The Soviet party chief, Leonid I. Brezhnev, complained today of a “noticeable increase” in efforts abroad to hamper East-West accommodation and declared that the Soviet Union was “fully determined to oppose” such a trend. “Those who connive at the campaign of the opponents of the relaxation of tension and those who succumb to their pressure for these or those temporary considerations assume a heavy responsibility,” Mr. Brezhnev said. He did not identify the targets of his remarks. But they seemed to imply a rebuke of President Ford, who has taken a harder line on the Soviet Union during the American election campaign, to the Kremlin’s discomfort. Hegemony Effort Denied Mr. Brezhnev denied charges that the Soviet Union was using détente to mask aggressive ambitions. “We do not strive for hegemony.” “We do not need it,” he said. The occasion for his comments was a formal Kremlin dinner for Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India, who arrived here today for an official visit and was met with one of the warmest receptions accorded a non-Communist leader in years.
A State Department official gave a Senate committee a report on the status of the microwave radiation problem at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Lawrence S. Eagleburger, deputy undersecretary of state for management, gave the report to a closed session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. No details were released, but a committee member, Senator Clifford Case (R-New Jersey) said later that the report was “reassuring.”
A number of European health specialists are seriously questioning the wisdom of the American plan to immunize almost the entire population with a new influenza vaccine. They say the risk of adverse reactions can be justified only if the risk of a serious outbreak is substantial. Although some European governments are stockpiling vaccine, none has considered mass vaccination.
The Genoa state attorney, longtime foe of Italy’s left-wing extremists, was shot to death in downtown Genoa. His bodyguard and driver also were slain. Francesco Coco had been investigating an urban guerrilla group called the “Red Brigades.” A left-wing extremist group claimed responsibility, and a government spokesman called the death a political murder. But there were also reports that the death was ordered by the Mafia.
The Spanish parliament opened debate on legislation that would authorize political parties for the first time in 37 years. The two-bill package is sponsored by the government of King Juan Carlos. One measure outlines provisions for the functioning of political parties and the second makes revisions in the penal code. Under the proposals, the Communists and a handful of other parties would remain illegal.
The United States and Israel walked out on a speech by a Palestine Liberation Organization spokesman at the U.N. International Labor Organization conference in Geneva. The PLO has been given observer status at the conference. The 132-member ILO is discussing ways to reduce world unemployment. The U.S. and Israeli walkout came when the PLO representative accused Israel of “crimes against humanity.”
American banks have recently complied with thousands of Arab requests to participate in transactions involving the economic boycott of Israel, a Commerce Department official told Congress today. Rauer Meyer, director of the department’s Office of Export Administration, said the transactions were carried out at the rate of more than 1,000 a month during the four‐month period ended in March. He said that in only 72 cases in each of the four months, on an average did the banks refuse to facilitate payments between parties who had agreed to at least one restrictive provision. The data, derived from a survey of 119 banks, were presented to a House Government Operations subcommittee looking into the Government’s response to boycott.
Beirut was in a state of siege with continued shelling and fighting in the Moslem neighborhoods of the Lebanese capital. Western diplomats reported more Syrian troops, armor and artillery entering the country. President Hafez al-Assad seems to have withheld an all-out attack. A high level delegation representing Syria, Libya, Algeria and the Palestine guerrilla movement arrived in Beirut on a mission to defuse the crisis between Syrian and Palestinian forces.
The United States expressed concern again that the conflict in Lebanon, which the United States had been unable to influence, might touch off a wider war. In Washington the State Department avoided condemning either the Syrians or their leftist opponents. Privately, officials said the Syrians might have underestimated their opposition. Their failure to impose prompt order in Lebanon and the stepped-up fighting was thought to increase the risk of intervention from Israel or from other Arab countries.
The Arab League, meeting here in emergency session last night and this morning, has decided to send a four‐man delegation to Syria to propose a token Arab peace‐keeping force as well as an immediate cease‐fire and withdrawal of Syrian troops, according to informed sources here. The delegation will fly to Damascus, the Syrian capital, early this morning to make the proposals to President Hafez al‐Assad, the sources said. The members will then return to Cairo and the Arab League foreign ministers and other envoys will reconvene, probably tonight to make a final decision. The sending of a token Arab peace‐keeping force was first suggested by Egypt several month ago. At that time it was not taken seriously in the Arab world.
There are no prisoners in the Lebanese civil war. They are put to death — often slowly. In 14 months of fighting, 18,000 to 20,000 people are estimated to have died, mostly civilians caught near their homes under indiscriminate shelling. On-the-spot slayings and kidnappings on religious grounds have been daily occurrences.
Mexico pledged to continue its program of eradicating opium poppies on a year-round basis. Mexico’s attorney general, Pedro Ojeda-Paullada, and U.S. Attorney General Edward H. Levi issued a statement after talks in Washington that said the program “can be expected to reduce the availability of Mexican heroin in the United States late this year.” U.S. authorities estimate that 80% of the heroin in the United States comes from Mexico.
Uruguay’s ambassador to Paraguay, Carlos Abdala, died in Asuncion from a bullet wound suffered when an anti-Communist Yugoslav gunman mistook him for the Yugoslav ambassador. His body was placed in Government House for an official wake decreed by President Alfredo Stroessner. It was to be flown to Montevideo, Uruguay, later.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said United States relations with Chile would remain cool as long as the military government violated what he called “elemental international standards of human rights.” Attending the meeting of the Organization of American States in Santiago, the Chilean capital, he endorsed the criticism of the military government by the human-rights commission of the O.A.S. He credited President Pinochet’s government with offering some “hopeful prospects” of reform.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee delayed approval of the promotion of a former official at the U.S. Embassy in Chile who served there during the presidency of the late Salvador Allende. Harry Shlaudeman, ambassador to Venezuela, has been nominated by President Ford to be assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs. His nomination has been opposed in the Senate because of his alleged role in activities against Allende. The committee delayed action until it could determine the attitude of Latin American countries toward the nomination.
Guerrillas demanding independence for the former Spanish Saharan territory that Mauritania and Morocco have divided attacked this capital twice yesterday. A Government communique issued early today said guerrillas subjected the city to a 10-minute shelling last night from about six miles away. No casualties or damage were reported.
Donald H. Rumsfeld said in Washington that he would probably visit Kenya and Zaire next week, making him the first U.S. defense secretary to go to Africa. He made the comment before flying to Portugal for talks on how the United States might help its Atlantic Alliance ally after its period of political unrest.
The Angolan Government today scheduled a mass rally for tomorrow afternoon to show support for the forthcoming trial of two Americans and 11 other foreigners as mercenaries in the recent civil war. For days, the nationalized press and radio have led a campaign against the 13 men who were captured in northern Angola in February while with the Western‐supported National Front for the Liberation of Angola. The state prosecution has demanded the death penalty for: the prisoners — nine Britons, one Irishman and one Argentine in addition to the Americans. Antimercenary posters have been put up on the walls of the Palace of Commerce, where the trial is to open by Saturday.
The final presidential primaries for the 1976 U.S. presidential election were conducted, with voting in the states of California, Ohio and New Jersey. Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter won the Ohio Democratic primary and gained more than 200 delegate votes overall, putting him within 400 votes of the nomination. Carter estimated that he had at least 1,250 of the necessary 1,505 delegates needed for a win on the first ballot and received endorsements from several prominent Democrats the next day, in what The New York Times described as “capping one of the most brilliantly plotted nominations in American political history.” In the race for the Republican Party nomination, incumbent U.S. President Gerald Ford had a narrow lead of 105 delegates over former California Governor Ronald Reagan, although the outcome of the nomination depended on “a six-week battle through 11 state conventions.”
Jimmy Carter won a landslide victory in Ohio that gave him more than 100 additional national convention delegates and made it probable that he would finally emerge with a gain of 200 in the day’s three Democratic presidential primaries. He lost to Governor Jerry Brown of California in Mr. Brown’s home state and trailed an uncommitted slate in New Jersey. Mr. Carter said he had talked to several rivals by telephone and that they had “indicated” they thought that he would be the nominee. On the Republican side, President Ford scored triumphs over Ronald Reagan in Ohio and New Jersey but lost in California to Mr. Reagan, a former governor of that state.
New Jersey Democrats gave the uncommitted slate of delegates supporting Mr. Humphrey and Mr. Brown an apparent upset victory over the Carter slate. Mr. Carter trailed badly in districts such as Essex County, which he had been heavily counting on with the backing of the local party organization. Democratic leaders said that the Brown-Humphrey candidates had reaped a windfall of votes in districts that had been expected to support Representative Morris Udall but apparently switched to the uncommitted slate instead.
The swollen Snake River is receding now from the towns and farms it flooded when a controversial federal irrigation dam collapsed near here Saturday. But a flood of citizen anger and frustration is rising over who should he blamed for the disaster, who should pay for he widespread damage and whether the Teton Dam should be rebuilt, given reports that it was built on an unstable base. The residents of Rexburg and half a dozen other communities strung out 50 miles or more downriver have begun moving back into their silt‐filled homes and stores — those that are still standing — and some housewives and merchants can hardly control their anger.
Senators exchanged angry shouts as a conservative filibuster lengthened into the evening and halted action on a major antitrust reform bill. The Senate finally adjourned after 16 roll call votes, most of them procedural rather than substantive, with tempers flaring and no final vote on the bill in sight. Senator John O. Pastore (D-Rhode Island) forced the last roll call on a motion to recess until 9 AM, telling the bill’s opponents, “You’ve wasted the whole goddamn day on silly roll calls, we might as well have another one.” The legislation is designed to change long-standing law governing price fixing and other activities in restraint of trade.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld today cleared Dr. Malcolm R. Currie, the director of defense research and engineering, of any conflict of interest in his involvement in a controversial missile program being pressed by Rockwell International. Senator Thomas F. Eagleton responded with a statement that the Rumsfeld investigation was “superficial” and amounted to a “whitewash” of Dr. Currie, the third‐ranking official in the Pentagon. The Missouri Democrat demanded the investigation after The New York Times reported April 15 that, after Dr. Currie returned from a Labor Day weekend last year at a Rockwell International fishing lodge in the Bahamas, he became tively involved in defending the Condor missile, which was being developed by Rockwell. The Condor, a television-guided, air‐to‐surface missile being developed for Navy attack planes, represents an attempt by Rockwell to get back into the military missile business.
The Central Intelligence Agency has found additional records on 2,000 persons whose mail was opened in its mail interception program after it had informed a court here six months ago that a search of its files had been complete. The discovery came as the agency disclosed discrepancies between affidavits to the court and statistics on the number of records kept on a microfilm index, according to a report filed in Federal court here yesterday. Besides the number of additional records uncovered — a small percentage of the 191,873 letters the agency now says it opened over the 20‐year history of the program — the disclosure raises the issue of the C.I.A.’s credibility in its responses to requests by individuals for information kept on them.
Two Indian men went on trial for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents here this week in a case the American Indian Movement hopes to prove shows systematic government harassment and an F.B.I. reign of terror on the troubled Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The men. Robert Eugene Robideau and Darelle Dean Butler, are accused of taking part in the killing of the agents, Jack R. Cofer and Ronald A. Williams, in a shootout on the reservation last June 25. An Indian man was also killed. In his opening argument today, Robert Sikma, Assistant United States Attorney for the northern district of Iowa, said the government had weapons and fingerprint evidence linking the two men to the crime. He also said the defendants admitted “direct participation” in the murders to cell mates while in jail.
Proposed new regulations by the Internal Revenue Service to require church-related charitable, educational and welfare agencies to file annual reports with the government “amputate” the ministry of the churches, the U.S. Catholic Conference said in Washington. The conference, action arm of the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops, circulated testimony by its general counsel that said the proposed regulations take away the right of churches to define themselves and their ministries.
Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley called on the courts to shut down the headquarters of the American Nazi Party. Officials said party members led a “white power rally” in which 14 were injured and 32 arrested Sunday. Members of the Nazi, or National Socialist Party, have been named by police as ringleaders of a crowd of whites who attacked blacks with bottles, bricks and baseball bats in the Marquette Park district. Some of the participants were dressed in Ku Klux Klan outfits, officials said, and had gathered in anticipation of an open housing march by the “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Movement,” which failed to develop. The crowd then turned on any blacks in the area, mainly motorists passing through.
The police in Chicago blamed Puerto Rican terrorists today for four bombings that shook the downtown section and injured five persons last night. The damage was slight — broken windows amounting to $6,000 — at the four buildings that were hit. Two of the injured remained hospitalized in satisfactory condition today. All were sprayed with glass and debris, which fell on theatergoers at 11 PM. The building targets were Police Headquarters at South State and 11th Streets; the John Hancock Building on North Michigan, and the Bank Leumi Le Israel and the First National Bank Plaza, situated within four blocks of each other in the Loop. The injuries occurred near First National.
A judge cannot gag the news media for the purpose of a “fair trial” until all other possible measures have been taken, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled. The vote was 4 to 3 on a question raised earlier this year by the Akron Beacon Journal, which sought an order against Judge Joseph Kainrad of Portage County Common Pleas Court. Kainrad issued a gag order regarding a murder trial before another judge because testimony might prejudice the fair trial rights of one of the defendants. The high court said such a gag could not be ordered “until all other measures within the power of the court (juror questioning and sequestration, changes of venue) to ensure a fair trial have been found to be unavailing or deficient.”
Plans for a $125-per-plastic-plate picnic sponsored by the New York Democratic State Committee on the lawn of Gracie Mansion next Monday were canceled by Mayor Beame after Richard Rosenbaum, the Republican state chairman, threatened to enjoin it as a violation of the law against using public buildings for party fundraising.
The Parole Board of the U.S. state of Nebraska voted, 4 to 1, to release 32-year-old Caril Ann Fugate from prison after she had served almost 18 years in prison for assisting her boyfriend, Charles Starkweather in the murder of 11 people in 1958. Fugate had been 14 years old when she accompanied Starkweather on a murder rampage in Nebraska and Wyoming, and was convicted of first degree murder. Starkweather had been put to death in the electric chair. Fugate was released from the Nebraska Center for Women, in York, Nebraska, on June 20.
A Lutheran minister has been accused of stealing $25,000 from his church’s collections. He denied the charge. An arrest warrant was served on the Rev. John Bergstresser, pastor for 18 years of the Grace Lutheran church in the Philadelphia suburb of Royersford, and a hearing was set for next Wednesday. Officials said the total stolen over 12 years was about $65,000 but the amount was fixed at $25,000 because of a five-year statute of limitations. Sunday collections at the church, which has about 1,500 members, average between $1,200 and $2,000. Investigators say about $100 a week was stolen.
Marketers of the “X-11” diet pill must stop using advertisements that claim its pill has a unique ingredient allowing people to lose weight without eating less. The claims are false, a Federal Trade Commission administrative law judge, Daniel Hanscom, said in Washington. The key ingredient, phenylpropanalomine, is used in several other over-the-counter diet products, he noted. X-11 is distributed by Porter & Dietsch of St. Paul and sold by the Pay’N Save drugstore chain, which is principally in the Northwest and Northern California.
A new subatomic particle that physicists believe has the characteristic of “charm” has been discovered in experiments at the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
The first close-up pictures the world has ever seen of the surface of Mars are scheduled to be shown to millions of television viewers on July 4, minutes after the Viking landing unit as to touch down on the planet’s surface.
Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks.
The Houston Astros, picking first in the baseball draft, select Arizona State pitcher Floyd Bannister, TSN‘s College Player of the Year. Bannister is one of 12 eventual major leaguers from the ASU team, which finished 3rd in the College World Series. The Tigers take pitcher Pat Underwood with the 2nd pick. Bannister is just one of three collegiate players taken in the first round. The Braves and Brewers use the 3rd and 4th picks respectively on high schoolers Ken Smith and Bill Bordley, and the Cubs with the 7th take HS pitcher Herm Segelky. The Tigers take a pair of gems, snagging Alan Trammell in the 2nd round and Jack Morris in the 5th. outfielder Rickey Henderson lasts until the 4th round and Wade Boggs till the 7th round.
The Detroit Tigers send veteran Joe Coleman, 10–18 in 1975, to the Chicago Cubs for cash and a player to be named later.
Fritz Peterson, who was 0-3 with the Indians before being traded, made his initial appearance with the Texas Rangers and gained credit for a 6–3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. The defeat was the eighth in their last 10 games for the Orioles. Gene Clines knocked in two Ranger runs with a pair of singles, while Jim Sundberg and Jeff Burroughs each added a run-scoring double.
Gene Tenace, who had hit 24 or more homers in each of the last three seasons, whacked his first two round-trippers of 1976 and drove in three runs to pace the Athletics to a 6–5 victory over the Red Sox. However, the A’s put over their deciding tally in the ninth on a single by Don Baylor and double by Joe Rudi.
The Braves extended their winning streak to five games with a 7–3 victory over the Cubs, who suffered their fifth defeat in a row. Jerry Royster rapped a two-run homer for the Braves, while Rod Gilbreath had four hits in five trips, drove in two runs and scored two.
The relief pitching of Bill Campbell, who allowed only one hit in the last 5 ⅓ innings, enabled the Twins to defeat the Indians, 3–1. Rod Carew was the standout for the Twins on offense, hitting three singles, stealing three bases and scoring two runs.
Two unearned runs, both scored by Larry Dierker, enabled the Astros’ pitcher to shut out the Cardinals, 2–0. Dierker was safe on an error in the sixth inning and eventually scored the Astros’ first run on a single by Bob Watson. Dierker singled in the eighth and came around to score on two throwing errors by Hector Cruz.
A two-run homer by Jason Thompson in the second inning and another run in the third on a double by Dan Meyer and single by Rusty Staub gave the Tigers a 3–1 victory over the Royals.
Piling up four runs in the fourth inning and six more in the fifth, the Phillies rolled over the Dodgers, 14–2, with 20 hits that included two or more for each of eight different players.
A winner for the fifth straight time, Bill Travers lowered his league-leading earned run average to 1.73 while pitching the Brewers to a 2–0 victory over the White Sox. A double by Von Joshua and single by Don Money accounted for the first Brewer run in the fifth inning and the other scored on a wild throw by Brian Downing in the seventh.
The Yankees did not exactly knock down the fences, but they finally gave Dock Ellis enough runs to enable the righthander to beat the Angels, 4–2, snapping his personal four-game losing streak. The Yankees previously had scored a total of only three runs for Ellis while he was on the mound in his four losses, but this time he had the support of a homer by Graig Nettles and a two-run triple by Chris Chambliss.
Joe Morgan smashed two homers, giving the star second baseman a total of four in two consecutive games, as the Reds knocked off the Pirates, 10–5. Morgan also hit a sacrifice fly to account for three RBIs. Ken Griffey also batted in three runs with a homer and double, while Santo Alcala gained his sixth victory in seven decisions and marked the occasion by driving in a run with a single for the first RBI of his major league career.
Posting the second shutout in his last three starts, Dave Freisleben pitched the Padres to a 3–0 victory over the Mets, allowing only three hits. Freisleben also scored the Padres’ first run, hitting a triple in the sixth inning and trotting home on another three-bagger by Enzo Hernandez.
Although falling two outs short of his first complete game of the season, Woodie Fryman nevertheless gained his seventh victory when the Expos defeated the Giants, 9–4. Only five of the Expos’ runs were earned as a result of five errors by the Giants. Tim Foli batted in three runs and Larry Parrish accounted for two to pace the Expos’ scoring.
Texas Rangers 6, Baltimore Orioles 3
Oakland Athletics 6, Boston Red Sox 5
Atlanta Braves 7, Chicago Cubs 3
Minnesota Twins 3, Cleveland Indians 1
St. Louis Cardinals 0, Houston Astros 2
Detroit Tigers 3, Kansas City Royals 1
Philadelphia Phillies 14, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Chicago White Sox 0, Milwaukee Brewers 2
California Angels 2, New York Yankees 4
Cincinnati Reds 10, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
New York Mets 0, San Diego Padres 3
Montreal Expos 9, San Francisco Giants 4
A fire drill that delayed the opening of New York Stock Exchange trading 15 minutes was among the market’s highlights yesterday as investors appeared to await the results of the last three Presidential primaries. Inspired largely by selective buying, the market reached its high for the day at 2 PM, when the Dow Jones industrial average hit 965.46, up 7.37 points. But by the close, the Dow’s advance had been pared to 1.88 points at 959.97.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 959.97 (+1.88, +0.20%)
Born:
Lindsay Davenport, American professional tennis player, ranked #1 for the WTA and winner of the women’s singles at the U.S. Open, French Open and Australian Open between 1998 and 2000; Olympic Gold Medal, 1996; in Palos Verdes, California.
Kenji Johjima, Japanese National Team, NPB and MLB catcher (Olympics, bronze medal, 2004; 10 × NPB All-Star; Japan Series 1999, 2003 Fukuoka Daiei / Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks; Seattle Mariners), in Sasebo, Japan.
Joe Montgomery, NFL running back (New York Giants, Carolina Panthers), in Robbins, Illinois.
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