The parliament of the Republic of Ireland narrowly voted to reinstitute the national state of emergency, at the request of Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave, after having been approved, 70 to 65 in the Dail Eirann and 35 to 18 in the Irish Senate. The emergency decree by Cosgrave allowed prisoners to be detained up to seven days without the filing of charges. Before taking effect, the legislation still had to be approved by the president of Ireland, but after inaction for nearly three weeks, President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh announced on September 19 that he was going to postpone signing the bill. Ó Dálaigh signed the bill on October 16 after Ireland’s Supreme Court ruled the legislation to be constitutional, then gave his resignation on October 22.
An Italian magazine published documents allegedly showing that Premier Giulio Andreotti received $28,000 in bribes from the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Andreotti called the allegations “a matter of pure fiction.” It was the first time the new Italian premier’s name had been linked to the scandal, although two former defense ministers, Christian Democrat Luigi Gui and Social Democrat Mario Tanassi, have been involved. The magazine said it received the new documents from “Lockheed officials and former officials whose identity we can’t reveal for the moment.”
The Dutch parliament, already stunned by Prince Bernhard’s role in the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. bribery scandal, heard evidence that the U.S. firm lobbied for two members of parliament to promote a multi-million-dollar sale. According to information given to parliament by Prime Minister Joop den Uyl, Lockheed was trying to get the Dutch navy to buy 13 Orion reconnaissance planes at a cost of between $150 million and $200 million.
A Moscow court sentenced a 29-year-old Swiss man to four years in a labor camp for trying to smuggle three pounds of hashish and marijuana into the Soviet Union. Willy Schaffner, a bricklayer, was arrested in Moscow while in transit from Sri Lanka to Rome. He pleaded guilty. The sentencing followed the case of three Americans who were given labor camp terms of eight, seven and five years for smuggling nearly 63 pounds of heroin.
Secretary of States Henry A. Kissinger tonight pledged United States financial help in setting up an international enterprise to mine the mineral wealth of the ocean floor for the benefit of the world’s poorer countries.
Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres said in Tel Aviv that Egypt had withdrawn three battalions from the east bank on the Suez canal. The troops, he said, had been positioned there in violation of the truce agreement with Israel. The withdrawal leaves both sides with eight battalions along each side of the U.N. buffer zone, the maximum allowed. Israel had earlier complained that Egypt had too many battalions across the canal.
Armed Lebanese Christian villagers today beat off a renewed attack by Palestinian guerrillas close to the Israeli border, according to reports from the frontier area. The target of the attack, the southern Lebanese village of Ain Ebel, was also reportedly assaulted by guerrillas on Monday, and in that encounter four guerrillas and three Lebanese were said to have been killed. Villagers told Israelis that the Palestinians were apparently trying to disrupt growing cooperation between Israelis and southern Lebanese. The villages said they were being harassed because they had accepted medical aid at an Israeli frontier clinic, taken job in Israeli forestation projects, bought food in Israel and visited relatives across the border. Reports from the border said the guerrillas were not having any effect on the number of Lebanese visiting the border area. Israeli’s Defense Minister, Shimon Peres, reported on today’s fighting at Ain Ebel at a luncheon of representatives of the United Jewish Appeal near Jerusalem. He expressed confidence that the villagers were sufficiently equipped to take care of themselves.
Two American envoys arrived in Lebanon’s Christian “capital” of Jounieh for a second round of talks with the divided country’s rightist leaders on a possible new peace agreement. Meanwhile, rival gunners battled with mortars and rockets in the mountains, and Christians lobbed shells into west Beirut, but the war tempo slowed despite new Christian reservations on an Arab League peace proposal.
The government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi formally introduced constitutional amendments that would give her sweeping new legislative powers and India’s small parliamentary opposition protested bitterly. The President, acting at the Prime Minister’s behest, would obtain virtually unlimited power to amend the Constitution further. The proposed Forty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India was introduced to give a legal basis for the dictatorial powers of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by repealing many of the democratic provisions of the original constitution. The bill would be passed by the Lok Sabha on November 2, 1976, and by the Rajya Sabha on November 11, with assent given on December 18, to go into effect on January 3, 1977.
Indian opposition parties made one of their strongest attacks on Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government and walked out of Parliament to protest a proposed constitutional amendment that would concentrate more power in the hands of the executive branch. Opposition spokesman H. M. Patel accused the government of trying to throttle democracy and of engendering an atmosphere of fear in order to maintain its grip on the country.
Vietnam appealed to the United States today not to veto its application for membership in the United Nations. And said American acquiescence to its admission would improve the atmosphere for talks between Hanoi and Washington to “normalize” relations. Next week the Security Council is to consider a membership application that the Communist Government of reunified Vietnam. submitted August 20. The permanent observer of the Hanoi Government at the United Nations, Đinh Bá Thi, called on the United States at a press conference today to act in the 15‐nation Council in accordance with the United Nations Charter and the “traditions of freedom and justice of the American people.”
Some of the special communications lines through which South Koreans and North Koreans have regularly exchanged messages have stopped functioning, South Korean officials confirmed today. Red Cross officials here said the lines had been found not to be working on Monday. South Koreans believe they have been purposely cut by the North Korean Government. The first telephone wires, running through Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone, were installed in 1971 when the two sides agreed to hold meetings of Red Cross delegations aimed at reuniting families separated since the 1950 Korean War. More lines were added later after South and North Korea agreed dramatically in 1972 to forsake war and start political negotiations toward eventual reunification.
Advertising for cigarettes and tobacco products was banned on Australian television and radio as new laws went into effect. On the same day, Canada’s postal rates increased 25 percent, with the cost of mailing a first class letter rising from 8 cents to 10 cents.
The new session of the Mexican Congress began as the 64 members of the Senate of the Republic and the 231 members of the Chamber of Deputies. All but one Senator and 41 of the 231 deputies were members of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Aparicio Méndez, a jurist, was inaugurated as the civilian President of Uruguay after being appointed to a five-year term by the COSENA (Consejo de Seguridad Nacional) that ruled the South American nation. Among the first acts by Mendez as President was to issue a decree cancelling the rights of thousands of people associated with political parties prior to the military coup, including recently deposed president Juan Maria Bordaberry.
The military junta that took power in Argentina five months ago has had a large measure of success in destroying left‐wing guerrilla organizations and in restoring economic order. Drastic repression of groups considered subversive and a cautious but firm withdrawal from inflation have been the primary concerns of the military Government led by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla, commander in chief of the army, who is President. A more ambitious stage is beginning now in what the military men refer to not as a revolution but as a process of national reorganization designed to end the long economic and political decline of this vital Latin American country of 24 million people.
Prime Minister John Vorster said in Johannesburg on the eve of his departure for talks in Zurich with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that “moral lessons and threats” from other countries would make no impression on South Africa. His primary target was Mr. Kissinger’s speech Tuesday terming apartheid incompatible with human dignity. Mr. Vorster also assailed recent statements by the leader of the South-West African People’s Organization, calling for United Nations sanctions against South Africa, as unacceptable.
Representatives of President Ford and his Democratic challenger, Jimmy Carter, agreed to hold the first of a series of three television debates on September 23. They will discuss domestic and economic issues for 90 minutes. The dates and duration of the second and third debates are not set, but the second will be on foreign policy and defense matters and the third was described as “open to discussion on all issues.” Their vice-presidential running mates, Senator Robert Dole and Senator Walter Mondale, will hold a television debate between the second and third of the series.
U.S. Representative Wayne Hays, a Democrat who had represented Ohio in Congress for almost 28 years, resigned after having been implicated in a scandal for his affair with Elizabeth Ray, whom he had hired as a secretary and clerk solely for her sexual services. The Washington Post had broken the story on May 23, quoting Ray as saying “I can’t type, I can’t file, I can’t even answer the phone.” Representative Hays resigned his seat effective immediately, in letters to House Speaker Carl Albert and Governor James Rhodes of Ohio. He failed to get a pledge of no further House action against him.
Senate and House conferees agreed on a $104.3 billion defense spending bill, which with an anticipated $2.2 billion supplemental appropriation for pay increases for defense personnel, would provide $14.1 billion more for the Defense Department than it had to spend in the current fiscal year. The compromise bill also includes a provision blocking full-scale production of the B-1 bomber until a decision can be made on the controversial plane by the next president.
Secretary of Commerce Elliot L. Richardson told a predominantly black audience of clergymen and job trainers today that they “must join with the President in making urban economic development our number one domestic priority” if they wanted to increase teenage employment among minority groups, gain better career opportunities and close the black-white income gap.
President Ford asked Attorney General Edward Levi for a quick report on allegations that the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Clarence Kelley, had improperly accepted gifts from subordinates. Mr. Levi said that a report that one Justice Department lawyer who had seen the information against Mr. Kelley had recommended his dismissal was inexact.
Senate and House conferees working on the tax bill agreed that penalties should be imposed on United States companies that comply with the Arab boycott of Israel. The penalties would be less than in the Senate bill and the actions subject to penalty would be more carefully defined. But the Ford administration raised the possibility that the bill might be vetoed because of this provision. The administration contends that tax penalties would not affect the Arab boycott but would hurt relations with Arab countries, harm United States companies and impair efforts for Middle East peace.
The Ford Administration has disclosed a drastic reduction in the amount of swine flu vaccine expected to be ready by Oct. 1 and appealed to drug companies to speed up delivery. About 20 million doses, only one-fourth of the expected total, will be ready for inoculations next month, the National Influenza Immunization Program said. The Health, Education and Welfare Department said the timetable now calls for 71 million doses to be delivered to clinics by October 31 and 113.3 million doses by November 30. The flu season normally reaches its peak around the first of December. There was no explanation of the latest delays.
The U.S. government dropped a conspiracy charge against former Senator Edward J. Gurney (R-Florida) but said it would retry him October 4 on a perjury count in an alleged influence-peddling scheme. The government had been expected to drop both counts, but federal prosecutor Vincent Alto said at a pretrial hearing in Orlando, Fla., “This is the direction of Justice Department officials in Washington.” After a five-month trial in Tampa last year, Gurney, 62, was acquitted of three perjury charges, one bribery count and one charge of accepting unlawful compensation. The remaining perjury count alleges that Gurney lied about the date he learned of illegal fund-raising activities by his aide, Larry E. Williams.
The concept of regional presidential primary elections — instead of the traditional state primaries — was endorsed by an 8-2 vote by the Southern Governors Conference, meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia. The resolution stopped short, however, of advocating the abolition of the Democratic and Republican national nominating conventions.
There is “evidence of hypocrisy” in President Ford’s proposal to create 11 new national parks and six new wildlife refuges, said Senator J. Bennett Johnston Jr. (D-Louisiana). The chairman of an interior subcommittee on parks and recreation made the charge as he opened a hearing on the $1.5 billion plan announced by Ford in Yellowstone National Park Sunday. Johnston said the President waited until there were only 23 legislative days remaining before sending his proposal to Capitol Hill. “And yet, the needs of our parks and recreation program have been here during his entire Administration.”
The House Ethics Committee recommended that the House reject a resolution to expel Rep. Andrew J. Hinshaw (R-California), because of a bribery conviction. The resolution had been introduced by Rep. Charles E. Wiggins (R-California), who said he would try to force a floor vote on it. Committee Chairman John J. Flynt Jr. (D-Georgia) said the committee voted against expulsion because Hinshaw was convicted of taking bribes while an Orange County tax assessor, not while a congressman, and because Hinshaw had said in a letter he would resign if his conviction was not reversed on appeal.
The House, by 384 to 0, and the Senate, by a voice vote, sent to President Ford a “sunshine” bill that would require some 50 federal boards to conduct most of their business in public. Representative Bella Abzug of Manhattan had sponsored it in the House and Senator Lawton Chiles, Democrat of Florida, in the Senate. Closed meetings could be held only under specified circumstances when matters such as defense and foreign policy were discussed.
Recycling uranium and plutonium from spent atomic reactor fuel would increase the risk of cancer and genetic defects slightly but should not pose any other environmental hazards, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported in Washington, D.C. The commission said such fuel recycling would stretch present uranium supplies and head off possible price increases. Extra radiation exposure, the NRC said, might cause 100 to 200 cancer deaths and as many as 500 cases of genetic defects worldwide by the end of the century.
Federally-financed research to develop more fuel-efficient automobiles, including electrically powered vehicles, would be authorized under two compromise bills passed by the House. The measures, sent to the Senate for final legislative action, provide for five-year programs, one to cost $100 million in the first two years, the second a total of $160 million over five years. The authorizations would be subject to actual appropriations later.
The second year of court-ordered desegregation began peacefully in the Louisville, Kentucky, area and school officials said attendance was high despite a boycott called by antibusing groups. Authorities said there were no reports of disturbances at schools or on buses carrying pupils throughout the city and surrounding Jefferson County. Associate Superintendent Dave Espin said 94,548 pupils attended schools, about 20,000 below the projected enrollment, but he expected attendance to increase steadily. The desegregation plan calls for the busing of 20,000 children.
Accompanied by seven lawyers, Mayor Beame of New York City spent more than five hours with S.E.C. investigators to answer questions regarding allegations of fraud in city finances. Many experts say the investigation will produce recommendations for nationwide changes in municipal finance and may also give local politicians big problems.
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused the accounting firm of Seidman & Seidman, formerly headed by L. William Seidman, now President Ford’s economic coordinator, of negligence in auditing the books of the Equity Funding Corporation of America and three other companies. Mr. Seidman denied involvement.
Radio City Music Hall musicians have agreed to a weekly pay cut of about $40, virtually guaranteeing that New York City’s famed but financially ailing entertainment landmark will stay in business for another year. Management had threatened to close September 8 unless cost-saving contracts were agreed to by all employees, including the precision chorus line of 46 Rockettes.
The Meadowlands Race Track opens in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
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Jerry Morales batted in four runs, including the decisive pair in the 14th inning, as the Cubs defeated the Braves, 7–5. The Braves forced the game into overtime when Ken Henderson hit a two-run homer in the ninth to tie the score at 4–4. Buzz Capra, making his first appearance of the season with the Braves, relieved in the 14th and issued three passes to load the bases with one out. The Braves missed an attempted force-out on a grounder by Bill Madlock, one run scoring on the fielder’s choice. Morales then hit his two-run single for what proved to be the Cubs’ winning margin, offsetting the run that the Braves scored in their half of the 14th.
A loser of his first four decisions, Mike Flanagan pitched a six-hitter and gained his first major league victory when the Orioles defeated the Royals, 7–1. Dave Nelson walked in the fifth inning, stole two bases and scored the Royals’ run on a sacrifice fly by Jim Wohlford. The Orioles came back with a five-run outburst in their half of the fifth. Reggie Jackson drove in two tallies with a bases-loaded single and Lee May followed with a three-run homer. May added his fourth RBI of the game with a double in the eighth.
The Red Sox lost Fergie Jenkins for the remainder of the season when the veteran righthander tore his Achilles tendon on a play at first base in the fifth inning of a 3–0 victory over the Rangers. Relieving Jenkins with one out, Tom Murphy passed Juan Beniquez but then retired the last 14 batters in a row, needing only 39 pitches, to gain credit for the victory. The Red Sox scored initially in the first inning on a triple by Denny Doyle and sacrifice fly by Fred Lynn. Their other runs followed in the fourth when Lynn doubled, Carl Yastrzemski tripled and Jim Rice doubled.
Frank Tanana (15–9) turned in his 20th complete game of the season and was a winner for the 15th time, pitching the Angels to a 4–1 victory over the Tigers. The Angels scored all their runs in the third inning. Mario Guerrero singled, Andy Etchebarren doubled and Dave Collins drove them both home with another double. Singles by Jerry Remy and Tommy Davis sent Collins across the plate. After a walk to Bill Melton, Tony Solaita hit a sacrifice fly. The Tigers averted a shutout in the ninth when Willie Horton singled to score Mickey Stanley.
With Jim Bibby (10–5) pitching a five-hitter, the Indians defeated the White Sox, 3–0, for their fifth victory in a row and eighth in the last nine games. Ray Fosse staked Bibby to the only run that he needed with a homer in the fourth inning. The Indians iced the verdict in the ninth with a walk to George Hendrick, double by Buddy Bell and single by Frank Duffy.
A homer by Cliff Johnson in the seventh inning and shutout pitching by Bo McLaughlin (3–2) enabled the Astros to extend their winning streak to seven games with a 1–0 victory over the Phillies, who lost for the sixth time in a row. McLaughlin’s complete game was the sixth straight to the credit of the Astros’ staff, tying the club record.
An unearned run in the 12th inning enabled the Twins to defeat the Brewers, 3–2. Rod Carew led off with a single. Lyman Bostock followed with a bunt and when catcher Darrell Porter threw the ball over the head of first baseman George Scott, Carew came around to score the winning run. Scott homered for the Brewers, who lost a 2–0 lead in the ninth when the Twins tied the score with a single by Mike Cubbage, double by Dan Ford and single by Roy Smalley.
Jerry Koosman pitched a three-hitter and gained his 17th victory of the season against eight losses with the Mets when Felix Millan and John Milner hit consecutive doubles for a run in the eighth inning to defeat the Giants, 1–0. John Montefusco (13–12) takes the tough loss.
Vida Blue (14–11) shut out the Yankees on seven singles and pitched the Athletics to a 5–0 victory. The complete game was Blue’s seventh straight, while the shutout was his sixth of the season. The A’s nicked loser Catfish Hunter (14–13) for a run in the first inning on a single by Bert Campaneris, his first of three stolen bases, and a single by Joe Rudi. Doubles by Jeff Newman and Don Baylor added a tally in the second. Gene Tenace homered in the third. Phil Garner accounted for the last two runs with a bases-loaded single in the fifth.
The Pirates took advantage of an error by Tito Fuentes in the fourth inning and scored four unearned runs to defeat the Padres, 4–1, for their sixth straight victory. With one out, Richie Zisk walked, stopped at second on a single by Bob Robertson and scored when Fuentes booted a grounder by Dave Parker. After Bill Robinson was retired, Richie Hebner batted in a run with a double. Following a pass to Duffy Dyer, Bruce Kison (11–8) clinched his own victory, driving in two runs with a single.
A walk to Don Kessinger with the bases loaded and two out in the 11th inning handed the Cardinals a 1–0 victory over the Reds. Starting pitchers Fred Norman for the Reds and Eric Rasmussen for the Cardinals dueled through 10 scoreless stanzas. Al Hrabosky (7–6) was the Cards’ winner in relief, while Rawly Eastwick drew the defeat. In the 11th, Keith Hernandez led off with a double. After an intentional pass to Ted Simmons, Charlie Chant beat out a bunt for his first major league hit, loading the bases. The next two batters, Willie Crawford and Ron Fairly, hit short flies to Cesar Geronimo, Hernandez holding third, but Eastwick then walked Kessinger on four straight pitches to force in the only run of the game.
The scheduled game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Expos at Montreal was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
Chicago Cubs 7, Atlanta Braves 5
Kansas City Royals 1, Baltimore Orioles 7
Texas Rangers 0, Boston Red Sox 3
Detroit Tigers 1, California Angels 4
Cleveland Indians 3, Chicago White Sox 0
Philadelphia Phillies 0, Houston Astros 1
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Minnesota Twins 3
San Francisco Giants 0, New York Mets 1
New York Yankees 0, Oakland Athletics 5
San Diego Padres 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Cincinnati Reds 0, St. Louis Cardinals 1
The stock market scored its best gain since mid‐June today as the Dow Jones industrial average advanced 12.21 points to reach 985.95 in stepped‐up trading. The gain, the fourth consecutive one, brought the four‐session increase in the key gauge to 25.51 points.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 985.95 (+12.21, +1.25%)
Born:
Ivano Brugnetti, Italian race walker and 2004 Olympic gold medalist; in Milan, Italy.
Marcos Ambrose, Australian V8 Supercar racing champion; in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Érik Morales, Mexican boxer (WBC super bantamweight title 1997-2000, WBC featherweight 2001-03, unified WBC/IBF super featherweight 2004, WBC super lightweight 2011-12), in Tijuana, Mexico.
Lance Davis, MLB pitcher (Cincinnati Reds), in Winter Haven, Florida.
Larry Brown, NFL tight end (Tennessee Titans), in Decatur, Georgia.
Died:
General Khademul Bashar, 41, Chief of Staff of the Bangladesh Air Force, was killed in an airplane crash while on his way to the inauguration of the new Flying Instructors School at Tegjaon. He and his pilot were killed when the aircraft, a new Airtourer, crashed on landing.
C. E. Stevens, 71, British professor at Oxford University and classicist.
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