The Soviet Union has begun installing multiple nuclear warheads on the intermediate-range missiles arrayed along its Western border, President Ford told Congress today in an annual arms control report. The development poses an additional strategic threat to United States allies in Western Europe, a primary target of arms control efforts. Mr. Ford said. Multiple nuclear warheads are not covered by current agreements. The Russians are known to have more than 600 medium‐ and intermediate-range ballistic missiles. These weapons are part of the Soviet Union’s limited‐warfare arsenal and can reach all the major Western European capitals. The recent‐and now stalemated‐negotiations for a new nuclear weapons treaty foundered partly over the counting of multiple independently targetable re‐entry vehicles. Today’s report is the first public disclosure that in addition to installing MIRV’s on intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Russians are also equipping shorter-range weapons with them.
Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, has accused the United States and other Western nations of being “ready to take Italy by the throat just to keep Communists out of its government.” He made the remark in an unusual interview published today by Pravda, the Communist party newspaper. Mr. Brezhnev attacked the United States, Britain, France and West Germany for their reported agreement not to grant loans to Italy if the Communists were allowed into the new cabinet.
A bomb exploded in a crowded bar in an Irish Republican Army stronghold in west Belfast, killing two persons and injuring about 30, police said. The bomb was planted in the lounge of the Whitefort Inn at Andersonstown. Earlier, another bomb had been put into a north Belfast store, but a customer carried it out the street where it exploded. No one was injured.
A Turkish oil exploration ship sailed into the Aegean Sea under naval escort, defying a Greek vow to use force if necessary to prevent the mission. Turkish officials said the vessel passed through the Dardanelles and started mapping the seabed at Saros Bay in a section of the Aegean where Greece and Turkey have conflicting claims to the continental shelf and its possible oil deposits. Units of the Greek navy left Salamis and Phaleron Bay outside Athens for patrol duty mainly near Greek islands along the Turkish Anatolian coast. No direct contact with the Sismik 1 was reported.
Two men were convicted in Lagonero, Italy, of the 1973 kidnapping of J. Paul Getty III, grandson of the late oil billionaire. Seven others were acquitted for lack of evidence. The court sentenced Giuseppe Lamanna to 16 years in jail and Antonio Mancuso to eight. Lamanna was accused of cutting off Getty’s right ear, which the kidnappers mailed to a Rome newspaper to press their ransom demands.
Tina Anselmi became the first woman ever to serve as a government minister in Italy, as Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti appointed her as Minister of Labor. Mrs. Anselmi has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 1968 and has been an Under Secretary of Labor in three Governments. She is 49 years old.
After nine days of talks in Damascus that were described as difficult, Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed an agreement that might bring about another cease-fire in Lebanon. Among the agreement’s principal provisions was a general cease-fire, but no withdrawal of Syrian troops, and a commitment by the Palestinians to respect Lebanon’s sovereignty and to accept other restrictions on their activities in the country. The agreement, as announced by the Damascus radio, was a major concession by the Palestinians, reaffirming the predominant role here of Syria, which will continue to keep about 15,000 troops in Lebanon. Some Lebanese politicians called it a “capitulation” by the Palestinians. Yasser Arafat, the head of the P.L.O., is expected to travel to Damascus in the next few days to sign the agreement after a meeting with President Hafez al‐Assad. The two have not met since the Syrian Army entered Lebanon openly in mid-April.
Seychelles gains independence (Independence Day).
China mobilized civilians and the army to provide help for the victims of the earthquake that was said to have devastated the city of Tangshan, 95 miles east of Peking. Tangshan, which had a population of a million, was at the epicenter of Wednesday’s earthquake. Many thousands of people are believed to have lost their lives.
President Ford pledged that the United States would strongly resist intervention by Cuba in Puerto Rico or any other country. “The free choice of the Puerto Rican people will be vigorously defended,” the President said in remarks prepared for a dinner meeting in Washington of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly. “My Administration will continue its policy of friendship toward the people of Cuba,” he said. “But we will not accept intervention by the Fidel Castro regime.”
The Bolivian government lifted a state of siege imposed June 9. The emergency measure-a modified form of martial law, with suspension of constitutional guarantees-was imposed simultaneously with military occupation of tin-mining centers where workers were on general strike last month. The strike was settled last week. While announcing the end of the state of siege, Interior Minister Juan Pereda said, however, that troops would continue to occupy some of the country’s major tin-mining areas.
President Idi Amin said that Israel forced Britain to break relations with Uganda. He said that he liked Britain and that Britons still in Uganda were welcome to stay provided they “abide by the laws of Uganda.” However, in a telegram to the Commonwealth secretary that was broadcast over Uganda radio, he added there now could be no question of holding compensation talks for the $500 million worth of British assets in Uganda.
Thousands of Angolans who fled their homeland during the civil war a year ago will be flown back, starting next week, according to a spokesman here for the Angolan Government. The reverse airlift was agreed on two weeks ago at talks here between the Portuguese Foreign Minister and high‐level delegation from Angola. “All native‐born Angolans will have the right to return to Angola, blacks, whites or mulattoes, it’s all the same, as long as they are Angolans,” the Angolan representative, a white man, said today as he greeted a score of people waiting for safe‐conduct passes to go to Angola. But the Portuguese settlers will not be returned to Angola, at least not on this airlift, Angolan and Portuguese sources said.
Rhodesian whites are quitting the country in increasing numbers, according to official figures published in Salisbury. The monthly digest of statistics shows there was a loss of 758 whites in June, bringing the net loss so far this year to 2.280. For the same period last year, there was a net gain of 1,590 whites. Meanwhile, a security force communique said Rhodesian troops killed another seven African nationalist guerrillas and nine African civilians.
South Africa, in a reversal of policy toward the United Nations, today accepted a proposal that a fact‐finding mission of the Security Council visit South‐West Africa to investigate charges by Zambia of South African aggression. South‐West Africa, or Namibia as it is known by the United Nations, is a former German colony that has been administered since the end of World War I by South Africa under a mandate of the League of Nations. The United Nations has proclaimed South Africa’s rule there to be illegal. South‐West Africa’s black African neighbors — Zambia and the new left‐wing Government of Angola — have repeatedly accused South Africa of using the territory as a base for attacks against them. The South African Government contends that guerrillas who periodically raid South‐West Africa have their bases in Zambia and Angola.
Roaming gangs of African youths attempted to burn down several schools in Johannesburg’s Soweto township, home to 1 million blacks. Police patrolled the streets in an effort to guard against the arson and intimidation by youths against pupils who want to return to school. Township schools were officially reopened last week after five weeks of demonstrations in which 176 persons died. The protests were over the enforced use of the Afrikaans language in the schools, and the South African government subsequently agreed to make Afrikaans optional.
The USSR performs an underground nuclear test.
The two remaining suspects in the kidnapping of school children in Chowchilla, California, were arrested, one in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the other on a freeway a few miles south of San Francisco. Frederick Woods was arrested in Vancouver by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, acting on information provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The other suspect, James Schoenfeld, was arrested in Atherton, California, near his family’s home. His brother, Richard, alleged to be an accomplice in the kidnapping, surrendered last week and was arraigned on kidnapping charges today.
In New York City, the “Son of Sam” pulled a gun from a paper bag, killing Donna Lauria, who had been driven home to her apartment building at 2860 Buhre Avenue in the Westchester Heights section of the Bronx. The driver, Lauria’s friend Jody Valenti, was wounded in the thigh by the killer, who “walked up with a long-barreled pistol, looked directly at them then fired without saying a word.” The attack was the first of a series of attacks that would terrorize the city for more than a year by David Berkowitz, who would be arrested, after five murders, on August 10, 1977.
President Ford’s candidacy got additional support in the deep South with endorsements by Representative David Treen of Louisiana and two other uncommitted members of that state’s convention delegation. The President was also gaining support in the potentially pivotal Mississippi delegation, but the endorsement by Clarke Reed, the state party chairman, still had not put a clear majority of delegates on Mr. Ford’s side. The Pennsylvania delegation, which controls 103 crucial votes, had a meeting at the White House with the President.
The House voted overwhelmingly, 381 to 3, to reprimand Representative Robert Sikes, Democrat of Florida, for financial misconduct. Mr. Sikes, chairman of the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, offered no defense although he had been allotted 20 minutes to address the House. He told reporters that he had anticipated the vote “because of the atmosphere regarding public officials at this time.” The reprimand was the lightest sanction that could have been taken.
On the day before the Senate Appropriations Committee was to vote on the B‐1 bomber, the Air Force arranged for Air Force Secretary Thomas C. Reed to meet over breakfast with a group of Senate aides to extol the virtues of the plane. What the Air Force did not tell the Senate aides was that the breakfast in a Senate dining room was being paid for by the Air Force Association, a private organization that, in principle, does not engage in lobbying. Only reluctantly, and then at the direction of Defense Department officials, did the Air Force admit today that the Reed breakfast, and two similar breakfast meetings earlier in the month with Senate aides, were paid for by the association.
Law enforcement sources said that an internal investigation was being made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation into allegations that dividends from the F.B.I.-administered life and medical insurance programs for its 19,000 present and former employees were used in part to pay for lavish dinners, vacations and gifts for the F.B.I. officials who were in charge of the insurance program over the last few. years. This is the sixth major investigation the F.B.I. has recently undertaken of its operations.
The Environmental Protection Agency said it will force uncooperative New England states to inspect residents’ automobile antipollution devices to make sure they are working properly. John A.S. McGlennon, the EPA’s regional administrator, said in Boston that states that fail to set up inspection programs could be prohibited from registering vehicles. He told a Boston news conference that Rhode Island is the only New England state that has inspection plans.
Lowered speed limits played a dominant role in the 17% reduction in highway traffic deaths in 1974 and 1975, new figures from the Transportation Department showed. The department previously had credited the lower fatality count to the 55 mph speed limit imposed after the Arab fuel embargo of 1973 and to the reduced driving caused by the subsequent gasoline shortage. Total miles driven was down 2.6% in 1974 as the nation recorded a 17% reduction in traffic deaths. The reduction continued at 17% in 1975 even though the miles driven went back to normal.
Negotiations between the United Rubber Workers and the nation’s major tire producers broke off without an agreement in sight to end the strike that began April 21. The 60,000 strikers have forced the closing of 47 plants owned by Firestone, Goodyear, Uniroyal and Goodrich, which account for about 60% of U.S. production.
A West Virginia coal mine strike in defiance of court and national union back-to-work orders spread in its 12th day to Pennsylvania and Colorado with an estimated 65,000 miners off their jobs in a protest against the federal judiciary. The wildcat walkout also has idled over 1,000 employees of the Chessie System and the Norfolk & Western Railway, which haul coal.
A satellite to be used in weather forecasting was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite was put into orbit 935 miles above the earth’s surface. The automated space station carries four sensing systems to measure temperature and moisture patterns in various levels of the atmosphere and on earth. The satellite, which also measures the effect of solar storms on the earth, will orbit the earth every two hours.
Baltimore Archbishop William D. Borders, reversing an earlier decision, has ordered an investigation of charges that the Pallottine Fathers order instructed employees to discard requests for prayers and Masses accompanied by donations of less than $10. One of the women sorting requests reportedly said the sorters themselves prayed for some of the people who sent particularly touching notes with their donations. Earlier there was criticism of the order when it was disclosed it had raised $20 million in the name of its overseas missions in an 18-month period, but sent only 2.5% of the funds to the missions. The rest went to administrative costs.
Two former Unification Church members told a Vermont Senate committee they were instructed to lie to win contributions for the sect. Kevin Noon and Randy Jensen made the statements before a five-member panel in Montpelier investigating the controversial church’s tax-exempt status. They said they averaged between $60 and $100 a day by panhandling, selling flowers and soliciting funds by telling donors the contributions would go to drug rehabilitation programs and youth centers. They said they always turned the money over to the church, which is headed by the Korean Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
A cocktail waitress and her ex-husband were in critical condition at Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield after she fired .22-caliber bullets into him and then was shot by a policeman, investigators said. Officer Roger Hill said Caroline Gore, 32, had called him to the Stardust Cocktail Lounge saying her ex-husband had refused to leave. Hill said he met the woman, a 3 ½-foot dwarf, in the parking lot but she ran into the bar and shot Charles Gore, 32, at close range. Hill said he followed Mrs. Gore into the bar and shot her after she ignored his command to stop firing.
[Ed: Sounds a little crazy… (poker face)]
Major League Baseball:
Bob Montgomery scored on a wild pitch in the sixth inning and then drove in a run with a double in the seventh to insure a 6–4 victory for the Red Sox over the Indians. The Red Sox catcher, subbing for injured Carlton Fisk, singled in the sixth and moved to third on a single by Rick Burleson and sacrifice by Denny Doyle before crossing the plate on a wild pitch by Don Hood. An inning later, Dwight Evans doubled and scored on Montgomery’s two-bagger.
George Foster smashed a three-run homer and Joe Morgan, who had a homer, double and two walks, scored four times as the Reds defeated the Padres, 9–3. Foster’s blow in the first inning followed a single by Ken Griffey and pass to Morgan. Morgan counted again after drawing another pass in the third, drove in a run with his double and scored himself in the sixth before accounting for the Reds’ last tally with his homer in the eighth.
The victim of an unearned run, Mark Fidrych, the Tigers’ colorful rookie, lost to the Orioles, 1–0, in a duel with Rudy May. The Orioles picked up their run in the fourth inning. With one away Bobby Grich singled, took third on a single by Lee May and then was thrown out at plate on a grounder by Ken Singleton. After Tony Muser walked to load the bases, Mark Belanger tapped to Pedro Garcia and when the second baseman fumbled the ball, May scored.
In a meeting of two former Arizona State University teammates, Eddie Bane gained the decision over Jim Umbarger when the Twins edged the Rangers, 2–1. Bane pitched five innings before giving way to Bill Campbell, who finished and picked up his 10th save of the season. The Twins counted the deciding run in the fourth on singles by Butch Wynegar and Glenn Borgmann around a sacrifice by Steve Brye.
With no chance for a play at the plate, the Mets had to settle for a double play in the 10th inning while Rennie Stennett scored the run that gave the Pirates a 2–1 victory. The Pirates counted initially on singles by Al Oliver and Bill Robinson and an infield out by Dave Parker in the fourth. The Mets, who had been held scoreless for 24 innings, broke their drouth in the ninth when Joe Torre was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. However in the 10th, Stennett led off with a single and raced to third on a single by Oliver. Robinson then grounded into a double play, started by Bud Harrelson, as Stennett crossed the plate with the deciding run.
Scoring an unearned run with two out in the 11th inning, the Phillies edged the Cubs, 3–2. The Cubs held a 2–1 lead before Greg Luzinski homered to tie the score in the sixth. In the 11th, Ollie Brown drew a one-out walk and tagged up and raced to second after Garry Maddox was out on a long fly to center field. Jerry Martin grounded to Bill Madlock and was safe on the third baseman’s error. Tim McCarver then singled to drive in Brown with the winning run.
Cleveland Indians 4, Boston Red Sox 6
San Diego Padres 3, Cincinnati Reds 9
Baltimore Orioles 1, Detroit Tigers 0
Texas Rangers 1, Minnesota Twins 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, New York Mets 1
Chicago Cubs 2, Philadelphia Phillies 3
The stock market continued in the doldrums yesterday and registered its third consecutive decline in the second slowest trading session of the year. At the conclusion of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 2.04 points to 979.29, its lowest point since June 11 when it finished at 978.80. Analysts noted that the recent sluggish performance of the market and the news of a slowing of the economic recovery were keeping many investors on the sidelines.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 979.29 (-2.04, -0.21%)
Born:
Ansu Sesay, NBA small forward (Seattle SuperSonics, Golden State Warriors), in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Died:
Mickey Cohen, 62, American mobster, from complications of surgery for stomach cancer. Cohen, who had been an organized crime leader in the Los Angeles area in the 1940s and 1950s had been paralyzed since 1963, a year after going to prison on charges of income tax evasion, and was released from incarceration in 1972.
John Roselli, 70, American mobster who had testified before a U.S. Senate Select Committee in 1975 about his involvement, along with the late mobster Sam Giancana, in a CIA attempt to assassinated Fidel Castro. Roselli departed from his sister’s home in Plantation, Florida, to play golf and never arrived at his destination. His car was found a few days later in a parking garage at the Miami International Airport, with his golf clubs still in the trunk. On August 7, two fishermen found his decomposing body in a metal oil barrel that was floating in Biscayne Bay. Although the barrel had been chopped with holes and weighed down with chains to sink to the bottom of the sea, gases formed by the decomposition process and trapped inside Roselli’s body tissue brought him to the surface.
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