Faced with energy problems and widespread difficulties in food supplies, leaders of the Soviet‐bloc countries pledged here today to work out common economic programs in key sectors, but they failed to reach final agreement on a plan for sharing of electric power. At the close of a three‐day meeting of Comecon, the bloc’s economic organization, Prime Minister Aleksei Kosygin of the Soviet Union and his counterparts from eight allied nations agreed to set up joint programs in such fields as energy and raw materials, engineering, consumer goods, agriculture and transport over the next 10 to 15 years. But a Soviet concept for central planning for all member states of Comecon was quietly scrapped. Instead, the joint communiqué issued at the conclusion of the conference said economic cooperation would be based on the individual country’s “sovereignty, independence and national interest.”
Suzanne Massie, an expert on Russian affairs, complained to the State Department today that Soviet authorities at the last minute had refused her a visa to travel to Leningrad to work on a book.
King Juan Carlos appealed today for public support of Spain’s new Government and urged it to act to unify the country “and increase confidence in the monarchy.” The King spoke at the Cabinet’s first formal session after its formation Wednesday in the midst of deep reservations and outright hostility on the part of many people. A program is not expected to be announced before a plenary session of Parliament scheduled for Wednesday. The King spoke of confidence in the monarchy, which has been shaken by his choice for Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez Gonzalez, a 43‐year‐old functionary of the old regime with little political experience. He told the Cabinet that it had to take “important decisions in the political and economic fields.” The ministers were faced with a momentarily stalled political reform program and an economic situation characterized by persistent unemployment, low investment and one of the highest rates of inflation in western Europe.
Prime Minister Aldo Moro confirmed his Government’s resignation to President Giovanni Leone today in the first of a series of formalities aimed at giving Italy a new government after national elections three weeks ago. Mr. Moro, whose Christian Democratic minority Government has been acting in a caretaker capacity, called on the President at the Quirinale Palace to offer again the resignation he tendered on April 30 after the Italian Socialist Party withdrew its crucial support in a dispute over legislation on abortion reform. President Leone then dissolved Parliament.
A large Lebanese Christian military force continued an attack on guerrillas and Lebanese leftists in the coastal town of Enfeh in northern Lebanon. Enfeh is in the former leftist-held province of Kura, and is the last community holding out against the Christians. Ten thousand Christians militiamen were said to be participating in the siege. Fighting was also reported on several fronts in the 800-square-mile Christian territory between Tripoli and Beirut.
There are two wars being fought in Lebanon. One is between the Syrians and the Palestinians. The other is between Lebanese rightwing Christians and an alliance of Lebanese Muslims and leftists. The two overlap because the Syrian Army is giving vital support to the right‐wing Christian forces and the Palestinians are fighting on the side of the Muslim left. The pattern is the same on the political level, where the latest mediation effort by the Arab League collapsed this week. Mahmoud Riad, the league’s secretary general, failed to get cease‐fire talks started. The Syrians and Palestinians being the two strongest forces in the country, their conflict has come to overshadow the internal Lebanese civil conflict. Rival Lebanese politicians agree on only one thing — that they can do nothing unless the Syrian‐Palestinian conflict is settled one way or another.
Naoji Watanabe, 61, acting president of All Nippon Airways, was arrested Friday on charges of perjury. Prosecutors charged he lied in testimony to parliament by saying he knew nothing about ANA, Japan’s second largest airline, receiving under-the-table payments from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Watanabe, who assumed the acting presidency of ANA only Thursday when Tokuji Wakasa, 61, was arrested, was the sixth ANA official and the eighth businessman arrested so far in the Lockheed scandal.
Excelsior, the independent newspaper that was seized yesterday by its conservative employees, appeared today with its traditionally Liberal view of Mexican affairs replaced by a conservative outlook. The conservative dissidents, who last night ousted the editor of the newspaper cooperative, Julio Scherer Garcia, and isome 200 of his top staff, were apparently encouraged and assisted in their move by the Government of President Luis Echeverria Alvarez. In a long editorial today, the new leaders of Excelsior said they would continue to inform the people of Mexico “with truth and independence.” They added that “the decision taken by the workers of Excelsior has nothing to do with the editorial policies we should adopt.”
President Agostinho Neto today confirmed that death sentences would be carried out on four white mercenaries who were tried for their role in Angola’s civil war, the Angolan News Agency reported. The President was quoted as saying: “The practice of mercenarism must be finished on the planet.” Death penalties were imposed on June 28 on Daniel Gearhart of Kensington, Maryland, Cyprus‐born Costas Georgiou, who calls himself Colonel Callan, and his fellow Britons Andrew McKenzie and John Barker. The date for the executions was not announced.
Uganda demanded in the Security Council tonight that Israel be condemned in the strongest terms for its raid on Entebbe airport last Saturday night to rescue hostages held by pro‐Palestinian hijackers. Israel replied by charging Uganda President Idi Amin with conniving with terrorists. The Uganda Foreign Mnister, Juma Oris, denied that President Amin had collaborated with the guerrillas who seized an Air France plane over Greece on June 27. The next day the plane was allowed to land at Entebbe airport in Uganda after refueling in Libya. It remained on the ground in Uganda until Saturday night, when Israeli commandos raided the field. Three hostages and seven terrorists were killed in the’’ attack, along with one Israeli officer and at least 20 Uganda soldiers. The Israelis brought back 103 hostages.
In the Security Council tonight, Chaim Herzog, Israel’s chief delegate, declared that it was not Israel that was in the dock. He said Israel was appearing as the accuser of the terrorists, of the countries that collaborated with them and of the United Nations itself, which, because of Arab opposition, has been unable to combat terrorism. “Before us stands accused, this rotten, corrupt, brutal, cynical, bloodthirsty monster of international terrorism and all of those who support it in one way or the other, whether by commission or omission,” Mr. Herzog said. The Council hall was hushed as Mr. Herzog, seated opposite Foreign Minister Oris, charged that President Amin and other Uganda authorities had connived in the hijacking episode with the guerrillas.
Kenya has retaliated against President Idi Amin of Uganda by restricting his landlocked nation’s railway access to the Indian Ocean. The Kenya region of the East African Railways Corporation announced yesterday that, effective July 22, Uganda must pay in Kenyan currency to ship its goods through Kenya. Uganda traders, dependent on the port of Mombasa to ship coffee, cotton and other goods, had been able to pay for their shipments in Uganda currency. The new rule will hurt because Uganda is short of foreign exchange. Relations between the two East African nations have been severely strained since General Amin laid claim to parts of Kenya earlier this year.
The South African cabinet was reported Friday to have approved electricity for all homes in Johannesburg’s Soweto ghetto in another move to ease unrest in black townships where at least 176 people died in violence last month. Earlier this week it was announced that the compulsory use of the Dutch-based Afrikaans language in black schools, which sparked a student demonstration June 16, had been dropped. The students prefer English. A critical lack of public facilities, including electricity, in the township of Soweto, home for more than 1 million blacks, is also considered to be a major cause of unrest.
The two Soyuz 21 astronauts, adjusting well to weightlessness on what could be a record stay in space, began a series of biological experiments with fish today in the roomy Salyut 5 Soviet space laboratory. “During communications sessions and [taped] reportage for the Soviet television the astronauts reported that the flight is proceeding normally and that they feel well,” the Soviet news agency, Tass, said. With the astronauts in their third day in space, there was still no indication whether a second team would be rocketed into orbit to join them in Salyut 5, which was launched into space in June.
President Ford said that Ronald Reagan was qualified to be President and he appealed to him to keep an open mind about running for Vice President on the Republican ticket. The virtual retraction at a White House news conference of the President’s earlier harsh assessment of Mr. Reagan’s competence was believed likely to encourage Republican National Convention delegates and party leaders who are promoting a Ford-Reagan ticket. The President’s overture in Mr. Reagan at an informal White House news conference, appeared designed to foster Republican support for his own candidacy rather than to signal any clear preference for a running mate. Mr. Ford said that it would be premature to “winnow” the list of Vice‐Presidential possibilities in his party and that he was not excluding anyone from consideration.
President Ford won three of the nine delegates who were elected in Colorado’s last three congressional district conventions. Ronald Reagan added five more Colorado delegates to the six he won last month. The remaining uncommitted delegate, Representative William Armstrong, who was elected with the Ford campaign’s support, used his own popularity and the mobilized resources of the President Ford Committee to deny the Reagan people a vote in the Fifth Congressional District that they thought they controlled.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger’s associates now say privately that if President Ford wins the November election, Mr. Kissinger is virtually certain to remain in office for an extended period. The main question, several aides said, is not so much whether Mr. Kissinger would be willing to stay beyond next January but whether Mr. Ford. would ask him to do so. Up to now Mr. Ford has said that if elected, he would like Mr. Kissinger to remain in office indefinitely. The Secretary has given ambiguous signals. For some time some of his top aides believed that he would seek to resign after the election even if Mr. Ford was victorious. But now even they volunteered that unless Mr. Ford changed his mind about wanting Mr. Kissinger, the Secretary would undoubtedly stay on for months — perhaps a year or more.
The Labor Department said that the Wholesale Price Index rose moderately in June, with less inflation in volatile agricultural prices but more in industrial prices. The index, after adjustment for normal seasonal changes in some prices, increased by four-tenths of 1 percent, a little more than in May, but less then in April. For the three months ended June 30 the Wholesale Price Index rose at an annual rate of 6.6 percent, about in line with what government and private economists consider the “underlying” rate of inflation in the ‘economy this year. In the first three months of the year the index declined at a rate of 1.8 percent, largely because agricultural prices at that time were going down.
The Federal Communications Commission is expected next month to increase the number of channels available to users of the citizens band radio from the present 23 to as many as 40 or 45. This will be done to relieve the congestion on the citizens band channels, which gets worse as thousands more people join the 12 million who are now using the available channels. The commission believes that the addition of channels may actually be the key to reducing the capricious interference caused by the four‐watt CB units. In the view of the commission’s engineering experts, much of the interference problem stems from equipment manufactured under the F.C.C. technical standards for CB radio that were adopted in 1958, when the boom was not foreseen. This equipment is designed to use only the 23 present channels and not the additional ones proposed by the F.C.C.
Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, visited New York and attracted friendly crowds everywhere they went. They arrived at the Battery on the royal yacht Britannia and drove in an open car up Broadway. The Queen received long overdue rent from Trinity Church — 279 peppercorns, one for each year since 1697, stipulated when the church received its charter in that year from William III, the Queen’s ancestor. The Queen, wearing a cream-colored dress with matching jacket and a tilted natural straw hat with a broad brim, was greeted by Governor Carey, an honor guard, and several thousand New Yorkers with cameras at the ready. She went first to Federal Hall, where George Washington was inaugurated, and where her standard flew from the pediment; there were Union Jacks and American flags on the lampposts. The 26th Army Band played both national anthems, the crowd cheered, and London‐born Mayor Beame proclaimed the Queen an honorary citizen of New York.
Pat Nixon showed slight improvement today in her struggle to recover from a stroke that has left her with partial paralysis of her left side and a slight slurring of her speech. Mrs. Nixon’s condition was stable, the physicians attending her reported, but they remained concerned about her because of the uncertainties associated with a possible cerebral hemorrhage, which is suspected as the cause of her illness. The Nixon family physician, Dr. John C. Lungren, described his patient, who is 64 years old, as being in “excellent” spirits and held out the hope that she could in time completely reverse the effects of the stroke. “I would say we are in an area of seriousness probably for the next two or three days at least,” Dr. Lungren responded when asked at a morning news conference if the stroke still imperiled the life of the wife of former President Richard M. Nixon.
The defense rested its case in the murder trial of two American Indians today after subpoenaed testimony by Senator Frank Church on activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation against “targeted domestic organizations” the bureau considered subversive. Federal District Judge Edward J. McManus had ordered Mr. Church, an Idaho Democrat and chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to appear as a defense witness for Darelle Butler, 29 years old, of Rogue River, Oregon, and Robert Robideau, 31 of Portland, Oregon. The two men, members of the American Indian Movement, are accused of killing two F.B.I. agents, Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, a year ago as they tried to serve arrest warrants on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota.
William and Emily Harris, accusing the prosecutor of “systematically excluding third world people” from the jury, sought unsuccessfully today to obtain a mistrial or dismissal of the charges against them. The Harrises, members of the self‐styled Symbjonese Liberation Army, which kidnapped Patricia Hearst, sought the mistrial seconds after four alternate jurors were sworn and the entire panel was excused until Monday. Opening statements had been scheduled for Monday, but this afternoon, Mr. Harris, who is acting as his own attorney, became indignant that the sheriff’s department had let three weeks go by without submitting a report to the trial judge on the Harrises’ request to visit Mel’s Sporting Goods Store in nearby Inglewood.
American reporters and civilian officials were allowed for the first time to see the U.S. Department of Defense’s National Military Command Center, the “war room” located inside the Pentagon. The invited guests were admitted to the war room, “normally restricted to individuals holding only a top-secret clearance or higher.” A few weeks ago the Secretary of Defense, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and sundry flag officers and civilian officials assembled in a top‐secret room at the Pentagon to supervise the evacuation of 116 Americans in Beirut. To some in the military, it did not seem a serious enough crisis to warrant such high‐level supervision. But the evacuation gave the civilian officials, the generals and the admirals their first chance to try out their new “war room” in the Pentagon. After repeated requests and some resistance by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to an intrusion into their inner sanctum, the Defense Department today permitted the first public viewing of the war room. known colloquially around the Pentagon as the “N.M.C.C.” for National Military Command Center. Situated in the second and third floors of the Pentagon in the tightly guarded area of the joint staff, the center, which replaces a much smaller war room, was completed in February at a cost of $15.4 million.
If a political proposition involves Eugene J. McCarthy, it is likely to be paradoxical. And the proposition that the former Minnesota Senator has been refining in the last year, in one of the loneliest races anyone has recently made for the Presidency, is his most paradoxical vet. Put theoretically, which is the way he usually puts it, it’s that the indifference and disaffection that have been reflected in low voter turnouts in recent elections can be harnessed as a form of political energy. Put in terms of his own ambitions, it’s that he has a chance to become a factor in this year’s election on the basis of support from voters for whom his independent candidacy has yet to achieve the status of even a rumor.
James Leslie, a Shreveport public relations man who fashioned a successful television campaign for passage of the so‐called “right‐to‐work” law for Louisiana, was shot to death early today. The Police would not release details of the shooting. Mr. Leslie was felled by shotgun blast at about 1:50 AM as he got out of his car in the parking lot of a motel, where he was staying. He and others involved in the push for the bill, which won final legislative approval in the Senate yesterday, had been out celebrating. The bill would outlaw labor contracts requiring union membership at a prerequisite for keeping a job. Mr. Leslie was in the news most recently in connection with an investigation of the Shreveport Commissioner of Public Safety, George D’Artois.
The state has ordered New Jersey’s only chemical landfill to close within 10 days on charges of continued violations of environmental standards. The Department of Environmental Protection’s order yesterday to close the Kin‐Buc landfill in Edison came two days after a State Appeals Court judge overruled township officials and ordered the dump reopened. Local politicians and residents have been critical of the landfill, owned by Scientific Inc., of Scotch Plains, saying that Edison alone should not be burdened with concentrated dumping of chemical wastes.
Major League Baseball:
Boston Red Sox owner and president Tom Yawkey dies.
Taking advantage of shoddy defense, the Braves scored four unearned runs and defeated the Mets, 5–3. The Mets committed four errors. Dave Kingman and Wayne Garrett homered for the Mets. With the score tied, 3–3, Rowland Office was safe on a bobble by Felix Millan in the eighth inning. After a forceout by Rod Gilbreath, Tom Paciorek singled. Willie Montanez and Ken Henderson then followed with singles, each driving in a run, to provide the Braves’ winning margin.
Playing one hour after learning that owner Tom Yawkey had died, the Red Sox were unable to win the game for their late boss, losing to the Twins, 8–6. Rod Carew had an outstanding night for the Twins with three hits, three runs and two stolen bases. The Twins piled up six of their runs in the fourth inning on a double by Roy Smalley, bunt single by Carew, double by Butch Wynegar, single by Larry Hisle, double by Mike Cubbage and singles by Craig Kusick and Steve Braun. Bobby Darwin and Carl Yastrzemski each homered with two men on base for the Red Sox.
Erasing the Angels’ 2–1 lead, Lee May homered with two men on base in the third inning to provide the Orioles with a 4–3 victory. Bobby Grich singled and Reggie Jackson was safe on an error by Dave Chalk before May hit his homer.
Ken Reitz batted in three runs, but that was not enough for the Giants, who lost to the Cubs, 5–3. Rick Monday homered for the Cubs in the first inning. After Reitz singled with the bases loaded in the sixth to plate two runs and put the Giants ahead, 3–2, the Cubs came back with three in their half. Bill Madlock walked and counted the tying tally on a triple by Pete LaCock. After Manny Trillo walked, Steve Swisher singled to score LaCock and put the Cubs in front. An extra run followed when Randy Moffitt threw wildly to first on a pickoff play.
A crowd of 53,328 saw two contrasting games in a twi-night doubleheader, but the Reds took both of them from the Pirates, winning the opener, 12–11, in 10 innings and taking the nightcap in regulation time, 2–1. In the lidlifter, the Pirates scored five runs in the eighth inning, routing Gary Nolan, to go ahead 9–6, but the Reds rallied for the tying tally in their half. The Pirates appeared to have the game in the bag when Richie Zisk hit a two-run homer in the 10th, but the Reds came back again. With two out, Bob Bailey singled and both Pete Rose and Ken Griffey walked to load the bases. Joe Morgan also drew a pass to force in one run and George Foster then singled, driving in the tying and winning tallies. In the nightcap, Doug Flynn singled in the seventh inning, Fred Norman sacrificed and Griffey singled Flynn home to decide the pitching duel between Norman and Doc Medich.
The pitching appearance of Mark Fidrych helped attract a crowd of 51,041, but the Tigers’ sensational rookie ran into stiff competition and lost to the Royals, 1–0, in a duel with Dennis Leonard. The only run scored in the fourth inning on singles by George Brett, John Mayberry and Hal McRae.
In Montreal, the Astros Larry Dierker no-hits the Expos 6–0 and evens his record at 8–8. Dierker had previously thrown 2 one-hitters. Dierker strikes out 8, including the 1st 2 in the 9th, and walks four. Houston is 4th in the West while Montreal is last in the East. Ed Herrmann hit his first National League homer as part of the support for Dierker.
Hank Aaron hit his eighth homer of the season and 753rd of his career, plus a two-run double, to pace the Brewers to a 7–2 victory over the Rangers. Aaron’s round-tripper accounted for the Brewers’ initial run in the second inning. The Brewers already were ahead, 4–2, when the veteran star whacked his double for an insurance pair in the seventh. Sixto Lezcano then drove in Aaron with the final tally.
Dock Ellis, who had a record of only 8–9 with the Pirates last season, gained credit for his 10th victory with the Yankees when Carlos May drove in a run in the sixth inning to beat the White Sox, 2–1. Ralph Garr homered for the White Sox in the first. The Yankees came back with the tying tally in their half on a double by Roy White and single by Thurman Munson. Then in the sixth, singles by White, Munson and May accounted for the deciding run. Ellis needed help from Sparky Lyle in the eighth.
Mike Torrez, who went through the entire month of June without winning, posted his second victory for the Athletics in July, beating the Indians, 2–1. The A’s counted both their runs in the fourth inning when Sal Bando walked, Buddy Bell threw wildly on a grounder by Gene Tenace, Bando scoring, and Claudell Washington followed with a single to drive in Tenace.
Mike Schmidt homered in the sixth inning and drove in another run with a single in the seventh to provide the Phillies with a 4–3 victory over the Padres. Schmidt’s homer, No. 23 for the season, cracked a 2–2 tie. In the next frame, after Dave Cash and Larry Bowa singled, Schmidt rapped a hit that counted Cash and enabled the Phillies to shrug off the run that the Padres scored in the eighth on singles by Luis Melendez and Mike Ivie and an infield out by Fred Kendall.
When the Dodgers failed to complete an attempted double play in the ninth inning, the Cardinals scored a run for a 4–3 victory. Jerry Mumphrey singled to set up the tie-breaking tally, but was forced at second on a bunt by Don Kessinger. Following a wild pitch and passed ball that moved pinch-runner Lee Richard to third, the Dodgers walked Lou Brock and Ted Simmons intentionally. Willie Crawford then hit a chopper to shortstop Bill Russell for a forceout of Simmons, but Crawford beat Davey Lopes’ throw to first as Richard scored the winning run.
New York Mets 3, Atlanta Braves 5
Minnesota Twins 8, Boston Red Sox 6
Baltimore Orioles 4, California Angels 3
San Francisco Giants 3, Chicago Cubs 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 11, Cincinnati Reds 12
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Cincinnati Reds 2
Kansas City Royals 1, Detroit Tigers 0
Montreal Expos 0, Houston Astros 6
Texas Rangers 2, Milwaukee Brewers 7
Chicago White Sox 1, New York Yankees 2
Cleveland Indians 1, Oakland Athletics 2
San Diego Padres 3, Philadelphia Phillies 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, St. Louis Cardinals 4
The stock market produced a sharp rally yesterday based on favorably Interpreted developments in two worrisome areas: the inflation rate and the course of monetary policy. The Dow Jones industrial average, gaining momentum throughout the busy session, climbed 11.13 points to finish at 1,003.11—its best daily gain in more than three weeks. Virtually the entire market, except for the gold stocks, joined in the advance. Gainers on the New York Stock Exchange outpaced losing issues by more than 2 to 1.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1003.11 (+11.13, +1.12%)
Born:
Fred Savage, American child actor (“The Wonder Years”, “The Princess Bride”); in Chicago, Illinois.
Jochem Uytdehaage, Dutch speed skater and 2002 Winter Olympics gold medalist who held the world record in the 5000 and 10,000 meter races from 2002 to 2005; in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Keith Miller, NFL linebacker (St. Louis Rams, Seattle Seahawks), in San Diego, California.
Gavin Morgan, Canadian NHL centre (Dallas Stars), in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.
Dan Estrin, American rock guitarist (Hoobastank — “The Reason”), in Los Angeles, California.
Died:
Tom Yawkey, 73, American owner of the Boston Red Sox major league baseball team, from leukemia.
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