Adolfo Suárez Gonzalez was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Spain after his appointment by King Juan Carlos I to work toward political reform. A number of leading advocates of political change in Spain refused to serve in the cabinet of Prime Minister Suarez, the successor to Carlos Arias Navarro, who was dismissed by King Juan Carlos I last Thursday. Mr. Suarez was sworn in at the royal palace in Madrid. He was a Francoist official who was in charge of Spain’s only legal political party, the National Movement. The flight of liberals from government service was led by Foreign Minister Jose Maria de Areilza and Interior Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne.
The Italian Communist Party (PCI), with the second highest number of seats in Italy’s Chamber of Deputies, received “its most import parliamentary post since the birth of the Italian Republic” as Pietro Ingrao was elected as president of the chamber with 488 of the 613 votes. With pressure from the United States and Western European nations to prevent Italy’s Communists from participating as part of the ministers of the cabinet, and none of the parties having a majority of seats the Christian Democracy Party (DC), the PCI agreed to support the election of a Communist Party member as leader of the Deputies to be in return for the PCI’s vote of confidence for the government of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti.
An alleged Soviet agent presumed to have fallen into a trap laid by Yugoslavs in Rumania last summer was sentenced today to 20 years’ imprisonment. The 62‐year‐old defendant, Vlado Dapcevic, was initially sentenced to death, bul the court commuted the sentence. The case has been compared to the kidnapping in 1960 of Eichmann, the Gestapo official, by Israeli agents in Argentina. According to unofficial reports, Rumanian authorities cooperated with Yugoslavia in luring Mr. Dapcevic from his home in Belgium to Bucharest, where he was apparently seized by Yugoslav agents last August. He was accused here of organizing an illegal Yugoslav Communist party with the aim of overthrowing the Government of President Tito and of seeking to divide the country.
Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin) accused the Navy of “fudging the facts” by continuing to ask for extra money to reverse a Soviet shipbuilding lead that he contends is already being reversed. Aspin released a 23-page analysis by his staff concluding that, by 1981 at present rates, the United States will regain the lead it lost in major surface warships to the Russians in 1973. The analysis also concludes that the 4–1 submarine superiority the Soviet Union had in 1958 will be down to 2 to 1 in 1981 at present rates.
West German friendship for the United States has reached an 18-year high, according to a poll by the Wickert Public Opinion Institute. Of the 2,067 West Germans in the sample. 67% ranked America first on their country’s list of friends. France was second with 17%, leading Britain’s 13%. The Soviet Union got 3%.
France-Soir, best-selling French evening paper before it began suffering serious losses some years ago, was sold for about $11.2 million to independent Paris publisher Paul Winkler. Head of a publishing firm dealing in press features and comic strips, Winkler bought the paper from the Hachette newspaper and magazine group. At its peak in the mid-1950s, France-Soir was well ahead of other French papers, with a daily circulation of around 1.4 million. Its current circulation is about 600,000. Still the largest Paris newspaper, it has been overtaken in national ratings by the Brittany provincial daily Ouest-France.
Ships and aircraft crossing the North Atlantic have been asked to look out for 20 yachts in the singlehanded transatlantic race that have not been heard from since they left Britain last month, the Search and Rescue Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia, reported. Five yachts have sunk, one was found adrift with its skipper missing and 13 boats have crossed the finish line at Newport, Rhode Island. In Plymouth, England, officials said that 20 competitors had not radioed since the race started; Newport officials said 26 had not been heard from. Some sailors in the race would be reluctant to divulge their positions to competitors by making radio transmissions.
Israeli officials said today that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine had lost important agents in the Israeli assault on Entebbe airport in Uganda. The officials commented on the identity of the seven hijackers after the Popular Front, in an announcement today, listed the names of five Arabs and two foreigners, and praised them for their courage. The Israelis said that among those killed at Entebbe when Israeli commandos landed to rescue hostages was a well-known West German anarchist with links to “Carlos,” an internationally sought terrorist. They identified the German as Wilfred Boses, 26 years old. He was arrested in Paris in June 1975 after Carlos, whose real name is thought to be Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, had killed two French security men. The German was released after two days and then went to West Germany, where he was also arrested and held before again being released. His whereabouts had been unknown until he turned up on the Air France flight.
The 72‐hour deadline extension won from the Air France hijackers at noon last Thursday proved crucial element in the success of the Israeli rescue of the 103 hostages and crew members Saturday night. It was this extra time, Israeli officials said today, that made it possible for Israel to plan and prepare the military operation, gather the necessary intelligence and put the raid in motion. Reconstructing the events of the weeklong hijacking today, Israeli officials described long hours of confusing and often contradictory negotiations with the hijackers mounting tension over the willingness of the hijackers to extend their initial deadline and the central role played by President Idi Amin of Uganda. “It was a chaotic, nerve-racking week,” an Israeli official said today. “It was hard to know from one day to another what was going to happen.”
Renewed fighting around a besieged Palestinian camp in Beirut today prevented an International Red Cross convoy from evacuating 300 wounded. Christian militiamen, who had asserted yesterday that the camp of Tell Zaatar had fallen, said today that it was about to be overrun. Palestinians said that the defense was holding after two weeks of attacks by the Christians and that the latest assaults had been driven off with great losses. Meanwhile, other Palestinian guerrillas and their Lebanese leftist allies reportedly opened a new front against the Christians in an attempt to relieve the military pressure on Tell Zaatar. The leftist‐controlled Beirut radio said guerrillas and leftists had punched deep into the Christian heartland from northern Lebanon, occupying Cliekka, a Christian town 40 miles north of Beirut. Christian sources said the town was surrounded but that it had not fallen.
Iran’s state-monopoly radio and television network said it would take over full responsibility for English-language broadcasting in Iran, ending the 22-year operation of the American Forces Radio and Television Service. The move will silence Iran’s only remaining independent source of publicly distributed news, but National Iranian Radio and Television said it would try to retain some of the same entertainment programming in its expanded schedule.
A brew containing methyl alcohol has killed 84 persons in Madras in southern India, officials said. Nearly 100 others were hospitalized. Among the dead were two bootleggers who sold the concoction, police said. Two other bootleggers have been arrested. Police said methyl alcohol and other poisonous ingredients had been added to the brew to give it extra potency.
Mexico’s long‐ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party estimated today that its victorious candidate in the presidential election yesterday, José López Portillo, won 17.5 million of the 18.5 million votes cast. Since Mr. López Portillo, a a 56‐year‐old former Finance Minister, was the only official candidate to succeed President Luis Echeverria Alvarez on Dec. 1, the balance of votes were either write‐in support for the unregistered Communist Party candidate, Valentin Campa Salazar, or spoiled ballots.
Argentine troops killed seven leftwing guerrillas in the north, and two labor leaders were found shot to death in the south as political violence escalated in the military-governed nation. The army said the guerrillas were killed in clashes in Cordoba and Tucuman, where the army has been fighting rural rebels of the Marxist People’s Revolutionary Army for more than a year. No army casualties were reported. In a deserted area near Bahia Blanca, the bodies of two regional leaders of the national printers’ union were found, police sources said. The union is controlled by leftists.
The Sudan called today for an urgent meeting of the Security Council, citing “massive evidence” of Libyan responsibility for the attempted coup against the Sudanese Government last Friday. There was no immediate indication when the 15‐ nation Council would be called into session. In a letter dated July 4 to the Council president, Piero Vinci of Italy, the Sudanese representative, Mustafa Medani, said that his country had “suffered an act of armed banditry designed to effect the overthrow of its legally constituted government. “The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Sudan has massive evidence that the act of aggression has been conceived, prepared and executed by the government of the Libyan Arab Republic,” the letter said.
President Idi Amin of Uganda said that Uganda reserved the right to retaliate in whatever way it could to redress what he called the aggression against it in the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport. In the first full account from Uganda of what happened at Entebbe Saturday night, President Amin indicated that he became involved with the hijackers only at the moment they requested landing permission last week. He also charged that Kenya and “other neighboring states” had collaborated with Israel in the raid that freed the hostages. Much of black Africa reacted to the raid with public condemnation, but considerable private admiration for the Israeli commandos.
Much of black Africa reacted today to the Israeli raid into Uganda with public condemnation and considerable private admiration for the Israeli commandos. In Kenya, which was again singled out by President Idi Amin of Uganda as a close collaborator of the Israelis on the raid, the official posture was one of indignation at the Israeli action. Vice President Daniel Arap Moi said at the leaders meeting of the Organization of African Unity that Kenya’s air space had been violated by the Israelis and his Government “condemned unreservedly this naked Israeli aggression against one of our O.A.U. member states.” At the same time both Nairobi daily newspapers effusively congratulated the Israeli action in editorials. Both papers, while independent, have traditionally reflected Government opinion in their editorials. Said The Daily Nation: “The world will salute those in Israel who took the decision and the calculated risk involved.” And The Standard said that it “proudly hailed the dramatic and valorous rescue,” which it said “must serve as a useful lesson to emerging Africa.” “It completely obliterated Field Marshal Amin’s phony invincibility,” it said.
The nation’s governors were told that state and local governments could be spared millions of dollars in welfare costs if the federal government would consolidate its public assistance programs, establish a national minimum welfare payment and require most welfare recipients to register for work. The recommendations were part of a report by a special welfare reform study group that was presented at the 68th National Governors’ Conference in Hershey, Pa. The report urged the governors to join the associations of city and country governments in demanding that the Ford administration and Congress make sweeping changes in welfare programs by 1977.
Jimmy Carter had a talk with Senator Edmund Muskie at his home in Plains, Georgia, and said afterward that the Senator from Maine was well qualified to run for Vice President on the Carter ticket. But Mr. Carter stressed that his decision would be made next week only after meeting with four or more other prospects. He said that he and Mr. Muskie understood that the invitation to Plains “didn’t put either of us under any obligation.” Mr. Muskie said that he had a “rather strong impression” that Mr. Carter was committed to expanding the useful and broad role a vice president could have.
President Ford, addressing a group of newly naturalized citizens at Thomas Jefferson’s beautiful and serene home, warned today of “a growing danger to this country in conformity of thought and taste and behavior.” The President, speaking as the nation began its third century, also warned against the dangers of totalitarianism. In the last of his six Bicentennial speeches, the President spoke in praise of diversity. “I believe Americans are beautiful—individually, in communities and freely joined together by dedication to the United States of America,” he said. But he added that “we need more encouragement and protection for individuality. The wealth we have of cultural, ethnic, religious and racial conditions are valuable counterbalances to the overpowering sameness and subordination of totalitarian societies.”
New postal rates taking effect today would increase by about 25% the mailing costs of smaller daily and weekly newspapers that depend on mail delivery to reach subscribers. The new rates increase the cost of second-class mail-mainly newspapers and magazines-as well as nonprofit bulk third-class mail and special fourth-class rates for books, records and other material. Once the new “temporary” rates are in effect, the Postal Service is expected to approve revised “permanent” rates, which could bring another round of raises.
The morning after New York City’s Bicentennial festivities, the euphoria continued. Japanese seamen visited British ships, Scandinavians drank Irish beer on Eighth Avenue, and hundreds of thousands of visitors converged on the ships that played a big part in the Fourth of July celebration, jamming the waterfront where, anchored against the Manhattan skyline, the tall ships were still formidable.
While the ships of the International Naval Review and the picturesque high-masted sailing vessels of Operation Sail were on parade in New York Harbor, the Coast Guard kept a lookout for a one-man submarine that it feared might sabotage the day’s events. The alert apparently had its origin in the efforts of George Kittredge, a retired Navy captain who built the $7,000 submarine, to find the man to whom it was sold in Maine last July but who reneged on payments.
The visit to the United States this week of Queen Elizabeth II will be Britain’s most important contribution to the Bicentennial celebration. The Queen will start her visit in Philadelphia tomorrow and will stop in New York on Friday. She will attend a state dinner at the White House on Wednesday, which will be televised.
Twenty blacks, their mouths taped shut, stood silently in a demonstration for equal justice at the opening in Henderson, North Carolina, of the trial of a white minister’s wife charged with the death of a young black man. There was one black juror among the nine sworn in for the trial of Sandra Dupree, 34, who is charged with first-degree murder in the March 11 pistol slaying of Harry Lee Dickens, 21, in the town of Scotland Neck. Mrs. Dupree’s son, Mark, 14, became involved in a scuffle with several blacks while he was selling a newspaper. A week later he was again selling the paper, this time in Dicken’s neighborhood and Dickens, who was in his front yard, was shot once.
With jury selection entering its ninth day tomorrow, Judge Mark Brandler of Superior Court in Los Angeles has taken a firm hand in pushing attorneys to expedite the selection of the 12 jurors who will decide the state’s case against William and Emily Harris. The defense has fought many of the judge’s rulings, saying they restrict its efforts to uncover “hidden prejudices” that potential jurors may harbor against the defendants. It has demanded open‐ended questioning to determine bias. Asserting failure in those efforts, the defense, admittedly building a record for future appeal, has approved the persons most recently seated in the jury box to hear the case. The prosecution has not. The Harrises, members of the self‐styled Symbionese Liberation Army, and their co‐defendant, Patricia Hearst, who is not on trial with them, are accused of kidnapping, assault and armed robbery in connection with their flight from a sporting goods store after the Harrises were accused of shoplifting.
Two federal agencies announced a joint project to develop ways to monitor newly approved medicines and drugs for unwanted reactions that might spring up after years of use. The Food and Drug Administration and the National Bureau of Standards said systems developed under the $1.1 million project would help the FDA uncover previously unsuspected problems more quickly than now. FDA Commissioner Alexander M. Schmidt said some adverse effects “are so rare they can be detected only after a drug has been used by many thousands of patients or for an extended time.”
Utah Power & Light Co. said a malfunctioning protective relay caused the massive power failure that blacked out most of Utah Sunday. A spokesman said the trouble was located at the Naughton plant at Kemmerer, Wyo. He said the relay t broke down while 675,000 kilowatts were flowing over two transmission lines to a substation at Ogden. The failure caused lines in Oregon to trip their circuit breakers and when the Utah generating plants couldn’t keep up with the demand the whole system shut down. The blackout lasted as long as six hours and affected 1 million residents in most of Utah and parts of western Wyoming. But most areas had power restored within two hours.
Hundreds of youthful Fourth of July celebrants clashed with the police in the resort city of Virginia Beach early today before being dispersed by tear gas and canine units, the police said. The disturbance lasted nearly three hours, in which 11 police men were injured, 78 persons were arrested and several storefronts were smashed in the oceanfront nightclub district. The police said that violence broke out around 1 AM, just after the bars closed, as a large crowd gathered along Atlantic Avenue, a main thoroughfare in the area.
A minister’s wife who sued the city of Miami because she was mistaken for a prostitute has settled for $1,500 so her husband may return to the pulpit. Brenda Hunt, 22, said her husband lost his job as pastor of New Jerusalem Church after she was arrested June 30, 1975, on a loitering charge on a street frequented by prostitutes. The charge was dropped. The Rev. Larry Hunt returned to work temporarily last month and may now report that his wife’s name has been cleared when he attends a Pentecostal convention next week. It will take a convention vote to get his job back permanently. The lawsuit was filed, the Hunts said, “so policemen will learn that not all black women are hookers.”
Ivanka Khristova of Bulgaria broke the world record for distance in the shot put, at 21.89 meters. The previous record had been 21.87m, which she had set on July 3 at the same track and field meet in the Bulgarian city of Belmeken. She held the record for less than three months when it was superseded by Helena Fibingerová.
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The Atlanta Braves, who had lost six previous meetings between the clubs, rallied for seven runs in the eighth inning and defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 8–6, before 48,467. John Candelaria, working with a 6–1 lead, had two out in the eighth when the Braves started their rally with a single by Rowland Office, two walks and a two-run single by Willie Montanez. Kent Tekulve relieved and walked Ken Henderson before yielding to Ramon Hernandez, who gave up a two-run single by Cito Gaston. That brought on Bob Moose, who passed Jerry Royster. Darrel Chaney then cleared the sacks with a triple to bring the Braves their victory.
The Red Sox reached the .500 mark (37–37) for the first time since April 27 when Luis Tiant defeated the White Sox, 11–2. The victory was the 10th of the year for the veteran righthander, against five losses.
Dave Chalk and Andy Etchebarren drove in three runs apiece, providing the chief batting support for Gary Ross (6–9), who pitched the Angels to an 8-1 victory over the Indians. Ross yielded five hits. Pat Dobson (10–6), the Indians’ loser, was stopped on his personal seven-game winning streak.
With an error deciding the pitching duel, the Cubs defeated the Padres, 1–0. Steve Renko (3–4), who hurled the first seven innings for the Cubs, yielded three hits. Joe Coleman followed with two hitless stanzas. The Cubs, who got five hits off Brent Strom, scored their run in the sixth inning. Rick Monday singled, stole second and stopped at third on a single by Jose Cardenal. When Cardenal attempted to steal second, Padre catcher Mike Ivie threw the ball into center field, allowing Monday to score.
Six consecutive hits, followed later by a sacrifice fly, produced six runs in the fourth inning and gave the Astros a 7–3 victory over the Mets. Mets’ starter Bob Apodaca failed to retire a batter in the Astros’ outburst. Cesar Cedeno singled and Bob Watson homered for the first two runs. Singles by Jose Cruz and Cliff Johnson and a double by Ed Herrmann added another tally. Roger Metzger followed with a triple, driving in two runs and knocking out Apodaca. Bob Myrick relieved and retired Joe Niekro on a tap to the mound, but Enos Cabell hit a sacrifice fly, scoring Metzger.
Two errors in one inning by first baseman Rod Carew enabled the Brewers to edge the Twins, 3–2. Trailing, 1–0, the Brewers started the seventh inning when Gorman Thomas walked. Jack Heidemann bunted to Carew, who slipped and fell trying to field the ball and both runners were safe. Carew was charged with an error. Art Kusnyer, also trying to sacrifice, likewise bunted to Carew, who threw wildly to third trying for a forceout, and both baserunners scored.
At Jarry Parc, Joe Morgan hit the second grand-slam homer of his major league career and also drove in another run with a sacrifice fly to lead the Reds’ slugging in an 11–2 victory over the Expos. Four walks forced in one run in the sixth inning before Morgan connected for his slam. Doug Flynn joined in the Reds’ attack with a two-run homer, while Pete Mackanin and Andre Thornton homered for the Expos.
With two out, the Royals scored twice in the first inning and defeated the Yankees, 2–1. Royals’ tallies came on a double by George Brett and singles by John Mayberry, Hal McRae and Al Cowens. The Yankees got their run in the seventh on a single by Fran Healy, walk to Willie Randolph, long fly to center field by Sandy Alomar and sacrifice fly by Mickey Rivers.
Backed by Phil Garner, who hit a three-run homer, Mike Torrez (7–9) gained his first victory since May 31 when the Athletics defeated the Orioles, 4–1. Garner’s blow in the fifth inning followed a pass to Sal Bando and error by Tony Muser on a ground ball by Claudell Washington. Before the frame ended, the A’s added their fourth run on a double by Bill North and single by Bert Campaneris.
Playing before 60,842, the largest baseball crowd in Philadelphia history, the Phillies collected only two hits off Burt Hooton (6–9) and lost to the Dodgers, 6–0. The victory was Hooton’s seventh straight against the Phils since 1974. Steve Garvey and Bill Russell homered for the Dodgers, while Garry Maddox singled and doubled for both of the Phillies’ hits.
Capping three strong innings of relief, Gary Lavelle (3–4) gave up a single by Don Kessinger in the ninth and then struck out Lou Brock, Ted Simmons and Willie Crawford in succession to emerge with credit for the Giants’ 6–4 victory over the Cardinals. After Lavelle replaced Jim Barr, the Giants broke a 4–4 tie in the eighth. Bobby Murcer doubled, was safe at third on a late throw after Darrell Evans bunted and scored as Ken Reitz grounded into a double play.
The Tigers knocked out Gaylord Perry and overcame a 4–0 deficit, but the Rangers came back to gain an 8–6 victory with four runs in the seventh inning. In their winning stanza, the Rangers began with a run on a double by Gene Clines and single by Mike Hargrove. Jeff Burroughs, who had accounted for two earlier RBIs with a double, hit another two-bagger, Hargrove stopping at third. Toby Harrah was passed intentionally to load the bases in a move that failed the Tigers when Tom Grieve singled to drive in the tying and leading runs. Lenny Randle followed with another single for an insurance tally.
Pittsburgh Pirates 6, Atlanta Braves 8
Chicago White Sox 2, Boston Red Sox 11
Cleveland Indians 1, California Angels 8
San Diego Padres 0, Chicago Cubs 1
New York Mets 3, Houston Astros 7
Minnesota Twins 2, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Cincinnati Reds 11, Montreal Expos 2
Kansas City Royals 2, New York Yankees 1
Baltimore Orioles 1, Oakland Athletics 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, Philadelphia Phillies 0
San Francisco Giants 6, St. Louis Cardinals 4
Detroit Tigers 6, Texas Rangers 8
Born:
Jamie Elman, American-born Canadian actor (“American Dreams”); in New York, New York.
Bizarre [Rufus Johnson], American rapper (D12), in Detroit, Michigan.
Jay Spurgeon, MLB pitcher (Baltimore Orioles), in West Covina, California.
Dwayne Zinger, Canadian NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals), in Coronation, Alberta, Canada.
Died:
Walter Giesler, 66, American soccer football goalkeeper for the U.S. national soccer team at the 1948 Olympics and at the 1950 World Cup, died suddenly while the 1950 team was being inducted collectively into the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame.
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