East German border policemen prevented hundreds of West German students from crossing to West Berlin by bus today for a protest against the wall that sealed the division of the city 15 years ago. A number of others were able to get through, however. The buses had been chartered by a conservative student group, the youth wing of the Christian Democratic Party, for the 110‐mile trip. Some participants said their banners and protest signs were rolled up under their seats when they approached the East German border checkpoints, but at least 10 buses and a few private cars were refused permission to use the transit routes. Several buses were allowed through. The drivers said later they had lied about their passengers. The four‐power 1971 agreement that opened up the transit routes forbids the East Germans from searching travelers or their vehicles “except in special cases where there is sufficient reason to suspect that misuse of the transit routes is intended.”
Poland’s Communist leaders uncomfortably conscious of an urgent need to take ordinary citizens more into their confidence, are groping for some kind of real communication with their people. But it is clear that the Polish nation is restive if not actually rebellious, and official efforts so far have been hesitant and unconvincing, in the view of scores of workers interviewed recently. Poland’s latest political crisis occurred June 25, when the population was abruptly informed that food prices were to be increased an average of 70 percent after having been stable for a decade. Almost instantly, violence erupted at a tractor factory outside Warsaw and at Radom a town 60 miles south of the capital. Sit-down strikes and other kinds of work stoppage affected much of the country.
The United States signed a series of accords with Portugal in Lisbon today for an additional $25 million in economic and social aid. The aid is part of a broad program of economic cooperation between the two countries. But today’s signing ceremony took on the significance of a vote of confidence for the new Socialist Government whose program was endorsed by the National Assembly early yesterday. Strongly attacked by the Communist Party, the Socialist program calls for a reorganization of the areas of the economy that have been nationalized and gives guarantees to the private sector. The program stresses national independence but gives priority to relations with Western Europe and traditional relations with the United States. Ambassador Frank C. Carlucci of the United States, speaking Portuguese, expressed special satisfaction in signing the four accords with Portugal’s “first freely elected Government in half a century.”
The Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Greece clashed in the Security Council today on the dispute between their nations over prospecting for offshore oil in the Aegean Sea. Both nations claim the right to explore in the same areas of the Aegean, and last week the Turks dispatched a research vessel. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who is scheduled to meet with the two ministers separately tomorrow, emphasized the need today for a negotiated settlement of the dispute. Mr. Kissinger is in New York for talks concerning the current Law of the Sea Conference. He did not attend the Security Council meeting this afternoon.
Three women in the northeastern Italian community of Seveso underwent the first therapeutic abortions today in connection with the poisonous cloud of chemicals that spread over this village a month ago, physicians reported. The women, 21 to 37 years old and in the third month of pregnancy, had the abortions out of fear that their babies might be deformed by the effects of the gas, the doctors said. They said the operations performed at a clinic in nearby Milan, were successful and that the fetuses would undergo laboratory tests in Italy and France to determine what effect the gas may have had. Italian law bars abortion though courts have ruled that the operation may be performed if the health of the woman or her offspring is endangered. The Roman Catholic newspaper Avvenire denounced the abortions today as the “murder of innocent victims,” but leftist newspapers termed the decision “a victory in the battle for legalized abortion.” In Parliament, leftists are backing a bill that would permit abortion on demand.
Representatives of the two Spains — the victors and the vanquished of the Civil War — are starting to talk with each other again after almost 40 years of struggle and hate. On Wednesday night Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez, heir to a rightist, authoritarian tradition established by Franco dined in a private home with Felipe Gonzalez, secretary general of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, who a year ago was prosecuted for his anti-Franco opinions and activities. The meeting followed several other direct contacts between Mr. Suárez and opposition leaders. If the two, who talked of the problem of establishing democracy in Spain, did not entirely agree, they were taking part in the dialogue that Mr. Suarez promised when he came into office unexpectedly a little over a month ago. Greeted at the time with suspicion, he has gone further toward establishing harmony and normal political discourse than anyone since the death of Franco in November.
Tension building up just below the surface in relations between President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and his Prime Minister, Jacques Chirac, is convincing political Paris that a break must come. The questions that not only dominate private conversations but also are beginning to appear in the press are not whether Mr. Chirac will go, but when—and whether he will quit or be forced out. The weekly news magazine Le Point, which tends to favor Mr. Chirac and his Gaullist party more than Mr. Giscard and his Independent Republicans, has analyzed the President’s strategic choice. It said he would have either to depend on a Gaullist prime minister “Chirac or another,” and abandon all but lip service for reformist ideas, or try to “Giscardize the country” and “choose a transparent prime minister who would be a glorified aide‐de‐camp.”
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger warned today that the United States might unilaterally permit American companies to go ahead with proposed ocean-bed mining ventures unless an international consensus on the issue was reached soon. He recalled that the United States had acted unilaterally earlier this year by enacting legislation establishing a 200-mile fishing limit off American shores. “We may act again unilaterally,” the Secretary said, “with respect to the deep sea beds.” He made it clear, however that the United States would prefer to proceed in agreement with other nations.
Syria put tight controls on its border with Lebanon, stirring speculation that Damascus was sending reinforcements to back up the 20,000 Syrian troops already in Lebanon. Arab diplomats in Beirut said the move could be in anticipation of more trouble in Lebanon following the capture of the Palestinian camp of Tell Zaatar by rightist Christians on Thursday. In Damascus, the Syrian Interior Ministry said that “in view of current security circumstances in Lebanon, and to safeguard the convenience of Lebanese and Syrian citizens,” the Government had issued instructions regulating travel and movement between the two countries. Under the regulations, travelers are requested to obtain special advance permits. The fall of Tell Zaatar virtually ended all talk among leftists and Palestinians of a possible negotiated settlement. Several leftist and pro‐Palestinian newspapers today viewed the events at the camp as the final blow to the “Damascus agreement.” which was signed by Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization July 29. Evacuees from Tell Zaatar told today of atrocities, such as the outright murder of young men by rightist forces. The rightists, meanwhile, reported the arrival of a large body of armed Iraqis in a Muslim‐controlled area of southern Lebanon.
A Cairo newspaper said today that Egypt had moved troops, tanks and antiaircraft weapons westward to reinforce its border with Libya. President Anwar el-Sadat charged, meanwhile, that Libya was training mercenaries to invade four African countries. The President, in an interview with a Kuwaiti newspaper released by the Egyptian Middle East News Agency, said that Libya was training mercenaries in three camps to “invade the Sudan, Chad and Tunisia.” “There is also a fourth camp set up for Egypt,” he said, “and we have the names of all those working in it.” Mr. Sadat also charged that the hijacking last month of an Air France airliner to Entebbe Airport in Uganda, with many Israelis on board, had been arranged by President Muammar el‐Qaddafi of Libya and George Habash, chief of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Ecuador’s Government said tonight that it had asked 37 Roman Catholic clergymen, including four American bishops, to leave the country for having taken part in a subversive meeting. The Americans were identified as the Most Rev. Robert F. Sanchez, archbishop of Santa Fe., New Mexico; the Most Rev. Patrick F. Flores, auxiliary to the archbishop of San Antonio Texas; the Most Rev. Gilbert E. Chavez, auxiliary bishop of San Diego, California, and the Most Rev. Juan A. Arzube, auxiliary to the archbishop of Los Angeles.
The Mozambique Government said today that at least 618 persons were killed in a Rhodesian raid on guerrilla camps inside Mozambique earlier this week, double the figure reported by Rhodesia. The Rhodesian Government in announcing the raid Tuesday said 300 black nationalist guerrillas had been killed, together with 30 Mozambican soldiers and 10 civilians. The Mozambique radio made only brief mention of the attack.
South Africa pledged its support for the United States effort to bring about a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia, warning that failure would create new opportunities for intervention in southern Africa by the Soviet Union and Cuba. In the fullest statement that South Africa has made on its attitude toward the Rhodesian crisis, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Hilgard Muller, said in an address before the governing National Party in Durban that “the South African government welcomes this initiative.”
South Africa’s Foreign Minister acknowledged today that his country would have to adjust its racial policies if it was ever to have normal international relationships again. The minister, Dr. Hilgard Muller, thus joined a number of Cabinet ministers who have conceded that reforms will have to be made in the light of the anti‐Government rioting in black townships that has taken at least 218 lives. Dr. Muller addressed a meeting of the ruling National Party in Durban. As Dr. Muller spoke, usually reliable sources reported that the special security police had arrested 50 black leaders, including Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela, an imprisoned black nationalist leader of the 1960’s. The informants said that Mrs. Mandela was taken into custody in Soweto, the black township near Johannesburg where the upheavals began in June. Major General Michael C. Geldenbuys, chief of the security police, confirmed tonight that a number of people had been arrested, but declined to say whether Mrs. Mandela had been among them. However, The Rand Daily Mail, a Johannesburg morning newspaper, reported her arrest in an early edition tonight. As other senior officials have the Foreign Minister indicated that reforms would not affect the basic principle of apartheid or separate development, as it is officially known. The essence of the policy is to deny blacks equal rights in the country as a whole, offering them, instead emancipation in relatively underdeveloped regions, called homelands.
President Ford’s managers issued today a state‐by‐state delegate count showing Mr. Ford with enough votes for, a first‐ballot victory at the Republican National Convention but it was immediately challenged by Ronald Reagan’s principal strategist. According to The New York Times’s tabulation, Mr. Ford was still 12 votes short of the 1,130 needed for nomination. He gained three delegates today and his rival picked up two. With the beginning of the convention less than 72 hours away, James A. Baker 3d, Mr. Ford’s chief delegate hunter claimed 1,135 votes for the President, gave Mr. Reagan 1,031 and said that 93 remained uncommitted.
The Republican Platform Committee moved toward approval of a party document generally supporting President Ford’s foreign policies. The committee rejected, by a vote of 55 to 43, a plank offered by delegates supporting Ronald Reagan’s proposal that the United States keep “sovereign rights” over the Panama Canal. Several Reagan delegates who have been battling to inject more conservative views into the platform, said they planned to try to take the fight over the Panama Canal problem and perhaps other issues to the convention floor next week. In addition, other delegates said they would try to get the convention to take no position on whether to endorse the equal rights amendment, which was endorsed last night by a 4‐vote margin of the Platform Committee. It was unclear, however, how many floor fights might develop over the platform before the convention is to consider the document next Tuesday night.
Representative Wayne Hays, Democrat of Ohio, who admitted a sexual involvement with a woman he hired as a House secretary, announced that he would not seek re-election to the House, where he has been a member for 28 years. In a statement issued by his office, Mr. Hays said that ill health was the reason for his retirement “coupled with the harassment my family and I have taken from the Washington Post.” He had been renominated for re-election in his home district by a wide margin. The reference was to the charges by Elizabeth Ray, first published by The Post three months ago, that Mr. Hays had given her a job as a House secretary at a salary of $14,000 a year although she had merely served as his mistress. Miss Ray has been testifying before a Federal grand jury this week about her charges. While conceding a liaison with Miss Ray, Mr. Hays denied that she had performed no meaningful work during the almost two years she had been employed on Capitol Hill by Mr. Hayes and by former Representative Kenneth J. Gray of Illinois. Mr. Hays also charged that Miss Ray had extorted more than $1,000 from him by threatening to expose their affair. Her disclosures involving Mr. Hays led to his being forced by his colleagues to resign his chairmanships of two of the four committees through which he had exerted enormous power on Capitol Hill.
The United States Steel Corporation announced a price increase of 4.5 percent for sheet and strip steel, its major product line, which is used by the automobile and appliance industries, effective October 1. This was the second major steel price rise in three months. U.S. Steel put a 6 percent increase into effect June 14. The move caught the other major steelmakers by surprise. Most said that they were studying U. S. Steel’s action. William Lilley 3d, acting director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability in Washington, said the council would have “no comment at this moment on this specific price increase.” In a telephone interview, Mr. Utley noted that President Ford had asked the council which has no enforcement powers, to look into the previous price increase, which U.S. Steel announced last April 29. Mr. Lilley said his agency had been “negotiating with U. S. Steel for the prices costs, profits and demand levels for the products for which the increases were announced.”
Epidemiologists investigating the mysterious outbreak of the so-called Legionnaire’s disease in Philadelphia say they have found indications that two men who attended the International Eucharistic Congress there last week may have contracted the respiratory illness. The men have been hospitalized.
John P. Dunphy, a 47-yearold executive with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge that he had converted Government property to his own use in his job. He was forced to resign. Mr. Dunphy thus became the first agent in the bureau’s history to be convicted of a criminal offense, in this case a misdemeanor. The plea was entered at a closed hearing in Federal District Court in Washington and was announced by the Justice Department. He is also the first agent to face criminal charges arising out of an extensive investigation of the bureau’s operations which is now being conducted by the Department of Justice.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was ordered by Attorney General Edward Levi to try to determine whether John Roselli, the organized crime figure, was murdered as a result of his Senate testimony on assassination plots of the Central Intelligence Agency against Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba. Mr. Levi was responding to requests from Senate Intelligence Committee members that the Justice Department take charge of the investigation. A Justice Department spokesman, Robert Havel, said that Mr. Levi told the bureau “to investigate whether the Roselli homicide was the result of his testimony before the committee or to prevent future testimony before a committee of Congress.” Mr. Roselli’s body was found last weekend in an oil drum floating in Biscayne Bay off the Florida coast. Mr. Roselli had testified about his role in a C.I.A. plan to use organized crime figures to kill Mr. Castro. The plan was never carried out.
The federal government was enjoined from carrying out the first sale of oil and natural gas leasing in the Atlantic Ocean, which had been scheduled for Tuesday. Judge Jack Weinstein of Federal District Court in Brooklyn granted a preliminary injunction, in a suit brought by New York state, Nassau and Suffolk counties, an environmentalist group and five Long Island municipalities.
Three investigators from the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration began probing the debris today to determine the cause of an explosion at a Tenneco Oil Company refinery in Chalmette, Louisiana last night in which 12 workmen were killed and 10 others were seriously injured.
Democrat Joseph DiCarlo and Republican Ronald MacKenzie, both Massachusetts state senators and partners in crime, were indicted by a federal grand jury and arrested on charges of extortion of $40,000 from a consulting company, McKee-Berger-Mansueto, Inc. After posting bond, both would be convicted by a jury on February 25, fined, and sentenced to one year confinement at a minimum security prison near Allenwood, Pennsylvania. MacKenzie would resign on March 30, 1977, while DiCarlo would become the first legislator in state history to be expelled from office, losing his seat on April 4 by a 28 to 8 vote.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting yesterday submitted to the Federal Communications Commission the details of its plan to distribute public television programs by the Western Union satellite instead of by the land lines of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Optimism about finding life on Mars faltered with the announcement by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena that a Martian soil sample contained no detectable level of complex carbon-containing molecules that might be produced by microbes. But the scientists in Pasadena emphasized that the readings from Viking 1’s instruments did not rule out the presence of micro-organisms.
Major League Baseball:
The Cardinals erupted for six runs in the fifth inning to make victory easy for Pete Falcone (9–11), who shut out the Braves, 8–0. Jerry Mumphrey, Garry Templeton, Lou Brock and Ted Simmons singled and Willie Crawford hit a sacrifice fly for the Cards’ first three runs. After Keith Hernandez doubled, Simmons stopping at third, the Braves walked Don Kessinger intentionally to load the bases and Hector Cruz promptly cleared the sacks with a double. Cruz added his fourth RBI with a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
The defensive play of Chet Lemon, who snared five line drives in center field, helped the White Sox defeat the Orioles, 5–2. Bill Stein contributed at bat, driving in two runs with a pair of singles. The White Sox counted twice in the first inning on a single by Alan Bannister, double by Ralph Garr, infield out by Jorge Orta and single by Stein. Another pair crossed the plate in the sixth on a single by Stein and pass to Jim Essian with the bases loaded.
Jerry Augustine, the Brewers’ young southpaw, posted a 2–0 victory on a four-hitter to beat the Angels for the third time this season. The Brewers picked up their initial run in the third inning on singles by Tim Johnson and Von Joshua around a stolen base. Their other run counted in the fourth on a walk to Mike Hegan, a wild pitch, sacrifice by Gorman Thomas and infield out by Bill Sharp.
A wild pitch by Charlie Hough in the 15th inning enabled the Cubs to win the first game of a doubleheader, 3–2, but the Dodgers came from behind to gain an 8–7 victory in the second game. Ron Cey homered for the Dodgers in the ninth inning of the opener to tie the score at 2–2 and send the game into overtime. In the 15th, Rick Monday singled with two out, took third on a single by Jose Cardenal and scored the Cubs’ winning run when Hough threw wide and low past catcher Steve Yeager while pitching to Bill Madlock. George Mitterwald and Madlock homered and Dave Rosello batted in two runs with a triple to stake the Cubs to a 7–2 lead in the nightcap. The Dodgers cut into their deficit with three runs in the seventh and won the game with three more in the ninth. Jim Lyttle opened the frame with a double and scored on singles by Bill Buckner and Steve Garvey. After Cey and Ted Sizemore were retired, Bill Russell doubled to drive in the tying and winning runs.
Although Dennis Eckersley (7–10) struck out 14 batters for his career high, the Indians’ righthander lost to the Rangers, 2–1. The Rangers’ first run in the fifth inning was unearned. Juan Beniquez walked, stole second and scored when Buddy Bell threw wildly on an infield hit by Toby Harrah. Jim Umbarger handed the Indians their lone marker by walking George Hendrick with the bases loaded in the sixth. The Rangers broke the tie in the ninth. Beniquez and Jim Sundberg singled. When Gene Clines grounded to Larvell Blanks, the Indians’ second baseman missed his attempt to tag Sundberg, loading the bases. Harrah then hit a sacrifice fly to drive in the deciding run.
Manny Sanguillen, who had only one homer to his credit previously this season, connected for the circuit with a man on base in the eighth inning to send the Pirates on the way to an 8–5 victory over the Astros. Richie Zisk singled and Rennie Stennett tripled to tie the score at 5–5 before Sanguillen rapped his round-tripper. Oamr Moreno, who replaced Al Oliver, accounted for the Pirates’ final tally with his first major league homer in the ninth.
Singles by Ron LeFlore and Rusty Staub around a sacrifice bunt by Ben Oglivie in the eighth inning provided the Tigers’ winning run in a 3–2 victory over the Royals. Chuck Scrivener and LeFlore rapped singles and Oglivie hit a sacrifice fly for the Tigers’ initial tally in the sixth. After the Royals picked up a matching marker in their half, the Tigers went ahead again with doubles by Tom Veryzer and John Wockenfuss in the seventh. Staub’s RBI in the eighth then proved decisive when the Royals counted in the ninth on a double by George Brett and single by John Mayberry.
Graig Nettles drove in five runs with two homers and Lou Piniella batted in four while collecting four singles to account for the Yankees’ scoring in a 9–3 victory over the Twins. The Yankees put the game away in the first inning when Piniella knocked in two runs with his first single and Nettles homered with two men on base. Nettles’ other homer came with one aboard in the eighth. It is his third 5-RBI game this season. Ed Figueroa wins his 15th.
Steve Rogers posted his third shutout of the season, pitching the Expos to a 6–0 victory in the opener of a twi-night doubleheader, before the Padres came back to win the nightcap, 4–3. The Expos iced the first game with four runs in the second inning. Tim Foli, Del Unser, Gary Carter and Warren Cromartie hit singles to account for two runs and Ellis Valentine batted in two more with another single. In the second game, the Padres counted twice in the first inning on a double by Johnny Grubb, triple by Dave Winfield and single by Mike Ivie. The Padres made it 4–0 in the third on a bases-loaded single by Ted Kubiak before the Expos fell short with a three-run rally in the seventh.
George Foster drove in four runs with a homer and single, boosting his RBI total to 106, and Dave Concepcion accounted for three runs with a pair of round-trippers as the Reds defeated the Mets, 7–3. Concepcion started the scoring with a solo swat in the third inning. The Mets came back with a pair in the fifth, but the Reds went ahead to stay in the sixth when Foster and Concepcion each connected for the circuit with a man on base. Foster’s single added two runs in the seventh after the Mets had passed Joe Morgan intentionally to load the bases.
Taking advantage of three errors in their scoring, the Athletics also got combined shutout pitching from Mike Norris (4–3) and Rollie Fingers (18th save) to defeat the Red Sox, 2–0. In the fourth inning, Bill North reached base on an error by Denny Doyle, moved up on a sacrifice by Bert Campaneris and scored when Rick Burleson booted a grounder by Joe Rudi and Carlton Fisk dropped the ensuing throw to the plate. Sal Bando followed with a double to drive in Rudi.
After giving up a double by Dave Cash and safe bunt by Larry Bowa in the first inning, John Montefusco (13–9) struck out the side and proceeded to pitch the Giants to a 3–0 victory over the Phillies. The shutout was the fourth of the season for The Count, who also racked up his fourth straight victory. The Giants tagged Jim Kaat for a run in the first on a single by Marty Perez and double by Gary Matthews. Darrell Evans homered in the fifth and the final marker counted in the sixth on a pass to Matthews and double by Ken Reitz.
St. Louis Cardinals 8, Atlanta Braves 0
Chicago White Sox 5, Baltimore Orioles 2
Milwaukee Brewers 2, California Angels 0
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Chicago Cubs 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 8, Chicago Cubs 7
Texas Rangers 2, Cleveland Indians 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 8, Houston Astros 5
Detroit Tigers 3, Kansas City Royals 2
New York Yankees 9, Minnesota Twins 3
San Diego Padres 0, Montreal Expos 6
San Diego Padres 4, Montreal Expos 3
Cincinnati Reds 7, New York Mets 3
Boston Red Sox 0, Oakland Athletics 2
San Francisco Giants 3, Philadelphia Phillies 0
Despite the biggest rise in business inventories in 18 months, the stock market registered a small gain yesterday 3.07 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average to 990.19 in slow trading.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 990.19 (+3.07, +0.31%)
Born:
Lennie Friedman, NFL guard (Denver Broncos, Washington Redskins, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns), in Milford, New Jersey.
Jim French, MLB catcher (Washington Senators), in Warren, Ohio.
Geno Carlisle, NBA shooting guard (Portland Trailblazers), in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Died:
Liz Moore, 31, British sculptor known for her elaborate designs of film props and miniatures in Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey, was killed in a car accident in the Netherlands. She had been working on the film set of the war movie A Bridge Too Far.
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