An intoxicated Soviet border guard shot and killed six members of a group of Estonian gas company employees, and wounded 14 others, after getting into an argument with members who were having a picnic at the scenic Cape Letitpea park on the Gulf of Finland. The shooting took place near the village of Kunda in the Estonian SSR, at the time a part of the Soviet Union. Information about the crime was not reported in the Soviet-controlled press, but a monument would be placed at the site on the 15th anniversary of the killing in the final year of the Soviet Union’s existence.
East Germany warned it might restrict West German visits if West Germany continued “agitation” over the killing of an Italian truck driver by eastern border guards. The warning came in an editorial in the official East German Communist newspaper Neues Deutschland. Relations between the two Germanys have been strained because of several recent border incidents. In the latest, an Italian trucker was killed when he tried to return across the border at Hirschberg to retrieve some papers he had left. The editorial questioned whether West Germans could be “granted the same generosity as before” in visiting East Germany.
The rioting and strikes that swept parts of Poland six weeks ago resulted from a grave miscalculation by Communist planners but left the whole nation wiser, leading Communists here assert. In fact, they say, far‐reaching reforms of the entire system may result. “It was like a terrible automobile accident,” an influential member of the Communist Party’s central committee said in an interview. “We cannot pretend it was not serious, but at least it is over, we hope, and we are moving quickly to sweep up the wreckage.” There seems to be wide agreement that the trouble resulted from the Communist Party’s having lost communication with the common man at a critical moment. This is an unusual and candid admission to come from Communist leaders themselves.
The archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Viovanni Colombo, condemned proposals to allow abortions for women whose unborn babies might have been deformed by poisonous gas which leaked from a Swiss-owned factory near Seveso July 10. Italian health officials said in Rome earlier that the government believed women could, if they chose, legally have abortions in such circumstances. Abortion generally is unlawful in Italy. But Cardinal Colombo issued a statement attacking what he called “an orchestrated abortionist campaign.” Scientists have said the poisonous gas could have deformed unborn children, particularly in the first three months of pregnancy.
A plainclothes Paris subway agent and a uniformed policeman died in an exchange of bullets in a subway station near the Eiffel Tower. Witnesses said the agent stopped two passengers of Tunisian origin. Other subway riders, apparently unaware that the man in street clothes was a subway agent authorized to carry a pistol, summoned two policemen. When they arrived, the agent opened fire, killing one of the policemen. His partner fired back and killed the agent.
Great Britain’s population decreased slightly in the past two years, and its birthrate continued the decline which began in 1947 after the postwar baby boom, according to statistics issued here recently. British women also have been having their babies at an earlier age, but waiting longer after marriage to have them. While births of twins and triplets are decreasing, the statistics show that the numbers of births of four or more babies — although still rare — are up in the past 15 years because of the use of fertility drugs. A government panel, originally designed to consider the implications of an increase in Britain’s population, estimated at nearly 56 million in 1974, now reportedly is studying the implications of a population decline.
Israel is building two long-range gunboats armed with sea-to-sea Gabriel missiles for the South African navy, according to the Israeli state radio. The report quoted unofficial sources as saying 50 South African naval men and their families have arrived in Israel and will take delivery of the boats in January.
Efforts to bring about a cease-fire in Lebanon became deadlocked. Leftists and Palestinians accused Syrian forces of deliberately delaying a cease-fire that had been scheduled for last Thursday to enable the rightists to occupy more territory. Fighting raged in Beirut’s commercial center, already devastated, and there were clashes in the suburbs and around the beleaguered Palestinian refugee camp of Tell Zaatar, where the International Red Cross has had to suspend its evacuation of the wounded. The leftist press predicted a new all-out attack on the camp by rightist Christians following the capture by Christians of the nearby Muslim enclave of Al Nabaa.
Two bombs exploded in a downtown Government office building today, injuring 14 people, and Government officials accused Libya of planning the bombings. An Egyptian who was wounded in the face and hands in one of the blasts has been arrested and accused of placing the bombs. The explosions occurred about 90 minutes apart in a fifth story toilet near the passport offices in a 12‐story Government building on Liberation Square known as the Mugamma. General Hassan Abu Basha, Assistant Minister of the Interior, charged that the bombings were “part of the sabotage operations” that President Muammar el‐Qaddafi of Libya “is trying to carry out against the Egyptians.”
Soviet fire fighters rushed into the northwest Iranian border town of Julfa to help put out a fire that broke out three days earlier in customs warehouses, Tehran newspapers reported. One paper said it was Iran’s biggest recorded fire and could be seen for nearly 20 miles. Iranian firemen thought they had it extinguished at one point, but it blazed up again later. That was when Iranian officials asked for Soviet help. Julfa was being used to receive a large amount of imports because of backlogs at seaports.
Pakistan’s refusal, despite intense American pressure, to drop plans to develop its own nuclear reprocessing plant has brought relations between the two countries to a near crisis. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrived in Lahore today for talks with Prime Minister Zulfikar All Bhutto. It was understood that Mr. Kissinger was prepared to tell Mr. Bhutto not only that the United States government would not permit the sale of fighter-bombers to Pakistan but that all American economic aid might be cut off unless the Pakistanis yielded on the issue. Reporters aboard Mr. Kissinger’s Air Force jet plane were told that the United States strongly opposed construction of the French‐designed plant on the ground that it had no economic justification and that, despite certain international safeguards, it seemed likely to raise concern that Pakistan was planning to match India, by exploding a nuclear device of its own.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger has acknowledged that it is highly probable that material supplied by the United States was used by India to become the sixth nation in the world to explode a nuclear device. The acknowledgment by Mr. Kissinger appeared to contradict State Department assertions in June that the material in question had not played a role in the Indian nuclear explosion in 1974. Mr. Kissinger, in a letter to Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff, Democrat of Connecticut, said a “misinterpretation” of assurances by the Indian Government and of technical data had led the State Department to the incorrect conclusion that no United States materials were involved in the Indian test. Consequently, Mr. Kissinger said, there is “a high probability” that heavy water supplied by the United States was used by India in the reactor that produced the plutonium for what India calls its “peaceful nuclear explosion.”
The president of the Republic of China’s National Science Foundation, Dr. Shien-siu Shu, said his country hopes to expand cooperation with other nations in the field of oceanographic research, a study important to that nation because it is an island. Shu made his comments during a visit to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, pointing out that his arm of government has previously worked with crews from Scripps in studies in the waters off Taiwan.
The Arab League and the Organization of African Unity disclosed today that they were contacting member countries to form a joint commission to investigate the Sudan’s charge that it was “invaded” by Libya last month. Both organizations had persuaded the Sudan to withdraw the complaint from the United Nations. They disliked the idea of airing another dispute before the world body. The dispute is destined to further divisions in the Arab world. Since the Sudan is inhabited in part by people with ethnic links to black Africa and also by people of mixed Arabic and African origin, black Africa is an interested party too.
Radio Uganda said President Idi Amin released 99 Kenyans from what he termed “protective custody.” They included 24 gasoline truck drivers and their assistants whose trucks were seized recently as they drove across Uganda on their way to Rwanda. Uganda’s economy was thrown into a critical state when Kenya demanded cash for delivery of oil, gasoline and other items. An agreement has been signed by the two countries aimed at restoring normal relations.
Five white Rhodesian soldiers have been killed in fighting against black nationalist forces, a military communique reported in Salisbury. The communique gave no details. But reports from the scene, on the eastern frontier 130 miles east of Salisbury, said all five were killed by mortar fire. The deaths followed the heaviest artillery attack yet by Mozambique troops into Rhodesia and the first official word from Rhodesia of Cuban involvement in the conflict. Salisbury said that, Cuban and Tanzanian military advisers, in addition to Soviet experts and Mozambique forces, were assisting the guerrillas.
Fresh rioting in a black South African township near Port Elizabeth was reported Sunday while police stood by in Soweto, ready for any renewed violence today. Police used tear gas and fired shots to break up riots in New Brighton township near the port, 600 miles southeast of Johannesburg. Officials said four blacks and eight policemen were injured, none seriously. The cause of the rioting at New Brighton was not known, but it developed after tear gas seeped into a stadium where about 5,000 blacks were watching a boxing match Saturday night. Spectators stampeded to the exits. Buses were stoned and cars, including a police car, were set on fire. Police said order was restored by Sunday morning. The township of Soweto, near Johannesburg, where students have rioted since Wednesday, was reported quiet.
President Ford said that he wants a middle-of-the-road Republican as a running mate, not someone as “extreme” as Senator Richard Schweiker, Ronald Reagan’s choice for Vice President, Mr. Ford said that putting Mr. Schweiker on the Reagan ticket “hasn’t produced results” for Mr. Reagan. The President made his remarks in an interview that was released for publication to coincide with the second anniversary of his accession to the presidency. Meantime, John Connally, who has been believed to be a likely running mate on the Ford ticket, said it was “highly questionable” whether he would agree to run for Vice President.
President Ford went to Philadelphia, where he made a brief address at the closing session of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress and he told the audience of about 100,000 Roman Catholics that he shared their concern over “the increased irreverence for life.” This remark won sustained enthusiastic applause from the listeners who apparently took it as an allusion to the anti-abortion movement. Pope Paul VI also made an address by satellite from Italy. The spectacular service, called “Statio Orbis,” or “Assembly of the World,” marked the end of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress, in which almost one million people participated. Mr. Ford, who spoke from a podium just below the altar erected at one end of the stadium here, said that quadrennial church conferences were “inspiring demonstrations of all the world’s hunger for peace and understanding.” Mr. Ford said that “for millions of men and women the [Catholic] Church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideals.” It was then that he said he shared the participants’ concern about the rising tide of “secularism.”
The mysterious respiratory disease in Pennsylvania killed two more people, bringing the number of deaths to 27. State officials and the American Legion asked everyone who attended the American Legion state convention in Philadelphia last month, where the illness is believed to have had its origin, to meet at Legion posts throughout the state tonight, where they will be asked to reply to a questionnaire relating to their activities at the convention, The answers might help an intensive investigation into the cause of the disease. Upwards of 10,000 people attended the American Legion’s state convention in Philadelphia last July 21 to 24. In the latest development in the week‐long epidemiologic investigation, officials asked delegates, family members, auxiliary members and any other persons who were at the convention to go to the Legion posts to answer 23 detailed questions about activities at the convention. The questionnaire covers all four days of the convention but some questions seem to focus on events of July 23. Eleven victims of the disease have told investigators they spent only one day, July 23, at the convention.
Clarence Kelley, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said in a television interview that he had deliberately been “deceived” by aides who withheld from him knowledge of a number of illegal burglaries by F.B.I. agents in recent years. He said that he was investigating which subordinates had participated in the deception that, he said, was “cause for concern.” “And if I find those who have knowledgeably, knowingly, intentionally deceived me, I will take some action,” he said. The 64‐year‐old director issued a statement last June 30 rescinding his previous assurances that no such burglaries by his agents had occurred since 1966, when the practice was ostensibly halted by his predecessor, the late J. Edgar Hoover.
The body of John Rosselli, an organized crime figure who had been missing 11 days, was found in a 55-gallon oil drum floating in intracoastal waters in north Miami. The Dade County chief deputy medical examiner said that there was “no doubt that it was a gangland killing.” Mr. Rosselli, who was 70 years old, last year acknowledged in Senate hearings his role in a plan by the Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba in the early 1960’s.
Contracts for aircraft wheel and brake systems totaling $26 million held by three large defense supply firms are under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, according to FTC: Watch, an independent biweekly newsletter covering the agency’s activities. The contracts were assigned in 1974 on a noncompetitive basis to the Goodrich, Goodyear and Bendix companies, and investigators are looking at whether the companies violated antitrust laws, the publication said. Goodrich is challenging the action, saying that only the secretary of the Air Force should have jurisdiction in procurement cases.
An attempt to talk militant coal miners into ending their wildcat strike was canceled by Arnold Miller, president of the United Mine Workers, because of bomb and shooting threats, he said. When Miller did not show up at a meeting he had called in Charleston, West Virginia, several hundred miners vowed at an impromptu rally to continue the protest against federal court injunctions and fines that they believe are unwarranted interference in union affairs. The strike has idled all mines in West Virginia and many in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Alabama.
Labor Secretary W. J. Usery Jr. asked negotiators in the rubber industry strike to keep talking until they reached an agreement. Representatives of the United Rubber Workers and the tire industry then talked far into the night and reconvened 11 hours later. “I hope there can be a break sometime,” one negotiator said, “before we are all exhausted.” The strike began April 21. Affected are 60,000 rubber workers in 47 Firestone, Uniroyal, Goodyear and Goodrich plants.
City governments grew less last year than in any of the past 13 years, but their payrolls increased significantly, the Bureau of the Census said. Cities added about 15,000 employees for a 0.6% growth, the smallest since 1962. Payrolls were up 7.3%, or $2.1 billion, over the previous year. Teachers make up 17.6% of all municipal employees, followed by police officers, 16.3%, and firefighters, 8.6%. The slowdown in municipal growth reversed a sharp growth trend established between 1965 and 1970, when city governments expanded by 3.3% a year.
Some federal judges are using their judicial positions to discredit civil rights laws, lobbyist Clarence Mitchell said. He cited U.S. District Judge D. Dortch Warriner in Richmond, Virginia, who had written in a recent opinion, “The primary, the only beneficiaries of affirmative action plans are the thousands of persons engaged in the civil rights business — bureaucrats, lawyers, lobbyists and politicians.” Mitchell, Washington representative for the NAACP, addressed the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which is meeting in Atlanta with the American Bar Association convention.
Seven children ranging from 3 to 8 years old were killed, along with two adults, when a train struck the church bus they were on in the town of Stratton, Nebraska. Eight other children on the bus were hospitalized. All of the victims were local residents being driven by their pastor and his wife to Sunday school at the Stratton Church of Christ.
A nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vermont, has resumed operations after being shut down for several weeks for refueling and routine maintenance. Environmental groups have raised questions about the plant’s operating license before the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The commission has been given an August 11 deadline by a federal court to study the operating license and how the plant handles nuclear wastes. The commission has asked for more time to study the matter.
Colonel Jack Brennan, former President Richard M. Nixon’s chief of staff, says Pat Nixon was reading “The Final Days,” with its negative depiction of her character, on the day she suffered a stroke. “After Watergate she was in great health. She believed in her husband,” Brennan told People magazine. “But on the day of her stroke her blood pressure was incredibly high. I don’t know if this was the cause, but she had been reading the book.” Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein write in the book of Richard M. Nixon’s last days in the White House, sometimes citing anonymous sources and sometimes citing no sources at all. Describing the book as “a fictitious novel,” Brennan said it wrongly portrayed Mrs. Nixon as “a woman who drank and was cold to her husband.” Instead, “in my opinion, here’s a woman that should be canonized right now,” he said.
Meteorologists of the National Weather Service advised residents of the New York metropolitan area last night to keep watch on a hurricane moving northward off the Atlantic coast that could drench the city and suburbs with “torrential rains” some time today or tonight. The hurricane watch — short of an actual warning — topped a weather forecast fraught with warnings of heavy downpours, increasing winds and very high tides, possibly lasting into tomorrow, even if the hurricane changes direction or falters on its way north. The storm, dubbed Belle, forced the evacuation of tourists and residents from North Carolina’s Outer Banks late yesterday as it headed north, and hurricane watches were posted up the coast to New England. The winds of the storm, moving at a rate of about 20 miles an hour, 225 miles south of Cape Hatteras, N.C., were measured at up to 110 miles an hour and gaining strength.
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Jerry Royster drove in a run with a bases-loaded single in the ninth inning to enable the Atlanta Braves to win the first game of a doubleheader, 2–1, before the San Francisco Giants came back to take the second game, 4–1, on the strength of three RBIs by Ken Reitz. Ed Halicki, who started the opener for Giants, made only one pitch before leaving the game with a bicep injury. The Giants used three relievers with the loss going to Gary Lavelle on Royster’s single after the Braves had loaded the bases with a single by Darrel Chaney and two walks. In the nightcap, Reitz batted in two runs with a single in the fourth inning and added an RBI with another single in the sixth to back up the pitching of John Montefusco (12–9).
Defying more than 100 years of professional baseball tradition, the Chicago White Sox became the first team to wear short pants for summer games. The White Sox suit up in Bermuda shorts for the first game of a doubleheader with the Royals — the idea of maverick owner Bill Veeck. The shorts split, the Sox taking the opener 5–2 and losing the nightcap 7–1. Terry Forster pitched six scoreless innings for the White Sox in the lidlifter and gained the victory to end his personal eight-game losing streak. Jack Brohamer drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single in the sixth inning and the White Sox added two more tallies in the seventh on singles by Ralph Garr and Jim Spencer. The Royals clinched the nightcap with a five-run outburst in the third. Singles by Tom Poquette and George Brett around a pass to Ruppert Jones produced the first run. After John Mayberry walked to load the bases, Hal McRae cleared the sacks with a triple and then scored himself on a wild pitch. Dave Nelson stole home for another Royals’ run in the eighth.
After winning the first game, 2–1, on an error in the ninth inning, the Tigers piled up a pair of seven-run stanzas in the second game and walloped the Indians, 15–5, to complete the sweep of a doubleheader. In the opener, Ron LeFlore doubled to lead off the Tigers’ ninth. Dan Meyer laid down a bunt and when Dave LaRoche threw wildly past third base, LeFlore came home with the winning run. In the nightcap, Bill Freehan paced the Tigers’ 15-hit attack with two doubles and a single, driving in four runs, while Chuck Scrivener accounted for three RBIs with three hits including his first major league homer.
The Reds increased their West Division lead to 13 lengths over the runner-up Dodgers by completing a sweep of the four-game series with a 3–2 victory. Jack Billingham (9–8) allowed only five hits, including homers by Dusty Baker and Ron Cey for the Dodgers’ runs, before Rawly Eastwick took over to retire the final batter of the game. The Reds counted twice in the fifth inning. Cesar Geronimo walked and stole second and third before scoring on a single by Bill Plummer. Billingham then helped himself with a double, driving in his catcher. The Reds added what proved to be winning the run in the sixth when Joe Morgan doubled and George Foster singled for his 98th RBI.
While Steve Renko was holding his former teammates to five hits, Bill Madlock and Steve Swisher batted in two runs apiece to lead the Cubs to a 7–1 victory over the Expos. The Cubs started with a gift run in the first inning on a pass to Manny Trillo with the bases loaded. Madlock accounted for his two RBIs with a double in the second. Swisher homered with a man on base in the sixth when the Cubs put the game away with a four-run outburst.
The Orioles jumped on Catfish Hunter (12–12) for four runs in the first inning and proceeded to defeat the Yankees, 8–5. An infield hit by Al Bumbry and homer by Reggie Jackson accounted for the Orioles’ first two runs before they added another pair on singles by Lee May and Ken Singleton, a wild pitch and single by Tony Muser. Bumbry drove in a run with a single and scored himself on a passed ball in the fourth before the Orioles iced the decision in the ninth when May drove in two runs with a single.
The Athletics showed power with six homers and speed with 10 stolen bases while defeating the Angels in a doubleheader, 9–3 and 13–8. In the opener, Don Baylor and Billy Williams hit for the circuit, while it was the turn of Sal Bando, Joe Rudi, Gene Tenace and Phil Garner to show their muscle in the nightcap. The A’s 10 stolen bases increased their season’s total to 253 in a drive to break the American League record of 289 by Washington in 1913.
Staked to a four-run lead in the first inning, Mickey Lolich pitched the Mets to a 7–4 victory over the Pirates. The first two runs in the Mets’ fast getaway scored on a single by Pepe Mangual, triple by Mike Vail and infield out by John Milner. Joe Torre followed with a single, Jerry Grote doubled and Roy Staiger was passed intentionally to load the bases, setting the stage for two more runs on a single by Leo Foster and walk to Bud Harrelson. The Mets added their winning margin in the seventh on a walk to Milner, single by Torre, double by Grote, intentional pass to Staiger and double by Foster. Richie Zisk drove in two of the Pirates’ runs with a homer and single.
Completing a sweep of the four-game series, the Padres scored a run on a bases-loaded single by Hector Torres with two out in the ninth inning to defeat the Astros, 4–3. The Padres were held to one hit by J.R. Richard until the eighth when Bob Davis walked, Johnny Grubb singled and Willie McCovey came through with a pinch-homer to tie the score at 3–3. In the ninth, Tito Fuentes bunted safely and raced around to third on a wild throw by Enos Cabell. Richard, on the mound for the Astros, issued two intentional passes to load the bases and retired the next two batters before Torres pinned him with the defeat. Padres rookie Butch Metzger (10–0) is credited with the victory over the Astros, his 10th win without a defeat. With a victory in each of the past 2 seasons, Metzger’s mark of 12–0 to start a career matches Hooks Wiltse, in 1904. Metzger will lose his last 4 decisions this year.
Pinch-hitter Jerry Martin delivered a sacrifice fly in the ninth inning, scoring Johnny Oates, to bring the Phillies a 3–2 victory over the Cardinals. With one out, Greg Luzinski singled and gave way on the paths to Jim Kaat. Jay Johnstone followed with a ground-rule double. Kaat stumbled and fell on his way to third base. Taking no chances that Kaat might be hurt, manager Danny Ozark sent Oates in as the new runner. Al Hrabosky replaced Eric Rasmussen on the mound for the Cards and walked Ollie Brown intentionally, but Martin thwarted Redbird hopes for a double play with his sacrifice fly. Steve Carlton (13–4) got the victory.
A run-scoring single by Jeff Burroughs in the ninth inning gave the Rangers a 5–4 victory over the Twins. Jim Sundberg drove in three of the Rangers’ first four runs with a pair of singles. After the Twins tied the score in the top half of the ninth with a double by Steve Brye and single by Steve Braun, Gene Clines led off with a single for the Rangers and Danny Thompson sacrificed. Following an intentional pass to Mike Hargrove, Burroughs ended the game with his single.
The scheduled game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Red Sox at Boston was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on September 21.
San Francisco Giants 1, Atlanta Braves 2
San Francisco Giants 4, Atlanta Braves 1
Kansas City Royals 2, Chicago White Sox 5
Kansas City Royals 7, Chicago White Sox 1
Cleveland Indians 1, Detroit Tigers 2
Cleveland Indians 5, Detroit Tigers 15
Cincinnati Reds 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Chicago Cubs 7, Montreal Expos 1
Baltimore Orioles 8, New York Yankees 5
California Angels 3, Oakland Athletics 9
California Angels 8, Oakland Athletics 13
New York Mets 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Houston Astros 3, San Diego Padres 4
Philadelphia Phillies 3, St. Louis Cardinals 2
Minnesota Twins 4, Texas Rangers 5
Born:
(Joshua) “JC” Chasez, American pop singer (*NSYNC — “Bye Bye Bye”), in Bowie, Maryland.
Drew Lachey, American pop singer (98 Degrees — “Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)”, “Because of You”), in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Laura Kuenssberg, British journalist, first female Political Editor of BBC News (2015-22), and host of Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, in Rome, Italy.
Tawny Cypress, American stage and screen actress (“Unforgettable”), in Point Pleasant, New Jersey.
Aleksandar Radojević, Montenegrin NBA center (Toronto Raptors, Utah Jazz), in Herceg Novi, S.R. Montenegro.
Died:
John Roselli, 70, hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered.
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