All 176 aboard two airliners were killed in the collision between a British Airways Trident and a Yugoslavian DC-9 over the town of Vrbovec near Zagreb. British Airways Flight 475, an HS-121 Trident, had departed London and was en route to Istanbul and had 54 passengers and a crew of nine. Inex-Adria Flight 550, a Douglas DC-9, had taken off from Split in SR Croatia in Yugoslavia, and was bound for Cologne in West Germany with 108 passengers, most of them West German tourists returning home, and five crew. An air traffic controller at Zagreb advised the Yugoslavian flight that the British flight was at an altitude of 33,500 feet (10,200 m) when it was actually at 33,000 feet (10,000 m), the altitude cleared for the Yugoslavian DC-9. At 10:14 in the morning UTC, the DC-9’s wing cut through the cockpit of the Trident and both aircraft plunged to the ground. The controller, Gradimir Tasic, would be found guilty of criminal negligence on May 16, 1977, and sentenced to seven years in prison, while seven other controllers were acquitted.
Six members of a terrorist group called “Fighters for Free Croatia” hijacked TWA Flight 355, which had departed New York’s La Guardia Airport toward Chicago, and forced the Boeing 727 to fly to Montreal. Once the flight was taken over, the hijackers forced the pilot to transmit a radio message to the tower to alert police that a time bomb had been placed in a coin locker near Grand Central Station. In addition to the bomb, the locker contained two letters, one of which was the group’s manifesto and a demand that the text be published on the front page of five U.S. newspapers (The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and International Herald-Tribune, of which only the Herald-Tribune elected not to publish the statement) after which the police would be alerted to the location of a second bomb and added that if the demands were not met by the deadline, the second bomb would be activated. Upon arriving at locker 5713 in a building across the street from Grand Central Station, police found a sealed pressure cooker and removed the bomb, with fatal consequences hours later.
A state visit to Belgrade by French President Giscard d’Estaing was postponed because of what the French said was President Tito’s ill health. But in Belgrade, the President was reported to have spent the day hunting and meeting with Rumanian President Ceausescu. The illness may be more diplomatic than physical, diplomats said, because the French were upset by a call for a boycott of French goods by the non-aligned bloc, a group in which Yugoslavia is influential.
Prime Minister James Callaghan, in a surprise move, reshuffled his Cabinet tonight. The net effect of the move is to bring younger faces into top Government jobs without changing the Cabinet’s political balance. The major posts at the Foreign Office, the reasury and the Department of Employment were not affected. One immediate beneficiary of the move was Shirley Williams, who was promoted from Prices Secretary to Secretary for Education. Mrs. Williams, who is regarded as a moderate in the Labor Party, has thereby been moved into a position where she could challenge for the Labor Party leadership should Mr. Callaghan retire or be defeated in the next election. She has long been regarded as one of the most articulate and personable of Labor’s politicians, and is now clearly stamped as the party’s answer to Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher.
The Bank of England raised its minimum lending rate to 13 percent in an attempt to shore up the pound as the threat of a seamen’s strike in Britain increased. The union refused to call off the walkout set for tomorrow despite pleas from the government and labor leaders that a strike could bring about the fall of the Labor government.
London newspapers repored that Britain’s Prince Charles will marry commoner Davina Sheffield after his naval service ends next year.
Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez Gonzales promised the Spanish people tonight that by next June they would be able to elect a new two-house Parliament that would have the power to change the Constitution.
Egypt’s semi-official Middle East news agency reported that the leaders of Lebanon’s warring factions will meet in Cairo to work for a solution to the Lebanese civil war.
An Indian Airlines jet flying from New Delhi to Mumbai was hijacked by a group of six gunmen and diverted to Lahore in Pakistan, where the 71 passengers were released. A team of commandos stormed the airplane and freed the seven crew and took the hijackers into custody early the next day, 21 hours after the plane had been seized.
Subdued people and mournful music appeared to be the main outward signs in China after the death of Mao Tse-tung. There were few tears or expressions of shock as the people spent the day preparing for the period of official mourning. The music alternated over public loudspeakers with the day-old announcement of the Chairman’s death and of his funeral committee.
The official list of the committee for Mao Tse‐tung’s funeral, which was published yesterday, suggests that three senior Chinese officials, the Minister of Education, the Minister of Railways and the director of the official press agency, Hsinhua, may have lost their posts as a result of this year’s antirightist campaign. The names of the three officials, who were believed to have close relations with Deng Xiaoping, the ousted deputy prime minister, did not appear on the list of 373 people who make up the funeral committee. Analysts here have carefully scrutinized the list because it is the most complete rundown on members of the Central Committee and senior Government officials since the last party congress was held in 1973. No major new developments were reported in Peking today, as Chinese began eight days of mourning leading up to a mass commemorative rally to be held on Saturday, September 18, in Peking’s vast Tienanmen Square.
The Hong Kong stock market plunged sharply today following the announcement of Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s death, but otherwise this prosperous British colony, whose future depends on China’s good will, displayed little outward reaction. British and American businessmen in the colony showed little interest in Chairman Mao’s death. One British businessman said over lunch‐today, “No one is even talking about it. They were ready for this a long time ago.”
Argentina’s striking automobile workers returned to their jobs today. The strike, which involved 20,000 workers at its height, was the most serious that the ruling military junta has faced since it took power in March. The labor action was met by a decree threatening the strike’s organizers with as many as 10 years in prison.
The government of South Africa made partial concessions in its apartheid policy of racial segregation, relaxing rules against people of mixed race— “coloureds” or “kleurlinge” — though not changing its practice toward black South Africans. According to the announcement, coloureds “would no longer have to use separate lavatories, washrooms and waiting rooms in public buildings” and, along with Asians, could set up businesses outside of designated areas and could trade union officials.
Rioting continued in Cape Town, South Africa, despite some concessions to mixed races by the government. The White House announced that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will begin a shuttle diplomacy mission to Africa on Monday; he will visit Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa.
The White House announced today that Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger would leave Monday for talks in southern Africa to seek solutions to the problems of SouthWest Africa and Rhodesia before conflicts between blacks and whites engulf those areas. As a result of the progress that he apparently made last weekend in Zurich with Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa, Mr. Kissinger included South Africa on his itinerary. It will be the first time such a high‐level American official has ever visted the racially segregated state. Mr. Kissinger will spend nearly three days next weekend in Pretoria, the South African administrative capital, and he plans to meet with black leaders while there to signify American concern for their plight, State Department officials said. He hail planned originally to go to southern Africa right after he met with Mr. Vorster, but a meeting of black southern African leaders at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Monday and Tuesday, led him to delay his departure until he had received a report on the results of that meeting.
President Ford’s abortion stand “encouraged” a group of Roman Catholic prelates who met with him, but they were not “totally satisfied” with Mr. Ford’s support of a constitutional amendment permitting state regulation of abortion. The reaction of the bishops, which stipulated that they were not endorsing Mr. Ford, was in contrast to their disappointment after meeting with Jimmy Carter last week.
A plea to voters not to misjudge Jimmy Carter because of his region, accent or religion was made by Senator Mondale in a speech at Notre Dame. He said that John F. Kennedy had been suspect to many voters for those reasons during the 1960 campaign.
Senator Robert J. Dole, in his first visit to Texas as the Republican Vice‐Presidential candidate, walked tall and talked tough today about his Democratic rivals as he did his best to turn this crucial state into an election battleground. Mr. Dole made perhaps his harshest attacks of the campaign on Jimmy Carter, the Democratic Presidential nominee, and his running mate, Senator Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota. The Kansas Senator came here facing the formidable task of trying to heal the deep wounds left in the Republican Party in Texas by Ronald Reagan’s clean sweep of the state’s primary in his unsuccessful attempt to take the Republican nomination from President Ford. Yesterday, in an interview, Mr. Dole acknowledged that it would be difficult to bring together the “Reagan people and the Ford people” in Texas where there is “a very strong split.”
The Pentagon was unaware for two years that the Grumman Aircraft Corporation had retained foreign sales agents to help it sell 80 F-14 jets to Iran. A Senate committee investigating foreign bribes and payoffs was told by military officials that the Defense Department learned of the agents in mid-1975.
The Senate passed a bill to finance public works jobs that were created earlier by legislation passed over the President’s veto.
With a strike deadline four days off, the Ford Motor Company moved closer today to the United Automobile Workers’ position on two key contract issues: wages and layoff benefits. But it appeared to fall much further short of union demands in other areas — especially the demand for reduced working time, which the U.A.W. views as a device for preserving jobs. Today’s offer omitted any mention of that. Leonard Woodcock, the union president, said the company’s latest offer was “a long, long way from home.” He told newsmen that he and other union bargainers were “not at all optimistic” about avoiding a strike against Ford when the current three‐year labor contract between the two parties expires at 11:59 PM next Tuesday
Almost all cadets involved in the cheating scandal at West Point have been detected and punished, Army Secretary Martin Hoffmann said at a news conference. He said that 134 cadets had been found guilty or had resigned when accused of violating the academy’s honor code. Eighty-five of the cadets who resigned, Mr. Hoffmann said, have expressed an interest in applying for readmission.
A fair trial is impossible in Passaic County, a New Jersey judge said as he moved the retrial on murder charges of Rubin (Hurricane) Carter and John Artis to Hudson County. In another development, a witness whose recantation helped win a new trial for the two men, who are accused of killing three white men, said he was being pressured by the Passaic prosecutor’s office to change his testimony.
Wholesale prosecutions of F.B.I. agents who carried out burglaries will probably not be made by the Justice Department, which instead will focus on higher-ranking officials who knew of or approved the break-ins. A defense lawyer for 25 agents who carried out the burglaries said that 21 of his clients had been granted immunity or told their testimony was not needed.
Disputing allegations of sloppy work on the Alaska oil pipeline, the Transportation Department said today that the pipeline’s builders were fixing substandard welds and the pipeline should open on time next July. The Deputy Transportation Secretary, John Barnum, dismissed criticism by House investigators that his fact‐finding team’s pipeline evaluation had been inadequate. He also denied refusing to give the Congressional team a copy of his report.
The disclosure this week that many of Alabama Governor George C. Wallace’s bedroom telephone conversations. had been surreptitiously recorded, apparently by his wife, has raised questions about the stability of, the Governor’s marriage. Friends of the Wallace family and some of those involved in investigating the eavesdropping say privately that the Governor’s 37‐year‐old wife, Cornelia, decided to tap her husband’s phone to determine whether ne was discussing her with other women, perhaps in disparaging terms. She is also said to have suspected that the Governor, 57 years old and crippled from the waist down since a 1972 assassination attempt, had ordered some of his aides to keep watch on her daily activities.
Discipline has eroded to the crisis level in this country’s schools. F. David Mathews, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, said today. “Teachers feel constrained” in enforcing discipline because of fears of legal problems, said Mr. Mathews, who left the presidency of the University of Alabama last summer to succeed Caspar W. Weinberger as secretary. Mr. Mathews participated in a cornerstone ceremony for a $40.8 million teaching hospital addition at Ohio State University. “We must reunite the school, the family and the community,” he said. “For most of our history those were identical agencies. They have become separate and distinct forces.” Part of the problem, he said, is getting parents involved. “Some will respond; some won’t . . . What you’re counting on is a collective response — the weight of the community.”
A Boy Scout troop’s scoutmaster, an, assistant: scoutmaster and another man were arrested today and accused of recruiting boys for homosexual orgies. The police said that three other men, including. another assistant scoutmaster for the same troop, were sought. The. police confiscated card files of names and addresses of boys in other states, apparently based on boy‐to‐boy “pen pal” contacts the men made through pornographic magazines. The officers also seized homemade snapshots of sex orgies. The investigation was started when a commercial film developer called the police about a pornographic film involving boys. Those arrested were identified as the scoutmaster, Richard Stanley Halvorsen, 51 years old; an assistant scoutmaster, Ray T. Woodall Jr., 48, and Lloyd R. Schwegmann, 28. A spokesman at the national headquarters of the Boy Scouts in New Brunswick, New Jersey, when told of the arrests, said that the organization would have no comment “at this point until we have a chance to look into the matter.” He added that “obviously we deplore any incident such as this.”
Women are still regarded by some as curiosities in the church despite commitments made to women’s equality by almost all major denominations. The percentage of women attending seminaries has increased from about 3 percent to 35 percent in the last decade, but many women still find themselves in the roles of assistant pastors while their male counterparts move on to higher-paying positions.
The society of professional journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, Protested today any effort by the House ethics committee to force Daniel Schorr, CBS reporter, to disclose who leaked a secret House report to him. The committee, trying to find the source of the leak, subpoenaed Schorr and some employees of The Village Voice, a New York newspaper, for testimony Wednesday. Mr. Schorr admits he gave the secret House Intelligence Committee report on covert spy activities to TheVoice, which published much of it. The ethics panel could recommend contempt of Congress citations against. Schorr or the others for failure to answer questions. Mr. Schorr has said that he will not name the source of the leak.
Possibly illegal payments of more than $25 million to promote its business and political interests overseas and in this country were reported to the S.E.C. by R.J. Reynolds Industries. Reynolds said $19 million of the total were “possibly illegal” checks made by its subsidiary.
Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood screen writer who was perhaps the most famous member of the blacklisted film industry authors called “the Hollywood Ten,” died of a heart attack early today at his home in Los Angeles. He was 70 years old.
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An unearned run in the fourth inning proved decisive as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Cleveland Indians, 4–3. The Orioles put together consecutive singles by Reggie Jackson, Lee May and Ken Singleton for a run in the first inning and added two in the second on a single by Andres Mora, double by Paul Blair and single by Bobby Grich. Then in the fourth, Mark Belanger singled, stole second and scored the deciding run on an error by Buddy Bell.
Ben Oglivie smashed a homer in the first inning and that was all the Detroit Tigers needed to defeat the Boston Red Sox, 1–0, in a game stopped by rain after five innings. Ray Bare (7–7) got the victory.
Nolan Ryan (13–17) struck out 18 batters and yielded only three hits while pitching the Angels to a 3–2 victory over the White Sox. Ryan’s strikeout total came within one of the major league record for nine innings which the Angels’ fireballer shares with Steve Carlton of the Phillies and Tom Seaver of the Mets. Bruce Bochte homered for the Angels in the second and another run followed in the same stanza on a single by Dave Chalk and double by Andy Etchebarren. The White Sox tied the score in the fifth when Jim Essian walked, Jim Spencer singled and Jorge Orta doubled. The Angels broke the tie in the sixth with a triple by Rusty Torres and double by Bochte. Bart Johnson (9–14) is the losing pitcher.
Led by Dan Ford and Larry Hisle, who drove in nine runs between them, the Twins overwhelmed the Royals, 18–3. Ford, who accounted for five RBIs, hit a sacrifice fly in the third inning, homered with a man on base in the fourth and rapped run-scoring singles in the fifth and sixth. Hisle had a sacrifice fly in the first, two-run triple in the fourth and run-scoring grounder for his fourth RBI in the fifth.
A grand-slam homer by Oscar Gamble capped a five-run outburst in the eighth inning and carried the Yankees to a 6–4 victory over the Brewers. With Dan Thomas hitting his first major league homer, the Brewers held a 2–1 lead before the Yankees exploded. A single by Mickey Rivers and two-out double by Chris Chambliss produced the first run in the rally. Carlos May and Graig Nettles then walked to load the bases, setting the stage for Gamble’s jackpot wallop off Jim Slaton. Von Joshua batted in two runs for the Brewers with a double in the ninth. Catfish Hunter wins his 15th.
Rick Reuschel (12–10), who tossed a six-hitter and pitched the Cubs to a 3–2 victory, beat the Phillies for the ninth time in 10 career decisions. The Phillies paired a single by Larry Bowa and double by Mike Schmidt for a run in the first inning, but the Cubs got even in the second with singles by George Mitterwald and Joe Wallis around an infield out by Manny Trillo. Wallis singled again in the fifth, moved up on a grounder by Mick Kelleher and scored on a single by Rick Monday. Bill Madlock then provided the Cubs’ deciding run with a homer in the eighth. The Phillies had a chance to pull the game out of the fire in their half but scored only once on a walk to Tim McCarver, single by Dave Cash, sacrifice bunt by Bowa and sacrifice fly by Schmidt.
The Expos put together a pair of two-run innings to defeat the Pirates, 4–2. In the second, Barry Foote doubled and scored on a single by Larry Parrish, who advanced on the throw and crossed the plate on a single by Pete Mackanin. A single by Earl Williams, double by Parrish and wild throw by Frank Taveras added the Expos’ other counters in the third. The Pirates had the potential tying runs on base in the ninth, but Woodie Fryman (12–10) retired pinch-hitter Al Oliver on a grounder to end the game.
Pete Rose collected a single, double and triple, driving in two runs, to lead the Reds to a 4–1 victory over the Giants. Rose batted in the Reds’ first run with his triple in the third inning and accounted for another RBI with his double in the fifth. The Reds added their other tallies in the ninth on a walk, double by Cesar Geronimo and single by pinch-hitter Mike Lum. Bob Knepper was the Giants’ loser in his first major league start.
The Mets converted a double steal into two runs in the ninth inning and defeated the Cardinals, 4–3. Pepe Mangual led off with a single and stopped at second on a single by John Stearns. With Roy Staiger at bat, Mangual and Stearns worked a double steal. Third baseman Hector Cruz had rushed in expecting a bunt, and when shortstop Garry Templeton failed to cover the bag, catcher Ted Simmons’ throw went into left field, allowing both Mangual and Stearns to score, putting the Mets ahead, 4–1. The runs became earned when Staiger followed with a single. Mickey Lolich (8–12), who started for the Mets, was hit on the left elbow by John Denny in the seventh. Skip Lockwood was knocked out in the ninth when the Cardinals rallied for two runs before Bob Apodaca saved the game for the Mets.
After the Athletics tied the score with a homer in the ninth inning and went ahead with two circuit clouts in the 10th, the Rangers rallied for three runs to gain a 5–4 victory. Gene Tenace rapped a round-tripper that knotted the count at 2–2. Bert Campaneris and Don Baylor hit homers in the 10th. In the Rangers’ half, Vida Blue gave up one run on three hits before leaving the game with one out. Rollie Fingers passed Mike Hargrove intentionally and then walked Dave Moates to force in the second run. After a force-out at the plate, Lenny Randle hit a deep drive to center field and when the ball slipped out of Bill North’s glove for a single, the Rangers’ winning run scored.
The scheduled game between the Atlanta Braves and the Dodgers at Los Angeles was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on September 12.
The scheduled doubleheader between the Houston Astros and the Padres at San Diego was postponed due to rain. One game will be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow, the other on September 19 in Houston.
Cleveland Indians 3, Baltimore Orioles 4
Detroit Tigers 1, Boston Red Sox 0
California Angels 3, Chicago White Sox 2
Kansas City Royals 3, Minnesota Twins 18
Milwaukee Brewers 4, New York Yankees 6
Chicago Cubs 3, Philadelphia Phillies 2
Montreal Expos 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Cincinnati Reds 4, San Francisco Giants 1
New York Mets 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Oakland Athletics 4, Texas Rangers 5
Stock prices moved in a narrow range in moderate trading, with the Dow Jones average closing up 1.49 points to 988.36. Commodity prices closed sharply lower with soybeans down 8 cents a bushel and wheat, oars and corn also dropping.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 988.36 (+1.49, +0.15%)
Born:
Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian professional tennis player and winner of the French Open in 1997, 2000 and 2001; in Florianopolis, Brazil.
Greg Henderson, New Zealand track cyclist (World Championship gold scratch race, 2004), in Dunedin, New Zealand
Died:
Dalton Trumbo, 70, American film screenwriter who was blacklisted in the 1950s and was unable to take credit for the 1953 and 1956 Academy Awards for best screenplay.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, 85, African-American preacher and educator, and the first black president of Howard University.
Dorothy Devore (stage name for Alma Inez Williams), 77, American comedienne and silent film actress.
Sergio Karakachoff, 37, Argentine journalist and dissident, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in the city of La Plata, after having written an article titled “Acerca de la violencia” (“About Violence”). His body and that of a co-worker, Domingo Terrugi, who had been kidnapped at the same time, were found the next day.
John Heaton, 68, American sledder (Olympic silver medal, skeleton, 1928, 1948, bronze medal, bobsled, 1932; American team’s flag bearer, 1948).
Barbara Farris, WNBA forward and center (WNBA Champions-Shock, 2003; Detroit Shock, New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury), in Harvey, Louisiana.
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