A pair of terrorists attacked a group of airline passengers waiting to board El Al Flight 582 at Istanbul’s Yesilkoy Airport, where they were planning to fly to Tel Aviv in Israel. Four passengers — two Israelis, one Japanese and one Spaniard — were killed and 20 others wounded when the guerrillas threw hand grenades and fired submachine guns. The Turkish police shot it out with terrorists apparently trying to attack the aircraft. The semi-official Anatolia news agency said two were captured and identified themselves as Palestinians. The plane was undamaged and flew on to Israel, where a passenger told reporters the terrorists were in line with other passengers at the baggage check station when one of their suitcases blew up.
The president of a Swiss drug-making firm at whose Seveso, Italy, plant an explosion released a cloud of poison gas last month said his firm will pay for all damages. The costs may include those resulting from destruction of all contaminated buildings and vegetation in the area, which has been recommended by an Italian government commission investigating the disaster. Thirty persons were hospitalized and hundreds of birds and animals were killed by the gas. About 800 people were evacuated from the area.
The Soviet press agency Tass today characterized as a “hostile, slanderous campaign” recent allegations in the United States that the Soviet Union might have violated the spirit of a treaty on underground nuclear tests by detonating two devices last month possibly exceeding the 150-kiloton limit. Tass complained that the Soviet Embassy in Washington yesterday “was forced to refute the inventions of two American newsmen” about the supposed violations. Tass did not directly deny the charges themselves or further identify the newsmen or their “inventions.” The Tass commentary did not refer specifically to the reported tests but also did not deny they had taken place. It left open the crucial question of the magnitude of the blasts.
Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin, 72, is too ill to meet with visiting Japanese businessmen, Japanese sources reported in Moscow. Soviet authorities gave no indication of the nature of the illness or how serious it was, the Japanese said. Kosygin was reportedly being treated in a Moscow hospital.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was asked at an impromptu news conference last night at The Hague whether he thought President Ford would defeat Ronald Reagan next week and Jimmy Carter in November. It was not the kind of question that Mr. Kissinger liked to answer overseas but it was also one he could not avoid, because the ‘coming elections are prominently on foreigners’ minds. After saying that his expertise is in foreign affairs and that “my judgment in domestic affairs has not been infallible,” he told the French journalist who had asked: “I am confident that President Ford will be nominated and hopeful that he will be elected.” It was not a statement to win points with Mr. Ford’s political advisers, who prefer a more optimistic public attitude toward November but it was apparently the best Mr. Kissinger felt he could do.
Italy’s Chamber of Deputies gave a vote of confidence to Premier Guilio Andreotti’s government, completing parliamentary approval of Italy’s new Christian Democrat administration. The government passed the tests in the chamber, and in the Senate last week, after the Communist Party decided to abstain and not to vote against a Christian Democrat-led government for the first time in 29 years. The vote in the chamber was 258 in favor, 44 against and 303 abstentions.
The Socialist Government’s program for political and economic recovery was approved tonight by the National Assembly. The Communist Party strongly criticized much of the Government program, and there were mild objections from the liberals and conservatives. But none of the opposition parties moved to reject the program during the five days of parliamentary debate. Even if such a motion had been presented, it probably would not have obtained the necessary majority because that would have meant liberals and conservatives voting with the Communists. Prime Minister Mario Soares argued that his Government’s program for orderly and progressive reform was the only solution to the breakdown in Portugal’s economic and social structures after the overthrow of the rightist dictatorship on April 25, 1974. The Communists attacked the program for “opening the way to a Capitalist recovery” and the conservative Social Democratic Center protested that there were insufficient guarantees for the private sector. But none of the groups presented an alternative.
One man was killed in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in a shooting incident on the eve of an annual march by Protestants. The British army said the incident involved a clash between troops and a sniper. The man killed was identified as a Catholic in his 20s. The death increased tension among Catholics already angry over the refusal of British authorities to cancel today’s march in commemoration of the 1689 defense of Londonderry by Protestants against a Catholic siege.
Thirteen people were killed and seven injured as a fire swept through the six-floor Hotel d’Amerique in Paris. Most of the victims were immigrant workers from Morocco and Algeria. As with most hotels in France at the time, the hotel had no fire escape; nine people died in their rooms or in hallways while two others died after jumping from their rooms. The blaze was the most deadly of five low-rate hotel fires that had been deliberately set since June.
France will save 330,000 tons of oil this summer through the introduction of daylight savings time, Industry Minister Michel d’Ornano said. In reply to a parliamentary question, he said that the extra hour of daylight in the evening had saved about 1% on electricity consumption since March 28. He added that next year Belgium, Luxembourg and Holland will join France in summer daylight savings time.
The Christians and Muslims of Lebanon have begun in effect to partition the country by setting up state administrations in their respective territories. Although leaders on both sides still declare they want a single Lebanon, the latest attacks by the Christian forces have sought to eliminate two Muslim positions separating Christian-held territory in Beirut’s eastern suburbs from Christian-held areas to the east and north. One of the two islands, the fortified Palestinian camp of Tell Zaatar, is still holding out. The other, a Muslim slum neighborhood called Nabaa was overrun last week and most of the population has fled. “This time we want things to be neat and clear,” a young official of the Phalange, the largest Christian party, said. “We want no armed Muslims and no large Muslim population in our area ever again.” Like many other Lebanese Christians, he added, “I don’t want to ever be stopped again at a roadblock by an armed Palestinian asking me for my Lebanese papers.” That Palestinian guerrillas conducted identity controls outside the refugee camps before the war keeps cropping up in bitter conversations.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger called today for new talks to end Lebanon’s civil war, with United States participation if necessary. Ending a six‐nation tour of Europe and Asia, Mr. Kissinger also said that at a news conference here that the United States and all European countries had an obligation to prevent the Aegean Sea oil dispute between Greece and Turkey from flaring into a “catastrophe” of violence. He also warned that “time is clearly running out” to avert violence in southern Africa. Mr. Kissinger said he supported Syrian proposals for a redistribution of power in Lebanon between Christians and Moslems but disapproved of Syria’s armed intervention in the 16‐month‐old civil war.
The Sri Lanka government has prepared a draft of a final resolution for the nonaligned summit conference that is expected to come under attack because of its moderate tone and mild treatment of Western nations. Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) is host nation for the conference of about 83 Third World countries. Its draft declaration contains little in the way of denunciations of the United States and makes only a brief attack on Israel. Heads of state, including Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba and President Tito of Yugoslavia, will arrive Monday to discuss the policy statement.
South Korean police have seized eight Presbyterian ministers and one other person in Kwagju, 200 miles south of Seoul, for questioning about a statement critical of the government, sources reported. The sources said the nine were detained after issuing the statement during a prayer meeting at Yanglim church in the provincial capital. The statement called for the abolition of South Korea’s controversial constitution.
David Jimenez Sarmiento, alias “El Chano”, leader of the Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre rebels in Mexico, was shot and killed while he and three other members attempted to kidnap the sister of Mexico’s President. Margarita López Portillo, sister of outgoing President José López Portillo, was being driven through Mexico City when three men and a woman emerged from a taxicab ahead of them and fired on the car, which crashed into a drug store. Jimenez Sarmiento was killed in the gunbattle that followed, along with one of Margarita López’s bodyguards.
The State Department said it has protested to the Argentine government because U.S. Embassy officials were denied permission to talk to a jailed American Roman Catholic priest. The military government said the Rev. James Martin Weeks, of Hartford, Conn., is being held incommunicado. He and five Latin American seminarians were arrested a week ago and accused of subversive activity after soldiers said they found “extensive Marxist-Leninist literature and a phonograph record with subversive chants” at a seminary in Cordoba.
Rhodesia accused Mozambique’s regular forces today of having carried out mortar bombardments this morning on the border city of Umtali and a Rhodesian police post to the south. An official communiqué declared that Mozambican troops had been responsible for the mortar attack on Umtali from across the border three miles away. Two African civilians were the only people injured in the bombardment, the communiqué said, adding, “Minor damage was caused to government installations, with more serious damage to civilian property.” The communiqué said that at the same time as the Umtali attack, mortar fire was directed at the Vila Salazar police post, about 250 miles south of the city. The bombardments were an apparent reprisal for a weekend raid by Rhodesian forces on a guerrilla base in Mozambique, in which the Rhodesians say they wiped out more than 300 black nationalist guerrillas, 30 Mozambican troops and 10 civilians.
Seventeen blacks were killed and 50 injured in racial disturbances that erupted in the black townships around Cape Town in South Africa. Police said that blacks burned buildings, looted liquor stores and attacked cars. Heavily armed riot police units moved in. It was the first serious outbreak in the southern part of the country, which had been free of the trouble that has affected the Johannesburg and Pretoria area.
The Mississippi delegation to the Republican National Convention was said to be ready to abandon its unit rule — a decision that could severely damage Ronald Reagan’s chances of catching President Ford in the race for the nomination. Senator James Buckley’s statement that he might enter the contest in some circumstances appeared to be prompted by some who seek to divert enough delegates to prevent a first-ballot victory for Mr. Ford. The President’s backers said they saw no real chance of this.
As supporters of Ronald Reagan continued to press the Republicans to take a conservative road in writing the party’s platform, a sharply divided subcommittee voted today to take no position on endorsing the equal rights amendment for women. Over the protests of several delegates supporting Mr. Ford the Platform Subcommittee on Human Rights and Responsibilities voted, 8 to 7, to take no position on the issue on the ground that the proposed constitutional amendment was being considered by state legislatures. Supporters of the amendment will try to get the full Platform Committee to endorse the amendment tomorrow. If it does not, this will be the first time since the 1940’s that the Republicans have not had a plank endorsing the amendment, according to party aides. Mr. Ford has endorsed the equal rights amendment which has not yet been ratified by enough state legislatures, while Mr. Reagan has opposed it. The subcommittee action illustrated the problems that the platform writers have in trying to draft document acceptable to both candidates.
Jimmy Carter, the Democratic presidential nominee, told the American Bar Association convention in Atlanta that, if elected, he would restore public faith in government by eradicating crime and corruption in high places. Recounting the moral impact of the Watergate scandals, he questioned the efficacy of subsequent reforms and whether Mr. Ford had re-established public trust.
The director of the national influenza immunization program announced in Washington that the target time for beginning inoculations was late September, more than two months behind the original schedule. More than a million inoculations daily will be required in anticipation of a normal flu season running roughly from November to March, peaking probably in January or early February. He said it can be done.
A major internal reorganization of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was announced by its director, Clarence Kelley. Investigation of domestic radical and terrorist organizations will be transferred from the intelligence division and treated like other criminal cases. The previously independent inspection division will be merged with the Office of Planning and Management. A new professional responsibility section will be formed to investigate future allegations of F.B.I. wrongdoing.
House Speaker Carl Albert and 172 other congressmen asked Secretary of the Army Martin R. Hoffman to intervene in West Point’s cheating scandal. “The academy has failed to handle the current honor code problems properly,” they wrote in a letter to Hoffman. They advocated punishment other than mandatory expulsion for cadets convicted of cheating on a take-home examination.
Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. defended today the current thrust of the Supreme Court’s decisions in criminal cases, saying that there was now a “sounder balance” between the rights of defendants and the rights of society. Justice Powell also described ‘other differences between the so‐called Burger Court and the Warren Court, such as the increased deference of the present Court to legislative judgments. The Justice, in a speech at the American Bar Association meeting here, attributed the changes in part to a “leveling off” in activism by the Court and in part to changes in the Court’s membership. Speaking of the criminal cases, he said: “It is also true that in recent years the Court has decided a number of criminal cases differently from what might have been expected during the decade of the 60’s. But it is alarmist to suggest any significant weakening of the basic rights of persons accused of crime.
A sniper entered the downtown Holiday Inn in Wichita, Kansas (at the time the tallest building in the U.S. state of Kansas), carried two rifles and ammunition in an elevator to the 26th floor, walked into an unlocked empty room and fired from a balcony. During an 11-minute rampage that began at 2:54 in the afternoon, the 19-year-old gunman shot nine people, killing three and wounding six others before police shot and wounded him. One of the dead was a freelance photographer who was driving to the scene after hearing that a crime was in progress.
Evidence of a poison often used in antifreeze was found in the bodies of two victims of the “Legion fever,” the Pittsburgh coroner’s office said. Concentrations of crystals found in the kidneys of the two Pittsburgh area residents indicated they could have unwittingly drunk ethylene glycol or diethylene glycol, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette quoted the coroner’s office as saying. However, a spokesman for the Philadelphia medical examiner, to whom the findings were reported, said the crystals could have been the result of heredity or normal environmental factors and not a result of any sudden ingestion of glycol.
Of nearly 130,600 Indochinese refugees resettled in the United States since the fall of Saigon to the Communists, about 30% were receiving cash assistance from welfare agencies as of June 30. The Senate refugee subcommittee, in releasing a report from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, said the figure represented an increase of nearly 12% since September. “A considerable percentage” receiving cash assistance was fully or partially employed, although not earning as much as the welfare standard, the report said.
Tests on humans of a new drug that could eliminate a major side effect of chemical cancer therapy have begun at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Cancer Research Center in Washington. Drugs in current usage often damage delicate bone marrow as well as cancerous cells, a spokesIman said. Bone marrow produces white blood cells necessary to the body’s defense against disease. “We hope that the new drug, chlorozotocin, will prove a most effective cancer treatment without major toxic effects on bone marrow,” the spokesman said.
Members of a small United Mine Workers local, whose walkout over a local grievance ballooned into a bitter work stoppage that idled up to 100,000 coal miners in nine states, voted to return to work. A short while later, the presidents of 102 other locals in UMW District 17 in West Virginia voted unanimously to follow local 1759. Translating the votes into a back-to-work movement will depend on whether the locals’ members agree with the action of their presidents.
Draft evasion charges against Fritz Efaw, who returned from a seven-year exile to plead at the Democratic National Convention for universal amnesty for draft resisters, were dismissed in Oklahoma City. U.S. District Judge Fred Daugherty said the case could not be prosecuted successfully because Efaw’s draft board had not given reasons for refusing to grant him conscientious objector status.
The envelope delivered to Arlington Hills Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, Minn., was suspected at first of containing a bomb, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The Rev. Glenn Polzine was in the church office when a youth entered, handed him a thick envelope and said, “I was paid to deliver this envelope to you,” then immediately walked away. “That was all he said,” the minister said. “It was almost like he had memorized the line.” The pastor “immediately thought of all the bad things that have happened around the country” and called the police. The bomb squad chief took the envelope outside the manse and carefully cut into one corner with a knife. He looked in and saw nothing but long green — 111 hundred-dollar bills and a note: “This gift is given to Arlington Hills Presbyterian in honor of my mother. Anonymous.” The pastor said, “We are just really overwhelmed and speechless,” he said. “One can only hope and pray for the best for the giver of this gift.”
The fall of a meteor was observed at 11:00 in the morning in Mexico, north of Acapulco and a 1.914 kg (4.22 lb) meteorite was recovered 15 minutes later by witness Leodegario Cardenas. Examples of the acapulcoite, whose mineral composition is primarily olivine, orthopyroxene, plagioclase, meteoric iron, and troilite, would be found later in 86 other specimens whose fall to Earth was not observed.
“The Who” drummer Keith Moon collapses and is hospitalized in Miami, Florida. Moon suffered a number of setbacks during the 1970s, most notably the accidental death of chauffeur Neil Boland and the breakdown of his marriage. He suffered from alcoholism and acquired a reputation for decadence and dark humor; his nickname was “Moon the Loon”. While touring with the Who, on several occasions he passed out on stage and was hospitalized.
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Dan Ford drove in both of the Twins’ runs in support of Bill Singer, who pitched a five-hitter and defeated the Orioles, 2–0. Ford hit a sacrifice fly for the first run after the Twins had loaded the bases on singles by Lyman Bostock, Mike Cubbage and Larry Hisle in the second inning. Cubbage doubled in the fifth, stopped at third on a single by Hisle and scored the Twins’ other run on a single by Ford.
Frank Tanana allowed only two hits, struck out 10 and pitched the Angels to a 6–0 victory over the Red Sox. The Angels, after taking a 2–0 lead, clinched the verdict with a four-run outburst in the seventh inning that included consecutive doubles by Dave Collins, Jerry Remy and Bruce Bochte.
In a fantastic comeback, the Reds wiped out a nine-run deficit and defeated the Cubs, 13–10, in 10 innings. The Cubs opened with two runs in the first and scored seven times in the second while collecting eight straight hits. The Reds picked up an unearned run in the third, but the Cubs made it 10–1 in their half. The Reds began to rally in the sixth with a two-run homer by Tony Perez. Johnny Bench hit for the circuit with two men on base in the seventh and another run followed on a single by Perez and double by Cesar Geronimo. In the eighth, Bench accounted for his fourth RBI of the game with a single, cutting the Cubs’ lead to 10–8, before Dave Concepcion singled in the ninth and Ken Griffey homered with two out to tie the score and send the game into overtime. Bench was safe on an error by Mick Kelleher in the 10th. Pinch-runner Ed Armbrister stopped at second on a single by Perez. On a pickoff play, Perez was caught off first, but Pete LaCock threw wildly in the rundown and Armbrister raced home with the Reds’ go-ahead run. Concepcion singled to score Perez and Doug Flynn capped the comeback with a triple, driving in Concepcion.
A single by Rick Manning in the 10th inning drove in Duane Kuiper and gave the Indians a 4–3 victory over the White Sox. Tommy Smith batted the Indians to an early 2–1 lead, driving in one run with a single in the second and hitting a homer in the fifth. The Indians made it 3–1 with a triple by Manning and single by Rico Carty in the sixth before the White Sox tied the score in the ninth on a single by Pat Kelly, triple by Jack Brohamer and single by Bucky Dent. In the 10th, Kuiper singled, Larvell Blanks sacrificed and Manning won the game with his single.
Pinch-hitting in the ninth inning, Willie Horton came through with a homer for the Tigers to enable Mark Fidrych to defeat the Rangers, 4–3, for the sensational rookie’s 13th victory of the season, against 4 losses. Mike Hargrove scored the Rangers’ first two runs, crossing the plate on a passed ball in the second and hitting a homer in the fourth. Rusty Staub likewise accounted for the Tigers’ first two tallies with a single in the third and homer in the fifth. Aurelio Rodriguez tripled and Alex Johnson singled to put the Tigers ahead in the sixth, but the Rangers tied the score in the seventh with a walk, sacrifice and single by Gene Clines.
With a triple by Fred Stanley as the payoff blow, the Yankees scored all their runs in the second inning to defeat the Royals, 5–3. The Royals also did all their scoring in one stanza, taking the lead in the first with three runs, including a homer by Amos Otis with a man on base. Chris Chambliss and Carlos May opened the Yankee second with singles. After Graig Nettles flied out, Oscar Gamble grounded to John Mayberry, who threw wildly to second trying to start a double play, and Chambliss scored. Willie Randolph singled, driving in May. Stanley then hit his triple, scoring Gamble and Randolph, before crossing the plate himself on a sacrifice fly by Mickey Rivers.
The Expos erupted for six runs in the sixth inning and defeated the Giants, 9–3, behind the pitching of Woodie Fryman, who turned in his first complete game in 23 starts this season. Gary Carter homered in the third inning and Wayne Garrett drove in a run with a single before the Expos broke the game apart in the sixth. A single by Garrett, an error on a bunt by Ellis Valentine and single by Larry Parrish started the scoring in the stanza. Tim Foli followed with a two-run double and scored on a single by Del Unser. Carter tripled to drive in Unser and Fryman capped the inning with a single, scoring Carter.
The wildness of Tom Griffin loaded the bases in the first inning and Mike Vail capitalized on the opportunity with a two-run double to enable the Mets to defeat the Padres, 2–1. Griffin walked Bruce Boisclair and John Milner and hit Joe Torre with a pitch before Vail rapped his two-bagger. The Padres counted off Jon Matlack in the fifth on singles by Fred Kendall and Enzo Hernandez around an infield out. Matlack was lifted in the eighth with two men on base and one out. Skip Lockwood relieved and put down the Padres’ threat.
Don Baylor batted in three runs and Ken McMullen accounted for two as the Athletics defeated the Brewers, 8–5. Bert Campaneris rapped four singles in four trips and scored twice. Campaneris was on base when Baylor homered in the first inning. McMullen connected for the circuit in the second. Mike Torrez gained his 10th victory but needed last-out help from Rollie Fingers after the Brewers rallied for all their runs in the ninth, two scoring on a homer by Gorman Thomas.
The Phillies took advantage of two throwing errors by Jerry Royster and one by Darrel Chaney to score three unearned runs and defeat the Braves, 4–1. With the score tied, 1–1, Garry Maddox doubled with one out in the fifth. Mike Schmidt grounded to Royster, who made a bad throw to second attempting to catch Maddox off base. Greg Luzinski then forced Maddox at third, but Royster again threw wildly trying to complete the double play, Schmidt scoring. Jay Johnstone and Tommy Hutton followed with singles to drive in Luzinski. The Phillies added a third unearned run in the sixth. Tony Taylor singled, advanced on a groundout by Dave Cash and scored when Chaney threw the ball away on a grounder by Maddox.
Bringing his record to 10–1, Rick Rhoden allowed only five hits and pitched the Dodgers to a 2–0 victory over the Pirates. Davey Lopes drew a walk to lead off the game, stole second and scored on a single by Bill Buckner. Ron Cey added a homer for the Dodgers’ other run in the seventh.
Led by Bob Watson and Ken Boswell, who batted in two runs apiece, the Astros defeated the Cardinals, 8–1. Larry Dierker, who hurled the route for the Astros, beat the Cards for the third time this season. Watson knocked in his runs with singles in the first and third innings. Boswell picked up his two RBIs with a double in the seventh.
Minnesota Twins 2, Baltimore Orioles 0
Boston Red Sox 0, California Angels 6
Cincinnati Reds 13, Chicago Cubs 10
Chicago White Sox 3, Cleveland Indians 4
Texas Rangers 3, Detroit Tigers 4
New York Yankees 5, Kansas City Royals 3
San Francisco Giants 3, Montreal Expos 9
San Diego Padres 1, New York Mets 2
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Oakland Athletics 8
Atlanta Braves 1, Philadelphia Phillies 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
Houston Astros 8, St. Louis Cardinals 1
The stock market reversed Tuesday’s advance yesterday and, after early gains, moved steadily lower to close at its lowest level of the session. At the conclusion of trading the Dow Jones industrial average was down 6.64 points at 986.79. Some analysts noted that investors — as they have previously this year — began to become concerned when the Dow moved near the 1,000 level. At 10:30 AM it was up 3.49 points to 996.92, its high for the session.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 986.79 (-6.64, -0.67%)
Born:
Ben Gibbard, American singer-songwriter (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service), in Bremerton, Washington.
Brendan Bayliss, American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (Umphrey’s McGee), in Annapolis, Maryland
Will Friedle, American TV actor (“Boy Meets World”, “Kim Possible”, “Batman Beyond”); in Hartford, Connecticut.
Ľubomír Višňovský, Slovak National Team and defenseman (Olympics, Team Slovakia, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010; NHL All-Star, 2007; Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers, Anaheim Ducks, New York Islanders), in Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia.
Jed Weaver, NFL tight end (Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers, New England Patriots), in Bend, Oregon.
Bubba Crosby, MLB outfielder (Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees), in Houston, Texas.
Tinsley Mortimer, American socialite and reality TV personality (“High Society”, “The Real Housewives of New York City”); in Richmond, Virginia.
Died:
Robert L. May, 71, American advertising copywriter who created the character of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” as a giveaway book for the Montgomery Ward department store chain in 1939; May’s brother-in-law, Johnny Marks, later adapted the story to a successful Christmas song.
Omer Poos, 73, United States District Judge for Illinois since 1958
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