The accusation by the Netherlands government that Prince Bernhard was open “to dishonorable requests and offers” from the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation has damaged the prestige of the royal family and stirred questions about the future of Queen Juliana. There were reports that the Queen was considering abdicating because of embarrassment over the Government report, but she was reportedly persuaded not to step down. The public reaction to the report made yesterday on the Prince’s connections with Lockheed has been a blend of shock and humiliation, and Prime Minister Joop M. den Uyl and his center‐left coalition Government have been urging the Queen to remain on the throne in hope of avoiding a constitutional crisis. There has been no public demand for the Queen’s abdication — she is extraordinarily popular here—but it remained uncertain whether the Queen would stay on, in view of an earlier threat to abdicate if the inquiry did not clear her husband’s name and in view of the panel’s highly critical conclusions about Prince Bernhard. A Government source said today that Mr. den Uyl had implored the Queen to remain on the throne — after her offer last week to abdicate because of the report. The Prime Minister is said to have told the Queen that if she stepped down, the Prince would be open to a criminal investigation and possible prosecution. Mr. den Uyl said yesterday in Parliament that he opposed a criminal investigation. Virtually all the political parties and public opinion appear to support him.
A former executive of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation said yesterday that Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands had once demanded $4 million from the company as a condition of its doing business with his country. Ernest F. Hauser, who described himself as Lockheed’s customer relations manager for Europe from 1961 to 1964, said in a telephone interview from Scottsdale, Arizona, that Prince Bernhard had once demanded $4 million and that Lockheed had made a counteroffer of $1 million. Mr. Hauser, who said he was now the general manager for an aircraft spare‐parts concern in Phoenix, said that nothing came of the alleged demand by Prince Bernhard or the counteroffer by Lockheed. “The whole thing never materialized. The Dutch navy never bought [Lockheed’s] antisubmarine aircraft — the P‐3 V Orion. Lockheed was unsuccessful in Italy and in the Netherlands in selling the aircraft.”
A new French Cabinet was named today, with members of President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing’s party given a dominant role and substantial though reduced representation accorded the Gaullists, whose leader quit as Prime Minister on Wednesday. Despite the break between Mr. Giscard d’Estaing and the former prime Minister, Jacques Chirac, the Gaullist who resigned charging that he was not given sufficient authority to deal with France’s problems, Gaullists agreed to join the Cabinet and the existing Government coalition was maintained. The new Prime Minister, Raymond Barre, an economist and member of no political party, whose selection was announced on Wednesday, will also head the Ministry of Finance. The President said on appointing him that Mr. Barre’s main task would be to fight inflation and revive the sagging French economy. However, there was no new appointee to represent what Mr. Giscard d’Estaing said at the same time would be an enlarged political base for the Government. It was to have been broadened to include the “center‐left” in preparation for the Parliamentary elections due in the spring of 1978.
The apparent ease with which President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing of France has overcome the Government crisis after his falling out with the former Prime Minister. Jacques Chirac, veils deep political trouble ahead for France. French commentators and politicians have been hinting at it publicly, but most have refrained from measuring the dangers aloud. A few, however, have spoken of the fate of the Fifth Republic being at stake and Le Monde’s veteran analyst, Pierre Viansson‐Ponte, went so far as to predict that historians would mark last Wednesday, the date of Mr. Chirac’s resignation, as the end of the regime established by General Charles de Gaulle amidst a threat of civil war in 1958.
The European Commission on Human Rights has found Britain guilty of torturing suspected terrorists in Northern Ireland, newspapers here and in Dublin reported today. The charge appears in a 8,400‐page report that the commission prepared following complaints by the Irish Republic that in 1971 British troops and the Ulster police in the battle‐scarred territory violated the Convention on Human Rights. The British Foreign Office said it would withhold comment until the report was published next Thursday. One official source said that the press disclosures appeared to have been taken from one section of the study evidently leaked in Dublin.
Spokesmen for 52 countries with little or no access to the ocean warned today that unless their demands are met they might block adoption of a global maritime treaty that the Law of the Sea Conference is attempting to write. They want recognition of what they deem their right to share in the fisheries and offshore mineral wealth of coastal nations. The warning, delivered at a news conference, deepened the gloom enveloping the sluggish conference’s fifth session, which began on August 3 and is due to end September 17.
A Moscow court today sentenced three Americans to a total of 20 years in labor camps on charges of having attempted to smuggle heroin through the Soviet Union to Western Europe. Gerald Amster, 33 years old, was given eight years; Dennis Burn, 26, was sentenced to seven years and Paul Brawer, 31, received a five‐year term. All were sentenced to strict‐regime camps, the second most severe in the Soviet penal system. The three, who were arrested in June at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport while in transit from Kuala Lumpur to Paris, pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling more than 28 kilograms, 62 pounds, of heroin in false‐bottom suitcases.
Pope Paul VI has personally warned a former French Archbishop, the Rev. Marcel Lefebvre, of further disciplinary action if he continues to defy liturgical reforms by saying the mass in Latin, the Vatican said today. The Vatican press office released the text of the Pope’s handwritten letter sent to Father Lefebvre on August 15, in which the Pope called him “hostile and extraneous” to the church. Father Lefebvre, the 70‐year-old former archbishop of Dakar, Senegal, leads a traditionalist movement that refuses to accept the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council’s order that modern languages replace Latin in celebration of the mass.
Lebanese right-wing Christian representatives discussed an Arab League peace proposal for an hour today at a meeting with League officials, but the discussions ended inconclusively. “Nothing has been decided,” said Pierre Gemayel, the head of the Christian Phalangist Party. Further talks were put off until next week, and doubt was expressed here that Arab League officials would go through with plans to take up their peace plan with Palestinian and Lebanese leftist representatives tomorrow. The plan reportedly called for withdrawal of the combatants from all battle lines after an all‐embracing cease‐fire has been established. It was also said to offer a schedule for withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon. Meanwhile, the 16‐month civil war continued. Mortar and heavy machine gun fire were exchanged through the night and early today in Beirut’s commercial center and the southern suburbs. Each side blamed the other for starting the shooting. Some shells fell on residential areas, but the combatants have thus far continued to observe their recent agreement to abstain from indiscriminate shelling of civilian quarters.
A Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee was told by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that the United States had agreed to sell Iran 160 F-16 fighter planes at a cost of about $3.4 billion. Mr. Kissinger said that the Ford administration had decided to go ahead with the sale, despite a staff study by the Foreign Relations Committee that found that Iran was unable to man the sophisticated equipment it had bought from the United States in recent years.
The United States and North Korea agreed today to a meeting of the Military Armistice Commission tomorrow to discuss the American response to a Communist proposal for partitioning the Panmunjom truce village. North Korea had suggested the partition plan to separate United Nations and Communist security guards after the United States demanded assurances that there would be no further attacks like that in which two United States Army officers were killed last week. At the same time, reliable United States and Korean sources said that at least some of the North Korean guards responsible for the killings at Panmunjom may have been replaced. Whether this action represents a further conciliatory effort by North Korea to defuse the crisis along the demilitarized zone is unclear.
In South Korea, Kim Dae Jung, the opposition leader, and former President Yun Po Sun were sentenced today to eight years in prison after being convicted on charges of having incited rebellion against the Government of President Park Chung Hee.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos said today that his martial‐law rule would continue despite the crippling blows that Philippine security forces had dealt to the Communist‐led underground. He made this statement in response to a question at a news conference at which he and his top military aides presented 25 rebel leaders. The threat of a Communist takeover had been a principal reason cited for the beginning of martial law in September 1972. The President said today that his military advisers still considered the insurgency strong enough to warrant continued martial rule. But he also called attention to a second reason for his assumption of emergency powers — the need to wipe out the causes of rebellion, He said this required such social, economic and political restructuring that more time would be needed.
Earlier this month 37 Roman Catholic clergymen, including 13 bishops and archbishops, were arrested by the Ecuadorean military Government as they met in Riobamba, a small city 100 miles south of Quito, Ecuador’s capital. The clergymen, who had gathered to discuss church involvement in human rights, rural poverty and other social ills afflicting Latin America, were detained in a military barracks overnight and then expelled to their countries of origin. The incident, with few parallels in Latin American history, is still reverberating, and it has underlined the dramatic deterioration in relations between state and church in Latin America in recent years. A growing consensus is developing in the once‐conservative church hierarchy that clergymen have a duty to speak out on human rights, political liberties and social justice.
Asserting that “the white man must accommodate the black man, and the black man must accommodate the white man,” South Africa’s Justice Minister, James Kruger, announced that he would meet with urban black leaders next week for talks on the anti-government rioting.
In what seemed to be a prelude to a harsh campaign, President Ford said at a news conference in Vail, Colorado, that general “fear and apprehension” about Jimmy Carter would help him to overtake the Democratic candidate in the presidential election. In an evident prelude to a harsh campaign against the former Governor of Georgia, the President spoke of “the indecision and the flip‐flops” of Mr. Carter and said that the voters were right to be wary of entrusting world peace to a candidate whose name “they didn’t know a year and a half ago.” Mr. Ford’s most critical appraisal of his rival was made at a joint news conference, meant to display Republican vigor and unity, with his running mate, Senator Robert J. Dole of Kansas, Vice President Rockefeller and former Governor John B. Connally of Texas. After a five‐hour dinner meeting with his guests last night and a two‐hour session this morning, the President staged the joint news conference on a road outside his rented Rocky Mountain chalet.
House and Senate conferees considering the new tax bill agreed on the first significant change in many years in the way capital gains taxes are levied. The capital gains provision, which especially affects those who buy and sell securities, would be toughened in one respect and made less burdensome in another. The basic principle that only half a capital gain may be subject to taxes would be unchanged.
The Senate, voting 78 to 5, passed a $35.3 billion authorization bill that would extend federal aid to higher education and vocational education for six years. The bill now goes to a conference with the House, which in May passed a separate bill extending grant and loan programs for higher-education students for one year and vocational education assistance for six years.
The chairman of a Senate subcommittee investigating the West Point cheating scandal and the superintendent of the United States Military Academy charged that Army defense lawyers were withholding hundreds of affidavits by cadets that accuse others of cheating. They said the lawyers were keeping back evidence of a wider scandal in an effort to win more lenient treatment for their clients. In separate statements, Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat of Georgia, and Lieutenant General Sidney B. Berry accused the defense lawyers of withholding evidence of a wider scandal in an effort to win more lenient treatment for their clients. Senator Nunn, in a speech on the floor of the Senate, said 600 to 700 such affidavits were being withheld in an attempt to “blackmail” the Academy. At the same time, the Senator said, the defense lawyers were accusing Academy officials of failing to fully investigate the cheating scandal.
The House Judiciary Committee today approved a bill to revise the copyright law. The revision would insure that an author or composer would be protected during his lifetime. The measure, which would be the first thorough modernization of the law since 1909, also takes into account problems created by such technological changes as the widespread use of copying devices and the development of cable television and jukeboxes. The bill provides that copyright of new material would extend for 50 years beyond the life of the author. Under existing law, a copyright lasts for 28 years and may be extended for another 28. The new bill would permit the extension of existing copyrights for a total of 75 years from the initial date. The bill has guidelines for limited reproduction of copyrighted materials — for example by libraries or teachers — but would in general leave it to the courts to decide when such reproduction is on a scale to be an infringement of an author’s rights.
Former Georgia Governor Lester G. Maddox, an avowed segregationist, won the nomination of the American Independent Party tonight to run for President in 20 or more states where the rightwing party will be qualified this fall.
Federal epidemiologists expressed today the belief that the epidemic of a mysterious disease that has killed 28 people in Pennsylvania has ended. In doing so, they said that any new cases reported after August 18 would not be considered part of the epidemic. Under the new definition, issued by epidemiologists at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, a person must have entered the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia after July 1 and had an onset of the disease on or before August 18, or must have attended the American Legion state convention in Philadelphia late last month to be considered part of the epidemic. In addition, a person must have experienced clinical symptoms of a fever and X‐ray evidence of pneumonia, or a temperature of at least 102 degrees and a cough. These criteria remained the same.
Justice Department prosecutors have found evidence that Federal agents, apparently in defiance of an order from J. Edgar Hoover, carried out an illegal burglary in the last months of Mr. Hoover’s life without his knowledge, but with the written approval of one of his top aides. Sources close to the department’s expanding inquiry into some operations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that the burglary, which occurred in New York City in the fall of 1971, followed written authorization for a “surreptitious entry” from Edward S. Miller, then the bureau’s intelligence chief. The sources said that Mr. Miller, who is now retired, was asked about the matter at a brief appearance before a Federal grand jury here yesterday. They said he could supply few details about the request for his approval, except that it had been sent to him shortly after he took over the intelligence division in September 1971. Mr. Hoover, who then headed the bureau, directed in 1966 that the use of burglaries by his agents to gain intelligence information be halted. In a memorandum written six months after that order, Mr. Hoover noted that requests to authorize such break‐ins were still being submited from the field and repeated his intention that they be discontinued.
Ratification of a three-year contract that would end the 129-day strike against the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company met an unexpected delay today when a Jackson, Mich., local union rejected the pact. But union and Goodyear officials expressed optimism that the new agreement would be approved tomorrow, when seven other locals vote. Seven locals approved it today.
A Federal District judge told Delaware yesterday to go ahead with its planned lottery based on National Football League games, despite opposition from the league. Judge Walter K. Stapleton in denying a league request for a restraining order, said he was “unpersuaded” that the league would suffer irreparable injury as a result of any association with the lottery. The league contended, as it has in the past, that a forced association with gambling would cause irreparable injury to the league’s reputation and good will. The Delaware lottery, which starts next Wednesday, was authorized through an opinion by the State Attorney General, Richard R. Wier Jr. Delaware has been operating a lottery since November under authorization from the state’s General Assembly. In May, lottery officials asked Mr. Wier if the legislation could be expanded to include operating games based on athletic contests, and Mr. Wier said yes.
The Internal Revenue Service has granted the principal pension fund of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters a 90-day postponement of its revocation of the fund’s tax-exempt status. The postponement, granted yesterday, followed extensive promises by the fund that it would clean itself up.
In Las Vegas, District Judge Keith Hayes told a group of lawyers today he was on a quest for the truth and ordered them to prepare for a jury trial on the validity of a Howard Hughes will discovered in the Mormon Church headquarters last April.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have constructed a gene, the basic unit of heredity, complete with its regulatory mechanisms. It was implanted in a living bacterial cell, where it functioned as If It was a natural part of the cell’s heredity. The feat gives geneticists an important new tool for studying how genes function, or malfunction, as in cancer cases and other diseases, and birth defects.
The first internet working using the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP/IP), between two separate computer networks, was carried out by Don Cone of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to open wireless two-way connection between SRI’s network and the ARPANET established by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense. Cone transmitted from a mobile unit, the specially-equipped Packet Radio Van, which he drove from SRI in Menlo Park, California to a location in Portola Valley, about 5.6 miles (9.0 km) away. A three-network internet working link, the first true internet transmission, would take place from Cone’s van on November 22, 1977.
Mathematician Willem Klein of the Netherlands calculated the 73rd root of a 500-digit number in 2 minutes and 43 seconds. This feat was recorded by the Guinness Book of Records.
The New York Sets defeated the Golden Gaters of San Francisco, 31 to 13, to win the World Team Tennis (WTT) championship.
Transsexual Renée Richards is barred from competing in the U.S. Tennis Open. Richards refuses to take the chromosome test that is required of all women entrants in the United States Open tennis tournament.
Major League Baseball:
Jim Palmer became an 18-game winner and posted his fifth shutout of the season, pitching the Baltimore Orioles to a 3–0 victory over the Texas Rangers. The Orioles nicked Gaylord Perry for a run in the first inning on a single by Al Bumbry and double by Bobby Grich. Mark Belanger singled in the eighth, advanced on a sacrifice and passed ball before scoring on a sacrifice fly by Bumbry. Lee May doubled home the final run in the eighth.
Homers by Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk and Butch Hobson highlighted the Red Sox’ 14-hit attack in a 9–4 victory over the Royals. After the blows by Yastrzemski and Fisk produced a 2–0 lead, the Red Sox struck for three runs in the fifth inning on a single by Rick Miller, triple by Hobson, a hit batsman, single by Denny Doyle and double by Fred Lynn. Hobson hit his homer in the seventh to lead off a three-run inning. Bob Stinson homered with two men on base for the Royals in the ninth.
Breaking a scoreless tie, the Yankees erupted for five runs in the 15th inning and defeated the Angels, 5–0. The game’s starters, Catfish Hunter for the Yankees and Frank Tanana for the Angels, each pitched 13 innings. Grant Jackson (5–1) was the winner in relief of Hunter, while Sid Monge drew the defeat. Mickey Rivers singled with one out in the 15th, took third on a single by Roy White and beat the throw home for the first run on a grounder by Thurman Munson to third baseman Ron Jackson. After an intentional pass to Lou Piniella, Chris Chambliss batted in two runs with a single and Willie Randolph accounted for two more with a triple.
Jerry Morales went 4-for-4 with a homer and three singles and drove in four runs to pace the Cubs to a 9–4 victory over the Braves. Joe Wallis joined in the attack with a homer and single, accounting for two RBIs. Morales hit his homer with Jose Cardenal on base in the fifth inning, and batted in Cardenal and Wallis with a single in the sixth. Vic Correll hit a homer for the Braves.
In an outstanding show by Joe Morgan, the Reds’ second baseman drove in two runs, scored two and stole three bases to account for a 4–1 victory over the Phillies. Singles by Larry Bowa, Mike Schmidt and Ollie Brown gave the Phillies their lone run off Fred Norman in the first inning. The Reds came back with the tying tally in their half on a double by Pete Rose, an infield out and sacrifice fly by Morgan, who then tripled in the third and counted the go-ahead run on a single by George Foster. Morgan and Johnny Bench worked a double steal in the fifth and when catcher Bob Boone threw to second, trying to nail Bench, Morgan caught the Phillies off guard and continued home. A double by Rose and singles by Ken Griffey and Morgan added the final tally in the seventh. Morgan’s two RBIs raised his season total to 94, equaling his career high, while his three stolen bases were his 45th, 46th and 47th.
Although rapped for 10 hits in five innings of pitching, Jackie Brown (8–9) was able to gain his first victory since June 29 when the Indians defeated the Twins, 7–3. Don Hood, who relieved Brown, loaded the bases with two out in the sixth, but Stan Thomas came in, retired Rod Carew on an infield out and saved the game, allowing only two hits in the last 3 ⅓ innings. The Indians did their major scoring in the second, getting four runs, one each on singles by George Hendrick and Buddy Bell and two on a double by Ray Fosse.
Bo McLaughlin, who failed to last two innings in an earlier encounter with the Cardinals, gained revenge with a five-hit performance and pitched the Astros to a 2–1 victory. The Astros counted their pair in the fourth inning. Jose Cruz and Cesar Cedeno singled and after the pair executed a double steal, Bob Watson drove them home with a double. The Cards’ tally came in the sixth on singles by Garry Templeton and Lou Brock around a passed ball.
Staked to a five-run lead in the first inning, Ken Kravec gained his first major league victory when the White Sox defeated the Brewers, 5–2. The rookie lefthander pitched 7 ⅔ innings before being lifted in favor of Francisco Barrios. Dave Hamilton relieved in the ninth and struck out the last two batters to save the game. In their first-inning outburst, the White Sox began the scoring with a single by Ralph Garr and double by Jorge Orta. Pat Kelly drove in the second run with a double and Jim Spencer added two more with a homer. The White Sox then tacked on their final marker with a pass to Brian Downing, an error and sacrifice fly by Jack Brohamer.
Don Sutton (16–9) pitched a five-hitter and Steve Garvey and Steve Yeager knocked in two runs apiece to lead the Dodgers to a 5–2 victory over the Mets. Garvey hit a homer with a man on base in the first inning. The Mets caught up with a similar blow by Jerry Grote in the seventh, but the Dodgers then beat Jerry Koosman with three runs in the eighth. Lee Lacy and Dusty Baker singled with one out and both crossed the plate on a double by Yeager. After Skip Lockwood relieved, Bill Buckner singled to drive in Yeager.
Ben Oglivie batted in three runs with a homer and sacrifice fly in support of Vern Ruhle, who pitched the Tigers to an 8–1 victory over the Athletics. Gene Tenace saved A’s from being shutout with a circuit clout in the sixth inning.
Richie Zisk drove in three runs with a homer and triple to power the Pirates to a 5–2 victory over the Giants. Zisk hit his homer in the third inning after Omar Moreno had reached base with a safe bunt. In the fifth, Moreno singled and scored again on Zisk’s triple. Dave Parker singled to drive in Zisk and later in the outburst Rennie Stennett plated Parker with a single. Gary Thomasson hit two doubles for the Giants, batting in one run and scoring one.
After two successive defeats, Randy Jones (20–9) achieved his 20th victory of the season when the Padres’ star lefthander shut out the Expos, 2–0. In becoming the first major leaguer to enter the charmed circle this season, Jones needed just 94 pitches to subdue the Expos, who went down to their 12th straight setback. The complete game was his 22nd in 32 starts and the shutout was his fifth of the year. The Padres scored both their runs off Woodie Fryman in the fourth inning when Dave Winfield singled and Mike Ivie and Fred Kendall followed with doubles.
Texas Rangers 0, Baltimore Orioles 3
Kansas City Royals 4, Boston Red Sox 9
New York Yankees 5, California Angels 0
Atlanta Braves 4, Chicago Cubs 9
Philadelphia Phillies 1, Cincinnati Reds 4
Minnesota Twins 3, Cleveland Indians 7
St. Louis Cardinals 1, Houston Astros 2
Chicago White Sox 5, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, New York Mets 2
Detroit Tigers 8, Oakland Athletics 1
San Francisco Giants 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Montreal Expos 0, San Diego Padres 2
The stock market yesterday managed to reduce its recent losses and ended mixed despite a Government report confirming that the economy was not gaining strength. At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 3.49 points to 963.93. However, declines on the New York Stock Exchange outnumbered advances by 685 to 660.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 963.93 (+3.49, +0.36%)
Born:
Carlos Moyá, Spanish professional tennis player (briefly ranked number one in the world (by the ATP in 1999), 1998 French Open winner); in Palma de Mallorca.
Craig Mills, Canadian NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets, Chicago Blackhawks), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Sanjeev Das, Indian cancer research scientist, at Nasirabad, Rajasthan, India.
Sarah Chalke, Canadian-born TV actress (“Roseanne”, “Scrubs”, “The Conners”); in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Gautam Malkani, British financial journalist and author of the novel “Londonstani”; in Hounslow, London, England, United Kingdom.
Died:
Wanda Montlak Szmielew, 58, Polish mathematical logician; from cancer.
Mukesh [Mathur], 53, Indian “playback singer” for Bollywood films, of a heart attack.
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