Mário Soares took office as the first Socialist Prime Minister of Portugal, after nearly two months of attempting to form a coalition government following the April 25 election for the Assembly of the Republic. The Soares Cabinet is made up largely of moderate Socialists, with several independents and military officers. For the first time in two years, there are no Communists in the Cabinet. Mr. Soares, whose Socialist Party won 35 percent of the vote in last April’s Parliament election, is under pressure from Communists, liberals and conservatives to form governmental alliances. He refuses, insisting that the country needs a strong, cohesive government that would not be paralyzed by internal bickering, as were the six previous provisional governments since the 1974 overthrow of the old Portuguese dictatorship. The members of the new Cabinet were announced at a session of the National Assembly this afternoon. Mr. Soares said this was “a gesture of respect” to the new democratic body.
Turkey sent an oil exploration vessel to the Aegean Sea today, risking a naval confrontation with Greece which has conflicting claims to the mineral riches of the sea bed. The 1,200‐ton seismic survey ship Sismik 1, with a crew of 45, sailed from Istanbul this morning and set off across the Sea of Marmara for the Dardanelles and the Aegean beyond. The Sismik 1 is expected to enter the Aegean tomorrow afternoon. It was not clear whether the vessel would be joined by a Turkish naval escort. There are fears in Ankara that the Greek Navy, reported to be patrolling the Aegean in strength, might try to intervene if the Sismik 1 starts work in a disputed area.
Despite the opposition of the State Department and Yugoslav officials, a Yugoslav-born American engineer who had been accused in Yugoslavia of economic espionage was released today mainly through the efforts of the United States Ambassador, Laurence Silberman, who believed the man was innocent. The engineer, Laszlo Toth of Loveland, Colo., had served nearly a year of a seven-year prison sentence. “When we get to the point where we don’t care about an American citizen innocently imprisoned, then we’re not much of a country any more,” Mr. Silberman said. He had harsh words for the Eastern European division of the State Department. “To these people,” he said, “diplomacy apparently is the passive pursuit of American interest. And I don’t accept that.”
A Rome weekly suggested today that while the next prime minister here undoubtedly would be an Italian, the treasury minister could well turn out to be Helmut Schmidt, the West German Chancellor. The sarcasm reflected the anger and sadness with which Italians of all political parties reacted to Mr. Schmidt’s statement last week that Bonn, Washington, Paris and London had agreed not to aid Italy should Communists enter its government. Mr. Schmidt, who is not the most popular foreign leader in Italian eyes anyway, clearly generated a tempest.
The United Nations issued a provisional agenda today for the 31st regular session of its General Assembly, due to open here on September 21. One of the 119 items is entitled “Appointment of the Secretary General of the United Nations.” The five‐year term of Secretary General Kurt Waldheim expires at the end of this year and the Security Council will meet some time in autumn to recommend to the General Assembly the election of a successor. Many delegates at the United Nations consider the re‐election of Mr. Waldheim, a 57‐year‐old Austrian career diplomat, a foregone conclusion. However, a handful of delegates and other internationally known persons are still mentioned as possible contenders.
Red Cross representatives managed to enter the Palestinian camp of Tell Zaatar in Beirut, which has been under siege by Lebanese Christians, but could not arrange the immediate evacuation of the more than 1,000 wounded in the two-hour truce that had been arranged for the visit, The truce was only partly observed and the rescue mission failed. The area, in Beirut’s southeastern outskirts, was raked by heavy artillery and sniper fire just before and after the three representatives, waving large white flags with red crosses, walked the last hundred yards of debris‐strewn no man’s land separating the fortified camp’s defenders from its Lebanese Christian attackers. The camp of Tell Zaatar has been under siege for more than a month, and the three delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross reported on their return that 600 to 700 of the more than 1,000 wounded were in desperate need of being evacuated for treatment. The delegates, all Swiss, said many of the wounded were civilians.
North Korea today rejected a proposal by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger for a four‐power conference on Korea, describing it as an attempt to “perpetuate the status quo” and keep American troops in the South. North Korea’s permanent observer at the United Nations, Hyong Ik Kim, denounced the proposal as an attempt to prevent the establishment of a lasting peace on the peninsula. In an address in Seattle Thursday, Mr. Kissinger suggested that the United States. China, North Korea and South Korea hold a conference on the future of the peninsula. The South Korean observer mission to the United Nations published a statement by Foreign Minister Tong Jin Park today saying that the Kissinger proposal “should be given the most serious consideration.”
The Canadian Government issued regulations today forbidding the use of the French language in Canadian air‐traffic control except at certain Quebec airports. It was the first time the mandatory use of English by pilots and traffic controllers had been spelled out by Government regulation in Canada, which is officially bilingual. The issue of bilingualism in aviation touched off a series of work stoppages and slowdowns by Canadian pilots and air traffic controllers last month and led to a major national debate on the bilingual policy. Organizations representing French‐speaking controllers and pilots, which have been seeking an expansion of bilingualism, were expected to oppose the new regulations. The new regulations permit the use of French in Quebec airspace only in emergency situations or by aircraft using visual‐flight rules at six airports in Quebec province. Visual‐flight rules are generally used only by smaller aircraft.
Honduras and El Salvador agreed tonight to cease hostilities along their common frontier, the scene of sporadic clashes over the last week, it was officially announced in San Salvador. A Government spokesman here said the cease‐fire agreement was reached during talks between the Chiefs of Staff of the armies of each country at the border town of Amatillo. The spokesman said the troubled border zones would be placed under direct military control to prevent new incidents. Before the agreement was reached, each side accused the other of starting hostilities. El Salvador said border clashes broke out on July 14 and Salvadoran soldiers were killed and three wounded. Honduras charged that Salvadoran troops used artillery in three attacks on Honduran border posts over the weekend. The two Central American republics served relations after a brief war in 1969 touched off by riots during a soccer match. Both sides are still negotiating a peace treaty to put a formal end to that dispute.
Rhodesian blacks would be drafted into the armed services for the first time under legislation introduced today. Prime Minister Ian D. Smith also said that his white minority Government would ease some public restrictions on blacks, but he has rejected three major racial reforms. Coordination Minister Reg Cowper said that although the proposed draft law would call up blacks they would not necessarily be made to fight against black nationalist guerrillas. Only certain categories of blacks would be drafted under the law. Those categories were not given, but observers said they would probably carry out desk jobs, releasing whites for combat. While half of Rhodesia’s soldiers are black, they are volunteers. Blacks have never been drafted. There are also no black officers, but the Government has announced plans to train blacks to lead combat units.
The USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan.
France performs a nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll.
The Soviet Union has launched two more unmanned earth satellites in its Cosmos series, Tass, the Soviet press agency, said today. The latest satellites were numbers 843 and 844 in a sequence of launchings dating from March 1962.
President Ford was in easy reach of the 1,130 delegates needed for the Republican presidential nomination according to a New York Times tally, but his campaign strategists asserted that he already had more than enough. The Times tabulation gave the President 1,124 and Ronald Reagan 1,064 and found that 71 delegates were uncommitted. Amid cheers by campaign workers at the President Ford Committee, James A. Baker 3d, a deputy chairman, said this afternoon that the addition of 16 delegates to the “conservative” tally he kept “brings our count to 1,135 delegates.” Mr. Reagan’s aides dismissed this assertion as “a paper count” that would prove to be inaccurate. Mr. Baker based his declaration on pledges of “personal” support signed by 15 Hawaii delegates who are bound by a state party resolution to remain formally uncommitted until the convention opens next month in Kansas City, and on the switch to Mr. Ford by Adelle Haines, a Brooklyn delegate who had backed Mr. Reagan until she met the President last night at the White House.
A House subcommittee chairman said today that the Ford Administration wiretapped more than the Nixon Administration did. But the Justice Department replied that he had misinterpreted its records and that the number of taps had actually declined.
Federal District Judge June L. Green today ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to search the files of its 59 field offices for any information on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and report back to her within 21 days.
Senator Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee, arrived at Hilton Head, South Carolina today for some campaigning and long planning session on how his staff and campaign can best be “integrated” with those of Jimmy Carter. Mr. Mondale and his wife, Joan, flew to Savannah, Georgia, this morning with about six staff members, Secret Service agents and about 25 reporters. The chartered United Airlines 727 filled up at Atlanta, where it stopped to pick up Carter aides, including Hamilton Jordan, Mr. Carter’s campaign manager; Judy Powell, his press secretary and about 30 others. On arriving at Sea Pines Plantation, the 5,000‐acre “resort community” that occupies the southern tip of this island, 45 miles from Savannah, Mr. Mondale made a quick round of hand‐shaking in the crowd gathered to meet him and then made a short statement.
A wildcat strike that was begun last week by West Virginia coal miners has spread across the Appalachian coal fields, bringing the number of strikers to 25,000. It is the second unauthorized strike since the United Mine Workers and the mine owners signed a contract in 1974 whose intention was to end or sharply reduce the walkouts.
Representative Alan Howe, Democrat of Utah, who is seeking re-election, was found guilty in Salt Lake City of soliciting sex from two women police decoys for money. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $150 in City Court, with the sentence to be suspended with the payment of the fine. A jury of three women and one man deliberated 98 minutes to reach the verdict. The Utah Democrat, who is seeking re‐election in Utah’s Second Congressibnal District, said that the guilty verdict, “while, of course, a disappointment” would not change his political plans. Before his arrest, he was favored to retain his seat, to which he was elected in 1974. However, Senator Frank E. Moss and Representative Gunn McKay, even before the trial, urged his withdrawal in the interest of the party.
One of the three men sought in the kidnapping last week of 26 California schoolchildren and their bus driver surrendered. Sheriff Ed Bates of Madera County said that Richard Schoenfeld, 22 years old, of Atherton, had surrendered to the Alameda County District Attorney, accompanied by a lawyer. Mr. Schoenfeld’s brother, James, 25, and their friend, Fred Woods, also 25, were still sought. Officials disclosed earlier that a note demanding a ransom of $5 million for the kidnapping victims had been found.
Patricia Hearst is to appear in Superior Court in Los Angeles Monday to receive a new trial date on the same assault, robbery and kidnapping charges for which her former companions in the self-styled Symbionese Liberation Army, William and Emily Harris, are now on trial. As the Harrises continue their fight to bar from evidence a key tape recording the prosecution wants the Harris jury to hear, Miss Hearst is to be brought under Federal guard to the same maximum security courtroom where the Harris trial is being held. Miss Hearst, the 22‐year‐old daughter of Randolph A. Hearst, chairman of the board of the Hearst Corporation, is awaiting final sentencing on her San Francisco bank robbery conviction. She is also under going psychiatric testing at a Federal facility in San Diego. On July 7, Federal District Judge William Orrick Jr. granted 90 additional days of psychiatric examinations, thus postponing her Federal sentencing until October at the earliest.
Since last February a sniper has wounded 17 women in seven Westchester County (New York) communities with a dart gun, shooting through lighted windows late at night. The attacks have increased in recent weeks. The latest victim, Lucretia Valvano, 21 years old, was struck in the shoulder Thursday night by a dart that went through her kitchen window in Yonkers.
A group of cadets at the United States Military Academy, standing in the shadow of the Academy, held a news conference today and told of being forced to testify against themselves and of being retried in cases where they had already been acquitted. Their public appearance before newsmen — an act of unusual boldness by members of the Corps of Cadets — was one of many signs that some traditions at the 174‐year‐old school were becoming things of the past.
Viking 1 project officials said they believed that the fault in the lender’s soil collection arm that prevented it from retracting fully in a test on Mars would be corrected in time for the soil-scoop operation on Wednesday. Thomas Young, the mission director, said that an error in the lender’s programmed computer commands was the “most probable cause” of the arm’s failure.
Wings release single “Let ’em In”.
42nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All-Stars 0 (52,895 attendees). The last Chicago College All-Star Game, a once-popular exhibition matchup between a team of college football all-stars against the defending National Football League champion, was played at Soldier Field in Chicago and ended by a massive downpour after less than three quarters had been played. Many of the fans in attendance rushed onto the field in a riot and caused sufficient damage that the annual game— which the All-Stars had not won in the past 13 years— was never played again.
Angela Voigt, an East German telephone mechanic who has seldom been consistent in the long jump, picked the right day to be consistent. She jumped 22 feet inch today and won the Olympic gold medal for women.
In a game against the Taiyo Whales, Sadaharu Oh of the Yomiuri Giants hits his 700th home run, the only player in Japanese baseball to do so.
Major League Baseball:
The Angels fire manager Dick Williams. Norm Sherry takes over the reins.
After being held to three hits in the first seven innings, the Cincinnati Reds put together three more hits for two runs in the eighth and defeated the Atlanta Braves, 3–1. Santo Alcala (9–2), who was the winner, doubled in the sixth and scored the Reds’ first run when Phil Niekro hit a spell of wildness and walked Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and Dan Driessen. The Braves’ tally had counted previously in the fourth on a walk to Ken Henderson, a wild pitch and single by Biff Pocoroba. The Reds’ tie-breaking pair in the eighth came when Ken Griffey and Morgan singled and both scored on a single by George Foster.
Reggie Jackson tied an A. L. record by hitting his sixth homer in six consecutive games, but the Orioles nevertheless lost to the Brewers, 4–3, in 13 innings. Lee May also homered for the Orioles, while Don Money hit one for the Brewers. With the score tied, 2–2, George Scott drew a walk in the 13th and scored on a single by Darrell Porter and double by Bill Sharp. Gorman Thomas then made it 4–2 in favor of the Brewers by driving in Porter with an infield out and that run proved decisive because Jackson hit his record-tying homer in the Orioles’ half.
A four-run rally in the eighth inning carried the Twins to a 6–2 victory over the White Sox. With the Twins trailing, 2–1, an infield hit by Rod Carew, walk to Butch Wynegar and single by Lyman Bostock produced the tying tally. Tony Oliva followed with a single to put the Twins ahead, 3–2. Their two other runs in the stanza counted on a single by Bob Randall and infield out by Steve Braun.
Back-to-back homers by Larvell Blanks and Rico Carty highlighted the Indians’ attack in a 9–4 victory over the Tigers. After the Indians took a 3–1 lead, Blanks and Carty rapped their consecutive round-trippers during a four-run outburst in the third inning. Frank Duffy doubled home a pair in the fifth to clinch the decision. Willie Horton smacked a two-run homer for the Tigers.
Jim Barr (8–6) gave up a first-inning single by Cesar Cedeno and then retired 18 straight batters before yielding three more hits while pitching the Giants to a 3–0 victory over the Astros. The Giants scored an unearned run in the second inning and iced their decision in the fifth when Barr doubled, Marty Perez walked, Larry Herndon was hit by a pitch and Gary Matthews singled to drive in two runs.
Tommy John (6–6), who was out all last season with a sore elbow, turned in his best game since returning to action this year and pitched the Dodgers to a 5–0 victory over the Padres. The Dodgers provided John with an early lead when Bill Buckner and Steve Yeager hit consecutive homers in the third inning.
Del Unser, who was acquired in a recent deal with the Mets, hit a homer in the 11th inning to give the Expos a 3–2 victory over his former teammates. The Expos’ first two runs in the game also came on homers, Barry Foote and Larry Parrish hitting them in the fifth inning. The Mets tied the score in the eighth with singles by Jerry Grote and Jim Dwyer and a triple by Pepe Mangual. Dwyer and Mangual were sent to the Mets in the deal that brought Unser to the Expos.
Three outs away from a no-hitter, Doyle Alexander (5–6) gave up three singles and a run in the ninth inning before wrapping up the Yankees’ 9–1 victory over the Red Sox. Rick Burleson lined Alexander’s first pitch in the ninth for a single to spoil the righthander’s bid. After a wild pitch, Fred Lynn singled to score Burleson. Carl Yastrzemski also singled before Alexander retired the side. Graig Nettles and Mickey Rivers hit homers for the Yankees.
Vida Blue posted the 100th victory of his major league career in pitching the Athletics to a 2–0 shutout of the Royals. Blue struck out 13, his season’s high, and scattered six singles. The A’s counted both their runs in the seventh inning on a triple by Claudell Washington, single by Billy Williams, sacrifice by Phil Garner and single by Bill North that drove in pinch-runner Larry Lintz.
A 15-hit attack that included homers by Dave Cash and Mike Schmidt powered the Phillies to an 11–1 victory and extended their lead over the Pirates to 12 games in the East Division race. The Pirates’ only run off Jim Lonborg (12–5) came on a circuit clout by Dave Parker in the second inning. Cash’s homer was his first of the season and came on an inside-the-park drive in the third inning, while Schmidt hit his 25th of the year in the sixth.
Jerry Morales came off the Cubs’ bench and hit a pinch-homer in the seventh inning to beat the Cardinals, 4–3, making a winner of Ray Burris (5–11). Bruce Sutter relieved and pitched three innings for his 4th save of the year.
Cincinnati Reds 3, Atlanta Braves 1
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Baltimore Orioles 3
Minnesota Twins 6, Chicago White Sox 2
Detroit Tigers 4, Cleveland Indians 9
San Francisco Giants 3, Houston Astros 0
San Diego Padres 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
New York Mets 2, Montreal Expos 3
Boston Red Sox 1, New York Yankees 9
Kansas City Royals 0, Oakland Athletics 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Philadelphia Phillies 11
Chicago Cubs 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
The stock market yesterday seemed to combine the summer doldrums and the inertia of a rainy day as it wound up the day in much the same manner that it began. When the totals were tabulated, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 0.17 point to 990.91, but the stocks that advanced on the New York Stock Exchange narrowly outnumbered the declines. There were few standouts in what many brokers called a lackluster market.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 990.91 (-0.17, -0.02%)
Born:
Matt Birk, NFL center (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 47-Ravens, 2012; Pro Bowl, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007; Minnesota Vikings, Baltimore Ravens), in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Kato Serwanga, Ugandan NFL cornerback (New England Patriots, Washington Redskins, New York Giants), in Kampala, Uganda (identical twin of Wasswa Serwanga).
Wasswa Serwanga, Ugandan NFL cornerback (San Francisco 49ers, Minnesota Vikings), in Kampala, Uganda (identical twin of Kato Serwanga).
Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess grandmaster with the highest ever ranking for a female; at age 15 in 1991, she was the youngest-ever grandmaster, female or male.
Jonathan Gallant, Canadian musician (Billy Talent), born in Streetsville, Ontario.
Died:
Wilhelmina Von Bremen, 64, American 4X100 relay sprinter (Olympic gold, 1932).
Basil Hopko, 72, Slovak Greek Catholic Church bishop who was persecuted after the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1950. In 2003, he would be beatified by Pope John Paul II and is under consideration for canonization as a Roman Catholic saint.
Martin Wickramasinghe, 86, Sri Lankan author and poet.
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