A group of three Palestinians hijacked KLM Flight 366, a DC-9 airliner with 80 people on board, shortly after its takeoff from the French city of Nice toward Amsterdam. Most of the passengers were returning to the Netherlands from a holidays in Spain and southern France, and after the plane from Málaga landed with 28 Dutch tourists in Paris, 49 more boarded to go to Amsterdam. The aircraft was flown to Tunis and then to Larnaca in Cyprus, then toward Israel before returning to Larnaca where the hostages were released the next day and the hijackers were allowed to go to the Libyan Embassy for asylum and passage to a country of their choice.
Disclosures that Prince Bernhard retained links with the Northrop Aircraft Corporation as well as Lockheed have stirred a wave of questions here about the Prince’s financial dealings, his personal life, his ties to American intelligence officials and even his background. To senior Dutch officials, as well as journalists, the scandal involving Prince Bernhard remains like a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces have not yet fitted together. “The question is why did he actually do this?” a Foreign Ministry official said yesterday. “Was it greed, what was it?” Beyond the reasons for his requests for favors, some of them seemingly petty, some of them sizable, allegations have also been raised here about, Prince Bernhard’s ties to the Central Intelligence Agency, his jet‐set life and friendships with several women, and his complex relationship with his mother and godfather, a former czarist army officer.
More than 60 opposition political and labor groups met in Madrid to try to form a national front to pressure the government into wider and faster democratic reform. The meeting was organized by the Communists and Socialists, who earlier this year formed a “democratic coordination” of 16 groups. Communist labor leader Marcelino Camacho said after the meeting that the 12-hour session represented a “historic date in the recent history of Spain.”
Traffic in arms continues to flourish throughout the world and is probably increasing, an international research institute said here last week. According to the annual survey published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, military rivalry in the Middle East and fresh political changes in Africa have produced a situation that finds “willing sellers competing for willing buyers… In many cases, the acquisition of arms is proceeding at a pace well beyond the capacity of the recipients to absorb them properly or perhaps even to look after some of them. There is evidently a wish in many countries to get hold of weapons while international constraints on their transfer, notably by the United States Congress, are few.”
The 1,500th anniversary of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire was noted by scholars without celebration. On September 4, 476 AD, the last Emperor of Rome, 11-year-old Romulus Augustulus had been forced to abdicate from the throne in Ravenna by Flavius Odoacer, the barbarian commander of the Roman Guard and sent into exile at a resort in Campania on the Bay of Naples and given a pension for the rest of his life.
The Soviet Chess Federation has stripped chess player Viktor Korchnoi of all his honors, including the grandmaster title, and proposed that he be barred from competing in world championship play. Korchnoi, 46, one of the world’s top-ranked players, asked political asylum while playing in a tournament in Holland in July and has been living there since. The Russian newspaper Sovietsky Sport accused Korchnoi of “betraying the motherland,” a criminal offense in the Soviet Union.
Ram Jephmalani, 53, the head of India’s Bar Council and currently a visiting professor of law at Wayne State University in Detroit, has been granted political asylum by the United States. Jephmalani left India April 28 under the threat of arrest because of a speech in January to a group of lawyers in southern India’s state of Kerala. The speech was strongly critical of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who in effect suspended all civil rights by imposing a state of emergency on India more than a year ago. Jephmalani came to the United States in May after a stopover in Canada.
About 1,000 villagers in northeast Thailand staged a demonstration demanding the release of more than 60 Thais arrested for ransacking the homes of Vietnamese refugees in the area, authorities reported in Bangkok. The protesters also demanded the transfer of police who arrested the rioters and looters during the anti-Vietnamese disturbances two weeks ago. The riot was one of several incidents this year directed at Vietnamese living in northeast Thailand. Most fled Vietnam during the war between the Viet Minh nationalists and the French after World War II and are thought to favor the current Hanoi government.
Cambodia has asked Thailand to return four senior officials of the former Phnom Penh regime who are living as refugees in Thailand, according to the Interior Ministry. It said the Cambodians asked for the return of Major General Sek Sam Ieth, former governor of Cambodia’s Battambang Province; Colonel Keth Reth, a former brigade commander now known to be leading an anti‐Communist resistance group; Dang Seng, a former Minister of Justice; and Colonel In Chhou Deth, Mr. Sek Sam Ieth’s right‐hand man. The Thai Government has adopted a policy of not forcing any Indochinese refugees to return to their homelands. But the Foreign Ministry discussed Cambodia’s request in a telephone conference with Cambodian officials at the Thai-Cambodian frontier, the Interior Ministry said.
Representatives of the United States and North Korea met for more than seven hours yesterday at the Panmunjom truce camp. According to reliable sources, half of that long and uninterrupted session was spent by both delegations staring coldly at each other in an apparent contest of nerves. The unusual conference of secretaries of the Military Armistice Commission was almost a record, representing the second longest session in the 23 years of Korean armistice talks. The longest session, in April 1969, lasted 11 hours and 38 minutes. There was no official report, on what was discussed at the session yesterday, which was followed by another closed meeting today and agreement to hold another session on Monday. The delegates from the United States and North Korea have been struggling for the last several days over the draft of a new agreement for security arrangements in the Panmunjom area.
China has given former Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger permission to visit Tibet and its famous capital, the forbidden city of Lhasa, the Asahi newspaper of Tokyo said in an exclusive dispatch from Peking. Schlesinger, who arrives in Peking Monday for a 20-day visit as a guest of the Chinese government, will be the first American allowed in Lhasa since China’s 1949 Communist revolution.
Recent United States intelligence reports that Taiwan has been secretly reprocessing spent uranium fuel into weapons-grade plutonium may be a result of confusion over a small reprocessing laboratory Taiwan has sought to open, Chinese Nationalist officials and diplomats in Taipei believe. The reprocessing laboratory, which had been tentatively approved by the United States Atomic Energy Commission several years ago, was originally scheduled to begin operations last April. But in an apparent switch of policy following growing American sensitivity over nuclear proliferation, final approval from Washington to open the facility has now been held up, according to Victor Cheng, secretary general of Taiwan’s Atomic Energy Council, Taiwan needs American approval because the spent uranium fuel to be used was originally supplied by the United States
The Philippine Taal Island volcano belched out more ash-laden steam and people living nearby were warned to be ready for hasty evacuation if an eruption seemed imminent. The volcano, dormant for six years, has been active for the last week. No one was killed in the 1970 eruption but its explosive force in 1965 took 188 lives.
Voters in Guam participated in a non-binding referendum about the U.S. territory’s future status. Although 24% favored U.S. statehood and 9% wanted Guam to be an independent nation, more than half (58%) wanted to remain a U.S. territory with additional autonomy.
In the worst accident for Canada’s small Austin Airways, all nine passengers and the pilot on a DHC-3 Otter seaplane were killed when the aircraft struck power lines and plunged into the Abitibi Canyon near Fraserdale, Ontario. The passengers were on their way to Timmins, Ontario, to discuss electrical planning as part of a tour of Canadian Indian communities and included three provincial officials, three power company representatives, three members of the First Nations group “Treaty No. 9”, and a London Free Press reporter. The Otter airplane “received a three-phase burst of 132,000 volts” of electricity from the wires and exploded.
Security forces attacked suspected leftist guerrillas in a suburban hideout with grenades, mortars and bazookas today, setting the house orr fire, a police source said. He reported that two men, two women and three children were killed. According to the press agency Noticias Argentinas, one of the suspects killed the three children before he was slain. It said that two of the adult victims were parents of the children.
Kenya plans to beef up patrols in the bush and send aircraft into battle against poachers preying on wildlife in some of the world’s finest game preserves. Conservationist fervor in the past few years has led to shootouts between poachers and game wardens in the national parks and stiff jail terms for those caught. But it has failed to stamp out poaching.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa met for five hours in Zurich tonight. A joint statement issued later said “progress is being made” in the discussion of crucial Southern Africa issues. The statement about “progress” followed expressions of cautious optimism made by both men prior to the start of the first of three days of talks on Southern Africa.
The police fired tear‐gas canisters today to disperse a crowd of about 100 nonwhite demonstrators in the center of Port Elizabeth, 300 miles east of Cape Town. The youths, of mixed racial ancestry and considered “colored” in this country, carried placards bearing slogans assailing apartheid, and they demanded the release of the chairman of the Colored Labor Party, the Rev. Alan Hendrickse, who has been detained by the special security police. Policemen with loudspeakers. warned whites to leave the city center’s square, then fired tear gas at the demonstrators. Meanwhile, Cape Town and its outlying townships for nonwhites were reported quiet today after two days of rioting. South Africa’s wave of racial unrest, which has taken more than 280 lives in 11 weeks, had previously been confined to black and nonwhite townships well away from the prosperous, white‐run city centers.
The pictures transmitted by Viking 2 from the Utopia Plain of Mars to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena show a landscape that is very far from Utopian. A panoramic view in which the scanner swung through 300 degrees, sweeping five-sixths of the horizon, shows a mostly level sandy surface strewn with boulders and small stones. The surface appears to be much like the area in the Chryse Plain of Mars where Viking 1 landed last July 20.
The White House announced that President Ford has decided to retain Clarence Kelley as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation despite disclosures that Mr. Kelley had accepted free goods and services from the bureau and some gifts from his top aides. The White House press office said that President Ford had examined a report on the matter from Attorney General Edward Levi and had concluded that there was “no adequate justification” for asking Mr. Kelley to resign.
Justice Department investigators have begun searching files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in at least six major cities in an effort to expand their Inquiry into illegal bureau practices beyond the New York City area, according to sources close to the investigation. One bureau source said that, among other things, the investigators were likely to find evidence that Federal agents had used illegal techniques, including burglaries, in their investigation of the Black Panther Party in the San Francisco area in recent years. Although Justice Department lawyers have obtained what one of them said were numerous unconfirmed reports that such techniques had been in relatively common use by F.B.I. intelligence agents around the country, they have thus far found no conclusive evidence of burglaries beyond those that took place in New York from 1971 to 1973. Those break‐ins were directed against associates of the fugitive members of the Weather Underground organization and were carried out in hopes of unearthing clues to the fugitives whereabouts.
If President Ford’s campaign strategists are correct, the contest between the President, an Episcopalian, and Jimmy Carter, a Southern Baptist, will hinge on the votes of several million Roman Catholics in the industrial states. “We think they’re up for grabs,” a senior Ford campaign official said of the urban Catholics who make up as much as one-third of the electorate in the crucial states of the East and Middle West. Mr. Ford intends to court the Catholic voters, even though they are traditionally Democrats, because they are what one Ford tactician said was “the key to the corridor” of states in which the Republican presidential candidacy is centered.
Jimmy Carter, who has been surprising the country politically for 19 months, seems determined once again to do what many political observers would regard as unconventional and unexpected. In an interview in Plains, Georgia., Mr. Carter said he would try to avoid concentrating his campaign efforts in a limited number of large states that might guarantee him a victory. He will instead treat all regions of the country as equal campaign battlegrounds and will campaign extensively at factory gates and in shopping centers. He will formally begin his campaign tomorrow at Warm Springs, Georgia.
About 70 million qualified, voting-age Americans — believed to be almost certainly a record number — are not expected to vote on November 2. Non-voters, who are approaching majority status in the adult population, seem to know more than ever why they want nothing to do with politics. According to a national poll, two-thirds of them agree that “candidates say one thing and then do another” and give that as reason enough to stand off from the presidential election.
The General Accounting Office of Congress credits the Pentagon with reducing the number of top management personnel by more than a quarter since 1964. But more cutbacks were possible, GAO said, by reducing such duplication as: 44 separate offices under the chief of naval operations that involved primarily “research and development”; 18 secretary of defense offices and 11 secretary of Navy offices that involved “fiscal and budgetary” activity; 27 Army chief of staff offices that involved primarily personnel activity.
The General Accounting Office said that President Ford violated the law in delaying for 27 days a report to Congress on his refusal to spend $126 million it had appropriated for child nutrition and education programs. By the time the 45-day period for Congress to consider the action expires, the government will be in a new fiscal year. Thus, the GAO said, there will be no way for Congress to override Ford’s decision, as allowed by law. The White House had no comment.
President Ford was urged to restrain Secretary of the Army Martin R. Hoffman from taking action against accused West Point cadets until the causes of the honor code violations scandal could be determined. The request was accompanied by sworn statements accusing an additional 637 cadets of honor code violations. The statements were signed by many of the 202 already accused. In a covering letter, the Rev. Thomas J. Curley, Roman Catholic chaplain at West Point, noted Ford’s pardon of former President Richard M. Nixon and urged the President “not to fail the Long Gray Line” — a reference to the cadet corps.
The resignation of the director of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality, Russell W. Peterson, was announced by the White House. There was no indication who would replace Peterson as head of the President’s chief advisory group on environmental policymaking. Peterson, whose resignation is effective October 1, will organize and direct a new citizen’s lobby on world problems, called New Directions.
The investigation of the mysterious disease that has killed 29 people in Pennsylvania became further confused by results of a new series of tests that experts had hoped would conclusively show whether nickel poisoning was the cause of the epidemic. Instead, the results of the new tests for nickel were called “inconclusive” by Dr. William Sunderman, head of a research team at the University of Connecticut Medical School. Dr. Sunderman is regarded as one of the world’s experts on nickel poisoning.
A crackdown on advertising of nonprescription cough and cold remedies, on which Americans spend millions each year, was recommended by a government-sponsored panel of scientists. Special attention should be given to cases in which children are subjected to sales pitches, the panel said. The report was part of a view, using outside experts, of all Food and Drug Administration nonprescription medicines. The scientists noted that the public may receive most of its attitudes toward cough and cold remedies from advertisements.
Student narcotics dealers have stockpiled drugs for the opening of school in the Chicago area and at colleges across Illinois, according to police. “We know that young people have had summer jobs and have gone out and bought a supply of narcotics here, and they’re now in Denver or Carbondale at “school,” a police official said. They take it with them so they’ll have money (at school). Right now there are lockers full of the stuff on university campuses.”
Future U.S. President George W. Bush, the 30-year-old son of CIA Director George Bush, was arrested for drunken driving after being pulled over near the family home in Kennebunkport, Maine. Bush was fined $150 and his Maine driver’s license was briefly suspended.
Investigators for the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power said there were “serious doubts” whether the Alaska pipeline would be ready next summer as scheduled. Their report, giving the first official indication by the government that the deadline might not be met, quoted “persons familiar with the problems” of the pipeline as saying that a year’s delay may be possible. The investigators, who spent two weeks in Alaska in July, said the pipeline project continues to be plagued by sloppy workmanship, inadequate quality controls and insufficient government monitoring, despite outcries against these shortcomings last year. Nevertheless, William Darch, president of the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, which is constructing the pipeline, insists that the work will be completed by next summer.
Deck officers with the Washington ferry system have defied court orders to end their three-day walkout. Ferry officials said they had expected more than 300,000 persons and 100,000 cars to use the 18 ferryboats on the Puget Sound over the Labor Day weekend, generating about $300,000 in revenue. Because of the strike, commuters and other travelers face trips of up to 100 miles around the edge of the sound to reach Seattle. The strike by 120 members of the Masters, Mates and Pilots union grew out of a dispute over wording in a proposed contract, but followed basic agreement on a 12 percent pay raise. A union spokesman contended that the state had reneged on previous agreements concerning working conditions. Back‐to‐work orders were issued by Judge James W. Mifflin in King County and Judge Howard A. Patrick in San Juan County, but deck officers agreed only to operate limited service to Vashon Island and the San Juans, both of which are otherwise inaccessible to vehicular traffic.
The government will study the feasibility of dredging the James River in Virginia in an effort to remove the poison chemical Kepone, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The Army Corps of Engineers will attempt to determine how long the dredging would take and how much it would cost. Then the EPA and the engineers would decide whether to take such action. The presence of Kepone, suspected of being a carcinogen, closed down fishing in the lower James River and was found in Chesapeake Bay. The EPA said it also is considering designating the insecticide a hazardous substance, a move that would make the federal government responsible for cleansing the environment of Kepone.
New clinical evidence was unveiled in Philadelphia this week for a rabies vaccine that researchers say is superior to the painful vaccines now used to combat the disease. The new vaccine, which is already being used in some European countries and which could be available by 1977 in the United States, was developed over the last 24 years by researchers headed by a team of doctors at the Wistar. Institute here. The Wistar vaccine was successfully used last year in Iran to treat 45 persons bitten by rabid dogs and wolves, doctors told a news conference. Dr. Hilary Koprowski, director of the institute and leader of the research group that developed the vaccine, called the treatments “a major breakthrough” because all the victims had been severely bitten and all survived with few side effects.
Major League Baseball:
Turning in a superb performance, Pat Zachry (12–5) allowed only two hits, retired 25 of the last 26 batters and pitched the Reds to a 5–1 victory over the Braves. A walk, singles by Tom Paciorek and Vic Correll and an infield out by Frank LaCorte produced the Braves’ run in the second inning. After that, the Braves’ only baserunner was pinch-hitter Jim Wynn, who walked with two out in the seventh. The Reds tied the score in the third with a single by Dave Concepcion, sacrifice by Zachry and single by Ken Griffey. The go-ahead run followed in the fourth on a walk to George Foster, single by Tony Perez, bunt by Cesar Geronimo and sacrifice fly by Concepcion before the Reds iced the verdict with a three-run outburst in the fifth
Thwarting Jim Palmer’s bid for his 20th victory, the Yankees won the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, 4–2, before losing the second game to the Orioles, 6–2. In the opener, the Yankees broke a 2–2 tie in the eighth inning when Mickey Rivers walked, stole second and scored on a single by Thurman Munson. Graig Nettles added a run with a homer in the ninth. Lee May hit a sacrifice fly and single to produce both of the Orioles’ tallies. In the nightcap, the Yankees scored their runs in the third inning, thanks to a throwing error by Rudy May, but the Orioles erupted for four in the fifth. Dave Duncan singled and scored on a double by Bobby Grich and sacrifice fly by Reggie Jackson. After May singled to drive in Grich, Ken Singleton smashed a two-run homer. Dave Duncan added the final two tallies with a circuit clout in the eighth.
A double by Mario Guerrero with the bases loaded and two out in the fourth inning drove in two runs and started the Angels’ scoring in a 5–1 victory over the Athletics. The Angels added their other counters in the sixth. The first run scored on a walk to Bill Melton and singles by Terry Humphrey and Leroy Stanton. After a single by Guerrero loaded the bases, two other runs crossed the plate when Dick Bosman erred on a bunt by Dave Chalk and when Dave Collins bounced into a fielder’s choice.
Enjoying a perfect day at bat, Jose Cardenal rapped two doubles and two singles to lead the Cubs’ attack in a 5–1 victory over the Cardinals. Cardenal’s first double, a triple by Joe Wallis and wild throw by Don Kessinger on the relay from the outfield netted two runs in the fourth inning. Cardenal doubled again in the sixth and took third after Wallis flied out. Following an intentional pass to Jerry Morales, Cardenal scored on a sacrifice fly by Manny Trillo. Cardenal, Wallis, Morales and Trillo hit consecutive singles for the Cubs’ final pair in the eighth.
The Red Sox survived two errors that resulted in five unearned runs and gained a 7–6 victory in the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, then went scoreless in the second game and lost to the Indians, 4–0. In the opener, after Dwight Evans hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning, the Red Sox moved ahead, 7-2, with a pair in the eighth on a single by Carl Yastrzemski, triple by Carlton Fisk and sacrifice fly by Cecil Cooper. The Indians, who picked up two runs in the fifth on an error by Bob Heise and homer by George Hendrick, knocked out Rick Wise (11–10) and rallied for four unearned runs in the ninth after an error by Denny Doyle before Tom House came in to record the final out. Pat Dobson (13–11), who started for the Indians in the nightcap, stymied the Red Sox until the ninth when Jim Kern relieved with two men on base and retired the last three batters on strikeouts. Ray Fosse led the Indians at bat with three singles, driving in one run and scoring two.
Vern Ruhle (9–10) scattered seven hits and pitched the Tigers to a 4–0 victory over the Brewers for his first shutout of the season. The Tigers also were held to seven hits by Bill Travers, but Alex Johnson swung a productive bat, rapping a double and two singles and driving in two runs.
Joaquin Andujar (8–9) posted his third two-hitter of the season and pitched the Astros to a 5–2 victory over the Dodgers. The Astros did all their scoring in the third inning, starting with singles by Wilbur Howard, Enos Cabell and Cesar Cedeno for the first run. Bob Watson followed with a three-run homer. Walks to Cliff Johnson and Jose Cruz and a single by Roger Metzger added another run before the inning ended.
With Dennis Leonard (16–7) pitching a six-hitter, the Royals ended their five-game losing streak by defeating the Rangers, 7–0. The crowd of 31,541 at the game raised the Royals’ attendance to a club record of 1,352,088. Leonard, who broke a personal three-game losing streak, turned in his second shutout of the season and 14th route-going performance. Frank White, observing his 26th birthday, rapped two singles and scored twice. Fred Patek also had two hits and batted in two runs.
Winning for the third straight time, Ken Brett (9–8) allowed only three singles and pitched the White Sox to a 4–0 victory over the Twins. Jim Spencer singled with the bases loaded in the third inning to drive in the first two runs. Another scored on two errors in the seventh. Sam Ewing produced the final tally with a double in the eighth.
The Pirates spoiled the debut of Charlie Fox as Montreal’s interim manager by defeating the Expos, 5–3, for their 10th straight victory. The loss was the sixth in a row for the Expos, who played before a crowd of only 3,290, the smallest turnout in the club’s eight-year history. Del Unser homered for the Expos, who were locked in a 2–2 tie before the Pirates broke away with three runs in the ninth inning. Duffy Dyer singled, Tommy Helms walked and Frank Taveras singled to load the bases. Omar Moreno singled, driving in two runs. After Taveras was picked off base, Moreno scored the Pirates’ final run on a wild pitch.
Although forced to call on three pitchers, the Mets were able to gain a 7–3 victory over the Phillies, who went down to their eighth straight defeat. Craig Swan started for the Mets, Nino Espinosa picked up the victory in relief and Skip Lockwood saved the game, allowing one hit in the last three innings. The Mets jumped off to a 4–0 lead before the Phillies picked up a pair in the fourth and pulled within one run when Mike Schmidt hit his 33rd homer of the season in the sixth. The Mets came back with a run in their half on a single by John Stearns, error by Wayne Twitchell and sacrifice fly by Billy Baldwin. Dave Kingman, playing in only his seventh game after being out more than a month with a hand injury, then tied Schmidt for the league lead in homers by hitting his 33rd and his first since July 18 with a man on base in the seventh inning.
Marty Perez singled with the bases loaded in the seventh inning to drive in the tying run and Jack Clark followed with a sacrifice fly for the winning run as the Giants defeated the Padres, 4–3. Darrell Evans accounted for the Giants’ first two tallies with a single in the opening frame. The Padres scored a run on doubles by Dave Winfield and Mike Ivie in the fourth and moved ahead, 3–2, with singles by Jerry Turner and Fred Kendall and a double by Enzo Hernandez in the seventh. A walk to Gary Alexander, throwing error by Tom Griffin on a bunt by Johnnie LeMaster and intentional pass to Gary Thomasson loaded the bases in the Giants’ half and set the stage for their two-run rally.
Cincinnati Reds 5, Atlanta Braves 1
New York Yankees 4, Baltimore Orioles 2
New York Yankees 2, Baltimore Orioles 6
Oakland Athletics 1, California Angels 5
St. Louis Cardinals 1, Chicago Cubs 5
Boston Red Sox 7, Cleveland Indians 6
Boston Red Sox 0, Cleveland Indians 4
Milwaukee Brewers 0, Detroit Tigers 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Houston Astros 5
Texas Rangers 0, Kansas City Royals 7
Chicago White Sox 4, Minnesota Twins 0
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Montreal Expos 3
Philadelphia Phillies 3, New York Mets 7
San Diego Padres 3, San Francisco Giants 4
Born:
Clinton R. Nixon, American role-play game designer (“Paladin”, “The Shadow of Yesterday”), in the United States.
Katreeya English, Thai singer and actress (“The Gifted”, “Khon 2 Khom”), in Oxford, England, United Kingdom.
Ron Calloway, MLB outfielder and pinch hitter (Montreal Expos), in San Jose, California.
Brian Myrow, MLB pinch hitter and first baseman (Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres), in Fort Worth, Texas.
Died:
George Groves, 74, British-born U.S. audio engineer who became the first “sound man” in motion picture history as the person in charge of providing sound to The Jazz Singer.
Laco Novomeský, 71, Hungarian-born Slovak Communist politician jailed in the 1950s after accusations of “bourgeois nationalism”, later rehabilitated in the 1960s and promoted to the Party’s Central Committee.
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