Negotiators for the United States and the Soviet Union resumed talks in Geneva, to discuss a work program for yet another attempt to reach agreement on a strategic arms limitation treaty. The negotiations, which began in November, 1972, have been in recess for a month. U.S. and Soviet officials reportedly have virtually abandoned hope of completing an agreement before the U.S. presidential elections in the fall.
The French Chief of Staff has given official blessing to French participation on NATO’s front line in case of war. The development was the latest in a growing change of defense strategy involving all political groups in France. General Guy Mery’s new policy statement, which came in an article published yesterday in the Journal Defense Nationale, provided some of the strategic thinking behind the Government’s recent decision to increase the defense share of its budget over the next five years, to 20 percent from 17. Experts in Paris had been increasingly concerned at the deterioration of French conventional forces during the years of concentration on building up nuclear systems. The atomic force was at the heart of the de Gaulle plan for an “independent defense,” that led him to withdraw the French military from NATO a decade ago. But the Gaullist policy also assumed sufficient conventional strength to defend the home land. The degree to which ordinary units had deteriorated was reflected in the comment of a former Gaullist leader, Alexander Sanguinetti, on President Valery Giscard d’Estaing’s recent offer to send French troops to Lebanon. Mr. Sanguinetti not only criticized the offer, but also said that the French would be no match for the Lebanese rebels with their “modem equipment.” President Giscard d’Estaing promised a defense review soon after he took office in 1974. But so far there has been no overall redefinition of strategy.
The International Labor Organization opened its annual conference in Geneva in a financial pinch and facing the loss of one-fourth of its budget, which is contributed by the United States. Irish Labor Minister Michael O’Leary, president of the meeting, appealed to the delegates from 125 nations to refrain from political moves that might damage the agency. The ILO is seeking extra assessments to prevent staff cuts and programs mainly benefiting developing countries. The United States has told the ILO it intends to quit unless the organization “returns to its basic principles.”
The House of Representatives approved a near $7-billion foreign military aid bill and the Senate moved close to final action on it. Similar legislation was vetoed by President Ford because he said it would restrict his conduct of foreign policy by placing congressional controls over the sale of arms to foreign countries. Much of the congressional debate on the measure was devoted to means of ensuring that $25 million in aid for southern African countries would not be funneled through leftist Mozambique to guerrillas in Rhodesia.
Britain told its 21 trawlers off Iceland today to resume fishing under an agreement that ended a seven‐month dispute over fishing rights in Icelandic waters. The British Trawlers Federation called the pact signed yesterday a giveaway and said it would seek compensation for the loss of business from the British Government. Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland denied that the agreement was a sellout and said Britain was now turning to a possible new Common Market fisheries policy to help save 9,000 jobs threatened by the deal. The agreement, which runs until next December 1, cuts the number of British trawlers that can operate inside Iceland’s unilaterally declared 200‐mile limit from 100 to a daily average of 24. Mr. Crosland promised that revision of the nine‐nation Common Market’s fisheries policy would be a government priority. He said Britain would seek to speed up the Common Market’s own extension of its fisheries limit.
King Juan Carlos I of Spain began an official visit to the United States today with vows of friendship and a promise that his monarchy was committed to the establishment of “authentic liberty” for the Spanish people. He and Queen Sofia were welcomed by President and Mrs. Ford in a ceremony on the White House lawn during which the President spoke of the young King’s “wise and able leadership.” The four‐day visit, the first by a Spanish head of state to American soil, has been cast in the bicentennial mold, with a series of Spanish presentations marking Spain’s contributions to the development of the American continent. Addressing a joint meeting of Congress in clear and scarcely accented English, King Juan Carlos dwelt at length on Spain’s involvement in the development of the United States.
Arsonists burned two U.S. Air Force trucks at Lindsay Air Station in Wiesbaden about 25 miles west of Frankfurt and Air Force authorities clamped tight security on all their facilities in West Germany. The truck burnings occurred less than 24 hours after two bombs injured 16 persons at the U.S. Army’s V Corps headquarters in Frankfurt.
Fifteen persons, including three employees of the Defense Ministry, have been arrested in what threatens to be a major new spy affair in West Germany, informed sources said in Bonn. Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback said he would hold a press conference in 24 hours at his Karlsruhe headquarters. Television and newspaper reports described the case as serious and said those detained were being held on suspicion of having spied for East Germany. The conservative newspaper Die Welt identified one of the arrested Defense Ministry workers as a woman secretary who formerly worked for Herbert Laabs, leader of the Defense Ministry’s social dejpartment The paper said that Mr. Laabs was a close friend of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and was one of his top aides when Mr. Schmidt was defense minister.
Greek Cypriots formally rejected Turkish Cypriot proposals made a week ago for talks on drawing a boundary between the two sides. The Turkish Cypriot proposal stipulated that the two regions of a proposed Cyprus federation would have to be ethnically and geographically self-contained, that the security requirements and economic and social development of the Turkish Cypriots would have to be safeguarded and that both regions would have exclusive control over their own territorial waters and continental shelf.
The most comprehensive search made up to that time for the Loch Ness Monster began with underwater photography with motion sensor cameras, sonars and television cameras beneath the surface of the Scottish lake Loch Ness, located in Inverness-shire in the Scottish Highlands. The American expedition, led by Dr. Robert H. Rines of Boston was financed by the U.S. Academy of Applied Science and by The New York Times. After six months, the expedition “failed to turn up new evidence to explain the mysterious and legendary phenomenon”
Syrian troops who moved into eastern Lebanon yesterday stayed today in the positions they had reached. The tank—supported force made no move toward breaking through defensive positions set up by Lebanese leftist‐Muslim forces and Palestinians at Dahr al‐Baidar, a mountain pass from where the Damascus—Beirut highway plunges toward the capital about 25 miles away. However, leftist Lebanese sources said, according to The Associated Press, that Syrian troops and tanks moving across southwestern Lebanon were approaching the port of Saida. In Israel, meanwhile, officials said the present concentration of Syrian forces in Lebanon posed no danger to Israeli security. Palestinian and Lebanese Muslim officials reiterated today that their troops would fight the Syrians if necessary at Dahr al‐Baidar. According to Palestinian sources, a battle did break out yesterday in eastern Lebanon between a Palestinian unit and a Syrian column. The sources said that a Syrian tank had been destroyed and that 15 Syrian soldiers had been killed. In addition to the defensive positions at the Dahr al‐Baidar pass, the Lebanese Muslim and Palestinian forces reportedly placed powerful explosive charges in the rocks overlooking the highway to Beirut. If detonated, the sources said, the charges would bring down mountainside.
In marked change of mood, Israeli leaders showed today they frankly relished some aspects of the Syrian military involvement in Lebanon. While they held to their view that the concentration of large Syrian forces across the border was potentially dangerous for Israeli security and might compel counteraction, they held there was no immediate danger. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said in Haifa today: “I am not shedding any tears over the military encounter between the Syrian Army and Arafat’s terrorists.” He said there were reports Yasir Arafat the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, feared a “black September” in Lebanon similar to the attack on Palestinian guerrillas by King Hussein of Jordan in 1970.
A year after the end of hostilities in Vietnam, a visiting United Nations aid mission has found the Vietnamese striving to deal with the postwar dislocation of 8 million people, abandoned farm lands and a road and rail system all but disrupted. The mission members, who spent three and a half weeks touring both North and South Vietnam by bus, concluded that $432 million in foreign assistance was urgently needed mainly for agricultural resettlement and railroad improvement.
After almost 30 years of independence from the United States, the government of the Philippines opened diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
The East Timor People’s Assembly accepts annexation by Indonesia.
The Canadian Government today announced a broad attack on unemployment, including measures to reduce abuses of the unemployment compensation system and to create incentives to work. In separate but related deliberations, the welfare ministries of the federal Government and the 10 provinces are conferring here on tentative proposals for payments to employed persons with incomes below acceptable levels. One proposal would bring the incomes of the underpaid to $8,000 a year. A sharp cut in immigration was one of the steps announced by Robert Andras, the Minister of Manpower and Immigration, to hold down the number of unemployed.
Two hundred left-wing priests and nuns shook the conservative Roman Catholic hierarchy of Colombia today with a public attack on the primate, Anibal Cardinal Munoz Duque, as “an accomplice of the system of injustice.” The conflict was reminiscent of a similar upheaval among younger priests in the mid-1960’s in which Camilo Torres, after denouncing the church leadership, became a guerrilla priest. He was killed in an army ambush and is now a hero of the revolutionary left in Latin America.
Ethiopia’s political and social upheaval since radical soldiers deposed Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 has left the country sliding into economic disarray, armed repression and a mood of disillusion and fear. The government’s current move in sending art army of peasants against the most powerful rebel group in the northern province of Eritrea is regarded by many as risky.
Despite Premier Fidel Castro’s pledge to withdraw Cuban troops from Angola, the Cuban leader intends to keep several thousand soldiers there for an indefinite period, authoritative Swedish sources said in Stockholm. The troops will remain to help rebuild and police the war-ravaged land as long as President Agostinho Neto requires them, the sources said.
A car bomb, planted by mobsters, fatally injured Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles in Phoenix. Bolles died in a hospital 11 days later on June 13. Bolles, an investigative reporter, had been working on an article about the Mafia infiltration of Arizona’s cities and had been invited to a meeting at the Clarendon House Hotel by a towing business owner, John Adamson. While Bolles was in the hotel, the bomb had been placed under the seat of his car, which had been in a parking garage. Phoenix police arrested Adamson soon after Bolles died. Adamson would confess at his trial, seven months later, that he had planted the bomb after being paid $5,800 in cash by a land developer, Max Dunlap, to carry out the crime. In return, Adamson received a sentence of 20 years and 8 months as part of a plea bargain, rather than life imprisonment, with the incarceration to be done outside of the U.S. state of Arizona for Adamson’s safety.
President Ford told members of his cabinet to press for action that the White House said would severely limit court-ordered busing to achieve racial desegregation of schools. He is studying draft legislation that would limit court action to specific areas within a community or school system where such segregation existed. His press secretary said that the draft would prevent court-ordered busing in cases where non-governmental factors such as housing patterns caused school segregation. In California, former Governor Ronald Reagan called school busing for desegregation a “pernicious” instrument of the federal courts and said that if elected President, he would order federal departments to “get off the back” of local school boards. Ron Nessen, the White House press secretary, also disclosed today that the legislation would prevent court‐ordered busing in cases where school segregation had been caused by nongovernmental factors such as housing patterns. Answering questions at the regular White House news briefing, Mr. Nessen said that the draft law prepared by Mr. Levi was designed “to use busing as a remedy to correct those cases of segregation brought about by the official action of a school board or governinental body and to prevent busing as a remedy to correct racial imbalance brought about by events other than official governmental actions.”
There was at least one victory in Tuesday’s three-state Republican and Democratic presidential primaries for every major candidate except Representative Morris Udall. Evidently disheartened by his loss in South Dakota to Jimmy Carter, he said that if he did not win in Ohio next week “it may well be over.” The most remarkable success was scored by Governor Jerry Brown of California in Rhode Island, where final tabulations gave him nine convention delegates to seven for Mr. Carter and six for Senator Frank Church. President Ford won among Republicans in Rhode Island, while losing in Montana and South Dakota to Ronald Reagan but gained 28 delegates to 11 for his challenger.
Majority Leader Tip O’Neill asked Representative Wayne Hays of Ohio to yield his committee chairmanships pending federal investigations of his activities. Mr. Hays, who has admitted an affair with a staff employee, said he would make a public statement today. Mr. Hays, who has admitted that he had a sexual affair with a former secretary, Elizabeth Ray, who said she had been hired with government funds solely to be his mistress, plans a public statement tomorrow. According to sources in the Democratic leadership, Mr. Hays has been, in effect, plea bargaining by withholding his committee chairmanship resignations in an attempt to name his successors. The sources said that Mr. Hays would give up at least one of his chairmanships tomorrow.
Liberal and moderate Democrats, determined to prevent Republicans from making military spending a major issue in November, are going along with a $114 billion Pentagon budget that they privately believe to be excessive. More than a dozen Democratic legislators who voted for or did little to oppose the $14 billion increase in defense spending over last year acknowledged in interviews that this had been their strategy. Jimmy Carter, the former Governor of Georgia; Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. of California, and Senator Frank Church of Idaho are consciously muting their positions on reducing military expenditures, according to their aides. In large part these Democrats were reacting to what they perceived as Ronald Reagan’s success in using this issue against President Ford in the Republican primaries.
President Ford has drastically changed his campaign’s approach to television advertising, replacing commercials that portrayed him as a thoughtful and effective President with a new series of TV spots that employ the techniques used to sell toothpaste and floor wax.
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota and Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr. of California toured New Jersey today in a final, cooperative effort to stop former Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia in next Tuesday’s Democratic primary.
The Republican side of the California Presidential primary next Tuesday will be conducted by a party with ideological chasms as wide and as deep as Death Valley. Ronald Reagan’s first election as Governor in 1966 united a riven party, but this year’s Reagan Presidential campaign has pulled off those 10‐year‐od bandages to exacerbate the old wounds. Despite the two four‐year terms served by Governor Reagan, the Republicans have not been able to govern this state since the 1950’s. It will be as the minority party, with 36.4 percent of the registered vote, that the three million Republicans will decide whether to give all their national convention votes to Mr. Reagan or to President Ford.
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover is “openly defying” the defense secretary in “utterly contemptuous” actions that make “his continued presence in the Navy incompatible with sound management and necessary military discipline,” said civilian Gordon W. Rule, director of procurement control in the Naval Material Command. “It had to be said,” Rule replied when asked what prompted him to attack the admiral, 76, in a speech to shipbuilders. A Rickover aide said he doubted that the admiral would comment. Rule said there was “one man (Rickover) openly defying” the decision to settle the bills shipbuilders have sent the Navy for past work. And the same man, Rule went on, is “continuing to urge” nationalization of some shipyards in defiance of the defense secretary.
The White House referred Philadelphia Mayor Frank L. Rizzo, who has requested 15,000 federal troops to keep order in the city July 4, to his own state government if he thinks he needs assistance. Press Secretary Ron Nessen said Rizzo’s letter to President Ford had been sent to the domestic council. Rizzo had said that during the holiday the city would be “a target for attempts at disruption and violence by a substantial coalition of leftist radicals.” Responding to Nessen’s statement, a spokesman for the July 4 Coalition, one of two radical groups planning a massive “peaceful and orderly” protest on Independence Day, said, “We remain opposed to any troops coming into the city, be they state or federal.” Between 40,000 and 60,000 protesters were expected.
The Postal Service announced a 1-cent discount per piece for large business mailers who bundle at least 500 first class letters according to the zip code of the destination. The discount, to take effect July 6, is the first ever on first class mail. The current rate is 13 cents for the first ounce. This and other measures are expected to save money for the financially ailing agency, a spokesman said. The service also announced that size limitations for envelopes would be effective April 15, 1978. The measurements, to be set by the rate commission, would be designed to conform to sorting machines.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been looking into the apparent forgery within the Federal Energy Administration of a document that purports to urge stronger advocacy to the public of deregulation of natural gas prices.
One of the four drug companies producing an experimental swine flu vaccine made about 2 million doses of the wrong type, the U.S. Public Health Service announced. As a result, vaccination of high-risk elderly and chronically ill persons which had been scheduled to begin in late July will be delayed four to six weeks. The service said Parke, Davis & Co. used an older Shope strain of influenza virus instead of the A-New Jersey-76 strain isolated from military servicemen earlier this year. The older Shope virus also is a swine virus but is not identical to the virus which infected about 500 soldiers and killed one young trainee at Ft. Dix, New Jersey.
The Internal Revenue Service is investigating the tax-exempt status of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, Rep. Peter A. Peyser (R-New York) said. High-level IRS officials, Peyser said, had told him in a series of conversations over the last several months that the probe was being made to determine whether the church was entitled to continue tax exemptions given to religious organizations. An IRS spokesman would neither confirm nor deny the report.
A Circuit Court jury in Chicago reversed yesterday a medical malpractice suit, declaring the original plaintiff, her husband and her lawyers guilty of willful and wanton misconduct and awarding the defendant doctor $8,000 in damages.
With New York Mayor Beame’s support, the Democratic leaders of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens are preparing to support city council president Paul O’Dwyer for the United States Senate nomination. The move has contributed to “second thoughts” by Daniel Patrick Moynihan on his own candidacy.
Three Marine Corps recruiters testified today that they had never been threatened with disciplinary action or other punishment for failure to meet monthly recruiting quotas. The three said the only pressures they had encountered in their recruiting duties were those of personal desires to do the best job they could for the Marines. The testimony before the House Armed Services subcommittee on military procurement contrasted with testimony given by other Marine Corps recruiters last week.
The Phoenix Suns won both a foul-shooting contest and a basketball game against the Boston Celtics tonight to even their National Basketball Association championship series at two games apiece. The Suns clinched the victory. 109–107, when Jo Jo White’s jump shot at the final buzzer was wide, but the contest was decided by the constant stream of players from both sides trooping to the foul line at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. There were 80 free-throw attempts in the game, 39 by Boston and 41 by the Suns. The Suns acquired 35 of their points that way, while the Celtics could manage only 31.
Major League Baseball:
Taking advantage of wildness by Dick Pole and Tom House, the Yankees scored five runs in the second inning and defeated the Red Sox, 7–2. Pole, who yielded a run in the first, gave up two walks and a single by Willie Randolph to load the bases in the second. Thurman Munson was hit by a pitch, forcing in one run, and Chris Chambliss singled home two more to kayo Pole. House, in relief, then walked two batters to force in another run and uncorked a wild pitch to allow Chambliss to cross the plate with the fifth tally of the frame.
After yielding only two hits in the first 10 innings, Jim Umbarger (5–4) saw his string of 24 consecutive scoreless stanzas come to an end when the White Sox scored in the 11th to defeat the Rangers, 1–0. Jim Essian started Umbarger’s downfall with a double and gave way on the paths to Pat Kelly. After an intentional pass to Bill Stein, Ralph Garr attempted a sacrifice and forced Stein at second as Kelly moved to third on the play. Umbarger then walked Bucky Dent intentionally to load the bases in a move that failed when Jorge Orta singled over center fielder Juan Beniquez’ head to drive in Kelly. The Rangers also were held to four hits by Bart Johnson, who worked the first nine innings, and Dave Hamilton, who finished.
The Orioles, who were held to two hits in the first 13 innings, broke loose in the 14th when Reggie Jackson singled with one out and Lee May smashed a homer to defeat the Indians, 2–0. Wayne Garland, who pitched the last two frames in relief of Jim Palmer, received credit for his fifth straight victory.
An inside-the-park homer by Ben Oglivie with a man on base in the eighth inning provided the Tigers’ winning margin in a 6–4 victory over the Brewers. Vern Ruhle (4–1) got the victory, with Jim Crawford earning the save.
A two-run rally in the seventh inning enabled the Reds to edge the Astros, 8–7. Mike Lum led off with a pinch-single and Pete Rose followed with his second double of the night, pinch-runner Ken Griffey stopping at third. Dan Driessen singled Griffey home to tie the score and Rose, who moved to third on the play, then scored what proved to be the winning run on a sacrifice fly by Joe Morgan.
Defeated in four previous meetings this season, the Dodgers turned on the Giants with an 18-hit attack and batted their way to an 11–3 victory. The Dodgers ended John Montefusco’s string of 21 scoreless innings by counting in first on a single by Ron Cey. The Giants’ starter then gave up four more runs on a total of nine hits before being kayoed after 2 ⅓ innings. Rick Rhoden, who gained his fourth straight victory, drove in four of the Dodgers’ runs in the game with a pair of singles and a squeeze bunt.
Veteran Tommy Davis, signed as a free agent just prior to the game, came up for his first time at bat in an Angels’ uniform and drove in two runs with a pinch-single in the eighth inning to help beat the Twins, 5-2. Three walks loaded the bases before Davis delivered his hit to break a 2–2 tie. Dave Chalk followed with a sacrifice fly for an additional run. Chalk previously had accounted for the Angels’ first two tallies with a single in the second inning.
Hitting a triple for his third safety of the game, Manny Sanguillen scored the tie-breaking run in the eighth inning to lead the Pirates to a 4–2 victory over the Expos, who suffered their sixth straight loss. After his three-bagger, Sanguillen crossed the plate on a sacrifice fly by Richie Zisk to snap a 2–2 deadlock. The Pirates added an insurance run in the ninth.
The Cubs got only the second complete game of the season from one of their pitchers when Bill Bonham defeated the Mets, 5–3. The only other route-going performance to the credit of the Cubs’ staff was turned in April 30 by Rick Reuschel, who beat the Giants, 5–2.
George Brett, who earlier in the season had six consecutive three-hit games, had four hits and set up the run that enabled the Royals to defeat the Athletics, 4–3, in 12 innings. Amos Otis drew a walk from Rollie Fingers, took third when Brett singled for his fourth hit and scored on a sacrifice fly by John Mayberry.
Tom Underwood, who never has lost to the Cardinals, beat them for the fourth straight time in his young career, pitching the Phillies to a 4–1 victory. Not only that, the lefthander actually won his own game, driving in the Phillies’ first two runs with a bases-loaded single. The victory was the Phillies’ 13th straight in games on the road.
The scheduled game between the San Diego Padres and the Braves at Atlanta was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on August 2.
New York Yankees 7, Boston Red Sox 2
Texas Rangers 0, Chicago White Sox 1
Baltimore Orioles 2, Cleveland Indians 0
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Detroit Tigers 6
Cincinnati Reds 8, Houston Astros 7
San Francisco Giants 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 11
California Angels 5, Minnesota Twins 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Montreal Expos 2
Chicago Cubs 5, New York Mets 3
Kansas City Royals 4, Oakland Athletics 3
Philadelphia Phillies 4, St. Louis Cardinals 1
The stock market erased opening losses yesterday and closed moderately higher in continued slow trading. The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day at 975.93, up 2.80. After opening at 971.10, down 2.03. it managed by noon to post a gain of 0.18. From then on it continued to rise until it hit the day’s high at 976.18 and then slipped in the final hour.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 975.93 (+2.80, +0.29%)
Born:
‘Masenate Mohato Seeiso, queen consort of Lesotho as the wife of King Letsie III; as Anna Karabo Motšoeneng in Mapoteng; patron of HIV/AIDS charities, in Mapoteng, Lesotho.
Earl Boykins, American NBA point guard and shooting guard (New Jersey Nets, Cleveland Cavaliers, Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Clippers, Golden State Warriors, Denver Nuggets, Milwaukee Bucks, Charlotte Bobcats, Washington Wizards, Houston Rockets), second-shortest in history (5 feet 5 inches), and assistant coach (USC Trojans men’s team), in Cleveland, Ohio.
Josef Marha, Czech NHL centre and left wing (NHL All Star, 1998, 2001; Colorado Avalanche, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Chicago Blackhawks), in Havlíčkův Brod, Czechoslovakia.
Dan Dercher, NFL tackle (San Francisco 49ers), in Kansas City, Kansas.
Adrián Olivares, Mexican pop singer (Menudo — “Besame En La Playa”), in Mexico City, Mexico.
Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane), in Oxford, England, United Kingdom.
Died:
Juan José Torres, 56, former President of Bolivia from 1970 to 1971, was kidnapped and murdered by a right-wing death squad at the Buenos Aires suburb of San Andrés de Giles.
Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, 79, Egyptian diplomat and, from 1945 to 1952, the first Secretary-General of the Arab League.
Alan Dewitt, 55, American actor (“It’s About Time”)
History Diaries 