Terrorists bombed a crowded bar and a house in Belfast, Northern Ireland, injuring at least 29 persons, police reported. The violence and at least three suspicious fires came in the wake of a women’s march for peace in which thousands of Roman Catholics and Protestants protested continuing warfare. The bombed bar was Catholic-owned and the house into which a gasoline bomb was thrown was in a mixed Catholic-Protestant area.
Two British newspapers, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, reported that a former Lockheed sales executive had implicated a former British cabinet minister in an alleged $1 million bribe to influence the sale of TriStar airbuses in England. The papers said Ernest Hauser, a former Lockheed customer relations manager for Europe, refused to name the minister, who was in a Conservative Party government about three years ago. A party spokesman said the allegations were not worthy of comment.
Greece and Turkey have cautiously accepted a Security Council resolution urging them to show restraint and resume negotiations on their dispute over mineral rights in the Aegean Sea. A time and site are now being discussed and talks could begin next month. An appeal by Athens to the United Nations seems to have defused some of the tension between the ancient enemies that reached a peak several weeks ago when Turkey sent a research vessel to take soundings in parts of the seabed claimed by Greece. The Turkish vessel, Sismik I, is now docked at Izmir, and Greek officials are hoping that it will not be sent out again. But Turkey seems determined to finish its research program. and trouble could flare up again.
Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González angered the Spanish press today by imposing censorship on official plans for political reform. The Prime Minister invoked the Official Secrets Act decreed by the Franco regime in 1968 to declare that any documents prepared for the Cabinet were secret until they had been acted upon. The aim of the decision was apparently to prevent leaks about possible differences of opinion until the government had worked out a common position. The action was assailed by Madrid newspapers as a reversal of the trend toward more freedom of information. The liberal Madrid daily El Pais said in an editorial today that “official secrets in a democracy are reserved for matters that can seriously affect the security of the state and even then, it is the judges and not the government that make a determination in concrete cases.”
A controversial French Bishop who was suspended by the Vatican last month for opposing Roman Catholic Church reforms celebrated a traditional Latin mass before 6,000 followers in a sports arena in Lille in direct defiance of Pope Paul VI. The service seemed to become a political rally as Bishop Marcel Lefebvre also delivered an address to cheers and thunderous applause in which he condemned leftists, Communists and liberal Catholics and attacked ecumenism and the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. In Italy, the Pope devoted his entire Sunday address to the Bishop’s case.
Air Force investigating teams flew to Greenland and England yesterday to look into the separate crashes of two C‐141 jet transports in which a total of 39 people, most of them American military men and some of them reservists, were killed. The planes, both of them Lockheed StarLifters, had been based at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey and crashed Saturday within hours of each other — one at the United States base at Soendre Stroemfjord in southern Greenland, the other near Mildenhall Royal Air Force Base near Peterborough, England. Six of the 27 people aboard the second plane survived. An Air Force spokesman at McGuire made public the names of the American victims yesterday. Other officials said there was no known connection between the two accidents.
Israel’s heavily guarded borders are calmer and more open than at any time since the end of the 1973 Middle East war. The relatively tranquil situation, which Israeli officials caution against regarding as permanent, is largely a result of disunity among Arab nations, most notably in Lebanon. Defense Minister Shimon Peres told graduates of the Israeli Command Staff College recently that “Our defenses have never been stronger. We are in a position to offer a policy of goodwill and restraint.” On Wednesday, September 1, the interim Sinai agreement between Israel and Egypt will be one year old. Despite objections to what they term “technical violations” by Egypt of the agreement, Israeli leaders say that on the whole the pact is working. The interim agreement provided for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from certain strategic ridges in Sinai and the creation of a buffer zone under the control of the United Nations.
Moshe Dayan, former Israeli defense minister, said in his autobiography that he tried unsuccessfully in 1968 to meet Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, according to Israeli television. The TV station quoted Dayan as saying that he was ready to release a captured Arab guerrilla to arrange the meeting, but that the guerrilla refused. Dayan then asked the Arab poet, Fadwa Toukan, to set up a meeting but she failed. Israeli leaders in recent years have refused to recognize the PLO or have any direct dealings with it. Dayan’s autobiography is scheduled for release later this week.
A top Palestinian leader, Salah Khalaf, said in an interview that the guerrillas accept an Arab League plan for the withdrawal of both Christians and Muslims from the mountain front east of Lebanon, which threatens to become the next major battle area of the Lebanese war. He said the withdrawal must involve “not only Palestinian forces. but Syrians, Lebanese rightists and leftists as well.” Khalaf is second to Yasser Arafat in the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The Soviet Union has begun publicly pressing Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon and cooperate with its “natural allies,” the Palestinian and Lebanese leftists whom it has been fighting since late last spring. Such call was made today by the official Communist Party newspaper Pravda in its international review, a weekly column that reflects the Kremlin’s views. However, Pravda was largely echoing a statement issued Friday by the Soviet Afro‐Asian Solidarity Committee. The committee, a semiofficial front organization that speaks for Moscow on some third world matters, was used last month to float an unsuccessful bid for a cease‐fire that would permit the Arab countries to return to the struggle against Israel. The new line that is emerging appears to reflect publicly what Moscow reportedly has urged privately on Damascus — to pull out of the civil war and throw its support to the losing Lebanese leftists and Palestinians.
Ghaffar Khan, known as Pakistan’s “frontier Gandhi,” and a leader of opposition to Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s government, was released after 16 months in jail. The release was made on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan, officials said, because of the 86-year-old Khan’s prolonged illness. He had been arrested in Peshawar in April of last year in a roundup of opposition leaders and the outlawing of his Awami Party.
Fourteen employees of a factory in Bangkok, all but two of them teenage girls, were killed in a fiery chemical explosion. The blast at a hair curler factory also killed the wife of the owner and another woman.
Taiwan is developing the capacity to create an atomic bomb one day as a result of a new program there to reprocess spent nuclear reactor fuel, United States officials said today. They made the assertion in confirming a series of reports assembled by the Central Intelligence Agency that Taiwan had recently begun reprocessing of the fuel to acquire a stockpile of plutonium. The plutonium could be used to make nuclear weapons. The Administration officials said they had been unable to determine whether Taiwan’s reprocessing action was in contravention of a triangular agreement between the United States, Taiwan and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The visit of the United States nuclear-powered warship USS Truxtun to New Zealand has sparked demonstrations, sabotage and a major clash between the government and port unions. The Truxtun arrived in Wellington Friday, the first nuclear ship to visit New Zealand in 10 years. The present Government has reversed the former Labor Government’s ban on nuclear ships. The most serious result has been a strike by port unions in Wellington, tying up the entire port for the duration of the Truxtun’s stay, which is expected to last until Thursday. Corning at the height of the school vacation period, the strike has halted ferries that cross between New Zealand’s two islands, causing difficulties for vacationing families stranded on the wrong island.
Argentina’s military Government has decided to ban the publication, distribution and export of anti‐Semitic Nazi literature, a profusion of which is now circulating freely here, according to a high official source. A decree containing the ban has been prepared for signature by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla, the President, whose political advisers consider the spate of Nazi publications to be part of a right‐wing campaign to push Argentina toward fascism. Bombings at two synagogues and at a Jewish cultural center last week underscored complaints about the anti‐Semitic literature by Jewish leaders. the literature is drawn both from the Nazi tracts of Hitler’s Germany and from earlier French, German and Russian works. The Roman Catholic Church, through its most important monthly publication, Criterio, also called on the government to halt the flow of Nazi literature in the same way that the military authorities banned left‐wing revolutionary periodicals and newspapers that circulated here before the armed forces took power in March.
Thousands watched a public hanging in southern Ethiopia of a former military provincial administrator accused of killing 153 persons, the official Ethiopian news agency reported. Major Tekelle Woldie, serving under the military government, had killed innocent people he had detained, the agency said, in order to discredit the government because of a personal grievance against the Ethiopian revolution.
South Africa’s Minister of Justice James T. Kruger said that allegations that police helped Zulu tribesmen attack black militants will be investigated by the government. He said the allegations against the police were so serious they had to be examined by a commission inquiring into the causes of the violence. Police spokesmen have described earlier news reports of the allegations as utter nonsense.
In a change of administration policy, President Ford proposed that Congress spend $1.5 billion over the next decade to expand the national parks. On his way back to Washington from Vail, Colorado, the President stopped at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, where he worked as a park ranger 40 years ago. At the Old Faithful geyser, Mr. Ford outlined to 6,000 ecologists and tourists a park acquisition and development program that he called a “Bicentennial birthday present” to future generations.
Betty Ford predicts a “very tough campaign” between her husband and the Democratic Presidential candidate, Jimmy Carter: in which President Ford’s pardon of former President Richard M. Nixon will be made an issue by the Democrats. She said she was “quite surprised” by her husband’s selection of Senator Robert J. Dole of Kansas as his running mate. Mrs. Ford, who said she was not consulted by her husband on political strategy or policy, said she would have liked to have seen Vice President Rockefeller sharing the ticket with her husband. Mrs. Ford said that her husband’s pardon of his White House predecessor for any crimes he may have committed in the cover‐up of the Watergate affair has already been injected into the campaign by the “very subtle way” Mr. Carter and his running mate, Senator Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota, keep saying that they are “not going to mention the Nixon pardon.” Asked if she thought that this was fair, she said, “Well, I think it’s bringing up the pardon.”
Federal action is needed to correct “abysmal” Medicaid administration at all levels of government, according to a Senate report on the 10-year-old Medicaid program. The report said there was widespread abuse. by both providers of health services and recipients and estimated that one-quarter to a half of the $15 billion a year being spent on Medicaid was being wasted through fraud, poor medical care, and the dispensing of services to ineligible persons. The report was based on a four-month investigation of Medicaid operations in New York City, Newark, Passaic and Paterson, N. J., Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and Oakland, California.
W. Mark Felt, the former associate director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, suggested today that he might become a “scapegoat” in the Justice Department’s investigation of several burglaries carried out by bureau agents in recent years. Mr. Felt, who has acknowledged authorizing two such break‐ins by bureau agents in 1972, both aimed at uncovering information about foreign and domestic terrorists, said that if he were indicted, “my defense would be that the national security interest of the country was paramount.” In an appearance on the CBS television program “ Face the Nation,” the bureau’s former No, 2 official noted that one of the target groups, the Weatherman Underground Organization, had said it was responsible “for hundreds of bombings” over the last few years, including those at the Capitol and the Pentagon here.
The Food and Drug Administration is considering a move that could delay until the middle of next year a planned cancer warning for women using estrogen pills, Ralph Nader’s health researchers said. The pills are widely prescribed for the treatment of menopause symptoms. Outside advisers recommended late last year that patients and doctors alike be warned that women using the pills run an increased risk of cancer of the uterus. Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group, said he had learned the FDA had plans to allow another 60 days for public comment on the warning and then a second delay of 120 days.
The United Rubber Workers Union ratified a new master contract with Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and other union members returned to jobs at Goodyear Tire & Rubber plants across the nation at the end of the 130-day strike. A union officer said eight of the 11 Firestone locals had approved the contract. Earlier, 12 of the 15 Goodyear locals approved a similar three-year contract. Master contracts with Goodrich and Uniroyal still are under negotiation. The settlement common to all four rubber companies calls for a wage hike of $1.44 an hour over three years plus an unlimited cost of living formula and improved pension benefits.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is proposing that on motor vehicles manufactured after September 1, 1979, speedometers have a maximum reading of 85 mph. It said such a move would mean that “whatever temptation present speedometers provide immature drivers to test the top speed of their vehicles will be diminished.” It said experts estimated the change would result in a decrease of 175 fatal accidents and 1,900 injury accidents annually.
Former black revolutionary Eldridge Cleaver said he experienced “a religious conversion” to Christianity while he was in exile and is now “a person with a heart full of good will.” Cleaver returned to the United States several months ago to face trial on charges, including attempted murder, stemming from a 1968 shootout between Oakland, Calif.. policemen and members of the Black Panther Party he helped found. Out of jail on $100,000 bond while awaiting trial, Cleaver said on NBC’s Meet the Press that he had “experienced a religious conversion. I’ve become a Christian …If I am acquitted as I feel that I will be and that I feel would be just, then I will do whatever work the Lord brings to me.”
A fire apparently caused by careless smoking flashed through the Kappa Sigma fraternity house at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, early in the morning and killed five fraternity members, including the student who called the fire department. About two dozen others leaped to safety from the top two floors of the 59-year-old building. Officials said the fire started in a divan in a first-floor television room and raced up a recently painted stairwell in the pillared, three-story brick building, which had no fire escapes. Stuart McCoy, who called just after 3 AM to tell the fire department, “We’ve got a fire and we’re burning.” was found by his telephone.
The Boy Scouts of America have canceled plans to hold its 1978 national convention in Detroit because of publicity about the city’s crime problems, Detroit convention officials said. The decision represents the second major convention Detroit has lost this summer. The National Funeral Home Directors Assn. earlier canceled plans to hold its convention in the city. It would have attracted 5,000 delegates who would have spent more than $1 million. The four-day Boy Scout convention of more than 4,000 persons would have been worth an estimated $825,000 to Detroit’s economy.
Senator Frank Moss, Democrat of Utah, went to East Harlem masquerading as a patient and helped to document what his Senate committee says was widespread waste and mismanagement in New York City’s huge Medicaid program. Senator Moss, chairman of the Subcommittee on Long-Term Care, got a Medicaid card and visited the East Harlem Medical Center at 145 East 116th Street. His experience contributed to the subcommittee’s report, which said that fraudulent practices and use by ineligible persons of the New York Medicaid program had wasted millions of dollars.
A planned aerial wolf hunt in Alaska’s Brooks Mountain Range has come under fire. Rep. William Whitehurst, (R-Virginia), said the Alaska Fish and Game Department wants to kill 80% of the wolves in the range because the Western Arctic caribou population is declining. But Whitehurst said that unrestricted hunting by man probably caused the decline. He said there are no season limits or bag limits on killing caribou there.
More heed to earthquake hazards was urged in a letter to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation by Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-California). Ryan said he was concerned about plans to begin construction of the planned Auburn dam in January despite a warning that it might be unsafe in an earthquake. He urged the bureau to consider recommendations from the California Division of Dam Safety before starting work on the project. Ryan is chairman of a House subcommittee that recently conducted an inquiry into the collapse of the bureau’s Teton Dam in Idaho.
There are a lot of dirty cars and withered vegetable patches in Raleigh, North Carolina, after the imposition of a mandatory ban on nonessential use of water. The ban was imposed because of the diminished flow of the Neuse River, from which the city obtains most of its water. Because of the prolonged drought in the region, the river’s flow has dropped from its normal daily flow of 400 million gallons to 9.6 million gallons.
Crime is a growing problem in the suburbs and many suburbanites are finding that they have not escaped it by moving from the city. A survey of many communities around 12 major cities has found that burglaries and other felonies are increasing. Of the 12 areas, only Milwaukee seemed to be relatively crime-free. Some homeowners have organized neighborhood surveillance teams in which neighbors keep a house watch for one another. An accountant in a San Francisco suburb, whose house was burglarized three times in eight days, set up a picture-taking program to which 150 neighbors subscribe, When anyone knocks or rings the doorbell a photograph of the caller is automatically taken. The picture taking has been a “very, very powerful deterrent” to break-ins, the accountant said.
James Hunt, driving a McLaren, celebrated his 29th birthday today by winning the Dutch Grand Prix for the second straight year. He averaged 113.34 miles per hour for the 198-mile race.
Major League Baseball:
The Texas Rangers tied their club record for most hits in a game with 19 while rolling over the Baltimore Orioles, 11–0. Every batter in the Rangers’ lineup, except for Jim Sundberg, joined in the attack. Juan Beniquez rapped four hits and Toby Harrah, Gene Clines and Mike Hargrove collected three apiece. Harrah and Roy Howell smashed homers. Jim Umbarger (9–10) pitched the shutout on a six-hitter as the Rangers ended their string of eight consecutive losses to the Orioles.
Rick Burleson, Butch Hobson and Dwight Evans batted in three runs apiece, while Carlton Fisk scored four times, as the Red Sox routed the Royals, 15–6. Fisk banged out three singles and a triple. Burleson collected his RBIs with a bases-loaded double to cap a seven-run outburst by the Red Sox in the first inning. Hobson homered with two men on base in the second and Evans drove in his runs with a grounder, sacrifice fly and homer.
Jerry Remy raced home from second base on a throwing error by Graig Nettles in the 11th inning to bring the Angels a 5–4 victory over the Yankees. Remy drew a walk to lead off the stanza and moved up on a sacrifice bunt by Bob Jones. Bill Melton then bounced to Nettles, who threw over the head of first baseman Chris Chambliss. Remy kept running and beat Chambliss’ throw to the plate. The Yankees had a two-run homer by Elrod Hendricks in the second inning but then fell behind, 4–2, before coming back to tie the score in the ninth on doubles by Nettles and Lou Piniella and a single by Thurman Munson.
A homer by George Mitterwald after a double by Manny Trillo in the fifth inning enabled the Cubs to defeat the Braves, 3–2. The Cubs picked up an unearned run without the benefit of a hit in the first. The Braves came back with the tying tally in the third and took a 2–1 lead in the fourth when Darrel Chaney tripled and Jerry Royster singled. The Cubs had only one hit off Phil Niekro until Trillo’s double and Mitterwald’s homer beat the Braves’ righthander.
After coming from behind to tie the score in the ninth inning and again in the 13th, the Reds scored on an infield single by Ken Griffey with two out in the 15th to defeat the Phillies, 6–5. With 51,376 on hand, the Reds set a Cincinnati club record of 190,382 for attendance to a four-game series. The Reds, after trailing, 4–1, cut their deficit with a two-run single by Cesar Geronimo in the sixth and tied the score in the ninth when Pete Rose raced home from second base on a passed ball by Bob Boone. The Phillies took the lead again with a run in the 13th on a pass to Garry Maddox and singles by Mike Schmidt and pinch-hitter Tony Taylor, but the Reds pulled even in their half when Dave Concepcion scored from second base while Rose was grounding into a force-out. In the 15th, Concepcion walked and stopped at second on a single by Geronimo. After Santo Alcala (11–3) struck out and Rose grounded out, Griffey bounced up the middle to Dave Cash, whose throw to first was too late to nail the Reds’ speedy runner as Concepcion crossed the plate to end the four-hour, 15-minute contest.
A three-run homer by George Hendrick and two-run single by Larvell Blanks paced the Indians’ 14-hit attack in a 7–4 victory over the Twins. Hendrick’s blow in the third inning put the Indians ahead, 4–2, and Blanks’ single highlighted another three-run outburst in the fourth. Roy Smalley, the Twins’ shortstop, tied a major league record for most strikeouts by a batter in two consecutive games lasting 18 innings or more. Smalley fanned three times for a total of eight strikeouts after whiffing five times in the previous night’s 17-inning contest.
Making only his second start, Joe Sambito (2–1) doled out four hits and pitched the Houston Astros to a 6–0 victory over the Cardinals. The rookie lefthander also drove in a run with a single for his first major league hit.
Ken Brett (8–8) and Dave Hamilton combined on a six-hitter and pitched the White Sox to a 2–0 victory over the Brewers. The White Sox scored their runs in the eighth inning. Jorge Orta drew a walk and stole second. When Jim Spencer grounded to George Scott, Eduardo Rodriguez missed the bag covering first and was charged with an error. The Brewers then brought in Bill Castro to relieve Rodriguez, but the move failed when Brian Downing and Chet Lemon each drove in a run with a single. Brett was hit on the hand by a line-drive single off the bat of Charlie Moore in the Brewers’ half of the eighth and was forced to leave the game. Hamilton proceeded to load the bases but escaped from that jam without allowing a run to score.
A two-run homer by Reggie Smith in the first inning carried the Dodgers to a 2–1 victory over the Mets in a duel between Tommy John (8–8) and Tom Seaver. Davey Lopes singled ahead of Smith’s blow. John, who went the distance for only the fourth time in 26 starts, gave up the Mets’ run on singles by Leon Brown, Felix Millan and John Milner in the sixth.
Don Baylor raced from first base to third on a sacrifice bunt by Joe Rudi in the 12th inning, setting up the run that enabled the Athletics to beat Mark Fidrych (15–6) and pin a 2–1 defeat on the Tigers. The rookie righthander allowed only five hits until Baylor opened the 12th with a single. When the Tigers left the bag unprotected on Rudi’s bunt, Baylor put on his speed and reached third. Baylor held up as Sal Bando was safe on an error by Mickey Stanley but then scored the winning run when Gene Tenace singled. The Tigers scored in the first. Ron LeFlore singled, stole second, moved up on a long fly and crossed the plate on a wild pitch by Mike Torrez. Phil Garner tied the score with a homer in the third. Rollie Fingers (10–9) pitched the last inning for the A’s and was the winner in relief.
Two wild pitches by Randy Moffitt in the 11th inning enabled Manny Sanguillen to score the run that gave the Pirates a 3–2 victory over the Giants. Richie Zisk hit a homer in the fourth to put the Pirates ahead, 2–1, but the Giants tied the score in the eighth after Dave Rader reached base on an error by Ed Kirkpatrick. Pinch-runner Johnnie LeMaster went to third on a pinch-single by Chris Arnold and crossed the plate on a sacrifice fly by Marty Perez. Sanguillen led off the 11th with a single and took second on a sacrifice by Tommy Helms. Facing pinch-hitter Bob Robertson, Moffitt uncorked a wild pitch that allowed Sanguillen to take third and threw wild again two pitches later to enable Sanguillen to score. John Candelaria won his 13th against 5 losses.
Steve Rogers (6–12) posted his fourth shutout of the season, allowing only four hits, as the Expos defeated the Padres, 3–0. Jose Morales, batting for Jerry White in the seventh inning, drove in the Expos’ first run with a single. The pinch-hit was the 21st of the year for Morales and the RBI was his 18th in a substitute batting role.
Texas Rangers 11, Baltimore Orioles 0
Kansas City Royals 6, Boston Red Sox 15
New York Yankees 4, California Angels 5
Atlanta Braves 2, Chicago Cubs 3
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Cincinnati Reds 6
Minnesota Twins 4, Cleveland Indians 7
St. Louis Cardinals 0, Houston Astros 6
Chicago White Sox 2, Milwaukee Brewers 0
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, New York Mets 1
Detroit Tigers 1, Oakland Athletics 2
San Francisco Giants 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Montreal Expos 3, San Diego Padres 0
Born:
Kasia Kulesza, Canadian synchronized swimmer (Olympics, silver medal, 1996), in Warsaw, Poland.
Kevin Kaesviharn, NFL safety and cornerback (Cincinnati Bengals, New Orleans Saints, Tennessee Titans), in Paramount, California.
Lamar Campbell, NFL safety (Detroit Lions), in Chester, Pennsylvania.
Died:
Jimmy Reed, 50, African-American blues musician and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (“Soulin’”; “Big Boss Man”), died of respiratory failure after an epileptic seizure.
Kazi Nazrul Islam, 77, Bengali musician and poet.
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