A resolution was proposed in the U.N. Security Council urging Greece and Turkey to show restraint in their dispute over rights in the Aegean and to resume direct negotiations. The resolution was sponsored by the United States, Britain, France and Italy. Meanwhile, the Turkish survey ship Sismik I reached the halfway mark in its oil exploration, putting into the port of Izmir after three of six trips into the Aegean where Greece and Turkey have rival claims to seabed mineral rights.
Prime Minister James Callaghan held an emergency cabinet meeting as Britain’s worst drought on record threatened to disrupt the economy and cause layoffs or three-day work weeks. Sports Minister Denis Howell was assigned to supervise the shrinking water supply. The minister said that in water allocation, industry and agriculture would precede householders.
A competition is being arranged among companies that want to help decontaminate the northern region of Italy that was polluted by a cloud of poison gas last month. Officials said the competition will be open to any firm that believes it has an effective plan to neutralize the dioxin chemical released by an explosion at a factory near the town of Seveso. More than 30 companies have expressed an interest in the decontamination work.
Three Americans pleaded guilty in a Moscow court to charges of trying to smuggle an estimated $2 million worth of heroin through the Soviet Union for a group of Chinese. The defendants, Gerald Amster of New York City, Paul Brawer of Las Vegas and Dennis Robert Burn of Whitestone, N.Y.. admitted acting as couriers but said they had no idea how much heroin was involved. “They tricked us.” Amster said of the Chinese who supplied the heroin in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for transport to Paris. Customs inspectors at Moscow airport found 62 pounds of heroin in false bottoms of the three men’s suitcases.
The Soviet Union’s Soyuz 21 space mission ended early as cosmonauts Boris Volynov and Vitaly Zholobov returned to Earth 50 days after their launch on July 6.
The Netherlands’ Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard resumed their vacation today after a day of talks with the Prime Minister on the growing constitutional crisis over allegations that the Prince accepted bribes amounting to $1.1 million from the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. The Queen and Prince Bernhard left for Porto Ercole 18 hours after they had arrived in The Hague from the Italian resort to discuss with Prime Minister Joop M. den Uyl the report of a three‐man commission investigating the charges. Officials and diplomats were puzzled at the departure of the couple since it had been widely assumed that they would remain in The Hague to await publication of the report, expected within 10 days.
Theo and Agnes Rohl, both 35 years old and in perfect health, are childless. They work, take frequent vacations and are used to living well. Now, Mrs. Rohl says, “we don’t think we’ll have children any more; we’re used to our life style the way it is, and we like being independent.” The Rohls and millions like them, in deciding not to have any children or having only one or two, are part of a fundamental change in the way West Germans view life and the family in the mid-1970’s. Since 1972, for the first time since World War II, the country has been registering fewer births than deaths. The population is expected to decline from 57 million to fewer than 55 million in the next decade, largely because the birth rate has been falling since the birth-control pill came into general use a decade ago. According to a recent study, most German couples want no more than two children.
Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are nearing agreement on standardizing oil-price differentials that have inspired arguments over price-cutting by some oil producers, an informant said in Vienna where the OPEC is meeting. Differentials are charged on top of the standard oil price of $11.51 per barrel and are made on the basis of greater purity, low sulfur content and low transportation cost. Agreement on price differentials would have no immediate effect on the price paid by the consumer. But it would strengthen OPEC unity.
Shells and rockets rained on residential areas of Beirut last night and early today, prompting new Appeals by religious leaders and doctors for an end to indiscriminate attacks on noncombatants. A leftist radio station said agreement had been reached by the opposing factions to halt such attacks. The broadcast said the accord had been arranged by Major General Mohammed Hassan Ghoneim, the commander of the Arab League’s peacekeeping force in Lebanon. The shelling diminished during the day. In the Muslim-dominated western part of Beirut, few people had any sleep last night as the continuing shelling forced civilians to seek shelter in basements. Christian leaders disclaimed responsibility for the shelling, The Associated Press reported, and a right-wing Christian broadcast accused “certain elements within the leftist camp” of trying to undermine efforts to arrange a truce.
After 14 months of emergency rule and the suspension of most civil liberties, India’s intellectual community appears demoralized and in disarray. Its mood ranges from acceptance of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s exercise of authoritarian power to total rejection, albeit in most cases whispered. Between those extremes, neither of which appears to be a majority attitude consistently held — often both raise their heads in the course of a single conversation — another point of view is frequently heard. That sentiment appears to be on the increase, and political observers, Indian and foreign, believe it to be a potential impediment to return to democratic norms.
The first phase of Vietnam’s fence‐mending with its neighbors seems to be over, and Hanoi is waiting to reap some of the rewards, both tangible and intangible, from its conciliatory policy. In the past two months it has re‐established diplomatic relations with all five members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations—Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. Though there is still considerable skepticism in the member countries, Thailand in particular, there have been developments that seem likely to confirm for the leaders in Hanoi that they are pursuing an effective policy. At the conference of nonaligned nations last week in Sri Lanka, the Vietnamese Prime Minister, Phạm Văn Đồng, won an overwhelming vote of the 85 participants urging the United States to honor the Vietnam peace accords by aiding in the reconstruction of Vietnam. Though it was only a rhetorical victory, the Vietnamese were clearly pleased to have it.
South Korean officials and many ordinary South Koreans indicated today that they were confused and disappointed by the Ford Administration’s handling of the current crisis in Korea. South Korean officials today anxiously asked American friends if they could explain the evident sudden switch in Washington’s position yesterday when a State Department spokesman said a message received from President Kim Il Sung of North Korea was a “positive step.” Only a day earlier the White House and the State Department had sharply rejected the North Korean message, which described an incident last week in which two American Army officers were killed by Communist guards as “regretful.” Meanwhile, North Korea agreed today to a meeting of the Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom tomorrow. At that session, the United States intends to demand guarantees against repetition of such incidents. The two officers were bludgeoned to death with axes as they escorted a work party trimming a tree in the demilitarized zone along the border between the two Koreas.
American B‐52 strategic bombers continued to fly daily “practice bombing missions” over South Korea today as a show of force against North Korea while the United States diplomatic posture toward North Korea remained a focus of discussion here and in Seoul. There was no crisis atmosphere in Washington, however, and officials said that, barring some unexpected development, they expected the show of strength to end and normal conditions to return by the end of this week.
More than two‐thirds of the parliamentary members of the governing Liberal‐Democratic Party met today and unanimously called in effect for the ouster of their own party leader, Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki. But the Prime Minister later told a television audience that; “it is I who decides whether I remain or leave.” Those attending the meeting of Liberal‐Democratic members of Parliament adopted a resolution today calling for “freshening the party” — that is, changing its leadership — but refrained from voting no confidence in Mr. Miki, who has been under fire for his dogged insistence on a thorough investigation of the multimilliondollar Lockheed Aircraft scandal and the involvement of many politicians. In theory, a vote of no confidence at an official meeting of two‐thirds of the party’s members, of Parliament could oust the 69‐year‐old Mr. Miki as party leader and therefore as Prime Minister, but the party’s secretary general, Yasuhiro Nakasone, said that he did not consider today’s meeting valid because it had been called without his approval or the approval of the party president, Mr. Miki.
Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos rejected a U.S. offer of aid for more than 175,000 victims of last week’s earthquake and tidal wave disaster. In a cable to U.S. Senator Mike Mansfield (D-Montana). Marcos said his country would “meet our present difficulties through our own initiative and resources.” Mansfield was author of a Senate resolution pledging support for relief efforts in the Philippines.
Three Filipino Muslims pleaded innocent before a military court in Manila to charges of hijacking, murder and illegal possession of firearms and explosives in the hijacking of a Philippines Airlines plane May 21. The plane was on a domestic flight when the hijackers forced to land at Zamboanga. Thirteen of the 109 passengers, including three guerrillas, were killed when government troops stormed the plane.
Authorities forbade persons to enter the danger zone around La Soufriere volcano on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe after more than 900 tremors were recorded Tuesday. Earlier, 1,200 inhabitants of an island village were allowed to return home but the residents were reevacuated. Scientists have warned that the volcano could explode at any time with the force of several atomic bombs. Their forecast prompted the evacuation of 72,000 people from the volcano 10 days ago.
The State Department issued its official comment in Washington on the statement by a multiracial constitutional committee last week in South-West Africa setting goals for independence by the end of 1978. It called it “a step in the right direction” but decried the failure to set a date for elections in the territory, known also as Namibia, and the failure to include all interested parties. This referred to the South-West African People’s Organization, a guerrilla group recognized by the United Nations as representative of the people of the territory.
Zulu vigilante groups armed with clubs and knives clashed violently in Soweto with demonstrating youths amid growing indications of a backlash against the campaign of harassment that has kept most of the black township’s labor force from jobs in Johannesburg for two days. At least six persons have died and 90 were injured in attacks by the vigilante groups, formed with public encouragement from white South African officials and employers.
Jimmy Carter drew stronger boos than applause from the national convention of the American Legion in Seattle with his position on Vietnam War draft resisters — a “blanket pardon” for violators of the Selective Service laws but no blanket amnesty. It was the first sour note of the Democratic presidential candidate’s West Coast swing.
President Ford proposed that Mr. Carter agree to begin their series of campaign debates in about two weeks. He proposed four 90-minute debates, focusing in turn on national security, domestic, foreign and economic policy, starting within four days after Labor Day, September 6. The proposal, made in Vail, Colo., after a two-hour conference with senior campaign advisers, reflected their assessment that under favorable conditions he could win the debates. An early start and subject matter that would enable him to display breadth of knowledge of government, rather than forensic flair, were thought to be in his interest.
Federal election records on file in Topeka indicate that Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, now the Republican vice-presidential candidate, accepted as an “in kind” campaign contribution in 1974 the cost of anti-abortion newspaper advertisements he recently said he had disavowed. An aide said he had attempted to do this by reaching the newspapers publishing them to say they were not authorized in advance.
The Senate approved and sent to the White House a cut-down authorization for child care services designed to meet President Ford’s objections. It would provide an additional $240 million through fiscal 1977 and would continue the suspension of federal staffing standards for day care centers until October 1, 1977. Congress earlier this year sustained Ford’s veto of a bill authorizing $375 million and ending the staffing suspension.
A new congressional hearing has been scheduled to clear up unanswered questions in Army Secretary West Point’s cheating scandal, and Martin R. Hoffmann’s plan to end lawyers for accused cadets said they would fight for more concessions. Chairman Lucien N. Nedzi (D-Michigan) of the House military personnel subcommittee said he was calling Hoffmann and Lieutenant General Sidney B. Berry, West Point’s superintendent, as witnesses at today’s session to clarify “several questions left unanswered.” Hoffman has announced that cadets convicted of cheating on an electrical engineering exam would be expelled as required by the honor code. But he said “a large number might be readmitted in a year.
Cuban exile Rolando Otero was acquitted of all federal charges in connection with eight terrorist bombings or attempted bombings in Miami. The case was tried in Jacksonville because defense lawyers cited extensive news coverage in Miami of the incidents last October and December. There were no serious injuries in the blasts that occurred at the airport, a police station, two post offices, a state attorney’s office and other locations. After his acquittal, Otero, 33. was held by U.S. marshals at the request of state prosecutors, who plan to try him on similar charges.
The United Automobile Workers designated Ford Motor Company as their strike target if no new contract agreement is reached by midnight September 14. Negotiations are expected to intensify. The outcome is considered significant because a long strike could inhibit national recovery and because the U.A.W. contract has been a pace-setter in setting industrial worker benefits.
The United Rubber Workers and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company reached a tentative agreement today on a three-year contract providing a 36 percent wage increase. The contract proposal closely follows terms of a tentative resolution of major economic issues that the union reached with the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company on August 12. If the contract is approved by Goodyear employees—and local union officials predicted that it would be—it will end the Goodyear strike on Tuesday in its 126th day, the longest walkout in the history of the industry.
The strike at the New York State prison at Attica went into its second day with most inmates remaining in their cells as their leaders met Correction Department officials on nine key demands. Newsmen taken on a tour saw the prisoners sleeping, reading and typing in their cells. Some shouted “Tell the people we won’t compromise!” Many asked to speak with reporters but this was not allowed by officials.
James Napoli, long identified as a leading underworld figure, and eight confederates were convicted in federal court of running a $35 million-a-year policy and horse-racing gambling operation. Three others were acquitted. Federal agents had testified that Mr. Napoli’s personal take from 1969 to his arrest in May 1975 averaged $1 million a year.
Representative Allan T. Howe was found guilty today in his second trial on charges of soliciting sex acts for hire from two Salt Lake City police decoys. A jury of five men and three women took less than one-half hour to reach its verdict following a two-day trial in the court of second District Judge Bryant H. Croft. Judge Croft withheld the imposition of sentence until tomorrow. Mr. Howe’s conviction could carry with it a fine of $299, six months in jail, or both. Mr. Howe, a Democrat who is seeking re‐election in Utah’s Second Congressional District, said he would “carefully reassess the political situation” before deciding whether to continue his race. The state’s Democratic leaders, including Senator Frank E. Moss and Gov. Calvin A. Rampton, had earlier urged Mr. Howe to retire from the contest.
The Roman Catholic Pallottine Fathers missionary charity has agreed to cut its massive direct mail fund raising by 90% and to divest itself of most of its multimillion dollar investments. That agreement with the state of Maryland was announced in Baltimore by Attorney General Francis B. Burch, who also said he intended to use a grand jury to investigate “possible criminal misconduct” in the handling of money raised by the order. The agreement, representing the state’s formal entry into the affairs of a religious institution, is believed to be unique in the recent history of church-state relations. An audit report has indicated that of $20.4 million collected, only $1.1 million actually was sent to the missions.
A state senator and House Speaker Carl Albert’s top aide seemed destined for a runoff as Oklahoma voters began the process of selecting congressional candidates. In the southside 3rd District in Oklahoma City, which Albert represented for 30 years until deciding to step down this year. Senator Wes Watkins of Ada and Charles Ward were locked in a close battle in the six-man race for the Democratic nomination. With 244 of 699 precincts reported, Watkins had 14,642 votes, or 35%, to 11,861, or 28%, for Ward. The two Republicans running in the heavily Democratic district were neck and neck.
Dow Chemical Co. was fined $500 for destroying a marsh next to its Pittsburgh plant. The penalty was levied in Delta-Pittsburg Justice Court after the corporation pleaded guilty to violating a regulation that requires an agreement with the state Fish and Game Department before a stream is altered. Dow was charged with diverting Kirker Creek. then bulldozing dirt into the streambed and the marsh bordering it.
The Kansas City Gas & Electric Co. was found guilty of making two illegal $1.500 contributions to the campaign against the California Nuclear Power Plant Initiative. A Kansas law prohibits utilities from making political donations. The measure was defeated June 8.
Seventeen false killer whales, believed to be the rest of a herd that tried and failed twice before to beach itself, were found decomposing on a west Florida beach. Daniel Odell of the University of Miami said the mammals had been dead for weeks. Last month, false killer whales tried to beach themselves near Ft. Myers and five died. Later, another died at Loggerhead Key.
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor (59) divorces her sixth husband, toy inventor Jack Ryan (49) after 1 year of marriage.
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Bobby Tolan batted in five runs with a homer and two singles, while Steve Carlton (16–4) also had a productive night at bat, accounting for three runs with a double and two singles, as the Philadelphia Phillies trounced the Atlanta Braves, 14–3. Carlton pitched eight innings before turning the mound over to Gene Garber and allowed seven hits, including two homers by Jim Wynn.
Joe Rudi batted in three of the Athletics’ first four runs before Gene Tenace homered in the eighth inning to defeat the Orioles, 5–4. Rudi accounted for his RBIs with singles in the first and third innings and a sacrifice fly in the seventh. In between, the A’s also scored on a wild pitch by Wayne Garland in the third. Doug DeCinces and Lee May hit homers for the Orioles. After May’s blow with a man on base tied the score in the seventh, Tenace broke the deadlock with his homer on the first pitch thrown to him by Garland in the eighth.
Terry Humphrey, the Angels’ leading batter with an average of .311, rapped a run-scoring double with two out in the ninth inning to defeat the Red Sox, 6–5. Carlton Fisk hit a two-run homer for the Red Sox, while Tony Solaita supplied three runs for the Angels with a circuit clout. In the ninth, Dave Collins led off with a single for his third hit of the game and was forced by Rusty Torres. After Dan Briggs struck out and Torres stole second, Solaita was passed intentionally in a move that failed when Humphrey delivered his decisive double.
Bo McLaughlin gained credit for his first major league save, cutting off a Cubs’ rally in the ninth inning, to enable the Astros to emerge with a 4–3 victory. Bob Watson singled and doubled for the Astros, driving in one run and scoring another. Joaquin Andujar, who started for the Astros, allowed only four hits and one run before being removed for a pinch-batter in the eighth inning. The Cubs mounted a threat in the ninth when Mick Kelleher and Rick Monday singled, knocking out Joe Sambito and bringing in Gene Pentz. Jose Cardenal singled to load the bases and Bill Madlock was hit by a pitch, forcing in Kelleher. McLaughlin then arrived on the scene and retired Pete LaCock on a foul, got Manny Trillo on a grounder as a run scored and struck out Joe Wallis to end the game.
Pete Falcone (11–11) extended his August winning streak to five games by pitching the Cardinals to a 4–1 victory over the Reds. The lefthander gave up the Reds’ run in the first inning on walks to Pete Rose and Joe Morgan, a double steal and infield out by George Foster. The Cards went ahead to stay with two runs in the fourth on a homer by Willie Crawford, single by Keith Hernandez and triple by Don Kessinger.
After giving up three singles in the first four innings, Rick Waits (6–5) did not yield a hit the rest of the way while pitching the Indians to a 2–1 victory over the Royals. Hal McRae drove in the Royals’ run with a single in the first, but the Indians knotted the count in their half with a single by Duane Kuiper, two walks and a sacrifice fly by Boog Powell. The deciding run followed in the fourth on a pass to Powell, single by George Hendrick, Buddy Bell’s forceout of Powell and a single by Ray Fosse.
The Tigers’ youthful infield combination of shortstop Mark Wagner and second baseman Jerry Manuel committed two errors each in the ninth inning, enabling the White Sox to score seven unearned runs and gain a 12–7 victory. Manuel started the stanza by booting a grounder by Pat Kelly. After an infield out, Brian Downing singled, scoring Kelly. Wagner then bobbled a grounder by Chet Lemon and threw wildly for two errors, Downing taking third and Lemon second. An intentional pass to Ralph Garr loaded the bases and another pass to Jack Brohamer forced in Downing. Jerry Hairston followed with a sacrifice fly. Manuel mishandled a grounder by Jorge Orta for his second error to permit another run. The White Sox added three more tallies on singles by Bill Stein, Kelly and Jim Spencer before the inning ended. Bill Freehan hit his fifth homer of the season for the Tigers and 200th of his major league career, connecting with two men on base in the second inning.
The Expos were shut out on seven hits by Burt Hooton (8–12) and absorbed their 10th straight defeat, losing to the Dodgers, 6–0. Steve Yeager, Hooton’s receiver, committed three errors, one less than the modern major league record for a catcher, but the Expos were unable to capitalize on them. The Dodgers collected only five hits. Davey Lopes walked in the first inning, stole second, moved to third on an infield out and scored on a sacrifice fly by Bill Russell. Ron Cey homered in the second. The Dodgers wrapped up their scoring with four runs in the third, two counting on a single by Dusty Baker.
A bases-loaded double by Willie Randolph and triple by Mickey Rivers highlighted a seventh-inning rally that carried the Yankees to a 5–4 victory over the Twins. With the score tied, 1–1, the Yankees loaded the bases with a double by Chris Chambliss, single by Graig Nettles and pass to Otto Velez. Randolph cleared the sacks with his double and scored what proved to be the winning run on Rivers’ triple. The Twins picked up a tally in the eighth and then fell one run short when Dan Ford singled and pinch-hitter Tony Oliva smashed his first homer of the year in the ninth.
Mike Ivie drove in four runs with a pair of singles to lead the Padres to a 7–3 victory over the Pirates. Richie Zisk homered with a mate aboard for the Pirates in the first inning, but the Padres came back with three runs in their half on singles by Tito Fuentes, Willie Davis, Dave Winfield and Ivie. The Padres added two runs in the second and completed their scoring when Ivie singled with the bases loaded in the seventh.
Tom Seaver (10–9), who had not been a winner since July 8, turned in his third shutout of the season and pitched the Mets to a 4–0 victory over the Giants. During his drouth, Seaver lost four times and had no-decisions in three other games, covering a stretch in which the Mets backed their star righthander with a total of only 12 runs. Roy Staiger drove in two tallies against the Giants with a single and sacrifice fly, while the other runs scored on errors by Bobby Murcer and Chris Speier.
Tim Johnson singled in the 10th inning for his third hit of the game and drove in a run to enable Jerry Augustine to pitch the Brewers to a 1–0 victory over the Rangers. The shutout was the third of the year for Augustine, who allowed five hits. Nelson Briles started for the Rangers and pitched eight innings before blisters on finger forced his departure in favor of Steve Foucault. Darrell Porter singled off the reliever in the 10th and, after a sacrifice by Gorman Thomas, Johnson drove in the winning run.
Philadelphia Phillies 14, Atlanta Braves 3
Oakland Athletics 5, Baltimore Orioles 4
California Angels 6, Boston Red Sox 5
Houston Astros 4, Chicago Cubs 3
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Cincinnati Reds 1
Kansas City Royals 1, Cleveland Indians 2
Chicago White Sox 12, Detroit Tigers 7
Montreal Expos 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 6
Minnesota Twins 4, New York Yankees 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, San Diego Padres 7
New York Mets 4, San Francisco Giants 0
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Texas Rangers 0
Stock prices dropped sharply, yesterday in moderate trading, with the Dow Jones industrial average off 8.56 points to 962.93, its low for the session. In the last five sessions, it has fallen 36.41 points. Yesterday’s close was the average’s lowest in 11 weeks.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 962.93 (-8.56, -0.88%)
Born:
Alex O’Loughlin, Australian TV actor (star of the second “Hawaii Five-0” series); in Canberra, Australia.
Yang Yang, Chinese speed skater with seven consecutive world championships in the women’s events between 1997 and 2003 (including 6 in a row in the 1000m race) 2002 Olympic gold medalist in the 500m and 1000m races; in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China.
