French Premier Jacques Chirac’s resignation appeared imminent with reports that President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing could dissolve the government by Wednesday. Conjecture had Finance Minister Jean-Pierre Fourcade as his most likely successor. Chirac has been progressively squeezed between his party, the Gaullists, and Giscard d’Estaing, an Independent Republican, with the Gaullists eager to display their independence by rebelling against the president’s reforms and challenging his defense policy.
A secret report into allegations that Prince Bernhard took bribes from the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation has left the Dutch Government with the dilemma of how to deal with the findings without provoking Queen Juliana’s abdication, according to informed sources in The Hague. The Government spokesman said that the full Cabinet had met for three hours at the weekend to discuss the report prepared by a three‐member commission of inquiry. It was handed in over 10 days ago. Informed sources said that Prime Minister Joop M. den Uyl now faces the problem of how to publish the secret report and the Cabinet’s conclusions, as he has promised, without making the Queen feel she should abdicate. They said Mr. den Uyl would try to head off a constitutional crisis in further talks with the Queen when she returns with her husband tomorrow from a vacation in Italy.
The fatal shooting of an 18-year-old leftist by the Civil Guard has dramatized a problem worrying many Spaniards: how to control what the people here call “the forces of order.” Memorial services or assemblies — including protest meetings in seven Madrid churches — were held in five cities yesterday, seven days after the leftist, Francisco Javier Verdejo, was killed in the southern town of Almeria. The youth, a member of a group called the Young Red Guard, was shot while he was spraying graffiti on a wall. The police, responsible for public order in the cities, and the Civil Guard, which patrols smaller towns and the countryside, seem to many opposition political groups to be out of step with the transition of the country toward greater freedom and more liberal criteria of what is or is not subversive.
The trade minister of Soviet Adzharia, in Georgia, and two top police officials have been fired in an embezzlement scandal, according to the newspaper of the Georgian Communist Party. The paper said the minister, R. Nizharadze, tried to cover up the theft of $448,000 worth of goods by employees at state stores and that the two police officials failed to take effective measures to stop the thefts.
The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano charged that because of the poison gas incident at Seveso, Italy is slipping into a form of free abortion without any change in its strict antiabortion law. Six women have had abortions since poison gas polluted a wide area after an explosion July 10 at the Icmesa chemical plant.
Warring Lebanese factions battled on three fronts as two American diplomats reopened U.S. contacts with the rightist Christian side in the divided country’s war. The envoys, Robert Houghton and David Mack, met President-elect Elias Sarkis at his home in Hazmieh, a Christian suburb of Beirut. It was the first official U.S. contact with Sarkis since June 16 when Ambassador Francis E. Meloy Jr. was slain. The two men were to see President Suleiman Franjieh today. Meanwhile, rightist and leftist forces battled to improve their military positions in Beirut, the central mountains and the northern region around Tripoli, Lebanon’s second largest city.
A foiled army revolt against President Ne Win of Burma, a former general, was only one of recent outward signs of pressure on his 14-year-old military rule. Eleven army captains and three majors were arrested for plotting to assassinate the President, his deputy, Gen. San Yu, and his intelligence chief, Col. Tin Oo. Burma’s socialist economy is also in trouble. The government is seeking major economic assistance from the World Bank. Burmese and diplomatic officials in Rangoon regard this as a more serious sign of the country’s instability than the attempted army uprising. The request to the World Bank was the country’s first departure from a stance of rigid neutrality under which most foreign aid has been refused for fear of compromising Burma’s policy of non-alignment.
With little more fanfare than when he arrived a week ago, Thailand’s former military strongman flew out of Bangkok into exile again today, ending the most serious threat yet to the four-month-old coalition Government of Prime Minister Seni Pramoj. The Government announced that Field Marshal Praphas Charusathien left on a Thai International jet airliner at 3 PM accompanied by four high‐ranking government and military officials, including the Minister of Industries, General Chatichai Choonhaven, and the air force commander. Students who rioted in downtown Bangkok yesterday to protest the failure of the Government to expel Field Marshal Praphas or to try him for “treason” and who maintained a vigil through the night at Thammasat University called off their protest within an hour of his departure. Two students were killed and more than 40 were wounded in the clashes between left and right‐wing groups.
A second strong earthquake in less than a week jolted the heavily populated Szechwan province in Central China, less than a month after the strongest earthquake in 12 years devastated northern China. The quake registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, compared to 7.2 for the quake earlier in the week, the seismological institution at Uppsala Sweden, reported. The extent of damage was not available because the Chinese government does not make such information public.
If reports from recent travelers in China can be believed, the police are still looking for an armed gang that held up a bank some time ago and escaped with the equivalent of more than $100,000. It was an unusual event In China, where crime is officially supposed to be virtually abolished. The robbers seem to be regarded almost as folk heroes.
The Soviet Union has intensified its aerial and naval intelligence around Japan recently, including frequent violations of Japanese airspace and territorial waters, Japanese defense officials report. However, the government of Prime Minister Takeo Miki plans no official protest. Officials said the Soviet forces appeared to be conducting maneuvers linked to submarine warfare as well as exercises in air defense.
President Kim Il Sung of North Korea termed as “regretful” the slaying of two American army officers by North Korean troops last week. His message, sent to the United Nations Military Command in Panmunjom, was regarded as mild in Washington. The State Department said it was unacceptable because North Korea had not admitted responsibility for the slayings, and said that military readiness ordered for American forces in the Korean area would be maintained.
The heightened tension in the Korean demilitarized zone that followed the ax slayings of two American military officers is not expected to help the human rights situation in Seoul. President Park Chung Hee and his spokesmen regularly cite the threat of North Korean provocations or infiltration as justification for a tough policy toward South Koreans who disagree with their present Government. Dissent, the officials say, is a sign of weakness. Eighteen teachers, politicians, ministers and this country’s sole living former President are now awaiting the judge’s verdict in the latest trial of dissidents here. The men and women are accused of subversion and seeking to overthrow the Government for asking President Park to resign in statement published in March. A verdict is expected on Saturday. Reports are also circulating here of a renewed police policy of torture during interrogations, The reports specifically concern the treatment received by a dozen ministers and social workers after they were arrested in June for allegedly being influenced by communism in their work among Seoul slum dwellers and factory workers.
The death toll from last week’s earthquake and tidal wave in the southern Philippines has risen to 4,000, with another 4,000 persons still missing and presumed dead, President Ferdinand E. Marcos said. At least 175,000 people are homeless and it will cost the government at least $134 million over the next five years to rehabilitate the stricken area, Marcos said. Aftershocks continued, with two earth tremors 30 minutes apart jolting the city of Cotabato, sending people streaming into the streets. The new shocks caused no new damage but disrupted business operations and temporarily halted relief efforts.
The militant South-West African People’s Organization asserts that Israel is helping South Africa in military operations in South-West Africa, or Namibia, and says it is expecting help from both Cuba and the Soviet Union to step up the guerrilla war there. The group’s leader, Sam Nujoma, charged today that the Israelis were engaged in military operations along the border between South‐West Africa and Angola. “Recently the South Africans began employing Israelis to help them control the buffer zone they have cleared along the Angolan‐Namibian border,” Mr. Nujoma said.
Pamphlets circulating in black townships throughout South Africa have urged workers to begin a three-day strike tomorrow in support of anti-Government demonstrations that have swept the townships for the last two months. The strike move was reported by a Johannesburg newspaper, Rapport, which said that students began distributing the pamphlets two days ago. Confirming the report, General Michael Geldenhuys, chief of the security police, said that the police would take steps to protect workers leaving the townships against intimidation. According to the press report, the pamphlets named the stay-at‐home campaign “azikwelwao,” a Zulu term meaning “we will not get on.” This was a reference to the cars, buses and trains that carry most black workers from the townships to adjacent white areas. Attacks on transportation systems have been a recurrent feature of the township unrest. Rapport said that the people behind the campaign, whom it did not identify, would use it to try and force a meeting with Prime Minister John Vorster and Justice Minister James T. Kruger. But Mr. Kruger reacted incredulously to the suggestion that he should meet with black radicals. “Most of them have been detained,” he said. “There is no one I could see.”
The Soviet Union’s Luna 24 spacecraft returned to Earth with the first sample of soil from the Mare Crisium, one of five areas on the Moon that has extremely dense rock. The existence of these dense areas had been found by the U.S. probe Lunar Orbiter 5 in January 1968. The 170.1 grams (6.00 oz) of lunar soil would as the last to be brought to Earth from the Moon for more than 40 years until December 16, 2020, the date of Earth landing of the Chinese sample return mission probe Chang’e 5 with 1.731 kilograms (3.82 lb) of lunar soil.
President Ford will spend most of his time In the White House during his campaign, according to his aides, who gave details of his campaign strategy in Vail, Colo., where the President is vacationing. The campaign will focus on the major industrial states, and the President’s running mate, Senator Robert Dole, will do most of the campaigning on the road. Mr. Ford will give relatively few campaign addresses, and these will be over television. He will hold frequent news conferences, send pointed messages to the Democratic opposition in Congress, and possibly call a special session. All this is meant to stress his presence in the White House.
Senator Robert J. Dole conceded today that he felt he had been chosen as the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee not to broaden President Ford’s base of support among voters but to try to “bridge the gap between those who were strongly for Ford and those who felt strongly about Reagan.” Mr. Dole speculated that after Mr. Ford’s narrow victory at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Mo., last week over his challenger, Ronald Reagan, some of those involved in selecting Vice‐Presidential candidate thought “maybe Bob Dole could be the bridge.”
Jimmy Carter flew to California, which he believes will be one of the most hotly contested states in the presidential campaign, to try out some of his campaign themes. From Los Angeles he will go on to San Francisco, Seattle and Des Moines in his longest campaign trip so far. Meanwhile, an aide responsible for television arrangements said that Mr. Carter would be the underdog in a forthcoming television debate with President Ford because he lacks Mr. Ford’s experience as a lawyer and congressman.
Ronald Reagan says that the only thing he would do differently if he could rerun his Presidential campaign would be to spend more time in Ohio. Mr. Reagan also said that, contrary to many commentaries in newspapers and on television, his campaign was helped — not hurt — by his selection of liberal Senator Richard S. Schweiker of Pennsylvania as his prospective running mate.
The FBI’s Chicago office is nearing completion of a 500-page report showing that the radical Weather Underground received financial support from Cuba, the Washington Post reported. The newspaper said the information came from sources close to the agents. The report, if correct, would hinder a Justice Department investigation of FBI-directed burglaries. Top FBI officials authorized the report last month in an effort to stop the Justice Department’s criminal investigation of more than 30 current and former FBI agents connected with a number of burglaries of the homes and offices of persons with ties to the Weather Underground in New York, the sources said.
Justice Department prosecutors say they have seen no evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s search for fugitive members of the Weather Underground organization was motivated by the group’s purported links to hostile foreign governments, sources close to the department’s investigation of the bureau said today.
The federal government’s pioneer program to reduce the $3 billion it spends annually on drugs for children, the aged and the poor is to begin this week, provided there is no unfavorable court ruling. The projected savings of $60 million or more may not be realized for a year at the earliest, but the fact that the drug cost‐control program has even survived represents a victory for health planners and consumer and elderly groups who view it as a necessary precursor to national health insurance. The program is called MAC, short for Maximum Allowable Cost. To reduce drug expenses, it places price ceilings on some of the drugs most commonly prescribed for Medicaid, Medicare and Public Health Service patients; controls fees reimbursing pharmacists who buy and dispense the drugs, and regularly renews the drug price lists informing doctors and patients of less expensive substitutes for the medicines they are using. For persons on Medicaid, doctors may begin prescribing a less expensive substitutes for the drugs they are now taking.
Arrests under Detroit’s new curfew to cut down youth gang violence rose to more than 130 for three nights. But the apparent success of the tough program was offset by questions about its constitutionality. Police said 44 youths under 18 had been picked up late Saturday and early Sunday for violating the 10 PM curfew, which was imposed after a serious disturbance at a rock concert a week ago. Judge William Hague, however, refused to arraign offenders brought before him because of legal questions about the ordinance. “I’m not sure what the law says,” Hague said. Several members of the Police Commission also have challenged the ordinance’s validity.
Doctors are ranked first in terms of honesty and ethical standards, according to a Gallup Poll survey. More than 1,500 men and women in more than 300 localities were asked in June to rate 11 occupations for honesty and ethical standards. The results: doctors, 55%; engineers, 48%; college teachers, 44%; journalists, 33%; lawyers, 25%; building contractors, 22%; business executives, 19%; senators, 19%; congressmen, 14%; labor union leaders, 13%; advertising executives, 11%.
About 170 chanting demonstrators were arrested for trying to occupy a nuclear power plant site in Seabrook, New Hampshire. The demonstrators were all members of the Clamshell Alliance, a coalition of New England groups opposed to construction of the $1.6 billion plant. The protesters spent about 75 minutes at the construction site before New Hampshire state police began arresting them for trespassing and violating a court injunction. All of the demonstrators submitted to arrest peacefully, police said.
Militant pro- and anti-Castro Cuban groups in the Miami area are engaged in terrorist activities both in and outside the United States, according to testimony before a closed meeting of the Senate judiciary subcommittee on internal security. Witnesses said as many as 50 Cuban groups of various shadings were operating in Miami, many of them engaged in violent plots involving local actions and activities in Mexico, Central and South America, as well as Cuba itself.
The five Democratic candidates for Senator from New York — Representative Bella Abzug, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Paul O’Dwyer, Ramsey Clark and Abraham Hirschfeld — participated in a television debate on such issues as welfare reform, political labels and their own chances of winning in November. Each thought that the Conservative-Republican incumbent, James Buckley, would be on the ticket in November, and each was confident of victory.
Fuel evaporation from automobiles and light trucks is to be reduced by 70 percent below current levels beginning with 1978 models, the Environmental Protection Agency announced today. The agency, In issuing a new standard to reduce hydrocarbon evaporation from gasoline in a vehicle’s fuel system, said that hydrocarbon molecules escape in vapors from gasoline tanks and carburetors even when engines are not running. These escaping hydrocarbons, which amount to three million tons a year nationwide, combine with other pollutants and sunlight to form unhealthy smog, the agency said.
The National Cancer Institute will recommend, in a new set of guidelines being sent this week to 27 centers participating in the National Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration project, that the X-ray detection techniques not be used routinely on women between the ages of 35 and 50 unless they show specific symptoms of cancer or are otherwise diagnosed as “high risk.”
The fifth tropical storm of the season — Emmy — developed from a tropical depression in the South Atlantic and forecasters issued gale warnings for the Leeward Islands from Guadeloupe northward. Meanwhile, tropical storm Candice became the second hurricane of the season, with winds reaching 75 mph in the North Atlantic. Although Candice presents a threat to shipping, it currently is south of main shipping lines. An Air Force reconnaissance plane at last report said Emmy had winds of 55 mph and was likely to strengthen gradually to hurricane size.
Gina Bachauer, one of the world’s leading piano virtuosos, died of a heart attack In Athens shortly before she was to appear with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington at the Athens Festival. She was 63 years old.
Major League Baseball:
For the second time in his career, Bert Campaneris rapped five hits in one game to lead the Athletics to a 7–6 victory over the Red Sox in 11 innings. Campy knocked in two runs with a single in the sixth when the A’s counted four times to take a 6–1 lead, but the Red Sox came back with a five-run rally in their half. Rick Miller accounted for two tallies with a double. In the 11th, Phil Garner singled, took second on a sacrifice by Jeff Newman and stopped at third on a two-out single by Campaneris. Don Baylor then laid down a surprise squeeze bunt, scoring Garner, who beat Jim Willoughby’s throw to the plate.
Pinch-hitting in ninth inning, Reggie Jackson came through with a grand-slam homer to power the Orioles to a 6–2 victory in the opener of a doubleheader, but the White Sox gained a split by winning the nightcap, 7–3. Jim Palmer (17–11), pitching the lidlifter for the Orioles, was staked to a 2–0 lead and allowed only one hit until the eighth when the White Sox tied the score on a single by Jorge Orta after a walk, hit batsman and infield single by Jim Essian had loaded the bases. Ken Singleton drew a walk to open the Orioles’ ninth and, with one out, Dave Duncan singled. After a wild pitch, Brooks Robinson walked. Jackson was announced as the pinch-hitter for Tommy Harper and Terry Forster took the mound in relief for the White Sox, but Jackson upset the percentage by smashing his homer. In the nightcap, Lamar Johnson rapped three singles, drove in two runs and scored twice for the White Sox, while Jerry Hairston also accounted for two RBIs, walking with the bases loaded to force in one run and hitting a single for another.
With a crowd of 40,018 on hand, the Reds went over 2,000,000 in attendance for the fourth straight year and marked the occasion by defeating the Cubs, 4–3. The Reds, who were held to only four hits, tied the score at 3–3 in the third inning when Joe Morgan homered with a man on base. With two out in the seventh, Mike Lum batted for Manny Sarmiento and reached base on an error by Pete LaCock. Pinch-runner Ed Armbrister stole second and scored the winning run on a single by Rose.
Doubles by Butch Wynegar and Lyman Bostock and a single by Mike Cubbage produced two runs in the 12th inning and brought the Twins a 6–4 victory over the Tigers. The Twins took a 4–3 lead with a homer by Cubbage in the eighth, but the Tigers tied the score in their half with a run on a double by Rusty Staub, an infield hit by Bill Freehan and sacrifice fly by Alex Johnson. Bill Campbell (13–3), pitching in relief for the fifth straight day, was the Twins’ winner, raising his record to 13–3 to go along with 18 saves.
A homer by Willie Stargell after a single by Richie Zisk in the first inning started the Pirates off to a 6–1 victory over the Dodgers, who were stopped on their six-game winning streak. The loss was only the second for Rick Rhoden against 11 wins. The Dodgers counted their run in the third when Ellie Rodriguez singled and was forced by Davey Lopes, who stole second and scored on a single by Bill Buckner. The Pirates pulled away again with two runs in the fourth. Stargell and Dave Parker walked, but Stargell was thrown out at the plate trying to score on a single by Richie Hebner. Parker, taking third on the play, counted on a wild pitch. Mario Mendoza followed with a single to drive in Hebner.
After getting a spark from a two-run double by John Mayberry in the eighth inning, the Royals scored four runs in the ninth and defeated the Brewers, 7–4. Von Joshua rapped three hits, including a homer, for the Brewers, who took a 4–1 lead before John Mayberry narrowed the Royals’ deficit with his double. In the ninth, Brewers’ reliever Danny Frisella lost his control and walked Jamie Quirk, Bob Stinson and Frank White to load the bases. Ruppert Jones followed with an infield hit, driving in one run. Amos Otis singled, adding two tallies, and the final run followed on an error by Robin Yount. George Brett had another three-hit game for the Royals.
The Angels blew an 8–0 lead in the ninth inning but came back to defeat the Yankees, 11–8, with three runs in the 11th. Dave Collins and Tony Solaita hit homers for the Angels to help build up their big lead while Frank Tanana allowed only two hits before falling apart in the ninth. Graig Nettles and Fran Healy hit run-scoring singles in the Yankees’ rally and Willie Randolph batted in a pair with a double to chase Tanana. After John Verhoeven relieved, Carlos May hit a two-run single and Roy White followed with a homer to tie the score. However in the 11th, Jerry Remy singled and when Sparky Lyle threw late to second on a bunt by Mario Guerrero, both runners were safe. Tommy Davis, batting for Dan Briggs, singled to score Remy. When White’s throw from the outfield hit Remy and bounced away, Lyle retrieved the ball and threw wildly past the plate, allowing Guerrero to come home with the second run. Rusty Torres, running for Davis, counted the final tally on a sacrifice fly by Leroy Stanton.
Allowing only five hits, Tom Underwood pitched the Phillies to a 5–1 victory over the Astros. The Phils put the game away with three runs in the second inning. Jay Johnstone tripled and scored on a wild pitch by Larry Dierker. Bob Boone doubled, stopped at third on a single by Bobby Tolan and sauntered home on a double by Terry Harmon. When Leon Roberts let the ball get away in left field, Tolan also scored. Jose Cruz homered in the fourth inning for the Astros’ run.
An unearned run decided a duel between Jon Matlack (13–7) and Randy Jones and enabled the Mets to defeat the Padres, 1–0. Jones (19–9), who was turned back in a bid for his 20th victory, suffered his fifth loss in six starts. In the seventh inning, Joe Torre grounded to Padre third baseman Ted Kubiak, who made a bad throw to first for an error. Pepe Mangual came in to run for Torre and advanced to second on a balk by Jones. jerry Grote then doubled to drive in the only run.
Gary Matthews, who hit a two-run homer in the first inning, singled in the ninth and drove in Larry Herndon to bring the Giants a 4–3 victory over the Expos. The Giants held a 3–1 lead until Larry Parrish homered for the Expos with a man on base to tie the score in the eighth. Herndon beat out a bunt with one away in the ninth, moved up on an infield out by Marty Perez and crossed the plate with the winning run on Matthews’ single.
Lynn McGlothen (11–11) not only pitched a five-hitter but drove in three runs with a double as the Cardinals shut out the Braves, 8–0. Keith Hernandez accounted for three runs with a homer in the fourth inning. The Cards added a pair in the seventh before McGlothen iced his victory with a bases-loaded double in the eighth.
Pitching eight innings, Pat Dobson (12–11) ended a personal four-game losing streak and gained his first victory since July 16 when the Indians defeated the Rangers, 3–1. Dave LaRoche hurled the final frame. The Indians nicked Tommy Boggs for a run in the fourth inning on singles by Rick Manning, George Hendrick and Buddy Bell. Frank Duffy doubled in the fifth, took third on a sacrifice and counted on an infield out by Tommy Smith. The Rangers picked up their run in the home half on an RBI single by Juan Beniquez, but the Indians clinched the verdict with a run on a sacrifice fly by Duane Kuiper in the ninth.
Oakland Athletics 7, Boston Red Sox 6
Baltimore Orioles 6, Chicago White Sox 2
Baltimore Orioles 3, Chicago White Sox 7
Chicago Cubs 3, Cincinnati Reds 4
Minnesota Twins 6, Detroit Tigers 4
Pittsburgh Pirates 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Kansas City Royals 7, Milwaukee Brewers 4
California Angels 11, New York Yankees 8
Houston Astros 1, Philadelphia Phillies 5
New York Mets 1, San Diego Padres 0
Montreal Expos 3, San Francisco Giants 4
Atlanta Braves 0, St. Louis Cardinals 8
Cleveland Indians 3, Texas Rangers 1
Born:
Randy Wolf, MLB pitcher (All-Star, 2003; Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Baltimore Orioles, Miami Heat, Detroit Tigers), in Canoga Park, California.
Jeff Weaver, MLB pitcher (World Series-Cardinals, 2006; Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, Seattle Mariners), in Northridge, California.
Chris Wylde [as Chris Noll], American actor (“Young Sheldon”), in Hackettstown, New Jersey.
Died:
Juscelino Kubitschek, 73, President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961
Oskar Brüsewitz, 47, East German Lutheran pastor who set himself on fire four days earlier to protest the Communist nation’s repression of religion, died from severe burns.
