The U.S. Senate approved a 27‐month, $9.4 billion foreign aid bill today, but yielded to conservative opposition to the Ford Administration’s new African policy and deleted $35 million that had been sought for economic assistance to countries in southern Africa. The new bill, revised after President Ford vetoed a previous measure, was passed by a vote of 62 to 18. It now goes to a House‐Senate conference for resolution of differences with a $9.9 billion version that was passed by the House on June 2. Mr. Ford had rejected an earlier aid bill because of various provisions that imposed limits on his direct management of foreign affairs, particularly on his authority in sales of arms abroad. Some of the restrictions have been modified or eliminated in the House and Senate bills. But a senior State Department official said today that the Administration still hoped to secure further changes when the measure is taken up in conference later this week, to avoid another veto.
The Soviet Union today began five days of army and air force maneuvers near the Finnish border. Military observers from Finland, Norway and Sweden have been invited to attend. About 25,000 troops of the Leningrad Military District, backed by air force units, are taking part in the exercise code‐named “North.” Diplomatic sources said the Western observers, who have been invited to attend the second half of the exercise, would gather in Leningrad tomorrow. It was the second time this year that Western observers were asked to a Soviet exercise. The first was in the Caucasus in February.
West Berlin’s city prosecutor announced that the press spokesman for West Berlin’s Social Democratic Party and his former wife had been arrested on suspicion of spying for East Germany. He said that the party spokesman, Heinrich Burger, had been denounced as a Communist spy by his former wife, Kathryn Burger. The prosecutor, Dietrich Schultz, also announced that a West German couple, Kurt and Erna Nickel, had been arrested on suspicion of having acted as, the Burgers’ couriers to the East German state security system. The announcement of the espionage scandal here followed the arrest in the last four weeks of at least 16 people in several West German cities on charges of having spied for East Germany. The West Berlin prosecutor said that the Nickels had also been denounced by Mrs. Burger but that she had subsequently withdrawn her charges against both them and her former husband. In addition, the prosecutor said, all four have denied spying for East Germany. Mr. Schultz reported, however, that searches of their apartments had turned up “incriminating materials” against all four, and he said all four were under “strong suspicion” of having been spies for at least five years.
Prime Minister Jacques Chirac emerged today from a behind‐the‐scenes crisis that nearly brought down the French Government. The surface sign of at least a temporary resolution of the suddenly bitter fight among backers of President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing came at a traditionally elaborate and ceremonial joint session of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate at Versailles. They met and approved, by an overwhelming majority, a constitutional amendment providing for the possibility of postponing Presidential elections if one of the candidates dies or is incapacitated after the official campaign begins. More important, all but the opposition gave a rousing ovation to Mr. Chirac, the leader of the Gaullist party, which had almost threatened to abandon Mr. Giscard d’Estaing and leave him without his largest and most crucial bloc of votes in Parliament.
The Spanish people have become confused about their political future after a week of contradictory events and conflict both within the Establishment and in the opposition camp. The prospects were clearer a week ago when King Juan Carlos I returned triumphantly from a visit to the United States. His determined support for democracy and social peace, expressed before the American Congress, echoed throughout the Spanish political world. But in the days that followed it was again demonstrated that for all his power, the King is not the only factor in the complicated political game being played in Madrid. On Wednesday, Parliament voted to legalize political parties, the most important move so far in the reform program. Only 91 of 561 deputies voted against the bill and this was taken as an indication that those determined to balk the King and prevent any change were not so strong as some reformists had feared.
Ilter Turkmen, Turkey’s chief delegate to the UN, said in the Security Council today that no effort to partition Cyprus would be made by the Turkish forces, which now control 40 percent of the island. The Turkish delegate also said his country would not retain on Cyprus the troops landed in July 1974, but he did not say when or under what conditions they would be withdrawn as demanded by the Greek Cypriots and their supporters. The Council has been meeting on renewal of the United Nations peace force, whose mandate expires tomorrow. Both the Greek and Turkish communities favor its continuation for another six months, but the Greeks also are pressing for the Council to call for withdrawal of the Turkish troops.
The trial of Donald Neilson, a serial killer referred to in the British press as the Black Panther, began at the Oxford Crown Court for the first of four counts of murder. He would be convicted of the murder of Lesley Whittle on July 1, 1976, and three other murders later in the month.
Syrian troops were reported to have captured a garrison of the dissident group called the Lebanese Arab Army in southeastern Lebanon. The Voice of Palestine, the Palestinian radio, said that Syrian troops and armor had taken the garrison at Rasheiya, 15 miles southwest of the main Syrian encampment at Masnaa in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. The village is at the foot of Mount Hermon and near the Arkub area, which Palestinians have used for attacks on Israel. The Damascus radio had announced earlier that the Muslim soldiers at Rasheiya who had defected from the regular Lebanese armed forces had rallied to what were described as the Syrian-sponsored “vanguards of the Lebanese Army.” Several radio stations reported skirmishes northeast of Beirut in the towering mountains around Faraya and Ain Tura where Palestinians and Lebanese leftists are caught, with right‐wing Lebanese Christian militiamen to the northwest and Syrian forces to the south and southeast. Syrian troops and armor, which have moved as far west as Rouessat Sofar on the main Beirut‐Damascus highway, appear to have cut off the Palestinians and leftists in the mountains from their supply lines around Aleih.
In the 12 days since Syria sent large numbers of troops into Lebanon, the Syrian objectives and the tactics President Hafez al‐Assad is using to achieve them have become more sharply defined. Through the confusion of political and military activity in the Arab world in the last two weeks, President Assad has been methodically working toward the eventual creation of the kind of Lebanon the Syrian Government wants, and seeking to prevent the emergence of a Lebanon it does not want. With his troops and tanks in control of much of the Lebanese countryside, and a relatively reduced level of resistance from Lebanese Muslims and leftists and from Palestine Liberation Organization forces, Mr. Assad is apparently confident enough of his position at home and abroad to be preparing to leave Damascus Thursday for visits to France, Yugoslavia and Rumania. It is well known, one senior diplomat said here, “that you do not leave the shop untended if you are afraid of thieves.” The remark illustrates the view of many diplomats and Syrian analysts, some of them not friendly toward the Syrian President. While the ultimate success of Syria’s intervention is still in question, the President seems to have made some modest tactical gain.
Saudi Arabia is seeking to buy more than 1,900 Sidewinder interceptor missiles from the United States, according to Administration and Congressional officials. Together with the recently announced sale of 16 Hawk ground‐to‐air missile batteries, the proposed purchase, of the air‐to‐air Sidewinder would give Saudi Arabia one of the most potent air defense systems in the Middle East. The Pentagon is expected to submit the proposed sale of the Sidewinders to Congress soon for review, as required by law, and a number of pro‐Israel legislators have privately indicated that they are planning to fight the magnitude of the transaction, which would amount to a five-fold increase in the number of missiles Saudi Arabia has. The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency has already said that the sale is excessive for Saudi Arabian defense. Administration officials said, however, that Saudi Arabia was ordering what it believed was necessary for its growing fleet of F‐5 fighter aircraft, and that the Pentagon concurred with this.
Four persons were killed and 26 were wounded when a boy threw three grenades in a Roman Catholic school on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, sources said. The boy escaped.
U.S. prisoners in Mexico and Mexican prisoners in the United States would serve out their terms in their own countries under a prisoner exchange plan proposed by Mexico, according to U.S. officials. The exchange would not mean the prisoners would be set free, the officials said. The plan had been proposed at a meeting in Mexico City between Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Mexican Foreign Minister Alfonso Garcia Robles. The officials who clarified the plan were aboard the plane that brought Kissinger back to Washington.
Near Acapulco in Mexico, 17 people were killed and 40 injured when the bus they were on swerved to avoid a head-on collision with another bus, skidded off of a highway and fell into a ravine.
Uruguay’s interim president, Alberto Demicheli, said at least three years will be needed to restore democracy to that country. His predecessor, Juan M. Bordaberry, was ousted by the armed forces in a bloodless coup Saturday. Demicheli, 80-year-old vice president under Bordaberry, signed proclamations suspending scheduled November elections until further notice and creating a military-controlled national council to select a new president who will replace Demicheli within 60 to 70 days.
A former lawyer for the Peronist movement has offered to defend deposed President Maria Estela Peron, who has been under arrest since the military overthrew her in March, the government said. The lawyer was identified as Juan Carlos Ortiz, who was counsel for the Peronist party for many years. It was not immediately known whether the former Argentine leader would accept Ortiz as her defender against charges of misuse of public funds.
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld will fly to Africa tomorrow to discuss the security situation in eastern and central Africa with government leaders in Kenya and Zaire, the United States delegation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization announced today. Informed sources said Mr. Rumsfeld, in Brussels attending a session of the alliance’s nuclear planning group, had chosen these two countries for the first visit to Africa by a United States Defense Secretary because of their proximity to Soviet areas of influence. Mr. Rumsfeld arrives in Nairobi Wednesday and goes on to Zaire’s capital, Kinshasa, Thursday afternoon.
President Idi Amin of Uganda denied reports that he has launched a campaign of death following the attempt on his life Thursday. The British Broadcasting Corp. had reported 3,000 people killed, and Agence France-Presse quoted informed sources as saying about 100 unidentified grenade-blast victims and bullet-riddled bodies were lying in a Kampala hospital mortuary. Amin escaped death in the assassination attempt last week when grenades were hurled at the presidential jeep. Uganda Radio told of Amin’s denial, and quoted him as saying the purge reports were “false and malicious.”
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith said that if President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia allowed guerrillas to invade Rhodesia from his territory, Zambia would feel the consequences. In a broadcast address in Salisbury, he referred to Kaunda’s “threat to reopen our common border to terrorists.” Smith said “this would mean that he has taken the decision that henceforth we shall no longer attempt to settle our mutual problems through the accepted and civilized procedure of negotiation… He must accept the responsibility for the serious consequences that will flow from his decision…”
Representative Morris Udall, who has the second largest bloc of Democratic convention delegates, conceded the Democratic presidential nomination to Jimmy Carter. “I will not be part of any stop-Carter drive,” Mr. Udall said after a meeting with Mr. Carter in a New York hotel, but he did not officially withdraw as a candidate. Instead, he said, his candidacy, however hopeless, would continue and in this way he hoped to keep some influence over the party, the convention and the party platform. He gave Mr. Carter permission to approach the Udall delegates individually, “and if they want to go over, they’re free to do so,” he said. Along with an announcement in Washington by Senator Frank Church that he has ended his campaign and is endorsing Mr. Carter, Mr. Udall’s capitulation was one more piece of good news for the 51‐year‐old former Georgic Governor. Earlier, some of New York’s most influential politicians publicly praised his potential and predicted success for him in the general election.
Labor leaders are moving toward public support of Jimmy Carter, but cautiously and with varying degrees of enthusiasm. They are preparing to embrace the man who appears to have locked up the Democratic Presidential nomination not because they know and trust him — by and large, they describe him as an unknown political quantity — but because they perceive no good alternative to backing the Democratic nominee. Talks with officials of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations and a number of its affiliated unions indicate no inclination to back the leading Republican contenders, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, and little desire to sit out the election campaign as neutrals.
The Supreme Court refused, without comment, to review the plan for desegregating Boston’s public schools that was ordered a year ago by a federal judge in Boston, Busing is an important part of the plan, which has repeatedly been criticized by President Ford. No Justice recorded a dissent. The plan thus remains intact and the unanimous decision last January of the United States Court of Appeals that strongly endorsed the plan remains undisturbed.
With the statement that bribes paid by United States corporations to foreign officials threatened “to harm our foreign relations,” President Ford called for legislation that would require the disclosure of all such “questionable payments.” His proposal, however, would impose no penalty or sanction of any kind on companies that bribed foreign officials provided the companies reported the payments to a government agency.
A Ford Administration bill covering overseas bribery by U.S. businesses was described by Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) as “a bureaucratic copout.” The measure, formally revealed by President Ford, would require disclosure of bribery, but would not prohibit such action. Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, which has held hearings on corporate bribery, said the disclosure approach “is a tacit admission that they (bribes) may be necessary,” and “involves the U.S. government as a co-conspirator.”
A Justice Department official said use of false identity documents by criminals was a “growth industry” but a national identity card system — with its overtones of government control of private citizens — was not the answer. Assistant Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh told a news conference that the Federal Advisory Committee on False Identification opposed the establishment of a national ID system. A study group said today that a number of actions, including the matching of birth and death certificates, are necessary to ease a nationwide identification crisis costing at least $20 billion a year.
Spokesmen for the Leadership Conference on Civil rights urged President Ford to scrap his plan to move by court action and legislation to curtail court-ordered busing in school desegregation cases. After a 90-minute White House meeting, representatives of the delegation said Ford had listened carefully to their arguments but had given no indication of his decision. Most participants at the meeting, a source said, told Ford that submission of antibusing legislation would amount to “an inducement to people not to comply with the law.”
The federal government is often the enemy of the people who live in the inner city, that was the repeated theme at a Senate Banking and Housing Committee hearing. Gloria Aull of Baltimore said that government policy makers were insensitive to and biased against the older neighborhoods. Some of the blame was laid on banks that make few home loans in rundown areas and on federal home rehabilitation programs.
The FBI says it had two contacts with Jacque Srouji, a Nashville journalist, shortly before she testified before a House subcommittee investigating nuclear security, according to a well-informed source. The FBI is reportedly under investigation by a special Justice Department team looking into the possibility that the bureau attempted to use Mrs. Srouji to manipulate the congressional inquiry. The FBI acknowledged the contacts with Mrs. Srouji in a letter to the subcommittee chairman, the source said. Mrs. Srouji was fired May 5 from her job as a part-time copy editor at the Nashville Tennessean after an FBI agent allegedly disclosed that she and the bureau had a “special relationship.”
Eight letter bombs mailed in manila envelopes were delivered today to seven businesses and one business executive in four cities, including one device that exploded in a Manhattan brokerage house, injuring four women. Letters and a small package containing bombs were delivered to seven business corporations and to an executive at his home, in five cities, police said. Four women were injured slightly when one of the bombs exploded in New York City, but bomb squads deactivated the other devices. The letter which exploded was opened at Merrill Lynch, Inc., parent company of the stock brokerage firm. Letter bombs also were sent to the New York office of Bunge Corp., a grain dealer, and to a Bunge executive. The others were delivered to the DuPont Co. in Wilmington, Delaware, the Exxon Building in New York, McDonalds Systems, Inc., in Oak Brook, Illinois, Beatrice Foods Co. in Chicago and Marathon Oil Co. in Findlay, Ohio.
Treasury Secretary William Simon expressed “concern” at the pace of New York City’s budget-cutting efforts and abruptly scheduled a meeting Thursday of his staff and the State Emergency Financial Control Board to discuss “questions” about the city’s financial plan.
The Greenpeace Foundation, a conservation group, launched its second expedition to stop whaling when members set out from Vancouver, British Columbia, in a converted minesweeper called Greenpeace VII to confront a Soviet whaling fleet that is reported west of Hawaii and heading toward California. The protestors said before leaving Vancouver that they plan to use rubber boats to place themselves between the ships and any whale they may be after.
Ralph Nader and the president of a nuclear power industry association disagreed over the safety of developing nuclear power sources in an interview on ABC’s Issues and Answers television program. Nader said “failsafe” features that claim to avoid radioactive leaks do nothing to prevent terrorist takeovers of plutonium and other fuels traveling to plants and contended there was no way to guarantee that radioactive waste material would be kept safely for 250,000 years. Dr. Carl Walske, speaking for the Atomic Industrial Forum, said the voters of California had heard all the charges about nuclear safety and “are about 2 to 1 in favor of nuclear power.” He said also that the industry was considering placing reactors underground to ensure their safety.
Pennsylvania is suing the Environmental Protection Agency for allowing three Ohio steel mills to pollute the Mahoning River, which flows between the two states. The Youngstown steelmakers were granted an exemption of national water standards by the EPA in March after arguing they would have to lay off 25,000 workers if forced to comply. The suit alleges that Pennsylvania steelmakers are unfairly forced to comply with the standards while their competitors in Ohio are not, and further charges that the quality of drinking water in Pennsylvania’s Beaver County has been impaired.
J. Paul Getty, who died June 6 at the age of 83, named 12 women in his will. A number of them can recall romances or dear‐romance with the American oil billionaire. Eight of the women live in Europe, four in California. He had known some for half a century, others for little more than a decade. Mr. Getty was married and divorced five times, but only one of his former wives, Louise Lynch Getty of Santa Monica, California, is listed in the will. She was awarded $55,000 a year for life. Penelope Ann Kitson, 53, an Englishwoman wo refused to marry Mr. Getty, received the largest lump sum, 5,000 Getty oil shares valued at $826,500, plus $1,167 a month for life.
E.B. White, the writer, persuaded the Xerox Corporation, in an exchange of letters, to abandon plans for underwriting magazine articles. Mr. White’s persuasive arguments began after Esquire published an article in February that was written by Harrison Salisbury and sponsored by Xerox. “I have great respect for all newspapers and magazines,” Mr. White said in an interview. “This Xerox-Esquire arrangement would mean that any rich corporation or rich individual could pick out a reporter and put $50,000 on him and that would be the end of freedom of the press.” David Curtin, vice president of communications for Xerox, said, “He stopped us in our tracks.”
“The Gong Show,” a creation of game show producer Chuck Barris as an amateur talent show with both legitimate and ridiculous competitors, premiered on the NBC television network as a daytime program. Running for two seasons on the NBC network, and in syndication for two more years, the show was hosted by Barris and featured three celebrity panelists judging the acts, any of whom could hit an oversized gong to stop an act. The show’s format was a precursor to shows such as America’s Got Talent in 2006.
French Open Men’s Tennis: Adriano Panatta of Italy beats American Harold Solomon 6–1, 6–4, 4–6, 7–6 for his lone Grand Slam singles title.
Major League Baseball:
Dave Concepcion singled to lead off the ninth inning, advanced on a sacrifice by Ed Armbrister and scored the winning run on Ken Griffey’s single when the Cincinnati Reds edged the Chicago Cubs, 3–2. The Reds’ first run came on a home run by Concepcion in the third. Gary Nolan collected the victory to raise his record to 6–3.
Fred Patek’s two-run double in the seventh inning proved to be the decisive blow in the Royals’ 5–2 decision over the Tigers and their sixth consecutive victory. Three errors and a double steal by Al Cowens and Hal McRae — McRae scoring from third on the play — gave the Royals their first two runs in the fourth.
Jerry Reuss pitched a six-hitter and walked and scored the deciding run in the eighth inning when the Pirates beat the Astros, 2–1, for his fourth straight triumph. After receiving a pass in the eighth, Reuss advanced on a wild pitch and scored on Tommy Helms’ single.
Home runs by Hank Aaron, Gary Sutherland and Don Money powered the Brewers past the Angels, 8–2. Aaron’s third homer of the season and 748th of his career came with two on in the Brewers’ five-run third inning. Sutherland hit a two-run homer in the fourth and Money connected leading off the fifth. All three blows came off Frank Tanana, who had 10 strikeouts in his fifth defeat.
Rick Wise allowed one hit — an infield single by Jerry Terrell in the third inning — while pitching the Red Sox to a 5–0 victory over the Twins. The Red Sox took a 2–0 lead in the second on a single by Carl Yastrzemski, triple by Jim Rice and Carlton Fisk’s sacrifice fly, then coasted in as Wise won his fourth straight game. Fred Lynn went 0-for-4 to end his 14-game hitting streak. Wise will fire another one-hitter in 2 weeks.
Don Stanhouse (4–2) yielded only three hits in pitching the Expos to a 3-0 victory over the Padres and notching the first shutout of his major league career. Barry Foote hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning.
Andy Messersmith drove in two runs and worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth inning while leading the Braves to a 5–2 decision over the Cardinals. The Cardinals ended Messersmith’s string of 22 scoreless innings when they scored in the fifth when hot-hitting Mike Tyson doubled and came home on Jerry Mumphrey’s single. This was third straight triumph for Messersmith, who had shut out the Expos and Cubs in his last two starts.
Chicago Cubs 2, Cincinnati Reds 3
Kansas City Royals 5, Detroit Tigers 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, Houston Astros 1
California Angels 2, Milwaukee Brewers 8
Boston Red Sox 5, Minnesota Twins 0
Montreal Expos 3, San Diego Padres 0
Atlanta Braves 5, St. Louis Cardinals 2
Picking up from where it left off last Friday, the stock market registered another broad advance yesterday, the Dow Jones industrial average climbing 12.44 points to close at 991.24. Volume also increased to 21.25 million shares from 19.74 million on Friday, when the Dow rose by 14.41 points.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 991.24 (+12.44, +1.27%)
Born:
Ryan Johnson, Canadian NHL centre (Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Chicago Blackhawks), in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Talance Sawyer, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings), in Bastrop, Louisiana.
Damon Griffin, NFL wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals), in Los Angeles, California.
Alan Carr, English comedian; in Weymouth, Dorset, English, United Kingdom.
Park Hae-joon, South Korean TV actor, star of The World of the Married; in Busan, South Korea.
Died:
Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, 75, younger brother of King Christian X and heir presumptive to the throne of Denmark from 1947 until March 27, 1953, when the Act of Succession was approved by voters to allow women to inherit the throne, allowing King Christian’s daughter to succeed him in 1972 as Queen Margrethe II.
General Heinrich Kreipe, 81 German Wehrmacht officer who was kidnapped from Crete in 1944 during World War II and a prisoner of war in Britain until 1947.
Géza Anda, 54, Hungarian musician, from cancer.
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