A Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer is shot dead by the British Army as he drives in Belfast; his car goes out of control and kills three children, sparking “peace rallies” throughout the month by the ‘Peace People’. British troops fired at three men shooting rifles from a speeding car in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The car, its driver hit, crashed into a front yard, killing an 8-year-old girl and a 6-week-old boy in a baby carriage. The incident came on the third day of continuing violence in Belfast as gangs of gun-toting youths hijacked vehicles and set them afire to block roads. The latest 36-hour period had 62 hijackings, 55 attacks on police, 27 attacks on troops, 20 bombings, 30 shooting incidents in which nine persons were injured, one of them a soldier.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said today that neither Greece nor Turkey would be justified in using force to resolve their dispute over oil rights in the Aegean Sea. Taking time out from a “rest stop” near here, Mr. Kissinger made his first comment on the rising tensions in the Aegean between the traditional rivals. He told a few reporters outside the luxurious stud farm where he is staying today that the United States has “practically in daily contact” with both Greece and Turkey. “I believe this must be settled peacefully,” he said. “There is no legal basis for military action” by either side. When he flies to The Hague tomorrow for talks with Dutch officials, he said, he will raise the matter because it is “the responsibility of Europeans as well as the United States” to avoid a conflict.
Former President Antonio de Spinola of Portugal returned to Lisbon today 17 months after he flew into exile in the wake of an abortive right‐wing coup attempt. Mr. Spinola, who was stripped of his rank of general when he fled the country, was met at the airport by Lisbon’s police chief and whisked away to the prison fort of Caxias on the outskirts of Lisbon. He was taken into custody there by military authorities. “Spinola is a Portuguese citizen and will have to answer to the law for his acts as any other citizen,” Prime Minister Mario Soares, a Socialist, declared as he entered the National Assembly for the final debate on his Government’s program. Mr. Soares, who came to office at the end of last month with an appeal for “national reconciliation,” told reporters today that he thought it was better for oppositionists to be inside the country rather than “waving their flags outside.” The man who at one time was a national hero arrived here unannounced and virtually unnoticed. One of the few who saw him arrive said that Mr. Spinola, 66 years old, was not wearing his characteristic monocle but instead had on dark glasses. He made no statement to the press but calmly accompanied two army officers to a waiting car.
The Government in Rome approved a $48.4 million emergency fund today to carry out decontamination and health measures in the region of northern Italy affected by a poison gas cloud a month ago. The measure was approved during a 90‐minute meeting of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti’s Cabinet. Treasury Minister Gaetano Stammati said $47.9 million was allocated for general decontamination and health measures and $479,000 was designated specifically for Health Ministry medical projects for affected residents. Health Minister Luciano Dal Falco said part of the funds would be used to set up a special clinic near Seveso, north of Milan, to monitor the effects of the poison gas released from the Swiss‐owned Icmesa chemical plant when a safety valve burst July 10.
Fire swept the Hotel d’Amerique in Paris, killing 11 persons and injuring nine, most of them tourists. Nationalities of the victims were not immediately known. The fire broke out in a ground floor restaurant and spread up the stairs to upper floors of the five-story hotel, fire department officials said. Many of the guests were evacuated on ladders, but others panicked and jumped to their deaths.
The policy-making body of the World Council of Churches met to consider a report by independent researchers in Britain, The Netherlands and Switzerland that charged the Soviet Union with continuing persecution of religious believers. The report said that Soviet “discrimination against the church, against any form of religious belief, is woven into the very fabric of the structure of the state.” There had been implied warnings that the six Soviet churches in the 286-member council might withdraw if the religious freedom inquiry were pressed too hard.
Army Secretary Martin Hoffmann told the House Armed Services Committee that he had opposed the Pentagon decision to develop a new hybrid U.S.-German tank, recommending against the project to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. “In other words. Rumsfeld turned you around.” Rep. Samuel S. Stratton (DN.Y.) said. “There was a process of consultation,” Hoffmann replied.
Israeli authorities reversed themselves and announced plans to court-martial a soldier involved in the slaying of a teen-age Arab girl during last spring’s unrest in the occupied West Bank. The soldier was not identified. Lena Nabulsi, 16, was killed May 16 during a demonstration in Nablus. The military said at the time that she was killed accidentally when warning shots were fired. Arab witnesses said she was deliberately shot.
Right-wing Christian forces today began a new attack against the Palestinian camp of Tell Zaatar, which has been under siege for 49 days. A rightist broadcast reported the launching of the offensive from three points around the camp, which is situated inside the Christian enclave in the southeastern suburbs of Beirut. The broadcast said the attacking troops had gained new positions and occupied the central office of the militant guerrilla organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The radio said the attack was provoked by continued firing from the camp.
Iran is negotiating with Britain to barter Iranian oil for as much as $600 million in British-made arms, according to well-placed Iranian and Western officials. It is being suggested that the negotiations are being used in part as a reminder that Iran can buy arms from West European countries if snubbed by the United States. General Hassan Toufanian, who has had high praise for United States weapons in the past, could not be reached today. Asked about the deal, an aide said, “I won’t be able to say anything about that.” But the Shah said at a news conference here last week that his Government would shop elsewhere if its armaments supplies from the United States were curtailed. He rejected criticism in a recent Senate subcommittee report of United States arms sales to Iran, which are expected to amount to $10 billion from 1975 through 1980.
India’s Parliament convened in New Delhi with most of the opposition party members boycotting the session. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s Congress Party held the overwhelming majority of the 521 seats in Lok Sabha, with 352 overall or more than two-thirds, and planned to enact amendments to the constitution to enhance Mrs. Gandhi’s authoritarian powers. We see no point in lending legitimacy to the Government by our presence in there,” an opposition member explained as he stood in a corridor outside the ornate green‐carpeted chamber. “They will ride roughshod over us in any case.”
Meanwhile, it was disclosed that the former Chief Minister of the west‐coast state of Gujarat, a focus of opposition to Mrs. Gandhi’s authoritarian Government, was arrested there yesterday. The former official, Babubhai Patel, was arrested along with a member of the federal Parliament and several dozen others when they shouted anti-Government slogans as part of a celebration of the 34th anniversary of the beginning of the “quit India movement,” which led to the end of British rule.
Delegates from about 80 countries prepared an agenda for a summit conference of nonaligned nations in Colombo. Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). The agenda is expected to include the question of helping in the reconstruction of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The conference also likely I will hear a North Korean demand that American forces withdraw from South Korea and consider such “colonial problems” as the future of the Panama Canal. President Tito of Yugoslavia and Prime Ministers Fidel Castro of Cuba and Indira Gandhi of India are expected to attend the summit, which opens Monday.
Chinese press reports and the accounts of foreigners who were traveling in the area when a severe earthquake struck China two weeks ago seem to verify that Tangshan, the mining city of one million people about 100 miles southeast of Peking, has been virtually destroyed and will have to be completely rebuilt. There are also indications that Tientsin, China’s third largest municipal area, situated about 50 miles southwest of Tangshan, has suffered much more serious damage than originally reported. A group of Danish travelers who were in Tangshan when the earthquake struck told officials at their Embassy here that all the buildings in the western half of Tangshan were destroyed.
The government of Australia established the resort town of Yulara in the Northern Territory in order to protect Ayers Rock and provide tourist accommodations near the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park. The proclamation was made by Evan Adermann, the Minister for the Northern Territory.
Rhodesian forces have killed more than 300 black nationalist guerrillas at a camp in Mozambique used as a base for attacks on Rhodesia, according to a statement from the Rhodesian government. It said 30 Mozambican soldiers and 10 civilians were also killed in Sunday’s raid about 20 miles south of the border town of Umtali, while Rhodesians suffered only slight wounds. It was the first confirmed incursion into Mozambique since Prime Minister Ian Smith announced that he had authorized frontier crossing in hot pursuit.
Britain has begun a quiet diplomatic initiative with United States support to obtain a constitutional settlement and prevent racial warfare in South-West Africa, where a majority black population is controlled by the white regime in South Africa. A British diplomat has been meeting with African leaders to insure that the wishes of the South-West Africa People’s Organization, a radical black group thus far excluded from constitutional talks there, are reflected in any settlement that is reached.
Ronald Reagan’s managers in Kansas City are probing for weaknesses in President Ford’s defenses, hoping to inflict an early and psychologically damaging defeat on the incumbent when the Republican National Convention opens next week. This could be a floor fight on some procedural question that might lure some of Mr. Ford’s delegates or stir enough passions to cloud the outcome. Meanwhile, Mr. Ford still held a clear but undecisive lead.
A subcommittee of the Republican Party’s Platform Committee approved tonight a plank supporting the efforts of those seeking “a constitutional amendment to restore the protection of the right to life for unborn children.” The proposed plank, which was approved by a vote of 13 to 1, acknowledged that the abortion issue was, “most difficult” and that opinions on abortion were sharply divided. Nonetheless, the panel protested the Supreme Court’s decision permitting abortion as “an intrusion into the family structure.” The anti‐abortion plank was the first controversial provision approved as subcommittees of the Platform Committee began constructing a platform for the convention here next week. The subcommittee’s proposed plank is still subject to approval by the full platform committee and could be modified.
President Ford will consult Ronald Reagan and other Republican opponents of the President’s candidacy before making a final selection of a campaign running mate, authoritative White House officials said today. The senior aides said that the consultation, meant to foster party harmony, was central reason for Mr. Ford’s refusal to designate a prospective running mate, as Mr. Reagan has done, before the Republican National Convention next week settles their contest for the Presidential nomination. The disclosure of the President’s planned overture to the Reagan forces came as one close associate of Mr. Ford identified seven Republicans as leading prospects on a longer list of potential Ford ticket mates.
The House of Representatives passed the long-delayed energy bill by 293 to 88 and sent it to President Ford, who was said to be likely to sign it. The measure would allow increases in domestic oil prices that would cost consumers an estimated $1 billion a year more for home heating oil and gasoline. It would give American oil companies an incentive to increase domestic production from marginal wells, reducing reliance on imported crude oil.
The bill to end the impasse over insurance protection for vaccine manufacturers and others involved in the national immunization program against swine influenza was passed by the Senate in a voice vote and in the House of Representatives by a vote of 250 to 83. President Ford had telephoned House leaders to urge approval.
The House voted for the third time in less than two months to bar use of federal funds to perform abortions. The action came as the House approved a compromise $56.6 billion appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare. The Senate can accept the ban or seek a new compromise bill. No action is expected until Congress returns August 23 from its recess for the Republican National Convention. More than 275,000 of the million abortions reported performed last year were for women on welfare or eligible for federally subsidized medical care, the House was told.
The new Senate Intelligence Committee approved a bill that would force U.S. agencies to obtain judicial warrants for virtually all wiretapping for foreign intelligence and national security purposes. It was the first legislative act by the panel, which was set up less than three months ago as a permanent body to replace the Select Committee on intelligence. The measure was proposed by President Ford after charges were made that the government had undertaken wiretapping for domestic political purposes. It would require executive agencies to apply to the attorney general for authority to use wire taps.
A revamping of the food stamp program was approved by the House Agriculture Committee, which said about 461,250 families would be disqualified and students and workers on strike would be banned from benefits. The federal costs of the program would be cut by about $80 million and state costs would increase about $120 million. In the House committee version about 1.51 million households would see their benefits cut about $5 a month and 2.65 million would see an increase of about $5. No action on the bill is expected in the House until after the Labor Day recess. The Senate passed a less far-ranging reform bill April 9.
The daughter and son-in-law of Mark T. Sheehan, an information officer for the Justice Department, have been reported missing in the Pacific. Sheehan has asked that the department’s criminal division investigate the possibility that their boat was hijacked by drug smugglers. Cordelia and Michael McMinn, both 26, have not been heard from since they left Hanalei, Hawaii, on May 12 aboard their white-sailed trimaran, Drum, bound for Port Angeles, Wash. The trip normally would take 30 to 45 days.
The International Women’s Year Commission, created last year by Congress, was enjoined from spending federal funds to promote the equal rights amendment. A group called Stop ERA had sought the injunction, charging that the commission used state organizations that were set up to promote the Women’s Year to lobby for ratification of the rights amendment. U.S. Dist. Judge Robert D. Morgan ruled in Peoria, Illinois, that individual commission members were entitled to speak their opinions but that they had no right “to appear that they are testifying on behalf of the U.S. government.”
Four cadets at the U.S. Military Academy were found guilty of cheating on an electrical engineering takehome examination, bringing to 66 the number of West Point cadets convicted of cheating. A total of 182 cadets has been implicated in the scandal. Boards of officers have cleared 31 and charges against 17 were dismissed. Twelve cadets have resigned and one cadet who was accused of cheating was separated from the academy for reasons not related to the scandal.
A board of West Point officers hearing appeals from guilty verdicts under the honor code at the United States Military Academy recommended to its superintendent a major investigation of “widespread cheating.” This surprised cadets and Army lawyers who have been calling for such an inquiry. The board further recommended testimonial immunity to guilty cadets to facilitate the investigation; recall of some recent graduates to face possible court martial for allegedly attempting to subvert the cadet honor committee and permitting a penalty expulsion for violators.
Scientists in Pasadena, California, agreed that the result so far of the Viking 1 search for evidence of life processes on Mars has been a cloud of ambiguities. Biology readings show an active chemistry in Martian soil and have spurred the first steps to mimic the new-found conditions in laboratories on earth. But neither the biology instruments nor a related organic chemistry probe, which has not yet delivered any data, has indicated whether the chemistry detected results from recognizable life forms or from unusual inorganic processes stimulated by ultraviolet rays from the sun.
Hurricane Belle blew into history over New England, leaving less property damage in the New York metropolitan region than had been expected. It appeared to have spared human lives, in large measure because hundreds of thousands left coastal communities. A Long Island woman killed by a falling tree was the only death directly due to the hurricane in the area, while in Huntington, Vermont, a woman and her seven-year-old son were drowned. Twelve people altogether were killed by the storm and damage was $100 million.
“Annie,” one of the most successful musicals of the 1970s, was given its premiere performance, making its debut off-Broadway at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, with 13-year-old Kristen Vigard in the title role and 12-year-old Andrea McArdle as one of Annie’s fellow orphans. After one week, McArdle replaced Vigard as Annie prior to the musical’s Broadway debut on April 21, 1977.
Elton John performs the first of seven sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden, NYC, to conclude his North American tour.
Major League Baseball:
The first American League pitcher to win 15 games this season, Jim Palmer yielded only one hit while pitching the Orioles to a 2–0 victory over the Twins. Mike Cubbage singled in second inning for the Twins’ safety. A walk to Ken Singleton and double by Tony Muser produced the Orioles’ initial run in the second inning. Mark Belanger registered the other counter by doubling in the fifth, taking third on a flyout and crossing the plate on a passed ball by Butch Wynegar.
The Angels rallied for two runs in the ninth inning, with their winning tally coming on an error, to defeat the Red Sox, 5–4. Tony Solaita, who had hit a two-run homer in the sixth, led off the ninth with a double. After a bunt by Leroy Stanton, pinch-runner Rusty Torres came home on a sacrifice fly by Bob Jones to tie the score. The Angels kept the inning going with singles by Terry Humphrey and Ron Jackson. Tommy Davis then hit a grounder to Butch Hobson and when the third baseman threw wildly, trying for a forceout at second, Humphrey scored the winning run.
Getting a lift from batterymate Steve Swisher, who hit a three-run homer in the second inning, Ray Burris gained credit for his fifth straight victory when the Cubs defeated the Reds, 6–3. Swisher’s blow followed singles by Pete LaCock and Manny Trillo. The Cubs added a run in the fifth on a single by Rick Monday and double by Jose Cardenal before the Reds got all their counters on a single by Ken Griffey and homers by Joe Morgan and Dan Driessen in the sixth. The Cubs came back to clinch the decision with two runs in their half of the sixth on a single by LaCock and doubles by Rob Sperring and Mick Kelleher. Bruce Sutter pitched the last 1 ⅔ innings in relief of Burris and picked up his sixth save.
Rusty Staub, who raised his career RBI total to 1,002, drove in three runs with a double in the eighth inning to bring the Tigers a 7–5 victory in the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, but the Bengals’ bats were stilled in the second game as they lost to the Rangers, 3–0. Jason Thompson also had three RBIs for the Tigers in the lidlifter, driving in runs with a single, fielder’s choice and homer. Two Ranger relievers blew a 5–4 lead in the eighth. Jeff Terpko issued two walks and Joe Hoerner gave up another to load the bases before Staub lashed his triple. Dave Lemanczyk, who started and lost the previous night’s game to the Rangers, returned in relief of Dave Roberts, pitched four scoreless innings and gained credit for the victory. Steve Hargan, making only his sixth start of the season, hurled the shutout for the Rangers in the nightcap. Tom Grieve homered in the second inning and doubled and scored in the fourth to lead the Rangers at bat.
Thurman Munson broke the Yankees’ four-game losing streak by smashing a homer with two out in the 11th inning to beat the Royals, 2–1. The homer was only the second given up by Steve Mingori, Royals’ reliever, this season. The Yankees counted their initial run in the fourth on singles by Lou Piniella and Chris Chambliss, together with a sacrifice fly by Graig Nettles. Al Cowens hit an inside-the-park homer for the Royals to tie the score in the seventh. Dock Ellis (12–6) is the winning pitcher.
Atoning for two errors on one play in the seventh inning, Earl Williams drove in a run with a triple in the bottom half of the frame to give the Expos a 3–2 victory over the Giants. Larry Parrish accounted for the Expos’ first two runs with a homer in the third. The Giants, who had scored a run on a single by Ken Reitz in the second, pulled even in the seventh when Williams, playing first base, bobbled a grounder by Darrell Evans and then threw wildly. Evans reached third and scored on a double by Reitz. However, Williams came back with his triple to drive in Gary Carter with the Expos’ winning run.
Randy Jones, the Padres’ 18-game winner, suffered his third straight defeat and seventh of the season, losing to the Mets, 5–4, in an encounter with Jerry Koosman, who raised his record to 14–7 with his eighth victory in his last nine starts. The Mets jumped on Jones for four runs in the second inning with Koosman hitting a single to account for two RBIs. The Padres came back with a four-run rally in the third and the tie persisted until the eighth when the Mets broke the deadlock. Joe Torre led off with a single and gave way to pinch-runner Leo Foster. Jerry Grote sacrificed. Foster stopped at third on a single by Roy Staiger and crossed the plate on a single by pinch-hitter John Milner.
A single by Joe Rudi in the ninth inning for the 1,000th hit of his major league career paved the way for an unearned run that enabled the Athletics to nip the Brewers, 2–1. The A’s scored initially on singles by Billy Williams, Ken McMullen and Bill North in the third and the Brewers tied the score in the fourth with a walk to Charlie Moore, single by George Scott and sacrifice fly by Sixto Lezcano. In the ninth, Rudi yielded the paths to pinch-runner Matt Alexander after hitting his single. Sal Bando then bunted to Jim Slaton, who threw to first, but Gary Sutherland, who was covering on the play, let the ball get through him and Alexander raced around the bases to score the A’s winning run.
Phil Niekro (12–8) drove in his own winning run with a double in the seventh inning but then needed relief help in the ninth before the Braves defeated the Phillies, 2–1. Singles by Willie Montanez, Cito Gaston and Dave May produced the Braves’ first run in the fifth. Vic Correll tripled with two out in the seventh and scored on Niekro’s double. The Phillies began the ninth with a safe bunt by Mike Schmidt and pass to Greg Luzinski. Mike Marshall, in relief, picked Schmidt off second, but gave up a single by Jay Johnstone. Adrian Devine took over and retired the side after Larry Bowa singled to drive in the Phillies’ run.
The Dodgers rebounded from their no-hit loss to John Candelaria in the previous night’s game and defeated the Pirates, 5–1, to snap a six-game losing streak. The Dodgers loaded the bases against Jerry Reuss on two hits and an error in the fourth inning and scored their first two runs on a single by Lee Lacy and sacrifice fly by Dusty Baker. Another bases-loaded situation developed in the fifth and this time Ron Cey tripled to clear the sacks. The Pirates’ lone run came on a homer by Bill Robinson in the seventh. Don Sutton (13–9) got the win.
The Cardinals jumped on Bo McLaughlin for four runs in the first inning and beat the Astros, 8–1, behind the pitching of Lynn McGlothen, who turned in his first complete-game victory since July 2. Lou Brock doubled, Ted Simmons walked, Keith Hernandez tripled and Joe Ferguson, Don Kessinger and Hector Cruz singled in the Cards’ first-inning outburst. Hernandez batted in a run with a single in the fifth for his third RBI of the game when the Cardinals scored three times to wrap up the decision.
Minnesota Twins 0, Baltimore Orioles 2
Boston Red Sox 4, California Angels 5
Cincinnati Reds 3, Chicago Cubs 6
Texas Rangers 5, Detroit Tigers 7
Texas Rangers 3, Detroit Tigers 0
New York Yankees 2, Kansas City Royals 1
San Francisco Giants 2, Montreal Expos 3
San Diego Padres 4, New York Mets 5
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Oakland Athletics 2
Atlanta Braves 2, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Houston Astros 1, St. Louis Cardinals 8
Strength in some blue-chip and glamour issues enabled the stock market yesterday to post its best gain in more than a month, with the Dow Jones industrial average finishing ahead 9.97 points at 993.43, its high for the session.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 993.43 (+9.97, +1.01%)
Born:
Samari Rolle, NFL cornerback (Pro Bowl, 2000; Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens), in Miami, Florida.
Patrick Johnson, NFL wide receiver (NFL champions, Super Bowl, 35-Ravens, 2000; Baltimore Ravens, Jacksonville Jaguars, Washington Redskins), in Gainesville, Georgia.
Lloyd Lee, NFL defensive back (San Diego Chargers), in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Roadkill [Michael Depoli], American professional wrestler, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Died:
Ray “Crash” Corrigan (stage name for Raymond Benitz), 74, American film actor and stuntman known for the “Tucson Smith” and “Crash Corrigan” series of B-movie westerns.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 91, German expressionist painter.
Jimmy Casella, 52, American gambler and primary money-winner of the 1974 World Series of Poker, died of a drug overdose.
