The Kingdom of Spain approved the legalization of political parties for the first time since 1939, when the government of General Francisco Franco had entered a ban to opposition groups after his victory in the Spanish Civil War. The measure was approved by a 338 to 91 majority of the members present in the 561-member Cortes, Spain’s parliament, with 24 abstentions and 108 members choosing not to attend the session. Like most of the government’s changes, this one contained restrictions. The government will have the power to accept or reject a party and has already made clear its intention to use this power against the Communists. Similarly, a law passed last month widening the right of assembly gives the government considerable discretionary power over who can meet and where. Just before today’s vote, Adolfo Suarez, the minister in charge of the National Movement, the single‐party system devised by Franco, sought to persuade the deputies that the bill was a way of “completing the work” of Franco. “The Government, which is the legitimate manager of this historic moment, has the responsibility of setting in motion the necessary mechanisms for the definitive consolidation of a modern democracy.” Mr. Suarez said. “To achieve this, the starting point lies in the recognition of a pluralistic society.”
The Labour Party government of British Prime Minister James Callaghan survived a no confidence motion brought by the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition Margaret Thatcher. Britain’s minority Labor government defeated a Conservative Party no-confidence motion. Tory leader Margaret Thatcher failed to rally all the minority parties behind her motion — the first against the Labor government since it took power two years ago — and it was defeated by a vote of 309 to 290 in the House of Commons. A victory would have resulted in Britain’s third general election in three years.
In Moscow, 14 U.S. correspondents protested to the editors of the Soviet weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta over accusations that three of their colleagues were agents of the Central Intelligence Agency. A joint letter said the correspondents reject and resent charges against the three in an article May 26. The United States protested to the Soviet Foreign Ministry over the charges against George Krimsky of the Associated Press, Christopher Wren of the New York Times and Alfred Friendly Jr. of Newsweek.
James J. Pelosi, a West Pointer who was given the silent treatment by his classmates despite his exoneration on cheating charges, has won an Army Commendation Medal for saving an East German man injured in a traffic accident. Pelosi, now a first lieutenant in the Berlin Brigade’s Special Troops Unit, administered first aid to the man and was credited with saving his life.
Hundreds of Turkish paramilitary forces and riot police with tanks and armored cars captured three leftwing guerrillas, ending a 24-hour siege in which six men died. The fighting began when members of the Turkish People’s Liberation Army, using hand grenades and automatic weapons, killed a policeman and injured four others during a police raid in the southeastern Turkish town of Gaziantep. Two more policemen and three of the guerrillas also were killed in gun battles after the rebels took refuge in a private home.
With 11 days to go before the voting in Italy, the emerging consensus is that the parliamentary election will solve little and leave Italy in deep difficulty for some time to come. If the Communists do not get into the Cabinet this time, there will be trouble, many diplomats and politicians believe. If the Communists do get in, they add, there will be trouble. Accordingly. Italians are hardly in a hopeful mood as the polling of June 20 and 21 approaches. They realize that this will be the most important election since 1948. when the Christian Democrats emerged to dominate political life, but they are not convinced that the outcome will be all that decisive. The conventional wisdom has it that the strength of the Christian Democrats, who won 35 percent in regional and local voting last year, and the Communists, who got 33 percent, will remain about the same. If so, Italy would be in for a long period of political paralysis that would raise questions as to its governability.
Although they are deeply preoccupied with the possible entry of Communists into Italy’s Government, top NATO officials said here today that the alliance was generally in a better mood that it had been in years. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, arriving here this evening for the semiannual meeting of Defense Ministers, said at an airport news conference: “Even with problems in one or more members, the basic health of the alliance is good.” He noted that because of a growing awareness in the United States of the Soviet military buildup, the Ford Administration was able to get a nine percent real increase in this year’s defense budget. “I am personally convinced.” he said, “that the awareness will grow in the period ahead, in the United States and in our 14 allied nations of NATO as well.” Mr. Rumsfeld, who had earlier stopped in Lisbon for talks with Portuguese military leaders, said he found a “very positive and constructive” attitude on the part of the Portuguese about playing a larger role in NATO. He said he hoped the United States and other allies would help in encouraging this trend.
Britain experienced an increase in most types of crime during 1975, Sir Robert Mark, police commissioner for London, said in his annual report. He noted a disturbing growth of violence in society and admitted that relationships between police and black youths were bad. He said that 452,578 serious crimes had occurred in the last year, a 9% increase over 1974.
President Ford is dispatching one of his closest and most senior aides to the Middle East to study American help for Israel and Arab nations, White House officials said. They stressed that the 10-day mission of James Lynn, director of the Office of Management and Budget, has nothing directly to do with the fighting in Lebanon.
Reports from Beirut said Syrian armor had halted in the mountains east of the Lebanese capital. Cease-fire negotiations were reportedly being conducted by two Arab mediators, Libya’s Prime Minister and Algeria’s Minister of Education, meeting with Syrian and Palestinian leaders. But the Muslim neighborhoods of Beirut came under intense artillery, rocket and mortar fire for several hours soon after, and fighting was reported from the northern port of Tripoli, where the Syrians’ position was said to be fairly strong. Beirut, meanwhile, was filled with rumors about the formation of an Arab peacekeeping force that, according to some accounts, would supplement the Syrian forces already in the country. Hospitals were said to be overflowing with wounded, and electricity and telephones worked only intermittently. Food is growing scarce.
Faced with increased opposition to its intervention in Lebanon, Syria was reported today to have moved several thousand more troops up to the Lebanese border. Diplomatic and intelligence sources here also report that Iraq — bitterly opposed to Syrian moves — has sent army units to its frontier with Syria in an effort to put pressure on Damascus. The speed of events has caused considerable confusion here. But officials believe the following trends are discernible:
The initial Syrian thrusts into Lebanon by 10,000 to 12.000 men have run into unexpectedly sharp military opposition from leftist Lebanese and Palestinian groups. This has forced Syria to prepare more troops for entry if needed. President Hafez al‐Assad of Syria, under considerable Arab criticism for his move into Lebnon to force the leftists and Palestinians to accept a cease-fire seems eager to show his Government’s intentions toward Lebanon are honorable. After long discussions in Damascus, statements were issued accepting a token force from Libya and Algeria to join with Syria in forming a “pan‐Arab” force to promote a cease‐fire, and maintain Lebanese integrity. Whether such a “pan‐Arab” arrangement would be acceptable to all the Lebanese parties was uncertain. The Lebanese Christians, who had favored the Syrian Intervention, had earlier criticized an Arab League meeting called in Cairo to discuss the crisis. The Damascus acceptance would seem to indicate that Christian interests would be protected.
The big powers continue to play an essentially passive role in the Lebanon crisis. The United States, concerned about the conflict’s widening to include either Israel or other Arab states, was silent publicly. But it moved the aircraft carrier USS America and two escort frigates into the eastern Mediterranean to be available for evacuation and to show American interest.
Syria agreed to the stationing of some troops from other Arab countries in Lebanon to help establish a durable peace. The announcement in Damascus followed a meeting of President Hafez al-Assad with Arab League representatives who had pressed him to withdraw all Syrian troops, to which he did not agree. Later Syria and 19 other Arab League countries decided in Cairo to put a token peace-keeping force, including Syrian troops, in Lebanon to replace the large Syrian force.
The Soviet Union called today for an end to foreign intervention in the Lebanese war and demanded an immediate cease‐fire. A statement issued by the Government press agency Tass said the Lebanese crisis was easing to be an internal matter. An offer by France to send troops and the presence of the Unfted States Sixth Fleet “close to Lebanese shores” demonstrated this, it said. Without naming any country, the statement went on to say that the Soviet Union was as concerned by the Lebanese events as any other nation. Its attacked foreign powers that its said were threatening military interference. Syria has repeatedly said its. troops intervened to stop the bloodshed, the statement continued. “Nevertheless, notice should be called to the fact that bloodshed continued in Lebanon today and blood flows in even greater streams.”
The Ford Administration declared today that the United States was making significant progress in blunting the Arab countries’ economic boycott of Israel and argued that legislative remedies might prove harmful to its diplomatic efforts.
As Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Soviet Communist Party Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev continued their Kremlin talks, the official Tass news agency issued a stream of articles attacking the role of the People’s Republic of China in the Third World. In one article, Tass discussed Chinese aid projects and concluded: “The developing nations can hardly expect real support from Peking.”
The United States and Panama today reported “significant progress” in negotiations for a new canal treaty and pledged “a most serious effort to achieve such a treaty as promptly as possible.” In a joint statement at the sixth general assembly of the Organization of American States, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Foreign Minister Aquilino Boyd of Panama emphasized the “spirit of compromise” and the “understanding of new realities” that they said animated the negotiations. “Differences remain between the two parties on important issues: the period of duration of the new treaty and the arrangements for the land and water areas comprising the present Panama Canal Zone,” the statement said.
The government of General Hugo Banzer decreed a state of siege throughout Bolivia to deal with a series of strikes and student demonstrations that began last week. The government announced the decree after an extraordinary cabinet meeting called by Banzer, the nation’s president, early in the day.
Tens of thousands of Angolans marched through the capital of Luanda today demanding the death sentence for 13 mercenaries who are to go on trial Friday. At the building where the court, a People’s Revolutionary Tribunal, will convene, a group of workers waved a red banner reading: “We demand death by the firing squad for the mercenaries.” There was not one plea for clemency not one dissident voice in the demonstration, organized by the governing Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. Trade‐union workers, neighborhood committees, students and militants from the Popular Movement’s women’s organization took part. Schoolchildren carried signboards that said: “Death to the mercenaries” and “The people of Angola condemn the governments that support the mercenaries.”
Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter appeared assured of a first-ballot victory at the Democratic convention as opposition to his candidacy crumbled. Carter received the endorsements of two of his former opponents in the race for the Democratic Party nomination for the 1976 U.S. presidential race, with Alabama Governor George C. Wallace and U.S. Senator Henry M. Jackson pledging their delegates, and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley giving his endorsement. The three endorsements were seen as certain to give Carter (who already had at least 1,135 delegates) more than the 1,505 votes needed for the nomination. The prospects for U.S. President Gerald Ford to be nominated as the Republican candidate were less certain, in that he had only a slight (105 delegates) lead over his challenger, former California Governor Ronald Reagan, with Republican conventions in 11 states still to be held over the next six weeks.
A survey of Republican voters in the California, Ohio and New Jersey primaries indicated many would vote for Mr. Carter in November if their preferred Republican candidate, whether President Ford or Ronald Reagan, failed to get the nomination. About 35 percent of those questioned indicated this readiness to defect, even higher than the Republican defection rate of 20 percent in 1964 to vote Democratic rather than support Senator Barry Goldwater.
Mr. Carter, at home in Georgia, sought to discourage speculation on his possible choice of a vice-presidential running mate. He said that he would almost certainly withhold an announcement until after he had been nominated, adding that today’s endorsements left him free to choose without regard to politics or delegates. He said geographical or other balance would he of very remote importance.
Democrats in the House today formally ousted Representative Wayne L. Hays, the central figure in two investigations into charges of payroll padding, from one of his four committee chairmanships. In a five‐minute meeting and by unanimous vote, the members of the Democratic National Congressional Committee replaced Mr. Hays as their chairman with Representative James C. Corman of California. Last week, after allegations that he had used Government funds to employ Elizabeth Ray as his mistress, Mr. Hays offered to “temporarily step aside” from the position, but today his offer was made permanent.
Administration and congressional negotiators were reported close to an agreement on $1 billion of new financial aid for the debt-ridden U.S. Postal Service, coupled with a temporary moratorium on cutbacks in service or higher rates. The money, however, is far less than the amount Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar has warned is necessary to prevent insolvency in the next year. An USPS spokesman said the agency was not a party to the agreement. It was announced by Senator Gale W. McGee (D-Wyoming), chairman of the Senate Post Office Committee. He said one-half of the $1 billion would be earmarked for fiscal 1977 with the balance for the following year.
Fifteen Vietnam veterans who locked themselves inside the Statue of Liberty for 18 hours to protest cutbacks in GI benefits were arrested by National Park police. The men, members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, were taken to Manhattan where they were arraigned in federal court and released without bail for a hearing July 7.
A federal judge refused to bar West Point from enforcing its honor code but said he would decide later on a request by four cadets that a court weigh its constitutionality. U.S. District Judge Richard Owen in New York City reserved decision on the request that a three-judge court hear their constitutional arguments and also denied the request for a preliminary injunction barring implementing the code while the case proceeds through the courts. West Point now is undergoing one of the worst cheating scandals in its history.
Karen Anne Quinlan was moved at night under tight security to the Morris View Nursing Home in Morris Plains, N.J., from St. Clare’s Hospital in Denville. The transfer was made in an ambulance during a pouring rain with two sheriff’s patrol cars as escort. About 25 deputies waited to keep reporters away. Miss Quinlan, 22, has been comatose for more than a year and remains in a chronic vegetative state. There did not appear to be a respirator or other life support systems connected to her.
On the eve of a hearing today to determine whether Claudine Longet will go to trial for manslaughter, both the Colorado Supreme Court and a federal district judge refused jurisdiction when requested by news organizations to lift a gag order that will close the hearing to both press and public. An attorney for the news groups then announced he would ask U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White to consider a request to open the courtroom. Miss Longet, 34, is accused of shooting her lover, professional skier Vladimir (Spider) Sabich, 31, in Sabich’s chalet in Aspen, Colo., last March. She claims it was accidental.
One of James Earl Ray’s attorneys said in Memphis he was convinced his client was not acting alone in the 1968 slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King. Robert 1. Livingston said Ray’s only hope for freedom from the 99-year prison sentence he is serving was to tell all and hope for executive clemency.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s off‐again, on‐again candidacy for United States Senator from New York was on again, as of last night. The former representative to the United Nations called a series of news conferences for today, starting in New York City and then making the traditional quick trip through upstate airports, to announce that he would become the sixth candidate in the race for the Democratic nomination.
Senior Federal atomic energy officials received at least three specific warnings about the danger of a serious fire and a related safety problem at the world’s largest nuclear power plant well before a major fire broke out there, Government documents show. Despite these warnings, the official report on the 1975 fire show that the Browns Ferry, Alabama, nuclear power facility of the Tennessee Valley Authority was permitted to continue operating and that the Government program to prevent and control reactor fires “was essentially zero.” Perhaps the strongest warning was voiced at a meeting of a subcommittee of the government’s top independent safety review group on January 19, 1973, some 26 months be the fire occurred.
Government scientists confirmed preliminary reports showing that chloroform causes cancer in test animals. The Food and Drug Administration reported, meanwhile, that drug companies had stopped using the substance in toothpastes and cough remedies. The National Cancer Institute has reported that the widely used compound causes high rates of liver cancer in mice and kidney tumors, most of them malignant, in rats.
Transportation Secretary William T. Coleman Jr. announced today that he had postponed until next January his decision on whether to require air bags on all new automobiles sold in this country. As a result, air bags, which the automobile industry says will increase the price of an automobile by $300, could not possibly be required equipment on cars until the 1980 model year, according to Michael Browne, a special assistant to Mr. Coleman.
A Rand Corporation national follow-up study of a sample of 1,340 alcoholics showed that 18 months after entering treatment, 70 percent were no longer drinking abusively though only 10 percent were abstinent. Most had adopted a pattern of “normal” drinking, averaging one drink a day, usually consumed as the alcoholic equivalent of four beers once every three days.
The Blue Cross Association has ordered a feasibility study on comprehensive non-hospital treatment of alcoholism, which afflicts an estimated 9 million Americans, as a health problem that could be covered for subscribers to its services.
The century‐long trend of ever‐increasing size of American children may have ended, according to a Government report made public today. “This could be the result of our having reached the limits of our genetic potential regarding growth,” said Dr. Peter V. V. Hamill, chairman of a Government‐sponsored group studying American growth trends. The study group, analyzing data on more than 20,000 American children from infancy through adolescence, concluded that the trend toward ever‐bigger Americans had either eased or had nearly ceased and that this was the “most dramatic and significant finding” of its study.
James Farley, organizer of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s elections and former Postmaster General, died at 88 in his Waldorf-Astoria Hotel suite.
Dame Sybil Thorndike, Britain’s pre-eminent actress, whose career began in the Edwardian era, died at the age of 93 in London. Her last stage role was six years ago, her last public appearance this year at the closing of the Old Vic Theater.
Major League Baseball:
Doubles by Roy Howell, Mike Hargrove, Jeff Burroughs and Jim Fregosi backed up the pitching of Gaylord Perry, who scattered four hits, as the Texas Rangers defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 4–1, to sweep the four-game series. Howell’s two-bagger in the second inning drove in Tom Grieve and Juan Beniquez, who had singled and walked, respectively. Doubles by Hargrove and Burroughs accounted for another run in the eighth and the Rangers’ final tally counted in the ninth on a single by Howell and Fregosi’s double.
Four homers, including a game-deciding two-run shot by Cecil Cooper in the seventh inning, powered the Red Sox to a 6–4 victory over the Athletics. Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk and Jim Rice also homered for the Red Sox, while the A’s had circuit clouts by Sal Bando and Don Baylor.
Andy Messersmith, who allowed only one hit while defeating the Expos in his last previous start June 4, came back with a three-hitter and pitched the Braves to a 2–0 victory over the Cubs. Joe Coleman, obtained by the Cubs from the Tigers, made his N. L. debut and was the loser, although giving up only two hits in six innings. A walk to Jerry Royster, a stolen base and single by Rowland Office in the sixth accounted for the only run off Coleman. The Braves’ other tally against Darold Knowles in the eighth was unearned as they extended their winning streak to six games.
While Pat Dobson pitched a four-hitter, the Indians took advantage of the wildness of Joe Decker and defeated the Twins, 4–1. In the sixth inning, the Indians scored their first two runs on two walks, an error, a sacrifice fly by George Hendrick and single by Alan Ashby. Two more tallies followed in the seventh on two more passes and a double by Buddy Bell.
Greg Gross collected four hits and Rob Andrews rapped three, matching the Cardinals’ entire output against J.R. Richard while losing to the Astros, 5–2. The Astros decided the outcome against Lynn McGlothen with three runs in the first inning. Gross singled and was out trying to steal, but Andrews also singled, Cesar Cedeno walked and Jose Cruz doubled for one run. After another pass to Ed Herrmann loaded the bases, Enos Cabell singled to send two runs across the plate.
John Mayberry hit two homers, connecting for the first time with a man on base in the first inning, to start the Royals off to a 6–3 victory over the Tigers. George Brett was aboard with a walk when Mayberry hit his first homer of the game. The Royals then proceeded to add two more runs on a single by Hal McRae, triple by Al Cowens and single by Cookie Rojas. Mayberry homered again in the eighth.
Cutting off a Phillies’ rally in the ninth inning, Charlie Hough saved the victory for Burt Hooton as the Dodgers defeated the Phillies, 3–2. Hooton allowed only two hits in the first eight innings, but both runners were erased on double plays. However in the ninth, Tim McCarver hit a two-out pinch-double and two batters walked to load the bases. Mike Schmidt singled, driving in two runs, before Hough took over for Hooton. After walking Greg Luzinski, Hough retired Dick Allen to end the game.
A triple by Pat Kelly drove in the tying and winning runs in the seventh inning when the White Sox scored three times to defeat the Brewers, 4–2. Bucky Dent singled, Jack Brohamer walked and both crossed the plate on Kelly’s three-bagger. Kelly then counted himself on a single by Ralph Garr.
With help from Sparky Lyle, who relieved in the ninth inning, Catfish Hunter gained credit for the victory when the Yankees defeated the Angels, 4–3. The save was Lyle’s eighth of the season. The Yankees, after taking a 3–0 lead, had their margin shaved to a single tally when the Angels rallied for two runs in the eighth, but Oscar Gamble singled home Sandy Alomar with the Yankees’ margin of victory in the home half. Billy Martin, the Yankee manager, was ejected for the first time this season and was accused by Umpire Larry McCoy of kicking him during their argument. Martin, turn, called McCoy in competent and a liar.
Gary Nolan pitched a five-hitter and Tony Perez knocked in three runs with a single and homer as the Reds defeated the Pirates, 6–1. Taking a quick lead, the Reds scored twice in the first inning on a single by Pete Rose, double by Ken Griffey and single by Joe Morgan. Straining his hamstring, Morgan left the game, but Doug Flynn, his replacement, doubled and scored on a single by Perez in the sixth. Perez then iced the outcome with a two-run homer in the eighth. Al Oliver homered for the Pirates’ lone tally.
A match-up between Randy Jones and Tom Seaver brought out a crowd of 42,972, who saw the Padres’ lefthander defeat the Mets’ ace righthander, 3–0. The victory was the seventh in a row for Jones, bringing his season’s record to 11–2. The Padres put together singles by Fred Kendall, Enzo Hernandez and Tito Fuentes for their initial run in the fifth inning. Three more singles by Dave Winfield, Gene Locklear and Kendall added a tally in the sixth before Willie McCovey capped the scoring with a homer in the eighth.
After pitching no-hit ball for six innings, Jim Barr began to weaken and needed help from Randy Moffitt in the ninth before the Giants defeated the Expos, 6–2. In his last 2 ⅓ innings, Barr yielded six hits. However, the Giants’ starter helped himself to victory by driving in two runs with a bases-loaded single in the fifth.
Texas Rangers 4, Baltimore Orioles 1
Oakland Athletics 4, Boston Red Sox 6
Atlanta Braves 2, Chicago Cubs 0
Minnesota Twins 1, Cleveland Indians 4
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Houston Astros 5
Detroit Tigers 3, Kansas City Royals 6
Philadelphia Phillies 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Chicago White Sox 4, Milwaukee Brewers 2
California Angels 3, New York Yankees 4
Cincinnati Reds 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 1
New York Mets 0, San Diego Padres 3
Montreal Expos 2, San Francisco Giants 6
Nuclear‐related Issues, responding to Tuesday’s California primary vote rejecting strict new controls on nuclear power them, advanced strongly yesterday in an otherwise uneventful stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average, up 2.70 points at 1 PM, closed down 1.88 at 958.09 exactly erasing Tuesday’s gain. The 30 components of the average, meanwhile, showed only fractional changes for the second day in a row.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 958.09 (-1.88, -0.20%)
Born:
Olly Knights, British folk-rock singer-songwriter (Turin Brakes -“Pain Killer (Summer Rain)”), in Clapham, England, United Kingdom.
Bruno Sroka, French kitesurfer and three-time World Cup winner; in Clamart, France.
Justin Kaye, MLB pitcher (Seattle Mariners), in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Died:
James A. Farley, 88, American politician and Democratic Party power broker (ran Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential campaign, US Postmaster General 1932-38).
Dame Sybil Thorndike, 93, described in her obituary as “the pre-eminent actress of the British theater” (“Melba”, “Major Barbara”).
Sayed el-Ouali, 28, Saharan Arab leader and Secretary-General or the Polisario Front, was killed by Mauritanian Army troops in a battle near Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, which had annexed the lower one-third of the former Spanish Sahara. On June 30, the Polisario Front announced the selection of Mahmoud Larussi as the new leader.
William King Harvey, 60, American CIA officer known for his participation in various Operation MONGOOSE missions for attempted overthrows of other nations’ governments.
Jan Nagórski, 88, Polish aviator who was the first person to fly an airplane in the Arctic.
Lucian Ercolani, 88, Italian furniture designer and manufacturer known for the Ercol line of products.
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