The Ford Administration’s top arms control official accused the Soviet Union today of attempting to alter the strategic nuclear weapons balance with the United States by introducing a new missile in Eastern Europe. The official, Fred C. lklé, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, said that the deployment of the new missile, with multiple independently targetable warheads, was “a massive, unwarranted and unexplained expansion.” He said in a speech that the deployment could jeopardize efforts to achieve a new agreement limiting strategic arms between the Soviet Union and the United States. Negotiations on a second strategic arms agreement have, been stalled for 10 months because of a conflict over inclusion of a new Soviet bomber, called Backfire by the Atlantic alliance, and of United States cruise missiles. Existence of the new Soviet. regional missiles was disclosed last month in a report to Congress by President Ford. The new missile is identified by United States authorities as the SS‐X‐20, an intermediate-range modification of the SS‐X‐16, which is classified as an intercontinental ballistic missile. The SS‐X‐20 is said to employ the first two stages of the SS‐X‐16 and is reported to be mobile. In its intermediate‐range version, the new missile is considered to have a range of less than 3,000 miles.
The government of Ireland moved against the Irish Republican Army by proposing a drastic increase in penalties for I.R.A. membership and emergency legislation to quell terrorists. Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave told the Irish Parliament that the I.R.A. represented a direct challenge to the nation and called it an armed organization dedicated to the overthrow of the state’s institutions. He said its crimes had discredited the name of Irishmen and brought “death and damage to our own people.” Although the main opposition party announced opposition to some proposals, government officials were confident of enactment by mid-September.
Scotland Yard was accused today of having helped to provoke the bloody confrontation last night between white policemen and black youths in a poor neighborhood in London. Some local officials said that the policemen who had been assigned to keep order at a street festival staged by the neighborhood’s West Indian residents had “overreacted massively” when a woman screamed that a youth had grabbed her handbag. The police moved in in large numbers, insults were exchanged with angry young blacks, and soon the entire neighborhood was engulfed in ugly disorder marked by fights between truncheon — swinging policemen and youths throwing bottles and bricks. The clash came near the end of a two-day Calypso Carnival held in the streets of the Notting Hill neighborhood. A total of 456 people were injured by official count and there was widespread property damage. The riot was clearly the worst episode of its kind since racial fighting broke out in the same neighborhood 18 years ago.
Robert W. Fri, deputy administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration, warned the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy that Congress’ attempt to tighten controls over nuclear exports could backfire and undermine negotiations aimed at halting the spread of nuclear weapons. He said that President Ford “is conducting a major review of nuclear policy,” and that licensing criteria for nuclear exports now under consideration by Congress “would likely drive out partners to other suppliers, thereby diminishing rather than enhancing our influence over nonproliferation.”
The latest edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia finally acknowledges that the Watergate scandal forced Richard M. Nixon to resign the Presidency and sharply reduces former Soviet ruler Josef Stalin’s role in official Russian history. The Stalin entry — 10 columns and a full-page picture the 1957 edition — is down to four columns and a thumbnail photo in the new edition. The book devotes several pages to the United States, including mention of Watergate, seldom mentioned by the Soviet media.
Lebanese President-elect Elias Sarkis met with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus for talks on the future of Lebanon and efforts to end its 17-month civil war. Sarkis, who is scheduled to assume his office September 23, would not discuss the outcome of the talks. Meanwhile, Palestinian and Christian Falange Party leaders were reported “very close to agreement” on a plan to calm the central mountain battlefront as a step toward a general cease-fire. Only sporadic fighting was reported in Lebanon’s three main battle zones — Beirut, the mountains east of the capital and an area outside of Tripoli.
The Lebanese Ambassador in Moscow today challenged the Soviet view of Lebanon’s civil war, declaring that Palestinian troops fighting there were the aggressors. The envoy, Antoine Jabre, also said Syrian troops, whose presence in Lebanon has been criticized by Moscow, were there at the request of the “legitimate government.” Mr. Jabre made his indirect rejection of Moscow’s position in a statement addressed to the Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee. The committee is a semiofficial group that expressed support last Thursday of Palestinian forces in Lebanon and called for the withdrawal of the Syrians. “The Lebanese, like the Soviet people, do not want foreign troops in their country,” he said. “The Palestinian troops are foreign troops and it is their presence and behavior in Lebanon that brought the arrival of other foreign troops.”
Administration officials said today they believed the Kuwaiti Government’s decision to suspend the National Assembly and to restrict the press was designed primarily to control the large Palestinian community in Kuwait. There are 270,000 Palestinians in the Persian Gulf oil-producing country, which has a total population of one million. The suspension of the 66‐member Assembly and the application of a strict new press law were ordered in a decree made public on Sunday.
Refugees from Vietnam said today that there were severe shortages of food and of consumer and industrial products in the territory of former South Vietnam, which fell to Communist troops from North Vietnam in April 1975 and has since been merged with the North. The refugees, who escaped by boat, added that half a million people had been forced out of the former capital of the South to work in the fields. They reported that many of those who had been compelled to leave Saigon — now called Ho Chi Minh City — were believed to have died in the jungles. Those left behind were facing increasing hardships and were becoming more frightened and more opposed to the Communist authorities, they added.
U.S. B-52 bombers ended 10 days of practice bombing runs over South Korea amid continued tension over the slaying of two U.S. Army officers by North Korean guards in the demilitarized zone. A Pentagon spokesman said the bombers had returned to their base on Guam, but he did not rule out possible resumption of the flights over South Korea. Meanwhile, talks continued at Panmunjom truce village between U.N. Command and North Korean officials on how to rearrange troops in order to prevent incidents between the two sides.
The value of the Mexican peso was devalued as the government of Mexico announced that it would abandon its policy since 1954 of an exchange rate of 12.50 pesos per one United States dollar. The change was announced by Finance Minister Mario Ramón Beteta.
Earth tremors shook La Soufriere volcano at the rate of more than 46 an hour. But scientists could not agree on whether a major eruption was imminent. Authorities in the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe allowed 72.000 refugees who live on the volcano’s flanks on Basse Terre Island to return home during daylight hours to tend fields and feed farm animals. But they cautioned that the increasing tremors along with a vapor explosion in the volcano early this week may be precursors of bigger eruptions and that visits to the area were dangerous.
A group calling itself the Argentine National Socialist Front declared war against the “Jewish-Bolshevik plutocracy” in Argentina and claimed responsibility for the recent bombings of synagogues and Jewish-owned shops. It was the latest development in an apparently growing trend of anti-Semitism in Argentina, where 600,000 Jews live, making it the largest Jewish community in the Western Hemisphere, after the United States. In a letter to news media, the previously unknown group blamed the Jews for the country’s economic and political problems.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger appealed to black African leaders not to abandon hope that the United States and Britain could negotiate a formula to end white minority control in Rhodesia and South-West Africa without warfare. He also renewed a pledge that the United States would use all its influence for peaceful change, equality of opportunity and basic human rights in South Africa. He was addressing a mainly black audience in Philadelphia.
The police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators in two incidents in South Africa today, but the black townships were reported quiet. At Silverton, near Cape Town, the police fired tear gas at some 300 demonstrators of mixed race, whom the South African Government describes as colored. No injuries were reported but the police said one man had been arrested. At Graaffreinet, about 375 miles to the east, some 500 high school students demonstrated against the detention by the security police last week of the Rev. Allan Hendrickse, national chairman of the Labor Party, who is colored. The police used tear gas to stop an attempt to march through the town and said that six people were arrested.
The Senate agreed after a late night session to take final action next Wednesday on a controversial bill to strengthen enforcement of the antitrust laws. The agreement was reached after a 63–27 vote earlier in the day to curb further debate on the legislation. The anti-filibuster move, however, did not stop opponents from carrying on their fight. But as the night went on, an informal cloakroom agreement led to setting a vote for a showdown next week. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana had warned that unless the stalemate were broken soon, the scheduled October 2 adjournment of Congress could be delayed and a postelection session might be necessary.
President Ford, sounding a probable theme of his campaign against the Democrats this fall, attacked Senate and House conferees today for “giving the country only half a loaf” with their decision to extend a $15 billion tax cut through next year.
The Ford Administration adamantly refused today any compromise in its opposition to use the tax laws to penalize United States companies that comply with the Arab boycott of Israel. The issue is one of the most delicate and difficult connected with the big tax revision bill, which otherwise is making progress in a Senate‐House conference committee. Appearing late this afternoon to offer the Administration view, Gerald L. Parsky, an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, said the Administration remained opposed to the provision on the boycott, added by the Senate. “I have no suggestions” for a compromise, he said. The Senate provision would deny foreign tax credits, tax deferral on foreign profits until remitted to the United States and tax benefits for exports to companies that participate in the boycott. Even their overseas employees would be denied the tax benefits enjoyed by other overseas employees of American companies, under the Senate proposal. Mr. Parsky argued that the, provision of the Senate bill would not affect the boycott, would hamper United States efforts for peace in the Middle East and would hurt United States companies.
A spokesman for the Roman Catholic hierarchy said after a meeting of six Bishops with Jimmy Carter that the Democratic presidential candidate had continued to withhold support for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion and that they remained “disappointed” with his position. Mr. Carter confirmed later that he would not oppose an effort to obtain such an amendment. The meeting apparently did not improve his position with the Catholic leadership, and the Bishops did not conceal their desire for maximum public pressure on him.
If Mr. Carter is elected president, he plans to dispose of his stocks, divest himself of his peanut business and divert royalties from his popular autobiography to a philanthropic foundation. But he said in a recent interview in Plains, Georgia, that he does not know how to resolve a potential conflict of interest between his sizable holdings of farmland and the substantial power over agriculture he would obtain. He promised a solution avoiding even the appearance of using office for personal gain.
Senator Robert Dole, the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, predicted tonight that Jimmy Carter would lose much of his Southern support as his “liberal” philosophy becomes more apparent. In an airport news conference in Wilmington, Delaware, the 53‐year‐old Kansan unveiled what may be a major theme of the Republican campaign against the Democratic nominee in his native South this fall. Noting that he plans to visit Atlanta and Macon, Georgia, and Charlotte and Salisbury, North Carolina, his wife’s hometown, tomorrow, Senator Dole said: “This is only the first venture into the South. We don’t have any Southern strategy; we think it’s a matter of philosophy. As soon as Governor Carter is revealed as the liberal he is, we think there will be a big shift in the South.”
Congress completed action on legislation requiring about 50 major federal boards to open their meetings to the public and to avoid off-the-record communications about cases before them. The bill sent to the White House would force meetings to be held “in the sunshine.” Only certain topics would be exempt, such as those involving national defense or security, trade secrets, criminal matters and personal privacy.
Chairman Howard W. Cannon (D-Nevada) of the Senate Ethics Committee said he hoped the panel could issue a report on Gulf Oil Co. contributions to members of the Senate before Congress adjourned on October 2. Cannon declined further comment in the wake of reports the committee had questioned Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania. Scott, who is retiring at the end of the year, reportedly told the panel he received $45,000 from Gulf. Scott has said he never knowingly accepted corporate funds.
Clarence Kelley, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, acknowledged that he had been questioned by Justice Department investigators about possible misuse by him of government services and property in his home. His office released a statement that he had told members of the department’s panel looking into F.B.I. improprieties that carpenters from the bureau had constructed window valances in his suburban apartment.
William and Emily Harris received sentences of up to life imprisonment on charges of armed robbery, kidnapping and auto theft stemming from their two-day trip with Patricia Hearst in the Los Angeles area in 1974. Under the California “indeterminate sentence” law, they could he released in six years and eight months.
Police in Louisville, Kentucky, used tear gas to disperse a rock-and-bottle-throwing crowd of more than 1,000 antibusing demonstrators on the eve of the opening of Jefferson County schools for a second year under court-ordered busing. Six persons were arrested but there were no injuries. County Police Chief Russell McDaniel said demonstrators gathered near Southern High School on Preston Highway. “They started a big fire,” he said, and began throwing things. Riot-equipped police fired tear gas after giving a five-minute warning to disperse. The crowd broke up about 90 minutes after gathering.
Representative Wayne Hays, until three months ago one of the most powerful members of Congress, was on the verge of resignation according to Capitol Hill sources. The effective date was said to be September 8, a week before the scheduled opening of a House ethics committee hearing on charges that he improperly placed friends and a mistress on the congressional payroll.
The Energy Research and Development Administration began an investigation into an explosion at a plutonium reclaiming plant in Richland, Washington, that exposed 10 workers to radioactive substances. One technician was cut by flying Plexiglas and he and nine others were contaminated. Eight of the men have been released. But the technician who was cut and one other remained in isolation. The chemical explosion occurred in a device used to extract radioactive material called Americium from liquid waste that also contained plutonium.
Federal Judge Frank J. Battisti found the Cleveland Board of Education guilty of segregation in the city school system and said the state Board of Education allowed it to exist. The decision will be appealed. Battisti ordered the two boards to submit within 90 days a desegregation plan for the city school system. He said that out of the 127,000 students in the city of 700,000 population, about 57% are black, yet more than 90% of all students attend schools that are predominantly of one race. Battisti made no mention of what kind of plan — including busing — might go into effect.
The popular situation comedy “Alice” premiered on CBS for the first of nine seasons. Based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, the TV version starred actress and singer Linda Lavin in the title role as a widow and single mother who makes a new start as a waitress and “Mel’s Diner”, a roadside diner in Phoenix, Arizona.
Major League Baseball:
A ground-rule double by Ken Henderson, who drove in two runs in the sixth inning, helped the Atlanta Braves defeat the Chicago Cubs, 5–3. The Braves held a 1–0 lead going into the sixth when Rod Gilbreath walked, Rowland Office singled and Willie Montanez was safe on an error to load the bases. Henderson followed with his double on a drive that bounced over the left field fence. Jim Wynn hit a sacrifice fly to add a third run before the inning ended. Rick Monday homered with a man on base for the Cubs.
With relief help from Dyar Miller, who put down a threat in the eighth inning, Jim Palmer gained his 19th victory of the season when the Orioles defeated the Royals, 4–3. The Orioles took advantage of an error by Marty Pattin to score two unearned runs in the first inning. Ken Singleton, who accounted for one RBI with a single, drove in another run with a single in the third. The Orioles then put over what proved to be their winning run in the seventh when Al Bumbry walked, stole second and scored on a single by Bobby Grich.
Roy Howell drove in three runs with a double and infield out and Tom Grieve homered with a man on base to lead the Rangers to an 8–3 victory over the Red Sox. In the second inning, after Jeff Burroughs walked and Grieve doubled, Howell batted in both runners with his double. An infield out by Howell produced one of the Rangers’ three runs in the third. Grieve hit his homer in the seventh.
Nolan Ryan (11–17) went over the 2,000 mark in strikeouts, fanning 11 to bring his career total to 2,010, while pitching the Angels to a 6–3 victory over the Tigers. Tony Solaita hit a homer for the Angels, who staked Ryan to a 2–0 lead before the Tigers rallied for three runs in the sixth inning. The Angels struck back with four runs in their half, two scoring on a bases-loaded single by Terry Humphrey and two others following on a double by Rusty Torres.
Breaking a tie when Rico Carty walked with the bases loaded, the Indians scored three runs in the 10th inning and defeated the White Sox, 4–2. After Carty drew his pass, Boog Powell beat out an infield hit for another run and George Hendrick capped the inning with a sacrifice fly. The White Sox fell short with one run in their half of the 10th.
J.R. Richard (16–13) turned in the fifth straight complete game to the credit of the Astros’ staff and gained a 3–2 victory over the Phillies, who went down to their fifth straight defeat. The Phillies held a 2–1 lead in the eighth inning before the Astros rallied to score the tying and winning runs. Enos Cabell led off with his fourth single of the game and Cesar Cedeno was safe on an error by Dave Cash. Bob Watson singled, driving in Cabell for his second RBI of the night. After an infield out by Leon Roberts and intentional pass to Cliff Johnson, Jose Cruz grounded into a force-out as Cedeno scored the deciding run.
Dave Goltz (11–13) pitched a two-hitter and Steve Brye homered for three runs as the Twins won the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, 4–0, before the Brewers came back to take the second game, 6–3. Goltz held the Brewers hitless until Bill Sharp singled with one out in the seventh inning. Tim Johnson singled for the other hit with two out in the eighth. Goltz struck out 11 for his major league career high. In the nightcap, Jim Slaton (14–11) pitched a five-hitter and gained the victory when the Brewers erupted for five runs in the seventh inning. Mike Hegan walked, Bernie Carbo doubled and Johnson singled to account for the first two runs to tie the score at 3–3. Darrell Porter walked and, with two out, Von Joshua singled, driving in Johnson and Porter. Joshua took second on a passed ball and scored on a single by Sharp.
Starting with two runs before a batter was retired in the first inning, the Dodgers went on to defeat the Expos, 5–1. Davey Lopes and Bill Buckner led off with singles and, after a double steal, both scored on a double by Bill Russell. Doug Rau (13–10) gets the win.
Sparked by Roy Staiger, who broke out of an 0-for-15 slump with two singles, the Mets defeated the Giants, 6–2. Staiger’s first single resulted in a run that tied the score at 2–2 in the seventh inning. Then in the eighth, after a single by Ed Kranepool and pass to Ron Hodges, Staiger singled again to drive in the tie-breaking tally. The Mets went on to add three more runs on a single by Bud Harrelson, an error by Gary Matthews and single by Leo Foster.
Carlos May doubled and Graig Nettles homered in the seventh inning to carry the Yankees to a 2–1 victory over the Athletics. Doyle Alexander (10–8), who pitched a three-hitter, gave up the A’s run in the first on singles by Don Baylor and Joe Rudi plus two-out passes to Sal Bando and Gene Tenace.
Allowing only four hits, Jerry Reuss (12–7) outdueled Randy Jones (20–10) and pitched the Pirates to a 3–0 victory over the Padres. Reuss’ complete game was the Pirates’ fifth straight, all resulting in victories. Jones, who went out for a pinch-batter in the eighth inning, after giving up only one run, was the loser on a five-hitter. The Pirates counted their initial tally in the fourth when Richie Zisk singled, Bob Robertson doubled and Dave Parker hit a sacrifice fly. Parker added the remaining two runs by hitting a homer off Butch Metzger in the eighth after a walk to Robertson.
The Reds, who had lost four straight times to the Cardinals, aroused themselves with a five-run rally in the seventh inning to gain a 6-5 victory. With the Cards leading, 3–1, Tony Perez walked, Dave Concepcion singled and Cesar Geronimo doubled, driving in two runs to tie the score and kayo Pete Falcone. Bill Greif walked Dan Driessen and had a 3–1 count on Pete Rose before Al Hrabosky was called from the bullpen. Rose rapped Hrabosky’s first pitch for a run-scoring single. Ken Griffey belted the southpaw’s next offering for another single, accounting for the Reds’ final two runs. The best the Cards could do was come back with two runs in their half of the seventh on a walk, double by Lou Brock and single by Ted Simmons.
Chicago Cubs 3, Atlanta Braves 5
Kansas City Royals 3, Baltimore Orioles 4
Texas Rangers 8, Boston Red Sox 3
Detroit Tigers 3, California Angels 6
Cleveland Indians 4, Chicago White Sox 2
Philadelphia Phillies 2, Houston Astros 3
Milwaukee Brewers 0, Minnesota Twins 4
Milwaukee Brewers 6, Minnesota Twins 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Montreal Expos 1
San Francisco Giants 2, New York Mets 6
New York Yankees 2, Oakland Athletics 1
San Diego Padres 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Cincinnati Reds 6, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Stock prices posted their third advance in a row yesterday with gains showing in computer, defense, savings and loan, retail, electronic and oil-related issues. The Dow Jones industrial average, ahead by more than 7 points in the early afternoon, finished with a gain of 4.82 points at 973.74. This brought the three‐session increase in the blue‐chip Dow to 13.30 points. Barely, two weeks earlier, however, the average had climbed to nearly 1,000 — a level from which it repeatedly has toppled since early spring.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 973.74 (+4.82, +0.50%)
Born:
Radek Martínek, Czech NHL defenseman (New York Islanders, Columbus Blue Jackets), in Havlicko Brod, Czechoslovakia.
Jason Gilfillan, MLB pitcher (Kansas City Royals), in Shelby, North Carolina.
Guinness Pakru (stage name for Ajay Kumar), diminutive (at 2 ft 6 in (76 cm)) Indian comedian, known for being the smallest film actor in history and as star of the Malayalam language film Athbhutha Dweepu; in Kollam, Kerala state, India.
William McDowell, American gospel music and contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter; in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Vincent Delerm, French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer, born in Évreux, France.
Died:
Buell Kazee, 76, American folk music and Country music singer.
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