The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that 17 African nations were withdrawing their teams from the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and that 465 athletes had either vacated the Olympic Village quarters or were making final plans to do so. The boycott, made two days after the Olympic games had gotten underway, came after the IOC refused to expel the New Zealand Olympic team as a response to New Zealand’s hosting of a tour of the Springboks rugby league team from South Africa.
Fencer Boris Onischenko of the Soviet Union Olympic team, a silver medalist in the 1972 Olympic modern pentathlon, was disqualified after it was discovered that he was using an electronic device within his épée sword to register a point whether the sword struck his opponent or not. The cheating was discovered when his opponent, Jeremy Fox of Great Britain, leaped out of the way of Onischenko’s thrust and a score was registered anyway.
How does an Olympic gymnast improve on a perfect score? Nadia Comaneci gave a stunning demonstration tonight when the unflappable 14‐year‐old Rumanian registered two more perfect marks during a performance that sent The Forum into a frenzy usually reserved for Stanley Cup hockey games. Considered impossible — a 10.00 perfect score last night in the uneven parallel bars — Miss Comaneci displayed her versatility tonight with a flawless exhibition the balance beam. Then, as if to reaffirm that last night’s performance was no fluke, the 5‐foot, 86-pounder repeated with another perfect effort on the uneven bars that brought a long, raucous standing ovation from the capacity crowd of 16,000.
A previously unknown, left-wing guerrilla organization calling itself the “Groups of Anti-Fascist Resistance 1st of October” claimed responsibility for a wave of bombings in Madrid and other Spanish cities Sunday. Timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the bombs blasted office buildings and civil war monuments, leaving at least two persons injured.
Italy expressed surprise and regret over remarks attributed to West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that Western aid to Italy was conditional on keeping the Communists from power. Italian Foreign Minister Mariano Rumor discussed the matter for 45 minutes with his West German counterpart, Hans-Dietrich Genscher. Afterwards, Genscher said Schmidt’s remarks were quoted out of context. A West German spokesman said Schmidt has been asked about reports that the United States was hesitant about aiding such a government, and that Schmidt said it was, and that this also was the attitude of Britain and France.
Six Polish workers were convicted of rioting against food price hikes and were given jail sentences ranging from four to 10 years, the Polish news agency Interpress reported. It was the second trial stemming from anti-inflation riots last month. Seven other workers have been on trial in Warsaw on charges of damaging state property and obstructing railway traffic during a demonstration. The verdict is expected soon.
Mario Soares, Portugal’s Prime Minister‐designate, said today that his Government would seek a more active role in the Atlantic alliance and integration into “all of the European institutions.” Mr. Soares, the secretary general of the Socialist Party, discussed his foreign policy aims in an interview in the National Assembly Palace of Sao Bento, where he was consulting with other Parliamentary groups on the composition of his Socialist minority Government. It is due to take office at the end of this week. Mr. Soares said that other foreign policy objectives would be to develop closer ties with traditional allies such as the United States and Britain, to establish normal diplomatic relations with Israel, China and the Soviet Union, to improve contacts with the former African colonies of Angola and Mozambique and intensify relations with Brazil.
A minutely planned, two-and-a-half-day operation netted weekend robbers of an unguarded Nice bank at least $10 million, possibly history’s largest crime haul, a police source said early today. Officers investigating the robbery at the Société Générale bank at this French Riviera resort said the total might be higher when all the tenants of safety deposit boxes report their losses. Two hundred boxes were rifled by the gang, which the police estimate at six. The boxes contained cash, securities, jewelry and other valuables. The police found pearls and small‐denomination bonds scattered among rifled papers inside the bank vault. The police said they were too small for the robbers to waste time on. The bank in central Nice was unguarded throughout the weekend, allowing the thieves, to work slowly and make as much noise as they wanted. The police said that they were able to avoid setting off the bank’s mechanical alarm system, indicating they had precise information and “at least several weeks’ planning.”
More than 1,500 men worked through the night to plug a levee on a new canal at Lueneburg, West Germany. The break flooded four square miles of countryside and forced evacuation of more than 100 families. No one was injured, and officials said the flood was halted by plugging the side of the canal with car wrecks, a sand-filled barge, earth-filled garbage containers and sandbags. The canal opened less than a month ago.
The Soviet Union placed a aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time as the Kiev, its largest naval vessel up to that time, passed through the straits of Bosporus and the Dardanelles.
Saint Pierre and Miquelon, located off of the coast of Canada’s province of Newfoundland and Labrador, became an overseas department of France.
Israel allowed shoppers from war‐torn Lebanon through its formidable security fence today to shop in this border town, which has been intermittently shelled by guerrillas from Lebanese territory. The move in response to appeals through the fence for food was the latest in a series of gestures that Defense Minister Shimon Peres today called “the good fence program.” In the past three months, nearly 3,000 wounded and sick Lebanese have been treated in frontier tent clinics by Israeli doctors called up by the army for reserve duty. Water has been piped across the border to the area of a village where Moslem raiders cut off the water supply from Christian villages. Mr. Peres, who visited the frontier clinics today, announced that southern Lebanese farmers who have been unable to market their ripening produce because of the unrest would be permitted to sell it in Israel through commercial, channels. ‘Their basic commodity at this time is the tobacco crop.
Citing security reasons, the United States Embassy today postponed the departure of an evacuation convoy of more than 400 Americans and foreigners from embattled Beirut. An embassy spokesman said tomorrow morning’s scheduled departure of 403 foreigners, including more than 180 Americans and their dependents, was postponed because of “advice we received that conditions would not be totally secure” along the secret route the bus-and‐car convoy was to have taken to Damascus, Syria. The spokesman said the embassy would probably wait another day or two before attempting the trip. He did not rule out the possibility that “other means of evacuation,” like the rescue of foreigners by United States Navy landing craft June 20, might he considered if the road remained hazardous.
Egypt has signed a mutual defense agreement with the Sudan, the Egyptian Government press agency said here tonight. The circumstances under which the agreement would be invoked were not disclosed. The agency said it was signed last Thursday by Presidents Anwar el‐Sadat of Egypt and Gaafar al‐Nimeiry of the Sudan “to give a new impetus to Arab solidarity in the field of defense.” The timing indicated that it had been prompted by the unsuccessful coup attempt of July 2 against the Sudanese Government in which Libya has been accused of having participated.
The Omani Government announced today that Britain would withdraw next March from air bases has used on Masira Island and at the southern town of Salala. The installations are Britain’s last in the Middle East. The withdrawal, described as being in line with the British Government’s wish to reduce military commitments east of Suez, was agreed to in talks that Sultan Qabus bin Said had in London recently. The announcement said that the agreement would not affect pilots and other British servicemen attached to the Omani Air Force.
Sagarmatha National Park was created in Nepal.
Vietnam said that it would free 205 Thai fishermen and nine boats seized by the Vietnamese navy for allegedly violating its territorial waters last year. The Vietnamese move, announced by the Foreign Ministry, was seen as an effort by the Hanoi regime to improve. relations with non-Communist governments in Southeast Asia. The fishermen and their boats were expected to reach Thailand in four or five days.
Two more employees of Japan’s Marubeni Corp. were arrested in the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. payoff investigation. The arrests came amid speculation that the five-month inquiry might extend this week to high-ranking government officials and politicians. Prosecutors said Hidekazu Mori, 48, and Katsuhiro Matsuoka, 37, were charged with destroying evidence. Among those indicted previously on charges varying from perjury to tax evasion are past and present executives of All Nippon Airways, a domestic airline, which purchased the Lockheed TriStar L-1011 jetliner.
A new large‐scale kidnapping of Uruguayan political refugees was reported in Buenos Aires today by the United Nations High Commission for refugees. About 30 Uruguayan exiles were reportedly taken from their homes or on the street Most of them were registered as refugees with United Nations offices here. The report of the new kidnappings alarmed the refugee community here, particularly the 8,000 Chilean refugees who have been staging hunger strikes to dramatize their appeal for visas to leave the country. Among the persons reported missing by Uruguayan sources was Margarita Michelini, whose father, former Senator Zelmar Michelini, was removed from a hotel by armed men several weeks ago and found dead later with Hector Gutierrez Ruiz, former president of the Uruguayan Chamber of Deputies.
Diplomatic sources in London said that the United States and Britain, which are seeking to persuade the Rhodesian government to negotiate a transfer to black majority rule, are developing a joint policy that would assure financial aid and property guarantees to the white minority.
Six black miners were killed and more than 14 injured in a tribal clash at the Kinross gold mine in eastern Transvaal, South African police reported. The clash between workers of the Basotho and Xhoso tribes followed similar fighting a week ago in the Orange Free State in which eight miners were killed and 30 injured. Elsewhere in South Africa, the black University of Ft. Hare at Alice was closed after a weekend of rioting by students. Two buildings at the nearby Lovedale Black Teachers College were destroyed by fire.
President Ford proposed a permanent special prosecutor’s office to investigate wrong-doing by government officials, and said that it would be “up to the American people” to decide whether his pardon of President Nixon would be a campaign issue. He made the statements in replies to frequently sharp questioning at a White House news conference. The President said that he was “very close right now” to getting the Republican presidential nomination.
Ronald Reagan currently has the support of 1,140 delegates to the Republican National Convention, or 10 more than the necessary majority for the nomination, the executive vice- chairman of his campaign, John Sears, said. The Ford campaign immediately dismissed the claim as “baloney.”
The A.F.L.-C.I.O., which refused to endorse a candidate in the 1972 presidential campaign, pledged “all-out support” for the Carter-Mondale ticket. George Meany, the federation’s president, brushed aside suggestions at a news conference that he had been cool to Jimmy Carter’s candidacy and said that Mr. Carter’s “overall purpose is our overall purpose: to put America back to work.” He said that the Republicans’ choice was between ‘Tweedledee Ford and Tweedledum Reagan.’” “We know who the candidates are and it’s Ford and Carter,” he said. “I cannot find anyone in the American labor movement who is for Gerald Ford.” He acknowledged that he had not taken Mr. Carter seriously as a candidate early this year.
Law enforcement officials investigating the kidnapping last Thursday from nearby Chowchilla of 26 summer school students and their bus driver said today they believed they knew the identities of the abductors. They said they expected to make at least one arrest very soon. Sheriffs Ed Bates of Madera County and Tom Hauchins of Alameda County, where the victims were confined in a buried tractor‐trailer for over a day before clawing their way to safety, also said that they were investigating the possibility that revenge was the motive for the kidnapping and that the abduction may have been carried out in connection with threats made by former inmates of San Quentin Prison. Sheriff Bates could not explain why the inmates would want to seek revenge on residents of the county. But both men said that their investigations were progressing rapidly and that detailed new evidence appeared to be leading them to the abductors.
A four-month, $150,000 investigation has narrowed the search but has not yet found the person who made an unauthorized disclosure of the report of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, a House investigator testified today.
The Justice Department is investigating the possibility that funds contributed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s employees for recreational purposes were diverted to the use of J. Edgar Hoover, the late F.B.I. director, and other senior officials of the agency. Sources close to the inquiry said that the fund was controlled for several years by Nicholas Callahan, the associate director of the F.B.I. who was dismissed last Friday.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) said there were indications the Food and Drug Administration had permitted the marketing of newly developed drugs on the basis of “scandalously bad” data from animal tests. “I fear a major American tragedy may be in the making,” he said at a Senate hearing. FDA Commissioner Alexander M. Schmidt testified that an investigation had shown deficiencies in experimental animal test data for drugs and other products to be “more widespread than I would have guessed.” Schmidt said, however, the FDA had undertaken a comprehensive $16.4 million program to deal with the problem.
Patricia Hearst fired so erratically at a sporting goods store to help William and Emily Harris escape arrest on May 16, 1974, that a bullet struck a house six blocks away and bounced into a driveway where children were playing, according to a prosecutor witness.
“We’ve come to settle, not to strike,” President Leonard Woodcock of the United Auto Workers said as the union and General Motors opened contract talks in Detroit. Both sides predicted they could avert a strike but warned of potential confrontations over pensions, wages and other issues. The UAW opens contract talks at Ford, Chrysler and AMC later this week when it begins the long task of reaching agreements covering 680,000 U.S. and Canadian auto workers, including 390,000 at GM. Current three-year pacts expire in mid-September. The average auto worker now makes $6.85 an hour, including $1.70 since the current pact went into effect.
Thousands of coal miners went on strike in West Virginia, angered by what they saw as unfair federal court intervention in union affairs. Roving pickets were out overnight, turning away entire shifts of miners at dozens of operations along the coal-rich Kanawha Valley. Virtually every min in Kanawha County and 3,000 men were idled. The focus of the dispute was a $50,000 fine assessed Friday against a United Mine Workers local. In addition, a federal judge in Charleston ruled that the local would be fined $25,000 for each day the miners continued a walkout at Cedar Coal Co., which began last week in a dispute over job posting.
The trial of Rep. Allan T. Howe (D-Utah) on sex charges opened in Salt Lake City with the judge taking precautions against publicity unusual for a misdemeanor case. Howe faces a maximum $150 fine if convicted of trying to buy sex from two police decoy prostitutes on June 12. He has pleaded innocent, saying he was “set up” into going to the red-light district where he talked to the two women. City Court Judge Raymond Uno had attorneys interview the 50 prospective jurors in his chambers and then they were sequestered in a hotel for the night.
The Navy announced 50 of its high performance F-14 jet fighters were temporarily grounded for tests on a landing gear bulkhead that cracked sooner than it should have. The part takes a great deal of strain during landings and was scheduled to be replaced every 1,000 flying hours or 250 carrier landings. But in a routine fatigue test at the Grumman Aircraft Corp. the part failed at the equivalent of 500 hours. The Navy has 207 of the $20.4 million jets, the most electronically sophisticated fighter in the US arsenal. The 50 planes grounded had all exceeded 500 flight hours and were all in the United States.
The head of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline project, Edward L. Patton, said in Washington that the recent rupture of a pipe segment under testing pressures apparently was caused by unintentionally high forces that could not be applied by the line’s actual oil pumps. Patton, chief executive officer of the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., said at a news conference that although construction had slipped about four weeks behind schedule, the line still might begin pumping oil by mid-1977, as originally planned.
Directors of breast cancer detection projects around the country defended today the continued use of an X-ray examination called mammography to screen ostensibly healthy women below the age of 50 years for hidden breast cancer. The directors, who spoke at a meeting hastily organized by the National Cancer Institute here, said that mammography was finding a significant number of breast cancers among young women at an early stage when the disease is highly curable. Nearly half of these early cancers could not be felt on manual examination and were detected only through mammography, they said.
The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, T. David Mathews, said that an impasse continued over potential liability to manufacturers of vaccine for the proposed nationwide immunization program against swine flu. But President Ford said at an early afternoon news conference, “We’re going to find a way, either with or without the support of Congress, to carry out this program, which is essential.” “We’ll eventually do it said the President, “and I expect the full cooperation of the industry and all other parties involved.”
Project officials at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said that preparations were proceeding smoothly for a landing by the Viking 1 spacecraft on Mars tomorrow morning. The craft is expected to touch down at 7:53 AM, Eastern daylight time, when the exploration of Mars by camera, soil scoop and life-detection instruments is to begin.
Allman Brother’s roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman’s testimony.
British rock group Deep Purple disbands.
Major League Baseball:
Thurman Munson, who opened the ninth inning with a double, scored the winning run on a throwing error by Jack Brohamer when the Yankees beat the White Sox, 3–2. Brohamer erred trying to throw out Chris Chambliss after a drag bunt.
The Indians and Athletics divided a twi-night doubleheader, the Tribe taking the opener, 3–2, and the A’s winning the nightcap, 10–3. Ray Fosse doubled in the seventh inning and scored the winning run of the first game on Frank Duffy’s single. Don Baylor had three hits and drove in three runs while Billy Williams pounded a two-run homer to power the A’s to their second-game victory.
A two-run homer by Reggie Jackson and the pitching of Jim Palmer carried the Orioles to a 4–3 victory over the Royals. Palmer needed help from reliever Tippy Martinez in the eighth before becoming the American League’s first 13-game winner. George Brett, with two doubles and two singles, had four hits in a game for the fifth time this season.
Trailing, 3–2, entering the ninth inning, the Phillies loaded the bases on Mike Schmidt’s single, a double by Greg Luzinski and walk to Jay Johnstone, then scored three runs to gain a 5–3 triumph over the Dodgers. Relievers Charlie Hough and Elias Sosa walked Garry Maddox and Tommy Hutton, forcing in two runs. Bob Boone’s sacrifice fly scored the third.
The Angels swept a twi-night doubleheader from the Brewers, 4–2 and 6–1, to run their winning streak to four games. Bobby Bonds, with two singles, drove in three runs in the first game. Dave Collins, who had three hits, delivered a two-run single in the third inning of the afterpiece, when the Angels scored five runs.
Bob Randall singled, producing one run, and Lyman Bostock singled for two more in a three-run sixth inning that enabled the Twins to edge the Tigers, 6–5. Larry Hisle hit a three-run homer for the Twins in the third. Bill Freehan, Pedro Garcia, Mickey Stanley and Willie Horton homered for the Tigers.
J.R. Richard yielded only five hits in leading the Astros to a 3–1 victory over the Expos. Singles by Roger Metzger, Richard and Greg Gross broke a 1–1 tie in the seventh inning when the Astros scored two runs en route to their 11th victory in 13 games. Bob Watson’s sacrifice fly produced an insurance tally.
The Braves scored three runs in the fourth inning and went on to defeat the Mets, 4–2, with Phil Niekro and Mike Marshall collaborating on a six-hitter. The Braves filled the bases in the fourth on Willie Montanez’ single, Ken Henderson’s double and an intentional walk to Darrel Chaney. Rod Gilbreath’s sacrifice fly, Mike Vail’s throwing error and Niekro’s single produced three runs. The Mets’ Dave Kingman tears ligaments in his thumb diving for a ball in the loss. Kingman, who already has 32 home runs for the season, will hit only 5 more after being sidelined for 6 weeks.
Dave Concepcion doubled, driving in two runs in the decisive fifth inning and the Reds went on to beat the Pirates, 4–2, behind Pat Zachry’s five-hit pitching. Bill Robinson stroked his 16th and 17th homers for the Pirates.
Dave Winfield tripled to start the last of the eighth inning, then scored the winning run on Johnny Grubb’s sacrifice fly when the Padres defeated the Cubs, 3–2, and extended the Chicago losing streak to six games.
John D’Acquisto, with ninth-inning help from Mike Caldwell, posted his first victory of the season after five defeats as the Giants downed the Cardinals, 5–3. Gary Matthews’ single was the only hit in the Giants’ three-run fifth inning, when two runs scored on Vic Harris’ throwing error and Bob Forsch walked Darrell Evans, forcing in another run.
Toby Harrah singled with two out in the 11th, scoring Gene Clines from second base as the Rangers defeated the Red Sox, 4–3, and spoiled the managerial debut of Don Zimmer. Clines had singled and advanced to second on Mike Hargrove’s sacrifice. Zimmer became the Bosox pilot when Darrell Johnson was fired earlier in the day.
New York Yankees 3, Chicago White Sox 2
Oakland Athletics 2, Cleveland Indians 3
Oakland Athletics 10, Cleveland Indians 3
Baltimore Orioles 4, Kansas City Royals 3
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
California Angels 4, Milwaukee Brewers 2
California Angels 6, Milwaukee Brewers 1
Detroit Tigers 5, Minnesota Twins 6
Houston Astros 3, Montreal Expos 1
Atlanta Braves 4, New York Mets 2
Cincinnati Reds 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Chicago Cubs 2, San Diego Padres 3
St. Louis Cardinals 3, San Francisco Giants 5
Boston Red Sox 3, Texas Rangers 4
Gold issues and a number of prominent technology stocks were weak yesterday as the market turned downward in relatively slow trading. The Dow‐Jones industrial average, unable to sustain a rally attempt at mid‐session, slipped 2.38 points to close at 993.83. This indicator, composed of 30 blue‐chip issues, has declined steadily since finishing one week ago at 1,011.21 — its highest level in nearly three and a half years.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 990.83 (-2.38, -0.24%)
Born:
Benedict Cumberbatch, English stage, TV and film actor (“12 Years a Slave”; “Sherlock”) and Emmy Award winner; in Hammersmith, London, England, United Kingdom.
R. J. Williams, American child actor (“General Hospital”) and media entrepreneur (Young Hollywood), in Los Angeles, California.
Todd Washington, NFL center and guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Nassawadox, Virginia.
Eric Prydz, Swedish record composer; in Täby, Sweden.
Died:
Gene Roth [Eugene Stutenroth], 73, American actor (“She Demons”, “Tormented”, “The Spider”).
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