The United States and allied intelligence services regard expected access to the MIG‐25 that a Soviet pilot flew to northern Japan on Monday as the most important East‐West coup since the Russians shot down an American U‐2 spy plane 16 years ago. Since then, the Israeli successes in the 1967 and 1973 wars with the Arabs have yielded a harvest of Soviet weapons, including the two main surface‐to‐air missile systems, the SAM‐2 and the SAM‐3, and the Soviet T‐62 tank. Intelligence sources said, however, that the performance and guidance systems technology of these weapons had been fairly well known before they fell into Israeli hands. Access to the MIG‐25 would be a “tremendous break” for the West, they added. The MIG‐25, these sources noted, is the most advanced Soviet interceptor‐reconnaissance aircraft and access to its radar system, engines and fire‐control system can only be compared to Soviet possession of an American F‐14 or F‐15 fighter. And the MIG‐25’s pilot will be available for questioning when, as Japanese authorities reported in Tokyo, he is transferred to the United States today. The Soviet plane, code‐named Foxbat by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is regarded as the fastest aircraft now deployed by either side, with a maximum speed of Mach 3.2. Mach 1 equals the speed of sound, which at sea level is about 740 miles an hour.
The United States notified Japan today that it would grant political asylum to the pilot of the Soviet MIG‐25 jet fighter that landed in Japan yesterday. The M1G‐25 landed at Hakodate on Hokkaido. The pilot, Lieutenant Viktor Belenko, told the police‐that he was seeking refuge in the United States. The fighter is supposedly one of the most advanced aircraft in the world and it is a secret weapon in the Soviet arsenal. Its presence in Japan may give Western countries an opportunity to assess the plane’s capabilities. The Japanese armed forces said they had been asked by the military attaches of four North Atlantic Treaty countries to allow them to inspect the plane. The requests were turned down on the ground that the aircraft was out of the custody of the armed forces, a spokesman said. The pilot will be transferred to the United States tomorrow, Japanese authorities said.
[Ed: The U.S. Air Force would find the aircraft not nearly as impressive as its press.]
Victor Sokolov, a Soviet dissident and former journalist, was declared to have forfeited his Soviet Union citizenship by a resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Ten months earlier, he had been permitted to leave the country.
Corsican separatists blew up an Air France jetliner parked at Ajaccio Airport, police said. The Boeing 707 was empty and no one was hurt. Witnesses said seven masked men placed explosives on the aircraft after forcing its crew to park the jet on an isolated part of the tarmac far away from airport buildings. Five suspects were arrested, police said. The French radio said that 80 people had been arrested in a crackdown on separatist groups. Earlier, several hundred domenstrators clashed with the police and then blocked the runway at the airport with trucks. One policeman was injured in the clash. The domonstrators were demanding the release of a leader arrested last week.
Israeli gunboats stopped an American oil-drilling vessel under contract to Egypt from looking for oil in the Gulf of Suez twice in four days. Israel contends the prospecting violates its territorial waters and exploits possible resources belonging to it. The ship was halted off a town controlled by Israel since the 1967 war.
The U.S. State Department said Israeli naval craft had fired recently on “markers” used by U.S. ships in oil-prospecting operations in the Gulf of Suez. Spokesman Frederick Z. Brown reported the incidents in explaining an Israeli statement that the State Department had “expressed its anger” to Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz over Israeli insistence that the ships leave the area. The 18-mile-wide gulf separates Egypt from Israeli-occupied sections of the Sinai peninsula. Israel has ordered the U.S. ships to return to Egyptian waters.
Syria is demanding sweeping changes in the Palestinian leadership to settle its conflict with Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon’s civil war, Arab diplomatic sources said. They said Syrian President Hafez Assad wants Yasser Arafat removed as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and replaced by a three-man leadership. They said the proposal was made to Arab mediators trying to patch up Syria’s current quarrel with the guerrillas.
Rain-spawned floods broke through a 442-foot earth-filled dam and inundated more than 5,000 square miles of Baluchistan province in Pakistan, the government reported. The province is largest in area, smallest in population and poorest financially of the country’s four provinces. Casualties could not be estimated immediately. But officials feared that loss of life would be high among the nomadic population.
Twelve Buddhist nuns and monks burned themselves to death in a village of the Mekong Delta last November to protest persecution by Vietnam’s Communist regime, the United Buddhist Church of Vietnam said. The church’s official delegation in France published a photostatic copy of a note written by the abbot of Duoc Su monastery, two other monks and nine nuns to explain their action. The note appealed to Communist authorities to “respect the right to freedom of worship of all religions.”
A subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee released hearsay testimony by Donald I. Ranard, State Department director of Korean affairs from 1970 to 1974, that a secretary to House Speaker Carl Albert had contacts with the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. Ranard said that someone with “unimpeachable credibility” told him in 1972 or 1973 that the secretary, Suzie Park Thompson cooperated with Korean CIA agents-for example by hosting a party at which congressmen and a Korean CIA official were present. Miss Thompson, who is Korean-born, could not be reached for comment.
Profit curbs in Canada will be relaxed slightly to counter a lag in investments, Finance Minister Donald MacDonald announced. Under the new rules, companies will be permitted an extra investment credit if they are engaged in enterprises other than the distribution of products.
Terrorists in Argentina assassinated a top national bank official and troops killed three guerrillas during a raid, authorities said. Daniel Antonio Cash, 52, deputy general manager of the government-run national bank was shot down in Buenos Aires by four terrorists in a speeding car. The gunmen escaped and telephone callers to news media said Montonero guerrillas were responsible, according to police. The three guerrillas were killed in an army raid on a house in the Buenos Aires suburb of Lomas de Zamora.
Intelligence information reaching Paris today said that President Idi Amin of Uganda has planned a “revenge operation” against Kenya. According to the information, possible targets of one or more Uganda attacks were the international airport at Nairobi, the port of Mombasa and military installations. The information was based on reports on two sessions of Uganda’s National Defense Council, which President Amin addressed during the last week of August. At the first session, it was said, he proposed an operation against Kenya because there was growing agitation against his rule in Uganda, and he thought an attack would restore his prestige. After an intense discussion, the reports said, the council prevailed on him to put off his original plan to launch the operation during the first week in September. At a second meeting held later the same week, the report said, several members of the ruling group warned that an attack would provoke the economic strangulation of Uganda and a catastrophe. Uganda, which depends on deliveries across Kenya for fuel supplies, was hit severely when they were cut during the tension between Field Marshal Amin and the Kenyan Government after the Israeli raid to free hostages at the Entebbe airport last July. According to the intelligence reports, the Uganda leader told his defense council that his prestige was at stake and that it was more important than the economic situation.
Rhodesian blacks remained divided after a meeting of leaders of five black African nations. The meeting had been called to seek a common strategy to achieve black rule in Rhodesia, South-West Africa and South Africa, but the rift between two Rhodesian groups became the main concern and produced frustration. No joint communiqué was issued after the meeting attended by Presidents Julius K. Nyerere of Tanzania, Kenneth D. Kaunda of Zambia, Samora Machel of Mozambique, Agostinho Neto of Angola and Seretse Khama of Botswana. A spokesman for the Tanzanian Government said only that the five heads of state had agreed “to further intensify the armed struggle” in Rhodesia. The rift between the Rhodesian nationalist factions, a moderate one headed by Joshua Nkomo that is based in Rhodesia, the other headed by Bishop Abel Muzorewa and based outside the country, has its origins in ancient tribal animosities and power struggles between leaders.
Secretary of State Kissinger is expected to resume negotiations in southern Africa next week to try to find a formula for the peaceful ending of white minority rule in Rhodesia and South-West Africa. Mr. Kissinger said he had been invited to return to the area by President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. Nyerere said he had not sent an Invitation but would welcome Mr. Kissinger anyway.
At least two people were shot to death and scores were wounded in Cape Town, South Africa today when paramilitary policemen clashed with rioters in a fresh outbreak of racial violence, the police reported. They said they opened fire with shotguns, rifles and revolvers in the center of Cape Town and in several outlying colored townships. Reporters in one street in the center of the city said they saw a man shot in the chest by the police. Drivers of an ambulance that took the victim away said he was dead. The other fatality, confirmed by the police, was in the Tiervlei township, Late tonight, the police said sporadic outbreaks of rioting and arson continued in the colored township of Revensmea. In the city center, scene of two days of rioting last week, policemen used tear gas to disperse hundreds of coloreds, as people of mixed ethnic background are known, and black youths.
President Ford signed what he called a “new and better version” of a child day-care bill he vetoed last April. The measure raises the ceiling on federal outlays for day-care centers by $240 million for the 15 months ending September 30. It also postpones the imposition of federal standards for the staffing of the centers until October 1, 1977, while the Department of Health, Education and Welfare studies the standards. Ford said the postponement “will enable the states to operate day-care programs for more than another year free of onerous, costly federal intrusion.”
Jimmy Carter said that he would have dismissed Clarence Kelley as F.B.I. director for accepting gifts and personal services from his staff. However, the Democratic candidate, after castigating President Ford for not dismissing Mr. Kelley, refused to say whether he would dismiss him if he is elected in November.
Campaigning from the White House, President Ford signed two bills in front of television cameras. One granted compensation to victims of a flood caused by the collapse in June of a dam on the Teton River in Idaho. The other, which he called a better version of a bill he vetoed last April, delays federal standards for staffing day care centers until late 1977.
The furor over Senator Dole’s alleged acceptance of campaign gifts from Gulf Oil will soon “blow over,” according to several of President Ford’s campaign advisers. However, one adviser said the screening of Mr. Dole prior to his selection as President Ford’s running mate had been hurried and had not gathered all the facts about the Gulf incident.
Lawyers for FBI agents subpoenaed to testify about burglaries of offices of dissident political groups reached an agreement with the government that could limit the number of grand jury appearances of the agents. The agreement came unexpectedly shortly after a federal appeals court decision in New York City upholding a lower court’s ruling rejecting the agents’ petition to quash the subpoenas on national security grounds. Martin W. Schwartz, a lawyer representing the agents, said he did not “anticipate there will ever be need” for the agents to appear before the grand jury. A Justice Department attorney, Stephen Horn, said the agreement was not that all-inclusive although “certain interviews would obviate the appearance of agents before the grand jury.”
A House subcommittee accused the Commerce Department today of fostering compliance of American business concerns with the Arab boycott of companies involved with Israel. A report by the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce’s subcommittee on oversight and investigations further charges that at least $4.55 billion in American exports in 1974‐1975 to Arab countries had been conducted in cooperation with the boycott provisions. The Arab boycott began in 1945 as an effort to penalize Jewish concerns in what was then the British mandate of Palestine. The boycott was enlarged in 1951, three years after the establishment of Israel, to strike at foreign concerns dealing with Israel. Some 1,500 international concerns have been blacklisted by the Arab League since 1951. The boycott is still mainly directed at Israeli businesses, but extends to foreign concerns that employ Jews in top management or that ship goods to Israel.
The United States Public Health Service issued its five‐year plan for health today and named as its first priority, controlling escalating health costs. The third annual Forward Plan for Health this one for fiscal 1977‐82, which outlines the future direction the nation should take to improve the health of Americans, calls for “a major attack on costs escalation,” which went up 300 percent between 1965 and 1975. The 137‐page report like its predecessors continues to stress the need for individual action, such as moderation on smoking, drinking and eating as major factors in preventing illness.
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace’s personal and business telephone calls at the governor’s mansion in Montgomery were tape-recorded without his knowledge but apparently with the knowledge of his wife, Cornelia, a local television and a radio station reported. Wallace’s press secretary, Billy Joe Camp, refused to comment on the reports. He referred inquiries to Colonel E.C. Dothard, the public safety commissioner, who denied them. Both WSFA-TV in Montgomery and radio station WSGN in Birmingham said security guards at the mansion uncovered an expensive taping system this summer while Mrs. Wallace was on vacation and then found hundreds of tapes of Wallace’s telephone calls.
John D. Ehrlichman, once the chief adviser on domestic affairs to President Nixon, was ordered today to begin serving a 20month prison sentence on September 17 for his role in break‐ins carried out by the so‐called White House “plumbers.” Federal District Judge Gerhard A. Gessell ordered Mr. Ehrlichman to report to the Federal prison at Safford, Arizona, on or before that date. Mr. Ehrlichman has been free on a personal recognizance bond since July 12, 1974, when he was convicted of violating the civil rights of Dr. Lewis Fielding, a psychiatrist who had been treating Daniel Ellsberg, the reported source for the Pentagon Papers, a history of the United States involvement in the Vietnam war that was leaked to the press in 1971. The prosecution in the plumbers case contended that Mr. Ehrlichman, among others, was connected with a burglary of Dr. Fielding’s office. Mr. Ehrlichman lost his appeal of the plumbers conviction on May 17. His lawyers have asked the appeals court to allow him to remain free while the case is carried to the Supreme Court. If the appeals court agrees, Judge Gessell’s order would be overridden and Mr. Ehrlichman would be permitted to stay out of prison, at least temporarily.
Little Rock’s Central High School was once the most notorious public school in the country and the site of strife pointed to by segregationists as proof that blacks and whites could not go to school together. Now the school is a model for those who believe that desegregation works.
Classes resumed in orderly fashion in Louisville, Kentucky, in contrast to a bombing and antibusing demonstrations for the two previous days. Officials reported no trouble in three other cities with new school desegregation plans: Dayton, Milwaukee and Omaha. In St. Louis, also beginning a busing system, officials said they expected no problems. But in Manchester, New Hampshire, the school department postponed indefinitely the school opening after a walkout by teachers in a dispute over a new contract. Teachers also went on strike in Buffalo, New York. In Boston, a city bus was stoned and rocks thrown at police in the southside section on the eve of what officials hoped would be a peaceful beginning to the third year of court-ordered integration. Five policemen and the bus driver were treated for minor injuries.
A $31 million malpractice suit was filed in federal court in New York City by a woman who charged Houston heart surgeon Denton A. Cooley with negligence for installing a defective artificial valve in her heart. The suit filed by Toby T. Dresdner, 37, of Valley Stream, Long Island, named as codefendants St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital of Houston, Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, California, which made the valve, and Dr. Robert D. Leachman, a Cooley associate. The valve was implanted in 1969 and was removed and replaced with a new model in 1975.
A 13-year-old girl who authorities say is mentally disturbed was held in New York City as the phantom firebug who since August 26 set 17 small blazes in midtown department stores, apparently using only a cigarette lighter or matches. The girl, whose name was withheld, was arrested after a small fire was discovered in Macy’s and held for an appearance in Family Court.
Ford Motor’s new cars will be essentially the same size and weight as last year’s models. The decision not to scale down the 1977 models was made because Ford officials felt there was still a market for big cars. Ford expects to profit from the decision by General Motors to make its 1977 line smaller.
Plant and equipment investments by United States businesses have been increased, the Commerce Department said. The new pattern, though little changed from earlier surveys, is in line with other indicators pointing to increased economic activity toward the end of the year.
Radioactive wastes may pose a major health hazard and their handling has been marred in a number of cases, according to a government study. A nuclear energy expert who prepared the report said that the 75 million gallons of high-level waste and 51 million cubic feet of low-level waste stored in nine sites across the country were a cause for concern.
The New York Times began a trend of reducing the number of columns within its newspaper, going from eight columns to six columns but without changing its overall width. In 2007, it would join a trend set by other papers and reduce its width from 13.5 inches (34 cm) to 12 inches (30 cm), an 11% or one-ninth reduction.
Italy’s renowned La Scala Opera company gave its first-ever performance in the United States, with a show at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. attended by “Washington’s social elite, who regarded La Scala’s performance as the start of the capital’s social season” and members of the Music Critics Association, which had timed its convention to coincide with the debut.
U.S. courts find George Harrison guilty of “subconsciously” plagiarizing “He’s So Fine” for his song “My Sweet Lord”.
American mountain climber Willi Unsoeld and his daughter, Nanda Devi Unsoeld, were on an expedition to climb Nanda Devi, the highest mountain in India and the inspiration for her name, when she died from a severe blood clot caused by high altitude sickness. Because Nanda Devi Unsoeld’s death happened at about 24,000 feet (7,300 m) on the 25,463 foot (7,761 m) altitude mountain, bringing her body back down was impractical. Unsoeld and Nanda’s fiancee Andy Harvard gave her the traditional burial rite for climbers lost at high altitude and bundled her body in her sleeping bag and lowered it into a crevice. Willi Unsoeld himself would be killed in an avalanche two-and-a-half years later while descending Mount Rainier on March 4, 1979.
Major League Baseball:
While Jon Matlack (15–8) pitched his sixth shutout of the season, Leo Foster drove in five runs to lead the Mets’ attack in an 11–0 rout of the Cubs. Foster plated a pair in the first with a single, drove home a third run with a single in the fifth and then capped his spree with a two-run homer in the ninth inning. Mike Phillips also homered. For Phillips, it is his 4th homer of the year — all at Wrigley. Matlack scatters 8 hits in the shutout.
The Astros exploded for eight runs in a seventh-inning outburst that included a pinch-triple by Ken Boswell with the bases loaded to defeat the Reds, 10–5. The Reds, who had homers by Johnny Bench and Tony Perez, went into the inning with a 5–2 lead. Fred Norman started the Astros on the way to their big rally by walking three batters to load the bases with one out. Enos Cabell and Cesar Cedeno followed with singles, each driving in one run. Bob Watson popped up, but Cliff Johnson doubled, knocking in two runs to send the Astros ahead, 6–5. After an intentional pass to Jose Cruz, Ken Boswell batted for Jerry DaVanon and hit his triple. A double by Roger Metzger drove in Boswell with the final marker.
The Orioles collected 11 hits off Mark Fidrych (15–8) and beat the Tigers, 5–3, but three of their runs off the colorful rookie were unearned. On the other hand, the Tigers scored their three runs on only one hit with the aid of two wild pitches by Wayne Garland (16–6), two walks, one hit batsman and a sacrifice fly. With the score tied, 3–3, the Orioles loaded the bases in the seventh inning on two singles and an error. Tony Muser hit a sacrifice fly to drive in the tie-breaking tally and Doug DeCinces followed with a single for an insurance run.
The combination of three-hit pitching by Don Kirkwood (6–10) and two RBIs by Tony Solalta carried the Angels to a 2–1 victory over the Royals, who went down to their eighth defeat in the last nine games. Solaita hit a sacrifice fly to plate the initial tally in the first inning. The Royals scored on a walk to Fred Patek, a stolen base and single by Tom Poquette in the third. The Angels registered the deciding run in the sixth when Mike Easler singled, stole second and came home on a single by Solaita.
The Brewers set a club record for most hits in a game with 20 and tied their club mark for most runs while trouncing the Indians, 17–4. In achieving their lopsided victory, the Brewers had two big innings, starting with six runs in the first and adding five in the fourth. George Scott accounted for four RBIs with a homer and single. Gary Beare, who came up from Spokane (Pacific Coast), was the winner in his first major league appearance.
A crowd of only 2,107, smallest turnout for a game in Montreal, saw the Expos lose to the Cardinals, 7–4. The Expos folded after taking a 4–0 lead. The Cards erupted to tie the score in the sixth, counting runs on singles by Keith Hernandez and hector Cruz and two more on a single by Ron Fairly. With two out in the seventh, the Cards broke the tie when Lou Brock doubled and Hernandez singled.
A two-run triple by Chris Chambliss and two-run homer by Oscar Gamble enabled the Yankees to break Luis Tiant’s (17–11) seven-game winning streak and defeat the Red Sox, 4–2. Dock Ellis (15–6), who started for the Yankees, pitched scoreless ball until Carlton Fisk homered in the seventh inning. The Red Sox then loaded the bases in the eighth, but Dick Tidrow retired the side without allowing a run and earned the save, although giving up a homer by Carl Yastrzemski in the ninth.
Mike Torrez (12–10) pitched a four-hitter and Gene Tenace batted in three runs with two homers as the Athletics defeated the White Sox, 4–0. After Tenace homered in the second inning, the A’s scored again in the fifth on a double by Bill North and two wild pitches by Clay Carroll. Tenace’s second homer of the game came in the eighth with a man on base.
Dave Freisleben (9–12) gained his first victory since August 16 when the Padres put together a pair of two-run outbursts to defeat the Dodgers, 4–2. In the fifth inning, Johnny Grubb drove in two runs with a single after the Padres had loaded the bases on a single by Jerry Turner and walks to Doug Rader and Freisleben. Then in the sixth, the other two runs crossed the plate when Willie Davis and Mike Ivie singled and Turner doubled. Steve Garvey batted in both Dodger runs with a single and homer.
The Giants broke a 2–2 tie with a four-run attack on Phil Niekro (14–11) in the fourth inning and defeated the Braves, 6–3. The Braves nicked winner Jim Barr (12–11) for their pair in the second, but Marty Perez tied the score with a bases-loaded single in the Giants’ half of the frame. In the fourth, Niekro helped beat himself with two walks and a wild pitch. Gary Matthews capped the uprising with a two-run double.
Pete Redfern (5–7) and Bill Campbell paired up to pitch the Twins to a 1–0 victory over the Rangers. Redfern worked six innings before giving way to Campbell, who picked up his 17th save. The game’s only run scored off Gaylord Perry in the third inning on a double by Steve Brye, sacrifice by Bob Randall and grounder by Steve Braun. This was the third consecutive game that Perry had pitched without any scoring support from his teammates.
New York Mets 11, Chicago Cubs 0
Houston Astros 10, Cincinnati Reds 5
Baltimore Orioles 5, Detroit Tigers 3
California Angels 2, Kansas City Royals 1
Cleveland Indians 4, Milwaukee Brewers 17
St. Louis Cardinals 7, Montreal Expos 4
Boston Red Sox 2, New York Yankees 4
Chicago White Sox 0, Oakland Athletics 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, San Diego Padres 4
Atlanta Braves 3, San Francisco Giants 6
Minnesota Twins 1, Texas Rangers 0
The stock market, after some early hesitation, closed higher yesterday, aided by strength in blue‐chip, gold and electronic issues. The Dow Jones industrial average, off 0.41 point at noon, ended the day up 7.48 points at 996.59. In the last six sessions, the average has risen 32.66 points.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 996.59 (+7.48, +0.76%)
Born:
Oliver Hudson, American actor (“Rules of Engagement”), in Los Angeles, California.
Maurice Smith, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons), in Palmyra, North Carolina.
Aaron Looper, MLB pitcher (Seattle Mariners), in Ada, Oklahoma.
Died:
Anna Kéthly, 86, Hungarian politician who served briefly as leader of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 until the Soviet Union invaded Hungary and restored Communist rule. She had lived the remaining years of her life in exile after fleeing the country from certain arrest.
Daniel F. Galouye, 56, American sci-fi author (“Dark Universe”, “Last Leap”).
Bernard Peiffer, 53, French-born American jazz composer.
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