The chief spokesman for American unions warned the International Labor Organization tonight that United States worker delegates might walk out of its World Employment Conference if an earlier decision to bar the Palestine Liberation Organization was reversed. A hint that United States employers might also quit the conference came from the head of their delegation. The dual warning, made in a heated committee debate over whether to admit the Palestinians, raised the possibility of sudden death for the two-year trial period that Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger has officially given the I.L.O. to “depoliticize” its activities or face formal withdrawal by Washington. An immediate showdown on the issue was deferred again this evening when the Arabs and their third‐world and Communist supporters reluctantly went along with a compromise referring the question of P.L.O. admission back to the world labor group’s governing body., It was this body that made the original decision to exclude the Palestinians by a vote of 24 to 23 Saturday. This was the first time the P.L.O. had lost in any United Nations agency since it won observer status in the General Assembly two years ago.
One of the four surviving copies of the 761-year-old Magna Carta arrived in Washington, D.C., and was loaned from the United Kingdom to the United States in honor of the U.S. bicentennial celebrations. Led by the British Lord Chancellor, Lord Elwyn-Jones, a delegation presented the document, to the U.S. Speaker of the House, Carl Albert, and a group of Representatives and Senators. The document, the first charter of personal and political liberty made in England and the inspiration to future charters, had been signed by King John at Runnymede on June 15, 1215. Lord Elwyn-Jones commented, “Peoples not familiar with our ways have thought it paradoxical for the British to be joining in the celebration of the Bicentenary of what was, after all, the loss of the American colonies. They overlook our traditions of compromise. We in fact now regard the events of two centuries ago as a victory for the English-speaking world.” Although the loan was for only one year, a gold replica of the document, and its massive protective case made of gold and silver, was given to the Capitol for permanent display.
A former Nazi SS officer and five other defendants accused of taking part in the murder of more than 1 million Jews in Poland during World War II were acquitted by a Hamburg, West Germany, court after a 3 ½-year trial. The judge said the defendants had no direct involvement in the slayings. He said the prosecution had failed to prove “positive knowledge” of the mass murders on the part of the six men. The men were accused of taking part, either directly or indirectly, in the deaths at three extermination camps during 1942-43.
Vitali Rubin, a Soviet dissident and a specialist in ancient Chinese philosophy, said today that he had been granted permission to emigrate to Israel after a wait of more than four years. “It will be very strange,” he said, “to stand on the soil of a a free country — I never have.” Mr. Rubin is the most prominent Jewish activist to receive an exit visa since Aleksandr Lunts, a mathematician, was allowed to leave last February, Many others, however, remain barred from departing, including Aleksandr Lerner and Viktor Brailovsky, both mathematicians, and Venyamin Levich, a physical chemist who is member of the Academy of Sciences.
Egypt condemned Syria’s military intervention in Lebanon and called for a meeting of Arab foreign ministers to put an end to it. Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy said that Egypt supported the Palestine Liberation Organization’s demand for Arab action to end the civil war between Muslims and Christians. In the Muslim‐controlled area of Beirut, virtually the entire population remained indoors. A general strike called in protest against the Syrian intervention was 100 percent effective. The Egyptian criticism of the Syrian intervention was in a letter from Mr. Fahmy to Mahmoud Riad, secretary general of the Arab League. The letter broke a two‐day silence by Egypt on the entry of Syrian troops and tanks into Lebanon. Mr. Fahmy condemned the Syrian action as “a cancerous symptom eating away at Lebanon” and charged it “was in concordance with Israeli goals and plans.” He accused Syria of preparing “bloody butcheries that are in reality a war of genocide.” The letter reiterated Egyptian calls for the Lebanese to he left alone to sort out their differences. “There is no replacement‐for joint Arab action that would transform the provocations and the fighting into a dialogue governed by logic between Lebanese parties to the conflict,” Mr. Fahmy said. Syria and Egypt have been feuding since last September, when Egypt signed an agreement with Israel on a disengagement of forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
The Lebanese capital, more frightened than ever, its streets empty and garbage burning at every second corner, seemed today to be waiting for an enemy who did not come. In Beirut’s Muslim‐controlled area, virtually the entire population remained indoors and out of sight. A general strike called by the leftist‐Muslim alliance in protest against the Syrian military intervention in eastern and northern Lebanon was nearly 100 percent effective. Stores, groceries and even sidewalk stands and money changers, who are among the hardiest businessmen here, were closed. Only bakeries were open and outside were block‐long lines of customers. Roadblocks with armed men from the many leftist‐Muslim militias, grimmer than usual, stopped traffic. Only the most persuasive drivers producing special passes from the various Muslim organizations were permitted to proceed. Meanwhile, the Syrian Army, which is regarded as the enemy by the Lebanese leftist and Muslim parties and the Palestinians, consolidated and expanded the positions it took Tuesday in eastern Lebanon as part of an apparent attempt to end the 14‐month Lebanese civil war. But its troops in the area remained about 20 miles from the capital, making no significant advances toward it. Four times in the morning pairs of military jets came streaking out of the northeast swept over Beirut in a steep left turn toward the airport and disappeared to the east.
A former South Korean presidential candidate lost an attempt to challenge a one-year prison sentence against him for election law violations. Kim Dae-Jung, 50, charged that his trial and subsequent conviction amounted to a reprisal for opposing President Park Chung Hee in the 1967 and 1971 elections. An appeals court in Seoul rejected his contention that the law under which he was tried was invalid.
A senior analyst of the Central Intelligence Agency, in an unusual published critique of the Administration’s policy, says that further delay in formally recognizing China runs the risk of destroying the new American relationship with Peking. In the issue of Foreign Policy magazine released today, Roger Glenn Brown argues that the new relationship may not be strong enough to survive the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung and that without Mr. Mao to hold the Western‐oriented groups together, China will move either toward a new isolationism or toward accommodation with the Soviet Union. Either move, Mr. Brown concludes, would undermine Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger’s balancing act with Moscow and Peking and undercut an important source of leverage on Moscow.
A Japanese official said that budgetary limitations would force Japan to depend heavily on the United States for arms and equipment in case of war. In fact, Takuya Kubo, minister of the Defense Agency, told foreign correspondents that soaring costs of materiel even had made it difficult for Japan to maintain its peacetime procurement levels. The Pentagon would like Japan to spend more on its own defense to ease cost burdens on the United States.
The body of former President Juan Jose Torres of Bolivia has been found on a rural roadside, the authorities said today. They said that 55‐year‐old General Torres was blindfolded ‘and had been shot twice in the neck and once behind the ear. In an official statement, the Interior Ministry repudiated a wave of violence it said had smeared the country’s image. The left‐wing Bolivian general, who had been living in exile in Argentina, disappeared early Tuesday. According to the authorities he was missing without trace until late yesterday when a ranch hand 65 miles from Buenos Aires heard shots and saw four men in a car speeding off, leaving a body behind. The police later identified the man as General Torres.
About a dozen Arab, African and Communist delegations walked out of the U.N. Habitat conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, when the Israeli representative rose to address a session. A Saudi Arabian spokesman said the walkout occurred because “the presence of Israel is illegal and against the previous resolutions of the Security Council.” An East German delegate said his group and others from East European countries walked out in protest of Israeli policies toward Arab nations. Officials had hoped to keep Middle East politics out of Habitat, officially known as the U.N. Conference on Human Settlements.
Ethiopia has halted its peasant march against Eritrean secessionist movements, apparently pending a last-minute effort to negotiate with rebel leaders for an end to the 14-year-old guerrilla war. The peasant volunteers, who reportedly have still not entered Eritrea, also have run into trouble with local villagers in some areas and have been attacked by the secessionist guerrillas.
The State Department announced that an American kidnaped in Ethiopia Dec. 21, 1975, by the Eritrean Liberation Front had been released. State Department spokesman Robert Funseth said the government of Sudan informed the US. Embassy in Khartoum that Ronald Michalke of Mabel, Minnesota, was in Sudanese hands and en route to Khartoum.
Cuban troops, who are assisting the Angolan Government forces, made preparations here today for what appeared to be a new offensive against guerrillas said to belong to the opposition National Union for the Total Independence of Angola. Guerrilla attacks have increased in the last few weeks to the north and to the east of this city, which once served as capital for the National Union, or Unita, as the Western‐supported movement is generally known. Most of the attacks have been directed against the Benguela railroad, which is the lifeline of central Angola and which used to be an important link to Zambia and Zaire. There have also been reports of ambushes on the highway between Huambo, formerly called Nova Lisboa, and Hie, 100 miles to the east, as well as on the road north to Luanda in the area of Alto Hama, about 40 miles from Huambo. In Luanda tonight, the Ministry of Information denied news agency reports from Lusaka, Zambia, of possible talks between the Angolan President, Agostinho Neto, and the Unita leader, Jonas Savimbi, describing such a meeting as “a historical impossibility.”
Carrying out the Ford administration’s new policy of helping to bring an end to white minority rule in Rhodesia, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will meet in Europe this month with Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa. The meeting is expected to take place in the week of June 20, when Mr. Kissinger plans to be in Paris and London. Administration officials said that the meeting, the first between a high‐level American official and the South African leader, was discussed this afternoon when Mr. Kissinger conferred at the State Department with the South African Ambassador, R. F. Botha. This was the second time in a month that Mr. Kissinger had met Mr. Botha after having snubbed him since the Ambassador arrived in Washington last September.
Changes in South-West Africa’s Namibia’s apartheid system that will bring the territory a step closer to multiracialism were proposed by delegates to the constitutional conference in Windhoek. A conference spokesman said the proposals, providing equal conditions for all races in hotels, restaurants, resorts, prisons and state institutions, were not immediately binding in law, but were expected to be automatically accepted by the South-West African legislative assembly.
Jimmy Carter said the Democratic Party should not adopt a “wish box or Christmas tree” platform filled with excessively costly and unrealistic promises. He said at a news conference in Cleveland that the nature of the party platform was of “great concern to me.” The platform, he said, represented “the word of the Democratic Party” and should be written with the same “sense of responsibility as a budget,” and that “I want to be sure people are not misled by promises that can’t be kept.” The remarks may evoke new criticisms from those in the left wing of the party who feel the former Georgia Governor has ne wholehearted commitment to liberal principles. It may also permit the splintered “stop Carter movement” to wage a symbolic fight over the platform at the national convention in July in the hope of eroding his strength in subsequent balloting for the nomination. The Democratic Platform Committee finished hearing four days of testimony on May 20. The drafting subcommittee will meet in Washington from June 11 through 13. The full committee will then begin consideration of a draft on June 14, in line with party reforms that call for adequate preconvention consideration by delegates of a proposed platform.
Senator Hubert Humphrey said that he would probably begin an active pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination if Jimmy Carter does badly in next Tuesday’s three primaries. He said he would end his non-candidacy only if he was convinced that Mr. Carter had fewer than 1,200 to 1,300 delegates of the 1,505 needed for nomination “really solidly nailed down.” According to The New York Times’s tabulation, the former Georgia Governor already has 905 delegates publicly committed to him, and he is believed to have about 75 more coming as a result of private pledges and delegate‐selection processes that are partly complete. Thus he would have to be held to fewer than 200 in Tuesday’s final primaries if he is not to approach Mr. Humphrey’s lower figure. “He’s very close,” the Senator said of Mr. Carter. “But have the sense that he’s lost a lot of his zip.”
The California hometown candidates, former Governor Ronald Reagan, a Republican, and Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr., a Democrat, have strengthened their leads as the June 8 California Presidential primary nears, according to a poll released today.
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., resuming his home‐state campaigning for the Democratic Presidental nomination, carefully straddled today what is probably the touchiest political issue of the moment in California. The issue is Proposition 15, an initiative measure (a measure that provides for direct citizen legislation) that would permit future nuclear power plant operations in the state only under stringent conditions. The proposition will be voted on in Tuesday’s primary election. And as opponents and proponents have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in their battle for support, Governor Brown had been asked repeatedly in recent weeks where he stood on the measure. He has regularly declined to answer, saying that he was waiting for the State Legislature to act on three bills that would provide nuclear safeguards under somewhat less stringent terms than Proposition 15. The bills were passed early this week and the Governor signed them today.
Attempting to placate his angry colleagues in the House, Representative Wayne Hays agreed to give up temporarily one of his four committee chairmanships, but only stirred new demands that he step down from his other posts as well. The Ohio Democrat told a news conference that he would ask next week that a tempo rare chairman be elected to replace him as head of the Democratic National Congressional Committee, which distributes campaign funds to House members seeking re‐election. But he refused to give up his other major source of power the chairmanship of the House Administration Committee, saying merely that he would call a meeting next week to discuss with committee members “any questions concerning my role as chairman.” The reference to his “role as chairman” stems from statements made by Elizabeth Ray, former secretary on the committee staff, that Mr. Hays had put her on the payroll at salary of $14.000 a year. She said that she did virtually no work for the committee, but was Mr. Hays’s mistress.
Breaking up major U.S. oil companies would disrupt the nation’s economy and jeopardize national security, Administration officials testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. The hearing was on a bill that would force divestiture of the 18 largest oil companies. Federal Energy Administrator Frank G. Zarb said the divestiture would “tend to reduce supplies and place upward pressure on prices.” Roger E. Shields, a deputy assistant secretary of defense, said the action “would be highly detrimental to the nation’s security and its defense in the coming years.”
Senate leaders mustered enough votes — 67 to 22 — for a successful drive to halt a filibuster by opponents of a controversial antitrust bill. Numerous amendments remain to be considered, however, and there are other parliamentary hurdles to overcome before a final vote on the bill. The legislation would empower states to sue businesses for treble damages on behalf of consumers for price-fixing and other antitrust violations. It also would make it easier for the Justice Department to block corporate mergers and give it broad new investigatory powers.
George H.W. Bush, Director of Central Intelligence, has informed the Senate leadership that his agency intends to resume destroying its records, including those used by Senate intelligence and Presidential commission investigators. Mr. Bush informed the Senate Democratic leader, Mike Mansfield, of Montana, and the Senate Republican leader, Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, of the agency’s intention in a letter written yesterday and released by Mr. Scott’s office today. Mr. Bush said the agency, at the request of Senators Mansfield and Scott, had not destroyed any records, including routine ones, since Jan. 27, 1975, the date the old Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, headed by Senator Frank Church, the Idaho Democrat, was formed. “The purpose of this letter is to advise you that it is our intention to proceed with destruction of records, now that the Select Committee has completed its investigation and Issued its final report,” Mr. Bush said. “We have so advised Senator Church.”
Attorney General Edward H. Levi said the FBI had asked his permission to discontinue its program of compiling computerized criminal records on thousands of individuals. Levi, who said he hasn’t made up his mind, said the “final decision will be difficult because of the potential value of the computerized criminal history program.” His remarks were in a speech prepared for the National Association of Attorneys General. The 1970 plan called for state and local law enforcement agencies to supply millions of criminal records to the FBI’s National Crime Information Center. The NCIC would be the national center for information requested by all law enforcement officials. So far, Levi noted, only eight states have agreed to participate.
The newly constituted Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union set as its first major goal today the organization of 44,000 employees of J. P. Stevens & Company, the giant Southern textile chain. As an initial step in the drive, the 4,000 delegates at the merger convention of the clothing and textile unions approved a “massive national consumer boycott” of Stevens products, such as sheets, towels, tablecloths blankets and carpets that are produced under various brand names. The company also sells many of its textile products to other manufacturers, which could add complications to the implementation of the proposed boycott. George Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, told delegates that the boycott and organizing drive would have the full support of the 14.2‐million‐member labor federation.
Former Washington Post pressman Jeffrey D. Collins was sentenced to a year on probation in District of Columbia Superior Court in exchange for testimony before a grand jury investigating the destruction of presses and violence during the pressmen union’s strike at the Washington Post last October. Collins and Clarence E. Goodwin, another pressman whose sentencing was delayed until September, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges under terms of plea bargaining with federal prosecutors.
Sprinkler systems to fight fires should be required in nursing homes, the General Accounting Office said. The recommendation was prompted by two Chicago-area nursing home fires earlier this year in which 31 died. Approximately half of the 16,500 nursing homes receiving federal Medicare and Medicaid payments are equipped with sprinklers. GAO, the investigative agency of Congress said the two Chicago nursing homes, although in “substantial compliance” with regulations, might have saved lives if sprinklers had been installed.
More than a million gallons of sludge flowed to dozens of nearby beaches when two sewage storage tanks on a small island off Long Island’s south shore near Long Beach exploded. One of the two boys who had been fishing was rescued from the sludge, critically injured, but his companion was missing. The Nassau County Health Department closed 63 beaches, and inoculated policemen, Coast Guardsmen and public employees working in the explosion area against tetanus, typhoid and hepatitis.
Art experts who had worked for a year and a half in an appraisal put a value of $260 million on Pablo Picasso’s collection of his own works, including 1,185 paintings. The figure was disclosed in Paris in a court hearing on a petition by Picasso’s 24-year-old granddaughter, Marina, one of his six heirs, for a renegotiation of an agreement on dividing the artist’s estate. With real estate and Picasso’s bank account, the estate’s total value may be $1.01 billion.
The parents of Karen Anne Quinlan have arranged with The Ladies Home Journal for the magazine to carry their story in a future issue, the magazine’s editor in chief, Lenore Hershey, said last night. Mrs. Hershey refused, however, to disclose details of the arrangements with the Quinlans, who attracted worldwide attention in their legal fight to allow their 22‐year‐old daughter, who has been in a coma for 13 months, to “die with dignity.” Declaring that the magazine would issue a statement today about the matter, the editor in chief said: “This is such a delicate matter, such a personal situation, I don’t want to make a statement until we can make one with the Quinlans about the arrangements.”
Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” goes gold.
Major League Baseball:
The Red Sox send Bernie Carbo to Milwaukee in exchange for pitcher Tom Murphy and outfielder Bobby Darwin.
After allowing two runs in the first inning, Luis Tiant settled down and pitched the Red Sox to an 8–2 victory over the Yankees, marking the 21st time that the veteran righthander had beaten the New York club in 30 career decisions. The Red Sox quickly put Tiant on the road to triumph by exploding for six runs in the second. Cecil Cooper and Jim Rice each drove in two runs with singles during the outburst.
Don Money and Robin Yount drove in two runs apiece as the Brewers defeated the Tigers, 6–2, for Bill Travers’ fourth straight victory. Money accounted for his RBIs with a triple and homer, while Yount hit a pair of sacrifice flies.
Jose Cruz and Cliff Johnson walked with the bases loaded in the seventh inning to give the Astros two runs for a 5–3 victory over the Reds. Santo Alcala, a previous winner of five straight decisions, gave up singles by Larry Dierker and Cesar Cedeno and passed Bob Watson to load the bases before walking Cruz to force in the run that broke a 3–3 tie. Alcala then went to a full count on Johnson before being replaced by Rawly Eastwick, who issued the fourth ball to force in the extra marker.
A single by Bill Russell with the bases loaded in the 10th inning enabled the Dodgers to edge the Giants, 3–2, and gave reliever Charlie Hough his seventh victory without a defeat this season. Ron Cey led off the stanza with a single and moved up on a sacrifice. After an intentional pass to Dusty Baker, pinch-hitter Manny Mota was safe on an error to fill the sacks for Russell’s game-winning hit off Gary Lavelle.
Don Stanhouse collected his first victory as a starter and his first complete game since 1973 by pitching the Expos to a 7–1 victory over the Pirates. Stanhouse, who was with the Rangers in 1973, settled his own decision by driving in two runs with a single in the second inning. The other runs for the Expos, who broke a six-game losing streak, included homers by Barry Foote and Gary Carter.
Dooming himself with a wild pitch, Mickey Lolich was the loser when the Cubs defeated the Mets, 2–1. Ray Burris, who ended his personal five-game losing streak as the Cubs’ winner, singled and scored their first run in the third inning. The Mets, who suffered their 11th loss in 13 games, tied the score in the fifth on a double by Wayne Garrett and single by Ed Kranepool. Dave Rosello singled with one out in the Cubs’ seventh and was forced by Larry Biittner, but Lolich then uncorked a wild pitch to allow Biittner to take second and Mick Kelleher followed with a single for the winning run.
The Phillies’ string of 13 straight victories in road games was halted by the Cardinals, 7–1. Bob Forsch, starting for the 11th time, achieved his first victory of the season, scattering seven hits. Larry Christenson, who had won five games in a row, absorbed the loss. The Phils committed four errors as compared with their previous total of only 26 for the first 43 games of the year.
New York Yankees 2, Boston Red Sox 8
Milwaukee Brewers 6, Detroit Tigers 2
Cincinnati Reds 3, Houston Astros 5
San Francisco Giants 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Montreal Expos 7
Chicago Cubs 2, New York Mets 1
Philadelphia Phillies 1, St. Louis Cardinals 7
The stock market closed with a small loss yesterday after trading all day on the upside in a narrow range. There was no major news development during trading hours. However, after the market closed, the Federal Reserve Board reported that the basic money supply — M‐1 — was unchanged at a seasonally adjusted average of $303.1 billion in the week ended May 26. Some observers felt that the downturn in the final half‐hour of trading could be traced to anticipation of release of this report.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 973.80 (-2.13, -0.22%)
Born:
Jamie McMurray, American NASCAR driver (Daytona 500 Winner, 2010), and NASCAR analyst for Fox and The CW, in Joplin, Missouri.
Brian Gowins, NFL kicker (Chicago Bears), in Birmingham, Alabama.
Yuri Ruley, American punk rock drummer (MxPx), in Tacoma, Washington.
Died:
Jinvijay (Kishansinh Parmar), 88, Indian Jainist faith scholar.
Viggo Kampmann, 65, Prime Minister of Denmark from 1960 to 1962.
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