Final returns in Italy’s national elections showed that the Communists had gained a substantial number of seats in Parliament. Although the Christian Democrats had a wide lead in the percentage voting, they lost three seats in the Chamber for a total of 263. The Communists gained 49 for a total of 228. The narrowing gap between the two parties was seen as critical to the fate of future governments and legislation.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in Paris that the results of the Italian elections left “fundamentally” unchanged the basis of his concern earlier in the year over the possibility the Communists would be invited to join a coalition.
The House approved by a vote of 258 to 146 and sent to the Senate a compromise foreign military aid bill of $6.8 billion that eases restrictions on how the Administration can spend the money. The compromise bill was passed in the hope of avoiding another veto. President Ford vetoed a similar bill May 7 because it contained a $9 billion ceiling on arms sales abroad.
A Soviet literary journal today renewed its attack against three American correspondents stationed in Moscow who, it charged a month ago, were associated with the Central Intelligence Agency. The journal, Literatumayai Gazeta, added details to allegations against George Krimsky, of The Associated Press, Christopher S. Wren of The New York Times and Alfred Friendly Jr of Newsweek. It described the three as “the holy trinity” and compared their alleged activities to exploits by the fictional British agent James Bond.
Leaders and members of six Christian churches in the Soviet Union asked the Supreme Soviet to end what they said was continued persecution of Soviet believers. The 15-page appeal, also addressed to the World Council of Churches, said the state regularly interfered in the life of religious organizations and in the private lives of believers who were forced into conflict with the authorities although they were loyal citizens. Represented were the recognized Russian Orthodox and Lithuanian Catholic churches, and the unrecognized Pentacostalists, True Free Seventh Day Adventists, Baptists and Fundamentalist Church of Christ.
Spanish police charged crowds of demonstrators in Madrid after their protest in favor of amnesty for political prisoners and against the rising cost of living exceeded the allotted 30 minutes. Several arrests were made when hundreds of the 10,000 workers and housewives at the center-city protest continued chanting as they left the area. It was reportedly one of the largest antigovernment rallies since the end of the 1936-39 civil war.
The first new equipment that the Portuguese army has received from the United States in 10 years is beginning to arrive as part of an apparent effort to tighten Portugal’s ties to the West through the North Atlantic alliance. Twenty armored personnel carriers of the latest type were unloaded in Lisbon last week, and five M‐48 tanks, also the most modern models, are expected here next week. The material will be used for the formation of an air‐transportable mechanized brigade of 5,000 to 6,000 men that could contribute to NATO forces in the event of war. Bogged down in colonial wars for 13 years and then enmeshed in political and ideological struggles in the last two years of revolution, the armed forces were described by one Western diplomatic source as virtually absent from NATO despite Portugal’s nominal membership.
The Salyut 5 space station was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union, in advance of the Soyuz 21 mission launched on July 6 with two cosmonauts, Boris Volynov and Vitali Zholobov. The Soviet Union launched a new space station in apparent preparation for further manned space missions. The official Soviet news agency Tass — which announced the launching of the Salyut 5 space lab — said nothing about plans to man the research station. But a Western specialist in Moscow predicted that it would be manned “sooner or later.” A manned mission would be the first launching of cosmonauts by the Soviet Union since the joint Apollo-Soyuz flight last July.
President Ford, in a compromise move, has offered to approve $200 million in additional military assistance for Israeli this year and smaller amounts of aid for other Middle Eastern countries, members of Congress said today. Mr. Ford originally opposed any military aid for Israel for the transitional period between the June 30 end of the 1976 fiscal year and the October 1 start of a new fiscal‐year pattern. The compromise was struck last week between Mr. Ford and Representative Otto E. Passman, of Louisiana, chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, the members of Congress said. It would give $100 million in grant aid and $100 million in military credits to Israel, $100 million in economic aid for Egypt, $62 million for Jordan and $14 million for Syria.
Heavy shelling duels erupted between Lebanese leftist and rightist factions in Beirut as some Syrian troops began withdrawing from the embattled city’s airport. Both the Lebanese Christian rightists and the Moslem leftists and their Palestinian allies accused the other side for the resumption of shooting. In addition, ground fighting broke out in the eastern neighborhoods, according to broadcasts by both sides. Palestinian and Lebanese leftist broadcasts accused Lebanese right‐wing Christian militiamen of attacking the Muslim quarter of Nabaa and the Palestinian camp of Tell Zaatar, both isolated inside eastern Christian neighborhoods. The rightists charged that their foes. had infiltrated the Christian suburbs of Dakwaneh and Sin el Fil. Fierce fighting was reported around the largely Christian Palestinian camp of Jisr el Pasha, near Tell Zaatar, and a Lebanese rightist broadcast said it had fallen to rightist gunmen. The report could not be confirmed.
President Ford announced today that Talcott W. Seelye, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, would temporarily take charge of the United States Embassy in Lebanon following the killing of Ambassador Francis E. Meloy Jr.
The former managing director of the Marubeni Trading Corporation and three officials of All Nippon Airways were arrested by Japanese authorities in the first legal steps stemming from the Lockheed Aircraft bribery scandal. According to testimony given in Washington by Lockheed officials, it was Toshiharu Okubo, the former managing director of the trading company, who was the first to advise Lockheed officials to pay bribes to promote sales.
The Canadian House of Commons tentatively approved a bill to abolish permanently all capital punishment. The vote was 133 to 125 for the ruling Liberal Party’s abolition bill, which now goes to a committee before coming back to the House for final approval. This is generally a formality. The bill then goes to the Senate, which rarely differs from House action. Canada abolished hanging in 1967 for five years except for murder of prison guards or policemen. This was later extended until 1978. Under the new legislation first-degree murderers would face greatly increased mandatory prison terms of 25 years.
Air Canada announced suspension of all its services. The action by the nation’s largest airline came after Canadian pilots refused to fly because of a controversy over use of the French language in air traffic control. Air Canada said that if its pilots did not return to work within 48 hours 12,000 employees would be laid off without pay to ease the carrier’s financial problems brought on by the reduction in service.
The regime of President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen lifted the state of siege that has been in effect in Colombia for the past year. The state of siege was imposed in response to a wave of kidnappings, increased drug traffic and renewed activities by leftwing guerrillas in rural and urban areas.
The President of Rhodesia attacked both the United States and Britain in a speech in Parliament saying that both nations were abetting guerrilla incursions from Mozambique. The president, John Wrathall, said the “terrorists” were encouraged by the attitudes of the Western governments, which hoped to forestall further Communist penetration in Africa by seeking an early handover to black rule in Rhodesia.
West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, speaking on behalf of the nine governments of the European community, called on South Africa today to live up to its responsibilities in reaching a peaceful solution of the Rhodesian problem.
The South African Minister of Justice went before Parliament today to defend the police use of gunfire during a week of rioting by blacks in which 140 people died. The minister, James T. Kruger, told the legislators in Cape Town that other methods would have been ineffective to cope with stone‐throwing mobs that attacked government buildings. He spoke as the police continued what they described as “mopping‐up operations” in black townships near Pretoria where 10 people were killed yesterday. Elsewhere in the country, black communities were reported to be calm. Meanwhile, weeping families filed through the police morgue here looking for relatives missing in the rioting, which began last Wednesday southwest of Johannesburg in the township of Soweto as a protest against compulsory instruction in the Afrikaans language in the schools.
Led by a jump in food prices, the Consumer Price Index rose by six-tenths of 1 percent in May, according to the Labor Department. The increase was the largest last November, but when compared with 1974’s double-digit inflation, the inflation rate was 6.2 percent over last year and at an annual rate of only 4.9 percent for the last three months.
Tax reform advocates lost significant battles on both sides of Capitol Hill today. The House Ways and Means Committee defeated 19 to 12 a compromise plan for taxing the capital gains that an individual accrues during his or her lifetime on property that is passed on to heirs. In the Senate, supporters of reform lost all but one of a long series of votes involving provisions of the pending omnibus tax bill that deal with “tax shelter” Investments. These investments are made for the purpose of creating paper losses that the investor can use to reduce taxes on his regular income from his business or profession. Further major tests of strength were still to come between the tax reformers, led by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Senator Russell B. Long of Louisiana, the chairman of the Finance Committee, which produced the pending bill.
The House Democratic leadership proposed 13 changes in the House of Representatives’ administrative system in an effort to modernize bookkeeping and prevent future scandals. The proposals will be voted on by the full Democratic caucus and two of the proposals need full House approval. The proposals would reduce the power of the Administration Committee and its chairman by ending its power to increase expense allowances.
President Ford declared here today that his efforts to minimize the extent of busing to desegregate public schools were a prelude to the nation’s search for “freedom from intrusive, overbearing government.”
Former White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman speculates that the CIA might have helped engineer the Watergate scandal to destroy Richard M. Nixon. “The agency had the capacity and perhaps, unknown to me, the motivation,” Haldeman said in the fourth of a series of five syndicated and copyrighted newspaper articles.
A federal judge ordered the Agriculture Department to nearly double its spending on a special nutrition program for mothers and infant children. U.S. District Judge Oliver Gasch said in Washington that the department acted “contrary to congressional mandate” in delaying expansion of the program. He noted that criticism had charged the delay was blocking food assistance to more than 500,000 needy mothers and children. Gasch’s order directed the department to release $125 million for spending through June 30 and to provide $62.5 million for the July-September quarter. The program lets local health clinics issue vouchers for milk and other foods.
Fifteen members of the New York delegation to the Democratic National Convention agreed to give up half their vote to allow for the appointment of 15 women and young persons as half-vote delegates. The move was made in an effort to avoid a potentially embarrassing Credentials Committee challenge of the convention’s host delegation on a charge of underrepresentation of women and young persons.
John Harvey Adamson way ordered to stand trial for the murder of Don Bolles after a 13-hour hearing last night in which one of his closest friends and a girlfriend offered testimony linking the 32-year-old racing-dog owner to the killing. But who, if anybody, ordered the assassination of The Arizona Republic investigative reporter, whose car was rigged with a bomb June 2, was still a matter of intensive investigation today. Mr. Adamson was held without bail after being ordered by Justice of the Peace Marion Reno to stand trial in Miracopa County Superior Court. His arraignment was scheduled fo July 5.
A male cadet allegedly found in bed with a female cadet at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, was not disciplined because he could not be identified, an academy spokesman said. But a day earlier, the spokesman, Captain Charles Renick, told reporters the male cadet was a member of the senior class and was not disciplined because he had a better academic and disciplinary record than the woman. Nancy Donnelly, 20, of Oxon Hill, Maryland, told the Washington Post that she was pressured by officials to accept a “deal” whereby she would resign but her fiance would be allowed to graduate. She reluctantly accepted, she said, but “I don’t think the whole thing was very fair.” Renick said sex discrimination was not involved.
West Point Cadets are afraid to disclose cheating incidents because they could be accused of an honor code violation for not speaking up sooner, said Rep. Thomas J. Downey (D-New York). He told a Senate armed services subcommittee that cheating was more extensive than was disclosed in the recent scandal over a take-home electrical engineering test. He said his own investigation, including interviews with 40 cadets, led him to conclude that “it is easy to cheat at West Point” and that cheating “had become an accepted practice.”
An officer of the deck of the cruiser USS Belknap when she collided with the carrier John F. Kennedy last year was convicted of responsibility for the accident in which eight sailors were killed. But Captain F.L. Salomon, who after a week-long court-martial in Norfolk, Virginia, found Lieutenant (1.g.) Kenneth M. Knull guilty of negligence and disobeying orders, declined to impose any punishment. Knull had been praised as “an outstanding officer” and Salomon said, “The Navy can ill afford the loss of officers of your caliber.” Knull, however, said afterward he had decided “to get out of the Navy as soon as possible. I hope I can get back to some sort of useful work, somewhere,” he said.
A special investigating judge said New York Governor Hugh L. Carey acted without ulterior motive when he tried last year to fire Maurice H. Nadjari, a special prosecutor who had been appointed to clean up a criminal justice system. Judge Jacob Grumet, who was named a special deputy attorney general to conduct the inquiry, said there was no evidence that Carey’s decision to replace Nadjari, an appointee of former Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, was the result of any improper influence. Grumet also said there was no evidence to support Nadjari’s allegations that an investigation he was carrying out triggered the attempt to dismiss him.
In Boston, Superior Court Judge Thomas E. Morse ordered mediation today to end a two‐day state employees strike that he says is bringing the state to “the edge of anarchy.” Judge Morse also banned obstructive picketing at such facilities as prisons, bridges, water treatment plants and mental hospitals. He summoned union leaders to court tomorrow to explain why they should not be held in contempt. The statewide walkout by public employees, the first in Massachusetts history, is prohibited by state law. Judge Morse issued a temporary injunction against the strike when it began but his order was not obeyed.
Nassau County (New York) health officials ordered all of the county’s oceanfront beaches closed for bathing because of the still-mysterious incursion of various types of sewage. Suffolk County officials, after earlier saying that some of their beaches were now safe for swimming, reported a new outbreak of debris in an area between Southampton and East Hampton and ordered beaches in that area closed.
If she is approved as chief of protocol for the State Department. Shirley Temple Black told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday she looks forward to “shaking up anything I see that needs shaking up.” The former child actress, who has been serving as Ambassador to Ghana, said, “I’m pleased to be the first woman in 200 years to hold this job.” And, she promised the committee, “I’m energetic, I’ll work hard.”
Dr. Maurice S. Sage, president of the Jewish National Fund of America, collapsed at the New York Hilton Hotel last night just after introducing Betty Ford, who then stepped to the microphone and called on the audience of 2,500, to pray for him, because “he is going to the hospital.”
Stephen Schwartz’ musical “Godspell” opens at Broadhurst Theater, NYC; runs for 527 performances.
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Although Tom Paciorek hit a grand slam for the Braves, the Astros came from behind to gain a 9–7 victory. The Astros tied the score at 5–5 in the fourth inning, but the Braves went ahead again with two more runs in the sixth, including an RBI double by Rowland Office, who hit safely in his 27th straight game. However in the eighth, the Astros exploded for four runs, with a double by Bob Watson accounting for a pair. Watson had three hits in the game, batted in three runs and scored three.
Bobby Darwin hit a grand-slam homer in the first inning, but the Red Sox had to battle until the 15th before a fielder’s choice grounder by Darwin produced a 6–5 victory over the Orioles, who were stopped on a seven-game winning streak. After Darwin’s slam, the Orioles came back with the tying runs in their half, three scoring on a homer by Reggie Jackson. After both clubs picked up subsequent singletons to send the game into overtime, Fred Lynn led off the 15th with a single for the Red Sox, Carlton Fisk sacrificed and Denny Doyle singled, Lynn stopping at third, before Darwin hit his game-winning grounder. The O’s squander a 7 ⅓ inning scoreless one-hit relief effort of Dyar Miller, and 4 scoreless innings by Tippy Martinez.
The Twins pounded out 17 hits, including homers by Rod Carew and Dan Ford, to defeat the Angels, 10–6. Carew homered with two men on base among his three hits. Butch Wynegar and Bob Randall also had three hits apiece. Terry Humphrey rapped a three-run homer for the Angels.
Rennie Stennett collected five singles in six trips to lead the Pirates’ 19-hit attack in a 10–7 victory over the Cubs. Stennett drove in two runs and scored two. Richie Zisk, Willie Stargell and Bill Robinson also had two RBIs apiece for the Pirates, while Jerry Morales and Bill Madlock homered for the Cubs. Morales accounted for four RBIs with his homer and a double.
The Reds boosted their West Division lead to 5 ½ games, their largest margin so far this season, by shutting out the Dodgers, 6–0, behind the four-hit pitching of Fred Norman. Norman also batted in a run with a sacrifice fly, but Doug Flynn, playing in place of injured Joe Morgan, led the Reds’ attack, driving in three runs with two singles and a grounder. Johnny Bench snapped out of his slump with three hits.
Three homers, including a grand slam by Buddy Bell on an inside-the-park drive, propelled the White Sox to a 14–8 victory over the Royals. Tom Poquette, Royals’ rookie left fielder, crashed into the wall on Bell’s drive and was knocked unconscious, suffering a fracture of his left cheek bone. Ralph Garr had a triple, double and two singles for the White Sox and also drove in four runs, while Jim Spencer homered with two aboard and Jorge Orta with one on base. Orta also hit a sacrifice fly. George Brett had four hits for the Royals, marking the 15th time this season that the third baseman had collected three or more hits in one game.
With a collection of 20 hits, the Tigers romped over the Brewers, 10–4. Everyone in the Tigers’ starting lineup hit safely, with Tom Veryzer, Bill Freehan and Alex Johnson having three apiece. Hank Aaron smashed his seventh homer and 752nd of his career.
The Yankees’ seven-game winning streak came to an end when Charlie Spikes hit a homer to provide the Indians with a 3–2 victory. The Indians tagged Catfish Hunter for two runs in the second inning, one on a sacrifice fly by Spikes and another on a single by Frank Duffy. Lou Piniella singled and Graig Nettles doubled for a Yankee run in the fourth before Spikes hit his homer in the seventh. The Yanks fell short in their half with a run on a double by Elliott Maddox and single by Mickey Rivers.
Making his fifth start, Dick Bosman gained his first victory of the season when the Oakland Athletics defeated the Rangers, 5–2. Bosman worked seven innings before Paul Lindblad hurled hitless ball in the last two frames.
Starting the game with an 0–5 record, Clay Kirby gained his first victory of the season when the Expos defeated the Phillies, 8–3. Kirby, who gave up three hits, pitched six innings before turning the mound over to Dale Murray, who held the Phillies hitless the rest of the way. The Expos’ 13-hit attack included homers by Mike Jorgensen and Pat Scanlon, a triple by Barry Foote, two doubles by Pete Mackanin and one apiece by Jim Lyttle and Gary Roenicke. Greg Luzinski homered for the Phils.
Randy Jones pitches the Padres to a 4–2 win over the Giants, and ties Christy Mathewson’s 63-year-old National League record by going 68 innings without a base on balls. He receives a standing ovation from the home crowd after striking out Darrell Evans to end the 7th. His streak ends when he walks catcher Marc Hill leading off the 8th. It is Jones’s 13th win of the year. Tito Fuentes won the game for Jones by smashing a 2–2 tie with a homer in the Padres’ half of the seventh after Jones had reached base on a single.
John Denny, who never has lost to the Mets in four decisions, allowed only three hits and pitched the Cardinals to a 3–0 victory. The Cards settled the issue quickly, scoring twice in the first inning on a single by Bake McBride, double by Lou Brock and single by Ted Simmons.
Houston Astros 9, Atlanta Braves 7
Boston Red Sox 6, Baltimore Orioles 5
Minnesota Twins 10, California Angels 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 10, Chicago Cubs 7
Los Angeles Dodgers 0, Cincinnati Reds 6
Chicago White Sox 14, Kansas City Royals 8
Detroit Tigers 10, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Cleveland Indians 3, New York Yankees 2
Texas Rangers 2, Oakland Athletics 5
Montreal Expos 8, Philadelphia Phillies 3
San Francisco Giants 2, San Diego Padres 4
New York Mets 0, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Stock prices weakened in late trading yesterday and once again failed to move into new high ground for 1976. The Dow Jones average, down by less than point at 2:30 PM, wound up at 997.63 with a loss of 9.82 points. On Monday, the Dow had climbed more than 514, points to finish at 1,007.45 and raise investor hopes that it finally might surmount this year’s closing high of 1,011.02 on April 21.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 997.63 (-9.82, -0.97%)
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Mike O’Brien, American TV comedian and producer; in Blissfield, Michigan.
Gordon Moakes, English rock bassist (Bloc Party, 2002-15; Young Legionnaire), in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
Mikko Luoma, Finnish NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers), in Jyvaskyla, Finland.
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