The Soviet Union, while still feeling the pinch of last fall’s crop disaster, is looking forward to a relatively abundant harvest this year that could meet domestic needs. Leonid Brezhnev, the Communist Party chief, said: “The crop of grain gladdens our hearts — it is evident that the country will have enough grain this year.” He conceded that shortages of meat, a result of distress slaughtering last fall, were continuing. Mr. Brezhnev did not offer any statistics to buttress his assertion of a good harvest, but his appraisal follows a summer of timely rains. Good weather in much of the Soviet Union has persuaded some Western agricultural analysts here to upgrade their forecast of the harvest closer to the Soviet Government’s 1976 target of 207 million tons. Although the Soviet press is expected to begin offering isolated grain statistics, no definitive harvest figure is expected here until December. The United States Agriculture Department has estimated the Soviet harvest at 195 million tons, but this could be raised in light of new disclosures.
The chief accountant of France’s largest privately owned aircraft manufacturer, Dassault, disappeared nearly two months ago after withdrawing $1.6 million of company money from a Paris bank, the French police said. The accountant, Herve de Vathaire, was described as a middle-aged widower and a dabbler in the occult who had begun to mix in the questionable side of Paris nightlife. His wife was said to have died in mysterious circumstances last spring. A former convict and mercenary soldier with whom the accountant was acquainted through his mistress may have had something to do with his disappearance, the police believe. This man is missing too.
Two bombs exploded at about the same time in the northern Portuguese city of Oporto today, four hours before President Antonio Ramalho Eanes arrived for his first official visit since taking office. A time bomb also was found and defused five minutes before it was set to explode outside the headquarters of the conservative Center Democratic Social Party, the police said. The police said the more powerful of the two blasts occurred at a private home next to a Socialist Party office, causing damage to the front of the structure and blowing out windows of nearby buildings.
Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González is said to be optimistic about the chances of introducing parliamentary democracy to Spain by the promised deadline of next June despite both conservative and leftist opposition and an economic crisis. But, according to high Government sources, it appears that the legalization of the Communist Party will have to be put off if there is to be any hope for the proposed democratic change, which would give the country a two‐chamber Parliament with the lower chamber popularly elected. The Prime Minister is understood to feel that rightists in the armed forces and in other institutions will not allow the reform program to proceed if it permits the Communists to participate legally in political life. The official sources say that the legalization of the Communist Party thus must be barred at least until elections have taken place and the popularly chosen chamber has been installed.
The Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organization was signed at London, creating the INMARSAT, the International Maritime Satellite Organization. The treaty would enter into force on July 16, 1979.
A congressional report on the effect of the Arab boycott of American companies with business ties to Israel said that the Department of Commerce had been in collusion with some companies to uphold the boycott. Representative James Scheuer, Democrat of Brooklyn and Queens, who helped draft the report, charged that over $4 billion in American exports to Arab countries in 1974 and 1975 had been made in compliance with boycott restrictions. He said the report demonstrates that the Department of Commerce “sabotaged” United States law regarding the boycott.
Both Christian and Muslim factions in the Lebanese Civil War agreed not to fire at each other in the vicinity of the presidential palace in Beirut, so that repairs could be made in time for the inauguration of Elias Sarkis as the new president. But the palace, from which President. Suleiman Franjieh was driven in March by leftist shelling, was damaged anew during the day. Security officials said part of it had been set afire by incendiary shells. There was no indication when the agreed‐to truce along the five miles of road leading to the palace, in suburban Baabda, would begin. A military aide of Mr. Sarkis, Col. Michael Nassif, told reporters that the respite would be used to make repairs so that the President ‐ elect could move in and start preparations for a possible roundtable conference to end the Lebanese civil war, which began in April 1975. As fighting continued in the Beirut area and other parts of the country, hospital officials and military sources estimated that 150 people were killed and 210 wounded in and near the capital. Both the Christians and the leftist alliance of Palestinian and Lebanese Muslims reported advances in an artillery duel for control of the string of mountain villages northeast of Beirut. But other sources said there had been no significant changes in the military positions.
The Ford Administration’s newly proposed $700 million arms package for Saudi Arabia ranges from 2,500 missiles to modernization of King Khalid’s National Guard. The proposals were submitted to Congress this week on classified basis. But officials disclosed they included construction of housing at the Tabuk Air Base near Israel, an air force headquarters at Riyadh and a naval training center at Jubayl, near the Persian Gulf oilfields.
In the first such action, the United States has granted political asylum to Ram Jethmalani, chairman of the Bar Council of India and a vigorous critic of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s policies. He is believed to be the first Indian national to have received asylum since Mrs. Gandhi imposed a state of emergency more than a year ago under which, in effect, civil rights have been suspended. Mr. Jethmalani, who is now a visiting professor of comparative constitutional law at Wayne State University in Michigan, was informed August 24 of the United States Government’s decision, according to officials of the Immigration and Naturalization in Detroit. “I had no choice but to seek asylum,” Mr. Jethmalani said in a telephone interview last night from his daughter’s home in Grosse Point, Michigan. “I was being hounded in my own country — they had a warrant out for my arrest.”
A crash killed all 68 people on a chartered Venezuelan Air Force jet. The Lockheed C-130 Hercules, during a heavy rainfall, struck a hillside, during its approach to the Terceira Island Airport in the Azores. Most of the victims had been part of the choir at the Central University of Venezuela and were flying from Bermuda to Spain for a tour and a scheduled appearance in Barcelona.
Prime Minister John Vorster, regarded by many of his South African countrymen as the first statesman to lead them since the wartime days of General Jan Christiaan Smuts, is hoping to strike a diplomatic bargain with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger this weekend that will substantially improve South Africa’s deteriorating international position. If the bargain is struck during the meeting in Zurich tomorrow through Monday, it will be at the cost of the white minorities that govern Rhodesia and South‐West Africa. Mr. Vorster, who holds the fate of both minorities in his hands, is calculating that support for majority rule on South Africa’s borders will gain him time in which to shore up the dominant position of the white minority at home. South Africa has already agreed to grant South‐West Africa independence under a multiracial constitution by Dec. 31, 1978, ending the controlling role it assumed in the territory 56 years ago. Officials here say that the Zurich meeting, the second between Mr. Vorster and Mr. Kissinger in 11 weeks, would not have been arranged unless both sides saw good prospects for success. But they point out that much remains to be settled and warn that Mr. Vorster will not hesitate to allow the talks to fail if he feels that South Africa is being asked to deliver more than it gains.
The police fired tear-gas canisters in central Cape Town for the second day today as they sought to scatter groups of young nonwhites who had filtered into the city despite police efforts to restrict them to the townships reserved for them in outlying areas. With stores closed, with the downtown area choking in tear‐gas fumes, it was in the townships of the “colored,” as South Africa calls people of mixed racial ancestry, that most of the violence today was reportedly concentrated. There was a report, not officially confirmed, that one youth was killed by a shotgun blast when paramilitary policemen opened fire to stop students from a colored high school from marching into the city center, according to Reuters. Colored and white people alike reported that police units fired tear gas through the windows of at least one township’s high school and pursued the students with staves. At least two students were injured by birdshot fired by the police at another high school in Athlone Township.
A black South African student leader said in a television interview yesterday that blacks in his country no longer would be satisfied with equal rights and that they wanted to dominate the whites. “The [black] people are no longer interested in having equal rights,” Tsietse Mashinini said. “They want the tables to be turned so that the white man can get a taste of his own medicine and feel what it is like to be oppressed.” Mr. Mashinini, 19 years old, is president of the Students Representative Council in the segregated township of Soweto outside Johannesburg. He led a demonstration on June 16 in Soweto against the use of Afrikaans as a teaching language in black schools. The police fired on the protesters and the ensuing riot marked the beginning of the worst racial violence in South African history. Mr. Mashinini said he knew “for a fact” that more than 300 persons had died in the June riots; officially, 176 were said to have died. He said he had seen bodies at the government mortuary “packed like potato sacks.”
The Viking 2 lander, launched from Earth on September 10, 1975, touched down at Utopia Planitia on Mars, about 200 kilometers (120 mi) west of the crater Mia at 22:58 UTC and took color photos of the planet’s surface starting on September 5. A breakdown in communications relayed through the mother ship in Martian orbit prevented detailed monitoring of Viking 2’s landing on the Utopia Plain. Soon after the landing, however, signals from the orbiter indicated that it had begun to receive Viking 2’s photographs. Though the two Viking landers touched down in different locations, they used identical spacecraft and had the same mission: to create global maps of Mars, observe weather patterns, investigate the surface, measure temperatures, and search for life. Viking 2 landed in Utopia Planitia, a large impact basin about 4,000 miles (6,460 kilometers) away from its sister lander. The site was chosen in the hopes that its nearness to the polar ice cap would better its chances for finding life. Though that search was inconclusive, extensive data on surface terrain, elevations, and temperatures rolled in as Vikings 1 and 2 far exceeded their 90-day lifetimes. Combined, they returned 52,663 images. Viking 2 operated until April 11, 1980; Viking 1 for two years and exactly seven months beyond that.
A new survey of American attitudes toward foreign‐policy issues holds that concerns for national security have risen in recent months. But the data assembled by Potomac Associates, a Washington‐based research group, indicates that a widely predicted sharp turn toward isolationist positions in the wake of the Indochina wars has not taken place. The survey of 1,071 persons was designed by William Watts and Lloyd A. Free of Potomac Associates and conducted for them by the Gallup Organization of Princeton. New Jersey. The results were published in Foreign Policy magazine. The authors conclude from the survey that over the last two years a majority of Americans have cooled toward the United States relationship with the Soviet Union. At the same time, the survey showed, an overwhelming majority view “keeping our military and defense forces strong” as the most important aspect of United States foreign policy. The rating on this item was 81 on a scale of 100, up from 74 in a comparable survey conducted two years ago.
In what appeared to be a shift of political emphasis, Jimmy Carter stressed at a news conference in Plains, Georgia, the need to curb inflation and to balance the budget. He said that to achieve these goals he would delay the start of “costly programs” if elected President. It was said that Mr. Carter had been influenced by his wife, Rosalynn, and other advisers who urged him to avoid the appearance of being “a big spender.”
Senator Robert J. Dole charged today that Jimmy Carter’s criticism of President Ford’s repeated use of the veto demonstrated a “distressing lack of knowledge or understanding of how our government is constructed.” Moreover, Mr. Dole, the Republican Vice‐Presidential candidate, told the National Conference of State Legislators here that the President’s power should be further strengthened by a constitutional amendment providing for an “item veto” that would permit him “to strike irresponsible or otherwise unacceptable provisions from legislation.” The item‐veto, now enjoyed by some state governors, would enable a President to veto only those provisions of legislation that he disapproved of. Now, he must veto an entire bill even if he wants to strike only a portion of it.
Representative Bella S. Abzug last night ordered the withdrawal of a 30-second radio campaign advertisement attacking one of her opponents in the Democratic Senatorial primary, Daniel P. Moynihan, and conceded that the advertisement contained an error. The advertisement, aired for the first time yesterday on radio stations, opens up with a narrator saying that “the following tape comes to you from the. Nixon White House” and proceeds to excerpt briefly Richard Nixon’s introduction of Mr. Moynihan as his adviser on urban and domestic affairs. The event referred to actually took place in New York City at the Pierre Hotel on December 10, 1968, more than a month before the then President elect. Richard M. Nixon officially took office. Mr. Nixon was announcing Mr. Moynihan’s appointment as head of the Council on Urban Affairs.
Unemployment increased in August for the third consecutive month, the Labor Department said, forcing the administration to retreat from its long-held prediction that the jobless rate would be below 7 percent by the end of the year. The increase, to 7.9 percent, was only one-tenth of a percentage point, less than the increase in June and July, but it was a major disappointment to the White House.
Two of three men convicted for the 1969 slayings of United Mineworkers dissident Joseph Yablonski and his wife and daughter were sentenced to life in prison. Paul Gilly, a 44-year-old house painter who recruited his accomplices, was given three concurrent life sentences. Claude Vealey, 33, who pleaded guilty and turned State’s evidence, received a life term with the opportunity for earlier parole. The third defendant, Aubran Martin, 28, was scheduled to be sentenced, but he was granted a two-month delay in which to prepare a new defense.
Four journalists for the Fresno Bee of Fresno, California, were jailed for contempt of court after refusing to reveal the identity of a confidential source who had leaked grand jury testimony about a public official charged with bribery. The four men— investigative reporters Joe Rosato and William K. Patterson, ombudsman James H. Bort Jr. and managing editor George F. Gruner— spent 15 days in jail rather than break the promise of confidentiality. Judge Hollis G. Best, who had sent the journalists to jail, ruled that they could be released and told reporters, “I am persuaded that the newsman’s ethic is a moral principle.”
The Air Force Academy declined seven weeks ago to reopen its 1975 investigation of cadet forgery and theft despite new evidence and the urging of a civilian attorney pursuing the case, according to documents on file with the Secretary of the Air Force. Letters obtained by The New York Times disclose that on July 2 the attorney, Edward Joel Meyer, who represented a cadet accused of forgery, sent the Superintendent of the Academy material suggesting that his client was a victim of other forgers.
The Uniroyal Rubber Company reached a tentative three‐year contract agreement with the United Rubber Workers union tonight as a strike against the tire manufacturer was in its 20th week. A company spokesman said the pact would give wage and benefit increases amounting to 36 percent to the union’s 13,000 members at 15 Uniroyal plants. The union rank and file is to vote on the pact Sunday. The settlement, which has the support of the union bargaining committee, is the third among the “Big Four” rubber manufacturers that were hit by Idle strike April 21. Goodyear and Firestone have settled. Talks are continuing with R. F. Goodrich in Columbus, Ohio.
Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist today rejected a plea by Representative Andrew J. Hinshaw, Republican of California, to block his jury trial on Government fraud and theft charms. Mr. Hinshaw’s trial has started in Orange County, California. He asked Justice Rehnquist to order the proceedings stopped until the Supreme Court could act on his formal appeal seeking to have the indictments against him dismissed. Mr. Hinshaw contended that his rights had been violated because he had not received a preliminary hearing and the district attorney had not informed the grand jury of facts favorable to Mr. Hinshaw that might have prevented an indictment.
A Federal judge yesterday rebuffed an attempt by two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to halt a grand jury investigation of illegal burglaries committed by them and other agents in New York City in recent years.
Utah Representative Allan T. Howe solidly reiterated tonight his intention to continue to campaign for re‐election despite his conviction on sex solicitation charges. “I have been deeply heartened by the support of new and old friends. After intensive examination of every factor of my situation I will stand on my record and continue seeking reelection,” the Democrat said. Mr. Howe said that nearly 2,700 persons had sent messages to his office by mail or phone since his second conviction on the sane charged and that more than half had pledged support.
FC Dinamo Tbilisi, the third place regular season finisher, won the soccer football championship tournament of the USSR, the Soviet Cup, defeating Ararat Yerevan, 3 to 0, before a crowd of 45,000 at Lenin Central Stadium at Luzhniki in Moscow. Dinamo Tbilisi had been the third-place finisher in the 16-team Champions League and Yerevan second place. Dynamo Moscow, the ’76 regular season champion, had been eliminated in the quarterfinals on July 3.
Major League Baseball:
The Cardinals swap Mike Easler to the Angels for minor leaguer Ron Farkas.
Pinch-hitting in the eighth inning, Dan Driessen smashed a three-run homer and Tony Perez followed with a two-run drive in the ninth to power the Cincinnati Reds to a 10–5 victory over the Atlanta Braves. With the score tied, 5–5, Cesar Geronimo singled in the eighth and Dave Concepcion walked before Driessen batted for Will McEnaney and rapped his round-tripper off Adrian Devine.
Getting two RBIs from Thurman Munson, the Yankees posted a 3–1 victory to pull 11 ½ games ahead of the second-place Orioles in the East Division standings. Willie Randolph singled in the third inning, stole second, moved up on a safe bunt by Fred Stanley and scored the Yankees’ first run on a single by Munson. In the fifth, a double by Mickey Rivers, sacrifice bunt by Roy White and sacrifice fly by Munson added the second run. Carlos May singled and Chris Chambliss doubled in the seventh to make it 3–0 before the Orioles picked up their lone tally in the eighth on a single by Al Bumbry, pass to Bobby Grich and single by Reggie Jackson.
Mike Torrez (11–10) , who limited the Angels to two singles, pitched the Athletics to a 3–0 victory for his first shutout of the season. Rusty Torres collected both of the Angels’ hits, while Claudell Washington accounted for all of the A’s RBIs. In the second inning, Sal Bando was hit by a pitch, Gene Tenace singled and, after two out, both scored on a single by Washington. The other run followed in the fourth. Tenace led off with a double, took third after Willie McCovey flied out and crossed the plate on a sacrifice fly by Washington.
The Cubs came out ahead in managerial maneuvering when Wayne Tyrone singled in the eighth inning to touch off a three-run rally that beat the Cardinals, 8–5. Rick Monday hit two homers for the Cubs, while the Cards had circuit clouts by Ted Simmons and Keith Hernandez. With the score tied, 5–5, Joe Wallis singled in the eighth and took third on a single by Jerry Morales. After Manny Trillo popped up, the Cubs sent up Champ Summers to bat for Rob Sperring. The Cardinals then brought southpaw Al Hrabosky from the bullpen. The Cubs switched to Tyrone, who bats righthanded, and the substitute pinch-hitter came through with his tie-breaking single, scoring Wallis. Mick Kelleher also singled to bat in Morales and when Hector Cruz missed the throw from the outfield, pinch-runner Dave Rosello crossed the plate with the final tally.
A two-run double by Carlton Fisk in the third inning provided the Red Sox’ winning margin and enabled Luis Tiant (17–10) to defeat the Indians, 5–3, for his seventh straight victory. The Red Sox scored three times in the first inning, with sacrifice flies by Fred Lynn and Carl Yastrzemski and a double by Cecil Cooper accounting for the RBIs. Then in the third, after Lynn walked and Yastrzemski singled, Fisk batted them home with his double. John Lowenstein homered for the Indians.
Mike Hegan hit for the cycle and drove in six runs as the Brewers teed off on Mark Fidrych and walloped the Tigers, 11–2. Fidrych, who was knocked out in the fourth inning, failed to go the distance for the first time in 15 starts at home. Hegan batted in two runs with a double in the first, homered in the third, hit a bases-loaded triple in the fourth and completed the cycle with a single in the sixth.
Ron Cey collected three hits, including a homer, and drove in three runs to lead the Dodgers to a 4–3 victory over the Astros, who were stopped on their seven-game winning streak. Larry Dierker, who started for the Astros, went out for a pinch-hitter after seven innings, ending a string of six straight complete games by the Houston staff. Cey hit his homer after a double by Steve Garvey in the fourth inning. A triple by Steve Yeager and single by Burt Hooton (9–12) added a run in the fifth. The Dodgers’ winning marker followed in the eighth when Bill Buckner singled, stole second and Cey singled. Bob Watson batted in two of the Astros’ tallies with a sacrifice fly and double.
Tommy Boggs, a loser of four decisions, posted his first major league victory as the Rangers defeated the faltering Royals, 4–1. The loss was the fifth in a row for the West Division leaders, whose margin over the Athletics was cut to six games. Walks to Mike Hargrove and Jeff Burroughs and a single by Roy Howell produced the Rangers’ first run in the sixth inning. Their other markers followed in the eighth after Gene Clines and Toby Harrah singled and Burroughs walked to load the bases. Danny Thompson knocked in two runs with a single and the other tally crossed the plate when Tom Grieve forced Thompson and Fred Patek threw wild to first base attempting to complete a double play. Rangers catcher Jim Sundberg records 3 assists in the 5th inning. He becomes only the 7th perpetrator of this feat in ML history.
The Twins scored in six of their eight times at bat and rolled over the White Sox, 11–1. The White Sox counted their lone run in the first inning on singles by Ralph Garr and Jim Spencer around a stolen base. After Rod Carew drove in the tying tally with a single in the home half of the first, the Twins began pulling away when Roy Smalley singled, Carew walked and Lyman Bostock doubled for two runs in the third. After that, it was no contest as the Twins kept scoring with a 15-hit attack that included three singles by Roy Smalley, who drove in two runs.
The Pirates extended their winning streak to nine games by sweeping over the Expos in a twi-night doubleheader, 9–7 and 7–2. After the twin-bill was over, Karl Kuehl was fired as manager of the Expos. Charlie Fox was named interim pilot. In the opener, Dave Parker drove in three of the Pirates’ runs with a single and homer, while Willie Stargell and Riche Hebner accounted for two RBIs apiece. Tim Foli batted in three runs for the Expos, including two with a homer. In the nightcap, Hebner hit for the circuit with a man on base in the sixth inning to give the Pirates a 2–1 lead, but Bombo Rivera tied the score with a triple in the Expos’ half. The Pirates went ahead to stay in the seventh when Frank Taveras walked, advanced on an infield out and scored on a double by Richie Zisk.
Tom Seaver (11–10) pitched a four-hitter and triumphed in his duel with Steve Carlton (16–5) when Roy Staiger drove in a run with a single in the fourth inning to give the Mets a 1–0 victory over the Phillies. The loss was the seventh straight for the Phils. The Mets collected only five hits off Carlton, but bunched singles by Dave Kingman, Joe Torre and Staiger for their run. Seaver, in posting his fourth shutout of the season, struck out eight to go over the 200 mark for the ninth straight year with a total of 202.
Randy Jones, the Padres’ 20-game winner, was knocked out in the third inning after giving up five runs and was charged with a 7–3 loss to the Giants for his 11th defeat. The Giants rapped Jones for four runs in the first inning. Gary Thomasson opened with a single and Marty Perez doubled. Gary Matthews grounded out, Thomasson scoring. After Bobby Murcer singled, Ken Reitz smashed a three-run homer. Reitz also accounted for his fourth RBI of the game with a sacrifice fly in the third before Jones was lifted.
Cincinnati Reds 10, Atlanta Braves 5
New York Yankees 3, Baltimore Orioles 1
Oakland Athletics 3, California Angels 0
St. Louis Cardinals 5, Chicago Cubs 8
Boston Red Sox 5, Cleveland Indians 3
Milwaukee Brewers 11, Detroit Tigers 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Houston Astros 3
Texas Rangers 4, Kansas City Royals 1
Chicago White Sox 1, Minnesota Twins 11
Pittsburgh Pirates 9, Montreal Expos 7
Pittsburgh Pirates 7, Montreal Expos 2
Philadelphia Phillies 0, New York Mets 1
San Diego Padres 3, San Francisco Giants 7
Prices on the New York Stock Exchange closed higher in slow trading yesterday despite news of a third consecutive monthly rise in the nation’s unemployment rate. Quotations moved in a narrow range throughout the session and at the close the Dow Jones industrial average was up 4.32 points to 989.11, its high for the day. Its low was posted at 11 AM when it was off 2.41 points. Analysts attributed part of yesterday’s advance to typical short‐covering before the start of a long weekend. The market will be closed Monday for Labor Day.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 989.11 (+4.32, +0.44%)
Born:
Jevon Kearse, aka ‘The Freak’, NFL defensive end (Pro Bowl, 1999–2001; Tennessee Titans, Philadelphia Eagles), in Fort Myers, Florida.
Tony Bryant, NFL defensive end (Oakland Raiders, New Orleans Saints), in Marathon, Florida.
Kelvin Moses, NFL linebacker (New York Jets), in Hartsville, South Carolina.
Reggie Davis, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers), in Long Beach, California.
Jaroslav Obšut, Slovak National Team and NHL defenseman (Olympics, 2002; St. Louis Blues, Colorado Avalanche), in Presov, Czechoslovakia.
Begoña García, Spanish National Women’s Basketball Team and WNBA guard (Olympics, 2004; Detroit Shock), in Cádiz, Spain.
Chamath Palihapitiya, Sri Lankan-born Canadian venture capitalist, founder and CEO of Social Capital, Inc.; in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Ashley Jones, American actress (“The Young and the Restless”, “The Bold and the Beautiful”), in Memphis, Tennessee.
Vivek Oberoi, Indian film actor (“Company”) and two time Filmfare Award winner; in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh state, India.
Arjan Bajwa, Indian film actor and Stardust Award winner; in Delhi, India.
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