The Soviet Union, apparently stung by criticism from the West, has mounted an increasingly active campaign denouncing those who have questioned its sincerity in carrying out the humanitarian provisions of the European security declaration signed at Helsinki. The counteroffensive has developed several themes in the last month. The Soviet people are being assured that the socialist countries have been more scrupulous than the capitalist ones in respecting the Helsinki agreement. The official Soviet press has also labeled Western critics as enemies of détente who intentionally distort the significance of the Helsinki declaration signed two months ago by emphasizing only its human rights aspects. Meanwhile, Soviet citizens have been warned in articles about the perils inherent in increased East‐West contacts, including tourism And cultural exchanges, as provided for in the Helsinki accord. The foreign affairs weekly Za Rubezhom in its current issue has even implied that American information operations like the Voice of America, the glossy Amerika magazine and traveling official exhibits will work harder as a result of the Helsinki accord to undermine Soviet values.
Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona) said the Soviet Union has the United States “absolutely infiltrated,” including every major industry, every major business and the committees of Congress. Goldwater, speaking in an interview on public television, said he would ask Senate intelligence investigators to look into charges that the Russians had infiltrated “seven or nine” Senate offices. He said information to that effect had been deleted from the Rockefeller commission’s report on the CIA. He added that Russian “spying in this country is so fantastically larger than what we do, that there’s no way to talk about it.”
A quiet and tense drama between Norway and the Soviet Union is unfolding over each nation’s sovereignty in a remote Arctic area. The drama, closely watched by the United States, is being enacted against a backdrop of potentially vast oil deposits and a major Soviet military buildup over the past decade near the Norwegian border. At stake, Norwegian officials say, is a portion of the Barents Sea with strategic, economic and political importance. Beyond this, Western diplomats fear that the dispute marks an effort by the Soviet Union to flex its muscles near Spitsbergen, a Norwegian group of islands on which the Soviet Union has a coal‐mining concession.
After eight years of construction and the spending of 5.7 billion dollars, the Safeguard Program, anti-ballistic missile complex for the United States, became fully operational in Cavalier County, North Dakota with two radar complexes and 32 silos. The U.S. House of Representatives voted the next day to shut down the program, in large part because the radar system was a vulnerable target that would be ineffective during a nuclear war; the site was closed after four months.
Gunmen shot and killed three policemen in various parts of Madrid in apparent revenge for Saturday’s execution of five terrorists, a few hours before a rally in which well over 100,000 persons cheered Generalissimo Francisco Franco and protested the international outcry over the executions. The government said the crowd numbered a million. From the balcony of the royal palace, the chief of state attributed the protests to a “leftist Masonic conspiracy” within the leadership class in conjunction with “Communist terrorist subversions.”
Aroused by the execution of five Spanish terrorists last weekend, the European Communities Commission called on the nine-nation Common Market today to suspend its talks with Spain on the liberalization of trade. The foreign ministers of the nine countries are to discuss the proposal at a meeting next Monday in Luxembourg. Officials of the commission, the consolidated executive agency of the European Communities, say they are confident that their proposal will be accepted since most of the member governments have issued strong protests in Spain and seven have recalled their ambassadors.
Reports circulated through Lisbon last night that leftist military units were distributing arms to civilians. Western diplomats said that they had received unconfirmed reports that members of the Lisbon light‐artillery regiment were handing out weapons around the capital. There were some reports also of military movements. As the reports circulated, the Socialist party, a partner in the coalition Cabinet, first warned that the extreme left was about to stage a coup and attack the Premier, Vice Admiral José Pinheiro de Azevedo. But later, Vitor Cunha Rego, a party spokesman, said that “someone got overexcited” in issuing the warning. The party’s political secretariat was called into session after midnight to discuss the situation. Meanwhile, Lisbon appeared calm. No soldiers or military vehicles could be seen in the city.
Premier Aldo Moro formally announced today that the Governments of Italy and Yugoslavia had agreed to end a 30-year-old territorial dispute involving the port city of Trieste and its area.
A drug scandal hit Rome with the discovery of one dead girl and another critically injured, both naked and stuffed in the trunk of a car in an exclusive section of the city. Police found the body of Rosario Lopez, 19, wrapped in a plastic bag and red blanket. Her skull was smashed. Bleeding but still alive was Donatella Colasanti, 17. Police arrested two youths and held two others for questioning. The attacks apparently occurred at a drug party at a secluded villa, police said.
A judge of Britain’s High Court, in a decision that could alter the relationships between the press and government, rejected a government plea to stop publication of a volume of diaries by a former cabinet minister, the late Richard Crossman. The outcome limits the government restriction of the press and opens the way for more detailed coverage of cabinet meetings and government affairs. The Sunday Times of London had been barred from further printing of extracts after several installments had appeared. The government said an appeal would be considered.
French prostitutes have presented a plan to the government offering to pay taxes and calling for regular medical checkups, the freedom to work without police interference and the right to bring up their children. The demands were presented to Appeals Court Judge Guy Pinot, appointed by the government to study the problems of France’s estimated 30,000 prostitutes. In June prostitutes occupied churches in six major cities. to protest police harassment and the increasing frequency of fines.
The governor of Beirut lifted a 12night, dusk-to-dawn curfew on commercial districts of the Lebanese capital despite some heavy predawn fighting on the city’s outskirts. Premier Rashid Karami said after a cabinet meeting that new security measures have been adopted to restore order in the city, torn by clashes between left and right-wing factions, Muslims and Christians, which have cost at least 325 lives in Beirut and Tripoli.
Morocco and Mauritania reached a secret agreement to invade the Western Sahara and divide the territory between them, after Spain announced that it would hold a referendum in the Saharan colony.
One of India’s best‐known editors sat at his desk the other day, despondently riffling through a manuscript just back from the government censor’s office. The manuscript, a controversial article dealing with civil liberties, had heavy black lines through nearly half the paragraphs. What remained was not only pro‐government, but nearly incomprehensible as well. “Of course we can’t use it this way,” the editor said with a shrug. “So we’ll just throw It away and forget about it, and next time we get an article like this one, we won’t even try to print it.” The comment reflected the basic change that has come to India’s newsrooms in the three months since the government, facing what it called threats of internal disorder, imposed strict censorship as part of a sweeping state of emergency.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese celebrated the 26th anniversary of the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China today at festivals throughout the nation. In Peking, six of the city’s squares were transformed into amusement parks that attracted hundreds of thousands. The city was decked out in thousands of red flags.
Emperor Hirohito, who symbolizes the unity and continuity of the Japanese nation, today had a look around Colonial Williamsburg, a reconstruction of part of America’s past. Visitors and residents here also had a chance to look at the Emperor and Empress. This morning, they left their hotel suite and rode in a carriage down Duke of Gloucester Street to the House of Burgesses, a reproduction of the red brick Capitol of colonial Virginia, destroyed by fire in 1797. The Emperor, who arrived from Japan yesterday, is pausing here before proceeding to Washington and a visit with President Ford tomorrow, the next leg of his 15‐day goodwill trip to the United States.
The Gilbert and Ellice Islands, a British protectorate in the South Pacific Ocean, were divided in anticipation of independence. The Gilbert Islands would become the nation of Kiribati, while the Ellice Islands would become Tuvalu.
A blast at a Canadian Industries Ltd. (CIL) explosives factory killed eight employees at McMasterville, Quebec, near Montreal.
A Montreal bank robber and a 6-year-old boy were killed and two other children were injured in a shootout with police after a highspeed getaway attempt by the bandit in a seized school bus. Police said the unidentified bandit died in the shootout after he robbed a branch of the Canadian National Bank and fled in the bus. The two children were hurt when a police cruiser rammed the bus to stop it. The boy died of a gunshot wound but police said they were unable to determine immediately whether he was killed by the gunman or police.
A Brazilian riverboat sank on a tributary of the Amazon River, killing more than 60 religious pilgrims, mostly women and children, the Jornal do Brasil news agency reported. The communique said 10 bodies were pulled from the Solimoes River where the riverboat Freire II sank. The rescue operations were conducted by amphibious planes dispatched by the air force, the agency said. The launch carries 120 persons. No foreigners were believed aboard.
The Ethiopian labor confederation appeared to have failed in its attempt to launch a general strike aimed at overthrowing the military government and establishing a radical civilian “people’s government.” Hundreds of workers returned to their jobs after a stern warning and the declaration of a state of emergency in the Addis Ababa area by the military government. Several police or army trucks loaded with what appeared to be striking workers were seen passing through the streets and there were other reports of arrests.
Ugandan President Idi Amin addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York, and criticized Zionism for its influence in the United States and the actions by the State of Israel for its occupation of territory that it had captured during the Six-Day War. Amin, in a visit to the United Nations today, appealed to the American people “to rid their society of the Zionists.” In a long message to the General Assembly, delivered in President Amin’s presence by his chief delegate to the United Nations, Khalid Younis Kinene, he asserted that the United States had been “colonized by the Zionists.” The Uganda President also called for expulsion of Israel from the United Nations and for the “extinction of Israel as a state.” Earlier in his message, President Amin paid tribute to the American Revolution as an inspiration to the third world. He also expressed gratitude to President Ford and Congress for their “changed attitude” toward developing countries, as evidenced in the recent Special Session of the General Assembly on Development and International Economic Cooperation.
President Ford strongly suggested that he might recommend extending individual income tax cuts next year if Congress would agree to hold federal spending within a specific limit. He said this formula was but one possibility under study. His remarks came in a taped interview while traveling from Chicago to Omaha.
The House of Representatives decided overwhelmingly today to continue to keep the budget of the Central Intelligence Agency secret from the public. By a vote of 267 to 147, the House rejected an amendment to a $112‐billion military appropriation bill that would have permitted the total expenditures of the intelligence agency to be published for the first time. The House also defeated an attempt to delete from the bill money for the development of the controversial F‐18 fighter aircraft. Final passage of the over‐all measure was put off until tomorrow. The bill would reduce the Ford Administration’s request for military programs in the fiscal year that began July 1 by 7.6‐billion. However, more than $2‐billion of that reduction involves requested money for the Indochina War and for shipbuilding contracts that have been deferred since the budget was sent to Congress.
A federal prosecutor in San Francisco said that Patricia Hearst, the kidnapping victim who allegedly turned radical, is under investigation for a charge of murder. Asked if such a charge is possible, he said if there was evidence, yes, if not, no. This appeared to validate reports that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have found evidence somehow linking Miss Hearst to the bank robbery in a suburb of Sacramento in which a woman customer was killed with a single shotgun blast.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted to increase the taxes of most Americans working abroad, but postponed action for six months on tax-boosting proposals involving foreign income of multinational corporations. Starting next year, if the changes become law, the Treasury would ultimately gather $150 million annually from Americans overseas. For the second consecutive day, while the panel considered and deferred the multinational taxation subject — a victory for the companies — there was a standing room only audience of about 200 persons. Committee aides said virtually every major law firm in Washington was represented.
The House Select Committee investigating the federal intelligence agencies agreed today to abide by President Ford’s insistence that it not unilaterally make public secret materials or testimony given to it by the executive branch. The committee’s decision, after nearly three weeks of deliberation, came on a vote of 10 to 3 to accept some 50 pages of classified documents offered to the panel last night by William E. Colby, Director of Central Intelligence, who was under a committee subpoena to produce the material. Those documents, taken into custody last night by Representative Otis G. Pike, the committee chairman, were the first classified materials the panel had received in response to its subpoenas since last September 12, when Mr. Ford acted to halt its further access to any secret information.
Illinois Governor Daniel Walker announced at a news conference in Chicago that he would seek reelection to a second term next year and challenged any candidate loyal to Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley to a primary fight next March. Democrat Walker, who has become Democrat Daley’s bitterest enemy since becoming governor in 1972, also declared he would support anti-Daley delegates to next year’s Democratic National Convention.
Al Jackson Jr., a producer for Stax Records and a drummer for Booker T and the MGs on the 1961 million-selling single “Green Onions,” was shot to death at his home in Memphis. His wife, her hands tied behind her, was found screaming on the sidewalk outside. Jackson, 39, had recently returned to work after being shot in the chest by his wife, Barbara. A charge of assault against her was later dismissed. Police said she was not a suspect. Police said Jackson had been shot five times. They quoted Mrs. Jackson as saying she returned home to find a man ransacking the house and was tied up. She said when Jackson came home the man shot him.
Two federal prison inmates who held hostages at gunpoint for 10 ½ hours released their prisoners and Federal Youth Center at Lakewood, were arrested. Authorities at the Colorado, said the pair seized two guards, an inmate and an inmate’s mother and demanded their freedom. One guard escaped and the two inmates, identified as Henry M. Cassidy, 20, and Alfred S. Rollins, 19, apparently surrendered without incident.
The Environmental Protection Agency said the occupants of hundreds of buildings in Polk County, Florida, may have been exposed to cancer hazards from radiation. The EPA said a preliminary study shows elevated levels of radioactive elements in buildings constructed on reclaimed phosphate mining lands in the county. A precise assessment of health risks will require further study, the agency said in a letter to Flarida Governor Rueben Askew.
A moratorium on mining in Death Valley would eliminate $15 million in annual mining production and increase U.S. reliance on borate imports from Turkey, the U.S. Interior Department has reported to Congress. Borate mines in Death Valley account for 80% of the domestic production of Colemanite, a borate mineral used to manufacture fiberglass and exported in substantial amounts to other countries, an Interior official told a congressional committee. The department had been asked to report to the panel on the possible economic impact of closing mines in the Death Valley Monument and banning future open-pit and strip mining in the national park system.
Thomas R. Lippert, a 25-year-old former college professor, pleaded guilty today in Federal court to two counts of conspiracy in connection with a kidnapping and attempted kidnapping of Indiana coeds.
Two convicted sex offenders who asked to be castrated rather than put behind bars have been sent to prison in California for indefinite terms because they could not find a surgeon willing to perform the operations.
The Washington Post, the nation’s seventh-largest newspaper, was forced to cease publication temporarily today by what company officials called an antimanagement outburst of vandalism in its pressroom by striking members of a pressmen’s union. All of The Post’s 72 printing units were said to have been sabotaged.
In the “Thrilla in Manila”, Muhammad Ali stops Joe Frazier in 14 rounds in Quezon City, the Philippines to retain his WBC/WBA heavyweight title. Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier III, billed as the Thrilla in Manila, was the third and final professional boxing match between undisputed champion Muhammad Ali, and former champion Joe Frazier, for the heavyweight championship of the world. The bout was conceded after fourteen rounds on October 1, 1975, at the Araneta Coliseum in Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines, located in Rizal at the time of the event (later Metro Manila shortly after the event). The venue was temporarily renamed the “Philippine Coliseum” for this match. Ali won by corner retirement (RTD) after Frazier’s chief second, Eddie Futch, asked the referee to stop the fight after the 14th round. The contest’s name is derived from Ali’s rhyming boast that the fight would be “a killa and a thrilla and a chilla, when I get that gorilla in Manila.”
The bout is almost universally regarded as one of the best and most brutal fights in boxing history, and was the culmination of a three-bout rivalry between the two fighters that Ali won, 2–1. Some sources estimate the fight was watched by 1 billion viewers, including 100 million viewers watching the fight on closed-circuit theatre television, and 500,000 pay-per-view buys on HBO home cable television.
Larry MacPhail, a major innovator and impresario of baseball, died in Miami at the age of 85. He brought night games to the major leagues 40 years ago, pioneered in publicity stunts to promote baseball during the Depression and helped revive the Yankees after World War II.
Major League Baseball:
Montreal fires manager Gene Mauch. Karl Kuehl is named to succeed him.
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Born:
Eric Morel, Puerto Rican boxer, (WBA flyweight champion 2000-03), in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Brandon Knight, MLB pitcher (New York Yankees, New York Mets), in Oxnard, California.
Dale Rominski, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning), in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Chulpan Khamatova, Russian actress known for “Good Bye, Lenin!”, in Kazan, Soviet Union.
Died:
Larry MacPhail, 85, American Baseball Hall of Fame executive (Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees).
Al Jackson, Jr., 39, American drummer who was a founder of Booker T. & the M.G.’s, died after being shot during a burglary of his home in Memphis.
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