Eighteen European governments are expected to give preliminary approval later this month to a far-reaching treaty that would deny political asylum to terrorists. The treaty would set important precedents in international, law, its supporters believe, and would mark the beginning of a multinational attempt to control the increasingly international threat of terrorist bands. Under the draft treaty the signers would agree not to consider as political acts crimes in which a bomb, hand grenade, rocket, automatic weapon or letter bomb was used. For the purposes of extradition, its first, article says, airplane hijackings, kidnappings, assassination attempts and bombings would not be regarded as political crimes. “The draft of a European agreement to combat terrorism,” as it is known, is a joint idea of the French and West German Governments. It has been approved by the justice ministers of the 18 members of the Council of Europe, which includes all the major non‐Communist countries except Finland. The heads of the 18 governments are to meet in Strasbourg France, on September 22 to consider the draft.
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands in the early 1970’s asked Helmut Schmidt, now the West German Chancellor and then the defense minister, to purchase planes of the Northrop Aircraft Corporation, according to letters released by the Dutch Ministry of Information. The letters today, released by the Ministry of Information at the request of two Socialist members of Parliament, involved an exchange between Mr. Schmidt and a former Netherlands defense minister, Willem den Toom. The letters dealt with efforts by Northrop to deploy its Cobra combat aircraft as a replacement for the Lockheed Starfighter. The Cobra was competing in the early 1970’s for a $2 billion contract in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and other European countries.
The European Commission on Human Rights released a report in Strasbourg, France, Dublin and London, which found British security forces guilty of using torture and ill-treatment in Northern Ireland after a roundup of guerrilla suspects in 1971. The British government did not deny the charges, which were leaked to the press last week, but said its forces no longer used such tactics. The report acquitted British authorities of illegally detaining suspects without trial and of discriminating against Northern Ireland’s Roman Catholic community.
The Dail, the lower house of Ireland’s Parliament, voted 71 to 64 in. favor of the second stage of an emergency powers bill, which will allow police to hold suspected terrorists for seven days without charge. At present, they can only hold suspects for two days without charge. The vote was another victory for Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave’s plans to crackdown on the Irish Republican Army. Earlier. Parliament approved a motion to declare a state of emergency.
The State Department denied a published report that one of Henry A. Kissinger’s top aides used the word “fascist” in describing Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak had quoted Winston Lord, State Department policy planning director, as saying in an off-the-record talk to department interns that Solzhenitsyn “is just about a fascist.” The reference to the writer was alleged to have taken place two days after the Republican Party extolled Solzhenitsyn in its campaign platform as a “great beacon of human courage and morality.”
Israel was reported today to have moved troop reinforcements to its northern border with Lebanon. The reports were made by travelers arriving from the area, but these witnesses could not confirm assertions in leftist newspapers here that Israeli troops had actually entered a Lebanese Christian village, Ain Ebel, just inside the border. In Tel Aviv, an Israeli military spokesman denied that reinforcements had been concentrated at the Lebanese border, The Associated Press reported. However, he said Israel had increased its watchfulness in view of recent guerrilla attacks in the area. Ain Ebel was the site of two clashes between Palestinian guerillas and armed Christian villagers this week. Reports in Israel said the Palestinians were trying to disrupt a growing cooperation between Israelis and southern Lebanese. However, the pro‐Palestinian daily Al Moharrer today quoted Major Abu Mussa, the commander of guerrilla forces in southern Lebanon as charging that the right‐wing Lebanese Christians were trying to “open a new battle front in the south in cooperation with the Israelis.”
The U.S. Arms Control Agency endorsed the proposed sale of 1,500 missiles to Saudi Arabia. “The risk of conflict between Saudi Arabia and neighboring states is unlikely to be affected by the delivery of this number of missiles,” the agency said. Under a compromise agreement worked out with key senators, the State Department and the Pentagon, the proposed sale was fixed at 850 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and 650 Maverick TV-guided missiles.
The set of constitutional amendments that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s Government laid before Parliament yesterday has ramifications potentially as wide as anything done here since a sweeping state of emergency was declared 14 months ago. In the name of achieving what it calls a “socio‐economic revolution” for the people of this country, the long document provides the seeds at least for a drastic reordering of the balances of the Government. If the amendments are enacted, India’s President, its courts and its Parliament will all have lost some of their strength, at least on paper. And more than ever, the powers of government will be concentrated with Mrs. Gandhi.
Reunified Vietnam celebrated its first National Day today with a parade that featured farm and industrial equipment instead of missiles and military vehicles. Gone, too, were the military uniforms that most participants wore here in past observances of this day, which also marks the 31st anniversary of the late President Hồ Chí Minh’s declaration of Vietnam’s independence from France. Reflecting the ending of the war era, the women in today’s parade wore colorful áo dàis and the men wore white shirts and dark trousers. According to official estimates, 300,000 people watched or took part in the parade, held at Ba Đình Square in Hanoi.
A volcano 40 miles south of Manila erupted in a shower of ash and gases but the estimated 1,000 residents of its island home already had fled the area. The volcano, Taal, began showing unusual activity two days ago and farm families living on its slopes were evacuated by boat. The eruption came a few hours after the evacuation was completed.
The evacuation of 72,000 people living near Guadeloupe’s La Soufriere volcano was “simply a reaction of panic,” according to a French volcano expert interviewed on television in Paris: Haroun Tazieff, a Polish-born volcanologist, said that the scientists studying the island volcano in the Caribbean were incompetent and described reports carried by the French news agency France Presse as “a tissue of calumnies which I reject.” The volcano has been spewing clouds of steam and ash for weeks and hundreds of tremors have shaken the area, but a predicted major eruption has failed to materialize.
Voting was held in Barbados for the 24-seat House of Assembly, and Prime Minister Errol Barrow’s Democratic Labour Party lost its 18 to 6 majority and control of the government. The Barbados Labour Party, led by Tom Adams, won 11 seats and a 17 to 7 majority, with Adams taking office as the new Prime Minister the next day. In his campaign Mr. Adams called for new faces and new ideas for the little island nation and its 250,000 people in the Caribbean. Mr. Barrow’s forces campaigned on a record of having modernized the island since it received independence from Britain 10 years ago. Barbados has remained a member of the British Commonwealth and is a favorite island for British, Canadian and American tourists.
Aparicio Mendez, in one of his first acts as the new President of Uruguay, has stripped thousands of politicians, including former President Juan Maria Bordaberry, of their right to vote, hold office or engage in political activity for 15 years. In his inaugural address, Mendez, 72, said he planned to lead his nation of 2.6 million people, ruled by the military since 1973, back toward democracy.
State Department officials said today that Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger has set progress toward independence for South-West Africa as the minimum goal for his talks this weekend in Zurich with Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa. Movement toward resolution of the guerrilla war against the white-ruled Goverment of Rhodesia seems more remote, the officials said, and must be regarded as a “maximum” objective. Nonetheless, Mr. Kissinger is expected to discuss further with Mr. Vorster a British-American plan to guarantee the political and economic rights of Rhodesian whites in the event that the Government of Prime Minister Ian D. Smith accepted a transition to black majority rule. Mr. Kissinger has told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that, as part of this plan, white settlers would be compensated for any property taken. In addition, White settlers would be permitted to take funds out of the country if they chose to settle in South Africa or elsewhere. The amount they could take would be determined by the length of time they had lived in Rhodesia, serving as an incentive to remain.
About 3,000 non-white South Africans clashed with the police in downtown Cape Town in the first racial violence in a white area since the wave of violence against apartheid began two months ago. The disorder subsided by early afternoon into a series of incidents of stone‐throwing. Many marchers, “colored,” as South Africa calls those of mixed racial background — and many white shoppers as well were gagged and choked by the gas. The police reported that a number of demonstrators had been arrested, but would not say how many. No one was reported wounded in these disorders, but this evening the police said that a colored man had been shot to death and another wounded when stone‐throwing broke out in one of the districts around the city that the Government sets apart for those of mixed background.
U.S. President Gerald Ford issued Executive Order 11935, requiring that U.S. government employees had to be American citizens before being employed. The action followed a U.S. Supreme Court decision, in the case of Hampton v. Mow Sun Wong, that the U.S. Civil Service Commission could not issue regulations prohibiting non-citizens from being employed. President Ford, circumventing a Supreme Court ruling, ordered the Civil Service Commission to continue barring aliens from government employment. But he said Congress had primary responsibility to regulate aliens and he urged it to look into the issues involved. Ford’s letter to the House and Senate said he had concluded it was in the national interest to prohibit “the employment of aliens from positions in the competitive service, except where the efficiency of the service or the national interest dictate otherwise in specific cases or circumstances.” The Supreme Court ruled last June 1 that the CSC’s own general prohibition against the employment of aliens violated the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Senate and House conferees suspended their work on they many‐sided tax revision bill late today after making considerable progress toward agreement. but with some major issues unresolved. The conferees will resume next Wednesday, after the Congressional Labor Day recess. All signs pointed to an ultimate agreement that would produce a substantial net addition to Government revenues. The revenue issue is crucial for assuring final passage of the bill, particularly in the House. In seven days of work so far, the conferees have changed the bill from a net revenue loser of $300 million in the fiscal year 1977, as it stood when the Senate finished with it, to a net revenue gainer of about $770 million. The original House bill, passed last year, was estimated to pick up about $1.6 billion of revenues.
Jimmy Carter’s lead over President Ford in the race for President has increased to a margin of 52 percent to 37 percent, according to the latest Gallup Poll. The survey, taken from Aug. 27 to 30, indicated that Mr. Carter had regained some of the support outside the South that President Ford gained immediately after the Republican, National Convention. The former Governor of Georgia’s support in the South appears to be solid and stable since it did not fluctuate substantially after, the Republican convention. A survey at that time, taken from Aug. 20 to 23, indicated that Mr. Ford and Mr. Carter were virtually neck and neck outside the South while Mr. Carter held the lead in the South, 64 to 28 percent. Their overall standing was 49 to 39 percent, with 12 percent either undecided or for other candidates. The survey immediately after the Democratic National Convention indicated that Mr. Carter was leading by 62 to 29 percent. Before the convention, Mr. Carter was leading by 53 to 36 percent, according to a survey taken from June 25 to 28.
Despite reports of mental depression and physical impairment, former representative Wayne L. Hays waged a running fight for two months with the House ethics committee to head off his resignation, drop its investigation of him and stop public hearings into his conduct. But, according to those who figured in the behind‐the‐scenes maneuvering and negotiations, Mr. Hays made two major miscalculations: He thought that he was dealing from a position of strength at a time when his power in the House was eroding with each passing day, and he had not bargained on the obstinacy of the chairman of the ethics committee, Representative John J. Flynt Jr., Democrat of Georgia. Those familiar with the negotiations said as late as 3 PM yesterday — only an hour before Mr. Hays sent his letter of resignation to House Speaker Carl Albert — Mr. Hays was trying to strike a deal with the committee by resigning in return for a written guarantee that its investigation would be dropped. This fell through when Mr. Flynt failed to agree to such an arrangement, then refused to take further telephone calls from Mr. Hays’s bargaining agents who had assembled in his office in the Rayburn House, Office Building, across the street from the Capitol.
Accused cadets demanded that President Ford, as commander-in-chief, take personal charge of the West Point cheating scandal. They said the President, not Army Secretary Martin R. Hoffmann, was the only one who had the legal authority to expel cadets or to promise to reinstate them. Henry Rothblatt, an attorney for 202 of the cadets, said he would go into federal court today with a suit against Hoffmann and the West Point superintendent, Lieutenant General Sidney Berry. Rothblatt confirmed that about 50 of the cadets charged have signed affidavits linking as many as 700 others in classes of 1974 to 1977 to the cheating scandal.
The Air Force has begun a “full-scale investigation” into allegations that cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs have been operating a theft ring and a forgery ring since 1972. In the spring of 1975, two cadets were charged with thefts of I.D. cards and checkbooks and forgeries of checks against 11 fellow cadets. One of the accused was dismissed after a court martial. The other resigned. A new, broader inquiry was ordered after a lawyer wrote to General James Allen, the Academy’s Superintendent, citing evidence that a forgery ring involving at least four cadets might still be active.
The possibility of joint legal action over the exclusion of Eugene McCarthy and Lester Maddox from the forthcoming debates between President Ford and Jimmy Carter is being considered by their lawyers, specialists in communications law. Mr. McCarthy, the former Democratic Senator from Minnesota, is hoping to be on the ballot in more than 40 states as an independent candidate for President. Mr. Maddox, a former Georgia Governor, is the American Party’s candidate.
A well-placed source in Washington said that Attorney General Edward Levi was expected to ask President Ford to retain Clarence Kelley as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation despite disclosures that Mr. Kelley accepted expensive gifts from subordinates and may have misused government property. It was also said that, according to Mr. Levi’s thinking, there was “no chance” of Mr. Kelley’s “being asked to resign” because of the disclosures, and that he had “no intention” of resigning voluntarily.
Wholesale prices, reflecting the sharpest drop in farm prices in 18 months, declined slightly in August, continuing a trend of moderate price movements. The Department of Labor said its Wholesale Price Index declined by one-tenth of 1 percent in August, but prices of industrial commodities, a key element of the index, were up.
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted six persons for allegedly manipulating the records of more than 100 people in the nation’s largest consumer credit databank. The bank, at TRW Data Systems, stores information on the borrowing habits of more than 50 million Americans. According to the indictments, a criminal ring sold A-1 credit ratings to businessmen, physicians and others with bad credit ratings. Federal investigators said the case, in which high‐quality credit ratings were sold to high‐risk borrowers by a criminal ring that arranged access to the computer, demonstrated the ease with which the nation’s fast‐proliferating data banks can be penetrated. Knowledgeable sources said they believed the case was the largest fraud ever involving computerized credit‐data banks.
Ohio’s first school busing program got underway in Dayton without a hitch when busloads of black and white students were transported to 62 schools. About 14,000 of the system’s 41,000 students were to be bused to achieve a 48% black, 52% white racial balance. “Everything is supercool,” said school official Denis Hart. “Everything is running smoothly, without a hitch.” Superintendent John B. Maxwell said there were several reasons for the lack of incidents on the first day of busing. Students and parents had toured the schools and talked to teachers and volunteers had visited homes to explain the program and answer questions.
Louisiana asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its decision that the state’s death penalty law was unconstitutional. The court ruled July 2 that the death penalty was not in itself unconstitutional but it struck down the laws of Louisiana and North Carolina. Both laws make the penalty mandatory for a limited number of specified crimes. The court’s principal opinion in the Louisiana case noted that the state’s law provided “no standards… to guide the jury in the exercise of its power to select those first-degree murderers who will receive death sentences, and… no meaningful appellate review of the jury’s decision.”
Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, assailed Representative Bella Abzug as a “scab” who had crossed teacher picket lines and taught classes during the 1968 school strike in New York City. He urged the 2,000 delegates to the State A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention at Lake Kiamesha, New York, to support Daniel Patrick Moynihan for Senator in the five-way Democratic primary in which Mrs. Abzug is a candidate. Mrs. Abzug vehemently denied the accusation, and later Mr. Shanker acknowledged that he did not know for certain if Mrs. Abzug had taught a class while the strike was on.
The Phillips Petroleum Company, its board chairman and two former chairmen were indicted by a federal grand jury in Tulsa, Okla., on federal tax charges alleging a global conspiracy to conceal $3 million in Swiss bank accounts and a secret cache at company headquarters in Bartlesville, Okla. The money was not reported as income on tax returns, the government said.
The public has been given more opportunities for low-cost air travel by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which approved a new category of charter flights that eliminates virtually all restrictions except advance booking. The new rules go into effect October 7.
The first Canada Cup ice hockey tournament, between the national teams from Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, the Soviet Union, Sweden and the United States, each playing each other once, followed by a championship series between the two teams with the best records, opened with a game in Ottawa between Canada and Finland. Canada won, 11 to 2. Over the next nine days, games would be played in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Philadelphia, Winnipeg, and Quebec City, with the best 2-of-3 series starting on September 13.
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After a quick kayo of Eddie Bane in the first inning, Tom Johnson (2–1) relieved and pitched 8 ⅓ sterling stanzas to receive credit for the Twins’ 8–4 victory over the Brewers. Bane was rapped for three runs on four hits before being removed. The Twins came back to tie the score and then took command of the game with four runs in the sixth. Steve Braun singled, took second on an infield out and scored the tie-breaker on a single by Rod Carew. Consecutive singles by Lyman Bostock, Butch Wynegar, Mike Cubbage and Larry Hisle then added three runs.
Charlie Hough picked up two saves, his 12th and 13th of the season, finishing both games in the Dodgers’ 2–1 and 5–3 sweep of a twi-night doubleheader with the Expos. In the opener, the Dodgers scored both their runs in the fourth inning on consecutive singles by Bill Buckner, Reggie Smith, Steve Garvey and Ron Cey. The Expos counted off Don Sutton (17–9) in the sixth on a walk to Wayne Garrett, double by Larry Parrish and sacrifice fly by Del Unser. Sutton was hit on his pitching hand by a grounder off the bat of Earl Williams in the ninth and left the mound in favor of Hough, who retired Jerry White for the final out. In the nightcap, a tender elbow forced the exit of Dodgers’ starter Rick Rhoden after three innings. Elias Sosa pitched the next four stanzas and Hough finished. Bill Buckner hit a double, two singles and a sacrifice fly, batted in two runs and scored two to lead the Dodgers’ attack.
The first Giants’ batter to drive in five runs in one game this season, Bobby Murcer achieved the feat in a 10–7 victory over the Mets. Murcer batted in one run with a grounder in the first inning, drew a walk with the bases loaded in the third, homered with a man on base in the fourth and singled for his fifth RBI in the sixth. John D’Acquisto started for the Giants and worked two innings before being removed after a 61-minute rain delay. Charlie Williams was kayoed in the third. Mike Caldwell relieved and received credit for his first victory of the season after seven defeats. However, Caldwell was chased in the eighth when the Mets erupted for four runs and Randy Moffitt finished.
The Pirates extended their winning streak to seven games when Larry Demery (9–4) pitched a five-hitter and shut out the Padres, 5–0. The Pirates scored in the first inning on a single by Frank Taveras, a stolen base and double by Willie Stargell. After another stolen base by Taveras and wild throw by catcher Bob Davis added a marker in the third, the Pirates iced the victory with three runs in the fourth. Richie Hebner knocked in two tallies with a double and later scored on the front end of a double steal with Manny Sanguillen.
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Minnesota Twins 8
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Montreal Expos 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Montreal Expos 3
San Francisco Giants 10, New York Mets 7
San Diego Padres 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
The stock market was unable to keep its four‐session rally alive yesterday as prices lost early gains to finish mixed in more active trading. At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average was off 1.16 points at 984.79. In the previous four sessions the average gained 25.51 points. However, advances topped declines yesterday by a small margin. Analysts attributed the weakness mostly to profit taking and to traders seeking to narrow their positions in anticipation of the long upcoming Labor Day weekend.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 984.79 (-1.16, -0.12%)
Born:
Erin Hershey, American actress (Alison Barrington Kovitch in “Port Charles”), in Seattle, Washington.
Phil Lipscomb, American rock bassist (Taproot), in the USA.
Tim Key, British comedian, poet, screenwriter and actor (“The Ballad of Wallis Island”, “Alan Partridge”), in Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Marchy Lee (sporting name of Lee Ying-kin), Hong Kong Formula racing car driver, 2002 Audi R8 LMS Cup champion; in Hong Kong.
Ivan Majeský, Slovakian National Team and NHL defenseman (Olympics, 2002, 2006; Florida Panthers, Atlanta Thrashers, Washington Capitals), in Banska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia.
Raion Hill, NFL safety (Buffalo Bills), in Marrero, Louisiana.
Steve Zahursky, NFL guard and tackle (Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars), in Euclid, Ohio.
Mike Green, NFL running back (Tennessee Tians), in Houston, Texas.
Ian Rafferty, NFL tackle (New York Jets), in Summerville, South Carolina.
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