The World Court met in The Hague to consider a Greek complaint that Turkey was violating its continental shelf in searching for oil in the Aegean Sea. Greece applied last week for an interim injunction to stop Turkish exploration. Greece also asked the court to define the limits of its continental shelf close to Turkey. Informed sources said the 15-man permanent bench met in closed session to decide the procedure for handling the request.
Blood tests on seven children from Seveso, the northern Italian town where a chemical plant explosion released a cloud of gas, showed they apparently suffered no serious effects, health officials said. The children lived in the most polluted area but the skin irritation they suffered was believed from chlorophenol. Serious danger could come only from dioxin. officials said, and tests proved it was not present in their blood.
A Turkish spokesman said today that there was “no question” that the research vessel Sismik I would continue its activities in the Aegean Sea. The Security Council is scheduled to resume debate tomorrow on Greece’s complaint against Turkey because of the search for oil by the Sismik I in proximity to Greek islands. Athens contends that the ship is violating Greek rights to the seabed. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was reported today to be in touch with the foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey, who are both in New York, to work out a compromise. The Sismik I returned to the Turkish seaport of Izmir yesterday, but the Turkish spokesman here said this was only to take supplies aboard for another mission. Mr. Kissinger met with the Greek and Turkish ministers here on Saturday, and called on both governments to use restraint and seek a peaceful settlement of their dispute over offshore oil in the Aegean.
Helmut Kohl, taking a breather in the Alps from his campaign for the West German Chancellorship, put on his hiking boots the other day and climbed one of the high mountains he can see from the terrace of his spacious vacation cottage. “I shouldn’t have tried it today,” he said as he came down in a light rain and doffed a soaked sweatshirt, “When we got to the summit, we were lost in fog.” Seven weeks before the general elections, public opinion polls indicate that Mr. Kohl has an even chance of replacing Helmut Schmidt at the pinnacle of West German political life. But the swarthy, 46‐year‐old Christian Democrat, an inherently cautious man, realizes that politics can be even more fickle than the weather and that the vote could go against him on October 3.
Switzerland’s government announced the arrest of the former commander of the Swiss Air Force, Brigadier General Jean-Louis Jeanmaire, on charges of having supplied top secret military information and documents to the Soviet Union.
One of the legends of the Portuguese revolution; General Antonio de Spinola, returned to Lisbon last week after 17 months of self-imposed exile but the impact has been minimal. There were a few articles of praise in the rightwing press, some mild cartoons of the monocled former general, protests by the Communist Party against his return and a few orderly demonstrations by the extreme left against “the rise of fascism.” But the country remained generally indifferent to the return of the 66‐year‐old former general, whose book, “Portugal and the Future,” helped set off the April 25, 1974, revolution against the old dictatorship and who was chosen by the military as the first President. He was later implicated in various rightwing coup attempts and, in exile, set up the Democratic Movement for the Liberation of Portugal.
The Convention on Psychotropic Substances, signed in Vienna on February 21, 1971, entered into effect,
Two Palestinians confessed in an Istanbul court to attacking Israeli airline passengers with bombs and firearms last week as they were about to board a Tel Aviv-bound jet. Four persons, including two Israelis, an American and a Japanese were killed in the attack and 24 others were wounded. Mohammed Mahdi el Mahdi, 23, and Mohammed Hussein Rashid, 24, were remanded to prison to await trial on charges of premeditated multiple murder, for which the penalty is death.
Syrian troops were on the move again in Lebanon today, entering the mountain town of Hammana 18 miles east of Beirut, according to leftist and rightist sources. The Syrians also sent reinforcements into the area of the Christian town of Jezzin, about 20 miles south of the capital according to a leftist radio station. It said that the Syrians at Jezzin had shelled leftist and Palestinian positions at the nearby town of Roum. The reported movements of Syrian troops, coincided with the intensification of clashes between rightwing Christian forces and Palestinian guerrillas in the mountainous region around the towns of Ain Tura and Matein, 30 miles east of Beirut. The Syrian move into Hammana was viewed as an effort to increase pressure on Palesmountains and leftist forces in the mountains east of Beirut. And the Syrian reinforcements may have been intended to stop the Palestinians from sending additional troops from their bases in the south to the eastern mountains. Meanwhile, President Suleiman Franjieh proposed a truce in the civil war to enable the rival Lebanese factions to find a solution to the country’s impasse. However, he set as a condition for such a truce the application of agreements already concluded with the Palestinian guerrillas. This is mainly the agreement reached seven years ago that imposed restrictions on the presence of guerrillas inside Lebanon but allowed them to establish bases near the border with Israel.
The Indian Parliament extended for another year the power of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government to hold political prisoners without charges. The bill replaces a presidential order handed down in June, which extended the Maintenance of Internal Security Act. Meanwhile, the Indian home minister indicated that about 7,000 people were still being detained without trial throughout the country under the emergency laws.
Leaders from 85 “Third World” nations, officially “non-aligned” nations that were allied with neither Communist nations nor the world’s major capitalist nations, opened in Sri Lanka at the capital, Colombo. The fifth conference of leaders of the world’s nonaligned nations opened today with a burst of colorful pageantry and a barrage of strident rhetoric.
As several dozen heads of state and government sat solemnly on a stage lined with the flags of 85 nations, speakers sounded the call for a new economic and social order that would give the third world what it regards as its fair share. “We are opposed to the present system whereby the wealthier and industrialized countries retain the monopoly of making decisions affecting all other states,” declared President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, sounding a common theme. “We believe in power-sharing as an important guarantee for peace within the international community.”
Former Deputy Prime Minister Prapass Charusathira returned to Thailand from exile in Taiwan, and military authorities detained him, Prime Minister Seni Pramoj reported. Prapass, the strong man of Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn’s military dictatorship for a decade, fled with his wife after a student uprising overthrew their regime in October, 1973. The return of Prapass is expected to create an uproar among student organizations that want him tried on charges of being responsible for the deaths of 72 civilians during the uprising.
Kakuei Tanaka, former Prime Minister of Japan, was charged in a Tokyo court with having accepted, while in office, $1.6 million from the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation to arrange the purchase of Lockheed planes by All Nippon Airways. Three Japanese business executives were also indicted on bribery charges with Mr. Tanaka, who remained in jail pending a bail application.
New Zealand’s Private Schools Conditional Integration Act took effect, in the first program to allow private schools to come under the regulation and tax support of the government. The schools, most of them Roman Catholic, became tuition-free while still retaining their “special character”, subject to providing equal rights and opportunities for students.
Eleven staff members who were put in isolation at Toronto’s Etobicoke General Hospital for showing a symptom of Lassa fever have been discharged. They had all been in contact with Olga Kamckey, 56, of St. Catharines, Ontario, suspected of having the rare virus after returning from an overseas trip. Definite diagnosis is awaiting the results of tests. Only 158 of 407 passengers on a plane with her have been contacted by authorities.
The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, in which 59 persons died, was the fault of the flight crew and could have been avoided, an official inquiry reported in Nairobi, Kenya. The report said the crash of the Lufthansa jetliner at Nairobi’s Embakasi Airport Nov. 20, 1974, “was caused by the crew initiating takeoff with the leading edge flaps retracted because the pneumatic system which operated them had not been switched on.” The West German airliner was beginning the second leg of a flight from Frankfurt to Johannesburg with 139 passengers and 18 crew members.
As shoppers and passersby watched, police chased and clubbed nonwhite students who were marching through a white Cape Town, South Africa suburb today to protest the detention of fellow students. Other incidents of violence were reported today in the Cape Town area, where clashes between blacks and police officers last week left at least 30 blacks dead and more than 100 injured. Today policemen armed with staves broke up a crowd of 700 young persons of mixed ancestry, whom the Government terms colored, outside a courthouse in the white surburb of Bellville. Ten students were appearing in the courthouse on charges of public violence and arson stemming from last week’s disturbances. The students were told the gathering was illegal under the Riotous Assemblies Act and that any attempts to continue the protest would be halted. The students then marched in the direction of the University of the Western Cape, a “colored-only” institution, followed by a convoy of riot policemen in trucks. When they reached a busy shopping area, the police began swinging their staves to break up groups of students who tried to remain together.
President Ford got enough delegate commitments at the start of the 31st Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Mo., to assure him the majority of the votes he needs for the presidential nomination. He has 1,130 votes, according to the New York Times tabulation, but his nomination was threatened by the prospect of divisive floor maneuvers by Ronald Reagan forces. Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee delivered the convention’s keynote speech with a rousing attack on Jimmy Carter, in which he was joined by Vice President Rockefeller, Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, who is the convention’s temporary chairman, and Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona.
Setting up a probable floor fight at the convention tomorrow night, campaign strategists for Ronald Reagan proposed to add a platform plank that would implicitly criticize the foreign policies of President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The aim of the Reagan move in trying to add a plank entitled “morality in foreign policy” to the document approved by the Platform Committee last Friday appeared to be to score a psychological victory over Mr. Ford when the platform is considered tomorrow night by the convention, only 24 hours before the Presidential balloting. Another platform fight seemed assured when 29 delegates, led by women members of the Platform Committee, sought to remove the plank endorsing a constitutional amendment “to restore protection of the right to life for unborn children.”
The Mississippi delegation to the convention, with its 30 delegates “uncommitted” under a unit rule, has a crucial position and is under 24-hour siege by the candidates, the press and the curious who are yearning to know how the delegation will vote. Other pivotal delegations, among them groups from West Virginia and Pennsylvania, are under the same pressure.
Senator James Buckley of New York withdrew from the presidential race. He made the announcement at a news conference at the convention, where New York delegates wore openly critical of his candidacy or gave him a cold shoulder. He acknowledged a general lack of support and said that “I will not be a candidate for anything but re-election to the Senate.”
The Federal Court of Appeals removed a preliminary injunction issued last Friday by a Federal District Court judge in Brooklyn that halted the start of a sale by the government of leases on oil and natural gas deposits in the Atlantic Ocean, off Long Island. New York state, several Long Island communities and an environmentalist group had sued to prevent the sale. A three-judge panel on the Appeals Court ruled unanimously that “no irreparable harm” would result from allowing the sale to he held pending a court hearing on the environmental issues next month.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger ordered an investigation of the State Department Foreign Buildings Office after a report in the Washington Post said the office had improperly issued contracts worth millions of dollars to friends of Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio). Hays, who announced his retirement from Congress Friday, was chairman of a House international relations subcommittee with jurisdiction over the State Department budget. State Department spokesman Frederick Brown said there had been three recent investigations of the office and “none of the reports commented on the irregularities alleged by the Post.”
Health officials hunting the cause of the mysterious disease that has killed 25 people in Pennsylvania have broadened their investigation to include a search of Philadelphia by experts in industrial poisons. A team including a physician expert in industrial poisons and three industrial hygienists from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health will join other Federal and state medical detectives in Philadelphia tomorrow. Dr. Denis J. Lucey 3d, Pennsylvania Commissioner of Health Planning and Resources Development, said in an interview that the entry of the safely institute team resulted partly from a meeting in which he participated at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta last Friday. The institute is a unit of the Center for Disease Control, which in turn is a unit of the United States Public Health Service.
Reacting to a crime wave that has swept Detroit’s East Side, the city’s officials recalled 450 laid-off police officers and ordered a 10 P.M. curfew for all children 17 years old and under. The action followed the disruption of a rock concert in Cobo Hall, in the downtown area, by a crowd of youths and adults, who robbed dozens of people in the audience. A woman was raped and another molested, the police said.
The United Auto Workers proposed that employees of the Big Three auto makers be given a certain number of days off at full pay in order to reduce working time and create new jobs for laid-off workers. The proposal, the union’s first specific outline of how it intends to shorten time spent in the plants, was disclosed simultaneously to company bargainers at General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. The paid days off would be mandatory and in addition to holidays, vacations and other days off, to which workers already are entitled, at full pay. There was no immediate comment from the Big Three. Contracts covering 680,000 workers expire in mid-September.
A month-long wildcat strike over interference by federal judges in local United Mine Workers Union disputes ended quietly with mines in all but one state reporting production getting back to normal. Most of Indiana’s coal miners, however, were off their jobs in a wildcat strike apparently unrelated to the West Virginia walkout which began in mid-July. Miners in Pennsylvania reported back to work and miners in Ohio and Kentucky started back to work last week. Meanwhile, a federal judge dropped contempt charges against 213 West Virginia miners and canceled a hearing and fines.
Michigan Attorney General Frank J. Kelley asked the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to delay implementation of its order for an expanded school desegregation plan in Detroit pending a U.S. Supreme Court review of its decision. Kelley said the state was unable to pay $5.8 million to Detroit schools that the order would require. He said Michigan would be forced to spend money appropriated for other state departments or go into an unconstitutional deficit for the fiscal year.
A federal jury of seven women and five men was chosen in Key West, Florida, for the second trial of William A.H. Williams, accused in the 1974 kidnaping of Reg Murphy, editor at the time of the Atlanta Constitution. The jury was chosen shortly after U.S. District Judge William O’Kelley denied a defense motion to reconsider the change of venue that brought the trial to Key West from Atlanta. Williams’ earlier conviction was overthrown on grounds of intense pretrial publicity. Murphy, now editor-publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, was released unharmed two days after his abduction when the newspaper paid a $700,000 ransom.
Life Science Products Co. pleaded not guilty in federal court in Richmond, Virginia, to charges of conspiring to violate federal pollution laws in connection with the contamination of the James River by the pesticide kepone. U.S. District Judge Robert R. Merhige has ordered court employees to provide no information about the case because he reportedly fears the impact of pretrial publicity. Life Science, which operated out of a converted gas station, was closed last summer after the first of about 30 chemical workers were hospitalized with kepone poisoning.
Even though ship-owning corporations may, in effect, be tattling on themselves in reporting oil spills as required by federal law they are still subject to suits for damages in civil court, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in New Orleans, reversing lower court decisions in New Orleans and Houston, where the U.S. government tried to collect civil penalties for two spills. Lebeouf Bros. Towing Co., Inc., had argued that collecting damages from companies forced by law to report spills violates the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. But Judge Thomas Gee said the self-incrimination privilege does not extend to corporations.
The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to end its representation on the national advisory council to the “Keep America Beautiful” antilitter group because the group has been working against legislation the EPA is sponsoring to require that beverages be sold in reusable bottles with returnable deposits, EPA officials said. The KAB, which sponsors commercials with the message “stop littering,” counts among its backers the beverage and container industry.
The Ramones made their first “professional” performance, debuting as the feature band at CBGB, a bar in New York’s East Tavern that initially limited its music to “country, blue grass and blues” music but soon moved into punk rock and new wave music.
American golfer Dave Stockton won the PGA Championship tournament at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland. Stockton sank a 15 foot (4.6 m) putt on the 18th hole for a final score of 281 on 72 holes of golf, finishing one stroke ahead of Don January and Ray Floyd, who both had a score of 282, and avoiding a three-way overtime playoff.
The first National Football League game ever played outside of North America took place in Tokyo, at a preseason exhibition that the St. Louis Cardinals won, 20–10, over the San Diego Chargers, before a crowd of 38,000 fans.
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The Boston Red Sox erupted for six runs in the third inning and five in the seventh en route to a 12–5 triumph over the Chicago White Sox that ended a three-game losing streak. Consecutive singles by Rick Burleson, Denny Doyle, Fred Lynn, Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice, Cecil Cooper and Carlton Fisk spiced the third inning uprising. Luis Tiant (13–10), with four innings of relief by Bill Lee, was credited with his fourth victory of the season against the White Sox.
The Atlanta Braves defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 4–3, and ended Fred Norman’s five-game winning streak. A leadoff homer by Vic Correll in the seventh inning was the deciding blow as Carl Morton and Adrian Devine teamed up on a five-hitter that extended the Reds’ losing streak to three games.
Rob Sperring singled with the bases full in the ninth inning, scoring two runs and enabling the Chicago Cubs to down the Houston Astros, 5–3. Singles by Pete LaCock and Manny Trillo, a throwing error by Rob Andrews and intentional walk to Steve Swisher made a loser of Larry Dierker, who allowed one hit in the first five innings. Andrews’ miscue came after Dierker apparently had picked LaCock off second base. Andrews’ throw to third struck the runner in the back.
Marty Pattin (5–10) limited the Cleveland Indians to three hits and Amos Otis and Tom Poquette belted two-run homers in the first inning as the Kansas City Royals won, 6–1. George Hendrick’s 20th homer, in the second inning, spoiled Pattin’s bid for a shutout in his first complete game this season.
With the help of three picked-off Oakland runners at first base, the first such occurrence in the American League since 1910, the Milwaukee Brewers beat Oakland 4–3. Another oddity happens when Oakland’s Billy Williams is called out on strikes after refusing to enter the batter’s box. He is then thrown out of the game. Von Joshua delivered a single off Rollie Fingers with the bases full in the last of the ninth inning, scoring the tying and winning runs as the Brewers snapped the Athletics’ nine-game winning streak.
The Baltimore Orioles thumped the Minnesota Twins, 8–4, for their fourth victory in five games. Mark Belanger doubled, driving in two runs in the second inning, and Ken Singleton socked a three-run homer in the fifth.
Mickey Rivers and Fred Stanley hit home runs to support Catfish Hunter’s seven-hit pitching while leading the New York Yankees to a 5–1 victory over the Texas Rangers. Stanley’s homer was his first since 1973. Hunter won his 14th against 12 losses.
Lou Brock collects 5 hits in a losing cause as the Cardinals fall to the Padres, 11–7. The Padres exploded for eight runs in the ninth inning to overcome the Cardinals, despite Brock’s five singles and two stolen bases. A two-run double by Willie Davis and two-run triple by Enzo Hernandez were the key blows in the game-winning rally.
Boston Red Sox 12, Chicago White Sox 5
Atlanta Braves 4, Cincinnati Reds 3
Chicago Cubs 5, Houston Astros 3
Cleveland Indians 1, Kansas City Royals 6
Oakland Athletics 3, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Baltimore Orioles 8, Minnesota Twins 4
Texas Rangers 1, New York Yankees 5
San Diego Padres 11, St. Louis Cardinals 7
The stock market managed to make a small advance yesterday although many investors remained on the sidelines awaiting developments at the Republican National Convention. The Dow Jones industrial average finished ahead 2.58 points at 992.77. Its high was registered at 2 PM, when it was up 4.32 points.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 992.77 (+2.58, +0.26%)
Born:
Roderick Coleman, NFL defensive tackle (Pro Bowl, 2005; Oakland Raiders, Atlanta Falcons), in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Neil Rackers, NFL kicker (Pro Bowl, 2005; Cincinnati Bengals, Arizona Cardinals, Houston Texans), in St. Louis, Missouri.
Dave Ockun, American concert producer, born in Syosset, New York.
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