The Christian Democrats kept their place as Italy’s dominant party in the national elections, but their chief rival, the Communist Party, was not far behind and substantially added to its seats in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. The Communists’ position was believed to be strong enough now for them to demand a place in the cabinet. With more than 96 percent of the vote counted for 315 Senate seats, the Christian Democrats led by 39 percent, and the Communists 33.8 percent. In the 630-member Chamber of Deputies, nearly complete figures gave the Christian Democrats 38.7 percent, and the Communists 34.9 percent. In the last parliamentary elections in 1972, the Christian Democrats won 38.8 percent of the vote, and the Communists 27.2 percent.
Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktaş won a landslide victory in a presidential election held in the “Turkish Federated State of Cyprus,” the official Bayrak radio reported. His National Unity Party was also reported comfortably ahead of rivals in parliamentary elections. With all but one ballot box counted, Denktaş had 40,700 votes to 11,774 for his only serious rival. Denktaş unilaterally declared the federated state in 1975, after the Turkish invasion and occupation of the northern part of the island in 1974.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger urged the Western industrial powers today to meet the world’s “new and demanding challenges” by cooperating more closely in dealing with Communist and third‐world nations. In a generally optimistic review of the West’s economic situation. Mr. Kissinger underscored Washington’s view that only through more effective political and economic coordination can the industrial democracies cope with the challenges raised by the world’s poor nations and by the state-run Communist economies. Addressing the opening session of the annual ministers meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Mr. Kissinger also called upon the Western nations to accelerate their own efforts in energy research and conservation where, he said, progress has “fallen far short of our needs.”
Doctors at Moscow’s Serbsky Psychiatric Institute have decided that dissident Ukrainian historian Vladimir Moroz is sane, and he has been transferred to a Moscow prison, his wife said. Moroz was accused of Ukrainian nationalism and sentenced in 1970 to six years in prison, to be followed by three in a labor camp and five in internal exile. It was at the completion of the first part of his sentence that he was taken to Serbsky for examination, raising fears that he would be committed indefinitely to a psychiatric prison hospital.
Vladimir Dapcevic, a veteran foe of Yugoslavia’s President Tito from Stalinist days, went on trial in Belgrade on charges of crimes against the state. He told the court he was kidnaped in Romania last August and forcibly taken into Yugoslavia, contrary to international law. The indictment against him says he was arrested on Yugoslav territory on December 21 of last year. The trial is expected to last five days.
The export of a nuclear power reactor to Spain was approved today by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the strong dissent of one of the four commissioners. The United States previously had licensed the export of eight reactors to Spain, two of which are now generating electricity. The dissenting commissioner, Dr. Victor Gilinsky, said he opposed the granting of an export license for the $37 million Westinghouse reactor involved in today’s decision because the terms drawn up contained “a vital flaw.” He said there were inadequate safeguards to prevent its use for the development of nuclear weapons. Dr. Gilinsky had urged a modification of the license so as to require Spain to use only United States uranium as fuel. This would mean, he said, that “plutonium — a nuclear explosive — which will he produced in the operation of the reactor,” would be subject to the extra controls spelled out in a special treaty between the United States and Spain.
France is facing its worst drought since 1921 and it affects not only the agriculture industry but now threatens the economy at large, just as it was seen to be picking up again. The drought is also being felt in parts of southern England and Belgium, but with less dramatic effects. In France, the absence of rain — in some areas since last November — has hit hardest in such important farming regions as Brittany and Normandy, where what the meteorologists call the “rain deficit” is now at 60 percent. As a result, anemic wheat, corn and barley crops will be producing only half the normal yield. Vegetables and fruit, too, will be scarce, and because of the lack of fodder, breeders are slaughtering cattle ahead oft schedule. In Normandy, some breeders have let their animals graze in the grain fields for lack of grass. In sugar production from beets, forecasts are, for a drop of 25 percent.
About 1,000 Syrian and Libyan troops, described as the vanguard of an Arab League peacekeeping force, arrived overland from Damascus today and took up positions around Beirut’s airport as a new cease‐fire went into effect. The soldiers, about equally divided between Syrians and Libyans, reached the battered airport., in trucks shortly after 1 PM having ridden through the Syrian‐held Bekaa Valley, the Lebanese Christian hill town of Jezzine and the leftist‐dominated port town of Saida. According to the Libyan Prime Minister, Major Abdel Salam Jalloud, who has been acting as a mediator in the confrontation between the Syrian expeditionary force in Lebanon and Palestinian guerrillas, the first duty of the peacekeeping troops is to oversee the reopening of the airport. It has been closed by fighting for 15 days. The agreement also reportedly calls for a partial withdrawal of the Syrian expeditionary force in Lebanon, estimated at a total of 13,000 men, from positions in the Beirut suburbs, east of Saida and around the mountain resort of Sofar on the Beirut‐Damascus highway. The withdrawal, which is to begin at dawn tomorrow, would reportedly leave the Syrians in control of the strategic pass at Dahr al‐Baidar on the main Lebanese highway to Damascus.
Leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Palestine Liberation Organization held talks in Riyadh today. The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, later flew to Cairo to press for the speedy, dispatch of a joint Arab peacekeeping force to Lebanon. The unheralded meeting brought together President Anwar el‐Sadat of Egypt, fresh from a one‐week visit to Iran; King Khand or Saudi Arabia, and Mr. Arafat. The Middle East News Agency of Egypt said the three leaders had met informally at Riyadh Airport to discuss the developments in Lebanon and later held talks at the guest palace in the presence of their aides.
Fighting has flared since May between Kurd guerrillas and Iraqi forces in mountainous northern Iraq near the borders of Iran, Turkey and Syria, a Kurdish spokesman said in Geneva. At least 62 Iraqi soldiers have been killed in skirmishes in five different areas, and the fighting is gaining in scope, he said. The 13-year struggle by the Kurds for independence ended a year ago with surrender under amnesty to Iraqi control. The latest fighting was attributed to the Kurds’ reaction to Iraqi policies seeking to destroy them as a people.
The government of Iran announced that it intends to purchase a $125 million share in the Occidental Petroleum Corporation of Los Angeles and that Occidental will help Iran develop oil resources in the Caspian Sea. The agreement, which also includes joint ventures in marketing Iranian oil in world markets and in breeding cattle, would be the largest Iranian investment in a United States company.
India and Pakistan named ambassadors to each other today as a preliminary to the reopening of their embassies after nearly five years. An Indian Foreign Ministry announcement said that Kyatyani Shankar Bajpai, currently India’s ambassador to the Netherlands, would be the ambassador to Pakistan. The 48‐yearold Mr. Bajpai attained early distinction in the Indian Foreign Service for the political role he played in the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim during the troubled years from 1970 to 1974 leading to the deposition of the ruler of Sikkim and of that state with India. The New Delhi announcement also said that Pakistan had designated as its ambassador Sved Fida Hassan, 68, a senior civil servant whose official career dates from the time of British rule.
Two North Korean commandos and two South Korean soldiers were killed in clashes just south of the demilitarized zone that divides North and South Korea. The South Korean Defense Ministry said one of the North Koreans was shot to death at dawn, while the three other fatalities occurred during an afternoon gun battle.
Security forces in Kingston released the opposition party’s public relations director, one of nine persons detained under the state of emergency imposed throughout Jamaica on Saturday. Ray Miles, public relations director for the Jamaica Labor Party, and four other members were arrested at a party conference after the government had placed the country under an indefinite state of emergency to curb violence. One member of the ruling People’s National Party and three others also have been arrested.
Four months after an earthquake killed almost 23,000 Guatemalans and briefly united the embittered nation, an upsurge of violence is offering macabre evidence that politics here is back to normal. Once again, newspapers are dedicating their front pages to photographs and reports of deaths and disappearances, while politicians, diplomats and businessmen are reinforcing their personal security. The list of terrorist actions since the disaster is growing: one assassination and two attempted assassinations of leading left‐wing politicians, the murder of a right‐wing military officer, the killing of more than a dozen lesser political figures, and the kidnapping of the daughter of a cement magnate. For the first time in four years, an extreme leftist guerrilla group — the so‐called Guatemalan Army of the Poor — has also emerged and is saying it carried out some of the recent assaults and murders.
A former Argentine economy minister, Celestino Rodrigo, and a former federal judge, Alfredo Nocetti Fasolino, have been ordered to stand trial on corruption charges with ousted President Maria Estela Peron, court sources said. The reported decision followed three days of questioning of Mrs. Peron. And violence continued in the nation as leftist guerrillas shot and killed Osvaldo Trinidad, an executive of the Swift meat-packing firm, as he left his home in La Plata. He was the third executive of the formerly American-owned company to be killed in less than a month.
Rioting broke out in the black townships around Pretoria in South Africa soon after rioting subsided in similar townships near Johannesburg, 50 miles to the south. In Pretoria, bands of young people overturned buses, set fire to schools and government offices and threw stones at passing cars. Ten persons were reported to have been killed and scores injured. Security forces, armed with submachine guns and grenade launchers, barricaded the roads leading to the black communities. The almost simultaneous flaring of vandalism in three widely separated black enclaves here lent weight to the contentions of the South African police that the disorders were to some extent planned and coordinated. It was just after dawn as the working people of Mabopane, the largest of the area’s black townships, started out for jobs in the city, 16 miles away, 1when mobs attacked buses and government beer hall. At almost the same time, similar groups reportedly sought to burn schools in the much smaller townships of Atteridgeville and Mamelodi. Heavily armed policemen, who had been alerted to the tension in the area the night before by such signs as the one they saw in Atteridgeville saying, “Don’t pray — fight to support Soweto,” moved in quickly by truck and helicopter.
The House accepted without comment the resignation of Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio) as chairman of the House Administration Committee because of his involvement in the Capitol payroll-sex scandal. The letter was read to the House and accepted without objection. Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma said a new chairIman would be elected Wednesday. Albert also said the leadership would take up recommendations for changing House payroll and allowance funding. In his letter, submitted Friday, Hays said, “I am confident that I will be vindicated as to any wrongdoing, and when that occurs I shall ask for a reexamination of my position…” Hays has said he has no plans to resign.
Advocates of strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the new Congressional budget procedures lost their fight in the Senate today to forces led by Senator Russell B. Long, Democrat of Louisiana, who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. The defeat for the Budget Committee, though theoretically reversible at a later date, had important implications both for the whole new Congressional process for handling the budget and for the tax bill that is before the Senate. What was specifically at issue, land has been since the Senate began work on the tax bill last week, was whether the bill should be changed to comply with the assumptions Congress had in mind when it passed the Congressional budget resolution for the fiscal year 1977 last month. One of those assumptions was that $2 billion in revenues would be raised through reforms that would increase the taxes paid by individuals and businesses that enjoy preferential tax treatment now. The tax bill, as it came from the Senate Finance Committee, did not raise that much revenue, from tax reform.
The uncommitted delegates to the Republican National Convention, who will apparently decide whether President Ford or Ronald Reagan is nominated, have not yet turned in significant numbers to either candidate, a survey by the New York Times has found. Most of the delegates seem to care more about the electability than about the candidates’ ideology.
Richard M. Nixon considered destroying his White House tapes several times but did not do so because his “concerns were more in the area of maintaining an accurate historical record — especially in areas of national security and foreign policy, says H. R. Haldeman, the former President’s chief of staff. In the third of a five-part copyrighted series distributed by Universal Press Syndicate of Kansas City, Haldeman said that when Nixon first raised the possibility of destroying the tapes, “I argued against it on the basis that the tapes would give the President accurate knowledge of what was actually said. Nixon’s concern was based on a realization (which I did not have) of the distorted impression that would arise from certain tapes, especially when isolated from the overall collection…”
The Supreme Court ruled on a 5-to-4 vote that states may provide funds for non-sectarian purposes to church-affiliated colleges and universities, even when prayers are said at the start of classes in those schools and religion and theology are mandatory courses. The decision in a Maryland case was the latest in a long series of efforts by the Court to draw an appropriate line between church and state and it seems that the line was moved closer to church than it had been.
The business partner of John H. Adamson, who is accused of murdering Don Bolles, an investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic, testified at a hearing tonight that Mr. Adamson had urged him to join in a plot to “blow up a car” shortly before the attack on Mr. Bolles. The witness. Robert Lettier, a co‐owner with Mr. Adamson of racing dogs, alleged that his partner said he was to receive $10.000 for the attack. Mr. Lettiere, who testified with a grant of immunity, said that on the night of the car bombing last June 2, at a time when Mr. Bolles was still alive, Mr. Adamson came to his house and said. “That was a helluva charge that was under that car; I can’t see how the man lived.” The proceeding was a preliminary hearing to determine whether there was sufficient, evidence to bring Mr. Adamson to a formal trial on homicide charges.
In a dispute over a wage increase, thousands of state employees in Massachusetts went on strike, the first of its kind in the state. The strikers, who defied a state law and a court order, are members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. alliance. They voted to strike when the state rejected the union’s demand for an average raise of $3,600 over two years. The state had offered $2,715 over three years.
Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp said he would not ask for federal troops or call out the National Guard to provide security for Philadelphia over the July 4th weekend. Shapp’s decision came after an announcement from Washington that the Justice Department was not convinced Philadelphia Mayor Frank L. Rizzo needed 15,000 Army troops to protect the city from demonstrators. Rizzo had claimed that two groups”Rich Off Our Backs” and the “July 4th Coalition”-plan demonstrations but there was no hard information that “terrorist acts” were scheduled.
Two more escapees from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at MacAlester were recaptured near Eufaula, Oklahoma, the state highway patrol reported. Four other convicts who escaped Saturday by cutting through five sets of security bars and fleeing through a utility tunnel remained free. They include three convicted murderers. The latest to be captured were identified as Leonard Boyles, 31, who was reportedly wounded in Morris, 39. The first to be caught. the left leg by a trooper, and William Delbert Garmon, 38, was picked up early Sunday in a residential district a half-mile from the prison. One of those still missing was Rex Brinlee, 43, who was convicted in 1971 of the bombing death of a woman. Brinlee also swore he would kill several others, including his lawyer, Thomas Dee Frazier of Tulsa.
The defense in the trial of William and Emily Harris charged today at the opening of the case that security measures ordered by Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler indicated he was afraid for his safety and thus would not preside fairly over the trial of the two self‐styled revolutionaries. But the judge rejected the defense’s request to disqualify himself from hearing the kidnapping, robbery and assault case. He made his ruling before the first panel of 47 prospective jurors entered the courtroom. The security measures include a bullet‐proof glass and steel mesh barrier that separates the Harrises and other participants in the trial from the spectator section.
Judge Brandler said that the Harrises’ co‐defendant, Patricia Hearst, would not be “available for a joint trial.” While he did not indicate the reasons, Miss Hearst has had her trial officially postponed because she is undergoing psychiatric testing before her sentencing on a Federal conviction of bank robbery. It was on May 16, 1974. one month and a day after the San Francisco bank robbery, that Miss Hearst, who had been kidnapped by the so‐called Symbionese Liberation Army, allegedly covered the Harrises’ escape from a sporting goods store here when they were about to be arrested on shoplifting charges. Miss Hearst has virtually conceded that she sent a fusillade of bullets from two automatic guns into the street and at the store. After the incident, the three allegedly commandeered automobiles and kidnapped victims and then fled. They were not seen again until their capture in San Francisco last September.
The liquid petroleum gas explosion that killed 16 persons near Eagle Pass, Texas, last year occurred because the driver of the LPG trailer truck swerved to avoid a slowing vehicle, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The trailer separated from the tractor and ruptured after striking a concrete wall. The escaping gas and resulting explosion destroyed a building and 51 vehicles. Fifty-one persons were injured and the truck driver was one of the dead. The safety agency urged the government to find new ways to combat the threat of fire and explosion from ruptured tank trucks of LPG.
Chrysler Corp. said it was recalling 42,348 early production 1976 model Plymouth Volare and Dodge Aspen automobiles because front seat safety belts might not be fully effective in an accident. Chrysler said the floor-mounted retractors for the front seat belts might fail to engage the locking mechanism when the belts were pulled out. Until a small clip is installed. front-seat occupants were asked to tug on the seat belt after buckling up to check for proper locking. The roof-mounted retractor was not affected.
The validity of all the academic procedures at the United States Military Academy at West Point are being examined following a major cheating scandal. Gen. Sidney Berry, the Academy’s superintendent, told a Senate armed services subcommittee he began the investigation six weeks ago. The subcommittee is studying the honor codes at the nation’s military academies. More than 165 cadets face expulsion for allegedly violating the West Point Code.
Jones Beach State Park in New York was closed for swimming when debris and balls of sticky substances that appeared to be residue of sewage floated ashore. The same pollution closed more than 30 miles of beaches on Fire Island last Tuesday, Public officials who have found toxic fecal material in the sticky substances suggested that people who swam off Fire Island in the last week take an inoculation against hepatitis.
The “four color theorem”, a mathematical conjecture that no more than four colors are required to color the regions of any map so that no two adjacent regions have the same color, was announced as proven 123 years after it had first been proposed by brothers Francis Guthrie and Frederick Guthrie, and mathematician Augustus De Morgan. Two mathematicians at the University of Illinois, Wolfgang Haken and Kenneth Appel, announced in Champaign, Illinois that they had used a computer analysis to prove the theorem, first proposed in 1852 and described in the British academic magazine The Athenaeum in 1854. Haken had been working on solving the problem since 1951, and Appel had teamed up with him in 1974.
Country singer Reba McEntire (21) weds national steer wrestling champion Charlie Battles (31); they divorce in 1987.
Major League Baseball:
The Braves wasted a five-run lead, but bounced back to defeat the Astros, 11–9, on Jim Wynn’s two-run homer in the seventh inning. Rowland Office, who extended his hitting streak to 26 games with four hits, singled ahead of Wynn’s game-winning clout.
Wayne Garland pitched a two-hitter and had 10 strikeouts in the first complete game of his major league career and the Orioles defeated the Red Sox, 2–0. Rico Petrocelli singled with two out in the eighth inning for the first hit off Garland. An infield single by Rick Miller was the Red Sox’ only other safety. Mark Belanger hit his first home run of the season in the third inning.
The Angels squeezed out a 2–1 triumph over the Twins in 10 innings in a game played under protest by the Twins. Bob Jones, Dave Chalk and pinch-hitter Bill Melton linked successive singles in the 10th to make a winner of Gary Ross, who scattered eight hits. The Twins’ protest came in the fourth when Rod Carew was ruled out on an appeal play for failure to touch second. The Twins argued the ball was dead when Bruce Bochte’s throw from left field, trying to double up Carew, carried into the dugout.
Back-to-back home runs by Ken Griffey and George Foster on successive pitches by Doug Rau in the sixth powered the Reds to a 3–1 victory over the Dodgers behind rookie Pat Zachry’s four-hit pitching.
Jim Spencer singled, scoring Jorge Orta with one out in the 11th inning to enable the White Sox to overcome the Royals, 2–1, and end their 10-game losing streak. The game-winning hit came after Orta singled and advanced on Buddy Bradford’s sacrifice. The White Sox had tied game in the ninth on successive singles by Ralph Garr, Bradford and Spencer.
Ben Oglivie hit a home run in the 11th inning to send the Tigers away with a 3–2 triumph over the Brewers. It was the sixth home run of the season for Oglivie and three have come against the Brewers.
Willie Randolph drove in two runs with a triple in the fourth inning and the Yankees went on to beat the Indians, 6–0, behind the three-hit pitching of Ed Figueroa (8–4). Dennis Eckersley (3–6) took the loss for Cleveland.
The Rangers combined the one-hit pitching of Bert Blyleven and a leadoff home run in the 10th inning by Tom Grieve to defeat the Athletics, 1–0. Ken McMullen’s single, leading off in the fifth, was the only hit off Blyleven, who posted his first victory since joining the Rangers.
Greg Luzinski doubled, touching off a four-run fourth inning, and hit his 100th career home run in the fifth as the Phillies pounded the Expos, 8–3. Garry Maddox added two doubles and two RBIs for the Phils.
The Padres launched a 19-hit attack, including home runs by Johnny Grubb and Willie Davis, to down the Giants, 6–3. Grubb led off the game with his second homer, then doubled and scored on Davis’ third round-tripper of the season in the fifth. Gary Thomasson’s first homer of ’76 was a two-run clout in the seventh.
Lou Brock delivered a two-run single in a three-run, second-inning uprising that sent the Cardinals on their way to a 7–2 triumph over the Mets and made a winner of Lynn McGlothen for the first time since May 25.
Houston Astros 9, Atlanta Braves 11
Boston Red Sox 0, Baltimore Orioles 2
Minnesota Twins 1, California Angels 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Cincinnati Reds 3
Chicago White Sox 2, Kansas City Royals 1
Detroit Tigers 3, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Cleveland Indians 0, New York Yankees 6
Texas Rangers 1, Oakland Athletics 0
Montreal Expos 3, Philadelphia Phillies 8
San Francisco Giants 3, San Diego Padres 6
New York Mets 2, St. Louis Cardinals 7
International Business Machines, the nation’s best‐know glamour issue, led the stock market higher yesterday in a extension of last week’s rigorous advance. The Dow Jones industrial average, which dropped I.B.M. from among its 30 component issues years ago, kept moving ahead and now challenges its high‐water mark of this spring. Gaining 5.57 points as the market’s momentum picked up in afternoon trading, the blue chip Dow finished at 1,007.45 This put the average once again within striking distance of its April 21 close of 1,011.02. At that time, this represented the highest level for stock price in 39 months.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1007.45 (+5.57, +0.56%)
Born:
Antonio Cochran, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals), in Montezuma, Georgia.
Reed Low, Canadian NHL right wing (St. Louis Blues, Chicago Blackhawks), in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Mike Einziger, American rock guitarist and songwriter (Incubus), in Los Angeles, California.
Died:
Barbara Robb, 64, British psychotherapist and advocate for the rights of the elderly in nursing homes and psychiatric wards, who had founded AEGIS, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions, in 1965.
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