Polish television reported factories and shops in two towns had been looted before the government backed down late last week on plans to increase food prices. The proposed increase was withdrawn after a sporadic series of strikes in which workers tore up railroad tracks on the outskirts of Warsaw. Workers over the weekend were reported to be rallying in support of the government’s withdrawal of the proposed price hikes. A Polish television commentator accused hooligans of having looted factories and plundered shops and plants in yesterday’s disorders. He said criticism of these actions was pouring by telegram into party headquarters in Warsaw. The announcement came as the Polish Government tried to solve the dilemma of how to satisfy farming interests while rescinding announced food increases.
Under the impact of yesterday’s strikes in neighboring Poland, East Germany today published the Warsaw Government’s pledge to cancel the proposed food price increases that had kindled the unrest. The disorder could not have come at a worse time for the East Germans, who are organizing a high‐level European Communist conference in East Berlin next week. The delegates ere expected to include the Soviet Party Chief, Leonid I. Brezhnev, and President Tito of Yugoslavia. Without mentioning the disorders in Poland, Neues Deutschland, the East German party newspaper, printed the text of last night’s television statement by Prime Minister Piotr Jaroszewicz of Poland. News of the unrest had spread within hours in East Germany through West German radio and television. East German leaders were believed to be deeply concerned lest the disaffection in Poland spread across the boundary.
The Portuguese will vote tomorrow for a new president, putting into place the democratic regime born, out of the revolution of April 25, 1974. All four presidential candidates profess to be men of the revolution, but they differ widely in style and conception of Portugal’s young democracy. The austere army chief of staff, Gen. Antonio Ramalho Eanes, is supported by the three main political parties and is the favorite in the race. He has pledged to restore authority and discipline to Portugal, which has had two years of social and political unrest. Prime Minister Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo, who suffered serious heart attack Wednesday while campaigning for the presidency, has recovered somewhat and will remain in the race. An independent candidate, Admiral Pinheiro de Azevedo is a strong defender of revolutionary freedoms but has no clear political line.
The arrests of two more suspected East German spies were announced in Karlsruhe, West Germany, bringing to 22 the number of such arrests since mid-May. The couple, identified as Wolfram and Carla Kaune, were taken into custody at Cologne airport as they were returning from a stay in East Germany, a spokesman said. The prosecutor’s office declined to say how the two allegedly had been involved in espionage.
The International Whaling Commission reduced catch quotas for next season despite strong objections by Japan and the Soviet Union. The two nations, accounting for 90% of the world’s whale catch, expressed dissatisfaction at the global reduction from last year’s 32,578 to 28,050. Under commission rules, a member country is not bound by such decisions if it files an objection within 90 days. But commission sources said they doubted the Soviet Union or Japan would file objections. The biggest dispute was over sperm whales, important to the Soviet Union. The sperm whale quota in the Southern Hemisphere was more than halved — from 10,740 to 4,791.
The director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in an interview published this week that Arab strife in Lebanon might lead Arab countries to negotiate an end to the state of war with Israel. As reported yesterday in the Tel Aviv newspaper Maariv, the official, Shlomo Avineri, said Israel had proposed through the United States last year that such talks be started with Egypt, Syria and Jordan but that none of these had responded. He said he assumed that Egypt had been inhibited by its i:okition after its interim agreement with Israel last year was condemned throughout the Arab world. But Egypt is no longer isolated, he added. Avineri’s analysis has not been adopted by the government. He said it was based on his own impressions during a mission to the United States.
The Christian Phalangist Party implicitly threatened today to bomb the recently reopened Beirut Airport if a joint supervisory committee of Christians and Muslims was not established by Tuesday to run it. Meanwhile, fighting continued today around two heavily besieged Palestinian refugee camps southeast of Beirut. The airport, which is in the heavily Muslim western sector of the capital, was reopened three days ago after being closed on June 7 because of fighting between Syrian troops and the Palestinian‐leftist alliance. Christian militiamen have shelled the airport in the past, forcing temporary closures, but they have never issued an open warning. The so‐called war council of the Phalangist Party said if a set of conditions was not met “we will be forced to put the airport out of action.”
An Egyptian criminal court sentenced former intelligence chief Salah Nasr to 10 years in jail at hard labor for torturing one of Egypt’s most prominent journalists, Mustapha Amin. Amin, who, along with his late twin brother Ali, founded Al Akhbar newspaper, was accused of spying for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 1965 and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1974, he was pardoned by President Anwar Sadat.
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, in a speech marking one year of emergency rule, issued her sharpest attack on the West in months and indicated that she was not ready to lift the states of emergency. The 59‐year‐old Prime Minister said in an interview distributed by the Indian press agency Samachar that she had no plans to hold election; restore press freedom or civil rights or release political prisoners. Opposition at home and abroad, she said, “has been subdued but not vanquished. Dangers before the country have not diminished. They are as real today as they were a year ago.” The threat “of subversion, of interference from the outside is increasing.” Some anti‐government protests and some arrests were reported today.
A group of South Korean church leaders have issued statement here expressing indignation over what they implied was a police plan to link some of their missionary works to communism. Their statement — issued this morning in the name of the National Council of Christian Churches — also said that a book purporting to show their alleged links with international Communism has appeared and is being widely distributed.
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake and subsequent landslides killed at least 9,000 people in Indonesia’s province of West Irian. The quake was detected at 4:18 in the morning local time (19:18 UTC 25 June), but requests for aid did not reach the West until two weeks later with reports that the disaster may have killed 9,000 people and destroyed 17 villages in the Jawawijaya Mountains.
The Canadian cabinet was called into an emergency meeting by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to deal with the strike by airline pilots who are fighting the government’s proposal to use French as well as English in air traffic control at Quebec’s airports. Most commercial airline service was stopped throughout Canada last week, and American pilots and pilots of a number of other foreign airlines have refused to fly into Canada, saying that Canadian airspace has been made unsafe by the dispute. Canadian pilots and controllers’ representatives met with the Transport Minister, but the head of the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association said he could see “no early end” to the shutdown.
In Toronto, the CN Tower opened to the public at one minute after midnight. At a height of 1,185.417 feet (361.315 m), the tower was, at the time, the tallest free-standing structure and would hold the record until 2007. It was named for the Canadian National Railway, which had started construction in 1972.
The United States secretly tried cloud-seeding to dry up the Cuban sugar crop in 1969 and 1970, Lowell Ponte, a former Pentagon think tank researcher said in an interview for National Public Radio. Ponte said the CIA and the Pentagon seeded clouds in wind currents that carry rain to Cuba, hoping that the rain would fall before the clouds reached Cuba. The seeding was stepped up in 1970, Ponte said, because Premier Fidel Castro staked the honor of his Communist government on harvesting 10 million tons of sugar. The weather proved erratic and the harvest fell short. Castro offered to resign but remained in office, Ponte said. “Weather science is too primitive to say that seeding hurt Cuba’s harvest. But it could have,” he added.
A Pentagon spokesman, asked to comment, said: “We have never conducted weather modification around Cuba.” He added that there had been only one classified instance of weather modification and that was in Vietnam. This was declassified and disclosed by defense officials in Congressional testimony in 1974. He said no weather modification was now being conducted aside from fog dispersal around airports.
Jamaica’s national security minister, Keble Munn, said that the crime rate has been cut in half since a state of emergency was imposed a week ago, with the number of reported burglaries and robberies dropping from 101 to 50. More than 160 people have been killed since January, and the wave of crime and violence has hit Kingston particularly hard.
Argentina’s military government ordered death by firing squad or life imprisonment for anyone found guilty of killing a government official or a member of the security forces. The ruling is in a tough new penal code adopted to deal with the terrorist threat that has grown since the military overthrew President Maria Estela Peron on March 24.
With a fanfare of patriotic fervor, Nigeria is swept up in back‐to‐the‐earth movement called Operation Feed the Nation. It is an agricultural program aimed at achieving self‐sufficiency in food production within a year, largely by encouraging citizens to dig up their backyards and plant vegetables.
Ugandan soldiers have killed at least seven Kenyan residents of Uganda during the past week, the state-run Voice of Kenya radio said. Border officials said Kenyans have been fleeing Uganda since Ugandan soldiers went on a rampage against Kenyan nationals in Jinja in southeast Uganda. They said Kenyans apparently killed two Ugandan soldiers after the soldiers began looting shops owned by Kenyans in Jinja. Uganda army reinforcements subsequently went to Jinja and began hunting for all Kenyans living in the town, the officials said.
Prime Minister John Vorster returned today from his talks with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in West Germany and offered no clues to the details of those discussions. At a short picture‐taking session at Jan Smuts Airport, the Prime Minister said only that “everything went well, in spite of factors that could have had an adverse effect.” By this he was believed to mean the recent wave of riots that left a reported 176 persons dead. Mr. Vorster said he was glad he had not canceled his trip because of the disorders. When reporters pressed him on what points had actually been discussed, Mr. Vorster ended the conference abruptly by saying, “Now we must go, you are becoming too inquisitive.”
Plans for the Viking I spacecraft to land on Mars on July the 4th were postponed by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory after the original landing site at Chryse Planitia was found to be “more cratered and rough than previously known.”
President Ford, on arrival in Puerto Rico where he will be host at an economic summit meeting of major industrial nations, warned Cuba sharply against meddling in the relations between the United States and Puerto Rico. He said that interference will be considered an intrusion in the domestic affairs of Puerto Rico and the United States and that “it will be an unfriendly act which will be resisted by appropriate means.” The economic meeting, a continuation of a conference last November in France, will be attended by the heads of the governments of Canada, Italy, Japan, West Germany, Britain and France.
On Henry A. Kissinger’s Air Force plane the other day, the discussion turned to politics and in particular to Jimmy Carter’s views on foreign policy. The Secretary of State does not usually take easily to criticism, but after Mr. Carter’s world affairs speech in New York on Wednesday, reporters were told that Mr. Kissinger could easily live with Mr. Carter’s policies. Mr. Kissinger has promised to keep his head down during the campaign. But he has said that if a candidate does violence to American foreign policy he will speak out, if only to reassure other countries. Reporters were told that after reading Mr. Carter’s speech, drafted in part by Mr. Kissinger’s old Harvard colleague, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Secretary saw no need for coming “out of the trenches.” On most points — closer ties with allies, flexible but tough dealings with the Russians, and a better lot for the disadvantaged — Mr. Kissinger believes he and Mr. Carter agree more than they differ.
Ronald Reagan appeared to have swept 41 delegates to the Republican National Convention in New Mexico and Montana. Earlier, President Ford won 17 of Minnesota’s 18 at-large delegates, but the effect of the voting in the three Western state conventions was to trim Mr. Ford’s lead over Mr. Reagan. Assuming no change in the trend that had developed in New Mexico and Montana, Mr. Reagan trails Mr. Ford in the New York Times count by only 59 delegates. Mr. Reagan’s supporters in Montana and New Mexico demonstrated their control as soon as the conventions opened.
The first of 16 “tall ships” arrived in U.S. waters in order to participate in the upcoming Grand Parade of Sailing Ships set for the U.S. bicentennial celebration set for July 4, 1976 in New York’s harbor. The Argentine ship ARA Libertad, rigged in the tradition of an 18th Century fully-rigged sailing ship (but powered by motors), arrived in the harbor at Newport, Rhode Island with a crew of Argentine Navy cadets dressed as sailors of the time. They had been becalmed for two days. The ships were participating in an international race, but the Sail Training Association, the British sponsor, declared the race over at 6 P.M. Thursday and instructed the ships’ captains to proceed under motor power so that they would arrive this weekend in Newport, where thousands of visitors had gathered to greet them. The British race officials insisted that they had not canceled the race, but were merely “moving the finish line forward.” West Germany’s Gorch Fock was declared the winner of the shortened race of the tall ships.
The urban financial crisis does not affect only large cities; it is national in scope and it includes small and large cities as well as central suburban and Sunbelt region cities. according to a report by the United States Conference of Mayors. The report was issued as the organization opened with its 44th annual meeting in Milwaukee. Not even some of the wealthiest communities, the report said, have been able to withstand the hardships brought on by high inflation and widespread unemployment. The nation’s cities will continue to face financial difficulties unless the federal and state governments assume responsibility for such things as education and welfare, according to the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Moon Landrieu of New Orleans released a conference report showing that the financial crises plaguing many large Northern cities were spreading to suburban communities. In opening the 44th annual meeting of the mayors in Milwaukee, Landrieu said city financial conditions had worsened considerably in recent years because of unemployment and inflation.
Top Democratic Party leaders in Illinois have been questioned by federal investigators about alleged payoffs in the range of $3 million to the party by those involved in a sanitation district scandal, the Chicago Daily News reported. The newspaper said it was suspected that donations had been channeled into the Democratic Party treasury by the Ingram Corp. of New Orleans, whose subsidiary, Ingram Barge Co., has a $43 million contract to barge waste from Chicago.
The median income for families headed by a woman was less than half that of families in which husband and wife were together, according to a survey reported by the U.S. Department of Labor. The survey found that the 1974 median income for families headed by women was $6,400, compared with $13,800 for husband-wife families. (Median means that there were as many families above that figure as there were below it.) The department said one in three families headed by a woman was at or below the poverty level. Only one in 18 families headed by a man was at or below the poverty level. The department said 13% of all American families were headed by single, separated, divorced or widowed women.
The government has moved to block a $40 million Teamsters pension fund loan for expansion of the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas, Department of Labor sources confirmed in Washington. The government intervention was disclosed in a federal court suit filed in Nevada by M&R Investment Co., operator of the hotel, seeking to force the union to make the loan. The Teamsters’ $1.4 billion Central States Pension Fund is under investigation by a Department of Labor task force. Allegations that $700 million was missing were called ridiculous by William E. Presser of Cleveland, chairman of the pension fund’s executive committee.
The nation’s 18 largest airlines have violated federal antitrust laws by agreeing in a June 17 “secret meeting” on how to protect themselves from travelers “bumped” from overbooked flights, Public Citizen, Inc., a Ralph Nader organization, charged in a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington. Overbooking forces approximately 100,000 passengers to be bumped each year from scheduled airline flights. Also named in the suit was KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines. The airlines and their trade organization, the Air Transport Association, denied the accusation.
To his associates, Sidney Korshak is a highly successful labor lawyer, an astute business adviser to major corporations, a multimillionaire with immense influence and many connections and a friend of Hollywood stars and executives. But Mr. Korshak lives a double life. To scores of federal, state and local law enforcement officials, he is the most important link between organized crime and legitimate business. They described him as a behind-the-scenes “fixer” who has been instrumental in helping criminal elements gain power in union affairs and infiltrate the leisure and entertainment industries.
Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratories on Long Island investigated the reasons why Long Island’s beaches were fouled by sewage and debris last week. They decided that anything floating into an ocean area 45 miles wide and 100 miles long just south of New York Harbor between June 6 and June 21 had to be destined for one of Long Island’s beaches because of highly unusual wind and current patterns. Using computer and wind data for the month of June, Brookhaven staff members found that the pollution that washed up on 70 miles of beaches was probably a combination of raw sewage from New York Harbor, the New Jersey shoreline and ships in three major shipping lanes as well as charred wood from two recent pier fires and the contents from sewage tanks that recently exploded near Island Park, Long Island.
WBC middleweight boxing champion Rodrigo Valdéz of Colombia lost to WBA champion Carlos Monzón of Argentina in a unification bout in Monte Carlo, in part because Valdéz’s brother had been murdered the week before in a barroom fight.
In an unusual exhibition bout in Tokyo, a precursor to mixed martial arts competition, world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali fought New Japan Pro-Wrestling heavyweight champion Kanji “Antonio” Inoki. Under the special rules, Inoki was allowed to hit below the belt and to kick Ali. Reportedly, an estimated 1.4 billion people worldwide watched the bout on television. After 15 rounds, viewers and critics were upset when the match was declared to be a draw with no winner.
Load ‘em up. Playing for Memphis (International League), Terry Puhl hits a grand slam, his second bases-loaded homer this year. He hit one last month on May 15 while playing for Columbus (Southern League). These are his only two homers this year (as noted by David Skelton). Puhl will have three grand slams in the majors.
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After being given a two-run lead by his Baltimore Orioles’ teammates in the first inning, Wayne Garland defeated the Cleveland Indians, 2–1, for his eighth win without a loss. The Orioles capitalized on three stolen bases in their scoring. Al Bumbry led off with a single and pilfered second. After Paul Blair walked, both runners pulled a double steal. Reggie Jackson then grounded out, scoring Bumbry, and Lee May singled to drive in Blair. The Indians’ run came in the sixth and was batted in by Buddy Bell.
Rico Petrocelli batted in both runs to enable the Red Sox to edge the Tigers, 2–1. The Tigers took a 1–0 lead in the fourth inning on a single by Tom Veryzer, double by Ben Oglivie and sacrifice fly by Jason Thompson, but Petrocelli singled to drive in Carl Yastrzemski with the tying tally in the home half. Then in the ninth, Bobby Darwin doubled and gave way to pinch-runner Rick Miller, who advanced to third on a long fly by Yastrzemski to right field and scored the winning run on Petrocelli’s fly to center field.
John Milner smashed a grand slam and Dave Kingman clouted his 25th homer of the season in the third inning when the Mets exploded for six runs en route to a 10–2 victory over the Cubs. Bill Bonham, who started for the Cubs, retired the first seven Mets before the roof fell in. Jerry Grote singled and Jerry Koosman and Mike Phillips walked to load the bases before Felix Millan singled to drive in the first run. Milner followed with his slam and on Bonham’s next pitch, Kingman drove the ball completely out of Wrigley Field.
Joaquin Andujar allows 10 hits in shutting out the Reds, 3–0. The Astros manage just 3 hits in the win. Jose Cruz drove in three runs with a double in the first inning and that was more than Joaquin Andujar needed. The stage for Cruz’ double was set when Reds’ starter Pat Zachry walked three men to load the bases before Cruz came to the plate.
Marty Pattin, making his first start since last September 6, combined with Steve Mingori on a one-hitter as the Royals defeated the Angels, 3–0. Dave Collins beat out a bunt in the sixth inning for the Angels’ only safety. Pattin was removed after walking Collins with two out in the eighth and Mingori retired the last four batters.
Consecutive homers by Gary Matthews and Bobby Murcer off loser Doug Rau (6–5) leading off the ninth inning powered the Giants to a 4–2 victory over the Dodgers. Davey Lopes, who had been out for 11 days with an injury, returned to the Dodgers’ lineup and scored their first run after drawing a walk and stealing second in the opening frame. Chris Speier put the Giants ahead with a two-run single in the fourth, but the Dodgers pulled even in their half on a double by Reggie Smith, infield out by Bill Russell and sacrifice fly by Lee Lacy.
Two throwing errors in the eighth inning enabled the Pirates to score the run that defeated the Expos, 7–6. Bombo Rivera hit an inside-the-park homer for the first grand slam of his major league career to enable the Expos to tie the score at 4–4 in the third. After each club picked up a pair of singletons to effect another deadlock, Al Oliver doubled for the Pirates in the eighth and took third on a wild pickoff attempt by Dale Murray. Willie Stargell then flied out in left field foul territory and when Pepe Mangual threw the ball over catcher Barry Foote’s head, Oliver scored the winning run. Rivera’s first Major League homer is an inside-the-park grand slam, and is also the first inside slam for the Expos franchise.
Elrod Hendricks hit his first homer in a Yankee uniform and drove in another run with a sacrifice fly, while Chris Chambliss also batted in two runs with a double and single, in a 6–3 victory over the Brewers. Mickey Rivers had two hits for the Yankees, extending his batting streak to 18 games.
Rod Carew, who is in his 10th season with the Twins, winning five A. L. batting championships, smashed the first grand-slam homer of his major league career to feature an 11–3 rout of the Athletics. Carew, who hit his jackpot wallop in the second inning, also drove in another run with a double and added a single to give him three hits in five trips, raising his average to .327. Carew will hit another grand slam on July 4.
Pitching three scoreless innings in relief, Al Hrabosky gained the victory when the Cardinals pushed over a run in the 10th to defeat the Phillies, 3–2. The Phillies counted their pair off Bob Forsch in the fourth, but the Cardinals came back to tie in the seventh on doubles by Jerry Mumphrey and Ted Simmons around a single by Bake McBride. In the 10th, Joe Ferguson hustled out a double and gave way to pinch-runner Lee Richard. Mike Anderson sacrificed. Mike Tyson then flied to Greg Luzinski and Richard beat the left fielder’s throw to the plate.
Jerry Turner, Padres’ rookie outfielder, collected three hits in three official trips and drove in four runs, the last two coming on his first major league homer in the eighth inning, to beat the Braves, 9–7, in the opener of a twi-night doubleheader. However, the Braves came back to win the nightcap, 7–3, with the aid of three RBIs by Earl Williams. In the lidlifter, Willie McCovey drove in three runs and Turner batted in two with a double to stake the Padres to a 7–1 lead before the Braves knocked out Randy Jones and tied the score in the eighth. After three hits, a walk and a hit batsman produced the Braves’ first three runs in the outburst, Butch Metzger replaced Jones and, on his first pitch, Ken Henderson hammered a three-run homer to tie the score. However, in the Padres’ half, with Mike Marshall on the mound for the Braves, Johnny Grubb walked and Turner hit his maiden homer. In the nightcap, Williams hit a homer for the Braves in the fourth inning to tie the score at 3–3 and then drove in a pair with a single in the fifth when the Braves scored four times to gain their split for the night.
Bert Blyleven pitched his second straight 10-inning shutout for the Rangers, scattering 10 hits and defeating the White Sox, 1–0. With one out in the overtime frame, Toby Harrah singled and took second on a wild pitch by Ken Brett. After an intentional pass to Jeff Burroughs, Jim Fregosi batted for Dave Moates and singled to drive in the winning run. In his last previous start June 21, Blyleven also shut out the Athletics, 1–0, in 10 innings.
Cleveland Indians 1, Baltimore Orioles 2
Detroit Tigers 1, Boston Red Sox 2
New York Mets 10, Chicago Cubs 2
Cincinnati Reds 0, Houston Astros 3
California Angels 0, Kansas City Royals 3
San Francisco Giants 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 7, Montreal Expos 6
Milwaukee Brewers 3, New York Yankees 6
Minnesota Twins 11, Oakland Athletics 3
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Philadelphia Phillies 2
Atlanta Braves 7, San Diego Padres 9
Atlanta Braves 7, San Diego Padres 3
Chicago White Sox 0, Texas Rangers 1
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Dave Rubin, American conservative political commentator, creator and host of “The Rubin Report”, in New York, New York.
Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist leader who proclaimed the “Donetsk People’s Republic” in 2014; in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (assassinated 2018)
Chad Clifton, NFL tackle (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 45-Packers, 2010; Pro Bowl 2007, 2010; Green Bay Packers), in Martin, Tennessee.
Chad Pennington, NFL quarterback (New York Jets, Miami Dolphins), in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Ed Jovanovski, Canadian NHL defenseman (NHL All-Star, 2001-2003, 2007, 2008; Florida Panthers, Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix Coyotes), in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
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