie the N. L. record for most home victories held by the 1962 Giants. The Reds began their attack with a two-run homer by Tony Perez in the first inning and then salted away their decision with six runs in the sixth, three scoring on a bases-loaded double by Joe Morgan.
Gary Carter knocked in four runs with a homer and single to lead the Expos to a 6–3 victory over the Cardinals, who were knocked out of the East Division race for all practical purposes, falling nine games behind the Pirates. Dan Warthen (8–6), who pitched the first complete-game victory of his major league career, gave up two runs in the first inning on a walk, single and error. Carter tied the score with a two-run homer in the second and then knocked in two more with a single in the third when the Expos added their other tallies at the expense of Lynn McGlothen (15–12).
Following his 7-for-7 performance in the previous day’s rout of the Cubs, Rennie Stennett rapped three singles and set a modern major league record of 10 hits in two consecutive games as the Pirates defeated the Phillies, 9–1. With the victory, the Pirates opened a gap of seven games in the East Division over the runner-up Phillies. Stennett broke the previous record of nine hits in two straight games by many players since 1900. Richie Zisk collected four singles among the Pirates’ 15 hits and batted in three runs. Dave Parker also accounted for three RBIs with a single and double. Tommy Hutton homered for the Phillies’ run off Bruce Kison (11–11) in the second inning.
Winning his fifth straight start and seventh in his last eight, Ray Burris (15–10) allowed only five hits and pitched the Cubs to a 5–2 victory over the Mets. Don Kessinger led Cubs at bat with three hits. After opening with a single and scoring in the first inning, Kessinger batted in two runs with a single in the second and plated another with a safe squeeze bunt in the seventh. Rusty Staub homered for the Mets for his 98th RBI of the season, breaking Donn Clendenon’s former club record set in 1970.
A triple by Von Joshua with the bases loaded and two out in the eighth inning carried the Giants to a 4–1 victory over the Braves behind the four-hit pitching of Jim Barr (13–13). A double by Willie Montanez and single by Bruce Miller netted the Giants their initial run in the second. Marty Perez tied the score with a homer in the sixth. In the eighth, Montanez and Steve Ontiveros singled. Miller forced Ontiveros, but Johnnie LeMaster beat out an infield hit to load the bases. Barr then grounded into a forceout at the plate before Joshua hit his triple.
Although giving up only five hits, Andy Messersmith (18–14) walked nine batters before being lifted in the eighth inning, but easily gained his 18th victory when the Dodgers defeated the Padres, 7–1. Ron Cey had three hits plus a sacrifice fly, and drove in four runs. Steve Garvey also collected three hits.
Baltimore Orioles 5, Boston Red Sox 2
Oakland Athletics 2, Chicago White Sox 3
Houston Astros 1, Cincinnati Reds 10
Cleveland Indians 0, Detroit Tigers 4
San Diego Padres 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 7
New York Yankees 6, Milwaukee Brewers 5
Kansas City Royals 1, Minnesota Twins 2
Chicago Cubs 5, New York Mets 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 9, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Atlanta Braves 1, San Francisco Giants 4
Montreal Expos 6, St. Louis Cardinals 3
California Angels 3, Texas Rangers 2
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