The Italian Senate tonight voted confidence in the new minority Christian Democratic Government of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. The Chamber of Deputies was expected to follow suit around the middle of next week, enabling Mr. Andreotti’s Cabinet to begin functioning. With 222 of the Senate’s 315 members present for tonight’s vote, 112 votes were necessary for the confidence motion. The vote was 136 in favor and 17 against, with 69 abstentions. The Christian Democrats, who have 135 seats in the Senate, needed the abstention of the Communist Party, Italy’s second largest political force. Several of the smaller parties that were formerly allied with the Christian Democrats had announced that they would no longer automatically support the largest party against the Communists. The breakdown of the vote tonight was not immediately known, but it was presumed that many of the absentees were Communists acting according to a prearranged agreement.
Former UK Postmaster General John Stonehouse was sentenced to 7 years’ jail for fraud, theft and forgery, at the end of his 68-day trial yesterday at London’s Old Bailey criminal court. The 50-year-old former Labor government minister was found guilty of 14 of the remaining 115 charges against him, mostly for fraud and theft, after the jury had returned guilty verdicts on four other charges late Thursday. Sheila Buckley, 29, Stonehouse’s secretary and close friend, was found guilty on five of the six theft charges against her. She received a two-year suspended jail sentence.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said today that the fighting in Lebanon had impeded the chances for renewed negotiations between Israel and the Arabs. But at the same time, he added, it has lessened the prospects of a united Arab clash with Israel. In an interview with the Labor Party newspaper Davar, Mr. Rabin foresaw a continuation of the protracted Lebanese conflict and predicted that it would not be susceptible to a quick military solution. The Prime Minister said that the divisions within the Arab world that have emerged during the war in Lebanon have been to Israel’s advantage now, but that “everything could change.” “We live in a Middle East in which changes are numerous,” Mr. Rabin said. “The only stable factor in it is the Arab world’s refusal to resign itself to the existence of Israel as a sovereign state.”
The International Red Cross broke off its rescue of wounded from the Palestinian camp of Tal Zaatar after inhabitants anxious to leave tried to swarm aboard its trucks and after some of the wounded were shot by snipers from rightist Christian positions. About 30 persons were injured in the stampede as hundreds swarmed out of the defense perimeter and onto the open field the Red Cross trucks were leading the wounded. The camp’s Palestinian defenders shot in the air and drove the crowds back. Sharpshooters behind Christian lines above the camp then started to shoot at the wounded lying on stretchers on the ground and in the first truck, picking them off one by one with well aimed single shots, a member of the rescue team said. At least four of the wounded were hit, including an already seriously injured woman who was shot in the face by a sharpshooter, the rescuers said.
Mohammed Ali Haitham, former premier of Marxist South Yemen, was shot and wounded by unknown assailants in Cairo today, the Middle East News Agency reported. The driver of Haitham’s car was killed in the attack, which occurred in mid-afternoon in one of the most luxurious sections of Cairo, the agency reported. Haitham told the agency he received three bullets in the left arm and one in the nose, and was wounded by glass splinters. Doctors said his condition presents no danger to his life.
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi denied that Iran was having difficulties in handling a vast number of modern weapons from the United States and told American reporters that Washington must continue to sell arms to his country or risk instability and war in the Middle East. His message to the United States was clear: A strong, well‐armed Iran was in the interests of the West and he was not in the mood to accept criticism about the sale of arms or how they were used — major points in a Senate staff study that was made public over last weekend. “Can the United States or the non‐Communist world afford to lose Iran?” the Shah asked at a news conference for a dozen journalists traveling with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. “What will you do if one day Iran will be in danger of collapsing?” he went on. “Do you have any choice?”
[Ed: Sure. We can pursue an idiotic foreign policy, lose Iran to crazy assholes, and spend fifty years paying for it.]
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi, Pakistan.
Nowhere is the docility with which the people of India have accepted Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s 13-month-old assumption of nearly full powers so striking as here in the state of Tamil Nadu, in the far south. Until early this year, seven months after the declaration of a state of emergency, Tamil Nadu was controlled by a party in opposition to the governing Congress Party. It was one of only two of the 22 states not controlled by Mrs. Gandhi’s party; the other, Gujarat, has since been taken over by New Delhi. On January 31 New Delhi removed the governing party, the Dravidian Progressive Federation, despite its overwhelming majority of 172 seats in the 234‐Member state legislature. About 500 political activists, mainly from the Dravidian Party, have been jailed without charges, according to an authoritative administration source. But so placid is this densely populated slate of more than 42 million under direct rule. from New Delhi that it was the deposed Chief Minister himself who had to start the only known public protest.
The Indian state of Maharashtra became the first governmental unit to enact legislation mandating compulsory sterilization of men and women, passing the Family (Restrictions on Size) Bill on its third reading and sending it to the President of India for the required assent. The President reacted favorably and sent the bill back to the Maharashtra government with suggested amendments that would be necessary for an enactment, but before the measure could be passed, new elections were called and the legislation was not passed. Under the terms of the bill, “couples with three or more living children” (with the exception of all boys or all girls) were required “to submit one parent for sterilization or face six months in jail.” More specifically, the law obligated men up to the age of 55 to receive a vasectomy “within 180 days of the birth of their third living child”, except if a vasectomy would endanger the man’s life, in which case a woman up to age 45 would have to submit to a tubal ligation. The national government’s incentive program, however, reportedly resulted in a 200 percent increase in sterilizations compared to 1975.
After more than a year of mutual recriminations, Vietnam and Thailand agreed to establish diplomatic relations. Vietnam and Thailand announced that they have established diplomatic relations, a move that formally ended more than a decade of hostility between the two Southeast Asian countries. Hanoi’s new diplomatic link with Bangkok marked the end of Vietnam’s efforts to establish relations with the non-Communist states of the region following the end of the Vietnam war last year. Thailand was the last member of the Association of South East Asian Nations to open relations with the newly united Vietnam, which is Southeast Asia’s chief Communist power.
Specialists in preventing and combating epidemic disease are being rushed into the Tangshan area, which was devastated by an earthquake more than 10 days ago. Provincial radio broadcasts indicate that authorities charged with medical work in the earthquake area have shifted the primary focus of their concern from immediate treatment of the injured to preventing widespread disease. The most dramatic evidence of this came Thursday in a radio broadcast from Kiangsi Province, 800 miles from the quake‐afflicted area. A radio station announced that 120 anti‐epidemic workers and 60 medical workers had left the provincial capital of Nanchang for the Tangshan area. Significantly, the anti‐epidemic workers went by special plane while the medical people went by special train.
Argentina’s military authorities imposed a five-day disciplinary detention today on former President Alejandro A. Lanusse, a retired army general. There was no official announcement, but members of General Lanusse’s family said that he had been arrested at his home by General Carlos Suarez Masos, commander of the First Army Corps headquarters in Buenos Aires. General Lanusse, who was president under a previous military government from 1971 until May 1973, had issued a letter yesterday criticizing actions by military authorities against a group of university professors.
Kenya and Uganda agreed today to end the threat of war between the two nations by withdrawing troops from along their mutual borders and halting other acts of “belligerency.” The two countries also agreed to measures that will restore regular trade, provide for the security of each other’s nationals living in the other country and provide for payment of outstanding debts. Although a joint communique issued at the end of three days of talks here did not spell out specifics, it apparently provides guarantees for an end to the killing and harassment of Kenyans in Uganda and eventual restoration of normal oil supplies by Kenya to Uganda. The communique said the two states agreed to an immediate end to threats of force and the state of belligerency, withdrawal of troops and cessation of the propaganda war by halting “damaging statements against each other.” Relations between the two countries worsened sharply after Israeli planes used the Nairobi airport in returning from their hostage-rescuing raid into Uganda July 3.
Eyewitnesses at Kampala’s Makarere University in Uganda say that “at least 20 and possibly 100” students were killed by Uganda troops in attacks on the campus Tuesday and again in the early hours Wednesday. The drama started at 10 AM Tuesday when 2000 students gathered on the campus in Uganda’s capital city to read a list of grievances, according to witnesses who in the past have been reliable sources.
The Rhodesian Government said that eight black Rhodesians have been killed in the worst land mine incident since the black guerrilla war against the country’s white rulers began in December, 1972. The victims, including newborn twins, were on a seven-ton truck that hit the mine on a narrow dirt road in the Ngarwe tribal trust area about 12 miles from the Mozambique border, an official announcement said.
South African police riot squads opened fire in Soweto in an attempt to break up crowds of youths who roamed the black township, attacking cars, buses and trains in a continuing effort to keep black workers from their jobs in Johannesburg. On the third day of disturbances, the official toll was 4 dead and 30 wounded. A national police alert was ordered following reports of arson and stone throwing from widely scattered other townships.
The Labor Department said that the national unemployment rate rose substantially in July to 7.8 percent of the total labor force despite a big increase in the number of people with jobs, It explained the apparent paradox this way: Since the department began compiling employment statistics, the largest proportion of the population was recently in the labor force, at work or looking for work. Most of the increase in unemployment was among people who have been out of work for fewer than five weeks, which includes new job seekers.
The Senate passed the longest and most complicated tax bill in two decades last night. Among its major provisions, the bill keeps the 1975 tax cuts intact for both individuals and businesses, reduces the estate tax and provides a tax credit against a small portion of the cost of higher education. The bill now goes to a Senate-House conference committee, which will attempt to compromise the big differences between the Senate and House versions of the bill.
President Ford stepped up his search for a running mate today by undertaking an examination of the personal backgrounds and finances of a scare of prospective Vice‐Presidential nominees. Ron Nessen, the White House press secretary, said that Mr. Ford would eliminate from consideration anyone who would refuse, if nominated, to make public the details of the individual’s health, personal net worth and tax payments for the last 10 years. The description of the plans to explore the backgrounds of potential Ford running mates “appeared to be designed in part to divert attention from the controversy swirling about former Governor John B. Connally of Texas, a prime prospect on the President’s list. Mr. Connally, who was acquitted 16 months ago of charges that he accepted a bribe in return for securing higher federal price supports for milk producers, has sought without much success to quiet public debate about his strengths and weaknesses on a Republican ticket.
Senator Richard S. Schweiker said today that he and Ronald Reagan had picked up new commitments from an unspecified number of Republican delegates in his home state of Pennsylvania. But he steadfastly declined to name them. He said that their names may not be released until next week because of fear that the campaign workers of President Ford might harass them.
Among some delegates, party activists and a few senators who are supporters of Ronald Reagan’s bid for the Republican Presidential nomination, there have been recent conversations about an effort to remove Senator Richard S. Schweiker from the Reagan ticket, Senator James A. McClure, an Idaho Republican and Reagan supporter, said tonight. Mr. McClure said that there was no “organized effort to dump Schweiker” but that he had heard of a number of Reagan supporters who “feel bad about the selection and they want to reverse it.” Mr. McClure said that he had discussed the matter with Senator Jesse A. Helms of North Carolina, another Reagan supporter, but that he could not measure the strength of the sentiment. Nor, he said, did Mr. Helms express any opinion to him on the number of disgruntled Reagan supporters. Michael J. Deaver, Mr. Reagan’s chief campaign aide, said Mr. Reagan would not be a party to any Schweiker ouster movement and would resist any such effort.
Jimmy Carter drained a farm pond today, caught a barrel full of fish from it and dismissed a suggestion by the Vice President of the United States that he was “ruthless.” Yesterday, his wife, Rosalyn Carter, cut a red ribbon at the opening of a new restaurant in this little town of 683 people, and fussed protectively over a 10‐year‐old girl from nearby Columbus who had won a free tour of Plains in a radio station contest. The restaurant is called The Back Porch by its owners and Elaine’s South by some of the press. In short, life in Plains continued in its slow, even tenor as Mr. Carter, the Democratic Presidential nominee, prepared, planned and rested for a fall general election campaign that he is to formally inaugurate on Labor Day. Mr. Carter, dressed in a straw hat, old pants and shirt and well‐weathered sneakers, helped net fish in a swirl of muddy water and slime as the last water was drained from a 3½ acre farm pond at the pleasant, well‐designed “pond house,” which was built several years ago for his mother, Lillian Carter, when she returned ill and homesick from a two‐year tour in India as a Peace Corps volunteer.
There were two more deaths caused by the outbreak of the mysterious respiratory disease in Pennsylvania, bringing the total to 25. Medical investigators increased their efforts to find a chemical or poison as the possible origin of the illness. In diagnosing the illness, Dr. Leonard Bachman, the Pennsylvania Health Secretary, eliminated more general and nonspecific flu-like symptoms, and narrowed the indications to a temperature of 102 degrees and cough, or a fever and X-ray evidence of pneumonia in any person who had been associated with the American Legion Convention in Philadelphia last month.
The sequestered jurors in the trial of William and Emily Harris, who ended one week of deliberations today, dine on hotel food and watch closed-circuit movies on a communal television set but are denied some of the usual amenities of life. They can receive no mail, cannot speak directly by telephone with their families and can receive no visitors. The seven women and five men are isolated from the outside world, except for three sheriff’s deputies, two men and women, assigned to guard them. And when they arrived at the courthouse at 8:45 AM today the strain of more than 40 hours of deliberations was beginning to show on their faces. They quickly resumed their work, deliberating the assault, robbery and kidnapping indictment against the Harrises in locked jury room within the locked courtroom. They gave no sign of their progress.
The president of the American Bar Association said today that serious consideration should be given to abolishing jury trials in civil cases. The bar leader, Lawrence E. Walsh, said that the delays caused by the additional time that it takes to try a case before a jury rather than a judge alone might be “too big a price to pay” for the retention of the jury system. Mr. Walsh made his remarks in discussing possible court reforms at a news conference as the annual convention of the association got under way in Atlanta. Officially, the theme of the convention is the interdependence of American and English law. There are numerous panels scheduled with British jurists among the speakers. The meeting will also be the bar’s Bicentennial observance.
Representative Jerry Litton, killed in a plane crash the night he won the Democratic senatorial nomination in Missouri, was buried today after services attended by Congressional leaders, state officials and hundreds of friends.
As the Viking 2 spacecraft neared Mars today, preparing to go into orbit around the planet tomorrow at 8:10 AM, Eastern Daylight Time, scientists here reported confirmation that particles in the Martian soil had adhered to magnets aboard the Viking Hander on the surface.
A World War II B-25 bomber, converted for civilian use, caught fire today after takeoff from Midway Airport and crashed into three houses in Chicago, killing two persons and injuring three others, the authorities said.
Gregor Piatigorsky, the cello virtuoso whose only peers as master of the instrument were Pablo Casals and Mstislav Rostropovich, died at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 73. He had been ill for a year and a half.
Major League Baseball:
Willie Montanez smashed a homer and three singles to back up Carl Morton’s four-hit pitching as the Braves defeated the Giants, 7–0. The complete game and shutout both were the first of the season for Morton.
The Red Sox gained their seventh victory in the last eight games when Carl Yastrzemski drove in one run with a double in the fourth inning and another with a single in the eighth to defeat the Brewers, 2–1.
Andy Hassler, who had lost 18 straight games over two seasons, finally gained a victory when the Royals won the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, 9–2, before going on to beat the White Sox again in the second game, 8–3. Hassler’s triumph with the help of Mark Littell, who relieved in the eighth inning, enabled the lefthander to avoid tying the A. L. record of 19 defeats in a row by John Nabors of the Philadelphia Athletics in 1916. The Royals, held hitless for the first five innings, batted around in the sixth and scored five runs on seven hits, including a triple by George Brett and double by Al Cowens. Dave Nelson homered with a man on base for the Royals in the ninth. Ruppert Jones drove in three runs in the second game and John Mayberry hit his first homer since July 2 as the Royals completed the sweep.
The Tigers ended their five-game losing streak by defeating the Indians, 3–1, behind the pitching of Dave Roberts. Rusty Staub started the Tigers’ scoring with a homer in the fourth inning. Singles by Tom Veryzer and Ron LeFlore around a stolen base added a tally in the seventh and the Tigers’ third run followed in the eighth on a walk to Jason Thompson and double by Aurelio Rodriguez.
Sparked by Joe Morgan, who broke a 3–3 tie with a homer, the Reds scored four runs in the ninth inning and defeated the Dodgers, 7–4. The Reds capitalized on an error by Reggie Smith to score three unearned runs in the third and held a 3–2 lead before Ron Cey tied the score with a homer in the sixth. After Morgan’s blow broke the deadlock in the ninth, the Reds loaded the bases and scored two runs on singles by Dave Concepcion and Pete Rose.
At Montreal, the Cubs take a pair with last inning go-ahead homers, winning 6–5 and 1–0. Rick Monday homers in the 13th of game 1, and Jerry Morales has a 9th inning solo in game 2. Joe Kerrigan, in relief of Woodie Fryman in the 9th, serves up the solo. Steve Stone is the winner. Monday will hit an extra-inning homer tomorrow as well, but the Cubs will lose a pair to the Expos.
A run-scoring single by Bobby Bonds in the eighth inning gave the Angels a 2–1 victory over the Athletics in a duel between Frank Tanana and Vida Blue. Bill North led off with a homer for the A’s run and Bill Melton tied the score with a homer in the seventh. Mario Guerrero singled to open the eighth and gave way to pinch-runner Jerry Remy, who stole second. After a pass to Dave Chalk, Bonds stroked his single.
Tom Griffin, obtained from the Astros on waivers only three days previously, turned on his former teammates and received credit for a 9–3 victory with the support of a 16-hit attack by the Padres. Griffin tired in the seventh inning and Butch Metzger finished to pick up his 10th save of the season. Fred Kendall had four hits in five trips in the Padres’ attack and drove in four runs, while Jerry Turner, who went 4-for-4 including a homer, accounted for three RBIs. Mike Ivie also hit a homer.
John Denny, the only Cardinals’ starter over the .500 mark, brought his record to 6–5 by defeating the Phillies, 6–2, with the help of Al Hrabosky, who relieved in the eighth inning. The Cards, after taking a 2–1 lead against Jim Lonborg, decided the outcome with three runs in the seventh off Tug McGraw, who hurt himself with an error. After singles by Keith Hernandez and Hector Cruz, Lee Richard bunted safely and when McGraw threw wildly, two runs scored. Richard reached third and crossed the plate on a sacrifice fly by Jerry Mumphrey. Ted Simmons added a run with a homer in the eighth.
While Gaylord Perry was pitching a five-hit shutout, the Rangers enjoyed a pair of three-run innings and defeated the Twins, 6–0. Gene Clines doubled to open the first, Mike Hargrove singled and when Roy Smalley erred on a grounder by Jeff Burroughs, Clines scored. Toby Harrah singled to drive in Hargrove. Pete Redfern, the Twins’ starter, then walked two batters to force in the Rangers’ third run. Their other burst came in the eighth and included a homer by Roy Howell and two-run single by Tom Grieve.
The scheduled game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Yankees at New York was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on September 22.
The scheduled game between the New York Mets and the Pirates at Pittsburgh was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
San Francisco Giants 0, Atlanta Braves 7
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Boston Red Sox 2
Kansas City Royals 9, Chicago White Sox 2
Kansas City Royals 8, Chicago White Sox 3
Cleveland Indians 1, Detroit Tigers 3
Cincinnati Reds 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Chicago Cubs 6, Montreal Expos 5
Chicago Cubs 1, Montreal Expos 0
California Angels 2, Oakland Athletics 1
Houston Astros 3, San Diego Padres 9
Philadelphia Phillies 2, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Minnesota Twins 0, Texas Rangers 6
A larger‐than‐expected increase in the nation’s unemployment rate sent stock prices down slightly in slower trading yesterday. At the end of trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones industrial average was off 0.68 point to 986, its high for the session.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 986.00 (-0.68, -0.07%)
Born:
Soleil Moon Frye, American TV actress (Punky Brewster; Roxie-“Sabrina, the Teenage Witch”); in Glendora, California.
Melissa George, Australian-born American film and TV actress; in Perth, Western Australia.
Travis Kalanick, American entrepreneur who co-founded the internet taxi and delivery company Uber in 2009; in Los Angeles.
Kris Wilson, MLB pitcher (Kansas City Royals, New York Yankees), in Washington, District of Columbia.
Andre Weathers, NFL defensive back (New York Giants), in Flint, Michigan.
Died:
Gregor Piatigorsky, 73, Russian-born American cellist.
Maria Klenova, 77, Soviet Russian marine geologist and Arctic explorer.
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