Hijackers holding 256 hostages, including 80 to 100 Israelis, aboard a French airliner In Kampala, Uganda, demanded the release of 53 Palestinians and pro-Palestinians from jails in Israel and four other countries. The hijackers warned of “severe and heavy penalties” if the demands were not met. They did not elaborate, but the hijackers had said previously that they would blow up the plane and their hostages if anyone tried to interfere. The hijackers, whose number is reported variously as five and six, demanded, according to the official Uganda radio, that the 53 prisoners be flown to Uganda’s Entebbe Airport for exchange with the hostages before 3 P.M. Thursday (8 A.M. Thursday, Eastern Daylight Time). Among the hostages were 80 to 100 Israelis and at least nine Americans. Israel, which holds 40 of the 53 prisoners, began urgent consultations on the demands.
Uganda authorities said the hostages were well. At the request of Israel, none of the passengers’ names was made public. Authorities said a medical team was at the transit lounge of the old Entebbe airport terminal, where the captives were housed and fed. Among prisoners in Israel whose release was demanded were the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem, Hilarion Capucci, who was jailed two years ago on a charge of gunrunning, and Kozo Okamoto, the only survivor of the 14 members of the terrorist Japanese Red Army members who carried out the 1972 attack on the Lod airport in Israel, in which six persons were killed. Among those on the West German list was 31‐year‐old Jan‐Carl Raspe. He is one of three accused ringleaders of the Baader‐Meinhof gang now on trial in Stuttgart on charges involving a wave of bombings, bank robberies and other violence in which four United States servicemen and a number of west Germans were killed. President Idi Amin of Uganda urged in an official statement that the hijackers release children, old women and anyone who might be ill. There was no immediate indication that any hostages were freed. President Amin said there were more than 100 Israelis among the captives, though earlier reports estimated their number at 80.
French diplomats in Kampala, the Uganda capital, declined to comment on the hijackers’ demands. In addition to the release of the prisoners the hijackers asked for a special Air France flight to take the 40 prisoners from Israel to Entebbe. The plane is an Aerospatiale airbus, a wide‐bodied, twin‐engine jet with a range of 3,000 miles. When the hijackers took it over Sunday just after it left Athens for Paris, they forced the pilot to fly to Benghazi, Libya. After several hours the plane took off from Benghazi and headed south. The destination was reportedly the Sudan, but Sudanese authorities refused to let the pilot come down. Just before dawn yesterday the airbus came into Entebbe. Hashi Abdullah, the Somali Ambassador to Uganda, was named as the hijackers’ spokes man in any negotiations over the fate of the hostages. The hijackers said France should name its representative.
President Ford reported in a Cabinet meeting that the Puerto Rico economic summit had strengthened the relationships between the seven participating nations, according to White House aides. Ford also told the Cabinet that the summit had convinced him of the interdependence of industrial democracies and the need for such meetings periodically to avoid crises.
Leaders of Communist parties from Eastern and Western Europe opened their long-delayed conference in East Berlin. Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, took a conciliatory stand in his keynote address toward those seeking independence from Moscow’s tutelage. The Communist leaders, including Enrico Berlinguer of Italy and President Tito of Yugoslavia, attending his first international meeting since 1948, assembled to ratify a new declaration of principles as the basis of solidarity.
The United States today vetoed a Middle East resolution in the Security Council, objecting that it stressed the interests of the Palestinians while ignoring those of Israel. The veto of the resolutions calling for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories was the 16th American veto and thel third time this year the United States has blocked a resolution considered inimical to Israel. The vote was 10 to 1, with Britain, France, Italy and Sweden abstaining, A single negative vote is sufficient to block a resolution when cast by any of the five permanent members — Britain, China, France, the Soviet Union or the United States. Those voting for the text were Benin (formerly Dahomey), China, Japan, Libya, Pakistan, Panama, Rumania, Guyana, the Soviet Union and Tanzania. Israel has been boycotting the debate which began June 9 and which has focused on a committee report calling for Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories by June 1, 1977. It also called on the United Nations,.to hand over evacuated territories to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Israel had denounced the report prepared by a committee dominated by third world and Communist countries as a “calculated formula for the destruction of Israel.”
Efforts to find a solution for the civil war in Lebanon reached a deadlock as the Libyan Prime Minister ended a 10-day stay in Beirut during which he had attempted to mediate the conflict and as right-wing Christian militiamen intensified their efforts to capture two Palestinian camps they have been attacking for more than a week. Libya’s Major Abdel Salam Jalloud departed by way of Damascus after announcing at a news conference that he was going back to “escalate” Libyan support for the Palestinians and their Lebanese leftist and Muslim allies. The Prime Minister, who called off a conference with Lebanese Christian leaders because they had refused to halt the assaults against the camps, said he had sent them this message through intermediaries: “It the two camps fall, you would be digging your graves with your own hands.” The plight of the two camps, Tell Zaatar and Jisr el‐Pasha is to be discussed in Cairo tomorrow at an emergency meeting of the foreign ministers of the 20 Arab League countries. The meeting, which, was requested by Egypt is intended to beef up the hitherto ineffectual Arab peacekeeping force that was decided upon at a similar meeting three weeks ago.
High-ranking officials in Washington said that the situation in Lebanon was at a low point and that the future seemed to hold only worse developments. The mood in official Washington, as expressed by several officials in conversations, was one of despair and sadness for what many saw as even worse developments ahead. “I’ve seldom seen a time like this when there appears to be no easily recognizable way out,” one, Middle East expert said in the understatement of the professional diplomat. There seemed to be unanimity that all efforts to work out a political solution had failed, that no middleman, whether American, European or Arab, could do anything now to stop the bloodshed. One official estimated that 1,000 had been killed in the last eight days in the sharp clash between Christian militiamen and Palestinians for two fortified Palestinian camps in the suburbs of Beirut.
Libya’s leading diplomat in Egypt was arrested in Cairo and accused of plotting to overthrow the government of President Anwar Sadat, the Middle East News Agency reported. Milod el Sedik Ramadan, head of the Libyan public relations office, was seized while distributing leaflets calling on Egyptians to revolt, the agency said. The Libyan, Syrian and Egyptian embassies were renamed public relations offices in 1971 as part of a plan to federate the three nations, but differences among the countries have prevented implementation of the plan.
The Organization of Iranian People’s Fedai Guerrillas (OIPFG), an underground guerrilla organization in Iran that had conducted an ongoing campaign against the government of the Shah since 1963, had most of its leaders captured when the SAVAK secret police raided the safe house where they had been hiding. Hamid Ashraf, the OIPFG chairman, was killed in the raid and other members were arrested.
The Republic of Seychelles, consisting of 92 verdant but poor islands in the Indian Ocean, was granted independence at 12:05 a.m. from the United Kingdom, in ceremonies held at the capital city of Victoria on the island of Mahé. In ceremonies at which Queen Elizabeth was represented by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the new nation’s flag, based on the Union Jack and combining the blue of President James Mancham’s Democratic Party and Prime Minister Albert René’s People’s United Party, was hoisted in the capital city of Victoria to mark the transition. Mancham would be overthrown in a coup d’état less than a year later, and René would be installed as his successor.
The Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported today that the United States and China had secretly reached agreement on establishing diplomatic relations, which it said would become effective after the United States Presidential election in November. The newspaper, one of Japan’s largest, said the agreement was reached last December when President Ford met with Chinese leaders, including Chairman Mao Tse‐tung, in Peking. It quoted Japanese Government and ruling Liberal Democratic Party sources in its report. The newspaper said that the United States had already informed the Chinese Nationalist Government on Taiwan of its intentions to terminate diplomatic relations, including the mutual defense treaty, while maintaining economic and cultural ties. It said President Ford had been assured by Peking that if would not attempt an “armed liberation” of Taiwan.
The almost 10,000 foot long Songpu Bridge over the Huangpu River opened in Shanghai in China. The bridge measures 9,998.69 feet (3,047.60 m) in length.
The former Portuguese colony of East Timor was formally merged into Indonesia at the request of the hastily convened legislature of the area. The action by the Jakarta government now leaves only ratification by the Indonesian parliament, regarded as a foregone conclusion, for the integration process to be complete. The merger has gone ahead without the approval of the United Nations which has insisted on a valid act of self-determination by the former colony’s 600,000 inhabitants.
A five-man delegation from the Marshall Islands arrived in New York to present its case for independence to the U.N. Trusteeship Council today. The Marshall Islands are part of the U.S. Trust Territories of the Pacific. Members of the group said they might issue “a Declaration of Independence of our own-maybe on July 4,” but their leader, Anton A. Debrum, said this would be a last resort and that he hoped for U.N. support.
Americans arrested in Mexico, primarily on drug-related charges, continue to be physically abused by Mexican authorities, a senior State Department official told Congress. William Luers, deputy assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, told a House subcommittee that a proposed plan to exchange prison’ers between the two countries is being studied by the department but that constitutional questions involved in the plan have not been resolved. The proposal suggests that prisoners. be allowed to serve their sentences in their own countries rather than that in which their offense was committed.
Thirteen persons including the manager of the Buenos Aires plant of the Renault automobile company were killed in outbursts of political violence in Argentina. In addition to Horacio Sarracan, the Renault manager, who was machine-gunned by presumed left-wing guerrillas, 12 suspected guerrillas were killed by security forces in La Plata, 38 miles south of Buenos Aires.
Jimmy Carter, speaking at the United States Conference of Mayors in Milwaukee, said that while he would try to be a sympathetic and responsive president, he would also be a demanding partner who would expect the mayors to endorse some of his political enthusiasms, such as governmental reorganization. For the 51‐year‐old former Georgia Governor, today’s appearance at the United States Conference of Mayors, meeting here, represented an opportunity to win the political homage that many big city mayors had withheld in the Presidential primary election campaign. His written speech was largely designed to do so by expressing greater willingness to attack urban problems with Federal help than most mayors believe Republican presidents have lately shown. But Mr. Carter, who is now assured the Democratic Presidential nomination, unexpectedly added several passages that had the effect of rapping the mayors’ knuckle’s with the peace pipe he had extended earlier in the address.
“The mayors are very demanding,” Mr. Carter said in his extemporaneous remarks. “I don’t blame him for it and will accept your demands as President, if I am elected. But I also intend to be demanding from you,” Mr. Carter said. “As I struggle to reorganize the Federal Government, I would expect you to struggle to reorganize your own governments, to root out inefficiency and waste, to deal with administrative problems in a courageous way. And to the extent that I am convinced that you’re doing the best you can, I’ll be there as a solid supporter on which you can always depend.”
Although Ronald Reagan will not get the solid block of 30 votes here that he once hoped for, Mississippi’s unit — rule tradition remains viable enough to assure him of at least 25 of the state’s votes at the Republican National Convention. The 30 votes that this state will cast in Kansas City in August constitute one of the keys to the outcome of the race between Mr. Reagan and President Ford. Ever since the delegates were chosen at a state convention on April 10, the assumption among strategists for both candidates has been that the Reagan majority in the delegation would result in 30 votes for the Californian.
A compromise bill appropriating $9.7 billion for energy research and for hundreds of water and power public works projects was passed by the House and sent to the Senate for final action. The funds are nearly $305 million above President Ford’s budget but $434 million under Congress’ tentative budget for the year beginning October 1. It includes $5.7 billion for the Energy Research and Development Administration, $2.5 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers and $756 million for the Interior Department.
The Supreme Court ruled that the seizure of a person’s private business papers and their use as evidence was not in violation of the Fifth Amendment guarantee against self-incrimination. This is true, the Court said even though the Fifth Amendment guarantee might protect a person from being forced to comply with a subpoena for those papers. The ruling, written by Harry A. Blackmun and joined by six other Justices, continues the trend of the last decade toward eroding the scope of the privilege against compelled self‐incrimination.
The Supreme Court upheld today the provisions of the Social Security Act that make it harder for illegitimate children to get “survivor’s benefits” when their parents die than it is for legitimate children. The vote was 6 to 3, with the dissenters contending that the Government should not be allowed to “add to the burdens that illegitimate children inevitably acquire at birth.”
The Justice Department has blocked Clarence M. Kelley the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from receiving investigative reports on an inquiry on F.B.I. burglaries, according to a knowledgeable source. The department official in charge of the investigation has hand‐picked a team of 12 F.B.I. agents to do much of the legwork in the case, this source and others familiar with the developments said today. The agents’ reports may have been sent to Mr. Kelley and one of his top assistants, James Adams, early in the investigation, the sources said. But that was changed on orders from department officials and agents no longer are allowed to report their findings to Mr. Kelley or Mr. Adams, the source said. It is unusual for the F.B.I. director to be sealed off from reports of his own agents even in investigations involving alleged F.B.I. wrongdoing. It could not be determined why department officials took such action. But the investigation is being conducted in even tighter secrecy than usual and few department officials have been told about the details.
Higher income people are getting richer and feeling good about it, but the economic outlook of poorer Americans is souring, according to economists at the University of Michigan. A quarterly survey showed that 47% of those who earn over $15,000 said their real earnings had risen over the last year. But the proportion of lower income people who felt better off declined to 28%, compared with 36% in the previous survey of February, and 39% said they were worse off, compared with 33% earlier.
A grand jury has subpoenaed the payroll records of two more employees of Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio) who has been accused of putting Elizabeth Ray on the federal payroll as his mistress, the House disclosed. The subpoenas, approved by voice vote, demand the pay records of Donald R. Gosney and Jana Lincoln Murray. Records of four other persons were obtained earlier. Gosney is listed as being paid $19,140.87 for 1975 as “field assistant” in Hay’s office in St. Clairsville, Ohio, at the same time he was drawing $8,458.31 as an “assistant clerk” on Hays’. House Administration Committee. Jana Lincoln Murray, listed as Jana B. Lincoln, was paid $666.66 for last November and December as an “assistant clerk” on an Administration subcommittee.
The defense in the William and Emily Harris trial, saying that the trial judge had not let them explore “hidden prejudices” of potential jurors, sought today to discharge the entire 12‐member panel for bias. But Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler, outside the presence of the jurors, denied the defense motion and rejected is well a renewed motion by the Harrises to delay their trial because of widespread pretrial publicity. In turning down their motion to discharge the panel “for cause,” or prejudice, the judge cited case law that holds that even citizens who have an opinion of a case may be impaneled if the prospect promises to set aside his views and remain impartial in deciding the case on the evidence.
The General Accounting Office has criticized the Defense Department for rushing into development of a costly new main battle tank in the face of major uncertainties about the future of armored warfare. The criticism comes at a time when the Army is about to make a multibillion‐dollar decision on a future battle tank that will join the forces in the 1980’s. Within the next month the Army is to select a winner between competing prototype tanks developed by the General Motors Corporation and the Chrysler Corporation. The Army’s plan is to put the winning tanks into advanced development with the objective of producing 3,300 of the 60‐ton weapons at a cost of $4.5 billion.
[Ed: The GAO is, of course, Dead Wrong — this program will result in the extremely successful M1 Abrams main battle tank.]
The Army and Navy have erected barriers to limit the numbers of black enlistees, two former staff members of the Defense Manpower Commission said. Edward Scarborough and Reginald J. Brown, the only two black professional staff members of the commission, made their allegations at a hearing of a House armed services subcommittee that is looking into a racial quota on enlistments into the Marine Corps.
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved today, the nomination of General George S. Brown for a second term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, despite renewed criticism over his repetition of a remark he first made in 1974 that Jewish Americans have too much influence over Congress. The vote was 13 to 2, with one Senator, Henry M. Jackson, Democrat of Washington, voting present. The no votes were cast by Senator Robert Taft, Jr., Republican of Ohio, and Senator Thomas J. McIntyre, Democrat of New Hampshire. General Brown, when asked yesterday by Senator Taft about the remarks made in an October 1974, speech at Duke University, replied that he had said three things, “two of which were wrong and one of which was inappropriate.” The general indicated the “wrong” statements had been that Jews own the banks and the newspapers of the United States. He said the inappropriate one was “that I felt that the Jewish community in the United States had an undue influence on the Congress of the United States.”
William R. Perl, a self-proclaimed leader of the Jewish Defense League, was arrested at his home in Beltsville, Maryland, in connection with shootings into the homes of two members of the Soviet Embassy, the FBI reported. Perl, 70, a psychologist, was accused of conspiring to shoot into the residences in Prince Georges County, Maryland, last May 23.
The Food and Drug Administration ordered a ban on the use of chloroform in cosmetics, cough medicines and other products because it is a suspected cause of cancer. The ban goes into effect July 29 but existing products may remain on the market until they are used up. The agency said that although products containing chloroform had been on the market for many decades and might be thought safe, recent evidence showing the chemical to be an animal carcinogen and its potential for harm could no longer be ignored.
Cadet Steven Verr, who challenged the West Point honor code through 18 disciplinary actions and honor board hearings over the code’s administration, was found deficient in mathematics by an academic board and will be separated from the corps of cadets. Cadet Verr said that he had been harassed by mathematics instructors, removed from classes for interrogations and prevented from studying.
An agreement in principle was reportedly reached between New York City officials and city labor unions to comply with the budget for the next fiscal year, which calls for a $24 million cut in fringe benefits. The agreement is expected to satisfy Treasury Secretary William Simon, who must approve the federal loans needed by the city to avoid default Thursday. Specific cuts would not be part of the agreements, sources said, but in exchange, city workers would receive cost-of-living raises financed by productivity savings.
A 32-mile-long oil slick discovered off the Florida coast bypassed the island of Key Biscayne but continued to threaten Miami Beach and other resort communities farther north along the Florida Gold Coast. The U.S. Coast Guard said the spill was being closely monitored and two tugs equipped with “oil mops” were sent to the edge of the slick, about four miles offshore. The spill, which is 100 yards wide, was spotted by a passenger of an airliner who said he saw a medium-sized tanker with an oil slick trailing behind it. The Coast Guard said an investigation is being made to determine the vessel responsible.
Major League Baseball:
Rick Wise allowed only one hit for the second time in two weeks and pitched the Red Sox to a 2–0 victory over the Orioles. Mike Cuellar engaged Wise in a scoreless duel until the eighth inning when the Red Sox scored their pair on a single by Dwight Evans, a sacrifice, double by Steve Dillard and single by Butch Hobson. Wise previously pitched a one-hitter on June 14, beating the Twins, 5–0. Paul Blair’s 6th inning single is the only hit.
Frank Tanana, coming back after a two-week layoff because of a sprained muscle in his forearm, pitched the Angels to a 4–1 victory over the White Sox. Dave Collins clinched the decision for Tanana, hitting a homer with a man on base in the ninth inning.
Larvell Blanks and George Hendrick each homered with a man on base in the first inning and that was enough to carry the Indians to a 4–1 victory over the Brewers. Rick Manning singled ahead of Blanks’ blow, while Rico Carty was on base with a single when Hendrick hit for the circuit.
After scoring four runs in the first inning, the Yankees failed to hold the lead and lost to the Tigers, 7–5. The Tigers chopped the Yankees’ margin to one run before Chris Chambliss made it 5–3 with a homer in the seventh. However, in the Tigers’ half, Ron LeFlore knocked in two runs with a triple to tie the score and then counted the leading run on a single by Tom Veryzer. Rusty Staub iced the cake with a homer in the eighth.
Tommy John, who laid down a squeeze bunt that scored the deciding run, pitched the Dodgers to a 2–1 victory over the Braves. In the Dodgers’ second inning, Reggie Smith walked and scored on singles by Lee Lacy and Dusty Baker. Lacy took third on Baker’s hit and crossed the plate on John’s bunt.
A sacrifice fly by Fred Patek in the 10th inning decided a pitching duel and enabled the Royals to defeat the Twins, 1–0. A single by Hal McRae, an error and infield out set the stage for Patek’s scoring fly.
A squeeze bunt by Bob Boone in the ninth inning, scoring Dick Allen, enabled the Phillies to edge the Expos, 2–1. Allen singled to open the stanza and took third on a single by Jay Johnstone. After Garry Maddox flied out, Boone laid down his successful bunt on the first base side.
Dave Kingman hit his 27th homer of the season, connecting with a man on base in the first inning, for the blow that gave the Mets a 2–0 victory over the Cardinals behind the three-hit pitching of Mickey Lolich.
Handed an eight-run lead in the first inning, John Candelaria easily pitched the Pirates to a 10–1 victory, holding the Cubs to three hits. The Pirates combined two walks, two errors, five hits, a passed ball and a double steal on which Al Oliver scored in their big inning. Candelaria joined in the spree with a two-run triple.
Smashing a 5–5 tie, the Reds exploded for seven runs in the 14th inning and walloped the Padres, 12–5. Mike Lum triggered the outburst with a pinch homer to break the deadlock. Singles by Pete Rose, Ken Griffey and Doug Flynn added another run. After one out, Tony Perez hit a sacrifice fly. Johnny Bench walked, Cesar Geronimo tripled for his fifth hit of the night and Dave Concepcion climaxed the scoring spree with a homer. The 7 runs in the 14th is one shy of the National League mark, and has never been topped in the American League.
Four unearned runs handed the Astros a 4–3 victory over the Giants. In the eighth inning, with the Giants leading, 3–1, Enos Cabell flied out. Leon Roberts singled, but Cesar Cedeno flied out and Bob Watson was safe on a throwing error by Ken Reitz for what should have been the third out. Jose Cruz then singled, driving in one run, and Cliff Johnson tripled to drive in two more and give the Astros their decision.
Sal Bando was the big man at bat for the Athletics, driving in two runs with a homer in the first inning and two more with a double in the third, to feature an 8–3 victory over the Rangers.
Baltimore Orioles 0, Boston Red Sox 2
California Angels 4, Chicago White Sox 1
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Cleveland Indians 4
New York Yankees 5, Detroit Tigers 7
Atlanta Braves 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Kansas City Royals 1, Minnesota Twins 0
Philadelphia Phillies 2, Montreal Expos 1
St. Louis Cardinals 0, New York Mets 2
Chicago Cubs 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 10
Cincinnati Reds 12, San Diego Padres 5
Houston Astros 4, San Francisco Giants 3
Oakland Athletics 8, Texas Rangers 3
A firm — but not flashy — tone to the stock market helped to push the Dow Jones industrial average above the psychological barrier of 1,000 yesterday fnr the ninth time since March. After showing a token loss in the early afternoon, the blue-chip indicator forged steadily ahead to finish with an advance of 3.27 points at 1,000.65. The market repeatedly has run into selling pressure between the 1,000 level and its 39‐month high set on April 21 at 1,011.02. But a broker noted yesterday: “The market just doesn’t seem to attract selling now.”
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1000.65 (+3.27, +0.33%)
Born:
Bret McKenzie, New Zealand musician and comedian (Flight of the Conchords — “Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That)”), in Wellington, New Zealand.
Ma Yili, Chinese actress; in Hongkou, Shanghai.
Died:
Leonora Summers [Lillian Hill], 78, American vaudeville and silent film actress [Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ; Hoboken To Hollywood).
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