Palestinian extremists who had seized an Air France plane allowed its 256 passengers and crew members to get off the plane at the Entebbe airport in Uganda, but kept them in custody. The plane was hijacked Sunday after it left Athens for Paris on a flight that originated in Israel. About 80 Israelis and at least nine Americans were aboard. The terrorists threatened to blow up the jetliner unless their demands were met. The official Uganda radio, reporting the hijackers’ threat in a news broadcast, urged Ugandans to stay away from the airport and not risk action that might provoke the Palestinians. The Government said the hijackers had insisted that Uganda security officers stay at least 50 yards away from the plane. The plane, a twin‐engine, wide‐bodied Aerospatiale airbus, was hijacked a few minutes after it left Athens, on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris. The hijackers forced the pilot to fly to Benghazi, Libya, where the craft was refueled. It then headed for Sudan, but Sudanese authorities reportedly refused to let it land. The plane arrived before dawn at Entebbe, Uganda’s international airport, on the shore of Lake Victoria. It had only a half‐hour’s fuel reserve left.
President Ford and six other leaders of industrial democracies announced that they had agreed to pursue the objective of sustained economic growth with policies that seek to avoid reigniting worldwide inflation. They pledged this in a joint statement at the end of their economic summit meeting in Puerto Rico. This go‐slow approach was pledged in a joint statement issued at the end of their twoday economic summit meeting here. Besides Mr. Ford, the participants were the leaders of Canada, West Germany, Japan, Britain, France and Italy. During their meeting, the seven leaders also agreed to consider creating a new multinational credit facility, possibly within the International Monetary Fund, to aid Italy and other developed nations that experience temporary international payments problems. However, their joint statement mentioned no countries by name.
Portugal’s President‐elect, General Antonio Ramalho Panes, declared today that his immediate priority was the restoration of political stability. “The law will be respected; the new President will not tolerate parallel powers or any insurrectional activity contrary to the Constitution,” he warned at a news conference after winning yesterday’s presidential election. Final results announced this afternoon showed that the tough, 41‐year‐old Army Chief of Staff, who was backed by the three largest non‐Communist parties, won 61.54 percent of the 4,885,624 votes cast. The runner‐up, with 16.52 percent of the vote, was the redical leftist candidate, Major Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, the former military security chief.
The protests by workers against price increases in Poland have underscored the economic troubles in Eastern Europe. Inflation has been hitting not only Poland but also countries such as Hungary, Czechoslovakia and even the. Soviet Union. In the centrally planned economies, according to business and banking specialists in Western Europe, inflation in the long run has the same disruptive effects as in the mar ket‐oriented economies of the West. The difference is that the inflation is not passed on immediately in the controlled consumer prices of the shops in Eastern Europe. These prices are fixed by five‐year plans, and generally remain frozen for the period regardless of outside economic forces. The prices are subsidized by the state, which is forced to run large budget deficits, or reduce spending on other projects such as agricultural investments or a new steel mill.
European Communist leaders gathered in East Berlin today for a congress regarded as a victory for a stand of national party independence from the Soviet Union. On the eve of the conference the Soviet leader, Leonid I. Rrezhnev, met with Yugoslavia’s S4‐year‐old President Tito, who split with Stalin in 1948 and has opposed Soviet domination of the Communist movement. The official East German press agency described the Tito — Brezhnev meeting as “friendly” and said: “They discussed several questions regarding the development of oviet‐Yugoslav cooperation on the party and state levels.” Air. Brezhnev’s planned trip to Yugoslavia in the spring fell through because of President Tito’s continuing difficulties with neo‐Stalinists in his party.
Despina Papadopoulos, wife of imprisoned Greek ex-dictator George Papadopoulos, was sentenced in Athens to 25 months in prison on charges of defrauding the state. Mrs. Papadopoulos was found guilty of receiving about $25,000 from the Greek Central Intelligence Service during her husband’s regime, without having done any work for it. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Ioannis Kalogeropoulos, a former Greek intelligence officer, was also sentenced to two years and 10 days in prison as an accomplice.
About 10,000 employees of the Irish Republic’s four main banking groups went on strike for pay raises that would exceed a proposed government ceiling. They want 5% to 7% more than the 13% that the Dublin government hopes will be accepted by the main unions next weekend.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $5.6 billion foreign assistance appropriation by voice vote this evening, including a controversial supplement of $275 million for Israel. The bill, entangled for months in disputes between President Ford and supporters of Israel in Congress, went through without debate on a unanimousconsent appeal by its manager, Otto E. Passman, Democrat of Louisiana.
Right‐wing Christian militiamen in Beirut, reportedly bolstered by reinforcements, demanded today that the two Palestinian camps they had been attacking since last Tuesday surrender at once. The right‐wing Phalangist Party announced that it had joined other Christian forces in the assaults against the Tell Zaatar and Jisr el‐Pasha refugee camps in the predominantly Christian southeastern neighborhoods of Beirut. The party, which until now had been officially uninvolved in the campaign, said that Amin Gemayel, son of the Phalangist leader, Pierre Gemayel, was personally directing the attacks. Palestinians, aided by their Lebanese leftist allies, sought to take some pressure off the camps through a series of diversionary attacks into the Beirut port area to the north, the Christian suburb of Ain elRummaneh and the Christian town of Kahale to the east. These attackers were said to have made some marginal progress.
The Soviet Union and Jordan reaffirmed their friendship in a joint communiqué today concluding an 11‐day visit by Hussein, but there was no indication that the King had obtained the antiaircraft missile system he wanted. The communiqué announced only Soviet agreement to aid Jordan in oil prospecting, construction of power lines and vocational training. King Hussein came to Moscow with the announced intention of negotiating for an air defense system, which Jordan has been unable to buy from Washington.
Algeria’s new constitutional charter was approved by 98.5% of those voting, the Interior Ministry announced in Algiers. The record turnout of 91% of 7.5 million voters represented a significant vote of confidence in the government of President Honari Boumedienne. The charter lays down principles and plans for creating a socialist system in Algeria and maintaining Islam as the state religion. A new constitution, drawn up on the basis of the charter, will be put to a vote later this year.
The Philippine government ordered newspapers and magazines not to criticize President Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife, Imelda, the Print Media Council said. The council head, retired Brigadier General Hans M. Menzi, said the ban was part of the council’s watchdog activities. Another guideline forbade criticism of the Philippines as whole, he said.
An American woman was sentenced to four years in prison by a Perth court for smuggling three suitcases containing $123,000 worth of marijuana into Australia last December, newspapers reported. Gloria Denise Yager, 23, a student from Sacramento, Calif., must serve at least 17 months before she is eligible for parole, the court ordered. A like sentence was handed down to the woman’s Swiss traveling companion.
Somalia was proclaimed a one-party Socialist state by President Mohamed Siad Barre. The nation will be ruled by the Somali Socialist Revolutionary Party, coming into being on Thursday, the 13th anniversary of the creation of Somalia, he said. Speaking at the party’s inaugural congress in Mogadishu, Barre declared the party would lead the country to progress and prosperity through scientific socialism.
In a trial of foreign mercenary soldiers who had fought in the Angolan Civil War, the People’s Revolutionary Tribunal of Angola found three American and ten Britons guilty of war crimes, meting out jail terms of 16 to 30 years for nine of them. The tribunal recommended execution by firing squad for one soldier from the U.S. (Daniel Gearhart) and three from the UK (John Derek Barker, Andrew McKenzie and Tony Callan (Costas Georgiu). Two other Americans and seven other British subjects were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 16 to 30 years. The death sentences must be confirmed by President Agostinho Neto. In Washington, the State Department said the death sentence for the American, Daniel Gearhart, was “unwarranted by the facts as we understand them.” The death sentence was carried out 12 days later on July 10, with all four being executed.
Prime Minister Ian Smith expressed blunt confidence today that South Africa would, resist pressures from the United States to force Rhodesia to work out a political settlement with its black majority. At the same time Mr. Smith said that his Government was now uneasy about an escalation of the guerrilla war against Rhodesia from Zambia as well as Mozambique. It would mean a bigger effort for us,” Mr. Smith said. “Clearly it’s a cause of concern.” Mr. Smith’s comments, in an interview, were his first public statements since the meeting last week between Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and South Africa’s Prime Minister John Vorster. The two‐day meeting involved pressures on Mr. Vorster to compel the Rhodesian Government to yield some power to the black majority here before violence consumes Southern Africa.
Figures released by Rhodesia show that almost twice as many whites left the country as came to live there last month — 1,360 to 720. The net loss of whites during the first five months of 1976 is 1,520 compared with a net gain of 1,250 during that period last year. Tourism also declined sharply during the first four months of the year — 58,620 compared with 76,700. A guerrilla war is being waged along Rhodesia’s border.
Ruling in a Pasadena, California, school case, the Supreme Court defined a new limit on the scope of the power of the courts to issue desegregation orders meant to bring about what is called a “unitary” school system desegregating an illegal “dual” system that segregates blacks from whites. In a 6-to-2 opinion, the Court said that even if school authorities have not yet complied with all aspects of a court-ordered desegregation plan, the court cannot require them to readjust their attendance zones each year in an effort to maintain the same racial mix despite changing population patterns. The Court said that if school officials initially complied with a court-ordered plan to revise their school attendance zones, thus achieving a “racially neutral” system of assigning children to schools, the court has “fully performed its function of providing the remedy for previous racially discriminatory attendance patterns.”
The Supreme Court reversed today an appellate court decision that could have delayed development of federally owned coal reserves in the Western plains states. A decision last June by Judges David L. Bazelon and J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals here would have required the Interior Department to prepare a regionwide environmental impact assessment of effects of strip mining for coal in parts of four Great Plains states — Wyoming, Montana and North and South Dakota. The high court held that the lower court had exceeded its authority under National Environmental Policy Act. Two of the nine Justices said they disagreed with the majority’s narrowed interpretation of the act but supported the high court’s finding for other reasons.
By a vote of 6 to 2, the Supreme Court ruled today that it was constitutional for states to allow judges who are not lawyers to preside over criminal trials, at least where the defendant has an opportunity through an appeal to get a second trial before a judge who is a lawyer.
The Senate deleted a ban on the use of federal funds to pay for abortions from a $57 billion appropriations bill. The ban had been inserted by the House in a money bill for the departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare. As debate began on the bill, supporters of the ban argued that public money was being spent “on a highly controversial moral question.” But Senator Robert W. Packwood (R-Oregon), who moved to eliminate the ban, said the provision “simply denies the right to obtain an abortion to poor women.”
The House Administration Committee implemented sweeping changes in House payroll and expense account procedures, inspired at least partially by the Capitol payroll-sex scandal. But Chairman Frank Thompson Jr. (D-New Jersey) said the panel left it up to the Rules Committee whether to send the House a resolution giving members final say on all the changes or a resolution letting them decide on only one revision. That revision would strip the Administration Committee of the power former Chairman Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio) had to increase staff and expense allowances for congressmen.
The United States has virtually abandoned the concept of protecting life and property from nuclear attack, the General Accounting Office reported. Civil defense objectives now concentrate on post-attack survival, and plans vary widely from state to state, a GAO official testified before a congressional joint committee. Fred J. Shafer told the committee that the Soviet Union annually spends about $1 billion on civil defense preparations. Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) said in contrast that “the United States’ federal figure has fluctuated between $70-$200 million annually.” Shafer noted that some states, California, for one, criticize federal planning as inadequate and have refused to join in national emergency programs.
Government officials said that the Internal Revenue Service had revoked the tax-exempt status of the Teamster union’s $1.4 billion Central States Pension Fund, the largest such fund in the union, citing mismanagement and questionable loan practices. The revocation is retroactive to Jan. 31, 1965, and if it survives an expected court challenge, the fund would be liable for taxes on its earnings from that date that might run to millions of dollars.
The Phoenix radar-directed air-to-air missile has a reliability of 65% not 21% as found when first deployed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise last year, Navy spokesmen said in Washington. Reliability of the missiles, costing $500,000 each, came into question in recent congressional hearings. In amending earlier testimony, the Navy said that many of the missiles rejected because of physical damage were later found to be usable. The missile is the main armament of the new F-14 fighter, 80 of which were recently bought by Iran.
The all-male tradition at the nation’s service academies was broken with the entrance of 155 young women at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. A law signed by President Ford last October abolished the all-male tradition starting with the class of 1980. The first women at West Point and Annapolis will arrive next week. The Air Force Academy now has a beauty parlor. One of the first things the freshmen had to do was to get a haircut. They had a choice of four very short styles.
Buoyed by reports that Karl Thomas’ red, white and blue bicentennial balloon has been spotted by a passing jetliner, his ground crew expressed confidence that he was making satisfactory progress across the Atlantic. At flight communications center in New York City, spokesman Robert Temmerman estimated that Thomas should be from 900 to 1,000 miles out, about a third of the way, and “kind of on course.” On Sunday night an Alitalia New York-to-Rome flight reported it picked up the number of his 90-foot tall balloon and established weak radio contact. Thomas is making the 13th attempt at an Atlantic balloon crossing.
The British-French supersonic flights to the United States survived three efforts aimed at banning them because of noise pollution. The House approved and sent to the Senate an appropriation bill containing nearly $5.29 billion for the Transportation Department and other agencies but before doing so it defeated three amendments. One would have banned the Concorde’s landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, a second banning it from the John Foster Dulles International Airport near Washington and the third would have prohibited the use of funds for air traffic control for the supersonic jet. The plane may now land at Dulles airport during a 16-month trial period. Kennedy airport, however, has banned the flights, prompting court action that is still pending.
High winds destroyed the largest U.S. flag made up to that time, ruining plans to display the banner from the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge in New York City to celebrate the American bicentennial on July 4. A test hanging of the banner, 193 feet (59 m) tall and 366 feet (112 m) long, was made at 9:30 in the morning and the flag stayed aloft for two hours. At 11:30, the wind speed increased to 16 miles per hour (26 km/h), causing the flags to be pushed into the bridge’s vertical suspension cables and tore the stitching apart. The flag manufacturer said later, “We didn’t think it would need air slots, so we didn’t put them in.”
Two polio vaccine experts, Drs. Albert Sabin and Jonas E. Salk, disagreed on the planned nationwide immunization program against swine flu. Sabin, testifying in Washington before a House commerce subcommittee, said the vaccine should be given to persons more inclined to catch swine flu or have severe effects from it. The rest of the vaccine should be stockpiled for more imminent dangers of an epidemic, he said. Salk, however, who supports the plan, said, “The vaccine will do better in people’s arms than in the refrigerator.”
The cure rate for persons with cancer of the rectum or colon is doubled when they are injected with an anticancer drug called 5-fluorouracil following surgery, according to two New York physicians, specialists in colorectal cancer, the second leading cancer killer in this country.
A temporary drop in oil imports during May gave the United States a $395 million trade surplus — the first since December.
Chris Evert defeated Olga Morozova of the Soviet Union, 6–3, 6–0, to reach the women’s singles semifinals at Wimbledon.
Tatyana Kazankina of the Soviet Union became the first woman to run 1,500 meters under 4 minutes.
Major League Baseball:
Boston’s Butch Hobson debuts at Fenway Park with a double off the centerfield wall and a rare inside-the-park homer, both off the O’s Rudy May. Rookie third baseman Hobson, just up from Rhode Island (International), hit the two-run, inside-the-park homer in the sixth inning, breaking an 8–8 tie, and the Red Sox went on to beat the Orioles, 12–8.
The combination of John Lowenstein and Jim Bibby led the Indians to a 5–3 triumph over the Brewers. Lowenstein drove in two runs with a single and homer and Bibby pitched 6 ⅓ innings of two-hit relief after the Brewers kayoed Don Hood.
A Family Night crowd of 47,855 and a national television audience saw Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, colorful rookie righthander, pitch the Tigers to a 5–1 victory over the Yankees. Rusty Staub hit a two-run homer for the Tigers in the first inning and Fidrych limited the Yankees to seven hits in posting his seventh victory in succession.
Pinch-runner Davey Lopes scored from third base on a sacrifice fly by Lee Lacy and Bill Buckner followed with a home run as the Dodgers broke a 2–2 deadlock in the seventh inning, then went on to beat the Braves, 5–2. Lopes, running for winning pitcher Rick Rhoden, who had singled, stole second and reached third on Earl Williams’ throwing error.
The Twins struck for two runs in the eighth inning, following a 61-minute rain delay, to defeat the Royals, 4–3. Tony Oliva doubled, scoring Lyman Bostock who had walked. Oliva advanced to third on a wild relay throw by Frank White, then scored on Larry Hisle’s sacrifice fly.
Garry Maddox drove in three runs with a single, triple and sacrifice fly and Mike Schmidt hit his 21st home run to power the Phillies to a 6–2 triumph over the Expos. Steve Carlton pitched a seven-hitter and had nine strikeouts in his seventh victory.
Dave Kingman singled, advanced to third on a pinch-single by Joe Torre and scored the winning run on a wild pitch by Al Hrabosky in the eighth inning of the Mets’ 5–4 victory over the Cardinals. Kingman hit his 26th home run in the fourth.
Al Oliver went 4-for-5, collecting two singles, a double and home run, while driving in four runs as the Pirates routed the Cubs, 9–2. Jim Rooker (7–3) got the victory; Joe Coleman (0–3) took the loss.
Joe Morgan had a double and his 13th homer of season, driving in four runs, in the Reds’ uphill 7–3 victory over the Padres. Willie McCovey hit a three-run homer, the 463rd of his career, for the Padres in the first, but the Reds came back in the third with a three-run homer by Morgan, a single by George Foster and double by Tony Perez.
Cliff Johnson drove in three runs with two doubles to lead the Astros to an 8–2 victory over the Giants. Ken Forsch, relieving winner Mike Cosgrove (3–4) in the seventh, earned his 14th save.
The Rangers defeated the Athletics, 3–2, in 11 innings, when Jeff Burroughs singled, scoring Lenny Randle from second base. Randle reached first on a bad-hop single off Bert Campaneris’ glove and advanced on Ken Pape’s sacrifice. Reliever Jim Todd walked Toby Harrah intentionally to face Burroughs, who broke up the game.
Baltimore Orioles 8, Boston Red Sox 12
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Cleveland Indians 5
New York Yankees 1, Detroit Tigers 5
Atlanta Braves 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
Kansas City Royals 3, Minnesota Twins 4
Philadelphia Phillies 6, Montreal Expos 2
St. Louis Cardinals 4, New York Mets 5
Chicago Cubs 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 9
Cincinnati Reds 7, San Diego Padres 3
Houston Astros 8, San Francisco Giants 2
Oakland Athletics 2, Texas Rangers 3
Stock prices declined in slow trading. the Dow Jones industrial index finished the session at 997.38, down 2.46 points. Nuclear-related issues moved higher, while the stock market as a whole was divided about equally in its gainers and losers.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 997.38 (-2.46, -0.25%)
Born:
Seth Wescott, American snowboarder, Olympic gold medalist in snowboard cross competition in 2006 and 2010; in Durham, North Carolina.
Ryan Young, NFL tackle (New York Jets, Houston Texans, Dallas Cowboys), in St. Louis, Missouri.
David Palmer, Australian professional squash player, world champion in 2002 and 2006, ranked number one in the world in 2001; in Lithgow, New South Wales.
Satam al-Suqami, Saudi 9/11 hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11; in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Died:
Stanley Baker, 48, Welsh film and television star (“Concrete Jungle”, “Zorro”, “Zulu”), of pneumonia while suffering from lung cancer.
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