Joseph Luns, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said he thought the Soviet Union was stalling on nuclear arms negotiations until after the November U.S. presidential election. Luns, who met with President Ford earlier, said he did not believe the Russians would reach an agreement with the United States in the strategic arms limitation talks until after the election.
Guerrillas bombed the Belfast Telegraph, Northern Ireland’s biggest newspaper, injuring nine persons and causing a huge fire in the building. A British army spokesman said three men drove a truck containing the bomb into the loading bay of the paper. A brief warning was given, but the bomb exploded before all the paper’s employees could be evacuated.
Quick ratification of a new defense pact with Turkey was urged by the Ford Administration to prevent further loss of vital data on Soviet missile tests. But Senator Claiborne Pell (D-Rhode Island) warned hasty action on the measure, which would provide $1 billion in aid to Turkey in exchange for use of military facilities there, could sour relations with Greece. Greece and Turkey are currently feuding over oil rights in the Aegean Sea. The defense and aid pact, negotiated by March 26, followed talks begun after U.S. bases were closed by Turkey in retaliation against a congressionally imposed arms embargo.
Czechoslovakia’s Agriculture Minister and two Deputy Prime Ministers were dismissed from their posts today after criticism of the state of the economy by Communist Party leaders. Prime Minister Lubomir Strougal, in report to the party’s Central Committee two days ago, criticized industrial managers for failing to meet deadlines for exports to Western countries and for producing engineering goods of poor quality. Czechoslovakia will have to spend billions of crowns on importing grain, potatoes, sugar beet and fodder to offset poor harvest this year, Mr. Strougal said. Those dismissed from their posts included Bohuslav Vecera, Minister of Agriculture since 1971. The Deputy Prime Ministers were Frantisek Hamouz, believed to have been responsible for foreign trade, and Jan Gregor, understood to have been responsible for engineering.
The International Monetary Fund auctioned an additional 780,000 ounces of its gold at an average price of $109.40 an ounce. This was about $2 below the day’s closing price of gold in London. There was no lack of bids, with prices ranging from $108.76 to $114. The I.M.F.’s profit of about $54 million will go to a special trust fund set up to assist about 60 of the world’s poorest countries.
Israel and Syria temporarily opened the security fences along the Golan Heights, which Israel had captured from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War, in order to allow Druze villagers from both countries to meet with relatives they hadn’t seen in more than nine years. Syria agreed to the reunions to take place within the buffer zone set up by the United Nations on the condition that news correspondents not be allowed at the reunion site. Roughly 40 men and women in the Israeli-occupied village of Majdal Shams and the Syrian village of Hadr took advantage of the offer. Israel has been proposing such an arrangement for more than a year, but until now Syria opposed such contacts across the frontier. Syria accepted the present arrangement on condition that no correspondents be allowed at the site. The reunion today, in which about 40 men and women met in the buffer zone and talked in the presence of officers of the disengagement observer force, marked another move in a growing trend toward human contacts across Middle East borders.
Lebanese Christian President Suleiman Franjieh stripped Muslim Premier Rashid Karami of effective power and transferred it to a top Christian leader. Karami denounced the reshuffle, which left him as premier but ousted him from the ministries of defense, interior and foreign affairs. The posts were given to Camille Chamoun, a former president who heads one of the two rightist Christian militias. Karami called the move a “stab in the back” aimed at destroying chances for a successful transfer of power to President-elect Elias Sarkis next week.
The financial records of the United States military mission in Tehran have been destroyed in an apparent attempt to thwart an inquiry by service investigators, according to well-placed sources. The records in question are the expense accounts and others for the United States Military Assistance Advisory Group in Iran, which is the largest overseas. The records do not involve the bookkeeping on the $10 billion in United States arms sales to Iran. The records had been taken over by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, which often conducts investigations for the Defense Department, But the chief of the mission, Major General Kenneth P. Miles, ordered the records returned to the officer who formerly had custody of them, according to the sources. The office handed them over and they were subsequently destroyed, according to separate accounts of the episode, which was said to have occurred last month.
Sterilizations have tripled in the last year in India, where the government claims to be making some real progress toward slowing the growth of the population. Lowering the birth rate has top national priority, and a Health Ministry aide called the recent steps “a real breakthrough.”
Vietnam won membership in the 128-nation International Monetary Fund over opposition from the United States. The vote was taken at a special session of the fund’s executive board. It appeared that no other country had voted in opposition. South Vietnam joined the fund in 1956, and the new Communist government had notified the fund that it planned to take over the South Vietnamese seat.
In its first major policy statement since the death of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese Communist Party called for continued “fighting against the capitalist roaders in the party” but also defended the party’s “unity and unification.” The contrast of attacks on unidentified elements in the party and calls for party unity and discipline indicated an ambiguous compromise between opposing factions in the Chinese leadership was being maintained in the wake of Mao’s death. The statement appeared as a joint editorial in the official People’s Daily, the theoretical journal Red Flag and the army newspaper Liberation Army Daily.
The undetected final approach of the vagrant Soviet MIG-25 to Japan has brought home to Government circles in Tokyo the loopholes in the country’s air defense, according to United States defense sources. The first analysis on the high‐speed, high‐altitude aircraft, known to the North Atlantic Treaty organization as the Foxbat, has heightened Western concern over the regular reconnaissance flights by other MIG‐25’s over West Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway. According to NATO intelligence reports, there are 45 Foxbats in East Germany and Poland employed on such patrols.
The Soviet Union, in a sharp new statement on the case of the MIG‐25 fighter plane whose pilot flew to Japan, accused Tokyo today of being unfriendly to the Soviet Union and of disregarding international law. The official Tass press agency was commenting on reports that an American transport aircraft had been sent to pick up the advanced Soviet jet from an airstrip in northern Japan. Lieutenant Viktor I. Belenko landed the MIG on September 6. Authorities announced that he asked for asylum in the United States and he flew there later in the Week. Tass said news that the American transport was being used to carry the MIG to a military base for “careful study” had been accompanied by reports that American security services “are taking a great interest” in the Soviet plane.
The Philippines government is guilty of “torture used frequently with extreme cruelty” toward martial law detainees but has taken some steps to eliminate the practice, Amnesty International reported from London. Since its mission to the Philippines, the group said, about 25 prisoners it interviewed “have been granted temporary release” and four military men accused of torture have been ordered to face court-martial trials. On August 15, “the government announced steps to prevent torture,” and “has clearly gone some way towards implementing the recommendations of Amnesty International,” the group added.
Canada’s expanded, reshaped Cabinet, sworn in today, is apparently a response to two problems facing Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau a decline in the popularity of his party and general displeasure about the state of the Canadian economy.
In Panama, antiriot squads wielding rubber truncheons broke up a student demonstration tonight after the Government banned all demonstrations until further notice. In casualties were reported, but the. Government of Brig. Gen. Omar Torrijos Herrera immediately ordered all high schools closed until Monday. The students took to the streets for the second time in a week, this time in defiance of the anti demonstration order. They smashed shop windows, broke utility poles and littered the streets of the city. Several thousand students demonstrated last Friday against a rise in milk and rice prices and to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Chile’s Marxist President, Salvador Allende Gossens, who was killed in a military coup three years ago.
All 11 people aboard an Argentine Air Force Lockheed P-2 Neptune reconnaissance airplane were killed when the aircraft crashed into a mountain on Antarctica’s Livingston Island. The names of various locations on Livingston Island would be named for victims of the air crash, including Scesa Point and Arroyo Point.
Tanzania’s President was pessimistic after several hours of talks in Dar es Salaam with Secretary of State Kissinger. Julius Nyerere said he had heard nothing to encourage the possibility of negotiated solutions for either South-West Africa or Rhodesia. Coming at the beginning of Mr. Kissinger’s attempt to mediate the key issues of southern Africa, the comments by Mr. Nyerere, a leader among black African statesmen, seemed to raise strong doubts about Mr. Kissinger’s ability to achieve significant progress during his “diplomatic shuttles” of the next week or so. Mr. Kissinger suggested later that the statement might turn out to be only positioning in preparation for later talks with South Africa’s Prime Minister.
The government of South Africa began the forcible relocation of 45,000 black members of the Tswana people from Rooijantjiesfontein in the Transvaal Province, transporting them to Deelpan, a location 35 miles (56 km) to the west. The tribesmen are being move from a so‐called “black spot” in a rural area reserved for whites into the Bophutatswana homeland, one of nine tribal domains set aside for blacks. The Institute of Race Relations here, a nonpartisan research organization, estimates that at least 120,000 blacks have already been moved as part of a Government plan to consolidate Bophutatswana, which is divided into 19 separate parcels of land separated by white‐owned territory. A freelance photographer who slipped inside the police cordon said today that he had seen demolition crews destroying the tribesmen’s homes as the trucks pulled out.
Soyuz 22 was launched from the Soviet Union with cosmonauts Valery Bykovsky and Vladimir Aksyonov photographing the surface of the Earth with a special high-resolution camera.
The Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space, adopted by the UN General Assembly on November 12, 1974, went into effect. It requires member nations to furnish the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) with details about each space object sent into orbit.
President Ford’s formal campaign began with a speech at his alma mater, the University of Michigan. He proposed legislation to spur home ownership by persons of limited means, and without naming his Democratic challenger for the presidency, Jimmy Carter, he thrust at him by suggesting that the people’s trust must be earned by leveling with them. He called for legislation, which Congress could not enact before the November 2 election, to reduce the down payment required for a mortgage guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration. He also said that he would put into effect soon, under authority granted to the White House two years ago, a plan to permit purchase of homes through loans with gradually rising interest‐rates. The bulk of Mr. Ford’s remarks to large audience in Crisler Arena, on the campus where he was a football star four decades ago, consisted of a recital of old proposals and a sharp, if indirect, assault on his Democratic opponent. Without mentioning Mr. Carter by name, the President made clear his target in saying, “It is not enough for anyone to say ‘Trust me.’ Trust must be earned.
Members of Congress, federal judges and top level employees of the executive branch will not get a 4.83% cost of living raise, House and Senate conferees decided. Employees making less than $37,800, however, will remain eligible for the raise, which is due on October 1. The conferees also decided to repeal an automatic 1% cost of living “kicker” that in the past has been added to military and civil service retirement pensions. A new method of computing cost of living raises will replace the kicker. The conferees then approved a compromise $943.3 million legislative appropriations bill that now must be passed by both Houses.
A resolution to set up a special House committee to investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King won approval from the Rules Committee. It now goes to floor for a vote by the full House. The resolution also would empower the committee to investigate other assassinations, which could prompt the panel to expand an inquiry to include the slaying of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
A federal appeals court ruled in Washington that former White House aide John D. Ehrlichman did not have to begin serving his prison sentence while the Supreme Court was considering his appeal. The brief order overturned a lower court’s decision requiring Ehrlichman to go to jail Friday. Ehrlichman, the chief domestic adviser to former President Richard M. Nixon, faces a 20-month sentence for his role in the White House plumbers break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. He was convicted in 1974.
The House has defeated a proposed two‐year ban on commercial reproduction of former President Richard M. Nixon’s Watergate tapes. The House also rejected a second proposal to bar public access to any Nixon materials dealing with “private political associations.” Opponents of the ban feared it could be interpreted by some to block public access to any Watergate materials. The tapes and other materials of the Nixon Administrations have been impounded by the General Services Administration pending final appeal of a Nixon legal effort to have them declared his personal property.
A former Nixon aide denied seeking a $1 million political contribution from the Grumman aerospace company in exchange for White House support of the firm’s effort to sell planes to Japan. Richard V. Allen, former deputy assistant for international economic affairs, made the denial in testimony to the Senate multinational corporations subcommittee, which is holding hearings on the activity abroad of U.S. companies. On Monday Thomas B. Cheatham, former president of Grumman’s foreign sales subsidiary, said Allen had told him it ought to be “worth about $1 million” for then President Richard M. Nixon to discuss plane sales with the Japanese prime minister.
The decisive farm vote was courted by Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz during a visit to a Midwestern fairground with the message that the farmers have never had it so good. Although farmers have traditionally voted Republican, a poll by the New York Times shows President Ford trailing Jimmy Carter.
Dissatisfaction with foreign policy is the picture brought back to Washington by aides to Mr. Kissinger following “town meetings” with representative groups of citizens in Pittsburgh, Portland, Oregon, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Milwaukee. They found distrust of the government’s effectiveness in carrying out humanitarian policies. From each of the “town meetings,” as they were called, the aides carried back messages that constituted an indictment of much of Mr. Kissinger’s diplomacy for being “insufficiently concerned with the protection of human rights,” for letting Moscow get the better of détente, for conducting covert operations and for not doing enough about domestic priorities and the needs of developing nations. The New York Times obtained their reports from an official who felt disclosure would help the candidacy of Jimmy Carter.
The House-Senate deadlock on the abortion issue may have been broken by a formula from the conference committee. The language would bar payment through Medicaid for abortions except where the mother’s life was endangered, but the prohibition was softened in the conferees’ binding official report.
Daniel Schorr refused the House Ethics Committee’s demand to know how he got the Pike Committee report on intelligence activities, citing his rights under the First Amendment. However, the panel will not cite the CBS News correspondent for contempt.
Negotiators in the strike against Ford Motor Co. indicated that talks would not resume until next week. A union source said the workers were bracing for a strike of at least two weeks. United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock, who called 170,000 workers in 22 states off their jobs with Ford at midnight Tuesday, said he was not optimistic about prospects for a short strike. A Ford spokesman said, “We know how to get in touch… Meetings can be arranged on very short notice.” One major issue dividing the two sides is a union demand for 12 more paid days off each year to preserve current jobs and create new ones. Ford has offered five days, based on seniority and attendance.
Rep. Allan T. Howe (D-Utah) released results of a lie detector test which he said backed up his story that he was innocent of soliciting sex from two police decoy prostitutes. Howe, convicted on a misdemeanor charge of offering $20 for various sex acts, opened his reelection campaign with a news conference in Salt Lake City in which he claimed he passed a polygraph examination by a Chicago expert. The expert, Leonard Harrelson, was present at the conference.
Richard Speck, convicted in 1966 of murdering eight Chicago nurses, was denied parole today. Relatives of the slain women appeared at a State Parole Board hearing at Stateville Penitentiary to urge it to keep him imprisoned. “I think Speck should stay in prison as long as the girls are in their graves,” said John Wilkening of Lansing, Illinois, father of one of the victims. Mr. Speck, 34 years old, was sentenced to die in the electric chair following his trial, but was saved when the death penalty was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
The winner, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, accepted as gracious the promise of help from Bella Abzug whom he narrowly defeated in the Democratic primary for the United States Senate nomination from New York. The Liberal Party prepared to shift from its token candidate to support Mr. Moynihan against the incumbent Conservative-Republican, James Buckley, who handily defeated Representative Peter Peyser, the moderate Republican challenger.
A debate appeared in prospect between the two Senate candidates from New York. Senator Buckley, who tagged Mr. Moynihan as to the left of most New Yorkers, announced his readiness, while his challenger, proclaiming himself a “liberal centrist,” said that he wanted to debate.
American Telephone and Telegraph earned just over $1 billion in the quarter ending August 31, making it the first publicly owned corporation to earn that amount in a three-month period. Its chairman attributed the gain to a general improvement in the economy, higher telephone usage and higher rates and productivity.
The Humane Society of the United States has decided to ask the Army to stop its campaign to poison ground squirrels around the Fort Ord complex near Monterey. Dr. Michael W. Fox, a veterinarian employed by the society, said most of the squirrels that eat lethal doses of the rat poison Warfarin would suffer greatly before death and could easily fall dead into water, thus spreading the poison. The Army believes fleas carried by the squirrels may spread bubonic plague.
Exxon Corp. paid $100,000 in civil penalties for discharging polluted water from an oil-drilling operation in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea. A Justice Department official called it the largest penalty ever levied against a corporation for violating the 4-year-old law prohibiting such discharges. More than 500,000 gallons of contaminated water were dumped into the sea from an Exxon well on Flaxman Island in 1975. The dumping was noticed by an employee of the company who notified authorities. The agreement to pay the penalty was reached between Exxon and the Justice Department in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
The drought-starved Mississippi River, a major inland waterway, has ebbed to its lowest point in 20 years in the last month, spawning a rash of groundings, dangerous barge breakaways and costly delays just as the river moves into its period of heaviest traffic.
Ntozake Shange’s play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf” premieres in NYC.
Darryl Sittler scored the winning goal in the 1976 Canada Cup for Canada to win over Czechoslovakia in overtime, to win the first Canada Cup, which stayed in Canada.
Bob Watson had a perfect night at the plate with four hits and drove in three runs to lead the Astros to a 4–3 victory over the Braves. Watson batted in the Astros’ initial run with a single in the first inning. The Braves tied the score in their half and went ahead in the fourth when Brian Asselstine’s sacrifice fly and Dale Murphy’s double helped account for two runs. The Astros rallied to win with three runs in the sixth. Watson knocked in the first two with a single and later crossed the plate with the deciding run on an error by Rob Belloir.
A homer by Andres Mora enabled Wayne Garland to pitch the Orioles to a 1–0 victory over the Tigers in a game stopped by rain after six innings. Mora’s blow in the third inning pinned the defeat on Dave Roberts. Garland (18–6) allowed only two hits, including a single by Rusty Staub for the 2,000th hit of the outfielder’s major league career.
Pinch-hitter Tommy Davis delivered a run-scoring single in the ninth inning to give the Angels a 2–1 victory over the slipping Royals, whose lead in the West Division race was cut to 3½ games over the Athletics. Nolan Ryan (14–17) yielded the Royals’ run in the sixth when Fred Patek singled, stole second and scored on a single by Tom Poquette. The Angels tied the score against Doug Bird in the seventh on singles by Dan Briggs and Tony Solaita and a sacrifice fly by Bruce Bochte. The Angels opened the ninth with singles by Dave Collins and Briggs sandwiched around a forceout by Jerry Remy. Steve Mingori relieved and passed Rusty Torres. Mark Littell then took the mound and on his first pitch Davis rapped his game-winning single.
After hitting a homer in the sixth inning, Toby Harrah singled in the eighth to spark the Rangers to a 4–3 victory over the White Sox. Harrah’s homer broke a 1–1 tie. The Rangers then added two runs in the eighth with the first marker counting on singles by Harrah, Mike Hargrove and Jeff Burroughs. After a pass to Roy Howell, an infield out by Lenny Randle accounted for the winning run.
Pete Rose rapped four hits and Tony Perez added three to lead the Reds’ attack in a 4–3 victory over the Dodgers. Pat Zachry (13–5), who was the winner with help from Rawly Eastwick, became the first pitcher to beat the Dodgers five times without a defeat in one season since Larry Jaster of the Cardinals accomplished the feat in 1968. Eastwick gained his 23rd save. The Reds tore into Al Downing for three runs in the third inning on a single by Rose, double by Ken Griffey, single by Joe Morgan, sacrifice fly by George Foster and double by Perez. Another double by Perez drove in what proved to be the deciding run in the seventh. Reggie Smith homered for the Dodgers.
Posting his third shutout of the season, Doyle Alexander (12–9) allowed only four hits and pitched the Yankees to a 2–0 victory over the Indians. The Yankees settled Alexander’s duel with Rick Waits by scoring a run in the first inning on a single by Thurman Munson and double by Lou Piniella. Munson drove in the other run with an infield out in the eighth for his 97th RBI of the season.
Butch Hobson homered after a single by Jim Rice in the fifth inning to provide the Red Sox with a 2–1 victory over the Brewers. Reggie Cleveland (8–9) limited the Brewers to four hits but needed last-out help from Tom Murphy to nail down the decision. The Brewers’ run came in the third on a pass to Tim Johnson, a sacrifice and error by Cecil Cooper.
Ray Burris (13–13) pitched a five-hitter and came out the winner in a duel with Steve Rogers when the Cubs scored a pair of unearned runs in the third inning to defeat the Expos, 2–0. Mick Kelleher led off the stanza with a single and Burris sacrificed. After Rick Monday struck out, Joe Wallis grounded to Earl Williams, who threw wildly to Rogers covering first, to allow Kelleher to score on the error. Wallis took second and crossed the plate when Bill Madlock doubled.
The Cardinals swept a doubleheader for the first time this season, beating the Mets in a twi-night affair, 7–0 and 4–1. John Denny (10–7) posted the shutout on a four-hitter. Joe Ferguson hit the first grand-slam homer of his major league career and drove in a fifth run with a single. The catcher’s jackpot wallop came off Mickey Lolich in the third inning after Denny beat out a bunt and both Garry Templeton and Keith Hernandez walked. Mike Anderson added a homer in the eighth. John Curtis (6–9) was the route-going winner in the nightcap. The Cards put the game away with three runs in the third inning on doubles by Templeton and Hernandez and singles by Hector Cruz and Don Kessinger.
A five-run rally in the eighth inning, fashioned with four hits, a walk, hit batsman and four stolen bases, enabled the Athletics to defeat the Twins, 5–2. Jim Hughes, who started for the Twins, yielded only three hits before the roof fell in. Gene Tenace drew a walk to start the rally and gave way to Larry Lintz, who stole second. Ron Fairly, making his first appearance with the A’s, rapped a pinch-single, scoring Lintz. Matt Alexander ran for Fairly and stole second. After an infield hit by Phil Garner, Alexander counted on a forceout by Ken McMullen. Bill North followed with a single and Claudell Washington was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Don Baylor capitalized on the opportunity with a single, driving in two runs. Baylor stole second and Washington then stole home with the final run of the outburst.
Bill Robinson and Richie Zisk each hit his 20th homer of the season and Dave Parker added his 11th as the Pirates powered their way to a 7–2 victory to pull within five games of the Phillies in the East Division race. Robinson connected following a single by Parker in the second inning. Zisk’s homer, plus a double by Willie Stargell and single by Parker, made it 4-0 in the third. The Phillies picked up their pair in the fourth when Mike Schmidt walked and Dick Allen homered, but the Pirates counted twice in the eighth on a double by Parker, single by Robinson and double by Tommy Helms before Parker wrapped up the scoring with his circuit clout in the ninth.
Frank Riccelli gained his first major league victory at the expense of Randy Jones when the Giants defeated the Padres, 2–1. Jones, the Padres’ 21-game winner who absorbed his 13th loss, gave up the Giants’ first run on a homer by Bobby Murcer in the fourth inning. The Padres knotted the count in the fifth and the tie persisted until the eighth when Larry Herndon batted for Riccelli and beat out a bunt on a disputed play. Jack Clark sacrificed and with two out Gary Matthews doubled to drive in the winning run.
Houston Astros 4, Atlanta Braves 3
Detroit Tigers 0, Baltimore Orioles 1
Kansas City Royals 1, California Angels 2
Texas Rangers 4, Chicago White Sox 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, Cincinnati Reds 4
New York Yankees 2, Cleveland Indians 0
Boston Red Sox 2, Milwaukee Brewers 1
Chicago Cubs 2, Montreal Expos 0
St. Louis Cardinals 7, New York Mets 0
St. Louis Cardinals 4, New York Mets 1
Minnesota Twins 2, Oakland Athletics 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 7, Philadelphia Phillies 2
San Francisco Giants 2, San Diego Padres 1
Stock prices moved in a narrow range with advances slightly outnumbering declines. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.67 points, closing at 979.31. Bond trading in government and federal agency securities reflected the trend toward lower interest rates in other sectors of the credit market.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 979.31 (+0.67, +0.07%)
Born:
Matt Thornton, MLB pitcher (MLB All-Star 2010; Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Washington Nationals, San Diego Padres), in Three Rivers, Michigan.
Damon Moore, NFL safety (Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears), in Fostoria, Ohio.
Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand — “Take Me Out”), in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Ivette Sosa, American pop singer (Eden’s Crush — “Get Over Yourself”), in Edison, New Jersey.
Died:
Moddie Taylor, 64, African American chemist and metallurgist who worked on the Manhattan Project.
Josef Sudek, 80, Czech photographer.
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