The Dutch Parliament voted overwhelmingly against a left-wing call for the criminal prosecution of Prince Bernhard for his involvement in the Lockheed bribery scandal. Leaders of the five major parties in the center-left coalition government and of the opposition debated the issue on television. Afterward, Parliament voted 148 to 2 against prosecution. The only votes in favor came from the Pacifist Socialist Party. The majority, however, concluded that Prince Bernhard’s association with Lockheed had harmed the Netherlands. Members of the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Netherlands’ parliament (the Staten-Generaal), overwhelmingly rejected a motion to criminally prosecute Prince Bernhard, the husband of Queen Juliana, for suspected receipt of bribes. Only 2 members, both from the Pacifist Socialist Party, voted in favor of the motion after making it and seconding it, while the other 148 present voted against.
The London Evening News said that Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin suffered a heart attack while swimming in the Moscow River and was saved by his bodyguard. The paper’s Moscow correspondent did not report when the incident occurred but said it came to light when the premier was “too ill to meet a Japanese delegation visiting Moscow.” The report added that Kosygin’s condition “was said not to be serious.”
The Soviet Navy has more than three times as many submarines as the United States, apparently in preparation for a possible war of aggression against the West, according to the authoritative Jane’s Fighting Ships. With its new 40,000‐ton Kiev class aircraft carriers, the Soviet Union has also started to challenge the longtime supremacy of the United States in carrier strength, Jane’s said, adding that the first of these ships was already in service, a second had been launched, one or two more were being built and ultimately there would be six. Even so, Jane’s said in its new edition, to he published tomorrow, the United States remains dominant in carriers and attack submarines. In a foreword to the 1976‐77 edition of Jane’s, its editor, Capt. John E. Moore, a former deputy chief of British Naval Intelligence. wrote: “When in the past a country with few overseas financial or colonial interests has embarked on the building of a considerable fleet, the true aims of the ships concerned have proved to be not only protection of the homeland and the sea lines of communications which run to it but also aggressive activities designed to support national policy.”
Five firebombs exploded in mostly empty bars and movie theaters in downtown Dublin, Ireland, causing extensive damage but no injuries. Authorities said that a sixth device, planted in a bar, failed to go off. The Sinn Fein, political wing of the Irish. Republican Army, charged that the attacks were the work of British intelligence agents working to help pass a tough government-sponsored antisubversion bill through the Irish Parliament. Others blamed the IRA itself.
A noisy, happy calypso carnival, with steel bands and crowds of dancing West Indians, turned into a riot here this afternoon and at least 400 people were injured, the majority of them policemen, Scotland Yard reported. Some 272 policemen were injured, with 24 hospitalized. More than half of the 272 were treated for minor injuries on the spot. A police spokesman said there had been “widespread disorder by hooligans.” By late tonight several liquor stores and other shops had been looted and windows were smashed by bricks and milk bottles along Portabello Road, noted for its stalls selling antiques and rummage, and adjoining streets in the Notting Hill area. One hundred thirty‐one civilans were reported by an ambuulance brigade to have been injured. Policemen, who responded to rock‐throwing by using their truncheons, arrested 19 persons. Policemen in Britain do not carry guns.
The World Methodist Council, meeting in Dublin, deplored denial of basic human rights and intimidation of people by governments. It urged 45 million Methodists around the world to cooperate with the World Council of Churches program to monitor the status of human rights and acted to create a Methodist body to work on the problem. The 450 voting delegates also adopted separate resolutions urging a more active role for women in the church and condemning South Korea’s sentencing of eight churchmen to eight-year prison terms on subversion charges.
The American Bar Association reversed itself and endorsed U.S. participation in a U.N. treaty calling for prevention and punishment of genocide. A member of the ABA section on international law notified a House subcommittee on foreign relations that the organization had rescinded its 1974 decision opposing the pact, which has been either ratified or acceded to by 82 nations.
The Lebanese Forces a Christian militia that played a major role during the Lebanese Civil War was founded by future Lebanese president elect Bachir Gemayel.
More than 170 representatives of Iran-based American companies attended a U.S. Embassy, briefing in Tehran on security and techniques for avoiding terrorist attacks. The last time the regular monthly briefing was given only eight showed up. That was before three Americans were murdered last Saturday. Meanwhile, the Iranian government announced the executions of two terrorists convicted earlier of sabotage, assassination and weapons smuggling.
India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi introduced a 20-page bill to rewrite the Indian Constitution to strengthen her emergency powers. The Government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi unveiled a proposed Constitutional amendment today that gives the executive branch virtually, unlimited power. The 20‐page draft amendment rewrites the preamble and 59 articles of the Constitution Among other things, it bars activity that the government deems “antinational” and curtails the right of the judiciary to enforce civil liberties and review legislation, including constitutional amendments. Under the amendment, India’s’ high courts will no longer be allowed to issue orders, includling writs of habeas corpus, that might delay “a matter of public importance.” The proposed amendment also allows the President, on the advice of the Cabinet, to amend the Constitution over the next two years to deal with any difficulty arising from the Constitutional changes.
High-ranking Administration officials, elaborating on reports that Taiwan has begun producing weapons-grade plutonium, said today they were equally concerned about the nuclear intentions of South Korea and Pakistan.
A South Korean fishing vessel with 23 crew members aboard was fired upon and then seized by North Korean patrol boats today in the Sea of Japan off the eastern end of the demilitarized zone. The Office of Fisheries said that the 17‐ton squid‐fishing vessel might have strayed into North Korean waters north of Ullung Island in thick fog. Fisheries officials said that a formal demand would be made for the release of the seized crew members. It was not immediately clear whether the truce commission at Panmunjom or other channels would be used to convey the demand.
La Soufriere, the long-smoldering volcano on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, exploded and French authorities reported that flying stones injured two volcanologists who had been studying the volcano. Helicopters rescued 12 scientists trapped near the rim of the volcano. A massive vapor explosion on La Soufriere volcano in the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe trapped 12 scientists near the rim of the volcano, injuring two, authorities reported. They said it was not an eruption as originally reported. But it was the biggest explosion since La Soufriere began spewing fumes and ash in July. Opinions differed on when a major eruption might be expected, if at all.
James Alexander George Smith McCartney was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
A new study of Argentina’s uranium reserves has determined that there is enough high-grade ore to fuel eight nuclear reactors, with an electricity output three times higher than the country’s present capacity. Argentina is the leader in Latin America in the development of nuclear power and in research on peaceful uses of atomic energy. The military Government that seized power in March is giving high priority to further development of nuclear capability.
The Salisbury High Court in Rhodesia convicted eight officials of the African National Council, Rhodesia’s black nationalist organization, on charges of sabotage and urban guerrilla warfare and sentenced them to die on the gallows. A government report, at the same time, disclosed that July had the highest emigration rate in a single month since Rhodesia unilaterally declared independence from Britain in 1965. Figures showed only 484 whites came to Rhodesia while 1,330 left — a record loss of 846.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will meet in Zurich this weekend with Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa, the State Department announced today. Then Mr. Kissinger, depending on the outcome of the Zurich meeting, might go on to Africa, visiting several countries, including South Africa, to advocate a British-American solution for white-ruled Rhodesia.
Black strife in Soweto, South Africa is reported to have caused at least six more deaths in the last 36 hours, bringing the total who have died in the black township since a fresh upheaval broke out a week ago to at least 42. A total of 296 people are unofficially estimated to have died since anti‐Government unrest broke out in South African black townships two months ago. Of the latest victims, four were Zulu hostel dwellers who lied of club and knife wounds yesterday. Two others were shot and killed by the police during a vigilante raid on the hostel early today. The continuing strife was reported to have caused nundreds of families to leave the affected area in panic, some of them carrying their furniture. Some sought refuge in the township’s general hospital; others camped out in an abandoned mine dump outside the township or caught trains into Johannesburg, where they roamed the streets. Schools were reported to be deserted, as many have been for weeks.
Jimmy Carter quarreled today with President Ford’s assessment of the most important issues in the 1976 Presidential election campaign, saying leadership and the restoration of trust in government were questions that would most affect voters this year. This seemed to be a clear hint of how Mr. Carter, the Democratic Presidential nominee. hopes to conduct himself in forthcoming debates with Mr. Ford. Mr. Carter, beginning a few days’ speaking tour that will take him also to Washington and New York, also strongly criticized the Republican Administration for having “totally neglected” the administration of the Medicaid program and permitting what he called “rampant waste and illegality” in the program.
The Federal Election Commission ruled that the League of Women Voters will be able to finance televised debates between national candidates of the Republican and Democratic Parties without violating the new ban on private campaign contributions in the general election. The decision was unanimous. The commission said, however, that the league could not accept direct contributions from corporations or labor unions to help to pay for the television time.
Alan Greenspan, the administration’s chief economic forecaster, told President Ford at a cabinet meeting that the economic recovery was now at a “pause,” but added the slowdown was only temporary. He said that slowdowns invariably occurred in a period of economic recovery and that “the basic recovery is solidly in place with no evidence of underlying deterioration.” The basic underlying recovery (from the 1975 recession) is solidly in place with no underlying deterioration.” Greenspan said, according to Press Secretary Ron Nessen.
Senator Frank E. Moss (D-Utah), who has charged that the Ford Administration has not done enough to control Medicaid abuses, was accused by the White House and David Mathews, secretary of health, education and welfare, of “grandstanding.” Mathews said, “We are well ahead of Moss in terms of identifying the problem and doing something about it.” Moss, in a summary of an eightmonth investigation by his subcommittee on aging, said he had found “substantial problems, mismanagement, waste and fraud in the Medicaid program. He charged that HEW efforts to control abuses were “singularly unimpressive.”
Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk said he was “angry” that he was not told of reports possibly connecting the assassination of John F. Kennedy with an alleged CIA plot to assassinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. “People should not leave people in high places in that sort of position,” he said. Rusk, who served in the Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations, had testified before the Warren Commission. Rusk told a news conference in Williamsburg, Virginia, after addressing the 42nd annual Southern Governors Conference that he did not doubt the “main line” of the Warren Commission-that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating Kennedy.
Senate-House conferees reached agreement on a bill providing for an extra $1 billion in subsidies for the Postal Service over the next two years. The House yielded to the Senate in agreeing to drop a requirement that the Postal Service be brought under the regular congressional appropriation process. The compromise bill is intended to provide for a stopgap financing pending recommendations of a study commission and would bar postage-rate increases or service cutbacks until Congress and the President receive the commission’s report, expected next March 15.
The House ethics committee voted unanimously today to hold formal public hearings next month into allegations or improper and illegal conduct by Representative Wayne L. Hays. The committee, in approving the hearing resolution by a vote of 11 to 0, said the hearing would start September 16 “and continue from day‐to‐day and from time‐to-time until concluded.” The move is expected to place increased pressure on Mr. Hays, an Ohio Democrat, to resign his seat in the House. He had already decided not to seek reelection, even after winning the Democratic primary in his district. Many members of the House Democratic leadership consider that Mr. Hays is a campaign liability and that his continued presence in Congress only serves to underscore charges by Republican candidates of corruption by Democrats.
Public hearings into the allegations of improper and illegal conduct by Representative Wayne Hays, Democrat of Ohio, was unanimously voted by the House ethics committee, They are scheduled to start September 16. The committee’s action was expected to put increased pressure on Mr. Hays to resign from the House.
House and Senate conferees agreed, as expected, to extend through 1977 the individual tax reductions that were enacted last year for anti-recession purposes and slightly expanded this year.
Dosing the public with vitamin C would be as effective in controlling swine flu as President Ford’s $135 million innoculation program, according to Linus Pauling. “Vitamin C is equally effective against flu as against the common cold,” said Pauling, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. Pauling, who made his statement at a meeting in San Francisco of the American Chemical Society, has long recommended large doses of vitamin C in fighting colds. Many in the medical world disagree, saying research shows no benefits from excessive doses of the vitamin and that there may be hazards in using large amounts of it.
Judge Mark Brandler of Superior Court refused today to grant a new trial to William and Emily Harris, the accused kidnappers of Patricia Hearst. The Harrises were convicted on, August 9 of two counts of kidnapping, two counts of auto theft and one count of armed robbery. They were acquitted of six counts of assault with a deadly weapon. The charges resulted from incidents on May 16 and 17, 1974, in which the couple allegedly attempted to shoplift items at a sporting goods store in suburban Inglewood, and, with Miss Hearst”s help, escaped, stole vehicles, and kidnapped two people.
Inmates of the New York state prison at Attica ended a week-long demonstration, returning to prison jobs in force after winning some of their demands. There were reports that threats of disciplinary action. also contributed to ending the work stoppage. Inmate leaders said some changes they had sought in prison. routine would be implemented immediately. And if others, which require changes in legislation, are not brought about satisfactorily, they said they would “strike” again. Last Monday about 1,800 of 2,000 inmates refused to leave their cells to work in a protest of what they termed poor prison conditions. The institution was the scene of a revolt in 1971 that claimed 43 lives.
Under competitive and customer pressures, the United States Steel Corporation took the unusual action of rescinding a 4.5 percent price increase scheduled to become effective October 1. The reversal, which was expected to become industry-wide, was followed by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and Inland Steel. It could dampen potential future price advances in the automobile, appliance and construction industries, analysts said.
The country’s first right-to-die bill for terminally ill patients won final legislative approval today and was sent to California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. The bill would allow adult patients to order their physicians, through a signed “living will,” to disconnect life‐sustaining equipment if the procedures served no purpose except artificially to prolong the moment of death. The measure was sent to Governor Brown on a 43‐to‐25 vote by the Assembly to accept Senate amendments. If Governor Brown does not sign or veto the bill within 30 days it automatically becomes law. Bitterly opposed by pro‐life groups, the measure was prompted by the highly publicized case of Karen Anne Quinlan in New Jersey and sparked emotional debate on who controls the fate of the hopelessly ill.
Milwaukee schools will meet Federal court order to integrate this fall through voluntary enrollment, Lee R. McMurrin, the superintendent of schools, announced today. “We are the first in the nation to have a voluntary [enrollment] integration program,” said Evelyn Pfeiffer, president, of the school board, who joined Dr. McMurrin at a news conference to announce that the racial enrollment goal had been met. Milwaukee schools had been ordered to integrate last January by Federal Judge John W. Reynolds. The court order calls for 53 of the city’s 158 schools to have a black enrollment of between 25 percent and 45 percent this fall with another third of the schools to have such racial enrollments in September 1977 and the final third in September 1978.
A bill to protect the headwaters of the scenic New River in North Carolina from being inundated by a giant hydroelectric project was passed by a Senate vote of 69 to 16. The bill is scheduled to go to President Ford, who has indicated that he will sign the measure into law, ending a 13-year battle between environmentalists and advocates of power development. Opponents of the bill argued the power project would create jobs and provide low-cost energy, while supporters said that the dams would destroy a beautiful section of the river. The principal opposition to the bill was voiced by the senators from Virginia, a state that would receive most of the power from the project.
Harold McCluskey, a 65-year-old chemical operations technician at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant in the U.S. state of Washington, survived an accident in which he received the highest dose of radiation from radioactive americium ever recorded. He became known as the ‘Atomic Man’. McCluskey was exposed to at least 37 million becquerel (Bq) of americium-241 radioactivity, 500 times the occupational standard for the plutonium byproduct, in an explosion at the Hanford plant. Despite having americium-241 in his bone marrow, bones and soft tissue (reduced by his decontamination treatment), McCluskey never developed cancer and would live until dying in 1987 of coronary artery disease.)
Tom Brokaw starts as news anchor of NBC’s “The Today Show”.
Major League Baseball:
The A’s purchase veteran Willie McCovey from the Padres.
Bobby Grich doubled in the sixth inning to score Tommy Harper with the tying run, advanced to third on an infield out, then tallied the winning run on Lee May’s sacrifice fly as the Baltimore Orioles stopped the Kansas City Royals, 3–2.
At Fenway, Jim Rice belted home runs Nos. 17 and 18 and also doubled, driving in five runs, in the Red Sox’ 11–3 rout of the Rangers. Luis Tiant was nicked for 11 hits, but posted his 16th victory against 10 defeats. Rick Burleson escaped with a slight concussion when he was struck near the left ear by a Bert Blyleven pitch in the second inning. Rice’s 5th inning home run was the 100th homer this year for the Sox. They now have hit 100 homers or more for 31 straight years.
Dave Collins beat out an infield hit to start the eighth inning, was sacrificed to second base by Jerry Remy, took third on a groundout, then stole home to enable the Angels to edge the Tigers, 2–1.
The Astros extended the Phillies’ losing streak to four games by scoring a 3–1 victory behind the five-hit pitching of Dan Larson (4–5). A two-run double by Cesar Cedeno in the eighth inning, scoring Larson who doubled and Enos Cabell who reached base on Mike Schmidt’s throwing error, was the big blow in the Astros’ fifth straight triumph.
The Twins, with Tom Burgmeier (7–1) working 8 ⅔ strong innings in relief of starter Pete Redfern, came from behind to beat the Brewers, 10–3, and end their six-game losing streak. Rod Carew stole home for the 15th time in his career in the first inning, then delivered a two-run double in the second to send the Twins in front. Dan Ford also accounted for two RBIs.
With outfielders Mickey Rivers and Roy White providing sterling defense, Ed Figueroa gave up only six hits in pitching the Yankees to a 5–2 victory over the Athletics and logging his 16th victory against 7 losses.
The Cardinals tapped relievers Will McEnaney and Manny Sarmiento for eight hits and six runs in the last four innings to trim the Reds, 7–1. Lou Brock and Ted Simmons each had two hits and drove in two runs to support John Denny (9–6), who limited the Reds to six hits over the last eight rounds. Don Gullett, in the first test of his tender shoulder since July 30, was lifted after five impressive innings.
Kansas City Royals 2, Baltimore Orioles 3
Texas Rangers 3, Boston Red Sox 11
Detroit Tigers 1, California Angels 2
Philadelphia Phillies 1, Houston Astros 3
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Minnesota Twins 10
New York Yankees 5, Oakland Athletics 2
Cincinnati Reds 1, St. Louis Cardinals 7
Stocks advanced yesterday in response to bargain-hunting in blue chip and glamour issues as well as spreading cancellations of scheduled steel price increases by industry leaders. The steel price actions were viewed as encouraging news on the inflation front. The Dow Jones industrial average, on the plus side all day, closed with a gain of 4.99 points at 968.92. Analysts were cheered by the upturn in the Dow, which had lost 26 points in the last two weeks, but disappointed in the day’s extremely light turnover. Volume totaled 11.14 million shares, marking the second slowest trading day of the year after January 2, when 10.30 million shares were traded.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 968.92 (+4.99, +0.52%)
Born:
Mike Koplove, Team USA and MLB pitcher (Olympics, bronze medal, 2008; Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Indians), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Brian Shackelford, MLB pitcher (Cincinnati Reds), in McAlester, Oklahoma.
Sarah-Jane Potts, British actress (“Kinky Boots”, “Holby City”), in Bradford, England, United Kingdom.
Lillo Brancato, Colombian-born American film actor who was later convicted of first-degree burglary, in Bogotá, Colombia.
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