The United Kingdom and Iceland came to an agreement on North Atlantic Ocean fishing rights that ended the Cod War. While not completely banning British fishing within 200 miles (320 km) of Iceland’s coast, the territorial waters claimed by Iceland, the agreement did reduce the numbers of fishing trawlers in a day to 24 and barred fishing entirely within 30 miles (48 km) of Iceland. The UK did not agree to Iceland’s demand to reduce the total amount of cod to no more than 35,000-tons a year.
The economic conference proposed by President Ford has drawn favorable reaction from the first of the invited nations. Japan and West Germany said they would attend. Britain was reported to be favorably considering the meeting, which Administration sources have said would be held in Puerto Rico on June 28. There has been no word from Italy and France, the other two nations that took part in a similar conference in Rambouillet, France. The nations agreed to consider meeting from time to time. There also has been no word from Canada, which was invited to attend this time.
The Communist Party in Moscow announced plans today for the further development of specialized agricultural — industrial complexes designed to cut costs and increase food production. In the wake of agricultural failures, the plans, which took the form of a resolution of thel party’s Central Committee, envision further move away from collective farms toward a more highly concentrated and industrialized agricultural system.
Danger to personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow from radiation being beamed at the building has lessened, but the situation still is “unresolved,” according to a report to Foreign Service officers. The report was made by the American Foreign Service Assn., bargaining agent for Foreign Service officers in their dealings with State Department management. The radiation is believed to be in retaliation for harassment of the Soviet mission to the United Nations in New York City.
Italian border police stopped neofascist Parliament member Sandro Saccucci, 32 — under investigation in the fatal shooting of a Communist heckler at an election rally — from crossing the border into Switzerland. The Chamber of Deputies, dissolved a month ago in preparation for June 20 national elections in which Communists may score big gains, was called to return to session next week to consider lifting Saccucci’s parliamentary immunity and authorizing prosecution and arrest.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Treasury Secretary William Simon expressed annoyance at the “last-minute” rejection of the proposed international resources bank by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. In a joint statement, they said the 33-31 vote at the Nairobi meeting did not augur well for the future of the dialogue of the worldwide development effort.
European Socialists, bogged down in quarrels stemming from the issue of whether to cooperate with Communists, have again postponed their long‐delayed international congress scheduled for this summer. The announcement, made quietly last Saturday by the Socialist International, meeting in London, said merely that the congress scheduled for Geneva in late July was put off for “organizational and political; reasons” and would probably, be held some time in November. Meanwhile, a new public dispute has broken out between French Socialists and West German Social Democrats indirectly involving the Communist issue, Nearly all West German parties were furious when Francois Mitterrand, leader of the French Socialist Party, announced formation of a French Socialist committee “for the defense of civic and professional rights” in West Germany.
Two time bombs exploded in the U.S. Army’s V Corps headquarters area in Frankfurt, West Germany, injuring 15 Americans and a German civilian. Injuries to two were described as serious. The bombs went off at a shopping area and at an officer’s club, an Army spokesman said. Four suspects were seized, he reported. It was the second time in four years that the facility had been bombed. An American officer was killed and 13 persons injured in a May, 1972, explosion for which the Baader-Meinhof anarchist gang took credit.
The man whose suitcase bomb exploded last week at a Tel Aviv airport, killing him and a woman security guard, has been identified as a 25-year-old West German with a criminal record. Identification of Bernd Hausmann was made by fingerprints on file with the West Germany Federal Criminal Office. A Dutch passport found on his body after the bombing gave his name as Hugo Muller.
Syria said overnight that it had intervened in northern Lebanon to stop the fighting around beleaguered Christian villages near the Syrian border that had been heavily shelled for several days. Radio Damascus said that Syrian “delegates” went to the region just inside Lebanon in response to popular requests addressed to President Hafez al‐Assad by local citizens. It was reported that the Syrians had brought about a meeting of combatants from both sides that ended the fighting. Leftist Lebanese and Palestinian sources here charged yesterday that Syria had increased the number of its troops in Lebanon during the last 48 hour’. The reports could not be confirmed. United Press international reported that leftist and rightist sources said an armored regiment of the Syrian Army—about 2,000 men—had crossed the border. The Syrian announcement was certain to intensify the controversy in Beirut about Syria’s role in Lebanon.
Syrian tanks advanced deep into Lebanon along the Damascus-Beirut highway and swung north to relieve Christian forces cut off for months by Palestinian guerrillas and Lebanese Moslems. The apparent purpose was a decisive military intervention to end Lebanon’s civil war. The Syrian operation coincided with the arrival in Damascus of Prime Minister Aleksei Kosygin of the Soviet Union and could seriously embarrass his government.
The United States coupled tacit approval of the Syrian intervention with another warning to Damascus not to increase its forces to an extent that might trigger an Israeli military response. Israeli officials in Washington agree that so far Israeli security is not threatened but refuse to take a relaxed view publicly.
Prime Minister Aleksei N. Kosygin arrived in Damascus from Iraq today on a mission apparently intended to shore up the Soviet Union’s uncertain position in the Middle East. Perhaps the most sensitive issue between the Soviet Union and Syria touches on Lebanon, where Syria was today reported to have sent additional forces to strengthen a contingent of man and armor being used to bolster efforts to halt the 14‐month civil war.
The International League for Human Rights asked the United Nations today to investigate its charges that the Indian Government has been “trampling on the freedom of tens of thousands of its citizens,” imprisoning political opponents and permitting extensive practice of torture. The human rights group, in support of its allegations, submitted lists of hundreds of names of persons said to have been tortured since the Government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi began restricting individual rights last June. The detailed accounts of torture were collected by Indians for Democracy, a group of Indian residents in the United States whose membership includes educators, physicians, students and businessmen. The group was organized to work against the repressive policies its members charge are being practiced in their homeland.
Thailand rejected today a request by the United States that it be allowed to keep an electronic eavesdropping station in operation, and again ordered the American military to leave the country by July 20. The United Seated Embassy had no immediate comment on the decision, which qualified observers said was aimed at allaying the suspicions of Thailand’s Communist neighbors. United States sources said the American Government did not link the operation of the electronic monitoring station in northeast Trailand to continued United States military aid for the Bangkok Government.
Yoshio Kodama, the Japanese political figure involved in the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. payoff scandal, has been accused by Tokyo police of concealing receipt of $460,000 from the American firm. Similar charges filed against him earlier accused him of failing to report another $1.47 million and he also has been indicted on charges of evading income taxes in 1972 on $3.95 million, including payments from Lockheed.
The Soviet Union and the Philippines have agreed to establish diplomatic relations, Radio Moscow reported. In a broadcast about a meeting between Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev and Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, it was announced that the two leaders had “expressed satisfaction on the achievement of an agreement on establishment of diplomatic relations between the U.S.S.R. and the Republic of the Philippines.” Marcos is on a week-long visit to Russia.
All 45 people on Aeroflot Flight 418 were killed in a crash in Africa when the Tu-154 jetliner disappeared shortly after taking off from Malabo in Equatorial Guinea, as the first stop in its flight to Moscow after originating in Angola at Luanda. The wreckage was found on the Equatorial Guinean island of Bioko, where it had crashed into Mount San Carlos.
Jimmy Carter was victorious in the South Dakota presidential primary, but he lost to Frank Church in Montana and in Rhode Island he trailed an uncommitted slate supported by Governor Jerry Brown, although he won more delegates than anyone else in that state. Representative Morris Udall finished second in South Dakota, where he had hoped to win. In the Republican primaries, President Ford easily defeated Ronald Reagan in Rhode Island, winning all 19 delegates, but Mr. Reagan was victorious in both Montana and South Dakota. In delegates, Mr. Ford won 19 and Mr. Reagan 10.
A national survey by the New York Times and CBS News indicates that if the November election were held today with Mr. Ford and Mr. Carter as candidates, Mr. Ford might have a slight edge among white voters, but black voters would vote by more than 5 to 1 for Mr. Carter, giving him a 46-to-40 victory. He would defeat Mr. Reagan by an even larger 48-to-36 Margin. Most of those questioned on Mr. Ford’s pardon of former President Richard Nixon opposed it and preferred Mr. Carter overwhelmingly.
President Ford said he would ask Congress for legislation limiting court-ordered busing in school desegregation cases to situations where racial imbalances are caused by official actions. Ford’s remarks to a group of Ohio television reporters at the White House enlarged somewhat on his statement last Saturday that he favored a law that would “minimize the effects” of busing. Sources later said the aim of new legislation would be to prevent the courts from extending busing to cover an imbalance caused by housing patterns. Unlike officially imposed segregation, such de facto segregation has not been found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
The House of Representatives voted today to extend the life of the Federal Energy Administration for 18 months, not the 39 months recommended by the House committee that watches over the agency. Under the 1974 act that gave the agency a “temporary” life of two years, it is scheduled to go out of business on June 30. Its responsibilities include enforcement of oil price controls, planning and creating a strategic oil reserve, developing advice on energy policy for the President and helping the states to design energy conservation programs and standby plans for an emergency.
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that the Civil Service Commission may not bar resident aliens from federal civil service jobs. The majority said the regulation of long standing violated their rights to due process of law by depriving them of an “interest in liberty” without rational basis, The dissenters contended in effect that the delegation of power to the commission by President and Congress was a political decision not to be questioned by the courts.
Demands for disciplinary action against Representative Wayne L. Hays mounted today, spurred by pressure from constituents of House members who had spent the holiday weekend in their Congressional districts. Many members said their constituents were angry about the sex scandal on Capitol Hill and some called for the resignation of Mr. Hays from his three chairmanships, although the Ohio Democrat maintained that “I will be vindicated of everything but a bit of foolishness.” But during an interview in his office, Mr. Hays, who appeared tired, did not state specifically that he would refuse to resign if formally asked to do so.
A federal judge in Richmond, Virginia, has ruled that hiring practices that give preferential treatment to female job applicants solely because of their sex are unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge D. Dortch Warriner invalidated an affirmative action plan of Virginia Commonwealth University that called for meeting goals and quotas for women by preferential hiring. The judge ruled that a male job applicant for a professorship was discriminated against because the school considered only female applicants for the job.
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s “Bicentennial God Bless America Festival” of religion and patriotism at New York City’s Yankee Stadium was held before an estimated 35,000 persons but the event was marred by numerous fights and disturbances. Police said one person was stabbed and at least nine others were arrested on charges of assault, robbery, larceny and disorderly conduct. Police said the teen-aged troublemakers apparently were not followers of the South Korean evangelist, who was not deterred from speaking.
Seven oil companies were indicted on federal charges of illegally fixing the price of gasoline they sell in Middle Atlantic states. The indictments, returned by a federal grand jury in Baltimore, also named as a defendant the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America. They charged that the defendants conspired from 1967 to November 1974, to fix the price of gasoline sold at independent stations under a variety of names. Total sales were estimated at $4 billion. The companies were Amerada-Hess Corp. of New York, Ashland Oil, Inc., of Ashland, Kentucky, Continental Oil Co. of Stamford, Connecticut, its subsidiary, Kayo Oil Co. of Chattanooga, Crown Central Petroleum Corp. of Baltimore, Meadville Corp. of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and the Petroleum Marketing Corp. of McLean, Virginia.
A key prosecution witness against three reputed members of the Ku Klux Klan charged with the 1957 murder of a black truck driver has repudiated his testimony against one of the men, Alabama Attorney General William J. Baxley said. Raymond C. Britt Jr. said during a lie detector test that he was wrong when he testified William (Sonny) Kyle Livingston was one of the men who forced Willie Edwards Jr. at gunpoint to jump to his death from a bridge over the Alabama River because they thought he had made advances to a white woman. But Britt, a former klansman who admitted taking part in the crime, insisted he was telling the truth when he said the other two men, Henry Alexander, 46, and James York, 73, took part in the crime. Baxley said he was not sure whether the state would seek new indictments.
Nuclear power development faces a major hurdle in the California primary next Tuesday. A stringent nuclear limitation initiative measure is on the ballot. California polls show unusual public uncertainty and confusion on the issue. The electrical industry acknowledges that its passage could trigger a national upsurge of resistance.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation took steps in the mid‐1960’s to prevent the authors of a book about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. the convicted atomic spies, from discussing their work on television interview programs, according to newly released bureau documents. In a memorandum written on Oct. 16, 1965, William C. Sullivan, then an assistant F.B.I. director, reported to his superiors that Walter and Mariam Schneir, the authors, had approached “a leading television man in Chicago” with a request to discuss on his program their book, “Invitation to an Inquest.” Mr. Sullivan said he believed that the Schneirs intended not only to “exonerate the Rosenbergs,” who were executed in June 1953 while continuing to maintain their innocence, but also “to attack and undermine the F.B.I. in its investigations.”
Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was exiled from his homeland for criticizing Soviet policy, had criticism for his adopted land as he received the American Friendship Award from the American Freedoms Foundation. The author, who has lived in the United States for more than a year, warned in his acceptance speech at Stanford University that many Americans were too concerned with petty freedoms and materialism. “It would be easy to criticize totalitarianism on this occasion,” he said after receiving the award from foundation head Robert Miller, “but much more beneficial to take a hard look at ourselves.” He chastised the press for “being too concerned with gossip,” unions for “disrupting the lives of people,” pacifists for “not defending what they believe” and teen-agers for “wasting time.”
If present birth trends continue an estimated 17 percent of the population will he 65 or older by the year 2030, compared with 10.5 percent today. a new Census Bureau shows. The report, a major study of the above‐65 population, also shows that as the country’s elderly population grows and women continue to outlive men, there will he more educated, widowed, older women living alone in the country than ever before. The report further shows that women continue to outlive men by an average of almost eight years, and that as of 1974, women could expect to live an average of 75.9 years and men an average of 68.2.
A 43-year-old former model confessed in the British magazine Woman that she would not mind becoming the sixth wife of J. Paul Getty, 83, often called the world’s richest man. “He has a sort of physical presence which holds women,” said Rosabella Burch, Getty’s hostess at his 400-year-old 70-room London mansion. “It’s not the money, although I’m sure that’s part of it.” She has met other men, she admitted, but there was always something missing. “If they have money, they lack personality. If they have personality, they have no money and you end up eating hamburgers for the rest of your life. Getty is a complete man.” And what is Getty’s view? He was quoted as saying he was “far too old” to wed again.
Major League Baseball:
The Twins trade pitcher Bert Blyleven and shortstop Danny Thompson to the Rangers for pitcher Bill Singer, shortstop Roy Smalley, third baseman Mike Cubbage, and $250,000. Thompson will die of leukemia on December 10.
Knocked out by the Astros in the first inning May 30, Roger Moret came back after one day and pitched the Braves to a 9–1 victory over the Padres. Moret gave up a run in the first inning, but Earl Williams put him on the winning track by smashing a homer with two men on base in the Braves’ half of the stanza.
Hitless in six previous trips, Lenny Randle doubled with two out in the 16th inning and scored Gene Clines to give the Rangers a 6–5 victory over the White Sox. Jim Sundberg opened the stanza with a single and was forced by Clines, who stole second to be in position to score on Randle’s hit.
In games that wound up with Detroit reliever John Hiller winning twice and Milwaukee reliever Eduardo Rodriguez losing twice, the Tigers defeated the Brewers in a twi-night doubleheader, 8–7 and 6–5. The Tigers rallied for three runs in the ninth inning to win the opener. A single by Willie Horton, pass to Alex Johnson and single by Jason Thompson loaded the bases and brought Rodriguez to the mound in relief of Ray Sadecki. Aurelio Rodriguez was safe on an error by Robin Yount, allowing one run to score, and another counted on a bases-loaded pass to Bruce Kimm. After a suicide squeeze play by Jerry Manuel backfired and Thompson was out at the plate, Rodriguez uncorked a wild pitch, allowing the Tigers’ winning run. In the nightcap, the Tigers came from behind with two runs in the ninth. Dan Meyer led off with his fourth hit and second double of the game and scored one out later on a sacrifice fly by Horton before Ben Oglivie came to the plate and smashed a homer.
Joaquin Andujar, formerly in the Reds’ organization, gained his first major league victory and Pat Zachry suffered his first major league loss as the Astros defeated the Reds, 2–1. Andujar allowed only two hits. Triples by Roger Metzger and Rob Andrews led to the Astros’ runs.
Ed Halicki snapped a personal six-game losing streak by allowing only two hits and pitching the Giants to a 6–0 victory over the Dodgers. The Giants backed him with ten hits. There were no extra base hits by either team — all 12 hits today were singles.
Snapping a personal five-game losing streak, Nolan Ryan pitched the Angels to a 6–4 victory over the Twins. Ryan was rapped for homers by Craig Kusick and Larry Hisle, but managed to come out on the winning side for the first time since May 1.
After failing to drive in a run since May 19, Ted Simmons knocked three across the plate with a homer and single to help the Cardinals defeat the Expos, 6–2. Ken Rudolph also aided in the Cards’ attack with a two-run double.
Winless since May 7, John Candelaria bore down, allowed six hits and pitched the Pirates to a 3–2 victory over the Mets. Joe Torre accounted for the Mets’ runs with a pair of homers. The Pirates had a two-run shot by Bob Robertson for his first homer of the year in the fourth inning and added what proved to be the deciding run in the sixth when Bill Robinson doubled and Richie Zisk singled.
Amos Otis drove in two runs with a homer in the third inning and another run with a single in the ninth to produce the Royals’ winning margin in a 5–2 victory over the Athletics. Don Baylor and Sal Bando homered for the A’s markers.
Ron Reed, making his first start of the season after 14 relief appearances, pitched the Phillies to a 6–1 victory over the Cubs in a game stopped by rain with one out in the home half of the sixth inning. The Cubs counted in the first on a single by Jose Cardenal and double by Larry Biittner, but Reed drove in two runs himself with a single and a safe squeeze bunt and Greg Luzinski homered with a man on base.
The scheduled game between the New York Yankees and the Red Sox at Boston was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on July 31.
San Diego Padres 1, Atlanta Braves 9
Texas Rangers 6, Chicago White Sox 5
Milwaukee Brewers 7, Detroit Tigers 8
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Detroit Tigers 6
Cincinnati Reds 1, Houston Astros 2
San Francisco Giants 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 0
California Angels 6, Minnesota Twins 4
St. Louis Cardinals 6, Montreal Expos 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, New York Mets 2
Kansas City Royals 5, Oakland Athletics 2
Chicago Cubs 1, Philadelphia Phillies 6
Memorial Day seemed to linger an extra day on Wall Street this year, as trading on. the New York Stock Exchange slipped yesterday to the second lowest level of the year. The spring lethargy reached also to prices, which, after a promising beginning ultimately closed down. After opening up by 3.21, the Dow Jones industrial average fell gently most of the day. It closed at 973.13. down 2.10.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 973.13 (-2.10, -0.22%)
Born:
Marlon Devonish, English athlete (Olympic gold medal, GB 4x100m relay, 2004), in Coventry, England, United Kingdom.
Angela Perez Baraquio, American educator who was crowned Miss America 2001 as the first Asian-American to win the pageant; in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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