Senate and House committees approved measures today intended to increase restrictions on the export of American nuclear materials and technology so as to prevent them from being used to make nuclear weapons. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 8 to 1 for a sweeping bill entitled the Nuclear Explosion Proliferation Act of 1976 that Administration officials warned could undercut existing nuclear cooperation agreements. Similar legislation was stalled before the Joint Atomic Energy Committee. The House International Relations Committee unanimously approved a proposed amendment to the Export Administration Act of 1969. Until tighter safeguards are worked out it would seek to ban any country that receives American enriched‐uranium fuel for nuclear reactors from reprocessing the spent fuel into plutonium. Plutonium can be used to make atomic bombs.
Nineteen senators signed a resolution introduced by Senator Jacob K. Javits (R-New York), urging President Ford to consider suspension of air service to foreign nations aiding or abetting air hijackers. Javits told the Senate that the resolution was offered as a memorial to his foreign relations assistant, Harold Rosenthal, who was one of four persons killed in an August 11 hijacking attempt in Istanbul. Senator Clifford P. Case (R-New Jersey). supporting the resolution said there was overwhelming evidence that Libya is one such nation assisting terrorists.
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince Consort of the Netherlands husband of Queen Juliana, resigned from almost all various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption, in connection with business dealings with the Lockheed Corporation. Prime Minister Joop den Uyl told a session of Parliament that a board of inquiry said that there was no firm evidence to confirm allegations the Prince Bernhard had accepted $1.1 million in bribes, but noted that he had “allowed himself to be tempted to take initiatives which were completely unacceptable.”
A senior official in a Soviet foreign trade organization has been given a long prison term for divulging commercial secrets to West German businessmen in return for a bribe, the Russian newspaper Izvestia said. The official, A. S. Baranov, was reportedly involved with two West Germans who were briefly arrested and then expelled. Baranov was said to have been given a $2,000 bribe.
The new Prime Minister, Raymond Barre, conferred with President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing today before selecting ministers for his Cabinet. The formation of the Cabinet is scheduled to be announced tomorrow evening by Elysée. Palace, officials said. Most of the key ministers in the outgoing Cabinet of Jacques Chirac, who resigned yesterday after a dispute with the President, are expected to be in the new administration. Mr. Barre, aged 52, a leading economist with wide experience in European affairs, was chosen by Mr. Giscard d’Estaing to lead France’s fight against inflation and attempts to restore the ailing franc. He expects to hold his first Cabinet meeting tomorrow.
French journalists heeded a call by their national confederation this morning for work stoppages to show solidarity with the strikers at the mass‐circulation afternoon paper FranceSoir. While most work stoppages lasted only two to three hours, the country’s news‐agency tickers were silent between 1 AM and 1 PM. In Paris, 2,000 journalists held a rally on Place de La Bourse, next to the Stock Exchange, protesting against the takeover of France‐Spir by Robert Hersant, the event that led to the strike 10 days ago.
One of the most valuable privately owned paintings in Italy was stolen from a Milan apartment when the custodian ignored an alarm bell, police said. The 15th century oil portrait of a noblewoman by Piero Della Francesca was valued at about $360,000. Police said the owner, Vittorio de Viasi, was away when thieves broke into the building and tripped an alarm, but the custodian did not check what he believed to be a chance electrical contact. It was the third Della Francesca stolen in Italy in less than two years.
Britain’s political parties are broke, badly run and should get state subsidies so they can operate efficiently, an official committee recommended. The 12-member panel, set up last year by former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, described the accommodations, equipment, staff and resources of the party organizations as “pitifully inadequate.” It recommended an annual state subsidy of 9 cents per vote cast in the previous general election, bringing nearly $2 million to the major parties.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and key Senators agreed late today to try to reach a compromise tomorrow on a controversial Administration plan to sell sophisticated bombs and missiles to Saudi Arabia. Following a two‐and‐a‐half-hour closed‐door meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Kissinger told reporters that he and those Senators opposed to or skeptical about the pending transactions would meet tomorrow “and see if we can reach a solution” before the Administration formally announced the sale next week. According to participants in the meeting, Mr. Kissinger said that the Administration had originally planned to sell Saudi Arabia 2,000 Sidewinder air‐to-air interceptor missiles, but because of opposition on Capitol Hill had scaled it down to 1,000.
A parliamentary committee investigating the Lockheed bribery scandal rejected an opposition demand today that the indicted former Prime Minister, Kakuei Tanaka, and the secretary general of the governing Liberal-Democratic Party be called to testify in the case. The joint motion by the Communist, Socialist, Democratic Socialist and Clean Government Parties also called for the committee to investigate the “political and moral responsibility” of politicians and Government officials suspected of having received Lockheed money but who were not charged because of lack of evidence. Mr. Tanaka, arrested July 27, is free on bail awaiting trial on charges that he received $1.7 million from Lockheed to use his influence to have All Nippon Airways buy Lockheed Tristar jets.
Philippine police captured Bernabe Buscayno, alias “Commander Dante,” leader of the outlawed Maoist New People’s Army and the most wanted man in the Philippines. Dante, 35, who had a $21,500 reward offered for his capture, was caught in a small village in Pampanga province, 40 miles north of Manila.
Russian heavy salvage ships have mounted a determined search for a Soviet aircraft believed carrying highly sensitive electronic surveillance equipment that crashed off Newfoundland three weeks ago, the Canadian Maritime Command said. Three Soviet vessels, including a tug equipped for diving and dragging operations, have been sweeping an area five miles across in waters 600 feet deep, 250 miles southeast of St. John’s, Newfoundland, for the last two weeks.
The first known outbreak of Zaire ebolavirus occurred in the village of Yambuku in northern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, when Mabalo Lokela, a 44-year-old teacher at the Yambuku Mission School, first sought treatment at a clinic. His condition worsened, and Lokela was admitted to the Yambuku hospital on September 5, dying on September 8. Within a week, nine other village residents had died after developing similar symptoms. From August 10 to 22, Mr. Lokela and six co-workers had been on vacation, traveling to villages and towns and he had experienced symptoms of what he thought was malaria.
President Idi Amin of Uganda announced today that he had released seven Africans who had been charged with attempting to assassinate him. A British businessman accused of spying was also set free. According to the Uganda radio, the action was taken at a ceremony at the Entebbe cricket ground, where Field Marshal Amin told the prisoners he was freeing them rather than executing them because he knew “they were brought by Western powers.”The broadcast also said that he had asserted that the water, shortage in Britain was “a punishment from God because the British killed many Kikuyu tribesmen during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950’s and were responsible for the occupation of Palestinian lands by the Israelis.” As for the seven men who had been held in prison for alleged complicity in a grenade attack against him in June, Marshal Amin wished them God’s blessing and urged them never again “to accept money from imperialists to bring confusion.” One of the seven was a Kenyan, who, the President said, was being released because of the recently concluded agreement and easing of tensions with Kenya.
Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda said at the opening of the Institute for Namibia that the only alternative left to black Africa now was to fight and he accused the West of hypocrisy on southern African issues. Decrying the failure of attempts to find peaceful solutions, he pointed out that the institute, which would train future Namibian administrators, was financed by Western countries that, at the same time, supported South Africa. “If you can’t be moved by principles,” he said, “get moved by the fact that SWAPO (the SouthWest African People’s Organization) is going to take over Namibia.
Secretary General Kurt Waldheim declared today that recent South African proposals for leading South-west Africa to independence by the end of 1978 “fall far short” of United Nations requests. “South Africa must abandon its unilateral approach and recognize that cooperation with the United Nations is indispensable for resolving this matter,” Mr. Waldheim said in a message marking the world body’s observance of Namibia Day. The United Nations, which regards continued South African rule of South‐West Africa as illegal, calls the territory Namibia and has recognized the South‐West Africa People’s Organization, the leading black liberation movement, as the sole representative of the area’s people.
A tense calm appeared to have settled over Soweto tonight in South Africa after three days of strife between Zulu dwellers in worker dormitories and anti-government demonstrators that led to the death of at least 21 persons and the injury of dozens. At midnight, a police spokesman in the township reported that the upheaval, which began when demonstrators attempted to enforce a three‐day protest strike, appeared to be ending. Earlier, the police put casualties for the week at 31 dead, 10 of them by police gunfire, and 107 wounded. Employers in Johannesburg reported the turnout among black workers up sharply in the aftermath of the strike period, which ended yesterday. Offices, factories and hotels reported work forces returning to normal after. an average turnout of about 25 percent for the first half of the week.
The rampage of migrant Zulu workers in South Africa that left 21 dead this week was prompted by harassment by young black demonstrators seeking to enforce a three-day strike, but behind the conflict lay enmity of black for black, which has bedeviled South African blacks through their long struggle against apartheid. The divisions are mostly tribal, but they are also geographic, political and economic.
Ford and Carter campaign aides, who held a three-hour negotiating session, reported “substantial progress” toward an agreement on the schedule and format of the televised debates between the presidential candidates. The meeting was held under the auspices of the League of Women Voters, which is seeking to sponsor the debates. The two sides agreed to meet again under the league’s sponsorship neat week, but neither was formally committed to the league’s sponsorship, which is being considered by the Federal Election Commission.
A day after he had promised as president to end embargoes on farm products “once and for all,” Jimmy Carter said that under extreme circumstances, such as a domestic crop failure, he would not hesitate to forbid the sale of American crops to foreign nations. It was a qualification, he said, not an equivocation and he predicted that it would not serve as ammunition for the Republicans’ criticism of him as being vague on campaign issues. But he was wrong. Senator Robert Dole, campaigning in Iowa, immediately took up the qualification as an issue and said that it was an example of the “unreliable flexibility” that voters should avoid.
In his first day of campaigning in New York, Senator Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee, called for a bipartisan guarantee of Israel’s existence and pledged that a Carter administration “will not turn our backs” on New York and other American cities.
The House voted to finance a court test of President Ford’s effort to block a congressional subpoena of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. records of wiretaps it conducted for the government. The House will provide $50,000 for outside counsel to press its subpoena. Ford has asked a federal court to deny it on the ground that the records involve national security. Rep. John E. Moss (D-California) sought the records after AT&T officials said they had installed the taps, mainly of overseas cables, under authorization of the attorney general, but without court approval.
Sam Dash, former counsel for the Senate Watergate committee, urged a House judiciary subcommittee to guard against future Watergates by enacting legislation to provide for appointment of a temporary special prosecutor. But Dash said he and former Senate Watergate committee Chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-North Carolina.) also strongly oppose creating a permanent special prosecutor within the Justice Department, as a Senate bill would do. A permanent prosecutor would weaken the attorney general, Dash said. Albert Jenner, the Chicago lawyer who was minority counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during its impeachment hearings, said he thought machinery for either a temporary or a fulltime special prosecutor would be unwise.
The Senate rejected an amendment intended to bar the courts from ordering busing beyond the next closest school to achieve racial desegregation. The amendment, which would have eliminated language enacted in 1974 disclaiming any congressional intent to diminish court authority to enforce the equal protection clauses of the Constitution, was tabled (killed) by a vote of 46 to 38. The Senate then continued to debate a bill to extend federal programs of assistance to higher education and vocational education for six years with authorizations totaling $35.3 billion.
The death toll from the mysterious “Legionnaire’s” disease in Pennsylvania rose with the deaths of two persons who had attended the International Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia earlier this month. The deaths are the first on the official case list among those who attended the congress. They raise to 28 the number of fatalities in the outbreak. A total of 149 other victims have survived, Eleven remain hospitalized and two are listed as critical. Stanley Kuccek, a 62‐year-old resident of Munster, Indiana, was the first of the two deaths reported today.
The Commerce Department said that the United States had its biggest monthly trade deficit in almost two years last month, mainly because of increasing imports of petroleum. The country is running substantial trade deficits with Japan and with members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. It is showing healthy trade surpluses with members of the European Economic Community and with developing countries that do not export oil.
A proposal designed to exempt farming, ranching, logging and mining activities from one phase of the 1972 Water Pollution Control Act was approved by the U.S. Senate Public Works Committee on a 10–3 vote. The 1972 law required dredge-and-fill permits from the federal government for all projects on navigable waters. Farm groups had been pressing for removal of the permit on grounds that it interferes with normal farming activities. The amendment is expected to be voted on by the full Senate next week.
An official of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has called on “the warrior class” of law enforcement officers to “cry the battle alarm” against Government bureaucrats, the “new intelligentsia” of the press and others “who demean our heritage by their mindless control of our lives.” In an address earlier this month to a convention of Louisiana sheriffs, the official, Edward J. Tulley, complained that the bureau had fallen victim to “bureaucrats who have been honing their knives for the F.B.I. autopsy for the last 20 years.” The bureau is currently under investigation by Justice Department lawyers who have uncovered evidence of burglaries and other illegal investigative techniques by agents of the bureau and misappropriation of bureau funds by headquarters officials.
The Utah Democratic Executive Committee asked Rep. Allan T. Howe (D-Utah), convicted of offering money to two police decoys posing as prostitutes, to drop out of the race for reelection. The six-man committee met for an hour in Salt Lake City with Howe, who told reporters he had received a “cordial” reception by the group. Five committee members voted to ask the first-term congressman to withdraw. One member abstained. The committee, however, has no power to force Howe out of the race. Howe, who has promised a decision by next Friday, was found guilty by a state court Tuesday of sex solicitation charges and was given a suspended 30-day sentence.
The General Motors Corporation presented the first of a new line of scaled-down automobiles designed to meet the demands of the age of scarce and expensive energy. The company’s Buick division held a preview in Detroit of models that will be in showrooms in late September. The cars are noticeably shorter than their 1976 predecessors, from 9 to 15 inches. They also weigh less and some have smaller engines, making possible four more miles per gallon of gasoline, the company said. But the new models appear to sacrifice little, if anything, in interior space. And with less weight and in some cases smaller engines, they deliver three to four more miles per gallon of gasoline than do the 1976 models. The 1977 LeSabre, for example, which is Buick’s basic family “big car,” is said by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency to deliver 20 miles to a gallon in combined city and highway driving — squarely in the middle of the range of the intermediate and compact cars of 1976. The other American auto makers — which have not yet had to follow the General Motors lead in reducing body sizes on a large scale because they have not been so heavily committed to big cars — are to hold their previews next week and after Labor Day.
The United Rubber Workers union and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company reached tentative agreement on a threeyear contract tonight that was expected to end the 128-day strike at the company early next week, union and company spokesmen said. Firestone became the second of the four major tire companies to reach tentative agreement this week on a new contract. Some 60,000 rubber workers struck the four companies April 21 and were joined several months later by 10,000 others as contracts with smaller companies expired. All remain on strike pending ratification votes.
More than 1,000 fire fighters struggled to quell fires sweeping through northeastern Minnesota’s canoeing and fishing country and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Drought losses grew in Nebraska and cut into crop yields in several other Midwestern states. Little relief from the long dry spell was in sight, although locally heavy rains swept across southern Wisconsin. There was hope that 450 fire fighters were about to get the upper hand over a fire that had scorched 3,000 acres of forest along the Gunflint Trail in Minnesota. The fire north of Lake Superior was the largest of 50 to 60 forest, grass and peat fires burning in the state. In the Upper Peninsula, more than 18,900 acres of forest and swampland have been burned.
Further evidence supporting the possibility that forms of life exist in Martian soil has been reported by scientists in Pasadena, California, on the basis of data from the Viking I lander. Readings from the Second round of the life‐seeking pyrolytic release experiment, received this week at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, indicated that either some organisms had been killed or some complex, nonliving chemical process had been halted by heating a soil sample for three hours at 320 degrees Fahrenheit. The experiment measures the uptake of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide by Martian sod The two gases, the dominant gases of the Martian atmosphere, had been given a “label” of radioactive carbon 14.
A thousand women have informed the space agency that they may want to join the nation’s all-male astronaut corps. And the men who run the nation’s space program are delighted. “I’ve been pleased with the number of responses and with the quality of people, including women, who’ve responded,” said Duane Ross at the Johnson Space Center’s Astronaut Recruiting Office. “We’ve mailed out about 4,000 responses to inquiries. I would guess that probably 25 percent of those inquiries have been from the female population. “They [women] seem to be very pleased that there’s an opportunity for them to enter the space program.”
Lotte Lehmann, who had been a leading operatic soprano and lieder singer, died in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 88. Her career began in Hamburg, Germany, in 1910 and ended in New York in 1951, when she gave her last lieder recital and went into retirement. Of all her operatic roles. Wagnerian and others, she is perhaps best remembered as the Marschallin in “Der Rosenkavalier.”
Major League Baseball:
Appearing as the Kansas City Royals’ fifth pitcher, Tom Bruno gained credit for his first major league victory when Jim Wohlford singled in the 15th inning, scoring Bob Stinson, to beat the Boston Red Sox, 7–6. Bruno worked the last two innings and permitted only one hit. The Red Sox started with a homer by Rick Burleson in the first and added four runs in the second, but the Royals kept coming back and finally tied the score at 6–6 in the ninth when Cookie Rojas and Amos Otis singled and Hal McRae hit a homer. In the 15th, Stinson led off with a single, Dave Nelson sacrificed and Wohlford hit his game-winning single.
Cesar Cedeno knocked in two runs with a triple in the first inning and scored on a double by Bob Watson to start the Astros off to a 5–3 victory over the Cubs. J.R. Richard (15–13) accounted for what proved to be his own winning run by hitting a homer in the second. Jose Cruz added the Astros’ final tally with a circuit clout in the eighth. Bill Madlock and Rick Monday hit homers for the Cubs. Richard, who gained his 15th victory, was lifted after 8 ⅓ innings and Jerry Morales singled off Ken Forsch to drive in the Cubs’ last run, scoring Champ Summers, who had hit a pinch-double.
Opening a four-game preview of the possible N. L. playoffs, the Phillies scored in the 13th inning on a double by Garry Maddox and defeated the Reds, 5–4. The Phillies broke a 1–1 tie and took a 4–1 lead in the sixth when Dave Cash singled, Mike Schmidt drove him home with a double and Greg Luzinski followed with a homer. The Reds chased Jim Kaat in the eighth, when Joe Morgan led off with a double. Johnny Bench greeted the arrival of Ron Reed with a homer. Dan Driessen batted for Manny Sarmiento in the ninth and tied the score with a round-tripper. With two out in the 13th, Jay Johnstone drew a walk from Rawly Eastwick and raced home with the Phillies’ winning run on Maddox’ second double of the game.
Kansas City Royals 7, Boston Red Sox 6
Houston Astros 5, Chicago Cubs 3
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Cincinnati Reds 4
The stock market plunged yesterday in slow trading, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing off 10.39 points to 960.44, its largest daily loss of the week. Prices on the New York Stock Exchange eased gradually after the first half‐hour of trading and then fell sharply in the last 90 minutes, when selling pressure intensified. At 2:30 PM the key barometer was down only 3.58 points.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 960.44 (-10.39, -1.07%)
Born:
Mike Colter, American actor (“Luke Cage” in the Marvel Universe), in Columbia, South Carolina.
Zemfira [Ramazanova], Russian rock singer (Forgive Me My Love), in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Geoff Geary, MLB pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros), in Buffalo, New York.
Alex Sánchez, Cuban MLB centerfielder (Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, San Francisco Giants), in La Habana, Cuba.
Duane Hawthorne, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers), in St. Louis, Missouri.
Died:
Warner Anderson, 65, American actor “(The Bubble”, “Destination Moon”, “Peyton Place”).
Lotte Lehmann, 88, German operatic soprano.
Geraldo Assoviador (nickname for Geraldo Cleofas Dias), 22, Brazilian national team soccer football midfielder, died from cardiac arrest from an anaphylactic reaction to a local anesthetic during an outpatient tonsillectomy.
Domenico Tripodo, 53, Italian mob boss and jailed leader of the ‘Ndrangheta syndicate, was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate at the Poggioreale prison in Naples on orders from his rival, Paolo De Stefano.
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