Secretary of State Kissinger said that the United States was demanding “explanations and reparations” from North Korea for the killing of two American military officers in the Korean demilitarized zone on Wednesday. He said that the United States “absolutely cannot and will not accept” what he termed “the premeditated act of murder.” By “reparation,” State Department officials said later, Mr. Kissinger meant “amends,” not “reparations,” or payment in cash or in kind. A Defense Department official said, meanwhile, that as part of the growing show of American strength in Korea, orders had been given to the aircraft carrier USS Midway to sail from the Tokyo Bay port of Yokosuka with her accompanying task force of destroyers, cruisers and frigates.
Captain Arthur G. Bonifas, one of the two American officers slain Wednesday by North Korean soldiers in Korea’s demilitarized zone at Panmunjom, will be buried with military honors next Tuesday at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Captain Bonifas was a 1966 graduate of the Academy and served as an instructor in its mathematics department from 1972 to 1975 before volunteering for duty in Korea. He was 33 years old and was put on the promotion list to major last Tuesday, a day before he and First Lieutenant Mark T. Barrett, 25, of Columbia, South Carolina, were killed in the truce strip dividing South Korea and North Korea. The bodies of the two men were flown to Yokota Air Base, outside Tokyo, yesterday. According to an Army spokesman, they will reach Travis Air Force Base in California today.
After an Athens court refused today to extradite a West German fugitive charged with terrorist acts, a West German Government spokesman here said that the refusal showed that “the whole question of terrorism has to be approached on a new international level.” The court had decided not to extradite Rolf Pohle, a 34‐yearold West German fugitive who was arrested last month by the Greek police. Mr. Pohle was serving a six-and‐a‐half‐year sentence in West Germany in March 1975 when a terrorist group forced the authorities to release him and four others in exchange for Peter Lorenz, a candidate for Mayor of West Berlin, whom the terrorists had kidnapped. According to reports from Athens, the court reasoned that the crimes for which Mr. Pohle had been jailed in West Germany had been politically motivated. This brought the comment from a West German Government official today that “there haven’t been political trials in Germany since the Nazi period.”
A third world resolution calling for an oil embargo against France because of its arms deliveries to South Africa was seen by the French Government in Paris today as an empty threat. The resolution, adopted yesterday at the conference of 85 nonaligned nations, chastised the United States, Britain, West Germany, France and Israel for supporting the white minority regime in South Africa. It singled out France and Israel as South Africa’s main purveyors of arms and called for an oil embargo to be imposed on both countries. In the case of France, it pointed to that country’s sale to South Africa of submarines and two nuclear plants. A spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry described the Colombo, Sri Lanka, resolution as more of a political gesture, a warning. Noting that the group of nonaligned countries was a loose, nonstructured association, he said its resolutions could only amount to “recommendations.” For an oil embargo to be enforced it would take a unanimous decision by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
The Syrians were reported today to have set September 15 as a final deadline for inter‐Arab contacts on Lebanon to produce effective results, failing which they are expected to order their forces to move to bring the 16‐month civil war to a decisive end. President Suleiman Franjieh was reported in the press to have conveyed the news to the President‐elect, Elias Sarkis, when the two met yesterday at Mr. Franjieh’s residence 15 miles north of Beirut. According to the leftist newspaper As Safir, which is usually well-informed, Mr. Franjieh also informed Mr. Sarkis that Syria had urged the right‐wing Christian front to delay its projected offensive against the Palestinians and their leftist allies in the eastern mountains to give the Syrians time to make another attempt to carry out the agreement they concluded with the Palestinians on July 29. The meeting between Mr. Franjieh, who also heads the right‐wing front, and Mr. Sarkis was to discuss arrangements for handing power over to the President‐elect on September 23. The Syrians who backed the election of Mr. Sarkis last May, are believed to want the fighting to end before Mr. Sarkis’s tenure begins.
Representatives of the generally impoverished and underdeveloped southern half of the world went away from Colombo today united in a new mood of determination to get a larger share of the kind of life that Americans take for granted. It simply is not fair, they declared in speeches. in conversations and in an angry and anguished final communiqué, that the rich nations are so rich and the poor nations are so poor. An old and familiar complaint, to be sure. And will the new solidarity on it that was expressed by the 85 nations who met here this week really make any difference? “I honestly think it just might,” said a departing African, weary from the long nights of negotiating sessions. “It’s words, words, I know, but there’s meaning behind them, and the developed world should pay heed.” The 20‐year‐old nonaligned movement was born of politics, designed to steer a careful course between the Soviet and American blocs, and to bring an end to what the Bandung declaration of 1955 called “the evil subjection of peoples to alien subjugation.”
The Communist Government of a reunified Vietnam applied today for membership in the United Nations. The permanent observer representing the Hanoi Government at the world organization’s headquarters, Dinh Ba Thi, submitted a letter to the office of Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, who is on vacation in Austria. “With the accomplishment of their independence and reunification the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Vietnamese people wish to join the United Nations so as to make efforts together with other nations in the struggle for peace and international security,” the letter said. The Security Council will meet soon to consider the Vietnamese application.
As in previous cases of natural disasters, airplane crashes and shipwrecks, the Chinese have made public little specific information on the damage or casualties in the Tangshan area beyond referring to “great losses.” However, some Japanese, French and Danish visitors who were caught in Tangshan have spoken of it being flattened. Precisely why Peking is reluctant to inform its own people of the actual extent of the disaster is a mystery, they have given great publicity to the relief efforts. Satellite photographs will presumably give Washington and Moscow a fairly accurate estimate of what happened below. Perhaps the answer lies simply in the penchant of leaders of totalitarian states to treat information and its control as a vital political resource. The Chinese people, for instance, have never been told why Chairman Mao Tse‐tung has not appeared in public since 1971, nor has the Chinese press ever given out any information on the background of Hua Kuo‐feng, the new Prime Minister.
As the death toll from the quake and tidal waves Tuesday continued to rise, Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos and his family toured the devastated area on Mindanao today and pledged full support for relief and rehabilitation. The Department of Information announced later that all damaged bridges, roads and public, buildings would be repaired without delay and that loans would be extended to fishermen for replacement of lost gear and boats. The property loss in the eight provinces of Mindanao was still being calculated. The national disaster control center increased the number of missing to 2,282, leading to fears that the death toll, now at 3,759, would rise considerably before the count finished. Frogmen of the Philippine Navy assisted by volunteers searched for bodies. Engineering brigades led in the hunt for those buried under collapsed buildings.
Federal police in the Argentine town of Fátima, located on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, executed 30 prisoners (10 women and 20 men) by gunshot, and then used dynamite to blow up the pile of corpses. According to witnesses at a nearby factory who heard the explosion and went to the scene, body parts were scattered over a wide area. Argentine troops then sealed off the area and the body parts were buried in a nearby cemetery at Pilar, with only five people originally identified. Another 16 people were killed by machine guns and their bodies dumped in a field near a major highway outside of the southern suburb of Banfield.
The United Nations Council for Namibia today rejected a plan, sponsored by South Africa, for the independence of South-West Africa by the end of 1978. The council requested international action against the South African Government, which has controlled South-West Africa since the end of World War I under a mandate of the old League of Nations. The Council for Namibia, the United Nations name for South-West Africa, is a 25‐nation body. Today the council issued a long statement denouncing as “ambiguous and equivocal” a blueprint for the territory’s future worked out by a constitutional conference in Windhoek, South‐West Africa’s capital. The Council for Namibia contended that South Africa had failed to comply with a Security Council resolution of last January ordering it to arrange free elections in the territory by the end of this month. The body said that it “therefore requests the members of the Security Council to consider appropriate measures to be taken under the Charter.”
A spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said today that Rhodesian troops last week “almost completely destroyed” a United Nations — supported refugee camp in Mozambique that had housed 8,000 black refugees from Rhodesia. The spokesman said that Hugo Idoyaga, the High Commissioner’s representative in Mozambique, found “10 mass graves” when he visited the camp Wednesday and was told men, women and children were buried there. Mr. Idoyaga gave no estimate of the dead in the camp in a telephone report to the commissioner’s office here, but he said that he had seen 500 wounded refugees and had been told that there were hundreds more, the spokesman said.
The South African government offered a housing concession to the country’s urban blacks but with tough speeches suggesting that life for South Africa’s 18 million blacks was not likely to change fundamentally. Reversing a policy adopted last year, the government agreed to allow blacks buying houses in segregated townships to have unrestricted title to the land.
For the first time in U.S. history, the two major party candidates for Vice President of the U.S. agreed to debate the national issues, as well as to have the event on live television. Jimmy Carter’s running mate Walter Mondale, and Gerald Ford’s running mate Bob Dole would each be losing candidates in a U.S. presidential election (in 1980, 1984, 1976 and 1996 respectively).
With the two presidential nominees committed to televised debates on campaign issues, Senator Robert Dole, President Ford’s running mate, and Senator Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter’s No. 2 man, said they would also be willing to meet in what would be the first televised debates between vice presidential candidates. Mr. Ford and Mr. Carter will hold the first presidential debates since John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon met in four national televised debates in 1960.
President Ford and his running mate, Senator Robert Dole, paid a sentimental and political visit to Russell, Kansas, Mr. Dole’s hometown. The Senator broke into tears — his friends cheered him for doing so — in recalling his earlier homecoming, after World War II, in which he was seriously wounded.
President Ford told the newly elected Republican National Committee that he was in favor of changing the vice-presidential selection process. He said that he had followed very closely the battle at the Republican National Convention over Rule 16-C, sponsored by Ronald Reagan forces, that would require presidential candidates to name their proposed running mate well in advance of the presidential roll-call. “I happen to believe that there is considerable merit to that approach,” Mr. Ford said, and he suggested that the national committee change the ground rules for 1980.
Jimmy Carter tried out at a news conference at his home in Plains, Georgia, what may be the principal themes of his presidential campaign, scheduled to begin formally on Labor Day. He accused the Ford administration of allowing the nation to “drift” without a goal or purpose, and said that the voters’ choice was between “new leadership in the White House or no leadership.”
The Labor Department reported that consumer prices rose in July at about the same pace as in other recent months, with inflation now running steadily at a yearly rate of 5 to 6 percent. Food prices increased very little last month, but there were sufficient increases in other categories of goods and services to push the Consumer Price Index up by five-tenths of 1 percent after adjustment for seasonal changes in some prices.
Federal scientists in a series of independent tests have found sufficiently high amounts of nickel in specimens among people who died of a mysterious disease in Pennsylvania to warrant further investigation of the possibility that a highly toxic chemical — nickel carbonyl —caused the disease. [Ed: They were incorrect.]
The City Council tightened its curfew ordinance today in an effort to combat youth gang violence. The Council allowed only limited exceptions to the law, which calls for those under 18 years of age to be off the streets at 10 PM. Only juveniles accompanied by a parent or legal guardian on the streets after that hour were exempted from arrest. Regarding one or the incidents that brought on the curfew, Mayor Coleman A. Young said that he was convinced “outsiders” were involved in Sunday night’s disturbance at a Cobo Hall rock concert. Scores of black youths terrorized hundreds of mostly white concertgoers inside and outside the downtown. One women was raped on the sidewalk. Numerous armed robberies and assaults were reported. Windows in nearby businesses were broken and two establishments were burglarized. Scores of youths were arrested.
A long‐standing division within the American Federation of Teachers over how strong a stand to take in favor of busing to achieve school desegregation reappeared today as the group adopted a resolution that some within the organization considered too moderate. Voting in the closing hour of the week‐long annual meeting, the 2,800 delegates of the 470,000‐member federation approved a resolution offered by the organization’s executive council rather than a more strongly worded statement proposed by teachers from Washington, D. C., and from California. “At the rate we’re going,” said William Simons, president of the Washington teachers’ union and a supporter of the unsuccessful resolution, “the problem will be resolved before the American Federation of Teachers has taken a stand.” However, the leadership-sponsored resolution did contain a phrase resolving that “the A.F.T. oppose efforts to legislate prohibitions against busing.”
All teaching staffs in the Jefferson County school system (Louisville, Kentucky) will be racially integrated by the time classes open September 1, according to a report submitted to Federal District Judge James Gordon. The staff integration is being completed to comply with his school desegregation order, which also calls for busing 20,000 students to achieve racial balance in the schools. The school system reported that the guidelines had been met in 118 of the system’s 150 schools, and that each school would have an integrated teaching staff when classes resumed.
Flight attendants at Trans World Airlines ratified a new contract yesterday, averting a strike threatened for midnight. Jim Tuller, secretary‐treasurer of Local 551, Transport Workers of America, said that the union members had voted 2,221 to 1,793 by mail balloting to accept a three‐year contract retroactive to August 1, 1975. A spokesman for the union said that the agreement provided pay increases from 29.2 to 44.5 percent as well as improved scheduling provisions and fringe benefits.
A Viking 1 lander experiment on Mars this week failed to rule out the possibility of life processes in Martian soil, scientists reported yesterday in Pasadena, California. The experiment was the first of a number of “control” tests designed to eliminate various chemical or biological causes for the vigorous chemical reactions detected by Viking instruments in the last month. Dr. Gilbert Levin of Biospherics Inc., Rockville, Maryland, leader of the scientists working on the control test of a so‐called labeled release experiment, said that the first eight hours of readings from Viking 1 had “significantly narrowed” the range of possible nonbiological explanations. The results reported at a news conference at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory deepened the mystery about possible Martian life that has developed since Viking 1 landed July 20 and collected its first samples of dry, red soil July 28. Chemical and biological experiments aboard the lender have sent back conflicting results. An organic chemistry probe found virtually no signs of the complex, carbon‐containing molecules that microorganisms would leave behind abundantly in soil on the earth.
Tighter controls on the use of Darvon — a mild pain killer related chemically to methadone and the country’s third most widely prescribed drug — is being planned by the government. Overuse and abuse of it by narcotics addicts, would-be suicides and others has been linked to more than 1,000 deaths over the last few years.
At an event held at New York’s West Side Tennis Club, Australian tennis professional Colin Dibley recorded the fastest tennis serve up to that time, slamming the ball at a speed of 130 miles per hour (210 km/h) as measured by a radar gun. The Association of Tennis Professionals official record is 157.2 miles per hour (253.0 km/h) set by John Isner of the U.S. at a Davis Cup match in 2016, while Australia’s Sam Groth’s serve was measured at 163.4 miles per hour (263.0 km/h) at a tournament in Busan, South Korea, in 2012.
Major League Baseball:
A sacrifice fly by Butch Hobson with the bases loaded in the ninth inning lifted the Boston Red Sox to a 2–1 victory over the Oakland Athletics. The Red Sox scored initially in the third on singles by Hobson and Rick Burleson and a wild pitch by Mike Torrez. Phil Garner tied the score with a homer off Luis Tiant in the eighth. The Red Sox opened the ninth with singles by Cecil Cooper and Jim Rice. Carlton Fisk bunted and when Rollie Fingers threw late to third, the bases were loaded. Rick Miller went out on a short fly before Hobson hit a deep drive to center field, Cooper scoring after the catch.
Backed by an 11-hit attack, Wayne Garland brought his record to 15–3 by pitching the Orioles to a 6–4 victory over the White Sox. A single by Ken Singleton and doubles by Al Bumbry and Doug DeCinces produced two runs for the Orioles in the second inning. The White Sox pulled even in their half, but the Orioles regained the lead in the third when Reggie Jackson tripled and Lee May hit a sacrifice fly. Bobby Grich hit a bases-loaded single in the fourth, scoring Terry Crowley and Bumbry. The White Sox came back with a pair of singletons, but the Orioles clinched the verdict in the eighth when Bumbry singled, stole second and scored on a single by Dave Duncan.
Although having homers by Johnny Bench and George Foster and a triple by Dan Driessen in their attack, the Reds needed an unearned run to defeat the Cubs, 4–3. The Cubs counted in the second inning on singles by Pete LaCock, Larry Biittner and George Mitterwald, but Driessen’s triple and a single by Joe Morgan produced the equalizer in the third. Bench sent the Reds ahead with his homer in the fourth. Foster led off the sixth with his circuit clout and the Reds then added a run on errors by Mick Kelleher and LaCock to beat Ray Burris, who was stopped on his personal six-game winning streak. The Cubs rallied for two runs in the seventh to kayo Gary Nolan, but Rawly Eastwick pitched scoreless ball over the last 2 ⅓ innings to pick up his 17th save of the season.
Rookie shortstop Mark Wagner, coming up from Evansville (American Association), made a sparkling debut as the Tigers gained a 3–2 victory in the opener of a twi-night doubleheader before losing the nightcap to the Twins, 8–5. Wagner, seeing his first major league pitch, singled in the third inning and counted on a double by Ron LeFlore to tie the score at 1–1. The youngster singled again in the fourth to drive in Alex Johnson. Rusty Staub provided the Tigers’ deciding run with a single in the fifth, scoring LeFlore, who had three hits in the game. Rod Carew and Lyman Bostock batted in three runs apiece and Larry Hisle accounted for two with a homer to lead the Twins’ attack in the second game. Ben Oglivie rapped a pair of round-trippers for the Tigers.
The Dodgers, who had failed to score any runs for Doug Rau in his three previous starts, finally came to the support of their lefthander and defeated the Pirates, 8–1. Rau, recording his first victory since July 25, pitched 7 ⅔ innings, scattering nine hits. Charlie Hough finished. The Dodgers tallied three runs in the fourth inning on a single by Bill Buckner, double by Steve Garvey and singles by Ron Cey and Leron Lee. Their other runs followed in the eighth. Bill Russell knocked in two with a bases-loaded single, Hough doubled, also with the sacks filled, to produce two more and Dusty Baker singled for the final tally. The Dodgers reach two million in attendance. The Phils will match that tomorrow and the Reds will hit the mark on the 22nd.
His 18-game losing streak now only a matter of record, Andy Hassler allowed just two hits in his first route-going performance of the season and gained his second straight victory, pitching the Royals past the Brewers, 3–0. The Royals scored all their runs off Bill Travers in the first inning. Jim Wohlford led off by drawing a walk and stopped at third on a double by Amos Otis. George Brett followed with a triple, driving in both runners, and scored himself on a sacrifice fly by Hal McRae.
Don Kirkwood gave up homers by Graig Nettles and Oscar Gamble but allowed only five other hits in 8 ⅔ innings to gain the victory as the Angels defeated the Yankees, 5–3. When the Yankees threatened in the ninth inning, putting the potential tying runs on base with two away, Mickey Scott relieved and retired Nettles on a grounder for the final out. Bob Jones hit a homer for the Angels, who broke a 2–2 tie in the seventh with a pass to Tony Solaita, double by Dan Briggs, single by Terry Humphrey and a wild pickoff throw to third by Thurman Munson. The Angels added an insurance run in the eighth on singles by Jerry Remy and Briggs around a stolen base.
Standing out with both his arm and bat, Dan Larson drove in four runs and allowed only five hits while pitching the Astros to an 8–3 victory over the Phillies. Larson, who entered the game with just two RBIs to his credit, unloaded a bases-loaded triple in the fourth inning. Wilbur Howard singled Larson home with the fourth run of the frame. The Astros’ rookie righthander accounted for his fourth RBI with a single in the eighth inning when the Astros put six hits together to score three runs.
Two homers by Bobby Murcer, who drove in four runs, led the Giants’ attack in a 6–3 victory over the Expos. Darrell Evans accounted for the Giants’ first two runs with a double in the fourth inning. Murcer hit his first homer of the game after a single by Marty Perez in the fifth and connected for the circuit again after a double by Gary Matthews in the eighth. Larry Parrish rapped two round-trippers and drove in all of the Expos’ runs. The defeat was the Expos’ sixth in a row.
The relief pitching of Bill Greif, who allowed only one hit in the last 3 ⅓ innings, enabled the Cardinals to emerge with a 6–4 victory over the Braves. After the Braves took a 1–0 lead in the second inning, the Cards erupted for four runs in their half on singles by Keith Hernandez, Don Kessinger and Hector Cruz, a sacrifice and doubles by Jerry Mumphrey and Garry Templeton. Willie Crawford added a run with a homer in the third and accounted for another RBI with a single in the fifth. The Braves rallied for three runs in the sixth, but Greif put out the fire and protected the Cardinals’ victory.
With Bert Blyleven and Toby Harrah as the winning combination, the Rangers snapped their six-game losing streak by defeating the Indians, 3–0. Blyleven pitched a three-hitter, while Harrah drove in all three runs. In the first inning, Danny Thompson singled, stole second and scored on a single by Harrah. With two out in the fifth, Juan Beniquez singled and Bill Fahey and Thompson walked, setting the stage for a two-run single by Harrah.
Oakland Athletics 1, Boston Red Sox 2
Baltimore Orioles 6, Chicago White Sox 4
Chicago Cubs 3, Cincinnati Reds 4
Minnesota Twins 2, Detroit Tigers 3
Minnesota Twins 8, Detroit Tigers 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 8
Kansas City Royals 3, Milwaukee Brewers 0
California Angels 5, New York Yankees 3
Houston Astros 8, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Montreal Expos 3, San Francisco Giants 6
Atlanta Braves 4, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Cleveland Indians 0, Texas Rangers 3
The stock market, continued its steep decline yesterday for the second consecutive session, falling 9.81 points on the Dow Jones industrial average to 974.07, its low for the session.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 974.07 (-9.81, -1.00%)
Born:
Chris Drury, NHL centre (NHL champions, Stanley Cup-Avalanche, 2001; Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, Buffalo Sabres, New York Rangers), in Trumbull, Connecticut.
Gene Kingsale, Aruban MLB outfielder (Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers), in Solito, Aruba.
Bobby Collins, NFL tight end (Buffalo Bills, Green Bay Packers), in York, Alabama.
Died:
Edward Cummiskey, 42, U.S. meat cutter and a mobster and for New York’s Irish-American Westies gang who specialized in dismemberment and disposal of bodies, was shot and killed on orders of the Genovese family.
Vladimir Druzhynin, 68, Soviet Ukrainian war hero and Communist Party local leader.
Phyllis Konstam, 69, British actress (“Murder”; “Skin Game”).
Tom Fool, 27, American thoroughbred and 1953 American Horse of the Year.
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