[Ed: Probably the only cool thing Nelson ever did.]
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands resigned as honorary president of the World Wildlife Fund, after allegations that he accepted bribes from the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. In a letter published by the fund’s headquarters in Morges, Switzerland, Bernhard said he would not be available for reelection when his term of office expires at the end of this year. He made no mention of the Lockheed affair and gave no reason for his withdrawal as president.
Oil-sharing arrangements for use in the event of another oil embargo will be tested this fall by 19 industrial nations. More than 30 oil companies will be asked to divert oil to countries supposedly short of fuel, but no ships will actually change routes.
Thousands in the earthquake-devastated Friuli region of northeastern Italy abandoned their homeland in an exodus to the Adriatic coast or the Dolomite mountains. A new wave of tremors since Saturday appeared to have broken the will of peasants who had refused to leave their land after a severe earthquake last May 6. The death toll in the recent tremors was low — 11 compared with nearly 1,000 in May — but damage to property and to morale was tremendous.
Yugoslav President Tito called off all his official functions for the rest of September and all of October after doctors began treating him for acute liver trouble last week, government sources said. They said his physicians were taking extra precautions and were exceptionally strict in cutting down the 84-year-old leader’s activities.
W. Averell Harriman, who served as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during World War II, arrived in Moscow for a private visit. Harriman, 85, will stay for a week to 10 days, meeting friends and Soviet officials, an embassy spokesman said. Harriman, former Democratic governor of New York, has served as a top foreign policy adviser to several administrations.
The first angioplasty (percutaneous transluminal angioplasty) on a human being, a minimally-invasive procedure to widen arteries damaged by atherosclerosis, was performed by West German surgeon Andreas Gruentzig, who had perfected the procedure on dogs.
The Vatican decreed that a public Mass might be held for the deceased non-Catholic Christians, except in cases that might cause “scandal for the faithful.” “A public Mass for American President Roosevelt would be no problem. But one for Stalin, who was born into a Christian family, might stir some scandal,” explained the Rev. Marcelino Zalba, a professor of Rome’s Gregorian University. A public Mass is one celebrated for an audience.
Shavarsh Karapetyan saved 20 people from a crowded bus that had fallen into the 33 feet (10 m) deep Yerevan Lake in what was then the Armenian SSR in the Soviet Union. Karapetyan, an expert swimmer made repeated dives to the bottom of the lake, broke out a back window and spent roughly 30 seconds for each rescue. Another 72 passengers lost their lives in the accident.
Israel has been arming villagers in Lebanon as part of a plan to keep Palestinian forces from regrouping near its northern border. according to Israeli sources. Other Israeli involvements in the Lebanese conflict, none of them officially acknowledged, include patrols in Lebanon, a tacit agreement with Syria that allowed it to move forces away from the Golan Heights, and what is said to amount to a blockade of Lebanese ports.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was approved for a second six-year term in a yes/no election with no other candidates. Sadat received 9,145,683 of the 9,151,288 votes cast, with only 5,605 (0.06 percent) of voters against him.
Boatloads of refugees fleeing Indochina have been passed up by ships whose captains have found that it costs a great deal of time and money to land refugees someplace as country after country refuses to grant a haven. One group of 31 Vietnamese picked up by a freighter has been refused entry in Singapore and Yemen and is now on its way to Japan.
The U.N. Command and North Korea separated their military guards in the truce village of Panmunjom under a new security system designed to prevent more killings such as the August 18 ax-slaying of two American officers. Under the old arrangement, security personnel of both sides could mix freely at the joint security site, but now North Korean and U.N. forces are divided by a demarcation line with markers. North Korea also agreed to remove four of its guard posts located on the command’s side. The new system was negotiated September 6.
A week after the death of Mao Zedong, his widow, Jiang Qing, altered the wording of a directive that Chairman Mao had written on April 30, with the help of the other three members of the “Gang of Four” in China. The new version, published as an editorial in Communist Party newspapers was an alteration of the directive that Mao had given to his designated successor Hua Guofeng, and would lead to the arrest of Ms. Jiang and the other three members of the Gang of Four (Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen).
The United States and Taiwan have reached an agreement to allow fishermen from Taiwan to operate within the 200-mile economic zone the United States will claim early next year, the State Department said. Officials said the agreement will permit Taiwan to fish for surplus species within the restricted zone. It will expire in 1982.
The Panamanian government has closed high schools until Monday in the wake of a student demonstration in defiance of a government ban. Anti-riot squads from the national guard wielded rubber clubs Wednesday night to disperse student demonstrators at the National Institute, a high school considered a stronghold of opposition to the government of Brigadier General Omar Torrijos. It was the first time Torrijos ordered the national guard to crack down on demonstrators since he seized power eight years ago.
The “Night of the Pencils” (La Noche de los Lápices) began in La Plata, Argentina as a roundup of teenagers who were members of the Unión de Estudiantes Secundarios (Union of High School Students), carried out by masked men who went to the homes of known UES members. According to a 1986 documentary of the same name by Héctor Olivera, the impetus for the roundup was that the students had protested in favor of lower bus fares. The teens were taken to detention centers elsewhere in Argentina. Six students, ranging in age from 16 to 18, were taken on the first day and became “desaparecidos”. None were ever seen in public again. Four others who were taken in the days that followed survived after being held in detention and tortured.
A 19-year-old American student was kidnaped from her home in Buenos Aires by a group of armed men who blindfolded and tied up her parents, her family disclosed. A spokesman said the American Embassy was aware of the kidnaping and was pursuing the case with the Argentine government. The student, Patricia Ann Erb, a native of Jackson, Minnesota, attends the University of Buenos Aires and is said to be active in leftist student activities.
Vowing to fight to the last man if necessary, an emotional Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia, told Secretary of State Kissinger that he had only a few days to succeed in bringing about black rule in Rhodesia and South-West Africa. Mr. Kaunda said that if Mr. Kissinger failed, the black African nations would be forced to fight.
Final congressional action was taken on the tax bill and it went to the White House, where President Ford is expected to sign it. In other actions, the House passed and sent to the President a major antitrust bill that gives consumers added protection against price fixing.
During a campaign stop with Senator Bob Dole, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller faced hecklers chanting “Attica killer” at SUNY Binghamton. He famously raised his middle finger, a moment the press dubbed the “Rockefeller Salute.” Known for his wealth and philanthropy, Rockefeller’s gesture was a rare display of unapologetic defiance from a vice president.
The Senate Judiciary Committee blocked action on the nominations of four federal judges — probably killing them for this year. Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) moved to hold up the naming of Richard M. Bilby of Arizona as a judge for the 9th Circuit, Harry W. Wellford of Tennessee for the 5th Circuit and Herbert F. Desimone for the U.S. District of Rhode Island. The fourth to be blocked was Donald E. Walter to be judge for the western district of Louisiana. Critics charged Bilby with being insensitive on human rights, Wellford with being biased against blacks, Desimone with judicial incompetence and Walter with conducting his office as U.S. attorney “on a completely political basis.”
The FBI faces a backlog of 9.9 million pages of files requested under the Freedom of Information Act, bureau officials told a House judiciary subcommittee in charge of FBI oversight. FBI witnesses said the bureau needed a supplemental appropriation of $11.8 million to pay for a doubling of the staff of 194 that now handles the requests and a crash program to reduce the backlog. It now takes about nine months for the FBI to respond to even routine requests for documents although the law imposes a 10-day deadline. The requests this year have averaged 72 per day.
FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley will not have to appear at contempt of court proceedings involving Patricia Hearst, pending the outcome of a hearing in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on a motion to quash the subpoena against him. He was to appear today in connection with a citation against Jay Weiner of Philadelphia and Philip Shinnick of Livingston, New Jersey. The two were charged with refusing to answer questions about the harboring of Miss Hearst in a northeastern Pennsylvania farmhouse in 1974 while she was a fugitive. The government contended that Weiner attempted to erase fingerprints from the farmhouse and that Shinnick had refused to give his fingerprints and samples of his handwriting and hair.
Top United Auto Workers and Ford Motor Co. bargainers met briefly in Detroit to discuss the reduced work time issue that triggered a strike by 170,000 workers at midnight Tuesday. It was the first meeting between UAW President Leonard Woodcock and Ford Vice President Sidney McKenna, the heads of the bargaining teams, since the largest industrial strike in six years began. Both spokesmen refused to characterize the meeting as a negotiating session, indicating that fullscale bargaining would not begin until early next week.
RCA’s chairman resigned after acknowledging that he had not filed until recently his personal income taxes over a five year period ending in 1975. The company’s board, which accepted the resignation of Anthony Conrad, also withdrew its proposed offering of 5 million shares of common stock, apparently because of the management shift. Edgar Griffiths was named to succeed Mr. Conrad as president and chief executive officer.
A night-time explosion rocked a Croatian church complex in New York City, forcing the evacuation of several nuns, priests and others who lived in the area. No one was reported injured in the blast at St. Raphael’s Church on Manhattan’s West Side at 41st St. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. The church is the one attended by four of the Croatian nationalists who, with the wife of one, are facing charges in the hijacking of a jetliner to Europe and the bomb death of a policeman last weekend. A policeman who happened to be driving by with his partner at the time of the church explosion said they saw smoke coming from between the buildings, apparently from a roof.
A recall petition against Mayor Frank Rizzo of Philadelphia was upheld by a city judge who said that invalidation of the petition by a three-man election committee composed of the mayor’s friends was “incorrect” and “arbitrary.” Unless the mayor can win a stay from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court pending a hearing, he will face a recall referendum on Nov. 2.
New academic procedures intended to lessen the chances of another cheating scandal have been instituted at West Point. A more informal and personalized approach to grading, testing and instruction that will allow “unrestricted discussion” of all assignments outside the classroom has been set up to avoid the type of collaboration that led to the current scandal.
Interest rates have dropped all summer and the demand for credit has been stagnant despite predictions by Moody’s last June of the exact opposite. The income that investors can earn from fixed-income securities has declined steadily over the last three months.
The Roman Catholic hierarchy “is absolutely neutral” in the presidential race, the church leadership’s chief spokesman said, stressing that the bishops’ recent statements on abortion indicated no preference for either candidate, The spokesman said the leadership had not developed its own position on abortion and urged voters to draw their own conclusions.
The Episcopal Church of the United States, by a 124 to 65 vote of its House of Deputies, changed its laws to permit the ordination of women into the Episcopal priesthood. The House of Bishops had previously approved the resolution the day before. The vote by the lay and clerical body approved a change in the church canons stipulating that requirements for ordination apply equally to women and men. On January 1, 1977, Jacqueline Means would be the first woman to become ordained as an Episcopal priest.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the RCA Corporation, Anthony L. Conrad, resigned abruptly after admitting to tax evasion. Less than a year earlier, Conrad had led the vote within the RCA Board of Directors to oust president Robert Sarnoff. The Board replaced Conrad with Edgar H. Griffiths.
The Western world will face an atomic energy crisis in 60 years unless it switches to the controversial breeder reactor for nuclear power, an atomic industry specialist said in Geneva at the end of an international conference on uranium. Carl Walske, president of the U.S.-based Atomic Industrial Forum Inc., said breeder reactors would have to come into commercial operation within 20 years to ensure the non-Communist world does not run out of uranium supplies.
Plans to destroy 21 wild horses now being held in government corrals near Battle Mountain, Nevada, have been dropped because all the animals have been taken in by private individuals, the federal Bureau of Land Management reported. The horses were removed from Nevada rangelands during the past year but the government was unable to place them through the BLM’s “adopt-ahorse” program, and federal law required that they be destroyed. News stories about the horses’ plight, however, resulted in a flood of inquiries and offers, a BLM spokesman said.
An 11-year campaign to save the Brazilian land turtle from extinction has succeeded and the reptile has been removed from the nation’s endangered species list, the Brazilian Forestry Development Institute said. The Society for the Preservation of the Natural Resources of the Amazon began the program in 1965, which included outlawing the commercial hunting and exporting of the species and establishing a nesting zone on the Trombetas River, an Amazon tributary.
“It was worse than the Olympics,” confessed Dorothy Hamill. She had just made her professional debut in Pittsburgh with the Ice Capades and her hands were still trembling 10 minutes after the finale. “I was very nervous,” she said in her dressing room filled with roses, even though she should have had the assuredness of an Olympics gold medalist and the audience had been pulling for her. “I don’t think I can explain it.” She also couldn’t explain her performance. It hadn’t been crisp and Hamill-ish and she had looked as tense as she felt. Worse, she fell trying a double axel. “She shouldn’t have tried a double axel on opening night,” one Ice Capade official fretted. “I’d do it again,” said Miss Hamill in defiance. “I don’t like to be chicken.” In a way, the 20-year-old woman who began pointing from the age of 8 for one single burst of glory at the Olympics, actually is enjoying her new life. Now every night brings recognition. “After years in different houses, with different teachers and choreographers… now it’s just one suitcase, to the rink and back to the hotel room. Believe me, that’s settling down.”
Major League Baseball:
Jim Wynn homered as a pinch-hitter for the third time this season and Dave May knocked in two runs with a triple in an eighth-inning rally that brought the Braves a 5–3 victory over the Astros. After Wynn delivered his blow as the substitute batter for winning pitcher Phil Niekro (15–11), Jerry Royster singled, Rod Gilbreath sacrificed and Willie Montanez was passed intentionally, setting the stage for May’s three-bagger. May also scored himself on a balk by Joaquin Andujar.
Marty Pattin (8–12) pitched a five-hitter and got batting support from Buck Martinez, his catcher, who hit a two-run homer to enable the Royals to defeat the Angels, 2–0. The Royals had only one hit off Frank Tanana until two out in the seventh inning when Fred Patek doubled and Martinez connected for the circuit.
Lenny Randle, who reached base four times with a triple, single and two walks, batted in one run and scored three to pace the Rangers to a 5–4 victory over the White Sox. Mike Hargrove rapped a pair of run-scoring singles, while Jim Sundberg had a double and two singles and crossed the plate twice. Bucky Dent drove in all the White Sox runs, one with a single in the fifth inning and three with a double in the ninth.
Don Gullett (9–3), making his fourth start for the Reds since being idled for one month by a shoulder injury, turned in his first complete game since June 10 and beat the Dodgers, 4–2, for his second straight victory. The lefthander gave up the Dodgers’ runs, one of them unearned, in the second inning. The Reds took the lead against Doug Rau with three runs in the fourth, two scoring on a single by Cesar Geronimo. Gullett iced his decision with an RBI single in the sixth. With the victory, the Reds expanded their lead over the Dodgers to 12 games and reduced their magic number to four for clinching the West Division title.
For the second successive night, Butch Hobson smashed a game-winning homer for the Red Sox, who defeated the Brewers, 4–3. In the previous night’s contest, the rookie third baseman came up with a man on base in the fifth inning and homered to give the Red Sox a 2–1 victory. This time, Hobson whacked his winning blow with Cecil Cooper aboard in the ninth. All Brewer runs came on round-trippers. Dan Thomas hit a solo swat in the fourth and George Scott connected for the circuit following a double by Charlie Moore in the seventh.
Jose Morales set two major league records for pinch-hitters when the Expos’ clutch batter came up in the seventh inning and drove in three runs with a double to defeat the Cubs, 4–3. The pinch-hit was Morales’ 25th of the season, breaking the record of 24 by Dave Philley with the Orioles in 1961 and Vic Davalillo with the Cardinals in 1970. The time at bat as a pinch-hitter was his 74th, one more than Davalillo’s mark with the Cards in ’70. Tim Foli led off the seventh with a double. After advancing on an infield out, Foli escaped a rundown on a grounder by Gary Carter and returned safe to third while Carter reached second on the play. The Cubs then passed Andre Dawson intentionally before Morales batted for reliever Steve Dunning and rapped his double. As a consequence, Larry Landreth, who pitched shutout ball over the first six innings and left with a 1–0 lead, was able to get credit for the victory in his major league debut.
Jerry Koosman pitched the Mets to a 4–1 victory over the Cardinals and became a 20-game winner for the first time in his major league career. The lefthander, who allowed four hits, struck out 13 for an N. L. high this season. Bruce Boisclair homered for the Mets as a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning and, after remaining in the game, drove in another run with a single in the eighth. Keith Hernandez deprived Koosman of a shutout by hitting for the circuit in the eighth.
Dan Ford smashed a pair of two-run homers and Bill Singer (11–9) threw a four-hitter as the Twins gained a 4–0 victory to drop the Athletics 4 ½ games behind the Royals in the West Division race. Ford’s first shot followed a single by Rod Carew in the fourth inning and his second drive came after a single by Lyman Bostock in the sixth.
With two out in the ninth inning, Rennie Stennett drove in a run with a double to account for a 7–6 victory and pull the Pirates within four games of the Phillies in the East Division race. Bill Robinson drove in four runs for the Pirates with a three-run homer in the second inning and added an RBI with a single in the third. Willie Stargell then made it 5–0 with a circuit clout in the fifth. After a rain delay of one hour, 22 minutes, the Phillies came back in their half of the fifth and knocked out Jerry Reuss during a three-run rally. Dave Cash drove in two tallies with a bases-loaded single and Greg Luzinski produced the third run with a single off reliever Bob Moose. Larry Bowa tripled and Bobby Tolan singled for another Phillies’ run in the sixth. The Pirates tacked on a tally in the seventh when Frank Taveras singled and Stennett doubled, but the Phillies rallied to tie the score in their half when Bob Boone singled to drive in Luzinski and Tim McCarver. In the Pirates’ ninth, Duffy Dyer was hit by a pitch. Miguel Dilone ran for Dyer and, after a sacrifice by Omar Moreno, Stennett hit his second double of the game to supply the winning run.
Houston Astros 3, Atlanta Braves 5
Kansas City Royals 2, California Angels 0
Texas Rangers 5, Chicago White Sox 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Cincinnati Reds 4
Boston Red Sox 4, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Chicago Cubs 3, Montreal Expos 4
St. Louis Cardinals 1, New York Mets 4
Minnesota Twins 4, Oakland Athletics 0
Pittsburgh Pirates 7, Philadelphia Phillies 6
Stock prices rose in reaction to a reduction in the prime rate. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 8.69 points at 987.95. Bond prices rose to their highest levels of the year.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 987.95 (+8.64, +0.88%)
Born:
Greg Buckner, NBA shooting guard and small forward (Dallas Mavericks, Philadelphia 76ers, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Memphis Grizzlies), in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Chad Harville, MLB pitcher (Oakland A’s, Houston Astros, Boston Red Sox, Tampa Bay Devil Rays), in Selmer, Tennessee.
(Andres) “Andy” Blázquez, Puerto Rican-American pop singer (Menudo, 1991–1997 — “Besame En La Playa”), in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Tina Barrett, British singer (S Club 7), in Hammersmith, London, England, United Kingdom.
DJ Official (stage name for Nelson J. Chu), top selling American Christian hip hop musician whose album Entermission reached number 8 on the U.S. gospel music albums chart in 2010; in The Bronx, New York, New York.
Died:
Bertha Lutz, 82, Brazilian women’s rights activist who successfully lobbied for the 1931 grant of the right of women to vote.
Cecil Thomas, 91, British sculptor and medal designer.
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