The U.S. Army postponed until near the end of the year a decision, originally scheduled to be made this month, on the contractor which will develop a new tank. General Motors and Chrysler are competing for the business. Army Secretary Martin Hoffman said the purpose of the delay was to permit the American manufacturers to incorporate into their designs more parts that would be interchangeable with the West German Leopard II tank. The action increases the likelihood that both the American and the German tanks will be produced for use by North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries.
Britain announced that it was going to cut government spending next year by about $1.78 billion, by today’s exchange rate, to protect the pound, rescue its budget deficit and sustain its fragile economic recovery. The cuts represent a step‐up in the Government’s shift in priorities begun last fall from an expansion of the welfare state to a regeneration of private enterprise. They come four months after a similar move by the Labor Government provoked its toughest survival test. Denis Healey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who planned the year‐long redirection of the British economy, told the House of Commons that he had little choice but to impose new spending restraints.
Four thousand policemen and hundreds of soldiers were involved today in one of the biggest manhunts in Ireland’s history for the killers of the British Ambassador, Christopher T. E. Ewart‐Biggs, and Judith Cooke, a 26‐year‐old civil servant. Nearly half of Ireland’s police force has been assigned to security checks at airports and train stations and to roadblocks across the nation. The search was ordered amid growing criticism of security flaws that enabled the killers to plant a land mine near the Ambassador’s home and detonate it yesterday by remote control as his car passed over it. Two other people in the car were seriously hurt.
A month after elections Italy remains without a government but with a host of economic problems, a Communist Party growing in influence and a national mood of deep uncertainty. The ritual of forming an administration appears to be nearing an end, with the result expected to be a fragile government of Christian Democrats, who will try to stay afloat until later in the year. Giulio Andreotti, who has been assigned the task of finding support for a cabinet, is still talking with other party leaders on a program designed to improve the economy and satisfy potential lenders abroad. Most politicians think he is about ready to take over as prime minister, name his ministers and go to Parliament for a vote of confidence.
Thieves who stole $10 million in cash and valuables last weekend from a Nice, France, bank may have escaped in stolen high-speed motorboats, police said. Three Italian-made motorboats, capable of a top speed of 45 knots, were stolen from Riviera harbors four days before the theft, police said.
A leftist leader announced today the creation of a civil administration for Muslim‐controlled territory of Lebanon. The leader, Kamal Jumblat, said a central political council in the Muslim area would match a provisional government set up by Christians in their 800‐square‐mile Lebanese enclave. “We can’t leave the people on this side starving without food, water, electricity and security,” he said. “We’ve got to organize our life.” Mr. Jumblat heads a coalition of leftist groups allied with Palestinian guerrillas in the war against right‐wing Lebanese Christians. He said the new council would include representatives of all parties and “progressive” groups functioning in areas under the control of the Muslim‐leftist alliance and Palestinians. Among these areas are west Beirut, the port cities of Saida and Tyre and much of southwest Lebanon.
President Anwar el-Sadat resumed his criticism of Syria tonight and demanded that Syrian troops withdraw from Lebanon. His remarks, made in a speech in Cairo, were apparently a response to indirect criticism of Egypt by Syria’s President Hafez al‐Assad, in a speech on Tuesday. Anti‐Syrian statements by Egypt had been muted since the two countries agreed on moves to improve their relations. Speaking in the headquarters of Egypt’s sole legal political organization, the Arab Socialist Union, President Sadat repeated Egypt’s offer to provide armaments for the Arab League peacekeeping force in Lebanon “so it can separate the warring factions.”
Egypt will receive $100 million in economic assistance from the United States under an agreement signed by Economy Minister Zaki Shafei and American Ambassador Hermann F. Eilts. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said in Cairo that the loan would finance imports of agricultural and industrial equipment, spare parts and other commodities. The loan, repayable over 40 years, increases to $400 million the assistance provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development in financing commodity imports since January, 1975.
Nepal has declared three areas, including 480 square miles around Mt. Everest, as wildlife reserves and national parks. Besides containing the world’s highest peak (29,028 feet), Everest National Park has an abundance of wildlife including the Himalayan panda, which is in danger of extinction as a result of poaching.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger renewed a call for a four-party conference this fall at the United Nations to negotiate a permanent armistice in Korea. The United States would be prepared to meet with South Korea, North Korea and the People’s Republic of China, he said during an address in Seattle. He also warned that recent North Korean efforts to upset the 23-year-old armistice that ended the Korean war were totally unacceptable and would not force the unilateral withdrawal of U.S. troops.
Yoshio Kodama, a key figure in Japan’s Lockheed payoff scandal, denied giving money to Japanese politicians to promote the sale of Lockheed planes. Kodama told Isaji Tanaka, chairman of the parliamentary select committee, that Lockheed had paid him $166,666 a year in agent’s fees for six or seven years starting in 1967. Lockheed officials have testified that the firm gave Kodama at least $7 million to help boost Lockheed sales in Japan. Tanaka questioned the ailing Kodama at his bedside.
Japan made its last payment of war reparations to the Philippines for its actions during World War II. On May 9, 1956, Japan had signed an agreement to make payments for 20 years to the Philippine government for 198 billion Japanese yen, equivalent to $550,000,000.
Reacting to Canadian officials’ suggestions that the United States is not doing its part to clean up pollution in the Great Lakes, the top U.S. environmental official said this nation almost doubles the amount of money spent on water cleanup each year. Russell E. Train, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, told a meeting of the International Joint Commission most of that money goes to the Great Lakes. “I wish we had been spending more, but we have spent $9 billion since 1968,” he said. The commission, which deals with U.S.-Canada border problems, issued a report naming 113 companies as major contributors to pollution in the Great Lakes. Eighty-five of the companies were on the U.S. side.
The United States, angered by Havana’s meddling in Angola and Puerto Rico, has put a chill on any movement toward resumption of U.S. trade relations with Cuba, an Administration spokesman told Congress. The Fidel Castro government “appears to desire some form of renewed trade relations with the United States,” Arthur T. Downey, deputy assistant secretary of commerce for East-West trade, told a House subcommittee on international trade and commerce.
Opposition leader Peranel Charles was freed of charges filed by the Jamaican government. He was arrested June 30 in what Prime Minister Michael N. Manley described as a subversive plot. Peter Wittingham, another Labor Party leader arrested at the same time, remained under arrest. The prime minister said security forces had found subversive documents inside Wittingham’s briefcase.
The landlocked East African country of Rwanda appears on the brink of economic collapse. It has only enough gasoline for five days because its supplies, which normally come from Kenya through Rwanda’s northern neighbor, Uganda, are not getting through. Uganda also has a gasoline shortage, and in the last few weeks Uganda troops have been hijacking Rwanda‐bound tanker trucks. Today the Uganda radio announced that the Government of President Idi Amin had cut off all supplies to private motorists because of the acute shortage.
An apparent malfunction of the Viking I lander’s soil collection scoop on Mars was reported by James Martin, the Viking project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. He said that if the problem was not “understood and solved in short order” it could delay plans to begin gathering soil for biological examination next Wednesday.
The House enacted the $4 billion public works bill that President Ford vetoed, but sustained the President’s veto of legislation that would have delayed the closing of military bases. The House voted 310 to 96 to enact the public works bill, 39 votes more than the two-thirds majority needed to override the veto. The Senate on Wednesday voted 73 to 24 to overturn the veto. A vote of 270 to 131 in the House overrode the President’s veto of the military base bill, but the Senate vote of 51 to 42 was less than a two-thirds majority.
The staff director of the House Intelligence Committee said he was confident that none of his employees had leaked a secret report to CBS newsman Daniel Schorr. Searle Field said he would not speculate on who did leak it, but the thrust of his testimony before the House Ethics Committee was that the report was not leaked until after it was distributed to committee members and the executive branch. Schorr gave his copy to a New York weekly newspaper, the Village Voice, which printed it February 11. After four months of interviewing more than 400 persons and spending $150,000, the committee said it had not pinpointed the source of the leaks.
Jimmy Carter, in New York City to present his views on how American business and industry would fare under a Carter administration, especially in relation to taxes, said that he would “depend very heavily on business leaders to help me in government.” At a meeting of 52 leading corporate executives, Mr. Carter said that he would move cautiously on tax reform, emphasizing that he would not make substantive changes in “our tax law or propose any as president until at least a full year of very careful analysis,” His hosts at the meeting were the chairmen of the Coca-Cola Company, the Seagram Company Ltd., and the Ford Motor Company, and it appeared that a businessmen-for-Carter committee might be established.
The White House rejected Ronald Reagan’s charge that President Ford’s campaign aides were using questionable “heavy-handed” methods in courting uncommitted convention delegate votes by disclosing that the President had ordered cabinet officers to spurn any attempts by Republican National Convention delegates to trade their votes for government jobs or favors. The order went out early this week, the White House press secretary said.
U.S. District Judge June L. Green criticized the FBI for what she regarded as inadequate compliance with a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case. Sitting in Washington, Judge Green ordered the FBI to check with its district offices to determine whether they had files on 112 principals in the Rosenberg spy trial which were not included in documents the FBI turned over last December 1. She requested sworn depositions from eight people involved in the FBI check to find out why FBI compliance was not up to par. The request for information was on behalf of Michael and Robert Meeropol, children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 for giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.
Senator George S. McGovern (D-South Dakota) has asked the Senate Ethics Committee to determine if he has engaged in unethical practices in renting a house to the Syrian ambassador since he, McGovern, is chairman of the Senate foreign_relations subcommittee on Near Eastern affairs. McGovern made the request in response to a Washington Post story that he said implied that his public positions toward Israel were influenced by the rental of the house to Sabaah Kubbari. The senator called the account “the crudest example of yellow journalism that I have witnessed in many years.”
Officials in Alameda County, California, issued a national all-points bulletin for the arrest of three young men for questioning in the kidnapping last Thursday of 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver near Chowchilla. Sheriff Tom Houchins said the men were to be considered “armed and dangerous.” He also said that while no arrest warrants had been issued, law enforcement agencies had been asked to make arrests “on probable cause.” He said arrest warrants would be issued today.
The American Jewish Congress said yesterday that it had filed a complaint with the State Division of Human Rights against Citibank and the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company charging them with serving as “enforcers” of the Arab boycott against Israel, in violation of a recently enacted state law.
The Washington state Supreme Court upheld contempt of court and consumer protection rulings against former Seattle auto dealer Ralph Williams, owner of North West Chrysler Plymouth, Inc., which operated in 1968 to 1970. Attorney General Slade Gorton, who brought the suit, claimed “a landmark victory, not only for this office but for all of the consumers of the state.” The court found that warranties were worded to make repairs more costly than without warranties, advertising was misleading and personnel used a sales system designed to confuse potential buyers. Gorton said the decisions mean Williams, who also has operated in Los Angeles, personally owes the state about $800,000. He said Williams was living in Texas but all steps possible would be taken to collect.
The Federal Communications Commission pulled the plug on seven New Jersey citizens band radio operators using equipment powerful enough to interfere with police, airport and hospital calls. U.S. marshals raided the Newark homes and confiscated $10,000 worth of transmitters, receivers and other sophisticated apparatus that authorities say violated FCC rules. The unidentified owners face $500 fines and loss of licenses.
The Environmental Protection Agency reported that thousands of 1975 Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors cars are polluting the air due to improperly adjusted carburetors. When tests were conducted by the agency in Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, St. Louis and Washington, it was discovered that cars from the three manufacturers emitted considerably more carbon dioxide than the law allows. The EPA set an August 9 deadline for the manufacturers to arrive at a solution to the problem, which apparently resulted from a combination of errors by dealer mechanics and tampering by some car owners.
Standard Oil Co. of California has begun drilling for oil in San Pedro Bay. The U.S. Geological Survey said Global Marine, Inc., began drilling on behalf of the oil company, which was the highest bidder last December on lease rights. The drilling, just off Huntington Beach, is to determine whether wells should be constructed. If production does not appear feasible, the drilling holes will be sealed.
A Renoir painting that was stolen from the Brooklyn Museum 19 months ago — the 6-by-13 inch oil “Still Life With Blue Cup,” valued at $50,000 — was returned undamaged and anonymously in the mail Wednesday. But a warning scrawled on the wrapper said that museums needed armed guards and suggested other thefts were coming.
The program of mass immunization against swine flu announced by President Ford nearly four months ago has been meeting an increasing barrage of scientific and medical criticism and technical obstacles. There is a growing consensus that the government scientists who first identified the new virus, following an outbreak at Fort Dix, New Jersey, last February, may have overestimated its threat. Critics of the plan say that the government scientists were too quick to link the Fort Dix virus to one that caused a pandemic in 1918 and 1919. They say the officials then succumbed to a panic reaction in leaping to the conclusion that every American should he vaccinated as soon as possible.
Earl Wilson, Jr. and Phil Oesterman’s musical “Let My People Come” opens at Morosco Theater, NYC; runs for 106 performances.
The United States men continued their domination in swimming at the Olympic Games in Montreal with two more gold-medal victories, both in world-record time. They have won all nine of the events thus far. Brian Goodell gained his second gold medal of the games by winning the 400-meter freestyle in 3 minutes 51.93 seconds, breaking his own record. The 400‐meter medley relay team of John Naber, John Hencken, Matt Vogel and Jim Montgomery set a record in the final of 3:42.22.
In women’s swimming, Kornelia Ender of East Germany won the 100‐meter butterfly and 200‐meter freestyle for her third and fourth gold medals.
Nadia Comaneci, the Rumanian gymnast, recorded two more perfect scores — her sixth and seventh of the competition — in winning gold medals on the uneven parallel bars and balance beam. Nelli Kim of the Soviet Union was victorious in the horse vault and floor exercise.
Major League Baseball:
Blue Moon Odom, making his first start of the season for the Chicago White Sox, and Ray Bare, making his first start in six weeks for the Detroit Tigers, each emerged with a victory as the clubs split a twi-night doubleheader. Odom, who needed help from Pete Vuckovich in the seventh inning, received credit for a 9–3 win in the opener, while Bare won the nightcap, 5–1, with the assistance of John Hiller, who relieved in the eighth. Lamar Johnson had three hits and drove in three runs for the White Sox in the lidlifter and Bill Stein accounted for two with a homer. The Tigers’ support of Bare in the second game included a homer by Jason Thompson with a man on base.
Charlie Spikes, who has been a red-hot hitter since the All-Star break, smashed the first grand slam of his major league career to help power the Indians to a 7–5 victory over the Angels. George Hendrick drove in a run with a single in the first inning before the Indians loaded the bases to set the stage for Spikes’ slam. Boog Powell added a run with his first homer since May 26 in the fourth. Dennis Eckersley (5–8) wins with 5 innings of relief.
Paul Splittorff extended his Royals’ club record to eight victories in a row by defeating the Brewers, 3–1, with help from Mark Littell. After the Brewers scored in the seventh inning, Littell relieved with two men on base and two out, walked George Scott to fill the sacks and then retired Hank Aaron on a pop fly. Buck Martinez batted in the Royals’ first two runs with grounders in the second and fourth. Singles by Frank White and Tom Poquette, around an infield out, produced the Royals’ insurance run in the fifth.
The decision of manager John McNamara to let relief pitcher Butch Metzger bat in the 11th inning paid off with an unearned run that gave the Padres a 5–4 victory over the Dodgers. Metzger drew a walk, advanced to second on a sacrifice, took third on a wild pickoff attempt by Elias Sosa and scored on a sacrifice fly by Willie Davis. As a result, Metzger gained credit for his seventh straight victory with help from Dave Freisleben, who had to come to his rescue in the Dodgers’ half of the 11th.
Pete Redfern, who gave up only four hits but walked six before being lifted in the eighth inning, gained his first win since June 19 as the Twins defeated the Red Sox, 5–1. The Twins jumped on Luis Tiant for three runs in the first. Rod Carew tripled to drive in the first counter and scored himself on a sacrifice fly by Lyman Bostock. Mike Cubbage later batted in the third run of the inning with a single.
Ken Henderson drove in two runs with a homer in the fourth inning and two more with a single in the sixth to lead the Braves to a 7–1 victory over the Expos. Carl Morton, who won 17 games last year, finally gained his first victory of the current season after seven losses. The veteran righthander’s arm stiffened after six innings and Bruce Dal Canton finished. Del Unser had a double, triple and homer in only his second game in an Expos’ uniform.
A sacrifice fly by Bert Campaneris in the ninth inning provided the Athletics with a 6–5 victory over the Yankees. Billy Williams led off the frame with a single and gave way to pinch-runner Larry Lintz, who took third on a single by Phil Garner and scored on Campy’s fly. Earlier in the game, Joe Rudi homered with a man on base for the A’s, while the Yankees had two circuit clouts by Oscar Gamble and one by Graig Nettles.
The Phillies scored three runs in the first inning and proceeded to defeat the Pirates, 3–0, behind the pitching of starter Tom Underwood and reliever Ron Reed. In the first, Larry Bowa singled, stole second and scored on a single by Greg Luzinski. Dick Allen followed with a single and Jay Johnstone then doubled to drive in Luzinski and Allen. Reed replaced Underwood after Willie Stargell singled in the ninth and picked up his seventh save by striking out Bill Robinson and inducing Richie Zisk to ground into a double play.
The Cubs took advantage of five errors and scored five unearned runs to defeat the Cardinals, 8–4. Two of the errors were by new Cardinals’ third baseman Ted Simmons, and two more by second baseman Vic Harris. The Cubs also bang out 13 hits. Steve Stone (2–2) gets the win.
Reggie Jackson homered for his fifth game in a row, one short of the American League record, to provide a run in the ninth inning that gave the Orioles a 4–3 victory over the Rangers. Five players share the American League mark of homers in six consecutive games. In the National League, Dale Long of the Pirates hit homers in eight straight games in 1956.
Detroit Tigers 3, Chicago White Sox 9
Detroit Tigers 5, Chicago White Sox 1
California Angels 5, Cleveland Indians 7
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Kansas City Royals 3
San Diego Padres 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Boston Red Sox 1, Minnesota Twins 5
Atlanta Braves 7, Montreal Expos 1
Oakland Athletics 6, New York Yankees 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Chicago Cubs 8, St. Louis Cardinals 4
Baltimore Orioles 4, Texas Rangers 3
A modest rally in the last hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday turned the popular Dow Jones average of 30 blue chips from a minus of 0.57 to close at 991.08 for a gain of 1.64 points.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 991.08 (+1.64, +0.17%)
Born:
Yu Bo, Chinese film actor; in Shenyang, Liaoning province.
Died:
Mortimer Wheeler, 85, British archaeologist.
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