Millions of Italians began voting in a crucial election that could give the Communist Party a role in the national government for the first time. Because of the possibility that the Communists may get cabinet seats, the election is being watched closely by officials in Western Europe and Washington. The voting will continue tomorrow, when the results will be announced. Two days of parliamentary elections began in Italy after the fall of the government of Prime Minister Aldo Moro. While the Italian Communist Party (PCI) gained 49 seats and Moro’s Democrazia Cristiana (DC) lost four in the 630-member Chamber of Deputies, the DC still had a plurality of 262 seats against the PCI’s 228. Democrazia Cristiana maintained 135 seats in the 315-member Italian Senate while the PCI had 116. Giulio Andreotti of the DC was able to form a government more than a month later as the new Prime Minister of Italy, with DC deputies as Ministers and a pledge of support, but not direct participation, by PCI.
Voting was held in Northern Cyprus for the breakaway republic’s first elected president and for the 40-member Assembly of the Republic (Cumhuriyet Meclisi). Rauf Denktaş, who had proclaimed the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus on February 13, 1975, after the Cyprus Civil War had increased the animosity between the Turkish-speaking residents on the north part of the island and the Greek-speaking residents of the south. Turkish Cypriots voted to elect a president and a 40-member assembly for their self-proclaimed federated state in northern Cyprus. The Greek Cypriot majority does not recognize the Turkish Cypriot elections as valid. A spokesman for President Makarios’ government declined any comment. The election was seen as a further move by the Turks to consolidate the island’s division.
The Soviet Union told the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that it has overestimated by 80,000 men the Warsaw Pact troop levels in Central Europe, Western diplomats said in Brussels. They said that the Warsaw Pact informed NATO at East-West troop reduction talks in Vienna June 10 that it had only about 845,000 troops in the area under negotiation. The Warsaw Pact did not publicly announce any new move and asked NATO not to reveal any details. Until now, the pact has never given information on troop levels in East Europe.
The United States will call on other Western industrial powers today to consider ways of coordinating their economic policies with the Communist world to bring more political leverage on Soviet actions. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger arrived in Paris shortly before midnight for the start of the meetings later today of the ministers of the 24-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Reporters traveling with him were told that Mr. Kissinger would introduce his suggestion during a lengthy address that will be devoted to strengthening policy ties among the industrialized democracies.
A bomb explosion at the Yugoslav Embassy in Washington last week has prompted a new diplomatic drive by Yugoslavia to engage the cooperation of foreign police forces against opponents of the Belgrade Government. Already, Belgrade’s initiatives have borne fruit in West Germany, where close to a million Yugoslavs live as migrant workers. The West German Government has informed Yugoslavia that it has formally banned two Yugoslav organizations linked with terrorist activity in West Germany, and has seized quantities of arms from members in a series of nationwide raids. But discussions between the United States and Yugoslavia on the subject have been even more acrimonious and tense than ever. Yugoslavia has charged in several notes that United States authorities, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local police forces, tacitly encourage terrorism against Yugoslav diplomats.
Two men were stabbed and left outside a Protestant social club in Belfast, that hours before had been attacked by gunmen, police said. One victim was dead, the other critically wounded. Both had been battered. The stabbings came after two men were killed by guerrillas and three others seriously wounded in different shootings in British-ruled Northern Ireland.
The Israeli government slashed its defense budget by 1.6%, overriding opposition from Defense Minister Shimon Peres who warned the cut would harm Israel’s security. Trimming of the military budget to $4.26 billion was part of an effort to check inflation by transferring the deducted defense money to pay for imports, a cabinet communique said.
On the lonely, isolated hill of Kuntillet Ajrud, overlooking a vast and empty desert plain in Israeli-Occupied Sinai, an Israeli archeological team has discovered an ancient Judean fortress containing a rare collection of Hebrew and Phoenician inscriptions dating to about 800 B.C. The inscriptions were discovered on pottery and the plaster walls of a remarkable 2,800‐year‐old fortress apparently built by King Jehoshophat of Judea to protect the Solomonic route to the port of Elath and the rich Red Sea trade lanes to the biblical Ophir. The inscriptions are considered doubly significant because several refer to “Jehovah,” the traditional name of God that the ancient Jews wrote rarely because it was so extremely sacred. It is the largest collection of eighth century B.C. inscriptions ever found at a single site.
Hundreds of Western residents and tourists in Lebanon were moved from Beirut by boat, after U.S. President Ford concluded that an evacuation of citizens by a convoy of buses to Syria would be too risky. A group of 263 Americans and non-Lebanese residents boarded U.S. Navy transports that took them to the USS Spiegel Grove for a 40-hour journey to Athens on the Mediterranean Sea.
With Palestinian guerrillas and Lebanese leftist irregulars providing security, the United States Navy carried out an unhurried evacuation of 263 Americans and other foreign nationals from Beirut under orders from President Ford. A landing craft took the evacuees to another Navy vessel that waited three miles off the coast. It seemed that fewer than one-tenth of the 1,800 Americans believed to have been in Beirut were making the 40-hour voyage to Athens. Others said they hoped to go by road to Damascus since they were not permitted to take their cars and large amounts of luggage aboard the Navy ship. And other people chose not to make the sea trip because of a ban on large pets and the prospect of animal quarantines in Greece.
Mahmoud Riad, secretary general of the Arab League, said at a news conference in Damascus that he expected the first contingent of an Arab peace-keeping force to enter Lebanon “by land and air” this week. He said that the initial unit would consist of about 1,000 men from several unspecified nations and that they would take over Beirut’s airport, which has been closed.
With an estimated output of 116 million tons of grain this year, India has achieved what had been considered impossible. For the first time, according to an official claim, the country has enough food and to spare. Following a good monsoon and two bumper crops, grain is flowing into Government storehouses incessantly. Already over 10 million tons of wheat and rice have been bought by the Food Corporation of India, a Government agency that offers a “supporting price” above the prevailing market rate. A tour of wheat surplus areas through three states around Delhi revealed only the problems of plenty. The biggest, storage place at Hapur, 60 miles west of Delhi, equipped with mechanized silos presented by the United States, is filled to capacity.
The United States quietly, and without ceremony, completed its withdrawal of troops from Thailand and closed the last two military installations that it had maintained there. During the Vietnam War, Ramasun Station had housed an electronic monitoring facility near Udon Thani, while the U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield had been the staging center for B-52 bombers to fly bombing missions in Cambodia and Vietnam. By agreement made on March 20, the U.S. was required to withdraw all remaining military personnel from Thailand except for 270 military advisers.
Merthe Tsimblanaga, daughter of Zaire’s ambassador to Canada, was comatose and in critical condition in Quebec, suffering from stab wounds inflicted in her Laval University dormitory room, a hospital official said. She underwent extensive surgery during which she suffered cardiac arrest, the official said. Ambassador Shala Dibwe Tsimblanaga flew from Ottawa to be with her. Police said they were holding a 28-year-old man who would be charged with attempted murder.
The Jamaican government has detained six political candidates or party workers under new emergency powers proclaimed by Prime Minister Michael Manley, informed sources said in Kingston. The island was calm and no incidents were reported other than the arrests.
Eleven left-wing guerrillas were killed in two gun battles along a railroad line south of Buenos Aires, the Argentine army announced. Meanwhile, Buenos Aires police were trying to establish the identity of a badly burned, bullet-riddled body that bore a note saying it was the corpse of a girl guerrilla alleged to have killed the Argentine police chief.
New directions have been set in U.S. Administration policy toward Africa a firm commitment to achieving black majority rule in southern Africa and deeper involvement in maintaining the military balance of power in central Africa. Administration officials acknowledged in interviews, however, that the direction was easier set than done, given Republican Party politics, conflicting pressures in Congress and the volatile situation in Africa. President Ford, the officials said, is keeping a low profile in pursuing elements of his new policy in Congress, where results are uncertain and politically costly. He and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger are emphasizing diplomatic activity to impress on African leaders that the decade of American indifference and the previous policy of neglect are over. The Administration is quietly preparing to allow the Soviet-backed Angolan Government into the United Nations. The State Department is now bargaining with United Nations officials to defer a vote once again, until after the Republican Party convention in August with the understanding that when one is taken, the United States will not exercise its veto.
Signs that Angola might not execute all 13 mercenaries, including two Americans, on trial for their part in the Angolan civil war emerged in the government-controlled press and in private comments by senior officials. The five-judge panel is expected to announce its decision on the case in the middle of the week. Meanwhile, Angola offered visas to the families of all 13 mercenaries. The 28-year-old sister of “Col. Tony Callan” was the first to accept the offer, flying in from London to plead for her brother.
A series of rocket and mortar attacks into Rhodesia from Mozambique has stirred a wave of uneasiness in Salisbury about an expansion of the guerrilla war here. At the same time security officials are expressing uneasiness about possible terrorist attacks in Salisbury itself. Last month, one guerrilla was killed by security forces in a clash only 25 miles northeast of the capital, and officials here are convinced that random terrorism will strike Salisbury in the campaign against Prime Minister Ian D. Smith’s regime.
Security officials maintain, however, that the recent rocket and mortar attacks in the Mount Selinda area of Southeast Rhodesia are designed to unnerve Rhodesian forces and are not the start of a major assault. According to officials, the Rhodesian guerrillas, as well as Mozambique forces, will mount a steadily growing number of scattered attacks along the Mozambique border, where 10,000 security forces are now deployed. South Africans of all races went to church to pray for racial peace and the government offered its first hint that. it might reassess its policies toward the country’s 18 million blacks. The weather was bitterly cold, but the churches were filled. The police estimated that in three days of rioting in black townships last week 109 people were killed and 1,100 injured.
The nation’s economic recovery is solid and should continue throughout this year and next, said Alan Greenspan, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. It is clear, he said, that the acceleration that has been under way in the economy will continue, barring unexpected inflationary trends. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon concurred, adding that inflation “is the fundamental enemy of every society.” Appearing with Greenspan on the television program Issues and Answers, Simon noted that mortgage rates had remained high. The only way to reduce the rates so more persons can own homes, he said, is to reduce inflation. [The Carter Administration will, of course, do exactly the opposite…]
President Ford appears to be the principal beneficiary in the breakup of the second largest bloc of uncommitted delegates to the Republican National Convention — the one in West Virginia. Governor Arch Moore, a Ford supporter, met with the President at the White House and said afterward that Mr. Ford was assured of 20 West Virginia votes, but he may have made an overstatement.
The Democratic Rules Committee, which has been preparing recommended changes in rules for conventions after this year’s in New York City, has refused to guarantee women an equal share of the convention seats. Instead, the committee approved a resolution requiring that the party conventions in 1980 and after “shall promote an equal division” between male and female delegates. This is not quite what the women’s caucus had sought. The committee unanimously approved a plan that would make it possible for more women, blacks and young people to be delegates but without reinstating quotas. The new plan, virtually assured of approval by the convention since no alternative plan can now reach the floor, had the approval of Mr. Carter’s representatives at the committee meeting, all blacks on the committee and reformers, who found it a more significant improvement on affirmative action than they had expected.
With all 435 House seats and one-third of the Senate up for election this year, Congress is especially sensitive to public criticism. possibly because of the bad publicity some of its members recently have had, and is undergoing a critical self-examination. Some reforms may ensue. House members call news conferences almost daily to propose changes in the way Congress spends and accounts for the more than $800 million it spends annually, allocates its perquisites, or deals with the thousands of congressional employees.
FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley says there was no conspiracy involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Boston Sunday Herald Advertiser reported. “I think it’s solved now. And I don’t know of any connection with any conspiracy,” Kelley said in an interview. “We feel we have determined who assassinated the President and we feel that this will be borne out by the review of our investigation.” The Senate Intelligence Committee was scheduled to issue a report this week on the Kennedy assassination and it was expected to recommend reopening the Warren Commission investigation.
Although Richard M. Nixon enjoyed an occasional drink and often appeared to be drunk late at night, the former President never had a drinking problem, his White House chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, says. “In all the thousands of hours I spent with Richard Nixon during an association of more than 16 years, all over the world, under all conditions and circumstances and in times of great elation and deep depression, I never saw any indication of a so‐called ‘drinking problem,’ “ Mr. Haldeman writes in the second of a five‐part series of newspaper articles to be published tomorrow. The series is being distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, based in suburb of Kansas City.
Union officials estimate that up to 65,000 state employees — including hospital, prison and welfare workers — will strike for higher wages despite a warning from Governor Michael S. Dukakis that it would be against the law. Paul Quirk, secretary of the Alliance, a coalition of state employee unions, said picket lines would go up at daylight at all state facilities. Dukakis said in a telecast that “we will enforce the law swiftly and firmly.” He called on the workers “to recognize their public responsibilities and report to work as usual.” He said that state and city policemen would be working and that his administration would put strike contingency plans in effect.
Sporting a black eye and a bruised head, Teamsters Local 299 reformer Peter Camarata said in Detroit that he had been beaten in Las Vegas at the union’s national convention because he challenged the authority of the union’s leaders. He said he did not believe the union’s hierarchy had arranged the beating, in which “three or four guys” knocked him out and attacked two of his friends. Camarata, who belongs to a reform group called Teamsters for a Democratic Union, said he believed the beating would not have happened if he had kept his mouth shut on the convention floor.
The seventh annual convention of the Ohio District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod refused to deal with the subject of graduates from the synod’s Seminary in Exile. The unauthorized seminary came into existence two years ago when John Tietjen, then president of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, was charged with permitting the teaching of false doctrine. When Tietjen left, 450 students and 42 members of the faculty also walked out and started the Seminary in Exile (Seminex) in St. Louis. The status of such graduates has been the subject of much debate. Only one graduate so far has been called by a congregation.
Three murderers were among seven convicts who sawed through two sets of steel bars and escaped the state penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, authorities said. One of the three was identified as Rex Brinlee, in his 40s, who was serving a life sentence for killing a Bristow, Oklahoma, school teacher with a bomb. He vowed from his cell to kill several persons, including his attorney, Thomas Dee Frazier of Tulsa. The other two murderers are William Franklin, 33, of Tulsa, and Edwin Jones, 30, of Oklahoma City, both serving life terms for the 1970 gun slayings of a highway patrol trooper and a park superintendent.
Emily and William Harris go on trial tomorrow without their co-defendant, Patricia Hearst, on charges of kidnapping, assault and robbery. After nine months of pretrial motions and repeated efforts by! the Harrises to delay their trial jury selection will begin tomorrow morning in State Superior, Court in a trial that is expected to last from one to two months. Finding a panel of 12 impartial jurors may take as long as two! weeks as lawyers and Judge Mark Brandler question veniremen in detail about the effects of wide pretrial publicity. Miss Hearst will not stand trial with her former comrades in the self‐styled Symbionese Liberation Army. Her state trial has been postponed so she may undergo psychiatric testing before her final sentencing in Federal District Court in San Francisco on her March conviction of robbing a branch of the Hibernia Bank there.
The Viking 1 spacecraft continued on its first wide sweep around Mars today as its controllers on earth devised a lower orbit, suitable for studying the Martian valley picked out for a July 4 landing. Their calculations were to result in a new command to the unmanned Viking, designed to move it into a less elliptical orbit tomorrow. The new circuit would bring the craft over its planned landing site once each 24.6‐hour Martian day.
Disney’s River Country opens at Bay Lake (closed 2001).
Czechoslovakia defeated West Germany, 5 to 3, on penalty shots to win Euro 76, following a 2 to 2 tie after extra time. After his team took a 4 to 3 lead on penalties, Czech midfielder Antonín Panenka provided the winning kick by introducing a new style that now bears his name, the “panenka”, faking a shot to the corner of the goal and then tapping the ball straight ahead when goalkeeper Sepp Maier dived. The match was played before a crowd of 30,790 at Red Star Stadium in Belgrade in Yugoslavia.
U.S. Open Men’s Golf, Atlanta AC: Tour rookie Jerry Pate wins his only major title, 2 strokes ahead of runners-up Al Geiberger and Tom Weiskopf.
Major League Baseball:
Dick Ruthven pitched a four-hit shutout and Darrel Chaney batted in three runs as the Atlanta Braves defeated the Chicago Cubs, 5–0, in the first Sunday night game ever played in Atlanta Stadium. The contest drew 11,647. Chaney accounted for his RBIs with a pair of doubles. Rowland Office also had a double for the Braves, hitting safely in his 25th straight game.
With two out in the 11th inning, Bobby Darwin doubled for his third hit of the game to enable the Red Sox to defeat the Angels, 4–3. Following Darwin’s two-bagger, the Angels walked Rico Petrocelli, but Rick Burleson singled off Dave Chalk’s glove, enabling Darwin to score.
While the Yankees’ winning streak was extended to six games with a 6–3 victory, the losing streak of the White Sox mounted to 10 in a row. The Yanks iced the game with a five-run outburst in the third inning. After singles by Fran Healy and Fred Stanley accounted for the first run, a walk to Roy White loaded the bases. Thurman Munson drove in two runs with a single and another scored when Ken Brett threw wildly after cutting off the throw to the plate. Chris Chambliss followed with a sacrifice fly for the fifth tally.
Ray Fosse drove in four runs with two singles and a sacrifice bunt and Orlando Gonzalez drove in the first two runs of his major league career as the Indians piled up 15 hits and defeated the Royals, 11–8. However the Indians, after building up a 9-0 lead, almost blew the verdict when the Royals exploded for eight runs in the fourth inning. After an error and seven straight singles accounted for seven runs, Jim Bibby came in with none out, yielded a sacrifice fly and then cut off the Royals’ rally.
Two rookies — Jason Thompson and Mark Fidrych — took leading roles as the Tigers defeated the Twins, 7–3. Thompson drove in three runs with a homer in the third inning and accounted for his fourth RBI with a single in the seventh. Fidrych picked up his sixth victory in seven decisions, although failing to go the route for the first time. John Hiller relieved in the eighth inning.
For the second straight game, Pete Mackanin provided the winning hit for the Expos, smashing a homer with two men on to beat the Dodgers, 5–4. The Expos counted all their runs in the sixth inning, scoring twice on singles by Jim Lyttle, Pat Scanlon and Mike Jorgensen and a sacrifice fly by Tim Foli before Barry Foote singled and Mackanin connected for his homer. In the previous night’s game, Mackanin batted in a run with a single in the ninth inning to beat the Dodgers, 2–1.
Helping himself with the bat, Ed Halicki pitched a five-hitter for seven innings before surrendering the mound to Randy Moffitt and received credit for the Giants’ 9–2 victory over the Mets. The Giants scored five times in the first inning, capping their attack with a two-run single by Halicki.
Robin Yount had four hits in four trips, including a homer, but that was not enough to keep the Brewers from losing to the Athletics, 7–5. Don Baylor broke a 4–4 tie with a homer in the fifth inning. The A’s added a run in the seventh on a triple by Bill North and single by Bert Campaneris before icing the verdict in the eighth on two walks and an error.
A tremendous job of relief pitching by Ron Reed enabled the Phillies to defeat the Reds, 6–1. With the Phillies leading, 4–1, the Reds loaded the bases on Jim Kaat with none out in the sixth inning, but Reed struck out both Tony Perez and Johnny Bench and got Ken Griffey on a fly to quell the threat. Don Gullett, who was stopped on his personal four-game winning streak, started for the Reds but lasted only three innings. The Phillies, after picking up one run in the first, tacked on three in the second.
Five runs in the eighth inning brought the Astros a 9–4 victory over the Pirates in the first game of a scheduled doubleheader. The second game was postponed because of rain. Pinch-hitter Wilbur Howard singled with two out to drive in the first run of the Astros’ rally. After Greg Gross walked, Rob Andrews delivered a two-run single. Then two more scored on an error by Richie Hebner and walk to Jose Cruz.
Johnny Grubb, making only his second start in the Padres’ outfield after being sidelined by an injury for nearly one month, knocked in three runs, capping his big day with a double in the ninth inning that defeated the Cardinals, 5–4. The Padres had a homer by Willie McCovey and two-run single by Grubb, while the Cardinals countered with a homer by Hector Cruz and two-run single by Lou Brock. Brock’s hit tied the score at 4–4 in the eighth, but pinch-hitter Gene Locklear singled for the Padres in the ninth and scored the winning run on Grubb’s double.
With Mike Cuellar pitching a three-hitter, the Orioles shut out the Rangers, 2–0, for their sixth straight victory. The loss was the fifth in a row for the Rangers. The Orioles scored their first run in the sixth inning on a double by Brooks Robinson and single by Dave Duncan. Singles by Andres Mora, Mark Belanger, Duncan and Ken Singleton added the other tally in the seventh.
The scheduled second game of the doubleheader between the Houston Astros and the Pirates at Pittsburgh was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on July 21.
Chicago Cubs 0, Atlanta Braves 5
Boston Red Sox 4, California Angels 3
New York Yankees 6, Chicago White Sox 3
Kansas City Royals 8, Cleveland Indians 11
Detroit Tigers 7, Minnesota Twins 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Montreal Expos 5
San Francisco Giants 9, New York Mets 2
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Oakland Athletics 7
Cincinnati Reds 1, Philadelphia Phillies 6
Houston Astros 9, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
San Diego Padres 5, St. Louis Cardinals 4
Baltimore Orioles 2, Texas Rangers 0
Born:
Carlos Lee, Panamanian MLB outfielder and first baseman (All-Star, 2005, 2006, 2007; Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers, Houston Astros, Miami Marlins), in Aguadulce, Panama.
Rob Mackowiak, MLB outfielder, third baseman, and second baseman (Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox, San Diego Padres, Washington Nationals), in Oak Lawn, Illinois.
Anthony Simmons, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks), in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Jerome Fontamillas, Filipino-American rock keyboardist (Switchfoot), born in Pasay, Philippines.
Died:
Lou Klein, 57, American baseball infielder (St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia A’s) and manager (Chicago Cubs), from a stroke.
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