Jacques Chirac resigned as Prime Minister of France in anger over the lack of authority given to him by President Valery Giscard d’Estaing. Chirac was replaced by Foreign Trade Minister Raymond Barre. “I am quitting because I don’t have the means I consider necessary for the effective performance of my functions as Prime Minister,” Chirac said, “and in these conditions I’ve decided to end them.” The President, who heads the small Independent Republican Party, named the Foreign Trade Minister, Raymond Barre, a nonparty professor of economics, to succeed. Mr. Chirac. Mr. Giscard d’Estaing said he had refused Mr. Chirac increased powers because that would have given the country two power centers.
A change of U.S. ambassadors in Moscow and Bonn and elsewhere is planned by the Ford Administration as part of a multiple shift of envoys abroad, the Washington Post reported. Ambassador Walter J. Stroessel, 56, who has been in Moscow since 1974, is expected to go to Bonn, replacing Martin J. Hillenbrand, 61. who is to retire. The successor to Stroessel is not decided, Administration sources said, but the leading candidates were reported to be Richard T. Davies, now U.S. ambassador to Poland, and Malcolm Toon, currently U.S. ambassador to Israel.
Italian authorities accused two officials of the Swiss Givaudan Co. of responsibility for the escape of poison gas from a chemical plant in northern Italy and subpoenaed them to testify. The two are President Guy Waldvogel and technician Joerg Sambeth. They are accused of failing to order adequate safety precautions in the Icmesa chemical plant at Seveso, Italy. An attorney for the two said that they probably would appear but that as foreigners they had the right to give depositions in the case in Switzerland.
Three Americans who admitted trying to carry $2 million worth of heroin from Asia to Europe via the Soviet Union put mothballs in their luggage to foil narcotics-sniffing dogs, a Russian customs officer testified at their trial. The men, Paul Brawer, 31, of Las Vegas, Dennis R. Burn, 26, of Whitestone, New York, and Gerald R. Amster, 33, of New York City, face a maximum jail term of 10 years each.
Police in Northern Ireland foiled an attempt to move a bomb into central Belfast in the back of a van. When the van stopped, five of eight guerrillas in the vehicle were caught after a brief exchange of shots. The other three fled to a nearby house where they held an elderly man hostage. Two hours later, they surrendered after talking to a Catholic priest. Meanwhile, the government of the Republic of Ireland will ask Parliament to declare a state of emergency to pave the way for tough new antiterrorist measures aimed at the Irish Republican Army, informed sources said.
British Water Minister Denis Howell, appointed to spearhead the drive to combat the nation’s worst drought in 250 years, urged Britons to spy on their neighbors. “Anybody who sees abuses or misuses of water should ring us, and we will investigate immediately,” Howell said at London’s new drought emergency center. The National Water Council. that administers the country’s water supply system, announced a series of emergency measures aimed at cutting domestic consumption by half.
The findings of a government inquiry into allegations that Prince Bernhard accepted bribes from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. will be presented to the Dutch parliament today, a government spokesman said. Prime Minister Joop den Uyl also will announce the cabinet’s conclusions on the report. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard will return to Holland today for the presentation, breaking off their vacation in Italy for the third time in 10 days.
The Spanish government has denied passports, and thereby permission to return home, to Communist Party leaders Santiago Carrillo and Dolores Ibarruri, “La Pasionaria” of civil war fame. Carrillo, who lives in Paris, is secretary general of the outlawed Communist Party and Mrs. Ibarruri, who resides in Moscow, is the president.
Twenty militant Jews, most of them waving American passports, were arrested by Israeli military authorities today in the tense Arab city of Hebron after they had demonstrated at an abandoned former Jewish hospital that had been declared off limits. The militants, who prayed and danced on the building’s roof while a crowd of Arabs watched, were headed by Rabbi Meir Kahane of the Jewish Defense League. Mr. Kahane, who has been trying without much success to build a following in Israel after years of militant activities in the United States, told the crowd, “This is a Jewish city. Abraham lived here and so will we. This is the building where Jews were murdered by Arabs.” Tension at a gathering in an Arab market intersection was apparent. But the Israeli military forces were quietly in command. While Mr. Kahane and his followers prayed, danced and spoke, the noontime crowd swelled a bit more, this time with military reinforcements.
The shelling of Beirut residential areas slackened today, but fighting continued in the suburbs and in other parts of Lebanon. The commander of the Arab League’s peacekeeping force told reporters that there had been some progress toward winning acceptance of the League’s plan to halt the Lebanese civil war, which began in April 1975. The commander, Major General Mohammed Hassan Ghoneim, said the Palestinian guerrilla movement and its Lebanese Moslem and leftist allies were agreeable, with certain reservations, to the Arab League’s peace plan. He did not elaborate. The general said that the plan would he discussed tomorrow at a meeting of representatives of all the right‐wing Christian factions. The proposals reportedly called for stationing Arab peacekeeping troops in positions now held by Palestinian and Lebanese leftist troops in the mountains east of Beirut and for the establishment of buffer zones between the combatants on the confrontation lines in the rest of the country. Such zones could be manned, under the plan, by contingents of the Arab League force. According to General Ghoneim, the warring factions here in Beirut have agreed to discontinue indiscriminate shelling of residential areas.
President Anwar el-Sadat today accepted a unanimous nomination by the Egyptian People’s Assembly for a second six-year term of office, declaring that “destiny wants me to carry on.” Mr. Sadat, who became President when Gamal Abdel Nasser died in 1970, will be the sole candidate in a yes‐or‐no plebiscite on September 16. It is taken for granted here that he will obtain the absolute majority required. The President promised to “work to consolidate the Arab nation despite phony slogans, sabotage, and creation of blocs prompted by foreign hands,” according to an unofficial translation of Mr. Sadat’s 15‐minute acceptance speech. The comment was apparently aimed at Libya, which Egypt has accused of a series of terrorist activities in Egypt, culminating in Libya’s alleged backing of a hijacking of an Egyptian airliner on Monday.
Fresh from the triumph of playing host to a glittering assortment of world leaders at the recent conference of nonaligned nations, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike is soon to face another tough audience the voters. Here in the capital it is widely assumed that one reason the 60‐year-old Prime Minister wanted the conference was that it Would precede the national election by only a matter of months. “She presided over the conference well, and was seen to be a world leader herself,” a member of Mrs. Bandaranaike’s political opposition conceded as: the delegates from 84 countries departed.
Thai Prime Minister Seni Pramoj took over the defense minister’s post following the resignation of General Tawit Seniwong, who has been criticized for his handling of an exiled strong man’s return to Thailand. It was not known whether Seni would retain the post or seek a replacement for the 63-year-old general. Tawit had been criticized for failing to control the military during the return of former Deputy Prime Minister Prapass Charusathira.
North Korea proposed partition of the Panmunjom truce site at the border with South Korea as a way of avoiding incidents like that last week in which two United States officers were killed by Communist guards. The proposal seemed to be similar to an old American plan. The senior United States officer on the Military Armistice Commission said that it might be a positive step, but he called the North Korean statement unsatisfactory in that it failed to meet the demand to punish the killers.
Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki appeared tonight to have weathered, at least for the moment, yet another concerted assault on his leadership of Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party. Mr. Miki held further talks late today with his chief opponents within his party, Deputy. Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda and Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira, who had jointly engineered a virtual call for Mr. Miki’s ouster at a special party assembly yesterday.
The death toil in the black township of Soweto outside Johannesburg rose after a night of terror as marauding Zulus drove other blacks from their homes. The unofficial three-day figure was 19 dead. Black reporters said the South African police had remained passive during the furious backlash against anti-government demonstrators. A police commander called these reports “infamous lies.”
Jimmy Carter, addressing the Iowa State Fair at Des Moines, accused former President Richard Nixon, President Ford and Earl Butz, their Secretary of Agriculture, of forcing hundreds of American farmers Into bankruptcy. He pledged tax appraisal of farms on agricultural value rather than on commercial potential, price supports at a level at least matching production costs, a predictable agricultural program and no embargoes on farm exports.
President Ford revamped his campaign organization by appointing James Baker, who directed the delegate search that clinched his nomination, as chairman of the President Ford Committee, replacing Rogers C. B. Morton, who was made steering committee chairman. Aides said that these and other moves were designed to strengthen Mr. Ford’s candidacy in New Jersey, California and the major industrial states.
The Senate, rejecting House demands that it turn down the proposal, again approved the use of federal funds to perform abortions. The action deepened the rift between the two chambers on the explosive issue of abortions and threatened passage of the $56.6 billion fiscal 1977 money bill for the departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare. Senate leaders asked for another meeting with House negotiators, although previous attempts at compromise have failed. The House voted August 10 for a provision saying, “None of the funds… shall be used to pay for abortions or to promote or encourage abortions.”
A bill intended to make it easier for college students to receive educational loans-and less likely that they would default-was passed by the House and sent to the Senate. It would revise many details of the Guaranteed Student Loan Program, under which the government insures loans from private lending agencies or schools. In most cases the government subsidizes the interest. To encourage lending agencies to make the loans, the bill would change the government incentive, which now provides up to a 3% special allowance for the lender. The new formula, based on the Treasury bill rate, would provide up to 5%, and would be calculated more promptly.
Because untaxed cigarettes sold on military bases cost as much as $2 a carton less than in civilian stores, “cigarette bootlegging has become a significant problem in some states,” a government agency said. The Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations found that military stores in seven states with high cigarette taxes are selling 18% to 72% more cartons to a customer than civilian stores in the same states. On the other hand, in a low-tax state such as Virginia, the military stores sell 4% fewer cartons than the civilian stores, the study showed. In North Carolina the figure was 37% fewer. The figures were made public by Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin), who said the commission estimated the sales and excise tax losses to the states at $400 million.
The House approved and sent to the Senate a measure to supply $3.45 billion for a public works jobs bill that Congress made law last month over President Ford’s veto. The money would fund a bill designed to create 300,000 jobs in cities hard hit by unemployment. Ford has claimed the bill would create bigger federal deficits, higher inflation and higher unemployment in the long run.
A third bill to regulate strip mining passed the House Interior Committee but it is too late in the current session for the House to act on it. according to Speaker Carl Albert (D-Oklahoma). President Ford vetoed the first strip-mining bill on the ground it would cut down production of coal needed to help meet the nation’s energy needs. A second bill was shelved by the House Rules Committee. The newest bill attempts to meet Ford’s and strip miners’ objections with 22 changes to reduce the burden on small coal mines. It would require mine operators to restore areas they had stripped and would tax them 35 cents a ton to restore abandoned strip mine areas.
The House Ethics Committee voted to compel the appearance of Daniel Schorr, a Washington correspondent of CBS News; Clay Felker, editor of New York magazine and editor-in-chief of The Village Voice, and two of Mr. Felker’s aides to testify. The committee is investigating the unauthorized disclosure of a report on Central Intelligence Agency activities. Other subpoenas were voted for 18 former staff aides to the House Select Committee on Intelligence.
A Boston trial judge rejected a fourth attempt by Susan E. Saxe to win dismissal of murder and bank robbery charges. Superior Court Chief Justice Walter H. McLaughlin also laid down strict rules for jury selection in preparation for the September 15 opening of the long-delayed trial of Miss Saxe, 27, a Brandeis University honors graduate. She is charged with the September 23, 1970, holdup of the Brighton branch of the State Street Bank & Trust Co. in which a patrolman was killed. A second female member of the band of self-styled revolutionaries which allegedly staged the $26,000 robbery remains on the FBI’s ten most wanted list.
Inmates at the New York state prison in Attica pushed their strike action into its third day while they considered responses by officials to several of their demands, Associate Correction Commissioner Mark Corrigan said that after a long session with inmate leaders, “The issues of concern were refined into a document listing about 18 issues relating to the facility and a list of legislative concepts… The prisoners originally had listed 23 demands, but many would have had to be considered by the Legislature, Corrigan said. He added that “the strike is continuing.” The 1,980 inmates of the New York State prison at Attica prepared for a cellblock-by-cellblock vote on a proposed settlement. Meanwhile the three-day strike was continued by most inmates as they boycotted meals, classes and work assignments in a show of solidarity. Correction officials said their talks with prisoner leaders demanding reform were serious.
Representative Allan T. Howe, Democrat of Utah, convicted yesterday for a second time on a sex solicitation charge, was sentenced today to 30 days in jail and ordered to pay court costs. District Court Judge Bryant B. Croft ordered that Mr. Howe’s jail sentence be suspended on payment of the court costs. Judge Croft also told Representative Howe that the district court decision was final, but he added that the ruling could be appealed to the Utah Supreme Court on the ground that the Salt Lake City ordinance under which the Congressman was charged might be unconstitutional. An eight‐member jury deliberated only 23 minutes yesterday before finding Mr. Howe guilty. He was arrested and charged June 12 after two police decoys, posing as prostitutes, said he had offered to pay $20 for a sex act.
A new series of tests on specimens from victims who died of a mysterious disease in Pennsylvania have shown “suggestive” findings that a highly toxic chemical called nickel carbonyl caused the outbreak, according to the leader of the scientific team that did the tests. Dr. F. William Sunderman, a leading expert on nickel poisoning at the University of Connecticut Medical School, said there was five times as much nickel in tissue specimens from those who died as in tissue of other patients who died from unrelated causes.
The General Motors Corporation, the traditional price leader among major American automobile companies, announced that the average price of its 1977 models, including optional equipment typically chosen, would rise by 5.9 percent or $338 a car. The comparable increase last year was 5.7 percent. The company said higher costs of labor and materials, notably the 12 percent increase in steel this summer, compelled it.
An Air Force reconnaissance jet may have been responsible for a window-shaking sonic boom in the San Francisco Bay area when trouble in its hydraulic system forced the pilot to take a shortcut for an emergency landing at Beale Air Force Base in Yuba County, where it is stationed. The ship, an SR-71, cruises at more than 80,000 feet at speeds of more than 2,200 mph.
The International Track Association (ITA), the first professional track and field athletics association, announced that it was suspending operations after having had only six track meets in its 1976 season. Michael F. O’Hara, the ITA president, made the announcement as the sixth ITA meet of the season concluded at Mount Hood Community College in the Portland suburb of Gresham, Oregon, attracted a crowd of only 1,000 paying customers, and told reporters “We’re not closing down, but merely curtailing our season.” Scheduled ITA events at Minneapolis, Cleveland and Boston were canceled. The ITA had been created in 1972 to pay track athletes who had been forbidden by amateur rules from accepting compensation. In the final meet, “Nineteen athletes competed and only six of nine scheduled events took place.” Winners of the final ITA competition were Rod Milburn in the 120-yard hurdles over Lance Babb; Ed Lipscomb in the pole vault over Steve Smith; John Radetich in the high jump; Warren Edmonson over John Smith and Larry James in the 300-meter race; Ken Swenson in the 880-meter race over Tommie Fulton and John Kipkurgat; and Brian Oldfield as the only competitor in the shot put. In the final event, “A print medley team comprised of Edmonson, Smith, J.J. Johnson and Kipkurgat, running against no one, finished with a time of 3:19.6.” Ironically, the concept of a professional track and field league failed because amateur athletes received more money by being paid covertly and not being caught. O’Hara explained “We did not anticipate the amateur athlete making the dollar he now is making.”
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Ken Henderson and Vic Correll each hit a two-run homer to enable Phil Niekro (14–9) to pitch the Atlanta Braves to a 5–1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Henderson’s drive came after Willie Montanez was safe on an error by Larry Bowa in the second inning. Darrel Chaney doubled ahead of Vic Correll’s clout in the sixth.
Bobby Grich hit a two-run homer and Mark Belanger added a bases-loaded double as the Orioles scored five times in the first inning en route to a 9–4 victory over the Athletics. Ken McMullen produced two runs for the A’s with a homer in the second, but the Orioles retaliated with a circuit clout by Al Bumbry in their half.
Fred Lynn, Jim Rice and Rick Burleson drove in two runs apiece to lead the Red Sox to an 8–2 victory over the Angels as Luis Tiant (15–10) extended his personal winning streak to five games. The veteran righthander worked eight innings and allowed only four hits before turning the mound over to Tom Murphy. Rice and Burleson, who rapped two hits each in getting their RBIs, also scored twice. Lynn drove in his runs with a sacrifice fly and double. Tony Solaita accounted for the Angels’ tallies with a bases-loaded double in the eighth.
Hitting a homer and double, Bill Madlock drove in four runs to account for the Cubs’ 5–1 victory over the Astros. Madlock hit his homer in the first inning after Rick Monday was safe on an error by Bob Watson. In the second, Mick Kelleher singled, moved up on a sacrifice by Ray Burris (11–12) and scored on a single by Jose Cardenal. Monday walked and Madlock then doubled to produce the Cubs’ final two runs. Cesar Cedeno hit a homer for the Astros’ lone counter off Burris, who scattered seven hits.
Andy Hassler continued his turnabout in pitching fortunes by gaining his fourth straight victory as the Royals edged the Indians, 2–1. Hassler (4–7), who lost 18 straight games from April 29, 1975, to August 6 of this year, now has a record of 4-1 with the Royals since being acquired from the Angels via the waiver route July 5. He allowed five hits in seven innings before Mark Littell came in to finish the game for his 14th save. The Indians scored their run in the first on a walk, single by Ray Fosse and a pair of infield outs, but the Royals tied the score with three passes and a sacrifice fly by Frank White in the second. Then in the fourth, Al Cowens singled, Amos Otis doubled and George Brett hit a sacrifice fly to drive in what proved to be the Royals’ deciding run.
Mark Fidrych (15–5) enhanced his credentials as the Tigers’ candidate for Rookie of the Year by pitching a five-hitter and beating the White Sox, 3–1. Jason Thompson singled, stole second and crossed the plate on a single by Aurelio Rodriguez to start the Tigers’ scoring in the fourth inning. The White Sox picked up their run on an error by Ben Oglivie in the fifth, but the Tigers came back with the deciding pair in the sixth. Oglivie tripled and continued home when Alan Bannister missed the throw from the outfield. The final run followed on a walk to Rusty Staub, single by Thompson and sacrifice fly by Rodriguez.
Jim Lyttle singled home two runs in the fifth inning to break a 1–1 tie and bring the Dodgers a 3–1 victory over the Expos, who went down to their 11th straight defeat. Ellis Valentine homered for the Expos’ run in the first inning. Davey Lopes walked in the fourth, stole second and scored the Dodgers’ tying tally on a single by Bill Buckner. Ron Cey singled in the fifth and moved to third on a single by Bill Russell, who took an extra base on the throw, setting the stage for Lyttle’s hit that decided the pitching duel between Doug Rau (12–10) and Steve Rogers.
Winding up a five-hour, 27-minute marathon, Mickey Rivers drove in Oscar Gamble with a two-out single in the 19th inning to bring the Yankees a 5–4 victory over the Twins. The Twins scored all their runs in the second on four hits, a walk, sacrifice and error before the Yankees began their comeback with a homer by Graig Nettles in their half of the second. The Yankees then rallied for the tying trio in the fifth. Willie Randolph walked, Fred Stanley singled and, after a forceout by Rivers, Roy White doubled to drive in Randolph. Thurman Munson singled, scoring Rivers, and White also crossed the plate while Munson was being thrown out trying to stretch his hit into a double. The game then continued in a parade of ciphers until the 19th when Gamble walked, Randolph sacrificed and Rivers ended the game with his single. Grant Jackson (4–1) is the winner in relief.
Bruce Kison (10–8) turned in his first shutout of the season, allowing five hits and pitching the Pirates to a 3–0 victory over the Padres. Kison retired the last 17 batters in a row. The Pirates counted twice in the fourth inning when Omar Moreno doubled, Richie Zisk was safe on an error and Dave Parker and Richie Hebner hit run-producing singles. Zisk wrapped up Kison’s decision with a homer in the eighth.
The Giants scored six runs in the sixth inning, aided by the wildness of Nino Espinosa, and coasted to a 7–1 victory over the Mets. An unearned run put the Mets on the scoreboard first, but Gary Matthews homered for the matching tally in the Giants’ half. Mickey Lolich, who started for the Mets, became ill and was forced to retire after four innings. Espinosa took over and lost the game in the sixth. Matthews led off with a double, Bobby Murcer singled and Ken Reitz doubled to drive in Matthews. Espinosa then passed Gary Thomasson to load the bases and walked Chris Speier and Larry Herndon to force in two runs before Johnnie LeMaster capped the inning with a single, driving in the last two tallies.
The Brewers continued their domination of the Rangers with a 5–1 victory, beating the Texas club for the eighth straight time and for the 10th time in 12 meetings this season. The Rangers scored their run in the third inning on singles by Danny Thompson, Gene Clines and Toby Harrah, but the Brewers got on the road to victory when George Scott singled and Don Money hit a homer in the fourth. Three runs in the ninth iced the verdict.
Philadelphia Phillies 1, Atlanta Braves 5
Oakland Athletics 4, Baltimore Orioles 9
California Angels 2, Boston Red Sox 8
Houston Astros 1, Chicago Cubs 5
Kansas City Royals 2, Cleveland Indians 1
Chicago White Sox 1, Detroit Tigers 3
Montreal Expos 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Minnesota Twins 4, New York Yankees 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, San Diego Padres 0
New York Mets 1, San Francisco Giants 7
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Texas Rangers 1
A late buying spree, spearheaded by the blue‐chip issues, enabled the stock market to register its first advance yesterday in six sessions. At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 7.90 points to 970.83. Its low for the session was posted at 10:30 AM when the average was off 3.41 points. In the previous five sessions it lost 36.41 points, its biggest sustained drop of the year. The market’s sharp upturn commenced shortly after 2:40 PM when the General Motors Corporation predicted that the industry’s total car and truck sales next year would exceed the 1973 record of 14.6 million units. At 2:30 PM, the Dow was ahead only 0.92 points.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 970.83 (+7.90, +0.82%)
Born:
Damon Jones, NBA point guard and shooting guard (New Jersey Nets, Boston Celtics, Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks, Vancouver Grizzlies, Detroit Pistons, Sacramento Kings, Milwaukee Bucks, Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers), in Galveston, Texas.
Pedro Feliciano, Puerto Rican MLB pitcher (New York Mets), in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (d. 2021, from left ventricular noncompaction, a rare genetic heart condition).
Mike Rose, MLB catcher and pinch hitter (Oakland A’s, Los Angeles Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals), in Sacramento, California.
Cornell Green, NFL tackle and guard (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 37-Buccaneers, 2002; Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills), in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Corey Jenkins, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears), in Columbia, South Carolina.
Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish TV and film actor (“True Blood”, “Big Little Lies”), Emmy Award winner; in Stockholm, Sweden.
Died:
Eyvind Johnson, 76, Swedish novelist and co-winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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