A Roman Catholic archbishop formally asked King Juan Carlos today to make a promised political amnesty generous enough to serve as a “starting point” for reconciliation in post-Franco Spain. Archbishop Angel Suquia Goicoechea made the plea at ceremonies marking the feast day of Spain’s patron saint, the Apostle James, in the Galician town of Santiago de Compostela. The royal family, Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez Gonzalez, and Cabinet members attended.
Spanish riot police swinging clubs broke up a protest by several hundred marchers demanding amnesty for political prisoners and self-determination for the region of Galicia, in northwest Spain, where King Juan Carlos spent the weekend. More than 30 demonstrators were arrested in the protest, in Santiago de Compostela, after the archbishop of Galicia asked Juan Carlos from the pulpit to grant a generous amnesty. The king and his family appeared at the services, but during the rioting, the king was visiting the widow of Francisco Franco at a nearby country estate.
The case of a United States citizen who was jailed by Yugoslavia for nearly a year has drawn attention to divisions among American policy‐makers and especially to Ambassador Laurence H. Silberman. By enunciating a viewpoint that has been growing among Americans as Yugoslav policies have turned increasingly against the United States, the Ambassador has angered both the authorities in Belgrade and the Eastern European section of the U.S. State Department. Mr. Silberman’s viewpoint is that the anti‐Americanism should be resisted. As a result, he appears to have annoyed Yugoslav Government and Communist Party officials more than any other American. Belgrade officials have attacked him particularly for the support he gave Laszlo Toth, the Yugoslav‐born American who was released here Friday after having been jailed on unconvincing spy charges. Ву vigorously supporting Mr. Toth, the Ambassador collided directly with Yugoslavia’s supreme leadership, its judicial system and its police establishment.
Italian mobster Renato Vallanzasca escaped from prison after getting himself hospitalized and taking advantage of the lone policeman assigned to guard him. For the next seven months, he committed 70 armed robberies before being recaptured.
A new cease-fire agreement in Lebanon failed to take hold — it was to have become effective at 7 AM — when troops of an Arab peace-keeping force were attacked by shells and machine-gun fire as they tried to expand the neutral zone between right-wing Christian and leftist Muslim forces. The relentless rightist siege of the Palestinian camp at Tell Zaatar also made the cease-fire unworkable. Attempts to rescue the women, children and elderly men who were believed to have been trapped when an underground shelter there collapsed were hampered by heavy shelling. It was reported that only 20 children had been brought out. As many as 500 people were reported trapped.
Egypt and Sudan, with financial backing from Saudi Arabia, have agreed to try to oust Libyan head of state Muammar Qaddafi, Newsweek said. The magazine said the agreement was reached during a meeting last week in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiri and King Khalid of Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, Qaddafi, who has been accused of supporting and supplying hijackers and terrorists, claims he opposes both terrorism and hijackings, according to an interview in Der Spiegel published in Hamburg, Germany.
A decline in public discipline. Growing tension. A sense of unease. These characterizations of China today are soft and amorphous and cannot be scientifically measured. But foreigners in China this spring and summer, in the wake of the riot in Tien An Men Square here and the leadership upheaval, have been accumulating individual experiences that add up to a developing picture of a troubled country. The following accounts are based strictly on this reporter’s own experiences and on reliable reports by witnesses. China is awash with rumors and secondhand accounts of what is going on but none of these — no matter how colorful, intriguing or credible — are included. The visible decline in the health of Chairman Mao Tsetung this spring, followed by his complete withdrawal from the public eye at the end of May, has provoked widespread and worried talk among the Chinese people about how long he will live. Among themselves and the handful of foreigners they really trust, the Chinese are anxiously speculating quite freely about “what will happen when Chairman Mao dies,” according to three people who have been involved in such discussions here in Peking and elsewhere.
A Russian freighter collided with a Philippine tanker full of oil in the Straits of Malacca about 14 miles from Singapore, a salvage company source said. No one was hurt, but two tanks of the 100,748-ton Diego Silang were leaking, the source said. He did not indicate how serious the leakage was.
Strict security was in effect at Australia’s international airports to prevent six terrorists from entering the country. Passengers at Sydney and Melbourne airports, the country’s two major ports of entry, reported delays of up to two hours while security men searched baggage and screened entry documents. The alert was mounted after reports from Interpol, the international police organization, that the terrorist group — five men and a woman — had vanished from Germany about two days ago and could be heading for Australia.
Two Ethiopian Army officers, one a colonel, were shot by a firing squad today for inciting soldiers to rebel, the Ethiopian press agency reported. The agency said the two officers, Lieutenant Colonel Berhanu Haile and Lieutenant Haile Mariam Hassan, were executed at Assab on the Red Sea Coast. They were shot by members of the 26th Battalion, which Colonel Bethanu had commanded, the agency said. It said Colonel Berhanu “tried to incite into rebellion a few of the troops under his command through false propaganda designed to carry out his antirevolutionary plot.”
Uganda’s President Idi Amin called the current situation in East Africa a threat to world peace and again warned that Uganda might be compelled “to resort to desperate action” against Kenya. He called on the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity to send fact-finding missions to the area. His remarks were broadcast on Uganda radio. Kenya’s Foreign Minister Munyua Waiyaki said that Amin was “just looking for an excuse” to go to war.
The body of Daniel Gearhart, the American mercenary executed in Angola, arrived at Kennedy International Airport in New York on its way to burial near his Kensington, Maryland, home. The 34-year-old Gearhart and three British mercenaries were killed by a firing squad after being convicted of war crimes by a Luanda tribunal. They had fought for pro-Western factions against the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the civil war that followed the country’s independence from Portugal last November.
A South African coastal trading ship was strafed by a mysterious airplane off the Mozambique coast, the ship’s captain said. The vessel was carrying general cargo on a regular run from Mozambique to Durban. Captain Paul Rugg said the plane made eight passes, firing its machine guns each time. Rugg said he ordered his 15 Zulu crewmen below decks and the five white officers took cover on the bridge. No one was injured. Rugg said that his ship was six miles off the Mozambique coast and 12 miles from the South African border when the attack occurred shortly after noon Saturday. He said he could not remember the markings on the plane, recalling only that it was white with a red tailplane and red markings.
The Viking 1 orbiter took photos of the Cydonia region of the planet Mars, capturing the now-famous picture of the Face on Mars, which NASA released six days later.
The kink in Viking 1’s soil-scoop arm has been straightened out and the lander will start gathering soil samples on Mars on schedule Wednesday. Responding to a new set of commands radioed from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, the lander extended the arm 14 inches, farther than it had done before, and released a metal pin that was jamming some of its operations. The arm then regained its full maneuverability.
The 30 Mississippi delegates to the Republican National Convention, torn between President Ford and Ronald Reagan, who had put heavy pressure on them, decided not to endorse either candidate until the convention opens next month in Kansas City, Missouri. The delegates, at a caucus in Jackson, also voted to reaffirm the unit-rule tradition under which all 30 of the state’s votes would be cast for one of the presidential candidates. But the leader of President Ford’s campaign said he still might not observe the rule.
New York delegates to the Republican National Convention are still seeking favors from the Ford administration in exchange for their support of President Ford and it seems that their demands are increasing despite a presidential order against vote-trading by all delegates. “It’s becoming bizarre,” said Richard Rosenbaum, the Republican state chairman and Mr. Ford’s chief delegate scout in the state.
President Ford has promised 500 relatives and friends of American servicemen Still missing in Indochina that “I will not rest until a fullest possible accounting of your loved ones has been made.” In a short speech last night at the weekend convention of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, he reiterated a pledge that the Government would keep trying to get information on Americans still held in Southeast Asia. The audience generally responded enthusiastically to the President’s remarks and as he left they rose to sing “God Bless America.” But not everyone was convinced by his speech. “I shook his hand in the hall and I told him I didn’t think he was doing everything he could,” said Barbara Parker, the league’s Oregon coordinator. “He said, ‘We are doing our best,’ and I told him to do more,” she added. Mrs. Parker’s brother was shot down in Laos in 1972 and has not been heard from since.
Investigators have found that the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and some of his aides improperly used bureau funds for their personal use, Time magazine said. Investigators have found evidence that Hoover, who died in 1972, and some of his closest aides had misused two FBI accounts — the $85,000 treasury of the recreation association, which collects $2.50 yearly from 17,000 of the bureau’s 20,000 employes, and the confidential fund, set up to pay FBI informers. According to Time, some of the money was used to pay for vacations and to buy Christmas gifts for FBI officials. Some of Hoover’s aides drew on the $10 million confidential fund for lavish dinner parties, the magazine said.
[Ed: So, Hoover was a crook in addition to being a fascist, self-aggrandizing asshole. What a Surprise: Not. Golf Clap]
Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin) said the Navy was spending at least $187.6 million to fix engines in its new Tomcat F-14 jet fighter and then wanted to replace them with new engines costing up to $1.9 billion. He called it “a nightmare for the taxpayers.” But the Navy replied that the new engines would meet conditions in the 1980s and meanwhile the present engines were being improved to eliminate problems associated with crashes in the last 18 months. Aspin said he had “grave reservations” about the need for a new engine. “Unless the Navy can prove that a souped-up engine is needed for fleet air defense, I believe its proposal should be rejected,” he said.
[Ed: Aspin the Asshole actually got Navy pilots killed with his bullshit. The original F-14A engine was a culprit in several accidents. But as usual with political whoores, he of course paid no price for being wrong.]
More than 500 striking West Virginia coal miners vowed to spread the week-old walkout into other areas in a protest against being “kicked around” by federal judges. The miners sent pickets to southeastern Ohio and said men would be sent to other neighboring states in an attempt to widen the strike. The walkout has idled more than 20,000 miners, nearly all in southern West Virginia. It began July 19 as a local dispute after a federal judge fined one United Mine Workers local $50,000 for not returning to work. “The main thing we want is equal justice from the federal courts,” said one local president. In addition, the miners want new contracts saying that grievances will be handled through the unions and not the courts.
Inside the courtroom where Emily and William Harris are facing charges that could send them to prison for life, Leonard I. Weinglass, the chief defense attorney, is scowling and shouting over the prosecutor’s response to charges of possible jury tampering. Mr. Weinglass’s reaction is typical of his courtroom demeanor. A veteran of the defense teams in the Chicago Seven and Pentagon Papers trials, he is active in the courtroom. His antagonist, Samuel Mayerson, a career prosecutor with hundreds of criminal trials behind him, is less animated but just as capable of displaying anger. Usually he is low-keyed and mild‐mannered, a sort of country lawyer, “but with a layer of steel,” according to one colleague. Despite their angry outbursts, which, not surprisingly, take place only when the jury is absent, Mr. Weinglass and Mr. Mayerson are temperamentally unalike.
The Pill is an exceedingly favorable form of birth control, causing fewer deaths than pregnancy itself, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reports in its latest bulletin. It said that, despite some recent controversy, the benefits of oral contraception far outweighed its possible risks. The bulletin, a compilation of the latest opinions on oral contraceptives, includes advice to physicians on matters such as choice of dosage and patient counseling. The bulletin said an increased risk of thromboembolic disease-blood clots -had been established with the use of the Pill. Also, recent studies have shown an apparent increase in the risk of heart attacks in women taking the Pill.
Questions have been raised about the safety of the X-ray technique called mammography — which is used to detect breast cancer — particularly for women aged 35 to 50 who, some specialists believe, could develop cancer from radiation. The National Cancer Institute has been advised by scientific consultants that routine screening of women in that age group be stopped unless there are symptoms of the disease. But for women over 50, who are most susceptible to breast cancer, the detection benefits of a routine X-ray examination are believed to outweigh the risk of cancer from X-ray screening.
“Blacks are saying: ‘Detroit’s ours now. Let’s rebuild it.’” Cornelius Watts, a well known black resident of Detroit, said. That feeling is part of a fundamental change in the city. In the last two or three years, Detroit “tipped”: its population became majority black, making it the city with the biggest black population in the country. Detroit still has most of its historic ethnic diversity, but blacks dominate. In numbers, depending on whose estimate is accepted, they make up 52 to 60 percent of Detroit’s population. Finance and industry are still white-controlled, but blacks have assumed much of the city’s political leadership.
A 30-year-old taxi driver in Washington, D.C., was shot and killed after scaling the fence surrounding the grounds of the White House and advancing toward the Executive Mansion with a long metal pipe. The intruder, Chester M. Plummer, attempted to strike U.S. Army PFC Charles A. Garland of the Executive Protective Service after being ordered to stop. U.S. President Ford was at home at the time of the shooting at 9:35 at night, but was unaware of it until he was informed later.
The technical feasibility of strip mining coal on the permafrosted north slope of Alaska will be investigated by the Kaiser Engineers Co. of Oakland under a $277,000 contract from the federal government, it was announced in Washington. The 12-month study also will explore ways of reclaiming the land afterwards and moving the coal across the tundra to markets, according to the Interior Department’s Bureau of Mines.
President Ford joined pro golfer Lee Elder to try out the Congressional Country Club course in Bethesda, Maryland, which will be the site of the 58th PGA championship tournament August 9-15. Ford is honorary chairman of the tournament. He usually plays at nearby Burning Tree Country Club. Before the game, Ford attended services at St. John’s Episcopal Church with Mrs. Ford. Then he took the sunny Sunday afternoon off to relax while aides were out delegate hunting in Mississippi. The President will meet with the 43-member Maryland delegation this afternoon at a White House reception and has invited Pennsylvania’s 103 delegates for Thursday.
A computer won a chess tournament against human opponents for the first time, when the Chess 4.5 computer’s moves and responses defeated all five players in the Class B (1600–1799) division of the annual Paul Masson chess tournament in Saratoga, California.
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s opera “Einstein on the Beach” premieres at the Théâtre Municipal in Avignon, France.
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After the Reds tied the score with a homer by George Foster in the eighth inning, baserunning by Johnny Bench gave the Reds another run to defeat the Braves, 7–6. The Braves scored five runs in the second and took a 5–2 lead. The Reds came back to tie the score, but the Braves went ahead, 6–5, on a homer by Jim Wynn in the seventh. Foster equalized matters with his circuit clout in the eighth. After one out, Bench beat out a bunt, took third on a single by Cesar Geronimo and made a daring dash home when first baseman Willie Montanez of the Braves went deep to catch a pop fly by Doug Flynn in foul territory.
With Bill Travers pitching a three-hitter, the Brewers completed a sweep of the four-game series by defeating the Orioles, 3–1. The Brewers scored twice in the second inning on four walks, a wild pitch and single by Tim Johnson before Paul Blair homered for the Orioles’ lone tally in the fifth. Robin Yount’s RBI single clinched matters for the Brewers in the eighth.
A walk-off grand slam by Leroy Stanton in 11th inning for his first homer of the season powered the Angels to a 7–3 victory over the Rangers. Terry Humphrey singled and moved around to third on a sacrifice and infield out before the Rangers decided to pass Jerry Remy and Bobby Bonds intentionally, but their hopes of setting up a force-out at the plate were shattered with Stanton’s smash off Steve Foucault.
A triple play and bases-loaded triple by pinch-hitter Rod Carew featured the Twins’ 13–8 victory in the opener of a doubleheader, but then their five-game winning streak was stopped by the White Sox in the nightcap, 7–4. Carew hit his triple during a five-run outburst in the sixth inning. Mike Cubbage and Roy Smalley also accounted for three RBIs apiece, while Jorge Orta drove in five runs for the White Sox. In the first inning, after Orta singled to drive in two runs, Jim Spencer beat out an infield hit. Bill Stein, attempting to sacrifice, popped to catcher Glenn Borgmann and a triple play followed. Borgmann threw to shortstop Luis Gomez, who stepped on second to double up Orta and then tagged Spencer, who was on his way to the bag. The White Sox won the nightcap with a four-run rally in the seventh inning, including a pinch-homer by Lamar Johnson with two aboard.
After winning the first game with ease, 9–1, the Tigers built up a 5–1 lead in the second game and had to hold on to gain a 5–4 victory in a sweep of a doubleheader with the Indians. Pedro Garcia, John Wockenfuss and Aurelio Rodriguez each drove in two runs for the Tigers in the opener. Wockenfuss and Garcia rapped homers. In the nightcap, the Tigers scored three runs in the third inning and added a pair in the fifth when Willie Horton and Rodriguez singled and Garcia tripled. Dave Lemanczyk retired the first 13 Indians’ batters in a row before being chased in the seventh. John Hiller, who had pitched in the opener, relieved again and gave up a run-scoring bunt by Duane Kuiper and bases-loaded walk to Frank Robinson before bearing down to save the Tigers’ decision.
Making his second start since coming up from Memphis, Bo McLaughlin turned in his first major league victory and first shutout, beating the Giants, 1–0, in a 10-inning duel with Ed Halicki. A single by Ed Herrmann and two walks, one intentional, loaded the bases before Greg Gross decided the game with a sacrifice fly.
Batting with the bases loaded and one out, Andre Thornton singled for an Expos’ run in the ninth inning to beat the Mets, 2–1. The Mets picked up their run in the first and the Expos tied the score with a homer by Tim Foli in the second. Ellis Valentine opened the ninth with a double and moved to third when Bombo Rivera grounded out. Jerry Koosman then walked Larry Parrish and Jose Morales intentionally, but that strategy went awry when Thornton rapped his single past the Mets’ drawn-in infield.
Relieving with two out in the ninth inning, Tom House threw only one pitch and Chris Chambliss hit it for a three-run homer to give the Yankees a 6–5 victory over the Red Sox. Elrod Hendricks led off the stanza with a single and stopped at third on a double by Mickey Rivers. Tom Murphy retired the next two batters. The Red Sox then brought in southpaw House to face lefthanded-hitting Chambliss with fatal results.
After exploding for seven runs in the first inning, the Athletics breezed to a 9–2 victory over the Royals. Ken McMullen smashed a two-run triple and Phil Garner followed with a two-run homer in the A’s getaway. Gene Tenace added a homer in the third inning.
Mike Schmidt drove in four runs with three hits, including his 26th homer, and Ollie Brown batted in four more with a grand slam as the Phillies defeated the Pirates, 13–7. The Pirates, who had a round-tripper by Willie Stargell, knocked out Jim Kaat and tied the score at 7–7 with a four-run rally in the eighth inning. The Phillies immediately retaliated with six runs in their half. Schmidt singled to break the tie and, after two more hits loaded the bases, Brown connected for his jackpot wallop The Phils now lead the Pirates by 13 games.
Bill Russell singled in the seventh inning, stole second and scored on a double by Lee Lacy to bring the Dodgers a 1–0 victory over the Padres. Dave Freisleben, whose record dropped to 6–8, suffered his sixth straight defeat, while Doug Rau won his 10th of the season for the Dodgers and his fourth in a row.
Lynn McGlothen and Al Hrabosky combined to pitch the Cardinals to a 4–3 victory over the Cubs. All four Cardinal runs off Rick Reuschel were unearned on two errors by Manny Trillo. McGlothen allowed only one hit until the eighth when the Cubs erupted to chase the Cards’ starter with a run on a single by Mick Kelleher, double by Pete LaCock and single by Larry Biittner. Singles by Jose Cardenal and Jerry Morales then added two tallies before Al Hrabosky bore down to pick up his 10th save.
Cincinnati Reds 7, Atlanta Braves 6
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Baltimore Orioles 1
Texas Rangers 3, California Angels 7
Minnesota Twins 13, Chicago White Sox 8
Minnesota Twins 4, Chicago White Sox 7
Detroit Tigers 9, Cleveland Indians 1
Detroit Tigers 5, Cleveland Indians 4
San Francisco Giants 0, Houston Astros 1
New York Mets 1, Montreal Expos 2
Boston Red Sox 5, New York Yankees 6
Kansas City Royals 2, Oakland Athletics 9
Pittsburgh Pirates 7, Philadelphia Phillies 13
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, San Diego Padres 0
Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis Cardinals 4
Born:
Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican MLB pitcher (All-Star, 2004; Montreal Expos, New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago White Sox, Atlanta Braves, Florida Marlins), in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Jermaine Jones, NFL cornerback (New York Jets, Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys), in Morgan City, Louisiana.
Gergana Branzova, Bulgarian WNBA forward (Detroit Shock), in Bourgas, Bulgaria.
Ana Lily Amirpour, Iranian-American film director (“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”, “The Bad Batch”), in Margate, England, United Kingdom.
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