The Ford Administration has undertaken an intelligence review to determine whether the Soviet Union violated the spirit of the new treaty on underground nuclear tests by detonating two devices last month that may each have exceeded the 150-kiloton limit. Reporters flying to the Iranian capital from London with Secretary of State Henry A, Kissinger were told that the raw data from the first Soviet blast, on July 4, suggested that the explosion was somewhere between 100 and 200 kilotons, A second blast, described as possibly higher, was recorded last week. The issue, first divulged in the press and radio, is potentially embarrassing for President Ford in his last weeks of campaigning against Ronald Reagan for the Republican Presidential nomination. Mr. Reagan has made his opposition to the Administration’s dealings with the Russians a major issue. Under the treaty that was sent to the Senate by President Ford last month for ratification, the United Stittes and the Soviet Union agreed not to detonate a nuclear weapon device underground of more than 150 kilo. tons—the equivalent of 150,000 tons of TNT. An accompanying accord on nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes also would bar any single blast of more than 150 kilotons.
Because the two treaties have not been approved by the Senate or ratified by the Russians — and are not likely to be acted upon immediately in the United States—they are not embodied in law. Thus, any explosion beyond 150 kilotons would technically not violate the accord, reporters were told. But the Administration, already sensitive to charges of Soviet cheating on earlier arms limitation accords, would protest any violation of the “spirit” of the accord, it was said. The mood aboard Mr. Kissinger’s Air Force jet on the second part of his six‐nations swing was one of irritation with those in the Administration who had divulged such information about the blasts to reporters. Initial reports described the Soviet detonations as definitely beyond the 150‐kiloton limit. Reporters on the plane were told, however, that the intelligence community had not conclusively decided the 150-kiloton ceiling had been breached.
Relations between Greece and Turkey have again approached the boiling point, this time over the dispatch of a Turkish research vessel into the Aegean Sea, which separates these two ancient enemies. Both countries seem reluctant to turn up the heat any higher but to prefer to keep the battle on a verbal level. In such an emotionally charged atmosphere, however, the danger of a mistake or miscalculation remains high. The core of the dispute is that both countries claim the right to explore for minerals in the same areas of the Aegean. Last week Ankara sent out a converted rescue boat, Sismik I, to make seismic studies of the seabed, while threats and counterthreats whistled across the waters. So far, the vessel has stayed clear of the regions considered sensitive by the Greeks. As one Western diplomat here put it, “Obviously, neither side wants war over a silly little boat.” But that boat symbolizes a wide range of issues dividing these two nations, which have been squabbling over this corner of the world for centuries. These divisions have led directly to Greece’s withdrawal from the military wing of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the continuing deterioration of the alliance’s southern defenses and a costly arms race that neither country can afford.
The Italian Communist Party warned the newly founded minority Christian Democrat government that it cannot rely on automatic Communist support in Parliament. The Communists earlier abstained on the crucial vote of confidence in Premier Giulio Andreotti’s administration, thus clearing the way for the new cabinet to begin work.
Alvaro Cunhal, the Portuguese Communist leader, said in Parliament today that the Socialist Government of Prime Minister Mario Soares and its program “do not correspond to the needs of the present situation.” The communist leader, opening a five‐day debate in the National Assembly on the new Government’s program, did not say whether his party would present a motion rejecting the program. Such a motion could be approved only if it won an absolute majority of the 263 deputies, which is considered unlikely. It would require a coalition of the three main opposition parties—the Communist, the liberal Popular Democrats and the conservative Social Democratic Center.
Runaway British lawmaker John Stonehouse was found guilty on four counts of forgery and fraud for faking his suicide on a Miami, Flordia, beach in 1974 so his wife could collect $72,000 in insurance. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on 17 other charges against Stonehouse, who served as postmaster general during the Labor government of the 1960s. The jury also could not decide on six fraud charges against Mrs. Sheila Buckley, Stonehouse’s secretary and close friend.
Big Ben, the largest bell within London’s Clock Tower of Westminster, failed to ring and the clock stopped at 3:45 in the morning after metal fatigue caused the machinery to stop running. Although the hands of the clock’s four faces were soon operating again after the repairs made by Westminster’s chief engineer, Geoffrey Buggin, a winding drum fell off, breaking the 110-year-old chiming mechanism. The bells of Big Ben— which had operated regularly since 1859— would be require multiple repairs over the next nine months, but restored in time for the silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in May.
An explosion at an underground mine in Yugoslavia’s Bosnian republic, at Breza, killed 17 of the 118 workers underground. The blast occurred at a depth of 600 feet (180 m).
Finance ministers of the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries met in Vienna to work out details of an $800 million fund for interest-free loans to developing countries. They said they had no plans to increase the $400 million earmarked for the U.N. agricultural fund. The meeting was held under tight security to guard against the repeat of a terrorist attack and kidnaping last December 21.
Hopes for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon, which had sprung up overnight, were dashed today when Interior Minister Camille Chamoun, one of the main right wing Christian leaders, accused Iraq of having sent troops into Beirut to fight on the side of the Palestinians. A meeting of the Lebanese-Syrian-Palestinian cease‐fire commission, which had been set for this afternoon, was abruptly canceled after Mr. Chamoun made his accusations. No new date was set. Mr. Chamoun charged that two soldiers of the Iraqi People’s Army were taken prisoner last night during fighting on the front of Ain Rummaneh, a Christian suburb southeast of Beirut. He said they had confessed that they were part of an Iraqi force sent to Egypt and from there to southern Lebanon by ship a few days ago. Iraq and Egypt are involved in a bitter feud with Syria, which is playing the predominant role in Lebanon. The Iraqi People’s Army is the militia of the ruling Iraqi Baath Party. The Syrian‐Iraqi, feud had its roots in the split of the Baath Party into Syrian and Iraqi wings. Mr. Chamoun’s charges thus seemed calculated to disturb the political leadership in Damascus.
Peking relaxed for the first time since the 8.2 quake of July 28. A few Chinese families left street camps to move back to their homes, indicating authorities believed the danger of fresh tremors was receding. More factories returned to production and workmen cleared away rubble. The Free China Relief Assn. in Taiwan said it had been using balloons to airlift food and clothing to the stricken area.
North and South Korean troops exchanged machine-gun and recoilless rifle fire across the demilitarized zone. There were no reports of casualties or damage by either side from the few minutes of shooting. Each side later accused the other of starting the incident. No elements of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division, deployed just below the central front, were reported involved.
The South Korean prosecution asked for long prison terms for 78-year-old former President Yun Po Sun and two other elderly opponents of President Park Chung Hee. The three men are on trial with 15 other signers of a manifesto issued March 1 demanding restoration of full democracy in South Korea. The prosecution demanded 10-year terms for Yun and Hahm Suk Hun, 75, a religious leader, and a 7-year term for Chyung Yii Hyung, 72, a member of the National Assembly.
In the latest legal decision in Japan’s longest‐running controversy, a High Court panel of judges ruled today that this country’s maintenance of military forces is legal. The decision, which reverses a District Court ruling made 35 months ago, sets the stage for a continuation of nationwide legal arguments over Japan’s Self‐Defense Forces, which were established in 1950 despite a postwar constitutional provision barring the maintenance of land, sea or air forces. The plaintiffs in the case, a group of farmers from Hokkaido. Japan’s northern island, vowed to appeal today’s ruling to Japan’s Supreme Court. It will probably be several more years before the definitive legal ruling is handed down.
A long-range Soviet military aircraft apparently crashed into the Atlantic 230 miles southeast of St. John’s, Nfld., the Canadian Maritime Command said. The Soviet Embassy in Ottawa would neither confirm nor deny the crash, but said there may be comment today. Canadian planes reported an oil slick and debris in the area and a Soviet trawler was speeding to the scene. The plane was said by the Canadians to be one of two flying from Cuba to the Soviet Union and was well outside Canadian airspace.
A gang of heavily armed desert bandits swooped down on a tourist hotel on the Kenyan-Ethiopian border, killing five persons and taking a Frenchman hostage, Kenyan officials said. More than 20 others were wounded during the raid in Moyale, located a half mile inside Ethiopia. The dead included a French woman tourist and at least four Ethiopians, all schoolteachers in Ethiopian en route to Kenya for a vacation, officials said. It was feared that the kidnaped Frenchman also may have been killed.
Seventeen persons accused of having taken part in the July coup attempt against Sudan’s President Gaafar al‐Nimeiry of the Sudan were executed by firing squad at dawn today, the Sudanese Government announced. Yesterday, 81 were executed and 210 persons are still on trial. Among those executed today, was Brigadier General Mohammed Nur Saeed, who allegedly confessed to having been the military leader of the coup attempt and to having planned it in London with two exiled Sudanese politicians. However, he pleaded not guilty to the charges. In London, one of the politicians, former Prime Minister Sadik al‐Mandi, admitted yesterday that he had planned the attempted coup. Decrying the executions, described by some as the largest number reported by an African state in recent years, Mr. Mandi said there is a “mounting dialogue of bloodshed in our country.”
Another attempt by black South African students to march the nine miles from the township of Soweto to hold a protest in front of Johannesburg police headquarters was halted when policemen fired over the heads of the marchers. Many adults joined in the march. One student was reportedly carried from the scene after the shots were fired, but the police denied that there had been casualties. Earlier, they confirmed reports that three blacks were killed during the disturbances in Soweto on Wednesday.
The Senate, voting 78 to 13, approved an omnibus bill that would revise and broaden the clean air act of 1970, which established a federal-state effort to improve air quality. The measure would expand the 1970 law by adding provisions that would protect regions where air quality is above existing national standards and would extend deadlines for the automobile industry to meet exhaust emission standards.
Governor Milton Shapp of Pennsylvania said the cause of the mysterious flu-like disease that broke out after an American Legion convention in Philadelphia “is probably not” influenza virus. The disease has killed 23 people, and 138 others are in hospitals throughout the state. A team of environmental experts from the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta has gone to Philadelphia to investigate the origin of the illness.
Major changes in the ways national policy is determined in science and technology at the highest level will follow today’s expected Senate confirmation of Dr. Guyford Stever as director of the new Office of Science and Technology Policy. Dr. Stever’s appointment will restore a representative of the scientific community to the White House staff. The science advisory post was abolished by President Nixon in 1973.
The White House said that President Ford would announce his choice of a running mate in the traditional way, waiting until he has been nominated at the Republican National Convention. Meanwhile, controversy increased over John Connally, who is regarded as a prime vice-presidential possibility on the Ford ticket, and Ronald Reagan showed more progress than the President in winning over convention delegates.
Ronald Reagan picked up six delegates in New York and New Jersey in his first campaign trip to the Northeast, accompanied by his liberal Republican running mate, Senator Richard Schweiker. At meetings in Newark and Brooklyn, Mr. Reagan said that the Reagan-Schweiker “coalition” was aimed at the Northeastern states.
The trip that Ronald Reagan and Senator Richard Schweiker made to Mississippi Wednesday in an attempt to reassure conservative delegates who are cool to the liberal Mr. Schweiker apparently was not successful. A new count by the New York Times and other news organizations gave President Ford a small, tenuous majority of Mississippi’s 60 convention delegates and alternates, each of whom has a half vote under the state’s rules.
The FBI agreed to surrender data on three former government informers in the Socialist Workers Party after the party filed an affidavit detailing the informers’ activities in three cities. The party had asked for disclosure of FBI files in connection with its three-year-old $37 million damage suit against the federal government. The suit claims that the FBI harassed the party and used illegal methods for spying and gathering information on members. The government answered that disclosure would be a threat to national security.
Counties that contain large blocks of untaxable federal land would receive a third more in payments from Washington under legislation passed by the House. The federal government owns about 760 million acres or a third of all land in the country. Counties in which the land is located pay for road repair, law enforcement and emergency medical and rescue service. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, would give a county 75 cents an acre, minus any federal payments, or 10 cents an acre in addition to current federal payments.
About $100 million in cash benefits for the elderly, blind and disabled was added to the food stamp reform bill by the House Agriculture Committee. It also voted to permit work. ing parents with child-care expenses to qualify for stamps if they earn up to $75 a month more than childless parents. Experts estimated that liberalizing the bill could bring the cost of the measure back to nearly $6 billion. A final committee vote on the legislation was scheduled for Tuesday.
One of the most Powerful trustees of the largest pension fund of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is resigning after taking the Fifth Amendment before Labor Department investigators, well-placed sources said yesterday. The resignation of William Presser of Cleveland, who was instrumental in determining who got loans from the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, was urged at a meeting of trustees in Chicago earlier this week. The $1.4 billion fund has been the target of a year‐long investigation by the Labor and Justice Departments and by the Internal Revenue Service, which has revoked the fund’s tax exempt status because of mismanagement and questionable loan practices.
CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr said he recalled no conversation in which he told Rep. James V. Stanton (D-Ohio) that he got a copy of a House Committee Intelligence report from the CIA. Stanton testified at a House Ethics Committee hearing last week that Schorr told him in February that he got the document “from the CIA.” Stanton said he was not sure whether Schorr was joking. Schorr is under suspension from CBS while an investigation into his giving the secret report to the Village Voice is under way.
All federal contracts held by Uniroyal, Inc., one of the nation’s biggest tire and rubber producers, will be canceled under a seldom-invoked executive order prohibiting race and sexual discrimination, the Department of Labor said. Uniroyal held $47 million in Pentagon contracts in fiscal 1975, the latest year for which figures are available. A Department of Labor spokesman said the company had failed to provide equal employment opportunities, including pay, promotions and other benefits, for female and racial minority workers at its plant in Mishawaka, Indiana.
James R. Sasser, 39, former Tennessee state Democratic chairman, won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee’s primary election. Sasser, a Nashville lawyer making his first race for elective office, defeated John Jay Hooker Jr., twice a candidate for governor. Five other Democrats trailed far behind. Sasser won the right to meet incumbent Senator Bill Brock, who was unopposed in the Republican primary, in the November 2 general election.
Higher than acceptable levels of the pesticide ingredient Kepone have turned up in fish marketed in the Tidewater area of Virginia, federal and state officials have confirmed. The U.S. Agriculture Department has ordered stores selling the contaminated fish to stop such sales. Ever since state authorities ordered closed a Kepone manufacturing plant in Hopewell, Virginia, in July, 1975, the state has battled contamination of its waterways by the substance. Testing of fish in the area is continuing.
A man who started winning medals in the 1930s got another one-this time, the Medal of Freedom. The recipient was Jesse Owens, 63, who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Before a gathering in the White House that included the U.S. Olympic team after its return from Montreal, President Ford recalled the famous story in which Adolf Hitler had congratulated several other gold medalists but refused to shake hands with the black American track star and left the stadium abruptly. Ford said Owens had done something that no statesman or general had accomplished before that time: he had forced Hitler to withdraw.
As part of the American Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger, a dispersal draft was conducted for teams to pick the players who had been under contract for the two ABA franchises which had folded, the Kentucky Colonels and the Spirits of St. Louis (who had announced that they would play in Salt Lake City as the “Utah Rockies” if there was a 1976–1977 ABA season). The Chicago Bulls, who had had the worst record during the 1975–76 NBA season, selected Artis Gilmore of the Colonels as the first pick overall; the Bulls had drafted Gilmore in the seventh round of the 1971 NBA draft. Twelve players were selected overall by the 23 NBA teams, with 11 teams electing not to draft anyone at all.
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Swinging at Phil Niekro’s second pitch of the game, Gary Thomasson hit a homer and then doubled and scored in the third inning to bring the San Francisco Giants a 2–1 victory over the Atlanta Braves. Marty Perez followed Thomasson’s two-bagger with a safe bunt and Bobby Murcer drove in a run with a grounder. Jim Barr held the Braves to three hits in seven innings before Randy Moffitt relieved and finished the game.
Backed by the batting of Doug DeCinces and Ken Singleton, Wayne Garland won his 13th game of the season, but first since July 20, as the Orioles defeated the Indians, 6–2. DeCinces hit a homer in the third inning and drove in two runs with a triple in the eighth. In between, Singleton accounted for two RBIs with a double in the sixth.
Although having a big advantage in hits, 13–7, the Tigers were the victims of three double plays while losing to the Red Sox, 5–4. Each club hit two homers. Aurelio Rodriguez connected with a man on base for the Tigers in the second inning, but the Red Sox picked up the tying tallies and then went ahead when Rick Miller walked and Butch Hobson hit for the circuit in the sixth. Jim Rice added a homer in the eighth for what proved to be the winning run, offsetting a round-tripper by Bill Freehan for the Tigers in the ninth.
Slump-ridden Fred Patek batted in two runs with a single in the sixth inning to break a 3–3 tie and sent the Royals on their way to a 6–4 victory over the Twins. Patek’s hit was only his eighth since the All-Star break and the RBIs were his first since July 3. George Brett had three hits for the Royals, marking the 22nd time that the All-Star third baseman had rapped three or more hits in one game this season.
Fred Norman gained his fifth straight victory and Don Sutton was stopped on his five-game winning streak when the Reds defeated the Dodgers, 3–2. The Reds opened their scoring with a double by Pete Rose and single by George Foster in the third inning. Tony Perez walked and scored in the fourth before accounting for the Reds’ deciding run with a homer in the sixth. The Dodgers got both their tallies in the home half of the sixth on singles by Bill Buckner, Steve Garvey and Ron Cey and a double by Bill Russell.
George Scott hit two doubles and a homer to lead the Brewers to a 9–3 victory over the Yankees in a game halted by rain after six innings. Scott doubled and scored in the first and fourth before hitting his homer with two men on base in the sixth.
Homers by George Mitterwald and Rick Monday, plus two unearned runs, enabled the Cubs to defeat the Expos, 4–3, in the first game of a scheduled twi-night doubleheader. The second game was rained out in the bottom half of the second inning. Mitterwald and Monday hit their homers in the third. Then in the fifth, after singles by Mitterwald and Mick Kelleher, Ray Burris bunted and when Don Stanhouse threw the ball into left field trying for a force-out, both runners scored. The Expos had back-to-back doubles by Tim Foli and Gary Carter for a run in their half of the fifth and added their other tallies when Del Unser homered with a man on base in the sixth.
Although Willie Stargell smashed a grand-slam homer for the Pirates, the Mets were able to gain a 7–4 victory with a 17-hit attack that included four for Bud Harrelson and three each for Joe Torre and Roy Staiger. The Mets scored four runs in the fourth inning, two counting on a double by Leo Foster, and built up a 6–0 lead before Willie Stargell hit his homer off Jon Matlack in the sixth following infield singles by Mario Mendoza and Rennie Stennett and a walk to Dave Parker. Staiger wrapped up the Mets’ scoring with a homer in the seventh.
Dave Freisleben ended his personal eight-game losing streak when the Padres defeated the Astros, 4–3. The Padres started their scoring with a homer by Doug Rader in the fourth inning and added their other runs in the sixth on a sacrifice fly by Rader, single by Tito Fuentes and squeeze bunt by Freisleben. Butch Metzger relieved Freisleben with two men on base and one out in the ninth and gave up hits by Leon Roberts and Enos Cabell for Astros’ runs before retiring the side.
Capitalizing on Lynn McGlothen’s loss of control, the Phillies defeated the Cardinals, 5–2, in a game stopped by rain after eight innings. Rain forced a delay of one hour, 33 minutes in the second before Hector Cruz accounted for the Cards’ runs with a homer. Ollie Brown hit for the circuit to open the Phillies’ fifth. McGlothen then walked Tim McCarver, Larry Bowa and Dave Cash to load the bases before Garry Maddox singled to drive in two runs. Bill Greif relieved and was tagged for a single by Greg Luzinski, driving in the Phillies’ fourth run of the inning.
Posting his fourth shutout of the season, Bert Blyleven extended his personal winning streak to three games by pitching the Rangers to a 1–0 victory over the Angels. Gary Ross, who was the loser, allowed only five hits to six given up by Blyleven. In the second inning, a looper by Jeff Burroughs fell between Dan Briggs and Dave Chalk for a double. After taking third on a bunt by Tom Grieve, Burroughs scored on a sacrifice fly.
San Francisco Giants 2, Atlanta Braves 1
Baltimore Orioles 6, Cleveland Indians 2
Boston Red Sox 5, Detroit Tigers 4
Minnesota Twins 4, Kansas City Royals 6
Cincinnati Reds 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
New York Yankees 3, Milwaukee Brewers 9
Chicago Cubs 4, Montreal Expos 3
New York Mets 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Houston Astros 3, San Diego Padres 4
Philadelphia Phillies 5, St. Louis Cardinals 2
California Angels 0, Texas Rangers 1
The stock market dropped in much slower trading yesterday after two consecutive sessions of advances. At the close, the widely-watched Dow Jones industrial average was off 5.60 points at 986.68, its low for the day.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 986.68 (-5.60, -0.56%)
Born:
Jeff Friesen, Canadian NHL left wing (NHL champions, Stanley Cup-Devils, 2003; San Jose Sharks, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim; New Jersey Devils, Washington Capitals, Calgary Flames), in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Bobby Kielty, MLB outfielder (World Series champions-Red Sox, 2007; Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland A’s, Boston Red Sox), in Fontana, California.
Dustin Lyman, NFL tight end (Chicago Bears), in Boulder, Colorado.
Napoleon Beazley, American murderer known for being executed for a killing committed as a juvenile; in Grapeland, Texas (d. 2002).
Kwon Sang-woo, South Korean actor (“Stairway to Heaven”), in Daejeon, South Korea.
May Sabai Phyu, Myanmar feminist and human rights activist; in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar).
Died:
Betty Clooney, 45, American singer (“Jack Paar Show”), aunt of George Clooney, sister of Rosemary Clooney, from a brain aneurysm.
Mapetla Mohapi, 28, black South African inmate who was the first person to be detained under Section 6 of the new Terrorism Act, was found dead in his cell, supposedly strangled by a pair of jeans. A purported suicide note was later shown to have been a forgery.
Dr. Fager, 12, American thoroughbred racehorse and 1968 American Horse of the Year, after winning seven major races that year.
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