Despite signs that Moscow has momentarily become more tolerant of divergent views in the European Communist community, Eastern Europeans harbor no doubts that for them the ultimate political arbiter remains the Soviet Army. The leaders of 29 European Communist parties assembled at a ceremony in East Berlin, late last month to witness the, publication of a bland philosophical statement of general aims, which satisfied none of the participants and was signed by none. In some quarters in the West the conference was hailed as a kind of victory for those parties that have disavowed the primacy of Moscow, notably those of Yugoslavia, Rumania, Italy, France and Spain. “But as you know,” an Eastern European observed, “you can read the speeches of the East European leaders and see that some continue to proclaim Moscow as the absolute leader others reject the idea of a dominant party and the rest fall somewhere in between. The enthusiasm of these speeches regarding Moscow leadership was in direct proportion to the number of Soviet troops stationed on the soil of each speaker. I think there is a lesson that.”
Riot police swinging rubber truncheons and firing smoke grenades broke up demonstrations in Madrid, Barcelona and Pamplona by thousands of youthful Spaniards demanding amnesty for political prisoners. An undetermined number of persons were injured. Rising public support for amnesty posed a big challenge to the new premier, Adolfo Suarez. Despite the tough stand against demonstrators, the Spanish press reported that Suarez was ready to grant some kind of amnesty. The issue now involves how many of Spain’s estimated 600 political prisoners will be affected, the newspaper El Pais said.
World oil production declined in 1975, primarily because of a 10% cut by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the British Petroleum Co. said. The drop, reported in BP’s Statistical Review of the World Oil Industry, was fixed at 5.4%. The review described it as the largest since 1942 and the first in 20 years. Oil consumption also was down, the review said, fixing that decline at 2.9%. In 1974, oil consumption dipped 1.2%.
The Miss Universe international beauty competition was won for the first time by a citizen of Israel, as 20-year-old Rina Messinger was crowned as the top finisher from 72 competitors in Hong Kong.
The leaders of the besieged Palestinian and leftist troops in Lebanon sent urgent appeals for help to Arab countries as right-wing Lebanese forces advanced toward Tripoli and pressed their offensive in Beirut. The leftist-controlled radio said that Yasser Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, had telephoned President Houari Boumediene of Algeria and Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, saying that the situation was deteriorating fast. Mr. Arafat accused the Syrians of trying to “strangle” Muslim‐controlled western Beirut and to paralyze the Palestinian military forces by shelling the refinery of Zahrani south of Saida in southern Lebanon. The refinery, the only one in Muslim‐controlled territory, has been afire and inoperative for the last two days. In a message to the Egyptian Government, Mr. Arafat asked for gasoline and diesel fuel, according to the official Egyptian press agency.
More than ever before, Beirut has the look of a dying city. For 15 months its citizens endured artillery bombardments, kidnappings and random murder with amazing resilience. Now they find themselves virtually defeated by the lack of water, electricity, fuel, medicine and, in some cases, bread. Many have given up and left. For the first time the little people and the poor are joining the exodus, which used to be confined to the rich with connections abroad. In Basta, a solidly Muslim lower‐middle‐class district, a young shop owner estimated yesterday that only a third of the neighborhood families remained. Those who leave, a number of interviews showed, are driven out by a mixture of fear and hopelessness. Some fear that west Beirut will become the battlefield for a desperate last‐ditch war fought by the Palestinians against the Syrian Army.
Police reinforcements today patrolled Djibouti, capital of Afars and Issas, France’s last African territory, to quell any possible violence at the funerals of 13 people killed in tribal clashes yesterday, officials said here. The police were concentrated around cemeteries and a dusk-to‐dawn curfew is to be maintained throughout the territory, the officials said. Yesterday’s clashes were between groups from the territory’s main tribes, the Afars and the Issas.
The ashes of Chu Teh, modern China’s greatest military leader and head of the country’s Parliament, were buried in Peking today in a restrained ceremony that contrasted sharply with the far more emotional services for Prime Minister Chou En-lai last winter. Hua Kuo‐feng, the new Prime Minister and First Deputy Chairman of the Communist Party, delivered a eulogy to Marshal Chu before 5,000 people in the Great Hall of the People. Mr. Hua said that the Marshal, who died Tuesday at the age of 90, had remained “modest and prudent, unassuming and approachable,” despite performing ring “immortal services” for China.
Australia’s first general strike halted public transportation, closed factories and snarled traffic today. An estimated 2 million Australians joined the 24-hour walkout, called to protest a new 2.5% income tax levied by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser’s Conservative government to finance Medibank, the national health plan. The action was called by the Australian Council of Trade Unions. Thousands went to work in private cars, causing traffic jams in all major cities. All shipping and international and domestic flights halted.
Canada apparently has won its political dispute with the International Olympic Committee over Taiwan’s insistence on participating in the Olympic Games as the Republic of China. At an emotional news conference in Montreal, Lawrence Ting, chief of the Taiwanese delegation, said that the I.O.C. had “lost the battle” to allow Taiwan to enter the games. Lord Killanin, president of the I.O.C., Mr. Ting said, told him that he would recommend to the I.O.C.’s board acceptance of the Canadian government’s terms.
Three synagogues were defaced with swastikas and racist slogans in Toronto Friday night, the Jewish Sabbath. One of the synagogues is located next to a police station. Rabbi David Monson, head of one of the synagogues, said he believed the vandalism was a protest against the Israeli raid on Uganda’s Entebbe Airport to rescue more than 100 hostages held by pro-Palestinian hijackers.
President Luis Echeverria declared a state of emergency in three Mexican states because of week-long storms and flooding that have taken seven lives and left 1,000 persons homeless. He ordered emergency food and supplies flown to Nuevo Leon in the north, Oaxaca in the south and Nayarit on the Pacific coast. Police in Monterrey reported one person drowned and two others electrocuted when they touched downed power lines. Another person reportedly drowned when a river overflowed near Puebla.
The death toll from a recent bomb blast in an Argentine federal police building in Buenos Aires rose to 21 when a policeman died in a hospital, official sources said. The July 2 blast killed 18 persons instantly, most of them policemen. Two more died last week of their injuries, and 63 persons are still in the hospital.
An effort to get the body of executed American mercenary, Daniel F. Gearhart, out of Angola stalled, and the U.S. Embassy will probably take over the task, Senator Charles McC. Mathias (R-Maryland) said. Mathias had flown to Lisbon on his way to Angola to seek clemency for Gearhart, of Kensington, Maryland. When the executions of Gearhart and three other mercenaries were announced, Mathias was still waiting to get an Angolan visa. He said he would probably abandon his plans to bring Gearhart’s body home if Angolan officials did not respond soon.
Guerrilla forces opposed to the Luanda Government have spread from southeastern Angola to a broad belt across the central part of the country, according to a military report from the pro‐Western rebel movement known as the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola. The report, which reached here today by courier, was accompanied by a letter addressed to Portuguese democrats appealing for support. The letter was signed by the president of the National Union, Jonas Savimbi. These documents were said to come from the National Union’s headquarters in the region of Cangumbe, 55 miles west of Luso in central Angola on the Benguela Railroad.
President Idi Amin of Uganda apparently is disillusioned with pro-Palestinian terrorism. He telephoned a friend in Israel this weekend and said that he was “finished with the terrorists” and that “they caused me a lot of trouble.” The friend was Colonel Baruch Bar-Lev, now retired, who headed a military mission in Kampala before Uganda broke diplomatic relations with Israel. The conversation was reported in an Israeli newspaper and was later confirmed by the colonel, who said that President Amin had asked him to relay his decision to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Mr. Amin also asked whether Israel could send spare parts for the tanks, trucks, halftracks and mortars that Israel had supplied when the two nations were friendly.
France performs a nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll.
In a television interview on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, Jimmy Carter said that he planned no surprises and that he would choose a vice-presidential nominee from a group of seven nationally prominent prospects. Four days of harmony were expected at the convention. All the possibilities on the former Georgia Governor’s final list have been subject of speculation for weeks, and all, reflecting Mr. Carter’s desire to balance his outsider’s image with someone from Washington, are members of Congress. The 51‐year‐old Southerner met yesterday with Representative Peter W. Rodino Jr. of New Jersey, one of the heroes of Watergate, and he will meet today with Senators Adlai E. Stevenson 3d of Illinois and Frank Church of Idaho. He met earlier with Senators Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota and John Glenn of Ohio, whom most major politicians consider the front‐runners, as well as with Senators Edmund S. Muskie of Maine and Henry M. Jackson of Washington.
Jimmy Carter and a group of leading women Democrats were unable to reach agreement on a specific proposal for expanding the participation of women in the party’s 1980 convention. Mr. Carter said that he could not accept the language of the proposed rule that the women had brought to the meeting and he made arrangements for another meeting today and expressed confidence that an acceptable compromise would then be worked out. The women scheduled a caucus to follow the drafting session, at which they will decide whether or not to accept the new compromise language, assuming that it had been drafted. It appeared certain that whatever the language of a new draft rule, some of the women, and possibly a substantial number, would want to reject it. The reason for the rejection would be that the proposal made yesterday already constituted a retreat from what strong feminists in the party really want. They have fought for language that would “require” equal representation of men and women at the 1980 convention.
Rep. Otto E. Passman (D-Louisiana) has denied a report that he used his congressional powers to force foreign aid recipients to hire the St. John Maritime Co. as their shipping agency. “This is somewhat of a surprise, and I can assure you it is completely erroneous,” he said from his home in Monroe, Louisiana. Passman is chairman of a House subcommittee on foreign operations. Justice Department sources were said to have confirmed that the Agriculture Department was investigating the charges.
Ten thousand people seeking to persuade the Democratic National Convention to take a stand against abortion held a rally in Central Park’s Sheep Meadow and then marched two miles down to the Madison Square Garden. The principal speaker at the March for Life was Ellen McCormack, a 49-year-old housewife of Merrick, Long Island,, who has campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in 18 primaries. She will make another attempt to get the nomination at the convention. About 700 advocates of rights for homosexuals also marched up from Washington Square to the Madison Square Garden area, demanding the repeal of anti-sodomy laws.
Queen Elizabeth II spent her last day in the United States in this city with its Revolutionary past and heavily Irish present. She was received with applause by large, friendly crowds and restrained protest by a relatively small number of demonstrators. Most of her day was spent moving from one reminder of 1776 to another from the moment her yacht, the Britannia, was greeted in Boston harbor by a 21‐gun salute fired from the U.S.S. Constitution. On docking, the Britannia scraped her side, a mishap hurriedly remedied as the Queen went on to services at Old North Church, to ceremonies at the State House, to a lunch at City Hall and “walkabouts” through the crowds. The Queen then reviewed a parade of Massachusetts militia companies in Revolution uniforms before visiting the Constitution and returning to the Britannia for a reception, before sailing to Canada this evening. Elizabeth recalled in a speech at the old State House that it was not far from Boston “that ‘it all began.” She was “very moved” by her welcome, she said, and once again stressed the strength of the ties that bind the United States and Britain.
New York Governor Hugh L. Carey said binding arbitration should be used “if that’s the only way” to settle New York City’s hospital workers strike. A spokesman for the hospitals again rejected the idea. An estimated 40,000 members of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees struck 33 private, nonprofit hospitals Wednesday and widened the walkout Saturday to include 10 municipal hospitals and 14 private nursing homes. Federal mediators continued to meet with both sides but said there was no progress in efforts to get them to bargain together. The union walked out over the hospitals’ refusal to grant even a cost-of-living increase. The hospitals said a state freeze of Medicaid reimbursements made any increase impossible.
Negotiations continued in Pittsburgh under federal mediation between Westinghouse Electric Corp. and its four major unions, which have agreed to a day-to-day extension of the contract through this week. Westinghouse has proposed 36-month contracts with the four unions representing more than 55,000 workers. Terms include immediate pay increases of 60 cents an hour, a cost-of-living raise in December of up to 12 cents an hour and general increases of 4% for 1977 and 1978 plus additional cost-of-living adjustments. Three of the unions issued a statement saying the offer was unsatisfactory because it “falls substantially short” of a recent General Electric settlement.
Rep. Allan T. Howe (D-Utah) returns to City Court in Salt Lake City today to argue that pretrial publicity and prosecutorial misconduct are grounds for dismissal of the sex-solicitation charge against him. Howe was arrested on June 12 and subsequently charged with the misdemeanor of soliciting sex acts for pay. He is accused of offering two police decoy prostitutes $20 for specific sex acts. Howe, seeking reelection to his 2nd District congressional seat, has pleaded innocent. Trial, originally scheduled for today, has been delayed to next Monday. Howe’s lawyer has subpoenaed seven news organizations and two reporters and said he would show that excessive publicity has prejudiced Howe’s case.
The Teton Dam flood caused heavy losses for southeastern Idaho fisheries, according to a preliminary report from the state Department of Fish and Game. The flood destroyed 66,000 7-inch Mackinaw trout and 500,000 Kokanee salmon eggs in the Teton Reservoir and “drastically impaired” the trout population in the river system downstream, the report said. A department spokesman said the preliminary report does not include earlier wildlife losses when the dam was built. A cutthroat trout fishery and winter range for about 1,000 deer were ruined.
The renewed investigation into the killing of Don Bolles, a reporter for The Arizona Republic, is sending repercussions through the political and economic life of Arizona well beyond the issue of the slaying itself. Mr. Bolles died on June 13, 11 days after his car was bombed as he left a downtown hotel after an informant failed to keep an appointment. A man whom the police allege was to have met with Mr. Bolles, John Adamson, has been charged with his murder. Partly as a result of public reaction to the killing, the state Legislature has approved a bill that would partly break up the state’s lucrative dog‐racing monopoly, which is dominated by a company in Buffalo that has long been accused of having ties to organized crime.
Delay of the scheduled August sale of offshore oil and gas leases was asked of Interior Secretary Thomas S. Kleppe by Rep. John M. Murphy (D-New York), head of an ad hoc congressional committee studying the outer continental shelf. Murphy sought delay for the sales of Baltimore Canyon leases off New Jersey and Delaware so Congress can act on recommendations from his committee updating the 23-year-old Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Kleppe has scheduled the oil and gas sales for August 17. Involved will be leases for 154 tracts totaling 876,750 acres.
The F-14 Tomcat jet fighter, the newest operational fighter in the Navy, is expected to start flying again soon at Miramar Naval Air Station after being grounded since June 24. The grounding of all F-14s resulted from crashes at Miramar June 21 and 23 in which four men were killed. The Navy said the second accident was due to a mechanical malfunction. The Navy claims that despite these and several other accidents since the F-14 began flying in 1972, the jet has a good safety record. Navy employees will spend the next couple of days technically evaluating each plane before it is returned to flight status.
Severe thunderstorms knocked down utility poles and trees, causing widespread damage, throughout New York state, and two persons were killed by lightning in Batavia as they watched a softball game. Flash flooding was reported in the southern part and central part of the state while high winds and torrential rains were reported farther north. At the same time, violent electrical storms, heavy winds and tornadoes moved through western Pennsylvania and two persons were killed in Jefferson County as more than 35 homes were severely damaged. Twenty persons were hospitalized.
British pop singer Andy Gibb (18) weds Kim Reeder (18) in Australia; they divorce in 1979.
American singer and actor Frank Sinatra (60) weds 4th and final wife, American socialite Barbara Marx (45); they remain married until his death in 1998.
U.S. Open Women’s Golf, Rolling Green GC: JoAnne Carner wins in a playoff against Sandra Palmer
Major League Baseball:
In a pre-game promotion at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, 34 couples are married at home plate. The nuptials are then followed by Championship Wrestling in an evening billed as “Headlocks and Wedlocks.” The Braves then pin a 9–8 loss on the Mets. Capping a six-RBI performance, Willie Montanez drove in three runs with a bases-loaded double in the eighth inning to bring the Braves the victory over the Mets. Montanez accounted for one run with a single in the first and two with a single in the seventh before his winning double. The Mets jumped on Mike Marshall for four runs in the eighth to take an 8–6 lead, but in the Braves’ half a double by Dave May, a walk and error loaded the bases. Montanez’ double with two out ruined what would have been a victory for Tom Seaver, who made his first relief appearance of the season in the seventh inning.
With help from Jim Willoughby, who recorded the last two outs, Fergie Jenkins evened his record at 8-8 when the Red Sox defeated the Twins, 6–4. Fred Lynn homered for the Red Sox in the first inning to tie the score at 1–1 and Denny Doyle put the Sox ahead with a two-run single in the third. The Red Sox then knocked out Bill Singer and added two more runs on four hits in the fifth. Carl Yastrzemski doubled for one tally and the other scored on a grounder by Carlton Fisk.
Although Nolan Ryan struck out 12 batters, Reggie Jackson hit a two-run homer off the Angels’ speedballer in the first inning to provide the Orioles with a 3–1 victory. Dave Pagan, obtained from the Yankees in a June 15 deal, made his first start for the Orioles and was the winner with relief help from Tippy Martinez, who also was acquired in the Yankee swap.
Ed Halicki allowed just two singles and pitched the Giants to a 2–0 victory over the Cubs. Halicki got a quick lead when Gary Matthews homered in the first inning. The Giants did not add their insurance tally until the ninth when Darrell Evans rapped a single to drive in Marty Perez.
After breaking a tie when Tommy Helms was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the eighth inning, the Pirates added two runs on a pinch-double by Rennie Stennett and proceeded to defeat the Reds, 8–5. Don Gullett, making his first start since being sidelined by a sore shoulder June 20, pitched the first six innings for the Reds and yielded four runs, two coming on passes with the bases loaded. In the Pirates’ eighth, Bill Robinson, Dave Parker and Bob Robertson singled in succession to load the bases before an errant pitch by Pedro Borbon hit Helms on the elbow to force in the run that snapped a 4–4 deadlock. Will McEnaney relieved Borbon and was tagged for Stennett’s two-bagger. Jerry Reuss pitched the eighth and ninth for the Pirates in the lefty’s first relief appearance since 1973.
A two-out single by Rusty Staub in the 12th inning scored John Wockenfuss and enabled the Tigers to outlast the Royals, 6–5. The Tigers got off to a 5–0 lead, but failed to hold it. John Hiller, the Tigers’ third pitcher of the game, relieved with two out in the seventh and gave up two singles plus a wild pitch that let the Royals tie the score. In the 12th, the Royals loaded the bases against Hiller with none out, but the Tigers’ ace reliever escaped with the aid of a force-out at the plate and a double play. Then in the Tigers’ half, Wockenfuss walked and, after a sacrifice and infield out, scored the winning run on Staub’s hit. George Brett had a double and three singles for the Royals, marking the 21st time that the All-Star third baseman had come up with three or more hits in one game.
Posting his third shutout of the season, rookie righthander Joaquin Andujar scattered nine hits and pitched the Astros to a 1–0 victory over the Expos. In completing the sweep of the four-game series, the Astros scored in the fifth inning on singles by Jose Cruz and Leon Roberts around a stolen base.
Hank Aaron hit his ninth homer of the season and 754th of his career in the 10th inning to give the Brewers a 5–4 victory in a sweep of a doubleheader with the Rangers. The Brewers won the first game, 6–3, behind the pitching of Jim Slaton, who gained his 10th victory. However, the Brewers trailed, 3–1, going into the seventh inning when they rallied for five runs. Robin Yount singled and scored on a double by Von Joshua. After Don Money singled, George Scott and Bernie Carbo followed with run-scoring hits before Gorman Thomas capped the outburst with a double for the final pair. The Brewers also were losing the nightcap, 4–2, going into the ninth inning when they rallied to tie the score before Aaron came through with his game-winning wallop in the overtime frame.
Ed Figueroa joined teammates Catfish Hunter and Dock Ellis as a 10-game winner when the Yankees defeated the White Sox, 5–0, before a Jacket Day crowd of 53,160. Figueroa yielded only three hits. The Yankees clinched their decision when Oscar Gamble rapped a two-run homer in the second inning. Mickey Rivers also accounted for two runs with a double in the eighth.
Bill North had one hit in one official trip to the plate, but walked three other times, scored three runs and drove in two as the Athletics completed a sweep of the three-game series by defeating the Indians, 9–3. Frank Duffy homered with a man on base for the Indians.
A three-run double by Greg Luzinski enabled Jim Kaat to pitch the Phillies to a 3–0 victory over the Padres for the veteran lefthander’s first shutout of the season. The Phils broke up Kaat’s duel with Dave Freisleben in the sixth inning when Dave Cash singled, Larry Bowa and Mike Schmidt beat out bunts to load the bases and Luzinski cleared the sacks with his two-bagger.
Wiping out a four-run deficit, the Dodgers exploded for seven runs in the seventh inning, featuring a homer by Reggie Smith with two men on base, to salvage the finale of a three-game series with the Cardinals, 9–6. Smith, formerly with the Cards, homered in each game of the series. Keith Hernandez, Willie Crawford and Bake McBride hit homers to give the Cards a 5–0 lead before the Dodgers awoke with a run. Then three straight pinch-singles by Ted Sizemore, Ed Goodson and Lee Lacy loaded the bases in the seventh. Bill Buckner followed with a two-run double, Steve Garvey hit a sacrifice fly and Ron Cey walked to set the stage for Smith’s decisive homer. Sizemore, batting for the second time in the stanza, later hit another single for the Dodgers’ final tally.
New York Mets 8, Atlanta Braves 9
Minnesota Twins 4, Boston Red Sox 6
Baltimore Orioles 3, California Angels 1
San Francisco Giants 2, Chicago Cubs 0
Pittsburgh Pirates 8, Cincinnati Reds 5
Kansas City Royals 5, Detroit Tigers 6
Montreal Expos 0, Houston Astros 1
Texas Rangers 3, Milwaukee Brewers 6
Texas Rangers 4, Milwaukee Brewers 5
Chicago White Sox 0, New York Yankees 5
Cleveland Indians 3, Oakland Athletics 9
San Diego Padres 0, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 9, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Born:
Eduardo Najera, Mexican power forward and small forward (Dallas Mavericks, Golden State Warriors, Denver Nuggets, New Jersey Nets, Charlotte Bobcats), in Meoqui, Mexico.
Died:
Leon de Greiff, 80, popular Colombian poet.
History Diaries 