Spain’s King Juan Carlos I issued a general amnesty for almost of all of the European kingdom’s 650 political prisoners, but said that the pardon would not apply to anyone who had “caused death or endangered the life of any person.” In addition, the decree issued by the King at La Coruña in the Galicia region reinstated university professors who had been dismissed for political activities. It was Juan Carlos’ second mass pardon. He freed 6,000 prisoners, mostly common criminals, when he ascended the throne eight months ago after the death of Franco. Justice Minister Landelino Lavilla said the amnesty would not apply to prisoners who had taken part in acts that “caused death or endangered the life of any person.”
Four Protestant civilians are shot dead at a pub off Milltown Road, Belfast; the attack is claimed by the Republican Action Force.
Giulio Andreotti is sworn in as the premier of Italy for the second time. Italy’s new Cabinet was sworn in today, and the Foreign Minister, Arnaldo Forlani, warned that giving Communists influence over it was “full of risks” for the country. The Communists, meanwhile, whose cooperation is essential for Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti’s Government to survive, cheered the appointment of Italy’s first woman Cabinet minister.
Members of the newly installed Italian cabinet met today to discuss the growing problem of an area near Milan that has been affected by a poisonous chemical that escaped into the air after a factory explosion three weeks ago. Last night, the health officer of the Lombardy region, of which Milan is the capital, ordered the evacuation of an area inhabited by an estimated 400 persons, including part of the town of Cesano Maderna, about eight miles north of Milan. The total area believed to be contaminated by the chemical, a form of tetrachlorodibenzolparadioxin, amounts to about 10,000 acres. The regional health officer, Vittorio Rivolta, said the latest decision to evacuate was made after consultation with the director of the provincial laboratory and experts on pollution. The chemical, usually called TCDD, or dioxin, is one of the most toxic substances known.
A mass was held for the sixth anniversary of the death of former Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar this week and many people thought it was “natural.” But Lisbon’s most influential independent newspapers considered the event with concern and as symptomatic of new offensive by the ultraright. As the new Socialist Government headed by Mario Soares took office this week, an immediate challenge appeared to come from an increasingly aggressive far right, held responsible for violence and plotting against the country’s fragile new institutions.
The Soviet Union has threatened to withdraw from the final two days of the Olympic Games in Montreal unless Canadian authorities assist in returning a 17-year-old Soviet diver who has reportedly defected. Vitaly G. Smirnov the vice president of the Soviet Olympic organizing committee, said at a news conference in the Internatioal Center of the Olympic village that a failure to have the youth returned could seriously endanger future sports relations between the Soviet Union and Canada. “Now we are thinking whether it is possible for the Soviet national ice hockey team to take part in the coming international competition which will be held here in September because the security of Soviet athletes is not guaranteed,” Mr. Smirnov said. The athlete involved was platform diver, Sergei Nemtsanov. Soviet officials implied that they thought that he had been kidnapped.
An anti-Egyptian clause, unexpectedly written into the cease-fire proposal for Lebanon signed by Syrian and Palestinian representatives Thursday, worsened the conflict between Syria, Egypt and Libya and jeopardized the cease-fire. The clause condemned the Sinai disengagement agreement reached by Egypt and Israel last September, calling the pact a “Zionist plot” that destroyed Arab unity and brought on the Lebanese conflict 16 months ago. The clause was understood to have been inserted at the request of Prime Minister Abdel Salam Jalloud of Libya, principal mediator between Syria and the Palestinians for two months. Libya and Egypt have become enemies and each Government is seeking to overthrow the other. The phrase apparently so embarrassed Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, that the Palestinian press agency Wafa issued a statement early today saying that Palestinian leaders in Beirut had not been consulted about the clause. Mr. Arafat also sent a message to President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt, reportedly assuring him that the communique did not reflect the view of the Palestinian leadership.
The number of Soviet military technicians and advisers in Egypt, once well into the thousands, has shrunk to roughly 100 and may reach zero by the end of the year, well-placed sources sympathetic to Egypt’s President, Anwar el-Sadat, reported this week. The band of Soviet military experts remaining here has dwindled since 1972, as has Soviet military aid to Egypt. In July, 1972, Mr. Sadat, in major policy turnabout, abruptly expelled 20,000 Soviet military experts. This spring, in a further move away from the Soviet orbit, President Sadat had the People’s Assembly abrogate Cairo’s friendship treaty with Moscow. Egyptian sources said at the time that the step had been prompted above all by the need to clear the road for the purchase of arms in the United States and Europe.
The State Department said today that its diplomats in Beirut had begun receiving regular security protection from the Palestine Liberation Organization, but denied this meant that the United States was shifting toward formal recognition of the P.L.O.
The leader of the Kurdish rebels, whose secessionist movement was crushed by Iraq last year when Iran and America cut off aid, has been quietly seeking support during a visit to Washington this week. General Mustafa Barzani, under restrictions imposed by Iranian and American authorities not to engage in public political activities, has complained privately to Senator Richard Stone and others that the Kurdish cause was “let down” by the United States when Iran made a deal with Iraq in March 1975 that effectively ended the flow of Iranian and American, military support to the Kurds, who had been fighting for autonomy in eastern Iraq for years.
The Chinese government has not made public any estimate of the casualties in the two earthquakes that apparently shattered the city of Tangshan, but diplomats in Peking said that at least 100,000 people had been killed [Ed: Actually, upwards of 242,000]. That figure resulted from a study of records of past earthquakes, population statistics and the number of foreigners known to have been killed in this week’s quake. Meanwhile there was an official warning that another quake was possible. The first quake Wednesday, which registered 8.2 on the Richter scale, was centered on the city of Tangshan, an important iron and steel area of about a million people 100 miles northeast of Peking. Here in the capital, Chinese slept outdoors in tents and lean‐tos and foreigners slept on mattresses in their embassies after Chinese authorities warned of signs that another quake could strike. Technicians are predicting an aftershock in the next two days that could reach 7 on the Richter scale,. a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said this morning. An earth tremor of that size can do considerable damage. At 5 AM today, Chinese officials telephoned embassies with the second earthquake warning in little more than 24 hours. They said there was a possibility of “relatively strong post-quake tremors taking place today or tomorrow.”
Taiwan relief organizations have mobilized to collect money and supplies to aid victims of the earthquake in northern China. Since the Chinese Nationalists refuse to have any direct dealings with their Communist enemy, the donations will be given to an international organization probably the Red Cross, for distribution. Nationalist officials have also used the opportunity to score a few propaganda points. Yu Cheng‐kang, a ranking official of the governing party, the Kuomintang, who heads the Free China Relief Association, in urging generous contributions, said that “those on the mainland have already suffered enough under the Communist yoke” without the extra burden of earthquake destruction. The Chinese Foreign Ministry today told the Japanese Embassy in Peking that China would decline any earthquake‐relief aid from abroad, the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported from Peking.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who would serve as President of Indonesia from 2004 to 2014, married future first lady Ani Yudhoyono.
The soil scooped up by Viking 1 suggests that Mars is a rather primitive planet, according to scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. An analysis of the soil bears out their surmise that Mars has been more geologically active than the Moon, but far less active than Earth. The soil contains iron oxide, the reddish rust that coats much of the surface of Mars and gives it its distinctive color. The lander’s inorganic analysis laboratory, which is separate from the instruments that are searching for life, found these minerals in the soil: iron, calcium, silicon, titanium and aluminum. Those are common elements on Earth. But a typical amount of Earth soil would also contain significant amounts of trace elements — metals present in very small amounts — that were lacking in the Mars soil.
Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania. regarded as one of Congress’s more liberal Republicans, said that he would support anti-labor positions if the Republican Party platform required him to do so as Ronald Reagan’s running mate. He explained at a news conference in the Senate Caucus Room that his votes in Congress, such as for the right of construction workers to close down building sites, had been influenced by his constituency in a labor-oriented Northern state. But as a potential Republican Vice‐Presidential candidate, he explained, “I am now changing constituencies.” Former Governor Reagan of California, a conservative, designated Senator Schweiker, considered one of the more liberal Republicans, to broaden the base of his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination. But when he was asked if he expected to exert a liberal influence on Mr. Reagan if they should be elected he replied: “No question about it.”
President Ford went to Jackson, Mississippi, to attend a caucus of the potentially pivotal Mississippi delegation to the Republican National Convention and won two important endorsements, both from the only Mississippi Republicans in Congress. Mr. Ford told the delegates how he would choose a vice president. The delegation, which will cast its 30 votes as a unit, gave Mr. Ford a standing ovation.
Transportation Secretary William T. Coleman Jr. ordered supervisory air traffic controllers yesterday to work overtime this weekend to try to counter union slowdown tactics that have been causing severe flight delays in the New York area and on the West Coast. Mr. Coleman implied that he thought the Civil Service Commission could expedite the job reclassification that is the issue behind the slowdown. He said he hoped the union‐Government deadlock could be resolved before Monday. At the same time the Secretary assailed the flight controllers for snarling traffic and warned he would discipline them at some point if they persisted in pressing their case in this manner.
The Justice Department is willing to go along with a proposed new bill to bar in federal rape cases most evidence concerning a woman’s previous sexual conduct. But the department does not think such a law would have much effect. There are not many federal rape cases, a department spokesman, Roger A. Pauley, said yesterday in testimony before a House judiciary subcommittee. There were 55,000 forcible rapes in the United States in 1974 and only 42 of them were federal, he said. “It would be misleading to convey the impression that amending the federal rules of evidence dealing with rape and similar offenses will cure the problem,” he testified. But he said the department was endorsing the bill, with some suggested changes. The measure, introduced by Representative Elizabeth Holtzman, Brooklyn Democrat, would ban evidence about a woman’s sexual behavior with persons not involved in the case. Mrs. Holtzman said she wanted to change antiquated laws that allow a woman’s sexual reputation or evidence denying her prior chastity to be introduced as a defense in rape cases.
Supporters of Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, are urging the association’s board of directors to keep the 74-year-old retiring official in the job until July 1977. In letters, telephone Calls land conversations that association sources say are at least 8‐to‐1 in support of Mr. Wilkins, the campaign has made some board members think that Mr. Wilkins should remain in the job through next summer even if a younger man is brought on in January to assume Mr. Wilkins’s duties. The campaign took up most of the discussions during a day‐long closed meeting of board members in Washington on Wednesday and has complicated the organization’s, efforts to hire Mr. Wilkins’s successor by January 1, 1977. Furthermore, as currently projected, by retiring in January, Mr. Wilkins would not begin to receive a full consultant’s fee as executive director emeritus until the following July, “losing” approximately $5,000 in the interim.
Housewives who have no job outside the home will benefit more from their husbands’ pension under an amendment to the omnibus tax bill approved by the Senate. Under present law, an employee who has no other pension plan may set aside up to $1,500 a year in an individual retirement account. No tax is due on the account until retirement when most people are in a lower tax bracket than in their working years. The Senate vote would allow the owner of the retirement account to add $500 more a year for the benefit of a spouse who does not work. Senator William Roth, Republican of Delaware, sponsored the change in recognition of the role housewives have.
As the jury began deliberations in the trial of William and Emily Harris today, the defense charged in an emergency court session that the trial judge had withheld information that a sitting juror may have prejudged the case weeks ago. Leonard I. Weinglass, the chief defense attorney, rushed into court this afternoon to say that he had obtained information that Judge Mark Brandler of superior court had failed to inform lawyers for both sides about a report that one of the sitting jurors might have said the outcome of the case was a “foregone conclusion.” At first, Judge Brandler refused to hold a hearing on the matter unless the prosecutor agreed to it, and the judge denied outright a motion to dismiss the charges against the Harrises on the ground of judicial misconduct. The Harrises are the last known surviving members of the terrorist group that called itself the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Negotiations to rescue the national swine influenza immunization program failed to produce liability protection for the four vaccine producers today and the program’s director said he was “not hopeful” of an agreement. Three drug companies notified the Government that they would continue producing vaccines for the time being. But the largest producer, Merrell-National Laboratories said that it was unsure and would have to study the cost of stopping production and possibly restarting later. The companies have expressed reluctance to sell swine flu vaccine to the Federal Government for countrywide distribution unless they have protection against injury lawsuits.
Four Fresno Bee newsmen who refused to disclose a confidential source won a stay of their indefinite jail sentences five hours before they were to begin it today. Justice Roy A. Gargano or the State Appellate Court ordered the jail terms stopped less than two hours after Judge Hollis Best of Superior Court imposed open‐ended sentences in an attempt to coerce the newsmen into disclosing their source. The newspaper had appealed based on Judge Best’s refusal to hold a hearing to determine whether the sentence was coercive or punitive. A punitive sentence for contempt of court is limited by state law to five days in jail. The newsmen argue the sentence cannot be coercive because they will never disclose the source regardless of how long they stay in jail. Judge Gargano’s order means the county counsel’s office, representing Judge Best, must file an answer to The Bee’s argument. A hearing then may be scheduled before all three fifth District Court of Appeal judges.
An agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has testified that the bureau’s office here delayed for six days earlier this month in notifying the police that one of its informers had been involved in a burglary, despite instructions from bureau headquarters in Washington that the informer’s role be made known to the local authorities. According to a sworn interview with John V. Almon. an F.B.I. agent here to whom the informer, Timothy Redfearn, reported, bureau officials in Washington ordered July 9 that the Denver police be told that files stolen from the Socialist Workers Party office here two days before had been in Mr. Redfearn’s possession on the day of the burglary.
Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, under new attack for criticism of Israel, denied yesterday that he was anti-Semitic. “I’m entitled to my opinion without being followed around by the B’nai B’rith Anti‐Defamation League and being accused of being a bigot,” he protested. “I could be wrong, but I’m not a bigot.” Mr. Agnew was interviewed in New York on the ABC‐TV network’s “Good Morning America” show. His position on the Palestinian controversy was challenged by his former Vice‐Presidential press secretary, Victor Gold, speaking on the program from Washington.
Protection of special atomic material from thieves and accidents is so important, the General Accounting Office said today, that Congress should give the nuclear agency all the funds it seeks. In a summary of a classified report that it did not release, the G.A.O. said that the Energy Research and Development Administration needed far more money than it had been getting to safeguard material such as plutonium and enriched uranium. “in addition to being suitable for the fabrication of bombs,” the report said, “plutonium is an extremely toxic substance, with a potential of causing cancer if inhaled, ingested or exposed to an open wound.”
In a Southern Association game in Memphis, the Chicks’ Art Gardner hits a 3rd inning shot off the centerfield wall and, while Syracuse outfielder Rick Bladt searches for the ball, Gardner circles the bases for an inside-the-park home run. When Bladt can’t find the ball, the umpires rule the hit is only a double.
In Santiago, Chile, Cruzeiro of Belo Horizonte, Brazil beat River Plate of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3 to 2, to win the third and deciding game of soccer football’s Copa Libertadores de América championship series.
Japan defeats Russia for Olympic gold in woman’s volleyball.
Bruce Jenner (later Katilyn Jenner) set a world record with 8,618 points and won the gold medal in the men’s decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
Major League Baseball:
Homers by Mickey Rivers and Carlos May, accounting for five runs, powered the New York Yankees to a 6–4 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Rivers connected for the circuit with a man on base in the third inning, but the Red Sox came back to take a 4–2 lead before Rivers doubled in the eighth, Roy White walked and Thurman Munson singled to drive in Rivers. With two out, May smashed his homer for three runs to provide the winning blow.
Ending his personal four-game losing streak, Nolan Ryan allowed only three hits, struck out 10 and pitched the Angels to a 3–0 victory over the White Sox. The shutout was the fourth to Ryan’s credit this year. The Angels were held in check by Ken Brett until the seventh inning when they broke loose to score their runs on singles by Ron Jackson, Dave Collins and Jerry Remy and a double by Bobby Bonds.
The Cubs hit three homers, capping their attack with a round-tripper by George Mitterwald in the eighth inning, to outlast the Cardinals, 7–6. Jose Cardenal hit a solo swat in the fourth and Pete LaCock connected with two men on base in the sixth before Mitterwald provided the decisive blow. The Cards had homers by Willie Crawford and Joe Ferguson.
Johnny Bench, who hit a double and sacrifice fly in the first game and his first homer since July 3 in the second game, drove in six of the Reds’ runs in a 13–8 and 4–2 sweep of a twi-night doubleheader with the Padres. Manny Sarmiento, relieving for the Reds on his first day after being recalled from Indianapolis (American Association), gained his maiden major league victory in the opener. The Padres started the lidlifter with a four-run outburst against Don Gullett, but the Reds hammered three Padre pitchers for 11 of their 13 hits and all of their 13 runs in the first three innings. Bench accounted for four RBIs and Cesar Geronimo drove in three. George Foster batted in two runs and added two more with a homer in the third inning of the nightcap to raise his season’s RBI total to 90. Bench’s homer in the second was the 250th of the All-Star catcher’s major league career. Padres’ runs included a circuit clout by Willie Davis.
The Orioles extended their winning streak to five games and posted their 10th victory in a row on the road by defeating the Tigers, 7–3. Doug DeCinces homered for the Orioles in the second inning and Lee May hit for the circuit with two aboard in the fifth. Mickey Stanley, who had only one homer to his credit previously this season, produced all of the Tigers’ tallies with a pair of round-trippers.
Andy Messersmith allowed five hits and helped himself at bat with a double while pitching the Braves to a 3–2 victory over the Astros. Messersmith fanned seven and reached the 1,500 mark for his career strikeouts. After the Astros picked up a run in the first inning, Vic Correll and Messersmith hit back-to-back doubles to tie the score in the fifth. With two outs, Jim Wynn singled to drive in Messersmith. Rod Gilbreath then hit his first homer of the season for the Braves’ deciding run in the eighth, offsetting an Astros’ tally in the ninth.
Tom Poquette, who has been a red-hot hitter against the Rangers this season, with 13 hits in 21 times at bat, collected three singles and drove in the tie-breaking run in the fifth inning to win the game for the Royals, 2–1. The Rangers collected only three hits off Dennis Leonard, who pitched 8 1/3 innings before leaving the game with a blister on his pitching hand. Steve Mingori and Mark Littell then each retired one batter. Poquette’s game-winning single drove in Frank White, who had tripled with two out in the fifth.
Making his first start since July 11, Dennis Eckersley allowed six hits and struck out 12 as the Indians defeated the Brewers, 7–2, in the first game of a scheduled twi-night doubleheader that was stopped by rain with two out in the top of the eighth. The second game was postponed. Mike Hegan homered with a man on base for the Brewers’ runs off Eckersley. The Indians, after picking up a pair of tainted tallies on three errors in the first inning, knocked out Eduardo Rodriguez in the fourth and scored four times on doubles by Buddy Bell, Duane Kuiper and Rick Manning and singles by Tommy Smith and Alan Ashby.
Trailing, 7–1, the Twins erupted for five runs in the fifth inning, including a grand-slam homer by Butch Wynegar, and added two more runs in the eighth to defeat the Athletics, 8–7. In the fifth, singles by Dan Ford, Bob Randall and Roy Smalley accounted for one run. After Rod Carew was safe on an error to load the bases, Wynegar connected for the first jackpot wallop of his major league career. In the eighth, Craig Kusick singled and yielded the paths to Jerry Terrell, who stole second. Ford walked. Steve Braun delivered a pinch-single, scoring Terrell and sending Ford to third. Larry Hisle followed with a sacrifice fly to drive in the winning run.
Although faltering in the ninth inning, Jerry Koosman survived a Phillies’ rally and pitched the Mets to a 3–2 victory. The Mets scored all their runs off Jim Kaat in the first on a double by Leon Brown, safe bunt by Bruce Boisclair, single by John Milner, sacrifice fly by Joe Torre and single by Felix Millan. Koosman allowed only two infield hits by Johnny Oates until the ninth when the Phillies struck for their runs with two out on a walk to Mike Schmidt, double by Greg Luzinski and single by Ollie Brown, but Koosman then bore down and retired Jerry Martin on an infield grounder for the final out.
Winning for the third straight time in extra innings, the Pirates counted on a single by Manny Sanguillen in the 13th and defeated the Expos, 4–3. Willie Stargell, who had previously scored twice in the game, led off the decisive stanza with a single and stopped at third on a double by Dave Parker before Sanguillen rapped his winning single.
The Giants erupted for all their scoring in the third inning with a two-run single by Gary Thomasson and three-run homer by Gary Matthews to defeat the Dodgers, 5–3. Chris Speier and Dave Rader singled and Charlie Williams was hit by a pitch to load the bases and set the stage for the Giants’ scoring.
New York Yankees 6, Boston Red Sox 4
Chicago White Sox 0, California Angels 3
St. Louis Cardinals 6, Chicago Cubs 7
San Diego Padres 8, Cincinnati Reds 13
San Diego Padres 2, Cincinnati Reds 4
Baltimore Orioles 7, Detroit Tigers 3
Atlanta Braves 3, Houston Astros 2
Texas Rangers 1, Kansas City Royals 2
Cleveland Indians 7, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Oakland Athletics 7, Minnesota Twins 8
Philadelphia Phillies 2, New York Mets 3
Montreal Expos 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, San Francisco Giants 5
The stock market put together a modest advance yesterday in a technical rebound from the losses of the three previous sessions. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks, off 11.22 from Tuesday through Thursday, recovered 5.35 points to 984.64. Gainers outpaced losers by a 7 to 5 margin in the daily tally of New York Stock Exchange-listed issues.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 984.64 (+5.35, +0.55%)
Born:
Julio Gonzalez, Mexican light heavyweight boxer (WBO Champion 2003-2004), in Baja California, Mexico (d. 2012).
Danny Markov, Russian National Team and NHL defenseman (Olympics, bronze medal, 2002, 4th, 2006; Toronto Maple Leafs, Phoenix Coyotes, Carolina Hurricanses, Philadelphia Flyers, Nashville Predators, Detroit Red Wings), in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Brandon Whiting, NFL defensive end and defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers), in Santa Rosa, California.
Marc Megna, NFL linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals, New England Patriots), in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Jeff Hall, NFL kicker (St. Louis Rams), in Winchester, Tennessee.
Died:
Rudolf Bultmann, 91, German Lutheran theologian and Biblical scholar.
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