A Ford Administration official said to day that between 85 and 90 percent of the work had been completed for a new accord with the Soviet Union to limit strategic weapons, but that important differences still held up an agreement. He made that assessment after President Ford had spent two-and-a-half hours with Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko last night discussing a wide range of questions, but centering on the unresolved questions about the arms talks. This is a crucial issue because unless an agreement is virtually insured the projected visit here by the end of the year of Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet Communist party leader, would have to be delayed. Secretary of State Kissinger who was present at the White House meeting yesterday, met with Mr. Gromyko at the State Department late this afternoon and was host for a working dinner tonight. They will meet again on Sunday night at a dinner given by Mr. Gromyko in New York at the Soviet United Nations mission.
Secretary of State Kissinger said today that the United States had begun to explore with the Soviet Union longterm purchases of Soviet oil. Speaking before the House-Senate Joint Economic Subcommittee on Energy, he raised the possibility of exchanges that would give the Russians technology that would increase their oil production, but he gave no details. The talks so far, while preliminary, have been encouraging, he said, but there might be no results for two months. On the subject of oil a committee member, Senator William Proxmire, Democrat of Wisconsin, expressed concern that Washington’s undertaking to help Israel maintain her oil supplies might harm the American economy. Mr. Kissinger said that Israel needed 140,000 barrels a day but in an emergency could conserve, draw upon strategic stocks and get by with imports of 100,000 barrals a day.
A new Portuguese coalition cabinet, strongly opposed to Communist rule, was sworn in tonight. The 15-member cabinet, led by Vice Adm. Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo, a leftist navy career officer, as Premier, includes one Communist, the Public Works Minister. Prominent roles have been given to the Socialist and Popular Democratic parties, which had fought for almost five months to make the triumph they scored in elections last April the basis of political power. The Government, the sixth since the military coup of April, 1974, comprises five military officers, four Socialists, two Popular Democrats, one Communist and three civilians described as independents, two of whom are close to the Socialist party. Besides the premiership, military men were named to the Foreign Affairs, Education, Labor and Interior Ministries.
After a political crisis and a threat of civil war. Portugal has announced the formation of a government that reflects the results of last April’s elections. for a constituent assembly, with two essentially social democratic; groups, the Socialist and Popular Democratic parties, dominating the Communists. The Western world praised those elections — the first free ones in Portugal in 50 years — and the government headed by General Vasco Gonsalves, which had carried them out in such an efficient way. But those who had praised the elections watched and worried as months went by without any correlation between the voting and the exercise of political power. For General Gonçalves, the Communists and Communist-allied forces, the elections were a mistake. The armed forces, committed to them from the beginning and unable to cancel them, sought, under the Premier’s influence, to neutralize their effect.
The police said today that two Basque nationalist guerrillas were killed and at least 18 persons arrested in raids that led to gun battles in Madrid and Barcelona yesterday. Among those captured, the police said, was Jose Ignacio Mugica Arregui, 30 years old, said to be a key man in the Basque separatist organization E.T.A. and wanted in connection with the assassination of Premier Luis Carrero Blanco in 1973. One battle yesterday in Barcelona, Spain’s industrial capital, lasted 45 minutes. One guerrilla was killed there and the other, in Madrid, killed him self, the police said.
Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger has reportedly taken the position that Israel would “have to stand in line” with American forces for the new weapons she wants from the United States. According to high‐ranking military and civilian officials in the Pentagon, Mr. Schlesinger has said in recent days that weapons for Israel should not be taken out of existing inventories but that Israel would have to wait until new arms are produced and then compete for them with the priority claims of American forces. Mr. Schlesinger was said to have outlined his position during a three‐hour meeting yesterday with the Israeli Defense Minister, Shimon Peres, to discuss future arms deliveries to Israel. Mr. Peres was reported to have raised no objections.
Jordan informed the United States privately that King Hussein dropped his apparent objections and agreed to accept all conditions imposed by President Ford on the development and use of 14 batteries of Hawk antiaircraft missiles that were to be sold to Jordan. A State Department spokesman said that as the result of intensive diplomatic talks between Washington and Amman “misunderstandings” had been “cleared up” and that the transaction — a $260-million contract for the delivery of 532 missiles — would proceed as planned.
Yesterday, on instructions from King Hussein, Premier Zaid al‐Rifai issued a statements that said the conditions attached to the pending sale of the Hawks were “insulting to national dignity” and that Jordan as a result “would regretfully decline to sign” the $260‐ million contract for the delivery of 532 missiles. The Jordanian statement evoked surprise at the State Department, where officials said King Hussein had approved the substance of Mr. Ford’s assurances to Congress that the Hawks would be nonmobile, permanently emplaced, and non‐transferrable without American permission. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, who had negotiated the King’s earlier approval of the assurances, was ordered to seek clarification and to discuss Mr. Ford’s letter with both King Hussein and Premier Rifai.
A group of Arab countries has pledged about $25 million to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to make up for the funds the United States has been withholding because of UNESCO’s anti-Israeli actions. Sources close to the organization said today that there was virtually no doubt that the Arab nations, including Saudi Arabia, Libya, Algeria, Iraq, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait, would provide the money pledged. In effect, the money would tide UNESCO over the fiscal crisis caused when the United States, by Congressional action, decided to withhold about $22.5‐million in funds scheduled for the organization late in 1974 and this year. The American action came after the international body condemned Israel last November for allegedly endangering Moslem monuments with excavations in Jerusalem. The organization’s general conference also voted to cut off organization funds for Israeli projects. The sources close to UNESCO also said that a Syrian, Dr. Abdul‐Razzak Kaddoura, has been nominated to head the organization’s science sector. This relatively high post carries the title of assistant director general.
The Indian Supreme Court, delivering at least a temporary setback to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, today postponed a decision on her appeal against her conviction in June of violating election laws. After hearing arguments for four weeks, the court declined to overturn her conviction of two campaign improprieties, and began a more comprehensive review of the case. Mrs. Gandhi’s lawyers had maintained that her conviction was nullified by a constitutional amendment that the Government hurriedly enacted Ilast month, to end the Prime Minister’s entanglement With the courts. But the five‐judge Supreme Court panel declined today to rule one way or the other on the controversial amendment, and decided instead to proceed to the merits of the original case, which dates from the 1971 parliamentary elections.
The Angkar Loeu (“Center”), consisting of the leadership of the Communist revolutionary government of Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia), abolished the use of money, because “it creates individual and private ownership”. In the same decree, formal schooling was abandoned indefinitely although people would be permitted to “educate themselves”.
Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor.
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos dismissed 2,000 government and military officials as “traitors” to his New Society program, and warned that the purges “had only just begun”. Several department heads were dismissed on charges of corruption. “It is time to cut off the affected parts before they affecti the body politic,” Mr. Marcos said at ceremonies marking the third anniversary of the imposition of martial law, September 21, 1972. He said he would punish persons found guilty of corruption in any sector of society and would not stop at “friends and even family members.” Meanwhile the Defense Department filed charges against, the Rev. Edicio de la Torre, a Roman Catholic priest, and 17 other persons on charges or conspiracy to commit rebellion.
Portugal will withdraw her troops from Angola by November 11, the date scheduled for independence, according to the Portuguese High Commissioner. Admiral Leonel Cardoso, the Commissioner, said in Luanda last night that after that date, only technical troops would remain — those Angola would want to stay on to help build up and train Angolan forces. Admiral Cardoso said that the planned pull‐out reflected the confidence that Portugal had in the Angolans. Under the terms of the original independence agreement signed in January, the 24,000 Portuguese troops were to leave in phases between November and February of next year. Since then the territory has been wracked by factional fighting among rival independence movements.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian D. Smith said today that he sees the possibility of this white-ruled nation someday having a black prime minister and a multiracial cabinet. He said eventual sharing of power with blacks in Rhodesia, where a minority of 274,000 whites currently control the black majority of 5.7 million, is “absolutely logical and it’s common sense — not only do I say that we must envisage this and accept this, I have no hesitation in telling you, that it is my desire to bring this about.” But Mr. Smith, in an interview, in his office in downtown Salisbury, would not be drawn out as to when Rhodesia might have a multiracial government. “I think it is important to bring the African in, to encourage him to play a bigger part,” he said. “This is common sense — logical.”
At a time when South Africa seeks to improve her image abroad, the Terrorism Act is being used as the basis for the arrest of a string of political dissidents. In the last month security policemen have rounded up a noted poet, several blacks, white student leaders, clergy and university lecturers. Nine blacks are on trial for their lives in Pretoria under the act, charged with subversion and advocating the violent overthrow of the government. The detentions have provoked a storm of protest from the anti‐government press, church leaders, universities and some student groups. Even some of the pro‐government Afrikaans‐language newspapers have voiced uneasiness. The government stoutly defends the eight‐year‐old law in the name of national security. Some here note a tendency to tighten security as South Africa takes tentative steps seemingly aimed at partly dismantling some racially discriminatory laws.
A Federal District Court Judge in San Francisco withheld the right of bail for Patricia Hearst because he questioned whether she might not run away. Judge Oliver Carter said he would again hear evidence on Tuesday and warned that his decision would be based on the question of whether Miss Hearst should be admitted to bail at all, not the question of how high it should be. He said “the question is whether she should be at large. This is not a simple proposition in which you can use words to gloss over what has been done.”
President Ford, on the road once again this time in oil and grain-rich Oklahoma said today he was giving “priority attention” to a long-term grain arrangement with the Soviet Union and warned that “the United States is headed for deep trouble” because of Congressional inaction on energy. On the first lap of his four‐day trip, Mr. Ford also attempted to mend some political fences in Oklahoma, where local Republican party officials say former Gov. Ronald Reagan of California commands more support today than Mr. Ford. The President spoke at a Republican fund‐raising dinner here, the only overtly political activity he scheduled for his journey. Earlier in a speech at the Oklahoma State Fair, the President said that unpredictable Soviet grain purchases in recent years had “disrupted” markets here and abroad.
The Labor Department said the Consumer Price Index rose by two-tenths of 1 percent in August, the smallest increase in three years, A White House spokesman warned, however, that the slight rise was probably an aberration,” and that “the underlying rate of inflation was a good deal higher.” Economists in and outside the government agreed with this.
A panel of Air Force officers in Hampton, Virginia, rejected Sgt. Leonard Matlovich’s challenge to military regulations that ban homosexuals and recommended that he be discharged. Sergeant Matlovich, 32 years old, was awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in Vietnam. He made his homosexuality known in a letter to a superior officer.
President Ford’s Clemency Board was stacked with antiwar liberals who distorted the intent of the program, urged prison inmates to apply and voted clemency in cases involving civilian felony convictions, including rape and murder, four board members say. In a minority report submitted to the White House, the four board members said the chairman, Charles E. Goodell, and his staff appeared to have “misinterpreted, circumvented and violated at least the spirit” of the Presidential order establishing the amnesty program for Vietnam war resisters. The report said that the chairman and his staff had apparently sought to increase the number of applicants, liberalize the structure of the board and “set a liberal precedent relative to executive pardons closely associated with felonious crimes.”
New York Senator James L. Buckley and 11 other challengers of the new federal campaign financing laws told the Supreme Court today that the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia had “wholly failed” to examine the impact of the new laws and instead “uncritically deferred” to Congress when it upheld nearly all of the new legislation last August. The challengers, including former Senator Eugene J. McCarthy and the New York Civil Liberties Union, made their accusation in legal papers filed this afternoon. The papers ask the court to declare the key provisions of the new laws unconstitutional. Their challenge is expected to be one of the major cases before the Court this year. Although the Court theoretically could refuse to hear the appeal, declining to accept jurisdiction, it is considered certain to take it.
Sources familiar with the secret legal proceeding said that an attempt by former President Richard Nixon to resign from the state bar has been rejected by a New York court because he has not admitted wrongdoing in connection with the Watergate scandal. They said that Mr. Nixon, who has stated that he does not intend to practice law again, would not be permitted to resign from the bar unless he acknowledges at least some responsibility for Watergate crimes.
Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, who had spent 12 years in a Florida prison for someone else’s crime, were released with an executive pardon and given $100 each by the state, which twice convicted them of murder and kept them on death row for more than 3,000 days and nights while refusing to prosecute the man who had confessed. Their case is regarded by many people as the most blatant miscarriage of justice in Florida’s history.
The White House announced the resignation of Ray Garrett Jr., the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and of William Casey, a former chairman of the S.E.C. who is now the head of the Export-Import Bank. It appeared to be only a coincidence that both announcements were made on the same day.
The Environmental Protection Agency said today that it had begun an investigation to determine the extent of a possible new cancer threat in both the air and water. The study was prompted by a report from two researchers who confirmed the presence of the cancer‐causing agents in the air of two American cities and who projected its possible presence in drinking water supplies as well. The substances involved are nitrosamines — compounds formed by the combination of amines and nitrates — originating with a variety of pollutants from automobile exhaust to industrial smoke. In the water they may be formed by runoff from fertilizer or pesticides.
An antiwar activist, Cameron David Bishop, who was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 10 Most Wanted List for six years before his arrest in March, was convicted in Federal District Court today of three counts of sabotage in the 1969 bombing of transmission towers, hut acquitted on a count of bombing a fourth tower. One of a few people in United States history charged with sabotage in peacetime, Mr. Bishop was accused of bombing utility lines that supplied power to a Colorado defense plant. Mr. Bishop, 32 years old, said he would appeal the verdict. His wife, who had suffered apparent epileptic seizures during the trial, wept when the verdict was read. Mr. Bishop faces maximum prison sentences of 30 years and fines of up to $10,000 on each conviction. He is also accused of state charges of illegal possession of firearms and conspiracy to rob an armored car in Rhode Island and a state charge in Colorado of burglary stemming from the 1968 occupation of a building at Colorado State University.
The wreck of an early Bronze Age ship, believed to be the oldest shipwreck ever found, was discovered off the island of Hydra in Greece by a team of archeology researchers led by Peter Throckmorton, an American. The ship carried a cargo of pottery dishes and cooking ware that put its date at about 2,500 B.C.
“Fawlty Towers” starring John Cleese, Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs premieres on BBC2 in the UK.
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The Reds rested Ken Griffey, their regular right fielder, and in his place Terry Crowley and Merv Rettenmund came through with key hits in a 7–6 victory over the Braves. In the fifth inning, Dave Concepcion homered to break a 1–1 tie and spark a five-run outburst. After Concepcion’s blow, the Reds loaded the bases and Crowley cleared the sacks with a double. Crowley also scored on an error by Max Leon. Rettenmund, coming into the game as a pinch-hitter for Crowley in the seventh, rapped a double and scored what proved to be the winning run on a single by Bill Plummer. Dusty Baker hit a two-run homer for the Braves.
Mike Jorgensen rapped four hits including a homer, and drove in four runs to lead the Expos’ attack in a 9–6 victory over the Cubs. Pete Mackanin and Tim Foli also hit for the circuit. Foli’s homer was his first since September 23, 1973. Rick Monday and Andre Thornton each had two RBIs for the Cubs, who lost a 5–4 lead when the Expos counted twice in the seventh inning on a bases-loaded single by Jerry White and sacrifice fly by Mackanin. Jorgensen then provided the winning margin, hitting a three-run homer in the eighth.
Dick Allen, who tied the score with a double in the sixth inning, smashed a homer in the eighth to give the Phillies a 4–3 victory over the Mets. Larry Christenson, Phillies’ starting pitcher, hit a two-run homer off Tom Seaver in the second, but the Mets picked up a run in the third and went ahead in the fourth when Rusty Staub walked and Ed Kranepool hit for the circuit. The Mets kept the lead until the sixth when Jay Johnstone singled, moved up on a wild pitch and scored on Allen’s double. Skip Lockwood, who relieved Seaver, was the victim of Allen’s homer in the eighth, while Tug McGraw (9–5), who pitched three hitless innings in relief for the Phillies, picked up the victory. Dave Cash became the first player in the majors with 200 hits this season with two singles to bring his total to 201.
The Pirates eliminated the third-place Cardinals from the Eastern Division race with a 7–1 victory and also knocked out the fourth-place Mets, leaving the Phillies as the only remaining contenders. The Phils were six games behind. Ken Brett, coming out of the Pirates’ bullpen, made his first start since September 20 and was a winner over the Cardinals with the assistance of Ramon Hernandez, who hurled the last two innings. Willie Stargell was jarred in a collision with Dave Parker chasing a fly ball in the fourth. Ed Kirkpatrick, taking Stargell’s place in the lineup, hit a three-run homer in the fifth to clinch the victory.
The Astros, after coming from behind to tie the score in four different innings, broke away with a run in the 12th to defeat the Dodgers, 6–5. The Astros knotted the count at 2–2 in the fifth, 3–3 in the sixth and 4–4 in the eighth when Cliff Johnson hit a homer. The Dodgers went ahead again in the 11th with a walk to Lee Lacy, a wild pitch and single by Dave Sells, but Cesar Cedeno homered in the Astros’ half to keep the game going. Then, with two out in the 12th, Milt May walked and scored the winning run on singles by Wilbur Howard and Ken Boswell.
Gary Matthews hit a three-run homer in the first inning and that was all Mike Caldwell (7–12) needed to pitch the Giants to a 3–1 victory over the Padres in his first start since July 20. Derrel Thomas was safe on an error by Hector Torres and Bobby Murcer walked before Matthews hit his round-tripper off Randy Jones (19–11).
The Red Sox, after failing to hold a 4–0 lead, came back with a two-run single by Rico Petrocelli in the fifth inning to defeat the Tigers, 7–5. In the first, the Red Sox kayoed Ray Bare before the Tigers’ starter could retire a batter and scored four runs on a walk and five hits. The Tigers retaliated with three runs in their half and tied the score when Ben Oglivie homered in the third. However in the fifth, Jim Rice and Carlton Fisk singled and, after one out, Petrocelli drove them home with his hit.
A walk with the bases loaded capped a two-run rally in the ninth inning and enabled the Orioles to defeat the Brewers, 6–5. The Orioles, who had homers by Mark Belanger and Don Baylor to overcome the Brewers’ early lead and tie the score at 4–4, fell behind again when Mike Hegan hit for the circuit in the eighth. In the ninth, doubles by Tony Muser and Elrod Hendricks knotted the count. After an intentional pass to Al Bumbry, Ken Singleton was safe on an error by Robin Yount to load the bases. Royle Stillman then coaxed a pass from Tom Murphy to force in the winning run.
Fritz Peterson (14–7) was able to gain his 10th straight victory when the Indians jumped on Catfish Hunter (22–14) for three runs in the fifth inning to defeat the Yankees, 3–2. Rico Carty and Buddy Bell singled, Alan Ashby doubled and Frank Duffy singled in the Indians’ outburst. Peterson gave up two homers by Bobby Bonds before leaving the game in favor of Tom Buskey in the seventh. Dave LaRoche relieved in the ninth and retired the last two batters for his 16th save.
Although piling up 19 hits, the Rangers needed great relief work by Stan Thomas to subdue the White Sox, 10–6. Lenny Randle, Mike Hargrove and Roy Howell each had three hits in the Rangers’ attack, which also included a homer by Tom Grieve. Hargrove drove in three runs. The White Sox knocked out Steve Hargan in the seventh inning, but Thomas relieved with the bases loaded and put down the rally, striking out Nyls Nyman and Chet Lemon and retiring Mike Squires on a fly.
Battling to stay alive in the Western Division race, the Royals defeated the Athletics, 5–4, to move within seven games of the pace-setters. The A’s, whose magic number remained at three, took a 4–3 lead on a homer by Joe Rudi in the seventh inning, but the Royals came back to win with two in their half. George Brett led off with a single and John Mayberry walked, Tony Solaita sacrificed and Al Cowens then singled, driving in the tying and winning tallies. Steve Busby (18–12) was the winning pitcher.
Joe Pactwa, lefthander from Tampico (Mexican), gained his first major league victory when the Angels defeated the Twins, 1–0. Mickey Rivers singled off loser Bert Blyleven (14–9) in the fourth inning, stole second and scored the game’s only run on a single by Dan Briggs. Pactwa, formerly an outfielder-pitcher in the Yankees’ organization, was removed after walking Dave McKay in the eighth inning and Jim Brewer came in to save the rookie’s decision.
Cincinnati Reds 7, Atlanta Braves 6
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Baltimore Orioles 6
Minnesota Twins 0, California Angels 1
Texas Rangers 10, Chicago White Sox 6
New York Yankees 2, Cleveland Indians 3
Boston Red Sox 7, Detroit Tigers 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Houston Astros 6
Oakland Athletics 4, Kansas City Royals 5
Chicago Cubs 6, Montreal Expos 9
Philadelphia Phillies 4, New York Mets 3
St. Louis Cardinals 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 7
San Diego Padres 1, San Francisco Giants 3
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 829.79 (+15.18, +1.86%)
Born:
Javier Valentín, Puerto Rican MLB catcher, pinch hitter, and first baseman (Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Cincinnati Reds), in Manati, Puerto Rico.
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