The United Nations Security Council approved a six-month extension of the mandate of the 2,900-man U.N. peacekeeping force in Cyprus, less than a half hour before it was due to expire. Last-minute objections by the Cyprus government had held up approval. Thirteen of the 15 council members voted for the resolution, which was worked out in private talks. China and Benin, formerly Dahomey, did not vote.
The Soviet Union is sharply raising its customs duties on parcels sent into the country from abroad. The higher duties, set to take effect today, prompted congressional charges that the Kremlin move may be aimed at restricting Western support of dissidents and Soviet Jews. The increased duties raise the cost of gift parcels regularly sent by thousands of Russian emigres in the United States to relatives in the Soviet Union. “Packages are vital to the survival of Soviet Jews who have been dismissed from their jobs because they have made applications to emigrate to Israel,” said Senator James L. Buckley (R-Con-New York).
United States policy toward Italy is coming alive again as an issue in the present election campaign, to the unhappiness of American officials and the beleaguered Christian Democrats. In the last month of campaigning, the United States and its official concern over the surge of the Communist Party have not been a focus for much of the election debate. Washington has remained silent and Italian politicians, including the Communists, have steered clear of the issue. Now, however, it is stirring. In particular, the Communist press has reported with prominence a dispatch from Washington, published in The New York Times on Sunday, saying that the State Department began taking a strong stand against Communist participation in the Italian Government in part because of encouragement from the Christian Democrats.
Italian Communist leader Enrico Berlinguer said Italy’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization protects his party from Kremlin pressure. A new public opinion poll showed his Communists and the Christian Democrats running in a dead heat in elections scheduled for Sunday and Monday.
Police in Rome freed a meat importer, Giuseppe d’Ambrosio, who was bound, gagged and chained to a bed in a girls’ boarding school by kidnappers who demanded that butchers in Rome cut the price of beef in exchange for his life. Police discovered the victim in an uninhabited building while they were investigating a robbery complaint. D’Ambrosio was kidnapped Monday by the “Fighting Communist Unit,” which accused Rome butchers of “daily robbery of the proletariat.”
The U.N. Security Council, approved tonight a six‐month renewal of the mandate of the United Nations peace force in Cyprus 17 minutes before the scheduled expiration of its current term at midnight. The renewal resolution, approved by 13 votes to 0, also urged the quarreling Greek and Turkish communities on the Mediterranean island to work harder to reach a settlement of their dispute and asked Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to assist them and report back by October 30. China, as usual, did not participate in the vote because of Peking’s opposition to the use of peace‐keeping fortes, and was joined by Benin, formerly Dahomey, which disapproved of the terms of the renewal resolution. The Greek Cypriot Government held up Council action for eight hours in an unsuccessful effort to revise the resolution to take account of its complaints that Turkish troop:; occupying 40 percent of the island were continuing to expel Greek Cypriots from the northern areas and to “colonize” these areas with Turkish settlers from the mainland.
West Germany announced that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa would meet in the countryside next week instead of in Hamburg as originally planned because the talks were vital and they needed a “secluded place.” Mr. Kissinger was reportedly irritated, not at the shift of locale, but because the statement was in conflict with Washington’s position that the meeting will be only exploratory.
Prime Minister James Callaghan promised Britain’s Asian community today that it would receive police protection against, racist violence. Speaking in the House of Commons, he said the Asian immigrants — mostly Indians and Pakistanis — “are entitled to live without fear as are other citizens.” His message reinforced a condemnation of racism yesterday by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Donald Coggan, as “a disgrace to Britain.” Nonwhites in Britain constitute about 3.3 percent of the population. Demonstrations in areas where Asians have settled have led to street fighting and two fatal stabbings in the last two weeks.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin warned that Israel’s security and the stability of the entire Middle East would be jeopardized if the civil war in Lebanon ended with the Palestinians or the Syrians in control of the country. In a speech to Parliament, Mr. Rabin said the parties involved in Lebanon knew clearly at what point Israel would consider their activities intolerable. He said the armed forces were prepared to defend Israel and he added later: “We would prefer that a situation is not created that would require us to act across the border.” Mr. Rabin was low‐key and deliberately terse in his references to the Lebanese civil war in his prepared speech summing up foreign affairs in the two years since he succeeded Golda Meir as Prime Minister. “The Israeli Government cannot be indifferent to what is happening in its neighboring country,” he said. “We are fully aware of the possible consequences and dangers to our security interests and to the stability of the entire region should Lebanon lose its independence and fall under the domination of the terrorists’ organization or be trampled under Syrian rule.”
A senior Syrian official today bitterly attacked Yasser Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Kamal Jumblat, the leader of the Lebanese leftist‐Muslim alliance resisting Syria’s armed intervention in Lebanon. The Syrian official, who asked that he not be identified by name or title, usually reflects the views and moods of the Government of President Hafez al‐Assad, who has said virtually nothing publicly since the escalation of the Syrian intervention two weeks ago. The Syrian official, speaking in an interview, also said the Palestinian and Lebanese leftist forces would be destroyed by the Syrian Army if they attacked it. The official declined to confirm a report that a peacekeeping force of four Arab nations, approved by the Arab League in Cairo last week, would be deployed in Lebanon within 10 days.
The government of the People’s Republic of China announced that Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong was no longer receiving foreign visitors, prompting speculation that he was terminally ill. A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said that the decision had been made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party, but he said that the chairman was still able to work despite his age of 82 years. The Central Committee decision seems to be a definitive one, and the spokesman’s’ statement, the first made for a long time by a Chinese official concerning Chairman Mao’s health, contained no specific assurances that he was in good health. Foreigners in Peking who have been observing the Great Hall of the People over the last few days have noticed that meetings of Chinese leaders have apparently been held there every evening, and have sometimes lasted through the night. The first visiting head of state who was not received by Chairman Mao under the terms of the Central Committee’s decision was President Didier Ratsiraka of Madagascar, who ended a five‐day official visit to Peking yesterday. According to a source close to Mr. Ratsiraka, Chinese leaders told him that the party chairman was “tired” and that Mr. Ratsiraka would meet Chu Teh, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, instead of having the usual meeting with Chairman Mao.
Three earthquakes jolted central Japan and the second and strongest halted trains during the early morning rush in Tokyo for a half hour and interrupted train service between the capital and Osaka. No damage or casualties were reported. The second quake measured four on the Japanese scale of seven.
The Philippines is seeking U.S. help in modernizing its defense system in exchange for permitting U.S. bases to remain in the archipelago, its chief negotiator said. At a new round of talks in Baguio City, Philippine Ambassador Eduardo Z. Romualdez said the overriding factor was the “modernization and development of our defense and defense-related industries.”
Week-long protests against the military government of Bolivian President Hugo Banzer escalated, paralyzing the nation’s main tin mines, most of its universities and its largest shoe producer. The strike spread to three new mines and six of Bolivia’s nine universities, despite government decisions declaring six strike-bound mines military zones and granting pay increases of up to 30% to miners.
Peruvian Ambassador Fernando Rodriguez was stabbed to death as his daughter looked on in his living room in Kingston, Jamaica. Authorities said there was no evidence to indicate a political motive. Rodriguez, who had served in San Francisco, Bolivia, Colombia and Uruguay, was attacked after he returned from a late-evening walk in his fashionable neighborhood. Police said he apparently surprised burglars.
Angolan prosecution witnesses accused 13 British and American mercenaries today of murder, massacre, laying minefields, abuse of civilians, pillage and the destruction of property. Most of the testimony on the fifth day of the trial of the mercenaries — 10 Britons and 3 Americans — was based on hearsay, with contradictions and lack of precise detail. Six of the seven state witnesses called to identify the mercenaries immediately pointed to Costas Georgiou, the 25‐year‐old Cyprus‐born British subject known as Tony Callan, as the mercenaries’ commander. The gravest charge leveled against Mr. Callan and his men came from Jose Afonso Carlos, a witness from the northern city of Sao Salvador. He said that 72 or 73 supporters of the governing Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola were murdered on the orders of Mr. Callan during the recent civil war here. “I saw them being taken out of prison and loaded on trucks and the trucks came back empty,” Afonso Carlos told the court. He also testified that he had seen Mr. Callan shoot and kill an Angolan boy; but he admitted he was a long distance away and had been told afterward that the boy had been killed.
The Democratic Party’s platform committee adopted a platform that was praised by all factions of the party, which was apparently united for the first time in years. The document reflects the views of Jimmy Carter, the party’s presumed presidential nominee, but it was endorsed by representatives of other Democrats who had sought the nomination, Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington, Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama and Representative Morris K. Udall of Arizona. The committee took up the range of issues that had divided the party in the past—health insurance, marijuana, welfare reform, abortion, homosexual rights, amnesty, busing, defense spending and foreign policy—and in each instance arrived at a compromise position that won overwhelming approval. It appeared unlikely tonight that there was enough support for any opposition view to permit introduction of a minority plank at the Democratic National Convention next month. If that is the case, the convention will adopt the document without amendment. “I’ve tried it the other way, and I like this way better,” said Robert S. Strauss, the party chairman, referring to the schisms between the Democratic old guard and the more liberal elements that dominated the platform deliberations in 1968 and 1972. He predicted that the evident unity would propel the Democrats to victory over a divided Republican Party in November.
Jimmy Carter, in a long, expansive chat with reporters aboard his campaign plane, was the picture of confidence as he spoke about politics, people, prejudice and the presidency he firmly believes he will win. It would be a time of national healing and an era of social progress, he promised. Now virtually assured of his party’s nomination, the 51‐year‐old Democrat said that even if it cost him votes his autumn campaign would include commitments to guarantee civil rights, end racial discrimination and alleviate poverty, hunger and inadequate housing. “This country is resilient,” he said. “We can start again. I believe it can be done and I mean to do it.” His remarks came in a long, informal chat with reporters aboard his chartered plane after a day of campaigning that took him from here to New York to Dallas and finally back to this seasonal resort, where he resumed his vacation today.
The Senate Judiciary Committee decided to send to the floor a bill designed to break up 18 large oil companies into separate production, refining and marketing entities. The vote, which was 8 to 7, had been in doubt to the end, but it gave a psychological lift to the liberal Democratic sponsors of the measure. As the committee voting showed, the bill’s chances on the floor are uncertain. Of the eight Senators who voted to report the measure, one, Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, the Democratic whip, said he opposed divestiture, and two others, Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and Charles McC. Mathias Jr. of Maryland, both Republicans, reserved the right to vote against the bill on the floor. All three said they were voting to report the bill so that the Senate could debate it and vote on it.
The Senate approved today the first legislation in 30 years calling for more public disclosure of lobbying activities in Congress.
The bill, which passed 82 to 9, now goes to the House of Representatives, where a Judiciary subcommittee is drafting similar legislation. However, with time running out in the current Congressional session, it is uncertain whether a lobbying disclosure measure will get through both houses this year. The Senate bill, which has been in preparation for more than a year, is designed to replace a 1946 law that has seldom been enforced and is widely regarded as being too vague in requiring lobbyists to register and report their expenditures. According to the General Accounting Office, only one successful prosecution has been brought against lobbyists in the last 30 years for failure to register. Also, the present law requiring the registration and reporting of expenditures by lobbyists does not apply to organizations or individuals unless lobbying is their “principal purpose.”
At least 16 letter bombs that have turned up in the mails throughout the country were described by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as follow-ups to extortion demands addressed to about 200 leading businessmen since last fall. The director, Clarence Kelley, said the sums demanded totaled “millions of dollars” with the threat of “terrorist tactics unless these demands were met.” By last night, at least 16 packets containing low‐grade explosive devices had been discovered around the country, including two more in Manhattan and one at the Passaic County prosecutor’s office in Paterson, New Jersey. Paul Coe, assistant chief inspector for the Postal Service, said that his field inspectors and F.B.I. agents had notified recipients of all 200 earlier extortion demands about the danger of mailed bombs as soon as the first packet was found here Monday. Only one device has exploded so far, slightly injuring four women employees of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner Fe Smith Inc., the brokerage concern, Monday at 1 Liberty Plaza in downtown Manhattan.
As pressure mounted for Rep. Allan T. Howe (D-Utah) not to seek reelection, a Salt Lake City judge gave him until Monday to plead to a charge that he had tried to buy sex from two policewomen posing as prostitutes. Howe, 48, was due back in Utah today and his lawyer said he the freshman congressman would decide his political future after that.
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of making $330,000 in illegal domestic political contributions between November, 1970, and May, 1973, and spending about $93,000 in Mexico to get a price increase. Also named in the complaint were Firestone Chairman Raymond C. Firestone and Robert P. Beasley, retired vice chairman. As the SEC filed suit in federal court, Firestone immediately agreed to the charges without admitting or denying guilt and also agreed to continue an internal investigation of the contributions.
The rights to serialize former President Richard M. Nixon’s memoirs in newspapers and magazines have been bought by the New York Times Co. Warner Books, which is planning to publish the memoirs in the fall of 1977, said the manuscript should be ready for editing by the end of this year. Neither Warner nor the Times would confirm the terms publicly, but sources said the sum involved was in six figures.
Critics of Philadelphia Mayor Frank L. Rizzo, a former policeman who worked his way up to police commissioner, filed petitions asking for his recall. The 209,000 signatures were filed with the City Board of Elections and if the commissioners rule that enough are valid — 145,000 are needed — Rizzo would face a referendum. But Rizzo critics were immediately concerned when commissioners voted to close almost all validation proceedings to the public. They also adopted a rule — that every signature must be under an affidavit stating what is being signed — which could eliminate half of the signatures at once. Rizzo rode a wave of law-and-order support to two mayoral election victories. But a month after he was reelected he requested huge tax increases.
Chicago police have taken one man into custody in connection with the death of a woman who was slain after the family refused to pay $10 to have their car pushed across a flooded street. Authorities said the arrest was made on identification of other witnesses to the fatal shooting of Phyllis Anderson, 51, and the wounding of her husband, Leo, 51.
Testimony before the United States Commission on Civil Rights disclosed today that antibusing demonstrations in Louisville, Kentucky last September 5 became incendiary after some confusion in the governmental chain of commands among state, county and city officials and political indecision. Seventy‐two Jefferson County policemen were inured in the rioting. The testimony in the first two days of the three‐day hearing has shown a frustration on the part of adults and students working with their elected public officials to achieve peaceful desegregation.
Although cigarette consumption is up, the proportion of adult Americans who smoke continues to decline and more people favor tougher government action against smoking, a government survey found. It showed that the proportion of male smokers over 21 to nonsmokers was 39.3% in 1975, down from 42.2% in 1970 and 52.8% in 1964. Smoking by adult women dropped to 28.9% from 30.5% in 1970 and 31.5% in 1964.
City council President Paul O’Dwyer was designated as the New York Democratic State Committee’s candidate for United States Senator, but three others also qualified for a place on the September primary ballot. Along with Mr. O’Dwyer, Representative Bella Abzug, former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Daniel Patrick Moynihan also qualified for the primary.
Treasury Department officials have asked New York City to submit a new financial plan and obtain new labor agreements as a condition for further federal loans. The statement was viewed by city officials as strengthening their hands at the bargaining tables, where they are negotiating 67 new labor contracts that expire June 30, but as worsening their position with investors. The next federal loan for the city is scheduled for July. 2.
At least one person died in the wake of heavy rains that struck the northern Black Hills of South Dakota. It was almost four years to the day after a flood in the same area left more than 200 persons dead. The body of a young girl was found by rescue crews searching a house that had been covered by a mudslide triggered by the 10 inches of rain falling on the steep hills surrounding the frontier gold-rush city of Deadwood. Three other persons were rescued earlier from the same house and hospitalized. Up to 500 households in Lawrence County were evacuated.
Major League Baseball:
Charles O. Finley, the maverick owner of the Oakland A’s, stunned the baseball world tonight by selling three of his biggest stars — Vida Blue to the Yankees for $1.5 million and Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to the Boston Red Sox for $1 million each. No player ever has been sold for that much money in baseball history. The League would soon step in to stop the deals.
The Cardinals send veteran Reggie Smith, an All-Star the past two seasons, to the Dodgers in exchange for catcher/outfielder Joe Ferguson, and two minor leaguers. Smith, a native Californian, will continue his fine play for the Dodgers, while Ferguson, who spent the 2nd half of 1975 on the DL, will be dealt to Houston at the end of the year. Whether or not it’s because they got the short end of the deal, the Cards will not make another trade with the Dodgers for more than a decade.
In what stands as one of the O’s best trades ever, Baltimore obtains pitchers Rudy May, Tippy Martinez, Dave Pagan, Scott McGregor and catcher Rick Dempsey from the Yankees for veteran pitchers Doyle Alexander, Ken Holtzman, Grant Jackson and catcher Elrod Hendricks. The veterans will help the Yankees win a 1976 American League pennant and then fade.
Nolan Ryan pitched a two-hitter and Bobby Bonds drove in the only run of the game as the California Angels defeated the Milwaukee Brewers, 1–0. Ryan’s duel with Jim Colborn was decided in the seventh inning when Bob Jones and Dave Chalk singled and Andy Etchebarren walked to load the bases for Bonds’ deciding single.
Ending their nine-game losing streak, the Orioles got five-hit pitching from Jim Palmer and shut out the White Sox, 4–0. Mark Belanger and Lee May divided up the RBIs, Belanger accounting for two with a pair of doubles and May hitting a homer with a man on base.
Pinch-hitting in the eighth inning, Bob Bailey singled to spark a three-run rally that brought the Reds a 6–4 victory over the Cubs. Johnny Bench drew a pass to open the stanza and gave way to Ed Armbrister. Cesar Geronimo singled and, after a sacrifice by Dave Concepcion, Bailey hit his single to break a 3–3 tie. Pete Rose and Joe Morgan followed with subsequent singles to add two more runs to the Reds’ total.
No field goals today as Tom Poquette leads the Royals to a 21–7 win over the Tigers. The Royals set a club record with 24 hits while slaughtering the Tigers in a game halted by rain in the top half of the ninth inning after Poquette and Jamie Quirk each doubled with none out to account for K.C.’s last two hits and their last run. Poquette also had another double, plus two singles and an inside-the-park homer in the Royals’ barrage, while Amos Otis drove in five runs and Dave Nelson accounted for four.
Capping a 4-for-4 night, Thurman Munson drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single in the seventh inning to give the Yankees a 4–2 victory over the Twins. Before providing the Yanks’ winning margin, Munson tied the score at 2–2 with a homer in the sixth.
Dave Kingman scored one run and drove in another to enable the Mets to edge the Dodgers, 2–1, in a duel between Jon Matlack and Burt Hooton. The Dodgers picked up the initial run of the game on a single by Ted Sizemore in the seventh inning, but the Mets tied the score in their half on a double by Kingman, an infield out and single by Wayne Garrett. Then in the eighth, Bud Harrelson bunted safely and came around to score the deciding run on a sacrifice by Felix Millan, long fly by John Milner and single by Kingman.
After A’s owner Charlie Finley sold Vida Blue to Yankees, Glenn Abbott became a last-minute starter and pitched eight innings as the Athletics defeated the Red Sox, 3–2, with the aid of two homers by Gene Tenace. Paul Lindblad worked the final frame in relief of Abbott and was the winner. Tenace hit his first round-tripper of the game in the fifth inning, but the Red Sox went ahead in the eighth when Jim Rice singled and Carlton Fisk homered. The Athletics picked up an unearned run to tie the score in their half before Tenace broke the deadlock with his second circuit clout in the ninth.
Three runs in the first inning and five more in the second made it easy for the Phillies to breeze to a 10–2 victory over the Giants. Jay Johnstone knocked in two runs in the first with a bases-loaded single and did it again in the second. Garry Maddox homered with two men on base and then joined Johnstone in the four-RBI ranks with a run-scoring single in the fourth.
Alan Foster doled out six hits in his second complete game of the season and pitched the Padres to a 2–1 victory over the Expos. Gary Roenicke hit his first major league homer for the Expos’ run in the third inning. After Tito Fuentes drove in the tying tally with a double in the fifth, Dave Winfield doubled in the next stanza, advanced on an infield out and scored the winning run on a sacrifice fly by Gene Locklear.
Dick Ruthven won his own game with a run-scoring single in the sixth inning as the Braves defeated the Cardinals, 5–4. Willie Montanez, making his first plate appearance after being acquired from the Giants, drove in the Braves’ first run with a single in the opening frame. Earl Williams homered in the second and Ken Henderson doubled home two runs in the fifth before a double by Darrel Chaney and single by Ruthven provided the Braves’ deciding marker in the sixth.
Gaylord Perry moved into sixth place on the major leagues’ all-time strikeout list with a total of 2,586 by fanning six while pitching the Rangers to a 3–2 victory over the Indians. In his advance on the list, Perry passed Hall of Famers Bob Feller and Warren Spahn. A double by Gene Clines, single by Mike Hargrove and double by Toby Harrah produced the Rangers’ first two runs in the game. After the Indians tied the score, the Rangers put over the deciding marker in the third inning when Clines doubled again and Hargrove singled.
Rain out! The scheduled game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Astros at the Astrodome in Houston was postponed due to rain, despite being an indoor venue, when heavy rains make it difficult for the visiting team and umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on August 15.
Milwaukee Brewers 0, California Angels 1
Baltimore Orioles 4, Chicago White Sox 0
Chicago Cubs 4, Cincinnati Reds 6
Kansas City Royals 21, Detroit Tigers 7
New York Yankees 4, Minnesota Twins 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, New York Mets 2
Boston Red Sox 2, Oakland Athletics 3
San Francisco Giants 2, Philadelphia Phillies 10
Montreal Expos 1, San Diego Padres 2
Atlanta Braves 5, St. Louis Cardinals 4
Cleveland Indians 2, Texas Rangers 3
News of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s surprise decision to send to the Senate floor a bill that would break up some of the nation’s big oil companies apparently made its impact on stock prices yesterday afternoon as the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks closed at 985.92, down 5.32 points.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 985.92 (-5.32, -0.54%)
Born:
Gary Lightbody, Northern Irish musician (Snow Patrol — “Chasing Cars”), in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Curtis Enis, NFL running back (Chicago Bears), in Union City, Ohio.
Khin Zarchi Kyaw, Burmese film actress, 2002 Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Award winner; in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar)
Died:
Jimmy Dykes, 79, American MLB infielder (MLB All Star 1933-34 Chicago WS; World Series 1929-30 Philadelphia A’s) and manager (Chicago White Sox, 1934-46).
H. T. Friis, 83, Danish-born radio engineer and inventor for whom the Friis transmission equation and the Friis formulas for noise are named.
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